Actually, in cases when a town has been built on the floodplain of a river, when a flood does occur and everything in the town is lost, the government offers buyout packages to disaster victims, for both individuals and small businesses. In the end, those without flood insurance get less money from various sources in total for all damage received than those with flood insurance. However, it makes more sense for one to accept the buyout regardless of the situation. If one's home is washed away and a total rebuild is required, it generally makes more sense to move to the new location of the town. Without flood insurance, water service, available potable groundwater, available sewer service, road maintenance, or any other city service, I can't see any reason to stay if a buyout is available. After the flood on the Mississippi in 1993, the land the old flooded town sites that the feds bought out often times ended up as wetlands. The wetlands will help mitigate the effects of the next flood, and in the event of a future, larger flood, people living downstream will appreciate not losing their home. You personally might even appreciate not having to pay to rebuild the homes of the downstream residents.
Yes there is an exception in RoHS for lead solder that has a high melting point. However, the official RoHS rule is that while lead solders in general are prohibited, there is an exception allowing for the use of lead solder that contains at least 90% lead. The idea being that solder with at least 90% lead melted at a higher temperature and was at least somewhat safer if disposed of improperly. Otherwise, potentially there may also have been no replacements for high lead content solders that performed as well when the first RoHS directives were drawn up in 2003. Currently (2008), however, there are lead-free solders that would work, but the lead free solders are more expensive than lead based solders (by roughly three times). Using a lead-free solder with a significantly different composition may also require a new packaging design and another extensive round of qualification, too. I am not totally sure how this would be done.
It get worse, the new solder to be used by nVidia mentioned in this Inq article states that it will only contain 63% lead and 37% tin, making nVidia based cards with this solder not saleable to consumers in the EU according to RoHS directives. The replacement 63Pb/37Sn solder has a somewhat better tensile strength and a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the older 95Pb/5Sn solder, which may be why nVidia chose this route to fix the problem. Whether nV will be selling very many products in the EU with this fix and whether this will correct the problems, is another issue.
When SpaceX fails using the "barebones" approach to launching satellites (or worse, living people) into orbit, one lesson that could be learned is the necessity of drawing up a proper design, an adequate design review, extensive testing of the design, the use of suitable components from the proper suppliers, and an extensive inspection of the finished product. There probably is an approach to building rockets that has a lowered cost structure, but it would still have a higher launch failure rate than other facilities, but still an acceptably low failure rate. However, I would not ride into orbit on such a barebones rocket as the acceptable launch failure rate for a launch system is much lower for a person than a satellite. However, I do not believe that the SpaceX approach is "barebones", it is an "insufficient" approach to a launch system.
Yeah, but its amazing how the economics of drilling in a potential area become more favorable with large subsidies and waived regulations (environmental and worker safety, for instance). Even if these supports were enacted, the price of gas at the pump might drop 50 cents in the short run, for one to three months, at most. The drop in price would be from the temporarily increased supply after speculators sell their small amount of oil futures in exiting the market.
However, after gasoline prices dipping for a couple of months, the oil supply would become tight again gasoline prices would be right back to their previous level or higher. The long term effect on gasoline would not be significant, as many other posts in this thread have stated. If I was a trying to be a cynic, I might wonder if this bill was a bad ploy by some vulnerable Republicans intended to shore up support with voters in their district. For a bill like this to have its effects on gasoline prices to occur by the election this November, it would have needed to pass before the August recess. I suppose we get to see this spectacle in the House chambers instead of political ads by Republicans stating that the Republicans alone had fixed the problem of high gasoline prices for the rest of time. Instead, expect lots of negative ads about this bill's failure to pass and how $100/gallon gasoline is around the corner. Or absurd arguments about how "energy independence" could have been achieved through this bill. "Energy independence" is an stupid concept, in the event of a total blockade the US couldn't even manufacture many of the finished goods it would need, much less generate the oil it would need. An ideal, "energy independent", America would most likely have higher energy prices than an America that imported energy from other countries. Could the US do less energy importation that what occurs now, yes, but "Energy independence" is an unreasonable expectation. The world, including the US, has been interconnected for many years, but many Americans seem to want to deny this still. Republicans in recent history have tried to stoke fears of the rest of the world by using 9/11 and other events as attempt to justify reelecting them, which is a losing strategy in the long term. In any case, if this bill had passed, the grumbling about gasoline prices would have been back in January, after the excess supply disappeared and prices rose once again.
These steps could also be performed in a similar way that would make life difficult for the corporate management of a big box retail corportation as well. New Years Day or Easter are perhaps the best days as there is less chance of any employees being at the store, assuming the store is closed those days. In any case on one of those two days, perform a set of mutually agreed upon sex acts while positioned in front of the cameras at the main entrance of the chosen big box store. Make sure to be inside the line of concrete barrier posts for best exposure to the security cameras. Compel discovery against the corporate officies for the requred times and skip to profit.
