I rarely have more than three keys on me at any given time. One for the house (all locks keyed the same), one for the vehicle I'm driving (SUV, Car, or motorbike), and optionally the mail key. Work is all proximity card readers, and there are precious few other locks that I ever use.
I did see an instructable or the like that had a way to put a number of keys into a leatherman by removing the tools.
I work in the security group and we had a few machines on our help desk get infected with the Antivirus Live malware. After some research, we determined that it came through a legitimate site (help desk site that emulates various OS... can't think of the name), or more specifically the ads on the site.
We do run WebSense, but this was a legitimate site that our help desk uses quite frequently. All machines were up to date with McAfee, but it was a new variation. We ran it through VirusTotal.com within hours of the infection and I believe there were only two on the list that picked it up at that time.
So it wasn't the fault of the user and it can't be blamed on our choice of AV vendor. Obviously we need a better way of detecting malware. McAfee does have Artemis, but it failed on VirusTotal as well.
All depends where you are. In southern SK we have to good options. Access Communications gives you a soft cap around 100GB, but its time of day based. If you set your torrent client on the proper schedule, you can easily double that and more. With SaskTel, there is no cap. I've personally gone over 200GB in a month more than once. Both charge ~$50/month or so for a decent (5Mbps) connection.
No, the tweet (or whatever) likely isn't proof, but it does given the authorities reason to investigate further. If you're a suspect, and answered questions one way, and posted to facebook that you were doing something completely different, its worth investigating the discrepancy. ie: You told the police you were home in bed, but you're friends' facebook pages all say you were out partying... well, its worth going to talk to your friends.
Its called privacy. I for one am glad that both major ISPs in the area have publicly stated that they don't give out any information without a warrant.
No, 20 years down the road it won't likely make a huge difference in their lives, as far as what year they graduated, be it from high school or from college. However, what would the effect be now, and over the next 5 years.
I like to think of myself as smart. I took the advanced courses in high school, all the sciences, etc. I did very well in subjects that interested me, and above average in the rest. I'd like to think I would have been eligible for this type of program.
So high school went well, at least on paper. For me however, it was incredibly boring. Very few classes challenged me at all. The best classes were ones like physics where I spent most of my time helping the two girls behind me get through the work (the teacher was more than happy to let me help them out). All in all though, I did not enjoy school because I was bored. When I graduated, the last thing I wanted to do was to keep going, but I took my first year because I could do it in my home town.
After that year, I was done. I took a year off because I really hated "education". When I did go back, I didn't put in the effort I should have. I fell from all As to Bs and Cs. I didn't even care that much. After three years, I was offered some temporary work consulting, which turned into a year, then two, and as you could expect, I never went back. So I didn't get my degree. It hasn't really hurt my career at all. I'm in a senior tech position, making a very good salary.
However, had I been able to skip two years of high school, and jump right into more advanced work where I was being challenged, I likely would have finished my degree and had that paper now.
I remember seeing numbers posted here. The initial game will be a campaign for one race, approximately 40 missions. This was comparable (maybe even slightly more) than the original Starcraft. The expansions to SCII will each have another campaign for one of the races, with around 40 missions. This is more than BroodWar had. So, if instead, they released SCII with ~13 missions for each race, which is basically how the original was released, you'd be okay with that?
The problem is not what the default password is. It could be blank and still not significantly affect the security of the device. Its the admins that don't change the default password that are to blame. Lets face it, even if they ship the next device with a 16 char mixed case, special character, number containing, sufficiently random password, it will still be the default password. A simple google search of "Device model default password" will get you the default password pretty much as soon as its released.
As an alternative, they could force a password change on first login.
Might want to get your car looked at, tuned up, or replaced.
This winter, I've driven three different vehicles several times in -30C and below. All of them required a minute tops to be driveable. During that time I'm generally clearing snow off the vehicles (including the roof and hood). In 20 years of driving in Saskatchewan, I've had very few cars that acted any differently. The ones that did were old beaters that probably shouldn't have been on the road.
