So will this blimp fly higher than the U2? I would expect a blimp to have similar difficulties with extreme altitude, for different reasons. Jets have less and less atmosphere to breathe and less air to "glide" on, so they have to go really fast. Blimps will just be battling thinner and thinner air as they go up, to where it's becoming really hard to have thinner air in the bladders than the whispy stuff around the blimp at those altitudes.
Hydrogen has obvious problems (flammability) that makes helium attractive, (but hard to come by in quantity unless you count that stockpile they have in the cave) but at those altitudes it may be harder to ignite hydrogen where the air (O2 content) is so thin. Making the bladders vacuum actually gets easier as the altitude goes up but that would still be a tough one to pull off. So I wonder which way they want to take this?
After all, which is the biggest threat to the US government? A foreign power or the US people
The old saying is "citizens should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their citizens." The US Govt is just working hard to make sure that doesn't become a reality.
He STOLE (yes stole) material that was not released to the general public from its makers.
If you want to get technical about it, stealing (theft) is depriving someone of their property. Unless you are counting money (lost income) as the property, (and legally it doesn't usually work that way) nothing was stolen. copyright infringement is not theft
Any kid with a subscription to zoobooks can tell you about arctic foxes burying portions of a kill for later use during winter.
There is a VERY important difference here. Arctic foxes don't survive through a few winters without a food cache and think "hey I bet it's going to do that again next year, maybe I should stash some food this summer so I have more to eat next winter?". Evolution has taught them to do that. Same as any other instinctual behavior in any other animal. Babies don't learn to suck the tit.
These chimps identified a pattern, and prepared in advance to benefit themselves when they expected it to repeat. Gathering rocks in the morning to attack tourists in the afternoon is not evolutionary adaptation. Something like that could become an evolutionary behavioral adaptation, but not from 100 years of zoos.
That just indicates that foxit decided to audit that bit of code closely to see if the problem was present in their implementation, and stumbled upon that other problem which they then fixed.
challenge! I also write in assembly and occasionally microcode.
Writing in lower level languages has certain advantages. For example, the optimal C++ code for doing something, when compared to assembly, is slower, a LOT larger, and requires more memory.
Bash isn't a proper low level language because it's interpreted, but it does keep a polish on one's skills to build up complex things from simple things. You can always do a complex task using simple tools, but you cannot always do a simple task using complex tools. (they are not general enough to do everything you could possibly want to do)
Programming more importantly is problem analysis, figuring out how to use the tools and information you have to build towards a solution.
In most of my programming projects, there are myriad different ways to approach the problem, and the time taken to compare them I find to be the most important part of any programming project.
Recent example: I just got done coding a utilization graph for a server. In bash. Obviously bash is not the ideal language but was required so a lot of thought had to go into how to approach the problem.
After some consideration, I determined the way the utilization information was gathered and stored was the most important thing, because bash isn't particularly speedy and having to mow through 100,000 long log file isn't going to be pretty. So the main focus of the problem turned from one of "how do I display a graph in bash?" to "how do I record the information in a way that bash can quickly process it?" This requires understanding the limits of the tools you are provided with, more than understanding the actual problem. Only after you have this can you move toward a good solution to the problem. No matter how clever of an idea you have, or how "perfect" of a solution you come up with, picking the correct path to that solution is often just as important as the results.
Most of the time when I am going to code something, I spend a good hunk of time just sitting and thinking about it, considering how things are going to progress if I try different approaches. Only after I'm satisfied I have a good "plan of attack", do I actually start working on a solution. My solutions aren't always optimal, but they're usually pretty close, and save me a LOT of valuable time which would otherwise be wasted in having to either make fundamental changes to the foundation late in the game, (every programmer's nightmare) or dealing with extremely topheavy already-written code that isn't producing results in the way that I need them and has to either be data-converted or be clumsily coped with as-is. (every maintainer's nightmare)
I suppose you could sum it up by saying, "teach them problem analysis before you teach them problem solving.
I was just thinking about that - does any vendor offer a drive bay plate with usb ports on it, with a key you can use to disable them? and with that some way to disable the onboard ports on the back of the computer? Or something along that line? It's annoying to try to service a pc when you as the support tech don't even have access to the usb port.
