I flew through DC and Logan this week and saw this a couple of times. I assumed it was some kind of scam. It's interesting to see it confirmed here though.
Pretty simple. He identified the encrypted key. He probably debugged the player and looked for routines that accessed that part of thefile. When he found them he ran the routine and pulled it's output out of memory.
I'd reather see motorola homesight get a little more robust. It seems like a damn good start, (wifi sensors, computer interface, easy to use...) But it's missing some key stuff. For one, it's all security now. They need to add automation. Second, while you can use it online, you have to use some service that starts charging you after the first year. Finally, they don't have 64bit drivers.
Does anyone know of anything similar? Not X10 but a system that you can drop in wireless devices that report to the base station for security and automation. Something that has online monitoring of the sensors, cameras, and status of switches. Preferably something that interfaces with Windows Media Center Edition, (though maybe it can just be a channel on my WII). Motorola starts at about $100 dollars and goes up 15-50 as you add stuff. Any suggestions?
The vast majority of the sited deficiencies apply to EVERY OS upgrade. Drivers, new hardware, changed interface, etc, etc. I have to assume it's a re-usable article of some type. And what is the deficiency for hybrid hard drives? They complain that they will exist and may be helpful?
It is truely impossible to make a list of the 5 best games because there are simply a load of games that fall into the "fundamentally better than all other games" area. Games like: star craft, super mario brothers 3, super mario world, the legend of zelda, ocarina of time, doom, quake, everquest, pong, etc, etc, etc. Games that both fundamentally redefined how games are played as well as show a staying power comparable to classic board games in a video game market which is notoriously finicky.
I think the best you can do is define a list of the games you most enjoy playing. The games that, for you, offer the best over all experience. For me, the number one is always: Metroid Prime. I think it defines perfection for the series, the genre, and a video game in general
I've always thought we'd find that the network guards on the boat in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence were actually fairly close to what network attadk and defense would be like in the future. Those helmets are actually EEG machines w/ displays for the users. They are getting fed a view based on dynamics of the network and the EEG is letting them know when they see something important.
Microsoft is making a big mistake in mimicing its competition instead of taking a different road. I agree that software as a service is and will stay big, but there is another road no-one has really even touched yet.
Currently, we are in the midst of a transition for home users to a client/server model. Their home computer is the client. Google is working hard to be the server. They want to supply your email server, your photo server, your video server, your communication (IM/VOIP/etc) server, your news server, and your file server.
Microsoft should be combatting that, but should also be moving in a different path. They should be building software, (and encouraging the building of hardware), that moves all those servers into your house. They need a new version of windows, named "Windows Share" or such, that provides all those servers with the minimal setup, "We will now sign up a domain, (If you know what this is and already have one, click HERE)", the same way they do for email. They could even push a shuttle-esque hardware appliance that comes almost completely setup. Plug it into your internet connection and go.
Microsoft could sell this in many fronts. "Own your own data" "You deside your storage, not google" "Always fast access around the house" "Don't upload your data twice, do it once to your own server" etc etc. More-over, they could then set up a service to ADMINISTER the computer. They take over all those silly upkeep jobs, (similar to what AOL does already), and you don't even have to think about the server, it just works. And microsoft makes a handy profit simply from pushing patches and security tools, and rolling back computers when they stop working.
I only buy rack mount now-a-days. I am tired of computers of every shape and size all over my computer desk. A small rack and a couple rack mount cases keeps everything out of the way. A usb and video cable are the only things you need extending from the computer to wherever you actually work. Maybe some people spend the majority of their computer time looking at their computer. I spend most of mine looking at my monitor.
The risk isn't just from the initial install, it's also from the maintenance of the systems How do you handle maintaining the system if your supplier is chinese? "Hi, this is Gyorg with the state department. We have a system that is acting up. We won't send back the hard drive because it has sensitive government information on it, but can you take a look at the rest of the hardware? Thank you." What is your assurance that the hardware coming back isn't bugged? And heaven forbid you have to do any maintenance while the equipment is deployed.
What would be fun, (and in no way realistic), would be for Apple to counter-sue that they rightfully own the patent, then use it to re-sue Creative for infringing on the patent they filed =).
