I'm sure something like that could work. Although...instead of nudging the other satellites out of orbit, which would use fuel, perhaps carry along a store of small adhesive rocket engines. These could be affixed to dead objects to push them out of orbit (either by slowing them or by pushing them towards the planet). Not sure how much force would be required for your average satellite, though, but it's probably more than an Estes model rocket engine would provide...
They weren't only trying to get in as Administrator, the first one must have made it through his list of passwords for that and had proceeded on to other names. I wasn't particularly worried, though, because although everything is shared, the only thing that is writable is the FTP home directory.
That's actually quite useful to me. Twice I've watched somebody attempt to brute-force their way into an FTP server that I run for myself (which I have since taken off of the public internet, since I realized I only use it on my LAN), and now I know that the attacks which came from 61/8 and 62/8 are in Asia and Europe, respectively (therefore I don't have to worry about blocking those entire IP ranges, since if my FTP server were public again, I would never be in one of those ranges trying to get in). Anybody else have a practical use for this?
Actually, to be truly safe but have a relatively normal browsing experience (and yes, I'm saying that lynx is not normal:-P), use a virtual machine to run a second copy of your OS, and use the browser there. Or, even better (since theoretically a Windows file share between the two might allow an infection to transmit), different OS's. I do something similar when I'm not sure how safe a download is, although I've been lax about it lately and, as a result, had to fight off an infection a few weeks ago.
On the geek-hormones end of the issue, given the fact that the other 2 major players in the market are pushing 'radical' new CPU architectures--'the Cell' and the 'IBM (9xx-based?) Core Three Trio'--Nintendo's offering seems tame and low-testosterone.
On the rational end of the issue... As long as it gets the job done who the hell cares.
I agree, and from a programmer's perspective, it's a lot easier to write for one core (like the Wii) than three (like the 360) or, what is it, eight in the PS3? Since the Wii will be easier to write for, more games are likely to come out more quickly for it. I think developers are going to be stuck for a while trying to figure out how to use all of the cores they have in the more powerful consoles, rather than trying to make a fun and innovative game.
"Quit your job" is not what I would call a realistic solution for "I want multiple virtual desktops under Windows." Just my opinion, but it seems a little excessive.:-P
I'm pretty sure that the hatred originally comes from how Israel was carved out of Palestine after WW2. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, however, they (along with neighboring Islamic nations) attacked Israel and got their collective asses whooped. Palestine lost the rest of their land, and I'm pretty sure Israel took a large portion of Egypt, which they have since given back incrementally.
Basically, Palestinians were angry because they lost half of their country, and now they're angry because they've lost the rest of it and haven't yet managed to get it back. Plus the Israeli military isn't exactly "nice" about defending itself, hence the brutality described above.
I remember seeing something similar about the surprising noticable differences after that huge power outage that took out the northeastern US back in...2003?
Since many sites don't do this, and I'm not a fan of the "secret question" either, I just enter a long string of garbage for the answer. Something even more difficult to guess than a password. If I forget the password...well, I just won't then, will I?:-P
Oh, I don't hate Microsoft, I just wish that some other people (read as "open source" or at least "free") could come up with debuggers that are as friendly and functional as theirs. That said, though, I've never actually tried their J# IDE for anything other than editing (because it does some nice syntax highlighting and code completion). I used the command line to compile, and never touched their debugger.
I generally prefer without. My intro CS course (in Java) five years ago was taught using emacs (which I actually didn't like at the time), and part of the beginning of the course was graded on knowing emacs shortcuts. A later course that I was a TA for used BlueJay, and again grading was done dependent on using that IDE.
I am more a fan of letting students choose their own environment. I've been using UltraEdit for a long long time, and I'm very happy with it. My suggestion would be to give students a list of good editor options, but not require them to use any single one. Maybe a later lesson could focus on the debugging potential of one IDE or another (I hate to say it, but Microsoft has some great debuggers). My experience, though, is that the main issue for students is what they're writing, not how they write it.
So I guess advertising companies are joining the fight against obesity? Now to avoid an ad, people will actually have to get up and leave the room. I suppose the downside, though, is the most logical place to go would be the kitchen...
Did anyone actually read it as it is written? Here, I'll put the header of the section together with the subsection:
You agree to NOT use the Service to employ tactics and/or technologies to prevent the full and complete delivery or display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages, including employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages.
So basically what it says is that you cannot use the LJ service to use or deploy ad-blocking software, but it says nothing about using ad-blocking software which you got someplace else which is not related to LJ.
So if somebody was "found guilty of breaking into [my] computer without [my] knowledge," and fined that million dollars, do I get it? It was *my* computer that was broken into, so where does the money go if not to me?
If every JPEG was 500 KB, 4,708,523,520 of them. This doesn't account for the operating system, if there is one. Still, when would you ever need to store nearly 5 trillion JPEGs, unless you're Google Caching?
In case nobody realized...4,708,523,520 is in the billions, not trillions as mentioned above.
Can't chmod/etc without being root anyway, since it's owned by root:root. I think chmod is safe, it's just chown that is worrysome.
