What's with the felt? Any one with a sense of aesthectics would use mirror matched burl maple veneer panels or engine turned brass plate instead of felt.
Very nice as far as it goes though.
"Me too" on the Model M. Mine's gotta be over 20 years old now. Amazing piece of hardware.
Excuse me but where exactly did I say in this particular post that I hated MS?
Look at the code. It is no surprise such malformed code would cause problems. It's pretty obvious we're dealing with some extreme edge cases like multiple one hundred million height Marquee tags. I am concerned that a recent version of any browser would choke on this code.
"In 90 percent of the cases, it's because the implementer did a bad job, training was bad, the whole project was poorly done," said Joshua Greenbaum, principal analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting in Berkeley. "At which point, you have a real garbage in, garbage out problem."
Translation: they didn't hire enough analysts
...said Bill Wohl, an SAP spokesman. "These projects require very strong executive leadership, very talented consulting resources and a very focused effort if the project is to be successful and not disruptive."
Translation: They didn't hire enough consultants from SAP.
"Developers are least qualified to validate a business requirement. They're either nerds and don't get it, or they're people in another culture altogether," said Michelsen,...
Translation: It's not our fault the developers couldn't understand our brick of a business case.
Another common theme in failures lies in the ranks of employees who actually must use the systems.
Translation: It's not our fault the interface sucks - it's the stupid users too dumb to adapt to our software.
Uh no, not mad. Courtesy of the Canadian government, I have shot at and hit moving targets at 250 m over iron sights. - yeah I admit they were 4'x4'.
Let me clarify, if you choose your position carefully so you are aiming down the flight path toward the aircraft, you will have a closing target which is much easier to hold an aim point on (as opposed to a crossing target). The scope doesn't need to be powerful enough to see the crew's eyes, just powerfull enough to see the front of the aircraft so the shooter can hold the beam on the front of the aircraft. Jitter will do the rest.
No - the plan would not be to run up opthamologist's bills but to disorient or blind any crew controlling the plane. Even with automated systems, landing with an incapacitated pilot and copilot is "not a good thing" (tm). Targetting smaller aircraft without automated landing systems would also be effective. Joe Smith flying blind in his Cessna over LAX - yeah that could cause some damage.
Not so much skill as planning. You would only need to find a location with a clear line of sight to the cabin. As noted in the article, the incident occured on descent so the laser was probably on a tallish hill or building near the airport.
The laser itself could be mounted on a tripod for stability and smooth control along with a rifle scope for aiming. Even allowing for movement of cockpit relative to the beam, you would have a reasonable chance of blinding a crew member given enough time and enough attempts. The jitter introduced might even up the odds a bit.
With a little work, such a rig could be practically invisible - much like the Washington Sniper setup.
Finally, to fend off all those calculating the odds of a tiny beam hitting a tiny eyeball; if "terrorists" were responsible, they could have been trying this unsuccessfully for months. They would only claim credit after bringing a plane down.
Yup the Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin Releases are covered by an NDA.
What they give is a heads up of what will be affected by the upcoming patches or updates. This allows very large organisations with thousands or even tens of thousands of boxes to do some pre-release planning. Updates and patches may need to be tested against other critical applications to make sure nothing breaks. Overtime may need to be planned out etc etc. Huge amounts of time and money may be involved so a few days extra time can be invaluable.
Patch one XP box is a far far simpler thing to do than patching 10k machines of varying Windows versions and functions.
Can't patent a song but they could demand rights to present an authors music in digital form online. Then they could impose all sorts of conditions, drm, mandatory os upgrades etc to use the music not just the service.
Although Apple computers and Apple iPods do not support the PC standard WindowsMedia format for music,....unfortunately Apple refuses to allow other companies to integrate with the iPod's proprietary music format.
Crap, now I'll have go re-rip all those OGGs
Or Not.
You mean like screwing around with the speed pass keys some gas stations use for automatic payment? Wave key infront of sensor, pump gas and drive away. The amount is automatically charged to your account.
I think you will find huge numbers of recipes today existed in very similar if not identical forms 200+ years ago. I'm no luddite but I regualrily use recipes 50-150 years old.
Actually the Janitor and cleaning staff are some of the highest security risks in any company. They have access to offices, shop floors and other areas both during business hours and after hours. Usually they have a requirement to use various equipment to carry out their work - equipment that can be used to conceal everything from cameras to usb keys to whatever.
When I was in school I worked maintenance for a very large social agency. The one place I didn't have a key for on my normal key bundle was the server room but a little social engineering would have given me that one too. However, I did have legitimate reasons to go into the suspended ceiling in the rest of the admin where the cable runs were and since I helped install most of the cables, I knew where the spare cables and splices where.
Two final points. One, cleaning staff are usually poorly paid. While most of them are honourable honest people, they can be tempted. Two cleaning staff are not necessarily stupid, uneducated or technically illiterate.
Or hang the sucker from a Prince Albert. Yes I'm not particularily trying to be funny. The first couple of times through, the security guards detector-wands pick up your jewellery. You demonstrate that there's nothing there worry about. Subsequently you bring in the thumb drive, no problem with any beeps from down there as you have established a "reason" most guards won't want to check.
