I would NOT recommend using the "Offline Files" feature in Windows. It sucks. It maintains no folder hierarchy whatsoever. If you start with 1000 files neatly organized in 50 subfolders what you'll get with "Offline Files" is 1000 files dumped into a single folder.
So Mike Elgan is befuddled by all the blinky lights. Here's a news flash for ya Mike - status LED's are far from useless. They are very useful aids for monitoring equipment status and troubleshooting. Take your Linksys router, for example. It likely has an LED to indicate the whether the WAN link is up, whether any devices are connected to its Ethernet ports and whether the wireless radio (if present) is enabled/in use. The colour of the LED's may indicate the connection speed and duplex of attached devices. Lastly, flashing LED's can indicate active traffic, sometimes with separate indications for sent and received data. This is a host of useful information that I could use to help a non-technical user troubleshoot a connection problem over the phone. Imagine what would be required if those LED's weren't there. I would need to go onsite with specialized test equipment or software to get the same basic information.
Remember when dialup modems were common? External modems typically had 8 or more LED's that told at a glance exactly what (if anything) was happening. When internal modems became the norm it was difficult to tell what was going on without some kind of software emulation of the LED's.
As far as I'm concerned the more LED's the better. Skimping on status lights is a sign of cheapness to me. Calling them useless just because YOU don't have a use for them is a sign of ignorance.
I am soooooo fucking tired of hearing people say that Y2K was a "flop" of some kind. Ya, the world didn't grind to a halt, but that's NOT because there wasn't a HUGE NUMBER of VERY SERIOUS PROBLEMS. It's because a HUGE NUMBER OF MAN-HOURS WERE SPENT making sure the problems were fixed on time.
I personally tested systems that simply FUCKING BARFED when the date rolled over. Entire systems. Important systems. In some cases they actually had to be REPLACED because it wasn't possible to fix the problems.
So don't ridicule the hype that preceeded Y2K. Without the hype many PHB's would not have approved funding for the testing, fixing and replacements that ensured your sorry ass didn't get stuck in an elevator or a traffic jam or whatever.
It's trivial to differentiate between outbound and inbound tcp connections. (The first packet has the SYN flag set to begin a three-way handshake). A busy server woould have a lot of connections coming TO it. A bot would have a lot of connections coming FROM it. In the case of other protocols the SRC and DST information in the packets should suffice to determine direction.
A decent AC voltmeter has an input impedance in the neighbourhood of 10,000 ohms. They are often capable of measuring a voltage that would disappear under any kind of load. You can rub a balloon on your head and create a gigantic voltage, but you can't connect up to the balloon and draw any sustained current. Just because a high-impedance meter shows a potential doesn't necessarily mean there is a real danger.
FX of Phenoelit gave an amazing talk on this at CanSecWest/core03 back in 2003 that outlined how to turn a JetDirect printer into a webserver, fileserver or even a port scanner! We all had a huge chuckle at the thought of someone tracking down a port scanner on the network only to find it was coming from an HP printer.
The entire presentation is still available online in both PDF and PPT format.
The tools used to hack the printers are available here.
They're not trying to get into orbit. If you had bothered to RTFA, it states that the craft is "designed to take a small number of astronauts on a suborbital journey into space".
It's not a matter of preferring lethal weapons over non-lethal. Lethal weapons are only used in extreme circumstances because in civilized society we demand it be so. Anyone using lethal force requires strong legal authorization and justification. Something tells me this new mass torture device will not be subject to the same restraint because it's been labelled non-lethal. And don't kid yourself that some people won't die from it. Newspapers have reported numerous deaths from other "non-lethal" weapons such as tasers and rubber bullets. Personally I'd choose either of those rather than have my skin cooked. Have you ever burned yourself by accident? Think about how painful it can be to burn just a few square millimeters of skin. Now imagine what it would be like to experience "redness" or "small blisters" over an extensive portion of your body. Redness with blisters is the definition of a second degree burn. A weapon like this is simply inhumane. The very idea of it is repugnant, just like the chemical weapons the US cites when describing the inhumanity of other regimes.
