I've seen the latter on our campus. In what appeared to be the central switchboard, all the racks of what looked like digital telephone boards were in locked cabinets, and there was a laptop that was sitting at a coffee-table height in a solid steel wide mesh cage. Always wondered what that was for.
There was this English couple who thought they had the perfect insurance scam - The husband would fake his own disappearance, his wife would claim the life insurance and start a new life abroad, then he would reappear years later claiming to have suffered from amnesia, and they would live happily after after in an apartment in Panama.
To achieve this scheme, they bought a house with a bedsit flat accessible through a door in the top floor bedrooms - the recess of the door was disguised to be a bedroom cupboard. He changed his appearance and was able to live in the bedsit for several years. The whole plan fell apart when pictures of the couple in the Panama apartment appeared on a website.
How about a USB wireless 3G modem to allow communication outside the network without going through the network? It shouldn't be too difficult to reconfigure the routing table of the PC to send certain IP addresses through the modem while handling other data as normal.
I would guess that the BIOS would be set to prevent booting from eternal devices (there is an order network, internal drive, cd-rom, usb), and that the BIOS would be password protected. Some IT departments have metal cables looped through the back of the case to prevent anyone from tampering with the innards.
I wonder whether it would be possible to create a PS/2 to USB adapter that would allow a USB device to be plugged into the PS/2 port of a PC (there are already adapters that allow PS/2 keyboards/mice to be plugged into a USB port) and send the data across.
Somebody who understands how all the Internet protocols work (ssh/sshd, smtp, inet). If you have a Linux system, look at your/etc/services file. Do you know what all those protocols are? Look in your/etc/ssh directory. Are there files there? What are the *_key, *_key.pub files for? What are the hosts.allow, hosts.deny files in your/etc directory for? What is selinux? Or the smb.conf file? Do you what all the RFC files are for? What is your/etc/hosts file for? What is dhcp, and how does dynamic IP address allocation work? What is a DHCP server? What is postfix? How would you tell if any of those files were misconfigured or compromised?
What are the vulnerabilities in all the source code that these are implemented in? How would you look for them? How is malicious code written? In what way can code take advantage of the hardware (Some time ago, there was a security fault where a program could generate a page fault, the kernel interrupt handling this event wouldn't restore the user ID, and thus granted root ownership to the process).
That is just barely describing the functionality of a basic home Linux system for personal use, let alone a commercial web server, which will have multiple backups (CPU's, disk drives, network connections, backups).
For someone to gain access and control of a web server, all they have to do is to get a single executable bit of code to execute on that system, that can receive commands from outside, perhaps even allowing remote login.
There was a newspaper article on this topic. Apparently a person can be categorized as being male/female/hermaphrodite in three different categories; genetically, physically and psychologically. Going by those rules, you would end up having a cube type diagram with 27 different types (a bit like the nationstates cube for types of country).
You would just need something that could react with the atmosphere to form an inert solid - that would reduce the density of the atmosphere and the pressure.
If you something that other kids have that they don't, you will be bullied, like having two working parents, or hope for the future and the motivation to want to learn and go on to college or university.
There have been plenty of news reports of stories like this, and the victims are not simply those who are underweight/overweight, or with learning difficulties. There have reports of students being attacked (and even committing suicide) because they were successful in their work. Then the bullies would just pick on something. If it wasn't your height or weight, it would be the brand of your pens.
According to this article, it says the kids who are being bullied because they lack social skills. I would say it is because they are in an environment where they are being bullied, that they can't develop social skills.
Take a flight through Stansted airport some time - they are still using dot-matrix printers from the 1980's. You can tell because the printers have acquired a "sun-tan" - they seem to have aged in the same way that paper does.
If it such a big issue with the airline, they should update their booking system to make sure children are sitting next to a guardian or parent and not a stranger.
If battery packs for cars become practical, then they will be practical for light aircraft as well. Does the weight-ratio scale for large aircraft? I guess it is going to be hard to replace a jet engine with an electric heater unit.
During the dot com boom, Sun was hiring around at leat 300 people/month,ranging from architects to junior programmers. That was going on for several years. Maybe it has been continuing.
Microsoft did try introducing ActiveX components (widgets which could be used in everything from applications to installation wizards and webpages. Unfortunately, most security experts seemed to consider these to be the greatest security risk to an OS due to their access to full local system resources and self-installation capability. The only other option is a sand-box type system for client side.
