He'd do network device drivers, derive the sound they would make when serenading the switch and then just reverse-engineer the code from that. Yep, sounds like a typical SourceForge project to me.
I don't think the oven stuff at the end would have made it into the article if this work was being done by a man.
Would it have if the article had been written by a man? (This claimer; Amanda may be a man's name in New York, but it ain't in these here parts of the world)
Or did you just assume that women can't write articles for SciAm?
According to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, things remain in a limbo of probability until an observer perceives them. But no lonely observer can find himself beyond the bounds of the universe staring back. How, then, can the universe exist?
So, either we're just probably reading Slashdot or there is a God. Pick one.
They didn't. They used this really, really big gun. That's why no humans could be on that trip and NASA had to fake it. The people came later, when They got the anti-grav technology They found in Roswell working. Say, isn't the shuttle right above Turkey now? They read Slashdot, you know.
This reminds me of the checkles I get out of reading catfood can labels. No, not the contents, the marketing hype on the front: Stuff like "All natural! Ox hearts and Liver!" Yeah, I can just see little Kitty running down an ox, tearing it's liver out. Or Tuna. Sure. Wild cats love to fish tuna. Do you have any idea how large a real, live, average tuna fish IS? Hell, even KITTEN II would have a problem landing one of those.
But I guess the Florida blue-hairs would take exception to "Mice-flavored catfood - now with real pieces of rat!"...
OK where does everyone see that it says not to trust Microsoft?
In Microsoft's Technet Security Bulletin MS02-065. It's linked from the submission and still not Slashdotted. However, as a free service (maybe you're afraid of surfing to untrusted websites), I am hereby reproducing some of the juicy bits:
But in this case, the digital signature on the old version of the control is still valid, and
the signer is Microsoft - which is a trusted publisher in many cases. Because of this, most users would not see a warning message of any kind if the old control was re-introduced.
What steps could I follow to prevent the control from being silently re-introduced onto my system?
The simplest way is to make sure you have no trusted publishers, including Microsoft. If you do that, any attempt by either a web page or an HTML mail to download an ActiveX control will generate a warning message.
Please note that this will generate a warning message EVERY TIME you encounter an ActiveX control - whether it is signed or unsigned. So how would you tell the difference between a 'bad' Microsoft-signed control and a 'good' one (ignoring for a moment the inherent badness in ActiveX)? The short answer is: You can't. You're toast. Muahahahaha!
All I see is not to trust an ActiveX pop-up warning that might be comming from someone OTHER than Microsoft...
Not that easy, I'm afraid. First, if you have been a good astroturfer you have undoubtedly cheched the "Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation" checkbox the first time you saw it (or your keeper checked it for you). Therefore, you will NOT be getting a pop-up warning. Second, the pop-up warning you may get if you haven't added Microsoft to your list of Trusted Publishers does indeed come from Microsoft. Bill Gates more or less personally guarantees the security and validity of Microsoft Corporation's digitally signed certificates (unless they've been hacked again, but that's so unlikely that it probably didn't even happen the first time).
Oh and if I see M$ or Micro$oft one more time I'm going to puke...
Most astroturfers do. It's a feature of your implants and nothing to be ashamed of.
If my Linux box wasn't kept up to date, there would be quite a few remote root exploits similar to this.
Hang on, let me catch up here. Did Linus digitally sign a control in a subsystem designed to download code from any old webserver you might happen upon and run it as root while I was looking the other way? And did he, after it was discovered that such a system is not perfectly, 100%, safe *astonished look* issue a warning on the Linux kernel developer mailing list stating, in effect, that he's a jackass and people should stop trusting him with anything more dangerous than a moist sponge in a bathtub?
Maybe we should apply the SECURE teenager patch I thought I saw somewhere....
Don't bother, it was signed by Bill Gates himself twenty years ago.
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Oh God, I have just created the Xerces-crashing post... The humanity! The trolls! What have I done? (zoom out to reveal hero standing on the edge of a cliff, crying out into the void)
Apart from the notion that bad input should be ignored, not crashed into, I had to google to figure out was Xerces was. Cool project, but you should probably submit a bug report. Even if it's bad XML, the parser shouldn't crash.
-1, Bad XML. Bad, bad XML.
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They too do match, witness the and tags for another example. Fix your script, kiddie.:-)
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I wonder what this design does to birds?
Probably the same as a lawn mower does to mice - mincemeat.
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How does it work? The FanWing has a cross-flow fan at the leading edge. The fan pulls the air in at the front and accelerates it over the trailing edge of the wing. By transferring the work of the engine to the rotor, which spans the whole wing, the FanWing accelerates a large volume of air and achieves a high lift-efficiency.
We have clear evidence of the success of the design. Video clips of flights are available on this site and successful wind tunnel tests have been conducted at both the University of Rome and at Imperial College, London.
