The truth us that no one but the programmers want to make good and secure programs.
Not even most of the programmers I have come into contact with, either directly or via their code, want to make much of an effort at doing things correctly, much less securely. Some can't even be bothered to test thoroughly. Much of the time this is made worse by management pushing unreasonable schedules. Thus it is no wonder that many pieces of software are insecure and can be exploited.
Wouldn't the uranium exist as an alloy with all of the other metals in the core and thus be dispersed? It appears the melting point of uranium is lower than that of iron.
Who the hell steals an ATM out of the wall to get customer data?
Presumably the real reason for ripping it out of the wall is to get to the cash contained therein.
According to TFA, the more refined thieves install some malware on the ATM which is running Windows XP or OS/2 that gathers the information and saves it to an encrypted file on storage local to the ATM, then they read out the encrypted file later. In the virutalization scheme, the ATMs become a thin client only responsible for updating the display and sending key presses and card information back to the centralized VM. Of course, this does not appear to prevent someone from adding some hardware to piggy back on the card reader and keyboard and save it to memory in the skimming device itself.
Apparently you will just need to buy the higher-end drive models that continue to offer longer warranties. From the article:
"Standard PC warranties are one year. Even so, WD will continue to maintain five-year warranties on its premium desktop/notebook products, including the WD Caviar Black, WD Scorpio Black and WD VelociRaptor products," a spokesperson wrote in an email reply.
I included a short section in the user documentation for some software used to access a data archive with up to seven items of information that would be helpful to quickly pinpoint problems. Over the years this software was in use, I think I only had one user actually send the requested information. Most couldn't be bothered to actually read the documentation, and neither could the help desk personnel, who failed to elicit the information before passing it on to us.
They could let Mythbusters have it when they are done. Take it to a suitable pond (inside a dense metropolitan area the way things are going for them lately), rig it with explosives to open the outer shell, and let all that yummy sodium drop into the water. Make sure several angles of slo-mo are being shot.
Mod the parent up! Unless the discovery was incidental to using that company's product, the poster probably made a mistake even attempting the cracking in the first place, and may face retribution from the company.
My guess is that the unit is made up of multiple pellets of that composition from which the heat of decay is used to generate electricity. The Curiosity rover is said to use 4 kg of Pu 238 to power it.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure, if you like, you could request a take over of your country by the US military and/or corporate overlords, which ever you desire. After that point, you too could share in the EAS goodness.
Perhaps the odor varies from location to location due to diet or other envrionmental conditions, and possibly by the distance from the point of origin. You should thus perform an experiment for our edification:
Acquire the appropriate eye protection and a sufficient supply of clothing to replace the ruined clothing you will be burning.
Travel to each state and province in North America where skunks are naturally found. Optionally, include locations on other continents.
Start at a distance of 100m from the skunk and provoke it to spray. Record your observations and that of anyone else nearby.
Reduce the distance by half and repeat until either you are located 1m from the skunk or said skunk runs out of spray.
Write a report and post it here so we can evaluate your experience.
And sometimes dangerous voltages too. I put together a Heathkit oscilloscope without any problem, it just took a while. The only problem was that the designers had chosen some transistors with marginal specifications for the high voltage supply (only about 3KV) and the transistors kept failing even though everything was adjusted to the specifications by the Heathkit service center itself!
They should issue a do it yourself laser-based fusion reactor kit! Plenty of danger in all areas!
Yes, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was an excellent example of this behavior. The James Webb Telescope may be another. Admittedly, in these cases it is due to inaccurate budget and/or schedule estimates.
Yes, if you watch the video of the solar cell airplane, they are only getting 1/2 A out of it when placed directly under an incandescent lamp. Granted, it isn't stated what the active area of the airplane cell is, or how that compares to what would be available from a higher efficiency cell in the same conditions. However, you won't be powering your shark mounted laser with it anytime soon!
When I saw "Firefox 8" in the title, I fell into a panic. What happened to 6 and 7? People weren't meant to upgrade their browsers to new major version numbers weekly! No one could possibly survive that pace, their mouse buttons will burn out at the furious pace necessary to install that often! Think of the effect that has on the women and children!
Since you find snow mundane, I'll send you all of our snow fall in exchange for consistent, non-flood inducing, rain fall during the year. The only problem is that the insect population would probably explode.
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The truth us that no one but the programmers want to make good and secure programs.
