If the user can write/change files, a program can write/change files. Sure, making the user authenticate helps some, but all a malicious program has to do is monitor the keyboard when the password dialog's focused, or probably even easier, prompt the user for their admin pasword at install time. Users are so used to having to grant admin access (if they're not already running as admin) that any level of software restriction is probably pretty useless...
Of course, that doesn't mean that M shoudl leave the damned door hanging wide open like they have, either.:)
But then they'd have to return it, since they had to violate a patent to purchase the rights. The mind boggles at the tight recursive loop this introduces.:)
GM used the same headlight switch from at least the mid 60s all the way up into the late 80s on a lot of cars. The one where you pull a knob out one notch for parking lights, and one more notch for headlights? Same switch, just different knobs. Pretty much. I put the relays in an '80 Caprice, a '71 Chevelle, and a '77 El Camino (all came with alternators - I think the transition from generator to alternator was made in the 60s for GM, at least). On the Camino and Chevelle, the only relays from the factory (as far as I can remember) are the horn relay and the HVAC blower high-speed relay. They have several more now, but that's becaue I don't wanna burn the cars to the ground with the antique wiring and switches.:)
But even now, most vehicles have a relatively long electrical path for the headlights. You can get "headlight improvement" kits for most popular cars which just shorten that path using relays. Sometimes those kits actually increase brightness with stock lighting, other times the kits are intended for people who are replacing the bulbs with bulbs that have a higher rate of power consumption. Either way, there are still benefits over the factory configuration in lots of cases.
All you need to do is add a little bit of a voltage drop in the sense lead to the alternator with most alternators that have two or more terminals (which is most alternators, AFAIK). On my older GM vehicles, rather than getting the sense lead from the battery, I run a light gauge wire from an ignition-switched point at the fuse panel to the sense lead. That way, the alternator automatically comepnsates for any voltage drop between the battery lead, the wires to the fuse panel, and the wire back to the alternator. I've also modified the headlights so the headlight switch just activates a relay pulling power from the battery up front instead of the switch in the dash. So my headlights are brighter and reduce the current drawn through the 30+ year old headlight switch in two of my cars.:)
I've got a rock-stable 14.4 volts at the dash from the previously mentioned $50 65 amp AutoZone lifetime warranty reman alternator, even after kicking on the high beams and electric fans. Hooray for knowing how things work.;)
I've only got the one coil in this vehicle, for what it's worth.
I think it's weird that a rebuilt alternator would cost $150. I just bought a brand new 105 amp alternator for $145 (the pulley broke off of the fan on the way to work - made an awful noise), and a reman was like $100. The 65-80 amp alternators I've used on previous cars generally cost about $50 rebuilt with a lifetime warranty.
I'm partial to the "wide-open access point with VPN access required to get anywhere beyond the access point" method, personally. WEP is just a step above worthless, IMHO.
Well, at least they're not gonna make old receivers illegal or inoperable. I guess that must be the part that "strikes a balance" which is "fair to consumers". If you think there'll ever be anything good on satelite radio, buy your hardware now...:)
(2) shall not make obsolete any devices already manufactured and distributed in the marketplace before the implementation of such regulations; and (3) shall not be inconsistent with the customary use of broadcast content by consumers to the extent such use is consistent with the purposes of this act and other applicable law.
We're mostly not - it's just that those of us who don't act extraordinarily stupid don't generally get much news coverage. "Tonight at 10: cloudmaster didn't sue anyone, and generally goes on with his life as usual!" just doesn't get people to tune in.
I fail to see how the admin saving a string to an unencrypted text file that the user can just read later does anything for security, unless wasting the admin's time is a new security technique I'm unfamiliar with...
I've driven for over 2 hours on just a battery before - and this was in a gas 8-cylinder vehicle (with the headlights going). I think your alternator was dying slowly before it totally died...:)
I've been considering one of those giant handsets, actually. Last time I got a phone, I got a non-flip phone, so it's too damned small for my fat head. Derek Zoolander and his tiny phone adequately mock the shrinking phone.
Displays: so use 20 digits - that'd still take less power to run than a million pixels. 14 days is better than 11.
