The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.
Or may be, it was neither and he was just told that Egypt wanted to build a massive Sphinx-like aircraft carrier that would mimic the Thundercats aircraft launching facilities. After all, who wouldn't want to support a cool project like that.
What ever happens!! Do not start your proposal with "Let's stop using passwords."
Besides, in every system I've seen with 2-factor authentication, passwords could still be used, but 2-factor authentication would only get triggered if the employee was accessing the network from an unknown computer, or an unknown ip address, or if the employee had forgotten his original password.
What people like to believe in is the spirit of entrepreneurship that Apple and others emulated. The garage isn't so important, the idea of a garage is powerful stuff.
We already have an overabundance of feel-good myths in religion, US history, and television. We don't need to create anymore. Myths distort reality. Myths create people with unrealistic expectations and short attention spans.
The garage didn't make Apple. The surrounding social, technological, and educational environments, are really what made Apple. And also, let's take for example the iPod. The first iPod wasn't made in less than a year, the first iPod was the result of decades of research and trial and error, which continued well after its first version was released, and continues to this day.
If the shooting in Ferguson was captured on video there would have been no protests. If the video showed a harmless man being gunned down in cold blood then the cop would be on trial for murder and the public would see justice being served - there would certainly be complaints but nothing like what we saw.
Unfortunately, that's not what happened in this case with the Bart police.
The police officer only got nine months of prison, and even then, that's only because of the protests and the riots that followed. Initially, they didn't have any intention of pressing charges.
No wonder, the Bart police is just looking for ways to quickly shut down the cell phone service. Had they had this ability to shut down the cell phone networks during the initial incident, they would have at least had the time to confiscate everyone's cell phone before the video could have been uploaded anywhere.
OpenHatch seems to be a solution in search of a problem that doesn't really exist.
Finding people who are invested in your open source project is usually not a problem, assuming they actually need and use your project, and you take the time to regularly speak with them.
Did you set up a local cached copy of Google Maps too? The last time I was at my doctor's office, the nurse pulled up traffic information to make sure there was adequate travel time between the appointments she was setting up for that same day. Another time was when my mother didn't remember the exact doctor's name she had seen at another hospital, but a quick Google search by the nurse cleared up that question in a few seconds. A third time was when my mom brought medication she had been using in France without the actual box with the scientific names on it. Once again, a quick google search clarified what the active ingredient was in that medication and the American doctor was able to make his own recommendation.
They were well happy, they can do a full text search for practically anything connected with medicine without going online.
I can only assume that's because they were never given internet access at their practice in the first place, or that when they have a question that requires the internet, they just use their own private smartphone to google for an answer.
...stole corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market.
They seem to know a lot about these guys.
After all, corporate secrets can be sold for competitive advantages, for financially scamming those institutions or their clients, for embarrassing those institutions targeted, and/or for blackmailing purposes. The fact that they know it's for gaming the stock market implies that they have some evidence of that.
"shaming" sounds like a punitive action. Last I checked, police are law enforcement. I'd have thought that a judge would be required for anything punitive.
A punitive action can be about deterrence, protection, reparation, rehabilitation, and/or possibly vengeance. Even if we can all agree that "vengeance" shouldn't be a factor in sentencing someone, there is really no objective criterion for it that we could all possibly agree on.
Have you compared the average car in Germany with the ones in the USA? Furthermore, in Germany there are mandatory periodic technical inspections, and these are no joke. Half the cars I see in the USA would never pass these inspections. Also, getting a driver license in Germany is HARD, and the average Autobahn driver is very well disciplined compared to his USA counterpart (exceptions exist, I know I know...)
Exceptions? Germany is between so many countries, many foreigners drive through it all the time. Also, the cars that can't keep up with the high speed just have to stay on the right side with the slow trucks. That's what I did when I drove a vastly underpowered car through Germany.
In any case, it wouldn't hurt to experiment with the speed limit in a few select locations. Let's base our laws on actual measurements, not half-baked stereotypes.
I know it's being tried at some colleges and high schools, but it would not surprise me if mandatory sensors that communicate to central monitoring station at games and practices are required in the future.
