Get yourself a handheld EMP device or make one. I doubt that these critters will ever have the power, configuration or volume to contain farraday shielding of a sufficient nature.
Just don't crush the remains under your foot like you would normally do...:D
This system is very nice. It is in use on all of the highways in our densest populated area and it shows you how fast traffic is moving through the lanes too! Much more detailed than what this plan encompasses. Do check out the link in the parent, they make for nice pics even if you'll never ever use them because you won't drive those lanes.
I just hope they'll make try to make them update faster and put some derivates online like small time-loops that show traffic patterns.
The info can certainly be used in many other interesting ways too.
It took them quite a while to put the pieces together, but these facts, I think, are a much better indicator of how things went wrong. It still doesn't give any clues as to what caused the damage to begin with though.
One can only hope that NASA will find the pieces (literally, but no pun intended) that show what damaged that wing. If and when such evidence is found we can finally can close this case. My personal hope is that whatever is found will further our advance into space, not hold it back.
All in all the best read I've had on the subject untill now.
Secondly, there is one known, proven and severe psychiatric effect that can be triggered by pot: schizofrenia.
A recent study showed it is a seperate effect. Seperate from pre-disposition I mean. However, the increase in risk for schizofrenia from smoking pot alone is less than 1/20 of the total risk for schizofrenia. (The normal incidence of schizofrenia is about 0.5 % to 1.0 % of the general population).
In lab animals this was further tested to show that there is indeed a change in the chemical balance of neurotransmitter from using THC.
To put it differently, there is a risk for neurological alteration/damage and resulting mental disorder. The risk is very small and doesn't warrant much worry in itself, especially compared to the health effects of many other substances including lots of legal ones. I do think the risk should be advertised more as is done with the health risks of tobacco. There's one problem with that: to regulate something implies legalizing it and that seems like a remote possibility for the moment at least.
In the Netherlands we have these kind of 'payphone terminals' installed by our national telecom provider (yes, the old privatized giant). You can find them in larger train-stations and on the streets of our major cities. I've never seen one being used though. Although we are behind in a lot of tech things over here, compared to the US, mobile phones isn't one of them and I think that if the coverage of cell-phones the US ever reaches the same levels as over here you can kiss profitability on whatever land-solution goodbye. Pitty though, I think payphones are a necessity and the terminals _could_ be quite usefull.
It takes only one black-hatter, his installed base of zombies and a newly invented exploit to take out enormous quantities of vulnerable servers. Automagically. In under a day. Make that in under an hour. Ergo, you don't need script-kiddies. The only thing that saves us is that most black-hatters are not willing to risk getting caught so easily by doing the attacks themselves. They usually just want their fellow black-hatters to know how smart they are. 80% of the rest of them never even make their exploit known. They use it to their (financial) gain and get out. They are not going to tell anybody if they have any clue.
I don't know for sure but looking at the maps it seems as if the 'cool vizualization' is automagically created by the resolution of the system. If roads are wider than the resolution of th system you will obviously see that the center of the road is most intensely travelled while the sides of the roads are less travelled. That way you get a line that varies in intensity in relation to it's width with the center being more intensely marked. The colorcoding enhances on that to show single resolutionpoints that get travelled on multiple times in a more intense color.
I suspect that there are in fact no exact resolution points but accumulation of overlapping points is used. This would fit nicely since a side of the road will be lapped less because there will be no traffic out of the boundries of the road. Example: take two lines and put three dots in between that each are 1/2 the width between the lines in diameter and that overlap. The center of the 'road' will more overlapped than the sides.
reading back it seems I can't clearly explain this in words. Oh well.
Unfortunatly, it is very possible the warming will set off the next ice-age. Not much is understood about global climate at all and especially about how large changes come about.
It is not at all unthinkable that warming will lead to an overload situation that pushes the larger feedback-loops into a new equilibrium and that new 'state' may very well be an ice-age...
So better get a new bathing-suit and a woolen coat while you're out shopping. Just in case...
Let me get out my calculator for this one... Aw, F. it, lets just do the global picture: If sales of units fall more than the value of those sales, units must have gotten more expensive.
So... Might it just be that the already inflated prices (22 euros/mainstream CD) being pushed higher combined with economic down-turn have anything to do with this?
