My office is in evacuation zone 'a' about a block from the beach on Staten Island. Shut down my PCs and put them on my desk just in case the place floods...
I'm thinking this is likely going to be just a normal storm by the time it hits us, nothing major, some downed trees and powerlines. Kind of like what happened during the huge blizzards we had this past winter except without all the ice and snow. I'm moving my car away from under the trees so they don't crash on it but other than that I'm not to concerned.
That'd be easier to do if instead of Firefox 6 they called it FIrefox 11-8 (2011, Aug.) That way they can release multiple editions on their quick schedule and you'd know the year and month it was released just by knowing the version number.
Meanwhile most of the customers coming into my shop still run Firefox 3. Why are they releasing major versions so frequently, there's going to be a lot of people with very low Firefox version numbers that don't know they're 10 versions behind and wouldn't know how to fix that.
Yeah they can increase fuel economy while keeping safety but its way easier and cheaper to build a lightweight car with less safety features and better fuel economy. Especially when the MPG rating is one of the first thing you notice looking at the sticker on a car. It just makes sense for them to skimp elsewhere when it means car manufacturers can get a more fuel efficient car that'll be more attractive to consumers in todays economy.
This entire effort might be useless if they're not using good encryption. Is there one master passphrase to bypass all of the encryption? Also, they make no mention of how they plan to prevent physical theft of data again just that 'Well this time I put a password on my data, take that thieves!'
It seems technically infeasible to maintain such a list, plus how can they keep track of you being on the list?
I feel like the poll question was 'Do you want a way to prevent keeping track of everything about you and preventing that information to be used fort sending junk mail?
If you're using a magnetic field to control the plasma then any magnet can still interfere with the light saber. For some reason I was expecting a much more technical article than 'its got a metal rod in the center, tada!'
Yeah I don't get why every few months there's a story discussing the Business of Spam. High speed internet access as well as computing power are just getting cheaper so sending spam is just becoming more profitable, I don't see what's left to discuss...
That way it doesn't parse through EVERYTHING (program files and the windows folders would be brutal)
Also the registry fix is basically navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
Then change the command to be - "%1" %*
Take note of whatever was before the "%1" %* before since that's the malware. Generally you can delete the file manually in safe mode or from a knoppix boot disk (you want to remove this file before doing any of the other steps.) There might be a couple other files (generally in the infected users Temp directory) with the same creation date/time and some random name like {4981joijqw-dq01290-1298dj120}.
That's generally the steps I take for my 5 minute virus removal. Then while you're in the registry you might want to check the policies on the machine (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies) as a lot of these things change it so you can no longer start the TaskManager, etc.
Particularly long? I think it's 12 miles, lots of sharp turns, some good high speed straights. Electric cars are limited by the low top speeds, and I'm sure the extra weight from the batteries doesn't help either.
I love using my mac for web development, it works perfectly for everything I've tried to do so far. Plus I don't think this guy realizes, but there's an emacs port for mac. A quick google search found this. I've had emacs on my mac pro since the day I bought it.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
I'm pretty sure a computer can do all of those things. Detecting a pedestrian, a crash ahead of you, a semi jackknifing, weaving in a strong wind, a deer, tree branch, box full of dishes, a squirrel, or even a gigantic pothole is all just basic "There's an object of roughly x size ahead of me moving at roughly y speed" though "roughly" for the computer will probably be a lot more accurate than for a human. Then it's just a matter of "if our current direction places this car into that object, will we crash", picking the best course correction depending on the conditions and then performing it, all faster than a human brain can tell their foot to move off of the accelerator. I mean, that's a heck of a lot better than the thought process of most people I've seen drive which is generally "WE'RE GOING TO DIE, SLAM THE BRAKES!"
