And how often do you roll through your backups? Will you notice the encrypted files in time, or will you end up backing up the worthless files instead?
I don't know about most people, but my backups bear a strong resemblance to a versioned filesystem: it doesn't matter if the encrypted files wind up on the backup, because I can always roll back to a version before they were encrypted.
While I've done this a lot over the past few years, this time the wifi went into its "fluctuating access" mode. The wifi signal strength, according to the Mac's little wifi icon, changed on a time scale of seconds from near full strength to various intermediate valued, to no access at all. I grabbed my OLPC, carried it out to the patio, and it reported a constant near-max signal level from the Airport.
You've just encountered one of the big differences between a Mac and the XO-1. The Mac has an average wifi system, with a maximum practical range of a couple hundred yards. The XO-1 has the most powerful wifi system the law will permit, with a maximum practical range of around a mile.
It depends very strongly on the library. Mine is very good at having books from the last two years, and very spotty for everything else. This is a major problem for the trilogies that are currently in fashion: the usual case is that they have books 1 and 3, but not 2.
I'm lucky that I can go to either the city or the county library system. Between them, I can usually piece together a complete series.
Does any vendor offer an antivirus program that is delivered on an auto-booting CD-ROM / DVD-ROM?
I haven't looked at Windows antivirus products in a few years, but all antivirus products used to do this. Originally, it was a boot floppy; later, a boot CD. The neccessity of an internet connection to get the latest virus definitions would make this harder these days, as you'd need to support an incredible variety of network cards.
That's far higher than I would have expected. I thought the whole idea of a rootkit is that it modifies/hooks the kernel to make detection from userspace practically impossible, so either they're using poor/outdated rootkits or the antivirus makers are actually doing a pretty good job of detecting them (gasp).
It's an arms race. Since a rootkit is making the appearance of reality disagree with physical fact, there's always some way to detect the deception: for example, hidden disk usage could be detected by writing data to fill the disk, and then seeing if the amount of data written is equal to the apparently-free disk space. The latest antivirus software will detect these discrepancies; the latest rootkits will patch over whatever techniques the antivirus software is using.
The parent asked how can we be sure we're using the real OpenSSL? Simple, just use a distro that maintains a policy of minimal interference with upstream code. Slackware comes to mind, and not much else unfortunately.
Gentoo's also pretty good with this. Most packages with extensive modification have a "-vanilla" use flag or a "vanilla" variant with minimal modifications. Further, since it's a source-based distribution, you can modify it to simply not apply any patches before compiling.
It is no more possible to quickly design a good typeface online than it is to quickly design a good CRM system and database backend using an easy online construction kit.
That doesn't stop people from trying. Fortunately, you usually don't need to deal with the results of do-it-yourself fonts.
Did they not have a posting that says "We are not responsible for the torrents we index" ??? From my understanding it is not illegal to refer instructions for things that may be illegal.
When you're operating as close to the edge of the law as they were, you need to be extremely careful about what you do. A simple statement of "We are not responsible" isn't sufficient if, by your actions, you demonstrate that you are encouraging illegal behavior.
Then this machine can only detect whether the reactor is operating above 80% power or above. So, if you operate at 50% power it cannot tell if the reactor is off or not.
One of the things that makes reactor operation so hard is that they don't like being run at low power. If you run a reactor at 50% power for more than a few minutes, the buildup of fission byproducts will cause the reactor to shut down, requiring a very expensive restart process.
The problem is one of mass, not of interference. It takes a long time (days) to start a reactor back up after shutting it down, so a satellite in a typical 90-minute polar orbit could check every reactor on Earth twice a day, at a distance close enough to tell it from all other reactors. Since the atmosphere provides almost no shielding against high-energy cosmic rays, both a ground-based detector and an orbital detector require some other way of filtering those out.
However, such a satellite would be too massive to launch. A detector with a 50-meter range weighs about 1000kg, and neutrinos obey the inverse-square law. A satellite at an altitude of 500km would weigh over 1,000,000,000 kg.
I've read TFA, but I'm confused about what actually got patented. It would make more sense if the patent was related to the chip they're developing as opposed to the use of the chip in a mobile phone.
The idea of smell synthesis is rediscovered every five years or so, so there's a great deal of prior art. It could be that the idea of cellular stinks was the only part of their system that was patentable.
I didn't even think HTML had versions. When did HTML 2 even come out?!
November 1995
HTML 3.0 was proposed in April of 1995, but it was too complicated and nobody supported it. A simplified version, HTML 3.2, came out in January of 1997. These days, almost everyone is using HTML 4.0, which came out in December of 1997, or 4.01, which came out in December of 1999.
But I wonder how the oil companies would react to this, or even the US government - would it be apathetic.
If the oil companies are at all sane, they'll be investing heavily in this if it's technologically feasable. They don't care where the oil comes from so long as they're the ones refining and distributing it. If they can get feedstock from someplace that isn't perpetually on the brink of all-out war, so much the better.
One thing I will comment on, though - when I first visited the US back in 2000, I was absolutely astounded to discover that there was such a thing as a 200w standard light globe. And the apartment I was in was full of them. Usually housed in an almost completely opaque lampshade, that absorbed about 80% plus of the light emitted.
Here in Oz, I think the house I grew up in had, oh, maybe one 100w globe? And that was to light the entire lounge (yes, with one globe). Most of the light globes we used were either 40- or 60-watters.
One thing to remember about incandescent bulbs is that the higher the wattage, the more efficient it is. A single 200w bulb puts out more visible light than five 40-watt bulbs: the more powerful the bulb, the hotter it runs, and the hotter it runs, the less energy it puts out as infrared.
