You seem to be off by a factor of 1000. According to Wikipedia, the largest bomb ever was only 100mt--the Tsar Bomba, whose fireball radius was 4.6km ( to say nothing of the blast wave). Youre telling me that it wouldnt annihilate an office building at only 1km?
The Little Boy used at Hiroshima was ~15kt (20,000x smaller than the bombs youre claiming). According to wikipedia, it caused "severe structural damage to buildings extended about 1 mile (1.6 km) from ground zero".
You may be correct about wildlife adapting to radiation--look at the chernobyl site-- but a modern nuke will certainly do a hell of a lot more than youre describing (or did you completely forget your WWII history?)
I would disagree with opera being better than blackberry browser. No shortcut keys, terrible menus, no easy view of connectivity, not to mention the lack of tie-in to the BES....
Blackberry browser may not be able to handle every fancy page you throw at it, but excellent shortcuts combined with the google page mobilizer makes it my favorite over the other browsers ive tried. It also helps that it runs much faster than any of the others you mentioned.
You know the problem with that argument? If we're ever going to make headway against spambots, etc we need to get away from the idea that an infection excuses you for the activity on the computer. Not to say that the fact that it was unintentional shouldnt be considered, but as long as ISPs can say "well, the spam coming from Joe Schmoe's connection is UNINTENTIONAL, so we cant just cut him off" and the user can say "yea, i just dont care about the infection", nothing will improve.
It also would completely handcuff any possibility of prosecuting illegal filesharing, since there is no way that I know of short of a webcam running 24/7 to actually prove that it was actually the user in front of the keyboard, and not just a virus with the exact same access because of password sniffing. Thats the difficulty of proving guilt in these cases anyways-- how do you know it wasnt kids, etc, but at some point responsibility for the stuff coming in and out of your connection and computer comes into play.
I would argue that, since we have access to a good deal of the information on the case, we can draw our own conclusions as to how likely her guilt is. NOONE outside of Thomas will know 100% her innocence or guilt, and a jury deciding that she's innocent (or guilty) doesnt make it so (there are a number of cases where that is clear). I'm fairly convinced at this point that she DID use kazaa, that she WAS illegally downloading songs, that she has perjured herself a number of times, and that she is at this point trying to get off on any technicality she can. That IS how the legal system works, and I dont blame her for using the law to defend herself, but it doesnt change my view that she IS guilty of infringement whether or not she will actually be convicted.
That appears to be an 80GB drive for $314. For that price I purchase at least 5 80GB magnetic disks. I think his point was valid, and Im not sure how you thought you were refuting it.
The RIAA made accusations against her, and had certain evidence against her. Apparently a grand jury felt there was enough evidence for a case. Theres such a thing called discovery. Im not a lawyer and dont know the details, but it would seem that youre wishing for a type of justice system where noone is ever able to gather evidence if the defendent says "id really rather you didnt check to see if the murder weapon is located in my house, kthxbai".
All that aside, her innocence is highly questionable at this point.
The same way you didnt think your post through--a quick read through the comments (not even the article!) reveals that its NOT integrated into opera, its a widget aka addon. "I hear you can get virus extensions for firefox, so clearly mozilla is retarded". What?
Because users wont want to learn to stick stuff in the "files to upload" folder and designing a good interface =/= forcing users to adhere to your decided method of interaction?
How does this impact them at all? Once they pwn yer machine they can install whatever p2p, web, ftp, or irc hosting software they want--its not like theyre going to say "ok, now we have to install opera so we can get that fabled http server software working" after an exploit.
Sort of hard to blame him for not spending hours researching the thing, the following language is kind of unambiguous:
....kite-like turbines that would be floated to the altitude of the jet streams at an altitude of 20,000-50,000 feet and transmit up to 40 megawatts of electricity to the ground via the tether.
Im no expert on the english language, but the "that" in kite-like turbines that would be floated seems to refer to the kite-like turbines, and the part about transmitting 40 megawatts TO the ground implies that its coming FROM the kite (not that its being generated at the ground).
Im also not sure how anyone was supposed to jump to your article from the one posted--your article mentions some guy named Saul Griffith while the posted one mentions a Ken Caldeira and Cristina Archer. Exactly whats the link?
<quote>That glorified "doc reader" can do far more than you think, Adobe makes it possible to have a document in a file, with all of the features of a website.</quote> Sounds like something thats a browser's job. I had always understood PDF's purpose to be creating a "virtually printed" file--basically, how it appears in the reader IS how it will appear when printed. Why the hell is javascript involved now? Or is it people about 10 years ago completely forgot the point of a PDF and started using them instead of.docs?
Go to newegg and add the stuff with 1600 5star ratings to your cart. Throw in a little common sense and 5 minutes of research and youll hit that $400 mark.
