Some banks in Sweden signs the online-transaction with a key generated by a standalone card reader where you enter a security token + date + amount + pin. The key generated is unique for your specific transaction and cannot be hijacked.
The downside is that there's a bunch of numbers to input on the card reader but I would say it's almost foolproof security-wise.
If your IT department is supporting user-created macros then your company has a lot bigger problems than what brand of office software you use.
If you look at any larger company that uses MS Office their IT department usually has to support these types of solutions one way or another (ie. officially/unofficially).
I abhor the use of macros in Excel because companies that use Excel usually ends up building datamining tools or some complex spreadsheets that calculate whatnot related to their business. They are usually a big mess of macros and VBA that ends up being supported by the internal IT-department and is one big headache. And just to make it more fun they can have some badly implemented Access "database" coupled to the spreadsheets.
Being able to do macros and/or script applications is usually a good thing since it can automate a lot of tedious work, and if properly implemented it wouldn't be a problem, but the majority of "applications" in Excel is just horrific in my experience. Usually someone makes something "nifty" then it spreads to the whole department and suddenly it's something that has to be supported and the feature creep sets in.
Basically Google want to offset the search cost because they loose the income for the ads when a 3rd party access the search engine directly. And the labels acts surprised that they have to pay for a service.
It's funny how the labels and all the rest of the copyright lobby want to move the policing of pirated material to ISP's and search-providers and not to pay for it. I guess it's a bit of a rude awakening to have to start paying for things when you have had a free ride for decades.
So, by that definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis can be regarded as containing indecent photographs, and thus it will be labeled as "child porn". Or having pictures of your grandchildren playing naked on the beach. BAH!
I hate the word indecent, because it doesn't really define something objectively. For the moral self appointed high-guard indecent can mean a knee-length skirt, and a knee-length skirt can be porn for a leg fetishist but average Joe doesn't really give a flying f*ck about the morality of skirt-lengths and any possible indecency.
Couldn't agree more. I travel a lot so I load up my laptop with stuff I want to read or watch since I rarely have the luxury or time to watch a show on someone else's schedule.
There is a reason why TV-Shows lag behind in countries outside USA. The cost to acquire broadcasting rights for a show can be quite steep and some networks want to be sure they buy a show with good ratings so they can recoup the cost by selling commercials during the show.
But then, I think a new show could be sold at a discount in the beginning so you get more networks interested and if it gets popular you can remove or reduce the discount as time pass and the popularity of the show increases. There's several examples of shows that was only produced one season of or perhaps just 12-13 episodes that had poor ratings in the USA but got good or great ratings abroad when they sold the rights for them very cheap.
VMWare for example uses a virtual I/O-port (just google 0x564D5868)in the VM to communicate with the process running the VM. If you can communicate with the VM there stands to reason you probably can break out of it.
The only way to be sure your computer is safe is to unplug it.
And here I thought that the Chinese and some oil-nations propped up the USA economy by buying bonds and treasure bills from the USA.
A year ago USA needed to borrow 2.8 billion USD a day to keep the economy from tanking. The total gross debt of 2008 where 9.98 trillion USD which is 70% of the GDP.
Anyone who thinks that China needs financial support from the USA needs a reality check and to stop listening to biased news. USA is in deep dodo financially.
An assembler/compiler doesn't necessarily use a high-level language input.
In this instance they (as you say) 'takes as input executable machine code and generates executable machine code with a very narrowly-defined statistical property' which tells me they have an assembler that reads executable code and assembles executable code that looks like English text, in other words an assembler.
And how do you suppose they generate the text then? They have a system they train with text pulled from various sources, then they use it to generate an innocent looking text that can be executed with a predicted result, no? In other words, an assembler/compiler....
See, I did read the pdf....
Btw, I missed that there where 4 researchers, not 3...
I kinda find it funny that you need to have adblock and flashblock to visit a site named TrustedReviews so your browser doesn't go into a tailspin... It's like having Sid Fernwilter smile at you and say "Trust me!"
