I was there.... just got back home. Most said the course was as challenging but less difficult to pass. On this course, the first stretch was a run over a dried lake bed to Jean, NV from Primm. Basically, if your vehicle was road worthy you should pass back to the start/finish point for a quick photo op. That was around the first 8 miles of the course. I saw one bot (think it was terramax) get locked up trying to go up the railroad overpass (B), but most bots handled that well. Most everything else was fairly out of view, so it's hard to say.
The hard part was the Beer Bottle Pass (K). A few teams were complaining that their heavily ruggedized vehicles were not being fairly treated because the course was made so easily passable. More agile vehicles had an advantage in that they could get up to speed faster. There were no large boulders, trees, etc in the way of the bots, as they were supposed to stay primarily on the predefined trails. The GPS tracking had around 1000 waypoints according to several different members of a few of the teams.
The Stanford bot "won" in a sense as they were the first across the line. The red bull ice containers were poured on their coach and the media was interviewing their team. The CMU/Red Team groups appeared pretty sad after the initial results came in, but the Red Team Too bot may have beaten Stanford.. we'll see. The way they are scoring this is painful because they constantly paused the bots in movement to allow for sufficient space between. The exception may have been when stanford's bot passed CMU's 'highlander' bot.
I'm going to go out to Primm from Southern California.. if anyone is interested in going and/or carpooling, let me know!
They are going to have grandstands, video monitors at various locations to show passing vehicles and when a vehicle finishes or is DQ'ed it will come back to the grandstands where you can check it out.
Give them as much storage capacity as they could reasonably need to accomplish the goal of their work with the secure computer. AUDIT EVERYTHING. Ensure non-repudiation by using secure access tokens and physical access controls (secure-id, and a swipe-card locked door).
CYA is exactly why you'd want a vendor to do the build. They have E&O insurance to cover their asses if they screwed something up -- you just lose your job. Also much less work & worry for you if someone does tamper with the equipment as they will have already designed a methodology to review the break-in/tampering to determine the amount of data lost. If the company doesn't have that, don't use them.
For those modders out there..
Anyone ever test setting up an external switch box to allow for semi-manual switching between the original XBOX HD and the new XBOX HD? I dont' recall ever having to deactivate the original, so if i disabled the mod chip and had the original hard drive in, and never had my EEPROM banned... I should be golden, right?
Could just run a slightly longer (16" or so) IDE cable out of the xbox, then have an external switch to disable the built-in hard drive. Fire up the good HD and play live, then turn it all off, disconnect the ext. hard drive, switch on the int. hard drive, and play modded games/etc.
Possible?
security protocol used between client and server provides sufficient security
If two guys are playing and the game randomly changes, a review of the play list can confirm someone cheated. Therefore, they do have sufficient security. There is a big distinction between having sufficient security and being ultra-secure. You don't secure a pool with armed guards to prevent kids from falling in, you simply build a taller fence.
Right on. I took it in 99 (C++ version). I was the only student in my class of 25 who could handle the hard "quilt" problem that we had. I got a 5. It didn't transfer anywhere anyway, other than to cover a menial java programming class.
As far as I know, 99 was the first year for C++, and I think they handed out a low number of 5 scores, primarily due to misunderstanding of the use of for() loops (i = 0, i = 3, i++) or i 3?
I agree there should be a requirement of a search warrant before obtaining the data. It seems it would be relatively easy to obtain a warrant in the case of someone hitting someone at ~ 100mph (and/or 3x the legal speed limit), thus, it would prevent the possible practice of using them for all types of driving infractions. I'm surprised the guy didn't get manslaughter, or at least a longer sentence. He gets to walk out of jail, and got to have fun in his car, the other guy didn't fair so well.
"... the judge listed a dozen cases from between August 1999 and November 2002 in which drivers convicted of the same offence were spared imprisonment."
Moral of the story: Dont' walk in canada, at least if you dont' want to worry about cars doing 3x the legal limit, hitting you, and getting a slap on the wrist for your death.
I'd be more worried in the UK. In the US, we do not typically have cameras mounted on the freeways capable of tracking license plate numbers (to my knowledge). In the UK, I keep hearing about people receiving speeding citations after speeding ~~ 100+ mph down the freeways. We have them all over the place here to give red light tickets, but that is about it, and to my knowledge, those are (hopefully) not tracking individual motorists.
That being said, the possibility of either is quite concerning...
It really is brilliant to get into the SSD market right now, as you mention. The government isn't buying terabytes of ram, they're buying terabytes of expensive SSD disk arrays. It is sort of similar to selling retina scanners and fingerprint detectors. In this market, the only way you can loose in any of those markets is to have the most expensive product, as fortunately, the government still uses RFPs to obtain the cheapest prices, thus, the cheapest product (even if lower in quality) may win.
