1. You attack the hurricane when the storm is small (less than hurricane force).
2. You are capturing solar power (which is responsible for creating the hurricane in the first place.)
3. There is that whole butterfly effect thing...
4. What are the unintended consequences?
Over 100 degrees in a bedroom owned by a slob of a teenager. With a monochrome display that was prone to collapsing the image to a single dot in the center of the screen. With a 25 line, 40 column text display that wrapped upside down over the last two lines. With 64KB of total memory. Less to actually work with. In assembly.
Of course the disarray of the room was self-inflicted.
Use an OS with security policies that only allow specific software that shipped with the OS to modify those settings? Honestly, I do not understand why Microsoft does not at least ship that as a default policy
Well, yes, but admins have to support what their organizations use/demand.
A couple of years ago, there was a Macintosh Trojan that altered DNS settings and added a crontab to re-alter every minute if the user tried to fix the change.
Social engineering works at least some of the time. There are zero-day exploits.
If you think that *nix is a panacea against malware, you will eventually be disappointed. Better than Win, but not perfect.
Nice idea, but what do you do when a worm alters your dns settings? OpenDNS can't block access if the queries go to a server controlled by the bad guys. You can firewall off access to dns ports to all but known servers, but then the worms just tunnel through a port 80 proxy. Cat and mouse forever. Plus a false sense of security.
My first post was at least half tongue-in-cheek, but to say the ISP (if we are talking ISP) is not responsible for activity happening on its network is just plain wrong-headed. ISPs have AUPs. Nations have laws. These ISPs are on notice that bad things are happening on their networks and are being provided evidence of exactly what sort of bad behavior is going on. They choose to look the other way or be actively complicit. I'm just suggesting revoking access to those who can't behave.
You're likely seeing NAT'ted addresses. If there are a thousand hosts behind a NAT, it's likely that at least one of them will be infected.
These are many, many unique public IPs. From a wide variety of subnets all owned by chinanet. Yes some might be NATing more hosts behind them, but then the owner of the public IP still should be required to police the hosts on his/her network.
Solution: Yank the IPs from spammers and script kiddies back and buy yourself a few more years.
My servers see attacks from *A LOT* of IP addresses, most of them located in China. I sometimes wonder if there are *ANY* hosts in China not infected by malware or operated by black hats.
According to intego, this exploit does NOT work if ARD has been activated via the sharing preference pane. So in a typical lab situation, the exploit will not work b/c the admin used ARD to do admin things (like send shell script commands to all the lab machines in parallel.) Home users typically don't turn ARD on, and thus would be vulnerable, but home users typically trust everyone using their systems. Most of the exploits perpetrated via this vector will likely be by children who want to disable parental controls.
This might have to do with usage patterns. Execessive heat or moisture is not good for CF life. Neither is being switched on and off frequently. (The 7 year ratings are usually based on 3-4hrs/day all at once. A CF turned on and off many times/day will almost certainly fail much earlier than the timeframe suggested on the package.
OTOH, I have some bulbs that have lasted several for years -- including an outside lamp (with a CF NOT rated for outdoor use) That is on a photosensor (also a no-no) that runs dusk-dawn and has been running for over two years now. YMMV.
I've not ordered any of the dimmables (yet) but plan to soon. No ceiling fans here, but I used regular twisty CFs in a ceiling fan at my last home.
It looks as if you have to read the fine print on the dimmables. Some can go down only to 20%. Others seem to be pretty much plug 'n play.
In general this is true, but there are dimmable CFs out (for several years actually). See for example: http://www.energyfederation.org/consumer/default.p hp/cPath/25_44_169
TFA doesn't seem to explain that the twisty-type is not the beginning and end of the design -- well, if you look inside that really is the design, but manufacturers are doing better and better about hiding this -- reflectors and such.
Not their fault! They didn't KNOW they were governement operatives.
The governement was influencing the study through RF based mind control. They made them see results that were contrary to reality.
Mod me redundant, but I was about to write the same thing.
Some of my fondest early childhood memories are of long evenings playing chess with my father. I was 6 at the time. I also taught my 1st grade teacher how to play. I would say that I lost interest in the game after a year or two, but the quality time with adults was worth far more than any time with a computer would have been (if computer chess had even been an option back then.)
