Things need to be that precise only if you want to make a small bomb. You can make a big one from a 2nd hand gun barrel and just fire one chunk of enriched uranium into another. You can do the same with slightly more complication by firing a chunk of plutonium into another with a piece of americanium sandwiched in the middle. The result is a large, unwieldy, very reliable and powerful bomb. These are the kind of things that we are worried third rate nations will cobble together from junk parts.
Hmm, you have never seen a Coriolis Clock have you?
For those who don't know, it is a clock with a horizontally rotating flywheel, that you never need to wind. It works provided that you are within a certain lattitude - too close to the equator/poles and it won't work. Very delicate 19th century design - the ones you get in the shops today are immitations and are battery powered.
So the Coriolis force can have an effect on very small objects just a few inches in diameter - enough to power a clock by stealing energy from the earth's rotation.
It is well known that primitive people can't count. That is one of the prime things differenciating star gazing civilizations from others. I always doubt any numbers coming out of Africa. Whether the Hutus in Rwanda killed 50 people or 500,000 or 5 million, will forever be an open question.
Me too - Leaving a WiFi AP open is a little service to the surrounding humanity. How they use it is totally up to them. The whole freakin internet is insecure, the last 10 meters doesn't matter.
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MS sure has the money to fix their security problems, but they do not have the will to do so. To fix windows, they need to hire a couple hundred more people and they simply would not spend that kind of money. That is what opensourcerers have against them - they make crappy software, sell it a ridiculous price, promise people that they will eventually fix their bugs, but they are such cheapskates that they never make good on their promises.
Any fixes are only done as marketing stunts, not due to good engineering principles and rigorous quality assurance.
Basically, MS is a One Sigma company and with that I may be giving too much credit, since it supposes that someone there knows what Six Sigma is.
I tried to download it using Firefox on a Linux machine and it won't work. It there a way to do this so I can distribute it to my Windows boxen without exposing them to the eeevull internet?
Well seriously, you get orders of magnitude more power going into your head from the sun that you happen to be standing under assuming that it is daytime, than from the 3 Megawatt transmitter on the hill. All these studies fail to exclude the effect of the sun and in doing so they all come down to pure balony.
Anyhoo, has anyone looked at the size of an AM antenna and the size of the compound around the tower and its stays? People cannot get close enough to those things for them to be dangerous and if you work there, then you carry the keys.
Yup, harm is probably due to the victim's increased exposure to sunlight. Linesman are outside more than other people. Children playing under power lines are playing in the sun, which is more harmful to them than the line EM fields.
I recently built a microwave field strength meter and found that the sun noise was several orders of magnitude higher than the radiation I was trying to measure. I hardly got a deflection from my radio source, while holding the antenna in the sun, made it go full scale.
People tend to forget that the sun is a gawddam nukuleer exploshun...:-)
There was a time when smoking prolonged life. Viruses and other organisms would stick to the smoke and fall on the ground or get expelled from the lungs in phlegm. Only once we started to live very long, did cancer become a concern.
I think it is time that Americans come to their senses and burn all the evil libraries down.
Repent! Repent! and Read no More!
Come to think of it, the American school system is actually doing a marvelous job with creating illiterate young adults, so the **AAs have nothing to fear. Eventually, everybody will have to pay someone (in another country) to read for them and all reading will be outsourced to India.
The MAC firewall also does stateful inspection and checks against mutilated packets and so on. Despite allowing all outgoing connections by default, it is a good firewall in its default configuration and will block many kinds of attacks.
A firewall is supposed to do a few things:
a. Stateful inspection - ensure that the normal protocol sequences are followed.
b. Packet integrity check - discard mutilated packets.
c. Block connections to services based on IP addresses/netmasks.
For example, the Windows firewall is supposed to disallow NETBIOS and SMB traffic originating outside the local subnet - unfortunately, it doesn't do that and I don't know about the other protocol and packet checks that any self respecting firewall would do.
This firewall is therefore just a smokescreen, to make people feel better for a few weeks, until a worm gets through and screws up their system.
Granted, though even when it is ON, it STILL allows all NETBIOS and SMB traffic through to/from anywhere in the world. So you can jsut as well turn it off since self respecting worm will get through just fine thank you. This is not a firewall, it is merely a smokescreen.
Well, the schtoopidttt thing leaves all the NetBIOS and SMB ports wide open, so what is the point in having it? All the common worms will just walk right through it. Consequently, I can't see how it will make any appreciable difference being on or off.
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There are bazillions of Cisco and other routers and things with SNMP capability that read their internal temperature...
