Granted it's a trojan, but it's a Trojan that is being passed virally... ie: once downloaded by the first ignoramus, it attempts to re-distribute itself via Address Book (the equivalent of Outlooks contact list) and iChat (IM messenger app with hooks into AOL,.Mac and Netscape) whereby it becomes a virally transmitted trojan so that other victims can proceed to clicky-click it, thinking it is from a trusted source and thereby starting the process over... with their Address Book of targets...
Pretty nasty IMHO... I've turned on 'view all extension' and recommend all Mac users do the same until a patch is released (which I think should be as simple as a 'binary flag' or something similar that identifies an executable regardless of it's name, icon, extension or whatever... AND to buy or reimplement "Little Snitch" which is an awesome tool for letting you know when something is trying to access an outgoing port and gives you the option of allowing or denying it.... it may not stop you from getting a virus/worm but it will help you become aware of it and give you the option of containing it.
The article didn't really go into the use for engines too much... went on and on about seats, bench seats light seats, etc. for dampening G-forces during operational impact, etc.
But in regard to engine noise being transferred to the vehicle... I can see maglev being used on just the mounts themselves with a reinforced harness of some sort that improves the distribution of torque and up/down external vibration. So a series of mounts placed in a spherical grid or maybe a semi-sphere (think cutting off the top and bottom to leave a spherical cylinder) with maglev mounting slots poisitioned at angles to the engine itself " \ top/" and "/ bottom \" so that gravity and internal torque are being deflected away instead of having the mounts take the full force in the perpendicular.... sorry it's difficult to describe without a diagram...
My favorite part of the DVD release is the documentary of the making of the movie.... so impressive. It's simply amazing how long they spent making this classic and how much attention to detail they had... one of my all-time favorite works of art, yes art cause The Dark Crystal is much more than a movie, especially compared to todays drivel.
Well, oil is still a mainstay, but Dubai is also the international banking hub for the entire region.... meaning all of the Middle East and North Africa. They are also a huge port for trade of all kinds. Without oil they'd have to work a little harder but not that much harder to maintain the exact same level of economy.
I know lots of people my age (28) who grew up in Dubai for part of their lives becasue their father or mother was positioned there in banking or trade positions... these are very white american born guys and gals, who speak several languages of course... though I know a few chinese guys who also grew up there... no black guys so far that I've met but wouldn't be surprised if there are a few of african nationality around somewhere...
point is it's a very modern and diverse city... not what you think of when you think Arabian Peninsula or Middle East.
While this doesn't solve your problem it may interest/. macheads out there....
CalTalk is a 'Bonjour' enabling app for iCal that lets you automatically share and find shared iCal calendars on the network. It only works on the local subnet because that's all Bonjour supports but that's just right for at home or at work use......though it does allow you to share iCal shares you've subscribed to from the internet;-p which is nice, cause you can basically set up one Mac as a calendar server and have it subscribe to all the various published iCal files from external urls and share them out to the subnet for everyone else.
And of course it's a Free as in Beer app you can download now.
p.s. I'm not affiliated w/ the developer in any way
See my post http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177581&cid= 14733228 about using IM instead of email for sending the links to server hosted files... I wrote it without having read yours but there's a lot of similarity between the two, which makes me think it's a pretty viable solution.
With the ubiquity of IM services and wide adoption of standards coming in the near term, I can see IM taking over casual communications entirely, leaving email for use in more 'official' communications. This would parallel the decline in snail mail as a casual correspondence vehicle with the advent of telephone.
So there's really no need to stop the evolution of email or attempt to 'fix' it somehow so that it can remain a casual means of communicating.
What people need are ISP supported services for chat, file repositories, etc. that can streamline an email free process of sharing information between social peers. Businesses already can do this with network shares... I'm hoping most companies encourage the use of such for sharing larger files already, instead of attaching 5MB pdfs or ppt files, you just send a link to the shared resource on the network. Similarly home users could upload files to a protected internet share and provide a secure link for the other person to download the file via their IM client. There are services out there that do this sort of thing already (ad supported mostly).
