So yeah, what we are seeing is ~3 million years ago. The OP was obviously trying to be funny, but if Andromeda were to try to fling a star across intergalactic space towards us, it would take hundreds of millions of years unless there is some way to accelerate an object the size of a star close to the speed of light.
Unlike Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China, the Korean Mozilla site is not officially affiliated with the Mozilla Foundation. The community-run site offers localised Korean versions of Mozilla applications, Korean user support forums and a Korean translation of MozillaZine.
But yeah, someone either on purpose or accidentally infected the installer files and they got posted on this site.
That sounds right. Now I'm wondering when a depression technically becomes a storm?
google, of course, has the answer!
Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions"
Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name.
If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called:
* "hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E)
* "typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline)
* "severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E)
* "severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean)
* "tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)
Katrina was the (one, two three.. ) 11th tropical depression/storm/hurricane of the 2005 season.
Next year, the 11th storm will be named 'Kirk'.
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.
Front desk empolyee with access to the system, sure.
I'm thinking about the cleaning guy. Maybe he doesn't steal the info and take it home himself, but someone approaches him and offers to give him $100 for as many cards as he can take out of there. He starts picking them out of the trash, grabbing a few here and there from behind the front desk (printing stuff out of the computer would look suspicious, grabbing a handful while emptying the trash goes unnoticed).
I agree, not very likely, but possible. Why do they need this info on the card in the first place?
In many crime-related warnings, the issue is whether the activity warned against is a common occurrence, or whether it's something that is possible but not widespread. Every hotel or hotel chain contacted by those who have reported this story has affirmed that personal information is not encoded on their keycards, and even the one chain specifically mentioned in the warning (Doubletree) said they had corrected the issue:
Officials at Park Place Entertainment, Mandalay Bay Resorts, Harrah's Entertainment and MGM Mirage all said no credit card information is embedded in their cards.
"At Caesars Palace, the key cards are keepsakes," said Michael Coldwell from Park Place Entertainment. Photos of Caesars Palace in 1967 and of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel are featured on some. "We encourage our guests to take the card."
But no credit card information is on those cards, he insisted. The cards contain the information to unlock the room but not even the name of the customer. "If someone loses a key card at a Park Place property, your identity wouldn't be known," Coldwell said.
Harrah's Entertainment's David Strow made the same assurance.
Alan Feldman of MGM Mirage said the key contains a room number and "the equivalent of a yes or no command" to identify whether the guest can charge food to the room. If customers decide to keep their keys for safety reasons, he said that won't be a problem.
Janet Pope, spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department, said Doubletree had put credit card information on their cards in the past.
"We've been assured by Doubletree they realized the glitch, and they no longer capture that information," she said.
> How many generations of data could one conceivably extract from a single keycard?
Probably a few. The question you would have to ask is how much would that information be worth (to the one doing the surreptitious recovery) compared to the cost of whatever forensic technique used to get at the old data.
If you are an identity theif, it's probably a whole lot easier and cheaper to just get as many cards as you can and glean the current info.
Doubt it. They probably just sit in a stack waiting to be reused. New guest checks in, card is taken out of the pile and swiped, overwriting the previous guest's info.
An employee or anyone with physical access can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.
Sounds like a good premise for a MythBusters episode.
They had one a while back where the myth was that credit cards could be 'erased' by things like refrigerator magnets and magnetic money clips.
They got a reader/writer, hooked it up to a laptop, programmed a bunch of blank cards and then tested various magnetic sources to see what it took to make the card to lose its information and/or become unreadable/unusable. Not surprisingly, it took a fairly strong field to mess things up.
I could see Jamie and Adam checking into hotels and then taking the key cards back to the shop to see how hard it is to crack (though they should get Kari to pose as the hotel guest or something).
There was a Tom Berenger flick like that, only the wife had been having an affair with her husband's business partner, and after they killed him and hid the body they got into a crash where Berenger's character needed complete facial reconstruction (went through the windsheild).
