Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible?
Not really. At the library level the faults are embedded in the hardware. Everything you need for network communications will fit in less than 3k. How large is the size of your BIOS? Your monitor's BIOS? Your HDs BIOS? Your network card's BIOS? Your video card's BIOS? Computer technology did not begin today. The people who knew the problems with the vacuum tube room sized adding machines knew the problems with the next generation, knew the problems with the next generation, knew the problems with the next generation.
All of this talk about software security is smoke and mirrors. The real problem is in the hardware. There is very little which you are able to do about that.
Bilbo had his walk. I had mine. Bilbo scored a ring and a pile of gold. I killed the dragon myself, threw the ring to the side of the road (Bombadil), and walked back penniless.
Where are the entwives? Joseph and his men rode through the land and husbanded them in the book of Genesis.
As another way of looking at "why the password"? They already own the airwaves. They own the wires that everything is transmitted over. They own the investment conglomerate which owns the company which owns Facebook. They own the databases.
Maybe the application was just a way of putting it right in front of the guard's face: "this is how simple your password is, dumbass."
God does not hate. Every day that a homosexual wakes up they have been forgiven.
If, however, they choose to cling to their homosexuality--which always has a basis in doing what they want to do to get something--then they remain in sin and are subject to the whims of the devil. Over time the homosexual is no different than women. At first they enjoy sex, then they learn that they are able to use sex to get what they want, then they find that they get stuck in situations where they no longer wish to have sex with someone (or feel obligated to be directed to have sex with someone else), but they need to continue to do it because their director/partner has significant control over their social and financial lives. Homosexuals are no different. At some point in their homosexuality they discover that they do not really want to do this anymore but to refuse would create enormous social and financial problems, as well as having the gossip of "used to be" follow them.
The only solution is truly the path of God.
Why do bad things happen to good people? For the same reason why bad things happen to bad people. Because they insist on sinning and, once in sin, the devil enjoys doing it to you. Not that the path of God will keep you from all of the irritations and problems which are naturally part of this world--but the path of God is the only way to ensure that you will survive it.
God does not hate but, if you wish to actually live without sin and observe the path of God, then observe that God created them male and female.
Hooray! Someone else finally recognizes the printer attack as the ultimate way to pirate the entire network!
Any HTML exploit to a vulnerable browser attached to a network and it's game over for the world. Firewalls, IDS, LAN, VLAN, virtual machine, blah blah blah doesn't matter. If the system on which you use a web browser has access to a shared printer then you may as well operate under the assumption that some teen in Bangkok already has access to everybodies' ATM cards.
Sometimes I have the feeling that kernel level programmers only disclose bugs which they are able to use to discredit a competitive colleague. The remainder of the exploits they quietly continue to use.
When you're homeless they leave the money in front of you and won't allow you near the exit until you pick it up--then they insist that you are a bankrobber.
Perhaps there's a generation gap here. My concept of a well designed site is one which allows you to delete your account at will, no questions asked, without need for administrator approval.
Accounts should be considered like filing cabinet maintenance. The users are able to go in and delete their accounts and the administrator or system operator should have a policy about deleting accounts after periods of no activity or if the administrator suspects abuse. Obviously such a policy would be susceptible to social engineering exploits. I have no idea what a real world working solution would be.
Every single cell phone called made is broadcast--radio transmission--into international airspace. All of your calls are belong to us.
Nearly every single TCP/IP transmission on the internet is routed through one of the major backbone providers, likely with repeaters for redundancy and protection against network outages, which actual routers and/or redundancy and protection communication physical hardware points, if they are so much as an inch outside of an official political longitudinal and latitudinal line, would be considered international. All of your network activity are belong to us.
HAM radio? Shortwave? CB radio? All your radio are belong to us.
And, if you access a webpage which happens to put a keylogger on your system--legally, illegally, exploit, legitimate code, doesn't matter, ends justify the means--then that also makes its way between you and them with international contact points. All of your keypresses are belong to us.
Oh, and your voice? That's broadcast into international airspace. Our high-sensitivity audio microphone dish mounted in some office window fifteen stories up and a block away? That's perfectly legitimate. All of your voice are belong to us.
