"All employees in Department X working on Project Y are invited to a special mandatory screening of 'Old Yeller', followed by an announcement about Project Y."
I now understand how my dad (A Boeing inspector for many years) felt when watching movies with airplanes... pointing out that they took off in a 737, but the landing scene shows a 757!
I still recall how annoying it was to have such things pointed out all the time... So I try and keep my mouth shut during shows.
Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.
As a thought, how about a check-and-balance system; using the US as a base, what if votes for Congress were anonymous, but votes for Senate seats public record?
Bills would have to pass pass the scrutity of one group that's protected from being fraudulently elected; and a second that can be voted for without fear of reprecussions...
I don't know how many bits a Linux UID is, I think Windows uses GUIDs (128 bits; but not all unique iirc) so I don't know the odds of a collision, but yeah, it would be a problem if you org assigned standard numbers to service accounts or something...
But if you never referred to accounts by number, only name, and left the numbers to the internal systems...
oh, maybe drive the fundies crazy, UID 666.
I read a booklet at my religious aunts house once that claimed the existance of chmod 666 as part of the proof that computers were going to implement the 'number of the beast'...
I, personally don't like 'root' being user number zero.
When I first started using Linux I tried to run a process under a service account by name 'dvrservice'. What actually happened was the process launcher parsed the name 'dvrservice' into an integer, value 0, thereby running the public facing network service as root.
fortunently I detected that before anything bad happend.
It would be more secure, I think, if each install generated a random uid for root, so that instead of (uid = 0) or obfuscated (uid = serviceuid - serviceuid), etc. programs would have to call (uid = getroot()) so that a search/flag for all occurances of that function call could find everything trying to run as root.
But I have no delusions that this change could be reasonably made across Linux at this time, it's not like changing a HOSTS file.
Without more details, I would guess that the button is actually a Big Red Button, that is, a safety feature of the pump system; in case something/someone clogs the intakes for example.
If you are inside a bar, with your car keys in your pocket; that STILL can count as 'physical control'... A lot of DUI laws are influenced by teetotalers who don't want people to be able to drink at all (ala Prohibition). I don't drink myself, and I have zero sympathy for drunk drivers, but some of it is being pushed a little too far than needed.
...so what if you have 2 pairs of entangled particles, aA and bB, so if 'A' settles into a constant state, you know 'a' was observed; and the answer is Yes; but if 'B' settles first, then 'b' was observed, and the answer is No...?
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If anyone remembers the end of '99...
Then the beginning of '00...
I do recall seeing a website showing the date as "May 12th 19107" in 2007.
Most games are written for the Lowest Common Denominator, that is, Game Consoles.
Hopefully PC games will be 'allowed' to improve when the next generation of console becomes standard.
I started with Modem Wars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem_Wars ) and Nethack
First we have to solve the revolving door between government and industry...
They are actually remotely controlled by low-paid operators offshore in china and india.
They both control the car, however, both have to apply the gas to accellerate, but only one has to hit the brakes to stop.
"All employees in Department X working on Project Y are invited to a special mandatory screening of 'Old Yeller', followed by an announcement about Project Y."
Detailed mapping of Space Mountain and It's a Small World.
At first glace, Code is like an unassembled jigsaw puzzle.
Without the reference picture (specs) it's much harder to figure out how it goes together.
I now understand how my dad (A Boeing inspector for many years) felt when watching movies with airplanes... pointing out that they took off in a 737, but the landing scene shows a 757!
I still recall how annoying it was to have such things pointed out all the time... So I try and keep my mouth shut during shows.
Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'.
As a thought, how about a check-and-balance system; using the US as a base, what if votes for Congress were anonymous, but votes for Senate seats public record?
Bills would have to pass pass the scrutity of one group that's protected from being fraudulently elected; and a second that can be voted for without fear of reprecussions...
It was a ReplayTV DVR emulator back around 2005. I reported the issue, and it got fixed in the next release.
5318008?
I don't know how many bits a Linux UID is, I think Windows uses GUIDs (128 bits; but not all unique iirc) so I don't know the odds of a collision, but yeah, it would be a problem if you org assigned standard numbers to service accounts or something...
But if you never referred to accounts by number, only name, and left the numbers to the internal systems...
oh, maybe drive the fundies crazy, UID 666.
I read a booklet at my religious aunts house once that claimed the existance of chmod 666 as part of the proof that computers were going to implement the 'number of the beast'...
I, personally don't like 'root' being user number zero.
When I first started using Linux I tried to run a process under a service account by name 'dvrservice'. What actually happened was the process launcher parsed the name 'dvrservice' into an integer, value 0, thereby running the public facing network service as root.
fortunently I detected that before anything bad happend.
It would be more secure, I think, if each install generated a random uid for root, so that instead of (uid = 0) or obfuscated (uid = serviceuid - serviceuid), etc. programs would have to call (uid = getroot()) so that a search/flag for all occurances of that function call could find everything trying to run as root.
But I have no delusions that this change could be reasonably made across Linux at this time, it's not like changing a HOSTS file.
In an effort to reduce costs, they have universally changed to using switch-mode supplies.
And here I thought we switched to the far more complex switched mode power supplies because linear ones have terrible efficiency and power factor.
power usage is a cost.
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Without more details, I would guess that the button is actually a Big Red Button, that is, a safety feature of the pump system; in case something/someone clogs the intakes for example.
Wouldn't a smooth flow of air over a dome generate Lift?
I hope they can get the same voice actor for Gordon.
Also not all PCs have CD-ROM drives.
If only Monica Lewinsky had ingested, instead of getting it on her dress...
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.504
also fun reads:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-05-29/news/heather-squires-was-arrested-for-dui-without-drinking-a-drop-of-alcohol/
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/562773
The security testing mentioned, do you think they will stop just because it goes live?
Or will they have a constant, dedicated intrusion detection/prevention team?
If you are inside a bar, with your car keys in your pocket; that STILL can count as 'physical control'... A lot of DUI laws are influenced by teetotalers who don't want people to be able to drink at all (ala Prohibition). I don't drink myself, and I have zero sympathy for drunk drivers, but some of it is being pushed a little too far than needed.
...so what if you have 2 pairs of entangled particles, aA and bB, so if 'A' settles into a constant state, you know 'a' was observed; and the answer is Yes; but if 'B' settles first, then 'b' was observed, and the answer is No...?
Utah, at the new NSA data center.