My best friend (and bff) has her birthday today. Since she was 8 we've had the birthday party / slumber party combination at her house. My uncle's birthday is just before christmas, so his birthday gets diluted just like Jessie's bday does. Last year there were eight of us for the night; this year more are at other new year's eve parties, but here I am getting ready for the west coast new years in two hours one-hour+fifty-five-minutes!!!
How do you get strike-through text to work?!?! Woo-hoo i'm at a new year's party posting on/. !!!! Woo-hoo-hoo!!!
Re: the nuttier religions .
Wait, why do you even propose any sort of consideration of ordering or partial ordering of any religions? Once something is in the class of "nutty", is it worth trying to determine which is nuttier than the other and which is more acceptable? (especially in the province of religion in general ) (:>) Example: he protestants broke off over dissent, the lutherans broke off over dissent, and all over indiana and illinois the lutherans split off into more and more ever finely granulated subdivisions of lutheranism based upon fine distinctions and interpretations... Is it worth trying to generate any sort of ordering of these sub-disciplines of lutheranism? especially since the statement of "I am righter than every other religion" can be applied to every religion. (I use lutherans as an example because of my family tree plus experience and grand-parental religion. These concepts probably equally apply to all religions and religious concepts) .
It seems to be worthwhile to be socially conversant in the concepts and ideas of religions, but I have never (in my short life span) found it worthwhile to argue or debate someone about their or anyone else's relgious beliefs or ideas.
I did a Live boot test in the store prior to purchase. :>)
Yep. When I was buying/recommending a laptop for my parents, I took a live-boot-usb stick with me to the staples and asked if I could try to boot the candidate laptops up with my live-boot-usb stick (knoppix 7.0.2 in case you're wondering). Two out of four of the laptops did not let me have the option of using F12 or F2 to set the boot drive at startup. The two that did were older, so this UEFI crap is only going to get worse. I let the staples computer guy know why we were not buying the laptop that wouldn't boot up off of the usb port. I hope that the complaint along with voting with (my parents') wallet helps to send a signal up the chain, but we need people/groups like te EFF to really send the message out and effect a change.
I started using the preview button after I once forgot to put the closing to go with the corresponding html entity. Then the rest of my entire entry ended up being bold, when I only meant for the phrase "rest of my entire entry" to be bold. In this case here, I'm doing it on purpose (leaving off the closing <b>).
Also, if anyone knows about reflashing the software on the philips thing to black out the netflix/vudu option and make it easier for my parents, please let me know!!!!! Thanks!!!!
my solution: for my parents:simple media player +2TB USB drives :>) Warning: do NOT buy the Roku. You can't even start it up without an internet connection and giving out a credit card number, even if all you want to do is look at your own media files over the usb connection. .
Okay. So my parents are not as techy as me. (anyone/everyone on here can probably say that). So I'm the one who ends up converting media formats for backup and later viewing and they have a tough time with playing things back... :>(
I had been burning things on DVD for them transcoded down to lower yet acceptable resolutions, but they were having trouble with the dvd libraries. So this year, I got them a philips media viewer thingy with usb input and hdmi output and a simple (meaning few options and buttons) remote control. :>)
I then created two large USB drives for them, each of them is 2 TB in size. One is the "personal family drive" upon which I've been backing up the video-camera files and the camera files (both video and pictures) appropriately sorted into foldersm along with one copy of the music collections transcoded into mp3.
The second drive is the one upon which I put the CD music and the DVD files as our own personal backup of our media, after which the original disks are safely put away (i.e. hidden from the parent-volken, so that they don't decide to discard/give away/sell/throw/gift the original disks, just in case the magnetic media backups don't work or last long enough).
Now, they can plug/unplug the drives into the HDMI/USB box which they can handle doing and use the remote with the large screen TV, instead of crowding people around the 21" imac to watch videos and photos. .
