Doesnt that imply that they arent the type to drop money on "new" content every month?
Not necessarily. I think it means that HL1 is that good. I have both HL1 and HL2 installed but I mostly stick with HL2 mainly becuase I like the game play better. With the exception of Ravenholm (still creeps me out), most of the combat in HL2 is against things that shoot back which I prefer.
However, I think HL1 had better, more engaging, combat against soldiers. The warehouse asassins were fun to shoot. The endless mob fights got tiresome, however
I would happily pay for eposodic if the fights were unique and challenging enough.
from Learn about threat levels.
ThreatCon Level 1
Low : Basic network posture
This condition applies when there is no discernible network incident activity and no malicious code activity with a moderate or severe risk rating. Under these conditions, only a routine security posture, designed to defeat normal network threats, is warranted. Automated systems and alerting mechanisms should be used.
Threatcon Level 2
Medium : Increased alertness
This condition applies when knowledge or the expectation of attack activity is present, without specific events occurring or when malicious code reaches a moderate risk rating. Under this condition, a careful examination of vulnerable and exposed systems is appropriate, security applications should be updated with new signatures and/or rules as soon as they become available and careful monitoring of logs is recommended. Changes to the security infrastructure are not required.
Threatcon Level 3
High : Known threat
This condition applies when an isolated threat to the computing infrastructure is currently underway or when malicious code reaches a severe risk rating. Under this condition, increased monitoring is necessary, security applications should be updated with new signatures and/or rules as soon as they become available and redeployment and reconfiguration of security systems is recommended. People should be able to maintain this posture for a few weeks at a time, as threats come and go.
Threatcon Level 4
Extreme : Full alert
This condition applies when extreme global network incident activity is in progress. Implementation of measures in this Threat Condition for more than a short period probably will create hardship and affect the normal operations of network infrastructure.
So I have to disagree that HL2 was a dog. I really enjoyed it, especially Ravenholm which was rilly, rilly, creepy.
It definelty had that parallel developmen feel to it though. I am not sure that I will be going out and getting the Eisodes yet though. I want to see some reviews first to see if it is worth it.
What I would love to see are more challenges to solve other than finding obscure wheels to turn. Drop clues that have to be remembered, something.
Hatred because of someone's religion is very bad, but so is loving someone because of his religion. Judge a person on his political believes.
Um, being a liberal (leftwing) doesn't mean you "love someone becuase of their religion", or skin color, or beliefs. Being liberal means being tolerant of other people's beliefs, lifestyles, cultures, choices. That doens't mean being tolerant of violence, genocide, or other atrocities, however. The killing that is going on around the world in all the religions is horrible and unethical.
Nor does that mean that being liberal means being passive and letting bad things happen to others.
1) If you are employed outside NYS, then you don't have to worry.
2) If you are employed by a NYS company and you live in a state that doesn't have an office, then you could get taxed if you enter the state on business (You can enter for pleasure).
3) If you are employed outside NYS by a NYS company, and you have an office in your state that you goto, then you don't pay NYS taxes.
I think on point #2, if you are an at-will out of state employee, your living out of state becuase you want to, then you have to pat taxes. If your posted out of the state, then I don't think you will be taxed because it's not your choice to live out of state.
This often results in a double tax when the telecommuter's home state expects tax on the income the telecommuter earns at home.
I am pretty sure that Connecticut is the only state that doesn't have reciprocity for state taxes. IOW, in most states, you can deduct state taxes paid to another state so you don't get double whacked. This is useful for people who live on state borders. Of course, you accountant makes out better.check with your accountant.
The people who really get screwed are those that don't pay any state tax.
-1 Troll? You fucking whiny assed moderators. Heaven forbid someone posts on/. about micrsoft that is not negative. Jeeze, this is what I get for posting a reality check.
Fine, fuckwads, keep your head up your asses and operate on dated, incorrect information. The rest of us might acutally learn something useful.
