My alarm has remote locking. I disabled the unlock function so one still needs the key to get in. Go ahead and chirp the alarm all you want. In fact, this will screw up Kamkar's system as it will have expended its one good code. Yes, the alarm is off and a thief could just break a window. But having a system behave in a manner that they don't expect is probably enough to discourage them.
How exactly did the phone get 'infected' in the first place?
From TFS:
especially if it was intended for use by law enforcers on the beat.
So when you get stopped by a cop, your pockets emptied and your car searched, one of the cops runs back to the patrol car with your phone, plugs it into a PC and loads the s/w.
Or some/. post just directs you to a BBC article with an infected Flash video.
And the most common byproduct from running electric motors? Ozone!
If you are referring to the product of brush arcing, that is rare. And getting more so all the time as brushless, electronically commutated motors become more common.
Anecdote: I ues to work in an old, uninsulated cinder block building built in the 1950s. The temperature was kept at 80F all year. During the summer, I figured that this was to save on A/C costs (older buildings not having been designed with modern electrical loads in mind). But it was the same thing in the winter. And with no insulation, that mush have taken a lot of energy to heat. Cheapskate management would logicaly have turned the thremostat down.
Then, we had the Nisqually earthquake in the middle of winter. The facility was shut down for a couple of days while engineers assesed damage. And then we went back to work.68F in the morning, rising to about 72 in the afternoon. Not bad. The reason was that the gas boilers had not yet been inspected and authorized to restart. So we had not heat appart from that generated by occupants and equipment. A week or so later, when the boilers were fired up, it was back to 80F.
A few months later, I ran into one of the facilities engineers and asked him about this. It turns out that management did indeed order the thermostat setpoints up to 80F to save on air conditioning costs. But the HVAC plant was so old, the thermostats were single setpoint type. And when the A/C was cranked up to 80, so was the heat. nd management consisited of a bunch of 'Type A personality' assholes who wouldn't let the thermostats be adjusted or replaced with modern units without approval. And nobody had the balls to explain the systems opertion to them.
This is true. But then I'd expect that 99.44% to just drive by and leave it alone. And HitchBOT isn't like my friend's Bentley that keeps getting keyed because, "Rich people suck".
Ths was a demonstration of pure sociopathy. And I'm surprised that law enforcement doesn't set up occasional stings to catch this kind of behavior. The resulting penalty doesn't have to be much. But get these people 'on the books' so that when they apply for a weapons permit or a license as a teacher, there is a red flag on their record.
Because we all watched Windows nearly go down in flames with their monolithic registry architecture. Trivially easy to attack when adding any compromised service requires write access and can just play havoc in there. And even after that fiasco, all the Windows admins moving over to Linux systems blubbered about why Linux doesn't have a registry.
Wife: Who was that answering your phone?
Me: That was Siri.
Wife: Who is Siri? Some hot new intern at your company?
Me: No, dear. Siri is a computer.
Wife: Sure she is. Why does she sound so sexy?
Me: I don't know. That's just how they programmed her.
Wife: Well, it had better be a computer. Or you are in big trouble.
Me (later, talking to girlfriend): Good move imitating Siri when my wife called last night. But the next time I'm in the shower, just let it go to voicemail.
When I was in school, NOBODY had any of these food problems
When I was in school, we had a kid with a severe peanut allergy in our first grade class. On the first day, the teacher told us all that, under no circumstances were we to trade any of our lunch items with him. That was it. No issues for the rest of the year.
When the init script terminates, the service daemon is running...
Unless the init script explicitly exits with an exit status that indicates an error condition. Same behavior as a daemon failing to start.
If the init script is SUFFICIENTLY simple, then a systemd run file can be created to run the daemon
They rarely are. A few on your laptop might be. But on production systems, scripts check the status of various resources and initialize them if nedded. And much of this is beyond the capability of systemd. So if systemd can't work with init scripts, just put it down and walk away.
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having sex on bus.
Does that include the hobos playing pocket pool on our transit busses? Because that has been going on for years.
filing millions of bogus notices
I wonder if there is some way that this runs afoul of the CAN SPAM law.
And Carly Fiorina is busy running for president.
Cats are too predictable
My alarm has remote locking. I disabled the unlock function so one still needs the key to get in. Go ahead and chirp the alarm all you want. In fact, this will screw up Kamkar's system as it will have expended its one good code. Yes, the alarm is off and a thief could just break a window. But having a system behave in a manner that they don't expect is probably enough to discourage them.
Nature is riddled with this kind of phenomenon. Undesirable mate X tries to present itself as desirable mate Y to inject its dna into the replicator.
So you had to make an analogy that, for Slashdotters, is a purely theoretical event.
