An act of extreme stupidity is only one criterion. He needs to effectively eliminate himself from the gene pool to qualify. That's why it matters whether the doctors can "get things working again."
I know that the article offers a hint of a positive prognosis "getting things working again." But if that prognosis turns out to be false hope, then this guy should get nominated for the Darwin Awards.
Back in the nineties, I encountered a worm whose payload was to steal cycles on machines to participate in one of the RSA factoring challenges. I got a call just as Christmas break started from someone at another university saying that someone on our network was trying to brute force machines on their net.
The culprit was a new SGI machine with a default root password that had been installed without the knowledge of anyone in the computer centre. When I checked to see what it was doing, it was (a) trying to spread itself, and (b) participating in a public RSA factoring challenge.
is there a way to completely "immunize" oneself against such attacks? If so, where is the howto?
I understand that you can purchase protection against such things. The Russian Business Network would be a good place to start. After all, in Russia the criminals protect you.
I noticed that, too. The CSS however does not validate. Still I take your point. APS.NET is not the tool I would use, but they have done well with the tool of their choice.
I also found that prices at my local CompUSA during their fire sale were still high. Except for Apple stuff. CompUSA no longer cared about remaining in Apple's good graces, so I did pick up some Apple stuff at a genuine discount.
I've been waiting for AAPL to come down in price. When I heard the news Wednesday (after trading closed), I figured there would be a nice discount on Apple stock at opening this morning, and so there was. We'll know in a couple of years whether my purchase was a good move or not.
A surprising number of NTP servers didn't add the leap second correctly. On the mailing list for pool.ntp.org contributors, it was reported that at just after midnight UTC that about 158 servers in the pool (about about 2000) were reporting times that were around 1000ms off. A few hours later it was only 13 that were doing that.
My own (stratum 3) NTP server got confused and declared that it couldn't determine the correct time. Some of its sources were 1000ms off from others. Given enough time, NTP will sort itself out, but I intervened manually by ditching the upstream servers that hadn't gotten it right.
If enough NTP servers were temporarily in the state that mine was in (was so unsure of itself that it wouldn't serve time to clients) then I could imagine some process that tries to sync the time and fails because ntpdate doesn't return anything useful.
"Only drawback is they need to be supercooled, something that may be addressed by improving the materials used." - that last part is a bit of an understatement.
Is an understatement from the New Sensationalist (as it should properly be called) an oxymoron?
The New Sensationalist runs a story every couple of weeks about how some new breakthrough will revolutionize something or other in the next two years. Has anyone gone through their predictions like we do with psychics to see what their actual hit rate really is?
People may have doubted whether a former DDR Stasi employee would reform or continue with old ways of treating the public. Now all questions about this particular thug have evaporated.
I'm an English speaking PPC OS X user, you insensitive clod. I finally gave up waiting and grabbed the Spanish language version. But there still in no English version for OS X on the PowerPC.
If these sites are down, how will Al-Qaeda make its pre-election rant against the Republican candidate like they did four years ago? If they once again want the Republicans to win (more likely in their view to create the clash of civilizations that they're dreaming of) how will they pull that off this time?
We know that Hamas has endorsed Obama. Maybe bin Laden will do the same just to make sure that McCain is elected and the US can more easily be painted as the Great Satan.
Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible that a pea-sized meteorite could go flying through my head like a bullet.
Once it is small enough so that its surface area to mass ratio is sufficiently large, air resistance will just slow the thing down. There was a case a few years ago where someone was actually hit in the foot by a small meteor. No harm done.
That site limits questions to those 35 or under. I'm wondering if that 35 year cut off is coincidental. (A US President must be 35 or older).
But anyway, here is the question I would ask
I have great admiration for the positions and the way of thinking that both of you displayed prior to your running for President. As the campaigns have progressed I have been experiencing growing disgust at the populism of your new positions, whether it be promising tax cuts or supporting protectionism (just two of many examples). So I would support the candidate whom I believe will break most of his campaign promises. Which one of you is that?
But Solitaire was merely running on a computer a game that already existed in meatspace. Minesweeper, by contrast, was true innovation. It introduced a game which could not have existed without a computer with a suitable interface. So even if Solitaire is more popular, I strongly feel that Minesweeper is the better program.
You can use DNSpark (whom I use) or other providers as slaves. Your master doesn't even need to be publicly accessible, just as long as you allow the appropriate zone transfers. This way you can have your own little scripts that generate the zone files on a host you fully control, while having the world query those professionally managed servers.
I was interested to read today exactly how DISD ended up with a surprise budget hole of $64 million:
[DISD Superintendent] Dr. Hinojosa said the deficit occurred because administrators miscalculated average teacher salaries and did not realize exactly how many positions had been added during the year.
This is coming from the same school district that gave staff district-backed credit cards with absolutely no auditing or oversight of what people spent money on. It's the same district where the IT director received large gifts from contractors who sell to DISD.
That, of course, just touches on some of the regular financial shockers. Academically, their solution to kids not doing homework is to make homework optional. And of course, they are following the same 50% grading rule described in the Pittsburgh article
Obviously if we had to evaluate the district administration, we would have to give them, wait for it, 50%. After all, we wouldn't want to say anything that might discourage them,
DISD is exceedingly dysfunctional (can't manage a budget, kick-backs, and so on). So this idiocy is small potatoes compared the the problems of the district as a whole.
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This guy doesn't seem all that concerned about the willingness of his sexual partners, does he?
