When you run 3rd-party, unaudited code to serve up 4th-party, unaudited ads, you're really just giving up control of your fucking server.
Yes, I'm calling them 4th party. There's no direct communication between the site owners and the advertisers, and they often remain anonymou. Even if the ad is for ValidThingX, that doesn't mean anyone affiliated with ValidThingX made the ad.
Any site that thinks the ad revenue is worth the risk is fucking retarded. Pro tip: You've probably got a marketing department if you're big enough to have significant advertising income, and you can draw advertisers directly to you, where you can check the ads. If you're running a blog or a hobby site, how about you just pony up the, at most, couple hundred bucks a year and have a site that isn't riddled with shit?
If your best friend who you completely trust (hello Google fanboys) came to you and said he's running a program where he pays people money to house strangers, would you sign up for the few bucks profit and let random strangers into your house? No. No you fucking wouldn't.
Flash has more gaping holes than Congress, so let's use it for ads! Javascript runs client side and can do all sorts of fun stuff, so let's use it for ads! Remember those jpeg exploits a while back? Every site ever should have shut down all 3rd-party advertising immediately upon news of the exploit.
Bububu money, unreasonably. No, fuck off. Toyota's fucking themselves in the ass with their recall. Johnson & Johnson pulled every Tylenol pill off the market in 1982 when some schlub in Chicago was lacing shit with cyanide (in stores). This is the proper response. (Compare that to how they handled the recall 2 months ago though...) Exploit being used in the wild? In ads? Possibly on my site? Google will take care of it while I continue to scratch my ass.
Because in a democracy everyone who is concerned about an issue is capable of doing something about it.
No. You are wrong. A democracy is rule by the people. Software - open source or not - is ruled by those writing the software - a very small subset of those who use the software.
Users of software do not control the software creation process, and for good reason. It is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy - rule by those that have (money, time, knowledge, property rights, etc.). The fact that an oligarchy serves a large amount of people, and that those people may want something else, or may even be able to create something else, does not make it a democracy. At best, you have multiple oligarchies when someone forks your project or makes one of their own.
Of course, an -acy/-archy is a form of governance, and software creation is not governance. But bad analogies can at least be correct - OSS is not a democracy.
Format your storage media before you use it. China or not.
Until malware in firmware becomes widespread enough to worry about, or until they inject malware into blank optical discs, it's a simple step that will prevent a lot of shit.
If you RTFA you'll see that this is nothing special. They're simply trying new shit to get lithography working at smaller scales.
This new shit basically blocks out larger areas (instead of doing a full trace) and lets the polymers fill in the gaps in a predicted fashion. This reduces the time/effort/cost/etc. of doing full-scale traces with electron beams.
- Sits outdoors
- Is visible in direct sunlight
- Has a built-in camera
- Shows a live feed of another TV on the other side of the planet
- Feeds it's own live feed to said other TV
- Has both sides of the planet in broad daylight at the same time
- Sends the feed using tachyons to get around that pesky delay
Must contain at least 1 number means you subtract all those that don't (26^8). Must contain at least 1 non-number (I'm assuming this is also a restriction) means you subtract all those that don't (10^8).
You're down to 2612182842880. Other specific restrictions (can't be the user name, can't be last password, can't be 1234abcd) will have very little effect. Let's call it 2500000000000.
At 100000 per second, we have 25000000 seconds, or 9 and a half months to crack a password.
Odds are you'll crack it in 1/2 that time, so you've got 4-5 months.
Simply require users to change their password every 6 months and you're safe enough.
An attacker would have to:
- Know when a user changes his password.
- Get the hash immediately.
- Know the encryption scheme used.
- Crack non stop without the video card melting.
- Have about a 60% chance of getting it before the user is required to change their password again.
It's doable, but anyone who would be the target of such an attack would likely have:
- A better bank
- FDIC-insured investments
- Lawyers with very expensive suits
But why are we talking about cracking passwords when we should be discussing the root of the problem? Someone done accessed ur shit and got ur password file, foo!
That's rich! Zealous Republicans want to add right-wing propaganda to textbooks, and you blame liberals for it.
That's rich! The "tolerant" and "sensitive" Democrats refuse to even acknowledge any opinions other than their own and instead choose to call opponents bigots (when the term more aptly applies to the Democrats), walk out, and then cry when they lost the vote.
Just make sure to use an even number of mirrors. Using an odd number of mirrors will flip your bits and should only be used when pairing two computers together.
Eventually most ports will automatically handle both setups, but Dell will inexplicably ship systems that don't for decades to come.
I'm always surprised when a minority votes for something that most unequivocally consider at the very least bad, if not downright evil.
Something something George W. Bush something something?
