You feel like handling photosensitive chemicals in a strict dust free environment, and then buy the raw polycarbonate material to feed the press? The process involves etching the data in a glass master, make a nickel positive out of the glass master with the photosensitve dye-coated glass master, cut it to the right size, and then inject hot polycarbonate into the mould, put aluminum foil so that you can read it, and then put veneers so that it's harder to scratch the aluminum. Clearly this isn't something you can do easily or cheaply at home, for 1 or 2 CDs. I bought some "studio quality" CD-Rs from a replication facility before. They said that they won't even consider pressing the stuff unless you order at minimum 500 (or is that 5000, I can't quite remember). And yes, I have enough CD rot to know not to put anything important on CDR. When I win the lottery, I'm going to have my backup plans then.
Personally, I think how often a crash happens are somewhat correlated to the relative speeds between the cars are. I'm sure that most of us, when stuck behind a slow driver (slow to the rest of the traffic), gets pissed, and pull some unsafe maneuver to pass the car, and when we are cut off by a fast driver, we probably get just as pissed. Not allowing a car to speed is a poor way to fix the problem. Sometimes you need to step on the pedal to avoid getting yourself killed. I hope this never get passed, but then I don't think this will be passed until we get the election in January.
to stay the hell away from their local Computing Science club. I know what will happen if one of these guys tried this stuff at my CS student society. They'd end up arguing until they wish they died!
the RIAA of course. They're basically the master of the "Lather, rinse, repeat" of every single formula they have. The comic-based movies aren't nearly as good as Spiderman and Spiderman 2 (spare Dunst's screaming damsel in the first one), and they just keep on making more movies based on characters from Marvel and DC, but it doesn't really have content. The slapsticks ran out of material like 7 years ago, and has been recycling the jokes ever since. The sci-fi novel-turned-movies aren't nearly as good as the novel itself. The triumpth-over-adversity movies is basically a script with a fill-in-the-blank for the protagonist's name. From the commercial for Stealth, they could've just concentrate on one or two things and made it a great movie; for example, they could've concentrated on cutting humans out of the loop; or how the US seems to make more and more advance weapons when there's little need to do so, to the point that they cannot stop their own weapons; or women in the military and their struggles. Instead, they just took parts of it and throw it together and call it a movie. No wonder no one is shelling out $10 bucks or however much to get into the movies. For that price I could almost rent 2 DVDs and enjoy them in the comfort of my own home.
That's just some worm some kid released, right? Sounds kinda convenient that there aren't script kiddies in China who are bored enough to probe around US government computers. Heck US kiddies does it, why not Chinese kiddies?
Well, what could you to prevent tampering. Disable all those that you don't need (network, usb, etc), and forgo the sticker for tampering. Most motherboards that I've bought have a header for a case open switch that will trigger an alarm. I suppose there might be specialty motherboard that upon opening the case would, at minimum, shut the computer down. There are special screws making case opening harder. No Burners. Run a secure OS, and that mean no Windows, no unhardened Linux or BSD. But that probably affects how well your end user can use them. I doubt Windows could be secure enough for DoD compliance, but obviously I don't know for sure.
Was it just me or did I just saw goatse.cx being used as captcha?
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Well, you don't need GigE switches. Wireless is just 54Mbps, and Fast Ethernet is at 200Mbps if full-duplex. A 24 port 100BaseT switches with 2 GigE port should be cheaper than 24 port GigE switches.
Well Phil Zimmermann is working on the encryption on VoIP, I think... Back when the Internet was still ARPANET, there was little need to encrypt anything, and as you can see the whole TCP/IP model have been overly trusting. IPSec could be use to secure things, but the load isn't negligable. My friend had complained that using encrypted Jabber was kinda slow for him on a P3 laptop, and although I was using a 4096-bit key (yes I have my tin foil hat on), the session key couldn't be that bad, and the session is encrypted symetrically - I was using my GPG key, and the key couldn't nearly be as bad of 4096 bits of asym encryption.
