While I would appreciate the darwin theory applied to computer viruses, since they are non-fatal it doesn't really apply. All a luser does once their computer is packed full of viruses is to get a new computer, doesn't quite work...
Part of the problem with the "exe as a spreadsheet" virus path on a Mac is that when running such things OSX will pop up a warning stating "you have downloaded this application from this source using this application on this date, are you sure you want to run this program?". That right there will cause many to pause to say "wait, I thought that was a spreadsheet, why is this saying it's a program?"...
That is why the Trojans so far have all been hidden in things that require you go run and install anyway (iWork 09 install image, and a video codec, haven't heard of others).
If I heard correctly, Windows is now doing this (either in Vista or 7) so that will help bring down the number of windows exploits... somewhat...
Then why haven't video game companies been hammered? Just about all video game consoles for the last decade or so have been sold at a loss for market share.
Where are you getting this information? I've never seen a bill for an app update (even a $0 bill) and I've not seen any mention of this anywhere else.
The only thing I've seen that's remotely close is comparisons of the various developer programs, for a developer on Symbian a new app and an update to an existing app are priced/processed the same. However, that has nothing to do with apps sold.
Look at any quarterly sales report from just about any company and you will see a pattern for the quarters, it's almost never a steady anything (rise, loss, flat-line) it's always fluctuating by quarter. That's why it's customary to compare against the same quarter last year, it would be the same part of the fluctuation and would more accurately reflect a rise or fall.
I can think of methods using current technology, but not using current designs.
Hardware encryption chip, with the encryption key burned into the chip itself and completely internal to it. Several of these sprinkled in the cores of the CPU/North bridge/South bridge so anything not in the processor itself is encrypted (RAM, Hard Disk, etc). There will be a system slowdown due to the encryption and decryption going on, but it will be resilient to most physical access techniques. And if the hardware is integrated into the CPU chip itself taking it out and analyzing it will be almost impossible without causing physical damage.
About the only exploits you could make against such a system would be to physically dismantle the CPU in order to figure out the key/algorithm in use, or brute-force the encryption using a huge super-computer/cluster.
I wouldn't be surprised if NSA/CIA would have such laptops running around, of course, only with agents who have been trained to resist torture... (queue XKCD links).
There is a reason for this, the expectation of watching in a Movie Theater is different from watch at home on DVD
For Movie Theaters there is an expected time span, expected content (enough "backstory" so people who just decided on a whim to see it will understand what's going on, but not all the small nuances that true fans enjoy), and rated low enough to grab the widest audience.
For DVDs there is an expectation for in-depth information (commentaries, blooper reels, featuretts, etc.), more freedom given to time span (put it on pause for a bathroom break, or sit down tomorrow night and select the chapter you left off at), and a bigger market for rated R or 'unrated' material (Unrated editions of just about every movie ever made, and they're selling them at Wallmart!)
So, while it is an 'incomplete' movie as far as comparing it to the directors cut, it is complete as far as Movie Theater expectations.
Not so much a domination of market share (though it is growing rapidly) but of market direction. Since the iPhone has been announced how many smart/touch/etc phones have been shipped/announced as "iPhone killers"? How many "app store" rip-offs have been announced? This is simply because the iPhone has changed things and set a new high-mark that everyone is now trying to reach/pass.
The iPhone is not perfect, it's not the absolute best thing out there, but it's changed the market direction to it's whim, I'd consider that a valid definition for "dominating" the market.
The parent that I was asking the question to stated that icebergs had their own gravity and it actually 'pulled' water close to them, then as they melted it would loose the gravity and the water wouldn't be 'pulled' close.
My question is, if the iceberg has less density then the surrounding water, wouldn't the gravitational field of the iceberg be less then the gravitational field of the surrounding water?
5. During what season do they show up?
They happen any season, though the highest frequency is during the summer months they have been known to happen even in wintertime, and in those cases are even more dangerous (trying to find a grayish-white funnel with grayish-white clouds and white snow covered ground while snowing is extremely difficult). Basically any combining of cold dry air with warm humid air has a potential for creating tornados and funnel-clouds. In winter, such combinations are often what bring on your basic snow storms.
I don't have any personal experience with winter tornados but I have a few friends who volunteer as tornado spotters and have had several dealings with winter tornados over the years.
It would be impossible, there are separate achievements for 1-digit UID, 2-digit UID, 3-digit UID, 4-digit UID, and 5-digit UID, since you (and I) are both 6-digit UID's we won't get a chance of those achievements, and even those who do qualify for one of those can't get them all, therefore it's impossible to get all the achievements.
Not sure, but the iPhone v3 SDK is supposed to have API's to make iPhone/iPod Touch to iPhone/iPod Touch connections easier, I can hardly wait for game devs to take that to town and create multilayer games.:)
Personally I'm with the 'nuke it out of the sky' school of thought, but you have to understand that a large portion of the energy will still hit the earth.
