I laughed hard this morning when I read that about both Putin and Dmitry. It's true, they do act like a set of dynamic duo alpha dogs. Real Men with testosterone weeping out of every pore. Actually, they should take it as a compliment. Still funny as shit though.
The most successful soldiers have already accepted they are already dead on the battlefield. The fact they are still alive is a momentary extended gift of life. When you have that mindset along with religious zeal, toddling along 183 times doesn't seem all that impressive anymore. But you're right. The human body eventually says otherwise. Laws of physics/biology and all that notwithstanding.
But we must never have trials for the real despots of the world. Because that would me invading countries to go get them. So when we finally do, it's the paladin who's ultimately the criminal even if it's a failed attempt? Now you understand why western civilization is doomed.
Most people wouldn't last more than 5 seconds of water boarding, the technique is to trigger the primal fear of drowning without actually killing you. It's very effective at getting a response from an individual. From there, you can use it to extract information and sort out the truth embedded in it later. That is to say, most people would squawk just to end it!
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted 2 1/2 minutes!!! He was fixated on dieing for a cause, even in torture. My guess, fatigue and fear eventually set in.
Now, do we really want to get rid of water boarding? No. But I believe the commander in chief (POTUS) should have the final say-so if and when to use it. Or not.
Historically, war has been waged for much smaller stuff. In the event war is initiated, it's all a matter of looking back to figure out "who started it"? Wikileaks could soon be playing a much larger part than it ever wanted too, including being a target of special ops.
It's no longer child's play. I hope they realize this.
As long as you're willing to pay for that Saturn V rocket. Because that's about what it will cost to upgrade the infrastructure.
Like broadband, over subscription of service beyond what you can handle at 100% peak load *not* bad. It isn't good either. It simple an economic status quo that everyone is willing to agree with. That agreement is defined by market forces. The problem occurs when you want to change that status quo rapidly without caring for any of the ramifications to follow. That sir, is irresponsible.
In short. If you wish the electric company keep their infrastructure built-up for maximum load 24/7, you better damn well be willing to pay for that. That shit isn't free!!!
At 34, I love playing games. The problem is that I have other responsibilities to adhere to and limited free time (if ever). No longer am I free to live with my parents and dick around in college. It's part of growing up. Who knows. Perhaps when I get old and retire I will have that free time again and start gaming like I did in my youth, minus the "twitch" genre such as FPSs. Who the hell knows what the technology will be then:)
Not really. The cheap crude oil has been tapped, but vast amounts of oil in the form of shale exists. It's currently cost prohibited to get it...for now. Coal, copper, uranium etc are uber plentiful. It's just a matter of assigning human resources to go get it. Virgin forests are long gone in the US, but have been replaced by carbon sinking regrowths. Fisheries exist when needed.
Tigers? Ok, you got me there. Only so fast they can breed. But again the resources are out there, and plenty of people. It's just a problem of human resources needed to go get them, and that's generally a social one.
In short, I'm not worries about resources. I'm worried about the politics that prevent them from being harvested. The latter is a real killer.
When is telling the truth, how it is "trolling"? Half the time when speaking the truth, you guys go up in flames and/or rage like showing Drakula the cross. Well, you can just continue to burn until you're purified with it.
You're living in the shadows of White Man's Burden with a hint of WMG. Self flagellation isn't necessary. Maybe if the locals would clean up their own nation's system of governance instead of the western world keeping the corruption on life support, perhaps then they too can live a 1st world life style. Culture also plays a large part in fostering societal development.
Some resources are finite, but often many more are either found or created as a replacement. The slice of each piece of pie does not grow smaller as its divided. Rather, the pie itself grows in size. That's the history of the world and global economics in a nutshell. If that were not the case, we would all still be living an agrarian lifestyle.
Perspective. Please!! In the age where the local Chinese poor can afford an MP3 player and cell phone 2010 years AD, that's an astounding amount of progress being made given their own self inflicted problems.
IMHO, I think you're over analyzing this way to much. At some point, you have to find your link in a chain of trust. How and where I leave up to you and the company you may or may not represent. At that level, it's really a risk assessment.
