..and more than once, I'm afraid to admit. Not the most pleasant experience, as the cellphone screen is barely big enough to read more than the headline page, and the text input is almost too slow for a decent first post attempt.
This is the situation with computer viruses, and, despite all the antivirus laying around, it's still hard to come by an uninfected computer. Of course, you can always reinstall the OS. And how do you propose I do that with my body? Get a new reincarnation?
That's what I often carry instead of a laptop. It's just as simple as that: mounting my drive into a random OS installation would give me a huge fit of paranoia every time I'd have to do that. Plus, I have a perfect control of which OS version is on my CD.
The only drawback is, you can't put a Windows installation on a live CD, so I still have to bring a laptop if I need Windows.
Try driving Rt84 or Rt91 through Connecticut on a sunny afternoon. More often than not, you might see a speed trap operated by 12 or so officers. The traffic speeds along at 80mph, where the speed limit of 65mph, and the tickets go for about $250. As the traffic (meaning: EVERY CAR ON THE ROAD except a few grannies and a couple of drunks) is going at 15mph over the limit, the good officers can pick and chose out-of-state cars, which reduces the appeal rate dramatically. It takes about 3 minutes to flag down a driver and write a ticket (I stopped and timed them)
Now, multiply $250 by 12 cops by 8 hour shift divided by 3 minutes and see what level of revenue enhancement we are talking about.
Don't flatter yourself, methanol is extremely toxic. This stuff methabolizes to formaldehide, which basically dissolves your cells (in your body, not in your laptop), starting usually with the nerve cells in the optic nerve. In plain English that means: you go blind from a small dose, and you die from a larger dose. It's easily absorbed through skin, or by breathing the vapor, and diluting it doesn't prevent the absorbtion (though slows it down). You don't want methanol anywhere near you, unless it's hermetically sealed in a cartridge.
Starting a fire should be the last of your worries. For crud's sake, a cigarette lighter is way more dangerous a methanol fuel cartridge would be, 'cause it ahs 100% concentrated fuel in it, and actually burns it as intended use, and you have no second thoughts about dragging it around in your pocket, now do you?
The time is NOT a display variable in the Cube. Your "enhanced" scanner would produce the same pattern as it would without the randomization. The order in which the scan's packets reach its target, and the dots are put on the display does not even change the resulting picture.
Now, the "barbwire" scan tries a port on each host. This could be made less distinguishable by randomizing the port, rather than using linearly increasing port numbers for the IP range, which produces the evel-looking diagonal slashes in the picture.
Go back and read the datasheet. This saphire stuff has very low heat of evaporation. Basically, it's designed to boil off right away when you pour it on fire. It has high vapor pressure, which allows a large amount of it to stay in gaseous form mixed into the air, extinguishing the fire by oxigen displacement.
A good coolant, on the other hand, would have a high heat of evaporation and low vapor pressure, like water. Water puts out the fire by using up the thermal enerrgy on evaporation and cooling down the materials, not by oxigen displacement. If you want submersion cooling, look for something that won't evaporate easily.
Non-toxic fluorocarbons often generate nasty thermal decomposition products. Mustard gas is a bad example, what you would get is a lot more like phosgene. Burn enough refrigerant, or just teflon in an open flame, and you will die.
They coat kitchen utensils with teflon, and it releases a small amount of phosgene into your kitchen atmosphere every time you ruin a cooking pan. Not enough to kill you, but the effects of phosgene are cumulative. I suppose this feature of teflon complements other natural selection mechanizms against forgetful people.
A linux e-mail virus would really have nowhere to spread. The percentage of linux boxes among all computers is not that high, and geeks don't click on virus e-mails. There is simply not enough installed base for an effective e-mail virus. Linux being a superior OS has nothing to do with it!!!
Now, how many of you found a T0rn root kit on your Windows box?
>> They steal outright from consumers, in the form of exorbitant prices for albums that are mediocre at best. >Which, once again, the consumers agree to pay. If the prices were so incredibly exorbitant, then consumers would not buy the CDs.
The screen there says: "..read all of the software license agreements that came with each program that you ordered."
Well, first off he haven't ordered any programs! Secondly, he ain't got no licenses! So he may consider himself having read all of them already.