The phillips thing cost $45 at Target, and I got two more to gift to my brother and to my sister (also not as tech-y as moi). It can also do netflix and vudu, but does NOT require an internet connection if you don't want to do netflix and vudu. The only files it has burped on are some AVIs that appear to hold quicktime (wtf? from some obscure 5 yr old canon or olympus 5 megapixel camera). I can always use the USB drive that's not plugged into the device to back up and save media files. And in quick circumstances, I can also burn files onto USB sticks that can be played from directly and then save those USB backups onto the 2TB magnetic media for permanent backup. .
The parents really like the unit. It's easier to navigate than the linux box. I have to admit that I have not yet tried a knoppmyth or mythTV setup yet. But I find this to be a good to go solution.
Why argue about whether he thought of it spontaneously on the moon or had thought of it or considered it before he took that first step. It's the fact that he said it ON THE MOON that is the good and important part. Personally, I believe that he probably did plan ahead and think about what he might say when he landed. Thus he most certainly did think of that phrase ahead of time (in my humble opinion). And who amongst us has not tried to get a little more glory by saying yeah I just thought of that spontaneously when we might have come up with the retort earlier. Certainly Armstrong does not NEED to be cooler or thought of as more: he walked on the moon. So who cares about whether that line was a spontaneous utterance or a well planned entrance line? . :>) Neil Armstrong, my here. I would love to fly there someday and see those footsteps in the lunar dust, if the micrometeroids have not destroyed it. They'll probably put up a velvet rope around it to keep us tourist riff-raff away. If only. I wish. I truly wish. [Fly me to the moon!!!;>) ]
Oh, that's scary what Cameron did, especially considering that "he had been a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946â"47." Seems like the counterpoint to "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." It's more like he took the Nazi's inhumane human experimentation as inspiration for his kooky and secretly carried out experiments (the patients did not know they were being experimented upon) rather than as a warning of the level of depravity that can be reached by man's inhumanity to man. . This is the kind of example that shows how ordinarily mundane the evil of the Nazis, the syphilis experimentation in Tuskegee, and these secret mind experiment crapola really was. There was no evil evil mastermind with a grand evil plan (well, except for Hitler, that was a grand plan, eh?), just ordinary people doing awful and evil things.
Even almost thirteen years ago in the year 2000, there were enough people with cellphones on them at all times who could take pictures and with videocameras on them as they drove people to/from the airport that some interesting videos and images were captured even then. .
-- the Concorde crash after takeoff at Charles De Gaulle airport; has footage of the flames coming out of the engines
-- whenever there's a light-airplane or experimental airplane crash that occurs soon after takeoff (i.e. right near the airport runway), there's often another pilot or family member who captures videocamera or cellphone video footage of the incident (an incident in Kearney Mesa about 3 months ago)
-- whenever a crash occurs at flight shows or flight contests, there are often multiple videos available taken by onlookers and viewers of the events (see Oshkosh, almost every other year there will be a crash)
That explains the prevalence of dashcams in Russia. But even in the year 2000, there were enough people driving with cellphones that could take pictures and with videocameras on them as they drove that some interesting videos and images were captured even then.
-- the Concorde crash after takeoff at Charles De Gaulle airport; has footage of the flames coming out of the engines
-- whenever there's a light-airplane, experimental airplane crash that occurs soon after takeoff (i.e. right near the airport runway), there's often another pilot or family member who captures videocamera or cellphone video footage of the incident (an incident in Kearney Mesa about 3 months ago)
What is/are (or 'do you mean by') "katas"? Wikipedia only shows "the kata people of afghanistan" for katas which redirects to "Kata people", and "detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either solo or in pairs" for kata. Do you just mean do "rote/practice programming exercises" or is there another meaning I can't find?
