Includes Parrot AR Drone 2.0 with blank outdoor hull and decal sheet.
After reading about how hackers would be able to take over the Parrot AR drones that Amazon were talking about using... I can just imagine some PETA activist meeting up with a hacker who has a penchant for hunting or fishing.
Take it over, land it, strip off the hull and put your own on it. And then say that you were using the parrot to try and spot game:)
Or you could just scare up a bird in the direction of the drone and blow the thing away.
One way or another some arsehole is out $325 plus shipping.
MS isnt the "standard" at all... MS breaks the standards constantly and if you cannot manage to write browser independant code, then maybe you should get out of the business.
As a computer security masters candidate, I agree with the idea of teaching the "white hats" how to think like the "black hats" and to have the same sort of skill sets.
How else are we supposed to learn how to protect against crackers if we dont know what they actually do. How are we supposed to do pen testing if we cant crack systems ourselves.
I learnt how to crack in a secure lab with no connection to the rest of the internet once we had setup the computers. We got advised before we even started learning how to pingflood a computer that if we used any of the skills we learnt outside of the room while we were still studying, we would be handed over to the federal police in Australia.
I was on a flight back to Australia on Emirates a few years back and the tv console I was watching crashed...
It was linux:)
I think that Virgin are just moving to a similar system to what Emirates has been using for years.
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It might be immoral, but not illegal
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Is there a difference between a politician and a serial killer?
I doubt seriously that vista is really ready to be released as beta 3 let alone a RTM version.
I just got myself a new AMD 64 machine... good graphics card, lots of ram and a sata 2 hdd. The company where I work is a part of the Microsoft Action Pack subscription program and we got the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Vista beta 2 to have a look at. I thought that I would take home the 64 bit version and install it on my 64 bit machine... that was last night... it comes off the machine tonight and I install kubuntu AMD-64 instead to see how that compares.
Vista installs everything by default. You do not get asked if you want to do a custom install. You get all the crap that comes with it and it took approximately 2 hours to finish the install.
Then this morning when I fired it up properly for the first time to use it, it took about 20 minutes to go through the setup and get to the login prompt and then about 3 minutes for it to actually login.
I think that it is going to take my machine about 5 minutes to get to the login prompt on the next restart and that IMHO is not good enough for something that is about to get released to the manufacturers in about 2 months.
I dont blame the businesses who are turning around and saying that they arent going to be upgrading to vista for a long time, if at all.
The cost of the hardware upgrades alone will be prohibitive especially to those companies who in the last 12 months have upgraded their desktop hardware.
For the average user at home, they might as well just go out and buy a new computer just so they can run vista... or better yet, look for alternatives to that over-priced piece of garbage that Microsoft is calling an operating system.
Microsoft Vista... just dont do it...
We, the members of the IT department, reserves the right to beat senseless and sell to arab slavers any end-user that comes to us with stupid requests based on their assumption that they know more about computers and the network than we in IT do.
We also reserve the right to laugh in the faces of indignant users who want us to increase their disk quota on the file server or to recover their mp3's from the corporate backup for them.
We furthermore reserve the right to drop any members of management down the nearest elevator as soon as they try and use corporate buzzwords when they are really talking about staff and funding cut so they can increase their end of year bonuses
Here in Australia, it seems that we are rapidly moving from being the lucky country to being the paranoid country.
Anti-terrorism laws coupled with sedition laws and shoot to kill for the police. They have tried firewalling Australia a few years ago and it didnt work.
Sounds to me like the lovely liberal government of Australia is rapidly turning into a rapid anti human rights government where they are doing everything to protect their power.
I am going to be better of living in Europe somewhere...
Defeating an enemy's air defenses to deliver weapons on target is what the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit does best. The B-2 can fly more than 6,000 nautical miles before refueling (more than 10,000 nautical miles with just one refueling) while carrying 40,000 pounds of weapons. This tremendous capability gives the aircraft the ability to fly anywhere in the world and deliver a variety of weapons in less than 24 hours.
Structurally, the B-2's design can be traced back to Jack Northrop's flying wing designs of the 1940s. The aircraft's integrated computer systems comprise over 130 computers and nearly 2 million lines of software code. Operated by the U.S. Air Force, the B-2 is the world's preeminent strategic, long-range multi-role bomber. Its low observable characteristics make it the world's most survivable aircraft as well, able to penetrate hostile air space without being detected. The B-2 has repeatedly demonstrated this and its all-weather capability during Operation Allied Force and Operation Enduring Freedom with missions of up to 44 hours duration.
