OK, and why not steal the gun and the ammo....
But forget about that, what gun owner wants another device preventing the gun from going off, most gun owners are more concerned about the gun not going off, especially for personal protection.
Want safety? Get rid of your gun or follow the rules of responsible gun ownership.
Using a pre-paid card (like the New York City metro-card) instead?
or just outfit card readers with good ol' credit card readers?
Using your cell phone to call in to a third party who then takes car of validating the call and charging you and making sure the meter is happy just sounds a bit complicated, given there are already things in place to provide cash-less payment options. Hell, my college vending machine accepted credit cards...
Funny, but it may be true someday! If a CME is bad enough being outside may just kill you! We may even have CME shelters one day that are shielding and evacuation to the shelter might be called for. I mean, who knows, with the rate we are hosing up our environment we may damage the earths natural protections against this stuff, or just get a real whopper of a CME that the earth can't handle.
I doubt even moving satellites would do anything, since large CME effect things on the earths surface.. If we could accurately predict a strong CME, here are some things that could be done, derived from Geomagnetic storm definition:
1.) Send NOTAM's to pilots that Navgiation systems will be shutdown or disrupted during time X through time Y. Advise on an alternate navigation procedure.
2.) Get the astronauts out of space; The increased radiation might kill them.
3.) Figure out (another simulation) what will happen in the ionosphere so that better GPS and or WAAS corrections can be made
4.) Reduce power output on electrical grids, since CME can induce current; Remember the big power outage in 1989?
5.) Shutdown pipeline and anything like that; the CME can induce current in the pipes and cause bad flowrates to be sent to computers controlling things and that might be bad.
Gotcha... So the article was not very comforting in that it doesn't really declare that the problem is fixed. Other posts elude to a script bug, so whats the fix?
OK, I am stupid. If the "hackers" can present a legit SSL certificate, what good is it? The whole point (at least my dumb ass thought) of an SSL certificate was to provide assurance that you are dealing with a legit vender. I thought the exact domain name was encoded with the URL so that an SSL certificate could not be used with a bogus URL? Is it just that these hackers used a valid sub-page off PayPal's website?
Bottom line, what does one do to prevent this as a web host and what does one look for (aside from the obvious be weary of the website asking you about your personal info) to know its a scam?
Programming languages are just tools, you want to keep up on the trends? Learn more about how best to use the tools. Employers now are more and more concerned with getting a high quality product out the door in a reasonable time and the claims of using OO or structural langauages are just hype.
It is the developemnt strategy that will either make or break a project. Knowing the latest trends on requirements capture, design, testing and coding techniques for your niche and knowing how to adapt and taking pragmatic approaches will be far superior than knowing the latest trends in programming languages
Based on the technical discussion on this post I can just see the fleecing of the average consumer.
I must admit, all this technical crap is interesting to me, but I am a slashdot reader. For the average joe out there I can assure you that none of the technical details that we find oh so important will mean jack. 1080p, 1080i, transmission rate vs. recording rate, etc. will be both improperly described by the jack-hole at circuit city, improperly understood by the dweep buying something, and then taken home with the feeling that he/she has the best system money can buy.
To answer the question, "Who will pay $999 for this?", the answer is the average rich idiot with a grand in their pocket.
Anyone can make claims, but the proof will be in the pudding. I look forward to the first/. article on "first Vista security patch announced" and the corresponding flame war over that. All I think M$ has done is put a big ass target on their precious new OS. Nice job guys!
Very true. Why is it so hard for parents to play the game or watch (since some parents are videgame challenged) their kid play a game and then take it away or talk over the game with their child. I am a parent and do this with my kids and plan on doing it more as they get older.
Moving to another planet won't fix our inability to "get along with others". If we can't solve it on this planet, what makes anyone think moving to another planet will make things magically better? Remember, this country (USA) was founded by people that wanted to get away, and aside from the stealing it from an already existing civilization, it might as well have been another planet that we "terraformed", and look how that turned out...
How come these types of articles, which seem to be flamebait, never go to the place in question and talk to the people actually doing the work. We ("rich" a-holes in great countries) think we need to save everybody, hell, making crap for apple earning anything about $10/month might be a dream come true for some people.
With respect to: Although the worm is spreading quickly, and no patch has been issued, Symantec is rating the threat a '2.'
According to Symantec, "The worm cannot run on the newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta." so I would use that if you are nervous, then again, you could also not open werid emails from people you don't know.
With respect to: "We strongly recommend that those of you who are still running these older versions of Windows upgrade to a newer, more secure version, such as Windows XP SP2, as soon as possible."
