How should people know if a given network is for free use or not? We should have some kind of a flag on a WIFI connection to tell people it is available for free use. Like say, advertising that it has no encryption. Oh wait....
I've learned that there really is something powerful about combining several generalized apps (like in bash with pipes and such). Apple seems to be catching on to this idea more with their "Automator" in the newest OSX. Windows still doesn't let you combine things in this way, so the solution to most problems is to download (or write) another specialized program.
A good example of how our minds fill in visual information is optical illusions such as the dragon illusion. You may have already seen it as it has been making the email/blog rounds. It's a "hollow face" illusion, where the brain assumes depth information based on the familiarity of the face. We don't often see concave faces, so our brain incorrectly assumes the face is convex. There is a PDF on the dragon illusion page you can print and see this for yourself. It's a very striking effect.
- Treat all people no matter what their sickness or sexual conduct as God's children. - Suspend your criticism of other's sins unless you are without - Put other's well-being before your own
Absolutely. Not easily done though.
- Live a life of spirituality, not wealth
This is kind of vague. I assume you are referencing teachings such as "money is the root of all evil", etc. I know many Christians who have given up money and careers to serve others instead.
- Openly critize the leaders of your religion and texts
Huh? What should they be criticized for? Or do you mean examine to see if they are telling the truth? Or are you saying there are a lot of corrupt leaders? Not really sure what you are getting at here.
- Refrain from any anger at any time except in the case when someone is profiting from your religion
I assume you are referring to Jesus driving money changers out of the temple. The money changes had moved into an area of the temple that was to be used for worship. If I recall were also involved in business practices contrary to Jewish law. These money changers were fellow Jews who knew the law and should have known better, but instead they chose to turn God's house into a "den of robbers". They were not only profiting, but openly dishonering God in the temple and preventing others from worship.
- Be willing to sacrifice yourself for what you believe in
How about one better. Be willing to sacrifice yourself for other people even if they don't believe in what you do.
- Use GPOs to turn on the built in windows firewall and block everything possible.
- Roll out windows updates with SUS or a similar product. Your internet gateway should obviously be firewalled off as much as possible.
- Restrict local user permissions as much as possible as a lot of malware gets installed by ignorant users with local admin rights.
- Run virus/spyware scanning. If it detects anything, wipe the machine.
Remember that a firewall is not a magical solution. You need multiple layers of network and client level security. This is especially important in a lab where more than one person uses any given workstation. The ideal thing in that situation would be to use something like deepfreeze to wipe the machine before each person uses it in order to ensure the previous user left nothing malicious behind.
Why would a photo developer be held responsible for what their customers are getting prints of? Unless the employees are knowingly violating copyright (IE - they 100% know that the photo is not yours), what do they have to fear?
From what I've seen, there are already a lot of open source robotics projects (although probably more on the software end than detailed schematics and such). I would say that open source is already in the robotics field in a big way.
I see they are asking for serial number. On the back of my m105 there is a sticker with a black part on top and a silver part on the bottom. The silver part has all the writing worn off on it. The black part has a number in the top right, which might be the serial but I'm not sure. Anyone know which number on these is the serial?
I would think the zip file is because one document can consist of multiple files (embeded images, etc). Also, you can reduce the compression rate of zip to make it faster.
"Christoffer Järnåker, who knows just enough about electronics to be dangerous, has somehow managed to kludge a new-ish cordless POTS phone to be used with *insert popular MS-based proprietary VOIP software*. Using the 'oh jeez I hope I didn't fry my phone, computer, and mp3 player method' he uncovered a spot on the circuit board which didn't immediately destroy everything, soldered three wires, and somehow got on slashdot for it.
He wants in and out. In order to get that on a POTS (standard phone line) connection you need a circuit (known as a "hybrid") to separate the local and caller audio (they are mixed together). Rather than go to the work of building or buying a circuit, he is using the phone base's existing circuit to do it for him.
I would rather just see manufacturors offer their laptops without any OS on it. Odds are very high I won't use whatever they load it with anyway. When I buy a computer I don't want to be paying for software I don't use. And yes, Linux would cost as well as they would have to pay someone to customize it to their machines and add all their annoying utilities.
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How should people know if a given network is for free use or not? We should have some kind of a flag on a WIFI connection to tell people it is available for free use. Like say, advertising that it has no encryption. Oh wait....
Why is this wardriver a "dumbass"? The only thing he did that I wouldn't do is try to hide what he was doing.
I've learned that there really is something powerful about combining several generalized apps (like in bash with pipes and such). Apple seems to be catching on to this idea more with their "Automator" in the newest OSX. Windows still doesn't let you combine things in this way, so the solution to most problems is to download (or write) another specialized program.
