I'd forgotten about that - not the porn, but movies WERE about the $100 mark initially, which is probably one driver behind video hire stores really taking off initially.
Back on to the porn, I had a friend bring back a copy (of a copy of a copy..) of a porno from the USA when he went on a visit..we were gutted when we discovered that it wouldn't play back on a PAL player..
Most of the more modern PAL VHS recorders will play back NTSC tapes, but not record them.
With the tanks the German made Leopards we just retired were superior in a lot of roles, as I'm sure some US made tanks are. However it was a "take it or leave it" package deal that some US Senator was getting rich on. It wasn't as bad as the Sea Sprite fiasco (buying a lot of very expensive and very old helicopters and scrapping them), but that's the sort of thing that gets attached to trade deals.
The tanks we replaced were Leopard 1s which weren't superior in ANY roles although they probably could have been refurbished to make them functional in today's battlefield. I understand there are a number of companies offering appliqué composite armour upgrades plus other modernisations.
Avoid HideMyAss at all costs. HideMyAss bent over, dropped their pants, and handed all their logs to the FBI when they were trying to track down anonymous DDoS activists last year. AirVPN's CEO posted a press release immediately afterward promising that AirVPN would never do anything like that to their customers and, being based in Europe, had no obligation to recognize U.S. laws.
Unfair, I don't think HMA ever pretended to be a TOR replacement, they're mainly a way to get disposable email addresses to hide from spam.
The reason why the Car Stereo is on the same network is because too many people were buying cars with no stereo or the basic stereo then going to after market shops where they could get a much better stereo for the same amount of money. Manufacturers decided that to reduce this they would just make the car stereo a required part for the whole system to work. It gives you a good reason to pay $1200 for the stereo upgrade which we know isn't worth $600.
Similar to printer manufacturers and ink jet cartridges.
Same here. But honestly you probably don't want to be in the top 1% for income; those people are always the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Yeah, but with a massive golden parachute to see them off.
If the OP reads this, and you want to burn DSLR money, look in to the Fuji X100. It has classic camera styling with amazing optics, an excellent sensor, and a very unique processing pipeline that will give your photos a very memorable look. The price is nearly $1000, but there is a reason a lot of pro photographers use this as their walk around.
Option 2: you have decentralized ATM/POS, with partially cached information on the end points. That way when the network is down, people can still perform transactions and there is a consolidation that occurs once the network is back. But if people come in your store at night with a big John Deere while the cops are busy playing with their tasers on homeless guys, then data gets stolen.
You could have your data stored encrypted on non-volatile ram, but the encryption key in volatile ram that gets wiped whenever the access door is opened or the ATM is removed from its site.
A list of valid encryption keys would be kept at headquarters for maintenance purposes and reinstatement if a stolen ATM is recovered.
Because it can be inconvenient. Say I want to log in to a particular site on a friend's computer. I don't want to download KeePass on their PC, so I have to read the password off my phone. Reading and typing a 20+ character random string without errors is the opposite of convenience.
So keep a copy of Keepass portable and your database with you.
In that study, they used placebos so they didn't know whether they were consuming caffeine or not and had them perform objective tests. Conclusion: regular consumption of caffeine provided no net benefit.
This has the stink of a fanatic about it. While many people (including me) probably are addicted to coffee, it would seem to be doing little harm. Then there's this:
"Coffee has been shown to reduce the risk of skin cancer by helping kill off damaged cells that could otherwise turn into tumors, according to a US study published on Monday.
The findings indicate that moderate caffeine drinking, or perhaps even applying coffee to the skin, could be useful in warding off non-melanoma cancer, the most commonly diagnosed of all skin cancers."
"Previous studies have shown coffee drinkers tend to have fewer incidences of breast, uterine, prostate and colon cancers, but the beneficial effects are not seen in people who drink decaffeinated coffee."
Agree 100%. What did Stratfor do do deserve the epithet "Evil"? Most of the stupid fuck/. hackers just do som knee-jerk support of anonymous. Stealing the credit cards of the customers of a company is not social activism, it is just criminal. anonymous hackers deserve the same treatment as the terrorists in Afpak.
Well, they certainly deserve some degree of opprobrium for keeping credit card details unencrypted on their web-facing systems. My knowledge is fairly low end, but I even knew that was a stupid idea years ago.
Apparently Stratfor's job is to read the news papers and extract information. Didn't they happen to catch up on the many successful hacking attempts and data breaches in the past year?
I'm personally happy for Anonymous to keep doing this until the large corporates start to wise up
I
However, when the subject of vaccines comes up, I've noticed quite a few Slashdotters do indicate that they trust and even partake of the common ones. (Again, however, I've not noticed that many of these indicate that they take untested vaccines and, indeed, it seems they are usually talking about vaccines that have been approved by the FDA which requires some degree of testing to be done). This position on vaccines seems consistent with not dismissing nuclear power plant just because something "unknown could go wrong" and ignoring the benefits that accrue from both.