How about postal mail? The airplanes fly through international airspace. TCP/IP by carrier pigeon? Anything carried through the air are belong to us; searchable without need for a court ordered warrant.
The political system is pointless. Congress is pointless, the judiciary is pointless, the executive branch is pointless. Everything belongs to us.
However if the brotherhood comes up with a slate of candidates promising jobs, medical clinics, lower prices, etc all bets are off. These tactics have worked in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, etc
That's because none of the Muslims have made the actual pilgrimage. Sure, a few of the rich ones got together for a vacation to Mecca; that's a far cry different from saying to oneself,"I am going to leave everything behind and walk $that direction without begging/seeking/asking for food/anything until God reveals to me his will."
What is so difficult to understand about differentiating between the will of God vs. the will of a bank account or credit card balance?
*whine* Well how else are you going to get anything? *whine* Because then I won't have anything!
Do you really think God gives a sh*t about whining?
Considering the extent of modern web browsers I do not believe that they need to pwn your browser to get a keylog. Sure, it takes a few hoops, but since nobody has the time to audit all of the advertisements and preloaded links, it is a snap, even likely persistent after a page is closed (with the browser yet open), and quite likely, using browser cache and local cookie magic, persist the keylogger even if the browser is closed.
Just look at the size of modern browsers. Take a source code, count the #inlcudes, and then figure how many mechanical turks it would take to thoroughly audit all of those circuit trails.
It is nothing short of "ghost in the shell" type brainwashed idiocy (you know, the guy driving the garbage truck showing off the picture of his family?) to believe that there isn't a keylogger included in every web based e-mail login.
Consider the case of a teacher insulting a student. In high school, kids might not have built up these skills yet
I was in high school quite a long time ago and, allow me to remind everyone, it was every high school clique leader's dream to be able to break a teacher, especially substitute teachers, down to the point of crying.
It happened in fourth grade. Some of the other boys in the back, trying to impress the girls, started a little routine against our art teacher which brought her to tears by the end of the class. I felt bad for her.:-\
It happened in seventh grade. A few of the rich kids in the back had been trying to get the whole class up on the gossip that she was a flake. She was a French teacher... The French have that part of humor which allows them to laugh at just about anything, Americans see this as flaky because Americans are taught to have things to hate. There was a class period where they managed to break her down to crying.
They did it to one of the substitute teachers in eleventh grade. The guy had lost a hand somewhere somehow sometime. So he had one of the early 90s prosthetics. One of the kids drew a cartoon titled "Robo-Sub 2000". It wasn't supposed to make it to him but it did. He didn't even make it to the end of the class period. He left the room and the principle arrived a few minutes later to finish that hour.
I don't feel sorry for the students and I don't empathize with the parents. We all know the students are rabid animals trying to break their teachers down. If the teacher wrote a few things in her personal accounts of her occupation then... more power to her.
In the historical progression of wealth the internet's wealth is derived from Hollywood's wealth. Well, okay, arguably the internet's wealth is derived from the US gov't but, quite obviously, the wealth of the US gov't is derived from the same people who are likely a large cross section of Hollywood's wealth. Especially since the mid nineties when the global internet moved from a scientific endeavor to a business, advertising, and media venture, the wealth that resulted from global recreational computing is derived from Hollywood.
So, more than any real legal battle, this news is likely a dog vs. pony show to give the legal field a chance to dip its fat fingers into the financial pie.
Why don't they just build a lottery machine to approximate it and sell another lottery game at convenience stores? Let people pay to run around going to all of the stores to find the algorithm which most correctly approximates the data.
The safest banking is to follow the law of God which the bankers should themselves be following. Pick up only enough for today--maybe enough for tomorrow or a few days. If you find yourself picking up enough for next season, next year, years to come, generations to come, then you're already doomed.
Except the stupid people don't cost enough to do your insurance any damage.
The real reason why your insurance goes up is the evil people--evil wealthy people. You get a scratch on your car, they tell you to buff it out. They get a scratch on their car, they want a new car. They want a new car, they go out and get a scratch on their car.
