Wouldn't Wine let a Windows virus infect a user account on GNU/Linux just as it does on Windows?
Well, WINE wouldn't but VirtualBox/Windows might. WINE is just a translator from Windows to Linux system calls, so my feeling, without being a WINE coder, is that the malware wouldn't find everything it expected and would fail in its efforts to implant itself. Plus, there are few that surf the web in WINE (not even sure that can be done), so the malware would need to come onto your system some other way.
VirtualBox/Windows would be susceptible, because it's an actual copy of Windows, running on a virtual HDD in a virtual machine, so to the malware it looks just like Windows. The difference is that you can take "snapshots"...system restore images...and store them *outside* the virtual environment (so the malware can't find them and corrupt them like it can with Windows system restore files).
I hate the idiot light. Perhaps something that communicated just a teeny bit more information? Like: do I need to jam on the brakes, pull over and call a tow truck, or is my catalytic converter output above threshold (so I needn't worry about it until right before the next inspection)?
Another vote for Linux. One reason: no anti-virus needed.
Install WINE, and configure OpenOffice to save in MSOffice 95/97 format (.doc,.xls) instead of the default OpenOffice formats (for compatability)
I don't necessarily think that we dislike Indians; it's more that we don't like Indan call centers. Reaching an overseas (=outsourced) call center sends the message that the company involved cares more about reducing cost than customer service, because if they really cared about helping their customers, they'd employ trained people who could actually help you. A US company operating a US call center, staffed with knowledgeable, friendly reps (I'm talking about you, DigiKey and you, too, Amazon, LL Bean, and even AT&T) sends the message that they are serious about customer service, serious about being a professional, top-line organization. Not to mention the fact that this kind of quality support encourages repeat business.
We recently had a problem with our Kindle. The Amazon service rep couldn't help us, so she put a Kindle tech specialist on the line. He tried a number of things and ended up telling us to send it back, emailed a prepaid UPS label and the entire process took less than 15 minutes. Contrast this with an experience I had with AmEx's Indian call center, where a simple question about the reason for a declined charge involved my getting passed from one rep to another (complete with scripted apologies and requests for my permission to transfer me to someone who could help), with no one able to answer my question.
If you want to make the most of a diminishing resource like oil, you want those who use the most to pay the most tax. This will hopefully cut down on folks commuting or running errands in GM Suburbans or Denalis. A gas tax is better at doing that than a miles driven tax. And easier to collect.
Back in the late 70s, there was a half-hearted push for metrication. It was at this point that US car speedometers had dual markings (km/h were, of course, smaller) and some highway signs included distances in km. There was great pushback from the auto industry, for one, who swore that having to retool in metric would drive them out of business. Complaints about the cost of switching from other heavy industry caused the whole initiative to be made optional.
Which was an isolated incident! Well, a couple of them, actually. Maybe more than a couple, but *we* certainly didn't know anything about it. Well, maybe we'd heard a few rumors. But we didn't move priests around to keep things quiet.
Oh, yeah, we did. We're pretty much screwed, aren't we?
It's very clever. Seems like using a CBR encoder would defeat this method, because every packet would have the same number of samples.
Being *too* efficient might save you bandwidth, but it reveals something about your speech patterns.
I wish I had your confidence that these machines are regularly tested by competent technicians. Unfortunately, my faith in the competence of the TSA, their subcontractors, and their subcontractors' subcontractors doesn't extend that far.
My first exposure to computer programming was on a PDP-8. Later, during summers at grad school, I was fortunate to get a job at the DEC plant in Westfield. It was a great place to work, and I was able to buy scrap parts from which I built up a video terminal which I used for several years.
Would you like to bet your life on the proposition that none of the wide variety of phones on *your particular flight* will in any way affect the correct operation of the wide variety of avionics on this particular aircraft? How about one phone in combination with another? There are just too many variables and too many undiscovered faults possible in real life. We've all been in situations where one piece of supposedly identical equipment behaves differently than another piece. A bit of corrosion and a frayed shield on one piece of avionics equipment, and you can get mixing which can create a spurious signal. Doesn't it make sense to do everything possible to minimize the possibility of such an occurrence? When they test a brand new aircraft against a few phones and see no interference, would you bet your life that the specific airframe you're currently riding in, with it's specific complement of avionics, wiring, connectors and antennas will behave the same way when it's full of little transmitters?
If the flight I'm on is trying to land in a bumpy, rainy overcast night, and the pilot's working hard to keep centered on the runway and on the glide slope, I'll be turning my phone off, and I'd encourage you and everyone else on the plane to do the same. I'd like to make sure that my pilot has everything going for him, so we all end up on, rather than all over the runway.
It wasn't so much "tunneling", as it was "breaking through the drywall from the adjacent store", which he'd forcibly entered by prying a door open.
