See that's what me and my friend said when we saw the BSG ending. WTF? The whole SERIES was about the drama. So all of a sudden EVERYONE can agree to give it "all" up? Their books? All that knowledge? Evey little comfort?
If you think about it, why do ANY of them want to "mate" with the local population to begin with? How about the new diseases that will be on that planet? It drives me up a wall when I think of that ending!
Then, I think about it. Maybe the writers wrote themselves into a hole? We got the main capital ship that's on its last legs. Almost all the ships in the fleet are bairly operational. Laura Roslin was going to die at any time now. Its like they finished all the story threads and poof, there was nothing there. Did you notice how after the final jump, the entirety of the series ended in 15 minutes? I might complain, but it was still an ending. Better than what they did to Quantum Leap.
To play a bit of Devil Advocate, I think most, if all the crew died within the first 50 years on that planet. Either they run out of ammo by the raids of the native population, killed off by the wild-life or just froze to death because they didn't bother to look at the weather patterns. So maybe it was a good ending for earth and all they did is sper evolution a slight bit all those years ago. 140,000 years is a VERY long time. I doubt even the Pyrmids or the Great Wall could stand that, kind of entropy. Most of their tech could of just rusted away or destroyed by the elements. So the ending could seal up all the loose ends.
Or not, going to stop ranting. The ending was lackluster and I really hated how they brought in the Angel's. The series might of needed a Deus Ex Machina, but that was just the wrong way to go around it.
You make this joke, but I sware to GOD that I got a similar spam message. Apparently its not a Judge but a "UN Coordinator" in Nigeria that is trying to redistribute the scammers money:P
The worst is yet to come my friend. Once those a-holes realized they have not broken the bank, they'll do it all over again for more money.
Its worst than that. We have been on a bubble loop for the last 30 years. What we might be seeing right now is another bubble forming due to the excess cash that was introduced by our government. We haven't had a "real" recession in a while if you think of it. Each one was mild, just being worst than the last. My house is worth just as much as it was 30 years ago. No one I know, who makes under 50k, has had a decent raise in 10 years. I don't see anywhere to go but down.
We have been given some uppers, but they arn't going to last for a few more years. I just hope that when we crash again in five years, it won't take the states with us.
I just updated my Pre too. Scares me though. While Apple is selling DRM free music, dost it really stop them from their software only syncing up to properly signed iPods? I mean I like my iPod, but if its going to be a device that needs a secure encrypted channel to transfer file for me to just use normally, I am not sure I would want to use an iPod again.
That's the point, he went to court. The jury said he is a millionaire and he should put up his cash. Judge said pay up or show insolvency. He didn't and he was in contempt. At any point this guy could file for bankruptcy, show all his financial records, at the very least put a "best" effort into it. Even showing the "losses" in his overseas assets. So what he did?
Nothing.
In the end, he didn't sign a petition by the wife that says he was poor. I am not saying this was the best solution. Maybe the state didn't have the laws in place to garnish wages like this. It could be that the only tool the judge had was to force an order. Whats really telling is that while his lawyer had been working pro bono for 6 years, how much was he being paid for the last 8...
He could of left at any time, but he was THAT much of an asshole that he thought jail was better than paying his wife's fair share.
Thank you for answering some questions regarding this new development. We, as a community, may be skeptical but we always appreciate hearing from you and your colleagues on these matters.
Personally I hope to hear more of these sorts of developments.
What wrong with me. I can't tell if this was a well meaning response or really good sarcasm.
What bothers me more about this is just the amounts of comments berating Microsoft gets here. We even get a head of the open source department to give use well reasoned responses and he is shot by all sides for stuff he probity has no control over. Sure some of the anti Microsoft stuff is warranted, but its getting to the point that the second Microsoft even acknowledges linux, people scream of the Satan devil:P
THe voltage-drop and the deletion of the key were both part of the tests they did. The HSM deletes the key because it thinks that the drop in voltage is a precursor to a physical attack (basically it thinks that it is being carried out of the datacenter). Everything worked as expected; they simply did not remember to make a backup...