You don't think that _every_ drug that the pharmaceuticals comes up with cost them millions of dollars in research? The majority of times, they simply find drugs that performs similarly to an original product (patented and marketed by some other pharmaceutical) and market that to make their own boatload of money. Many drugs are discovered by accident. Penicillin for example, was "discovered by a young French medical student Ernest Duchesne studying Penicillium glaucum in 1896". I don't think Pfizer or GlaxoSmithKline sunk a heck a lot of money into a medical student to discover any drug by accident. Also you don't see the generic drug companies unable to survive, making drugs that no longer have patents on them, and the original pharmaceutical doesn't have an exclusive right to market it. Look at the price difference of Aspirin vs. ASA, Tylenol vs. Acetylminophen, Advil/Motrin vs. Ibuprofen. I don't agree that the discoverer of the cure to AIDS shouldn't make money, I just don't think he should sell the formula to a company that would try to make so much profit that it would make it out of reach for people who desperately need it the most. It's not the magical cure for the common cold we're talking about here. I think if you got AIDS you'd never have said that.
Jewelers, KFC (their ads about how people should buy their Fried Chicken before Fall comes), Expedia (their ads about how people should have vacations between Spring and Fall), Internet Cafe (they can't advertise their installation of FPS or Role Playing Simulations), etc etc... The International (competition with a Greek name) Committee was already bad enough at Vancouver BC for the Winter competition coming up, and this is just too far. Why don't they ban our thoughts while they're at it. Perhaps a boycott is in order.
Kinda funny that because CNN's IT folks are inept and lazy, CNN's goes out on a limb and publicize this stuff. Had they've got a more responsible sysadmin (eg the parent poster), I doubt we'd be hearing this stuff from them. But yeah, the bug was reported on SecurityFocus 8 days ago, I recall by Friday, IT new channels already reporting that this bug can become a worm (I went and downloaded the patch. I don't think this was part of Windows Update...). There should've been plenty of time for the admins to respond.
Yeah I can attest to the fact that laptops aren't treated differently than desktops. I'm currently on the last 2 weeks of work at a small business, but we already have a handful of laptops around, and there has been at least one case that my boss has specifically asked a user with a laptop not to plug his laptop in for suspected worm infection, and the user still did anyway, causing an infection throughout the office. Superficially, it's the (malicious/dangeriously negligent) user's fault. He had done something contrary to what he was instructed to do. But I think the blame should also rest on the sysadmin aka my boss because he should've make sure that laptop users don't have direct communication with the desktops, so even if he did plug it in, it's harder for the worms to spread. For crying out loud, we do have managed switches here that could've done that job. Sometimes I wonder how many worm infection does it take for an sysadmin to have a somewhat secure setup.
If only Evolution has a Windows port, then groupware servers like OpenGroupware.org and Kolab wouldn't have to rely on a proprietary connector to work with Windows client. When that happens, savvy admins wouldn't have to deploy Exchange/Outlook, and wouldn't have to worry about dealing with users who are just far too used to Outlook.
As if there aren't enough people monitoring our communication, now even our friends and relatives can do the same thing, albeit in a limited level. Software like these makes me feel like sticking with encrypted email; whoever invented this is a jerk.
And the FBI is going to love this, they aren't going to need anything else but a WLAN sniffer to eavesdrop on people. But then it's not like they really like a search warrant anymore...
Well they don't do the majority of the regular textbooks, but I'm going to try to use Safari on every opportunity when I'm back at CompSci. It seems like a good deal so far. I get to read on a lot of computer topics that are available, but I pay a lot less in comparison to buying the books. I'd prefer to have a print copy - no matter what they say, a book is still more convenient - but man I sure care about my wallet.
Ever been trapped in a lab that's 7-10 minutes walk down hill (yes my school it's on a hill, and it's in BC, Canada...) and 15+ minutes to walk back up? And you're completely isolated, with no food facilities except for one vending machine that tends to run out when everyone's working? At least if you've got a laptop, you could sit in a cafeteria, or in a coffee shop, or you could go grab dehydrated food in your locker, and make food with hot water. You could find people who live on the residences to keep you company. With the desktops, you're trapped in the lab, and if that lab is in the boonies of the campus, it's very inconvenient. Besides, most of the work in post-secondary can be done on a laptop without any special hardware in the workstations. And you can relax with the laptop, but the workstations have only what its got installed. I'm far less concerned about getting the work done than losing my last strand of sanity.
