You don't need a live cd. Just about every version of *nix I've worked with has some way to get root locally. Almost all of them have a single user mode, or some way to change init to/bin/sh.
For windows.. well heck, why am I going to give up all the answers. If they want the answers, they can hire me and my own select team of sysadmins to go through and clean up that mess. The contact page is on my site.:)
But yes, I've had to do quite a bit of cleanup over the years with lost passwords, or ex-employees "forgetting" them. Usually I don't need a disk.
He obviously didn't do his job very well. They should have been able to lock him out at a moment's notice, and the other admins would keep running the show. It may be bad for job security through extortion, but it's good security practice. So what if you don't want to leave the job, it's your employers network, not yours.
There are quite a few vehicles that take specially encoded keys, so the only way to get a duplicate is to go to the manufacturer. I'm sure they have a patent on that particular key, so if someone were to mass market them, they wouldn't be for long.
There's a reason they've gone away from the regular steel keys, and 99% of it isn't for security. The resistor in the key trick works for security. There are only a handful of values for those, but one wrong one leaves the computer disabled for 15 minutes. I had a car with a worn connection (lots of miles, lots of starts and stops), so occasionally, if I jumped in and started it too quick, I wouldn't be in much of a rush. I went as far as changing my starter one day, because I turned the key but nothing happened, even though I had power. I felt like an idiot when they tested the starter and said "your key must be worn, and didn't make contact when you started".
I couldn't even get any tech to guide me towards the mystery box that controls it. I was so annoyed after that happening a few times, that I wanted to just bypass it under the dash with a resistor. I didn't have enough money for another car, nor even a new ignition lock, so I was stuck with sitting in a parking lot on occasion.
I wish they'd go back quite a few years. They've made cars so complicated that it frustrating to repair them. Is it out of gas, or is one of hundreds of electrical components or miles of wire nonfunctional? They've done it in the name of efficiency and environmental quality, but does a 7mph SUV really help us where a 30mph car would do better?
I was given a MG Midget, as an abandon project. It's cited as getting over 30mpg. I may be able to improve that and help the emissions out with better tuning. The damned thing only has a 7.5 gallon gas tank, and is suppose to have a range of over 300 miles per tank. Of course, it's small enough to stick in the trunk of my Firebird.:) I haven't driven it on the road yet (waiting for the title before I buy tires), but it's so short, I'd be dwarfed by everyone including motorcycles.:)
Aw, that's easy. Search Google for Dropa Stones, Phaistos Disc, Bi disks (linked for clarity), Arkalochori Axe, Anatolian hieroglyphs, Gobekli Tepe, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Pnakotic Manuscripts.
If that doesn't get your head spinning with conspiracies, start thinking about how much was probably destroyed through action or negligence over the centuries. You also have to consider much of this was not found or understood until recently. What will we find about the past in the next 100 years? Well, assuming the conspiracies don't eat us in our sleep.:)
Everything at Google is Beta. They're like a bad project manager. They can start things. They can even make them pretty good, but they'll never actually finish anything.:)
I can't comment much on the game. I primarily use Linux machines, so I'll have to plug in a Windows machine, and see if it turns on, before I can play.
Based on the information available, he had to make a tough decision. Regardless if the whole 9/11 scenario was a choreographed work of fiction, that F-16 pilot had a tough decision to make, and he did what was right, again by the information available.
If it was a choreographed scenario, that plane was to crash into another building, not fall into a field in pieces.
No one in the government will ever admit to it though.
Damn, that's a terrorist's wet dream. If they were to implement this, they'd basically set up the whole plane with a way to disable virtually everyone who would resist. Brilliant.
Instead of having over 100 disruptive people to fight with, suddenly the hijackers would have 4 to 8 people (the flight crew). I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be hard to disrupt the wrist bands. Wouldn't it be a simple matter of putting an insulating strip in between? That could be complicated, but a thin piece of plastic would probably do the job very nicely. i.e., any drivers license or credit card.
rack is the letter designation of the rack in this facility
number is a two digit unit number. This should usually only go from 1 to 40.:)
airport code is the code of the closest airport. In the case of multiple facilities in the
same city, you can either suffix it with an incremented number, or pick another airport.
domain is your domain, you fool.
