I don’t shop online, because I don’t own a computer. My belief is they haven’t completed inventing computers yet. Why? Because they don’t work. If they worked, not every business in the world would have a department to fix them. They don’t have a department to fix pencils. - Fran Lebowitz
Some time ago (when I almost had time to do such things) I calculated the dose one receives from the average banana. Here's how it goes:
On page 620 of the CRD Handbook on Rad Measurement and Protection, the concentration of K-40 in a "Reference Banana" is listed as 3520 picocuries per kilogram of banana. For those of us who are stuck in certain unit ruts, this is equivalent to 3.52E-6 microcuries of K-40 per gram of banana.
An average "Reference" banana weighs (masses) about 150 grams (I think.) So, the ICRP Reference Banana contains about 5.28E-4 microcuries of probably deadly K-40.
Federal Guidance Report #11 lists the ingestion dose (committed effective dose equivalent) for K-40 as 5.02E-9 Sv/Bq or (again, for those of us who are "unit-challenged," 1.86E-2 rem per microcurie ingested.)
Thus, the CEDE from ingestion of a Reference Banana is 5.28E-4 x 1.86E-2 = 9.82E-6 rem or about 0.01 millirem.
I have found this "Banana Equivalent Dose" very useful in attempting to explain infinitesmal doses (and corresponding infinitesmal risks) to members of the public. (Interestingly, the anti-nukes just HATE this, and severely critisize us for using such a deceptive concept.)
Would love to go into more detail, but have to get back to our DEADLY Human Radiation Experiments (i.e., eating bananas.)
The same table in the CRC Handbook lists 3400 pCi/kg for white potatoes and 4450 pCi/kg for sweet potatoes - so you could carry through the same sort of calculation for Reference Potatoes. Interestingly, raw lima beans come in at 4640 pCi/kg, "dry, sweet" coconut comes in at 6400 pCi/kg, and raw spinach
(yum!) comes in at 6500 pCi/kg.
Considering the fact that the DOE has officially stated that "there is no safe dose of radiation" my advice to you all is to stop eating immediately.
Oh yes! Almost forgot. Regarding K-40, go into your local grocery store, buy some salt-substitute (there are two common brands, and the one in the white and orange labeled container works best) spread some out on a table and check it out with a GM survey instrument. There it is folks, deadly radioactivity in your grocery store!
Yours for healthful diets . ..
Captain Internal Dosimetry
aka Gary Mansfield, LLNL, (mansfield2@llnl.gov)
Disclaimer:
Neither Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, nor the Department of Energy recommends eating bananas.
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The point of course, is to make people realize that the notion that "there is no safe dose of radiation" isn't necessarily correct. Your granite countertops have trace particles of uranium in them. The Capital Building in Washington DC has so much granite in it that it wouldn't be qualified as a nuclear facility because it already emits too much radiation. We consume radiation all of the time from a variety of sources and our bodies rid themselves of it naturally.
It is their product, if you didn't pay for it I don't see how you can complain that they aren't going to support you or allow you to continue using it. If you want software to be free that much, use Linux and stop complaining.
What if I did pay for it and I don't want the WGA software installed? I'm not allowed to use the sofware I PAID FOR because I don't want to add on to it? That's like selling me a car and telling me that if I refuse to put a spoiler on the back that I won't be allowed to drive it.
Bush had to have said this to get a laugh. If he pulled it off and got a laugh, I'm honestly surprised. Not because I don't think it is funny - it is. I'm just really surprised to hear something so witty from the man that gave us these gems:
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." --George W. Bush, Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005
"Wow! Brazil is big." --George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
"I can only speak to myself." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Trust me..... No Surround system I have EVER seen will simulate the experience of standing next to/behind/infront of/below a M60 when that sucker goes off.
No doubt.
There's still nothing on a computer that can simulate the SMELL of a recently discharged weapon either...
What computers cannot teach however, is the NOISE and physical presence of a firefight.
Sure they can - I witness this all the time. I have my super-amped stereo system belting out the sounds of laser blasters, rocket launchers, grenades, and machine guns, and inevitably this evolves into a situation that can be somewhat adequately described as a "firefight" when my wife comes in the room throwing things at me in an effort to silence my combat simulations.
