Sorry, i forgot to mention, Stuxnet only infects PCs and searches for the Step 7 (Siemens Development Environment) Software as well as any possibly connected / accessible PLC. The PCs that are most likely infected are those from the Service/Support or Development Department. These are usually not 'production' system but rather office PCs/Laptops that are likely used for other purposes than to program S7 PLCs most of the time.
PLCs run autonomous and use a real time embedded proprietary OS and are not infected by Stuxnet directly, Stuxnet may upload and hide new code to the PLC, but it does not copy itself to, or run on, a PLC.
Anyway, a few good safety rules should of course protect you from the original Stuxnet variant. Not allowing USB ports is a good measure but most users will revolt. Disabling Mass Storage device drivers is a better way to go in most cases. Not allowing a PC on both Production AND Office/Internet LANs is, of course, another. But usually technicians get lazy.. or they want to continue to play Mincraft SMP while they debug the S7 controlling the reactor safety systems -_-);
I looked up how Stuxnet works because it was relevant to my work and company (we use a lot of S7 PLCs on our production network).
The original was now much more than a glorified backdoor. It would install itself but did not contain any directly malicious payload. It would try to connect back to attacker, then the attacker could send and execute any payload they wanted.
It is likely the first payloads where used to identify priorities the attacked system (downloading source code etc). Then a malicious attack payload was specifically created to do the most harm and sent.
It was a glorified backdoor because it could propagate by itself and had the components to detect and connect to, upload and hide code to PLCs.
If it was installed by USB on a PC that was not connected to the internet then it would not have caused any direct harm since it wouldn't have been able to connect to the attacker.
Anyway, of course you can design a variant of Stuxnet that can try to damage any PLC without prior knowledge (contain a malicious payload), but i doubt it would be very effective. Without knowing what a PLC does / is supposed to do, the damage by simply changing values would likely be minimal and be immediately recognized.
The new E7 series incorporates the benefits of Sandy Bridge
is a bit misleading, i think.
As far as i understood it uses the older Westmere EX architecture. So while it may have added instructions also available in the Sandy Bridge architecture, clock for clock it will likely be slower in most cases and probably won't reach the the clock speeds of Sandy Bridge based chips.
Thank you for the reply. I assume you mean T-Com part of Deutsche Telekom, which was Privatized. As Part of the deal there was a law that any other ISP or Phone Carrier can lease lines up to the home for the same fair conditions anywhere in Germnay. That means if DSL is possible then you can get other from any other ISP. I don't know your address of course but i looked up for restaurant addresses in Baden Baden on google maps and just picked the first one and used the address (Holland Hotel Sophienpark GmbH, Sophienstraße 14 with Phone # 07221 3560) to look up availability for Arcor (one of many cheap ISPs, see http://arcor.de/ right on the fron page to the lower right) for which i had to five the street Address (Sophienstraße 14) and Area code of the Phone Number (07221). It stated that it is available at 6Mbit/s for 29.90 a month. After that i went to 1&1 (dsl.1und1.de) and check availability there for the same address, it says that the 16Mbit/s line is available for 24.90/Month for that address.
You are right though in that the actual speed might be a lot less, this is usually true if you live in an older home that does not have twisted pair wiring but only parallel wiring (the twisting cancels noise, without it the signals of other surrounding lines get mixed in). Simply if you live in a 100 year old house (not uncommon in germany) it probably also has 100 year old phone wiring.
In any case, if you can get inet from any provider you can get it from all of them. Whoever told you otherwise was lying (wouldn't be surprised if t-com lied to you, they are not a very good company, sort of like AT&T;-)
My Parents live in the US (Missouri), i live in Germany.
They pay more then i do, they only have one choice for broadband (SBC Global which is now AT&T) and their download speed is slower then my upload speed. And i don't mean 'stated', i mean actual.
They have 768kbit/s down stated and they do get that but they pay around $45/month. In Germany i pay 29.90 euro for 32Mbit/s stated of which i actually get 3.9MByte/s sustained so 31.2Mbit/s actual and 2Mbit/s upstream stated of which i get like 220kbyte/s so 1.8Mbit/s).
My brother lives in mountain view (near google) and used to live in menlo park. On both occasions he had only two choices (dsl and cable form one provider each).
Each was horribly slow and very expensive. And this is in the F*ING HEART OF SILICON VALLY!!!. At least now in mountain view he gets free google wifi (which he uses exclusively, thank you google!).
