Actually the better combo lock manufacturers like Greenlee does this. All of Greenlee locks come with the combination set to 10-20-30. Also a key is enclosed to change the combination before use.
In a lot of situations one keeps their lock set to 10-20-30 and then sets in the new combination just before using it. After finishing the task with it then the combination is reset to 10-20-30.
This is especially true when transporting launch codes, missile computer tapes, etc. that require a high level of security.
One idiot 2nd Lieutenant who was a missile launch officer was being evaluated and mentioned to the evaluators that his combo was 10-20-30... this was a funny joke and everyone laughed until he mentioned it later again and the evaluator was able to gain access to the Lieutenant's launch codes using 10-20-30
The lieutenant was relieved of duty on the spot and may have ended up in Leavenworth because of the security breach.
Well, at least all of the politicians and religious leaders will end up in jail. That will eliminate most of the problems. Now for the hat trick... the lawyers!!
I am using Hotmail Popper for a couple of Hotmail accounts I have had for about 10 years now. Not sure if the changes to the Hotmail interface will affect the Popper program and cause it to malfunction or not. Time will tell. I shall go to your suggested way of using a client to download web mail if the Popper program ceases to operate..
To augment what you are saying... As the surface area burns the solid propellant then the surface area burning would normally become larger... thus creating more burn area... thus creating more thrust... something not desired when guiding a missile.
To create a better balance of thrust in solid propellant... it is not uncommon for designers to shape the burn surface initially in the shape of a six pointed or eight pointed star... in that way as the surface area burns away it still remains approximately the same surface size thus creating the same thrust.
Thanks for the feedback on the EMV card. I must admit that i am not staying up on the newest technology used by banks and consumers.
It is nice to see someone on Slashdot who knows what they are talking about and is willing to take the time to share the wisdom.
I validated your points in research as follows:
"The company says 10 issuers have put the chip into their cards. Among them is Wells Fargo, which is issuing a Visa-branded credit card with the MicroPass contactless chip."
"The MicroPass chip does not have the onboard cryptographic co-processor required for contactless EMV transactions. (2006-11-06)"
My main card used for gasoline purchases during the trip was a VISA card. I used it at all stations except those that failed to read it properly at the pump. This occurred two times during the trip as I recall.
Mostly I was traveling on the interstates... I-40 mainly and stopped at the truckers stops such as Love's, TA, Pilot and Flying J.
As a side note... I just received my replacement Visa card from Wells Fargo Bank and it came in a foil lined envelope so i assume it contains a RFID of some sort. I put it in my sock drawer and it will probably stay there.
"The most popular use of stolen numbers, in the US at least, is buying gasoline, because you can do that without any human interaction and, at most gas stations, without getting your picture taken."
I just completed a round trip vacation driving from Ohio to Sedona,AZ and back for a total of 5,000 miles driven. At about half of the gas stations where I bought gas had the pump requesting the entry of the Zip code when paying with a credit card.
If you don't know the Zip code then no dispensing of gasoline. This does not stop all funny business but will stop most of it from opportunists.
Hotmail can be used on any POP email client (I use seamonkey) with "Hotmail Popper". I have been using this program for years. It used to be free but there may be a nominal charge for it now.
This allows some junk email addresses that can be used as required without needing to log into Hotmail periodically. i set mine to check hotmail every 30 minutes or so and have my dominant email addresses every 5 or 10 minutes.
Just google for it and choose what you wish to know about it with 57,000+ google hits.
I worked with similar large drives described in the article. They were CDC's first drives. The heads were moved by hydraulics and the tracks (cylinders) were counted by an etched opticial disk read by a photocell. Once the head was "on track" then a solenoid would drop a detent pawl into a square toothed gear to hold it on track. All mechanical. No voice coil to move the heads just the hydraulics.
Each disk drive was about the size of a large computer desk and had a capacity of 262KB which is not very much compared with today's disk drives. But compared to a hollerith card it was a lot of storage when comparing to the 80 bytes or even a deck of cards. The operating system at the time was 2K in size which was one box of cards and could easily be contained on the disk drive platter.
By keying in the bootstrap program at the console and pressing "run" then the system would read from a particular location on the disk drive which was the location of the operating system. The program would then execute the code in core and thus the system was up and running.
The worst failure would be a ruptured hydraulic hose spewing hydraulic fluid over the entire guts of the machine. Difficult to clean up... difficult to hold onto slippery parts... and difficult to repair.