Billionaires creating their own problems to sue each other for millions upon millions, because they know they will charge it back to you anyway.
Some idiot checking into the hospital for $25k does not screw your insurance bill. The.com bust, and the Enron debacle, and other enormous investment scams are the financial problems which are statistically shuffled back to your auto insurance.
With my experience being homeless I know that there are people who do nothing but watch out of their windows to call each other and track me as I move from point A to point B.
So what's to say that sort of thing doesn't happen on the highways? Some guy with a grudge to beef against you, and enough money to be in on the system, knows that you're getting ready to go somewhere. Your approximate travel time is easily timed... train A leaves place at this rate, train B leaves place at the other rate. Where do they meet?
Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes people accelerated to prevent you from changing lanes? Often, they did.
Did you ever check your blind spot and not see anything, go to change lanes, and have someone honking in your ear? Likely they saw you or knew that you were merging onto the freeway and they deliberately accelerated because 1) they are wealthy and wanted to provoke the accident or 2) old and bitter and wanted to cut you off.
I only mention this because it happened to me once. I was merging onto the freeway and I knew that I needed to make my way across three lanes of traffic to the exit ramp on the other side of the freeway in about 3/4 mile. As I was on the entrance ramp I was looking in my blind spot, looking ahead at my course, look behind, look ahead, look behind--I knew it was always a test to make it. As I made it to the freeway proper I was checking my blind spot to look for people in the way because I knew I had three lanes to cross.
On the third crossing--with nobody visibly in the way for the next lane change since I had been on the entrance ramp--I was four or five feet into the lane I was merging to when I heard a horn and *BAM* there's some old guy and his wife in their Buick glaring at me like I'm trying to kill them.
Yeah, but he wasn't there for the last fifteen seconds. There had been no car anywhere in the blind spot. I had been checking since the entrance ramp. Where the hell did he come from?
Likely that Buick had a suuped up engine and he, knowing that I was headed for the left lane to take that left-lane exit ramp, had floored it deliberately to get in the way.
He flinched, there was some snow, he spun out but didn't get killed or involved in any collision.
I bet they spent the next _MONTH_ going around telling everyone about that guy in that car with those bumper stickers who was driving like a maniac and nearly killed them.
Take any data set in any area of statistics. Try to find the algorithm or function which most closely approximates that data set. See the stock market for example. A completely random set of data with billions of points generated every day but, if you manage to find a proper subset, then you are able to generate Fibonacci type sequences to approximate some of it. The latest and greatest approximators are the the ones who make promotions.
So take any apparently data set. Take the apparently random data set generated by lottery hoppers--those big vats of flying balls which pick the winning numbers.
Now envision that the microchips inside of each and every lottery machine in each and every grocery and convenience store and filling station is nothing more than an algorithm trying to approximate the data set.
With enough statistical points, and considering that the randomly generated numbers are, from what I have been told, actually generated at some other system which sends them to the point of sale system...
If you have a hundred thousand slightly different algorithms then the people buying lottery tickets are not trying to win the lottery--they are mechanical Turks whose job it is to locate the algorithm which most reliably approximates the lottery ball hopper.
Why would anyone want to approximate the lottery ball hopper? Well, I imagine that the lottery ball hopper has those turning wheels and the airflow is precisely controlled because the lottery ball hopper is probably an experiment to approximate some profit generating system on the stock market.
So, basically, the lottery isn't really a tax on people who are bad at math. The lottery is a way for people to pay to be servants who are helping the lottery system owners to continue to exploit the system of financial investment (stock and bond market, banking industry, etc.) But don't the people who own the lottery also own the stock market? Maybe, maybe not. The people who own the lottery may be a subset of semi-ridiculously rich people who are still trying to get ahead of and compete with some other subset of semi-ridiculously wealthy people. Wealth doesn't satisfy anyone because there is always somebody with more.
So when the virus scan begins to become part of the hardware, and the hardware routines get optimized to the point where the OS begins to favor hardware (like who would choose software 3D over hardware 3D in today's gaming world?), then software AV becomes, more or less, obsolete.
