I was asleep (off watch) at night on a small sailing yacht crossing the North Sea. The guy on watch woke me and asked what it means when a ship flashes a light three times. After asking him a few sleepy questions I figured out that the ship was flashing dot-dot-dash with a signaling lamp, the Morse letter "U" which, at sea, means "you are proceeding into danger". After going on deck and confirming that, I helped him tack the yacht and avoid passing between the ship and the oil drilling platform that it was towing. Morse is still used on HF and with Aldis lamps as a backup when more modern modes fail.
I punched my private key onto 80 column punched cards for offline storage back in 1979. It was the only way to keep a key private on a mainframe where the operator could read all files.
by the number of people who say the MS solution was "good enough". MS has been making "good enough" software for many years and that is what has given us an unending series of vulnerabilities.
There are also automated telescopes connected to the Internet. The school my children attend (in Europe) has access to the Faulkes Telescopes http://faulkes-telescope.com/ They can choose what to observe and direct the telescope during their allotted time slot.
There are others, Google for them. Give the children the experience of using a telescope outside so they have a feeling for what is real and then show them via the Internet what a larger telescope can resolve.
BS. First the off button must be pressed for three seconds before it will switch off. In a rental the driver may not know that. When you do turn it off you lose power brakes and power steering. Neutral is the recommended mode for dealing with a runaway and press on the brakes without pumping (which depletes the vacuum resevoir). Selecting neutral is easier in the Prius as the selector has fewer positions than the other models.
Note that the servo assisted brakes take their power from the pressure difference in the inlet manifold. At high engine RPM that pressure difference is LESS. When the engine revs wildly the brakes are less effective.
Two of the vulnerabilities that I discovered (and wrote exploit code for) in 1979 still have not been rediscovered, or at least not published. They were useful for about 12 years but that OS is no longer widely deployed. So, yes it is possible.
Modern transceivers can work on low power too. Amateur radio QRP (low power) enthusiasts have achieved communication at startingly low power levels:
"In the spring of 1994, Bob Moody and Bill Brown, WB8ELK shattered this 10-meter record by successfully using only 0.720 microwatts over a 1500-mile path for over 2 billion miles per watt"
quoted from "ARRL's Low Power Communication: The Art and Science of Qrp"
The server of "blasphemy.ie" has already been smitten by a bolt of lightning, or perhaps it has just been slashdotted.
"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
It was a big deal but it was mostly fixed by 1997
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I worked for a telecomms company (one of the biggest) and was involved in Y2K remediation. Most of our software was fixed by 1996 with a few small systems fixed in 1997. Our first Y2K fix was done in 1988! If those systems (and similar from the other big companies) had not been fixed nobody could have made any long distance phone calls after 1/1/2000, but they were fixed. It would have been a big deal but we fixed and double-tested everything and robbed the scare mongering reporters of their disaster headlines, get over it.
Windows has a variety of rights and privileges (see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457125.aspx ) Developers should have debug privileges but should not be full administrators. It always surprises me that administrators do not use the fine grained control of privileges that is available to them when creating groups. When developers are given full administrator rights the users often find that the program will not run propperly under a normal (non-admin) user account. The test group must use accounts that have exactly the same rights & privileges as the eventual users.
Some people in Paris bring multi-socket extension leads when they go to McDo's to ensure that everyone can plug in. WiFi has been free at McDo's in France for years.
Two respected oceanographers, Ryan and Pitman wrote a popular account of their theories in book form "Noah's Flood, ISBN-10: 0684859203, Simon & Schuster". They describe their expeditions to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and the evidence from their work and other published papers. They believe that the Black Sea flooded 5600BC and that was the origin of the flood myths.
not a stupid question at all, it's not enough time for some theories of galaxy formation, given the lack of lumps visible in the cosmic background radiation. However only the furthest galaxies in the view in that image are of that age. There has beem much speculation on the role of supermassive black holes in forming galaxies and that may explain why they seem to have formed faster that expected. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
During the "troubles" in Northern Ireland the Irish airport police had checkpoints at the airport doors where they used explosives sniffers to check luggage. They were efficient and I never saw a queue more than a minute or two long. It was enough deterrent and there never was any attack in an airport or on a 'plane.
"If Windows has a back door that the NSA can use, how would they prevent foreign intelligence agencies from using it?"
Here's how...
Lotus Notes had 64bit crypto back when 40bit was the most you could export from the land of the free. Most companies introduced an export version of their product. Lotus did not.
How did they manage this and be compatible with the reulations? Every time Notes generated a 64bit key it copied 24 of those bits and encrypted them with a key owned by the NSA and sent that with the encrypted text. Then the NSA only had 40bit crypto to crack when they intercepted the message.
