I'd been waiting for the reviews to come in on the Sanderson novels before committing myself to reading them, and was pleasantly surprised at how good they ended up being.
That being said even after re-reading the entire series for what seems like the thousandth time I'm still not sure about that myself.
For the record, I'm currently playing Minecraft on a private multiplayer server. There are still a bunch of my guildies on Vent raiding every day, but I feel more community playing MC and cancelled my three WoW accounts this month. I hadn't played in a while, and my kids (who shared the other accounts) were playing MC more and more instead of WoW.
Not sure if your comment was intended to be serious, but it's certainly true at my house. I now own 5 MC accounts, 2 from Alpha and will probably pick up a couple more before release for my kids' friends.
I've known Howard for more than a decade. He started out as a local cop who had a hobby working with computers. He was a pioneer in forensic analysis of computer evidence, and was instrumental in establishing the Air Force's information security capability which was arguably the biggest influence on the evolution of today's DoD capability. He started out doing hands on low level hardware and software analysis. He was a hacker in the true sense of the word. I visited his home, and there were always multiple machines strewn about, which he had built himself.
While I doubt he's done much hands-on work in a long time, he understands the issues and problems as they relate to computer crime and network security. He knows everyone worth knowing in the law-enforcement side of security, since most of them worked for him or with him at some point in his career. He also has worked as the security chief for such companies as Microsoft and Ebay and has all the contacts on the commercial side as well.
I have met and gotten to know numerous "security professionals" over the years in classes, conventions, forums, courtrooms, and bars. I haven't met anyone else with Howard's mix of legitimate hands-on experience and political contacts (political as in knowing the right people not political as in democrat and republican). While I don't know who else they were looking at, I'm positive they could have done much worse than Howard.
I'm all for electronic voting, with the promise of easy to use polls that allow for more immediate and accurate tracking of results, but hopefully this will shine the light onto the glaring need for greater audit measures and failsafes to be built into the software used to power these applications.
I once accidently poured a 32 oz. slurpee into the keyboard of my Dell laptop. I quickly yanked the plug and the battery, and after arguing with myself for about 30 minutes I decided to pour water on it. I took it to the bathroom and proceeded to dump several cups of water on it. I then placed it on some paper towels and let it dry. About a week later I fired it up again, and proceeded to use it without any problems for over 2 years until the next models became available.
Washing does work, although I'm not sure it will get the smell out.
I had my surgery done by this man a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I had it done when the new "custom view" or wavefront technology was brand new. I had been waiting for around 3 years for the technology to mature, and finally decided it was time. My big concern had always been night vision, as mine had been great in my youth but had degraded significantly over time. Even with contacts/glasses at night I felt somewhat uncomfortable driving, and I didn't want to lose the ability to drive at night completely. I started with glasses in 5th grade, contacts by 7th grade. I had gas-perm, soft, disposable, extended wear, you name it. By the time I had the surgery at 31, I had given up on contacts as being too cumbersome and annoying, and had settled into glasses.
My results? Without question the best money I've ever spent. After a year I still carry around a bottle of eye drops, but I seldom use them more than once every other day or so anymore. I also always wear sunglasses during the day as my eyes are a bit more sensitive to light than they were before, but that's improved as well over the past year. Honestly, even at their worst the light sensitivity and dry eyes were not as big a pain as dealing with contact lenses. If they hadn't improved at all after the surgery I'd still be satisfied.
The biggest thing? My night vision IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY over glasses and contacts. I am 20/20 in each eye and around 20/15 with both. I couldn't be happier. As all the others have said, however, research your doctor and don't do it 'on the cheap'.
I have a number of non-standard PCs sitting around and getting them to work with Windows (XP Pro) is often harder than getting them to work with Linux (Generally RH or Fedora, but I'm playing with moving to Mandrake). For example, I have a PCI to PC-Card adapater with a PC-Card 802.11b network adapter, that Linux has never had trouble with (Back to Red Hat 7.3 out of the box) but even XP pro doesn't include the drivers for (It supports the adapter, but not the card, whereas Linux automagically grabs an IP address with no user intervention). I know this is one example, I just wanted to point out that you're over-generalizing, and that Linux is, in fact, more capable than Windows to handle some esoteric hardware configurations.
