Dunno, I've never paid attention to racehorse names.
Each AV company names things slightly differently, but the general method is:
TYPE/Common-VARIANT
Type can be "W32" or "TROJ" or "VB" or "SB", etc.
Common is a descriptive common name. In this case, the virus places a file called badbunny.js or badbunny.py and downloads a file called badbunny.jpg. Thus "badbunny" was chosen.
Variant is usually alphabetic, starting with A and going into double letters (AA, AB, etc.) if necessary.
SB = StarBasic, because it is written as a StarBasic macro. -A = First variant. If someone modifies it to do something else, then you'll see -B, -C, etc.
Sorry, but you are probably in the same boat. These companies do a driving business overseas as well.
I know of one setup that has installed probe systems in the following countries in just the past month: South Africa, Singapore, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Britain and Poland.
That was just in offhand conversation with a sales manager for one company. And considering I'm a contracted installer who has been putting these systems in all over the U.S. for the past couple months, and the discussion was about "hey, how would you like to go over here", I believe him.
They just set up regional sales offices in Europe, Africa and Asia. They already have one in Latin America.
When BSG first came out, I missed the opening mini-series and first couple episodes. After that, I watched 15 minutes of one and stopped.
I stopped because I thought "no, I need to see this from the beginning". There was no way to really pick it up in the middle.
Thanks to the modern miracles of DVD and bittorrent, I've now seen every episode broadcast except one (2nd to last, season 3) and am quite glad I waited. I was right to start from the beginning and pity anyone that tried to jump in the middle.
I can see where this would be considered a serious detriment to the studio. Kind of hard to pick up viewers as you go.
And.5 meter is the limit. His point is the NGA forked over over $1 Billion to help companies launch satellites that get better than.5 m resolution, and by law -- U.S. AND European, IIRC -- they are supposed to degrade the image to.5 m before selling it to non-approved clients.
They have $$, and money talks. So much so that during the beginning of the Afghan war, they simply BOUGHT UP EVERY SAT PHOTO AVAILABLE of the area for months.
Half-meter resolution is good. If you know what you're looking at, you can identify makes and models of vehicles. But they're probably talking about ~.1 meter resolution which is more like "Hey, look -- he dropped his wallet while exiting the factory red 2006 BMW Z4 with the black rag-top. Wow, get a load of the rack on that blond he is with!"
Considering Europe can't even get Galileo off the ground, they don't seem like likely candidates to rush into the skies with super-spy sats.
If that does happen -- and hasn't already -- you will NEVER see a story on it. The reporter that runs that will find every lead, every contact and every story from the gov't sector totally dry up. Press credentials would be revoked and they'd probably get a "random" audit from the IRS, along with the census fill-it-all-out-or-go-to-prison long form. They'd be lucky if they could get a local dog catcher to talk to them.
Montana did not ratify Prohibition, nor did Montana law enforcement enforce Prohibition within Montana's borders.
The Montana Constitution includes the following clause: Section 33. Importation of armed persons. No armed person or persons or armed body of men shall be brought into this state for the preservation of the peace, or the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or of the governor when the legislature cannot be convened.
This has been used, in the recent past, to limit federal law enforcement incursions into the state, a fact which has been credited with being responsible for the group known as the Montana Freeman being arrested (by the Montana police, who wished to prevent another Waco-type incident), without a shot being fired. This means that Montana does not feel that the feds have the unlimited right to do as they please in Montana, or to Montanans.
A resolution has been passed by the Montana legislature requiring federal law enforcement that wishes to do anything in Montana to act through the appropriate local sheriff. The intention is to eventually give this the force of law. This tends to signify Montana's sovereignty as a state, as well as its willingness to stand up to the feds.
And, for a passport, you do not NEED a photo ID if you can get a citizen to whom you are well known to vouch for you. You'll also need some other paperwork, but you CAN get thru without a driver's license.
Actually, I do believe that is one of the reasons the Japanese are so polite. The society is so population dense, they have to be overly polite because lots of people used to carry very sharp knives and would use them at the drop of a hat. Granted, that was a long time ago, but it has served them well.
Be polite, regardless, because someone -- you or the other guy -- just might snap.
"Never" in this context means "When Robert Plant and Jimmy Page die and the next generation greed of the people whose only connection to the music is a check, kicks in."
