My friend is just a script kiddy, but he can use BackTrack Pro 5 to break into almost any wireless network in 15 minutes (WEP) or 2 days (WPA2 using rainbow tables)
This can be alleviated by obfuscating the SSID and using a long non-dictionary PSK. If your SSID is something like "#@$%MFklsfdl;aksdf#$%@$" there are unlikely to be rainbow tables available.
The prequels just don't stand up. Elements are not bad, in particular Ewan McGregor's casting as Obiwan and the return of Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine. I won't go into how awful Jar Jar is, or how bad an actor Hayden Christensen is. Suffice it to say that, pull all the flash, and these are inferior works made by a guy who had made what was originally a whiz-bang set of adventure films with characters that you could care about, and turned into a ponderous bad-dialogue laden set of films where you really couldn't give a shit by the end if Padme died or whether Anakin became Darth Vader or not.
Very concise and accurate run-down of what was right/wrong with the prequels.
Which is the only explanation that would make sense. That is, if it weren't for the fact that Luke specifically asks about her real mother. Or maybe Lucas changed the dialogue for that scene as well and I'm remembering it the "wrong" way...
The consensus on this is that it's just a glaring (thought minor) plot-hole that Lucas didn't care enough about to fix.
Originally, the assumption was that Luke/Leia's mother (unnamed at the time) survived the birth and spent time with Leia before she died. Many assumed that the unnamed mother actually married Bail Organa (Leia's adoptive father).
Various retcons have been suggested. It's canonically unclear if Leia was aware that she was adopted before EPIV, and if she did know, there's some indication that she (and Luke as well) never found out who her biological mother was. There are various expanded universe materials that imply conflicting things in regards to this.
It is also unclear when Bail Organa's wife (Leia's adopted mother), Breha Organa died. Expanded universe material contradicts itself in this regard. In some cases it is implied that Leia's adoptive mother died when Leia was very young. In other (more recent) material it is stated that she died in the destruction of Alderaan.
The meteorite was several times larger than the last (and first ever) predicted impact in 2008.
Ah, no. The Russian meteor was estimated at around 10 tons, while the 2008 TC3 seems to have been around 80 tonnes. (Please forgive my inability to do unit conversion among the various tons.)
I doubt we will ever have (or at least, exercise) the ability to locate and track ~10 ton objects, which are somewhere around the size of a small bulldozer.
What interests me the most here is why wasn't this all over the news? We see posts about twice a year talking about the next "near miss" we're going to have. So what happened with this one? Didn't they catch it? Or did they catch it, realize it was going to hit, and decide not to tell anybody? It would be a lot more interesting to find out details on it being known, covered up, and an intercept attempted. (and possibly successfully)
Well, this one likely went un-detected a least until it entered atmosphere, since it is really very small (I read an estimate of 10 tons, and the 2012 DA14 asteroid is somewhere around 190,000 metric tons, for comparison).
/. shouldn't be lifting some other site's interview - that was a dead give-away...
What are you talking about?
At first glance, he directly answered two of my submitted questions, so I'm not sure where you are going with this. You can verify the questions asked here.
These clauses are invalid in some areas (e.g. California). There's lots of complicated legal stuff surrounding this topic. Interesting starter link here.
Every time I have tried the new mobile site my experience was not good.
I can't even scroll down easily and when I do it jumps into an article that I didn't select.
And it doesn't look good.
Maybe it's opera mobile's fault. Maybe you need to think on this some more.
I've had the same experience on the default Android browser.
I know this is not really your area, but what are your thoughts on the recent discovery that early humans interbred with at least Neanderthals and Denisovans? Do you think there will be further discoveries of different Homo species that our ancestors associated closely with?
Let's say that various dinosaur populations were dropped into remote places in the modern world right now. How do you think they would do in today's ecology? Could they survive contact with modern humans? What other creatures do you think that dinosaurs themselves would drive to extinction?
I can't believe we get TWO FAMOUS PALEONTOLOGISTS IN TWO WEEKS.
On to my first question:
So, let's pretend the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs never happened and they somehow survived into the Holocene. How do you think that would have affected the world's ecology? How would dinosaur evolution have progressed? Assuming humans had still come onto the scene would we have driven the dinosaurs to extinction by now?
As I understand HIPPA (and I am not a doctor or a lawyer but someone that had to worry about this for a specific project at one time), it covers your health care professional and means nothing to your employer or other agency.
Again... it's corporate anarchy. They have this information and they are going to leverage it. They're WAY bigger than individuals or families, so screw you.
This is somewhat correct. The HIPPA privacy rule applies only to "covered entities" which consists of health insurance clearinghouses, health care providers, and health plans (with some significant exceptions).
As someone who has two iPhones on T-Mobile for over year each they have never made us opt-in to a smartphone plan. We use out old dumbphone plan.
Have a iPad Mini with Verizon and use data sharing as needed.
