Did you know that the flux capacitor was at one time listed listed in the Marine Corps Comm. Elec. student handbook in the section for different capacitors? They snuck it in as a joke while writing the book, and it actually made it past the editors and into print. Not sure how long it was there, I think at least three years beore they printed the new books.
Any Marines out there able to give a few better specifics?
How about SQL. We have a SQL Server with 4 500 mhz Xeon processors. It was the SQL workhorse here, until we got a workstation with 2 2.0 Ghz Xeon processors, now SQL flies circles around the old server. If we were to get some of these 4.7 ghz ones, it would probably fly around the 2.0's
Don't need a battle ship, just one remote controlled iceberg...
But seriously, do we really want that stuff going into the ocean, and eventually washing up on our shores. If you thought the exxon Valdeze(spelled horribly I know) caused an environmental emergancy, just picture those poor seagulls with scientologists all over them instead of oil.
But those were done on a much larger scope than what is being tried here. The funds generated from the banner ads weren't enough to back the cost of multitude of users. Now a wireless network with fewer users in a local area won't need the same kind of monitary backing. I think that if he gets local people to advertise, and perhaps a few larger corporations to advertise, then there is a rather good chance that it will work.
Well, for starters, the door is more like a stone slab. And secondly, you don't want the Skeleton People who could be hiding behind the door to jump out and get you. So you let the robot drill a little hole and poke it's camera through.
Besides, as Indiana Jones taught us, 8"x8" holes in the wall are normally filled with bugs. And who wants to stick their arms into holes filled with bugs.
That is pretty much what I was trying to say, it's not bad code, it's just features which can be exploited. I happen to like several of the features in the office suite. Sure some of them can be exploited and can cause a security risk, but then, what do I have that anybody would want to steal? Quake 3 mod files? Perhaps they'll want to look at some badly written works of fiction. I'm not worried about security on my home PC, since it contains no information that needs to be secure. Also, this bug requires you to open a document emailed to you, then read it, print it, save it after changing it, then mail it back. Now the only people that are going to email me documents that I am going to read are going to be friends or coworkers, and what are they going to steal?
As for my security rant, the reason that they would bother, is because you told them that they couldn't. It seems that telling them that, would make them try ten times as hard.
And lastly, instead of a bug, couldn't we just call this a new type of file sharing? They aren't stealing your files, they are just sharing them for you. After all, it's just electronic information, they aren't getting anything physical...
This lack of responsibility on the part of proprietary software developers is one of the main selling points of open source software.
Open source developers are more responsible than closed source developers? Could you please tell me why?
It's so difficult to define what constitutes a "major" problem, and what the seller should be obligated to fix.
Does it work as a word processor? Will it allow you to read, write, print, and format documents? Well if it didn't do those, then I would say it is a major problem. If it emailed personal information to random people on start up, then I would call it a problem, or if it caused your firewall software to crash everytime you opened a.doc file, I would call it a major problem.
If you discover a bug like this and the author isn't willing to fix it, you can always fix it yourself. Why would you ever want to leave this decision to someone else?
Perhaps because I am not a software engineer, and I know that my mother barely knows how to poerate the mouse, let alone debug complex software.
The problem here, is that someone found a way to exploit a Microsoft Word Feature. Now we can tell them to do things in the name of security, oh wait, isn't that what we all complain Bush is doing?
A very famous man once said something along the lines of "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security".
You are giving up features for temporary security. Anything Microsoft does will be a temporary fix. There are enough hackers out there that hate microsoft that no matter what, they will find a new way to exploit the software. Now before I hear any, "that's because microsoft sucks, use linux" comments, if all the people out there trying to find cracks and exploits for MS Software were instead going agains Linux, or other open sourced applications, you'd find just as many problems.
Don't believe me. Put up an appache web page on a linux box, or what ever opensourced so. Now have the only line on the page say "You can't hack this box". Get a link somewhere that people are going to see it, and then talk to me in a month as to how safe your page was.
ok, I see that it's a Spielberg quote, but did he really make a dog vs. vampire movie??? I mean, I hope he's just making a joke, but I can really see him doing it.
Oh well...
There goes the Karma
I can completely immerse myself in the sickly sweet meadow scene
Now when I sleep through this part, I can actually feel like I'm sleeping in a gentle grassland. Perhaps I'll bring a fan so I can feel the wind on my face. I'll just need to bring someone to wake me up for the good parts, incase the gentle meadow were to put me too deeply asleep.
They don't currently ask you if you consumed hard liquer 15 times in your life
why would they, hard liquer is legal and perfectly fine to drink. Pot however is not legal, and as such, it is illegal to smoke. The FBI is there to uphold the law, it's the judicial system that is supposed to determine whether the laws are constitutional or not. If someone is going to ignore the laws, then what makes you think that they are going to uphold and inforce them?
