I think 36gb drives are fairly common in the SCSI product space, and maybe 18gb drives are still obtainable without too much effort.
But in the IDE world, 40gb is about the smallest you'll get. Of course in the 1.8 inch market, 40gb is on the high side which is the whole point of this article.
Your stored energy only goes so far though. If someone releases all the hydrogen and lights a match it will recombine with all the oxygen, leaving none left to breath. Unless you were talking about fusing it into helium... what ratio of helium to other gases is required to maintain a squeaky voice without actually killing you by displacing the oxygen?
Better I think to use plants to extract the carbon out of the C02 in the atmosphere but leave the oxygen.
Too much oxygen isn't really good for you either, is there nitrogen around to buffer it?
"someone who was thought to be intruding" is the killer though. Would it be easier to attack Microsoft directly, or to make eBay think they were being attacked by Microsoft and let their countermeasures attack Microsoft?
I think that you are mostly right, the bubble can burst but because your investment is in something tangible, it will not be worthless like that of a failed company. Compare IT stocks to real estate. If there is a big correction in both markets, a lot of IT companies will probably go backrupt, and your property might become next to worthless. But when things pick up again, the IT companies will still be gone, but (as long as you were able to hang in there for a bit and didn't overextend yourself to buy it in the first place) your property will be worth something again.
I can't tell from the very limited information given in the article if this is relevant or not, but Exchange has been known to try and authenticate to another Exchange server before sending (which invariably fails of course).
A bunch of failed login attempts isn't necessarily a hostile activity, which is all it sounds like in the article. Of course the poster probably knows more information that he's giving out...
Remember: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
And amongst the anti-virus tools there were the boot block protectors, which protected the boot sector of your disks by installing it onto each disk you inserted. Identical behaviour to all the viruses around as it wrote over non-standard boot sectors too, making the disk unbootable.
I remember finding what I thought was probably a virus on my amiga. I did a hex dump of the bootsector, but it was clean. Then I powered off the machine, and tried again. Aha, there it was, it intercepted reads of the boot sector and pretended there was nothing interesting there to see.
Having that info, I showed it to the virus scanner software and told it that it was a virus (you could give most virus scanners new signatures). But the next disk I put it, which I knew was infected, showed up clean. Not only did the virus intercept boot sector reads, but it actually changed itself around every time it wrote itself out (just xor 'encryption' from memory).
There were also many rumours of viruses that could write to disks with the write protect tab in the write protect position, but I don't think it was true.
Not to rain on the parade of this obviously very clever young individual, but now when an idiot says to me 'But I know what i'm talking about, I am a MCP', I can respond with 'So is a 10 year old girl in Pakistan... what's your point?'. Not having read the article to actually find out, and making some leaps of logic based on what I have seen on TV, I could probably progress further and respond instead with 'So is a 10 year old girl in Pakistan with no access to running water, electricity, or computer'.
This might be a bit easier than the standard method of dealing with them, which usually involves a LART.
This is exactly what the patent system is for though. A company spends a large amount of money developing a technology like this. Now they should be able to protect their idea and profit from it for a reasonable time. (as to what constitutes a 'reasonable time' though is up for debate as far as i'm concerned).
Assuming this is a workable idea and not some marketing hype to get capital to burn, there will probably be a lot more money spent before they see any profit.
Without the patent system, everyone would just sit back and wait for someone else to develop an idea so they could copy it.
(I had put this apology way down in a grandchild post, but thought it more proper to put it here)
I was the poster of the askslashdot question. I sincerely apologise to anyone I offended with my typo in the heading. I proofread the article but not the title. There are no excuses and again I sincerely apologyse.:p
I type like that too, but sometimes i get my wires crossed and type completely the wrong word, eg 'else' instead of 'void'.
Once upon a time i had a thing for a girl named 'Sue', not a strange thing for a teenaged male. I went to type in 'dir/w' at a dos prompt one day, also not a strange thing, but typed 'sue.q' instead. 'q' was also the first letter of her last name. I had my hands one key over to the left on the keyboard. It was a freaky coincidence!
BTW, i was the poster of the askslashdot question. I sincerely apologise to anyone I offended with my typo in the heading. I proofread the article but not the title. There are no excuses and again I sincerely apologyse.:p
This being viable depends on how close the application is tied to the data. If it's the same application year to year and they just whack an updated set of rules in it (which exist separate to the application), then yes this should work. If the rules are coded into the application ('if-else' statements - don't laugh, it could be true!) then there will be a new version every year, and the port would have to be done (and debugged) within a month or two to be useful.