Pretty sloppy job.
FTFA: he and his associates talked casino employees into enabling normally disabled features, which allowed him to exploit a software bug.
Doesn't sound much like "I was only pushing buttons" to me.
+1 for the attempt to get rid of ALL CAPS POSTS, but a better way to do it would have been to modify the keyboard driver to have the caps lock key *not* change the case of the text being entered. Make it a configurable option, but default it to "off".
These scanners were initially installed during the Bush administration. How is it Obama's fault?
I'm glad someone is calling TSA on these...they are not going to stop a dedicated terrorist. They are, at this point, unreasonable search. Just look at all the metal implements that get through the X-ray of carry on luggage, and you'll realize that even with these scanners, they'll miss stuff. And it only takes one miss. So, can TSA guarantee that these body scanners will absolutely prevent 100% of dangerous materials from ending up on board the aircraft? No. They can't. So let's get sensible and go back to the metal detectors only and save ourselves a huge bunch of tax dollars.
And who exactly is going to pay for this?
Oh, you are, of course. I mean, was there ever any doubt? This is Microsoft. They'll be the ones signing the certificates (for a fee), selling the anti-virus and deciding whether your PC is safe enough. Running Linux? Sorry, no certificate and no access...we don't support Linux.
Bad Idea.
...to help him aim his surface to air missile. He'd do better renting a house in Hull or East Boston. Thousands of aircraft fly directly overhead, well within range of a shoulder-launched surface to air missile. As always, it's actually getting the missile into the house that's the real problem, not having access to some iPhone app that tells him what flight it is and where it's going.
"Drivers can read / recognize mixed case from further distance than all caps."
Citation, please?
When they "upgraded" our local street signs to mixed case, they also changed the size of the sign and
the letters to about 175% of the old sign. I think *that* might have had a more significant effect on those last minute swerves.
And all the *important* signs, like SPEED LIMIT and SLOW SCHOOL ZONE are in caps?
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no anti-virus needed. Install WINE
Wouldn't Wine let a Windows virus infect a user account on GNU/Linux just as it does on Windows?
Well, WINE wouldn't but VirtualBox/Windows might. WINE is just a translator from Windows to Linux system calls, so my feeling, without being a WINE coder, is that the malware wouldn't find everything it expected and would fail in its efforts to implant itself. Plus, there are few that surf the web in WINE (not even sure that can be done), so the malware would need to come onto your system some other way.
VirtualBox/Windows would be susceptible, because it's an actual copy of Windows, running on a virtual HDD in a virtual machine, so to the malware it looks just like Windows. The difference is that you can take "snapshots"...system restore images...and store them *outside* the virtual environment (so the malware can't find them and corrupt them like it can with Windows system restore files).
I hate the idiot light. Perhaps something that communicated just a teeny bit more information? Like: do I need to jam on the brakes, pull over and call a tow truck, or is my catalytic converter output above threshold (so I needn't worry about it until right before the next inspection)?
Another vote for Linux. One reason: no anti-virus needed. Install WINE, and configure OpenOffice to save in MSOffice 95/97 format (.doc, .xls) instead of the default OpenOffice formats (for compatability)
I don't necessarily think that we dislike Indians; it's more that we don't like Indan call centers. Reaching an overseas (=outsourced) call center sends the message that the company involved cares more about reducing cost than customer service, because if they really cared about helping their customers, they'd employ trained people who could actually help you. A US company operating a US call center, staffed with knowledgeable, friendly reps (I'm talking about you, DigiKey and you, too, Amazon, LL Bean, and even AT&T) sends the message that they are serious about customer service, serious about being a professional, top-line organization. Not to mention the fact that this kind of quality support encourages repeat business.
We recently had a problem with our Kindle. The Amazon service rep couldn't help us, so she put a Kindle tech specialist on the line. He tried a number of things and ended up telling us to send it back, emailed a prepaid UPS label and the entire process took less than 15 minutes. Contrast this with an experience I had with AmEx's Indian call center, where a simple question about the reason for a declined charge involved my getting passed from one rep to another (complete with scripted apologies and requests for my permission to transfer me to someone who could help), with no one able to answer my question.
Seems like this would be trivially simple to defeat, no? If the iPhone sensor/emitter is separate from the camera lens, cover it with foil tape.
It was designed to break the next German threat: encrypted radio teleprinter traffic...the Germans' version of SIGABA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
If you want to make the most of a diminishing resource like oil, you want those who use the most to pay the most tax. This will hopefully cut down on folks commuting or running errands in GM Suburbans or Denalis. A gas tax is better at doing that than a miles driven tax. And easier to collect.
