Actually that's pretty compelling when coupled by a few other things;
Though I have only known about MECOs for a few minutes, there's some things about black holes that never made sense to me.
Why the near-light speed ejecta from a spherical event horizon object. Where does all that lateral energy come from? A super strong magnetic field makes more sense as a method for ejecting material than matter at oblique angles to the ecliptic accelerated so much it collides (and 99% of the energy evens out due to the circular input field and the last 1% spitting the stuff out) with classical physics.
Instead, you get a south pole, and a north pole, and anything with any charge on each of those ends screaming in one direction or other.
It seems to me though that plasma would give off tons of light, and there ARE some cases where a BH was "speculated" to be present where it's pretty clear there isn't a light producing object there.
CO2 released after combustion (clean combustion) is the result of enough heat, presure and other activation energy on the fuel.
It is, by all practical purposes the lowest energy state you can have with those items in mixture (Carbon, Oxygen).
This is due to the fact that Oxygen likes to bond to stuff.
Getting the carbon apart then, will take energy. Which without additional fuel additives means a catalyst won't work. The heat of oxidization of the carbon has been released and you can't re-pack heat energy without adding another endothermic reaction (additional stuff) or some other work (heat pump, etc.)
Carbon, after all, is a fuel you could use to cook tasty steaks on... CO2 in gaseous or solid form is not.
You are much better off trying to get the absolute cleanest burning possible, best efficiency, and finding an efficient and renewable way to fuel the system in the first place.
Thermodynamics and entropy say there is no free lunch. Don't mistake your poop for peanut butter and put it back on your sandwich.
That's probably one of the most important bits of information you'll need to decide what package you need. And you left it out. I see a bulleted list of goals. But what made you decide to get going buying BPM?
Say, if it's a regulatory body saying you need something, make sure what you get will help satisfy them. Etc.
Also, though I work in a very small company, all the process analysis in the world means dick if you don't have someone going around and beating the crap out of the processees to do things differently. Expect to meet up with little fifedoms, power hungry people, people who won't change and will throw up roadblocks because they are lazy, or think you will process them out of a job. Make sure you got upper management who is clueful and will do that stuff for you or just drop the project as failed already. Some guy that needs to write to AskSlashdot probably doesn't have the juice. So get the juice first or you are already fucked.
(Note, I did process analysis for the "Baldridge" crap a couple years ago, and used nothing more than pen and paper for most of it. Finished product used one sheet and an overall flythrough flowchart. But then the process was simple enough that I could sit with someone and get the data I needed. If your problem consists of a large company wondering why processing rebates takes to long something that integrates is a good idea.)
Heck, I'd be happy if the stupid farkers wouldn't try to croud onto the same friggin channel. The ones that don't? They manage to find the channel _I_ am using and settle there despite a free spectrum on the other end.
Idiots need to have their wireless EMP'ed into a pile of molten plastic I say.
Actually, what would be cool is a plugin that can do searches in the background (maybe based on urls linked in a page being currently viewed) and put up an automatic block or popup for the user to know that the link has malware.
Or maybe a system to allow automatic DNS cache injection (on my own DNS client) to prevent lookups going to the correct (infected) site.
Once sites realize that big parts of user base is cutting them off premptively, they'll take notice and get rid of the crap so they can get users back.
It doesn't matter. NXDOMAIN response needs to exist for a lot of other reasons that makes the 14 year old myspace user getting an ugly error message over a spammer's search page irrelevant.
I don't care if he's the queen mother pope jesus vishnu all in one. What the guy is proposing is fucking stupid.
Stop fucking with DNS. Gimme a friggin IP when I query with a hostname. Gimmie a hostname when I query an IP. STOP THERE. THAT'S IT. NOTHING MORE TO SEE.
If something more "friendly" needs to happen, it needs to happen at the application layer instead.
S.M.A.R.T. is something that can be disabled in the BIOS, no?
All one would need is the existing IDE controller (if it can talk to a non-smart drive) or a different controller that can...
And the knowledge to boot to BIOS first to make the setting change (and boot from a CD).
