is it possible someone has been sabotaging it from the inside or even outside?
Not until after they've collected enough antimatter to make an explosion reminiscent of the old pictures of Creation Day One. Hey, if I have to suffer through the scars from that movie, so do you.
When you bring guns, they just bring bigger guns. And bombs and missiles. Just remember, pirates aren't going to give a crap about the same rules that limit what firepower a legal vessel can carry.
It's not a matter of throwing guns at them, it's a matter of throwing money at them. To capture an unarmed vessel with 30 to 50 people on it, you need what, 5 or 6 people with assault rifles loaded in a fast skiff? If we can deter those 5 or 6 people, they need more boats. If we can sink their skiffs, they need bigger or armored attack vessels. That one jump in cost alone takes the investment from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, and smaller cuts for the pirates. Granted, the simplest solution is to run convoys through the areas where pirates tend to congregate and give them armed escorts. If the pirates are fool enough to attack, well, that sounds like a problem solving itself.
You start firing back, the pirates will just tool up with bigger guns and perhaps with RPGs etc. They will also reduce risk to themselves by shooting first instead of giving the crew a chance to surrender. They could just adopt a strategy of sinking boats first then taking whatever survivors a.k.a hostages are left from the sea.
This reminds me of the accepted protocol for airplane hostage-taking about a decade ago. The idea was to just keep calm and wait for the government to pay the ransom or whatever. Have you noticed how people find that idea laughable post-9/11? One ship gets sunk by pirates and that game is quickly over. The force that will be applied against would-be pirates will be overwhelming and devastating.
Hello, linux user! EVERY Windows computer has a software firewall nowadays, many of them even turned on. Some may even be useful. I can only imagine how well my network shares will behave if I block those ports.
This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any witty "Fixed that for you" jokes will be modded into oblivion.
Fixed that for you....and since it was your sig, and not your comment, I'll expect the mods to shower points upon me. Probably negative, but you take what you can get.
Almost right. It's the time between when the bug was known by the developers/users, and when it was exploited (usually because the hackers found it first, and figured out how to use it before anyone else found it). For 0-day exploits, you usually find out when your system gets compromised, or that someone's system got compromised shows up in the news.
The last time I used Windows Live Search, or Bing, or whatever they call it next, was to find the latest download address of Windows Live Messenger. So I go to the MSN home page, fill in the little text box with "windows live messenger download", and bing away. No direct or close link on the first two pages, although the first link was some related MS page about how great Live Messenger is. I give up, and go to google. Same search, the first is the landing page for Live Messenger (which has a big download button), the second is the page where you actually start the download. So I roll my eyes and continue to ignore Bing's existence. It looks like they improved that part of their search results, anyway - when I tried it again, just before posting this comment, the two best links showed up on the first page of both engines. Maybe there's hope for a half-decent search engine from MS yet. I did the classic Window vs Linux search and even that seemed to be reasonable, rather than a "please don't leave Windows" campaign.
What you're saying is generally true of anyone. I like coding, and am aware that someone could steal my copyright, if I actually cared. In point of fact, almost everything I do is work for hire, so I've already sold it (and only once, which is how work-for-hire works).The guy at McDonalds may just be flipping burgers, but I'm grateful when I want a quick and reasonably cheap meal (I said nothing of quality:P). But none of that makes artists, burger-flippers, grocery-baggers, or anyone else more special than the average person. If you're not making 'enough' money, then get a different job. If you love your work, then accept that you're paying a price for your quality of life. Sure, not a lot of people make it big, in any industry. And if you suck at the work you love, then get used to not having much money. Gates did well in running a tech business (I wouldn't say ethically, but financially successfully). While I'm in the same industry, there are about 6 orders of magnitude between my net worth and his. I'm okay with that, because I enjoy coding and it feeds my kids. And you can't steal ideas, which is what music, code, and digital data all fall under. Your gain is not my loss - I will have just as much as I had before. Whether it's legal or not is a wholly different matter. If I went to the Louvre and stole the Mona Lisa, I'd be charged with theft. If a made a perfect copy, with hours of my own labour and talent, it would be mine - I'm pretty sure copyright has expired on it (there may be some laws there, but I don't think they apply to works that old). If I sold that copy as "the Mona Lisa", that would be fraud, even if it was identical to the Mona Lisa down to the last molecule.
