Or is there some limiting law that visitor must have his/her visa with him/her all times when moving outdoors that I missed?
I'm pretty sure there is such a law - if you're a Nonimmigrant, you're supposed to carry positive ID at all times - and they pretty much say that's your passport. Of course, the vast majority of nonimmigrant visa holders don't do this, but some friends of mine were given a hard time by INS agents when they returned from a short pleasure flight in Cessna in MA - met at the ramp by Immigration, who demanded to see their passports! (despite the fact that they never left US airspace, or came close to doing so).
Well, given that there's still a 2-sec delay btw connection and tone, and that the number of cognicall users is a vanishingly small subset of phone # in the US, brute-forcing it would be both time-consuming and horribly inefficient.
Also, not every cognicall user does this, which reduces the set even further. But yeah, it's not good security. It relies mostly on obscurity - and even once you know about it, it's pretty worthless unless you also know the # of an existing, authorised DID subscriber.
I use cognicall. No monthly fee, 800 access number (so for me it only costs me minutes btw 6a-7p M-F), and 10c/min calls to the UK. Not the absolute cheapest rates around, but they're convenient and good enough.
Cognicall also has plenty of international access numbers, so it works in reverse when I'm traveling with a pay-as-you-go mobile, or from a regular payphone.
The good thing about cognicall is they'll pre-authorise your cell number, so you don't have to enter an account # and pin every time you dial the access number - they use caller ID to check the inbound #.
I am led to understand that it was more a demand from Apple for X speed by Y date in Z form factor, which IBM, being a vendor of impeccable politeness, has not publicly trashed.
See that whole 'Apple wanted customisations on a small fab run, but wasn't willing to pay for it' bit.
A little bit more fuel for that particular fire: Apple's chip business was small fry for IBM, yet Apple was constantly making design requests. Essentially, they wanted a custom fab for small chip runs, which costs $$$... but they also wanted Intel x86-style pricing. It wasn't worth IBM's time to give them what they wanted at the price they were willing to pay.
It's a bit of both - their Apple tileset is out of date, but their Stanford tileset is around 1 year old (they have the piles for the new construction viisible on Sand Hill Road, which was started in early 2004).
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Yes.
The controller's still a point of failure. Indeed, with some RAID controllers if they go bad they corrupt data on *both* your disks, rendering both unusable.
RAID protects against hardware failure of a drive. It does not protect against a bad controller or an OS snafu (for example, I once had the MSFT go bad on an NTFS volume, losing all data on a drive. RAID wouldn't have helped me there, either).
So if you really care about your data, you should run RAID in conjunction with an off-disk backup solution. Preferably something that is regularly refreshed and kept seperately from your computer.
So I wonder when they're going to re-rate God of War, then? That has a player-controlled sex act in it, graphic violence and lots of bare-breasted women.... yet it's an 'M'.
I thought something like this might happen. It's asinine, but pretty predictable.
Today's Penny Arcade news deals with this, where Tycho lays out the crucial difference between a "Mature" title and an "Adults Only" title : time.
The ESRB is suggesting that they may change the rating of the game to Adults Only, a category that by their own definition should see a great deal more use in a retail environment. This is great. Look at the descriptions for these.
MATURETitles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language.
Or, as the rest of our culture calls it, "Rated R." Check out AO.
ADULTS ONLY Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
This can't seriously be their distinction. The scenes are longer? I played Resident Evil 4 nearly 26 hours, all told. I'm going to say that maybe nineteen hours of it was spent looking down the iron sights at humanoids. The reality is that once a person is 18, a violent videogame is fairly minor in the spectrum of "adult" content available to that person. Looking over my collection, if the duration of the violence is the distinguishing factor, I'm trying to figure out what purpose Mature serves other than to remove the stigma from otherwise "adult" content and grease the wheels at retail.
I realized after I hit post that I'd misinterpreted the OP - my bad. SSL does protect against a typical MITM attack (i.e. wire sniffing and packet substitution) but not what the OP was talking about, where the initial session was going to a compromised server, which then forwarded the user's data on to the legitimate site and acted as proxy for the data.
