A hangover is caused by drinking alcohol. Being dehydrated is one of the contributing factors to a hangover, and probably the easiest to protect yourself against, but alcohol in excessive quantities is basically poison and if you overdo it you are going to get a hangover even if you keep yourself hydrated.
Drinking more water probably means you end up drinking less alcohol too, which is probably a good thing
How many open-source code users do you think have the time, desire and ability - and probably paranoia - to go and inspect the code in *any* open-source project of reasonable size, let alone something as complex as the kernel?
There's a whole industry evolved around finding exploitable holes in Windows, and there's no source available for that at all[1]. You can be sure the bad guys have given it a thorough going over and if there was a generic hole (I doubt you could slip an "if password = NSA then accept" style patch by the gatekeeper so it would need to be subtle and generic) it would be found. Admittedly this is not ideal but as soon as the bad guys use their exploit it will be effectively disclosed and then fixed.
[1] actually it would be reasonable to assume that at least some source for windows is in the hands of the bad guys...
A customer of ours was recently sent an "about to call debt collectors" letter for an invoice for toner cartridges they hadn't bought. The scammer had done their homework - they had called previously claiming to be from the "federal government" doing a survey on printers so they knew exactly what type of toner the customer would have bought. We called the ACCC and were basically told that if money had actually been paid then we could try the feds and see if they would do anything, but otherwise they weren't going to do anything.
The fact that the scammers were getting away with this sort of shit with basically no risk at all made me quite angry. Stories like TFA make me feel a little better about the world.
I'm going to wait for the OCP autodrive car. If they do as good a job as they did with their Enforcement Droid then the future on the roads will be a riot!
Well... if you're going to remove a device specifically designed for device security because some unknown third party device/person tells you to - your security problems aren't of a technical nature. As they say, there's no technical fix for stupid. Not saying it won't happen, but there's not a lot a security accessory vendor can do to protect against that.
So true. Outlook blocks links in messages it has moved to your junk mail folder. Consequently all spam now says "if links aren't working, please move this message to your inbox". Stupid will find a way.
They can still try to draw 500mA and let the host cry. I don't know if they will, but wall chargers don't seem to have a complex protocol setup, I don't know how the do it.
I had an aftermarket iPhone charger for my car that was a cigarette lighter adapter with a USB socket on it and then a USB to iPhone cable. One day I was in the office and needed to charge my iPhone and didn't have a charger so I grabbed the USB cable from my car. The moment I plugged it into my laptop, even before plugging the iPhone in, the laptop turned off. No damage. Being naturally curious I tried it again and it was repeatable.
I'd go as far to say that some are basically brain dead
Does anyone have a good response to the first-cause argument for the existence of God(s)? That is, is the creation of the ultimate progenitor of our universe from no-thing/no-laws best explained as being the act of an eternal and powerful supernatural entity, outside causality, that can be defined as "God"? Or is it easier to accept that something has always existed, perhaps allowing the definition of "always" to go beyond our time arrow?
If you are trying to prove or disprove God (or some sort of creator) using science, then you have made a mistake.
This is what armored cockpit doors are for. You can detonate a bomb. You cannot take the plane over
You can open a pretty sturdy door with the right explosive...
Not being an explosives expert, I have to ask can you compromise the armored cockpit door without making the plane unflyable via either compromising the airframe, or blowing the door through the pilots?
My friend had a 50,000 gallon above-ground pool in his backyard. If it's even a problem due to exotic chemicals, make them clean it up. It's not that much.
Why the hell is this a topic aside from obvious desire by some for disasterbation? It would barely be a local news story in some small town.
So the company has the decision to make...
(a) $x to dispose of the waste properly
(b) $0 to simply turn on a tap and let the waste drain away, and (say) $10x to clean it up in the unlikely event that they get caught, which probably comes out of some other departments budget anyway
Seems that if there is no actual penalty for (b), then (b) is the obvious choice and it's going to keep happening, which I think is kind of a big deal. It should either be illegal with penalties to suit, or legal and let them do it without any fuss.
