Not that I agree but to play devils advocate.
Do we really want to turn the stock market into any more of a ‘game’ then it’s already turned into. We’d have computers with billion dollar portfolios all bidding each other trying to find the others algorithms out.
Remember when Proctor and Gamble and Accenture dropped like 99% of their value in just a few mins? Imagine that happening too 100s of stocks everyday as the computers attempt to trick each other into making mistakes.
Now should this be the risk people pay for allowing a computer to do their trading? Maybe. But there is a good reason why the rule is in place.
Why not just use a computer to count craters? The current algorithms for optical recognition should work rather well for 'find circles'. Not that it's nice that they're involving us normal folk in their fancy science, but this is the sort of mundane task that computers are made for....
"The idea that you can hide a missile system in a box and drive it around without anyone knowing is pretty new," said Hewson, who is editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons.
"Nobody's ever done that before." Mostmissilesonshipsare.
Sure there are some that aren't but most of those are land based where conditions are a little more friendly.
Sure making it look like a shiping conatiner maybe new, but missiles in boxes is hardly cutting edge stuff.
Looks like this can be broken into three parts.
First
Once they accessed the database, known as the Home Location Register (HLR), the researchers are able to determine which mobile provider a given subscriber uses, and then combine that with the caller ID data, giving them a profile of the subscriber.
But no details are given about how they got in. But really, this isn't that much more scary then a phonebook.
Second
They can spoof someone's mobile number, dial that same number using this dialing technique, and in many cases a call to a handset from that handset's number that goes to voice mail will bypass the voice-mail authentication mechanism.
I know my company, verizon, still requires your password even if you call from your number.
Third
builds upon earlier work on geolocation of GSM handsets and exposes a number of fundamental weaknesses in the architecture of mobile providers' networks.
But no further info is given...
Looks like there really isn't much news here except that maybe t-mobile doesn't require a password for voicemail if you call from your home phone number.
I know right? What are the odds that someone who just happens to find an iphone at bar takes it home and opens it ups?
Total BS. In the reall world the thing would simply be on ebay within the hour an no one would know that it was special.
The odds that the phone was left in the bar and found a person who could not only identify it as a new prototype phone but also had the curitosity to open it up in the first place.... someone should be buying lottery tickets.
Not necessarily, different people attract different bacteria; just look at why people smell differently based on what bacteria they have growing on them.
Similarly something in the Japanese gut could be encouraging the growth of this specific bacteria...
Just speculation, article was lacking about causes.
You know what the sad part is? I think of stupid crap like this all the time but then I think 'No.... No one would ever pay for that' and just forget about it.
I swear my faith in the human race is holding me back from making some serious coin.
Maybe I will move forward with my strip club/barber shop idea; I mean who wouldn't want to get their hair cut by a topless woman?
Meh I'd send it out if someone wrote one for me. It's pretty easy not to get caught, just go to a public network, launch it and NEVER take credit for it. Espically for the simpler but more brutal ones like slammer or blaster I always wondered why if it was so easy to make the worm why did no one created a quick program that deletes the worm and turns on autoupdates? Not only would it save everyone a lot of work but would also be fun to watch them fight;)
According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: "We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size."
You know I've been an independent my whole life but I think I've finally found a party I could really get behind;)
But that doesn't change the fact that if we have to MAKE the antimatter then it is physically impossible to get more energy out of it then we put in to it.
Fusion works because there is hydrogen laying around everywhere.
Fission works because there's easy to get uranium.
Even fossil fuels work because they're already there for us to dig up.
Unless we find some way to gather up natural antimatter this won't be useful way to produce energy.
If it's been flying a lot longer than they planed why did they have the foresight to send the automated stargate building probes to the galaxy that the ship is currently in?
I'm sooo waiting for them to explain that one;)
Well assuming theyâ(TM)re sticking with the same rules from Atlantis you normally have to have the ATA gene to run the ancients stuff.... Would have been nice if they had actually said that since Iâ(TM)m pretty sure every fan thought the same damn thing about the probe, but that was the most reasonable explanation I came up with.
Technically it's called a plane flying a parabolic arc and it can subject it's passengers to any amount of 'gravity' it wants.
Someone needs to take their head out of their.... well you know:P
- what energy and chemicals goes into the growing, harvesting, and processing of the plants to make it into fuel? What CO2/pollution does that create?
