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Yes, the ICEE is the king daddy paw-paw of frozen drinks. The slurpee is a blatant rip-off, perpetrated by the Southland Corp who owned all the 7-11 stores. Being born in 1970 in north Texas, I grew up on ICEEs from the age I could walk until I was in junior high year when all the ICEE machines in my hometown disappeared and were replaced by those imposter slurpee machines. They were sold in "Jiffy" stores, also owned by Southland, and either renamed to 7-11 or torn down later on.
ICEE was the first, half a decade before Slurpee
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An OS without *any* open ports can still be vulnerable, by merely having a TCP/IP stack connected to a public network. Even if the stack merely can only respond to ICMP packets (no tcp or udp ports open, nor any other IP protocols enabled), it can still theoretically be vulnerable to DoS attacks via ICMP.
TFA makes no mention whatsoever of disabling ICMP.
Windows on Unix hardware indeed. Most people wouldn't survive that experience.
Don't forget about the DEC Alpha version of NT 4.0, which ran quite well... if all you needed was basic Windows NT Domain file and print services since no 3rd party worth practical mention was ever really released for that platform. NT 4 was even available on the MIPS and IBM PowerPC (RS6000 small boxes) platforms too, which were primarily first and foremost intended as Unix hardware.
Windows 2000 almost made it (and sorta did) to the DEC Alpha platform, but had its legs chopped out from under it after Compaq basically cancelled the Alpha program in late 1999 and thus MS officially dropped support for the Alpha platform as well.
Without even R'ing the FA, I can tell you that truly securing the Mac OS is just as easy as truly securing any other OS.
1) Unplug it from any network. 2) Strictly control whoever gets physical access. 3) ??? 4) Security!
Seriously... after watching some dipshit try over 4,000 times within the span of a couple hours to attempt buffer overflows on every listening port on my honeypot last Friday afternoon, before I finally blacklisted his entire class C from my router, I've come to the same conclusion that the DoD has... that NO computer connected to the Internet can be made secure... period... that you should only connect disposeable devices to the public Internet.
I even wonder if I'm not the bigger dipshit for sitting there watching this idiot half the afternoon, throwing the kitchen sink at my poor machine in vain, before pulling the plug on him and banishing his whole netblock.
I once worked for a software developer in the Dallas, TX area who had a mainframe development side, and a PC development side. I worked on the mainframe side of the house, and thus didn't have to concern myself with the PC stuff, which was relatively new at the time. One of the PC developers shipped a software update to one of our customers, a big law firm, who also had a large Novell PC network in their offices. The PC software was infected with a virus, because the PC programmer was habitually visiting BBS's to download pr0n and games while at work. This was in the days before even dialup Internet was widespread available. Well, the virus spread all over the law firm's network, and they simply hired an outside network security contractor to come in and clean everything up. They handed a $30,000 bill to my employer for the contractor's fees, plus another bill for $100,000 in lost work due to unavailability of their network. My employer at first refused to pay either, but after consulting with their own attorneys (at an additional expense of probably a couple $K) paid both bills since they were told there was about a 75% chance that they'd lose and the court would award triple damages. The programmer who'd fault this was, was fired... not for the virus, but because they (allegedly) caught him sleeping at his desk in the middle of the afternoon.
I have the X5 and both the audio playback quality and the physical manufacturing quality of the unit itself are superlative. The Karma does have sound playback quality just about equivalent to the X5's, but the build quality of that unit seems much more cheap and fragile. Read more about Cowon's offerings at www.iaudiophile.net .
All the memories.... and also all the headaches of setting up all the DOS mode packet drivers for network cards, sound cards, etc, and all the IRQ, DMA and IO port conflicts to go along with it... makes me long for a net game of ROTT.
Whenever you use the objective case of the first person singular personal pronoun in a spot in the sentence that should be occupied by the subjective case.. you should precede it with a slash.
For instance in my case since I'm thirty-five, I would say, "But I thought/ME was 35 years old".
I am a pilot who flies my own small plane and prefer to simply keep my airspeed up to avoid stalling the wings, and keep the music in my headsets. An iAudio X5 mp3 player fed thru a set of Lightspeed Thirty 3G ANR headsets while you're flying is a great experience....and yes one of the very first times I took off with music playing just had to be with Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride, as I was haulin' ass down the runway thru rotation and climb-out (ST:First Contact reference).