Yup. It's true. I'm currently working in IT for a 100 employee firm, and I can guarantee you how often the office machines just goes "oh god, that damn thing just died." Death have been mostly attributed to hard drives, but other hardware failed unexpectedly. There was one machine's capacitors were leaking and causing Funky Problems(TM), and an IBM ThinkPad R32 with a battery that crashes Windows, while without the battery, the machine crashes a lot less - which then I found that one of the pieces of RAM was bad and removed it. Yeah budget enough so that you can replace things when "oh god, that damn thing just died". Thank god we haven't have one for our servers... oh wait, I hope I didn't just jinxed it.
And this is supposed to be the basis to start yet another arms race? Heck, I'm sure if the US wanted to, they can design a rocket that would throw more tonnage into space than Arianne 5 (and other heavy-lift rockets) without starting the arms race. Having Ion Cannons in a game may be fun, but much less so in real life. Starting a new Cold War, or god forbid, WWIII isn't the price that I would like to pay just to send a human in to orbit. Besides, I thought we already have the rockets to put humans in orbit.
Is there any surprise that America withdrew from the treaty. And oh, look at when it was withdrawn, and look at who's the President of the USA when it was withdrawn. Seeing that page made me have a bit more respect to Richard Nixon, and I'd never thought that I'd say that in my life. By other people's logic concerning a non-existent country, either America or Soviet Russia back then should've ignored the treaty as soon as Nixon or Brezhnev lost power, whichever came first.
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You feel like handling photosensitive chemicals in a strict dust free environment, and then buy the raw polycarbonate material to feed the press? The process involves etching the data in a glass master, make a nickel positive out of the glass master with the photosensitve dye-coated glass master, cut it to the right size, and then inject hot polycarbonate into the mould, put aluminum foil so that you can read it, and then put veneers so that it's harder to scratch the aluminum. Clearly this isn't something you can do easily or cheaply at home, for 1 or 2 CDs.
I bought some "studio quality" CD-Rs from a replication facility before. They said that they won't even consider pressing the stuff unless you order at minimum 500 (or is that 5000, I can't quite remember).
And yes, I have enough CD rot to know not to put anything important on CDR. When I win the lottery, I'm going to have my backup plans then.
Personally, I think how often a crash happens are somewhat correlated to the relative speeds between the cars are. I'm sure that most of us, when stuck behind a slow driver (slow to the rest of the traffic), gets pissed, and pull some unsafe maneuver to pass the car, and when we are cut off by a fast driver, we probably get just as pissed.
Not allowing a car to speed is a poor way to fix the problem. Sometimes you need to step on the pedal to avoid getting yourself killed. I hope this never get passed, but then I don't think this will be passed until we get the election in January.
to stay the hell away from their local Computing Science club. I know what will happen if one of these guys tried this stuff at my CS student society. They'd end up arguing until they wish they died!
Cause I'm going to San Diego for Toorcon, and when it's done I'll stay the heck away and they can sign up for thermonuclear war all they want
the RIAA of course.
They're basically the master of the "Lather, rinse, repeat" of every single formula they have.
The comic-based movies aren't nearly as good as Spiderman and Spiderman 2 (spare Dunst's screaming damsel in the first one), and they just keep on making more movies based on characters from Marvel and DC, but it doesn't really have content.
The slapsticks ran out of material like 7 years ago, and has been recycling the jokes ever since.
The sci-fi novel-turned-movies aren't nearly as good as the novel itself.
The triumpth-over-adversity movies is basically a script with a fill-in-the-blank for the protagonist's name.
From the commercial for Stealth, they could've just concentrate on one or two things and made it a great movie; for example, they could've concentrated on cutting humans out of the loop; or how the US seems to make more and more advance weapons when there's little need to do so, to the point that they cannot stop their own weapons; or women in the military and their struggles. Instead, they just took parts of it and throw it together and call it a movie.
