My boss recently asked me if there was a way to encrypt the mouse signal because it could possibly reveal where the info is displayed on the screen. He's also the one who refuses to use a KVM switch because de 3 caracters buffer could be read from a compromised machine and be used to peice together a password.
Yet if you call him up and say you were from MasterCard and asked for his info, he'd probably give'em up withtout a second thought. He's a manager after all... =)
Isn't this like, stating the obvious? We all know that if you place all MP3, p0rn and zeraw onto a single HD and it fails or gets lost, you just lost everything. Well the Earth is just one big basket and we're all eggs on it. If it "drops" we're all doomed for sure.
Oh there might be some survivors but in what state will there be and what kind of planet will be left? Of course this depends on what kind of event will occur but i won't go there. If it is a near extinction event and there are some survivors (and i don't want to be one!), they'll go back to the stone ages with village elders telling stories about people living in tall, straight mountains and moving around by sitting inside very fast things.
True that there's a lot of ego-stroking going on at DevArt. But as mentionned elsewhere, that, and the "generic top faved of the day" syndrome, are hardly exclusive. There's lots of good talent on DA (not all of'em popular) and they're helpfull if you ask them.
This would depend on your city regulation i guess. Here in Montréal (Qc, Ca) Motorcycles can park in the same meter space, but if the meter runs out they all get a ticket. I'd figure it would be the same with small cars and horse cariages!:-)
This smells a lot like the failed WindowsME. As i recall it was supposed to be the next grand thing in computing. A step as big as the one from Win3.1 to 95. It ended up as a mere add-on for Windows98 with more crashes-prone features than you can point a "shrug and reboot" attitude at!
If they keep droping ground breaking feature like that, in 2006 they'll be releasing a "Windows XP longhorn edition"!:-)
Not to mention that as soon as there is a *hint* of something broken (network lag, application crash, PC freeze,...) It's immediatly "the computer guy's" fault. No matter that duffus two cubicles down the isle is trying to send a 50Mb attachement to the entire directory, but this suddently sluggish network is all IT's fault!!
What sets IT appart is that it doesn't matter who broke it or why, but you can bet that a computer or some IT guy is going to get blamed for it and will have to fix it pronto (of course that report it was due out yesterday!). I don't mind the fixing part, that's part of what i signed up for, but taking the blame for everything that goes *poof* in the building i could do without!
I work in a police force environement. They have a strict policy on hard drives: No hard drives ever leaves the HQ, unless it is sealed it it's original bag or to be used by a employee. If a PC or laptop has to be shipped to be repaired, we remove the drives. When we give our PCs to charity, they're HDless. Even faulty drives aren't thrown away. They're kept until someone decides to head to the incinerator and throw'em in themselves. Even if they're under warranty (and needs to be returned to be honored) we don't. We buy a new drive and that's it!
It'd figure other industries would do the same. Heck it's your business, your data, your life (well, only of part of it hopefully!) you have on these disk. Why bother with selling them? To get 20$ 50$? The way i see it, selling hard drives is equal to selling random filing cabinet without making sure they're empty.
slightly off-topic side note: Some officers here are so tight about security: One of out tech went out to replace a fried power supply. When walking out with the roasted one, one guy asked: "Hey couldn't there be data on there?" the tech answered a polite "no" with a smile. The guy handed him a pair of cutter and said:"Well why don't you cut-off those wires just to make sure" !!:-D /slightly off-topic side note
Talking (or swearing) at your PC/Mac/OUIJA board is normal. It's when it starts talking back to you that you need some sleep or a visit to your local mental institute!
yep... every single year for the past 5 years i'd say. Linux makes greats strides toward a wider acceptance but it will throw off MS as much as it did it last year! Anybody thinks MS is weaker today because the last 5 years was "the year of linux"?
Speeding is not the trouble, it's never been. Humans in control of the cars are the problems, and a automatic red light certainly won't fix anything. How would you react to it?
1- "hmm... maybe i'm being unsafe to my fellow citizen and this radared red light is only warning me that i am a potential danger! I should slow down so as to no longer endanger the lives of my fellow, taxpaying citizen! i'll just be late to my meeting and the boss will have to wait"
2- "GODAM@#$*(@# STOOPID @#$*()@*@# LIGHT GONNA GET ME LATE TO THE MEETING !!!!! COMON YOU STOO@()#*$(*@ B*TCH GO GREEN ALLREADY COMON!!!!!!"
Like it not not, rightfull or not, this isn't gonna help anything.
This is nothing new in the Sport Compact car scene. Ppl have been doing this for a while now. And since most engines are toned down from their original specs to increase ride comfort and fuel efficiency, modding the chip back to higher performance won't damage it much more than usual.
and for those who answer 'just get a bigger/faster car' why don't you just get a brand new PC instead of just changing the CPU ?;-)
after a while, spotting cheaters is relatively easy. Most online FPS allow you to go spec (spectator mode) and follow other players. That way you can investigate before crying cheat
For example if your suspected cheaters anticipates or reacts to ppl behind walls, chances are good you've got a wallhacker. Also, many games gives stats (hit ratio, rounds fired, head shots,...) If your suspected cheater has over 50% headshots with 300 bullets fired, he's no longer suspect.