Except that the take down notice is under penalty of perjury.
The problem with the notices is they use weasel words that can basically say "we think you are infringing on our IP". It's hard to get you for perjury when stating your opinion or your interpretation of the law.
Unless he stole Adobe code, the DMCA takedown notice was probably illegal.
The notice is not illegal. I can tell anyone that I think someone is violating my IP. Groundless? definitely. But not illegal. It's a scare tactic with some teeth. Basically, unless you are very sure it's groundless, it's in your best interest to take down. Only people with roomfulls of lawyers are likely to file a counterclaim which is their right.
But now what youâ(TM)re really here for â" the PDF decryption tool: REMOVED. (And if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: REMOVED.)...
Edit: Links to tools removed due to DMCA complaint from Adobe.
and then the cache updated... Owell. I found copies elsewhere but they're source (python files) Would be nice if someone could post a binary or other readymade app for the novices
IIRC apple mini dvi to dvi adaptors are DVI-D only so if you want VGA you need to buy a direct adaptor from apple:(
The apple "minidisplay" port carries DVI dual (or single) link as well as vga. It does NOT carry S-video. It will work fine with a direct adapter to VGA to support older monitors.
I assume it also carries usb and sound since it has usb ports on the back and internal speakers, though the speakers could be piggybacking on the usb wires as a usb speaker system. .
In the original Vista release, this activity would cause an annoying back-to-back double elevation: once to create the folder, and again to rename it to its intended name. Service Pack 1 streamlined this a little, reducing it to only a single elevation, but Microsoft clearly wanted to get this down to zero.
NO! Bad monkey, no cookie! There is NO reason to allow ANYTHING to write to my/Program Files (or/Applications if you prefer) folder without my permission. None. Zero. I want a prompt. Yes, just one, but I want a prompt!
And that passes right into the hands of an almost unbelievable standard method in windows:
Unfortunately, the "Microsoft-signed application" restriction is easily bypassed using a standard Windows trick that allows one process to insert code into a second process, as long as both processes are being run by the same user. The limitations of the file management component are probably unavoidable (it can only do the things it has been programmed to do, after all), but it turns out it doesn't really matter. The file management component can place files into various locations on the system that an unelevated user cannot; an auto-elevate program can then be tricked into loading those files and executing code from them.
The result is, just as with the rundll32 problem, silent and automatic elevation, able to do anything.
WHY ON EARTH would you arbitrarily allow any random program a user is running to pass commands to a signed application that by its signature can walk right through locked doors?? I'll admit there probably are instances where you would like to pass commands (requests) to another app to handle something, you either (1) have to severely restrict the scope of the requests it will process, or don't sign it to give it rights to do whatever it pleases. This is like a mall security guard being given the keys to the maintenance halls, and the guard letting any joe public in that asks him. Either give him some common sense or take away his keys. A filemanager that has the power to do anything you ask it to, and will do so blindly and willingly, is just a jaw-dropper.
Sometimes the scope of Windows security stupidity astounds me. And yet they consistently keep finding ways to top themselves.
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...give researchers a way of testing nano-machines designed to exploit the Casimir force."
No, when dealing with nano-technology, you do not exploit the casmir force, you plan your entire design around it. It's a big deal when you're doing nano.
This is like saying you're going to "exploit" the feature of low pressure in your spacecraft design.
Slashdot Mirror
So will this blimp fly higher than the U2? I would expect a blimp to have similar difficulties with extreme altitude, for different reasons. Jets have less and less atmosphere to breathe and less air to "glide" on, so they have to go really fast. Blimps will just be battling thinner and thinner air as they go up, to where it's becoming really hard to have thinner air in the bladders than the whispy stuff around the blimp at those altitudes.
Hydrogen has obvious problems (flammability) that makes helium attractive, (but hard to come by in quantity unless you count that stockpile they have in the cave) but at those altitudes it may be harder to ignite hydrogen where the air (O2 content) is so thin. Making the bladders vacuum actually gets easier as the altitude goes up but that would still be a tough one to pull off. So I wonder which way they want to take this?
After all, which is the biggest threat to the US government? A foreign power or the US people
The old saying is "citizens should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their citizens." The US Govt is just working hard to make sure that doesn't become a reality.
