So let me get this straight.... *You* FAILED to pass the clearance process and yet claim to have been able to access damaging classified information browsing shares at a Govt. contractor? You realize that such networks generally aren't attached to the outside world or accessible to folks who don't carry the clearances right?
Umm, you are either truly stupid or full of crap. Having admitted to failing the process somehow I'd peg you as someone with an axe to grind. A compromised point of view by your own admission at the very least....
I won't mention the name but our companies policy is pretty straightforward - anything older than 90 days is PURGED. Yup, if it's not within that window it's deleted. Period. Stop. End of story.
We're told it's for storage reasons which I only half believe. I say this because the policy was instituted RIGHT after one of these companies out there got it's ass nailed to the wall after a court order to cough up emails.:-) Putting two and two together it appears that we may be doing this to try and prevent our e-mail from becoming a liability in case of a law suit. Yes, it sucks for the employees but from a CYA point of view it's probably not a bad idea.
I would be willing to bet that if someone has over a Gig of email or more that chances are there are things in that mail box that probably shouldn't see the light of day! Now, doing this has no doubt lead to people saving things locally and has certainly led to some things getting lost during the purge (they warn us monthly before they purge). The local stuff, unless on a shared drive, is stored on laptops which so far as I know aren't backed up. Duh, this is a potential problem and these are also machines that get taken around so loss is also an issue.
Overall though it seems to work to help keep sizes down on a pretty big infrastructure. It also means that if someone comes calling with paper we may have some defense to say that gosh darn it we purged the requested data. Now there may be backups, I'm sure something is kept, but if they are smart there rotation period is such that the data isn't held for too long. So far as I know, since we're not a stock trading firm or anything, there's no law that says we have to keep data for an extended period of time. Hopefully this will help us keep from falling on our sword should something stupid happen. Certainly the most draconian policy I've ever seen though!
BTW - got one of those HotMail upgrades to beta test along with it's attendant space increase. It sucked so bad to use and didn't support FireFox so I ended up opting out and going back to the smaller storage! Geez it sucked having to read everything in one window alal Gmail - I like to drag\drop in two windows to read WEB mail...
Sadly I've not been as strong with my DVD purchases - I own just over 400 of them and the number grows weekly. Frankly I have MUCH less problem paying $16 for a DVD than I do the same amount for a CD. Yes, I rip these too - for playback on trips with my hacked PSP. There will come a time shortly when HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will attempt to enter my home. If I have no means to rip those and transcode them down to play on my PSP then I will cease buying those as well. At this time I own no HD equipment unless you count my computer monitor:-)
There are times when I really wish CSS hadn't been broken. Consumer have all become quite spoiled at the ease with which DVD can be ripped and have become used to ignoring the copy protections on DVD. I almost wish this had all been forced to come to a head years ago with CSS as it may soon with the new technologies. I'm sure those will be broken too but I hope it takes much longer and gains MUCH more attention. It's time this crap was put to sleep in the same grave as the failed DIVX scheme....
I predict you'll be hearing from more than one person who has lost music transfering from one computer to another - I know I've talked to a few of them. Nothing like trying to move say 60 songs from one machine to another and afterwards only having 50 of them.....
I for one don't use iTunes and prefer to rip the USED CDs I buy instead. Screw 'em!
Once upon a time I did that actually. Not a bot mind you but one of those silly trojans that allowed anyone to scan and find them for remote control. Instead I'd scan them, find them, and upload a text file into their startup folder that explained what was up and where to get help and information. Once I did this and found that the person was in IRC, so I logged in and chatted with them privately to explain things - it was a woman who was pretty savvy and quite shocked! I even sdetup an e-mail account where they could mail me with questions, no one ever did.:-(
However doing this is as likely to get you in trouble as formatting victim's HDs. Intent rarely matter when what you are doing is attacking and compromising computers. When you attack a computer you can leave it unstable and cost the end user time\money even if what you are doing is simply an attempt to warn them. Anyone who creates such a vigilante program is going to very quickly figure this out and possibly the hard way. It wasn't long before I ceased spending so much time trying to help others, it wasn't appreciated near as I could tell and it opened myself up for prosecution and to the possibility of losing my job. A neat idea but sadly not terribly practical - the person who did it would be as vilified as any other hacker....
