This is one of those great times where I wish I could vote on the story. Translating executive speak to common speak is *always* priceless. Example:
CEO: "We are not going to lay off 500 workers." English: "We are going to lay off 510 workers. Or 490. Just not 500."
Its all about making you FEEL a message instead of actually hearing and understanding the words. (They want to imply a very positive message, without ACTUALLY lying.)
> Escape character is '^]'. > Not on system console > Connection closed by foreign host.
Reason that message happened: You succesfully logged in as root. However,/etc/default/login specified that root logins may only be made from the console. Feel free to telnet in as any other user.
And for the people saying, "OMG! Who uses telnet anymore?!?!", remember that with Solaris (at least up until my experience with 10), it comes out of the box with Telnet *enabled*. It isn't people who enabled telnet that are at risk. It is the people who didn't disable telnet (and other services) that at are at risk. Of course, those aren't going to be your best and brightest security people, and they may be slow on patches, so yeah, this is a big deal.
Does it have the same problem I've seen with most encryption types: It totally fails if you know the contents of something that should already be on there that you want to decrypt? So if you have a reference string, and its location, it becomes trivial to compute the key?
I've got a Rayovac 1 hour charger. Takes all brands (and does NiMH/NiCad). Individually charges each battery. Yeah, I've seen those chargers which stop when the first battery is full. Unfortunate. Here is a highly regarded (and quite geeky) charger for $37, shipped: http://www.amazon.com/LaCrosse-Technology-BC-900-A lphaPower-Battery/dp/B00077AA5Q/
It would be great for conditioning the cells and monitoring their capacity.
Yes, you're right about the weakest battery being the bad link. Although matched batteries doesn't protect you from a weak cell (happens all the time in laptop battery packs... once of the cells in the pack goes bad, and it brings the whole thing down). But you're right, you're probably more likely to run into that issue when you mix and match. To date, it hasn't been a problem for me. Although it would be nice to have a charger (like the one above) so that you can detect and weed out the bad cells from your collection.
I have consistently mixed and matched for years without problems. But I actually would be interested in reading more about this requirement, to understand any potential downside (likelyhood of an event, and severity).
In my mind, at least, people seem to concentrate a lot on theoretical problems, or they focus on actual problems that in life have very little real impact. So I just kind of wonder where this one stands.
Anyone remember the incident, maybe 8 years ago, when the root DNS servers dropped the entry for localhost, 127.0.0.1? We had a lot of random code break because of that.
Wow. Just reading some of these comments, you'd think that rechargeables are horrible. I use them everywhere. Remotes, flashlights, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, toys, lcd clocks, caller ID boxes, volt meters, you name it.
Also find yourself a good charger, and this discussion seems to be filled with them. There are different onces for different needs. Be it you need 8 charging at once, C/D size and 9 volt, or you want one with a good conditioner.
At $1.25 per battery [final price, shipped], even if all the haters are correct about 'wasting NiMH batteries in low draw devices', you're still ahead of the game. And people are very satisfied with Tenergy brand batteries, and they're 2600mAh.
The real key to being happy with rechargeables is, first to buy them for all your items, and then (most important), buy those few extra batteries to fill up your battery charger. Then, when your toy/remote/whatever runs out of batteries, all you do is swap the new ones in the charger for the depleted ones in your device. Having a constant supply of charged up battiers is the key to being happy with rechargables. Very little education required for others in your household. ("If you take some batteries out of here, put your old ones back in here.")
I think the only way I'd switch away from rechargables is if I had an exceptionally high-draw item that I needed to last longer between battery changes. Like an 80s boombox if I wasn't inclined to carry a second set of batteries with me. Not that alkalines would solve the issue either, though. Just push out the depletion a little further.
I don't get it. This looks like the description of a standard Atari game controller port (from the late 70s), except, instead of TTL voltages, they're using CMOS voltages. I think a change like this would be obvious to a layman in the field. Heck, I have little to do with electronics, yet I could have come up with this.
Doesn't mean that they can't harrass and shake down a few companies. But it seems like an awfully weak claim.
It is disconcerting to flip on the light switch, and get that momentary feeling that nothing happened. It has been engrained in our head. When we turn on the switch, the light comes right on. If it doesn't, it is burned out. And for that first part of a second, you get that, "oh no" feeling. Now, I can override this feeling with my own logic. But the feeling is still there. And I have to deal with others also having the same perception.