I can corroborate this. T-Mobile for some reason does not force a data plan for a smartphone while Verizon and ATT both do.
Given that the US has enough nukes to melt the world twice, any large threat even before arriving will be getting quite the return visit.
1. No, they don't.
I believe that was intentional hyperbole by the op, and the difference between "melting the world twice" and the actual capabilities of the current US nuclear arsenal are trivial. We can't destroy the earth twice, but we can certainly destroy civilization.
2. They'd have a hard time justifying a nuclear attack just because China sank one of their carriers operating close to their coast. Few US Presidents would want to see the Chinese nuke LA because the US fleet tried to stop them invading Taiwan and then attacked Beijing.
Certainly true, though I wouldn't call this scenario a "large threat" to the US. It would certainly be a political fiasco and would likely cause some continuing skirmishes, but wouldn't turn into a real "war" in most respects. Nukes would never get involved. China's leadership isn't armageddon-crazy, and neither is the leadership of the US (for the most part, ha).
Well, I could have specified "non-avian dinosaur taxon" but that should be obvious by context. Birds were already somewhat diverse in the Cretaceous and any non-avian dinosaurs that survived K-T would not be ancestral to birds.
There are currently ongoing attempts to bring back certain extinct species using recovered DNA. What is your prediction for the success of this? How long before we will be successful and what will be the first species we are able to resurrect?
So, let's pretend the K-T event never happened and dinosaurs survived into the Holocene. What do you think the world's fauna would be like now? How would dinosaur evolution have progressed? Assuming humans had still come onto the scene (because it would be so cool) would we have driven the dinosaurs to extinction by now?
How do you think the Permian-Triassic extinction event affected the evolution of dinosaurs and birds? Do you think they would have never existed without it, or would they have been even more diverse?
I know this is not really your area, but what are your thoughts on the recent discovery that early humans interbred with at least Neanderthals and Denisovans? Do you think there will be further discoveries of different Homo species that our ancestors associated closely with?
So, first of all this is hands-down the best Slashdot interview ever!
On to my actual question: what do you think about the possible existence of Paleocene dinosaurs? I understand that any current fossil evidence for their existence is likely caused by reworked fossils. How likely do you believe it is that a particular dinosaur taxon survived a few million years after the extinction event, and what would be the implications of this occurring?
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My friend is just a script kiddy, but he can use BackTrack Pro 5 to break into almost any wireless network in 15 minutes (WEP) or 2 days (WPA2 using rainbow tables)
This can be alleviated by obfuscating the SSID and using a long non-dictionary PSK. If your SSID is something like "#@$%MFklsfdl;aksdf#$%@$" there are unlikely to be rainbow tables available.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
The prequels just don't stand up. Elements are not bad, in particular Ewan McGregor's casting as Obiwan and the return of Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine. I won't go into how awful Jar Jar is, or how bad an actor Hayden Christensen is. Suffice it to say that, pull all the flash, and these are inferior works made by a guy who had made what was originally a whiz-bang set of adventure films with characters that you could care about, and turned into a ponderous bad-dialogue laden set of films where you really couldn't give a shit by the end if Padme died or whether Anakin became Darth Vader or not.
Very concise and accurate run-down of what was right/wrong with the prequels.
Which is the only explanation that would make sense. That is, if it weren't for the fact that Luke specifically asks about her real mother. Or maybe Lucas changed the dialogue for that scene as well and I'm remembering it the "wrong" way...
The consensus on this is that it's just a glaring (thought minor) plot-hole that Lucas didn't care enough about to fix.
Originally, the assumption was that Luke/Leia's mother (unnamed at the time) survived the birth and spent time with Leia before she died. Many assumed that the unnamed mother actually married Bail Organa (Leia's adoptive father).
Various retcons have been suggested. It's canonically unclear if Leia was aware that she was adopted before EPIV, and if she did know, there's some indication that she (and Luke as well) never found out who her biological mother was. There are various expanded universe materials that imply conflicting things in regards to this.
It is also unclear when Bail Organa's wife (Leia's adopted mother), Breha Organa died. Expanded universe material contradicts itself in this regard. In some cases it is implied that Leia's adoptive mother died when Leia was very young. In other (more recent) material it is stated that she died in the destruction of Alderaan.
So, what was it? Nobody has yet to explain WHAT it was and WHERE it came from if it is UNRELATED.
It was a meteor. It came from space.
The meteorite was several times larger than the last (and first ever) predicted impact in 2008.
Ah, no. The Russian meteor was estimated at around 10 tons, while the 2008 TC3 seems to have been around 80 tonnes. (Please forgive my inability to do unit conversion among the various tons.)
I doubt we will ever have (or at least, exercise) the ability to locate and track ~10 ton objects, which are somewhere around the size of a small bulldozer.
