Don't think that all Americans are as naive as CmdrTaco. I, for one, realize both that $4 for a gallon of gas isn't extravagant, and that the cost of a gallon of gas has little to do with global nuclear energy politics. McCain is simply following the Bush stance on 'alternative energy' which is to say, any alternative to oil that will net equally high profits for equally large, heavy lobbying companies.
On the other hand, since this exploit seems to require physical access to the machine to be rooted, you might have some other security concerns to deal with at that point, like keeping the intruder from raiding your fridge on his way out. Malware arguably (one of the greatest scourges of modern computing) spreads by just that, local root vulnerabilities (also known as 'standard procedure' in the Windows community). What makes this exploit so useless, given that all the perpetrator has to do is send it out to enough people hoping just a few will run it?
It seems perfectly serious since one of the main security aspects of OS X is that root access is held sacred (as it should be) and malware is assumed to be 'stopped at the gate' by that policy.
Who's to say it's not distributed among many (possibly hundreds) of gateways. It seems a bit impractical to think that China's internet connectivity funnels through one single geographical point, much less through one physical device. That, or you were being sarcastic...
Only if you are making a wet/dry system, such as one that relies on phase change. If that's the case, it's refrigerant you want, and not alcohol (there is no real benefit to the vaporization unless the pressure swing is high). If you are doing closed loop all liquid, you want something that stays a liquid since vapor can't carry as much energy as liquid can given the same space. See automotive liquid cooling and refrigeration phase-change cooling for plenty of high-efficiency examples, none of which use alcohol or any similar substance.
This guy should NOT be a "components" ANYTHING with a world-class knucklehead observation like this:
Considering our components editor paid £50 for a single gigabyte of bulky storage just a couple of years ago, the inexorable march and miniaturisation of USB storage is plain to see. Jeepers! Only a few years in order for storage technology to get smaller, more capacious, and cheaper! Oh what wonders the future has brought!
That's an incredibly low estimate. The average household in 2001 (the latest data I could find on short notice, today's number is probably higher) bought a little over 1000 gallons of gas a year. Let's just plug in 3.69 a gallon and we arrive at $3690 per year, per household (on average) for gas. What's the median household income? before taxes, $45,016. We can then arrive at a good estimate, 8.1%. That's pre-tax; if you figured it on a slice of spendable income it would be even higher.
Maybe some day, hundreds of truckloads of shipments will be piloted by one (maybe two) people. Who knows, maybe there will be just one engine for a hundred containers, and it will be smart enough to generate energy very efficiently, regulate it's own speed, and react to hazards. Maybe they will even make special thoroughfares criss-crossing the nation, on which these super-movers of the future will ride on... The future is bright indeed! I just have one question: what might we call them?
Based on everything I have read (many Slashdot posts, rarely articles), the only person in your household who would implement a RFID tracking system for various objects would be your eldest son, granted that he has siblings. Also, there is a chance that your in-home child care provider would take interest in this. Why not ask them, and report back?
So riddle me this: Why are Terahertz waves limited to "between 300 gigahertz (3x1011 Hz) and 3 terahertz (3x1012 Hz)" according to the article? Wouldn't it make sense for the scale to start somewhere around 1 THz and run to about 999 THz, where it would then run into Petahertz? Just curious, TIA!
Dead on. If you really need a rackmount server, dell has low prices on single units that you can NOT beat. But the question remains, if you only need one why the heck are you getting a rackmount? Taking a serious look at your logic behind this decision is in order. Here is a start: they DO make server-class computers without 19" rack ears on them.
That can certainly work. Almost all modern cameras use specific folders for image storage and playback, something like/DCIM/seqnum. Simply put the important files outside this area, and they will never show up. Of course, the agents could ask for a copy of the entire flash disk, which is where encryption or additional subterfuge would come handy. For example, encrypting things in files with a.cr2 extension if you have a raw-capable canon camera.
The bottom line is that anyone who puts a little thought into this will have no problem disguising anything sensitive to the point where it doesn't pay to go looking for it. This measure, like ANY border protection measure, is merely a deterrent since it's obvious that you *possibly* could bring anything into or out of the country you wanted, but the risk of getting caught with it is equivalent to the govt's desire for it to stay outside the country.
Ah, the classic "you're so free you're oppressed" argument. Good point! I must be so oppressed since I have no guns, can't work and play wherever I choose, have no personal wealth, and can't speak out against the government, that I feel like I have freedom but am really under incredible tyranny! For god's sake, you are actually arguing that a country that completely suppresses the people's ability to be critical of the government is actually doing the right thing since, oh, the government is totally trustworthy and anything critical of them that people might want to say would only totally bum out the dictators. I would like to counter this with the saying "only when you are totally oppressed, can you find total freedom." Guess what, that's HORSE SHIT, you don't need to be oppressed to realize what freedom is, just like you don't need freedom to realize what oppression is. Your fun little quips about your pounds and your meters must get a rousing 'hurrah' at the local pub, but I wouldn't trade US freedom for British freedom any day of the week. Try again.
