The Bible is actually an exciting read in places though...murder, suicide, incest, rape, pillage, giants, midgets, wizards and witches, vengeful deities....
Someone should turn it into an AD&D sourcebook...you'd make lots of $$$ just in modules based on the Old Testament.
It could just be similar to the common way it is done on Windows machines - the basic malware package installs itself locally in userspace using user permissions (unless the current account has System or Admin, in which case all bets are already off), and then waits for a process or the user to invoke admin/system level permissions for some action, and pounces upon that to hook itself deeper into the system, thus allowing more remote malicious code to be downloaded and installed to the machine.
In the case of the publishing industry, several large name publishers are doing exactly this when it comes to eBooks. They are of the mindset that since eBooks are a different medium, etc, etc, etc, that libraries have no right to lend them out without buying one copy of the eBook each time it is "lent" out. Some are even of the mindset that libraries may not have eBook versions of their dead-tree books period.
This boat may be turning around and sailing back into port though. Several states have recently (as in, the last 5 years) started adopting laws that basically require companies to publicly report these types of break-ins, what was done to solve the issue, what exactly was "taken", and provide material restitution if a client was harmed.
Companies need a competent IT department just to deal properly with the reporting requirements of these laws. If more states adopt these types of laws, the beancounters and PHBs won't have any say in the matter, as it will be a requirement under the law to have a proper, functioning IT department.
Hawaii is one of those notable states. I believe Colorado is another.
Sure, an IT department costs money, but seeing as how even average state government politicians are starting to realize that IT departments also serve an important role in protecting company assets and profits (and therefore, the tax money and campaign funds of said state government politicians), the dimwits we usually find in charge are going to have to rethink the crap they were shoveled in their MBA courses.
Mine is a widescreen 20" @ 1680 x 1050, paid $135 USD for it at the time of purchase. Monitors like that cost more now on sale than they did when I got it at full retail, even though this monitor only has a VGA output (to be fair, it came with a DVI adapter, this was at a time when true DVI was reserved for the very top-end models).
Probably because some of us don't want to pay the still ridiculous prices of a flat screen when there are much better things to spend our money on. Also, HDMI is a deal-breaker.
Except starting in 2014, if all goes well, it will be illegal for them to deny you coverage based on a pre-existing condition. There will also be no annual cap on your doctor visits, etc because they can no longer cap that, either.
AKA HMOs can't say, "Oh, you're only allowed 3 office visits per quarter, and if you go above such and such amount, we cut off you off for the rest of the year."
If they are sending TCP reset packets, you do realize you can use firewall/router rules to drop those reset packets. You don't have to allow them to use that simple trick to thwart your browsing. We did the same when Comcast here in the USA was using that same trick to disrupt Bit Torrent transfers.
The Blizz devs said that Mists of Kung Fu Panda would be out approximately 1 year after patch 4.32. Patch 4.33 is/was released as a further test of 64-bit functionality for the client, etc. There will be the minor point releases for bug fixes but no content updates or skill re-balances until the expansion pack (unless there is a serious problem).
So, to say Mists of Kung Fu Panda coming out in a few months is...just no.
It's more than likely illegal, as most books that I have physical copies of, include terms in the copyright notice that say you may not use a machine to copy the text in full without permission of the author and/or copyright holder.
For instance, my copy of "The Other Wind" by Ursula K. Le Guin from 2001 has this to say:
"All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher."
Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the book however, etc, etc request permission from the publisher @ the publisher's address.
Freenet also shares the major disadvantage of child porn being rather openly distributed on it with no way for you to prevent it from being cached on your machine.
Because none of those equations or methods matters when the people in charge keep moving the goal posts when it comes to what the starting rate, the medium rate, the maximum rate, and the average rate are supposed to be.
That's what makes that Laffer Curve ridiculous at the outset. They assign the minimum value at 0 when in reality that 0 really means "That baseline is actually at the 20% (or whatever) we're currently using, and may change in the future whenever we attach a rider to a mandatory spending bill."
One of the posters above me mentioned Jedi mind tricks, it really isn't so far off from the weaselly slight of hand it really is.
