And release open source worms. Dump the source code to c:\worm on an infected machine. Don't forget a GPL comment in each file and COPYING that explains how you are required to "distribute" the software+source to everyone in your address book, or every machine on the subnet.
It will not help AV companies much since they already reverse engineer binaries
People will release improved derivitive worms and malicious payloads you don't have to be responsible for.
The joy of releasing software under a truly viral license!
Per its usual policy, Finjan has no plans to go public with details of the flaws until Microsoft has patches available for them
and
Our early analysis indicates that Finjan's claims are potentially misleading and possibly erroneous regarding the breadth and severity of the alleged vulnerabilities in Windows XP SP2
Why should people who are trying to help just get insulated? It's time to release the exploits to all of us after all, so that we can decide for ourselves who is making erroneous statements.
Actually, Steve's hearing is not great, so iPod is louder than most MP3 players. A good thing too, otherwise I wouldn't be able to listen to audiobooks while jogging in somewhat noisy outdoors.
Do yourself a favor and join a big company. You will get:
No overtime paid
Incompetence in management
Unimpressive salary for your job description, but Ok for living.
A risk of a layoff for outsourcing reasons or just to make balance sheet look good to shareholders.
but probably will not be tortured otherwise. Just medical liability lawsuits for repetitive motion injury would kill them. Hopefully we'll see EA part with their ill-gotten profits soon enough.
So would I be able to bring down a tall building by scrubbing some fire retardant off the supports and starting a fire with a can of lighter fuel?
I rather suspect the fire burned with abnormal intensity because of existing high temperature and didn't need to produce as much additional energy to rich melting point of the metal.
If the fuel was lighter than air and mostly burned as a fireball in the sky or dissipated, we would still have WTC, several hundred victims and a sane president.
Well, that's mostly because hydrogen is light. And you don't really you want your fuel to be heavy, just to produce lots of enery. Liquid H2 has about 1/4 of energy of gasoline per unit of volume, but about 4 times more per unit of mass. Meaning the plane will be lighter at lift-off, meaning fuel tanks can be smaller, meaning the plane will be lighter yet... I don't know where the numbers will converge, but the fuel tanks might be managable after all.
Also, methane would still be lighter than air and dissipate quickly while having a higher volumetric energy density should hydrogen prove unsuitable.
Actually I am surprised they are not designing H2-powered airplanes after 9/11. If one hits a tall building, the stuff is not going to stick around and melt the supports. Most of it will be probably just blown away by a small explosion, since hydrogen can not burn until pre-mixed with oxygen.
This could even be cost-effective, because a regular airplane must burn a lot of fuel to lift it's fuel. A plant that generates hydrogen from natural gas will not have this waste.
You need to shop around for a better job. Big companies just run late on projects or cut features that seam infeasable. If a CRM app is sellable, it's still sellable half a year later. And if you work in a small place, the big boss sees your face everyday, so he/she is scared to ask you for so much overtime that you might snap.
My guess is that Electronic Arts will fold within a year or two and top executive have something to hide, Enron-style or just want to get their salary and sell their stocks to the last day. Otherwise they would just distribute the money/assets while they still have some and go home.
But then, a 100% efficient windfarm would take out 100% of the kinetic energy of the wind moving past it.
Somehow I don't think so. Where would the extra air go if there is wind in front of the widmill and no circulation behind? There must be some theoretical limit to prevent this situation.
Do you have enough knowledge of SETI@Home or Folding@HOME to be sure the expensive part of computation can not be represented as a system of equations?
And how *exactly* does the receiving mail server verify the work unit without computing it itself?
It depends on the task. For solving large systems of non-linear equations, just evaluate them with claimed values of the variables. And just because CPU cycles are wasted now doesn't mean they can't be put to good use in future. That's how distributed computing projects started in the first place.
Sort of like burning your harvest to keep grain prices high. Just send me a completed work unit of Seti-At-Home or Folding-At-Home in an email header. I am sure, given the incentive of every e-mail message advancing their goal, some of these projects can come up with work units that are difficult to calculate but easy to verify.
Maybe for once zombied Windows boxes will be more productive than they would be under their users' control.
The alternative to the mother giving her kidney is to find an alternate donor kidney
Easier said then done. Take a single mother with no relatives close enough to donate to the kid, and most probably there are no other choices.
allow the child to live out what remains of his/her life
So force the child to be born, just to die a painful, protracted death when he/she could be saved by a forced donation? Sounds weird to me.
Then there's the issue of, is the child in the mothers womb when the kidney needs to be transplanted?