For example, you might get a year for lighting someones lawn on fire. This act, even if it was designed to intimidate the homeowner because you hate them, might still only get you a year. BUT, if you light the fire in the shape of a swastika, you are likely to get 6 years. This means that you will spend 5 years in prision not because you destroyed their property, you threatened them, or even because you hate them. You will spend 5 years in prison because of your beliefs. Because of your "thoughts".
Hate crime leglislation might have had some good intentions, but it's very bad in practice. EVERY violent crime is a hate crime. If someone beats the crap out of you, they might not "hate" you, but chances are they don't like you very much. If someone beats the crap out of you because you're gay, it doesn't matter WHY they don't like you - the end result is you got beaten up.
IMHO, there should be no difference between a violent crime and a "hate" crime under the law. Why are we so intent on punishing the intention and not on punishing the action? If Joe the mass murderer kills 16 people, the courts should not care WHY he did it - they should deal with the fact that he did and punish him accordingly.
All the people I know who would fall into a category that would be specifically "protected" by hate-crime leglislation agree with me on this one too. They don't want any more "protection" than any other citizen gets - they just want to be treated (and "protected") the same as everyone else.
The minute you start dealing with people differently because of some aspect of their being (like skin color, religious preference, sexual preference, etc) is the same minute you start (consciously or unconsciously) segregating them from the rest of society, and that becomes a dangerous slope to start sliding down.
Most of this stuff is moving to China as fast as humanly possible.
R&D and (b)leading-edge manufacturing is still in Taiwan, but moving at lightning speed to China ASAP.
As I recall: Employees cost roughly 1/3 the price of an American worker. Employees in China cost roughly 1/4 the price of a Taiwanese worker.
Is my recollection still true?
I believe that is the case, but remember that these companies still want to be able to still sell their product to U.S. companies (like the big three auto manufacturers for instance), so having plants inside the U.S. is still in their best interests, as if it's manufactured in the U.S. for use in the U.S., they don't have to pay the high tariffs on the import of them from China/Taiwan/Japan/Vietnam/etc.
The point of a cert is the same as a degree - it demonstrates to a complete stranger that one posesses a certain skillset and dedication.
The point of a college degree is not to demonstrate to anyone that you possess a certain skillset; it simply demonstrates that you have a certain amount of dedication. That's why "true" 4 year degrees from accredited institutions are worth more than condensed "equivalents" from places like University of Phoenix or some correspondence courses. I know plenty of people without a college degree that posess all the skills they need to do their highly technical jobs, and I also know plenty of college grads that don't know jack. The college degree proves that you:
- Have dedicated yourself to something for an extended period of time (and are therefore somewhat dependable). - Can handle being tested on knowledge that you were supposed to learn during the time you dedicated yourself to something (NOT that you know it, but are comfortable being tested on it).
Both of those would hold true whether your degree is from Yale or Heald, but in this example, the Yale one would hold more weight because their workload is considered to be harder, and it's a four year undertaking (at least) compared to a two year one. Thus a certification isn't worth as much as a college degree(obviously), but has value nonetheless because if you have one, a potential employer knows that you are at least qualified enough to pass a test on the subject matter. It should not prove to anyone that you are dedicated or that you actually know the material (with a few possible exceptions, like the CCIE), because all you really did was pass a test.
I suspect that the majority of people who buy a wi-fi router in the next five years will still not bother to even change the default admin password.
Or take any other measures to secure the device for that matter, like preventing access to unknown MACs, limiting usage to certain times of the day, not broadcasting the SSID, etc, etc...
This is one of those cases where some of the people that want devices like these have absolutely no idea how to use them correctly. To me, it's like handing the keys to a Ferrari to a 12 year old. ALL of my neighbors have open access points, so whenever people come over to my house with wireless equipment, I don't even bother to modify my network to let them in - I just tell them to sit by a window and inevitably they get all the bandwidth they need.
Intel is developing a new technology that could prevent unauthorized access to wireless networks using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the access point to the Wi-Fi user.
I think this is supposed to read "using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the Wi-Fi user to the access point. I have no idea how an access point would be able to monitor how long it took for its packets to make it to the clients...
And how do you watch an R-rated movie with the kids running around the house? Tell them it's a scary movie and to stay out of the room? I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but all I have to say is that we're watching a Hugh Grant movie and my kids run for the hills...:)
So when my boss says I'll get a raise "soon", then he too, must be thinking in geologic terms. That would certainly explain a lot - I just thought he didn't want to give me a raise; I didn't consider that we might be using two different timelines...:)
On a behavioural level such intelligence could also flag up 'one to watch' - for example a player laying $5 bets while sitting with $100,000 of chips in his or her pocket. This is certainly no cause for concern in its own right but such behaviour would in the past have caught notorious card counters waiting for the odds to fall in their favour or getting their eye in and honing a system.
