Using Java Web Start is comparable to clicking "Yes" when prompted to install "spyware.exe" or any other exe file. Java Web Start is a framework to deploy native Java applications on your machine more easily. Of course, you must trust the source just as you must trust the source when you install an exe file or Unix executable file.
Java Web Start is in no way comparable to Flash, Java Applets or the like that start executing in your browser without your permission and where a sandbox is used to run the code.
Seriously, I have some friends who do like you, they start by blocking China, then Korea, then end up blocking half of the world to enhance their security.
In my humble opinion, this is not a valid security approach, I actually use some requests or connection attempts from these countries to test and strengthen my security. Hackers can get to your machine from US relays/proxies or US compromised machine anyway and blocking only drops the packets as they arrive to your machine, no DOS protection or bandwidth savings.
In short, I believe blocking China gives you a false sense of security, use China to learn how to make your system secure in the first place instead but the is just my 2 cents hence my very personal opinion;-))
> And I'm sure that price varies on which year the 2ns US power line is built.
You are right, I have read another blog post saying the new line would have cost 35,000$ in 1905. At least, that blog post specified the year. What were the others thinking when not specifying the year ?;-))
> Swing, Java3D, Vector/ArrayList, StringBuilder/StringBuffer, Date handling, etc.
This is because, unlike what php did when going from 4 to 5, older constructs have always been supported in Java. In the worst case scenario, older constructs are only "deprecated", then a warning is given to you recommending to use the newer constructs but the older ones continue to work fine.
This sure would be a nice feature to have when deploying php 4 applications into a php 5 platform and it is also one big shops with thousands of lines of legacy code are looking for. It is sometimes called "backward compatibility" and I have no problem with that.;-)
Then just use the construct from the "founding fathers" if it bothers you that much, it still works you know:-)
ArrayList myList = new ArrayList();
More seriously, how much time does a developer spend typing compared to what he should be spending thinking ?
The fact that java forces you to type more also forces you to type basic documentation as you code and in my opinion, this is a good thing. In the end, you get easier to maintain code at almost no extra cost;-)
I have never understood developers saying that a language was superior because you can write code using less key strokes using it.
He, brilliant idea, I will set it on our next meeting agenda to discuss...
Then we could say: That acrobatic skier made a 400% spin or a 400 spin which would clearly mean 4 rotations. It sure beats figuring out how many rotations 1440 degrees is.;-))
Here is the list of DNS to query when you run your own DNS, as I stated in my OP. You obviously need to run your own DNS in order to be able to flush the DNS cache as I mentioned in my OP;-)
This list of root DNS is guaranteed to remain free for public access. These DNS only return pointers to other DNS and are the foundation of how name resolving works on the internet so you are guaranteed to get the correct data as far as it is possible to get it.
In short, no third party is required to run your own DNS. Some will say this is slower because you have to first populate your cache doing multiple queries but I have never noticed any slowness so I do not care about that. Once your cache is populated it is much faster anyway because you do not have to go to the network at all to resolve a name.
It is easy and free to setup your own DNS on most OSes and it could be safer because you get the information as accurate as it can get. My DNS process uses about 13 Meg of ram + the configured cache size which is very light.
List of root DNSes, most of those IPs use "anycast addressing and routing to provide resilience and load balancing across a wide geographic area", so you always query a root DNS close to you anyway: http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root
I will add that this is a good thing this article was posted. It caused me to stop investigating the possibilities of somebody hacking into my "DNA".;-))
I might have had the same idea as you did but unfortunately I can't find any documentation on "Quantum association" and I do not remember how to call that principle I heard about a while ago.
Basically it works that way: There is some kind of particle that has a sister particle. You can take them apart has far as you want but some action on one of them propagates instantaneously to the sister particle without regards for the distance.
Do you have any reference on "Quantum association" or another name to express the same thing ?