It can't be wrong. We keep a comprehensive database of all of our licenses right here ...... somewhere ......
Hey! Anyone know why the license on this database has expired? Better call our Oracle sales rep and buy a bunch more.
We've had that for years where I work. Just tell the boss you knocked up his daughter.
How exactly did the phone get 'infected' in the first place?
From TFS:
especially if it was intended for use by law enforcers on the beat.
So when you get stopped by a cop, your pockets emptied and your car searched, one of the cops runs back to the patrol car with your phone, plugs it into a PC and loads the s/w.
Or some /. post just directs you to a BBC article with an infected Flash video.
And the most common byproduct from running electric motors? Ozone!
If you are referring to the product of brush arcing, that is rare. And getting more so all the time as brushless, electronically commutated motors become more common.
It Doesn't Suck Anymore?
You know what they say: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
60 Hz more so than 50.
Some bosses aren't that smart.
Anecdote: I ues to work in an old, uninsulated cinder block building built in the 1950s. The temperature was kept at 80F all year. During the summer, I figured that this was to save on A/C costs (older buildings not having been designed with modern electrical loads in mind). But it was the same thing in the winter. And with no insulation, that mush have taken a lot of energy to heat. Cheapskate management would logicaly have turned the thremostat down.
Then, we had the Nisqually earthquake in the middle of winter. The facility was shut down for a couple of days while engineers assesed damage. And then we went back to work.68F in the morning, rising to about 72 in the afternoon. Not bad. The reason was that the gas boilers had not yet been inspected and authorized to restart. So we had not heat appart from that generated by occupants and equipment. A week or so later, when the boilers were fired up, it was back to 80F.
A few months later, I ran into one of the facilities engineers and asked him about this. It turns out that management did indeed order the thermostat setpoints up to 80F to save on air conditioning costs. But the HVAC plant was so old, the thermostats were single setpoint type. And when the A/C was cranked up to 80, so was the heat. nd management consisited of a bunch of 'Type A personality' assholes who wouldn't let the thermostats be adjusted or replaced with modern units without approval. And nobody had the balls to explain the systems opertion to them.
Just tell your boss that you are changing your name to Caitlyn and comming to work in a summer dress.
This is true. But then I'd expect that 99.44% to just drive by and leave it alone. And HitchBOT isn't like my friend's Bentley that keeps getting keyed because, "Rich people suck".
Ths was a demonstration of pure sociopathy. And I'm surprised that law enforcement doesn't set up occasional stings to catch this kind of behavior. The resulting penalty doesn't have to be much. But get these people 'on the books' so that when they apply for a weapons permit or a license as a teacher, there is a red flag on their record.
Thanks in large part to the low cost of natural gas. So Obama needs to get out in front of his and make it look like it was actually his doing.
Can you explain why this is a bad thing?
Because we all watched Windows nearly go down in flames with their monolithic registry architecture. Trivially easy to attack when adding any compromised service requires write access and can just play havoc in there. And even after that fiasco, all the Windows admins moving over to Linux systems blubbered about why Linux doesn't have a registry.
Well, folks. Here it is.
Handed down from visiting aliens in a book titled "To Serve Man".
Wife: Who was that answering your phone?
Me: That was Siri.
Wife: Who is Siri? Some hot new intern at your company?
Me: No, dear. Siri is a computer.
Wife: Sure she is. Why does she sound so sexy?
Me: I don't know. That's just how they programmed her.
Wife: Well, it had better be a computer. Or you are in big trouble.
Me (later, talking to girlfriend): Good move imitating Siri when my wife called last night. But the next time I'm in the shower, just let it go to voicemail.
Some people buy cars and then trick them out with all sorts of aftermarket kit. Much of which is only for looks.
It's their time/money to spend as they see fit.
When I was in school, NOBODY had any of these food problems
When I was in school, we had a kid with a severe peanut allergy in our first grade class. On the first day, the teacher told us all that, under no circumstances were we to trade any of our lunch items with him. That was it. No issues for the rest of the year.
When the init script terminates, the service daemon is running...
Unless the init script explicitly exits with an exit status that indicates an error condition. Same behavior as a daemon failing to start.
If the init script is SUFFICIENTLY simple, then a systemd run file can be created to run the daemon
They rarely are. A few on your laptop might be. But on production systems, scripts check the status of various resources and initialize them if nedded. And much of this is beyond the capability of systemd. So if systemd can't work with init scripts, just put it down and walk away.
Sometimes it's not easy being a grammar nazi.
You forgot the obligatory video link.
D) Make a female AI so you can reproduce without the apes noticing.
That would be the dd command. You don't think we named it 'double d' for no reason, do you?