While I will agree with the casinos' rights as a business to ask ANYONE to leave their casino for whatever reason, I just want to point out to everyone that card counting is NOT cheating and that people who in engage in card counting are simply using the casino rules and game's strategy to their best advantage. Both Las Vegas and Reno gambling laws state that cheating is defined as manipulating the rules of the game, or using devices to get around the rules of the game, not using the rules to your advantage, thus card counting is not illegal according to Nevada state laws (and many, if not all other state laws as well).
I haven't read this anywhere, but from the start I was wondering why Cisco would think they had legal grounds to sue this guy, and then it occurred to me that since he worked for ISS, who works closely with Cisco and lots of other technology companies, that it stood to reason that ISS might have been given access to trade secrets about Cisco stuff that the public is not. If they did, maybe Lynn signed a confidentiality agreement with ISS to not divulge such information, hence the reason he quit so he could give the speech. Maybe Lynn thought he wouldn't be bound by such an NDA (if it even existed) if he quit ISS.
If that's the case, Cisco might not have been morally justified in going after him, but they might have had legal justification since Lynn, as an ISS employee, would have been one that had access to the confidential information.
Isn't "scripted AI" a contradiction in terms? Can't we start using more correct jargon
when referring to computer controlled enemies/allies until AI is finally perfected?
How about this:
Artificial, Non-Intelligent Matrix Associated To Individual Object Nodes
"You can't be serious. Securing your machines is only worth $100?
Keep in mind that the OP works for a university, which probably doesn't have a budget outside of what they already spent on their software firewall. It doesn't mean that security isn't important to him, just that there's probably not an existing budget for it.
The OP is looking for a cheap and innovative way to secure his university network's servers - and I can't think of a better place to ask the question than here.
I say let the FOSS community answer his question and provide him a solution to his unique problem in the way that they know best and leave the "isn't this worth more than $XXX?" questions to the salesman.
California actually passes the "burden" onto the seller (I have a California reseller license, so I had to agree to these terms when I got the license), and the sellers have the "option" of passing the cost onto the consumer (more like the responsibility to collect this from the consumer).
But in the end it's the seller that has to pay the State for this cost; whether they collect the fee from their consumers is up to them.
Also, effective July 1, 2005, LCDs and Plasma TVs are included; in the past it was just CRTs.
You need more power. Otherwise you will fail in your job ( unless you take to violence ). Students need to be kicked off the network until their computers are clean. If they are kicked off x times, they are off until they come to you and sign a form saying they understand how to keep their computer clean. y more time(s), they are off for the rest of the semester. Simple, effective. You will need a couple decent switchs capable of shuting down ports ( or you could just yank the wire ). If you don't have this level of power over the network, get rid of any access you do have. The higher ups only want a scape goat.
I couldn't agree with you more about the idea, but the main thing he needs is backing from the providers of the service (the same ones that collect the rent money), in the form of a written policy. You can't kick people off of a network they're paying for unless you have it in writing that those are the consequences of an infected PC on the network., even though it's unfair to those with uninfected PCs.
As far as a technical solution goes, I wouldn't make it a manual process at all if I were you - consider investing in an IDS (intrustion detection system) type of product that will automatically deactivate ports on the network from possible offenders. Then you only have to manage the IDS, and it's not "you" that's removing their access, it's the IDS (and it's automatic). Cisco's IDS product is a very good, albeit expensive, solution that is fairly straightforward in installation and very easy to manage...
The fact that C3PO was MADE my Anakin still goes on as unexplained with regards to why Vader didn't acknowledge anything regarding him. The closest the two came was on Empire Strikes Back in Cloud City where Solo was being frozen in carbonite. Admittedly he wasn't in one whole piece at the time but still...
Oh yeah.:) It is cheesy at best, but I guess you could explain that away in a couple of ways:
1) Anakin made him but never finished him, so when he saw the broken one in Cloud City, it didn't occur to him that it was the same droid. The voice matched though, so that probably should have clued him in, unless of course you infer that he didn't hear Threepio speak.