I have an inspiron 7000 that I use at the office all the time for checking e-mail and surfing the web, and it goes on trips with me for the same purposes. At the time when it was still shiney and new, and the only laptop in the office with a DVD-ROM, I hadn't been getting much sleep and so I was chugging down Coke Slurpies like crazy. So one time I turn around and my elbow knocks a 3/4 full 32 oz Coke Slurpy right onto the keyboard of my laptop. One small zZzzt and it powered off.
Needless to say, not too happy about this. So I removed the DVD-ROM drive, the hard drive, and the battery, and took it into the bathroom. I proceeded to pour a few gallons of water through the keyboard, and then I stuck it in a corner for a few days. After I thought it had enough time to dry, I put the drives and battery back in and plugged it in. Came right back with no problems. To this day (this happened about 2 years ago) the laptop works great, although the DVD drive is still just a little sticky.
There's no question that the TiVo has been a weaning device for me. I started out exactly as you did, recording everything that I had the remotest interest in. Then after a while I cut down to a small select set of shows, then after a while of that, I cut out everything except for the shows that I truly trruly enjoy. I killed Simpsons and Iron Chef, even. All I watch now is Junkyard Wars, Full Metal Challenge, The Practice (which I'm considering dropping), and the NFL.
When I was in my teens (I'm 30 now) or even more recently I would watch 4 or more hours of TV a day. Now I'm down to about that many hours a week. And I don't miss it. I still love TV, but the TiVo has given me more power to control what and when I watch, and that is why I think the content providers are afraid. It's all about control. No more mindlessly watching, I think your greatest point was
"If we're not exposed to new shows, how will we decide what new shows to record?"
That's what they're afraid of. And it's a very legitimate question.
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is designed to collect software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files on a computer by matching file profiles in the RDS. This will help alleviate much of the effort involved in determining which files are important as evidence on computers or file systems that have been seized as part of criminal investigations.
This resource is about eliminating the need to evaluate files in the case of an investigation. For this reason, anything that can be identified is of value. In my office, we're taking the database and flagging "benign" and "malignent" signatures to allow us to process a filesystem and have a reasonable idea of what needs to be looked at manually. While this is intended for criminal investigations, it's purchase is currently unrestricted and redistribution is encouraged. While it may not be ideal for evaluating a potentially cracked system, it certainly is a useful tool to have at ones disposal.
NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) currently has a program to provide this service, though largely focused on Microsoft OSes and associated apps. It may be found here: National Software Reference Library
The complete list of software they've checksummed can be found here: Software Listing or you can use their search engine if you're looking for a specific application here: Search Engine
NIST (The National Institute of
Standards and Technology) currently has a program to provide this service, though largely focused on Microsoft OSes and associated apps. It may be found here: National Software Reference Library
The complete list of software they've checksummed can be found here: Software Listing or you can use their search engine if you're looking for a specific application here: Search Engine
Ok, I'm officially jumping on the bandwagon. I've placed my add, and if I get any click-throughs I'll drop another $100 or so. The money goes in Google's pocket anyhow, and this is a LOT more fun than just contributing to a legal defense fund......
Oh geez, here I go.... feel like I'm feeding the trolls again....
Let me start by saying how much I agree with your other statements (food, tv etc.) but your rationale breaks down with smoking. Your rights extend only up to the zone where mine begin, and I have the right not to pollute my body, or that of my 3 month old baby to your toxic waste. You want to chew, fine, just don't blow anything out into the air that belongs to me too. I'm not saying that poeple shouldn't smoke, or drink, or whatever. Just don't do it in a way that affects me without my consent. If you smoke, do it somewhere far, far, away. If you drink, don't drive. I've got enough problems without you taking my life into your hands.
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and I still think demandred killed asmodean.