Me, I've got an old Microsoft manfactured 802.11g router running an embedded version of Windows CE that has been running for two years in its current location. I don't think the router has been intentionally rebooted in its current location, ever. It gets little use and probably would be considered a giant security risk by most people, but it is not in open access mode and broadcasts in a somewhat isolated area. Back when I used the wireless router more often and with P2P apps, the router had no significant issues, there were more issues with the Cisco 678 DSL modem the router was hooked up to.
The Microsoft router was also unusual in that it could switch operational modes. The device could work as a router with a NAT or switch modes and function as an access point like a switch or hub and have no NAT. Linksys and probably more companies produce wireless base station models that are locked in such a way that one model functions only as an access point and another model can only work as a router. Heh, imagine that, Microsoft offering some sort of additional value on a product.
Reading any high density (1.44MB) 3.5" floppy disks shouldn't be too hard. Assuming one has a method of reading the HFS file system, like the HFS module in Linux, it would be possible with any old USB or standard internal PC floppy. However, if merging the data and resource forks of a HyperCard stack into a flat file is necessary, I wish you good luck. Otherwise, scrounging up an old Mac with a floppy drive may be the only option. Old 800KB Mac floppies cannot be read by standard PC floppy drives because 800KB disks are written with CLV and not with CAV as with 720K PC floppies.
I wish any masochist good luck at finding all of these: an old beige Mac, a keyboard and mouse, a working floppy drive, a working bootable CD-ROM drive, and any version of the MacOS. I would first try to get a Beige G3 PowerMac as they have onboard SCSI and IDE ports. Also, Apple made many machine specific, bootable MacOS CD-ROM disks that only boot and install on the computer they were labeled. There are however, many generic install disks for the classic MacOS.
Hypothetically speaking, events like these these shouldn't be unexpected. If the security policies were initially decided on by executives, managers, outside consultants, and sales reps from Microsoft and HP, what do you expect? If the executives just signed off on what he saw and didn't do any research beforehand personally on best security practices using outside resources. If the IT managers were inept, clueless, and had no background in IT and at their last posting in Customer Service and if these managers are only interested in getting promoted and transferred to the another department. If the consultants were airheads and despite claims to the contrary and an even with a expensive presentation had offered no useful information. If the sales reps from Microsoft and HP were just interested in selling an excessive number of expensive Intel-based servers with several $100K subscription-based licences for Windows 2008 Server. If these things were to happen, it would seem to me that this would indicate that there were serious problems with the managerial staff of such a company.
On the other hand, this situation may have been the result of a failure of imagination. If for instance, mailing these tapes became standard policy even though these tapes were never intended to have left the original facility and thus the records on the tape were never encrypted, this would have been a serious breach of the original security policy. The customer data should have been encrypted in every case, regardless of the storage medium used.
Strangely enough, I think that some of the problems that are faced in industrial worker safety are similar to those in computer security and that one might find a few useful concepts in a safety review of a BP refinery fire here:
I think that the concepts of process safety, which involves the safety in the design of the system are important. Also the concept of open communication between employees and management with no retaliation for mentioning a legitimate potential safety issue is also important.
When I played the single player campaigns of Neverwinter Nights (NWN) and NWN2, there was no hard coded limit to the number of save slots available. However, creating up to 300+ save game files and not removing extremely old saved game files was troublesome. NWN and NWN2 have single player savefiles larger than the size of a similar savefile from other games. Many of the older savefiles were one I was unlikely to want to play again. I think the oldest save I went back to was 40 saves back from what had been the current save. The added size of these older savefiles on the computer I played NWN on actually took up a large percentage of space, pehaps 30% to 40%, on a reasonable sized hard drive for the age of the system, running what was an up to date copy of Windows XP. I have never tried to defragment my Windows XP systems in any serious, systematic fashion, which is also a problem. Though not quite was bad, with both NWN and NWN2, an excessive number of savefiles would impact the speed at which both the save dialog box and load dialog box appeared.
W.R. Grace and Company is the company responsible for 90% of the world's production of Vermiculite until the early 1990's. All of the vermiculite that W.R. Grace mined was mined from open pit mines located near Libby, Montana. All of the vermiculite from Libby had tremolite asbestos present in sufficient quantities to be carcinogenic to those who handled it. However, not all deposits of vermiculite have tremolite asbestos present. Unfortunately, the tremolite asbestos present in the vermiculite cannot be separated out. The dangerous types of asbestos are reasonably benign and of no immediate danger unless handled or disturbed in some way. Handling materials with asbestos will release asbestos fibers, which is surprisingly dangerous. Unless you are trained and have the proper equipment handling asbestos contaminated materials is a bad idea. Besides government standards allow for a reasonably high acceptable concentration of asbestos fibers in air. The asbestos fibers are released during natural weathering processes of natural rocks and soil and the fiber concentrations in the air should not normally be considered an issue.
