"The desert is Linux on the desktop" Yeah, and the Linux fanatics keep saying how great a beach it is... And if you don't like the way things are, you always have full unhindered access to the C. Uh huh, desktop users want to "swim in the sea", not swim in th
Content filtering doesn't work well. Everyone who has seen his legitimate mail filtered away knows this, as does everyone who receives spam despite filters being in place. As the filtering arms race progresses it will become harder and harder to seperate spam from legitimate mail, resulting in more processing power used and more false negatives and false positives. In the end only something with a near-human intelligence would be able to tell the difference, but it would be unethical to employ such a system for obvious reasons.
You pay Microsoft for access to things, so you can solve problems. OTOH, when you call redhat for support, which is typically only when the internet and knowledge base don't fill your needs, you generally end up on the phone with one of their engineers. Th
You write source code in the way you do because it has a specific audience that is intended to be able to understand it and behave according to that understanding. That audience is a computer.You write laws because there is a specific audience that is intended to be able to understand them and behave according to that understanding. That audience is a citizen.These facts being true, which they are, I have two questions for you:a) What makes you think it's impossible to craft laws in a way that the citizen can understand when it's possible to craft programs that a hunk of silicon can understand?b) What makes you think it's important to dedicate such efforts to creating programs that a computer can understand, and yet not worth the trouble to make sure the laws that govern your behavior are understandable to you?
Actually I despise cPanel with a passion... I had the displeasure of working for a hosting company that had somewhere around 800-1000 cpanel servers.... To the uninitiated cPanel is pretty nifty, to people who actually have to admin cPanel, it's horri
It's awful, especially as these are easy errors that can be fixed without any problem whatsoever. The vast majority of errors are:
XHTML syntax for empty elements in an HTML page.
Unencoded ampersands.
Forgetting required attributes like alt and type.
Look.These machines are intended and designed to prop-up the parlour-game of democratic basis for American government. They are not meant to "work". They are meant to reduce the definition of "democracy" to merely "voting" for the general public - and then to manage that vote. If they decrease the confidence of a certain segment of the public in the whole process, then they are also serving their secondary purpose: The devolution of the US to Banana Republic status.The coup was completed in 2000. The dramatic operations began 40 years earlier, but it took awhile.You don't see this. You think you still live in the same country that you were born in, that you attended Elementary School in, that you call the same name.But it just isn't true. Visitors to your country get it in a very short time - but most of them clamp their mouths shut - it is quickly apparent that Americans are uncomprehending.This isn't just Republicans. Sure - the Republican leaders are the sharp and shiny spear-tip, slicing the American side. The Democrats are just as on board - the solid wooden shaft, following this through the body. The elite of these - Cheney's and Pelosi's - will keep their mansions and their millions, their holidays in Vail and Sun Valley.They will never join the people who "voted". That would be to join Dr. King, or Mel Carnahan.
How do you know how many domains someone has? My server is hosting about 75 domains but only a few of them are mine and those all appear to be registered to different groups yet I'm the tech contact for all the rest. Remember when.eu was started up, there
I have a friend who promotes his own band solely online, and (as well as the regular Myspace and streaming audio from his page) he deliberately runs multiple filesharing clients, sharing only his own music. As an unsigned, self promoting artist who makes m
Precisely. If the transaction IDs are secure, then you have to play "man in the middle" to sniff the request and fake a response. But if you can guess the transaction IDs, you can blindly send a spoofed response from elsewhere on the net and fake out the user's DNS resolver. The details of doing this in practice can be tricky, but it's doable. That's why the dnsext working group has been trying to improve this aspect of the protocol. While MS's implementation has flaws that make it more predictable than it otherwise should be, the fundamental problem is with the decades-old DNS protocol to begin with. The transaction IDs are 16-bit numbers, which is very limiting if you need to generate secure sequences of them that can't be guessed. It's not too hard to just spam responses with random response IDs and get some small success rate with only 16 bits to play with.One of the current proposals (which I'm not a fan of because of other technical implications for DNS) is that since DNS query names are case-insensitive and copied by the server from the request packet to the response packet, to use the "uppercase bit" of each letter as more bits for the secure transaction ID. The fact that people are willing to consider hacks like these should tell you something about how badly we're backed into a corner on this issue with the DNS protocol. Hopefully soon someone will do something sensible like standardize an EDNS1 with extra transaction ID bits in the OPT RR, and then in like 10 years (if history is any guide) it might actually see wide deployment.
You need to know what people really mean when they call the police.....
"A man in a black Ford Escort wound his window down and offered to sell me some crack". Translation: I paid some money to a man in a black Ford Escort for some dope, and he drove o
These people really are crazy, especially when you consider the warranty/EULA that accompanies the windows OS. A warranty that basically stipulates that it is wildly unsafe for that kind of use. Hence if there is a software failure that results in a death
Oh well, maybe Hans will confess and reveal where he stashed the body now.