In Germany i have 8 different DSL providers, all tying to outbid each other (this is in a small rural town with maybe like 5000 inhabitants). Unfortunately with DSL the max they can provide is 16Mbit/s over twisted pair, that's why i went with cable, which for the speed is just as cheap and way cheaper then anything i ever saw in the US. Sure i heard of things like 'Fiber to the premises' but in the areas my parents, my brothers and i lived it was never even considered, and in the last 10 years the price of 'broadband' was actually raised 2x. Each time my parents would cancel or threaten to cancel to get the 'new user' prices again which would be what they payed before. But it's not really much of a choice, if they want broad band they have to pay what AT&T asks.
This article is either total BS or somehow every place i know in the US has been miraculously spared of any type of competition leaving horrible service, horrible speeds for extravagant prices.
Does anybody in the US have something like 32Mbit/s (uncapped) $40/moth? If so, where do you live and what is your ISP?
Well if you just want to READ pdf files (not print them) then i would suggest just loading them in Google Docs.
You don't need any plugins for that (no Flash etc) as each page is simply converted to an image server side. I would think that this is secure.
In any case i always disable all file format plugins in FireFox. It actually happened a few days ago that i was suddenly asked to save a PDF file even though i didn't click on any link, on examining adblock i found a hidden iframe that apparently tried to load what i am very certain was a malicious pdf in the background.
by itself. If you share content that is copyrighted in your country, to which you do not have appropriate distribution rights for that country, then you MIGHT be doing something illegal.
When i download my favorite Linux distro via BitTorrent i am NOT doing something illegal. Having used a File Sharing program does not mean i have ever used it for any illegal purpose.
136 people admitted using file sharing software, they did NOT admit to using it for illegal purposes!
Why have we allowed the assumption that File Sharing = Illegal to become so commonplace?
I am outraged this is not the first point of contention for this study.
i think it would be bad anyway if the companies whose primary business is selling fossil fuel also controlled a large chunk of the renewable energy market. I mean can you say 'conflict of interests'?
Leave it to the little guys that are better (specialized/core business) at it anyway. And at least now we truly know where they stand.
most other countries have a higher broadband adoption ratio with better speeds
and lower prices, so if the majority of the people living in the US without
broadband don't want cheaper/better performing internet then something must
be really really wrong.
I would be guessing the lack of competition, throttling, being treated like dirt
and then spending a (comparatively) huge amount of money for the privilege
has probably scared those people off.
As far as i understood detecting very slight amounts of a
particular protein also has many other uses besides
detection of cancer proteins in a clinical environment.
The whole thing already looks like a ready to use device
in the picture so i think it's pretty close
to actual applications, even if it's not approved for clinical use.
While i do agree that existing laws should not be 'bent' to prosecute her
i do hope that everyone can agree that her actions
as an adult to willingly and knowingly
inflict great psychological suffering on a child
which resulted in the death of that child
should be punished in such a way as to prevent
or at least greatly discourage a reoccurrence.
If she gets 'off', what will stop all those other assholes
in the world from trying to get children to kill them selfs
just for fun?
I don't know the law so i don't understand why they didn't
prosecute her for manslaughter or homicide or at least something
like willingly endangering the welfare of a child.
I guess it was not possible under existing law, so i do hope that
new laws will be created or existing laws will be revised to allow
for a fitting punishment when such 'asshole' behavior results in the
death on a child.
In my opinion, she should rot in jail for the rest of her natural life.
Being an 'asshole' is not an excuse when it leads to death of another, especially a child.
i'm no expert, but i think by 'processing' they mean the fourier transform that is needed to get a 'usable' image from the hologram.
So, no interpolation, but a kind of signal processing, sort of like what your cell phone/wifi does to make sense a jumble of transmissions.
Check out: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/ais/publicDocs/presentation71.pdf
just create any calender entry (single click on an empty field) with just the gmail address in the main 'What:' field, select 'don't send' and open it up (double click)... there you see the full user name of the gmail account.
Not sure why the article makes it so complicated...
So the admin@gmail.com guy is named 'smart ass'... poor fellow;)
So a car dealer has two Ferrari's, but me sells 3 of them.
The next day 3 customers show up to pick up their Ferraris, clearly the car dealer is outraged!
3 showing up when he only expected 2 even though he sold 3?! Unbelievable!
But the solution is simple, since the evil customers expected to get what they payed for, it's clearly all their fault,
and hence it is only fair to the car dealer that he be fully paid and the customers will have to timeshare.
Of course if the customers drive in California, the car dealer will have to be paid an additional $100/day since
driving in such a high traffic area it just completely unfair to the car dealer who only expected costumers to drive in rural, desolate areas of Idaho.