One of my questions about the Wii controller has always been how you would move in given directions. Orienting the controller in that direection always seemed to be sub-obtimal, even to an analog joystick. I was hoping that moving your player left and right would be come less important, (maybe even AI controlled?), so that instead the control would focus on moves such as twisting and turning the controller to do moves. Grip the controller like a handle-bar and punch, swing, etc to control the attacks.
What it sounds like is, instead, many games they have gone the route of simply mapping previous controller movements back to certain movements of the controller and only implimented really inovative controls to fill in the gaps.
(And I purposefully didn't check this post. If I checked it once I would have gotten nervious about it and kept refining it until it was perfect given the threads focus on writing and a slashdot post just ain't worth the time.)
I graduated from Colorado School of Mines which is basically all Engineers and Scientists. They had identified writing as one of the critical elements which their students lacked and the employers desired. While I obviously don't have their teaching playbook, it seemed that they tried to improve writing by having almost every upper-level class write a formal paper of some type. I wrote papers in more formats than I can possibly count. You may want to try to contact someone at the school and ask about their approach rather than have to duplicate the work.
The type of writing I do the most of is actually professional emails. That is followed by powerpoint presentations. The key to emails is to get your point across quickly and simply rather than approaching it in a round about manner, (particularly when many people will be reading the email on blackberries and the like). Powerpoint presentations are very much about communicating very complex technical issues in every-day human terms.
Now the papers I did during school that had the most signifigant impact on my writing were my lab reports during a particular physics class. We were allowed 5 pages for the report and however much we wanted in appendixes. We also got a 1 page executive summary in the front. It taught us to summarize what we did to one paragraph and put it in the executive summary with a paragraph or two of our conclusions. It also taught us to get to the point in the report. The report said what we did and what happened up front. It followed with a more detailed description of the steps with only the most critical data in the report its self. (The rest of the data went into the 40 or 50 pages of appendixes.) We kept all subjectivity out of the report until the conclusions at the end.
That type of writing I have found to be important in my daily work. To be able to say "This is the decision that is needed, here are the facts, and here is my recommendation". Most of my coworkers prefer to spend pages writing about where things started, whats happened since then, who did what, bla bla bla bla bla. The simple fact is leadership wants to know what they need to do, why they need to do it, and what you think it is they should do. The rest can go in backup. If they are interested enough, they'll look there.
Are you saying that we shouldn't pursue the study of self driving cars simply because you believe it's a tough cookie to crack? Personally I am happy that DARPA is making real headway in a field that has such a monumentious task. The perverbial road is miles long and we can only take baby steps, but the impacts of the work will be incalculable.
The glamorization though is not necessarily soley in entertainment. People like going to bed thinking there are shadowy people who are working in a non-official manner to keep us safe. Certainly people want to be james bond, or at least know his counterpart is out there. The problem is that they don't want to have that work impenge on their personal privacy. Thats a delicate line to draw and is probably simply a matter of how well a spy organization can hide it's actions.
It was a good game, but I think it focused WAY too much on the high end and massive encounters. When you don't limit the number of people on a raid, you have to balance the encounter to a 100-200 person force. I like the focus WoW puts on the non-60 characters and smaller guilds through 20-person raid instances, Many lower level group instances, near-infinite amounts of quests and rewards for trade skills. I hope that Saga of Heroes follows the same philosophy but also makes the journey to 60 MUCH longer so a person can simply enjoy playing with their friends (without being 60) and just level up as the levels come. In the end, it's the social aspect that keeps people playing the games. As I get older and would prefer to engage friends in real life rather than online, I want to do the complex raiding and tight social groups but simply don't want to feel the burden of having to be level 60 with excellent gear to do so
I honestly believe we are highly hipocritical on this subject. We all watch movies like True Lies where the one guy asks, "get me a wiretap on...", the other goes "Are you crazy? Thats illegal!!" and he responds by saying "And we do it 20 times a day! Now do it!". We watch 24 where the guy does everything in his power to get the information he wants. Then we find out, "Oh Me Oh My! The NSA really DOES spy! I'm Outraged!". We should honestly pick a position. We should stop glamorizing clandestine observation and instead demonize it, or we should accept the fact that there are some things we just don't want to know about in the intelligence world.
