...is available for just $18 here. No knowledge of lock picking required.
As for doors here's a trick that worked in my college dorm:
1. Standing outside of a locked door, remove the knob using a screwdriver, push the knob bolt through the door so that the knob falls to the floor inside the room.
2. Using a coat hanger bent back to make a "V" shaped hook, push the hook all the way through the door knob bolt hole, manipulate the coat hanger to turn the lock latch inside the door. It helps if you can see what you're doing through a window or if you practiced on a similar door.
3. When lock latch is released use a screwdriver to turn the knob mechanism to open the door.
4. Open the door. Put the knob back on the door.
5. Remove the hinge pins, remove the door, replace door with hippy bead curtain. Wait for resident to return and wonder where their door went.
For the majority of Windows users, Outlook is the default email client they end up using. All Microsoft has to do is annoy/frighten/nag Outlook users everytime they recieve a non-Sender-ID email. "WARNING: This email message came come an unverified location. Would you like to file this email in safe folder and view it later?" or words to that affect is all it takes. Eventually users complain to their networks ops about these vague warning errors and lost emails then the annoyed network ops eventually patch their email servers to comply with Microsoft Sender-ID just to appease Outlook users. The standard is adopted.
Not really. The buyout would still have to be approved by Google executives and shareholders, the only reason they would approve that is if Microsoft offered more than the mid-term market value of the stock which Microsoft is not likely to do especially at these prices.
In double glazed or triple glazed windows (with air space between the glass layers) I think you'd treat the outside surface of innermost pane not the outermost pane. The innermost pane has the coolest inside surface and the air spaces between panes are always hot.
It's also a joke that anyone can use your credit card even in person, 90% of all store clerks do not check the signature with a photo ID. Even if they are brazen enough to do this a big store with survellance cameras they get ways with it because the police are not going to bother reviewing the tape and try to catch the criminal, the cops just tell you to call your credit card company and have the charge dropped. Fraudulent credit card charges can be easily reversed when you report them.
ATM withdrawals on the other hand are not so easily reversed. The robber withdraws the cash directly from your account faster than you can speak to a customer rep at the bank and the bank says "well that's too bad for you"
Call me ignorant but this is the first time I realized that the PIN number is stored directly on the magstripe on the card because I assumed no banking system would be that stupid. I assumed the bank system the PIN number and ATM or whatever terminal would simply transmit the PIN as entered. May as well take my money out of the bank and stuff it in coffee cans, it would be just as secure and I wouldn't be charged a service fee.
I definately want to invest my entire IT budget into the flagship product of company that is surrounded with the stench of certain failure. How much is it? $699 per CPU you say? Is that all? Well that's just giving it away! Here, I'll pay you $5000 per CPU because the more I pay the more I get my money's worth, right? I mean afterall you get what you pay for and nothing is free, right? My CEO will be so happy with my informed decision to bank our IT operations on SCO products and support.
Why not just have one of the RFID data fields be a digitally signed MD5 checksum on the entire record? In-store scanners could verify the encrypted checksum then hackers would need the store's private encryption key to modify the checksum field.
Something tells me eMachineShop doesn't have the level of precision nor the materials to order up pure weapons grade aluminum tubes and a precisley machined parts of plutonium. My guess is actual terrorists would prefer to buy a finished nuke ready to fire or slap together a poor mans dirty bomb.
Seriously, very bad web design. It's a great example of rude web site design. The browser takes over the entire screen and on every page, and bloated Flash are used when not needed (the same pages could've been designed in DHTML), each page takes way too long to load for nothing but text content. I have on a cable modem w/ 3Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM and this web site is almost unbrowsable.
Long live Hank, the People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person (online edition anyway) and now according to many Slashdot readers the original author of Linux.
Just because it's legal does not prevent a user from hiring Johhny Cochran to haul the email provider's ass into court for some good ol' suing. Sure the provider may have fine print in their terms of service agreement but if you hire a big enough lawyer service agreements are just a technicality. If some companies inisist on being rude to customers than it's only a matter of time before the customers pull a class action lawsuit.
INDUCE Act wording includes two tests...
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The way I read the text of the INDUCE Act that offending "activity" would have to clearly be intended for infringement and "...including whether the activity relies on infringement for its commercial viability" so this is not describing any software or device that facilitates piracy but rather software or devices that clearly have a purpose of nothing other than piracy *and* the creators of said tool are using it as a revenue source. So I'm not sure how this would apply to cases where a kid writes a crack tool and releases it for free... since there's no revenue, no commercial viability, does this not apply?
Quote the article "Part of the settlement the recording industry made with states' attorneys general was that the giveaway CDs couldn't be junk, Larson said. Titles had to be on a Billboard chart for at least 26 weeks and had to peak in the top half of the chart."
