"Do some real good monitoring, real time, and post on a grey hat security board that it can't be hacked.
Except that a company providing an ultra secure website might, I don't know, have a vital relationship with their ISP that would be damaged by this type of action.
I have been playing the same mud since 1992, it is still around and still free.
There are a dozen or so zones I have never even explored in addition to the several dozen I have.
I won't spam the address here, but if you are willing to take the time to script a mud client with aliases and triggers to eliminate the hours of mad-dash typing that classic mudding required, you could end up with a new addictive time-sink.
If you never had a reason to run across CastleCops then you likely would not have been the sort to help out.
After all, CC has been high visibility on the web for years, you just haven't been searching for the types of information that they collected.
This was not exactly an obscure website. Those who are interested can check threads over at Wilders where some enterprising souls are collecting CC content out of the Google cache as quickly as they can.
"The Lord of the Rings movies went way past anything I expected, into the same class of story -- for me, tastes vary -- as L.A. Confidential, where the book and movie have some major disjoint but each is masterful within its realm."
I don't get why the book and movie need to share the same name if they are not going to share a plot.
Can't the movie be 'inspired by...' or do what another poster suggested and cop a Blade Runner - where the story and name changed significantly enough that no one expected a faithful translation.
I run Ubuntu and recommend Linux distros to others based on their needs. Ubuntu with VirtualBox hosting XP is quick and easy to set up...
That being said, just getting a static IP for the parent's Windows box so you can remote in for periodic maintenance would also be a decent way to go.
More on topic, I think the AARP maintains an advisory board for technology issues. There was a/learntech area to their.org last time I checked, not sure if there is info for implementors.
Are there MMOs that require multiple $500 GPUs to run properly?
I thought the PC-MMO connection had to do with needing a keyboard to play effectively... nothing to do with the gaming rigs this article is talking about.
I'm interested in how the cybersecurity strategists will be attempting to identify false flag attacks.
This task appears to require the application of traditional intelligence gathering techniques to give perspective to electronic evidence of malfeasance...
Anyhow, false flag attacks in the cyber world will be an increasing issue as domestic groups realize they don't actually have to hurt anyone directly to set up their enemies for a fall.
After all, why snuff a competing group yourself when you can aim the hellfire of the U.S. gov at them through false flag operations?
Web 2.0 is useful for one thing. It's an easy way to tell the buzzword merchants from the IT professionals.
I see.
So you are saying that real IT professionals just sit there and stare at C level decision makers when they are asked about how the latest buzzword is going to change the field?
There is a reason that these buzzwords exist.
Think of it as an additional layer of abstraction for C level decision makers. The nicest part is that most of the buzz concepts are vague enough that a talented IT professional can actually make them mean whatever they want.
Wireless power is only suitable for everything that is portable....
There is no point not to use wireless power.
Setting aside concerns about increasing environmental EMF, what would wireless power offer other than convenience?
Wireless power transmission is more wasteful than conventional methods of power delivery.
Your points about batteries and their ill effects are right on, which is why fuel cell technology is getting a lot of focus in the R&D world.
On another note, why would we create infrastructure that could interfere with neural interfaces? Even if we are only talking about the helmet style esp game controllers that are coming to market, why would we saturate our environment with electricity when the next gen of interfaces rely on reading minute electrical impulses?
Parsons not only invented the first feesible JATO propulsion (the foundation for the JPL), but showed Hubbard the roadmap for getting what he wanted through occult organizations before falling prey to his own system.
The book provides insight into early sci-fi fans as well, as Parsons would give presentations to sci-fi fan clubs about his reasearch during the period that no one respectable would talk to him.
I believe Ackerman makes an appearance in the bio, and I am sure several other sci-fi authors do as well... I just don't recall which ones ATM.
Anyhow, RIP Ackerman... Yet another legend that I will never meet in this life.
I have only been using NOD for a few weeks... so far so good.
I was stuck with a Panda solution at work for a couple of years, NOD feels far advanced of that suite.
The nicest thing I have noticed so far is the NOD interface and presentation of options, so my opinion basically boils down to YMMV.
As far as footprints go, I rebooted this machine 29 hours ago according to task manager. The NOD kernel has utilized 28 seconds of processor time.
I just spawned an on-demand scan, and popped back into VS2008.. minor speed hit on standard tasks. Much less that Panda from the feel of it. Nod32.exe (scanning process) is currently topping out at 13% CPU usage, and it doesn't do that annoying throttling garbage that some other AV systems do, NOD stays light on the flops.
Barely noticeable really. Of course, I don't really know how good a job it is doing.
Niche markets have problems getting specialty software updated in a timely manner.
A client in the Veterinary field is still unable to update to XP SP3 because their medical office management software provider told me their product absolutely could not run on SP3.
