90% of sites I know of spend a fortune on email virus scanning, and then block any attachment that might contain a virus. The product in question doesn't bother scanning any blocked attachment and ends up never detecting a virus.
That was until they started putting them in zip files, which are allowed through.
Here's my better idea. Develop a material, lets call it 'unobtainium' with the following properties:
. Can be either formed like glass or mixed evenly into glass . Transparent to 'visible' light. . Upon absorbing IR radiation, glows for a short period
Now what we do is form a block of unobtainium or unobtainium glass mix and have two IR lasers scanning the entire volume of our unobtainium, one vertial and the other set at 90 degrees to the vertical, such that a complete scan of the volume means the intersection of the two lasers has passed through every voxel (point) in the volume.
Only when the two lasers energise a voxel does it glow, the energy absorbed by one laser is not enough to do it.
The initial version would only be monochrome of course.
Now if I could just obtain some of this unobtainium
Alternatively, if the force required to unstick the heads from the platters is greater than the force holding the heads to their positioning arms, the head(s) will be torn off and make all sorts of interesting noises as they spin around.
This is some of the idea behind the extreme changes in temperature... to try and reduce the force sticking the heads to the platter.
We've all seen the pictures... the distance between the read head and the platter compared to a grain of dust, a smoke particle, a human hair etc.
The nifty thing is, the drives spin fast enough that with some luck all this stuff will just fly outwards and get stuck in the filter before it comes into contact with the heads.
My Dad used to teach basic competency in word processing and spreadsheet use etc (back in the day... 80286 and wordperfect 5.1:) He had 'demo' computer and used a harddrive with some bad sectors on it and the top cover removed and a piece of clear perspex in its place. Despite all my suggestions that it wouldn't work once it had been exposed to the air and dust in our lounge room, it worked just as good as it did before he pulled the top off.
I independantly 'invented' this about 3 years ago and implented this on my computer as an experiment.
My rationale was that I could run telnet (or any other service) such that it would keep out portscanners, who would think the port was closed. I'd use ssh when i could but if I desparately needed access from a telnet only machine I could connect to the various ports using only telnet to complete the sequence.
My other idea was a firewall hack to only accept every nth (10th?) syn packet from a given ip address, again keeping out simple portscanners and worms.
Such things will keep out script kiddies and worms, but obviously not anyone with malicious intent.
My mantra re security is don't go too overboard. Put in enough to keep out the riff raff. Anyone who really really really wants access to your system will use methods for which any computer based security is useless. (How many of you would not give your password to someone holding a gun to your head?)
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The obvious solution then is to demand that sco remove the sco.com domain. It's the only decent thing to do.
In a small company, having some employees with eg cisco or microsoft certification puts you 'on the map' eg if a customer asks cisco or microsoft 'who is certified in my local region?'
I work for a small company in a rural area. I'm sure it's a whole different ballgame if you are looking for work in a large company in the city.
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Why would we have to be instantly vaporized? As long as we're plotting out uncharted territory here (eg making stuff up:) then maybe some of this glue doesn't turn back into atoms. Maybe instead it cracks a few more atoms and creates more glue. It could take years. There's a lot of space between atoms!
Don't feel too bad. It's just a knack. When I was being trained for my driving test (I don't call it 'learning to drive' - it was simply being trained to pass the test:) here in Australia, the instructor made it quite clear that I would get 3 attempts at parking in my test, and if I couldn't do it on the 3 attempts I would have failed the test.
The instructor basically just said to line up this corner of the car with that point on the road, turn the wheels thus, and reverse in. And it worked perfectly, every time.
My first car was easy, it was a Morris 850 (Mini) and I could not only see all 4 corners of the car, I could pretty much reach out and touch any of them. A perfect perception of the space around me.
My next car was a '81 Corolla, nice and boxy. Easy to see exactly where the four corners of the car were.
My current car is a '02 Commodore (6cyl large sedan), and I can't make out the corners of it for shit. I finally get why people rice up their cars with spoilers. It's so you can actually see where the back of your car ends.
I think the idea is that with the sloping front, if you hit a person then they are more likely to roll over the car than have their legs broken. A good idea but it sure makes parking hard. Most of the time I get it absolutely perfect first go, but sometimes I really suck. And because I can't make out the front and back of the car visually, i often think i'm inches away from the car in front or behind, and get out to find i have a meter to spare. easy.
And remember, practice makes perfect. Once you master it you'll be able to laugh at everyone else when they stuff it up.
On dialup, I always clicked the close button on my popups before they'd even had time to load. I never saw what they were advertising, it was just an annoying feature.
