At one point, you see a guy with what looks like an RPG-7 in the street, walking towards the buildings. Unless he broke into a run, he would not have made it to the corner of the building when you see another guy peeking around with something.
That thing was a camera with a telephoto lens, NOT an RPG. I knew it the moment I saw it. It certainly was not what the guy in the street had. The profile was all wrong.
This is a case of seeing what you expect to see, not what is actually there. We also have the luxury of being able to look things over more carefully. Hindsight is 20/20.
The problem isn't the computer itself really. If it wasn't in a very poor environment, it probably just has some dust contamination that a little compressed air or a PC vac can solve. The hard drive, which your equipment likely doesn't have, is going to be the primary point of failure. A hard drive is NOT solid state. It is a piece of mechanical equipment. The thing is probably well past the MTBF, and even though many of these old drives lasted long beyond that, its life expectancy is short.
There's alot of assumptions being made here fellas. For one, although the diagram suggests it, it doesn't HAVE to send data over the usb port twice. If the driver that's intercepting the stack is properly designed, it only needs to send the packet once, and then get a binary response: accept or deny. Remember, the USB port isn't a network device, so it doesn't have to work like one. However, we don't know if it works this way, or if it really does send it twice.
Seems like they were more bitching about 2nd Edition AD&D, which was notorious for its brevity when it came to clarifying a complicated situation. And instead of release errata or an FAQ on an official website (yes, the web was still a 'new' thing back then, but honestly), they'd release a new book. And the whole 2nd edition revised books was just the last flailing cash grab of a tanking company.
The thing is, they AREN'T exempt. EA's HR department is just trying to convince them and everyone else that they are. Unless you are making $40/hour plus (about $90k per year, which you can guarantee those guys aren't making) and/or in a management position with enough autonomy to be responsible for determining your own schedule, you are NOT exempt from overtime pay. The courts, if the class is certified, will determine this rather quickly, and EA will find that it doesn't pay to treat your employees like a disposable resource.
Which of course is a reflection of the shallow and materialistic nature of American society, which unfortunately I belong to. God forbid we have any substance. The French might call us nerds!
Actually, as soon as your thought comes out of your mouth, and I hear it, or from your hands onto paper or a computer, and I read it, it is now intrinsically my thought, by virtue of the process of my brain interpreting the signals from my ears or eyes. This is why IP isn't.
Yup, yer right. If a student excercised their right to use the spectrum by setting up their own access point, and the school decided to try an expel him, he could take them to court over it. If it were determined that no harm was being caused by the student's use of the device, the court would have to rule in his favor (as only the FCC has the right to regulate the usage of the spectrum), and he could probably sue the school for court fees, moving and living expenses incurred from being forced to leave, and for tuition. Of course, they would probably still be expelled. IANAL of course, but this would seem appropriate. It hacks me off when colleges pull shit like this, and I like to think that they'd get what they deserve. In reality though, this probably wouldn't happen.
Acutally, depending on the volume of their heavy water tank, the neutron count could have been significantly reduced, as the tank it self would have moderated the reaction, assuming a D-D reaction. But still, I think alot of the 'heat' produced was probably electron loss. There may have been fusion going on however. As the sonoluminescence experiements and the fusors show, extreme temperatures are NOT a prereq for fusion, just for ultra-high energy fusion
The fusor folks do fusion at what could be considered 'cold' temperatures every day (The point of fusion is by no means cold, at least in terms of electron-volts, but they don't use photon heat/pressure to induce fusion), though they aren't anywhere near the 'break-even' point. Still, good work from those guys. Check out www.fusor.net
For me, its definitely all of the above (stability, security, shady business practices), and more.
Price is a big sticking point, as I simply cannot afford Windows, not on my budget.
Support is another concern. With Linux (or BSD, or Solaris, etc.), there is a wealth of information available on the Internet that I am very accustomed to. With Windows, I either have to rely on Microsoft's Knowledge base (which is terrible, except for the most obvious problems), or *shudder* call Microsoft.
Granted, there are web forums and other places on the net that give tips for certain Windows issues, but they rarely work, and many times, aren't really applicable to my problem. And not to go completely against Windows, many of my past Windows problems have really been hardware issues... but a BSOD does not help me diagnose my problem. It may help Microsoft, but I'm not about to call them to find out I've got a bad stick of RAM or that my CDROM is flaky.
No, I think I'll be sticking with Unix for the forseeable future.
I don't think it would be a stretch of the imagination to speculate that Ken or somebody in his pay astroturfed that one, posting that comment in preparation for his book. Hmmmm, interesting.
because the development process for it has been WAY too cumbersome for me in the past, and I've been seriously looking at C#/.Net as an alternative. And being a pretty vehement Microsoft hater, that's pretty damn serious.
