If there are plastic guns, the scene in the movie In the Line of Fire (with Clint Eastwood, my hero) might work. He takes his plastic gun to a presidential convention, and hides the bullets inside his keychain. The keychain sets off the metal detector, he removes it, goes through again, no problem. Gets his keychain back, loads his gun, and, well, you know.:)
I'm not an oil driller, but afaik, the stuff that comes out of the ground is useless until it's refined, and if there's an oil spill, it would come from a boat carrying refined oil. Thus, the bacteria would be engineered to eat refined oil, and probably could not eat crude oil. Just a guess, tho.
IANAP (I am not a programmer), but I do write all my HTML by hand. This sounds funny. Am I wrong... or missing something?
Yes, you are. The page you saw there was cracked by a script kiddie who used a backdoor installed by Mr. Jacobowitz when he used the buffer overrun in ProFTPD. I don't know if Jacobowitz even defaced the page at all, if he did, I didn't see it. But the message you see there was NOT done by him.
It's not a TLA, because TLA stands for Three Letter Acronym, which CMIIW is now. A four letter acronym is actuall an ETLA, for Extended Three Letter Acronym, because FLA would only have three letters. Oh, BTW, CMIIW means "Correct me if I'm wrong."
What they're talking about is a watermark embedded using steganography -- placed into the noise of the image, much like copy protection of digital images can be done by Photoshop (and other programs) now.
What's the point? You could just apply a filter, change image formats, or zero all the low bits in the image. Further, it would be useless on printed copies, wouldn't it? Stego's great for hiding secret messages, but easily defeated.
I love a country where no one thinks about taking responsibility for their own stupidity. Owwww...I spilled coffee on my lap! I didn't know it's that hot! Jesus.
I don't see how that comparison holds up. A newspaper has an editor and everything printed in it goes through the editor. That's like saying the guy who cleans the street is responsible for what's being said by the guy on the soapbox. The purpose of the web is to allow people to be their own editors and publishers. Since their content resides on an ISP's server, the ISP has the option, but not the responsibility to edit and/or remove it, since it is not the ISP that is publishing the information, but rather the individual. The ISP is merely a distributor, or a carrier. Then again, I'm not that familiar with intelectual property and liability laws in France (or the US, for that matter).
Absolutely not. Supression and censorship are means to block people from being exposed to information. There is nothing that prevents someone from browsing at -1. Moderation, therefore, is not censorship. If it were censorship, the moderated posts would have to be deleted altogether, or extremely difficult to get at, or restricted to a certain audience.
So will we soon see the demise of massively paralell supercomputers as clusters of cheap machines become cheaper? Though they're technically not as efficient, because, CMIIW, the big SGI type supercomputers have their components connected via very big pipes, allowing for more data throughput...but I think the relative low cost of cluster type solutions may outweight that.
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Yes, the TV license funds the BBC, which is how come we get television WITHOUT ADVERTS! If you Americans could get TV without adverts, would you call that dumb? No, you wouldnt.
According to the Mozilla page, Navigator and Mozilla are essentially distinct projects. They say that Navigator will most likely be based on submitted Mozilla code, however, and that it will be marketed as "good" and branded under the Netscape name, as well as contain proprietary stuff that can't be part of Mozilla for obvious reasons.
Yep - that's unfortunate. Whenever you have physical access to the machine, you can just rip out the plug if you want to. That's why my favorite security book, Practical Internet and UNIX Security, has an entire chapter on how to lock your machines up, physically. For mission critical 24/7 systems, once you've got things as secure as you can on the network end, you have to make sure the machines are in a secure server room with big locks on the doors, a chemical fire extinguishing system, etc.
This is a good model of explaining security threats. For example, look at an operating system like win98 (I'm not just MS bashing 'cause this is slashdot, I'm making an actual point.) By integrating browsers and such so closely into the operating system, Win98 effectively adds opportunities for more leaf nodes. Take the following example: On a UNIX system, you need at least the root password to take ove rthe entire machine. A regular user's password is nice if you need to telnet in. There are a few ways to do this, such as social engineering, getting a root shell via a buggy network daemon, or guessing. Now look at Windows. There are more ways into the system, so there are more branches. You could get an administrator password by the methods mentioned above. Or you might find a bug in a web browser or email program running under an administrative account. By Microsoft "seemlessly integrating" software with their OS, they've created a situation where there are more nodes closer to the root of the tree. In a better security model, you would want as few nodes close to the root as possible, so that any viable points of attack would have to circumvent numerous obsticles to be successful.
No startling new thoughts, just my own musings. If you can't tell, I found the article pretty interesting, and I've never thought about a hierarchical method of analyzing security risks.