Not even most of the programmers I have come into contact with, either directly or via their code, want to make much of an effort at doing things correctly, much less securely. Some can't even be bothered to test thoroughly. Much of the time this is made worse by management pushing unreasonable schedules. Thus it is no wonder that many pieces of software are insecure and can be exploited.
Wouldn't the uranium exist as an alloy with all of the other metals in the core and thus be dispersed? It appears the melting point of uranium is lower than that of iron.
Anyone else think the thing looks like a pig?
Who the hell steals an ATM out of the wall to get customer data?
Presumably the real reason for ripping it out of the wall is to get to the cash contained therein. According to TFA, the more refined thieves install some malware on the ATM which is running Windows XP or OS/2 that gathers the information and saves it to an encrypted file on storage local to the ATM, then they read out the encrypted file later. In the virutalization scheme, the ATMs become a thin client only responsible for updating the display and sending key presses and card information back to the centralized VM. Of course, this does not appear to prevent someone from adding some hardware to piggy back on the card reader and keyboard and save it to memory in the skimming device itself.
"Standard PC warranties are one year. Even so, WD will continue to maintain five-year warranties on its premium desktop/notebook products, including the WD Caviar Black, WD Scorpio Black and WD VelociRaptor products," a spokesperson wrote in an email reply.
I immediately added the Status-4-Evar addon to my Firefox installations, works great.
I included a short section in the user documentation for some software used to access a data archive with up to seven items of information that would be helpful to quickly pinpoint problems. Over the years this software was in use, I think I only had one user actually send the requested information. Most couldn't be bothered to actually read the documentation, and neither could the help desk personnel, who failed to elicit the information before passing it on to us.
They could let Mythbusters have it when they are done. Take it to a suitable pond (inside a dense metropolitan area the way things are going for them lately), rig it with explosives to open the outer shell, and let all that yummy sodium drop into the water. Make sure several angles of slo-mo are being shot.
Could be a float plane (aka flying boat) that crashes into your house, just sayin. ;-)
Mod the parent up! Unless the discovery was incidental to using that company's product, the poster probably made a mistake even attempting the cracking in the first place, and may face retribution from the company.
My guess is that the unit is made up of multiple pellets of that composition from which the heat of decay is used to generate electricity. The Curiosity rover is said to use 4 kg of Pu 238 to power it.
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure, if you like, you could request a take over of your country by the US military and/or corporate overlords, which ever you desire. After that point, you too could share in the EAS goodness.
And sometimes dangerous voltages too. I put together a Heathkit oscilloscope without any problem, it just took a while. The only problem was that the designers had chosen some transistors with marginal specifications for the high voltage supply (only about 3KV) and the transistors kept failing even though everything was adjusted to the specifications by the Heathkit service center itself!
They should issue a do it yourself laser-based fusion reactor kit! Plenty of danger in all areas!
Yes, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was an excellent example of this behavior. The James Webb Telescope may be another. Admittedly, in these cases it is due to inaccurate budget and/or schedule estimates.
"remove the need for gas deliveries to army bases", so where does the laser power sent to the drones come from ?
Sharks, obviously.
Am I the only one who thinks programs like this and/or folding@home and/or seti@home should be installed by the manufacture and enabled by default?
Yes. How would this be any different than any other virus?
It seems to be only (or mostly) Flash based crap.
The correct value is 1/2 micro-A, the edit box ate the mu character I pasted in.
Yes, if you watch the video of the solar cell airplane, they are only getting 1/2 A out of it when placed directly under an incandescent lamp. Granted, it isn't stated what the active area of the airplane cell is, or how that compares to what would be available from a higher efficiency cell in the same conditions. However, you won't be powering your shark mounted laser with it anytime soon!
When I saw "Firefox 8" in the title, I fell into a panic. What happened to 6 and 7? People weren't meant to upgrade their browsers to new major version numbers weekly! No one could possibly survive that pace, their mouse buttons will burn out at the furious pace necessary to install that often! Think of the effect that has on the women and children!
Since you find snow mundane, I'll send you all of our snow fall in exchange for consistent, non-flood inducing, rain fall during the year. The only problem is that the insect population would probably explode.
The article says they are going to test it with an "experimental liquid" instead of urine. Talk about deceptive advertising!
I have this problem also for embedded Vimeo stuff. Always have to click through, not worth the time to figure out why.
... then why not just have the whole thing in focus at once. Infinite depth of field.
I watched the video and I believe the guy being interviewed said you can do just that.