You need to change the security permissions for that folder, and restrict all accounts, including the system account. Otherwise what happens is the system account just does what it wants to.
Okay, so basically you're only 'secure' up to about 30 miles, and that's only if you have a real, honest to goodness, point to point fiber link. Otherwise they're still converting photons to electrons, and making new photons, at the repeaters.
It's no more secure than current fiber, except that you've limited the attack vector and locations to known points, namely the repeaters.
Don't most businesses already do this? On laptops, I used roaming profiles, and synched My Docs with the user's home directory on the server. All additional backups, versioning, etc. were handled on, and by the server.
Downside is it's not a complete solution, as any data stored in Program Files or Common Files dirs wasn't mirrored. Upside is that it's simple network management, and even lets you use login scripts.
I don't think you're ever going to find a 'simple' (as in 3 clicks) solution usable by non-techies with versioning. Backup, yes. Sharing, versioning....not so much. It looks like you're simply going to have to be the server admin, and let the server deal with the versioning, multiple sites, and sharing.
Different type of game entirely, but same basic business model. And they've been doing things that way for 4 years now. Free to play, but $10 gets you a nifty trinket.
Yes, the business model works in principle and in practice. And it's about time that more genres of games that use that model become available.
Google yourself. Google your email address, too. Facebook, MySpace? Got a nifty pic of your drunken self up somewhere? Your potential employer *will* Google you, and Yahoo you, and Dogpile you, and search for you on all the alumni sites, plus Facebook, MySpace and any other site that lets you make a profile. I don't care if you use an AOL email address, but if you've got an AOL profile that's unflattering, I'll find it and judge you based on it.
No matter how well an application is *written*? Whoa, talk about how well your resume or CV is written. When you talk about applications you'd better be talking about things that compile, because the only other kinds of applications are the ones you fill out to get hired at places like McDonalds.
Also, I agree with all the above posts. 2 years in 1st line support screams bad things. Getting to interviews and then geting rejected for reasons that could've been discerned from your resume screams you're screwing up something in the interview. Fix that.
It apparently doesn't have to redirect you away from the 'main' page you're seeing. It can all happen in a 'hidden' iFrame.
I can think of a lot of web pages where clicking could have a real effect. Especially on sites where users keep themselves logged in. It appears as if they can direct your click to any spot or object on the 3rd party site.
Ready to DIGG a story you know nothing about? Bid on an eBay auction? Delete all your old Yahoo/Gmail messages? What about any site that uses GETs to send a message to the server? And a really scary thought... can this exploit target pages on the local machine?
They care that to get their five bucks they have to fill in a few blanks. Like with their name and address. And somewhere, in some database will be a bit of trivia about just what it is they do on their computer. And I don't remember all the terms of the settlement, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to obtain the names of all claimants. Imagine someone posting *that* list on a public webserver that Google indexes.
Hundreds of millions spent and...?
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So, we spend a few hundred million to land something on Mars, a major part of whose mission was to confirm or debunk the existence of water there, and after 24 days all we can say is "Look, it's sublimated so it's probably water!"? I'm hearing jokes about Americans forgetting to include some simple 'test for water' equipment in their 325 million 'let's see if there's water on Mars' probe.
So, is anyone else thinking 'wtf?' like me? Why are we reduced to using pictures to try and determine if the stuff is water? Where the hell are the results of the conclusive tests so we don't have to use words like 'probably', 'most likely', and 'it shure looks like watuh, don' it?'.
Come on, NASA, you're making yourselves look incompetent.
Without exceptions like those, things like the code that prevents (or at least discourages) the use of bots in games like WoW would be rendered illegal. Examining your system memory is *exactly* what the law is designed to prevent, and anti-bot code has to do just that.
