1.5 acres is a large lot of land for inside the city, however that price was for a vacant lot without a home. Breaking it down to 1/4 acre lots at $125K each is still a pricey sum for land without a home in a city of only 300,000 residents.
One of the bridges in question was probably a pointless waste of money, the other would have connected a city of 300,000 people and skyrocketing property prices to a large area of undeveloped land.
I would also like to point out that even though this may be an insignificant number to people accustomed to the over crowded cities of the lower 48, this city's population is half the population of the state. Alaska may be 2.5 times larger than Texas, however our largest population center is land locked by military bases, the Cook Inlet, and the Chugach State Park. The bridge to nowhere would reduce a two hour one way commute to just a few minutes from the currently under developed land to downtown Anchorage.
I saw a few posts that talked about the state paying Alaskans every year. The one to two grand paid by the state PFD does not provide much help to a middle income family trying to buy a home when a vacant 1.5 acre lot in Anchorage sells for about $750,000 (just went on the market a few days ago).
What, magical pixie faries fixed the Intels in Macs? How could they not be affected?
The bug may be limited to systems that use BIOS which would mean that systems that use EFI would not be vulnerable. This would explain why Intel Macs, which use EFI, are not vulnerable.
From the article:
In the mobile world, people with the Core 2 Duo T5000 and T7000 need to visit Microsoft's site, while the server guys will want to use motherboard BIOSes if they do not rely on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
case in point, banks that used images/etc to show the authenticity of the website their customers use was largely ignored
I never have understood how showing me a picture is supposed to prove a web site's authenticity. This seems highly susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks since the attacker can use the information from you to retrieve the images from the bank's site to display to you.
Showing an image seems to give a false sense of security to the end user. Would it not be better to teach people to take SSL certs seriously and to verify the cert matches the site the user thinks they should be accessing?
The car uses the same algorithm to determine the next number which is how the car knows the next 256 numbers the key fob will send. When it receives a valid number it calculates the next 256 numbers from the most recently sent key.
So in theory you could cause your key fob to stop working if you press the button 256 times without being near the car since the number it would send would not be in the valid list of 256 numbers known by the car.
BTW, I do not know if all cars match up to 256 numbers from the key fob, I got the number from HowStuffWorks.
Or maybe it is as simple as the key itself starts transmitting when it hears the noise.
My understanding is that key fobs are not programmed with a single number, but rather a number and an algorithm. The car is then programmed with the number and the same algorithm. The key fob sends the current number when a button is pushed and generates the next number with the algorithm. The car itself listens for either the current number or one of the next 256 numbers, if one of the numbers is transmitted it will respond to the request. HowStuffWorks explains it pretty well.
My Harley's security system will not allow the motorcycle to be started unless the key fob is within a about three feet of it or the security code has been entered. The Harley itself transmits a very weak signal. When the key is in range of the signal, it transmits back to the motorcycle the 'Ok' signal. The downside of this system is that placing the motorcycle keys within a few inches of a cell phone or running computer will result in the key draining its battery trying to "talk" to the motorcycle.
The article does not mention that the cell phones reprogram the keys, but rather changes the number in the keys. It could be possible that when placed next to cell phones the keys start transmitting the auth number continuously thus generating a number that is past the 256th number allowed by the car.
But unless Morano's "more to come" has another 10,990 scientists on it, his "converts" are still nothing compared to the number of scientists who DO buy the global warming argument.
I am not sure that the 10,990 most outspoken computer scientists on/. make creditable sources in the global warming debate unless the new supposed cause is the excess heat from data centers.
The only shows I watch now are Comedy Central's political satires. 8 shows per week. $16 dollars per week. $64/month.
If you are talking about shows like the Colbert Report and The Daily Show, you can get a multi pass of 16 shows for $9.99 or roughly $0.63 per show. This would only cost you about $20/month for your two shows.
Granted they could probably just have a system where the bank has a password that they have to tell you, so that you can verify that you are actually talking to the bank.
That is a good idea. I am planning my man-in-the-middle phishing scam as we speak just in case Banks (or another other telecommunication accessed services) adopt this security measure.
Seriously, this would not work since all the phisher has to do is dial the bank's real number and act as a proxy for you and your bank. Once they start proxing the data between you and the bank they could still record the information. A better idea would be to use TLS/SSL and signed certs in the exchange between your phone and the bank's IVR system much like the visiting HTTPS sites.
