I got dowsing rods for bomb detection, a Pacific road bridge on discount, and - oh, this is a gem - a barge that used to be a British aircraft carrier. All you's gotta do for that one is steal it from the Turks before they sell the keel to the Chinese.
If they like, we have a surplus of cardboard policeman standies as well.
I'm thinking not, the 3.14 kernel patch fixed a security issue which also broke Win16 support. They've backported it as well so downloading older kernels to try and fix Win16 support under Wine won't work. There is no word on any attempts to fix the issue in the kernel. All I can suggest is to try and get your paws on a Win9x image and install it in Virtualbox (as I've done, though I had to install it as a DOS exec because APM platforms do weird things to modern processors - like cause them to wall it - and run a CPU idler which frees clock cycles from the VM back to the host. It's a crazy situation, but solvable). I'd offer you a copy of my MS-DOS 6.22-based Win95OSR2 image but Microsoft would have a fit...
not even that, it was announced on Phoronix two weeks ago. Slashdot is behind the curve - as usual. Record here shows a commit to the kernel source tree on the 13th August.
yeah refer to my other post, the tech is built in to a lot of laptop drives, some OEMs use external sensors and sub-HAL triggers, Apple I think is the only one that actually offers some semblance of control (as in allows the user to turn it on and off) which also offers the opportunity to restart the drive and unpark the head without having to coldstart the entire system. My laptop which has all the bells and whistles Toshiba offers, doesn't even bother to pass the message to Windows 7 that a trigger event has occurred, any subsequent writes that need to write to platters (it's a hybrid drive under the hood with an 8GB flash) will fail with a "delayed write failed" message, and that is usually the first indication that I get that I've been hitting the keyboard like a British nanny.
uh... thought it had that, given that there's a (now sadly unmaintained) standard: IEE802.15.1, and that most commodity bluetooth gear is driven by chips from just one or two manufacturers (Broadcom is one, I think Ericsson might be another)
Because the box is a loss leader, Microsoft make their money on software and accessories, and because they don't want to ape Nintendo with their legacy ports in the Wii. If I had an N64 as well I'd have no need for two Wiimotes.
(glad I'm not the only one who noticed the more-than-passing similarity between the Duke and the One and questioned the need for physically incompatible ports).
it's an OS-agnostic tech built in to the hard drive - the accelerometer is a basic switch that parks the head and deactivates the spindle motor if it detects excessive vibration or acceleration like during a freefall drop off a desk. You know if it's triggered when your OS complains about a delayed write failure (for some reason Windows 7 lacks the ability to send a "spinup" command to the controller), at which point you have to do a cold restart and everything's fine apart from the data that you just lost if you didn't already save it. It makes no guarantee for data integrity, it only guarantees the mitigation of risk of terminal headcrash during an impact event. Some manufacturers (Seagate, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Western Digital) use variations on the theme, all platform-independent, though some OEMs such as Apple/Dell (are EuroPowerbooks still built at Dell's plant in Ireland?), Lenovo and Acer prefer to use their own accelerometers and control all aspects of physical protection through the controller interface via a custom BIOS.
...I thought Freefall was a tech built into the hard drive?
(I have a Toshiba laptop with a Toshiba HDD in it, the selling point for me was not in fact the freefall sensor but to be frank, any drop that chips a corner off the laptop case, for me, usually ends up shattering LCDs and glass platters anyway - I can only hope that the platters in the newer drives are made from tougher glass or even back to the aluminium alloy that sensible people build hard drives with (like my 8GB Travelstar that still works after 11 years and holy shit I don't want to just bin it because I have a memory chip in my phone that has twice the capacity in a package the size of my pinky nail)).
Black Box Hacker Challenge. Or variations on the name. It's what I'm calling it.
OK, before you start with "HONEYPOT!", no it isn't, and this isn't a new idea either. It's been done. Many times. By lots of companies. Including Google - and the NSA, and all to test security on various bits of software outside of lab conditions. In case you're new here, a BBHC is a standalone or more commonly an integrated part of, a hacker convention where you take a blackbox (literally, hence the name of the game) loaded with code or some other prize and challenge the participants to break into it - often with a hard time limit. If the challenge beats the players, it can be reasonably assumed that that bit of code is reasonably secure. If it's broken, the usual response is to bow out gracefully after handing over the prize and figure out where you went wrong for the next time round. Or maybe the prize is a salaried position (mmm, work in the public cybersecurity sector, any insiders care to share whether they think there's job security in that?)
Out of interest, has the Google Pwnium 4 Chromebook challenge been beaten yet? I can't find anything on it. Maybe I'm looking on teh wrong interwebz.
Some great examples of conventions where BB challenges occur with regularity are Blackbox, HackInTheBox, PPC, DefCon, ICS, CanSecWest.