Probably more important when I go to sell my home. I don't want any buyers to have a negative impressions if I can control it. Likely, if I still have any bulbs with on delays, I'm going to have to make sure those lights are already on before someone looks at the house.
Some things just have to take human preference into consideration.
Apologies, sir, but I have LED based indoor lights.
I am quite confident in telling you that if you've got an LED bulb that you paid $50 for, and it consumes 5-9 watts of electricity, then it is going to be nowhere near as bright as a 100W incandescent bulb. LED technology will get there, but it isn't there today.
I was already used to buying CF bulbs at Wal-Mart. But now they've switched their entire product line. I went to buy one of their new bulbs, but ended up with a stark cool-white that contrasts with all of the warm white CF bulbs in my house. I ended up trashing them.
I'm going to have to take a closer look when I go back to Wal-Mart, but I hope that they put some effort into marking which ones are:
Cressey added that he couldn't imagine a scenario where the reports would be valuable to terrorists.
And that is the threat! We must be prepared for threats we can't even imagine! The terrorists are cunning and we have to remove any information that could be used in any conceivable way by terrorists, even if we can't think of how they may use them!
I can't believe how careless cities are by providing traffic flow numbers and population densities. That kind of reckless pre-911 behavior will get us all killed!
Think about it for a second. They're probably in that, too, you know. Actually being able to use it to listen into your house, like a bug, when your phones are hung up (depending on phone, of course). Possible?
Nobody has anything to fear (directly) from v1.0 of a Microsoft product.
The fact that v1.0 (of their handheld player device) is weak shouldn't make Apple rest easy. Apple should, if they know what is good for them, panic immediately.
When Microsoft gets to version 3.0, they've got an acceptable product.
When Microsoft gets to version 4.0, the claws come out and they've got a solid product.
Don't look at Microsoft's present product and say the iPod is safe. It isn't.
...yet someone thinks I'm bashing Microsoft and it gets modded down. Will someone learn from history this time?
Microsoft releases version 1.0 of a product. It lacks all sorts of features that you expect, has some serious problems, really isn't all that good. But they've got their foot out there. And they listen. They listen very well. Version 2.0 comes around, a bit better, but still needing work. Finally, Microsoft releases version 3.0 of a product. This is what you would have expected from another vendor's product release. Good set of features, starting to look like competition.
Its then that Microsoft releases version 4.0. That's the one with the killer new features that make you really want to buy the Microsoft product. This is the product that is close to what the market really wants.
So the article is correct in that version 1.0 of the Microsoft product [insert name] isn't worthwhile. Not worth spending your money on. But I'd keep an eye out two revisions down the line.
If there is one thiing I dislike about VoIP calls it is the lag time. It seems that when I am on a conference call, it is hard to jump into a conversation because when you wait for the right time to jump in and start talking, someone else also decided to talk at the exact same time, but you only learn about it a bit later and talk over whoever else jumped ahead of you. It really makes you look like an asshole.
I personally benefited from the Ubuntu 'server' install CD. One of the options was clearly labeled something to the effect of, "INSTALL LAMP SERVER". (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php) In no time at all, I went from bare metal to up and running Drupal. I can't tell you how much of a time saver it was. (And out-of-the-box pretty secure, unnecessary daemons all disabled.)
I'm thinking about the environment (metal, buildings, etc) possibly having the ability to reflect the waves so that multiple wavefronts converge in one area, creating spots of amplification. Given it being pointed at the right place, what is the likelyhood of a 'freak accident' that would fry somebody something good?
And they'll be sure to blame it as a freak accident. Just like tasers and drug users.
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This is one of those great times where I wish I could vote on the story. Translating executive speak to common speak is *always* priceless. Example:
CEO: "We are not going to lay off 500 workers."
English: "We are going to lay off 510 workers. Or 490. Just not 500."
Its all about making you FEEL a message instead of actually hearing and understanding the words. (They want to imply a very positive message, without ACTUALLY lying.)
> Escape character is '^]'.
/etc/default/login specified that root logins may only be made from the console. Feel free to telnet in as any other user.