Oh, and MS had been using the BSD TCP stack up until recently. The difference is, the license there allows completely unfettered copying.
If you don't mind working for $2 an hour, that's ok of course, but most people probably wouldn't go to the university to learn computer science if their pay was less than that of a mcdonalds employee.
Well, then, good news for Gates. He did pretty well for a dropout, and remarkably well for someone who is constantly being ripped off. Or perhaps the facts are a little distorted? You'd be surprised to learn that many companies don't even do so well as to break even in their first few years.
This adds a certain irony to the phrase "there is nothing to fear but fear itself". And now that fear can bring you experiences you only had nightmares about before.
Every piece of data that comes from the user must be editable in the future
You realize that in order to have an audit trail, certain data must be immutable after it's been recorded, right? Welcome to ERP. You've taken two steps. One is wrong, and the other depends on the first. Then there are the issues about legal requirements (ERP includes accounting data, contract information, etc.) and simply maintaining consistent data between yourself and your business partners that the idea of being able to edit anything, any time, or even close to it makes it difficult for me not to smirk.
This leads to one of my (many) quotes: If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
People act very irrationally when they are afraid of being burnt alive for some reason.
That's because it hurts. Not too many people complain about death by novocaine, and if you said sex would kill a guy, he'd probably say it's worth the risk.
I somewhat agree with you but a 'rare genetic variation' is simply that, RARE. Under normal circumstances, there are genetic markers that distinguish a male from a female and if this particular athlete has a rare variation or abnormality in his/her DNA then that bridge should be crossed when it's come to.
Athletes are rare, although perhaps not as rare as some of these genetic conditions. I'm not sure if elite, world-class athletes are more rare than these genetic conditions, but I would be unsurprised to find that they're more rare than genetic anomalies. It's like saying people with lungs that have a greater capacity are rare. Not so rare among alpine dwellers. When you look at unusual individuals, don't be surprised to find out that they are, in fact, unusual.
Not sure where you live, or what federal law you're talking about, but that isn't the case here, and it isn't the case in Colorado where one of the other responders lives.
And there's the simple fact that you'd be providing peak power to the power company and using off-peak power from the company, which would mean that they can sell the stuff you're providing for a higher rate, with a generation cost of 0.
And if Enron had a business model like that, they could afford to employee deep thinkers like you.
Cool. 3D is a dual-channel technology, just watch one channel. Red-blue 3D was out when I was a kid. I saw maybe one. I don't really want to see them again. I saw a 3D show at Disney World about 10 years ago, with the crappy shutter glasses. I had a headache in about 15 minutes, and it lasted for hours. And the story sucked. I've seen 3 or 4 of the last 3D animations in the theatre. They're amazing. I'm just stunned. I've caught myself leaning over to get a better view of things around corners a couple times. It's good enough that I forget it's there. Granted, it's not going to help a sucky story, but neither will any other special effect, IMO. My kids have seen those, and they think it's nice, but not terribly special. It's all they know, they like it, and I can't imagine them getting bored with it until immersive 3D, a la holodecks, are invented. The current generation of 3D isn't going away. I expect that in a few years, 3D tv's are going to be like flat panels were 5 years ago - if you have the money you'll get it, and all the neighbours' kids will want to come to your place for movie night.
...but making a connection between handwriting->psyche issues would be dubious.
How about simple genetics and mechanics? If I look like someone, share a somewhat common skeletal-muscular system, and share a somewhat similar brain to drive it, is it unsurprising that I'd have a tendency to do things in a similar manner? This is the common nature vs. nurture argument.
There are people whose moral code, or lack thereof, means that trifling things like your continued existence aren't nearly as important as them getting that new heart of pair of lungs. So the questions becomes, which set of common standards, let's call them morals, are we going to follow? And yours could be just as wrong as the not-at-all hypothetical person I described.
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is it possible someone has been sabotaging it from the inside or even outside?
Not until after they've collected enough antimatter to make an explosion reminiscent of the old pictures of Creation Day One.
Hey, if I have to suffer through the scars from that movie, so do you.
When you bring guns, they just bring bigger guns. And bombs and missiles. Just remember, pirates aren't going to give a crap about the same rules that limit what firepower a legal vessel can carry.
It's not a matter of throwing guns at them, it's a matter of throwing money at them.
To capture an unarmed vessel with 30 to 50 people on it, you need what, 5 or 6 people with assault rifles loaded in a fast skiff?
