Hi Frosty - actually I quite *liked* Win98(SE). After Win95 it was, well, less bad...as long as you used 98SElite. Not as good as OS/2 (what?), though...
What's wrong with that? Should the poor be made to pay for street lighting?
I'm no fan of big gov. or taxes, (as a self-employed consultant living in a high-tax country - believe me, I'm REALLY not!) Like you, I've worked with gov. agencies and I'm pretty sure I'd still have my own ISP - like my kids go to private schools.
Yet I accept that some of my tax dollars are and should be used to help people less fortunate than I am. Plus, I'm sick of having to re-buy access, at exorbitant rates and with indifferent security, every time I want to use a hotspot in a cafe, hotel, airport...I want wifi everywhere for ME too - for starters, my GSM bill would shrink if I could use VOIP even 1/2 the time. Tell me I have to pay 50 bucks per year more on my property tax to have free wifi everywhere in my town and I'll pay like a shot, (and I HATE paying taxes). Why? I would SAVE money and help people. Sounds like a win-win to me.
As for library access, (another poster), c'mon...that's a cop out. My kids are on the net day and night, for both work and play. Me too. Also, some people are handicapped, don't have a library nearby...
Could be a boost to the 'failed' attempts at establishing 'free' wifi in urban & other areas, many of which originally intended to help the poor who - as often - were missing out on an important part of modern society.
Also for sites that encourage listing 'free' hotspots and help you with establishing your own. Too many to list here - Google is your friend, (uh, if you're logged out and using Noscript etc.)
Finally, if you're near a border, or have a rich friend that's just a little too far away, you can always try something like this!
So if this is 'random mutation' in a favourable, but non-typical environment, why did the little critters turn out MORE deadly to lab mice here on earth? Seems to me that causality not proved.
True - my Blackberry Pearl lasts for ages, even with Bluetooth enabled for GPS navigation, and GPRS working overtime getting data from Google maps as I drive along...
Easy fix for this. Since what he did could easily be construed as 'corruption' or 'fraud', (or a least conspiracy to do so, or to aid and adbet others), they should just string him up! That's what they do to 'corrupt' (are they not all?) party officials in China. The damage he did was easily as high-profile as what others have done...(sorry, too lazy to look up links for party boss from Shanghai who was executed for stealing 'millions'.
Hey, while we're at it, we could extend this to to West, also... Could bring a whole new meaning to 'lethal' for the Hackerz...
Mod up. That's why I use Firefox with Noscript, PhishTank and a few other things...
I wonder if these sites will show up in the "warning, this site may be nasty..." messages you sometimes get when browsing to a site via Google search...pretty useless IMHO, 'blacklists' go out of date so fast...
You're not kidding - I was once stopped by the police as I attempted to 'walk' out of a city centre - it turned out to virtauly impossible do it legally and on foot....the cops calmed down when I explained that, as a European, I was used to walking short distances in town.
But are you sure it's not a case of 'the devil you (and your team, h/w & s/w providers...) know'?
Like many, I heard the siren song of 4Gls, only to see my ship wrecked on the rocks of back-end debugs and broken promises of 'easy' extensions & maintenance. My ass. Oh, and sorry, I suppose that I should be using a car analogy...
All new tech brings its own unique advantages, and drawbacks.
But - some new tech offers really different and useful stuff.
Do I want to go back to coding stuff in dBase? Well, no...
But, having been bitten by 'fashion', do I really look at stuff before saying "yes, we'll do everything with this from now on", hell yes...
Ah yes, but which NDA? He could always claim, (if sued under NDA 1) that he actually was talking about (non-existant) 'NDA 2' under the terms of which he could talk about the NDA restrictions but nothing else...
Indeed. Mind you, if we could get it work better 'everywhere', maybe some people would be *gasp* prepared to pay for it.
I know, chicken and egg, but if there was a larger user base, perhaps there would be more room and resources for - as many people are suggesting here - different schedulers, for example.
None - it's not making a copy of the physical disk, but just of the data.