Back in the late 70s, there was a half-hearted push for metrication. It was at this point that US car speedometers had dual markings (km/h were, of course, smaller) and some highway signs included distances in km. There was great pushback from the auto industry, for one, who swore that having to retool in metric would drive them out of business. Complaints about the cost of switching from other heavy industry caused the whole initiative to be made optional.
Tool of Satan or something? Yup. Here it is: http://slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0252229/Vatican-Warns-That-Internet-Promotes-Satanism
Gee, I wish they'd make up their mind. Maybe they're too busy trying to stay relevant. Or take your attention away from the whole child molestation thing.
Which was an isolated incident!
Well, a couple of them, actually.
Maybe more than a couple, but *we* certainly didn't know anything about it.
Well, maybe we'd heard a few rumors.
But we didn't move priests around to keep things quiet.
Oh, yeah, we did. We're pretty much screwed, aren't we?
It's very clever. Seems like using a CBR encoder would defeat this method, because every packet would have the same number of samples. Being *too* efficient might save you bandwidth, but it reveals something about your speech patterns.
I wish I had your confidence that these machines are regularly tested by competent technicians. Unfortunately, my faith in the competence of the TSA, their subcontractors, and their subcontractors' subcontractors doesn't extend that far.
Yeah, Ken was more of an ASCII guy than EBCDIC. He's probably fanfolded.
My first exposure to computer programming was on a PDP-8. Later, during summers at grad school, I was fortunate to get a job at the DEC plant in Westfield. It was a great place to work, and I was able to buy scrap parts from which I built up a video terminal which I used for several years.
Would you like to bet your life on the proposition that none of the wide variety of phones on *your particular flight* will in any way affect the correct operation of the wide variety of avionics on this particular aircraft? How about one phone in combination with another? There are just too many variables and too many undiscovered faults possible in real life. We've all been in situations where one piece of supposedly identical equipment behaves differently than another piece. A bit of corrosion and a frayed shield on one piece of avionics equipment, and you can get mixing which can create a spurious signal. Doesn't it make sense to do everything possible to minimize the possibility of such an occurrence? When they test a brand new aircraft against a few phones and see no interference, would you bet your life that the specific airframe you're currently riding in, with it's specific complement of avionics, wiring, connectors and antennas will behave the same way when it's full of little transmitters?
If the flight I'm on is trying to land in a bumpy, rainy overcast night, and the pilot's working hard to keep centered on the runway and on the glide slope, I'll be turning my phone off, and I'd encourage you and everyone else on the plane to do the same. I'd like to make sure that my pilot has everything going for him, so we all end up on, rather than all over the runway.
It wasn't so much "tunneling", as it was "breaking through the drywall from the adjacent store", which he'd forcibly entered by prying a door open. Pretty sloppy job.
She's 64 now. Probably doesn't look the same.
FTFA: he and his associates talked casino employees into enabling normally disabled features, which allowed him to exploit a software bug. Doesn't sound much like "I was only pushing buttons" to me.
+1 for the attempt to get rid of ALL CAPS POSTS, but a better way to do it would have been to modify the keyboard driver to have the caps lock key *not* change the case of the text being entered. Make it a configurable option, but default it to "off".
Hy, "rouge" is a perfectly cromulent word!
Chairs will be flying.
These scanners were initially installed during the Bush administration. How is it Obama's fault? I'm glad someone is calling TSA on these...they are not going to stop a dedicated terrorist. They are, at this point, unreasonable search. Just look at all the metal implements that get through the X-ray of carry on luggage, and you'll realize that even with these scanners, they'll miss stuff. And it only takes one miss. So, can TSA guarantee that these body scanners will absolutely prevent 100% of dangerous materials from ending up on board the aircraft? No. They can't. So let's get sensible and go back to the metal detectors only and save ourselves a huge bunch of tax dollars.
And who exactly is going to pay for this?
Oh, you are, of course. I mean, was there ever any doubt? This is Microsoft. They'll be the ones signing the certificates (for a fee), selling the anti-virus and deciding whether your PC is safe enough. Running Linux? Sorry, no certificate and no access...we don't support Linux.
Bad Idea.
...to help him aim his surface to air missile. He'd do better renting a house in Hull or East Boston. Thousands of aircraft fly directly overhead, well within range of a shoulder-launched surface to air missile. As always, it's actually getting the missile into the house that's the real problem, not having access to some iPhone app that tells him what flight it is and where it's going.
"Drivers can read / recognize mixed case from further distance than all caps." Citation, please? When they "upgraded" our local street signs to mixed case, they also changed the size of the sign and the letters to about 175% of the old sign. I think *that* might have had a more significant effect on those last minute swerves. And all the *important* signs, like SPEED LIMIT and SLOW SCHOOL ZONE are in caps?
But the House has no time to mandate net neutrality? And let's not forget the economy, stupid. Sometimes I wonder why we vote these guys into office.