Yeah, maybe they could come up with a lot more specifics, thus making the law a lot more unreadable and drawn out, and potentially causing headaches for any circumstances that were left out. But I'm afraid there will probably have to be some sort of exceptions made along the lines of "unathorized software" and/or "fraudulent use" that are potentially over-generalized.
but there is no way that it could hit mass distribution price points
I'm not so sure of that. Considering it's not unusual for a supercomputer these days to have 5000 or more processing units (Roadrunner has 6000+ Opterons and 12,000+ Cells), I can see a large demand for the 280 part in high performance computing applications. I'm guessing nVidia sees things the same way, which is why we're seeing so many non-graphics specific improvements and tweaks to the GPU. I'm thinking nVidia is counting on leveraging CUDA based supercomputing apps to sell a lot more of these than they would if it were just gamers buying them. The double-precision floating point capability alone signifies they're targeting a non-gaming market. With 8-core (4 way SLI dual core) units having made the front page of/. recently, and things like protein folding apps being ported to GPUs, I'm thinking using GPUs for massively parallel computing is becoming much more mainstream, as folks realize just what kind of bang for the buck they can get from GPUs. That, I think, translates into enough demand to push the 280 into mass-manufacture and distribution price points. I just hope the demand from well funded organizations buying these things for their supercomputers doesn't keep the demand so high that we're all bidding on eBay for the occasional part that isn't slated for a supercomputer!
So, was granpa's banana more slippery? Actually, that's a slightly hedged 'yes'. Grampa's banana had a thicker, more durable skin, in addition to being larger than the bananas we youngun's know so well. The other reason it's so popular as comic relief is because it actually was a real hazard back around 1915-ish. As a 'portable' fruit, they were handy to carry anywhere, and without streetcorner trash cans, the peels got tossed on the sidewalk as often as not. And considering bananas are (and were) the most popular fruit in the US (almost twice as popular as the good ol' apple), it really was a normal hazard. The Boy Scout handbook of 1914 actually listed removing a banana peel from the sidewalk as a 'good deed', it was that common an occurence.
As a side effect though, it *did* start many cities putting trash cans on busy streets, and enacting littering laws.
Sending a snail mail letter requires no major initial investment.
Sending your first email requires an investment to purchase your computer and subscribe to an ISP's plan.
Making a phone call requires a minimal investment in a phone, and a monthly fee of about the same price as internet access.
Sending an SMS usually requires either a 1 or 2 year commitment to a cellular provider's service plan, or the purchase of a phone for use with pre-paid minutes.
So, if these 20% want or need to provide a written record of communication, they can use snail mail at a cost of 50 cents (plus an initial investment of a dollar for a pen), or they can spend $500 on a computer and $20 a month on an ISP.
If they want a faster response than a snail mail, they *pick up the phone*. Which trumps email and IM on speed if more than one question/response is needed.
Or they use an SMS or voicemail or an answering machine if the intended recipient isn't available.
For "Joe Average", the cost/benefit ratio of email is absolutely horrible compared to other forms of communication. And since there really isn't any pressing *need* for them to have email, they don't make that investment. From anecdotal observations, I'd also say that another 20% of the population *with* computers and internet access *don't use email* on any regular basis. They use the internet for entertainment and information *not* communication.
As for me, I've been using email since the late 80's, early 90's. However up until 2005, I had *never* sent an SMS. And until mid 2006 when I had a reason to use SMS more, I had only sent maybe 3 SMSes.
So, for a service (email) that has no real value to many, has many alternatives, and requires a sizeable initial investment, is it any surprise that 20% of the population hasn't bothered with it? One wonders if perhaps they're the smarter ones.
The first and last parts *DO NOT* look like terniary and binary to me.
Instead, they look like an RLL encoded pattern, similar to what you'd see on a hard drive. Maybe NRZI.
In fact, the first looks surprisingly like (1,3) MFM RLL. Also reminds me of the old Apple Floppy drive "between any two ones there can only be a maximum of one zero" data writing rule.
Okay, so it's really really big. But not "too" big. And it just happens to be in an orbit that's very close to earth's orbit around the sun. So I'm guessing that with the right nudges at the right times, it'd be possible to swing that rock around the moon and park it in orbit around the earth. And having a million tons of raw material in orbit is something that both makes more sense than a manned landing, and is a lot more interesting and exciting, to me at least.
Every keycode was reprogrammable, so you could change each key's output (or key combo, like shift+ctrl+A) to any other letter, or series of letters up to 250 characters. Plus, it was self-contained. No external program necessary. Hit the remap button, select your target keypress, type in the new output you want, hit remap again, poof. OS and program independent.