I have warmed up to the camera in phone thing, though. It's nice to always have some kind of camera on me, though I still use the "real" camera when I know I'm gonna want a picture of something.
Mostly I'm just pissed because I've had a couple of phones that crash. IMHO there's no excuse for a manufacturer to release software on a stable platform that crashes. I'd much rather have a phone that never crashes (my Nokia doesn't crash) than one that can do a bazillion things I don't care about. My stupid Nokia has all sorts of features - like an FM radio that can't pick up anything - but the damned calendar won't let me create events with a time. I want my phone to remind me to call my engine builder tomorrow at 10:15 AM, but the stupid thing can't do that. It can just tell me to do it tomorrow, but can't remind me of what time. But by golly, it can send text messages about 9 different useless ways, and display downloaded wallpapers when it's not in use. Augh.
Where? And why do I have to get some used POS when all I want is a telephone I can take with me? The largest nationwide network (Cingular/ATT) actually stopped supporting older phones a while back, anyway.
Can't you damned kids just get a laptop for better email, music, and game playing - and maybe a camera for taking better pictures?:) I want a phone that turns on in less than 10 minutes and has a display that doesn't run the battery down in seconds (hint: it just takes 10 alphanumeric chars to dislay a phone number or caller ID name, not a 320x240 16-bit backlit full color display). Well, OK, the camera's handy sometimes. But using a voice communication device to compose textual communication? Hmph. Grumble.
You discuss religious donation methodology with most people you know? That's weird. Or maybe it's weird that no one's ever discussed it with me. Eh, something's weird here, either way.
You're either lucky, or you think that driving 5MPH over the limit is reckless abandon for the law. I worked with a guy who had been a premium supporter for years. It took him a lawyer and probably six months to wiggle out of some 20+ traffic violations which he had been written up for in his car with the "I support various police organizations at the maximum level" stickers attached. The guy was a late 20's white male who didn't look like a thug, either, so it wasn't some kind of profiling or whatever.
I had a car with oen of those stickers on it (it came with the used car - the police get plenty of my money through taxes and fines for exceeding the ridiculously low speed limits on rural roads). Even though I blew by a cop at well over 100MPH (he was merging onto the interstate), he still pulled me over. But then he left me to go down the road and pull over the Mustang I was following. As I drove by, he was out of his car, and waved me over. I stomped on the gas and took the next exit. I'm pretty sure I got away because he was out of his car and didn't get a license number, and that the sticker meant nothing...
Personally, I would find that to be more special than merely saying "thank you". Since you asked. It takes more effort to say, and is therefore more demonstrative of a greater level of thanks. But I was more curious about how someone who felt enough respect to throw out the "Peace Be Upon Him" would feel at the half-hearted abbrev. That seems like something that would have an official position, possibly involving removal of a fingernail as punishment or something.
Regarding allah, isn't that the word for god, not the name of God? And what kind of cook goes nuts when someone says "I am"? Man, I'll bet Popeye isn't very popular with the Muslims...
A few months back I applied for a Unix administrator position. It had nothing to do with Windows, and was in a shop that was completely devoid of Microsoft products. I received a message from the "placement agency" asking me to please attach a current resume in word format. Note that *in the quoted context* of the email to which they had replied was my current resume in plain text format. I took that same plain text format resume, changed the extension to.doc, and sent it back - which is what I have done for years.
Though that's not as annoying as applying at places that use the same form for everyone, from janitors to seceretaries and IT workers. You know, the ones where you send in your resume, and then when you get there for the scheduled interview, they hand you a form asking you to fill in all of the stuff that is on that resume that they have had in their posession for several weeks, except the form doesn't have quite enough room for what you've done, and asks irrelevant questions like whether or not you can use MS Word and Excel, how fast you can type, etc. Augh.
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If the user can write/change files, a program can write/change files. Sure, making the user authenticate helps some, but all a malicious program has to do is monitor the keyboard when the password dialog's focused, or probably even easier, prompt the user for their admin pasword at install time. Users are so used to having to grant admin access (if they're not already running as admin) that any level of software restriction is probably pretty useless...
:)
Of course, that doesn't mean that M shoudl leave the damned door hanging wide open like they have, either.