And in case some people don't know how to make the connection here, just replace "Ferrari" with "GB bandwidth" and "car dealer" with "ISP" (and what ever else needed to make perfect sense:)
If we let's ISP's get away with any of it, they won't just stop with throttling BitTorrent, they will oversell their bandwidth 1000-10,000x instead of just 10-30x and then throttle absolutely everything to make it all meet. Suddenly you downloading your 500kb Email attachment is an overuse of bandwidth and deserves to be cut down to 3kb/s. But don't worry, that annoying 1.2MB Flash commercial with be subsidized so it won't count and will stream with 10MB(yte)/s over your fiber connection to annoy you instantly. But you can't complain, after all you are getting your full bandwidth worth on SOME content.
In my overly optimistic way, i would hope that it doesn't really matter who releases such a tool and weather it works or not, just that the greedy ISP think there might be something to nail them down or at least make their unethical misdeeds visible might be enough for them to be not quite as bold, maybe even start campaigning with 'no throttling, test it yourself'. But i forgot that in the US there isn't really any ISP Broadband competition, i mean in the areas i lived in there was only once choice, first it was either Cable or nothing... then we moved, now we had the choice of At&t DSL or.... nothing.... yay. And even in those areas where people are lucky enough to have TWO offerings, chances are very good that both are evil bastards and already throttling
Now that i have been living in Germany for a while, i almost get weekly adds from some ISP i have never heard of supposedly being cheaper then my current isp. My 16MBit/s connection combined with some unlimited call package is cheap enough though (compared to the us) but it makes me feel good that if there is ever even the hint of throttling that i can simply switch one of the many other isp's.
Movies today are never made to make a (possibly small) fan base happy,
they are only made to make a lot of money and for that it only has to be (mildly) appealing to the masses.
All those 'fans' will see it anyhow and chances are 90% of them will hate it regardless how 'good' others think it is.
Big Money means:
the movie is made so a 6 year old can watch it with his parents, nothing too brutal & funny scenes for kids (remember jar jar binks?)
nothing complicated, keep good and evil clearly separated, you have to know whos evil when you see them, otherwise the kids get confused
don't take any chances, avoid anything controversial, use the known formula (happy ending, nobody likable gets killed)
it doesn't have to be good as long as it has a well known name (sequel sequel sequel & why Bush got elected after all)
a mediocre movie made for the masses makes more money then a excellent movie for insiders
So with that in mind, i expect it to be watchable but nothing special.
I see this not as a car replacement for everyone but a great convenience for hobby pilots.
With this you can own your own airplane without having to leave it at the airport (with all that this might entail, such as airplane hanger/parking/club affiliation cost etc). Also great when flying to another airport (visiting relatives for example) because you don't have to worry about leaving your plane there.
Of course this convenience will probably come at steep premium compared to other small planes and ultra light aircraft but it probably makes sense if you depend on a larger airport (class C for example) and don't have to park it there. Although i wonder how/where you would enter the airport ground environment.
Makes you install and updater (not just as a constantly running Service but also as a DRIVER?!! WTF!)
then it also sets google as default search engine and installs google toolbar.... can this be any more EVIL?
Luckily i have a VMware 'crapware' virtual machine... this got installed on there, once done, i just copied the Google Earth folder to my real machine, GE 4.3 Beta without the *unnecessary* crap:)
why not simply have one fixed known port that hosts an NTP Server serving the Servers local time... the SSH Client would connect to that first and use it to calculate a time offset from the server to the client
That way it wouldn't matter if the server, the client, or both are totally out of sync with reality!
Still, i don't see any advantage of this to simply using a fixed port that blacklists any client after a set number of failed login attempts. I mean if the attacker tries to guess he would get blacklisted just the same. All it's changing is what the attacker is trying to guess.. a password used in combination with a known fact (to calculate a port) or just a password... Cryptographically speaking they are both of equal strength since the additional key component is universally known.
but what do i know... sounds like a fun 10 minute oss hack;)
Comcast has no idea what Anime is, they probably don't even know WHAT their users are downloading at all
nor do they REALLY care, all they care about is what costs them money and that is people USING the service they paid for
a wee bit more then others. (oh the horrible crime!!!)
It is simply the assumption that bittorrent + lots traffic = illegal. No need to verify, just roll out the DMCA crap.
