I can go commit any crime I want, as long as I use a remote desktop/VNC program to remote into my PC at home from my smart phone and post something to Facebook immediately afterward?
Go to the properties of the NIC in Device Manager. Click on the "Advanced" tab. Hit the drop down and find "Hardware Address" Type what you want in the box without spaces or colons. Click OK.
The kicker? Most of the infections I deal with on a regular basis are coming from AD BANNERS. I have literally had people get a brand new machine, sit down at it, open IE8 and browse to one of the major sports news sites (ESPN, TSN, MLB, NFL, etc.) and get IMMEDIATELY infected by a banner ad!
There are few things worse than giving someone a brand new machine, and before you've even been able to get back to your cube and sit down your BB is buzzing and you are being told to get back there because they have a virus! ARGH!
Honestly, it's gotten so bad that with most of the fake AV viruses we just freaking wipe the stupid PC immediately. Format and re-image and done. It's faster and easier.
Does this mean that Star Trek style warp drive only works in an "Electric Universe" physics model? Or does it mean that we don't have to worry about crossing the streams once we reach 55mph?
Upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 the day after release on a dual-boot Ubuntu - Win7 laptop (Thinkpad T60). Upgrade went smooth as silk, I had one reboot to complete the process and bammo, working Ubuntu.
Yes, the dual-boot still worked. The only change I made was to modify the menu to comment out the old kernel so I have a shorter neater list.
I honestly don't understand how people can have such trouble. It's not like I'm some kind of Linux guru, I barely qualify as "power user".
Wasn't that the same movie where The Professor was bringing out all of his various inventions he thought of while on the island...
and every one of them was something that had already been invented?
I think that was the same episode where Ginger was trying to get back into movies, but the kept getting offered adult movie roles. if I remember correctly, she was about to accept one because she thought that was the only kind of movies left, when Gilligan convinced her not to because he had just seen Star Wars.
Yeap, they certainly will. The Air Force certainly shot down that Northwest [chicagotribune.com] flight to Minneapolis. And that was high altitude. A UAV can fly at low altitudes evading radar long enough to hop over the border. Smugglers even use submarines [timesonline.co.uk], which can carry more drugs and other contraband.
A commercial flight that is overdue for a landing but still being tracked on radar is VERY different from an UNKNOWN radar signal coming from across a border on an unexpected path and trajectory. You obviously know jack squat about Air Force and general defense protocols to think that would be allowed to happen.
Remember, we are talking about an autonomous vehicle capable of carrying a rather heavy payload a VERY long distance. So that means a LARGE vehicle, close to the size of your average light airplane (Think Cessna single engine plane sized or slightly smaller).
A vehicle that size flying over the border WILL NOT go unnoticed! If you think it will you are utterly ignorant about just how tightly controlled our airspace is.
Oh, and submarine comparisons are NOT applicable. Until such time as we have a Sonar network around our coasts as extensive as the Radar network blanketing our skies AND we have teams of fast-response submarine hunter-killers waiting to be launched from naval bases all along the coast at a moment's notice, then our coasts will always be more porous than our skies. The same goes for the ground borders.
That, and the fact that the "semi-sub" was a flop and CAUGHT with it's load on it's maiden voyage.
The simple fact is that both ground and sea borders are far less intensively monitored and defended than the air is. Flying vehicles are the LEAST practical method of transporting contraband, Autonomous flying vehicles (which cannot respond to radio ID requests or have a conversation with a ground controller) are even LESS practical.
I'm sorry if that bursts your "romantic" bubble of clever drug dealers getting your blow across the border with oh-so-cool technology and beating "the man" so you can get high, but it's the truth.
Actually, it is precisely this concern that has led the DOD to BAN all Lenovo machines from their networks and facilities.
Lenovo is (as we know) made in China. Given that the majority of both successful and unsuccessful DoD security breaches in the last 10 years have come from China, and that the Chinese govt. still keeps a very close relationship with all of it's major manufacturers, it's not a long stretch to imagine the Chi-coms planting firmware back doors into all Lenovo machines in the hopes of gaining access to US secrets.