But then they'd have to return it, since they had to violate a patent to purchase the rights. The mind boggles at the tight recursive loop this introduces. :)
GM used the same headlight switch from at least the mid 60s all the way up into the late 80s on a lot of cars. The one where you pull a knob out one notch for parking lights, and one more notch for headlights? Same switch, just different knobs. Pretty much. I put the relays in an '80 Caprice, a '71 Chevelle, and a '77 El Camino (all came with alternators - I think the transition from generator to alternator was made in the 60s for GM, at least). On the Camino and Chevelle, the only relays from the factory (as far as I can remember) are the horn relay and the HVAC blower high-speed relay. They have several more now, but that's becaue I don't wanna burn the cars to the ground with the antique wiring and switches. :)
But even now, most vehicles have a relatively long electrical path for the headlights. You can get "headlight improvement" kits for most popular cars which just shorten that path using relays. Sometimes those kits actually increase brightness with stock lighting, other times the kits are intended for people who are replacing the bulbs with bulbs that have a higher rate of power consumption. Either way, there are still benefits over the factory configuration in lots of cases.
If your best argument is "nu-uh, *you* have to prove *me* wrong!", I'm pretty sure that you lose by default.
All you need to do is add a little bit of a voltage drop in the sense lead to the alternator with most alternators that have two or more terminals (which is most alternators, AFAIK). On my older GM vehicles, rather than getting the sense lead from the battery, I run a light gauge wire from an ignition-switched point at the fuse panel to the sense lead. That way, the alternator automatically comepnsates for any voltage drop between the battery lead, the wires to the fuse panel, and the wire back to the alternator. I've also modified the headlights so the headlight switch just activates a relay pulling power from the battery up front instead of the switch in the dash. So my headlights are brighter and reduce the current drawn through the 30+ year old headlight switch in two of my cars. :)
;)
I've got a rock-stable 14.4 volts at the dash from the previously mentioned $50 65 amp AutoZone lifetime warranty reman alternator, even after kicking on the high beams and electric fans. Hooray for knowing how things work.
I've only got the one coil in this vehicle, for what it's worth.
I think it's weird that a rebuilt alternator would cost $150. I just bought a brand new 105 amp alternator for $145 (the pulley broke off of the fan on the way to work - made an awful noise), and a reman was like $100. The 65-80 amp alternators I've used on previous cars generally cost about $50 rebuilt with a lifetime warranty.
I'm partial to the "wide-open access point with VPN access required to get anywhere beyond the access point" method, personally. WEP is just a step above worthless, IMHO.
Well, I usually get busted when I slow back down, actually. It'd sure be cool if the news reported my speeding infractions, though. :)
It's bad for consumers because they are going to have to replace otherwise working radio equipment, right?
Not as written. That's why it's good to RTFA *before* posting...
(2) shall not make obsolete any devices already manufactured and distributed in the marketplace before the implementation of such regulations
Well, at least they're not gonna make old receivers illegal or inoperable. I guess that must be the part that "strikes a balance" which is "fair to consumers". If you think there'll ever be anything good on satelite radio, buy your hardware now... :)
(2) shall not make obsolete any devices already manufactured and distributed in the marketplace before the implementation of such regulations; and
(3) shall not be inconsistent with the customary use of broadcast content by consumers to the
extent such use is consistent with the purposes of this act and other applicable law.
We're mostly not - it's just that those of us who don't act extraordinarily stupid don't generally get much news coverage. "Tonight at 10: cloudmaster didn't sue anyone, and generally goes on with his life as usual!" just doesn't get people to tune in.
Yep, Google sure has a good understanding of George Bush...
I fail to see how the admin saving a string to an unencrypted text file that the user can just read later does anything for security, unless wasting the admin's time is a new security technique I'm unfamiliar with...
Imagine, then, the frustration being just a day or so away from a 4-digit ID. I totally missed the registration ability for something like a week... :)
I've driven for over 2 hours on just a battery before - and this was in a gas 8-cylinder vehicle (with the headlights going). I think your alternator was dying slowly before it totally died... :)
I've been considering one of those giant handsets, actually. Last time I got a phone, I got a non-flip phone, so it's too damned small for my fat head. Derek Zoolander and his tiny phone adequately mock the shrinking phone.