No wonder no one is shelling out $10 bucks or however much to get into the movies. For that price I could almost rent 2 DVDs and enjoy them in the comfort of my own home.
That's just some worm some kid released, right?
Sounds kinda convenient that there aren't script kiddies in China who are bored enough to probe around US government computers. Heck US kiddies does it, why not Chinese kiddies?
Well, what could you to prevent tampering.
Disable all those that you don't need (network, usb, etc), and forgo the sticker for tampering. Most motherboards that I've bought have a header for a case open switch that will trigger an alarm. I suppose there might be specialty motherboard that upon opening the case would, at minimum, shut the computer down.
There are special screws making case opening harder.
No Burners.
Run a secure OS, and that mean no Windows, no unhardened Linux or BSD. But that probably affects how well your end user can use them.
I doubt Windows could be secure enough for DoD compliance, but obviously I don't know for sure.
Was it just me or did I just saw goatse.cx being used as captcha?
Well, you don't need GigE switches. Wireless is just 54Mbps, and Fast Ethernet is at 200Mbps if full-duplex. A 24 port 100BaseT switches with 2 GigE port should be cheaper than 24 port GigE switches.
"Touch Eyeballs to Screen for Cheap Laser Surgery" while streaming Futurama.
He just might be reading a version that was translated from Newspeak to Eastasian and then retranslated back to Newspeak. Keeps their Minitrue busy.
Well Phil Zimmermann is working on the encryption on VoIP, I think...
Back when the Internet was still ARPANET, there was little need to encrypt anything, and as you can see the whole TCP/IP model have been overly trusting.
IPSec could be use to secure things, but the load isn't negligable. My friend had complained that using encrypted Jabber was kinda slow for him on a P3 laptop, and although I was using a 4096-bit key (yes I have my tin foil hat on), the session key couldn't be that bad, and the session is encrypted symetrically - I was using my GPG key, and the key couldn't nearly be as bad of 4096 bits of asym encryption.
You don't think that _every_ drug that the pharmaceuticals comes up with cost them millions of dollars in research?
The majority of times, they simply find drugs that performs similarly to an original product (patented and marketed by some other pharmaceutical) and market that to make their own boatload of money.
Many drugs are discovered by accident. Penicillin for example, was "discovered by a young French medical student Ernest Duchesne studying Penicillium glaucum in 1896". I don't think Pfizer or GlaxoSmithKline sunk a heck a lot of money into a medical student to discover any drug by accident.
Also you don't see the generic drug companies unable to survive, making drugs that no longer have patents on them, and the original pharmaceutical doesn't have an exclusive right to market it. Look at the price difference of Aspirin vs. ASA, Tylenol vs. Acetylminophen, Advil/Motrin vs. Ibuprofen.
I don't agree that the discoverer of the cure to AIDS shouldn't make money, I just don't think he should sell the formula to a company that would try to make so much profit that it would make it out of reach for people who desperately need it the most. It's not the magical cure for the common cold we're talking about here. I think if you got AIDS you'd never have said that.
Jewelers, KFC (their ads about how people should buy their Fried Chicken before Fall comes), Expedia (their ads about how people should have vacations between Spring and Fall), Internet Cafe (they can't advertise their installation of FPS or Role Playing Simulations), etc etc...
The International (competition with a Greek name) Committee was already bad enough at Vancouver BC for the Winter competition coming up, and this is just too far. Why don't they ban our thoughts while they're at it. Perhaps a boycott is in order.
Kinda funny that because CNN's IT folks are inept and lazy, CNN's goes out on a limb and publicize this stuff. Had they've got a more responsible sysadmin (eg the parent poster), I doubt we'd be hearing this stuff from them.
But yeah, the bug was reported on SecurityFocus 8 days ago, I recall by Friday, IT new channels already reporting that this bug can become a worm (I went and downloaded the patch. I don't think this was part of Windows Update...). There should've been plenty of time for the admins to respond.
