Wow. Think of what you're saying. You're telling users that they need to shell out almost a hundred bucks for a device that will allow them to safely download updates.
Umm sure, getting updates is the *only* problem that a firewall device would solve. [/sarcasm]
Ummm.. It's a generational thing. You are not old enough to fit the demographic the author was aiming at. And your comment about nobody using 'grandfather' as a term doesn't match with your complaint about grandparents being labeled, instead the argument there is sexist. So what is your point then?
"fender bender" accidents would start costing about $0
Yes, that's exactly what my last fender bender cost me, hehe it was sort of funny. See I drive a van, whose bumper is big and solid. The car that rear-ended me (I got no shock at all inside my vehicle, just a slight bump) was a current-model Cadillac sports coupe, the front end of which had caved in completely, shattered plastic and crap all over the road, and red fluid spewing everywhere. I could barely see the scratch on my bumper.:) It was easy to be relaxed and amused, since I had no liability concerns, having been at a full stop for several seconds before the guy (having a diabetic attack and trying to get to the doctor apparently) whacked into me. Totally didn't see my huge van looming ahead of him. Kinda scary, the cops said they were going to have a talk with him about that, he should have got a cab really.
It is fun, but unfortunately that's one reason we have to have speed limits and rules out the ass. There will always be people who don't know how to control their fun-having properly. That said, I think it is dangerous to have auto-limiting of a vehicle's speed, for various reasons. However, there is a bright spot in this sort of advancement... If the system can become smart enough, and do the actual driving for you, we'd probably be allowed to go much faster anyhow. You want speed thrills, ride a motorcycle then, because I think it would be much more difficult to get an auto-drive to work properly on a bike.
And the blind users tell what the randomized order is... how?
Braille displays exist, though they are very expensive. A flat surface with little rods that are poked up through it sort of like a dot-matrix print head. The user passes their fingertips across a line of such characters, and as they hit the far end of the line the 'display' switches to the next line in the document. So a dynamic keypad could incorporate something like this, but as one can imagine, it would make it much more expensive and probably prone to frequent failure from being used in a public setting.
See the first letters of each phrase: 2 H's, 2 G's. H2G2, see it's geeky. Write it with the numbers in subscript, like in chemistry, to make it look even geekier.
I downloaded the Guild Wars E3 demo (get it, it kicks ass) expecting 100+MB and instead got about 100k. And that's all that appears to be installed too, the client downloads everything it needs to display, to some cache stashed somewhere else. Many programs are obtained these days through a stub, a sort of installer-bootstrap that is really small, and once run connects to its home and downloads the actual cabs or whatever, then starts the actual install. Quicktime does this, as well as IE, and several other programs out there.
I once had a security officer in an Airport stop to ask me "Where is South Park" (I was wearing a South Park T-shirt with writing in Hebrew & English),
Next time that happens, just say it's in Colorado and start telling him of the various things that have happened there, like Mecha-Streisand, or the time everyone turned into zombies, or when the world was revealed to be a giant reality TV show. That should shut him up.
OK, it's obvious how to implement this with paper faxes, but you _should_ be able to do more interesting things with fax-modems....
But isn't the paper-loop trick just as annoying on a fax-modem? Sure it's not wasting paper/toner on the other end (which is good for everyone really) yet it is hogging their resources. At least one modem from their pool will be out of 'normal' service all weekend while the loop runs. And that's if only one attacker is at work. Who cares if they readily recognize tons of obviously fake faxes when they come in on monday, the point is they couldn't get *any* real ones during the attack.
I'm sorry but a gigabyte of free storage floating out there for me to use from wherever I happen to be? That's damn cool, and me want. I don't get that much email, and that isn't the point. It would be nice to leave myself a bunch of useful programs and whatnot as attachments, so that if I'm somewhere where I wish I had them, I just have to check my mail. There's plenty of other things you could do but as a travelling tech this appeals to me. Plus, it looks purdy.
