only because of the fact that there is a sucker born every minute.
I don't think that the number of scams has really increased or anything...the information deluge from the internet makes it seem like there are more scammers now than before. The fact appears to be that in place of one sucker being swindled, now you have 10 suckers being swindled simultaneously.
I had a hard time trying to understand from the blurb what the whole deal was. It's a shame the slashdot editors are not interested in doing their jobs.
I assume that being a Google employee represents the highpoint of your career and you would never want to leave...like one of the xooglers says, why become a boring specialized cell when you can be a stem-cell and take on any and every challenge thrown at you?
You do realize that businesses which run windows operating system usually have a systems admin who takes care of locking down the computers and preventing unauthorized attacks, etc. So, the problem has always been for home users who manage their own systems, and are easily fooled into the many frauds/spoofs/phishing attacks. Good that this is being taken care of in IE7.
This is good, because this creates a competition between two companies which are both strong...no chance of Microsoft swallowing up a smaller company and becoming a monopoly in this case...
I hope this brings out the best value for the consumers.
You don't realize how true your words can actually turn out to be!! The most fascinating point of the research, which the submitter omitted completely, is the fact that a homologous gene is present in the Human genome!!
Now, just think of the implications of this research if we can somehow learn how this gene is regulated - no more amputations, no more diabetes type 1, no more any disease where a lost body part is gone forever!
Amazing, isn't it? I love to dream, but the reality may not turn out to be that ideal...but surely something amazing is going to result from these efforts by the Utah scientists.
A petition should be started to prevent this remake from happening.
Why? It's not as if the original is going to be "deleted" and "replaced" by any remake! The original is always there, and if by watching the remake you feel that the original was better, you will enjoy the original more than you did the first time around. If the remake is better, again you win. So, why complain and push for blocking remakes?
That's a lot of power!! And we are talking about idle appliances, not active ones?! Now, what do they mean by a "typical house"? How many appliances are sucking the power? Let's see...
You can't increase the efficiency unless you convert some energy which would *otherwise be wasted* into hydrogen. That's why a hybrid combustion/electric engine works. It converts the kinetic energy of braking/deceleration (which would otherwise be wasted as heat) into electricity.
So, maybe that's what is going on with these trucks...enormous amounts of kinetic energy is usually wasted when braking such behemoths...maybe that's where the application is and that's why it is in use...I would hardly assume that without such rigorous analysis of the benefits/liabilities such a technology would be thriving now.
Why does everybody keep calling hydrogen a "catalyst"? Come on, people, high-school chemistry tells us that a catalyst is a substance that does not itself get used up in a reaction...it just lowers the transistion state energy. So, quit calling hydrogen a catalyst. It is a reactant. The product is, again, water. Geez!
IANAME (Mech Engineer), but I guess that the alternator recharges the batteries normally, and once the batteries are recharged, the work done by the alternator is not really being harnessed. So, instead of letting that energy go to waste (heat), it is channeled to split water...small amount of energy conservation but a little bit is better than none.
Surely, Jobs knew that the makers of the $100 laptop were looking for an open-source software solution. So, he made an offer knowing fully well that it would not be accepted...but he is getting tons of publicity and goodwill because of this.
What I wonder is, would he have offered free tech support with the free OS X for the laptops? Obivously I haven't RTFA.
She should fight this in court...AFAIK (and IANAL) the courts no longer allow digital photos as evidence because of the ease with which they can be manipulated.
No matter what the circumstances, no matter what the fora, and no matter what, I think that Freedom of Speech is to be protected. Any attempt at stifling it with whatever justification is the first step towards a slippery slope leading to authoritarian rule and erosion of all kinds of privacy and freedoms...albeit this could take many decades to actually happen.
If the erosion of freedoms starts now, I fear that by the time I die, the world will be much, much different from the heydays of the internet when everything was open and without restrictions...I fear that we will have a very strict and monitored society where your every move will be logged and your every thought will be scrutinized for compliance with the dominant peoples' satisfaction.