The problem is that the "Faster better cheaper" probes are neither fast enough nor cheap enough for losses to be no big deal. If you're only launching one probe every launch window, it doesn't matter how cheap it is: failure will still hurt.
More optimistically, I hope that their algorithms could predict the 4 or 5 "wild"- fires in Southern California which are all started mysteriously(on the same day) "in season."
Shouldn't be too hard. One of the things they discovered while studying line noise in telephone circuits is that the cause of the noise doesn't matter: it could be induction from nearby motors, bad connections influenced by the wind, or short-circuits triggered by someone dropping a screwdriver -- it all fits into the statistical patterns. In the case of fires, it doesn't matter if it's lightning, arson, or volcanic eruption, the pattens still hold.
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True. In Eastern Washington, it snows.
We got mixed rain and snow here last Tuesday; some of the surrounding towns got as much as an inch.
If you don't care about the weight, $40 will get you a pretty good tent -- that weighs fifteen pounds.
I don't know about most people, but my backups bear a strong resemblance to a versioned filesystem: it doesn't matter if the encrypted files wind up on the backup, because I can always roll back to a version before they were encrypted.
Give it a different printhead, and it will be able to lay down patterns on a blank circuit board.
Yes, they do. They're using a modified version of the open-source Art of Illusion 3D modelling software for this.
192.168.0.4 and 192.168.17.26
Sounds like you forgot the first and second rules of user-interface design:
1) All action-item captions (menu entries, buttons, etc) should be verbs or verb phrases.
2) Any time you give the user a choice, the default option should be the safe one. Not the one they're most likely to want, but the one that is safe.
You've just encountered one of the big differences between a Mac and the XO-1. The Mac has an average wifi system, with a maximum practical range of a couple hundred yards. The XO-1 has the most powerful wifi system the law will permit, with a maximum practical range of around a mile.
Performance art, perhaps? Has anyone checked to see what Improv Everywhere is up to?
No, it's malware removal.
It depends very strongly on the library. Mine is very good at having books from the last two years, and very spotty for everything else. This is a major problem for the trilogies that are currently in fashion: the usual case is that they have books 1 and 3, but not 2.
I'm lucky that I can go to either the city or the county library system. Between them, I can usually piece together a complete series.
I haven't looked at Windows antivirus products in a few years, but all antivirus products used to do this. Originally, it was a boot floppy; later, a boot CD. The neccessity of an internet connection to get the latest virus definitions would make this harder these days, as you'd need to support an incredible variety of network cards.
It's an arms race. Since a rootkit is making the appearance of reality disagree with physical fact, there's always some way to detect the deception: for example, hidden disk usage could be detected by writing data to fill the disk, and then seeing if the amount of data written is equal to the apparently-free disk space. The latest antivirus software will detect these discrepancies; the latest rootkits will patch over whatever techniques the antivirus software is using.
Gentoo's also pretty good with this. Most packages with extensive modification have a "-vanilla" use flag or a "vanilla" variant with minimal modifications. Further, since it's a source-based distribution, you can modify it to simply not apply any patches before compiling.
That doesn't stop people from trying. Fortunately, you usually don't need to deal with the results of do-it-yourself fonts.
When you're operating as close to the edge of the law as they were, you need to be extremely careful about what you do. A simple statement of "We are not responsible" isn't sufficient if, by your actions, you demonstrate that you are encouraging illegal behavior.
This is a demonstration of Microsoft's new media-compatibility standard. They're calling it "Plays? Yeah sure!"
One of the things that makes reactor operation so hard is that they don't like being run at low power. If you run a reactor at 50% power for more than a few minutes, the buildup of fission byproducts will cause the reactor to shut down, requiring a very expensive restart process.
The problem is one of mass, not of interference. It takes a long time (days) to start a reactor back up after shutting it down, so a satellite in a typical 90-minute polar orbit could check every reactor on Earth twice a day, at a distance close enough to tell it from all other reactors. Since the atmosphere provides almost no shielding against high-energy cosmic rays, both a ground-based detector and an orbital detector require some other way of filtering those out.
However, such a satellite would be too massive to launch. A detector with a 50-meter range weighs about 1000kg, and neutrinos obey the inverse-square law. A satellite at an altitude of 500km would weigh over 1,000,000,000 kg.
The idea of smell synthesis is rediscovered every five years or so, so there's a great deal of prior art. It could be that the idea of cellular stinks was the only part of their system that was patentable.
November 1995
HTML 3.0 was proposed in April of 1995, but it was too complicated and nobody supported it. A simplified version, HTML 3.2, came out in January of 1997. These days, almost everyone is using HTML 4.0, which came out in December of 1997, or 4.01, which came out in December of 1999.
If the oil companies are at all sane, they'll be investing heavily in this if it's technologically feasable. They don't care where the oil comes from so long as they're the ones refining and distributing it. If they can get feedstock from someplace that isn't perpetually on the brink of all-out war, so much the better.
One thing to remember about incandescent bulbs is that the higher the wattage, the more efficient it is. A single 200w bulb puts out more visible light than five 40-watt bulbs: the more powerful the bulb, the hotter it runs, and the hotter it runs, the less energy it puts out as infrared.
The problem is that the "Faster better cheaper" probes are neither fast enough nor cheap enough for losses to be no big deal. If you're only launching one probe every launch window, it doesn't matter how cheap it is: failure will still hurt.
Shouldn't be too hard. One of the things they discovered while studying line noise in telephone circuits is that the cause of the noise doesn't matter: it could be induction from nearby motors, bad connections influenced by the wind, or short-circuits triggered by someone dropping a screwdriver -- it all fits into the statistical patterns. In the case of fires, it doesn't matter if it's lightning, arson, or volcanic eruption, the pattens still hold.