You can't get any more secure than an OS that doesn't support enough memory to hold a TCP/IP stack in the first place. 48k should be enough for anyone, right!

What exactly does this do to the host organism (us) that is carrying these infected (and sub sequentially killed off) cells?

Since I don't speak micro-biologist, I'm not sure that was even addressed or answered in the article.
 

Um.... Storage vMotion on VMware is an Enterprise feature, not Enterprise Plus.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

(Yeah, I know, 5.0 instead of 4.1 - I couldn't find the 4.1 chart right off)

Heck, any movie that has Tom Cruise getting shot at repeatedly can't be that bad! It sucked in that those damned aliens kept missing. I was rooting for them to hit him and they kept disappointing...

I have distinct memories of using the "CB Simulator" chat system on CompuServe back in 1986. This certainly qualifies as a 2-way messaging system.

The Unix "talk" command has to figure in there somewhere too.

SMS messages have been around before 2005 (I am guessing), so that would certainly qualify as one-way messaging. Then again, so would telegrams and email.

OK, since Al Qaeda folk don't exactly have a uniform that is distinguished from the local fashion, how exactly will we know if they are either dead or hiding? If Al Qaeda were to stop fighting tomorrow, would we believe them defeated, or are they just waiting for us to leave so that they can resume their activities?

As much as I hate to say it, we are fighting a war based on ideology and have absolutely no way to know if we have won.

I am thinking of the Modicons and Allen Bradley PLCs around the world.

On the PLC5 and the SLC-500, security (if set) was generally an afterthought and then normally used to keep factory floor folk out of the PLC. I know because I knew where to find the text-encoded password in the memory dump files.

The ControlLogix was a similar open book - rarely if ever secured. Then again, you could get on the backplane via the ENBT adapter and then talk directly to any card in the system including the SERCOS cards and the ControlNet/DeviceNet/Data Highway cards.

Modicons = what security.

Of course, this was some 10 years ago and things might have improved somewhat since then (not holding my breath though).

And yes, Allen Bradley and Modicon are used in a LOT of critical infrastructure locations.

They don't know what they are going to be missing... :)

As someone who ran a 4 node BBS on a single 386-40 with 4 high speed nodes (USR Sportsters and Dual Standards) using DesqView and PCBoard, I think your description of "fancy menu / full screen task switcher" is a touch off. DesqView could easily handle running all 4 nodes at once plus an operators console. It was always interesting watching all 4 nodes in operation at once (windowed mode - in text).

Ron

OK, so here is how they can solve the problem...

Since it is presumed that the Kinect will only "work" with Kinect enabled games, sell the Kinect at it's "discounted" price of $150 or whatever it's current sell price is when purchased with a Kinect enabled game. If the Kinect is sold stand alone (no game bought at the same time), then sell it for $50 more. Of course, you then have to make sure that all the Kinect enabled games are at least $50 to make sure that isn't an advantage route to getting just the Kinect for less.

R

This looks to me like the video equivalent of audio compression - squeezing the life out of the media to make it fit within a certain constraint,

Thanks but until the entire chain is HDR, I'll pass.

Ron

I have an "older" LED based alarm clock. Depending on the time of night, I can see 21 LEDs on it alone: 9:58p == 6 segments + 2 dots + 5 segments + 7 segments + 1 segment for the "alarm on" indicator (the AM/PM indicator is lit for AM).

That latency can be a real bitch let me tell you - at least with the Post Orifice. Took them over 12 days to deliver a priority package to me from Detroit to Chicago. Their response to that: sorry about that.

Never again....