Still, Mars is one of the closest planet to Earth. It looks like we will need to find some kind of warp driven data transfer mechanism to network the planets and take full advantage of IPv6 for real time applications.;-)
Achieving warp speed for data transfer should be easier than for matter and human beings so I suggest we look at this first.;-))
Indeed, I have seen many users typing "www.cnn.com" in Google search bar to click on the Google link afterward instead of typing it in the address bar. And no, you do not have to prefix it with "http://" in the address bar on most browsers.
Many people access any site by first doing a search with the site address;-))
Yep, title is confusing, I assume it is "a first" for India. I believe the first supersonic missile was the German V2 used in WW 2. It had a 5 400 km/h maximum speed. Granted, it wasn't much precise although...
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Using Java Web Start is comparable to clicking "Yes" when prompted to install "spyware.exe" or any other exe file. Java Web Start is a framework to deploy native Java applications on your machine more easily. Of course, you must trust the source just as you must trust the source when you install an exe file or Unix executable file.
Java Web Start is in no way comparable to Flash, Java Applets or the like that start executing in your browser without your permission and where a sandbox is used to run the code.
I thought this should be made clearer... ;-))
While at it, I offer you to query my own Zebra server, I guarantee to only return the best available routes ;-))
http://www.gnu.org/software/zebra/
Contact me off-line if you are interested.
Seriously, I have some friends who do like you, they start by blocking China, then Korea, then end up blocking half of the world to enhance their security.
In my humble opinion, this is not a valid security approach, I actually use some requests or connection attempts from these countries to test and strengthen my security. Hackers can get to your machine from US relays/proxies or US compromised machine anyway and blocking only drops the packets as they arrive to your machine, no DOS protection or bandwidth savings.
In short, I believe blocking China gives you a false sense of security, use China to learn how to make your system secure in the first place instead but the is just my 2 cents hence my very personal opinion ;-))
> Do you speak it?
I doesn't need to to post on /. Some people write pretty decent English but you can hardly understand them when they speak it ! ;-))
I run Slackware but I masquerade my OS string as Ubuntu ;-))
I like to masquerade all ID strings, masquerading apache as IIS, sendmail as JavaMail etc. etc.
> And I'm sure that price varies on which year the 2ns US power line is built.
You are right, I have read another blog post saying the new line would have cost 35,000$ in 1905. At least, that blog post specified the year. What were the others thinking when not specifying the year ? ;-))
> Swing, Java3D, Vector/ArrayList, StringBuilder/StringBuffer, Date handling, etc.
This is because, unlike what php did when going from 4 to 5, older constructs have always been supported in Java. In the worst case scenario, older constructs are only "deprecated", then a warning is given to you recommending to use the newer constructs but the older ones continue to work fine.
This sure would be a nice feature to have when deploying php 4 applications into a php 5 platform and it is also one big shops with thousands of lines of legacy code are looking for. It is sometimes called "backward compatibility" and I have no problem with that. ;-)
> ArrayList myList = new ArrayList();.
Then just use the construct from the "founding fathers" if it bothers you that much, it still works you know :-)
ArrayList myList = new ArrayList();
More seriously, how much time does a developer spend typing compared to what he should be spending thinking ?
The fact that java forces you to type more also forces you to type basic documentation as you code and in my opinion, this is a good thing. In the end, you get easier to maintain code at almost no extra cost ;-)
I have never understood developers saying that a language was superior because you can write code using less key strokes using it.
> With wire, at least you can detect that your signal is being intercepted.
Not necessarily, search around...
> 100 degrees in a circle
He, brilliant idea, I will set it on our next meeting agenda to discuss...
Then we could say: That acrobatic skier made a 400% spin or a 400 spin which would clearly mean 4 rotations. It sure beats figuring out how many rotations 1440 degrees is. ;-))
Here is the list of DNS to query when you run your own DNS, as I stated in my OP. You obviously need to run your own DNS in order to be able to flush the DNS cache as I mentioned in my OP ;-)
This list of root DNS is guaranteed to remain free for public access. These DNS only return pointers to other DNS and are the foundation of how name resolving works on the internet so you are guaranteed to get the correct data as far as it is possible to get it.
