As soon as it's up and running, you can bet that there will be trojans, worms, evil javascript, and so forth all vying to exploit it. Setting up artificial flattr clicks to a scammer's site will probably be possible in many ways, even if you never consciously visit that site. Collecting flattr cash from a handful of victims is hardly worth the effort, but if you can infect enough unwitting donors, then it should be worth a bit.
Before long, infected PCs will just be sending floods of flattr clicks to a swarm of scammer sites, and the few clicks sent to intended sites will be effectively worthless. I expect flattr will fall by the wayside, unless security measures are added for each flattr click (password or other interactive authentication). It will certainly collapse after it adopts sufficient security to properly inhibit exploits.
The more you know, the more likely you are to be highly spiritual (Einstein) The less you know, the more likely you are to be highly spiritual (my next door neighbor Bob)
Not entirely sure that I agree, but even if it's true, then the two spritualities are likely to be as different as the intellects involved. From the Wikipedia article on Baruch Spinoza:
In 1929, Einstein was asked in a telegram by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein whether he believed in God. Einstein responded by telegram: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
The Joe Six-pack kind of spirituality often involves blind belief in any of several crude mythologies, such as a sadistic paranoid sky zombie who loves him, etc.
Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality; that is, about concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue.
Morals and ethics are distinct, although they are often conflated. The Wikipedia quote you cited illustrates it, albeit subtly: ethics is the philosophy of morality (a theoretical or abstract morality, if you like). Morality, however, is a reflection of a real society's expressed ideals of behavior. Wiktionary attempts to explain it thus:
Although the terms ethics and morality may sometimes be used interchangeably, philosophical ethicists often distinguish them, using ethics to refer to theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong, and using morality and its related terms to refer to actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct. In this vein, the American philosopher Brand Blanshard wrote concerning his friend, the eminent British ethicist G. E. Moore: "We often discussed ethics, but seldom morals. . . . He was a master in ethical theory, but did not conceive himself as specially qualified to pass opinions on politics or social issues."
Even a locked device can be very useful, if it accomplishes an attractive set of purposes economically and well. If it does not, then it needs to be unlocked, so that people can rectify its deficiencies or add other features that they want. Alternatively, the device needs to drop down the price scale until its locked performance is economically sound. The value proposition of the iPad is very questionable, IMO, but could be improved in a number of ways even while remaining locked.
To Wikipedia! (And thanks for saving me 300 bucks for roses)
You'll get a lot more points for something needing your time & effort (thought/preparation/execution), than just money (flowers/chocolates/etc.). But use the star charts to check that the chosen star will actually be visible in your part of the world at the appointed time! And practice finding it yourself first in the actual sky.
If it looks like cloudy weather, you may need the flowers...
Show her the star whose distance in light years is approximately equal to her age. The photons reaching our eyes left that star the year she was born. This revelation is always followed by a moment of silence, misty eyes, or a quiet "wow". After tickling her brain, hugs & kisses come easily...
That list is the sites being tested, if it can detect any of them in your history, it shows red text in a box next to that item.
Perhaps you should check your code again.
It showed the red "visited" text in a box beside all of the incorrect IP addresses and the 127.0.0.1:8080 combination. I reiterate that my LAN is not on 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.* but the page claims that I visited addresses 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 which is clearly impossible. In fact, it does that even when I use a PC which is directly connected to a public IP, and not on our home LAN.
FYI we have 8 fiber ports at home, each with a public IP, but only one of them is connected to the router/firewall. The router assigns our LAN addresses in a different class C private net than any of the common defaults for routers.
Because they're more convenient than regular books?
This is not at all clear; there are advantages to both. You can read a book on the whole flight, while an ebook reader must be switched off at certain times. A collection is easier to carry in an ebook reader than as a crate of paper, but paper books don't run out of power. DRM may restrict cutting & pasting or annotating an ebook, while without DRM these might be easier (depends on the ebook reading device); for paper books the situation is clearer.
