From the article: "Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal."
Though it's possible that the article is *very* poorly worded (no point saying that they could still get to content if 'mail' wasn't an exception); a plain-reading of the article indicates a discontinuation of access to those mail sites.
I treid to hit MyFairPoint.net to read their own statement of policy, but it's not up yet.
If, for the sake of argument, we assume that tying the IPs in question to a department poses an ongoing risk... then change the IP subnet assignment in the specified range. It can be done in a night.
Of course it's silly to assume that knowing which department uses which IP creates some added risk of attack.
What I don't see answered, and am curious about: since the study says that more girls are born to women exposed the the chemicals in question, and since it is the father that either gives or fails to give a Y chromosome, what is causing the higher rate?
Is something happening to prevent Y choromosome sperm from impregnating eggs, or causing the death of XY-eggs? Or are XY-eggs failing to express (resulting in "girls" that are genetically "boys"... which would be a problem I would think with reproduction)?
On the other hand, the loss of air is only one side-effect of the lack of magnetic field. The Earth's magnetic field offers signifigant protection from cosmic radiation that is very harmful to complex life as we know it.
For an example of a planet that has managed to maintain (replenish faster than loss) an atmosphere without a magnetic field, see Venus.
Whatever caused the devastation on Mars, could be avoided on Earth with the correct approach to discovering the truth.
Mars is devistated?
Mars has no water/atmosphere because A)It is small and B)It lacks a magnetosphere (which is because its core has cooled which is 1) because it is small and 2) because it lacks a large moon). With no pressure, water sublimates. With no tectonic activity to introduce more, and less gravity to attract more from space, it dried up. Distance+no greenhousing also means its cold.
For the reasonable future, Earth has none of these problems. Our current threat is "random catastrophy" or "runaway greenhouse" (look at Venus, not Mars). If we get past those, then we can worry about (as mentioned by someone else) the increasing luminosity of the sun.
The toll-booth (or whatever) must have a way to, at the end of this conversation, match to an account number. I could get that information from the RFID the same way the toll-booth does, and then program it into my own RFID.
In short, if there's something that the toll-booth(or whatever) can use to verify, then I can get it from the tag in the same way. If I can't get it, then I don't need it because the toll booth doesn't want it.
The difference between this and SSL or the like is that, in SSL, I'm just trying to stop eves-dropping. SSL doesn't stop, for example, a DNS-redirect (which is more similar)
25 years *ago*, if memory serves, we had 128k 5.25" floppies and MFM HDDs attaching to ISA-8 sockets. We stored songs on record and audio tape.
Looking around now. It would be hard to find a 5.25" floppy (though not impossible), or MFM interface. ISA too is gone, having been replaced with PCI.
Records would be dead, though they are not, because of some audiophiles, and tape-decks can still be found.
To me, this implies that consumer AV products have a haight longevity than PC equipment (though the small number of PCs relative to tape-decks 25-years ago might also not be applicable today.
So from a standpoint of "what could someone read", DVD-ROM comes screaming to mind. It's very widespread in the cosumer market, and technologies are likely to remain backwards compatable (and then available) for quite a while.
Longevity of the media is another question. Without light, I believe CD-RW and DVD-RW have very long shelf-lives. Tape technologies (LTO) are designed to last longer, but are more expensive and it may be more difficult to find a working reader later.
One other technology that showed a high longevity was the serial port (still accessable today). Anything with a USB interface operating on an established format (I can still read the oldest FAT stuff on my modern PC) would be a likely winner as well.
Perhaps we should indeed hold law-enfocrcement responsable when, for example, they leave a cell-door unlocked and a criminal escapes and commits crimes.
That really is the better analogy.
I wonder how many of the security breaches really come down to bad IT, and how many can be traced to individual users. In my experience, the biggest danger is from people putting data where they should not, leaving their laptops lying around, leaving their passwords on pieces of paper, etc.
(satire) In a related story, the RIAA will be increasing the charges assigned to people who pay to cover the cost of loosing to someof the people who fight back.(/satire)
I just hope this isn't a joke that becomes reality. One of the basic problems with the whole system here is that it's out of balance. It's appropriate to be able to seek redress from someone who violates your copyright; but the amounts involved (the amounts the individuals are being required to pay when they loose) are out of proportion to the damage done, and well beyond any reasonable punative claims.