This is how you'd keep a big rotating space-ring in dynamic balance as persons and equipment move around in it:
1) Big storage tank full of water at the center axis 2) Many small tanks evenly spaced around the outer perimeter 3) Pumps, valves, hoses, sensors and a computer system 4) ??? 5) Balance!
I just got a Cowon iAUDIO X5L 30GB player. This thing is sweet...
I just bought one of these too. This is the first time I ever paid near full retail for a geek gadget immediately after it first hit the market... usually I always wait a while until prices come down, or a new model is released and the first version models get discounted since I'm a cheapskate, but this time I'm very pleased with my purchase and glad to be an early-purchaser. The X5 has better sound quality than just about all other DAPs on the market. I specifically bought it for the OGG and FLAC support, and really didn't matter if it had video or not, but that's proven to be a neat novelty to have too. The "JetAudio" software the thing came with is pretty slick too. The GUI interface for ripping and converting is so easy to operate that I've quit using all the other softwares I formerly used for that. I play it in my car thru an FM converter and that sounds ok, but I really need to pull the car stereo and add a 1/8" stereo mini-jack to the aux input wiring so I can go direct and get a stronger cleaner signal.
In order for the copies to be deemed certifiable, admissible as evidence, etc., then the drives must be copied by being connected as source devices to special hardware that employs certified "write blockers". Also there needs to be witnesses present during the operation who can testify in court as to the chain of custody of the evidence, and they usually videotape the whole procedure too.
Anything less and the copies can easily be dismissed as "hearsay" in a court of law, and the question arises that any data on the copies might be accused of being tampered with.
I once worked with a local police department and assisted the homicide detectives with recovery of hard drive copies from computers associated with a psycho killer who murdered his wife and girlfriend and was possibly stalking other women online... (yep, a real case of a real criminal using chat forums to find victims).
The hard drive copies were then sent off to the FBI lab and I got to speak with the FBI computer forensics investigator for about an hour and learned some fascinating stuff about how to preserve computer evidence for court... neat stuff they do, and the attention they pay to detail is absolutely meticulous.
...by someone with a PhD in this area, experimenting with embryonic stem cells is a lot like figuring out how to write a computer program in raw machine language whereas experimenting with mature stem cells is like programming in a high-level language with an already-developed set of standard libraries.
Around here, the cable TV company wants to implement "quardruple pay" where you have to pay four times as much money as before, for the privilege of getting blasted in the face with a continuous stream of commercials, occasionally broken up by a few sparse minutes here and there, of actual TV program material.
Better yet, wrap a long continuous thread (carbon fiber, kevlar, nylon, rayon, something) around the foam in a tight spiral wrap from top to bottom to secure the foam against the tank in addition to the adhesive holding the foam to the tank. It would be much harder for chunks of the foam to come off out from under the spiral wrap thread, and it would be lightweight and cheap too.
After the foam is applied to the tank, they should spiral-wrap a long monofilament thread (nylon, rayon, kevlar, etc?) around and around and around the entire circumference of the tank and from top to bottom, spaced fairly tightly to effectively tie the foam in place firmly to the body of the tank in addition to whatever adhesive holds it in place now. The string/thread/fiber/whatever would not add all that much weight to the tank, and would secure the foam in place firmly during the ride up. It would be relatively cheap to do also. It's probably such a low-tech solution that nobody has ever thought of it before, but I'd bet it sure would keep the foam insulation tightly secured in place much better than simple adhesive glue on one side of the foam alone is doing the job right now.
t's usually worth more than that. It's worth the value of the most valuable work you could be doing instead of doing the software's job.
That's called "opportunity cost" and *is* included (or it's supposed to be included anyway) in the cost analysis you'd perform before sinking a bunch of money into some technology/automation solution.
Everyone who stayed awake thru their undergrad "Economics 101" class should remember to include the intangible opportunity costs when figuring costs for conducting a business, but not all do.
I was thinking more along the lines of something like this example, which is an actual business case that my employer went thru with a newly built civic arena in a nearby town.