These greedy bastards should be thoroughly thankfull people apparantly like music so much that they haven't stopped buying CD's at all in favour of buying food, paying their phonebills or anything else that for most people rates higher on their list than CD's.
All the features you are missing and then some with regard to tabs are in multizilla. This is an add-on to mozilla that allows you to switch the tabs to the bottom of the screen and use shortcuts to switch tabs. Combined with mousegestures courtesy of optimoz you can work a lot more effeciently and unclutter your desktop to boot. No going back for me now, I get bitten by trying to use gestures on other peoples PC's way too much. I know my browser is better!
Even _with_ Qchain one needs to reboot at least once. I haven't seen that happen to me in endless rows of apt-get update/upgrades in the last few years.
In other words: Qchain just masks some of the badness, it doesn't take it away. Furthermore, my apt-get trounces your hfnetcheck (and I have used both hfnetcheck and qchain myself).
I'm all for people defending microsoft, as long as they do it quietly.
A window with Hotmail open and indeed nothing but junk-mail.
Another window open with Slashdot and this article.
The funny thing about it is that normally those two windows side by side look like a total mis-match. They do so now but the actual content is uncomfortably the same...
The SIM is anonymous. I mean that. Pre-paid. Paid in Cash. Can be put in any phone.
The trouble comes when you buy an unblocked phone and then decide to put a free SIM in it. That's the behaviour they want to block. If they can than you can't use your handheld phone anonymously anymore.
Oh well, we'll let this slide just like the rest of those small intrusions. Talk to you on the other side.
It took me about a microsecond to think of a purpose that even _you_ might want to change the IMEI for:
Privacy...
It is possible for the network to disable or block your phone remotely using the IMEI. I don't think thats a right they should have unless I harm their network. Therefore changing the IMEI will make it impossible for them to block a phone based on IMEI and will make it impossible for them to trace or block legit phones (as in bought and paid for) at their whim.
There currently are no provisions to stop the providers from doing reprehensible things like this and there most certainly isn't any ethical code stopping them so changing the IMEI is my only defence. I want that.
"Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money," the paper said. "This is what the Onion does."
It cited a recent Onion article about the U.S. government issuing life jackets to all Americans for some unexplained reason. "According to congressional workers, the Onion is a publication that never ceases making up false reports," the Evening News said.
And once more... for discrediting/slandering them in a national publication.;)
The site www.norwaypost.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
Sad, isn't it?
Anyway, two ways to attack this problem: brute force it or be clever and see if this can be done by social engineering. If there are any people that know him well enough they might. Otoh, the way I choose passwords it might be tough even when people know me.
I remember this story about a similar incident a long while back. Somebody encrypted a file using a new algorithm and couldn't believe how fast that went. To verify the speed he then proceeded to encrypt the backup too and forgot _both_ passwords. This was a long time ago and to this day I don't believe it but the moral of the story is: keep an unecrypted version in an off-line, off-site backup medium in a vault for digital media in duplicate.
Things we would like from this new and improved distro: - Debians packaging format but with signatures from day one and perhaps some other things. (I don't care if it's not going to be debian compatible, if it's good enough Debian will adapt it too.) - LSB compliant - A fingerprint database like Sun's for all files/binaries. - An overall maintainer for the format of this packaging standard.
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Others have said it before but now that they are going for a change they better make it a big change for the better...
Except for that part about operating systems causing men to do anything but kill -9, SEGV or TRAP women and the part where you 'switch' operating systems, I think I like you (in the nicest posible way).
Anyway, I hope you have a great party and I think you can be pretty sure the whiners will be too busy whining to be there to spoil it for you.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm getting scared.
Not much of the 'revolutionary' things he has said has ever panned out.
Corollary: with friends like him, who needs Microsoft?
Not that this will be read anymore but still:
:D
Get yourself a handheld EMP device or make one. I doubt that these critters will ever have the power, configuration or volume to contain farraday shielding of a sufficient nature.
Just don't crush the remains under your foot like you would normally do...
Please inform everyone of the rules you use to do this? It would save a lot of duplicated efforts. TIA.
In addition, it seems that some browsers are even able to... send fake identification strings.