If you threw some rubbish on the ground and were caught, and the only penalty was that you had to pick your rubbish up again, where is the incentive to stop doing it again? (assuming you are too lazy to do the right thing in the first place without some incentive)
Googling for "nicotine teratogenic effects" will give you a bunch of results, some research papers, some fluff pieces. I always thought the low birth weight was more to do with smoking than the nicotine itself but who knows.
The article discussing nicotine and folic acid suppression makes some sense, which would mean it's not the nicotine directly acting on developing cells after all.
As it was my first time in Australia for an election, I watched on TV. The coverage was completely about the lower house. By the time I quit watching (Rudd's concession speech) I don't think there had been so much as a mention of the fact that senators were being elected also. It was weird and puzzling.
The senate doesn't actually change hands for a while too, so the media can get better mileage out of ignoring it for a while.
A guy I know switch to ecigs, not so much as a path to quitting, but because it's a less unhealthy alternative. He said that after a week or so his sense of smell had returned, and after a bit longer he wasn't coughing up revolting crap each morning. And I certainly noticed that he didn't pollute every room he entered.
Once you remove the smoke from the equation, is nicotine any worse than caffeine? Aside from the gross birth defects that is.
There was a theory that hand sanitizer (or just excessive washing) causes microtrauma on the skin of your hands, which allowed food that you handled (eg gluten) into your body and your body could build up an immune response which becomes coeliac disease. That sounds a little far fetched but still vaguely plausible. Hand sanitiser killing gut bacteria sounds even more whacky.
PH of a very acidic soda = 2.522, PH of stomach acid = 1.35
Don't blame the soda for having an acidic stomach.
If you drink something acidic, the total acidity level of your stomach will be more than if you drink water.
That last statement is correct, but your stomach will still be less acidic than if you drank nothing, so it doesn't support the original statement that drinking soda makes your stomach more acidic as drinking anything less acidic than stomach acid will always make your stomach less acidic. There are a bunch of reasons why drinking lots of soda isn't a good idea, but acidifying your stomach isn't one of them.
You don't "protect" the pedestrian by telling the bad driver to activate his brakes. Instead, automatically activate the brakes, take the bad driver out of the loop.
That would be kind of cool. Kids would soon figure out that if they run flat towards the road (but stop in time), all sorts of hilarity will follow.
This is similar to my gripe about people who think that a horn is a useful safety device -- as if the guy who you are beeping at is going to listen the horn, figure out that it applies to him, and figure out what he is doing wrong, fast enough to make a difference. Better to simply assume that he's an idiot, and work around him.
It works great with a lane change. If you see a car starting to change lanes into you because they haven't done their head check then a beep will normally get them to cancel their move. And yes I've been on the bad side of that (young and stupid and "i don't need to check i know there's nothing in my blind spot").
To be honest this system is far from perfect, but the system you described seems batshit crazy. Government funding private schools? What's the point of them being "private"?
Because it's good for the budget for kids to be in public schools. If there was no government funding then there would be a saving of 100% per student, which i'm sure the government would love, but then less people could afford it and would have to send kids to public schools which would cost the government more. By funding a small part of the cost, more people go to private school, and the government saves money.
A tax cut or rebate for parents who don't want to send kids to public schools would be another way of doing it, but the end result is the same
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A hangover is caused by dehydration.
A hangover is caused by drinking alcohol. Being dehydrated is one of the contributing factors to a hangover, and probably the easiest to protect yourself against, but alcohol in excessive quantities is basically poison and if you overdo it you are going to get a hangover even if you keep yourself hydrated.
Drinking more water probably means you end up drinking less alcohol too, which is probably a good thing
Or you use a compromised compiler to insert the backdoor.
Yes it can always be injected at the source->binary level, even maliciously by your distributor themselves...
How many open-source code users do you think have the time, desire and ability - and probably paranoia - to go and inspect the code in *any* open-source project of reasonable size, let alone something as complex as the kernel?