Yes, but just because it is a "standard" for a university to have a code of conduct like this, that does not mean it is what we should all accept as the way things should be. If the University didn't like the site, they should have shut it down and then asked him to take it elsewhere. They shouldn't have expelled him and taken legal action against him, regardless of any supposed "e-mail" sent. If the U of U doesn't have staff competent enough to realize that it is trivially easy to fake an e-mail, then any charges against him should be thrown out on account of incompetency of the administration. And as he is paying for his education (or at least somebody other than the university is), I don't think it's at all fair for them to throw that away because they're stupid.
I totally agree with this, and when you think about it, it really is IMPOSSIBLE to control what somebody does with "your" IP. I mean, really. Maybe you, or somebody, comes up with an idea that is so revolutionary that it is simply pleasing to the brain to think about, good enough to want to tell somebody else so they can experience it. Maybe it starts a reaction in the brain that cures a headache. According to the copyright/IP supporters posting here, you have the right to say whether or not I can think about your idea, seeing as the fruition of the idea is the idea itself. You could hardly enforce it, and if you tried that on me, I'd resort to violent measures to stop you, regardless of the consequences, because my brain IS my physical property, and the sequences and combinations of chemicals released and electrical impulses fired aren't yours to control. At it's base level, IP starts as a thought. Once you transmit that thought to somebody else, you've given them a copy. It might not be perfect, but if its a simple and logical idea, it's likely that it will convey the same idea as your original thought. It seems perfectly natural to me that I should be able to create something positive to society based on my copy of your idea, and its more than likely that I'd be willing to give you something in return for more ideas.
Keep your keys stored on a steganographic filesystem (StegFS), and keep them backed up on a CD stored in a fireproof safe (or any physically secure location). Only activate the security level that your keys are stored in when you plan on using them, and deactivate it otherwise. Obviously, your weakest link will be the key protecting your security level, but they would have to gain executable access to your machine to be able to leverage it.
Actually, he's really correct. I've seen this problem with even the 192.168.x.x addresses. The random scheme does seem to work fairly well, assuming that you're routing data between two networks. Otherwise, it shouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
My girlfriend's mother has a rare form of monochromatic color blindness. She can't distinguish any color from another, apart from light or darkness, except for red. It also causes her to go 'snow-blind' during the day, so she wears red-tinted glasses when she goes out.
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Actually, getting sick from a hot dog or deli sandwich is more likely because of issues during packaging of the hot dogs or deli meat.
At one point, you see a guy with what looks like an RPG-7 in the street, walking towards the buildings. Unless he broke into a run, he would not have made it to the corner of the building when you see another guy peeking around with something.
That thing was a camera with a telephoto lens, NOT an RPG. I knew it the moment I saw it. It certainly was not what the guy in the street had. The profile was all wrong.
This is a case of seeing what you expect to see, not what is actually there. We also have the luxury of being able to look things over more carefully. Hindsight is 20/20.
The problem isn't the computer itself really. If it wasn't in a very poor environment, it probably just has some dust contamination that a little compressed air or a PC vac can solve. The hard drive, which your equipment likely doesn't have, is going to be the primary point of failure. A hard drive is NOT solid state. It is a piece of mechanical equipment. The thing is probably well past the MTBF, and even though many of these old drives lasted long beyond that, its life expectancy is short.
There's alot of assumptions being made here fellas. For one, although the diagram suggests it, it doesn't HAVE to send data over the usb port twice. If the driver that's intercepting the stack is properly designed, it only needs to send the packet once, and then get a binary response: accept or deny. Remember, the USB port isn't a network device, so it doesn't have to work like one. However, we don't know if it works this way, or if it really does send it twice.
That omgwtf32.dll IS a dirty rat bastard, ain't it?
That's true, but the 2nd edition revised stuff that I'm specifically talking about came out much later, right before the WotC buyout I believe.
Seems like they were more bitching about 2nd Edition AD&D, which was notorious for its brevity when it came to clarifying a complicated situation. And instead of release errata or an FAQ on an official website (yes, the web was still a 'new' thing back then, but honestly), they'd release a new book. And the whole 2nd edition revised books was just the last flailing cash grab of a tanking company.
The thing is, they AREN'T exempt. EA's HR department is just trying to convince them and everyone else that they are. Unless you are making $40/hour plus (about $90k per year, which you can guarantee those guys aren't making) and/or in a management position with enough autonomy to be responsible for determining your own schedule, you are NOT exempt from overtime pay. The courts, if the class is certified, will determine this rather quickly, and EA will find that it doesn't pay to treat your employees like a disposable resource.
Which of course is a reflection of the shallow and materialistic nature of American society, which unfortunately I belong to. God forbid we have any substance. The French might call us nerds!
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Now and forever, 'systems' will always be the last word in 'file systems'
Actually, as soon as your thought comes out of your mouth, and I hear it, or from your hands onto paper or a computer, and I read it, it is now intrinsically my thought, by virtue of the process of my brain interpreting the signals from my ears or eyes. This is why IP isn't.