Don't get me wrong -- I was pretty serious at the time -- always thinking several moves ahead and running a dozen scenarios in my head at once. But I would not have had the same interest playing against an inanimate opponent. The social aspect was just as important as the chess strategy.
Just play the game with your kid. You won't be sorry. Neither will she.
Wow. Times have changed. When I was in Japan less than 10 years ago (admittedly in a "smaller" city of not much more than a quarter of a million people), I had 9600bps dial up. And I had to pay 10yen/3 min for the local call plus the (outrageous) connect time fees to an isp. Worked out to over $20/hr in 1995. dropped to about 2/3 that the next year.
When in college, I worked in a lab analyzing waste water produced by local industry. part of the job involved collection of samples. Some of the man-holes were nice (like at the brand-new CD ROM manufacturing plant.) Others..... One was at a plant that made pet food. The waste from that process was mixed with the normal sewage one would find coming out of a building with lots of humans. Need I say more?
What you need to do is find the specifications for your equipment. How many BTU/hr does it dissipate? The number may be variable -- more under heavy load than at idle.
Ever hear of a baker's dozen? Give the customer just a little extra.
I don't argue that it probably wan't the programmer's call. I DO argue that it is the manager's responsibility to give subordinates direction BEFORE a meeting. I also suggest that it might just be a good decision in the long term for the manager to approve the added feature.
Hate to say it, but in both cases here, he was absolutely right.
Well yes. But a manager should have made expectations clear before bringing a subordinate into the room. If THAT didn't happen, then the manager is at fault.
Those that suggest software (or any other product) should do EXACLTY what is contracted and NOT ONE SINGLE THING MORE are being, I think a little short-sighted. Yes there are IP issues, but those can be addressed with a bit fo boiler-plate legaleze -- this feature is provided as is -- no warrany whatsoever -- it is not supported, yada yada.
But if I am the customer, and a I get a bit more than I expect, I'm a VERY happy customer and not only do I put this company at the top of my list of preferred vendors, but I'll spread the word to others. The company that goes the extra mile will get more business in the end.
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You have to nuke 'em from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
1. You attack the hurricane when the storm is small (less than hurricane force).
2. You are capturing solar power (which is responsible for creating the hurricane in the first place.)
3. There is that whole butterfly effect thing...
4. What are the unintended consequences?
Over 100 degrees in a bedroom owned by a slob of a teenager.
With a monochrome display that was prone to collapsing the image to a single dot in the center of the screen.
With a 25 line, 40 column text display that wrapped upside down over the last two lines.
With 64KB of total memory.
Less to actually work with.
In assembly.
Of course the disarray of the room was self-inflicted.
Well, yes, but admins have to support what their organizations use/demand.
A couple of years ago, there was a Macintosh Trojan that altered DNS settings and added a crontab to re-alter every minute if the user tried to fix the change.
Social engineering works at least some of the time. There are zero-day exploits.
If you think that *nix is a panacea against malware, you will eventually be disappointed. Better than Win, but not perfect.
Nice idea, but what do you do when a worm alters your dns settings?
OpenDNS can't block access if the queries go to a server controlled by the bad guys.
You can firewall off access to dns ports to all but known servers, but then the worms just tunnel through a port 80 proxy.
Cat and mouse forever. Plus a false sense of security.
It's not his network. He's just the ISP.
My first post was at least half tongue-in-cheek, but to say the ISP (if we are talking ISP) is not responsible for activity happening on its network is just plain wrong-headed. ISPs have AUPs. Nations have laws. These ISPs are on notice that bad things are happening on their networks and are being provided evidence of exactly what sort of bad behavior is going on. They choose to look the other way or be actively complicit. I'm just suggesting revoking access to those who can't behave.
You're likely seeing NAT'ted addresses. If there are a thousand hosts behind a NAT, it's likely that at least one of them will be infected.
These are many, many unique public IPs. From a wide variety of subnets all owned by chinanet. Yes some might be NATing more hosts behind them, but then the owner of the public IP still should be required to police the hosts on his/her network.
Solution: Yank the IPs from spammers and script kiddies back and buy yourself a few more years.
My servers see attacks from *A LOT* of IP addresses, most of them located in China. I sometimes wonder if there are *ANY* hosts in China not infected by malware or operated by black hats.
