Has Dejanews again made available the archive older than a year? Last I heard they'd chopped it off at a year. It had suddenly become much less useful, as there's been a lot of useful info that wasn't repeated over and over.
Acquiring anything in a government agency is complicated enough. Outright theft would be difficult to arrange in an agency which was acquiring it. Even purchasing it properly from someone other than the original manufacturer would cause complications in the suggested scheme. The original manufacturer would tend to learn of the competing vendor (particularly if it was not a legitimately licensed distributor). Getting support for the product would be likely to cause detection of illegal copies.
Source code for some major business applications is available, but of course for a scheme like this an attacker would choose one for which source code was not available, or for which it was not easily available (such as having a large additional fee). Or the tampered binary might be distributed and would only be effective until a recompile was done -- assuming an uncontaminated compiler.
Then there's the problem of how this rumored information would be leaked outside a site without being detected by network staff.
In an partially related note, the amusing Canadian-invasion silliness Canadian Bacon is on the Comedy Central cable channel today.
Ooh. Gas and liquid fuels are also allowed. There's a pressure limit on gases, and 10 oz of liquid fuels. I wonder how quickly a grinder uses up fuel...
Well, there you could put a small keyboard simulator plug on the end of the scanner cable. They're intended for server systems without a keyboard but whose BIOS requires a keyboard be present.
The availability of the info depends upon your country and its laws. Some countries require government-produced information to be made public, as the taxpayers were already forced to pay for it once. Sometimes such info is sold, in an attempt to enhance tax budgets with income from people to whom the information has value.
When the mapping programs can't find the address which you gave they are likely to tell you they're routing you to the "city center", which usually is the official coordinates of the city -- City Hall.
Perhaps you didn't notice a city-center message on the screen, and it routed you to the "center" of D.C. (although why it chose D.C. for a Virginia address is interesting).
"Diamond mouse"...is that what you call this thing I picked up at a flea market? It plugs in as a PS/2 mouse, but is a ring you slip on your index finger. Small trackball on top, left-click with a trigger inside the ring, and two mouse buttons on top near the trackball. It's basically a thumb-operated mouse with an extra left button which you squeeze as a trigger.
Actually, I wouldn't type in the air. I'd let my hands hang wherever they were comfortable and wriggle my fingers a little to type. What's more ergonomic than your hands on your knees when you're sitting? Or your arms swinging back and forth as you're walking?
Another option would be that the torp went hot in the boat and detonated before the crew could jettison or deactivate it.
Over the weekend there was a report that Russia mentioned that the suspicion was that an "antisubmarine missile" had gotten stuck in the tube during launch. If this happened, it was likely to explode. The report also said that if this happened, a larger explosion could be expected 2 minutes and 15 seconds later.
Nearby instruments confirmed this -- two explosions, the second one much larger about 2 minutes later.
Now, how might authorities predict exactly 2 minutes and 15 seconds? They didn't say. I suspect that was the length of the end-of-run timer. Many underwater weapons will blow themselves up if they don't find a target within a certain time. For a missile designed for a fast "flight", 2 minutes seems reasonable. There are safety devices which stop torpedoes/missiles from arming until they're out of the tube and away from the launcher, but it's possible the thing got stuck partway out.
I admit when I read the story I assumed it was a pop-up missile, which hops into the air and lands vertically on the target submarine. It didn't occur to me that it might be a horizontal-flight device. The popular press report was ambiguous.
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Well, my computers tend to have blinking lights. But they usually are monitors showing the current status of servers and applications. I tend to wire my applications to have status info in shared memory for the purpose.
And I just got some LCD panels so I can have some headless machines blink also...
Although, as far as computer history goes, I should point out that the blinking lights on the front of the old mainframes were actually showing the present contents of the actual hardware registers. You could watch the program counter, memory offset registers, arithmetic registers...and if there was an AUTO/SINGLE STEP switch, you could stop the processor and step through the current program with hardware. And by flipping switches (or if the lights were illuminated pushbuttons) you could change the present contents of the hardware. Those blinking lights really had a purpose.
It depends upon what's being "shared". When I download the latest Linux kernel, there are a lot of files in there. I may only contribute changes to a few of those, which makes my download/upload ratio pretty awful. Particularly if you count only my revisions which are accepted by Linus.
