Must be a pretty light work-out, or you have a fan blowing on you. I've worked out on exercise bikes and the one thing you get lots of is sweat. Not perspiration, but highly corrosive sweat. Doesn't seem a good mating of things.
Crackers concentrate on the weakest link, not on the toughest. Old (and unpatched) Windows releases are what they target, Vista will be targeted only if it's significantly easy to exploit (which, if we believe the features, won't be the case).
They also attack where the greatest number of targets will be. If there's a significant number of vista machines on the net they'll be toiling away trying to break in, I have no doubt they will succede.
Anyone want to explain why the seismic station at Inchon, South Korea appears to be quiet at the time of the blast (1:35 UTC)?
I see an event at Inchon at about 14:30 UTC on Sunday, but it's 11 hours earlier than the reported blast.
This wasn't really a nuclear bomb test, it was a summoning! They're summoning the real Pulgasari! However, unlike the movie one which feeds on iron, this one feeds on Plutonium. It will crush the enemies of the DPRK then lead all the communist brotherhood in an interesting folk dance before turning on them to sate its hunger for nuclear fuel. Kim, as usual, has awakened a monster even he and his propaganda machine will not be able to control
Seriously, there's a 4.2 on the USGS site, but they could have just faked it with a load of TNT, like that mysterious railway explosion they had years ago. Local quarry explosions frequently register as high as 2.0 on the richter scale. Enough Ammonium Nitrate and fuel oil down a well and you, too, could claim mastery of nuclear weapons, without any international monitors to say otherwise.
Aren't many self replicating or functional as an independent entity? I doubt many of these are being launched from an actual location that can be tracked down easily. Much of it is embedding in pages, spy-ware, or something similar online. You ask why there is no action taken against these bots, but the reality is that these bots are everywhere and not in one central location. One instance of a bot probably exists in dozens, if not thousands of locations.
On the other hand, what would cleaning up the net really do? It would cost a decent amount of time, money and effort, only to see new and better exploits coming out as a result of our efforts. The burden should be, and is on the OS to handle these threats and protect its users. These people writing exploits will likely never stop unless we can find away to easily identify and prosecute the source of said exploits.
Unfortunately, this is the same sort of response I've got from meetings in the past, "the problem is so big, we'll never get anywhere, so why start?", and then there's me doing the jobs of a half dozen or so people who can't spare five minutes a day to do something right, so it becomes a major problem after all the not-doing-anything-before.
For one, I'd think there are some elementary steps which could be taken, if not by government, then certainly by ISPs. Learn the signature of attacks and isolate computers on your own network which are launching them, if the customer doesn't respond then freeze their account, that usually gets attention fast. Have some kit for learning how to protect new customers (I understand AOL actually comes with something like this, but I'm not one of their subscribers.) Have new customers run through the steps and activate their connection to the outside once they've done so and signed off, then require they keep up or their accounts will be frozen. If all carriers would work together as an industry group I think this could be accomplished, not necessarily as this example works, but something. My ISP only offers email filtering, which is only so-so.
I set up a friend's new computer and installed a firewall, before attaching to to internet for the first time and he was stunned how fast the log of probes filled up. He'd never used a firewall before on his old XP machine.
What bugs me is why there doesn't seem to be any decent coordinated effort to track the bots down and shut them down and to go after the perpetrators. Really, it doesn't seem that hard, it just seems like no government is interested in doing anything about it.
That reminds me of Iraq moving troops near the Kuwait border in 1990. Everyone I heard said Saddam would never actually invade, but invade he did.
Maybe North Korea will sit still and be proud of its nuclear capability without using it, but I am afraid South Korea is overconfident of being left alone.
People need reminding there only exists a cease-fire between the two halves of Korea. NK has not put pen to paper and signed a formal peace treaty and recognition of South Korea as a sovreign state. Kim and his supporters still believe they will one day 'save' South Korea and then all the peoples of Korea will be united it their admiration of Kim and his 'communist' party and their army. These people are straight out of comic books, but it shouldn't be surprising, Kim is a huge fan of John Wayne.
I can't tell from your AC whether you live in the vicinity of NK, but even several thousand miles away I do worry, not directly about missiles hitting my home, but the fallout from anything which may transpire as a result of this test. NK has proven to be nothing more than a comical regime of inbred tin-pot dictators. Their news about this event "making out army happy" only underscores this. These people charge right ahead and do as they say, regardless of the reprecussions -- I think largely because China and, to a lesser degree, Russia have urged calm. China seems to finally be getting the clue that they really have no leverage over these idiots and that the shit will hit the fan and they'll get hit with some of the blowback.