...where the subjects behaviour changes when he knows he's being observed is the simple expedient of not letting the subject know he's being experimented on.
The simple solution to this is to append the TOU with a clause that allows Facebook to conduct blind studies into behaviour by shaping traffic *on a randomised and anonymous basis*. Individual users are NOT informed when their account is being used in a study - they've already agreed to let it happen.
*For definition of "randomised and anonymous" in context, read: base the collection on randomly chosen user IDs, and the analysis starts by dropping the UID information and manipulating just the data.
last time I accidentally cut myself I wasn't handling food, I was cutting steel framing with a hacksaw and caught a bit of burr. It's still in my arm two weeks later.
it's still called the gay flu, I've got a Coronet educational video somewhere that discusses sexual relationships and why sticking your willy in another man's bum is so dangerous - 'cos the first time it happens you'll catch teh plague!!1one
yeah, it's so rare they make jokes out of it in shows like South Park where they pick the most niche activities like ziplining, roadtripping, declaring war on other countries and fucking chickens and rip them a new one.::rolleyes::.
not quite. A Statutory Declaration, which what you're referring to to give its proper name, is signed by two witnesses or a Notary. This is simply a declaration that you're using a new name, possibly one which you're already using and by which people know you, and that you disavow any future usage of your previous name. A Deed Poll (or to give its proper name, a Change of Name Deed) is countersigned by a Magistrate and given weight by a Judicial Seal.
Facebook isn't a free website, you're voluntarily surrendering your privacy and anonymity in order to use it - which is the entire reason behind the real name policy. That data sink with the blue banner is there to collect identifiable information about YOU and how you interact online, and sell that information on to people and companies who want nothing else but to sell you shit through persistent and targetted advertising.
You are in a dreamworld if you think for one second that Facebook gives a shit for your privacy, and the RNP absolutely proves the point.
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I got dowsing rods for bomb detection, a Pacific road bridge on discount, and - oh, this is a gem - a barge that used to be a British aircraft carrier. All you's gotta do for that one is steal it from the Turks before they sell the keel to the Chinese.
If they like, we have a surplus of cardboard policeman standies as well.
commit 12 July: http://kernel.suse.com/cgit/ke...
I'm thinking not, the 3.14 kernel patch fixed a security issue which also broke Win16 support. They've backported it as well so downloading older kernels to try and fix Win16 support under Wine won't work. There is no word on any attempts to fix the issue in the kernel. All I can suggest is to try and get your paws on a Win9x image and install it in Virtualbox (as I've done, though I had to install it as a DOS exec because APM platforms do weird things to modern processors - like cause them to wall it - and run a CPU idler which frees clock cycles from the VM back to the host. It's a crazy situation, but solvable). I'd offer you a copy of my MS-DOS 6.22-based Win95OSR2 image but Microsoft would have a fit...
just as soon as someone wins the Google Pwn2Own prize.
yeah that. I could take a photo of my Wii if you like, with some sort of live indication of the date/time, and upload it to imgur?
not even that, it was announced on Phoronix two weeks ago. Slashdot is behind the curve - as usual. Record here shows a commit to the kernel source tree on the 13th August.
yeah refer to my other post, the tech is built in to a lot of laptop drives, some OEMs use external sensors and sub-HAL triggers, Apple I think is the only one that actually offers some semblance of control (as in allows the user to turn it on and off) which also offers the opportunity to restart the drive and unpark the head without having to coldstart the entire system. My laptop which has all the bells and whistles Toshiba offers, doesn't even bother to pass the message to Windows 7 that a trigger event has occurred, any subsequent writes that need to write to platters (it's a hybrid drive under the hood with an 8GB flash) will fail with a "delayed write failed" message, and that is usually the first indication that I get that I've been hitting the keyboard like a British nanny.
turn in your Geek card on your way out, you missed the ONE game that should have been the top of that list: Kerbal Space Program. :)
uh... thought it had that, given that there's a (now sadly unmaintained) standard: IEE802.15.1, and that most commodity bluetooth gear is driven by chips from just one or two manufacturers (Broadcom is one, I think Ericsson might be another)
Because the box is a loss leader, Microsoft make their money on software and accessories, and because they don't want to ape Nintendo with their legacy ports in the Wii. If I had an N64 as well I'd have no need for two Wiimotes.