Tens of thousands of assholes? Well if you get down to it there are indeed plenty of those and alot of them run Linux;-)
Seriously, if you've ever worked retail you know what a PITA returns are. It *does* hit the manufacturer in the pocketbook and it costs the store money. The result is that yeah the message gets sent up the line and yes it makes stores think twice about stocking items. That is unless the store has a shrinkwrap machine in the back and is willing to repackage returned items - and yes BestBuy has been known to do this.
Brakes aren't electronic unless it's a hybrid or some other newly minted car with weird controls and even then there are hydraulic or mechanical backups - even on drive by wire. If this person really did lose control in this manner (friend of a friend of a friend - checked Snopes??) then it was their inexperience that killed them not some oddity of the car's behaviour. Let me guess, it was some teen right? No years behind the wheel and they probably freaked out over this? Pretty stupid.
My girlfriend used to think this was a big deal too and we talked about it while driving down the road once. I was driving and to prove a point I reached down and flipped off the ignition - she freaked! For about 5 seconds till she realized that duh, we were fine and the car was coasting normally at highway speeds. Flipped it back to "run" (stick shift) and drove on normally having lost just a little bit of speed. No scary steering, brakes were fine (vac from motor...), and it was a no biggie once she realized the thing wasn't going to explode. She felt pretty silly about it as will you if you ever bother to try this and realize your thoughts of imminent doom are misplaced.;-)
In an auto it's a little more involved. There's a fluid connection to the engine that won't be strong enough to turn over the motor for a restart and the silly thing won't crank in gear. (lol) No biggie, slip it into Neutral, turn key to crank, start motor, put it into Drive. Wow, pretty traumatic huh? Brakes will get spongy, steering will be heavier but fine unless stopped. The twit who suggested you'll flat-spot tires somehow or need a special frame (!) is on drugs. The car can even be driven without power steering even if it has power steering from the factory, the steering will just be heavier. Brakes are the least safe but you know what - I'd rather the cop decide when to screw the car up and maybe crash it then wait for the jerk to lose it on his own. Most high speed pursuits end in property damage and many end in death, better to let the cop decide where and when to throw a wrench in things than wait until the moron loses it on his own.
Honestly I'd be most worried about electrocuting the passengers than I would be the moron behind the wheel losing control. He's going to lose it anyway, might as well choose where....
Umm, wrong. An engine doesn't simply "stop" because it has run out of gas or power has fried it. In fact did you know when you let off the gas in a modern EFI car the injectors cease firing while you coast? Yup, no gas and the engine still turns over just fine! When RPMs drop to about 1K RPMs gas begins firing again to prevent a stall or if you depress the gas pedal a bit they again fire to provide fuel and move you down the road. Shut off the power to the ignition while driving, same thing. You think this device frying your electronics is going to do something flipping the ignition switch wouldn't? There's nothing electrical going on that has to occur in order for the engine to turn FREELY. Put a wrench on the snout of the crank and with some effort you can turn the motor over unless it's in park - WOW and with NO electricity! Compression will make it an effort but a 3K+ lb car has plenty of momentum\mass and WILL turn over that motor - especially in the higher gears.
Running out of gas or losing the ignition is no big deal, the engine continues to turn if it's a stick and you slow via engine braking. If it's an auto then the engine just stops and you continue rolling - NO biggie. You see there's no actual physical solid connection between the motor and transmission - there's a fluid connection via the torque converter and even if it were solid like a clutch with a stick it would simply mean that the engine would continue to turn over. Oh and yes I know about lockup torque converters, see stick shift comments and that connection would likely die anyway since it needs electricity to energize it.
