Yeah but to hack an ATM it's not like you can just pop open the side to reveal a control panel. You've got to some how plug in some form of input besides the number pad. I promise you that if you start pulling the plastic siding off of the ATM somebody in the bank is going to notice. And if you can get to the guts without them noticing (maybe at night), why couldn't you just steal the hard drive? You could reprogram it, and put it back in another ATM to get it to spit out cash.
I feel the lack of impress templates is not so big a problem. I always can find free ones off the net that look pretty good, and if I used Impress more often I would pay the $30 for a CD full of templates that kick both PP and Keynote's ass...
The guard was probably just trying to be polite. Your friend may have just interpreted a rhetorical question the wrong way. If the guard thought he was mouthing off, why wouldn't he be strip searched? Nothing against your friend, but if he was mouthing off to the guards, would he admit that to you or just say they asked him if he wanted to take his shoes off?
In your effort to prove how much smarter you were than the OP, you forgot to check that the prices are greater than $200 -- and thus what the OP described as "overpriced 'educational' machines which are almost equivalent to the 80s machines (over $200 or even $300)."
Ask around...I used to have 7 or 8 old 486s and PIs that I got from people who were throwing them away. They were worthless to those people, but I could install *nix on one and SSH in fast enough. They weren't even fast enough to run X Windows...but for compiling (particularly a comp sci course and not commercial production) they should be fast enough...
And if like me you were a poor student whose landlord would not turn the heat above 50, you can set up a beowolf cluster of old 386s and 486s to make compiling faster, heat your cubicle (erm...apartment) and screw your landlord out of electricity!
It's interesting to note that the safeway card was not the only evidence the police used. If you read the article, you would know the fire was started with things that came from the home (i.e. lighter, cardboard, whatever). You would also know they used Police dogs to sniff the trail of the perpetrator from where the fire was started (a burning cardboard box under his window) to the front door, and whatever other evidence made the police think that it was someone from the home that did it.
Now, I'd have a lot of questions about how damning this evidence actually was. (For instance, the man who was accused put out the fire -- could he have gone back into his front door and the police followed that scent? Plus he (and people in the house) probably walked around the area, how do we know whose scent the dog really picked up? Can rover testify as to his accuracy?) But let's not get all excited because, as you so eloquently put it, the police went after him "all so Safeway could target their demographics better."
The fact of the matter is, the article doesn't tell us how damning the evidence was. What kind of lighter was it? If it's a zippo with the name of the person who was arrested on it, that might be significant. If the stuff that was around the house came from his workbench, that might be significant. And if all of that evidence tied together strongly enough, it might warrant a trial (to try to figure out if he was guilty).
Extremophiles show us that life can exist outside our realm of what is considered normal. To say that an extremophile is direct evidence that there is life in space is incorrect. The point is, we as a race have believed for so many years that things always have to be just so and every hundred years or so an old way of thinking has to be thrown out.
As for your previous comment, no one can blame you for being ignorant about the sciences behind life and its evolution on earth. There is no doubt that the earth had what would be considered an extreme environment when life began, although there is much contention about the nature of that environment. One thing can be certain it is only those types of high energy dynamic environments that can create the necessary conditions for stable organic molecules to form. Not every place on earth would have been hospitable to life including your hypothetical lakes of acid (that probably didn't exist) but in areas rich in organics and were quite warm, not 30K.
You're right when you said life does require special conditions to begin, but no one had to say that those conditions are rare. Our solar system is so small and plain compared the vastness and diversity of the universe. We don't know how or where or even why life evolves but when we look at extremophiles they show us that life can exist in hostile environments and that life is more diverse and hardy than we previously thought.
Here in Syracuse, NY Lockheed Martin just landed a lucrative contract with the government to create the next generation of radar. They are hiring over 500 people in the next few months. If you can't find it via google or just need some more info, email me at trompelamort AT gmail.com.
Watch out! I incorporated in Nevada for something like $160, because i was told that was the way to go. Then the Nevada Department of Taxation told me that they charge $250 a year, + $25 per employee, after I had been incorporated for a year (it's paid in arrears so I couldn't back out). Plus they inform you after you're in your second year, so you now owe $500 + $50 per employee. Plus things get a little more complicated than that. Remember to consult a lawyer before doing anything -- particularly something you heard on slashdot!