I suspect that the main use would be for either clandestine copying of a drive, or when someone's just been busted, but has not had time to wipe the drive.
Which is exactly why the IT dept at one of my clients got 'outsourced' a while ago. Everybody was sick of the lousy support and 1980s functionality. Of course the promised 'economies' remain elusive, and the equally-hyped 'improvements' did not happen. Oh, and support is now being moved offshore...everybody loses, including the original IT team.
The bottom line is - the bottom line. The smart IT managers anticipate how new technology can benefit the business, and work with users to define the financial and customer benefit. You want blackberrys for the sales team, OK, how will that help productivity? Let's build a business case & take it to management...
Yes, they contained it. Inside the plant, however, things were rather different:
"At 6 a.m., there was a shift change in the control room. A new arrival noticed that the temperature in the holding tanks was excessive and used a backup valve called a block valve to shut off the coolant venting,[4] but around 950 m (250,000 US gallons) of coolant had already leaked from the primary loop. It was not until 165 minutes after the start of the problem that radiation alarms activated as contaminated water reached detectors -- by that time, the radiation levels in the primary coolant water were around 300 times expected levels, and the plant was seriously contaminated."
The clean-up took a while, and cost a fortune. Also, radioactive liquids are a big problem generally because they tend to be harder to contain than solids.
"Water continues to leak into the shelter, spreading radioactive materials throughout the wrecked reactor building and potentially into the surrounding groundwater."
I'm general in favour of nuclear power, but we don't seem very good at managing the inevitable accidents and incidents.
Anyways, sounds like a useful mineral... Wonder what happens to it once it has 'absorbed' the radiation? (Could not read the article,/.ed?)
Lucky it's in the artic, since the Sovs have been using that place as a dumping ground for their nuclear subs and other non-reprocessed waste for decades:
Qualified. As you say - has passed some kind of exam or test - and increasingly work experience or peer review - leading to an academic or professional 'qualification'. May or not be relevant to the job you need doing, although hopefuly you have done your homework. Will probably have initial difficulty applying their knowledge to your situation.
Experienced. Has worked or otherwise lived through something which has hopefully added knowledge (what you know) and skills (what you know how to do). May or not be relevant to your needs, and will probably have difficulty 'unlearning' things whilst also - as above -adapting to your situation.
Competent. Defined as the 'ability to achieve a required result', (normally well-defined tasks to perform in the context of a process or processes). I don't hire 'qualified' or 'experienced' people - I get competent people. They are harder to find, and you have to pay 'em more, but it's well worth it.
Hello JD, thanks for your long and thoughtful reply. Sorry it took me a while to respond - 'trouble at mill...' (shitstorm @ a client). Fixed now...
There's several points in your post, but to boil it down, I'm not sure that I agree that mass protest is the legitimate and essential prerequisite for taking action on subjects of public interest. Bit of a cop out, eh? "Gazillions of people have not complained about our insecure-by-design product, so we'll do nothing..."
You're right in practise, (just look at the success of Skype), but that does not make it - uh - right.
Since you're clearly a student of history, how about the Tolpuddle Martyrs? Was their unjust sacrifice in vain? Do we have to have specfic crisis and sacrifices every time? Can we not learn from history and widely apply general principles of fairness and common sense?
Indeed. You might want to add NATO, Interpol etc. to the list - after what happened to Estonia after they pissed off Russia, (see/. passim), it is easy see how such a network could be used for much more evil purposes than just spam.
As also posted here, the ISPs - who perhaps could do something about this - continue to sit on their hands...
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They mention aircraft - 7.5Km is about U2 spyplane altitude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2
Dual use? Would have a lot lower resolution at satellite alititues...
Hi Frosty - actually I quite *liked* Win98(SE). After Win95 it was, well, less bad...as long as you used 98SElite.
Not as good as OS/2 (what?), though...
I guess their focus & therefore resources will switch more and more to Vista, so this kind of thing will probably happen with increasing frequency.
What's wrong with that? Should the poor be made to pay for street lighting?
I'm no fan of big gov. or taxes, (as a self-employed consultant living in a high-tax country - believe me, I'm REALLY not!)