Anyway, back to W.R. Grace and Company. The executives at W.R. Grace appear to have known about the toxicity of their vermiculite product since at least the 1970's and ignored the warnings. Additionally the executives appear to have covered up the information about the toxicity of their product as well. In 2000, W.R. Grace transfered assets worth about 4 to 5 billion dollars to spin-off companies. Shortly there after W.R. Grace filed for bankruptcy. This move appears to have been done to shelter assets from ongoing liability lawsuits brought against W.R. Grace from the sale and manufacture of asbestos contaminated vermiculite. Filing for bankruptcy could have ended any ongoing or new lawsuits for W.R. Grace. However the asset transfer scheme was discovered and now the current executives from W.R. Grace are now in even more trouble. This new trouble for the executives of W.R. Grace is of the criminal law type.
I think that in the case of W.R. Grace, the events seem to show that not all schemes of this type work.
Back in 2005, I bought, which at the time, was a high-end Acer laptop. Less than a month later I took the laptop with me on a vacation, where I flew to Missoula, Montana from Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport. The MSP airport is also Idaho Senator Larry Craig's favorite layover destination. So after arriving at the airport on the day of the flight, I got in the line for the security screening and I did not remove the laptop from the bag, which was bad of me. I overheard one of the security screeners state to another screener that he had observed the laptop during the scanning and then my bag was flagged. Another screener took my bag, called me over and asked me to open my bag and asked me to turn on my laptop. Things seemed to go well at first, I turned the computer on and proved that it worked. As the computer was booting up, the TSA screener wiped a disposable microfiber cloth on parts of the exterior of the laptop. However, the screener had some sort of spectrometer. The screener put the cloth into this spectrometer. Something was wrong with the results and the screeneer started to wipe down the inside and outside of my backpack with additional cloths. The trace chemical results from the backpack were similar to the initial results from the laptop. The spectrometer results showed trace amounts of the explosive TNT. The screener asked me if I gone hunting with that bag, which I had not done. However, three years earlier I had been to Montana for a field camp class for my Geology degree and put several rocks in the backpack. Some of the rocks apparently had a residual amount of TNT left on them, after being blasted, and the TNT was transfered onto the surfaces of the backpack. The screener was satisfied with this explanation and allowed me to go and catch my flight.
Yeah there is a catch. It costs $0.79 and the initial $0.10 in order to receive a DRM free MP3 file for a given song. The initial $0.10 cost per DRM encumbered, song of little use, I think compares poorly to the free, but edited sample of the same song that the iTunes Music Store offers. Especially since this new service does not appear to offer any sort of method with that results in a discount for buying an entire album. The $0.10 cost is deceptive, as $0.10 may seem like a negligible cost initially, and a potential user may ignore the individual cost of each song. In this case, a careless user might end up paying $100 for 1,000 songs in a month. This is a significant cost in this case. It also offers less value as a user may only want to listen to a small percentage of songs they spent $0.10 on. Also if the company offering this service stops offering it, users are left only with the $0.89 MP3 files and none of the $0.10 tracks located on the server.
A summary of this FUD might be that it is about what American residents can do to prepare for a depression coming RSN. It gets even more absurd the FUD paper mentions how the US dollar will undergo seven to ten digit percentage hyperinflation RSN. It also gives questionable suggestions like buying "financial hedges" like gold, and using the gold and other items in barter transactions after the coming "calamity" when the US dollar loses its value.
The author backs up his statements with misleading graphs, no explanation of the methodology used to generate the figures for the graphs. There is a source given for the original data in the graphs, however the author has given no links back to in order to find the original figures so that one could to duplicate the results from the graphs. The first graph in the report has continuous inflation numbers for the US going back to 1665 and no explanation of the relevance of these figures to today's situation, 333 years later. Additionally, for this first graph, the author also prominently inserts some of his own unsourced data. The line for his data starts at a similar position as the line for the other data on the graph and the values increase geometrically which badly distorts the vertical scale. The author also chooses colors for the lines that allow his data to obscure the more continuous figures. The extraneous figures on the graph from before 1946 and the author's added data makes the graph nearly impossible to analyze at all. Even worse, all of the graphs are extremely misleading like the first graph. The entire piece is egregiously bad FUD. I would assume the rest of the site contains more too.
In any case, if a situation occurred which caused a total breakdown in order and social structure, Gold and other precious metals would be of the same value as a small chunk of basalt, optionally painted with acrylic paint with suspended crushed pyrite used as a pigment. In this case Gold have no value. In such a situation where Gold was worthless, the one of the ways Gold could regain value is due to its scarcity, it could be used as currency in a small regional market. However, the value of Gold would come from being scarce which would make it a "fiat" currency. Also, Gold would not necessarily regain much value because it has few applications in many manufactured items. Additionally, other metals and alloys could be used instead if Gold was scarce.
Is "Republicans" or perhaps "Libertarians", the term you were looking for?
I'm sorry, that was a low blow on my part, justified, but still low.
Just so I don't get into oblivion as a troll, I will add something informative and on-topic. It appears that MSFT is getting heat from its channel "partners" about MSFT itself bashing Vista too much.