The issue with allowing this is that terrorist organizations, who are generally well funded, may be able to check associates against the list and verify they are not listed. They can also get creative and monitor the list to find the leaks of information, such as when a new person in their organization is introduced to one of their existing associates (the leak), and then the new member suddenly shows up on the list. People don't have to be terrorists when they join organizations either (initial screening), they can choose to go that way after they have joined.
Besides, this list has been around for ages, and has been circulated among financial institutions for years. It's not really anything new, it's just more public now.
I have not been a fan of new TLDs for some time, as it seems to promote confusion. I consider it to be more inefficient to have companyname.info, companyname.com, companyname.net, companyname.org, companyname.mail, etc.... than to just have a simple single domain name (or the three majors, org net and com), with subdomains to break out the company functions (support, sales, mail, www, ftp). It seems much more confusing to me to have companyname.mail than mail.companyname.com, and besides that, why would we possibly want to justify the cost to register our domain under several TLDs, when.com has always been enough?
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That is, I was including the Home media option, which is $100 more. It allows you to play MP3s, remote schedule recordings (record stuff from the office, if you find a show you want to see mid-day), and other cool stuff.
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The net did die, at least as it existed in 1985. The internet used to be a web of text-based web pages, finger sites, ftp, and pretty much the only web browser was something you would install on a UNIX shell, then use SLIP to access.
Back then, usenet actually had interesting discussions and relatively little spam, e-mail viruses were a joke, and being DDOSed by a 14.4kbps modem wasn't much of a real issue. Oh yeah, and there were no pop-under ads.
It is different now. Not necessarily worse or better, but very different from the net of 1985.
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Tivo is painfully expensive for the actual service. They offer it for $400 for the "lifetime" of the device. If the thing dies 1 day after the warranty, you paid $33 a month for an overhyped VCR, plus the $220 to get it. I own one, and enjoy it finding me shows.. but really, what in the hell are you going to do with 40 hours of MacGyver?
That is exactly why we started logging the calls. If someone is problematic enough, we need to be able to build a case in which to terminate them (if it reaches that point), but we keep an eye on trends to try to make sure that our employees spend at least a portion of their time working. We have web monitoring on too, but, we don't really keep an eye on how much time people are reading sites because those numbers are seemingly always misleading.
We got cell phones at my office because we use them to monitor servers, respond to employee calls, and actually remotely manage the servers in the event of power outage or other failure. Our IT department only has a few employees, so we are often stretched thin, thus, they have provided us the tools we needed to save another head being in here for additional hours.
Build a case, show you can cut costs by having cell phones to monitor systems remotly rather than always having someone there. If a server crashes, make sure to explain that it could have been fixed faster if you'd have had the capability to monitor it. This builds value in executive's heads. Money drives decisions. You lost your cell phone in lieu of expected increased productivity. Show your cell phone increases productivity (and thus cost savings), and you're going to get it back.
It seems cell phones cause people to become sort of useless on the job, as they will tend to do anything but pay attention when they have easy access to unlogged phones. Our system in Arlington actually watches all calls, so our employee personal calls are logged.
That being said, the company just initated a policy to give everyone in IT blackberries (the nice color ones) and phones. Show them a business benefit (read: $$$ increase), and you'll get your cell phone back.
I'm truly curious whether they picked up on the fact that creating obsticles for bacteria only causes them to find a way around. For example, the recent strain of drug-resistant TB. Feh, let the bacteria survive! It'll make you more bacteria resistant.
When using gas, you're getting 13.2/11.9mpg. Thus, don't plan on a lot of quick accelleration (as when you're at WOT) or you will be eating gas at nearly the same rate as a hummer.
You're actually right on. The ATF (enforcement board for alcoholic beverages in the US) conducts raids typically with people between 15-19 who are presenting no identification or real identification. It would be bad faith if the ATF were to provide their agents with false identification for the purpose of obtaining the liquor. It's generally pretty obvious that a 15 year old white 110 pound girl is not a 38 year old 225lb black man.. but law enforcement is generally not allowed to break laws to enforce others.
Something similar to this has already happened. XingDVD's encryption key was not encrypted, so a simple cursory search of the assembly code provided us with the CSS decryption key. I have been trying to research whether Xing was sued or not for damages -- but have not yet come up with an answer. Anyone know?
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Conveniently digg.com listed it a day ago, as did fark...
Good job slashdot...
