Ease up. We should actuall chear and appload.
This move immediately makes it a valid target for EU data protection law and similar legislations everywhere.
Before it was questionanle. Now it is fair game because it is a financial service and subject to a serious regulatory regime in most countries.
By the time it gets to market its venomous teeth will be extracted and replaced with harmless prostetics;-)
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p.s. Freon was not such a disaster. I'd have loved to have an exclusive patent to Freon for a few years
It was an environmental disaster. At the same time it was a huge commercial success.
After it was banned the companies who manufactured CFCs simply switched to other stuff. They practically did not lose money on this. All was payed by the consumers.
So yes, I agree with you. I 'd love to have one of those as well.
The last couple of jerks that were sending me "TUKUMBA MAMUMBA MINISTER OF STUPIDITY. WE NEED TO HIDE 30 MILLION RAND" mails disappeared into "Night and Fog" with no need of any such harsh Pulp Fiction brutalities. Instead of Pulp Fiction which doesn't work one should use "The GULAG Archipelago" approach which does.
All that was necessary was to cut and paste the mail headers and the mail into the terrorist tipoff page of FBI and express concern that the scam ring they are running is being used to collect money for terrorism (they were stupid enough to send mails from Bell Atlantic). After that - guess what: Not a single Nigeria fraud SPAM for a second month in a row.
And the beauty of it is that they do not get a lawyer, rights and are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Long live the Patriot Act.
You forgot to say one thing. It actually works already. I have started using it on spammers. All you need to do is rat them to what used to be the infrastructure protection center that you have a suspcion that their scams are actually collection of money for terrorism
Result is - they disappear in night and fog with no legal representation. It works every time. Which is lovely. Just like in Stalin's Russia in 1937...
If placed correctly as bribes and bribes only it may have the desired effect. Soc officials are not that expensive. Cheaper then advertising for sure.
although I don't know how they'd compete with an OS by a manufacturer with "Red" in it's name..
You do. One cool movie has attributed the following saying to one of the ex-soc sector nations:
As our bulgarian friends say, what cannot be bought with money can be bought with a lot of money
I mean, it's so obviously a CGI effect. It just doesn't move right. And this is LucasFilm -- CGI doesn't get better than that.
Show me a beast in a Star Wars episode that moves naturally and is not a puppet. One of the reasons recent dynosaur movies look so good is that the studios payed scientists a pretty penny to look into how animals move. And verified the CGI results with them.
Have you heard of Lucas doing this even once? You gotta be dreaming.
It is easier to organise in the US then in the UK.
Rat them up to the NKVD^WHomeland Security. Works great on spammers (espcecially of the "all capitals nigerian bulshit" or other scam varieties). All you need to do is express your suspicion that the scam money is used to finance terrorism. After that you will never hear from that spammer again once they have disappeared "in and night and fog" to GULAG^WGuantanamo Bay for questioning with no legal representation.
Unfortunately the Yard in the UK systematically drops the ball on these. I wish it did not. And I wish it did what you suggest.
Assuming it is as you say it is not so easy. You need to insure that the writer will not barf. After all you feeding it with some data which according to the red book is garbage or pretty close to garbage. So the writer should allow turning off all error and sanity checks.
Alternatively it is very good software that merges an image on top of data that is acceptable to a normal CD writer.
In either case it is not just PI, elementary calculations and a bitmap.
This understimates the ease with which some people reverse engineer closed software for living. As a result the "applying a new abstract attack" example is completely bogus. If you know how a vendor thinks, writes and generally does things then you can apply the attack very soon after its release. It is not significantly more difficult then applying to an open source application. There are other such things as well.
Otherwise a good read. But the fact that it is written in a where reverse engineering is not a flourishing business definitely shows.
Yes, but it is a matter of market penetration. Having linux desktops and laptops increases the proportion of linux and other Unix servers as well.
And the latter is what IBM is selling after all. So having 2-3 engineers keeping a full time eye that Stinkpads support linux properly is something that IMO should make business sense for IBM.
Going through the entire logistics of offering a fully supported sale doesn't.
Keeping things in line so that they do not descend into the land of Winmodem stupidity - does.And honestly, I am amused that they do not see this.
This helps you only for mirrors. It does not help you a single bit for packages or source that has been built or mantained by the compromised site because it is likely that its keys are compromised as well.
