This sounds like an office joke that got out of hand. It's the nerds messin with the Marketdroids. One of them took it seriously and dropped the press release bomb.
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What was really sad is that the AOL Veep missed the real chance to drive the nail in the coffin!
All he needed to say was that he was using his network to to his business with his customers. As oppoed to the spammer who was using others' resources to annoy others' customers.
This would have avoided all the PR/legal problems inherent to testifing before Congress and gotten the point across. To bad he missed his shot.
Heh, yea. I wasn't meant to be (just doing typical/., spouting without knowlege) but it did have that effect!
I did walk down the hall and talked to the music theory guys. It seems there are some instances where "C flat" is appropriate nomenclature for a note. I was wrong, I was slapped down, now I have been educated, so I guess this thread can die.
As I mentioned I'm not a musician... And I was wrong about the B# part. B# would be C natural and B natural would be C flat (one semitone apart as you pointed out)
But I still think there is any use for the notation C flat. For refrence look here That, and one of the few things I remember from HS band class.
I gave up reading the article when I hit this line:
Another prevalent idea is that synesthetes are merely being metaphorical when they describe the note C flat as "red"
I am not a musician by any stretch of the immagination, but even I know that C flat is not a notation that is used. It's B sharp (B#). This gives me some serious doubts about Sci-Am's editing staff..
Something else you might want to think about too...
When tropical storm Allison hit Houston in 2001 it totally flooded the Texas Medical Center. The area was like 20 or so square miles under 8 feet of water! If the backups had been just across campus they would have gone too. Large scale disasters happen frequently. Hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes oh my
Unless you can find it already in the ground and unused I think 100mi (100 nodes, 1 mi each) of fiber would buy quite a few AIT tapes... The price they list in the article is $50,ooo for a good tape changer.
One thing about tape systems that I didn't see mentioned was the portability of the media. Data recovery is still impossible if your backup burns up along with your server. I don't see anyone rolling one of these out to the offsite storage.
Maybe you could do it with a big pipe between your backup location and your servers. But I bet that would cost a bundle in bandwidth.
Also did anyone notice that typo on UPS (maybe they were on drugs USP)! It took me a good minute to catch it.
I'll start with the "flamebait" part and then go back to the top -
1. Because it is flamebait! But I'll bite anyway. It has been pointed out time and again that the technological boom of the 1990's and the resulting drop in crime and unemployment was a direct result of the Apollo program of the 1960's and 1970's. Here and Here are two sources.
2. "lethal radiation" - The dose of radiation an astronaut would receive on a 1.5 year Mars mission is about 52rem (using a conjunction trajectory). This would increase the chance of death attributed to radiation (cancer) of that astronaut on the order of 1%. [Zubrin, The Case for Mars]
3. "putting more than one person..." - Well we have, on this Earth, a place known as the New World. You might remember from history explorers found it by setting sail on small boats for years at a time. Think along the lines of Magellan and Columbus. I think you see where this goes. No cite necessary.
4. "Furthermore... why? Who gets fed?" - You get two for this one. First see #1 above. Second, I'll point you to the works of Thomas Malthus. We need more space to grow as a civilization, and as hard as we might try to kill each other we will run out of space eventually!
*You can turn Multi-Room Viewing off on any DVR. You decide which DVRs can share programming. Television programming is not under TiVo's control. Programming providers may restrict or limit the transfer of particular programs. TiVo does not guarantee access to or transfer of any particular program.
Does this mean they have DRM biult in or does it just mean that the rights issues are your own problem?
But wait! Didn't we just read something almost like the earlier:
If you don't want the government to do what it must to protect you from terrorists, you should butt out, said Heather MacDonald, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. She made her remarks Wednesday at the 13th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference.
This is what happens when you let hysteria determine the future of laws and the interpretation of laws. What happens when America is not America anymore? Well I guess we are about to find out.
Yea, but you should try working for a public institution. Our e-mail addresses are public domain and have to be given to anyone who asks. Thank god for Mozilla's filtering. Thats gotten me down to only 20 or so a day that I have to deal with.
At this point I'm praying for legislation that makes UCE illegal to government entities! You would think it would be misappropriation of resources or something. But the Ashcroft says no, I guess he is too busy chasing terrorists.
I never saw anything in their methodology about how the spam was analyzed. It would have been interesting to see what effect actually opening spam e-mail in a web enabled browser had on the recurrence rate.
I bet the web bugs would have kept the recurrences high even for addresses that were removed...
Yea, I work for ACC and I know this to be truth. But in actuality it may be that he CYA'ed too. It may be one of those institutional things that just can't be fixed until the sh** hits the fan. At that point then you can say "I told you this would happen", until then the only thing you can do is holler long and loud.
