If you're really concerned with human civilization, and not with melodrama, you move to a purple state, not to Canada.
And that, to my mind sums up the problem with the US. Moving to another country and still being affected by the country you left is definitely not a good state of affairs. I wonder what would happen if a sudden mass of people decided that they didn't like the way things were run and instead of either grumbling about it or trying to change it locally, just went "Fine, I'm leaving" and moved to places like Canada or Europe. Maybe that would have a greater effect than fighting over states that are not as decided as others.
As you say, there are alternatives to getting about without gas guzzling SUV's such as more efficent cars, buses, trains, cycling etc or even good ole fashioned walking
However anyone else think it is ironic that the film they chose to parody is a person who takes resposibiliy for a child as the biological parents can't for whatever reason.
As amusing as that comment is what about people with actual artifical voiceboxes? If a terrorist is really committed to giving his/her life for their cause whats makes you think they aren't committed to doing anything possible to succeed in their mission?
I've been on quite a few flights where someone in a wheelchair or on crutches gets waved through because searching them is made too difficult by their handicap. Especially metal detectors with the person having metal crutches or metal pins in their bodies. From personal experience, I've had a splint which has a metal brace and pins drilled directly into the bone to support the leg while it heals. This has caused metal detectors to go crazy and a hand detector which goes anywhere near it to go haywire. There are many ways that may have worked if people are afraid of dying, deoderant cans that could be pierced to cause an explosion, a knife or blade hidden in a set of crutches to name a couple off the top of my head. The point, as people have said before is that if you know they are hijacking the plane for terrorist activites what have you got to lose? Taking hostages only works if you can exert authority over them. A sealed pilot cabin which can release some form of sleeping gas to everywhere else in the plane would be far more effective.
Face it, terrorists are perfectly capable of causing terror by means other than ones they have already done. Making ridiculous measures only wastes money and creates a culture of unnessesary fear.
I don't know where you get this, I saw an interview with him last night on TV
From TFA:
A statement from the trust said: "This is a rare and complex case. When we became aware of Mr Stimpson's HIV negative test results we offered him further tests to help us investigate and find an explanation for the different results.
"So far Mr Stimpson has declined this offer."
A trust spokeswoman added: "We urge him, for the sake of himself and the HIV community, to come in and get tested.
If the development of quantum computers succeeds then you will need to find a different mechanisim all together as Shor's Algorithm can factor numbers in polynomial time and might cause some problems even for large key lengths.
How about non-smokers who work in a place, who have to be there for continuing employment? Waitresses, bar staff etc are working in an enviroment that most agree is hazzardous to ones health (passive smoking) so why should they suffer? Smoking outside where fumes dissapates is fine (in my opinion) but inside where other people work is dangerous for their health. (Again, my opinion).
I suppose I am the only person in the whole world who finds the ipod physical interface totally "the suck" and the software unintuitive.
As others have said, you are not alone. Personally, my iRiver's design of a small joystick style button which you can use to do everything on the player is much easier to use as I frequently "overshot" where I was trying to get to in terms of selecting a particular song with the iPod's naviagation system. The iRiver is just as easy to use (if not easier), single click to go down a directory or hold down to go back up again, up and down to go through the tracks in that folder. A lot of people (in my experience) find that system very easy to grasp as it can be associated with finding files on a computer. Dragging their music folder onto the iRiver and having the folder structure remain in tact is one of the main reasons people find this easy to use as everything is where they expect it to be.
I noticed on newscientist that the US Air Force Research Lab is filing a patent "to bury secret messages in ordinary, unprotected communications by adding tones that can be deciphered at the other end of the line."
At what point does it stop being called a "lap"top? Surely the purpose of a laptop is that it is portable, not something that requires a large suitcase to move about.
Why not limit how many posts an account can make in a day? Say 25 or something. If a legitimate user needs to do more than that they could fill in a keyword hidden in a picture, or something equally difficult for an automated system to figure out.
I used to work for a phone company in the UK (One-to-One) registering pay pre-paid phones. The registration is not verified against anything (or at least when I worked there it didn't used to be). All that is required is that you give an address and valid postcode for that address. The system doesn't link a name to that address for verification, (you could be renting, or the address could be a halls of residence for example) so you could very easily give any address you liked and any name you liked and the phone operator wouldn't be any the wiser.