Anyway, 192kbps MP3's is good enough for most people so I don't really see the point with FLAC unless you are an audiophile which means you don't touch encoded/compressed music anyway.
To build more solar panels? You print some more off the reel and slap them on to glass. You park the panels in the desert and leave them alone for 25 years. Maybe a simple robot wipes them off occasionally.
There's no liability, or need for exhaustive quality control. If a panel fails prematurely, you pay a warranty claim.
Inherently, solar is going to always be cheaper for the foreseeable future.
You miss one important thing that most people do and that's the powergrid today can't utilize solarpower efficiently. The grid is built for steady generation and steady consumption. To be able to use solar power effeciently you have to build energystorages where the surplus are stored during daytime and then discharged during night. This costs money.
It's basicly the same with any source of energy that has an output that's intermittent.
The good thing about solar/wind/wave etc. is that we can use it to lessen the need for more nuclear/coal energy, but even easier is to use less energy.
You know there is no problem sustaining a fusion reaction with todays tech, the problem is sustaining a fusion reaction that has a net surplus of energy.
There are even tabletop fusionreactors that are used as a source of neutrons.
The point of this tech is to scale the fusionreactor up so you get alot of neutrons to bombard the sludge, the fusion doesn't need to generate any energy.
Turn off the "Automaticly search for network folders and printers" in the folder settings tab and Windows will run much smoother, otherwise it will iterate through everything listed in "My network places" everytime you get a file dialog (and when an office program tries to open a file).
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Some banks in Sweden signs the online-transaction with a key generated by a standalone card reader where you enter a security token + date + amount + pin. The key generated is unique for your specific transaction and cannot be hijacked.
The downside is that there's a bunch of numbers to input on the card reader but I would say it's almost foolproof security-wise.
Obligatory: http://www.savagechickens.com/2010/11/bad-people.html
It's quite funny how many paradoxes there are in BTTF, and still they managed to put in some truly obscure consistency: http://www.thevrabec.com/2010/07/12/back-to-the-future-you-certainly-havent-noticed-this/
If your IT department is supporting user-created macros then your company has a lot bigger problems than what brand of office software you use.
If you look at any larger company that uses MS Office their IT department usually has to support these types of solutions one way or another (ie. officially/unofficially).
I abhor the use of macros in Excel because companies that use Excel usually ends up building datamining tools or some complex spreadsheets that calculate whatnot related to their business. They are usually a big mess of macros and VBA that ends up being supported by the internal IT-department and is one big headache. And just to make it more fun they can have some badly implemented Access "database" coupled to the spreadsheets.
Being able to do macros and/or script applications is usually a good thing since it can automate a lot of tedious work, and if properly implemented it wouldn't be a problem, but the majority of "applications" in Excel is just horrific in my experience. Usually someone makes something "nifty" then it spreads to the whole department and suddenly it's something that has to be supported and the feature creep sets in.
That's my experience anyway.
Basically Google want to offset the search cost because they loose the income for the ads when a 3rd party access the search engine directly. And the labels acts surprised that they have to pay for a service.
It's funny how the labels and all the rest of the copyright lobby want to move the policing of pirated material to ISP's and search-providers and not to pay for it. I guess it's a bit of a rude awakening to have to start paying for things when you have had a free ride for decades.
So, by that definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis can be regarded as containing indecent photographs, and thus it will be labeled as "child porn". Or having pictures of your grandchildren playing naked on the beach. BAH!
I hate the word indecent, because it doesn't really define something objectively. For the moral self appointed high-guard indecent can mean a knee-length skirt, and a knee-length skirt can be porn for a leg fetishist but average Joe doesn't really give a flying f*ck about the morality of skirt-lengths and any possible indecency.
I've stopped using anything that has a WD disk, they tend to fail too often, but not as bad as Maxtor.
For some reason I feel like deleting any post containing the letter-combination "tweet".
Oops.. Dang, then I have to delete this post... Aaargh...
Couldn't agree more. I've tried to setup NX a couple of times and every time I ended up using RDP, VNC or a Xnest solution instead.