Wait, THAT'S what happened? All this time I was willing to blame the incompetence of Gematik for not backing up the key and the vender just running some normal computer like tests. They still should of done this, but if the vender was purposely trying to delete the key then why the heck didn't they have a backup? This is just getting sad now. Next think you know, the next test they do, they will do a plain text export of the damn key for "backup"
Yea GameGuard is crap. I am using Windows RC x64 and it HATES it. I had to download some cracked gamegard files so it could run update itself properly THEN it works. I am not agents anti-cheat measures, but if its not even working right on a clean install then how the heck are you going to keep up with the cheaters?
That double negative sounds awful like "At the time, we didn't know what they were asking":P I guess its just with personal experence. Evey time I hear a manager use double negatives to defend a decision, its because they didn't really know what they were deciding in the first place. Atleast in IT.
Matthias Merx, the firm's managing director, told heise online that following a voltage drop, something happened in D-Trust's "Trustcenter" that does occasionally occur. "The HSM independently deleted the data because it suspected an attack."
Translation? "Someone unplugged the backup power supply before setting the proper mode in the card because we didn't fully understand how sensitive the card is for root CA certs"
Merx explained that "Gematik decided to 'do without a back-up'. As a service provider, we have to accept that,"
Translation? "We asked Gematik that it might be a good idea to back it up and they said its fine its just for testing." or "We recommended to Gematik to back up the card before shipping it to us. They shipped it to us and we just shrugged our shoulders." Bonus points if you guessed they asked a low level manager at Gematik who thinks CA is the first two letters of a cat.
Gematik spokesman Daniel Poeschkens poured scorn on the statement that Gematik had insisted on the service provider carrying out a test without backing up the root CA private keys. "We did not decide against a back-up service. The fact of the matter is that the service provider took over the running of the test system, so it also has to warrant its continuous operation. How it fulfils this obligation is its own responsibility."
Traslation? "Gematik is taking NO RESPONSABLITY WHATSOEVER for doing any safty checks before giving our root ca to an outside vendor."
All in all its not a big deal though. It looks like they just lost the issuing CA and not the revoke keys. It looks like they can still authenticate too. Now if this was the MAIN system germany with 80+ million plus medical cards? I think people are going to be shot:P
So wait, the whole explotie was 900+ servers of unpatched OpenSSH?
Why the hell was OpenSSH open to ALL those servers? Don't they have a VLAN for that sort of internal config? Hell, Yahoo uses a bunch of terminal servers hooked to the serial port to prevent this kind of thing. I bet this is older unpatched OpenSSH too.
Don't know if I agree with their messages, but since the OpenSSH exploits were public for a while now, one would think everyone would be patched.
I wanted to see who was right and it seems Wiki has this very BROAD and DETAILED look at Evey god damn chapter of every book in the bible. With even detail references.
I need to get work done! I can't read hours of learning at a help desk!
I complete agree. The best way to learn is to find a good problem you enjoy and solve it.
I have been trying to learn practical Java even though I have a good C background. I found out the source code for The Ur-Quan Masters was released for GPL and I thought, "Hey! I love that game, it has a special place in my heart. I also know it backward and forward, lets try to convert this C application to Java!"