Worst that could come of it, as I was thinking about this last night at 2 AM, a combined attack on Pyongyang by RoK and US forces in a lightning attack, but a lot of missiles still landing in South Korea and a lot of death and destruction as the truly bizarre Kim Il Jong goes out like his hero John Wayne, in a blaze of glory.
Stand by for people predicting this will improve GOP Hawk candidates re-election. These jokers have been in the pit for almost 6 years and these are their results. "Re-elect me, I'll be tough on North Korea... finally."
In a couple of prior jobs executives and managers were the ones caught with gobs of pr0n on their computers. On was actually walked
out the door while we all watched, his computer had been examined by the techs and was crammed with child pr0n. Dunno if he was prosecuted, I certainly
hope so.
We have logs of our sites activities, too, which can be linked directly to users. I haven't heard of anyone getting
the dusting for it, possibly because half the staff in Personnel are surfing while their boss tells me how busy they are and can't
do some work which truly belongs to their department.
Even I do a little surfing, but usually during breaks or while waiting for some task to run.
According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States.
"We keep it, Sir, but it still comes up with the number one threat to the US is Donald Rumsfeld."
that gauss density could be fatal and/or affect instruments.
I know there's a relationship between bird migration and magnetic fields, too, as a lot of them blindly smack into the brick walls at a local MRI center.
As other Slashdotters have mentioned however, this turbine appears to greatly exceed the theoretical max efficency for a heat engine unless they run it at insane temperatures. This fact tends to set off the BS alarm in my head.
Could be ceramic. What puzzles me is the RPM range. Sounds like it needs to run in a vacuum. I'd like to see how they do it.
They'll have the legit online gaming community look after it for them -- the big casino companies, who have the most to gain from this. I bet you don't have to look very far to see who really was behind this. It's not about money laundering, it's about a big business keeping it's slice of the pie.
Um, about 5 watts? That's pretty low heat dissipation all told. Exaust and mechanical stress are definatly a concern though, although with components that small at least the masses will be tiny, even if the RPM is exceedingly high. I wonder about the sound though, is it going to drive dogs insane everytime you turn on your Laptop?
Sounds more like you may encounter some sort of RFI. With a turbo-charger in an auto, you don't use it right away at max RPM but have a warm up and warm down period (those who have gone through a lot of turbos in a short time probably haven't learned this yet.)
I would imagine a gas turbine exploding would be worse than exploding lithium batteries.
To say nothing of using one of these for dental work, as alluded to in the article. My dentist uses sand, it's a bit annoying, but doesn't rip your face apart with shrapnel if there's a malfunction.
I hate to say it, but RT*A. It says the device is 95% efficient.
I hate that you had to say that after I already had. What's 5% of 100 watts? Plus you've got the exhaust and what do you do when this little bugger wears out? At 1/2 million RPM I don't think you'll be jogging around with it, either as the gyro effect would be a bit tough on it. These are neat, but still, I don't think they're better than an emergency measure.
Still Mechanical Conversion to Energy
on
Two Tiny Gas Turbines
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
It's still a mecanical conversion of a compounds to energy, with all the inefficiencies that go with it, including disposal of waste heat. Where's these
fuel cells I keep hearing about?
If anyone is, um, silly enough to run Vista without waiting for at least 6 months after SP2, then they probably are not really concerned about security, compatibility, and reliability anyway. It's pretty standard practice to wait.
Cue: The Microsoft Marketing Engine to leap into action, contacting PC Makers and PHB's the world over, offering sigificant discounts for early adoption.
I saved our department a million dollars. I deserve a raise. What's all that screaming and swearing out in Cubicle City?
Those who designed the Internet were also overly optimistic about the true nature of people and didn't really consider security issues either.
That's where I alluded to email other applications and software. To be brief: The interenet isn't completely re-written by one company every few years. Microsoft has the ablility and market position which guarantee to some extent they can re-write their OS every few years and make billions doing it.
I laughed at your retarded Jurassic Park reference.
Off the cuff it was the best I could come up with, but the idea was there -- create a complex system and it will inherently have weak links. The more complex, the more weak links. Microsoft wants Windows to be the BE ALL, END ALL of operating/environment/user interfaces, in so doing have created a long chain with many forks and many, many weak links.
Once Vista hits the streets in its final incarnation, and the Bad Guys get to working on it, my money is on the premise that third party antivirus solutions to whatever problems that inevitably must arise, will continue to be a necessity.
And if McAfee, Symantec, et al have been locked out of the loop so long there's a great lag in developing security products, doesn't that make Vista the literal Albatross?
Slashdot Mirror
Must be a pretty light work-out, or you have a fan blowing on you. I've worked out on exercise bikes and the one thing you get lots of is sweat. Not perspiration, but highly corrosive sweat. Doesn't seem a good mating of things.
