"There are two competing theories for giant planet formation: planets form from fragmentation of a contracting dense cloud, or planets start as small rock-ice cores and grow as they gravitationally acquire additional mass. The large core of this planet couldn't have formed by the first model."
You will have to excuse my ignorance here, but from my understanding, the accretion phase of the Nebular Theory explains that as things planets form as a collection of interstallar mass collecting and colliding in the post Proto-Star phase. And I was under the impression that the Nubeluar Theory, with the Giant Impact Theory thrown in to explain bizzare occurances that could not be explained (such as the off axis of Earth, Venus, and Uranus). Now only being an amature, thats my understanding of it. And how does this planet differ from any other planet they have found, excluding its density.
This kind of thing happens because we let it happen. Yet we still hand our money over to these companies so they can continually screw us over, outsource our jobs, and give us seriously inferior service and lose our personal information to foreign criminals, incompetent courier services, and bad security practices. We, as customers, have the right to hold these companies accountable for this kind of crap by how we choose the services we use. If you don't like Indian Outsourcing, then do not use the services of companies that use it. Take your money elsewhere. Convince someone else to do the same. Eventually, if you hit them in the wallet, it will affect their bottom line enough and they will reverse the trend. They did this very well in the 60's and it was called a boycott. We should also petition our representatives to create laws to outlaw handling of customer personal information by citizens of foreign companies, except in circumstances where International Commerce is taking place (IANAL, so the specifics would need to be addressed by those that are). While it will not eliminate this sort of crime, it would go a long way in isolating it to a region of the world where the victims at least understand the laws and can have some small chance of seeing justice served. Wishful thinking, I know, but at least it gives the illusion that something is being done.
Why would they do this? Windows ME made me feel like it was a Windows all for ME, and they took that away, and now this? Windows isn't making me feel very special anymore.
They opened one in San Antonio also. Great theater. The only one better than that is the Bijou. Same thing as the Drafthouse, except noone under the age of 21 is allowed:)
I use mine all the time. I have a Toshiba e805 Pocket PC and I couldn't live without it. But if it didn't sync with Outlook it would be completely useless to me. I do most of my schedule organization in Outlook and when I am not sitting at my desk it serves as a good task list, calendar, and contact list. Since it uses a transcriber for input I can jot notes in meetings or write drafts in PocketWord and go back to them afterwards on my PC and clean them up. Plus I can do my budget with Pocket Excel. The only drawback is the fact that it does not sync with Evolution, so my personal tasks are not on there, but I wouldn't want them sitting on my companies Exchange server when sync back in to work anyway. Since it has wireless and if MiniMozilla gets to a useable state, I can ditch pocketIE and this is perfect to be on the web in coffee shops. But truth be told, I would have prefered a Zaurus since the PocketPC SDK sucks....
You can't say that that one solution will fit all scenarios. The reason most projects fail is not because of "custom" software or off the shelf products, its due to piss poor planning and incompetent project managers. There are many factors to consider such as size, scope, budget, resources, and requirements just to name a few. If project managers took the time to capture the real requirements and state meaningful objectives and expectations, then using either route would become clear. For example (very general), if the project calls for tracking the amount of training people have taken in an organization, then using almost any off the shelf Learning Management System would work as opposed to building a custom database to do that. Size of the organization also comes into play. A small business is not going to be able to afford an enterprise level LMS vs. a large company like Boeing or Ford. If the project would call for a system modeled around the companies specific policies and procedures, then custom software might be a more ideal solution. There might be particular legal or compliance rules that constantly change and an off the shelf product may not keep up to date with these quick enough.
No, hes right, it is the FDA. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) are part of the FDA. They are the bastards who will pull the plug on public laser shows if they do things like scan the crowd (which is legal in Europe), have laser set-ups that do not have a safety kill switch, have scatter beams from using lasers with AOM crystals, etc..
More information about them is at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/
You may even find interesting info on the from the International Laser Display Association (ILDA). Im sure some of those guys can tell you about their experiences with them.
That's not a bad deal for a 532nM laser. You can't find air cooled Argon putting out anything near that for less than a thousand bucks (ignoring the crappy Ebay American lasers where the tubes are all over preasure). Make a nice beam show if you can find a good set of actuators or a set of scanners for some atmospheric affects if you had a fog machine.
I remember the first KYE, and I remember the most annoying thing was the last section was a huge dump of IRC logs from a bunch of script kiddies. While it wasn't a bad thing to get to know the enemy, I don't think it warrants the whole last 1/3 of the book being dedicated to it, maybe as an appendix. From the authors description it sounds more like this book is geared towards the wonders of the Honeynet.
