Evolution simply just *is*. It's change without purpose or goal. None what-so-ever. We just happen to call successful change that is passed on from generation to generation "Evolution". If this sounds cold, it's because it is. Nature's a bitch. Try not to get on her bad side.
Sorry for the follow up post, but I think I now understand in a round about way. You have to be a member of the Domain Admins group to join a PC to the Domain. It's those Domain Admin credentials that get cached - per PC that's been previously joined. YIKES! So if a user is a member of the local Administrators group, he also has access to the local SAMS database. Root the box, and you might be able to recover the cached passwords from it.
Be sure to change your Domain Admins password often. Honestly, how many people often do that? More than they should really.
That user must be either a member of the Domain Admins group, or Local Administrators group of that PC. The later seems possible as there are many users that love to RDP into their own boxes from work over a VPN connection. Even then, only one user is allowed access unless it is a Terminal Server.
As for the NT security token. I know that when a user (regardless of membership) logs into a machine, the security credentials get cached. But from what I understand, you can't recover passwords from the local SAMS database unless the box is already rooted.
5. The attacker attempts to access an Active Directory server to obtain the password database, which can be cracked onsite or offsite.
HOW!!!?? Unless some boneheaded sysadmin granted a user with Domain Admin access, I don't see how this is even remotely possible. Someone with just plain Domain User access either authenticates, or doesn't. Is this article suggesting all local user names and passwords from a DC (domain controller) are locally cached prior to authentication?
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for some enlightened appeals court to inject some sense into the debate. What do you think the chances are?
Never going to happen.
In the eyes of the Federal Gov, upholding patents and IPs are so important, it would be considered National Security to protect them. Seriously, what the hell does America have that's worth selling? Nothing except services and IP. We hardly manufacture anything anymore.
Yes, but you should have expanded on that. For example, a modern office space (desk, cubical..etc) would have just a wireless mouse, keyboard, and monitor. When you walk up to it, it prompts you for a passcode to "pair" the setup to your phone. When your done, you walk away and they become unpaired.
You forget that you left Word and Excel documents open. But that's ok. When you sit down 1st class in a 747, you simply pair up again and resume work. For you see, your phone and your computer are the same. Data also gets backed wirelessly at the byte level for a small "backup fee".
Ya, no shit. There are plenty of other hobbies to pursue in life. I've already dropped music collecting/purchasing and now perhaps gaming too if this keeps up. I refuse to reward bad behavior.
Yup, I've seen CAT5 (RJ45) pinned out for serial many times. UPS monitoring and thermal receipt printers come to mind. The latter caused me much confusion until I noticed the RJ45 to Serial adapter.
The future of materials lies in making ever more sophisticated and better materials, not in making raw materials orders of magnitude cheaper
True, but you still need access to the most basic elements in the universe. Having them in abundance makes them cheaper. Having them cheaper opens up a whole vista of economic opportunities to invest R&D for new products based around said elements.
like to imagine a future where diamond is as cheap as glass. Or where I can insulate my house with aerogel. Or cables are made of carbon-nanotubes, or spider silk.
Clearly the problem with the aforementioned is lack of R&D and production that scales economically, not the need for raw materials. The brick wall here is pure knowledge. Solve that, and you can rest assured knowing such products will be available soon.
Would it be possible to at least take one (or both) Kidneys offline? Basically, run your body through a dialysis machine during the antibiotic procedure. Of course, this would have to be an extreme life or death situation to consider the possibility.
I purchased a BB Curve 8330 a year ago and never (not once, honest) had a dropped call due to poor reception. Audio quality has always been consistent.
I guess the fact it ranks in at #6 of having the highest radiation level has something to do with that =) CNET has written a nice article on the subject with a chart of phones by radiation rankings.
Often people will expect alien sentient life to act and think like Human beings do. This can not be. We share 97% of our DNA with other animals, yet regardless of our close genetic relationship, we vary dramatically in both appearance and cognitive structure.
I could envision First Contact being a situation in which some alien race kills millions/billions of human beings on Earth. After learning to communicate, we come to find out that they love and respect our race so much, they gave us a "gift" by optimizing and debugging our gene pool. Under what circumstances could this happen? We value individual life, they value life based on a hive mindset.
