The first time I ever played SMB3, I rented it from a Hasting's video. Now, what's weird is I had read about the game in Nintendo Power (remember that?), and it wasn't supposed to be out for another month... turns out Hasting's was renting out a Famicom version, with the adapter for the NES glued onto it. The game was in Japanese and I played it for a week straight.
There are many "exempt" employee positions. Exempt status is determined by rate of pay, education level, and industry experience. And yes, various IT jobs can gain exempt status on as low as 30k a year (although some places seem to say that the lowest exempt-status IT job must be at least $27/hour).
Yeah, they do have a pretty good markup. Unfortunately, we don't actually sell them ourselves. It's a shame, too, because the power in this area is terribly flakey... we'd make a killing.
This is a very, VERY old reflex. My wife keeps bettas (Siamese fighting fish) and I have seen them yawn unmistakably on severel occassions. What's interesting about that is that bettas are surface breathers (which is why you can keep them in tiny bowls), and every time I've seen once of them yawn, they immediately go up for air. They seem to do it especially if they spot each other through the glass and try to attack... BOTH fish will yawn and go up for air afterwards.
Aha! I had a guy come into our shop with a dead motherboard, and it looked just like that... an entire row of capacitors right along the CPU had just... exploded. The casings were loose inside the case and the dielectric was trailing down like a loose roll of ticker tape. I thought at the time that the system had been hit by a power surge, and we've been using that board as a warning to our clients to buy and use uninterruptable power supplies/surge protectors...
That raises an interesting question: If the BSA has to go on the premises to see if you're using their software, but is only allowed on the premises IF you are using their software... if you don't let them in, how can they prosecute/obtain a warrant/whatever?
At the time that the SDRAM spec was created, great steps were taken to make sure that the spec did not contain patented material, or that the company with the patent did not plan on pursuing royalties. Essentially, Rambus was asked if they had any patents relating to the SDRAM spec. Rambus said, basically, "Don't worry about it."
So JEDEC happily went on to create the SDRAM spec in the confidence that all companies involved had shown good faith.
Later, once SDRAM was everywhere, Rambus tried to make everyone switch to their vastly more expensive Rambus RDRAM. When no one wanted to pay for it, it looked like curtains for Rambus, right? WRONG!
Rambus turned around and said "Oh, by the way, we DO have patents on stuff in the SDRAM spec, and now we're going to collect insane amounts of money because it's now the industry standard."
The issue is not, and has never been, whether or not Rambus's patents are valid. The issue is that they acted in bad faith, violated several signed agreeements, and are putting large portions of the IT industry at risk to preserve their own sorry asses.
In a nutshell, Rambus thinks that they own (at least part of) the SDRAM specs. When their own RAM flopped due to being too expensive and not offering enough performance, they resorted to suing just about every RAM manufacturer around for using "their" SDRAM spec. Mind you, Rambus did aid JEDEC in defining the spec, but, as I understand it, lied about the availability of some patents that Rambus had so they could be incorporated into the "open" SDRAM spec.
As soon as Rambus's real business began to suffer, they turned around and said "Actually, no, we changed our mind and now you DO have to pay us huge sums of money to use this spec that has now become an industry standard".
So, it's bad for computer users because Rambus is going to levy huge "royalty" fees against other RAM manufacturers, and that cost is gonna get passed right back to us, the customers. Say goodbye to the $12 128MB chip...
Anyway, here is the letter itself and here is the obscene pricing scale for using navigation bars. I'm having a hard time thinking of a site that DOESN'T use a unified navigation interface...
The exploit listed is a buffer overflow exploit for mpg123. As I posted here , I have no problem believing they've found an exploit in a couple of players. My problem is with the "95% infection rate". I simply don't see how that could possibly be true. I'm not a security expert, though, so if someone can prove otherwise I'd love to see it.
Ok, say in theory you could do that. Now, is that buffer overflow going to exist in all the different players they list? Or do they have to write multiple exploits into the headers? And if they screwed around that much with the headers, someone would have noticed by now because it's likely some mp3 player, somewhere, blew chunks trying the read this majorly-screwed-up header. Even if, somehow, no one noticed/experienced this, that STILL doesn't explain how it could modify/infect files without attracting the notice of checksum-verification programs like Integrit.
Sorry... I can believe they found an exploit for mpg123. But the other claims they make are unbelievable, and border on just plain silly.
This is amusing, actually. Tell me again how one puts a "virus-worm hybrid" into a non-executable file and have it infect mp3 players on multiple platforms? Oh, and do it so that none of the millions of people listening to MP3s notice? While maintaining compatibility with things like handheld players? Oh, and let's not forget the linux people running programs like Integrit, which would let them know if something had modified their mpg123.