I just have that silly scene from 007 "The man with the Golden Gun" with whoever the B girl was at the time pressing the solar plant controls with her butt.
It stays in front of my eyes and does not want to go...
Traditionally bad and buggy chipsets from Via is one reason. If you go out there almost all mainboards use Via southbridge and we all know that its IDE is b0rken and its PCI performance is only a percentage of what it should be.
The unavailability of low profile how performance rack servers with AMD is another reason. Basically the smallest reasonable Athlon multiprocessor machine is 4U. For the last half a year I have been looking at how to get away from Intel for a task which AMD has always done better and I still cannot.
Unavailability when it comes to most brands/models oriented to be the common low end corporate machines. Basically, usually you cannot get AMD machines along existing contracts/discounts.
Nope. These are numbers for normal/benchmark load. Not for half of the geek universe trying to get to it.
After the link will get severely congested the number of SYNs flowing towards the IPAC will exceed what it can handle.
In order to survive a slashdot effect on a low end device you need to rate limit them. Otherwise you are dead. In other words the slashdot effect nowdays is by no means different from a decent SYN flood.
Secondly, the end result isn't much of a solution. Where is the line drawn between crimes worthy of sterilization and those which need not be purged from the genome? Murder? Rape? Dishonesty? Breach of Contract? Active racism? Passive racism? Conscientious objection? A given disorder or disease?
It is a question of the actual society model. You are judging the idea of applying genetic selection based on social criteria by our own rules and that is where your mistake comes from. First, your rules may be correct for your society. They are definitely incorrect for the society described in the book.
In btw, application of genetic selection to intelligent species based on social principles is not such a novell idea. This book is not revolutionary by any means. Let's take for example David Brin's Uplift series. There this idea is most prevalent.
Cutting a long story short this is nothing but the general theory of evolution applied where the society requirements are the actual evolutionary pressure.
Myself I am not sure that is right. But looking at the frequencies of certain crimes in some of the human societies it suddenly starts gaining a considerable appeal.
Genetic elimination should solve this over a period of time. I am glad the author has suggested it.
It has solved it for many societies on Earth after all. If you give it a thought in some societies things like pe**philia are almost unheard of.
Which one is a different matter. There are many statistic handbooks on crime - look into them and find out for yourself. This data also gives a very nice perspective on the idea of the effect "tough stance on crime - more jails and more police" and the real effect it has on crime.
Solaris has many pluses like scheduler optimised for threading, working POSIX realtime priorities, etc but it also has a slow filesystem that is technologically inferior to anything else out there. It is also fairly buggy and ridden with security holes. The buggy bit is especially valid for x86. Bugs are of all varieties: non-working multicast on half of the network adapters, crashes, memory leaks, you name it. Neither ACPI nor APM are supported either which means that it will not work properly on laptops and many desktop class new machines. The range of supported hardware is also very small compared to what you get working with BSD or Linux. So it depends what you want it for, but you better get a proper server class system with SCSI to run it on.
Sun (the download section) got slashdotted to hell and gone when they released Soffice 5 for free for the first time.
Sifting through the headers of the 419's I have received over the last several months:
one was from Nigeria
one from Belgium
five or so was from US, mostly East Coast and MidWest
Rest was from South Africa
In the nigerian case I tried (with some success) to persuade the upstream ISP to act as per their AUP. In other words consider it as SPAM and disconnect them to hell and gone.
In all SA, US and BE cases I have asked the ISP in question to try to both apply their AUP and contact the local law enforcement. To the extent of my knowledge the law was got involved only in one of the SA cases. The US law ISPs usually drop the ball in these cases.
No wonder that the number of these SCAMs we all get in our mailbox steadily increases. If the ISPs were doing the right thing (TM) this would not have been a profitable business. Too high risk levels.
Let's face it: Harrison Ford was the only decent actor to play a major role in the first trilogy. With all due respect to Sir Alec Guiness, his screen appearance does not really span all of the first three movies. The rest of the cast in the first episodes are hardly worth mentioning.
And I agree. The attempt at cleansing Han Solo in the "remaster" was disgusting. Not just the scene with the shot. The scene where he was trying to explain himself to Jabba. Shudder... Yuk... In the original version he was doing everything he could not to explain himself and not to cough up.
Actually, that Han Solo did not need to explain himself. He shot first, provided explanations later.
