Without looking at the link, as I recall, it stings the cockroach at the base of its brainstem, and somehow its toxin destroys the cockroach's free will. It turns into a zombie, and the wasp can then just pull on its antennae like a leash and walk it to the burrow. There, it gets an egg laid on it, and the wasp administers another sting, that permanently cripples the cockroach. The cockroach remains alive though, to await its fate of being eaten alive.
Thanks for the link on that though, I'd forgotten about that one.
Our POS systems at the bars use a little card with a pair of little ROM chips on it, about the size of flash nand chips, and run windows xp embedded. If the storage fails, you just unplug it and plug in a new one. They'd be out of their minds not to socket this thing or otherwise jumper it.
The obvious way would be to have a regular sata connector at a strategic location on the board, and have this ssd in a slightly larger package, and have it just plug into the connector and screw down with a couple tiny screws, sort of like the wireless cards on laptops. I suppose they might want to use some other sort of better suited connector, which would make their lives easier, but would be less flexible to work on. I'd like to be able to pluck the little guy off the mobo and attach it to a sata cable for troubleshooting, (or to be able to plug in a real HDD for troubleshooting) and not have to fight some proprietary connector.
I've ran into two better examples of parasite-inducing mind-control / suicide...
1) A parasite that needs to get to water for its adult stage, so just before it climbs out of its host (somewhat aliens-style) it influences it to dive into water:
That's funny to think about, in the past the parents dealt with their children woes by medicating themselves. Now, they just medicate the children instead... sad.
I think that only let three (or four?) balls loose at once. You could do that a few times in a game. Though looking back on it, it was probably very wasteful, but it was sure fun trying to juggle the multiball.
from tfa it looks like their reseller status got cut back, (possibly in retaliation for their buying some of their other parts from other sources) causing them to not be able to get ahold of the latest gear, which led to a major customer of theirs dropping them, something of a domino effect.
In business, everybody plays hardball. And it's the smaller businesses, and us the customer, that end up losing.
It would be interesting to have an inside line on the early stages of the problem. Could have been a case of the supplier saying "you buy everything from us, or we're going to bury you." In which case we may see litigation. Not that it will help anyone much at this point. You can't really recover from this.
- run thinnet lines along the floor under people's desks, for them to occasionally get kicked and aggravate loose crimps, taking entire banks of computers (in a different wing of the building) off the LAN with maddening irregularity
- plug a critical switch into one of the ups's "surge only" outlets
- install expensive new baytech RPMs on the servers at all remote locations, and forget to configure several of the servers to "power on after power failure".
- on the one local server you cannot remote manage, plug its inaccessible monitor into a wall outlet
honorable mention:
- junk the last service machine you have laying around that has a scsi card in it while you still have a few servers using scsi drives
you just cut a hole in the hull and install a bigass heatsink
as the parent you replied to points out,
There are a LOT of critters in that water, and in time, barnacles and other stuff will start forming
I think that'd completely destroy the heat sink idea. Ships have enough problems keeping barnacles and mussels off a painted hull. Closely placed fins of any sort would be asking for trouble in capital letters. But the idea of just using the hull as the heat exchange point is a very good one I hadn't considered.
The GP doesn't know what he's talking about.
Also, you're certainly quick to spout YOU'RE WRONG! back at someone kicking around ideas and asking questions. Got a chip somewhere? You're on the right track with suggesting ideas though, that's the best way to contribute to a thread.
What (international?) laws protect independent ships on the open sea anyway? What's to stop say, our friendly DoD from parking a battleship next to a DataShip and "thank you for your cooperation" while they board the ship and hunt for their wikileaks documents?
One would assume they would claim a registry somewhere in the world where there were sensible privacy laws, and would be "under their flag", but I don't know how much actual protection that would afford them. I don't know how international law/treaties work at sea. I assume there are treaties signed by various countries to agree on common laws of the sea, and if you and they are both signed off on them, the law applies to your interaction?
Being anchored in a US port (or any country's port with similarly backwards privacy laws) would seem to be invitation to be boarded regularly on any variety of trumped up charges by said hosting country. Too bad SeaLand doesn't have a port. Considering the catastrophic consequences of a ship collision there I'm sure they don't want anything like that parking nearby. (I wonder if SeaLand considers these sorts of things "competition"?)
It does create an interesting mashup of tradeoffs however. Circulating seawater for cooling would surely be efficient. Power generation could be a problem, though the tanks on those boats are pretty big and I'd suppose they could run a whole "boatload" of servers for some time on gennies if need be. Wouldn't be able to just pile in the crates sokoban-style, they'd all have to be accessible so the inside would have to be organized, probably using special shipping containers that functioned as access points within the stack, as hallways etc. Then you have to figure out how to interconnect power, data, and cooling to the containers. Sounds like a very fresh challenge.
