With the "not enough money" part involved, I always wondered what it would take to steal ID's, but only put about $5,000 in debt on each ID, just enough to stay under the radar per ID stolen. With enough ID's stolen here and there, that gets to be real money...a dollar here and a dollar there adds up to a bit over time. The FBI really should look at the smaller cases and I'd bet they'd find some big fish...
If this is a finally practical technology to deploy anywhere, say on power lines this is really frickin' big....like there goes our energy crisis big. Or here comes the computer that's so fast the result was asked for today and delivered yesterday frickin' big.
I'm partial to agree on this, if you're sticking in a managed framework, why bother with C++.NET when you'd get along fine in C#. However.NET does allow you to work unmanaged, compiling to native C++ if you feel like it (with decent support using Marshalers translating safe to unsafe and vice-versa). In fact the C++ native compiler in.NET is supposed to be one of the closest to the ANSI C++ standard if I'm not mistaken (I can't remember where I heard that one, don't hold me to it).
A Congressman nearby me was an electronics and computer researcher, implying he probably knows a little bit of some programming language (probably C given his background). I wouldn't be surprised if you research the other ~530 congress seats (house and senate) and uncover some other coders both present and former...
Note I'm not endorsing Darrell Issa in any way, just pointing out a fact...
I nominate the Monty Python Security system consisting of a troll at the security checkpoint
1) What is your name?
2) What is your destination?
3) What is the airpseed velocity of an unladen swallow?
C'mon, how many Al Qaeda extremists know the correct answer to #3? Some of them might even get confused on #2 "World Trade Ce....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH..." hehehe...
*tries to recall what Futurama episode that was* someone help me here....but I do remember one where Mother was invading the world and the robots took over:-D
When I saw that article, I couldn't help but think "Damn that's a hot data center, glad I'm not running any of their servers:-) " then again if someone were truly able to get a computer running at that temperature, maybe they're worth considering...
While I'm in agreement with you on the stupidity of the aformentioned deaths. Upon reading the rules of the Darwin Awards, I notice that there is an "Excellence" component involved in that whatever act committed resulting in said sterilization by either death or mutilation needs to be an act not commonly seen in public. The four incidences you mention, taken at face value alone do not qualify as "Excellence" in my opinion granted they happen all the time. Now for example if we take "pedestrians who ignore traffic" and turn it into "pedestrians who not only ignore traffic but also ignore firing themselves out of cannons at 18 wheelers on a busy street" now we qualify:-)
All the same, I don't advocate people either A) Committing acts stupid but un-worthy of a Darwin because they think they are safe or B) Firing themnselves out of cannons at 18 wheelers on busy streets. Now I just know I'm going to get a lawyer at my door from some fool who tried this...
Offer me DRM free Britney Spears and Barry Manilow, and wonder why me (and many other geeks I'm sure, I'm fairly certain I have no friends who are fans of their music) are not buying...claim sales are low and use that as a justification to re-start DRM. Brillant Sony!
Well I'm a Netflix customer and haven't had any such problems yet with my low res-monitor but thanks for the shout...
However I'm not immune from DRM either, and after having a DVD copy protection scheme knock itself out of playing on my computer, being as determined as I was, I found a program on the Internet to disable copy protections in about 10 seconds flat which also included the ability to clone DVD's...so anyone ever need a region free, copy protect free version of a DVD that won't play right in your comp just let me know...not that I'm a pirate or anything.
BTW MPAA: go ahead and attempt to sue me, I've committed no wrong whatsoever and I've forgotten the names of more lawyers who will work for me pro-bono or cheap than you will ever know...
I'd wholeheartedly agree with you, so then my life's great priority list is as follows
1) Breathe
2) Sleep
3) Procreate
4) Eat ...
1444) Find Cure for cancer ...
2137832) Find extra terrestrial intelligence
Ergo when I have some computing power to spare I'll devote some to the cure for cancer, when I have the United States's entire Internet worth of computing power, I'll spare a little to extra terrestrial intelligence:-)
So, you want to run an online bank do you? Well what's to stop me from...
1) Taking people's Linden dollars
2) Cashing them in for real dollars, investing the real dollars in some sort fund that closely matches the Linden Dollars to real dollars exchange rate, plus pays out a dividend of say 5%, maybe just a simple CD/Savings account for that FDIC insurance.
3) Using the resulting dividends to pay a 3% interest rate on all Linden Dollars in my accounts
4) Profit on the spread!