"Civil disobedience is, by definition, illegal. That's the whole point of it"
To keep with the Orwellian overtone of the speaker, I believe that is "doublethink"
The World-Wide Web search engine that indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this index in less than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but note the difference in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"
Home http://www.google.com/.
(2001-12-28)
Look, thats not a verb either, but people still use it...
Ive used this program, and its decent. I have issues every now and then when ripping with it not recognizing the titles or it wont open the DVD, so Id have to either start playing the DVD to get it to work, or rip with an external program and use the programs conversion features. I own these DVD's and use this for when I travel to watch movies on my IPaq and in the hotel room that overcharges for movies, I think its fair use.
I had used it briefly in the past and never had any success. I left it active during employment periods with no hits. After the department where I was a network security analyst for was dissolved in 2002, I re-wrote my resume, and reposted on Monster, and within two weeks I had a few bites, best of which was by a contractor for a large financial institution, in which I was hired on full time as an IT manager for their training department. The moral of the story is it can be a useful tool if used correctly and if your resume is done correctly. Id recommend using a professional resume writer and basing your online postings off that.
Well, the problem with the Matrix 2 & 3 were stated in the Matrix itself. As the oracle said "You cannot see past the choices you don't understand". So obviously, they couldn't see past the decision of why they should make sequals, so they couldn't fortell just how bad they would suck.
Yeah, this is almost as bad as Indiana's attempt to legally set Pi to 3... (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html)
Just goes to show you the stupidest people are running the show.. (I would have said "Too many chiefs, not enough Indians", but who knows where I'd get that outlawed).
I do work there, and I know which department uses that email address. And I know the technician who was "hasnt worked there for a few months" (which isnt true, hes is still an active, full time employee for the department in question. To the author and the operators credit, with a company of over 20,000 employees worldwide, one phone rep at one location is not going to know every single employee that works there. Even at the USCC, which is where the operator probally works at, it has a population of over 4000. So Im wondering if the line "he hasn't worked here in a few months" was just a standard response or if the phone rep was just BS the author.). The email is questionable because its not going through the corporate LAN, buts if you read the response message carefully and its so pitifully outdated (by the 877 number provided, by about 2 years). The reason its not going through the LAN is because its requesting copies of the fraudulant emails, which may or may not contain malicious code. Can't tell you much more than that, but the CBOnline web site wasn't compromised (although now that the story hit/., Im sure its only a matter of time:) ).
No, Mr. Joseph wouldn't know if he is not part of IT or Security/Investigations, but he is correct, there has not been a breach since Adrian Lano hacked the proxy servers a few years ago (I dont have a link to a previous story on that). But the story is not fabricated, and the response e-mail the author recieved from the fraud report was legitimate (although the aol account is questionable, it is indeed legitmate, hatsu1 stands for Home Access Tech Suport Unit 1).
Actually, its a team of about 20 who use a standalone computer seperate from the rest of the network. After all, would you foward possible trojans to your corporate network? I can gurantee that the admins there dont know about it, at least not yet;)...
Should cases like this be handled in the same fashion as say a homicide? If someone shoots a person with someone else's gun, does the gun owner hold any of the blame? Something like that comes down to if the person gave the murderer the gun, if the negligently left the gun and had no knowledge of it, or if the gun was blatantly taken by force and used in the murder. Of course, your first instinct is that negligent sys-admins should be held liable for not patching their system, but can you say the same thing of the old woman whose son talked her into getting broadband so she can get pictures of her new grandson, and in her mind its the same thing as plugging in the cable from the TV? And if someone can prove within a reasonable doubt that their system may or may not have been compromised to prove their innocence, then so be it, you have to weigh which is better, to allow a thousand guilty men to go free or to punish the innocent...
Actually, they aren't sueing them, they "considered legal action". From the article, "We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it." And "While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken. "
Pretty ignorant that theyd even consider sueing one fo their highest rating shows, but that just goes to show the ignorance of business logic for you and how lame it is that people can try to sue for whatever stupid thing they think of...
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"There are two competing theories for giant planet formation: planets form from fragmentation of a contracting dense cloud, or planets start as small rock-ice cores and grow as they gravitationally acquire additional mass. The large core of this planet couldn't have formed by the first model."