Dude, don't try to fuck with me by quoting me and and then misquoting me to argue against me by changing closed source "binary blob" into "C code". I was pointing out the foolishness of accepting closed source binary blobs. Your fuck-headed response was to conflate "closed source code" with "C code", perhaps implying "hard to read or understand code"? Too bad you can't wrap your head around code, or figure out how to get an account on/. instead of living your life anonymously and with extreme cowardice. Other people who can read the code and understand it would appreciate open code as opposed to closed code. Blah, blah, nya-nya-nanny-boo-boo, so there! (Laugh a little, you moron; if you want to argue with me, deal with my arguments rather than making a bitchy straw man argument which you can set on fire. Nobody argued your useless point of view!) ;>p ;>) !!!
Note that the original submission (not by me but by "wiredmonkey") has a longer explanation and two copies of a link to the securityweek article in it. The security week article has the link to the Nvidia customer help site with the repaired/fixed driver blob in it. Timothy is somehow getting someone to copy prior submissions and actively take out the useful stuff before posting it to the front page! J'accuse! (finger pointing accusitorily)
The article says
enables an attacker to install a user on the target system, completely bypassing MicrosoftÃ(TM)s Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) protections
I'm wondering if such a pipe system is used (or such a service is enabled) on the NVIDIA binary driver blob for the Linux kernel. Could that be another possible attack vector, or is that not possible with this?
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NVIDIA for unix/Linux had another vulnerability earlier this year pointed out in the article at also at Nvidia's own customer web site
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140custhelp.com site for nvidia which showed that using VGA access to RAM allows indiscriminate access to RAM and possible escalation of user privileges with this memory access. Here's the comment from Dave Airlie at the email archive on seclists.org:
It basically abuses the fact that the/dev/nvidia0 device accept changes to the VGA window and moves the window around until it can read/write to somewhere useful in physical RAM, then it just does an priv escalation by writing directly to kernel memory.
Notice how with binary blobs how end-users are screwed and dependent upon the provider of the blob to fix things. Nvidia didn't do anything until after public disclosure of the bug, even though they were notified of the exploit more than three months earlier.
Actually, if you read the article, it points out that you can infer the use of a low pressure room temperature (non-cryogenic) fuel from (1) the relatively thin wall-thickness of the tank, and from (2) the bottles used in the turbo-pumps to maintain pressure in the fuel tank during launch. It points out (3) that while the Scud uses steel for the body of the first stage rocket, the North Korean one uses a more-lightweight aluminum magnesium alloy. . I do agree with you that the article uses a lot of condescension in tone and uses the word "primitive" a lot to imply poor design, so there probably is a bit of propagandizing going on in order to denigrate the launch vehicle. But in my humble (and not very schooled) opinion, the analysis at least clearly lays out where it makes its inferences from and what the source of the imagery is. It doesn't seems like "pure... BS" to me, but hey maybe I'm being taken in?
I was wondering whether the analysis was just based on video frames (since they talked about the colors of the flames and such) in the "AllThingsNuclear.org" article. The
article itself says that the analysis is based upon four pieces of the first stage of the Unha-3 rocket recovered by South Korea. The author of the article, David Wright, surmises that all four pieces came from the first stage because they "were found in the same area". .
The four parts found were:
1 -- oxidizer tank (made of an aluminum-magnesium alloy) with a cool picture (fig 4) of the inside of the tank showing hoops and stringers supporting the wall
2 -- two bottles that make the "turbo pumps" to maintain pressure in the oxidizer tank as the fuel flow continues during launch
3 -- another part of the fuel tank (with the number "3" painted on the outside which is visible on the launch video)
4 -- what appears to be a support ring from the first stage body .
There's also a comment at the end about using "room temperature fuels" such as RFNA (red fuming nitric acid) allowing the use of a simplified design as compared to using cryogenic fuels which require a more complex design. Someone wrote in pointing out that RFNA is also used in the Russian
Kosmos 3M space launch vehicle which is also derived from a ballistic missile. In fact, even the fins and the profile of the Kosmos looks like the fins on and the profile of the North Korean launch rocket. Pretty cool analysis, and I like that the author puts really links to the sources of the pictures he has in the article.