Honestly, it's always so damned funny to read comments whenever something auto related is posted to/. as there's always a zillion guys out there that just KNOW how a car works and have to tell everyone they're right - and are so far out in the weeds it's not even funny. Cracks me up to read all about how an electrical failure is going to kill your brakes or steering. 99.9% of the cars out there won't be phased by this since both systems are hydraulic in nature. Even the drive by wire vehicles have mechanical backups because umm OEMs are NOT stupid and KNOW they would have their ass sued off if something fritzed and killed someone. Yet the "experts" persist! Turn a wrench sometime guys, maybe read a good book or magazine and learn about this stuff. The information is all over if you care to look and learn.
I'd imagine that part of the reason a modern car proves resistant to this is the fact that the engine computer is ALREADY hardened against EMP! Why? Because high energy ignitions wreak havoc on them if they aren't. Multiple grounds, EMI resistant cases, epoxy surrounding the boards for vibration resistance, and on and on. Figure these things need to roll 100K plus miles before needing work and yeah they pretty much harden them up pretty good....
Sure, no problem - have done it multiple times. No trauma, no quick grab for the gearshift, no worries, just continued to drive along. You on the other hand have obviously not tried this or you'd know there's no issue with doing this - yes even in an automatic. In a stick you just turn the ignition back to run and the car runs again, in an auto you shift into neutral and restart the car before placing it back into Drive.
No rods? Then what pray tell is it that pushes the PISTONS up and down? Few of us are driving rotary Wankels.
Surely you have the pushrod used to actuate valves from rockers off of a cam confused with the rod attached to the piston? Many cars no longer have pushrods as they are overhead cam (as opposed to cam ni block) and actuate valves directly from the cam using a rocker or follower....
Umm, remotely install Trojan code to any vulnerable WEB client that views your WEB page? The AMD forums got hit with one of these on an ad banner recently - a VERY popular forum. I can only imagine how many people became infected. If you think that this is just for clip art or that it can only execute from attachments then you've been asleep at the switch for oh like a month now. That noise you hear is the clue phone ringning - might want to answer it...
I know a married couple, both in the IT field. Woman is upset that she doesn't make nearly as much as her husband but they both have equal credentials and schooling - both work in the same company. I work with her - quiet, shy, barely speaks up, always down about something, smiles rarely, but does a good job when given a chance. Her presentation skills suck though, she mumbles and stares at her feet - no enthusiasm. did I mention she's in a management position?:-O
One day I met her husband, outgoing, speaks up, has opinions and expresses them, willing to listen to others, someone I could easily work with. Guess which one DESERVES to be making more? Yup, HE does! Why? Because he can communicate, he can express ideas, because he is someone you can work with and be around without feeling depressed. He is a leader, she isn't. Your idea of machine given tests doesn't allow for this and you would quickly end up with a bunch of bright but introverted dorks hiding in cubes and flush your business down the drain.
It doesn't matter how smart or bright you are - if your personality sucks no one will want to work with you or for you. Oh, and I work with more than a few minorities. With rare exception they perform just as well as anyone else. When you encounter an exception though it's a doozy but likely no worse than someone who's not a minority who doesn't do their job. I *do* see quotas though, especially in Govt. services but that's not so much the IT world really.
Honestly? Go checkout Digg - I swear I find more neat stuff in their submission pile than I do their ever changing front page. I also see a whole lot of CRAP that is obviously self-serving to the original submitter but I don't vote that up and neither does anyone else.
I too would like to have more insight into the stories being submitted here. Let us see what's skipped (I thought we could actually but have never figured out how)...
So what? So it's being presented as new news that's what! Flag it as a dupe if you're going to post it multiple times and allow those of us who read here somewhat often to IGNORE it. Kripes the other day they did a dupe that was just three entries below the original posting! I mean really, how bad is it to have a "news" site post two different links to the same story at the SAME time?