Not really all that hard to imagine.
Granted, the complexity of doing the task goes up with each step, further reducing the probability that someone has the data as the number of people that know, and have a motive for that shrinks.
They also get an easier time catching the people and finding out exactly what happened to the laptop with that.
Though, considering the hard drive was out of the case, someone was interested in the contents and it wasn't just plunked on a counter and sold as "used".
Not that I do that stuff, MY first act would be to wipe then shred the drive with a bootable CD and put a copy of WindowsXP all warzed and trojaned to heck on it, then wipe the drive again (this time not so well). Just to make them think the data wasnt pulled off of it in any meaningful way, and that the laptop was simply resused as "used".
Unless S.M.A.R.T. was specifically designed to retain data for forensic analysis later (It is not) then counting on it's use for that purpose shouldn't be done.
Are you trolling? Is this a joke? The whole "chruch gets your taxes" thing is so alien to me I can't tell.
Here's your paragraph slightly changed to demonstrate exactly how rediculous and hypocritical it is.
This article smacks of religious propaganda. FTA, it is stated that the main reason people are joining is to get into heavenor some other fraud. This isn't some great coup for the religious crowd. I can support the seperation of church and state. But that isn't what is going on here. People aren't being encouraged to merge the two, they are being encouraged to embrace religion. Oh heavens my, we can't have someone choosing to find their own path! I am just saying that if your desire is to merge chruch and state, then create a movement to join the two. Don't create a movement to get people to join religion. That is just subversive.
Aww. Are the little evangelicals scared the same tactics used against them that they use all the time? Boo hoo. People might decide religion is total garbage and embrace the 20th Century, we cannot have that!
It's too bad the inventive and interesting or psycho (remember that old Mac one with all the fancy colors) don't get created anymore. Now it's just spyware and trojan laden crap and the default that comes with whatever operating system.
For instance, I've worked in commercial printers that literally had thousands of typefaces. Let's say you have a job you need printed on a printing press. You collect all the images, layout files, typefaces, etc., and you send that to the printer. The printer is supposed to delete those fonts when the job is complete. They don't, of course, so you have millions of pirated typefaces out there.
So, where's the damage?
The file exists on a computer somewhere so the creator needs to get paid again? Because more than one company handled it on the way to the printer? Do you pay your car rental agency again because you parked in a different spot this time?
From other posts, these fonts are often created by companies or per-jobs and then passed through along to print. So they are going NOWHERE, and doing NOTHING like a an unlinked file in some file system on the desktop machine that hasn't been turned on in two years. Nothing.
What good is it going to do some company or person that didn't pay for it?
What it really seems to me is you are bitching about stuff that really ends up in a recycle bin no one bothered to clear out and expecting them to pay for it.
Fucking seriously, somehow a data set in analog (font) is somehow magically worth a bunch of money and copyrightable when it is digital? (truetype) Big deal, it's a "little program" that makes the shape specifically for the purpose of exploiting a loophole in a law so some pig extort more money from a situation that really does not call for it because it was ruled that way by the supreme court. What we gonna do next? Decide Mickey Mouse can only be created by a little program and is not analog and keep him in the Disney lockbin of perpetual copyright forever?
Screw that.
Call it like it is with no BS or call me unimpressed by this issue. Delete the fucking things and go on with it. Change the RFP to say "include all the fonts you want to use" in the process. An audit is simply extortion in this case.
Week n; "Who cares" [Some Paranoid Geek impressing the cute barista] "Let's look" [clackity clack] "Hey look, he's a sex offender"
Week n+1; "OMGWTFOMGOMGOMG!!!"
Week n+2; Cops; "Click clack" (handcuffs)
Chances are, the guy sought out an open connection to do bad stuff. Though using the SAME ONE all the time is not bright. I bet if they got a warrant to search that laptop they'd find another reason to throw him in jail. No need to address the "open wifi/closed wifi" battle because he's got kiddie porn and some private citizen did the part getting from "that's annoying" to "that's probable cause"
You had the discussion about semantics now STBU about it.
