Well, he can do what lots of us here do when we're too slammed to work out "properly": Crunches and pushups. Use you body's mass as your weights. bonus points if you can install a pull-up bar somewhere.
just do 10 or 15 reps at a time, as time permits. you can do this almost anywhere (aisles between cubes, DC floor, etc.
some pretty good ones, and many lame ones. I have a machine running apache on linux that hosts some "sensitive files". Nothing that a government would want, but something that people who would want to mod certain hardware would want. I had one attack that tried to exploit an IIS vulnerability relentlessly for over an hour against my machine. It was funny because the files it was looking for didn't even exist, and had the script kiddie thought about it, would have checked the server type prior to launching the attack.
on the other end of the scale I had an attack that spidered the whole site, then probed likely holes in the filesystem where tidbits may have been found. I.e.:/index.html/content/file.html/content/collateral/images/picture.png
they would attempt directory view of/content/collateral/ to see what else was there (too bad directory listing is deinied by default in my.conf file) -nB
what if my odometer is defective? my old car's odo specifically has a fairly predictable amount of slippage. It shouldn't be too hard to slip the same amount. or you have a disconnect between the wheels and odo that kicks in at the same time you enable the brass mesh...
seriously, this will be hacked. it would be prohibitively expensive to retro to older cars. it won't work in certain areas... etc.
knowing California, they'll keep the gas tax and add on a mileage tax...
On the other hand I'm ok with replacing the tax with this, as I'll just put a brass mesh around the antenna and receiver, connected to vehicle ground... My commute will be very short indeed:) -nB
I pay for the service of having movies delivered to me from a queue of pre-selected titles. I think it's called movies-in-the-mail-in-the-floppy-red-letter... I buy some movies, particularly those that my kids watch over, and over, *and over*, ad. nasuim.
The only things I BT are tv shows, largely from the UK, where I can't get them in the US any other way. Their web based player detects I'm in the US and won't play, the US broadcasts are edited and suffer for it. I even offered to pay the TV tax to the BBC because I'm willing to pay for that content, because it's worth it. I suspect you'll find that I am representative of the majority of the "Pirates" out there. -nB
Uploading data, you are right, it is very small. A few hundred bits per cow is all that would be needed. Even a old 300 baud modem could upload all the data relatively quickly.
Except that this is a government program, so rather than a simple data format, tailored to the job, it will be WTF worthy XML from hell that has a 200:1 ratio of formatting overhead and spurious data that could be sent once and stored at the server, but will be sent every time. Further, rather than lumping the data like so:
<herd="some rancher">
<head="cow number 1"/>
<head="cow number 2"/>
<head="cow number n"/> </herd>
it will be along the lines of:
<herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number 1"/> </herd> <herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number 2"/> </herd> <herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number n"/> </herd>
not really. The perl is spread across several apps that reside on different machines. Most lives in modules, and the longest single application is only about 4K lines sans module calls.
It really does a bangup job, and linking in the C++ bits as an XS makes the compiled code appear to be native. Further, the perl can interface with tons of what are normally userland apps that we use, drive them either via command line, or if required for testing reasons via GUI interaction.
All in all it's pretty good. I inherited the GUI test app from another team from an offshore company, and it sucked. We basically re-wrote that. One example:
if(uc($var) eq "warning"){you will _never_ get here;}
The way we dealt with that was simple (if a bit patronizing). We have a couple "cowboys", myself included. We blaze proof of concept code in whatever the heck language suits our needs for a task at hand. The task is defined as we have these constraints, these goals, and need this data to sift out (this is machine test code). One of us will hack it up in a quarter or two*. Then it is handed off to the test engineering team to make a polished product out of it (usually in C/C++). During this transition we are answerable to the test devs at their leisure and whims, thus if you didn't doc things you'll be in more meetings (and who wants that, when you could be hacking the next shiny thing together).
It works exceptionally well, as we can react quickly to somewhat amorphous changes to the initial spec, that usually come about as the prototype code is actually run and people realize that "hey it'd be nice to have this", or "that does what I said, but not what I want". We've all encountered this before and it's horribly frustrating when changes like this have to go through committee after committee, and ECOs and all that assorted crap. By doing it as a one man hacker get-er-done these changes become less problematic, some get pushed to the formal re-write, others get implemented quickly. The best part is it basically forces the almost universally needed refactor every product could use, but never gets. The stuff that shows up on The Daily WTF.