The way it works in the movies is the way it should work. Log in, type "find Kyoto meeting minutes", a bunch of matrix-ish characters scroll across the screen, and there it is.
I guess you don't use OS X. Apple aready has this feature, it is called Spotlight. Commnad-Space <saerch term> and OS X will provide a list of matching files based on Meta data and file contents. Okay, it is missing the matrix style characters, but it is close.
IT would be neat if it used the same connection as the iPod
How about using a standard mini USB cable like the Motorola RAZR and KRAZR. My card reader, external HD, and phone all currently use the same cable and draw power/charge from the USB port. Although I think our ideas of carrying less cables are in the same vein as each other, I would like to see the use of non-proprietary cables with Apple's phone.
Otherwise, why wouldn't a dual CPU workstation class system with dual core CPUs be considered 4x4?
Actually, I think that was the point of the grandparent's post. The name 4x4 to those unfamiliar with the term in the context of motherboards is misleading. I thought the name referred to a quad core chip in a quad chip configuration. The grandparent's question and a few of the other comments I read implies I am not the only one to make this mistake. To the uninitiated a dual CPU workstation with dual cores would be a 2x2 using the nomenclature of offroading enthusiasts. When talking about chip configurations with multi cores it is not obvious that the term 4x4 would be talking about the ratio of cores to video cards.
Actually it IS a theory because there is no evedience to support it. By definition a theory is simply a conjecture. A good theory logically explains a phenomenon.
Some unlucky sod would have to go back in time to prove the theory. However if the theory was proved to be correct, it would be fact.
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(For one: Except for capital letters I've never had to press two buttons at once, ever......hitting the control button requires shifting your hand in an akward position wheras:w you don't have to move whatsoever
On my keyboard I have to hit both the shift key and the ':' key in order to type a ':' character otherwise I just type a ';' character.
So instead of a simple ctrl+key in other editors, you must now type ESC shift+':' 'w' in order to save the file. It looks to me that in vi you type four key strokes and two have to be pressed at the same time whereas emacs which is just ctrl+key is two key strokes less.
I really like vi for the features it provides, however less key strokes is not necessarily one of the selling points.
Except that the line of code in question was/is not using a variable, but a function call. The way the code was written it was comparing a pointer to the function not the return value of the function.
Although most of the time function pointers are not used, there are still legit purposes for them such as when using qsort(). In the case of qsort(), the function pointer points to a function that will compare two data blocks to determine which comes first in a sorted list.
She turned you into a newt, but we can understand your confusion. Being transformed into another creature would be a traumatic experience for any of us.
I have not read the article, but I am assuming that the remote used is the apple remote that comes with the laptop for use with iTunes, DVD, etc. If this is the case, wouldn't I be able to unlock your laptop with my apple remote?
Although the idea of having a laptop alarm might be cool, wouldn't it be better if the arming and disarming was triggered by the screensaver (with the option checked to require password when waking or returning from screensaver) instead of a commonly available remote?
It probably will not convince the masses to stop praying, but maybe it will convince a few more to start praying.
FTA:
However, six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT.
Seems to me that the summary is a little misleading, I would consider a lower mortality rate after six months to be a significant "help" to the patient.
..don't give the U.S. government any ideas. Not that they seem to feel like they need congressional approval now, for that matter.
I am slightly confused, did I misunderstand my government and econmics class in high school or did you? I could have sworn that Congress was a part of the U.S. government. You basically said that the government does not need governement oversight.
Maybe you really meant this:
...don't give the Executive branch of the U.S. government any ideas. Not that they seem to feel like they need congressional approval now, for that matter.
Just to be clear, the U.S. Government is made up of three branches. They are the Executive, the Legislative (Congress), and the Judicial branches. Each branch is a part of the government. No single branch IS the government (regardless of what a certain administration thinks).
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1.5 acres is a large lot of land for inside the city, however that price was for a vacant lot without a home. Breaking it down to 1/4 acre lots at $125K each is still a pricey sum for land without a home in a city of only 300,000 residents.
One of the bridges in question was probably a pointless waste of money, the other would have connected a city of 300,000 people and skyrocketing property prices to a large area of undeveloped land.