You will have to excuse my ignorance here, but from my understanding, the accretion phase of the Nebular Theory explains that as things planets form as a collection of interstallar mass collecting and colliding in the post Proto-Star phase. And I was under the impression that the Nubeluar Theory, with the Giant Impact Theory thrown in to explain bizzare occurances that could not be explained (such as the off axis of Earth, Venus, and Uranus). Now only being an amature, thats my understanding of it. And how does this planet differ from any other planet they have found, excluding its density.
This kind of thing happens because we let it happen. Yet we still hand our money over to these companies so they can continually screw us over, outsource our jobs, and give us seriously inferior service and lose our personal information to foreign criminals, incompetent courier services, and bad security practices. We, as customers, have the right to hold these companies accountable for this kind of crap by how we choose the services we use. If you don't like Indian Outsourcing, then do not use the services of companies that use it. Take your money elsewhere. Convince someone else to do the same. Eventually, if you hit them in the wallet, it will affect their bottom line enough and they will reverse the trend. They did this very well in the 60's and it was called a boycott. We should also petition our representatives to create laws to outlaw handling of customer personal information by citizens of foreign companies, except in circumstances where International Commerce is taking place (IANAL, so the specifics would need to be addressed by those that are). While it will not eliminate this sort of crime, it would go a long way in isolating it to a region of the world where the victims at least understand the laws and can have some small chance of seeing justice served. Wishful thinking, I know, but at least it gives the illusion that something is being done.
"They've got some test hardware that I'm jealous of"
They have operations that can give you those now...
But seriously, why is it that the gender of the test technicians is brought up?
Why would they do this? Windows ME made me feel like it was a Windows all for ME, and they took that away, and now this? Windows isn't making me feel very special anymore.
They opened one in San Antonio also. Great theater. The only one better than that is the Bijou. Same thing as the Drafthouse, except noone under the age of 21 is allowed :)
Hey hey, a girlfriend by any other name is still a girlfriend... and what are you saying about my girlfriend...
I use mine all the time. I have a Toshiba e805 Pocket PC and I couldn't live without it. But if it didn't sync with Outlook it would be completely useless to me. I do most of my schedule organization in Outlook and when I am not sitting at my desk it serves as a good task list, calendar, and contact list. Since it uses a transcriber for input I can jot notes in meetings or write drafts in PocketWord and go back to them afterwards on my PC and clean them up. Plus I can do my budget with Pocket Excel. The only drawback is the fact that it does not sync with Evolution, so my personal tasks are not on there, but I wouldn't want them sitting on my companies Exchange server when sync back in to work anyway. Since it has wireless and if MiniMozilla gets to a useable state, I can ditch pocketIE and this is perfect to be on the web in coffee shops. But truth be told, I would have prefered a Zaurus since the PocketPC SDK sucks....
You can't say that that one solution will fit all scenarios. The reason most projects fail is not because of "custom" software or off the shelf products, its due to piss poor planning and incompetent project managers. There are many factors to consider such as size, scope, budget, resources, and requirements just to name a few. If project managers took the time to capture the real requirements and state meaningful objectives and expectations, then using either route would become clear. For example (very general), if the project calls for tracking the amount of training people have taken in an organization, then using almost any off the shelf Learning Management System would work as opposed to building a custom database to do that. Size of the organization also comes into play. A small business is not going to be able to afford an enterprise level LMS vs. a large company like Boeing or Ford. If the project would call for a system modeled around the companies specific policies and procedures, then custom software might be a more ideal solution. There might be particular legal or compliance rules that constantly change and an off the shelf product may not keep up to date with these quick enough.
No, hes right, it is the FDA. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) are part of the FDA. They are the bastards who will pull the plug on public laser shows if they do things like scan the crowd (which is legal in Europe), have laser set-ups that do not have a safety kill switch, have scatter beams from using lasers with AOM crystals, etc..
More information about them is at http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/
You may even find interesting info on the from the International Laser Display Association (ILDA). Im sure some of those guys can tell you about their experiences with them.
That's not a bad deal for a 532nM laser. You can't find air cooled Argon putting out anything near that for less than a thousand bucks (ignoring the crappy Ebay American lasers where the tubes are all over preasure). Make a nice beam show if you can find a good set of actuators or a set of scanners for some atmospheric affects if you had a fog machine.
I remember the first KYE, and I remember the most annoying thing was the last section was a huge dump of IRC logs from a bunch of script kiddies. While it wasn't a bad thing to get to know the enemy, I don't think it warrants the whole last 1/3 of the book being dedicated to it, maybe as an appendix. From the authors description it sounds more like this book is geared towards the wonders of the Honeynet.