As for vendors, I trust Dell, HP, and IBM. At least the major brands would be HIPAA and PCI complaint. Also, some people run entire server farms using thousands of 1U servers from them. Each having a NIC or two.
This just makes it so that if I get physical access to the box, I can reset it and enter whatever password I'd like. There's a reason you see this feature only on consumer-grade devices. And there's a reason people who understand security are always nice to the janitors.
SonicWALL is not a consumer grade device. Yet vendors like them all authenticate locally with a password. And I know for a fact SonicWALL specifically will allow for resetting the password. But you will be forced to wipe out the configuration in the process. You would have to be a damn good social engineer to walk a janitor through reprogramming one over the phone. Hats off to you if you can pull that off. Sheesh.
1st: Passwords are an acceptable form of authentication as long as you provide proper complexity requirements (better that way).
2nd: What? You can't trust a brand spanking-new PC/Server to be free from rooted firmware? Why buy from vendor X then? Besides, I said that one would be created from the first time it was booted. That means YOU or someone you trust unboxing it first.
3nd: Passwords, or the information to verify authentication is always stored someplace. Locality isn't all that important. It also provides an option to erase it with physical means. Much in the same way as a router or other networking equipment.
4th: The point of password protection is to prevent the firmware from being overwritten in the first place.
Here's a good rule for security: Don't run or admin servers???
When a PC or Server is booted for the first time, force the user to create a password to password protect all firmware. The key here is to create a hierarchy of protection starting with the motherboard down to the peripherals installed on it. This could be vendor proprietary and eventually made into an industry standard. Any software that needs to change or update them will require this password in the future.
In the event the password is lost, physical presence of the machine will be required to clear settings. Generally done with a jumper or toggle switch.
Windows 7 will require the last know controller mode in BIOS that it was installed under. For example, if you switch it to AHCI or SATA from whatever mode it was installed under will cause a BSOD. That's because the service isn't flagged to be started.
FYI I ran into this before when a Dell tech replaced the motherboard for a laptop. He had no idea what was going on and left the building saying it was a "software" error and to call back. Well, he was right. Be he should have documented the BIOS settings and re-applied them to the replacement board, or at least contacted internal support for further help on behalf of the client.
Not only that, but the camera may have already taken your photo with it in hand. The criminal who put it there however, may have contorted to avoid the camera while installing the skimmer. So yes, the hero gets thrown behind bars as it usually goes.
That's why photographers call it "shooting" pictures. With a telescopic lens, the stance of concentration can look like that of a rifleman from a distance. Or in the case of the video, someone holding what appears to be an RPG. So ya, I'm not surprised you fired back in the heat of the moment.
Not really. You have to download the torrent before you can start downloading the content. Being that the user was going to downloaded it without caring where it actually came from anyways, setting up a honeypot to log users is a smart move.
If I had a product that was being pirated, I would do the same thing if I could get justice in return for my effort.
I really *hate* HP Officejet driver packages. Biggest pile-of-shit bloatware I've ever spent installing and troubleshooting. And the real killer, after having their TSR program suck up RAM? It's that they installed a fuckin Yahoo toolbar in IE without giving me an deselect option. DAMN YOU!!!
Starting with Vista and Windows 7, audio acceleration was dropped as DirectSound3D is no longer available for those OSes. Unless of course, you're using a wrapper such as Open AL that will convert the DS3D commands over to it.
As to why it was dropped, MS felt that most of BSOD issues were caused by audio hardware in the past. Now they wanted to remove it far from the kernel as possible. Besides, you'll have plenty of CPU cores in the future. So that's the idea anyways. Which is funny because now they heavily use the GPU which is just prone to its own set of issues. I seriously doubt OS stability was the issue here in nixing DirectSound3D. But, whatever...
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Oh hell, the entire UN is like that bar scene from Star Wars as it is. Why bother stating the obvious?
