Just this morning I received my first phishing email containing a TinyURL (quoted below). Even my mom is pretty good at suspecting domains like www.citiba-n-k.com, but how am I supposed to get her to beware of a generic TinyURL when she is used to getting legitimate ones from friends and family?
Of note, the preview indicates that this particular TinyURL has already been discontinued for a TOS violation (probably the one against spamming/phishing).
Online Banking
Dear Regions Bank member,
We'd like to inform you that your Message Center has 1 new message. Please log in immediately and read the message. The Message Center contains only important information about your account and online banking.
Please follow this link in order to read your message:
http://tinyurl.com/xxxxxx
Choosing to ignore this message will result in a temporary suspension of your account within 24 hours, until you will choose to solve this unpleasant situation.
Agreed. Loudness is a subjective, relative quantity, while sound pressure level (which determines hearing damage) is an absolute. In a noisy environment, a given setting may not seem loud at all, while in reality the SPL is quite high.
It is also worth noting that hearing damage is a function of both sound level (SPL) as well as exposure time -- a noise "dose". Turning up your favorite song to rock out for a few minutes may not harm your hearing in the least. Leaving the volume up for hours at a time, however, can be damaging, even at seemingly innocuous levels.
For instance, OSHA limits worker noise exposure based on exposure time - 85 dB(A) is the limit for an 8-hour day, but much higher levels are allowed if exposure is shorter.
Baby, what you want, it's the way she move [Baby, feel what you want]
Feel what you need, come on let's go [Baby, feel what you need]
Cover you in oil
I wanna cover you in oil [Let me cover you in oil]
Let me cover you in oil [I wanna cover you in oil]
Cover you in oil [Let me cover you in oil]
[Yeah]
In fact, it isn't even being tested this month. From today's print edition of AM New York:
DEAD WRONG!
METRO'S MTA ERROR
The New York edition of Metro was off-track with a story it published yesterday about New York City Transit's plans to launch a computerized system to control subway trains on the L-line. "The story, especially as it was presented in Metro, was inaccurate," NYCT Vice President Paul Fleuranges told amNewYork. "It made it seem like the communications-based train control system was ready to run, but we haven't even started testing."
Fleuranges took issue with Metro's headline: "Robotrains ready to roll; Upgraded,
computer-operated L trains take to the MTA's rails this month."
"It won't be this month," Fleuranges said. "It might not even be next month. It could be June before we start running in shadow mode." Metro was the only citywide daily in New York to run the fallacious story in its print edition.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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"As part of the effort to protect intellectual property rights..."
I'd like to see the US government crack down on piracy of Microsoft products by confiscating ALL copies off the shelves and holding "the publishers, producers and distributors... accountable".
At home, I am not nearly as worried about "Big Brother" as I am my actual big brother. Therefore my first line of defense is a "No Big Brothers Allowed" sign on my bedroom door, with some skulls-and-crossbones for added effect.
will be a price reduction on the now-deprecated music-only iPod. Imagine that, a mono-functional portable device!
Not to mention, now that the annoying white-headphone yuppie assholes on the subway will have a new top-of-the-line useless gadget to run out and by, I might actually feel comfortably inconspicuous owning an original iPod.
Nothing says "I have disposable income and little common sense" like flaunting a USB drive around your neck. This is up there with strapping your IPod to your arm, like the white headphones aren't a bad enough giveaway. Maybe it's the new yorker in me, but I prefer to keep my consumer electronics discreetly out of sight, thank you.
Actually, it is now trivial to unlock an iPod by dragging a BIC around the touch wheel... you just have to jiggle it in the right way for a while, and pop, it comes unlocked.
The NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) last year began tracking NYC 'dead spots' for all major carriers in the city. COmplaints can be made on the web or by dialing 311. Initial results are available at nyc.gov.
Yeah, the movie had it all wrong. It's not the military computers and software that will become self-aware and cause armageddon -- it's the network of unsolicited bulk e-mail drones. (Are we not capitalists?)
It's true -- most active noise cancellation schema have both a source transducer and a feedback transducer.