The B-2's low observability, or stealth, means it doesn't need an armada of support aircraft to accomplish a mission, and its large payload allows it to do the work of many smaller aircraft. For the first time in military aviation history, the U.S. Air Force has a war-fighting capability that combines long range, large payload, all-aspect stealth, and near-precision weapons in one aircraft. All 21 B-2s were assembled in Palmdale, California, and are stationed with the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
We had that sucker out here in Australia as well... small ugly and totally useless for large people. I dont think that we had the square steering wheel though.
Or I am just having nightmares from my days in the UK a couple of years back now...
The recent free trade agreement with USA being forced onto the Australian people. The opportunities for the lone coder are about to wander out the window because the big US IT companies can come walk into an Australia office and enforce their IP onto us.
At the start of one of my lectures a couple of years back now. I was doing a unit in Network Design and Management. This was after doing a unit on Network Installation and Management using Novell.
At the time, I thought it was an extension of the first unit. Boy was I wrong. It was exactly the same as NIM except using Windows NT. In one of the lectures, the lecturer pointed out the nice "port from Novell" feature of NT.
I was in that class to learn more about network design and management, not to have a network Os I quite liked slated by the lecturer.
It got to be quite funny at the end of the semester when the lecturer would make a comment and look towards myself and two of my friends, who all knew a bit about networking, to see if we were nodding agreement with him as to the correctness of his comments.
I found out later on when I started working for the university that the lecturer was being taught by a member of the support staff the day before his classes.
As most of the rest of my classes were non-product centric, I am almost certain that this particular lecturer was getting a small kickback to push the MS line...
I dont know about you guys, but as far as I am concerned... the UK Punk movement was when the disenchanted youth of the time got violent... Punk for the disenchanted youth had been around since one fateful night in August 1974 at a small club called CBGB in manhattens lower east side...
A gig seen by a huge total of 5 people (six if you include the bartenders dog)... and the rest is history.
The Ramones started the punk movement way back then and never really looked back from there. Everything else about the punk movement owes its life to those 4 young men from Queens.
I love the sex pistols and DK and Black Flag and all the rest, but The Ramones are the ones that are special...
The cable company technicians are always damned quick to turn around and say Ohhh... your TCP/IP settings are faulty and need to be re-installed.
They tried to say this with my friend (see this reply...) and I had only just installed Windows 2000 on his computer. So I knew that there was nothing wrong with the computer. Turned out it was their dodgy network card.
The 2 technician who came out, tried the old "re-install your network drivers" with me and I told them to look for a hardware fault.
I was right in the end... and they sure looked stupid...
A friend of mine had Telewest Blueyonder come out and setup a cable modem for him and install a NIC at the same time...
The original technician just pulled out all the cables to install the card, didnt screw the card down and then plugged the USB stuff back into the wrong sockets and it screwed up my friends printer (USB support is crap in 98SE). However the NIC was faulty and my friend couldnt get more than 1.5k/sec download and so in the end, I took his machine back to my place, installed an identical card into it to test and blam... full speed connections.
He ended up getting the technician out there again to get it fixed... But they were trying to put the problem back onto him so they didnt have to do any more work on it.
He was most pissed off about all that entire episode. Still he owns a pub and I get free beer when he is around for the work that I have done on his computer. so it isnt all that bad...
I wonder how much those guys charged for the labour involved... While I am writing this, I am watching a program about automated highway projects... I hope to hell the legomen didnt help put those car's together... would be a hell of a problem if the car crashed due to a construction error
The record industry is a major pain the ass and is ripping off the consumer and ripping off the artists. Talk about killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg.
I download a song or two off the net now and then. Mainly because I dont want to go out and pay £15.00 for a CD that might only have one song on there I like and the rest of the songs are crap.
I would be quite willing to go to an artists website and pay £1.00 or £1.50 a song to download the songs I like (because of the reason I gave before) especially if the artists are getting 100% of the money.
Most of the Artists have recording equipment in their homes and usually record a demo there before taking it into the recording industry studios to record the albums.
Per head of population, more Australians served their country in the war effort than the US did...
You are right about the fact that each individual counts far more than as a statistic or percentage. Everyone who gave up their lives to defend the world against the tyrants of Germany and Japan are heros, they went the extra yard and gave their lives for freedom... But for a country which had fewer people than all the soldiers who were serving in the US military, those 30000 lives lost were a lot.
As for doing the right thing, how many foreign governments has the US toppled with their black op slush funds and replaced them with leaders that were supposed to be supportive of the US. Only to have them then turn around, take the money and shaft the states... How many times have you been caught out at it...
I wasnt comparing the Bush administration to Hitler... I was just saying watch out that there isnt a supposed terrorist attack that points straight towards Suddam and Iraq which then justifies an all out US attack on that country.
Why dont I take Spain to task... Ummm if I remember rightly, wasn't Spain a neutral country... just like Switzerland?
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Includes Parrot AR Drone 2.0 with blank outdoor hull and decal sheet.