I now use the google popup blocker under ie (762 blocked:) and mozilla under linux. Even at the 128k isdn I use now, I close most of the popups that do get through before any recognisable content has been loaded.
So to all of you with high speed internet access I say:p
I get this occasionally, but not recently. I can't move, or speak but can make a moaning sort of sound, which causes my wife to ask if i'm okay. As soon as I hear her voice (or probably any voice), I instantly seem to snap out of it.
I never noticed my breathing though, but when I got them before I was sharing a bed, it seemed to take ages to get to be able to move again. I remember myself falling back into sleep which I always used to fight for some reason.
It seems to happen for a few nights in a row and then not for a long time. Sort of in batches.
At the time it's terrifying, but afterwards I wonder what all the fuss was about. It helped a lot once I knew what it was, that it wasn't too abnormal, and wasn't going to damage me in any way.
... it was probably one of these three: Doug Anthony AllStars - I want to spill the blood of a hippy. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here Jeff Buckly - Hallelujah
That has been tried. But i don't think it is a behaviour problem. It's a processing problem. (this is where proADHD and antiADHD people differ in opinion).
I tried something one night. She had dropped something on the floor on her way from her bedroom to the loungeroom. It went something like this: me: can you pick that up please? her: pick what up? me: (pointing to it) that (i also said what it was, but i can't remember now) her: (looking everywhere but straight at it) what do you mean?
this went on for a bit, and then finally I decided to test if she was just being difficult or genuinely didn't have a clue about what was going on:
me: if you can pick it up and put it away in 3 seconds i'll give you a chocolate.
she then grabbed it and put it away. no questions. no mucking around. I thought to myself "that little shit, she knew what I was talking about all along".
I mentioned this to the doctor (adhd specialist) and she said what happens is the brain mostly doesn't work properly, but does if prodded with some excitement. This goes some way to explaining why adhd people put off assignments etc to the last minute. It's not (just) laziness, it's that the brain just doesn't work properly unless put under pressure. I don't think prolonged exposure to the amount of stress required will be that healthy though. It also explains why adhd people are often thrillseekers. The rush gives a certain clarity of thought that is otherwise missing.
I also figured out that that was why the rewards programs we had set up seemed to work for a few days or a week and then not anymore.
Her behaviour still defies all logical reason, but that's just the way it is. You wouldn't expect an autistic kid to do certain things. This is sort of the same only nowhere near as bad.
My wife does stay at home now. We can mostly survive on my income alone, and 2 of the 3 kids are not at school (and in fact are still in nappies) so would need childcare if she worked. So it makes sense for her to stay home for many reasons. Or were you referring to home schooling? That's something we have considered but it's not really her education that is the problem. It's her ability to relate to other people and to handle day to day things.
Ritalin is a mind altering drug (It would be pretty stupid giving her a non-mind altering drug when the aim is to alter her mind). I'd hazard a guess that you haven't done nearly the amount of research that I have on this subject, and are just echoing what you have heard in popular media. The behaviour and method of operating of many medications that alter the mind is not well understood. Think of epilepsy, depression, bi-polar, schizophrenia. In fact a lot of those medications have horrible side effects. But they are still prescribed because the good of prescribing them outweighs the bad of not prescribing them. re: ritalin, I don't know about your 10% figure, but from what i've read, any given theory of how it works is agreed upon by no more than about 10% of experts... although I think they've got a much better idea now than a few years ago.
Giving her IQ a number doesn't make her any less a child. I probably could have said 'high iq' or something, but 120 is high, as is 180, but are completely different ballgames. There are some theories that anyone with a high iq doesn't have adhd (google for 'gifted'), so I thought it quite relevant.
You keep saying 'let her be a child'. I don't think that really means anything in this context. It almost sounds like you are suggesting I ignore the problem and pretend it will sort itself out. My opinion is that if something is affecting your childs happiness and wellbeing, then as a parent it is your responsibility to help them.
Thankyou very much for your input. Stimulant medication is giving us the best results presently, which is why we've stuck with it but we're giving this neural feedback therapy a go in the hope that medication will not be required anymore. She is in her first session right now!
We're pretty lucky to have access to such facilities here, and the doctor is just fantastic. Even suggesting a few other things to look at like Omega3 deficiencies and 'leaky gut' etc. She seems to take a very holistic approach to this sort of thing, which is a big change compared to the 'I have a hammer so all other problems are nails' approach taken by a lot of medical professionals. So getting access to such therapy is not a problem.
thanks again. It's is truly comforting to know of a success story. I haven't yet heard of anyone who's given it a serious go (eg stuck with it for more than a few sessions) that hasn't had some success... although i haven't read all the comments yet.