The wind-tunnel tests have shown that we have an unusually efficient wing. Documented efficiencies for the first prototypes were found to be in the order of 20 grams of lift per watt of input power. This means that with this original concept, even before any real research and development, we were already looking at a lift of 1 -1 ½ tons of weight in the air with 100 hp. And since those early stages there have been demonstrated in the most recent wind tunnel experiments some marked improvements in efficiency, flight speed and autorotation. (emphasis karma whore's)
The flying prototypes show many actual and predicted strengths:
Short take-off and landing capability with clearly predictable vertical-take-off possibilities
Reduced sound emission
Reduced fuel consumption
Simple, inexpensive construction with no high-tech requirements for basic manufacture
High manoeuverability
Stability in flight - because it's not sensitive to the angle of the incoming air
No stall
Simple control system
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Flettner's brief brush with fame came back in the twenties when he figured out how to get lift from a rotating cylinder. He also built a ship which used rotating cylinders to provide thrust.
Now, the scary part is that I wrote a report on this maniac/genius back in high school and I remembered his name so I could google for it...
So your wrong, buy Win2k (either version) and MS will have done what you are saying they havent,
OK, I'll admit my copies of Win2k Server are almost a year old now, but both were buck nekkid when I got them from the store. Hm, maybe the cheap, slimy bastards kept old copies on the shelves and sold them off? I wouldn't put it past them - they were bought in Microsoft's personnel shop in Redmond...
Are your copies regular retail copies or MSDN? If they're retail, I'll happily retract my statements and applaud Microsoft's efforts on this.
Apart from the fact that IE is *not* integrated into the kernel
He never wrote that either. The OS is not the kernel, as Stallman would be more than happy to tell you. You yourself call Win2k an "OS", would you not agree that IE is integrated into Win2k?
can you tell me you can install a linux build from 3 years ago
As soon as you can find me a three-year old Linux distro STILL BEING SOLD AS NEW.
Microsoft could easily have patched their master disc and manufactured new Win2k Server CDs at any time during these three years since the initial release but they have not done so. They are still making and selling software that they know is defective without even a token attempt at fixing the most glaring security holes in their product. In my book, this not only borders on criminal negligence, it's a fucking full-scale invasion over said border.
Would you take kindly to Ford opening up an old warehouse and selling three-year old Explorers with three-year old Firestone tires labeled as "NEW FROM THE FACTORY"? No? Why not?
Win2k is a pretty young OS. It's bound to have patch requirements.
Three years is not young in the OS business (even if you take the time to read the years cited in the copyright notice when it boots). Considering the time and effort that Microsoft spent making it, they should have done a better job.
In the spring of 1999, Microsoft Corporation bought Swedish cell-phone operator software developer Sendit. Bill n' Steve paid 1066 million SEK (roughly $100 million USD) in cash for the company, it's IP and office including around 100 employees located in Värtahamnen, Stockholm. I quit my job on that day.
Sendit's primary product was ICSA - Internet Cellular Smart Access, a modular Windows/SQL Server-based program suite designed to give cellphone operators the ability to offer their subscribers e-mail via SMS, POP3, IMAP4, webmail or a proprietary message retrieval protocol. We also had an Outlook CE plugin and did development both in Content Push technology and, of course, WAP. Microsoft re-branded the place MIBU (see Subject line) and pumped a lot of money and resources into it, hired lots of developers and did a lot of work - but earlier this year, the entire unit was disbanded. Many of the best people had already left - some went to other parts of Microsoft but most had left completely.
This was Microsofts first attempt to leverage into the mobile phone business, but not the last. This was at a time when cell phone operators were invulnerable cash-cows and everybody wanted in at the server side as well as the handset side of the industry. Microsoft does not give up. They may back down and re-group, but they do not give up.
I like the feature where it can transmit music/whatever to any radio receiver - it scans the frequency range, picks a non-used frequency and starts transmitting radio. It seems to be too low-power to start your own radio station, but it should work within a normally sized home or dorm. Post a notice on the dorm's bulletin board and go DJing! A neat solution. Should work with your old car stereo too.
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He'd do network device drivers, derive the sound they would make when serenading the switch and then just reverse-engineer the code from that. Yep, sounds like a typical SourceForge project to me.
Slashdot editors post the dupes first, then the original stories!
So if we don't bitch about the story dupes, they'll vanish? Neat. :-)
Other article with picture and her interests as well as her phone number are here. :-)
(Brought to you as a free service by the KWS, Karma Whores of Slashdot - linking you to a better future, right now.)
Would it have if the article had been written by a man? (This claimer; Amanda may be a man's name in New York, but it ain't in these here parts of the world)
Or did you just assume that women can't write articles for SciAm?
So, either we're just probably reading Slashdot or there is a God. Pick one.
Wow, goatse.cx prior art. Scary.
They didn't. They used this really, really big gun. That's why no humans could be on that trip and NASA had to fake it. The people came later, when They got the anti-grav technology They found in Roswell working. Say, isn't the shuttle right above Turkey now? They read Slashdot, you know.
But I guess the Florida blue-hairs would take exception to "Mice-flavored catfood - now with real pieces of rat!"...
*groan* If you did that one on purpose, I will hunt you down and give you karma. By force, if necessary!