This OCR is a refined version of HP's Tesseract, which HP handed over to UNLV some time ago. The original code was developed starting in 1985, so there is a good possibility patents are not valid.
"You might wonder why Google is interested in OCR? In a nutshell, we are all about making information available to users, and when this information is in a paper document, OCR is the process by which we can convert the pages of this document into text that can then be used for indexing."
The first one knows what he is talking about, and the second guy apologizes for being a bit to harsh in a comment? This is Slashdot, folks. That sort of behavior just is NOT tolerated!
Head on over to Technocrat every now and then, will you?
Do you think OJ is still looking for the real killer?
Do you have any idea how many golf courses there are in the United States alone that need to be searched and verified Nicole-killer free? Any idea at all? Hell, by now the killer could also be at any number of European courses! He could even be a Yakuza contract killer who, right this very moment, is hitting 300 yard drives off the rooftop of a Tokyo skyscraper.
Who's gonna check all those courses, you? Don't make me laugh. Until you walk a 36-hole in O.J.'s Bruno Magli's -- photoshopped publicity photos not withstanding -- don't be dissin' The Juice!
The difference is, besides just one death, is that these people were fighting to be included. At no point was there a threat of civil war or the break-up of France. The immigrants just wanted to stop being considered second-class citizens. They want to belong. Lots of mayhem and chaos for the cameras, but most of it was insured and nothing permanent was damaged.
If Turkey breaks up, we're talking the attempted formation of an independent Kurdistan, which traditionally spans parts of Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Syria. You'd be looking at possible land grabs by many of those countries, as they all make "traditional" border claims. Paybacks for the Armenian massacre of 1915 could escalate the whole area into a bloodbath that makes Southern Iraq look like a safe-haven.
I'm not saying everything in Europe is all laid back and nothing ever happens, I'm just saying they've evolved more into a bureaucracy than anything else. They're much more inclined to a "just relax, let's talk and we can work things out" attitude than most everyone in Asia Minor.
It'll be a shock, but give it another 50 years and I think becoming a member of the E.U. will be the best thing that happened to Turkey since the formation of the secular state by the Atatürk.
The difference is, if the E.U. has a setback -- like not getting their Constitution passed -- they will work it out without much fuss. Europe has evolved their civilization to a point where there really is little threat of one peoples exploding forth in a ravenous orgy of violence. World War II seems to have cured them of that.
If Turkey fails, it won't disintegrate, it will explode and the result will be a regional war and instability for more than a generation. Think what would happen if Turkey split into rival groups of Kurds, Armenians, Islamist Turks and Secular Turks. That can't be allowed to happen.
Europe isn't compromising any of their values. They would be guiding a member along the path, knowing the long term benefit of brining Turkey into the fold outweighs the short term benefits of holding the hard line on their "convictions".
This isn't without precedent in the E.U. There are nations who haven't fully aligned subsidies, trade policies, tariffs and other laws fully. But, progress is being made and the E.U. is thinking long term. Patience is a virtue.
Previously Nazi-occupied countries are over-sensitive about the swastika, but the rest of Europe isn't.
Ummm...wow. Entertaining statement.
You do realize that "the rest of Europe" in this context includes Iceland, the U.K., Ireland and... well, that is about it. Okay, Spain was run by Franco who was Hitler's bitch, and Albania was occupied by Italy -- again Hitler's bitch. Sweden and Switzerland were "neutral", but still, your statement is so fucked up it boggles the mind.
Thomas Jefferson, statesman that he was, signed off on the document that decreed slaves were not people, but property and would count only as 2/3rds of a person for the purposes of representation. Never mind that the slaves, not being people, weren't represented anyway.
Jefferson knew that the time was not yet right. Had the U.S. Constitution mandated the end of slavery and full rights for ex-slaves, the Republic would have fallen apart and the Revolution would have been for naught. However, the seeds were sewn for that phrase you quoted to come to fruition when the time was ripe. In the case of slavery, it was almost a century later.
The time is not right in Turkey, or many other nations, for full freedom of speech. Like it or not, there are some very heated passions in that part of the world. They are forcibly integrating peoples and ethnic groups who don't want to be integrated, and that will take time. Generations, maybe centuries, will pass but to see thru their development as a modern, peaceful, enlightened, secular and democratic nation they believe the vision of the Ataturk is the best path. That vision is still young and fragile.
