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# Number of sites: 0 - 2
# Geographical distribution: Low
# Threat containment: Easy
# Removal: Moderate
Yes, proof of concepts are usually converted to full blown viruses/worms/trojans pretty quickly, but I see a number of mitigating factors for this kind of attack:
Bluetooth has a 30 ft range.
by shorting battery life users will be less likely to carry it to remote systems (a dead phone cannot transmit it).
Bluetooth connections must be accepted.
The file also must be accepted.
It is very similar to a virus being spread by email attachments. Most likely the only fix for this would be a stronger warning on the phone when a file is being passed from a Bluetooth connection.
A 6 meg mailbox isn't all that rare, what is rare is a "first name" userid like John (not mine!). Besides how could you " proved how '1337'" you are with some thing that can only be shown on your screen? Personally, I'm glad to have my yahoo account upgraded from 6 to 100 MB. I have other ways to prove my grandness, like a lower Slashdot UserId than you:-)
I figured that the GameSpot site would kick off my company's web filter (don't want to do that too often!; "This site is catagorized as games, this has been logged") so I checked the other sources only to find this slashdot article as the top result. Recursive linking at it's best!
Tom's Hardware had a blurb:
"Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved," said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime."
Who needs security when you have rabid fans. Perhaps companies should post rewards for tips leading to convictions.
I keep my flash drive on my keychain, but the loop is on the drive, and for a while it didn't seem like a good idea. Then I thought of using a keychain separator (I found this after a quick seach to show what they look like, you can find one at home depot). Now it works great and I don't have to worry about loosing everything but the cap.
I always thought it was funny that the "full speed" wasn't actually USB 2.0's full speed, but more like one-fiftieth speed.
Typical short sighted naming problem. Full speed, was the "full speed" of the older spec, but now we have hi-speed thanks to the 2.0 spec. So for USB 3.0 we'll have "super speed" (or whatever they call it),as well as supporting "hi-speed", "full speed" and "low speed". The real problem is that they can call a drive "USB 2.0" and only support up to the "full speed" of the 1.0 spec.
Now that's one way to break into China market, I wouldn't be surprised if this game becomes a big underground hit there.
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Yes, you have "missed something" the National Atlas (a service of the USGS) is clearly public domain material. As is (I think) all published government sources. In fact, most of what the map makers do is based on government surveys and publications. The companies do some fact checking(some better than others), add "features", and consolidate information, but the 'base' work is often public domain.
While I agree with your conclusion, about being "a lot more selective and realistic about the returns". I have to disagree with...
Five or ten years ago, things were evolving so quickly that a company that was year ahead of the curve had a huge advantage over a company that was a year behind the curve
What about Google, they were a 'late' entry into the seach market business, and yet look at them now. One of the biggest problems with the 'bubble mentality' was that people thought that IT itself was the strategy; In reality it never was, except in the minds of Wall Street. The 'brass ring' goes to companies which correctly leverage IT, included new technologies. Being first to market with an idea can still help, but I believe the being "Best to Market" is what companies need to shoot for.
Now that's one way to take over a seanic vista! I can't really tell from the photo, but that must have been one great view from up the valley. The constuction site has some good photos, but the server will die soon.
Just for the record, this is slashdot, that would be "Morals == Profit". Otherwise you are making morals equal to profit, which is the opposite of what I think you trying to say (perhaps you did mean it that way; I'm having a little touble with meaning today; either way it was funny).
All businesses, like society in general have a moral climate, due to the nature of their business some companies can tolerate a poor climate, but a creative business in particular needs happy workers. I believe it's obvious that Eisner can't (or won't) do what he needs to do to keep them in the organization (Pixar for example).
I get your point now, I associated the grandparent as talking about a type of oven, when in realility he (or she, but almost certainly a he) was talking about the type of heat rather than the type of oven.
Sometimes it helps to re-read the post one is replying to before hitting submit
((shouting to the heavens)) O, burn me, great masters of Karma, I have sinned and must repent !!
((poster retacts and slinks slowly under the bridge))
Both standard ovens and fan ovens are convection ovens.
Are you sure?
Although both of these ovens use convection to carry heat, only one of them has the word "convection" in its name. The difference between them is that while a standard oven waits for natural convection to move heat slowly from the heat source to the food, a convection oven uses a fan to drive heat rapidly from source to food. -- Physics central
Baking is done with convection from the bottom burner, boriling done with radiation from the top burner
It might be a spelling error, but there is a big difference between a convection oven and a conventional oven. A conventional over uses heat radiated from the bottom of the stove, but a convection oven uses fans to distribute heat evenly (it's particularly good for baking). Many stoves have a broiler at the bottom of the stove, but comercial kitchens will usually have a special purpose broiler unit.
