No, I don't believe you have your cynical head on. You could probably go further and say that the US (or any other country instead of US) just has more sophisticated means of detecting/catching cyber infiltrators, or that they break the news first to "show" superiority or gain a few points.
As for attacks on power plants :
1) inevitable at some time or other
2) easier to blame it on some faceless chinese hacker than on poorly designed and implemented security
3) any power plant problem is fuel for conspiracy theorists
There was an article on here some time ago about how to do this. Its quite easy if time consuming. 1) dismantle. 2) turn the screen back to front. 3) mount in a box with the "guts" behind the screen. Mine ( made from and old mac wallstreet) has an ethernet port so uploading new pix to it is straightforward.
in a couple of years to see who's right. a) macs are more secure because they run on unix OR b) security through obscurity. My personal opinion? I'll wait to until I know the answer, then I can be a fanboy who actually knows something.
what is scary is that most if not all of my students wouldn't know an authoritative answer from a half baked opinion based on semi-learned and understood "facts" that their best friends sister told them. If you don't believe me, try Google, Wikipedia and Yahoo for the answer to i^i. You'll get the correct answer from two and crap from the third. So the problem is not the source, but in an age where "knowledge" has been liberated, being able to sift the crap from the good stuff is becoming more important with each passing day. Talking of crap sifting and Google, there seems to be an underlying assumption, also amongst my students, that Google knows best. Online research skills..... sorry folks they have to be taught.
Morse is king if you want effective communication over long distances and have only low power available to you. If you have a computer then psk31 is probably (possibly) next best. Good software can pick up psk signals that are so quiet that they are below the noise floor. Ham radio experimenters are responsible for the early development of many communication technologies that we now take for granted. Don't write us off yet, there's still life in the hobby believe me.
Simple really. Apple exists in a country that is out of step with the rest of the world with measurements. Hence the multi-million dollar mars probe crash a couple of years ago. Nobody thought to convert from miles per hour (or whatever) to metres per second. No-one in the US gives a fuck what a millimetre is and no-one outside gives one what an inch is (except maybe porn stars).
but it seems to me to be crazy to insert a gene sequence into a plant to prevent germination. So, this sequence "escapes". How do we then pull back and prevent catastrophe in any other related species? I acknowledge that I'm no expert, but I wouldnt be surprised if all the commercial grasses - corn , wheat, rye etc - are very closely related genetically.
are two-fold. 1) if there are alternatives to the education program avaiable on the laptop eg looking on youtube for the next piece of stupidity from some brainless wanker, then thats the route most students will take. 2) most teachers have no effin idea - me included - how to integrate a laptop into a math class for example. Firstly a lot of teachers arent well versed in more than the basics of how to use a computer, and secondly a lot of so called interactive software is just shit.
Kids write shit like that every day. Look in almost any workbook and you'll see it. Dare I say it especially boys. Cartoons of knives dripping blood, people being blown up. This is par for the course with many if not most teenagers at some time during their teenage years - I certainly did. The teacher needs to get a real life and start worring about the bullying that goes on, both overt and covert, and making sure that the students are actually educated. If you want them to write a "stream of consciousness" then you have to accept EVERYTHING that they produce, good, bad or indifferent, simpy because it is THEIR stream of consciousness not yours. If you are going to be "disturbed" by it then get a new job. If I'd reported every "disturbing" thing I'd read or seen in a student workbook over the last 25 years, half of the kids would have been in jail.
At the school that I work at ( I teach maths ) Our take home papers are backed up with a class test that covers the same work with different question. So, if a kid gets help and knows sfa about the topic, they fail. If they have done it themslves, then they can pass. Quite simple really!
It constantly amazes me that a company as old as MS can continue to produce software that isn't compatible with other parts of its "suite". Yeah yeah, I know that programming is a very complex business, but after 20+ years, surely they must have learned something. Perhaps it's the very close integration of all the parts that is the problem? Hey wait, I think I've heard other people say that.
This is pretentious crap. You might as well say that every book written has a hidden message that is potentially damaging to developing minds. Any fool can see that when a person writes a book it will contain, in some way or other, the experiences/gender/beliefs/politics/educaton/etc of the author. I know, lets get rid of all books and raise a generation of illiterates As a parent and an educator, I actually doubt that the supposed subliminal or subversive messsages exist in most cases except in the warped mind of an adult reader. In my experience children ( and I suspect most adults ) who read HP, do so because they love the stories, and the books have encouraged many non-readers to do so.
.... exactly how hunting is defined? As an ex photo-hunter I would have said that the pursuit and outwitting your prey was at least critical to the activity. The shooting, picture/ bullet/ arrow etc etc. surely is the last step in the process. So then I wonder who is doing the hunting? It seems to me that a blind person cannot do alone many of the things that epitomise hunting in its many forms. Perhaps the companion is doing the hunting and the shooter is just that, a shooter.
Safari wont let me access my bank.... or is it that my bank wont let me use safari, but firefox works. So, safari for most things, firefox for banking.
Of course the ipod will die eventually, and be repaced by something "better". Who knows what that will be or who will produce it. There is not an institution that I know of that has survived ( but I'm sure someone out there will be able to prove me wrong ) other than democracy that has survived longer than a fleeting moment in history.
I agree that it is a sensible review of XP. It summarises the best and worst of XP accurately from an end users point of view. As for Vista, I dont hold out much hope of it being any better.... just fatter and harder to maintain if I have read reviews of it correctly.
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and I get all the spam I need just reading the comments.
