The thing is, if someone grabs your debit info and pin from a keypad, someone really messed up. I spent a few minutes googling for proof of what I know, but I can't find anything right now. Essentially, when a debit transaction is processed, it should be a public/private key transaction between the system and the keypad. If the keypad system doesn't do things it shouldn't like log keystrokes or card strip information, then it is technically impossible for anyone in between to steal your information. Think of it like logging into slashdot over https. If there is javascript on the page recording what you do, the security mechanism doesn't matter.
A microwave uses a Standing Wave. It is focused and directional. Other than very minor shielding in the microwave (for safety "just because"), there is none, because there doesn't need to be any.
Honestly sir, you sound already hooked. Please get help. http://www.na.org/ is a good start.
It's no different than being hooked on crack. It "clears the cobwebs" and makes you more "observant".
Anyone reading this and taking it seriously, ADHD drugs work by exciting a slower, out of sync bit of the brain so it can speed up and coordinate (frontal lobe dysfunction and reduced capacity, with a correlation to reduced size, of the left sided pre-frontal cortex) . If you use these drugs and don't have these complications, it is speeding up a bit of your brain that was already doing fine, throwing it out of sync. This obviously isn't better. It is better like you bowling better when you have a few beers. It isn't the beers, and really, you aren't doing better. You just feel better doing it, which may attribute to being more successful when initially abusing the drug.
Additionally, making these drugs more accessible to people who don't actually have a "problem", but want a an artificial advantage to be more competitive creates additional incentive for people who already are gifted to also seek a boost of their own abilities
I see this kind of statement all over this discussion, like Aderall and Ritalin are these magic make-my-brain-work-better pills, that anyone can take. If you don't ADD/ADHD, taking these pills does NOT in anyway make you any more capable than you were before. As a matter of fact, it is a habit forming speed and taken without the proper diagnosis/ailment, is the same as someone who takes Xanax and doesn't suffer anxiety. They took it thinking it made them better, but instead became dependent and find they spiral downhill if they don't have it. Sad really.
XP is a pile of insecure shit on the magnitude of mythical proportions. The thing has so many unpatched remote code execution vectors being sold everyday, that it would take a monster to bring it under control. Instead, they are going to give you no more patches! The only reason want XP is because their P4 DELL machines won't run a more recent Windows.
I have installed Windows 7 on > 100 machines. We used legit keys. Honestly, I never ever seen an activation problem. The closest to it was the one workstation without an internet connection, which was easy enough to deal with.
I didn't explain myself well, which may be the reason for replies like this. Think of the cheap wireless adapters as nothing more than a serial port. You throw a bit at it, and it throws it into the airwaves, similar to the winmodems of yesteryear. A bit comes back to it, it gets dumped to the driver, which just uses your CPU, not dedicated hardware, to do the work. The devices that support 5GHZ also support 2.4 ghz, and those cheap ARM processors can't do both, so they tend to have real hardware in place to do the heavy lifting.
Ok, so you have to find a god bigger than your god to smite your god, because they are unfair. The only result will be most everyone is dead. Choose you battles
The Pi doesn't HAVE to be a microcontroller. It has the pleasure of being in the same price range, being able to accomplish the same tasks, only the Pi has a familiar OS on which to build software to do the nasty. If all hammers were the same price, I'd pick the sledge hammer.
What version of libc? What shell? Why do I need X to install a package... I'm a linux user! Is X running in a framebuffer or hardware accelerated? Do we only have MESA installed?
Also, there is NOT only one kernel. Depending on what you are running, it may even be as drastic as 2.4.* vs 2.6.*.
Why in the FUCK would these devices be connected in ANY way, shape, or form, to the INTERNET in the first place
It is obvious to us geeks the same way it is obvious to a race car driver how to bank a turn at > 100MPH. Being that I never drove a race car and it looks so simple on TV, I might be inclined to think that the car does all of the hard stuff for me... I just turn the wheel.
Windows, 95, in your case, was a single user multimedia operating system, not a hardened Unix implementation. It was never meant to be. It was as vulnerable as DOS and Windows before it, just the way people liked it.
ActiveX libraries are DLLs that have COM classes which expose IDispatch. They have the same security as any other DLL. You can't blame THAT technology. You can, however, blame Windows Scripting and Internet Explorer to allow these DLLs to be loaded via remote and untrusted content.
Windows is run on crap you think it shouldn't because it requires little to use and develop for it. Hell, I can fire up Visual Basic, drop on HeartMonitorWidget, which fires events when X, Y, and Z happen, update a dialog/form with new information, compile and run it on any even-close-to-modern Windows OS, all in 5 minutes. There is no other operating system/development environment pair that can compete with that.