After reading about how hackers would be able to take over the Parrot AR drones that Amazon were talking about using... I can just imagine some PETA activist meeting up with a hacker who has a penchant for hunting or fishing.
Take it over, land it, strip off the hull and put your own on it. And then say that you were using the parrot to try and spot game
Or you could just scare up a bird in the direction of the drone and blow the thing away.
One way or another some arsehole is out $325 plus shipping.
MS isnt the "standard" at all... MS breaks the standards constantly and if you cannot manage to write browser independant code, then maybe you should get out of the business.
As a computer security masters candidate, I agree with the idea of teaching the "white hats" how to think like the "black hats" and to have the same sort of skill sets.
How else are we supposed to learn how to protect against crackers if we dont know what they actually do. How are we supposed to do pen testing if we cant crack systems ourselves.
I learnt how to crack in a secure lab with no connection to the rest of the internet once we had setup the computers. We got advised before we even started learning how to pingflood a computer that if we used any of the skills we learnt outside of the room while we were still studying, we would be handed over to the federal police in Australia.
I was on a flight back to Australia on Emirates a few years back and the tv console I was watching crashed... It was linux :)
I think that Virgin are just moving to a similar system to what Emirates has been using for years.
Your point is well made...
It might be immoral, but not illegal
Is there a difference between a politician and a serial killer?
I doubt seriously that vista is really ready to be released as beta 3 let alone a RTM version. I just got myself a new AMD 64 machine... good graphics card, lots of ram and a sata 2 hdd. The company where I work is a part of the Microsoft Action Pack subscription program and we got the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Vista beta 2 to have a look at. I thought that I would take home the 64 bit version and install it on my 64 bit machine... that was last night... it comes off the machine tonight and I install kubuntu AMD-64 instead to see how that compares. Vista installs everything by default. You do not get asked if you want to do a custom install. You get all the crap that comes with it and it took approximately 2 hours to finish the install. Then this morning when I fired it up properly for the first time to use it, it took about 20 minutes to go through the setup and get to the login prompt and then about 3 minutes for it to actually login. I think that it is going to take my machine about 5 minutes to get to the login prompt on the next restart and that IMHO is not good enough for something that is about to get released to the manufacturers in about 2 months. I dont blame the businesses who are turning around and saying that they arent going to be upgrading to vista for a long time, if at all. The cost of the hardware upgrades alone will be prohibitive especially to those companies who in the last 12 months have upgraded their desktop hardware. For the average user at home, they might as well just go out and buy a new computer just so they can run vista... or better yet, look for alternatives to that over-priced piece of garbage that Microsoft is calling an operating system. Microsoft Vista... just dont do it...
We, the members of the IT department, reserves the right to beat senseless and sell to arab slavers any end-user that comes to us with stupid requests based on their assumption that they know more about computers and the network than we in IT do.
We also reserve the right to laugh in the faces of indignant users who want us to increase their disk quota on the file server or to recover their mp3's from the corporate backup for them.
We furthermore reserve the right to drop any members of management down the nearest elevator as soon as they try and use corporate buzzwords when they are really talking about staff and funding cut so they can increase their end of year bonuses
Here in Australia, it seems that we are rapidly moving from being the lucky country to being the paranoid country. Anti-terrorism laws coupled with sedition laws and shoot to kill for the police. They have tried firewalling Australia a few years ago and it didnt work. Sounds to me like the lovely liberal government of Australia is rapidly turning into a rapid anti human rights government where they are doing everything to protect their power. I am going to be better of living in Europe somewhere...
who wants to take a bet they they will be releasing all the flops on their online service first at about $20.00US a pop...
:)
and you can only watch the downloaded file twice before it deletes itself and you have to fork out more money to download another copy.
I think that I would prefer to go to the movies with a camcorder and see a movie I really like
Defeating an enemy's air defenses to deliver weapons on target is what the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit does best. The B-2 can fly more than 6,000 nautical miles before refueling (more than 10,000 nautical miles with just one refueling) while carrying 40,000 pounds of weapons. This tremendous capability gives the aircraft the ability to fly anywhere in the world and deliver a variety of weapons in less than 24 hours.
Structurally, the B-2's design can be traced back to Jack Northrop's flying wing designs of the 1940s. The aircraft's integrated computer systems comprise over 130 computers and nearly 2 million lines of software code. Operated by the U.S. Air Force, the B-2 is the world's preeminent strategic, long-range multi-role bomber. Its low observable characteristics make it the world's most survivable aircraft as well, able to penetrate hostile air space without being detected. The B-2 has repeatedly demonstrated this and its all-weather capability during Operation Allied Force and Operation Enduring Freedom with missions of up to 44 hours duration.