There was a/. article about this a while back, and as I remmeber, MOST (although not all) of/. went into full BDS mode and attacked the idea as "Crazy Bush-Cheney-Rovian conspiracy mongering against our Chinese friends." In light of this news from Syria, is it REALLY that far-fetched?
1) Most of the people involved in drug cartels are brainless thugs or stupid patsies. Not the type of people likely to use a high-tech solution to a problem.
2) Issues over the fact that the "merchandise" is now out of human hands and quite literally flying on it's own in such a way that it could conceivably be intercepted by someone you don't want.
3) Despite price drops in off the shelf UAV tech, Using a human "Mule" is WAY cheaper than Building/Buying, maintaining and using a fleet of UAV's.
4) The US Air Force. Do you REALLY think that they will allow foreign UAVs to fly for long in US Airspace? Please. US Airspace is the most tightly controlled on the PLANET. Any UAV large enough to carry that much weight is also going to be large enough to be noticed by radar and shot down.
There you go. 4 solid reasons why UAVs are NOT used to smuggle illegal drugs.
Lumpy was saying that his rockets were NOT "Dumb" in that they could HOME to a general target area. he also noted that this was back in his college days, I'm assuming a not insignificant amount of time ago. He also stated that not only could you build a GPS capable homing rocket today, but that you can BUY OFF THE SHELF UAV kits!
1) wait until freind you want to prank is on vacation without the ability to contact Facebook. (Hiking, Rainforest excursion, on a Cruise with no internet, etc.)
2) Fill out Facebook deceased form and submit Photoshopped Death Certificate.
3) ???
4) Hide when your friend comes back from vacation and finds him/herself "dead".
You see, if you actually READ the original law, it specifically delineated rights to GLBT people, and EXCLUDED non-GLBT people. Basically, it set up a special "marriage class" in CA exclusively for GLBT people. This is unconstitutional, just on it's face. As are most of the "gay marriage" laws that have been proposed.
Now, if the law had said "Any consenting human adult may marry any other consenting human adult regardless of sexual orientation or previously existing relationship without discrimination." (or something along those lines) THEN you would have a logical argument to say my statement is bizzare. But the fact of the matter is, this is not the situation that was in place in CA prior to prop 8.
Prop 8 corrected the law, and it can now be written properly to be fully inclusive and constitutional.
I do not condone intimidation. However, if you're afraid of the consequences of your political views, you should keep them to yourself.
There's nothing tragic about the El Coyote story. A woman made her living off of catering to the gay crowd, then publicly supported a movement that succeed in stripping a civil right from her clients. Shockingly, he clientele decided to boycott.
Finally, the involvement of churches in this political arena is of questionable legality and homophobia has always been immoral.
Wrong on every point.
1) She made her living running a restaurant that GLBT people happened to frequent. It's not as though she set up a "GLBT restaurant" and then changed her mind. El Coyote existed as a family restaurant LONG before GLBT people took a shine to it.
2) Gay people in CA already have all the legal rights of straight people. No civil rights were stripped, only special rights unavailable to everyone else. (IE: As a non-gay, I could not marry a man. Only members of the special group had that right. It was clearly unconstitutional, and prop 8 rectified that.)
3) It went WAY beyond a simple boycott and deeply into threats and intimidation, including telephone threats to employees, and threats of violence against the owner, her employees, her family, and the threat of arson against the establishment itself. Not only is that CLEARLY illegal, it completely illegitimizes any "rights" battle the GLBT community might have been waging.
4) The involvement of the church is fully legal and in no way questionable unless you believe that people have no right to a political opinion if they happen to have religion too. Free speech includes political speech. The right to free speech doesn't stop at the church door, and churches, as groups of individuals, have the same rights to free speech as any other group of individuals, AND the same right "to petition the government for redress of grievances" just like any other group. Just because you are a religious bigot doesn't mean your opinion is law.
Oh, and your first comment? Complete bullshit. While I agree that actions have consequences, EVERYONE in America has the right to express a political opinion free of intimidation and fear. You are saying people give up the right to live free when they express a political opinion you disagree with? Go to North Korea. They would LOVE you there.