Comcast expects that teir 'stupid customors' won't know how to properly respond and hope that they simply won't have the resources
to put up any fight. It the same as the *AA thugs say, BitTorrent or ANY type of P2P file distribution is ALWAYS used, by ALL users,
to share copyrighted content and only if THEY have full control over the distribution (which can never fully happen in P2P) can they
believe that anyone MIGHT be 'less of a criminal' (but they should probably pay them anyway, since all people are obviously evil).
It's Comcasts + MAFIAA ongoing attempt to make P2P illegal, not just by law but also by peoples believes.
If you tell them often enough that it's a horrible HORRIBLE crime, then at some point people (especially by those who do not use/understand)
will believe it and that's when you get stupid juries that award x billion for having some bittorrent client installed.
Distribution (without profit) of unlicensed content is fully legal, but like i said, Comcast doesn't even know it is unlicensed Anime
and nor do they care. They didn't care what content was distributed when they simply killed p2p connections before. It was p2p, that's enough.
So the MAFIAA wants you to remember:
P2P = bad = crime... obviously you should feel really REALLY bad the next time you download a WoW patch... (you criminal!!!)
Well the Event Subscribed 'problem' is well known and makes sense if you think about it. I mean subscribing to an Event means placing a pointer to a delegate of a method in a event subscriber list.. when someone raises that event then each delegate in the list is invoked... so basically it is an implicit reference and hence can prevent the it from being marked for garbage collection.
However, i had another memory 'leak' problem where the Garbage Collector simply didn't collect in time which caused my application to use more and more memory until it reached the system limit and crashed... i found that simply calling
GC.Collect();
GC.GetTotalMemory(true);// (the true 'forces' collection;)
once would fix this problem... i though i needed to call it every minute or so... but when calling just once it did SOMETHING that prevented this problem from occurring again.. no idea exactly what.. but it works:)
I live in Germany and have been using my unlocked 4GB iPhone since September with my Work provided E-Plus sim card.
I am amazed at prices the expect people in Germany to pay, i mean i payed $299 + tax (i think it was like an additional $17)
when i bought my iPhone in the US (ok so the 8GB was $399) but now they expect people to pay $585!!!
And somehow i know they are not going to reduce the price in two weeks!
Now i know why they call it Rip-Off-Europe, next to a PS3 thats crippled and costs twice as much as in the US/Japan,
this would simply go into my 'like hell i'm paying extra for THAT' list.
But, I'm just glad i bought mine over there, for (at current rates) just 203 Euros.
first: both my parents do research for Monsanto and i am proud of them and the work they do, not of the company itself though
next, i think people who talk about 'Frankenfoods' are poorly informed about what contemporary GM is and isn't.
For most GM modifications you take a gene that you know serves a certain purpose from one organism (plant for example) and transplant it into another.
There is nothing new, it is the same thing you could archive with normal breeding but it would take centuries and would only work with closely related species.
You see, 1+1 = 2, 1+1 != flesh eating monster
Of course this is in stark contrast to the practice of 'accelerated breeding by random mutations through irradiation' that nobody ever complained about and where most results are far less then desirable and you really have no clue on what else might have changed.
Also, any current GM Crops inherit their traits and are therefore just as 'permanent' as any created using engineered chromosomes.
Oh, and 'permanent' is of course also incorrect, crossbreeding with non-modified crops will of course weaken (and over time could eliminate) the traits and this is the same for the old and this new approach. Of course Monstante did develop a way to prevent genetic traits to be inherited, but they ineptly name it 'terminator gene' and the whole world screamed in horror until the released it into the public domain and promised to never ever use it. And now people complain about GM's being too 'permanent'!
In any case, the chromosomes are simply a neat way to package desired genes and it makes the 'injection' much more reliably.
And no worries, GM Plants created using such chromosomes still won't turn into monsters that eat people, really!
I just wish there was a way i could pre-cache a certain area at the highest detail level.
As it is now, it only starts to download when you are already in an area which means
that you are always seeing sub optimal detail levels when you fly into new areas.
For Google it should be easy to make a simple position prediction algorithem (including z) to prioritize
map content area and detail level download. Especially in a flight sim it should be fairly easy to predict
near future positions with a relative high degree of certainty.
Oh well, i was still having more fun playing this then i was playing MS FlighSim X...
Performance probably had a lot do to with that, but also the fact that high res.
aerial pictures for everything is simply better then crappy generated (i should say composited)
detail textures for most everything.
Of course this is this and MS Fligh Sim is something totally different in terms of scope and realism.
