Yes, you could, but this negates the need to have a physical object to interact with. With this you could just set down your laptop and go, not set down your laptop, dig out your multitouch touchpad, plug it in and go.
Gah. I just asked the same question -- i scanned the other replies but i missed yours. You'd almost have to make a single click identified as a mouse-down event until you click again. A regular single click would be then be a double click, and a double click a triple click. Thankfully there's no action (at least that I can think of) that would equate to a double-click drag -- double clicking but holding down on the second click.
Madness, I say, Madness!
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It can't figure out when you're single clicking versus dragging.
Obviously, with a mouse, the action is a down-then-up motion, where this is an up-then-down motion.
I suppose this could be addressed by making a single tap a drag motion until you bring your finger up a second time, but that doesn't quite seem natural.
That's because all the memory is now swiss cheese full of random bytes. If the malware wants to hide itself, it has to swap itself out to disk, regardless of whether or not it can hide itself. He then proposes to identify that there is a threat by observing the performance of the hardware as it swaps itself out to secondary storage.
Sorry, but I think you're missing the point. Apologies if I've misunderstood your point.
I have a root kit. I have kernel level access. I know when my memory is being scanned. When another process goes to poke around my memory, I intercept that request and return back zeroes or gibberish -- anything but my code.
I in effect become invisible to your scanner. Scanning operating memory isn't good enough.
Now, since they're writing out random data to memory, they're attempting to ferret out any bad code that might be lurking out there. They don't have to identify the specific bad code, but *suspicious* code, just code that bad code attempts to hide itself by righting out to disk as random data is written over it.
Its taking a moment to digest what the author is saying. He really doesn't mean that he can detect *any* threat at any time, but rather, in the future he *can* detect them as new threats are discovered.
If a piece of malware allows itself to be swapped out, it can then (now, or in the future when its identified as a threat) be detected without worrying about it trying to hide itself.
Then, once its swapped everything out, it can start the hunt for malware that remains in memory.
The key here to the Hunt is the writing of random data... If you overwrite the memory with random data, the app has *no choice* but to write itself out to secondary storage to hide the random data. If the memory was zeroed out, it could simply return zero for every byte, but with random data, it has to remember each byte. Since its random, it can't really compress the data to hide itself solely in memory, but there guarantee should be that it will be able to find it eventually.
He talks a bit of hype, and there's some promise to that, but it sounds like he may not be able to find zero day threats that willingly allow themselves to be swapped out.
All depends on how old are your student loans. If your loan originated between Summer 1998 and 2006, you're at 3.28%. Its possible you may have an even lower rate... I'm at 2.48% on just about all of my loans.
From 2006-2008, its 6.8%.
2008-2009, 6.00%,
and 2009-2010, 5.6%.
Interest rates are going down, and I believe they're defined through 2012 or so.
As a side note, I'd pay *more* if I wanted to consolidate my loans. As far as I'm concerned, if you can avoid it, do NOT consolidate your loans. I'm not positive about this, but I expect that if I'm paying $500 a month on my student loans, my month minimum is not going to go down if I overpay it. For example, on my mortgage, my monthly payment won't go down if I pay more on the principle, it just shortens the length of my mortgage. The point here is that if I'm going to overpay, I want to pay off an individual loan, such that my monthly minimum goes down such that if I should find myself unemployed, I might have a chance of continuing to make the payments...
I think I was 15 at the time. as a computer geek then, it completely fascinated me. Our high school had a vax -- and I believe they unplugged the thing, even though AFAIK it wasn't connected to the internet (er arpanet at the time, I guess).
i wasn't thinking powershell per se, but if you installed unixtools, yes, you could do all sorts of stuff like that using echo piped into a file, a well structured grep to find what you want, and sed to handle deletes.
You're absolutely right. However, so much of Christianity is built on the literal truth of the Bible, such that if you *can't* take it literally, then *everything* in the bible becomse suspect. People will grasp on to the literal word of the Bible because that's the only way some people can find stability in their faith, by deluding themselves.
If the earth wasn't built in six days, then maybe, just maybe, water wasn't turned into wine, and maybe the promise of everlasting life may not really be a promise after all.
So let's say the earth was made 6000 years ago. Now you have stars that are thousands of light years away that are just now shining their light down on us? If you have a star 20,000 light years away, how do you reconcile that? Holy Shit, God can even create light *in transit* just to shine down on the fake dinosaur bones he buried in the ground 6000 years ago.
The Book of Abraham describes a hierarchy of heavenly bodies, including the earth, its moon, and the sun, each with different movements and measurements of time, where at the pinnacle, the slowest-revolving body is Kolob, where one Kolob-day corresponds to 1000 earth-years:
Day 2 in God's busy schedule.