IM needs to evolve more closely to email and take over some of it's functionality... ie: keep a running list of conversations that can be searched and orgainized. however it should not go so far as to open itself up to the known security issues with email (ie: the sending of html, the attaching of files, etc.) and relegate itself to text/voice/video only transmissions with a very discrete set of protocols and hooks that can be avidly protected.
This won't stop phishing attempts but it would segregate them into more obvious ploys. IMs from commercial entities would be deemed unorthodox and suspicious activity for most people since the more official email method would be the preferred form for businesses to send out info to consumers (which would of course have the new 'registered' verification methods in place to improve credibility of the email sender).
To clarify a way for home users to 'attach' pictures or other files to casually share, I see the IM client having a setting to configure a sharepoint url... this would abstract and make transparent the lack of real file attachments, it would show a preview or icon of the file being sent while in reality the file would be set to transfer to the sharepoint url and the same preview or icon would show up in the recipients client, while the file itself resided on the server similar to how and html email will often have images downloaded from a host server rather than embedded in the email itself.
A sharepoint could also benefit from bittorrent type protocols for widely shared files between friends (something i believe is already being implemented in a Firefox plugin soon to be released).
There are many benefits to a system such as this... too many to list out.
A friend of a friend's uncle's brother once told me that Gluecode was originally a venture called Exist, funded by the 'Pirate of Prague' a notorious IP bandit who caught the founders, unaware of his infamy, and ended up pillaging the company of all it's value until they finally had to give up and reorganize as Gluecode.... ironically turning about and performing the same stunt themselves via IBM in order to recoup their losses... poor employees and smaller funding partners, they never had a chance./// end anecdote
The fact that it worked when away from your room.... I'm assuming your in school since you mentioned going home for vacation...leads me to believe that there is an environmental factor in play.
I'm surprised no one else has at least mentioned it.
Anyways, try repositioning it somewhere else in the room. Try turning off any other electronics (unplug them) in the area... all except your PC and Monitor.
I could be wrong but it's worth a try, rather than replacing it or sending it off to be 'fixed' and getting it back only to have the same problem when it returns.
Many display devices are sensitive to external radiation.. high levels of electro-magneticism can distort the electron flow causing all sorts of funkiness.
Science does still have something to learn from religion. Scientists who are only capable of believing in what has been proven will never ever discover anything new. You may find an interesting way of looking at something already known or discover a new insight into data that has been previously collected but without a belief in something greater and the possibility that what you can observe with state of the art techniques is not the all there is... well, you'll end up in a very stagnant role as mere caretaker of the past glory of those who were or are capable of such things.
Darwin had a theory long before he went on his journey of discovery. It was based on some observations he'd made but for the most part it was a "leap of faith" for him to go out looking for evidence when the problem itself had already been solved for most of his peers.
Many other great discoveries have been made in a similar way... you can rename it something safe and areligious if you want but the mindset, the openness to possibilities outside the currently understood scientific body of knowledge, that comes from religion and spirituality and even superstition... all 'irrational' and unsupported by evidence at the time.
The scientific community also has a long tradition of branding such frontier scientists as fanatics as well.... until they prove their theory that is, then they like to welcome them back into the fold and proceed to take credit for the new discovery as if it was obvious from the beginning. They call this 'healthy scepticism'.
As a science enthusiast and a Christian I like to think of the existence of God and the mystery of Jesus as God/Man as the ultimate hypothesis. We have postulated that God exists and that Jesus was his corporeal embodiment. We have evidence in many varied forms. There hasn't been any breakthroughs recently, then again it took centuries for the whole earth is round thing to work itself out as well -Magellan wasn't the first, Ptolemy and Aristotle and many others knew it - it was a well known fact much earlier, just the actual circumference was in question... so we will bide our time faithfully until there is.
Think of it like the existence of extra dimensions. The scientific community seems to take it on faith that they exist, yet have never been able to provide anything close to hard evidence... just some theoretical math that looks like it explains some things we still can't figure out... yet I am certain that 99.99999% of scientists in the world (regardless of their field) believe in extra dimensions.
