A while back there was a case where some bad guys made up a fake ATM machine along the lines of the ones you see in convenience stores. It would simply record the mag stripe on the card and capture the keystrokes, then display an error message about communication lines being down. They planted it in a mall for a week or so and captured thousands of mag stripes and PINs.
An imaginative person could come up with dozens of similar scenarios.
Now that it's so much more useful it seems like a good deal. That red on alloy look is kind of quaint and so retro 20th century though. Do they come in another color ?
You're wrong, but you brought up a good point. HTTP download managers can do a great job of recovering from timeouts and disconnects. One that I use on windows can even make six simultaneous connections to the same server and get six parts of the same file then reassemble it. It can even do that trick with sis separate mirrors of a file on six different servers. It's called lightning download. http://www.lightningdownload.com/ I use it mainly to get ISOs. I would always get 500 meg of a file then fail before I started using it
No, the 500 meg compact flash devices cost about the same as the 1 gig IBM microdrive miniature hard disks, ( when I bought mine ) but use much less power. I'd guess they don't mind being dropped or run in cold, damp or dirty environments either which is why I use them in my camera. Oddly enough the IBM disks are supposed to be faster though.
It's funny that you never hear about "fulcruming"...
Using an existing asset like code as the fulcrum rather than as the
lever would make more sense.
The first time I saw the word "leveraging" I thought they meant
"lever aging" and wondered if it meant to make a lever seem older
than it was, to determine the age of a lever, or maybe there was some quality
of levers that changed as they got older.
I guess I was thinking outside the box that day because the box was
full of a bunch of old levers.
And have you ever noticed "ramping up" usually means someone is getting
screwed?
urg... too early in the day for incline plane jokes.
Hey that's pretty cheap! ( looking at the 50 meg quantum LPS50 from
my Amiga that I remember as being a real bargain at about $200 ) Hey that's pretty expensive! ( looking at the 30 gig IBM laptop drive
that I remember as being a real bargain at about $200 ) Why don't you just load up on ram and set up a software ram drive, and get
one of those 500meg compact flash things ( a real bargain at about $160 )
that they use in digital cameras for long term user file storage?
That would be the cheapest. Booting and program storage is an exercise left
to you, but a boot from cd setup would work.
Lots of ram usually beats a fast disk unless you are sloshing around big
files like for instance in video editing or manipulating a 300 meg photograph,
and even then an extra gig of ram is probably a better investment than a
super fast hard drive.
Servers are a whole other ball of wax of course.
Is there some problem you actually trying to solve ?
In the New York City transit system, the cards just store a unique ID, not the cash or ride value of the card. Thus if they get counterfeited or duplicated ( which is fairly simple from what I understand since they just use a mag stripe ) no new value is created. They were planing to let people use the cards for small purchases at one time but it never happened. That's why the system is pretty secure even though the cards themselves are not. It also as a byproduct creates a track of everywhere you have used your fare card.
Step 3 - Running OzXFlash Turn your XBox console OFF and then follow the instructions that are displayed on screen. You will notice that the OzXFlash contains many pauses during its operation, this is by design and is to allow the DVD-Rom drive to mount the CD correctly as the XBox's DVD-Rom drives are very fussy when it comes to media compatibility.
When the flashing procedure is complete the DVD-Rom tray will eject, remove the CD from the tray and the console will shut down.
does anybody else see a problem here ? Screen burn I guess...
I'm well aware of that , but you might want to take the third and fourth
sentences of my reply into account.
BTW RE: "you STILL have to check IE 5, IE 5.5, and
IE 6." Not only that, but you really need to check against those
browsers in all the different versions of windows you are expecting. IE 5 in win 95 is very different from IE 5 in w2k.
Try putting 65,000 characters of text into a text area of a form in the two
different versions of IE 5 for instance. And there all the different patch
levels. And all the different versions of various add-ons. And all
the different ways a users can configure their browsers. When you talk about
testing an " we'll use all these neat features in IE, but that's ok
because we are only supporting IE in an intranet application for customers"
web application, you are really talking about testing a few dozen different
browsers if you want to get serious about testing.
If you are really standards compliant then by definition you don't really need to test much.
If you are standards compliant, it should cost less. Of course the browsers should be standards compliant, and it helps if they are the same standards.
Yes there is a tautology here, and that's my point, so don't bother to point it out to me.
If I post before the story goes up is that a "Zero Post "?
Having been involved in traditional analogue photography for 30 years, I can tell you that I'd trust one of those Kodak cameras more that say a 35 mm Ektachrome Transparency, or worse yet, a color print. A while back Polaroid was blowing out a digital printer that output on spectra film for 30 bucks. I considered buying it for all sort of practical jokes and parking ticket disputes.
Leave it to the French to discover this "accidentally" .