"In an alternative vein, Intelligent Design/Creationism does have a few specs here and there that support it, but not nearly enough that would indicate the theory without some religious notion already in place."
Can you back up your claims by citing some evidence, motherfucker? Retards like you are despicable! Before you dare say that ID has *any* support, make sure you have the evidence to back it up, dumbfuck.
The Kansas Board did not adopt Intelligent Design. Instead it did two things:
1)It said that schools should present evolution as a flawed theory. This has the effect of students looking at evolution and saying "oh, it's not good enough to explain what we see...". A side effect of this is that the students now become more receptive to kooky ideas like Intelligent Design.
2)It redefined the meaning of science. According to the new definition, science is no longer is limited to searching for natural explanations for natural phenomena.
These changes are more damaging to education in the long run compared to adopting Intelligent Design alone.
July 28, 1962 -- Mariner I space probe. A bug in the flight software for the Mariner 1 causes the rocket to divert from its intended path on launch. Mission control destroys the rocket over the Atlantic Ocean. The investigation into the accident discovers that a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed into computer code, causing the computer to miscalculate the rocket's trajectory.
1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline. Operatives working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline. The Soviets had obtained the system as part of a wide-ranging effort to covertly purchase or steal sensitive U.S. technology. The CIA reportedly found out about the program and decided to make it backfire with equipment that would pass Soviet inspection and then fail once in operation. The resulting event is reportedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet's history.
1985-1987 -- Therac-25 medical accelerator. A radiation therapy device malfunctions and delivers lethal radiation doses at several medical facilities. Based upon a previous design, the Therac-25 was an "improved" therapy system that could deliver two different kinds of radiation: either a low-power electron beam (beta particles) or X-rays. The Therac-25's X-rays were generated by smashing high-power electrons into a metal target positioned between the electron gun and the patient. A second "improvement" was the replacement of the older Therac-20's electromechanical safety interlocks with software control, a decision made because software was perceived to be more reliable.
What engineers didn't know was that both the 20 and the 25 were built upon an operating system that had been kludged together by a programmer with no formal training. Because of a subtle bug called a "race condition," a quick-fingered typist could accidentally configure the Therac-25 so the electron beam would fire in high-power mode but with the metal X-ray target out of position. At least five patients die; others are seriously injured.
1988 -- Buffer overflow in Berkeley Unix finger daemon. The first internet worm (the so-called Morris Worm) infects between 2,000 and 6,000 computers in less than a day by taking advantage of a buffer overflow. The specific code is a function in the standard input/output library routine called gets() designed to get a line of text over the network. Unfortunately, gets() has no provision to limit its input, and an overly large input allows the worm to take over any machine to which it can connect.
Programmers respond by attempting to stamp out the gets() function in working code, but they refuse to remove it from the C programming language's standard input/output library, where it remains to this day.
1988-1996 -- Kerberos Random Number Generator. The authors of the Kerberos security system neglect to properly "seed" the program's random number generator with a truly random seed. As a result, for eight years it is possible to trivially break into any computer that relies on Kerberos for authentication. It is unknown if this bug was ever actually exploited.
January 15, 1990 -- ATT Network Outage. A bug in a new release of the software that controls ATT's #4ESS long distance switches causes these mammoth computers to crash when they receive a specif
I'm quite shocked to see so many dupes posted all the time. Do the editors scan the stories being posted, at all? They seem to be so unaware of what is already posted... the worst cases being dupes occuring on the same day (not this story).
Seriously, I think that given that Slashdot has become so big in terms of users, the editors need to be more serious about making sure dupes don't happen... if the editors are too busy, appoint a dupe editor who will catch the dupes before they are posted. All it requires is for the dupe editor to do a search on Slashdot to see if a story has already been posted...
You are obviously not a Slashdot member... else you would know that even if you get a slashdot id, you can still post as AC by just checking the "post anonymously" checkbox.
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the proposed solution is to break end-to-end in order to protect pricing leverage over the users.
I'm quite disgusted by these US businesses...they are probably the most unethical and immoral among all the developed countries.
only because of the fact that there is a sucker born every minute.