Meh, I thought it was better with "'telnet' then?", but slashdot has a lousy minimum post length. I hope this isn't a quasi-double post, I received a too soon to post again message when I attempted to submit the first time. The problem is on my end, I need to feel less apathetic and replace this particular Logitech G7 mouse with another unused mouse I have that works. The switch for the left mouse button is bad. More often than not if I try do a single left click, it will be received an acted on by Windows as a double click and it some cases even more, like four clicks in a row. Which is a good time, in IE, most often when closing two tabs instead of one. Or, ending up two pages back when trying to navigate one back and attempting to correct the problem end by going forward two pages, back to the first page. Also, the right button, on this mouse, requires enough force to cause the mouse to move after pressing the right button.
When testing Acid3 on IE7 the score seems to vary some. I got 15 the first time, 12 the second time. There is a slight delay while the score is below 10 before IE7 adds its last bit and reaches its final score. The rendering of the box itself is totally wrong though. The Windows version of Safari 3.1 only gets to 75 for me, for that matter.
This may make you feel worse. The game play speed on Unreal Tournament III for the PS3 runs 15% slower than the Windows version. This is to say that independent of actual system or frame rate, perceptually the PS3 version will not feel as fast. However the controls should respond in a similar way. This speed difference is perceptible, it may have been introduced to bring the PS3 version of UT3 down to more of a Halo 3-like speed, like console gamers would have expected. The speed difference also ruins any sort of chance for cross-platform play between the Windows and PS3 versions. and is probably bad enough to require some reacclimation time for people who are used to one version and who move to the other. Besides, any console controller is a poor input device for UT3 or any other FPS, because the difference in the level of competitiveness is skewed far in the direction of the mouse and keyboard. Roughly speaking, experienced controller players lose on a consistant basis to experienced mouse and keyboard players. It is significant enough that the PS3 version of UT3 allows an admin to ban mouse and keyboard players.
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What about the "pi" IPv4 and IPv6 addresses? I'm not sure if this is possible any more, but telnet, at one point at least, would accept base-10 numbers without the "." between each number for an IP address. However there is a procedure for this. To intentionally connect to a known host this way, convert the base-10 sections individually to hex, remove the "." characters, and convert the resulting 32-bit hex number to base-10 and use the resultant number as the IP address. Where numbers like "pi" or "e" go is a good question that I am not going to attempt to find out. I guess there is also the hex floating point representations that would be something to see also.
You're too late, there have already been discussions written on acceptable methods for enslavement and re-conditioning methods.
http://www.albanypowerexchange.com/TPE/tpe_vs_d_s.htm (Don't visit this site at work. Some people (including myself) may find the page and the site a bit disturbing and also a bit too detailed. However, the page is not graphic, the rest of the site almost certainly has graphic descriptions though, but no pictures.)
I think that more systems should be tested. Try IE 5.5 on a copy of WinME, if someone tries this, IE might crash, several times. Or perhaps IE 5.5 on MacOS 9 and MacOS X? The Newton MP 2000 has a web browser too. Then there are all those old versions of Netscape Navigator stretching back to 1994. What about lynx, how well does it render Acid3?
I think that renaming County Road 9 or Rockford Road in Hennepin County, Minnesota might be a better idea in some ways. First off, Rockford Road for much of its length is also known as 42nd Ave N. The street originally was a direct connection to Rockford, MN. However the state of Minnesota probably took over a large section of road that used to be known as Rockford Road when it built MN-55 so now some inner ring suburbs are left with a road fragment with the name Rockford Road that really doesn't attach to Rockford, MN. So, in some ways it is an ideal candidate. IIRC few businesses have the name Rockford in their title along this road. However there is a public library run by the county that is known as the "Rockford Road Library" so renaming this would be a nice bonus. For most of its length, Rockford Road is a four lane road with two lanes each direction with left and right turn lanes and a center island. It travels mostly through residential neighborhoods, but there are some strip malls occasionally. Also, since the entire length of Rockford Road is a county road and thus managed by the county renaming it shouldn't be that hard. However, Roackford Road does intersect with Douglas Drive and that might get a bit confusing for some people if the name change went through.
-- if it didn't work, your entire audio/video is likely to cut out all at once,
Not quite all the time, most of the time it would just fruit out. When I use the DVI port on my laptop, an Acer Travelmate 8100 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X700, I have to turn down the DVI frequency in the Catalyst Control Center to reduce the blanking interval when using my 20" 1600x1200 Samsung 204B monitor. Otherwise I get a small number, but very noticable random assortment of pixels that are bright that flash to dim sometimes. It isn't the fault of the ATI/AMD, or of Samsung as the panel works fine at the full frequency on my desktop Radeon X1800XT, it is the fault of Acer or whoever designed the separate board internally for the DVI port on my laptop. However, turning down the frequency fixes the problem and does not affect performance of the computer at all.
