Hi, I'm the janitor that works second shift at your company. I looked in that envelope after your manager left it on top of her desk in her unlocked office, and now not only do I have access to everything in the enterprise that you do, but I also have your hints for future password permutations!
THANKS, IDIOT SYSADMIN!
You should have password recovery policies and procedures for anything important, so you dont have to do something retarded like writing down a bunch of passwords that never expire on a piece of paper.
PS: If your "various ways of changing them" instruction was anything except "type 'pwgen' into the shell prompt" then your passwords suck, mister sysadmin.
Oh yeah, that money is going to stay in the economy for about 5 minutes longer than it takes an oil executive to figure out that Indians will be happy to drag a rake through some green shit for $2 a day. No english skills required, no technical skills required, nothing.
Collecting muck from big tanks is not something an American will be doing, because there are a whole lot of people who are willing to do it cheaper.
This vehicle isnt designed for the civil market. at all. The FCC would never approve this vehicle in its current form. It has no pilot, no redundancy, and no business case for civil aviation. It is a technology demonstrator for a warcraft, developed in response to DARPA and DoD requests.
Incidentally, the Osprey program this week just surpassed 1000 flight hours for the program. It's racked up lots more flight time since the grounding and reengineering interval from 18 months ago.
Did you know that in the 50's the Army almost decided not to use helicopters at all after about a hundred soldiers were killed during trials of the Piasecki helicopters? There were people in the Army who were screaming that it was criminal to keep putting men into helicopters.
While I think that the Osprey getting grounded for a year and a half while they fixed the safety-critical problems was appropriate and justified, I'm glad that it's back in the air, and I think that it can really change the face of airmobile combat.
I remember when I was using a Hayes Smartmodem 300 on my C-64 to dial a BBS up in the 80's, I talked to my sysop friend about some scientists who were working on a 9600-baud modem. My friend was shocked and incredulous:
ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS?! THE PHONE LINES WILL BURN UP!
Pet Peeve #1: All Americans who whine about the price of gas. If you really want to whine, come to the UK where our Government has turned taxing petrol into an art form.
Pet Peeve #2: All Britons who whine about the British government. If you dont like it, revolt. That's what we did.
P.S. We don't have a rediculous television tax, either.
>>>Now that Corel is no longer under the whims of stockholders they can actually get to making a really good product and focus on other platforms and finally declaired that they loss the Windows Market.
Oh, yeah. Now they're just under the whim of venture capitalists. That's much, much better.
In the article running about the RPC virus today, the text of the article tells people to install a patch that corrects against the security flaw discussed in MS03-010. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevi ew/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-010.asp
However, the RPC virus is exploiting the hole in MS03-026. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevi ew/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-026.asp
In short, SLASHDOT IS PROVIDING DANGEROUSLY BAD INFO.
The/.-recommended patches wont protect the system. Follow the URL for the second link to get the real patches.
Go to #linuxhelp if you want help with something. It's not necessarily a help channel, its more of a place for burnt-out admins and developers to crash.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a few hours.
But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
This vehicle was basically the technology demonstrator for the X-45A UCAV vehicle. If you look at it, you can see several features present in the X-45 a/c.
It did look pretty cool, though.
The highlight of the ceremony however, was the free ice cream they gave us all.
Making a prototype vehicle remote controlled isnt as easy as sticking a futaba R/C radio set in it like it's a model.
Making a real full-size vehicle remote-controlled requires firstly a communications link capable of streaming all your commands, plus returning everything you want to know about how the aircraft is responding. And you have to do this over long ranges. and unless you are the military, you have to do this within FCC civilian broadcast guidelines.
It's not easy to do, and it's much cheaper to simply do it like it's been done for almost a century, with a human test pilot behaving very cautiously.
A human is the I/O, the sensors, the actuators, the flight control processor, and everything else. Automating a small plane would most likely double the cost, at least.
As someone who works in the aviation sector, I can tell you that aviation works in babysteps.
You start the engine before you taxi.
You slow taxi before you high-speed taxi.
All these things begin to tell you how the aircraft will behave and handle, as well as it's structural integrity, without putting the pilot's life in immediate peril. Only when you're absolutely as sure as you can be that the whole thing wont fly to pieces around do you accelerate and rotate.
Would YOU sit in an untested prototype plane and throw the throttle to the stops without having any idea what was going to happen? Any problem you might encounted at 0 feet AGL is a lot more serious at 1000 feet AGL.
I think the most common phrase overheard at any sort of medievil gathering is "That isnt in period".
I can only imagine how badly they'd flip out of you rolled up to a SCA dorkfest clad in a material that didnt exist then. You'd be better off just making Kevlar armor.