A pretty standard engineering approach - cost vs. benefit coupled with a realization that there are no 100% guarantees about hardly any aspect of life.
So the Vaccines are tested on Slashdotters, proving once again that there are some things that even rats won't do.
And don't a lot of countries already do something similar to this for cattle after the whole prion/mad cow thing? The US only tracks a small percentage of our animals due to some protest or other involving big agribusiness.
Australia has been doing this for years with cattle. America is years behind Australia and probably other places.
Why would you expect a political party (not the government, a party) to have your socio-economic details?
As the article says, they also capture health information and, as shown in this article from July they also record:
profiles of constituents and their stands on issues such as gay rights, the environment and abortion
In just this post I've detailed that they're collecting information on people's:
- health
- finances
- stance on gay rights
- stance on the environment
- stance on abortion
Most likely this is information that the subjects have GIVEN to the party, either by answering door-to-door or telephone surveys, or from submissions to their local politician. For example, "I support gay rights; please vote for that."
They will then add the voter's name to their data base. All the political parties do this.
It's the usual story, if you don't want the information to be out there, don't tell anyone.
The six adult Brossarts allegedly belonged to the Sovereign Citizen Movement, an antigovernment group that the FBI considers extremist and violent. The family had repeated run-ins with local police, including the arrest of two family members earlier that day arising from their clash with a deputy over the cattle.
So it's a good chance they were violent nutters, which makes the use of drones a lot more reasonable in my book.
Still, you have to worry about the cost (~$3200 per hour) of using predators for civilian use.
The whole point of portable USB sticks is to access your data from strange computers. Plugging an encrypted USB stick into a strange computer completely defeats the point of the encryption. None of my USB sticks are encrypted; they don't need to be because they have no personal information on them.
I think Rohos encrypted containers are fully portable (with a copy of Rohos on the key), unlike TrueCrypt which requires you to have administrator access to the computer. Also there's nothing to stop you encrypting individual files on a USB key, such as with AxCrypt or the encryption options of 7Zip or Zip Genius.
No. View any high quality steel scalpel edge at high magnification, and you'll immediately notice it's immensely irregular (and thicker) compared to blades composed of flint or obsidian. In particular, obsidian edges average 3 nm in thickness. Steel blades simply cannot achieve that. Where are you getting your information?
Yes, years ago I read of hospitals using synthetic diamond scalpel blades for the same reason. At the micro level, flint or diamond blades cut neatly while steel blades (in comparison) plow their way way through the tissues.
They kept the diamond blades in a safe between uses.
HDDerase is a freeware utility that securely erases data on hard drives using the security erase unit command built into the firmware of ATA and SATA drives manufactured after 2001. HDDerase was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California San Diego. It differs from other file deletion programs such as Darik's Boot and Nuke which attempt to erase data using block writes, and therefore cannot access certain portions of the hard drive. The internal firmware secure erase command can access data that is no longer accessible through software, such as bad blocks.
HDDerase is recommended as a disk drive purging method in NIST Special Publication 800-88.[3]
Anti Virus are good at picking up malware that spread a lot.
But these trojans are supposed to be used in very limited cases, so there is little chance of any AV aiming to find them specifically (up until now that is).
Heuristics are supposed to handle such cases, but you can test your malware against those heuristics until you are good to go and if they don't know of you, they can't change heuristics to catch you.
RTFA.
Kaspersky stated that their AV had already detected this heuristically as a variation of the R2D2 Trojan and blocked it. They suggest installing a password in your AV to prevent anyone adding any malware to its exclusions list, as the installers had physical access to the computer to install it.
The fact that Mr. Clarke dreamt up geosynchronous satellites means he helped build the future, not predict it.
He also, in a throw-away comment, invented the doctrine of nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), although he reckoned it wasn't his proudest achievement.
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Cool none the less. I wonder if the books are any good.
So download them and see. After all, they are free.
I'd forgotten about that - not the porn, but movies WERE about the $100 mark initially, which is probably one driver behind video hire stores really taking off initially. Back on to the porn, I had a friend bring back a copy (of a copy of a copy..) of a porno from the USA when he went on a visit..we were gutted when we discovered that it wouldn't play back on a PAL player..
Most of the more modern PAL VHS recorders will play back NTSC tapes, but not record them.
With the tanks the German made Leopards we just retired were superior in a lot of roles, as I'm sure some US made tanks are. However it was a "take it or leave it" package deal that some US Senator was getting rich on. It wasn't as bad as the Sea Sprite fiasco (buying a lot of very expensive and very old helicopters and scrapping them), but that's the sort of thing that gets attached to trade deals.
