Here's a good, up-to-date list of eruptions in 2010. Updated fairly frequently, so it should give travelers a little insight before it hits the main media.
Meh, I went there last summer. It is indeed exaggerated. Here are a couple of things to note:
--The town is not completely closed. Lots of people still work there to decommission the other reactors. --The plant continued to run until 2000. --They only take you around certain places because they have been tested to be relatively safe. There are still parts in buildings where highly radioactive dust has settled, so even with a good G-M meter, you might stumble upon way too much radiation. A G-M meter will tell when you have found it, but it's not going to tell you where it is. --The "kidofspeed" site about her Chornobyl/Pripyat tour is probably a hoax
This story is retarded. Thanks for turning Slashdot into a Digg mirror. It used to be okay here. You could assume a technical audience. That is no longer the case.
Yes, my cousin Juana was one of his students, indirectly. She went on to major in math at Cal and ended up graduating magna cum laude. Whenever you ask her about her academic career, the first person she points to is Escalante.
And what does this mean for us Linux users? OSX and Linux are both Unix variants, a little difference in FreeBSD/Linux kernels, but not nearly the jump to port that it is for Windows. Discuss.
For secure software, isn't it just a bit subjective? These tests were submitted by people who NEEDED to have their software tested. Much of the software out there doesn't deal with sensitive data, and much of it is too simple to serve as a system security risk, and it isn't submitted. So you this 60% figure doesn't really mean much. Most software isn't submitted for security checks and never needs to be.
This article is FUD, and the necessary details are not explained. Methinks that Veracode was just trying to get a little publicity. Thanks again, Soulskill!
Also, recall that the power density drops by the square of the distance from the antenna. So, if you measure the power at one micron away from the antenna, it will be twice the strength you'd get if you measure it two microns away. Extend this out, and at 3 microns, you're down to 1/8th the power, 4 microns = 1/16th. At 20 feet, you should be all the way down to 1 / 3,716,121,600,000th the original power, or about one three-trillionth the original power. Right? So nothing to worry about.
Why was this modded interesting and not funny? Definitely reflects the quality of moderation here.
This is exactly what happened with Steam when it came out around 2004. Valve had about completed the Steam code but had a future release date. Lots and lots of people downloaded Steam by torrent, and Valve did nothing to stop them and prematurely killed WON as they accepted the piracy as pushing their product to an early release date. Steam at that point carried CS and TFC.
I'm no expert, but isn't cat5 4x twisted pair? So eight conductors, not four? Glancing at a cable I have handy, it appears to have eight contacts. I assume this means a differencing technique at the receiving end? Or is there actually a common?
Only two pairs are used in standard duplex Ethernet. The other four conductors are occasionally used for Power over Ethernet. See the pinout.
It became unpopular when it became too expensive to use. It was always expensive as that is the nature of coaxial cable, but when UTP became deployed, it was more and more and more realized that there was no need for coax and its terminations. Coaxial cable works beautifully up to high frequencies in the units or tens of GHz, but twisted pair is just as good into the hundreds of MHz. When your baud rate isn't going to exceed that, why mess with something more expensive?
As for the question posted by timothy, it is by another slightly electronics-illiterate poster. The statement, "This got me thinking: 100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables. What about a two coax-head -> ethernet jack setup?" needs to be examined here. You can't just assume that since Ethernet "is four wires" you can use any four conductors as a layer 1 transport. That might bring house electrical wiring into the equation. No, we can't do this since we are talking about transmission lines, and everything has to be impedance matched, and the PHY has to be able to handle what the symbols look like on either end of the line. We aren't talking DC here--there is a lot more involved to high speed communication links than "wiring stuff up.";)
So, I would either go with a coaxial media adapter or use the coax to do new Ethernet cable pulls.
I have been researching on this hack for hours upon hours, and something just doesn't add up. Earlier reports were of him cracking the SLE 66 CL which is embedded in the TPM but is NOT the TPM itself. The chips he has been using are cheap ones from China. The issue at hand is that Infineon is a German company, just a little different from your run-of-the-mill Chinese company. When you sum these things up, you can't really surmise that he has in fact cracked the Infineon TPM. So what if he has hacked a similar chip? You can't just go around saying that you have cracked a top-of-the-line Infineon. Every chip is NOT created equally.