It's saddening to see how a country that was once a pioneer of freedom and civil rights now routinely resorts to torture to enforce its will. This weapon simply disgusts me. As far as I'm concerned there is no justfication for this in an ethical society, regardless of how many skyscrapers get levelled by terrorists.
The first two shapes drawn in the video begin with a distinct rap to the geometric centre of the surface. In fact, there are markings on the surface showing where the centre is. (The last two shapes aren't shown from the very beginning).
It could be that the system has a harder time distinguishing the start of a stroke than it does staying "locked on" during a stroke. Once it's locked on, possible signals that are very close to the last known position could be weighted much higher than signals arising just anywhere on the surface. That might even be why they are starting in the centre. Perhaps the system has a poor signal/noise ratio and doesn't reliably detect randomly located starts. Poor signal/noise ratio would also explain why they are rapping the surface distictly at the start.
It's a very cool demonstration but I'm suspicious they are cheating a bit here.
How about a link to these statistics? I'd like to see how it was determined that "a full half of those that voted" were influenced by web-based guides.
There have been passwords available to lock access to IDE drives for some time now. While this is not the same thing as encryption I predict the same problems will arise from it, namely that users will lose access to their own data. When this happens you will have several choices:
1) Contact Seagate and ask for help. They'll tell you it's impossible to access the drive. After all, it's much better for them if you have to purchase a new one. 2) Contact some 3rd party service that is able to crack the drive. Since your data is at ransom it will cost considerably more than the price of the hard drive. 3) Chuck the drive in the trash and curse the mother**cker who thought up this scheme to "protect" you.
Seriously. Having encryption as an option is one thing. Turning it on "automatically" is just bad.
As I understand it the purpose of turnitin.com is not to determine who is the "original author" or the rightful owner of intellectual property. It's to alert an instructor that work turned in is a very close match to work seen before. The fact that something already exists in the database is not clear evidence of plagarism, as you point out, but clear evidence that some investigation is called for.
I was talking about ice shelves/bergs formed by freezing seawater, not ice accumulated on land due to precipitation. Although even in the latter case, where did the water come from to start? Evaporation from the oceans? If that's the case it's just returning where it came from. Again no net change.
Do you seriously believe that when your 915kg of ice melts it turns into 915kg of "fresh water"? That's simply ridiculous. As the ice melts it MIXES with the salty water surrounding it. The salty water, as you pointed out, was increased in salinity when the ice formed. Now the desalinated water from the ice rejoins the ocean and dilutes the salty water. Guess what? NO NET CHANGE.
You're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. There is a magic number used in
credit ratings. In Canada it's called a beacon
score.
When you check your
own credit
they won't show
you the beacon score, but when other people check they will see it.
It's the number one thing that creditors care about, and it's based (among
other things) on the ratio of your total used credit
to your total credit limit.
So yes - maxed out limits will reduce your credit rating even with
a perfect
payment history.
In fact, merely allowing people to check your
credit rating causes it to go down! Each time someone runs a check on you
it's interpreted as though you are applyin for credit. A lot of credit checks
makes it look like you are in trouble, as though you are
going
all over
trying
to
obtain
credit
and getting turned
down. The mere fact (or appearance) that someone denied you credit makes you
look bad. Keep that in mind next time you mark an X in the box that
authorizes someone to check
your credit.
I see a lot of people running nice LCD monitors at horrible resolutions because
they find the text too small at higher resolutions. A few simple steps make a
world of difference:
Go to Display Properties, Appearance, Effects and
select ClearType under "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen
fonts".
If you have an LCD monitor you must set it to it's native
resolution. Anything else will cause text to look distorted. Google for "native
resolution" and your monitor's model number if not sure.
If fonts appear too small at the native resolution go to Display Properties,
Settings, Advanced, General. Change the DPI setting from Normal Size (96
DPI) to Large
Size (120
DPI) and reboot.
Fine tune ClearType using Microsoft's online tuner.
ICANN has very little direct control over what a nation can do with their own
TLD.
ICANN controls a root DNS server,
which is authoritative for the "." zone - one level higher than a ccTLD. This
means they get to say what DNS servers are authoritative for.cm, and could
send traffic to different servers if they really wanted to. Or at least
they could redirect queries that came to their particular root server. If the
other root servers followed suit they could do whatever they want
with any
ccTLD.
