Analytical skills are somewhat better than geeks than other people, which will give people only a slightly better edge than that average player.
Like other players, I know how to play the game of poker (i.e. straight beats a set, etc). I may have a better analytical skills that may allow me the calculate pot odds or the number of outs in any particular situation. Soon enough though, I run in many players who have equal footing in this area, even though they were not "geeks". Therefore, there must be something else out there that separates the pros from the ameteurs.
Alas, that answer is the ability to read tells. I don't mean the ones that you see occasionally on TV and they actually say what they are after they happen. I play with average people, and most average people display tells that give out a lot of information about the strength of there hands. The pros obviously learn to control the tells, but they ain't perfect either. So, learning tells is very important if you would want to win.
I recommend the book Caro's Book of Poker Tells. This book applies to different poker games, not necessarily texas hold-em. This book is somewhat older, but it has many of the tells that frequently occur and has photos to back it up.
Forced, bonded or indentured labor or involuntary prison labor is not to be used. All work will be voluntary, and workers should be free to leave upon reasonable notice. Workers shall not be required to hand over government-issued identification, passports or work permits as a condition of employment.
I wish I can have employment with presenting identification. Alas, I must also submit to a background check, a credit check and a drug test.
couldn't spyware be identified like a virus, quarrantined like a virus, expunged like a virus?
So, you do have virus protection right? Are the (anti)-virus companies not providing signatures for them? I would ask them 'why not', then pick the companies that do. Oh, by the way, IANAA (I am not an administrator).
It's sometimes great living in the Northern Ohio area. Cedar Point is the greatest park EVER. With great, world-record rides like the Magnum XL200 (puny by today's standards), Millenium Force, and the Top-Thrill Dragster, how can anyone really do better here in the U.S.?
I do have a concern though. With the Dragster, the ride uses a cable driven mechanism to pull the car at 120 MPH. There was an incident this past summer where the cable shredded and shards of cable covered in hot oil injured a many of the riders. The local news coverage showed people having first-degree burns and embedded wire pieces on their face and arms (yikes!). I agree that this is an isolated incident, but this ride has been closed a lot because of the high winds from Lake Erie. Being 420-something feet, I would not like to be stuck on top of the hill for any reason. So, I hope the designers are prepared for this new ride.
There's NOTHING that says you *HAVE* to disable usb storage devices. The extract simply states that Microsoft MAKES IT POSSIBLE.
No dispute there. Moving on...
This will make it a lot harder for people to extract company data *without being traced*
The example I gave might be tracable, but what exactly are they tracing? A series of encrypted bytes? They may not even know that my "transfer" is company data.
(With mail you can..., ftp/http/cvs etc. can be blocked at the firewall).
Uh huh. I guess a company is always block outgoing http. Yeah, right. Modern business is dependent on a workable Internet.
As another comment in this thread stated... Linux can already do this. Why don't you go bash Linux instead?
I am beginning to wonder if you actually read my post. I was definitely not bashing Microsoft (even though I like too). Anyway, my comment has to do with disabling a viable technology for the sake of protecting IP. The benefits of using portable storage severely outweighs the security of trusted data. My point is that there are many other methods to steal IP. So disabling one suite of technologies "to protect the company" just does not make sense!
Bottom line: There is absolutely no point in banning removable media access if I have a dedicated internet access already! A person who really wants to steal company data, will always find a way. So why prevent use of a beneficial technology?
My wife was quite upset when she bought her 12" Powerbook G4 last year. It, of course, did not have a floppy drive. I haven't used floppies since I bought a laptop of my own. She was concern that she could not look at her old files, or store new school presentations or anything. I let her use my 256MB USB drive as a temporary measure, but she started to use it more that I would. So I ended up buying one for her to use. She seems to like it so much better. It works on Mac, it works on Windows, it works on Linux... Everyone's happy.
She still has her 100 or so floppies. So I guess I would have to find a computer with USB to transfer the data. I hope none of them have any old virii..
Re:Is it the "Coke Classic" ploy?
on
Star Wars on DVD
·
· Score: 1
Sounds more like "The Disney Ploy" algorithm:
float disney_ploy(struct movie* x) { float total = 0.0; make_movie(x); total+=release_movie(x); wait(x, six_months); total+=sell(x, video && dvd); label(x, "Disney Classic"); while (still_profitable(x)) { put(x, disney_vault); wait(x, seven_years); remaster(x); total+=sell(x, video && dvd); } return total; }
Oops, there's seems to be an infinite loop in there, somewhere...
when Microsoft started to implement Office products using COM circa 1994. Granted, the idea of the Automation gave users tremendous power. But, the flipside reveals a plethora of macro virii and worms that makes my head spin. For me, I would prefer simplicity over power.