It goes like this: If you have TWO licences in the box, you need to read TWO licenses to have read them ALL, right? Duh! Well, if you have ONE liccense, you need to read ONE license to have read them ALL. Right? Well, then, if you have NO licenses...you can see where I'm going...you don't need to read NO licenses to have read them all. Make sense??
All coaxial connectors are very similar. I remember trying to hook up thinnet network cards with a TV cable at one point, and almost succeeding (I had terminators, but no cable:-0 It only worked as long as I held the connector in place by hand, and with high error rate at that).
The Russians spell words originally written in non-Cyrillic alphabets phonetically. In English, we do the same thing with non-Latin words, basically. If you write "baud" in Cyrillics, guess how you would read that? Hint: not "b-oh-d".
Dumbass yourself. It's not just the characters, it's the colors and the layout of the dialogs. They didn't really have to pick blue fields on white background, with green frames around, did they?
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The screenshots look awful like the good old Turbo Pascal (circa 1990 or so) text-mode GUI library. Which was a fine library, at least IMHO. However, does the word, ahem, "creative" mean anything anymore?
How did the journalist go about finding out the spammers identity? I would like to know:-)
Wouldn't it be fun to have a web page listing spammers names and phone numbers? My personal spam inflow has gone from 30+ a day to 1-2 since the slashdot article, which is a factor of 15 at least. I suppose, it means that hitting just one more spammer with 20 phone calls would bring that down to 1 spam per week, right? That would almost be acceptable!!
..makes them pay attention. Otherwise, Microsoft seems to ignore security holes unless there are lots of complaints.
It works like this: Nice virus => Morons^H^H^H^H^H^HUsers Complain => Microsoft Patches Hole => *your* files are safe.
Of course, that is, if you keep your sensitive data on Windows, which you shouldn't, really:)
OTOH, a real life virus only makes you immune to *that*same*virus*, which uses up your immune system capacity and is useless against all other viruses (in most cases).
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Shure beats the newspaper. Sure, but can you wipe your arse with it when you done reading?
..and more than once, I'm afraid to admit. Not the most pleasant experience, as the cellphone screen is barely big enough to read more than the headline page, and the text input is almost too slow for a decent first post attempt.
..and don't forget to send the spammer's IP to the spam blacklists automatically.
Starbuks travels way to fast for my taste already. I want my Coffee Connection corner shop back!!
This is the situation with computer viruses, and, despite all the antivirus laying around, it's still hard to come by an uninfected computer. Of course, you can always reinstall the OS. And how do you propose I do that with my body? Get a new reincarnation?
That's what I often carry instead of a laptop.
It's just as simple as that: mounting my drive into a random OS installation would give me a huge fit of paranoia every time I'd have to do that. Plus, I have a perfect control of which OS version is on my CD.
The only drawback is, you can't put a Windows installation on a live CD, so I still have to bring a laptop if I need Windows.
Try driving Rt84 or Rt91 through Connecticut on a sunny afternoon. More often than not, you might see a speed trap operated by 12 or so officers. The traffic speeds along at 80mph, where the speed limit of 65mph, and the tickets go for about $250. As the traffic (meaning: EVERY CAR ON THE ROAD except a few grannies and a couple of drunks) is going at 15mph over the limit, the good officers can pick and chose out-of-state cars, which reduces the appeal rate dramatically. It takes about 3 minutes to flag down a driver and write a ticket (I stopped and timed them)
Now, multiply $250 by 12 cops by 8 hour shift divided by 3 minutes and see what level of revenue enhancement we are talking about.
Unless you live in Boston:-)
Don't flatter yourself, methanol is extremely toxic. This stuff methabolizes to formaldehide, which basically dissolves your cells (in your body, not in your laptop), starting usually with the nerve cells in the optic nerve. In plain English that means: you go blind from a small dose, and you die from a larger dose. It's easily absorbed through skin, or by breathing the vapor, and diluting it doesn't prevent the absorbtion (though slows it down). You don't want methanol anywhere near you, unless it's hermetically sealed in a cartridge.
Starting a fire should be the last of your worries. For crud's sake, a cigarette lighter is way more dangerous a methanol fuel cartridge would be, 'cause it ahs 100% concentrated fuel in it, and actually burns it as intended use, and you have no second thoughts about dragging it around in your pocket, now do you?