Let's all use just those and rotate ID strings every 5 minutes, that should teach 'em!
Where's the Mod points when you need them.
This system is very nice. It is in use on all of the highways in our densest populated area and it shows you how fast traffic is moving through the lanes too! Much more detailed than what this plan encompasses. Do check out the link in the parent, they make for nice pics even if you'll never ever use them because you won't drive those lanes.
I just hope they'll make try to make them update faster and put some derivates online like small time-loops that show traffic patterns.
The info can certainly be used in many other interesting ways too.
It took them quite a while to put the pieces together, but these facts, I think, are a much better indicator of how things went wrong. It still doesn't give any clues as to what caused the damage to begin with though.
One can only hope that NASA will find the pieces (literally, but no pun intended) that show what damaged that wing. If and when such evidence is found we can finally can close this case. My personal hope is that whatever is found will further our advance into space, not hold it back.
All in all the best read I've had on the subject untill now.
*Bzzz* _you_ are wrong.
First of all, I'm a major supporter of pot.
Secondly, there is one known, proven and severe psychiatric effect that can be triggered by pot: schizofrenia.
A recent study showed it is a seperate effect. Seperate from pre-disposition I mean. However, the increase in risk for schizofrenia from smoking pot alone is less than 1/20 of the total risk for schizofrenia. (The normal incidence of schizofrenia is about 0.5 % to 1.0 % of the general population).
In lab animals this was further tested to show that there is indeed a change in the chemical balance of neurotransmitter from using THC.
To put it differently, there is a risk for neurological alteration/damage and resulting mental disorder. The risk is very small and doesn't warrant much worry in itself, especially compared to the health effects of many other substances including lots of legal ones. I do think the risk should be advertised more as is done with the health risks of tobacco. There's one problem with that: to regulate something implies legalizing it and that seems like a remote possibility for the moment at least.
In the Netherlands we have these kind of 'payphone terminals' installed by our national telecom provider (yes, the old privatized giant). You can find them in larger train-stations and on the streets of our major cities. I've never seen one being used though. Although we are behind in a lot of tech things over here, compared to the US, mobile phones isn't one of them and I think that if the coverage of cell-phones the US ever reaches the same levels as over here you can kiss profitability on whatever land-solution goodbye. Pitty though, I think payphones are a necessity and the terminals _could_ be quite usefull.
Two words:
DVD-R/W
USB-thumb-stick
Now quit whining and shell out some money.
It takes only one black-hatter, his installed base of zombies and a newly invented exploit to take out enormous quantities of vulnerable servers. Automagically. In under a day. Make that in under an hour. Ergo, you don't need script-kiddies. The only thing that saves us is that most black-hatters are not willing to risk getting caught so easily by doing the attacks themselves. They usually just want their fellow black-hatters to know how smart they are. 80% of the rest of them never even make their exploit known. They use it to their (financial) gain and get out. They are not going to tell anybody if they have any clue.
I don't know for sure but looking at the maps it seems as if the 'cool vizualization' is automagically created by the resolution of the system. If roads are wider than the resolution of th system you will obviously see that the center of the road is most intensely travelled while the sides of the roads are less travelled. That way you get a line that varies in intensity in relation to it's width with the center being more intensely marked. The colorcoding enhances on that to show single resolutionpoints that get travelled on multiple times in a more intense color.
I suspect that there are in fact no exact resolution points but accumulation of overlapping points is used. This would fit nicely since a side of the road will be lapped less because there will be no traffic out of the boundries of the road. Example: take two lines and put three dots in between that each are 1/2 the width between the lines in diameter and that overlap. The center of the 'road' will more overlapped than the sides.
reading back it seems I can't clearly explain this in words. Oh well.
Two points in response:
- Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands
- Killing yourself is illegal in the Netherlands
Just so you know...
Unfortunatly, it is very possible the warming will set off the next ice-age. Not much is understood about global climate at all and especially about how large changes come about.
It is not at all unthinkable that warming will lead to an overload situation that pushes the larger feedback-loops into a new equilibrium and that new 'state' may very well be an ice-age...
So better get a new bathing-suit and a woolen coat while you're out shopping. Just in case...
