Almost any Slashdot reader has enough or could easily obtain enough knowledge to fake being an avionics tech. Now realize that many real terrorists have engineering backgrounds.
Damn. I'm freaking myself out here. I've got tingles down my spine now.
It's been a long time since I had a business class. Isn't this what is called the poison pill? Either buying up things that make the company a poor purchase decision, or entering into contracts that do the same thing etc? No, I don't think so. I think Yahoo believes that a deal with Google might be more lucrative than its current course of action, which is to do all advertising in-house.
All in all, the goal seems to be to strengthen Yahoo in order to push up the stock price to avoid a hostile takeover. The poison pill approach is to make the company look so bad that nobody would want to buy it. I don't think that's what Yahoo's trying to do at all.
That policy is set at the top and won't change until Ballmer and Gates are gone for good.
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Actually, come to think of it, you WOULD NOT have to get the explosive past TSA. Since this is remote-detonated, simply sticking the bomb on the plane while it was in a repair hangar would be enough. Heck, the would-be terrorist could just get a job as an airplane mechanic or a parts delivery person or something.
The blurb about terrorism concerns and remote detonating bombs sounds like more pointless scare-mongering with no increase in security.
Well, it actually is possible to use a cellphone to remote detonate a bomb. Simply wire the 'ringer' speaker to the detonator (you may need a transformer to alter voltage and current characterists) call the phone from the ground and... boom! In fact, terrorists have already been doing thisfor quite sometime.
Of course, you still have the problem of getting the explosive past the TSA and, additionally, since cell phones are already surreptitiously being used on planes anyway...the risk is probably not a lot different with and without legal cell phone use.
Well, no problem. But I do emphasize the word 'guess'. Mind you I have years of hard-fought experience with using, patching, compiling, installing and even sometimes hand-hacking Linux drivers -- particularly audio, video and NIC drivers -- but even so, since I don't have a card to play with, my statement is nothing more than a best guess based on my own interpretation of the facts at hand.:) So caveat emptor.
What do you expect? It's a vendor-written book. Most vendor-written books are packed with excellent technical information, but very poor presentation and bad editing.
Case in point: Anything from Microsoft Press. *ducks*
Ditto. I wrote one of these for a company extranet a long time ago. They had people that needed to 'meet' on a weekly basis, but they were scattered at different geographical locations across the company, including some outside the company.
Granted, mine wasn't nearly as pretty, but it did everything that Campfire does -- searchable logs, ability to transfer files. I wrote the whole thing in mod_perl inside of 8 hours.
No, it's not, and, in fact, I have this too. I could run down the list of eye problems I have, but I suspect that this would cause a glazing effect on everyone else's eyes.:)
Which one? I suspect that most middle-class Americans have at least four: checking, savings, health savings account (HSA), and individual retirement account (IRA). Not to mention extra accounts that may be setup to receive child support payments.
I have one account setup just to pay off a debt collector so they don't get my 'real' checking account info.
I've always hated 3D glasses. They don't quite fit me right (I have a wide head), and I don't have symmetrical vision (I see better out of my right eye than my left), so they don't work as well for me.
So let me know when the 2D versions come out? Kthxbye.
Have you seen a squirrel's nuts? I dunno about you, but I'm not a biologist, so I don't go out of my way to look at other species' gonads, no.
I have wrote plenty of blogs on the impending apocalypse where the squirrels will make us all their slaves. Wrong rodents. It's the mice that have made us all their slaves.
I don't know about you, but I, for one, welcome our new laser-propelled rodent overlords.
There is a beta driver for the D2X. Since, according to TFA:
The DX employs what's marked as an Asus AV100 audio processor while the D2X uses an AV200. Don't pay too much attention to the names silk-screened onto the chips, though; they're the very same C-Media Oxygen HD audio processor under the hood. Asus says the chips go through a "quality sorting" process to separate the AV100s from the AV200s.
So, since the chipsets are the same, I would guess that the D2X driver might work for the DX, perhaps with little or no modifications.
You can sue people in the US for being in a bad mood? Yes. You can sue anybody for anything in the U.S. Whether you'll win or not is an entirely different story.
