The Navy has already been bitten... more than once. At least one ship, the Yorktown, has had a BSOD. the "smart ship" tech that the following quote talks about is a windows based control system.
Between July 1995 and June 1997, the Yorktown lost propulsion power to buffer overflows twice while using the new Smart Ship technology, said Capt. Richard Rushton, commanding officer of the Yorktown at the time of the failures. But in each incidence the Yorktown crew knew what caused the failure and quickly restored systems, Rushton said.
That's also a good reason to have kids. I like to call them a DNA Backup (kiddo #1 is named Deena Bacup [accent on "Bac"]). In my will it says to clone replacement parts from my DNA Backup to help restore my life if its possible... and "legal".
When the wife asks why I screw around on her, I just tell her about the time a fire killed my backup tapes, and the server they backed up. For some reason she just doesn't seem to understand why I'm talking about work in the middle of an argument.
* no i don't have kids, or a wife. mod me down for lack of humor, but not for bad morals.
H&R Block online has a turbotax like setup. They ask you questions and you fill in the numbers. They do all the real work and will e-file your federal and state taxes so you get the money back in a few weeks.
I've used it the last two years, and it woorks great. Also, this second year of using it, they show a comparison between the refund for both years. Thats a bit helpful if you are trying to maximize your refund.
I've been playing since i saw this post and I can say that is intereseting and expansive. This is more of a co-operative game than any I have seen. There needs to be a division of laybor to advance very far. That can be fun for someone that can devote loads of time to the game, but it will probably lose to folks that can't spend much time building relationship in the game (like myself).
With that said, it hooked me all day, and I am now trying to walk to the end of the world (over an hour with no end in sight...). at around 10:00 or 11:00 the system manager signed off saying that over 2000 people signed on on the opening day, with 650 playing at once. Also, they got 275 people to sign up for billable accounts, even though the free access hasn't been cut of yet. That is a good first day.
There are currently several different spam lists that are killing my soul. This differs from the story, as every spam that they send out has the reply-to set to a different random userid with our domain tacked onto the end. we get about 100 or more bounces a day and have been getting them for the last month or so.
I've been saving them all, but haven't spent the time yet to track down the originators. Anyone else out there getting this one?
not to be too harsh, but there is a whole topic on this... call it "darwinism". if you can not stand to eat "healthy" food, your chances of survival and, more importantly, you chances of having offspring decrease. being selective doesn't mean you won't survive, so be picky if you want. just don't corrupt your taste buds and get lost in the woods for a week, where your taste can really protect you.
Taste buds keep us from eating poison! Why would you want to change your taste so that poison would taste good? Sounds like a bad idea to me. Rancid meat tastes bad to us because it is bad for us, but at least now we can make it taste great!
there is always the chance of corruption in a backup. we have run CRCs (Can Read the Cups) on a regular basis to make sure our chances for losing data are small. it's a risk we are willing to take.
I believe it is equivalent to doing a "grep hostname/etc/hosts". As far as I know, there is no hashing or caching of the hosts file. Now the question is "how long does it take to grep through a 256GB file?"
Don't strok the sides. This would be as useful as thecurrent mouse, but with added lack of precision.
Just throw a "lock down" button in easy reach of the index finger of the device holding hand. Move the device to where you want, click the "lock down" button and use like normal. Click it again and zip around the display.
It is a great idea, and can probably be adapted to desktop design for stationary machines, if they don't seal out the open source guys.
Over the last several years, hasn't your access to computers been very limited? It seems to me that you were time-warped to the future; the computers of today aren't the computers of 10 or even 5 years ago. Can you really step back into the mainstream and claim that you know as much about the security of today's systems as those that got you in trouble?
They can't take away my universal TV remote. I refuse to go back to using 5 remotes to turn on the TV, VCR, DVD player, stereo system, and cable box. If they do try this, I'll just buy equipment from companies that allow a universal remote.
