hmmm. My grandmother got one because to her, it's infuriating to have to sit down and manipulate a mouse and keyboard just to check her email, look up the weather and get recipies.
The tablet is a FAR better platform for doing these things, unless you're doing a lot of typing.
I don't own one... My smartphone is just a mini tablet anyway, but it's a fair argument really..
The Microsoft Trackball Explorer sold new for $59 in 2001 and is (as far as I'm concerned) the best trackball ever made. It was discontinued in 2004, but people will pay upwards of $400 to buy a new one today.
What's a "food-related craziness" and how does one define the difference between other types of crazy?
And it's odd you say that, many of the vegans I've known have been quite odd people. I always attributed the vegan choice to the oddities, rather than the other way around...
I do know that vegans have to be insanely careful about what they eat to be healthy and I've known a few athletes who tried to go vegan and their body just couldn't handle it, responding like they were short on important nutrients, their energy, stamina and recovery speed were notably diminished.
I'm going to say what I always say. Doing something "hardcore" is probably bad for you. Why not have a balanced diet? We are evolved as omnivores and it's challenging to try to hotwire that.
This is correct. It is the end-users that lose out.
Since the USA has very limited regulatory requirements regarding privacy of user information and there are no reliable means of wronged consumers seeking damages for negligent security practices, it ACTUALLY is cheaper for a company to ignore security and let their customers take the damage, assuming that they aren't going to take too much damage to their business.
The balance decision has little to do with security, but with skirting responsibility. This is another reason why (in my experience), breaches do not result in disclosure most of the time, they are just covered up and hushed. Yes, I've seen this as a consultant, no, it's not worth losing my job being a whistle blower.
The problem is the huge advantage provided by a keyboard and mouse. Tests in the past indicated it wasn't even fun for console players with a gamepad to play against someone using a mouse and keyboard. Not even close.
So you just fracture the games into "gamepad" and "mouse" games, otherwise it's absurd.
There is a crack house down on the corner of 6th and Main.
That's directions to a place where illegal activity is likely taking place. It is not illegal.
Nor is a link, which is simply directions to a place.
This case isn't fuzzy. It's completely blindingly obvious. It should not be a crime and suggestion that even more egregious infractions might also be is equally disturbing to me.
You know, a number of double blind studies have shown that advertising affects everyone, including those who rate themselves most highly objective. Certainly, perhaps at a lower level, but I don't think YOU are that special.:-)
I think the hypothsis included the disclaimer that it would probably not apply to some tiny fraction of people. Something on the order of one in a million will not be within the 6-degrees.
However, many of these tribes have had people leave, many have also had researchers visit.
Additionally, we're talking about a few hundred to at most a few thousand individuals, total. We are 7 billion, otherwise.
The point is, you're sitting on a huge convenient fossil fuel resource that can be used to run all the equipment!
That's not really how it works.
While I agree that glowing arctic seals are bad, the alternative is (sadly), having a tanker full of refined petroleum from Venezuela or Vladovostok come steaming the 15,000 miles from the refinery in a tanker in order to seasonally refuel a platform.
They're not going to dump raw unfiltered natural gas from a vent into the multimillion dollar steam turbines or engines.... I suspect the hydrogen sulfide and other things in naturally it would be very bad for the equipment... It's generally quite heavily refined before use... and crude oil is far worse.... Full of all sorts of long-chain hydrocarbons mixed up in different ratios. I can't imagine trying to burn it in a remote area and maintain a reliable system...
I'm all about 'save the whales' but *IF* we are going to be drilling in the arctic anyway, this isn't a terrible idea to consider.
Their argument is that these water fights have devolved into fist or knife fights several times during the last few years, with a number of injuries and at least one death.
It doesn't necessarily make organizing one illegal, but it does make it questionably wise in light of recent calls for increased police presence.
Hospitals, by and large, have the worst security of any companies or institutions that I have done security testing for. by far.
Finding servers in accounting with blank passwords and then realizing later that they share a subnet with heart monitors makes one wonder WTF they are doing.
But it wasn't just one hospital, I've been to five and all were similar. Yuk.
The problem is, deciding that nobody should care about security opens up a bunch of potential vulnerabilities.
Most companies have a side door that is accessible to employees with a badge. This is where we target to gain physical access to a building during a penetration test. Almost everyone will hold the door for you if you look busy and are reasonably respectable looking. Most companies can't afford to secure every door, or won't do it due to parking situations, etc.
The other attack we commonly engage in during penetration testing is spear-phishing attacks. With a properly worded email, I get passwords out of about 30% of people at an average corporation. Those corporations that make sure everyone has security training and adopt the attitude of "security is everyone's responsibility" tend to have lower rates of this. Yes, it doesn't completely fix the problem but it doesn't hurt either.
As an IT Security manager, if you were to adopt the stance of "nobody else can plug the gaps, so I have to find a way to do it"- this results in pretty draconian security policies. Two factor authentication on everything, host and user certificates for wire-line (and wireless) authentication via a NAC to prevent unauthorized endpoints, WIPS to knock down any rogue wireless that does manage to connect... Binary whitelisting on the endpoints, etc, etc, etc
You can secure the environment without user cooperation, but they will not like it....