Ok, what if it is in the womb. Would you support a forced donation then, giving that a pregnancy is already a kind of donation that you want to force? I am very scared.
but after they're born that responsibility diminishes as they reach their teenage years and early adulthood
What - the more self-aware I am, the more I am aware of enjoyment of life, the more I would suffer from dying and knowledge I am going to die - the less my mother is responsible to keep me alive at some risk to her life and health? I concede defeat in trying to explain to you what seams obvious to me. Perhaps we should live in different countries.
Nature has set up this role for women with which it has not burdened men. Women are designed to have children. That's the only way we get them.
Well, nature has designed females, including today's humans in poor countries, to abandon their babies to die of hunger or even eat their own children to avoid starvation. So let's just abandon this line of thought and discover the best way to live in modern times.
And how am I recognizing a difference between a fetus and a child?
By saying that a woman has a right to abort a fetus if the sex was forced, but doesn't have a right to kill a newborn, even if the abortion was somehow not available to her during pregnancy.
I do subscribe to responsibility and accountability-- if a woman gets pregnant, and it wasn't forced (read: rape, incest), then the mother is accountable and responsible for the creation of that life.
Then why wouldn't you force her to donate a kidney? Isn't she more responsible for maintaining life she volunterely concieved through sex now that this life is more self-aware and has more desire to live? If a fetus could survive by itself, without using other people's organs, I am sure nobody would purposly kill it.
See, women do have control over their own bodies-- they can choose to not have sex. Abortion as a method of birth control is murder. Abortion for rape/incest victims or those where the life of the mother is threatened, that's fine. But just getting abortions because "Oops, hehe, I got pregnant again!", that's BS.
Oh yeah? So you would support the right of a rape victim to kill her newborn, as I am sure often happened in old times? If not, you are recognizing there is a difference between a fetus and a child.
Also, the risk of a childbirth is close to one of donating a kidney. Would you forcibly drag his/her mother into surgery to donate one if needed for child's survival? Then why force her to risk a similar chance of death for a far less developed organism that is by every measure less sentinent than a cat?
I do not agree with all his policies, and all his decisions. However, I do support a vast majority of him
Which decisions would that be?
Disregarding summer 2001 intelligence reports that terrorists are training in US flight schools to crash into top buildings
Getting a list of interrogation tactics that had torture as a checkbox and not investigating why that option was even on the list
Approving the clearly anti-american and anti-freedom Patriot act and not acting to stop its abuses.
Detaining people indefinitely without any charges or access to lawyers in a manner that is illegal under both US and international laws.
Attacking Iraq without building an international coalition and taking care of Afganistan, Israel/Palestinian conflict or domestic security first
Lying to american people about weapons of mass destruction
Not taking steps to eliminate conflict of interest between his post and his and his father's ties to oil business, Bin Laden family and defence companies.
Forcing "volunteer" national guard to serve beyond their enlistment, when he himself escaped Vietnam by enlisting there
Saying if it was up to him, woman have no right to control their own bodies
Trying to keep a couple in love from marrying in a civil ceremony, while divorced people re-marrying are no more in line with christianity
Trying to stop life-saving medical treatments developed using clamps of cells that are no more sentinent than what escapes human body during periods or you know...
Not targeting tax cuts at low income people who need it the most
Putting new requirements on schools while cutting funding
Dude, you have some strange interests if Bush has them in mind. You are not doing an intern in Halburtan by any chance?
60's riots where about the draft for Vietnam war. If people are forced go get killed, it's entirely approporiate for them to protest by running around and smashing stuff.
Now there is another war with a country that didn't attack US, and national guard soldiers are being forced to fight indefinitely, when they signed up to defend the homeland against invasion and natural disasters - in their home state and for limited time. Remember Bush dodging Vietnam in NG? As far as this group goes - go ahead block traffic and flood some toilets. If I am personally inconvinienced I'll understand these people have bigger concerns.
As for movies - abandon both movie theaters and P2P networks and set up a system where you and 10 of your friends buy used DVDs and can borrow them from each other at any time. Or just rent movies from a public library - for free! You will be next to impossible to catch and then what are they going to charge you with - visiting a library? Movie industry will just realize their game is up and start offering the stuff on more consumer-friendly terms. Music industry kind of did already - pick any songs you like for $1 each, burn your own CD and do whatever you want with it.
Why is everyone so excited about OGG? Just because it's free?
Well, if you ever switch to a Mac, kiss goodbye to your WMAs and if you go to Linux M4Ps will not play either. Sure there will be illegal hacks, but not for just-released updates to the codec or in mainstream distributions. And if Microsoft ever abandons windows media, well tough luck on your new Longhorn 2010 PC! mp3s are better, but you are still infringing on patents unless you buy a commercial jukebox.
