XP mode can in fact access the host's USB ports. There's a drop down menu at the top of the window that lets you connect and disconnect whatever you want. I've been using it to connect my old TI86 since TI won't bother updating their software for 64bit.
This story alone makes me skeptical about any major scientific breakthroughs until someone can peer review the results.
Congrats to the hardworking people on the project, however I will be applauding their work with less skepticism when I hear that MIT, Cornell, CMU, etc confirm the results.
When I was in the Caribbean a couple of weeks ago, I discovered that my local CBS affiliate was also the CBS affiliate for the entire Caribbean. Apparently a while back they used to just shot their feed from Erie PA all the way down to the Caribbean and all of the residents down there would be able to watch the local news and advertisements from that Erie.
There are however many other ways a local station can stay afloat. Broadcasting on a tri-weekly schedule can help gather higher quality news for a better broadcast overall. The problem with many local news stations is the attempt to try and stuff daily local news in when there just isn't any news happening at all. There's no need to go overboard every day when three broadcasts a week can cover nearly everything and in many cases improve the quality of the shows and reporting.
I had a friend flip off a cop once for cutting him off on a road in Erie. The cop turned around, put his lights on, and gave him a ticket for obscenity.
He challenged the ticket mentioning freedom of speech as well as the fact that the officer didn't even show up. In the end he won, but that doesn't excuse the fact that police officers in Pennsylvania can waste people's time like this on power trips.
I have been using this extension for Firefox called Optimize Google. http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ It has the ability to disable click tracking and Google's ad services as well as a bunch of other features. Whether it works is up for debate. Personally I would not have used Scroogle since they can still track my usage and I don't really care if Google knows what I've been searching.
Should McAfee really be on the hook for your departments poor IT practices? Every one of those computers should have been remotely re-imaged, and as all campus data was kept on centralized servers then you should have lost no data, your job should have consisted of queuing systems for re-imaging, not much more.
People are railing McAfee here for poor QA, and they rightly should - but you have just demonstrated your own poor QA. Who in their right mind releases a patch to their entire install base at once? Release it to 10 computers and monitor for a couple of days. Then released it to 50 more and continue monitoring. Keep including groups until all computers have been covered without issue. How hard is that?
You're right, however what we as IT professionals know generally does not follow what users and management want.
I agree, do a remote wipe and restore but are you about to run the risk of having some buffoon somewhere screaming because he never saved any of his documents to the network share?
If I was ruler of this castle I would be more than happy to clean out all of the old crap, switch to linux, and run any windows related junk through a VM. However life isn't that great. Management wins again. So yes McAfee should be held to some standards because of their mistake.
I'm pretty sure that reimburshing my IT department's lost money and time is pretty reasonable considering I spent two days walking to every computer on the campus.
...is generally not that deadly. My uncle used to deal with cattle with black leg all the time. This story is ONCE AGAIN blown out of proportion--thanks, FBI.
This isn't wild anthrax that cows get from the prairie, this is anthrax that was designed to facilitate infection by the easiest means possible (breathing). I'm not a scientists, but this strain came directly from an Army research facility designed to research and produce biological weapons. I'm pretty sure it isn't the same as naturally occurring anthrax.
On top of that according to Wikipedia the FBI closed the case on the 2001 Anthrax Scares back in February http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#2010 . So whatever this guy says isn't going to change what the investigators found.
I've never heard of Foursquare and Gowalla until reading this. As of now, I'm pretty sure Google has the ball for running and maintaining a central and heavily used mapping database in the United States. I see Google Maps being used all over the place on websites for various things.
Heck Live/Bing Maps is being used for Weather.com's radar maps. So instead of some central authority, the De Facto services seem to be doing just fine.
From readings on here, I've discovered that for a couple thousand dollars ICANN can take domain names from squatters and pass them off to you.
Granted if it was some other business who wanted the domain name I'd say don't worry, but this is a clear case of fraud.
So would Icann be able to help in this matter?