I'd been waiting for the reviews to come in on the Sanderson novels before committing myself to reading them, and was pleasantly surprised at how good they ended up being.
That being said even after re-reading the entire series for what seems like the thousandth time I'm still not sure about that myself.
Here's hoping your next adventure lasts as long and has a positive impact on as many people.
For the record, I'm currently playing Minecraft on a private multiplayer server. There are still a bunch of my guildies on Vent raiding every day, but I feel more community playing MC and cancelled my three WoW accounts this month. I hadn't played in a while, and my kids (who shared the other accounts) were playing MC more and more instead of WoW.
Not sure if your comment was intended to be serious, but it's certainly true at my house. I now own 5 MC accounts, 2 from Alpha and will probably pick up a couple more before release for my kids' friends.
I've known Howard for more than a decade. He started out as a local cop who had a hobby working with computers. He was a pioneer in forensic analysis of computer evidence, and was instrumental in establishing the Air Force's information security capability which was arguably the biggest influence on the evolution of today's DoD capability. He started out doing hands on low level hardware and software analysis. He was a hacker in the true sense of the word. I visited his home, and there were always multiple machines strewn about, which he had built himself.
While I doubt he's done much hands-on work in a long time, he understands the issues and problems as they relate to computer crime and network security. He knows everyone worth knowing in the law-enforcement side of security, since most of them worked for him or with him at some point in his career. He also has worked as the security chief for such companies as Microsoft and Ebay and has all the contacts on the commercial side as well.
I have met and gotten to know numerous "security professionals" over the years in classes, conventions, forums, courtrooms, and bars. I haven't met anyone else with Howard's mix of legitimate hands-on experience and political contacts (political as in knowing the right people not political as in democrat and republican). While I don't know who else they were looking at, I'm positive they could have done much worse than Howard.
My favorite time looking back was the huge controversy when ESR issued the "open source not free software" call. Good times, good times......
I'm all for electronic voting, with the promise of easy to use polls that allow for more immediate and accurate tracking of results, but hopefully this will shine the light onto the glaring need for greater audit measures and failsafes to be built into the software used to power these applications.
I once accidently poured a 32 oz. slurpee into the keyboard of my Dell laptop. I quickly yanked the plug and the battery, and after arguing with myself for about 30 minutes I decided to pour water on it. I took it to the bathroom and proceeded to dump several cups of water on it. I then placed it on some paper towels and let it dry. About a week later I fired it up again, and proceeded to use it without any problems for over 2 years until the next models became available.
Washing does work, although I'm not sure it will get the smell out.
I had my surgery done by this man a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I had it done when the new "custom view" or wavefront technology was brand new. I had been waiting for around 3 years for the technology to mature, and finally decided it was time. My big concern had always been night vision, as mine had been great in my youth but had degraded significantly over time. Even with contacts/glasses at night I felt somewhat uncomfortable driving, and I didn't want to lose the ability to drive at night completely. I started with glasses in 5th grade, contacts by 7th grade. I had gas-perm, soft, disposable, extended wear, you name it. By the time I had the surgery at 31, I had given up on contacts as being too cumbersome and annoying, and had settled into glasses.
My results? Without question the best money I've ever spent. After a year I still carry around a bottle of eye drops, but I seldom use them more than once every other day or so anymore. I also always wear sunglasses during the day as my eyes are a bit more sensitive to light than they were before, but that's improved as well over the past year. Honestly, even at their worst the light sensitivity and dry eyes were not as big a pain as dealing with contact lenses. If they hadn't improved at all after the surgery I'd still be satisfied.
The biggest thing? My night vision IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY over glasses and contacts. I am 20/20 in each eye and around 20/15 with both. I couldn't be happier. As all the others have said, however, research your doctor and don't do it 'on the cheap'.
I have a number of non-standard PCs sitting around and getting them to work with Windows (XP Pro) is often harder than getting them to work with Linux (Generally RH or Fedora, but I'm playing with moving to Mandrake). For example, I have a PCI to PC-Card adapater with a PC-Card 802.11b network adapter, that Linux has never had trouble with (Back to Red Hat 7.3 out of the box) but even XP pro doesn't include the drivers for (It supports the adapter, but not the card, whereas Linux automagically grabs an IP address with no user intervention). I know this is one example, I just wanted to point out that you're over-generalizing, and that Linux is, in fact, more capable than Windows to handle some esoteric hardware configurations.
