Perhaps something akin to tying Wiki to Snopes. Even if people post bunk information, also post the cites to substantiated info. It would also help quell urban legends.
Opera has a nice feature where if it crashes, it still resumes your session. If you accidentally close the program, when it opens you return right where you left off. It's really handy, even when the program crashes it's no more of a hassle than having a single click to re-launch the program.
There's also a limited number of places that you can put dams (all the good ones are used) and wind power (they're an eyesore). I lean towards solar being the best long term approach, it may be best to put it in orbit though (long term)
The program saves all your passwords in an encrypted file, which you then keep on your USB keychain. You only have to remember one password to open the safe, and then you can copy/paste your different username/passwords to the site that needs them. As long as you keep the data file on your keychain (and keep that with you) then you should be fairly secure. You can alse make all your passwords 12 digit random alphanumerics (though some idiotic places limit your password length, never figured that one out...)
Yahoo also did this a while back, I had an existing account (kallahar) but at some point it stopped working. No errors, no warnings, just "invalid username". I couldn't even recreate it or add a new number at the end.
Turns out they ban any username with the word "allah" in it, which my name coincidentally has.
No, that's exactly my point. Immediately stop the electrons. Make a copy of the drive and do forensics on that, keep the original safe. That way if you screw up and the drive gets erased then you can always make another copy from the original and try again.
Step 1: Turn off the machine. Step 2: Make a bit for bit copy of the drive (there are special devices that will ensure that NONE of the bits are changed). Step 3: You can now run whatever forensics tools you want *on the copy*. The original has to be kept unchanged for it to be worth anything in court.
Make sure to never boot up the drive in question, a good criminal will have the drive auto-erase if it doesn't get a password in a certain amount of time, etc.
Re the deep linking, what they changed is that the old "view thread" link is gone, but the link to the article now displays the entire thread (not just the one post like it used to). You can still link to a # reference to go straight to one article.
It's a good idea, but they waste too much space on the left and have poor color choices.
The problem is that they'd probably charge $5 to view it, or force you to buy sets. And since copyright is so strict there isn't any opportunity for a competitor to set up a similar service with the same content.
Well, that keyboard may be connected to an interstate network. If they're sniffing your telnet session with a keylogger, even though they're only sniffing the keyboard part, the same data is going out around the world. By their argument, as long as you only sniff the wire that's near their computer or that doesn't cross state lines then you don't need a wiretap warrant.
Just to clarify, the gas tax is supposed to go towards road maintenance, which is more a factor of miles than of fuel efficiency. However, the miles should be multiplied by a weight factor, since a 6400 pound H2 causes a lot more road wear than a 2500 pound mini, and far less than a fully loaded commercial truck (20,000 pounds?).
Do you have many legal problems? By taking such an agressive and often non-flattering approach I'm sure you've pissed off your share of sue-happy gaming companies. How did the lawsuit with American Greetings end?
I live in a densely populated state. Is my vote worth less than a farmer in Wyoming? Under the electoral system it is. A democracy is supposed to represent everyone equally through their votes, but we don't have that.
At the very least, the electoral votes should be proportionally distributed rather than winner takes all. We're past the stage where it's hard to transmit the information and tally the results easily (ie, 23,054,483 votes vs 35 electoral votes)
That's a really good idea. I don't have enough time to play in a month to justify a $20 fee, but if I could pop in every once in a while when I have a few free hours and see ads then I'd be far more likely to play. Then if I get addicted I'd be more willing to pay the money since I already know I like the game.
Two other interesting industries with.com-like explosions were railroads and electricity. Railroads were built to the middle of nowhere because the government was handing out money to develop the infrastructure. Anything with the word "electric" on it when it first came out was being invested in. It's a very interesting cycle with any new technology.
Also, now that Scaled has proved that the feathered design and pretty simple controls are possible, another company could come along and fairly easily make a clone for a lot less money.
For the first x-prize flight they had bags with personal effects from hundreds of people who were part of the effort. They sent up a few plants which were then planted in the desert near the hanger.
Much more special and memorable than the bags of sand most people expected to be sent up:)
At the last launch, the X-Prize Foundation announced that they will be continuing the $10 mil prize every year, which will allow other teams to win the prize and give several different designs to the world.
The site was about as factual as a bible, lots of "oh, this is what'll happen" without any real evidence. For example, "The top end of the cable will burn up in the atmosphere", however even a fairly small object like Mir had many pieces come down to earth, and small meteoroids often make it to the ground. Unless they have a lot more science to share, I'd be sceptical of their claims.
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Perhaps something akin to tying Wiki to Snopes. Even if people post bunk information, also post the cites to substantiated info. It would also help quell urban legends.
Opera has a nice feature where if it crashes, it still resumes your session. If you accidentally close the program, when it opens you return right where you left off. It's really handy, even when the program crashes it's no more of a hassle than having a single click to re-launch the program.
except that it doesn't produce energy, it just lessens the amount spent to drive a car. A good idea, but it's still a losing source.
