High explosives are believed to have been moulded to his body and sewn in to his underpants....
A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device allegedly found on Mr Abdulmutallab contained the high explosive PETN, also known as pentaerythritol.
It sounds pretty full on to me. I think we dodged a bullet.
Human nature. When something bad happens, we try to prevent it from happening again.
It's easy to harshly judge these guys, but if they did nothing and another attempt was successful I would not want to be in their shoes. Not that I want to be in their shoes anyway. Damned if they do, damned if they do their job.
Try 80GB of "legal" music. In ~80GB (could be larger by now) I have ~4 months of never hearing the same song twice, unless you use "random" and then you hear the same song multiple times in a day.
Of course I am nowhere near "normal", I have a 1TB (SI) drive that is 91% full of ONLY anime in Japanese with English subtitles. I am also building a 6TB RAID6 network storage server.
The A5/1 cracking project aims to compress the 128-petabyte A5/1 codebook -- which would require more than 100 000 years of computing by a single PC to crack--to around 2 or 3 terabytes of data, and a computing time of around three months, with the help of about 80 computers.
Wouldn't they need about 100,000 computers for it to take one year? And why don't they just use BOINC and enlist random computers and attempt to get more computing power?
How Come Nintendo Does Not Take Steps Towards Legitimizing Nintendo Emulators?
Emulators developed to play illegally copied Nintendo software promote piracy. That's like asking why doesn't Nintendo legitimize piracy. It doesn't make any business sense. It's that simple and not open to debate.
So thy are just saying that they do not want to make an emulator that works like the Wii VC for computers. (have encryption and sell the roms themselves)
They want to send the Internet back to 42BC.... (basterdised content).
All they see is (devalued) Dollars, and (devalued) Euros in front of their eyes.
The uneducated politicians pander to these people, because they give out campaign contributions / BIG brown envelopes. Maybe we should start demanding politicians with REAL degrees who understand the REAL world, not worthless cr@p subjects like English, law, art, history that politicians seem to specialise in.
English, Law, and History help so that you can see when a coup d'e'tat is imminent. That then allows you to run and hide in your bunker.
But seriously [most of] our current politicians are useless idiots that are almost as bad as a dictator
Actually I disagree. I think it's crazy that I pay per KWh of electical power I use, I pay per minute of phone time I spent, I pay per BTU (or is it volume?) of natural gas I use, I pay per liter of petrol I use, etc, etc...
You are actually consuming those services, where as data is not really consumed, it is not gone/used up when you are done, there is still a virtually unlimited amount (as long at there is electricity there can be data).
This metered approach is similar to how the wireless industry has operated.
Did he forget or does he not know that a wireless link (one broadcast sector) is similar to a hub where all the data goes to all the users, but only the one that asked for it uses it, so the bandwidth is shared. Where as a wire (cat3, cat5, fiber, etc) can transmit the full speed to a single user and they do not have to share bandwidth and cannot see each others data.
They have 10+Gb/s [full-duplex] fiber and Ethernet, but the fastest PtP wireless link I have yet to see can only do around 4Gb/s [full-duplex] (Dragonwave) and the fastest PtMP that I know of can only do 103Mb/s [half-duplex / MiMo] (Ubiquti)
I don't speak linux, maybe someone can explain to us what this means...
after reading a couple of threads with just
dd >null:yes
rm dr >ewf1
somebody please translate linux jokes for us.
We windows users cant really do this.
Right click my computer>manage>right click hard drive, select FORMAT!
haha
this is a Unix joke (also in BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac, and Windows [with additional software])
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
dd - convert and copy a file
if=FILE (read from FILE)
of=FILE (write to FILE) /dev/zero (a virtual device that is just 0s) /dev/hda or/dev/sda (the first disk drive)
So you are writing zeros to the first disk drive and wiping out the contents. And in turn removing ALL security holes
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Has anybody provided any evidence that the guy had anything remotely like a bomb?
From this article:
High explosives are believed to have been moulded to his body and sewn in to his underpants. ...
A preliminary FBI analysis has found that the device allegedly found on Mr Abdulmutallab contained the high explosive PETN, also known as pentaerythritol.
It sounds pretty full on to me. I think we dodged a bullet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaerythritol
Derivatives of pentaerythritol are components of alkyd resins, varnishes, PVC stabilizers, tall oil esters, and olefin antioxidants.
Or he could have had a HEAVY tan after he put on the pants?
So what's the point of the new rules?
Human nature. When something bad happens, we try to prevent it from happening again.
It's easy to harshly judge these guys, but if they did nothing and another attempt was successful I would not want to be in their shoes. Not that I want to be in their shoes anyway. Damned if they do, damned if they do their job.
Fixed that for you
$200 isn't enough to buy a week's worth of groceries.
It is plenty, where I live you can buy a week's worth of groceries for four for ~$150.
Try 80GB of "legal" music. In ~80GB (could be larger by now) I have ~4 months of never hearing the same song twice, unless you use "random" and then you hear the same song multiple times in a day.