I don't know about the rest of you but I've always regarded the Billboard chart as the height of quality control. I personally was skeptical about such musical masterworks as "Rock Me Amadeus" and the timeless classic "Macarena" until I saw their prominent standings on the Billboard chart. My only hope is that the RIAA will be forced to also release the gold master special edition box sets of Vanilla Ice's "Cool As Ice" which can only be truly appreciated in 22 channel surround sound.
I am wondering when Microsoft will use the ol' tried and true embrace-extend-kill manuveur on Linux? It could take shape as follows:
1. Add "Linux components" or some other confusingly similar branded name for some Linux-like functionality into future releases of Windows. Make these components half-functional, clunky, yet do one or two useful things really that most programmers would find attractive.
2. Hype this as wonderful new technology that is fully compatible with Linux. Sell books, training seminars, magazines, and certifications.
3. Release at least three versions of the new technology, change several API conventions just to knock early adoptees off balance (and make them wish they used a relatively more stable platform like.Net instead) change the brand name of it, sell new books, seminars, and certificates.
4. The death grip: After sufficient momentum has gathered behind it announce that this "old technology" will not be included in the next version of Windows and will be replaced by Something Better(tm) which is really just the next version of the preferred platform you wanted everyone to use in the first place.
5. The coffin nail: Because the technology was confusing branded as "Linux", CEOs who discover their archtitecture is based on a soon-to-be-obsolete API vow never to use "Linux" again and fire the CIO who bought into Microsoft's hype.
Of course Linux/OSS will march on unhindered but such a ploy would definately leave a bad taste in the mouth of many unmanagement.
..but the Linux genie is already out of the bottle
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Ken Brown is being paid to put the FUD scare on Washington policy makers in the hope of slowing down Linux/Open Source.... nice try but too late. Every industrial nation and under developed country of the world is already putting Linux to work, cutting costs and getting more from less hardware. All one has to say to Washington is "You don't want to use Linux? Fine. Oh, by the way, the Chinese are building supercomputers that compete with ours, and they're not running Windows. What's that? You say we need more supercomputers for the NSA to fight terrorism? You don't have the budget for countless proprietary software licenses? hmmmm... what to do... what to do... too bad we can't use Linux. The Indians are using Linux everywhere and loving it. Boy we sure could use some Linux here..."
However the author assumes that just because Microsoft does not implement all these wonderful features that somehow Microsoft is losing opportunity to make more money. The features he suggests include:
- Calendar sharing
- Ability to store and backup files to the Internet
- Ability to migrate bookmarks and programs to a new computer
- Spam blocking for email accounts
- etc.
Sure but for each of these features you have to look at from Microsoft's point of view where is the return on investment? Windows and Office are Microsoft's bread and butter and they sell truckloads of them everyday because for most businesses the latest version Windows/Office is must-have software. What does Microsoft gain from spending their effort to help you migrate your bookmarks to another machine?...and how often do you do such a task anyway?...and aren't there dozens of shareware apps that do that anyway?
Won't somebody think of the children?! (Well someone had to say it.) I think the system has to be totally passive for the hiker because of situations as young children or mentally challenged people who wandered off may not be carrying a tracking badge or signed in at the park ranger station and may not be anywhere near call box.
So I like the approach of logging infared beam-breaking, it's passive and anonymous. I would suggest capturing beam height, perhaps have at least two or three beams at varying heights per location: 3 feet tall, 4 feet tall, 5 feet tall, maybe that would allow you to distinguish children from animals from adults. For direction and speed maybe have a pairs of beams crossing the same path at a distance of about 15 feet then compare time between beam breaks.
This article assumes teachers know the truth and ought to correct students misconceptions, but sadly back in 7th grade I had a social studies teacher who filled our naive young minds with such gems of truth as:
* Atari video games were funded and developed by the department of defense in order to improve our reflexes to prepare us for 21st century automated combat... the company name "Atari" was just an acronym for special black ops project.
* The United States could easily bring the Soviet Union to its knees at any moment simply by flying the space shuttle at supersonic speed back and forth high above Soviet cities, the barrage of sonic booms would cause mass confusion and panic that would cause the Soviet republic a catastrophic collapse... therefore we do not need nuclear weapons, we have the space shuttle.
There were many other examples of his wit but those two stood out in my mind. This teacher was highly regarded by students for many years because his insights, and also he would buy Chinese food for the entire class on Fridays, so we all listened to him intently... it wasn't until some years later that most of us figured out how far off base he was. I wonder how many of his students still to this day accept everything he said as fact.