Things need to be that precise only if you want to make a small bomb. You can make a big one from a 2nd hand gun barrel and just fire one chunk of enriched uranium into another. You can do the same with slightly more complication by firing a chunk of plutonium into another with a piece of americanium sandwiched in the middle. The result is a large, unwieldy, very reliable and powerful bomb. These are the kind of things that we are worried third rate nations will cobble together from junk parts.
We are safe until the Vogons come to build an inter galactic bypass...
For those who don't know, it is a clock with a horizontally rotating flywheel, that you never need to wind. It works provided that you are within a certain lattitude - too close to the equator/poles and it won't work. Very delicate 19th century design - the ones you get in the shops today are immitations and are battery powered.
So the Coriolis force can have an effect on very small objects just a few inches in diameter - enough to power a clock by stealing energy from the earth's rotation.
A magnetic flipperoo will probably confuse migratory birds and homing pidgeons.
The USPTO only consults prior patents as prior art. Therefore, the MS patent is valid as far as they are concerned.
Hmmm, can I tar all my data and e-mail it to my Hotmail account as a backup store?
two billion spams of that...
It is well known that primitive people can't count. That is one of the prime things differenciating star gazing civilizations from others. I always doubt any numbers coming out of Africa. Whether the Hutus in Rwanda killed 50 people or 500,000 or 5 million, will forever be an open question.
WEP actually is not weak. It uses RC4, which is quite freakin strong. The trouible with it is that it was implemented wrong. A bug...
Me too - Leaving a WiFi AP open is a little service to the surrounding humanity. How they use it is totally up to them. The whole freakin internet is insecure, the last 10 meters doesn't matter.
MS sure has the money to fix their security problems, but they do not have the will to do so. To fix windows, they need to hire a couple hundred more people and they simply would not spend that kind of money. That is what opensourcerers have against them - they make crappy software, sell it a ridiculous price, promise people that they will eventually fix their bugs, but they are such cheapskates that they never make good on their promises. Any fixes are only done as marketing stunts, not due to good engineering principles and rigorous quality assurance. Basically, MS is a One Sigma company and with that I may be giving too much credit, since it supposes that someone there knows what Six Sigma is.
I tried to download it using Firefox on a Linux machine and it won't work. It there a way to do this so I can distribute it to my Windows boxen without exposing them to the eeevull internet?
I can't fathom how they arrived at such a high opening price. Nuts.
The problem is not creating fusion, the problem creating a small amount of it.
Anyhoo, has anyone looked at the size of an AM antenna and the size of the compound around the tower and its stays? People cannot get close enough to those things for them to be dangerous and if you work there, then you carry the keys.
I recently built a microwave field strength meter and found that the sun noise was several orders of magnitude higher than the radiation I was trying to measure. I hardly got a deflection from my radio source, while holding the antenna in the sun, made it go full scale.
People tend to forget that the sun is a gawddam nukuleer exploshun... :-)
There was a time when smoking prolonged life. Viruses and other organisms would stick to the smoke and fall on the ground or get expelled from the lungs in phlegm. Only once we started to live very long, did cancer become a concern.
will develop cancer...
Just make the ads display on /dev/null...
Repent! Repent! and Read no More!
Come to think of it, the American school system is actually doing a marvelous job with creating illiterate young adults, so the **AAs have nothing to fear. Eventually, everybody will have to pay someone (in another country) to read for them and all reading will be outsourced to India.
The MAC firewall also does stateful inspection and checks against mutilated packets and so on. Despite allowing all outgoing connections by default, it is a good firewall in its default configuration and will block many kinds of attacks.
a. Stateful inspection - ensure that the normal protocol sequences are followed.
b. Packet integrity check - discard mutilated packets.
c. Block connections to services based on IP addresses/netmasks.
For example, the Windows firewall is supposed to disallow NETBIOS and SMB traffic originating outside the local subnet - unfortunately, it doesn't do that and I don't know about the other protocol and packet checks that any self respecting firewall would do.
This firewall is therefore just a smokescreen, to make people feel better for a few weeks, until a worm gets through and screws up their system.
Granted, though even when it is ON, it STILL allows all NETBIOS and SMB traffic through to/from anywhere in the world. So you can jsut as well turn it off since self respecting worm will get through just fine thank you. This is not a firewall, it is merely a smokescreen.
Well, the schtoopidttt thing leaves all the NetBIOS and SMB ports wide open, so what is the point in having it? All the common worms will just walk right through it. Consequently, I can't see how it will make any appreciable difference being on or off.