On the right between the bottom fin and the diver there is a grey spot that looks like it has been deliberately blurred. Are they hiding the fricken laser they just removed from its head? Maybe they've figured out that a dolphin + extra fins + laser is a more formidable weapon than a shark + laser?
Or maybe it's just that i'm tired and it's a really low res picture.
Actually, all it would take is for a TFA linked from a slashdot article to be exploited (either by a third party or by the submitter such that it didn't become visible until the peak of the slashdot effect).
Even though nobody RTFA's, many must still click the link (see "slashdot effect") hoping for pictures or something, so this would still work.
The whole slashdot audience could be wiped out overnight! Oh the humanity!
I second that bit. There's a few subjects at Uni (and School even) that I would have paid more attention to had I had some real world experience. The same end could have been accomplished if i had actually listening when someone told me that this stuff is important, even though I couldn't see the value of learning it at the time:)
I don't think most people unmaliciously research things and happen to stumble on a security flaw?
It depends... If it was a companies web site or something that you found a hole in then the above may apply, but if it was some commercial software then I believe (morally, not necessarily legally) that all bets are off. To use your analogy, if I purchased a particular brand of padlock to evaluate with the intention of deploying it across my company wherever a padlock may be required, then I think that it is within my rights to satisfy myself that the padlock is resistant to a certain level of attack. This includes doing anything to the padlock that I think that a determined thief might try.
All 4 of our kids had a lot of trouble sleeping as babies due to colicy(sp?) pains. They always slept best lying on their tummies with their legs curled up under them.
I guess my wife and I weighed up the risks associated with the babies sleeping on their tummies vs nobody (mum, dad, and kids) getting any sleep, and decided the former was the better option. (In fact, at 3am in the morning almost anything seems like a better option!)
I'm not sure how it compares to SIDS, but driving a car when you haven't slept properly in a week is a pretty risky proposition... as is just about everything else in that state.
First they measure the factory's output in megawatts per year, presumably because a 1m^2 CIGS panel is not the same as 1m^2 Silicon panel (reminds me of a time when it started dawning on CPU marketers that Mhz wasn't a good selling point when your CPU could crunch more numbers at a lower speed than your competitors).
Then they use megawatts as a measure of how much power a large coal plant could produce in a year.
Why can't they just stick to libraries of congress? Eg the unit of measure would be that released by burnt all of the books (and furniture) in a library of congress.
Sensible disclosure of vulnerabilities improves security for everyone.
Thoughtless disclosure has the potential to make things a lot worse. In the software example, if another ping of death exploit were found, simply announcing it to everyone in full would be foolish (unless you wanted to make a point and shame an organisation, then it would be foolish and malicious, and possibly illegal).
The line between sensible and thoughtless disclosure is a tricky one though. If the secret society of bad guys already know about it then all bets are off, but how do you know?
"Excuse me bad guys, are you aware that a ping with x, y and z parameters will crash a machine running w OS?" "We are now" "... doh!"
It should certainly be illegal for a commercial organisation to fail to respond to notification of a vulnerability in their software, but again, under what parameters? Does Microsoft have any obligation to fix holes in Windows 95? Is there any obligation to fix holes in Linux 1.x.y? (and who's obligation is it?)
There should be answers to all of these questions though, and a protocol to follow, so that this sort of mess doesn't happen.
I always thought that a conspiracy could also refer to a plan made by a single person, but the dictionary is pretty clear that it means a group of 2 or more people getting together to do bad things. Possibly it is inferred that the offender here is giving the means to do wrong to others.
Sounds a bit vague though... unless the law in question has a different meaning for conspiracy?
... after 4 kids:) 2 of which were conceived whilst on the waiting list for 'the snip'. There's no such thing as an emergency vasectomy apparently.
Still... you've got to wonder what kind of kinky phone sex would be involved to actually have radiation reach the testes in any quantity. "My penis would like a word with you... i'll put him on".
This iris is the front part of the eye (See here). No need for any special sort of illumination above a light bulb. The Iris Recognition article on wikipedia is also somewhat informative, it even mentions the problem of cosmetic contact lenses.
which is where you use a laser to illuminate the back of the eye, and a camera to take a picture of the illuminated retina and then use some sophisticated pattern matching to recognize the unique pattern of scars left by previous scans.