I wonder if it's possible (I really don't know how an MD5 hash works) to download a trusted MP3, leave the ID3 tag intact but scramble the rest of the data and have it generate the same hash? If none of the values changed, just their positions within the file, could that work? It would come out of your MP3 player as total junk but be indistinguishable from a trusted file using current methods of p2p searching, you have to download at least some of it to confirm that it's not the right one. Could that be done? Pardon me if I don't understand how file signatures operate.
I must say that I find it very interesting that people are able to spread worms this fast nowadays. Back in the day it took weeks or months to see something, and most people had already patched the worms by then, but now it's crazy, a worm can propagate to the entire world in a day!
This should not be surprising. Back in the day, there were far fewer machines on the net, and therefore fewer opportunities for something to spread, particularly if it was attacking random IP's, most of which would have been unused. Now it's a different story. Pick a number, and there's a good chance you've got some kind of host there. A nice soft and juicy vulnerable host almost everywhere you stab. That was not the case back in the day.
I remember the trouble I had getting ADSL cos I live in the middle of nowhere, but this is something else - surely they cant be using dialup??
Hehe, that would be one HELL of a long trunk line.. Since the shuttle can relay communications to earth, the units are likely getting their signal from within the shuttle itself. Anyhow, this article is lame and seems to be more of a marketting ploy than anything else. 'Tricorder (kinda)' my ass. To me, the defining characteristic of a triCORDER would be the ability to reCORD details about the environment/people in the area. It's just a PDA, and not even treated for space-use at that. Lame lame lame.
How, exactly, is he any more liable than the millions who run insecure, unpatched machines? It is the end user's responsibility to keep their machines secure. If you leave the doors to your house open, and a large neon sign over the threshold saying 'WELCOME', you'll be *damned* lucky if your insurer would pay up.
But it's not actually like that. In order to 'see' that big neon WELCOME sign the 'passerby' needs to be doing something special, something intentional. Only certain people have the knowledge to make such tools, not just anyone walking down the street has this ability. Sure once the exploit is in the wild it's a different game, but initially there is some serious culpability on the enabler that designed the B&E tool.
What the hell does long hair have to do with anything?
Not much really, but as a guy with long hair (usually longer than my female friends) I'm not surprised when I'm asked if I'm ever going to cut mine. I mean, it's not that common a style for a guy anymore, and I think it tends to connote a lack of societal involvement to not give a shit about what others think of one's appearance. But that's partly why I like it, because fuck what people think. (well, except chicks, chicks really dig my hair) Maybe that attitude makes me a dangerous loose cannon. Maybe it doesn't. I'm still innocent until proven guilty, and that's good enough for me. Civilization has to have mechanisms that drive it, which means a certain amount of order and conformity. Those of us that like to buck the system to make a point may be completely innocent of real subversion, yet I still think it's worthwhile to take a second look when confronted with a potentially unstable element like myself. As an example, I occasionally get tipped with small amounts of pot by customers that are total strangers to me. It didn't come up in conversation or anything, but as I'm leaving the house, they may put a bud in my hand and say, 'I have the feeling you might like to have this.' I guess I look like a hippie or something. I'm well-groomed, wear clean clothes, but that long hair is just such a giveaway, heh...
Everything restored perfectly. Now, I wonder whether todays discs at less than 1/100 of that price will even last remotely as long as those discs did.
A good rule of thumb nowadays is to burn at a slower speed than what the disc is rated for. I have a 12x burner (LG) and use 16x discs (Memorex) with it. No complaints at all so far. Back when that particular disc you mentioned was burned, you were probably only able to do it at 1x, or 2x at the most right? I would expect solid results from that, if you had a decent burner at the time.
I noticed an interesting thing a few years ago when I was using Fuji discs, which I will never buy anymore. I would often get read errors when trying to read a newly burned disc.. If I put the files into ZIP compression before burning, and then used Winzip to transfer them back to my harddrive, I would be given the chance to retry to get past the checksum errors. Enough retries (sometimes a LOT of retries were needed) and I would get my data back in perfect condition eventually. So my suggestion would be to burn really critical stuff in ZIP format, or anything where your favorite decompression software lets you retry. I really wish Windows was a bit smarter in that regard, as these read errors I was getting were obviously recoverable.
