"To get a closer look at the chips on the cards, researchers used acetone to remove the pastic surrounding them, put them in a small vial of heated fuming nitric acid, rinsed them in acetone and then placed them in a ceramic package for probing."
Err,yeah, I do that sort of thing every day in my kitchen!
Lets be honest , "anyone" is a relative term here - anyone whos a whizz with low level logica gate analysis plus knows some chemistry and has access to occiliscopes etc may be able to do it - a normal office guy like me can't. Perhaps a bit too much false modesty on the part of the article author.
If what her father was doing was that bad and she wanted her mother to know then unless the father was physically preventing her from doing so they only thing stopping her was something in her own psychology. Probably deep down she didn't want her to know. But hey , if she preferred suffering instead of causing some family embarrasment thats her choice.
If your hands burning you take it out the fire, you don't keep it then then moan about how much it hurt for the rest of your life. People , even kids, have this thing known as free will.
Err , actually so long as you keep backups of your private data a trojan coming along and screwing it up is a minor annoyance. Finding your computer OS has an infection and won't run properly or even boot is a lot more of a PITA when you have to spend half a day reinstalling it and all the apps and setting everything up the way you want.
Why respond professionally to something that is clearly a scam? He's not the CEO of Google with shareholders to worry about FFS, he's just some guy who had a little company and closed it down and is now doing a day job. So he said "fuck". Well stop the press!
"The only real-time graphical display that the LM had was the window, and they weren't surfing bloated flash-enabled websites while typing up a damage per second spreadsheet in OpenOffice."
No , but the code it was running was running on a processor 1000 times slower. I think the comparison is valid.
But in the 21st century microsoft have decided that a 1Ghz processor (thats 1000 times faster than the apollo CPU) in a netbook is not enough for poor Windows 7 to run more than 3 applications at a time. Gimme a friggin break! FFS , what kind of idiots are calling themselves systems programmers these days.
Because when these die most will fall to the bottom of the deep ocean and get buried taking their carbon with them. Perhaps millions of years from now this bloom WILL be back as oil!:)
All that discussion and not a single mention of MUDs, MOOs or any online multiuser text based adventures! Does the fact that they're running on a remote server and have multiple users somehow exclude them from being designated as text based IF? I think not. If anything they're far more imaginative and far longer player commitment than most single user adventures running on the local machine.
A rootkit compromises your entire OS by modifying system files and binaries and allowing remote root access. Mucking up the web server files is annoying but hardly in the same league. And more fool you if you ran apache (or whatever) as root. Also if you'd set it up properly you wouldn't have to "clean it up". You'd just rm -rf the web server directory tree and untar from the backup you made the previous night, right?
The point is they're talking this up as some sort of new approach to programming a browser (or any app). It isn't. At least not outside the Windows world.
I guess thats an advanced concept for application programing in the world of Windows where fork() is still an alien concept.
Excuse me while I remain unimpressed. I'll wait a while longer while MS familiarise themselves with common programming techniques developed in the 1970s.
"I'm talking about Fat Man. "Breeder" reactors reprocess fuel into a form that could be diverted to make nuclear warheads."
In case you hadn't already noticed, the US already has enough warheads to destroy most of the planet a number of times over - do you think they're going to build even more just because some new nuclear power stations have opened FFS??
Jeez, how to people like you manage to dress yourselves in the morning...
"I think his learning difficulties are more my fault for not knowing how to teach him"
Many people don't get taught properly when they're young. Then don't end up autistic. So I would suggest you get off your cross and accept his condition for what it is, not what you want it to be and pretend that in some way he might one day get better. He won't. Deal.
When you're at home just redirect your mobile to you landline FFS! Or is using a phone that plugs into the wall just so uncool these days that you'd sooner be with no phone service at all?
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"but in reality a woman with a penis isn't any more attractive to women than it is to men"
You should visit bangkok sometime! :o)
... that these probes already have and are seen by old ladies and drunks in the Arizona desert all the time!
"To get a closer look at the chips on the cards, researchers used acetone to remove the pastic surrounding them, put them in a small vial of heated fuming nitric acid, rinsed them in acetone and then placed them in a ceramic package for probing."
Err ,yeah, I do that sort of thing every day in my kitchen!