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Actually, in cases when a town has been built on the floodplain of a river, when a flood does occur and everything in the town is lost, the government offers buyout packages to disaster victims, for both individuals and small businesses. In the end, those without flood insurance get less money from various sources in total for all damage received than those with flood insurance. However, it makes more sense for one to accept the buyout regardless of the situation. If one's home is washed away and a total rebuild is required, it generally makes more sense to move to the new location of the town. Without flood insurance, water service, available potable groundwater, available sewer service, road maintenance, or any other city service, I can't see any reason to stay if a buyout is available. After the flood on the Mississippi in 1993, the land the old flooded town sites that the feds bought out often times ended up as wetlands. The wetlands will help mitigate the effects of the next flood, and in the event of a future, larger flood, people living downstream will appreciate not losing their home. You personally might even appreciate not having to pay to rebuild the homes of the downstream residents.
Yes there is an exception in RoHS for lead solder that has a high melting point. However, the official RoHS rule is that while lead solders in general are prohibited, there is an exception allowing for the use of lead solder that contains at least 90% lead. The idea being that solder with at least 90% lead melted at a higher temperature and was at least somewhat safer if disposed of improperly. Otherwise, potentially there may also have been no replacements for high lead content solders that performed as well when the first RoHS directives were drawn up in 2003. Currently (2008), however, there are lead-free solders that would work, but the lead free solders are more expensive than lead based solders (by roughly three times). Using a lead-free solder with a significantly different composition may also require a new packaging design and another extensive round of qualification, too. I am not totally sure how this would be done.
It get worse, the new solder to be used by nVidia mentioned in this Inq article states that it will only contain 63% lead and 37% tin, making nVidia based cards with this solder not saleable to consumers in the EU according to RoHS directives. The replacement 63Pb/37Sn solder has a somewhat better tensile strength and a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the older 95Pb/5Sn solder, which may be why nVidia chose this route to fix the problem. Whether nV will be selling very many products in the EU with this fix and whether this will correct the problems, is another issue.
The real threat is credit cards. And in so many more ways than you might think.
When SpaceX fails using the "barebones" approach to launching satellites (or worse, living people) into orbit, one lesson that could be learned is the necessity of drawing up a proper design, an adequate design review, extensive testing of the design, the use of suitable components from the proper suppliers, and an extensive inspection of the finished product. There probably is an approach to building rockets that has a lowered cost structure, but it would still have a higher launch failure rate than other facilities, but still an acceptably low failure rate. However, I would not ride into orbit on such a barebones rocket as the acceptable launch failure rate for a launch system is much lower for a person than a satellite. However, I do not believe that the SpaceX approach is "barebones", it is an "insufficient" approach to a launch system.
Yeah, but its amazing how the economics of drilling in a potential area become more favorable with large subsidies and waived regulations (environmental and worker safety, for instance). Even if these supports were enacted, the price of gas at the pump might drop 50 cents in the short run, for one to three months, at most. The drop in price would be from the temporarily increased supply after speculators sell their small amount of oil futures in exiting the market.
However, after gasoline prices dipping for a couple of months, the oil supply would become tight again gasoline prices would be right back to their previous level or higher. The long term effect on gasoline would not be significant, as many other posts in this thread have stated. If I was a trying to be a cynic, I might wonder if this bill was a bad ploy by some vulnerable Republicans intended to shore up support with voters in their district. For a bill like this to have its effects on gasoline prices to occur by the election this November, it would have needed to pass before the August recess. I suppose we get to see this spectacle in the House chambers instead of political ads by Republicans stating that the Republicans alone had fixed the problem of high gasoline prices for the rest of time. Instead, expect lots of negative ads about this bill's failure to pass and how $100/gallon gasoline is around the corner. Or absurd arguments about how "energy independence" could have been achieved through this bill. "Energy independence" is an stupid concept, in the event of a total blockade the US couldn't even manufacture many of the finished goods it would need, much less generate the oil it would need. An ideal, "energy independent", America would most likely have higher energy prices than an America that imported energy from other countries. Could the US do less energy importation that what occurs now, yes, but "Energy independence" is an unreasonable expectation. The world, including the US, has been interconnected for many years, but many Americans seem to want to deny this still. Republicans in recent history have tried to stoke fears of the rest of the world by using 9/11 and other events as attempt to justify reelecting them, which is a losing strategy in the long term. In any case, if this bill had passed, the grumbling about gasoline prices would have been back in January, after the excess supply disappeared and prices rose once again.
These steps could also be performed in a similar way that would make life difficult for the corporate management of a big box retail corportation as well. New Years Day or Easter are perhaps the best days as there is less chance of any employees being at the store, assuming the store is closed those days. In any case on one of those two days, perform a set of mutually agreed upon sex acts while positioned in front of the cameras at the main entrance of the chosen big box store. Make sure to be inside the line of concrete barrier posts for best exposure to the security cameras. Compel discovery against the corporate officies for the requred times and skip to profit.
Me, I've got an old Microsoft manfactured 802.11g router running an embedded version of Windows CE that has been running for two years in its current location. I don't think the router has been intentionally rebooted in its current location, ever. It gets little use and probably would be considered a giant security risk by most people, but it is not in open access mode and broadcasts in a somewhat isolated area. Back when I used the wireless router more often and with P2P apps, the router had no significant issues, there were more issues with the Cisco 678 DSL modem the router was hooked up to.