But perhaps the problems with FreeNX is due to the fact that NoMachine also has a commercial version that they want to push.
Couldn't agree more. I travel a lot so I load up my laptop with stuff I want to read or watch since I rarely have the luxury or time to watch a show on someone else's schedule.
There is a reason why TV-Shows lag behind in countries outside USA. The cost to acquire broadcasting rights for a show can be quite steep and some networks want to be sure they buy a show with good ratings so they can recoup the cost by selling commercials during the show.
But then, I think a new show could be sold at a discount in the beginning so you get more networks interested and if it gets popular you can remove or reduce the discount as time pass and the popularity of the show increases. There's several examples of shows that was only produced one season of or perhaps just 12-13 episodes that had poor ratings in the USA but got good or great ratings abroad when they sold the rights for them very cheap.
VMWare for example uses a virtual I/O-port (just google 0x564D5868)in the VM to communicate with the process running the VM.
If you can communicate with the VM there stands to reason you probably can break out of it.
The only way to be sure your computer is safe is to unplug it.
There are ways to detect that you are running in a VM and to break out of it to exploit the underlying OS.
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And here I thought that the Chinese and some oil-nations propped up the USA economy by buying bonds and treasure bills from the USA.
A year ago USA needed to borrow 2.8 billion USD a day to keep the economy from tanking. The total gross debt of 2008 where 9.98 trillion USD which is 70% of the GDP.
Anyone who thinks that China needs financial support from the USA needs a reality check and to stop listening to biased news.
USA is in deep dodo financially.
And who defines what the assembly is? The ones writing the assembler. Sheesh..
An assembler/compiler doesn't necessarily use a high-level language input.
In this instance they (as you say) 'takes as input executable machine code and generates executable machine code with a very narrowly-defined statistical property' which tells me they have an assembler that reads executable code and assembles executable code that looks like English text, in other words an assembler.
And how do you suppose they generate the text then? They have a system they train with text pulled from various sources, then they use it to generate an innocent looking text that can be executed with a predicted result, no? In other words, an assembler/compiler....
See, I did read the pdf....
Btw, I missed that there where 4 researchers, not 3...
...3 researchers develops their own x86-assembler.
I kinda find it funny that you need to have adblock and flashblock to visit a site named TrustedReviews so your browser doesn't go into a tailspin... It's like having Sid Fernwilter smile at you and say "Trust me!"
Anyway, 192kbps MP3's is good enough for most people so I don't really see the point with FLAC unless you are an audiophile which means you don't touch encoded/compressed music anyway.
You can always try INM (http://www.intellipool.se/).
It's quite feature rich and it's worth a look.
To build more solar panels? You print some more off the reel and slap them on to glass. You park the panels in the desert and leave them alone for 25 years. Maybe a simple robot wipes them off occasionally.
There's no liability, or need for exhaustive quality control. If a panel fails prematurely, you pay a warranty claim.
Inherently, solar is going to always be cheaper for the foreseeable future.
You miss one important thing that most people do and that's the powergrid today can't utilize solarpower efficiently. The grid is built for steady generation and steady consumption. To be able to use solar power effeciently you have to build energystorages where the surplus are stored during daytime and then discharged during night. This costs money.
It's basicly the same with any source of energy that has an output that's intermittent.
The good thing about solar/wind/wave etc. is that we can use it to lessen the need for more nuclear/coal energy, but even easier is to use less energy.
You know there is no problem sustaining a fusion reaction with todays tech, the problem is sustaining a fusion reaction that has a net surplus of energy.
There are even tabletop fusionreactors that are used as a source of neutrons.
The point of this tech is to scale the fusionreactor up so you get alot of neutrons to bombard the sludge, the fusion doesn't need to generate any energy.
Turn off the "Automaticly search for network folders and printers" in the folder settings tab and Windows will run much smoother, otherwise it will iterate through everything listed in "My network places" everytime you get a file dialog (and when an office program tries to open a file).
Dyslectics'R'Us ...
Did it too.. =)