That one's easy. Hold it near a power cable and use a similar method to that which causes flourescent tubes to flouresce. Then you can even look cool striking silly poses.
What's more worrying is that it's possible to impersonate somebody using only the last 4 digits of an SSN, a name and an address.
My phone banking uses a nice system asking for the nth and nth number of my security code (Which is only known to me), can't companies do something similar? I know my phone company refuses to deal with anything but fault reports unless you dial in from the line you're querying about, is that so difficult either?
You found the MELT_CPU call? That thing was supposed to be taken out years ago.
( I would insert a reference to following it up with the BSD kernel check to see if the system is on fire, but I can't find the damn thing on Google. Anyone help me? )
My school's hardware audit figures put our Dells (1439 desktops, 217 laptops, bought in the last 2 years) at 6% failures which led to an unusable system (So things like motherboard, CPU, RAM and 9% total failures (Including complete and partial of all components). Cutting this down to under 3 months from first installation to first failure, the figures are at 1% and 3%.
It does if when you complete the software you flash it to a ROM and fix it inside the case such that to open the case will physically damage a component to the point that it cannot operate, for example the act of opening the case will trip a microswitch. Make the component something like the module controlling connectivity to the central system (Which contains a unique key for that machine) and the instant you open a case, you have tripped a self-destruct mechanism using the onboard battery. Result - the machine has just nuked its key which allowed it to participate in the election.
The only way to reset the machine is for an engineer to come out and re-flash the key and then update the central controller (Via one of the many secure methods of connectivity already proven today) to accept this new key. If you use a proper encryption system for each console to auth itself with the controller then the key for each console will already be encrypted (A standard PSK system is fine for this) and thus cannot be found by monitoring traffic and re-flashed once the case has been opened.
The entire system design, software and hardware components can be open. All you need to keep secret is the private key of the controlling machine, which is simple enough since the control system is easily monitored by several observers. You program each console with the election details, the public key for the controller, and its own unique key; factory seal it and send it out.
Don't be afraid to use your.htaccess with some URL rewriting to provide backwards compatability. If you've changed your whole site to have newly renamed script files (do.task.php?id=123 instead of taskdo_v2.php?id=123) and are using friendly URL rewriting by default (site.com/task/123) then *please* also include a rewrite for taskdo_v2.php?id=123 to do.task.php?id=123.
Why? It makes sure that old links don't fall into the realms of 404 simply because you made all your url's 'friendly', or renamed a file so it made more sense to you.
I don't think this is gonna change due to tagging. I get the impression (Though will happily acknowledge evidence to the contrary) that the tag system will be expanded to comments, and much like the "fud"/"notfud" tags for articles, a set of tags such as "troll", "lame", "offtopic", "useful", "interesting" alongside their opposites ("notlame", "notuseful") will be implemented in place of traditional moderation. Knowing Slash's penchant for working obscure statistics into things, I think it quite feasable that tagging something as "troll" and having a lot of people negate that will reduce your 'tag power' for future moderations.
Trouble is, as far as I can tell Yahoo! only has the local search edge for the states, likewise with maps.
Google Local / Maps knows a hell of a lot about my local area in the UK, which Y! seems to be lacking. From what else I've seen Google also does the rest of Europe, and most of urban Russia and Asia to a similar degree. Yahoo! gives up anywhere past mapping major roads and has only a vague idea about addresses and local services.
Hang on, if the meal is a pre-prepared one (For example a microwaveable dinner) then the serving size is, by definition, 100% of the product. You cannot take something like that and say "It's a 60g meal, but a serving is only 49g" unless it is designed to be seperated, for example a tin of preprocessed vegetables (Poor example for trans-fats I know).
Sort of. All PlaysForSure is part of Janus, but Janus is not necessarily PlaysForSure. Or, to put it another way, as far as Microsoft are concerned to PlayForSure the device needs to be able to prove itself to the 'host' system in order to get the licence, which uses Janus.
This is why I personally like the iPod/iTunes combi if you must have DRM. It plays for sure.
I don't want my taxes subsidizing someone else's children to go to school. I don't want my taxes subsidizing someone going into space. I don't want my taxes subsidizing traffic lights when I don't drive...
I could go on for a while here. Taxes subsidize a lot of things which have nothing to do with you, and I'm damn sure a central explosives/incendiary store would not only charge people to store there, but would also be used for a lot of the more explosive substances which GOs use.
A colour TV Licence costs £131.50 and a black and white licence costs £44.00.
I make that $246.65 and $82.53 at the current exchange rate. Payable for all devices capable of receiving, including DVRs and PCs with a tuner card. There's a load of other variations for the blind, over 75s, those in care homes etc but those are the basic prices.
And this is why I love the BBC. No qualms about paying a licence fee because it means I get fairly good quality TV, radio, news (online), downloadable material etc without watching a single advert.
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Easy solution is to put Oyster readers on every station regardless. Even better, make it nationwide. I'd love that.
That one's easy. Hold it near a power cable and use a similar method to that which causes flourescent tubes to flouresce. Then you can even look cool striking silly poses.
Surely an electroluminescent light would be better?
Minor point, "SPAM" is a trademark of Hormel Foods. You mean "spam". They get quite irritated about this.
What's more worrying is that it's possible to impersonate somebody using only the last 4 digits of an SSN, a name and an address.