On household stoves, broiling is usually done at the highest setting and that's probally why many people associate it with 'a very high temp', but the definition is " To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element." -- dictionary.com
There one good thing about the idea to have the FCC regulate VoIP communications, it would be a federal offense for Comcast to reduce the quality of their service or to restrict access. I am sure that Anti-Trust legislation would apply as well.
MIT nerds get the best of Vegas, yes your right, even with proper card counting, you can find yourself in a losing streak, but "proper" play statisticly eliminates failure (thus it is a "proven" way to consistantly win money.
A whale identified as a regular winner, especially if it involves suspected card-counting, is not just banished from one casino. His or her picture, description, and other identifying traits are dispatched to gambling operations around the globe in a fat volume known as the Griffin Book. Every member of the MIT Blackjack Team is in it.
On a related subject there is a way to always win at every game that is without a betting limit, and were the odds means double your money (like black or red on Roulette):
Start by betting a dollar
if you lose, double your bet and add one dollar
repeat until you win that damn dollar.
Few people have had the balls to try that one, and it's sure not a way to quick money (you only win $1 more than you lost in any given "round").
It's not the building codes which inhibit the construction of underground homes, it's the market. Because below-grade areas are of less value than above-grade areas (in part because of flooding concerns), banks are unwilling to loan money on houses which have a significant portion of the living space below ground.
If you want to build your "dream cave" you'll need to do it with your own money, and good luck selling it, potential buyers will have a hard time getting a loan to build it.
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Eisner turned Disney around in the eighties...
This is the same guy who...
...authored an internal memo at Paramount in 1982 that read: "We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective." -- (eonline)
The trouble with that kind of attitude is that eventually you will bleed a creative company dry of any morals, and once the morals are gone profits tend to dry up shortly afterwards as sensitive creative people need a "good home". A big part of Disney's growth in the 90's was fueled by purchases funded by stock market growth, which is far more artifical than the "organic" growth for which Disney was perviously known.
Creating names for a new technology is just the first step, next you'll have to publish a book on it and then go on a lecture tour!
If you are working in a corporation, you'll need to create a power point presentation and present that to the board. Be sure to say that it will (without giving any "real data") increase ROI (Return on Investment) by allowing greater reuse of code (+ 2 or 3 more of the latest catch phrases). If you haven't done that without results more than twice before, you'll be in for a promotion
Seriously, I don't see any use for it. Why do you need portability between languages? Perhaps this would be useful for someone who wants to run a program in AppleTalk and DotNet for the same deployment, but why not run it in Java (for portability) or C(++)(for speed). This is a solution in search of a problem!
Yes, your right IF you choose the right machine, you have a greater chance of winning. It works the same way with the lottery. The only difference is with the lottery, you know what the payoff would be. With a particular machine, there is only one way to know, watch it like a hawk. Trouble is someone has to load that jackpot, and when they give up the machine is up to them (and their wallet). Besides, I don't know if security would let you pull up a chair and wait.
I don't know where your getting your figures, but they sound right...
but I am sure that they are the "average" from all the machines which are over that $1000 jackpot, the casino knows which ones they are, you don't. Also that $6/hour can represnt one YIPPEE all day and even if you play the right machines you are more likely to be a loser than a winner.
The only way someone could consistantly make money with this is to hire a bunch of people (and fund them) to pull "the right" machines (assuming that you could identify them). Considering you couldn't pay them more than $6/hour, they'd be better off working at Micky D's.
To sum it up, analysis of a real statisical advantage does not include the words "If" or "luck".
While there are proven ways to consistantly win at black-jack, if you get good at them they will backlist you, but they *love* people who try! I have read about Video poker strategies but they never leave you with a statisical advantage, plus I will bet that if you do figure out one, they will have it closed in a week, or black list you.
It always kills me the people walk into huge multi-million dollar structures, expecting to win. On a side note, the worst thing that can happen to a new player is to win, because after that they will always expect to beat the odds.
I like poker and pick up games of craps, few people really know the odds.
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- Bluetooth has a 30 ft range.
- by shorting battery life users will be less likely to carry it to remote systems (a dead phone cannot transmit it).
- Bluetooth connections must be accepted.
- The file also must be accepted.
It is very similar to a virus being spread by email attachments. Most likely the only fix for this would be a stronger warning on the phone when a file is being passed from a Bluetooth connection.A 6 meg mailbox isn't all that rare, what is rare is a "first name" userid like John (not mine!). Besides how could you " proved how '1337'" you are with some thing that can only be shown on your screen? Personally, I'm glad to have my yahoo account upgraded from 6 to 100 MB. I have other ways to prove my grandness, like a lower Slashdot UserId than you :-)
That's called "Tidal Power", you can find more info here, or here (pdf), or here
I was # 20526, not bad, I even checked the server statics. Of course it only seems to show up those two pages.
