The user will do anything and everything to get what they want. They will accept any kind of warnings you through at them, no matter how scary language you use. If you completely take away their ability to control this (ie. Walled garden like Apple), you end up with much more restricted experience.
There is a cute term for this situation: Dancing Pigs.
Simple solution: Rewrite all security warnings to reward the user with lolcats if they pick the secure option.
How about a runtime simulator to simulate execution of the decryption function, then analyze the decrypted results with any variety of other analysis techniques?
Actually, Democrats only kind of had a super majority for about 4 months starting at the end of 2009. But only if you count 2 independents and the blue dog Democrats as voting with them, which they don't. So instead, you had the Republicans using the filibuster more than any Congress in history. Oh, but wait, the only way they've been able to filibuster so often is because they just expressed their intent to filibuster without actually doing the time consuming work of a filibuster. That way they can quickly get on with the business of expressing intent to filibuster even more.
Ah... I think I see were Sun can do some layoffs. First, promote the management of the team that came up with the new numbering. Then layoff all the programmers, except for one intern.
But then there is the other issue... Monsanto has sued farmers out of existence when their fields were contaminated by a neighboring farmer's Monsanto GMO crops. It should be the other way around; if a farmer's organic crops become contaminated by Monsanto GMO crops, the farmer should be able to sue Monsanto for the cost of decontaminating their field.
Actually, I started programming computers in the mid 70's. I've seen quite a bit more than you in both large and small companies. 10 years? That doesn't even get you back to the Y2K panic days of development. You can sit down and shut up now.
#1 reason that anyone, in an career, that is over 40 is doomed... the employer's cost of employee benefits skyrocket on employees over 40. Employers would rather have a bunch of kids fresh out of school, working for peanuts, with very low health and life insurance premiums, than to have any employees over 40 drawing a higher salary and having to pay higher premiums. (Well, except for the over 40 management types making those decisions; they won't lay themselves off)
k... well I guess I should not have expected anyone to actually read the page on how the index was created. But I thought at least the title might have been a clue. Let's take it one word at a time, shall we?
Corruption... ok, should be easy, it's the subject we are talking about.
Perception... So it is based on people's perceptions since corruption is difficult to uncover in absolute values.
Index... So the numbers are a score, which is why some countries have the same score, and there are gaps between index numbers.
Thanks to Costco having a very liberal return policy on computers, I tried 5 different computers with Windows 8 on it. I hated the first 4. I swore I would hate Windows 8 forever.
But unlike the first 4 computers, the 5th computer had a touch-screen (an Acer V5) and suddenly Windows 8 make perfect sense. Without a touch-screen Windows 8 is a useless piece of crap, even with add-ons like ClassicShell. With a touch-screen, Windows 8 is faster to use on most tasks than Windows 7.
I've found the "Better WP Security" plugin to be pretty good at stopping all of this. You can set login limits, 404 limits, etc., and have it automatically deny offenders IP addresses from accessing your site by modifying the site's root.htaccess file. But even it doesn't cover everything.
Many WP attackers probe for themes and plugins with known weaknesses, or exploit the upload system to upload executables. But what most people don't know (including most WP developers I've worked with) is that there is no reason for PHP files to be directly accessible anywhere in the/wp-content/ directory (which includes uploads, themes, and plugins). Simply adding a.htaccess file to the/wp-content directory with something like the following in it will protect against poorly written themes, plug-ins, and most not-yet-known exploits of WordPress.
# Add allowable extensions as needed Order Deny,Allow Deny from all <FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|gif|png|mp3|mpe?g|flv|swf|js|css|pdf|xml|html|gz)$"> Allow from all </FilesMatch>
If that breaks a plugin or theme you use, then it's not written very well and you shouldn't risk using it. Contact the developer and tell them they should not need direct access to executables in/wp-content
The summary contains almost the entire FA. But there is this...
In the late Stone Age, humans were increasingly incorporating coarsely ground grain into their diets. The uptick in starches, the researchers suggest, could explain the increasing frequency of cavities in teeth from the time—a problem that's been with us ever since.
In other words, it was no longer the "Paleo diet" and a shift away from it is what brought about bad oral health.
The article is talking about the scam trying to get consumers to buy uncompressed (as in data compression, not audio compression) 24-bit 192KHz sampled audio as opposed to 16-bit 44.1Khz sampling. I don't care how long you've been a studio engineer or how perfect your hearing is, the human ear is incapable of hearing the difference between the exact same audio sampled at 16bit, 44.1KHz and sampled at 24-bit, 192KHz in a blind ABX test. And even if your system is actually capable of playing back the ultrasonics that a 192KHz sample rate can capture, that is just wasted energy and storage space. It makes about as much sense as making video cameras and TVs that could reproduce ultraviolet light and claiming that somehow improves picture quality.
