I don't know if I should be perturbed that this got modded funny (some mods have their sarcasm detectors set surprisingly liberally!), or if I should feel bad for the people who were apparently unaware of what the Bible says about it, that these exact circumstances were written about.
Haven't had time to do extensive research on it (just a few quick 'googles'), but it seems as though many people do put the event of the Noachian Flood at 2360BC or thereabouts.
If that is the case then the violence shown toward this family was actually characteristic of the time they lived in. The Nephilim (known as Fellers of Men) were said to be extremely large and violent (and wouldn't you be, if you were the abomination-son of a demon?). It's also said that the Earth was filled with violence, so much so that God became saddened over his having created Humans who now acted so badly. This, in fact, motivated Him to wipe out the wicked people of that ancient world - doing so by a global deluge.
if there is a god, then why doesn't he interfere ? is he incapable ?
[God] is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
I can only imagine you're referring to my statement regarding the year 1914. This is a number reached through chronology based on prophecy, not mystic numerical patterns.
Perhaps some more study would be beneficial to you.
Hebrew grammar
Elohim has plural morphological form in Hebrew, but it is used with singular verbs and adjectives in the Hebrew text when the particular meaning of the God of Israel (a singular deity) is traditionally understood. Thus the very first words of the Bible are breshit bara elohim, where bara is a verb inflected as third person singular masculine perfect. If Elohim were an ordinary plural word, then the plural verb form bar'u would have been used in this sentence instead. Such plural grammatical forms are in fact found in cases where Elohim has semantically plural reference (not referring to the God of Israel). There are a few other words in Hebrew that have a plural ending, but refer to a single entity and take singular verbs and adjectives, for example (be'alim, owner) in Exodus 21:29 and elsewhere.
That "Jehovah" is not the original name of the God of the Israelites is well documented. Despite this, it is a name that is familiar (as Jesus whose name may have been closer to Yehoshua is another example of) and has the same semantic significance. The illustration has been given that, if you had a foreign friend whose name was difficult to impossible for you to pronounce, would he appreciate it if you simply assigned him a title (Mister, Sir) and called him by that, or if you tried to use his name (or, also fitting may be to assign them a nickname that to both you and he could be considered as his name)?
To clarify: I am not a Creationist. As someone who has examined the physical evidence and found that the explanation of creation provided in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (which collection I shall consistently refer to as the Bible) is sufficient and then some, I have cause to believe in an Intelligent Designer and almighty God.
The Bible had predictions (complete with details) penned hundreds, if not thousands of years in advance of their (accurate) fulfillments. The year 1914, for instance, is indicated as a significant year, the end of the seven gentile times. Anything significant happen in 1914 that you can think of...?
Moreover, over the thousands of years that humans have had the Bible available to them, its content has not been altered beyond minor scribal changes. It has been left intact despite efforts to destroy it entirely.
It provides the only consistently (and provably) healthful teachings for family life, work ethic, view of money, treatment of fellow man, etc..
the question "how did life get started", which is vague and ill defined
Any proper "IDer" should be able to contest that claim..
And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul. Genesis 2:7
Just as one would be foolish to argue the manufacturing process of something they know little about (me speaking on the topic of CPUs, for instance, would be disastrous), it is foolish for humans to argue the origins of life which we have incomplete understanding of. The explanation that has been given in the Bible is the only one whose source is decidedly not human. If we choose to disregard that, then we're submitting ourselves to futility in answering an answered question.
The reason these attacks have been primarily cited as ASP vulnerabilities is because it's MSSQL that the attacks have been tailored to. Some of the features and system tables exposed by MSSQL make the attacks possible/easy.
Most congregations don't have their first meeting for field service until 9:00AM or even 9:30AM, specifically so that people won't be caught asleep.
Conversely, a nearby congregation is going to participate in 6:00PM to Midnight field service in about a week. And before you ask, it won't be knocking on doors.:)
If any of your religious friends are Jehovah's Witnesses, you'll be pleasantly surprised at the fact that this is already the way they interpret these passages.