Using the Doppler technique (looking for very small changes in the velocities of the stars) astronomers detected a planet orbiting the smaller of the two stars in the binary
I understand how the Doppler effect actually works, I don't understand how it works on a scale of this magnitude, with one or two sources of reference and data that has been determined "scrubbable" (as in, "static noise", or data that doesn't belong in the analysis). How exactly is the speculation even tied to something worth a story?
I could never understood why America doesn't improve its cybersecurity
As someone who has had a handful of contracts by government agencies, I can tell you the problem... Visual Basic. I'm up to VB6 for most projects, but I still have one that "requires" Visual Basic 3, because all of the workstations are antiquated Windows 3.11 (for workgroups!) machines that never get replaced. When one finally dies, it gets removed/destroyed and you have one less workstation for everyone to work with. Quite frankly, I anticipate the day when these agencies have to jump from the VB/16bit era to something "modern". It will be a good payday for me.
I'm not sure what you know what DMZ means (aside from the acronym Demilitarize zone). It's a port on the firewall, that doesn't use the firewall. Straight pass through with no interference, but a route back to the local network. Sticking a machine on the DMZ, and then putting a firewall in front of it is one step removed from usefulness.
Do-Not-Track seems useless, but when the browser vendors find someone not playing nice, you may see a complete block of any accessible information from anywhere outside of the current domain of the webpage. This puts a burden on the website to funnel all computational and tracking related functions to the current domain. They can throw it to the cloud, but I can also say "Kill all connections that don't return within 20ms". This is a move, which I think is anticipating the bluff called. Good thing I have popcorn.
Well, you have IRI or AC Neilson data in which to base your search. Both come at millions of dollars per snapshot if you want 24 hours turn around. They come in CSV files. You have to aggregate it yourself too. 2 years of all collectible data for Wal-Mart and it's competitors is ~500GB-7TB for transaction data. That doesn't include inventory manipulations. Good luck.
Whoa. So you are justifying that coffee is beneficial, because you like what it does to you, and everyone else does it? We call that hypocrisy, back here in the third grade.
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The thing is, if someone grabs your debit info and pin from a keypad, someone really messed up. I spent a few minutes googling for proof of what I know, but I can't find anything right now. Essentially, when a debit transaction is processed, it should be a public/private key transaction between the system and the keypad. If the keypad system doesn't do things it shouldn't like log keystrokes or card strip information, then it is technically impossible for anyone in between to steal your information. Think of it like logging into slashdot over https. If there is javascript on the page recording what you do, the security mechanism doesn't matter.
A microwave uses a Standing Wave. It is focused and directional. Other than very minor shielding in the microwave (for safety "just because"), there is none, because there doesn't need to be any.
Honestly sir, you sound already hooked. Please get help. http://www.na.org/ is a good start.
It's no different than being hooked on crack. It "clears the cobwebs" and makes you more "observant".
Anyone reading this and taking it seriously, ADHD drugs work by exciting a slower, out of sync bit of the brain so it can speed up and coordinate (frontal lobe dysfunction and reduced capacity, with a correlation to reduced size, of the left sided pre-frontal cortex) . If you use these drugs and don't have these complications, it is speeding up a bit of your brain that was already doing fine, throwing it out of sync. This obviously isn't better. It is better like you bowling better when you have a few beers. It isn't the beers, and really, you aren't doing better. You just feel better doing it, which may attribute to being more successful when initially abusing the drug.
Additionally, making these drugs more accessible to people who don't actually have a "problem", but want a an artificial advantage to be more competitive creates additional incentive for people who already are gifted to also seek a boost of their own abilities
I see this kind of statement all over this discussion, like Aderall and Ritalin are these magic make-my-brain-work-better pills, that anyone can take. If you don't ADD/ADHD, taking these pills does NOT in anyway make you any more capable than you were before. As a matter of fact, it is a habit forming speed and taken without the proper diagnosis/ailment, is the same as someone who takes Xanax and doesn't suffer anxiety. They took it thinking it made them better, but instead became dependent and find they spiral downhill if they don't have it. Sad really.
Run XP in VMWare. You will be able to access the device, with the proper driver.
XP is a pile of insecure shit on the magnitude of mythical proportions. The thing has so many unpatched remote code execution vectors being sold everyday, that it would take a monster to bring it under control. Instead, they are going to give you no more patches! The only reason want XP is because their P4 DELL machines won't run a more recent Windows.
I have installed Windows 7 on > 100 machines. We used legit keys. Honestly, I never ever seen an activation problem. The closest to it was the one workstation without an internet connection, which was easy enough to deal with.