One wonders whether or not such severe penalty will make Spammers think twice ($30,000 fine and 3 yrs/jail).
No.
A good example of how our minds fill in visual information is optical illusions such as the dragon illusion. You may have already seen it as it has been making the email/blog rounds. It's a "hollow face" illusion, where the brain assumes depth information based on the familiarity of the face. We don't often see concave faces, so our brain incorrectly assumes the face is convex. There is a PDF on the dragon illusion page you can print and see this for yourself. It's a very striking effect.
- Treat all people no matter what their sickness or sexual conduct as God's children.
- Suspend your criticism of other's sins unless you are without
- Put other's well-being before your own
Absolutely. Not easily done though.
- Live a life of spirituality, not wealth
This is kind of vague. I assume you are referencing teachings such as "money is the root of all evil", etc. I know many Christians who have given up money and careers to serve others instead.
- Openly critize the leaders of your religion and texts
Huh? What should they be criticized for? Or do you mean examine to see if they are telling the truth? Or are you saying there are a lot of corrupt leaders? Not really sure what you are getting at here.
- Refrain from any anger at any time except in the case when someone is profiting from your religion
I assume you are referring to Jesus driving money changers out of the temple. The money changes had moved into an area of the temple that was to be used for worship. If I recall were also involved in business practices contrary to Jewish law. These money changers were fellow Jews who knew the law and should have known better, but instead they chose to turn God's house into a "den of robbers". They were not only profiting, but openly dishonering God in the temple and preventing others from worship.
- Be willing to sacrifice yourself for what you believe in
How about one better. Be willing to sacrifice yourself for other people even if they don't believe in what you do.
Jesus was a prophet like Moses
Except Moses never claimed to be God.
- Use GPOs to turn on the built in windows firewall and block everything possible.
- Roll out windows updates with SUS or a similar product. Your internet gateway should obviously be firewalled off as much as possible.
- Restrict local user permissions as much as possible as a lot of malware gets installed by ignorant users with local admin rights.
- Run virus/spyware scanning. If it detects anything, wipe the machine.
Remember that a firewall is not a magical solution. You need multiple layers of network and client level security. This is especially important in a lab where more than one person uses any given workstation. The ideal thing in that situation would be to use something like deepfreeze to wipe the machine before each person uses it in order to ensure the previous user left nothing malicious behind.
Unique passwords for each machine is really easy. Just take a secret key append the machine's serial #, and compute a hash of that.
Just out of curiosity - what does SecureCRT have that is so great that OpenSSH doesn't have?
Safari already has a built in RSS reader that I'm pretty sure is better than anything AOL is going to dish out.
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Why would a photo developer be held responsible for what their customers are getting prints of? Unless the employees are knowingly violating copyright (IE - they 100% know that the photo is not yours), what do they have to fear?
You missed a digit: 3.14159265359
From what I've seen, there are already a lot of open source robotics projects (although probably more on the software end than detailed schematics and such). I would say that open source is already in the robotics field in a big way.
I see they are asking for serial number. On the back of my m105 there is a sticker with a black part on top and a silver part on the bottom. The silver part has all the writing worn off on it. The black part has a number in the top right, which might be the serial but I'm not sure. Anyone know which number on these is the serial?
That's the same as the combination on my luggage!
I would think the zip file is because one document can consist of multiple files (embeded images, etc). Also, you can reduce the compression rate of zip to make it faster.
TRIVIA: bps is also known as TRIB or Transmission Rate of Information Bits.
Am I the only one that considered this to be obvious downfall of giving a site your email address?
I wasn't aware of this paper. Looks like someone is gunning for the prize
You don't. Skype is a proprietary protocol and nobody has reverse engineered it yet. IIRC it also uses a patented compression algorithm.
"Christoffer Järnåker, who knows just enough about electronics to be dangerous, has somehow managed to kludge a new-ish cordless POTS phone to be used with *insert popular MS-based proprietary VOIP software*. Using the 'oh jeez I hope I didn't fry my phone, computer, and mp3 player method' he uncovered a spot on the circuit board which didn't immediately destroy everything, soldered three wires, and somehow got on slashdot for it.
He wants in and out. In order to get that on a POTS (standard phone line) connection you need a circuit (known as a "hybrid") to separate the local and caller audio (they are mixed together). Rather than go to the work of building or buying a circuit, he is using the phone base's existing circuit to do it for him.
I would rather just see manufacturors offer their laptops without any OS on it. Odds are very high I won't use whatever they load it with anyway. When I buy a computer I don't want to be paying for software I don't use. And yes, Linux would cost as well as they would have to pay someone to customize it to their machines and add all their annoying utilities.