Tom's Hardware had a blurb:
Who needs security when you have rabid fans. Perhaps companies should post rewards for tips leading to convictions.I keep my flash drive on my keychain, but the loop is on the drive, and for a while it didn't seem like a good idea. Then I thought of using a keychain separator (I found this after a quick seach to show what they look like, you can find one at home depot). Now it works great and I don't have to worry about loosing everything but the cap.
The value of pi is "like" 3 according to the bible! Apparently God only likes dealing in round numbers too.
Now that's one way to break into China market, I wouldn't be surprised if this game becomes a big underground hit there.
Yes, you have "missed something" the National Atlas (a service of the USGS) is clearly public domain material. As is (I think) all published government sources. In fact, most of what the map makers do is based on government surveys and publications. The companies do some fact checking(some better than others), add "features", and consolidate information, but the 'base' work is often public domain.
What about Google, they were a 'late' entry into the seach market business, and yet look at them now. One of the biggest problems with the 'bubble mentality' was that people thought that IT itself was the strategy; In reality it never was, except in the minds of Wall Street. The 'brass ring' goes to companies which correctly leverage IT, included new technologies. Being first to market with an idea can still help, but I believe the being "Best to Market" is what companies need to shoot for.
Now that's one way to take over a seanic vista! I can't really tell from the photo, but that must have been one great view from up the valley. The constuction site has some good photos, but the server will die soon.
All businesses, like society in general have a moral climate, due to the nature of their business some companies can tolerate a poor climate, but a creative business in particular needs happy workers. I believe it's obvious that Eisner can't (or won't) do what he needs to do to keep them in the organization (Pixar for example).
Sometimes it helps to re-read the post one is replying to before hitting submit
((shouting to the heavens)) O, burn me, great masters of Karma, I have sinned and must repent !!
((poster retacts and slinks slowly under the bridge))
On household stoves, broiling is usually done at the highest setting and that's probally why many people associate it with 'a very high temp', but the definition is " To cook by direct radiant heat, as over a grill or under an electric element." -- dictionary.com
There one good thing about the idea to have the FCC regulate VoIP communications, it would be a federal offense for Comcast to reduce the quality of their service or to restrict access. I am sure that Anti-Trust legislation would apply as well.
On a related subject there is a way to always win at every game that is without a betting limit, and were the odds means double your money (like black or red on Roulette):
- Start by betting a dollar
- if you lose, double your bet and add one dollar
- repeat until you win that damn dollar.
Few people have had the balls to try that one, and it's sure not a way to quick money (you only win $1 more than you lost in any given "round").If you want to build your "dream cave" you'll need to do it with your own money, and good luck selling it, potential buyers will have a hard time getting a loan to build it.
I am not sure about the show order, but that must have been before they moved the town to escape the garbage.
If you are working in a corporation, you'll need to create a power point presentation and present that to the board. Be sure to say that it will (without giving any "real data") increase ROI (Return on Investment) by allowing greater reuse of code (+ 2 or 3 more of the latest catch phrases). If you haven't done that without results more than twice before, you'll be in for a promotion
Seriously, I don't see any use for it. Why do you need portability between languages? Perhaps this would be useful for someone who wants to run a program in AppleTalk and DotNet for the same deployment, but why not run it in Java (for portability) or C(++)(for speed). This is a solution in search of a problem!
Yes, your right IF you choose the right machine, you have a greater chance of winning. It works the same way with the lottery. The only difference is with the lottery, you know what the payoff would be. With a particular machine, there is only one way to know, watch it like a hawk. Trouble is someone has to load that jackpot, and when they give up the machine is up to them (and their wallet). Besides, I don't know if security would let you pull up a chair and wait.
I don't know where your getting your figures, but they sound right...
but I am sure that they are the "average" from all the machines which are over that $1000 jackpot, the casino knows which ones they are, you don't. Also that $6/hour can represnt one YIPPEE all day and even if you play the right machines you are more likely to be a loser than a winner.
The only way someone could consistantly make money with this is to hire a bunch of people (and fund them) to pull "the right" machines (assuming that you could identify them). Considering you couldn't pay them more than $6/hour, they'd be better off working at Micky D's.
To sum it up, analysis of a real statisical advantage does not include the words "If" or "luck".
I believe 00 is an American invention, IIRC European tables only have 0.
It always kills me the people walk into huge multi-million dollar structures, expecting to win. On a side note, the worst thing that can happen to a new player is to win, because after that they will always expect to beat the odds.
I like poker and pick up games of craps, few people really know the odds.