Come to think of it, if such a worm got into a computer system through a weakness in the operarting system, could the creators of the operating system be held responsible?
hear hear! And I thought $14.25 was a good price to jump in on a short...
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RTFA.
They have a firewall in which they will allow only one IP address at a time to make the attempt. Thus, you sign up for a set time period and they watch you as you hack away...
Are different credit agencies more prevalent based on geography? Do you have any more info on this, I'm curious to know...I do know that there is about a 40-50 point difference in credit scores between the different agencies for me, which is pretty substantial...
e-loan offers similar service, and will give you a credit score each month, for a cost of $30 for an entire year (that's $7.50 a quarter). For $40 a year you can get the credit report too.
This is not a referral link, and I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just sharing information.
Second, just because the government doesn't tell everyone its intentions behind mandates doesn't mean there is a huge conspiracy behind it. What if Washington were honest in its intent to pusue justice and freedom for the Iraqi people? Whoah!
You know, I've never quite sorted the politics of this whole situation out... I came across a really neat article in the Washington Monthly that points out a very interesting "conspiracy theory"... It's all about a supposed plan to topple virtually every government in the Middle East. A good read...
By democracy you mean a government that would ally with us and give us cheap easy access to the oil fields, right?
Actually, the ENTIRE Persian Gulf region only accounts for 10% of US oil imports...and Saudi and Kuwait each have far more oil than Iraq. Go look it up, it'll be good homework for you...
"Moore's Law" has been bastardized beyond belief. Take an opportunity to read Moore's Paper (1965), which is basically Gordon Moore's prediction on the future direction of the IC industry.
Mod parent up! As long as there's a public access terminal, it's easy enough to make a superfluous "fake login screen" program to log keystrokes and whatnot.
OMB Circular A-76 was put out in 1983 (That's 20 years and three presidents ago. The idea is that private competitive industry can do things far cheaper and more effectively than the government can, and that idea has changed little in 20 years. In fact the biggest federal workforce reduction since before the cold war was done in '94...
I am a federal employee myself (engineer for the Navy), and we pay certain companies X dollars a year to provide janitors, security guards, secretaries, and the guy that gets tapes for you in the tape library. In addition, we have a number of contract jobs that are highly skilled technical people that work with us on certain projects. Outsourced jobs that have access to sensitive information have to go through the same rigorous security screening as regular employees do. The services of sweeping floor or secretary-ing or what have you go through a competitive bidding process, so the job gets done for the best price.
The government works for the people, and privatizing federal jobs saves MONEY. Not to mention, if you privatize someone's job, sure, they lose their job...but someone else gains a job...so it all works out... and even if you make the argument that privatized gov't jobs are replaced by a lesser number of private industry jobs, then the point has been proven that the government was working inefficiently. Not to mention, in tight times, you can generally fire contract employees with no problem...not so great for them, but fine and dandy to the taxpayers that pay them.
The federal government is a great company to work for...virtually garaunteed raises, awesome job security, and (at least in my experience) very flexible work conditions. However, it's also grossly inefficient since as a general rule there isn't any competition. New competition rules for some sectors are starting to change that, but by and large it holds true, and in the government, when employees run out of stuff to do, they continued to get paid to do nothing...where I work, the labor rate is $160,000 per man-year, which is WELL above the average salary...
I think "the point" of this law is not so criminals can't get their hands on guns...because I'm sure it would be trivial to take your gun to a shop (or someone's basement) and have it "re-fitted" to you. I believe that "the point" here is to prevent children from getting their hands on guns, which I would consider a noble cause.
To improve the range of a wireless connection you would need an amplifier at both ends. With this large box attached to the access point, the AP can transmit packets further... but this is useless if you laptop, say, hasn't got the power to transmit packets back. This thing just introduces a zone of one-way communication around the inner zone of 2-way communication.
Erm, no... it's a signal amp... so if you stick it halfway between a laptop and a wireless AP, it will amplify the signal from both. It's just like using a repeater in a cabled network.
In college we used a parallel-to-ISA converter (which was probably years and years old) so that we could do projects involving the ISA bus. I imagine there's a bunch of products like that around if you know where to look.
Looks like we're getting within an order of magnitude of the theoretical limits of CD-burning! PIO mode 4 caps at 16.7M/sec, which is about 111x, less than double! I bet soon we'll be seeing UDMA or even ATA/66/100/133 CD-R/DVD-R drives... I imagine there's a need for some extra headroom as far as IDE bus bandwidth is concerned...
This actually raises an interesting thought...supposing your drive is 52x at PIO4, would you get a buffer underrun if both the source and destination drive in a burn operation are on the same IDE channel? It would seem, then, that you'd want, at a minimum, slightly more than double the bandwidth of the writer in the IDE bus that it sits on...
My father bought a Pioneer A/V receiver system with dual tape deck, reverberator, amp, and a pair of Bose 901 speakers. Original cost was something like $2000, back in 1982 (!!)... It's still running beautifully today, and I just hooked up the new big-screen TV to it, and it works just as well as it did 20 years ago. It amazes me that technology from 1982 is still compatible with the technology of today.
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Come to think of it, if such a worm got into a computer system through a weakness in the operarting system, could the creators of the operating system be held responsible?
Umm, how about the guy that wrote the worm?
Hehe, a squeeze already happened, when it peaked near $21. That was scary...
hear hear! And I thought $14.25 was a good price to jump in on a short...
RTFA.
They have a firewall in which they will allow only one IP address at a time to make the attempt. Thus, you sign up for a set time period and they watch you as you hack away...