(But hell - when the only viable alternative was Al "The Carbon King" Gore, and in the next round John "Some Guy? I Dunno" Kerry, I think we were fucked either way. In short, it's your fault for not voting for Ron Paul!)
Drive past a coal burning plant. It's a crime they are allowed to use the air we breath as a landfill for dumping their waste and I don't just mean CO2. The sulphur and mercury and other toxins released are frightening.
Almost as frightening as the image of another dumbshit hippie fuck bitching about the pollution of an industrial facility as he drives past in his fucking automobile made of petroleum-based products, made by petroleum-based machines, that runs on petroleum-based fuel, coal-generated electricity, heavy-metal-based and old-growth-destroying batteries, water-sucking fuel cells, etc.
I say we bombard atoms with radiation, causing them to fissure and release tons of energy.
We can use the energy to heat up a bunch of water to boiling. The resulting steam can then power a generator.
When our radiation source is depleted, it'll be completely inert and safe.
When our radiation source is depleted past the point of being useful in a large facility, but not at the point where it's inert, we can simply use it in a smaller, lower-yield facility.
Once the radiation source is depleted past the point of any usefulness, it's pretty much safe. If we want to please the plebes, we can simply wrap it in iron and bury it.
There is no such thing as case law. There is legal precedent, which is not law.
Judges and lawyers who follow precedent are lazy, spineless fucks.
Each case should be decided upon according to the spirit and letter of the law.
"Case law" is not law that regulates people. "Case law" is legalese for "someone else did the hard work before us, and until someone else less lazy than me comes along and argues against it, this is what we'll do - no need to rock the boat".
It is either law or precedent. If it is law, it must be used to judge (both letter AND spirit). It potentially can be nullified by the jury, or later changed by the legislative, but the lawyers and judge have no power over those processes beyond their individual vote.
If it is precedent, it is simply a tool to be used to speed up the legal process in similar cases. It is not a means of "stabilizing" law. It is not binding. All cases are to be judged individually. Our courts are based on the idea that judges fuck up - we have appeals. It is folly to look at precedent as anything more than a program of what arguments each side will likely make and what laws are likely in play.
Michael in the middle intercepts it. Michael reads all the same quantum security shit Alice was suppose to verify. Michael sends a fake message with all the quantum security shit duplicated.
Quantum doesn't solve shit - if it can be read (to be verified) it can be recreated.
Until there is a 100% reliable network with no processing delay, man-in-the-middle attacks will be possible. Until then, Michael will be able to intercept a message, read it, send a spoofed message in it's place. So what if it came a little later than expected? There are plenty of routers and fuckups along the way to add latency.
All security boils down to a key sharing problem. We can't get that shit right in real life.
Can we please stop measuring browser speed with javascript? Javascript is shit 99% of the time.
And before you get any ideas, flash is shit 99.9% of the time.
How about browser makers focus on making popular sites suck less ass? Imagine if IE9/FF4 came with official mods for sites. Load facebook.com? Get it without the bullshit!
You can obviously already do this with great control with plugins for various browsers, but for it to make any difference for the average user it has to be built in, officially supported, and transparent.
If facebook doesn't like it, fine, let them get into an arms race with the browsers, just like how advertisers are starting to fight back against adblockers (who are also fighting back).
I'm sick of the shitty shitty shit on the web. Measuring how fast a browser can wade through that shit is pointless. How about you measure how well a browser power washes that shit off of the site before serving it up to me?
IGN.com as viewed by - Default IE8 reference - IE9's shitripper - FF4's shitripper - FF3.6 + ABP + NS - Chrome 2's shitripper - etc.
That's a comparison I'd like to see. And if that comparison got attention, maybe, just maybe, sites would be designed with less shit.
And inadvertently play like a PRO. I'm sick of this Texas Hold 'Em shit. The game is so shitty! It's all luck and bullshitting. I guess that's why it attracts the fucking douchebags and blowhards.
Jack "Southwest" Fuckducker is showing a 4 and a 6. Here comes the flop, nothin' there to help him OH AND HE GOES ALL IN Everyone else folds
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Oh my GOSH.
Or you can just trick Ballmer into reading/saying Kltpzyxm.
When you run 3rd-party, unaudited code to serve up 4th-party, unaudited ads, you're really just giving up control of your fucking server.
Yes, I'm calling them 4th party. There's no direct communication between the site owners and the advertisers, and they often remain anonymou. Even if the ad is for ValidThingX, that doesn't mean anyone affiliated with ValidThingX made the ad.
Any site that thinks the ad revenue is worth the risk is fucking retarded. Pro tip: You've probably got a marketing department if you're big enough to have significant advertising income, and you can draw advertisers directly to you, where you can check the ads. If you're running a blog or a hobby site, how about you just pony up the, at most, couple hundred bucks a year and have a site that isn't riddled with shit?
