Better yet get the kids to teach the parents what they are learning in school. I've always found the teaching causes me to learn more than learning does.
The calculator has eroded a lot of arithmatic skills, people now are so weak in basic arithmatic that they don't recognise when the calculator is giving them an obviously wrong answer.
How many store clerks will actualy count back change correctly? I've had change given back to me, obviously in excess of what I was due, and said to the clerk "I think you've made a mistake" only to get an arguement from them. They trust that the cash register is going to tell them give back in change; it's only when I wad up the change and stuff it into my pocket that they even consider that they gave me change from a twenty instead of the ten because they hit the wrong key on the register.
I don't see how hardware security is going to stop problems like database leaks, because they are more of an application security, or social engineering problem. rather than hardware.
If the governmentr needs that high of a security, they simply make the user sign out/ sign in the hard-drive from a secure vault.
I once lost a secret crypto document while in the army. I had signed it out of the commsec room and was resonsible for it. I had some rather seriuos talks with people from the Army Security Agency over that document. After a while I noticed I was being followed, the sometimes was a second click on the phones I used and shit like that. I sure was glad when I found the document, under the file cabinet drawer, still inside the security vault and was even happier after I got it signed back intop the commsec room.
he actualy refering to two things supposedly 1. if you throw a live frog into boiling water, the frog instanly knows the water is too hot and immedaiately jumps out unharmed. 2. throw a live frog into room-temperature water and heat it slowly to a boil, the frog nevers realizes the water is getting hoter until it's too late.
I've never heard from anyone who I'd considered trustworthy if either case of the above works.
I've always wondered why google doesn't have a phonebook search, type in a name and get 3000 phone numbers, type in a phone number and get one name.
gee sir I notice that my caller Id says Credit Fraud Prevention Services, but the number you gave me to return the info to is listed as Evil Phisher Corp in the Caymen Islands care to explain?
OK I know with call forwarding services you could get arround it but at least it would increase the cost of entry enough to make these guys better targets for prosecution.
I agree it's primarily a case of using uselessly weak security measures, to obfuscate the fact that there is no security. Personaly, you'd think that VoIP would be the prefered way of doing this because it would be trivial to extend the standard to allow a unique digital signature to vouche for the calls origin, using a challenge/responce/nonce kinda of a thing.
Sounds a good as anything else.I wonder what would happen if a sabotuer, mixed some of the control and experimental groups unknown to a single-blind experimenter. That would isolate whether knowlege during compounding the remedies, or durring administoring was the operative factor.
The only one you would have to lie to is the person handing out the meds, the patient is irrelevent in the placebo effect. If the distributer knowing that a homeopathic solution, that is at a concentration of one drop in the entire ocean, and very probably doesn't even have one molecule of the "active agent" in it is give to a cell culture like drawn blood in a test tube, the cells react to it, if its known to be distilled water that's chemicaly identical to the experimental agent, the cell culture doesn't react to it!
If you went to a pharmacy, and the pharmacist filled out a Rx for a placebo, it wouldn't work; if the pharm tech, didn't know it's a placebo and gave it to you, it would.
Normarly they take a population and tell them they will be divided into groups; 1. one group get the test medication, 2. one group get the "old-stand-by" medication 3. one group gets an inert plecebo
the meds are packaged to look the same and have the same taste as much as possible. Everybody knows and consents to be treated with the test med, the old med, and the plecebo med with out their knowege of what they'll really be getting.
if the primary researcher knows what meds are given to who, it's called a single-blind experement because the patient is blind to what they are getting.
if the primary researcher doesn't know, as well as the patient, it's called double-blind. who got what is only revealed after the experiment is over.
There is usualy a mercy clause in the experiment where if it becomes obvious that one group is recieving irrefutable benefits from what they are taking, everybody gets it.
I saw an interesting program on tv about homeopathic remedies, essentialy even when sceptical and respected researchers conducted homeopathic experiments, even on cells in vitro, the homeopathic remadies worked in every single blind experiment. When the same researchers repeated the same experiments in the double-blind method, they always failed. The researcher's knowelege of experiment and control groups even effect the results obtained in cell cultures in test tubes, and analysed with automated test equipment, very strange results in deed.