Just about every other MP3 player (ok, the creative ones suck in that way too) let's you use it as an USB Mass Storage device, no drivers, no software, and it will play any MP3 you put on there.. Nice and simple!
Point of Information: I have a Creative Nomad MuVo, and I can use it as a USB pen drive, it's pretty small, and pretty sweet. (And it is the size of a USB pen drive, which is the coolest part. My biggest complaint? It lacks an LCD screen)
. I mean three years ago you would get a dual 3.2GHz (1.6 * 2) system to host a medium sized website, and that kind of horsepower is probably still adequate today
A dual 3.2 GHz P4 would host a web site quite a bit larger than "medium sized." Consider this: for a web server, the vast majority of the computational resources are spent in bandwidth. If you had a number of static pages, you could probably serve up web pages from a single 1Ghz to millions of visitors a day[1]. Anything more than that, you'd need for running scripted pages. But even then, we're not talking about an awful lot of horsepower for web development (unless an incredibly bad programmer doesn't realize you need to max out the CPU to post a form)
[1] Watch when a site gets/.ed. With the exceptions of the articles where someone is running apache on their wristwatch, you usually can still get a small trickle of bandwidth from the web site. Depending on how the web server handles things, it may drop your connection randomly to prevent DOS attacks (OpenBSD). But you'll see the server is still up, it's the bandwidth that is the problem.
The question is not are the HD based devices fine for jogging, but are they fine for sprinting? I bought a mini disc player a few years back, that was supposed to be safe to jog with, and it skipped uncontrollably when I ran faster than a pace of 7:30 minutes / mile. Plus, I'd like to point out that jogging / running put an unbelievable amount of stress on devices. If you've got an mp3 player in your arms that you're swinging wildly, and are running at a good clip, I would speculate you could cause a lot of damage to a hard drive that causes it to fail prematurely.
No way dude. You know how many bombs the DOD can make with $4.719e9? More than we got now! Think of all the homeless people we could avoid helping with that money too! Why get people off the streets when we can go kill some Irackis? Seriously, giving back to the people, or giving it to a social program wouldn't make any sense... />
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But if you're cheap like me and willing to wait a year you can still find clearance priced games for $10 to $20! :-D
How could you do that without breaking into the machine?
Yeah but to hack an ATM it's not like you can just pop open the side to reveal a control panel. You've got to some how plug in some form of input besides the number pad. I promise you that if you start pulling the plastic siding off of the ATM somebody in the bank is going to notice. And if you can get to the guts without them noticing (maybe at night), why couldn't you just steal the hard drive? You could reprogram it, and put it back in another ATM to get it to spit out cash.
I feel the lack of impress templates is not so big a problem. I always can find free ones off the net that look pretty good, and if I used Impress more often I would pay the $30 for a CD full of templates that kick both PP and Keynote's ass...
Why can't they be run on OpenOffice? (i.e. if they aren't able now, why isn't it technically feasible)
The guard was probably just trying to be polite. Your friend may have just interpreted a rhetorical question the wrong way. If the guard thought he was mouthing off, why wouldn't he be strip searched? Nothing against your friend, but if he was mouthing off to the guards, would he admit that to you or just say they asked him if he wanted to take his shoes off?
It did say "493 bytes in the body" on the front page.
In your effort to prove how much smarter you were than the OP, you forgot to check that the prices are greater than $200 -- and thus what the OP described as "overpriced 'educational' machines which are almost equivalent to the 80s machines (over $200 or even $300)."
Ask around...I used to have 7 or 8 old 486s and PIs that I got from people who were throwing them away. They were worthless to those people, but I could install *nix on one and SSH in fast enough. They weren't even fast enough to run X Windows...but for compiling (particularly a comp sci course and not commercial production) they should be fast enough...
And if like me you were a poor student whose landlord would not turn the heat above 50, you can set up a beowolf cluster of old 386s and 486s to make compiling faster, heat your cubicle (erm...apartment) and screw your landlord out of electricity!
It's interesting to note that the safeway card was not the only evidence the police used. If you read the article, you would know the fire was started with things that came from the home (i.e. lighter, cardboard, whatever). You would also know they used Police dogs to sniff the trail of the perpetrator from where the fire was started (a burning cardboard box under his window) to the front door, and whatever other evidence made the police think that it was someone from the home that did it.