A single solid asteroid hitting the earth will release the kinetic energy, mostly into the ground, creating a big shockwave, earthquakes, etc.
The remains of an asteroid that has been nuked will still hit the earth with all that kinetic energy (minus a tad from the Nuke), however since it's now small particles it will be unlikely to damage the earth, it will simply add all that energy to the atmosphere. The result will likely be a huge jump in temps around that area, probably for a 500mile radius. Eventually the energy will dissipate and things will get back to normal.
Basically it's the difference between a laser and a heat-lamp, both could put out the same amount of energy, but one is focused on a single spot causing destruction, the other is dissipated over an area causing general warming.
It would be interesting to see someone calculate the amount of energy dumped into the atmosphere and what the effect would be (how high the temps would jump, the potential of weather disruption, the amount of radioactive material from the nuke that would follow the rest of the asteroid back, etc). Just to make a complete comparison between a ground strike by an asteroid and a general dumping of the energy into the atmosphere.
Memorize all important data! Your brain is the only data storage device that only you can use! Sure data retention rates aren't all that great and corrupted data happens now and then, but still, no-one can gain unauthorized access to the information stored in your brain!:)
America is founded on religious freedom, even if you and I consider Scientology to be a cult it is still a 'religion' and cannot be outlawed. I think the only Government limitation on Religions/Cults are ones that cause physical harm on members and non/members (baby sacrifice, etc), but anything short of that is 'ok'... ish...
Of course seeing Tom Cruise promote Scientology should be considered psychologically harming to non/members and should be outlawed even if Scientology continues to be popular.
If you do things right you can track your advertising impact. Many ads have 'click codes' embedded in the URL, on sites I've worked on we registered in the DB when someone clicked in from an ad site, we kept that info in a cookie and tracked it as they viewed products, and added it to the invoice when they made purchases, we could directly link the number of people who clicked that ad, browsed the product catalog, and purchased items from the website.
It's not hard to do, it's just a lot of little steps going on in the background to track the info.
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While I would appreciate the darwin theory applied to computer viruses, since they are non-fatal it doesn't really apply. All a luser does once their computer is packed full of viruses is to get a new computer, doesn't quite work...
Seems to me like you could just make a small tank look like a heavy truck by hanging some shit on it. Ditto for the rocket launcher situation.
Since you have to cover the tank/rocket launcher with this cloak, that's essentially what they're doing.
Part of the problem with the "exe as a spreadsheet" virus path on a Mac is that when running such things OSX will pop up a warning stating "you have downloaded this application from this source using this application on this date, are you sure you want to run this program?". That right there will cause many to pause to say "wait, I thought that was a spreadsheet, why is this saying it's a program?"...
That is why the Trojans so far have all been hidden in things that require you go run and install anyway (iWork 09 install image, and a video codec, haven't heard of others).
If I heard correctly, Windows is now doing this (either in Vista or 7) so that will help bring down the number of windows exploits... somewhat...
Then why haven't video game companies been hammered? Just about all video game consoles for the last decade or so have been sold at a loss for market share.
What about using glass instead of plastic for the tanks and such, and only using plastic for easily-replaceable hoses?
Where are you getting this information? I've never seen a bill for an app update (even a $0 bill) and I've not seen any mention of this anywhere else.
The only thing I've seen that's remotely close is comparisons of the various developer programs, for a developer on Symbian a new app and an update to an existing app are priced/processed the same. However, that has nothing to do with apps sold.
I bet you are both right and wrong, I suspect that the base of actual users has dropped, but the fake(spam) users have definitely grown.
Look at any quarterly sales report from just about any company and you will see a pattern for the quarters, it's almost never a steady anything (rise, loss, flat-line) it's always fluctuating by quarter. That's why it's customary to compare against the same quarter last year, it would be the same part of the fluctuation and would more accurately reflect a rise or fall.
I can think of methods using current technology, but not using current designs.
Hardware encryption chip, with the encryption key burned into the chip itself and completely internal to it. Several of these sprinkled in the cores of the CPU/North bridge/South bridge so anything not in the processor itself is encrypted (RAM, Hard Disk, etc). There will be a system slowdown due to the encryption and decryption going on, but it will be resilient to most physical access techniques. And if the hardware is integrated into the CPU chip itself taking it out and analyzing it will be almost impossible without causing physical damage.
About the only exploits you could make against such a system would be to physically dismantle the CPU in order to figure out the key/algorithm in use, or brute-force the encryption using a huge super-computer/cluster.
I wouldn't be surprised if NSA/CIA would have such laptops running around, of course, only with agents who have been trained to resist torture... (queue XKCD links).
There is a reason for this, the expectation of watching in a Movie Theater is different from watch at home on DVD
For Movie Theaters there is an expected time span, expected content (enough "backstory" so people who just decided on a whim to see it will understand what's going on, but not all the small nuances that true fans enjoy), and rated low enough to grab the widest audience.