I love reading the stories posted by the readership about all of the odd systems found stuck in closets and under desks which nobody knows what are doing.
Specifically... does anyone have any about Wall Street or Congress?
Thank you for pointing that out. Spores are most commonly a product of fungus growths. The wikipedia page on spores begins with the statement that "Spores form part of the life cycles of many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoans" but the reference for that goes to a 404'd pollenplus.com page--pollen is not really a spore but I imagine that, for the sake of argument, some people may try to cast it as such. Reading the remainder of the wikipedia page concentrates on fungi, rusts, smuts, and algae--almost no mention of bacteria and plants (protozoans are odd little fellows to begin with).
So, sure, I suppose under the proper extreme nature conditions there may be some plants and bacteria which may be coerced into producing spores (plants usually go with seeds, bacteria usually divide directly without going through a hibernating entity)--much the same as stem cells are able to be nudged any which direction (and the human DNA sequence is so large that we could probably make a human cell produce a spore if we really really really aggravated it).
What I am mostly getting at is that the concept of spores being produced by bacteria is mostly out of the Department of Homeland Security trying to push FUD into the media. That the wikipedia page even mentions bacteria and plants as spore producing, without actually backing that up in the article body, is probably because it was doctored to go along with the politicians' wish to keep everyone on edge over anthrax. Prior to the anthrax "spores" media circus I had never heard of "spores" in any biological context except fungi (and semi-related algae/smuts/rusts).
It is always a good idea to keep such fact-checking in perspective.
Likely the issue was not that the background checks were too invasive but that the people who had access to the information gathered from the background checks did not have the self-control to keep their mouth shut...
So once you have a background check pretty much the entire world knows about that time that you crapped your pants in third grade because your Mom forgot to wash her hands before she packed your lunch.
Background checks for security... sure. Background checks used to humiliate and intimidate... that's the problem.
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Shouldn't it be possible for the old seasoned professionals to write libraries and tools that make SQL injection all but impossible?
Not really. At the library level the faults are embedded in the hardware. Everything you need for network communications will fit in less than 3k. How large is the size of your BIOS? Your monitor's BIOS? Your HDs BIOS? Your network card's BIOS? Your video card's BIOS? Computer technology did not begin today. The people who knew the problems with the vacuum tube room sized adding machines knew the problems with the next generation, knew the problems with the next generation, knew the problems with the next generation.
All of this talk about software security is smoke and mirrors. The real problem is in the hardware. There is very little which you are able to do about that.
Bilbo had his walk. I had mine. Bilbo scored a ring and a pile of gold. I killed the dragon myself, threw the ring to the side of the road (Bombadil), and walked back penniless.
Where are the entwives? Joseph and his men rode through the land and husbanded them in the book of Genesis.
As another way of looking at "why the password"? They already own the airwaves. They own the wires that everything is transmitted over. They own the investment conglomerate which owns the company which owns Facebook. They own the databases.
Maybe the application was just a way of putting it right in front of the guard's face: "this is how simple your password is, dumbass."
His password was probably "pencil".
God does not hate. Every day that a homosexual wakes up they have been forgiven.
If, however, they choose to cling to their homosexuality--which always has a basis in doing what they want to do to get something--then they remain in sin and are subject to the whims of the devil. Over time the homosexual is no different than women. At first they enjoy sex, then they learn that they are able to use sex to get what they want, then they find that they get stuck in situations where they no longer wish to have sex with someone (or feel obligated to be directed to have sex with someone else), but they need to continue to do it because their director/partner has significant control over their social and financial lives. Homosexuals are no different. At some point in their homosexuality they discover that they do not really want to do this anymore but to refuse would create enormous social and financial problems, as well as having the gossip of "used to be" follow them.
The only solution is truly the path of God.
Why do bad things happen to good people? For the same reason why bad things happen to bad people. Because they insist on sinning and, once in sin, the devil enjoys doing it to you. Not that the path of God will keep you from all of the irritations and problems which are naturally part of this world--but the path of God is the only way to ensure that you will survive it.
God does not hate but, if you wish to actually live without sin and observe the path of God, then observe that God created them male and female.