Trust me, its a miserable experience though. The code is organized haphazardly, even after its been ported to the PC. I never dealt with SDL so I have to go back on a lot of API's to figure out how they are doing the graphics. Heck, all I got now is just a handful of objects that just handle some simple database operations. Did I mention I am also "learning" Java? I barely know how JFrame works let alone the Graphics object. (Or Graphics2D)
However, but struggling with this I am learning, by leaps and bonds, more about Java than I would of ever done in a book. I have to make practical decisions on the conversion that may effect the rest of my coding (ie, should I keep the original uqm file and resource file, or construct one easier for Java to manipulate)
If I was you, I would search the net for a project I was interested in, see if there is free code available, then attempt to finish it. At the very least your learning some basic programing skills. If you finish, you would also contribute to the coding community:)
PS - Also, it teaches you to document your code. I can't wine about the quality of the C comments in this thing because I don't comment very well myself:P
You would "think" Big firmware patch for alot of SCA SCSI drives and some SAS drives were for the TLER issue. Seems even enterprise drives had that number to low:P
They are trying for the casual market to be honest. They are making a cartoonish game so they don't have to upgrade the graphics evey 2 years. They simplify the classes and make the damage model so that you can't be griefed by snipers (much) or people with shot guns. They want a game for even teens to get into without having to worry about the MA rating.
All that being said, while the game was technicaly fun, after you get fairly proficent at it you realize that eveyone in the game is a "lone wolf" and all the group ablitys are pointless. You get to the point that you just want to play stronger appoents but since it has an "instant jump in" and no kind of server list, your just throwing dice. They said they have some kind of skill level matching system, but I think its basted on level not on how many times you kill count:P
I really hope they add a good 4 or 5 more levels AND polish the charater animations. You feel really stiff when you walk around.
I am glad I am not the only one:P When I saw Pirates of the Caribbean I saw the same thing when the kracken was attacking. It looked good in the theaters, but you could see how the monster wasn't "really" destroying the ship
This annoys me. I don't mind the TSA as long as they have a limited scope. It be so much easyer if they made the logo "Look for guns, bombs and knives"
Not, how it currently is, "Look for guns, bombs, knives, large bundles of cash, illegal immigrants, drugs, things that LOOK like drugs, old ladies, and anything else that looks kind of suspicious." They arn't police or the FBI. They cannot arrest anyone. At best they look like a fool when a cop DOES show up.
Sure drugs and other illegal stuff will go though the screens, but if the purpose of the TSA is to stop planes from blowing up, not harass the passengers.
Got first hand experience with this. I have always had this pain at the right site of my hip. After trips to the ER and a doctor that thought it was a "stress muscle" it took my Mom to get cancer before they diagnosed me with gall stones and a non functioning gall bladder.
See my mom came in to the doctor because her pee was red. They did an ultrasound, as she has been doing this for a while, and come to find out one kidney is completely consumed by a tumor . Parents thought it be a good idea if I got one too.
Its not that doctors don't care, its just what do you expect from a general practitioner. The ER said nothing was wrong with me and charged me $200 because I didn't have a hole in my body. The doctor both me and my mom went to doesn't handle alot of serious chronic cases when he apologized. I bet if I went to a heart doctor, he would of thought something was wrong with my heart.
The real problem with our current medical overruns and malpractice by doctors is that we just don't have a good diagnoses process. If they could figure out whats making you sick in under a few days, that would solve a lot of our medical payment issues:P
I don't know how less detailed you can get from that:P For anyone to know, here is the Rough Datasheet of the all in one CPU its using. I am honestly VERY impressed. That cpu is running a small size, built in MMU, starts at 336mhz ( I think thats what this is running at) and has all sorts of built in features (Sound codac, build int LCD display, lots of IO pins and Dram controller). Its even more interesting that the hardware is even designed to boot RIGHT off a usb drive. Makes me want to get a demo board for this thing.
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See that's what me and my friend said when we saw the BSG ending. WTF? The whole SERIES was about the drama. So all of a sudden EVERYONE can agree to give it "all" up? Their books? All that knowledge? Evey little comfort?
If you think about it, why do ANY of them want to "mate" with the local population to begin with? How about the new diseases that will be on that planet? It drives me up a wall when I think of that ending!
Then, I think about it. Maybe the writers wrote themselves into a hole? We got the main capital ship that's on its last legs. Almost all the ships in the fleet are bairly operational. Laura Roslin was going to die at any time now. Its like they finished all the story threads and poof, there was nothing there. Did you notice how after the final jump, the entirety of the series ended in 15 minutes? I might complain, but it was still an ending. Better than what they did to Quantum Leap.