Many of the attacks that I recall seeing used SQL injection in an inventive way to execute a nasty query that affected all text fields in a database by use of data from system tables. It was not like, for instance, including a script tag in your signature and slashdot outputting it, it was like maliciously inserting a script tag into every single post, username and signature at the same time.
You're working off of the false assumption that security is about knowledge.
We know abundantly well exactly how SQL injection attacks occur, and we also have many tools at our disposal to -absolutely- prevent them. What we don't have is the cooperation or effort from programmers on a widespread basis. Many are simply too lazy to research and implement reasonable security measures. It's easier to pretend that there are no ways whatsoever that anything can go wrong with your code because when you tested it it worked right. This willfull turning a blind eye to well-established security caveats is what has given us this terrible and prevalent security problem. It's easier to write code that checks nothing, it's quicker to do so, and it requires less think-juice on the part of the lazy programmer.
The idea of a SQL Injection attack is to pass a parameter in such a way that it changes the structure of the query itself. Typical beginner's SQL query:
sql = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Username = '" & Request.Form("Username") & "' AND Password = '" & Request.Form("Password") & "';"
This uses 'String Concatenation' to build a line of text from several smaller parts. The completed string is then, in this example executed by a database. A new query is dynamically created and executed based on the text passed to it. Thus, we are able to at this point change what query will be run. Form data:
Username = "Admin" Password = "x' OR 'e' = 'e"
So when the string is being put together, we get:
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Username = 'Admin' AND Password = 'x' OR 'e' = 'e';
Certainly, even with no programming experience, one can see that the letter E will always be equivalent to the letter E. Thus, any validation of the password will return a false positive.
Prepared statements avoid this whole deal by only allowing you to pass parameters. The query is already set in stone. You cannot change how it basically works, only its criteria / filtering / etc. A prepared statement would execute basically:
SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Username = "Admin" AND Password = "x' OR 'e' = 'e";
Since the query does not change dynamically when it's executed as a prepared statement, you can't add your logical 'OR' operator after having broken out of your parameter. You just get no rows returned, as should be the case.
The thing is, I wasn't picking at your choice of words. I believe that you have an incorrect understanding.
Read my reply to my original comment. Trade Secrets are NOT protected from being reproduced. The only protection offered (see wikipedia's Trade Secret entry) is that of imposing NDAs, non-compete agreements or otherwise on people you intentionally reveal said secrets to. Reverse engineering (and/or subsequently producing) the product of a Trade Secret is entirely legal.
Although patents normally go to the first inventor under a first-to-file system, an inventor who keeps the information secret or just does not publish generally loses the right to the patent and also does not establish prior art. Without prior art, a later inventor can get a valid patent on the same invention and then apply it against earlier inventor(s). All this is easily prevented simply by recognizing the invention and applying for a patent, or by publishing details of how to practice the invention, thus creating prior art.
I just ordered an OCZ NIA today. This after having reviewed the three top contenders in the arena of brain-controlled input devices. Kind of disappointed that the new one from Emotiv isn't available yet - with its additional electrodes and gyros to detect head position it looks like a promising piece of gear.
One of the cool things from the demo video of the Emotiv EPOC was that of their official game where you use the controller for, well, everything. One of the clips showed a man levitating a boulder ingame by focusing on the 'lift' action and raising his hand. Perhaps advances in this arena could negate any usefulness for camera-based systems?
I'm a huge fan of the Dance Dance Revolution games. I've ranked highly in both tournaments that I was able to participate in.
One thing that I've noticed over time is that I usually play better on the second and third songs of my first set than I do for the rest of the night. I don't know if this is related to fatigue (the total lack thereof for the first few songs) or if the so-called muscle stiffness makes the actions more deliberate (and perhaps more precise as a result).
That said, if I'm going to play the most difficult songs (MaXXes, PSMO, etc) then I definitely need a good warmup. This almost never involves stretching.
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IIRC, threats to his life with a knife were involved in that case.
...our new empathetic-looking robotic overlords?
Just throwing it out there.
Now an old timer will know this and set the zipcode field as a varchar.
I'm 21 and I learned this lesson years ago. Is there something wrong with me?
