I've had something similar happen with my machine. I chalked it up to over-heating my video card or something. But all the thermal logging shows that the GPU and other key areas remain well below the threshold.
Often this happens playing TF2. The sound will loop, the monitor will go into stand-by mode (no signal). The hard drive light will intermittently flash. I have to reboot to get out of it. I've tried different keyboard combos to try and shutdown or logoff my session. They don't respond.
This is all on Win XP sp3
I have a feeling it's trying to blue screen, but the video driver is in some state that the DOS mode video blue screen can't write to the card.
A 60k bonus for a good 'lead' programmer working in the financial industry is very low. If your building a trading app for a hedge fund, your bonus better be in excess of 100k.
In the last five years I've worked solely on CMBS/ABS/REIT risk management software. Every system I built had overrides for building reports that went to investors. There was nothing 'shady' about it. Many of the more complex deals didn't fit a common template and needed an analyst to hard code in some value. Without the overrides, the reports would never total correctly or represent the true risk.
Yes, that analyst could have lied and used the override to mislead investors. This is where auditors come in.
I think it has to do with age. A large portion of us have been here from 1999'ish. That's 10 years ago. If we were 23 then, we're 33 now. If we were cynical then, imagine what we are now.
I've caught myself numerous times typing a reply to something and the cynicism was dripping from my fingers. To correct this, I just don't post much anymore.
The idea isn't to use laser power solely. The laser climber is for the early work when there's a very thin cable connecting the two points. Slowly, after year(s) of trips, the cable would be reinforced with more cables. Each new cable increases the tether capacity and allows a larger climber. Eventually lasers are ditched and the bigger climbers rely on other on board energy sources.
The team that ended up 'beating' Armadillo's accuracy was given an extra day of flights. This didn't make John Carmack or many others very happy. At the same time, people are more upset with what appears to be arbitrary judging than competition. I think any of the three final teams would have removed a part from their engine and loaned it to another team. In fact, during previous attempts this happened with RR and AA.
I don't think anyone is going to be surprised that I am unhappy about Masten getting a fourth shot at the level 2 prize. I understand that there is a desire to award all the prize money this year and be able to close the books on the LLC, but I don't think it is fair. If you can just call an abort each day, you can keep anyone else from flying. Three swings, three misses, time's up.
John Carmack
For the past couple weeks, as it became clear that Masten had a real shot at completing the level 2 Lunar Lander Challenge and bettering our landing accuracy, I have been kicking myself for not taking the competition more seriously and working on a better landing accuracy. If they pulled it off, I was prepared to congratulate them and give a bit of a sheepish mea culpa. Nobody to be upset at except myself. We could have probably made a second flight in the drizzle on our scheduled days, and once we had the roll thruster issue sorted out, our landing accuracy would have been in the 20cm range. I never thought it was worth investing in differential RTK GPS systems, because it has no bearing on our commercial operations.
The current situation, where Masten was allowed a third active day of competition, after trying and failing on both scheduled days, is different. I don't hold anything against Masten for using an additional time window that has been offered, since we wouldn't have passed it up if we were in their situation, but I do think this was a mistake on the judges part.
I recognize that it is in the best interests of both the NASA Centennial Challenges department and the X-Prize Foundation to award all the prize money this year, and that will likely have indirect benefits for us all in coming years. It is probably also beneficial to the nascent New Space industry to get more money to Masten than Armadillo, since we have other resources to draw upon. Permit me to be petty enough to be upset and bitter about a half million dollars being taken from me and given to my competitor.
The rules have given the judges the discretion to do just about anything up to and including awarding prize money for best effort if they felt it necessary, so there may not be any grounds to challenge this, but I do feel that we have been robbed. I was going to argue that if Masten was allowed to take a window on an unscheduled day with no notice, the judges should come back to Texas on Sunday and let us take our unused second window to try for a better accuracy, but our FAA waiver for the LLC vehicle was only valid for the weekend of our scheduled attempt.
My god the mod's today suck. All of these "Then don't leave yourself logged in" responses are getting +mod.
This attack has NOTHING to do with you leaving your session authenticated and open. It's about a boot-loader level phish scheme.
Basically, you come back to your laptop which you left off, you boot it up not noticing anything out of place, and you log in an unlock your drives. Meanwhile, little did you know that the intruder put a very small OS on to your laptop which runs your primary OS as a virtual OS. It's got low level hooks to all the basic INT's and can read any memory without chance of any program within your primary OS (now virtualized) detecting it.