Sensors can be, and will be, disabled if the players think it's in their short-term self-interest to do so.
Just see how the workers at Fukushima did that themselves with the tacit endorsement of management.
A far simpler and more effective solution would be to have high school players just play flag football.
Flag football is a version of American football or Canadian football where the basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game (often called "tackle football" for contrast), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down.
That would get rid of 90% of serious injuries at least.
I'm at a loss to understand why the taxi companies don't come up with their own app.
Taxi companies do not need an app to set up the fare in advance, because technically, unlike Uber or Lyft, they're allowed to pick up anyone who waves them down. Also when medallions are scarce, that means there is an over-abundance of customers and an under-supply of taxis.
By over-abundance of customers, I mean that it's usually impossible to catch a cab during peak hours unless you're a super model, or you're coming out of a four star Hilton. An app wouldn't solve that problem for taxi companies, because their taxis are usually full during those times.
I rarely take cabs, and don't think I'd ever call Uber.
Then, good for you, you're probably part of the overwhelming majority. You probably live or work in a city where public transportation goes everywhere, or where at the very least parking is cheap and plentiful. In other words, a medallion where you live probably costs nothing and cabs are easy to catch during peak hours (not that you'd ever need to catch one).
For the rest of us however, probably a minority, we actually need services like Uber and Lyft.
Heh. As an automotive enthusiast in the United States, I'm glad that our laws have generally applied such that a vehicle, once it has been certified by the relevant governing body, does not later generally need to meet more stringent emissions standards.
May be for the average Joe, but not for commercial truck drivers in California.
My neighbor for instance, had to trade-in his newer 18 wheeler truck for a refurbished older model in order to save on the huge upgrade cost of complying with the new Californian emissions standard. That combined with the higher fuel costs (at the time) did not make him a happy camper.
If I see a drone outside my second story window, I'd like to take it out.
Record the drone with your cell phone camera. Call the cops. Tell them you have a peeping Tom using a drone to peep through your second story window.
Cops like drones. They also like to confiscate things. Not to mention, anything they confiscate under forfeiture law, they can resell to their fellow cops at auction for super cheap. So in the end, it's a win / win for everybody. A cop gets a $300 drone for $5 at auction. You get your privacy restored. The police department gets an extra $5 for its pizza fund. And the original owner of the drone is made to understand he's very lucky not to have been arrested and charged for a being a peeping Tom.
1) People who lose tools by accident 2) People who steal tools on purpose
That is an oversimplification. There are also people who like to keep tools at their workstation overnight for the convenience, or people who replace tools at a slightly different place where they were originally found, or people who loan out tools they borrowed to another technician/person who might need those tools also.
3) People who don't lose or steal tools
You might prevent or reduce losses from category 1. You will create a minor inconvenience for people in category 2. And you will piss off everyone in category 3 who will feel like they're no longer trusted.
Even if we assume that you have an OCD employee in category 3 who always replaces a tool at the exact location he found it in -- the minute he no longer needs the tool. I can guarantee you that this same employee is already much more pissed off at not being able to find the right tool he needs when he goes looking for it (because someone else hasn't returned it yet).
Also, it's not just a question of inventory control. It's also a question of inventory maintenance. When a tool is signed out to someone, and let's say that tool breaks, or is used up, as part of its normal lifespan, then the best person to order a replacement of that tool is the last person who used it.
Your toy airplane is weak if it can't hack it in a light breeze.
If you're designing new drone prototypes, then yes, they can be weak. That is what experimentation is all about.
But then again, this place will be equipped with a wind tunnel and those can simulate very high winds if required.
Norris said the renovation will allow more UAS and aviation operations to be combined in one location, providing access to resources including aviation and flight simulators, avionics and engine labs and a wind tunnel.
A story on the same blog posted 4 days ago shows that HSBC's corporate banking site was jsut blocked because the CDN Akamai got blocked. Apparently, "HSBC uses Akamai as part of the secure login system for clients".
What the blog doesn't say however is that many corporations in China are already paying for proxies outside of China that they access through VPNs, so as to circumvent China's great firewall. And that HSBC probably scrambled to remove the login dependency on Akamai as soon as it received customer complaints about the problem. So I can't say what the economic impact is going to be, but companies are certainly trying to mitigate the effect this has on them and route around the problem.