Not coincidentally, anyone need programming work done?~ ;)
those in charge have clouded vision
some even wear bloody blindfolds
Their lasik surgery went wrong and now the bleeding won't stop...?<rimshot />
Yeah, I was being serious.
I don't know if I should be perturbed that this got modded funny (some mods have their sarcasm detectors set surprisingly liberally!), or if I should feel bad for the people who were apparently unaware of what the Bible says about it, that these exact circumstances were written about.
Guess I'll go with the latter. =\
Haven't had time to do extensive research on it (just a few quick 'googles'), but it seems as though many people do put the event of the Noachian Flood at 2360BC or thereabouts.
If that is the case then the violence shown toward this family was actually characteristic of the time they lived in. The Nephilim (known as Fellers of Men) were said to be extremely large and violent (and wouldn't you be, if you were the abomination-son of a demon?). It's also said that the Earth was filled with violence, so much so that God became saddened over his having created Humans who now acted so badly. This, in fact, motivated Him to wipe out the wicked people of that ancient world - doing so by a global deluge.
if there is a god, then why doesn't he interfere ? is he incapable ?
[God] is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
His promise: to intervene.
Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God. Hebrews 3:4
I suppose it will be posited that in an alternate universe houses do, in fact, construct themselves?
I see you're a believer of Bible Codes
I can only imagine you're referring to my statement regarding the year 1914. This is a number reached through chronology based on prophecy, not mystic numerical patterns.
Perhaps some more study would be beneficial to you.
Hebrew grammar
Elohim has plural morphological form in Hebrew, but it is used with singular verbs and adjectives in the Hebrew text when the particular meaning of the God of Israel (a singular deity) is traditionally understood. Thus the very first words of the Bible are breshit bara elohim, where bara is a verb inflected as third person singular masculine perfect. If Elohim were an ordinary plural word, then the plural verb form bar'u would have been used in this sentence instead. Such plural grammatical forms are in fact found in cases where Elohim has semantically plural reference (not referring to the God of Israel). There are a few other words in Hebrew that have a plural ending, but refer to a single entity and take singular verbs and adjectives, for example (be'alim, owner) in Exodus 21:29 and elsewhere.
Source
That "Jehovah" is not the original name of the God of the Israelites is well documented. Despite this, it is a name that is familiar (as Jesus whose name may have been closer to Yehoshua is another example of) and has the same semantic significance. The illustration has been given that, if you had a foreign friend whose name was difficult to impossible for you to pronounce, would he appreciate it if you simply assigned him a title (Mister, Sir) and called him by that, or if you tried to use his name (or, also fitting may be to assign them a nickname that to both you and he could be considered as his name)?
To clarify: I am not a Creationist. As someone who has examined the physical evidence and found that the explanation of creation provided in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures (which collection I shall consistently refer to as the Bible) is sufficient and then some, I have cause to believe in an Intelligent Designer and almighty God.
Credulity != Faith. I have faith.
Since you've clearly read the links I provided...
The Bible had predictions (complete with details) penned hundreds, if not thousands of years in advance of their (accurate) fulfillments. The year 1914, for instance, is indicated as a significant year, the end of the seven gentile times. Anything significant happen in 1914 that you can think of...?
Moreover, over the thousands of years that humans have had the Bible available to them, its content has not been altered beyond minor scribal changes. It has been left intact despite efforts to destroy it entirely.
It provides the only consistently (and provably) healthful teachings for family life, work ethic, view of money, treatment of fellow man, etc..
In short? Don't mock what you don't know.
the question "how did life get started", which is vague and ill defined
Any proper "IDer" should be able to contest that claim..
And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul. Genesis 2:7
Just as one would be foolish to argue the manufacturing process of something they know little about (me speaking on the topic of CPUs, for instance, would be disastrous), it is foolish for humans to argue the origins of life which we have incomplete understanding of. The explanation that has been given in the Bible is the only one whose source is decidedly not human. If we choose to disregard that, then we're submitting ourselves to futility in answering an answered question.
The reason these attacks have been primarily cited as ASP vulnerabilities is because it's MSSQL that the attacks have been tailored to. Some of the features and system tables exposed by MSSQL make the attacks possible/easy.