Remember watching the movie "The Predator"? When the hunter sat in a tree, you couldn't see him unless you knew where to look, or already had three dots on your fore head. He was basicly invisible at that time. But when he moved, you got to see all the distortion and weird angles produced by his camoflage. That is basicly what this armor will produce, it will keep tanks hidden better than large cammo netting, snipers will be able to sit invisible for hours in almost plain sight. You just can't let them get too close or you're screwed.
Geeks will never again be known for their poor heygiene due to spending days on the computer. Now with the click of a button, we can again become clean.
I wouldn't want people listening in on personal phone conversations for example.
Well, I over heard a technician arranging a date for lunch when he was supposed to be getting our server working. Wouldn't have minded if he had done it after the server was fixed, or if he had used his own phone. But the server is still down, and it was a company phone.
Monitoring is a good thing, but it can be abused. Just like security cameras in a department store or bank. There is normally no trouble, so nobody looks at the tapes. But when something happens, those tapes can help solve the problem.
Not really. It would be mo like if Microsoft said that if you want to use windows, then you have to buy the keyboard mouse set that windows comes free with. Then if you want to use another keyboard or mouse, then you would have to hack it.
Well, sure she was hit by a meteorite, but I would expect that thing to leave a crator where she stood, or at the very least mangle her foot a little. I didn't even see anything about light bruising in the article.
Hospitals are always looking for money, same thing for family practices or small offices. Not every doctor gets the same salary as a hollywood plastic surgeon.
Well, for starters, Solaris boxes are rather expensive, the person asking the question may not be able to authorize that kind of purchase even if he wanted to. I believe he was looking for either a software fix, or a cheaper hardware one that would still allow him to use his current setup. I'd suggest a fire wall, and disabling the autoinstallers.
What do they do, well, if according to the census, 85 percent of the population of an area is catholic, and the local catholic church is asking for some money to build a new facility. Then they would probably recieve a chunk of money proportinal to the size of the populace that would be using it. Like wise if a small (5% of the pop.) group were to ask for money to build a large elaborate complex, they might recieve enough to purchas a tool shed.
There happens to be a rather large difference between the engine on a scramjet and the engine in a muscle car. If the acceleration were not all that hard, I think that they would have found a getter way to do it than a MK70 rocket engine.
nobody gives a damn what your vacation preferences are. It'd be used for extremely urgent deliveries;
fair enough
scramjet payload and impacted some 370km downrange of the launch site
please note the word impacted, not the way I'd want them to send the heart I need for my transplant. There is a lot of work to be done here before it can be used for anything other than a missile right now, and unfortunately, they don't have the funding for another launch.
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Any Marines out there able to give a few better specifics?
Kinda off topic, but hey, it's still funny.
How about SQL. We have a SQL Server with 4 500 mhz Xeon processors. It was the SQL workhorse here, until we got a workstation with 2 2.0 Ghz Xeon processors, now SQL flies circles around the old server. If we were to get some of these 4.7 ghz ones, it would probably fly around the 2.0's
But seriously, do we really want that stuff going into the ocean, and eventually washing up on our shores. If you thought the exxon Valdeze(spelled horribly I know) caused an environmental emergancy, just picture those poor seagulls with scientologists all over them instead of oil.
But those were done on a much larger scope than what is being tried here. The funds generated from the banner ads weren't enough to back the cost of multitude of users. Now a wireless network with fewer users in a local area won't need the same kind of monitary backing. I think that if he gets local people to advertise, and perhaps a few larger corporations to advertise, then there is a rather good chance that it will work.
Besides, as Indiana Jones taught us, 8"x8" holes in the wall are normally filled with bugs. And who wants to stick their arms into holes filled with bugs.
As for my security rant, the reason that they would bother, is because you told them that they couldn't. It seems that telling them that, would make them try ten times as hard.
And lastly, instead of a bug, couldn't we just call this a new type of file sharing? They aren't stealing your files, they are just sharing them for you. After all, it's just electronic information, they aren't getting anything physical...
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Open source developers are more responsible than closed source developers? Could you please tell me why?
It's so difficult to define what constitutes a "major" problem, and what the seller should be obligated to fix.
Does it work as a word processor? Will it allow you to read, write, print, and format documents? Well if it didn't do those, then I would say it is a major problem. If it emailed personal information to random people on start up, then I would call it a problem, or if it caused your firewall software to crash everytime you opened a .doc file, I would call it a major problem.
If you discover a bug like this and the author isn't willing to fix it, you can always fix it yourself. Why would you ever want to leave this decision to someone else?