There was only limited electronics in the disk drive itself. The controller was a refrigerator size box that held each gate on a separate circuit board. These were troubleshot utilizing a oscilloscope on a cart so it could be moved about. Each input to a gate had a test point and the output(s) also had test points. Each gate (like and, nor etc) was an individual small PC board so a disk controller might have 600 boards in it. One needed to be totally aware of each circuit and how it worked and what the signal at each junction was to be. No board swapping here. One had to know or have a very good idea what the problem was before changing a board lest you have a contoller that is nearly unfixable in very short order.
I was very skilled at repair and yet saw the writing on the wall even then as devices became smaller and "smart".
No longer could one trace the signal from "turn on" button to spindle rotating through each stage and gate. Eventually the "start" button would signal the input to the processor aboard the disk drive and it would be the processor that commanded the spindle to start turning. At this stage troubleshooting became board swapping for the most part.
That is when i moved from the technical hands on realm into programming.
The Clawson family who lives in that area have brothers and sisters who were born in Pennsyvania, Virginia, and West Virginia and all were born in the same house.
The state lines just kept shifting for a time back then so although the house did not move the residing state at the time did. I imagine it was kind of a tricky situation keeping track of those changes come census time with a house full of kids being born in different states from each other and their parents.
I had just such a thing happen this evening. I have been using Norton Internet Security on two of my windows Dell machines for a while (years). I had a minor problem that Norton would not reply to by email so I tried the 21 day free offer by Bullguard to see how their antivirus, firewall, etc works. Not only do I get a lot more of my machine cycles back for my own use but I had a problem on the laptop when registering Bullguard this evening.
I wrote Bullguard an email and a tech responded within 10 minutes outlining what to check for. Turns out that the de-install of Norton did not stop some of the processes even after a reboot and it was interfering while registering with Bullguard although browsing/email with Seamonkey worked fine.
It looks like this is a company that cares. I have had the desktop running Bullguard now for 10 days and it is not unusual for the antivirus to be updated two or three times a day compared to Norton who might do it a couple of times a week.
Sometimes we forget how the eager young companies can work hard to capture the business that the old lethargic companies no longer care about.
I am sure Norton will not miss my business and I am certainly sure I will not miss theirs. Sorry if this sounds like an ad... I was just so surprised that a big company such as Bullguard was still as agile as they are taking care of business.
Don is not a poor guy. I know him. He owns thousands of acres in Montana and has a huge herd of buffalo on that ranch in addition to a bunch of businesses in southern Illinois.
Neat story about a gun he owns from the revolutionary war that was passed down to him from his fore fathers. The British would stay out of rifle range and wave their hands over their head and jump up and down to get the colonists to shoot at them.
Don owns a long rifle like a "long tom" and one of his ancestors shot one of the British guys who was jumping up and down on a stump and waving his hands at an incredibly long range. That stopped the British from baiting them after that.
Disabling your accounts and sending you home is protection for you as well. If something was to happen accidently while you were still there then you would be immediately targeted as the culprit and possibly could be grounds for court action. In this way both you and the company are protected.
Leaving a technical job is always bitter/sweet. The tough times are reflected upon as being grist for the mill and the fun times being light and merry. Hopefully there was a balance of both while there. Reflect upon it joyously and move on.
The last company I was with that had a big termination plan had an escort for each technical person straight to the door and on to the parking lot and the escort stayed until the car with the tech departed. Personal things were gathered up and mailed to the departing soul at their home of record.
It's a network problem, so go talk to those guys. " Ask the network guys what they're doing re the same thing, they'll too often reply " That's an application problem, so go talk to the application troops.
Reminds me the story of ancient China when the great wall was being constructed and it was proceeding too slowly with 500,000 workers to satisfy the emperor. So the emperor has 300,000 workers put to death and the project moved along faster with the remaining 200,000 workers.
Maybe this has something to do with the 10,000 jobs MS is sending to China. They will get Vista working correctly in China or else!
Slashdot Mirror
my opinion that Slashdot wasn't always this mundane.
Well... yes it has always been... Just quit coming home drunk!
Or This
http://binblog.de/uploads/ibm-deskstar-1999.jpg
I was on a website a couple of days ago that showed the current year as 19107. Guess the Y2K memo went missing for that administrator.
Actually the better combo lock manufacturers like Greenlee does this. All of Greenlee locks come with the combination set to 10-20-30. Also a key is enclosed to change the combination before use.