Because they're slightly cheaper than regular books?
In some cases, ebooks are the same price as the real book, and "slightly" cheaper is not cheap enough, IMO.
Because you don't have to buy more bookshelves and find someplace to put them?
A well-populated set of bookshelves adds character to your house. I consider this a plus, and our house has many walls lined with hardbacks. "A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC).
Because unless you sell the book within a couple of months of release its resale value is pretty much zero anyway by the time you pay for the petrol to get it to the place you're selling it to, and if you're selling it that fast, get it from a library.
The books I own don't usually drop so precipitously in value. Some increase in value - one I bought 25 years ago for about $120 was trading second hand for $600-1000 about 10 years ago. It has been recently reprinted, so its resale value dropped again, but still exceeds its original price. I also have a small number of heirloom books, which were printed almost a century ago. Transfer of ownership includes inheritance as well as sale. A collection of books can also be an asset which can be used as collateral or seized in a court judgment.
Generally speaking most people don't sell their books, and those that do don't actually make very much money doing it, certainly not more than the general couple of bucks difference between an e-book and a regular book.
I rarely sell a hardcover book, but I do buy some second-hand occasionally. Paperback books, on the other hand, are traded in more often at second-hand bookstores (depends on the paperback, of course). Many paperbacks are not available as ebooks anyway, sometimes because they contain color illustrations or have other content which is not yet well handled by ebook readers.
Most people who talk about resale want to buy them used, not actually sell them.
Hmmm, number of books bought second-hand must equal number of books sold second-hand...
You could google on _NSAKEY or NSA_KEY or NSAKEY and find what some security researchers in Europe discovered and published. For instance http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
A Microsoft officer offered to explain the presence of NSA_KEY, and indeed gave a partial clarification. Microsoft then declined to answer the follow-up questions which were asked, and refused to explain why they were not answering. http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm
Read into this whatever you like - innocent, tinfoil hat, or otherwise. Here's the wikipedia story about it; feel free to vandalize^W improve it with your comprehensive knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Well, I just visited both of your links, and am unimpressed and unscared.
The CSS history one gave a very short list of what looked like guessed web sites which were mostly wrong (hint: I never visit msn or ebay or myspace, and it's months since I visited yahoo). It looked like blind guesswork, as the list had google, but not slashdot, for instance. Clicking through to see what information they claim to have logged, I encountered an empty list, not even the bogus guesses of wrong web sites that were on the initial page.
The port scanning page also gave a rather short list of all wrong IPs and one IP:port combo (hint: my LAN is not on 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.*). Clicking through for the logged information, it just repeated the same set of all-wrong crap that was on the initial page. The only entry which was close to being plausible was 127.0.0.1:8080, since that IP obviously exists. However I have nothing on port 8080, and trying to visit that address just gives a "could not connect" error...
The miniseries stuck more closely to the story, but the acting was bloody wooden.
Well, for the archetype of wooden acting, just look at Thufir Hawat (Freddie Jones) in Lynch's movie. It's a wooden performance in the petrified forest class.
Actually, I enjoyed both Lynch's movie and the TV miniseries. There are also some fan-edit versions of the movie which merge footage from the Lynch cut and the Smithee cut with deleted scenes from the DVD release, and resequence them. The fanedit by Spicediver is highly recommended, for instance http://fanedit.org/598/.
I know you're joking (yeah, ok, most BT traffic probably is "piracy"), but my only recent use of the protocol was to download Knoppix
You're not the only one. In the last few months, I've torrented several Ubuntu ISOs (i386/amd64, desktop/alternative), and a couple of Linux Mint ISOs. I only downloaded each ISO once, but my aggregate upload was close to 250GiB between these torrents. Maybe I'm an outlier in the statistics, but piracy does not enter into it here.
Indeed, even at the "lower" price that Amazon was charging, ebooks are too expensive. Even without DRM, they should be a fraction of the price of a tangible book.
