Loss of all data? Did the virus do that? I would have popped the drive into another PC - scanned it with a known working virus scanner and at the very least backed up the user profile.
Quick google search brings up a consulting firm. I wonder how many bobs they have, and if people get fired in the army arbitrarily on their recommendations.
And why is the military spending money on consultants?
I think people are generally social. If you took away some other thing you were used to (like your bus ride to work, car, tv set, news paper, friends etc) would it be normal to feel alone and secluded?
What theft would you be referring to, exactly? The cell phone was left unattended at a bar, and while the engineer who left it unattended may be incompetent, that does not mean that the person who retrieved it is guilty of thievery.
Ever occur to you that's what every thief peddling in stolen goods says? I'd say any time your paying money for something that isn't yours - its questionable.
I haven't had too many thieves write 10 stories a day for a week on anything that was ripped off from me, and I have had something worth that much stolen - my motorcycle. The policeman who wrote a detailed report told me unless they found some evidence of where it had gone it was unlikely I'd ever see it again.
I'm sure if some idiot on the net was blogging about it on a popular website, taking pictures of it, and disassembling the bike to prove it really was my bike they would have arrested his ass.
As a cop I'm sure you don't get that many cases like that however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU - yes I know the N900 doesn't run Symbian, but the N97 has taught me a really important lesson about Nokia - never buy another Nokia for as long as I live.
Its like I had a friend who was a missionary in Italy - he said the church would only rent from people who had paid all the taxes on property so nothing was illegal (and other necessary paperwork). He quickly found that the only people who did this were members of organized crime families.
Which worked well in some regards - people didn't park in front of there place, it was really well kept etc.
Maybe its a lesson they learned long ago from Commodore? Commodore used to be able to undercut competitors on price because of vertical integration - they also sold a lot of mostek chips to Apple for the Apple 2.
They already have pa-semi, and with the licenses in tow they could certainly put a huge damper on Android development which is centered around ARM. At the very least they could undercut competitors in price because they wouldn't have to pay for licensing anymore. It would be a rather dirty move from Apple though - instead of competing on technical merit, they are seeking to cut the legs off Android entirely. Android development would move to a different cpu/arch, but it would really slow things down for them.
The big problem with vertical integration however is as Commodore found out - its quicker for a bunch of specialized semi-conductor companies to develop technology than just one. I have no idea if PA-Semi makes most all the chips for apple's products or just some, but when you time and R&D is split between so many areas it could be hard to keep up with Intel/Nvidia and AMD.
1) Sounds like you need a better lawyer. Yeah if your wife calls the cops on you and there is evidence - its all over. Generally speaking males abuse kids far more than women do. Males abuse women more then women abuse men. So if a woman calls the cops that someone in your house has been abused and has marks to "prove" it - that's all they need to arrest.
2) I dunno - if mental health professionals are involved with your family (speaking from experience here!) then you already have issues at home and the state needed to get involved.
3) Not sure what #3 has to do with the state parenting your kids. Your daughters friends sound like arseholes. Luckily us teachers have unions that protect us from baseless accusations (and people really do wonder why teachers are unionized - seriously).
Bottom line? If state mental health professionals aren't counseling your family and you don't have a wife calling the cops on you when she suspects abuse - no the state isn't parenting your kids.
HTML-5 may be a double edged sword once better tools arrive and more browsers support it fully. Reason being is many of the things Flash are used for (casual games) would then run on the iPhone - sans any licensing agreement with Apple's store - which I think is the big reason they don't allow application run-times (like Flash or Java) on their platform currently.
Html-5 is really a convenient scapegoat - if it wasn't that it would be something else, and its not battery life or stability - I think more than one person has put down that myth. The reality is developing applications on html-5 is tricky business still because its still in development, but I'm sure it will get much easier once developer tools arrive and standards are more firmly set.
The reality here is that Flash, like Java would create an end run around the app-store immediately (and their revenue sharing scheme with developers) - that's it. Flash is actually being used to develop a lot of the same applications that Java has been used for. Its not the best platform to design programs in for sure, but I've seen word processors and video editing tools written in Flash. The tools exist right now to develop pretty much anything you want.