Also note that Akamai's CDN is also used as a big ad-delivery network, so the economic impact notwithstanding, most Chinese users are now browsing the internet without seeing ads, which for once translates into a much more positive experience for users in China. And the only problem there is that this blockage of internet ads probably won't last very long, because advertising companies will do everything in their power to fix the problem and circumvent Akamai.
perhaps you should think before spouting off publicly about how the guy's clearly innocent and the accusers are just lying sluts?
Using that word "sluts" to call those women says a lot more about you than it says about me. I assume this means you were raised in a place where most of the people around you still hold puritanical beliefs.
My personal problem with the non-condom related rape allegations is that the women continued their relationships with Julian Assange and even bragged publicly about having sex with Julian Assange.
Now granted, I'm not opposed to reclassifying the legal definition of rape to make it slightly broader than it is currently being enforced, and I'm not opposed to going after those perpetrators internationally through extradition treaties, but my problem comes from the fact that Julian Assange seems to be treated very uniquely in this regard and I just can't accept this as being a random coincidence.
Had Julian Assange not faced this threat from being imprisoned in a US gulag for his entire life, or worse, you and I both know that he would have just gone back to Sweden and been exonerated (fairly or unfairly, but that would have been the outcome for sure). I've been to Sweden and I can promise you it's not the feminist utopia you think that it is.
I don't think any woman in history has ever lied about not wearing a female condom... You've never actually seen a female condom, have you? Lying about wearing one would be like an amputee lying about having both legs.
Diaphragm was actually the word I was looking for.
Re:Rape Apologetics Go Here Live down to expecations, Slashdot.
If allegedly lying about wearing a condom counts as rape after the fact and justifies extradition, then we should designate all women, who ever allegedly lied about not wearing a female condom, or who allegedly lied about being on birth control, as rapists as well. After all, it works both ways.
I guess we'll have to wait until a woman republishes embarrassing US State secrets for that to happen.
It doesn't apply to fake listings that were never even intended to be seen, nevermind honored, by the public.
Amazon allows you to sell a book for one penny and then make your profit on the shipping charge. For all you know, the buyers were doing the same with PS4s and reselling them at cost + shipping. It's probably a great way to get raving 5 stars reviews from your customers. Also since the customers are locked into the shipping charge with the PS4 itself, you could probably upsell them on extra PS4 cables and extra PS4 accessories at a real monster's premium.
..about how one can modify a blackberry to run android applications.
Putting aside your main point, which I agree with.
Blackberry doesn't need to be modified to run android applications. It will run most of them if you just repackage and sign again the application for blackberry.
One caveat thought, if your app is using specific Google android sdks like the Google Maps sdk for instance, you may need to rewrite your app to use the web api of Google Maps instead of its android sdk api.
You are looking at it all wrong, those people that are calling you are all potential customers of your business. Offer to them something they are looking for: satisfaction. They are calling you to complain. Sell them something, like a way to kick ass of somebody, who you can present as the guy that placed that call they are complaining about. I am sure many would give you their money for some type of a moral satisfaction. Learn to sell, life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
Scammers also sell anti-scam services. Personally, I would be even more suspicious of someone who wanted to help me and sell me something to get back at those scammers.
I assume you meant a chart like this one. The other link you provided sends me to a gas cost calculator.
I love how the chart purposefully EXCLUDES countries with large land masses and lower population density like Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, etc. Unfortunately, it's a complete no-brainer that countries with higher population density need to prevent people from driving their own car. One way is to increase the gas tax. The other way is to make the drivers license for new drivers insanely expensive and almost impossible to get.
Build your own drone and fly it around to take some nice aerial shots. Just don't do it like this guy. His drone looked way too nice. He was lucky to recover it from Nepal customs after two weeks. See if you could build yourself a cheap weather balloon, or a foldable motorized flying wing large enough to take the altitude.
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The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.
Or may be, it was neither and he was just told that Egypt wanted to build a massive Sphinx-like aircraft carrier that would mimic the Thundercats aircraft launching facilities. After all, who wouldn't want to support a cool project like that.
