Thankfully, most Americans understand that if they have no affiliation with terrorist groups, they have nothing to worry about.
Sounds very good, but is utterly wrong. Americans have nothing to worry about as long as the authorities do not know, believe or suspect that they (or anyone they have sufficient similarity (like first and last name) with someone who is known, believed or suspected to) have affiliations with groups that are known, believed or suspected to be terrorist groups.
Of course the problem was always that as long as it takes a human being to interpret the information, the ratio of number of spys to the number of people spied upon is too large to be economical for intruding on ordinary citizens.
Why, do like the STASI* did: Have half of the population spy on the other half. Or even better, have everyone spy on everyone else.
* (Ministry of State Security in the former German Democratic Repulic)
No, no, no. Everyone knows there is only one correct region code, "1". Countries with other region codes are either figments of imagination or simply way too backwards to even know what a DVD is.
In this way, the anti-particles will be going into the black hole, slowly cancelling its mass while the particle radiates away.
Even anti-particles still have a positive mass. They cannot cancel out anything. The black hole loses mass by what is radiating away, not by what is dropping back into it.
so they'd have to already know the mac of a machine inside my network...
Guess what's plainly visible in every packet sent by a machine inside your (Wifi-) network ?... Bingo. The attacker only has to wait until the machine in your network isn't active, set the MAC address of his WLAN adapter to that address, and he's in if there are no other barriers.
but if someone told me to make my network secure, I wouldn't even know where to start. Well, I suppose Step 1 would be pulling up Google,...
Yikes. How about reading the manual of the router/acces point first ? Last one I read had a pretty good description on how to keep nosy neighbors out of your WLAN. The biggest thing is turning on WPA, which should keep all but very determined hackers out.
I know it may be wistful thinking as most of the MAC addresses stop at the local NAT router.
MAC addresses stop when leaving the local network. And in most cases, the "fixed" MAC can be overwritten by software. That's why having a MAC address filter will only keep clueless idiots out of your wireless network.
Just because there is a software installed that provide root access from the outside it does not automaticly mean that your privileges for the root-account is revoked.
A software that merely provides root access from the outside isn't a rootkit. To be a rootkit, it also needs hide itself, especially from the legitimate root account of the system. Since by definition a root account has or can acquire all rights on the system, the rootkit somehow needs to take rights away from the legitimate root (for examples, by manipulating file system drivers to make them hide certain files from everyone including the legitimate root). So, the legitimate root user might still think he's root, when in fact he is not (as the system, compromised by the rootkit, is flat-out lying to him).
Actually, didn't some Italian researchers of the University of Padua claim a while ago that they found a gene which in females increases fecundity while in males it increases the likelyhood of being attracted to the same sex ?
Combined with the fact that males are fairly unimportant for the survival of the species as a whole, this would explain why the gene has not died out yet - its effect on females is more advantageous than its effect on males is detrimental as far as reproduction goes.
... water (H2O) and carbon monoxide (CO) to Hydrogen (H2). What does it do with all the other atoms (one C, two O) ? Let me guess... it makes carbon dioxide ?
It doesn't matter whether it's millions of skin cells dead due to an expanding ozone hole, or a single blob of protoplasm flushed out of somebody's uterus.
The millions of skin cells are only an almost negligible fraction of that individuals total amount of cells, and they are easily replaced.
The single blob of protoplasm is 100% of that individuals cells.
No need to be brain-dead or fundi to know that difference, just some very basic biology.
* Secondary infections are as likely as not to be resistant to antibiotics, a problem much bigger than back at the dawn of penicillin.
Irrelevant, as _no_ antibiotics were in use in 1918. Penicilline was (re)discovered in 1928, but wasn't actually used until the 1940s. Sulfonamides were in use in the 1930s.
* While vaccination has certainly come a long way from 1918, to date, no one has ever actually cured a virus.
What does vaccination have to do with "curing a virus" ?
Also, antiviral drugs are available, and they are effective, but usually narrow-band (meaning that they target fairly specific viruses). Aciclovir works against Herpes, but not much else.
The common cold is still common.
Yep. Mainly because it can be caused by a variety of different viruses and bacteria.
I have no experience with hearing aids but this seems like a simple solution. Why not shift the 500-4000Hz range to a range that you can still hear?
Because doing a pitch shift in real-time is one helluva computing task (basically, in a primitive form, it involves a Fourier transform, a bunch of additions, and an inverse Fourier transform). And no, you don't want CPUs with 100W heat dissipation anywhere in your ear canal. Also, the results would still be very, very incomprehensible. Use some freeware.wav editor and try it someday.
currently a big electronics outlet in Germany has "greed is good" as their slogan ("Geiz ist Geil").
Get yourself a frigging dictionary (or go dict.leo.org ) and look up "Geiz". It has lots of translations, but none of them is "greed". Closest one is probably "stinginess".