You are making some pretty rediculous assumptions. You know next to nothing about me and my family and yet you make these bold statements.
I don't see that I went to pains to point out her IQ. I mentioned it once, and then only with the qualifier that all it really means is that she's better at doing IQ tests than most other kids her age.
As for her being a status symbol, she's the first one to be kicked out of class and the first one to have her parents called at a party or sleepover because of inappropriate behaviour. If anything I'd say sometimes i go a bit overboard in describing the problems she has (she really is a great kid!).
The gist of both of my submissions to slashdot were along the lines of that i'd persued all the usual avenues of help (doctors, books, etc) and that maybe the slashdot community might have some useful first hand information about it. I was looking for responses like 'Your daughter reminds me of me when I was a kid. My parents gave me ritalin and it was the most horrible thing ever. Messed my life up completely. Don't give your kids ritalin ever.' or 'Your daughter reminds me of me when I was a kid. Before Ritalin I felt like my life was a big blur. Now i'm the chief justice of the supreme court'. Well... you get the idea.
I'm a geek too, but if someone's tinkering with my daughters brain, no matter how passivly, i want it to be a professional:)
I am insanely curious though if you could use it to train yourself to go into a trance or altered states of mind though, eg lucid dreaming. I find the whole concept fascinating!!!
She's had the EEG done and the doctor says she doesn't fit the 'classical' ADHD symptoms but still could benefit from feedback therapy. She has her first session in about an hour as it happens.
We are presently exploring other things like Omega3 deficiency, leaky gut, etc.
It does. It also suppresses appetite (which is a concern for us, although probably less so for some). This was all freely disclosed when we first went to see a doctor about it.
We have weighed up the negatives vs the positives, and our presenting thinking is that 1 cm or 2 (at the absolute extreme) of possible height loss vs lifelong depression due to social isolation and frustration is the lesser of the possible evils. I hope to hell we have made the right decision.
Of course, if this neural feedback therapy works, we can throw all the drugs out.
Slashdot Mirror
... i've not seen an spam filter that is 100% effective, you could offer a personalised manual spam filtering service!
90% of sites I know of spend a fortune on email virus scanning, and then block any attachment that might contain a virus. The product in question doesn't bother scanning any blocked attachment and ends up never detecting a virus.
That was until they started putting them in zip files, which are allowed through.
Here's my better idea. Develop a material, lets call it 'unobtainium' with the following properties:
. Can be either formed like glass or mixed evenly into glass
. Transparent to 'visible' light.
. Upon absorbing IR radiation, glows for a short period
Now what we do is form a block of unobtainium or unobtainium glass mix and have two IR lasers scanning the entire volume of our unobtainium, one vertial and the other set at 90 degrees to the vertical, such that a complete scan of the volume means the intersection of the two lasers has passed through every voxel (point) in the volume.
Only when the two lasers energise a voxel does it glow, the energy absorbed by one laser is not enough to do it.
The initial version would only be monochrome of course.
Now if I could just obtain some of this unobtainium
depends on the subject of the movie
*cough* pr0n *cough*
Alternatively, if the force required to unstick the heads from the platters is greater than the force holding the heads to their positioning arms, the head(s) will be torn off and make all sorts of interesting noises as they spin around.
This is some of the idea behind the extreme changes in temperature... to try and reduce the force sticking the heads to the platter.
We've all seen the pictures... the distance between the read head and the platter compared to a grain of dust, a smoke particle, a human hair etc.
:) He had 'demo' computer and used a harddrive with some bad sectors on it and the top cover removed and a piece of clear perspex in its place. Despite all my suggestions that it wouldn't work once it had been exposed to the air and dust in our lounge room, it worked just as good as it did before he pulled the top off.
The nifty thing is, the drives spin fast enough that with some luck all this stuff will just fly outwards and get stuck in the filter before it comes into contact with the heads.
My Dad used to teach basic competency in word processing and spreadsheet use etc (back in the day... 80286 and wordperfect 5.1
Maybe someone is conducting secret Broadband over Power Line tests in the area?
so you're the person who bought one!
I independantly 'invented' this about 3 years ago and implented this on my computer as an experiment.
My rationale was that I could run telnet (or any other service) such that it would keep out portscanners, who would think the port was closed. I'd use ssh when i could but if I desparately needed access from a telnet only machine I could connect to the various ports using only telnet to complete the sequence.
My other idea was a firewall hack to only accept every nth (10th?) syn packet from a given ip address, again keeping out simple portscanners and worms.
Such things will keep out script kiddies and worms, but obviously not anyone with malicious intent.