Then, for commercial applications the webpage needs to be able to communicate with internal server-side databases and applications. Some might be as simple as a command line interface, while other might require authentication and passwords. Since the application may be from a third-party vendor, this requires separation of the web-page source from the application. The simplest solution is to have a language that can create a pipe to a command line function, send some commands down and received commands back. If you look at the evolution of this languages, you will see that there were many predecessors, each of which was discarded for lacking flexibility but deliberately limited due to necessity.
It seems to be more the information content of the conversation, in particular, stating the obvious. On the top deck of a bus, a teenager had just got her new mobile phone and was communicating with her friend who was apparently on another bus heading in the other direction "I'm just passing the shops now, passing the school now, yeah, I can see the supermarket, you can see the office block? I can see your bus. Can you see me? Yeah, I'm waving. See you in five minutes."
Or there's the conversation at the snack shop. "Yeah, I'm at the sandwich bar. There's cheese and pickle, onion, garlic and chutney, BLT, or tuna and cucumber. You want the onion and garlic? OK. What about Chardonnay, what does she want? Oh the BLT. Got that. Oh wait a minute, it looks like a rat been chewing at that one, I'll put it back and get another one."
Funniest one was when I was the airport and there was a guy with a mobile phone he had cupped between his head and his hand. I couldn't see the phone, but he was waving his other hand around. It looked he was planning to invade Europe.
Everyone in the UK has been told by the Met Office, the BBC and the newspapers that the reason we have had mild winters is because of rising CO2 levels. Councils have reduced the amount of money they spend on grit, salt and snow-plough contracts because the UK has had a decade long run of mild winters.
The theory of CO2 causing global warming was tossed around back as early as 1979. There is a three page article in the 1979 Magpie (from the ITV series) mentioning that there is a "theory that CO2 can cause heating of the atmosphere at ground level". Other books like the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Science mention "Climatic Change". Between the 1990's and 2010, the Western parts of Europe have had mild winters. All this changed in the last couple of months, when we had the coldest winter for over 40 years (since the early 1960's.
One way of having fault-tolerant memory is to leave a chemical trail behind you. Then you don't need to expend energy maintaining a brain, memory and senses. It works for ants and snails, so a slime mold wouldn't have too much problem.
You only need to mark three things - "there is nothing worth eating here", "there is something worth eating here", or "this area is unexplored". That would only require two chemical markers; one for the "nothing to see here, move along" state and "here be nibbles" state. The more nibbles, the stronger the chemical marker. Where there is no marker, that area needs to be explored. If soil is uprooted or the chemical markers are washed away by rain then more food might have become available, so it helps to be a bit forgetful.
Would rotating flagellum count? Some bacterium have a set of helical or corkscrew shaped protein paddles. These rotate using a basic motor embedded in the outer lining of the bacterium.
Since nearly all life seems to have evolved in the oceans, having wheel wouldn't be practical except for microscopic life which can take advantage of surface tension, ionic attraction/repulsion.
A similar event happened during the construction of the London flood barrier. For some reason, a large amount of material had to be dumped into the river Thames. This might have been cement or just rubble for part of the underground foundations. It was anticipated that this process might generate some sort of pressure wave that would travel at high speed through the water. Thus a warning was given not to be in the river or close any storm drains at this time. Unfortunately, this warning was not received by a particular tenant of an old apartment block which had one end of their combined storm drain/sewer overflow submerged in the river. Minutes after the construction process had begun there was a complaint through the telephone lines that the tenant in question had just stood up in their bathroom, when the toilet had erupted in a geyser that went everywhere.
This was from the same construction company that attempted to fill in a deep hole in the River Thames with liquid cement, only to find that they had filled in someone's basement / underground car park.
It used to be the same with "unix" hardware in the 1980's/1990's, particularly with commodity components like mice, printer and scanner cables. An RS232 cable for an Apple Mac or PC clone that cost around $20, would be marked up for $200 for a UNIX workstation. To make sure that only the official cable was used, there would be loop-back configurations built into unused pins at each end of the cable, so that a connector patched up from twenty-five core cable and a couple of RS232 snap connectors wouldn't work.
I downloaded around 6000+ free TrueType fonts for my desktop environment. It really makes filling in application forms when the default font style is Bladerunner, Arial or Laser or Sci-Fi, and important information is highlighted in red or black.
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I've seen the latter on our campus. In what appeared to be the central switchboard, all the racks of what looked like digital telephone boards were in locked cabinets, and there was a laptop that was sitting at a coffee-table height in a solid steel wide mesh cage. Always wondered what that was for.
There was this English couple who thought they had the perfect insurance scam - The husband would fake his own disappearance, his wife would claim the life insurance and start a new life abroad, then he would reappear years later claiming to have suffered from amnesia, and they would live happily after after in an apartment in Panama.