There's so many poorly designed apps out there that demand admin rights to run, even though they don't actually need that level of access,
Unless you have actually tried to configure a ton of apps, you have no authority to make this claim. This was true with NT because is was a fundamentally new OS, but with Windows 2000 and beyond, only the lamest of developers (ie not serving the enterprise space) would distribute an app that requires admin rights to *run*. Installs need admin rights, because of where they write files and keys, but not to run.
I think the question is, how clever were students, say, circa 1977?
Ok, let me recall back 29 years and I would have to say that maybe 10% got math and could apply the principles. Maybe 80% muddled along getting some, guessing at others, and simply applying pattern recognition to the rest. The final 10% were getting high in the can talking about who knows what. I bet todays classrooms aren't too much different.
What is missing from highschool, and college math, is accessible learning. I had one good math teacher who taught the material (at the time trig) in college, and then applied it to real world problems through demonstrations. The competency rate in that class was very high judging by the fun we had versus listening to other students struggle with thier work. Teaching math is difficult, sure, but it doesn't have to be impossible.
Wired is not doing anything legally brave here: they have made sure to cover their asses.
Oh, I think you're wrong there. While the gag order may have been applied to the EFF, that Wired published this may bring heat down on the magazine and the reporters. I think it is brave for Wired to come forward with this information knowing that ATT and the NSA probably don't want it published.
I don't think it's "men in black vans" risky, but legally risky. You know Wired lawyers signed off, first, right?
I have yet to meet an off the shelf, home consumer piece of hardware that would not work with a Windows system.
Hrm, never used an Adaptect SCSI RAID controller on Windows, huh? The more recent controllers aren't supported by Windows and why, for the love of Pete, does Microsoft still insist on requiring a floppy to install drivers? Granted, you won't find SCSI RAID on your typical consumer machine, but you will on higher level ones.
Define dubious. The article only names a few of the most egregious phrases. I read this to mean that links returned by search engines may be malicious.
Have a look at LophtCrack (think that was it's name) which did exactly this for windows systems.
that's not entirely true. L0Phtcrack leveraged a brain dead authentication mechanism where in Windows NT using NTLM password. NTLM can be from 1 to 14 characters in length. What happens is the password is spit into two 7 character passwords and using an unsalted hash, concatenated and stored. If the password was under 7 characters a constant was use for the upper 7 characters, so by simply parsing the string you could tell if the password was more or less than 8 characters (which had great performance improvements).
I probably missed some steps in here, but that is essentially it.
Don' know about the rest of you, but trying to use the firking touchpad as an input device during a game is worthless. When I travel, I want to travel light and I don't always have room for periperals, so the input must be in the machine. I can romp through HL just fine with IBM pointy stick, but a touch pad? I can just see it, "Headcrab!" arggggh!
They are using the term "ethical" to mean "authorized" or "white hat" style hacking, which is unfortunate.
I teach a course in network security and at times we do talk about vulnerabilites and how to break systems, but I don't teach ethics. I tell students in no uncertain terms that they can use the penetation techniques they learn in class only on systems they own or have authorized, written permission to attack. There is no gray area.
I have found most of the memory leak issues are when using Java applets. Oh, and parsing a 35Mb XML file, memory usaged soared to over 1.5 GB and kept climbing.
I have been using a Targus backback for about 7 years and it has held up to alot of travel and wear. I can make that run from Terminal K to Terminal H at O'Hare and still get a Starbucks on the way. I am looking for something a bit slimmer though so that I am not fighting on airplanes for space. I have finally gotten to the point that I don't need to carry all that extra crap with me that I used to.
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year
I think this is poor use of Englitsch. I think what the author was trying to say was, "The US, which has veto over the internet addressing system, was pressured by conservative Christian groups...."
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Doesnt that imply that they arent the type to drop money on "new" content every month?
Not necessarily. I think it means that HL1 is that good. I have both HL1 and HL2 installed but I mostly stick with HL2 mainly becuase I like the game play better. With the exception of Ravenholm (still creeps me out), most of the combat in HL2 is against things that shoot back which I prefer.
However, I think HL1 had better, more engaging, combat against soldiers. The warehouse asassins were fun to shoot. The endless mob fights got tiresome, however
I would happily pay for eposodic if the fights were unique and challenging enough.