No, what he was inferring is that it's ridiculously insecure to call secure functions from a known insecure vector, AKA "the web" using "applications" (read: shoddy Flash/Javascript/PHP/etc).
It would be like you writing an application that gives you access to the root account of your server and all of the commands it has access to, but bypassing the secure login, and broadcasting it all over the place just because it was more convenient for you to write scripts/application to do so.
It isn't the shell commands, it's the method of accessing them that's the problem. Web apps will never, ever, be a secure way to access anything meant to be secure. That's the bottom line of it.
That's because they didn't. It was meant as it was written - to protect those things which would advance society when it came to Science, Manufacturing, Mathematics, etc.
To be more blunt - Your personal reputation as an inventor/researcher/scientist was more important in those days than any amount of money it brought you. It was a point of pride to be the first to publish a work and make your opponents look bad while doing so, while providing something ALL of mankind could benefit from.
Now it's sadly about money first and damn the consequences to the environment, to society at large, or anyone's reputation.
The sad thing is, that there is a court case gonig to happen in my state, where there was a car accident involving death ok. Here's the kicker of this case: One person died in the accident. This person had crossed the middle line into the northbound lane and struck another vehicle head-on, and died. This individual was sober. The other driver, who had been driving perfectly, a little bit even below the speed limit, had "some" trace of alcohol in their system because they were driving home from the bar (they weren't even at or above the legal limit, were in fact found to be not even half of the legal limit).
This person is now being charged with vehicular manslaughter, homicide by vehicle, etc just because they had that trace of alcohol in their system, even though otherwise they were not at fault and would have never even been given a ticket, let alone charged.
Also, in most areas of the country, these types of pigeons are deemed "nuisance" animals, and are fair game for destruction at any time.
I would think animal rights activists would have better things to do with their time than trying to prevent the killing of the bird equivalent of cockroaches, like, I dunno, closing down puppy mills or saving whales.
Except the Bill that Corbett signed into law side-stepped the state DEP (the law made it so the State makes the environmental rules, and by State, I mean State Congress and the Governor), all local and regional ordinances, and gave his buddies/campaign funders in the oil/gas industry the go ahead to plunk wells right in your front yard if they want to, without needing your permission to do so, aka the "Residential Drilling Clause".
Oh, did I also mention that under this new law, these companies are also now in no way obligated to clean the bromides out of their frack water before dumping it in the rivers (there's apparently been a spike in bromide levels in all major PA watersheds since 2008)? Before that apparently it only applied to "old" well types - oil or shallow gas, now it applies to deep and fracking wells, and even just this year the measurable bromide levels have risen another 5% since January (previous measurable levels had gone up 15% from 2006 to 2008, with levels raising approximately 2% per year from 2008-2011).
This - when companies were claiming to be "cleaning" this crap out of the water before dumping it, got the scientists measuring this stuff wondering why the levels weren't dropping.
I agree that States should make a master guideline for the State in question, but the fine-grained regulations for this stuff really needs to be at the Local level, where the people most affected by these activities live. Nobody is helped when their leaders take the jackhammer/steamroller approach to rule-making.
They don't even have to go that far. They just offer enough incentives for customer retention purposes or lower their prices enough that none of the competition can even get a foothold in the area.
Besides regulatory issues, this is the entire reason you see companies like Time Warner and Comcast "trading" operating districts (to give eachother more contiguous and profitable zones) with one another without even considering offering them to a "no-name" company.
That's because in Russia, it's a faulty method at best, since everyone knows the spammers are controlled by competing mafia groups and pay part of their proceeds to the government.
In the USA, the ties are not so close. We get stories all of the time about Spamford Wallace and his pals. It's past time it was made a hanging offense.
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US airlines are already responding to this by cutting the number of flights to Europe, as well as attempting to lobby the folks in Brussels.
The Bible is actually an exciting read in places though...murder, suicide, incest, rape, pillage, giants, midgets, wizards and witches, vengeful deities....
