They've existed for years, but we call them cruise missiles. This is effectively what a cruise missile is - it's not just a straightforward ballistic missile, but a missile that flies like an aircraft and can navigate like an aircraft (Tomahawks are powered by turbine engines too). The only thing we're not doing with cruise missiles is have them be remotely piloted rather than automatic.
There is a telecommunications museum in the UK with a fairly substantial working Strowger exchange (you'll have to google it, I've not been there and I forget where it is). Also many heritage railways in the UK run their voice telecom network on vintage Strowger gear to be in keeping with their railway.
No, they didn't "reach out to" Google, they contacted Google. It's not some emo teenager "reaching out to" their ex-girlfriend for love and support. Additionally, "contacted" is only one word instead of three and sounds better.
The people of Europe wouldn't really care much. There are plenty of alternatives to Google's services, and Google would be handing their competitors the whole EU on a nice easy silver platter.
Lets face it, Google cutting off the EU would bring the continent to its knees for months and months.
LOL! Simply LOL.
What is so vital about Google that can bring Europe to its knees? There are adequate (and in some instances superior) replacement to each Google service already reachable.
But it's a vague and pointless question. Personally I don't care why tennis balls have fuzz and nor am I likely to ever care. It isn't even remotely linked to my line of work.
There are some interview questions that people have said are stupid (in this vein) but are in fact not. For instance I remember one of these "Stupid interview question" stories in the Daily WTF a while back, where the fellow being interviewed was asked "How do you work out the square root of a number?" and then progressively denied all the sensible options (from importing the math library for his language of choice). While the way the interviewer had asked the question was inane, it was actually a very relevant question to ask a person interviewing for a technical job, which the tennis ball fuzz one does not. It allows the candidate a way how to explain how they would go about finding a square root, and also discuss some optimization strategies (e.g. imagine we're working with a microcontroller which doesn't even have a divide instruction - we can talk about optimizing for speed or for space or a compromise). The tennis ball question does none of this and just makes you wonder if the company is actually worth working for.
An interview is often two ways. In tech jobs it's often that the candidate isn't unemployed and desperate but just looking for a job that might be better in some way than their current gig. The interviewee should at some stage become the interviewer and try to find out whether the company and the staff at that location is something they want to be working for.
We heard this joke the morning after the disaster.
What I would have loved to have seen is collection of data of how sick jokes spread after a disaster. Given this was pre-internet, the sick Challenger jokes spread extremely quickly, and it would be interesting to see how many origins they had and how they spread out from there. I suspect most of the Challenger jokes weren't thought up by one person and spread, but thought up independently by perhaps hundreds of different people and spread out from there.
Being young is overrated. I started learning Spanish when I was 35 (in 2008). Being an adult is not an excuse to not learn a language.
Sure I have a terrible accent when I speak it but I've given technical talks in Spanish in front of an audience and they understood fine. When I go to Spain I don't speak a word of English while I'm out there. If the employment situation in Spain wasn't so dismal, I would be entirely comfortable applying for a job there and working there.
You just have to learn languages the right way. It should be easy and fun, not a chore. The problem with how languages are taught here (in Britain) is you are taught to think in English and translate which is a complete non-starter and the way it's taught is very dull and doesn't inspire people to learn. Age might slow your absolute raw learning rate, but this is more than offset by experience, discipline and knowledge of "how to learn" which you don't have as a child.
Actually it's easier to learn a language at a level required for technical work. I'd be perfectly comfortable doing a technical job in a Spanish speaking country because most of the specialized words are actually English. Or English with Spanish decorations. Technical work in a foreign lanugage is much easier than "artisan" type work because in so many technical fields, all of the domain specific words are loan-words from English. You could get by in a technical job in Germany with just intermediate German. Very quickly, living in the country and being immersed you would become fluent.
Also in technical fields in European countries, overwhelmingly the people working in that field can speak English to a reasonable level out of necessity because English is the lingua franca of the technical world. I've met very, very few people who work in technical fields in non-English speaking countries who can't carry out a technical discussion in English.
Computer geeks do do two finger typing. Personally, I touch type like a proper typist, but a younger colleague of mine types almost as fast as me using a rather frantic two finger typing method. I reckon he'd be good for about 70wpm if he tried one of those typing test things.
On a related note, many shows (including modern ones!) have been using a snippet of tape loading sound from the 1980s Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer which made its way onto some special effects library somewhere. The latest sighting (sounding?) was on an episode of The Wire a few years ago. With some effort (there's lots of other noise in the clip) it was decoded and turned out to be part of the loading screen for a game made by Ultimate: Play the Game (of Knight Lore and Jetpac fame). Ultimate became Rare before being bought out by Microsoft.
No. He didn't "reach out to Oracle", he "contacted Oracle" or "asked Oracle". He didn't "reach out" like some emo teenager to their ex girlfriend. It's not as if the phrase "reach out to" is shorter, it's three words where one word will do.
