One of the reasons that drug companies put acetaminophen in things like hydrocodone and dextropropoxyphene in the first place is because they make it more difficult (ironically) to overdose on or use recreationally.
Of course, instead of the intended effect of less drug abuse, we now have more liver failures, at a higher societal cost. This is the same thinking that has people opposed to clean needles programs - does less clean needles mean people will inject less? No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.
Foam corners on desks has downsides - it would be ugly. Will separating codeine and acetaminophen in prescription drugs have any affect other than saving lives?
Control Panel, Firewall, Change Settings, Advanced, deselect every network interface.
As you noticed, just turning the firewall off in the General tab will not be permanent. In Vista, at least, the firewall will be turned back on when you switch networks (connect to a wireless network or plug in an ethernet cable).
If I don't have remote security, nothing else matters.
This is not true. There are plenty of things in place on your linux box that minimize the impact of a network intrusion.
First of all, you run network services as nonprivileged users. If I find a vulnerability in your ntpd, and exploit it, I can't for example delete files or shut down the server, or setup a keylogger, because the ntpd user doesn't have the rights to do any of that.
You might even run certain services in chroot jails, where they have no access to most of the filesystem.
However, a local root exploit makes this all much more serious. You would be able to turn the unprivileged ntpd login into a root login.
If you don't run any network services at all (or you firewall them from the world), fine, local exploits aren't going to be an issue for you.
A local exploit is a potential problem even if you're the only user. If an attacker combines a remote non-root exploit (say an Apache bug that gets him access as the 'nobody' user) with a local exploit (that upgrades 'nobody' to 'root'), he now has a remove root exploit.
Local in this case just means a logged-in, unprivileged user that can run arbitrary code.
It's not a myth. The myth I see is people spending big $$$ on a quality gold-plated monster composite video cable. Even the cheapest (shielded) S-video cable will produce a better picture. Just look at the setup menu text on any cheap DVD player. Text with fine vertical lines would look blurry and have bleeding colour with composite video, but be crisp with S-video. Hook up your computer to a TV via composite and S-video and tell me which picture is more readable.
I could see your point if we were talking about VHS. Regular VCRs (not S-VHS) only had composite out because that's as good as the signal on the tape is going to get. But DVD players, computers, and ATSC TV signals will all show improvement with S-video.
I guess you posted anonymously because you're full of shit.
That's not what they're saying. They're saying that the average new CRT TV bought now consumes more power than the average LCD/Plasma TV bought now. It makes sense to me, as probably not many CRT TVs above 27" are being sold, but there are a substantial number of 37-42" LCDs being sold. Also, LCDs are getting better, brighter picture quality every year, and that means they consume more power.
If you can sniff on the network, you can poison the ARP cache and plant a man in the middle router. You can redirect all the HTTPS traffic to your own server (which presents its own BS certificate), proxy everything to the real HTTPS server, and log everything that is sent or received. The idiot IT guy, blindly accepting every new certificate he sees, unknowningly connects to the malicious HTTPS server, and all his traffic is logged.
The way the original poster was (ab)using SSL isn't offering security at all, just an illusion. In fact, something like this might already be in place on his network, and he would never know.
I don't think bash makes ssh connections. Are you sure it didn't just fill that in because/home/user/big-file-name-with-lots-of-stupid-things exists on the local system too?
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Competition from Chrome was a good thing: first the Javascript improvements, now separate processes for the plugins.
They're not talking about an outright ban on acetaminophen. Read the article.
Of course, instead of the intended effect of less drug abuse, we now have more liver failures, at a higher societal cost. This is the same thinking that has people opposed to clean needles programs - does less clean needles mean people will inject less? No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.
Foam corners on desks has downsides - it would be ugly. Will separating codeine and acetaminophen in prescription drugs have any affect other than saving lives?
Giant TVs everywhere happened.
Here's a video from dl.tv: http://dl.tv/2008/01/ces_2008_microvision_show_proj.php
There's no mention of battery life, and it looks like the framerate might be terrible, but it's a real product!
There's no price, and demo of this thing working, because it doesn't exist yet. But they do have CG mockups in 10 different colors!
Control Panel, Firewall, Change Settings, Advanced, deselect every network interface.