Are different credit agencies more prevalent based on geography? Do you have any more info on this, I'm curious to know...I do know that there is about a 40-50 point difference in credit scores between the different agencies for me, which is pretty substantial...
e-loan offers similar service, and will give you a credit score each month, for a cost of $30 for an entire year (that's $7.50 a quarter). For $40 a year you can get the credit report too.
This is not a referral link, and I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just sharing information.
FYI, I was able to borrow SCOX shares from Scottrade this morning. I had to call up to do it.
Would they then outlaw the nuclear submarines that currently run linux then?
Actually, those biker shorts having a subtantial amount of padding in just the right areas, and works like a push-up bra for the crotch.
I actually think that AMD is *trying* to be genuine with their rating system, but I also think that
Consider:
Athlon 2600XP+ - 2133MHz
Athlon 2800XP+ - 2166MHz
You call that genuine? A 1.5% increase in clockspeed somehow equals 7.5% perfomance increase??
Second, just because the government doesn't tell everyone its intentions behind mandates doesn't mean there is a huge conspiracy behind it. What if Washington were honest in its intent to pusue justice and freedom for the Iraqi people? Whoah!
You know, I've never quite sorted the politics of this whole situation out... I came across a really neat article in the Washington Monthly that points out a very interesting "conspiracy theory"... It's all about a supposed plan to topple virtually every government in the Middle East. A good read...
Air flow?
:)
Meh.
It's water-cooled already. Oh, to be a geek with money to spend...
By democracy you mean a government that would ally with us and give us cheap easy access to the oil fields, right?
Actually, the ENTIRE Persian Gulf region only accounts for 10% of US oil imports...and Saudi and Kuwait each have far more oil than Iraq. Go look it up, it'll be good homework for you...
"Moore's Law" has been bastardized beyond belief. Take an opportunity to read Moore's Paper (1965), which is basically Gordon Moore's prediction on the future direction of the IC industry.
Mod parent up! As long as there's a public access terminal, it's easy enough to make a superfluous "fake login screen" program to log keystrokes and whatnot.
> Thanks, George.
Ummm...
OMB Circular A-76 was put out in 1983 (That's 20 years and three presidents ago. The idea is that private competitive industry can do things far cheaper and more effectively than the government can, and that idea has changed little in 20 years. In fact the biggest federal workforce reduction since before the cold war was done in '94...
I am a federal employee myself (engineer for the Navy), and we pay certain companies X dollars a year to provide janitors, security guards, secretaries, and the guy that gets tapes for you in the tape library. In addition, we have a number of contract jobs that are highly skilled technical people that work with us on certain projects. Outsourced jobs that have access to sensitive information have to go through the same rigorous security screening as regular employees do. The services of sweeping floor or secretary-ing or what have you go through a competitive bidding process, so the job gets done for the best price.
The government works for the people, and privatizing federal jobs saves MONEY. Not to mention, if you privatize someone's job, sure, they lose their job...but someone else gains a job...so it all works out... and even if you make the argument that privatized gov't jobs are replaced by a lesser number of private industry jobs, then the point has been proven that the government was working inefficiently. Not to mention, in tight times, you can generally fire contract employees with no problem...not so great for them, but fine and dandy to the taxpayers that pay them.
The federal government is a great company to work for...virtually garaunteed raises, awesome job security, and (at least in my experience) very flexible work conditions. However, it's also grossly inefficient since as a general rule there isn't any competition. New competition rules for some sectors are starting to change that, but by and large it holds true, and in the government, when employees run out of stuff to do, they continued to get paid to do nothing...where I work, the labor rate is $160,000 per man-year, which is WELL above the average salary...
Come work for the government, with me :-)
Don't get me wrong, I agree with your sentiment entirely... I'm just pointing out what I think is the rationale behind the law
I think "the point" of this law is not so criminals can't get their hands on guns...because I'm sure it would be trivial to take your gun to a shop (or someone's basement) and have it "re-fitted" to you. I believe that "the point" here is to prevent children from getting their hands on guns, which I would consider a noble cause.
Erm, no... it's a signal amp... so if you stick it halfway between a laptop and a wireless AP, it will amplify the signal from both. It's just like using a repeater in a cabled network.
I'm still trying to come up with a good reason to replace Wife 1.0. All the newer models look so much cooler.
:::sigh:::
> Sorry, the newer models want more RAM than you can provide.
You have it all wrong...
The newer models want more cache than you can provide...
In college we used a parallel-to-ISA converter (which was probably years and years old) so that we could do projects involving the ISA bus. I imagine there's a bunch of products like that around if you know where to look.
Ahh, first post after his honeymoon... give the guy a break, I'm sure his mind is elsewhere :)
Looks like we're getting within an order of magnitude of the theoretical limits of CD-burning! PIO mode 4 caps at 16.7M/sec, which is about 111x, less than double! I bet soon we'll be seeing UDMA or even ATA/66/100/133 CD-R/DVD-R drives... I imagine there's a need for some extra headroom as far as IDE bus bandwidth is concerned...
This actually raises an interesting thought...supposing your drive is 52x at PIO4, would you get a buffer underrun if both the source and destination drive in a burn operation are on the same IDE channel? It would seem, then, that you'd want, at a minimum, slightly more than double the bandwidth of the writer in the IDE bus that it sits on...
Hmmm...
My father bought a Pioneer A/V receiver system with dual tape deck, reverberator, amp, and a pair of Bose 901 speakers. Original cost was something like $2000, back in 1982 (!!)... It's still running beautifully today, and I just hooked up the new big-screen TV to it, and it works just as well as it did 20 years ago. It amazes me that technology from 1982 is still compatible with the technology of today.