I thought that the provider was thinking I was trying to upgrade to Vista, but no, SP3 apparently kills their server product.
Nice generality that isn't remotely correct. The value of the bachelor's degree depends on the choice of degree.
You miss my point completely. Time spent studying is time spent studying, whether in a university, in your own home, or at a broke ass public library computer terminal.
A degree is motivation for the student, nothing more.
Every competent manager I have ever worked for has had a mortal disdain for CS students without 3+ years real world experience, because that is about how long it takes for the reality to sink in for most degree holders... in the corporate world it boils down to A Real World Track Record.
I am speaking from experience as a currently self employed programmer who spent years maintaining infrastructure for a regional auto parts chain while paying my dues, moved on to slightly bigger pastures, and then found a nice cozy niche of my very own.
If you live near any higher education institutions I'd suggest socializing within those circles while you're working your way up.
The majority of my friends at the University level cherish the few students that pass through their classes on the way to bigger and better things. The sad fact is that most kids go to college because that is what is expected of them, and most professors I know go through periods of disillusionment due to the lack of dedication displayed by the majority of their charges.
I wonder why Dilbert rings true with so many IT veterans... If advanced degrees insure proficiency where the hell's all the MBA talent?
The only way that lacking a college degree could have hindered my career is if I had been the sort to get hung up about starting at the bottom. I was not that sort, and now I live on my own terms, with a wide network of contacts that I met while successfully delivering technical services over the years. Anyhow, CS grads prolly wouldn't be the butts of so many jokes if companies didn't keep hiring them in way above their experience level, but that's life.
College degrees are the new high school diplomas. If you didn't go to college, you're like a backwoods hick whose parents took him out of schooling early so he could chop wood and feed the pigs.
You're half right, college degrees are the new high school diplomas... they are completely worthless the instant you graduate.
As for the hick comment, you realize that the reason kids used to get pulled to do chores was because that's what their families needed to survive, right? Are you seriously making fun of poor, rural families or are you just not creative enough to come up with something better.
I bet you spent so much time becoming l33t in college that you don't even know how ignorant and offensive you sound to people educated in the real world.
Honestly, Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat stories would make better movies than either Tolkien's or Asimov's best stories.
Hollywood takes too many good stories and ruins them with T&A. They should instead be taking marginal stories and improving them as only marginal stories can be improved.. with gratuitous sex and violence.
As for Heinlein, I remember checking out audio tapes of some of his books as an initial act of juvenile choice at the library... and only after they were playing for my whole family to hear did I realize that the dude had some serious issues with waiting till his heroins were menstruating before thinking about their thighs.
Probably because it's fucking awesome. You and your mongoloid son aren't.
That's just funny. Please read Tales Before Tolkien before ever commenting on this subject again.
Tolkien revolutionized fantastical storytelling, went unnoticed for years because he was not an attention whoring populist writer, and has now been totally dishonored by the massacre that is the Peter Jackson LOTR saga.
If the studios wanted Tolkien without the classical elements they should have paid off Terry Brooks for his stories and been done with it.
I cannot even fathom how a fan of the LOTR books could sit through half of the first movie installment, and I remember telling the friend I saw the first movie with that Asimov would be next... cause Hollywood was obviously running dry if they thought they could pull this shit over the eyes of the educated public.
Related evidence suggests that there is very little left of the educated public, as both the LOTR adaptations and the Asimov adaptations are completely bereft of any intellectual value.
But hey, maybe J.R.R. and Isaac were just fucking off.. they prolly were just in it for the paychecks just like the fuck holes making these shit-ass movies. Right? I mean why else would they be contemplating things like classical linguistics and transhumanist morality when the world is full of redemptionless fuckheads like yourself willing to part with your hard earned dollars over Liv Tyler's minimal tits.
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There's a simple technical solution to this:
1. trace the phishing to their location
2. send a missile to that location
3. problem solved
I don't get it. Then the bad guys would have a missile. That is worse, not better.
"Now, if the various governments could/would authorize their law enforcement agencies to use this method ..."
That is the worst idea I have heard all week.
"Do some real good monitoring, real time, and post on a grey hat security board that it can't be hacked.
Except that a company providing an ultra secure website might, I don't know, have a vital relationship with their ISP that would be damaged by this type of action.
Stay right where you are, we are coming for the downloaded bits now, bitch - don't struggle.
I have been playing the same mud since 1992, it is still around and still free.
There are a dozen or so zones I have never even explored in addition to the several dozen I have.
I won't spam the address here, but if you are willing to take the time to script a mud client with aliases and triggers to eliminate the hours of mad-dash typing that classic mudding required, you could end up with a new addictive time-sink.
I just searched 'new lively,' and Google didn't return newlively.com until page 2.