I suspect its a bot or virus too, just from the way the machine acts when I bring up task manager, i open taskmanager and cpu utilization goes from 80 to 50 %, click the networking tab and the network light on the router goes from full on to flicker. Something is hiding, probably more than one something.
ethereal looks very interesting, I'll try that and maybe download something from complete process listing. MS Anti-spyware should be able to clean out anything I download from shareware sites. Thanks
let me clearify, 3 processes using 2% cpu resources each (one is taskmanager), 20 using 0% cpu resources each( 1*20 + 6 = 26%), Total cpu utilitation bouncing between 50-80% 50-26 = a shit pile of cpu cycles unaccounted for.
Actualy I'd welcome knowing the difference between an application and a process in a windows context, my view point is Linux orientated and very probably wrong in windows.
I'm not an expert or anything, but it seems to me that the zombies, need to report their presence to the controller, and that usualy done through an IRC channel. If you find the IRC's with the most connections, and block it or even better spoof-it to a tarpit and nobody complains about not being able to connect to their favorite IRC you'd be pretty safe. Of course a lot of people might complain that their 'puters lock-up as soon as they log in.
I'd just like to know why taskmanager says CPU utilization is over 50%, the hard disk is thrashing, and the network light is on constantly, but task manger only list 3 processes using 2%? Nothing shows up on virus scans, nothing shows up on spyware scans and half the time it quits as soon as I open taskmanager. At least in linux TOP shows you what process is sucking up the cycles, giving you a fighting chance. I'm not completely clueless, I've used windows since 3.11, cut my teeth on basic and dos batch scripts, installed Linux on a machine before win95 was released and still I know the wife's WinXP machine that's fully patched hardware and software firewalled is owned and can't find out how; what's Joe average going to do?
Most American's absoltutely irrationaly detest the notion of a Diesel car Period. Getting Joe Average to use a Diesel cars is about as easy as getting him to use Linux.
you deserve 30 wet noodle wacks for posting a link to secret engineering data; and an other 30 for being rational in a thread with an environmental theme
My understanding was the problem was that google drops duplicates, and there is some ambiguity in which page is decided to be dropped. So because google decides both pages are the same and drops one, if the page Dropped is the original, the redirect inherits the page rank.
how about logo and turtle graphics, [sarcastic humor]if they are that's going to be obsolete in five years, shouldn't it be lisp based? [/sacrastic humor] the logo/turtle graphics was designed for K-5 er's. Imagine them trying to explain recursive programming to their parents; especialy when they really get it.
develope it the reduce the exposed silver halide crystals to metalic silver( results in an negative image)
bleach out the exposed silver( removes the negative image)
remove the film and expose it to light which exposes the undeveloped silver halide crystals
re-develope the film to reduce the exposed remaining silver halide crystals to metalic silver resulting in an positive image
fix the film to remove any undevelopes silver halide crystals
the silver reacts with the dyes in the film to become visible as color pixels
this results in a postive image or projection slide. The false color means the colors on the film don't represent reality.
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Actualy this is pretty much WW-II style technology, the old Sniper-Scopes used active IR like this web-cam mod. Now the problem is passive IR is so common firing up an IR illuminator is like painting a bull's-eye on your forehead. It's so common, we put blue filter on our flashlights to block the near-IR and IR output; visible light is less damgerous the IR at night!
Cadillac has an interesting thermal system, I haven't really dug into it in depth, but basicaly the sensor is a bunch of capacitors similar to a ccd sensor. When the IR image is focased on the sensor, the heat causes the diaelectric between the capacitor plates to warm up and expand changing the charge on the capacitor and make it readable.
Sooner or later someone is going to hack the system for some serious geek factor. I could see someone hackering several of these different systems together for some cool false-color IR video. I used to do quite a bit of IR photography used Kodak's IR false-color slide film, green showed up as blue, red was green and IR was red if memory serves me correctly. The biggest problem was the film used the old-fassioned E4 process, so you either had to send it to Kodak or do it your self
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You don't mean that kids should read something they enjoy like [gasp]Harry Potter[/gasp] or something.