Are they using a java client or a web front end? I filled out the public-beta survey and still got no answer. The only options for OS were windows and MacOS, but they had an "other" field. I'm using linux and just wonder if it will be supported by the client piece.
I don't see how you can call it chaos. He specifically mentioned that there were large planning meetings. He mentions that people should work together across the teams (DBA talks to developer, both talk to the network guy...etc.).
Assuming that the planning meetings give everyone a Big Picture overview and assign tasks to the developers, and that the cycles are short so that the mettings happen regularly, then you are calling what most people consider normal work "chaos".
That was a crazy sentence. Basiclly it seeems the people on his team are all on the same page. That means that they can each write their parts without fear of stepping on anyone's toes.
Too many cooks only spoil the broth if they don't know what it is supposed to taste like, and/or fail to taste it after each small change.
... why would anyone feel the need to hack or exploit my PC? There's nothing there of any import. And I doubt there is on 99.9% of all home PCs out there.
The many exploit-ers are not aiming at you in particular. Once an exploit is found, setting up an automated tool to hack random machines is not hard. You may just happen to be one of the random victims.
Random victims can then be staging points for many things such as: warez servers, DDOS attacks on someone else, automated hack stations to get more zombies, etc.
I've been DDOS'd and had various exploits tried against me in the past. The worst they could do is annoy me.
This is fairly short sighted. Yes it may be an annoyance to you, but when your machine and thousands of others are DDOS-ing etrade.com, I can't make trades. Now it annoys me.
I mean, rock-solid security on your OS is all fine and good.. But I don't wear a bulletproof vest either, and it's ok, because I hardly ever get shot at.
The difference is that it is hard to set up a gun that fires non-stop at random people for long periods of time. And if it were not so hard, and if there was a low risk of being caught by the police, I'm sure that you would start wearing a bullet proof vest -- or risk getting maimed.
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whoops... also, there is nothing you need to install on your machine... I did it all using mozilla 1.3a.
That's also a good reason to have kids. I like to call them a DNA Backup (kiddo #1 is named Deena Bacup [accent on "Bac"]). In my will it says to clone replacement parts from my DNA Backup to help restore my life if its possible... and "legal".
When the wife asks why I screw around on her, I just tell her about the time a fire killed my backup tapes, and the server they backed up. For some reason she just doesn't seem to understand why I'm talking about work in the middle of an argument.
* no i don't have kids, or a wife. mod me down for lack of humor, but not for bad morals.
H&R Block online has a turbotax like setup. They ask you questions and you fill in the numbers. They do all the real work and will e-file your federal and state taxes so you get the money back in a few weeks.
I've used it the last two years, and it woorks great. Also, this second year of using it, they show a comparison between the refund for both years. Thats a bit helpful if you are trying to maximize your refund.
since when do you pay for a service not delivered? why would someone have to pay "even if it doesn't snow?"
d -or-want.
Also, if you get the right crew, you can make sure the folks that don't pay don't have a clear path from their driveway to the road.
not anti-government. anti-spending-40%-of-my-money-on-shit-i-don't-nee
I've been playing since i saw this post and I can say that is intereseting and expansive. This is more of a co-operative game than any I have seen. There needs to be a division of laybor to advance very far. That can be fun for someone that can devote loads of time to the game, but it will probably lose to folks that can't spend much time building relationship in the game (like myself).
With that said, it hooked me all day, and I am now trying to walk to the end of the world (over an hour with no end in sight...). at around 10:00 or 11:00 the system manager signed off saying that over 2000 people signed on on the opening day, with 650 playing at once. Also, they got 275 people to sign up for billable accounts, even though the free access hasn't been cut of yet. That is a good first day.
There are currently several different spam lists that are killing my soul. This differs from the story, as every spam that they send out has the reply-to set to a different random userid with our domain tacked onto the end. we get about 100 or more bounces a day and have been getting them for the last month or so.
