I'm with you, I don't think the WD external failure rate is related to the drive itself, but more the enclosures they were/are in. I had a 160GB one that failed on me 3 or so years ago, but I used to carry it around in my backpack and when it failed (1 year warranty had expired) I took it apart and saw there was little to no shock absorption. I probably broke it by just setting my backup down to hard, jostling it while riding my bike, etc. After that I was very careful with the other one I had (would wrap it in a t-shirt or something for transfer) and it is still running today.
Aren't we really just talking about coding for patterns of anomalies? We know how to code for patterns, we know how to code for anomalies. Isn't it a matter of processing huge data sets and looking for patterns that have not been recorded before? Of course, you could argue that whether or not the pattern is relevant is the big problem, but curiosity is not necessarily about relevance.
Wanted to add: I mention this because my only gripe with mod_security is false positives, and I did not see a section on handling / reporting them. I have only caught them either from user reports or because I log all of the "malicious" posts and browse through them to see what the bad guys are up to anyway.
I use mod_security on all of our apache servers, it really does a great job catching SQL injection / XSS attacks. My only problem is the occasionally time that users try and post data and apache thinks that it is malicious. False positives are honestly minimal but I've had to write some very specific workarounds to fix these issues. Most of the time the false positive comes from posting HTML like from TinyMCE or FCKEditor. But it will drive you nuts if you don't realize that mod_security is enabled.
Only a subpoena is needed to get a company to hand over data its called "subpoena duces tecum" basically it orders a person give physical evidence to the ordering court or face punishment. Subpoena's are not the same as warrants, and because they are akin to a testimony they are very easy to have issued, and you do not need to be notified because they are often related to the authorities building a case against you, as opposed to something like a warrant, where YOUR physical property is searched. Read the TOS, a company is within its rights to hand this over to the authorities.
Would body armor for this weapon involve covering your self in something like tinsel to refract as much of the energy as possible? It would just be awesome to see a bunch of highly trained marines running around in Christmas Tree outfits.
I live in an area with lots of small interconnected lakes and streams. We have big problems with invasive species attaching themselves to boats as they move through different waterways (the zebra mussel is one good example), this kind of material would be great for even smaller applications like motorboats that traverse these water ways to decrease invasive species proliferation.
I have a brother in-law who is a communications officer for the Army and has done 2 tours in Iraq and is on his way back over to Afghanistan next month. The gist of what he told me is that they don't go in anywhere not secured with out one or more of the ROV's in the air. He was basically telling me they are by far the best source of reconnaissance for ground based units that they use. His testimony to me about their performance and reliability was enough for me.
Whenever I can't really concentrate I put my head phones on, helps me focus on what I'm doing. Something really fast paced works best for me because it doesn't afford laid back mind wandering (like Rise Against, Alensa, Atreyu, and of course Machinae Supremacy)....it puts me in "rock out" mode....except its just me...rocking out to coding...err..I'm such a dork. But really, moving from the desktop speakers to headphones for a few hours really helps me.
Fairuse Wizard. I gave acidrip a serious try and always had issues. Mostly the stupid subtitles were always wrong. Fairuse wizard always works for me and gives you "click and rip" or you can manually edit any codec parameter. Oh yea, and it lets you rip in any codec on your windows box, Xvid, Divx, whatever. I never had a problem with it. I really like being able to queue several DVDs at once then going to bed which made my initial archiving much much faster. I currently run this under XP Pro vmware on Ubuntu 8.10.
Grand Theft Auto is not a crime. Its just grand larceny where the object stolen was a car. "Car/Auto Theft" would be accurate. Its just sad to see a $362K project not be able to even get that correct. I wish that term would stop being repeated as an actual crime. Thanks big media its just a video game.
So Google is writing software to discover cross social network links, to protect us against cross social network links.......uhhh....yea its ok, they're not evil.
We have a fairly large camp in the adirondacks of northern new york where we lose power 2-3 times per month. We installed a 10,000 watt continuous propane generator that runs the whole place and switches on in 30 seconds (15 second make sure power is off, 15 second warm up). I looked at doing this myself and it was around $4000 for all the parts I would need. Installed it was $5000. It uses about 1.25 gallons of propane every hour under full load and is hooked right into our 1000 gallon propane tank. We did a 5 year service contract where the guy stops by once a month, changes the oil if needed, tests the system, etc. It has been worry free and worked flawlessly over the last 3 years. Power goes out, wait 30 seconds, power is back on. You can do this yourself, but for a little more money it can be a pretty painless procedure for a few thousand...our old 5,000 watt generator had to be started by hand and flip a few breakers, yea it was cheaper, but trust me, its worth every penny to have it auto start.