To play a bit of Devil Advocate, I think most, if all the crew died within the first 50 years on that planet. Either they run out of ammo by the raids of the native population, killed off by the wild-life or just froze to death because they didn't bother to look at the weather patterns. So maybe it was a good ending for earth and all they did is sper evolution a slight bit all those years ago. 140,000 years is a VERY long time. I doubt even the Pyrmids or the Great Wall could stand that, kind of entropy. Most of their tech could of just rusted away or destroyed by the elements. So the ending could seal up all the loose ends.
Or not, going to stop ranting. The ending was lackluster and I really hated how they brought in the Angel's. The series might of needed a Deus Ex Machina, but that was just the wrong way to go around it.
You make this joke, but I sware to GOD that I got a similar spam message. Apparently its not a Judge but a "UN Coordinator" in Nigeria that is trying to redistribute the scammers money:P
The worst is yet to come my friend. Once those a-holes realized they have not broken the bank, they'll do it all over again for more money.
Its worst than that. We have been on a bubble loop for the last 30 years. What we might be seeing right now is another bubble forming due to the excess cash that was introduced by our government. We haven't had a "real" recession in a while if you think of it. Each one was mild, just being worst than the last. My house is worth just as much as it was 30 years ago. No one I know, who makes under 50k, has had a decent raise in 10 years. I don't see anywhere to go but down.
We have been given some uppers, but they arn't going to last for a few more years. I just hope that when we crash again in five years, it won't take the states with us.
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ou know... I would pay $100 bucks to see someone wear a live tortoise with white ponder on his neck telling me about the "millions" he has available.
The Google ads alone would give me double that back. Once I record and upload to youtube
I just updated my Pre too. Scares me though. While Apple is selling DRM free music, dost it really stop them from their software only syncing up to properly signed iPods? I mean I like my iPod, but if its going to be a device that needs a secure encrypted channel to transfer file for me to just use normally, I am not sure I would want to use an iPod again.
That's the point, he went to court. The jury said he is a millionaire and he should put up his cash. Judge said pay up or show insolvency. He didn't and he was in contempt. At any point this guy could file for bankruptcy, show all his financial records, at the very least put a "best" effort into it. Even showing the "losses" in his overseas assets. So what he did?
Nothing.
In the end, he didn't sign a petition by the wife that says he was poor. I am not saying this was the best solution. Maybe the state didn't have the laws in place to garnish wages like this. It could be that the only tool the judge had was to force an order. Whats really telling is that while his lawyer had been working pro bono for 6 years, how much was he being paid for the last 8...
He could of left at any time, but he was THAT much of an asshole that he thought jail was better than paying his wife's fair share.
Thank you for answering some questions regarding this new development. We, as a community, may be skeptical but we always appreciate hearing from you and your colleagues on these matters. Personally I hope to hear more of these sorts of developments.
What wrong with me. I can't tell if this was a well meaning response or really good sarcasm.
What bothers me more about this is just the amounts of comments berating Microsoft gets here. We even get a head of the open source department to give use well reasoned responses and he is shot by all sides for stuff he probity has no control over. Sure some of the anti Microsoft stuff is warranted, but its getting to the point that the second Microsoft even acknowledges linux, people scream of the Satan devil:P
No points but I agree. We run PointSec here and just did a test on a Dell Mini 9 and it runs fine, even with office.
God I thought of this story the SECOND I saw this. Loved the story better too.
THe voltage-drop and the deletion of the key were both part of the tests they did. The HSM deletes the key because it thinks that the drop in voltage is a precursor to a physical attack (basically it thinks that it is being carried out of the datacenter). Everything worked as expected; they simply did not remember to make a backup...