If you feel the need to wait until your interior is toasty before driving, then by a timer and an interior car warmer. Way more efficient and easier on your car. That or learn to dress for the season. I can get in a cold (-30C) vehicle with my jacket, insulated shoes, toque and gloves and be very comfortable in the car. In about minutes of driving the car is pumping out enough heat that I have to turn it down.
If you're gas line is freezing up, keep more gas in the tank, more gas = less room for humid air.
Use a proper viscosity oil for the season. No reason the oil shouldn't be at a reasonably temperature within a minute, even if the ambient temperature is -35C.
Point is, they aren't changing the existing system, merely adding onto it.
Exactly, if nothing else this becomes an accessibility option for people who can't use traditional devices. There are numerous conditions that would prevent people from using a mouse and/or keyboard, where accurate useable eyetracking could help out a lot. As a father of two boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, anything that can help them remain interactive longer is great.
I hadn't heard about this, but the article linked in the article says this:
"Officials took the action after a man was observed walking the wrong way down the exit lane between the secured, or "sterile," area and the public area at around 5:20 p.m"
I haven't done a lot of air travel, but to me this isn't necessarily a breach. The man could easily have just left his flight, heading for the baggage claim area only to realize he dropped or left something on the plane and was heading back.
So, the first problem is that they don't know. Presumably there are cameras on these areas, so look at the recordings and find out where he came from. If he came from the plane (or any secure area), and simply turned around to go back where he came from, there's no reason to suspect a breach.
If he did come the wrong way through a one way door, or similar, then yes there was a security breach. Increasing the number of guards isn't a fix, its simply reducing the chances that this will happen again. As others have mentioned, one way, full height turnstiles are a possibility. You may have to deal with luggage, but that can be done with larger turnstiles. If turnstiles can accommodate wheelchairs, they can accommodate luggage carried by most flyers. Those with exceptionaly large items may need to be escorted through a separate corridor.
My point is, Bruce's two options (redesigning airports and increasing security guards) are both impractical, but there may be other options available. And (as others have mentioned) learning from this and applying those lessons to future airport designs SHOULD be done.
I'd like a little more confirmation before I believe the Canadian Government issued a take down notice. At best, its an employee of the Government. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere that an elected official had any part in this.
Also, the ISP is in Germany. If an employee from some department in some other company sent me a take down notice, I doubt I'd jump. If this is being reported accurately (and I have some doubts), I'd have more questions for the ISP than I would for the Canadian Government. For example, why did taking down 2 sites interrupt service to 4500 other sites?
That being said, ec-gc.ca is close enough to ec.gc.ca to cause confusion to a casual surfer. I don't think they should be allowed to use it, but in that case, the trademark/copyright holder should go through CIRA.
So a few questions pop to mind. Did Serverloft shutdown the sites? Or was there a temporary outage that these "yesmen" interrupted as a deliberate take down? If Serverloft did take the sites down, why were 4500 other sites affected? Can they not shut down one or two sites without taking down every other site that shares the same IP? Why would a German ISP respond (briefly) to a request from "some guy" in a government job in another country, and then enable them again, within a matter of hours?
My thought exactly. There are plenty of medical conditions that prevent people from typing in any meaningful way. My two sons both have duchenne muscular dystrophy, and likely, in the future, won't have the strength to type, yet their brains will still be fully functional. Something like this may give them the opportunity to still be productive later in their lives.
While that is an explanation, its really misses the point entirely, or more to the point, what is the point? That is, what is the point of even introducing midichlorians in the first place. The best I can come up with is that Lucas (or whomever) wanted a way to measure Anakin against other Jedi. I believe Anakin had over 20,000, though I don't recall if they mentioned what Yoda's count was.
It would have been far simpler to just have a way of using the force to measure. Qui-Gon Jinn could have simply laid his hand on Anakin's head or similar and later told Obi Wan something along the lines of "He's even more powerful than Yoda". Its simpler, and achieves the same end goal without redefining one of the core elements of Star Wars.