Mod parent FUD :P
Most congregations don't have their first meeting for field service until 9:00AM or even 9:30AM, specifically so that people won't be caught asleep.
Conversely, a nearby congregation is going to participate in 6:00PM to Midnight field service in about a week. And before you ask, it won't be knocking on doors. :)
If any of your religious friends are Jehovah's Witnesses, you'll be pleasantly surprised at the fact that this is already the way they interpret these passages.
Not all devoted religionists are unreasonable.
Many of the attacks that I recall seeing used SQL injection in an inventive way to execute a nasty query that affected all text fields in a database by use of data from system tables. It was not like, for instance, including a script tag in your signature and slashdot outputting it, it was like maliciously inserting a script tag into every single post, username and signature at the same time.
You're working off of the false assumption that security is about knowledge.
We know abundantly well exactly how SQL injection attacks occur, and we also have many tools at our disposal to -absolutely- prevent them. What we don't have is the cooperation or effort from programmers on a widespread basis. Many are simply too lazy to research and implement reasonable security measures. It's easier to pretend that there are no ways whatsoever that anything can go wrong with your code because when you tested it it worked right. This willfull turning a blind eye to well-established security caveats is what has given us this terrible and prevalent security problem. It's easier to write code that checks nothing, it's quicker to do so, and it requires less think-juice on the part of the lazy programmer.
The idea of a SQL Injection attack is to pass a parameter in such a way that it changes the structure of the query itself. Typical beginner's SQL query:
This uses 'String Concatenation' to build a line of text from several smaller parts. The completed string is then, in this example executed by a database. A new query is dynamically created and executed based on the text passed to it. Thus, we are able to at this point change what query will be run. Form data:
So when the string is being put together, we get:
Certainly, even with no programming experience, one can see that the letter E will always be equivalent to the letter E. Thus, any validation of the password will return a false positive.
Prepared statements avoid this whole deal by only allowing you to pass parameters. The query is already set in stone. You cannot change how it basically works, only its criteria / filtering / etc. A prepared statement would execute basically:
Since the query does not change dynamically when it's executed as a prepared statement, you can't add your logical 'OR' operator after having broken out of your parameter. You just get no rows returned, as should be the case.
The thing is, I wasn't picking at your choice of words. I believe that you have an incorrect understanding.
Read my reply to my original comment. Trade Secrets are NOT protected from being reproduced. The only protection offered (see wikipedia's Trade Secret entry) is that of imposing NDAs, non-compete agreements or otherwise on people you intentionally reveal said secrets to. Reverse engineering (and/or subsequently producing) the product of a Trade Secret is entirely legal.
Although patents normally go to the first inventor under a first-to-file system, an inventor who keeps the information secret or just does not publish generally loses the right to the patent and also does not establish prior art. Without prior art, a later inventor can get a valid patent on the same invention and then apply it against earlier inventor(s). All this is easily prevented simply by recognizing the invention and applying for a patent, or by publishing details of how to practice the invention, thus creating prior art.
Emphasis mine.
Prior art is not something you can violate. It is not a statute, or a restriction, or a part of a patent.
I just ordered an OCZ NIA today. This after having reviewed the three top contenders in the arena of brain-controlled input devices. Kind of disappointed that the new one from Emotiv isn't available yet - with its additional electrodes and gyros to detect head position it looks like a promising piece of gear.
One of the cool things from the demo video of the Emotiv EPOC was that of their official game where you use the controller for, well, everything. One of the clips showed a man levitating a boulder ingame by focusing on the 'lift' action and raising his hand. Perhaps advances in this arena could negate any usefulness for camera-based systems?
I'm a huge fan of the Dance Dance Revolution games. I've ranked highly in both tournaments that I was able to participate in.
One thing that I've noticed over time is that I usually play better on the second and third songs of my first set than I do for the rest of the night. I don't know if this is related to fatigue (the total lack thereof for the first few songs) or if the so-called muscle stiffness makes the actions more deliberate (and perhaps more precise as a result).
That said, if I'm going to play the most difficult songs (MaXXes, PSMO, etc) then I definitely need a good warmup. This almost never involves stretching.