There's also a limited number of places that you can put dams (all the good ones are used) and wind power (they're an eyesore). I lean towards solar being the best long term approach, it may be best to put it in orbit though (long term)
I use the open source PasswordSafe The original was written by Bruce Schneier who worked on an AES finalist and runs CounterPane Security and writes the CryptoGram Newsletter
The program saves all your passwords in an encrypted file, which you then keep on your USB keychain. You only have to remember one password to open the safe, and then you can copy/paste your different username/passwords to the site that needs them. As long as you keep the data file on your keychain (and keep that with you) then you should be fairly secure. You can alse make all your passwords 12 digit random alphanumerics (though some idiotic places limit your password length, never figured that one out...)
Yahoo also did this a while back, I had an existing account (kallahar) but at some point it stopped working. No errors, no warnings, just "invalid username". I couldn't even recreate it or add a new number at the end.
Turns out they ban any username with the word "allah" in it, which my name coincidentally has.
Hmm, good point. Any suggestions to catch a ram-only rootkit?
No, that's exactly my point. Immediately stop the electrons. Make a copy of the drive and do forensics on that, keep the original safe. That way if you screw up and the drive gets erased then you can always make another copy from the original and try again.
Step 1: Turn off the machine.
Step 2: Make a bit for bit copy of the drive (there are special devices that will ensure that NONE of the bits are changed).
Step 3: You can now run whatever forensics tools you want *on the copy*. The original has to be kept unchanged for it to be worth anything in court.
Make sure to never boot up the drive in question, a good criminal will have the drive auto-erase if it doesn't get a password in a certain amount of time, etc.
Re the deep linking, what they changed is that the old "view thread" link is gone, but the link to the article now displays the entire thread (not just the one post like it used to). You can still link to a # reference to go straight to one article.
It's a good idea, but they waste too much space on the left and have poor color choices.
The problem is that they'd probably charge $5 to view it, or force you to buy sets. And since copyright is so strict there isn't any opportunity for a competitor to set up a similar service with the same content.
Well, that keyboard may be connected to an interstate network. If they're sniffing your telnet session with a keylogger, even though they're only sniffing the keyboard part, the same data is going out around the world. By their argument, as long as you only sniff the wire that's near their computer or that doesn't cross state lines then you don't need a wiretap warrant.
Just to clarify, the gas tax is supposed to go towards road maintenance, which is more a factor of miles than of fuel efficiency. However, the miles should be multiplied by a weight factor, since a 6400 pound H2 causes a lot more road wear than a 2500 pound mini, and far less than a fully loaded commercial truck (20,000 pounds?).
Do you have many legal problems? By taking such an agressive and often non-flattering approach I'm sure you've pissed off your share of sue-happy gaming companies. How did the lawsuit with American Greetings end?
I live in a densely populated state. Is my vote worth less than a farmer in Wyoming? Under the electoral system it is. A democracy is supposed to represent everyone equally through their votes, but we don't have that.
At the very least, the electoral votes should be proportionally distributed rather than winner takes all. We're past the stage where it's hard to transmit the information and tally the results easily (ie, 23,054,483 votes vs 35 electoral votes)
Just to clarify for everyone, this is extortion against online *gambling* companies, not online gaming.
:)
You can call gambling "gaming" in the offline world, but not the online -- "online gaming" is already taken
That's a really good idea. I don't have enough time to play in a month to justify a $20 fee, but if I could pop in every once in a while when I have a few free hours and see ads then I'd be far more likely to play. Then if I get addicted I'd be more willing to pay the money since I already know I like the game.
Here's a mirror of the divx file
Wow, these are really excellent questions. Why aren't the mainstream media asking them?
Two other interesting industries with .com-like explosions were railroads and electricity. Railroads were built to the middle of nowhere because the government was handing out money to develop the infrastructure. Anything with the word "electric" on it when it first came out was being invested in. It's a very interesting cycle with any new technology.
Also, now that Scaled has proved that the feathered design and pretty simple controls are possible, another company could come along and fairly easily make a clone for a lot less money.
Hmm, I can't find any reference to it either. It's possible I misunderstood the announcement, sometimes it's hard to hear over those loudspeakers...
For the first x-prize flight they had bags with personal effects from hundreds of people who were part of the effort. They sent up a few plants which were then planted in the desert near the hanger.
:)
Much more special and memorable than the bags of sand most people expected to be sent up
At the last launch, the X-Prize Foundation announced that they will be continuing the $10 mil prize every year, which will allow other teams to win the prize and give several different designs to the world.
The site was about as factual as a bible, lots of "oh, this is what'll happen" without any real evidence. For example, "The top end of the cable will burn up in the atmosphere", however even a fairly small object like Mir had many pieces come down to earth, and small meteoroids often make it to the ground. Unless they have a lot more science to share, I'd be sceptical of their claims.
I'll pledge my $50, is there an escrow site like the mozilla bounty project?