Behold the power of the Lord. Not only did he create the world in 6 days, he created all the stars, and not just the stars, but stars and planets in varying states and black holes and even light *in transit* from stars millions of light years away so that when we look up at that starry sky we see them.
Why give a kid yet another email address to keep track of, one that will be taken away from them after graduation?
A couple reasons -- at the university for which I work, we have dictated that your university-given email address is your official means of communication. This means that if we send you an email with your bill in it, it is considered received. If your email address is at hotmail, juno, whatever, I cannot be sure that your account will be active.
Email addresses are used extensively by professors for communication. Some use them just for announcements, but many are much more involved. Unless everyone has an email address, that tool is no longer available. Text messaging is great for meeting up with your friends, but not so much for scholarly discussions on, say, Moby Dick... FRM HLLS <3 I STAB@THEE; 4 H8S SAKE I STAB@THEE. Sure, you can require students to have email addresses, but that really makes things hard to integrate all together, and to do so reliably.
Some of it has to do with branding. Do I want my students known by their @uni.edu address, or have to fluffypants@yahoo.com?
The university wants to remain in contact with you after you graduate. It's part of maintaining the relationship with the alumni . Some of it is for fund raising, but also for communicating news about the university.
User IDs are generally tied to your email address. If you're jsmith@uni.edu, throughout the system you're going to be identified as jsmith. It's much easier to build business processes around that. However, its not that hard to do a join or otherwise look up the users email address, but many of our systems aren't designed to work that way out of the box.
There's a strong desire right now to outsource the student mail to gmail. Students will retain their @uni.edu address, we can still connect with them, and we can reclaim 1.5 Tb of disk space on the san. Furthermore, we remove a system, that, if it goes down, we can recover but not without an outage. We currently have an anti-spam solution, but that in and of itself is the price of a small house. We stand to reduce cost across the board while increasing reliability and reducing complexity of our systems.
Negatives... the thought of having mercury gas a few feet bothers me. Why, after figuring out just how bad mercury is, are we putting the stuff in more products that can expose people and especially children to it?
Because it's easier and more cost effective to distribute our toxic waste throughout the country than to manage it until doomsday. We do this all the time. We put stuff we can't easily dispose of into consumer products and distribute them across the globe. You think we have radioactive material in smoke detectors because they somehow, magically, 'ionize' the air? HAH! That's waste from Three Mile Island! Cadmium? Let's put it in cordless telephones and other devices. Totally unnecessary. Oh, and soylent green? Humans.
The way I see it, putting CFC bulbs in your closet and other seldom used places is a waste. You may be installing bulbs that may outlive you. Sure, you do get the power savings, but I don't think it would be enough to be noticeable in my electric bill. I've two CFCs right now, one in the lamp on my desk, and one in my torchiere-style light -- these two are almost always on, so it makes sense to replace them. The desk lamp is shaded, with a creamy sort of colored shade, and i can't really tell the difference between it and an incadescent bulb. The other one, well, it definitely appears a little cooler, but the light is mostly directed up, and there's two incadescent bulbs set in ceiling that help keep the room warm-looking. I've considered replacing those two, but I'd have to replace the dimmer switch too. I've noticed a slight lag when i turn them on, but i really haven't noticed that they take time to warm up to full brightness, probably because they're used in conjunction with other lights.
In reality, I believe for most people, your main consumers of electricity aren't your lights, but your laundry machines, electric range, dishwasher, and your fridge. Central air too, but that's seasonal. Every drop in the bucket counts, but if people are thinking they're going to halve their electric bill, they're going to be disappointed.
Looking around, I estimate at this hour of night, I'm running 250 watts of lighting, of which I'm probably saving 100 watts with the CFC bulbs. 5 hours a day, thats a kW every 2 days, 15 kW a month, at roughly $.12 a kW (.063, + taxes etc), maybe $1.80 savings. Not that noticeable.
I laughed out loud at your hillarious twist of the word Windows. Maybe could you try to do something with the word Microsoft, perhaps by adding a dollar sign?
Unless, of course, you were to believe the article in Wired a couple years ago on LoudCloud. I used to subscribe, and there were parts I enjoyed, but man, nine times out of ten, the 'next big thing' featured in Wired turns to snot.
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Why load up your own truck with fertilizer and diesel fuel when you can pay someone else an exorbitant fee to turn their cars into car bombs?
Its a nightmare waiting to happen TBH.
It's our duty to spread out throughout the universe. It truly is the Earth man's burden.
Yes, you could, but this negates the need to have a physical object to interact with. With this you could just set down your laptop and go, not set down your laptop, dig out your multitouch touchpad, plug it in and go.