Perhaps because I am not a software engineer, and I know that my mother barely knows how to poerate the mouse, let alone debug complex software.
The problem here, is that someone found a way to exploit a Microsoft Word Feature. Now we can tell them to do things in the name of security, oh wait, isn't that what we all complain Bush is doing?
A very famous man once said something along the lines of "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security".
You are giving up features for temporary security. Anything Microsoft does will be a temporary fix. There are enough hackers out there that hate microsoft that no matter what, they will find a new way to exploit the software. Now before I hear any, "that's because microsoft sucks, use linux" comments, if all the people out there trying to find cracks and exploits for MS Software were instead going agains Linux, or other open sourced applications, you'd find just as many problems.
Don't believe me. Put up an appache web page on a linux box, or what ever opensourced so. Now have the only line on the page say "You can't hack this box". Get a link somewhere that people are going to see it, and then talk to me in a month as to how safe your page was.
I believe that is what is meant by the four eyed monster
a joke mind you, not nesscessarily a good one, but a joke none the less.
ok, I see that it's a Spielberg quote, but did he really make a dog vs. vampire movie??? I mean, I hope he's just making a joke, but I can really see him doing it. Oh well... There goes the Karma
Now when I sleep through this part, I can actually feel like I'm sleeping in a gentle grassland. Perhaps I'll bring a fan so I can feel the wind on my face. I'll just need to bring someone to wake me up for the good parts, incase the gentle meadow were to put me too deeply asleep.
why would they, hard liquer is legal and perfectly fine to drink. Pot however is not legal, and as such, it is illegal to smoke. The FBI is there to uphold the law, it's the judicial system that is supposed to determine whether the laws are constitutional or not. If someone is going to ignore the laws, then what makes you think that they are going to uphold and inforce them?
Not to mention the fact that a herd(?) of dolphins will beat the living snot out of anything that attacks them if they can't readilly swim away.
Remember watching the movie "The Predator"? When the hunter sat in a tree, you couldn't see him unless you knew where to look, or already had three dots on your fore head. He was basicly invisible at that time. But when he moved, you got to see all the distortion and weird angles produced by his camoflage. That is basicly what this armor will produce, it will keep tanks hidden better than large cammo netting, snipers will be able to sit invisible for hours in almost plain sight.
You just can't let them get too close or you're screwed.
Geeks will never again be known for their poor heygiene due to spending days on the computer. Now with the click of a button, we can again become clean.
Well, I over heard a technician arranging a date for lunch when he was supposed to be getting our server working. Wouldn't have minded if he had done it after the server was fixed, or if he had used his own phone. But the server is still down, and it was a company phone.
Monitoring is a good thing, but it can be abused. Just like security cameras in a department store or bank. There is normally no trouble, so nobody looks at the tapes. But when something happens, those tapes can help solve the problem.
Not really. It would be mo like if Microsoft said that if you want to use windows, then you have to buy the keyboard mouse set that windows comes free with. Then if you want to use another keyboard or mouse, then you would have to hack it.
Was that about the rocks or the victims?
That car sure looks like it had a nice new cavity, I sure want to see her foot.
Well, sure she was hit by a meteorite, but I would expect that thing to leave a crator where she stood, or at the very least mangle her foot a little. I didn't even see anything about light bruising in the article.
Are you kidding, while naked twister has the high rubbing factor, naked DDR has a higher bounce factor.
Hospitals are always looking for money, same thing for family practices or small offices. Not every doctor gets the same salary as a hollywood plastic surgeon.
But not all companies can spare the extra thousand dollars to replace hardware that is working fine as it is.
keep it sitting on a desk, offline
This is no good if you access the database from multiple workstations. And they will need net access if email is used, or to do online orders.
Well, for starters, Solaris boxes are rather expensive, the person asking the question may not be able to authorize that kind of purchase even if he wanted to. I believe he was looking for either a software fix, or a cheaper hardware one that would still allow him to use his current setup. I'd suggest a fire wall, and disabling the autoinstallers.
What do they do, well, if according to the census, 85 percent of the population of an area is catholic, and the local catholic church is asking for some money to build a new facility. Then they would probably recieve a chunk of money proportinal to the size of the populace that would be using it. Like wise if a small (5% of the pop.) group were to ask for money to build a large elaborate complex, they might recieve enough to purchas a tool shed.
There happens to be a rather large difference between the engine on a scramjet and the engine in a muscle car. If the acceleration were not all that hard, I think that they would have found a getter way to do it than a MK70 rocket engine.
fair enough
scramjet payload and impacted some 370km downrange of the launch site
please note the word impacted, not the way I'd want them to send the heart I need for my transplant.
There is a lot of work to be done here before it can be used for anything other than a missile right now, and unfortunately, they don't have the funding for another launch.