It's not really the traditional "rare earth" due to it's placement on the periodic table, but it can tentatively be included in that list in some circumstances.
Sorry, just had to play a little devil's advocate. Also, we did have this situation where there was someone who came into the interview with the "job is already mine" attitude and then asked for slightly higher than we could pay and then acted like someone stabbed him when we said "sorry, this is the best we can do on salary" (which was a reasonable $75-85k, I think)
My manager was telling me about this interview he did recently.
The guy he talked seemed nice enough and he was going to hire him, but we were surprised to find out that even in the recession, he was asking for more than double the salary to the other two applicants, who were competent, although not quite as experienced. We are offering a bit above our normal pay grade because we wanted someone with experience, but we can't offer that much. Well, he seemed a bit arrogant anyway... seemed to have this attitude that he knew more than the managers before he really even got to know the manager. It's too bad because we were going to offer him full benefits and there will be pretty decent raises going around when this project completes and it sounds like he has been out of work for awhile. Oh, well, the other two applicants are currently working but are still available after 3 weeks notice, that will have to do.
The NASA budget is so tiny compared to the deficit stemming from other defense spending (The F-35 was far more expensive), compared to social welfare programs, compared to corporate tax breaks and compared to bailouts and the tax breaks of a decade ago.
If this is in reference to US deficits, this is like loaning someone $1000 and getting mad that they bought a laser pointer for $0.49, despite the fact that they took a lower paying job, before going on vacation to Saudi Arabia with your money.
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hmmm. My grandmother got one because to her, it's infuriating to have to sit down and manipulate a mouse and keyboard just to check her email, look up the weather and get recipies.
The tablet is a FAR better platform for doing these things, unless you're doing a lot of typing.
I don't own one... My smartphone is just a mini tablet anyway, but it's a fair argument really..
The Microsoft Trackball Explorer sold new for $59 in 2001 and is (as far as I'm concerned) the best trackball ever made. It was discontinued in 2004, but people will pay upwards of $400 to buy a new one today.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-0-PS2-USB-MICROSOFT-EXPLORER-TRACKBALL-BOXED-/220842337857?pt=UK_Collectables_InputDevices_RL&hash=item336b3aa641
They sell used for sometimes around $200
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-0-PS2-USB-COMPATIBLE-GWO-MICROSOFT-EXPLORER-TRACKBALL-/250877849444?pt=UK_Collectables_InputDevices_RL&hash=item3a697c2f64
Even used ones with buttons falling off sell for prices well above the original MSRP.
The ball itself goes regularly for almost $100.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Trackball-Explorer-1-0-OEM-REPLACEMENT-BALL-/290599386203?pt=Mice&hash=item43a912bc5b#ht_679wt_1396
Apparently, the optical trackball tech is subject to some patent owned by logitech basically refuses to let Microsoft make them.
What's a "food-related craziness" and how does one define the difference between other types of crazy?
And it's odd you say that, many of the vegans I've known have been quite odd people. I always attributed the vegan choice to the oddities, rather than the other way around...
I do know that vegans have to be insanely careful about what they eat to be healthy and I've known a few athletes who tried to go vegan and their body just couldn't handle it, responding like they were short on important nutrients, their energy, stamina and recovery speed were notably diminished.
I'm going to say what I always say. Doing something "hardcore" is probably bad for you. Why not have a balanced diet? We are evolved as omnivores and it's challenging to try to hotwire that.
Good attacks will spoof external third parties who are recognized. Email is designed in a way this is possible and not practical to prevent.
That is the nature of email, most people don't realize exactly how arbitrary email security is.
This is correct. It is the end-users that lose out.
Since the USA has very limited regulatory requirements regarding privacy of user information and there are no reliable means of wronged consumers seeking damages for negligent security practices, it ACTUALLY is cheaper for a company to ignore security and let their customers take the damage, assuming that they aren't going to take too much damage to their business.
The balance decision has little to do with security, but with skirting responsibility. This is another reason why (in my experience), breaches do not result in disclosure most of the time, they are just covered up and hushed. Yes, I've seen this as a consultant, no, it's not worth losing my job being a whistle blower.
The problem is the huge advantage provided by a keyboard and mouse. Tests in the past indicated it wasn't even fun for console players with a gamepad to play against someone using a mouse and keyboard. Not even close.
So you just fracture the games into "gamepad" and "mouse" games, otherwise it's absurd.
Oooooo, Gretzky reference....
Niiiice.
Linking is not illegal. Period.
Period.
There is a crack house down on the corner of 6th and Main.
That's directions to a place where illegal activity is likely taking place. It is not illegal.
Nor is a link, which is simply directions to a place.
This case isn't fuzzy. It's completely blindingly obvious. It should not be a crime and suggestion that even more egregious infractions might also be is equally disturbing to me.
ex-parte is latin for excluding one or more parties...