My wife's friend contacted me one day to have me fix here computer because it is running so slow. I arrived the next day. It turns out she had an old HP Pavillion (or something like that) with 550Mhz Pentium-class computer with 128mb RAM. I boot up her computer to Windoze to find out that she had a gazillion little tray applications like ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and some stupid crap that I have never heard of. I asked her if she ever used any of these applications. She basically said that the only app she uses frequently was AOL and AIM. She claimed ignorance about the remaining apps. So I end up removing most of those little tray applications, and I double-check for other "background" apps. It seem OK and rebooted. Her computer performed much better.
The moral of the story is that if you are going to run a bunch of little applets concurrently, be prepared to take some sort of performance hit. These apps, especially the IM clients, are hog competing for your computer cycles. So, IMHO, it does not matter if you are in Linux, Windoze, *BSD. Running resource-intensive apps will affect performance.
Denying what's actually the truth really gets you nowhere, and yes most P2P-nets are currently used almost exclusivly for warez.
...
With the exception being BitTorrent.
...
Going on a random P2P-net, requirering you to specificly start a P2P-app and then searching for stuff, filtering the trash, makes it less usefull for legeitemate purposes.
From your logic, I guess sites like this is ok. The difference is that I search first, filter, then I go on a "P2P" net. So that makes the whole site more legit, right?
The term might be a little confusing or slightly misrepresented, but stenographic merging is the process where one will use stenography to embed the infomation in one file into another file. For example, I can encode bits of a secret message into, let's say, a JPEG. The merging of the file into the JPEG, ideally, is not suppose to interfere with the original function of the file. So if you have a knowledge of the encoding, then you can retrieve the bits from the picture and assemble the message. I can write a quick program to secretly embed an MP3 stream into a home-video AVI by XORing the first pixel in each frame of the video with sequential bytes of the MP3 stream. Not that hard to do, really. However, in order to have decode, you will need to have knowledge of the method I just described a priori. Again, not a very difficut means of obsuring fingerprint, but my not be feasible on a grand scale. But as the old saying goes, "good enough for government work."
Just hook any headset radio to the Line-in port of your sound card..
Just a curious question for those sound engineers...
Doesn't headset radios still have a small amount of amplification? Wouldn't the gain in the output make the recording sound a little saturated? (I don't have a Walkman...) Wouldn't it make more sense to record off a clean, non-amplified output?
I am off topic... but who is the idiot that marked the parent as "Off Topic"???
When I read the article, NeXTSTeP was an integral part of the history of Apple. The comment was just as relevant than the other comments on "I remember the insert your favorite tech from Apple here" that are getting "Interesting" or "Insightful".
When will we get moderators that actually read the articles?? I actually wish I had uber-moderator points now so I can bitch-slap the original moderator.
I was just talking about this with my wife the other day! I've always said that the newer Lego's were crap and how I wish that they revert back. It's now gonna happen? Good. Now I do not agree with their decision to eliminate Mindstorms, though. I would love to have Mindstorms. It's a great starter for robotics.
So, if they are gonna have little niche markets, why not go one step futher and have functionally complete Lego sets targeted toward specific age groups:
Age 0-4 : The big lego blocks (Duplo?)
Age 5+ : Regular lego sets
Age 10+ : Complete Technic sets
Age 13+ : Complete Mindstorm sets
It's about time someone is putting their foot down and stopping this ridiculous licensing madness!
I would sue back. IANAL, but my reasons seems to have more merit that the original lawsuit:
The cost of hiring a lawyer just to go through this lawsuit alone would have placed a significant financial burden. (Being 66 years old, on social security, Medicare, maybe paying her own perscriptions, etc).
I deserve a small amount compensation because of undue stress. This big 500-pound gorilla is hastling me because they think I am an outlaw, hip-hopping, file-trading pirate when the truth is that I am just an ordinary, elderly woman just trying to live out my remaining days the best I can.
Researchers also discovered another message hidden inside the infection that appeared to taunt Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates: "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"
Gee, maybe we should take his message more seriously. Maybe the author of the worm is correct in some aspects. Some say that Microsoft is solely to blame for this. I'd say it is not 100% correct. There is a shared blame for the security problems:
Microsoft, like many other companies, always preferred to have features and ease-of-use over security. To be fair, Microsoft and it's security initiatives have been somewhat successful, the preference still remains. The security problems still will continue.
The U.S. Government, specifically the Federal Trade Commission. They has continually ignored the fact that security problems in Microsoft software has costed the government, businesses and individuals billons of dollars combined over the years. We see that monetary quantification all of the time, however, the always forget the real impact of individuals. These security problems do affect the daily life of individuals, from deleted homework assignments to identity theft.