I wonder if, in the future, computers will have multiple unique, separate and heterogenious operating systems which communicate through some type of decision protocol/bus. The idea of an external HT spec and the Opteron socketted FPGA make the idea of having different hardware/OS's that make decisions by committee sound theoretically feasable. If anyone has ever seen Neon Genesis: Evangelion, the idea reminds me of the 3 supercomputer minds used to make decisions. And hopefully, should a very deep attack occur, it would not be feasable to attack all 'minds' at the same time with the same attack so that the resiliant 'minds' could deal with the infected 'mind'.
To be honest, EQ servers rarely crashed after the first 2 years. I think Povar (sp?) had 3 or 4 true crashes, but other than that EQ did ok. Hell, after 3 or 4 years, the EQ servers could stay up for literally MONTHS at a time. Blizzard reboots all of its servers once a week, whether they need patching or not.
I used to live in DC and new people who went in early to avoid traffic. The problem was EVERYONE had the same idea. So everyone gets stuck in traffic early going to work. Then they all work 9 hour shifts so leave at the same time as the 8 hour people and sit in the parking lot.
I found the easiest thing was to work 8 hours a day, come in at 9am and leave at 5:30. People started to filter out from 3:30-4:30 so that from 4:30-5:30 I could work uninterrupted. People couldn't keep me longer because 5:30 was the longest you could legally set your hours to and no-one made meetings past 5:30. I didn't have to come in on my AWS day for a meeting w/ someone I couldn't blow off because I didn't have an AWS day. And by 9am there is no traffic, (or in my case, congestion on the public transportation). Same with traveling home from 5:30-6:30, almost no-one is still traveling so there is more than enough room.
Actually, I remember a behavioral test being the first thing I had to do to work at Circuit City. Apperently they are kept pretty confidential, even from the person taking them, but they are supposed to reflect how well a person will do as a salesman. (The customer service manager that graded mine said it showed I should have been a very good salesman though in fact I am not.)
I also remember reading a story from some guy applying for the NSA who, along w/ the standard clearance investigation had to take behavioral tests and a polygraph. Basically the test was meant to determine if he had any unnaturally strong personal traits in either direction. From talking to a gal who workeed at the NSA, she said that the analysts are specifically chosen to be heavily introverted so that they won't talk about their work with anyone, (nor even have social contacts to talk to.) She said the analysts wouldn't even look her in the eyes as she passed them in the halls. (She was a very good looking lady.)
I don't really have a specific point, just wanted to share some experiences.
To be honest, I signed up for the NCAA webcast, but couldn't figure out how in the hell to actually watch a game. I couldn't find the links to the actual broadcasts anywhere. I ended up just getting my info from ESPN and such.
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I flew through DC and Logan this week and saw this a couple of times. I assumed it was some kind of scam. It's interesting to see it confirmed here though.
Pretty simple. He identified the encrypted key. He probably debugged the player and looked for routines that accessed that part of thefile. When he found them he ran the routine and pulled it's output out of memory.
I'd reather see motorola homesight get a little more robust. It seems like a damn good start, (wifi sensors, computer interface, easy to use...) But it's missing some key stuff. For one, it's all security now. They need to add automation. Second, while you can use it online, you have to use some service that starts charging you after the first year. Finally, they don't have 64bit drivers.
Does anyone know of anything similar? Not X10 but a system that you can drop in wireless devices that report to the base station for security and automation. Something that has online monitoring of the sensors, cameras, and status of switches. Preferably something that interfaces with Windows Media Center Edition, (though maybe it can just be a channel on my WII). Motorola starts at about $100 dollars and goes up 15-50 as you add stuff. Any suggestions?
The vast majority of the sited deficiencies apply to EVERY OS upgrade. Drivers, new hardware, changed interface, etc, etc. I have to assume it's a re-usable article of some type. And what is the deficiency for hybrid hard drives? They complain that they will exist and may be helpful?
I think the best you can do is define a list of the games you most enjoy playing. The games that, for you, offer the best over all experience. For me, the number one is always: Metroid Prime. I think it defines perfection for the series, the genre, and a video game in general
I've always thought we'd find that the network guards on the boat in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence were actually fairly close to what network attadk and defense would be like in the future. Those helmets are actually EEG machines w/ displays for the users. They are getting fed a view based on dynamics of the network and the EEG is letting them know when they see something important.