Could someone explain the difference between the two so I can make sure I didn't screw up?
Sure, white hat hackers do it for glory and money. Black hat hackers do it for money and glory.
Oh balls!
from Learn about threat levels.
ThreatCon Level 1
Low : Basic network posture This condition applies when there is no discernible network incident activity and no malicious code activity with a moderate or severe risk rating. Under these conditions, only a routine security posture, designed to defeat normal network threats, is warranted. Automated systems and alerting mechanisms should be used.
Threatcon Level 2
Medium : Increased alertness
This condition applies when knowledge or the expectation of attack activity is present, without specific events occurring or when malicious code reaches a moderate risk rating. Under this condition, a careful examination of vulnerable and exposed systems is appropriate, security applications should be updated with new signatures and/or rules as soon as they become available and careful monitoring of logs is recommended. Changes to the security infrastructure are not required.
Threatcon Level 3
High : Known threat
This condition applies when an isolated threat to the computing infrastructure is currently underway or when malicious code reaches a severe risk rating. Under this condition, increased monitoring is necessary, security applications should be updated with new signatures and/or rules as soon as they become available and redeployment and reconfiguration of security systems is recommended. People should be able to maintain this posture for a few weeks at a time, as threats come and go.
Threatcon Level 4
Extreme : Full alert
This condition applies when extreme global network incident activity is in progress. Implementation of measures in this Threat Condition for more than a short period probably will create hardship and affect the normal operations of network infrastructure.
So I have to disagree that HL2 was a dog. I really enjoyed it, especially Ravenholm which was rilly, rilly, creepy.
It definelty had that parallel developmen feel to it though. I am not sure that I will be going out and getting the Eisodes yet though. I want to see some reviews first to see if it is worth it.
What I would love to see are more challenges to solve other than finding obscure wheels to turn. Drop clues that have to be remembered, something.
Snap! Ok, here are a few.
RFID Door
RFID board
Instructions on building an extended range reader
It is interesting reading and looks like a fun project. RFID for Makers
If I had mod points, I would mod this post "Insightful." Thanks for the tip on nLite too.
Hatred because of someone's religion is very bad, but so is loving someone because of his religion. Judge a person on his political believes.
Um, being a liberal (leftwing) doesn't mean you "love someone becuase of their religion", or skin color, or beliefs. Being liberal means being tolerant of other people's beliefs, lifestyles, cultures, choices. That doens't mean being tolerant of violence, genocide, or other atrocities, however. The killing that is going on around the world in all the religions is horrible and unethical.
Nor does that mean that being liberal means being passive and letting bad things happen to others.
1) If you are employed outside NYS, then you don't have to worry.
2) If you are employed by a NYS company and you live in a state that doesn't have an office, then you could get taxed if you enter the state on business (You can enter for pleasure).
3) If you are employed outside NYS by a NYS company, and you have an office in your state that you goto, then you don't pay NYS taxes.
I think on point #2, if you are an at-will out of state employee, your living out of state becuase you want to, then you have to pat taxes. If your posted out of the state, then I don't think you will be taxed because it's not your choice to live out of state.
Check with an account though.
This often results in a double tax when the telecommuter's home state expects tax on the income the telecommuter earns at home.
I am pretty sure that Connecticut is the only state that doesn't have reciprocity for state taxes. IOW, in most states, you can deduct state taxes paid to another state so you don't get double whacked. This is useful for people who live on state borders. Of course, you accountant makes out better.check with your accountant.
The people who really get screwed are those that don't pay any state tax.
-1 Troll? You fucking whiny assed moderators. Heaven forbid someone posts on /. about micrsoft that is not negative. Jeeze, this is what I get for posting a reality check.
Fine, fuckwads, keep your head up your asses and operate on dated, incorrect information. The rest of us might acutally learn something useful.
Oh, and go lookup "run as".
