Stop confusing education with entertainment. Engineering is not a warm-and-fuzzy discipline. If you dumb down the course to cater to folks who don't have the ambition to edure the "pain" of getting the LED to blink, you're going to have morons graduating that aren't prepared for what lies ahead.
As for cost, I'd select an AVR setup.
If you still must "baby" the students and make them feel good about how great they are, give 'em a PSOC Express setup. Heck, you can program that thing without writing a line of code.
It could be used to verify none of your users are on the list. I grabbed it and verified none of the entries matched our users. If one would've matched, we'd be able to contact the user to have the password changed before someone were able to use the stolen password against us.
The companies sell you a t-shirt. The cc companies can process that payment. It just so happens that a promo is going on that gives the user 100 free 'tokens' when they purchase a shirt.
>> Profiling by race and religion flies in the face of everything we've struggled to achieve in the last century. I think it was Martin Luther King who said:
>> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
First, who cares what MLK said? His best contribution was a federal holiday.
Second, it's called 'profiling' because the suspects fit a given 'profile'. How many folks fitting the profile of "red-blooded-NRA-card-carrying-love-this-country-o r-leave-patriots" have been blowing up planes? You can't search everyone, so make each search count.
I know some people will call BS, but there is some truth to your evidence. There's been more than one time when someone asked a person in my unit for a password and we couldn't rattle it off from the top of our head. Sit down at a keyboard, and it basically falls out of our fingers.
Weird? Yes. Logical? Not at all. Probably some tricks our mind is playing? Yep.
One cent coin? Isn't it easier to just say "a penny"?
They're equal in my mind. They contain the same number of syllables. I'm sure a linguist could provide a more accurate comparison, but that's close enough for me.
The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
That's probably because the only teams you have been on have been for "Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc". Life in the 'big blue room' still trumps gaming.
I would suggest you try associating w/ others besides through a system where the limits are quite bounding.
Over being able to say, "Hey, I can push this platic buttons faster than you!", I'll take the ability to kick your ass anyday.
Stop hiding behind that mouse and keyboard and come try it. You'll see what the thrill of victory is all about. Very little beats and andrenaline rush. Such a rush can be had by knowing that if you aren't the best around and that if you don't win the match, pain is about to be felt.
With extended use, this thing better have some nice flavors available to combat my gag reflex. I suppose one could get used to having something in their mouth constantly, but so far I've only grown accustomed to pen caps.
It provides a method to enumerate the techniques used by those with less than pure intentions.
IOW, it helps folks learn to spot these 'bugs' more readily.
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I've been this training. We hand our hands held while having ethereal, nmap, and such tools demonstrated. It's a total waste of money for a technical person.
It may be useful to scare management into securing their networks though.
For better training, check out http://pulltheplug.org/ and the dozens of other "war games" out there.
It's not so much about the cost and bundling w/ me. I read books and magazines to relax. This means being _AWAY_ from the computer. The paper format is easier to handle and hand off to others when finished. Periodicals and books can't keep up when the material becomes dated quickly. For my leisure time reading, they rock.
Obviously I can't recall everything I've opened up, but here are some:
The gray box on the outside of my parent's house for the telco demark : I learned that the problem is usually with the end user.
Dismantled the markers for the automatic feeding of livestock on my family's farm : I learned about how an access card works 15 years before I had my own.
A toaster : How resistance generates heat
Tape decks : How the tape stores it's information magnetically
VCRs : How the head is able to read the information from the tape
Transistor radios : How the signal is detected and amplified.
Video game joysticks : how the movement i made was being picked up by basic switches.
Wall Clocks : How a 'C' cell device can be used w/ an 'A' cell battery. I learned about voltage, chemical reactions, and capacity.
Kodak Cameras : batteries integrated w/ film packaging, chemistry
Flashlights : Effects of using different bulbs
Batteries : How serial/parallel circuits work.
