Most decent metal detectors don't detect magnetic resonance; they detect RF resonance, which all conductors (including all metals) have. Ceramics and glass, being insulators, don't have RF resonance, and so don't set off the detector.
Seems to me that any metallic object crafted to cancel out/dampen its own resonance field would pass by a standard metal detector too.
I'd also love an improved physics engine -- not the kind that involves realistic trajectories and jumping, but the kind that means that if I fire a gun, the bullet can be deflected by the victim's ribcage and not cause instant death... the kind that will track the actual health stats of 100 NPCs so that they have to go eat and use the restroom every once in a while, and characters on a stealth mission will have to cough if surrounded by a cloud of smoke. Really... there are so many environmental factors left out of current games; a gaming world that properly modelled atmosphere contents and respiration requirements would be quite impressive. How about if characters get a sunburn if they stay out in the sun without protection for too long? Characters whose reflexes slow down as the temperature drops?
Actually, this was making me think of some of the games I have enjoyed, including Conan the Barbarian on an orange/brown and gray/black monochrome monitor back in the day....
Yeah, me too. To date, I have yet to see a video game character with a realistic-looking male crotch. Those poor, poor bastards. And yet, so many guys look at those video game characters as heroes in spite of their status as eunichs. I hope that with this latest advancement in technology, men will finally get some anatomical upgrades so they can be, you know... men.
I too have always wondered why so many on/. have a fondness for eunichs[sic]....
Regular code obfuscators are pretty obvious to spot, and you can usually fingerprint which obfuscator was used, if it wasn't homemade. Whatever this code is, it's not something you see in every day asm.
It remains unclear whether the secret to Ildstad’s recipe is the facilitating cells or the timing of a certain chemotherapy drug, called cyclophosphamide, that is used to prevent graft rejection and GvHD. “The facilitating cell adds an extra level of complexity that might not be necessary,” Tisdale says. The question is difficult to answer — all of the study subjects received the facilitating cells.
Moreover, much about the cells themselves and the method used to isolate them remain shrouded in a veil of secrecy — Ildstad is seeking a way to commercialize the approach through a company she founded called Regenerex, based in Louisville. “It’s difficult to assess something that doesn’t provide the key methodology,” says Megan Sykes, director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology at Columbia University in New York. “Nobody is quite sure what these cells are.”
So the good news is that this will likely be funded right through the trials phase. The bad news is that it'll come out the other end wrapped in IP restrictions and not widely available to the public as a standard procedure.
You can't hack an FBI server over the Internet if there's no connection to it.
Unfortunately, there's always people, and their proclivity to carry data around with them (in their heads, or on removable media). If Stuxnet has shown us nothing else, it has shown us that no computerized system in the modern world is truly disconnected from the Internet.
To date, have not used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, but we cannot underestimate their intent. have shown interest in pursuing hacking skills. And they may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders, with an eye toward pursuing cyber attacks.
Hmm... seems it doesn't work for those who have already used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack.
Obesity kills very few people. Some effects obesity has on the body and disease that can cause obesity can and do influence a person's lifespan.
I can't remember the last time my life was threatened by someone being overly obese.
Point taken though; terrorism is only a threat in as much as a society's reaction makes it a threat. Otherwise, it's just individual acts of intimidation and destruction. Most of the global damage done from 9/11 has nothing to do with the innocent victims who died that day due to terrorists, and everything to do with governmental reaction to those events.
How many dozens of 9/11's happen each year as a result of smoking and alcohol?
I challenge you to provide one example of an airplane being piloted into a building because of smoking and alcohol. Stop whining about helping real people, and join the fight the help the real heroes... the ones who died in 9/11.
That aside, I've witnessed a gaping hole in a building in my city caused by a pilot who had been drinking. But I believe that's beside the point. 9/11 was about more than the twin towers; another plane load of people deliberately crashed their plane with no buildings in site.
The truth is that even people texting while driving are more of a national security threat than terrorists. This is obviously the point the GP was making; attempting to make the reference more literal is more than a bit disingenuous.
Tell me: which government in Afghanistan is the US using this technique against? How about Saudi Arabia? Pakistan?
These days, they seem to be using these methods against "Terrorist groups" which are NOT governments... and they seem plenty happy to ignore what country the citizens of these groups belong to/reside in when they go for the takedown/intimidation. Not to mention the fact that the political purposes are all domestic.