Another factor is the economic we are all in. If you're out of a job, your either looking or too broke to be purchasing new games. If your employed however (like I am), expect to be bled to to death with 60+ hour work weeks to make up the loss of ex-employee help previously available.
For those living in a happy-medium. I truly envy you!
That's a fascinating article. Thanks for sharing that. Without question, Paul Van Valkenburgh is a well respected engineer in the auto racing world.
However. Being that I've taken my Mazda Miata out for a spin at local SCCA event, I'm still not entirely convinced that a reverse trike config is just as safe. I've pushed my car through just about every threshold that is possible (legal and illegal). I've even hydroplaned shortly after it started raining thanks to the oil patches breaking free soon after. If someone were to say "hey, lets turn your Miata into a reverse Trike", I would think they just went insane.
I want to make it perfectly clear that I'm not against reverse trikes so long as they're safe. I'm just not convinced they are as this report makes them out to be for all types of vehicles. A single or two seater? Sure, I suppose. How about a van seating eight? I seriously doubt it. What's really interesting about that article though is even today since 1982, we don't have any major automotive company creating cars with this configuration. Why is that? Is it cost, liability, laws or all of the above?
A POW status would state how you may and may not treat them. I agree that we (USA) should not treat non-POWs without basic human rights and without dignity. But what really pisses me off is how our new administration wishes to grant these terrorists with the same constitutional protections they (Al-Qaeda) wish we never had. Something about sharia law and how the west must adopt it as our framework - or some such crap.
After seeing what happens to these detainees and all the political circus acts that ensue, I wouldn't be surprised if our soldiers now say "fuck capturing them, we'll just play Judge Dredd right here and now and save all ourselves the trouble."
Below is a cut-n-paste from the following website. The author seems to make the case that terrorists are *not* covered by the Geneva Convention. In what way do you refute?
Some pundits and journalists condemn U.S. policy as a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions. Writing in the Guardian, a left-wing British broadsheet, professor of human rights law Conor Gearty proclaimed U.S. policy to be "cruel, unnecessary and as dangerous now as it was when first introduced."[22] But Gearty's criticism is more emotional than substantive. Nothing in the conventions requires that all captives receive prisoner of war status. In fact, article four of the Third Geneva Convention stipulates a number of requirements that must be met before a captive irregular combatant can qualify as a prisoner of war.
The drafters of the 1949 Geneva Conventions sought to base the treaty on past precedent. While the 1907 Hague regulations stipulated that "the laws, rights, and duties of war apply not only to armies, but also to militia and volunteer corps," those same regulations also presented a four-part test to determine eligibility of those irregular forces for lawful combatant status.[23] In order to be recognized as legitimate combatants, the Hague regulations required irregular units to "be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; to have a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance; to carry arms openly; and to conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war."[24]
The drafters of the Third Geneva Convention adopted this four-part test as part of the criteria to determine eligibility for POW status. The delegates drafting the convention made quite clear in their debates that they did not want to confer automatic POW status on irregular forces. After much negotiation, a special committee of the conference resolved this question by crafting article 4(A) so as to differentiate between regular armed forces, constituent volunteer corps, and militias on one hand, from irregular resistance movements, on the other. The drafters agreed to apply the Hague four-part test to the latter.[25]
Terrorists groups ranging from separatists like the PKK in Turkey, Chechen rebels in Russia, or the Pakistani-backed Harakat ul-Mujahideen in India; to Palestinian groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, to the numerous cells that comprise the Al-Qaeda network all fail the four-part test. Hijacking civilian airliners and flying them into office buildings is not "in accordance with the laws and customs of war," nor is using human bombs to blow up buses, nor is lining up and executing school teachers. On these grounds, as well, the Taliban also forfeited claim to POW status. While they did carry arms openly, they neither observed the international humanitarian law, nor wore any recognizable sign to distinguish themselves from civilians.[26]
The rear wheels are spaced way too far apart (optimum is a single rear wheel)
I'm not sure how you define optimum, but it sure as hell isn't safe. Given the amount of lateral G's one can experience in a 90 degree turn fly-over on a freeway, you risk the back-end breaking free and eating the concrete barrier. Especially on a wet pavement. Also side wind shears can cause a break in traction control. Simply put, the reverse trike configuration can be dangerous (and has been known to be in the cycle world).