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I would NOT recommend using the "Offline Files" feature in Windows. It sucks. It maintains no folder hierarchy whatsoever. If you start with 1000 files neatly organized in 50 subfolders what you'll get with "Offline Files" is 1000 files dumped into a single folder.
Yeccch.
is so much more useful than one of those stationary ones that only work from one place on the globe.
Wasn't Nicola Tesla doing this kind of thing about a century ago?
So Mike Elgan is befuddled by all the blinky lights. Here's a news flash for ya Mike - status LED's are far from useless. They are very useful aids for monitoring equipment status and troubleshooting. Take your Linksys router, for example. It likely has an LED to indicate the whether the WAN link is up, whether any devices are connected to its Ethernet ports and whether the wireless radio (if present) is enabled/in use. The colour of the LED's may indicate the connection speed and duplex of attached devices. Lastly, flashing LED's can indicate active traffic, sometimes with separate indications for sent and received data. This is a host of useful information that I could use to help a non-technical user troubleshoot a connection problem over the phone. Imagine what would be required if those LED's weren't there. I would need to go onsite with specialized test equipment or software to get the same basic information.
Remember when dialup modems were common? External modems typically had 8 or more LED's that told at a glance exactly what (if anything) was happening. When internal modems became the norm it was difficult to tell what was going on without some kind of software emulation of the LED's.
As far as I'm concerned the more LED's the better. Skimping on status lights is a sign of cheapness to me. Calling them useless just because YOU don't have a use for them is a sign of ignorance.
I am soooooo fucking tired of hearing people say that Y2K was a "flop" of some kind. Ya, the world didn't grind to a halt, but that's NOT because there wasn't a HUGE NUMBER of VERY SERIOUS PROBLEMS. It's because a HUGE NUMBER OF MAN-HOURS WERE SPENT making sure the problems were fixed on time.
I personally tested systems that simply FUCKING BARFED when the date rolled over. Entire systems. Important systems. In some cases they actually had to be REPLACED because it wasn't possible to fix the problems.
So don't ridicule the hype that preceeded Y2K. Without the hype many PHB's would not have approved funding for the testing, fixing and replacements that ensured your sorry ass didn't get stuck in an elevator or a traffic jam or whatever.
It's not "Any Damn Device You Can Plug Into A Phone Jack over IP".
It's trivial to differentiate between outbound and inbound tcp connections. (The first packet has the SYN flag set to begin a three-way handshake). A busy server woould have a lot of connections coming TO it. A bot would have a lot of connections coming FROM it. In the case of other protocols the SRC and DST information in the packets should suffice to determine direction.
A decent AC voltmeter has an input impedance in the neighbourhood of 10,000 ohms. They are often capable of measuring a voltage that would disappear under any kind of load. You can rub a balloon on your head and create a gigantic voltage, but you can't connect up to the balloon and draw any sustained current. Just because a high-impedance meter shows a potential doesn't necessarily mean there is a real danger.
You *do* realize that domain names are not case sensitive, right?
FX of Phenoelit gave an amazing talk on this at CanSecWest/core03 back in 2003 that outlined how to turn a JetDirect printer into a webserver, fileserver or even a port scanner! We all had a huge chuckle at the thought of someone tracking down a port scanner on the network only to find it was coming from an HP printer.
The entire presentation is still available online in both PDF and PPT format.
The tools used to hack the printers are available here.
They're not trying to get into orbit. If you had bothered to RTFA, it states that the craft is "designed to take a small number of astronauts on a suborbital journey into space".
It's not a matter of preferring lethal weapons over non-lethal. Lethal weapons are only used in extreme circumstances because in civilized society we demand it be so. Anyone using lethal force requires strong legal authorization and justification. Something tells me this new mass torture device will not be subject to the same restraint because it's been labelled non-lethal. And don't kid yourself that some people won't die from it. Newspapers have reported numerous deaths from other "non-lethal" weapons such as tasers and rubber bullets. Personally I'd choose either of those rather than have my skin cooked. Have you ever burned yourself by accident? Think about how painful it can be to burn just a few square millimeters of skin. Now imagine what it would be like to experience "redness" or "small blisters" over an extensive portion of your body. Redness with blisters is the definition of a second degree burn. A weapon like this is simply inhumane. The very idea of it is repugnant, just like the chemical weapons the US cites when describing the inhumanity of other regimes.
