My answer was to bite my finger enough to make it bleed. Then squeeze some blood onto the ice and wait for it to freeze. Then I'd have something to push against. I got a zero.
The really sad thing here is that if some white hat wrote a script to find these and upload to them an image warning the owners of the vulnerability, said white hat would almost certainly get smacked down by a DMCA suit or face civil/criminal penalties. No good deed goes unpunished.
Since they have your CC number, what would stop them from using it to buy something incriminating? Hey DHS, can't find the missing link? Provide it yourself then!
This is an idea I have been toying with for a couple of months now, but I think a recumbant exercise bike might be a better than a treadmill. My hair-brained scheme is to use the bike to drive a car's alternator (cheap and used), and use that to drive a power inverter & battery. Then use that whole Rube Goldberg contraption to power my laptop. If I get too tired to keep the laptop running, I could switch to AC power. If I find I can't generate enough power to keep the lappy running all day, I could always power the uh... iPod instead? No exercise = no music. I would HOPE I could generate enough power to keep an iPod running.
Code reuse is the one practice that can impact the cost of a project more than any other thing. But it can impact it in either direction, depending on the code you reuse.
Management has a tendency to ask engineers to reuse the wrong code almost every time. Code that has been badly designed and/or badly implemented is code that comes up in management meetings. Every week. For months. They start tracking it, and finally, someone beats the code into submission, and they add up the cost. "Wow. $150 thousand!"
The next time a project comes up and management can possibly imagine that their $150,000 "investment" might get leveraged, they push the engineers to reuse that code. "It must be good! It cost us $150,000 to develop it!" The reality is that this code should have been taken out behind the shed and shot. When it gets reused, even more bugs will be found, and the cost of the project will go up.
On the flip side is beautifully designed and implemented code. It works almost immediately, and without wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. It therefore never sees the light of day at a management meeting. It is beneath their radar. They will never suggest that it be reused, because they know nothing about it. That's the code you want to reuse.
I bet they are! But the nearest one was probably not within a ten minute drive. IMHO, such a brazen act does much to delegitimize such contracts. Now you can all claim that the clerk swiped the pen from YOU and signed the agreement before you had a chance to read it, but you were in such a hurry for your meds that you decided to risk it. Honest your honor! I had no idea!
Oh yes, thankfully they check that box for me. I was at a drug store this summer trying to get some Sudafed, but in order to do that, I was presented with an electronic notice telling me how I could go jail if I told lies about my intended use of the product (or some such rot - thanks meth-heads!). As I was reading the notice, they clerk "thankfully" grabbed the pen and checked the "Yes, I read this and understand it" box "for" me before I had even finished the first sentence. I was astounded. She got all huffy when I insisted she start all over, because I wanted to read all the fine print before agreeing to anything.
It prolly didn't need to be "ripped" out. Solder melts at a fairly low temperature (between 90-450 degrees C according to Wikipedia). I'm sure it got at least that hot during reentry.
A friend of mine once removed all the memory chips from an eval board he had bought and replaced them with higher capacity chips - only he put them on upside down (he went by the location of the bypass caps rather than the pin 1 indicator on the silks, and they bypassed the ground pins rather than the power - I had never seen that on any other card, nor have I seen it done that way since). I watched as he turned the power on and let the smoke out. Putting them on upside down reversed Vdd and Vss (power and ground), and they got hot enough that the solder reflowed. Five of the eight chips fell off and were recovered from the backplane of the PC he had plugged it in to. He had the power on for less than 5 seconds.
1. Socks that don't have to be paired every time they're washed.
Amputate one of your feet. Or try this instead:
1. Go out and buy a 10-20 pairs of socks - all the same kind and color.
2. Throw away all your old socks.
3. Now every sock you own matches every other sock you own.
4. When they need to be replaced, replace them all, because the odds of anyone finding the same type and color sock in a few years are vanishingly small.
OK, they still have to be paired, but the task becomes a lot easier. And you get to keep both your feet.
Maybe both. I never receive spam on my gmail account, but last week on a forum I help admin I finally broke down and banned all new user registrations using gmail addresses. That cut spammer registrations by about 90%. It may have cut into legitimate registrations too, but that was a price I was willing to pay.
