You posted a comment on slashdot, with your homepage set to techiehelplist.com, which a whois shows is registered to a Jamie B*****n with complete address in a state south of Idaho. It took less time to find that out than it took to type this comment. (If it's _not_ you, it's a pretty good start).
I don't know how to commit digital seppuku myself, but I think you're doing it wrong;-P
I've worked in secure environments (several different nuke plants, and several different casinos), where things were truly off the net.
That said, with something like customer data for Kaspersky, it's impractical to have this data isolated in that manner. For starters, people buy and sell this product over the internet. Right there, you have to have an interface into your database from a remotely accessed client. Also I'd imagine Kaspersky has offices in many different countries and while I'm sure VPNs and such help, the computers trading the valuable data are still on the internets. The more I think about it, the more I think that what you propose would be impossible for most companies to implement.
I'm all for more security though, most places don't error on the side of caution. Nuke plants tend to (and actually security it generally even 'tougher' at casinos)...
I'm pretty sure there are both ODBC and OLE drivers for 'text files', while I've never played with them (just done SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Access), I would imagine this sort of vulnerability could exist with a text file as well. Of course not if you're just directly reading them with file streams, but if you're using ODBC or OLE... and no, I can't imagine the scenario that would be the proper use for that.
Johnny's village was too poor to afford basic necessities like clean water, food, and medicine. Thanks to h4x0rz without borders, they were able to set up a 10k client botnet which they used to run Nigerian-style scams. Now they have the things they need to live like water, food, medicine, and satellite TV. You can help a village just like Johnny's, join h4x0rz without borders today!
can't breathe the outside atmosphere, gravity is normal but pressure is not, and emergency help is generally not an option if something goes wrong.
Subs can do fine for months on end autonomously, why wouldn't those habitation systems be a decent blueprint for a mars bio-dome? (probably don't need nuclear propulsion or torpedos. but who knows)
and I'd have to imagine that wow gold farming is less-than-US minimum wage as well. along with all kinds of other jobs both legal and illegal. While it may be less than US minimum wage, it might be a pretty good deal in the country of origin.
"System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space"
I'd say this predates the computer... tabletop wargames have been played at least since the 1700s in order to model military strategy. and i'm sure there's probably older examples that would fit that tagline.
I've had access to all kinds of confidential stuff, stuff that would probably be important to all kinds of different people. From sealed court records to nuclear power plant documents to (currently) all the inside numbers of a major insurance something-or-other. (I have no idea what my company does, just that they're a big player in insurance and have lots of numbers that need taking care of, which is what I do)
Anyways, I can't make heads or tails of 99% of any of the confidential stuff I have or have had access to. Even if I could the vast majority of it is extremely boring. So I'm sure I've had my hands on some juicy stuff here and there, but I had no idea. I'm sure this guy was in a similar position. The data he was herding was probably boring enough that he probably long ago quit caring about the contents, and even if he was reading a 'smoking gun' regarding some sort of conspiracy he may have never known it.
I don't even think it takes that level of immersion.
I used to lean in various ways while playing super mario bros on the original nintendo, without even noticing that I was doing it until I leaned too far or something. Trying to make him jump just that little bit farther. Noticed other people doing it too, without being aware of it.
My dad was a professional bowler. I'd see him 'become' the ball, trying to affect it's motion far after it left his hand. But on a sub-conscious level. I doubt he was at all aware of his body language.
I've done quite the same as parent mentions playing battlefield2 and whatnot, but also think the above examples fall into the same category. I don't think it requires a first-person-shooter level of immersion.
not that I'm any kind of expert... but I would think that one could argue that once certain technologies got up to a decent level to allow for things like network cards, long distance communications, encryption, personal computers, etc... something like the internet would be inevitable.
he says he's going to 'check his email' and sits down at the computer. i dont know where he got that from. not me, cause i never say something like 'ima check my email'
then he proceeds to remove keys from the keyboard. he's gotten quite good at this, even employing other objects as a lever to pop the keys off. i then find them scattered about the house, in his mouth, outside, in the toilet, in the refrigerator...
if you have a child of this age, the only computers that are going to stand up to them are made by fisher price etc.
i don't think it would be worth it until about 5 at the earliest
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I don't think I could resist the urge to tag everything as 'Thats no moon!'
You posted a comment on slashdot, with your homepage set to techiehelplist.com, which a whois shows is registered to a Jamie B*****n with complete address in a state south of Idaho. It took less time to find that out than it took to type this comment. (If it's _not_ you, it's a pretty good start).
I don't know how to commit digital seppuku myself, but I think you're doing it wrong ;-P
(all in fun)
I try to use carrier pigeons, smoke signals, semaphore flag towers, and the telegraph whenever possible.
I bet few here know that the famous RFC 1149 has actually been implemented.
I'm working on a writeup for a semaphore based system. Still not sure how to handle bad routes due to German invasions.
I only use myspace, gmail + other google services, LinkedIn, and twitter. They certainly don't fit your description, so I'm good.