Just because something theoretically can exist doesn't mean it does. The same is true of God, and Christians take the same viewpoint as those who believe in extra dimensions... for us it just makes too much sense to discount as unprovable and therefore of no use and no further acknowledgement.
So we continue to believe knowing that in the end we will be proven correct and that the 'healthy sceptics' among us will rush to embrace this newly proven discovery and luckily for all of you out there, we will welcome you as lost brothers.
Well, let's see.... there's an election for a new president in two years time. Start looking for a candidate who can win AND who feels that this is a bad operating method. In the meanwhile you can a) lay low or b) plan for the potential that your activities will get you into trouble ie: retain yourself a good civil rights attorney and keep him/her informed of exactly what you are doing and act on the advice you've paid for.
Did you get that number from the US version of itunes? If so, you might want to check to see if the various non-US versions might just have a different address form...
hmmm... I have the opposite view... "Isn't that why I got married?" - you know, call home and tell wifey "I'm 20 min. out" and she starts dinner, by the time I'm home and rested for 20 min. dinner is ready.
Not to mention the dangers of trying to copulate with a Smart Oven... i like it hot, but it a metaphorical sense for sure.
I don't think I've ever seen a Mexican wearing a mexican hat(aka sombrero)... I see them wearing baseball caps, cowboy hats and construction hardhats all the time, but sombreros? nope, only tourists from Indiana wear those things... ususally cause they forgot to bring sunscreen to the sunny south "and it weel make sucha goud souveneer" - this when they're visiting southern california;-p
This makes me wonder how many/.ers are familiar with Lovecraftian mythology and the nature of early 1900s style extra dimensional occurrences.... and when did UFO phenonmenon take over as the predominant explanation for supernatural sightings?
What this describes is the commonplace delusion. People do it all the time. They do it mainly to make life easier on themselves.
What is easier... going through life having made a decision about something and sticking to it... or constantly questioning your views and decisions and actions right up to the moment you have to commit to them?
We train our brains to think within constant boundaries. This helps us decide on a course of action much more quickly and keeps us from being overwhelmed and shutting down completely. We also do this to fit in with our community and gain their trust when making group decisions about communal objectives.
The problem with this methodology is that we decide to never re-evaluate our position. The reason we do this is that society judges us based on past expressions of opinion and labels us hypocrite if we decide to change.
The solution is to change society so that it becomes okay to change position. The barrier is how to set a standard of proof that the individual really has changed their opinion and can be counted on to stick by that opinion.
Anything less than what I've outlined here is an incomplete analysis of how views (religion, politics, preference, etc.) affect individuals within societal relationships.
A comparitive study would be to test the same brain activity within a group of social animals when a leading figure within the group that has majority support goes off and does something unacceptable... I suspect that the rest of the group will ignore the action (brain activity will show a similar response as in theis study) initially in order to maintain the social hierarchy and promote stability within the group... until it happens again and again, at which point they would stage a coup and 'elect' a new leader. We do the same, only on a much grander scale.
There seem to be a lot of 'extra' expenses that his plan depends upon.... like a permanent base on the moon, a permanent fuel depot and manufacturing plant on Mars (already in place) not to mention that he calls for two Cycler type ships not one... plus the multiple CEVs to actually realize the goal of sustainability. There's more but I'll let you read it yourself.
It's a nice plan but do I see a plan that's cheaper? Hell no, If the goal is to GET to Mars.
If the goal is to create an interplanetary transit system then sure, this is definitely the way to go.
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Granted it's a trojan, but it's a Trojan that is being passed virally... ie: once downloaded by the first ignoramus, it attempts to re-distribute itself via Address Book (the equivalent of Outlooks contact list) and iChat (IM messenger app with hooks into AOL, .Mac and Netscape) whereby it becomes a virally transmitted trojan so that other victims can proceed to clicky-click it, thinking it is from a trusted source and thereby starting the process over... with their Address Book of targets...
