From the sound of it, this "vacuum module" is there so they can evacuate it slowly and check for leaks, and if a problem happens, re-pressurize it quickly. That's safer for lots of reasons. Firstly, you don't need to get the guinea pig back IN the ship before you can begin to re-pressurize them. Secondly no risk of a hose splitting and causing them to rocket away from the ship. (and break a tether)
The use of two suits is a good plan also. I'd expect them to have two people in the vacuum module, one in the russian suit and one in their new suit. If there's an emergency with the new suit, having someone in the module to help could make all the difference.
Does make me wonder though how much ground testing they've done. One would assume they've done a lot of vacuum testing on the ground already, but they sure are going about this slowly despite that. They should already know if their suit is OK before flying it up into space. The lack of gravity seems unlikely to change the behavior of the suit.
Two step process for me. Mac The Ripper to decrypt/rip the entire DVD (menus and all) to a VIDEO_TS folder on my hard drive. Insert CD, click a button. Not too technical.
From there I can use VLC to play it as much as I want on any computer I copy it to. Can have a large HD full of complete DVDs immediately accessible. (and there are apps that will jukebox them for you)
From there I have to use a commercial app like Roxio's Toast to burn it to a physical CD, that works in a real DVD player. But Toast has always been a very good product, worth the coin. Drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder into Toast and click burn. Only slightly more technical procedure than MTR.
Did I mention MTR strips out the NOOPs ("operation not permitted" when trying to FF past the FBI warning etc) and also removes region coding, during the rip?
Trichoplax has the simplest known animal genome, and it shares 80 percent of its genes (comprised of 98 million base pairs) with humanity.
I get the impression by this that the 80% or so roughly defines the basic "building blocks", things like how to make a kidney or blood cell or even a midochondria, and the remaining 20% is more of a blueprint of how to take the blocks to build a given animal in shape and behavior. The shape of the skeleton, layout of the circulatory system, etc.
Understand how botnetted machines work. Modern botnets are too large to share email lists. If your address is in someone's addressbook when it gets incorporated, anytime the herder sends spam, he sends just the message to all the herd and they send to everyone in the list they've built.
If the participating computer with your address gets cleaned up or reformatted etc, you disappear off the list.
If you are receiving spam to addresses taken out of service 11 years ago, you are probably being harvested from a publicly posted address. I can find my first email address 15 years ago on archived usenet posts. I bet those are still being actively harvested and spammed to. That's just another variety of botnet, where the participants crawl the web looking for email addresses to add to their list instead of just searching the local computer, to keep them busy while they are not mailing out spam. Use google to see if you can find the address. In those cases, many participants will have found the address, (and in those cases they DO share their list to dedup) so if that machine gets cleaned up it will NOT rid you of the spam. You'll stop receiving it for a few days until another member of the herd encounters it again and asks the herd if anyone's got it, gets a 'nay', and boom you are on another participant's list and the spam will resume. .
I run my own mailserver, and I make unique aliases for everyone I deal with, so (1) I can tell who actually caused me to receive an email, and (2) so I can just delete the alias if they get annoying.
I've received spam via some of the most surprising sources, including Ford, so I trust no one. Newegg got their own address when I placed my order.
I started receiving spam addressed to the provided "order status" address. Exactly one week after placing the order, on average 2 per day, for mainly viagra and watches. Repeated contact with newegg repeatedly insisted that it must be someone else that caused the spam. They insisted they have never heard of this happening before.
So I got out my google and surprise surprise, multiple people complaining about sudden spikes in spam after ordering newegg. I also ran into two others that are playing the same mail alias game as me, that also positively ID'd newegg as the source.
Every one of them contacted newegg, and every one of them was told they'd never heard of such a thing before and it couldn't possibly be them.
Now it's doubtful that they are deliberately selling those addresses, and that leaves only one possibility. A machine or two inside their order processing facility is botnetted by a spammer.
Do YOU want to give your credit card details to someone that has a botnetted computer hooked to their order processing network? I sure don't.
Tangent: the "Ford" issue. I submitted my contact email on ford.com for "have dealers in your area contact you" because I was shopping for an Escape. Got responses from four dealers in my area. Four days later, about one spam a day started landing in my ford contact address. I'm fairly certain that one of the "dealers in my area" that ford sent my address to was also botnetted. Morons.
I left the addresses in service to see how persistent they were. It took about a month for the Ford spam to stop. It took close to three months for NewEgg spam to give up.