You think that's bad, check out Down Syndrome rates as the female gets older.
couldn't find a pretty chart, but it works
I've worked in secure environments (several different nuke plants, and several different casinos), where things were truly off the net.
That said, with something like customer data for Kaspersky, it's impractical to have this data isolated in that manner. For starters, people buy and sell this product over the internet. Right there, you have to have an interface into your database from a remotely accessed client. Also I'd imagine Kaspersky has offices in many different countries and while I'm sure VPNs and such help, the computers trading the valuable data are still on the internets. The more I think about it, the more I think that what you propose would be impossible for most companies to implement.
I'm all for more security though, most places don't error on the side of caution. Nuke plants tend to (and actually security it generally even 'tougher' at casinos)...
I'm pretty sure there are both ODBC and OLE drivers for 'text files', while I've never played with them (just done SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Access), I would imagine this sort of vulnerability could exist with a text file as well. Of course not if you're just directly reading them with file streams, but if you're using ODBC or OLE... and no, I can't imagine the scenario that would be the proper use for that.
Johnny's village was too poor to afford basic necessities like clean water, food, and medicine. Thanks to h4x0rz without borders, they were able to set up a 10k client botnet which they used to run Nigerian-style scams. Now they have the things they need to live like water, food, medicine, and satellite TV. You can help a village just like Johnny's, join h4x0rz without borders today!
can't breathe the outside atmosphere, gravity is normal but pressure is not, and emergency help is generally not an option if something goes wrong.
Subs can do fine for months on end autonomously, why wouldn't those habitation systems be a decent blueprint for a mars bio-dome? (probably don't need nuclear propulsion or torpedos. but who knows)
These guys will give you 500 bucks
which is surely worth the time and effort involved in something like this.
and looking forward to buying a N10 model. but now they have this.
man asus comes up with some cool stuff at a reasonable price. i'm starting to like asus the way the hippies like apple =)
of course that opens a whole other can of worms, but it solves everything you've listed.
and I'd have to imagine that wow gold farming is less-than-US minimum wage as well. along with all kinds of other jobs both legal and illegal. While it may be less than US minimum wage, it might be a pretty good deal in the country of origin.
"System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space"
I'd say this predates the computer... tabletop wargames have been played at least since the 1700s in order to model military strategy. and i'm sure there's probably older examples that would fit that tagline.
I forgot to add the point of all that - is that I really doubt he 'knew too much'.
I've had access to all kinds of confidential stuff, stuff that would probably be important to all kinds of different people. From sealed court records to nuclear power plant documents to (currently) all the inside numbers of a major insurance something-or-other. (I have no idea what my company does, just that they're a big player in insurance and have lots of numbers that need taking care of, which is what I do)
Anyways, I can't make heads or tails of 99% of any of the confidential stuff I have or have had access to. Even if I could the vast majority of it is extremely boring. So I'm sure I've had my hands on some juicy stuff here and there, but I had no idea. I'm sure this guy was in a similar position. The data he was herding was probably boring enough that he probably long ago quit caring about the contents, and even if he was reading a 'smoking gun' regarding some sort of conspiracy he may have never known it.
I don't even think it takes that level of immersion.
I used to lean in various ways while playing super mario bros on the original nintendo, without even noticing that I was doing it until I leaned too far or something. Trying to make him jump just that little bit farther. Noticed other people doing it too, without being aware of it.
My dad was a professional bowler. I'd see him 'become' the ball, trying to affect it's motion far after it left his hand. But on a sub-conscious level. I doubt he was at all aware of his body language.
I've done quite the same as parent mentions playing battlefield2 and whatnot, but also think the above examples fall into the same category. I don't think it requires a first-person-shooter level of immersion.
Hey, I'm french, you insensitive claude!
not that I'm any kind of expert... but I would think that one could argue that once certain technologies got up to a decent level to allow for things like network cards, long distance communications, encryption, personal computers, etc... something like the internet would be inevitable.
and you should. anything within their reach will be broken or sticky.
"forget the windows model! - i suppose that comes with minesweeper & solitaire at least! "
Yeah. I have an EEE with windows. and SQL server 2005, visual studio 2005, and world of warcraft. plus firefox, thunderbird, etc. all work just fine.
he says he's going to 'check his email' and sits down at the computer. i dont know where he got that from. not me, cause i never say something like 'ima check my email'
then he proceeds to remove keys from the keyboard. he's gotten quite good at this, even employing other objects as a lever to pop the keys off. i then find them scattered about the house, in his mouth, outside, in the toilet, in the refrigerator...
if you have a child of this age, the only computers that are going to stand up to them are made by fisher price etc.
i don't think it would be worth it until about 5 at the earliest
Now I do database programming. Better hours, better money. I use that money and free time to tinker with games.
Yes, a Turning Machine counts as a machine.
I somehow missed the ferraris and parties too. I was busy doing COBOL Y2K updates (ACUCOBOL 85). and playing turn based war strategy games.
I was nerding way before nerds were cool.