So let me get this straight...
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...I'm going to trust that some guy with an EPROM burner in the back of some garage knows more about my cars systems interactions than the engineers that designed the car? Oh wait...that's generally describing the hacker movement. Never mind...
Just like SMC'c EZ-Stream Universal Wireless Multimedia Receiver. You plug the unit into your TV with RCA jacks and load software onto your wireless PC. Then you can stream video over wireless. My guess is that they've taken it a step further by having a direct digital cable hookup to allow you to stream your cable signal anywhere in the house. This would be handy for all sorts of applications like watching TV by the pool or in the bathtub if you don't have a pool. "Look Ma...no cables!"
The problems with the system seem to all stem from the risks of tampering on the client side. People are worried that a worm or deliberate tampering could change the vote of the user without their knowing. If a Knoppix CD was sent to each person who wanted to vote overseas this would guarantee that whatever PC they are working on would be clean. You could configure up a nice script to pop-up a box with some simple questions after the OS loads like Proxy settings for cyber cafes, etc.
SCO will win their court cases and own all Linux and Unix distributions. SCO will decide to sell Unix and Linux to Microsoft who will eventually phase them out. This will bring about the apocalypse and the end of civilization. Bill Gates will return to Hades to join his father Satan, mission accomplished.
As I've said in a previous post. Do really believe that the hundreds of new viruses that get released every month is because of some bored hackers who have nothing better to do? There are many stories of "Men-in-Black" style approaches to out-of-work developers in countries with a large high tech community. Someone shows up at your door with a big bag of money and no identity and asks you to write a particular type of virus, you might be inclined to take the money and not ask too many questions. It's called "Creating the Market".
As long as they're testing non-aerodynamically-designed vehicles they should try the cube. They'll probably get just as useless results. As pointed out in other posts the Enterprise was not designed to enter the atmosphere. Or was it? According to Gene Roddenberry the original ship was designed to land on planets but the budget was too thin for the special effects, that's why the Transporter was added. In fact the Enterprise did in fact enter the atmosphere of Earth in TOS. IT also entered the atmosphere of an alien planet in one of the movies with not-so-great results (boom). So maybe these wind-tunnel tests will show that Gene was once again ahead of his time.
I joined a company 5 years ago that had 440 users and no computer infrastructure, hard to believe these days but true. They wanted to give their employees Internet access and eMail. We purchased 6 iMacs for each of the 28 offices. Six users shared 2 wireless iMacs mounted on floating monitor arm-stands, we fabricated the base at a local metal shop and had them powdercoated (real sweet). The wireless Airports and SDSL allowed us to roll out the entire setup very cheaply, not having to rewire the place for CAT5. Each office had 3 groups of 6 desks facing each other head-to-head which allowed the iMacs to be shared while not anging into each other. We started with OS9 and a custom auto-install CD that we created to blast a new clean OS without much user intervention. This allowed us to have a central IS&T department without local MIS representation. When new software or updates came out we just sent out new CD's and let the users blast the new image to each iMac. With Web-based email the users had a quick and efficient infrastructure that was easy to maintain.
It may be petty but are which technology are we talking about? From my understanding load-balancing is having whole requests sent to different machines based on the individual machines availability while clustering is sending one request to a group of machines who work on that request together. I think we're talking about load-balancing.
I agree with your statement "an AV company that manufactures/releases a computer virus would be without customers immediately". What I was suggesting is that these AV companies are covertly designing these viruses and worms. They hire someone who does not represent them but makes inquires anonymously. In this way they can keep their reputation intact.
Who do you think is writing these sophisticated viruses and worms? Do really believe that the hundreds of new viruses that get released every month is because of some bored hackers who have nothing better to do? There are many stories of "Men-in-Black" style approaches to out-of-work developers in countries with a large high tech community. Someone shows up at your door with a big bag of money and no identity and asks you to write a particular type of virus, you might be inclined to take the money and not ask too many questions. It's called "Creating the Market".
The ECHELON system has been doing this for years so this rejection makes little difference.
Here's some background taken from the ECHELON FAQ at www.cipherwar.com:
The Scientific and Technical Options Assessment program office (STOA) of the European Parliament commissioned two reports which describe ECHELON's activities. These reports unearthed a startling amount of evidence, which suggests that ECHELON's powers may have been underestimated. The first report, entitled "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control," suggested that ECHELON primarily targeted civilians.
This report found that:
"The ECHELON system forms part of the UKUSA system but unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the cold war, ECHELON is designed for primarily non-military targets: governments, organisations and businesses in virtually every country. The ECHELON system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and then siphoning out what is valuable using artificial intelligence aids like Memex to find key words. Five nations share the results with the US as the senior partner under the UKUSA agreement of 1948, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are very much acting as subordinate information servicers.