For instance, most active systems for reducing ductborne HVAC noise (a prime candidate, since in-duct fan noise is transmitted via a controlled, conduit, and the noise comprises fairly constant, discrete frequency characteristics) include a mic downstream of the cancellation "speaker". Feedback from this mic is used along with the source signal to improve the performance of the system as a whole.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a pet peeve of acousticians everywhere.
Sound and vibration are DAMPED.
DAMPENING is for dishtowels.
"Slashdot has added a story to your Facebook profile."
Actually, who am I kidding... even the zombie cockroaches could probably do a number on us these days.
Just this morning I received my first phishing email containing a TinyURL (quoted below). Even my mom is pretty good at suspecting domains like www.citiba-n-k.com, but how am I supposed to get her to beware of a generic TinyURL when she is used to getting legitimate ones from friends and family?
Of note, the preview indicates that this particular TinyURL has already been discontinued for a TOS violation (probably the one against spamming/phishing).
This may require some extra care in using today's less-lethal weapons.... lest the tazer become the tazee!
Agreed. Loudness is a subjective, relative quantity, while sound pressure level (which determines hearing damage) is an absolute. In a noisy environment, a given setting may not seem loud at all, while in reality the SPL is quite high. It is also worth noting that hearing damage is a function of both sound level (SPL) as well as exposure time -- a noise "dose". Turning up your favorite song to rock out for a few minutes may not harm your hearing in the least. Leaving the volume up for hours at a time, however, can be damaging, even at seemingly innocuous levels. For instance, OSHA limits worker noise exposure based on exposure time - 85 dB(A) is the limit for an 8-hour day, but much higher levels are allowed if exposure is shorter.
Perhaps a software add-in that alerts the user to unsafe volumes by broadcasting a piercing alarm through the headphones?
> Funny thing is, I dont believe sleep was even introduced into the
> study. They had people work on puzzles while mulling over a decision.
I will need to remember this the next time I get in trouble for playing solitaire at work.
Baby, what you want, it's the way she move [Baby, feel what you want] Feel what you need, come on let's go [Baby, feel what you need] Cover you in oil I wanna cover you in oil [Let me cover you in oil] Let me cover you in oil [I wanna cover you in oil] Cover you in oil [Let me cover you in oil] [Yeah]
Fascinating. ----- Ut Tensio, Sic Vis
I'd like to see the US government crack down on piracy of Microsoft products by confiscating ALL copies off the shelves and holding "the publishers, producers and distributors ... accountable".
But that's just me.
At home, I am not nearly as worried about "Big Brother" as I am my actual big brother. Therefore my first line of defense is a "No Big Brothers Allowed" sign on my bedroom door, with some skulls-and-crossbones for added effect.
And thus, the student overtakes the master.
will be a price reduction on the now-deprecated music-only iPod. Imagine that, a mono-functional portable device! Not to mention, now that the annoying white-headphone yuppie assholes on the subway will have a new top-of-the-line useless gadget to run out and by, I might actually feel comfortably inconspicuous owning an original iPod.
Nothing says "I have disposable income and little common sense" like flaunting a USB drive around your neck. This is up there with strapping your IPod to your arm, like the white headphones aren't a bad enough giveaway. Maybe it's the new yorker in me, but I prefer to keep my consumer electronics discreetly out of sight, thank you.
Actually, it is now trivial to unlock an iPod by dragging a BIC around the touch wheel... you just have to jiggle it in the right way for a while, and pop, it comes unlocked.
The NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) last year began tracking NYC 'dead spots' for all major carriers in the city. COmplaints can be made on the web or by dialing 311. Initial results are available at nyc.gov.
Yeah, the movie had it all wrong. It's not the military computers and software that will become self-aware and cause armageddon -- it's the network of unsolicited bulk e-mail drones. (Are we not capitalists?)
It's true -- most active noise cancellation schema have both a source transducer and a feedback transducer. For instance, most active systems for reducing ductborne HVAC noise (a prime candidate, since in-duct fan noise is transmitted via a controlled, conduit, and the noise comprises fairly constant, discrete frequency characteristics) include a mic downstream of the cancellation "speaker". Feedback from this mic is used along with the source signal to improve the performance of the system as a whole.