Is it possibly because guessing the secret word on its own does NOTHING to compromise your account? It simply generates a password recovery form on 95% of websites out there. The remaining 5% i wouldnt want to give any sign up info anyways.
Wouldnt the first thing any reasonably able hacker do be to change the recovery email address and secret question? One would think that if someone is in the know on account theft theyd know about these not-too-secret backdoors.
How did they get access to the email accounts where the password recovery was sent? Seems like securing that linchpin would have kept all the other accounts safe.
Doesnt someone have to also breach your email account in order for this to be an issue? So in essence they have to A) guess your secret password and then B) guess your email accounts password?
seems like a good reason to have a strong email account password, keep the recovery email address up to date on all accounts, dont enable password recovery on email address, and not worry about the "forgotton password" issue for other sites.
If someone compromises a single machine on either end--server (hosting company) end or locally-- they can fire up Cain and arp poison the switch to grab all the traffic they want. Presumably this can be done with cable connections for the local network, tho ive never tried--but Ive certainly seen a hosting company compromised by a single one of their customers, whose servers were discovered running Cain.
Password sniffing is a real threat, and is easier to pull off than keylogging.
It does care for connections--ive seen this particular infection, and it doesnt care what browsers you install, or whether you install new ones, or use firefox portable. If http traffic leaves the computer for google | yahoo | live et al., it gets modified enroute. You get returned legitimate results in the correct order, but all the links are redirected to another site. Its browser-agnostic. I would imagine that it wouldnt care about encryption, since its on your computer and it could just do the injection after decryption takes place.
i think that may just be incorrect. The applet doesnt start playing until you click--and it doesnt pick up somewhere in the middle. It doesnt hide them either, it leaves a placeholder that you can click to start the flash. If it was just hiding them, and they were running, they would use up CPU--which they dont.
Its actually a lot like noscript in that regard (noscript leaves placeholders for some objects as well).
Id think the point would be moot, since once they have your card number, they can charge you any time they want anyways. Either way, whether you set up such a payment system or not, once they have your credit card, they can start charging, and I dont think legally theres any difference between taking money illigitimately WITH a payment system or without one.
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People worried about ethical concerns over things like this are just luddities afraid of human biological progress
Or have a different set of beliefs than you. Good to know that YOUR belief system and ethical standards are the end-all, be-all however.
You seem to be off by a factor of 1000. According to Wikipedia, the largest bomb ever was only 100mt--the Tsar Bomba, whose fireball radius was 4.6km ( to say nothing of the blast wave). Youre telling me that it wouldnt annihilate an office building at only 1km?
The Little Boy used at Hiroshima was ~15kt (20,000x smaller than the bombs youre claiming). According to wikipedia, it caused "severe structural damage to buildings extended about 1 mile (1.6 km) from ground zero".
You may be correct about wildlife adapting to radiation--look at the chernobyl site-- but a modern nuke will certainly do a hell of a lot more than youre describing (or did you completely forget your WWII history?)
I would disagree with opera being better than blackberry browser. No shortcut keys, terrible menus, no easy view of connectivity, not to mention the lack of tie-in to the BES.... Blackberry browser may not be able to handle every fancy page you throw at it, but excellent shortcuts combined with the google page mobilizer makes it my favorite over the other browsers ive tried. It also helps that it runs much faster than any of the others you mentioned.
You know the problem with that argument? If we're ever going to make headway against spambots, etc we need to get away from the idea that an infection excuses you for the activity on the computer. Not to say that the fact that it was unintentional shouldnt be considered, but as long as ISPs can say "well, the spam coming from Joe Schmoe's connection is UNINTENTIONAL, so we cant just cut him off" and the user can say "yea, i just dont care about the infection", nothing will improve.
It also would completely handcuff any possibility of prosecuting illegal filesharing, since there is no way that I know of short of a webcam running 24/7 to actually prove that it was actually the user in front of the keyboard, and not just a virus with the exact same access because of password sniffing. Thats the difficulty of proving guilt in these cases anyways-- how do you know it wasnt kids, etc, but at some point responsibility for the stuff coming in and out of your connection and computer comes into play.
I would argue that, since we have access to a good deal of the information on the case, we can draw our own conclusions as to how likely her guilt is. NOONE outside of Thomas will know 100% her innocence or guilt, and a jury deciding that she's innocent (or guilty) doesnt make it so (there are a number of cases where that is clear). I'm fairly convinced at this point that she DID use kazaa, that she WAS illegally downloading songs, that she has perjured herself a number of times, and that she is at this point trying to get off on any technicality she can. That IS how the legal system works, and I dont blame her for using the law to defend herself, but it doesnt change my view that she IS guilty of infringement whether or not she will actually be convicted.