Then you log off and go out to dinner. The maid comes in, boots up, hits a key-sequence, and dumps a log to a USB drive. In that log somewhere is your password to your encrypted drives. Game over dude... game fucking over.
Fire Fox has it's own Zero Day attack I got nailed with the XP Police 'anti-virus' by navigating to a url via FireFox. No additional clicking, no user-error, no accepting/running/allowing anything out of the ordinary. Simply watched page load then was infected.
I went back to the page in question with IE 8 and it wasn't vulnerable to whatever attacked FF 3.06.
The browser religion war is over and we've all lost to shoddy programming. You can always attempt to hide in the latest obscure OS/browser, but at some point you will be caught by someoneelses mistakes.
This has been a very active couple of days for MS stories. Lots of big things happening between layoffs and beta releases. Let's look at some facts though.
30% of the postings on any given page are given over to MS. That goes beyond happenstance and statistical probability, right into an obvious bent for the evil empire. An empire that never deserved ink in the first place.
Windows marketshare is 90%. IE's marketshare is 70% Slashdot users run somwhere between 47% and 70% MS Windows based OS.(http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1516&aid=-1, http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=848&aid=-1)
I think the gp was talking about using transparent quads with textures to fake complex graphics.
IE, branches of a tree are really just a texuture painted on a quad with bump-mapping. It's 2 polys, not 1000 it could be.
the article makes a reference to trying to speed up hit testing of transparent quads when shadow-casting.
Games/technology will continue this slow R&D followed by a quick jump in visuals for all games for the next 10 years. At some point, our power will be suffiecent enough that the tree will not be a fixed set of polygons, but simply a natrual algorithm that gets fed some seed values and outputs a line of triangle strips. Maybe you can even tell it just which part of the tree you want it to 'grow' and then render those triangles.
This will free us from games having a forced 'fixed' resolution based on whatever the graphic artist was told his poly limit was at the time.
Right idea, wrong tool. Use the MS Sysinternal Process Explorer & Process Monitor.
To see how to do this step by step: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/09/24/3126858.aspx That's a blog article about Mark Russsinovich tracking down why his wife's Vista went into slow-mode all of a sudden. He tracked it down to two things, Flash bug in IE, and a COM add-in from some media software. But how he figured it out is a very cool story. Well documented.
I this case, you would be safer at 3,000 feet than 30. As it has a built-in ballistic parachute.
I wonder what the minimum height is for an explosively launched parachute to slow you down to 'break a bone' speed from 'brain squezes out of eye sockets' speed.
War Games is a very shitty movie because it's a cookie-cutter Hollywood movie
So what holywood movie did you watch that followed this formula and came out before Wargames?
Boy accidentally hacks miltitary facility
Not unheard of at the time. You have to remeber, most of the initial security was through obsecurity. From a Phreaking perspective, this was right on. You really did setup your wardialer and got o school. You'd run home and read a print out and die for some sort of "LOGIN>" prompt. This movie came just over the initial peak of phreaking. You had people blowing Captain Krunch certail box toy whistles into operators ears and taking over the phone line. You had groups setting up loops where people could do party/chat lines. All this before Teh Internet. This movie touched on a lot of those techniques. From him re-playing tones to the door code pad, to him making a free call from the phone booth.
As for the mad-AI named 'joshua' in the War Operations Planned Response, well it is a movie.
Could all the nukes be tied to one machine? Sure. Were they talking about removing the human link from nuclear response in the late 70s/80s? Yeah. The thought was, if we tell the Soviets, hey, any detection of incoming missles by you will automatically be responded to by our computer, without chance of fail... well, then they are less likely to lob a nuke at us. It was considered. The problem lies in false detections.
the computer understands that thermonuclear war can only result in all parties losing(why can't they simply command him to stop? Is his designer so much a dickwad that the computer does whatever it wants to do?).
The whole point of the WOPR was to remove humans from the descision to launch nuclear weapons. Making the system fullproof in the eyes of the designer, so that Russia would know it would never win a first-strike attack. Thus, no, you can't tell it to stop. If you have a chance to ovverride the system, it's not fullproof, and the ruskies will take that as a weakness and take a shot at us. So the thought went.
Wow, I never thought I'd have to explain or defend Wargames on Slashdot of all places. Maybe Slashdot should make a SlashdotOldSchool and migrate SELECT * FROM Users WHERE DOB = 1/1/1975 into it.
The brain will retain all it's information as long as all the cells representing that info don't die. It could technically be 'off' for 4-6 mins, before the cells start to shrivel up and die. Longer if everything was cooled off and running slower.
