i would like to have a central list that we can send the links to phishing websites. then someone smarter than me could write a script that just goes through the sites and enters bogus info (that looks real). if we reduce their signal to noise, it'll become much less profitable for them.
i sure hope you're talking about they guy near my house that drives around with a herse with flames on the hood and turret cannon welded to the roof. he scares me.
that 'get paid to surf the web' crap bought me alot of beer in college. i just wrote a stupid little program to randomly move the mouse and click and then let it run 24/7 on my second computer.
you can turn the tek-tips ads off by just disabling java script. i was looking around and eng-tips a while ago and notices those new intrusive ads, so i turned off java script and all was fine. i bet smarter people than me could just find what java script commands they're using and just filter those. or maybe something like mozilla's adblock where it selectively disables java script for certain websites.
nist has a bunch of data. i remember a while ago downloading handwritten characters to make handwriting recognition software. they have data for just about everything, the chemistry data is probably some of the best to put in a relational database. check out: http://www.nist.gov/srd/index.htm
the best part of 'screen' is that it's detachable from the physical console (or virtual terminal). here are two good uses for screen:
1: i start a large calculation at work in screen, detach it from the terminal, then when i go home i re-attach it to the terminal on my home computer to check the status.
2: my friend only has a weak wireless connection at home, it's not stable enough for him to keep a terminal open for a while. so he runs screen, and starts his work there, if anything craps out on him, he can just re attach and go on as if nothing were different.
both cases are nice for us computational chemists who just write quick and dirty programs that do hard number crunching. most of our programs are tied to the terminal and if the terminal closes, we can easily lose days of computation. i know there are ways around it, but it's just easier to use screen and put all our effort into the chemistry part of the programming.
You can still to this day run Win16 apps under windows and still print and save, as if it were no big deal. Thats just not possible with Linux. Try downloading or running a binary from 1994 that was compiled for linux and see if it works, im sure libc and glibc and aout and elf will make things fun.
that's a fair statement, but you also need to think that the majority of programs for windows are not open source. chances are i would still have (or could get) the source for that 1994 linux binary and compile it on my newest bleeding edge linux box and it should compile (of course after i go through dependency hell to get all the extra libraries it needs). for the most part, i should (with some work) be able to get all the source i need to build and run the old linux binary. however, i'd bet that the old win16 app was closed source and the company probably doesn't even exist anymore. with stuff like that backwards compatability is much more important, because you have no other way to run the code.
adding more speakers really only increases the size of the "sweet spot" where everything sounds great. really all you need is 2.1 (i still think you need to have the extra low frequency speaker because you get better responce if the speakers are set up for a narrow range of frequencies) because you only have two ears and your brain uses volume and phase information to tell you where the sound came from. however, with a 2.1 system you only have one spot where this works perfectly. that's why 5.1 usually sounds better, the sound is projected from more than one place, so the probability of being in the sweet spot is larger, likewise with 7.1.
my bose lifestyle came with head mounted microphones that i wore while setting up the speakers. the system played sounds and adjusted volume and phase of the speakers so that where i was sitting was a sweet spot. with 5 speakers, there are 5 degrees of freedom and i can choose up to 5 spots. with 7 speakers, i imagine that you could have 7 spots. the cool thing is that you can really tell when you're in a sweet spot or not. my gf and i were watching T3 yesterday and i comented that the sound was actually better than the (crappy) theater that i originally saw it in. she wasn't impressed. so we switched listening positions (on the same couch) and the sound was definatley worse where she was sitting. that was because when i originally set up the speakers the couch was in a different place. i've since reconfigured the system, and is sounds great again.
somewhere along the line the signal has to be analog for you to hear it. they may make digital speaker connections or whatever, but at least at the very end there needs to be a little red and a little black wire that goes to the speaker magnet. you can always tap in there. or you can put a high quality microphone up near the speaker cone and re-encode from there. they really can't plug the analog hole (unless they want to prevent us from ever hearing the music)
A better hybrid could be produced that utilizes an electric motor for the propulsion, and a fixed rpm diesel to produce electricity, regeneration from coasting and braking, and an additional sterling engine to capture heat from the coolant and the exhaust manifold.
Thank you for saying this. I've been trying to convince people that this is the way to go. Diesel and Gas engines have 1 optimum RPM where they're the most efficient (and if you design the enigine for only 1 RPM, you can make it even more efficient). We should all have slow spinning diesels that run generators. Then we have 1 small motor at each wheel to power the car. This way you get rid of the heavy (and super inefficeint because of friction) transmission and differential. All you need to do is run some wires to the wheels. Regenerative braking is easy in this setup too. It also make traction control dirt simple. All you gotta have is a simple computer watch the wheel speeds and adjust how much voltage/current goes to each wheel and you never need to worry about wheel spin any more. This is the way the diesel-electric locomotives work. I've read that 1 diesel-electric locomotive towing 5 loaded cars gets 1 mile per gallon!. Granted they don't have the rolling resistance of cars because they use steel wheels on a steel track, but still 1 mile per gallon for that much weight is amazing. Just imagine what we could do with a 3000 pound car.
