Failing to stop after the accident (which did not directly involve him) breaks the law?
So hypothetical situation - If, driving down a Canadian highway during a snowstorm I see someone go off the road but keep driving, will they come after me for failing to stop? Sure, you might call such a non-stopper an asshole, but a criminal?
I would also have to question the "leading to death" part (he didn't hit the taxi), but I can see that as a bit more a matter of interpretation. But not an accident... Either the collision includes your vehicle, or it doesn't.
They key thing is that the other driver was directly involved.
To add to your example -- if you're driving down a Canadian (or US) highway during a snowstorm, and someone drives off the road to avoid hitting you, then yes you are involved, and yes they'll come after you if you don't stop.
Ross was involved in the competition, and the competition led to a crash. Ross was involved in the crash even though his car never made physical contact with the other two.
...so we are just forced to deal with ads in games when they appear
Or ignore them, or choose a different game.
Today, you are the consumer, paying your money for a game title. If the trend flips to the point where you are a product, being sold to the advertiser, you just need to decide if you want to be sold or not.
Evi Nemeth used to tell us how to lay out a fiber ring -- separate egress from the buildings, diverse routes from location to location, etc -- and how NOT to lay out a ring. When CU Boulder put in their fiber ring, they ran the spans in separate conduit, which they lay in the same trench. The conduits were not at different depths, nor were they really that far apart (about 3 inches)
They put the bright orange plastic sheet ("Hey backhoe guy! Stop digging now!") right on top of the conduit, then filled in the trench.
From TFA:
During the investigation, undercover agents with U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement paid $265 to have a modification chip, a
hard drive and 77 pirated games installed on an Xbox, according to
the criminal complaint.
This is where we all cheer, because the DMCA is being used appropriately.
I suspect this story only got a green light because it has that
particular acronym, but seriously guys -- this is what the law is
supposed to do, right?
Did this just get posted so we could laugh at these guys for being so
blatant?
In any case, a warm-blooded fish is... well interesting though somewhat worthless trivia in the grand scheme of things. Some interesting information would be in determining how long this change required and if there is indication that this change is not yet complete in that they will continue to get warmer or develop other features to aid in their survival in that environment.
Yeah! Way to nail the really interesting question!
Sorry to bear bad news, but most of AT&T Labs has been outsourced to IBM as of last May.
IBM is actively trying to move as much of that work as possible to India, and they are overt about this. It's discussed openly in director-level all-hands meetings.
I used to work for Labs, and became an IBM employee with the outsourcing, and then found myself reporting to someone with the @in.ibm.com address.
Then the people who knew WHY we did our jobs kept leaving, and getting replaced by people who only knew how to populate status reports and timesheet codes.
Then I quit and got a job in the Energy sector instead.
AT&T Labs is essentially gone, and will never be reformed in the SBC/AT&T merged company.
He's essentially claiming that identity theft is too easy, and the banks should not allow you access to funds with such simple authentication (name, ssn, address, etc)
Here's the news flash -- if his recommendations are put into practice today, then bank web sites will use some super-nifty-turbo authentication before you gain access to your funds. That will lock out any Phishers who just have yesterday's identity theft kit.
Instead, the phishers will just spoof the super-nifty-turbo website, and have a new super-nifty-turbo ID theft kit.
Phishing highlights how bad the issue is, phishing isn't the issue. If anything, the presence of the additional verification steps on the Phisher's site will lead people to believe that it simply MUST be the real deal!
It would be great. Every time you click on an ad you get a free minute of long distance. Sounds like a good idea for the home user who wants to talk to his family in India. I can only imagine the number of clicks happening.
That's not a bad idea.
But I've got a slightly better one -- just get Skype, and you get a free minute of long distance.
Then another one, then another one.
Skype doesn't charge for long distance, only for Skype-out calls to non-Skype (landline) numbers.
Sorry that I don't have a citation -- I wasn't at the conference -- she told the story to me and other students of her 'Special Topics in Computer Networking' class in 1991, maybe 1992.
I googled a bit, and found several pages with the same short bio text about her:
... Nemeth is best known for originally identifying inadequacies in and breaking the "Diffie-Hellman trap," the mathematical basis for a large portion of modern network cryptography.
FWIW, DES was effectively broken by Evi Nemeth (at CU Boulder) using a paired-primes database and an all-software solution. There was no hardware-based key cracker, there was an algorithm that took a ton of cylces to generate the db, then a simple bit of lookup code to decrypt the cyphertext.
IIRC, when she demonstrated it, they decrypted something like 5,000 passwords from a nearby/etc/passwd file in less than a minute on a Sun3.
She made a point of telling us that the NSA has a copy of her work and her database.
I love WoW, but the last time that the servers were down, I opened up that big wooden door and I saw something that I'll never forget.
It was bright. And hot. Like, I could feel the heat on my skin.
What the hell is that thing, anyway?
ps: Don't worry -- I went back inside and the burning sensations have stopped.
I gave them the P2-450 when I bought my wife a P4-3g. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time. This year, they'll be getting the net access enabled. They're 8 and 5 now.
Laptop? Nah... Too fragile for this age. When they're in middle school? Maybe.
Amen brother! If that downtime is randomly distributed, than means that about 1 call in 20 won't happen because your VOIP provider is down.
Personally, I receive about that many calls over the course of a day, and place about twice that many. Thankfully, I've only called 911 twice in the past 10 years, but it would be annoying as hell to accept a ~5% failure rate for telephony.
Diving to depth is a skilled task, but so is flying a plane.
I'm gonna assume this is a 9/11 reference.
Flying a plane is trivial. Landing a plane is a skilled task. Hell, taking off is pretty tough too, but the 9/11 hijackers didn't even have to do that. They simply took over the controls of an already-flying craft, and manipulated the stick and throttle controls.