An act of extreme stupidity is only one criterion. He needs to effectively eliminate himself from the gene pool to qualify. That's why it matters whether the doctors can "get things working again."
I know that the article offers a hint of a positive prognosis "getting things working again." But if that prognosis turns out to be false hope, then this guy should get nominated for the Darwin Awards.
Back in the nineties, I encountered a worm whose payload was to steal cycles on machines to participate in one of the RSA factoring challenges. I got a call just as Christmas break started from someone at another university saying that someone on our network was trying to brute force machines on their net.
The culprit was a new SGI machine with a default root password that had been installed without the knowledge of anyone in the computer centre. When I checked to see what it was doing, it was (a) trying to spread itself, and (b) participating in a public RSA factoring challenge.
is there a way to completely "immunize" oneself against such attacks? If so, where is the howto?
I understand that you can purchase protection against such things. The Russian Business Network would be a good place to start. After all, in Russia the criminals protect you.
Indeed, the page in question actually validates as XHTML Transitional which is something that is remarkably rare and shows a concern for craftsmanship.
I noticed that, too. The CSS however does not validate. Still I take your point. APS.NET is not the tool I would use, but they have done well with the tool of their choice.
And there doesn't appear to be a moonlight port for OS X.
I also found that prices at my local CompUSA during their fire sale were still high. Except for Apple stuff. CompUSA no longer cared about remaining in Apple's good graces, so I did pick up some Apple stuff at a genuine discount.
I've been waiting for AAPL to come down in price. When I heard the news Wednesday (after trading closed), I figured there would be a nice discount on Apple stock at opening this morning, and so there was. We'll know in a couple of years whether my purchase was a good move or not.
A surprising number of NTP servers didn't add the leap second correctly. On the mailing list for pool.ntp.org contributors, it was reported that at just after midnight UTC that about 158 servers in the pool (about about 2000) were reporting times that were around 1000ms off. A few hours later it was only 13 that were doing that.
My own (stratum 3) NTP server got confused and declared that it couldn't determine the correct time. Some of its sources were 1000ms off from others. Given enough time, NTP will sort itself out, but I intervened manually by ditching the upstream servers that hadn't gotten it right.
If enough NTP servers were temporarily in the state that mine was in (was so unsure of itself that it wouldn't serve time to clients) then I could imagine some process that tries to sync the time and fails because ntpdate doesn't return anything useful.
"Only drawback is they need to be supercooled, something that may be addressed by improving the materials used." - that last part is a bit of an understatement.
Is an understatement from the New Sensationalist (as it should properly be called) an oxymoron?
The New Sensationalist runs a story every couple of weeks about how some new breakthrough will revolutionize something or other in the next two years. Has anyone gone through their predictions like we do with psychics to see what their actual hit rate really is?
Unsurprisingly the FreeBSD and OS X results are identical.
People may have doubted whether a former DDR Stasi employee would reform or continue with old ways of treating the public. Now all questions about this particular thug have evaporated.
I'm an English speaking PPC OS X user, you insensitive clod. I finally gave up waiting and grabbed the Spanish language version. But there still in no English version for OS X on the PowerPC.
If these sites are down, how will Al-Qaeda make its pre-election rant against the Republican candidate like they did four years ago? If they once again want the Republicans to win (more likely in their view to create the clash of civilizations that they're dreaming of) how will they pull that off this time?
We know that Hamas has endorsed Obama. Maybe bin Laden will do the same just to make sure that McCain is elected and the US can more easily be painted as the Great Satan.
I so wanted this to be true...
Oh, well. Thanks (I suppose) for the correction. The world just gone down in coolness a notch.
Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible that a pea-sized meteorite could go flying through my head like a bullet.
Once it is small enough so that its surface area to mass ratio is sufficiently large, air resistance will just slow the thing down. There was a case a few years ago where someone was actually hit in the foot by a small meteor. No harm done.
That site limits questions to those 35 or under. I'm wondering if that 35 year cut off is coincidental. (A US President must be 35 or older).
But anyway, here is the question I would ask
But Solitaire was merely running on a computer a game that already existed in meatspace. Minesweeper, by contrast, was true innovation. It introduced a game which could not have existed without a computer with a suitable interface. So even if Solitaire is more popular, I strongly feel that Minesweeper is the better program.
Minesweeper. The best thing they ever did.
Me, too. (That means "mod parent up")
You can use DNSpark (whom I use) or other providers as slaves. Your master doesn't even need to be publicly accessible, just as long as you allow the appropriate zone transfers. This way you can have your own little scripts that generate the zone files on a host you fully control, while having the world query those professionally managed servers.
I saw that on a BSD system around 1980. In retrospect, I realize that I must have typed "ld" instead of "ls"
I was interested to read today exactly how DISD ended up with a surprise budget hole of $64 million:
This is coming from the same school district that gave staff district-backed credit cards with absolutely no auditing or oversight of what people spent money on. It's the same district where the IT director received large gifts from contractors who sell to DISD.
That, of course, just touches on some of the regular financial shockers. Academically, their solution to kids not doing homework is to make homework optional. And of course, they are following the same 50% grading rule described in the Pittsburgh article
Obviously if we had to evaluate the district administration, we would have to give them, wait for it, 50%. After all, we wouldn't want to say anything that might discourage them,
Dallas (Texas) Independent School District is doing the same thing.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/081508dnmetdisdgrades.48e6cc22.html
DISD is exceedingly dysfunctional (can't manage a budget, kick-backs, and so on). So this idiocy is small potatoes compared the the problems of the district as a whole.