The manager of this new municipal arena was at first, absolutely bent on buying a fancy computerized point-of-sale and inventory management system for all the concession stands. He thought it would cost about $20K, when the bids came in, the average price was more like around $70-90K for this system to be installed into all the concession booths plus a couple servers installed in the business office and all the network wiring & h/w to be installed into the building since they failed to include any datacomm wiring in the architechtural plans when the place was being built. Training the end-users on this new system would cost about $700 per person to attend the class. Annual software and hardware maintenance would be about $10K/yr for the first three years with the maintenance cost rising up to an estimated $12-15K/yr by the 5th year and the expectation to have to replace it all (e.g. a "forklift" upgrade) likely by the 6th or 7th year.
My employer's bean counters ended up pointing out that a bunch of relatively plain electronic cash registers for the points of sale, plus a regular Windows PC with Excel spreadsheets for inventory management would get the job done quite adequately for about $12K total purchase price. That's the solution that was put into place and three years later they're still using exactly that. Over that time, it has been proven that there has not been enough concession stand sales profits to really have paid for such an overkill networked P.O.S. system and all the ongoing maintenance and training that comes along with it. The low-tech cash registers and Excel spreadsheet are working just fine for a tiny fraction of the money. Plus, they've discovered that the turnover rate of sales clerks and concessions supervisors has been so high that they would've been training a continuous stream of new employees on a computerized system when the low tech business method requires little to no training to get new employees up to speed.
Software (actually the entire software and hardware combo as a functional system) is only really worth what it would save you in the time and money it would take to accomplish a particular job in another non-automated way. If doing that job in the manual, non-computerized way would cost you less, then you shouldn't involve computer automation at all. Every businessperson should really do a thorough cost analysis before allowing themselves to become addicted to any software app. Sometimes they'll find a system to be a tremendous time and cost saver, easily worth many times what the actual cost to implement the system and train the end users totals up to. Sometimes they'll find the system to be about as productive and cost beneficial as a heroin addiction.
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Yes, the ICEE is the king daddy paw-paw of frozen drinks. The slurpee is a blatant rip-off, perpetrated by the Southland Corp who owned all the 7-11 stores. Being born in 1970 in north Texas, I grew up on ICEEs from the age I could walk until I was in junior high year when all the ICEE machines in my hometown disappeared and were replaced by those imposter slurpee machines. They were sold in "Jiffy" stores, also owned by Southland, and either renamed to 7-11 or torn down later on.
The ICEE debuted in 1961 5 years before the Slurpee. ICEE is the original, and the best.
What does "no open port by default" mean to you?
An OS without *any* open ports can still be vulnerable, by merely having a TCP/IP stack connected to a public network. Even if the stack merely can only respond to ICMP packets (no tcp or udp ports open, nor any other IP protocols enabled), it can still theoretically be vulnerable to DoS attacks via ICMP.
TFA makes no mention whatsoever of disabling ICMP.
Windows on Unix hardware indeed. Most people wouldn't survive that experience.
Don't forget about the DEC Alpha version of NT 4.0, which ran quite well... if all you needed was basic Windows NT Domain file and print services since no 3rd party worth practical mention was ever really released for that platform. NT 4 was even available on the MIPS and IBM PowerPC (RS6000 small boxes) platforms too, which were primarily first and foremost intended as Unix hardware.
Windows 2000 almost made it (and sorta did) to the DEC Alpha platform, but had its legs chopped out from under it after Compaq basically cancelled the Alpha program in late 1999 and thus MS officially dropped support for the Alpha platform as well.
Without even R'ing the FA, I can tell you that truly securing the Mac OS is just as easy as truly securing any other OS.
1) Unplug it from any network.
2) Strictly control whoever gets physical access.
3) ???
4) Security!
Seriously... after watching some dipshit try over 4,000 times within the span of a couple hours to attempt buffer overflows on every listening port on my honeypot last Friday afternoon, before I finally blacklisted his entire class C from my router, I've come to the same conclusion that the DoD has... that NO computer connected to the Internet can be made secure... period... that you should only connect disposeable devices to the public Internet.
I even wonder if I'm not the bigger dipshit for sitting there watching this idiot half the afternoon, throwing the kitchen sink at my poor machine in vain, before pulling the plug on him and banishing his whole netblock.