Formal membership in the E.U. will, I believe, shorten their transition time. Embrace and extend, if you like. Disintegration into separate ethnic and religious States is not in the best interest of the peoples of Turkey, nor in the best interests of Europe.
Push too hard, too soon and Turkey will break. Does Europe truly want a theocracy sitting on their doorstep?
If it isn't mission critical stuff, Waveform is good. I have a server over there and have been reasonably pleased. However, on two occasions where I had to call support, they took a few hours -- during normal business hours -- to get hands-on.
They do offer dial-in backup lines, so if things are critical I suggest sticking a modem in your server and having them plug into a POTS line. Then configure your server for providing a terminal on serial via the modem.
I'm not sure if they offer remote reboot. I need to check myself.
What irony. Just last night I connected via VPN to my corporate intranet. I needed a copy of Solaris 10 (5 CDs), along with Solaris 9 (2 CDs) and some other utilities, for some lab work I was doing.
Good thing I wasn't using my Verizon Unlimited account. I doubt they could have told the difference.
The initial random seed used for the ghost movement is never changed. If you move in a pattern, they react the same way every time. Thus, it looks like the ghosts move in predictable patters. I used to be able to run thru several levels of Pac Man blindfolded, just by memorizing the patterns.
It changes at the higher levels because the ghosts speed up and move so fast that if you're off by a split-second in your pattern, they'll take another turn in the maze and be off in one of the possible permutations.
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Dunno, I've never paid attention to racehorse names.
Each AV company names things slightly differently, but the general method is:
TYPE/Common-VARIANT
Type can be "W32" or "TROJ" or "VB" or "SB", etc.
Common is a descriptive common name. In this case, the virus places a file called badbunny.js or badbunny.py and downloads a file called badbunny.jpg. Thus "badbunny" was chosen.
Variant is usually alphabetic, starting with A and going into double letters (AA, AB, etc.) if necessary.
How are racehorses named?
SB = StarBasic, because it is written as a StarBasic macro.
-A = First variant. If someone modifies it to do something else, then you'll see -B, -C, etc.
Charles
My kids have Cingular (now AT&T) pre-paid phones with a set budget per month. On these phones SMS messages are $0.05 each, so $0.15 is outrageous.
Sorry, but you are probably in the same boat. These companies do a driving business overseas as well.
I know of one setup that has installed probe systems in the following countries in just the past month: South Africa, Singapore, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Britain and Poland.
That was just in offhand conversation with a sales manager for one company. And considering I'm a contracted installer who has been putting these systems in all over the U.S. for the past couple months, and the discussion was about "hey, how would you like to go over here", I believe him.
They just set up regional sales offices in Europe, Africa and Asia. They already have one in Latin America.
When BSG first came out, I missed the opening mini-series and first couple episodes. After that, I watched 15 minutes of one and stopped.
I stopped because I thought "no, I need to see this from the beginning". There was no way to really pick it up in the middle.
Thanks to the modern miracles of DVD and bittorrent, I've now seen every episode broadcast except one (2nd to last, season 3) and am quite glad I waited. I was right to start from the beginning and pity anyone that tried to jump in the middle.
I can see where this would be considered a serious detriment to the studio. Kind of hard to pick up viewers as you go.
And .5 meter is the limit. His point is the NGA forked over over $1 Billion to help companies launch satellites that get better than .5 m resolution, and by law -- U.S. AND European, IIRC -- they are supposed to degrade the image to .5 m before selling it to non-approved clients.
They have $$, and money talks. So much so that during the beginning of the Afghan war, they simply BOUGHT UP EVERY SAT PHOTO AVAILABLE of the area for months.
Half-meter resolution is good. If you know what you're looking at, you can identify makes and models of vehicles. But they're probably talking about ~.1 meter resolution which is more like "Hey, look -- he dropped his wallet while exiting the factory red 2006 BMW Z4 with the black rag-top. Wow, get a load of the rack on that blond he is with!"
Considering Europe can't even get Galileo off the ground, they don't seem like likely candidates to rush into the skies with super-spy sats.
They're on the list, right after flying cars, personal jet packs and affordable, convenient Lunar vacations.