I was there.... just got back home. Most said the course was as challenging but less difficult to pass. On this course, the first stretch was a run over a dried lake bed to Jean, NV from Primm. Basically, if your vehicle was road worthy you should pass back to the start/finish point for a quick photo op. That was around the first 8 miles of the course. I saw one bot (think it was terramax) get locked up trying to go up the railroad overpass (B), but most bots handled that well. Most everything else was fairly out of view, so it's hard to say. The hard part was the Beer Bottle Pass (K). A few teams were complaining that their heavily ruggedized vehicles were not being fairly treated because the course was made so easily passable. More agile vehicles had an advantage in that they could get up to speed faster. There were no large boulders, trees, etc in the way of the bots, as they were supposed to stay primarily on the predefined trails. The GPS tracking had around 1000 waypoints according to several different members of a few of the teams. The Stanford bot "won" in a sense as they were the first across the line. The red bull ice containers were poured on their coach and the media was interviewing their team. The CMU/Red Team groups appeared pretty sad after the initial results came in, but the Red Team Too bot may have beaten Stanford.. we'll see. The way they are scoring this is painful because they constantly paused the bots in movement to allow for sufficient space between. The exception may have been when stanford's bot passed CMU's 'highlander' bot.
I'm going to go out to Primm from Southern California.. if anyone is interested in going and/or carpooling, let me know!
They are going to have grandstands, video monitors at various locations to show passing vehicles and when a vehicle finishes or is DQ'ed it will come back to the grandstands where you can check it out.
Give them as much storage capacity as they could reasonably need to accomplish the goal of their work with the secure computer. AUDIT EVERYTHING. Ensure non-repudiation by using secure access tokens and physical access controls (secure-id, and a swipe-card locked door).
CYA is exactly why you'd want a vendor to do the build. They have E&O insurance to cover their asses if they screwed something up -- you just lose your job. Also much less work & worry for you if someone does tamper with the equipment as they will have already designed a methodology to review the break-in/tampering to determine the amount of data lost. If the company doesn't have that, don't use them.
For those modders out there.. Anyone ever test setting up an external switch box to allow for semi-manual switching between the original XBOX HD and the new XBOX HD? I dont' recall ever having to deactivate the original, so if i disabled the mod chip and had the original hard drive in, and never had my EEPROM banned... I should be golden, right? Could just run a slightly longer (16" or so) IDE cable out of the xbox, then have an external switch to disable the built-in hard drive. Fire up the good HD and play live, then turn it all off, disconnect the ext. hard drive, switch on the int. hard drive, and play modded games/etc. Possible?
security protocol used between client and server provides sufficient security
If two guys are playing and the game randomly changes, a review of the play list can confirm someone cheated. Therefore, they do have sufficient security. There is a big distinction between having sufficient security and being ultra-secure. You don't secure a pool with armed guards to prevent kids from falling in, you simply build a taller fence.
Right on. I took it in 99 (C++ version). I was the only student in my class of 25 who could handle the hard "quilt" problem that we had. I got a 5. It didn't transfer anywhere anyway, other than to cover a menial java programming class. As far as I know, 99 was the first year for C++, and I think they handed out a low number of 5 scores, primarily due to misunderstanding of the use of for() loops (i = 0, i = 3, i++) or i 3?
I agree there should be a requirement of a search warrant before obtaining the data. It seems it would be relatively easy to obtain a warrant in the case of someone hitting someone at ~ 100mph (and/or 3x the legal speed limit), thus, it would prevent the possible practice of using them for all types of driving infractions. I'm surprised the guy didn't get manslaughter, or at least a longer sentence. He gets to walk out of jail, and got to have fun in his car, the other guy didn't fair so well. "... the judge listed a dozen cases from between August 1999 and November 2002 in which drivers convicted of the same offence were spared imprisonment." Moral of the story: Dont' walk in canada, at least if you dont' want to worry about cars doing 3x the legal limit, hitting you, and getting a slap on the wrist for your death.
Naked News. Now showing on your local P2P network. :)
I'd be more worried in the UK. In the US, we do not typically have cameras mounted on the freeways capable of tracking license plate numbers (to my knowledge). In the UK, I keep hearing about people receiving speeding citations after speeding ~~ 100+ mph down the freeways. We have them all over the place here to give red light tickets, but that is about it, and to my knowledge, those are (hopefully) not tracking individual motorists.
That being said, the possibility of either is quite concerning...
It really is brilliant to get into the SSD market right now, as you mention. The government isn't buying terabytes of ram, they're buying terabytes of expensive SSD disk arrays. It is sort of similar to selling retina scanners and fingerprint detectors. In this market, the only way you can loose in any of those markets is to have the most expensive product, as fortunately, the government still uses RFPs to obtain the cheapest prices, thus, the cheapest product (even if lower in quality) may win.