Plus it's got an additional 12 function keys down the left side. And a 9 button arrow key group. And after 12 years of using one, the letters didn't wear off. Decently solid build, no clickity noises, just a light tactile feel.
Bad news is they haven't been made in years. And when they were it was only in AT and PS/2 connectors, no USB.
But if they were available new, with a USB connection, I'd get one in a heartbeat even if they were $150. I *still* miss all the little shortcuts I had in it. Shift+ctrl+A was my name and address, tabbed. Those extra 12 function keys served as holders for whatever text strings were commonly retyped in whatever I was working on. In whatever program I was working in. Or sometimes it's just faster to press down, down, delete, type a slash... repeat 20 times than figure out a find/replace. That keyboard made things like that painless.
You could also easily swap keys, and remap the output to match. If you use Dvorak, they'd be great. Or like certain punctuation in different places. Or want an alt+number code like a british pound in place of a dollar sign, whatever.
"just to activate the first time, and every 10 days after"
Now it's saying something different!
Also: Commenter: "Sure, I have an always-on net connection but what happens if I don't play for 11 days and the moment I want to play my connection is down? Are you saying I'm not going to be able to play my perfectly legitimate purchased copy of the game, even the retail version, until I get permission?" BioShock rep: "That is correct. And I would suggest that you contact EA Support the moment this happens (once you get your internet back) to report the issue. If there are people having problems with the system as designed, then Support needs to hear about it so they can help us evaluate it for the next game title."
Summary says: "that it phone home every 10 days" (emphasis mine)
TFA says "After the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned)."
Sounds like it only re-checks *once*, not once every ten days, ad infinitum.
I'll take a wild stab and guess they'll average 400MW output (the wind farm in the article is expected to average about 2MW output). That equates to 3,500 GWh per year, or about 200 times as much as the wind farm.
"As for maintainence costs; how much does it cost to maintain a coal fired plant? How much does it cost to maintain a nuclear plant? How much does it cost to handle the waste product from same? How much ongoing environmental impact is there?"
Over 10 years that 2 billion amounts to 5.7 cents per KWh, plus 3 cents operating cost, yielding 9 cents per kilowatt hour for a payoff time of 10 years. Or less.
"I'm no tree hugger by any stretch, but the fact that a town was able to generate an annual surplus of natural energy with no environmental by-products is a pretty decent little achievement." Agreed, but NOT AT THOSE PRICES!
FYI, a little research yesterday indicated John Deere is using Suzlon 1.25 MW S64 wind turbines. Other projects seem to average 2 million per turbine plus tower construction costs and transport. So I'm guessing that someone slipped a decimal point somewhere and the cost is 9 million, not 90 million.
And at 90 million, over 10 years, that's 7 cents per KWh plus maintenance and interest, which sounds a LOT better to me. Meaning we'll probably see more of them.
"The $90 million Loess Hills Wind Farm".... "is eventually expected to generate 16 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year"
$90 million for 16 million kWh/year.
Lessee... over 5 years that's $1.12 per kWh, ouch. Over 10 years... nah, still a bit much. Over 30 years (can you still get mortgages that long?) it's 19 cents per kWh....without maintenance costs. Or interest.
I hate to say it, but this smells like fail. Yeah, a nice feel-good project perhaps, and certainly green, but it's not looking economically viable, if that $90 million number is accurate.
And speaking of $90 million for 4 windmills... 20 million+ per windmill? No. Freakin'. Way.
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You jest, but didn't you ever type in a whole program that was printed in a magazine?
You need to change the security permissions for that folder, and restrict all accounts, including the system account. Otherwise what happens is the system account just does what it wants to.
..." trusted repeater paradigm "...
Okay, so basically you're only 'secure' up to about 30 miles, and that's only if you have a real, honest to goodness, point to point fiber link. Otherwise they're still converting photons to electrons, and making new photons, at the repeaters.
It's no more secure than current fiber, except that you've limited the attack vector and locations to known points, namely the repeaters.
Don't most businesses already do this? On laptops, I used roaming profiles, and synched My Docs with the user's home directory on the server. All additional backups, versioning, etc. were handled on, and by the server.