Pretty nasty IMHO... I've turned on 'view all extension' and recommend all Mac users do the same until a patch is released (which I think should be as simple as a 'binary flag' or something similar that identifies an executable regardless of it's name, icon, extension or whatever... AND to buy or reimplement "Little Snitch" which is an awesome tool for letting you know when something is trying to access an outgoing port and gives you the option of allowing or denying it.... it may not stop you from getting a virus/worm but it will help you become aware of it and give you the option of containing it.
The article didn't really go into the use for engines too much... went on and on about seats, bench seats light seats, etc. for dampening G-forces during operational impact, etc.
/" and "/ bottom \" so that gravity and internal torque are being deflected away instead of having the mounts take the full force in the perpendicular.... sorry it's difficult to describe without a diagram...
But in regard to engine noise being transferred to the vehicle... I can see maglev being used on just the mounts themselves with a reinforced harness of some sort that improves the distribution of torque and up/down external vibration. So a series of mounts placed in a spherical grid or maybe a semi-sphere (think cutting off the top and bottom to leave a spherical cylinder) with maglev mounting slots poisitioned at angles to the engine itself " \ top
My favorite part of the DVD release is the documentary of the making of the movie.... so impressive. It's simply amazing how long they spent making this classic and how much attention to detail they had... one of my all-time favorite works of art, yes art cause The Dark Crystal is much more than a movie, especially compared to todays drivel.
That reminds me of a joke:
How many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Hey look a bike!
"Why build one when you can get two for twice the money?" - SR Hadden
Well, oil is still a mainstay, but Dubai is also the international banking hub for the entire region.... meaning all of the Middle East and North Africa. They are also a huge port for trade of all kinds. Without oil they'd have to work a little harder but not that much harder to maintain the exact same level of economy.
I know lots of people my age (28) who grew up in Dubai for part of their lives becasue their father or mother was positioned there in banking or trade positions... these are very white american born guys and gals, who speak several languages of course... though I know a few chinese guys who also grew up there... no black guys so far that I've met but wouldn't be surprised if there are a few of african nationality around somewhere...
point is it's a very modern and diverse city... not what you think of when you think Arabian Peninsula or Middle East.
While this doesn't solve your problem it may interest /. macheads out there....
...though it does allow you to share iCal shares you've subscribed to from the internet ;-p which is nice, cause you can basically set up one Mac as a calendar server and have it subscribe to all the various published iCal files from external urls and share them out to the subnet for everyone else.
CalTalk is a 'Bonjour' enabling app for iCal that lets you automatically share and find shared iCal calendars on the network. It only works on the local subnet because that's all Bonjour supports but that's just right for at home or at work use...
And of course it's a Free as in Beer app you can download now.
p.s. I'm not affiliated w/ the developer in any way
See my post http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177581&cid= 14733228 about using IM instead of email for sending the links to server hosted files... I wrote it without having read yours but there's a lot of similarity between the two, which makes me think it's a pretty viable solution.
PDF, puhlease... it better be a LaTex document or LUsers won't even bother with it!
With the ubiquity of IM services and wide adoption of standards coming in the near term, I can see IM taking over casual communications entirely, leaving email for use in more 'official' communications. This would parallel the decline in snail mail as a casual correspondence vehicle with the advent of telephone.
So there's really no need to stop the evolution of email or attempt to 'fix' it somehow so that it can remain a casual means of communicating.
What people need are ISP supported services for chat, file repositories, etc. that can streamline an email free process of sharing information between social peers. Businesses already can do this with network shares... I'm hoping most companies encourage the use of such for sharing larger files already, instead of attaching 5MB pdfs or ppt files, you just send a link to the shared resource on the network. Similarly home users could upload files to a protected internet share and provide a secure link for the other person to download the file via their IM client. There are services out there that do this sort of thing already (ad supported mostly).