You're wrong. The British Highway Code has a strict "keep left" rule (it is illegal to clog passing lanes) and the police recently announced that they were going to start enforcing this strictly because of the problem of useless idiots who drive in the middle lane of the motorway all the time.
Flashing your headlights (or honking your horn) in the UK is supposed to be done to alert another driver who might not have seen you that you are there and is perfectly acceptable.
Unfortunately, immigration laws that every single country has makes it almost no harder to find a method to make the jump into another universe in comparison to getting permanent residence in a country you weren't born in.
I've seen it happen. There is a small minority of people who really don't seem to understand that sometimes you have to keep money back to pay rent, or that any loans you take must be paid back, they just see a loan as 'free money'.
I knew someone like this and what was extremely puzzling was she was running her own small business profitably. But her personal finances were a disaster - she treated loans as if they were a lottery win and free money (took loans without ever considering that she would actually have to pay them back) and thanks to lending policies in the late 90s and early 2000s got unmanagably into debt. When her boyfriend baled her out, instead of paying off the loans she bought a Mercedes Benz and expensive jewelry. As far as I could tell she wasn't malicious, she just had no concept of future planning.
That's alright - it won't be easy to understand if you're not a coder. In fact many coders won't understand it - unless you've done quite a lot of system level C code or possibly assembly language, many categories of these exploits will look a bit like black magic.
But in short, many categories of what should be pure data being used to exploit a security hole are things like buffer overflow exploits. A system level program written in C allocates some memory for a purpose, and due to a bad or missing length check, someone can put more data in there that fits. As the data runs off the end of this allocated space, it can end up overwriting something else. Consider a small buffer that's allocated on the stack. The stack also contains where in memory the program should return to after the subroutine it's running has ended. If you find that the code that fills this buffer has a bad or no length check, you can put data larger than the buffer in here and overwrite the routine's return address and make this return address be somewhere in your buffer (and contain more executable code). When the routine finishes, it gets the return address you put there instead of what should be there and your exploit code gets executed instead.
There's many defences against this at the system level these days (such as non-executable stacks, address space randomization etc) but ways have been found to get around some of these defences.
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They've existed for years, but we call them cruise missiles. This is effectively what a cruise missile is - it's not just a straightforward ballistic missile, but a missile that flies like an aircraft and can navigate like an aircraft (Tomahawks are powered by turbine engines too). The only thing we're not doing with cruise missiles is have them be remotely piloted rather than automatic.
There is a telecommunications museum in the UK with a fairly substantial working Strowger exchange (you'll have to google it, I've not been there and I forget where it is). Also many heritage railways in the UK run their voice telecom network on vintage Strowger gear to be in keeping with their railway.
Now try travelling direct to Cuba as a US citizen. You'll find that indeed you need permission to travel to some places.
No, they didn't "reach out to" Google, they contacted Google. It's not some emo teenager "reaching out to" their ex-girlfriend for love and support. Additionally, "contacted" is only one word instead of three and sounds better.
They will have to exhume Mr. Chávez first. Even then he may remain far too dead to be able to get right on those permissions things.
The people of Europe wouldn't really care much. There are plenty of alternatives to Google's services, and Google would be handing their competitors the whole EU on a nice easy silver platter.
LOL! Simply LOL.
What is so vital about Google that can bring Europe to its knees? There are adequate (and in some instances superior) replacement to each Google service already reachable.
Use a reusable bag made out of fabric. Throw it in the washing machine every time you put a clothes wash on. Problem solved.
You are a data point of one. I can ssh into about half a dozen production OpenBSD boxes right now.
You've also likely used OpenSSH which comes from the OpenBSD project (unless you're a Windows only admin).
But it's a vague and pointless question. Personally I don't care why tennis balls have fuzz and nor am I likely to ever care. It isn't even remotely linked to my line of work.
There are some interview questions that people have said are stupid (in this vein) but are in fact not. For instance I remember one of these "Stupid interview question" stories in the Daily WTF a while back, where the fellow being interviewed was asked "How do you work out the square root of a number?" and then progressively denied all the sensible options (from importing the math library for his language of choice). While the way the interviewer had asked the question was inane, it was actually a very relevant question to ask a person interviewing for a technical job, which the tennis ball fuzz one does not. It allows the candidate a way how to explain how they would go about finding a square root, and also discuss some optimization strategies (e.g. imagine we're working with a microcontroller which doesn't even have a divide instruction - we can talk about optimizing for speed or for space or a compromise). The tennis ball question does none of this and just makes you wonder if the company is actually worth working for.
An interview is often two ways. In tech jobs it's often that the candidate isn't unemployed and desperate but just looking for a job that might be better in some way than their current gig. The interviewee should at some stage become the interviewer and try to find out whether the company and the staff at that location is something they want to be working for.
We heard this joke the morning after the disaster.
What I would have loved to have seen is collection of data of how sick jokes spread after a disaster. Given this was pre-internet, the sick Challenger jokes spread extremely quickly, and it would be interesting to see how many origins they had and how they spread out from there. I suspect most of the Challenger jokes weren't thought up by one person and spread, but thought up independently by perhaps hundreds of different people and spread out from there.