That is one of the points of using a pre-paid phone, that you are not tied to it in any way.
Besides, even if you did have to hand over all your real details, you could always use stolen phones.
What you really want to watch out for are kernel level RootKits, as even checking the integrity of programs doesn't help as they aren't altered. The kernel runs a different program when you call the correct one. Evil I tell you!
I'm not entirely sure why you would use a RootKit(legitimally) other than for limiting access on machines under your control, something that could surely be done with proper account setups.
This problem of who is guilty also comes up with the use of honeypots, ie if someone breaks into a honeypot system and launches an attack from there who is responsible? The attacker or the person supplying the resources?
I agree with your point of view that a blanket "all are responsible" response is not the best course of action, as I've wondered how long it will be before people like the authors of security books get bundled into the category of "they supplied the knowledge to make this attack possible, therefore they are guilty as well".
OTOH it might be considered negligent to have access to a dangerous piece of software available to the public domain at all, (even if it hidden behind some form of security).
Unless of course they are doing it in the hopes of being able to get something fixed. If you were that architect looking at the building built from the top down and the designer said to you "look we need help looking for flaws in this design" wouldn't you want to point them out?
If your main grudge against Microsoft was their design, and you knew ways it could come crashing down, would you not want to try and improve things if they offered you money (or even if they didn't).
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And if he doesn't then he will still lose pounds in a few seconds.. its a win win senario!
If you're really concerned with human civilization, and not with melodrama, you move to a purple state, not to Canada.
And that, to my mind sums up the problem with the US. Moving to another country and still being affected by the country you left is definitely not a good state of affairs. I wonder what would happen if a sudden mass of people decided that they didn't like the way things were run and instead of either grumbling about it or trying to change it locally, just went "Fine, I'm leaving" and moved to places like Canada or Europe. Maybe that would have a greater effect than fighting over states that are not as decided as others.
Well, here in the UK 1 litre currently costs 91p (or more in some places) so doing some quick conversions:
1 gallon (US) = 3.785 litres (metric-conversions.org)
therefore 1 gallon (US) costs = 3.785 * 0.91 = £3.44 or $5.889 (exchange rate 1.71 from forex rates)
As you say, there are alternatives to getting about without gas guzzling SUV's such as more efficent cars, buses, trains, cycling etc or even good ole fashioned walking
However anyone else think it is ironic that the film they chose to parody is a person who takes resposibiliy for a child as the biological parents can't for whatever reason.
Intelligent Design for the Non-Intelligent
Isn't that a best seller in Kansas, or is it just required reading?
As amusing as that comment is what about people with actual artifical voiceboxes? If a terrorist is really committed to giving his/her life for their cause whats makes you think they aren't committed to doing anything possible to succeed in their mission?
I've been on quite a few flights where someone in a wheelchair or on crutches gets waved through because searching them is made too difficult by their handicap. Especially metal detectors with the person having metal crutches or metal pins in their bodies. From personal experience, I've had a splint which has a metal brace and pins drilled directly into the bone to support the leg while it heals. This has caused metal detectors to go crazy and a hand detector which goes anywhere near it to go haywire. There are many ways that may have worked if people are afraid of dying, deoderant cans that could be pierced to cause an explosion, a knife or blade hidden in a set of crutches to name a couple off the top of my head. The point, as people have said before is that if you know they are hijacking the plane for terrorist activites what have you got to lose? Taking hostages only works if you can exert authority over them. A sealed pilot cabin which can release some form of sleeping gas to everywhere else in the plane would be far more effective.
Face it, terrorists are perfectly capable of causing terror by means other than ones they have already done. Making ridiculous measures only wastes money and creates a culture of unnessesary fear.
I don't know where you get this, I saw an interview with him last night on TV
From TFA:
A statement from the trust said: "This is a rare and complex case. When we became aware of Mr Stimpson's HIV negative test results we offered him further tests to help us investigate and find an explanation for the different results.
"So far Mr Stimpson has declined this offer."
A trust spokeswoman added: "We urge him, for the sake of himself and the HIV community, to come in and get tested.
If the development of quantum computers succeeds then you will need to find a different mechanisim all together as Shor's Algorithm can factor numbers in polynomial time and might cause some problems even for large key lengths.
from leprechauns to poltergeists to the balance of bodily humours is now a legitimate part of Kansas' science curriculum.