So, is the Apple store going to charge the higher price, at which Amazon balked?
Have YOU used MS Office? I open older documents EVERY day
What do you mean by "older" documents? I bet it's not from the early 1990s...
I used MS Word since the 1980s when it was a DOS program, and used WinWord 386 on Windows 386, and Word 1.0 on Windows 3.0. I have not tried to open any of those 1980s-era documents in recent versions of Word, but I can assure you that Word 95/97/2000/2003 all screw up on opening a Word 2.0 doc file (Word 2.0 is 1990s-era Windows only, and is much newer than Word 4 - MS version numbering inconsistencies again).
Microsoft retains fairly good backward compatibility with recent versions, to ease in migrating by one or two versions. It is not in their interest to make it easy to migrate by larger version jumps, because that would remove one of the big motivators for regular upgrades.
iPaid, iPedo, iPiss, iPoor, iPuke, iScab, iShit, iSlug, iSpit, iSuck,...
And that's just a few with P or S in them, all perfectly suitable for the iWhateverTheShittyThingIs! There must be thousands of appropriate iNames available. Let the marketers earn their living for a change...
Slashdot Mirror
As soon as it's up and running, you can bet that there will be trojans, worms, evil javascript, and so forth all vying to exploit it. Setting up artificial flattr clicks to a scammer's site will probably be possible in many ways, even if you never consciously visit that site. Collecting flattr cash from a handful of victims is hardly worth the effort, but if you can infect enough unwitting donors, then it should be worth a bit.
Before long, infected PCs will just be sending floods of flattr clicks to a swarm of scammer sites, and the few clicks sent to intended sites will be effectively worthless. I expect flattr will fall by the wayside, unless security measures are added for each flattr click (password or other interactive authentication). It will certainly collapse after it adopts sufficient security to properly inhibit exploits.
The more you know, the more likely you are to be highly spiritual (Einstein) The less you know, the more likely you are to be highly spiritual (my next door neighbor Bob)
Not entirely sure that I agree, but even if it's true, then the two spritualities are likely to be as different as the intellects involved. From the Wikipedia article on Baruch Spinoza:
In 1929, Einstein was asked in a telegram by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein whether he believed in God. Einstein responded by telegram: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."
The Joe Six-pack kind of spirituality often involves blind belief in any of several crude mythologies, such as a sadistic paranoid sky zombie who loves him, etc.
You're making a distinction that doesn't exist:
Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality; that is, about concepts such as good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue.
Morals and ethics are distinct, although they are often conflated. The Wikipedia quote you cited illustrates it, albeit subtly: ethics is the philosophy of morality (a theoretical or abstract morality, if you like). Morality, however, is a reflection of a real society's expressed ideals of behavior. Wiktionary attempts to explain it thus:
Although the terms ethics and morality may sometimes be used interchangeably, philosophical ethicists often distinguish them, using ethics to refer to theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong, and using morality and its related terms to refer to actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct. In this vein, the American philosopher Brand Blanshard wrote concerning his friend, the eminent British ethicist G. E. Moore: "We often discussed ethics, but seldom morals. . . . He was a master in ethical theory, but did not conceive himself as specially qualified to pass opinions on politics or social issues."
Drugs and teenage sex are countries too, I suppose.
I remember when they were the same country.
And a wonderful place it was, too!
my logical positivist materialist ass.
Wow - a donkey with education and attitude!
British criminals...antisocial motorists
Last I heard, antisocial motoring was rather annoying, but not actually a crime.
"Citizens^W Subjects of the Crown, prepare to be coerced into socially approved behaviours!"
I failed to do enough research. Is there a way I can delete the parent post?
Join the Scientologists. Claim your post is part of their dogma. Threaten legal action.
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml
Microsoft's Proprietary Office XML
The whole iPad is completely locked.
