she ran the Access databases coordinating the outfitting of the Double-Eagle double-hulled tankers.
Great! So now we can blame Bill Gates also for our formerly-nice-but-now-soiled-with-petrol beaches! I hope she didn't also run a nuclear powerplant on Microsoft Excel?
Why doesn't she just do some night-work in front of the train station, at least that's a honorable job, in comparison!
Having said that, the economic impact of MicroSoft being severely slapped shouldn't be underestimated. There are a lot of pension funds heavily tied up in MicroSoft stock.
Maybe it's time for them to disinvest now. Do not wait until the verdict, try to anticipate a bit! In any case, it's an interesting question to ask at the next all-staff meeting: "Does our pension fund follow a sound investment strategy? Or are they still heavily invested in Micro$oft?"
While a small position in Micro$oft stock would still be defendable, any excessively large holding should be avoided. Or would you like to lose half of your pension, just because Billy Boy got some nice spanking from Mario...
If you're a doctor, how do you prescribe diarrhea?
Go to India, and be sure to drink their excellent tap water... Sample their excellent fresh salads. Never wash your hands before eating. Enjoy fruit bought from traditional markets, especially fruits without a peel.
Keep your fruit jam or juice long enough for it to develop a nice grey fur before you consume it. Works with other foodstuffs too.
Always have a glas of ice-cold water just after getting up.
Wouldn't these satellites still need to be kept in position in order to prevent them from wandering off in neighboring orbital positions (where they might collide with other satellites, which are still operational?)
That's not quite true. The PTSN has a limited capacity, and those limits assume that not everybody will pick up the phone all at once. On 9/11/01, in parts of the country far away from Washington and NYC, there was no major failure of any local telephone equipment, yet there were many calls that could not be completed because there was a higher volume of phone calls than the system could handle.
True. But that's an overload caused by telephone service itself, not by Internet services encroaching on bandwidth reserved for telephone. ATM network might also crumble if suddenly people would attempt withdraw money on every single machine on the network simultaneously at exactly the same time. But this is not what happened here. ATM service was impacted by an overload on another system (the Internet) that should have been separated.
They must bomb my govt before they will come with their force and sue me.
No, there is an easyer way. They only need to get hold of a sizeable amount of shares in your company. Then threaten to fire you. Then "settle down" to a deal: you get transferred to that branch in the US or you get fired. Great, a transfer is better than being without a job.
But once you set foot on American soil, you get put into the slammer for that anti-MPAA site that you set up years ago...
If my car suddenly started displaying speeds in metric, I know what my reaction would be -- ignore the speedometer and try to drive with the flow of traffic. (I'd be looking for a safe place to stop, too -- but the first worry is to maintain a similar velocity with the vehicles around me.) The problem is that the 'flow of traffic' may or may not be going the speed limit.
Looking for a safe place to stop? Wow, you must have some omnipresent cops over there in the US. I rarely look at my speedometer, and only got 3 tickets in 6 years, two of which in the same village (yes, that's the rare place where I now do look at my speedometer...).
Unless I'm really dense, the whole point of Rolling Codes is that there is an algorithm shared by the remote and opener that defines previously-used codes as invalid, so that a burglar who sniffs the code you use to open the garage today can't come back and use that code tomorrow. In that case, these devices should not be working,
"Rolling Code" systems have a feature that a wrong code will reset the receiver to the value sent.
Says the door is expecting codes in the following sequence A B C D E F. Currently, the garage door is expecting C.
You press the button on your remote, it sends C. Now suppose that due to some mishap, this is not received. A next press would send D which the garage door would reject, bceause it is out of sequence. Thus, a simple bodged transmission would forever desynchronize the garage door and the receiver. In order to avoid this, a bad code resets the receiver. After sending your D, the garage stays shut, but will reset itself so as to expect E next time. A next press on the operner will send E, which matches.
The way those universal remotes work is that you have to press the button on your real opener twice when recording. When using it, the universal remote will play the two sequential codes back as recorded: the first code resets the receiver, and the second opens the door!
That way, the universal remote "works" in the sense that it does open the door, but it removes any security associated with the "rolling code" scheme: a burglar who sets up a sniffing device near the door now gets two sequential codes, and can open the door too!
Just don't turn up. After all, if I receive a letter from Uzbekistan telling me I'm due in their courts (I'm British), there's no reason I have to accept their judgement.
But then, be sure to never ever turn up in Uzbekistan, for whatever reason, be it a holiday trip, a business trip, a conference,... or they might pull a Sklyarov on you!
