It wasn't the very beginning of my hacking/coding/whatever career but my TI-85 in High School certainly was a highlight. I took a simple blockout game a friend found and picked it apart to find out how it worked and morphed it into a simple top-down shooter. I also spent a fair amount of time writing simple programs that would do my Calculus work for me. (Not just graphing, but writing a program that would produce the work I needed to show on assignments.) The teacher couldn't help but chuckle when another student showed him one of my programs. I think he may have even offered me extra credit for writing the programs. (He was also the CompSci teacher.) I was fortunate that he recognized me for what I was, lazy when it came to homework but bright enough to ace the tests.
Exactly. I did the math once and at 15', the difference between DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
I've found that the differences between DVD and Blu-Ray are not just in the picture. The sound sampling on a Blu-Ray is a step or two above DVD. Not only is it a 'larger/louder' sound on Blu-Ray, but I really get the feeling that you get more of the depth of sound. Little things that get lost in the compression to DVD. Of the half-dozen or so Blu-Rays I own, I've definitely heard a difference in the couple that I've 'upgraded' from DVD.
There are other options that individual server admins can leverage. I run a TF2 server that uses SourceMod with SourceBans to handle bans for our server. If any of my admins see a cheater and can verify by spec'ing, we ban them from our server. There's even options for non-admin players to initiate short term bans if enough people are complaining.
We're also protected by VAC but this gives us our own layer of protection. It's also handy because it allows us to rid ourselves of griefers who would never be caught by VAC but can empty out a full server just as quickly as a cheater.
I forget where I read this, but it was pointed out that the reason WB may be doing this is that they (WB) fear that sites like Pandora, etc. devalue each track. When a consumer can listen to it for free (0 cost to the consumer) they are less likely to see the value in purchasing the track themselves. (99 cents from the consumer)
Wasn't there that story a while back about some government docs getting shared out on some P2P network? Want to bet that the guilty party(s) just shared out their whole drive not knowing what it would do.
Wait for it, my story gets better, when confronted they must have swore up and down that they didn't share anything on their PC and that the *evil* P2P software must have a mind of it's own. (Pay attention during the install? Check the configs? Read the documentation? HA!)
Now, we have this being pushed into an act because it's apparently the latest "hot topic" to protect people from paying attention to what they are actually doing on the computer. Especially while they are at work.
Why haven't we shot a probe through Saturn or Jupiter? You know, to see if it will come out the other side. Alternatively, it could catosrophically crash into whatever tiny solid formation is at the center, and think of all the fun that could be!
I believe Skyhook uses the Wireless Antenna's MAC Address, not the WAN Port MAC Address. So, you'd have to be within proximity of the WAP in order to get that information anyway, which means you know about where the WAP is in the first place.
It has the added bonus of informing you when your permanent password has been compromised and someone is attempting to log into your account.
What's that? I'm on the beach and I'm being sent a temporary log-in password. One sec, honey, let me call IT Security and let them know. (Right, like that would happen)
And really, if you are running vmware for high security and server isolation you would NEVER have that on anyway. Because the existence of a shared folder is implicitly not isolation.
Actually, if you are running vmware for high security and server isolation you are running it on ESX, or at least VMware Server. Neither of which are vulnerable to this exploit.
Do you remember the time I tried to get you to turn the wrong way down a busy one way street and you were all "NO WAY!" and I was like "only kidding!" That was great.
Except that would never work with how the power grid is setup. The plants all communicate with Central Control. (I know because I happen to work for an Electric Company) Central Control is a big room with video walls the likes of which you have never seen! (Our main one happens to be the largest video wall in North America) These control centers are (gues what!) controlling how much power goes out across the lines at any given moment. And it has to be carefully controlled otherwise you get a sag or a spike which does all sorts of damage.
In addition to the Central Control there are Regional Dispatch Offices which have information about the grid as well. These mainly coordinate repair and upgrade efforts. But, they need to know which circuits are hot because people's lives are on the line.
So, simply isolating the plants would not work. Certainly not in our day and age.
I have a poorly configured, overly bloated web server running Madriva/drake/whatever. (Read: first web server I've ever put together because I wanted to see what cool stuff I could do.)
There's so much junk sitting on the server that its ridiculous. php Apps that I couldn't install because I botched MySql or didn't properly read the install procedure. It's probably a security liability sitting on my home network as it is.
With all this, the only time its been down in then 7 months I've had it running was to replace the CPU fan because the PC itself is almost older than dirt. And I've intalled all the updates and patches and stuff that have been available.
Had I tried to do this with a W2k3 server I imagine I would have had numerous reboots and reinstalls by this point.
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It wasn't the very beginning of my hacking/coding/whatever career but my TI-85 in High School certainly was a highlight. I took a simple blockout game a friend found and picked it apart to find out how it worked and morphed it into a simple top-down shooter. I also spent a fair amount of time writing simple programs that would do my Calculus work for me. (Not just graphing, but writing a program that would produce the work I needed to show on assignments.) The teacher couldn't help but chuckle when another student showed him one of my programs. I think he may have even offered me extra credit for writing the programs. (He was also the CompSci teacher.) I was fortunate that he recognized me for what I was, lazy when it came to homework but bright enough to ace the tests.
Perhaps it's a quantum watermelon and the simple act of measuring the color on the inside turns it from blue to red?