No kidding. Does that mean we should all stoop to their level?
It's saddening to see how a country that was once a pioneer of freedom and civil rights now routinely resorts to torture to enforce its will. This weapon simply disgusts me. As far as I'm concerned there is no justfication for this in an ethical society, regardless of how many skyscrapers get levelled by terrorists.
The first two shapes drawn in the video begin with a distinct rap to the geometric centre of the surface. In fact, there are markings on the surface showing where the centre is. (The last two shapes aren't shown from the very beginning).
It could be that the system has a harder time distinguishing the start of a stroke than it does staying "locked on" during a stroke. Once it's locked on, possible signals that are very close to the last known position could be weighted much higher than signals arising just anywhere on the surface. That might even be why they are starting in the centre. Perhaps the system has a poor signal/noise ratio and doesn't reliably detect randomly located starts. Poor signal/noise ratio would also explain why they are rapping the surface distictly at the start.
It's a very cool demonstration but I'm suspicious they are cheating a bit here.
How about a link to these statistics? I'd like to see how it was determined that "a full half of those that voted" were influenced by web-based guides.
There have been passwords available to lock access to IDE drives for some time now. While this is not the same thing as encryption I predict the same problems will arise from it, namely that users will lose access to their own data. When this happens you will have several choices:
1) Contact Seagate and ask for help. They'll tell you it's impossible to access the drive. After all, it's much better for them if you have to purchase a new one.
2) Contact some 3rd party service that is able to crack the drive. Since your data is at ransom it will cost considerably more than the price of the hard drive.
3) Chuck the drive in the trash and curse the mother**cker who thought up this scheme to "protect" you.
Seriously. Having encryption as an option is one thing. Turning it on "automatically" is just bad.
As I understand it the purpose of turnitin.com is not to determine who is the "original author" or the rightful owner of intellectual property. It's to alert an instructor that work turned in is a very close match to work seen before. The fact that something already exists in the database is not clear evidence of plagarism, as you point out, but clear evidence that some investigation is called for.
I was talking about ice shelves/bergs formed by freezing seawater, not ice accumulated on land due to precipitation. Although even in the latter case, where did the water come from to start? Evaporation from the oceans? If that's the case it's just returning where it came from. Again no net change.
Do you seriously believe that when your 915kg of ice melts it turns into 915kg of "fresh water"? That's simply ridiculous. As the ice melts it MIXES with the salty water surrounding it. The salty water, as you pointed out, was increased in salinity when the ice formed. Now the desalinated water from the ice rejoins the ocean and dilutes the salty water. Guess what? NO NET CHANGE.
You're only seeing the tip of the iceberg. There is a magic number used in credit ratings. In Canada it's called a beacon score. When you check your own credit they won't show you the beacon score, but when other people check they will see it. It's the number one thing that creditors care about, and it's based (among other things) on the ratio of your total used credit to your total credit limit. So yes - maxed out limits will reduce your credit rating even with a perfect payment history.
In fact, merely allowing people to check your credit rating causes it to go down! Each time someone runs a check on you it's interpreted as though you are applyin for credit. A lot of credit checks makes it look like you are in trouble, as though you are going all over trying to obtain credit and getting turned down. The mere fact (or appearance) that someone denied you credit makes you look bad. Keep that in mind next time you mark an X in the box that authorizes someone to check your credit.
ICANN has very little direct control over what a nation can do with their own TLD.
ICANN controls a root DNS server, which is authoritative for the "." zone - one level higher than a ccTLD. This means they get to say what DNS servers are authoritative for .cm, and could
send traffic to different servers if they really wanted to. Or at least
they could redirect queries that came to their particular root server. If the
other root servers followed suit they could do whatever they want
with any
ccTLD.
I filled out my Canadian census online and didn't need any special software. All I used was Firefox, IIRC.
You might be interested in the Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard. It will export & import Outlook account settings and more.