Yeah I can attest to the fact that laptops aren't treated differently than desktops.
I'm currently on the last 2 weeks of work at a small business, but we already have a handful of laptops around, and there has been at least one case that my boss has specifically asked a user with a laptop not to plug his laptop in for suspected worm infection, and the user still did anyway, causing an infection throughout the office.
Superficially, it's the (malicious/dangeriously negligent) user's fault. He had done something contrary to what he was instructed to do. But I think the blame should also rest on the sysadmin aka my boss because he should've make sure that laptop users don't have direct communication with the desktops, so even if he did plug it in, it's harder for the worms to spread. For crying out loud, we do have managed switches here that could've done that job.
Sometimes I wonder how many worm infection does it take for an sysadmin to have a somewhat secure setup.
If only Evolution has a Windows port, then groupware servers like OpenGroupware.org and Kolab wouldn't have to rely on a proprietary connector to work with Windows client.
When that happens, savvy admins wouldn't have to deploy Exchange/Outlook, and wouldn't have to worry about dealing with users who are just far too used to Outlook.
As if there aren't enough people monitoring our communication, now even our friends and relatives can do the same thing, albeit in a limited level.
Software like these makes me feel like sticking with encrypted email; whoever invented this is a jerk.
And the FBI is going to love this, they aren't going to need anything else but a WLAN sniffer to eavesdrop on people. But then it's not like they really like a search warrant anymore...
Well they don't do the majority of the regular textbooks, but I'm going to try to use Safari on every opportunity when I'm back at CompSci.
It seems like a good deal so far. I get to read on a lot of computer topics that are available, but I pay a lot less in comparison to buying the books. I'd prefer to have a print copy - no matter what they say, a book is still more convenient - but man I sure care about my wallet.
Ever been trapped in a lab that's 7-10 minutes walk down hill (yes my school it's on a hill, and it's in BC, Canada...) and 15+ minutes to walk back up? And you're completely isolated, with no food facilities except for one vending machine that tends to run out when everyone's working?
At least if you've got a laptop, you could sit in a cafeteria, or in a coffee shop, or you could go grab dehydrated food in your locker, and make food with hot water. You could find people who live on the residences to keep you company.
With the desktops, you're trapped in the lab, and if that lab is in the boonies of the campus, it's very inconvenient. Besides, most of the work in post-secondary can be done on a laptop without any special hardware in the workstations. And you can relax with the laptop, but the workstations have only what its got installed.
I'm far less concerned about getting the work done than losing my last strand of sanity.
Yup. It's true.
I'm currently working in IT for a 100 employee firm, and I can guarantee you how often the office machines just goes "oh god, that damn thing just died."
Death have been mostly attributed to hard drives, but other hardware failed unexpectedly. There was one machine's capacitors were leaking and causing Funky Problems(TM), and an IBM ThinkPad R32 with a battery that crashes Windows, while without the battery, the machine crashes a lot less - which then I found that one of the pieces of RAM was bad and removed it.
Yeah budget enough so that you can replace things when "oh god, that damn thing just died". Thank god we haven't have one for our servers... oh wait, I hope I didn't just jinxed it.
And this is supposed to be the basis to start yet another arms race? Heck, I'm sure if the US wanted to, they can design a rocket that would throw more tonnage into space than Arianne 5 (and other heavy-lift rockets) without starting the arms race.
Having Ion Cannons in a game may be fun, but much less so in real life. Starting a new Cold War, or god forbid, WWIII isn't the price that I would like to pay just to send a human in to orbit. Besides, I thought we already have the rockets to put humans in orbit.
So you're the latest lobby behind Bush's antics!
Is there any surprise that America withdrew from the treaty. And oh, look at when it was withdrawn, and look at who's the President of the USA when it was withdrawn.
Seeing that page made me have a bit more respect to Richard Nixon, and I'd never thought that I'd say that in my life.
By other people's logic concerning a non-existent country, either America or Soviet Russia back then should've ignored the treaty as soon as Nixon or Brezhnev lost power, whichever came first.