Once they see the contents of your wallet... they can adjust the prices they offer to you to maximize their intake of your cash and minimize those aforementioned contents of your wallet. That's the real key to profitability with personal pricing: find out how MUCH they are willing to pay for what they want. So it's only to their benefit to know how much money you're playing with (how good your credit is, how many other expensive things you've bought before, whether you're a customer they'd like to take on or someone they want to go away). .
There is NO benefit for customers from this at all that I can see.
re: I have to stop making the mistake of using websites owned by big businesses. .
Yep. I agree wholeheartedly [and wholespleenedly, though my kidneys are of two minds, right kidney says "meh", left kidney agrees with you;>) ] .
You, your writings, and your reviews are all just tools to be used by Amazon to make more money. You attempted to use the system for good and Amazon said "no, we're changing the rules". Other examples, see Facebook for their almost weekly change in privacy settings, Google for this monthly droppage of sites still in beta that they've decided not to keep in beta and not to update anymore, Microsoft for their latest version of Zune/WindowsPhone/crappy-music-system/PlaysForEva/PlaysForSure(forsureitdoes), and apple as they keep changing their app-store policies.
Seriously, it's crazy to do that to an infant. An infant is still developing their visual system and learning (by pruning their brain synapses) about the reality of the world around them and how they (the infant) interact with it physically. Providing examples of useless GUI interfaces and ongoing stimuli with poor interaction is a crazy thing to do to an infant. . They need physical toys like rattles and pacifiers and blocks that they can touch and move around and make noise with and learn the "intuitive" laws of physics from them. Give them a few years before you throw Emacs at them. The only Gnu they need to interact with at that tender age is a stuffed Gnu plush toy. And I say this as a fervent believer in children playing with computers: do NOT make infants and toddlers play with computers and tablets. .
The American Academy of Pediatrics itself
recommends limiting access to screen time for children under the age of 2 years.
The BLAKE hash function was an also-ran finalist for the NIST Hash function competition ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_hash_function_competition ). There is not yet a wikipedia page for BLAKE2, but the winner of the NIST competition was Keccak now known simply as SHA-3 since it won the competition. .
Why would an optimized (optimized for run time speed? optimized for low memory footprint while running? optimized to minimize the likeliness of hash collisions) version of the same BLAKE entrant be more useful? Perhaps an improved algorithm that made it better competition for Keccak would make more sense. I don't know enough math to say completely, and still need to read the details.
Sadly, the USA is not focusing on science and engineering education, except for paying lip service to the concept of STEM courses in college. There are even proposals to tie tuition payments to the popularity of courses: charge more for engineering courses and less for liberal arts (which is the opposite of the right way to influence it if you're trying to coax people into the sciences and into engineering). The idea seems to be that majors which will earn more money should have a higher tuition associated with it. China sends more scholars over here. Meanwhile we have been making it harder for the best students in the world to come here for political reasons and visa bias when it would make more sense to encourage the best of the best to come here to learn and to stay here and innovate!
Thanks for the advice and the info about Comodo Dragon. I had not heard of it before your post. I may install it and give it a spin... . The wikipedia page on it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_dragon ) has more info about chromium vs. comodo though the last two items look like they were respun by someone who prefers google chromium, while comodo's page ( http://forums.comodo.com/help-cd/how-is-dragon-better-t67998.0.html ) points out that google keeps track of the time it was installed (the better to track/identify you with?) and spins the usage of comodo's dns servers as a positive (hmmm....) rather than pointing out that the tracking aspects are just being transferred from google to the comodo group. Wikipedia page about Comodo has some interesting information about ( at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#2010_Affiliate_Registration_Security_Breach ) a couple of problems with SSL certificate verification.