The issue with allowing this is that terrorist organizations, who are generally well funded, may be able to check associates against the list and verify they are not listed. They can also get creative and monitor the list to find the leaks of information, such as when a new person in their organization is introduced to one of their existing associates (the leak), and then the new member suddenly shows up on the list. People don't have to be terrorists when they join organizations either (initial screening), they can choose to go that way after they have joined.
Besides, this list has been around for ages, and has been circulated among financial institutions for years. It's not really anything new, it's just more public now.
I have not been a fan of new TLDs for some time, as it seems to promote confusion. I consider it to be more inefficient to have companyname.info, companyname.com, companyname.net, companyname.org, companyname.mail, etc.... than to just have a simple single domain name (or the three majors, org net and com), with subdomains to break out the company functions (support, sales, mail, www, ftp). It seems much more confusing to me to have companyname.mail than mail.companyname.com, and besides that, why would we possibly want to justify the cost to register our domain under several TLDs, when .com has always been enough?
That is, I was including the Home media option, which is $100 more. It allows you to play MP3s, remote schedule recordings (record stuff from the office, if you find a show you want to see mid-day), and other cool stuff.
I was including the ... which is another $100. It allows you to play MP3 music, videos, and a few other things.
The net did die, at least as it existed in 1985. The internet used to be a web of text-based web pages, finger sites, ftp, and pretty much the only web browser was something you would install on a UNIX shell, then use SLIP to access.
Back then, usenet actually had interesting discussions and relatively little spam, e-mail viruses were a joke, and being DDOSed by a 14.4kbps modem wasn't much of a real issue. Oh yeah, and there were no pop-under ads.
It is different now. Not necessarily worse or better, but very different from the net of 1985.
Tivo is painfully expensive for the actual service. They offer it for $400 for the "lifetime" of the device. If the thing dies 1 day after the warranty, you paid $33 a month for an overhyped VCR, plus the $220 to get it. I own one, and enjoy it finding me shows.. but really, what in the hell are you going to do with 40 hours of MacGyver?
That is exactly why we started logging the calls. If someone is problematic enough, we need to be able to build a case in which to terminate them (if it reaches that point), but we keep an eye on trends to try to make sure that our employees spend at least a portion of their time working. We have web monitoring on too, but, we don't really keep an eye on how much time people are reading sites because those numbers are seemingly always misleading.
We got cell phones at my office because we use them to monitor servers, respond to employee calls, and actually remotely manage the servers in the event of power outage or other failure. Our IT department only has a few employees, so we are often stretched thin, thus, they have provided us the tools we needed to save another head being in here for additional hours.
Build a case, show you can cut costs by having cell phones to monitor systems remotly rather than always having someone there. If a server crashes, make sure to explain that it could have been fixed faster if you'd have had the capability to monitor it. This builds value in executive's heads. Money drives decisions. You lost your cell phone in lieu of expected increased productivity. Show your cell phone increases productivity (and thus cost savings), and you're going to get it back.
It seems cell phones cause people to become sort of useless on the job, as they will tend to do anything but pay attention when they have easy access to unlogged phones. Our system in Arlington actually watches all calls, so our employee personal calls are logged.
That being said, the company just initated a policy to give everyone in IT blackberries (the nice color ones) and phones. Show them a business benefit (read: $$$ increase), and you'll get your cell phone back.
I'm truly curious whether they picked up on the fact that creating obsticles for bacteria only causes them to find a way around. For example, the recent strain of drug-resistant TB. Feh, let the bacteria survive! It'll make you more bacteria resistant.
...Too bad liquor is going to cost you $50/litre! .. In other news, AA claims victory, while college students world wide go out in protest.
The honda civic hybrid looks basically the same as the normal civic, and starts at about $20k.
MPG:
CVT.... 48/47mpg
Manual. 46/51mpg
Gas.... 13/12mpg
When using gas, you're getting 13.2/11.9mpg. Thus, don't plan on a lot of quick accelleration (as when you're at WOT) or you will be eating gas at nearly the same rate as a hummer.
You're actually right on. The ATF (enforcement board for alcoholic beverages in the US) conducts raids typically with people between 15-19 who are presenting no identification or real identification. It would be bad faith if the ATF were to provide their agents with false identification for the purpose of obtaining the liquor. It's generally pretty obvious that a 15 year old white 110 pound girl is not a 38 year old 225lb black man.. but law enforcement is generally not allowed to break laws to enforce others.
Something similar to this has already happened. XingDVD's encryption key was not encrypted, so a simple cursory search of the assembly code provided us with the CSS decryption key. I have been trying to research whether Xing was sued or not for damages -- but have not yet come up with an answer. Anyone know?