> Not on system console
> Connection closed by foreign host.
Reason that message happened: You succesfully logged in as root. However,
And for the people saying, "OMG! Who uses telnet anymore?!?!", remember that with Solaris (at least up until my experience with 10), it comes out of the box with Telnet *enabled*. It isn't people who enabled telnet that are at risk. It is the people who didn't disable telnet (and other services) that at are at risk. Of course, those aren't going to be your best and brightest security people, and they may be slow on patches, so yeah, this is a big deal.
Does it have the same problem I've seen with most encryption types:
It totally fails if you know the contents of something that should already be on there that you want to decrypt? So if you have a reference string, and its location, it becomes trivial to compute the key?
Bandwidth exceeded. Placed back onto YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doD_VpT_yAY
I've got a Rayovac 1 hour charger. Takes all brands (and does NiMH/NiCad). Individually charges each battery. Yeah, I've seen those chargers which stop when the first battery is full. Unfortunate. Here is a highly regarded (and quite geeky) charger for $37, shipped: http://www.amazon.com/LaCrosse-Technology-BC-900-A lphaPower-Battery/dp/B00077AA5Q/
It would be great for conditioning the cells and monitoring their capacity.
Yes, you're right about the weakest battery being the bad link. Although matched batteries doesn't protect you from a weak cell (happens all the time in laptop battery packs... once of the cells in the pack goes bad, and it brings the whole thing down). But you're right, you're probably more likely to run into that issue when you mix and match. To date, it hasn't been a problem for me. Although it would be nice to have a charger (like the one above) so that you can detect and weed out the bad cells from your collection.
Point taken on the weakest link.
I have consistently mixed and matched for years without problems. But I actually would be interested in reading more about this requirement, to understand any potential downside (likelyhood of an event, and severity).
In my mind, at least, people seem to concentrate a lot on theoretical problems, or they focus on actual problems that in life have very little real impact. So I just kind of wonder where this one stands.
Anyone remember the incident, maybe 8 years ago, when the root DNS servers dropped the entry for localhost, 127.0.0.1? We had a lot of random code break because of that.
Wow. Just reading some of these comments, you'd think that rechargeables are horrible. I use them everywhere. Remotes, flashlights, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, toys, lcd clocks, caller ID boxes, volt meters, you name it.
The answer is to buy cheap NiMH batteries, like so: 24 @2600mAh for $30, free shipping, free cases
Also find yourself a good charger, and this discussion seems to be filled with them. There are different onces for different needs. Be it you need 8 charging at once, C/D size and 9 volt, or you want one with a good conditioner.
At $1.25 per battery [final price, shipped], even if all the haters are correct about 'wasting NiMH batteries in low draw devices', you're still ahead of the game. And people are very satisfied with Tenergy brand batteries, and they're 2600mAh.
The real key to being happy with rechargeables is, first to buy them for all your items, and then (most important), buy those few extra batteries to fill up your battery charger. Then, when your toy/remote/whatever runs out of batteries, all you do is swap the new ones in the charger for the depleted ones in your device. Having a constant supply of charged up battiers is the key to being happy with rechargables. Very little education required for others in your household. ("If you take some batteries out of here, put your old ones back in here.")
I think the only way I'd switch away from rechargables is if I had an exceptionally high-draw item that I needed to last longer between battery changes. Like an 80s boombox if I wasn't inclined to carry a second set of batteries with me. Not that alkalines would solve the issue either, though. Just push out the depletion a little further.
For batteries...I EWPROD&ProdID=564 - Free Shipping and cases
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I don't have a specific charger recomendation, but I would agree that a good charger is key.
I think the definition of that term needs to be explored more.
Can I sell it?
I don't get it. This looks like the description of a standard Atari game controller port (from the late 70s), except, instead of TTL voltages, they're using CMOS voltages. I think a change like this would be obvious to a layman in the field. Heck, I have little to do with electronics, yet I could have come up with this.
Doesn't mean that they can't harrass and shake down a few companies. But it seems like an awfully weak claim.
I wonder... could this make a higher transmissive reflective coating for telescopes?