For an example, we'll use the Internet hub of the world, Nebraska. Our imaginary facility is located just outside of Omaha, which is airport code OMA.
The first machine in the first rack would be: a01.oma.example.com
Now there's never any question to what city you're looking at, nor even the location of it. It's not a big security risk, since this doesn't give up your physical address to unknown 3rd parties. They'd have to know where your facility is, where your cage is, and then get access to it to do any harm.
Naming with arbitrary names is fun, but a pain to remember when you exceed a couple dozen. Which machine was Karma? Well, at one place, we had smart, stupid, free, steak, kfc, ix, ns. Those are the only ones I can remember. It makes it real tough when you need to check through everything. When you can work down sequentially, it makes things much easier.
If you want fun names too, just set cnames to the good name.
Well, you *can* damage your car with an oil change.
People (including shops) have been known to over/under tighten the drain plug and/or filter.
I've had friends call after they've had their oil changed at a shop, and found a large puddle of oil under their car. I've gone over, and seen the mess, where the filter had luckily just come loose at the end of their drive, so they only lost a quart or two.
A couple other common ones, depending on the vehicle, are, do you pre-fill your filter? While you do start out with no oil pressure for a second when you start the car normally, you can run for 10 to 30 seconds with no oil pressure if the filter isn't pre-filled. In reality, it's only necessary to do on very high performance cars (i.e., race cars). A loss of pressure for 10 seconds can be catastrophic, and cost from $20k to over $50k, just for the motor.
The same applies to PC's. Are your hands clean? Did you follow proper static protection? Was the machine turned off when you attempted to change the memory?
I'm the type guy that not only changes his own oil, but I work on my own machines. The amount of a memory isn't usually important when I buy one, since I'm just going to yank it out, and stuff it full with 3rd party memory anyways. The same applies to the hard drive. So what if it has an 80G. When that doesn't suit me, I'll upgrade it with a 1Tb.:)
Other people's arguments that the dealer checks things over is bogus. They'll find something to fix, and not necessarly the right stuff.
A friend brought her minivan over a few months ago for me to look over, because she was presented with a $600 parts quote (and $200 in labor). I took the line items and checked each piece. From the list, it needed $11 in spark plugs. While checking it over, I found the rack&pinion was badly worn. Literally, I could move the drivers front wheel about 15 degrees in each direction, with no motion on the steering wheel nor the other front wheel. That's a serious concern, not fixing parts that aren't broken.
It won't all be flooding that takes care of the 99%. When the tides rise, the ports become unusable. All the power plants along the shores shut down. Core cities shut down. The infrastructure breaks down, not only due to the lack of electricity on the national grid, but the inability to fuel the land transit vehicles (trucks and trains run on diesel).
People will survive in pockets of civilization, not in our widespread connected civilization as we know it. The surviving pockets will suffer plagues due to the inability to get vaccines and medical supplies. Others will suffer famine. Water quality will suffer due to encroachment of sea water and less than desirable conditions upstream in the water supply.
Still, some will survive. They will be the survivors who bring our civilization back over the following decades. Hopefully, they'll do it better, and they will document the cause, effect, and hardships for future generations to know.
You should change that to "I don't mind reasonable licensing of guns"...
I was a good law abiding concealed weapons permit carrying American on the East coast of thee US. Sometimes I'd carry my gun. Usually it would be left locked away somewhere safe. The only real "action" it saw was the shooting range.
I moved to Los Angeles. In driving across the country, every state I passed through was listed as respecting my concealed weapons permit, although I left it tucked safely away in the trunk.
When I got to LA, I investigated getting a valid local permit. That's when I found out that pretty much no one, including most law enforcement, had concealed weapons permits. In good areas, cars were stolen, and houses were broken into frequently.
Over a few years, I got to know people, and could acquire weapons if I wanted. None were that interesting to me for the price, but I could have bought a rather large selection. I'm looking for an AR-15, PS-90, and AK-47. I was offered others ranging from ancient to full auto.
Because home owners could not defend themselves, the criminal element had no real fear of retribution if they did their acts quickly. If you know you have a 5 minute window to get in and out, do it in less than 5 minutes.
I'm back on the East coast now, knowing every other homeowner has a loaded gun at home, and about 1 in 4 drivers have guns in their car. The worst thing I've seen in a similar class neighborhood, is a kid knocked over two mailboxes. I've gone as far as forgetting that I put my car keys on top of my car, in the driveway, and remembering in the morning, where the car hasn't been disturbed.