2) He was so interested in the happenings of the Carbonite Chamber (will Han die and this is useless for Luke? Will he live and I've got a nice way to transport Luke to the Emporer?) that he noticed something familiar but didn't care.
That "murders an entire community of sand people" bit was the transition, IMO. It just happened offscreen with no real preamble in the story.
I was talking more about the transformation to someone who wasn't so insecure (which he still was when he slaughtered the sand people, and after when he was explaining it). Darth Vader was a cool, collected, leader who inspired his followers through fear and didn't fly off the handle at anyone. It's a maturity thing I guess, and it would be really cool to see Hayden portray that change onscreen. Maybe it doesn't happen until he actually gets his ass handed to him by Obi-Wan, but either way it would be nice to see it happen onscreen. I think Hayden is capable of doing it (in "Life as a House" his acting was actually impressive).
Sure, it's great to see where Anakin comes from, but admit it -- what you really want is to see him kill children.
That's funny. On a serious note though, what I really want to see is Hayden actually make the distinct transformation from "whiny teenager jedi" to "cool headed evil dark sith master". Like Luke did in ROTJ, but with even more of a noticable transformation. But seeing Vader kill lots of people is gonna be really cool too...MWAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA...:)
Warning - this is a spoiler. Don't read the italics if you really don't want to know what happens:
At flick's end, Threepio and Artoo are given to Captain Antilles (with the caveat that the Protocol's memory be wiped).
Count me as one fan that's really glad that this little detail was included - I was wondering how they were going to deal with Threepio and R2D2 not recognizing Obi-Wan and others they had met in the prequels. Kind of makes Obi's reaction to seeing the droids in EP4 seem a little more mysterious too, even though that probably wasn't the intention when EP4 was shot ("I don't recall owning any droids").
What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by Open Source?
Offer to support both platforms to save them money. For example, you could propose to install OO on the majority of the desktops, and they can only buy MS licenses for people who have problems with OO for whatever reason. Management likes choices...:)
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I don’t shop online, because I don’t own a computer. My belief is they haven’t completed inventing computers yet. Why? Because they don’t work. If they worked, not every business in the world would have a department to fix them. They don’t have a department to fix pencils. - Fran Lebowitz
From http://health.phys.iit.edu/extended_archive/9503/msg00074.html:
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re: The Radiation Dose from a "Reference Banana."
Some time ago (when I almost had time to do such things) I calculated the dose one receives from the average banana. Here's how it goes:
On page 620 of the CRD Handbook on Rad Measurement and Protection, the concentration of K-40 in a "Reference Banana" is listed as 3520 picocuries per kilogram of banana. For those of us who are stuck in certain unit ruts, this is equivalent to 3.52E-6 microcuries of K-40 per gram of banana.
An average "Reference" banana weighs (masses) about 150 grams (I think.) So, the ICRP Reference Banana contains about 5.28E-4 microcuries of probably deadly K-40.
Federal Guidance Report #11 lists the ingestion dose (committed effective dose equivalent) for K-40 as 5.02E-9 Sv/Bq or (again, for those of us who are "unit-challenged," 1.86E-2 rem per microcurie ingested.)
Thus, the CEDE from ingestion of a Reference Banana is 5.28E-4 x 1.86E-2 = 9.82E-6 rem or about 0.01 millirem.
I have found this "Banana Equivalent Dose" very useful in attempting to explain infinitesmal doses (and corresponding infinitesmal risks) to members of the public. (Interestingly, the anti-nukes just HATE this, and severely critisize us for using such a deceptive concept.)
Would love to go into more detail, but have to get back to our DEADLY Human Radiation Experiments (i.e., eating bananas.)
The same table in the CRC Handbook lists 3400 pCi/kg for white potatoes and 4450 pCi/kg for sweet potatoes - so you could carry through the same sort of calculation for Reference Potatoes. Interestingly, raw lima beans come in at 4640 pCi/kg, "dry, sweet" coconut comes in at 6400 pCi/kg, and raw spinach (yum!) comes in at 6500 pCi/kg.
Considering the fact that the DOE has officially stated that "there is no safe dose of radiation" my advice to you all is to stop eating immediately.
Oh yes! Almost forgot. Regarding K-40, go into your local grocery store, buy some salt-substitute (there are two common brands, and the one in the white and orange labeled container works best) spread some out on a table and check it out with a GM survey instrument. There it is folks, deadly radioactivity in your grocery store!
Yours for healthful diets . .
