I think most of us would consider a broken leg pretty serious.
Perhaps you should use the analogy of the kid being bullied for his lunch money in grade school as the initial 'hacking'; something tangible happened, but in the grand scheme of things nothing really serious. Then you hopefully learn from that on how to avoid bad situations later in life that can have more serious consequences.
Actually I'd say the Hackers probably did us a favor in the long run. How bad would it be if everything were nice and rosy and then organized crime started playing hard ball?
At least we've had time to learn and understand and actually build tools to help in the defense of our systems. Now if companies ignored the petty hacker attacks that's their own fault, but at least it started with relatively innocuous stuff rather than more heavy duty attacks...
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Can't decide if your trolling or no...but here goes...
where the craft is assembled is a moot point if the rocket that lifts the materials (assembled or pre-assembly) is nuclear powered and goes 'boom' on the pad or during the ascent. As I said, the amount of thrust required necessitates enough nuclear material to be pretty nasty if it's spread via explosive disaster.
Your magnetosphere doesn't come in to play since the stuff is scattered *well* below that level.
Back in the day when I was working on a DOS based, flat file database app; one of the new guys discovered that if you moved the mouse, searchs, updates, maintenance processing, ran faster.
The logical reason was that the interupt checking to see if the user had hit the space bar to cancel, was firing and not waiting that extra milisecond because the mouse was saying 'nope nothing happening here' quicker than just timing out the interupt. So you just balance the mouse on the SHIFT key and boom, faster processing of long reports!
The Customer Support people in house were like "We are NOT telling that to customers!"
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One 'minor' nit in your theory...none of the things you mentioned use nuclear power for the *thrust*....
The problem is while only a little bit of nuclear material is required to power Voyager or some other craft once it's IN space, getting it there still requires enough that any accident would most definitely have profound effects.
I have friends in other countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany) and I don't disagree that housing costs are outrageous everywhere.
However, the OP was talking about costs in the Washington, DC area, where I currently own my 2nd house (not concurrently) in 5 years. Both were purchased with exactly $0.00 money down. You end up paying slightly higher rates for the priviledge but net difference is not that much. Heck you can even get 105% financing...not that it's a *wise* decision;-)
And unlike others in the US I bought based on what I could afford to pay, not based on what my tax credit would bring my payment down too. So even if that credit was removed I'd still be sitting comfortably.
(Personally I'd love a flat tax but the tax-credit mongers running this country couldn't stomach that idea!)
um...if you have *any* sort of a decent credit rating, you don't need a downpayment you moron. Try calling around and checking facts before spouting off.
And if you're credit rating sucks...that's your own danged fault!
There isn't an update yet. They stopped the exploits from working via the default plugin/extension installer sites. But the hole still exists in the browser.
If you've added additional entries to list of sites allowed to install stuff, then you are still at risk unless you disable JavaScript.
The Air and Space Museum has the shuttle, Enterprise, on display but alas you can't get anything other than a frontal view from about 10-20 yards away.
I was there on opening day and the whole museum is pretty impressive in terms of old aircraft. SR-71, Enola Gay, a Concorde, and oodles more aircraft. All fully assembled (save the shuttle since the wings came off to test after the Columbia disaster).
"Robb and Silberman agreed they had found no evidence that senior administration officials had sought to change the prewar intelligence in Iraq, possibly for political gain."
Well DUH...they got EXACTLY what they wanted/asked for, why would they CHANGE anything in the intelligence reports?
agreed, one of my college roomates didn't have a SSN. Her dad paid the 20K tuition in friggin cash every year;-) Even to the point of mailing her cash wrapped in tinfoil!
His 'profession' was 'auto parts reseller' - he drove around to mechanics selling them 'discount' parts. Um yeah right;-)
Dunno what he was hiding, but it wasn't pretty I'm sure!
Back in those times, most people in general were pretty dirt poor, so that was by proxy a 'decent' living.
Nowadays there's a wee bit more demand for 'live' music, and even more disposable MONEY to pay for it. They'd do alright me thinks...at least those with actual talent
As a fellow Software Developer here's some thoughts for you:
Once upon a time before music could be recorded at all, musicians made a pretty decent living *performing*. Now that the internet is taking away the bastions of distribution of *recorded* music, maybe artists will go back to what worked before, playing LIVE!
I work in gov't contracting, we write specialized code for a specific use. In that sense it's *LIVE* programming, I'm not building something to resell to other people, I get paid for my time and work and even if it was open source I'd still be paid for my time and work.
The notion of record once, make money for a long time just isn't going to work in the digital age unfortunately.
The best quote on this subject to me is:
"Trying to make digital bits not copyable is like trying to make water not wet".
One of the oft touted (and also true) strengths of Linux is the worldwide legion of developers making it better every day. If you're using a Fork'd code base, those legions no longer support what *you* are doing. You'd now have to 'in-house' the support, at which point it stops being as 'free as in beer' as it was before the Fork.
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I think most of us would consider a broken leg pretty serious.
Perhaps you should use the analogy of the kid being bullied for his lunch money in grade school as the initial 'hacking'; something tangible happened, but in the grand scheme of things nothing really serious. Then you hopefully learn from that on how to avoid bad situations later in life that can have more serious consequences.
Actually I'd say the Hackers probably did us a favor in the long run. How bad would it be if everything were nice and rosy and then organized crime started playing hard ball?
At least we've had time to learn and understand and actually build tools to help in the defense of our systems. Now if companies ignored the petty hacker attacks that's their own fault, but at least it started with relatively innocuous stuff rather than more heavy duty attacks...