But as an Australia tax payer, my taxes pay for things like this, and I think the source code should be released so that we can at least look at it. I wonder if it could be obtained via some sort of foi law...
I'd use a linux version if it existed. Someone who runs linux though almost certainly has the hardware to run Windows on, and unless they jumped through unusual hoops or assembled a pc from bits, they probably have a copy of windows lying around. A Mac user on the other hand has a few less options, and there are more than 5 people in Australia that use that on the desktop.
That name kind of reminds me of the 'Life of Brian' movie. I can just imagine a heap of different organisations with names like:
The peoples front of Al Qaeda The Al Qaeda peoples front The Al Qaeda liberation army
All consisting of a small handful of 'all talk, no action' people, all making a lot of noise, and all distracting attention away from those who are really making bad things happen.
More like publishing all the details necessary to 'steal' your identity, committing a crime, and then claiming that it can't be proven that you did it because it could have been someone else pretending to you.
My post (the grandparent of this one) was missing the <extremist> tags, so some of the context was lost.
The person being arrested should be the one with the open access point. The owner could be committing all sorts of illegal acts and can then claim 'But my access point is open. It could have been anyone. Prove it was me!'
How can he be arrested for using a resource which was advertised publically? The guy was broadcasting his ssid with no security on it, which sounds like an invitation to me
If I come into the office in the morning and there is a mixture of spam and ham in my inbox, it pisses me off. Getting pissed off is a sure fire way to burn calories (heart rate rises, etc), although probably not so good for you in other ways.
It works better for me because i'm the one who maintains the company spam filter, so if spam is getting through then i'm the one who'll be doing the tuning.
Not that i've had to do any tuning in a while though, i get the odd week where some new trick means that some spam is evading the filters, but then the system learns and it stops.
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Not unless your machine has something like 30 drives in it, and good luck finding a case that fit that many.
:) will hold 30 drives. I'd have to put the 3rd power supply in it to do that though.
I think my Sun E450 (running linux
btw, does anyone in Victoria, Australia want an E450?
I think 36gb drives are fairly common in the SCSI product space, and maybe 18gb drives are still obtainable without too much effort.
But in the IDE world, 40gb is about the smallest you'll get. Of course in the 1.8 inch market, 40gb is on the high side which is the whole point of this article.
Why does the news media keep reporting these *completely* unsubstantiated rumors about Google as if they were actually news?
Because if they didn't, someone else might get there first.
Your stored energy only goes so far though. If someone releases all the hydrogen and lights a match it will recombine with all the oxygen, leaving none left to breath. Unless you were talking about fusing it into helium... what ratio of helium to other gases is required to maintain a squeaky voice without actually killing you by displacing the oxygen?
Better I think to use plants to extract the carbon out of the C02 in the atmosphere but leave the oxygen.
Too much oxygen isn't really good for you either, is there nitrogen around to buffer it?
"someone who was thought to be intruding" is the killer though. Would it be easier to attack Microsoft directly, or to make eBay think they were being attacked by Microsoft and let their countermeasures attack Microsoft?
I think that you are mostly right, the bubble can burst but because your investment is in something tangible, it will not be worthless like that of a failed company. Compare IT stocks to real estate. If there is a big correction in both markets, a lot of IT companies will probably go backrupt, and your property might become next to worthless. But when things pick up again, the IT companies will still be gone, but (as long as you were able to hang in there for a bit and didn't overextend yourself to buy it in the first place) your property will be worth something again.
that was my solution too... i just got lilo to install directly to a 512 byte file, which was loaded by the NT bootloader.
I think stylus is a consumable part and therefore wouldn't need to be salvaged from another turntable, but i've not had much experience with them
If you could rip apart an optical 'intelli-eye' style mouse and make an optical stylus out of it, then you'd have my attention.
I can't tell from the very limited information given in the article if this is relevant or not, but Exchange has been known to try and authenticate to another Exchange server before sending (which invariably fails of course).
A bunch of failed login attempts isn't necessarily a hostile activity, which is all it sounds like in the article. Of course the poster probably knows more information that he's giving out...
Remember: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
And amongst the anti-virus tools there were the boot block protectors, which protected the boot sector of your disks by installing it onto each disk you inserted. Identical behaviour to all the viruses around as it wrote over non-standard boot sectors too, making the disk unbootable.
:)
I remember finding what I thought was probably a virus on my amiga. I did a hex dump of the bootsector, but it was clean. Then I powered off the machine, and tried again. Aha, there it was, it intercepted reads of the boot sector and pretended there was nothing interesting there to see.