"Greed" refers to "want to have a lot of (usually money)", while "Geiz" implies "not wanting to spend a lot of (usually money)".
he New York Times is reporting on a device called the Mosquito invented by Howard Stapleton designed to drive teens away by emitting a high frequency noise at 75db.
Haven't these contraptions been around for years ? Our next-door neighbor has one that's supposed to drive away the cats that have been pooping on her lawn. My wife can hear it squeal, and it drives her nuts.
He found the prefect irritating sound by experimenting on his children.
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Sometimes, the process of counting the votes can be had for money, too. As long as it is well hidden, for example in a little electronic box.
And you would believe 100% of what any politician says ?
Hint: Honesty doesn't get you anywhere in politics.
Sounds very good, but is utterly wrong. Americans have nothing to worry about as long as the authorities do not know, believe or suspect that they (or anyone they have sufficient similarity (like first and last name) with someone who is known, believed or suspected to) have affiliations with groups that are known, believed or suspected to be terrorist groups.
Why, do like the STASI* did: Have half of the population spy on the other half. Or even better, have everyone spy on everyone else.
* (Ministry of State Security in the former German Democratic Repulic)
No, no, no. Everyone knows there is only one correct region code, "1". Countries with other region codes are either figments of imagination or simply way too backwards to even know what a DVD is.
Even anti-particles still have a positive mass. They cannot cancel out anything. The black hole loses mass by what is radiating away, not by what is dropping back into it.
Guess what's plainly visible in every packet sent by a machine inside your (Wifi-) network ? ... Bingo. The attacker only has to wait until the machine in your network isn't active, set the MAC address of his WLAN adapter to that address, and he's in if there are no other barriers.
Yikes. How about reading the manual of the router/acces point first ? Last one I read had a pretty good description on how to keep nosy neighbors out of your WLAN. The biggest thing is turning on WPA, which should keep all but very determined hackers out.
MAC addresses stop when leaving the local network. And in most cases, the "fixed" MAC can be overwritten by software. That's why having a MAC address filter will only keep clueless idiots out of your wireless network.
You can have four cars and still don't know how an engine actually works
Because the mice might realize it before we do.
A software that merely provides root access from the outside isn't a rootkit. To be a rootkit, it also needs hide itself, especially from the legitimate root account of the system. Since by definition a root account has or can acquire all rights on the system, the rootkit somehow needs to take rights away from the legitimate root (for examples, by manipulating file system drivers to make them hide certain files from everyone including the legitimate root). So, the legitimate root user might still think he's root, when in fact he is not (as the system, compromised by the rootkit, is flat-out lying to him).
Actually, a rootkit fools the *user* into thinking he still is root, while he actually isn't.
Combined with the fact that males are fairly unimportant for the survival of the species as a whole, this would explain why the gene has not died out yet - its effect on females is more advantageous than its effect on males is detrimental as far as reproduction goes.
Let me guess, you're not married.
The millions of skin cells are only an almost negligible fraction of that individuals total amount of cells, and they are easily replaced.
The single blob of protoplasm is 100% of that individuals cells.
No need to be brain-dead or fundi to know that difference, just some very basic biology.
Irrelevant, as _no_ antibiotics were in use in 1918. Penicilline was (re)discovered in 1928, but wasn't actually used until the 1940s. Sulfonamides were in use in the 1930s. * While vaccination has certainly come a long way from 1918, to date, no one has ever actually cured a virus.
What does vaccination have to do with "curing a virus" ?
Also, antiviral drugs are available, and they are effective, but usually narrow-band (meaning that they target fairly specific viruses). Aciclovir works against Herpes, but not much else.
The common cold is still common.
Yep. Mainly because it can be caused by a variety of different viruses and bacteria.
Try the career paths of politician or manager. Even better, they're freedom and money without responsibility.
Because doing a pitch shift in real-time is one helluva computing task (basically, in a primitive form, it involves a Fourier transform, a bunch of additions, and an inverse Fourier transform). And no, you don't want CPUs with 100W heat dissipation anywhere in your ear canal. Also, the results would still be very, very incomprehensible. Use some freeware
No, it's not. The first harmonic of 23 kHz is at 46 kHz. Harmonics increase in frequency.
Of course. All they need to do is claim that you're a suspected terrorist, and off you go into quarantine.
Get yourself a frigging dictionary (or go dict.leo.org ) and look up "Geiz". It has lots of translations, but none of them is "greed". Closest one is probably "stinginess".
"Greed" refers to "want to have a lot of (usually money)", while "Geiz" implies "not wanting to spend a lot of (usually money)".
Haven't these contraptions been around for years ? Our next-door neighbor has one that's supposed to drive away the cats that have been pooping on her lawn. My wife can hear it squeal, and it drives her nuts.
He found the prefect irritating sound by experimenting on his children.
Only a total sicko would do things like that.
Huh ? I always thought genes were determined about nine months before birth, a few hours after, um,