On the flip side, there is an easy way for him to prove me wrong. Every Infineon TPM comes with an Endorsement Key, basically an RSA secret key. The purpose of this key is that it should be kept secret and never realized off the chip, not to software, not to any other board component. Infineon TPMs come with X.509 certificates issued by Infineon. If Tarnovsky has truly hacked this one out, he should be able to extract and publish the private part of the Endorsement Key along with Infineon's certificate on that key. All that he has to do is show that he has these TWO pieces of data.
...but let the Chinese have the secrets and dump money into their program. We were getting out of the Shuttle program anyway because it is outdated and has enormous cost. At $700+ million per launch, why not just let the Chinese waste a little money?
Nice try, but GP was right. It is inconvenient or even pointless to watch a DVD in a car with an external drive dangling off the side or sitting on the floorboard. I was watching DVDs on my 266MHz Pentium II, so that is obviously not what is in question. Just because someone puts two sentences side-by-side with a parenthetical aside between them does not mean that they are related.
What East is really saying is, "Behold. I shall inflate stock values by making false and pointless claims."
ARM already has a huge part of the embedded market in cellular phones. He is trying to make the claim that no one needs computing power, so everyone is going to switch to the cheaper ARM microcontrollers, and they will get a lot of licensing money as a result. But remember, netbooks are optimized for the net and only the net. If you want to do anything else mildly processor intensive like watching a HD video, good luck. (Even Intel's Atom processor is essentially an overclocked 486.) If you want to watch a DVD, good luck--your netbook is probably a little too small for that DVD drive!
On my laptop, I use it to toggle VMs. It's perfect because on my machine, it does absolutely nothing. Double scroll lock is the next best bet for me, but my keyboard requires me to press the Fn key simultaneously.
Is Lenovo leaving any "useless" keys? Some of us actually NEED keys that are otherwise never used and the OSes recognize by default.
He saw a children's clinical psychologist, someone trained in these things. She deals with problem children of the worst kind every day, and my stepson was quasi-normal. She came out of the session and said that absolutely nothing was wrong physically with him but that he had too may distractions, e.g. was a spoiled brat.
What REALLY gets me is that these people think that they can get away with purchasing things to fix the problem when kids require a LOT of TIME and ENERGY. Something that you have to work for. The stepson issue was one of those things that you don't want to come across, but I knew that if I didn't step in, who would? We got him into athletics, and he has a 3.9/4.0 GPA at an esteemed private school now. A little discipline from the sports (in moderation!) along with success in academia and a good social life (youth group and other "real" social life) make quite a good balance for a kid.
Actually kind of makes me wonder. I keep getting updates pushed like crazy, and just about every time that I restart my browser (running a pretty stable system, so it may be days or weeks), I get a new Firefox update. You push off the updates and say "never" or "ask me later," and you are completely ignored because it starts updating when you restart your browser regardless of what you checked. Incredibly patronizing. Makes it hard to run an old version. There may be security risks with old versions, but at least they're generally known a little better than the ones known in the new versions that are being crammed down your throat on a daily basis.
Then for some of my clients' intranet sites, there's this thing about not being able to turn off security for "risky" (certificate broken) sites that pose no threat but I have no control over and have to add an exception for every time. The browser.ssl_override_behavior setting is there, but it is completely ignored now, just like the "never update" option.
Every new version of Firefox removes my control a little more, and it has gotten really old. It makes me wonder what version 3.6 is going to bring--if anything--and why they keep changing things for the sake of changing them.
They tried to tell me my son needed Ritalin and that he had ADHD because he acted up in class and wouldn’t pay attention. I took him home, busted his little butt and things were fine from then on.
This is a pet peeve of mine. While there are kids that really do need help, too often the system just wants to put a label on the kid and shove a pill down his throat instead od dealing with what is really going on. I had a stepson that was on all that ADHD krud. When we got custody the first thing I did was take him to a new doctor and then started disciplining him when he needed it. He was fine and still is. It is so much easier to not have to deal with a situation, lets just make a generation of zombies and forget about them.