No, you don't see at all. Have you ever tried to bzip a raw 40GB NTFS partition with 1GB of data on it? You will get a file that's a good deal larger than 1GB. This is because bz2 doesn't understand NTFS well enough to know which are the empty blocks so it treats all of it as data.
I really don't want my image program to understand the filesystem. What happens if in a future version they decide not to support a certian filesystem, or if I switch operating systems and there's no unimager for my new operating system? Even if it is a bit of a waste of space, I'd rather just have the image program take a snapshot of the raw disk image, completyly agnostic to the filesystem. Then I can restore it however I want because there has been no interpretation of the data, it's just plan old raw data.
my bose does this. you pick 5 places in your room where you commonly listen and it will ping those places and figure out not only the proper timing for the speakers, but the proper relative volumes and the best levels to account for things like hardwood floors or curtains that have a large affect on the sound quality. it's really cool. you can really notice a difference if you're watching a movie in the sweet spot where the microphone was, or if you're just sitting on the floor.
yes, i agree. currently i don't have cable because i'm a poor grad student. but soon i'll be able to afford it. howver, i'm not going to get cable until there's a la carte programming, even if it is the same amount of money in the end. i don't want to buy a package deal where i get 5 religous channels, that means the crazy religous freaks are getting some money for me. where as if i could only pay for what i wanted to watch, then i'm only supporting the channels that i agree with. just like you, i don't want to support mtv, but i don't mind supporting the history channel or something.
i was thinking the same thing. my immediate thought when i read that article was that i'd love to have that for when i'm training. being able to monitor not only heart rate (you can get that with a simple $30 device) but blood oxygen levels would be ideal for training. you can do your intervals as hard as you need to cause you to go anaroebic, but not so hard that your hurt yourself. and then when you do your endurance workouts you can make sure that you're never going anaroebic. this is way cool. i want one.
1 in 5 has a virus. I'd much prefer email or a USB flash drive!
and we all know that viruses can't be tranferred by email or a USB drive. i do agree that floppies are out dated and error prone, but getting rid of floppies isn't going to stop kids bringing in viruses.
...a good 40% of retailers use the INTERNET to connect to the bank...
it's even worse than that. i know a guy who works at a credit union. his job is to do end-of-day, end-of-month, etc processing. one of his jobs, is to ftp the transactions to/from visa everynight. it's not sftp or any other encrypted connection. just plan text ftp right over the internet. no one at the place will listen to him about how insecure that is! and just think, if visa is doing that for this credit union, i imagine that they're doing it for all the banks/retailers they deal with.
another often overlooked "feature" is good old ^Z (undo). back many years ago (i think before track changes even existed) i was a t.a. for a professor who wanted all assignments turned in with word. if you got two similar assignments all you needed to do was bang on ^Z for a while and you'd see where they changed the name from the origial author to the current one. kinda fun.
i know we're getting way off topic here, but i wanted to answer your bridgestone tire question:
i don't have the sources right now - i'm to lazy to google. but i do remember from the time of the incident they looked at the same model year explorers that were sold with goodyear tires, they didn't have any problems. also i remember some jeeps were sold with the same bridgestones and didn't have any blowout issues.
if i remember correcly the problem was due to a couple of factors. for the batches of tires used firestone/bridgestone had used a faulty "glue" to attach the tread to the tire, and in comibnation with ford specifying a lower pressure (to make a more comfortable ride) the tires overheated and caused the glue to fail.
but of course you're right, people don't know how to drive their SUVs right.
yes, but that's assuming that everyone who finds a simple exploit like this one actually reports it. i can imagine that there'd be a number of black hats that will find and use these kind of exploits and not tell anyone how they did it.
but i am happy that this leak happened. it just shows that the code should be out for peer review from day one. security-by-obscurity is second only to security-by-telling-people-what-not-to-do. (e.g.: "don't open that door, there's valuable stuff in that room")
Yep. You're world will come crashing down around you when you discover that coolgrl1973 is really some four-hundred-pound hairy man from Pittsburgh, who says "Yins."
I believe that the proper spelling is "youns." At least that's how they spelled it in the paper when they would quote people. I'm so glad I moved away from there.:)
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i would like to have a central list that we can send the links to phishing websites. then someone smarter than me could write a script that just goes through the sites and enters bogus info (that looks real). if we reduce their signal to noise, it'll become much less profitable for them.
I'm from Pennsylvania you insensitive sod!