The Microsoft router was also unusual in that it could switch operational modes. The device could work as a router with a NAT or switch modes and function as an access point like a switch or hub and have no NAT. Linksys and probably more companies produce wireless base station models that are locked in such a way that one model functions only as an access point and another model can only work as a router. Heh, imagine that, Microsoft offering some sort of additional value on a product.
Reading any high density (1.44MB) 3.5" floppy disks shouldn't be too hard. Assuming one has a method of reading the HFS file system, like the HFS module in Linux, it would be possible with any old USB or standard internal PC floppy. However, if merging the data and resource forks of a HyperCard stack into a flat file is necessary, I wish you good luck. Otherwise, scrounging up an old Mac with a floppy drive may be the only option. Old 800KB Mac floppies cannot be read by standard PC floppy drives because 800KB disks are written with CLV and not with CAV as with 720K PC floppies.
I wish any masochist good luck at finding all of these: an old beige Mac, a keyboard and mouse, a working floppy drive, a working bootable CD-ROM drive, and any version of the MacOS. I would first try to get a Beige G3 PowerMac as they have onboard SCSI and IDE ports. Also, Apple made many machine specific, bootable MacOS CD-ROM disks that only boot and install on the computer they were labeled. There are however, many generic install disks for the classic MacOS.
Hypothetically speaking, events like these these shouldn't be unexpected. If the security policies were initially decided on by executives, managers, outside consultants, and sales reps from Microsoft and HP, what do you expect? If the executives just signed off on what he saw and didn't do any research beforehand personally on best security practices using outside resources. If the IT managers were inept, clueless, and had no background in IT and at their last posting in Customer Service and if these managers are only interested in getting promoted and transferred to the another department. If the consultants were airheads and despite claims to the contrary and an even with a expensive presentation had offered no useful information. If the sales reps from Microsoft and HP were just interested in selling an excessive number of expensive Intel-based servers with several $100K subscription-based licences for Windows 2008 Server. If these things were to happen, it would seem to me that this would indicate that there were serious problems with the managerial staff of such a company.
On the other hand, this situation may have been the result of a failure of imagination. If for instance, mailing these tapes became standard policy even though these tapes were never intended to have left the original facility and thus the records on the tape were never encrypted, this would have been a serious breach of the original security policy. The customer data should have been encrypted in every case, regardless of the storage medium used.
Strangely enough, I think that some of the problems that are faced in industrial worker safety are similar to those in computer security and that one might find a few useful concepts in a safety review of a BP refinery fire here:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/SP/STAGING/local_assets/assets/pdfs/Baker_panel_report.pdf
I think that the concepts of process safety, which involves the safety in the design of the system are important. Also the concept of open communication between employees and management with no retaliation for mentioning a legitimate potential safety issue is also important.
When I played the single player campaigns of Neverwinter Nights (NWN) and NWN2, there was no hard coded limit to the number of save slots available. However, creating up to 300+ save game files and not removing extremely old saved game files was troublesome. NWN and NWN2 have single player savefiles larger than the size of a similar savefile from other games. Many of the older savefiles were one I was unlikely to want to play again. I think the oldest save I went back to was 40 saves back from what had been the current save. The added size of these older savefiles on the computer I played NWN on actually took up a large percentage of space, pehaps 30% to 40%, on a reasonable sized hard drive for the age of the system, running what was an up to date copy of Windows XP. I have never tried to defragment my Windows XP systems in any serious, systematic fashion, which is also a problem. Though not quite was bad, with both NWN and NWN2, an excessive number of savefiles would impact the speed at which both the save dialog box and load dialog box appeared.
W.R. Grace and Company is the company responsible for 90% of the world's production of Vermiculite until the early 1990's. All of the vermiculite that W.R. Grace mined was mined from open pit mines located near Libby, Montana. All of the vermiculite from Libby had tremolite asbestos present in sufficient quantities to be carcinogenic to those who handled it. However, not all deposits of vermiculite have tremolite asbestos present. Unfortunately, the tremolite asbestos present in the vermiculite cannot be separated out. The dangerous types of asbestos are reasonably benign and of no immediate danger unless handled or disturbed in some way. Handling materials with asbestos will release asbestos fibers, which is surprisingly dangerous. Unless you are trained and have the proper equipment handling asbestos contaminated materials is a bad idea. Besides government standards allow for a reasonably high acceptable concentration of asbestos fibers in air. The asbestos fibers are released during natural weathering processes of natural rocks and soil and the fiber concentrations in the air should not normally be considered an issue.