1) do not store anything private on company hardware, not on your pc on your desk, not on your laptop you take home, not on your blackberry. Doesn't matter if you encrypt or not. Do not do it. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
2) regardless of where you store your private data, do not access it from company hardware, at home or at work. No form of security is effective if you're accessing it from hardware you do not control. Clearing cookies/history or using a "portable private browser" or even a live CD doesn't mean jack. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
3) if you bring your laptop/smartphone to work and access offsite storage, use strong encryption. IMAP with SSL or HTTPS at the very least. "Company hardware" includes their routers and switches, do not pass unencrypted personal information through their hardware. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
Some companies may have specific rules against using this option. Check with your BofH. Many companies don't allow information entering/leaving their establishment if they can't monitor it, to protect their IP. In those cases, accessing personal information from work may simply not be possible. See Rule #4.
4) don't think you're clever. Don't use the pc on your desktop to RDC to your computer and home to access personal email, or do some other obfuscated method to try to cheat rules 1-3. The BofH is almost certainly more clever than you. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
iirc, the scepter was the item that dispelled the shadowlord's fields of darkness, but the amulet was necessary to illuminate the entrance to the dungeon, as well as the area immediately around it. (you could not [E]nter it even if you were standing on top of it, without the amulet)
Beyond shades egress in the centre of the underworld there is a place of darkness. Beyond this darkness lies the gate to the core of the world. Whenthou art ready thou must call forth Veramocor to unlock the gate and venturepast ethereal words and stealers of souls. That which the world hath, dostawaits thy coming!
I found that interesting, since "veramocor" was actually something you had to find (in three parts) elsewhere. This kinda gave that away.
gives a different impression depending on if they approve the app or not. I could see bigger issues if they say, denied an app and then patented the idea of the app. But once it's approved, it's publicly available and visible to millions of people, apple just has a few hours head start on it, so I don't see a problem at that point.
Someone that speaks Lawyer needs to read their big SDK eula and appstore license and see if it in any way waives rights or something when you submit an app.
oh wow. COMPLETELY ot I realize, but I was just looking that up... "Amulet of Yendor". From nethack. Never played that. BUT... played ultima 3, 4, and 5. and saw something VERY interesting...
The amulet is possessed by the high priest of Moloch at the bottom of Gehennom. To reach it, however, the player needs several other items, known as the invocation artifacts. They are the Book of the Dead, Candelabrum of Invocation and the Bell of Opening.
In one of the Ultima games, you required the Bell, the Book, and the Candle, to get into the final dungeon. I'm sure that can't be coincidence. Which came first, nethack or that ultima? Ultima also had an amulet naturally, (amulet of Lord British?) but I think that you obtained from LB's lockbox. Not a terribly useful item.
And in school, it's called "cheating", but in the military it's referred to as "gathering intelligence".
Love those dichotomies. Usually caused by a prejudiced perspective by the people describing the action. Assign the exact same description to both actions, but at the end tack on " that helps us" or "that hurts us", and poof, you need to pick between different words despite the actions being identical. That bit on the end doesn't have any bearing on the action when taken from a neutral perspective.
I thought that was downright hilarious, just taking numbers off the client's provided reference sheet, calling them, and getting the green light. With absolutely no verification of who was at the other end of the phone. There's absolutely zero point in taking references if you're going to implicitly trust them without any guarantee of who they are. The whole point of a reference is to get facts from a credible source. And all they were using it for is to get facts, completely skipping the "credible source" aspect.
IMHO, if I could either check ON the number or CALL the number, I'd chose to check ON it. References, however glowing, without a verified source, are next to worthless.
That, and only doing whois lookups after a red flag? wow. And these guys are patting themselves on the back for being such super sleuths. I'd say this was more of a very close call from a fairly amateur scammer than something to be proud of. I would be embarrassed to have this story get out, certainly not going to publish it.
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Without looking at the link, as I recall, it stings the cockroach at the base of its brainstem, and somehow its toxin destroys the cockroach's free will. It turns into a zombie, and the wasp can then just pull on its antennae like a leash and walk it to the burrow. There, it gets an egg laid on it, and the wasp administers another sting, that permanently cripples the cockroach. The cockroach remains alive though, to await its fate of being eaten alive.
Thanks for the link on that though, I'd forgotten about that one.
heh, I hadn't even considered that, excellent counterpoint.
Our POS systems at the bars use a little card with a pair of little ROM chips on it, about the size of flash nand chips, and run windows xp embedded. If the storage fails, you just unplug it and plug in a new one. They'd be out of their minds not to socket this thing or otherwise jumper it.