That appears to be an 80GB drive for $314. For that price I purchase at least 5 80GB magnetic disks. I think his point was valid, and Im not sure how you thought you were refuting it.
Slashdot is a news aggregation site. It doesnt generate the content, it aggregates it, hence it will ALWAYS be behind at least one source.
The RIAA made accusations against her, and had certain evidence against her. Apparently a grand jury felt there was enough evidence for a case. Theres such a thing called discovery. Im not a lawyer and dont know the details, but it would seem that youre wishing for a type of justice system where noone is ever able to gather evidence if the defendent says "id really rather you didnt check to see if the murder weapon is located in my house, kthxbai".
All that aside, her innocence is highly questionable at this point.
The same way you didnt think your post through--a quick read through the comments (not even the article!) reveals that its NOT integrated into opera, its a widget aka addon. "I hear you can get virus extensions for firefox, so clearly mozilla is retarded". What?
Because users wont want to learn to stick stuff in the "files to upload" folder and designing a good interface =/= forcing users to adhere to your decided method of interaction?
How does this impact them at all? Once they pwn yer machine they can install whatever p2p, web, ftp, or irc hosting software they want--its not like theyre going to say "ok, now we have to install opera so we can get that fabled http server software working" after an exploit.
Im no expert on the english language, but the "that" in kite-like turbines that would be floated seems to refer to the kite-like turbines, and the part about transmitting 40 megawatts TO the ground implies that its coming FROM the kite (not that its being generated at the ground).
Im also not sure how anyone was supposed to jump to your article from the one posted--your article mentions some guy named Saul Griffith while the posted one mentions a Ken Caldeira and Cristina Archer. Exactly whats the link?
<quote>That glorified "doc reader" can do far more than you think, Adobe makes it possible to have a document in a file, with all of the features of a website.</quote> .docs?
Sounds like something thats a browser's job. I had always understood PDF's purpose to be creating a "virtually printed" file--basically, how it appears in the reader IS how it will appear when printed. Why the hell is javascript involved now? Or is it people about 10 years ago completely forgot the point of a PDF and started using them instead of
They'd probably remark on the irony of him having a degree at the age of eleven, and still not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're".
Dont forget the 4chan tech section, if you pester them enough people will actually build you a machine there.
Go to newegg and add the stuff with 1600 5star ratings to your cart. Throw in a little common sense and 5 minutes of research and youll hit that $400 mark.
This has worked for many years now.
Is it possibly because guessing the secret word on its own does NOTHING to compromise your account? It simply generates a password recovery form on 95% of websites out there. The remaining 5% i wouldnt want to give any sign up info anyways.
Wouldnt the first thing any reasonably able hacker do be to change the recovery email address and secret question? One would think that if someone is in the know on account theft theyd know about these not-too-secret backdoors.
How did they get access to the email accounts where the password recovery was sent? Seems like securing that linchpin would have kept all the other accounts safe.
Doesnt someone have to also breach your email account in order for this to be an issue? So in essence they have to A) guess your secret password and then B) guess your email accounts password?
seems like a good reason to have a strong email account password, keep the recovery email address up to date on all accounts, dont enable password recovery on email address, and not worry about the "forgotton password" issue for other sites.
If someone compromises a single machine on either end--server (hosting company) end or locally-- they can fire up Cain and arp poison the switch to grab all the traffic they want. Presumably this can be done with cable connections for the local network, tho ive never tried--but Ive certainly seen a hosting company compromised by a single one of their customers, whose servers were discovered running Cain.
Password sniffing is a real threat, and is easier to pull off than keylogging.
It does care for connections--ive seen this particular infection, and it doesnt care what browsers you install, or whether you install new ones, or use firefox portable. If http traffic leaves the computer for google | yahoo | live et al., it gets modified enroute. You get returned legitimate results in the correct order, but all the links are redirected to another site. Its browser-agnostic. I would imagine that it wouldnt care about encryption, since its on your computer and it could just do the injection after decryption takes place.
i think that may just be incorrect. The applet doesnt start playing until you click--and it doesnt pick up somewhere in the middle. It doesnt hide them either, it leaves a placeholder that you can click to start the flash. If it was just hiding them, and they were running, they would use up CPU--which they dont.
Its actually a lot like noscript in that regard (noscript leaves placeholders for some objects as well).
Id think the point would be moot, since once they have your card number, they can charge you any time they want anyways. Either way, whether you set up such a payment system or not, once they have your credit card, they can start charging, and I dont think legally theres any difference between taking money illigitimately WITH a payment system or without one.
This is slashdot, youre not allowed to say good things about the awesome bar. Noone likes it, remember?