Doctors in the hospital thought this was her husband and so reconstructed according to dead husband's photo. Berenger wakes up with amnesia and doesn't remember that he's the other guy. Wife has to go along with it and pretend that this guy is her husband and it is the business partner (her lover) that has disappeared.
Currently, some 2,000 cases of plague worldwide are reported to the World Health Organization annually. Outbreaks may occur in scattered areas of Africa, Asia, and South America. From 1984-1993, an average of 12 plague cases were reported each year in the United States. The last U.S. epidemic to include human-to-human transmission occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-5. Since then, most U.S. human plague cases have been acquired from wild rodents, including squirrels and prairie dogs, or their fleas
The plague causes a blockage in the flea's digestive tract making it impossible for it to feed (but still bite, spreading the disease).
Centuries after the peak of its destruction, scientists at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Mont., have identified a critical genetic link to its transmission. As reported recently in Science, they found that three genes in Y. pestis change it from a harmless, long-term inhabitant in the flea midgut to one that amasses in its foregut. As a result of this obstruction, the flea begins to starve, leading to a blood-feeding frenzy during which it regurgitates the mass of bacteria and thereby efficiently transmits the plague.
IIRC, Plague's primary tranmission vector was fleas:
The classic mode of transmission to humans is a fleabite. Alternately, broken skin serves as a portal when tissue or blood of an infected animal is handled (skinning or evisceration of infected animals). Competency of the flea to serve as vector for transmission of plague to humans depends on its willingness to feed on a human host and its tendency to regurgitate intestinal contents during a blood meal. Fleas from sylvatic rodents feed on humans only reluctantly. However, the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) is an effective vector because of its tendency to regurgitate and to feed on nonrodent hosts. When the flea takes a blood meal from an infected rodent, stomach enzymes cause a clot to form, blocking the flea's proventricularis. At its next attempt to feed, unable to swallow due to the blockage, the flea regurgitates plague bacilli into the bite wound.
Yeah, thanks -- I scratched my head for about a second or two wondering the same thing, then I clicked the link assuming it must be some non-sparc server line (since the article was in PC World) and lo and behold, by the third paragraph reveals that these are based on Opterons.
Yeah, that's strange - I get that on my laptop running w2k.
I click and it says to wait while it downloads and installs the update but then sits there forever. Of course I can and have just cancelled and downloaded the installer for the new version and installed over the previous, but it is perplexing and discouraging that this happens. And yeah, the red arrow is just there all the time now.
My other machines in the house running w2k or xp don't seem to have had this problem.
true -- the Soviet-installed government was not democratically elected, and I'm not sure that the military ever really handed over legitimate soverign rule in any case. The way the gp was phrased struck me as parallel is all.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
Wiki says 2.9 million light years distant.
So yeah, what we are seeing is ~3 million years ago. The OP was obviously trying to be funny, but if Andromeda were to try to fling a star across intergalactic space towards us, it would take hundreds of millions of years unless there is some way to accelerate an object the size of a star close to the speed of light.
ah, I see
k, then this user also has write permission on the /bin directories this virus targets? Your binaries still get infected through this vector.
These aren't under the control of mozilla.org:
Korean Mozilla Site Hacked
Thursday June 9th, 2005
Unlike Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China, the Korean Mozilla site is not officially affiliated with the Mozilla Foundation. The community-run site offers localised Korean versions of Mozilla applications, Korean user support forums and a Korean translation of MozillaZine.
But yeah, someone either on purpose or accidentally infected the installer files and they got posted on this site.
That sounds right. Now I'm wondering when a depression technically becomes a storm?
google, of course, has the answer!
Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are called "tropical depressions"
Once the tropical cyclone reaches winds of at least 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) they are typically called a "tropical storm" and assigned a name.