There's a whole industry evolved around finding exploitable holes in Windows, and there's no source available for that at all[1]. You can be sure the bad guys have given it a thorough going over and if there was a generic hole (I doubt you could slip an "if password = NSA then accept" style patch by the gatekeeper so it would need to be subtle and generic) it would be found. Admittedly this is not ideal but as soon as the bad guys use their exploit it will be effectively disclosed and then fixed.
[1] actually it would be reasonable to assume that at least some source for windows is in the hands of the bad guys...
A customer of ours was recently sent an "about to call debt collectors" letter for an invoice for toner cartridges they hadn't bought. The scammer had done their homework - they had called previously claiming to be from the "federal government" doing a survey on printers so they knew exactly what type of toner the customer would have bought. We called the ACCC and were basically told that if money had actually been paid then we could try the feds and see if they would do anything, but otherwise they weren't going to do anything.
The fact that the scammers were getting away with this sort of shit with basically no risk at all made me quite angry. Stories like TFA make me feel a little better about the world.
I'm going to wait for the OCP autodrive car. If they do as good a job as they did with their Enforcement Droid then the future on the roads will be a riot!
Well... if you're going to remove a device specifically designed for device security because some unknown third party device/person tells you to - your security problems aren't of a technical nature. As they say, there's no technical fix for stupid. Not saying it won't happen, but there's not a lot a security accessory vendor can do to protect against that.
So true. Outlook blocks links in messages it has moved to your junk mail folder. Consequently all spam now says "if links aren't working, please move this message to your inbox". Stupid will find a way.
A little company called int3.cc has developed a product—a USB condom—that blocks the data pins in your USB device while leaving the power pins free.
If you consider something that blocks the middle of the male end but leaves the sides open to be a "condom," you might want to see a doctor. Soon.
If you consider that it allows for insertion without allowing the flow of information, the comparison might be more correct than you think.
You could do that. I could also not buy your broken charger.
But you know what you're doing. Social engineering will always work on some people though:
"My phone is flat and I really need to take a photo of my big mac to show my friends, can I borrow your charger?"
"Sure, here you go"
"It's not working"
"Try taking that adapter thing off, it's probably mucking up the charging"
Faced with the horror of eating their big mac without it first being photographed, I think you can guess how this story ends...
They can still try to draw 500mA and let the host cry. I don't know if they will, but wall chargers don't seem to have a complex protocol setup, I don't know how the do it.
I had an aftermarket iPhone charger for my car that was a cigarette lighter adapter with a USB socket on it and then a USB to iPhone cable. One day I was in the office and needed to charge my iPhone and didn't have a charger so I grabbed the USB cable from my car. The moment I plugged it into my laptop, even before plugging the iPhone in, the laptop turned off. No damage. Being naturally curious I tried it again and it was repeatable.
I'd go as far to say that some are basically brain dead
This is an illustration of where mathematical models can run amok.
My favourite is:
There are 4 people in a room, then 7 people leave. How many people have to enter the room for it to be empty again?
Does anyone have a good response to the first-cause argument for the existence of God(s)? That is, is the creation of the ultimate progenitor of our universe from no-thing/no-laws best explained as being the act of an eternal and powerful supernatural entity, outside causality, that can be defined as "God"? Or is it easier to accept that something has always existed, perhaps allowing the definition of "always" to go beyond our time arrow?
If you are trying to prove or disprove God (or some sort of creator) using science, then you have made a mistake.
So the big bang is just a mirage?
Maybe it's all just sabotage!
(with many apologies to the Beastie Boys - this was just the first thing that popped into my head when I read the mirage line)
Think in Russian...
This is what armored cockpit doors are for. You can detonate a bomb. You cannot take the plane over
You can open a pretty sturdy door with the right explosive...
Not being an explosives expert, I have to ask can you compromise the armored cockpit door without making the plane unflyable via either compromising the airframe, or blowing the door through the pilots?
My friend had a 50,000 gallon above-ground pool in his backyard. If it's even a problem due to exotic chemicals, make them clean it up. It's not that much.
Why the hell is this a topic aside from obvious desire by some for disasterbation? It would barely be a local news story in some small town.