To achieve this scheme, they bought a house with a bedsit flat accessible through a door in the top floor bedrooms - the recess of the door was disguised to be a bedroom cupboard. He changed his appearance and was able to live in the bedsit for several years. The whole plan fell apart when pictures of the couple in the Panama apartment appeared on a website.
How about a USB wireless 3G modem to allow communication outside the network without going through the network? It shouldn't be too difficult to reconfigure the routing table of the PC to send certain IP addresses through the modem while handling other data as normal.
I would guess that the BIOS would be set to prevent booting from eternal devices (there is an order network, internal drive, cd-rom, usb), and that the BIOS would be password protected. Some IT departments have metal cables looped through the back of the case to prevent anyone from tampering with the innards.
I wonder whether it would be possible to create a PS/2 to USB adapter that would allow a USB device to be plugged into the PS/2 port of a PC (there are already adapters that allow PS/2 keyboards/mice to be plugged into a USB port) and send the data across.
Can someone tell me WTF a "Cyber-Warrior" is?
Somebody who understands how all the Internet protocols work (ssh/sshd, smtp, inet). If you have a Linux system, look at your /etc/services file. Do you know what all those protocols are? Look in your /etc/ssh directory. Are there files there? What are the *_key, *_key.pub files for? What are the hosts.allow, hosts.deny files in your /etc directory for? What is selinux? Or the smb.conf file? /etc/hosts file for? What is dhcp, and how does dynamic IP address allocation work? What is a DHCP server? What is postfix? How would you tell if any of those files were misconfigured or compromised?
Do you what all the RFC files are for? What is your
What are the vulnerabilities in all the source code that these are implemented in? How would you look for them? How is malicious code written? In what way can code take advantage of the hardware (Some time ago, there was a security fault where a program could generate a page fault, the kernel interrupt handling this event wouldn't restore the user ID, and thus granted root ownership to the process).
That is just barely describing the functionality of a basic home Linux system for personal use, let alone a commercial web server, which will have multiple backups (CPU's, disk drives, network connections, backups).
For someone to gain access and control of a web server, all they have to do is to get a single executable bit of code to execute on that system, that can receive commands from outside, perhaps even allowing remote login.
There was a newspaper article on this topic. Apparently a person can be categorized as being male/female/hermaphrodite in three different categories; genetically, physically and psychologically. Going by those rules, you would end up having
a cube type diagram with 27 different types (a bit like the nationstates cube for types of country).
You would just need something that could react with the atmosphere to form an inert solid - that would reduce the density of the atmosphere and the pressure.
Maybe you get a Schrodinger's black hole - it may or may not be there until you open the lid.
If you something that other kids have that they don't, you will be bullied, like having two working parents, or hope for the future and the motivation to want to learn and go on to college or university.
There have been plenty of news reports of stories like this, and the victims are not simply those who are underweight/overweight, or with learning difficulties. There have reports of students being attacked (and even committing suicide) because they were successful in their work. Then the bullies would just pick on something. If it wasn't your height or weight, it would be the brand of your pens.
According to this article, it says the kids who are being bullied because they lack social skills. I would say it is because they are in an environment where they are being bullied, that they can't develop social skills.
Take a flight through Stansted airport some time - they are still using dot-matrix printers from the 1980's. You can tell because the printers have acquired a "sun-tan" - they seem to have aged in the same way that paper does.
Even passengers who have been pre-allocated a seat on an airplane are asked to move when they find themselves sitting next to a strangers child.
Businessman sues BA 'for treating men like perverts'
If it such a big issue with the airline, they should update their booking system to make sure children are sitting next to a guardian or parent and not a stranger.
If battery packs for cars become practical, then they will be practical for light aircraft as well. Does the weight-ratio scale for large aircraft? I guess it is going to be hard to replace a jet engine with an electric heater unit.
During the dot com boom, Sun was hiring around at leat 300 people/month,ranging from architects to junior programmers. That was going on for several years. Maybe it has been continuing.
Microsoft did try introducing ActiveX components (widgets which could be used in everything from applications to installation wizards and webpages. Unfortunately, most security experts seemed to consider these to be the greatest security risk to an OS due to their access to full local system resources and self-installation capability. The only other option is a sand-box type system for client side.
Then, for commercial applications the webpage needs to be able to communicate with internal server-side databases and applications. Some might be as simple as a command line interface, while other might require authentication and passwords. Since the application may be from a third-party vendor, this requires separation of the web-page source from the application. The simplest solution is to have a language that can create a pipe to a command line function, send some commands down and received commands back. If you look at the evolution of this languages, you will see that there were many predecessors, each of which was discarded for lacking flexibility but deliberately limited due to necessity.