As far as a tire blowing out, if it happens on the car driving that's an easy thing to handle. I've had a tire blow out on the highway (twice) and both times it's "Okay this ride's gotten bumpier and harder to steer, time to slow down gradually and not make any sudden moves." Programming that into a computer is easy. It'd be harder to get a computer to jerk the wheel to the right or slam the brakes (which again, is what most people do when they freak out, then they lose control and cause an accident.) With black ice again, the computer can definitely handle the situation better than a human. It's a matter of detecting differences in the albedo of a surface, coupled with temperature and humidity sensors (which some cars I've driven actually come with to warn of black ice) obviously since you're not getting black ice if the road surface is 160F in the middle of a Phoenix summer. Then proceeding more cautiously when a possible ice patch on the road is detected, or avoiding the patch entirely.
The call was muted to avoid any issues with the sound causing an increase in brain activity.
What i'd like to know is how close was the phone to the ear? They said the part of the brain closest to the antenna showed the increase in activity but if the phone is that close to the head then it seems entirely possible that it was affected by the heat ahone generates in a 50 minute phone call.
I feel like they should redo the experiment, actually do something where the antenna is seperate from the phone body and next to the brain. Also why not test multiple scenarios, left phone on in a call, right phone on in a call, both phones in a call, both phones off, both phones on, etc. This experiment just tested both phones on, both phones off and right phone on. It seems kind of half assed.
The government installed a lighting fixture! Those bastards! Its dimmable too! Clearly they want him to have mood lighting so he can seduce women in his bathroom, and mate with them. They clearly want an army of Danchev's under government control. He can't use a phone or a computer because the government enrolled him in dozens of online dating sites and posted his phone number in his profile. It all makes sense!
E-mail is still difficult for some, no one knows their server info and the only emai most of the customers at our shop can use is through AOL. Anything else and they're entirely lost. Someone might make an IRC client as easy to use as AOL but they still need to find a server to use and a channel to join. Sure you can give everyone a link to join a specific channel/server but then you're spaming everyone again.
You were just saying that's the perfect use of a chat room, real time updates and such. Now you switch the argument to e-mail which the original poster said would just annoy people who don't want that e-mail. Either scenario would be wrong, IRC is too complicated for old Aunt Tilly and e-mail is annoying for those who don't want your spam.
I've never seen a box of screws with a serial number on it or any information that makes it any more identifiable then the next box of the same brand screws. Probably because that information isn't that important. It would cost a lot of money for some big company selling screws to home depot to serialize and keep track of every box of screws they manufacture. They'd have to add another step to their manufacturing process plus they'd need a decently powerful system with a very large database that can handle all of the serial numbers from every box. All to keep serial numbers on something that is likely to get thrown out immediately by the end user (used to work in construction, we never kept the boxes for screws we just dumped them into the right sized bins.)
I had this problem several years back with an HP I bought...
Was having trouble with the AGP, did some research, and found that there were updated drivers available. But nobody could tell me what was on my motherboard.
Look harder next time. Put in your serial number and it'll tell you every part in your system.
These days I run into the same thing very routinely with Dell machines. Two different machines built to the same specifications might wind up with significantly different hardware inside.
Same thing with Dell. Put in your express service code, then click "Original System Configuration." The information is out there you just need to look.
That's his point, they can control what we do. If we hack their hardware to run better with simple software solutions then they'll just redesign the hardware so there's a physical restriction on how well the card will perform. Though there would be no point in being able to hack the device if you're too afraid to do it for fear that they might cripple future devices.
That sounds like a horrid concept. "Yeah sorry hun I'd call you but I clicked a link on facebook and now my phone's infected with some nasty spyware that injects 5 second ads for viagra in all of my calls."
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My office is in evacuation zone 'a' about a block from the beach on Staten Island. Shut down my PCs and put them on my desk just in case the place floods...
I'm thinking this is likely going to be just a normal storm by the time it hits us, nothing major, some downed trees and powerlines. Kind of like what happened during the huge blizzards we had this past winter except without all the ice and snow. I'm moving my car away from under the trees so they don't crash on it but other than that I'm not to concerned.