I don't know if you could even make a female robot. Since the robot's consciousness would have to be controlled by a computer, I assume it would be based on logic and reason.
Get Microsoft to write the code for it. Problem solved.
Considering that a certain portion of the population is willing to have "sex" with a blow-up doll, it's just a matter of time before robots are marketed for the same purpose.
You're dead-on, because as we all know, pretty much every form of media has had pr0n as one of its very first uses. So as soon as we have a means of building a cost-effective lifelike android, rest assured that Real Doll will get way way better quite suddenly.
Today on Dr. Phil, "Me and my trans-sexual robot, are we healthy"?
Yes, as long as you remember to always clean up afterwards with a mild cleanser and lint-free cloth, you will avoid all sorts of nasty bacteria buildup, and stay healthy.
Oh, you meant mentally and emotionally? Wait, I didn't really mean to come on this show, I thought it was 'Springer'. No, I don't want to talk about it, let me out of here!!
Unfortunately, "back" is rather a common word, and is turning up in all sorts of irrelevant documents......Google has found all my keywords on it - just not together
I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to search for phrases.
It's ridiculous because those aren't the specs listed. And you also infer that the ATI 9800 Pro is 3 times faster than itself, which doesn't make any sense.
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Wow. Think of what you're saying. You're telling users that they need to shell out almost a hundred bucks for a device that will allow them to safely download updates.
Umm sure, getting updates is the *only* problem that a firewall device would solve. [/sarcasm]
Back of the line! No soup for you!
As a 48 yo grandmother,
Ummm.. It's a generational thing. You are not old enough to fit the demographic the author was aiming at. And your comment about nobody using 'grandfather' as a term doesn't match with your complaint about grandparents being labeled, instead the argument there is sexist. So what is your point then?
Why should he care? He's just trying to figure out what a large number of people are willing to pay for Google shares, so he can game the auction.
He should care, for I have the feeling that, even now, his feedback form is being flooded with bogus data.
Wouldn't fixed-width just make it easier to figure out how many letters were in the missing words?
"fender bender" accidents would start costing about $0
:) It was easy to be relaxed and amused, since I had no liability concerns, having been at a full stop for several seconds before the guy (having a diabetic attack and trying to get to the doctor apparently) whacked into me. Totally didn't see my huge van looming ahead of him. Kinda scary, the cops said they were going to have a talk with him about that, he should have got a cab really.
Yes, that's exactly what my last fender bender cost me, hehe it was sort of funny. See I drive a van, whose bumper is big and solid. The car that rear-ended me (I got no shock at all inside my vehicle, just a slight bump) was a current-model Cadillac sports coupe, the front end of which had caved in completely, shattered plastic and crap all over the road, and red fluid spewing everywhere. I could barely see the scratch on my bumper.
Some people find driving fun you know.
It is fun, but unfortunately that's one reason we have to have speed limits and rules out the ass. There will always be people who don't know how to control their fun-having properly. That said, I think it is dangerous to have auto-limiting of a vehicle's speed, for various reasons. However, there is a bright spot in this sort of advancement... If the system can become smart enough, and do the actual driving for you, we'd probably be allowed to go much faster anyhow. You want speed thrills, ride a motorcycle then, because I think it would be much more difficult to get an auto-drive to work properly on a bike.
And the blind users tell what the randomized order is... how?
Braille displays exist, though they are very expensive. A flat surface with little rods that are poked up through it sort of like a dot-matrix print head. The user passes their fingertips across a line of such characters, and as they hit the far end of the line the 'display' switches to the next line in the document. So a dynamic keypad could incorporate something like this, but as one can imagine, it would make it much more expensive and probably prone to frequent failure from being used in a public setting.