Strangely if you read the *entire* article they also mention that were it not for his tinkering the dye chemist would've created a wonderful way to create colored bubbles that had nothing but a spot of colored dye on the bottom. He DID contribute a great deal to this effort - distributing the dye evenly over teh shape of the bubble...
http://www.doxpara.com/?q=sony/ Has some VERY interesting information as to just how far this little beastie has spread. You see it turns out this code actually phones home somehow and by doing so it touches DNS servers - and this information can be found out. The author of that page has done some VERY interesting things in the past with DNS and his sessions at DEFCON are always interesting. If his conclusions are true then this is FAR more than "thousands" and likely edging into the millions range. He has some nice pictures too thanks to the GeoIP folks but I wouldn't trust that the locations are tooo accurate
Since I'm whoring:-) Check out this Wired article concerning this as well http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00. html?tw=rss.TOP/> This draws some pretty interesting conclusions regarding how fast the various anti-virus people and Microsoft responded to this piece of software. NOT COOL!
So his partner is infected and the article claims he doesn't want to pursue further testing that might lead to a cure? Umm, wouldn't that sort of leave his partner infected and dying? Surely he's thought of that - there must be more to the story here and it wouldn't surprise me to find that a "journalist" screwed something up....
Okay, an ignorant question but it ought to be asked I think - the material we're talking abotu here is partialy made up of Cadmium? Isn't that a heavy metal and doesn't it preset waste dispoal issues? Certainly we could be saving some energy if we could build full spectrum LEDs with this process but are we really goign to be better off with Cadmium laced parts all over the place? One of the linked articles also points out that making "bulbs" could move from a pretty much mechanical process to one that's almost purely chemical in nature. FAB plants are chemical in nature too - and produce lots of toxins. Are we going to be producing still more sources of toxins if we move in this direction? I'm wondering if this is really likely to be such an improvement if we reduce our energy needs but increase our waste disposal and environmental hazards.
Yes, they used an LED in this test but that may not be how it ends up being used in a production sense. Apparently you only need apply energy in order to excite these things so it need not be light from an LED...
If the new process can be developed into commercial production, light won't come just from newfangled bulbs. Quantum dot mixtures could be painted on just about anything and electrically excited to produce a rainbow of colors, including white.
I have an old ReplayTV box in my closet - auto commercial skip and all. Loved the fact it was networkable out of the box and easy to get video off of. HATED the fact that it was single tuner and had compression artifacts. I now have a dual tuner DIRECTivo and can still easily pull video off of it over my network. Upgrading the drive was cake too. When Replay has a box with two tuners, networks, and is integrated with say DISH or DIRECT so the local hardware isn't doing the compression I'll become interested again. Until then my TIVO is doing just fine thanks anyway...
Actually it's FAR more likely that the *AAs of the world will buy enough legislators to revoke any "fair use" rights we may still have. It's honestly going to take consumers taking up torches and pitchforks to storm the castle before these guys get a clue. Eventually they will have screwed things up so badly that even Joe Average Consumer will run into issues and then all hell will break loose. I can hardly wait!
As soon as there are SAT and Cable decoders that can be put into my home PC turned Myth box that allow me to record premium content the way I can with my hacked DTIVO I'll do it - in a heartbeat. However right now the best thing Myth seems to offer is OTA HD. Or maybe I could buy multiple cable\SAT decoder boxes and lash them to the Myth box with IRDA dongles? Umm, no thanks.
Myth is way cool, I LOVE the idea I really do. However it cannot give me what I *currently* have with the DTIVO being used in my home now. NO, *my* TIVO doesn't have this DRM code and *no* it won't have the code unless I allow it - and I'm not. I also do not see those FFWD commercials. I'm actually 2 revisions back with my DTIVO running software never meant for my box. (lol) I'll move to the 6.x code soon, really I will. But 7.2x can goto hell, I see no reason to run it and lots of reasons not to.
In any case, until I can get what I want out of MythTV I'm not wasting my time building one. OTA broadcast stuff I gave up years ago and I refuse to go back. The day they can decode my digital cable directly or attach to my SAT dish directly (as can be done in other countries apparently) I'll switch but not until then. If my TIVO suddenly stops working because they have blocked my hacks then I'll happily return it and my DIRECT subscription too.
P.S. Yes, I can do extraction, streaming, and other things on my box. http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ The funny thing is that I'm far from bleeding edge with what I've done on my machine!