If your best friend who you completely trust (hello Google fanboys) came to you and said he's running a program where he pays people money to house strangers, would you sign up for the few bucks profit and let random strangers into your house? No. No you fucking wouldn't.
Flash has more gaping holes than Congress, so let's use it for ads! Javascript runs client side and can do all sorts of fun stuff, so let's use it for ads! Remember those jpeg exploits a while back? Every site ever should have shut down all 3rd-party advertising immediately upon news of the exploit.
Bububu money, unreasonably. No, fuck off. Toyota's fucking themselves in the ass with their recall. Johnson & Johnson pulled every Tylenol pill off the market in 1982 when some schlub in Chicago was lacing shit with cyanide (in stores). This is the proper response. (Compare that to how they handled the recall 2 months ago though...) Exploit being used in the wild? In ads? Possibly on my site? Google will take care of it while I continue to scratch my ass.
Because in a democracy everyone who is concerned about an issue is capable of doing something about it.
No. You are wrong. A democracy is rule by the people. Software - open source or not - is ruled by those writing the software - a very small subset of those who use the software.
Users of software do not control the software creation process, and for good reason. It is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy - rule by those that have (money, time, knowledge, property rights, etc.). The fact that an oligarchy serves a large amount of people, and that those people may want something else, or may even be able to create something else, does not make it a democracy. At best, you have multiple oligarchies when someone forks your project or makes one of their own.
Of course, an -acy/-archy is a form of governance, and software creation is not governance. But bad analogies can at least be correct - OSS is not a democracy.
Format your storage media before you use it.
China or not.
Until malware in firmware becomes widespread enough to worry about, or until they inject malware into blank optical discs, it's a simple step that will prevent a lot of shit.
Never, ever screw with a company that's in the business of collecting information. Heck, that's Google's *ONLY* business.
Information is not power.
Knowledge is power.
There's a huge difference.
And both lose out to brute force.
The best knowledge can hope for is to work for the brutes, giving them better weapons.
If you RTFA you'll see that this is nothing special.
They're simply trying new shit to get lithography working at smaller scales.
This new shit basically blocks out larger areas (instead of doing a full trace) and lets the polymers fill in the gaps in a predicted fashion.
This reduces the time/effort/cost/etc. of doing full-scale traces with electron beams.
Cicso, I'm still waiting for a giant TV that:
- Sits outdoors
- Is visible in direct sunlight
- Has a built-in camera
- Shows a live feed of another TV on the other side of the planet
- Feeds it's own live feed to said other TV
- Has both sides of the planet in broad daylight at the same time
- Sends the feed using tachyons to get around that pesky delay
[a-z0-9]{8} Yields 36^8, or 2821109907456.
Must contain at least 1 number means you subtract all those that don't (26^8). Must contain at least 1 non-number (I'm assuming this is also a restriction) means you subtract all those that don't (10^8).
You're down to 2612182842880.
Other specific restrictions (can't be the user name, can't be last password, can't be 1234abcd) will have very little effect. Let's call it 2500000000000.
At 100000 per second, we have 25000000 seconds, or 9 and a half months to crack a password.
Odds are you'll crack it in 1/2 that time, so you've got 4-5 months.
Simply require users to change their password every 6 months and you're safe enough.
An attacker would have to:
- Know when a user changes his password.
- Get the hash immediately.
- Know the encryption scheme used.
- Crack non stop without the video card melting.
- Have about a 60% chance of getting it before the user is required to change their password again.
It's doable, but anyone who would be the target of such an attack would likely have:
- A better bank
- FDIC-insured investments
- Lawyers with very expensive suits
But why are we talking about cracking passwords when we should be discussing the root of the problem? Someone done accessed ur shit and got ur password file, foo!
That's rich! Zealous Republicans want to add right-wing propaganda to textbooks, and you blame liberals for it.
That's rich! The "tolerant" and "sensitive" Democrats refuse to even acknowledge any opinions other than their own and instead choose to call opponents bigots (when the term more aptly applies to the Democrats), walk out, and then cry when they lost the vote.
Why wire your house, just put mirrors everywhere.
Just make sure to use an even number of mirrors.
Using an odd number of mirrors will flip your bits and should only be used when pairing two computers together.
Eventually most ports will automatically handle both setups, but Dell will inexplicably ship systems that don't for decades to come.
I'm always surprised when a minority votes for something that most unequivocally consider at the very least bad, if not downright evil.
Something something George W. Bush something something?
(But hell - when the only viable alternative was Al "The Carbon King" Gore, and in the next round John "Some Guy? I Dunno" Kerry, I think we were fucked either way. In short, it's your fault for not voting for Ron Paul!)
Now if only the US corporate overlords^W^W politicians would follow suit.