I'm tempted to throw mine into the oven as well.
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My view of Apple is quickly turning into a good runner up to Microsoft for "Least Favorite Giant Corporate Entity". They're still snubbing the next MacWorld in Boston and have now announced that they're going to snub MacWorld in NY. Their customer service stinks. I have a G4 TI notebook and when I pick it up sometimes it looses power. When I called it in for support their responce was that I "shouldn't be picking it up with the power on". ?!?!? Hello!!!! Do they not understand how their customers are sing their products?
...he'll replace Michael Eisner at Disney. This rumor has been floated before but it seems less plausable since Eisner and Jobs have been feuding over the 5 picture Pixar deal. I think I would rather see him at the helm of Disney rather than the country but hey, it might be fun to see him in a suit.
It's interesting that the new propulsion system is being developed under the name of Project Prometheus which has been the name of the conspiracy theory relating to the government trading human abductions for alien technology. Makes you think.
The Discover Channel has an articleabout a commercial venture to the moon which will confirm the moon shot. "We're also looking to verify Apollo and other landing sites," said TransOrbital President Dennis Laurie.
From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.
Wait a minute, I'm confused here. The government is doing everything it can to protect the names of companies that have deployed inadequate network security practices from getting out but they're also making it their mission to expose companies that have employed deceptive accounting practices like Enron and MCI. The bottom line is that they both point to problems with the running of the company and if the company is publicly held then this information should be exposed and the incompetence dealt with.
Many sites employ Easter Eggs which sometimes require the user to guess at the URL. It's common practice and it encourages experimenting. If the report that was accessed was on the Web Server in a publicly accessible directory then I don't know why they think that they have a case. Many times when I'm stumped about a broken link I'll try and figure out what the correct link should be. If I leave a folder with confidential information in the Cafeteria of my companies building and someone opens it up to read it does that make them a criminal guilty of Corporate espionage?
Agreed, but how does that differ from other companies? The main thrust of the comments was that companies with the 9-5 mentality are more structured but I believe that any company worth its' salt will have someone going over code that a developer worked on at 2 in the morning.
And I don't think that the Manager is the one checking the code. If he is then he's not managing.
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...I'm going to trust that some guy with an EPROM burner in the back of some garage knows more about my cars systems interactions than the engineers that designed the car? Oh wait...that's generally describing the hacker movement. Never mind...
Just like SMC'c EZ-Stream Universal Wireless Multimedia Receiver. You plug the unit into your TV with RCA jacks and load software onto your wireless PC. Then you can stream video over wireless. My guess is that they've taken it a step further by having a direct digital cable hookup to allow you to stream your cable signal anywhere in the house. This would be handy for all sorts of applications like watching TV by the pool or in the bathtub if you don't have a pool. "Look Ma...no cables!"
The problems with the system seem to all stem from the risks of tampering on the client side.
People are worried that a worm or deliberate tampering could change the vote of the user without their knowing. If a Knoppix CD was sent to each person who wanted to vote overseas this would guarantee that whatever PC they are working on would be clean. You could configure up a nice script to pop-up a box with some simple questions after the OS loads like Proxy settings for cyber cafes, etc.
...when we never went there in the first place.
SCO will win their court cases and own all Linux and Unix distributions. SCO will decide to sell Unix and Linux to Microsoft who will eventually phase them out. This will bring about the apocalypse and the end of civilization. Bill Gates will return to Hades to join his father Satan, mission accomplished.
As I've said in a previous post. Do really believe that the hundreds of new viruses that get released every month is because of some bored hackers who have nothing better to do? There are many stories of "Men-in-Black" style approaches to out-of-work developers in countries with a large high tech community. Someone shows up at your door with a big bag of money and no identity and asks you to write a particular type of virus, you might be inclined to take the money and not ask too many questions. It's called "Creating the Market".
As long as they're testing non-aerodynamically-designed vehicles they should try the cube. They'll probably get just as useless results. As pointed out in other posts the Enterprise was not designed to enter the atmosphere. Or was it? According to Gene Roddenberry the original ship was designed to land on planets but the budget was too thin for the special effects, that's why the Transporter was added. In fact the Enterprise did in fact enter the atmosphere of Earth in TOS. IT also entered the atmosphere of an alien planet in one of the movies with not-so-great results (boom). So maybe these wind-tunnel tests will show that Gene was once again ahead of his time.
These pundits rear their heads every once in a while, I think they like hearing themselves typing.