Captain Internal Dosimetry
aka Gary Mansfield, LLNL, (mansfield2@llnl.gov)
Disclaimer:
Neither Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California, nor the Department of Energy recommends eating bananas.
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The point of course, is to make people realize that the notion that "there is no safe dose of radiation" isn't necessarily correct. Your granite countertops have trace particles of uranium in them. The Capital Building in Washington DC has so much granite in it that it wouldn't be qualified as a nuclear facility because it already emits too much radiation. We consume radiation all of the time from a variety of sources and our bodies rid themselves of it naturally.
It is their product, if you didn't pay for it I don't see how you can complain that they aren't going to support you or allow you to continue using it. If you want software to be free that much, use Linux and stop complaining. What if I did pay for it and I don't want the WGA software installed? I'm not allowed to use the sofware I PAID FOR because I don't want to add on to it? That's like selling me a car and telling me that if I refuse to put a spoiler on the back that I won't be allowed to drive it.
Bush had to have said this to get a laugh. If he pulled it off and got a laugh, I'm honestly surprised. Not because I don't think it is funny - it is. I'm just really surprised to hear something so witty from the man that gave us these gems:
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." --George W. Bush, Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005
"Wow! Brazil is big." --George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
"I can only speak to myself." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
(I'm one of those guys that gets excited over shit like this)
:)
Dude, this is Slashdot. We're ALL one of "those guys".
Trust me..... No Surround system I have EVER seen will simulate the experience of standing next to/behind/infront of/below a M60 when that sucker goes off.
No doubt. There's still nothing on a computer that can simulate the SMELL of a recently discharged weapon either...
Ever fire a gun? It's not just the noise, it's the kickback that you need to get used to. Plus actually aiming the damn thing.
:)
Aim? Who needs aim? They invented automatic weapons for people like me that don't feel like aiming.
What computers cannot teach however, is the NOISE and physical presence of a firefight.
Sure they can - I witness this all the time. I have my super-amped stereo system belting out the sounds of laser blasters, rocket launchers, grenades, and machine guns, and inevitably this evolves into a situation that can be somewhat adequately described as a "firefight" when my wife comes in the room throwing things at me in an effort to silence my combat simulations.
For example, you might get a year for lighting someones lawn on fire. This act, even if it was designed to intimidate the homeowner because you hate them, might still only get you a year. BUT, if you light the fire in the shape of a swastika, you are likely to get 6 years. This means that you will spend 5 years in prision not because you destroyed their property, you threatened them, or even because you hate them. You will spend 5 years in prison because of your beliefs. Because of your "thoughts".
Hate crime leglislation might have had some good intentions, but it's very bad in practice. EVERY violent crime is a hate crime. If someone beats the crap out of you, they might not "hate" you, but chances are they don't like you very much. If someone beats the crap out of you because you're gay, it doesn't matter WHY they don't like you - the end result is you got beaten up.
IMHO, there should be no difference between a violent crime and a "hate" crime under the law. Why are we so intent on punishing the intention and not on punishing the action? If Joe the mass murderer kills 16 people, the courts should not care WHY he did it - they should deal with the fact that he did and punish him accordingly.
All the people I know who would fall into a category that would be specifically "protected" by hate-crime leglislation agree with me on this one too. They don't want any more "protection" than any other citizen gets - they just want to be treated (and "protected") the same as everyone else.
The minute you start dealing with people differently because of some aspect of their being (like skin color, religious preference, sexual preference, etc) is the same minute you start (consciously or unconsciously) segregating them from the rest of society, and that becomes a dangerous slope to start sliding down.
Most of this stuff is moving to China as fast as humanly possible.
R&D and (b)leading-edge manufacturing is still in Taiwan, but moving at lightning speed to China ASAP.
As I recall:
Employees cost roughly 1/3 the price of an American worker. Employees in China cost roughly 1/4 the price of a Taiwanese worker.
Is my recollection still true?
I believe that is the case, but remember that these companies still want to be able to still sell their product to U.S. companies (like the big three auto manufacturers for instance), so having plants inside the U.S. is still in their best interests, as if it's manufactured in the U.S. for use in the U.S., they don't have to pay the high tariffs on the import of them from China/Taiwan/Japan/Vietnam/etc.
The point of a cert is the same as a degree - it demonstrates to a complete stranger that one posesses a certain skillset and dedication.