Hooray! Someone else finally recognizes the printer attack as the ultimate way to pirate the entire network!
Any HTML exploit to a vulnerable browser attached to a network and it's game over for the world. Firewalls, IDS, LAN, VLAN, virtual machine, blah blah blah doesn't matter. If the system on which you use a web browser has access to a shared printer then you may as well operate under the assumption that some teen in Bangkok already has access to everybodies' ATM cards.
Sometimes I have the feeling that kernel level programmers only disclose bugs which they are able to use to discredit a competitive colleague. The remainder of the exploits they quietly continue to use.
Consider: who would know?
When you're homeless they leave the money in front of you and won't allow you near the exit until you pick it up--then they insist that you are a bankrobber.
What reasonable setup bothers to ask?
They include Notepad.
Perhaps there's a generation gap here. My concept of a well designed site is one which allows you to delete your account at will, no questions asked, without need for administrator approval.
Accounts should be considered like filing cabinet maintenance. The users are able to go in and delete their accounts and the administrator or system operator should have a policy about deleting accounts after periods of no activity or if the administrator suspects abuse. Obviously such a policy would be susceptible to social engineering exploits. I have no idea what a real world working solution would be.
Every single cell phone called made is broadcast--radio transmission--into international airspace. All of your calls are belong to us.
Nearly every single TCP/IP transmission on the internet is routed through one of the major backbone providers, likely with repeaters for redundancy and protection against network outages, which actual routers and/or redundancy and protection communication physical hardware points, if they are so much as an inch outside of an official political longitudinal and latitudinal line, would be considered international. All of your network activity are belong to us.
HAM radio? Shortwave? CB radio? All your radio are belong to us.
And, if you access a webpage which happens to put a keylogger on your system--legally, illegally, exploit, legitimate code, doesn't matter, ends justify the means--then that also makes its way between you and them with international contact points. All of your keypresses are belong to us.
Oh, and your voice? That's broadcast into international airspace. Our high-sensitivity audio microphone dish mounted in some office window fifteen stories up and a block away? That's perfectly legitimate. All of your voice are belong to us.
How about postal mail? The airplanes fly through international airspace. TCP/IP by carrier pigeon? Anything carried through the air are belong to us; searchable without need for a court ordered warrant.
The political system is pointless. Congress is pointless, the judiciary is pointless, the executive branch is pointless. Everything belongs to us.
However if the brotherhood comes up with a slate of candidates promising jobs, medical clinics, lower prices, etc all bets are off. These tactics have worked in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, etc
That's because none of the Muslims have made the actual pilgrimage. Sure, a few of the rich ones got together for a vacation to Mecca; that's a far cry different from saying to oneself,"I am going to leave everything behind and walk $that direction without begging/seeking/asking for food/anything until God reveals to me his will."
What is so difficult to understand about differentiating between the will of God vs. the will of a bank account or credit card balance?
*whine* Well how else are you going to get anything?
*whine* Because then I won't have anything!
Do you really think God gives a sh*t about whining?
s/God/Allah --leisure
Considering the extent of modern web browsers I do not believe that they need to pwn your browser to get a keylog. Sure, it takes a few hoops, but since nobody has the time to audit all of the advertisements and preloaded links, it is a snap, even likely persistent after a page is closed (with the browser yet open), and quite likely, using browser cache and local cookie magic, persist the keylogger even if the browser is closed.
Just look at the size of modern browsers. Take a source code, count the #inlcudes, and then figure how many mechanical turks it would take to thoroughly audit all of those circuit trails.
It is nothing short of "ghost in the shell" type brainwashed idiocy (you know, the guy driving the garbage truck showing off the picture of his family?) to believe that there isn't a keylogger included in every web based e-mail login.
Consider the case of a teacher insulting a student. In high school, kids might not have built up these skills yet
I was in high school quite a long time ago and, allow me to remind everyone, it was every high school clique leader's dream to be able to break a teacher, especially substitute teachers, down to the point of crying.