Definitely not Foreign policy; especially when the FBI gets involved (CIA works with foreign policy; FBI's only international remit is to liase with other national police forces).
The interesting thing is that despite the fact that it's more likely the Russian mafia, it wouldn't surprise me at all to discover terrorist orgs funding themselves via Blackhole exploit kits.
Ahh... but truthiness depends on how many digits your slashID has. Since my number is half the length of yours, I can be trusted twice as much. And I happen to know that what you said was false. "Your" private jet is in fact a timeshare.
Well they have their own nationality names anyways. Mexican, Canadian... Also it is the United States of <b>America</b> as part of our name, unlike the other countries in our areas the USA is 3 words long. So it makes making a word to describe us rather difficult....
You do realize that there is no country called Mexico, right? It's called the United Mexican States (or United States of Mexico). In this case, calling someone from the UMS a Mexican is exactly like calling someone from the USA American. It's just taking out the United States part. Canada, on the other hand, is a single federal state (so would be called the Federal State of Canada).
The current wikipedia entry states,
"The earliest known use of the name America for this landmass dates from April 25, 1507, where it was used for what is now known as South America. It first appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthias Ringmann,[25] states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for 'earth', and meaning 'land of Amerigo'.[25] (See etymology.) Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich.[26]
"Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.[25] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia; in fact, it is not known what Vespucci believed on this count, and he may have died believing what Columbus had, that they had reached the East Indies in Asia rather than a new continent.[27] Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after he had ceased collaboration with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.[25]"
So originally, anyone termed American would have been native to the South American mainland. Not that it really matters anymore.
The worst part is, people this incredibly stupid are teaching your children!
People that incredibly stupid may be teaching someone's children, but that is neither here nor there. It's the school district administration and the police who messed this one up.
If you need to report CP, the best solution is to report it to a private agency that is required to report it to the authorities. Such private agencies include lawyers, your anti-virus/anti-spam software company, other computer security firms, and other agencies with professional ties (doctors, engineers, priests, ombudsmen, etc.). Make sure it's someone you trust and have a working relationship with, however.
This way, there's some level of credibility between you and the report, and the private agency can still testify that you reported it to them, as opposed to them finding it on your system. When things are done this way, the authorities generally investigate the full path to the CP's origin as opposed to the person/organisation reporting it.
Remember also that there are two parts to Wine: there's the runtime environment (take a compiled PE file and run it on another architecture) that most people think of, but the more interesting part is the libraries: you can take a piece of source code written for Windows 7 and compile it against the Wine libs to run on pretty much any other architecture.
That said, my main use for Wine has been to create portable OS X bundles of Windows apps, with all the config files, etc. being inside the application bundle. It works a treat, and enables one to run an app off of a USB key with persistent settings across OS X and Windows platforms. Something you can't do with a VM without a whole lot of extra heavy lifting (like loading an entire virtual machine onto the hardware).
You've been down-modded, but I believe you are to some degree correct... the last I heard, the Church of Scientology owned a major stake in the company. The company is, however, a legit security company, and has employees/investors who do not belong to the CoS. So the observation is likely not all that pertinent to the discussion.
Considering the historical Anonymous attacks on CoS though, there could be some sort of a tie-in.
There are different kinds of brilliant. Someone can be able to factor primes in their head but be clueless about social interaction. Most people would call them brilliant.
Likewise, someone may understand system security systems, or understand how to manipulate masses of bored people into doing their will, and this doesn't mean that they have the skills to evade those hunting them down.
The people who are brilliant in that manner never get caught, so you never hear about them. They also tend to operate low-key, so their exploits likely aren't even noticed by others most of the time. These are the people that have somehow suppressed (or been born without) the natural instinct to share their accomplishments with others in their social sphere.
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er... s/american people/american descent/
It has no place in the America of our founders.
Neither does a country where women and people of african american people having the vote or being allowed to run for presidency....
Times change. Argue why it has not place in the America of your children -- this will have more bearing on reality.
Most decent metal detectors don't detect magnetic resonance; they detect RF resonance, which all conductors (including all metals) have. Ceramics and glass, being insulators, don't have RF resonance, and so don't set off the detector.
Seems to me that any metallic object crafted to cancel out/dampen its own resonance field would pass by a standard metal detector too.