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>>What is the symbol for "lame gateway security"?
Last time I checked it, was a flag that sort of looked like a window...
Hi, I'm the janitor that works second shift at your company. I looked in that envelope after your manager left it on top of her desk in her unlocked office, and now not only do I have access to everything in the enterprise that you do, but I also have your hints for future password permutations!
THANKS, IDIOT SYSADMIN!
You should have password recovery policies and procedures for anything important, so you dont have to do something retarded like writing down a bunch of passwords that never expire on a piece of paper.
PS: If your "various ways of changing them" instruction was anything except "type 'pwgen' into the shell prompt" then your passwords suck, mister sysadmin.
Collecting muck from big tanks is not something an American will be doing, because there are a whole lot of people who are willing to do it cheaper.
Really? I can think of some notable exceptions.
Isn't that sort of like saying "I want to rid the world of rascists. And Asians."?
KTHXBYE.
This vehicle isnt designed for the civil market. at all. The FCC would never approve this vehicle in its current form. It has no pilot, no redundancy, and no business case for civil aviation. It is a technology demonstrator for a warcraft, developed in response to DARPA and DoD requests.
It means that there's nothing inside the vehicle, cranking the rotor around, so the vehicle never tries to crank itself the other way.
Did you know that in the 50's the Army almost decided not to use helicopters at all after about a hundred soldiers were killed during trials of the Piasecki helicopters? There were people in the Army who were screaming that it was criminal to keep putting men into helicopters.
While I think that the Osprey getting grounded for a year and a half while they fixed the safety-critical problems was appropriate and justified, I'm glad that it's back in the air, and I think that it can really change the face of airmobile combat.
ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS?! THE PHONE LINES WILL BURN UP!
Cool is teaching the Aibo to drive the segway while you control it via the 3G cameraphone taped to its head.
Pet Peeve #2: All Britons who whine about the British government. If you dont like it, revolt. That's what we did.
P.S. We don't have a rediculous television tax, either.
Oh, yeah. Now they're just under the whim of venture capitalists. That's much, much better.
Those poor bastards.
Alas, poor Corel. I knew him, Horatio!
In the article running about the RPC virus today, the text of the article tells people to install a patch that corrects against the security flaw discussed in MS03-010.i ew/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-010.asp
i ew/default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-026.asp
/.-recommended patches wont protect the system. Follow the URL for the second link to get the real patches.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treev
However, the RPC virus is exploiting the hole in MS03-026.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treev
In short, SLASHDOT IS PROVIDING DANGEROUSLY BAD INFO.
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Go to #linuxhelp if you want help with something. It's not necessarily a help channel, its more of a place for burnt-out admins and developers to crash.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a few hours.
But set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
If you think that's bad, just wait until your pants tell everyone within earshot to head south.
So if you want to get those hard-to-find books, you'll *continue* to get them from amazon, right? What's the problem?
Yeah, that would be really weird.
Yeah, then you can say that you power your PC with clean, natural profane gas.
It did look pretty cool, though.
The highlight of the ceremony however, was the free ice cream they gave us all.
Making a prototype vehicle remote controlled isnt as easy as sticking a futaba R/C radio set in it like it's a model.
Making a real full-size vehicle remote-controlled requires firstly a communications link capable of streaming all your commands, plus returning everything you want to know about how the aircraft is responding. And you have to do this over long ranges. and unless you are the military, you have to do this within FCC civilian broadcast guidelines.
It's not easy to do, and it's much cheaper to simply do it like it's been done for almost a century, with a human test pilot behaving very cautiously.
A human is the I/O, the sensors, the actuators, the flight control processor, and everything else.
Automating a small plane would most likely double the cost, at least.
As someone who works in the aviation sector, I can tell you that aviation works in babysteps.
You start the engine before you taxi.
You slow taxi before you high-speed taxi.
All these things begin to tell you how the aircraft will behave and handle, as well as it's structural integrity, without putting the pilot's life in immediate peril. Only when you're absolutely as sure as you can be that the whole thing wont fly to pieces around do you accelerate and rotate.
Would YOU sit in an untested prototype plane and throw the throttle to the stops without having any idea what was going to happen? Any problem you might encounted at 0 feet AGL is a lot more serious at 1000 feet AGL.
they've got some sharp people there.
So dont be surprised that steve is issuing fascist rulings.
I think the most common phrase overheard at any sort of medievil gathering is "That isnt in period" .
I can only imagine how badly they'd flip out of you rolled up to a SCA dorkfest clad in a material that didnt exist then. You'd be better off just making Kevlar armor.
Hey. That's DOCTOR Rocket Scientist to you, bub.