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So let me get this straight.... *You* FAILED to pass the clearance process and yet claim to have been able to access damaging classified information browsing shares at a Govt. contractor? You realize that such networks generally aren't attached to the outside world or accessible to folks who don't carry the clearances right?
Umm, you are either truly stupid or full of crap. Having admitted to failing the process somehow I'd peg you as someone with an axe to grind. A compromised point of view by your own admission at the very least....
I won't mention the name but our companies policy is pretty straightforward - anything older than 90 days is PURGED. Yup, if it's not within that window it's deleted. Period. Stop. End of story.
:-) Putting two and two together it appears that we may be doing this to try and prevent our e-mail from becoming a liability in case of a law suit. Yes, it sucks for the employees but from a CYA point of view it's probably not a bad idea.
We're told it's for storage reasons which I only half believe. I say this because the policy was instituted RIGHT after one of these companies out there got it's ass nailed to the wall after a court order to cough up emails.
I would be willing to bet that if someone has over a Gig of email or more that chances are there are things in that mail box that probably shouldn't see the light of day! Now, doing this has no doubt lead to people saving things locally and has certainly led to some things getting lost during the purge (they warn us monthly before they purge). The local stuff, unless on a shared drive, is stored on laptops which so far as I know aren't backed up. Duh, this is a potential problem and these are also machines that get taken around so loss is also an issue.
Overall though it seems to work to help keep sizes down on a pretty big infrastructure. It also means that if someone comes calling with paper we may have some defense to say that gosh darn it we purged the requested data. Now there may be backups, I'm sure something is kept, but if they are smart there rotation period is such that the data isn't held for too long. So far as I know, since we're not a stock trading firm or anything, there's no law that says we have to keep data for an extended period of time. Hopefully this will help us keep from falling on our sword should something stupid happen. Certainly the most draconian policy I've ever seen though!
BTW - got one of those HotMail upgrades to beta test along with it's attendant space increase. It sucked so bad to use and didn't support FireFox so I ended up opting out and going back to the smaller storage! Geez it sucked having to read everything in one window alal Gmail - I like to drag\drop in two windows to read WEB mail...
Sadly I've not been as strong with my DVD purchases - I own just over 400 of them and the number grows weekly. Frankly I have MUCH less problem paying $16 for a DVD than I do the same amount for a CD. Yes, I rip these too - for playback on trips with my hacked PSP. There will come a time shortly when HD-DVD or Blu-Ray will attempt to enter my home. If I have no means to rip those and transcode them down to play on my PSP then I will cease buying those as well. At this time I own no HD equipment unless you count my computer monitor :-)
There are times when I really wish CSS hadn't been broken. Consumer have all become quite spoiled at the ease with which DVD can be ripped and have become used to ignoring the copy protections on DVD. I almost wish this had all been forced to come to a head years ago with CSS as it may soon with the new technologies. I'm sure those will be broken too but I hope it takes much longer and gains MUCH more attention. It's time this crap was put to sleep in the same grave as the failed DIVX scheme....
I predict you'll be hearing from more than one person who has lost music transfering from one computer to another - I know I've talked to a few of them. Nothing like trying to move say 60 songs from one machine to another and afterwards only having 50 of them.....
I for one don't use iTunes and prefer to rip the USED CDs I buy instead. Screw 'em!
Once upon a time I did that actually. Not a bot mind you but one of those silly trojans that allowed anyone to scan and find them for remote control. Instead I'd scan them, find them, and upload a text file into their startup folder that explained what was up and where to get help and information. Once I did this and found that the person was in IRC, so I logged in and chatted with them privately to explain things - it was a woman who was pretty savvy and quite shocked! I even sdetup an e-mail account where they could mail me with questions, no one ever did. :-(
However doing this is as likely to get you in trouble as formatting victim's HDs. Intent rarely matter when what you are doing is attacking and compromising computers. When you attack a computer you can leave it unstable and cost the end user time\money even if what you are doing is simply an attempt to warn them. Anyone who creates such a vigilante program is going to very quickly figure this out and possibly the hard way. It wasn't long before I ceased spending so much time trying to help others, it wasn't appreciated near as I could tell and it opened myself up for prosecution and to the possibility of losing my job. A neat idea but sadly not terribly practical - the person who did it would be as vilified as any other hacker....