Speakers : Calculate serial vs parallel resistance
Igntion Coil : volts -> amps
Amateur radios : workings of radio frequenct devices.
TVs : how the screen is drawn by varying magnetic stregths
Boxes of various colors : ADC circuits
Christmas lights : circuit interuption
Flasher for a car's turn signals : heat/relays/switches
Strobe lights : triggers, high voltage
Mouse : optical decoding
Motors : commutators , brushes, etc
Car Alarms : using a piezo buzzer as a motion sensor
Thermocouples : varistors
Dimmer switches : pots / duty cycle
I was lucky enough to have a job since I was 10. This afforded me the ability to buy all of this "junk" and figure out how it worked.
Yes, some specialized ICs have come about. For the most part, the components are still there, they're just smaller. The concepts are still in our current devices, if someone has the ambition to learn from them.
If nothing else, go spend the 40 bucks or so on the ARRL handbook and examine the ciruits in it. Looking at a schematic is in some ways better than looking at the actual device.
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this was already attempted over a decade ago. It was in CA I believe. The article was in Popular Mechanics.
Let me know when you put it up for sale. I'd love to upgrade from my 110 device!!!
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Who needs these high speeds anyhow??? You can't read that fast!!
Stop confusing education with entertainment. Engineering is not a warm-and-fuzzy discipline. If you dumb down the course to cater to folks who don't have the ambition to edure the "pain" of getting the LED to blink, you're going to have morons graduating that aren't prepared for what lies ahead.
As for cost, I'd select an AVR setup.
If you still must "baby" the students and make them feel good about how great they are, give 'em a PSOC Express setup. Heck, you can program that thing without writing a line of code.
It could be used to verify none of your users are on the list. I grabbed it and verified none of the entries matched our users. If one would've matched, we'd be able to contact the user to have the password changed before someone were able to use the stolen password against us.
RTFA - This only affects external links.
Your method of searching wikipedia through google is safe.
The only acceptable answer was that the reporter was an undercover narc.
_OR_, the sound of thousands of Profs moaning.....
It's the sound of millions of CS majors cheering!!!!
Dang, this a neat tool.
The bill doesn't state the companies can't mail you a check.
Possible circumvention?:
The companies sell you a t-shirt. The cc companies can process that payment. It just so happens that a promo is going on that gives the user 100 free 'tokens' when they purchase a shirt.
Mike Coles
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Oh my, how could I miss the fact they were pro-American NRA memebers!?!?!
Oh wait, they weren't. The ideals of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were neither that of a jingoist or NRA member.
Next issue w/ profiling?
>> Profiling by race and religion flies in the face of everything we've struggled to achieve in the last century. I think it was Martin Luther King who said:
o r-leave-patriots" have been blowing up planes? You can't search everyone, so make each search count.
>> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
First, who cares what MLK said? His best contribution was a federal holiday.
Second, it's called 'profiling' because the suspects fit a given 'profile'. How many folks fitting the profile of "red-blooded-NRA-card-carrying-love-this-country-
I know some people will call BS, but there is some truth to your evidence. There's been more than one time when someone asked a person in my unit for a password and we couldn't rattle it off from the top of our head. Sit down at a keyboard, and it basically falls out of our fingers.
Weird? Yes.
Logical? Not at all.
Probably some tricks our mind is playing? Yep.
One cent coin? Isn't it easier to just say "a penny"?
They're equal in my mind.
They contain the same number of syllables.
I'm sure a linguist could provide a more accurate comparison, but that's close enough for me.
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We spoke eralier about you purchasing a domain name from us. In light of recent interest in the domain, we're now asking $2500.
Thanks,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Domain Dealer
Not a threat, just a 'taunt' to tease someone into seeing what a real life "woot" feels like.
The teams I've been on have always handled stress by Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc. deathmatching. What's the appeal of brawling? Same thrill of victory, longer-lasting agony of defeat.
That's probably because the only teams you have been on have been for "Quake/Unreal Tournament/etc". Life in the 'big blue room' still trumps gaming.