Oh yeah- I refuse to honor ANY copyright held by a corporation. Only a writer or painter or other artist should hold a copyright. Disney can go to hell (actually he probably already did). We have ways of forcing you to comply.
Not always. In many cases, GoDaddy sells the domains to smaller registrars at lower prices than they charge end users, so many times the markup brings it to the same price as GoDaddy, sometimes less, sometimes more.
GoDaddy is like $10 a year, which I think is plenty cheap, so while I don't like their tactics, I don't think their pricing is exorbitant, and their online tools are pretty nice.
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That still doesn't cover the 'sneaking into the repair hangar as a tech' angle I mentioned above.
Almost any Slashdot reader has enough or could easily obtain enough knowledge to fake being an avionics tech. Now realize that many real terrorists have engineering backgrounds.
Damn. I'm freaking myself out here. I've got tingles down my spine now.
All in all, the goal seems to be to strengthen Yahoo in order to push up the stock price to avoid a hostile takeover. The poison pill approach is to make the company look so bad that nobody would want to buy it. I don't think that's what Yahoo's trying to do at all.
Actually, come to think of it, you WOULD NOT have to get the explosive past TSA. Since this is remote-detonated, simply sticking the bomb on the plane while it was in a repair hangar would be enough. Heck, the would-be terrorist could just get a job as an airplane mechanic or a parts delivery person or something.
Of course, you still have the problem of getting the explosive past the TSA and, additionally, since cell phones are already surreptitiously being used on planes anyway...the risk is probably not a lot different with and without legal cell phone use.
My understanding is that airlines will be blocking VOIP.
Well, no problem. But I do emphasize the word 'guess'. Mind you I have years of hard-fought experience with using, patching, compiling, installing and even sometimes hand-hacking Linux drivers -- particularly audio, video and NIC drivers -- but even so, since I don't have a card to play with, my statement is nothing more than a best guess based on my own interpretation of the facts at hand. :) So caveat emptor.
Hello? Osama Bin Laden? Is that you?
I was kinda looking forward to their new slogan:
"Where do you want to Yahoo today?"
What do you expect? It's a vendor-written book. Most vendor-written books are packed with excellent technical information, but very poor presentation and bad editing.
Case in point: Anything from Microsoft Press. *ducks*
Ditto. I wrote one of these for a company extranet a long time ago. They had people that needed to 'meet' on a weekly basis, but they were scattered at different geographical locations across the company, including some outside the company.
Granted, mine wasn't nearly as pretty, but it did everything that Campfire does -- searchable logs, ability to transfer files. I wrote the whole thing in mod_perl inside of 8 hours.
No, it's not, and, in fact, I have this too. I could run down the list of eye problems I have, but I suspect that this would cause a glazing effect on everyone else's eyes. :)
So that's the 'giant sucking sound' Ross Perot was trying to warn us aobut!
Which one? I suspect that most middle-class Americans have at least four: checking, savings, health savings account (HSA), and individual retirement account (IRA). Not to mention extra accounts that may be setup to receive child support payments.
I have one account setup just to pay off a debt collector so they don't get my 'real' checking account info.
Right, but doesn't shorter pulse time == more accuracy?
I've always hated 3D glasses. They don't quite fit me right (I have a wide head), and I don't have symmetrical vision (I see better out of my right eye than my left), so they don't work as well for me.
So let me know when the 2D versions come out? Kthxbye.
I don't know about you, but I, for one, welcome our new laser-propelled rodent overlords.
Sharks! With friggin' GIANT CAPACITORS attached to their heads!
So, since the chipsets are the same, I would guess that the D2X driver might work for the DX, perhaps with little or no modifications.
Thanks,
The MAFIAA
Not always. In many cases, GoDaddy sells the domains to smaller registrars at lower prices than they charge end users, so many times the markup brings it to the same price as GoDaddy, sometimes less, sometimes more.
GoDaddy is like $10 a year, which I think is plenty cheap, so while I don't like their tactics, I don't think their pricing is exorbitant, and their online tools are pretty nice.
Hello? Rob Enderle? Is that you?
Now that's funny!