I once worked for a software developer in the Dallas, TX area who had a mainframe development side, and a PC development side. I worked on the mainframe side of the house, and thus didn't have to concern myself with the PC stuff, which was relatively new at the time. One of the PC developers shipped a software update to one of our customers, a big law firm, who also had a large Novell PC network in their offices. The PC software was infected with a virus, because the PC programmer was habitually visiting BBS's to download pr0n and games while at work. This was in the days before even dialup Internet was widespread available. Well, the virus spread all over the law firm's network, and they simply hired an outside network security contractor to come in and clean everything up. They handed a $30,000 bill to my employer for the contractor's fees, plus another bill for $100,000 in lost work due to unavailability of their network. My employer at first refused to pay either, but after consulting with their own attorneys (at an additional expense of probably a couple $K) paid both bills since they were told there was about a 75% chance that they'd lose and the court would award triple damages. The programmer who'd fault this was, was fired... not for the virus, but because they (allegedly) caught him sleeping at his desk in the middle of the afternoon.
I have the X5 and both the audio playback quality and the physical manufacturing quality of the unit itself are superlative. The Karma does have sound playback quality just about equivalent to the X5's, but the build quality of that unit seems much more cheap and fragile. Read more about Cowon's offerings at www.iaudiophile.net .
All the memories.... and also all the headaches of setting up all the DOS mode packet drivers for network cards, sound cards, etc, and all the IRQ, DMA and IO port conflicts to go along with it... makes me long for a net game of ROTT.
Whenever you use the objective case of the first person singular personal pronoun in a spot in the sentence that should be occupied by the subjective case.. you should precede it with a slash.
/ME was 35 years old".
For instance in my case since I'm thirty-five, I would say, "But I thought
...perhaps would be more fitting.
A popular aftermarket wing mod is vortex generators... little pieces of metal or plastic carefully positioned at stretegic intervals along the top of the wing skin, usually just a little ways aft of the leading edge. This induces vortices in the airflow to help keep the boundary layer across the top of the wing from separating off from the surface, and thus lowers the stalling speed by some small amount.
...and yes one of the very first times I took off with music playing just had to be with Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride, as I was haulin' ass down the runway thru rotation and climb-out (ST:First Contact reference).
I am a pilot who flies my own small plane and prefer to simply keep my airspeed up to avoid stalling the wings, and keep the music in my headsets. An iAudio X5 mp3 player fed thru a set of Lightspeed Thirty 3G ANR headsets while you're flying is a great experience.
This is how you'd keep a big rotating space-ring in dynamic balance as persons and equipment move around in it:
1) Big storage tank full of water at the center axis
2) Many small tanks evenly spaced around the outer perimeter
3) Pumps, valves, hoses, sensors and a computer system
4) ???
5) Balance!
A link to the story (in Japanese) and one in English
The X5 is about the best sounding portable DAP with OGG support. Also supports FLAC too. Got mine at NewEgg.
I just got a Cowon iAUDIO X5L 30GB player. This thing is sweet...
I just bought one of these too. This is the first time I ever paid near full retail for a geek gadget immediately after it first hit the market... usually I always wait a while until prices come down, or a new model is released and the first version models get discounted since I'm a cheapskate, but this time I'm very pleased with my purchase and glad to be an early-purchaser. The X5 has better sound quality than just about all other DAPs on the market. I specifically bought it for the OGG and FLAC support, and really didn't matter if it had video or not, but that's proven to be a neat novelty to have too. The "JetAudio" software the thing came with is pretty slick too. The GUI interface for ripping and converting is so easy to operate that I've quit using all the other softwares I formerly used for that. I play it in my car thru an FM converter and that sounds ok, but I really need to pull the car stereo and add a 1/8" stereo mini-jack to the aux input wiring so I can go direct and get a stronger cleaner signal.
Excellent job by the shuttle crew and everyone at NASA behind them on this successful and safe mission.
One word sums it up: YeeHaw!!!
Of course, they'd be most comfortable with a daylight landing with clear visibility even though the ship is fully equipped for landing in IMC.
I'd wager that they'll be landing in California this time.
In order for the copies to be deemed certifiable, admissible as evidence, etc., then the drives must be copied by being connected as source devices to special hardware that employs certified "write blockers". Also there needs to be witnesses present during the operation who can testify in court as to the chain of custody of the evidence, and they usually videotape the whole procedure too.
Anything less and the copies can easily be dismissed as "hearsay" in a court of law, and the question arises that any data on the copies might be accused of being tampered with.
