This is funny, I routinely smell my servers and my UPS at the fans where the air come out of them to make sure nothing overheats but I never thought about mentioning that to anybody;-))
> Nice try at a strawman then.... > > But please, keep pretending that Linux has few exploits because > its OS, instead of the reality, in that its not important enough to > care about.
Nice try at a strawman, I never mentioned anything about "Linux". I only expressed generic IT principles. It sounded like you were saying "those problems are gone with Vista and 7". Sorry if that wasn't what you meant...
Re-read your post and my original reply, I do not see anything wrong with my reply. I merely stated generic IT principles that you have to take into account when making your argument, it seemed relevant to me...
> I haven't seen media files able to do that since I switched to > Vista, then 7. WinXP is about 10 years old at that point, and > just needs to go away.
Hmm... newer is better so problem solved for ever if you use vista or 7 ?
That is if you have never heard of "newly introduced bugs and security holes" and 0 day exploits that haven't been discovered yet.
No piece of software is 100% secure, it doesn't matter how new it is. As a matter of fact, older software that hasn't been modified to provide more or newer functionality but only patched for security holes are often recognized safer than newer software. This is why some entities run older patched software instead of upgrading to the latest and greatest. Newer software usually contain more unknowns.
Some media file can pop up a browser window to an infected site that will install malware on your computer especially if you use older software versions.
There was even gif and jpeg exploits made public in the past, it probably occurred with other media files as well...
In other news, intelligence gathering agencies read newspapers, listen to news, read blogs, read Usenet posting, read Slashdot and other forum and news sites. They sometimes post to the newspapers, usenet and web sites to deceive potential suspects.
How is them reading/posting on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter any different?
I heard sometime ago that one of the most effective way to gather intelligence was to read newspapers if you knew how to correlate things. I do not see why this principle couldn't apply to electronic media.
And guess what ? You are allowed to do it too ! Many journalists have done just the same thing to find out stuff;-)
> The "little guy" takes the hit in the latter case,
Not necessarily, banks often reimburse customers because they don't want people to loose confidence in e-banking since they save a lot of money that way.
It costs them less to reimburse defrauded customers than it would cost them if everybody went physically to the bank.
I have never seen anything about this mentioned but I have always wondered if acceleration could have an effect on people who "live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world." People could react differently to it.
I wonder if acceleration could play a role. A fact is that at around noon standard time, our bodies decelerate at the highest rate especially when standing close to the equator. At midnight, our bodies would be accelerating at the highest rate. This is due to the way the Earth rotates on itself while rotating around the Sun.
Standing at the equator, we are moving at a surface speed of about 1700 km/h. This makes us move in space 3400 km/h slower at noon than at midnight !!
> It's common to have Nm (Newton metres aka. Joules) and > kgm/s when working with SI units. So bs (bit seconds) > could be a unit, regardless of whether or not it has any use.
I understand all this, I meant not much sense in the context we were speaking about, for bandwidth usage and even then. And context is important, even in science.
Units like Kilowatt * hour, kW-h make sense because you end up with a realistic unit once we simplify the units used: 1 kWh = 3.6 megajoules.
Units for bandwidth have to represent something, we are not talking about some universal constant here where units don't always represent something concrete.
Expressing something more concrete like speed, acceleration or bandwidth usually requires units that make sense. Hence, bit*picosecond doesn't make much sense. (bit/s) * picosecond could be used to express your cumulative bandwidth usage although, just like kWh...
Even newtons, kg*m/s*s make sense when you look at the units: it is the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second every second.
Sorry but I still can't envision what a bit * picosecond could represent in the context of bandwidth.
If that's what you meant. In french, an American football touchdown is translated by: touché. It is the only use I make of that word on a regular basis.
P.S. Great reference to Pink Floyd, I just noticed it;-)
Well I view it as getting a pardon for a criminal offense. Your record is taken off the live database but they still have access to it in case you get caught doing something wrong again...;-))
He could have spotted the lie just as soon as they promised him the samples would be removed. Almost everybody on/. knows that it is almost impossible to delete data from fail-over sites, backups, archived data, etc. in a way that one can guarantee that all traces of the data has really been destroyed everywhere...
Einstein said everything was relative and that your perception depends on your point of view.
I just said "the Earth moving around the Sun" to conform to modern standard. I could have said "the Sun moving around the Earth" but then it would have been "in the same direction of the Sun moving around the Earth" but anyway, the principle would still be valid. It always apply for any object shining on another one while one is rotating around the other, or more precisely, when they rotate together around their center of mass.