This legislation is just pointless fund raising by states. I can understand texting and driving, but putting the damn phone to my head while driving is just as bad as using a handsfree headset. Now I have to fumble around to get the thing onto my ear while driving as opposed to just picking up the phone.
I'm grateful though that I live in a state like Pennsylvania where we don't have pointless laws on the books. Having humans be drivers will always be an unsafe activity.
I've come to accept the fact that I may die from driving whether it's my fault or someone elses. If I want piece of mind I take a train or bus.
Many kids I know nowadays have a phone with web access enabled. Why bother trying to block facebook when they can just simply browse over their cell phones?
Heck when I was in high school I had a teacher use a wireless air card to get onto youtube since the district tech staff were blocking so many websites for no reason whatsoever.
I remember seeing this user that hangs around on the "Articles for Deletion" page who helps fix articles. He goes around and finds trouble articles with various problems (grammar, citations, etc) and cleans them up to save them from deletion. Granted, the professor is trying something unique and I applaud him for doing that, however he should teach the students how to properly use Wikipedia. Teach the students how to follow the citations and to understand how to spot abuse. Take a look in the "Talk" pages and see where other users are spotting problems. From there teach the students the inner workings of how the entire system works, from creation, to editing, to deletion, whatever.
That journalism professor is onto something here. Wikipedia is here to stay and it is a great resource for getting information that is, relatively speaking, accurate. More people should know how Wikipedia's system works.
I recently got into an argument with a politics major over how the US just can't simply ignore human rights violations and blatant censorship in China. As long as investors have a dedicated financial investment in China our leaders will ignore the problems or send the military out and enforce our will.
As long as there is a TON of money be made in China on cheap labor then we will never ever stop investing in China.
This sounds like Google trying to say, " We don't like what China is doing. So if we can't pull out because our shareholders would be pissed then no one should be able to operate in China."
Hate to break it to the idealists in the world, but if there is any short term gain to be made it will be taken at the expense of anything (the environment, human rights, etc). Humans will always operate at the lowest common denominator.
Google is no better than any multinational corporation. Grow a pair google and stop with this, "Do no evil" BS.
Music follows a set of rules. There absolutely isn't any reason why a computer program can't take a modern tune and play it following the same tonal styles as Mozart. Here's an example of Richard Hyung-Ki Joo playing Uptown Girl in the time of Mozart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmSSm_RKbI
I remember running into something like this a long time ago when I was in New York City. There was this small piece of metal in the card slot. Needless to say I didn't insert my debit card in to find out what it was.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
I wouldn't be particularly happy with my ISP if they booted me, but I don't see what problem there is with a private organization sharing evidence with another private organization.
The problem is that they just need a suspicion that you've done something wrong, not , "We know that John Smith at 113 Main Street Somethingtown USA downloaded Party in the USA at 1:15pm on Saturday January 16th. Here are logs to prove it." The burden of proof lies on the person making the claims and not the ISPs. That and a notice that someone is accusing me of downloading some Miley Cyrus song.
I'm not a lawyer, but I did study constitutional law. I don't mean to be critical, but people should drop the concept that the Bill of Rights applies to private and/or corporate entities. They are applicable to the FEDERAL government. There is still debate on which amendments should apply to the states - e.g. the recent 2nd amendment lawsuits against state governments and D.C.
So you're ok with letting a private organization tell your ISP that they think you infringed on a copyright and that you should be booted off of the internet? The rights of others end where mine begin, and judging from the track record of the RIAA with their lawsuits against people who don't even own a computer I doubt that this will be used appropriately.
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XP mode can in fact access the host's USB ports. There's a drop down menu at the top of the window that lets you connect and disconnect whatever you want. I've been using it to connect my old TI86 since TI won't bother updating their software for 64bit.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/04/19/0132246/Chinas-Research-Ambitions-Hurt-By-Faked-Results
This story alone makes me skeptical about any major scientific breakthroughs until someone can peer review the results.