I once worked with a local police department and assisted the homicide detectives with recovery of hard drive copies from computers associated with a psycho killer who murdered his wife and girlfriend and was possibly stalking other women online... (yep, a real case of a real criminal using chat forums to find victims).
The hard drive copies were then sent off to the FBI lab and I got to speak with the FBI computer forensics investigator for about an hour and learned some fascinating stuff about how to preserve computer evidence for court... neat stuff they do, and the attention they pay to detail is absolutely meticulous.
...by someone with a PhD in this area, experimenting with embryonic stem cells is a lot like figuring out how to write a computer program in raw machine language whereas experimenting with mature stem cells is like programming in a high-level language with an already-developed set of standard libraries.
Around here, the cable TV company wants to implement "quardruple pay" where you have to pay four times as much money as before, for the privilege of getting blasted in the face with a continuous stream of commercials, occasionally broken up by a few sparse minutes here and there, of actual TV program material.
Better yet, wrap a long continuous thread (carbon fiber, kevlar, nylon, rayon, something) around the foam in a tight spiral wrap from top to bottom to secure the foam against the tank in addition to the adhesive holding the foam to the tank. It would be much harder for chunks of the foam to come off out from under the spiral wrap thread, and it would be lightweight and cheap too.
After the foam is applied to the tank, they should spiral-wrap a long monofilament thread (nylon, rayon, kevlar, etc?) around and around and around the entire circumference of the tank and from top to bottom, spaced fairly tightly to effectively tie the foam in place firmly to the body of the tank in addition to whatever adhesive holds it in place now. The string/thread/fiber/whatever would not add all that much weight to the tank, and would secure the foam in place firmly during the ride up. It would be relatively cheap to do also. It's probably such a low-tech solution that nobody has ever thought of it before, but I'd bet it sure would keep the foam insulation tightly secured in place much better than simple adhesive glue on one side of the foam alone is doing the job right now.
t's usually worth more than that. It's worth the value of the most valuable work you could be doing instead of doing the software's job.
That's called "opportunity cost" and *is* included (or it's supposed to be included anyway) in the cost analysis you'd perform before sinking a bunch of money into some technology/automation solution.
Everyone who stayed awake thru their undergrad "Economics 101" class should remember to include the intangible opportunity costs when figuring costs for conducting a business, but not all do.
I was thinking more along the lines of something like this example, which is an actual business case that my employer went thru with a newly built civic arena in a nearby town.
The manager of this new municipal arena was at first, absolutely bent on buying a fancy computerized point-of-sale and inventory management system for all the concession stands. He thought it would cost about $20K, when the bids came in, the average price was more like around $70-90K for this system to be installed into all the concession booths plus a couple servers installed in the business office and all the network wiring & h/w to be installed into the building since they failed to include any datacomm wiring in the architechtural plans when the place was being built. Training the end-users on this new system would cost about $700 per person to attend the class. Annual software and hardware maintenance would be about $10K/yr for the first three years with the maintenance cost rising up to an estimated $12-15K/yr by the 5th year and the expectation to have to replace it all (e.g. a "forklift" upgrade) likely by the 6th or 7th year.
My employer's bean counters ended up pointing out that a bunch of relatively plain electronic cash registers for the points of sale, plus a regular Windows PC with Excel spreadsheets for inventory management would get the job done quite adequately for about $12K total purchase price. That's the solution that was put into place and three years later they're still using exactly that. Over that time, it has been proven that there has not been enough concession stand sales profits to really have paid for such an overkill networked P.O.S. system and all the ongoing maintenance and training that comes along with it. The low-tech cash registers and Excel spreadsheet are working just fine for a tiny fraction of the money. Plus, they've discovered that the turnover rate of sales clerks and concessions supervisors has been so high that they would've been training a continuous stream of new employees on a computerized system when the low tech business method requires little to no training to get new employees up to speed.
Software (actually the entire software and hardware combo as a functional system) is only really worth what it would save you in the time and money it would take to accomplish a particular job in another non-automated way. If doing that job in the manual, non-computerized way would cost you less, then you shouldn't involve computer automation at all. Every businessperson should really do a thorough cost analysis before allowing themselves to become addicted to any software app. Sometimes they'll find a system to be a tremendous time and cost saver, easily worth many times what the actual cost to implement the system and train the end users totals up to. Sometimes they'll find the system to be about as productive and cost beneficial as a heroin addiction.