FTFA:The FAA also suggests space tourism companies check the global "no-fly" list, from the US's Homeland Security Department, to exclude potential terrorists.
Then again, as one poster mentioned, they could launch this from anywhere.
Also, Branson's, or any other company, is going to be very safety conscious. Because, just look at what happens when a plane crashes, an airline's business just tanks. See past news on ValueJet. You'd have to be a complete business retard not to keep your passengers safe: which Branson is definately NOT.
poor, I don't think they'll have the money for a while to take one of these flights. The figure I heard to fly on Branson's flight (on Nova) was over $200,000 US each. So, I don't think there will be 9/11 type of attacks for a while and there'll be screening to keep off the lone bomber, guy with a gun, etc...
Speaking of which, I won't even buy their products because of their business practices. I go into a store, It's listed as something like $39.95, then there's a $20 mail-in rebate. I hate rebates and refuse to purchase any product that has a mail-in rebate. Hear that Dell?
Also, after you mail in the rebate, of course, you have to have your: name, address, tel #, and product registration.
Now, I ask you, with that kind of information and the access to your systems internals (everything on your computer), what kind of information about you are they collecting? even if it's benign, they're still collecting one hell of a marketing database!
FTA:Until about five years ago, "The Simpsons" was hand-made and hand-drawn. Now, black-and-white storyboards and digital drawings called "animatics" are done in Los Angeles at Film Roman Studio. Then the material is shipped to South Korea, where characters' movements are filled in and the coloring is done
I was once told this by a filmaker. He said that it went to Mexico in other cases. I just think it's amazing that they can get the movements down so that it's smooth. I remember when the Simpsons first came on the "Tracy Ullman" show. They were poorly deawn and had jerky movements, and I didn't think they were funny. Now, I think they're funny and quite relevent.
The show with Bart eating from the vending machines and getting really fat touched on a lot of issues these days. One of them is local school boards putting junk food vending machines (Coke) in their schools to help pay the bills and adding to the childhood obesity problem.
The only point I would disagree..
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is that I would want access in case, for whatever reason, I had to throw the admin out the door and get someone else to his job.
I guess now it's back to my first question. Considering the beating that MS' security reputation is getting, if I were Balmer, I'd be setting up a division of crackers to try to find this shit before the bad guys do. OTOH, this is great for Linux, *BSDs, GNU, etc...
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There is one very powerful command code in WMF files. This command code means 'if something wrong happens, do the following:...'. So the creator of the WMF file can make your computer do anything he/she wants by using this command code and deliberately creating an error condition afterward.
So this is a design issue?
Yes, it is a design issue.
I would think the MS would have a department of crackers and hackers to try to do shit like this. Also, didn't any of the original developers think of this when they wrote it or did they think the exploit was so remote, that it'll never happen?
You reminded me of a friend of mine. He's an engineer and his wife believes in that New Age stuff. She brings up the "scientific proof" of the "healing crystals" and other things she has. The "scientific proof" could be any bastardization of science. I remember one add the talked about the "Tachion particles" that is emmitted by their product. Anyway, it's kind of funny (and sad) to watch him squirm when she talks about those things. He used to argue, but she would just jump all over him - verbally.
Are you saying that you want the Legislature to get involved? The most science illiterate group on the planet?! Or, President Bush? Mr. Global Warming isn't fact guy?
FTA: The focus of the hearing, Taylor said, were half a dozen postings including one describing a professor as "a (expletive) of a teacher" and another that described 20 classmates as having the "intellectual/maturity of a 3-year-old."
Even though he is 22, I'd wonder how some of his future patients would feel about his comments. Folks need to remember that this stuff will stay around for quite a while... in some way. Especially now that it's in the papers.
Oh, man! A perfect geek joke..
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It's call Introduction to Auditing, which all accounting students take
Which is the problem with management. The auditors will catch the problem after it's happened. I'm just suggesting (tongue in cheek) that there should be a class for managers so that they don't even attempt it in the first place.