There's so many poorly designed apps out there that demand admin rights to run, even though they don't actually need that level of access,
Unless you have actually tried to configure a ton of apps, you have no authority to make this claim. This was true with NT because is was a fundamentally new OS, but with Windows 2000 and beyond, only the lamest of developers (ie not serving the enterprise space) would distribute an app that requires admin rights to *run*. Installs need admin rights, because of where they write files and keys, but not to run.
I think the question is, how clever were students, say, circa 1977?
Ok, let me recall back 29 years and I would have to say that maybe 10% got math and could apply the principles. Maybe 80% muddled along getting some, guessing at others, and simply applying pattern recognition to the rest. The final 10% were getting high in the can talking about who knows what. I bet todays classrooms aren't too much different.
What is missing from highschool, and college math, is accessible learning. I had one good math teacher who taught the material (at the time trig) in college, and then applied it to real world problems through demonstrations. The competency rate in that class was very high judging by the fun we had versus listening to other students struggle with thier work. Teaching math is difficult, sure, but it doesn't have to be impossible.
Wired is not doing anything legally brave here: they have made sure to cover their asses.
Oh, I think you're wrong there. While the gag order may have been applied to the EFF, that Wired published this may bring heat down on the magazine and the reporters. I think it is brave for Wired to come forward with this information knowing that ATT and the NSA probably don't want it published.
I don't think it's "men in black vans" risky, but legally risky. You know Wired lawyers signed off, first, right?
I have yet to meet an off the shelf, home consumer piece of hardware that would not work with a Windows system.
Hrm, never used an Adaptect SCSI RAID controller on Windows, huh? The more recent controllers aren't supported by Windows and why, for the love of Pete, does Microsoft still insist on requiring a floppy to install drivers? Granted, you won't find SCSI RAID on your typical consumer machine, but you will on higher level ones.
Define dubious. The article only names a few of the most egregious phrases. I read this to mean that links returned by search engines may be malicious.
Have a look at LophtCrack (think that was it's name) which did exactly this for windows systems.
that's not entirely true. L0Phtcrack leveraged a brain dead authentication mechanism where in Windows NT using NTLM password. NTLM can be from 1 to 14 characters in length. What happens is the password is spit into two 7 character passwords and using an unsalted hash, concatenated and stored. If the password was under 7 characters a constant was use for the upper 7 characters, so by simply parsing the string you could tell if the password was more or less than 8 characters (which had great performance improvements).
I probably missed some steps in here, but that is essentially it.
Every hour spent in their virtual life is an hour wasted of their real life.
Or maybe, just maybe, they are having FUN. Shockers.
Not everything is attached to a a moral imperative and not everyone is escaping some bad life. Sheesh. Lighten up.
Don' know about the rest of you, but trying to use the firking touchpad as an input device during a game is worthless. When I travel, I want to travel light and I don't always have room for periperals, so the input must be in the machine. I can romp through HL just fine with IBM pointy stick, but a touch pad? I can just see it, "Headcrab!" arggggh!
They are using the term "ethical" to mean "authorized" or "white hat" style hacking, which is unfortunate.
I teach a course in network security and at times we do talk about vulnerabilites and how to break systems, but I don't teach ethics. I tell students in no uncertain terms that they can use the penetation techniques they learn in class only on systems they own or have authorized, written permission to attack. There is no gray area.
I have found most of the memory leak issues are when using Java applets. Oh, and parsing a 35Mb XML file, memory usaged soared to over 1.5 GB and kept climbing.
MAC addresses are only available on the local network.
I have been using a Targus backback for about 7 years and it has held up to alot of travel and wear. I can make that run from Terminal K to Terminal H at O'Hare and still get a Starbucks on the way. I am looking for something a bit slimmer though so that I am not fighting on airplanes for space. I have finally gotten to the point that I don't need to carry all that extra crap with me that I used to.
Pressure from conservative Christian groups in the US, which has a veto over the internet addressing system, led the organisation last year
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I think this is poor use of Englitsch. I think what the author was trying to say was, "The US, which has veto over the internet addressing system, was pressured by conservative Christian groups
Is making ActiveX harder to use a bad thing?
Yeah, it is. Forcing users to manually approve every control just reinforces the reactive "Click OK" mentality that enables other bad shit to happen.