I would suggest you try associating w/ others besides through a system where the limits are quite bounding.
Over being able to say, "Hey, I can push this platic buttons faster than you!", I'll take the ability to kick your ass anyday.
Stop hiding behind that mouse and keyboard and come try it. You'll see what the thrill of victory is all about. Very little beats and andrenaline rush. Such a rush can be had by knowing that if you aren't the best around and that if you don't win the match, pain is about to be felt.
Sounds like someone is quite bitter about their own project idea being shot down.
I'm not a big fan of MS nor this project. I don't see any gain from beating up entries from other teams though.
All I get from reading the article on your web site is the smell of sour grapes.
With extended use, this thing better have some nice flavors available to combat my gag reflex. I suppose one could get used to having something in their mouth constantly, but so far I've only grown accustomed to pen caps.
It provides a method to enumerate the techniques used by those with less than pure intentions.
IOW, it helps folks learn to spot these 'bugs' more readily.
I've been this training. We hand our hands held while having ethereal, nmap, and such tools demonstrated. It's a total waste of money for a technical person.
It may be useful to scare management into securing their networks though.
For better training, check out http://pulltheplug.org/ and the dozens of other "war games" out there.
It's not so much about the cost and bundling w/ me. I read books and magazines to relax. This means being _AWAY_ from the computer. The paper format is easier to handle and hand off to others when finished. Periodicals and books can't keep up when the material becomes dated quickly. For my leisure time reading, they rock.
Obviously I can't recall everything I've opened up, but here are some:
The gray box on the outside of my parent's house for the telco demark : I learned that the problem is usually with the end user.
Dismantled the markers for the automatic feeding of livestock on my family's farm : I learned about how an access card works 15 years before I had my own.
A toaster : How resistance generates heat
Tape decks : How the tape stores it's information magnetically
VCRs : How the head is able to read the information from the tape
Transistor radios : How the signal is detected and amplified.
Video game joysticks : how the movement i made was being picked up by basic switches.
Wall Clocks : How a 'C' cell device can be used w/ an 'A' cell battery. I learned about voltage, chemical reactions, and capacity.
Telephones : Red, Right, Ring
Floppy drives : Stepper motor operation.
"Cattle Prods" : voltage vs amperage
Autmatic Lights : CDS components
RC cars : Radio Frequency, Servos, Pulse Duration
Film Projectors : Light to audio conversion
Grain bins : Height/Distance/Weight/Moisture sensors
Kodak Cameras : batteries integrated w/ film packaging, chemistry
Flashlights : Effects of using different bulbs
Batteries : How serial/parallel circuits work.
Speakers : Calculate serial vs parallel resistance
Igntion Coil : volts -> amps
Amateur radios : workings of radio frequenct devices.
TVs : how the screen is drawn by varying magnetic stregths
Boxes of various colors : ADC circuits
Christmas lights : circuit interuption
Flasher for a car's turn signals : heat/relays/switches
Strobe lights : triggers, high voltage
Mouse : optical decoding
Motors : commutators , brushes, etc
Car Alarms : using a piezo buzzer as a motion sensor
Thermocouples : varistors
Dimmer switches : pots / duty cycle
I was lucky enough to have a job since I was 10. This afforded me the ability to buy all of this "junk" and figure out how it worked.
Yes, some specialized ICs have come about. For the most part, the components are still there, they're just smaller. The concepts are still in our current devices, if someone has the ambition to learn from them.
If nothing else, go spend the 40 bucks or so on the ARRL handbook and examine the ciruits in it. Looking at a schematic is in some ways better than looking at the actual device.
when purchasing a wall wart, by mindful of the wattage you can pull trhough. This PSU will be drawing more than your normal application.
>>Very nice, very small, but only converts DC to DC.....
That's the point for many ITX boxes. Devices running on 12 Vdc are wonderful for vehicles. This is a much cleaner solution for the PC in my vehicle.