The problem I have with Ubuntu is that it will only ask you once for said password. Once you give it the password, it doesn't ask you again... at least not for that program.
IIRC Ubuntu asks for the password using gksu which is a graphical front end for sudo which has a default (IIRC 5 min) grace period.
Enter your password when it asks and you'll be able to run other priveledged apps without a password for a few mins.
Helps prevent the OS bugging you when you go through your settings. You can change that in your sudo prefs if it isn't what you want.
While I agree that linux seems to solve a lot of these problems I still believe that a part of the reason for this is that the average linux user is simply a more informed internet user.
'nix is great at protecting against passive attacks, but can still suffer from pebcak.
In my experience, those who run linux tend either to not know what an OS is (parents, grandparents etc) or are curious nerd/geek types who either know what they are doing, or are willing to break a test system finding out. This education is the best security. It is simply common sense to me, and I assumed it was widely accepted common sense. I was wrong.
I had no problems running a single install of XP on my home computer for ~5 years with no viruses and no non-hardware related crashes. I switched to Linux because I like Linux, not because I hate Windows. Meanwhile, my (windows using) next-door neighbor has a broadband connection that crawls and IE's menu bars take up literally half the screen with add ons. They honestly thought that was normal. The only reason I was in there looking at the computer is that he was having hardware issues.
Given a linux box, I have no doubt that these types of users will quite happily type in their password for gksu if they clicked a link and it prompted them for it. This social, educational aspect to security knows no borders of OS. There just doesn't seem to be much linux aware malware in the tubes.
Get more users running linux and more malware will be written for it. There are always those who will fall victim to socially engineered attacks.
To solve this you would have to withhold root access and/or limit sudo access. This is not hugely different to the available Windows domain security policy lockdowns. You would still be left with a system that won't install arbitrary progams either way.
The visible light is easy to block, but making that hot gas invisible in infrared would be quiet a trick.
Not really, as has been mentioned by others, the low pressure in the tube helps keep the temperature needed to form the plasma quite reasonable.
The tube would probably be no hotter than a flourencent light bulb. Your body temperature would be a fairly close match.
It was tested with 100% accuracy in Los Vegas. Seriously though, isn't emitting light the opposite of stealth?
You assume that it is hard to cover a light with something visually opaque and electromagnetically transparent.
The gains of an electrically controllable, dynamically reconfigurable antenna array with no mechanically moving parts immensely outweighs the effort of covering it.
as opposed to the republican health care program in which the richest country in the world can't take care of its citizens' basic needs.
Richest in total, not richest per person and since you have to provide health care per person (as opposed to say funding a science project) that's the one that counts. The US is eight with the current figures but since the dollar has fallen a lot compared to the euro I expect it to slide out of the top ten as more updated figures arrive.
Australia here is sixteenth and we have a national healthcare program including the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme which subsidises essential medication.
This is more than the dollars per capita, this is an active choice by the country in its allocation of resources.
As a quick google search's first few results show: this has been done in the US and Australia in the past with at least Dell and Toshiba and has been followed on slashdot before.
The best (paraphrased) quote from my highschool physics teacher:
"You can choose any arbitrary point, including yourself, to be the center of the universe. The maths is just easier the way we have it."
So, having chosen myself as the center of the universe, my bias is of course the only one true view. The rest of you are obviously deluded...
:)
Here, check the first rank, for me there's two paid listings and then wikipedia, so the question remains: does wikipedia have a great SEO expert or is it popular? Or is this another case of chicken and egg?
This brings back memories of primary school, programming Lego robots in on an Apple while the rest of the grade humiliated themselves in spandex (dance classes).
LegoLogo was a cabled precursor to mindstorms, with sensors, actuators, motors etc but the programming was done in LOGO.
Ah the satisfaction when programming a robot to work its way through a maze of books and pencil cases.
Surely it wouldn't be hard to botnet your way to your prefered vote?
Also, you neglected to mention that here in Oz local, state and federal election voting is compulsary with fines for avoidance.
This means that when a party is in power it really is a majority vote that put them there* rather than just a majority of voters...
So for this party to get a seat they'll have to convince more than a few people that this is a worthy idea.
* kind of, there's also a preference chain - 'If your party doesn't win, who do you pass your votes to?' Until there is a clear majority.
Engadget's got a gallery showing this from the Sharp booth tour at CEATEC back on Oct 2nd.
They've got a gallery showing what look to be engineering samples.