Don't count on that. US Customs and Immigration are there to ensure bad things don't happen across the borders of the United States of America.
You, Joe-American Citizen, may or may not be welcome into this country. It's their job to find out if you are attempting to do something illegal.
Now, why search those coming IN to the country so carefully? Because you may be bringing in information that would be hazardous to the United States of America.
I think the whole thing is kind of stupid.
Every computer I work on is effectively a dumb terminal. I work over secure channels to machines around the world, and that's where my important stuff resides. If they wanted to scour my machine, they'll find some web sites I browsed (slashdot, google, etc), but won't find a single password, sensitive document, or much of anything.
If someone wanted to bring sensitive data into the country, why not send it up to a server first, and remove it from the laptop?
Really, they're not looking to "defend" the country. They're attempting to gather intelligence. What better than to be able to get passwords to all kinds of corporate entities, without the owners really knowing that it was gathered?
I won't mess with them. Like someone else said, they'll be more than happy to hold you until they can get your information. If there's no information to get, they'll give up pretty easily.
To provide for 1,000 tons, that would be 2,000,000 pounds, or 17,543 clones.
I posed the rest of the scenario to my coworkers for some clarification. Should the clones be sent as one solid lump , or as a cluster of flying Natalie Portmans? The consensus was for a "light sprinkling" of Natalie Portmans. From the peanut gallery we heard, "Make sure there's one for each of us."
Escape velocity from Mars is 11,245 mph. Assuming the pull of Mars gravity and the acceleration into Earth's gravity mitigated each other, and the swarm of Natalie Portmans would still be traveling at 11,245 mph. This is wrong, and they'd be traveling much faster.
So, you now have a swarm of freeze dried Natalie Portman clones flying through space, and then entering Earth's atmosphere. As they re-enter, they would burn up rather quickly, and my assumption would be that there would be a resulting odor of burning Natalie Portman clone skin and flesh as it burned upon re entry.
If it was a solid mass of Natalie Portman clones, the result may be slightly different. The outer layers of Natalie Portman clones would burn up, but depending on how densely they were packed, the inner clones may survive, making a shower of now thawed Natalie Portman clones. I would have to assume that the cluster of clones would break up into their component Natalie Portman clones, which should achieve terminal velocity at about 120mph. Then these freeze dried Natalie Portman clones at terminal velocity would go smacking into the ground, water, or whatever.
I'm not really sure that I'd want freeze dried and thawed Natalie Portman clone landing in my yard at 120mph. While she's really hot as a live human, she'd be less than desireable, and probably even unrecognizable by the time any of us would get our hands on her.
Then again, for most guys, there's a better chance of a freeze dried and thawed Natalie Portman flying through space and landing in their front yard, than for the real one to even give you the time of day.:)
I can believe it was malware. Sure, there are a lot of malware out there that do a lot of things.
What they're describing sounds like malware intended to run up the traffic rankings of a site. If so, why was it gathering pictures too? Poorly coded? It wastes more bandwidth to pull the entire rendering of the page, than just the HTML and JS. While conserving bandwidth isn't high on the priority list, to keep from being noticed, and to keep their efficiency up, the virus writer would do what they could to keep their impact low.
I find it interesting that they don't mention what the malware was. They gave a vauge description of it, but not a positive description. This eludes to me that it could be the mystery virus defense. Beyond that, it could have been installed accidentally (or intentionally) at some point between when he got the laptop and when it was discovered.
A possible scenario is this, including their facts.
1) The defendant was given a laptop from work
2) The laptop had it's antivirus disabled inadvertently by the IT staff.
3) The defendant browsed to web sites, which may or may not have contained illegal images.
4) The virus was accidentally or intentionally acquired through said sites.
5) The defendant viewed web sites containing illegal images, before or while the virus was running.
6) The virus would acquire web site content when near wireless access points.
7) The defendant's employer found said illegal content on said laptop.
8) The defendant was rightfully terminated, and the evidence given to law enforcement.
9) The defense lawyer drew upon their mighty google-ing ability, and found the "it was a virus" defense.
Sounds like a candidate for testing RAID 50, and iSCSI.