The Mass Market. This is because the mass-market of computer users want simplicity because they are not willing to take the time to learn about it's implications. They are technologically challenged. So, the mass-market users are mostly willing to sacrifice their security and privacy in order to have this simplicity. If they still continue to use products knowing that their time, their identity, their money and their life might be affected by the use of these products, then I do not feel sorry for them at all. They've made their consumer choices, let them learn from their mistakes.
--
No memory available for sig. Please reboot now.
Each device, which runs on battery, should last approximately two months. When possible, devices can be recovered and reused. The cost of each is estimated at $10,000.
$10,000!?! That thing better support popular P2P formats like gnutella.;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Analytical skills are somewhat better than geeks than other people, which will give people only a slightly better edge than that average player.
Like other players, I know how to play the game of poker (i.e. straight beats a set, etc). I may have a better analytical skills that may allow me the calculate pot odds or the number of outs in any particular situation. Soon enough though, I run in many players who have equal footing in this area, even though they were not "geeks". Therefore, there must be something else out there that separates the pros from the ameteurs.
Alas, that answer is the ability to read tells. I don't mean the ones that you see occasionally on TV and they actually say what they are after they happen. I play with average people, and most average people display tells that give out a lot of information about the strength of there hands. The pros obviously learn to control the tells, but they ain't perfect either. So, learning tells is very important if you would want to win.
I recommend the book Caro's Book of Poker Tells. This book applies to different poker games, not necessarily texas hold-em. This book is somewhat older, but it has many of the tells that frequently occur and has photos to back it up.
Forced, bonded or indentured labor or involuntary prison labor is not to be used. All work will be voluntary, and workers should be free to leave upon reasonable notice. Workers shall not be required to hand over government-issued identification, passports or work permits as a condition of employment.
I wish I can have employment with presenting identification. Alas, I must also submit to a background check, a credit check and a drug test.
couldn't spyware be identified like a virus, quarrantined like a virus, expunged like a virus? So, you do have virus protection right? Are the (anti)-virus companies not providing signatures for them? I would ask them 'why not', then pick the companies that do. Oh, by the way, IANAA (I am not an administrator).
Just a thought before sleepy-time.
It's sometimes great living in the Northern Ohio area. Cedar Point is the greatest park EVER. With great, world-record rides like the Magnum XL200 (puny by today's standards), Millenium Force, and the Top-Thrill Dragster, how can anyone really do better here in the U.S.?
I do have a concern though. With the Dragster, the ride uses a cable driven mechanism to pull the car at 120 MPH. There was an incident this past summer where the cable shredded and shards of cable covered in hot oil injured a many of the riders. The local news coverage showed people having first-degree burns and embedded wire pieces on their face and arms (yikes!). I agree that this is an isolated incident, but this ride has been closed a lot because of the high winds from Lake Erie. Being 420-something feet, I would not like to be stuck on top of the hill for any reason. So, I hope the designers are prepared for this new ride.
What is the astronaut gonna use? An outhouse?
No dispute there. Moving on...
The example I gave might be tracable, but what exactly are they tracing? A series of encrypted bytes? They may not even know that my "transfer" is company data.
Uh huh. I guess a company is always block outgoing http. Yeah, right. Modern business is dependent on a workable Internet.
I am beginning to wonder if you actually read my post. I was definitely not bashing Microsoft (even though I like too). Anyway, my comment has to do with disabling a viable technology for the sake of protecting IP. The benefits of using portable storage severely outweighs the security of trusted data. My point is that there are many other methods to steal IP. So disabling one suite of technologies "to protect the company" just does not make sense!
rwx
Bottom line: There is absolutely no point in banning removable media access if I have a dedicated internet access already! A person who really wants to steal company data, will always find a way. So why prevent use of a beneficial technology?
rwx
My wife was quite upset when she bought her 12" Powerbook G4 last year. It, of course, did not have a floppy drive. I haven't used floppies since I bought a laptop of my own. She was concern that she could not look at her old files, or store new school presentations or anything. I let her use my 256MB USB drive as a temporary measure, but she started to use it more that I would. So I ended up buying one for her to use. She seems to like it so much better. It works on Mac, it works on Windows, it works on Linux... Everyone's happy.
She still has her 100 or so floppies. So I guess I would have to find a computer with USB to transfer the data. I hope none of them have any old virii..