Now, I'd have a lot of questions about how damning this evidence actually was. (For instance, the man who was accused put out the fire -- could he have gone back into his front door and the police followed that scent? Plus he (and people in the house) probably walked around the area, how do we know whose scent the dog really picked up? Can rover testify as to his accuracy?) But let's not get all excited because, as you so eloquently put it, the police went after him "all so Safeway could target their demographics better."
The fact of the matter is, the article doesn't tell us how damning the evidence was. What kind of lighter was it? If it's a zippo with the name of the person who was arrested on it, that might be significant. If the stuff that was around the house came from his workbench, that might be significant. And if all of that evidence tied together strongly enough, it might warrant a trial (to try to figure out if he was guilty).
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Wasn't that the point of the firefox project?
Extremophiles show us that life can exist outside our realm of what is considered normal. To say that an extremophile is direct evidence that there is life in space is incorrect. The point is, we as a race have believed for so many years that things always have to be just so and every hundred years or so an old way of thinking has to be thrown out.
As for your previous comment, no one can blame you for being ignorant about the sciences behind life and its evolution on earth. There is no doubt that the earth had what would be considered an extreme environment when life began, although there is much contention about the nature of that environment. One thing can be certain it is only those types of high energy dynamic environments that can create the necessary conditions for stable organic molecules to form. Not every place on earth would have been hospitable to life including your hypothetical lakes of acid (that probably didn't exist) but in areas rich in organics and were quite warm, not 30K.
You're right when you said life does require special conditions to begin, but no one had to say that those conditions are rare. Our solar system is so small and plain compared the vastness and diversity of the universe. We don't know how or where or even why life evolves but when we look at extremophiles they show us that life can exist in hostile environments and that life is more diverse and hardy than we previously thought.
Here in Syracuse, NY Lockheed Martin just landed a lucrative contract with the government to create the next generation of radar. They are hiring over 500 people in the next few months. If you can't find it via google or just need some more info, email me at trompelamort AT gmail.com.
Watch out! I incorporated in Nevada for something like $160, because i was told that was the way to go. Then the Nevada Department of Taxation told me that they charge $250 a year, + $25 per employee, after I had been incorporated for a year (it's paid in arrears so I couldn't back out). Plus they inform you after you're in your second year, so you now owe $500 + $50 per employee. Plus things get a little more complicated than that. Remember to consult a lawyer before doing anything -- particularly something you heard on slashdot!
Get a copy of KNOPPIX. Open up your favorite terminal, hit aa and tab to find what the commands are, man it, and use it.
A dual 3.2 GHz P4 would host a web site quite a bit larger than "medium sized." Consider this: for a web server, the vast majority of the computational resources are spent in bandwidth. If you had a number of static pages, you could probably serve up web pages from a single 1Ghz to millions of visitors a day[1]. Anything more than that, you'd need for running scripted pages. But even then, we're not talking about an awful lot of horsepower for web development (unless an incredibly bad programmer doesn't realize you need to max out the CPU to post a form)
[1] Watch when a site gets /.ed. With the exceptions of the articles where someone is running apache on their wristwatch, you usually can still get a small trickle of bandwidth from the web site. Depending on how the web server handles things, it may drop your connection randomly to prevent DOS attacks (OpenBSD). But you'll see the server is still up, it's the bandwidth that is the problem.
Dude, the exploit is part of the Win32 API. Why do you think shell exploits were discovered in other software?
Some of us run for fun and to stay fit :-P My goal is to break a 6 minute mile...
So Patent Dashboard and sue the shit out of MS if they want to make anything incompatible. Even if they settle you can still get a cool billion.
The question is not are the HD based devices fine for jogging, but are they fine for sprinting? I bought a mini disc player a few years back, that was supposed to be safe to jog with, and it skipped uncontrollably when I ran faster than a pace of 7:30 minutes / mile. Plus, I'd like to point out that jogging / running put an unbelievable amount of stress on devices. If you've got an mp3 player in your arms that you're swinging wildly, and are running at a good clip, I would speculate you could cause a lot of damage to a hard drive that causes it to fail prematurely.
your post was an interesting read and I learned a lot. Thank you.
No way dude. You know how many bombs the DOD can make with $4.719e9? More than we got now! Think of all the homeless people we could avoid helping with that money too! Why get people off the streets when we can go kill some Irackis? Seriously, giving back to the people, or giving it to a social program wouldn't make any sense.../>
yeah but I'm broke!