The scary part is, this sounds almost viable as compared to people who invest money in scammers. Of course the risks here are that the exchange rate on Linden dollars can go to hell on short notice, also investment underperformance on the dividend side (though I can peg my dividends to a variable rate based on the performance of the fund and mitigate that risk).
Anyways this is just my thoughts, anyone who actually undertakes this is probably crazy...
Notwithstanding everyone else's prior art that they found which all seems valid; the first way I thought of invalidating this is the Exxon/Mobil Speedpass system that's been around since 1997 according to the article. Long before I remember seeing the first Mp3 player from Apple.
Even so it's fairly shortsighted of China, assuming they created a fake so good it thwarted the best efforts on Earth to determine the picture offhand, there are one of 2 things that would have debunked this new crater.
A) A high enough resolution telescope certainly wouldn't lie, corroborated from multiple international telescopes at high enough resolution and the chinese look stupid.
B) Assuming the Chinese thwart the telescope option (nothing high enough resolution to look at the crater), someday we might just head back to the moon and check out this new crater..."uuuh Astronaut 2 to Astronaut one, the chinese said that new crater was a left at the old Rover monument, south for 1 mile...but I don't see it..."
Heh, this may be offtopick but after hearing everyone's gripes I think I am in DSL Nirvana thanks to my DSL Provider (Look up Linkline if anyone is interested).
Seriously fast speeds (they quote me 1.5mbps - 6.mbps, I routinely see 4mbps at peak times, and easily 6mbps off peak), 99.9% reliability (had a few times the modem refused to connect but after 15 minutes it would strangely clear up), liberal access policies (I've run outgoing SMTP and Bittorrent, the latter which just screams bits powerfully, I'm anyone's favorite seed:-) ), now I've hardly had to talk to customer support because they're so good, but when I do, it's geeks that know what they are talking about that respond, probably some that are reading Slashdot now.
Ok I'm done burning my karma on a very shameless plug, just get them, they're goood....
I dunno about that one, if entrances are logged into dorms (and dorm rooms?) via key card or similar technology, a through investigation can reveal a few hundred people who swiped the card in the dorm and a few at best who swiped the card in the dorm room. That still leaves a few but with other corroborating evidence you might be able to pinpoint someone. Still for the RIAA to do this, it goes far past the point of diminishing returns, but the RIAA has been good at doing just that...
If you want to fork the Linux Kernel, there's absolutely nothing from stopping you from doing it yourself. Wanna tune a version just for Desktop or Server? By all means, just adhere to GPL. Your attempt at forking might even get some support from the community, however I'd think Linus's blessing on such a fork means something however...
Hmmm even as it is, why couldn't a cell phone company do just that, sell cheap antennas that relay to bigger antennas? Make them sensitive to signal so they shutdown if the signal is too loud but otherwise for say a few bucks you can buy a repeater that would strenghten your signal out to the more remote antennas. FCC probably has an issue with this I take it....
I have to agree, I typically argue for the "Just make your variable names easy enough to understand" side of programming style. I tend to take it to such extremes such as naming variables "VariableThatTakesTheLoopRotatesIt90DegreesAndMake sItSayNe" which would be a tad overboard. I've had many a programmer tell me they've gotten Carpal Tunnel on working with my code, but I always retort "Yeah but you understood what it did fairly easily no?", them: "Well...." Anyways to each their own
Well sorta...
From what I understand (Disclaimer IANAPhysicist) Fusion plants when they are in production will not be using Uranium but heavy water (H30) which is a readily available fuel supply found in many bodies of water in ample quantity to keep them going for some length of time. Eventually we may exhaust our heavy water stocks as well but we have more of that fuel than oil easily...
"Build something that's idiot proof, and they'll build a better idiot..."
Really, the same people who fall for attacks to begin with are the people who STILL would despite this.bank implementation. Call me pessimistic but I'm not entirely sure it would work...
Good idea though, makes it plainly obvious for the rest of us people with more than 10 IQ points anyways...
As a postscript to what I just said tho, botnet, in-house or whatever. It's all got to submit to somewhere. If one could work his way right up the trail yeah you could find out who did it, good luck to ya tho...
Not sure, but I'd think the spider code used to harvest email addresses off the web is still done in house rather than "farmed out" to botnets. Then again, what do I know...