Like you, I've worked with gov. agencies and I'm pretty sure I'd still have my own ISP - like my kids go to private schools.
Yet I accept that some of my tax dollars are and should be used to help people less fortunate than I am. Plus, I'm sick of having to re-buy access, at exorbitant rates and with indifferent security, every time I want to use a hotspot in a cafe, hotel, airport...I want wifi everywhere for ME too - for starters, my GSM bill would shrink if I could use VOIP even 1/2 the time. Tell me I have to pay 50 bucks per year more on my property tax to have free wifi everywhere in my town and I'll pay like a shot, (and I HATE paying taxes). Why? I would SAVE money and help people. Sounds like a win-win to me.
As for library access, (another poster), c'mon...that's a cop out. My kids are on the net day and night, for both work and play. Me too. Also, some people are handicapped, don't have a library nearby...
Could be a boost to the 'failed' attempts at establishing 'free' wifi in urban & other areas, many of which originally intended to help the poor who - as often - were missing out on an important part of modern society.
Also for sites that encourage listing 'free' hotspots and help you with establishing your own. Too many to list here - Google is your friend, (uh, if you're logged out and using Noscript etc.)
Finally, if you're near a border, or have a rich friend that's just a little too far away, you can always try something like this!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wifi-Signal-Strainer-(WokFi)/
So if this is 'random mutation' in a favourable, but non-typical environment, why did the little critters turn out MORE deadly to lab mice here on earth? Seems to me that causality not proved.
True - my Blackberry Pearl lasts for ages, even with Bluetooth enabled for GPS navigation, and GPRS working overtime getting data from Google maps as I drive along...
Try tinyurl.com
http://tinyurl.com/2qvmpk
Or, 'safe' preview
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qvmpk
Also good for (very) dumb firewall restricions...
Easy fix for this. Since what he did could easily be construed as 'corruption' or 'fraud', (or a least conspiracy to do so, or to aid and adbet others), they should just string him up! That's what they do to 'corrupt' (are they not all?) party officials in China. The damage he did was easily as high-profile as what others have done...(sorry, too lazy to look up links for party boss from Shanghai who was executed for stealing 'millions'.
Hey, while we're at it, we could extend this to to West, also... Could bring a whole new meaning to 'lethal' for the Hackerz...
Our new arsenic-spraying meteoric overlords?
Mod up. That's why I use Firefox with Noscript, PhishTank and a few other things...
I wonder if these sites will show up in the "warning, this site may be nasty..." messages you sometimes get when browsing to a site via Google search...pretty useless IMHO, 'blacklists' go out of date so fast...
You're not kidding - I was once stopped by the police as I attempted to 'walk' out of a city centre - it turned out to virtauly impossible do it legally and on foot....the cops calmed down when I explained that, as a European, I was used to walking short distances in town.
Their advice? Call a cab...
Having been there, I think I know what you mean.
But are you sure it's not a case of 'the devil you (and your team, h/w & s/w providers...) know'?
Like many, I heard the siren song of 4Gls, only to see my ship wrecked on the rocks of back-end debugs and broken promises of 'easy' extensions & maintenance. My ass. Oh, and sorry, I suppose that I should be using a car analogy...
All new tech brings its own unique advantages, and drawbacks.
But - some new tech offers really different and useful stuff.
Do I want to go back to coding stuff in dBase? Well, no...
But, having been bitten by 'fashion', do I really look at stuff before saying "yes, we'll do everything with this from now on", hell yes...
Thanks for the comment - of course, did not RTFA
"although the user is required to interact with the document in order to launch the exploit"
So, I'm better off sticking with Foxit for most uses.
I only use acrobat reader when forced to, (security, form filling...)
Ah yes, but which NDA? He could always claim, (if sued under NDA 1) that he actually was talking about (non-existant) 'NDA 2' under the terms of which he could talk about the NDA restrictions but nothing else...
*brain explodes*
Yup, just like the 'intelligence' agencies. Can't be too good at your job, otherwise you'll be out of a job.