Nevertheless, this is free, fun, quick and simple and for me that simply wins:)
Slashdot Mirror
Direkt link to the google maps/streatview
Sorry, i forgot to mention, Stuxnet only infects PCs and searches for the Step 7 (Siemens Development Environment) Software as well as any possibly connected / accessible PLC. The PCs that are most likely infected are those from the Service/Support or Development Department. These are usually not 'production' system but rather office PCs/Laptops that are likely used for other purposes than to program S7 PLCs most of the time.
PLCs run autonomous and use a real time embedded proprietary OS and are not infected by Stuxnet directly, Stuxnet may upload and hide new code to the PLC, but it does not copy itself to, or run on, a PLC.
Anyway, a few good safety rules should of course protect you from the original Stuxnet variant. Not allowing USB ports is a good measure but most users will revolt. Disabling Mass Storage device drivers is a better way to go in most cases. Not allowing a PC on both Production AND Office/Internet LANs is, of course, another. But usually technicians get lazy.. or they want to continue to play Mincraft SMP while they debug the S7 controlling the reactor safety systems -_-);
I looked up how Stuxnet works because it was relevant to my work and company (we use a lot of S7 PLCs on our production network).
The original was now much more than a glorified backdoor. It would install itself but did not contain any directly malicious payload. It would try to connect back to attacker, then the attacker could send and execute any payload they wanted.
It is likely the first payloads where used to identify priorities the attacked system (downloading source code etc). Then a malicious attack payload was specifically created to do the most harm and sent.
It was a glorified backdoor because it could propagate by itself and had the components to detect and connect to, upload and hide code to PLCs.
If it was installed by USB on a PC that was not connected to the internet then it would not have caused any direct harm since it wouldn't have been able to connect to the attacker.
Anyway, of course you can design a variant of Stuxnet that can try to damage any PLC without prior knowledge (contain a malicious payload), but i doubt it would be very effective. Without knowing what a PLC does / is supposed to do, the damage by simply changing values would likely be minimal and be immediately recognized.
The new E7 series incorporates the benefits of Sandy Bridge
is a bit misleading, i think.
As far as i understood it uses the older Westmere EX architecture. So while it may have added instructions also available in the Sandy Bridge architecture, clock for clock it will likely be slower in most cases and probably won't reach the the clock speeds of Sandy Bridge based chips.
Thank you for the reply. I assume you mean T-Com part of Deutsche Telekom, which was Privatized. As Part of the deal there was a law that any other ISP or Phone Carrier can lease lines up to the home for the same fair conditions anywhere in Germnay. That means if DSL is possible then you can get other from any other ISP. I don't know your address of course but i looked up for restaurant addresses in Baden Baden on google maps and just picked the first one and used the address (Holland Hotel Sophienpark GmbH, Sophienstraße 14 with Phone # 07221 3560) to look up availability for Arcor (one of many cheap ISPs, see http://arcor.de/ right on the fron page to the lower right) for which i had to five the street Address (Sophienstraße 14) and Area code of the Phone Number (07221). It stated that it is available at 6Mbit/s for 29.90 a month. After that i went to 1&1 (dsl.1und1.de) and check availability there for the same address, it says that the 16Mbit/s line is available for 24.90/Month for that address.
;-)
You are right though in that the actual speed might be a lot less, this is usually true if you live in an older home that does not have twisted pair wiring but only parallel wiring (the twisting cancels noise, without it the signals of other surrounding lines get mixed in). Simply if you live in a 100 year old house (not uncommon in germany) it probably also has 100 year old phone wiring.
In any case, if you can get inet from any provider you can get it from all of them. Whoever told you otherwise was lying (wouldn't be surprised if t-com lied to you, they are not a very good company, sort of like AT&T
My Parents live in the US (Missouri), i live in Germany.
They pay more then i do, they only have one choice for broadband (SBC Global which is now AT&T) and their download speed is slower then my upload speed. And i don't mean 'stated', i mean actual.
They have 768kbit/s down stated and they do get that but they pay around $45/month. In Germany i pay 29.90 euro for 32Mbit/s stated of which i actually get 3.9MByte/s sustained so 31.2Mbit/s actual and 2Mbit/s upstream stated of which i get like 220kbyte/s so 1.8Mbit/s).
My brother lives in mountain view (near google) and used to live in menlo park. On both occasions he had only two choices (dsl and cable form one provider each).
Each was horribly slow and very expensive. And this is in the F*ING HEART OF SILICON VALLY!!!. At least now in mountain view he gets free google wifi (which he uses exclusively, thank you google!).