Now with OGG, you are guaranteed to be able to listen to your tunes on any future PC/PDA/cell phone. As for dedicated devices , chances are they will have support available through a downloadable upgrade.
Besides, Vobris is designed so that big changes to the encoder can be made without breaking existing players. So you are likely to have much better sound quality on your old portable player without spending any more money on hardware.
Personally I just use AAC and count on those illegal hacks. But then I like to listen to new music every year. Your millage can definitely vary.
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Per its usual policy, Finjan has no plans to go public with details of the flaws until Microsoft has patches available for them
and
Our early analysis indicates that Finjan's claims are potentially misleading and possibly erroneous regarding the breadth and severity of the alleged vulnerabilities in Windows XP SP2
Why should people who are trying to help just get insulated? It's time to release the exploits to all of us after all, so that we can decide for ourselves who is making erroneous statements.
Loud is good when you have hearing loss
Actually, Steve's hearing is not great, so iPod is louder than most MP3 players. A good thing too, otherwise I wouldn't be able to listen to audiobooks while jogging in somewhat noisy outdoors.
is someone going to pre-record some radio talk shows and put it into iPod pretending that it's doing radio too?
Uhm... Actually I already do that every day (face turns red)
I drove to school 5 miles in snow every day! Uphill! Both ways! You insensitive clod!
but probably will not be tortured otherwise. Just medical liability lawsuits for repetitive motion injury would kill them. Hopefully we'll see EA part with their ill-gotten profits soon enough.
So would I be able to bring down a tall building by scrubbing some fire retardant off the supports and starting a fire with a can of lighter fuel?
I rather suspect the fire burned with abnormal intensity because of existing high temperature and didn't need to produce as much additional energy to rich melting point of the metal.
If the fuel was lighter than air and mostly burned as a fireball in the sky or dissipated, we would still have WTC, several hundred victims and a sane president.
Well, that's mostly because hydrogen is light. And you don't really you want your fuel to be heavy, just to produce lots of enery. Liquid H2 has about 1/4 of energy of gasoline per unit of volume, but about 4 times more per unit of mass. Meaning the plane will be lighter at lift-off, meaning fuel tanks can be smaller, meaning the plane will be lighter yet... I don't know where the numbers will converge, but the fuel tanks might be managable after all.
Also, methane would still be lighter than air and dissipate quickly while having a higher volumetric energy density should hydrogen prove unsuitable.
Actually I am surprised they are not designing H2-powered airplanes after 9/11. If one hits a tall building, the stuff is not going to stick around and melt the supports. Most of it will be probably just blown away by a small explosion, since hydrogen can not burn until pre-mixed with oxygen.
This could even be cost-effective, because a regular airplane must burn a lot of fuel to lift it's fuel. A plant that generates hydrogen from natural gas will not have this waste.
You need to shop around for a better job. Big companies just run late on projects or cut features that seam infeasable. If a CRM app is sellable, it's still sellable half a year later. And if you work in a small place, the big boss sees your face everyday, so he/she is scared to ask you for so much overtime that you might snap.
My guess is that Electronic Arts will fold within a year or two and top executive have something to hide, Enron-style or just want to get their salary and sell their stocks to the last day. Otherwise they would just distribute the money/assets while they still have some and go home.
But then, a 100% efficient windfarm would take out 100% of the kinetic energy of the wind moving past it.
Somehow I don't think so. Where would the extra air go if there is wind in front of the widmill and no circulation behind? There must be some theoretical limit to prevent this situation.
Do you have enough knowledge of SETI@Home or Folding@HOME to be sure the expensive part of computation can not be represented as a system of equations?
And how *exactly* does the receiving mail server verify the work unit without computing it itself?
It depends on the task. For solving large systems of non-linear equations, just evaluate them with claimed values of the variables. And just because CPU cycles are wasted now doesn't mean they can't be put to good use in future. That's how distributed computing projects started in the first place.
Sort of like burning your harvest to keep grain prices high. Just send me a completed work unit of Seti-At-Home or Folding-At-Home in an email header. I am sure, given the incentive of every e-mail message advancing their goal, some of these projects can come up with work units that are difficult to calculate but easy to verify.
Maybe for once zombied Windows boxes will be more productive than they would be under their users' control.
The alternative to the mother giving her kidney is to find an alternate donor kidney
Easier said then done. Take a single mother with no relatives close enough to donate to the kid, and most probably there are no other choices.
allow the child to live out what remains of his/her life
So force the child to be born, just to die a painful, protracted death when he/she could be saved by a forced donation? Sounds weird to me.