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Here's a good, up-to-date list of eruptions in 2010. Updated fairly frequently, so it should give travelers a little insight before it hits the main media.
Are there any conflicts with the Einstein Field Equations as this would suggest?
Meh, I went there last summer. It is indeed exaggerated. Here are a couple of things to note:
--The town is not completely closed. Lots of people still work there to decommission the other reactors.
--The plant continued to run until 2000.
--They only take you around certain places because they have been tested to be relatively safe. There are still parts in buildings where highly radioactive dust has settled, so even with a good G-M meter, you might stumble upon way too much radiation. A G-M meter will tell when you have found it, but it's not going to tell you where it is.
--The "kidofspeed" site about her Chornobyl/Pripyat tour is probably a hoax
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This story is retarded. Thanks for turning Slashdot into a Digg mirror. It used to be okay here. You could assume a technical audience. That is no longer the case.
How about you get the number of cores proportional to the post number? FIRST!
Wait a sec...holding off on this one...
Yes, my cousin Juana was one of his students, indirectly. She went on to major in math at Cal and ended up graduating magna cum laude. Whenever you ask her about her academic career, the first person she points to is Escalante.
The notion that YOU have set some precedent does not imply that an action is moral or ethical.
And what does this mean for us Linux users? OSX and Linux are both Unix variants, a little difference in FreeBSD/Linux kernels, but not nearly the jump to port that it is for Windows. Discuss.
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Why is this such a shock to you?
For secure software, isn't it just a bit subjective? These tests were submitted by people who NEEDED to have their software tested. Much of the software out there doesn't deal with sensitive data, and much of it is too simple to serve as a system security risk, and it isn't submitted. So you this 60% figure doesn't really mean much. Most software isn't submitted for security checks and never needs to be.
This article is FUD, and the necessary details are not explained. Methinks that Veracode was just trying to get a little publicity. Thanks again, Soulskill!
Why was this modded interesting and not funny? Definitely reflects the quality of moderation here.
Please study before you post.
This is exactly what happened with Steam when it came out around 2004. Valve had about completed the Steam code but had a future release date. Lots and lots of people downloaded Steam by torrent, and Valve did nothing to stop them and prematurely killed WON as they accepted the piracy as pushing their product to an early release date. Steam at that point carried CS and TFC.
Only two pairs are used in standard duplex Ethernet. The other four conductors are occasionally used for Power over Ethernet. See the pinout.
It became unpopular when it became too expensive to use. It was always expensive as that is the nature of coaxial cable, but when UTP became deployed, it was more and more and more realized that there was no need for coax and its terminations. Coaxial cable works beautifully up to high frequencies in the units or tens of GHz, but twisted pair is just as good into the hundreds of MHz. When your baud rate isn't going to exceed that, why mess with something more expensive?
;)
As for the question posted by timothy, it is by another slightly electronics-illiterate poster. The statement, "This got me thinking: 100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables. What about a two coax-head -> ethernet jack setup?" needs to be examined here. You can't just assume that since Ethernet "is four wires" you can use any four conductors as a layer 1 transport. That might bring house electrical wiring into the equation. No, we can't do this since we are talking about transmission lines, and everything has to be impedance matched, and the PHY has to be able to handle what the symbols look like on either end of the line. We aren't talking DC here--there is a lot more involved to high speed communication links than "wiring stuff up."
So, I would either go with a coaxial media adapter or use the coax to do new Ethernet cable pulls.
Hey Hitroll...I got my karma back up from terrible to excellent. Want to troll some?
I have been researching on this hack for hours upon hours, and something just doesn't add up. Earlier reports were of him cracking the SLE 66 CL which is embedded in the TPM but is NOT the TPM itself. The chips he has been using are cheap ones from China. The issue at hand is that Infineon is a German company, just a little different from your run-of-the-mill Chinese company. When you sum these things up, you can't really surmise that he has in fact cracked the Infineon TPM. So what if he has hacked a similar chip? You can't just go around saying that you have cracked a top-of-the-line Infineon. Every chip is NOT created equally.