Do be carefull though because some ppl have aimbots included in their heads. It's called talent and no punkbuster will save you from it!:-)
beentheredundat, my company also had a whole line of laptops brought down to a crawl because of new.net's IP stack (weirdly enough, only a single model was affected). Worst of all, it wasn't just slowing down net connections, the whole laptop was slow. The kind of slow that you click and there's action 2 mins afterwards.
Fortunately it had a working uninstall script... if you had the patience to run it!:-)
I wish it would report those MLH (Middle Lane Hoggers) cell phone abuser, cut-off specialist tailgaters and right-side passers instead. They're reponsible for much more accidents than simple speeders.
Of course, combine the two and you got a ticking time bomb just waiting for the right target.
If the black box was used to convict just that kind of driver, all the better. But if this gets widely adopted, i can turn sour and abusive real quick! Just imagine your inssurance Cie knowing exactly how you drive...
No way this is a TOUGHbook! Did you see the previous ones? Big, bulky, freakin heavy, but you could park a car over it and drag it across a snowbank and it would still work. They were made for field work, this one is just as fragile as the rest of'em.
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Yet if you call him up and say you were from MasterCard and asked for his info, he'd probably give'em up withtout a second thought. He's a manager after all... =)
Oh there might be some survivors but in what state will there be and what kind of planet will be left? Of course this depends on what kind of event will occur but i won't go there. If it is a near extinction event and there are some survivors (and i don't want to be one!), they'll go back to the stone ages with village elders telling stories about people living in tall, straight mountains and moving around by sitting inside very fast things.
True that there's a lot of ego-stroking going on at DevArt. But as mentionned elsewhere, that, and the "generic top faved of the day" syndrome, are hardly exclusive. There's lots of good talent on DA (not all of'em popular) and they're helpfull if you ask them.
On place to look for art and helpfull artists is Deviantart
This would depend on your city regulation i guess. :-)
Here in Montréal (Qc, Ca) Motorcycles can park in the same meter space, but if the meter runs out they all get a ticket. I'd figure it would be the same with small cars and horse cariages!
This smells a lot like the failed WindowsME. As i recall it was supposed to be the next grand thing in computing. A step as big as the one from Win3.1 to 95. It ended up as a mere add-on for Windows98 with more crashes-prone features than you can point a "shrug and reboot" attitude at!
:-)
If they keep droping ground breaking feature like that, in 2006 they'll be releasing a "Windows XP longhorn edition"!
Not to mention that as soon as there is a *hint* of something broken (network lag, application crash, PC freeze, ...) It's immediatly "the computer guy's" fault. No matter that duffus two cubicles down the isle is trying to send a 50Mb attachement to the entire directory, but this suddently sluggish network is all IT's fault!!
What sets IT appart is that it doesn't matter who broke it or why, but you can bet that a computer or some IT guy is going to get blamed for it and will have to fix it pronto (of course that report it was due out yesterday!). I don't mind the fixing part, that's part of what i signed up for, but taking the blame for everything that goes *poof* in the building i could do without!
It'd figure other industries would do the same. Heck it's your business, your data, your life (well, only of part of it hopefully!) you have on these disk. Why bother with selling them? To get 20$ 50$? The way i see it, selling hard drives is equal to selling random filing cabinet without making sure they're empty.
slightly off-topic side note: :-D
/slightly off-topic side note
Some officers here are so tight about security: One of out tech went out to replace a fried power supply. When walking out with the roasted one, one guy asked: "Hey couldn't there be data on there?" the tech answered a polite "no" with a smile. The guy handed him a pair of cutter and said:"Well why don't you cut-off those wires just to make sure" !!
1- "hmm ... maybe i'm being unsafe to my fellow citizen and this radared red light is only warning me that i am a potential danger! I should slow down so as to no longer endanger the lives of my fellow, taxpaying citizen! i'll just be late to my meeting and the boss will have to wait"
2- "GODAM@#$*(@# STOOPID @#$*()@*@# LIGHT GONNA GET ME LATE TO THE MEETING !!!!! COMON YOU STOO@()#*$(*@ B*TCH GO GREEN ALLREADY COMON!!!!!!"
Like it not not, rightfull or not, this isn't gonna help anything.
and for those who answer 'just get a bigger/faster car' why don't you just get a brand new PC instead of just changing the CPU ? ;-)
For example if your suspected cheaters anticipates or reacts to ppl behind walls, chances are good you've got a wallhacker. Also, many games gives stats (hit ratio, rounds fired, head shots, ...) If your suspected cheater has over 50% headshots with 300 bullets fired, he's no longer suspect.
Do be carefull though because some ppl have aimbots included in their heads. It's called talent and no punkbuster will save you from it! :-)
Anyone knows why?
For now i put up with Puretrack.com's DRMed WMAs for lack of better service, but it's a pain in the $@@.
Fortunately it had a working uninstall script ... if you had the patience to run it! :-)
Of course, combine the two and you got a ticking time bomb just waiting for the right target. If the black box was used to convict just that kind of driver, all the better. But if this gets widely adopted, i can turn sour and abusive real quick! Just imagine your inssurance Cie knowing exactly how you drive ...