I would also like to point out that even though this may be an insignificant number to people accustomed to the over crowded cities of the lower 48, this city's population is half the population of the state. Alaska may be 2.5 times larger than Texas, however our largest population center is land locked by military bases, the Cook Inlet, and the Chugach State Park. The bridge to nowhere would reduce a two hour one way commute to just a few minutes from the currently under developed land to downtown Anchorage.
I saw a few posts that talked about the state paying Alaskans every year. The one to two grand paid by the state PFD does not provide much help to a middle income family trying to buy a home when a vacant 1.5 acre lot in Anchorage sells for about $750,000 (just went on the market a few days ago).
What, magical pixie faries fixed the Intels in Macs? How could they not be affected?
The bug may be limited to systems that use BIOS which would mean that systems that use EFI would not be vulnerable. This would explain why Intel Macs, which use EFI, are not vulnerable.
From the article:
In the mobile world, people with the Core 2 Duo T5000 and T7000 need to visit Microsoft's site, while the server guys will want to use motherboard BIOSes if they do not rely on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
case in point, banks that used images/etc to show the authenticity of the website their customers use was largely ignored
I never have understood how showing me a picture is supposed to prove a web site's authenticity. This seems highly susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks since the attacker can use the information from you to retrieve the images from the bank's site to display to you.
Showing an image seems to give a false sense of security to the end user. Would it not be better to teach people to take SSL certs seriously and to verify the cert matches the site the user thinks they should be accessing?
The car uses the same algorithm to determine the next number which is how the car knows the next 256 numbers the key fob will send. When it receives a valid number it calculates the next 256 numbers from the most recently sent key.
So in theory you could cause your key fob to stop working if you press the button 256 times without being near the car since the number it would send would not be in the valid list of 256 numbers known by the car.
BTW, I do not know if all cars match up to 256 numbers from the key fob, I got the number from HowStuffWorks.
Or maybe it is as simple as the key itself starts transmitting when it hears the noise.
My understanding is that key fobs are not programmed with a single number, but rather a number and an algorithm. The car is then programmed with the number and the same algorithm. The key fob sends the current number when a button is pushed and generates the next number with the algorithm. The car itself listens for either the current number or one of the next 256 numbers, if one of the numbers is transmitted it will respond to the request. HowStuffWorks explains it pretty well.
My Harley's security system will not allow the motorcycle to be started unless the key fob is within a about three feet of it or the security code has been entered. The Harley itself transmits a very weak signal. When the key is in range of the signal, it transmits back to the motorcycle the 'Ok' signal. The downside of this system is that placing the motorcycle keys within a few inches of a cell phone or running computer will result in the key draining its battery trying to "talk" to the motorcycle.
The article does not mention that the cell phones reprogram the keys, but rather changes the number in the keys. It could be possible that when placed next to cell phones the keys start transmitting the auth number continuously thus generating a number that is past the 256th number allowed by the car.
Where can you buy a tiny asian woman? I've been in the market to find one for a while now.
But unless Morano's "more to come" has another 10,990 scientists on it, his "converts" are still nothing compared to the number of scientists who DO buy the global warming argument.
/. make creditable sources in the global warming debate unless the new supposed cause is the excess heat from data centers.
I am not sure that the 10,990 most outspoken computer scientists on
The only shows I watch now are Comedy Central's political satires. 8 shows per week. $16 dollars per week. $64/month.
If you are talking about shows like the Colbert Report and The Daily Show, you can get a multi pass of 16 shows for $9.99 or roughly $0.63 per show. This would only cost you about $20/month for your two shows.
Granted they could probably just have a system where the bank has a password that they have to tell you, so that you can verify that you are actually talking to the bank.
That is a good idea. I am planning my man-in-the-middle phishing scam as we speak just in case Banks (or another other telecommunication accessed services) adopt this security measure.
Seriously, this would not work since all the phisher has to do is dial the bank's real number and act as a proxy for you and your bank. Once they start proxing the data between you and the bank they could still record the information. A better idea would be to use TLS/SSL and signed certs in the exchange between your phone and the bank's IVR system much like the visiting HTTPS sites.
In certain situations, no amount of military might can force peace.
I saw an interesting piece of graffiti when I was in high school that read:
Fighting for peace is like f***ing for celibacy
The way it works in the movies is the way it should work. Log in, type "find Kyoto meeting minutes", a bunch of matrix-ish characters scroll across the screen, and there it is.