But again, AMAZON isn't the one in control here...consumers are. If Amazon's greed is repugnant enough, and if enough customers realize that they won't have the choice of shopping "easily" on other e-commerce sites ONLY because of a matter of presentation, they *can* take their money and tell Amazon to get lost.
Absolutely! It seems more and more in the United States the Dumb Extremists(tm) forget about how capitalism works. If you don't like a company, don't buy from them. That's easy when there's competition, and that's why we have laws against abusing monopoly power.
Is it just me or does X seem big, slow, bloated, and old? It can't keep up with pretty environments like GNOME, and there are more incompatible ways to copy and paste than I can count. There are more regulations and standards than anyone cares to read. We need a new windowing protocol that addresses the need of the modern PC user, not the UNIX nerd sitting in front of a 12 inch monochrome CRT. The continued development of X seems pointless to me - I think we need something new altogether.
Is it only me? I've always thought the "Space Race" was a grotesque display of materialistic BS. All the many hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent world-wide on missions to space (many with little or no scienctific value).
No scientific value? We have learned more about the other planets and moons due to the US and USSR space missions in the past 50 years than everything that was learned in the past one thousand. Zero-gravity research has lead to invaluable discoveries in fields as far reaching as medicine, biology, evolution, thermodynamics, chemistry, and others.
Now we're building a glorified hotel, up there in orbit. Thats really nice and fine. We can go up there, while the "lesser" humans down here starve and die of disease.
See above comment. I assume the "glorified hotel" you're speaking of is the International Space Station. This will lead to more scientific discovery than is currently possible with time-limited shuttle flights.
Yes, I have a problem with this. I'm not a ludite by any means. I just wonder why we expand our borders, whilst inside our borders we have all these problems that could be easily solved with a little (big) cash injection.
Lots of cash hasn't helped it yet. It didn't help it 100 or 1000 years ago. Poverty, disease, communism, terrorism, and dictators are social problems. The United States was colonized by wealthy explorers. Who came after them? Poor people who couldn't make a living in Europe. Many of those people found better lives in the Americas. I see no reason why this trend couldn't continue. The exploration of space is not only scientifically viable, it's necessary, just as the exploration of the seas was necessary 500 years ago. To think that we can solve all of humanity's ills before we embark on other projects is naive.
If you had read any of the reports, you would have realized the the great majority of the protests were peaceful, and only a handful of idiots rioted. The police even said they were very pleased with the outcome.
I didn't know that advocating that laws be changed could possibly fall under the charge of Treason. The United States is founded on the principle that if laws suck, you change them through the democratic process. If the FBI can investigate people for holding different beliefs than those in office, that circumvents the whole idea of freedom of thought and speech. This proves that the FBI is indeed too powerful and needs to be checked. I'll now go retire to my room where I'll await Hoover's G-men who are no doubt on their way to interrogate and shoot me.
You can't analyze soil samples and such with a telescope. You can use hubble to do spectrum analysis on things that generate light, such as stars, to figure out what's in them, but the idea here is to find out what's in the soil and if there is any water underneath, which would be difficult just by looking at reflected light.
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If there are plastic guns, the scene in the movie In the Line of Fire (with Clint Eastwood, my hero) might work. He takes his plastic gun to a presidential convention, and hides the bullets inside his keychain. The keychain sets off the metal detector, he removes it, goes through again, no problem. Gets his keychain back, loads his gun, and, well, you know. :)
I'm not an oil driller, but afaik, the stuff that comes out of the ground is useless until it's refined, and if there's an oil spill, it would come from a boat carrying refined oil. Thus, the bacteria would be engineered to eat refined oil, and probably could not eat crude oil. Just a guess, tho.
Yes, you are. The page you saw there was cracked by a script kiddie who used a backdoor installed by Mr. Jacobowitz when he used the buffer overrun in ProFTPD. I don't know if Jacobowitz even defaced the page at all, if he did, I didn't see it. But the message you see there was NOT done by him.
It's a festivus for the rest of us! Hapy festivus to all! :)
No, they most likely went to the "Recycle Bin." :)
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What's the point? You could just apply a filter, change image formats, or zero all the low bits in the image. Further, it would be useless on printed copies, wouldn't it? Stego's great for hiding secret messages, but easily defeated.
I love a country where no one thinks about taking responsibility for their own stupidity. Owwww...I spilled coffee on my lap! I didn't know it's that hot! Jesus.
I don't see how that comparison holds up. A newspaper has an editor and everything printed in it goes through the editor. That's like saying the guy who cleans the street is responsible for what's being said by the guy on the soapbox. The purpose of the web is to allow people to be their own editors and publishers. Since their content resides on an ISP's server, the ISP has the option, but not the responsibility to edit and/or remove it, since it is not the ISP that is publishing the information, but rather the individual. The ISP is merely a distributor, or a carrier. Then again, I'm not that familiar with intelectual property and liability laws in France (or the US, for that matter).
