While I actually do use Audacity for long recordings it's not very good for that purpose.
The reason is if "stuff happens" (power failure, crash etc) during a recording, you actually have to go through a recovery process for the ENTIRE recording - older versions of Audacity were even worse (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery depending on the sort of recording you were doing the recovery may not be 100%).
Saner recording software would write stuff to disk in a manner where you'd at most lose the last few seconds of the recording.
I still use Audacity because I'm a cheap bastard:).
p.s. Some older versions of Audacity 1.3 actually had problems with long recordings (at around the 2 hour mark), I had to go back to 1.2 till that was fixed... So code quality and design might not be very good.
BUT ONLY as long as I also get to watch and record whoever in Government I want and at anytime I want - that includes top political leaders, and other big shots in the government, police force etc.
If they can legally record me in public, then I should legally be able to record them in public. If they can legally record me in private, then I should legally be able to do so too.
Golden rule and all that.
If they think it's wrong or unsafe for me to watch them like that, then it is wrong and unsafe for them to watch me like that.
Does that really mean if anyone knows the secret they can get any file the webserver can access?
If that's true about ASP.NET in general, then ASP.NET's _design_ is broken.
In contrast, with sane designs, I could even tell you the db password that the webapps use to access data/state from the db, but if you're outside, you can't touch anything (unless you're one of those elite hackers who have dozens of "zero days" stored up for a rainy day).
You could even have the ssh login credentials, but you'd have to get inside in the first place to use them.
So this is a design bug, not an implementation bug?
Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability in ASP.NET. An attacker who exploited this vulnerability could view data, such as the View State, which was encrypted by the target server, or read data from files on the target server, such as web.config.
Why would decrypting a cookie allow you to read data from files on the target server?
What if you just use cookies for storing session ids?
Using cookies to store lots of secrets seems like a stupid idea to me. Server-side secrets belong server-side.
Furthermore what if the user wants to use more than one browser window? If you are too reliant on cookies to store state it means the webapp would get confused in that scenario.
Are you using disk encryption as well? If you aren't I hope you are aware that anyone who has access to your server/drive has access to those banking credentials.
You might consider that an acceptable risk of course.
A fighter would understand, for instance, if an enemy had penetrated the networks and changed coordinates or target times
Sure if you put a warrior in charge, that might be the case. But if you put a tech in charge, the enemy might not even penetrate the critical portions of the networks in the first place.
Furthermore if the enemy has successfully got in, you're screwed for quite a while. If an important military computer system is compromised for "only and hour or two" at a critical moment, even if you don't lose the battle, you could suffer greater losses.
I'm not saying warriors can't understand geeky stuff, after all just look at the NEETS stuff. But if the emphasis or job spec really is "warrior" first, I think that's stupid.
But running network security? If the emphasis is "warrior" for the job, good luck to them.
Maybe that explains why Gary McKinnon and others managed to hack into so many military computers.
I know enough about cars to know whether my mechanic is bullshitting me or to know when to send my car for servicing. But I'm not good enough at it to do his job well.
The bubble might make an okay windshield in the rain, maybe.
I'm living in an equatorial zone, and it sure looks like a mini greenhouse tube to me. Sure they talk about ventilation holes, but I'm not convinced...
Anyway, overall it looks like a stupid idea. Not sure why it won a prize.
I think the trick is, after doing that no matter whether you fail or succeed, you'd welcome the fiery doom;).
Anyway, there's plenty of air in the room itself, enough for an hour or two. Better to keep around some stuff to seal the gaps to keep the gases out. It won't keep the fire out, but if the fire comes in, you drinking toilet water or breathing shit fumes ain't gonna help.
It's not that simple. If the USA did print enough dollars to repay the debt to China, then it would seriously inflate the dollar.
Then the dollar should be seriously inflating now right? Because the US owes China "only" about 2 trillion. While it sure looks like the USA has created more than 2 trillion USD since 2008.
See: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=apx7XNLnZZlc December 12, 2008 "The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral."
While some may claim there's a difference between creating 2 trillion dollars, and the Federal Reserve lending 2 trillion dollars, I think in this case it's not very different - I doubt the US taxpayers saw the figures in their bank balances immediately decreasing after those loans.;)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok February 9, 2009 "The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government's commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation's home mortgages. "
although it would make a lot of third-world countries happy - they'd be able to repay their debts easily all of a sudden
I wouldn't say "sudden", since there'll be a lag between the time the USD is printed, enough people realizing "somethings changed", their goods being sold for the new prices and them getting the money for it (so that they can repay the loans).
It's like Zimbabwe, when Mugabe prints money, he and his cronies immediately benefit. The rest of the people with net positive Zimbabwe Dollars get taxed immediately, the others holding debts in Zimbabwe Dollars need to get paid higher salaries first before they can pay back "easily". If the creditors start saying "the interest rates are much higher now", it doesn't work so well. I believe for some loans the creditors can change the interest rates. Worse if they end up not even getting a salary, it doesn't work at all.