If they are any good, why is this thing all over the web, including torrents?
Linux? Oh, wait a minute...
Indeed. Mind you, if we could get it work better 'everywhere', maybe some people would be *gasp* prepared to pay for it.
I know, chicken and egg, but if there was a larger user base, perhaps there would be more room and resources for - as many people are suggesting here - different schedulers, for example.
None - it's not making a copy of the physical disk, but just of the data.
I suspect that the main use would be for either clandestine copying of a drive, or when someone's just been busted, but has not had time to wipe the drive.
Which is exactly why the IT dept at one of my clients got 'outsourced' a while ago. Everybody was sick of the lousy support and 1980s functionality. Of course the promised 'economies' remain elusive, and the equally-hyped 'improvements' did not happen. Oh, and support is now being moved offshore...everybody loses, including the original IT team.
The bottom line is - the bottom line. The smart IT managers anticipate how new technology can benefit the business, and work with users to define the financial and customer benefit. You want blackberrys for the sales team, OK, how will that help productivity? Let's build a business case & take it to management...
Yes, they contained it. Inside the plant, however, things were rather different:
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"At 6 a.m., there was a shift change in the control room. A new arrival noticed that the temperature in the holding tanks was excessive and used a backup valve called a block valve to shut off the coolant venting,[4] but around 950 m (250,000 US gallons) of coolant had already leaked from the primary loop. It was not until 165 minutes after the start of the problem that radiation alarms activated as contaminated water reached detectors -- by that time, the radiation levels in the primary coolant water were around 300 times expected levels, and the plant was seriously contaminated."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_ac
The clean-up took a while, and cost a fortune. Also, radioactive liquids are a big problem generally because they tend to be harder to contain than solids.
"Water continues to leak into the shelter, spreading radioactive materials throughout the wrecked reactor building and potentially into the surrounding groundwater."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_incident#T
I'm general in favour of nuclear power, but we don't seem very good at managing the inevitable accidents and incidents.
Anyways, sounds like a useful mineral... Wonder what happens to it once it has 'absorbed' the radiation? (Could not read the article,
Lucky it's in the artic, since the Sovs have been using that place as a dumping ground for their nuclear subs and other non-reprocessed waste for decades:
http://www.american.edu/ted/arctic.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6058302.stm
Well, as I understand it...
Qualified. As you say - has passed some kind of exam or test - and increasingly work experience or peer review - leading to an academic or professional 'qualification'. May or not be relevant to the job you need doing, although hopefuly you have done your homework. Will probably have initial difficulty applying their knowledge to your situation.
Experienced. Has worked or otherwise lived through something which has hopefully added knowledge (what you know) and skills (what you know how to do). May or not be relevant to your needs, and will probably have difficulty 'unlearning' things whilst also - as above -adapting to your situation.
Competent. Defined as the 'ability to achieve a required result', (normally well-defined tasks to perform in the context of a process or processes). I don't hire 'qualified' or 'experienced' people - I get competent people. They are harder to find, and you have to pay 'em more, but it's well worth it.
Hello JD, thanks for your long and thoughtful reply. Sorry it took me a while to respond - 'trouble at mill...' (shitstorm @ a client). Fixed now...
There's several points in your post, but to boil it down, I'm not sure that I agree that mass protest is the legitimate and essential prerequisite for taking action on subjects of public interest. Bit of a cop out, eh? "Gazillions of people have not complained about our insecure-by-design product, so we'll do nothing..."
You're right in practise, (just look at the success of Skype), but that does not make it - uh - right.
Since you're clearly a student of history, how about the Tolpuddle Martyrs? Was their unjust sacrifice in vain? Do we have to have specfic crisis and sacrifices every time? Can we not learn from history and widely apply general principles of fairness and common sense?
Guess not...
Indeed. You might want to add NATO, Interpol etc. to the list - after what happened to Estonia after they pissed off Russia, (see /. passim), it is easy see how such a network could be used for much more evil purposes than just spam.
As also posted here, the ISPs - who perhaps could do something about this - continue to sit on their hands...