I went to a Shell gas station a few months ago and they had 19" flat screen TVs above every pump, playing the news and running commercials at an ear piercing level. It was unbelievable. I left, and figured that was an idea that couldn't possibly last long. But lo and behold, just a few days ago I drove by and the damn place was PACKED with customers listening to that shit, half of them staring blankly at the telescreens because they can't stand for three damn minutes to be alone with their thoughts while their tank fills.
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Thanks for the link. I love the bit about the engineers van running out of fuel. My dad is a glider pilot and has long insisted that this makes him a better powered plane pilot as well.
Obama, being bi-racial, is just as much white as he is black.
Most African Americans are the result of hundreds of years of interbreeding with white people. Obama is probably as black as they are, but (as has been pointed out to me) he is half Kenyan, while black Americans have ancestors from west Africa.
It would be nice to have a third party (or better yet a 4th party) who can win a substantial part of the vote and a significant chunk of congress (10-20 votes in the house and 5 in the senate and be very powerful)
If you don't have preferential voting then a vote for a small, new party would almost certainly be wasted. Because of this the USA has a two party system.
The best fix for brute force is the old idea you mention of an enforced wait between attempts. It's a pain when you're locked out of a server you're legitimately allowed to use, but it's very useful to keep brute-force attacks down. Giving a couple of chances with a short wait and then imposing a much longer once after 2 to 5 tries seems to be a pretty good balance.
Which would be so easy to implement in openssh. Seems silly not to have it there as a standard feature.
I seriously doubt they put the passenger internet access on the same packet-switched network as flight control.
One thing which might happen is that they will have (say) five networks for carrying their critical data. They design them to be independent, run them along different paths etc. Then they say you know, there is this other network which is used to carry the sat phones or something, wouldn't it be good if we could use that as a kind of ultimate fallback? So then you have a dependency on a network which is used for something else. Not really an important dependency because you don't intend to rely on it. But a dependency none the less.
I work in ATC and I have to say it is difficult to do that in a totally thorough way. For example your flight control system might need information on the flight plans being used by the aircraft. These might be generated off line by a variety of people using different sources of information. You don't want type that stuff in again to get it into the aircraft so you might have some kind of interface for doing that. The interface will be made deliberately crude, and thus less subject to the transmission of arbitrary data, but I am sure there will be a link of sorts between the a list of flights in some managers copy of excel and a few bytes of data in the flight control system.
ATC systems are like this. They are technically air gapped but they have links to the outside world and increasingly the operators expect to be able to make use of this information. How else does information on flight movements get on to the web? They don't have people typing that stuff in.
Not sure if it is the same crater but I did see a picture of a new Mars crater which was just a smudge in the sand. The impactor had fallen apart before impact and just spread some darker dust around. I think it would be very interesting to see how much of this object actually hits the ground, and how much mass gets thrown into the atmosphere.
Maybe I am counting on this too much. 4% is not that high. Cross fingers. Touch chipboard.
There was this Australian woman filling out immigration forms to enter the US. She made a mistake with her writing and asked for a rubber so that she could rub out what she was writing and start again.
Apparently that means something entirely different in the US.
One caveat to keep in mind is that I can't seem to find any place that sells additional power adapters (yet)
I plan to get an Eee and just put a meter on the power adapter. The plug looks like it should be available at an electronics store. It should be possible to solder it to a old phone plug pack or similar.
When it sold out here in Australia there were reports of schools buying 30 or 40 at a time, and families buying one for everybody in the household. I think the price point is just right to say lets get one each rather than lets get one to share.
A long long time ago when computer terminals were a novel idea I heard a story of a science museum where they set up a dumb terminal which people could type things on, just for fun. Of course they got schoolboys in who typed rude words on the terminal so they wrote a bit of software (must have been hooked up to a minicomputer or some such) to check typed words against a banned list.
Of course, there had to be a way of printing out the list of banned words...
So I wonder if the government will be publishing a list of web sites which the filter blocks.