Yup, yer right. If a student excercised their right to use the spectrum by setting up their own access point, and the school decided to try an expel him, he could take them to court over it. If it were determined that no harm was being caused by the student's use of the device, the court would have to rule in his favor (as only the FCC has the right to regulate the usage of the spectrum), and he could probably sue the school for court fees, moving and living expenses incurred from being forced to leave, and for tuition. Of course, they would probably still be expelled. IANAL of course, but this would seem appropriate. It hacks me off when colleges pull shit like this, and I like to think that they'd get what they deserve. In reality though, this probably wouldn't happen.
Acutally, depending on the volume of their heavy water tank, the neutron count could have been significantly reduced, as the tank it self would have moderated the reaction, assuming a D-D reaction. But still, I think alot of the 'heat' produced was probably electron loss. There may have been fusion going on however. As the sonoluminescence experiements and the fusors show, extreme temperatures are NOT a prereq for fusion, just for ultra-high energy fusion
The fusor folks do fusion at what could be considered 'cold' temperatures every day (The point of fusion is by no means cold, at least in terms of electron-volts, but they don't use photon heat/pressure to induce fusion), though they aren't anywhere near the 'break-even' point. Still, good work from those guys. Check out www.fusor.net
I've always used this method:
/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf
/usr/portage /usr/local/portage
set PORTAGE_OVERLAY to
# cd
# cp -pr --parents x11-base/xorg-x11
vi the appropriate ebuilds and whack the ~'s
For me, its definitely all of the above (stability, security, shady business practices), and more.
Price is a big sticking point, as I simply cannot afford Windows, not on my budget.
Support is another concern. With Linux (or BSD, or Solaris, etc.), there is a wealth of information available on the Internet that I am very accustomed to. With Windows, I either have to rely on Microsoft's Knowledge base (which is terrible, except for the most obvious problems), or *shudder* call Microsoft.
Granted, there are web forums and other places on the net that give tips for certain Windows issues, but they rarely work, and many times, aren't really applicable to my problem. And not to go completely against Windows, many of my past Windows problems have really been hardware issues... but a BSOD does not help me diagnose my problem. It may help Microsoft, but I'm not about to call them to find out I've got a bad stick of RAM or that my CDROM is flaky.
No, I think I'll be sticking with Unix for the forseeable future.
I don't think it would be a stretch of the imagination to speculate that Ken or somebody in his pay astroturfed that one, posting that comment in preparation for his book. Hmmmm, interesting.
because the development process for it has been WAY too cumbersome for me in the past, and I've been seriously looking at C#/.Net as an alternative. And being a pretty vehement Microsoft hater, that's pretty damn serious.
Yes, but just because it is a "standard" for a university to have a code of conduct like this, that does not mean it is what we should all accept as the way things should be. If the University didn't like the site, they should have shut it down and then asked him to take it elsewhere. They shouldn't have expelled him and taken legal action against him, regardless of any supposed "e-mail" sent. If the U of U doesn't have staff competent enough to realize that it is trivially easy to fake an e-mail, then any charges against him should be thrown out on account of incompetency of the administration. And as he is paying for his education (or at least somebody other than the university is), I don't think it's at all fair for them to throw that away because they're stupid.
I totally agree with this, and when you think about it, it really is IMPOSSIBLE to control what somebody does with "your" IP. I mean, really. Maybe you, or somebody, comes up with an idea that is so revolutionary that it is simply pleasing to the brain to think about, good enough to want to tell somebody else so they can experience it. Maybe it starts a reaction in the brain that cures a headache. According to the copyright/IP supporters posting here, you have the right to say whether or not I can think about your idea, seeing as the fruition of the idea is the idea itself. You could hardly enforce it, and if you tried that on me, I'd resort to violent measures to stop you, regardless of the consequences, because my brain IS my physical property, and the sequences and combinations of chemicals released and electrical impulses fired aren't yours to control. At it's base level, IP starts as a thought. Once you transmit that thought to somebody else, you've given them a copy. It might not be perfect, but if its a simple and logical idea, it's likely that it will convey the same idea as your original thought. It seems perfectly natural to me that I should be able to create something positive to society based on my copy of your idea, and its more than likely that I'd be willing to give you something in return for more ideas.
These guys need to use StegFS. It's all about plausible deniability, heh.
Keep your keys stored on a steganographic filesystem (StegFS), and keep them backed up on a CD stored in a fireproof safe (or any physically secure location). Only activate the security level that your keys are stored in when you plan on using them, and deactivate it otherwise. Obviously, your weakest link will be the key protecting your security level, but they would have to gain executable access to your machine to be able to leverage it.
You're assuming that he allows root SSH logins :)
Actually, he's really correct. I've seen this problem with even the 192.168.x.x addresses. The random scheme does seem to work fairly well, assuming that you're routing data between two networks. Otherwise, it shouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
My girlfriend's mother has a rare form of monochromatic color blindness. She can't distinguish any color from another, apart from light or darkness, except for red. It also causes her to go 'snow-blind' during the day, so she wears red-tinted glasses when she goes out.