Comment No mentions of custom firmware? (Score 1) 376
It might not be easy to prep, but you could have your firmware checksum the bootloader before it executes.
It might not be easy to prep, but you could have your firmware checksum the bootloader before it executes.
whoosh!
the bacteria in question are opportunistic - healthy people rarely get sick from them.
Are there bacteria that aren't opportunistic, and change their mind's once they show up and see the host already totally screwed?
It is called leverage, and you use it when you need to, if you think it will work for your benefit. It is key to negotiation for trade of resources. Without leveraging your positions, you will lose the game to those who know how to do it safely.
Life in general seems to constantly try to eradicate competing life for it's own benefit, so I think we will know the machines are alive when they start trying to kill us.
Put on your tin foil hat! Perhaps it is an elaborate attempt by the RIAA to further stigmatize the "mp3" format!
Any action without perfect information could be construed as self-destructive. Unfortunately for us, this information obviously isn't available. With this predicament on our hands, I'd like to imagine that the importance to our survival of tasty-fishes is something unimaginably complex and far reaching, which really just means of course, that we'd be fools to care, since just about anything could really lead to our ultimate destruction. However, if we keep eating those tasty-fishes, it might be them disappearing before us, so I figure not being in last place is a good start. So folks eat up those fishes, or in a million years, they might evolve into land-dwelling laser-wielding nuclear-missile-having mermen, and IMHO, that is far from acceptable!
The parent post is as informative as this post is funny, interesting, or informative. Further demonstration of it's non-informative nature:
Why? Are rats less deserving of our sympathies than "intelligent" humans?
Yes.
I disagree.
Wouldn't it be
No.
I disagree.
Two things:
* Bad experiences with management, eh? We've all been there. Good management is hard to find, but when you do, latch on and enjoy the ride to success. I appreciate good MBA "drones" because they do a crap ton of the work I don't want to do myself, and regularly put on a face to customer's that I myself just simply could not do sanely as a job.
* The hacker ethic is good for some parts of some jobs, but it is naive to think it is always superior to an effective process.
That would be great, if 1.5v-3v devices could automagically operate safely with 5v. Essentially, your concept requires the device to convert DC voltage, which isn't cheap, and generally very wasteful. However, on the charger end, they could have an switchable transformer and produce the desired voltage.
Wait...There are gangs in Canada? What is the world coming to?
Mmmm; I'm under the impression that the problem with contact-free power is a significant loss in efficiency.
I, on the other hand, always thought the problem with contact-free power was cancer.
Considering the large amount of EMI emitting transformers and oscillating devices found in the common nerd's dwellings, I doubt adding a little more would hurt all that much, relatively speaking that is.
This is only a good idea if the standard included a communication bus and spec for voltage, polarity, and amperage negotiation. Without these things, we would have a lot of burnt out equipment. Unfortunately, this would also increase the complexity and cost of the small devices and chargers, but hopefully the volume of the components used would lessen the expense.
And you wouldn't even have to pay for it every month! Ah shit, I shouldn't have said that...
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"