So, because some OTHER people, in the past, have wrongly beaten up and attacked (or, worse, killed) some Gays, then it is OK, to do the same to OTHER completely innocent people who had nothing to do with, nor condone the violence perpetrated against some gays?
Wow. How humane of you. I assume you also believe in punishing children for the evils of their parents?
The implications could not be clearer; While supporters of traditional marriage use legal and ethical means to promote their agenda, supporters of gay marriage use illegal and unethical means the moment it appears that doing it the legal way isn't winning support. It was all over California during the prop 8 battle, and now it's going to start in WA. I guarantee.
P.S. To mods: Negative mod points do not equal "I disagree with you". If you disagree, have the courage to log in and post. You demand sunshine on votes and political support, it's only consistent to shed sunshine on your opinions. Show courage, be consistent.
Frankly, It's already been degraded so much it's pretty much a joke.
By and large, the Nobel has been a "member in good standing with the Far Left Club" award for DECADES. The Algore and 0bama awards are just the icing on an already very left-leaning cake.
I have a Brother HL-2170W (both Ethernet and Wireless network functionality) and it was easy to set up. The initial setup is done via Ethernet, and it defaults to DHCP. The internal interface is browser-based (and thus platform independent) and it can share itself out in multiple ways, from NFS to Samba to straight up IP print.
It's printed out about 2500 pages so far in it's lifetime (about a year) and I JUST changed the dinky started toner cartridge in it.
One issue for the Op though, it's a monochrome printer. But something like an HL-4070CDW might do the job.
It sounds very much like an organization that has never had to deal with this type of application submission situation, and is still working out the kinks in what what would naturally be a complicated process whole at the same time dealing with a significantly larger response than expected.
Is Palm and their App Store submission process perfect? Hell no! But to call it Kafka-esque is crude hyperbole of the most insulting form.
Oh, and this IS/. Lots of Apple fanboys submit stories all the time here. Or have you not noticed the overwhelmingly positive iPhone stories, even back when they were initially launched and had many similar issues? Or are you blinded by your own fanboyism?
I mean, hey. It's not an Apple product, so WE MUST DUMP ON IT! Let's just ignore the vibrant and rapidly growing Homebrew scene, many of which are already in the official App catalog, with many many more on the way. Let's just focus on the one unfortunate who had a bad experience, and then blow it all out of proportion so that we can all sit back in smug iSatisfaction.
Which iSlave is posting these "stories" and why are they allowed to get to the front page?
It is fortunate then, that in the US windshields haven't been made with plain Tempered Glass in many years. Instead, windshields use a non-tempered laminate substructure glass composite. (two panes of glass with plastic bonded between them.)
This is so that rocks kicked up off the road simply chip or crack the glass instead of shattering it.
However, side and rear automotive windshields usually use Tempered Glass so as to avoid sharp glass fragments during an accident. Laminate glass is not used so that windows can be broken for emergency ingress or egress.
You should stop studying socialist economics and start studying people who actually DO understand it. I recommend Dr. Thomas Sowell as a start. You should start with "Economic Facts and Fallacies", and then move on to "Applied Economics". You might learn something.
And don't even waste my time with "Nobel Prize winners". Al "I invented the Internet and the world is going to burn in 10 years (said 12 years ago)" Gore won a Nobel prize for crying out loud! The only qualification for winning a Nobel is being leftist enough.
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So basically,
I can go commit any crime I want, as long as I use a remote desktop/VNC program to remote into my PC at home from my smart phone and post something to Facebook immediately afterward?
SWEET! Time to to rob that bank!
It's part of the GUI.
Go to the properties of the NIC in Device Manager. Click on the "Advanced" tab. Hit the drop down and find "Hardware Address" Type what you want in the box without spaces or colons. Click OK.
There you go.
Ain't that the truth.
The kicker? Most of the infections I deal with on a regular basis are coming from AD BANNERS. I have literally had people get a brand new machine, sit down at it, open IE8 and browse to one of the major sports news sites (ESPN, TSN, MLB, NFL, etc.) and get IMMEDIATELY infected by a banner ad!