Have you looked inside that G5? Most of the parts are OEM PC stuff. Power supply, RAM, hard drives, CD drive, heck even the graphics card - it's all off-the-shelf components. The motherboard and CPU are the only 'custom' parts, aside from dressing (the case, fans and heatsinks).
Example : the Radeon cards in older G5s are fully compatible with Windows 2000 and XP. After all, they're stock Radeon cards.
...I've never owned a Mac. I've been lusting after their laptops for a while now, but the one thing that's kept me back is the inability to run enough games to keep me happy.
Now, with Mac on Intel, I hope to be able to run Windows on mac hardware. That way I can enjoy OS X for my web, email and productivity stuff, but still have access to Windows for all my gaming needs. Sure, Apple won't support it and sure, it'll be a bit of a Hobbyist hack, but I can deal with that just to get a laptop that looks nice and runs both OS X and Windows.
So for me at least, the change to Intel will most likely gain Apple a customer.
Did you mis-post? Because that reply makes no sense to my original post, which concerned whether or not CIA thought a law had been broken, and DoJ agreeing that a law was probably broken, hence the formation of a Grand Jury.:)
CIA wouldn't have refered the matter to DoJ, and DoJ wouldn't have formed a Grand Jury unless they thought someone broke some laws, Mr Rustmann's analysis notwithstanding.
And the official position of CIA (not just 'someone who supervised her') is that she was a NOC. You can spin that however you like, but I doubt the Special Counsel will listen to you.
It's not just the base specs that drive server prices. Consider - a 3Ghz, 1GB desktop vs. a 3Ghz, 1GB Dell PowerEdge 2650.
Things the PowerEdge has that a regular desktop doesn't: - dual built-in Gig ethernet. - hardware based Adaptec RAID 0,1,5,1+0 SCSI controller with two channels. - Seperate 10/100 MBit firmware based remote management (basically lets you pipe the monitor output over a dedicated ethernet to a management console) - dual redundant powersupplies - hot-swappable hard disks (5 of them) - Up to 2 CPUs and up to 12 or 16GB of RAM
I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, but that's for a Dell, the cheap end of server hardware. A reasonable PowerEdge goes for around $4,000 to regular folks.
Once you get into IBM-land prices go up. Same for Sun - but for the Unix servers you get things like the ability to swap out RAM while the system is running, and the OS will tell you when a stick goes bad.
There are many, many reasons by sysadmins will pay more than a desktop for superficial desktop-like specs.
Let us Quote from the Book of Dilbert, Chapter 12, Verse 3:
And lo, the PHB did say: "Anything I do not understand is simple."
Amen.
In this case, the 'simple' bit is a simple idea - only teams of programmers can make a kernel. It doesn't matter that it's incorrect, just that it's what the PHB believes. It is their dogma. All evidence presented to them is filtered through this belief, or just plain ignored.
Believe me, I've tried. She's normally a very logical person. But logic does not work here - the stygma of 'computer games are childish and not something a Responsible Adult does' is too strong.
I'd really like to hook her up with another friend of mine who's a Many-Lettered Psychologist so they can chat about that. But they're on different continents, so I don't see that happening any time soon.
The barrier that's preventing more women from playing games is the same thing that's keeping a wider audience from computer games - they're perceived as childish passtimes. I have a sister-in-law who is perfectly normal and intelligent (holds two advanced degrees) who absolutely refuses to play computer games - calling them 'childish' and 'a waste of time'. She'd rather spend her time partying, mountain biking or watching TV.
Part of this is a perception problem, sure, but she's otherwise a perfectly well-adjusted, 'normal' member of society.
It will take many more years for the stygma of computer games to erode and for them to be seen as a socially-acceptable passtime on equal footing with watching TV.
I'm not one to leap to conclusions, but I'm hard pressed to think of a reason why a normal person would spend hours camped outside some guys house in their SUV leaching bandwidth.