I don't think that the number of scams has really increased or anything...the information deluge from the internet makes it seem like there are more scammers now than before. The fact appears to be that in place of one sucker being swindled, now you have 10 suckers being swindled simultaneously.
A fool and his money...yada yada yada.
I had a hard time trying to understand from the blurb what the whole deal was. It's a shame the slashdot editors are not interested in doing their jobs.
I assume that being a Google employee represents the highpoint of your career and you would never want to leave...like one of the xooglers says, why become a boring specialized cell when you can be a stem-cell and take on any and every challenge thrown at you?
If *I* get a Google job, I am never leaving!
You do realize that businesses which run windows operating system usually have a systems admin who takes care of locking down the computers and preventing unauthorized attacks, etc. So, the problem has always been for home users who manage their own systems, and are easily fooled into the many frauds/spoofs/phishing attacks. Good that this is being taken care of in IE7.
This is good, because this creates a competition between two companies which are both strong...no chance of Microsoft swallowing up a smaller company and becoming a monopoly in this case...
I hope this brings out the best value for the consumers.
You don't realize how true your words can actually turn out to be!! The most fascinating point of the research, which the submitter omitted completely, is the fact that a homologous gene is present in the Human genome!!
Now, just think of the implications of this research if we can somehow learn how this gene is regulated - no more amputations, no more diabetes type 1, no more any disease where a lost body part is gone forever!
Amazing, isn't it? I love to dream, but the reality may not turn out to be that ideal...but surely something amazing is going to result from these efforts by the Utah scientists.
Why? It's not as if the original is going to be "deleted" and "replaced" by any remake! The original is always there, and if by watching the remake you feel that the original was better, you will enjoy the original more than you did the first time around. If the remake is better, again you win. So, why complain and push for blocking remakes?
That's a lot of power!! And we are talking about idle appliances, not active ones?! Now, what do they mean by a "typical house"? How many appliances are sucking the power? Let's see...
TV, VCR, DVD
Computer, Modem (Cable/DSL)
Battery chargers
Alarm clocks
Refrigerators
Furnaces
hmm... anyone know what the power breakdown for these items is?
I get it...an MRI is a mental detector!
Install like 50 of these so that you can process 50 people at a time. Easy, ain't it?
So, maybe that's what is going on with these trucks...enormous amounts of kinetic energy is usually wasted when braking such behemoths...maybe that's where the application is and that's why it is in use...I would hardly assume that without such rigorous analysis of the benefits/liabilities such a technology would be thriving now.
Why does everybody keep calling hydrogen a "catalyst"? Come on, people, high-school chemistry tells us that a catalyst is a substance that does not itself get used up in a reaction...it just lowers the transistion state energy. So, quit calling hydrogen a catalyst. It is a reactant. The product is, again, water. Geez!
IANAME (Mech Engineer), but I guess that the alternator recharges the batteries normally, and once the batteries are recharged, the work done by the alternator is not really being harnessed. So, instead of letting that energy go to waste (heat), it is channeled to split water...small amount of energy conservation but a little bit is better than none.
Surely, Jobs knew that the makers of the $100 laptop were looking for an open-source software solution. So, he made an offer knowing fully well that it would not be accepted...but he is getting tons of publicity and goodwill because of this.
What I wonder is, would he have offered free tech support with the free OS X for the laptops? Obivously I haven't RTFA.
She should fight this in court...AFAIK (and IANAL) the courts no longer allow digital photos as evidence because of the ease with which they can be manipulated.
No matter what the circumstances, no matter what the fora, and no matter what, I think that Freedom of Speech is to be protected. Any attempt at stifling it with whatever justification is the first step towards a slippery slope leading to authoritarian rule and erosion of all kinds of privacy and freedoms...albeit this could take many decades to actually happen.
If the erosion of freedoms starts now, I fear that by the time I die, the world will be much, much different from the heydays of the internet when everything was open and without restrictions...I fear that we will have a very strict and monitored society where your every move will be logged and your every thought will be scrutinized for compliance with the dominant peoples' satisfaction.