On the flip side, there is an easy way for him to prove me wrong. Every Infineon TPM comes with an Endorsement Key, basically an RSA secret key. The purpose of this key is that it should be kept secret and never realized off the chip, not to software, not to any other board component. Infineon TPMs come with X.509 certificates issued by Infineon. If Tarnovsky has truly hacked this one out, he should be able to extract and publish the private part of the Endorsement Key along with Infineon's certificate on that key. All that he has to do is show that he has these TWO pieces of data.
But is he up for it?
...but let the Chinese have the secrets and dump money into their program. We were getting out of the Shuttle program anyway because it is outdated and has enormous cost. At $700+ million per launch, why not just let the Chinese waste a little money?
I tell mine "Happy VD!" every year, and every year, I am immediately dumped. I just don't get it!
Nice try, but GP was right. It is inconvenient or even pointless to watch a DVD in a car with an external drive dangling off the side or sitting on the floorboard. I was watching DVDs on my 266MHz Pentium II, so that is obviously not what is in question. Just because someone puts two sentences side-by-side with a parenthetical aside between them does not mean that they are related.
What East is really saying is, "Behold. I shall inflate stock values by making false and pointless claims."
ARM already has a huge part of the embedded market in cellular phones. He is trying to make the claim that no one needs computing power, so everyone is going to switch to the cheaper ARM microcontrollers, and they will get a lot of licensing money as a result. But remember, netbooks are optimized for the net and only the net. If you want to do anything else mildly processor intensive like watching a HD video, good luck. (Even Intel's Atom processor is essentially an overclocked 486.) If you want to watch a DVD, good luck--your netbook is probably a little too small for that DVD drive!
On my laptop, I use it to toggle VMs. It's perfect because on my machine, it does absolutely nothing. Double scroll lock is the next best bet for me, but my keyboard requires me to press the Fn key simultaneously.
Is Lenovo leaving any "useless" keys? Some of us actually NEED keys that are otherwise never used and the OSes recognize by default.
He saw a children's clinical psychologist, someone trained in these things. She deals with problem children of the worst kind every day, and my stepson was quasi-normal. She came out of the session and said that absolutely nothing was wrong physically with him but that he had too may distractions, e.g. was a spoiled brat.
What REALLY gets me is that these people think that they can get away with purchasing things to fix the problem when kids require a LOT of TIME and ENERGY. Something that you have to work for. The stepson issue was one of those things that you don't want to come across, but I knew that if I didn't step in, who would? We got him into athletics, and he has a 3.9/4.0 GPA at an esteemed private school now. A little discipline from the sports (in moderation!) along with success in academia and a good social life (youth group and other "real" social life) make quite a good balance for a kid.
Wife's a strict disciplinarian, and we got full custody for a good reason.
Actually kind of makes me wonder. I keep getting updates pushed like crazy, and just about every time that I restart my browser (running a pretty stable system, so it may be days or weeks), I get a new Firefox update. You push off the updates and say "never" or "ask me later," and you are completely ignored because it starts updating when you restart your browser regardless of what you checked. Incredibly patronizing. Makes it hard to run an old version. There may be security risks with old versions, but at least they're generally known a little better than the ones known in the new versions that are being crammed down your throat on a daily basis.
Then for some of my clients' intranet sites, there's this thing about not being able to turn off security for "risky" (certificate broken) sites that pose no threat but I have no control over and have to add an exception for every time. The browser.ssl_override_behavior setting is there, but it is completely ignored now, just like the "never update" option.
Every new version of Firefox removes my control a little more, and it has gotten really old. It makes me wonder what version 3.6 is going to bring--if anything--and why they keep changing things for the sake of changing them.
They tried to tell me my son needed Ritalin and that he had ADHD because he acted up in class and wouldn’t pay attention. I took him home, busted his little butt and things were fine from then on.
This is a pet peeve of mine. While there are kids that really do need help, too often the system just wants to put a label on the kid and shove a pill down his throat instead od dealing with what is really going on. I had a stepson that was on all that ADHD krud. When we got custody the first thing I did was take him to a new doctor and then started disciplining him when he needed it. He was fine and still is. It is so much easier to not have to deal with a situation, lets just make a generation of zombies and forget about them.