:-)
I wonder if you could get a project investigating leprechauns and gold.. "But Miss... It's SCIENCE!" That would be cool! Hehe.
How about non-smokers who work in a place, who have to be there for continuing employment? Waitresses, bar staff etc are working in an enviroment that most agree is hazzardous to ones health (passive smoking) so why should they suffer? Smoking outside where fumes dissapates is fine (in my opinion) but inside where other people work is dangerous for their health. (Again, my opinion).
Can someone pop into the planing office when they get there, just to make sure. :-)
So still a damn sight faster than the average traffic speed during rush hour then. :-)
by the time the light from the end of the universe gets here, Earth will have been destroyed by the Vogons.
Well I for one welcome our prospective Vogon overlords...
I suppose I am the only person in the whole world who finds the ipod physical interface totally "the suck" and the software unintuitive.
As others have said, you are not alone. Personally, my iRiver's design of a small joystick style button which you can use to do everything on the player is much easier to use as I frequently "overshot" where I was trying to get to in terms of selecting a particular song with the iPod's naviagation system. The iRiver is just as easy to use (if not easier), single click to go down a directory or hold down to go back up again, up and down to go through the tracks in that folder. A lot of people (in my experience) find that system very easy to grasp as it can be associated with finding files on a computer. Dragging their music folder onto the iRiver and having the folder structure remain in tact is one of the main reasons people find this easy to use as everything is where they expect it to be.
I noticed on newscientist that the US Air Force Research Lab is filing a patent "to bury secret messages in ordinary, unprotected communications by adding tones that can be deciphered at the other end of the line."
Info here. (Well, the second entry anyway)
I wonder how they plan on getting around ideas like this, even if they do get to monitor all VOIP traffic?
At what point does it stop being called a "lap"top? Surely the purpose of a laptop is that it is portable, not something that requires a large suitcase to move about.
Why not limit how many posts an account can make in a day? Say 25 or something. If a legitimate user needs to do more than that they could fill in a keyword hidden in a picture, or something equally difficult for an automated system to figure out.
I used to work for a phone company in the UK (One-to-One) registering pay pre-paid phones. The registration is not verified against anything (or at least when I worked there it didn't used to be). All that is required is that you give an address and valid postcode for that address. The system doesn't link a name to that address for verification, (you could be renting, or the address could be a halls of residence for example) so you could very easily give any address you liked and any name you liked and the phone operator wouldn't be any the wiser.
That is one of the points of using a pre-paid phone, that you are not tied to it in any way.
Besides, even if you did have to hand over all your real details, you could always use stolen phones.
I agree.
Except, you will say, the embryo can develop into a full-grown thinking and feeling human being
And the full-grown human can attempt to retain that property if it is given the chance..
Can't one still donate organs if you have been killed intentionally?
RootKits that just replace tools such as ps and du for ones that don't display accurate information.
have seen just about every damn rootkit that actually works
:-)
Isn't that a contradiction?*
You can get all the exploits you want from packetstormsecurity but I dare you to find a single rootkit there.
Homepage: Assessments -> RootKits
What you really want to watch out for are kernel level RootKits, as even checking the integrity of programs doesn't help as they aren't altered. The kernel runs a different program when you call the correct one. Evil I tell you!
*Laugh, it was supposed to be a joke
What about kernel level rootkits such as Knark?
I'm not entirely sure why you would use a RootKit(legitimally) other than for limiting access on machines under your control, something that could surely be done with proper account setups.
This problem of who is guilty also comes up with the use of honeypots, ie if someone breaks into a honeypot system and launches an attack from there who is responsible? The attacker or the person supplying the resources?
I agree with your point of view that a blanket "all are responsible" response is not the best course of action, as I've wondered how long it will be before people like the authors of security books get bundled into the category of "they supplied the knowledge to make this attack possible, therefore they are guilty as well".
OTOH it might be considered negligent to have access to a dangerous piece of software available to the public domain at all, (even if it hidden behind some form of security).
Unless of course they are doing it in the hopes of being able to get something fixed. If you were that architect looking at the building built from the top down and the designer said to you "look we need help looking for flaws in this design" wouldn't you want to point them out?
If your main grudge against Microsoft was their design, and you knew ways it could come crashing down, would you not want to try and improve things if they offered you money (or even if they didn't).