Congrats to the hardworking people on the project, however I will be applauding their work with less skepticism when I hear that MIT, Cornell, CMU, etc confirm the results.
When I was in the Caribbean a couple of weeks ago, I discovered that my local CBS affiliate was also the CBS affiliate for the entire Caribbean. Apparently a while back they used to just shot their feed from Erie PA all the way down to the Caribbean and all of the residents down there would be able to watch the local news and advertisements from that Erie.
There are however many other ways a local station can stay afloat. Broadcasting on a tri-weekly schedule can help gather higher quality news for a better broadcast overall. The problem with many local news stations is the attempt to try and stuff daily local news in when there just isn't any news happening at all. There's no need to go overboard every day when three broadcasts a week can cover nearly everything and in many cases improve the quality of the shows and reporting.
I had a friend flip off a cop once for cutting him off on a road in Erie. The cop turned around, put his lights on, and gave him a ticket for obscenity.
He challenged the ticket mentioning freedom of speech as well as the fact that the officer didn't even show up. In the end he won, but that doesn't excuse the fact that police officers in Pennsylvania can waste people's time like this on power trips.
I have been using this extension for Firefox called Optimize Google. http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ It has the ability to disable click tracking and Google's ad services as well as a bunch of other features. Whether it works is up for debate. Personally I would not have used Scroogle since they can still track my usage and I don't really care if Google knows what I've been searching.
How in the world are pilots supposed to check facebook while flying? I can never get a signal while up in the air.
Should McAfee really be on the hook for your departments poor IT practices? Every one of those computers should have been remotely re-imaged, and as all campus data was kept on centralized servers then you should have lost no data, your job should have consisted of queuing systems for re-imaging, not much more. People are railing McAfee here for poor QA, and they rightly should - but you have just demonstrated your own poor QA. Who in their right mind releases a patch to their entire install base at once? Release it to 10 computers and monitor for a couple of days. Then released it to 50 more and continue monitoring. Keep including groups until all computers have been covered without issue. How hard is that?
You're right, however what we as IT professionals know generally does not follow what users and management want.
I agree, do a remote wipe and restore but are you about to run the risk of having some buffoon somewhere screaming because he never saved any of his documents to the network share?
If I was ruler of this castle I would be more than happy to clean out all of the old crap, switch to linux, and run any windows related junk through a VM. However life isn't that great. Management wins again. So yes McAfee should be held to some standards because of their mistake.
I'm pretty sure that reimburshing my IT department's lost money and time is pretty reasonable considering I spent two days walking to every computer on the campus.
...is generally not that deadly. My uncle used to deal with cattle with black leg all the time. This story is ONCE AGAIN blown out of proportion--thanks, FBI.
This isn't wild anthrax that cows get from the prairie, this is anthrax that was designed to facilitate infection by the easiest means possible (breathing). I'm not a scientists, but this strain came directly from an Army research facility designed to research and produce biological weapons. I'm pretty sure it isn't the same as naturally occurring anthrax.
On top of that according to Wikipedia the FBI closed the case on the 2001 Anthrax Scares back in February http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#2010 . So whatever this guy says isn't going to change what the investigators found.
I've never heard of Foursquare and Gowalla until reading this. As of now, I'm pretty sure Google has the ball for running and maintaining a central and heavily used mapping database in the United States. I see Google Maps being used all over the place on websites for various things.
Heck Live/Bing Maps is being used for Weather.com's radar maps. So instead of some central authority, the De Facto services seem to be doing just fine.
From readings on here, I've discovered that for a couple thousand dollars ICANN can take domain names from squatters and pass them off to you. Granted if it was some other business who wanted the domain name I'd say don't worry, but this is a clear case of fraud. So would Icann be able to help in this matter?
I can download this at my friendly neighborhood bit torrent tracker?
This legislation is just pointless fund raising by states. I can understand texting and driving, but putting the damn phone to my head while driving is just as bad as using a handsfree headset. Now I have to fumble around to get the thing onto my ear while driving as opposed to just picking up the phone.
