The fact that he uses drones to attack the Taliban is irrelevant, as they aren't true Muslims, just murderers and thugs using religion as an excuse.
No true Scotsman... That type of argument has been and will always be, bullshit.
Also, you feel comfortable making a determination as to whether a given person is "truly" a member of a given religion, something that would be immediately recognized as ignorant and bigoted had you done it in any other context. Even if you yourself are a Muslim, Islam is so fractured and ambiguous that you're still taking ridiculous liberties in making such a statement.
All it would take is some sort of SDK providing "beginner level" functions to call for various things. You don't have to understand the DOM, you just need a function you can call which does it for you.
If I understood what you meant; how do I log in from another computer?
Well, you'd need to install the plug-in on any browser you'd want to use, which I admit is a drawback. But the salt DB could easily be put out in the cloud somewhere. The hashes themselves aren't sensitive information.
Right. Because other than logging in, nobody ever touches the screen of their touchscreen device. Furthermore, typing a password on a touchscreen keyboard doesn't leave smudges that could be seen by anyone... Come on dude.
I actually have a BUILD tablet (the ones MS handed out in September) and I use the picture login. It keeps the tablet private enough for my purposes. Of course, my password is to simply triple-tap on a particular spot on the image, so it doesn't leave a grease trail that stands out, particularly.
I won't make the mistake of criticizing those who overclock. I've done it myself, with the famous "Celery" processors, SMP dual Celerons clocked to 450 megahertz. It was fun!
But if your goal is overall performance improvement, it makes hardly any sense at all. You're taking basically the fastest component in the system, and making it faster. Anybody who knows how to optimize anything should know that you optimize by speeding up the SLOWEST component first. For most machines, that's going to be the disks. Once the disks are as fast as possible, the next slowest component is the RAM. Increase the amount of it, increase the speed of it, or both. Then I'd start looking at the motherboard. Only after all that was taken care of would I start worrying about the CPU. And for that, cache is going to be far more important than clock rate.
An overclocked CPU just spends more cycles and power, waiting for the same amount of time it would have before, for data from the glacially slow RAM.
How about a browser plugin that causes every password text box to automatically hash its contents before submitting the form? Something like this:
User enters password in password field. Browser consults a salt database, keyed by hostname. If entry for this host is not found, adds one, and generates a random salt. Otherwise, uses previously generated salt. The browser then concatenates the password in the input field with the salt. Hashes the result. Represents in base64. The result of all this is what is actually submitted to the form.
Now you've forced your password to be salted and hashed regardless of what the web site is doing with it. Even if they store it in plain text, no matter.
Segmentation already provided separation of code and data. Paging was not meant to be used for security.
Segmentation is a ridiculous way to enforce separation of code and data. To use it, either all code in the process must be contiguous within VM, or a separate segment descriptor must be used for each non-contiguous region. In other words, we'd be stuck using "near and far" pointers like back in the days of 16-bit DOS. Oh, I'm sure programmers are just craving the return of that idiocy.
No, actually, programmers don't crave it and we refuse to put up with that garbage any more. If segmentation was an acceptable solution, operating systems would have made use of it. Instead, both closed AND open source operating systems resisted strongly, eventually forcing Intel to concede that the design was flawed and introduce the NX bit, something which should have been there ever since the beginning.
They ought to be helping Gingrich win the nomination. What the fuck are they smoking? He is the GOP's worst candidate.
I get the feeling half the people in this thread don't even know who this guy is. Seriously, read Wikipedia. He was charged with 84 Ethics violations, fined $300,000, and eventually kicked out of the House (forced to resign) by his own party. I quote Wikipedia:
Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 elections—the worst midterm performance in 64 years for a party that didn't hold the presidency. Polls showed that Gingrich and the Republican Party's attempt to remove President Clinton from office was deeply unpopular among voters.[75] Gingrich suffered much of the blame for the election loss. Facing a rebellion in the Republican caucus, he announced on November 5, 1998 that he would not only stand down as Speaker, but would leave the House as well. Gingrich made this announcement only a day after being elected to an 11th term from his district.
He's also a hypocrite:
In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich became a leader of the investigation of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs.[143]
Modern exploit techniques provide multiple ways around DEP. Obviously DEP is something that should always be used if the hardware supports it (and the lack of support in older processors can in some sense be considered a design flaw) but it's no panacea against exploits. For example see return-to-libc attacks and the return-oriented programming techniques which generalize it. Even then, those techniques are based on stack smashing attacks, which are not the only kind of attack possible.