Seriously, STBU. Go look that up in your UK dictionary. (In English it means "STFU")
"Expect" is a word describing someone's state of mind. In this case it is appropriate to use the word to describe the 19 year old's state of mind in ANY sense of the word. Did he "hope" he gets laid out of it? Yes. Did he expect to get laid out of it? Yes. Felt entitled to take what wasn't offered so he DID expect it.
Whether the rest of civilized society agrees (the point you are arguing) is irrelevant.
Plus "training a replacement" is not going to be a one time deal.
Say 5 Indians get trained by one guy in the States.
In 12 months, where are those 5 individuals going to be? It sounds to me like India is having a tech boom, and if it's like ours was people are hopping jobs to get 50% pay raises for no reason at all.
So in a year, the bank will be faced with not having the skilled long-timers around AND having to continually train replacements all the time.
No. "Idiots" is a descriptor that involves skill, worth, maybe experience.
"Curry smelling dot-head" is bigotry.
Idiots like you are what allows _real_ bigotry to flurish, you cant even recognize it when you see it.
I have met some quite skilled folks from India over the years. Mostly in telcos engineering departments... but they were in the US and either born here or on their way to US Citizens. The ones answering the phones while still in Bombay... chances are "idiot" is a pretty good description of their skill level and experience in whatever job they are doing. The GOOD ones get better jobs after a short time.
Per the autopay dis-abler function in the group policy in windows, all removable drives aside from optical disks (DVD/CDROM) have autoplay disabled by default.
They didn't use autoplay, they used an enticing file name on an executable. (My wife Pics.exe (with a zip icon) would do it.)
It's sort of interesting that 15 new devices made it in the building without anyone talking about it. "Hey, look what I found" "Mine is a gig!" "Me too!". They all put it in to see what's on it probably knowing it's against the rules and did it anyway.
It's not ignorance, its "i think i can get away with it."
I wish I could find thumb drives in the parking lot.
On another note, I sure hope that company didn't send the stuff they collected unencrypted. That's a violation of a bunch of rules. Penetrating a network for a security audit shouldn't lower the overall security of the network, if they sent unecrypted that's exactly what they did though.
How bout you post your SSN, mother's maiden name, home address and bank account numbers then.
No?
Maybe you should shut the fuck up about this being a small breech "mr. they've got bigger things to worry about". It sucks to get your data stolen if you are anybody and what ELSE they may or may not have to worry about is irrelevant.
Gee, that's great, let's ignore financial ruin because you know, getting your foot blown off is so much worse.
- Prices go and stay high - Consumers lose - Rambus wins
Other memory makers Way;
- prices dive and rambus croaks - consumers win (for now) - all memory makers compete one another as usual after - maybe consumers win/maybe lose later
Gee. Looks like the choice is a probability of getting screwed vs the certainty of getting screwed for the consumer. I'd take a probability over a certainty any day.
If you really want to bitch about price fixing, how bout you start with Oil Companies and the Bush Cronies Regime first and go from there, mkay? Seems to me that what hurts the economy more is $15 for EVERY tank I fill up all year vs $40 once when I buy a computer.
Paragraph 4(c), which the "respondant" can use to defend the domain name, seems pretty easy to satisfy:
(i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii) you (as an individual, business or other organization) have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or
(iii) you are making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
Note that this is a logical-OR. If you can claim any of the above you get to keep your domain. This guy didn't fall under any of the categories.
Note paragraph (iii) can be partially established by having a "price" negotiation with the squatter. Meaning you can prove they wanted to gain commercially by using a name similar to your trademark or common name.
Thus, using the negotiation itself against them in domain name arbitration to take it away from them. If everybody tied these guys up in arbitration and court all the time they wouldn't find squatting profitable anymore.
I am sure that those "spam offers" of "you could make thousands on your domain name!" are for that purpose. To establish a foothold.
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6. Is so emasculating that cops neglect to care if you are speeding.
Actually that's pretty compelling when coupled by a few other things;
Though I have only known about MECOs for a few minutes, there's some things about black holes that never made sense to me.