It happened in fourth grade. Some of the other boys in the back, trying to impress the girls, started a little routine against our art teacher which brought her to tears by the end of the class. I felt bad for her. :-\
It happened in seventh grade. A few of the rich kids in the back had been trying to get the whole class up on the gossip that she was a flake. She was a French teacher... The French have that part of humor which allows them to laugh at just about anything, Americans see this as flaky because Americans are taught to have things to hate. There was a class period where they managed to break her down to crying.
They did it to one of the substitute teachers in eleventh grade. The guy had lost a hand somewhere somehow sometime. So he had one of the early 90s prosthetics. One of the kids drew a cartoon titled "Robo-Sub 2000". It wasn't supposed to make it to him but it did. He didn't even make it to the end of the class period. He left the room and the principle arrived a few minutes later to finish that hour.
I don't feel sorry for the students and I don't empathize with the parents. We all know the students are rabid animals trying to break their teachers down. If the teacher wrote a few things in her personal accounts of her occupation then... more power to her.
In the historical progression of wealth the internet's wealth is derived from Hollywood's wealth. Well, okay, arguably the internet's wealth is derived from the US gov't but, quite obviously, the wealth of the US gov't is derived from the same people who are likely a large cross section of Hollywood's wealth. Especially since the mid nineties when the global internet moved from a scientific endeavor to a business, advertising, and media venture, the wealth that resulted from global recreational computing is derived from Hollywood.
So, more than any real legal battle, this news is likely a dog vs. pony show to give the legal field a chance to dip its fat fingers into the financial pie.
Why don't they just build a lottery machine to approximate it and sell another lottery game at convenience stores? Let people pay to run around going to all of the stores to find the algorithm which most correctly approximates the data.
The safest banking is to follow the law of God which the bankers should themselves be following. Pick up only enough for today--maybe enough for tomorrow or a few days. If you find yourself picking up enough for next season, next year, years to come, generations to come, then you're already doomed.
Usagi Yojimbo. I kept that game on an 8250 disk. Similar in play to Karateka.
Except the stupid people don't cost enough to do your insurance any damage.
The real reason why your insurance goes up is the evil people--evil wealthy people. You get a scratch on your car, they tell you to buff it out. They get a scratch on their car, they want a new car. They want a new car, they go out and get a scratch on their car.
Billionaires creating their own problems to sue each other for millions upon millions, because they know they will charge it back to you anyway.
Some idiot checking into the hospital for $25k does not screw your insurance bill. The .com bust, and the Enron debacle, and other enormous investment scams are the financial problems which are statistically shuffled back to your auto insurance.
That's funny.
With my experience being homeless I know that there are people who do nothing but watch out of their windows to call each other and track me as I move from point A to point B.
So what's to say that sort of thing doesn't happen on the highways? Some guy with a grudge to beef against you, and enough money to be in on the system, knows that you're getting ready to go somewhere. Your approximate travel time is easily timed... train A leaves place at this rate, train B leaves place at the other rate. Where do they meet?
Do you ever get the feeling that sometimes people accelerated to prevent you from changing lanes? Often, they did.
Did you ever check your blind spot and not see anything, go to change lanes, and have someone honking in your ear? Likely they saw you or knew that you were merging onto the freeway and they deliberately accelerated because 1) they are wealthy and wanted to provoke the accident or 2) old and bitter and wanted to cut you off.
I only mention this because it happened to me once. I was merging onto the freeway and I knew that I needed to make my way across three lanes of traffic to the exit ramp on the other side of the freeway in about 3/4 mile. As I was on the entrance ramp I was looking in my blind spot, looking ahead at my course, look behind, look ahead, look behind--I knew it was always a test to make it. As I made it to the freeway proper I was checking my blind spot to look for people in the way because I knew I had three lanes to cross.
On the third crossing--with nobody visibly in the way for the next lane change since I had been on the entrance ramp--I was four or five feet into the lane I was merging to when I heard a horn and *BAM* there's some old guy and his wife in their Buick glaring at me like I'm trying to kill them.
Yeah, but he wasn't there for the last fifteen seconds. There had been no car anywhere in the blind spot. I had been checking since the entrance ramp. Where the hell did he come from?
Likely that Buick had a suuped up engine and he, knowing that I was headed for the left lane to take that left-lane exit ramp, had floored it deliberately to get in the way.