Until schools are controlled by the public sector i encourage parents to take them on vacation early because the only thing they will be missing out on is the communist manifesto. And god forbid if you look at a teacher they might suspend you for sexual harassment.
A nice little article immediately becomes a rant about Communism. Because schools teach Communism.
The lefties always say they want justice, not money.. But, when they get offered enough money then they
take it and run... It's just a way to get money without working for it..
We're not talking about News International, the topic is "lefties!"
Yeah, right. You think the Vatican would EVER approve of such a thing? Here in the United States we can't even agree that HPV vaccination is a no brainer for our children -- we'd rather be able to dangle the threat of cervical cancer over children's heads as a scare tactic to prevent them from having sex. And you think in some backwards African nation ruled by Catholic manipulators they'll just be okay with a method of eliminating a deadly disease that kills people who have sex? They'd rather NOBODY had sex! And if you've got AIDS you must be a slut or a homosexual and you should die a horrible death!
The seal of an envelope is not security, it is privacy. If the postman wanted to open your letter, he easily could. He could probably also reseal it such that you wouldn't know he'd opened it (unless you took deliberate precautions against that -- but if you were that worried you wouldn't be using the postal service in the first place).
You simply trust the postman not to open your letters. You trust the ISP not to read your email. There's no difference.
Encrypted PDF is tricky. Only the string and stream data of the document is actually encrypted -- all the structural information of the document remains in plain text. The number of pages, the presence of images, size of those images, amount of text on each page can all be easily determined.
If you want to encrypt a PDF, use a file encryption tool, not PDF encryption. It doesn't work quite how you assume it does.
It wasn't a sob story dude -- I was using myself as an example of a person who had it relatively easy, and yet sympathizes with those less fortunate. Clearly I made a mistake in using the word "miserable" to describe my experience, it is obviously distracting from my actual point.
When, other than the Civil War, have US soldiers ever taken part in a large scale action on American civilians? Also, what would be the POINT of such an action? Suppose we had a civil war. Suppose the establishment "won" this war. Do you think anything would be left of this country except tattered pieces? What's the point of fighting if that's going to be the outcome? Is the government controlled by capitalist lobbying interests or is it not? You think the people who are left over after the slaughter of millions are going to say "Oh well, we lost. Back to mindless consumerism?" The established order would not survive regardless of which side "won."
What you are saying could possibly happen if there was some kind of ideological struggle, but this is not about ideology, it is pure and simple greed. Military action on US civilians doesn't serve that greed.
Libertarians (and truly conservative conservatives, not just the "gays are bad, m'kay" kind) have been warning this was the inevitable end of the gradual expansion of US government that has been happening over the last 60-odd years.
Right. And when my son misbehaves I have exactly two options, beat the piss out of him or ignore it. Bullshit. You're saying the alternative to ultra-conservatism is totalitarianism and only that. Bullshit.
They're the judges of constitutionality, but the fact of constitutionality is what it is regardless of what any individual believes.
Are you implying that the details of a specific human value system (the United States Constitution) are actually manifest as facts in the universe, that they exist a priori? How does this reconcile with the ability to amend the Constitution? It was not a fact yesterday but today it is, kind of thing?
That's exactly what mirroring means -- having a 2nd drive that is copied from the first at regular intervals through rsync or something similar.
No, that is not what mirroring means. Mirroring is for getting six sigma uptimes, not for backing up data. Let's see you recover data from your mirrored "backup" after executing "rm -rf/". Your drives are perfect mirror images... of an empty filesystem.
Instead of spending money on a warranty you might not even need, deposit that money into a rainy day fund which is used to replace shit that breaks. If you paid extra for a 5 year warranty, and the drive lasts 5 years, you just threw that money away.
This guy's logic is well off. He's trying to harm Facebook by letting companies game it. He's a spammer.
Actually, I love his logic. Am I all torn up inside about somebody interfering with Facebook's ability to data mine the shit out of everything by skewing the results, while simultaneously managing to profit from doing so? Nope.
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Why is it complex? Just pretend the extra week didn't happen (in effect, we all go on vacation that week).
The fact that he uses drones to attack the Taliban is irrelevant, as they aren't true Muslims, just murderers and thugs using religion as an excuse.
No true Scotsman... That type of argument has been and will always be, bullshit.
Also, you feel comfortable making a determination as to whether a given person is "truly" a member of a given religion, something that would be immediately recognized as ignorant and bigoted had you done it in any other context. Even if you yourself are a Muslim, Islam is so fractured and ambiguous that you're still taking ridiculous liberties in making such a statement.
