But seriously, it's an exceptionally interesting thought that there might be a 'biological life scanner' like the kind seen in Star Trek, WALL-E, and other science fiction of the sort.
(For the sake of karma, my post wasn't intended as a moral outcry. It was only an attempt at humor.)
Better yet, let's just nuke people! Whether they pirate stuff or not! Surely, this will put an end to all piracy. Can't have piracy without the human race, eh, eh?
I don't see anything about this in the article or on Wikipedia:
Does SMRAM get cleared when a system is rebooted? It seems like the stuff is stored in chip cache or, worst case, battery-backed bios. Cutting the power and removing the backup battery should be able to clear it, no? It's not much of a rootkit if you can remove it by unplugging your machine.
Van Eck Phreaking and reading the contents of your monitor is likely orders of magnitude easier than decyphering your keyboard signals, considering the back of your monitor is probably against a wall, making for a better transmitter than a wire that runs around and along a bunch of other wires.
I have no issue with women in computer science. Quite the contrary, I'd like to see more. However, I'd like to see more women who are in the field because they enjoy it, not because of awards/grants/bribes to pull them in for the sole purpose of 'more women in cs'.
This seems like it would need a crazy amount of image stabilization. When an image is focused and static on the retina, it (fairly quickly) fades from perception. There are microscopic tremors that keep the eye jostling about and the picture 'refreshed'. I'm curious about how these impact the cameras ability to focus and keep a decent picture.
I don't think it's a logical error. It's ambiguous grammar. For that I apologize.
Let A be the set of officials in Colorado. Let B be the set of officials in the Department of Homeland Security. Let C be the set of Americans constituted in the umbrella statement, "they". (As used in "They say," "They'd like you to believe.")
I do not wish to defend a, where a is a member of the set A.
There exists a nonempty subset of C, C_1 such that for all c in C_1, and for all b in B, c believes himself/herself to be smarter than b.
I certainly would. A cellphone should never choose a roaming cell over a local one.
It's exceedingly possible that the phone, as a results of its proximity to the transmitter, had the local tower's signal drowned out -- kinda like how an FM/GPS jammer works. Same frequency of transmit, but no data in the signal.
Another possibility is a software flaw; the designers figured taking the signal with the highest power is best -- that a local tower will never be in range of a roaming tower. Perhaps they just didn't think of it. Were I writing software to connect to cell towers, I don't think roaming/local would have crossed my mind, even. I'd be more focused on picking the best signal strength.
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But seriously, it's an exceptionally interesting thought that there might be a 'biological life scanner' like the kind seen in Star Trek, WALL-E, and other science fiction of the sort.
Worse yet, when people spectate after they die and say where all the CTs are over Ventrillo.
(For the sake of karma, my post wasn't intended as a moral outcry. It was only an attempt at humor.)
Better yet, let's just nuke people! Whether they pirate stuff or not! Surely, this will put an end to all piracy. Can't have piracy without the human race, eh, eh?
I bet piracy would stop if US Marines/Navy Seals dealt with The Pirate Bay pirates in the same way they dealt with Somalian pirates.
Sounds like you bought someone a buckyball for their birthday.
... Even if you graduate with loads of C's, one or two papers in academic journals will really set you apart. ...
This is very much a relief. I've been sweating bullets over having a 2.9 in comp. sci. but have a couple of papers out. I hope to god you're right.
The DoD isn't the only group. The NSA, NSF, NNSA, and the USAF all have a vested interest.
Some of it is pretty cool. http://bigbird.psych.purdue.edu/~pizlo/lps-2008.pdf
Oh! I thought SMRAM was some sort of Intel-specific processor cache. Your description makes it all clear. Thank you!
Duly noted. Thank you for your response.
To hearken back to the original (now redundant) question: SMRAM does get cleared on a reboot, yes?
It occurs to me only now that CMOS is battery backed, not BIOS. My mistake. Still, you can reflash a bios, right?
I don't see anything about this in the article or on Wikipedia:
Does SMRAM get cleared when a system is rebooted? It seems like the stuff is stored in chip cache or, worst case, battery-backed bios. Cutting the power and removing the backup battery should be able to clear it, no? It's not much of a rootkit if you can remove it by unplugging your machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Van Eck Phreaking and reading the contents of your monitor is likely orders of magnitude easier than decyphering your keyboard signals, considering the back of your monitor is probably against a wall, making for a better transmitter than a wire that runs around and along a bunch of other wires.
I have no issue with women in computer science. Quite the contrary, I'd like to see more. However, I'd like to see more women who are in the field because they enjoy it, not because of awards/grants/bribes to pull them in for the sole purpose of 'more women in cs'.
This seems like it would need a crazy amount of image stabilization. When an image is focused and static on the retina, it (fairly quickly) fades from perception. There are microscopic tremors that keep the eye jostling about and the picture 'refreshed'. I'm curious about how these impact the cameras ability to focus and keep a decent picture.
I don't think it's a logical error. It's ambiguous grammar. For that I apologize.
Let A be the set of officials in Colorado.
Let B be the set of officials in the Department of Homeland Security.
Let C be the set of Americans constituted in the umbrella statement, "they". (As used in "They say," "They'd like you to believe.")
I do not wish to defend a, where a is a member of the set A.
There exists a nonempty subset of C, C_1 such that for all c in C_1, and for all b in B, c believes himself/herself to be smarter than b.
Not to defend them, but a lot of people think they're smarter than the Feds. A lot of people are right, too.
The easier it is to develop for a system, the easier it is to push that system's limits.
I wouldn't call it a poor design.
I certainly would. A cellphone should never choose a roaming cell over a local one.
It's exceedingly possible that the phone, as a results of its proximity to the transmitter, had the local tower's signal drowned out -- kinda like how an FM/GPS jammer works. Same frequency of transmit, but no data in the signal.
Another possibility is a software flaw; the designers figured taking the signal with the highest power is best -- that a local tower will never be in range of a roaming tower. Perhaps they just didn't think of it. Were I writing software to connect to cell towers, I don't think roaming/local would have crossed my mind, even. I'd be more focused on picking the best signal strength.
Q: How many Freudians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to change the bulb, the other to hold the penis. Cock. Ladder. LADDER! I mean ladder.
HAHA! God forgot to check for integer overflows!
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Yes
Why are electronic insects all the buzz?
Was a manager reading buzzwords off an in-flight magazine?
I hear the engineers are pretty fly.
In Soviet Russia, electricity makes flies run.
*ducks*
Nah, just wait for Web 2.0 SP1.
Serious question: If I reverse engineer an application so that it installs without me clicking through the EULA, am I still legally bound to it?