He flinched, there was some snow, he spun out but didn't get killed or involved in any collision.
I bet they spent the next _MONTH_ going around telling everyone about that guy in that car with those bumper stickers who was driving like a maniac and nearly killed them.
Bitter old gossips, aren't they?
Take any data set in any area of statistics. Try to find the algorithm or function which most closely approximates that data set. See the stock market for example. A completely random set of data with billions of points generated every day but, if you manage to find a proper subset, then you are able to generate Fibonacci type sequences to approximate some of it. The latest and greatest approximators are the the ones who make promotions.
So take any apparently data set. Take the apparently random data set generated by lottery hoppers--those big vats of flying balls which pick the winning numbers.
Now envision that the microchips inside of each and every lottery machine in each and every grocery and convenience store and filling station is nothing more than an algorithm trying to approximate the data set.
With enough statistical points, and considering that the randomly generated numbers are, from what I have been told, actually generated at some other system which sends them to the point of sale system...
If you have a hundred thousand slightly different algorithms then the people buying lottery tickets are not trying to win the lottery--they are mechanical Turks whose job it is to locate the algorithm which most reliably approximates the lottery ball hopper.
Why would anyone want to approximate the lottery ball hopper? Well, I imagine that the lottery ball hopper has those turning wheels and the airflow is precisely controlled because the lottery ball hopper is probably an experiment to approximate some profit generating system on the stock market.
So, basically, the lottery isn't really a tax on people who are bad at math. The lottery is a way for people to pay to be servants who are helping the lottery system owners to continue to exploit the system of financial investment (stock and bond market, banking industry, etc.) But don't the people who own the lottery also own the stock market? Maybe, maybe not. The people who own the lottery may be a subset of semi-ridiculously rich people who are still trying to get ahead of and compete with some other subset of semi-ridiculously wealthy people. Wealth doesn't satisfy anyone because there is always somebody with more.
Completely.
So when the virus scan begins to become part of the hardware, and the hardware routines get optimized to the point where the OS begins to favor hardware (like who would choose software 3D over hardware 3D in today's gaming world?), then software AV becomes, more or less, obsolete.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. Is that how it went?
man ps
I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS
Force obsolete command line interpretation.
I love reading the stories posted by the readership about all of the odd systems found stuck in closets and under desks which nobody knows what are doing.
Specifically... does anyone have any about Wall Street or Congress?
Thank you for pointing that out. Spores are most commonly a product of fungus growths. The wikipedia page on spores begins with the statement that "Spores form part of the life cycles of many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoans" but the reference for that goes to a 404'd pollenplus.com page--pollen is not really a spore but I imagine that, for the sake of argument, some people may try to cast it as such. Reading the remainder of the wikipedia page concentrates on fungi, rusts, smuts, and algae--almost no mention of bacteria and plants (protozoans are odd little fellows to begin with).
So, sure, I suppose under the proper extreme nature conditions there may be some plants and bacteria which may be coerced into producing spores (plants usually go with seeds, bacteria usually divide directly without going through a hibernating entity)--much the same as stem cells are able to be nudged any which direction (and the human DNA sequence is so large that we could probably make a human cell produce a spore if we really really really aggravated it).
What I am mostly getting at is that the concept of spores being produced by bacteria is mostly out of the Department of Homeland Security trying to push FUD into the media. That the wikipedia page even mentions bacteria and plants as spore producing, without actually backing that up in the article body, is probably because it was doctored to go along with the politicians' wish to keep everyone on edge over anthrax. Prior to the anthrax "spores" media circus I had never heard of "spores" in any biological context except fungi (and semi-related algae/smuts/rusts).
It is always a good idea to keep such fact-checking in perspective.
Likely the issue was not that the background checks were too invasive but that the people who had access to the information gathered from the background checks did not have the self-control to keep their mouth shut...
So once you have a background check pretty much the entire world knows about that time that you crapped your pants in third grade because your Mom forgot to wash her hands before she packed your lunch.
Background checks for security... sure. Background checks used to humiliate and intimidate... that's the problem.