I've often thought that a typically French line of inquiry would be "I've
never seen (bacteria - mold - fungus) do _that_ to (milk - fruit - treeroots)
before, I wonder if it tastes good? Of course some of my favorite
rotten milk and fruit comes from France, and you gotta love anybody who builds
Citroens. On the other hand...
What I would do is use word to "print" the files using a postscript printer driver . Use the "save to file option" in the printer driver. Then convert the.ps files to tiffs . Details left as an "exercise for the reader" Word scripts and macros also left as an "exercise for the reader"
"a receiver specified by a subscriber of the service"
So, are you letting the subscriber specify a particular receiver, or just sending it ot the ip address that requested it?
If you let your subscribers specify some other receiver it sounds like you would be infringing, but if they aren't specifying a receiver , then maybe you are not infringing. It seems odd that the claim would be so specific (no pun intended ) when it is in the claimant interest to make it broader.
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Well it IS right across the street from the old New York Telephone headquarters ( now some sort of Verizon outpost ), but that would be a little obvious
At first blush, I'd guess that "ontology" editors would change my "ontology". Something like a concussion , a nasty hangover , hallucinogenic drugs or maybe a graduate degree? Oh wait, maybe this is for editing other peoples "ontologies" ? Maybe some sort of religious war is involved?
But seriously, This looks like good stuff with a terrible name,
I was using voice to text software a couple years ago, and grammatically correct, properly spelled test was never a problem. You can't misspell anything. On the other hand I got a rather odd reputation at work after sending a lot of email that looked like grammatically correct, properly spelled Markov text or surrealist poetry.
I did have fun dictating fiction using it, and changing the story to accommodate the bizarre errors it would insert. I should try that again, it was pretty fun.
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A while back there was a case where some bad guys made up a fake ATM machine along the lines of the ones you see in convenience stores. It would simply record the mag stripe on the card and capture the keystrokes, then display an error message about communication lines being down. They planted it in a mall for a week or so and captured thousands of mag stripes and PINs.
An imaginative person could come up with dozens of similar scenarios.
Now that it's so much more useful it seems like a good deal.
That red on alloy look is kind of quaint and so retro 20th century though. Do they come in another color ?
You're wrong, but you brought up a good point.
HTTP download managers can do a great job of recovering from timeouts and disconnects. One that I use on windows can even make six simultaneous connections to the same server and get six parts of the same file then reassemble it. It can even do that trick with sis separate mirrors of a file on six different servers. It's called lightning download. http://www.lightningdownload.com/ I use it mainly to get ISOs. I would always get 500 meg of a file then fail before I started using it
No, the 500 meg compact flash devices cost about the same as the 1 gig IBM microdrive miniature hard disks, ( when I bought mine ) but use much less power. I'd guess they don't mind being dropped or run in cold, damp or dirty environments either which is why I use them in my camera. Oddly enough the IBM disks are supposed to be faster though.
It's funny that you never hear about "fulcruming" ...
Using an existing asset like code as the fulcrum rather than as the lever would make more sense.
The first time I saw the word "leveraging" I thought they meant "lever aging" and wondered if it meant to make a lever seem older than it was, to determine the age of a lever, or maybe there was some quality of levers that changed as they got older.
I guess I was thinking outside the box that day because the box was full of a bunch of old levers.
And have you ever noticed "ramping up" usually means someone is getting screwed?
urg... too early in the day for incline plane jokes.
Hey that's pretty cheap! ( looking at the 50 meg quantum LPS50 from my Amiga that I remember as being a real bargain at about $200 )
Hey that's pretty expensive! ( looking at the 30 gig IBM laptop drive that I remember as being a real bargain at about $200 )
Why don't you just load up on ram and set up a software ram drive, and get one of those 500meg compact flash things ( a real bargain at about $160 ) that they use in digital cameras for long term user file storage?
That would be the cheapest. Booting and program storage is an exercise left to you, but a boot from cd setup would work.
Lots of ram usually beats a fast disk unless you are sloshing around big files like for instance in video editing or manipulating a 300 meg photograph, and even then an extra gig of ram is probably a better investment than a super fast hard drive.
Servers are a whole other ball of wax of course.
Is there some problem you actually trying to solve ?
In the New York City transit system, the cards just store a unique ID, not the cash or ride value of the card. Thus if they get counterfeited or duplicated ( which is fairly simple from what I understand since they just use a mag stripe ) no new value is created. They were planing to let people use the cards for small purchases at one time but it never happened. That's why the system is pretty secure even though the cards themselves are not. It also as a byproduct creates a track of everywhere you have used your fare card.
Any more questions?
Step 3 - Running OzXFlash
Turn your XBox console OFF and then follow the instructions that are displayed on screen.
