Sure, it's possible. But there were 6 infected workstations. No reason to believe it wasn't cleaned up. Instead, $170,000 in equipment was destroyed. I think they skipped a step somewhere. They were being thorough, but they also caused more damage than the malware.
The actual destruction costs were only: $4,300 (still too much). The rest of that price tag is the total cost of doing the destruction - temporary infrastructure and so on. Not sure why a temporary replacement would cost 10x what was being replaced, though. Still plenty of government waste in the story.
But the reader would not be in the tire. That would be installed on the road. Or in public buildings or in other cars driving by. RFID chips operate passively from the reader.
The funny thing about prevention is that you get to take credit for everything that doesn't happen. Did there have to be a threat? Stores prevent millions of thefts every day by having doors that they can lock when the store is closed.
Exactly. He could have used first initials and last names and scrubbed the email address into an SHA-1 hash - enough to prove that he retrieved the list, but not enough to actually stupidly share around customer details.
The resolution isn't the problem, it's zoomability. The iPhone revolutionized mobile web browsing - and all the other smartphones have caught up. We need something that works just as well on a remote control. There's also CSS3/HTML5 provisions for multiple resolutions, but I don't know how they handle a viewport that's the same resolution of a desktop computer, but viewed from 10 feet away.
I keep posting this, but Hugo is another good 3D film. On the surface, it's a kid's movie - but it's really a documentary on the history of film. No gimmick shots.
Another 3D with restraint example is Hugo. It's a kid's movie, but it's a great story and uses absolutely no 3D gimmick shots. There is a scene where something flies at the camera- but it's in reference to a famous early 2D short film.
Funny you mention the TARDIS - this Fall's Doctor Who anniversary special will be filmed in 3D and was to be broadcast in 3D. Hope it at least makes it to theaters that way.
I'll admit to not knowing much about every cancer, but would it really affect every cell in the body simultaneously or would there be a pocket of good cells somewhere?
For watching movies filmed in Cinemascope. 21:9 is the closest standard digital resolution to 2.35:1. So you can watch your Star Wars, The Matrix, or Lord of the Rings movies without black bars of wasted space.
Larger Cinemascope-ratio screens have seen adoption vertically as mall kiosk advertising displays and airport flight arrival/departure information panels.
The browser cache - nice save! I can't remember if I've ever done that one before.
My worst loss on a brand new project was hitting save right when the power went out. It had unlinked the file but hadn't written the new one yet (Windows). This was without any sort of versioning system - I was the lone developer and it was a brand new project. I lost 8 hours of work and decided to rewrite the file instead of scanning the bare hard drive for the contents. I doubt I could have remembered a key snippet to find it with anyway. I think it turned out better with the insight I gained the first time around, but it was just terrible knowing that the original code was still on the drive somewhere.
Not unpaired - but on my dumbphone, if I decline to pair, it keeps prompting over and over and over again. I never accepted, so I don't know what's next.
Date/Time of phone calls and SMS is metadata (from that you can establish things like number of calls per day). The contents of the call audio or messages is the data. GPS location is more data than metadata, but the tower you're connected to is again metadata - which appears to be what this uses. Yes, metadata is also data. But how much of it is "metadata" according to the NSA?
There's no reason not to leave a phone on vibrate - especially if you dismiss soon after it starts going off without pulling it from your pocket. Assuming iPhone has it - my dumbphone does. Most of the time, that won't be a distraction. In fact, I leave my phone on vibrate 24/7 to avoid ever having it go off out loud when I don't want it to. And since I would forget to silence or turn it off otherwise anyway.
But also for water damage, yes. Not being able to remove the battery seriously decreases the phone's chances for survival.
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But the infection was already determined to be common malware before they started destroying things.
The infection could have come from the outside - they really need to destroy all the computers on the Internet.
Must have been really shiny - it cost them over $1,000,000 to replace $107,000 in destroyed equipment.
Sure, it's possible. But there were 6 infected workstations. No reason to believe it wasn't cleaned up. Instead, $170,000 in equipment was destroyed. I think they skipped a step somewhere. They were being thorough, but they also caused more damage than the malware.