I've been talking to someone who does extensive work over iSCSI, and I started performance testing his gear. It tested very nicely.
So, if you were to take say 15 300Gb drives and make it a RAID50, you could have a nice 3.6Tb array. iSCSI performance is great, assuming you take a few things into account (namely bandwidth).
Been there, done that, decrypted it. Unfortunately, I don't have the code any more, and can't track it down. Just because you haven't seen it done doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Why don't you post my decrypted message?:) I kept things easy, but no one's cracked it yet. I want to put on a harder message.
Actually, that was an excellent piece of disinformation. In a recent survey, 16% of the respondants believed that Obama is Muslim. It was an excellent tactic for a completely dirty campaign. Look at who the majority of your constituency is (white Christians). Find their worst fears (Muslims, stereotyped into all being terrorists). Tag that on your opponent.
Likewise, letting it be known that McCain is a well know pedophile, who flies to Thailand twice a year to molest prepubescent boys, would be dirty. Sure, it's an outright lie (or at least I hope so), but if 16% of the people who would respond to surveys believe it, that means a whole lot more people are whispering about it.
Oh my, don't vote for him. Think about the children.
Vote JWSmythe, write in candidate for the 2008 United States Presidential Election!
There used to be a company called "Monster MotorSports", who made a few versions of their "Monster Miata". It made for a very small, very light, very fast, deathtrap.:)
The Miata is RWD, and I think there was room under the hood without any significant design changes, so most of the change would be redoing the motor mounts, cooling, new bell housing, rear end, front springs, etc, etc. A heavier engine totally throws the balance off. Trust me, I've done it on other cars.:)
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You don't need a live cd. Just about every version of *nix I've worked with has some way to get root locally. Almost all of them have a single user mode, or some way to change init to /bin/sh.
For windows .. well heck, why am I going to give up all the answers. If they want the answers, they can hire me and my own select team of sysadmins to go through and clean up that mess. The contact page is on my site. :)
But yes, I've had to do quite a bit of cleanup over the years with lost passwords, or ex-employees "forgetting" them. Usually I don't need a disk.
He obviously didn't do his job very well. They should have been able to lock him out at a moment's notice, and the other admins would keep running the show. It may be bad for job security through extortion, but it's good security practice. So what if you don't want to leave the job, it's your employers network, not yours.
Well, they actually already do that.
There are quite a few vehicles that take specially encoded keys, so the only way to get a duplicate is to go to the manufacturer. I'm sure they have a patent on that particular key, so if someone were to mass market them, they wouldn't be for long.
There's a reason they've gone away from the regular steel keys, and 99% of it isn't for security. The resistor in the key trick works for security. There are only a handful of values for those, but one wrong one leaves the computer disabled for 15 minutes. I had a car with a worn connection (lots of miles, lots of starts and stops), so occasionally, if I jumped in and started it too quick, I wouldn't be in much of a rush. I went as far as changing my starter one day, because I turned the key but nothing happened, even though I had power. I felt like an idiot when they tested the starter and said "your key must be worn, and didn't make contact when you started".
I couldn't even get any tech to guide me towards the mystery box that controls it. I was so annoyed after that happening a few times, that I wanted to just bypass it under the dash with a resistor. I didn't have enough money for another car, nor even a new ignition lock, so I was stuck with sitting in a parking lot on occasion.
I wish they'd go back quite a few years. They've made cars so complicated that it frustrating to repair them. Is it out of gas, or is one of hundreds of electrical components or miles of wire nonfunctional? They've done it in the name of efficiency and environmental quality, but does a 7mph SUV really help us where a 30mph car would do better?
I was given a MG Midget, as an abandon project. It's cited as getting over 30mpg. I may be able to improve that and help the emissions out with better tuning. The damned thing only has a 7.5 gallon gas tank, and is suppose to have a range of over 300 miles per tank. Of course, it's small enough to stick in the trunk of my Firebird. :) I haven't driven it on the road yet (waiting for the title before I buy tires), but it's so short, I'd be dwarfed by everyone including motorcycles. :)
Aw, that's easy. Search Google for Dropa Stones, Phaistos Disc, Bi disks (linked for clarity), Arkalochori Axe, Anatolian hieroglyphs, Gobekli Tepe, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Pnakotic Manuscripts.