My phone banking uses a nice system asking for the nth and nth number of my security code (Which is only known to me), can't companies do something similar? I know my phone company refuses to deal with anything but fault reports unless you dial in from the line you're querying about, is that so difficult either?
You found the MELT_CPU call? That thing was supposed to be taken out years ago.
( I would insert a reference to following it up with the BSD kernel check to see if the system is on fire, but I can't find the damn thing on Google. Anyone help me? )
Starbucks serves coffee now? The advances to brown liquid technology that modern times allows...
My school's hardware audit figures put our Dells (1439 desktops, 217 laptops, bought in the last 2 years) at 6% failures which led to an unusable system (So things like motherboard, CPU, RAM and 9% total failures (Including complete and partial of all components). Cutting this down to under 3 months from first installation to first failure, the figures are at 1% and 3%.
HTTP does not at any point render Flash. At all. Ever. It may be used to send a binary .fla file which is rendered at the far end though.
It transfers all kinds of files, get over it. I'm not going to waste time sending image requests over FTP.
I never said part of the system wasn't a paper audit trail.
It does if when you complete the software you flash it to a ROM and fix it inside the case such that to open the case will physically damage a component to the point that it cannot operate, for example the act of opening the case will trip a microswitch. Make the component something like the module controlling connectivity to the central system (Which contains a unique key for that machine) and the instant you open a case, you have tripped a self-destruct mechanism using the onboard battery. Result - the machine has just nuked its key which allowed it to participate in the election.
The only way to reset the machine is for an engineer to come out and re-flash the key and then update the central controller (Via one of the many secure methods of connectivity already proven today) to accept this new key. If you use a proper encryption system for each console to auth itself with the controller then the key for each console will already be encrypted (A standard PSK system is fine for this) and thus cannot be found by monitoring traffic and re-flashed once the case has been opened.
The entire system design, software and hardware components can be open. All you need to keep secret is the private key of the controlling machine, which is simple enough since the control system is easily monitored by several observers. You program each console with the election details, the public key for the controller, and its own unique key; factory seal it and send it out.
Don't be afraid to use your .htaccess with some URL rewriting to provide backwards compatability. If you've changed your whole site to have newly renamed script files (do.task.php?id=123 instead of taskdo_v2.php?id=123) and are using friendly URL rewriting by default (site.com/task/123) then *please* also include a rewrite for taskdo_v2.php?id=123 to do.task.php?id=123.
Why? It makes sure that old links don't fall into the realms of 404 simply because you made all your url's 'friendly', or renamed a file so it made more sense to you.
I don't think this is gonna change due to tagging. I get the impression (Though will happily acknowledge evidence to the contrary) that the tag system will be expanded to comments, and much like the "fud"/"notfud" tags for articles, a set of tags such as "troll", "lame", "offtopic", "useful", "interesting" alongside their opposites ("notlame", "notuseful") will be implemented in place of traditional moderation. Knowing Slash's penchant for working obscure statistics into things, I think it quite feasable that tagging something as "troll" and having a lot of people negate that will reduce your 'tag power' for future moderations.
Trouble is, as far as I can tell Yahoo! only has the local search edge for the states, likewise with maps.
Google Local / Maps knows a hell of a lot about my local area in the UK, which Y! seems to be lacking. From what else I've seen Google also does the rest of Europe, and most of urban Russia and Asia to a similar degree. Yahoo! gives up anywhere past mapping major roads and has only a vague idea about addresses and local services.
Hang on, if the meal is a pre-prepared one (For example a microwaveable dinner) then the serving size is, by definition, 100% of the product. You cannot take something like that and say "It's a 60g meal, but a serving is only 49g" unless it is designed to be seperated, for example a tin of preprocessed vegetables (Poor example for trans-fats I know).
As Churchill said, "The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter".
Sort of. All PlaysForSure is part of Janus, but Janus is not necessarily PlaysForSure. Or, to put it another way, as far as Microsoft are concerned to PlayForSure the device needs to be able to prove itself to the 'host' system in order to get the licence, which uses Janus.
This is why I personally like the iPod/iTunes combi if you must have DRM. It plays for sure.
Slow down with the logic there. You're making some people confused.
For the record, the PlaysForSure DRM (As in the portable bit) is actually called Janus.
I don't want my taxes subsidizing someone else's children to go to school. I don't want my taxes subsidizing someone going into space. I don't want my taxes subsidizing traffic lights when I don't drive...
I could go on for a while here. Taxes subsidize a lot of things which have nothing to do with you, and I'm damn sure a central explosives/incendiary store would not only charge people to store there, but would also be used for a lot of the more explosive substances which GOs use.
To clarify parent post, this is September just gone (2006) and not September 2007.
Only on the BBC channels (Of which there are a fair few, plus radio). The rest (like ITV, C4, five, UKTV) still have them.
I make that $246.65 and $82.53 at the current exchange rate. Payable for all devices capable of receiving, including DVRs and PCs with a tuner card. There's a load of other variations for the blind, over 75s, those in care homes etc but those are the basic prices.
Nope. THE GOVERNMENT shall not infringe your right to say what you want about them. What you say about someone else is fair game for lawsuits.
And this is why I love the BBC. No qualms about paying a licence fee because it means I get fairly good quality TV, radio, news (online), downloadable material etc without watching a single advert.