-nB
*yes, we get about 6 months to produce properly working code. My last project was about 8 months, 60K lines of perl, 5K lines of C++, and about 4 major changes in architecture, 2 of which were ultimately reverted. In fact this latest one is good enough as prototype that they are not re-writing it and are simply running with it. Downside there is now I have to write _real_ documentation, not just code notes. so another couple months writing about 200 pages of usage docs, and 400 pages of API docs... -nB
Here in the sacramento CA area, after the housing crash, $300K+ for that house.
I make ~$55K/yr and yeah, I can't actually live on that with a wife and two kids, so I do other stuff to shore up the finances (everything from manual labor to custom coding jobs). Putting food on the table is the name of the game, and I do what it takes. My wife and I did a CBA against her working Vs. staying home and it is _cheaper_ for her to not work than it is to pay for daycare.*
Add to that, most of my additional jobs are under the table and we're ok, but forever renting, not buying a house. Cars are used, and driven till they die, then replaced with another used car. -nB
*My son is a hemophilian, so there is some additional cost for daycare, but even based on normal daycare rates, it's a ton of money.
should qualify the sex offense comment: referring to the (now) GP post and main thread topic, not the drug deal got caught. That I would push for a letter of reprimand from the district...
I'm a parent of a little girl. I must say that if my child came home and reported either of these incidents I would likely be in police custody as a result.
Now, I personally don't think girls of that age should be wearing g-strings and thongs, but that simply means I police *my* kid. Not other people's kids. Especially if it's not against the rules to begin with. I agree with the "no showing underwear" rule, much like I agree with the "no drugs, and we can search your personal possessions while you are on campus" rules. What I can't fathom is the thought of we'll lift your skirt and strip off you clothes even if we don't have *damn good* evidence or suspicion.
Take this case: Girl accused of having motrin-400's and they want to find out if she has any more. Search locker, pockets, backpack, purse, STOP! You're done. Seriously, it's Motrin, not crank. And the "informant" is another student who was just busted and wants to shift the blame.
Vs.
Teacher sees dope deal go down, pulls both students in. Weed/speed/whatever is "missing" and no sign it was dropped... now you get in the territory of _maybe_ getting to a more intimate search.
as it is now as a parent I would press sex offense charges in both cases, sue the pants off the school district, picket the school with the names of the offenders and what they did, and blanket the district with fliers about what happened...
Each incident like this makes me realize that things have only gone downhill since I was in school.
My Sony camcorder does this as well. I was pissed and mailed the batteries to Sony for replacement or "signing" with an appropriate SPI/EEprom. For some reason they declined...
I'd love to say I'll never buy Sony again, but I sadly very well may. They had teh only camera that met my needs in a reasonable price point at the time.
I used to smoke. My favorite two bars allowed smoking, one by becoming a "private club" that was owner operated, the other by simply ignoring the law.
My favorite was that at my school we had a no smoking withing 15 feet of any building rule. On rainy days the smokers (myself included) would ignore this rule to stay dry. One day one of the profs threw a hissey fit about us being too close to her classroom, so we were shooed out into the rain (and it was pouring). When it was time to go into class I, completely soaked and dripping as if I had just gotten out of the pool, walked into her class and sat down, left a puddle the size of lake tahoe, and was hollered at for it. I tried pointing out the illogical value of yelling at me to go stand in the rain, then for being wet and was rewarded with a trip to the deans office. Long story short we were able to force the issue of getting "smoking shelters" provided 15 feet from the front door of every building.:) -nB
Kodachrome is the only slide film not prone to color shifting. When they removed the slow K-14 films from their line I bout 2 cases and popped them in the freezer.