Then again, they might have known exactly what they were doing and just said, "Fuck it! Even if we do get caught, the lawyers will bail us out, we'll get slapped on the wrist, and the shareholders will pay the bill."
The method employed was 'channel stuffing' in which compliant re-sellers are effectively paid to buy and hold inventory they may never sell.
I think there should be class in 'B' school called, "Accounting Tricks That Get You In Trouble with the Law: You're not as smart as you think you are."
Thank you for saying what you did. During the whole "Freedom Fries" French hating horseshit that was happening a couple of years ago just because the French asserted themselves. Very few people remembered that the French fought with us during our Revolutionary War. As a matter of fact, they lost more lives than we did. And this shit about we "rescued them in WWII! We owed them one! How about that!
I don't get it, just because they refused to send their young men and women into Iraq to fight for basically American politcal interests, folks hated them?! And don't give me this shit about the Iraq war is part of the War on Terror. Show me some evidence that Hussein was in fact harboring terrorists and/or financing them!
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With your low six figure user id, don't you have a gagillion million quadrillion karma points built up?
And don't guys who have a double digit id automatically post at +5?
I don't want to be stuck with one..
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vendor. That's what I don't understand about people who are using the.NET, C#, VB, etc... I want the ability to move my code over to Linux, Apple, or whatever platform without having to do a complete rewrite.
It's funny that you should say that.
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...and browsing the web for tutorials on.NET.
I used to spend hundreds of $$$, if not thousands, every year on programming books. For the exception of some really intense CS type of things, I usually ended up Googling for examples and looking at online stuff anyway. Now that I'm smarter, I just look for stuff on the web. These days with so much competition between platforms and languages, there's always some free material on the web and it's better written half the time by people who actually use it.
I could tell you horror stories about programming authors who never programmed the language before and wrote a book on it! *coughSAMScough* They would rely on the technical editor, or in some cases, the readers to find the errors. Then it's off to the 2nd edition for another round of proof reading by the consumer.
Do the editors make....
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authors add the basics?
First off, the book is longer than it needs to be. Part of this is the amount of text Troelsen spends covering fundamentals, despite his claims of the book's targeted audience
It was Meyers, I think, who said at the beginning of one of his C++ books that it wasn't a tutorial and you need to know C++ before reading. And as a result, his books are concise and a great value.
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Take the Book of God anywhere with BiblePlayer, listen to the Quran on your walk to the office, or discover the wisdom of the Torah on the train.
And you can also get meditation instruction, Dharma talks, etc... - Here ...FYI
I like to learn about Asian philosophy.
Then again, as one poster mentioned, they could launch this from anywhere.
Also, Branson's, or any other company, is going to be very safety conscious. Because, just look at what happens when a plane crashes, an airline's business just tanks. See past news on ValueJet. You'd have to be a complete business retard not to keep your passengers safe: which Branson is definately NOT.
poor, I don't think they'll have the money for a while to take one of these flights. The figure I heard to fly on Branson's flight (on Nova) was over $200,000 US each. So, I don't think there will be 9/11 type of attacks for a while and there'll be screening to keep off the lone bomber, guy with a gun, etc...
Speaking of which, I won't even buy their products because of their business practices. I go into a store, It's listed as something like $39.95, then there's a $20 mail-in rebate. I hate rebates and refuse to purchase any product that has a mail-in rebate. Hear that Dell?
Also, after you mail in the rebate, of course, you have to have your: name, address, tel #, and product registration.
Now, I ask you, with that kind of information and the access to your systems internals (everything on your computer), what kind of information about you are they collecting? even if it's benign, they're still collecting one hell of a marketing database!
I was once told this by a filmaker. He said that it went to Mexico in other cases. I just think it's amazing that they can get the movements down so that it's smooth. I remember when the Simpsons first came on the "Tracy Ullman" show. They were poorly deawn and had jerky movements, and I didn't think they were funny. Now, I think they're funny and quite relevent.