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Ease up. We should actuall chear and appload. This move immediately makes it a valid target for EU data protection law and similar legislations everywhere. Before it was questionanle. Now it is fair game because it is a financial service and subject to a serious regulatory regime in most countries. By the time it gets to market its venomous teeth will be extracted and replaced with harmless prostetics ;-)
It was an environmental disaster. At the same time it was a huge commercial success.
After it was banned the companies who manufactured CFCs simply switched to other stuff. They practically did not lose money on this. All was payed by the consumers. So yes, I agree with you. I 'd love to have one of those as well.
Why kill him? There are better ways.
The last couple of jerks that were sending me "TUKUMBA MAMUMBA MINISTER OF STUPIDITY. WE NEED TO HIDE 30 MILLION RAND" mails disappeared into "Night and Fog" with no need of any such harsh Pulp Fiction brutalities. Instead of Pulp Fiction which doesn't work one should use "The GULAG Archipelago" approach which does.
All that was necessary was to cut and paste the mail headers and the mail into the terrorist tipoff page of FBI and express concern that the scam ring they are running is being used to collect money for terrorism (they were stupid enough to send mails from Bell Atlantic). After that - guess what: Not a single Nigeria fraud SPAM for a second month in a row.
And the beauty of it is that they do not get a lawyer, rights and are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Long live the Patriot Act.
Good point.
You forgot to say one thing. It actually works already. I have started using it on spammers. All you need to do is rat them to what used to be the infrastructure protection center that you have a suspcion that their scams are actually collection of money for terrorism
Result is - they disappear in night and fog with no legal representation. It works every time. Which is lovely. Just like in Stalin's Russia in 1937...
although I don't know how they'd compete with an OS by a manufacturer with "Red" in it's name..
You do. One cool movie has attributed the following saying to one of the ex-soc sector nations: As our bulgarian friends say, what cannot be bought with money can be bought with a lot of money
See subj for translation from journalistic into english...
Show me a beast in a Star Wars episode that moves naturally and is not a puppet. One of the reasons recent dynosaur movies look so good is that the studios payed scientists a pretty penny to look into how animals move. And verified the CGI results with them.
Have you heard of Lucas doing this even once? You gotta be dreaming.
The Alaska 51 state selebrationary emision of one dollar coins stopped being a legal tender a year or two ago.
That is at least one case.
So I guess you are wrong.
It is easier to organise in the US then in the UK.
Rat them up to the NKVD^WHomeland Security. Works great on spammers (espcecially of the "all capitals nigerian bulshit" or other scam varieties). All you need to do is express your suspicion that the scam money is used to finance terrorism. After that you will never hear from that spammer again once they have disappeared "in and night and fog" to GULAG^WGuantanamo Bay for questioning with no legal representation.
Unfortunately the Yard in the UK systematically drops the ball on these. I wish it did not. And I wish it did what you suggest.
Assuming it is as you say it is not so easy. You need to insure that the writer will not barf. After all you feeding it with some data which according to the red book is garbage or pretty close to garbage. So the writer should allow turning off all error and sanity checks.
Alternatively it is very good software that merges an image on top of data that is acceptable to a normal CD writer.
In either case it is not just PI, elementary calculations and a bitmap.
This understimates the ease with which some people reverse engineer closed software for living. As a result the "applying a new abstract attack" example is completely bogus. If you know how a vendor thinks, writes and generally does things then you can apply the attack very soon after its release. It is not significantly more difficult then applying to an open source application. There are other such things as well.
Otherwise a good read. But the fact that it is written in a where reverse engineering is not a flourishing business definitely shows.
Yes, but it is a matter of market penetration. Having linux desktops and laptops increases the proportion of linux and other Unix servers as well. And the latter is what IBM is selling after all. So having 2-3 engineers keeping a full time eye that Stinkpads support linux properly is something that IMO should make business sense for IBM. Going through the entire logistics of offering a fully supported sale doesn't. Keeping things in line so that they do not descend into the land of Winmodem stupidity - does.And honestly, I am amused that they do not see this.
Cool.
After I started filtering out on Korean netblocks 95% of the SPAM I get is chinese. So this got to be good.
I would buy the mayor a few of what he drinks.
To the moderator: don't mod it down as flamebait. Ask someone who has ever tried to find an abuse@ for a netblock in that part of the world first.
Correction: that is for the -38. 141 never made it past prototypes
It never got an export license.