That C64 emulator that got denied a while back? Easy solution - port it to Flash and distribute it that way. Same with most any other denied app.
Plus you could use the Flash C compiler to port just about anything to the iPhone if they let Flash on board - including their own app store.
Last but not least since Apple controls their html5 implementation - maybe they could restrict it so that it wouldn't compete with the app-store. I wouldn't hold that out just yet.
It'll be interesting to see how it pans out. When Android phones are running the best of the web on html-5, Flash and Java - what then Apple?
I don't understand this - my laptop (2.2 ghz core 2 duo) seems to use around 15% of the cpu watching videos on hulu in HD. At work I tested it with a Dell Optiplex 745 (pizza box style pc) - same thing. Neither machine does the fan speed up or anything.
Neither of these two machines are all that new - I think the 745 is a 4-5 year old pc.
I have a friend who was actually kidknapped by Radical Islamists while he was working in Yemen - he was an engineer for some oil company (10 years ago I could have told which one... but I honestly can't remember), but he (and some others) really did spend several weeks tied up until his ransom was paid.
34 - moved like 9 times now:( aren't IT layoffs fun? I am guilty of this pc hording thing too. I still have my Amiga 4000 and all of its accessories... I really should get rid of it.
I still have all my Mac stuff (G4 powerbook, cube etc etc) which I never use.
How would Windows NT 3's architecture protect a user from rootkits? If the kernel is patchable in *any way* (not just video drivers) you are vulnerable. I can't imagine the hordes of security holes in NT 3.x - this was an OS made at a time when really no-one thought about system security.
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Loss of all data? Did the virus do that? I would have popped the drive into another PC - scanned it with a known working virus scanner and at the very least backed up the user profile.
Not really - we'll keep doing what we've always done. Triage and patch systems until they are working again.
Quick google search brings up a consulting firm. I wonder how many bobs they have, and if people get fired in the army arbitrarily on their recommendations.
And why is the military spending money on consultants?
I think people are generally social. If you took away some other thing you were used to (like your bus ride to work, car, tv set, news paper, friends etc) would it be normal to feel alone and secluded?
If I was a thief trying to sell a stolen iphone - I'd tell you it was found.
Ever occur to you that's what every thief peddling in stolen goods says? I'd say any time your paying money for something that isn't yours - its questionable.
I haven't had too many thieves write 10 stories a day for a week on anything that was ripped off from me, and I have had something worth that much stolen - my motorcycle. The policeman who wrote a detailed report told me unless they found some evidence of where it had gone it was unlikely I'd ever see it again.
I'm sure if some idiot on the net was blogging about it on a popular website, taking pictures of it, and disassembling the bike to prove it really was my bike they would have arrested his ass.
As a cop I'm sure you don't get that many cases like that however.
Its all fun and games until the cops show up :).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU - yes I know the N900 doesn't run Symbian, but the N97 has taught me a really important lesson about Nokia - never buy another Nokia for as long as I live.
Its more like a reskinned ui - at least between HTC and Google's stock UI. The both operate very similarly.
I don't think its any faster - its the same exact hardware (different display I'm told).
Its like I had a friend who was a missionary in Italy - he said the church would only rent from people who had paid all the taxes on property so nothing was illegal (and other necessary paperwork). He quickly found that the only people who did this were members of organized crime families.
Which worked well in some regards - people didn't park in front of there place, it was really well kept etc.
Maybe its a lesson they learned long ago from Commodore? Commodore used to be able to undercut competitors on price because of vertical integration - they also sold a lot of mostek chips to Apple for the Apple 2.
They already have pa-semi, and with the licenses in tow they could certainly put a huge damper on Android development which is centered around ARM. At the very least they could undercut competitors in price because they wouldn't have to pay for licensing anymore. It would be a rather dirty move from Apple though - instead of competing on technical merit, they are seeking to cut the legs off Android entirely. Android development would move to a different cpu/arch, but it would really slow things down for them.