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My best friend (and bff) has her birthday today. Since she was 8 we've had the birthday party / slumber party combination at her house. My uncle's birthday is just before christmas, so his birthday gets diluted just like Jessie's bday does. Last year there were eight of us for the night; this year more are at other new year's eve parties, but here I am getting ready for the west coast new years in two hours one-hour+fifty-five-minutes!!!
/. !!!! Woo-hoo-hoo!!!
How do you get strike-through text to work?!?! Woo-hoo i'm at a new year's party posting on
Re: the nuttier religions :>)
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Wait, why do you even propose any sort of consideration of ordering or partial ordering of any religions? Once something is in the class of "nutty", is it worth trying to determine which is nuttier than the other and which is more acceptable? (especially in the province of religion in general )
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Example: he protestants broke off over dissent, the lutherans broke off over dissent, and all over indiana and illinois the lutherans split off into more and more ever finely granulated subdivisions of lutheranism based upon fine distinctions and interpretations... Is it worth trying to generate any sort of ordering of these sub-disciplines of lutheranism? especially since the statement of "I am righter than every other religion" can be applied to every religion. (I use lutherans as an example because of my family tree plus experience and grand-parental religion. These concepts probably equally apply to all religions and religious concepts)
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It seems to be worthwhile to be socially conversant in the concepts and ideas of religions, but I have never (in my short life span) found it worthwhile to argue or debate someone about their or anyone else's relgious beliefs or ideas.
I did a Live boot test in the store prior to purchase.
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Yep. When I was buying/recommending a laptop for my parents, I took a live-boot-usb stick with me to the staples and asked if I could try to boot the candidate laptops up with my live-boot-usb stick (knoppix 7.0.2 in case you're wondering). Two out of four of the laptops did not let me have the option of using F12 or F2 to set the boot drive at startup. The two that did were older, so this UEFI crap is only going to get worse. I let the staples computer guy know why we were not buying the laptop that wouldn't boot up off of the usb port. I hope that the complaint along with voting with (my parents') wallet helps to send a signal up the chain, but we need people/groups like te EFF to really send the message out and effect a change.
I started using the preview button after I once forgot to put the closing to go with the corresponding html entity. Then the rest of my entire entry ended up being bold, when I only meant for the phrase "rest of my entire entry" to be bold. In this case here, I'm doing it on purpose (leaving off the closing <b>).
Also, if anyone knows about reflashing the software on the philips thing to black out the netflix/vudu option and make it easier for my parents, please let me know!!!!! Thanks!!!!
my solution: for my parents:simple media player +2TB USB drives
:>)
Warning: do NOT buy the Roku. You can't even start it up without an internet connection and giving out a credit card number, even if all you want to do is look at your own media files over the usb connection.
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Okay. So my parents are not as techy as me. (anyone/everyone on here can probably say that). So I'm the one who ends up converting media formats for backup and later viewing and they have a tough time with playing things back...
:>(
I had been burning things on DVD for them transcoded down to lower yet acceptable resolutions, but they were having trouble with the dvd libraries. So this year, I got them a philips media viewer thingy with usb input and hdmi output and a simple (meaning few options and buttons) remote control.
:>)
I then created two large USB drives for them, each of them is 2 TB in size. One is the "personal family drive" upon which I've been backing up the video-camera files and the camera files (both video and pictures) appropriately sorted into foldersm along with one copy of the music collections transcoded into mp3.
The second drive is the one upon which I put the CD music and the DVD files as our own personal backup of our media, after which the original disks are safely put away (i.e. hidden from the parent-volken, so that they don't decide to discard/give away/sell/throw/gift the original disks, just in case the magnetic media backups don't work or last long enough).
Now, they can plug/unplug the drives into the HDMI/USB box which they can handle doing and use the remote with the large screen TV, instead of crowding people around the 21" imac to watch videos and photos.