Tell that to Tibet... or this guy... Yes, a lot of China is prospering, but not all of it, and it's doing so at an incredible price. For one, the ecological impact of their "awesome 10% growth" is absolutely mind boggling to any western nation. Yes, China has it's good points and bad points, just like the US, the EU, etc. The one thing the "popular" nations have going for them is they freely let the people speak out in protest. This does not happen in China, there is widespread retribution on anyone who dissents, and no matter how you spin it this is a bad thing since if the government were to become untrustworthy (assuming it is even trustworthy now,) they would have no way of knowing. At least in an 'open' nation the cards are on the table and the people are free to hate on the poor leadership skills of their government; illegal detentions, poorly written and poorly enforced laws, and economic disparity aside.
can't anybody in the world use Jar-Jar Binks without legally infringing on Lucas' copyright, since Binks is a pre-packaged parody of himself? Your question brings up a less interesting but easier to answer question: Would anybody want to?
What happens when we suck the heat out of a 8,464 square mile area in the southwest? It gets colder! And if you're like me you fully believe that the next great climate change will be global cooling. I don't like where this is going...
Web two point oh. If you spend all day reading/posting on slashdot, you don't need a whole lot of CPU power (as long as you run adblock plus.) People have less and less use for big local apps, and more and more use for web based apps, so this is where demand is going. If it can post on slashdot, it's good enough for everyday use. If it gets 8 hours on a charge and has multi-band wi-fi and a little hard drive space for MP3s and pictures, it will get the job done for most users, most of the time.
Finally, if it's cheap enough to not really force a user to chose between owning a portable and owning a desktop (or better equipped portable) and instead they can have both, then you sir have a cash machine!
Someone has a cruuu-uush! Paris Hilton is of questionable intelligence, o let me count the ways: Instead of get a day job which would be very easy considering her family's name, she chooses to work strictly as a model/whore. She also chooses to have sex, on videotape, with men whom she barely knows, who think nothing of releasing those tapes to the public. Should I go on? She is a degenerate idiot because instead of prospering with the wealth and opportunities she has been give, she whores around, wastes money, and is only remotely capable of supporting herself thanks to certain men's attraction to unhealthily skinny women.
As many others have/will point out, Gimp is something of a joke. Hell, I find Paint.NET a better alternative to Photoshop than GIMP is. And it costs just as much! Sorry, but this is one case where FOSS severely lacks.
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Don't think that all Americans are as naive as CmdrTaco. I, for one, realize both that $4 for a gallon of gas isn't extravagant, and that the cost of a gallon of gas has little to do with global nuclear energy politics. McCain is simply following the Bush stance on 'alternative energy' which is to say, any alternative to oil that will net equally high profits for equally large, heavy lobbying companies.
It seems perfectly serious since one of the main security aspects of OS X is that root access is held sacred (as it should be) and malware is assumed to be 'stopped at the gate' by that policy.
Who's to say it's not distributed among many (possibly hundreds) of gateways. It seems a bit impractical to think that China's internet connectivity funnels through one single geographical point, much less through one physical device. That, or you were being sarcastic...
Only if you are making a wet/dry system, such as one that relies on phase change. If that's the case, it's refrigerant you want, and not alcohol (there is no real benefit to the vaporization unless the pressure swing is high). If you are doing closed loop all liquid, you want something that stays a liquid since vapor can't carry as much energy as liquid can given the same space. See automotive liquid cooling and refrigeration phase-change cooling for plenty of high-efficiency examples, none of which use alcohol or any similar substance.
That's an incredibly low estimate. The average household in 2001 (the latest data I could find on short notice, today's number is probably higher) bought a little over 1000 gallons of gas a year. Let's just plug in 3.69 a gallon and we arrive at $3690 per year, per household (on average) for gas. What's the median household income? before taxes, $45,016. We can then arrive at a good estimate, 8.1%. That's pre-tax; if you figured it on a slice of spendable income it would be even higher.
Maybe some day, hundreds of truckloads of shipments will be piloted by one (maybe two) people. Who knows, maybe there will be just one engine for a hundred containers, and it will be smart enough to generate energy very efficiently, regulate it's own speed, and react to hazards. Maybe they will even make special thoroughfares criss-crossing the nation, on which these super-movers of the future will ride on... The future is bright indeed! I just have one question: what might we call them?