Well Uzbekistan is not difficult to avoid, but California is a little bit trickier. Do you really want to tell your employer that you have to skip that important conference in Frisco, because 5 years ago you put up a website that angered some Californian judge?
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Great! So now we can blame Bill Gates also for our formerly-nice-but-now-soiled-with-petrol beaches! I hope she didn't also run a nuclear powerplant on Microsoft Excel?
Why doesn't she just do some night-work in front of the train station, at least that's a honorable job, in comparison!
Wouldn't it then make sense to use the money to increase the tube's capacity (make it run more often, drill more tunnels, ...).
Maybe it's time for them to disinvest now. Do not wait until the verdict, try to anticipate a bit! In any case, it's an interesting question to ask at the next all-staff meeting: "Does our pension fund follow a sound investment strategy? Or are they still heavily invested in Micro$oft?"
While a small position in Micro$oft stock would still be defendable, any excessively large holding should be avoided. Or would you like to lose half of your pension, just because Billy Boy got some nice spanking from Mario...
Not sure about the plutonium. Doesn't radioactivity cause cancer?
... isn't that the same certification than the one we scoffed at when Windows 2000 got it?
Wouldn't these satellites still need to be kept in position in order to prevent them from wandering off in neighboring orbital positions (where they might collide with other satellites, which are still operational?)
If we allow Bush to protect Micro$oft, we deserve whatever we get.
True. But that's an overload caused by telephone service itself, not by Internet services encroaching on bandwidth reserved for telephone. ATM network might also crumble if suddenly people would attempt withdraw money on every single machine on the network simultaneously at exactly the same time. But this is not what happened here. ATM service was impacted by an overload on another system (the Internet) that should have been separated.
A Ji-had against that big nasty satan from Redmond?
Nickts mehr übrig, I'm afraid...
Especially since this site is still alive and kicking.
... and since that day, the tap water tasted of foul potatoes, and everybody wondered why,,,
Never heard of the Große Bertha?
Wouldn't it make more sense to remote-control the switch?
No, there is an easyer way. They only need to get hold of a sizeable amount of shares in your company. Then threaten to fire you. Then "settle down" to a deal: you get transferred to that branch in the US or you get fired. Great, a transfer is better than being without a job.
But once you set foot on American soil, you get put into the slammer for that anti-MPAA site that you set up years ago...
Quite appropriately named, if you ask me. Or did you really believe that it stood for Network Associates?
Unless you live in Europe or Canada, and the display unexpectedly went from metric to furlongs/fortnight.
Looking for a safe place to stop? Wow, you must have some omnipresent cops over there in the US. I rarely look at my speedometer, and only got 3 tickets in 6 years, two of which in the same village (yes, that's the rare place where I now do look at my speedometer...).
Me, if I could do it all over again, I swore midway through grad school, I'd be a chef.
Belch! Must be very stale by then...
"Rolling Code" systems have a feature that a wrong code will reset the receiver to the value sent.
Says the door is expecting codes in the following sequence A B C D E F. Currently, the garage door is expecting C. You press the button on your remote, it sends C. Now suppose that due to some mishap, this is not received. A next press would send D which the garage door would reject, bceause it is out of sequence. Thus, a simple bodged transmission would forever desynchronize the garage door and the receiver. In order to avoid this, a bad code resets the receiver. After sending your D, the garage stays shut, but will reset itself so as to expect E next time. A next press on the operner will send E, which matches.
The way those universal remotes work is that you have to press the button on your real opener twice when recording. When using it, the universal remote will play the two sequential codes back as recorded: the first code resets the receiver, and the second opens the door!
That way, the universal remote "works" in the sense that it does open the door, but it removes any security associated with the "rolling code" scheme: a burglar who sets up a sniffing device near the door now gets two sequential codes, and can open the door too!
Now, if both had been male, it would've been somewhat easyer. (Man can make a hole, but only God can make a tree...)
Urmphf, last I checked, at Sorbonne you study humanities, not computer science. Maybe you're thinking of Jussieu or Orsay?
But then, be sure to never ever turn up in Uzbekistan, for whatever reason, be it a holiday trip, a business trip, a conference, ... or they might pull a Sklyarov on you!
Well Uzbekistan is not difficult to avoid, but California is a little bit trickier. Do you really want to tell your employer that you have to skip that important conference in Frisco, because 5 years ago you put up a website that angered some Californian judge?