I joined a company 5 years ago that had 440 users and no computer infrastructure, hard to believe these days but true. They wanted to give their employees Internet access and eMail. We purchased 6 iMacs for each of the 28 offices. Six users shared 2 wireless iMacs mounted on floating monitor arm-stands, we fabricated the base at a local metal shop and had them powdercoated (real sweet). The wireless Airports and SDSL allowed us to roll out the entire setup very cheaply, not having to rewire the place for CAT5. Each office had 3 groups of 6 desks facing each other head-to-head which allowed the iMacs to be shared while not anging into each other. We started with OS9 and a custom auto-install CD that we created to blast a new clean OS without much user intervention. This allowed us to have a central IS&T department without local MIS representation. When new software or updates came out we just sent out new CD's and let the users blast the new image to each iMac. With Web-based email the users had a quick and efficient infrastructure that was easy to maintain.
...or George will classify it as a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' and send the stealths.
Wow! Now I won't have to wait for the POST to finish before I get a Blue Screen.
It may be petty but are which technology are we talking about? From my understanding load-balancing is having whole requests sent to different machines based on the individual machines availability while clustering is sending one request to a group of machines who work on that request together. I think we're talking about load-balancing.
Will this version fix all the bugs from the V1 version like the bad acting, lousy effects and shallow characters?
I agree with your statement "an AV company that manufactures/releases a computer virus would be without customers immediately". What I was suggesting is that these AV companies are covertly designing these viruses and worms. They hire someone who does not represent them but makes inquires anonymously. In this way they can keep their reputation intact.
Who do you think is writing these sophisticated viruses and worms? Do really believe that the hundreds of new viruses that get released every month is because of some bored hackers who have nothing better to do? There are many stories of "Men-in-Black" style approaches to out-of-work developers in countries with a large high tech community. Someone shows up at your door with a big bag of money and no identity and asks you to write a particular type of virus, you might be inclined to take the money and not ask too many questions. It's called "Creating the Market".
The ECHELON system has been doing this for years so this rejection makes little difference.
Here's some background taken from the ECHELON FAQ at www.cipherwar.com:
The Scientific and Technical Options Assessment program office (STOA) of the European Parliament commissioned two reports which describe ECHELON's activities. These reports unearthed a startling amount of evidence, which suggests that ECHELON's powers may have been underestimated. The first report, entitled "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control," suggested that ECHELON primarily targeted civilians.
This report found that:
"The ECHELON system forms part of the UKUSA system but unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the cold war, ECHELON is designed for primarily non-military targets: governments, organisations and businesses in virtually every country. The ECHELON system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and then siphoning out what is valuable using artificial intelligence aids like Memex to find key words. Five nations share the results with the US as the senior partner under the UKUSA agreement of 1948, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are very much acting as subordinate information servicers.
My view of Apple is quickly turning into a good runner up to Microsoft for "Least Favorite Giant Corporate Entity". They're still snubbing the next MacWorld in Boston and have now announced that they're going to snub MacWorld in NY. Their customer service stinks. I have a G4 TI notebook and when I pick it up sometimes it looses power. When I called it in for support their responce was that I "shouldn't be picking it up with the power on". ?!?!? Hello!!!! Do they not understand how their customers are sing their products?
...that there are four things on TV at the same time that are worth recording.
...he'll replace Michael Eisner at Disney. This rumor has been floated before but it seems less plausable since Eisner and Jobs have been feuding over the 5 picture Pixar deal. I think I would rather see him at the helm of Disney rather than the country but hey, it might be fun to see him in a suit.
It's interesting that the new propulsion system is being developed under the name of Project Prometheus which has been the name of the conspiracy theory relating to the government trading human abductions for alien technology. Makes you think.
The Discover Channel has an articleabout a commercial venture to the moon which will confirm the moon shot. "We're also looking to verify Apollo and other landing sites," said TransOrbital President Dennis Laurie.
From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.
Wait a minute, I'm confused here. The government is doing everything it can to protect the names of companies that have deployed inadequate network security practices from getting out but they're also making it their mission to expose companies that have employed deceptive accounting practices like Enron and MCI. The bottom line is that they both point to problems with the running of the company and if the company is publicly held then this information should be exposed and the incompetence dealt with.
Many sites employ Easter Eggs which sometimes require the user to guess at the URL. It's common practice and it encourages experimenting. If the report that was accessed was on the Web Server in a publicly accessible directory then I don't know why they think that they have a case. Many times when I'm stumped about a broken link I'll try and figure out what the correct link should be. If I leave a folder with confidential information in the Cafeteria of my companies building and someone opens it up to read it does that make them a criminal guilty of Corporate espionage?
And I don't think that the Manager is the one checking the code. If he is then he's not managing.