It seems to be more the information content of the conversation, in particular, stating the obvious. On the top deck of a bus, a teenager had just got her new mobile phone and was communicating with her friend who was apparently on another bus heading in the other direction "I'm just passing the shops now, passing the school now, yeah, I can see the supermarket, you can see the office block? I can see your bus. Can you see me? Yeah, I'm waving. See you in five minutes."
Or there's the conversation at the snack shop. "Yeah, I'm at the sandwich bar. There's cheese and pickle, onion, garlic and chutney, BLT, or tuna and cucumber. You want the onion and garlic? OK. What about Chardonnay, what does she want? Oh the BLT. Got that. Oh wait a minute, it looks like a rat been chewing at that one, I'll put it back and get another one."
Funniest one was when I was the airport and there was a guy with a mobile phone he had cupped between his head and his hand. I couldn't see the phone, but he was waving his other hand around. It looked he was planning to invade Europe.
Everyone in the UK has been told by the Met Office, the BBC and the newspapers that the reason we have had mild winters is because of rising CO2 levels. Councils have reduced the amount of money they spend on grit, salt and snow-plough contracts because the UK has had a decade long run of mild winters.
The theory of CO2 causing global warming was tossed around back as early as 1979. There is a three page article in the 1979 Magpie (from the ITV series) mentioning that there is a "theory that CO2 can cause heating of the atmosphere at ground level". Other books like the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Science mention "Climatic Change". Between the 1990's and 2010, the Western parts of Europe have had mild winters. All this changed in the last couple of months, when we had the coldest winter for over 40 years (since the early 1960's.
I thought the solution was to find the two largest clusters which have the greatest average distance, then recursively apply this to each sub-cluster?
One way of having fault-tolerant memory is to leave a chemical trail behind you. Then you don't need to expend energy maintaining a brain, memory and senses. It works for ants and snails, so a slime mold wouldn't have too much problem.
You only need to mark three things - "there is nothing worth eating here", "there is something worth eating here", or "this area is unexplored". That would only require two chemical markers; one for the "nothing to see here, move along" state and "here be nibbles" state. The more nibbles, the stronger the chemical marker. Where there is no marker, that area needs to be explored. If soil is uprooted or the chemical markers are washed away by rain then more food might have become available, so it helps to be a bit forgetful.
Would rotating flagellum count? Some bacterium have a set of helical or corkscrew shaped protein paddles. These rotate using a basic motor embedded in the outer lining of the bacterium.
The efficiency of propulsion of a rotating flagellum/a>
Since nearly all life seems to have evolved in the oceans, having wheel wouldn't be practical except for microscopic life which can take advantage of surface tension, ionic attraction/repulsion.
It's been rumbling on since the start of the last decade. For a time, it was as heated as the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit.
A similar event happened during the construction of the London flood barrier. For some reason, a large amount of material had to be dumped into the river Thames. This might have been cement or just rubble for part of the underground foundations. It was anticipated that this process might generate some sort of pressure wave that would travel at high speed through the water. Thus a warning was given not to be in the river or close any storm drains at this time. Unfortunately, this warning was not received by a particular tenant of an old apartment block which had one end of their combined storm drain/sewer overflow submerged in the river. Minutes after the construction process had begun there was a complaint through the telephone lines that the tenant in question had just stood up in their bathroom, when the toilet had erupted in a geyser that went everywhere.
This was from the same construction company that attempted to fill in a deep hole in the River Thames with liquid cement, only to find that they had filled in someone's basement / underground car park.
The NY times also have a flash game where you can try and drive along a freeway while at the same time receiving and sending SMS messages:
Driving Game
That would seem to demonstrate that most drivers will suffer some loss of response time and not see pedestrians (the gray lady in the game).
It used to be the same with "unix" hardware in the 1980's/1990's, particularly with commodity components like mice, printer and scanner cables. An RS232 cable for an Apple Mac or PC clone that cost around $20, would be marked up for $200 for a UNIX workstation. To make sure that only the official cable was used, there would be loop-back configurations built into unused pins at each end of the cable, so that a connector patched up from twenty-five core cable and a couple of RS232 snap connectors wouldn't work.
I downloaded around 6000+ free TrueType fonts for my desktop environment. It really makes filling in application forms when the default font style is Bladerunner, Arial or Laser or Sci-Fi, and important information is highlighted in red or black.
Didn't a TV advert do that - I think it was the Gene Kelly "Singing in the Rain" where they used an actor but replaced his face with Gene Kelly's
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