If you insist on ordering from NewEgg, be smart. Use a disposable email address for order status, and at least use a visa card or something you can dispute charges on should they happen. (though id theft is still an unavoidable risk)
they're usually given away by the glint of sun off their solar panels. you can find information on most of the "secret" satellites with google, they've pretty much all been located by the amateur astronomy community. Some even have pictures of them. Probably really gets some NSA types blood boiling.
you can't easily pop those things open and mount the custom flash chip into some universal adapter
Very very few devices use custom flash chips. The iPhone uses off the shelf standard flash memory chips. And in addition to readers that require the removal of the chip, there are units that have cables with clips that just attach right to the chip in the (powered off) device and can pull the data straight off.
And yes you can pop them open pretty easy. Some ipods are harder to open than an iPhone.
any tool that accesses the drive's smart data can get this. the drive has to be directly connected to the computer, you cannot read smart via usb or firewire bridge. All drives track a small set of smart data including reallocated blocks. Most drives have additional smart parameters whose meaning varies.
and it's total BS. I actually had this conversation with a friend that owns some 350 properties. It was quite an eye-opener for me. Evicting is not easy, not swift, and not free.
In numerous cases, he has simply told them "be out of here in three days and so long as you haven't trashed the place I'll even give you your deposit back." In the long run it works out far better for him than the 2 or so months of lost rent trying to get them through the eviction process, plus the cost to serve the notice, the time to go to court, etc. Evicting you is the last option the landlord wants to take. (unless you are a complete terror)
He really doesn't like evicting people. From his discussions with other landlords, in most cases, the tenant never shows up in court. But for his experience, EVERY SINGLE TENANT has shown up for court, drives him crazy. Every one of them fought it.
There are quite a lot of laws on the books to make eviction a long process, and you as a tenant cannot waive those rights by signing anything. Although it is legally possible to sign away any of your rights short of those in the constitution, there are laws forbidding contracts from including the surrender of certain rights. It doesn't nullify the rest of the lease agreement, but that part that says he can kick you on the street without warning, that part of the contract is void.
The latest hurricane has given birth to a variety of phishing sites, it wouldn't surprise me if better targets to redirect suckers to inspired them to ramp up their efforts, or perhaps these sites are hosting malware to retruit more zombies.
If you are only interested in actively used botnets (for DDoS and spam for example) then when you plug in the ethernet cable the router lights go mad, that's a good sign its pwned.
You can't really look at the network usage using tools ON the machine, as rootkits are designed to hide all their activity from the system tools by modifying them. So the owned windows box may show little or no network traffic while your router is nearly catching on fire. But the lights on the switch/router don't lie.
Probably safe to assume a new hole was found in something windows-ish and is making the rounds, gathering up all the vulnerable machines.
We're likely to see the number decline gradually as people patch up the hole. Trends like this have a sawtooth pattern to them. Sudden jump up, and then gradual decline over time back down to where they started, and then repeats with the next new vulnerability making the rounds.
How can the ISO standard matter anymore if you can just pay someone off to get your own?
ISO used to be a known quantity, if it was ISO then it was sensible, fair, interoperable, open, etc. Now that ooxml has stormed the gates, as they say, "one bad apple will spoil the barrel". The approval of ooxml has turned ISO from "these are all good standards" to "most of these are good standards", and that's forever. ISO standards are no longer unquestioned..
We used to ask "so is that an ISO standard?" But now we will start asking "so is that a GOOD ISO standard?" The first time you sell out is the greatest damage to your reputation. It knocks you off the pedestal and tosses you down among the riff-raff.
I remember reading matte red codes on glossy red paper, and entering a random one each time I started a game.
It was actually grey text on dark red paper. Bleach my friend, bleach. Strips the color out of paper dyes but not ink dyes. Leaves you with a creame colored sheet of paper with clearly legible (as in, no insta-migrane) codes to click in.
That sort of situation is commonly called "the butterfly effect". As the saying goes, a butterfly flapping its wings over a highway in australia could be the deciding factor as to the path of a hurricane in the gulf three weeks from now.
While that's a little extreme, it's meant to illustrate the point of highly interactive systems that are "extremely sensitive to initial conditions". For example, a single microbe that hitchhiked on Spirit or Opportunity could lead to the terraforming of mars a millennia later.
Weather has always been considered highly sensitive to initial conditions, meaning very subtle differences in the weather conditions today can have a profound effect on the weather a week later. The interesting thing about weather is that it doesn't take a millennia to change things miles away, it can do it in a couple hours.
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I thought plans for the US orbiter were public? Can't steal that, copy maybe but not steal.
From the sound of it, this "vacuum module" is there so they can evacuate it slowly and check for leaks, and if a problem happens, re-pressurize it quickly. That's safer for lots of reasons. Firstly, you don't need to get the guinea pig back IN the ship before you can begin to re-pressurize them. Secondly no risk of a hose splitting and causing them to rocket away from the ship. (and break a tether)
The use of two suits is a good plan also. I'd expect them to have two people in the vacuum module, one in the russian suit and one in their new suit. If there's an emergency with the new suit, having someone in the module to help could make all the difference.