Guess I'll have to use them in short order lest the chemistry goes away too:(
I still have 4 rolls of Konica SRG-3200 in deep freeze. I'm saving that for a special need. It's the only 3200 film ever made that can see IR through UV, and it was in color. -nB
Hell I had to have a credit check when I just bought my new truck. Wrote a check to cover the entire purchase price, but a credit check was required anyway. Why? To ensure the likely hood that the check was good. I purchased the vehicle after hours, so we couldn't just go to the bank and transfer the funds. Had my credit sucked they'd have taken the check and given me the vehicle after the check cleared.
Just one more point why interacting with the credit agencies is nearly unavoidable. -nB
BTW: To those who say pay in *real* cash, there are a number of problems attendant with paying over $10000 in cash. A check is vastly less paperwork, even including the credit check.
I was thinking.... I could give them my keyring password... it's what I enter when I log into a site. I have no idea what the password for the site is, but my keyring does.
well, as to the security this machine was, shall we say, sacrificial? As a point I'd like to make, none of my other machines were infected;) I was sharing an internet connection with a neighbor who didn't have a PC, so I gave her my spare, with a wireless NIC. I set up a separate router for me, and put her on the router the ISP provided, thus basically segmenting the ISP link into two. -nB
not really. It would possibly work, but what you really want is a rapidly changing magnetic field that will slow the coins roll till it can't stay in it's unsupported track, then it should fall, while the zinc pennies would continue on and the steel pennies continue to make your life a pain... -nB
He actually got me thinking about building the coin sorter though....
Wondering which would be better to pick out the "right" pennies from a continuous rolling stream: 1) Eddy current 2) weight
I'm thinking eddy current deflection. All the pennies run in a track rolling down at enough of a clip to pass a breif channel where there is no side rail. instead an electromagnet causes a deflection binning the penny into the collection pile. All zinc pennies go straight through to the return-to-bank pile, and as I type this I realized that steel pennies would jam the machine:-) -nB
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Well, he can do what lots of us here do when we're too slammed to work out "properly":
Crunches and pushups. Use you body's mass as your weights. bonus points if you can install a pull-up bar somewhere.
just do 10 or 15 reps at a time, as time permits.
you can do this almost anywhere (aisles between cubes, DC floor, etc.
some pretty good ones, and many lame ones.
I have a machine running apache on linux that hosts some "sensitive files". Nothing that a government would want, but something that people who would want to mod certain hardware would want. I had one attack that tried to exploit an IIS vulnerability relentlessly for over an hour against my machine. It was funny because the files it was looking for didn't even exist, and had the script kiddie thought about it, would have checked the server type prior to launching the attack.
on the other end of the scale I had an attack that spidered the whole site, then probed likely holes in the filesystem where tidbits may have been found. I.e.: /index.html /content/file.html /content/collateral/images/picture.png
they would attempt directory view of /content/collateral/ to see what else was there (too bad directory listing is deinied by default in my .conf file)
-nB
what if my odometer is defective?
my old car's odo specifically has a fairly predictable amount of slippage. It shouldn't be too hard to slip the same amount. or you have a disconnect between the wheels and odo that kicks in at the same time you enable the brass mesh...
seriously, this will be hacked.
it would be prohibitively expensive to retro to older cars.
it won't work in certain areas...
etc.
knowing California, they'll keep the gas tax and add on a mileage tax...
On the other hand I'm ok with replacing the tax with this, as I'll just put a brass mesh around the antenna and receiver, connected to vehicle ground... :)
My commute will be very short indeed
-nB
I pay for the service of having movies delivered to me from a queue of pre-selected titles. I think it's called movies-in-the-mail-in-the-floppy-red-letter...
I buy some movies, particularly those that my kids watch over, and over, *and over*, ad. nasuim.
The only things I BT are tv shows, largely from the UK, where I can't get them in the US any other way.
Their web based player detects I'm in the US and won't play, the US broadcasts are edited and suffer for it. I even offered to pay the TV tax to the BBC because I'm willing to pay for that content, because it's worth it. I suspect you'll find that I am representative of the majority of the "Pirates" out there.
-nB
Uploading data, you are right, it is very small. A few hundred bits per cow is all that would be needed. Even a old 300 baud modem could upload all the data relatively quickly.