Then there's the issue of, is the child in the mothers womb when the kidney needs to be transplanted?
Ok, what if it is in the womb. Would you support a forced donation then, giving that a pregnancy is already a kind of donation that you want to force? I am very scared.
but after they're born that responsibility diminishes as they reach their teenage years and early adulthood
What - the more self-aware I am, the more I am aware of enjoyment of life, the more I would suffer from dying and knowledge I am going to die - the less my mother is responsible to keep me alive at some risk to her life and health? I concede defeat in trying to explain to you what seams obvious to me. Perhaps we should live in different countries.
Nature has set up this role for women with which it has not burdened men. Women are designed to have children. That's the only way we get them.
Well, nature has designed females, including today's humans in poor countries, to abandon their babies to die of hunger or even eat their own children to avoid starvation. So let's just abandon this line of thought and discover the best way to live in modern times.
And how am I recognizing a difference between a fetus and a child?
By saying that a woman has a right to abort a fetus if the sex was forced, but doesn't have a right to kill a newborn, even if the abortion was somehow not available to her during pregnancy.
I do subscribe to responsibility and accountability-- if a woman gets pregnant, and it wasn't forced (read: rape, incest), then the mother is accountable and responsible for the creation of that life.
Then why wouldn't you force her to donate a kidney? Isn't she more responsible for maintaining life she volunterely concieved through sex now that this life is more self-aware and has more desire to live? If a fetus could survive by itself, without using other people's organs, I am sure nobody would purposly kill it.
Bahaha! Bush found some nice human rights champions to liberate Iraq:
a gua
Afghanistan
Colombia
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Nicar
Rwanda
Not too many major world players though. If the war was really justified, all the big countries in Europe would come around.
See, women do have control over their own bodies-- they can choose to not have sex. Abortion as a method of birth control is murder. Abortion for rape/incest victims or those where the life of the mother is threatened, that's fine. But just getting abortions because "Oops, hehe, I got pregnant again!", that's BS.
Oh yeah? So you would support the right of a rape victim to kill her newborn, as I am sure often happened in old times? If not, you are recognizing there is a difference between a fetus and a child.
Also, the risk of a childbirth is close to one of donating a kidney. Would you forcibly drag his/her mother into surgery to donate one if needed for child's survival? Then why force her to risk a similar chance of death for a far less developed organism that is by every measure less sentinent than a cat?
Maybe not. But which of the things I mention you think Bush didn't do, and which unbiased, independent sources you used to form your opinions?
Which decisions would that be?
Dude, you have some strange interests if Bush has them in mind. You are not doing an intern in Halburtan by any chance?
Look at the 60's everyone would boycot and riot
60's riots where about the draft for Vietnam war. If people are forced go get killed, it's entirely approporiate for them to protest by running around and smashing stuff.
Now there is another war with a country that didn't attack US, and national guard soldiers are being forced to fight indefinitely, when they signed up to defend the homeland against invasion and natural disasters - in their home state and for limited time. Remember Bush dodging Vietnam in NG? As far as this group goes - go ahead block traffic and flood some toilets. If I am personally inconvinienced I'll understand these people have bigger concerns.
As for movies - abandon both movie theaters and P2P networks and set up a system where you and 10 of your friends buy used DVDs and can borrow them from each other at any time. Or just rent movies from a public library - for free! You will be next to impossible to catch and then what are they going to charge you with - visiting a library? Movie industry will just realize their game is up and start offering the stuff on more consumer-friendly terms. Music industry kind of did already - pick any songs you like for $1 each, burn your own CD and do whatever you want with it.
Why is everyone so excited about OGG? Just because it's free?
Well, if you ever switch to a Mac, kiss goodbye to your WMAs and if you go to Linux M4Ps will not play either. Sure there will be illegal hacks, but not for just-released updates to the codec or in mainstream distributions. And if Microsoft ever abandons windows media, well tough luck on your new Longhorn 2010 PC!
mp3s are better, but you are still infringing on patents unless you buy a commercial jukebox.
Now with OGG, you are guaranteed to be able to listen to your tunes on any future PC/PDA/cell phone. As for dedicated devices , chances are they will have support available through a downloadable upgrade.
Besides, Vobris is designed so that big changes to the encoder can be made without breaking existing players. So you are likely to have much better sound quality on your old portable player without spending any more money on hardware.
Personally I just use AAC and count on those illegal hacks. But then I like to listen to new music every year. Your millage can definitely vary.
not that that means people aren't buying Nvidia cars anymore.
Wow, from 0 to 24 gigapixels in 6 seconds! Where can I get one and does it come with a radar detector should I feel like overclocking?