Let me get out my calculator for this one... Aw, F. it, lets just do the global picture: If sales of units fall more than the value of those sales, units must have gotten more expensive.
So... Might it just be that the already inflated prices (22 euros/mainstream CD) being pushed higher combined with economic down-turn have anything to do with this?
These greedy bastards should be thoroughly thankfull people apparantly like music so much that they haven't stopped buying CD's at all in favour of buying food, paying their phonebills or anything else that for most people rates higher on their list than CD's.
Sheesh.
"Adobe takes it on the PDF"?
All the features you are missing and then some with regard to tabs are in multizilla. This is an add-on to mozilla that allows you to switch the tabs to the bottom of the screen and use shortcuts to switch tabs. Combined with mousegestures courtesy of optimoz you can work a lot more effeciently and unclutter your desktop to boot. No going back for me now, I get bitten by trying to use gestures on other peoples PC's way too much. I know my browser is better!
Even _with_ Qchain one needs to reboot at least once. I haven't seen that happen to me in endless rows of apt-get update/upgrades in the last few years.
In other words: Qchain just masks some of the badness, it doesn't take it away. Furthermore, my apt-get trounces your hfnetcheck (and I have used both hfnetcheck and qchain myself).
I'm all for people defending microsoft, as long as they do it quietly.
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A window with Hotmail open and indeed nothing but junk-mail.
Another window open with Slashdot and this article.
The funny thing about it is that normally those two windows side by side look like a total mis-match. They do so now but the actual content is uncomfortably the same...
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Listening turns out to be difficult:
The SIM is anonymous. I mean that. Pre-paid. Paid in Cash. Can be put in any phone.
The trouble comes when you buy an unblocked phone and then decide to put a free SIM in it. That's the behaviour they want to block. If they can than you can't use your handheld phone anonymously anymore.
Oh well, we'll let this slide just like the rest of those small intrusions. Talk to you on the other side.
Pardon me while I cough something up in disgust.
It took me about a microsecond to think of a purpose that even _you_ might want to change the IMEI for:
Privacy...
It is possible for the network to disable or block your phone remotely using the IMEI. I don't think thats a right they should have unless I harm their network. Therefore changing the IMEI will make it impossible for them to block a phone based on IMEI and will make it impossible for them to trace or block legit phones (as in bought and paid for) at their whim.
There currently are no provisions to stop the providers from doing reprehensible things like this and there most certainly isn't any ethical code stopping them so changing the IMEI is my only defence. I want that.
(Yes I wear a tin hat. Sue me...)
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Due to 'due diligence' this 'hole' has been fixed. Patches are out for both 1.3.x and 2.0.x.
To all responsible sys-admins out there: go get the patch(ed version)!
(Another day, another bug squashed in under 2 days).
And once more... for discrediting/slandering them in a national publication.
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Netcraft.com:
The site www.norwaypost.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98.
Sad, isn't it?
Anyway, two ways to attack this problem: brute force it or be clever and see if this can be done by social engineering. If there are any people that know him well enough they might. Otoh, the way I choose passwords it might be tough even when people know me.
I remember this story about a similar incident a long while back. Somebody encrypted a file using a new algorithm and couldn't believe how fast that went. To verify the speed he then proceeded to encrypt the backup too and forgot _both_ passwords. This was a long time ago and to this day I don't believe it but the moral of the story is: keep an unecrypted version in an off-line, off-site backup medium in a vault for digital media in duplicate.
I've used Debian and have been fairly happy.
Things we would like from this new and improved distro:
- Debians packaging format but with signatures from day one and perhaps some other things. (I don't care if it's not going to be debian compatible, if it's good enough Debian will adapt it too.)
- LSB compliant
- A fingerprint database like Sun's for all files/binaries.
- An overall maintainer for the format of this packaging standard.
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Others have said it before but now that they are going for a change they better make it a big change for the better...
You go, girl!
...
Uhm. I mean... You stay, girl!
...
No that's not coming out right either...
Oh what the hell...
Except for that part about operating systems causing men to do anything but kill -9, SEGV or TRAP women and the part where you 'switch' operating systems, I think I like you (in the nicest posible way).
Anyway, I hope you have a great party and I think you can be pretty sure the whiners will be too busy whining to be there to spoil it for you.