Tens of thousands of assholes? Well if you get down to it there are indeed plenty of those and alot of them run Linux ;-)
Seriously, if you've ever worked retail you know what a PITA returns are. It *does* hit the manufacturer in the pocketbook and it costs the store money. The result is that yeah the message gets sent up the line and yes it makes stores think twice about stocking items. That is unless the store has a shrinkwrap machine in the back and is willing to repackage returned items - and yes BestBuy has been known to do this.
Brakes aren't electronic unless it's a hybrid or some other newly minted car with weird controls and even then there are hydraulic or mechanical backups - even on drive by wire. If this person really did lose control in this manner (friend of a friend of a friend - checked Snopes??) then it was their inexperience that killed them not some oddity of the car's behaviour. Let me guess, it was some teen right? No years behind the wheel and they probably freaked out over this? Pretty stupid.
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My girlfriend used to think this was a big deal too and we talked about it while driving down the road once. I was driving and to prove a point I reached down and flipped off the ignition - she freaked! For about 5 seconds till she realized that duh, we were fine and the car was coasting normally at highway speeds. Flipped it back to "run" (stick shift) and drove on normally having lost just a little bit of speed. No scary steering, brakes were fine (vac from motor...), and it was a no biggie once she realized the thing wasn't going to explode. She felt pretty silly about it as will you if you ever bother to try this and realize your thoughts of imminent doom are misplaced.
In an auto it's a little more involved. There's a fluid connection to the engine that won't be strong enough to turn over the motor for a restart and the silly thing won't crank in gear. (lol) No biggie, slip it into Neutral, turn key to crank, start motor, put it into Drive. Wow, pretty traumatic huh? Brakes will get spongy, steering will be heavier but fine unless stopped. The twit who suggested you'll flat-spot tires somehow or need a special frame (!) is on drugs. The car can even be driven without power steering even if it has power steering from the factory, the steering will just be heavier. Brakes are the least safe but you know what - I'd rather the cop decide when to screw the car up and maybe crash it then wait for the jerk to lose it on his own. Most high speed pursuits end in property damage and many end in death, better to let the cop decide where and when to throw a wrench in things than wait until the moron loses it on his own.
Honestly I'd be most worried about electrocuting the passengers than I would be the moron behind the wheel losing control. He's going to lose it anyway, might as well choose where....
Umm, wrong. An engine doesn't simply "stop" because it has run out of gas or power has fried it. In fact did you know when you let off the gas in a modern EFI car the injectors cease firing while you coast? Yup, no gas and the engine still turns over just fine! When RPMs drop to about 1K RPMs gas begins firing again to prevent a stall or if you depress the gas pedal a bit they again fire to provide fuel and move you down the road. Shut off the power to the ignition while driving, same thing. You think this device frying your electronics is going to do something flipping the ignition switch wouldn't? There's nothing electrical going on that has to occur in order for the engine to turn FREELY. Put a wrench on the snout of the crank and with some effort you can turn the motor over unless it's in park - WOW and with NO electricity! Compression will make it an effort but a 3K+ lb car has plenty of momentum\mass and WILL turn over that motor - especially in the higher gears.
/. as there's always a zillion guys out there that just KNOW how a car works and have to tell everyone they're right - and are so far out in the weeds it's not even funny. Cracks me up to read all about how an electrical failure is going to kill your brakes or steering. 99.9% of the cars out there won't be phased by this since both systems are hydraulic in nature. Even the drive by wire vehicles have mechanical backups because umm OEMs are NOT stupid and KNOW they would have their ass sued off if something fritzed and killed someone. Yet the "experts" persist! Turn a wrench sometime guys, maybe read a good book or magazine and learn about this stuff. The information is all over if you care to look and learn.