If that doesn't get your head spinning with conspiracies, start thinking about how much was probably destroyed through action or negligence over the centuries. You also have to consider much of this was not found or understood until recently. What will we find about the past in the next 100 years? Well, assuming the conspiracies don't eat us in our sleep. :)
Hmmm. I could do that without the Viagra, and if mine grew by 50%, I'd be limited to procreating with 8' tall women..
Everything at Google is Beta. They're like a bad project manager. They can start things. They can even make them pretty good, but they'll never actually finish anything. :)
I can't comment much on the game. I primarily use Linux machines, so I'll have to plug in a Windows machine, and see if it turns on, before I can play.
Flight 93 was shot down. Read about it here:
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=1737
Based on the information available, he had to make a tough decision. Regardless if the whole 9/11 scenario was a choreographed work of fiction, that F-16 pilot had a tough decision to make, and he did what was right, again by the information available.
If it was a choreographed scenario, that plane was to crash into another building, not fall into a field in pieces.
No one in the government will ever admit to it though.
Damn, that's a terrorist's wet dream. If they were to implement this, they'd basically set up the whole plane with a way to disable virtually everyone who would resist. Brilliant.
Instead of having over 100 disruptive people to fight with, suddenly the hijackers would have 4 to 8 people (the flight crew). I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be hard to disrupt the wrist bands. Wouldn't it be a simple matter of putting an insulating strip in between? That could be complicated, but a thin piece of plastic would probably do the job very nicely. i.e., any drivers license or credit card.
I've always been very fond of:
[rack][number].[airport code].[domain]
rack is the letter designation of the rack in this facility
number is a two digit unit number. This should usually only go from 1 to 40. :)
airport code is the code of the closest airport. In the case of multiple facilities in the
same city, you can either suffix it with an incremented number, or pick another airport.
domain is your domain, you fool.
For an example, we'll use the Internet hub of the world, Nebraska. Our imaginary facility is located just outside of Omaha, which is airport code OMA.
The first machine in the first rack would be: a01.oma.example.com
Now there's never any question to what city you're looking at, nor even the location of it. It's not a big security risk, since this doesn't give up your physical address to unknown 3rd parties. They'd have to know where your facility is, where your cage is, and then get access to it to do any harm.
Naming with arbitrary names is fun, but a pain to remember when you exceed a couple dozen. Which machine was Karma? Well, at one place, we had smart, stupid, free, steak, kfc, ix, ns. Those are the only ones I can remember. It makes it real tough when you need to check through everything. When you can work down sequentially, it makes things much easier.
If you want fun names too, just set cnames to the good name.
Well, you *can* damage your car with an oil change.
People (including shops) have been known to over/under tighten the drain plug and/or filter.
I've had friends call after they've had their oil changed at a shop, and found a large puddle of oil under their car. I've gone over, and seen the mess, where the filter had luckily just come loose at the end of their drive, so they only lost a quart or two.
A couple other common ones, depending on the vehicle, are, do you pre-fill your filter? While you do start out with no oil pressure for a second when you start the car normally, you can run for 10 to 30 seconds with no oil pressure if the filter isn't pre-filled. In reality, it's only necessary to do on very high performance cars (i.e., race cars). A loss of pressure for 10 seconds can be catastrophic, and cost from $20k to over $50k, just for the motor.
The same applies to PC's. Are your hands clean? Did you follow proper static protection? Was the machine turned off when you attempted to change the memory?
I'm the type guy that not only changes his own oil, but I work on my own machines. The amount of a memory isn't usually important when I buy one, since I'm just going to yank it out, and stuff it full with 3rd party memory anyways. The same applies to the hard drive. So what if it has an 80G. When that doesn't suit me, I'll upgrade it with a 1Tb. :)
Other people's arguments that the dealer checks things over is bogus. They'll find something to fix, and not necessarly the right stuff.
A friend brought her minivan over a few months ago for me to look over, because she was presented with a $600 parts quote (and $200 in labor). I took the line items and checked each piece. From the list, it needed $11 in spark plugs. While checking it over, I found the rack&pinion was badly worn. Literally, I could move the drivers front wheel about 15 degrees in each direction, with no motion on the steering wheel nor the other front wheel. That's a serious concern, not fixing parts that aren't broken.