Anyone here ever owned a Harley-Davidson that was built by a bowling company? Lets see how a company who manufacturers cell phone parts does....I'm not saying it won't work....but for 22K I'll wait a year and get the Toyota.
I personally really enjoyed the first crysis game and felt it had high re-playability, and will definitely be playing this. While the performance requirements were high, they were not insurmountable, a 8000+ nvidia card and 2GB+ ram would do the trick just fine. While this is in the upper end of hardware, especially for its original release date, I was really glad everything looked as good as it did, and the environment was as immersive as it was. I'm sorry you all couldn't play the game at 50FPS, but some of us really enjoyed it, and felt the effort by crytek was actually impressive, not foolhardy.
A few weeks ago we were getting 100,000 - 200,000 backscatter emails a day. Some one was using our domain to send massive amounts of spam. Not from our servers of course, but it didn't matter. I think at its peak we were doing around 60 emails per second. Ended up installing a barracuda and that was barely able to handle the load. Then mysteriously after about 3 weeks, it just stopped.
I want my EV-1 back. That was a good car. For those of you who don't known about the EV-1, you should really watch "Who killed the Electric Car?". I saw it on one of the Starz channels a few weeks ago. All of these other cars really seem like half arse attempts at a solution. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but there was certainly some reason why GM totally destroyed all traces of the EV1.
It seems this would work great for a small office scenario with a few users, but I imagine with a larger network and things like iPhones, transmitting, connecting, and disconnecting from various distances and signal strengths "odd" round trip times would seem very difficult to reliably detect. The threshold would either result in a large number of false positives, or miss the real threats all together. It would certainly be possible to throw out something like an iPhone, but then as an attacker I could just make my signal appear like an iPhone. "Depending on how sensitive the network is, armed security guards could be deployed, or the wireless network may be turned off." I'd be a pretty pissed security guard if I had to try and check out everyone of these alarms.
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I'm with you, I don't think the WD external failure rate is related to the drive itself, but more the enclosures they were/are in. I had a 160GB one that failed on me 3 or so years ago, but I used to carry it around in my backpack and when it failed (1 year warranty had expired) I took it apart and saw there was little to no shock absorption. I probably broke it by just setting my backup down to hard, jostling it while riding my bike, etc. After that I was very careful with the other one I had (would wrap it in a t-shirt or something for transfer) and it is still running today.
Aren't we really just talking about coding for patterns of anomalies? We know how to code for patterns, we know how to code for anomalies. Isn't it a matter of processing huge data sets and looking for patterns that have not been recorded before? Of course, you could argue that whether or not the pattern is relevant is the big problem, but curiosity is not necessarily about relevance.
Wanted to add: I mention this because my only gripe with mod_security is false positives, and I did not see a section on handling / reporting them. I have only caught them either from user reports or because I log all of the "malicious" posts and browse through them to see what the bad guys are up to anyway.
I use mod_security on all of our apache servers, it really does a great job catching SQL injection / XSS attacks. My only problem is the occasionally time that users try and post data and apache thinks that it is malicious. False positives are honestly minimal but I've had to write some very specific workarounds to fix these issues. Most of the time the false positive comes from posting HTML like from TinyMCE or FCKEditor. But it will drive you nuts if you don't realize that mod_security is enabled.
Only a subpoena is needed to get a company to hand over data its called "subpoena duces tecum" basically it orders a person give physical evidence to the ordering court or face punishment. Subpoena's are not the same as warrants, and because they are akin to a testimony they are very easy to have issued, and you do not need to be notified because they are often related to the authorities building a case against you, as opposed to something like a warrant, where YOUR physical property is searched. Read the TOS, a company is within its rights to hand this over to the authorities.
Would body armor for this weapon involve covering your self in something like tinsel to refract as much of the energy as possible? It would just be awesome to see a bunch of highly trained marines running around in Christmas Tree outfits.
I live in an area with lots of small interconnected lakes and streams. We have big problems with invasive species attaching themselves to boats as they move through different waterways (the zebra mussel is one good example), this kind of material would be great for even smaller applications like motorboats that traverse these water ways to decrease invasive species proliferation.