IM needs to evolve more closely to email and take over some of it's functionality... ie: keep a running list of conversations that can be searched and orgainized. however it should not go so far as to open itself up to the known security issues with email (ie: the sending of html, the attaching of files, etc.) and relegate itself to text/voice/video only transmissions with a very discrete set of protocols and hooks that can be avidly protected.
This won't stop phishing attempts but it would segregate them into more obvious ploys. IMs from commercial entities would be deemed unorthodox and suspicious activity for most people since the more official email method would be the preferred form for businesses to send out info to consumers (which would of course have the new 'registered' verification methods in place to improve credibility of the email sender).
To clarify a way for home users to 'attach' pictures or other files to casually share, I see the IM client having a setting to configure a sharepoint url... this would abstract and make transparent the lack of real file attachments, it would show a preview or icon of the file being sent while in reality the file would be set to transfer to the sharepoint url and the same preview or icon would show up in the recipients client, while the file itself resided on the server similar to how and html email will often have images downloaded from a host server rather than embedded in the email itself.
A sharepoint could also benefit from bittorrent type protocols for widely shared files between friends (something i believe is already being implemented in a Firefox plugin soon to be released).
There are many benefits to a system such as this... too many to list out.
I hope I start a trend.
A friend of a friend's uncle's brother once told me that Gluecode was originally a venture called Exist, funded by the 'Pirate of Prague' a notorious IP bandit who caught the founders, unaware of his infamy, and ended up pillaging the company of all it's value until they finally had to give up and reorganize as Gluecode.... ironically turning about and performing the same stunt themselves via IBM in order to recoup their losses... poor employees and smaller funding partners, they never had a chance. /// end anecdote
The fact that it worked when away from your room.... I'm assuming your in school since you mentioned going home for vacation...leads me to believe that there is an environmental factor in play.
I'm surprised no one else has at least mentioned it.
Anyways, try repositioning it somewhere else in the room. Try turning off any other electronics (unplug them) in the area... all except your PC and Monitor.
I could be wrong but it's worth a try, rather than replacing it or sending it off to be 'fixed' and getting it back only to have the same problem when it returns.
Many display devices are sensitive to external radiation.. high levels of electro-magneticism can distort the electron flow causing all sorts of funkiness.
This will be a usable technology when the XForms spec has been integrated into browsers.... until then it's just a hack.
Really when XForms is available all you need is XMLRPC... not Ajax at all. ie: XForms + XMLRPC == AJAX killer.
So bring on XForms already....
Science does still have something to learn from religion. Scientists who are only capable of believing in what has been proven will never ever discover anything new. You may find an interesting way of looking at something already known or discover a new insight into data that has been previously collected but without a belief in something greater and the possibility that what you can observe with state of the art techniques is not the all there is... well, you'll end up in a very stagnant role as mere caretaker of the past glory of those who were or are capable of such things.
Darwin had a theory long before he went on his journey of discovery. It was based on some observations he'd made but for the most part it was a "leap of faith" for him to go out looking for evidence when the problem itself had already been solved for most of his peers.
Many other great discoveries have been made in a similar way... you can rename it something safe and areligious if you want but the mindset, the openness to possibilities outside the currently understood scientific body of knowledge, that comes from religion and spirituality and even superstition... all 'irrational' and unsupported by evidence at the time.
The scientific community also has a long tradition of branding such frontier scientists as fanatics as well.... until they prove their theory that is, then they like to welcome them back into the fold and proceed to take credit for the new discovery as if it was obvious from the beginning. They call this 'healthy scepticism'.
As a science enthusiast and a Christian I like to think of the existence of God and the mystery of Jesus as God/Man as the ultimate hypothesis. We have postulated that God exists and that Jesus was his corporeal embodiment. We have evidence in many varied forms. There hasn't been any breakthroughs recently, then again it took centuries for the whole earth is round thing to work itself out as well -Magellan wasn't the first, Ptolemy and Aristotle and many others knew it - it was a well known fact much earlier, just the actual circumference was in question... so we will bide our time faithfully until there is.