Based on everything I have read (many Slashdot posts, rarely articles), the only person in your household who would implement a RFID tracking system for various objects would be your eldest son, granted that he has siblings. Also, there is a chance that your in-home child care provider would take interest in this. Why not ask them, and report back?
So riddle me this: Why are Terahertz waves limited to "between 300 gigahertz (3x1011 Hz) and 3 terahertz (3x1012 Hz)" according to the article? Wouldn't it make sense for the scale to start somewhere around 1 THz and run to about 999 THz, where it would then run into Petahertz? Just curious, TIA!
It's been in development for a while. Apparently this version has only been sold to the public since February '08.
Dead on. If you really need a rackmount server, dell has low prices on single units that you can NOT beat. But the question remains, if you only need one why the heck are you getting a rackmount? Taking a serious look at your logic behind this decision is in order. Here is a start: they DO make server-class computers without 19" rack ears on them.
That can certainly work. Almost all modern cameras use specific folders for image storage and playback, something like /DCIM/seqnum. Simply put the important files outside this area, and they will never show up. Of course, the agents could ask for a copy of the entire flash disk, which is where encryption or additional subterfuge would come handy. For example, encrypting things in files with a .cr2 extension if you have a raw-capable canon camera.
The bottom line is that anyone who puts a little thought into this will have no problem disguising anything sensitive to the point where it doesn't pay to go looking for it. This measure, like ANY border protection measure, is merely a deterrent since it's obvious that you *possibly* could bring anything into or out of the country you wanted, but the risk of getting caught with it is equivalent to the govt's desire for it to stay outside the country.
Ah, the classic "you're so free you're oppressed" argument. Good point! I must be so oppressed since I have no guns, can't work and play wherever I choose, have no personal wealth, and can't speak out against the government, that I feel like I have freedom but am really under incredible tyranny! For god's sake, you are actually arguing that a country that completely suppresses the people's ability to be critical of the government is actually doing the right thing since, oh, the government is totally trustworthy and anything critical of them that people might want to say would only totally bum out the dictators. I would like to counter this with the saying "only when you are totally oppressed, can you find total freedom." Guess what, that's HORSE SHIT, you don't need to be oppressed to realize what freedom is, just like you don't need freedom to realize what oppression is. Your fun little quips about your pounds and your meters must get a rousing 'hurrah' at the local pub, but I wouldn't trade US freedom for British freedom any day of the week. Try again.
Tell that to Tibet... or this guy... Yes, a lot of China is prospering, but not all of it, and it's doing so at an incredible price. For one, the ecological impact of their "awesome 10% growth" is absolutely mind boggling to any western nation. Yes, China has it's good points and bad points, just like the US, the EU, etc. The one thing the "popular" nations have going for them is they freely let the people speak out in protest. This does not happen in China, there is widespread retribution on anyone who dissents, and no matter how you spin it this is a bad thing since if the government were to become untrustworthy (assuming it is even trustworthy now,) they would have no way of knowing. At least in an 'open' nation the cards are on the table and the people are free to hate on the poor leadership skills of their government; illegal detentions, poorly written and poorly enforced laws, and economic disparity aside.
As long as he doesn't get treated like he resembled a terrorist, then he got off light!
Touche.
92 mi x 92 mi = 8464 sq mi
1 sq mi = 5280 ft x 5280 ft = 27,878,400 sq ft
8464 sq mi x 27.8m sq ft = 235,962,777,600 sq ft
235 trillion!
What happens when we suck the heat out of a 8,464 square mile area in the southwest? It gets colder! And if you're like me you fully believe that the next great climate change will be global cooling. I don't like where this is going...
Finally, if it's cheap enough to not really force a user to chose between owning a portable and owning a desktop (or better equipped portable) and instead they can have both, then you sir have a cash machine!
Could that have been, o i dunno, PETER NORTON??? Symantec is just exploiting the crap.
Someone has a cruuu-uush! Paris Hilton is of questionable intelligence, o let me count the ways: Instead of get a day job which would be very easy considering her family's name, she chooses to work strictly as a model/whore. She also chooses to have sex, on videotape, with men whom she barely knows, who think nothing of releasing those tapes to the public. Should I go on? She is a degenerate idiot because instead of prospering with the wealth and opportunities she has been give, she whores around, wastes money, and is only remotely capable of supporting herself thanks to certain men's attraction to unhealthily skinny women.
That fad went away just as fast as it appeared. Symmetry at its finest.
What do you expect? He is the very model of the modern Major General!
Oh God I'm old.
As many others have/will point out, Gimp is something of a joke. Hell, I find Paint.NET a better alternative to Photoshop than GIMP is. And it costs just as much! Sorry, but this is one case where FOSS severely lacks.