It is disconcerting to flip on the light switch, and get that momentary feeling that nothing happened. It has been engrained in our head. When we turn on the switch, the light comes right on. If it doesn't, it is burned out. And for that first part of a second, you get that, "oh no" feeling. Now, I can override this feeling with my own logic. But the feeling is still there. And I have to deal with others also having the same perception.
Probably more important when I go to sell my home. I don't want any buyers to have a negative impressions if I can control it. Likely, if I still have any bulbs with on delays, I'm going to have to make sure those lights are already on before someone looks at the house.
Some things just have to take human preference into consideration.
Apologies, sir, but I have LED based indoor lights.
I am quite confident in telling you that if you've got an LED bulb that you paid $50 for, and it consumes 5-9 watts of electricity, then it is going to be nowhere near as bright as a 100W incandescent bulb. LED technology will get there, but it isn't there today.
I was already used to buying CF bulbs at Wal-Mart. But now they've switched their entire product line. I went to buy one of their new bulbs, but ended up with a stark cool-white that contrasts with all of the warm white CF bulbs in my house. I ended up trashing them.
I'm going to have to take a closer look when I go back to Wal-Mart, but I hope that they put some effort into marking which ones are:
1] Instant On
2] Cool White vs Warm White
And that is the threat! We must be prepared for threats we can't even imagine! The terrorists are cunning and we have to remove any information that could be used in any conceivable way by terrorists, even if we can't think of how they may use them!
I can't believe how careless cities are by providing traffic flow numbers and population densities. That kind of reckless pre-911 behavior will get us all killed!
Think about it for a second. They're probably in that, too, you know. Actually being able to use it to listen into your house, like a bug, when your phones are hung up (depending on phone, of course). Possible?
Nobody has anything to fear (directly) from v1.0 of a Microsoft product.
The fact that v1.0 (of their handheld player device) is weak shouldn't make Apple rest easy. Apple should, if they know what is good for them, panic immediately.
When Microsoft gets to version 3.0, they've got an acceptable product.
When Microsoft gets to version 4.0, the claws come out and they've got a solid product.
Don't look at Microsoft's present product and say the iPod is safe. It isn't.
...yet someone thinks I'm bashing Microsoft and it gets modded down. Will someone learn from history this time?
Microsoft releases version 1.0 of a product. It lacks all sorts of features that you expect, has some serious problems, really isn't all that good. But they've got their foot out there. And they listen. They listen very well. Version 2.0 comes around, a bit better, but still needing work. Finally, Microsoft releases version 3.0 of a product. This is what you would have expected from another vendor's product release. Good set of features, starting to look like competition.
Its then that Microsoft releases version 4.0. That's the one with the killer new features that make you really want to buy the Microsoft product. This is the product that is close to what the market really wants.
So the article is correct in that version 1.0 of the Microsoft product [insert name] isn't worthwhile. Not worth spending your money on. But I'd keep an eye out two revisions down the line.
Oh my. I played that B1 Bomber game, I think. Totally text based, you go after a primary or secondary target?
If there is one thiing I dislike about VoIP calls it is the lag time. It seems that when I am on a conference call, it is hard to jump into a conversation because when you wait for the right time to jump in and start talking, someone else also decided to talk at the exact same time, but you only learn about it a bit later and talk over whoever else jumped ahead of you. It really makes you look like an asshole.
VoIP service: Cox Cable
I personally benefited from the Ubuntu 'server' install CD. One of the options was clearly labeled something to the effect of, "INSTALL LAMP SERVER". (Linux, Apache, MySql, Php) In no time at all, I went from bare metal to up and running Drupal. I can't tell you how much of a time saver it was. (And out-of-the-box pretty secure, unnecessary daemons all disabled.)
In a story with 1500+ votes, Digg users acknowledged THIS to be the worst web site ever:
http://www.kwota.net/cdc/default.htm
A quote: "I feel like I lost a part of my web design soul just by viewing this site."
I'm thinking about the environment (metal, buildings, etc) possibly having the ability to reflect the waves so that multiple wavefronts converge in one area, creating spots of amplification. Given it being pointed at the right place, what is the likelyhood of a 'freak accident' that would fry somebody something good?
And they'll be sure to blame it as a freak accident. Just like tasers and drug users.
...but isn't 10:36pm a little late for a story called, "Shuttle Atlantis Finally in Orbit"? You'd think it took 12 hours to get up there or something!