That's why biofuel is good. It's basically co2 neutral since any co2 release when burning it the same amount you removed from the atmosphere when you were growing it. Once up and running the factory would have 0 impact on the environment other than simply the land it takes up.
the land used to grow the crops... are we displacing food crops? Would that land otherwise have sequestered CO2 long term (benefitting us), whereas now we're taking that carbon and putting it back into the atmosphere
That's a big selling points of algae. You can build the factory anywhere there is sun light, deserts for example. And if you want to sequester the co2 just run your bio fuel factory and just pump the oil it makes back underground.
According to the washington post it would take only 15,000 square miles to replace all the oil used in the United States which includes the oil costs to move oil around. Which sound huge right? Luckly this country is pretty damn big, with lots of pretty useless areas.... The Mojave Desert for instance is over 22,000 square miles. While you obvious can't covert the whole thing and dump it all in one place you can probably still find lots of place to stick huge tanks of this stuff, and the tech is only going to get better. But you are correct in that this wont solve the problem it's still very promising.
Well they've been using family history for a while; which is basic an easy way to get someone's genetic profile...... I wonder how that will fare under the law.
And this is why I just said I've given up trust in most news services.
How can they not see the difference between.
The convoy was pulled over - IE the cops either knew something was up or were about to find out when they asked for ID.
and eventually stopped themselves - IE the cops knew jack sh-t and if the cars had been loaded with bombs or a bunch of armed terrorists they could have gone anywhere they wanted.
So it does indeed seem like the cops f-ed up and never and were never going to verify it was a real diplomatic motorcade.
I mean hell if you don't want to stop the whole convey would it really be so hard to grab one of the motorcycle escorts and asked to see a badge? That's all it would take to confirm the whole thing is legit.
I swear I'd make a better security analyst than 99% of the people they got out there right now.
If the enemy can view their attempt at being stopped, it means they haven't got close to what's being protected.
But what you're trying to protect is the people in the motorcade. By stopping them in plain view you're in fact putting them at risk.
Let's say you stop everyone at the checkpoint and the enemy knows this. All he has to do is find a spot overlooking the checkpoint (not hard in a dense urban area), bring a machine gun, then just wait till the target shows up. So Bush's 10 car motorcade comes rolling up and are all force to stop to be cleared. Now all the guy has to do is open fire at the cars which are basically trapped between the checkpoint gate and the car behind them and even if he can't tell which one Bush is in he's bound to hit something before anyone can react in the chaos.
The only way to protect against this is to either build massive secure checkpoints which would be hard in the middle of an active city. Or have multilayered security where the outer checkpoints make sure guys carrying machine guns don't get through and the inner security makes sure everything is safe and you don't have guys dressed like bin Laden wondering around.
But really though, the news article simply doesn't give you enough information to properly critique Sydney security.
For example, why was the motorcade pulled over? Did they simply get lucky or was it proper procedure to check out motorcades once they've cleared the other checkpoints?
How close were they to hotel? A 'block adjacent to the InterContinental Hotel' was rather vague. Were they close enough that if it had been a car bomb that people in the hotel would have been at risk?
Was there still more security between where they were pulled over and where the diplomats were staying? IE if they had punched the gas would anyone important been at risk?
The news media is just doing what the news media does, trying to be sensational. I take everything they say with a grain of salt.
In the end though was security not as strong as it could be? Probably. But is it as bad as the news is making it sound? Probably not.
Actually... if they hadn't been stopped he wouldn't have gotten out. Therefore they were pulled over first, which seems to indicate that the security was on to them at least some what.
And truthfully from a security stand point this makes sense. You don't want to stop a motorcade at the first checkpoint otherwise an enemy (I know it's Australia, just saying) could just set up watching the check point and wait for his target to be stopped there. What they should be doing is wave an 'obvious' motorcade through the first level of security and then check them out deeper in where it's safe.
Further the article doesn't make it clear what these check points were. Perhaps the first one was just a couple of guys on foot charged with turning away anyone that doesn't have clear business in the area, and not what everyone pictures when they think of a check point as barbed wire, sandbags, gates, guys with machine guns, ect./Just saying
The parent said the universe had no creator, not, no cause. None of your options make sense, and that's part of the problem. You can't ask what happened before the universe cause there wasn't even time as we know it so how can there be a before? Similarly you can't ask what caused it, because a cause and effect relationship also require a sense of time. Human minds maybe to limited to ever understand where the universe came from, so people fill in the blanks with their own assumptions about why things are the way they are.