How is it not a crime?
He STOLE (yes stole) material that was not released to the general public from its makers.
If you want to get technical about it, stealing (theft) is depriving someone of their property. Unless you are counting money (lost income) as the property, (and legally it doesn't usually work that way) nothing was stolen. copyright infringement is not theft
lets be fair here. congressmen are a lot cheaper than that...
MacArthur wasn't it?
Wasn't this map a front page article here a few months ago?
I'd imagine then you'd be talking about the cost of filters and the economic impact of disposing of them.
Any kid with a subscription to zoobooks can tell you about arctic foxes burying portions of a kill for later use during winter.
There is a VERY important difference here. Arctic foxes don't survive through a few winters without a food cache and think "hey I bet it's going to do that again next year, maybe I should stash some food this summer so I have more to eat next winter?". Evolution has taught them to do that. Same as any other instinctual behavior in any other animal. Babies don't learn to suck the tit.
These chimps identified a pattern, and prepared in advance to benefit themselves when they expected it to repeat. Gathering rocks in the morning to attack tourists in the afternoon is not evolutionary adaptation. Something like that could become an evolutionary behavioral adaptation, but not from 100 years of zoos.
how does an uninstaller that leaves DLLs behind ever pass a non-corrupt QA process?
it's always either payoffs or deadlines. (usually deadlines)
That just indicates that foxit decided to audit that bit of code closely to see if the problem was present in their implementation, and stumbled upon that other problem which they then fixed.
Kind of like the difference between classes like "Algebra 1" and "Applied Algebra". They teach very different things.
challenge! I also write in assembly and occasionally microcode.
Writing in lower level languages has certain advantages. For example, the optimal C++ code for doing something, when compared to assembly, is slower, a LOT larger, and requires more memory.
Bash isn't a proper low level language because it's interpreted, but it does keep a polish on one's skills to build up complex things from simple things. You can always do a complex task using simple tools, but you cannot always do a simple task using complex tools. (they are not general enough to do everything you could possibly want to do)
Programming more importantly is problem analysis, figuring out how to use the tools and information you have to build towards a solution.
In most of my programming projects, there are myriad different ways to approach the problem, and the time taken to compare them I find to be the most important part of any programming project.
Recent example: I just got done coding a utilization graph for a server. In bash. Obviously bash is not the ideal language but was required so a lot of thought had to go into how to approach the problem.
After some consideration, I determined the way the utilization information was gathered and stored was the most important thing, because bash isn't particularly speedy and having to mow through 100,000 long log file isn't going to be pretty. So the main focus of the problem turned from one of "how do I display a graph in bash?" to "how do I record the information in a way that bash can quickly process it?" This requires understanding the limits of the tools you are provided with, more than understanding the actual problem. Only after you have this can you move toward a good solution to the problem. No matter how clever of an idea you have, or how "perfect" of a solution you come up with, picking the correct path to that solution is often just as important as the results.
Most of the time when I am going to code something, I spend a good hunk of time just sitting and thinking about it, considering how things are going to progress if I try different approaches. Only after I'm satisfied I have a good "plan of attack", do I actually start working on a solution. My solutions aren't always optimal, but they're usually pretty close, and save me a LOT of valuable time which would otherwise be wasted in having to either make fundamental changes to the foundation late in the game, (every programmer's nightmare) or dealing with extremely topheavy already-written code that isn't producing results in the way that I need them and has to either be data-converted or be clumsily coped with as-is. (every maintainer's nightmare)
I suppose you could sum it up by saying, "teach them problem analysis before you teach them problem solving.
Try disabling USB
I was just thinking about that - does any vendor offer a drive bay plate with usb ports on it, with a key you can use to disable them? and with that some way to disable the onboard ports on the back of the computer? Or something along that line? It's annoying to try to service a pc when you as the support tech don't even have access to the usb port.
Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise?
We leave our security in the hands of Mr. Worf.
Except that the take down notice is under penalty of perjury.
The problem with the notices is they use weasel words that can basically say "we think you are infringing on our IP". It's hard to get you for perjury when stating your opinion or your interpretation of the law.
that is correct, and someone needs to read the python source and write it up again in a different language that can give us binaries, like c.
Or is there a compiler available for python that can create executables for mac and windows? that would make matters so much simpler.