Also, the profit on laptops is like $10-$20. Not too much. Thats why they try and sell you the accessories.
Currently, we are in the midst of a transition for home users to a client/server model. Their home computer is the client. Google is working hard to be the server. They want to supply your email server, your photo server, your video server, your communication (IM/VOIP/etc) server, your news server, and your file server.
Microsoft should be combatting that, but should also be moving in a different path. They should be building software, (and encouraging the building of hardware), that moves all those servers into your house. They need a new version of windows, named "Windows Share" or such, that provides all those servers with the minimal setup, "We will now sign up a domain, (If you know what this is and already have one, click HERE)", the same way they do for email. They could even push a shuttle-esque hardware appliance that comes almost completely setup. Plug it into your internet connection and go.
Microsoft could sell this in many fronts. "Own your own data" "You deside your storage, not google" "Always fast access around the house" "Don't upload your data twice, do it once to your own server" etc etc. More-over, they could then set up a service to ADMINISTER the computer. They take over all those silly upkeep jobs, (similar to what AOL does already), and you don't even have to think about the server, it just works. And microsoft makes a handy profit simply from pushing patches and security tools, and rolling back computers when they stop working.
I only buy rack mount now-a-days. I am tired of computers of every shape and size all over my computer desk. A small rack and a couple rack mount cases keeps everything out of the way. A usb and video cable are the only things you need extending from the computer to wherever you actually work. Maybe some people spend the majority of their computer time looking at their computer. I spend most of mine looking at my monitor.
The risk isn't just from the initial install, it's also from the maintenance of the systems How do you handle maintaining the system if your supplier is chinese? "Hi, this is Gyorg with the state department. We have a system that is acting up. We won't send back the hard drive because it has sensitive government information on it, but can you take a look at the rest of the hardware? Thank you." What is your assurance that the hardware coming back isn't bugged? And heaven forbid you have to do any maintenance while the equipment is deployed.
What would be fun, (and in no way realistic), would be for Apple to counter-sue that they rightfully own the patent, then use it to re-sue Creative for infringing on the patent they filed =).
What it sounds like is, instead, many games they have gone the route of simply mapping previous controller movements back to certain movements of the controller and only implimented really inovative controls to fill in the gaps.
I would say that Grandparent was soundly refuted.
(And I purposefully didn't check this post. If I checked it once I would have gotten nervious about it and kept refining it until it was perfect given the threads focus on writing and a slashdot post just ain't worth the time.)
The type of writing I do the most of is actually professional emails. That is followed by powerpoint presentations. The key to emails is to get your point across quickly and simply rather than approaching it in a round about manner, (particularly when many people will be reading the email on blackberries and the like). Powerpoint presentations are very much about communicating very complex technical issues in every-day human terms.
Now the papers I did during school that had the most signifigant impact on my writing were my lab reports during a particular physics class. We were allowed 5 pages for the report and however much we wanted in appendixes. We also got a 1 page executive summary in the front. It taught us to summarize what we did to one paragraph and put it in the executive summary with a paragraph or two of our conclusions. It also taught us to get to the point in the report. The report said what we did and what happened up front. It followed with a more detailed description of the steps with only the most critical data in the report its self. (The rest of the data went into the 40 or 50 pages of appendixes.) We kept all subjectivity out of the report until the conclusions at the end.
That type of writing I have found to be important in my daily work. To be able to say "This is the decision that is needed, here are the facts, and here is my recommendation". Most of my coworkers prefer to spend pages writing about where things started, whats happened since then, who did what, bla bla bla bla bla. The simple fact is leadership wants to know what they need to do, why they need to do it, and what you think it is they should do. The rest can go in backup. If they are interested enough, they'll look there.
Are you saying that we shouldn't pursue the study of self driving cars simply because you believe it's a tough cookie to crack? Personally I am happy that DARPA is making real headway in a field that has such a monumentious task. The perverbial road is miles long and we can only take baby steps, but the impacts of the work will be incalculable.