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The phillips thing cost $45 at Target, and I got two more to gift to my brother and to my sister (also not as tech-y as moi). It can also do netflix and vudu, but does NOT require an internet connection if you don't want to do netflix and vudu. The only files it has burped on are some AVIs that appear to hold quicktime (wtf? from some obscure 5 yr old canon or olympus 5 megapixel camera). I can always use the USB drive that's not plugged into the device to back up and save media files. And in quick circumstances, I can also burn files onto USB sticks that can be played from directly and then save those USB backups onto the 2TB magnetic media for permanent backup.
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The parents really like the unit. It's easier to navigate than the linux box. I have to admit that I have not yet tried a knoppmyth or mythTV setup yet. But I find this to be a good to go solution.
"my hero" is what I meant to say. I missed my typo when I previewed it. Saaahrry /. !
Why argue about whether he thought of it spontaneously on the moon or had thought of it or considered it before he took that first step. It's the fact that he said it ON THE MOON that is the good and important part. Personally, I believe that he probably did plan ahead and think about what he might say when he landed. Thus he most certainly did think of that phrase ahead of time (in my humble opinion). And who amongst us has not tried to get a little more glory by saying yeah I just thought of that spontaneously when we might have come up with the retort earlier. Certainly Armstrong does not NEED to be cooler or thought of as more: he walked on the moon. So who cares about whether that line was a spontaneous utterance or a well planned entrance line? ;>) ]
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Neil Armstrong, my here. I would love to fly there someday and see those footsteps in the lunar dust, if the micrometeroids have not destroyed it. They'll probably put up a velvet rope around it to keep us tourist riff-raff away. If only. I wish. I truly wish. [Fly me to the moon!!!
Oh, that's scary what Cameron did, especially considering that "he had been a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946â"47." Seems like the counterpoint to "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." It's more like he took the Nazi's inhumane human experimentation as inspiration for his kooky and secretly carried out experiments (the patients did not know they were being experimented upon) rather than as a warning of the level of depravity that can be reached by man's inhumanity to man.
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This is the kind of example that shows how ordinarily mundane the evil of the Nazis, the syphilis experimentation in Tuskegee, and these secret mind experiment crapola really was. There was no evil evil mastermind with a grand evil plan (well, except for Hitler, that was a grand plan, eh?), just ordinary people doing awful and evil things.
Sorry, Facebook is for the older generation. srsly. It's been known in school (high school) for a while.
Even almost thirteen years ago in the year 2000, there were enough people with cellphones on them at all times who could take pictures and with videocameras on them as they drove people to/from the airport that some interesting videos and images were captured even then.
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-- the Concorde crash after takeoff at Charles De Gaulle airport; has footage of the flames coming out of the engines
-- whenever there's a light-airplane or experimental airplane crash that occurs soon after takeoff (i.e. right near the airport runway), there's often another pilot or family member who captures videocamera or cellphone video footage of the incident (an incident in Kearney Mesa about 3 months ago)
-- whenever a crash occurs at flight shows or flight contests, there are often multiple videos available taken by onlookers and viewers of the events (see Oshkosh, almost every other year there will be a crash)
That explains the prevalence of dashcams in Russia. But even in the year 2000, there were enough people driving with cellphones that could take pictures and with videocameras on them as they drove that some interesting videos and images were captured even then.
-- the Concorde crash after takeoff at Charles De Gaulle airport; has footage of the flames coming out of the engines
-- whenever there's a light-airplane, experimental airplane crash that occurs soon after takeoff (i.e. right near the airport runway), there's often another pilot or family member who captures videocamera or cellphone video footage of the incident (an incident in Kearney Mesa about 3 months ago)
What is/are (or 'do you mean by') "katas"? Wikipedia only shows "the kata people of afghanistan" for katas which redirects to "Kata people", and "detailed choreographed patterns of movements practised either solo or in pairs" for kata . Do you just mean do "rote/practice programming exercises" or is there another meaning I can't find?