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Or is there some limiting law that visitor must have his/her visa with him/her all times when moving outdoors that I missed?
I'm pretty sure there is such a law - if you're a Nonimmigrant, you're supposed to carry positive ID at all times - and they pretty much say that's your passport. Of course, the vast majority of nonimmigrant visa holders don't do this, but some friends of mine were given a hard time by INS agents when they returned from a short pleasure flight in Cessna in MA - met at the ramp by Immigration, who demanded to see their passports! (despite the fact that they never left US airspace, or came close to doing so).
I remember a quite notorious bug with NT SP3 that broke Notes clients and servers on both NT Workstation and Server.
Of course, that was just bad QA by Microsoft or Lotus. but it used to be used as the example of 'why you shouldn't immediately patch your NT boxen'.
Well, given that there's still a 2-sec delay btw connection and tone, and that the number of cognicall users is a vanishingly small subset of phone # in the US, brute-forcing it would be both time-consuming and horribly inefficient.
Also, not every cognicall user does this, which reduces the set even further. But yeah, it's not good security. It relies mostly on obscurity - and even once you know about it, it's pretty worthless unless you also know the # of an existing, authorised DID subscriber.
Using a calling card on my wireless phone.
I use cognicall. No monthly fee, 800 access number (so for me it only costs me minutes btw 6a-7p M-F), and 10c/min calls to the UK. Not the absolute cheapest rates around, but they're convenient and good enough.
Cognicall also has plenty of international access numbers, so it works in reverse when I'm traveling with a pay-as-you-go mobile, or from a regular payphone.
The good thing about cognicall is they'll pre-authorise your cell number, so you don't have to enter an account # and pin every time you dial the access number - they use caller ID to check the inbound #.
I am led to understand that it was more a demand from Apple for X speed by Y date in Z form factor, which IBM, being a vendor of impeccable politeness, has not publicly trashed.
See that whole 'Apple wanted customisations on a small fab run, but wasn't willing to pay for it' bit.
Exactly. What part of 'Mature - not for sale to under 17s' did she not understand?
Or maybe she just wasn't wearing her reading glasses at the time.
A little bit more fuel for that particular fire: Apple's chip business was small fry for IBM, yet Apple was constantly making design requests. Essentially, they wanted a custom fab for small chip runs, which costs $$$ ... but they also wanted Intel x86-style pricing. It wasn't worth IBM's time to give them what they wanted at the price they were willing to pay.
It's a bit of both - their Apple tileset is out of date, but their Stanford tileset is around 1 year old (they have the piles for the new construction viisible on Sand Hill Road, which was started in early 2004).
Yes.
The controller's still a point of failure. Indeed, with some RAID controllers if they go bad they corrupt data on *both* your disks, rendering both unusable.
RAID protects against hardware failure of a drive.
It does not protect against a bad controller or an OS snafu (for example, I once had the MSFT go bad on an NTFS volume, losing all data on a drive. RAID wouldn't have helped me there, either).
So if you really care about your data, you should run RAID in conjunction with an off-disk backup solution. Preferably something that is regularly refreshed and kept seperately from your computer.
Yeah, it appears 'nudity' is key.
In which case, why isn't God of War rated AO? It has plenty of bare-breasted women in it...
So I wonder when they're going to re-rate God of War, then? That has a player-controlled sex act in it, graphic violence and lots of bare-breasted women.... yet it's an 'M'.
Today's Penny Arcade news deals with this, where Tycho lays out the crucial difference between a "Mature" title and an "Adults Only" title : time.
Yup, that's it. Time. Pretty incredible.
I realized after I hit post that I'd misinterpreted the OP - my bad. SSL does protect against a typical MITM attack (i.e. wire sniffing and packet substitution) but not what the OP was talking about, where the initial session was going to a compromised server, which then forwarded the user's data on to the legitimate site and acted as proxy for the data.
...uh, last time I checked, my bank used an SSL tunnel.
SSL may not be perfect, but it does deal pretty well with MITM.