I didn't explain myself well, which may be the reason for replies like this. Think of the cheap wireless adapters as nothing more than a serial port. You throw a bit at it, and it throws it into the airwaves, similar to the winmodems of yesteryear. A bit comes back to it, it gets dumped to the driver, which just uses your CPU, not dedicated hardware, to do the work. The devices that support 5GHZ also support 2.4 ghz, and those cheap ARM processors can't do both, so they tend to have real hardware in place to do the heavy lifting.
2.4GHz can be done on your CPU.It might not make sense, but it makes sense.
Ok, so you have to find a god bigger than your god to smite your god, because they are unfair. The only result will be most everyone is dead. Choose you battles
The Pi doesn't HAVE to be a microcontroller. It has the pleasure of being in the same price range, being able to accomplish the same tasks, only the Pi has a familiar OS on which to build software to do the nasty. If all hammers were the same price, I'd pick the sledge hammer.
There are a lot of great games on the Mac... like Warcraft 3... um, that... that puzzle game with the Apple logo. That's a great game. I beat it but it's... it's still fun.
What version of libc? What shell? Why do I need X to install a package... I'm a linux user! Is X running in a framebuffer or hardware accelerated? Do we only have MESA installed?
Also, there is NOT only one kernel. Depending on what you are running, it may even be as drastic as 2.4.* vs 2.6.*.
Why in the FUCK would these devices be connected in ANY way, shape, or form, to the INTERNET in the first place
It is obvious to us geeks the same way it is obvious to a race car driver how to bank a turn at > 100MPH. Being that I never drove a race car and it looks so simple on TV, I might be inclined to think that the car does all of the hard stuff for me... I just turn the wheel.
Windows, 95, in your case, was a single user multimedia operating system, not a hardened Unix implementation. It was never meant to be. It was as vulnerable as DOS and Windows before it, just the way people liked it.
ActiveX libraries are DLLs that have COM classes which expose IDispatch. They have the same security as any other DLL. You can't blame THAT technology. You can, however, blame Windows Scripting and Internet Explorer to allow these DLLs to be loaded via remote and untrusted content.
Windows is run on crap you think it shouldn't because it requires little to use and develop for it. Hell, I can fire up Visual Basic, drop on HeartMonitorWidget, which fires events when X, Y, and Z happen, update a dialog/form with new information, compile and run it on any even-close-to-modern Windows OS, all in 5 minutes. There is no other operating system/development environment pair that can compete with that.
Using the Doppler technique (looking for very small changes in the velocities of the stars) astronomers detected a planet orbiting the smaller of the two stars in the binary
I understand how the Doppler effect actually works, I don't understand how it works on a scale of this magnitude, with one or two sources of reference and data that has been determined "scrubbable" (as in, "static noise", or data that doesn't belong in the analysis). How exactly is the speculation even tied to something worth a story?
I could never understood why America doesn't improve its cybersecurity
As someone who has had a handful of contracts by government agencies, I can tell you the problem... Visual Basic. I'm up to VB6 for most projects, but I still have one that "requires" Visual Basic 3, because all of the workstations are antiquated Windows 3.11 (for workgroups!) machines that never get replaced. When one finally dies, it gets removed/destroyed and you have one less workstation for everyone to work with. Quite frankly, I anticipate the day when these agencies have to jump from the VB/16bit era to something "modern". It will be a good payday for me.
I'm not sure what you know what DMZ means (aside from the acronym Demilitarize zone). It's a port on the firewall, that doesn't use the firewall. Straight pass through with no interference, but a route back to the local network. Sticking a machine on the DMZ, and then putting a firewall in front of it is one step removed from usefulness.
People don't all use Beverly Hills, CA 90210?
Do-Not-Track seems useless, but when the browser vendors find someone not playing nice, you may see a complete block of any accessible information from anywhere outside of the current domain of the webpage. This puts a burden on the website to funnel all computational and tracking related functions to the current domain. They can throw it to the cloud, but I can also say "Kill all connections that don't return within 20ms". This is a move, which I think is anticipating the bluff called. Good thing I have popcorn.
Well, you have IRI or AC Neilson data in which to base your search. Both come at millions of dollars per snapshot if you want 24 hours turn around. They come in CSV files. You have to aggregate it yourself too. 2 years of all collectible data for Wal-Mart and it's competitors is ~500GB-7TB for transaction data. That doesn't include inventory manipulations. Good luck.
David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar?
Those huge ass $1 store glasses that old women wear seem to filter out all light. Perfect solution~
Lasers and stupid people/assholes wont gp away, even with legislation. Take the teeth out of the beast and their bite is less detrimental.
Whoa. So you are justifying that coffee is beneficial, because you like what it does to you, and everyone else does it? We call that hypocrisy, back here in the third grade.