Hi Slashdot. A friend of mine has been hitting on me for a few weeks now. And while I like him, his advances makes me uncomfortable. How do I tell him that I don't want a relationship, without damaging the friendship that we share?
There's nothing you can do. His side of the friendship is based on the fact that he wants to bone you. The best you can hope for is that he gets the idea that one of your friends thinks he's cute... then maybe he'll bother her instead.
Yo Slashdot. I've got this yellowish reddish spot. It's about the size of a quarter, and it's getting bigger. And it's all puffy and stuff. It's right on the back of my knee, but it doesn't really hurt. Should I be worried?
Try bathing.
Hello. I'm going to Bill's house for a party, so I thought I'd bring a bottle of Castello di Borghese 71. But dear Muffy says that Bill just returned form the Promise clinic, and has to stay clean. What else should I bring to a party instead of wine? A dog or something?
Depriving you of a drinking buddy is one of the most selfish things a man can do. If he can't handle the booze then that's his own problem. Don't let it ruin your day.
I have a 1989 chevy K2500 that has a vacuum problem. truck runs very rough at idle. has a new egr valve that is working properly, new egr solenoid, all vacuum lines are good, everything is working like it is supposed to except that i am getting almost twice the vacuum to the egr than it is supposed to get. has anyone seen this problem before or any tips? thanks alot!
reputation for innovation and intelligence (the same reputation that Microsoft had in the early 80s).
I'm not sure that buying someone else's product and slapping your name on it is the sort of innovation the original poster had in mind...
If it were me, there would be some shame in admitting that I worked for Microsoft... but maybe that's just me. You could always tell people you are working to bring the system down from the inside.
From the literature i have read, putting the batteries in the front adds a bit of weight which helps balance the thing a bit, and also is better from a safety point of view. Those lead acid batteries are nice and crumply(sp?) too, which helps in a frontal collision. Not sure if using unexploded li-ion batteries would give you the same benefit though... might want to improve the firewall a bit.
So aerodynamics aside, they aren't a bad choice for a first ev.
One good thing about being out where we are (the unfashionable end:) is that there should be less crap flying around to crash into us, eg like other solar systems.
In central Victoria (South Eastern Australia), we're having a bit of a drought at the moment. I was listening to talkback radio show where a woman was talking about a fairly simple device to collect dew (basically just some fine mesh with a collector down the bottom) and how it could be used to keep a few plants alive without actively watering them.
This got me thinking though, what is the effect going to be if this sort of thing is deployed in a really large scale? Does it reduce the moisture content of the air by any measurable amount? I guess in suburban areas if you just used the collected water to run evaporative air conditioning then it might even things out...
On the other hand, one of the feared run-away effects of global warming is that higher temperatures will speed up evaporation, and the increased moisture content acts as a greenhouse gas. Maybe we should be sucking the moisture out of the air a bit more:)
I wonder what Sony is doing with all of their unexploded batteries? I hope they aren't stored too close to each other. Sending them into space would be a good way to dispose of them...
Maybe they could use them as rocket fuel? Strap a few to the underside of the probe and bring it along to a Linux conference where Alan Cox is present. That's sure to send it on its way.
What... for tea and scones? To chat about old times? To poke fun together at the other countries who couldn't get something down to mars in one piece?
The only useful thing to come out of a meetup would be if one of them got stuck and needed a tow, but then you risk both of them getting stuck.
What would be cool is to find the site of one of the other failed surface missions... but think about how far it would have to travel to go there and how long it would take. These things move really really slow and Mars is really really big (as compared to, say, the distance to the local pub).
the failure mode is "brake", thanks to the wonder of springs
That's a scary thought for a car on a slippery surface. A 4 wheel lockup would give you no turning ability at all. A single wheel failure could be disasterous! At least a hydraulic system gives you manual braking as a failure mode, even if you have to push really hard on the pedal.
I'm sure smarter people than me have thought about this though, and have solutions to those problems and more... maybe wikipedia can enlighten me:)
I think most of the electric cars these days use inductive chargers. No exposed contacts, so rain shouldn't be much of a problem.
Such a system could be abused of course but you'd have to defeat lots of safety interlocks to do it.