Why the near-light speed ejecta from a spherical event horizon object. Where does all that lateral energy come from? A super strong magnetic field makes more sense as a method for ejecting material than matter at oblique angles to the ecliptic accelerated so much it collides (and 99% of the energy evens out due to the circular input field and the last 1% spitting the stuff out) with classical physics.
Instead, you get a south pole, and a north pole, and anything with any charge on each of those ends screaming in one direction or other.
It seems to me though that plasma would give off tons of light, and there ARE some cases where a BH was "speculated" to be present where it's pretty clear there isn't a light producing object there.
CO2 released after combustion (clean combustion) is the result of enough heat, presure and other activation energy on the fuel.
It is, by all practical purposes the lowest energy state you can have with those items in mixture (Carbon, Oxygen).
This is due to the fact that Oxygen likes to bond to stuff.
Getting the carbon apart then, will take energy. Which without additional fuel additives means a catalyst won't work. The heat of oxidization of the carbon has been released and you can't re-pack heat energy without adding another endothermic reaction (additional stuff) or some other work (heat pump, etc.)
Carbon, after all, is a fuel you could use to cook tasty steaks on... CO2 in gaseous or solid form is not.
You are much better off trying to get the absolute cleanest burning possible, best efficiency, and finding an efficient and renewable way to fuel the system in the first place.
Thermodynamics and entropy say there is no free lunch. Don't mistake your poop for peanut butter and put it back on your sandwich.
So.
What's your problem?
Seriously, you want to buy software.
Why?
That's probably one of the most important bits of information you'll need to decide what package you need. And you left it out. I see a bulleted list of goals. But what made you decide to get going buying BPM?
Say, if it's a regulatory body saying you need something, make sure what you get will help satisfy them. Etc.
Also, though I work in a very small company, all the process analysis in the world means dick if you don't have someone going around and beating the crap out of the processees to do things differently. Expect to meet up with little fifedoms, power hungry people, people who won't change and will throw up roadblocks because they are lazy, or think you will process them out of a job. Make sure you got upper management who is clueful and will do that stuff for you or just drop the project as failed already. Some guy that needs to write to AskSlashdot probably doesn't have the juice. So get the juice first or you are already fucked.
(Note, I did process analysis for the "Baldridge" crap a couple years ago, and used nothing more than pen and paper for most of it. Finished product used one sheet and an overall flythrough flowchart. But then the process was simple enough that I could sit with someone and get the data I needed. If your problem consists of a large company wondering why processing rebates takes to long something that integrates is a good idea.)
Heck, I'd be happy if the stupid farkers wouldn't try to croud onto the same friggin channel. The ones that don't? They manage to find the channel _I_ am using and settle there despite a free spectrum on the other end.
Idiots need to have their wireless EMP'ed into a pile of molten plastic I say.
Actually, what would be cool is a plugin that can do searches in the background (maybe based on urls linked in a page being currently viewed) and put up an automatic block or popup for the user to know that the link has malware.
Or maybe a system to allow automatic DNS cache injection (on my own DNS client) to prevent lookups going to the correct (infected) site.
Once sites realize that big parts of user base is cutting them off premptively, they'll take notice and get rid of the crap so they can get users back.
Some cable providers already do.
I have to VPN out to play with NSlookup anywhere but my cable provider DNS servers. Which, I might add are down a lot and in general, suck.
It doesn't matter. NXDOMAIN response needs to exist for a lot of other reasons that makes the 14 year old myspace user getting an ugly error message over a spammer's search page irrelevant.
I don't care if he's the queen mother pope jesus vishnu all in one. What the guy is proposing is fucking stupid.
Stop fucking with DNS. Gimme a friggin IP when I query with a hostname. Gimmie a hostname when I query an IP. STOP THERE. THAT'S IT. NOTHING MORE TO SEE.
If something more "friendly" needs to happen, it needs to happen at the application layer instead.
To solve this problem, on newer versions of Windows you can shutdown some services via command line which will force reboot.
The RPC service host will do it. (Same one Blaster used to kill to cause endless rebooting.)