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...is available for just $18 here. No knowledge of lock picking required. As for doors here's a trick that worked in my college dorm: 1. Standing outside of a locked door, remove the knob using a screwdriver, push the knob bolt through the door so that the knob falls to the floor inside the room. 2. Using a coat hanger bent back to make a "V" shaped hook, push the hook all the way through the door knob bolt hole, manipulate the coat hanger to turn the lock latch inside the door. It helps if you can see what you're doing through a window or if you practiced on a similar door. 3. When lock latch is released use a screwdriver to turn the knob mechanism to open the door. 4. Open the door. Put the knob back on the door. 5. Remove the hinge pins, remove the door, replace door with hippy bead curtain. Wait for resident to return and wonder where their door went.
For the majority of Windows users, Outlook is the default email client they end up using. All Microsoft has to do is annoy/frighten/nag Outlook users everytime they recieve a non-Sender-ID email. "WARNING: This email message came come an unverified location. Would you like to file this email in safe folder and view it later?" or words to that affect is all it takes. Eventually users complain to their networks ops about these vague warning errors and lost emails then the annoyed network ops eventually patch their email servers to comply with Microsoft Sender-ID just to appease Outlook users. The standard is adopted.
Not really. The buyout would still have to be approved by Google executives and shareholders, the only reason they would approve that is if Microsoft offered more than the mid-term market value of the stock which Microsoft is not likely to do especially at these prices.
In double glazed or triple glazed windows (with air space between the glass layers) I think you'd treat the outside surface of innermost pane not the outermost pane. The innermost pane has the coolest inside surface and the air spaces between panes are always hot.
It's also a joke that anyone can use your credit card even in person, 90% of all store clerks do not check the signature with a photo ID. Even if they are brazen enough to do this a big store with survellance cameras they get ways with it because the police are not going to bother reviewing the tape and try to catch the criminal, the cops just tell you to call your credit card company and have the charge dropped. Fraudulent credit card charges can be easily reversed when you report them. ATM withdrawals on the other hand are not so easily reversed. The robber withdraws the cash directly from your account faster than you can speak to a customer rep at the bank and the bank says "well that's too bad for you"
Call me ignorant but this is the first time I realized that the PIN number is stored directly on the magstripe on the card because I assumed no banking system would be that stupid. I assumed the bank system the PIN number and ATM or whatever terminal would simply transmit the PIN as entered. May as well take my money out of the bank and stuff it in coffee cans, it would be just as secure and I wouldn't be charged a service fee.
Question 2: Which NFL division is most likely to win the all star game?
I definately want to invest my entire IT budget into the flagship product of company that is surrounded with the stench of certain failure. How much is it? $699 per CPU you say? Is that all? Well that's just giving it away! Here, I'll pay you $5000 per CPU because the more I pay the more I get my money's worth, right? I mean afterall you get what you pay for and nothing is free, right? My CEO will be so happy with my informed decision to bank our IT operations on SCO products and support.
Why not just have one of the RFID data fields be a digitally signed MD5 checksum on the entire record? In-store scanners could verify the encrypted checksum then hackers would need the store's private encryption key to modify the checksum field.
Something tells me eMachineShop doesn't have the level of precision nor the materials to order up pure weapons grade aluminum tubes and a precisley machined parts of plutonium. My guess is actual terrorists would prefer to buy a finished nuke ready to fire or slap together a poor mans dirty bomb.
Why? What's out there? Wireless access?
Seriously, very bad web design. It's a great example of rude web site design. The browser takes over the entire screen and on every page, and bloated Flash are used when not needed (the same pages could've been designed in DHTML), each page takes way too long to load for nothing but text content. I have on a cable modem w/ 3Ghz CPU and 1GB RAM and this web site is almost unbrowsable.
In unused condition I assume.
Didn't 3D Realms create Max Payne and Max Payne 2 in the meantime? Maybe they should've named it Duke Nukem Forever instead.
Probably because between travels from one Starbucks to another he is forced to map out the shortest path to the each public bathroom.
Long live Hank, the People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person (online edition anyway) and now according to many Slashdot readers the original author of Linux.
Just because it's legal does not prevent a user from hiring Johhny Cochran to haul the email provider's ass into court for some good ol' suing. Sure the provider may have fine print in their terms of service agreement but if you hire a big enough lawyer service agreements are just a technicality. If some companies inisist on being rude to customers than it's only a matter of time before the customers pull a class action lawsuit.
The way I read the text of the INDUCE Act that offending "activity" would have to clearly be intended for infringement and "...including whether the activity relies on infringement for its commercial viability" so this is not describing any software or device that facilitates piracy but rather software or devices that clearly have a purpose of nothing other than piracy *and* the creators of said tool are using it as a revenue source. So I'm not sure how this would apply to cases where a kid writes a crack tool and releases it for free... since there's no revenue, no commercial viability, does this not apply?