I tried as hard as I could but I couldn't find that clause in the link you posted, could you point it out for me?
Let me show you Section 814 which modifies Title 18 of the US Code (criminal code?, IANAL):
"(4) by adding at the end the following:
`(B) by conduct described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of subparagraph (A), caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)--
`(i) loss to 1 or more persons during any 1-year period (and, for purposes of an investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding brought by the United States only, loss resulting from a related course of conduct affecting 1 or more other protected computers) aggregating at least $5,000 in value;"
Am I misunderstanding this completely? To me it says that you are punishable under Title 18 as a terrorist if you compromise a system worth more than $5000. I contend that any computer system could be valued at more than $5000. For reference look at this Title 18 inditement. And the supporting information from the prosecutors which stated the losses suffered at $80m.
As for the rest, I almost agree with you on some points, but to me detention for no reason is not deportation. If they had just deported all of them for visa violations that would have been OK with me (probably not them or their families...). But they didn't, they locked them up with no warning and no charges after they voluntarily came in to "update their records".
I also share your concerns about GitMo. We have established guidelines for dealing with both criminal and military prisoners. Use the rules you have; don't make it up as you go along.
I would say that yes there is a lot of room to discuss the illegal situation at GitMo and various INS facilities around the US!
The problem is when you pass laws like the USA Patriot Act that define hacking as terrorism. It's not a big stretch to see that this could be used to put hackers in concentration camps.
Therefore, while the main story may be incendiary, it's definitely not flame-bait.
A dead stick landing is only possible if you have altitude to trade for airspeed. The same is true for autorotation. Speed over the rotors and all...
This wasn't in the article but it did make the news here in Texas. The pilot was taking off when the airplane became "disabled". Therefore no altitude to trade for airspeed = instant stall. Otherwise known as falling out of the sky. This is the way most plane crashes occur and is exactly what this parachute is designed to prevent.
Read your log files! You do have log files don't you? They contain the best and latest information on the most common attacks in use today. If you see something there, and you don't know what it is Google it!
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This sounds like an office joke that got out of hand. It's the nerds messin with the Marketdroids. One of them took it seriously and dropped the press release bomb.
What was really sad is that the AOL Veep missed the real chance to drive the nail in the coffin!
All he needed to say was that he was using his network to to his business with his customers. As oppoed to the spammer who was using others' resources to annoy others' customers.
This would have avoided all the PR/legal problems inherent to testifing before Congress and gotten the point across. To bad he missed his shot.
Yea, just what I need, data shooting up my bum!
> Nice troll...
/., spouting without knowlege) but it did have that effect!
Heh, yea. I wasn't meant to be (just doing typical
I did walk down the hall and talked to the music theory guys. It seems there are some instances where "C flat" is appropriate nomenclature for a note.
I was wrong, I was slapped down, now I have been educated, so I guess this thread can die.
Yea, that is the musical definition of what I was trying to say. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
FYI - What we are talking about here are NOTES not KEYS
As I mentioned I'm not a musician... And I was wrong about the B# part. B# would be C natural and B natural would be C flat (one semitone apart as you pointed out)
But I still think there is any use for the notation C flat. For refrence look here
That, and one of the few things I remember from HS band class.
I gave up reading the article when I hit this line:
Another prevalent idea is that synesthetes are merely being metaphorical when they describe the note C flat as "red"
I am not a musician by any stretch of the immagination, but even I know that C flat is not a notation that is used. It's B sharp (B#). This gives me some serious doubts about Sci-Am's editing staff..
Something else you might want to think about too...
When tropical storm Allison hit Houston in 2001 it totally flooded the Texas Medical Center. The area was like 20 or so square miles under 8 feet of water! If the backups had been just across campus they would have gone too. Large scale disasters happen frequently. Hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes oh my
Unless you can find it already in the ground and unused I think 100mi (100 nodes, 1 mi each) of fiber would buy quite a few AIT tapes... The price they list in the article is $50,ooo for a good tape changer.
One thing about tape systems that I didn't see mentioned was the portability of the media. Data recovery is still impossible if your backup burns up along with your server. I don't see anyone rolling one of these out to the offsite storage.
Maybe you could do it with a big pipe between your backup location and your servers. But I bet that would cost a bundle in bandwidth.
Also did anyone notice that typo on UPS (maybe they were on drugs USP)! It took me a good minute to catch it.
I'll start with the "flamebait" part and then go back to the top -
1. Because it is flamebait! But I'll bite anyway. It has been pointed out time and again that the technological boom of the 1990's and the resulting drop in crime and unemployment was a direct result of the Apollo program of the 1960's and 1970's. Here and Here are two sources.