Running out of gas or losing the ignition is no big deal, the engine continues to turn if it's a stick and you slow via engine braking. If it's an auto then the engine just stops and you continue rolling - NO biggie. You see there's no actual physical solid connection between the motor and transmission - there's a fluid connection via the torque converter and even if it were solid like a clutch with a stick it would simply mean that the engine would continue to turn over. Oh and yes I know about lockup torque converters, see stick shift comments and that connection would likely die anyway since it needs electricity to energize it.
Honestly, it's always so damned funny to read comments whenever something auto related is posted to
I'd imagine that part of the reason a modern car proves resistant to this is the fact that the engine computer is ALREADY hardened against EMP! Why? Because high energy ignitions wreak havoc on them if they aren't. Multiple grounds, EMI resistant cases, epoxy surrounding the boards for vibration resistance, and on and on. Figure these things need to roll 100K plus miles before needing work and yeah they pretty much harden them up pretty good....
Sure, no problem - have done it multiple times. No trauma, no quick grab for the gearshift, no worries, just continued to drive along. You on the other hand have obviously not tried this or you'd know there's no issue with doing this - yes even in an automatic. In a stick you just turn the ignition back to run and the car runs again, in an auto you shift into neutral and restart the car before placing it back into Drive.
What exactly did YOU think would happen??
Oh yeah - and what do pushrods and chains have to do with one another? Suggest checking yourself into a clinic on automotive basics ;-)
No rods? Then what pray tell is it that pushes the PISTONS up and down? Few of us are driving rotary Wankels.
Surely you have the pushrod used to actuate valves from rockers off of a cam confused with the rod attached to the piston? Many cars no longer have pushrods as they are overhead cam (as opposed to cam ni block) and actuate valves directly from the cam using a rocker or follower....
Umm, remotely install Trojan code to any vulnerable WEB client that views your WEB page? The AMD forums got hit with one of these on an ad banner recently - a VERY popular forum. I can only imagine how many people became infected. If you think that this is just for clip art or that it can only execute from attachments then you've been asleep at the switch for oh like a month now. That noise you hear is the clue phone ringning - might want to answer it...
Not a chance!
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I know a married couple, both in the IT field. Woman is upset that she doesn't make nearly as much as her husband but they both have equal credentials and schooling - both work in the same company. I work with her - quiet, shy, barely speaks up, always down about something, smiles rarely, but does a good job when given a chance. Her presentation skills suck though, she mumbles and stares at her feet - no enthusiasm. did I mention she's in a management position?
One day I met her husband, outgoing, speaks up, has opinions and expresses them, willing to listen to others, someone I could easily work with. Guess which one DESERVES to be making more? Yup, HE does! Why? Because he can communicate, he can express ideas, because he is someone you can work with and be around without feeling depressed. He is a leader, she isn't. Your idea of machine given tests doesn't allow for this and you would quickly end up with a bunch of bright but introverted dorks hiding in cubes and flush your business down the drain.
It doesn't matter how smart or bright you are - if your personality sucks no one will want to work with you or for you. Oh, and I work with more than a few minorities. With rare exception they perform just as well as anyone else. When you encounter an exception though it's a doozy but likely no worse than someone who's not a minority who doesn't do their job. I *do* see quotas though, especially in Govt. services but that's not so much the IT world really.
Honestly? Go checkout Digg - I swear I find more neat stuff in their submission pile than I do their ever changing front page. I also see a whole lot of CRAP that is obviously self-serving to the original submitter but I don't vote that up and neither does anyone else.
I too would like to have more insight into the stories being submitted here. Let us see what's skipped (I thought we could actually but have never figured out how)...
So what? So it's being presented as new news that's what! Flag it as a dupe if you're going to post it multiple times and allow those of us who read here somewhat often to IGNORE it. Kripes the other day they did a dupe that was just three entries below the original posting! I mean really, how bad is it to have a "news" site post two different links to the same story at the SAME time?
I'm starting to like Digg more and more...