As for your comment on gasoline explosions, it doesn't happen all the time like in the movies but it does happen (today AEST in fact). That could be LPG though...
Enough power to kill you is enough power to kill you. If you're dead anyway, who cares if you've just had a heart attack and otherwise appear untouched, or if you've been converted entirely to plasma and been atomized? There's enough power to kill you all over the place.
If you get hit with enough power to stop or corrupt your heart beat, you stand a good chance of being revived if it happens in the presence of someone who knows anything about CPR. If you've been vapourized then the outlook isn't so good...
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On the right between the bottom fin and the diver there is a grey spot that looks like it has been deliberately blurred. Are they hiding the fricken laser they just removed from its head? Maybe they've figured out that a dolphin + extra fins + laser is a more formidable weapon than a shark + laser?
Or maybe it's just that i'm tired and it's a really low res picture.
Actually, all it would take is for a TFA linked from a slashdot article to be exploited (either by a third party or by the submitter such that it didn't become visible until the peak of the slashdot effect).
Even though nobody RTFA's, many must still click the link (see "slashdot effect") hoping for pictures or something, so this would still work.
The whole slashdot audience could be wiped out overnight! Oh the humanity!
I second that bit. There's a few subjects at Uni (and School even) that I would have paid more attention to had I had some real world experience. The same end could have been accomplished if i had actually listening when someone told me that this stuff is important, even though I couldn't see the value of learning it at the time :)
It depends... If it was a companies web site or something that you found a hole in then the above may apply, but if it was some commercial software then I believe (morally, not necessarily legally) that all bets are off. To use your analogy, if I purchased a particular brand of padlock to evaluate with the intention of deploying it across my company wherever a padlock may be required, then I think that it is within my rights to satisfy myself that the padlock is resistant to a certain level of attack. This includes doing anything to the padlock that I think that a determined thief might try.
that's an easy one. "I didn't kill her! She was dead when I bought her."
Next!
All 4 of our kids had a lot of trouble sleeping as babies due to colicy(sp?) pains. They always slept best lying on their tummies with their legs curled up under them.
I guess my wife and I weighed up the risks associated with the babies sleeping on their tummies vs nobody (mum, dad, and kids) getting any sleep, and decided the former was the better option. (In fact, at 3am in the morning almost anything seems like a better option!)
I'm not sure how it compares to SIDS, but driving a car when you haven't slept properly in a week is a pretty risky proposition... as is just about everything else in that state.
First they measure the factory's output in megawatts per year, presumably because a 1m^2 CIGS panel is not the same as 1m^2 Silicon panel (reminds me of a time when it started dawning on CPU marketers that Mhz wasn't a good selling point when your CPU could crunch more numbers at a lower speed than your competitors).
Then they use megawatts as a measure of how much power a large coal plant could produce in a year.
Why can't they just stick to libraries of congress? Eg the unit of measure would be that released by burnt all of the books (and furniture) in a library of congress.
Sensible disclosure of vulnerabilities improves security for everyone.
Thoughtless disclosure has the potential to make things a lot worse. In the software example, if another ping of death exploit were found, simply announcing it to everyone in full would be foolish (unless you wanted to make a point and shame an organisation, then it would be foolish and malicious, and possibly illegal).
The line between sensible and thoughtless disclosure is a tricky one though. If the secret society of bad guys already know about it then all bets are off, but how do you know?
"Excuse me bad guys, are you aware that a ping with x, y and z parameters will crash a machine running w OS?"
"We are now"
"... doh!"
It should certainly be illegal for a commercial organisation to fail to respond to notification of a vulnerability in their software, but again, under what parameters? Does Microsoft have any obligation to fix holes in Windows 95? Is there any obligation to fix holes in Linux 1.x.y? (and who's obligation is it?)
There should be answers to all of these questions though, and a protocol to follow, so that this sort of mess doesn't happen.
I always thought that a conspiracy could also refer to a plan made by a single person, but the dictionary is pretty clear that it means a group of 2 or more people getting together to do bad things. Possibly it is inferred that the offender here is giving the means to do wrong to others.
Sounds a bit vague though... unless the law in question has a different meaning for conspiracy?
Was my attempt at humor really that unobvious?