One good example would be #18 "UAC should be a single dialogue with 'Continue' and 'Cancel'"
The UAC serves two purposes. Of course it warns the user that an administrative access is about to happen; but it also prevents a program from silently performing an administrative access. A dialogue box which did not ask for a password could be circumnavigated by a malicious program that simply clicked "continue" for you.
Still some others (home licenses?) sound excellent. It's always good to be thinking of ideas, even if some don't pan out.
More importantly: can we determine if the extra-solar planets we know of (or find) have magnetospheres?
The magnetosphere protects us from stellar and interstellar radiation. Without shielding, life as we know it on Earth could not exist (at least not exposed to the sky).
It would, I think, be very interesting to know the presence or lack of magnetospheres on planets outside the solarsystem.
Why not sue MasterCard for paying for the counterfit handbags?
It's really a disturbing trend to go after the middle-man rather than the actual criminal (though I shudder to think that someone selling their handbag is criminal because they are not an authorized reseller).
It's one thing if you can show facilitation: that e-bay knowingly had fake goods up. It's another thing to demand that ebay be able to authenticate everything a private seller offers.
I was going to point out the same specious comment... an attempt to falsely tie the two together.
That said, an arbitrary number on wasit-line is a silly way to determine "obesity". It would allow for small, fat people to be in spec, while large not-fat people (what is Lou Farigno's waist? Michael Jordan?) to be out.
Agreed: As described this device would seem to bring specific attention to everything in your field of vision you didn't take the time to try to identify.
More useful, in my opinion, would be one of the three other possabilities: 1) Auto zoom/focus on anything you attempt to focus on.
2) Perform its own pattern/image recognition and attempt to highlight things which it deems potentially important (not just everything you see).
3) Create an artifical focus (flat focus) for the field of vision (I suppose this would not need to read brainwaves, and I'm not sure if that would be helpful or cluttering).
I spent the majority of my childhood until I was 18 picking rock and bailing hay on a farm. Just to set parity, I grew up working in the family resturaunt, cooking, cleaning, etc. At least your farm didn't have you standing in a closed room full of heaters (stoves):)
I know this is a bad thing that Americans don't like to dwell on but you should be happy you have a solid source of income and work in comfortable environments. Most people outside of the industrialized world can't say that. "someone else has it worse" is a silly reason to be happy where you are. Under that logic, the world should have only one unhappy person.
When you were on the farm, there were people who had it worse. But you wanted something different anyway, and so now you don't work in a barn anymore. He wants something different. If it turns out that he can't have it (that other considerations like income are more important) then so be it... but I think it's wrong to fault him for wanting / trying.
Generations before you have worked in mills, textile plants, mines, slaughterhouses, etc. all in the name of their wives, daughters & sons living a free life. They also died of small-pox which we don't have so we can stop cancer research?
They too longed for something and strove for it. For some, working on those textile mills was the move up. For others, it was making sure their kids did better.
But the OP isn't faced with "bad job or starvation". His question is "can I do something I will like more and not starve". It's a legit question.
The only thing close to an attack on USA is Pearl harbour if I am not mistaken Just talking about WWII (so forgetting the Spanish-American war, the war with Mexico, etc):
Ellwood, CA was attacked by Japanese submarines. Several of the Aleutian Islands (Alaska) were invaded and held by Japaneese Marines and Army. Fort Stevens in Oregon was attacked by Japan The Japanese millitary conducted a bombing attack near Brookings, Oregon And, of course the Japanese sent more than 9,000 incendiary bombs on baloons to the US.
German saboutours landed near Long Island, New York to destroy landmarks. Another team near Jacksonville, Florida
Of course, let's not forget 9/11, nor its preceeding attack on the WTC in 1993.
But you seem Americentric, and I was not thinking of America so much as, say, Belgium.
A very good point and I agree completely. While my basic position remains unchanged, you (and others) have brought up some very relevent points of history. There's always a story as to how and why an entity (person or country) behaves the way it does.
While I think it would be short-sighted to describe the entire position of this particular one (China) based on their experience with colonialism, it certainly played a factor.
I also still believe that the East-West (USSR-block vs US-block) divide is a strong factor. Those parts of Chine (Tiwan, Hong Kong) which did not ally with the USSR seem to have kept far better relations to the west than mainland China.
Of course those relationships (for example between the US and Tiwan) are now another cause of strain with China proper... but I digress.
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Well? What is it? You need to define profanity before you can outlaw it.
Why? No one defined pornography before outlawing that.
From the article:
"Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal."