2. "lethal radiation" - The dose of radiation an astronaut would receive on a 1.5 year Mars mission is about 52rem (using a conjunction trajectory). This would increase the chance of death attributed to radiation (cancer) of that astronaut on the order of 1%. [Zubrin, The Case for Mars]
3. "putting more than one person..." - Well we have, on this Earth, a place known as the New World. You might remember from history explorers found it by setting sail on small boats for years at a time. Think along the lines of Magellan and Columbus. I think you see where this goes. No cite necessary.
4. "Furthermore... why? Who gets fed?" - You get two for this one. First see #1 above. Second, I'll point you to the works of Thomas Malthus. We need more space to grow as a civilization, and as hard as we might try to kill each other we will run out of space eventually!
Q.E.D.
From the article:
*You can turn Multi-Room Viewing off on any DVR. You decide which DVRs can share programming. Television programming is not under TiVo's control. Programming providers may restrict or limit the transfer of particular programs. TiVo does not guarantee access to or transfer of any particular program.
Does this mean they have DRM biult in or does it just mean that the rights issues are your own problem?
But wait! Didn't we just read something almost like the earlier:
If you don't want the government to do what it must to protect you from terrorists, you should butt out, said Heather MacDonald, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. She made her remarks Wednesday at the 13th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference.
This is what happens when you let hysteria determine the future of laws and the interpretation of laws. What happens when America is not America anymore? Well I guess we are about to find out.
Yea, but you should try working for a public institution. Our e-mail addresses are public domain and have to be given to anyone who asks. Thank god for Mozilla's filtering. Thats gotten me down to only 20 or so a day that I have to deal with.
At this point I'm praying for legislation that makes UCE illegal to government entities! You would think it would be misappropriation of resources or something. But the Ashcroft says no, I guess he is too busy chasing terrorists.
I never saw anything in their methodology about how the spam was analyzed. It would have been interesting to see what effect actually opening spam e-mail in a web enabled browser had on the recurrence rate.
I bet the web bugs would have kept the recurrences high even for addresses that were removed...
Yea, I work for ACC and I know this to be truth. But in actuality it may be that he CYA'ed too. It may be one of those institutional things that just can't be fixed until the sh** hits the fan. At that point then you can say "I told you this would happen", until then the only thing you can do is holler long and loud.
"There are six to 12 ways we could have reduced the risk to the database," Updegrove said. "The sad thing is, we didn't do any of them."
Unfortunately the literal translation of this is:
I am so fired!
BAD MODERATOR no Karma for you
Let me show you Section 814 which modifies Title 18 of the US Code (criminal code?, IANAL):
"(4) by adding at the end the following:
`(B) by conduct described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of subparagraph (A), caused (or, in the case of an attempted offense, would, if completed, have caused)--
`(i) loss to 1 or more persons during any 1-year period (and, for purposes of an investigation, prosecution, or other proceeding brought by the United States only, loss resulting from a related course of conduct affecting 1 or more other protected computers) aggregating at least $5,000 in value;"
Am I misunderstanding this completely? To me it says that you are punishable under Title 18 as a terrorist if you compromise a system worth more than $5000. I contend that any computer system could be valued at more than $5000. For reference look at this Title 18 inditement. And the supporting information from the prosecutors which stated the losses suffered at $80m.
As for the rest, I almost agree with you on some points, but to me detention for no reason is not deportation. If they had just deported all of them for visa violations that would have been OK with me (probably not them or their families...). But they didn't, they locked them up with no warning and no charges after they voluntarily came in to "update their records".
I also share your concerns about GitMo. We have established guidelines for dealing with both criminal and military prisoners. Use the rules you have; don't make it up as you go along.
For a historical perspective: try this
For a scary view of the future try this one for size
For your necessary edification.
The problem is when you pass laws like the USA Patriot Act that define hacking as terrorism. It's not a big stretch to see that this could be used to put hackers in concentration camps.
Therefore, while the main story may be incendiary, it's definitely not flame-bait.
A dead stick landing is only possible if you have altitude to trade for airspeed. The same is true for autorotation. Speed over the rotors and all...
This wasn't in the article but it did make the news here in Texas. The pilot was taking off when the airplane became "disabled". Therefore no altitude to trade for airspeed = instant stall. Otherwise known as falling out of the sky. This is the way most plane crashes occur and is exactly what this parachute is designed to prevent.
If you are near VNE you don't need the parachute.
Read your log files! You do have log files don't you? They contain the best and latest information on the most common attacks in use today. If you see something there, and you don't know what it is Google it!
Now if they would just tell us which search actually returned the desired results... ;)