I laughed hard this morning when I read that about both Putin and Dmitry. It's true, they do act like a set of dynamic duo alpha dogs. Real Men with testosterone weeping out of every pore. Actually, they should take it as a compliment. Still funny as shit though.
A socialite and socialist are two different things. But one can be both. Obama is such an individual.
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft."
He knows something we don't? Hmmmm
Doubt it's going to ever happen. EU is full of socialites. Apple caters to that kind of culture.
You know you've achieved success in the market place when your major competitor lashes out at you in anger. Nice going Google, keep up the good work :)
The most successful soldiers have already accepted they are already dead on the battlefield. The fact they are still alive is a momentary extended gift of life. When you have that mindset along with religious zeal, toddling along 183 times doesn't seem all that impressive anymore. But you're right. The human body eventually says otherwise. Laws of physics/biology and all that notwithstanding.
But we must never have trials for the real despots of the world. Because that would me invading countries to go get them. So when we finally do, it's the paladin who's ultimately the criminal even if it's a failed attempt? Now you understand why western civilization is doomed.
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Most people wouldn't last more than 5 seconds of water boarding, the technique is to trigger the primal fear of drowning without actually killing you. It's very effective at getting a response from an individual. From there, you can use it to extract information and sort out the truth embedded in it later. That is to say, most people would squawk just to end it!
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted 2 1/2 minutes!!! He was fixated on dieing for a cause, even in torture. My guess, fatigue and fear eventually set in.
Now, do we really want to get rid of water boarding? No. But I believe the commander in chief (POTUS) should have the final say-so if and when to use it. Or not.
Historically, war has been waged for much smaller stuff. In the event war is initiated, it's all a matter of looking back to figure out "who started it"? Wikileaks could soon be playing a much larger part than it ever wanted too, including being a target of special ops.
It's no longer child's play. I hope they realize this.
As long as you're willing to pay for that Saturn V rocket. Because that's about what it will cost to upgrade the infrastructure.
Like broadband, over subscription of service beyond what you can handle at 100% peak load *not* bad. It isn't good either. It simple an economic status quo that everyone is willing to agree with. That agreement is defined by market forces. The problem occurs when you want to change that status quo rapidly without caring for any of the ramifications to follow. That sir, is irresponsible.
In short. If you wish the electric company keep their infrastructure built-up for maximum load 24/7, you better damn well be willing to pay for that. That shit isn't free!!!
At 34, I love playing games. The problem is that I have other responsibilities to adhere to and limited free time (if ever). No longer am I free to live with my parents and dick around in college. It's part of growing up. Who knows. Perhaps when I get old and retire I will have that free time again and start gaming like I did in my youth, minus the "twitch" genre such as FPSs. Who the hell knows what the technology will be then :)
Not really. The cheap crude oil has been tapped, but vast amounts of oil in the form of shale exists. It's currently cost prohibited to get it...for now. Coal, copper, uranium etc are uber plentiful. It's just a matter of assigning human resources to go get it. Virgin forests are long gone in the US, but have been replaced by carbon sinking regrowths. Fisheries exist when needed.
Tigers? Ok, you got me there. Only so fast they can breed. But again the resources are out there, and plenty of people. It's just a problem of human resources needed to go get them, and that's generally a social one.
In short, I'm not worries about resources. I'm worried about the politics that prevent them from being harvested. The latter is a real killer.
When is telling the truth, how it is "trolling"? Half the time when speaking the truth, you guys go up in flames and/or rage like showing Drakula the cross. Well, you can just continue to burn until you're purified with it.
You're living in the shadows of White Man's Burden with a hint of WMG. Self flagellation isn't necessary. Maybe if the locals would clean up their own nation's system of governance instead of the western world keeping the corruption on life support, perhaps then they too can live a 1st world life style. Culture also plays a large part in fostering societal development.
Some resources are finite, but often many more are either found or created as a replacement. The slice of each piece of pie does not grow smaller as its divided. Rather, the pie itself grows in size. That's the history of the world and global economics in a nutshell. If that were not the case, we would all still be living an agrarian lifestyle.