Shutting down the company gym was a big mistake.
It would have been the perfect trap for those North Koreans, trying to sneak in with their brand new membership cards.
What ever happens!! Do not start your proposal with "Let's stop using passwords."
Besides, in every system I've seen with 2-factor authentication, passwords could still be used, but 2-factor authentication would only get triggered if the employee was accessing the network from an unknown computer, or an unknown ip address, or if the employee had forgotten his original password.
What people like to believe in is the spirit of entrepreneurship that Apple and others emulated. The garage isn't so important, the idea of a garage is powerful stuff.
We already have an overabundance of feel-good myths in religion, US history, and television. We don't need to create anymore. Myths distort reality. Myths create people with unrealistic expectations and short attention spans.
The garage didn't make Apple. The surrounding social, technological, and educational environments, are really what made Apple. And also, let's take for example the iPod. The first iPod wasn't made in less than a year, the first iPod was the result of decades of research and trial and error, which continued well after its first version was released, and continues to this day.
If the shooting in Ferguson was captured on video there would have been no protests. If the video showed a harmless man being gunned down in cold blood then the cop would be on trial for murder and the public would see justice being served - there would certainly be complaints but nothing like what we saw.
Unfortunately, that's not what happened in this case with the Bart police.
The police officer only got nine months of prison, and even then, that's only because of the protests and the riots that followed. Initially, they didn't have any intention of pressing charges.
No wonder, the Bart police is just looking for ways to quickly shut down the cell phone service. Had they had this ability to shut down the cell phone networks during the initial incident, they would have at least had the time to confiscate everyone's cell phone before the video could have been uploaded anywhere.
OpenHatch seems to be a solution in search of a problem that doesn't really exist.
Finding people who are invested in your open source project is usually not a problem, assuming they actually need and use your project, and you take the time to regularly speak with them.
Did you set up a local cached copy of Google Maps too? The last time I was at my doctor's office, the nurse pulled up traffic information to make sure there was adequate travel time between the appointments she was setting up for that same day. Another time was when my mother didn't remember the exact doctor's name she had seen at another hospital, but a quick Google search by the nurse cleared up that question in a few seconds. A third time was when my mom brought medication she had been using in France without the actual box with the scientific names on it. Once again, a quick google search clarified what the active ingredient was in that medication and the American doctor was able to make his own recommendation.
They were well happy, they can do a full text search for practically anything connected with medicine without going online.
I can only assume that's because they were never given internet access at their practice in the first place, or that when they have a question that requires the internet, they just use their own private smartphone to google for an answer.
...stole corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market.
They seem to know a lot about these guys.
After all, corporate secrets can be sold for competitive advantages, for financially scamming those institutions or their clients, for embarrassing those institutions targeted, and/or for blackmailing purposes. The fact that they know it's for gaming the stock market implies that they have some evidence of that.
"shaming" sounds like a punitive action. Last I checked, police are law enforcement. I'd have thought that a judge would be required for anything punitive.
A punitive action can be about deterrence, protection, reparation, rehabilitation, and/or possibly vengeance. Even if we can all agree that "vengeance" shouldn't be a factor in sentencing someone, there is really no objective criterion for it that we could all possibly agree on.
Have you compared the average car in Germany with the ones in the USA? Furthermore, in Germany there are mandatory periodic technical inspections, and these are no joke. Half the cars I see in the USA would never pass these inspections. Also, getting a driver license in Germany is HARD, and the average Autobahn driver is very well disciplined compared to his USA counterpart (exceptions exist, I know I know...)
Exceptions? Germany is between so many countries, many foreigners drive through it all the time. Also, the cars that can't keep up with the high speed just have to stay on the right side with the slow trucks. That's what I did when I drove a vastly underpowered car through Germany.
In any case, it wouldn't hurt to experiment with the speed limit in a few select locations. Let's base our laws on actual measurements, not half-baked stereotypes.
I know it's being tried at some colleges and high schools, but it would not surprise me if mandatory sensors that communicate to central monitoring station at games and practices are required in the future.