There are few things worse than giving someone a brand new machine, and before you've even been able to get back to your cube and sit down your BB is buzzing and you are being told to get back there because they have a virus! ARGH!
Honestly, it's gotten so bad that with most of the fake AV viruses we just freaking wipe the stupid PC immediately. Format and re-image and done. It's faster and easier.
Does this mean that Star Trek style warp drive only works in an "Electric Universe" physics model? Or does it mean that we don't have to worry about crossing the streams once we reach 55mph?
Great Scott!
Upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 the day after release on a dual-boot Ubuntu - Win7 laptop (Thinkpad T60). Upgrade went smooth as silk, I had one reboot to complete the process and bammo, working Ubuntu.
Yes, the dual-boot still worked. The only change I made was to modify the menu to comment out the old kernel so I have a shorter neater list.
I honestly don't understand how people can have such trouble. It's not like I'm some kind of Linux guru, I barely qualify as "power user".
Pfft! Big deal. I got a Nobel. From my Cracker Jack box. Nobel Prizes all around!
*sways drunkenly*
Wasn't that the same movie where The Professor was bringing out all of his various inventions he thought of while on the island...
and every one of them was something that had already been invented?
I think that was the same episode where Ginger was trying to get back into movies, but the kept getting offered adult movie roles. if I remember correctly, she was about to accept one because she thought that was the only kind of movies left, when Gilligan convinced her not to because he had just seen Star Wars.
Don't ask me why I remember that.
A commercial flight that is overdue for a landing but still being tracked on radar is VERY different from an UNKNOWN radar signal coming from across a border on an unexpected path and trajectory. You obviously know jack squat about Air Force and general defense protocols to think that would be allowed to happen.
Remember, we are talking about an autonomous vehicle capable of carrying a rather heavy payload a VERY long distance. So that means a LARGE vehicle, close to the size of your average light airplane (Think Cessna single engine plane sized or slightly smaller).
A vehicle that size flying over the border WILL NOT go unnoticed! If you think it will you are utterly ignorant about just how tightly controlled our airspace is.
Oh, and submarine comparisons are NOT applicable. Until such time as we have a Sonar network around our coasts as extensive as the Radar network blanketing our skies AND we have teams of fast-response submarine hunter-killers waiting to be launched from naval bases all along the coast at a moment's notice, then our coasts will always be more porous than our skies. The same goes for the ground borders.
That, and the fact that the "semi-sub" was a flop and CAUGHT with it's load on it's maiden voyage.
The simple fact is that both ground and sea borders are far less intensively monitored and defended than the air is. Flying vehicles are the LEAST practical method of transporting contraband, Autonomous flying vehicles (which cannot respond to radio ID requests or have a conversation with a ground controller) are even LESS practical.
I'm sorry if that bursts your "romantic" bubble of clever drug dealers getting your blow across the border with oh-so-cool technology and beating "the man" so you can get high, but it's the truth.
Actually, it is precisely this concern that has led the DOD to BAN all Lenovo machines from their networks and facilities.
Lenovo is (as we know) made in China. Given that the majority of both successful and unsuccessful DoD security breaches in the last 10 years have come from China, and that the Chinese govt. still keeps a very close relationship with all of it's major manufacturers, it's not a long stretch to imagine the Chi-coms planting firmware back doors into all Lenovo machines in the hopes of gaining access to US secrets.
There was a /. article about this a while back, and as I remmeber, MOST (although not all) of /. went into full BDS mode and attacked the idea as "Crazy Bush-Cheney-Rovian conspiracy mongering against our Chinese friends." In light of this news from Syria, is it REALLY that far-fetched?
It isn't being done for several reasons:
1) Most of the people involved in drug cartels are brainless thugs or stupid patsies. Not the type of people likely to use a high-tech solution to a problem.
2) Issues over the fact that the "merchandise" is now out of human hands and quite literally flying on it's own in such a way that it could conceivably be intercepted by someone you don't want.
3) Despite price drops in off the shelf UAV tech, Using a human "Mule" is WAY cheaper than Building/Buying, maintaining and using a fleet of UAV's.