I have a brother in-law who is a communications officer for the Army and has done 2 tours in Iraq and is on his way back over to Afghanistan next month. The gist of what he told me is that they don't go in anywhere not secured with out one or more of the ROV's in the air. He was basically telling me they are by far the best source of reconnaissance for ground based units that they use. His testimony to me about their performance and reliability was enough for me.
Whenever I can't really concentrate I put my head phones on, helps me focus on what I'm doing. Something really fast paced works best for me because it doesn't afford laid back mind wandering (like Rise Against, Alensa, Atreyu, and of course Machinae Supremacy)....it puts me in "rock out" mode....except its just me...rocking out to coding...err..I'm such a dork. But really, moving from the desktop speakers to headphones for a few hours really helps me.
Fairuse Wizard. I gave acidrip a serious try and always had issues. Mostly the stupid subtitles were always wrong. Fairuse wizard always works for me and gives you "click and rip" or you can manually edit any codec parameter. Oh yea, and it lets you rip in any codec on your windows box, Xvid, Divx, whatever. I never had a problem with it. I really like being able to queue several DVDs at once then going to bed which made my initial archiving much much faster. I currently run this under XP Pro vmware on Ubuntu 8.10.
Grand Theft Auto is not a crime. Its just grand larceny where the object stolen was a car. "Car/Auto Theft" would be accurate. Its just sad to see a $362K project not be able to even get that correct. I wish that term would stop being repeated as an actual crime. Thanks big media its just a video game.
So Google is writing software to discover cross social network links, to protect us against cross social network links.......uhhh....yea its ok, they're not evil.
We have a fairly large camp in the adirondacks of northern new york where we lose power 2-3 times per month. We installed a 10,000 watt continuous propane generator that runs the whole place and switches on in 30 seconds (15 second make sure power is off, 15 second warm up). I looked at doing this myself and it was around $4000 for all the parts I would need. Installed it was $5000. It uses about 1.25 gallons of propane every hour under full load and is hooked right into our 1000 gallon propane tank. We did a 5 year service contract where the guy stops by once a month, changes the oil if needed, tests the system, etc. It has been worry free and worked flawlessly over the last 3 years. Power goes out, wait 30 seconds, power is back on. You can do this yourself, but for a little more money it can be a pretty painless procedure for a few thousand...our old 5,000 watt generator had to be started by hand and flip a few breakers, yea it was cheaper, but trust me, its worth every penny to have it auto start.
Anyone here ever owned a Harley-Davidson that was built by a bowling company? Lets see how a company who manufacturers cell phone parts does....I'm not saying it won't work....but for 22K I'll wait a year and get the Toyota.
I personally really enjoyed the first crysis game and felt it had high re-playability, and will definitely be playing this. While the performance requirements were high, they were not insurmountable, a 8000+ nvidia card and 2GB+ ram would do the trick just fine. While this is in the upper end of hardware, especially for its original release date, I was really glad everything looked as good as it did, and the environment was as immersive as it was. I'm sorry you all couldn't play the game at 50FPS, but some of us really enjoyed it, and felt the effort by crytek was actually impressive, not foolhardy.
We tweaked the crap out of that thing, disabling bounce backs was actually one of the fastest ways to improve the performance.
A few weeks ago we were getting 100,000 - 200,000 backscatter emails a day. Some one was using our domain to send massive amounts of spam. Not from our servers of course, but it didn't matter. I think at its peak we were doing around 60 emails per second. Ended up installing a barracuda and that was barely able to handle the load. Then mysteriously after about 3 weeks, it just stopped.
I want my EV-1 back. That was a good car. For those of you who don't known about the EV-1, you should really watch "Who killed the Electric Car?". I saw it on one of the Starz channels a few weeks ago. All of these other cars really seem like half arse attempts at a solution. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but there was certainly some reason why GM totally destroyed all traces of the EV1.
It seems this would work great for a small office scenario with a few users, but I imagine with a larger network and things like iPhones, transmitting, connecting, and disconnecting from various distances and signal strengths "odd" round trip times would seem very difficult to reliably detect. The threshold would either result in a large number of false positives, or miss the real threats all together. It would certainly be possible to throw out something like an iPhone, but then as an attacker I could just make my signal appear like an iPhone. "Depending on how sensitive the network is, armed security guards could be deployed, or the wireless network may be turned off." I'd be a pretty pissed security guard if I had to try and check out everyone of these alarms.