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Not that I agree but to play devils advocate. Do we really want to turn the stock market into any more of a ‘game’ then it’s already turned into. We’d have computers with billion dollar portfolios all bidding each other trying to find the others algorithms out. Remember when Proctor and Gamble and Accenture dropped like 99% of their value in just a few mins? Imagine that happening too 100s of stocks everyday as the computers attempt to trick each other into making mistakes. Now should this be the risk people pay for allowing a computer to do their trading? Maybe. But there is a good reason why the rule is in place.
Thank you; I had no idea why Clash of the Titans 3d felt so weak compared to Avatar's 3d.... now if only there was some way to get my money back.
Why not just use a computer to count craters? The current algorithms for optical recognition should work rather well for 'find circles'. Not that it's nice that they're involving us normal folk in their fancy science, but this is the sort of mundane task that computers are made for....
"The idea that you can hide a missile system in a box and drive it around without anyone knowing is pretty new," said Hewson, who is editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons.
"Nobody's ever done that before."
Most missiles on ships are.
Sure there are some that aren't but most of those are land based where conditions are a little more friendly.
Sure making it look like a shiping conatiner maybe new, but missiles in boxes is hardly cutting edge stuff.
But no details are given about how they got in. But really, this isn't that much more scary then a phonebook.
Second
I know my company, verizon, still requires your password even if you call from your number.
Third
But no further info is given...
Looks like there really isn't much news here except that maybe t-mobile doesn't require a password for voicemail if you call from your home phone number.
I know right? What are the odds that someone who just happens to find an iphone at bar takes it home and opens it ups?
Total BS. In the reall world the thing would simply be on ebay within the hour an no one would know that it was special.
The odds that the phone was left in the bar and found a person who could not only identify it as a new prototype phone but also had the curitosity to open it up in the first place.... someone should be buying lottery tickets.
Not necessarily, different people attract different bacteria; just look at why people smell differently based on what bacteria they have growing on them.
Similarly something in the Japanese gut could be encouraging the growth of this specific bacteria...
Just speculation, article was lacking about causes.
You know what the sad part is? I think of stupid crap like this all the time but then I think 'No.... No one would ever pay for that' and just forget about it.
I swear my faith in the human race is holding me back from making some serious coin.
Maybe I will move forward with my strip club/barber shop idea; I mean who wouldn't want to get their hair cut by a topless woman?
Meh I'd send it out if someone wrote one for me. It's pretty easy not to get caught, just go to a public network, launch it and NEVER take credit for it. Espically for the simpler but more brutal ones like slammer or blaster I always wondered why if it was so easy to make the worm why did no one created a quick program that deletes the worm and turns on autoupdates? Not only would it save everyone a lot of work but would also be fun to watch them fight ;)
According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: "We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size."
;)
You know I've been an independent my whole life but I think I've finally found a party I could really get behind
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My blackberry connects fine as well.
But that doesn't change the fact that if we have to MAKE the antimatter then it is physically impossible to get more energy out of it then we put in to it. Fusion works because there is hydrogen laying around everywhere. Fission works because there's easy to get uranium. Even fossil fuels work because they're already there for us to dig up. Unless we find some way to gather up natural antimatter this won't be useful way to produce energy.
If it's been flying a lot longer than they planed why did they have the foresight to send the automated stargate building probes to the galaxy that the ship is currently in? ;)
I'm sooo waiting for them to explain that one
Well assuming theyâ(TM)re sticking with the same rules from Atlantis you normally have to have the ATA gene to run the ancients stuff.... Would have been nice if they had actually said that since Iâ(TM)m pretty sure every fan thought the same damn thing about the probe, but that was the most reasonable explanation I came up with.
The X-43 already did mach 9.68.
This is actually a bigger step towards making a mach 6 missile rather then a mach 6 plane....
Technically it's called a plane flying a parabolic arc and it can subject it's passengers to any amount of 'gravity' it wants. Someone needs to take their head out of their .... well you know :P
- what energy and chemicals goes into the growing, harvesting, and processing of the plants to make it into fuel? What CO2/pollution does that create?