Have to agree. Citrix = Shitrix
No, I don't believe you have your cynical head on. You could probably go further and say that the US (or any other country instead of US) just has more sophisticated means of detecting/catching cyber infiltrators, or that they break the news first to "show" superiority or gain a few points. As for attacks on power plants : 1) inevitable at some time or other 2) easier to blame it on some faceless chinese hacker than on poorly designed and implemented security 3) any power plant problem is fuel for conspiracy theorists
There was an article on here some time ago about how to do this. Its quite easy if time consuming. 1) dismantle. 2) turn the screen back to front. 3) mount in a box with the "guts" behind the screen. Mine ( made from and old mac wallstreet) has an ethernet port so uploading new pix to it is straightforward.
A decidedly underwhelming list.
Can the extra-terrestrial see uranus with a telescope?
in a couple of years to see who's right. a) macs are more secure because they run on unix OR b) security through obscurity. My personal opinion? I'll wait to until I know the answer, then I can be a fanboy who actually knows something.
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what is scary is that most if not all of my students wouldn't know an authoritative answer from a half baked opinion based on semi-learned and understood "facts" that their best friends sister told them. If you don't believe me, try Google, Wikipedia and Yahoo for the answer to i^i. You'll get the correct answer from two and crap from the third. So the problem is not the source, but in an age where "knowledge" has been liberated, being able to sift the crap from the good stuff is becoming more important with each passing day. Talking of crap sifting and Google, there seems to be an underlying assumption, also amongst my students, that Google knows best. Online research skills..... sorry folks they have to be taught.
Morse is king if you want effective communication over long distances and have only low power available to you. If you have a computer then psk31 is probably (possibly) next best. Good software can pick up psk signals that are so quiet that they are below the noise floor. Ham radio experimenters are responsible for the early development of many communication technologies that we now take for granted. Don't write us off yet, there's still life in the hobby believe me.
I recommend QAX - Questions - Answers - Solutions from Triple G technologies http://www.qax.com.au/
Simple really. Apple exists in a country that is out of step with the rest of the world with measurements. Hence the multi-million dollar mars probe crash a couple of years ago. Nobody thought to convert from miles per hour (or whatever) to metres per second. No-one in the US gives a fuck what a millimetre is and no-one outside gives one what an inch is (except maybe porn stars).
but it seems to me to be crazy to insert a gene sequence into a plant to prevent germination. So, this sequence "escapes". How do we then pull back and prevent catastrophe in any other related species? I acknowledge that I'm no expert, but I wouldnt be surprised if all the commercial grasses - corn , wheat, rye etc - are very closely related genetically.
" ...Now, a woman's car got hit by a train, and for some reason, she's blaming a GPS navigation unit" The reason is, she's an effing idiot!
are two-fold. 1) if there are alternatives to the education program avaiable on the laptop eg looking on youtube for the next piece of stupidity from some brainless wanker, then thats the route most students will take. 2) most teachers have no effin idea - me included - how to integrate a laptop into a math class for example. Firstly a lot of teachers arent well versed in more than the basics of how to use a computer, and secondly a lot of so called interactive software is just shit.
Kids write shit like that every day. Look in almost any workbook and you'll see it. Dare I say it especially boys. Cartoons of knives dripping blood, people being blown up. This is par for the course with many if not most teenagers at some time during their teenage years - I certainly did. The teacher needs to get a real life and start worring about the bullying that goes on, both overt and covert, and making sure that the students are actually educated. If you want them to write a "stream of consciousness" then you have to accept EVERYTHING that they produce, good, bad or indifferent, simpy because it is THEIR stream of consciousness not yours. If you are going to be "disturbed" by it then get a new job. If I'd reported every "disturbing" thing I'd read or seen in a student workbook over the last 25 years, half of the kids would have been in jail.
At the school that I work at ( I teach maths ) Our take home papers are backed up with a class test that covers the same work with different question. So, if a kid gets help and knows sfa about the topic, they fail. If they have done it themslves, then they can pass. Quite simple really!
It constantly amazes me that a company as old as MS can continue to produce software that isn't compatible with other parts of its "suite". Yeah yeah, I know that programming is a very complex business, but after 20+ years, surely they must have learned something. Perhaps it's the very close integration of all the parts that is the problem? Hey wait, I think I've heard other people say that.
Now this must be real because I found it on the internet. http://www.theatrecrafts.com/humour_darksuckers.ht ml
This is pretentious crap. You might as well say that every book written has a hidden message that is potentially damaging to developing minds. Any fool can see that when a person writes a book it will contain, in some way or other, the experiences/gender/beliefs/politics/educaton/etc of the author. I know, lets get rid of all books and raise a generation of illiterates As a parent and an educator, I actually doubt that the supposed subliminal or subversive messsages exist in most cases except in the warped mind of an adult reader. In my experience children ( and I suspect most adults ) who read HP, do so because they love the stories, and the books have encouraged many non-readers to do so.
.... exactly how hunting is defined? As an ex photo-hunter I would have said that the pursuit and outwitting your prey was at least critical to the activity. The shooting, picture/ bullet/ arrow etc etc. surely is the last step in the process. So then I wonder who is doing the hunting? It seems to me that a blind person cannot do alone many of the things that epitomise hunting in its many forms. Perhaps the companion is doing the hunting and the shooter is just that, a shooter.
Safari wont let me access my bank .... or is it that my bank wont let me use safari, but firefox works. So, safari for most things, firefox for banking.
Of course the ipod will die eventually, and be repaced by something "better". Who knows what that will be or who will produce it. There is not an institution that I know of that has survived ( but I'm sure someone out there will be able to prove me wrong ) other than democracy that has survived longer than a fleeting moment in history.
How the fuck is this insigtful? It doesn't even make sense.
I agree that it is a sensible review of XP. It summarises the best and worst of XP accurately from an end users point of view. As for Vista, I dont hold out much hope of it being any better .... just fatter and harder to maintain if I have read reviews of it correctly.