4) The US Air Force. Do you REALLY think that they will allow foreign UAVs to fly for long in US Airspace? Please. US Airspace is the most tightly controlled on the PLANET. Any UAV large enough to carry that much weight is also going to be large enough to be noticed by radar and shot down.
There you go. 4 solid reasons why UAVs are NOT used to smuggle illegal drugs.
-1 reading comprehension failure.
Lumpy was saying that his rockets were NOT "Dumb" in that they could HOME to a general target area. he also noted that this was back in his college days, I'm assuming a not insignificant amount of time ago. He also stated that not only could you build a GPS capable homing rocket today, but that you can BUY OFF THE SHELF UAV kits!
Seriously. Did you even read his post AT ALL?
1) wait until freind you want to prank is on vacation without the ability to contact Facebook. (Hiking, Rainforest excursion, on a Cruise with no internet, etc.)
2) Fill out Facebook deceased form and submit Photoshopped Death Certificate.
3) ???
4) Hide when your friend comes back from vacation and finds him/herself "dead".
And your evidence to back that up is...?
You see, if you actually READ the original law, it specifically delineated rights to GLBT people, and EXCLUDED non-GLBT people. Basically, it set up a special "marriage class" in CA exclusively for GLBT people. This is unconstitutional, just on it's face. As are most of the "gay marriage" laws that have been proposed.
Now, if the law had said "Any consenting human adult may marry any other consenting human adult regardless of sexual orientation or previously existing relationship without discrimination." (or something along those lines) THEN you would have a logical argument to say my statement is bizzare. But the fact of the matter is, this is not the situation that was in place in CA prior to prop 8.
Prop 8 corrected the law, and it can now be written properly to be fully inclusive and constitutional.
I do not condone intimidation. However, if you're afraid of the consequences of your political views, you should keep them to yourself.
There's nothing tragic about the El Coyote story. A woman made her living off of catering to the gay crowd, then publicly supported a movement that succeed in stripping a civil right from her clients. Shockingly, he clientele decided to boycott.
Finally, the involvement of churches in this political arena is of questionable legality and homophobia has always been immoral.
Wrong on every point.
1) She made her living running a restaurant that GLBT people happened to frequent. It's not as though she set up a "GLBT restaurant" and then changed her mind. El Coyote existed as a family restaurant LONG before GLBT people took a shine to it.
2) Gay people in CA already have all the legal rights of straight people. No civil rights were stripped, only special rights unavailable to everyone else. (IE: As a non-gay, I could not marry a man. Only members of the special group had that right. It was clearly unconstitutional, and prop 8 rectified that.)
3) It went WAY beyond a simple boycott and deeply into threats and intimidation, including telephone threats to employees, and threats of violence against the owner, her employees, her family, and the threat of arson against the establishment itself. Not only is that CLEARLY illegal, it completely illegitimizes any "rights" battle the GLBT community might have been waging.
4) The involvement of the church is fully legal and in no way questionable unless you believe that people have no right to a political opinion if they happen to have religion too. Free speech includes political speech. The right to free speech doesn't stop at the church door, and churches, as groups of individuals, have the same rights to free speech as any other group of individuals, AND the same right "to petition the government for redress of grievances" just like any other group. Just because you are a religious bigot doesn't mean your opinion is law.
Oh, and your first comment? Complete bullshit. While I agree that actions have consequences, EVERYONE in America has the right to express a political opinion free of intimidation and fear. You are saying people give up the right to live free when they express a political opinion you disagree with? Go to North Korea. They would LOVE you there.
True. They are. One state is openly hostile to the idea of freedom. The other is merely indifferent.
It's much like the difference between beating someone up, and standing by while watching someone get beat up then saying you don't care.
Either way, you are letting thugs off the hook and innocents are being hurt. No moral high ground there bub.
So, because some OTHER people, in the past, have wrongly beaten up and attacked (or, worse, killed) some Gays, then it is OK, to do the same to OTHER completely innocent people who had nothing to do with, nor condone the violence perpetrated against some gays?
Wow. How humane of you. I assume you also believe in punishing children for the evils of their parents?
Really?
Apparently you missed the "prop 8" debacle in California. Sunshine laws were used to create maps to the HOMES of people who donated to support prop 8.