Except that this is a government program, so rather than a simple data format, tailored to the job, it will be WTF worthy XML from hell that has a 200:1 ratio of formatting overhead and spurious data that could be sent once and stored at the server, but will be sent every time. Further, rather than lumping the data like so:
<herd="some rancher">
<head="cow number 1"/>
<head="cow number 2"/>
<head="cow number n"/>
</herd>
it will be along the lines of:
<herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number 1"/>
</herd>
<herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number 2"/>
</herd>
<herd="some rancher">
<extra_crap_data=$putOneMegOfCrapHere/>
<head="cow number n"/>
</herd>
-nB
not really.
The perl is spread across several apps that reside on different machines. Most lives in modules, and the longest single application is only about 4K lines sans module calls.
It really does a bangup job, and linking in the C++ bits as an XS makes the compiled code appear to be native. Further, the perl can interface with tons of what are normally userland apps that we use, drive them either via command line, or if required for testing reasons via GUI interaction.
All in all it's pretty good. I inherited the GUI test app from another team from an offshore company, and it sucked. We basically re-wrote that. One example:
if(uc($var) eq "warning"){you will _never_ get here;}
That made me sad to see.
-nB
I'm going to work that into my API docs...
Not sure how, but I am.
-nB
The way we dealt with that was simple (if a bit patronizing). We have a couple "cowboys", myself included. We blaze proof of concept code in whatever the heck language suits our needs for a task at hand. The task is defined as we have these constraints, these goals, and need this data to sift out (this is machine test code). One of us will hack it up in a quarter or two*. Then it is handed off to the test engineering team to make a polished product out of it (usually in C/C++). During this transition we are answerable to the test devs at their leisure and whims, thus if you didn't doc things you'll be in more meetings (and who wants that, when you could be hacking the next shiny thing together).
It works exceptionally well, as we can react quickly to somewhat amorphous changes to the initial spec, that usually come about as the prototype code is actually run and people realize that "hey it'd be nice to have this", or "that does what I said, but not what I want". We've all encountered this before and it's horribly frustrating when changes like this have to go through committee after committee, and ECOs and all that assorted crap. By doing it as a one man hacker get-er-done these changes become less problematic, some get pushed to the formal re-write, others get implemented quickly. The best part is it basically forces the almost universally needed refactor every product could use, but never gets. The stuff that shows up on The Daily WTF.
-nB
*yes, we get about 6 months to produce properly working code. My last project was about 8 months, 60K lines of perl, 5K lines of C++, and about 4 major changes in architecture, 2 of which were ultimately reverted. In fact this latest one is good enough as prototype that they are not re-writing it and are simply running with it. Downside there is now I have to write _real_ documentation, not just code notes.
so another couple months writing about 200 pages of usage docs, and 400 pages of API docs...
-nB
Here in the sacramento CA area, after the housing crash, $300K+ for that house.
I make ~$55K/yr and yeah, I can't actually live on that with a wife and two kids, so I do other stuff to shore up the finances (everything from manual labor to custom coding jobs). Putting food on the table is the name of the game, and I do what it takes. My wife and I did a CBA against her working Vs. staying home and it is _cheaper_ for her to not work than it is to pay for daycare.*
Add to that, most of my additional jobs are under the table and we're ok, but forever renting, not buying a house. Cars are used, and driven till they die, then replaced with another used car.
-nB
*My son is a hemophilian, so there is some additional cost for daycare, but even based on normal daycare rates, it's a ton of money.
there isn't?
http://www.avguide.com/forums/turntable-isolation-platform
should qualify the sex offense comment:
referring to the (now) GP post and main thread topic, not the drug deal got caught. That I would push for a letter of reprimand from the district...
I'm a parent of a little girl.
I must say that if my child came home and reported either of these incidents I would likely be in police custody as a result.
Now, I personally don't think girls of that age should be wearing g-strings and thongs, but that simply means I police *my* kid. Not other people's kids. Especially if it's not against the rules to begin with. I agree with the "no showing underwear" rule, much like I agree with the "no drugs, and we can search your personal possessions while you are on campus" rules. What I can't fathom is the thought of we'll lift your skirt and strip off you clothes even if we don't have *damn good* evidence or suspicion.