The show with Bart eating from the vending machines and getting really fat touched on a lot of issues these days. One of them is local school boards putting junk food vending machines (Coke) in their schools to help pay the bills and adding to the childhood obesity problem.
is that I would want access in case, for whatever reason, I had to throw the admin out the door and get someone else to his job.
I guess now it's back to my first question. Considering the beating that MS' security reputation is getting, if I were Balmer, I'd be setting up a division of crackers to try to find this shit before the bad guys do. OTOH, this is great for Linux, *BSDs, GNU, etc...
So this is a design issue?
Yes, it is a design issue.
I would think the MS would have a department of crackers and hackers to try to do shit like this. Also, didn't any of the original developers think of this when they wrote it or did they think the exploit was so remote, that it'll never happen?
I'm not an academic, so I don't know. I'd be interested how professors are reviewed on the "publish or perish" rule.
You reminded me of a friend of mine. He's an engineer and his wife believes in that New Age stuff. She brings up the "scientific proof" of the "healing crystals" and other things she has. The "scientific proof" could be any bastardization of science. I remember one add the talked about the "Tachion particles" that is emmitted by their product. Anyway, it's kind of funny (and sad) to watch him squirm when she talks about those things. He used to argue, but she would just jump all over him - verbally.
Are you saying that you want the Legislature to get involved? The most science illiterate group on the planet?! Or, President Bush? Mr. Global Warming isn't fact guy?
Even though he is 22, I'd wonder how some of his future patients would feel about his comments. Folks need to remember that this stuff will stay around for quite a while ... in some way. Especially now that it's in the papers.
missed by the mod's!
Then again, if she's under age, you might get a visit from the Klingon Police. I'm going to far with this. I'm done.
Mickey Mouse. That's who he's referring.
Which is the problem with management. The auditors will catch the problem after it's happened. I'm just suggesting (tongue in cheek) that there should be a class for managers so that they don't even attempt it in the first place.
Then again, they might have known exactly what they were doing and just said, "Fuck it! Even if we do get caught, the lawyers will bail us out, we'll get slapped on the wrist, and the shareholders will pay the bill."
The method employed was 'channel stuffing' in which compliant re-sellers are effectively paid to buy and hold inventory they may never sell.
I think there should be class in 'B' school called, "Accounting Tricks That Get You In Trouble with the Law: You're not as smart as you think you are."
on Janet Jackson's tit.
You will be assembled and assimilated.
I don't get it, just because they refused to send their young men and women into Iraq to fight for basically American politcal interests, folks hated them?! And don't give me this shit about the Iraq war is part of the War on Terror. Show me some evidence that Hussein was in fact harboring terrorists and/or financing them!
And don't guys who have a double digit id automatically post at +5?
vendor. That's what I don't understand about people who are using the .NET, C#, VB, etc... I want the ability to move my code over to Linux, Apple, or whatever platform without having to do a complete rewrite.
I used to spend hundreds of $$$, if not thousands, every year on programming books. For the exception of some really intense CS type of things, I usually ended up Googling for examples and looking at online stuff anyway. Now that I'm smarter, I just look for stuff on the web. These days with so much competition between platforms and languages, there's always some free material on the web and it's better written half the time by people who actually use it.
I could tell you horror stories about programming authors who never programmed the language before and wrote a book on it! *coughSAMScough* They would rely on the technical editor, or in some cases, the readers to find the errors. Then it's off to the 2nd edition for another round of proof reading by the consumer.
First off, the book is longer than it needs to be. Part of this is the amount of text Troelsen spends covering fundamentals, despite his claims of the book's targeted audience
It was Meyers, I think, who said at the beginning of one of his C++ books that it wasn't a tutorial and you need to know C++ before reading. And as a result, his books are concise and a great value.
Stats. are not acurate someimes.
See my post on powertools.