Even a locked device can be very useful, if it accomplishes an attractive set of purposes economically and well. If it does not, then it needs to be unlocked, so that people can rectify its deficiencies or add other features that they want. Alternatively, the device needs to drop down the price scale until its locked performance is economically sound. The value proposition of the iPad is very questionable, IMO, but could be improved in a number of ways even while remaining locked.
And speaking as a translator, I can say my job is in no danger.
Until Google redefines human language, and you are required to produce the same translation as the Google garblefish does!
To Wikipedia! (And thanks for saving me 300 bucks for roses)
You'll get a lot more points for something needing your time & effort (thought/preparation/execution), than just money (flowers/chocolates/etc.). But use the star charts to check that the chosen star will actually be visible in your part of the world at the appointed time! And practice finding it yourself first in the actual sky.
If it looks like cloudy weather, you may need the flowers...
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I can't believe how cute that is!
It worked for me when we met. We've been married 16 years now, and it still works...
Show her the star whose distance in light years is approximately equal to her age. The photons reaching our eyes left that star the year she was born. This revelation is always followed by a moment of silence, misty eyes, or a quiet "wow". After tickling her brain, hugs & kisses come easily...
Here's a cheat sheet to help you select the right star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars and here's a site to help you locate the chosen star: http://www.heavens-above.com/ (use the constellations page & the whole sky chart).
Next year, she'll be a year older, and it will be a different star. We sometimes do this on her birthday.
That list is the sites being tested, if it can detect any of them in your history, it shows red text in a box next to that item.
Perhaps you should check your code again.
It showed the red "visited" text in a box beside all of the incorrect IP addresses and the 127.0.0.1:8080 combination. I reiterate that my LAN is not on 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.* but the page claims that I visited addresses 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 which is clearly impossible. In fact, it does that even when I use a PC which is directly connected to a public IP, and not on our home LAN.
FYI we have 8 fiber ports at home, each with a public IP, but only one of them is connected to the router/firewall. The router assigns our LAN addresses in a different class C private net than any of the common defaults for routers.
Because they're more convenient than regular books?
This is not at all clear; there are advantages to both. You can read a book on the whole flight, while an ebook reader must be switched off at certain times. A collection is easier to carry in an ebook reader than as a crate of paper, but paper books don't run out of power. DRM may restrict cutting & pasting or annotating an ebook, while without DRM these might be easier (depends on the ebook reading device); for paper books the situation is clearer.
Because they're slightly cheaper than regular books?
In some cases, ebooks are the same price as the real book, and "slightly" cheaper is not cheap enough, IMO.
Because you don't have to buy more bookshelves and find someplace to put them?
A well-populated set of bookshelves adds character to your house. I consider this a plus, and our house has many walls lined with hardbacks. "A room without books is like a body without a soul" - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC).
Because unless you sell the book within a couple of months of release its resale value is pretty much zero anyway by the time you pay for the petrol to get it to the place you're selling it to, and if you're selling it that fast, get it from a library.
The books I own don't usually drop so precipitously in value. Some increase in value - one I bought 25 years ago for about $120 was trading second hand for $600-1000 about 10 years ago. It has been recently reprinted, so its resale value dropped again, but still exceeds its original price. I also have a small number of heirloom books, which were printed almost a century ago. Transfer of ownership includes inheritance as well as sale. A collection of books can also be an asset which can be used as collateral or seized in a court judgment.
Generally speaking most people don't sell their books, and those that do don't actually make very much money doing it, certainly not more than the general couple of bucks difference between an e-book and a regular book.
I rarely sell a hardcover book, but I do buy some second-hand occasionally. Paperback books, on the other hand, are traded in more often at second-hand bookstores (depends on the paperback, of course). Many paperbacks are not available as ebooks anyway, sometimes because they contain color illustrations or have other content which is not yet well handled by ebook readers.
Most people who talk about resale want to buy them used, not actually sell them.
Hmmm, number of books bought second-hand must equal number of books sold second-hand...