Take this case:
Girl accused of having motrin-400's and they want to find out if she has any more. Search locker, pockets, backpack, purse, STOP! You're done. Seriously, it's Motrin, not crank. And the "informant" is another student who was just busted and wants to shift the blame.
Vs.
Teacher sees dope deal go down, pulls both students in. Weed/speed/whatever is "missing" and no sign it was dropped...
now you get in the territory of _maybe_ getting to a more intimate search.
as it is now as a parent I would press sex offense charges in both cases, sue the pants off the school district, picket the school with the names of the offenders and what they did, and blanket the district with fliers about what happened...
Each incident like this makes me realize that things have only gone downhill since I was in school.
[/rant]
-nB
we can call it the "Advanced Research Projects Agency Network"
My Sony camcorder does this as well.
I was pissed and mailed the batteries to Sony for replacement or "signing" with an appropriate SPI/EEprom. For some reason they declined...
I'd love to say I'll never buy Sony again, but I sadly very well may. They had teh only camera that met my needs in a reasonable price point at the time.
-nB
4:
Citation:
my wife.
http://farmersreallysucks.com/storymystory.shtml
-nB
I used to smoke.
My favorite two bars allowed smoking, one by becoming a "private club" that was owner operated, the other by simply ignoring the law.
My favorite was that at my school we had a no smoking withing 15 feet of any building rule. On rainy days the smokers (myself included) would ignore this rule to stay dry. One day one of the profs threw a hissey fit about us being too close to her classroom, so we were shooed out into the rain (and it was pouring). When it was time to go into class I, completely soaked and dripping as if I had just gotten out of the pool, walked into her class and sat down, left a puddle the size of lake tahoe, and was hollered at for it. I tried pointing out the illogical value of yelling at me to go stand in the rain, then for being wet and was rewarded with a trip to the deans office. :)
Long story short we were able to force the issue of getting "smoking shelters" provided 15 feet from the front door of every building.
-nB
Kodachrome is the only slide film not prone to color shifting.
When they removed the slow K-14 films from their line I bout 2 cases and popped them in the freezer.
Guess I'll have to use them in short order lest the chemistry goes away too :(
I still have 4 rolls of Konica SRG-3200 in deep freeze. I'm saving that for a special need.
It's the only 3200 film ever made that can see IR through UV, and it was in color.
-nB
Hell I had to have a credit check when I just bought my new truck.
Wrote a check to cover the entire purchase price, but a credit check was required anyway.
Why?
To ensure the likely hood that the check was good.
I purchased the vehicle after hours, so we couldn't just go to the bank and transfer the funds. Had my credit sucked they'd have taken the check and given me the vehicle after the check cleared.
Just one more point why interacting with the credit agencies is nearly unavoidable.
-nB
BTW: To those who say pay in *real* cash, there are a number of problems attendant with paying over $10000 in cash. A check is vastly less paperwork, even including the credit check.
then you're lying.
if you honestly waif for it to be abused, and you never disclose it to anyone else, then you actually have a case...
IANAL
I was thinking....
I could give them my keyring password...
it's what I enter when I log into a site.
I have no idea what the password for the site is, but my keyring does.
wonder if they'd understand that concept?
-nB
well, as to the security this machine was, shall we say, sacrificial? As a point I'd like to make, none of my other machines were infected ;)
I was sharing an internet connection with a neighbor who didn't have a PC, so I gave her my spare, with a wireless NIC.
I set up a separate router for me, and put her on the router the ISP provided, thus basically segmenting the ISP link into two.
-nB
not really.
It would possibly work, but what you really want is a rapidly changing magnetic field that will slow the coins roll till it can't stay in it's unsupported track, then it should fall, while the zinc pennies would continue on and the steel pennies continue to make your life a pain...
-nB
He actually got me thinking about building the coin sorter though....
Wondering which would be better to pick out the "right" pennies from a continuous rolling stream:
1) Eddy current
2) weight
I'm thinking eddy current deflection. All the pennies run in a track rolling down at enough of a clip to pass a breif channel where there is no side rail. instead an electromagnet causes a deflection binning the penny into the collection pile. All zinc pennies go straight through to the return-to-bank pile, and as I type this I realized that steel pennies would jam the machine :-)
-nB
DrDos is used in embedded apps.