If winds reach 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph)), then they are called:
* "hurricane" (the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E)
* "typhoon" (the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline)
* "severe tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Pacific Ocean west of 160E or Southeast Indian Ocean east of 90E)
* "severe cyclonic storm" (the North Indian Ocean)
* "tropical cyclone" (the Southwest Indian Ocean)
replying to my own post to make a correction...
> tropical depression/storm/hurricane of the 2005 season.
'Tropical Cyclones' is the correct term. These can apparently include hurricanes and tropical storms (winds below 74 mph).
The storms are named A-Z, with a few letters skipped.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
Katrina was the (one, two three.. ) 11th tropical depression/storm/hurricane of the 2005 season.
Next year, the 11th storm will be named 'Kirk'.
Experience shows that the use of short, distinctive given names in written as well as spoken communications is quicker and less subject to error than the older more cumbersome latitude-longitude identification methods. These advantages are especially important in exchanging detailed storm information between hundreds of widely scattered stations, coastal bases, and ships at sea.
Front desk empolyee with access to the system, sure.
I'm thinking about the cleaning guy. Maybe he doesn't steal the info and take it home himself, but someone approaches him and offers to give him $100 for as many cards as he can take out of there. He starts picking them out of the trash, grabbing a few here and there from behind the front desk (printing stuff out of the computer would look suspicious, grabbing a handful while emptying the trash goes unnoticed).
I agree, not very likely, but possible. Why do they need this info on the card in the first place?
According to snopes, they don't
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp
In many crime-related warnings, the issue is whether the activity warned against is a common occurrence, or whether it's something that is possible but not widespread. Every hotel or hotel chain contacted by those who have reported this story has affirmed that personal information is not encoded on their keycards, and even the one chain specifically mentioned in the warning (Doubletree) said they had corrected the issue:
Officials at Park Place Entertainment, Mandalay Bay Resorts, Harrah's Entertainment and MGM Mirage all said no credit card information is embedded in their cards.
"At Caesars Palace, the key cards are keepsakes," said Michael Coldwell from Park Place Entertainment. Photos of Caesars Palace in 1967 and of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel are featured on some. "We encourage our guests to take the card."
But no credit card information is on those cards, he insisted. The cards contain the information to unlock the room but not even the name of the customer. "If someone loses a key card at a Park Place property, your identity wouldn't be known," Coldwell said.
Harrah's Entertainment's David Strow made the same assurance.
Alan Feldman of MGM Mirage said the key contains a room number and "the equivalent of a yes or no command" to identify whether the guest can charge food to the room. If customers decide to keep their keys for safety reasons, he said that won't be a problem.
Janet Pope, spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department, said Doubletree had put credit card information on their cards in the past.
"We've been assured by Doubletree they realized the glitch, and they no longer capture that information," she said.
> How many generations of data could one conceivably extract from a single keycard?
Probably a few. The question you would have to ask is how much would that information be worth (to the one doing the surreptitious recovery) compared to the cost of whatever forensic technique used to get at the old data.
If you are an identity theif, it's probably a whole lot easier and cheaper to just get as many cards as you can and glean the current info.
Doubt it. They probably just sit in a stack waiting to be reused. New guest checks in, card is taken out of the pile and swiped, overwriting the previous guest's info.
An employee or anyone with physical access can take a hand full of cards home and using a scanning device, access the information onto a laptop computer and go shopping at your expense.
Sounds like a good premise for a MythBusters episode.
They had one a while back where the myth was that credit cards could be 'erased' by things like refrigerator magnets and magnetic money clips.
They got a reader/writer, hooked it up to a laptop, programmed a bunch of blank cards and then tested various magnetic sources to see what it took to make the card to lose its information and/or become unreadable/unusable. Not surprisingly, it took a fairly strong field to mess things up.
I could see Jamie and Adam checking into hotels and then taking the key cards back to the shop to see how hard it is to crack (though they should get Kari to pose as the hotel guest or something).
There was a Tom Berenger flick like that, only the wife had been having an affair with her husband's business partner, and after they killed him and hid the body they got into a crash where Berenger's character needed complete facial reconstruction (went through the windsheild).