Can you back up your claims by citing some evidence, motherfucker? Retards like you are despicable! Before you dare say that ID has *any* support, make sure you have the evidence to back it up, dumbfuck.
The Kansas Board did not adopt Intelligent Design. Instead it did two things:
1)It said that schools should present evolution as a flawed theory. This has the effect of students looking at evolution and saying "oh, it's not good enough to explain what we see...". A side effect of this is that the students now become more receptive to kooky ideas like Intelligent Design.
2)It redefined the meaning of science. According to the new definition, science is no longer is limited to searching for natural explanations for natural phenomena.
These changes are more damaging to education in the long run compared to adopting Intelligent Design alone.
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July 28, 1962 -- Mariner I space probe. A bug in the flight software for the Mariner 1 causes the rocket to divert from its intended path on launch. Mission control destroys the rocket over the Atlantic Ocean. The investigation into the accident discovers that a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed into computer code, causing the computer to miscalculate the rocket's trajectory.
1982 -- Soviet gas pipeline. Operatives working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly (.pdf) plant a bug in a Canadian computer system purchased to control the trans-Siberian gas pipeline. The Soviets had obtained the system as part of a wide-ranging effort to covertly purchase or steal sensitive U.S. technology. The CIA reportedly found out about the program and decided to make it backfire with equipment that would pass Soviet inspection and then fail once in operation. The resulting event is reportedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet's history.
1985-1987 -- Therac-25 medical accelerator. A radiation therapy device malfunctions and delivers lethal radiation doses at several medical facilities. Based upon a previous design, the Therac-25 was an "improved" therapy system that could deliver two different kinds of radiation: either a low-power electron beam (beta particles) or X-rays. The Therac-25's X-rays were generated by smashing high-power electrons into a metal target positioned between the electron gun and the patient. A second "improvement" was the replacement of the older Therac-20's electromechanical safety interlocks with software control, a decision made because software was perceived to be more reliable.
What engineers didn't know was that both the 20 and the 25 were built upon an operating system that had been kludged together by a programmer with no formal training. Because of a subtle bug called a "race condition," a quick-fingered typist could accidentally configure the Therac-25 so the electron beam would fire in high-power mode but with the metal X-ray target out of position. At least five patients die; others are seriously injured.
1988 -- Buffer overflow in Berkeley Unix finger daemon. The first internet worm (the so-called Morris Worm) infects between 2,000 and 6,000 computers in less than a day by taking advantage of a buffer overflow. The specific code is a function in the standard input/output library routine called gets() designed to get a line of text over the network. Unfortunately, gets() has no provision to limit its input, and an overly large input allows the worm to take over any machine to which it can connect.
Programmers respond by attempting to stamp out the gets() function in working code, but they refuse to remove it from the C programming language's standard input/output library, where it remains to this day.
1988-1996 -- Kerberos Random Number Generator. The authors of the Kerberos security system neglect to properly "seed" the program's random number generator with a truly random seed. As a result, for eight years it is possible to trivially break into any computer that relies on Kerberos for authentication. It is unknown if this bug was ever actually exploited.
January 15, 1990 -- ATT Network Outage. A bug in a new release of the software that controls ATT's #4ESS long distance switches causes these mammoth computers to crash when they receive a specif
Imagine that! The Swiss army armed with those deadly Swiss Army Knives!!!
I'm quite shocked to see so many dupes posted all the time. Do the editors scan the stories being posted, at all? They seem to be so unaware of what is already posted... the worst cases being dupes occuring on the same day (not this story).
Seriously, I think that given that Slashdot has become so big in terms of users, the editors need to be more serious about making sure dupes don't happen... if the editors are too busy, appoint a dupe editor who will catch the dupes before they are posted. All it requires is for the dupe editor to do a search on Slashdot to see if a story has already been posted...
You are obviously not a Slashdot member... else you would know that even if you get a slashdot id, you can still post as AC by just checking the "post anonymously" checkbox.
You must be a long-time Slashdot reader, even though you got your id only recently... how do I know this? You obviously did not RTFA!