FTA:
Today at CEATEC Sharp showed off its optical scanning LCD -- a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 portable display
with an optical scanner integrated into each pixel, making the screen capable of scanning business cards
and other visual information placed on its face.
I can see you haven't spent much time around sales or lawyers.
I'd expect the response to having "We will never sell stories on Slashdot." in the contract to be something like:
"Slashdot doesn't have a shopping cart or credit facilities... [mumbled 'yet'], besides selling stories _for_ slashdot is not the same as _on_ it, right?"
Yes they do not use lossy digital compression, but that's irrelevant. The digitization of the analog signal is what destroys information, resulting in distortion when the analog is reconstructed later.
Destroys information? What is it about a 44.1KHz sampling rate that can possibly destroy any of the waveform information that our ears can perceive? By the NyquistShannon sampling theorem this rate could allow for perfect reproduction of up to 22.05KHz. So, provided there's a decent low pass filter before the sampling takes place the ADC-DAC process itself shouldn't destroy any information.
Oh, and get with the program people, wireless is the way things should be heading.
HDMI has an advertised maximum bandwidth of 5Gbps, last time I checked I didn't have a wireless connection at that speed
sitting around. You of course could retort with 'I said that's where they should be heading not where they are.' but
trying to push that much data at that speed through a wireless network is not trivial. We have the shannon-hartley capacity theorem C=B*log2(1+SNR) to point that out, even before the technological difficulties. Licensing for that much of the
spectrum would be large and ongoing unless a free section could be used (eg wifi). But in this case it's not clustering a dozen channels around 2.4GHz, each non-overlapping channel would need a few GHz depending on the allowed transmission power.
To overcome this one could use wave-guides and directional antennae, but taking these to the extreme brings you right back
to cables again where you can have your own private, shielded, broad spectrum transmission lines.
To top it off, most of these devices are within a few feet of each, other often in the same cabinet, anyway.
Here's an article from theregister from october 2004.
summary: France allows mobile phone jaming in cinemas as long as you can still dial emergency numbers.
Guessing you've never actually lived here...
Australia has thousands of stupid laws that the majority don't agree with, we have an effective way of dealing with these, ignore them.
To get an idea of the kind of deliberate ignorance he's talking about, it wasn't until last year that we finally got around to legalising things like recording a show from the tv watch later. This is despite vhs machines being sold here for ~15 years!
Sure, technology has far outstripped the rate of change of the law, but here it's not till some smart-arse tries to use an outdated law that anyone does anything about it.
IIRC there was an outdated law to close the Harbour Bridge once a year to drove sheep across it which was only revoked recently, and only because someone tried to invoke it.
I'd hire a particularly expensive lawyer just to make sure the legal fees
being sent to Mr. Goldman's office are as high as they can possibly be
While IANAL nor an American, AFIK here in Australia this kind of tactic can backfire.
When awarded legal fees in this kind of dipute here it goes through an examination and the final
sum awarded is 'reasonable costs'. Any excess is your problem. If you deliberately hire a lawyer/firm
which is grossly overqualified for the case it will be taken into consideration.
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The engineer's mantra: If it aint broke, fix it till it is.
Or my personal favourite has some great stories.
Enter your password when it asks and you'll be able to run other priveledged apps without a password for a few mins.
Helps prevent the OS bugging you when you go through your settings. You can change that in your sudo prefs if it isn't what you want.
While I agree that linux seems to solve a lot of these problems I still believe that a part of the reason for this is that the average linux user is simply a more informed internet user.
'nix is great at protecting against passive attacks, but can still suffer from pebcak.
In my experience, those who run linux tend either to not know what an OS is (parents, grandparents etc) or are curious nerd/geek types who either know what they are doing, or are willing to break a test system finding out. This education is the best security. It is simply common sense to me, and I assumed it was widely accepted common sense. I was wrong.
I had no problems running a single install of XP on my home computer for ~5 years with no viruses and no non-hardware related crashes. I switched to Linux because I like Linux, not because I hate Windows. Meanwhile, my (windows using) next-door neighbor has a broadband connection that crawls and IE's menu bars take up literally half the screen with add ons. They honestly thought that was normal. The only reason I was in there looking at the computer is that he was having hardware issues.
Given a linux box, I have no doubt that these types of users will quite happily type in their password for gksu if they clicked a link and it prompted them for it. This social, educational aspect to security knows no borders of OS. There just doesn't seem to be much linux aware malware in the tubes.