The glamorization though is not necessarily soley in entertainment. People like going to bed thinking there are shadowy people who are working in a non-official manner to keep us safe. Certainly people want to be james bond, or at least know his counterpart is out there. The problem is that they don't want to have that work impenge on their personal privacy. Thats a delicate line to draw and is probably simply a matter of how well a spy organization can hide it's actions.
It was a good game, but I think it focused WAY too much on the high end and massive encounters. When you don't limit the number of people on a raid, you have to balance the encounter to a 100-200 person force. I like the focus WoW puts on the non-60 characters and smaller guilds through 20-person raid instances, Many lower level group instances, near-infinite amounts of quests and rewards for trade skills. I hope that Saga of Heroes follows the same philosophy but also makes the journey to 60 MUCH longer so a person can simply enjoy playing with their friends (without being 60) and just level up as the levels come. In the end, it's the social aspect that keeps people playing the games. As I get older and would prefer to engage friends in real life rather than online, I want to do the complex raiding and tight social groups but simply don't want to feel the burden of having to be level 60 with excellent gear to do so
I honestly believe we are highly hipocritical on this subject. We all watch movies like True Lies where the one guy asks, "get me a wiretap on ...", the other goes "Are you crazy? Thats illegal!!" and he responds by saying "And we do it 20 times a day! Now do it!". We watch 24 where the guy does everything in his power to get the information he wants. Then we find out, "Oh Me Oh My! The NSA really DOES spy! I'm Outraged!". We should honestly pick a position. We should stop glamorizing clandestine observation and instead demonize it, or we should accept the fact that there are some things we just don't want to know about in the intelligence world.
I wonder if, in the future, computers will have multiple unique, separate and heterogenious operating systems which communicate through some type of decision protocol/bus. The idea of an external HT spec and the Opteron socketted FPGA make the idea of having different hardware/OS's that make decisions by committee sound theoretically feasable. If anyone has ever seen Neon Genesis: Evangelion, the idea reminds me of the 3 supercomputer minds used to make decisions. And hopefully, should a very deep attack occur, it would not be feasable to attack all 'minds' at the same time with the same attack so that the resiliant 'minds' could deal with the infected 'mind'.
To be honest, EQ servers rarely crashed after the first 2 years. I think Povar (sp?) had 3 or 4 true crashes, but other than that EQ did ok. Hell, after 3 or 4 years, the EQ servers could stay up for literally MONTHS at a time. Blizzard reboots all of its servers once a week, whether they need patching or not.
They only leak if you power them. Leakage current is for transistors that are not changing states but are powered.
I used to live in DC and new people who went in early to avoid traffic. The problem was EVERYONE had the same idea. So everyone gets stuck in traffic early going to work. Then they all work 9 hour shifts so leave at the same time as the 8 hour people and sit in the parking lot.
I found the easiest thing was to work 8 hours a day, come in at 9am and leave at 5:30. People started to filter out from 3:30-4:30 so that from 4:30-5:30 I could work uninterrupted. People couldn't keep me longer because 5:30 was the longest you could legally set your hours to and no-one made meetings past 5:30. I didn't have to come in on my AWS day for a meeting w/ someone I couldn't blow off because I didn't have an AWS day. And by 9am there is no traffic, (or in my case, congestion on the public transportation). Same with traveling home from 5:30-6:30, almost no-one is still traveling so there is more than enough room.
Actually, I remember a behavioral test being the first thing I had to do to work at Circuit City. Apperently they are kept pretty confidential, even from the person taking them, but they are supposed to reflect how well a person will do as a salesman. (The customer service manager that graded mine said it showed I should have been a very good salesman though in fact I am not.)
I also remember reading a story from some guy applying for the NSA who, along w/ the standard clearance investigation had to take behavioral tests and a polygraph. Basically the test was meant to determine if he had any unnaturally strong personal traits in either direction. From talking to a gal who workeed at the NSA, she said that the analysts are specifically chosen to be heavily introverted so that they won't talk about their work with anyone, (nor even have social contacts to talk to.) She said the analysts wouldn't even look her in the eyes as she passed them in the halls. (She was a very good looking lady.)
I don't really have a specific point, just wanted to share some experiences.
To be honest, I signed up for the NCAA webcast, but couldn't figure out how in the hell to actually watch a game. I couldn't find the links to the actual broadcasts anywhere. I ended up just getting my info from ESPN and such.