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oops, perhaps I should stop highlighting the phrases that I use as secret keys for the book cipher when I send out instructions to my henchmen ?
If only you could switch your door locks to electronic locks then you could have one ring to rule them all ;-) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Java_Ring.jpg
I was asleep (off watch) at night on a small sailing yacht crossing the North Sea. The guy on watch woke me and asked what it means when a ship flashes a light three times. After asking him a few sleepy questions I figured out that the ship was flashing dot-dot-dash with a signaling lamp, the Morse letter "U" which, at sea, means "you are proceeding into danger". After going on deck and confirming that, I helped him tack the yacht and avoid passing between the ship and the oil drilling platform that it was towing. Morse is still used on HF and with Aldis lamps as a backup when more modern modes fail.
download the open disc and burn a copy for them
I punched my private key onto 80 column punched cards for offline storage back in 1979. It was the only way to keep a key private on a mainframe where the operator could read all files.
by the number of people who say the MS solution was "good enough". MS has been making "good enough" software for many years and that is what has given us an unending series of vulnerabilities.
Ides of March being the following Monday could be a busy day for some sysadmins, "hey my youtubes don't work" :-)
There are others, Google for them. Give the children the experience of using a telescope outside so they have a feeling for what is real and then show them via the Internet what a larger telescope can resolve.
Note that the servo assisted brakes take their power from the pressure difference in the inlet manifold. At high engine RPM that pressure difference is LESS. When the engine revs wildly the brakes are less effective.
Two of the vulnerabilities that I discovered (and wrote exploit code for) in 1979 still have not been rediscovered, or at least not published. They were useful for about 12 years but that OS is no longer widely deployed. So, yes it is possible.
Cue the "cue the" comments in 3, 2, 1, 0, -2147483648, -2147483647, -2147483646
well, you could use OpenID and have HTTPS for your own login on your own site.
http://www.hi8vb.tk/ Radio Hams from Dominican Republic, Cuba & USA who have travelled there to help with emergency communications.
a NetBSD fanboy?
Modern transceivers can work on low power too. Amateur radio QRP (low power) enthusiasts have achieved communication at startingly low power levels: "In the spring of 1994, Bob Moody and Bill Brown, WB8ELK shattered this 10-meter record by successfully using only 0.720 microwatts over a 1500-mile path for over 2 billion miles per watt" quoted from "ARRL's Low Power Communication: The Art and Science of Qrp"
The server of "blasphemy.ie" has already been smitten by a bolt of lightning, or perhaps it has just been slashdotted. "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
I worked for a telecomms company (one of the biggest) and was involved in Y2K remediation. Most of our software was fixed by 1996 with a few small systems fixed in 1997. Our first Y2K fix was done in 1988! If those systems (and similar from the other big companies) had not been fixed nobody could have made any long distance phone calls after 1/1/2000, but they were fixed. It would have been a big deal but we fixed and double-tested everything and robbed the scare mongering reporters of their disaster headlines, get over it.
Windows has a variety of rights and privileges (see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457125.aspx ) Developers should have debug privileges but should not be full administrators. It always surprises me that administrators do not use the fine grained control of privileges that is available to them when creating groups. When developers are given full administrator rights the users often find that the program will not run propperly under a normal (non-admin) user account. The test group must use accounts that have exactly the same rights & privileges as the eventual users.
Some people in Paris bring multi-socket extension leads when they go to McDo's to ensure that everyone can plug in. WiFi has been free at McDo's in France for years.
Two respected oceanographers, Ryan and Pitman wrote a popular account of their theories in book form "Noah's Flood, ISBN-10: 0684859203, Simon & Schuster". They describe their expeditions to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and the evidence from their work and other published papers. They believe that the Black Sea flooded 5600BC and that was the origin of the flood myths.
not a stupid question at all, it's not enough time for some theories of galaxy formation, given the lack of lumps visible in the cosmic background radiation. However only the furthest galaxies in the view in that image are of that age. There has beem much speculation on the role of supermassive black holes in forming galaxies and that may explain why they seem to have formed faster that expected. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Tokyo ...
During the "troubles" in Northern Ireland the Irish airport police had checkpoints at the airport doors where they used explosives sniffers to check luggage. They were efficient and I never saw a queue more than a minute or two long. It was enough deterrent and there never was any attack in an airport or on a 'plane.
Here's how...
Lotus Notes had 64bit crypto back when 40bit was the most you could export from the land of the free. Most companies introduced an export version of their product. Lotus did not.
How did they manage this and be compatible with the reulations? Every time Notes generated a 64bit key it copied 24 of those bits and encrypted them with a key owned by the NSA and sent that with the encrypted text. Then the NSA only had 40bit crypto to crack when they intercepted the message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_notes#Security
Meep !