Does make me wonder though how much ground testing they've done. One would assume they've done a lot of vacuum testing on the ground already, but they sure are going about this slowly despite that. They should already know if their suit is OK before flying it up into space. The lack of gravity seems unlikely to change the behavior of the suit.
Two step process for me. Mac The Ripper to decrypt/rip the entire DVD (menus and all) to a VIDEO_TS folder on my hard drive. Insert CD, click a button. Not too technical.
From there I can use VLC to play it as much as I want on any computer I copy it to. Can have a large HD full of complete DVDs immediately accessible. (and there are apps that will jukebox them for you)
From there I have to use a commercial app like Roxio's Toast to burn it to a physical CD, that works in a real DVD player. But Toast has always been a very good product, worth the coin. Drag and drop the VIDEO_TS folder into Toast and click burn. Only slightly more technical procedure than MTR.
Did I mention MTR strips out the NOOPs ("operation not permitted" when trying to FF past the FBI warning etc) and also removes region coding, during the rip?
Who on earth would pay for REALcrap?
Trichoplax has the simplest known animal genome, and it shares 80 percent of its genes (comprised of 98 million base pairs) with humanity.
I get the impression by this that the 80% or so roughly defines the basic "building blocks", things like how to make a kidney or blood cell or even a midochondria, and the remaining 20% is more of a blueprint of how to take the blocks to build a given animal in shape and behavior. The shape of the skeleton, layout of the circulatory system, etc.
Understand how botnetted machines work. Modern botnets are too large to share email lists. If your address is in someone's addressbook when it gets incorporated, anytime the herder sends spam, he sends just the message to all the herd and they send to everyone in the list they've built.
If the participating computer with your address gets cleaned up or reformatted etc, you disappear off the list.
If you are receiving spam to addresses taken out of service 11 years ago, you are probably being harvested from a publicly posted address. I can find my first email address 15 years ago on archived usenet posts. I bet those are still being actively harvested and spammed to. That's just another variety of botnet, where the participants crawl the web looking for email addresses to add to their list instead of just searching the local computer, to keep them busy while they are not mailing out spam. Use google to see if you can find the address. In those cases, many participants will have found the address, (and in those cases they DO share their list to dedup) so if that machine gets cleaned up it will NOT rid you of the spam. You'll stop receiving it for a few days until another member of the herd encounters it again and asks the herd if anyone's got it, gets a 'nay', and boom you are on another participant's list and the spam will resume.
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I run my own mailserver, and I make unique aliases for everyone I deal with, so (1) I can tell who actually caused me to receive an email, and (2) so I can just delete the alias if they get annoying.
I've received spam via some of the most surprising sources, including Ford, so I trust no one. Newegg got their own address when I placed my order.
I started receiving spam addressed to the provided "order status" address. Exactly one week after placing the order, on average 2 per day, for mainly viagra and watches. Repeated contact with newegg repeatedly insisted that it must be someone else that caused the spam. They insisted they have never heard of this happening before.
So I got out my google and surprise surprise, multiple people complaining about sudden spikes in spam after ordering newegg. I also ran into two others that are playing the same mail alias game as me, that also positively ID'd newegg as the source.
Every one of them contacted newegg, and every one of them was told they'd never heard of such a thing before and it couldn't possibly be them.
Now it's doubtful that they are deliberately selling those addresses, and that leaves only one possibility. A machine or two inside their order processing facility is botnetted by a spammer.
Do YOU want to give your credit card details to someone that has a botnetted computer hooked to their order processing network? I sure don't.
Tangent: the "Ford" issue. I submitted my contact email on ford.com for "have dealers in your area contact you" because I was shopping for an Escape. Got responses from four dealers in my area. Four days later, about one spam a day started landing in my ford contact address. I'm fairly certain that one of the "dealers in my area" that ford sent my address to was also botnetted. Morons.
I left the addresses in service to see how persistent they were. It took about a month for the Ford spam to stop. It took close to three months for NewEgg spam to give up.
If you insist on ordering from NewEgg, be smart. Use a disposable email address for order status, and at least use a visa card or something you can dispute charges on should they happen. (though id theft is still an unavoidable risk)
Got a URL for those cool patches?
they're usually given away by the glint of sun off their solar panels. you can find information on most of the "secret" satellites with google, they've pretty much all been located by the amateur astronomy community. Some even have pictures of them. Probably really gets some NSA types blood boiling.
you can't easily pop those things open and mount the custom flash chip into some universal adapter
Very very few devices use custom flash chips. The iPhone uses off the shelf standard flash memory chips. And in addition to readers that require the removal of the chip, there are units that have cables with clips that just attach right to the chip in the (powered off) device and can pull the data straight off.