It won't all be flooding that takes care of the 99%. When the tides rise, the ports become unusable. All the power plants along the shores shut down. Core cities shut down. The infrastructure breaks down, not only due to the lack of electricity on the national grid, but the inability to fuel the land transit vehicles (trucks and trains run on diesel).
People will survive in pockets of civilization, not in our widespread connected civilization as we know it. The surviving pockets will suffer plagues due to the inability to get vaccines and medical supplies. Others will suffer famine. Water quality will suffer due to encroachment of sea water and less than desirable conditions upstream in the water supply.
Still, some will survive. They will be the survivors who bring our civilization back over the following decades. Hopefully, they'll do it better, and they will document the cause, effect, and hardships for future generations to know.
I lived in Florida for years. Land of alligators and cockroaches. Yes, I've seen plenty of things that can live through anything. :)
You sound like you plan on being part of the 99% who fail to survive the first 6 months. Tough luck.
It will be a wonderful and renewed world afterwards.
You should change that to "I don't mind reasonable licensing of guns"...
I was a good law abiding concealed weapons permit carrying American on the East coast of thee US. Sometimes I'd carry my gun. Usually it would be left locked away somewhere safe. The only real "action" it saw was the shooting range.
I moved to Los Angeles. In driving across the country, every state I passed through was listed as respecting my concealed weapons permit, although I left it tucked safely away in the trunk.
When I got to LA, I investigated getting a valid local permit. That's when I found out that pretty much no one, including most law enforcement, had concealed weapons permits. In good areas, cars were stolen, and houses were broken into frequently.
Over a few years, I got to know people, and could acquire weapons if I wanted. None were that interesting to me for the price, but I could have bought a rather large selection. I'm looking for an AR-15, PS-90, and AK-47. I was offered others ranging from ancient to full auto.
Because home owners could not defend themselves, the criminal element had no real fear of retribution if they did their acts quickly. If you know you have a 5 minute window to get in and out, do it in less than 5 minutes.
I'm back on the East coast now, knowing every other homeowner has a loaded gun at home, and about 1 in 4 drivers have guns in their car. The worst thing I've seen in a similar class neighborhood, is a kid knocked over two mailboxes. I've gone as far as forgetting that I put my car keys on top of my car, in the driveway, and remembering in the morning, where the car hasn't been disturbed.
Don't count on that. US Customs and Immigration are there to ensure bad things don't happen across the borders of the United States of America.
You, Joe-American Citizen, may or may not be welcome into this country. It's their job to find out if you are attempting to do something illegal.
Now, why search those coming IN to the country so carefully? Because you may be bringing in information that would be hazardous to the United States of America.
I think the whole thing is kind of stupid.
Every computer I work on is effectively a dumb terminal. I work over secure channels to machines around the world, and that's where my important stuff resides. If they wanted to scour my machine, they'll find some web sites I browsed (slashdot, google, etc), but won't find a single password, sensitive document, or much of anything.
If someone wanted to bring sensitive data into the country, why not send it up to a server first, and remove it from the laptop?
Really, they're not looking to "defend" the country. They're attempting to gather intelligence. What better than to be able to get passwords to all kinds of corporate entities, without the owners really knowing that it was gathered?
I won't mess with them. Like someone else said, they'll be more than happy to hold you until they can get your information. If there's no information to get, they'll give up pretty easily.
I'd prefer a perl script myself. It may be worth something.
I like encryptions. I'd play with cracking them, just to say I did.
Take my tagline on for your first challenge. :)
I think I'd rather them mentally adjusted, and delivered intact and breathing to my house...
Mmmmm.. My own clone harem of Natalie Portmans...
I'd never leave home again. I may never eat again, and would die with a huge smile on my face. :)
Aw, now that's just nasty.
She's 5'4, and weighs 114 pounds.
To provide for 1,000 tons, that would be 2,000,000 pounds, or 17,543 clones.
I posed the rest of the scenario to my coworkers for some clarification. Should the clones be sent as one solid lump , or as a cluster of flying Natalie Portmans? The consensus was for a "light sprinkling" of Natalie Portmans. From the peanut gallery we heard, "Make sure there's one for each of us."
Escape velocity from Mars is 11,245 mph. Assuming the pull of Mars gravity and the acceleration into Earth's gravity mitigated each other, and the swarm of Natalie Portmans would still be traveling at 11,245 mph. This is wrong, and they'd be traveling much faster.