Displays: so use 20 digits - that'd still take less power to run than a million pixels. 14 days is better than 11.
I have warmed up to the camera in phone thing, though. It's nice to always have some kind of camera on me, though I still use the "real" camera when I know I'm gonna want a picture of something.
Mostly I'm just pissed because I've had a couple of phones that crash. IMHO there's no excuse for a manufacturer to release software on a stable platform that crashes. I'd much rather have a phone that never crashes (my Nokia doesn't crash) than one that can do a bazillion things I don't care about. My stupid Nokia has all sorts of features - like an FM radio that can't pick up anything - but the damned calendar won't let me create events with a time. I want my phone to remind me to call my engine builder tomorrow at 10:15 AM, but the stupid thing can't do that. It can just tell me to do it tomorrow, but can't remind me of what time. But by golly, it can send text messages about 9 different useless ways, and display downloaded wallpapers when it's not in use. Augh.
So get an older phone with less features.
:) I want a phone that turns on in less than 10 minutes and has a display that doesn't run the battery down in seconds (hint: it just takes 10 alphanumeric chars to dislay a phone number or caller ID name, not a 320x240 16-bit backlit full color display). Well, OK, the camera's handy sometimes. But using a voice communication device to compose textual communication? Hmph. Grumble.
Where? And why do I have to get some used POS when all I want is a telephone I can take with me? The largest nationwide network (Cingular/ATT) actually stopped supporting older phones a while back, anyway.
Can't you damned kids just get a laptop for better email, music, and game playing - and maybe a camera for taking better pictures?
The first thing I though was that, obviously, the "anti" virus vendors have now come up with some effective cell phone viruses.
Wrong hole, man. Wrong hole.
Heck, they get all cranky when you make change for that $20, too. :)
You discuss religious donation methodology with most people you know? That's weird. Or maybe it's weird that no one's ever discussed it with me. Eh, something's weird here, either way.
You're either lucky, or you think that driving 5MPH over the limit is reckless abandon for the law. I worked with a guy who had been a premium supporter for years. It took him a lawyer and probably six months to wiggle out of some 20+ traffic violations which he had been written up for in his car with the "I support various police organizations at the maximum level" stickers attached. The guy was a late 20's white male who didn't look like a thug, either, so it wasn't some kind of profiling or whatever.
I had a car with oen of those stickers on it (it came with the used car - the police get plenty of my money through taxes and fines for exceeding the ridiculously low speed limits on rural roads). Even though I blew by a cop at well over 100MPH (he was merging onto the interstate), he still pulled me over. But then he left me to go down the road and pull over the Mustang I was following. As I drove by, he was out of his car, and waved me over. I stomped on the gas and took the next exit. I'm pretty sure I got away because he was out of his car and didn't get a license number, and that the sticker meant nothing...
She's right - Monty Python isn't funny. It's consistent, though. Definitely consistent.
Personally, I would find that to be more special than merely saying "thank you". Since you asked. It takes more effort to say, and is therefore more demonstrative of a greater level of thanks. But I was more curious about how someone who felt enough respect to throw out the "Peace Be Upon Him" would feel at the half-hearted abbrev. That seems like something that would have an official position, possibly involving removal of a fingernail as punishment or something.
Regarding allah, isn't that the word for god, not the name of God? And what kind of cook goes nuts when someone says "I am"? Man, I'll bet Popeye isn't very popular with the Muslims...
A few months back I applied for a Unix administrator position. It had nothing to do with Windows, and was in a shop that was completely devoid of Microsoft products. I received a message from the "placement agency" asking me to please attach a current resume in word format. Note that *in the quoted context* of the email to which they had replied was my current resume in plain text format. I took that same plain text format resume, changed the extension to .doc, and sent it back - which is what I have done for years.
Though that's not as annoying as applying at places that use the same form for everyone, from janitors to seceretaries and IT workers. You know, the ones where you send in your resume, and then when you get there for the scheduled interview, they hand you a form asking you to fill in all of the stuff that is on that resume that they have had in their posession for several weeks, except the form doesn't have quite enough room for what you've done, and asks irrelevant questions like whether or not you can use MS Word and Excel, how fast you can type, etc. Augh.