I'd also love an improved physics engine -- not the kind that involves realistic trajectories and jumping, but the kind that means that if I fire a gun, the bullet can be deflected by the victim's ribcage and not cause instant death... the kind that will track the actual health stats of 100 NPCs so that they have to go eat and use the restroom every once in a while, and characters on a stealth mission will have to cough if surrounded by a cloud of smoke. Really... there are so many environmental factors left out of current games; a gaming world that properly modelled atmosphere contents and respiration requirements would be quite impressive. How about if characters get a sunburn if they stay out in the sun without protection for too long? Characters whose reflexes slow down as the temperature drops?
64k should be enough for anyone....
Actually, this was making me think of some of the games I have enjoyed, including Conan the Barbarian on an orange/brown and gray/black monochrome monitor back in the day....
better looking "anatomical peaks"!
Yeah, me too. To date, I have yet to see a video game character with a realistic-looking male crotch. Those poor, poor bastards. And yet, so many guys look at those video game characters as heroes in spite of their status as eunichs. I hope that with this latest advancement in technology, men will finally get some anatomical upgrades so they can be, you know... men.
I too have always wondered why so many on /. have a fondness for eunichs[sic]....
Regular code obfuscators are pretty obvious to spot, and you can usually fingerprint which obfuscator was used, if it wasn't homemade. Whatever this code is, it's not something you see in every day asm.
It remains unclear whether the secret to Ildstad’s recipe is the facilitating cells or the timing of a certain chemotherapy drug, called cyclophosphamide, that is used to prevent graft rejection and GvHD. “The facilitating cell adds an extra level of complexity that might not be necessary,” Tisdale says. The question is difficult to answer — all of the study subjects received the facilitating cells.
Moreover, much about the cells themselves and the method used to isolate them remain shrouded in a veil of secrecy — Ildstad is seeking a way to commercialize the approach through a company she founded called Regenerex, based in Louisville. “It’s difficult to assess something that doesn’t provide the key methodology,” says Megan Sykes, director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology at Columbia University in New York. “Nobody is quite sure what these cells are.”
So the good news is that this will likely be funded right through the trials phase. The bad news is that it'll come out the other end wrapped in IP restrictions and not widely available to the public as a standard procedure.
I have to admit, I enjoyed that movie. You forgot the sale of box jellyfish though....
At least you didn't get the blue windscreen of death....
You can't hack an FBI server over the Internet if there's no connection to it.
Unfortunately, there's always people, and their proclivity to carry data around with them (in their heads, or on removable media). If Stuxnet has shown us nothing else, it has shown us that no computerized system in the modern world is truly disconnected from the Internet.
To date, have not used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, but we cannot underestimate their intent. have shown interest in pursuing hacking skills. And they may seek to train their own recruits or hire outsiders, with an eye toward pursuing cyber attacks.
Hmm... seems it doesn't work for those who have already used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack.
Obesity kills very few people. Some effects obesity has on the body and disease that can cause obesity can and do influence a person's lifespan.
I can't remember the last time my life was threatened by someone being overly obese.
Point taken though; terrorism is only a threat in as much as a society's reaction makes it a threat. Otherwise, it's just individual acts of intimidation and destruction. Most of the global damage done from 9/11 has nothing to do with the innocent victims who died that day due to terrorists, and everything to do with governmental reaction to those events.
How many dozens of 9/11's happen each year as a result of smoking and alcohol?
I challenge you to provide one example of an airplane being piloted into a building because of smoking and alcohol. Stop whining about helping real people, and join the fight the help the real heroes... the ones who died in 9/11.
http://www.health20-20.org/article/18/for-your-information/alcohol-drug-abuse/alcohol-drug-use-and-air-accidents
http://www.airsafe.com/events/us_ten.htm
That aside, I've witnessed a gaping hole in a building in my city caused by a pilot who had been drinking.
But I believe that's beside the point. 9/11 was about more than the twin towers; another plane load of people deliberately crashed their plane with no buildings in site.
The truth is that even people texting while driving are more of a national security threat than terrorists. This is obviously the point the GP was making; attempting to make the reference more literal is more than a bit disingenuous.
Tell me: which government in Afghanistan is the US using this technique against? How about Saudi Arabia? Pakistan?
These days, they seem to be using these methods against "Terrorist groups" which are NOT governments... and they seem plenty happy to ignore what country the citizens of these groups belong to/reside in when they go for the takedown/intimidation. Not to mention the fact that the political purposes are all domestic.