Anyway, back to W.R. Grace and Company. The executives at W.R. Grace appear to have known about the toxicity of their vermiculite product since at least the 1970's and ignored the warnings. Additionally the executives appear to have covered up the information about the toxicity of their product as well. In 2000, W.R. Grace transfered assets worth about 4 to 5 billion dollars to spin-off companies. Shortly there after W.R. Grace filed for bankruptcy. This move appears to have been done to shelter assets from ongoing liability lawsuits brought against W.R. Grace from the sale and manufacture of asbestos contaminated vermiculite. Filing for bankruptcy could have ended any ongoing or new lawsuits for W.R. Grace. However the asset transfer scheme was discovered and now the current executives from W.R. Grace are now in even more trouble. This new trouble for the executives of W.R. Grace is of the criminal law type.
I think that in the case of W.R. Grace, the events seem to show that not all schemes of this type work.
Back in 2005, I bought, which at the time, was a high-end Acer laptop. Less than a month later I took the laptop with me on a vacation, where I flew to Missoula, Montana from Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport. The MSP airport is also Idaho Senator Larry Craig's favorite layover destination. So after arriving at the airport on the day of the flight, I got in the line for the security screening and I did not remove the laptop from the bag, which was bad of me. I overheard one of the security screeners state to another screener that he had observed the laptop during the scanning and then my bag was flagged. Another screener took my bag, called me over and asked me to open my bag and asked me to turn on my laptop. Things seemed to go well at first, I turned the computer on and proved that it worked. As the computer was booting up, the TSA screener wiped a disposable microfiber cloth on parts of the exterior of the laptop. However, the screener had some sort of spectrometer. The screener put the cloth into this spectrometer. Something was wrong with the results and the screeneer started to wipe down the inside and outside of my backpack with additional cloths. The trace chemical results from the backpack were similar to the initial results from the laptop. The spectrometer results showed trace amounts of the explosive TNT. The screener asked me if I gone hunting with that bag, which I had not done. However, three years earlier I had been to Montana for a field camp class for my Geology degree and put several rocks in the backpack. Some of the rocks apparently had a residual amount of TNT left on them, after being blasted, and the TNT was transfered onto the surfaces of the backpack. The screener was satisfied with this explanation and allowed me to go and catch my flight.
Yeah there is a catch. It costs $0.79 and the initial $0.10 in order to receive a DRM free MP3 file for a given song. The initial $0.10 cost per DRM encumbered, song of little use, I think compares poorly to the free, but edited sample of the same song that the iTunes Music Store offers. Especially since this new service does not appear to offer any sort of method with that results in a discount for buying an entire album. The $0.10 cost is deceptive, as $0.10 may seem like a negligible cost initially, and a potential user may ignore the individual cost of each song. In this case, a careless user might end up paying $100 for 1,000 songs in a month. This is a significant cost in this case. It also offers less value as a user may only want to listen to a small percentage of songs they spent $0.10 on. Also if the company offering this service stops offering it, users are left only with the $0.89 MP3 files and none of the $0.10 tracks located on the server.
Here is a link from the shadowstats site to their well hidden free report, or rather some of their free FUD:
http://www.shadowstats.com/article/292
A summary of this FUD might be that it is about what American residents can do to prepare for a depression coming RSN. It gets even more absurd the FUD paper mentions how the US dollar will undergo seven to ten digit percentage hyperinflation RSN. It also gives questionable suggestions like buying "financial hedges" like gold, and using the gold and other items in barter transactions after the coming "calamity" when the US dollar loses its value.
The author backs up his statements with misleading graphs, no explanation of the methodology used to generate the figures for the graphs. There is a source given for the original data in the graphs, however the author has given no links back to in order to find the original figures so that one could to duplicate the results from the graphs. The first graph in the report has continuous inflation numbers for the US going back to 1665 and no explanation of the relevance of these figures to today's situation, 333 years later. Additionally, for this first graph, the author also prominently inserts some of his own unsourced data. The line for his data starts at a similar position as the line for the other data on the graph and the values increase geometrically which badly distorts the vertical scale. The author also chooses colors for the lines that allow his data to obscure the more continuous figures. The extraneous figures on the graph from before 1946 and the author's added data makes the graph nearly impossible to analyze at all. Even worse, all of the graphs are extremely misleading like the first graph. The entire piece is egregiously bad FUD. I would assume the rest of the site contains more too.
In any case, if a situation occurred which caused a total breakdown in order and social structure, Gold and other precious metals would be of the same value as a small chunk of basalt, optionally painted with acrylic paint with suspended crushed pyrite used as a pigment. In this case Gold have no value. In such a situation where Gold was worthless, the one of the ways Gold could regain value is due to its scarcity, it could be used as currency in a small regional market. However, the value of Gold would come from being scarce which would make it a "fiat" currency. Also, Gold would not necessarily regain much value because it has few applications in many manufactured items. Additionally, other metals and alloys could be used instead if Gold was scarce.
Is "Republicans" or perhaps "Libertarians", the term you were looking for?
I'm sorry, that was a low blow on my part, justified, but still low.
Just so I don't get into oblivion as a troll, I will add something informative and on-topic. It appears that MSFT is getting heat from its channel "partners" about MSFT itself bashing Vista too much.
http://www.crn.com/software/207402573
Or perhaps:
http://www.mydomain.com/robots.txt
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_Exclusion_Standard
So, how about "telnet", then?