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My answer was to bite my finger enough to make it bleed. Then squeeze some blood onto the ice and wait for it to freeze. Then I'd have something to push against. I got a zero.
If an acoustic shutoff is anything like putting your fingers in your ears, then I think the US may have that in spades.
Software can be badly written on any platform, and in any language.
Google just doesn't get all these social things
That's because INTJ's don't do social.
Can I call it a Superb Owl party?
The really sad thing here is that if some white hat wrote a script to find these and upload to them an image warning the owners of the vulnerability, said white hat would almost certainly get smacked down by a DMCA suit or face civil/criminal penalties. No good deed goes unpunished.
Since they have your CC number, what would stop them from using it to buy something incriminating? Hey DHS, can't find the missing link? Provide it yourself then!
Green and lean, but mostly... geek.
With all that space between the keys, there's room for even more buttons!
Makezine ran an article last week on an interesting robot that looks appropriate for that age group.
What makes you think this hasn't already happened? Maybe we're part of a big computer thats trying to answer some kind of big question or something.
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That worked out pretty well with Mike Brown, didn't it? At least the Senate had sense to ixnay Harriet Myers.
Management has a tendency to ask engineers to reuse the wrong code almost every time. Code that has been badly designed and/or badly implemented is code that comes up in management meetings. Every week. For months. They start tracking it, and finally, someone beats the code into submission, and they add up the cost. "Wow. $150 thousand!"
The next time a project comes up and management can possibly imagine that their $150,000 "investment" might get leveraged, they push the engineers to reuse that code. "It must be good! It cost us $150,000 to develop it!" The reality is that this code should have been taken out behind the shed and shot. When it gets reused, even more bugs will be found, and the cost of the project will go up.
On the flip side is beautifully designed and implemented code. It works almost immediately, and without wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. It therefore never sees the light of day at a management meeting. It is beneath their radar. They will never suggest that it be reused, because they know nothing about it. That's the code you want to reuse.
I bet they are! But the nearest one was probably not within a ten minute drive. IMHO, such a brazen act does much to delegitimize such contracts. Now you can all claim that the clerk swiped the pen from YOU and signed the agreement before you had a chance to read it, but you were in such a hurry for your meds that you decided to risk it. Honest your honor! I had no idea!
MTV's approach is not that much different.
It prolly didn't need to be "ripped" out. Solder melts at a fairly low temperature (between 90-450 degrees C according to Wikipedia). I'm sure it got at least that hot during reentry.
A friend of mine once removed all the memory chips from an eval board he had bought and replaced them with higher capacity chips - only he put them on upside down (he went by the location of the bypass caps rather than the pin 1 indicator on the silks, and they bypassed the ground pins rather than the power - I had never seen that on any other card, nor have I seen it done that way since). I watched as he turned the power on and let the smoke out. Putting them on upside down reversed Vdd and Vss (power and ground), and they got hot enough that the solder reflowed. Five of the eight chips fell off and were recovered from the backplane of the PC he had plugged it in to. He had the power on for less than 5 seconds.
So yeah - no ripping necessary.
So... is a liquid gas anything like a solid liquid? Or perhaps a case of flatulence gone wrong?
How bright is a million times brighter than black?
You can still fly without a RealID, but you will be subjected to some extra love from the TSA.
I usually just submit an "Ask Slashdot" article asking how to attract superstar programmers.
Amputate one of your feet. Or try this instead:
1. Go out and buy a 10-20 pairs of socks - all the same kind and color.
2. Throw away all your old socks.
3. Now every sock you own matches every other sock you own.
4. When they need to be replaced, replace them all, because the odds of anyone finding the same type and color sock in a few years are vanishingly small.
OK, they still have to be paired, but the task becomes a lot easier. And you get to keep both your feet.
CAPTCHA's were enabled on day one. The spambots still get by them.
Maybe both. I never receive spam on my gmail account, but last week on a forum I help admin I finally broke down and banned all new user registrations using gmail addresses. That cut spammer registrations by about 90%. It may have cut into legitimate registrations too, but that was a price I was willing to pay.
No, no. The sooner they get behind, the more time they'll have to catch up.