With older hard drives (10GB and smaller) and a poor-man's cleanroom, a window mod has about a 75% chance of wrecking the hard drive. If you've got access to a real cleanroom, the success rate goes up to almost 100%.
I haven't heard any reports of people with access to cleanrooms trying to window mod a large-capacity hard drive -- they're still too expensive to risk destroying.
Yes, you are oversimplifying. Extending your analogy, leaving an unsecured computer on the net would be like leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, and a sign saying "free to all use".
I could set up a good "I was hacked" defense easily enough: just break into one of my own computers and compromise it, leaving just one step (such as making it the DMZ box from my NAT router) to automatically complete if I don't periodically cancel it.
What sort of ISP logs could be used for that? The only thing I can think of that would be useful would be packet-level logging, and without a court order, I doubt an ISP would go to the effort needed to store that much data.
When my computer's running Windows, you know what it keeps in the way of logs? A log of when Scandisk was last run, that's it. How is that going to prove or disprove that the computer was hacked?
A few things to keep in mind: 1) Colorblind people (10% of the male population of the world). By far the most common form of colorblindness is red/green, so as long as you stick with easily-distinguished colors like black, red, and blue, you should be fine. You could probably add yellow and a medium grey to the mix, but yellow can be hard for normal people to read, and on some monitors, grey can be mistaken for black. 2) Increase the overlapping of the characters a bit. Right now, the characters can usually be separated out by color into three images, at which point a spambot can simply pick the one that matches the color of the instruction image. 3) You can make an audio CAPTCHA harder for computers to recognize by adding noise to the sound, or by using recordings of a person with a strong accent (or better still, a variety of accents)
The simple fact that you're doing the forms yourself will stop 99.9% of all spambots. A spambot usually doesn't download the page and fill it in, it takes a list of pages known to have submission forms of a known type (usually found by a google search) and submits pre-filled forms to them. Since you're doing a custom form, a spammer would need to find your form, and then spend the time to tell his spambot how to fill it out -- a much less productive use of time than finding more customers to spam for.
The biggest problem with most benchmarks is that they try to reduce system performance to a single number. A good benchmark would produce a set of numbers, one for each subsystem such as integer performance, floating-point performance, logic performance, 2D graphics performance, and 3D graphics performance.
Having some one pay monthly is the most horrible thing a company can do...
In another note i would rather pay +60$ more of the game price just for a unlimited subscirption for a massive multiplayer RPG game.. then have to pay monthly
That's not a viable business model for an MMOG. With a conventional game, the company has a large up-front cost to develop the game, which is recovered by sales of the game. Since making additional copies of the game is very cheap, costs after initial development are very low.
An MMOG has both an up-front cost, which companies usually recover by selling the game software, and an ongoing cost for running the servers, tech support, and developing additional content. A company that tried to cover all this with the price of the software would either price themselves out of the market, or go bankrupt trying to cover the support costs of players who keep playing month after month, just because it's free.
Underground nuke test can already be detected. They use a new device called a seismograph.
Not always. Pakistan's nuclear tests were right on the edge of what the US network can detect; in fact, some of the tests were not noticed until after Pakistan announced that they had occurred, and researchers went back through the records.
In general, seismographs can detect a nuclear explosion of half a kiloton yield or larger.
Committing on both "commit()" and "close()" should work; for old-style applications that don't support "commit()", this will ensure that successive versions are whole versions, but won't commit as often as you might like. For apps that support commit(), a commit() followed by a close() would only commit one version. For filesystems that don't support versioning, commit() would be a no-op.
Free publicity. There are people who look for weird things being auctioned on ebay. If they hosted it themselves, they'd also need to do the publicizing themselves.
Even a perfect internal combustion engine can't be more than about 25% efficient, because of the nature of heat engines. Cars are already getting pretty close to this limit, so any improvements to fuel efficiency will come from techniques like lighter-weight vehicles, better aerodynamics, and techniques like hybrid engines that let the engine run at top efficiency all the time.
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Did you miss the word "major"?
With older hard drives (10GB and smaller) and a poor-man's cleanroom, a window mod has about a 75% chance of wrecking the hard drive. If you've got access to a real cleanroom, the success rate goes up to almost 100%.
I haven't heard any reports of people with access to cleanrooms trying to window mod a large-capacity hard drive -- they're still too expensive to risk destroying.
That's what the Lunar farside observatory is for -- if they ever get around to building one.
Yes, you are oversimplifying. Extending your analogy, leaving an unsecured computer on the net would be like leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, and a sign saying "free to all use".