The truth is that there is no such thing as the Moon rotating around the Earth. They both rotate around the center of mass that they both constitute together. I chose Moon/Earth as an example because it is a simpler one than Sun/multiple planets/galaxies but the principle always apply.
On a funny note Wikipedia says:
"is the astronomical theory that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun and that the Sun is STATIONARY and at the center of the universe. "
Modern science says that the Sun is not "stationary" because of the principle that masses always rotate around the center of mass they constitute together like stated above in my Moon/Earth example.
While at it, also note that Earth rotation period is ~23h56m, not ~24h because the surface of the Earth facing the Sun moves in the opposite direction of the Earth moving around the Sun.
Worst thing is that we will have to redraw maps to adjust the location of meridian and time zones to be accurate !;-)
We should also note that making a pseudo-sphere diameter smaller doesn't shorten the daylight/obscurity period on the said sphere. Even if Earth went to half its current diameter, days should remain the same length unless we change the rotation speed as they suggest in TFA.
WTF, there is something I still don't get about this. Many low budget sites are already using geoIP to target you better. Have you ever been to a site where there is an add to a dating site showing gorgeous girls that always happen to live in your area ?;-)
I assume that with just a little bit more money, sites could cross-reference the geoIP data with a real advertiser databases and show real adds from merchants near you. Heck, I am sure a bunch of web advertising companies already use geoIP !
Can anybody enlighten me on how Google was able to obtain a patent regarding this idea ? Also is this patent only valid in the US ?
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This is funny, I routinely smell my servers and my UPS at the fans where the air come out of them to make sure nothing overheats but I never thought about mentioning that to anybody ;-))
hehe...
Saturday 8.00 PM in New York is Sunday morning in Australia.
> I took a photo of my ass crack using my phone, and the next day I had and extra $10,000 in my account.
You can achieve the same by just depositing a blank sheet of paper at an ATM pretending it is a 10,000$ check.
In a few days, they will adjust your account ;-))
Note that only the amount you have set as credit limit on your account is available for withdraw in the mean time.
> Nice try at a strawman then. ...
>
> But please, keep pretending that Linux has few exploits because
> its OS, instead of the reality, in that its not important enough to
> care about.
Nice try at a strawman, I never mentioned anything about "Linux". I only expressed generic IT principles. It sounded like you were saying "those problems are gone with Vista and 7". Sorry if that wasn't what you meant...
Re-read your post and my original reply, I do not see anything wrong with my reply. I merely stated generic IT principles that you have to take into account when making your argument, it seemed relevant to me...
Cheers,
> I haven't seen media files able to do that since I switched to
> Vista, then 7. WinXP is about 10 years old at that point, and
> just needs to go away.
Hmm... newer is better so problem solved for ever if you use vista or 7 ?
That is if you have never heard of "newly introduced bugs and security holes" and 0 day exploits that haven't been discovered yet.
No piece of software is 100% secure, it doesn't matter how new it is. As a matter of fact, older software that hasn't been modified to provide more or newer functionality but only patched for security holes are often recognized safer than newer software. This is why some entities run older patched software instead of upgrading to the latest and greatest. Newer software usually contain more unknowns.
Damn the link you provided requires Flash, I am so sorry to miss important opportunities... ;-(
Some media file can pop up a browser window to an infected site that will install malware on your computer especially if you use older software versions.
There was even gif and jpeg exploits made public in the past, it probably occurred with other media files as well...
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2997
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/09/17/exploit_for_microsoft_jpeg_flaw_is_published.html
> Have any murder suspects really tweeted their crime? This will happen one day.
tweet: ;-)
Guys, it's done...
In other news, intelligence gathering agencies read newspapers, listen to news, read blogs, read Usenet posting, read Slashdot and other forum and news sites. They sometimes post to the newspapers, usenet and web sites to deceive potential suspects.
How is them reading/posting on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter any different?
I heard sometime ago that one of the most effective way to gather intelligence was to read newspapers if you knew how to correlate things. I do not see why this principle couldn't apply to electronic media.
And guess what ? You are allowed to do it too ! Many journalists have done just the same thing to find out stuff ;-)
> The "little guy" takes the hit in the latter case,
Not necessarily, banks often reimburse customers because they don't want people to loose confidence in e-banking since they save a lot of money that way.
It costs them less to reimburse defrauded customers than it would cost them if everybody went physically to the bank.
I thought that organized crime had moved to cyber-robbing a long time ago so is this really news ? I am just wondering...
The 9.4 millions robbed in a conventional way are probably due to poor, "un-organized" people ;-))
I have never seen anything about this mentioned but I have always wondered if acceleration could have an effect on people who "live counter to the conventional rhythm of a sunny-day world." People could react differently to it.