In a lot of situations one keeps their lock set to 10-20-30 and then sets in the new combination just before using it. After finishing the task with it then the combination is reset to 10-20-30.
This is especially true when transporting launch codes, missile computer tapes, etc. that require a high level of security.
One idiot 2nd Lieutenant who was a missile launch officer was being evaluated and mentioned to the evaluators that his combo was 10-20-30... this was a funny joke and everyone laughed until he mentioned it later again and the evaluator was able to gain access to the Lieutenant's launch codes using 10-20-30
The lieutenant was relieved of duty on the spot and may have ended up in Leavenworth because of the security breach.
Well, at least all of the politicians and religious leaders will end up in jail. That will eliminate most of the problems. Now for the hat trick... the lawyers!!
thanks for that tip
I am using Hotmail Popper for a couple of Hotmail accounts I have had for about 10 years now. Not sure if the changes to the Hotmail interface will affect the Popper program and cause it to malfunction or not. Time will tell. I shall go to your suggested way of using a client to download web mail if the Popper program ceases to operate..
To augment what you are saying... As the surface area burns the solid propellant then the surface area burning would normally become larger... thus creating more burn area... thus creating more thrust... something not desired when guiding a missile.
To create a better balance of thrust in solid propellant... it is not uncommon for designers to shape the burn surface initially in the shape of a six pointed or eight pointed star... in that way as the surface area burns away it still remains approximately the same surface size thus creating the same thrust.
Thanks for the feedback on the EMV card. I must admit that i am not staying up on the newest technology used by banks and consumers.
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It is nice to see someone on Slashdot who knows what they are talking about and is willing to take the time to share the wisdom.
I validated your points in research as follows:
"The company says 10 issuers have put the chip into their cards. Among them is Wells Fargo, which is issuing a Visa-branded credit card with the MicroPass contactless chip."
"The MicroPass chip does not have the onboard cryptographic co-processor required for contactless EMV transactions. (2006-11-06)"
http://www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=200
My main card used for gasoline purchases during the trip was a VISA card. I used it at all stations except those that failed to read it properly at the pump. This occurred two times during the trip as I recall.
Mostly I was traveling on the interstates... I-40 mainly and stopped at the truckers stops such as Love's, TA, Pilot and Flying J.
As a side note... I just received my replacement Visa card from Wells Fargo Bank and it came in a foil lined envelope so i assume it contains a RFID of some sort. I put it in my sock drawer and it will probably stay there.
"The most popular use of stolen numbers, in the US at least, is buying gasoline, because you can do that without any human interaction and, at most gas stations, without getting your picture taken."
I just completed a round trip vacation driving from Ohio to Sedona,AZ and back for a total of 5,000 miles driven. At about half of the gas stations where I bought gas had the pump requesting the entry of the Zip code when paying with a credit card.
If you don't know the Zip code then no dispensing of gasoline. This does not stop all funny business but will stop most of it from opportunists.
Pigs get fat
Hogs get slaughtered
Hotmail can be used on any POP email client (I use seamonkey) with "Hotmail Popper". I have been using this program for years. It used to be free but there may be a nominal charge for it now.
This allows some junk email addresses that can be used as required without needing to log into Hotmail periodically. i set mine to check hotmail every 30 minutes or so and have my dominant email addresses every 5 or 10 minutes.
Just google for it and choose what you wish to know about it with 57,000+ google hits.
Here is one for gold http://www.gnld.ws/
I worked with similar large drives described in the article. They were CDC's first drives. The heads were moved by hydraulics and the tracks (cylinders) were counted by an etched opticial disk read by a photocell. Once the head was "on track" then a solenoid would drop a detent pawl into a square toothed gear to hold it on track. All mechanical. No voice coil to move the heads just the hydraulics.
Each disk drive was about the size of a large computer desk and had a capacity of 262KB which is not very much compared with today's disk drives. But compared to a hollerith card it was a lot of storage when comparing to the 80 bytes or even a deck of cards. The operating system at the time was 2K in size which was one box of cards and could easily be contained on the disk drive platter.
By keying in the bootstrap program at the console and pressing "run" then the system would read from a particular location on the disk drive which was the location of the operating system. The program would then execute the code in core and thus the system was up and running.
The worst failure would be a ruptured hydraulic hose spewing hydraulic fluid over the entire guts of the machine. Difficult to clean up... difficult to hold onto slippery parts... and difficult to repair.