Lastly, it was really kind of strange - seeing people "fleeing to the US dollar" after the 2008 US financial crisis. I asked a few finance people about this - they couldn't figure it out either (they weren't doing it)- and suggested maybe it was out of habit. When scared rush to the US dollar? Doh.
Apparently pretty hard, based one how many people get them, but I just don't understand it.
Seems Blockbuster didn't understand it either, judging from: 1) More than a few people here grumbling about their experiences 2) Blockbuster filing for bankruptcy.
Assuming you're not a monopoly, when your customers are complaining about what you are doing, if you want to keep them you should try to figure out how to do things better (avoid the problem), even if you think it's their fault.
If the fire is close enough that enough toxic fumes are getting into your bathroom despite your attempts at sealing it, I think you're just a few minutes away from incineration.
If it's just the fumes and the fire is far (but you somehow can't escape), just seal the toilet, you can live on the air for a few hours.
A human being uses about 550 litres (19 cubic feet) of oxygen per day. So that's about 100 cubic feet of air for 24 hours. Or 10 cubic feet of air for 1-2 hours.
If they haven't put out the fire after 2 hours, you're toast anyway.
The huge debts that sovereign nations tend to rack up trigger the same moral instincts that petty consumer debt does; but it isn't at all clear that they work anything like the same way, economically.
It should be clear and obvious they don't work the same way. After all, the US owes China in US dollars, not Euros, not RMB.
So it's more like an amusement park owing suppliers massive debts payable in amusement park tokens (except amusement park tokens cost more to make than "electronic" US dollars).
Or like you owing trillions in fuzzyfuzzyfungus dollars. You can create as many as you need. Sure the smart ones may never lend you money again, but maybe the smart ones wouldn't have lent you trillions payable in fuzzyfuzzyfungus dollars right? So the dumb ones might actually say "thank you!" when you go up to them and repay them:).
As long as the dollar remains the main currency used to trade oil and other commodities, the USA gets a cheap/free ride. The people who keep saying "the USA would be better off with the gold standard" should consider this and other important factors:).
The thieves have taken 4 years to suck up 500000 euros. That's 125000 per year.
Monoprix have more than 300 stores. If it costs more than 500 euros per store per year to install, maintain and support the extra security measures, it'll cost them more than the thieves are taking.
Monoprix might just be hoping that the police would eventually catch the thieves, and nobody else will copy them.
Will be a different thing if they shot or hurt people (since customers might stop going to their stores).
Lastly if the team has 3 members, assuming equal shares, each is only getting an average of about 40K per year. Not peanuts but definitely not a good way to get rich:).
In contrast, those infamous investment bankers and friends have certainly taken more than 40k/year each...
If you want serious, practically every human alive today is going to die. So the ones who go on very restrictive diets and lifestyles that they dislike just so that they last longer might be doing themselves a disservice. If they have a good reason for doing so, then go ahead, but if the only reason is just to last longer, that's a being silly.
That's like trying to keep a car in pristine condition by hardly ever driving it (or even not driving it). If say you're trying to save that car for your great-grandchildren, OK I guess, but if you're just keeping it for the sake of keeping it, you're in denial of the inevitable.
If you put up with some boiled fish and vegetables diet, don't be so surprised if you end up with dementia/alzheimer's or cancer at a ripe old age (or "dying of complications following a fall"). Conversely if you take a diet full of sugar, saturated fats and transfats don't be so surprised if you get a heart attack or worse get "locked-in" by a stroke.
Pick your poison with your eyes open:).
p.s. I've heard of doctors telling 90 year olds to stop smoking. If I were a doctor, I might say, "hey have you ever tried a good Cuban cigar, think you might like one?". Of course I'd probably get sued to oblivion by their relatives if they actually keel over after puffing a cigar.
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While I actually do use Audacity for long recordings it's not very good for that purpose.
The reason is if "stuff happens" (power failure, crash etc) during a recording, you actually have to go through a recovery process for the ENTIRE recording - older versions of Audacity were even worse (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/CrashRecovery depending on the sort of recording you were doing the recovery may not be 100%).
Saner recording software would write stuff to disk in a manner where you'd at most lose the last few seconds of the recording.
I still use Audacity because I'm a cheap bastard :).
p.s. Some older versions of Audacity 1.3 actually had problems with long recordings (at around the 2 hour mark), I had to go back to 1.2 till that was fixed... So code quality and design might not be very good.
The Gov can watch me in my house if they want.
BUT ONLY as long as I also get to watch and record whoever in Government I want and at anytime I want - that includes top political leaders, and other big shots in the government, police force etc.
If they can legally record me in public, then I should legally be able to record them in public.