... after 4 kids :) 2 of which were conceived whilst on the waiting list for 'the snip'. There's no such thing as an emergency vasectomy apparently.
Still... you've got to wonder what kind of kinky phone sex would be involved to actually have radiation reach the testes in any quantity. "My penis would like a word with you... i'll put him on".
This iris is the front part of the eye (See here). No need for any special sort of illumination above a light bulb. The Iris Recognition article on wikipedia is also somewhat informative, it even mentions the problem of cosmetic contact lenses.
which is where you use a laser to illuminate the back of the eye, and a camera to take a picture of the illuminated retina and then use some sophisticated pattern matching to recognize the unique pattern of scars left by previous scans.
There's nothing you can do. His side of the friendship is based on the fact that he wants to bone you. The best you can hope for is that he gets the idea that one of your friends thinks he's cute... then maybe he'll bother her instead.
Try bathing.
Depriving you of a drinking buddy is one of the most selfish things a man can do. If he can't handle the booze then that's his own problem. Don't let it ruin your day.
Your car clearly sucks. Deal with it.
I'm not sure that buying someone else's product and slapping your name on it is the sort of innovation the original poster had in mind...
If it were me, there would be some shame in admitting that I worked for Microsoft... but maybe that's just me. You could always tell people you are working to bring the system down from the inside.
From the literature i have read, putting the batteries in the front adds a bit of weight which helps balance the thing a bit, and also is better from a safety point of view. Those lead acid batteries are nice and crumply(sp?) too, which helps in a frontal collision. Not sure if using unexploded li-ion batteries would give you the same benefit though... might want to improve the firewall a bit.
So aerodynamics aside, they aren't a bad choice for a first ev.
One good thing about being out where we are (the unfashionable end :) is that there should be less crap flying around to crash into us, eg like other solar systems.
Bill? Is that you?
:)
(just kidding
In central Victoria (South Eastern Australia), we're having a bit of a drought at the moment. I was listening to talkback radio show where a woman was talking about a fairly simple device to collect dew (basically just some fine mesh with a collector down the bottom) and how it could be used to keep a few plants alive without actively watering them.
:)
This got me thinking though, what is the effect going to be if this sort of thing is deployed in a really large scale? Does it reduce the moisture content of the air by any measurable amount? I guess in suburban areas if you just used the collected water to run evaporative air conditioning then it might even things out...
On the other hand, one of the feared run-away effects of global warming is that higher temperatures will speed up evaporation, and the increased moisture content acts as a greenhouse gas. Maybe we should be sucking the moisture out of the air a bit more
I wonder what Sony is doing with all of their unexploded batteries? I hope they aren't stored too close to each other. Sending them into space would be a good way to dispose of them...
Maybe they could use them as rocket fuel? Strap a few to the underside of the probe and bring it along to a Linux conference where Alan Cox is present. That's sure to send it on its way.
Given that your post is (currently) modded "Score:3, Informative", you aren't alone...
What... for tea and scones? To chat about old times? To poke fun together at the other countries who couldn't get something down to mars in one piece?
The only useful thing to come out of a meetup would be if one of them got stuck and needed a tow, but then you risk both of them getting stuck.
What would be cool is to find the site of one of the other failed surface missions... but think about how far it would have to travel to go there and how long it would take. These things move really really slow and Mars is really really big (as compared to, say, the distance to the local pub).
That's a scary thought for a car on a slippery surface. A 4 wheel lockup would give you no turning ability at all. A single wheel failure could be disasterous! At least a hydraulic system gives you manual braking as a failure mode, even if you have to push really hard on the pedal.
I'm sure smarter people than me have thought about this though, and have solutions to those problems and more... maybe wikipedia can enlighten me
I think most of the electric cars these days use inductive chargers. No exposed contacts, so rain shouldn't be much of a problem.
Such a system could be abused of course but you'd have to defeat lots of safety interlocks to do it.
As for your comment on gasoline explosions, it doesn't happen all the time like in the movies but it does happen (today AEST in fact). That could be LPG though...
If you get hit with enough power to stop or corrupt your heart beat, you stand a good chance of being revived if it happens in the presence of someone who knows anything about CPR. If you've been vapourized then the outlook isn't so good...