The B-2's low observability, or stealth, means it doesn't need an armada of support aircraft to accomplish a mission, and its large payload allows it to do the work of many smaller aircraft. For the first time in military aviation history, the U.S. Air Force has a war-fighting capability that combines long range, large payload, all-aspect stealth, and near-precision weapons in one aircraft. All 21 B-2s were assembled in Palmdale, California, and are stationed with the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.
The B2 Spirit webpage here http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/products/usaf_pr oducts/b2/b2.html
I think that it is definitely being used to describe what it does, not what it is... if I was Northrop Grumman, I would be wanting my $10.00 back.
We had that sucker out here in Australia as well... small ugly and totally useless for large people. I dont think that we had the square steering wheel though. Or I am just having nightmares from my days in the UK a couple of years back now...
and to Userfriendly *8^)
I dont think that it did...
:(
I tried to access it and I couldnt
So much for free trade in Australia...
At the start of one of my lectures a couple of years back now. I was doing a unit in Network Design and Management. This was after doing a unit on Network Installation and Management using Novell.
At the time, I thought it was an extension of the first unit. Boy was I wrong. It was exactly the same as NIM except using Windows NT. In one of the lectures, the lecturer pointed out the nice "port from Novell" feature of NT.
I was in that class to learn more about network design and management, not to have a network Os I quite liked slated by the lecturer.
It got to be quite funny at the end of the semester when the lecturer would make a comment and look towards myself and two of my friends, who all knew a bit about networking, to see if we were nodding agreement with him as to the correctness of his comments.
I found out later on when I started working for the university that the lecturer was being taught by a member of the support staff the day before his classes.
As most of the rest of my classes were non-product centric, I am almost certain that this particular lecturer was getting a small kickback to push the MS line...
Even Bill Gates acknowledges this fact somewhere because it is what made Windows the monopoly that it is now.
Microsoft has since used this monopoly to kill off everything that has come up against their own software in the market place.
Imagine the U.N. presenting a case to the world court on the behalf of the world for MS abusing the monopoly.
but then again, I could be completely down the drain on this one...
The Ramones started the punk movement way back then and never really looked back from there. Everything else about the punk movement owes its life to those 4 young men from Queens.
I love the sex pistols and DK and Black Flag and all the rest, but The Ramones are the ones that are special...
Peace to Joey and Dee Dee
They tried to say this with my friend (see this reply...) and I had only just installed Windows 2000 on his computer. So I knew that there was nothing wrong with the computer. Turned out it was their dodgy network card.
The 2 technician who came out, tried the old "re-install your network drivers" with me and I told them to look for a hardware fault.
I was right in the end... and they sure looked stupid...
The original technician just pulled out all the cables to install the card, didnt screw the card down and then plugged the USB stuff back into the wrong sockets and it screwed up my friends printer (USB support is crap in 98SE). However the NIC was faulty and my friend couldnt get more than 1.5k/sec download and so in the end, I took his machine back to my place, installed an identical card into it to test and blam... full speed connections.
He ended up getting the technician out there again to get it fixed... But they were trying to put the problem back onto him so they didnt have to do any more work on it.
He was most pissed off about all that entire episode. Still he owns a pub and I get free beer when he is around for the work that I have done on his computer. so it isnt all that bad...
The record industry is a major pain the ass and is ripping off the consumer and ripping off the artists. Talk about killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg.
I download a song or two off the net now and then. Mainly because I dont want to go out and pay £15.00 for a CD that might only have one song on there I like and the rest of the songs are crap.
I would be quite willing to go to an artists website and pay £1.00 or £1.50 a song to download the songs I like (because of the reason I gave before) especially if the artists are getting 100% of the money.
Most of the Artists have recording equipment in their homes and usually record a demo there before taking it into the recording industry studios to record the albums.
As long as there is a bush in charge of the state of Florida... Can we say Gerry Mander... and that goes for the rest of America too...
Per head of population, more Australians served their country in the war effort than the US did...
You are right about the fact that each individual counts far more than as a statistic or percentage. Everyone who gave up their lives to defend the world against the tyrants of Germany and Japan are heros, they went the extra yard and gave their lives for freedom... But for a country which had fewer people than all the soldiers who were serving in the US military, those 30000 lives lost were a lot.
As for doing the right thing, how many foreign governments has the US toppled with their black op slush funds and replaced them with leaders that were supposed to be supportive of the US. Only to have them then turn around, take the money and shaft the states... How many times have you been caught out at it...
I wasnt comparing the Bush administration to Hitler... I was just saying watch out that there isnt a supposed terrorist attack that points straight towards Suddam and Iraq which then justifies an all out US attack on that country.
Why dont I take Spain to task... Ummm if I remember rightly, wasn't Spain a neutral country... just like Switzerland?
Neways... have a nice day mate...