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To add to your example -- if you're driving down a Canadian (or US) highway during a snowstorm, and someone drives off the road to avoid hitting you, then yes you are involved, and yes they'll come after you if you don't stop.
Ross was involved in the competition, and the competition led to a crash. Ross was involved in the crash even though his car never made physical contact with the other two.
Give me a few minutes -- I'll have a .torrent for you.
...so we are just forced to deal with ads in games when they appear
Or ignore them, or choose a different game.
Today, you are the consumer, paying your money for a game title. If the trend flips to the point where you are a product, being sold to the advertiser, you just need to decide if you want to be sold or not.
Just something to ponder.
Evi Nemeth used to tell us how to lay out a fiber ring -- separate egress from the buildings, diverse routes from location to location, etc -- and how NOT to lay out a ring.
When CU Boulder put in their fiber ring, they ran the spans in separate conduit, which they lay in the same trench. The conduits were not at different depths, nor were they really that far apart (about 3 inches)
They put the bright orange plastic sheet ("Hey backhoe guy! Stop digging now!") right on top of the conduit, then filled in the trench.
Surprisingly, it got cut.
'Nuff said
VHS vs BetaMax?
Sheesh! Back in the day, we had Gramophone vs Victrola, and that was enough for us!
Now get off my lawn, you damn kids!
From TFA: During the investigation, undercover agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement paid $265 to have a modification chip, a hard drive and 77 pirated games installed on an Xbox, according to the criminal complaint.
This is where we all cheer, because the DMCA is being used appropriately.
I suspect this story only got a green light because it has that particular acronym, but seriously guys -- this is what the law is supposed to do, right?
Did this just get posted so we could laugh at these guys for being so blatant?
I tried that, then I hit "I feel lucky."
I'm posting this from the coffee shop down the street, since my office building is still on fire, TYVM!
And besides -- how do they taste?
Sorry to bear bad news, but most of AT&T Labs has been outsourced to IBM as of last May.
IBM is actively trying to move as much of that work as possible to India, and they are overt about this. It's discussed openly in director-level all-hands meetings.
I used to work for Labs, and became an IBM employee with the outsourcing, and then found myself reporting to someone with the @in.ibm.com address.
Then the people who knew WHY we did our jobs kept leaving, and getting replaced by people who only knew how to populate status reports and timesheet codes.
Then I quit and got a job in the Energy sector instead.
AT&T Labs is essentially gone, and will never be reformed in the SBC/AT&T merged company.
I can't give you a definition of a "journalist" but I know one when I see one!
He's essentially claiming that identity theft is too easy, and the banks should not allow you access to funds with such simple authentication (name, ssn, address, etc)
Here's the news flash -- if his recommendations are put into practice today, then bank web sites will use some super-nifty-turbo authentication before you gain access to your funds. That will lock out any Phishers who just have yesterday's identity theft kit.
Instead, the phishers will just spoof the super-nifty-turbo website, and have a new super-nifty-turbo ID theft kit.
Phishing highlights how bad the issue is, phishing isn't the issue. If anything, the presence of the additional verification steps on the Phisher's site will lead people to believe that it simply MUST be the real deal!
It would be great. Every time you click on an ad you get a free minute of long distance. Sounds like a good idea for the home user who wants to talk to his family in India. I can only imagine the number of clicks happening.
That's not a bad idea.
But I've got a slightly better one -- just get Skype, and you get a free minute of long distance.
Then another one, then another one.
Skype doesn't charge for long distance, only for Skype-out calls to non-Skype (landline) numbers.
Thank God I'm paid by the hour.
I googled a bit, and found several pages with the same short bio text about her: Hopefully that helps you in your googling.
FWIW, DES was effectively broken by Evi Nemeth (at CU Boulder) using a paired-primes database and an all-software solution. There was no hardware-based key cracker, there was an algorithm that took a ton of cylces to generate the db, then a simple bit of lookup code to decrypt the cyphertext. /etc/passwd file in less than a minute on a Sun3.
IIRC, when she demonstrated it, they decrypted something like 5,000 passwords from a nearby
She made a point of telling us that the NSA has a copy of her work and her database.
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wow... just wow.
I love WoW, but the last time that the servers were down, I opened up that big wooden door and I saw something that I'll never forget.
It was bright. And hot. Like, I could feel the heat on my skin.
What the hell is that thing, anyway?
ps: Don't worry -- I went back inside and the burning sensations have stopped.
You're new here, aren't you?
I gave them the P2-450 when I bought my wife a P4-3g. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time. This year, they'll be getting the net access enabled. They're 8 and 5 now.
Laptop? Nah... Too fragile for this age. When they're in middle school? Maybe.
Doctors are paying US$20k per head for software installs.
Nice to know in case my current day job comes to an unfortunate end.
Amen brother! If that downtime is randomly distributed, than means that about 1 call in 20 won't happen because your VOIP provider is down.
Personally, I receive about that many calls over the course of a day, and place about twice that many. Thankfully, I've only called 911 twice in the past 10 years, but it would be annoying as hell to accept a ~5% failure rate for telephony.
Slightly different tack than "867-5309" but I always used to give 303-722-2713. At least in the 80s, that was a Denver, CO Dial-a-prayer line.
Alternately, for a really good time, call 303-499-7111.
Diving to depth is a skilled task, but so is flying a plane.
I'm gonna assume this is a 9/11 reference.
Flying a plane is trivial. Landing a plane is a skilled task. Hell, taking off is pretty tough too, but the 9/11 hijackers didn't even have to do that. They simply took over the controls of an already-flying craft, and manipulated the stick and throttle controls.