"Civil disobedience is, by definition, illegal. That's the whole point of it" To keep with the Orwellian overtone of the speaker, I believe that is "doublethink"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=google
The World-Wide Web search engine that
indexes the greatest number of web pages - over two billion by
December 2001 and provides a free service that searches this
index in less than a second.
The site's name is apparently derived from "googol", but
note the difference in spelling.
The "Google" spelling is also used in "The Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, in which one of Deep
Thought's designers asks, "And are you not," said Fook,
leaning anxiously foward, "a greater analyst than the
Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and
Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single
dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand
blizzard?"
Home http://www.google.com/.
(2001-12-28)
Look, thats not a verb either, but people still use it...
Ive used this program, and its decent. I have issues every now and then when ripping with it not recognizing the titles or it wont open the DVD, so Id have to either start playing the DVD to get it to work, or rip with an external program and use the programs conversion features. I own these DVD's and use this for when I travel to watch movies on my IPaq and in the hotel room that overcharges for movies, I think its fair use.
I had used it briefly in the past and never had any success. I left it active during employment periods with no hits. After the department where I was a network security analyst for was dissolved in 2002, I re-wrote my resume, and reposted on Monster, and within two weeks I had a few bites, best of which was by a contractor for a large financial institution, in which I was hired on full time as an IT manager for their training department. The moral of the story is it can be a useful tool if used correctly and if your resume is done correctly. Id recommend using a professional resume writer and basing your online postings off that.
Well, the problem with the Matrix 2 & 3 were stated in the Matrix itself. As the oracle said "You cannot see past the choices you don't understand". So obviously, they couldn't see past the decision of why they should make sequals, so they couldn't fortell just how bad they would suck.
Yeah, this is almost as bad as Indiana's attempt to legally set Pi to 3... (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_341.html)
Just goes to show you the stupidest people are running the show.. (I would have said "Too many chiefs, not enough Indians", but who knows where I'd get that outlawed).
I do work there, and I know which department uses that email address. And I know the technician who was "hasnt worked there for a few months" (which isnt true, hes is still an active, full time employee for the department in question. To the author and the operators credit, with a company of over 20,000 employees worldwide, one phone rep at one location is not going to know every single employee that works there. Even at the USCC, which is where the operator probally works at, it has a population of over 4000. So Im wondering if the line "he hasn't worked here in a few months" was just a standard response or if the phone rep was just BS the author.). The email is questionable because its not going through the corporate LAN, buts if you read the response message carefully and its so pitifully outdated (by the 877 number provided, by about 2 years). The reason its not going through the LAN is because its requesting copies of the fraudulant emails, which may or may not contain malicious code. Can't tell you much more than that, but the CBOnline web site wasn't compromised (although now that the story hit /., Im sure its only a matter of time :) ).
No, Mr. Joseph wouldn't know if he is not part of IT or Security/Investigations, but he is correct, there has not been a breach since Adrian Lano hacked the proxy servers a few years ago (I dont have a link to a previous story on that). But the story is not fabricated, and the response e-mail the author recieved from the fraud report was legitimate (although the aol account is questionable, it is indeed legitmate, hatsu1 stands for Home Access Tech Suport Unit 1).
Actually, its a team of about 20 who use a standalone computer seperate from the rest of the network. After all, would you foward possible trojans to your corporate network? I can gurantee that the admins there dont know about it, at least not yet ;) ...
Should cases like this be handled in the same fashion as say a homicide? If someone shoots a person with someone else's gun, does the gun owner hold any of the blame? Something like that comes down to if the person gave the murderer the gun, if the negligently left the gun and had no knowledge of it, or if the gun was blatantly taken by force and used in the murder. Of course, your first instinct is that negligent sys-admins should be held liable for not patching their system, but can you say the same thing of the old woman whose son talked her into getting broadband so she can get pictures of her new grandson, and in her mind its the same thing as plugging in the cable from the TV? And if someone can prove within a reasonable doubt that their system may or may not have been compromised to prove their innocence, then so be it, you have to weigh which is better, to allow a thousand guilty men to go free or to punish the innocent...
Hehehe yeah, this movie sucked, but it made for one hell of a funny episode of MST3K...
Actually, they aren't sueing them, they "considered legal action". From the article,
"We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it."
And "While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken. "
Pretty ignorant that theyd even consider sueing one fo their highest rating shows, but that just goes to show the ignorance of business logic for you and how lame it is that people can try to sue for whatever stupid thing they think of...
No, and it apparently is also on Win2K as well, or at least installed as one of the SP/Critical Updates. I just checked it, looks interesting..
Ill second that.... luckily my co-workers didnt catch that one...