And yes you can pop them open pretty easy. Some ipods are harder to open than an iPhone.
any tool that accesses the drive's smart data can get this. the drive has to be directly connected to the computer, you cannot read smart via usb or firewire bridge. All drives track a small set of smart data including reallocated blocks. Most drives have additional smart parameters whose meaning varies.
the 7 pass random wipe is generally accepted as sufficient
I'd be willing to wager all it does is offer features like "clear addressbook" which just resets the addressbook database.
In other words, fairly trivial to undo.
didn't someone put up an article awhile ago here on Fluorinert?
and it's total BS. I actually had this conversation with a friend that owns some 350 properties. It was quite an eye-opener for me. Evicting is not easy, not swift, and not free.
In numerous cases, he has simply told them "be out of here in three days and so long as you haven't trashed the place I'll even give you your deposit back." In the long run it works out far better for him than the 2 or so months of lost rent trying to get them through the eviction process, plus the cost to serve the notice, the time to go to court, etc. Evicting you is the last option the landlord wants to take. (unless you are a complete terror)
He really doesn't like evicting people. From his discussions with other landlords, in most cases, the tenant never shows up in court. But for his experience, EVERY SINGLE TENANT has shown up for court, drives him crazy. Every one of them fought it.
There are quite a lot of laws on the books to make eviction a long process, and you as a tenant cannot waive those rights by signing anything. Although it is legally possible to sign away any of your rights short of those in the constitution, there are laws forbidding contracts from including the surrender of certain rights. It doesn't nullify the rest of the lease agreement, but that part that says he can kick you on the street without warning, that part of the contract is void.
Heh, I'd like to see how "protected" anything that works on OS 8.6 (1999) is
and let me guess, requires windows visa with the latest service pack (DRM++)
no, just too much similarity.
The latest hurricane has given birth to a variety of phishing sites, it wouldn't surprise me if better targets to redirect suckers to inspired them to ramp up their efforts, or perhaps these sites are hosting malware to retruit more zombies.
If you are only interested in actively used botnets (for DDoS and spam for example) then when you plug in the ethernet cable the router lights go mad, that's a good sign its pwned.
You can't really look at the network usage using tools ON the machine, as rootkits are designed to hide all their activity from the system tools by modifying them. So the owned windows box may show little or no network traffic while your router is nearly catching on fire. But the lights on the switch/router don't lie.
Probably safe to assume a new hole was found in something windows-ish and is making the rounds, gathering up all the vulnerable machines.
We're likely to see the number decline gradually as people patch up the hole. Trends like this have a sawtooth pattern to them. Sudden jump up, and then gradual decline over time back down to where they started, and then repeats with the next new vulnerability making the rounds.
ISO doesn't, the ISO standards do.
How can the ISO standard matter anymore if you can just pay someone off to get your own?
ISO used to be a known quantity, if it was ISO then it was sensible, fair, interoperable, open, etc. Now that ooxml has stormed the gates, as they say, "one bad apple will spoil the barrel". The approval of ooxml has turned ISO from "these are all good standards" to "most of these are good standards", and that's forever. ISO standards are no longer unquestioned..
We used to ask "so is that an ISO standard?" But now we will start asking "so is that a GOOD ISO standard?" The first time you sell out is the greatest damage to your reputation. It knocks you off the pedestal and tosses you down among the riff-raff.
grow a pair (or two)
Depending on where the second pair turn up, that could produce either of at least two interesting variations...
I remember reading matte red codes on glossy red paper, and entering a random one each time I started a game.
It was actually grey text on dark red paper. Bleach my friend, bleach. Strips the color out of paper dyes but not ink dyes. Leaves you with a creame colored sheet of paper with clearly legible (as in, no insta-migrane) codes to click in.
That sort of situation is commonly called "the butterfly effect". As the saying goes, a butterfly flapping its wings over a highway in australia could be the deciding factor as to the path of a hurricane in the gulf three weeks from now.
While that's a little extreme, it's meant to illustrate the point of highly interactive systems that are "extremely sensitive to initial conditions". For example, a single microbe that hitchhiked on Spirit or Opportunity could lead to the terraforming of mars a millennia later.
Weather has always been considered highly sensitive to initial conditions, meaning very subtle differences in the weather conditions today can have a profound effect on the weather a week later. The interesting thing about weather is that it doesn't take a millennia to change things miles away, it can do it in a couple hours.
you can have Troi, I'll be hangin' with 7 thankyouverymuch