Having four wheels has its downfalls with regards to fuel efficiency. Keeping all wheels aligned periodically and tires at their proper PSI-KPA to name a few. But safety isn't one of them, nor should that be sacrificed in favor or fuel efficiency.
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Personally, I love slashvertisements so long as the editors are up front about it and the material is worthy of reading...
And who cares if they make a few bucks on the side. No skin off my back so long as Slashdot keeps delivering the articles people want to read.
Evolution simply just *is*. It's change without purpose or goal. None what-so-ever. We just happen to call successful change that is passed on from generation to generation "Evolution". If this sounds cold, it's because it is. Nature's a bitch. Try not to get on her bad side.
Sorry for the follow up post, but I think I now understand in a round about way. You have to be a member of the Domain Admins group to join a PC to the Domain. It's those Domain Admin credentials that get cached - per PC that's been previously joined. YIKES! So if a user is a member of the local Administrators group, he also has access to the local SAMS database. Root the box, and you might be able to recover the cached passwords from it.
Be sure to change your Domain Admins password often. Honestly, how many people often do that? More than they should really.
I follow steps 1 - 4. Regarding step 5 however...
Log into that box.
That user must be either a member of the Domain Admins group, or Local Administrators group of that PC. The later seems possible as there are many users that love to RDP into their own boxes from work over a VPN connection. Even then, only one user is allowed access unless it is a Terminal Server.
As for the NT security token. I know that when a user (regardless of membership) logs into a machine, the security credentials get cached. But from what I understand, you can't recover passwords from the local SAMS database unless the box is already rooted.
HOW!!!?? Unless some boneheaded sysadmin granted a user with Domain Admin access, I don't see how this is even remotely possible. Someone with just plain Domain User access either authenticates, or doesn't. Is this article suggesting all local user names and passwords from a DC (domain controller) are locally cached prior to authentication?
Never going to happen.
In the eyes of the Federal Gov, upholding patents and IPs are so important, it would be considered National Security to protect them. Seriously, what the hell does America have that's worth selling? Nothing except services and IP. We hardly manufacture anything anymore.
Yes, but you should have expanded on that. For example, a modern office space (desk, cubical..etc) would have just a wireless mouse, keyboard, and monitor. When you walk up to it, it prompts you for a passcode to "pair" the setup to your phone. When your done, you walk away and they become unpaired.
You forget that you left Word and Excel documents open. But that's ok. When you sit down 1st class in a 747, you simply pair up again and resume work. For you see, your phone and your computer are the same. Data also gets backed wirelessly at the byte level for a small "backup fee".
That's your mobile phone/computer future.
Did they win? Sure, perhaps. But all recordings I've ran into suffer severe compression (loudness factor) which sucks anyways.
If anything, I will attend live music at The South by Southwest (SXSW) event here in Texas when available.
Two men enter, one man leaves...
Ya, no shit. There are plenty of other hobbies to pursue in life. I've already dropped music collecting/purchasing and now perhaps gaming too if this keeps up. I refuse to reward bad behavior.
Yup, I've seen CAT5 (RJ45) pinned out for serial many times. UPS monitoring and thermal receipt printers come to mind. The latter caused me much confusion until I noticed the RJ45 to Serial adapter.
http://www.platinum.matthey.com/applications/ It's also used in 02 Sensors and spark plugs (for longevity)
True, but you still need access to the most basic elements in the universe. Having them in abundance makes them cheaper. Having them cheaper opens up a whole vista of economic opportunities to invest R&D for new products based around said elements.
Clearly the problem with the aforementioned is lack of R&D and production that scales economically, not the need for raw materials. The brick wall here is pure knowledge. Solve that, and you can rest assured knowing such products will be available soon.