Downside is it's not a complete solution, as any data stored in Program Files or Common Files dirs wasn't mirrored.
Upside is that it's simple network management, and even lets you use login scripts.
I don't think you're ever going to find a 'simple' (as in 3 clicks) solution usable by non-techies with versioning. Backup, yes. Sharing, versioning....not so much. It looks like you're simply going to have to be the server admin, and let the server deal with the versioning, multiple sites, and sharing.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Different type of game entirely, but same basic business model. And they've been doing things that way for 4 years now. Free to play, but $10 gets you a nifty trinket.
Yes, the business model works in principle and in practice. And it's about time that more genres of games that use that model become available.
Google yourself.
Google your email address, too.
Facebook, MySpace? Got a nifty pic of your drunken self up somewhere?
Your potential employer *will* Google you, and Yahoo you, and Dogpile you, and search for you on all the alumni sites, plus Facebook, MySpace and any other site that lets you make a profile. I don't care if you use an AOL email address, but if you've got an AOL profile that's unflattering, I'll find it and judge you based on it.
No matter how well an application is *written*? Whoa, talk about how well your resume or CV is written. When you talk about applications you'd better be talking about things that compile, because the only other kinds of applications are the ones you fill out to get hired at places like McDonalds.
Also, I agree with all the above posts. 2 years in 1st line support screams bad things. Getting to interviews and then geting rejected for reasons that could've been discerned from your resume screams you're screwing up something in the interview. Fix that.
It apparently doesn't have to redirect you away from the 'main' page you're seeing. It can all happen in a 'hidden' iFrame.
I can think of a lot of web pages where clicking could have a real effect. Especially on sites where users keep themselves logged in. It appears as if they can direct your click to any spot or object on the 3rd party site.
Ready to DIGG a story you know nothing about?
Bid on an eBay auction?
Delete all your old Yahoo/Gmail messages?
What about any site that uses GETs to send a message to the server?
And a really scary thought... can this exploit target pages on the local machine?
carry your ladder to the other end of the roof, climb up, and collect the Looj.
You go right ahead and move your ladder.
I'll stay where I am and just hit the reverse button :-)
doesn't understand why so many people don't care
Ahh, but they *do* care.
They care that to get their five bucks they have to fill in a few blanks. Like with their name and address. And somewhere, in some database will be a bit of trivia about just what it is they do on their computer. And I don't remember all the terms of the settlement, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to obtain the names of all claimants. Imagine someone posting *that* list on a public webserver that Google indexes.
So, we spend a few hundred million to land something on Mars, a major part of whose mission was to confirm or debunk the existence of water there, and after 24 days all we can say is "Look, it's sublimated so it's probably water!"? I'm hearing jokes about Americans forgetting to include some simple 'test for water' equipment in their 325 million 'let's see if there's water on Mars' probe.
So, is anyone else thinking 'wtf?' like me? Why are we reduced to using pictures to try and determine if the stuff is water? Where the hell are the results of the conclusive tests so we don't have to use words like 'probably', 'most likely', and 'it shure looks like watuh, don' it?'.
Come on, NASA, you're making yourselves look incompetent.
Without exceptions like those, things like the code that prevents (or at least discourages) the use of bots in games like WoW would be rendered illegal. Examining your system memory is *exactly* what the law is designed to prevent, and anti-bot code has to do just that.
Yeah, maybe they could come up with a lot more specifics, thus making the law a lot more unreadable and drawn out, and potentially causing headaches for any circumstances that were left out. But I'm afraid there will probably have to be some sort of exceptions made along the lines of "unathorized software" and/or "fraudulent use" that are potentially over-generalized.
but there is no way that it could hit mass distribution price points
/. recently, and things like protein folding apps being ported to GPUs, I'm thinking using GPUs for massively parallel computing is becoming much more mainstream, as folks realize just what kind of bang for the buck they can get from GPUs. That, I think, translates into enough demand to push the 280 into mass-manufacture and distribution price points. I just hope the demand from well funded organizations buying these things for their supercomputers doesn't keep the demand so high that we're all bidding on eBay for the occasional part that isn't slated for a supercomputer!