All it would take is some sort of SDK providing "beginner level" functions to call for various things. You don't have to understand the DOM, you just need a function you can call which does it for you.
Err, the salts aren't sensitive information, is what I meant.
If I understood what you meant; how do I log in from another computer?
Well, you'd need to install the plug-in on any browser you'd want to use, which I admit is a drawback. But the salt DB could easily be put out in the cloud somewhere. The hashes themselves aren't sensitive information.
Right. Because other than logging in, nobody ever touches the screen of their touchscreen device. Furthermore, typing a password on a touchscreen keyboard doesn't leave smudges that could be seen by anyone... Come on dude.
I actually have a BUILD tablet (the ones MS handed out in September) and I use the picture login. It keeps the tablet private enough for my purposes. Of course, my password is to simply triple-tap on a particular spot on the image, so it doesn't leave a grease trail that stands out, particularly.
I won't make the mistake of criticizing those who overclock. I've done it myself, with the famous "Celery" processors, SMP dual Celerons clocked to 450 megahertz. It was fun!
But if your goal is overall performance improvement, it makes hardly any sense at all. You're taking basically the fastest component in the system, and making it faster. Anybody who knows how to optimize anything should know that you optimize by speeding up the SLOWEST component first. For most machines, that's going to be the disks. Once the disks are as fast as possible, the next slowest component is the RAM. Increase the amount of it, increase the speed of it, or both. Then I'd start looking at the motherboard. Only after all that was taken care of would I start worrying about the CPU. And for that, cache is going to be far more important than clock rate.
An overclocked CPU just spends more cycles and power, waiting for the same amount of time it would have before, for data from the glacially slow RAM.
How about a browser plugin that causes every password text box to automatically hash its contents before submitting the form? Something like this:
User enters password in password field. Browser consults a salt database, keyed by hostname. If entry for this host is not found, adds one, and generates a random salt. Otherwise, uses previously generated salt. The browser then concatenates the password in the input field with the salt. Hashes the result. Represents in base64. The result of all this is what is actually submitted to the form.
Now you've forced your password to be salted and hashed regardless of what the web site is doing with it. Even if they store it in plain text, no matter.
Segmentation already provided separation of code and data. Paging was not meant to be used for security.
Segmentation is a ridiculous way to enforce separation of code and data. To use it, either all code in the process must be contiguous within VM, or a separate segment descriptor must be used for each non-contiguous region. In other words, we'd be stuck using "near and far" pointers like back in the days of 16-bit DOS. Oh, I'm sure programmers are just craving the return of that idiocy.
No, actually, programmers don't crave it and we refuse to put up with that garbage any more. If segmentation was an acceptable solution, operating systems would have made use of it. Instead, both closed AND open source operating systems resisted strongly, eventually forcing Intel to concede that the design was flawed and introduce the NX bit, something which should have been there ever since the beginning.
They ought to be helping Gingrich win the nomination. What the fuck are they smoking? He is the GOP's worst candidate.
I get the feeling half the people in this thread don't even know who this guy is. Seriously, read Wikipedia. He was charged with 84 Ethics violations, fined $300,000, and eventually kicked out of the House (forced to resign) by his own party. I quote Wikipedia:
Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 elections—the worst midterm performance in 64 years for a party that didn't hold the presidency. Polls showed that Gingrich and the Republican Party's attempt to remove President Clinton from office was deeply unpopular among voters.[75] Gingrich suffered much of the blame for the election loss. Facing a rebellion in the Republican caucus, he announced on November 5, 1998 that he would not only stand down as Speaker, but would leave the House as well. Gingrich made this announcement only a day after being elected to an 11th term from his district.
He's also a hypocrite:
In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich became a leader of the investigation of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs.[143]
Similar to how the mafia disbanded after the end of Prohibition.Wait a minute, that didn't happen.
Modern exploit techniques provide multiple ways around DEP. Obviously DEP is something that should always be used if the hardware supports it (and the lack of support in older processors can in some sense be considered a design flaw) but it's no panacea against exploits. For example see return-to-libc attacks and the return-oriented programming techniques which generalize it. Even then, those techniques are based on stack smashing attacks, which are not the only kind of attack possible.
Please go on foxnews.com right now and bring up a story that encourages active hatred of fellow Americans, I dare you.
Okay. Let's see what's on the front of Fox right now: Good Idea? Taking Kids Out of School to Travel. First comment in the comment section:
Until schools are controlled by the public sector i encourage parents to take them on vacation early because the only thing they will be missing out on is the communist manifesto. And god forbid if you look at a teacher they might suspend you for sexual harassment.