I've been saving them all, but haven't spent the time yet to track down the originators. Anyone else out there getting this one?
thanks! he writes some funny-ass lists. never would have thought to go looking at his post history. that audible counter increment killed.
not to be too harsh, but there is a whole topic on this... call it "darwinism". if you can not stand to eat "healthy" food, your chances of survival and, more importantly, you chances of having offspring decrease. being selective doesn't mean you won't survive, so be picky if you want. just don't corrupt your taste buds and get lost in the woods for a week, where your taste can really protect you.
Taste buds keep us from eating poison! Why would you want to change your taste so that poison would taste good? Sounds like a bad idea to me. Rancid meat tastes bad to us because it is bad for us, but at least now we can make it taste great!
that guy has way to much free time. too bad more time wasn't spent on the story. it's like watching porn... nice pictures, but where's the story?
there is always the chance of corruption in a backup. we have run CRCs (Can Read the Cups) on a regular basis to make sure our chances for losing data are small. it's a risk we are willing to take.
i do daily backup of archie to a series of paper cups organized in such a manner as to readable by low flying planes.
I believe it is equivalent to doing a "grep hostname /etc/hosts". As far as I know, there is no hashing or caching of the hosts file. Now the question is "how long does it take to grep through a 256GB file?"
Don't strok the sides. This would be as useful as thecurrent mouse, but with added lack of precision.
Just throw a "lock down" button in easy reach of the index finger of the device holding hand. Move the device to where you want, click the "lock down" button and use like normal. Click it again and zip around the display.
It is a great idea, and can probably be adapted to desktop design for stationary machines, if they don't seal out the open source guys.
Over the last several years, hasn't your access to computers been very limited? It seems to me that you were time-warped to the future; the computers of today aren't the computers of 10 or even 5 years ago. Can you really step back into the mainstream and claim that you know as much about the security of today's systems as those that got you in trouble?
They can't take away my universal TV remote. I refuse to go back to using 5 remotes to turn on the TV, VCR, DVD player, stereo system, and cable box. If they do try this, I'll just buy equipment from companies that allow a universal remote.
Are they using a java client or a web front end? I filled out the public-beta survey and still got no answer. The only options for OS were windows and MacOS, but they had an "other" field. I'm using linux and just wonder if it will be supported by the client piece.
I don't see how you can call it chaos. He specifically mentioned that there were large planning meetings. He mentions that people should work together across the teams (DBA talks to developer, both talk to the network guy...etc.).
Assuming that the planning meetings give everyone a Big Picture overview and assign tasks to the developers, and that the cycles are short so that the mettings happen regularly, then you are calling what most people consider normal work "chaos".
That was a crazy sentence. Basiclly it seeems the people on his team are all on the same page. That means that they can each write their parts without fear of stepping on anyone's toes.
Too many cooks only spoil the broth if they don't know what it is supposed to taste like, and/or fail to taste it after each small change.
little nit-picky here:
:)
Actually, that should be that it works on a "Large Scale". Quantum mechanics works on the "small scale".
dude, watch the Terminator movies!
It almost has some real details. I can't wait for them to get some pictures and links to the real info.
So who can guess where we will be 20 years from now? Wide scale broadband using IPv6? Small scale super broadband using an IP replacement?
What's going on with the Internet v2.0? Will it also be spun into a commercial media frenzy?
Anyone care to venture some guesses? Now taking bets; I'm sure you will be able to track me down 2 decades from now.
just install vmware, run linux under that, and ghost it from the windows process table.
The many exploit-ers are not aiming at you in particular. Once an exploit is found, setting up an automated tool to hack random machines is not hard. You may just happen to be one of the random victims.
Random victims can then be staging points for many things such as: warez servers, DDOS attacks on someone else, automated hack stations to get more zombies, etc.
This is fairly short sighted. Yes it may be an annoyance to you, but when your machine and thousands of others are DDOS-ing etrade.com, I can't make trades. Now it annoys me.
The difference is that it is hard to set up a gun that fires non-stop at random people for long periods of time. And if it were not so hard, and if there was a low risk of being caught by the police, I'm sure that you would start wearing a bullet proof vest -- or risk getting maimed.