Having that info, I showed it to the virus scanner software and told it that it was a virus (you could give most virus scanners new signatures). But the next disk I put it, which I knew was infected, showed up clean. Not only did the virus intercept boot sector reads, but it actually changed itself around every time it wrote itself out (just xor 'encryption' from memory).
There were also many rumours of viruses that could write to disks with the write protect tab in the write protect position, but I don't think it was true.
Oh the memories
across their nose, not up it!
(thanks spaceballs)
Not to rain on the parade of this obviously very clever young individual, but now when an idiot says to me 'But I know what i'm talking about, I am a MCP', I can respond with 'So is a 10 year old girl in Pakistan... what's your point?'. Not having read the article to actually find out, and making some leaps of logic based on what I have seen on TV, I could probably progress further and respond instead with 'So is a 10 year old girl in Pakistan with no access to running water, electricity, or computer'.
This might be a bit easier than the standard method of dealing with them, which usually involves a LART.
mmmm.... salt.
This is exactly what the patent system is for though. A company spends a large amount of money developing a technology like this. Now they should be able to protect their idea and profit from it for a reasonable time. (as to what constitutes a 'reasonable time' though is up for debate as far as i'm concerned).
Assuming this is a workable idea and not some marketing hype to get capital to burn, there will probably be a lot more money spent before they see any profit.
Without the patent system, everyone would just sit back and wait for someone else to develop an idea so they could copy it.
Software patents on the other hand...
(I had put this apology way down in a grandchild post, but thought it more proper to put it here)
:p
I was the poster of the askslashdot question. I sincerely apologise to anyone I offended with my typo in the heading. I proofread the article but not the title. There are no excuses and again I sincerely apologyse.
I type like that too, but sometimes i get my wires crossed and type completely the wrong word, eg 'else' instead of 'void'.
:p
Once upon a time i had a thing for a girl named 'Sue', not a strange thing for a teenaged male. I went to type in 'dir/w' at a dos prompt one day, also not a strange thing, but typed 'sue.q' instead. 'q' was also the first letter of her last name. I had my hands one key over to the left on the keyboard. It was a freaky coincidence!
BTW, i was the poster of the askslashdot question. I sincerely apologise to anyone I offended with my typo in the heading. I proofread the article but not the title. There are no excuses and again I sincerely apologyse.
This being viable depends on how close the application is tied to the data. If it's the same application year to year and they just whack an updated set of rules in it (which exist separate to the application), then yes this should work. If the rules are coded into the application ('if-else' statements - don't laugh, it could be true!) then there will be a new version every year, and the port would have to be done (and debugged) within a month or two to be useful.
But as an Australia tax payer, my taxes pay for things like this, and I think the source code should be released so that we can at least look at it. I wonder if it could be obtained via some sort of foi law...
I'd use a linux version if it existed. Someone who runs linux though almost certainly has the hardware to run Windows on, and unless they jumped through unusual hoops or assembled a pc from bits, they probably have a copy of windows lying around. A Mac user on the other hand has a few less options, and there are more than 5 people in Australia that use that on the desktop.
mccarthy would have your head on a stick :)
It's not very secret now is it.
That name kind of reminds me of the 'Life of Brian' movie. I can just imagine a heap of different organisations with names like:
The peoples front of Al Qaeda
The Al Qaeda peoples front
The Al Qaeda liberation army
All consisting of a small handful of 'all talk, no action' people, all making a lot of noise, and all distracting attention away from those who are really making bad things happen.
More like publishing all the details necessary to 'steal' your identity, committing a crime, and then claiming that it can't be proven that you did it because it could have been someone else pretending to you.
My post (the grandparent of this one) was missing the <extremist> tags, so some of the context was lost.
d'oh. all my tags got stripped off!
Or worse still, he could have been spamming!!!
The person being arrested should be the one with the open access point. The owner could be committing all sorts of illegal acts and can then claim 'But my access point is open. It could have been anyone. Prove it was me!'
How can he be arrested for using a resource which was advertised publically? The guy was broadcasting his ssid with no security on it, which sounds like an invitation to me
You are making the assumption that slashdotters RTFA, which is false.
:)
And anyway, stop complaining, at least it's not a dupe. (or is it? i haven't checked
If I come into the office in the morning and there is a mixture of spam and ham in my inbox, it pisses me off. Getting pissed off is a sure fire way to burn calories (heart rate rises, etc), although probably not so good for you in other ways.
It works better for me because i'm the one who maintains the company spam filter, so if spam is getting through then i'm the one who'll be doing the tuning.
Not that i've had to do any tuning in a while though, i get the odd week where some new trick means that some spam is evading the filters, but then the system learns and it stops.