Sounds more like "The Disney Ploy" algorithm:
float disney_ploy(struct movie* x) {
float total = 0.0;
make_movie(x);
total+=release_movie(x);
wait(x, six_months);
total+=sell(x, video && dvd);
label(x, "Disney Classic");
while (still_profitable(x)) {
put(x, disney_vault);
wait(x, seven_years);
remaster(x);
total+=sell(x, video && dvd);
}
return total;
}
Oops, there's seems to be an infinite loop in there, somewhere...
--
rwx
Pay $10 or so per week to get the neighbor's kid to mow my lawn. At least, he is somewhat reliable!
when Microsoft started to implement Office products using COM circa 1994. Granted, the idea of the Automation gave users tremendous power. But, the flipside reveals a plethora of macro virii and worms that makes my head spin. For me, I would prefer simplicity over power.
Yes, I agree.
;-)
But 8 hours is enough time for a "backup".
My wife's friend contacted me one day to have me fix here computer because it is running so slow. I arrived the next day. It turns out she had an old HP Pavillion (or something like that) with 550Mhz Pentium-class computer with 128mb RAM. I boot up her computer to Windoze to find out that she had a gazillion little tray applications like ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and some stupid crap that I have never heard of. I asked her if she ever used any of these applications. She basically said that the only app she uses frequently was AOL and AIM. She claimed ignorance about the remaining apps. So I end up removing most of those little tray applications, and I double-check for other "background" apps. It seem OK and rebooted. Her computer performed much better.
The moral of the story is that if you are going to run a bunch of little applets concurrently, be prepared to take some sort of performance hit. These apps, especially the IM clients, are hog competing for your computer cycles. So, IMHO, it does not matter if you are in Linux, Windoze, *BSD. Running resource-intensive apps will affect performance.
From your logic, I guess sites like this is ok. The difference is that I search first, filter, then I go on a "P2P" net. So that makes the whole site more legit, right?
--
rWx
This space is for rent.
The term might be a little confusing or slightly misrepresented, but stenographic merging is the process where one will use stenography to embed the infomation in one file into another file. For example, I can encode bits of a secret message into, let's say, a JPEG. The merging of the file into the JPEG, ideally, is not suppose to interfere with the original function of the file. So if you have a knowledge of the encoding, then you can retrieve the bits from the picture and assemble the message. I can write a quick program to secretly embed an MP3 stream into a home-video AVI by XORing the first pixel in each frame of the video with sequential bytes of the MP3 stream. Not that hard to do, really. However, in order to have decode, you will need to have knowledge of the method I just described a priori. Again, not a very difficut means of obsuring fingerprint, but my not be feasible on a grand scale. But as the old saying goes, "good enough for government work."
bit shifting and rotation...
...
byte swapping...
reversal...
zip archiving...
uuencode...
stenographic merging...
flat-out encryption...
Ack! I'd better stop before I give them to many ideas...
Just hook any headset radio to the Line-in port of your sound card..
Just a curious question for those sound engineers...
Doesn't headset radios still have a small amount of amplification? Wouldn't the gain in the output make the recording sound a little saturated? (I don't have a Walkman...) Wouldn't it make more sense to record off a clean, non-amplified output?
I am off topic... but who is the idiot that marked the parent as "Off Topic"???
When I read the article, NeXTSTeP was an integral part of the history of Apple. The comment was just as relevant than the other comments on "I remember the insert your favorite tech from Apple here" that are getting "Interesting" or "Insightful".
When will we get moderators that actually read the articles?? I actually wish I had uber-moderator points now so I can bitch-slap the original moderator.
but I don't give a lick about Andy, I just want to see some more of Janet (Miss Jackson if you are nasty...)
-- rwx
I was just talking about this with my wife the other day! I've always said that the newer Lego's were crap and how I wish that they revert back. It's now gonna happen? Good. Now I do not agree with their decision to eliminate Mindstorms, though. I would love to have Mindstorms. It's a great starter for robotics.
So, if they are gonna have little niche markets, why not go one step futher and have functionally complete Lego sets targeted toward specific age groups:
Age 0-4 : The big lego blocks (Duplo?)
Age 5+ : Regular lego sets
Age 10+ : Complete Technic sets
Age 13+ : Complete Mindstorm sets
It's about time someone is putting their foot down and stopping this ridiculous licensing madness!
You know, I would love to know what he does with that cluster. I wonder if he set up his own 5-node Linux Virtual Server like I am.
They would already know that most of the spam I get comes from Asia.
Go get 'em, Grandma!
Gee, maybe we should take his message more seriously. Maybe the author of the worm is correct in some aspects. Some say that Microsoft is solely to blame for this. I'd say it is not 100% correct. There is a shared blame for the security problems:
--
No memory available for sig. Please reboot now.
$10,000!?! That thing better support popular P2P formats like gnutella. ;-)