That's not intimidation?
Or how about when Vandals sprayed anti-prop 8 graffiti on a church in San Fran?
That's not intimidation?
Or how about the tragic story of El Coyote restaurant? and what has happened to the elderly owner because she was following her beliefs. THAT IS NOT INTIMIDATION????
Or what happened to a group of Christians who were following their beliefs and went out, in kindness of spirit, to PRAY for the Gay community. They were surrounded by an angry mob, had DEATH THREATS hurled against them and were ASSAULTED. That is not Intimidation? That is not VIOLENCE?
Come on. Where have you been?
The implications could not be clearer; While supporters of traditional marriage use legal and ethical means to promote their agenda, supporters of gay marriage use illegal and unethical means the moment it appears that doing it the legal way isn't winning support. It was all over California during the prop 8 battle, and now it's going to start in WA. I guarantee.
P.S. To mods: Negative mod points do not equal "I disagree with you". If you disagree, have the courage to log in and post. You demand sunshine on votes and political support, it's only consistent to shed sunshine on your opinions. Show courage, be consistent.
Frankly, It's already been degraded so much it's pretty much a joke.
By and large, the Nobel has been a "member in good standing with the Far Left Club" award for DECADES. The Algore and 0bama awards are just the icing on an already very left-leaning cake.
The Nobel is joke.
Brothers have changed since then.
I have a Brother HL-2170W (both Ethernet and Wireless network functionality) and it was easy to set up. The initial setup is done via Ethernet, and it defaults to DHCP. The internal interface is browser-based (and thus platform independent) and it can share itself out in multiple ways, from NFS to Samba to straight up IP print.
It's printed out about 2500 pages so far in it's lifetime (about a year) and I JUST changed the dinky started toner cartridge in it.
One issue for the Op though, it's a monochrome printer. But something like an HL-4070CDW might do the job.
It sounds very much like an organization that has never had to deal with this type of application submission situation, and is still working out the kinks in what what would naturally be a complicated process whole at the same time dealing with a significantly larger response than expected.
Is Palm and their App Store submission process perfect? Hell no! But to call it Kafka-esque is crude hyperbole of the most insulting form.
Oh, and this IS /. Lots of Apple fanboys submit stories all the time here. Or have you not noticed the overwhelmingly positive iPhone stories, even back when they were initially launched and had many similar issues? Or are you blinded by your own fanboyism?
wow. Troll much?
I don't suppose it could be, say, the completely and totally overwhelming response from developers has overloaded Palm's limited ability to process new App Store submissions that has led to some isolated developers having issues?
NAH, IT'S KAFKA-ESQUE!
I mean, hey. It's not an Apple product, so WE MUST DUMP ON IT! Let's just ignore the vibrant and rapidly growing Homebrew scene, many of which are already in the official App catalog, with many many more on the way. Let's just focus on the one unfortunate who had a bad experience, and then blow it all out of proportion so that we can all sit back in smug iSatisfaction.
Which iSlave is posting these "stories" and why are they allowed to get to the front page?
It is fortunate then, that in the US windshields haven't been made with plain Tempered Glass in many years. Instead, windshields use a non-tempered laminate substructure glass composite. (two panes of glass with plastic bonded between them.)
This is so that rocks kicked up off the road simply chip or crack the glass instead of shattering it.
However, side and rear automotive windshields usually use Tempered Glass so as to avoid sharp glass fragments during an accident. Laminate glass is not used so that windows can be broken for emergency ingress or egress.
Very likely. but how many of those fall under the umbrella of "News for Nerds"?
(Yes, I'm aware that /. frequently breaks that rule, but the point of the story isn't Auto-Tune. It's Sagan.)
You should stop studying socialist economics and start studying people who actually DO understand it. I recommend Dr. Thomas Sowell as a start. You should start with "Economic Facts and Fallacies", and then move on to "Applied Economics". You might learn something.
And don't even waste my time with "Nobel Prize winners". Al "I invented the Internet and the world is going to burn in 10 years (said 12 years ago)" Gore won a Nobel prize for crying out loud! The only qualification for winning a Nobel is being leftist enough.