As a technician at a mom-and-pop small town computer shop (and having been a tech at much larger operations in the past), I'll attest to that fact as well. Nearly half the machines that come in here (about 10-12 a week) are here because of one Microsoft email worm or another. Klez in particular was, as the parent post mentions, an epidemic. In addition, I've seen a massive number of machines bogged down with spyware like New.net or Xupiter, which modify (and usually damage) deep, core parts of the registry and are frequently installed via holes in IE.
And someone says home users are not heavily affected by security problems? I cry bullshit. I'd even venture to say that home users are hit hardest of all; after all, they have to PAY to get their systems fixed. If you're a corporate user, it doesn't cost you, personally, a dime.
Or did they have the information and we told not to act on it? I wonder.
If the FBI was "told" not to act on information regarding a terrorist attack of the magnitude of Sept 11th, then you're talking about a conspiracy involving a LOT of different branches of government.
Really, what you're suggesting is the ultimate evil act... that the Sept 11th attacks were in fact supported (or at least ignored) by our own government in order to provide themselves with a blank check. But since that really WOULD require a world-wide secret organization, that's a little too tinfoil-hat-ish even for me.
Call me naive, but I don't think for a moment that every single human being in the FBI, CIA, NSA, and all the other alphabet soup agencies would willingly allow 3000 innocent American citizens to die. I'm sure many employees of these agencies had friends or family that died in those attacks. No way could there be a conspiracy THAT massive. These people are US, they go to work, do their thing, and go home. They don't want to die, and they don't want other people to die if they can help it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere incompetence.
Which is really kind of meaningless, considering the the CEO probably has enough money to live comfortably off the interest alone for the rest of his/her life.
Good, it's not just me. I remember reading about this system in Discover magazine something like 10 years ago. Glad to know I wasn't just hallucinating that.
Yeah, except it wouldn't work in low lighting. I think people would notice a large glowing car, even if it was the same color as the background. You'd have to find a way to change the colors without actually creating any light. An LCD display filled with black pixels is still the brightest thing in a dark room.
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Harlingen, TX. The adapter had the ribbon that allowed you to pull it back out of the NES as mentioned in one of the other replies...
What IS it with Nintendos and whistles/flutes that summon tornados to warp you?
The first time I ever played SMB3, I rented it from a Hasting's video. Now, what's weird is I had read about the game in Nintendo Power (remember that?), and it wasn't supposed to be out for another month... turns out Hasting's was renting out a Famicom version, with the adapter for the NES glued onto it. The game was in Japanese and I played it for a week straight.
I did, but I'm not who you're talking to :P
There are many "exempt" employee positions. Exempt status is determined by rate of pay, education level, and industry experience. And yes, various IT jobs can gain exempt status on as low as 30k a year (although some places seem to say that the lowest exempt-status IT job must be at least $27/hour).
Yeah, they do have a pretty good markup. Unfortunately, we don't actually sell them ourselves. It's a shame, too, because the power in this area is terribly flakey... we'd make a killing.
This is a very, VERY old reflex. My wife keeps bettas (Siamese fighting fish) and I have seen them yawn unmistakably on severel occassions. What's interesting about that is that bettas are surface breathers (which is why you can keep them in tiny bowls), and every time I've seen once of them yawn, they immediately go up for air. They seem to do it especially if they spot each other through the glass and try to attack... BOTH fish will yawn and go up for air afterwards.
Very odd.
Aha! I had a guy come into our shop with a dead motherboard, and it looked just like that... an entire row of capacitors right along the CPU had just... exploded. The casings were loose inside the case and the dielectric was trailing down like a loose roll of ticker tape. I thought at the time that the system had been hit by a power surge, and we've been using that board as a warning to our clients to buy and use uninterruptable power supplies/surge protectors...
That raises an interesting question: If the BSA has to go on the premises to see if you're using their software, but is only allowed on the premises IF you are using their software... if you don't let them in, how can they prosecute/obtain a warrant/whatever?
It's a different case, and here's why.
At the time that the SDRAM spec was created, great steps were taken to make sure that the spec did not contain patented material, or that the company with the patent did not plan on pursuing royalties. Essentially, Rambus was asked if they had any patents relating to the SDRAM spec. Rambus said, basically, "Don't worry about it."
So JEDEC happily went on to create the SDRAM spec in the confidence that all companies involved had shown good faith.
Later, once SDRAM was everywhere, Rambus tried to make everyone switch to their vastly more expensive Rambus RDRAM. When no one wanted to pay for it, it looked like curtains for Rambus, right? WRONG!
Rambus turned around and said "Oh, by the way, we DO have patents on stuff in the SDRAM spec, and now we're going to collect insane amounts of money because it's now the industry standard."
The issue is not, and has never been, whether or not Rambus's patents are valid. The issue is that they acted in bad faith, violated several signed agreeements, and are putting large portions of the IT industry at risk to preserve their own sorry asses.
So yes.. it's a different case.
