Actually, a pair of boots stuffed with a few insoles sounds like a *perfect* place to keep a (fragile piece of art/ornate watch). Depending on the material of the boots, they could protect the watch from any mishandling of the luggage. Yes, he could have put the watch in a separate box, but that box would have taken up space on its own. This just sounds to me like efficient use of space.
Property rights? Over money stored at a bank? In a bank-account?
Sorry, you don't own that money. The only thing you have is credit. The bank promises to give you that amount of money when you ask for it. That's all.
Hell, there could even be evolutionary advantages for some people to sleep longer/deeper than others. Some people being more awake/alert during the night; others better rested during the day. That could be advantageous in a hunter/gatherer civilization.
Besides, It's a part of the atmosphere... flayed and mounted on Lexan hanging from my wall (with lots of carefully routed wires and a few pretty lights that blink intermittently) -- I find wallputers more interesting/functional at than most paintings, plus it's easier to clean, takes up less space and promotes a cozy cyber-punk feel.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Explain this to me; why is UPnP so insecure? UPnP can only be switched on by a random application if that application has access to the LAN. That application is then _already_ running locally on one of the machines on the network. It can _already_ connect to random machines/ports. If that application now wants to exploit a vulnerability on one of the machines connected to the LAN, it can do it directly, no need to configure any port forwarding to let yet something else in.
I haven't yet read any realistic argumentation on why UPnP is dangerous (and I looked!). Mainly just FUD. The only security issue I can see is that _after_ the baddies take over your PC, they can open up ports.
The two X-45As began the latest test, known as Peacekeeper, by departing from Edwards and climbing to altitudes of 24,500 and 25,500 ft respectively. Separated by approximately 25 miles and operating at Mach.65 (225 knots), the jets began their combat air patrol (CAP) mission to provide airborne alert over the exercise area. Tasked with suppression of enemy air defenses, the two vehicles were given two simulated pop-up ground threats to eliminate.
Once alerted to the first threat, the X-45As autonomously determined which vehicle held the optimum position, weapons and fuel load to properly attack the target. After making that decision, one of the X-45As changed course and the pilot-operator allowed it to attack the simulated ground-based radar. Following a successful strike, another simulated threat emerged and was subsequently destroyed by the second X-45A. The two X-45As completed their mission and safely returned to Edwards.
In the future, ground-based pilots will be controlling multiple combat aircraft with high-level commands: Patrol that sector, destroy target, refuel, RTB.
Even if Windows phones are just as good as droids and iphones, the current market shares can be the determining factor in purchase decisions. Maybe what MS needs is to have WP7 be better than its competition. And that is going to be hard to do.
AFAIK, in the USA, if games can be art, then games get some kind of free speech protection. I hear it is a relatively large legal issue with US states trying to ban/regulate some games.
I think the idea would be that the energy beam arrives at the mirror evenly distributed over its surface. The mirror would then do the focusing and targeting. As for execution, I don't know if this is feasible, but it made for a great Tom Clancy novel though. (The Cardinal of the Kremlin)
I thought Homeland Security meant: "stopping people from blowing themselves up, while taking a few hundred people with them and shocking the nation to a standstill". Not "going after the pirates".
I know, but... come on. This is Slashdot. _That_ should be the context here, right? We need to have/some/ standards. When we say 'GPS', we should literally mean 'Global Position System', as in; information beamed down from satellites.
Come on fellow SlashCitizens! Slashdot is becoming lax and forgiving. Just yesterday I saw a spelling mistake here on Slashdot without the good and upstanding citizenry mocking its author. What is next? Shall we forgive math errors? Shall we turn a blind eye when an OS is called Linux, instead of its true name 'Gnu/Linux'? No, I tell you, we cannot let this come to pass. We must rise up as one, and educate these trespassers of common sense, so that Slashdot can become one and wholesome again!
bull. The operator's network _needs_ to know which tower(s) a cellphone is visible from, just for basic call functionality. Triangulating a cellphone would then require nothing more then instructing each tower in the vicinity of the cellphone to report a signal strength reading on that cellphone.
Bam, some math, map overlay, geographic data, and data on possible obstructions later, and that cellphone is located (with a certain degree of error).
If all that seriously takes more than 1 minute, someone isn't really trying.
Even if the rogue app itself can't disable the kill switch, the user is still susceptible to the dancing bunnies problem.
When the app instructs them to disable the kill switch so that they can see the dancing bunnies, by god, the users _will_ disable any and all security mechanisms they can, just to see the dancing bunnies. Because, goddamned, they HAVE to see the dancing bunnies. You do know that dancing bunnies are awesome, right?
Also, I have to say, the notion that people in a community like slashdot should suggest that security be -optional-, is laughable, to say the least.
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Actually, a pair of boots stuffed with a few insoles sounds like a *perfect* place to keep a (fragile piece of art/ornate watch). Depending on the material of the boots, they could protect the watch from any mishandling of the luggage. Yes, he could have put the watch in a separate box, but that box would have taken up space on its own. This just sounds to me like efficient use of space.
Property rights? Over money stored at a bank? In a bank-account?
Sorry, you don't own that money. The only thing you have is credit. The bank promises to give you that amount of money when you ask for it. That's all.
So, well, the answer is; no.