I guess you don't use OS X. Apple aready has this feature, it is called Spotlight. Commnad-Space <saerch term> and OS X will provide a list of matching files based on Meta data and file contents. Okay, it is missing the matrix style characters, but it is close.
This shows a tendency to be listed first:& btnG=Searchi l&btnG=Searchn G=Searchh opping&btnG=Searchm essaging&btnG=Search
r tising&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=calendar
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=free+ema
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=email&bt
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=online+s
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=instant+
This is the only search I could find with google adds in which they were not listed first:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=web+adve
I agree with you whole heartedly. My first thoughts were why silly string? Why not a spool of kite string or neon fishing line?
IT would be neat if it used the same connection as the iPod
How about using a standard mini USB cable like the Motorola RAZR and KRAZR. My card reader, external HD, and phone all currently use the same cable and draw power/charge from the USB port. Although I think our ideas of carrying less cables are in the same vein as each other, I would like to see the use of non-proprietary cables with Apple's phone.
Same on 10.4.8. The description could also be read that the pointer points to another pointer, but that still causes a segfault.
Otherwise, why wouldn't a dual CPU workstation class system with dual core CPUs be considered 4x4?
Actually, I think that was the point of the grandparent's post. The name 4x4 to those unfamiliar with the term in the context of motherboards is misleading. I thought the name referred to a quad core chip in a quad chip configuration. The grandparent's question and a few of the other comments I read implies I am not the only one to make this mistake. To the uninitiated a dual CPU workstation with dual cores would be a 2x2 using the nomenclature of offroading enthusiasts. When talking about chip configurations with multi cores it is not obvious that the term 4x4 would be talking about the ratio of cores to video cards.
Now we can be watched by a smiling woman.
I know, let's call her Big Sister!
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it though..
How about "Sizable Sister" or "Senior Sister" depending on your interpretation of Big.
Like any good theory we need evidence.
Actually it IS a theory because there is no evedience to support it. By definition a theory is simply a conjecture. A good theory logically explains a phenomenon.
Some unlucky sod would have to go back in time to prove the theory. However if the theory was proved to be correct, it would be fact.
(For one: Except for capital letters I've never had to press two buttons at once, ever ... ...hitting the control button requires shifting your hand in an akward position wheras :w you don't have to move whatsoever
On my keyboard I have to hit both the shift key and the ':' key in order to type a ':' character otherwise I just type a ';' character.
So instead of a simple ctrl+key in other editors, you must now type ESC shift+':' 'w' in order to save the file. It looks to me that in vi you type four key strokes and two have to be pressed at the same time whereas emacs which is just ctrl+key is two key strokes less.
I really like vi for the features it provides, however less key strokes is not necessarily one of the selling points.
Except that the line of code in question was/is not using a variable, but a function call. The way the code was written it was comparing a pointer to the function not the return value of the function.
Although most of the time function pointers are not used, there are still legit purposes for them such as when using qsort(). In the case of qsort(), the function pointer points to a function that will compare two data blocks to determine which comes first in a sorted list.
She turned you into a newt, but we can understand your confusion. Being transformed into another creature would be a traumatic experience for any of us.
I have not read the article, but I am assuming that the remote used is the apple remote that comes with the laptop for use with iTunes, DVD, etc. If this is the case, wouldn't I be able to unlock your laptop with my apple remote?
Although the idea of having a laptop alarm might be cool, wouldn't it be better if the arming and disarming was triggered by the screensaver (with the option checked to require password when waking or returning from screensaver) instead of a commonly available remote?
It probably will not convince the masses to stop praying, but maybe it will convince a few more to start praying.
FTA:
However, six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT.
Seems to me that the summary is a little misleading, I would consider a lower mortality rate after six months to be a significant "help" to the patient.
..don't give the U.S. government any ideas. Not that they seem to feel like they need congressional approval now, for that matter.
...don't give the Executive branch of the U.S. government any ideas. Not that they seem to feel like they need congressional approval now, for that matter.
I am slightly confused, did I misunderstand my government and econmics class in high school or did you? I could have sworn that Congress was a part of the U.S. government. You basically said that the government does not need governement oversight.
Maybe you really meant this:
Just to be clear, the U.S. Government is made up of three branches. They are the Executive, the Legislative (Congress), and the Judicial branches. Each branch is a part of the government. No single branch IS the government (regardless of what a certain administration thinks).