If that does happen -- and hasn't already -- you will NEVER see a story on it. The reporter that runs that will find every lead, every contact and every story from the gov't sector totally dry up. Press credentials would be revoked and they'd probably get a "random" audit from the IRS, along with the census fill-it-all-out-or-go-to-prison long form. They'd be lucky if they could get a local dog catcher to talk to them.
I'm in southern China, and the way I heard it was "...a new submarine cable system that will link the USA directly with South East Asia."
Yeah, it is one of them new-fangled, bi-directional cables. They're all the rage in Europe and needed for Internet 2.0, so make sure you upgrade!
Montana did not ratify Prohibition, nor did Montana law enforcement enforce Prohibition within Montana's borders.
The Montana Constitution includes the following clause: Section 33. Importation of armed persons. No armed person or persons or armed body of men shall be brought into this state for the preservation of the peace, or the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or of the governor when the legislature cannot be convened.
This has been used, in the recent past, to limit federal law enforcement incursions into the state, a fact which has been credited with being responsible for the group known as the Montana Freeman being arrested (by the Montana police, who wished to prevent another Waco-type incident), without a shot being fired. This means that Montana does not feel that the feds have the unlimited right to do as they please in Montana, or to Montanans.
A resolution has been passed by the Montana legislature requiring federal law enforcement that wishes to do anything in Montana to act through the appropriate local sheriff. The intention is to eventually give this the force of law. This tends to signify Montana's sovereignty as a state, as well as its willingness to stand up to the feds.
And, for a passport, you do not NEED a photo ID if you can get a citizen to whom you are well known to vouch for you. You'll also need some other paperwork, but you CAN get thru without a driver's license.
Thanks, but we're both wrong. Me, moreso than you. :-)
o pics/Greek_numbers.html
In Ancient Greek, Digamma is the sixth letter/number. It, along with Koppa and San (after Omega), are obsolete and no longer used in Greek.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistT
In Greek, Delta Delta Delta. Since the Ancient Greeks knew of powers, 6^6^6 is also written as Delta Delta Delta.
Many interpretations can be made when your language is the same as your numbering system, like Greek and Hebrew. (Alpha = A = 1, Beta = B = 2, etc.)
And Heinlein's book is one of my all-time favorites.
Charles
Actually, I do believe that is one of the reasons the Japanese are so polite. The society is so population dense, they have to be overly polite because lots of people used to carry very sharp knives and would use them at the drop of a hat. Granted, that was a long time ago, but it has served them well.
Be polite, regardless, because someone -- you or the other guy -- just might snap.
"Never" in this context means "When Robert Plant and Jimmy Page die and the next generation greed of the people whose only connection to the music is a check, kicks in."
Patents last 20 years in the U.S., IIRC.
This OCR is a refined version of HP's Tesseract, which HP handed over to UNLV some time ago. The original code was developed starting in 1985, so there is a good possibility patents are not valid.
"You might wonder why Google is interested in OCR? In a nutshell, we are all about making information available to users, and when this information is in a paper document, OCR is the process by which we can convert the pages of this document into text that can then be used for indexing."
Charles
Okay, both of you out of the pool!
The first one knows what he is talking about, and the second guy apologizes for being a bit to harsh in a comment? This is Slashdot, folks. That sort of behavior just is NOT tolerated!
Head on over to Technocrat every now and then, will you?
Charles
Do you think OJ is still looking for the real killer?
:-)
Do you have any idea how many golf courses there are in the United States alone that need to be searched and verified Nicole-killer free? Any idea at all? Hell, by now the killer could also be at any number of European courses! He could even be a Yakuza contract killer who, right this very moment, is hitting 300 yard drives off the rooftop of a Tokyo skyscraper.
Who's gonna check all those courses, you? Don't make me laugh. Until you walk a 36-hole in O.J.'s Bruno Magli's -- photoshopped publicity photos not withstanding -- don't be dissin' The Juice!
After all, you could be next.
The difference is, besides just one death, is that these people were fighting to be included. At no point was there a threat of civil war or the break-up of France. The immigrants just wanted to stop being considered second-class citizens. They want to belong. Lots of mayhem and chaos for the cameras, but most of it was insured and nothing permanent was damaged.
If Turkey breaks up, we're talking the attempted formation of an independent Kurdistan, which traditionally spans parts of Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Syria. You'd be looking at possible land grabs by many of those countries, as they all make "traditional" border claims. Paybacks for the Armenian massacre of 1915 could escalate the whole area into a bloodbath that makes Southern Iraq look like a safe-haven.