That'd be easier to do if instead of Firefox 6 they called it FIrefox 11-8 (2011, Aug.) That way they can release multiple editions on their quick schedule and you'd know the year and month it was released just by knowing the version number.
Meanwhile most of the customers coming into my shop still run Firefox 3. Why are they releasing major versions so frequently, there's going to be a lot of people with very low Firefox version numbers that don't know they're 10 versions behind and wouldn't know how to fix that.
Yeah they can increase fuel economy while keeping safety but its way easier and cheaper to build a lightweight car with less safety features and better fuel economy. Especially when the MPG rating is one of the first thing you notice looking at the sticker on a car. It just makes sense for them to skimp elsewhere when it means car manufacturers can get a more fuel efficient car that'll be more attractive to consumers in todays economy.
It's hard enough getting kids to take out the trash, imagine when its nuclear waste?
"But moooom, I took it out last week! And my hair still hasn't grown back yet!"
This entire effort might be useless if they're not using good encryption. Is there one master passphrase to bypass all of the encryption? Also, they make no mention of how they plan to prevent physical theft of data again just that 'Well this time I put a password on my data, take that thieves!'
It seems technically infeasible to maintain such a list, plus how can they keep track of you being on the list?
I feel like the poll question was 'Do you want a way to prevent keeping track of everything about you and preventing that information to be used fort sending junk mail?
I wasn't around for this sort of stuff but wasn't this the sort of thing Radio Shacks customers were doing 25+ years ago?
If you're using a magnetic field to control the plasma then any magnet can still interfere with the light saber. For some reason I was expecting a much more technical article than 'its got a metal rod in the center, tada!'
Yeah I don't get why every few months there's a story discussing the Business of Spam. High speed internet access as well as computing power are just getting cheaper so sending spam is just becoming more profitable, I don't see what's left to discuss...
attrib -h /S /D C:\*.*
A bit quicker -
cd c:\Users - Vista or Windows 7
or
cd c:\Documents and Settings - Windows XP
Then
attrib -h /S /D *
That way it doesn't parse through EVERYTHING (program files and the windows folders would be brutal)
Also the registry fix is basically navigate to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command
Then change the command to be - "%1" %*
Take note of whatever was before the "%1" %* before since that's the malware. Generally you can delete the file manually in safe mode or from a knoppix boot disk (you want to remove this file before doing any of the other steps.) There might be a couple other files (generally in the infected users Temp directory) with the same creation date/time and some random name like {4981joijqw-dq01290-1298dj120}.
That's generally the steps I take for my 5 minute virus removal. Then while you're in the registry you might want to check the policies on the machine (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies) as a lot of these things change it so you can no longer start the TaskManager, etc.
and we remain confident in the integrity of our robust, multi-layered information systems security
Translation: Our system's breached but maybe you won't realize that if I throw enough buzz words at you...
Particularly long? I think it's 12 miles, lots of sharp turns, some good high speed straights. Electric cars are limited by the low top speeds, and I'm sure the extra weight from the batteries doesn't help either.
160,000 years ago
I mean its not very hard to find which is surprising considering how hard fossils are to make.
I love using my mac for web development, it works perfectly for everything I've tried to do so far. Plus I don't think this guy realizes, but there's an emacs port for mac. A quick google search found this. I've had emacs on my mac pro since the day I bought it.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
I'm pretty sure a computer can do all of those things. Detecting a pedestrian, a crash ahead of you, a semi jackknifing, weaving in a strong wind, a deer, tree branch, box full of dishes, a squirrel, or even a gigantic pothole is all just basic "There's an object of roughly x size ahead of me moving at roughly y speed" though "roughly" for the computer will probably be a lot more accurate than for a human. Then it's just a matter of "if our current direction places this car into that object, will we crash", picking the best course correction depending on the conditions and then performing it, all faster than a human brain can tell their foot to move off of the accelerator. I mean, that's a heck of a lot better than the thought process of most people I've seen drive which is generally "WE'RE GOING TO DIE, SLAM THE BRAKES!"