What interests me the most here is why wasn't this all over the news? We see posts about twice a year talking about the next "near miss" we're going to have. So what happened with this one? Didn't they catch it? Or did they catch it, realize it was going to hit, and decide not to tell anybody? It would be a lot more interesting to find out details on it being known, covered up, and an intercept attempted. (and possibly successfully)
Well, this one likely went un-detected a least until it entered atmosphere, since it is really very small (I read an estimate of 10 tons, and the 2012 DA14 asteroid is somewhere around 190,000 metric tons, for comparison).
Their licensing options are here.
I think they have a few games, and are using their open source devkit partially for marketing purposes.
Not that I'm in the job market or even looking, but it didn't take long to figure out people hate these guys. Just wondering why.
In short, Dice is currently the Slashdot corporate overlord. Hatred is obligatory.
Yeah I think I took a big woosh on that one. I'm still missing the joke! >_
What are you talking about?
At first glance, he directly answered two of my submitted questions, so I'm not sure where you are going with this. You can verify the questions asked here.
These clauses are invalid in some areas (e.g. California). There's lots of complicated legal stuff surrounding this topic. Interesting starter link here.
Every time I have tried the new mobile site my experience was not good. I can't even scroll down easily and when I do it jumps into an article that I didn't select. And it doesn't look good. Maybe it's opera mobile's fault. Maybe you need to think on this some more.
I've had the same experience on the default Android browser.
I know this is not really your area, but what are your thoughts on the recent discovery that early humans interbred with at least Neanderthals and Denisovans? Do you think there will be further discoveries of different Homo species that our ancestors associated closely with?
Let's say that various dinosaur populations were dropped into remote places in the modern world right now. How do you think they would do in today's ecology? Could they survive contact with modern humans? What other creatures do you think that dinosaurs themselves would drive to extinction?
I can't believe we get TWO FAMOUS PALEONTOLOGISTS IN TWO WEEKS.
On to my first question:
So, let's pretend the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs never happened and they somehow survived into the Holocene. How do you think that would have affected the world's ecology? How would dinosaur evolution have progressed? Assuming humans had still come onto the scene would we have driven the dinosaurs to extinction by now?
As I understand HIPPA (and I am not a doctor or a lawyer but someone that had to worry about this for a specific project at one time), it covers your health care professional and means nothing to your employer or other agency.
Again... it's corporate anarchy. They have this information and they are going to leverage it. They're WAY bigger than individuals or families, so screw you.
This is somewhat correct. The HIPPA privacy rule applies only to "covered entities" which consists of health insurance clearinghouses, health care providers, and health plans (with some significant exceptions).
As someone who has two iPhones on T-Mobile for over year each they have never made us opt-in to a smartphone plan. We use out old dumbphone plan. Have a iPad Mini with Verizon and use data sharing as needed.
I can corroborate this. T-Mobile for some reason does not force a data plan for a smartphone while Verizon and ATT both do.
Given that the US has enough nukes to melt the world twice, any large threat even before arriving will be getting quite the return visit.
1. No, they don't.
I believe that was intentional hyperbole by the op, and the difference between "melting the world twice" and the actual capabilities of the current US nuclear arsenal are trivial. We can't destroy the earth twice, but we can certainly destroy civilization.
2. They'd have a hard time justifying a nuclear attack just because China sank one of their carriers operating close to their coast. Few US Presidents would want to see the Chinese nuke LA because the US fleet tried to stop them invading Taiwan and then attacked Beijing.
Certainly true, though I wouldn't call this scenario a "large threat" to the US. It would certainly be a political fiasco and would likely cause some continuing skirmishes, but wouldn't turn into a real "war" in most respects. Nukes would never get involved. China's leadership isn't armageddon-crazy, and neither is the leadership of the US (for the most part, ha).
Well, I could have specified "non-avian dinosaur taxon" but that should be obvious by context. Birds were already somewhat diverse in the Cretaceous and any non-avian dinosaurs that survived K-T would not be ancestral to birds.
There are currently ongoing attempts to bring back certain extinct species using recovered DNA. What is your prediction for the success of this? How long before we will be successful and what will be the first species we are able to resurrect?
So, let's pretend the K-T event never happened and dinosaurs survived into the Holocene. What do you think the world's fauna would be like now? How would dinosaur evolution have progressed? Assuming humans had still come onto the scene (because it would be so cool) would we have driven the dinosaurs to extinction by now?
How do you think the Permian-Triassic extinction event affected the evolution of dinosaurs and birds? Do you think they would have never existed without it, or would they have been even more diverse?
I know this is not really your area, but what are your thoughts on the recent discovery that early humans interbred with at least Neanderthals and Denisovans? Do you think there will be further discoveries of different Homo species that our ancestors associated closely with?
So, first of all this is hands-down the best Slashdot interview ever!
On to my actual question: what do you think about the possible existence of Paleocene dinosaurs? I understand that any current fossil evidence for their existence is likely caused by reworked fossils. How likely do you believe it is that a particular dinosaur taxon survived a few million years after the extinction event, and what would be the implications of this occurring?