My Two words: Turret Cannon
i sure hope you're talking about they guy near my house that drives around with a herse with flames on the hood and turret cannon welded to the roof. he scares me.
that 'get paid to surf the web' crap bought me alot of beer in college. i just wrote a stupid little program to randomly move the mouse and click and then let it run 24/7 on my second computer.
you can turn the tek-tips ads off by just disabling java script. i was looking around and eng-tips a while ago and notices those new intrusive ads, so i turned off java script and all was fine. i bet smarter people than me could just find what java script commands they're using and just filter those. or maybe something like mozilla's adblock where it selectively disables java script for certain websites.
nist has a bunch of data. i remember a while ago downloading handwritten characters to make handwriting recognition software. they have data for just about everything, the chemistry data is probably some of the best to put in a relational database. check out: http://www.nist.gov/srd/index.htm
and then it's going to be a firebird and then a firefox, and then....
the best part of 'screen' is that it's detachable from the physical console (or virtual terminal). here are two good uses for screen:
1: i start a large calculation at work in screen, detach it from the terminal, then when i go home i re-attach it to the terminal on my home computer to check the status.
2: my friend only has a weak wireless connection at home, it's not stable enough for him to keep a terminal open for a while. so he runs screen, and starts his work there, if anything craps out on him, he can just re attach and go on as if nothing were different.
both cases are nice for us computational chemists who just write quick and dirty programs that do hard number crunching. most of our programs are tied to the terminal and if the terminal closes, we can easily lose days of computation. i know there are ways around it, but it's just easier to use screen and put all our effort into the chemistry part of the programming.
You can still to this day run Win16 apps under windows and still print and save, as if it were no big deal. Thats just not possible with Linux. Try downloading or running a binary from 1994 that was compiled for linux and see if it works, im sure libc and glibc and aout and elf will make things fun.
that's a fair statement, but you also need to think that the majority of programs for windows are not open source. chances are i would still have (or could get) the source for that 1994 linux binary and compile it on my newest bleeding edge linux box and it should compile (of course after i go through dependency hell to get all the extra libraries it needs). for the most part, i should (with some work) be able to get all the source i need to build and run the old linux binary. however, i'd bet that the old win16 app was closed source and the company probably doesn't even exist anymore. with stuff like that backwards compatability is much more important, because you have no other way to run the code.
adding more speakers really only increases the size of the "sweet spot" where everything sounds great. really all you need is 2.1 (i still think you need to have the extra low frequency speaker because you get better responce if the speakers are set up for a narrow range of frequencies) because you only have two ears and your brain uses volume and phase information to tell you where the sound came from. however, with a 2.1 system you only have one spot where this works perfectly. that's why 5.1 usually sounds better, the sound is projected from more than one place, so the probability of being in the sweet spot is larger, likewise with 7.1.
my bose lifestyle came with head mounted microphones that i wore while setting up the speakers. the system played sounds and adjusted volume and phase of the speakers so that where i was sitting was a sweet spot. with 5 speakers, there are 5 degrees of freedom and i can choose up to 5 spots. with 7 speakers, i imagine that you could have 7 spots. the cool thing is that you can really tell when you're in a sweet spot or not. my gf and i were watching T3 yesterday and i comented that the sound was actually better than the (crappy) theater that i originally saw it in. she wasn't impressed. so we switched listening positions (on the same couch) and the sound was definatley worse where she was sitting. that was because when i originally set up the speakers the couch was in a different place. i've since reconfigured the system, and is sounds great again.
somewhere along the line the signal has to be analog for you to hear it. they may make digital speaker connections or whatever, but at least at the very end there needs to be a little red and a little black wire that goes to the speaker magnet. you can always tap in there. or you can put a high quality microphone up near the speaker cone and re-encode from there. they really can't plug the analog hole (unless they want to prevent us from ever hearing the music)
A better hybrid could be produced that utilizes an electric motor for the propulsion, and a fixed rpm diesel to produce electricity, regeneration from coasting and braking, and an additional sterling engine to capture heat from the coolant and the exhaust manifold.
Thank you for saying this. I've been trying to convince people that this is the way to go. Diesel and Gas engines have 1 optimum RPM where they're the most efficient (and if you design the enigine for only 1 RPM, you can make it even more efficient). We should all have slow spinning diesels that run generators. Then we have 1 small motor at each wheel to power the car. This way you get rid of the heavy (and super inefficeint because of friction) transmission and differential. All you need to do is run some wires to the wheels. Regenerative braking is easy in this setup too. It also make traction control dirt simple. All you gotta have is a simple computer watch the wheel speeds and adjust how much voltage/current goes to each wheel and you never need to worry about wheel spin any more. This is the way the diesel-electric locomotives work. I've read that 1 diesel-electric locomotive towing 5 loaded cars gets 1 mile per gallon!. Granted they don't have the rolling resistance of cars because they use steel wheels on a steel track, but still 1 mile per gallon for that much weight is amazing. Just imagine what we could do with a 3000 pound car.