The point of a college degree is not to demonstrate to anyone that you possess a certain skillset; it simply demonstrates that you have a certain amount of dedication. That's why "true" 4 year degrees from accredited institutions are worth more than condensed "equivalents" from places like University of Phoenix or some correspondence courses. I know plenty of people without a college degree that posess all the skills they need to do their highly technical jobs, and I also know plenty of college grads that don't know jack. The college degree proves that you:
- Have dedicated yourself to something for an extended period of time (and are therefore somewhat dependable).
- Can handle being tested on knowledge that you were supposed to learn during the time you dedicated yourself to something (NOT that you know it, but are comfortable being tested on it).
Both of those would hold true whether your degree is from Yale or Heald, but in this example, the Yale one would hold more weight because their workload is considered to be harder, and it's a four year undertaking (at least) compared to a two year one. Thus a certification isn't worth as much as a college degree(obviously), but has value nonetheless because if you have one, a potential employer knows that you are at least qualified enough to pass a test on the subject matter. It should not prove to anyone that you are dedicated or that you actually know the material (with a few possible exceptions, like the CCIE), because all you really did was pass a test.
I suspect that the majority of people who buy a wi-fi router in the next five years will still not bother to even change the default admin password.
Or take any other measures to secure the device for that matter, like preventing access to unknown MACs, limiting usage to certain times of the day, not broadcasting the SSID, etc, etc...
This is one of those cases where some of the people that want devices like these have absolutely no idea how to use them correctly. To me, it's like handing the keys to a Ferrari to a 12 year old. ALL of my neighbors have open access points, so whenever people come over to my house with wireless equipment, I don't even bother to modify my network to let them in - I just tell them to sit by a window and inevitably they get all the bandwidth they need.
Intel is developing a new technology that could prevent unauthorized access to wireless networks using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the access point to the Wi-Fi user.
I think this is supposed to read "using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the Wi-Fi user to the access point. I have no idea how an access point would be able to monitor how long it took for its packets to make it to the clients...
And how do you watch an R-rated movie with the kids running around the house? Tell them it's a scary movie and to stay out of the room?
I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but all I have to say is that we're watching a Hugh Grant movie and my kids run for the hills...:)
As has been said, "recent" is in geologic terms.
So when my boss says I'll get a raise "soon", then he too, must be thinking in geologic terms. That would certainly explain a lot - I just thought he didn't want to give me a raise; I didn't consider that we might be using two different timelines...:)
FTA:
On a behavioural level such intelligence could also flag up 'one to watch' - for example a player laying $5 bets while sitting with $100,000 of chips in his or her pocket. This is certainly no cause for concern in its own right but such behaviour would in the past have caught notorious card counters waiting for the odds to fall in their favour or getting their eye in and honing a system.
While I will agree with the casinos' rights as a business to ask ANYONE to leave their casino for whatever reason, I just want to point out to everyone that card counting is NOT cheating and that people who in engage in card counting are simply using the casino rules and game's strategy to their best advantage. Both Las Vegas and Reno gambling laws state that cheating is defined as manipulating the rules of the game, or using devices to get around the rules of the game, not using the rules to your advantage, thus card counting is not illegal according to Nevada state laws (and many, if not all other state laws as well).
Again... how is this "illegal".
I haven't read this anywhere, but from the start I was wondering why Cisco would think they had legal grounds to sue this guy, and then it occurred to me that since he worked for ISS, who works closely with Cisco and lots of other technology companies, that it stood to reason that ISS might have been given access to trade secrets about Cisco stuff that the public is not. If they did, maybe Lynn signed a confidentiality agreement with ISS to not divulge such information, hence the reason he quit so he could give the speech. Maybe Lynn thought he wouldn't be bound by such an NDA (if it even existed) if he quit ISS.
If that's the case, Cisco might not have been morally justified in going after him, but they might have had legal justification since Lynn, as an ISS employee, would have been one that had access to the confidential information.
Isn't "scripted AI" a contradiction in terms? Can't we start using more correct jargon when referring to computer controlled enemies/allies until AI is finally perfected?
How about this:
Artificial, Non-Intelligent Matrix Associated To Individual Object Nodes
Or ANIMATION for short...:)
"You can't be serious. Securing your machines is only worth $100?
Keep in mind that the OP works for a university, which probably doesn't have a budget outside of what they already spent on their software firewall. It doesn't mean that security isn't important to him, just that there's probably not an existing budget for it.