If we can deter those 5 or 6 people, they need more boats. If we can sink their skiffs, they need bigger or armored attack vessels. That one jump in cost alone takes the investment from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, and smaller cuts for the pirates.
Granted, the simplest solution is to run convoys through the areas where pirates tend to congregate and give them armed escorts. If the pirates are fool enough to attack, well, that sounds like a problem solving itself.
You start firing back, the pirates will just tool up with bigger guns and perhaps with RPGs etc. They will also reduce risk to themselves by shooting first instead of giving the crew a chance to surrender. They could just adopt a strategy of sinking boats first then taking whatever survivors a.k.a hostages are left from the sea.
This reminds me of the accepted protocol for airplane hostage-taking about a decade ago. The idea was to just keep calm and wait for the government to pay the ransom or whatever. Have you noticed how people find that idea laughable post-9/11? One ship gets sunk by pirates and that game is quickly over. The force that will be applied against would-be pirates will be overwhelming and devastating.
...I know this because I do it for a living.
Don't each of our brains do this for a living, too?
I only wish that were true.
Hello, linux user!
EVERY Windows computer has a software firewall nowadays, many of them even turned on. Some may even be useful. I can only imagine how well my network shares will behave if I block those ports.
This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any witty "Fixed that for you" jokes will be modded into oblivion.
Fixed that for you. ...and since it was your sig, and not your comment, I'll expect the mods to shower points upon me. Probably negative, but you take what you can get.
Almost right. It's the time between when the bug was known by the developers/users, and when it was exploited (usually because the hackers found it first, and figured out how to use it before anyone else found it). For 0-day exploits, you usually find out when your system gets compromised, or that someone's system got compromised shows up in the news.
The last time I used Windows Live Search, or Bing, or whatever they call it next, was to find the latest download address of Windows Live Messenger. So I go to the MSN home page, fill in the little text box with "windows live messenger download", and bing away. No direct or close link on the first two pages, although the first link was some related MS page about how great Live Messenger is. I give up, and go to google. Same search, the first is the landing page for Live Messenger (which has a big download button), the second is the page where you actually start the download. So I roll my eyes and continue to ignore Bing's existence.
It looks like they improved that part of their search results, anyway - when I tried it again, just before posting this comment, the two best links showed up on the first page of both engines. Maybe there's hope for a half-decent search engine from MS yet. I did the classic Window vs Linux search and even that seemed to be reasonable, rather than a "please don't leave Windows" campaign.
What you're saying is generally true of anyone. I like coding, and am aware that someone could steal my copyright, if I actually cared. In point of fact, almost everything I do is work for hire, so I've already sold it (and only once, which is how work-for-hire works).The guy at McDonalds may just be flipping burgers, but I'm grateful when I want a quick and reasonably cheap meal (I said nothing of quality :P).
But none of that makes artists, burger-flippers, grocery-baggers, or anyone else more special than the average person. If you're not making 'enough' money, then get a different job. If you love your work, then accept that you're paying a price for your quality of life.
Sure, not a lot of people make it big, in any industry. And if you suck at the work you love, then get used to not having much money. Gates did well in running a tech business (I wouldn't say ethically, but financially successfully). While I'm in the same industry, there are about 6 orders of magnitude between my net worth and his. I'm okay with that, because I enjoy coding and it feeds my kids.
And you can't steal ideas, which is what music, code, and digital data all fall under. Your gain is not my loss - I will have just as much as I had before. Whether it's legal or not is a wholly different matter. If I went to the Louvre and stole the Mona Lisa, I'd be charged with theft. If a made a perfect copy, with hours of my own labour and talent, it would be mine - I'm pretty sure copyright has expired on it (there may be some laws there, but I don't think they apply to works that old). If I sold that copy as "the Mona Lisa", that would be fraud, even if it was identical to the Mona Lisa down to the last molecule.
Oh, and MS had been using the BSD TCP stack up until recently. The difference is, the license there allows completely unfettered copying.
It's almost a form of Nirvana once you reach this point.
Come on, Nirvana sucked...okay, I see your point.
If you don't mind working for $2 an hour, that's ok of course, but most people probably wouldn't go to the university to learn computer science if their pay was less than that of a mcdonalds employee.