The tanks we replaced were Leopard 1s which weren't superior in ANY roles although they probably could have been refurbished to make them functional in today's battlefield. I understand there are a number of companies offering appliqué composite armour upgrades plus other modernisations.
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Avoid HideMyAss at all costs. HideMyAss bent over, dropped their pants, and handed all their logs to the FBI when they were trying to track down anonymous DDoS activists last year. AirVPN's CEO posted a press release immediately afterward promising that AirVPN would never do anything like that to their customers and, being based in Europe, had no obligation to recognize U.S. laws.
Unfair, I don't think HMA ever pretended to be a TOR replacement, they're mainly a way to get disposable email addresses to hide from spam.
The reason why the Car Stereo is on the same network is because too many people were buying cars with no stereo or the basic stereo then going to after market shops where they could get a much better stereo for the same amount of money. Manufacturers decided that to reduce this they would just make the car stereo a required part for the whole system to work. It gives you a good reason to pay $1200 for the stereo upgrade which we know isn't worth $600.
Similar to printer manufacturers and ink jet cartridges.
Same here. But honestly you probably don't want to be in the top 1% for income; those people are always the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Yeah, but with a massive golden parachute to see them off.
If the OP reads this, and you want to burn DSLR money, look in to the Fuji X100. It has classic camera styling with amazing optics, an excellent sensor, and a very unique processing pipeline that will give your photos a very memorable look. The price is nearly $1000, but there is a reason a lot of pro photographers use this as their walk around.
Not everyone loves the Fuji X100.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/fuji_x100_follow_up.shtml
Option 2: you have decentralized ATM/POS, with partially cached information on the end points. That way when the network is down, people can still perform transactions and there is a consolidation that occurs once the network is back. But if people come in your store at night with a big John Deere while the cops are busy playing with their tasers on homeless guys, then data gets stolen.
You could have your data stored encrypted on non-volatile ram, but the encryption key in volatile ram that gets wiped whenever the access door is opened or the ATM is removed from its site.
A list of valid encryption keys would be kept at headquarters for maintenance purposes and reinstatement if a stolen ATM is recovered.
Because it can be inconvenient. Say I want to log in to a particular site on a friend's computer. I don't want to download KeePass on their PC, so I have to read the password off my phone. Reading and typing a 20+ character random string without errors is the opposite of convenience.
So keep a copy of Keepass portable and your database with you.
http://www.transcend-info.com/products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=181
Or
http://www.gizmag.com/deonet-smallest-usb-stick/20916/
In that study, they used placebos so they didn't know whether they were consuming caffeine or not and had them perform objective tests. Conclusion: regular consumption of caffeine provided no net benefit.
This has the stink of a fanatic about it. While many people (including me) probably are addicted to coffee, it would seem to be doing little harm. Then there's this:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhCEHxaVBwtPW_MtxUSqEVil6Hjw?docId=CNG.5546416fb2b33bb880d4246e81a40a68.7c1
"Coffee has been shown to reduce the risk of skin cancer by helping kill off damaged cells that could otherwise turn into tumors, according to a US study published on Monday. The findings indicate that moderate caffeine drinking, or perhaps even applying coffee to the skin, could be useful in warding off non-melanoma cancer, the most commonly diagnosed of all skin cancers."
"Previous studies have shown coffee drinkers tend to have fewer incidences of breast, uterine, prostate and colon cancers, but the beneficial effects are not seen in people who drink decaffeinated coffee."
And WTF has this to do with the main posting?
If I'm the "product," wouldn't that mean I'm entitled to some form of compensation (preferably monetary)?
You are already compensated in that you have the benefit of the search results.
Agree 100%. What did Stratfor do do deserve the epithet "Evil"? Most of the stupid fuck /. hackers just do som knee-jerk support of anonymous. Stealing the credit cards of the customers of a company is not social activism, it is just criminal. anonymous hackers deserve the same treatment as the terrorists in Afpak.
Well, they certainly deserve some degree of opprobrium for keeping credit card details unencrypted on their web-facing systems. My knowledge is fairly low end, but I even knew that was a stupid idea years ago.
Apparently Stratfor's job is to read the news papers and extract information. Didn't they happen to catch up on the many successful hacking attempts and data breaches in the past year?
I'm personally happy for Anonymous to keep doing this until the large corporates start to wise up
I However, when the subject of vaccines comes up, I've noticed quite a few Slashdotters do indicate that they trust and even partake of the common ones. (Again, however, I've not noticed that many of these indicate that they take untested vaccines and, indeed, it seems they are usually talking about vaccines that have been approved by the FDA which requires some degree of testing to be done). This position on vaccines seems consistent with not dismissing nuclear power plant just because something "unknown could go wrong" and ignoring the benefits that accrue from both.