I am not logged onto any Google services currently, and should be pretty much anonymous to their search pages.
It would seem that the advertising problem with this project is only getting worse.
If you never had a reason to run across CastleCops then you likely would not have been the sort to help out.
After all, CC has been high visibility on the web for years, you just haven't been searching for the types of information that they collected.
This was not exactly an obscure website. Those who are interested can check threads over at Wilders where some enterprising souls are collecting CC content out of the Google cache as quickly as they can.
"The Lord of the Rings movies went way past anything I expected, into the same class of story -- for me, tastes vary -- as L.A. Confidential, where the book and movie have some major disjoint but each is masterful within its realm."
I don't get why the book and movie need to share the same name if they are not going to share a plot.
Can't the movie be 'inspired by...' or do what another poster suggested and cop a Blade Runner - where the story and name changed significantly enough that no one expected a faithful translation.
I run Ubuntu and recommend Linux distros to others based on their needs. Ubuntu with VirtualBox hosting XP is quick and easy to set up...
That being said, just getting a static IP for the parent's Windows box so you can remote in for periodic maintenance would also be a decent way to go.
More on topic, I think the AARP maintains an advisory board for technology issues. There was a /learntech area to their .org last time I checked, not sure if there is info for implementors.
Are there MMOs that require multiple $500 GPUs to run properly?
I thought the PC-MMO connection had to do with needing a keyboard to play effectively... nothing to do with the gaming rigs this article is talking about.
But I agree, the topic itself is lame.
Put simply: the private sector just doesn't believe in government's ability to succeed. How are you going to fix that?
That was the entire point of the recently held American elections.
The answer is forthcoming and will be based on how willing the American people are to dedicate their own time to enriching their country.
We are both cooperating to answer your question by participating in this thread.
Disclaimer: I didn't vote this time around. The election seemed too important at this juncture of history to get involved at that level ;)
I'm interested in how the cybersecurity strategists will be attempting to identify false flag attacks.
This task appears to require the application of traditional intelligence gathering techniques to give perspective to electronic evidence of malfeasance ...
Anyhow, false flag attacks in the cyber world will be an increasing issue as domestic groups realize they don't actually have to hurt anyone directly to set up their enemies for a fall.
After all, why snuff a competing group yourself when you can aim the hellfire of the U.S. gov at them through false flag operations?
Web 2.0 is useful for one thing. It's an easy way to tell the buzzword merchants from the IT professionals.
I see.
So you are saying that real IT professionals just sit there and stare at C level decision makers when they are asked about how the latest buzzword is going to change the field?
There is a reason that these buzzwords exist.
Think of it as an additional layer of abstraction for C level decision makers. The nicest part is that most of the buzz concepts are vague enough that a talented IT professional can actually make them mean whatever they want.
Wireless power is only suitable for everything that is portable. ...
There is no point not to use wireless power.
Setting aside concerns about increasing environmental EMF, what would wireless power offer other than convenience?
Wireless power transmission is more wasteful than conventional methods of power delivery.
Your points about batteries and their ill effects are right on, which is why fuel cell technology is getting a lot of focus in the R&D world.
On another note, why would we create infrastructure that could interfere with neural interfaces? Even if we are only talking about the helmet style esp game controllers that are coming to market, why would we saturate our environment with electricity when the next gen of interfaces rely on reading minute electrical impulses?
Same note, different angle, make sure what you are getting paid for is something you can do not only ability, but time-wise.
Talented novice freelancers are often oversold freelancers, which leads to unhappy customers.
If you want to hear about Hubbard's real start check out the book Strange Angel.
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Angel-Otherworldly-Scientist-Whiteside/dp/0156031795/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228595734&sr=1-1
Parsons not only invented the first feesible JATO propulsion (the foundation for the JPL), but showed Hubbard the roadmap for getting what he wanted through occult organizations before falling prey to his own system.
The book provides insight into early sci-fi fans as well, as Parsons would give presentations to sci-fi fan clubs about his reasearch during the period that no one respectable would talk to him.
I believe Ackerman makes an appearance in the bio, and I am sure several other sci-fi authors do as well... I just don't recall which ones ATM.
Anyhow, RIP Ackerman... Yet another legend that I will never meet in this life.
There is no free version so far as I know.
I have only been using NOD for a few weeks... so far so good.
I was stuck with a Panda solution at work for a couple of years, NOD feels far advanced of that suite.
The nicest thing I have noticed so far is the NOD interface and presentation of options, so my opinion basically boils down to YMMV.
As far as footprints go, I rebooted this machine 29 hours ago according to task manager. The NOD kernel has utilized 28 seconds of processor time.
I just spawned an on-demand scan, and popped back into VS2008.. minor speed hit on standard tasks. Much less that Panda from the feel of it. Nod32.exe (scanning process) is currently topping out at 13% CPU usage, and it doesn't do that annoying throttling garbage that some other AV systems do, NOD stays light on the flops.