The production of single top quarks, which involves the weak nuclear force and is harder to identify experimentally, has now been observed
Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Unless he stole Adobe code, the DMCA takedown notice was probably illegal.
The notice is not illegal. I can tell anyone that I think someone is violating my IP. Groundless? definitely. But not illegal. It's a scare tactic with some teeth. Basically, unless you are very sure it's groundless, it's in your best interest to take down. Only people with roomfulls of lawyers are likely to file a counterclaim which is their right.
But now what youâ(TM)re really here for â" the PDF decryption tool: REMOVED. (And if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: REMOVED.) ...
Edit: Links to tools removed due to DMCA complaint from Adobe.
and then the cache updated... Owell. I found copies elsewhere but they're source (python files) Would be nice if someone could post a binary or other readymade app for the novices
IIRC apple mini dvi to dvi adaptors are DVI-D only so if you want VGA you need to buy a direct adaptor from apple :(
The apple "minidisplay" port carries DVI dual (or single) link as well as vga. It does NOT carry S-video. It will work fine with a direct adapter to VGA to support older monitors.
I assume it also carries usb and sound since it has usb ports on the back and internal speakers, though the speakers could be piggybacking on the usb wires as a usb speaker system.
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In the original Vista release, this activity would cause an annoying back-to-back double elevation: once to create the folder, and again to rename it to its intended name. Service Pack 1 streamlined this a little, reducing it to only a single elevation, but Microsoft clearly wanted to get this down to zero.
NO! Bad monkey, no cookie! There is NO reason to allow ANYTHING to write to my /Program Files (or /Applications if you prefer) folder without my permission. None. Zero. I want a prompt. Yes, just one, but I want a prompt!
And that passes right into the hands of an almost unbelievable standard method in windows:
Unfortunately, the "Microsoft-signed application" restriction is easily bypassed using a standard Windows trick that allows one process to insert code into a second process, as long as both processes are being run by the same user. The limitations of the file management component are probably unavoidable (it can only do the things it has been programmed to do, after all), but it turns out it doesn't really matter. The file management component can place files into various locations on the system that an unelevated user cannot; an auto-elevate program can then be tricked into loading those files and executing code from them.
The result is, just as with the rundll32 problem, silent and automatic elevation, able to do anything.
WHY ON EARTH would you arbitrarily allow any random program a user is running to pass commands to a signed application that by its signature can walk right through locked doors?? I'll admit there probably are instances where you would like to pass commands (requests) to another app to handle something, you either (1) have to severely restrict the scope of the requests it will process, or don't sign it to give it rights to do whatever it pleases. This is like a mall security guard being given the keys to the maintenance halls, and the guard letting any joe public in that asks him. Either give him some common sense or take away his keys. A filemanager that has the power to do anything you ask it to, and will do so blindly and willingly, is just a jaw-dropper.
Sometimes the scope of Windows security stupidity astounds me. And yet they consistently keep finding ways to top themselves.
From Wikipedia, Bulletproof hosting (sometimes known as 'bulk-friendly' hosting) is a service provided by domain hosts which allows their customer considerable leniency in the kinds of material they may upload. This leniency has been taken advantage of by spammers and providers of online gambling or pornography.[1]
Many service providers have Terms of Service that do not allow certain materials to be uploaded, or the service to be used in a particular way, and may suspend a hosting account, after a few complaints, to minimize the risk of their IP subnet being blocked by anti-spam filters using Internet Protocol (IP) based filtering. Additionally, some service providers may have ethical concerns that underpin their service terms and conditions.
Generally, a bulletproof host allows a content provider to bypass the laws regulating Internet content and service in its country of operation as many of these 'bulletproof hosts' are based 'overseas' (relative to the geographical location of the content provider).
Many if not most 'bulletproof hosts' are in South America, China, other parts of Asia, and Russia/Russia's surrounding countries, but this is not always the case.
been there done that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthetics_in_fiction
...give researchers a way of testing nano-machines designed to exploit the Casimir force."
No, when dealing with nano-technology, you do not exploit the casmir force, you plan your entire design around it. It's a big deal when you're doing nano.
This is like saying you're going to "exploit" the feature of low pressure in your spacecraft design.