Dude, don't try to fuck with me by quoting me and and then misquoting me to argue against me by changing closed source "binary blob" into "C code". I was pointing out the foolishness of accepting closed source binary blobs. Your fuck-headed response was to conflate "closed source code" with "C code", perhaps implying "hard to read or understand code"? Too bad you can't wrap your head around code, or figure out how to get an account on /. instead of living your life anonymously and with extreme cowardice. Other people who can read the code and understand it would appreciate open code as opposed to closed code. Blah, blah, nya-nya-nanny-boo-boo, so there! (Laugh a little, you moron; if you want to argue with me, deal with my arguments rather than making a bitchy straw man argument which you can set on fire. Nobody argued your useless point of view!)
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Re: I hope they build a copy of the Buran ;>)
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I'd buy a ticket for that ride! Much better than the roller coaster ever could be, eh? ! !
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Actually, this is even worse than you think. Take a look at the original submission in which I commented hours ago: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=41570609
Note that the original submission (not by me but by "wiredmonkey") has a longer explanation and two copies of a link to the securityweek article in it. The security week article has the link to the Nvidia customer help site with the repaired/fixed driver blob in it. Timothy is somehow getting someone to copy prior submissions and actively take out the useful stuff before posting it to the front page! J'accuse! (finger pointing accusitorily)
I'm wondering if such a pipe system is used (or such a service is enabled) on the NVIDIA binary driver blob for the Linux kernel. Could that be another possible attack vector, or is that not possible with this?
It basically abuses the fact that the.
NVIDIA for unix/Linux had another vulnerability earlier this year pointed out in the article at also at Nvidia's own customer web site http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3140 custhelp.com site for nvidia which showed that using VGA access to RAM allows indiscriminate access to RAM and possible escalation of user privileges with this memory access. Here's the comment from Dave Airlie at the email archive on seclists.org:
Notice how with binary blobs how end-users are screwed and dependent upon the provider of the blob to fix things. Nvidia didn't do anything until after public disclosure of the bug, even though they were notified of the exploit more than three months earlier.
Actually, if you read the article, it points out that you can infer the use of a low pressure room temperature (non-cryogenic) fuel from (1) the relatively thin wall-thickness of the tank, and from (2) the bottles used in the turbo-pumps to maintain pressure in the fuel tank during launch. It points out (3) that while the Scud uses steel for the body of the first stage rocket, the North Korean one uses a more-lightweight aluminum magnesium alloy. ... BS" to me, but hey maybe I'm being taken in?
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I do agree with you that the article uses a lot of condescension in tone and uses the word "primitive" a lot to imply poor design, so there probably is a bit of propagandizing going on in order to denigrate the launch vehicle. But in my humble (and not very schooled) opinion, the analysis at least clearly lays out where it makes its inferences from and what the source of the imagery is. It doesn't seems like "pure
I was wondering whether the analysis was just based on video frames (since they talked about the colors of the flames and such) in the "AllThingsNuclear.org" article. The article itself says that the analysis is based upon four pieces of the first stage of the Unha-3 rocket recovered by South Korea. The author of the article, David Wright, surmises that all four pieces came from the first stage because they "were found in the same area".
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The four parts found were:
1 -- oxidizer tank (made of an aluminum-magnesium alloy)
with a cool picture (fig 4) of the inside of the tank showing hoops and stringers supporting the wall
2 -- two bottles that make the "turbo pumps" to maintain pressure in the oxidizer tank as the fuel flow continues during launch
3 -- another part of the fuel tank (with the number "3" painted on the outside which is visible on the launch video)
4 -- what appears to be a support ring from the first stage body
There's also a comment at the end about using "room temperature fuels" such as RFNA (red fuming nitric acid) allowing the use of a simplified design as compared to using cryogenic fuels which require a more complex design. Someone wrote in pointing out that RFNA is also used in the Russian Kosmos 3M space launch vehicle which is also derived from a ballistic missile. In fact, even the fins and the profile of the Kosmos looks like the fins on and the profile of the North Korean launch rocket. Pretty cool analysis, and I like that the author puts really links to the sources of the pictures he has in the article.