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With the "not enough money" part involved, I always wondered what it would take to steal ID's, but only put about $5,000 in debt on each ID, just enough to stay under the radar per ID stolen. With enough ID's stolen here and there, that gets to be real money...a dollar here and a dollar there adds up to a bit over time. The FBI really should look at the smaller cases and I'd bet they'd find some big fish...
If this is a finally practical technology to deploy anywhere, say on power lines this is really frickin' big....like there goes our energy crisis big. Or here comes the computer that's so fast the result was asked for today and delivered yesterday frickin' big.
In short, WOO HOO!
I'm partial to agree on this, if you're sticking in a managed framework, why bother with C++.NET when you'd get along fine in C#. However .NET does allow you to work unmanaged, compiling to native C++ if you feel like it (with decent support using Marshalers translating safe to unsafe and vice-versa). In fact the C++ native compiler in .NET is supposed to be one of the closest to the ANSI C++ standard if I'm not mistaken (I can't remember where I heard that one, don't hold me to it).
A Congressman nearby me was an electronics and computer researcher, implying he probably knows a little bit of some programming language (probably C given his background). I wouldn't be surprised if you research the other ~530 congress seats (house and senate) and uncover some other coders both present and former...
Note I'm not endorsing Darrell Issa in any way, just pointing out a fact...
I nominate the Monty Python Security system consisting of a troll at the security checkpoint
1) What is your name?
2) What is your destination?
3) What is the airpseed velocity of an unladen swallow?
C'mon, how many Al Qaeda extremists know the correct answer to #3? Some of them might even get confused on #2 "World Trade Ce....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH..." hehehe...
*tries to recall what Futurama episode that was* someone help me here....but I do remember one where Mother was invading the world and the robots took over :-D
When I saw that article, I couldn't help but think "Damn that's a hot data center, glad I'm not running any of their servers :-) " then again if someone were truly able to get a computer running at that temperature, maybe they're worth considering...
Ummm...enlighten a guy who went through a cheap public school education what would Sulfur Hexafluouride do to your voice? Thanks!
While I'm in agreement with you on the stupidity of the aformentioned deaths. Upon reading the rules of the Darwin Awards, I notice that there is an "Excellence" component involved in that whatever act committed resulting in said sterilization by either death or mutilation needs to be an act not commonly seen in public. The four incidences you mention, taken at face value alone do not qualify as "Excellence" in my opinion granted they happen all the time. Now for example if we take "pedestrians who ignore traffic" and turn it into "pedestrians who not only ignore traffic but also ignore firing themselves out of cannons at 18 wheelers on a busy street" now we qualify :-)
All the same, I don't advocate people either A) Committing acts stupid but un-worthy of a Darwin because they think they are safe or B) Firing themnselves out of cannons at 18 wheelers on busy streets. Now I just know I'm going to get a lawyer at my door from some fool who tried this...
Offer me DRM free Britney Spears and Barry Manilow, and wonder why me (and many other geeks I'm sure, I'm fairly certain I have no friends who are fans of their music) are not buying...claim sales are low and use that as a justification to re-start DRM. Brillant Sony!
Well I'm a Netflix customer and haven't had any such problems yet with my low res-monitor but thanks for the shout...
However I'm not immune from DRM either, and after having a DVD copy protection scheme knock itself out of playing on my computer, being as determined as I was, I found a program on the Internet to disable copy protections in about 10 seconds flat which also included the ability to clone DVD's...so anyone ever need a region free, copy protect free version of a DVD that won't play right in your comp just let me know...not that I'm a pirate or anything.
BTW MPAA: go ahead and attempt to sue me, I've committed no wrong whatsoever and I've forgotten the names of more lawyers who will work for me pro-bono or cheap than you will ever know...
I'd wholeheartedly agree with you, so then my life's great priority list is as follows
...
...
:-)
1) Breathe
2) Sleep
3) Procreate
4) Eat
1444) Find Cure for cancer
2137832) Find extra terrestrial intelligence
Ergo when I have some computing power to spare I'll devote some to the cure for cancer, when I have the United States's entire Internet worth of computing power, I'll spare a little to extra terrestrial intelligence
So, you want to run an online bank do you? Well what's to stop me from... 1) Taking people's Linden dollars 2) Cashing them in for real dollars, investing the real dollars in some sort fund that closely matches the Linden Dollars to real dollars exchange rate, plus pays out a dividend of say 5%, maybe just a simple CD/Savings account for that FDIC insurance. 3) Using the resulting dividends to pay a 3% interest rate on all Linden Dollars in my accounts 4) Profit on the spread! The scary part is, this sounds almost viable as compared to people who invest money in scammers. Of course the risks here are that the exchange rate on Linden dollars can go to hell on short notice, also investment underperformance on the dividend side (though I can peg my dividends to a variable rate based on the performance of the fund and mitigate that risk). Anyways this is just my thoughts, anyone who actually undertakes this is probably crazy...