You know, a number of double blind studies have shown that advertising affects everyone, including those who rate themselves most highly objective. Certainly, perhaps at a lower level, but I don't think YOU are that special. :-)
I think the hypothsis included the disclaimer that it would probably not apply to some tiny fraction of people. Something on the order of one in a million will not be within the 6-degrees.
However, many of these tribes have had people leave, many have also had researchers visit.
Additionally, we're talking about a few hundred to at most a few thousand individuals, total. We are 7 billion, otherwise.
The point is, you're sitting on a huge convenient fossil fuel resource that can be used to run all the equipment!
That's not really how it works.
While I agree that glowing arctic seals are bad, the alternative is (sadly), having a tanker full of refined petroleum from Venezuela or Vladovostok come steaming the 15,000 miles from the refinery in a tanker in order to seasonally refuel a platform.
They're not going to dump raw unfiltered natural gas from a vent into the multimillion dollar steam turbines or engines.... I suspect the hydrogen sulfide and other things in naturally it would be very bad for the equipment... It's generally quite heavily refined before use... and crude oil is far worse.... Full of all sorts of long-chain hydrocarbons mixed up in different ratios. I can't imagine trying to burn it in a remote area and maintain a reliable system...
I'm all about 'save the whales' but *IF* we are going to be drilling in the arctic anyway, this isn't a terrible idea to consider.
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Their argument is that these water fights have devolved into fist or knife fights several times during the last few years, with a number of injuries and at least one death.
It doesn't necessarily make organizing one illegal, but it does make it questionably wise in light of recent calls for increased police presence.
"If you have nothing to hide".....
overused (and poor) mantra.
Medical records?
Hah!!
Hospitals, by and large, have the worst security of any companies or institutions that I have done security testing for. by far.
Finding servers in accounting with blank passwords and then realizing later that they share a subnet with heart monitors makes one wonder WTF they are doing.
But it wasn't just one hospital, I've been to five and all were similar. Yuk.
At least they're improving.
The problem is, deciding that nobody should care about security opens up a bunch of potential vulnerabilities.
Most companies have a side door that is accessible to employees with a badge. This is where we target to gain physical access to a building during a penetration test. Almost everyone will hold the door for you if you look busy and are reasonably respectable looking. Most companies can't afford to secure every door, or won't do it due to parking situations, etc.
The other attack we commonly engage in during penetration testing is spear-phishing attacks. With a properly worded email, I get passwords out of about 30% of people at an average corporation. Those corporations that make sure everyone has security training and adopt the attitude of "security is everyone's responsibility" tend to have lower rates of this. Yes, it doesn't completely fix the problem but it doesn't hurt either.
As an IT Security manager, if you were to adopt the stance of "nobody else can plug the gaps, so I have to find a way to do it"- this results in pretty draconian security policies. Two factor authentication on everything, host and user certificates for wire-line (and wireless) authentication via a NAC to prevent unauthorized endpoints, WIPS to knock down any rogue wireless that does manage to connect... Binary whitelisting on the endpoints, etc, etc, etc
You can secure the environment without user cooperation, but they will not like it....
It's not really the traditional "rare earth" due to it's placement on the periodic table, but it can tentatively be included in that list in some circumstances.
Sorry, just had to play a little devil's advocate. Also, we did have this situation where there was someone who came into the interview with the "job is already mine" attitude and then asked for slightly higher than we could pay and then acted like someone stabbed him when we said "sorry, this is the best we can do on salary" (which was a reasonable $75-85k, I think)
My manager was telling me about this interview he did recently.
The guy he talked seemed nice enough and he was going to hire him, but we were surprised to find out that even in the recession, he was asking for more than double the salary to the other two applicants, who were competent, although not quite as experienced. We are offering a bit above our normal pay grade because we wanted someone with experience, but we can't offer that much. Well, he seemed a bit arrogant anyway... seemed to have this attitude that he knew more than the managers before he really even got to know the manager. It's too bad because we were going to offer him full benefits and there will be pretty decent raises going around when this project completes and it sounds like he has been out of work for awhile. Oh, well, the other two applicants are currently working but are still available after 3 weeks notice, that will have to do.
The NASA budget is so tiny compared to the deficit stemming from other defense spending (The F-35 was far more expensive), compared to social welfare programs, compared to corporate tax breaks and compared to bailouts and the tax breaks of a decade ago.
If this is in reference to US deficits, this is like loaning someone $1000 and getting mad that they bought a laser pointer for $0.49, despite the fact that they took a lower paying job, before going on vacation to Saudi Arabia with your money.
There was extensive discussion of in vivo tests on rats and how the drug penetrated various organ systems, etc.
It apparently "cured" rats of a variety of nasty viruses in just a couple of hours. Crazy...
MRSA is exactly as dangerous as Staphylococcus was before the invention of antibiotics.
It's simply resistant, so we don't have the "auto-win" of antibiotics.
Penicillin was (and still is) a wonderful thing for humanity.
Probably the greatest discovery in history... up there with fire, farming, electricity, etc.
Upheaval? I suspect the drug is going to be inexpensive to produce, but it could probably have global changes on the same order as penicillin.