Better yet get the kids to teach the parents what they are learning in school. I've always found the teaching causes me to learn more than learning does.
The calculator has eroded a lot of arithmatic skills, people now are so weak in basic arithmatic that they don't recognise when the calculator is giving them an obviously wrong answer.
How many store clerks will actualy count back change correctly? I've had change given back to me, obviously in excess of what I was due, and said to the clerk "I think you've made a mistake" only to get an arguement from them. They trust that the cash register is going to tell them give back in change; it's only when I wad up the change and stuff it into my pocket that they even consider that they gave me change from a twenty instead of the ten because they hit the wrong key on the register.
I don't see how hardware security is going to stop problems like database leaks, because they are more of an application security, or social engineering problem. rather than hardware.
If the governmentr needs that high of a security, they simply make the user sign out/ sign in the hard-drive from a secure vault.
I once lost a secret crypto document while in the army. I had signed it out of the commsec room and was resonsible for it. I had some rather seriuos talks with people from the Army Security Agency over that document. After a while I noticed I was being followed, the sometimes was a second click on the phones I used and shit like that. I sure was glad when I found the document, under the file cabinet drawer, still inside the security vault and was even happier after I got it signed back intop the commsec room.
he actualy refering to two things supposedly
1. if you throw a live frog into boiling water, the frog instanly knows the water is too hot and immedaiately jumps out unharmed.
2. throw a live frog into room-temperature water and heat it slowly to a boil, the frog nevers realizes the water is getting hoter until it's too late.
I've never heard from anyone who I'd considered trustworthy if either case of the above works.
I've always wondered why google doesn't have a phonebook search, type in a name and get 3000 phone numbers, type in a phone number and get one name.
gee sir I notice that my caller Id says Credit Fraud Prevention Services, but the number you gave me to return the info to is listed as Evil Phisher Corp in the Caymen Islands care to explain?
OK I know with call forwarding services you could get arround it but at least it would increase the cost of entry enough to make these guys better targets for prosecution.
I agree it's primarily a case of using uselessly weak security measures, to obfuscate the fact that there is no security. Personaly, you'd think that VoIP would be the prefered way of doing this because it would be trivial to extend the standard to allow a unique digital signature to vouche for the calls origin, using a challenge/responce/nonce kinda of a thing.
Sounds a good as anything else.I wonder what would happen if a sabotuer, mixed some of the control and experimental groups unknown to a single-blind experimenter. That would isolate whether knowlege during compounding the remedies, or durring administoring was the operative factor.
The only one you would have to lie to is the person handing out the meds, the patient is irrelevent in the placebo effect. If the distributer knowing that a homeopathic solution, that is at a concentration of one drop in the entire ocean, and very probably doesn't even have one molecule of the "active agent" in it is give to a cell culture like drawn blood in a test tube, the cells react to it, if its known to be distilled water that's chemicaly identical to the experimental agent, the cell culture doesn't react to it!
If you went to a pharmacy, and the pharmacist filled out a Rx for a placebo, it wouldn't work; if the pharm tech, didn't know it's a placebo and gave it to you, it would.
Normarly they take a population and tell them they will be divided into groups;
1. one group get the test medication,
2. one group get the "old-stand-by" medication
3. one group gets an inert plecebo
the meds are packaged to look the same and have the same taste as much as possible. Everybody knows and consents to be treated with the test med, the old med, and the plecebo med with out their knowege of what they'll really be getting.
if the primary researcher knows what meds are given to who, it's called a single-blind experement because the patient is blind to what they are getting.
if the primary researcher doesn't know, as well as the patient, it's called double-blind. who got what is only revealed after the experiment is over.
There is usualy a mercy clause in the experiment where if it becomes obvious that one group is recieving irrefutable benefits from what they are taking, everybody gets it.