I've had a few minor difficulties with that; from what I can tell, the only reason chown is not generally available to normal users is the chance that someone could chown a file in his own home directory to somebody else and then be unable to touch it and need to get help from the admin to fix it.
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I'm sure something like that could work. Although...instead of nudging the other satellites out of orbit, which would use fuel, perhaps carry along a store of small adhesive rocket engines. These could be affixed to dead objects to push them out of orbit (either by slowing them or by pushing them towards the planet). Not sure how much force would be required for your average satellite, though, but it's probably more than an Estes model rocket engine would provide...
They weren't only trying to get in as Administrator, the first one must have made it through his list of passwords for that and had proceeded on to other names. I wasn't particularly worried, though, because although everything is shared, the only thing that is writable is the FTP home directory.
That's actually quite useful to me. Twice I've watched somebody attempt to brute-force their way into an FTP server that I run for myself (which I have since taken off of the public internet, since I realized I only use it on my LAN), and now I know that the attacks which came from 61/8 and 62/8 are in Asia and Europe, respectively (therefore I don't have to worry about blocking those entire IP ranges, since if my FTP server were public again, I would never be in one of those ranges trying to get in). Anybody else have a practical use for this?
Actually, to be truly safe but have a relatively normal browsing experience (and yes, I'm saying that lynx is not normal :-P), use a virtual machine to run a second copy of your OS, and use the browser there. Or, even better (since theoretically a Windows file share between the two might allow an infection to transmit), different OS's. I do something similar when I'm not sure how safe a download is, although I've been lax about it lately and, as a result, had to fight off an infection a few weeks ago.
I agree, and from a programmer's perspective, it's a lot easier to write for one core (like the Wii) than three (like the 360) or, what is it, eight in the PS3? Since the Wii will be easier to write for, more games are likely to come out more quickly for it. I think developers are going to be stuck for a while trying to figure out how to use all of the cores they have in the more powerful consoles, rather than trying to make a fun and innovative game.
"Quit your job" is not what I would call a realistic solution for "I want multiple virtual desktops under Windows." Just my opinion, but it seems a little excessive. :-P
I'm pretty sure that the hatred originally comes from how Israel was carved out of Palestine after WW2. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, however, they (along with neighboring Islamic nations) attacked Israel and got their collective asses whooped. Palestine lost the rest of their land, and I'm pretty sure Israel took a large portion of Egypt, which they have since given back incrementally.
Basically, Palestinians were angry because they lost half of their country, and now they're angry because they've lost the rest of it and haven't yet managed to get it back. Plus the Israeli military isn't exactly "nice" about defending itself, hence the brutality described above.
I remember seeing something similar about the surprising noticable differences after that huge power outage that took out the northeastern US back in...2003?
Since many sites don't do this, and I'm not a fan of the "secret question" either, I just enter a long string of garbage for the answer. Something even more difficult to guess than a password. If I forget the password...well, I just won't then, will I? :-P
Oh, I don't hate Microsoft, I just wish that some other people (read as "open source" or at least "free") could come up with debuggers that are as friendly and functional as theirs. That said, though, I've never actually tried their J# IDE for anything other than editing (because it does some nice syntax highlighting and code completion). I used the command line to compile, and never touched their debugger.
I generally prefer without. My intro CS course (in Java) five years ago was taught using emacs (which I actually didn't like at the time), and part of the beginning of the course was graded on knowing emacs shortcuts. A later course that I was a TA for used BlueJay, and again grading was done dependent on using that IDE.
I am more a fan of letting students choose their own environment. I've been using UltraEdit for a long long time, and I'm very happy with it. My suggestion would be to give students a list of good editor options, but not require them to use any single one. Maybe a later lesson could focus on the debugging potential of one IDE or another (I hate to say it, but Microsoft has some great debuggers). My experience, though, is that the main issue for students is what they're writing, not how they write it.
So I guess advertising companies are joining the fight against obesity? Now to avoid an ad, people will actually have to get up and leave the room. I suppose the downside, though, is the most logical place to go would be the kitchen...
Did anyone actually read it as it is written? Here, I'll put the header of the section together with the subsection:
You agree to NOT use the Service to employ tactics and/or technologies to prevent the full and complete delivery or display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages, including employing and/or providing software programs, browser scripts, or other technologies that serve to block or substantially impair the display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages.
So basically what it says is that you cannot use the LJ service to use or deploy ad-blocking software, but it says nothing about using ad-blocking software which you got someplace else which is not related to LJ.
So if somebody was "found guilty of breaking into [my] computer without [my] knowledge," and fined that million dollars, do I get it? It was *my* computer that was broken into, so where does the money go if not to me?
Actually, I think it's named for the home planet of the Alkaris from Master of Orion.
Interesting peppering punctuation use in the post, I've never used a colon that way myself...
Can't chmod /etc without being root anyway, since it's owned by root:root. I think chmod is safe, it's just chown that is worrysome.
I've had a few minor difficulties with that; from what I can tell, the only reason chown is not generally available to normal users is the chance that someone could chown a file in his own home directory to somebody else and then be unable to touch it and need to get help from the admin to fix it.
Found a copy on Shareaza, but don't bother. It's 900M for a boot image that'll show some guy's ass on the screen when it loads.