Probably a blob, or maybe split under a well-balanced grove of trees. Even if he can't use the journal to recover the data, he should at least be able to get the last-modified date, right?
(Why does it smell of sulfur all of a sudden, and what am I doing in this handbasket?)
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'Well then how do you get her into the suitcase?'Use the inverse of the Banach-Tarski theorem (iterate as needed).
The program was:10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"20 GOTO 10And it is still running to this day.
"The desert is Linux on the desktop" Yeah, and the Linux fanatics keep saying how great a beach it is... And if you don't like the way things are, you always have full unhindered access to the C. Uh huh, desktop users want to "swim in the sea", not swim in th
Win++ OTOH, +++ATH0 Not so smartmodem now, are we? 1992 might not be far enough ;)
Content filtering doesn't work well. Everyone who has seen his legitimate mail filtered away knows this, as does everyone who receives spam despite filters being in place. As the filtering arms race progresses it will become harder and harder to seperate spam from legitimate mail, resulting in more processing power used and more false negatives and false positives. In the end only something with a near-human intelligence would be able to tell the difference, but it would be unethical to employ such a system for obvious reasons.
You write source code in the way you do because it has a specific audience that is intended to be able to understand it and behave according to that understanding. That audience is a computer.You write laws because there is a specific audience that is intended to be able to understand them and behave according to that understanding. That audience is a citizen.These facts being true, which they are, I have two questions for you:a) What makes you think it's impossible to craft laws in a way that the citizen can understand when it's possible to craft programs that a hunk of silicon can understand?b) What makes you think it's important to dedicate such efforts to creating programs that a computer can understand, and yet not worth the trouble to make sure the laws that govern your behavior are understandable to you?
dead people don't really care, one way or another.
Actually I despise cPanel with a passion... I had the displeasure of working for a hosting company that had somewhere around 800-1000 cpanel servers.... To the uninitiated cPanel is pretty nifty, to people who actually have to admin cPanel, it's horri
It's awful, especially as these are easy errors that can be fixed without any problem whatsoever. The vast majority of errors are: XHTML syntax for empty elements in an HTML page. Unencoded ampersands. Forgetting required attributes like alt and type.
SCO dies, Microsoft's revenue is down, and even the weather is nice.
How do you know how many domains someone has? My server is hosting about 75 domains but only a few of them are mine and those all appear to be registered to different groups yet I'm the tech contact for all the rest. Remember when .eu was started up, there
I have a friend who promotes his own band solely online, and (as well as the regular Myspace and streaming audio from his page) he deliberately runs multiple filesharing clients, sharing only his own music. As an unsigned, self promoting artist who makes m
Precisely. If the transaction IDs are secure, then you have to play "man in the middle" to sniff the request and fake a response. But if you can guess the transaction IDs, you can blindly send a spoofed response from elsewhere on the net and fake out the user's DNS resolver. The details of doing this in practice can be tricky, but it's doable. That's why the dnsext working group has been trying to improve this aspect of the protocol. While MS's implementation has flaws that make it more predictable than it otherwise should be, the fundamental problem is with the decades-old DNS protocol to begin with. The transaction IDs are 16-bit numbers, which is very limiting if you need to generate secure sequences of them that can't be guessed. It's not too hard to just spam responses with random response IDs and get some small success rate with only 16 bits to play with.One of the current proposals (which I'm not a fan of because of other technical implications for DNS) is that since DNS query names are case-insensitive and copied by the server from the request packet to the response packet, to use the "uppercase bit" of each letter as more bits for the secure transaction ID. The fact that people are willing to consider hacks like these should tell you something about how badly we're backed into a corner on this issue with the DNS protocol. Hopefully soon someone will do something sensible like standardize an EDNS1 with extra transaction ID bits in the OPT RR, and then in like 10 years (if history is any guide) it might actually see wide deployment.
And really, I'm sorry, but what doesn't get these leaches in a tizzy? Anything that threatens their profit model....
You need to know what people really mean when they call the police .....
"A man in a black Ford Escort wound his window down and offered to sell me some crack". Translation: I paid some money to a man in a black Ford Escort for some dope, and he drove o
Ignoring corporate spin-doctoring there seems to be plenty of blame to go around.
Oh well, maybe Hans will confess and reveal where he stashed the body now. Probably a blob, or maybe split under a well-balanced grove of trees. Even if he can't use the journal to recover the data, he should at least be able to get the last-modified date, right? (Why does it smell of sulfur all of a sudden, and what am I doing in this handbasket?)