There were takers and quite a few of them but for some reason it never went on sale. Even within the warsaw pact.
So?
This helps you only for mirrors. It does not help you a single bit for packages or source that has been built or mantained by the compromised site because it is likely that its keys are compromised as well.
I do not think that anyone will let _that_ model (S.C.) anywhere close to a spaceship. Her movies are a sufficient demonstration of her intelligence.
El Macferson - more likely. But she is not in the business any more so she does not count.
I just have that silly scene from 007 "The man with the Golden Gun" with whoever the B girl was at the time pressing the solar plant controls with her butt.
It stays in front of my eyes and does not want to go...
Traditionally bad and buggy chipsets from Via is one reason. If you go out there almost all mainboards use Via southbridge and we all know that its IDE is b0rken and its PCI performance is only a percentage of what it should be.
The unavailability of low profile how performance rack servers with AMD is another reason. Basically the smallest reasonable Athlon multiprocessor machine is 4U. For the last half a year I have been looking at how to get away from Intel for a task which AMD has always done better and I still cannot.
Unavailability when it comes to most brands/models oriented to be the common low end corporate machines. Basically, usually you cannot get AMD machines along existing contracts/discounts.
Nope. These are numbers for normal/benchmark load. Not for half of the geek universe trying to get to it.
After the link will get severely congested the number of SYNs flowing towards the IPAC will exceed what it can handle.
In order to survive a slashdot effect on a low end device you need to rate limit them. Otherwise you are dead. In other words the slashdot effect nowdays is by no means different from a decent SYN flood.
It is a question of the actual society model. You are judging the idea of applying genetic selection based on social criteria by our own rules and that is where your mistake comes from. First, your rules may be correct for your society. They are definitely incorrect for the society described in the book.
In btw, application of genetic selection to intelligent species based on social principles is not such a novell idea. This book is not revolutionary by any means. Let's take for example David Brin's Uplift series. There this idea is most prevalent.
Cutting a long story short this is nothing but the general theory of evolution applied where the society requirements are the actual evolutionary pressure.
Myself I am not sure that is right. But looking at the frequencies of certain crimes in some of the human societies it suddenly starts gaining a considerable appeal.
Genetic elimination should solve this over a period of time. I am glad the author has suggested it.
It has solved it for many societies on Earth after all. If you give it a thought in some societies things like pe**philia are almost unheard of.
Which one is a different matter. There are many statistic handbooks on crime - look into them and find out for yourself. This data also gives a very nice perspective on the idea of the effect "tough stance on crime - more jails and more police" and the real effect it has on crime.
Solaris has many pluses like scheduler optimised for threading, working POSIX realtime priorities, etc but it also has a slow filesystem that is technologically inferior to anything else out there. It is also fairly buggy and ridden with security holes. The buggy bit is especially valid for x86. Bugs are of all varieties: non-working multicast on half of the network adapters, crashes, memory leaks, you name it. Neither ACPI nor APM are supported either which means that it will not work properly on laptops and many desktop class new machines. The range of supported hardware is also very small compared to what you get working with BSD or Linux. So it depends what you want it for, but you better get a proper server class system with SCSI to run it on.
Sun (the download section) got slashdotted to hell and gone when they released Soffice 5 for free for the first time.
In the nigerian case I tried (with some success) to persuade the upstream ISP to act as per their AUP. In other words consider it as SPAM and disconnect them to hell and gone.
In all SA, US and BE cases I have asked the ISP in question to try to both apply their AUP and contact the local law enforcement. To the extent of my knowledge the law was got involved only in one of the SA cases. The US law ISPs usually drop the ball in these cases.
No wonder that the number of these SCAMs we all get in our mailbox steadily increases. If the ISPs were doing the right thing (TM) this would not have been a profitable business. Too high risk levels.
That is besides the fact that:
Let's face it: Harrison Ford was the only decent actor to play a major role in the first trilogy. With all due respect to Sir Alec Guiness, his screen appearance does not really span all of the first three movies. The rest of the cast in the first episodes are hardly worth mentioning.
And I agree. The attempt at cleansing Han Solo in the "remaster" was disgusting. Not just the scene with the shot. The scene where he was trying to explain himself to Jabba. Shudder... Yuk... In the original version he was doing everything he could not to explain himself and not to cough up.
Actually, that Han Solo did not need to explain himself. He shot first, provided explanations later.