Drive past a coal burning plant. It's a crime they are allowed to use the air we breath as a landfill for dumping their waste and I don't just mean CO2. The sulphur and mercury and other toxins released are frightening.
Almost as frightening as the image of another dumbshit hippie fuck bitching about the pollution of an industrial facility as he drives past in his fucking automobile made of petroleum-based products, made by petroleum-based machines, that runs on petroleum-based fuel, coal-generated electricity, heavy-metal-based and old-growth-destroying batteries, water-sucking fuel cells, etc.
I say we bombard atoms with radiation, causing them to fissure and release tons of energy.
We can use the energy to heat up a bunch of water to boiling. The resulting steam can then power a generator.
When our radiation source is depleted, it'll be completely inert and safe.
When our radiation source is depleted past the point of being useful in a large facility, but not at the point where it's inert, we can simply use it in a smaller, lower-yield facility.
Once the radiation source is depleted past the point of any usefulness, it's pretty much safe. If we want to please the plebes, we can simply wrap it in iron and bury it.
Did you vote on that precedent?
Did your representatives pass that precedent?
Is that precedent in the Constitution?
Precedent is not binding.
Law is.
There is a difference.
The fact that people like you believe precedent has any legal weight to it is disgusting.
They'd just make smaller batteries that yield 4-6 hours.
This is what happens when you make everything in China.
No, because the writes should happen in parallel.
No need to write, confirm, write, confirm, commit.
Just write both, confirm both, commit.
Then of course, you have to commit twice. And commit your commits.
And get a receipt for your husband.
And give the nice government man a receipt for the receipt you received.
There is no such thing as case law.
There is legal precedent, which is not law.
Judges and lawyers who follow precedent are lazy, spineless fucks.
Each case should be decided upon according to the spirit and letter of the law.
"Case law" is not law that regulates people.
"Case law" is legalese for "someone else did the hard work before us, and until someone else less lazy than me comes along and argues against it, this is what we'll do - no need to rock the boat".
It is either law or precedent.
If it is law, it must be used to judge (both letter AND spirit). It potentially can be nullified by the jury, or later changed by the legislative, but the lawyers and judge have no power over those processes beyond their individual vote.
If it is precedent, it is simply a tool to be used to speed up the legal process in similar cases. It is not a means of "stabilizing" law. It is not binding. All cases are to be judged individually. Our courts are based on the idea that judges fuck up - we have appeals. It is folly to look at precedent as anything more than a program of what arguments each side will likely make and what laws are likely in play.
Bob sends Alice a super secret quantum message.
Michael in the middle intercepts it.
Michael reads all the same quantum security shit Alice was suppose to verify.
Michael sends a fake message with all the quantum security shit duplicated.
Quantum doesn't solve shit - if it can be read (to be verified) it can be recreated.
Until there is a 100% reliable network with no processing delay, man-in-the-middle attacks will be possible. Until then, Michael will be able to intercept a message, read it, send a spoofed message in it's place. So what if it came a little later than expected? There are plenty of routers and fuckups along the way to add latency.
All security boils down to a key sharing problem.
We can't get that shit right in real life.
Eye due naught keap ull mye keyes awn a seagull keye chayne.
End uv coarse, Eye due naught brawdkast mye keyes winever Eye ewes them.
Can we please stop measuring browser speed with javascript? Javascript is shit 99% of the time.
And before you get any ideas, flash is shit 99.9% of the time.
How about browser makers focus on making popular sites suck less ass? Imagine if IE9/FF4 came with official mods for sites. Load facebook.com? Get it without the bullshit!
You can obviously already do this with great control with plugins for various browsers, but for it to make any difference for the average user it has to be built in, officially supported, and transparent.
If facebook doesn't like it, fine, let them get into an arms race with the browsers, just like how advertisers are starting to fight back against adblockers (who are also fighting back).
I'm sick of the shitty shitty shit on the web.
Measuring how fast a browser can wade through that shit is pointless. How about you measure how well a browser power washes that shit off of the site before serving it up to me?
IGN.com as viewed by
- Default IE8 reference
- IE9's shitripper
- FF4's shitripper
- FF3.6 + ABP + NS
- Chrome 2's shitripper
- etc.
That's a comparison I'd like to see. And if that comparison got attention, maybe, just maybe, sites would be designed with less shit.
I inadvertently go All In
And inadvertently play like a PRO.
I'm sick of this Texas Hold 'Em shit. The game is so shitty! It's all luck and bullshitting. I guess that's why it attracts the fucking douchebags and blowhards.
Jack "Southwest" Fuckducker is showing a 4 and a 6.
Here comes the flop, nothin' there to help him
OH AND HE GOES ALL IN
Everyone else folds
WHAT A PLAYER!
In future, Soviet-again Russia and its buffer states, artificial music changes intelligence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKO9h-gG4Qg