For DVDs there is an expectation for in-depth information (commentaries, blooper reels, featuretts, etc.), more freedom given to time span (put it on pause for a bathroom break, or sit down tomorrow night and select the chapter you left off at), and a bigger market for rated R or 'unrated' material (Unrated editions of just about every movie ever made, and they're selling them at Wallmart!)
So, while it is an 'incomplete' movie as far as comparing it to the directors cut, it is complete as far as Movie Theater expectations.
Not so much a domination of market share (though it is growing rapidly) but of market direction. Since the iPhone has been announced how many smart/touch/etc phones have been shipped/announced as "iPhone killers"? How many "app store" rip-offs have been announced? This is simply because the iPhone has changed things and set a new high-mark that everyone is now trying to reach/pass.
The iPhone is not perfect, it's not the absolute best thing out there, but it's changed the market direction to it's whim, I'd consider that a valid definition for "dominating" the market.
That doesn't answer the question.
The parent that I was asking the question to stated that icebergs had their own gravity and it actually 'pulled' water close to them, then as they melted it would loose the gravity and the water wouldn't be 'pulled' close.
My question is, if the iceberg has less density then the surrounding water, wouldn't the gravitational field of the iceberg be less then the gravitational field of the surrounding water?
5. During what season do they show up?
They happen any season, though the highest frequency is during the summer months they have been known to happen even in wintertime, and in those cases are even more dangerous (trying to find a grayish-white funnel with grayish-white clouds and white snow covered ground while snowing is extremely difficult). Basically any combining of cold dry air with warm humid air has a potential for creating tornados and funnel-clouds. In winter, such combinations are often what bring on your basic snow storms.
I don't have any personal experience with winter tornados but I have a few friends who volunteer as tornado spotters and have had several dealings with winter tornados over the years.
Actually I think that's the same cow...
Ice has a lower density than water, wouldn't that mean that it has less gravity then the water around it?
fortunately this article had a note at the bottom stating that it was an April fools joke.
It would be impossible, there are separate achievements for 1-digit UID, 2-digit UID, 3-digit UID, 4-digit UID, and 5-digit UID, since you (and I) are both 6-digit UID's we won't get a chance of those achievements, and even those who do qualify for one of those can't get them all, therefore it's impossible to get all the achievements.
Not sure, but the iPhone v3 SDK is supposed to have API's to make iPhone/iPod Touch to iPhone/iPod Touch connections easier, I can hardly wait for game devs to take that to town and create multilayer games. :)
Personally I'm with the 'nuke it out of the sky' school of thought, but you have to understand that a large portion of the energy will still hit the earth.
A single solid asteroid hitting the earth will release the kinetic energy, mostly into the ground, creating a big shockwave, earthquakes, etc.
The remains of an asteroid that has been nuked will still hit the earth with all that kinetic energy (minus a tad from the Nuke), however since it's now small particles it will be unlikely to damage the earth, it will simply add all that energy to the atmosphere. The result will likely be a huge jump in temps around that area, probably for a 500mile radius. Eventually the energy will dissipate and things will get back to normal.
Basically it's the difference between a laser and a heat-lamp, both could put out the same amount of energy, but one is focused on a single spot causing destruction, the other is dissipated over an area causing general warming.
It would be interesting to see someone calculate the amount of energy dumped into the atmosphere and what the effect would be (how high the temps would jump, the potential of weather disruption, the amount of radioactive material from the nuke that would follow the rest of the asteroid back, etc). Just to make a complete comparison between a ground strike by an asteroid and a general dumping of the energy into the atmosphere.
In the end no storage medium is absolutely safe.
Memorize all important data! Your brain is the only data storage device that only you can use! Sure data retention rates aren't all that great and corrupted data happens now and then, but still, no-one can gain unauthorized access to the information stored in your brain! :)
Why wait? Lets take Canada now!
Explosives + Old Hardware = Good Times!
Another good variation:
Firearms + Old Hardware = Good Times!
I took the platter out of that and still have it sitting by my desk, really interesting how it deforms.
America is founded on religious freedom, even if you and I consider Scientology to be a cult it is still a 'religion' and cannot be outlawed. I think the only Government limitation on Religions/Cults are ones that cause physical harm on members and non/members (baby sacrifice, etc), but anything short of that is 'ok'... ish...
Of course seeing Tom Cruise promote Scientology should be considered psychologically harming to non/members and should be outlawed even if Scientology continues to be popular.
More like putting one of these in your truck: 12 cylinder diesel
If you do things right you can track your advertising impact. Many ads have 'click codes' embedded in the URL, on sites I've worked on we registered in the DB when someone clicked in from an ad site, we kept that info in a cookie and tracked it as they viewed products, and added it to the invoice when they made purchases, we could directly link the number of people who clicked that ad, browsed the product catalog, and purchased items from the website.
It's not hard to do, it's just a lot of little steps going on in the background to track the info.