I'm not so sure of that. Considering it's not unusual for a supercomputer these days to have 5000 or more processing units (Roadrunner has 6000+ Opterons and 12,000+ Cells), I can see a large demand for the 280 part in high performance computing applications. I'm guessing nVidia sees things the same way, which is why we're seeing so many non-graphics specific improvements and tweaks to the GPU. I'm thinking nVidia is counting on leveraging CUDA based supercomputing apps to sell a lot more of these than they would if it were just gamers buying them. The double-precision floating point capability alone signifies they're targeting a non-gaming market. With 8-core (4 way SLI dual core) units having made the front page of
So, was granpa's banana more slippery?
Actually, that's a slightly hedged 'yes'.
Grampa's banana had a thicker, more durable skin, in addition to being larger than the bananas we youngun's know so well.
The other reason it's so popular as comic relief is because it actually was a real hazard back around 1915-ish. As a 'portable' fruit, they were handy to carry anywhere, and without streetcorner trash cans, the peels got tossed on the sidewalk as often as not. And considering bananas are (and were) the most popular fruit in the US (almost twice as popular as the good ol' apple), it really was a normal hazard. The Boy Scout handbook of 1914 actually listed removing a banana peel from the sidewalk as a 'good deed', it was that common an occurence.
As a side effect though, it *did* start many cities putting trash cans on busy streets, and enacting littering laws.
Now *that* is what I call geek speak.
Show me a topic with 10 or 12 forums, with a balance between censored and uncensored formats, and *then* I'll grant the possibility of a trend.
Otherwise, one bad moderator, or one good poster can make a big difference, hiding the effects of censorship.
Sending a snail mail letter requires no major initial investment.
Sending your first email requires an investment to purchase your computer and subscribe to an ISP's plan.
Making a phone call requires a minimal investment in a phone, and a monthly fee of about the same price as internet access.
Sending an SMS usually requires either a 1 or 2 year commitment to a cellular provider's service plan, or the purchase of a phone for use with pre-paid minutes.
So, if these 20% want or need to provide a written record of communication, they can use snail mail at a cost of 50 cents (plus an initial investment of a dollar for a pen), or they can spend $500 on a computer and $20 a month on an ISP.
If they want a faster response than a snail mail, they *pick up the phone*. Which trumps email and IM on speed if more than one question/response is needed.
Or they use an SMS or voicemail or an answering machine if the intended recipient isn't available.
For "Joe Average", the cost/benefit ratio of email is absolutely horrible compared to other forms of communication. And since there really isn't any pressing *need* for them to have email, they don't make that investment. From anecdotal observations, I'd also say that another 20% of the population *with* computers and internet access *don't use email* on any regular basis. They use the internet for entertainment and information *not* communication.
As for me, I've been using email since the late 80's, early 90's. However up until 2005, I had *never* sent an SMS. And until mid 2006 when I had a reason to use SMS more, I had only sent maybe 3 SMSes.
So, for a service (email) that has no real value to many, has many alternatives, and requires a sizeable initial investment, is it any surprise that 20% of the population hasn't bothered with it? One wonders if perhaps they're the smarter ones.
The first and last parts *DO NOT* look like terniary and binary to me.
Instead, they look like an RLL encoded pattern, similar to what you'd see on a hard drive. Maybe NRZI.
In fact, the first looks surprisingly like (1,3) MFM RLL.
Also reminds me of the old Apple Floppy drive "between any two ones there can only be a maximum of one zero" data writing rule.
Remember this?:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/14/0219246
I hope they included the increasing price and decreasing availability of helium in their business plan. No wonder it's $250+ per flight.
deviantart.com
googlepages.com
mediafire.com
ebuddy.com
xanga.com
Workaround: don't add the "http://" in front of the address.
Okay, so it's really really big. But not "too" big. And it just happens to be in an orbit that's very close to earth's orbit around the sun. So I'm guessing that with the right nudges at the right times, it'd be possible to swing that rock around the moon and park it in orbit around the earth. And having a million tons of raw material in orbit is something that both makes more sense than a manned landing, and is a lot more interesting and exciting, to me at least.