So take them into a command prompt, and do a "net stop" on it and bingo! User cant avoid rebooting.
S.M.A.R.T. is something that can be disabled in the BIOS, no?
All one would need is the existing IDE controller (if it can talk to a non-smart drive) or a different controller that can...
And the knowledge to boot to BIOS first to make the setting change (and boot from a CD).
Not really all that hard to imagine.
Granted, the complexity of doing the task goes up with each step, further reducing the probability that someone has the data as the number of people that know, and have a motive for that shrinks.
They also get an easier time catching the people and finding out exactly what happened to the laptop with that.
Though, considering the hard drive was out of the case, someone was interested in the contents and it wasn't just plunked on a counter and sold as "used".
Not that I do that stuff, MY first act would be to wipe then shred the drive with a bootable CD and put a copy of WindowsXP all warzed and trojaned to heck on it, then wipe the drive again (this time not so well). Just to make them think the data wasnt pulled off of it in any meaningful way, and that the laptop was simply resused as "used".
Unless S.M.A.R.T. was specifically designed to retain data for forensic analysis later (It is not) then counting on it's use for that purpose shouldn't be done.
Here's your paragraph slightly changed to demonstrate exactly how rediculous and hypocritical it is.
Aww. Are the little evangelicals scared the same tactics used against them that they use all the time? Boo hoo. People might decide religion is total garbage and embrace the 20th Century, we cannot have that!
That sure would be a cool screensaver.
It's too bad the inventive and interesting or psycho (remember that old Mac one with all the fancy colors) don't get created anymore. Now it's just spyware and trojan laden crap and the default that comes with whatever operating system.
Sigh.
The file exists on a computer somewhere so the creator needs to get paid again? Because more than one company handled it on the way to the printer? Do you pay your car rental agency again because you parked in a different spot this time?
From other posts, these fonts are often created by companies or per-jobs and then passed through along to print. So they are going NOWHERE, and doing NOTHING like a an unlinked file in some file system on the desktop machine that hasn't been turned on in two years. Nothing.
What good is it going to do some company or person that didn't pay for it?
What it really seems to me is you are bitching about stuff that really ends up in a recycle bin no one bothered to clear out and expecting them to pay for it.
Fucking seriously, somehow a data set in analog (font) is somehow magically worth a bunch of money and copyrightable when it is digital? (truetype) Big deal, it's a "little program" that makes the shape specifically for the purpose of exploiting a loophole in a law so some pig extort more money from a situation that really does not call for it because it was ruled that way by the supreme court. What we gonna do next? Decide Mickey Mouse can only be created by a little program and is not analog and keep him in the Disney lockbin of perpetual copyright forever?
Screw that.
Call it like it is with no BS or call me unimpressed by this issue. Delete the fucking things and go on with it. Change the RFP to say "include all the fonts you want to use" in the process. An audit is simply extortion in this case.
As late as 1998 New Jersey was using sequential (and renumbering when I was there! Gah!) on the feeder (3 digit) highways.
I am going to guess it went like this:
...
Week 1; "Who cares"
Week 2; "Who cares"
Week n; "Who cares" [Some Paranoid Geek impressing the cute barista] "Let's look" [clackity clack] "Hey look, he's a sex offender"
Week n+1; "OMGWTFOMGOMGOMG!!!"
Week n+2; Cops; "Click clack" (handcuffs)
Chances are, the guy sought out an open connection to do bad stuff. Though using the SAME ONE all the time is not bright. I bet if they got a warrant to search that laptop they'd find another reason to throw him in jail. No need to address the "open wifi/closed wifi" battle because he's got kiddie porn and some private citizen did the part getting from "that's annoying" to "that's probable cause"
You had the discussion about semantics now STBU about it.
Seriously, STBU. Go look that up in your UK dictionary. (In English it means "STFU")
"Expect" is a word describing someone's state of mind. In this case it is appropriate to use the word to describe the 19 year old's state of mind in ANY sense of the word. Did he "hope" he gets laid out of it? Yes. Did he expect to get laid out of it? Yes. Felt entitled to take what wasn't offered so he DID expect it.