Doctors in the hospital thought this was her husband and so reconstructed according to dead husband's photo. Berenger wakes up with amnesia and doesn't remember that he's the other guy. Wife has to go along with it and pretend that this guy is her husband and it is the business partner (her lover) that has disappeared.
Good flick, gruesome ending.
heh - Travolta and Cage yawn-fest called Face Off
consider moving ;-)
>we can't even be certain that fleas were the actual means of transmission for the plague back then.
9 6/page9.htm
back then, possibly true. Now? Mostly little furry critters and their fleas:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/dateline/09
Currently, some 2,000 cases of plague worldwide are reported to the World Health Organization annually. Outbreaks may occur in scattered areas of Africa, Asia, and South America. From 1984-1993, an average of 12 plague cases were reported each year in the United States. The last U.S. epidemic to include human-to-human transmission occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-5. Since then, most U.S. human plague cases have been acquired from wild rodents, including squirrels and prairie dogs, or their fleas
The plague causes a blockage in the flea's digestive tract making it impossible for it to feed (but still bite, spreading the disease).
Centuries after the peak of its destruction, scientists at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Hamilton, Mont., have identified a critical genetic link to its transmission. As reported recently in Science, they found that three genes in Y. pestis change it from a harmless, long-term inhabitant in the flea midgut to one that amasses in its foregut. As a result of this obstruction, the flea begins to starve, leading to a blood-feeding frenzy during which it regurgitates the mass of bacteria and thereby efficiently transmits the plague.
IIRC, Plague's primary tranmission vector was fleas:
The classic mode of transmission to humans is a fleabite. Alternately, broken skin serves as a portal when tissue or blood of an infected animal is handled (skinning or evisceration of infected animals). Competency of the flea to serve as vector for transmission of plague to humans depends on its willingness to feed on a human host and its tendency to regurgitate intestinal contents during a blood meal. Fleas from sylvatic rodents feed on humans only reluctantly. However, the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) is an effective vector because of its tendency to regurgitate and to feed on nonrodent hosts. When the flea takes a blood meal from an infected rodent, stomach enzymes cause a clot to form, blocking the flea's proventricularis. At its next attempt to feed, unable to swallow due to the blockage, the flea regurgitates plague bacilli into the bite wound.
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1819.htm
Not sure if you can catch/spread the plague by eating an infected corpse. Seems unlikely this would move through the food chain.
Yeah, thanks -- I scratched my head for about a second or two wondering the same thing, then I clicked the link assuming it must be some non-sparc server line (since the article was in PC World) and lo and behold, by the third paragraph reveals that these are based on Opterons.
Yeah, that's strange - I get that on my laptop running w2k.
I click and it says to wait while it downloads and installs the update but then sits there forever. Of course I can and have just cancelled and downloaded the installer for the new version and installed over the previous, but it is perplexing and discouraging that this happens. And yeah, the red arrow is just there all the time now.
My other machines in the house running w2k or xp don't seem to have had this problem.
>Roger Rabbit laserdisc fiasco
Guess I missed that one -- what was the deal?
true -- the Soviet-installed government was not democratically elected, and I'm not sure that the military ever really handed over legitimate soverign rule in any case. The way the gp was phrased struck me as parallel is all.
Didn't the Soviets do the same kind of thing in Afghanistan?
They invaded, replaced the government, which then 'invited' them to stay to 'provide security'.
*what was that movie about a Soviet tank crew in Afghanistan? Seem to remember one of the Baldwins in that but can't recall the title.
>futuristing
George, don't you have better things to do like looking for another supreme court nominee?
I thought it went
"I'm OK yet..."
> stop you reading fifty worthwhile stories
hey, I'll risk it to avoid the aggravation
not sure why it bothers me as much as it does, but I did just go and check him off my prefs
I think the complaining about the dupes bothers me more than the dups themselves