I wonder if acceleration could play a role. A fact is that at around noon standard time, our bodies decelerate at the highest rate especially when standing close to the equator. At midnight, our bodies would be accelerating at the highest rate. This is due to the way the Earth rotates on itself while rotating around the Sun.
Standing at the equator, we are moving at a surface speed of about 1700 km/h. This makes us move in space 3400 km/h slower at noon than at midnight !!
> It's common to have Nm (Newton metres aka. Joules) and
> kgm/s when working with SI units. So bs (bit seconds)
> could be a unit, regardless of whether or not it has any use.
I understand all this, I meant not much sense in the context we were speaking about, for bandwidth usage and even then. And context is important, even in science.
Units like Kilowatt * hour, kW-h make sense because you end up with a realistic unit once we simplify the units used: 1 kWh = 3.6 megajoules.
Units for bandwidth have to represent something, we are not talking about some universal constant here where units don't always represent something concrete.
Expressing something more concrete like speed, acceleration or bandwidth usually requires units that make sense. Hence, bit*picosecond doesn't make much sense. (bit/s) * picosecond could be used to express your cumulative bandwidth usage although, just like kWh...
Even newtons, kg*m/s*s make sense when you look at the units: it is the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second every second.
Sorry but I still can't envision what a bit * picosecond could represent in the context of bandwidth.
> If the HTML ascii code (e.g. é=é) is greater than 255...
It should have been: "If the HTML code (e.g. é=é) is greater than 255"...
ASCII codes can't be greater than 255 and this is extended ASCII ;-))
http://www.asciitable.com/
I realize that you already seem to understand this, you probably just made a mistake typing... ;-)
yeah but: bits * picosecond (bps)
doesn't make much sense, it would need to be bits / picosecond.
> Touche!
Touché !
If that's what you meant. In french, an American football touchdown is translated by: touché. It is the only use I make of that word on a regular basis.
P.S. Great reference to Pink Floyd, I just noticed it ;-)
Well I view it as getting a pardon for a criminal offense. Your record is taken off the live database but they still have access to it in case you get caught doing something wrong again... ;-))
He could have spotted the lie just as soon as they promised him the samples would be removed. Almost everybody on /. knows that it is almost impossible to delete data from fail-over sites, backups, archived data, etc. in a way that one can guarantee that all traces of the data has really been destroyed everywhere...
Thanks, I didn't think of this obviously ;-))
Here is my geek card, send me your address so I can mail it to you or I can destroy it myself if you wish ;-))
http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/geekcard-450.jpg
Einstein said everything was relative and that your perception depends on your point of view.
I just said "the Earth moving around the Sun" to conform to modern standard. I could have said "the Sun moving around the Earth" but then it would have been "in the same direction of the Sun moving around the Earth" but anyway, the principle would still be valid. It always apply for any object shining on another one while one is rotating around the other, or more precisely, when they rotate together around their center of mass.
The truth is that there is no such thing as the Moon rotating around the Earth. They both rotate around the center of mass that they both constitute together. I chose Moon/Earth as an example because it is a simpler one than Sun/multiple planets/galaxies but the principle always apply.
On a funny note Wikipedia says:
"is the astronomical theory that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun and that the Sun is STATIONARY and at the center of the universe. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
Modern science says that the Sun is not "stationary" because of the principle that masses always rotate around the center of mass they constitute together like stated above in my Moon/Earth example.
While at it, also note that Earth rotation period is ~23h56m, not ~24h because the surface of the Earth facing the Sun moves in the opposite direction of the Earth moving around the Sun.
Worst thing is that we will have to redraw maps to adjust the location of meridian and time zones to be accurate ! ;-)
We should also note that making a pseudo-sphere diameter smaller doesn't shorten the daylight/obscurity period on the said sphere. Even if Earth went to half its current diameter, days should remain the same length unless we change the rotation speed as they suggest in TFA.
WTF, there is something I still don't get about this. Many low budget sites are already using geoIP to target you better. Have you ever been to a site where there is an add to a dating site showing gorgeous girls that always happen to live in your area ? ;-)
I assume that with just a little bit more money, sites could cross-reference the geoIP data with a real advertiser databases and show real adds from merchants near you. Heck, I am sure a bunch of web advertising companies already use geoIP !
Can anybody enlighten me on how Google was able to obtain a patent regarding this idea ? Also is this patent only valid in the US ?
They said it boots quickly but they never mentioned any capacity to handle load ;-))
I screwed up and replied to myself ;-))
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1557492&cid=31290192