I'm not saying everything in Europe is all laid back and nothing ever happens, I'm just saying they've evolved more into a bureaucracy than anything else. They're much more inclined to a "just relax, let's talk and we can work things out" attitude than most everyone in Asia Minor.
It'll be a shock, but give it another 50 years and I think becoming a member of the E.U. will be the best thing that happened to Turkey since the formation of the secular state by the Atatürk.
The difference is, if the E.U. has a setback -- like not getting their Constitution passed -- they will work it out without much fuss. Europe has evolved their civilization to a point where there really is little threat of one peoples exploding forth in a ravenous orgy of violence. World War II seems to have cured them of that.
If Turkey fails, it won't disintegrate, it will explode and the result will be a regional war and instability for more than a generation. Think what would happen if Turkey split into rival groups of Kurds, Armenians, Islamist Turks and Secular Turks. That can't be allowed to happen.
Europe isn't compromising any of their values. They would be guiding a member along the path, knowing the long term benefit of brining Turkey into the fold outweighs the short term benefits of holding the hard line on their "convictions".
This isn't without precedent in the E.U. There are nations who haven't fully aligned subsidies, trade policies, tariffs and other laws fully. But, progress is being made and the E.U. is thinking long term. Patience is a virtue.
Previously Nazi-occupied countries are over-sensitive about the swastika, but the rest of Europe isn't.
Ummm...wow. Entertaining statement.
You do realize that "the rest of Europe" in this context includes Iceland, the U.K., Ireland and... well, that is about it. Okay, Spain was run by Franco who was Hitler's bitch, and Albania was occupied by Italy -- again Hitler's bitch. Sweden and Switzerland were "neutral", but still, your statement is so fucked up it boggles the mind.
Close, but not cigar.
Thomas Jefferson, statesman that he was, signed off on the document that decreed slaves were not people, but property and would count only as 2/3rds of a person for the purposes of representation. Never mind that the slaves, not being people, weren't represented anyway.
Jefferson knew that the time was not yet right. Had the U.S. Constitution mandated the end of slavery and full rights for ex-slaves, the Republic would have fallen apart and the Revolution would have been for naught. However, the seeds were sewn for that phrase you quoted to come to fruition when the time was ripe. In the case of slavery, it was almost a century later.
The time is not right in Turkey, or many other nations, for full freedom of speech. Like it or not, there are some very heated passions in that part of the world. They are forcibly integrating peoples and ethnic groups who don't want to be integrated, and that will take time. Generations, maybe centuries, will pass but to see thru their development as a modern, peaceful, enlightened, secular and democratic nation they believe the vision of the Ataturk is the best path. That vision is still young and fragile.
Formal membership in the E.U. will, I believe, shorten their transition time. Embrace and extend, if you like. Disintegration into separate ethnic and religious States is not in the best interest of the peoples of Turkey, nor in the best interests of Europe.
Push too hard, too soon and Turkey will break. Does Europe truly want a theocracy sitting on their doorstep?
If it isn't mission critical stuff, Waveform is good. I have a server over there and have been reasonably pleased. However, on two occasions where I had to call support, they took a few hours -- during normal business hours -- to get hands-on.
They do offer dial-in backup lines, so if things are critical I suggest sticking a modem in your server and having them plug into a POTS line. Then configure your server for providing a terminal on serial via the modem.
I'm not sure if they offer remote reboot. I need to check myself.
Charles
What irony. Just last night I connected via VPN to my corporate intranet. I needed a copy of Solaris 10 (5 CDs), along with Solaris 9 (2 CDs) and some other utilities, for some lab work I was doing.
Good thing I wasn't using my Verizon Unlimited account. I doubt they could have told the difference.
Dude, the Swiss invaded Liechtenstein just a couple weeks back. They are a rouge nation, and need to be controlled!
The initial random seed used for the ghost movement is never changed. If you move in a pattern, they react the same way every time. Thus, it looks like the ghosts move in predictable patters. I used to be able to run thru several levels of Pac Man blindfolded, just by memorizing the patterns.
It changes at the higher levels because the ghosts speed up and move so fast that if you're off by a split-second in your pattern, they'll take another turn in the maze and be off in one of the possible permutations.