That's why biofuel is good. It's basically co2 neutral since any co2 release when burning it the same amount you removed from the atmosphere when you were growing it. Once up and running the factory would have 0 impact on the environment other than simply the land it takes up.
the land used to grow the crops... are we displacing food crops? Would that land otherwise have sequestered CO2 long term (benefitting us), whereas now we're taking that carbon and putting it back into the atmosphere
That's a big selling points of algae. You can build the factory anywhere there is sun light, deserts for example. And if you want to sequester the co2 just run your bio fuel factory and just pump the oil it makes back underground.
According to the washington post it would take only 15,000 square miles to replace all the oil used in the United States which includes the oil costs to move oil around.
Which sound huge right? Luckly this country is pretty damn big, with lots of pretty useless areas....
The Mojave Desert for instance is over 22,000 square miles.
While you obvious can't covert the whole thing and dump it all in one place you can probably still find lots of place to stick huge tanks of this stuff, and the tech is only going to get better.
But you are correct in that this wont solve the problem it's still very promising.
Well they've been using family history for a while; which is basic an easy way to get someone's genetic profile......
I wonder how that will fare under the law.
The reason most people don't take advantage of it is because most of the time they are infact infringing.... /shrug
If anyone is interested read
(g) Replacement of Removed or Disabled Material and Limitation on Other Liability.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html
How can they not see the difference between.
The convoy was pulled over - IE the cops either knew something was up or were about to find out when they asked for ID.
and
eventually stopped themselves - IE the cops knew jack sh-t and if the cars had been loaded with bombs or a bunch of armed terrorists they could have gone anywhere they wanted.
So it does indeed seem like the cops f-ed up and never and were never going to verify it was a real diplomatic motorcade.
I mean hell if you don't want to stop the whole convey would it really be so hard to grab one of the motorcycle escorts and asked to see a badge? That's all it would take to confirm the whole thing is legit.
I swear I'd make a better security analyst than 99% of the people they got out there right now.
Let's say you stop everyone at the checkpoint and the enemy knows this. All he has to do is find a spot overlooking the checkpoint (not hard in a dense urban area), bring a machine gun, then just wait till the target shows up. So Bush's 10 car motorcade comes rolling up and are all force to stop to be cleared. Now all the guy has to do is open fire at the cars which are basically trapped between the checkpoint gate and the car behind them and even if he can't tell which one Bush is in he's bound to hit something before anyone can react in the chaos.
The only way to protect against this is to either build massive secure checkpoints which would be hard in the middle of an active city. Or have multilayered security where the outer checkpoints make sure guys carrying machine guns don't get through and the inner security makes sure everything is safe and you don't have guys dressed like bin Laden wondering around.
But really though, the news article simply doesn't give you enough information to properly critique Sydney security. For example, why was the motorcade pulled over? Did they simply get lucky or was it proper procedure to check out motorcades once they've cleared the other checkpoints? How close were they to hotel? A 'block adjacent to the InterContinental Hotel' was rather vague. Were they close enough that if it had been a car bomb that people in the hotel would have been at risk? Was there still more security between where they were pulled over and where the diplomats were staying? IE if they had punched the gas would anyone important been at risk?
The news media is just doing what the news media does, trying to be sensational. I take everything they say with a grain of salt.
In the end though was security not as strong as it could be? Probably. But is it as bad as the news is making it sound? Probably not.
Actually... if they hadn't been stopped he wouldn't have gotten out. Therefore they were pulled over first, which seems to indicate that the security was on to them at least some what.
/Just saying
And truthfully from a security stand point this makes sense.
You don't want to stop a motorcade at the first checkpoint otherwise an enemy (I know it's Australia, just saying) could just set up watching the check point and wait for his target to be stopped there. What they should be doing is wave an 'obvious' motorcade through the first level of security and then check them out deeper in where it's safe.
Further the article doesn't make it clear what these check points were. Perhaps the first one was just a couple of guys on foot charged with turning away anyone that doesn't have clear business in the area, and not what everyone pictures when they think of a check point as barbed wire, sandbags, gates, guys with machine guns, ect.
The parent said the universe had no creator, not, no cause.
None of your options make sense, and that's part of the problem. You can't ask what happened before the universe cause there wasn't even time as we know it so how can there be a before?
Similarly you can't ask what caused it, because a cause and effect relationship also require a sense of time.
Human minds maybe to limited to ever understand where the universe came from, so people fill in the blanks with their own assumptions about why things are the way they are.
Yes... but given this is the 10 millionth time someone has made this obvious joke it's still redundant regardless of what time it was posted at.