Lets be honest , "anyone" is a relative term here - anyone whos a whizz with low level logica gate analysis plus knows some chemistry and has access to occiliscopes etc may be able to do it - a normal office guy like me can't. Perhaps a bit too much false modesty on the part of the article author.
Head up my "ass"? Sorry , i don't own a donkey. I do have an arse however.
I grew up with an alcoholic father , I know more about it than any of you braindead bleeding hearts.
Is that the best you can come up with? Please...
If what her father was doing was that bad and she wanted her mother to know then unless the father was physically preventing her from doing so they only thing stopping her was something in her own psychology. Probably deep down she didn't want her to know. But hey , if she preferred suffering instead of causing some family embarrasment thats her choice.
If your hands burning you take it out the fire, you don't keep it then then moan about how much it hurt for the rest of your life. People , even kids, have this thing known as free will.
"It's a pity my mom didn't have something like this to let her know all those years when my dad was molesting me."
Yeah , or heres a radical idea - you could have friggin told her.
It would be like saying that allowing PC/Mac programmers to use the IP sockets API will let them crash their local router.
Give us a break Apple, you're coming across as more and more control freaks and foolish every week.
Yeah , the backup is called the installation DVD you moron.
... if everyone knows about it?
Or am I missing something here?
Err , actually so long as you keep backups of your private data a trojan coming along and screwing it up is a minor annoyance. Finding your computer OS has an infection and won't run properly or even boot is a lot more of a PITA when you have to spend half a day reinstalling it and all the apps and setting everything up the way you want.
I have these things called "backups". You might want to try them sometime.
Why respond professionally to something that is clearly a scam? He's not the CEO of Google with shareholders to worry about FFS, he's just some guy who had a little company and closed it down and is now doing a day job. So he said "fuck". Well stop the press!
"The only real-time graphical display that the LM had was the window, and they weren't surfing bloated flash-enabled websites while typing up a damage per second spreadsheet in OpenOffice."
No , but the code it was running was running on a processor 1000 times slower. I think the comparison is valid.
Whats shit about it? Are saying they weren't claiming that they were going to limit notebooks win7 to 3 apps for "performance" purposes?
In 2K in 1969!
But in the 21st century microsoft have decided that a 1Ghz processor (thats 1000 times faster than the apollo CPU) in a netbook is not enough for poor Windows 7 to run more than 3 applications at a time. Gimme a friggin break! FFS , what kind of idiots are calling themselves systems programmers these days.
Because when these die most will fall to the bottom of the deep ocean and get buried taking their carbon with them. Perhaps millions of years from now this bloom WILL be back as oil! :)
All that discussion and not a single mention of MUDs, MOOs or any online multiuser text based adventures! Does the fact that they're running on a remote server and have multiple users somehow exclude them from being designated as text based IF? I think not. If anything they're far more imaginative and far longer player commitment than most single user adventures running on the local machine.
A rootkit compromises your entire OS by modifying system files and binaries and allowing remote root access. Mucking up the web server files is annoying but hardly in the same league. And more fool you if you ran apache (or whatever) as root. Also if you'd set it up properly you wouldn't have to "clean it up". You'd just rm -rf the web server directory tree and untar from the backup you made the previous night, right?
Err yes, and?
The point is they're talking this up as some sort of new approach to programming a browser (or any app). It isn't. At least not outside the Windows world.
I guess thats an advanced concept for application programing in the world of Windows where fork() is still an alien concept.
Excuse me while I remain unimpressed. I'll wait a while longer while MS familiarise themselves with common programming techniques developed in the 1970s.
"I'm talking about Fat Man. "Breeder" reactors reprocess fuel into a form that could be diverted to make nuclear warheads."
In case you hadn't already noticed, the US already has enough warheads to destroy most of the planet a number of times over - do you think they're going to build even more just because some new nuclear power stations have opened FFS??
Jeez, how to people like you manage to dress yourselves in the morning...
"I think his learning difficulties are more my fault for not knowing how to teach him"
Many people don't get taught properly when they're young. Then don't end up autistic. So I would suggest you get off your cross and accept his condition for what it is, not what you want it to be and pretend that in some way he might one day get better. He won't. Deal.
In that case thats their fault and their problem if they have no phone service. They shouldn't be so tight.
When you're at home just redirect your mobile to you landline FFS! Or is using a phone that plugs into the wall just so uncool these days that you'd sooner be with no phone service at all?