My mantra re security is don't go too overboard. Put in enough to keep out the riff raff. Anyone who really really really wants access to your system will use methods for which any computer based security is useless. (How many of you would not give your password to someone holding a gun to your head?)
The obvious solution then is to demand that sco remove the sco.com domain. It's the only decent thing to do.
So you start out with your computer. If that happens to get a bullet hole in it, you can then use it to stop your map blowing away.
In a small company, having some employees with eg cisco or microsoft certification puts you 'on the map' eg if a customer asks cisco or microsoft 'who is certified in my local region?'
I work for a small company in a rural area. I'm sure it's a whole different ballgame if you are looking for work in a large company in the city.
Why would we have to be instantly vaporized? As long as we're plotting out uncharted territory here (eg making stuff up :) then maybe some of this glue doesn't turn back into atoms. Maybe instead it cracks a few more atoms and creates more glue. It could take years. There's a lot of space between atoms!
Lets worry a little.
Don't feel too bad. It's just a knack. When I was being trained for my driving test (I don't call it 'learning to drive' - it was simply being trained to pass the test :) here in Australia, the instructor made it quite clear that I would get 3 attempts at parking in my test, and if I couldn't do it on the 3 attempts I would have failed the test.
The instructor basically just said to line up this corner of the car with that point on the road, turn the wheels thus, and reverse in. And it worked perfectly, every time.
My first car was easy, it was a Morris 850 (Mini) and I could not only see all 4 corners of the car, I could pretty much reach out and touch any of them. A perfect perception of the space around me.
My next car was a '81 Corolla, nice and boxy. Easy to see exactly where the four corners of the car were.
My current car is a '02 Commodore (6cyl large sedan), and I can't make out the corners of it for shit. I finally get why people rice up their cars with spoilers. It's so you can actually see where the back of your car ends.
I think the idea is that with the sloping front, if you hit a person then they are more likely to roll over the car than have their legs broken. A good idea but it sure makes parking hard. Most of the time I get it absolutely perfect first go, but sometimes I really suck. And because I can't make out the front and back of the car visually, i often think i'm inches away from the car in front or behind, and get out to find i have a meter to spare. easy.
And remember, practice makes perfect. Once you master it you'll be able to laugh at everyone else when they stuff it up.
On dialup, I always clicked the close button on my popups before they'd even had time to load. I never saw what they were advertising, it was just an annoying feature.
:) and mozilla under linux. Even at the 128k isdn I use now, I close most of the popups that do get through before any recognisable content has been loaded.
:p
I now use the google popup blocker under ie (762 blocked
So to all of you with high speed internet access I say
I get this occasionally, but not recently. I can't move, or speak but can make a moaning sort of sound, which causes my wife to ask if i'm okay. As soon as I hear her voice (or probably any voice), I instantly seem to snap out of it.
I never noticed my breathing though, but when I got them before I was sharing a bed, it seemed to take ages to get to be able to move again. I remember myself falling back into sleep which I always used to fight for some reason.
It seems to happen for a few nights in a row and then not for a long time. Sort of in batches.
At the time it's terrifying, but afterwards I wonder what all the fuss was about. It helped a lot once I knew what it was, that it wasn't too abnormal, and wasn't going to damage me in any way.
... it was probably one of these three:
Doug Anthony AllStars - I want to spill the blood of a hippy.
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Jeff Buckly - Hallelujah
That has been tried. But i don't think it is a behaviour problem. It's a processing problem. (this is where proADHD and antiADHD people differ in opinion).
I tried something one night. She had dropped something on the floor on her way from her bedroom to the loungeroom. It went something like this:
me: can you pick that up please?
her: pick what up?
me: (pointing to it) that (i also said what it was, but i can't remember now)
her: (looking everywhere but straight at it) what do you mean?
this went on for a bit, and then finally I decided to test if she was just being difficult or genuinely didn't have a clue about what was going on:
me: if you can pick it up and put it away in 3 seconds i'll give you a chocolate.
she then grabbed it and put it away. no questions. no mucking around. I thought to myself "that little shit, she knew what I was talking about all along".
I mentioned this to the doctor (adhd specialist) and she said what happens is the brain mostly doesn't work properly, but does if prodded with some excitement. This goes some way to explaining why adhd people put off assignments etc to the last minute. It's not (just) laziness, it's that the brain just doesn't work properly unless put under pressure. I don't think prolonged exposure to the amount of stress required will be that healthy though. It also explains why adhd people are often thrillseekers. The rush gives a certain clarity of thought that is otherwise missing.
I also figured out that that was why the rewards programs we had set up seemed to work for a few days or a week and then not anymore.