Have you looked inside that G5? Most of the parts are OEM PC stuff. Power supply, RAM, hard drives, CD drive, heck even the graphics card - it's all off-the-shelf components. The motherboard and CPU are the only 'custom' parts, aside from dressing (the case, fans and heatsinks).
Example : the Radeon cards in older G5s are fully compatible with Windows 2000 and XP. After all, they're stock Radeon cards.
Ah, I see! Yeah, I don't read 0-rated AC stuff. My bad. :) And yeah, it's a very silly assertation.
...I've never owned a Mac. I've been lusting after their laptops for a while now, but the one thing that's kept me back is the inability to run enough games to keep me happy.
Now, with Mac on Intel, I hope to be able to run Windows on mac hardware. That way I can enjoy OS X for my web, email and productivity stuff, but still have access to Windows for all my gaming needs. Sure, Apple won't support it and sure, it'll be a bit of a Hobbyist hack, but I can deal with that just to get a laptop that looks nice and runs both OS X and Windows.
So for me at least, the change to Intel will most likely gain Apple a customer.
Did you mis-post? Because that reply makes no sense to my original post, which concerned whether or not CIA thought a law had been broken, and DoJ agreeing that a law was probably broken, hence the formation of a Grand Jury. :)
CIA wouldn't have refered the matter to DoJ, and DoJ wouldn't have formed a Grand Jury unless they thought someone broke some laws, Mr Rustmann's analysis notwithstanding.
And the official position of CIA (not just 'someone who supervised her') is that she was a NOC. You can spin that however you like, but I doubt the Special Counsel will listen to you.
It's not just the base specs that drive server prices. Consider - a 3Ghz, 1GB desktop vs. a 3Ghz, 1GB Dell PowerEdge 2650.
Things the PowerEdge has that a regular desktop doesn't:
- dual built-in Gig ethernet.
- hardware based Adaptec RAID 0,1,5,1+0 SCSI controller with two channels.
- Seperate 10/100 MBit firmware based remote management (basically lets you pipe the monitor output over a dedicated ethernet to a management console)
- dual redundant powersupplies
- hot-swappable hard disks (5 of them)
- Up to 2 CPUs and up to 12 or 16GB of RAM
I'm sure I'm missing some stuff, but that's for a Dell, the cheap end of server hardware. A reasonable PowerEdge goes for around $4,000 to regular folks.
Once you get into IBM-land prices go up. Same for Sun - but for the Unix servers you get things like the ability to swap out RAM while the system is running, and the OS will tell you when a stick goes bad.
There are many, many reasons by sysadmins will pay more than a desktop for superficial desktop-like specs.
Amen.
In this case, the 'simple' bit is a simple idea - only teams of programmers can make a kernel. It doesn't matter that it's incorrect, just that it's what the PHB believes. It is their dogma. All evidence presented to them is filtered through this belief, or just plain ignored.
Here endeth the lesson.
Believe me, I've tried.
She's normally a very logical person. But logic does not work here - the stygma of 'computer games are childish and not something a Responsible Adult does' is too strong.
I'd really like to hook her up with another friend of mine who's a Many-Lettered Psychologist so they can chat about that. But they're on different continents, so I don't see that happening any time soon.
The barrier that's preventing more women from playing games is the same thing that's keeping a wider audience from computer games - they're perceived as childish passtimes. I have a sister-in-law who is perfectly normal and intelligent (holds two advanced degrees) who absolutely refuses to play computer games - calling them 'childish' and 'a waste of time'. She'd rather spend her time partying, mountain biking or watching TV.
Part of this is a perception problem, sure, but she's otherwise a perfectly well-adjusted, 'normal' member of society.
It will take many more years for the stygma of computer games to erode and for them to be seen as a socially-acceptable passtime on equal footing with watching TV.
It's not just you. That was a one-page note drawn out over five advertisment-heavy pages.
I'm not one to leap to conclusions, but I'm hard pressed to think of a reason why a normal person would spend hours camped outside some guys house in their SUV leaching bandwidth.