The OP is looking for a cheap and innovative way to secure his university network's servers - and I can't think of a better place to ask the question than here.
I say let the FOSS community answer his question and provide him a solution to his unique problem in the way that they know best and leave the "isn't this worth more than $XXX?" questions to the salesman.
California actually passes the "burden" onto the seller (I have a California reseller license, so I had to agree to these terms when I got the license), and the sellers have the "option" of passing the cost onto the consumer (more like the responsibility to collect this from the consumer).
But in the end it's the seller that has to pay the State for this cost; whether they collect the fee from their consumers is up to them.
Also, effective July 1, 2005, LCDs and Plasma TVs are included; in the past it was just CRTs.
You need more power. Otherwise you will fail in your job ( unless you take to violence ).
Students need to be kicked off the network until their computers are clean. If they are kicked off x times, they are off until they come to you and sign a form saying they understand how to keep their computer clean. y more time(s), they are off for the rest of the semester.
Simple, effective. You will need a couple decent switchs capable of shuting down ports ( or you could just yank the wire ).
If you don't have this level of power over the network, get rid of any access you do have. The higher ups only want a scape goat.
I couldn't agree with you more about the idea, but the main thing he needs is backing from the providers of the service (the same ones that collect the rent money), in the form of a written policy. You can't kick people off of a network they're paying for unless you have it in writing that those are the consequences of an infected PC on the network., even though it's unfair to those with uninfected PCs.
As far as a technical solution goes, I wouldn't make it a manual process at all if I were you - consider investing in an IDS (intrustion detection system) type of product that will automatically deactivate ports on the network from possible offenders. Then you only have to manage the IDS, and it's not "you" that's removing their access, it's the IDS (and it's automatic). Cisco's IDS product is a very good, albeit expensive, solution that is fairly straightforward in installation and very easy to manage...
The fact that C3PO was MADE my Anakin still goes on as unexplained with regards to why Vader didn't acknowledge anything regarding him. The closest the two came was on Empire Strikes Back in Cloud City where Solo was being frozen in carbonite. Admittedly he wasn't in one whole piece at the time but still...
:) It is cheesy at best, but I guess you could explain that away in a couple of ways:
Oh yeah.
1) Anakin made him but never finished him, so when he saw the broken one in Cloud City, it didn't occur to him that it was the same droid. The voice matched though, so that probably should have clued him in, unless of course you infer that he didn't hear Threepio speak.
2) He was so interested in the happenings of the Carbonite Chamber (will Han die and this is useless for Luke? Will he live and I've got a nice way to transport Luke to the Emporer?) that he noticed something familiar but didn't care.
That "murders an entire community of sand people" bit was the transition, IMO. It just happened offscreen with no real preamble in the story.
I was talking more about the transformation to someone who wasn't so insecure (which he still was when he slaughtered the sand people, and after when he was explaining it). Darth Vader was a cool, collected, leader who inspired his followers through fear and didn't fly off the handle at anyone. It's a maturity thing I guess, and it would be really cool to see Hayden portray that change onscreen. Maybe it doesn't happen until he actually gets his ass handed to him by Obi-Wan, but either way it would be nice to see it happen onscreen. I think Hayden is capable of doing it (in "Life as a House" his acting was actually impressive).
Sure, it's great to see where Anakin comes from, but admit it -- what you really want is to see him kill children.
That's funny. On a serious note though, what I really want to see is Hayden actually make the distinct transformation from "whiny teenager jedi" to "cool headed evil dark sith master". Like Luke did in ROTJ, but with even more of a noticable transformation. But seeing Vader kill lots of people is gonna be really cool too...MWAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA...:)
Warning - this is a spoiler. Don't read the italics if you really don't want to know what happens:
At flick's end, Threepio and Artoo are given to Captain Antilles (with the caveat that the Protocol's memory be wiped).
Count me as one fan that's really glad that this little detail was included - I was wondering how they were going to deal with Threepio and R2D2 not recognizing Obi-Wan and others they had met in the prequels. Kind of makes Obi's reaction to seeing the droids in EP4 seem a little more mysterious too, even though that probably wasn't the intention when EP4 was shot ("I don't recall owning any droids").
What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by Open Source?
Offer to support both platforms to save them money. For example, you could propose to install OO on the majority of the desktops, and they can only buy MS licenses for people who have problems with OO for whatever reason. Management likes choices...:)