According to intego, this exploit does NOT work if ARD has been activated via the sharing preference pane. So in a typical lab situation, the exploit will not work b/c the admin used ARD to do admin things (like send shell script commands to all the lab machines in parallel.) Home users typically don't turn ARD on, and thus would be vulnerable, but home users typically trust everyone using their systems. Most of the exploits perpetrated via this vector will likely be by children who want to disable parental controls.
This might have to do with usage patterns. Execessive heat or moisture is not good for CF life. Neither is being switched on and off frequently. (The 7 year ratings are usually based on 3-4hrs/day all at once. A CF turned on and off many times/day will almost certainly fail much earlier than the timeframe suggested on the package.
OTOH, I have some bulbs that have lasted several for years -- including an outside lamp (with a CF NOT rated for outdoor use) That is on a photosensor (also a no-no) that runs dusk-dawn and has been running for over two years now. YMMV.
I've not ordered any of the dimmables (yet) but plan to soon. No ceiling fans here, but I used regular twisty CFs in a ceiling fan at my last home.
It looks as if you have to read the fine print on the dimmables. Some can go down only to 20%. Others seem to be pretty much plug 'n play.
In general this is true, but there are dimmable CFs out (for several years actually). See for example:p hp/cPath/25_44_169
http://www.energyfederation.org/consumer/default.
TFA doesn't seem to explain that the twisty-type is not the beginning and end of the design -- well, if you look inside that really is the design, but manufacturers are doing better and better about hiding this -- reflectors and such.
They are replacing the bundled mine sweeper with Duke Nukem Forever.
Not their fault! They didn't KNOW they were governement operatives.
The governement was influencing the study through RF based mind control. They made them see results that were contrary to reality.
In most basements that would not be hard. pick one:
Some of my fondest early childhood memories are of long evenings playing chess with my father. I was 6 at the time. I also taught my 1st grade teacher how to play. I would say that I lost interest in the game after a year or two, but the quality time with adults was worth far more than any time with a computer would have been (if computer chess had even been an option back then.)
Don't get me wrong -- I was pretty serious at the time -- always thinking several moves ahead and running a dozen scenarios in my head at once. But I would not have had the same interest playing against an inanimate opponent. The social aspect was just as important as the chess strategy.
Just play the game with your kid. You won't be sorry. Neither will she.
Wow. Times have changed. When I was in Japan less than 10 years ago (admittedly in a "smaller" city of not much more than a quarter of a million people), I had 9600bps dial up. And I had to pay 10yen/3 min for the local call plus the (outrageous) connect time fees to an isp. Worked out to over $20/hr in 1995. dropped to about 2/3 that the next year.
Time for the US to catch up again.
When in college, I worked in a lab analyzing waste water produced by local industry. part of the job involved collection of samples. Some of the man-holes were nice (like at the brand-new CD ROM manufacturing plant.) Others..... One was at a plant that made pet food. The waste from that process was mixed with the normal sewage one would find coming out of a building with lots of humans. Need I say more?
Because someone is paying a defence attorney big bucks to get him/her off the hook and this angle hasn't been tried yet?
The average American would rather lose the vote than the driver's license.
then get an a/c unit sized that big.
Ever hear of a baker's dozen? Give the customer just a little extra.
I don't argue that it probably wan't the programmer's call. I DO argue that it is the manager's responsibility to give subordinates direction BEFORE a meeting. I also suggest that it might just be a good decision in the long term for the manager to approve the added feature.
Well yes. But a manager should have made expectations clear before bringing a subordinate into the room. If THAT didn't happen, then the manager is at fault.
Those that suggest software (or any other product) should do EXACLTY what is contracted and NOT ONE SINGLE THING MORE are being, I think a little short-sighted. Yes there are IP issues, but those can be addressed with a bit fo boiler-plate legaleze -- this feature is provided as is -- no warrany whatsoever -- it is not supported, yada yada.
But if I am the customer, and a I get a bit more than I expect, I'm a VERY happy customer and not only do I put this company at the top of my list of preferred vendors, but I'll spread the word to others. The company that goes the extra mile will get more business in the end.
Yes. They have been compared.
A quite legnthly comparison can be found here.
SQL92 compliant is a relative term.