Easy fix. Crunchbutton declares bankruptcy, employees get paid all wages due at 100% first, everyone else waits in line and gets pennies on the dollar. The same startup group then fills out the paperwork for a new corporation under a different name, does that same thing but without using the "Spicy With" name. If the Brown lawyers still try to come after them, just direct them to the back of the line for the bankruptcy hearings of Crunchbutton.
I've seen startups do this many times before, and it works. It's not like they have a decades old company and brand names to protect. Just keeping abusing the corporate veil until they find a formula that works without getting sued.
Sure it could. If it is (mis)configured to allow a zone transfer, you could have a bot net send it zone transfer requests for your own domain with the source ip address spoofed to be your target. A little more complex setup than a recursive request, but you still some get good amplification. Do that on thousands or millions of DNS servers that aren't recursive, but allow zone transfers, and you still get a DDOS attack with very little input traffic. You could also do it on root servers (or any recursive server) by asking for MX records on a domain that has a bunch of MX records, like big ISPs. Not as much amplification as a zone transfer, but still some.
So really the only way to stop it is for ISPs to just stop traffic with spoofed source addresses from leaving their networks.
1) ISPs could drop out-going tcp and udp packets on port 53 from all their IP address except their own DNS servers. That would stop their customers from using public DNS server outside their networks. But it would also stop this kind of attack.
2) Drop all outgoing traffic that has a spoofed source IP address. This is a very simple bit mask operation. Yes, it requires more compute power than not doing it, but not very much. The ISPs know what IP addresses they own, they can very easily prevent spoofed traffic from leaving their networks, effectively stopping this kind of attack, as well as other types of hacking. At the same time, it would still allow legitimate use of public DNS servers.
ISPs could very easily drop packets with fake source IPs at their borders. They know what IP addresses they own, and it's not resource intensive to check it. It would stop a whole host of problems if all ISPs did this.
Then again... are smartphones and tablets using a mobile-ip protocol that would get screwed up by this? If so, good! Maybe those damn kids will stop staring at their phones to two seconds and get the hell off my lawn!
"...the first Super Mario he had a square nose. That’s what your audio looks like in 16-bit format. What vinyl’s actually doing is stretching those square waves and rounding them out..."
"Well, I have no technical training at all. No mechanical engineering experience."
Yes, and it shows. I wonder if he thinks black and white kinescope recordings from the 50's have more warmth and depth than digital HDTV.
The vast majority of tube amps are Class A amplifiers that cause non-linear distortion of the input signal. This distortion, especially when over-driven, adds even harmonics to the signal which is what you, and other musicians that got their start with tube amps, describe as "warm" and "fat." It has absolutely nothing to do with the sound being more accurate; in fact, it is less accurate.
Class B amplifiers became the norm during the switch to transistor circuitry. There is no reason you can't build a Class A transistor amp, or a Class B tube amp, but Class B amps are more efficient and cheaper to build. Class B amps are actually two amplifiers, one amplifying the positive part of the signal and the other amplifying the negative part of the signal, with each half being mixed together in the output. This causes what is called cross-over distortion. Early designs with more cross-over distortion would add odd harmonics to the audio, which people perceived as a "cold," "harsh," or "metallic" sound. Modern Class B amps, even cheaply made ones, have very little of this distortion now.
Bottom line is that the warm, fat feeling you fell in love with was distortion, not reality.
I think the real point is that there are known limits to human hearing and many audiophiles fantasize about their hearing being superhuman. It just ain't so. Dynamic range compression is one thing, but perceptual compression, sample rate, and bit depth are a different matter. No audiophile has ever heard the difference between FLAC and 320Kbps mp3 audio in an ABX test at a statistical rate that is better than guessing.
Any time this argument starts, I refer people to this well written article that lays out the limits of human hearing compared to the specifications of recording formats...
To me, the only truly international format is yyyy-mm-dd. All the operating systems and databases in the world can't be wrong. Makes sorting easier too.;-)
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The half life of all DNA is 521 years. What kind of 2-bit "scientists" are these that think they can clone an animal that died 10,000 years ago?