The obvious way would be to have a regular sata connector at a strategic location on the board, and have this ssd in a slightly larger package, and have it just plug into the connector and screw down with a couple tiny screws, sort of like the wireless cards on laptops. I suppose they might want to use some other sort of better suited connector, which would make their lives easier, but would be less flexible to work on. I'd like to be able to pluck the little guy off the mobo and attach it to a sata cable for troubleshooting, (or to be able to plug in a real HDD for troubleshooting) and not have to fight some proprietary connector.
SSD being soldered directly to a motherboard? I'm a bit torn about that idea...
ok, so you're saying my hard drive died. How much will that cost to replace?
Excuse me?
(they'd BETTER put it in a socket)
I've ran into two better examples of parasite-inducing mind-control / suicide...
1) A parasite that needs to get to water for its adult stage, so just before it climbs out of its host (somewhat aliens-style) it influences it to dive into water:
http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/cricket_infected_with_gordian_worm_committing_suicide/
2) a snail driven to suicidal behavior to attract the next vector, a bird, to continue its life cycle:
http://zombieresearch.net/2009/10/14/zombie-snail-spreads-infection/
Honestly EVERYTHING commanded by any religion about sex is only there to control the population.
Why would a religion actively try to "control" the population of their followers?
Look at Islam (Muslims)... sort of the opposite for them, and they're currently the fastest growing religious group on the planet.
That's funny to think about, in the past the parents dealt with their children woes by medicating themselves. Now, they just medicate the children instead... sad.
Just let kids be kids?
But they're not behaving like I want them to! Isn't there a drug for that?
since when was there a need to prove "criminal intent" before prosecuting someone?
I wonder if he was asked to deny the rumor to keep the scene secret for the next re-release that we're seeing now?
Or if dimensia is setting in?
I think that only let three (or four?) balls loose at once. You could do that a few times in a game. Though looking back on it, it was probably very wasteful, but it was sure fun trying to juggle the multiball.
I've got a whole bucketfull
pocketfull
that was my fav also. "Now you've done it!"
from tfa it looks like their reseller status got cut back, (possibly in retaliation for their buying some of their other parts from other sources) causing them to not be able to get ahold of the latest gear, which led to a major customer of theirs dropping them, something of a domino effect.
In business, everybody plays hardball. And it's the smaller businesses, and us the customer, that end up losing.
It would be interesting to have an inside line on the early stages of the problem. Could have been a case of the supplier saying "you buy everything from us, or we're going to bury you." In which case we may see litigation. Not that it will help anyone much at this point. You can't really recover from this.
- run thinnet lines along the floor under people's desks, for them to occasionally get kicked and aggravate loose crimps, taking entire banks of computers (in a different wing of the building) off the LAN with maddening irregularity
- plug a critical switch into one of the ups's "surge only" outlets
- install expensive new baytech RPMs on the servers at all remote locations, and forget to configure several of the servers to "power on after power failure".
- on the one local server you cannot remote manage, plug its inaccessible monitor into a wall outlet
honorable mention:
- junk the last service machine you have laying around that has a scsi card in it while you still have a few servers using scsi drives
And on the plus side,
Ok, cue the "One of the great things about having Alzheimer's is..." jokes
- you can wrap your own presents
- you get to meet new people every day
- you can hide your own easter eggs (my fav)
need more!
you just cut a hole in the hull and install a bigass heatsink
as the parent you replied to points out,
There are a LOT of critters in that water, and in time, barnacles and other stuff will start forming
I think that'd completely destroy the heat sink idea. Ships have enough problems keeping barnacles and mussels off a painted hull. Closely placed fins of any sort would be asking for trouble in capital letters. But the idea of just using the hull as the heat exchange point is a very good one I hadn't considered.
The GP doesn't know what he's talking about.
Also, you're certainly quick to spout YOU'RE WRONG! back at someone kicking around ideas and asking questions. Got a chip somewhere? You're on the right track with suggesting ideas though, that's the best way to contribute to a thread.
What (international?) laws protect independent ships on the open sea anyway? What's to stop say, our friendly DoD from parking a battleship next to a DataShip and "thank you for your cooperation" while they board the ship and hunt for their wikileaks documents?
One would assume they would claim a registry somewhere in the world where there were sensible privacy laws, and would be "under their flag", but I don't know how much actual protection that would afford them. I don't know how international law/treaties work at sea. I assume there are treaties signed by various countries to agree on common laws of the sea, and if you and they are both signed off on them, the law applies to your interaction?