Gah. I just asked the same question -- i scanned the other replies but i missed yours. You'd almost have to make a single click identified as a mouse-down event until you click again. A regular single click would be then be a double click, and a double click a triple click. Thankfully there's no action (at least that I can think of) that would equate to a double-click drag -- double clicking but holding down on the second click.
Madness, I say, Madness!
It can't figure out when you're single clicking versus dragging.
Obviously, with a mouse, the action is a down-then-up motion, where this is an up-then-down motion.
I suppose this could be addressed by making a single tap a drag motion until you bring your finger up a second time, but that doesn't quite seem natural.
That's because all the memory is now swiss cheese full of random bytes. If the malware wants to hide itself, it has to swap itself out to disk, regardless of whether or not it can hide itself. He then proposes to identify that there is a threat by observing the performance of the hardware as it swaps itself out to secondary storage.
Sorry, but I think you're missing the point. Apologies if I've misunderstood your point.
I have a root kit. I have kernel level access. I know when my memory is being scanned. When another process goes to poke around my memory, I intercept that request and return back zeroes or gibberish -- anything but my code.
I in effect become invisible to your scanner. Scanning operating memory isn't good enough.
Now, since they're writing out random data to memory, they're attempting to ferret out any bad code that might be lurking out there. They don't have to identify the specific bad code, but *suspicious* code, just code that bad code attempts to hide itself by righting out to disk as random data is written over it.
Its taking a moment to digest what the author is saying. He really doesn't mean that he can detect *any* threat at any time, but rather, in the future he *can* detect them as new threats are discovered.
If a piece of malware allows itself to be swapped out, it can then (now, or in the future when its identified as a threat) be detected without worrying about it trying to hide itself.
Then, once its swapped everything out, it can start the hunt for malware that remains in memory.
The key here to the Hunt is the writing of random data... If you overwrite the memory with random data, the app has *no choice* but to write itself out to secondary storage to hide the random data. If the memory was zeroed out, it could simply return zero for every byte, but with random data, it has to remember each byte. Since its random, it can't really compress the data to hide itself solely in memory, but there guarantee should be that it will be able to find it eventually.
He talks a bit of hype, and there's some promise to that, but it sounds like he may not be able to find zero day threats that willingly allow themselves to be swapped out.
They did rate BloomBox as "A+++++++++ Would buy from again!"
All depends on how old are your student loans. If your loan originated between Summer 1998 and 2006, you're at 3.28%. Its possible you may have an even lower rate... I'm at 2.48% on just about all of my loans.
From 2006-2008, its 6.8%.
2008-2009, 6.00%,
and 2009-2010, 5.6%.
Interest rates are going down, and I believe they're defined through 2012 or so.
As a side note, I'd pay *more* if I wanted to consolidate my loans. As far as I'm concerned, if you can avoid it, do NOT consolidate your loans. I'm not positive about this, but I expect that if I'm paying $500 a month on my student loans, my month minimum is not going to go down if I overpay it. For example, on my mortgage, my monthly payment won't go down if I pay more on the principle, it just shortens the length of my mortgage. The point here is that if I'm going to overpay, I want to pay off an individual loan, such that my monthly minimum goes down such that if I should find myself unemployed, I might have a chance of continuing to make the payments...
"I'm not inferring anything. You infer; I imply."
I think I was 15 at the time. as a computer geek then, it completely fascinated me. Our high school had a vax -- and I believe they unplugged the thing, even though AFAIK it wasn't connected to the internet (er arpanet at the time, I guess).
Well lets face it...
1 out of 2 people enjoy prison rape.
i wasn't thinking powershell per se, but if you installed unixtools, yes, you could do all sorts of stuff like that using echo piped into a file, a well structured grep to find what you want, and sed to handle deletes.
You're absolutely right. However, so much of Christianity is built on the literal truth of the Bible, such that if you *can't* take it literally, then *everything* in the bible becomse suspect. People will grasp on to the literal word of the Bible because that's the only way some people can find stability in their faith, by deluding themselves.
If the earth wasn't built in six days, then maybe, just maybe, water wasn't turned into wine, and maybe the promise of everlasting life may not really be a promise after all.
So let's say the earth was made 6000 years ago. Now you have stars that are thousands of light years away that are just now shining their light down on us? If you have a star 20,000 light years away, how do you reconcile that? Holy Shit, God can even create light *in transit* just to shine down on the fake dinosaur bones he buried in the ground 6000 years ago.
Or maybe it's just a bunch of bull.
I liked it better when I was left thinking you intentionally mispelled pedant to get the pendants all riled up.