A couple boards on my deck are loose and I need to tighten some screws and replace a board. Did the project cost me $205, or $5? The drill cost $100, but then again, I had it before I fixed the deck, and I have it after. My hourly wage at work is $50 and it took me 2 hours. Then again, it was the weekend and my employer wasn't paying me. The replacement board cost $5. It was the only thing consumed during the process. So what did that project cost?
The way I look at is this, what, out of pocket expenses did he have to pay? I know next to nothing about making movies. I have no experience what so ever in special effects, cameras, etc. Yet I can see someone who has an interest in this field already having *most* of what they would need to make a five minute video like this. I could certainly gather a few friends that would be willing to play the role of extras. I have a digital camera that might work, but I have family with a decent off the shelf HD camcorder. I have plenty of computers that I could use to do the special effects. The only thing missing is software to do special effects, but I'm under the impression there are some free ones out there, but again, I don't really know.
First, don't interfere with the reason I'm visiting the site in the first place. If I'm trying to read an article, or look up some information, and the mere act of moving my mouse across the page puts some annoying popup in my way, I'll do what I can to block it in the future.
I understand the desire to be noticed on a page, and not blend right in to other navigation or content. That's fine, but massive banners that take more room than the content, or are so obnoxious with animation or sound as to distract me, will make me avoid that site in the future.
I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
You know that educated is not the same thing as omnipotent right? I know a lot about computers, security, etc. Don't know much of anything about medicine though. That's why I go see a doctor when I have questions.
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I rarely have more than three keys on me at any given time. One for the house (all locks keyed the same), one for the vehicle I'm driving (SUV, Car, or motorbike), and optionally the mail key. Work is all proximity card readers, and there are precious few other locks that I ever use.
I did see an instructable or the like that had a way to put a number of keys into a leatherman by removing the tools.
I work in the security group and we had a few machines on our help desk get infected with the Antivirus Live malware. After some research, we determined that it came through a legitimate site (help desk site that emulates various OS... can't think of the name), or more specifically the ads on the site.
We do run WebSense, but this was a legitimate site that our help desk uses quite frequently. All machines were up to date with McAfee, but it was a new variation. We ran it through VirusTotal.com within hours of the infection and I believe there were only two on the list that picked it up at that time.
So it wasn't the fault of the user and it can't be blamed on our choice of AV vendor. Obviously we need a better way of detecting malware. McAfee does have Artemis, but it failed on VirusTotal as well.
All depends where you are. In southern SK we have to good options. Access Communications gives you a soft cap around 100GB, but its time of day based. If you set your torrent client on the proper schedule, you can easily double that and more. With SaskTel, there is no cap. I've personally gone over 200GB in a month more than once. Both charge ~$50/month or so for a decent (5Mbps) connection.
No, the tweet (or whatever) likely isn't proof, but it does given the authorities reason to investigate further. If you're a suspect, and answered questions one way, and posted to facebook that you were doing something completely different, its worth investigating the discrepancy. ie: You told the police you were home in bed, but you're friends' facebook pages all say you were out partying... well, its worth going to talk to your friends.
Its called privacy. I for one am glad that both major ISPs in the area have publicly stated that they don't give out any information without a warrant.
This sounds like a job for mega maid:
"Suck, suck, suck!"
No, 20 years down the road it won't likely make a huge difference in their lives, as far as what year they graduated, be it from high school or from college. However, what would the effect be now, and over the next 5 years.
I like to think of myself as smart. I took the advanced courses in high school, all the sciences, etc. I did very well in subjects that interested me, and above average in the rest. I'd like to think I would have been eligible for this type of program.
So high school went well, at least on paper. For me however, it was incredibly boring. Very few classes challenged me at all. The best classes were ones like physics where I spent most of my time helping the two girls behind me get through the work (the teacher was more than happy to let me help them out). All in all though, I did not enjoy school because I was bored. When I graduated, the last thing I wanted to do was to keep going, but I took my first year because I could do it in my home town.