A pretty standard engineering approach - cost vs. benefit coupled with a realization that there are no 100% guarantees about hardly any aspect of life.
So the Vaccines are tested on Slashdotters, proving once again that there are some things that even rats won't do.
And don't a lot of countries already do something similar to this for cattle after the whole prion/mad cow thing? The US only tracks a small percentage of our animals due to some protest or other involving big agribusiness.
Australia has been doing this for years with cattle. America is years behind Australia and probably other places.
I suspect their reticence is all about cost
Why would you expect a political party (not the government, a party) to have your socio-economic details?
As the article says, they also capture health information and, as shown in this article from July they also record:
In just this post I've detailed that they're collecting information on people's: - health - finances - stance on gay rights - stance on the environment - stance on abortion
Most likely this is information that the subjects have GIVEN to the party, either by answering door-to-door or telephone surveys, or from submissions to their local politician. For example, "I support gay rights; please vote for that."
They will then add the voter's name to their data base. All the political parties do this.
It's the usual story, if you don't want the information to be out there, don't tell anyone.
The launch aircraft has enough range to transport the rocket to an equatorial launch point, which I've read can allow up to a 25% increase in payload
.This might improve on the project's economic chances.
The six adult Brossarts allegedly belonged to the Sovereign Citizen Movement, an antigovernment group that the FBI considers extremist and violent. The family had repeated run-ins with local police, including the arrest of two family members earlier that day arising from their clash with a deputy over the cattle.
So it's a good chance they were violent nutters, which makes the use of drones a lot more reasonable in my book.
Still, you have to worry about the cost (~$3200 per hour) of using predators for civilian use.
The whole point of portable USB sticks is to access your data from strange computers. Plugging an encrypted USB stick into a strange computer completely defeats the point of the encryption. None of my USB sticks are encrypted; they don't need to be because they have no personal information on them.
I think Rohos encrypted containers are fully portable (with a copy of Rohos on the key), unlike TrueCrypt which requires you to have administrator access to the computer. Also there's nothing to stop you encrypting individual files on a USB key, such as with AxCrypt or the encryption options of 7Zip or Zip Genius.
nuclear power caused .04 deaths in 2008, where coal caused 161 deaths. i say give me the atom, or give me death!
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
Your article actually says coal causes 161 deaths per TWh, so they're claiming 500,000 deaths in China alone, mostly from the results of pollution.
No. View any high quality steel scalpel edge at high magnification, and you'll immediately notice it's immensely irregular (and thicker) compared to blades composed of flint or obsidian. In particular, obsidian edges average 3 nm in thickness. Steel blades simply cannot achieve that. Where are you getting your information?
Yes, years ago I read of hospitals using synthetic diamond scalpel blades for the same reason. At the micro level, flint or diamond blades cut neatly while steel blades (in comparison) plow their way way through the tissues.
They kept the diamond blades in a safe between uses.
This appears to require Javascript. Thank you, noscript.
From the last line in TFA, "If you are using NoScript or other privacy tools, the test will fail even if you whitelist this site."
Thank you, NoScript.
BTW, If you use NoScript, send the author a few bucks. I'll bet very few actually do.
NOT DBAN.
From Wikipedia:
HDDerase is a freeware utility that securely erases data on hard drives using the security erase unit command built into the firmware of ATA and SATA drives manufactured after 2001. HDDerase was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California San Diego. It differs from other file deletion programs such as Darik's Boot and Nuke which attempt to erase data using block writes, and therefore cannot access certain portions of the hard drive. The internal firmware secure erase command can access data that is no longer accessible through software, such as bad blocks.
HDDerase is recommended as a disk drive purging method in NIST Special Publication 800-88.[3]
I like how Chrome can display most PDFs right in the browser. No troublesome plugin required.
The last few versions of Acrobat Reader have so much bloat and need to be updated so often, it is nearly more trouble than it's worth.
Foxit Reader is tiny compared to Acrobat.
BTW, they've just released V5.1 for Windows.
Anti Virus are good at picking up malware that spread a lot. But these trojans are supposed to be used in very limited cases, so there is little chance of any AV aiming to find them specifically (up until now that is). Heuristics are supposed to handle such cases, but you can test your malware against those heuristics until you are good to go and if they don't know of you, they can't change heuristics to catch you.
RTFA.
Kaspersky stated that their AV had already detected this heuristically as a variation of the R2D2 Trojan and blocked it. They suggest installing a password in your AV to prevent anyone adding any malware to its exclusions list, as the installers had physical access to the computer to install it.
The fact that Mr. Clarke dreamt up geosynchronous satellites means he helped build the future, not predict it.
He also, in a throw-away comment, invented the doctrine of nuclear Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), although he reckoned it wasn't his proudest achievement.