The big problem with vertical integration however is as Commodore found out - its quicker for a bunch of specialized semi-conductor companies to develop technology than just one. I have no idea if PA-Semi makes most all the chips for apple's products or just some, but when you time and R&D is split between so many areas it could be hard to keep up with Intel/Nvidia and AMD.
No-one writes apps that code directly to the video adapter.
Which is why DirectX has an API for it - that 3rd party developers can access.
Why Apple doesn't do this is a mystery (oh no its not - they just want to make 3rd party developers look bad).
1) Sounds like you need a better lawyer. Yeah if your wife calls the cops on you and there is evidence - its all over. Generally speaking males abuse kids far more than women do. Males abuse women more then women abuse men. So if a woman calls the cops that someone in your house has been abused and has marks to "prove" it - that's all they need to arrest.
2) I dunno - if mental health professionals are involved with your family (speaking from experience here!) then you already have issues at home and the state needed to get involved.
3) Not sure what #3 has to do with the state parenting your kids. Your daughters friends sound like arseholes. Luckily us teachers have unions that protect us from baseless accusations (and people really do wonder why teachers are unionized - seriously).
Bottom line? If state mental health professionals aren't counseling your family and you don't have a wife calling the cops on you when she suspects abuse - no the state isn't parenting your kids.
Its a total lie though - there are no porn apps on the android marketplace.
HTML-5 may be a double edged sword once better tools arrive and more browsers support it fully. Reason being is many of the things Flash are used for (casual games) would then run on the iPhone - sans any licensing agreement with Apple's store - which I think is the big reason they don't allow application run-times (like Flash or Java) on their platform currently.
Html-5 is really a convenient scapegoat - if it wasn't that it would be something else, and its not battery life or stability - I think more than one person has put down that myth. The reality is developing applications on html-5 is tricky business still because its still in development, but I'm sure it will get much easier once developer tools arrive and standards are more firmly set.
The reality here is that Flash, like Java would create an end run around the app-store immediately (and their revenue sharing scheme with developers) - that's it. Flash is actually being used to develop a lot of the same applications that Java has been used for. Its not the best platform to design programs in for sure, but I've seen word processors and video editing tools written in Flash. The tools exist right now to develop pretty much anything you want.
That C64 emulator that got denied a while back? Easy solution - port it to Flash and distribute it that way. Same with most any other denied app.
Plus you could use the Flash C compiler to port just about anything to the iPhone if they let Flash on board - including their own app store.
Last but not least since Apple controls their html5 implementation - maybe they could restrict it so that it wouldn't compete with the app-store. I wouldn't hold that out just yet.
It'll be interesting to see how it pans out. When Android phones are running the best of the web on html-5, Flash and Java - what then Apple?
I don't understand this - my laptop (2.2 ghz core 2 duo) seems to use around 15% of the cpu watching videos on hulu in HD. At work I tested it with a Dell Optiplex 745 (pizza box style pc) - same thing. Neither machine does the fan speed up or anything.
Neither of these two machines are all that new - I think the 745 is a 4-5 year old pc.
I have a friend who was actually kidknapped by Radical Islamists while he was working in Yemen - he was an engineer for some oil company (10 years ago I could have told which one... but I honestly can't remember), but he (and some others) really did spend several weeks tied up until his ransom was paid.
34 - moved like 9 times now :( aren't IT layoffs fun? I am guilty of this pc hording thing too. I still have my Amiga 4000 and all of its accessories... I really should get rid of it.
I still have all my Mac stuff (G4 powerbook, cube etc etc) which I never use.
Why the fark do you even visit this site?
I think the idea is to deploy MSRT - let it do its thing, and then the patches will install. That approach seems a bit more sane.
How would Windows NT 3's architecture protect a user from rootkits? If the kernel is patchable in *any way* (not just video drivers) you are vulnerable. I can't imagine the hordes of security holes in NT 3.x - this was an OS made at a time when really no-one thought about system security.
Have you even heard of Windows MSRT?