Absolutely not. Supression and censorship are means to block people from being exposed to information. There is nothing that prevents someone from browsing at -1. Moderation, therefore, is not censorship. If it were censorship, the moderated posts would have to be deleted altogether, or extremely difficult to get at, or restricted to a certain audience.
So will we soon see the demise of massively paralell supercomputers as clusters of cheap machines become cheaper? Though they're technically not as efficient, because, CMIIW, the big SGI type supercomputers have their components connected via very big pipes, allowing for more data throughput...but I think the relative low cost of cluster type solutions may outweight that.
That's what cable and satellite service is for.
You appear to be right. Apologies for my etymological ignorance. :)
That law is actually a leftover from England around 300 years ago, and is where the expression "Rule of thumb" came from.
According to the Mozilla page, Navigator and Mozilla are essentially distinct projects. They say that Navigator will most likely be based on submitted Mozilla code, however, and that it will be marketed as "good" and branded under the Netscape name, as well as contain proprietary stuff that can't be part of Mozilla for obvious reasons.
Yep - that's unfortunate. Whenever you have physical access to the machine, you can just rip out the plug if you want to. That's why my favorite security book, Practical Internet and UNIX Security, has an entire chapter on how to lock your machines up, physically. For mission critical 24/7 systems, once you've got things as secure as you can on the network end, you have to make sure the machines are in a secure server room with big locks on the doors, a chemical fire extinguishing system, etc.
Yep, I meant admin account under NT, not 98. My bad. Shoulda been more clear. :(
No startling new thoughts, just my own musings. If you can't tell, I found the article pretty interesting, and I've never thought about a hierarchical method of analyzing security risks.
Absolutely! It seems more and more in the United States the Dumb Extremists(tm) forget about how capitalism works. If you don't like a company, don't buy from them. That's easy when there's competition, and that's why we have laws against abusing monopoly power.
You can view it all you like. It's just encoded, and they happen to sell or lease a nifty little box that can decode it for you.
Is it just me or does X seem big, slow, bloated, and old? It can't keep up with pretty environments like GNOME, and there are more incompatible ways to copy and paste than I can count. There are more regulations and standards than anyone cares to read. We need a new windowing protocol that addresses the need of the modern PC user, not the UNIX nerd sitting in front of a 12 inch monochrome CRT. The continued development of X seems pointless to me - I think we need something new altogether.
No scientific value? We have learned more about the other planets and moons due to the US and USSR space missions in the past 50 years than everything that was learned in the past one thousand. Zero-gravity research has lead to invaluable discoveries in fields as far reaching as medicine, biology, evolution, thermodynamics, chemistry, and others.
Now we're building a glorified hotel, up there in orbit. Thats really nice and fine. We can go up there, while the "lesser" humans down here starve and die of disease.
See above comment. I assume the "glorified hotel" you're speaking of is the International Space Station. This will lead to more scientific discovery than is currently possible with time-limited shuttle flights.
Yes, I have a problem with this. I'm not a ludite by any means. I just wonder why we expand our borders, whilst inside our borders we have all these problems that could be easily solved with a little (big) cash injection.
Lots of cash hasn't helped it yet. It didn't help it 100 or 1000 years ago. Poverty, disease, communism, terrorism, and dictators are social problems. The United States was colonized by wealthy explorers. Who came after them? Poor people who couldn't make a living in Europe. Many of those people found better lives in the Americas. I see no reason why this trend couldn't continue. The exploration of space is not only scientifically viable, it's necessary, just as the exploration of the seas was necessary 500 years ago. To think that we can solve all of humanity's ills before we embark on other projects is naive.
If you had read any of the reports, you would have realized the the great majority of the protests were peaceful, and only a handful of idiots rioted. The police even said they were very pleased with the outcome.
I didn't know that advocating that laws be changed could possibly fall under the charge of Treason. The United States is founded on the principle that if laws suck, you change them through the democratic process. If the FBI can investigate people for holding different beliefs than those in office, that circumvents the whole idea of freedom of thought and speech. This proves that the FBI is indeed too powerful and needs to be checked. I'll now go retire to my room where I'll await Hoover's G-men who are no doubt on their way to interrogate and shoot me.
You can't analyze soil samples and such with a telescope. You can use hubble to do spectrum analysis on things that generate light, such as stars, to figure out what's in them, but the idea here is to find out what's in the soil and if there is any water underneath, which would be difficult just by looking at reflected light.