E.E. Doc Smith had a similar concept as well in his Skylark series published back in the 1930s. Known as a "Zone of Force". If you turned it on you were basically invulnerable but you couldn't see aything until you dropped it.
They'll be able to reload the image of your stellar evolution simulation in a few seconds after the guy doing nuclear weapons simulations has had his time. Never mind that the two simulations don't even run under the same OS.
Sounds like the supercomputer in Greg Egan's short story Luminous. It was basically built from light and was reconfigured specifically for each different application.
After deleting a row left dangling foreign keys (yes, I declared them as such), I check at the application level. Your DB doesn't allow you to cascade deletes of the foreign keys? Hmmm, this is an essential capability for me in any DB apps that I write. Removes a whole host of referential integrity issues.
The black has to be as close as possible to absolute. Otherwise you'll be picked up on scanners from a long way away. You have to make your speedster totally non-ferrous, too, right down to the windings in the Bergenholm.Yes, excellent Lensman reference. Now we start the countdown to super stealth.
A phone call might give you the opportunity to determine a more appropriate mechansim to get your file to the agency before the deadline. My experience is that the receiver will not even realise that your email has been rejected.
We have just installed a new Mirapoint mail system. The frontend message router (MD450) handles anti-virus and anti-spam scanning. We started getting hit with MyDoom at at 11am local time (GMT+10) yesterday. So far over 1.5 days we have blocked about 300,000 MyDoom messages. The load on the new Mirapoint message director is minimal. Our normal message load before this was 60-70,000 emails per day.
If this load had hit our old servers we would have been waiting a week to get any legitimate mail through!
Unfortunately nslookup won't help for 192.168 addresses as they are private IP addresses and are owned by nobody. In fact they should be completely unreachable from the Internet at large.
The reason hackers are obsolete is now you don't need to skill of a hacker to break Windows, any old Joe can do it now (and you don't even need to try hard!)
My old engineering school has had a project going since the late 80's receiving GMS weather images. Not as cool as the NOAA images (which, incidentally, were also being received by another project in the departmant).
The GMS project, JCUMetsat is still going to this day and the custom receiver hardware developed for this was/is still in use by some television stations here in Australia.
You can look at the images at http://www.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/web/metsat.html
If the VM ties in with the hardware TCPA, then the material is protected. Microsoft can cheaply sell (or give away) the software without getting sued for irresponsibility.
You make is sound like poor Microsoft is being forced to implement TCPA (and Palladium). I would not call Microsoft irresponsible if they did not implement TCPA.
I think you will find that the CD track starts in the centre of the the disk and moves outward. Also, there are no concentric "tracks", as the recording is done as a single track starting (as I said before) at the centre and moving outwards.
Just take a look at a partially filled CD-R and you will see that the recorded data is towards the centre.
Adding new groups is all well and good until you come up with the limitation that a user can only be in so many groups. Some Unix systems I have administered limit users to be members of 16 groups, others to 32 groups. It makes it very difficult to manage fine-grained access. Additionally it causes some very subtle problems when using something like NIS and trying to login to a box that doesn't like you being in 32 groups!
Hmmm, sounds like I need to reevaluate how group memberships work on my systems.
I have experienced killall first hand. This instance was on Compaq Tru64 Unix (Digital Unix at the time). First day on the job, I try to kill some named processes (having previously admined Linux systems). Lo and behold, the box has every process killed and effectively halts! Not a good thing to happen on your fist day:-)
At least now under Irix 6.5.x, killall works like Linux. Funny, a lot of things in Irix 6.5 look like Linux!
IIRC, this happens in the first book of the Mars series (Red Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Just checked my copy and it appears to happen about page 72. It isn't clear whether the water is fuel, bit it appears that they at least thought about the possibility of a solar flare and designed some sort of shelter into the ship.
How does a company disable their software in practice? I assume that if your machine is internet connected then this would be relatively simple (firewalls, etc notwithstanding), but what if you use said software on a machine that has no internet connection? Expect a visit from the local police SWAT team maybe?
I am wondering what the implications are for non-US countries. Is it to be expected that a company will be able to enforce disablement of software where UCITA type laws are not in place?
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E.E. Doc Smith had a similar concept as well in his Skylark series published back in the 1930s. Known as a "Zone of Force". If you turned it on you were basically invulnerable but you couldn't see aything until you dropped it.