Can't decide if your trolling or no...but here goes...
where the craft is assembled is a moot point if the rocket that lifts the materials (assembled or pre-assembly) is nuclear powered and goes 'boom' on the pad or during the ascent. As I said, the amount of thrust required necessitates enough nuclear material to be pretty nasty if it's spread via explosive disaster.
Your magnetosphere doesn't come in to play since the stuff is scattered *well* below that level.
Something sorta up this alley...
Back in the day when I was working on a DOS based, flat file database app; one of the new guys discovered that if you moved the mouse, searchs, updates, maintenance processing, ran faster.
The logical reason was that the interupt checking to see if the user had hit the space bar to cancel, was firing and not waiting that extra milisecond because the mouse was saying 'nope nothing happening here' quicker than just timing out the interupt. So you just balance the mouse on the SHIFT key and boom, faster processing of long reports!
The Customer Support people in house were like "We are NOT telling that to customers!"
One 'minor' nit in your theory...none of the things you mentioned use nuclear power for the *thrust*....
The problem is while only a little bit of nuclear material is required to power Voyager or some other craft once it's IN space, getting it there still requires enough that any accident would most definitely have profound effects.
I believe he's successfully stayed away from the 'Quality Software' niche, no? ;-)
I have friends in other countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany) and I don't disagree that housing costs are outrageous everywhere.
;-)
However, the OP was talking about costs in the Washington, DC area, where I currently own my 2nd house (not concurrently) in 5 years. Both were purchased with exactly $0.00 money down. You end up paying slightly higher rates for the priviledge but net difference is not that much. Heck you can even get 105% financing...not that it's a *wise* decision
And unlike others in the US I bought based on what I could afford to pay, not based on what my tax credit would bring my payment down too. So even if that credit was removed I'd still be sitting comfortably.
(Personally I'd love a flat tax but the tax-credit mongers running this country couldn't stomach that idea!)
um...if you have *any* sort of a decent credit rating, you don't need a downpayment you moron. Try calling around and checking facts before spouting off.
And if you're credit rating sucks...that's your own danged fault!
so would it be 'Tri-Booting' then? I always thought that was a single Windozen box ;-) 'Try Booting...please!'
Which is why you don't answer "I don't know"...
You answer with "I was going [insert reasonable speed]"
That way it's a matter of perception, not admission as to how fast you were going...
"But in cartoons, the process gets sketchier. "
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Kevin...don't quit your day job...err wait...
really? you're friends with both Cheney AND Bush? ;-)
There isn't an update yet. They stopped the exploits from working via the default plugin/extension installer sites. But the hole still exists in the browser.
If you've added additional entries to list of sites allowed to install stuff, then you are still at risk unless you disable JavaScript.
What if you chose 'C' but the company in question wanted 'D' as it's less painful?
and I thought we could safely rule out 'A' because it wasn't one of the given options? ;-)
The Air and Space Museum has the shuttle, Enterprise, on display but alas you can't get anything other than a frontal view from about 10-20 yards away.
I was there on opening day and the whole museum is pretty impressive in terms of old aircraft. SR-71, Enola Gay, a Concorde, and oodles more aircraft. All fully assembled (save the shuttle since the wings came off to test after the Columbia disaster).
and my favorite quote from here:
"Robb and Silberman agreed they had found no evidence that senior administration officials had sought to change the prewar intelligence in Iraq, possibly for political gain."
Well DUH...they got EXACTLY what they wanted/asked for, why would they CHANGE anything in the intelligence reports?
"Because 64K of memory should be enough for anybody"
Thank you...I'm here all week! (mostly due to pesky bosses)
These arn't very different from those on a commercial aircraft. Boeing and Airbus appear to have worked out how to do it
lets see *any* commercial aircraft hit exit velocity, then slam into the atmosphere at multi-THOUSAND mph and see how well they fare.
It's NOT the same or even close, the pounding the shuttle takes is many many many times greater than that of commercial aircraft.
Sometimes its better to spend more if it will save time/money/lives later on.
Agreed, and spending *more* to convert/train/implement open source in the short term *will* save you much more money in the long run.
agreed, one of my college roomates didn't have a SSN. Her dad paid the 20K tuition in friggin cash every year ;-) Even to the point of mailing her cash wrapped in tinfoil!
;-)
His 'profession' was 'auto parts reseller' - he drove around to mechanics selling them 'discount' parts. Um yeah right
Dunno what he was hiding, but it wasn't pretty I'm sure!
ahh to feed the Troll...
Back in those times, most people in general were pretty dirt poor, so that was by proxy a 'decent' living.
Nowadays there's a wee bit more demand for 'live' music, and even more disposable MONEY to pay for it. They'd do alright me thinks...at least those with actual talent
As a fellow Software Developer here's some thoughts for you:
Once upon a time before music could be recorded at all, musicians made a pretty decent living *performing*. Now that the internet is taking away the bastions of distribution of *recorded* music, maybe artists will go back to what worked before, playing LIVE!
I work in gov't contracting, we write specialized code for a specific use. In that sense it's *LIVE* programming, I'm not building something to resell to other people, I get paid for my time and work and even if it was open source I'd still be paid for my time and work.
The notion of record once, make money for a long time just isn't going to work in the digital age unfortunately.
The best quote on this subject to me is:
"Trying to make digital bits not copyable is like trying to make water not wet".
Why is this a bad thing?
Playing devil's advocate for a minute...
One of the oft touted (and also true) strengths of Linux is the worldwide legion of developers making it better every day. If you're using a Fork'd code base, those legions no longer support what *you* are doing. You'd now have to 'in-house' the support, at which point it stops being as 'free as in beer' as it was before the Fork.