I have an inspiron 7000 that I use at the office all the time for checking e-mail and surfing the web, and it goes on trips with me for the same purposes. At the time when it was still shiney and new, and the only laptop in the office with a DVD-ROM, I hadn't been getting much sleep and so I was chugging down Coke Slurpies like crazy. So one time I turn around and my elbow knocks a 3/4 full 32 oz Coke Slurpy right onto the keyboard of my laptop. One small zZzzt and it powered off.
Needless to say, not too happy about this. So I removed the DVD-ROM drive, the hard drive, and the battery, and took it into the bathroom. I proceeded to pour a few gallons of water through the keyboard, and then I stuck it in a corner for a few days. After I thought it had enough time to dry, I put the drives and battery back in and plugged it in. Came right back with no problems. To this day (this happened about 2 years ago) the laptop works great, although the DVD drive is still just a little sticky.
There's no question that the TiVo has been a weaning device for me. I started out exactly as you did, recording everything that I had the remotest interest in. Then after a while I cut down to a small select set of shows, then after a while of that, I cut out everything except for the shows that I truly trruly enjoy. I killed Simpsons and Iron Chef, even. All I watch now is Junkyard Wars, Full Metal Challenge, The Practice (which I'm considering dropping), and the NFL.
When I was in my teens (I'm 30 now) or even more recently I would watch 4 or more hours of TV a day. Now I'm down to about that many hours a week. And I don't miss it. I still love TV, but the TiVo has given me more power to control what and when I watch, and that is why I think the content providers are afraid. It's all about control. No more mindlessly watching, I think your greatest point was
"If we're not exposed to new shows, how will we decide what new shows to record?"
That's what they're afraid of. And it's a very legitimate question.
From the site:
The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is designed to collect software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files on a computer by matching file profiles in the RDS. This will help alleviate much of the effort involved in determining which files are important as evidence on computers or file systems that have been seized as part of criminal investigations.
This resource is about eliminating the need to evaluate files in the case of an investigation. For this reason, anything that can be identified is of value. In my office, we're taking the database and flagging "benign" and "malignent" signatures to allow us to process a filesystem and have a reasonable idea of what needs to be looked at manually. While this is intended for criminal investigations, it's purchase is currently unrestricted and redistribution is encouraged. While it may not be ideal for evaluating a potentially cracked system, it certainly is a useful tool to have at ones disposal.
(Copied from my earlier post)
NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) currently has a program to provide this service, though largely focused on Microsoft OSes and associated apps. It may be found here: National Software Reference Library
The complete list of software they've checksummed can be found here: Software Listing or you can use their search engine if you're looking for a specific application here: Search Engine
NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) currently has a program to provide this service, though largely focused on Microsoft OSes and associated apps. It may be found here: National Software Reference Library
The complete list of software they've checksummed can be found here: Software Listing or you can use their search engine if you're looking for a specific application here: Search Engine
Ok, I'm officially jumping on the bandwagon. I've placed my add, and if I get any click-throughs I'll drop another $100 or so. The money goes in Google's pocket anyhow, and this is a LOT more fun than just contributing to a legal defense fund......
Oh geez, here I go.... feel like I'm feeding the trolls again....
Let me start by saying how much I agree with your other statements (food, tv etc.) but your rationale breaks down with smoking. Your rights extend only up to the zone where mine begin, and I have the right not to pollute my body, or that of my 3 month old baby to your toxic waste. You want to chew, fine, just don't blow anything out into the air that belongs to me too. I'm not saying that poeple shouldn't smoke, or drink, or whatever. Just don't do it in a way that affects me without my consent. If you smoke, do it somewhere far, far, away. If you drink, don't drive. I've got enough problems without you taking my life into your hands.