Think of it like the existence of extra dimensions. The scientific community seems to take it on faith that they exist, yet have never been able to provide anything close to hard evidence... just some theoretical math that looks like it explains some things we still can't figure out... yet I am certain that 99.99999% of scientists in the world (regardless of their field) believe in extra dimensions.
Just because something theoretically can exist doesn't mean it does. The same is true of God, and Christians take the same viewpoint as those who believe in extra dimensions... for us it just makes too much sense to discount as unprovable and therefore of no use and no further acknowledgement.
So we continue to believe knowing that in the end we will be proven correct and that the 'healthy sceptics' among us will rush to embrace this newly proven discovery and luckily for all of you out there, we will welcome you as lost brothers.
Just cause someone did this to me.....
/.
"Way to kill the joke, Douchebag" - some a-hole on
Well, let's see.... there's an election for a new president in two years time. Start looking for a candidate who can win AND who feels that this is a bad operating method. In the meanwhile you can a) lay low or b) plan for the potential that your activities will get you into trouble ie: retain yourself a good civil rights attorney and keep him/her informed of exactly what you are doing and act on the advice you've paid for.
Did you get that number from the US version of itunes? If so, you might want to check to see if the various non-US versions might just have a different address form...
yeah, well I'm rubber your glue... whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!!!!
hmmm... I have the opposite view... "Isn't that why I got married?" - you know, call home and tell wifey "I'm 20 min. out" and she starts dinner, by the time I'm home and rested for 20 min. dinner is ready.
Not to mention the dangers of trying to copulate with a Smart Oven... i like it hot, but it a metaphorical sense for sure.
I don't think I've ever seen a Mexican wearing a mexican hat(aka sombrero)... I see them wearing baseball caps, cowboy hats and construction hardhats all the time, but sombreros? nope, only tourists from Indiana wear those things... ususally cause they forgot to bring sunscreen to the sunny south "and it weel make sucha goud souveneer" - this when they're visiting southern california ;-p
This makes me wonder how many /.ers are familiar with Lovecraftian mythology and the nature of early 1900s style extra dimensional occurrences.... and when did UFO phenonmenon take over as the predominant explanation for supernatural sightings?
Someone should do a survey...
One myth dispelled:
Human embryos never have gills.
Oh you mean like giving students vouchers??? I'm pretty sure that got tried and hasn't been argued successfully as yet.
I agree with you though.
What this describes is the commonplace delusion. People do it all the time. They do it mainly to make life easier on themselves.
What is easier... going through life having made a decision about something and sticking to it... or constantly questioning your views and decisions and actions right up to the moment you have to commit to them?
We train our brains to think within constant boundaries. This helps us decide on a course of action much more quickly and keeps us from being overwhelmed and shutting down completely. We also do this to fit in with our community and gain their trust when making group decisions about communal objectives.
The problem with this methodology is that we decide to never re-evaluate our position. The reason we do this is that society judges us based on past expressions of opinion and labels us hypocrite if we decide to change.
The solution is to change society so that it becomes okay to change position. The barrier is how to set a standard of proof that the individual really has changed their opinion and can be counted on to stick by that opinion.
Anything less than what I've outlined here is an incomplete analysis of how views (religion, politics, preference, etc.) affect individuals within societal relationships.
A comparitive study would be to test the same brain activity within a group of social animals when a leading figure within the group that has majority support goes off and does something unacceptable... I suspect that the rest of the group will ignore the action (brain activity will show a similar response as in theis study) initially in order to maintain the social hierarchy and promote stability within the group... until it happens again and again, at which point they would stage a coup and 'elect' a new leader. We do the same, only on a much grander scale.
There seem to be a lot of 'extra' expenses that his plan depends upon.... like a permanent base on the moon, a permanent fuel depot and manufacturing plant on Mars (already in place) not to mention that he calls for two Cycler type ships not one... plus the multiple CEVs to actually realize the goal of sustainability. There's more but I'll let you read it yourself.
It's a nice plan but do I see a plan that's cheaper? Hell no, If the goal is to GET to Mars.
If the goal is to create an interplanetary transit system then sure, this is definitely the way to go.