I guess in this sense it's very similiar to DRAM, in that as long as you refresh the cells with power (oxygen + other nutrients) now and again it'll retain it's 'information state'.
Slashdot Mirror
Only reason I got a kindle was the e-ink display. I think I get about 5 TPN*/battery change [Terry Pratchet Novels].
If only I could leave a recipe open for more than 10 minutes w/o the stupid screen saver like image coming on.
They do. Blackwater offers maritime protection services. And they will use choppers or other boats to load/offload their teams and equipment.
It's a bean counting issue. Risk vs cost.
I've had something similar happen with my machine. I chalked it up to over-heating my video card or something. But all the thermal logging shows that the GPU and other key areas remain well below the threshold.
Often this happens playing TF2. The sound will loop, the monitor will go into stand-by mode (no signal). The hard drive light will intermittently flash. I have to reboot to get out of it. I've tried different keyboard combos to try and shutdown or logoff my session. They don't respond.
This is all on Win XP sp3
I have a feeling it's trying to blue screen, but the video driver is in some state that the DOS mode video blue screen can't write to the card.
Hey nerd... she's hitting on you.
A 60k bonus for a good 'lead' programmer working in the financial industry is very low. If your building a trading app for a hedge fund, your bonus better be in excess of 100k.
In the last five years I've worked solely on CMBS/ABS/REIT risk management software. Every system I built had overrides for building reports that went to investors. There was nothing 'shady' about it. Many of the more complex deals didn't fit a common template and needed an analyst to hard code in some value. Without the overrides, the reports would never total correctly or represent the true risk.
Yes, that analyst could have lied and used the override to mislead investors. This is where auditors come in.
Don't blame the software, or the programmers.
He published in "Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence" and it's cited in the ACM portal. Who cares what Wiki has or doesn't have.
This wasn't some geocities page with talk about a language that was never developed.
No, his is simply "Go!" with an exclamation. See: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=998367
Google is screwed, they'll need to change their name for this language or buy this guy off. If they ignore this guy they'll look like a bully.
It's amazing no one at Google did a search go "Go Programming Language"
I think it has to do with age. A large portion of us have been here from 1999'ish. That's 10 years ago. If we were 23 then, we're 33 now. If we were cynical then, imagine what we are now.
I've caught myself numerous times typing a reply to something and the cynicism was dripping from my fingers. To correct this, I just don't post much anymore.
Here, let me fix this for you:
Put the <blockquote> here....
Put the </blockquote> here....
Now people won't think you are the retard that you quoted.
The idea isn't to use laser power solely. The laser climber is for the early work when there's a very thin cable connecting the two points. Slowly, after year(s) of trips, the cable would be reinforced with more cables. Each new cable increases the tether capacity and allows a larger climber. Eventually lasers are ditched and the bigger climbers rely on other on board energy sources.
The team that ended up 'beating' Armadillo's accuracy was given an extra day of flights. This didn't make John Carmack or many others very happy. At the same time, people are more upset with what appears to be arbitrary judging than competition. I think any of the three final teams would have removed a part from their engine and loaned it to another team. In fact, during previous attempts this happened with RR and AA.
You can watch the Unresonable Rocket guys compete live right now.... http://space.xprize.org/lunar-lander-challenge
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22blocks+terahertz+radiation%22
Fixed that for you
My god the mod's today suck. All of these "Then don't leave yourself logged in" responses are getting +mod.
This attack has NOTHING to do with you leaving your session authenticated and open. It's about a boot-loader level phish scheme.
Basically, you come back to your laptop which you left off, you boot it up not noticing anything out of place, and you log in an unlock your drives. Meanwhile, little did you know that the intruder put a very small OS on to your laptop which runs your primary OS as a virtual OS. It's got low level hooks to all the basic INT's and can read any memory without chance of any program within your primary OS (now virtualized) detecting it.
Then you log off and go out to dinner. The maid comes in, boots up, hits a key-sequence, and dumps a log to a USB drive. In that log somewhere is your password to your encrypted drives. Game over dude... game fucking over.
Fire Fox has it's own Zero Day attack
I got nailed with the XP Police 'anti-virus' by navigating to a url via FireFox. No additional clicking, no user-error, no accepting/running/allowing anything out of the ordinary. Simply watched page load then was infected.
I went back to the page in question with IE 8 and it wasn't vulnerable to whatever attacked FF 3.06.