(glad I'm not the only one who noticed the more-than-passing similarity between the Duke and the One and questioned the need for physically incompatible ports).
it's an OS-agnostic tech built in to the hard drive - the accelerometer is a basic switch that parks the head and deactivates the spindle motor if it detects excessive vibration or acceleration like during a freefall drop off a desk. You know if it's triggered when your OS complains about a delayed write failure (for some reason Windows 7 lacks the ability to send a "spinup" command to the controller), at which point you have to do a cold restart and everything's fine apart from the data that you just lost if you didn't already save it. It makes no guarantee for data integrity, it only guarantees the mitigation of risk of terminal headcrash during an impact event. Some manufacturers (Seagate, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Western Digital) use variations on the theme, all platform-independent, though some OEMs such as Apple/Dell (are EuroPowerbooks still built at Dell's plant in Ireland?), Lenovo and Acer prefer to use their own accelerometers and control all aspects of physical protection through the controller interface via a custom BIOS.
...I thought Freefall was a tech built into the hard drive?
(I have a Toshiba laptop with a Toshiba HDD in it, the selling point for me was not in fact the freefall sensor but to be frank, any drop that chips a corner off the laptop case, for me, usually ends up shattering LCDs and glass platters anyway - I can only hope that the platters in the newer drives are made from tougher glass or even back to the aluminium alloy that sensible people build hard drives with (like my 8GB Travelstar that still works after 11 years and holy shit I don't want to just bin it because I have a memory chip in my phone that has twice the capacity in a package the size of my pinky nail)).
Black Box Hacker Challenge. Or variations on the name. It's what I'm calling it.
OK, before you start with "HONEYPOT!", no it isn't, and this isn't a new idea either. It's been done. Many times. By lots of companies. Including Google - and the NSA, and all to test security on various bits of software outside of lab conditions. In case you're new here, a BBHC is a standalone or more commonly an integrated part of, a hacker convention where you take a blackbox (literally, hence the name of the game) loaded with code or some other prize and challenge the participants to break into it - often with a hard time limit. If the challenge beats the players, it can be reasonably assumed that that bit of code is reasonably secure. If it's broken, the usual response is to bow out gracefully after handing over the prize and figure out where you went wrong for the next time round. Or maybe the prize is a salaried position (mmm, work in the public cybersecurity sector, any insiders care to share whether they think there's job security in that?)
Out of interest, has the Google Pwnium 4 Chromebook challenge been beaten yet? I can't find anything on it. Maybe I'm looking on teh wrong interwebz.
Some great examples of conventions where BB challenges occur with regularity are Blackbox, HackInTheBox, PPC, DefCon, ICS, CanSecWest.
this. Almost. When someone is made aware that they are being observed, their behaviour changes. Study is biased from the off.
...where the subjects behaviour changes when he knows he's being observed is the simple expedient of not letting the subject know he's being experimented on.
The simple solution to this is to append the TOU with a clause that allows Facebook to conduct blind studies into behaviour by shaping traffic *on a randomised and anonymous basis*. Individual users are NOT informed when their account is being used in a study - they've already agreed to let it happen.
*For definition of "randomised and anonymous" in context, read: base the collection on randomly chosen user IDs, and the analysis starts by dropping the UID information and manipulating just the data.
uh... because the OED tells me so? How about getting back on topic instead of being a fucking plural Nazi.
last time I accidentally cut myself I wasn't handling food, I was cutting steel framing with a hacksaw and caught a bit of burr. It's still in my arm two weeks later.
it's still called the gay flu, I've got a Coronet educational video somewhere that discusses sexual relationships and why sticking your willy in another man's bum is so dangerous - 'cos the first time it happens you'll catch teh plague!!1one
yeah, it's so rare they make jokes out of it in shows like South Park where they pick the most niche activities like ziplining, roadtripping, declaring war on other countries and fucking chickens and rip them a new one. ::rolleyes::.
::couhcoughOutbreakcoughcough::
So sorry, a bit Dustin Hoffman in here, setting my throat off.
well, not all of us.
Assumption: the mother of all fuckups.
Generalisation: possibly the father.
not quite. A Statutory Declaration, which what you're referring to to give its proper name, is signed by two witnesses or a Notary. This is simply a declaration that you're using a new name, possibly one which you're already using and by which people know you, and that you disavow any future usage of your previous name. A Deed Poll (or to give its proper name, a Change of Name Deed) is countersigned by a Magistrate and given weight by a Judicial Seal.
(I've acted as a sig witness many times).
OK, I stopped reading at the ad hominem, the rest of the drivel you posted is a complete fucking waste of time.
Facebook isn't a free website, you're voluntarily surrendering your privacy and anonymity in order to use it - which is the entire reason behind the real name policy. That data sink with the blue banner is there to collect identifiable information about YOU and how you interact online, and sell that information on to people and companies who want nothing else but to sell you shit through persistent and targetted advertising.
You are in a dreamworld if you think for one second that Facebook gives a shit for your privacy, and the RNP absolutely proves the point.
This. So much this.
Slow news day, Slashdot?