Strangely if you read the *entire* article they also mention that were it not for his tinkering the dye chemist would've created a wonderful way to create colored bubbles that had nothing but a spot of colored dye on the bottom. He DID contribute a great deal to this effort - distributing the dye evenly over teh shape of the bubble...
http://www.doxpara.com/?q=sony/ Has some VERY interesting information as to just how far this little beastie has spread. You see it turns out this code actually phones home somehow and by doing so it touches DNS servers - and this information can be found out. The author of that page has done some VERY interesting things in the past with DNS and his sessions at DEFCON are always interesting. If his conclusions are true then this is FAR more than "thousands" and likely edging into the millions range. He has some nice pictures too thanks to the GeoIP folks but I wouldn't trust that the locations are tooo accurate
:-) Check out this Wired article concerning this as well http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,69601,00. html?tw=rss.TOP/> This draws some pretty interesting conclusions regarding how fast the various anti-virus people and Microsoft responded to this piece of software. NOT COOL!
Since I'm whoring
So his partner is infected and the article claims he doesn't want to pursue further testing that might lead to a cure? Umm, wouldn't that sort of leave his partner infected and dying? Surely he's thought of that - there must be more to the story here and it wouldn't surprise me to find that a "journalist" screwed something up....
Okay, an ignorant question but it ought to be asked I think - the material we're talking abotu here is partialy made up of Cadmium? Isn't that a heavy metal and doesn't it preset waste dispoal issues? Certainly we could be saving some energy if we could build full spectrum LEDs with this process but are we really goign to be better off with Cadmium laced parts all over the place? One of the linked articles also points out that making "bulbs" could move from a pretty much mechanical process to one that's almost purely chemical in nature. FAB plants are chemical in nature too - and produce lots of toxins. Are we going to be producing still more sources of toxins if we move in this direction? I'm wondering if this is really likely to be such an improvement if we reduce our energy needs but increase our waste disposal and environmental hazards.
Anyone have some insight here?
I have an old ReplayTV box in my closet - auto commercial skip and all. Loved the fact it was networkable out of the box and easy to get video off of. HATED the fact that it was single tuner and had compression artifacts. I now have a dual tuner DIRECTivo and can still easily pull video off of it over my network. Upgrading the drive was cake too. When Replay has a box with two tuners, networks, and is integrated with say DISH or DIRECT so the local hardware isn't doing the compression I'll become interested again. Until then my TIVO is doing just fine thanks anyway...
Actually it's FAR more likely that the *AAs of the world will buy enough legislators to revoke any "fair use" rights we may still have. It's honestly going to take consumers taking up torches and pitchforks to storm the castle before these guys get a clue. Eventually they will have screwed things up so badly that even Joe Average Consumer will run into issues and then all hell will break loose. I can hardly wait!
Nah, I'm just not a fan of spending MORE to get LESS. :-P
As soon as there are SAT and Cable decoders that can be put into my home PC turned Myth box that allow me to record premium content the way I can with my hacked DTIVO I'll do it - in a heartbeat. However right now the best thing Myth seems to offer is OTA HD. Or maybe I could buy multiple cable\SAT decoder boxes and lash them to the Myth box with IRDA dongles? Umm, no thanks.
Myth is way cool, I LOVE the idea I really do. However it cannot give me what I *currently* have with the DTIVO being used in my home now. NO, *my* TIVO doesn't have this DRM code and *no* it won't have the code unless I allow it - and I'm not. I also do not see those FFWD commercials. I'm actually 2 revisions back with my DTIVO running software never meant for my box. (lol) I'll move to the 6.x code soon, really I will. But 7.2x can goto hell, I see no reason to run it and lots of reasons not to.
In any case, until I can get what I want out of MythTV I'm not wasting my time building one. OTA broadcast stuff I gave up years ago and I refuse to go back. The day they can decode my digital cable directly or attach to my SAT dish directly (as can be done in other countries apparently) I'll switch but not until then. If my TIVO suddenly stops working because they have blocked my hacks then I'll happily return it and my DIRECT subscription too.
P.S. Yes, I can do extraction, streaming, and other things on my box. http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ The funny thing is that I'm far from bleeding edge with what I've done on my machine!