The user will do anything and everything to get what they want. They will accept any kind of warnings you through at them, no matter how scary language you use. If you completely take away their ability to control this (ie. Walled garden like Apple), you end up with much more restricted experience.
There is a cute term for this situation: Dancing Pigs.
Simple solution: Rewrite all security warnings to reward the user with lolcats if they pick the secure option.
How about a runtime simulator to simulate execution of the decryption function, then analyze the decrypted results with any variety of other analysis techniques?
Actually, Democrats only kind of had a super majority for about 4 months starting at the end of 2009. But only if you count 2 independents and the blue dog Democrats as voting with them, which they don't. So instead, you had the Republicans using the filibuster more than any Congress in history. Oh, but wait, the only way they've been able to filibuster so often is because they just expressed their intent to filibuster without actually doing the time consuming work of a filibuster. That way they can quickly get on with the business of expressing intent to filibuster even more.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201311071754973439.html
http://www.texasobserver.org/seeds-of-discontent/
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/farmers-sue-monsanto-over-seed-contamination.aspx
http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-court-plaintiffs-seed-747/
Ah... I think I see were Sun can do some layoffs. First, promote the management of the team that came up with the new numbering. Then layoff all the programmers, except for one intern.
But then there is the other issue... Monsanto has sued farmers out of existence when their fields were contaminated by a neighboring farmer's Monsanto GMO crops. It should be the other way around; if a farmer's organic crops become contaminated by Monsanto GMO crops, the farmer should be able to sue Monsanto for the cost of decontaminating their field.
Actually, I started programming computers in the mid 70's. I've seen quite a bit more than you in both large and small companies. 10 years? That doesn't even get you back to the Y2K panic days of development. You can sit down and shut up now.
#1 reason that anyone, in an career, that is over 40 is doomed... the employer's cost of employee benefits skyrocket on employees over 40. Employers would rather have a bunch of kids fresh out of school, working for peanuts, with very low health and life insurance premiums, than to have any employees over 40 drawing a higher salary and having to pay higher premiums. (Well, except for the over 40 management types making those decisions; they won't lay themselves off)
Then, at long last, the hardware engineers can again gloat.
No. Because the programming robot will deliberately leave the gloat() function as an empty stub in the hardware design robot's firmware.
k... well I guess I should not have expected anyone to actually read the page on how the index was created. But I thought at least the title might have been a clue. Let's take it one word at a time, shall we?
The US goverment is the least corrupt...
Citation please!
Spoiler: 13 other governments are less corrupt than the US
They wrote a bill that essentially says, "We affirm that we think the internet is fine the way it is." Wow! What a bold move!
Thanks to Costco having a very liberal return policy on computers, I tried 5 different computers with Windows 8 on it. I hated the first 4. I swore I would hate Windows 8 forever.
But unlike the first 4 computers, the 5th computer had a touch-screen (an Acer V5) and suddenly Windows 8 make perfect sense. Without a touch-screen Windows 8 is a useless piece of crap, even with add-ons like ClassicShell. With a touch-screen, Windows 8 is faster to use on most tasks than Windows 7.
I've found the "Better WP Security" plugin to be pretty good at stopping all of this. You can set login limits, 404 limits, etc., and have it automatically deny offenders IP addresses from accessing your site by modifying the site's root .htaccess file. But even it doesn't cover everything.
/wp-content/ directory (which includes uploads, themes, and plugins). Simply adding a .htaccess file to the /wp-content directory with something like the following in it will protect against poorly written themes, plug-ins, and most not-yet-known exploits of WordPress.
/wp-content
Many WP attackers probe for themes and plugins with known weaknesses, or exploit the upload system to upload executables. But what most people don't know (including most WP developers I've worked with) is that there is no reason for PHP files to be directly accessible anywhere in the
# Add allowable extensions as needed
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
<FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|gif|png|mp3|mpe?g|flv|swf|js|css|pdf|xml|html|gz)$">
Allow from all
</FilesMatch>
If that breaks a plugin or theme you use, then it's not written very well and you shouldn't risk using it. Contact the developer and tell them they should not need direct access to executables in
The summary contains almost the entire FA. But there is this...
In the late Stone Age, humans were increasingly incorporating coarsely ground grain into their diets. The uptick in starches, the researchers suggest, could explain the increasing frequency of cavities in teeth from the time—a problem that's been with us ever since.
In other words, it was no longer the "Paleo diet" and a shift away from it is what brought about bad oral health.