In Germany i have 8 different DSL providers, all tying to outbid each other (this is in a small rural town with maybe like 5000 inhabitants). Unfortunately with DSL the max they can provide is 16Mbit/s over twisted pair, that's why i went with cable, which for the speed is just as cheap and way cheaper then anything i ever saw in the US. Sure i heard of things like 'Fiber to the premises' but in the areas my parents, my brothers and i lived it was never even considered, and in the last 10 years the price of 'broadband' was actually raised 2x. Each time my parents would cancel or threaten to cancel to get the 'new user' prices again which would be what they payed before. But it's not really much of a choice, if they want broad band they have to pay what AT&T asks.
This article is either total BS or somehow every place i know in the US has been miraculously spared of any type of competition leaving horrible service, horrible speeds for extravagant prices.
Does anybody in the US have something like 32Mbit/s (uncapped) $40/moth? If so, where do you live and what is your ISP?
Well if you just want to READ pdf files (not print them) then i would suggest just loading them in Google Docs.
You don't need any plugins for that (no Flash etc) as each page is simply converted to an image server side. I would think that this is secure.
In any case i always disable all file format plugins in FireFox. It actually happened a few days ago that i was suddenly asked to save a PDF file even though i didn't click on any link, on examining adblock i found a hidden iframe that apparently tried to load what i am very certain was a malicious pdf in the background.
by itself. If you share content that is copyrighted in your country, to which you do not have appropriate distribution rights for that country, then you MIGHT be doing something illegal.
When i download my favorite Linux distro via BitTorrent i am NOT doing something illegal. Having used a File Sharing program does not mean i have ever used it for any illegal purpose.
136 people admitted using file sharing software, they did NOT admit to using it for illegal purposes!
Why have we allowed the assumption that File Sharing = Illegal to become so commonplace?
I am outraged this is not the first point of contention for this study.
i think it would be bad anyway if the companies whose primary business is selling fossil fuel also controlled a large chunk of the renewable energy market.
I mean can you say 'conflict of interests'?
Leave it to the little guys that are better (specialized/core business) at it anyway.
And at least now we truly know where they stand.
most other countries have a higher broadband adoption ratio with better speeds
and lower prices, so if the majority of the people living in the US without
broadband don't want cheaper/better performing internet then something must
be really really wrong.
I would be guessing the lack of competition, throttling, being treated like dirt
and then spending a (comparatively) huge amount of money for the privilege
has probably scared those people off.
As far as i understood detecting very slight amounts of a
particular protein also has many other uses besides
detection of cancer proteins in a clinical environment.
The whole thing already looks like a ready to use device
in the picture so i think it's pretty close
to actual applications, even if it's not approved for clinical use.
While i do agree that existing laws should not be 'bent' to prosecute her
i do hope that everyone can agree that her actions
as an adult to willingly and knowingly
inflict great psychological suffering on a child
which resulted in the death of that child
should be punished in such a way as to prevent
or at least greatly discourage a reoccurrence.
If she gets 'off', what will stop all those other assholes
in the world from trying to get children to kill them selfs
just for fun?
I don't know the law so i don't understand why they didn't
prosecute her for manslaughter or homicide or at least something
like willingly endangering the welfare of a child.
I guess it was not possible under existing law, so i do hope that
new laws will be created or existing laws will be revised to allow
for a fitting punishment when such 'asshole' behavior results in the
death on a child.
In my opinion, she should rot in jail for the rest of her natural life.
Being an 'asshole' is not an excuse when it leads to death of another, especially a child.
i'm no expert, but i think by 'processing' they mean the fourier transform that is needed to get a 'usable' image from the hologram.
So, no interpolation, but a kind of signal processing, sort of like what your cell phone/wifi does to make sense a jumble of transmissions.
Check out:
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/ais/publicDocs/presentation71.pdf
just create any calender entry (single click on an empty field) with just the gmail address in the main 'What:' field, select 'don't send' and open it up (double click)... there you see the full user name of the gmail account.
;)
Not sure why the article makes it so complicated...
So the admin@gmail.com guy is named 'smart ass'... poor fellow
So a car dealer has two Ferrari's, but me sells 3 of them.
:)
The next day 3 customers show up to pick up their Ferraris, clearly the car dealer is outraged!
3 showing up when he only expected 2 even though he sold 3?! Unbelievable!
But the solution is simple, since the evil customers expected to get what they payed for, it's clearly all their fault,
and hence it is only fair to the car dealer that he be fully paid and the customers will have to timeshare.
Of course if the customers drive in California, the car dealer will have to be paid an additional $100/day since
driving in such a high traffic area it just completely unfair to the car dealer who only expected costumers to drive in rural, desolate areas of Idaho.