So, you now have a swarm of freeze dried Natalie Portman clones flying through space, and then entering Earth's atmosphere. As they re-enter, they would burn up rather quickly, and my assumption would be that there would be a resulting odor of burning Natalie Portman clone skin and flesh as it burned upon re entry.
If it was a solid mass of Natalie Portman clones, the result may be slightly different. The outer layers of Natalie Portman clones would burn up, but depending on how densely they were packed, the inner clones may survive, making a shower of now thawed Natalie Portman clones. I would have to assume that the cluster of clones would break up into their component Natalie Portman clones, which should achieve terminal velocity at about 120mph. Then these freeze dried Natalie Portman clones at terminal velocity would go smacking into the ground, water, or whatever.
I'm not really sure that I'd want freeze dried and thawed Natalie Portman clone landing in my yard at 120mph. While she's really hot as a live human, she'd be less than desireable, and probably even unrecognizable by the time any of us would get our hands on her.
Then again, for most guys, there's a better chance of a freeze dried and thawed Natalie Portman flying through space and landing in their front yard, than for the real one to even give you the time of day. :)
I can believe it was malware. Sure, there are a lot of malware out there that do a lot of things.
What they're describing sounds like malware intended to run up the traffic rankings of a site. If so, why was it gathering pictures too? Poorly coded? It wastes more bandwidth to pull the entire rendering of the page, than just the HTML and JS. While conserving bandwidth isn't high on the priority list, to keep from being noticed, and to keep their efficiency up, the virus writer would do what they could to keep their impact low.
I find it interesting that they don't mention what the malware was. They gave a vauge description of it, but not a positive description. This eludes to me that it could be the mystery virus defense. Beyond that, it could have been installed accidentally (or intentionally) at some point between when he got the laptop and when it was discovered.
A possible scenario is this, including their facts.
1) The defendant was given a laptop from work
2) The laptop had it's antivirus disabled inadvertently by the IT staff.
3) The defendant browsed to web sites, which may or may not have contained illegal images.
4) The virus was accidentally or intentionally acquired through said sites.
5) The defendant viewed web sites containing illegal images, before or while the virus was running.
6) The virus would acquire web site content when near wireless access points.
7) The defendant's employer found said illegal content on said laptop.
8) The defendant was rightfully terminated, and the evidence given to law enforcement.
9) The defense lawyer drew upon their mighty google-ing ability, and found the "it was a virus" defense.
I'm glad I gave up at the article then. I was afraid if I watched the video's, I'd be even more disappointed.
Sounds like a candidate for testing RAID 50, and iSCSI.
I've been talking to someone who does extensive work over iSCSI, and I started performance testing his gear. It tested very nicely.
So, if you were to take say 15 300Gb drives and make it a RAID50, you could have a nice 3.6Tb array. iSCSI performance is great, assuming you take a few things into account (namely bandwidth).
Enjoy.
I never said that.
Been there, done that, decrypted it. Unfortunately, I don't have the code any more, and can't track it down. Just because you haven't seen it done doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Why don't you post my decrypted message?
> BTW, Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim.
Actually, that was an excellent piece of disinformation. In a recent survey, 16% of the respondants believed that Obama is Muslim. It was an excellent tactic for a completely dirty campaign. Look at who the majority of your constituency is (white Christians). Find their worst fears (Muslims, stereotyped into all being terrorists). Tag that on your opponent.
Likewise, letting it be known that McCain is a well know pedophile, who flies to Thailand twice a year to molest prepubescent boys, would be dirty. Sure, it's an outright lie (or at least I hope so), but if 16% of the people who would respond to surveys believe it, that means a whole lot more people are whispering about it.
Oh my, don't vote for him. Think about the children.
Vote JWSmythe, write in candidate for the 2008 United States Presidential Election!
There used to be a company called "Monster MotorSports", who made a few versions of their "Monster Miata". It made for a very small, very light, very fast, deathtrap.
The Miata is RWD, and I think there was room under the hood without any significant design changes, so most of the change would be redoing the motor mounts, cooling, new bell housing, rear end, front springs, etc, etc. A heavier engine totally throws the balance off. Trust me, I've done it on other cars.