If they can legally record me in private, then I should legally be able to do so too.
Golden rule and all that.
If they think it's wrong or unsafe for me to watch them like that, then it is wrong and unsafe for them to watch me like that.
Just not as funny.
Does that really mean if anyone knows the secret they can get any file the webserver can access?
If that's true about ASP.NET in general, then ASP.NET's _design_ is broken.
In contrast, with sane designs, I could even tell you the db password that the webapps use to access data/state from the db, but if you're outside, you can't touch anything (unless you're one of those elite hackers who have dozens of "zero days" stored up for a rainy day).
You could even have the ssh login credentials, but you'd have to get inside in the first place to use them.
So this is a design bug, not an implementation bug?
And cops aren't just any public employee. They are amongst the few entities allowed to legally exert substantial violence over others.
;)
As such there is more reason for them to be monitored.
And if they're doing nothing wrong, what's there to fear right? The Government uses that argument on us, so why doesn't it apply to them...
If the cops are not effective, the military get involved, one way or another.
Things get very messy at that point, but that's why cops have to do their jobs properly.
Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability in ASP.NET. An attacker who exploited this vulnerability could view data, such as the View State, which was encrypted by the target server, or read data from files on the target server, such as web.config.
Why would decrypting a cookie allow you to read data from files on the target server?
What if you just use cookies for storing session ids?
Using cookies to store lots of secrets seems like a stupid idea to me. Server-side secrets belong server-side.
Furthermore what if the user wants to use more than one browser window? If you are too reliant on cookies to store state it means the webapp would get confused in that scenario.
OK done... Better now? :)
You can turn preview mode on for tinyurl, so you can tell that link goes to google.com without having to actually go there.
:).
As for the rest, good luck
Sounds wrong to me. According to conventional science, eggs were around long before chickens even existed.
Are you using disk encryption as well? If you aren't I hope you are aware that anyone who has access to your server/drive has access to those banking credentials.
You might consider that an acceptable risk of course.
Oh an more about the "warrior emphasis".
A fighter would understand, for instance, if an enemy had penetrated the networks and changed coordinates or target times
Sure if you put a warrior in charge, that might be the case. But if you put a tech in charge, the enemy might not even penetrate the critical portions of the networks in the first place.
Furthermore if the enemy has successfully got in, you're screwed for quite a while. If an important military computer system is compromised for "only and hour or two" at a critical moment, even if you don't lose the battle, you could suffer greater losses.
I'm not saying warriors can't understand geeky stuff, after all just look at the NEETS stuff. But if the emphasis or job spec really is "warrior" first, I think that's stupid.
But running network security? If the emphasis is "warrior" for the job, good luck to them.
Maybe that explains why Gary McKinnon and others managed to hack into so many military computers.
I know enough about cars to know whether my mechanic is bullshitting me or to know when to send my car for servicing. But I'm not good enough at it to do his job well.
But it's tax free! ;)
I doubt it. Just because you don't declare your income doesn't mean it's tax free...
Let's not leave our descendants with the same sense of loss.
Easy, just lose all the records of the loss as well ;).
There's often lots of data loss but the records of data loss are also lost (or not recorded in the first place)...
The bubble might make an okay windshield in the rain, maybe.
I'm living in an equatorial zone, and it sure looks like a mini greenhouse tube to me. Sure they talk about ventilation holes, but I'm not convinced...
Anyway, overall it looks like a stupid idea. Not sure why it won a prize.
I think the trick is, after doing that no matter whether you fail or succeed, you'd welcome the fiery doom ;).
Anyway, there's plenty of air in the room itself, enough for an hour or two. Better to keep around some stuff to seal the gaps to keep the gases out. It won't keep the fire out, but if the fire comes in, you drinking toilet water or breathing shit fumes ain't gonna help.
but I'm sure that most of the people committing these crimes have the option of becoming an investment banker.
Yeah but their conscience might bother them even more.
BTW, I wonder where that 9.7 trillion actually went: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
9.7 trillion is a lot of money to take from taxpayers. USD30K per person?
They don't want to tell though. Did it go to investment bankers or petty thieves?
It's not that simple. If the USA did print enough dollars to repay the debt to China, then it would seriously inflate the dollar.
Then the dollar should be seriously inflating now right? Because the US owes China "only" about 2 trillion. While it sure looks like the USA has created more than 2 trillion USD since 2008.
See: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=apx7XNLnZZlc
December 12, 2008
"The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral."
While some may claim there's a difference between creating 2 trillion dollars, and the Federal Reserve lending 2 trillion dollars, I think in this case it's not very different - I doubt the US taxpayers saw the figures in their bank balances immediately decreasing after those loans. ;)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
February 9, 2009
"The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government's commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation's home mortgages. "
The Federal Reserve doesn't seem to want to say where it's going though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8&feature=related
although it would make a lot of third-world countries happy - they'd be able to repay their debts easily all of a sudden
I wouldn't say "sudden", since there'll be a lag between the time the USD is printed, enough people realizing "somethings changed", their goods being sold for the new prices and them getting the money for it (so that they can repay the loans).