Someone will find a way around it, then everyone will have a way around it, and then your are back where you started except that you've spent millions of dollars which would have been better spent hunting down the people who hurt the kids in the first place.
If you are a Labour party senator you have bought valuable votes to tuck away for the next election, and got your face on the evening news. That is well worth the millions of dollars.
And if you want to bypass a filter, a 13 year old is definitely the person to see about it.
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Thanks for the link. I love the bit about the engineers van running out of fuel. My dad is a glider pilot and has long insisted that this makes him a better powered plane pilot as well.
Most African Americans are the result of hundreds of years of interbreeding with white people. Obama is probably as black as they are, but (as has been pointed out to me) he is half Kenyan, while black Americans have ancestors from west Africa.
If you don't have preferential voting then a vote for a small, new party would almost certainly be wasted. Because of this the USA has a two party system.
Which would be so easy to implement in openssh. Seems silly not to have it there as a standard feature.
Messenger would have been a golden opportunity to try a solar sail.
One thing which might happen is that they will have (say) five networks for carrying their critical data. They design them to be independent, run them along different paths etc. Then they say you know, there is this other network which is used to carry the sat phones or something, wouldn't it be good if we could use that as a kind of ultimate fallback? So then you have a dependency on a network which is used for something else. Not really an important dependency because you don't intend to rely on it. But a dependency none the less.
Good point. I would hate to see their foundations be overloaded.
... is one that's physically isolated.I work in ATC and I have to say it is difficult to do that in a totally thorough way. For example your flight control system might need information on the flight plans being used by the aircraft. These might be generated off line by a variety of people using different sources of information. You don't want type that stuff in again to get it into the aircraft so you might have some kind of interface for doing that. The interface will be made deliberately crude, and thus less subject to the transmission of arbitrary data, but I am sure there will be a link of sorts between the a list of flights in some managers copy of excel and a few bytes of data in the flight control system.
ATC systems are like this. They are technically air gapped but they have links to the outside world and increasingly the operators expect to be able to make use of this information. How else does information on flight movements get on to the web? They don't have people typing that stuff in.
How is the skiing at this time of year? Its 40 C in Melbourne. Must be sunny down your way as well.
Unless it is buggy.
You would think that for half a million dollars they would pay someone to follow you and take care of the load.
given me a designated routeAhh maybe they did.
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Not sure if it is the same crater but I did see a picture of a new Mars crater which was just a smudge in the sand. The impactor had fallen apart before impact and just spread some darker dust around. I think it would be very interesting to see how much of this object actually hits the ground, and how much mass gets thrown into the atmosphere.
Maybe I am counting on this too much. 4% is not that high. Cross fingers. Touch chipboard.
There was this Australian woman filling out immigration forms to enter the US. She made a mistake with her writing and asked for a rubber so that she could rub out what she was writing and start again.
Apparently that means something entirely different in the US.
I plan to get an Eee and just put a meter on the power adapter. The plug looks like it should be available at an electronics store. It should be possible to solder it to a old phone plug pack or similar.
When it sold out here in Australia there were reports of schools buying 30 or 40 at a time, and families buying one for everybody in the household. I think the price point is just right to say lets get one each rather than lets get one to share.
I think the Eee is the new Psion, as far as use cases and form factor go, anyway.
Its cheaper, too.
A long long time ago when computer terminals were a novel idea I heard a story of a science museum where they set up a dumb terminal which people could type things on, just for fun. Of course they got schoolboys in who typed rude words on the terminal so they wrote a bit of software (must have been hooked up to a minicomputer or some such) to check typed words against a banned list.
Of course, there had to be a way of printing out the list of banned words...
So I wonder if the government will be publishing a list of web sites which the filter blocks.
I clicked on it then I thought for about one second that it was going to redirect to myminicity.com and that I had been done again.
Every single thing they do is about buying votes. Thats called democracy.
If you are a Labour party senator you have bought valuable votes to tuck away for the next election, and got your face on the evening news. That is well worth the millions of dollars.
And if you want to bypass a filter, a 13 year old is definitely the person to see about it.
That'l be a change since the .cx suffix is technically part of Oz