Meh, I thought it was better with "'telnet' then?", but slashdot has a lousy minimum post length. I hope this isn't a quasi-double post, I received a too soon to post again message when I attempted to submit the first time. The problem is on my end, I need to feel less apathetic and replace this particular Logitech G7 mouse with another unused mouse I have that works. The switch for the left mouse button is bad. More often than not if I try do a single left click, it will be received an acted on by Windows as a double click and it some cases even more, like four clicks in a row. Which is a good time, in IE, most often when closing two tabs instead of one. Or, ending up two pages back when trying to navigate one back and attempting to correct the problem end by going forward two pages, back to the first page. Also, the right button, on this mouse, requires enough force to cause the mouse to move after pressing the right button.
When testing Acid3 on IE7 the score seems to vary some. I got 15 the first time, 12 the second time. There is a slight delay while the score is below 10 before IE7 adds its last bit and reaches its final score. The rendering of the box itself is totally wrong though. The Windows version of Safari 3.1 only gets to 75 for me, for that matter.
This may make you feel worse. The game play speed on Unreal Tournament III for the PS3 runs 15% slower than the Windows version. This is to say that independent of actual system or frame rate, perceptually the PS3 version will not feel as fast. However the controls should respond in a similar way. This speed difference is perceptible, it may have been introduced to bring the PS3 version of UT3 down to more of a Halo 3-like speed, like console gamers would have expected. The speed difference also ruins any sort of chance for cross-platform play between the Windows and PS3 versions. and is probably bad enough to require some reacclimation time for people who are used to one version and who move to the other. Besides, any console controller is a poor input device for UT3 or any other FPS, because the difference in the level of competitiveness is skewed far in the direction of the mouse and keyboard. Roughly speaking, experienced controller players lose on a consistant basis to experienced mouse and keyboard players. It is significant enough that the PS3 version of UT3 allows an admin to ban mouse and keyboard players.
What about the "pi" IPv4 and IPv6 addresses? I'm not sure if this is possible any more, but telnet, at one point at least, would accept base-10 numbers without the "." between each number for an IP address. However there is a procedure for this. To intentionally connect to a known host this way, convert the base-10 sections individually to hex, remove the "." characters, and convert the resulting 32-bit hex number to base-10 and use the resultant number as the IP address. Where numbers like "pi" or "e" go is a good question that I am not going to attempt to find out. I guess there is also the hex floating point representations that would be something to see also.
You're too late, there have already been discussions written on acceptable methods for enslavement and re-conditioning methods.
http://www.albanypowerexchange.com/TPE/tpe_vs_d_s.htm
(Don't visit this site at work. Some people (including myself) may find the page and the site a bit disturbing and also a bit too detailed. However, the page is not graphic, the rest of the site almost certainly has graphic descriptions though, but no pictures.)
I think that more systems should be tested. Try IE 5.5 on a copy of WinME, if someone tries this, IE might crash, several times. Or perhaps IE 5.5 on MacOS 9 and MacOS X? The Newton MP 2000 has a web browser too. Then there are all those old versions of Netscape Navigator stretching back to 1994. What about lynx, how well does it render Acid3?
Sounds good to me, better than running the second internet like the Third Reich.
I think that renaming County Road 9 or Rockford Road in Hennepin County, Minnesota might be a better idea in some ways. First off, Rockford Road for much of its length is also known as 42nd Ave N. The street originally was a direct connection to Rockford, MN. However the state of Minnesota probably took over a large section of road that used to be known as Rockford Road when it built MN-55 so now some inner ring suburbs are left with a road fragment with the name Rockford Road that really doesn't attach to Rockford, MN. So, in some ways it is an ideal candidate. IIRC few businesses have the name Rockford in their title along this road. However there is a public library run by the county that is known as the "Rockford Road Library" so renaming this would be a nice bonus. For most of its length, Rockford Road is a four lane road with two lanes each direction with left and right turn lanes and a center island. It travels mostly through residential neighborhoods, but there are some strip malls occasionally. Also, since the entire length of Rockford Road is a county road and thus managed by the county renaming it shouldn't be that hard. However, Roackford Road does intersect with Douglas Drive and that might get a bit confusing for some people if the name change went through.
-- if it didn't work, your entire audio/video is likely to cut out all at once,
Not quite all the time, most of the time it would just fruit out. When I use the DVI port on my laptop, an Acer Travelmate 8100 with an ATI Mobility Radeon X700, I have to turn down the DVI frequency in the Catalyst Control Center to reduce the blanking interval when using my 20" 1600x1200 Samsung 204B monitor. Otherwise I get a small number, but very noticable random assortment of pixels that are bright that flash to dim sometimes. It isn't the fault of the ATI/AMD, or of Samsung as the panel works fine at the full frequency on my desktop Radeon X1800XT, it is the fault of Acer or whoever designed the separate board internally for the DVI port on my laptop. However, turning down the frequency fixes the problem and does not affect performance of the computer at all.