Being anchored in a US port (or any country's port with similarly backwards privacy laws) would seem to be invitation to be boarded regularly on any variety of trumped up charges by said hosting country. Too bad SeaLand doesn't have a port. Considering the catastrophic consequences of a ship collision there I'm sure they don't want anything like that parking nearby. (I wonder if SeaLand considers these sorts of things "competition"?)
It does create an interesting mashup of tradeoffs however. Circulating seawater for cooling would surely be efficient. Power generation could be a problem, though the tanks on those boats are pretty big and I'd suppose they could run a whole "boatload" of servers for some time on gennies if need be. Wouldn't be able to just pile in the crates sokoban-style, they'd all have to be accessible so the inside would have to be organized, probably using special shipping containers that functioned as access points within the stack, as hallways etc. Then you have to figure out how to interconnect power, data, and cooling to the containers. Sounds like a very fresh challenge.
1) do not store anything private on company hardware, not on your pc on your desk, not on your laptop you take home, not on your blackberry. Doesn't matter if you encrypt or not. Do not do it. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
2) regardless of where you store your private data, do not access it from company hardware, at home or at work. No form of security is effective if you're accessing it from hardware you do not control. Clearing cookies/history or using a "portable private browser" or even a live CD doesn't mean jack. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
3) if you bring your laptop/smartphone to work and access offsite storage, use strong encryption. IMAP with SSL or HTTPS at the very least. "Company hardware" includes their routers and switches, do not pass unencrypted personal information through their hardware. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
Some companies may have specific rules against using this option. Check with your BofH. Many companies don't allow information entering/leaving their establishment if they can't monitor it, to protect their IP. In those cases, accessing personal information from work may simply not be possible. See Rule #4.
4) don't think you're clever. Don't use the pc on your desktop to RDC to your computer and home to access personal email, or do some other obfuscated method to try to cheat rules 1-3. The BofH is almost certainly more clever than you. You have no right to privacy when using company hardware.
iirc, the scepter was the item that dispelled the shadowlord's fields of darkness, but the amulet was necessary to illuminate the entrance to the dungeon, as well as the area immediately around it. (you could not [E]nter it even if you were standing on top of it, without the amulet)
Beyond shades egress in the centre of the underworld there is a place of darkness. Beyond this darkness lies the gate to the core of the world. Whenthou art ready thou must call forth Veramocor to unlock the gate and venturepast ethereal words and stealers of souls. That which the world hath, dostawaits thy coming!
I found that interesting, since "veramocor" was actually something you had to find (in three parts) elsewhere. This kinda gave that away.
gives a different impression depending on if they approve the app or not. I could see bigger issues if they say, denied an app and then patented the idea of the app. But once it's approved, it's publicly available and visible to millions of people, apple just has a few hours head start on it, so I don't see a problem at that point.
Someone that speaks Lawyer needs to read their big SDK eula and appstore license and see if it in any way waives rights or something when you submit an app.
oh wow. COMPLETELY ot I realize, but I was just looking that up... "Amulet of Yendor". From nethack. Never played that. BUT... played ultima 3, 4, and 5. and saw something VERY interesting...
The amulet is possessed by the high priest of Moloch at the bottom of Gehennom. To reach it, however, the player needs several other items, known as the invocation artifacts. They are the Book of the Dead, Candelabrum of Invocation and the Bell of Opening.
In one of the Ultima games, you required the Bell, the Book, and the Candle, to get into the final dungeon. I'm sure that can't be coincidence. Which came first, nethack or that ultima? Ultima also had an amulet naturally, (amulet of Lord British?) but I think that you obtained from LB's lockbox. Not a terribly useful item.
If you can get beyond the word airship — because that has a lot of history
Ya, "history", all the bad kind
And in school, it's called "cheating", but in the military it's referred to as "gathering intelligence".
Love those dichotomies. Usually caused by a prejudiced perspective by the people describing the action. Assign the exact same description to both actions, but at the end tack on " that helps us" or "that hurts us", and poof, you need to pick between different words despite the actions being identical. That bit on the end doesn't have any bearing on the action when taken from a neutral perspective.
I thought that was downright hilarious, just taking numbers off the client's provided reference sheet, calling them, and getting the green light. With absolutely no verification of who was at the other end of the phone. There's absolutely zero point in taking references if you're going to implicitly trust them without any guarantee of who they are. The whole point of a reference is to get facts from a credible source. And all they were using it for is to get facts, completely skipping the "credible source" aspect.
IMHO, if I could either check ON the number or CALL the number, I'd chose to check ON it. References, however glowing, without a verified source, are next to worthless.
That, and only doing whois lookups after a red flag? wow. And these guys are patting themselves on the back for being such super sleuths. I'd say this was more of a very close call from a fairly amateur scammer than something to be proud of. I would be embarrassed to have this story get out, certainly not going to publish it.