I saw an interesting program on tv about homeopathic remedies, essentialy even when sceptical and respected researchers conducted homeopathic experiments, even on cells in vitro, the homeopathic remadies worked in every single blind experiment. When the same researchers repeated the same experiments in the double-blind method, they always failed. The researcher's knowelege of experiment and control groups even effect the results obtained in cell cultures in test tubes, and analysed with automated test equipment, very strange results in deed.
I suspect its a bot or virus too, just from the way the machine acts when I bring up task manager, i open taskmanager and cpu utilization goes from 80 to 50 %, click the networking tab and the network light on the router goes from full on to flicker. Something is hiding, probably more than one something.
ethereal looks very interesting, I'll try that and maybe download something from complete process listing. MS Anti-spyware should be able to clean out anything I download from shareware sites. Thanks
let me clearify,
3 processes using 2% cpu resources each (one is taskmanager),
20 using 0% cpu resources each( 1*20 + 6 = 26%),
Total cpu utilitation bouncing between 50-80%
50-26 = a shit pile of cpu cycles unaccounted for.
Actualy I'd welcome knowing the difference between an application and a process in a windows context, my view point is Linux orientated and very probably wrong in windows.
I'm not an expert or anything, but it seems to me that the zombies, need to report their presence to the controller, and that usualy done through an IRC channel. If you find the IRC's with the most connections, and block it or even better spoof-it to a tarpit and nobody complains about not being able to connect to their favorite IRC you'd be pretty safe. Of course a lot of people might complain that their 'puters lock-up as soon as they log in.
I'd just like to know why taskmanager says CPU utilization is over 50%, the hard disk is thrashing, and the network light is on constantly, but task manger only list 3 processes using 2%? Nothing shows up on virus scans, nothing shows up on spyware scans and half the time it quits as soon as I open taskmanager.
At least in linux TOP shows you what process is sucking up the cycles, giving you a fighting chance. I'm not completely clueless, I've used windows since 3.11, cut my teeth on basic and dos batch scripts, installed Linux on a machine before win95 was released and still I know the wife's WinXP machine that's fully patched hardware and software firewalled is owned and can't find out how; what's Joe average going to do?
that's the where they are are;
Omega World Travel, Inc.
3102 Omega Office Park
Fairfax, VA 22031.
Most American's absoltutely irrationaly detest the notion of a Diesel car Period. Getting Joe Average to use a Diesel cars is about as easy as getting him to use Linux.
you deserve 30 wet noodle wacks for posting a link to secret engineering data; and an other 30 for being rational in a thread with an environmental theme
My understanding was the problem was that google drops duplicates, and there is some ambiguity in which page is decided to be dropped. So because google decides both pages are the same and drops one, if the page Dropped is the original, the redirect inherits the page rank.
Anybody who sends sensitive information to a site solely because of a google link; needs to take a class on "living in the real world".
You forgot the Woman's underwear section of the Sears catalog.
how about logo and turtle graphics, [sarcastic humor]if they are that's going to be obsolete in five years, shouldn't it be lisp based? [/sacrastic humor] the logo/turtle graphics was designed for K-5 er's. Imagine them trying to explain recursive programming to their parents; especialy when they really get it.
this results in a postive image or projection slide. The false color means the colors on the film don't represent reality.
Actualy this is pretty much WW-II style technology, the old Sniper-Scopes used active IR like this web-cam mod. Now the problem is passive IR is so common firing up an IR illuminator is like painting a bull's-eye on your forehead. It's so common, we put blue filter on our flashlights to block the near-IR and IR output; visible light is less damgerous the IR at night!
Cadillac has an interesting thermal system, I haven't really dug into it in depth, but basicaly the sensor is a bunch of capacitors similar to a ccd sensor. When the IR image is focased on the sensor, the heat causes the diaelectric between the capacitor plates to warm up and expand changing the charge on the capacitor and make it readable.
Sooner or later someone is going to hack the system for some serious geek factor. I could see someone hackering several of these different systems together for some cool false-color IR video. I used to do quite a bit of IR photography used Kodak's IR false-color slide film, green showed up as blue, red was green and IR was red if memory serves me correctly. The biggest problem was the film used the old-fassioned E4 process, so you either had to send it to Kodak or do it your self