P2P - Yup. In many areas if you "push" electricity onto the grid you get paid for it. Push juice during peak hours and pull during off peak and you could save money.
Slashdot Mirror
Been there done that once and only once. :)
You are thinking of Mickey Mouse - Peter Pan is owned by the Great Ormond Street Hospital though similar copyright extensions have been applied to it.
What's with the felt? Any one with a sense of aesthectics would use mirror matched burl maple veneer panels or engine turned brass plate instead of felt. Very nice as far as it goes though. "Me too" on the Model M. Mine's gotta be over 20 years old now. Amazing piece of hardware.
Dungeon Keeper! ;)
Look at the code. It is no surprise such malformed code would cause problems. It's pretty obvious we're dealing with some extreme edge cases like multiple one hundred million height Marquee tags. I am concerned that a recent version of any browser would choke on this code.
Translation: they didn't hire enough analysts
Translation: They didn't hire enough consultants from SAP.
"Developers are least qualified to validate a business requirement. They're either nerds and don't get it, or they're people in another culture altogether," said Michelsen,...
Translation: It's not our fault the developers couldn't understand our brick of a business case.
Another common theme in failures lies in the ranks of employees who actually must use the systems.
Translation: It's not our fault the interface sucks - it's the stupid users too dumb to adapt to our software.
The thought occurs that it could have been a guidance beam for a beam riding anti-Aircraft missile like one of these: http://www.army-technology.com/projects/rbs70/
Let me clarify, if you choose your position carefully so you are aiming down the flight path toward the aircraft, you will have a closing target which is much easier to hold an aim point on (as opposed to a crossing target). The scope doesn't need to be powerful enough to see the crew's eyes, just powerfull enough to see the front of the aircraft so the shooter can hold the beam on the front of the aircraft. Jitter will do the rest.
No - the plan would not be to run up opthamologist's bills but to disorient or blind any crew controlling the plane. Even with automated systems, landing with an incapacitated pilot and copilot is "not a good thing" (tm). Targetting smaller aircraft without automated landing systems would also be effective. Joe Smith flying blind in his Cessna over LAX - yeah that could cause some damage.
Check the article. The incident took place on final approach. At those altitudes, a decent hill or office building would do.
The laser itself could be mounted on a tripod for stability and smooth control along with a rifle scope for aiming. Even allowing for movement of cockpit relative to the beam, you would have a reasonable chance of blinding a crew member given enough time and enough attempts. The jitter introduced might even up the odds a bit. With a little work, such a rig could be practically invisible - much like the Washington Sniper setup.
Finally, to fend off all those calculating the odds of a tiny beam hitting a tiny eyeball; if "terrorists" were responsible, they could have been trying this unsuccessfully for months. They would only claim credit after bringing a plane down.
If you are going, I have this cat and a small vial I'd like you to take along....
What they give is a heads up of what will be affected by the upcoming patches or updates. This allows very large organisations with thousands or even tens of thousands of boxes to do some pre-release planning. Updates and patches may need to be tested against other critical applications to make sure nothing breaks. Overtime may need to be planned out etc etc. Huge amounts of time and money may be involved so a few days extra time can be invaluable.
Patch one XP box is a far far simpler thing to do than patching 10k machines of varying Windows versions and functions.
Can't patent a song but they could demand rights to present an authors music in digital form online. Then they could impose all sorts of conditions, drm, mandatory os upgrades etc to use the music not just the service.
Although Apple computers and Apple iPods do not support the PC standard WindowsMedia format for music,....unfortunately Apple refuses to allow other companies to integrate with the iPod's proprietary music format.
Crap, now I'll have go re-rip all those OGGs
Or Not.
Ek=1/2m*v^2
Next time they won't need full fuel tanks to maximize the damage.
Hmmmm.....
See SCO.
See SCO Tank
Tank, SCO tank!
Heiroglyphs were a problem untill the Rosetta stone gave us enough information to figure out the format.
Languages have "open" standards. Chaucer and Langland are still readable today.
I think you will find huge numbers of recipes today existed in very similar if not identical forms 200+ years ago. I'm no luddite but I regualrily use recipes 50-150 years old.
Win-Vi, Win-Macs or Gnotepad?
When I was in school I worked maintenance for a very large social agency. The one place I didn't have a key for on my normal key bundle was the server room but a little social engineering would have given me that one too. However, I did have legitimate reasons to go into the suspended ceiling in the rest of the admin where the cable runs were and since I helped install most of the cables, I knew where the spare cables and splices where.
Two final points. One, cleaning staff are usually poorly paid. While most of them are honourable honest people, they can be tempted. Two cleaning staff are not necessarily stupid, uneducated or technically illiterate.
Or hang the sucker from a Prince Albert. Yes I'm not particularily trying to be funny. The first couple of times through, the security guards detector-wands pick up your jewellery. You demonstrate that there's nothing there worry about. Subsequently you bring in the thumb drive, no problem with any beeps from down there as you have established a "reason" most guards won't want to check.
P2P - Yup. In many areas if you "push" electricity onto the grid you get paid for it. Push juice during peak hours and pull during off peak and you could save money.