Sensors can be, and will be, disabled if the players think it's in their short-term self-interest to do so.
Just see how the workers at Fukushima did that themselves with the tacit endorsement of management.
A far simpler and more effective solution would be to have high school players just play flag football.
Flag football is a version of American football or Canadian football where the basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game (often called "tackle football" for contrast), but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down.
That would get rid of 90% of serious injuries at least.
I'm at a loss to understand why the taxi companies don't come up with their own app.
Taxi companies do not need an app to set up the fare in advance, because technically, unlike Uber or Lyft, they're allowed to pick up anyone who waves them down. Also when medallions are scarce, that means there is an over-abundance of customers and an under-supply of taxis.
By over-abundance of customers, I mean that it's usually impossible to catch a cab during peak hours unless you're a super model, or you're coming out of a four star Hilton. An app wouldn't solve that problem for taxi companies, because their taxis are usually full during those times.
I rarely take cabs, and don't think I'd ever call Uber.
Then, good for you, you're probably part of the overwhelming majority. You probably live or work in a city where public transportation goes everywhere, or where at the very least parking is cheap and plentiful. In other words, a medallion where you live probably costs nothing and cabs are easy to catch during peak hours (not that you'd ever need to catch one).
For the rest of us however, probably a minority, we actually need services like Uber and Lyft.
Heh. As an automotive enthusiast in the United States, I'm glad that our laws have generally applied such that a vehicle, once it has been certified by the relevant governing body, does not later generally need to meet more stringent emissions standards.
May be for the average Joe, but not for commercial truck drivers in California.
My neighbor for instance, had to trade-in his newer 18 wheeler truck for a refurbished older model in order to save on the huge upgrade cost of complying with the new Californian emissions standard. That combined with the higher fuel costs (at the time) did not make him a happy camper.
Best way to disable a camera drone?
If I see a drone outside my second story window, I'd like to take it out.
Record the drone with your cell phone camera. Call the cops. Tell them you have a peeping Tom using a drone to peep through your second story window.
Cops like drones. They also like to confiscate things. Not to mention, anything they confiscate under forfeiture law, they can resell to their fellow cops at auction for super cheap. So in the end, it's a win / win for everybody. A cop gets a $300 drone for $5 at auction. You get your privacy restored. The police department gets an extra $5 for its pizza fund. And the original owner of the drone is made to understand he's very lucky not to have been arrested and charged for a being a peeping Tom.
There's 3 types of people:
1) People who lose tools by accident
2) People who steal tools on purpose
That is an oversimplification. There are also people who like to keep tools at their workstation overnight for the convenience, or people who replace tools at a slightly different place where they were originally found, or people who loan out tools they borrowed to another technician/person who might need those tools also.
3) People who don't lose or steal tools
You might prevent or reduce losses from category 1. You will create a minor inconvenience for people in category 2. And you will piss off everyone in category 3 who will feel like they're no longer trusted.
Even if we assume that you have an OCD employee in category 3 who always replaces a tool at the exact location he found it in -- the minute he no longer needs the tool. I can guarantee you that this same employee is already much more pissed off at not being able to find the right tool he needs when he goes looking for it (because someone else hasn't returned it yet).
Also, it's not just a question of inventory control. It's also a question of inventory maintenance. When a tool is signed out to someone, and let's say that tool breaks, or is used up, as part of its normal lifespan, then the best person to order a replacement of that tool is the last person who used it.
Your toy airplane is weak if it can't hack it in a light breeze.
If you're designing new drone prototypes, then yes, they can be weak. That is what experimentation is all about.
But then again, this place will be equipped with a wind tunnel and those can simulate very high winds if required.
Norris said the renovation will allow more UAS and aviation operations to be combined in one location, providing access to resources including aviation and flight simulators, avionics and engine labs and a wind tunnel.
Economic impact would be probably close to zero.
A story on the same blog posted 4 days ago shows that HSBC's corporate banking site was jsut blocked because the CDN Akamai got blocked. Apparently, "HSBC uses Akamai as part of the secure login system for clients".