After that year, I was done. I took a year off because I really hated "education". When I did go back, I didn't put in the effort I should have. I fell from all As to Bs and Cs. I didn't even care that much. After three years, I was offered some temporary work consulting, which turned into a year, then two, and as you could expect, I never went back. So I didn't get my degree. It hasn't really hurt my career at all. I'm in a senior tech position, making a very good salary.
However, had I been able to skip two years of high school, and jump right into more advanced work where I was being challenged, I likely would have finished my degree and had that paper now.
I remember seeing numbers posted here. The initial game will be a campaign for one race, approximately 40 missions. This was comparable (maybe even slightly more) than the original Starcraft. The expansions to SCII will each have another campaign for one of the races, with around 40 missions. This is more than BroodWar had. So, if instead, they released SCII with ~13 missions for each race, which is basically how the original was released, you'd be okay with that?
Seems like nitpicking to me.
Ever think that parents of children with severe genetic disorders can see positive moral uses for such a test.
The problem is not what the default password is. It could be blank and still not significantly affect the security of the device. Its the admins that don't change the default password that are to blame. Lets face it, even if they ship the next device with a 16 char mixed case, special character, number containing, sufficiently random password, it will still be the default password. A simple google search of "Device model default password" will get you the default password pretty much as soon as its released.
As an alternative, they could force a password change on first login.
Might want to get your car looked at, tuned up, or replaced.
This winter, I've driven three different vehicles several times in -30C and below. All of them required a minute tops to be driveable. During that time I'm generally clearing snow off the vehicles (including the roof and hood). In 20 years of driving in Saskatchewan, I've had very few cars that acted any differently. The ones that did were old beaters that probably shouldn't have been on the road.
If you feel the need to wait until your interior is toasty before driving, then by a timer and an interior car warmer. Way more efficient and easier on your car. That or learn to dress for the season. I can get in a cold (-30C) vehicle with my jacket, insulated shoes, toque and gloves and be very comfortable in the car. In about minutes of driving the car is pumping out enough heat that I have to turn it down.
If you're gas line is freezing up, keep more gas in the tank, more gas = less room for humid air.
Use a proper viscosity oil for the season. No reason the oil shouldn't be at a reasonably temperature within a minute, even if the ambient temperature is -35C.
Exactly, if nothing else this becomes an accessibility option for people who can't use traditional devices. There are numerous conditions that would prevent people from using a mouse and/or keyboard, where accurate useable eyetracking could help out a lot. As a father of two boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, anything that can help them remain interactive longer is great.
I hadn't heard about this, but the article linked in the article says this:
"Officials took the action after a man was observed walking the wrong way down the exit lane between the secured, or "sterile," area and the public area at around 5:20 p.m"
I haven't done a lot of air travel, but to me this isn't necessarily a breach. The man could easily have just left his flight, heading for the baggage claim area only to realize he dropped or left something on the plane and was heading back.
So, the first problem is that they don't know. Presumably there are cameras on these areas, so look at the recordings and find out where he came from. If he came from the plane (or any secure area), and simply turned around to go back where he came from, there's no reason to suspect a breach.
If he did come the wrong way through a one way door, or similar, then yes there was a security breach. Increasing the number of guards isn't a fix, its simply reducing the chances that this will happen again. As others have mentioned, one way, full height turnstiles are a possibility. You may have to deal with luggage, but that can be done with larger turnstiles. If turnstiles can accommodate wheelchairs, they can accommodate luggage carried by most flyers. Those with exceptionaly large items may need to be escorted through a separate corridor.
My point is, Bruce's two options (redesigning airports and increasing security guards) are both impractical, but there may be other options available. And (as others have mentioned) learning from this and applying those lessons to future airport designs SHOULD be done.