I could set up a good "I was hacked" defense easily enough: just break into one of my own computers and compromise it, leaving just one step (such as making it the DMZ box from my NAT router) to automatically complete if I don't periodically cancel it.
Or an encrypted loopback device, or a non-formatted partition, or any of a number of other ways of hiding stuff.
What sort of ISP logs could be used for that? The only thing I can think of that would be useful would be packet-level logging, and without a court order, I doubt an ISP would go to the effort needed to store that much data.
When my computer's running Windows, you know what it keeps in the way of logs? A log of when Scandisk was last run, that's it. How is that going to prove or disprove that the computer was hacked?
A few things to keep in mind:
1) Colorblind people (10% of the male population of the world). By far the most common form of colorblindness is red/green, so as long as you stick with easily-distinguished colors like black, red, and blue, you should be fine. You could probably add yellow and a medium grey to the mix, but yellow can be hard for normal people to read, and on some monitors, grey can be mistaken for black.
2) Increase the overlapping of the characters a bit. Right now, the characters can usually be separated out by color into three images, at which point a spambot can simply pick the one that matches the color of the instruction image.
3) You can make an audio CAPTCHA harder for computers to recognize by adding noise to the sound, or by using recordings of a person with a strong accent (or better still, a variety of accents)
The simple fact that you're doing the forms yourself will stop 99.9% of all spambots. A spambot usually doesn't download the page and fill it in, it takes a list of pages known to have submission forms of a known type (usually found by a google search) and submits pre-filled forms to them. Since you're doing a custom form, a spammer would need to find your form, and then spend the time to tell his spambot how to fill it out -- a much less productive use of time than finding more customers to spam for.
Would one of these "multiple sources" be the latest movie leak on Kazaa? :^)
No, it's "MultipleNewsSources(tm)" http://www.multiplenewssources.com/
IANAL, but IIRC, conspiracy requires the participation of two or more persons.
The biggest problem with most benchmarks is that they try to reduce system performance to a single number. A good benchmark would produce a set of numbers, one for each subsystem such as integer performance, floating-point performance, logic performance, 2D graphics performance, and 3D graphics performance.
Does any e-mail software use XML rather than HTML for formatting e-mail?
Having some one pay monthly is the most horrible thing a company can do ...
In another note i would rather pay +60$ more of the game price just for a unlimited subscirption for a massive multiplayer RPG game.. then have to pay monthly
That's not a viable business model for an MMOG. With a conventional game, the company has a large up-front cost to develop the game, which is recovered by sales of the game. Since making additional copies of the game is very cheap, costs after initial development are very low.
An MMOG has both an up-front cost, which companies usually recover by selling the game software, and an ongoing cost for running the servers, tech support, and developing additional content. A company that tried to cover all this with the price of the software would either price themselves out of the market, or go bankrupt trying to cover the support costs of players who keep playing month after month, just because it's free.
Underground nuke test can already be detected. They use a new device called a seismograph.
Not always. Pakistan's nuclear tests were right on the edge of what the US network can detect; in fact, some of the tests were not noticed until after Pakistan announced that they had occurred, and researchers went back through the records.
In general, seismographs can detect a nuclear explosion of half a kiloton yield or larger.
Either the filter will learn the bogus tags, or SpamAssassin will get a spam test that assigns a high score to the tags.
The serial number on a dollar bill can't easily be matched to you -- or even easily read automatically.
Committing on both "commit()" and "close()" should work; for old-style applications that don't support "commit()", this will ensure that successive versions are whole versions, but won't commit as often as you might like. For apps that support commit(), a commit() followed by a close() would only commit one version. For filesystems that don't support versioning, commit() would be a no-op.
That means zero-mass pistons, friction-free bearings, perfect-insulator walls, infinite-diameter valves, the whole nine yards.
Free publicity. There are people who look for weird things being auctioned on ebay. If they hosted it themselves, they'd also need to do the publicizing themselves.
It's a 60 kg sat, of which 20 kg is user-configurable payload. You could fit a reasonable project into that space.
20kg worth of missiles.
Even a perfect internal combustion engine can't be more than about 25% efficient, because of the nature of heat engines. Cars are already getting pretty close to this limit, so any improvements to fuel efficiency will come from techniques like lighter-weight vehicles, better aerodynamics, and techniques like hybrid engines that let the engine run at top efficiency all the time.
Assuming Moore's law continues to apply until then, that means that those computers will be a million times faster than the ones available now.
So, what do you plan to do with your 3 exahertz Pentium 17?