Definitely not Foreign policy; especially when the FBI gets involved (CIA works with foreign policy; FBI's only international remit is to liase with other national police forces).
Yes... and the last thing we want is a new wave of intercontinental business machines....
Heh... I read this as:
"Terrorism is already funding Blackhole."
The interesting thing is that despite the fact that it's more likely the Russian mafia, it wouldn't surprise me at all to discover terrorist orgs funding themselves via Blackhole exploit kits.
Ahh... but truthiness depends on how many digits your slashID has. Since my number is half the length of yours, I can be trusted twice as much. And I happen to know that what you said was false. "Your" private jet is in fact a timeshare.
Well they have their own nationality names anyways. Mexican, Canadian... Also it is the United States of <b>America</b> as part of our name, unlike the other countries in our areas the USA is 3 words long. So it makes making a word to describe us rather difficult....
You do realize that there is no country called Mexico, right? It's called the United Mexican States (or United States of Mexico). In this case, calling someone from the UMS a Mexican is exactly like calling someone from the USA American. It's just taking out the United States part. Canada, on the other hand, is a single federal state (so would be called the Federal State of Canada).
The current wikipedia entry states,
"The earliest known use of the name America for this landmass dates from April 25, 1507, where it was used for what is now known as South America. It first appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, anonymous but apparently written by Waldseemüller's collaborator Matthias Ringmann,[25] states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part [that is, the South American mainland], after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Americus Vespucius is the Latinized version of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, and America is the feminine form of Americus. Amerigen is explained as Amerigo plus gen, the accusative case of the Greek word for 'earth', and meaning 'land of Amerigo'.[25] (See etymology.) Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich.[26]
"Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death.[25] Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia; in fact, it is not known what Vespucci believed on this count, and he may have died believing what Columbus had, that they had reached the East Indies in Asia rather than a new continent.[27] Spain officially refused to accept the name America for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after he had ceased collaboration with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when Gerardus Mercator applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa.[25]"
So originally, anyone termed American would have been native to the South American mainland. Not that it really matters anymore.
The worst part is, people this incredibly stupid are teaching your children!
People that incredibly stupid may be teaching someone's children, but that is neither here nor there. It's the school district administration and the police who messed this one up.
If you need to report CP, the best solution is to report it to a private agency that is required to report it to the authorities. Such private agencies include lawyers, your anti-virus/anti-spam software company, other computer security firms, and other agencies with professional ties (doctors, engineers, priests, ombudsmen, etc.). Make sure it's someone you trust and have a working relationship with, however.
This way, there's some level of credibility between you and the report, and the private agency can still testify that you reported it to them, as opposed to them finding it on your system. When things are done this way, the authorities generally investigate the full path to the CP's origin as opposed to the person/organisation reporting it.
He should have used a common expression and just told him to stick it in a pipe and smoke it.
Remember also that there are two parts to Wine: there's the runtime environment (take a compiled PE file and run it on another architecture) that most people think of, but the more interesting part is the libraries: you can take a piece of source code written for Windows 7 and compile it against the Wine libs to run on pretty much any other architecture.
That said, my main use for Wine has been to create portable OS X bundles of Windows apps, with all the config files, etc. being inside the application bundle. It works a treat, and enables one to run an app off of a USB key with persistent settings across OS X and Windows platforms. Something you can't do with a VM without a whole lot of extra heavy lifting (like loading an entire virtual machine onto the hardware).
You've been down-modded, but I believe you are to some degree correct... the last I heard, the Church of Scientology owned a major stake in the company. The company is, however, a legit security company, and has employees/investors who do not belong to the CoS. So the observation is likely not all that pertinent to the discussion.
Considering the historical Anonymous attacks on CoS though, there could be some sort of a tie-in.
There are different kinds of brilliant. Someone can be able to factor primes in their head but be clueless about social interaction. Most people would call them brilliant.
Likewise, someone may understand system security systems, or understand how to manipulate masses of bored people into doing their will, and this doesn't mean that they have the skills to evade those hunting them down.
The people who are brilliant in that manner never get caught, so you never hear about them. They also tend to operate low-key, so their exploits likely aren't even noticed by others most of the time. These are the people that have somehow suppressed (or been born without) the natural instinct to share their accomplishments with others in their social sphere.