I think anyone who is still running windows 98 would be better off switching to Linux. I would have to beleive most software running under 98 could be run under Linux using Wine/Crossover Office, or alternatives found. More than likely, most 98 users just have some office type applications and never upgraded because they didn't need the fancy new OS. My old office still has 98 on many computers just because the people using them run basic apps that get by with what they have, and upgrades would be costly (relative of course, some small businesses would be hurt by 10K in computing upgrades). With so many security holes are known, and support is ending, AND newer Linux distros are pretty darn close to "it just works", we may see small pockets of Linux migration.
I know a robot is defined pretty loosely as "A robot is a mechanical device that can perform preprogrammed physical tasks" but c'mon... Using the 3 laws of robotics in this instance is comparing apples to organges. The 3 laws are meant to cover robots that fall under the definition of "intelligent mechanical device ( machine ) in the form of a human... ". It is stupid to think all "robots" should abide by these laws, since doing so would make their usefulness go away. For example, if the robots used by automakers had to have programming to cover the 3 laws the cost of the robots would be outrageous and then you would see people replacing robots...
The Understand Tools rock! I have used the C++ and the Ada version. My projects are typically very large (300KSLOC) and have code that is coupled all over the place. The mapping tools are very good and reports generation helps document things we need to document for design documents. We use Rationale Apex for Ada, but I always download the source to my PC and use understand because it just does a better job.
I find it interesting that (according to YAhoo) that the ACLU didn't attend the meeting that discussed this, even though they were invited. They were either (A) invited using a 1x1 sticky note on a door, or (B) fighting something else that day. Seems like they would have been all over this one!
Actually, I have no idea what the cause is. I know I can't open the drive in Gnome and do any write-related operations. I can't even umount the drive by right clicking in Gnome. I have to do it from terminal as sudo and then if I mount again as normal user I can write to the partition.
Would the -o umask=000 be something to put in/etc/fstab? And, forgive the stupidity, what exactly does this do?
Exactly! After all that, and you still signed up, you kinda deserve anything that comes, good or bad, but to try to be shady and not pay just because you didn't get rich quick is lame. But, again, shame on Vonage for not collecting up front.
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OK, and why not steal the gun and the ammo....
But forget about that, what gun owner wants another device preventing the gun from going off, most gun owners are more concerned about the gun not going off, especially for personal protection.
Want safety? Get rid of your gun or follow the rules of responsible gun ownership.
Using a pre-paid card (like the New York City metro-card) instead?
or just outfit card readers with good ol' credit card readers?
Using your cell phone to call in to a third party who then takes car of validating the call and charging you and making sure the meter is happy just sounds a bit complicated, given there are already things in place to provide cash-less payment options. Hell, my college vending machine accepted credit cards...
Funny, but it may be true someday! If a CME is bad enough being outside may just kill you! We may even have CME shelters one day that are shielding and evacuation to the shelter might be called for. I mean, who knows, with the rate we are hosing up our environment we may damage the earths natural protections against this stuff, or just get a real whopper of a CME that the earth can't handle.
I doubt even moving satellites would do anything, since large CME effect things on the earths surface.. If we could accurately predict a strong CME, here are some things that could be done, derived from Geomagnetic storm definition:
1.) Send NOTAM's to pilots that Navgiation systems will be shutdown or disrupted during time X through time Y. Advise on an alternate navigation procedure.
2.) Get the astronauts out of space; The increased radiation might kill them.
3.) Figure out (another simulation) what will happen in the ionosphere so that better GPS and or WAAS corrections can be made
4.) Reduce power output on electrical grids, since CME can induce current; Remember the big power outage in 1989?
5.) Shutdown pipeline and anything like that; the CME can induce current in the pipes and cause bad flowrates to be sent to computers controlling things and that might be bad.
Gotcha... So the article was not very comforting in that it doesn't really declare that the problem is fixed. Other posts elude to a script bug, so whats the fix?
OK, I am stupid. If the "hackers" can present a legit SSL certificate, what good is it? The whole point (at least my dumb ass thought) of an SSL certificate was to provide assurance that you are dealing with a legit vender. I thought the exact domain name was encoded with the URL so that an SSL certificate could not be used with a bogus URL? Is it just that these hackers used a valid sub-page off PayPal's website?
Bottom line, what does one do to prevent this as a web host and what does one look for (aside from the obvious be weary of the website asking you about your personal info) to know its a scam?
Programming languages are just tools, you want to keep up on the trends? Learn more about how best to use the tools. Employers now are more and more concerned with getting a high quality product out the door in a reasonable time and the claims of using OO or structural langauages are just hype.