...HG2G instead of H2G2?
No, look at it this way:
Hitch
Hikers
Guide to the
Galaxy
See the first letters of each phrase: 2 H's, 2 G's. H2G2, see it's geeky. Write it with the numbers in subscript, like in chemistry, to make it look even geekier.
I downloaded the Guild Wars E3 demo (get it, it kicks ass) expecting 100+MB and instead got about 100k. And that's all that appears to be installed too, the client downloads everything it needs to display, to some cache stashed somewhere else. Many programs are obtained these days through a stub, a sort of installer-bootstrap that is really small, and once run connects to its home and downloads the actual cabs or whatever, then starts the actual install. Quicktime does this, as well as IE, and several other programs out there.
If I put a filter that automatically filters all messages from Microsoft.com, can they sue me for not allowing them to carry on with their business?
Maybe not, but if you filter them, just think of all the security patches you'll be missing out on.
I once had a security officer in an Airport stop to ask me "Where is South Park" (I was wearing a South Park T-shirt with writing in Hebrew & English),
Next time that happens, just say it's in Colorado and start telling him of the various things that have happened there, like Mecha-Streisand, or the time everyone turned into zombies, or when the world was revealed to be a giant reality TV show. That should shut him up.
OK, it's obvious how to implement this with paper faxes, but you _should_ be able to do more interesting things with fax-modems....
But isn't the paper-loop trick just as annoying on a fax-modem? Sure it's not wasting paper/toner on the other end (which is good for everyone really) yet it is hogging their resources. At least one modem from their pool will be out of 'normal' service all weekend while the loop runs. And that's if only one attacker is at work. Who cares if they readily recognize tons of obviously fake faxes when they come in on monday, the point is they couldn't get *any* real ones during the attack.
I'm sorry but a gigabyte of free storage floating out there for me to use from wherever I happen to be? That's damn cool, and me want. I don't get that much email, and that isn't the point. It would be nice to leave myself a bunch of useful programs and whatnot as attachments, so that if I'm somewhere where I wish I had them, I just have to check my mail. There's plenty of other things you could do but as a travelling tech this appeals to me. Plus, it looks purdy.
I wonder if it's possible (I really don't know how an MD5 hash works) to download a trusted MP3, leave the ID3 tag intact but scramble the rest of the data and have it generate the same hash? If none of the values changed, just their positions within the file, could that work? It would come out of your MP3 player as total junk but be indistinguishable from a trusted file using current methods of p2p searching, you have to download at least some of it to confirm that it's not the right one. Could that be done? Pardon me if I don't understand how file signatures operate.
I must say that I find it very interesting that people are able to spread worms this fast nowadays. Back in the day it took weeks or months to see something, and most people had already patched the worms by then, but now it's crazy, a worm can propagate to the entire world in a day!
This should not be surprising. Back in the day, there were far fewer machines on the net, and therefore fewer opportunities for something to spread, particularly if it was attacking random IP's, most of which would have been unused. Now it's a different story. Pick a number, and there's a good chance you've got some kind of host there. A nice soft and juicy vulnerable host almost everywhere you stab. That was not the case back in the day.
I remember the trouble I had getting ADSL cos I live in the middle of nowhere, but this is something else - surely they cant be using dialup??
Hehe, that would be one HELL of a long trunk line.. Since the shuttle can relay communications to earth, the units are likely getting their signal from within the shuttle itself. Anyhow, this article is lame and seems to be more of a marketting ploy than anything else. 'Tricorder (kinda)' my ass. To me, the defining characteristic of a triCORDER would be the ability to reCORD details about the environment/people in the area. It's just a PDA, and not even treated for space-use at that. Lame lame lame.
How, exactly, is he any more liable than the millions who run insecure, unpatched machines? It is the end user's responsibility to keep their machines secure. If you leave the doors to your house open, and a large neon sign over the threshold saying 'WELCOME', you'll be *damned* lucky if your insurer would pay up.