Quote the article "Part of the settlement the recording industry made with states' attorneys general was that the giveaway CDs couldn't be junk, Larson said. Titles had to be on a Billboard chart for at least 26 weeks and had to peak in the top half of the chart."
I don't know about the rest of you but I've always regarded the Billboard chart as the height of quality control. I personally was skeptical about such musical masterworks as "Rock Me Amadeus" and the timeless classic "Macarena" until I saw their prominent standings on the Billboard chart. My only hope is that the RIAA will be forced to also release the gold master special edition box sets of Vanilla Ice's "Cool As Ice" which can only be truly appreciated in 22 channel surround sound.
I am wondering when Microsoft will use the ol' tried and true embrace-extend-kill manuveur on Linux? It could take shape as follows:
.Net instead) change the brand name of it, sell new books, seminars, and certificates.
1. Add "Linux components" or some other confusingly similar branded name for some Linux-like functionality into future releases of Windows. Make these components half-functional, clunky, yet do one or two useful things really that most programmers would find attractive.
2. Hype this as wonderful new technology that is fully compatible with Linux. Sell books, training seminars, magazines, and certifications.
3. Release at least three versions of the new technology, change several API conventions just to knock early adoptees off balance (and make them wish they used a relatively more stable platform like
4. The death grip: After sufficient momentum has gathered behind it announce that this "old technology" will not be included in the next version of Windows and will be replaced by Something Better(tm) which is really just the next version of the preferred platform you wanted everyone to use in the first place.
5. The coffin nail: Because the technology was confusing branded as "Linux", CEOs who discover their archtitecture is based on a soon-to-be-obsolete API vow never to use "Linux" again and fire the CIO who bought into Microsoft's hype.
Of course Linux/OSS will march on unhindered but such a ploy would definately leave a bad taste in the mouth of many unmanagement.
Ken Brown is being paid to put the FUD scare on Washington policy makers in the hope of slowing down Linux/Open Source.... nice try but too late. Every industrial nation and under developed country of the world is already putting Linux to work, cutting costs and getting more from less hardware. All one has to say to Washington is "You don't want to use Linux? Fine. Oh, by the way, the Chinese are building supercomputers that compete with ours, and they're not running Windows. What's that? You say we need more supercomputers for the NSA to fight terrorism? You don't have the budget for countless proprietary software licenses? hmmmm... what to do... what to do... too bad we can't use Linux. The Indians are using Linux everywhere and loving it. Boy we sure could use some Linux here..."
...that two companies that claim to be leaders of business process simplification found that merging there operations was too complex to be feasible?
However the author assumes that just because Microsoft does not implement all these wonderful features that somehow Microsoft is losing opportunity to make more money. The features he suggests include:
...and how often do you do such a task anyway? ...and aren't there dozens of shareware apps that do that anyway?
- Calendar sharing
- Ability to store and backup files to the Internet
- Ability to migrate bookmarks and programs to a new computer
- Spam blocking for email accounts
- etc.
Sure but for each of these features you have to look at from Microsoft's point of view where is the return on investment? Windows and Office are Microsoft's bread and butter and they sell truckloads of them everyday because for most businesses the latest version Windows/Office is must-have software. What does Microsoft gain from spending their effort to help you migrate your bookmarks to another machine?
Won't somebody think of the children?! (Well someone had to say it.) I think the system has to be totally passive for the hiker because of situations as young children or mentally challenged people who wandered off may not be carrying a tracking badge or signed in at the park ranger station and may not be anywhere near call box.
So I like the approach of logging infared beam-breaking, it's passive and anonymous. I would suggest capturing beam height, perhaps have at least two or three beams at varying heights per location: 3 feet tall, 4 feet tall, 5 feet tall, maybe that would allow you to distinguish children from animals from adults. For direction and speed maybe have a pairs of beams crossing the same path at a distance of about 15 feet then compare time between beam breaks.
This article assumes teachers know the truth and ought to correct students misconceptions, but sadly back in 7th grade I had a social studies teacher who filled our naive young minds with such gems of truth as:
* Atari video games were funded and developed by the department of defense in order to improve our reflexes to prepare us for 21st century automated combat... the company name "Atari" was just an acronym for special black ops project.
* The United States could easily bring the Soviet Union to its knees at any moment simply by flying the space shuttle at supersonic speed back and forth high above Soviet cities, the barrage of sonic booms would cause mass confusion and panic that would cause the Soviet republic a catastrophic collapse... therefore we do not need nuclear weapons, we have the space shuttle.
There were many other examples of his wit but those two stood out in my mind. This teacher was highly regarded by students for many years because his insights, and also he would buy Chinese food for the entire class on Fridays, so we all listened to him intently... it wasn't until some years later that most of us figured out how far off base he was. I wonder how many of his students still to this day accept everything he said as fact.