Put a breakpoint in the copy constructor and you'll find out:-)
The time is NOT a display variable in the Cube. Your "enhanced" scanner would produce the same pattern as it would without the randomization. The order in which the scan's packets reach its target, and the dots are put on the display does not even change the resulting picture.
Now, the "barbwire" scan tries a port on each host. This could be made less distinguishable by randomizing the port, rather than using linearly increasing port numbers for the IP range, which produces the evel-looking diagonal slashes in the picture.
Go back and read the datasheet. This saphire stuff has very low heat of evaporation. Basically, it's designed to boil off right away when you pour it on fire. It has high vapor pressure, which allows a large amount of it to stay in gaseous form mixed into the air, extinguishing the fire by oxigen displacement. A good coolant, on the other hand, would have a high heat of evaporation and low vapor pressure, like water. Water puts out the fire by using up the thermal enerrgy on evaporation and cooling down the materials, not by oxigen displacement. If you want submersion cooling, look for something that won't evaporate easily.
Non-toxic fluorocarbons often generate nasty thermal decomposition products. Mustard gas is a bad example, what you would get is a lot more like phosgene. Burn enough refrigerant, or just teflon in an open flame, and you will die.
They coat kitchen utensils with teflon, and it releases a small amount of phosgene into your kitchen atmosphere every time you ruin a cooking pan. Not enough to kill you, but the effects of phosgene are cumulative. I suppose this feature of teflon complements other natural selection mechanizms against forgetful people.
...a grenade pin??
A linux e-mail virus would really have nowhere to spread. The percentage of linux boxes among all computers is not that high, and geeks don't click on virus e-mails. There is simply not enough installed base for an effective e-mail virus. Linux being a superior OS has nothing to do with it!!!
Now, how many of you found a T0rn root kit on your Windows box?
>> They steal outright from consumers, in the form of exorbitant prices for albums that are mediocre at best.
>Which, once again, the consumers agree to pay. If the prices were so incredibly exorbitant, then consumers would not buy the CDs.
They don't!! They go to kazaa!
Well, first off he haven't ordered any programs! Secondly, he ain't got no licenses! So he may consider himself having read all of them already.
It goes like this: If you have TWO licences in the box, you need to read TWO licenses to have read them ALL, right? Duh! Well, if you have ONE liccense, you need to read ONE license to have read them ALL. Right? Well, then, if you have NO licenses...you can see where I'm going...you don't need to read NO licenses to have read them all. Make sense??
I will be happy to provide you with the md5 of all the mp3 files that I posess (legally, duh). You can post files with identical checksums, then.
Then again, how the heck are you gonna make them have identical md5>:? Do you have access to that linux supercomputer from yesterdays article?
All coaxial connectors are very similar. I remember trying to hook up thinnet network cards with a TV cable at one point, and almost succeeding (I had terminators, but no cable:-0 It only worked as long as I held the connector in place by hand, and with high error rate at that).
F******CK!!!!!! Have you never seen a TV cable???? Those connectors are JUST LIKE BNC, unless you look too close:-)
The Russians spell words originally written in non-Cyrillic alphabets phonetically. In English, we do the same thing with non-Latin words, basically. If you write "baud" in Cyrillics, guess how you would read that? Hint: not "b-oh-d".
Dumbass yourself. It's not just the characters, it's the colors and the layout of the dialogs. They didn't really have to pick blue fields on white background, with green frames around, did they?
The screenshots look awful like the good old Turbo Pascal (circa 1990 or so) text-mode GUI library. Which was a fine library, at least IMHO. However, does the word, ahem, "creative" mean anything anymore?
How did the journalist go about finding out the spammers identity? I would like to know :-)
Wouldn't it be fun to have a web page listing spammers names and phone numbers? My personal spam inflow has gone from 30+ a day to 1-2 since the slashdot article, which is a factor of 15 at least. I suppose, it means that hitting just one more spammer with 20 phone calls would bring that down to 1 spam per week, right? That would almost be acceptable!!
..makes them pay attention. Otherwise, Microsoft seems to ignore security holes unless there are lots of complaints.
It works like this: Nice virus => Morons^H^H^H^H^H^HUsers Complain => Microsoft Patches Hole => *your* files are safe.
Of course, that is, if you keep your sensitive data on Windows, which you shouldn't, really:)
OTOH, a real life virus only makes you immune to *that*same*virus*, which uses up your immune system capacity and is useless against all other viruses (in most cases).