The browser religion war is over and we've all lost to shoddy programming. You can always attempt to hide in the latest obscure OS/browser, but at some point you will be caught by someoneelses mistakes.
This has been a very active couple of days for MS stories. Lots of big things happening between layoffs and beta releases.
Let's look at some facts though.
Windows marketshare is 90%.
IE's marketshare is 70%
Slashdot users run somwhere between 47% and 70% MS Windows based OS.(http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1516&aid=-1, http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=848&aid=-1)
In the last four days Slashdot has had 9 MS stories ( source: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=109)
In the last four days Slashdot has has 97 stories posted ( source: http://slashdot.org/search.pl )
What percentage of stories about MS have run in the past four days?
9/97 = 0.092 * 100 = 9.2%
Facts hardly look as bad as you make them out to be.
I think the gp was talking about using transparent quads with textures to fake complex graphics.
IE, branches of a tree are really just a texuture painted on a quad with bump-mapping. It's 2 polys, not 1000 it could be.
the article makes a reference to trying to speed up hit testing of transparent quads when shadow-casting.
Games/technology will continue this slow R&D followed by a quick jump in visuals for all games for the next 10 years. At some point, our power will be suffiecent enough that the tree will not be a fixed set of polygons, but simply a natrual algorithm that gets fed some seed values and outputs a line of triangle strips. Maybe you can even tell it just which part of the tree you want it to 'grow' and then render those triangles.
This will free us from games having a forced 'fixed' resolution based on whatever the graphic artist was told his poly limit was at the time.
Right idea, wrong tool. Use the MS Sysinternal Process Explorer & Process Monitor.
To see how to do this step by step:
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/09/24/3126858.aspx
That's a blog article about Mark Russsinovich tracking down why his wife's Vista went into slow-mode all of a sudden. He tracked it down to two things, Flash bug in IE, and a COM add-in from some media software. But how he figured it out is a very cool story. Well documented.
ha ha ha... FAIL.
Read more.
By posting in the conversation your moderations are rolled back.
You need to add:
to your cstrike.exe command line.
That will prevent any of the OS level mouse tweaking from interfering with CS. That is your multi-computer-mouse-sensitivity-rosetta-stone.
I this case, you would be safer at 3,000 feet than 30. As it has a built-in ballistic parachute.
I wonder what the minimum height is for an explosively launched parachute to slow you down to 'break a bone' speed from 'brain squezes out of eye sockets' speed.
I'm going to guess you are about 20 years old.
So what holywood movie did you watch that followed this formula and came out before Wargames?
Boy accidentally hacks miltitary facility
Not unheard of at the time. You have to remeber, most of the initial security was through obsecurity. From a Phreaking perspective, this was right on. You really did setup your wardialer and got o school. You'd run home and read a print out and die for some sort of "LOGIN>" prompt.
This movie came just over the initial peak of phreaking. You had people blowing Captain Krunch certail box toy whistles into operators ears and taking over the phone line. You had groups setting up loops where people could do party/chat lines. All this before Teh Internet. This movie touched on a lot of those techniques. From him re-playing tones to the door code pad, to him making a free call from the phone booth.
As for the mad-AI named 'joshua' in the War Operations Planned Response, well it is a movie.
Could all the nukes be tied to one machine? Sure. Were they talking about removing the human link from nuclear response in the late 70s/80s? Yeah. The thought was, if we tell the Soviets, hey, any detection of incoming missles by you will automatically be responded to by our computer, without chance of fail... well, then they are less likely to lob a nuke at us. It was considered. The problem lies in false detections.
The whole point of the WOPR was to remove humans from the descision to launch nuclear weapons. Making the system fullproof in the eyes of the designer, so that Russia would know it would never win a first-strike attack. Thus, no, you can't tell it to stop. If you have a chance to ovverride the system, it's not fullproof, and the ruskies will take that as a weakness and take a shot at us. So the thought went.
Wow, I never thought I'd have to explain or defend Wargames on Slashdot of all places. Maybe Slashdot should make a SlashdotOldSchool and migrate SELECT * FROM Users WHERE DOB = 1/1/1975 into it.
WARNING OBLIGATORY POSTING
"Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
The brain will retain all it's information as long as all the cells representing that info don't die. It could technically be 'off' for 4-6 mins, before the cells start to shrivel up and die. Longer if everything was cooled off and running slower.
I guess in this sense it's very similiar to DRAM, in that as long as you refresh the cells with power (oxygen + other nutrients) now and again it'll retain it's 'information state'.