Get more users running linux and more malware will be written for it. There are always those who will fall victim to socially engineered attacks.
To solve this you would have to withhold root access and/or limit sudo access. This is not hugely different to the available Windows domain security policy lockdowns. You would still be left with a system that won't install arbitrary progams either way.
Food for thought anyway...
The tube would probably be no hotter than a flourencent light bulb. Your body temperature would be a fairly close match.
$ apropos man|wc -l
255
$ apropos woman
woman: nothing appropriate.
The gains of an electrically controllable, dynamically reconfigurable antenna array with no mechanically moving parts immensely outweighs the effort of covering it.
This is more than the dollars per capita, this is an active choice by the country in its allocation of resources.
As a quick google search's first few results show: this has been done in the US and Australia in the past with at least Dell and Toshiba and has been followed on slashdot before.
They say God is in the details
The best (paraphrased) quote from my highschool physics teacher:
:)
"You can choose any arbitrary point, including yourself, to be the center of the universe. The maths is just easier the way we have it."
So, having chosen myself as the center of the universe, my bias is of course the only one true view. The rest of you are obviously deluded...
Here, check the first rank, for me there's two paid listings and then wikipedia, so the question remains: does wikipedia have a great SEO expert or is it popular? Or is this another case of chicken and egg?
This brings back memories of primary school, programming Lego robots in on an Apple while the rest of the grade humiliated themselves in spandex (dance classes).
LegoLogo was a cabled precursor to mindstorms, with sensors, actuators, motors etc but the programming was done in LOGO.
Ah the satisfaction when programming a robot to work its way through a maze of books and pencil cases.
Surely it wouldn't be hard to botnet your way to your prefered vote?
Also, you neglected to mention that here in Oz local, state and federal election voting is compulsary with fines for avoidance.
This means that when a party is in power it really is a majority vote that put them there* rather than just a majority of voters...
So for this party to get a seat they'll have to convince more than a few people that this is a worthy idea.
* kind of, there's also a preference chain - 'If your party doesn't win, who do you pass your votes to?' Until there is a clear majority.
They've got a gallery showing what look to be engineering samples.
FTA:
I can see you haven't spent much time around sales or lawyers.
I'd expect the response to having "We will never sell stories on Slashdot." in the contract to be something like:
"Slashdot doesn't have a shopping cart or credit facilities... [mumbled 'yet'], besides selling stories _for_ slashdot is not the same as _on_ it, right?"
Typing /. in the address bar is hard coded into The Opera Browser to link to slashdot.org :)
There's something wrong with your tubes if you have to sail that far to reach the ocean of pr0n... :P
HDMI has an advertised maximum bandwidth of 5Gbps, last time I checked I didn't have a wireless connection at that speed
sitting around. You of course could retort with 'I said that's where they should be heading not where they are.' but
trying to push that much data at that speed through a wireless network is not trivial. We have the shannon-hartley capacity
theorem C=B*log2(1+SNR) to point that out, even before the technological difficulties. Licensing for that much of the
spectrum would be large and ongoing unless a free section could be used (eg wifi). But in this case it's not clustering a
dozen channels around 2.4GHz, each non-overlapping channel would need a few GHz depending on the allowed transmission power.
To overcome this one could use wave-guides and directional antennae, but taking these to the extreme brings you right back
to cables again where you can have your own private, shielded, broad spectrum transmission lines.
To top it off, most of these devices are within a few feet of each, other often in the same cabinet, anyway.
If it aint broke, fix it 'till it is?
This type of argument is old.
Here's an article from theregister from october 2004.
summary: France allows mobile phone jaming in cinemas as long as you can still dial emergency numbers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/12/french_mo
To get an idea of the kind of deliberate ignorance he's talking about, it wasn't until last year that we finally got around to legalising things like recording a show from the tv watch later. This is despite vhs machines being sold here for ~15 years!
Sure, technology has far outstripped the rate of change of the law, but here it's not till some smart-arse tries to use an outdated law that anyone does anything about it.
IIRC there was an outdated law to close the Harbour Bridge once a year to drove sheep across it which was only revoked recently, and only because someone tried to invoke it.
While IANAL nor an American, AFIK here in Australia this kind of tactic can backfire.
When awarded legal fees in this kind of dipute here it goes through an examination and the final
sum awarded is 'reasonable costs'. Any excess is your problem. If you deliberately hire a lawyer/firm
which is grossly overqualified for the case it will be taken into consideration.