Someone should turn it into an AD&D sourcebook...you'd make lots of $$$ just in modules based on the Old Testament.
It could just be similar to the common way it is done on Windows machines - the basic malware package installs itself locally in userspace using user permissions (unless the current account has System or Admin, in which case all bets are already off), and then waits for a process or the user to invoke admin/system level permissions for some action, and pounces upon that to hook itself deeper into the system, thus allowing more remote malicious code to be downloaded and installed to the machine.
In the case of the publishing industry, several large name publishers are doing exactly this when it comes to eBooks. They are of the mindset that since eBooks are a different medium, etc, etc, etc, that libraries have no right to lend them out without buying one copy of the eBook each time it is "lent" out. Some are even of the mindset that libraries may not have eBook versions of their dead-tree books period.
This boat may be turning around and sailing back into port though. Several states have recently (as in, the last 5 years) started adopting laws that basically require companies to publicly report these types of break-ins, what was done to solve the issue, what exactly was "taken", and provide material restitution if a client was harmed.
Companies need a competent IT department just to deal properly with the reporting requirements of these laws. If more states adopt these types of laws, the beancounters and PHBs won't have any say in the matter, as it will be a requirement under the law to have a proper, functioning IT department.
Hawaii is one of those notable states. I believe Colorado is another.
Sure, an IT department costs money, but seeing as how even average state government politicians are starting to realize that IT departments also serve an important role in protecting company assets and profits (and therefore, the tax money and campaign funds of said state government politicians), the dimwits we usually find in charge are going to have to rethink the crap they were shoveled in their MBA courses.
Yes, but you've breathed in enough vehicle exhaust to more than make up for that.
Mine is a widescreen 20" @ 1680 x 1050, paid $135 USD for it at the time of purchase. Monitors like that cost more now on sale than they did when I got it at full retail, even though this monitor only has a VGA output (to be fair, it came with a DVI adapter, this was at a time when true DVI was reserved for the very top-end models).
Probably because some of us don't want to pay the still ridiculous prices of a flat screen when there are much better things to spend our money on. Also, HDMI is a deal-breaker.
Except starting in 2014, if all goes well, it will be illegal for them to deny you coverage based on a pre-existing condition. There will also be no annual cap on your doctor visits, etc because they can no longer cap that, either.
AKA HMOs can't say, "Oh, you're only allowed 3 office visits per quarter, and if you go above such and such amount, we cut off you off for the rest of the year."
The Kindle Reader app does not make the ability to disable this visible or obvious.
It's also not visible or obvious on all versions of the Kindle.
I think you need to go take a better look at the software on the different Kindle models.
If they are sending TCP reset packets, you do realize you can use firewall/router rules to drop those reset packets. You don't have to allow them to use that simple trick to thwart your browsing. We did the same when Comcast here in the USA was using that same trick to disrupt Bit Torrent transfers.
The Blizz devs said that Mists of Kung Fu Panda would be out approximately 1 year after patch 4.32. Patch 4.33 is/was released as a further test of 64-bit functionality for the client, etc. There will be the minor point releases for bug fixes but no content updates or skill re-balances until the expansion pack (unless there is a serious problem).
So, to say Mists of Kung Fu Panda coming out in a few months is...just no.
I don't know why you were flagged as a Troll....obvious joke about the Mass Effect 3 ending is obvious.
Why so serious?
With a Bone spec Necromancer, yes :)
Many 3rd world countries...also including certain places in California....Michigan...Illinois...Florida....
It's more than likely illegal, as most books that I have physical copies of, include terms in the copyright notice that say you may not use a machine to copy the text in full without permission of the author and/or copyright holder.
For instance, my copy of "The Other Wind" by Ursula K. Le Guin from 2001 has this to say:
"All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher."
Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the book however, etc, etc request permission from the publisher @ the publisher's address.
Freenet also shares the major disadvantage of child porn being rather openly distributed on it with no way for you to prevent it from being cached on your machine.
Because none of those equations or methods matters when the people in charge keep moving the goal posts when it comes to what the starting rate, the medium rate, the maximum rate, and the average rate are supposed to be.