I'm grateful though that I live in a state like Pennsylvania where we don't have pointless laws on the books. Having humans be drivers will always be an unsafe activity.
I've come to accept the fact that I may die from driving whether it's my fault or someone elses. If I want piece of mind I take a train or bus.
Screw adobe and other client side PDF readers. Am I vulnerable if I use Google's PDF viewer to view PDFs?t
He was using a VPN he set up at his house, but it wasn't fast enough to comfortably stream youtube.
Many kids I know nowadays have a phone with web access enabled. Why bother trying to block facebook when they can just simply browse over their cell phones?
Heck when I was in high school I had a teacher use a wireless air card to get onto youtube since the district tech staff were blocking so many websites for no reason whatsoever.
I remember seeing this user that hangs around on the "Articles for Deletion" page who helps fix articles. He goes around and finds trouble articles with various problems (grammar, citations, etc) and cleans them up to save them from deletion. Granted, the professor is trying something unique and I applaud him for doing that, however he should teach the students how to properly use Wikipedia. Teach the students how to follow the citations and to understand how to spot abuse. Take a look in the "Talk" pages and see where other users are spotting problems. From there teach the students the inner workings of how the entire system works, from creation, to editing, to deletion, whatever.
That journalism professor is onto something here. Wikipedia is here to stay and it is a great resource for getting information that is, relatively speaking, accurate. More people should know how Wikipedia's system works.
I recently got into an argument with a politics major over how the US just can't simply ignore human rights violations and blatant censorship in China. As long as investors have a dedicated financial investment in China our leaders will ignore the problems or send the military out and enforce our will. As long as there is a TON of money be made in China on cheap labor then we will never ever stop investing in China. This sounds like Google trying to say, " We don't like what China is doing. So if we can't pull out because our shareholders would be pissed then no one should be able to operate in China." Hate to break it to the idealists in the world, but if there is any short term gain to be made it will be taken at the expense of anything (the environment, human rights, etc). Humans will always operate at the lowest common denominator. Google is no better than any multinational corporation. Grow a pair google and stop with this, "Do no evil" BS.
Music follows a set of rules. There absolutely isn't any reason why a computer program can't take a modern tune and play it following the same tonal styles as Mozart. Here's an example of Richard Hyung-Ki Joo playing Uptown Girl in the time of Mozart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmSSm_RKbI
I remember running into something like this a long time ago when I was in New York City. There was this small piece of metal in the card slot. Needless to say I didn't insert my debit card in to find out what it was.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
Someone over stepped his boundaries, whether it is an administrative or some low level tech. Either way there will be heads rolling.
I wouldn't be particularly happy with my ISP if they booted me, but I don't see what problem there is with a private organization sharing evidence with another private organization.
The problem is that they just need a suspicion that you've done something wrong, not , "We know that John Smith at 113 Main Street Somethingtown USA downloaded Party in the USA at 1:15pm on Saturday January 16th. Here are logs to prove it." The burden of proof lies on the person making the claims and not the ISPs. That and a notice that someone is accusing me of downloading some Miley Cyrus song.
I'm not a lawyer, but I did study constitutional law. I don't mean to be critical, but people should drop the concept that the Bill of Rights applies to private and/or corporate entities. They are applicable to the FEDERAL government. There is still debate on which amendments should apply to the states - e.g. the recent 2nd amendment lawsuits against state governments and D.C.
So you're ok with letting a private organization tell your ISP that they think you infringed on a copyright and that you should be booted off of the internet? The rights of others end where mine begin, and judging from the track record of the RIAA with their lawsuits against people who don't even own a computer I doubt that this will be used appropriately.
I'm almost surprised no one has mentioned this. Imagine a beowolf cluster of these. No really imagine one! It would be a dream come true!
The title says it all. So how would something like this be enforced to the losing party? Yeah I thought so.