Though it's possible that the article is *very* poorly worded (no point saying that they could still get to content if 'mail' wasn't an exception); a plain-reading of the article indicates a discontinuation of access to those mail sites.
I treid to hit MyFairPoint.net to read their own statement of policy, but it's not up yet.
Is Base not crashing and the DOC importer in Writeer rendering files correctly a "feature add"?
Seriously. I've tried to move to OO on more than one occasion. I've been unable to because of issues like the ones above.
If, for the sake of argument, we assume that tying the IPs in question to a department poses an ongoing risk... then change the IP subnet assignment in the specified range. It can be done in a night.
Of course it's silly to assume that knowing which department uses which IP creates some added risk of attack.
What I don't see answered, and am curious about: since the study says that more girls are born to women exposed the the chemicals in question, and since it is the father that either gives or fails to give a Y chromosome, what is causing the higher rate?
Is something happening to prevent Y choromosome sperm from impregnating eggs, or causing the death of XY-eggs? Or are XY-eggs failing to express (resulting in "girls" that are genetically "boys"... which would be a problem I would think with reproduction)?
On the other hand, the loss of air is only one side-effect of the lack of magnetic field. The Earth's magnetic field offers signifigant protection from cosmic radiation that is very harmful to complex life as we know it.
For an example of a planet that has managed to maintain (replenish faster than loss) an atmosphere without a magnetic field, see Venus.
Whatever caused the devastation on Mars, could be avoided on Earth with the correct approach to discovering the truth.
Mars is devistated?
Mars has no water/atmosphere because A)It is small and B)It lacks a magnetosphere (which is because its core has cooled which is 1) because it is small and 2) because it lacks a large moon). With no pressure, water sublimates. With no tectonic activity to introduce more, and less gravity to attract more from space, it dried up. Distance+no greenhousing also means its cold.
For the reasonable future, Earth has none of these problems. Our current threat is "random catastrophy" or "runaway greenhouse" (look at Venus, not Mars). If we get past those, then we can worry about (as mentioned by someone else) the increasing luminosity of the sun.
That might get the FBI's attention, but try the locals first.
And the locals are the starting point for this problem too. If the scammers are next door, then there's no jurisdiction for the FBI.
No, it's not a crime to lie; but it is a crime (a felony actually) to impersonate a law enforcement agent.
So they sold more bandwidth than they actually had and are upset that some of the people are using it?
I've got to second "impossible".
The toll-booth (or whatever) must have a way to, at the end of this conversation, match to an account number. I could get that information from the RFID the same way the toll-booth does, and then program it into my own RFID.
In short, if there's something that the toll-booth(or whatever) can use to verify, then I can get it from the tag in the same way. If I can't get it, then I don't need it because the toll booth doesn't want it.
The difference between this and SSL or the like is that, in SSL, I'm just trying to stop eves-dropping. SSL doesn't stop, for example, a DNS-redirect (which is more similar)
25 years *ago*, if memory serves, we had 128k 5.25" floppies and MFM HDDs attaching to ISA-8 sockets. We stored songs on record and audio tape.
Looking around now. It would be hard to find a 5.25" floppy (though not impossible), or MFM interface. ISA too is gone, having been replaced with PCI.
Records would be dead, though they are not, because of some audiophiles, and tape-decks can still be found.
To me, this implies that consumer AV products have a haight longevity than PC equipment (though the small number of PCs relative to tape-decks 25-years ago might also not be applicable today.
So from a standpoint of "what could someone read", DVD-ROM comes screaming to mind. It's very widespread in the cosumer market, and technologies are likely to remain backwards compatable (and then available) for quite a while.
Longevity of the media is another question. Without light, I believe CD-RW and DVD-RW have very long shelf-lives. Tape technologies (LTO) are designed to last longer, but are more expensive and it may be more difficult to find a working reader later.
One other technology that showed a high longevity was the serial port (still accessable today). Anything with a USB interface operating on an established format (I can still read the oldest FAT stuff on my modern PC) would be a likely winner as well.
Perhaps we should indeed hold law-enfocrcement responsable when, for example, they leave a cell-door unlocked and a criminal escapes and commits crimes.
That really is the better analogy.
I wonder how many of the security breaches really come down to bad IT, and how many can be traced to individual users. In my experience, the biggest danger is from people putting data where they should not, leaving their laptops lying around, leaving their passwords on pieces of paper, etc.