But it's not actually like that. In order to 'see' that big neon WELCOME sign the 'passerby' needs to be doing something special, something intentional. Only certain people have the knowledge to make such tools, not just anyone walking down the street has this ability. Sure once the exploit is in the wild it's a different game, but initially there is some serious culpability on the enabler that designed the B&E tool.
What the hell does long hair have to do with anything?
Not much really, but as a guy with long hair (usually longer than my female friends) I'm not surprised when I'm asked if I'm ever going to cut mine. I mean, it's not that common a style for a guy anymore, and I think it tends to connote a lack of societal involvement to not give a shit about what others think of one's appearance. But that's partly why I like it, because fuck what people think. (well, except chicks, chicks really dig my hair) Maybe that attitude makes me a dangerous loose cannon. Maybe it doesn't. I'm still innocent until proven guilty, and that's good enough for me. Civilization has to have mechanisms that drive it, which means a certain amount of order and conformity. Those of us that like to buck the system to make a point may be completely innocent of real subversion, yet I still think it's worthwhile to take a second look when confronted with a potentially unstable element like myself. As an example, I occasionally get tipped with small amounts of pot by customers that are total strangers to me. It didn't come up in conversation or anything, but as I'm leaving the house, they may put a bud in my hand and say, 'I have the feeling you might like to have this.' I guess I look like a hippie or something. I'm well-groomed, wear clean clothes, but that long hair is just such a giveaway, heh...
Everything restored perfectly. Now, I wonder whether todays discs at less than 1/100 of that price will even last remotely as long as those discs did.
A good rule of thumb nowadays is to burn at a slower speed than what the disc is rated for. I have a 12x burner (LG) and use 16x discs (Memorex) with it. No complaints at all so far. Back when that particular disc you mentioned was burned, you were probably only able to do it at 1x, or 2x at the most right? I would expect solid results from that, if you had a decent burner at the time.
I noticed an interesting thing a few years ago when I was using Fuji discs, which I will never buy anymore. I would often get read errors when trying to read a newly burned disc.. If I put the files into ZIP compression before burning, and then used Winzip to transfer them back to my harddrive, I would be given the chance to retry to get past the checksum errors. Enough retries (sometimes a LOT of retries were needed) and I would get my data back in perfect condition eventually. So my suggestion would be to burn really critical stuff in ZIP format, or anything where your favorite decompression software lets you retry. I really wish Windows was a bit smarter in that regard, as these read errors I was getting were obviously recoverable.
I don't know if you could even make a female robot. Since the robot's consciousness would have to be controlled by a computer, I assume it would be based on logic and reason.
Get Microsoft to write the code for it. Problem solved.
Considering that a certain portion of the population is willing to have "sex" with a blow-up doll, it's just a matter of time before robots are marketed for the same purpose.
You're dead-on, because as we all know, pretty much every form of media has had pr0n as one of its very first uses. So as soon as we have a means of building a cost-effective lifelike android, rest assured that Real Doll will get way way better quite suddenly.
Today on Dr. Phil, "Me and my trans-sexual robot, are we healthy"?
Yes, as long as you remember to always clean up afterwards with a mild cleanser and lint-free cloth, you will avoid all sorts of nasty bacteria buildup, and stay healthy.
Oh, you meant mentally and emotionally? Wait, I didn't really mean to come on this show, I thought it was 'Springer'. No, I don't want to talk about it, let me out of here!!
From the article:
...Google has found all my keywords on it - just not together
Unfortunately, "back" is rather a common word, and is turning up in all sorts of irrelevant documents...
I'm amazed at how many people don't know how to search for phrases.
Does this mean I should expect the blue sky of death?
By Toutatis!! The sky is fa--oh nevermind we've covered that.
A Athlon 64 3400+
And a 120gig 7200rpm HD.
It's ridiculous because those aren't the specs listed. And you also infer that the ATI 9800 Pro is 3 times faster than itself, which doesn't make any sense.