It's like Zimbabwe, when Mugabe prints money, he and his cronies immediately benefit. The rest of the people with net positive Zimbabwe Dollars get taxed immediately, the others holding debts in Zimbabwe Dollars need to get paid higher salaries first before they can pay back "easily". If the creditors start saying "the interest rates are much higher now", it doesn't work so well. I believe for some loans the creditors can change the interest rates. Worse if they end up not even getting a salary, it doesn't work at all.
Lastly, it was really kind of strange - seeing people "fleeing to the US dollar" after the 2008 US financial crisis. I asked a few finance people about this - they couldn't figure it out either (they weren't doing it)- and suggested maybe it was out of habit. When scared rush to the US dollar? Doh.
Apparently pretty hard, based one how many people get them, but I just don't understand it.
Seems Blockbuster didn't understand it either, judging from:
1) More than a few people here grumbling about their experiences
2) Blockbuster filing for bankruptcy.
Assuming you're not a monopoly, when your customers are complaining about what you are doing, if you want to keep them you should try to figure out how to do things better (avoid the problem), even if you think it's their fault.
Well hopefully the Emergency Bra is easy to unclasp... I've heard some bras are rather difficult to remove.
Not speaking from experience of course (I'm a virgin slashdotter after all).
That seems a stupid idea to me.
If the fire is close enough that enough toxic fumes are getting into your bathroom despite your attempts at sealing it, I think you're just a few minutes away from incineration.
If it's just the fumes and the fire is far (but you somehow can't escape), just seal the toilet, you can live on the air for a few hours.
A human being uses about 550 litres (19 cubic feet) of oxygen per day. So that's about 100 cubic feet of air for 24 hours. Or 10 cubic feet of air for 1-2 hours.
If they haven't put out the fire after 2 hours, you're toast anyway.
The huge debts that sovereign nations tend to rack up trigger the same moral instincts that petty consumer debt does; but it isn't at all clear that they work anything like the same way, economically.
It should be clear and obvious they don't work the same way. After all, the US owes China in US dollars, not Euros, not RMB.
So it's more like an amusement park owing suppliers massive debts payable in amusement park tokens (except amusement park tokens cost more to make than "electronic" US dollars).
Or like you owing trillions in fuzzyfuzzyfungus dollars. You can create as many as you need. Sure the smart ones may never lend you money again, but maybe the smart ones wouldn't have lent you trillions payable in fuzzyfuzzyfungus dollars right? So the dumb ones might actually say "thank you!" when you go up to them and repay them :).
As long as the dollar remains the main currency used to trade oil and other commodities, the USA gets a cheap/free ride. The people who keep saying "the USA would be better off with the gold standard" should consider this and other important factors :).
Perhaps it isn't hurting the supermarket enough.
:).
The thieves have taken 4 years to suck up 500000 euros. That's 125000 per year.
Monoprix have more than 300 stores. If it costs more than 500 euros per store per year to install, maintain and support the extra security measures, it'll cost them more than the thieves are taking.
Monoprix might just be hoping that the police would eventually catch the thieves, and nobody else will copy them.
Will be a different thing if they shot or hurt people (since customers might stop going to their stores).
Lastly if the team has 3 members, assuming equal shares, each is only getting an average of about 40K per year. Not peanuts but definitely not a good way to get rich
In contrast, those infamous investment bankers and friends have certainly taken more than 40k/year each...
I'm being serious.
:).
Yes I know.
If you want serious, practically every human alive today is going to die. So the ones who go on very restrictive diets and lifestyles that they dislike just so that they last longer might be doing themselves a disservice. If they have a good reason for doing so, then go ahead, but if the only reason is just to last longer, that's a being silly.
That's like trying to keep a car in pristine condition by hardly ever driving it (or even not driving it). If say you're trying to save that car for your great-grandchildren, OK I guess, but if you're just keeping it for the sake of keeping it, you're in denial of the inevitable.
If you put up with some boiled fish and vegetables diet, don't be so surprised if you end up with dementia/alzheimer's or cancer at a ripe old age (or "dying of complications following a fall"). Conversely if you take a diet full of sugar, saturated fats and transfats don't be so surprised if you get a heart attack or worse get "locked-in" by a stroke.
Pick your poison with your eyes open
p.s. I've heard of doctors telling 90 year olds to stop smoking. If I were a doctor, I might say, "hey have you ever tried a good Cuban cigar, think you might like one?". Of course I'd probably get sued to oblivion by their relatives if they actually keel over after puffing a cigar.