Well, then, good news for Gates. He did pretty well for a dropout, and remarkably well for someone who is constantly being ripped off. Or perhaps the facts are a little distorted? You'd be surprised to learn that many companies don't even do so well as to break even in their first few years.
Hey, just because it looks like a Snickers bar...
This adds a certain irony to the phrase "there is nothing to fear but fear itself". And now that fear can bring you experiences you only had nightmares about before.
One of the effects I've heard of is reduced efficacy of contraceptives. Probably not the good news you were looking for.
Every piece of data that comes from the user must be editable in the future
You realize that in order to have an audit trail, certain data must be immutable after it's been recorded, right? Welcome to ERP. You've taken two steps. One is wrong, and the other depends on the first. Then there are the issues about legal requirements (ERP includes accounting data, contract information, etc.) and simply maintaining consistent data between yourself and your business partners that the idea of being able to edit anything, any time, or even close to it makes it difficult for me not to smirk.
This leads to one of my (many) quotes: If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
Would a Russian or Italian be as effective?
Because you want to use a device to make things slow. What better than a Pole? Russians and Italians are just going to get things sped up.
People act very irrationally when they are afraid of being burnt alive for some reason.
That's because it hurts. Not too many people complain about death by novocaine, and if you said sex would kill a guy, he'd probably say it's worth the risk.
I somewhat agree with you but a 'rare genetic variation' is simply that, RARE. Under normal circumstances, there are genetic markers that distinguish a male from a female and if this particular athlete has a rare variation or abnormality in his/her DNA then that bridge should be crossed when it's come to.
Athletes are rare, although perhaps not as rare as some of these genetic conditions. I'm not sure if elite, world-class athletes are more rare than these genetic conditions, but I would be unsurprised to find that they're more rare than genetic anomalies.
It's like saying people with lungs that have a greater capacity are rare. Not so rare among alpine dwellers. When you look at unusual individuals, don't be surprised to find out that they are, in fact, unusual.
Because a sheep-like mentality is limited to the right wing only?
The absolute worst thing anybody can do is dehumanize their opposition by calling them sheep or assume that they're not intelligent.
Oh, they aren't really opposition.
What's that sound? Yep, that's the sound of it going right over your head.
What is wrong with community service for the mum/kid?
And take away work from a public employee?!?!
Not sure where you live, or what federal law you're talking about, but that isn't the case here, and it isn't the case in Colorado where one of the other responders lives.
And there's the simple fact that you'd be providing peak power to the power company and using off-peak power from the company, which would mean that they can sell the stuff you're providing for a higher rate, with a generation cost of 0.
And if Enron had a business model like that, they could afford to employee deep thinkers like you.
3) putting power back into the grid. For state 1 and 2 you are simply charged for electricity as per usual. It's state 3 that's problematic.
This would be true if they weren't making a handy profit on the power you provide them when you put it onto the grid.
Cool. 3D is a dual-channel technology, just watch one channel.
Red-blue 3D was out when I was a kid. I saw maybe one. I don't really want to see them again.
I saw a 3D show at Disney World about 10 years ago, with the crappy shutter glasses. I had a headache in about 15 minutes, and it lasted for hours. And the story sucked.
I've seen 3 or 4 of the last 3D animations in the theatre. They're amazing. I'm just stunned. I've caught myself leaning over to get a better view of things around corners a couple times. It's good enough that I forget it's there. Granted, it's not going to help a sucky story, but neither will any other special effect, IMO. My kids have seen those, and they think it's nice, but not terribly special. It's all they know, they like it, and I can't imagine them getting bored with it until immersive 3D, a la holodecks, are invented.
The current generation of 3D isn't going away. I expect that in a few years, 3D tv's are going to be like flat panels were 5 years ago - if you have the money you'll get it, and all the neighbours' kids will want to come to your place for movie night.
...but making a connection between handwriting->psyche issues would be dubious.
How about simple genetics and mechanics? If I look like someone, share a somewhat common skeletal-muscular system, and share a somewhat similar brain to drive it, is it unsurprising that I'd have a tendency to do things in a similar manner? This is the common nature vs. nurture argument.
There are people whose moral code, or lack thereof, means that trifling things like your continued existence aren't nearly as important as them getting that new heart of pair of lungs. So the questions becomes, which set of common standards, let's call them morals, are we going to follow? And yours could be just as wrong as the not-at-all hypothetical person I described.