Of course I am nowhere near "normal", I have a 1TB (SI) drive that is 91% full of ONLY anime in Japanese with English subtitles. I am also building a 6TB RAID6 network storage server.
TFA:
Wouldn't they need about 100,000 computers for it to take one year? And why don't they just use BOINC and enlist random computers and attempt to get more computing power?
HP LaserJet 5SI on ebaly for ~$50
Where are you that you can get internet for $1 a MB?!
The thing with the Speed issue is most likely you router. Many home routers can only NAT ~60MB (you probably need a better/faster router).
If you ever thought about learning Morse, you can do it at this very good site: http://www.lcwo.net/. .-.
--- pause .-. stop ..- pause -.-- stop
.- stop .-. stop .. pause -. stop
-... pause
-.. pause . pause -.-. pause --- pause -.. pause . pause
-.-. pause --- pause
Pause and stop because of "Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
You're out of date. What you say used to be true, but the hardware has gotten much better in the last decade.
But not the computers in schools
How Come Nintendo Does Not Take Steps Towards Legitimizing Nintendo Emulators?
Emulators developed to play illegally copied Nintendo software promote piracy. That's like asking why doesn't Nintendo legitimize piracy. It doesn't make any business sense. It's that simple and not open to debate.
So thy are just saying that they do not want to make an emulator that works like the Wii VC for computers. (have encryption and sell the roms themselves)
and only occur on a small line, not the entire planet.
Are there movies *only* on Bluray (and not regular DVD) that you want to watch?
Not that I know of, yet.
Does Bluray provide a better picture on regular TVs? Those are honest questions.
Yes, if you are using component output. You can watch 1080p videos on component w/o HDCP.
Because it is not small, and it is the kernel!
I have not had a flu shot in the last 10+ years, and I have not gotten sick at all.
no, it is the red string of fate.
They want to send the Internet back to 42BC.... (basterdised content).
All they see is (devalued) Dollars, and (devalued) Euros in front of their eyes.
The uneducated politicians pander to these people, because they give out campaign contributions / BIG brown envelopes. Maybe we should start demanding politicians with REAL degrees who understand the REAL world, not worthless cr@p subjects like English, law, art, history that politicians seem to specialise in.
English, Law, and History help so that you can see when a coup d'e'tat is imminent. That then allows you to run and hide in your bunker.
But seriously [most of] our current politicians are useless idiots that are almost as bad as a dictator
what's stopping people from hosting http and https on the same ip?
Nothing, it is that multiple https sites have a hard time living on the same IP.
User-agent: * /printer_friendly_story /projects/livestream /printer_friendly_story /google_search_index.xml /google_news_index.xml /*.xml.gz
Disallow:
Disallow:
#
User-agent: gsa-crawler
Allow:
Allow:
Allow:
Allow:
#
Sitemap: http://www.foxnews.com/google_search_index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.foxnews.com/google_news_index.xml
Notice the sitemap section, they are directly telling Google what news they have
ftp ftp.mozilla.org
Actually I disagree. I think it's crazy that I pay per KWh of electical power I use, I pay per minute of phone time I spent, I pay per BTU (or is it volume?) of natural gas I use, I pay per liter of petrol I use, etc, etc...
You are actually consuming those services, where as data is not really consumed, it is not gone/used up when you are done, there is still a virtually unlimited amount (as long at there is electricity there can be data).
This metered approach is similar to how the wireless industry has operated.
Did he forget or does he not know that a wireless link (one broadcast sector) is similar to a hub where all the data goes to all the users, but only the one that asked for it uses it, so the bandwidth is shared. Where as a wire (cat3, cat5, fiber, etc) can transmit the full speed to a single user and they do not have to share bandwidth and cannot see each others data.
They have 10+Gb/s [full-duplex] fiber and Ethernet, but the fastest PtP wireless link I have yet to see can only do around 4Gb/s [full-duplex] (Dragonwave) and the fastest PtMP that I know of can only do 103Mb/s [half-duplex / MiMo] (Ubiquti)
Why aren't we working on better wireless communication so that we don't need wires at all?
Do you really want it so that I could record everything you type and everything your screen shows (even with encryption I can still decrypt it)?
I bought a Google Dev Phone 1 for the ability to do just this! I use modded roms for the added benefits like multi-touch and root access control.
Truly platform-independent GPU scaling is nearly here and the flexibility it will offer gamers could be impressive.
But this is not any ware close enough.
I don't speak linux, maybe someone can explain to us what this means... after reading a couple of threads with just dd >null:yes rm dr >ewf1
somebody please translate linux jokes for us.
We windows users cant really do this. Right click my computer>manage>right click hard drive, select FORMAT!
haha
this is a Unix joke (also in BSD, Linux, Solaris, Mac, and Windows [with additional software])
/dev/zero (a virtual device that is just 0s)
/dev/hda or /dev/sda (the first disk drive)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
dd - convert and copy a file
if=FILE (read from FILE)
of=FILE (write to FILE)
So you are writing zeros to the first disk drive and wiping out the contents. And in turn removing ALL security holes