As you noticed, just turning the firewall off in the General tab will not be permanent. In Vista, at least, the firewall will be turned back on when you switch networks (connect to a wireless network or plug in an ethernet cable).
Of course, Windows didn't have memory protection until Windows NT (1993), and Macs until MacOS X (2001). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_protection
That hasn't been true since like 1980, when processors started coming out with MMUs. Learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_unit
This is not true. There are plenty of things in place on your linux box that minimize the impact of a network intrusion.
First of all, you run network services as nonprivileged users. If I find a vulnerability in your ntpd, and exploit it, I can't for example delete files or shut down the server, or setup a keylogger, because the ntpd user doesn't have the rights to do any of that.
You might even run certain services in chroot jails, where they have no access to most of the filesystem.
However, a local root exploit makes this all much more serious. You would be able to turn the unprivileged ntpd login into a root login.
If you don't run any network services at all (or you firewall them from the world), fine, local exploits aren't going to be an issue for you.
A local exploit is a potential problem even if you're the only user. If an attacker combines a remote non-root exploit (say an Apache bug that gets him access as the 'nobody' user) with a local exploit (that upgrades 'nobody' to 'root'), he now has a remove root exploit.
Local in this case just means a logged-in, unprivileged user that can run arbitrary code.
Read up on blended threats.
I think you just mean watts, not watts per hour.
Another common unit for power is kilowatt hours per year (1 W = 8.77 kWh/yr).
It's not a myth. The myth I see is people spending big $$$ on a quality gold-plated monster composite video cable. Even the cheapest (shielded) S-video cable will produce a better picture. Just look at the setup menu text on any cheap DVD player. Text with fine vertical lines would look blurry and have bleeding colour with composite video, but be crisp with S-video. Hook up your computer to a TV via composite and S-video and tell me which picture is more readable.
I could see your point if we were talking about VHS. Regular VCRs (not S-VHS) only had composite out because that's as good as the signal on the tape is going to get. But DVD players, computers, and ATSC TV signals will all show improvement with S-video.
I guess you posted anonymously because you're full of shit.
Oops, I mean it only allocates/take up enough disk space to hold the single byte you've written.
That doesn't allocate any space at all. It just creates a sparse file.
Besides, even if you did write all the bytes to disk, it still wouldn't be the same as an extent, because extents are contiguous (not fragmented).
Oops, not just "new" sets, but the point stands that the larger sets are not going to be CRTs.
That's not what they're saying. They're saying that the average new CRT TV bought now consumes more power than the average LCD/Plasma TV bought now. It makes sense to me, as probably not many CRT TVs above 27" are being sold, but there are a substantial number of 37-42" LCDs being sold.
Also, LCDs are getting better, brighter picture quality every year, and that means they consume more power.
Here's a cheaper one for around $170 (Magnavox ZV450MW8): http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5622734
You need to get a VCR with an ATSC tuner:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-DVDR3545V-37-Upscaling-Built/dp/B000N81C42/ref=pd_sim_e_5
http://www.amazon.com/JVC-DRMV100B-Upconverting-Recorder-Built/dp/B0015IL57I/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1231275255&sr=8-24
They're $200, but it's worth it because you can set up timed recordings on whatever channel you want, and they also include a DVD player.
Exactly. It's essentially a subsidy for inefficient vehicles.
Coral cache has it: http://www.nzgames.com.nyud.net/forums/showthread.php?t=81672
Pretty fast mirror, actually.
It probably will. Guitar Hero: World Tour (GH4 essentially) had KFC ads galore.
If you can sniff on the network, you can poison the ARP cache and plant a man in the middle router. You can redirect all the HTTPS traffic to your own server (which presents its own BS certificate), proxy everything to the real HTTPS server, and log everything that is sent or received. The idiot IT guy, blindly accepting every new certificate he sees, unknowningly connects to the malicious HTTPS server, and all his traffic is logged.
The way the original poster was (ab)using SSL isn't offering security at all, just an illusion. In fact, something like this might already be in place on his network, and he would never know.
I don't think bash makes ssh connections. Are you sure it didn't just fill that in because /home/user/big-file-name-with-lots-of-stupid-things exists on the local system too?