And in case some people don't know how to make the connection here, just replace "Ferrari" with "GB bandwidth" and "car dealer" with "ISP" (and what ever else needed to make perfect sense
If we let's ISP's get away with any of it, they won't just stop with throttling BitTorrent, they will oversell their bandwidth 1000-10,000x instead of just 10-30x and then throttle absolutely everything to make it all meet. Suddenly you downloading your 500kb Email attachment is an overuse of bandwidth and deserves to be cut down to 3kb/s. But don't worry, that annoying 1.2MB Flash commercial with be subsidized so it won't count and will stream with 10MB(yte)/s over your fiber connection to annoy you instantly. But you can't complain, after all you are getting your full bandwidth worth on SOME content.
In my overly optimistic way, i would hope that it doesn't really matter who releases such a tool and weather it works or not, just that the greedy ISP think there might be something to nail them down or at least make their unethical misdeeds visible might be enough for them to be not quite as bold, maybe even start campaigning with 'no throttling, test it yourself'. But i forgot that in the US there isn't really any ISP Broadband competition, i mean in the areas i lived in there was only once choice, first it was either Cable or nothing... then we moved, now we had the choice of At&t DSL or.... nothing.... yay. And even in those areas where people are lucky enough to have TWO offerings, chances are very good that both are evil bastards and already throttling
Now that i have been living in Germany for a while, i almost get weekly adds from some ISP i have never heard of supposedly being cheaper then my current isp. My 16MBit/s connection combined with some unlimited call package is cheap enough though (compared to the us) but it makes me feel good that if there is ever even the hint of throttling that i can simply switch one of the many other isp's.
they are only made to make a lot of money and for that it only has to be (mildly) appealing to the masses.
All those 'fans' will see it anyhow and chances are 90% of them will hate it regardless how 'good' others think it is.
Big Money means:
- the movie is made so a 6 year old can watch it with his parents, nothing too brutal & funny scenes for kids (remember jar jar binks?)
- nothing complicated, keep good and evil clearly separated, you have to know whos evil when you see them, otherwise the kids get confused
- don't take any chances, avoid anything controversial, use the known formula (happy ending, nobody likable gets killed)
- it doesn't have to be good as long as it has a well known name (sequel sequel sequel & why Bush got elected after all)
- a mediocre movie made for the masses makes more money then a excellent movie for insiders
So with that in mind, i expect it to be watchable but nothing special.I see this not as a car replacement for everyone but a great convenience for hobby pilots.
With this you can own your own airplane without having to leave it at the airport (with all that this might entail, such as airplane hanger/parking/club affiliation cost etc). Also great when flying to another airport (visiting relatives for example) because you don't have to worry about leaving your plane there.
Of course this convenience will probably come at steep premium compared to other small planes and ultra light aircraft but it probably makes sense if you depend on a larger airport (class C for example) and don't have to park it there. Although i wonder how/where you would enter the airport ground environment.
Makes you install and updater (not just as a constantly running Service but also as a DRIVER?!! WTF!)
:)
then it also sets google as default search engine and installs google toolbar.... can this be any more EVIL?
Luckily i have a VMware 'crapware' virtual machine... this got installed on there, once done, i just copied the Google Earth folder to my real machine, GE 4.3 Beta without the *unnecessary* crap
The EEE also has a SSD and no ports on the back!
Why haven't we heard of people getting held up by the TSA for that?
Maybe people just like pick on those smug apple fanbois?
why not simply have one fixed known port that hosts an NTP Server serving the Servers local time... the SSH Client would connect to that first and use it to calculate a time offset from the server to the client
;)
That way it wouldn't matter if the server, the client, or both are totally out of sync with reality!
Still, i don't see any advantage of this to simply using a fixed port that blacklists any client after a set number of failed login attempts. I mean if the attacker tries to guess he would get blacklisted just the same. All it's changing is what the attacker is trying to guess.. a password used in combination with a known fact (to calculate a port) or just a password...
Cryptographically speaking they are both of equal strength since the additional key component is universally known.
but what do i know... sounds like a fun 10 minute oss hack
Comcast has no idea what Anime is, they probably don't even know WHAT their users are downloading at all
nor do they REALLY care, all they care about is what costs them money and that is people USING the service they paid for
a wee bit more then others. (oh the horrible crime!!!)
It is simply the assumption that bittorrent + lots traffic = illegal. No need to verify, just roll out the DMCA crap.