I'd expect there to be more downloads than uploads, unless the type of content is something which everyone can produce easily -- and how useful would such content tend to be?
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Has Dejanews again made available the archive older than a year? Last I heard they'd chopped it off at a year. It had suddenly become much less useful, as there's been a lot of useful info that wasn't repeated over and over.
Source code for some major business applications is available, but of course for a scheme like this an attacker would choose one for which source code was not available, or for which it was not easily available (such as having a large additional fee). Or the tampered binary might be distributed and would only be effective until a recompile was done -- assuming an uncontaminated compiler.
Then there's the problem of how this rumored information would be leaked outside a site without being detected by network staff.
In an partially related note, the amusing Canadian-invasion silliness Canadian Bacon is on the Comedy Central cable channel today.
I hope flaming goo is not allowed. Napalm leaking into the floor of their arena would make an even bigger mess than what happens above the floor.
availible? The sound of avian speech?
Moby Wienie?
There is no meritocracy in this case; the royalty issued a proclamation.
I think GOSIP is recommended for use, not required, but let them explain their need for exceptions.
Or tell them to go away, as you're too busy trying meet GOSIP standards so your GOSIP network can then talk to their GOSIP network.
This whole things sounds like a good example of why we should encourage our government to require its own use of open standards and open data formats.
I don't like my tax money wasted on excessive PC support costs and data trapped within Office files.
Ooh. Gas and liquid fuels are also allowed. There's a pressure limit on gases, and 10 oz of liquid fuels. I wonder how quickly a grinder uses up fuel...
Steel Survivor. Or perhaps titanium.
Well, there you could put a small keyboard simulator plug on the end of the scanner cable. They're intended for server systems without a keyboard but whose BIOS requires a keyboard be present.
Well, I could put several dozen password fragments on my arms and scan combinations of them -- but a passerby could copy my collection.
The availability of the info depends upon your country and its laws. Some countries require government-produced information to be made public, as the taxpayers were already forced to pay for it once. Sometimes such info is sold, in an attempt to enhance tax budgets with income from people to whom the information has value.
Perhaps you didn't notice a city-center message on the screen, and it routed you to the "center" of D.C. (although why it chose D.C. for a Virginia address is interesting).
"Diamond mouse"...is that what you call this thing I picked up at a flea market? It plugs in as a PS/2 mouse, but is a ring you slip on your index finger. Small trackball on top, left-click with a trigger inside the ring, and two mouse buttons on top near the trackball. It's basically a thumb-operated mouse with an extra left button which you squeeze as a trigger.
Actually, I wouldn't type in the air. I'd let my hands hang wherever they were comfortable and wriggle my fingers a little to type. What's more ergonomic than your hands on your knees when you're sitting? Or your arms swinging back and forth as you're walking?
Well, I'd prefer to get that resolution on a 15 millimeter display. Hanging right in front of my eyeball.
Nearby instruments confirmed this -- two explosions, the second one much larger about 2 minutes later.
Now, how might authorities predict exactly 2 minutes and 15 seconds? They didn't say. I suspect that was the length of the end-of-run timer. Many underwater weapons will blow themselves up if they don't find a target within a certain time. For a missile designed for a fast "flight", 2 minutes seems reasonable. There are safety devices which stop torpedoes/missiles from arming until they're out of the tube and away from the launcher, but it's possible the thing got stuck partway out.
I admit when I read the story I assumed it was a pop-up missile, which hops into the air and lands vertically on the target submarine. It didn't occur to me that it might be a horizontal-flight device. The popular press report was ambiguous.
Yes, my first thought was that the color nose should work particularly well on Fruit Loops.
A GIS is only enough to help display endpoints. The routing task is the part which I haven't noticed where it is available.
I got my species of sharks confused for a second.
And I just got some LCD panels so I can have some headless machines blink also...
Although, as far as computer history goes, I should point out that the blinking lights on the front of the old mainframes were actually showing the present contents of the actual hardware registers. You could watch the program counter, memory offset registers, arithmetic registers...and if there was an AUTO/SINGLE STEP switch, you could stop the processor and step through the current program with hardware. And by flipping switches (or if the lights were illuminated pushbuttons) you could change the present contents of the hardware. Those blinking lights really had a purpose.
I'd expect there to be more downloads than uploads, unless the type of content is something which everyone can produce easily -- and how useful would such content tend to be?