And what exactly do you think a human crew will do with:
a) a weapon
b) a target
c) orders in hand to bomb said target
d) a communications outage?
It doesn't matter if it's a human crew or not, because that target will go BOOM in that scenario.
Hell, there could even be evolutionary advantages for some people to sleep longer/deeper than others. Some people being more awake/alert during the night; others better rested during the day. That could be advantageous in a hunter/gatherer civilization.
IIRC, when in running with the -server switch, java is willing to -eventually- remove some of the unused memory in permgen.
Aaah, yes. TPM and Palladium to the rescue!
Ditto. *ahem* Europe.
Besides, It's a part of the atmosphere... flayed and mounted on Lexan hanging from my wall (with lots of carefully routed wires and a few pretty lights that blink intermittently) -- I find wallputers more interesting/functional at than most paintings, plus it's easier to clean, takes up less space and promotes a cozy cyber-punk feel.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Explain this to me; why is UPnP so insecure? UPnP can only be switched on by a random application if that application has access to the LAN. That application is then _already_ running locally on one of the machines on the network. It can _already_ connect to random machines/ports. If that application now wants to exploit a vulnerability on one of the machines connected to the LAN, it can do it directly, no need to configure any port forwarding to let yet something else in.
I haven't yet read any realistic argumentation on why UPnP is dangerous (and I looked!). Mainly just FUD. The only security issue I can see is that _after_ the baddies take over your PC, they can open up ports.
Sure, but why, in the holy trinity of three hells, would you embed it in child pornography, as the second linked article suggests?
From http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050214s.html
The two X-45As began the latest test, known as Peacekeeper, by departing from Edwards and climbing to altitudes of 24,500 and 25,500 ft respectively. Separated by approximately 25 miles and operating at Mach .65 (225 knots), the jets began their combat air patrol (CAP) mission to provide airborne alert over the exercise area. Tasked with suppression of enemy air defenses, the two vehicles were given two simulated pop-up ground threats to eliminate.
Once alerted to the first threat, the X-45As autonomously determined which vehicle held the optimum position, weapons and fuel load to properly attack the target. After making that decision, one of the X-45As changed course and the pilot-operator allowed it to attack the simulated ground-based radar. Following a successful strike, another simulated threat emerged and was subsequently destroyed by the second X-45A. The two X-45As completed their mission and safely returned to Edwards.
In the future, ground-based pilots will be controlling multiple combat aircraft with high-level commands: Patrol that sector, destroy target, refuel, RTB.
Even if Windows phones are just as good as droids and iphones, the current market shares can be the determining factor in purchase decisions. Maybe what MS needs is to have WP7 be better than its competition. And that is going to be hard to do.
AFAIK, in the USA, if games can be art, then games get some kind of free speech protection. I hear it is a relatively large legal issue with US states trying to ban/regulate some games.
The good news for GeoTag is that the Nazgûl are still behind the Black Gate of Armonk.
I think the idea would be that the energy beam arrives at the mirror evenly distributed over its surface. The mirror would then do the focusing and targeting. As for execution, I don't know if this is feasible, but it made for a great Tom Clancy novel though. (The Cardinal of the Kremlin)
http://www.amazon.com/Cardinal-Kremlin-Tom-Clancy/dp/0425116840
Stowaway mammoths? Really?
You say that like that's a bad thing.
Well, the big boss did get caught in the book. Haahahaha!
Ditto, with you all. Feels bad having to let the show go...
I thought Homeland Security meant: "stopping people from blowing themselves up, while taking a few hundred people with them and shocking the nation to a standstill". Not "going after the pirates".
Your employer could just ask you what your facebook (or whatever) id is. No need for googling.
I know, but... come on. This is Slashdot. _That_ should be the context here, right? /some/ standards. When we say 'GPS', we should literally mean 'Global Position System', as in; information beamed down from satellites.
We need to have
Come on fellow SlashCitizens! Slashdot is becoming lax and forgiving. Just yesterday I saw a spelling mistake here on Slashdot without the good and upstanding citizenry mocking its author. What is next? Shall we forgive math errors? Shall we turn a blind eye when an OS is called Linux, instead of its true name 'Gnu/Linux'? No, I tell you, we cannot let this come to pass. We must rise up as one, and educate these trespassers of common sense, so that Slashdot can become one and wholesome again!
bull. The operator's network _needs_ to know which tower(s) a cellphone is visible from, just for basic call functionality. Triangulating a cellphone would then require nothing more then instructing each tower in the vicinity of the cellphone to report a signal strength reading on that cellphone.
Bam, some math, map overlay, geographic data, and data on possible obstructions later, and that cellphone is located (with a certain degree of error).
If all that seriously takes more than 1 minute, someone isn't really trying.
Daphne dear, I think we should do an inventory of the terrarium.
Even if the rogue app itself can't disable the kill switch, the user is still susceptible to the dancing bunnies problem.
When the app instructs them to disable the kill switch so that they can see the dancing bunnies, by god, the users _will_ disable any and all security mechanisms they can, just to see the dancing bunnies. Because, goddamned, they HAVE to see the dancing bunnies. You do know that dancing bunnies are awesome, right?
Also, I have to say, the notion that people in a community like slashdot should suggest that security be -optional-, is laughable, to say the least.