Wait, THAT'S what happened? All this time I was willing to blame the incompetence of Gematik for not backing up the key and the vender just running some normal computer like tests. They still should of done this, but if the vender was purposely trying to delete the key then why the heck didn't they have a backup? This is just getting sad now. Next think you know, the next test they do, they will do a plain text export of the damn key for "backup"
Yea GameGuard is crap. I am using Windows RC x64 and it HATES it. I had to download some cracked gamegard files so it could run update itself properly THEN it works. I am not agents anti-cheat measures, but if its not even working right on a clean install then how the heck are you going to keep up with the cheaters?
"We did not decide against a back-up service ..."
That double negative sounds awful like "At the time, we didn't know what they were asking":P I guess its just with personal experence. Evey time I hear a manager use double negatives to defend a decision, its because they didn't really know what they were deciding in the first place. Atleast in IT.
Let be guess, a Lucent Partner "so-easy-an-idiot-can-setup" phone system?;)
I don't have anything agenst Partners, you were locked in harder than Microsoft with those systems.
Matthias Merx, the firm's managing director, told heise online that following a voltage drop, something happened in D-Trust's "Trustcenter" that does occasionally occur. "The HSM independently deleted the data because it suspected an attack."
Translation? "Someone unplugged the backup power supply before setting the proper mode in the card because we didn't fully understand how sensitive the card is for root CA certs"
Merx explained that "Gematik decided to 'do without a back-up'. As a service provider, we have to accept that,"
Translation? "We asked Gematik that it might be a good idea to back it up and they said its fine its just for testing." or "We recommended to Gematik to back up the card before shipping it to us. They shipped it to us and we just shrugged our shoulders." Bonus points if you guessed they asked a low level manager at Gematik who thinks CA is the first two letters of a cat.
Gematik spokesman Daniel Poeschkens poured scorn on the statement that Gematik had insisted on the service provider carrying out a test without backing up the root CA private keys. "We did not decide against a back-up service. The fact of the matter is that the service provider took over the running of the test system, so it also has to warrant its continuous operation. How it fulfils this obligation is its own responsibility."
Traslation? "Gematik is taking NO RESPONSABLITY WHATSOEVER for doing any safty checks before giving our root ca to an outside vendor."
All in all its not a big deal though. It looks like they just lost the issuing CA and not the revoke keys. It looks like they can still authenticate too. Now if this was the MAIN system germany with 80+ million plus medical cards? I think people are going to be shot:P
So wait, the whole explotie was 900+ servers of unpatched OpenSSH?
Why the hell was OpenSSH open to ALL those servers? Don't they have a VLAN for that sort of internal config? Hell, Yahoo uses a bunch of terminal servers hooked to the serial port to prevent this kind of thing. I bet this is older unpatched OpenSSH too.
Don't know if I agree with their messages, but since the OpenSSH exploits were public for a while now, one would think everyone would be patched.
I am really starting to hate Wiki now.
I wanted to see who was right and it seems Wiki has this very BROAD and DETAILED look at Evey god damn chapter of every book in the bible. With even detail references.
I need to get work done! I can't read hours of learning at a help desk!
I complete agree. The best way to learn is to find a good problem you enjoy and solve it.
:)
I have been trying to learn practical Java even though I have a good C background. I found out the source code for The Ur-Quan Masters was released for GPL and I thought, "Hey! I love that game, it has a special place in my heart. I also know it backward and forward, lets try to convert this C application to Java!"