You forgot to mention the part where they completely left out the YORP effect, which is blamed for the desintegration of the object...
"I sound my barbaric YORP over the roofs of the world."
In unrelated news, the record for "The man whose junk has been handled by the most strangers" has also been rewarded to Thomas Stuker.
Exactly. I did the math once and at 15', the difference between DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
I've found that the differences between DVD and Blu-Ray are not just in the picture. The sound sampling on a Blu-Ray is a step or two above DVD. Not only is it a 'larger/louder' sound on Blu-Ray, but I really get the feeling that you get more of the depth of sound. Little things that get lost in the compression to DVD. Of the half-dozen or so Blu-Rays I own, I've definitely heard a difference in the couple that I've 'upgraded' from DVD.
No, it's shiny and makes me look hip and it actually helps me do useful stuff in ways I couldn't before.
Like manipulate spreadsheets with your toes!
There are other options that individual server admins can leverage. I run a TF2 server that uses SourceMod with SourceBans to handle bans for our server. If any of my admins see a cheater and can verify by spec'ing, we ban them from our server. There's even options for non-admin players to initiate short term bans if enough people are complaining.
We're also protected by VAC but this gives us our own layer of protection. It's also handy because it allows us to rid ourselves of griefers who would never be caught by VAC but can empty out a full server just as quickly as a cheater.
I forget where I read this, but it was pointed out that the reason WB may be doing this is that they (WB) fear that sites like Pandora, etc. devalue each track. When a consumer can listen to it for free (0 cost to the consumer) they are less likely to see the value in purchasing the track themselves. (99 cents from the consumer)
Wasn't there that story a while back about some government docs getting shared out on some P2P network? Want to bet that the guilty party(s) just shared out their whole drive not knowing what it would do.
Wait for it, my story gets better, when confronted they must have swore up and down that they didn't share anything on their PC and that the *evil* P2P software must have a mind of it's own. (Pay attention during the install? Check the configs? Read the documentation? HA!)
Now, we have this being pushed into an act because it's apparently the latest "hot topic" to protect people from paying attention to what they are actually doing on the computer. Especially while they are at work.
They didn't talk about the qualifications of the people who run this place, only that they are:
Two friends -- Cosette Rae, a clinical social worker, and author Hilarie Cash
So... I make that check out to Cash?
Oh please, they're going to tear it down in 50 years because they need space for another parking lot.
Throwing a novell box off a roof?
Hey. Didn't they make a ship a few years back that was sink-proof? (Unsinkable.)
How's that working out for them?
Why haven't we shot a probe through Saturn or Jupiter? You know, to see if it will come out the other side. Alternatively, it could catosrophically crash into whatever tiny solid formation is at the center, and think of all the fun that could be!
Kismet would probably work best on Ubuntu.
I believe Skyhook uses the Wireless Antenna's MAC Address, not the WAN Port MAC Address. So, you'd have to be within proximity of the WAP in order to get that information anyway, which means you know about where the WAP is in the first place.
It has the added bonus of informing you when your permanent password has been compromised and someone is attempting to log into your account.
What's that? I'm on the beach and I'm being sent a temporary log-in password. One sec, honey, let me call IT Security and let them know. (Right, like that would happen)
which is hard to do with email...
Hard, yet not impossible... I wonder what e-mail service they are using?
And really, if you are running vmware for high security and server isolation you would NEVER have that on anyway. Because the existence of a shared folder is implicitly not isolation.
Actually, if you are running vmware for high security and server isolation you are running it on ESX, or at least VMware Server. Neither of which are vulnerable to this exploit.
The other big reason is that a blue screen of death doesn't result in actual death.
Tell this to the people who write and maintain the software that manages the power grid.
Do you remember the time I tried to get you to turn the wrong way down a busy one way street and you were all "NO WAY!" and I was like "only kidding!" That was great.
Except that would never work with how the power grid is setup. The plants all communicate with Central Control. (I know because I happen to work for an Electric Company) Central Control is a big room with video walls the likes of which you have never seen! (Our main one happens to be the largest video wall in North America) These control centers are (gues what!) controlling how much power goes out across the lines at any given moment. And it has to be carefully controlled otherwise you get a sag or a spike which does all sorts of damage.
In addition to the Central Control there are Regional Dispatch Offices which have information about the grid as well. These mainly coordinate repair and upgrade efforts. But, they need to know which circuits are hot because people's lives are on the line.
So, simply isolating the plants would not work. Certainly not in our day and age.
Funny, something similar happened to me a few years back.
Thought I was being ripped off by some auto repair place and filed a complaint with the BBB. Never heard anything back.
...is that it makes the case for Net Neutrality that much harder.
The references to "unregulated networks' says it all.
I have a poorly configured, overly bloated web server running Madriva/drake/whatever. (Read: first web server I've ever put together because I wanted to see what cool stuff I could do.)
There's so much junk sitting on the server that its ridiculous. php Apps that I couldn't install because I botched MySql or didn't properly read the install procedure. It's probably a security liability sitting on my home network as it is.
With all this, the only time its been down in then 7 months I've had it running was to replace the CPU fan because the PC itself is almost older than dirt. And I've intalled all the updates and patches and stuff that have been available.
Had I tried to do this with a W2k3 server I imagine I would have had numerous reboots and reinstalls by this point.