Crackers concentrate on the weakest link, not on the toughest. Old (and unpatched) Windows releases are what they target, Vista will be targeted only if it's significantly easy to exploit (which, if we believe the features, won't be the case).
They also attack where the greatest number of targets will be. If there's a significant number of vista machines on the net they'll be toiling away trying to break in, I have no doubt they will succede.
One good thing about vista, crackers and wormware writers will start focusing on that and, hopefully, leave my PC alone :o)
Anyone want to explain why the seismic station at Inchon, South Korea appears to be quiet at the time of the blast (1:35 UTC)?
I see an event at Inchon at about 14:30 UTC on Sunday, but it's 11 hours earlier than the reported blast.
This wasn't really a nuclear bomb test, it was a summoning! They're summoning the real Pulgasari! However, unlike the movie one which feeds on iron, this one feeds on Plutonium. It will crush the enemies of the DPRK then lead all the communist brotherhood in an interesting folk dance before turning on them to sate its hunger for nuclear fuel. Kim, as usual, has awakened a monster even he and his propaganda machine will not be able to control
Seriously, there's a 4.2 on the USGS site, but they could have just faked it with a load of TNT, like that mysterious railway explosion they had years ago. Local quarry explosions frequently register as high as 2.0 on the richter scale. Enough Ammonium Nitrate and fuel oil down a well and you, too, could claim mastery of nuclear weapons, without any international monitors to say otherwise.
Aren't many self replicating or functional as an independent entity? I doubt many of these are being launched from an actual location that can be tracked down easily. Much of it is embedding in pages, spy-ware, or something similar online. You ask why there is no action taken against these bots, but the reality is that these bots are everywhere and not in one central location. One instance of a bot probably exists in dozens, if not thousands of locations.
On the other hand, what would cleaning up the net really do? It would cost a decent amount of time, money and effort, only to see new and better exploits coming out as a result of our efforts. The burden should be, and is on the OS to handle these threats and protect its users. These people writing exploits will likely never stop unless we can find away to easily identify and prosecute the source of said exploits.
Unfortunately, this is the same sort of response I've got from meetings in the past, "the problem is so big, we'll never get anywhere, so why start?", and then there's me doing the jobs of a half dozen or so people who can't spare five minutes a day to do something right, so it becomes a major problem after all the not-doing-anything-before.
For one, I'd think there are some elementary steps which could be taken, if not by government, then certainly by ISPs. Learn the signature of attacks and isolate computers on your own network which are launching them, if the customer doesn't respond then freeze their account, that usually gets attention fast. Have some kit for learning how to protect new customers (I understand AOL actually comes with something like this, but I'm not one of their subscribers.) Have new customers run through the steps and activate their connection to the outside once they've done so and signed off, then require they keep up or their accounts will be frozen. If all carriers would work together as an industry group I think this could be accomplished, not necessarily as this example works, but something. My ISP only offers email filtering, which is only so-so.
I set up a friend's new computer and installed a firewall, before attaching to to internet for the first time and he was stunned how fast the log of probes filled up. He'd never used a firewall before on his old XP machine.
What bugs me is why there doesn't seem to be any decent coordinated effort to track the bots down and shut them down and to go after the perpetrators. Really, it doesn't seem that hard, it just seems like no government is interested in doing anything about it.
Surely his cockroach-self will escape in a mini spaceship?
I'm still waiting for the sequel. Know if there's one in the works? :-)
That reminds me of Iraq moving troops near the Kuwait border in 1990. Everyone I heard said Saddam would never actually invade, but invade he did.
Maybe North Korea will sit still and be proud of its nuclear capability without using it, but I am afraid South Korea is overconfident of being left alone.
People need reminding there only exists a cease-fire between the two halves of Korea. NK has not put pen to paper and signed a formal peace treaty and recognition of South Korea as a sovreign state. Kim and his supporters still believe they will one day 'save' South Korea and then all the peoples of Korea will be united it their admiration of Kim and his 'communist' party and their army. These people are straight out of comic books, but it shouldn't be surprising, Kim is a huge fan of John Wayne.
It scares the hell out of me.
I can't tell from your AC whether you live in the vicinity of NK, but even several thousand miles away I do worry, not directly about missiles hitting my home, but the fallout from anything which may transpire as a result of this test. NK has proven to be nothing more than a comical regime of inbred tin-pot dictators. Their news about this event "making out army happy" only underscores this. These people charge right ahead and do as they say, regardless of the reprecussions -- I think largely because China and, to a lesser degree, Russia have urged calm. China seems to finally be getting the clue that they really have no leverage over these idiots and that the shit will hit the fan and they'll get hit with some of the blowback.
Worst that could come of it, as I was thinking about this last night at 2 AM, a combined attack on Pyongyang by RoK and US forces in a lightning attack, but a lot of missiles still landing in South Korea and a lot of death and destruction as the truly bizarre Kim Il Jong goes out like his hero John Wayne, in a blaze of glory.