That's what makes that Laffer Curve ridiculous at the outset. They assign the minimum value at 0 when in reality that 0 really means "That baseline is actually at the 20% (or whatever) we're currently using, and may change in the future whenever we attach a rider to a mandatory spending bill."
One of the posters above me mentioned Jedi mind tricks, it really isn't so far off from the weaselly slight of hand it really is.
No, what he was inferring is that it's ridiculously insecure to call secure functions from a known insecure vector, AKA "the web" using "applications" (read: shoddy Flash/Javascript/PHP/etc).
It would be like you writing an application that gives you access to the root account of your server and all of the commands it has access to, but bypassing the secure login, and broadcasting it all over the place just because it was more convenient for you to write scripts/application to do so.
It isn't the shell commands, it's the method of accessing them that's the problem. Web apps will never, ever, be a secure way to access anything meant to be secure. That's the bottom line of it.
That's because they didn't. It was meant as it was written - to protect those things which would advance society when it came to Science, Manufacturing, Mathematics, etc.
To be more blunt - Your personal reputation as an inventor/researcher/scientist was more important in those days than any amount of money it brought you. It was a point of pride to be the first to publish a work and make your opponents look bad while doing so, while providing something ALL of mankind could benefit from.
Now it's sadly about money first and damn the consequences to the environment, to society at large, or anyone's reputation.
The sad thing is, that there is a court case gonig to happen in my state, where there was a car accident involving death ok. Here's the kicker of this case: One person died in the accident. This person had crossed the middle line into the northbound lane and struck another vehicle head-on, and died. This individual was sober. The other driver, who had been driving perfectly, a little bit even below the speed limit, had "some" trace of alcohol in their system because they were driving home from the bar (they weren't even at or above the legal limit, were in fact found to be not even half of the legal limit).
This person is now being charged with vehicular manslaughter, homicide by vehicle, etc just because they had that trace of alcohol in their system, even though otherwise they were not at fault and would have never even been given a ticket, let alone charged.
Also, in most areas of the country, these types of pigeons are deemed "nuisance" animals, and are fair game for destruction at any time.
I would think animal rights activists would have better things to do with their time than trying to prevent the killing of the bird equivalent of cockroaches, like, I dunno, closing down puppy mills or saving whales.
Except the Bill that Corbett signed into law side-stepped the state DEP (the law made it so the State makes the environmental rules, and by State, I mean State Congress and the Governor), all local and regional ordinances, and gave his buddies/campaign funders in the oil/gas industry the go ahead to plunk wells right in your front yard if they want to, without needing your permission to do so, aka the "Residential Drilling Clause".
Oh, did I also mention that under this new law, these companies are also now in no way obligated to clean the bromides out of their frack water before dumping it in the rivers (there's apparently been a spike in bromide levels in all major PA watersheds since 2008)? Before that apparently it only applied to "old" well types - oil or shallow gas, now it applies to deep and fracking wells, and even just this year the measurable bromide levels have risen another 5% since January (previous measurable levels had gone up 15% from 2006 to 2008, with levels raising approximately 2% per year from 2008-2011).
This - when companies were claiming to be "cleaning" this crap out of the water before dumping it, got the scientists measuring this stuff wondering why the levels weren't dropping.
I agree that States should make a master guideline for the State in question, but the fine-grained regulations for this stuff really needs to be at the Local level, where the people most affected by these activities live. Nobody is helped when their leaders take the jackhammer/steamroller approach to rule-making.
They don't even have to go that far. They just offer enough incentives for customer retention purposes or lower their prices enough that none of the competition can even get a foothold in the area.
Besides regulatory issues, this is the entire reason you see companies like Time Warner and Comcast "trading" operating districts (to give eachother more contiguous and profitable zones) with one another without even considering offering them to a "no-name" company.
That's because in Russia, it's a faulty method at best, since everyone knows the spammers are controlled by competing mafia groups and pay part of their proceeds to the government.
In the USA, the ties are not so close. We get stories all of the time about Spamford Wallace and his pals. It's past time it was made a hanging offense.