(satire) In a related story, the RIAA will be increasing the charges assigned to people who pay to cover the cost of loosing to someof the people who fight back.(/satire)
I just hope this isn't a joke that becomes reality. One of the basic problems with the whole system here is that it's out of balance. It's appropriate to be able to seek redress from someone who violates your copyright; but the amounts involved (the amounts the individuals are being required to pay when they loose) are out of proportion to the damage done, and well beyond any reasonable punative claims.
One good example would be #18 "UAC should be a single dialogue with 'Continue' and 'Cancel'"
The UAC serves two purposes. Of course it warns the user that an administrative access is about to happen; but it also prevents a program from silently performing an administrative access. A dialogue box which did not ask for a password could be circumnavigated by a malicious program that simply clicked "continue" for you.
Still some others (home licenses?) sound excellent. It's always good to be thinking of ideas, even if some don't pan out.
More importantly: can we determine if the extra-solar planets we know of (or find) have magnetospheres?
The magnetosphere protects us from stellar and interstellar radiation. Without shielding, life as we know it on Earth could not exist (at least not exposed to the sky).
It would, I think, be very interesting to know the presence or lack of magnetospheres on planets outside the solarsystem.
Why not sue MasterCard for paying for the counterfit handbags?
It's really a disturbing trend to go after the middle-man rather than the actual criminal (though I shudder to think that someone selling their handbag is criminal because they are not an authorized reseller).
It's one thing if you can show facilitation: that e-bay knowingly had fake goods up. It's another thing to demand that ebay be able to authenticate everything a private seller offers.
I mean, the fine money from the Sumo industry should be signifigant... perhaps Japan is just trying to offset some budget crisis?
I was going to point out the same specious comment... an attempt to falsely tie the two together.
That said, an arbitrary number on wasit-line is a silly way to determine "obesity". It would allow for small, fat people to be in spec, while large not-fat people (what is Lou Farigno's waist? Michael Jordan?) to be out.
And with that, a great humorist and satireist passes from the Earth, and we are all a little diminished for it.
I will be watching the inevitable marathons on HBO.
Agreed: As described this device would seem to bring specific attention to everything in your field of vision you didn't take the time to try to identify.
More useful, in my opinion, would be one of the three other possabilities:
1) Auto zoom/focus on anything you attempt to focus on.
2) Perform its own pattern/image recognition and attempt to highlight things which it deems potentially important (not just everything you see).
3) Create an artifical focus (flat focus) for the field of vision (I suppose this would not need to read brainwaves, and I'm not sure if that would be helpful or cluttering).
When you were on the farm, there were people who had it worse. But you wanted something different anyway, and so now you don't work in a barn anymore. He wants something different. If it turns out that he can't have it (that other considerations like income are more important) then so be it... but I think it's wrong to fault him for wanting / trying. Generations before you have worked in mills, textile plants, mines, slaughterhouses, etc. all in the name of their wives, daughters & sons living a free life. They also died of small-pox which we don't have so we can stop cancer research?
They too longed for something and strove for it. For some, working on those textile mills was the move up. For others, it was making sure their kids did better.
But the OP isn't faced with "bad job or starvation". His question is "can I do something I will like more and not starve". It's a legit question.
Ellwood, CA was attacked by Japanese submarines.
Several of the Aleutian Islands (Alaska) were invaded and held by Japaneese Marines and Army.
Fort Stevens in Oregon was attacked by Japan
The Japanese millitary conducted a bombing attack near Brookings, Oregon
And, of course the Japanese sent more than 9,000 incendiary bombs on baloons to the US.
German saboutours landed near Long Island, New York to destroy landmarks.
Another team near Jacksonville, Florida
Of course, let's not forget 9/11, nor its preceeding attack on the WTC in 1993.
But you seem Americentric, and I was not thinking of America so much as, say, Belgium.
A very good point and I agree completely. While my basic position remains unchanged, you (and others) have brought up some very relevent points of history. There's always a story as to how and why an entity (person or country) behaves the way it does.
While I think it would be short-sighted to describe the entire position of this particular one (China) based on their experience with colonialism, it certainly played a factor.
I also still believe that the East-West (USSR-block vs US-block) divide is a strong factor. Those parts of Chine (Tiwan, Hong Kong) which did not ally with the USSR seem to have kept far better relations to the west than mainland China.
Of course those relationships (for example between the US and Tiwan) are now another cause of strain with China proper... but I digress.
Thank you. A good discussion I think. You are closer to the issue than I am and add some welcome nuance to my understanding.