Perspective. Please!! In the age where the local Chinese poor can afford an MP3 player and cell phone 2010 years AD, that's an astounding amount of progress being made given their own self inflicted problems.
IMHO, I think you're over analyzing this way to much. At some point, you have to find your link in a chain of trust. How and where I leave up to you and the company you may or may not represent. At that level, it's really a risk assessment.
As for vendors, I trust Dell, HP, and IBM. At least the major brands would be HIPAA and PCI complaint. Also, some people run entire server farms using thousands of 1U servers from them. Each having a NIC or two.
SonicWALL is not a consumer grade device. Yet vendors like them all authenticate locally with a password. And I know for a fact SonicWALL specifically will allow for resetting the password. But you will be forced to wipe out the configuration in the process. You would have to be a damn good social engineer to walk a janitor through reprogramming one over the phone. Hats off to you if you can pull that off. Sheesh.
BS!
1st: Passwords are an acceptable form of authentication as long as you provide proper complexity requirements (better that way).
2nd: What? You can't trust a brand spanking-new PC/Server to be free from rooted firmware? Why buy from vendor X then? Besides, I said that one would be created from the first time it was booted. That means YOU or someone you trust unboxing it first.
3nd: Passwords, or the information to verify authentication is always stored someplace. Locality isn't all that important. It also provides an option to erase it with physical means. Much in the same way as a router or other networking equipment.
4th: The point of password protection is to prevent the firmware from being overwritten in the first place.
Here's a good rule for security: Don't run or admin servers???
Simple, no need to make it complicated.
When a PC or Server is booted for the first time, force the user to create a password to password protect all firmware. The key here is to create a hierarchy of protection starting with the motherboard down to the peripherals installed on it. This could be vendor proprietary and eventually made into an industry standard. Any software that needs to change or update them will require this password in the future.
In the event the password is lost, physical presence of the machine will be required to clear settings. Generally done with a jumper or toggle switch.
Windows 7 will require the last know controller mode in BIOS that it was installed under. For example, if you switch it to AHCI or SATA from whatever mode it was installed under will cause a BSOD. That's because the service isn't flagged to be started.
You can change this post install via registry setting. Here's the KB on how to do that. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
FYI I ran into this before when a Dell tech replaced the motherboard for a laptop. He had no idea what was going on and left the building saying it was a "software" error and to call back. Well, he was right. Be he should have documented the BIOS settings and re-applied them to the replacement board, or at least contacted internal support for further help on behalf of the client.
Not only that, but the camera may have already taken your photo with it in hand. The criminal who put it there however, may have contorted to avoid the camera while installing the skimmer. So yes, the hero gets thrown behind bars as it usually goes.
And that's why the Paparazzi are not true journalists, because they go after people who have no souls to capture to start with.
That's why photographers call it "shooting" pictures. With a telescopic lens, the stance of concentration can look like that of a rifleman from a distance. Or in the case of the video, someone holding what appears to be an RPG. So ya, I'm not surprised you fired back in the heat of the moment.
Not really. You have to download the torrent before you can start downloading the content. Being that the user was going to downloaded it without caring where it actually came from anyways, setting up a honeypot to log users is a smart move.
If I had a product that was being pirated, I would do the same thing if I could get justice in return for my effort.
I really *hate* HP Officejet driver packages. Biggest pile-of-shit bloatware I've ever spent installing and troubleshooting. And the real killer, after having their TSR program suck up RAM? It's that they installed a fuckin Yahoo toolbar in IE without giving me an deselect option. DAMN YOU!!!
Starting with Vista and Windows 7, audio acceleration was dropped as DirectSound3D is no longer available for those OSes. Unless of course, you're using a wrapper such as Open AL that will convert the DS3D commands over to it.
As to why it was dropped, MS felt that most of BSOD issues were caused by audio hardware in the past. Now they wanted to remove it far from the kernel as possible. Besides, you'll have plenty of CPU cores in the future. So that's the idea anyways. Which is funny because now they heavily use the GPU which is just prone to its own set of issues. I seriously doubt OS stability was the issue here in nixing DirectSound3D. But, whatever...