No, you don't see at all. Have you ever tried to bzip a raw 40GB NTFS partition with 1GB of data on it? You will get a file that's a good deal larger than 1GB. This is because bz2 doesn't understand NTFS well enough to know which are the empty blocks so it treats all of it as data.
I really don't want my image program to understand the filesystem. What happens if in a future version they decide not to support a certian filesystem, or if I switch operating systems and there's no unimager for my new operating system? Even if it is a bit of a waste of space, I'd rather just have the image program take a snapshot of the raw disk image, completyly agnostic to the filesystem. Then I can restore it however I want because there has been no interpretation of the data, it's just plan old raw data.
my bose does this. you pick 5 places in your room where you commonly listen and it will ping those places and figure out not only the proper timing for the speakers, but the proper relative volumes and the best levels to account for things like hardwood floors or curtains that have a large affect on the sound quality. it's really cool. you can really notice a difference if you're watching a movie in the sweet spot where the microphone was, or if you're just sitting on the floor.
yes, i agree. currently i don't have cable because i'm a poor grad student. but soon i'll be able to afford it. howver, i'm not going to get cable until there's a la carte programming, even if it is the same amount of money in the end. i don't want to buy a package deal where i get 5 religous channels, that means the crazy religous freaks are getting some money for me. where as if i could only pay for what i wanted to watch, then i'm only supporting the channels that i agree with. just like you, i don't want to support mtv, but i don't mind supporting the history channel or something.
good point, i was thinking blueshift, but if we can ever figure out how to go faster than c, then i like you idea too.
That's good, instead of speeding, now they can speed *and* run a red light
:)
or you could speed up and go fast enough that the light looks green to you in your frame of reference
i was thinking the same thing. my immediate thought when i read that article was that i'd love to have that for when i'm training. being able to monitor not only heart rate (you can get that with a simple $30 device) but blood oxygen levels would be ideal for training. you can do your intervals as hard as you need to cause you to go anaroebic, but not so hard that your hurt yourself. and then when you do your endurance workouts you can make sure that you're never going anaroebic. this is way cool. i want one.
1 in 5 has a virus. I'd much prefer email or a USB flash drive!
and we all know that viruses can't be tranferred by email or a USB drive. i do agree that floppies are out dated and error prone, but getting rid of floppies isn't going to stop kids bringing in viruses.
why not sell the extra power you're not using back to the grid?
nope, it was 2:14 EDT, August 29th, 1997. :)
...a good 40% of retailers use the INTERNET to connect to the bank...
it's even worse than that. i know a guy who works at a credit union. his job is to do end-of-day, end-of-month, etc processing. one of his jobs, is to ftp the transactions to/from visa everynight. it's not sftp or any other encrypted connection. just plan text ftp right over the internet. no one at the place will listen to him about how insecure that is! and just think, if visa is doing that for this credit union, i imagine that they're doing it for all the banks/retailers they deal with.
another often overlooked "feature" is good old ^Z (undo). back many years ago (i think before track changes even existed) i was a t.a. for a professor who wanted all assignments turned in with word. if you got two similar assignments all you needed to do was bang on ^Z for a while and you'd see where they changed the name from the origial author to the current one. kinda fun.
i know we're getting way off topic here, but i wanted to answer your bridgestone tire question:
i don't have the sources right now - i'm to lazy to google. but i do remember from the time of the incident they looked at the same model year explorers that were sold with goodyear tires, they didn't have any problems. also i remember some jeeps were sold with the same bridgestones and didn't have any blowout issues.
if i remember correcly the problem was due to a couple of factors. for the batches of tires used firestone/bridgestone had used a faulty "glue" to attach the tread to the tire, and in comibnation with ford specifying a lower pressure (to make a more comfortable ride) the tires overheated and caused the glue to fail.
but of course you're right, people don't know how to drive their SUVs right.
yes, but that's assuming that everyone who finds a simple exploit like this one actually reports it. i can imagine that there'd be a number of black hats that will find and use these kind of exploits and not tell anyone how they did it.
but i am happy that this leak happened. it just shows that the code should be out for peer review from day one. security-by-obscurity is second only to security-by-telling-people-what-not-to-do. (e.g.: "don't open that door, there's valuable stuff in that room")
Yep. You're world will come crashing down around you when you discover that coolgrl1973 is really some four-hundred-pound hairy man from Pittsburgh, who says "Yins."
:)
I believe that the proper spelling is "youns." At least that's how they spelled it in the paper when they would quote people. I'm so glad I moved away from there.