What the blog doesn't say however is that many corporations in China are already paying for proxies outside of China that they access through VPNs, so as to circumvent China's great firewall. And that HSBC probably scrambled to remove the login dependency on Akamai as soon as it received customer complaints about the problem. So I can't say what the economic impact is going to be, but companies are certainly trying to mitigate the effect this has on them and route around the problem.
Also note that Akamai's CDN is also used as a big ad-delivery network, so the economic impact notwithstanding, most Chinese users are now browsing the internet without seeing ads, which for once translates into a much more positive experience for users in China. And the only problem there is that this blockage of internet ads probably won't last very long, because advertising companies will do everything in their power to fix the problem and circumvent Akamai.
perhaps you should think before spouting off publicly about how the guy's clearly innocent and the accusers are just lying sluts?
Using that word "sluts" to call those women says a lot more about you than it says about me. I assume this means you were raised in a place where most of the people around you still hold puritanical beliefs.
My personal problem with the non-condom related rape allegations is that the women continued their relationships with Julian Assange and even bragged publicly about having sex with Julian Assange.
Now granted, I'm not opposed to reclassifying the legal definition of rape to make it slightly broader than it is currently being enforced, and I'm not opposed to going after those perpetrators internationally through extradition treaties, but my problem comes from the fact that Julian Assange seems to be treated very uniquely in this regard and I just can't accept this as being a random coincidence.
Had Julian Assange not faced this threat from being imprisoned in a US gulag for his entire life, or worse, you and I both know that he would have just gone back to Sweden and been exonerated (fairly or unfairly, but that would have been the outcome for sure). I've been to Sweden and I can promise you it's not the feminist utopia you think that it is.
I don't think any woman in history has ever lied about not wearing a female condom... You've never actually seen a female condom, have you? Lying about wearing one would be like an amputee lying about having both legs.
Diaphragm was actually the word I was looking for.
Re:Rape Apologetics Go Here
Live down to expecations, Slashdot.
If allegedly lying about wearing a condom counts as rape after the fact and justifies extradition, then we should designate all women, who ever allegedly lied about not wearing a female condom, or who allegedly lied about being on birth control, as rapists as well. After all, it works both ways.
I guess we'll have to wait until a woman republishes embarrassing US State secrets for that to happen.
It doesn't apply to fake listings that were never even intended to be seen, nevermind honored, by the public.
Amazon allows you to sell a book for one penny and then make your profit on the shipping charge. For all you know, the buyers were doing the same with PS4s and reselling them at cost + shipping. It's probably a great way to get raving 5 stars reviews from your customers. Also since the customers are locked into the shipping charge with the PS4 itself, you could probably upsell them on extra PS4 cables and extra PS4 accessories at a real monster's premium.
..about how one can modify a blackberry to run android applications.
Putting aside your main point, which I agree with.
Blackberry doesn't need to be modified to run android applications. It will run most of them if you just repackage and sign again the application for blackberry.
One caveat thought, if your app is using specific Google android sdks like the Google Maps sdk for instance, you may need to rewrite your app to use the web api of Google Maps instead of its android sdk api.
You are looking at it all wrong, those people that are calling you are all potential customers of your business. Offer to them something they are looking for: satisfaction. They are calling you to complain. Sell them something, like a way to kick ass of somebody, who you can present as the guy that placed that call they are complaining about. I am sure many would give you their money for some type of a moral satisfaction. Learn to sell, life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
Scammers also sell anti-scam services. Personally, I would be even more suspicious of someone who wanted to help me and sell me something to get back at those scammers.
I assume you meant a chart like this one. The other link you provided sends me to a gas cost calculator.
I love how the chart purposefully EXCLUDES countries with large land masses and lower population density like Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, etc. Unfortunately, it's a complete no-brainer that countries with higher population density need to prevent people from driving their own car. One way is to increase the gas tax. The other way is to make the drivers license for new drivers insanely expensive and almost impossible to get.
Build your own drone and fly it around to take some nice aerial shots. Just don't do it like this guy. His drone looked way too nice. He was lucky to recover it from Nepal customs after two weeks. See if you could build yourself a cheap weather balloon, or a foldable motorized flying wing large enough to take the altitude.