Would it be possible to at least take one (or both) Kidneys offline? Basically, run your body through a dialysis machine during the antibiotic procedure. Of course, this would have to be an extreme life or death situation to consider the possibility.
Ha! That's really funny. Because, while The West embraces socialism/communism, Asia (specifically China) is embracing capitalism.
You can't be for real. I mean, your just fucking with me. Right???
I purchased a BB Curve 8330 a year ago and never (not once, honest) had a dropped call due to poor reception. Audio quality has always been consistent.
I guess the fact it ranks in at #6 of having the highest radiation level has something to do with that =) CNET has written a nice article on the subject with a chart of phones by radiation rankings.
http://reviews.cnet.com/2719-6602_7-291-1.html?tag=page;page
Often people will expect alien sentient life to act and think like Human beings do. This can not be. We share 97% of our DNA with other animals, yet regardless of our close genetic relationship, we vary dramatically in both appearance and cognitive structure.
I could envision First Contact being a situation in which some alien race kills millions/billions of human beings on Earth. After learning to communicate, we come to find out that they love and respect our race so much, they gave us a "gift" by optimizing and debugging our gene pool. Under what circumstances could this happen? We value individual life, they value life based on a hive mindset.
Including yourself? Fuck off!
Another factor is the economic we are all in. If you're out of a job, your either looking or too broke to be purchasing new games. If your employed however (like I am), expect to be bled to to death with 60+ hour work weeks to make up the loss of ex-employee help previously available.
For those living in a happy-medium. I truly envy you!
Not CPUs. More like 70 to 100 ICs (microchip). I'm sure my laptop has got at least 12 or so mounted on the PCB someplace.
Does that includes a nifty little system tray agent app too? It's friendly! Trust us.... *evil grin*
That's a fascinating article. Thanks for sharing that. Without question, Paul Van Valkenburgh is a well respected engineer in the auto racing world.
However. Being that I've taken my Mazda Miata out for a spin at local SCCA event, I'm still not entirely convinced that a reverse trike config is just as safe. I've pushed my car through just about every threshold that is possible (legal and illegal). I've even hydroplaned shortly after it started raining thanks to the oil patches breaking free soon after. If someone were to say "hey, lets turn your Miata into a reverse Trike", I would think they just went insane.
I want to make it perfectly clear that I'm not against reverse trikes so long as they're safe. I'm just not convinced they are as this report makes them out to be for all types of vehicles. A single or two seater? Sure, I suppose. How about a van seating eight? I seriously doubt it. What's really interesting about that article though is even today since 1982, we don't have any major automotive company creating cars with this configuration. Why is that? Is it cost, liability, laws or all of the above?
A POW status would state how you may and may not treat them. I agree that we (USA) should not treat non-POWs without basic human rights and without dignity. But what really pisses me off is how our new administration wishes to grant these terrorists with the same constitutional protections they (Al-Qaeda) wish we never had. Something about sharia law and how the west must adopt it as our framework - or some such crap.
After seeing what happens to these detainees and all the political circus acts that ensue, I wouldn't be surprised if our soldiers now say "fuck capturing them, we'll just play Judge Dredd right here and now and save all ourselves the trouble."
Below is a cut-n-paste from the following website. The author seems to make the case that terrorists are *not* covered by the Geneva Convention. In what way do you refute?
http://www.meforum.org/651/does-human-rights-law-apply-to-terrorists
The rear wheels are spaced way too far apart (optimum is a single rear wheel)
I'm not sure how you define optimum, but it sure as hell isn't safe. Given the amount of lateral G's one can experience in a 90 degree turn fly-over on a freeway, you risk the back-end breaking free and eating the concrete barrier. Especially on a wet pavement. Also side wind shears can cause a break in traction control. Simply put, the reverse trike configuration can be dangerous (and has been known to be in the cycle world).
Having four wheels has its downfalls with regards to fuel efficiency. Keeping all wheels aligned periodically and tires at their proper PSI-KPA to name a few. But safety isn't one of them, nor should that be sacrificed in favor or fuel efficiency.
Oh really? Cool. Then they are not given the same rights under Geneva convention.
What will it take to change your mind? A smuggled nuke in a van going off at ground zero? No?