Being young is overrated. I started learning Spanish when I was 35 (in 2008). Being an adult is not an excuse to not learn a language.
Sure I have a terrible accent when I speak it but I've given technical talks in Spanish in front of an audience and they understood fine. When I go to Spain I don't speak a word of English while I'm out there. If the employment situation in Spain wasn't so dismal, I would be entirely comfortable applying for a job there and working there.
You just have to learn languages the right way. It should be easy and fun, not a chore. The problem with how languages are taught here (in Britain) is you are taught to think in English and translate which is a complete non-starter and the way it's taught is very dull and doesn't inspire people to learn. Age might slow your absolute raw learning rate, but this is more than offset by experience, discipline and knowledge of "how to learn" which you don't have as a child.
Actually it's easier to learn a language at a level required for technical work. I'd be perfectly comfortable doing a technical job in a Spanish speaking country because most of the specialized words are actually English. Or English with Spanish decorations. Technical work in a foreign lanugage is much easier than "artisan" type work because in so many technical fields, all of the domain specific words are loan-words from English. You could get by in a technical job in Germany with just intermediate German. Very quickly, living in the country and being immersed you would become fluent.
Also in technical fields in European countries, overwhelmingly the people working in that field can speak English to a reasonable level out of necessity because English is the lingua franca of the technical world. I've met very, very few people who work in technical fields in non-English speaking countries who can't carry out a technical discussion in English.
Computer geeks do do two finger typing. Personally, I touch type like a proper typist, but a younger colleague of mine types almost as fast as me using a rather frantic two finger typing method. I reckon he'd be good for about 70wpm if he tried one of those typing test things.
On a related note, many shows (including modern ones!) have been using a snippet of tape loading sound from the 1980s Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer which made its way onto some special effects library somewhere. The latest sighting (sounding?) was on an episode of The Wire a few years ago. With some effort (there's lots of other noise in the clip) it was decoded and turned out to be part of the loading screen for a game made by Ultimate: Play the Game (of Knight Lore and Jetpac fame). Ultimate became Rare before being bought out by Microsoft.
No. He didn't "reach out to Oracle", he "contacted Oracle" or "asked Oracle". He didn't "reach out" like some emo teenager to their ex girlfriend. It's not as if the phrase "reach out to" is shorter, it's three words where one word will do.
You're wrong. The British Highway Code has a strict "keep left" rule (it is illegal to clog passing lanes) and the police recently announced that they were going to start enforcing this strictly because of the problem of useless idiots who drive in the middle lane of the motorway all the time.
Flashing your headlights (or honking your horn) in the UK is supposed to be done to alert another driver who might not have seen you that you are there and is perfectly acceptable.
Except it seems the majority of tea-partiers still want the government to have more power in your private life in line with their religious choices.
Unfortunately, immigration laws that every single country has makes it almost no harder to find a method to make the jump into another universe in comparison to getting permanent residence in a country you weren't born in.
I've seen it happen. There is a small minority of people who really don't seem to understand that sometimes you have to keep money back to pay rent, or that any loans you take must be paid back, they just see a loan as 'free money'.
I knew someone like this and what was extremely puzzling was she was running her own small business profitably. But her personal finances were a disaster - she treated loans as if they were a lottery win and free money (took loans without ever considering that she would actually have to pay them back) and thanks to lending policies in the late 90s and early 2000s got unmanagably into debt. When her boyfriend baled her out, instead of paying off the loans she bought a Mercedes Benz and expensive jewelry. As far as I could tell she wasn't malicious, she just had no concept of future planning.
It's such a shame that Gates McFadden from ST:TNG didn't marry Bill Gates. Then she could have been Gates Gates.
That's alright - it won't be easy to understand if you're not a coder. In fact many coders won't understand it - unless you've done quite a lot of system level C code or possibly assembly language, many categories of these exploits will look a bit like black magic.
But in short, many categories of what should be pure data being used to exploit a security hole are things like buffer overflow exploits. A system level program written in C allocates some memory for a purpose, and due to a bad or missing length check, someone can put more data in there that fits. As the data runs off the end of this allocated space, it can end up overwriting something else. Consider a small buffer that's allocated on the stack. The stack also contains where in memory the program should return to after the subroutine it's running has ended. If you find that the code that fills this buffer has a bad or no length check, you can put data larger than the buffer in here and overwrite the routine's return address and make this return address be somewhere in your buffer (and contain more executable code). When the routine finishes, it gets the return address you put there instead of what should be there and your exploit code gets executed instead.
There's many defences against this at the system level these days (such as non-executable stacks, address space randomization etc) but ways have been found to get around some of these defences.
You may still need MAC addresses. You can buy a PHY from some random vendor but you won't necessarily get a MAC address with that.
The warming trend DID continue past 1997 (which is a cherry picked year, to see why just look at the graph below).
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/01/2010-updates-to-model-data-comparisons/
That graph is out of date:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/01/2010-updates-to-model-data-comparisons/