There was only limited electronics in the disk drive itself. The controller was a refrigerator size box that held each gate on a separate circuit board. These were troubleshot utilizing a oscilloscope on a cart so it could be moved about. Each input to a gate had a test point and the output(s) also had test points. Each gate (like and, nor etc) was an individual small PC board so a disk controller might have 600 boards in it. One needed to be totally aware of each circuit and how it worked and what the signal at each junction was to be. No board swapping here. One had to know or have a very good idea what the problem was before changing a board lest you have a contoller that is nearly unfixable in very short order.
I was very skilled at repair and yet saw the writing on the wall even then as devices became smaller and "smart".
No longer could one trace the signal from "turn on" button to spindle rotating through each stage and gate. Eventually the "start" button would signal the input to the processor aboard the disk drive and it would be the processor that commanded the spindle to start turning. At this stage troubleshooting became board swapping for the most part.
That is when i moved from the technical hands on realm into programming.
Dan Quale... wow! is that really you!!
The Clawson family who lives in that area have brothers and sisters who were born in Pennsyvania, Virginia, and West Virginia and all were born in the same house.
The state lines just kept shifting for a time back then so although the house did not move the residing state at the time did. I imagine it was kind of a tricky situation keeping track of those changes come census time with a house full of kids being born in different states from each other and their parents.
I had just such a thing happen this evening. I have been using Norton Internet Security on two of my windows Dell machines for a while (years). I had a minor problem that Norton would not reply to by email so I tried the 21 day free offer by Bullguard to see how their antivirus, firewall, etc works. Not only do I get a lot more of my machine cycles back for my own use but I had a problem on the laptop when registering Bullguard this evening.
I wrote Bullguard an email and a tech responded within 10 minutes outlining what to check for. Turns out that the de-install of Norton did not stop some of the processes even after a reboot and it was interfering while registering with Bullguard although browsing/email with Seamonkey worked fine.
It looks like this is a company that cares. I have had the desktop running Bullguard now for 10 days and it is not unusual for the antivirus to be updated two or three times a day compared to Norton who might do it a couple of times a week.
Sometimes we forget how the eager young companies can work hard to capture the business that the old lethargic companies no longer care about.
I am sure Norton will not miss my business and I am certainly sure I will not miss theirs. Sorry if this sounds like an ad... I was just so surprised that a big company such as Bullguard was still as agile as they are taking care of business.
Don is not a poor guy. I know him. He owns thousands of acres in Montana and has a huge herd of buffalo on that ranch in addition to a bunch of businesses in southern Illinois.
Neat story about a gun he owns from the revolutionary war that was passed down to him from his fore fathers. The British would stay out of rifle range and wave their hands over their head and jump up and down to get the colonists to shoot at them.
Don owns a long rifle like a "long tom" and one of his ancestors shot one of the British guys who was jumping up and down on a stump and waving his hands at an incredibly long range. That stopped the British from baiting them after that.
A lucky shot? or bad karma?
Disabling your accounts and sending you home is protection for you as well. If something was to happen accidently while you were still there then you would be immediately targeted as the culprit and possibly could be grounds for court action. In this way both you and the company are protected.
Leaving a technical job is always bitter/sweet. The tough times are reflected upon as being grist for the mill and the fun times being light and merry. Hopefully there was a balance of both while there. Reflect upon it joyously and move on.
The last company I was with that had a big termination plan had an escort for each technical person straight to the door and on to the parking lot and the escort stayed until the car with the tech departed. Personal things were gathered up and mailed to the departing soul at their home of record.
It's a network problem, so go talk to those guys. " Ask the network guys what they're doing re the same thing, they'll too often reply " That's an application problem, so go talk to the application troops.
It is both... so ROT13 at each level.
Not only will your taxes go up but literally everything is going to go up... way up!
Reminds me the story of ancient China when the great wall was being constructed and it was proceeding too slowly with 500,000 workers to satisfy the emperor. So the emperor has 300,000 workers put to death and the project moved along faster with the remaining 200,000 workers.
Maybe this has something to do with the 10,000 jobs MS is sending to China. They will get Vista working correctly in China or else!
Only if there is synergy in doing so.
The record center in St. Louis caught fire back in the 70's and many records were destroyed especially from soldiers in WWII.
It burned and smouldered for several days as records were still in paper form at the time.
good luck on your search
Hey ScuttleMonkey
Please set up this article in the dupe queue(TM) for the end of September as a gentle reminder for the Ohio guys. Thanks