So the company has the decision to make...
(a) $x to dispose of the waste properly
(b) $0 to simply turn on a tap and let the waste drain away, and (say) $10x to clean it up in the unlikely event that they get caught, which probably comes out of some other departments budget anyway
Seems that if there is no actual penalty for (b), then (b) is the obvious choice and it's going to keep happening, which I think is kind of a big deal. It should either be illegal with penalties to suit, or legal and let them do it without any fuss.
If you threw some rubbish on the ground and were caught, and the only penalty was that you had to pick your rubbish up again, where is the incentive to stop doing it again? (assuming you are too lazy to do the right thing in the first place without some incentive)
You do realise that the American govt is full of American people right?
Sorry. My mistake. I do trust the American government now that I know it's full of American people.
We trust the American people... it's just your damn government we have a problem with.
Googling for "nicotine teratogenic effects" will give you a bunch of results, some research papers, some fluff pieces. I always thought the low birth weight was more to do with smoking than the nicotine itself but who knows.
The article discussing nicotine and folic acid suppression makes some sense, which would mean it's not the nicotine directly acting on developing cells after all.
As it was my first time in Australia for an election, I watched on TV. The coverage was completely about the lower house. By the time I quit watching (Rudd's concession speech) I don't think there had been so much as a mention of the fact that senators were being elected also. It was weird and puzzling.
The senate doesn't actually change hands for a while too, so the media can get better mileage out of ignoring it for a while.
A guy I know switch to ecigs, not so much as a path to quitting, but because it's a less unhealthy alternative. He said that after a week or so his sense of smell had returned, and after a bit longer he wasn't coughing up revolting crap each morning. And I certainly noticed that he didn't pollute every room he entered.
Once you remove the smoke from the equation, is nicotine any worse than caffeine? Aside from the gross birth defects that is.
There was a theory that hand sanitizer (or just excessive washing) causes microtrauma on the skin of your hands, which allowed food that you handled (eg gluten) into your body and your body could build up an immune response which becomes coeliac disease. That sounds a little far fetched but still vaguely plausible. Hand sanitiser killing gut bacteria sounds even more whacky.
PH of a very acidic soda = 2.522, PH of stomach acid = 1.35
Don't blame the soda for having an acidic stomach.
If you drink something acidic, the total acidity level of your stomach will be more than if you drink water.
That last statement is correct, but your stomach will still be less acidic than if you drank nothing, so it doesn't support the original statement that drinking soda makes your stomach more acidic as drinking anything less acidic than stomach acid will always make your stomach less acidic. There are a bunch of reasons why drinking lots of soda isn't a good idea, but acidifying your stomach isn't one of them.
Yeah, not a real license. I don't care, I still want one.
You could store it in your wallet along with your Federal Breast Inspector license :p
You don't "protect" the pedestrian by telling the bad driver to activate his brakes. Instead, automatically activate the brakes, take the bad driver out of the loop.
That would be kind of cool. Kids would soon figure out that if they run flat towards the road (but stop in time), all sorts of hilarity will follow.
This is similar to my gripe about people who think that a horn is a useful safety device -- as if the guy who you are beeping at is going to listen the horn, figure out that it applies to him, and figure out what he is doing wrong, fast enough to make a difference. Better to simply assume that he's an idiot, and work around him.
It works great with a lane change. If you see a car starting to change lanes into you because they haven't done their head check then a beep will normally get them to cancel their move. And yes I've been on the bad side of that (young and stupid and "i don't need to check i know there's nothing in my blind spot").
To be honest this system is far from perfect, but the system you described seems batshit crazy. Government funding private schools? What's the point of them being "private"?
Because it's good for the budget for kids to be in public schools. If there was no government funding then there would be a saving of 100% per student, which i'm sure the government would love, but then less people could afford it and would have to send kids to public schools which would cost the government more. By funding a small part of the cost, more people go to private school, and the government saves money.
A tax cut or rebate for parents who don't want to send kids to public schools would be another way of doing it, but the end result is the same