The actual destruction costs were only: $4,300 (still too much). The rest of that price tag is the total cost of doing the destruction - temporary infrastructure and so on. Not sure why a temporary replacement would cost 10x what was being replaced, though. Still plenty of government waste in the story.
Well - here's the RFID in tires:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269
But the reader would not be in the tire. That would be installed on the road. Or in public buildings or in other cars driving by. RFID chips operate passively from the reader.
The world's 4th largest sporting event suffered a power outage - The Super Bowl - and it didn't really matter all that much.
The funny thing about prevention is that you get to take credit for everything that doesn't happen. Did there have to be a threat? Stores prevent millions of thefts every day by having doors that they can lock when the store is closed.
Exactly. He could have used first initials and last names and scrubbed the email address into an SHA-1 hash - enough to prove that he retrieved the list, but not enough to actually stupidly share around customer details.
500, we could probably even have some sort of replicator magic doodaa thing that harry potters food in to existence or something.
Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration. It might be magic, but it isn't Harry Potter's magic.
The resolution isn't the problem, it's zoomability. The iPhone revolutionized mobile web browsing - and all the other smartphones have caught up. We need something that works just as well on a remote control. There's also CSS3/HTML5 provisions for multiple resolutions, but I don't know how they handle a viewport that's the same resolution of a desktop computer, but viewed from 10 feet away.
I keep posting this, but Hugo is another good 3D film. On the surface, it's a kid's movie - but it's really a documentary on the history of film. No gimmick shots.
Another 3D with restraint example is Hugo. It's a kid's movie, but it's a great story and uses absolutely no 3D gimmick shots. There is a scene where something flies at the camera- but it's in reference to a famous early 2D short film.
Funny you mention the TARDIS - this Fall's Doctor Who anniversary special will be filmed in 3D and was to be broadcast in 3D. Hope it at least makes it to theaters that way.
The aliens were apparently running Apple computers, so they should be safe.
I'll admit to not knowing much about every cancer, but would it really affect every cell in the body simultaneously or would there be a pocket of good cells somewhere?
It's for idiots' comparison to 16:9. If the numbers were smaller, they would think it means it's somehow smaller than 16:9.
For watching movies filmed in Cinemascope. 21:9 is the closest standard digital resolution to 2.35:1. So you can watch your Star Wars, The Matrix, or Lord of the Rings movies without black bars of wasted space.
Larger Cinemascope-ratio screens have seen adoption vertically as mall kiosk advertising displays and airport flight arrival/departure information panels.
And why can't the patient be their own stem cell donor? Aside from re-inheriting their propensity for marrow cancer?
The browser cache - nice save! I can't remember if I've ever done that one before.
My worst loss on a brand new project was hitting save right when the power went out. It had unlinked the file but hadn't written the new one yet (Windows). This was without any sort of versioning system - I was the lone developer and it was a brand new project. I lost 8 hours of work and decided to rewrite the file instead of scanning the bare hard drive for the contents. I doubt I could have remembered a key snippet to find it with anyway. I think it turned out better with the insight I gained the first time around, but it was just terrible knowing that the original code was still on the drive somewhere.
Don't turn off the fence, stupid. I would also watch out for those dilophosaurs.
It's OK - you've already cloned the patient anyway. These medical analogies get weird fast.
Not unpaired - but on my dumbphone, if I decline to pair, it keeps prompting over and over and over again. I never accepted, so I don't know what's next.
Date/Time of phone calls and SMS is metadata (from that you can establish things like number of calls per day). The contents of the call audio or messages is the data. GPS location is more data than metadata, but the tower you're connected to is again metadata - which appears to be what this uses. Yes, metadata is also data. But how much of it is "metadata" according to the NSA?
There's no reason not to leave a phone on vibrate - especially if you dismiss soon after it starts going off without pulling it from your pocket. Assuming iPhone has it - my dumbphone does. Most of the time, that won't be a distraction. In fact, I leave my phone on vibrate 24/7 to avoid ever having it go off out loud when I don't want it to. And since I would forget to silence or turn it off otherwise anyway.
But also for water damage, yes. Not being able to remove the battery seriously decreases the phone's chances for survival.