It is the developemnt strategy that will either make or break a project. Knowing the latest trends on requirements capture, design, testing and coding techniques for your niche and knowing how to adapt and taking pragmatic approaches will be far superior than knowing the latest trends in programming languages
Based on the technical discussion on this post I can just see the fleecing of the average consumer.
I must admit, all this technical crap is interesting to me, but I am a slashdot reader. For the average joe out there I can assure you that none of the technical details that we find oh so important will mean jack. 1080p, 1080i, transmission rate vs. recording rate, etc. will be both improperly described by the jack-hole at circuit city, improperly understood by the dweep buying something, and then taken home with the feeling that he/she has the best system money can buy.
To answer the question, "Who will pay $999 for this?", the answer is the average rich idiot with a grand in their pocket.
Anyone can make claims, but the proof will be in the pudding. I look forward to the first /. article on "first Vista security patch announced" and the corresponding flame war over that. All I think M$ has done is put a big ass target on their precious new OS. Nice job guys!
Very true. Why is it so hard for parents to play the game or watch (since some parents are videgame challenged) their kid play a game and then take it away or talk over the game with their child. I am a parent and do this with my kids and plan on doing it more as they get older.
that people still listen to Weird Al.
Moving to another planet won't fix our inability to "get along with others". If we can't solve it on this planet, what makes anyone think moving to another planet will make things magically better? Remember, this country (USA) was founded by people that wanted to get away, and aside from the stealing it from an already existing civilization, it might as well have been another planet that we "terraformed", and look how that turned out...
Oh, thats not true, didn't you hear that Hanson is coming out with a new album!
Hell, we can barely get a craft into orbit let alone colonize an uninhabitable planetary body... How about we figure out how not to blow up the Earth?
How come these types of articles, which seem to be flamebait, never go to the place in question and talk to the people actually doing the work. We ("rich" a-holes in great countries) think we need to save everybody, hell, making crap for apple earning anything about $10/month might be a dream come true for some people.
It had to start somewhere!
With respect to:
Although the worm is spreading quickly, and no patch has been issued, Symantec is rating the threat a '2.'
According to Symantec, "The worm cannot run on the newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta." so I would use that if you are nervous, then again, you could also not open werid emails from people you don't know.
With respect to:
"We strongly recommend that those of you who are still running these older versions of Windows upgrade to a newer, more secure version, such as Windows XP SP2, as soon as possible."
I think anyone who is still running windows 98 would be better off switching to Linux. I would have to beleive most software running under 98 could be run under Linux using Wine/Crossover Office, or alternatives found. More than likely, most 98 users just have some office type applications and never upgraded because they didn't need the fancy new OS. My old office still has 98 on many computers just because the people using them run basic apps that get by with what they have, and upgrades would be costly (relative of course, some small businesses would be hurt by 10K in computing upgrades). With so many security holes are known, and support is ending, AND newer Linux distros are pretty darn close to "it just works", we may see small pockets of Linux migration.
I know a robot is defined pretty loosely as "A robot is a mechanical device that can perform preprogrammed physical tasks" but c'mon... Using the 3 laws of robotics in this instance is comparing apples to organges. The 3 laws are meant to cover robots that fall under the definition of "intelligent mechanical device ( machine ) in the form of a human ... ". It is stupid to think all "robots" should abide by these laws, since doing so would make their usefulness go away. For example, if the robots used by automakers had to have programming to cover the 3 laws the cost of the robots would be outrageous and then you would see people replacing robots...
The Understand Tools rock! I have used the C++ and the Ada version. My projects are typically very large (300KSLOC) and have code that is coupled all over the place. The mapping tools are very good and reports generation helps document things we need to document for design documents. We use Rationale Apex for Ada, but I always download the source to my PC and use understand because it just does a better job.
Well, my server can kick your server's ass!
This article is nothing more the flamebait.
I find it interesting that (according to YAhoo) that the ACLU didn't attend the meeting that discussed this, even though they were invited. They were either (A) invited using a 1x1 sticky note on a door, or (B) fighting something else that day. Seems like they would have been all over this one!
Just remember, Alienware is really a Dell is sheeps clothing!
Actually, I have no idea what the cause is. I know I can't open the drive in Gnome and do any write-related operations. I can't even umount the drive by right clicking in Gnome. I have to do it from terminal as sudo and then if I mount again as normal user I can write to the partition. /etc/fstab? And, forgive the stupidity, what exactly does this do?
Would the -o umask=000 be something to put in
Exactly! After all that, and you still signed up, you kinda deserve anything that comes, good or bad, but to try to be shady and not pay just because you didn't get rich quick is lame. But, again, shame on Vonage for not collecting up front.