Comcast expects that teir 'stupid customors' won't know how to properly respond and hope that they simply won't have the resources
to put up any fight. It the same as the *AA thugs say, BitTorrent or ANY type of P2P file distribution is ALWAYS used, by ALL users,
to share copyrighted content and only if THEY have full control over the distribution (which can never fully happen in P2P) can they
believe that anyone MIGHT be 'less of a criminal' (but they should probably pay them anyway, since all people are obviously evil).
It's Comcasts + MAFIAA ongoing attempt to make P2P illegal, not just by law but also by peoples believes.
If you tell them often enough that it's a horrible HORRIBLE crime, then at some point people (especially by those who do not use/understand)
will believe it and that's when you get stupid juries that award x billion for having some bittorrent client installed.
Distribution (without profit) of unlicensed content is fully legal, but like i said, Comcast doesn't even know it is unlicensed Anime
and nor do they care. They didn't care what content was distributed when they simply killed p2p connections before. It was p2p, that's enough.
So the MAFIAA wants you to remember:
P2P = bad = crime... obviously you should feel really REALLY bad the next time you download a WoW patch... (you criminal!!!)
Well the Event Subscribed 'problem' is well known and makes sense if you think about it. I mean subscribing to an Event means placing a pointer to a delegate of a method in a event subscriber list.. when someone raises that event then each delegate in the list is invoked... so basically it is an implicit reference and hence can prevent the it from being marked for garbage collection.
;) :)
However, i had another memory 'leak' problem where the Garbage Collector simply didn't collect in time which caused my application to use more and more memory until it reached the system limit and crashed... i found that simply calling
GC.Collect();
GC.GetTotalMemory(true);// (the true 'forces' collection
once would fix this problem... i though i needed to call it every minute or so... but when calling just once it did SOMETHING that prevented this problem from occurring again.. no idea exactly what.. but it works
I live in Germany and have been using my unlocked 4GB iPhone since September with my Work provided E-Plus sim card.
I am amazed at prices the expect people in Germany to pay, i mean i payed $299 + tax (i think it was like an additional $17)
when i bought my iPhone in the US (ok so the 8GB was $399) but now they expect people to pay $585!!!
And somehow i know they are not going to reduce the price in two weeks!
Now i know why they call it Rip-Off-Europe, next to a PS3 thats crippled and costs twice as much as in the US/Japan,
this would simply go into my 'like hell i'm paying extra for THAT' list.
But, I'm just glad i bought mine over there, for (at current rates) just 203 Euros.
first: both my parents do research for Monsanto and i am proud of them and the work they do, not of the company itself though
next, i think people who talk about 'Frankenfoods' are poorly informed about what contemporary GM is and isn't.
For most GM modifications you take a gene that you know serves a certain purpose from one organism (plant for example) and transplant it into another.
There is nothing new, it is the same thing you could archive with normal breeding but it would take centuries and would only work with closely related species.
You see, 1+1 = 2, 1+1 != flesh eating monster
Of course this is in stark contrast to the practice of 'accelerated breeding by random mutations through irradiation' that nobody ever complained about and where most results are far less then desirable and you really have no clue on what else might have changed.
Also, any current GM Crops inherit their traits and are therefore just as 'permanent' as any created using engineered chromosomes.
Oh, and 'permanent' is of course also incorrect, crossbreeding with non-modified crops will of course weaken (and over time could eliminate) the traits and this is the same for the old and this new approach.
Of course Monstante did develop a way to prevent genetic traits to be inherited, but they ineptly name it 'terminator gene' and the whole world screamed in horror until the released it into the public domain and promised to never ever use it.
And now people complain about GM's being too 'permanent'!
In any case, the chromosomes are simply a neat way to package desired genes and it makes the 'injection' much more reliably.
And no worries, GM Plants created using such chromosomes still won't turn into monsters that eat people, really!
I just wish there was a way i could pre-cache a certain area at the highest detail level.
:)
As it is now, it only starts to download when you are already in an area which means
that you are always seeing sub optimal detail levels when you fly into new areas.
For Google it should be easy to make a simple position prediction algorithem (including z) to prioritize
map content area and detail level download. Especially in a flight sim it should be fairly easy to predict
near future positions with a relative high degree of certainty.
Oh well, i was still having more fun playing this then i was playing MS FlighSim X...
Performance probably had a lot do to with that, but also the fact that high res.
aerial pictures for everything is simply better then crappy generated (i should say composited)
detail textures for most everything.
Of course this is this and MS Fligh Sim is something totally different in terms of scope and realism.
Nevertheless, this is free, fun, quick and simple and for me that simply wins