I'd like a little more confirmation before I believe the Canadian Government issued a take down notice. At best, its an employee of the Government. I didn't see it mentioned anywhere that an elected official had any part in this.
Also, the ISP is in Germany. If an employee from some department in some other company sent me a take down notice, I doubt I'd jump. If this is being reported accurately (and I have some doubts), I'd have more questions for the ISP than I would for the Canadian Government. For example, why did taking down 2 sites interrupt service to 4500 other sites?
That being said, ec-gc.ca is close enough to ec.gc.ca to cause confusion to a casual surfer. I don't think they should be allowed to use it, but in that case, the trademark/copyright holder should go through CIRA.
Yup, both sites are working for me as well.
So a few questions pop to mind. Did Serverloft shutdown the sites? Or was there a temporary outage that these "yesmen" interrupted as a deliberate take down? If Serverloft did take the sites down, why were 4500 other sites affected? Can they not shut down one or two sites without taking down every other site that shares the same IP? Why would a German ISP respond (briefly) to a request from "some guy" in a government job in another country, and then enable them again, within a matter of hours?
My thought exactly. There are plenty of medical conditions that prevent people from typing in any meaningful way. My two sons both have duchenne muscular dystrophy, and likely, in the future, won't have the strength to type, yet their brains will still be fully functional. Something like this may give them the opportunity to still be productive later in their lives.
While that is an explanation, its really misses the point entirely, or more to the point, what is the point? That is, what is the point of even introducing midichlorians in the first place. The best I can come up with is that Lucas (or whomever) wanted a way to measure Anakin against other Jedi. I believe Anakin had over 20,000, though I don't recall if they mentioned what Yoda's count was.
It would have been far simpler to just have a way of using the force to measure. Qui-Gon Jinn could have simply laid his hand on Anakin's head or similar and later told Obi Wan something along the lines of "He's even more powerful than Yoda". Its simpler, and achieves the same end goal without redefining one of the core elements of Star Wars.
A couple boards on my deck are loose and I need to tighten some screws and replace a board. Did the project cost me $205, or $5? The drill cost $100, but then again, I had it before I fixed the deck, and I have it after. My hourly wage at work is $50 and it took me 2 hours. Then again, it was the weekend and my employer wasn't paying me. The replacement board cost $5. It was the only thing consumed during the process. So what did that project cost?
The way I look at is this, what, out of pocket expenses did he have to pay? I know next to nothing about making movies. I have no experience what so ever in special effects, cameras, etc. Yet I can see someone who has an interest in this field already having *most* of what they would need to make a five minute video like this. I could certainly gather a few friends that would be willing to play the role of extras. I have a digital camera that might work, but I have family with a decent off the shelf HD camcorder. I have plenty of computers that I could use to do the special effects. The only thing missing is software to do special effects, but I'm under the impression there are some free ones out there, but again, I don't really know.
Its really very simple.
First, don't interfere with the reason I'm visiting the site in the first place. If I'm trying to read an article, or look up some information, and the mere act of moving my mouse across the page puts some annoying popup in my way, I'll do what I can to block it in the future.
I understand the desire to be noticed on a page, and not blend right in to other navigation or content. That's fine, but massive banners that take more room than the content, or are so obnoxious with animation or sound as to distract me, will make me avoid that site in the future.
It would probably be fairly limited with only one mic to work from and two speakers that would likely be relatively close together.
Great, I can see it now. I sit down to type some angry letter to someone and Clippy is going to pop up:
"You seem to be pressing the keys very hard, are you upset?"
Its going to be the next Eliza.
I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
Yeah, if someone has physical access to the machine, unless you are using boot level encryption, it doesn't much matter what you do.
Challenge accepted.
Here's links to an Ubuntu CD.
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
I put my password in a plaintext file in my home directory.
Go
You know that educated is not the same thing as omnipotent right? I know a lot about computers, security, etc. Don't know much of anything about medicine though. That's why I go see a doctor when I have questions.