Barely noticeable really. Of course, I don't really know how good a job it is doing.
Niche markets have problems getting specialty software updated in a timely manner.
A client in the Veterinary field is still unable to update to XP SP3 because their medical office management software provider told me their product absolutely could not run on SP3.
I thought that the provider was thinking I was trying to upgrade to Vista, but no, SP3 apparently kills their server product.
Maybe he has spent years working with the technology he is trying to one up?
This relates directly to a reply I just finished on another thread regarding whether a degree is required for success.
This Morris character may be right, he may be wrong, but you citing the education level of his rivals blows your point out of the water IMO.
Nice generality that isn't remotely correct. The value of the bachelor's degree depends on the choice of degree.
You miss my point completely. Time spent studying is time spent studying, whether in a university, in your own home, or at a broke ass public library computer terminal.
A degree is motivation for the student, nothing more.
Every competent manager I have ever worked for has had a mortal disdain for CS students without 3+ years real world experience, because that is about how long it takes for the reality to sink in for most degree holders... in the corporate world it boils down to A Real World Track Record.
I am speaking from experience as a currently self employed programmer who spent years maintaining infrastructure for a regional auto parts chain while paying my dues, moved on to slightly bigger pastures, and then found a nice cozy niche of my very own.
If you live near any higher education institutions I'd suggest socializing within those circles while you're working your way up.
The majority of my friends at the University level cherish the few students that pass through their classes on the way to bigger and better things. The sad fact is that most kids go to college because that is what is expected of them, and most professors I know go through periods of disillusionment due to the lack of dedication displayed by the majority of their charges.
I wonder why Dilbert rings true with so many IT veterans... If advanced degrees insure proficiency where the hell's all the MBA talent?
The only way that lacking a college degree could have hindered my career is if I had been the sort to get hung up about starting at the bottom. I was not that sort, and now I live on my own terms, with a wide network of contacts that I met while successfully delivering technical services over the years. Anyhow, CS grads prolly wouldn't be the butts of so many jokes if companies didn't keep hiring them in way above their experience level, but that's life.
College Degree not required.
College degrees are the new high school diplomas. If you didn't go to college, you're like a backwoods hick whose parents took him out of schooling early so he could chop wood and feed the pigs.
You're half right, college degrees are the new high school diplomas... they are completely worthless the instant you graduate.
As for the hick comment, you realize that the reason kids used to get pulled to do chores was because that's what their families needed to survive, right? Are you seriously making fun of poor, rural families or are you just not creative enough to come up with something better.
I bet you spent so much time becoming l33t in college that you don't even know how ignorant and offensive you sound to people educated in the real world.
Honestly, Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat stories would make better movies than either Tolkien's or Asimov's best stories.
Hollywood takes too many good stories and ruins them with T&A. They should instead be taking marginal stories and improving them as only marginal stories can be improved.. with gratuitous sex and violence.
As for Heinlein, I remember checking out audio tapes of some of his books as an initial act of juvenile choice at the library... and only after they were playing for my whole family to hear did I realize that the dude had some serious issues with waiting till his heroins were menstruating before thinking about their thighs.
Probably because it's fucking awesome. You and your mongoloid son aren't.
That's just funny. Please read Tales Before Tolkien before ever commenting on this subject again.
Tolkien revolutionized fantastical storytelling, went unnoticed for years because he was not an attention whoring populist writer, and has now been totally dishonored by the massacre that is the Peter Jackson LOTR saga.
If the studios wanted Tolkien without the classical elements they should have paid off Terry Brooks for his stories and been done with it.
I cannot even fathom how a fan of the LOTR books could sit through half of the first movie installment, and I remember telling the friend I saw the first movie with that Asimov would be next... cause Hollywood was obviously running dry if they thought they could pull this shit over the eyes of the educated public.
Related evidence suggests that there is very little left of the educated public, as both the LOTR adaptations and the Asimov adaptations are completely bereft of any intellectual value.
But hey, maybe J.R.R. and Isaac were just fucking off.. they prolly were just in it for the paychecks just like the fuck holes making these shit-ass movies. Right? I mean why else would they be contemplating things like classical linguistics and transhumanist morality when the world is full of redemptionless fuckheads like yourself willing to part with your hard earned dollars over Liv Tyler's minimal tits.
You seem to have missed the part about Slashdot actually being a really big stick that nerds use to hit things.
I wonder how Gencon feels about your 500,000 nerds typing Gencon into a search engine scenario.
Heh.. going back to 15footstick.com I now see the news section date stamps and the Zombo reference on the page stamp.
I would never have gotten that joke if someone hadn't clued me in.
Thanks.