You could google on _NSAKEY or NSA_KEY or NSAKEY and find what some security researchers in Europe discovered and published. For instance http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
A Microsoft officer offered to explain the presence of NSA_KEY, and indeed gave a partial clarification. Microsoft then declined to answer the follow-up questions which were asked, and refused to explain why they were not answering. http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-dc.htm
Read into this whatever you like - innocent, tinfoil hat, or otherwise. Here's the wikipedia story about it; feel free to vandalize^W improve it with your comprehensive knowledge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
Forgot to mention: Javascript, Java, and Flash were all enabled when I visited your silly "scary" links.
I'll just throw a couple of links at you and then you can go be scared.
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/javascriptless-port-scanning.cgi, http://ha.ckers.org/weird/CSS-history.cgi.
Well, I just visited both of your links, and am unimpressed and unscared.
The CSS history one gave a very short list of what looked like guessed web sites which were mostly wrong (hint: I never visit msn or ebay or myspace, and it's months since I visited yahoo). It looked like blind guesswork, as the list had google, but not slashdot, for instance. Clicking through to see what information they claim to have logged, I encountered an empty list, not even the bogus guesses of wrong web sites that were on the initial page.
The port scanning page also gave a rather short list of all wrong IPs and one IP:port combo (hint: my LAN is not on 192.168.0.* or 192.168.1.*). Clicking through for the logged information, it just repeated the same set of all-wrong crap that was on the initial page. The only entry which was close to being plausible was 127.0.0.1:8080, since that IP obviously exists. However I have nothing on port 8080, and trying to visit that address just gives a "could not connect" error...
Please elaborate on why I should be scared.
crazy cave-people who drink their own piss
At least they don't have to drink Miller Lite.
The miniseries stuck more closely to the story, but the acting was bloody wooden.
Well, for the archetype of wooden acting, just look at Thufir Hawat (Freddie Jones) in Lynch's movie. It's a wooden performance in the petrified forest class.
Actually, I enjoyed both Lynch's movie and the TV miniseries. There are also some fan-edit versions of the movie which merge footage from the Lynch cut and the Smithee cut with deleted scenes from the DVD release, and resequence them. The fanedit by Spicediver is highly recommended, for instance http://fanedit.org/598/.
learning how to sleep with one's eyes open
Powerpoint.
I know you're joking (yeah, ok, most BT traffic probably is "piracy"), but my only recent use of the protocol was to download Knoppix
You're not the only one. In the last few months, I've torrented several Ubuntu ISOs (i386/amd64, desktop/alternative), and a couple of Linux Mint ISOs. I only downloaded each ISO once, but my aggregate upload was close to 250GiB between these torrents. Maybe I'm an outlier in the statistics, but piracy does not enter into it here.
eBooks are _already_ overpriced.
Indeed, even at the "lower" price that Amazon was charging, ebooks are too expensive. Even without DRM, they should be a fraction of the price of a tangible book.
So, is the Apple store going to charge the higher price, at which Amazon balked?
Have YOU used MS Office? I open older documents EVERY day
What do you mean by "older" documents? I bet it's not from the early 1990s...
I used MS Word since the 1980s when it was a DOS program, and used WinWord 386 on Windows 386, and Word 1.0 on Windows 3.0. I have not tried to open any of those 1980s-era documents in recent versions of Word, but I can assure you that Word 95/97/2000/2003 all screw up on opening a Word 2.0 doc file (Word 2.0 is 1990s-era Windows only, and is much newer than Word 4 - MS version numbering inconsistencies again).
Microsoft retains fairly good backward compatibility with recent versions, to ease in migrating by one or two versions. It is not in their interest to make it easy to migrate by larger version jumps, because that would remove one of the big motivators for regular upgrades.
iPaid, iPedo, iPiss, iPoor, iPuke, iScab, iShit, iSlug, iSpit, iSuck, ...
And that's just a few with P or S in them, all perfectly suitable for the iWhateverTheShittyThingIs! There must be thousands of appropriate iNames available. Let the marketers earn their living for a change...