In Microsoft's Technet Security Bulletin MS02-065. It's linked from the submission and still not Slashdotted. However, as a free service (maybe you're afraid of surfing to untrusted websites), I am hereby reproducing some of the juicy bits:
Please note that this will generate a warning message EVERY TIME you encounter an ActiveX control - whether it is signed or unsigned. So how would you tell the difference between a 'bad' Microsoft-signed control and a 'good' one (ignoring for a moment the inherent badness in ActiveX)? The short answer is: You can't. You're toast. Muahahahaha!
All I see is not to trust an ActiveX pop-up warning that might be comming from someone OTHER than Microsoft...
Not that easy, I'm afraid. First, if you have been a good astroturfer you have undoubtedly cheched the "Always trust content from Microsoft Corporation" checkbox the first time you saw it (or your keeper checked it for you). Therefore, you will NOT be getting a pop-up warning. Second, the pop-up warning you may get if you haven't added Microsoft to your list of Trusted Publishers does indeed come from Microsoft. Bill Gates more or less personally guarantees the security and validity of Microsoft Corporation's digitally signed certificates (unless they've been hacked again, but that's so unlikely that it probably didn't even happen the first time).
Oh and if I see M$ or Micro$oft one more time I'm going to puke...
Most astroturfers do. It's a feature of your implants and nothing to be ashamed of.
Hang on, let me catch up here. Did Linus digitally sign a control in a subsystem designed to download code from any old webserver you might happen upon and run it as root while I was looking the other way? And did he, after it was discovered that such a system is not perfectly, 100%, safe *astonished look* issue a warning on the Linux kernel developer mailing list stating, in effect, that he's a jackass and people should stop trusting him with anything more dangerous than a moist sponge in a bathtub?
I don't think so.
Don't bother, it was signed by Bill Gates himself twenty years ago.
Apart from the notion that bad input should be ignored, not crashed into, I had to google to figure out was Xerces was. Cool project, but you should probably submit a bug report. Even if it's bad XML, the parser shouldn't crash.
-1, Bad XML. Bad, bad XML.
They too do match, witness the and tags for another example. Fix your script, kiddie. :-)
Probably the same as a lawn mower does to mice - mincemeat.
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Now, the scary part is that I wrote a report on this maniac/genius back in high school and I remembered his name so I could google for it...
OK, I'll admit my copies of Win2k Server are almost a year old now, but both were buck nekkid when I got them from the store. Hm, maybe the cheap, slimy bastards kept old copies on the shelves and sold them off? I wouldn't put it past them - they were bought in Microsoft's personnel shop in Redmond...
Are your copies regular retail copies or MSDN? If they're retail, I'll happily retract my statements and applaud Microsoft's efforts on this.
He never wrote that either. The OS is not the kernel, as Stallman would be more than happy to tell you. You yourself call Win2k an "OS", would you not agree that IE is integrated into Win2k?
can you tell me you can install a linux build from 3 years ago
As soon as you can find me a three-year old Linux distro STILL BEING SOLD AS NEW.
Microsoft could easily have patched their master disc and manufactured new Win2k Server CDs at any time during these three years since the initial release but they have not done so. They are still making and selling software that they know is defective without even a token attempt at fixing the most glaring security holes in their product. In my book, this not only borders on criminal negligence, it's a fucking full-scale invasion over said border.
Would you take kindly to Ford opening up an old warehouse and selling three-year old Explorers with three-year old Firestone tires labeled as "NEW FROM THE FACTORY"? No? Why not?
Win2k is a pretty young OS. It's bound to have patch requirements.
Three years is not young in the OS business (even if you take the time to read the years cited in the copyright notice when it boots). Considering the time and effort that Microsoft spent making it, they should have done a better job.
Sendit's primary product was ICSA - Internet Cellular Smart Access, a modular Windows/SQL Server-based program suite designed to give cellphone operators the ability to offer their subscribers e-mail via SMS, POP3, IMAP4, webmail or a proprietary message retrieval protocol. We also had an Outlook CE plugin and did development both in Content Push technology and, of course, WAP. Microsoft re-branded the place MIBU (see Subject line) and pumped a lot of money and resources into it, hired lots of developers and did a lot of work - but earlier this year, the entire unit was disbanded. Many of the best people had already left - some went to other parts of Microsoft but most had left completely.
This was Microsofts first attempt to leverage into the mobile phone business, but not the last. This was at a time when cell phone operators were invulnerable cash-cows and everybody wanted in at the server side as well as the handset side of the industry. Microsoft does not give up. They may back down and re-group, but they do not give up.
You had so little karma that you had to post as AC? Chicken!
Just like e-mail. One e-mail, twenty thousand spam e-mail in the inbox. If you want to make sure it's plural, use e-mail messages.
I like the feature where it can transmit music/whatever to any radio receiver - it scans the frequency range, picks a non-used frequency and starts transmitting radio. It seems to be too low-power to start your own radio station, but it should work within a normally sized home or dorm. Post a notice on the dorm's bulletin board and go DJing! A neat solution. Should work with your old car stereo too.
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