Stand by for people predicting this will improve GOP Hawk candidates re-election. These jokers have been in the pit for almost 6 years and these are their results. "Re-elect me, I'll be tough on North Korea ... finally."
'Cause if there's one thing that prison does, it's to improve your opinion of Black people.
Not so. Maybe a grudging respect, but racists band together for protection, same as they do on the outside.
In Soviet Russia^H^H^H^H EU airline reports YOU!
In a couple of prior jobs executives and managers were the ones caught with gobs of pr0n on their computers. On was actually walked out the door while we all watched, his computer had been examined by the techs and was crammed with child pr0n. Dunno if he was prosecuted, I certainly hope so.
We have logs of our sites activities, too, which can be linked directly to users. I haven't heard of anyone getting the dusting for it, possibly because half the staff in Personnel are surfing while their boss tells me how busy they are and can't do some work which truly belongs to their department.
Even I do a little surfing, but usually during breaks or while waiting for some task to run.
According to the New York Times, the US Department of Homeland Security is funding AI tools to monitor the foreign press in order to detect threats to the United States.
"We keep it, Sir, but it still comes up with the number one threat to the US is Donald Rumsfeld."
Wake me when there's a googol of them.
that gauss density could be fatal and/or affect instruments.
I know there's a relationship between bird migration and magnetic fields, too, as a lot of them blindly smack into the brick walls at a local MRI center.
As other Slashdotters have mentioned however, this turbine appears to greatly exceed the theoretical max efficency for a heat engine unless they run it at insane temperatures. This fact tends to set off the BS alarm in my head.
Could be ceramic. What puzzles me is the RPM range. Sounds like it needs to run in a vacuum. I'd like to see how they do it.
5 will get you 10 they won't enforce it.
They'll have the legit online gaming community look after it for them -- the big casino companies, who have the most to gain from this. I bet you don't have to look very far to see who really was behind this. It's not about money laundering, it's about a big business keeping it's slice of the pie.
Um, about 5 watts? That's pretty low heat dissipation all told. Exaust and mechanical stress are definatly a concern though, although with components that small at least the masses will be tiny, even if the RPM is exceedingly high. I wonder about the sound though, is it going to drive dogs insane everytime you turn on your Laptop?
Sounds more like you may encounter some sort of RFI. With a turbo-charger in an auto, you don't use it right away at max RPM but have a warm up and warm down period (those who have gone through a lot of turbos in a short time probably haven't learned this yet.)
I would imagine a gas turbine exploding would be worse than exploding lithium batteries.
To say nothing of using one of these for dental work, as alluded to in the article. My dentist uses sand, it's a bit annoying, but doesn't rip your face apart with shrapnel if there's a malfunction.
I hate to say it, but RT*A. It says the device is 95% efficient.
I hate that you had to say that after I already had. What's 5% of 100 watts? Plus you've got the exhaust and what do you do when this little bugger wears out? At 1/2 million RPM I don't think you'll be jogging around with it, either as the gyro effect would be a bit tough on it. These are neat, but still, I don't think they're better than an emergency measure.
It's still a mecanical conversion of a compounds to energy, with all the inefficiencies that go with it, including disposal of waste heat. Where's these fuel cells I keep hearing about?
10 props for neat, anyway.
also, can it do this?
If anyone is, um, silly enough to run Vista without waiting for at least 6 months after SP2, then they probably are not really concerned about security, compatibility, and reliability anyway. It's pretty standard practice to wait.
Cue: The Microsoft Marketing Engine to leap into action, contacting PC Makers and PHB's the world over, offering sigificant discounts for early adoption.
I saved our department a million dollars. I deserve a raise. What's all that screaming and swearing out in Cubicle City?
Those who designed the Internet were also overly optimistic about the true nature of people and didn't really consider security issues either.
That's where I alluded to email other applications and software. To be brief: The interenet isn't completely re-written by one company every few years. Microsoft has the ablility and market position which guarantee to some extent they can re-write their OS every few years and make billions doing it.
I laughed at your retarded Jurassic Park reference.
Off the cuff it was the best I could come up with, but the idea was there -- create a complex system and it will inherently have weak links. The more complex, the more weak links. Microsoft wants Windows to be the BE ALL, END ALL of operating/environment/user interfaces, in so doing have created a long chain with many forks and many, many weak links.
Once Vista hits the streets in its final incarnation, and the Bad Guys get to working on it, my money is on the premise that third party antivirus solutions to whatever problems that inevitably must arise, will continue to be a necessity.
And if McAfee, Symantec, et al have been locked out of the loop so long there's a great lag in developing security products, doesn't that make Vista the literal Albatross?