And what do Google and co. get out of it? Make big media pay, and pay big.
They'll be able to reload the image of your stellar evolution simulation in a few seconds after the guy doing nuclear weapons simulations has had his time. Never mind that the two simulations don't even run under the same OS.
Sounds like the supercomputer in Greg Egan's short story Luminous. It was basically built from light and was reconfigured specifically for each different application.
$ host -t AAAA google.com
google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:c004::68
The black has to be as close as possible to absolute. Otherwise you'll be picked up on scanners from a long way away. You have to make your speedster totally non-ferrous, too, right down to the windings in the Bergenholm.Yes, excellent Lensman reference. Now we start the countdown to super stealth.
Or even better NuculurSQL!
Take a look at the Mirapoint mail appliances at http://www.mirapoint.com/. 99.999% reliability and scalable up the wazoo.
I think you might mean control-click == right click. At least that is how it work on my Powerbook.
A phone call might give you the opportunity to determine a more appropriate mechansim to get your file to the agency before the deadline. My experience is that the receiver will not even realise that your email has been rejected.
We have just installed a new Mirapoint mail system. The frontend message router (MD450) handles anti-virus and anti-spam scanning. We started getting hit with MyDoom at at 11am local time (GMT+10) yesterday. So far over 1.5 days we have blocked about 300,000 MyDoom messages. The load on the new Mirapoint message director is minimal. Our normal message load before this was 60-70,000 emails per day.
If this load had hit our old servers we would have been waiting a week to get any legitimate mail through!
We have already experienced this. At my University, the web master is known as the web manager!
Unfortunately nslookup won't help for 192.168 addresses as they are private IP addresses and are owned by nobody. In fact they should be completely unreachable from the Internet at large.
I think you are talking about the novel 'The Turing Option' by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky.
Was not a bad story, IMHO.
The reason hackers are obsolete is now you don't need to skill of a hacker to break Windows, any old Joe can do it now (and you don't even need to try hard!)
My old engineering school has had a project going since the late 80's receiving GMS weather images. Not as cool as the NOAA images (which, incidentally, were also being received by another project in the departmant).
The GMS project, JCUMetsat is still going to this day and the custom receiver hardware developed for this was/is still in use by some television stations here in Australia.
You can look at the images at http://www.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/web/metsat.html
You make is sound like poor Microsoft is being forced to implement TCPA (and Palladium). I would not call Microsoft irresponsible if they did not implement TCPA.
One of my electronics lecturers used to have a rule:
'Amplifiers oscillate, and oscillators don't'
You never quite realise how true this is.
I think you will find that the CD track starts in the centre of the the disk and moves outward. Also, there are no concentric "tracks", as the recording is done as a single track starting (as I said before) at the centre and moving outwards.
Just take a look at a partially filled CD-R and you will see that the recorded data is towards the centre.
The movie you are talking about is "The Net" starring Sandra Bullock.
Adding new groups is all well and good until you come up with the limitation that a user can only be in so many groups. Some Unix systems I have administered limit users to be members of 16 groups, others to 32 groups. It makes it very difficult to manage fine-grained access. Additionally it causes some very subtle problems when using something like NIS and trying to login to a box that doesn't like you being in 32 groups!
Hmmm, sounds like I need to reevaluate how group memberships work on my systems.
I have experienced killall first hand. This instance was on Compaq Tru64 Unix (Digital Unix at the time). First day on the job, I try to kill some named processes (having previously admined Linux systems). Lo and behold, the box has every process killed and effectively halts! Not a good thing to happen on your fist day :-)
At least now under Irix 6.5.x, killall works like Linux. Funny, a lot of things in Irix 6.5 look like Linux!
IIRC, this happens in the first book of the Mars series (Red Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson. Just checked my copy and it appears to happen about page 72. It isn't clear whether the water is fuel, bit it appears that they at least thought about the possibility of a solar flare and designed some sort of shelter into the ship.
How does a company disable their software in practice? I assume that if your machine is internet connected then this would be relatively simple (firewalls, etc notwithstanding), but what if you use said software on a machine that has no internet connection? Expect a visit from the local police SWAT team maybe?
I am wondering what the implications are for non-US countries. Is it to be expected that a company will be able to enforce disablement of software where UCITA type laws are not in place?