Notwithstanding everyone else's prior art that they found which all seems valid; the first way I thought of invalidating this is the Exxon/Mobil Speedpass system that's been around since 1997 according to the article. Long before I remember seeing the first Mp3 player from Apple.
Even so it's fairly shortsighted of China, assuming they created a fake so good it thwarted the best efforts on Earth to determine the picture offhand, there are one of 2 things that would have debunked this new crater.
A) A high enough resolution telescope certainly wouldn't lie, corroborated from multiple international telescopes at high enough resolution and the chinese look stupid.
B) Assuming the Chinese thwart the telescope option (nothing high enough resolution to look at the crater), someday we might just head back to the moon and check out this new crater..."uuuh Astronaut 2 to Astronaut one, the chinese said that new crater was a left at the old Rover monument, south for 1 mile...but I don't see it..."
Heh, this may be offtopick but after hearing everyone's gripes I think I am in DSL Nirvana thanks to my DSL Provider (Look up Linkline if anyone is interested).
:-) ), now I've hardly had to talk to customer support because they're so good, but when I do, it's geeks that know what they are talking about that respond, probably some that are reading Slashdot now.
Seriously fast speeds (they quote me 1.5mbps - 6.mbps, I routinely see 4mbps at peak times, and easily 6mbps off peak), 99.9% reliability (had a few times the modem refused to connect but after 15 minutes it would strangely clear up), liberal access policies (I've run outgoing SMTP and Bittorrent, the latter which just screams bits powerfully, I'm anyone's favorite seed
Ok I'm done burning my karma on a very shameless plug, just get them, they're goood....
I dunno about that one, if entrances are logged into dorms (and dorm rooms?) via key card or similar technology, a through investigation can reveal a few hundred people who swiped the card in the dorm and a few at best who swiped the card in the dorm room. That still leaves a few but with other corroborating evidence you might be able to pinpoint someone. Still for the RIAA to do this, it goes far past the point of diminishing returns, but the RIAA has been good at doing just that...
If you want to fork the Linux Kernel, there's absolutely nothing from stopping you from doing it yourself. Wanna tune a version just for Desktop or Server? By all means, just adhere to GPL. Your attempt at forking might even get some support from the community, however I'd think Linus's blessing on such a fork means something however...
Hmmm even as it is, why couldn't a cell phone company do just that, sell cheap antennas that relay to bigger antennas? Make them sensitive to signal so they shutdown if the signal is too loud but otherwise for say a few bucks you can buy a repeater that would strenghten your signal out to the more remote antennas. FCC probably has an issue with this I take it....
I have to agree, I typically argue for the "Just make your variable names easy enough to understand" side of programming style. I tend to take it to such extremes such as naming variables "VariableThatTakesTheLoopRotatesIt90DegreesAndMake sItSayNe" which would be a tad overboard. I've had many a programmer tell me they've gotten Carpal Tunnel on working with my code, but I always retort "Yeah but you understood what it did fairly easily no?", them: "Well...." Anyways to each their own
I dunno, I happily code in VS2005 using 8pt Verdana - I guess I'm just psycho :-)
Well sorta... From what I understand (Disclaimer IANAPhysicist) Fusion plants when they are in production will not be using Uranium but heavy water (H30) which is a readily available fuel supply found in many bodies of water in ample quantity to keep them going for some length of time. Eventually we may exhaust our heavy water stocks as well but we have more of that fuel than oil easily...
"Build something that's idiot proof, and they'll build a better idiot..." Really, the same people who fall for attacks to begin with are the people who STILL would despite this .bank implementation. Call me pessimistic but I'm not entirely sure it would work...
Good idea though, makes it plainly obvious for the rest of us people with more than 10 IQ points anyways...
As a postscript to what I just said tho, botnet, in-house or whatever. It's all got to submit to somewhere. If one could work his way right up the trail yeah you could find out who did it, good luck to ya tho...
Not sure, but I'd think the spider code used to harvest email addresses off the web is still done in house rather than "farmed out" to botnets. Then again, what do I know...