A nice little article immediately becomes a rant about Communism. Because schools teach Communism.
Another story currently on the front page of Fox: News International Reportedly Pays 7 More Phone Hacking Victims. Second comment:
The lefties always say they want justice, not money.. But, when they get offered enough money then they take it and run ... It's just a way to get money without working for it ..
We're not talking about News International, the topic is "lefties!"
Another: Experimental Malaria Vaccine Shows Early Promise. First comment:
Headline should read: Experimental Obozo Vaccine Shows Early Promise Of Defeat in 2012
Shall I go on?
Yeah, right. You think the Vatican would EVER approve of such a thing? Here in the United States we can't even agree that HPV vaccination is a no brainer for our children -- we'd rather be able to dangle the threat of cervical cancer over children's heads as a scare tactic to prevent them from having sex. And you think in some backwards African nation ruled by Catholic manipulators they'll just be okay with a method of eliminating a deadly disease that kills people who have sex? They'd rather NOBODY had sex! And if you've got AIDS you must be a slut or a homosexual and you should die a horrible death!
The seal of an envelope is not security, it is privacy. If the postman wanted to open your letter, he easily could. He could probably also reseal it such that you wouldn't know he'd opened it (unless you took deliberate precautions against that -- but if you were that worried you wouldn't be using the postal service in the first place).
You simply trust the postman not to open your letters. You trust the ISP not to read your email. There's no difference.
Encrypted PDF is tricky. Only the string and stream data of the document is actually encrypted -- all the structural information of the document remains in plain text. The number of pages, the presence of images, size of those images, amount of text on each page can all be easily determined.
If you want to encrypt a PDF, use a file encryption tool, not PDF encryption. It doesn't work quite how you assume it does.
It wasn't a sob story dude -- I was using myself as an example of a person who had it relatively easy, and yet sympathizes with those less fortunate. Clearly I made a mistake in using the word "miserable" to describe my experience, it is obviously distracting from my actual point.
I interpreted your post as being sarcastic. If it wasn't, I apologize for misunderstanding you.
If you were being sarcastic, stop it. The existence of [extremist position A] doesn't make [extremist position opposite to A] acceptable.
When, other than the Civil War, have US soldiers ever taken part in a large scale action on American civilians? Also, what would be the POINT of such an action? Suppose we had a civil war. Suppose the establishment "won" this war. Do you think anything would be left of this country except tattered pieces? What's the point of fighting if that's going to be the outcome? Is the government controlled by capitalist lobbying interests or is it not? You think the people who are left over after the slaughter of millions are going to say "Oh well, we lost. Back to mindless consumerism?" The established order would not survive regardless of which side "won."
What you are saying could possibly happen if there was some kind of ideological struggle, but this is not about ideology, it is pure and simple greed. Military action on US civilians doesn't serve that greed.
Libertarians (and truly conservative conservatives, not just the "gays are bad, m'kay" kind) have been warning this was the inevitable end of the gradual expansion of US government that has been happening over the last 60-odd years.
Right. And when my son misbehaves I have exactly two options, beat the piss out of him or ignore it. Bullshit. You're saying the alternative to ultra-conservatism is totalitarianism and only that. Bullshit.
They're the judges of constitutionality, but the fact of constitutionality is what it is regardless of what any individual believes.
Are you implying that the details of a specific human value system (the United States Constitution) are actually manifest as facts in the universe, that they exist a priori? How does this reconcile with the ability to amend the Constitution? It was not a fact yesterday but today it is, kind of thing?
Given that a pound is a unit of weight, no, they would not.
That's exactly what mirroring means -- having a 2nd drive that is copied from the first at regular intervals through rsync or something similar.
No, that is not what mirroring means. Mirroring is for getting six sigma uptimes, not for backing up data. Let's see you recover data from your mirrored "backup" after executing "rm -rf /". Your drives are perfect mirror images... of an empty filesystem.
Instead of spending money on a warranty you might not even need, deposit that money into a rainy day fund which is used to replace shit that breaks. If you paid extra for a 5 year warranty, and the drive lasts 5 years, you just threw that money away.
This guy's logic is well off. He's trying to harm Facebook by letting companies game it. He's a spammer.
Actually, I love his logic. Am I all torn up inside about somebody interfering with Facebook's ability to data mine the shit out of everything by skewing the results, while simultaneously managing to profit from doing so? Nope.