Her behaviour still defies all logical reason, but that's just the way it is. You wouldn't expect an autistic kid to do certain things. This is sort of the same only nowhere near as bad.
not if this neural feedback therapy thing works, or we find another solution. We are looking really hard!!!
thanks a heap for you input. Can I email you or otherwise contact you? I have a billion questions i'd like to ask.
My wife does stay at home now. We can mostly survive on my income alone, and 2 of the 3 kids are not at school (and in fact are still in nappies) so would need childcare if she worked. So it makes sense for her to stay home for many reasons. Or were you referring to home schooling? That's something we have considered but it's not really her education that is the problem. It's her ability to relate to other people and to handle day to day things.
Ritalin is a mind altering drug (It would be pretty stupid giving her a non-mind altering drug when the aim is to alter her mind). I'd hazard a guess that you haven't done nearly the amount of research that I have on this subject, and are just echoing what you have heard in popular media. The behaviour and method of operating of many medications that alter the mind is not well understood. Think of epilepsy, depression, bi-polar, schizophrenia. In fact a lot of those medications have horrible side effects. But they are still prescribed because the good of prescribing them outweighs the bad of not prescribing them. re: ritalin, I don't know about your 10% figure, but from what i've read, any given theory of how it works is agreed upon by no more than about 10% of experts... although I think they've got a much better idea now than a few years ago.
Giving her IQ a number doesn't make her any less a child. I probably could have said 'high iq' or something, but 120 is high, as is 180, but are completely different ballgames. There are some theories that anyone with a high iq doesn't have adhd (google for 'gifted'), so I thought it quite relevant.
You keep saying 'let her be a child'. I don't think that really means anything in this context. It almost sounds like you are suggesting I ignore the problem and pretend it will sort itself out. My opinion is that if something is affecting your childs happiness and wellbeing, then as a parent it is your responsibility to help them.
Thankyou very much for your input. Stimulant medication is giving us the best results presently, which is why we've stuck with it but we're giving this neural feedback therapy a go in the hope that medication will not be required anymore. She is in her first session right now!
We're pretty lucky to have access to such facilities here, and the doctor is just fantastic. Even suggesting a few other things to look at like Omega3 deficiencies and 'leaky gut' etc. She seems to take a very holistic approach to this sort of thing, which is a big change compared to the 'I have a hammer so all other problems are nails' approach taken by a lot of medical professionals. So getting access to such therapy is not a problem.
thanks again. It's is truly comforting to know of a success story. I haven't yet heard of anyone who's given it a serious go (eg stuck with it for more than a few sessions) that hasn't had some success... although i haven't read all the comments yet.
You are making some pretty rediculous assumptions. You know next to nothing about me and my family and yet you make these bold statements.
I don't see that I went to pains to point out her IQ. I mentioned it once, and then only with the qualifier that all it really means is that she's better at doing IQ tests than most other kids her age.
As for her being a status symbol, she's the first one to be kicked out of class and the first one to have her parents called at a party or sleepover because of inappropriate behaviour. If anything I'd say sometimes i go a bit overboard in describing the problems she has (she really is a great kid!).
The gist of both of my submissions to slashdot were along the lines of that i'd persued all the usual avenues of help (doctors, books, etc) and that maybe the slashdot community might have some useful first hand information about it. I was looking for responses like 'Your daughter reminds me of me when I was a kid. My parents gave me ritalin and it was the most horrible thing ever. Messed my life up completely. Don't give your kids ritalin ever.' or 'Your daughter reminds me of me when I was a kid. Before Ritalin I felt like my life was a big blur. Now i'm the chief justice of the supreme court'. Well... you get the idea.
Thanks heaps for the reply.
:)
I'm a geek too, but if someone's tinkering with my daughters brain, no matter how passivly, i want it to be a professional
I am insanely curious though if you could use it to train yourself to go into a trance or altered states of mind though, eg lucid dreaming. I find the whole concept fascinating!!!
She's had the EEG done and the doctor says she doesn't fit the 'classical' ADHD symptoms but still could benefit from feedback therapy. She has her first session in about an hour as it happens.
We are presently exploring other things like Omega3 deficiency, leaky gut, etc.
It does. It also suppresses appetite (which is a concern for us, although probably less so for some). This was all freely disclosed when we first went to see a doctor about it.
We have weighed up the negatives vs the positives, and our presenting thinking is that 1 cm or 2 (at the absolute extreme) of possible height loss vs lifelong depression due to social isolation and frustration is the lesser of the possible evils. I hope to hell we have made the right decision.
Of course, if this neural feedback therapy works, we can throw all the drugs out.