In a nutshell, Rambus thinks that they own (at least part of) the SDRAM specs. When their own RAM flopped due to being too expensive and not offering enough performance, they resorted to suing just about every RAM manufacturer around for using "their" SDRAM spec. Mind you, Rambus did aid JEDEC in defining the spec, but, as I understand it, lied about the availability of some patents that Rambus had so they could be incorporated into the "open" SDRAM spec.
As soon as Rambus's real business began to suffer, they turned around and said "Actually, no, we changed our mind and now you DO have to pay us huge sums of money to use this spec that has now become an industry standard".
So, it's bad for computer users because Rambus is going to levy huge "royalty" fees against other RAM manufacturers, and that cost is gonna get passed right back to us, the customers. Say goodbye to the $12 128MB chip...
Arseholes to 'em, I says.
Anyway, here is the letter itself and here is the obscene pricing scale for using navigation bars. I'm having a hard time thinking of a site that DOESN'T use a unified navigation interface...
I sit corrected. Thanks :)
Wrong. "Google" is a word meaning a one followed by 100 zeroes. This word was created by a 9-year-old, as documented in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".
The exploit listed is a buffer overflow exploit for mpg123. As I posted here , I have no problem believing they've found an exploit in a couple of players. My problem is with the "95% infection rate". I simply don't see how that could possibly be true. I'm not a security expert, though, so if someone can prove otherwise I'd love to see it.
Ok, say in theory you could do that. Now, is that buffer overflow going to exist in all the different players they list? Or do they have to write multiple exploits into the headers? And if they screwed around that much with the headers, someone would have noticed by now because it's likely some mp3 player, somewhere, blew chunks trying the read this majorly-screwed-up header. Even if, somehow, no one noticed/experienced this, that STILL doesn't explain how it could modify/infect files without attracting the notice of checksum-verification programs like Integrit.
Sorry... I can believe they found an exploit for mpg123. But the other claims they make are unbelievable, and border on just plain silly.
This is amusing, actually. Tell me again how one puts a "virus-worm hybrid" into a non-executable file and have it infect mp3 players on multiple platforms? Oh, and do it so that none of the millions of people listening to MP3s notice? While maintaining compatibility with things like handheld players? Oh, and let's not forget the linux people running programs like Integrit, which would let them know if something had modified their mpg123.
Please, I can't even believe this got posted.
As a technician at a mom-and-pop small town computer shop (and having been a tech at much larger operations in the past), I'll attest to that fact as well. Nearly half the machines that come in here (about 10-12 a week) are here because of one Microsoft email worm or another. Klez in particular was, as the parent post mentions, an epidemic. In addition, I've seen a massive number of machines bogged down with spyware like New.net or Xupiter, which modify (and usually damage) deep, core parts of the registry and are frequently installed via holes in IE.
And someone says home users are not heavily affected by security problems? I cry bullshit. I'd even venture to say that home users are hit hardest of all; after all, they have to PAY to get their systems fixed. If you're a corporate user, it doesn't cost you, personally, a dime.
My life ceased to exist when Ragnarok Online reopened their test programs. Imagine Final Fantasy Tactics as a MMORPG.
Or did they have the information and we told not to act on it? I wonder.
If the FBI was "told" not to act on information regarding a terrorist attack of the magnitude of Sept 11th, then you're talking about a conspiracy involving a LOT of different branches of government.
Really, what you're suggesting is the ultimate evil act... that the Sept 11th attacks were in fact supported (or at least ignored) by our own government in order to provide themselves with a blank check. But since that really WOULD require a world-wide secret organization, that's a little too tinfoil-hat-ish even for me.
Call me naive, but I don't think for a moment that every single human being in the FBI, CIA, NSA, and all the other alphabet soup agencies would willingly allow 3000 innocent American citizens to die. I'm sure many employees of these agencies had friends or family that died in those attacks. No way could there be a conspiracy THAT massive. These people are US, they go to work, do their thing, and go home. They don't want to die, and they don't want other people to die if they can help it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere incompetence.
Which is really kind of meaningless, considering the the CEO probably has enough money to live comfortably off the interest alone for the rest of his/her life.
Good, it's not just me. I remember reading about this system in Discover magazine something like 10 years ago. Glad to know I wasn't just hallucinating that.
Yeah, except it wouldn't work in low lighting. I think people would notice a large glowing car, even if it was the same color as the background. You'd have to find a way to change the colors without actually creating any light. An LCD display filled with black pixels is still the brightest thing in a dark room.
Geek teacher hell, at my high school it was the geek students. They'd actually pay some students to help troubleshoot network problems and whatnot.
Hah! You fool! It says... "The DMCA Police should knocking on your door at any moment."
What DMCA polighuifhnsduik
NO CARRIER
... has once again predicted the future. In The Hammer of God, he laid out an entire scenario for just this "gentle push" method.