The article is talking about the scam trying to get consumers to buy uncompressed (as in data compression, not audio compression) 24-bit 192KHz sampled audio as opposed to 16-bit 44.1Khz sampling. I don't care how long you've been a studio engineer or how perfect your hearing is, the human ear is incapable of hearing the difference between the exact same audio sampled at 16bit, 44.1KHz and sampled at 24-bit, 192KHz in a blind ABX test. And even if your system is actually capable of playing back the ultrasonics that a 192KHz sample rate can capture, that is just wasted energy and storage space. It makes about as much sense as making video cameras and TVs that could reproduce ultraviolet light and claiming that somehow improves picture quality.
Easy fix. Crunchbutton declares bankruptcy, employees get paid all wages due at 100% first, everyone else waits in line and gets pennies on the dollar. The same startup group then fills out the paperwork for a new corporation under a different name, does that same thing but without using the "Spicy With" name. If the Brown lawyers still try to come after them, just direct them to the back of the line for the bankruptcy hearings of Crunchbutton.
I've seen startups do this many times before, and it works. It's not like they have a decades old company and brand names to protect. Just keeping abusing the corporate veil until they find a formula that works without getting sued.
Sure it could. If it is (mis)configured to allow a zone transfer, you could have a bot net send it zone transfer requests for your own domain with the source ip address spoofed to be your target. A little more complex setup than a recursive request, but you still some get good amplification. Do that on thousands or millions of DNS servers that aren't recursive, but allow zone transfers, and you still get a DDOS attack with very little input traffic. You could also do it on root servers (or any recursive server) by asking for MX records on a domain that has a bunch of MX records, like big ISPs. Not as much amplification as a zone transfer, but still some.
So really the only way to stop it is for ISPs to just stop traffic with spoofed source addresses from leaving their networks.
Two other different things...
1) ISPs could drop out-going tcp and udp packets on port 53 from all their IP address except their own DNS servers. That would stop their customers from using public DNS server outside their networks. But it would also stop this kind of attack.
2) Drop all outgoing traffic that has a spoofed source IP address. This is a very simple bit mask operation. Yes, it requires more compute power than not doing it, but not very much. The ISPs know what IP addresses they own, they can very easily prevent spoofed traffic from leaving their networks, effectively stopping this kind of attack, as well as other types of hacking. At the same time, it would still allow legitimate use of public DNS servers.
ISPs could very easily drop packets with fake source IPs at their borders. They know what IP addresses they own, and it's not resource intensive to check it. It would stop a whole host of problems if all ISPs did this.
Then again... are smartphones and tablets using a mobile-ip protocol that would get screwed up by this? If so, good! Maybe those damn kids will stop staring at their phones to two seconds and get the hell off my lawn!
"...the first Super Mario he had a square nose. That’s what your audio looks like in 16-bit format. What vinyl’s actually doing is stretching those square waves and rounding them out..."
"Well, I have no technical training at all. No mechanical engineering experience."
Yes, and it shows. I wonder if he thinks black and white kinescope recordings from the 50's have more warmth and depth than digital HDTV.
The vast majority of tube amps are Class A amplifiers that cause non-linear distortion of the input signal. This distortion, especially when over-driven, adds even harmonics to the signal which is what you, and other musicians that got their start with tube amps, describe as "warm" and "fat." It has absolutely nothing to do with the sound being more accurate; in fact, it is less accurate.
Class B amplifiers became the norm during the switch to transistor circuitry. There is no reason you can't build a Class A transistor amp, or a Class B tube amp, but Class B amps are more efficient and cheaper to build. Class B amps are actually two amplifiers, one amplifying the positive part of the signal and the other amplifying the negative part of the signal, with each half being mixed together in the output. This causes what is called cross-over distortion. Early designs with more cross-over distortion would add odd harmonics to the audio, which people perceived as a "cold," "harsh," or "metallic" sound. Modern Class B amps, even cheaply made ones, have very little of this distortion now.
Bottom line is that the warm, fat feeling you fell in love with was distortion, not reality.
I think the real point is that there are known limits to human hearing and many audiophiles fantasize about their hearing being superhuman. It just ain't so. Dynamic range compression is one thing, but perceptual compression, sample rate, and bit depth are a different matter. No audiophile has ever heard the difference between FLAC and 320Kbps mp3 audio in an ABX test at a statistical rate that is better than guessing.
Any time this argument starts, I refer people to this well written article that lays out the limits of human hearing compared to the specifications of recording formats...
To me, the only truly international format is yyyy-mm-dd. All the operating systems and databases in the world can't be wrong. Makes sorting easier too. ;-)