As far as a tire blowing out, if it happens on the car driving that's an easy thing to handle. I've had a tire blow out on the highway (twice) and both times it's "Okay this ride's gotten bumpier and harder to steer, time to slow down gradually and not make any sudden moves." Programming that into a computer is easy. It'd be harder to get a computer to jerk the wheel to the right or slam the brakes (which again, is what most people do when they freak out, then they lose control and cause an accident.) With black ice again, the computer can definitely handle the situation better than a human. It's a matter of detecting differences in the albedo of a surface, coupled with temperature and humidity sensors (which some cars I've driven actually come with to warn of black ice) obviously since you're not getting black ice if the road surface is 160F in the middle of a Phoenix summer. Then proceeding more cautiously when a possible ice patch on the road is detected, or avoiding the patch entirely.
The call was muted to avoid any issues with the sound causing an increase in brain activity.
What i'd like to know is how close was the phone to the ear? They said the part of the brain closest to the antenna showed the increase in activity but if the phone is that close to the head then it seems entirely possible that it was affected by the heat ahone generates in a 50 minute phone call.
I feel like they should redo the experiment, actually do something where the antenna is seperate from the phone body and next to the brain. Also why not test multiple scenarios, left phone on in a call, right phone on in a call, both phones in a call, both phones off, both phones on, etc. This experiment just tested both phones on, both phones off and right phone on. It seems kind of half assed.
Starbucks are generally much larger than an indie coffee shop, plus not offering free wifi would hurt their business a lot more than it would help.
The government installed a lighting fixture! Those bastards! Its dimmable too! Clearly they want him to have mood lighting so he can seduce women in his bathroom, and mate with them. They clearly want an army of Danchev's under government control. He can't use a phone or a computer because the government enrolled him in dozens of online dating sites and posted his phone number in his profile. It all makes sense!
E-mail is still difficult for some, no one knows their server info and the only emai most of the customers at our shop can use is through AOL. Anything else and they're entirely lost. Someone might make an IRC client as easy to use as AOL but they still need to find a server to use and a channel to join. Sure you can give everyone a link to join a specific channel/server but then you're spaming everyone again.
You were just saying that's the perfect use of a chat room, real time updates and such. Now you switch the argument to e-mail which the original poster said would just annoy people who don't want that e-mail. Either scenario would be wrong, IRC is too complicated for old Aunt Tilly and e-mail is annoying for those who don't want your spam.
I've never seen a box of screws with a serial number on it or any information that makes it any more identifiable then the next box of the same brand screws. Probably because that information isn't that important. It would cost a lot of money for some big company selling screws to home depot to serialize and keep track of every box of screws they manufacture. They'd have to add another step to their manufacturing process plus they'd need a decently powerful system with a very large database that can handle all of the serial numbers from every box. All to keep serial numbers on something that is likely to get thrown out immediately by the end user (used to work in construction, we never kept the boxes for screws we just dumped them into the right sized bins.)
I had this problem several years back with an HP I bought...
Was having trouble with the AGP, did some research, and found that there were updated drivers available. But nobody could tell me what was on my motherboard.
Look harder next time. Put in your serial number and it'll tell you every part in your system.
These days I run into the same thing very routinely with Dell machines. Two different machines built to the same specifications might wind up with significantly different hardware inside.
Same thing with Dell. Put in your express service code, then click "Original System Configuration." The information is out there you just need to look.
Luckily, they can't control what we do.
That's his point, they can control what we do. If we hack their hardware to run better with simple software solutions then they'll just redesign the hardware so there's a physical restriction on how well the card will perform. Though there would be no point in being able to hack the device if you're too afraid to do it for fear that they might cripple future devices.
That sounds like a horrid concept. "Yeah sorry hun I'd call you but I clicked a link on facebook and now my phone's infected with some nasty spyware that injects 5 second ads for viagra in all of my calls."