In short, no third party is required to run your own DNS. Some will say this is slower because you have to first populate your cache doing multiple queries but I have never noticed any slowness so I do not care about that. Once your cache is populated it is much faster anyway because you do not have to go to the network at all to resolve a name.
It is easy and free to setup your own DNS on most OSes and it could be safer because you get the information as accurate as it can get. My DNS process uses about 13 Meg of ram + the configured cache size which is very light.
List of root DNSes, most of those IPs use "anycast addressing and routing to provide resilience and load balancing across a wide geographic area", so you always query a root DNS close to you anyway:
http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root
Wikipedia documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone
I realize that you probably already knew this, I am just posting to clarify for others ;-))
> Not for everyone, since some ISPs cache DNS lookup results.
It should have been obvious that you needed admin access to your own "DNA" in order for this fix to work... ;-))
Also your ISP must not intercept your "DNA" queries (redirecting deoxyribonucleic acid #53 to their own DNA)
Are you Polish ? I thought the movement was abolished in 1989...
Pron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotyczny_Ruch_Odrodzenia_Narodowego
I will add that this is a good thing this article was posted. It caused me to stop investigating the possibilities of somebody hacking into my "DNA". ;-))
I noticed wikipedia wasn't resolving this morning.
Flushing my "DNA" cache fixed it ;-))
rndc flush
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> Quantum association
I might have had the same idea as you did but unfortunately I can't find any documentation on "Quantum association" and I do not remember how to call that principle I heard about a while ago.
Basically it works that way: There is some kind of particle that has a sister particle. You can take them apart has far as you want but some action on one of them propagates instantaneously to the sister particle without regards for the distance.
Do you have any reference on "Quantum association" or another name to express the same thing ?
Thanks,
It takes 4 to 20 minutes for data to travel between Earth and Mars (each way) depending on the planet positions.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/137509/coolest_tech_jobs_driving_the_mars_rover.html
Still, Mars is one of the closest planet to Earth. It looks like we will need to find some kind of warp driven data transfer mechanism to network the planets and take full advantage of IPv6 for real time applications. ;-)
Achieving warp speed for data transfer should be easier than for matter and human beings so I suggest we look at this first. ;-))
> Someone in Mossad or MI5 is probably dancing with joy about now.
Well, if it's documented, wouldn't it be ammo for the defense of somebody suspected ?
Mossad or MI5 prefer undocumented tools...
> The government pays me tax?
Yep: "In order to preserve total energy, the particle that fell into the black hole must have had a negative energy "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
See, it all works out, the government pays you taxes.
By the way, we have just issued you a payment of -38,889$
-The government
> Do I need an internet key to access it?
Not necessarily, an IP address would suffice ;-))
Canadian made IP addresses seem to be better for some users:
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/09/how-can-i-canadianize-my-ip-address.html
You may want to estimate your needs with the "Advanced IP Address Calculator" prior to buying your IP address at a store near you:
http://advanced-ip-address-calculator.softonic.fr/
Indeed, I have seen many users typing "www.cnn.com" in Google search bar to click on the Google link afterward instead of typing it in the address bar. And no, you do not have to prefix it with "http://" in the address bar on most browsers.
Many people access any site by first doing a search with the site address ;-))
It could make sense since he congratulated the police ;-))
Just Google for it ;-)
"Internet key"
I found this one really quickly:
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/broadband/3-mobile/broadband_internet_key/222237
> you should be using every sense except taste and
> direct tactile feel
I know a car mechanic who likes to taste a car motor oil. He pretends he can tell if something is wrong with the engine that way.
My guess is that he does it only to freak people out when they look at him tasting oil but who knows ? ;-)
> The first?
Yep, title is confusing, I assume it is "a first" for India. I believe the first supersonic missile was the German V2 used in WW 2. It had a 5 400 km/h maximum speed. Granted, it wasn't much precise although...