The Book of Abraham describes a hierarchy of heavenly bodies, including the earth, its moon, and the sun, each with different movements and measurements of time, where at the pinnacle, the slowest-revolving body is Kolob, where one Kolob-day corresponds to 1000 earth-years:
Day 2 in God's busy schedule.
Behold the power of the Lord. Not only did he create the world in 6 days, he created all the stars, and not just the stars, but stars and planets in varying states and black holes and even light *in transit* from stars millions of light years away so that when we look up at that starry sky we see them.
All to test our faith.
What other explanation could there be?
Taco's mortgage must be coming due.
Why give a kid yet another email address to keep track of, one that will be taken away from them after graduation?
A couple reasons -- at the university for which I work, we have dictated that your university-given email address is your official means of communication. This means that if we send you an email with your bill in it, it is considered received. If your email address is at hotmail, juno, whatever, I cannot be sure that your account will be active.
Email addresses are used extensively by professors for communication. Some use them just for announcements, but many are much more involved. Unless everyone has an email address, that tool is no longer available. Text messaging is great for meeting up with your friends, but not so much for scholarly discussions on, say, Moby Dick... FRM HLLS <3 I STAB@THEE; 4 H8S SAKE I STAB@THEE. Sure, you can require students to have email addresses, but that really makes things hard to integrate all together, and to do so reliably.
Some of it has to do with branding. Do I want my students known by their @uni.edu address, or have to fluffypants@yahoo.com?
The university wants to remain in contact with you after you graduate. It's part of maintaining the relationship with the alumni . Some of it is for fund raising, but also for communicating news about the university.
User IDs are generally tied to your email address. If you're jsmith@uni.edu, throughout the system you're going to be identified as jsmith. It's much easier to build business processes around that. However, its not that hard to do a join or otherwise look up the users email address, but many of our systems aren't designed to work that way out of the box.
There's a strong desire right now to outsource the student mail to gmail. Students will retain their @uni.edu address, we can still connect with them, and we can reclaim 1.5 Tb of disk space on the san. Furthermore, we remove a system, that, if it goes down, we can recover but not without an outage. We currently have an anti-spam solution, but that in and of itself is the price of a small house. We stand to reduce cost across the board while increasing reliability and reducing complexity of our systems.
Lunch... Riiight.
we must guarantee their right be private detectives and costar with Clint Eastwood.
Negatives... the thought of having mercury gas a few feet bothers me. Why, after figuring out just how bad mercury is, are we putting the stuff in more products that can expose people and especially children to it?
Because it's easier and more cost effective to distribute our toxic waste throughout the country than to manage it until doomsday. We do this all the time. We put stuff we can't easily dispose of into consumer products and distribute them across the globe. You think we have radioactive material in smoke detectors because they somehow, magically, 'ionize' the air? HAH! That's waste from Three Mile Island! Cadmium? Let's put it in cordless telephones and other devices. Totally unnecessary. Oh, and soylent green? Humans.
The way I see it, putting CFC bulbs in your closet and other seldom used places is a waste. You may be installing bulbs that may outlive you. Sure, you do get the power savings, but I don't think it would be enough to be noticeable in my electric bill. I've two CFCs right now, one in the lamp on my desk, and one in my torchiere-style light -- these two are almost always on, so it makes sense to replace them. The desk lamp is shaded, with a creamy sort of colored shade, and i can't really tell the difference between it and an incadescent bulb. The other one, well, it definitely appears a little cooler, but the light is mostly directed up, and there's two incadescent bulbs set in ceiling that help keep the room warm-looking. I've considered replacing those two, but I'd have to replace the dimmer switch too. I've noticed a slight lag when i turn them on, but i really haven't noticed that they take time to warm up to full brightness, probably because they're used in conjunction with other lights.
In reality, I believe for most people, your main consumers of electricity aren't your lights, but your laundry machines, electric range, dishwasher, and your fridge. Central air too, but that's seasonal. Every drop in the bucket counts, but if people are thinking they're going to halve their electric bill, they're going to be disappointed.
Looking around, I estimate at this hour of night, I'm running 250 watts of lighting, of which I'm probably saving 100 watts with the CFC bulbs. 5 hours a day, thats a kW every 2 days, 15 kW a month, at roughly $.12 a kW (.063, + taxes etc), maybe $1.80 savings. Not that noticeable.
I laughed out loud at your hillarious twist of the word Windows. Maybe could you try to do something with the word Microsoft, perhaps by adding a dollar sign?
Cause I never get tired of that shit.
I know I'm digressing here, but....
Unless, of course, you were to believe the article in Wired a couple years ago on LoudCloud. I used to subscribe, and there were parts I enjoyed, but man, nine times out of ten, the 'next big thing' featured in Wired turns to snot.