You will notice that the OzXFlash contains many pauses during its operation, this is by design
and is to allow the DVD-Rom drive to mount the CD correctly as the XBox's DVD-Rom drives are very fussy when it comes to media compatibility.
When the flashing procedure is complete the DVD-Rom tray will eject, remove the CD from the tray and the console will shut down.
does anybody else see a problem here ?
Screen burn I guess...
I'm well aware of that , but you might want to take the third and fourth sentences of my reply into account.
BTW RE: "you STILL have to check IE 5, IE 5.5, and IE 6." Not only that, but you really need to check against those browsers in all the different versions of windows you are expecting. IE 5 in win 95 is very different from IE 5 in w2k. Try putting 65,000 characters of text into a text area of a form in the two different versions of IE 5 for instance. And there all the different patch levels. And all the different versions of various add-ons. And all the different ways a users can configure their browsers. When you talk about testing an " we'll use all these neat features in IE, but that's ok because we are only supporting IE in an intranet application for customers" web application, you are really talking about testing a few dozen different browsers if you want to get serious about testing.
If you are really standards compliant then by definition you don't really need to test much.
If you are standards compliant, it should cost less. Of course the browsers should be standards compliant, and it helps if they are the same standards.
Yes there is a tautology here, and that's my point, so don't bother to point it out to me.
That's funny, I posted a link to the appropriate info yesterday, here it is again
Here is a good article that covers a lot of this
The "Authenticity Crisis" In Real Evidence
Scientific Evidence Review
10.1.2001
You might also be interested in the KODAK Picture Authentication Module [kodak.com] which uses PKI in a camera.
If I post before the story goes up is that a "Zero Post "?
Having been involved in traditional analogue photography for 30 years, I can tell you that I'd trust one of those Kodak cameras more that say a 35 mm Ektachrome Transparency, or worse yet, a color print. A while back Polaroid was blowing out a digital printer that output on spectra film for 30 bucks. I considered buying it for all sort of practical jokes and parking ticket disputes.
Here is a good article that covers a lot of this
The "Authenticity Crisis" In Real Evidence
Scientific Evidence Review
10.1.2001
You might also be interested in the KODAK Picture Authentication Module which uses PKI in a camera.
Just after my 5 unused mod points expire, a variation on the "in Soviet Russia" riff that is actually funny.
I meant to spell it Citroën.
The mouse ears probably violate some Disney copyright.
I've often thought that a typically French line of inquiry would be "I've never seen (bacteria - mold - fungus) do _that_ to (milk - fruit - treeroots) before, I wonder if it tastes good? Of course some of my favorite rotten milk and fruit comes from France, and you gotta love anybody who builds Citroens. On the other hand
What I would do is use word to "print" the files using a postscript printer driver . Use the "save to file option" in the printer driver. Then convert the .ps files to tiffs . Details left as an "exercise for the reader"
Word scripts and macros also left as an "exercise for the reader"
"a receiver specified by a subscriber of the service"
So, are you letting the subscriber specify a particular receiver, or just sending it ot the ip address that requested it?
If you let your subscribers specify some other receiver it sounds like you would be infringing, but if they aren't specifying a receiver , then maybe you are not infringing. It seems odd that the claim would be so specific (no pun intended ) when it is in the claimant interest to make it broader.
Well it IS right across the street from the old New York Telephone headquarters ( now some sort of Verizon outpost ), but that would be a little obvious
At first blush, I'd guess that "ontology" editors would change my "ontology".
Something like a concussion , a nasty hangover , hallucinogenic drugs or maybe a graduate degree?
Oh wait, maybe this is for editing other peoples "ontologies" ? Maybe some sort of religious war is involved?
But seriously, This looks like good stuff with a terrible name,
from rooftop to rooftop.
Cables?
ecch!!
I was using voice to text software a couple years ago, and grammatically correct, properly spelled test was never a problem. You can't misspell anything. On the other hand I got a rather odd reputation at work after sending a lot of email that looked like grammatically correct, properly spelled Markov text or surrealist poetry.
I did have fun dictating fiction using it, and changing the story to accommodate the bizarre errors it would insert.
I should try that again, it was pretty fun.
I was thinking more of the McCarthy eraHouse Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) , or the FBI's COINTELPRO
Of course the entertainment industry selling out it's artists, to gain favors from the government and the government breaking the law to in order to uphold the law is realy a 50's and 60's thing, and went out with the Nixon administration, right ?
I think this is a hook to make the Sims more interesting.
My kids just get them to fall asleep while cooking and set themselves on
fire, which isn't nearly as subversive as this.
Most of these games bore me out of my mind, but this sounds like fun.
Organize communist cells, spy on each other, denunciations.
Man those guys at E.A. are brilliant.
I guess it really IS like Mell Brooks says;