Once they see the contents of your wallet... they can adjust the prices they offer to you to maximize their intake of your cash and minimize those aforementioned contents of your wallet. That's the real key to profitability with personal pricing: find out how MUCH they are willing to pay for what they want. So it's only to their benefit to know how much money you're playing with (how good your credit is, how many other expensive things you've bought before, whether you're a customer they'd like to take on or someone they want to go away).
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There is NO benefit for customers from this at all that I can see.
re: I have to stop making the mistake of using websites owned by big businesses. ;>) ]
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Yep. I agree wholeheartedly [and wholespleenedly, though my kidneys are of two minds, right kidney says "meh", left kidney agrees with you
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You, your writings, and your reviews are all just tools to be used by Amazon to make more money. You attempted to use the system for good and Amazon said "no, we're changing the rules". Other examples, see Facebook for their almost weekly change in privacy settings, Google for this monthly droppage of sites still in beta that they've decided not to keep in beta and not to update anymore, Microsoft for their latest version of Zune/WindowsPhone/crappy-music-system/PlaysForEva/PlaysForSure(forsureitdoes), and apple as they keep changing their app-store policies.
Seriously, it's crazy to do that to an infant. An infant is still developing their visual system and learning (by pruning their brain synapses) about the reality of the world around them and how they (the infant) interact with it physically. Providing examples of useless GUI interfaces and ongoing stimuli with poor interaction is a crazy thing to do to an infant.
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They need physical toys like rattles and pacifiers and blocks that they can touch and move around and make noise with and learn the "intuitive" laws of physics from them. Give them a few years before you throw Emacs at them. The only Gnu they need to interact with at that tender age is a stuffed Gnu plush toy. And I say this as a fervent believer in children playing with computers: do NOT make infants and toddlers play with computers and tablets.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics itself recommends limiting access to screen time for children under the age of 2 years .
The BLAKE hash function was an also-ran finalist for the NIST Hash function competition ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_hash_function_competition ). There is not yet a wikipedia page for BLAKE2, but the winner of the NIST competition was Keccak now known simply as SHA-3 since it won the competition.
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Why would an optimized (optimized for run time speed? optimized for low memory footprint while running? optimized to minimize the likeliness of hash collisions) version of the same BLAKE entrant be more useful? Perhaps an improved algorithm that made it better competition for Keccak would make more sense. I don't know enough math to say completely, and still need to read the details.
Sadly, the USA is not focusing on science and engineering education, except for paying lip service to the concept of STEM courses in college. There are even proposals to tie tuition payments to the popularity of courses: charge more for engineering courses and less for liberal arts (which is the opposite of the right way to influence it if you're trying to coax people into the sciences and into engineering). The idea seems to be that majors which will earn more money should have a higher tuition associated with it. China sends more scholars over here. Meanwhile we have been making it harder for the best students in the world to come here for political reasons and visa bias when it would make more sense to encourage the best of the best to come here to learn and to stay here and innovate!
Thanks for the advice and the info about Comodo Dragon. I had not heard of it before your post. I may install it and give it a spin...
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The wikipedia page on it ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_dragon ) has more info about chromium vs. comodo though the last two items look like they were respun by someone who prefers google chromium, while comodo's page ( http://forums.comodo.com/help-cd/how-is-dragon-better-t67998.0.html ) points out that google keeps track of the time it was installed (the better to track/identify you with?) and spins the usage of comodo's dns servers as a positive (hmmm....) rather than pointing out that the tracking aspects are just being transferred from google to the comodo group. Wikipedia page about Comodo has some interesting information about ( at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#2010_Affiliate_Registration_Security_Breach ) a couple of problems with SSL certificate verification.