Gateway "AnyKey" keyboards.
Every keycode was reprogrammable, so you could change each key's output (or key combo, like shift+ctrl+A) to any other letter, or series of letters up to 250 characters. Plus, it was self-contained. No external program necessary. Hit the remap button, select your target keypress, type in the new output you want, hit remap again, poof. OS and program independent.
Plus it's got an additional 12 function keys down the left side. And a 9 button arrow key group. And after 12 years of using one, the letters didn't wear off. Decently solid build, no clickity noises, just a light tactile feel.
Bad news is they haven't been made in years. And when they were it was only in AT and PS/2 connectors, no USB.
But if they were available new, with a USB connection, I'd get one in a heartbeat even if they were $150. I *still* miss all the little shortcuts I had in it. Shift+ctrl+A was my name and address, tabbed. Those extra 12 function keys served as holders for whatever text strings were commonly retyped in whatever I was working on. In whatever program I was working in. Or sometimes it's just faster to press down, down, delete, type a slash... repeat 20 times than figure out a find/replace. That keyboard made things like that painless.
You could also easily swap keys, and remap the output to match. If you use Dvorak, they'd be great. Or like certain punctuation in different places. Or want an alt+number code like a british pound in place of a dollar sign, whatever.
Absolutely fantastic coding keyboard.
Update, as I read farther into TFA:
"just to activate the first time, and every 10 days after"
Now it's saying something different!
Also:
Commenter: "Sure, I have an always-on net connection but what happens if I don't play for 11 days and the moment I want to play my connection is down? Are you saying I'm not going to be able to play my perfectly legitimate purchased copy of the game, even the retail version, until I get permission?"
BioShock rep: "That is correct. And I would suggest that you contact EA Support the moment this happens (once you get your internet back) to report the issue. If there are people having problems with the system as designed, then Support needs to hear about it so they can help us evaluate it for the next game title."
Summary says: "that it phone home every 10 days" (emphasis mine)
TFA says "After the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned)."
Sounds like it only re-checks *once*, not once every ten days, ad infinitum.
"How many year (nee: decades) will it take to pay one of those off?"
Typical supercritical cycle gasified coal plants average around 625MW output. Here's a typical example:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2007-12-26-coal-main_N.htm
I'll take a wild stab and guess they'll average 400MW output (the wind farm in the article is expected to average about 2MW output). That equates to 3,500 GWh per year, or about 200 times as much as the wind farm.
"As for maintainence costs; how much does it cost to maintain a coal fired plant? How much does it cost to maintain a nuclear plant? How much does it cost to handle the waste product from same? How much ongoing environmental impact is there?"
This was easy to find:
http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/costs.htm
$30 per MWh, or $0.03 per KWh.
Over 10 years that 2 billion amounts to 5.7 cents per KWh, plus 3 cents operating cost, yielding 9 cents per kilowatt hour for a payoff time of 10 years. Or less.
"I'm no tree hugger by any stretch, but the fact that a town was able to generate an annual surplus of natural energy with no environmental by-products is a pretty decent little achievement."
Agreed, but NOT AT THOSE PRICES!
FYI, a little research yesterday indicated John Deere is using Suzlon 1.25 MW S64 wind turbines. Other projects seem to average 2 million per turbine plus tower construction costs and transport. So I'm guessing that someone slipped a decimal point somewhere and the cost is 9 million, not 90 million.
And at 90 million, over 10 years, that's 7 cents per KWh plus maintenance and interest, which sounds a LOT better to me. Meaning we'll probably see more of them.
"The $90 million Loess Hills Wind Farm" .... "is eventually expected to generate 16 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year"
...without maintenance costs.
$90 million for 16 million kWh/year.
Lessee... over 5 years that's $1.12 per kWh, ouch.
Over 10 years... nah, still a bit much.
Over 30 years (can you still get mortgages that long?) it's 19 cents per kWh.
Or interest.
I hate to say it, but this smells like fail. Yeah, a nice feel-good project perhaps, and certainly green, but it's not looking economically viable, if that $90 million number is accurate.
And speaking of $90 million for 4 windmills... 20 million+ per windmill? No. Freakin'. Way.