Trust me, its a miserable experience though. The code is organized haphazardly, even after its been ported to the PC. I never dealt with SDL so I have to go back on a lot of API's to figure out how they are doing the graphics. Heck, all I got now is just a handful of objects that just handle some simple database operations. Did I mention I am also "learning" Java? I barely know how JFrame works let alone the Graphics object. (Or Graphics2D)
However, but struggling with this I am learning, by leaps and bonds, more about Java than I would of ever done in a book. I have to make practical decisions on the conversion that may effect the rest of my coding (ie, should I keep the original uqm file and resource file, or construct one easier for Java to manipulate)
If I was you, I would search the net for a project I was interested in, see if there is free code available, then attempt to finish it. At the very least your learning some basic programing skills. If you finish, you would also contribute to the coding community
PS - Also, it teaches you to document your code. I can't wine about the quality of the C comments in this thing because I don't comment very well myself:P
You would "think" Big firmware patch for alot of SCA SCSI drives and some SAS drives were for the TLER issue. Seems even enterprise drives had that number to low:P
They are trying for the casual market to be honest. They are making a cartoonish game so they don't have to upgrade the graphics evey 2 years. They simplify the classes and make the damage model so that you can't be griefed by snipers (much) or people with shot guns. They want a game for even teens to get into without having to worry about the MA rating.
All that being said, while the game was technicaly fun, after you get fairly proficent at it you realize that eveyone in the game is a "lone wolf" and all the group ablitys are pointless. You get to the point that you just want to play stronger appoents but since it has an "instant jump in" and no kind of server list, your just throwing dice. They said they have some kind of skill level matching system, but I think its basted on level not on how many times you kill count:P
I really hope they add a good 4 or 5 more levels AND polish the charater animations. You feel really stiff when you walk around.
I am glad I am not the only one:P When I saw Pirates of the Caribbean I saw the same thing when the kracken was attacking. It looked good in the theaters, but you could see how the monster wasn't "really" destroying the ship
This annoys me. I don't mind the TSA as long as they have a limited scope. It be so much easyer if they made the logo "Look for guns, bombs and knives"
Not, how it currently is, "Look for guns, bombs, knives, large bundles of cash, illegal immigrants, drugs, things that LOOK like drugs, old ladies, and anything else that looks kind of suspicious." They arn't police or the FBI. They cannot arrest anyone. At best they look like a fool when a cop DOES show up.
Sure drugs and other illegal stuff will go though the screens, but if the purpose of the TSA is to stop planes from blowing up, not harass the passengers.
Last I checked, the G1 is only available through T-Mobile. The terms of their agreements PROHIBIT tethering on any phone, including the G1.
I mean, they had Google pull a tethering app from the Android app store because using it constituted a violation of the user agreement.
Are things different in Dallas?
Yea, we got root access here. Also allot of heat. Can't have one without the other I'm afraid.
Got first hand experience with this. I have always had this pain at the right site of my hip. After trips to the ER and a doctor that thought it was a "stress muscle" it took my Mom to get cancer before they diagnosed me with gall stones and a non functioning gall bladder.
See my mom came in to the doctor because her pee was red. They did an ultrasound, as she has been doing this for a while, and come to find out one kidney is completely consumed by a tumor . Parents thought it be a good idea if I got one too.
Its not that doctors don't care, its just what do you expect from a general practitioner. The ER said nothing was wrong with me and charged me $200 because I didn't have a hole in my body. The doctor both me and my mom went to doesn't handle alot of serious chronic cases when he apologized. I bet if I went to a heart doctor, he would of thought something was wrong with my heart.
The real problem with our current medical overruns and malpractice by doctors is that we just don't have a good diagnoses process. If they could figure out whats making you sick in under a few days, that would solve a lot of our medical payment issues:P
I was trying to find the interview that had and one of the searches "dundee rep pink limo" from google came up with THIS comment back.:P
Dingoo A320 Detailed Diagrams
Model: A320
Time:2008-11
Company: Shenzhen Dingoo Digital Co. LTD
Color: White
Detailed Diagrams.
I don't know how less detailed you can get from that:P For anyone to know, here is the Rough Datasheet of the all in one CPU its using. I am honestly VERY impressed. That cpu is running a small size, built in MMU, starts at 336mhz ( I think thats what this is running at) and has all sorts of built in features (Sound codac, build int LCD display, lots of IO pins and Dram controller). Its even more interesting that the hardware is even designed to boot RIGHT off a usb drive. Makes me want to get a demo board for this thing.