Whether the rest of civilized society agrees (the point you are arguing) is irrelevant.
Plus "training a replacement" is not going to be a one time deal.
Say 5 Indians get trained by one guy in the States.
In 12 months, where are those 5 individuals going to be? It sounds to me like India is having a tech boom, and if it's like ours was people are hopping jobs to get 50% pay raises for no reason at all.
So in a year, the bank will be faced with not having the skilled long-timers around AND having to continually train replacements all the time.
No. "Idiots" is a descriptor that involves skill, worth, maybe experience.
"Curry smelling dot-head" is bigotry.
Idiots like you are what allows _real_ bigotry to flurish, you cant even recognize it when you see it.
I have met some quite skilled folks from India over the years. Mostly in telcos engineering departments... but they were in the US and either born here or on their way to US Citizens. The ones answering the phones while still in Bombay... chances are "idiot" is a pretty good description of their skill level and experience in whatever job they are doing. The GOOD ones get better jobs after a short time.
Might I humbly suggest that the solution to this is maybe a large but local Credit Union?
Any services you know of that a bank can do a CU cant?
Didn't think so.
Plus, they are nicer, have better customer service and seem to do a better job hiring hot chicks to run the teller lines.
What?
How is "wireless behind NAT" any different than "wired behind NAT"?
Per the autopay dis-abler function in the group policy in windows, all removable drives aside from optical disks (DVD/CDROM) have autoplay disabled by default.
They didn't use autoplay, they used an enticing file name on an executable. (My wife Pics.exe (with a zip icon) would do it.)
It's sort of interesting that 15 new devices made it in the building without anyone talking about it. "Hey, look what I found" "Mine is a gig!" "Me too!". They all put it in to see what's on it probably knowing it's against the rules and did it anyway.
It's not ignorance, its "i think i can get away with it."
I wish I could find thumb drives in the parking lot.
On another note, I sure hope that company didn't send the stuff they collected unencrypted. That's a violation of a bunch of rules. Penetrating a network for a security audit shouldn't lower the overall security of the network, if they sent unecrypted that's exactly what they did though.
So, why bring it up in a thread about loss of personal data?
Oh, I know, cuz you hippies _want_ those evil military types to be bankrupt when they get home.
Ok.
How bout you post your SSN, mother's maiden name, home address and bank account numbers then.
No?
Maybe you should shut the fuck up about this being a small breech "mr. they've got bigger things to worry about". It sucks to get your data stolen if you are anybody and what ELSE they may or may not have to worry about is irrelevant.
Gee, that's great, let's ignore financial ruin because you know, getting your foot blown off is so much worse.
You sir, are an ass.
Rambus Way;
- Prices go and stay high
- Consumers lose
- Rambus wins
Other memory makers Way;
- prices dive and rambus croaks
- consumers win (for now)
- all memory makers compete one another as usual after
- maybe consumers win/maybe lose later
Gee. Looks like the choice is a probability of getting screwed vs the certainty of getting screwed for the consumer. I'd take a probability over a certainty any day.
If you really want to bitch about price fixing, how bout you start with Oil Companies and the Bush Cronies Regime first and go from there, mkay? Seems to me that what hurts the economy more is $15 for EVERY tank I fill up all year vs $40 once when I buy a computer.
I am not sure what document it comes from, but:
Paragraph 4(c), which the "respondant" can use to defend the domain name, seems pretty easy to satisfy:
(i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii) you (as an individual, business or other organization) have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or
(iii) you are making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
Note that this is a logical-OR. If you can claim any of the above you get to keep your domain. This guy didn't fall under any of the categories.
Note paragraph (iii) can be partially established by having a "price" negotiation with the squatter. Meaning you can prove they wanted to gain commercially by using a name similar to your trademark or common name.
Thus, using the negotiation itself against them in domain name arbitration to take it away from them. If everybody tied these guys up in arbitration and court all the time they wouldn't find squatting profitable anymore. I am sure that those "spam offers" of "you could make thousands on your domain name!" are for that purpose. To establish a foothold.