Yea! One of the things I loved about the first movie was that it was flawless about the logic. There was an absolutely logic explanation to why we see people jumping between impossible building gaps, and disappear in phone bots. That was completely ruined at the end of the second movie with the telekinetic stuff, so unless they justify that with some-kind of a multilevel depth of matrixes, the next movies can't be nothing more than entertainment to me .
so i suppose saying "correlation is not causation" is of value if the average slashdot reader is a 12 year old. but otherwise,
It is when you continue try to make a relation between who uses that phrase and the dumbness of who uses that phrase out of context. Since you are continually making a "correlation with causation", I'm pointing the irony of your comments. See that I'm not saying you are ironic, I'm pointing the irony of your comments.
To reach the value of an argument you can't attack the people who uses that argument as a way of reaching the real value of the argument. That's not being honest. You have to discuss the argument itself.
other than conveniently labelling yourself for everyone else's sake as the idiot in the room
Based on your last phrase, perhaps it's too much to ask for you to discuss arguments rather than attacking people who use them.
"Correlation is not equal to causation" is what an unintelligent person says when they wish to sound intelligent. it's something they once heard they thought was clever, and they think that by aping this simpleminded thought they are adding something to the conversation, when they are just generating useless noise
an intelligent person would actually be looking at the merits or lack thereof of the correlation, and talking about if causation is implied or not
Perhaps, but even considering true that most people who use that phrase are unintelligent wishing to sound intelligent, It doesn't mean that all people using that phrase are unintelligent and using the phrase out of context. To support what I'm saying: "correlation is not causation"
I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.
I believe you are wrong. The mere fact that you are intentionally using ( inherently informed consent), disqualifies jailbreak/rooting as malware.
From wikipedia: "Malware (also: scumware), short for malicious software, is software designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent. "
RTFA. It's not about flaws in encryption. It's about "ASP.NET's implementation of AES has a bug in the way that it deals with errors when the encrypted data in a cookie has been modified" So it's the ASP.NET AES implementation that has flaws. The problem seems to be that the errors reveal enough information about how to decrypt the data.
I think it's a good idea for them to change the passwords
I think that too. But perhaps a better approach would be to contact people first asking permission, don't you think. Perhaps they didn't do that because it's a little more expensive than just running a script to automatically change default passwords to cover their asses.
Every time someone did a disconnect they had to send back equipment or pay a fee for not returning it
IANAL, Even if that is true, the router is rented, so it belongs while he pays his connection. In my country and I think in most countries, a landlord can't enter in any of his rented houses without consent of the people who live there. By your way of thinking Verizon could enter your network even if you protected it, just because they own the router.
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Not native English speaker, so don't break my balls.
I don't know whether there are any other self-taught coders such as myself who can back this up
Yes there are plenty around to back you up. And I'm one of them. And I do a Pepsi-challenge with my code, with many out there with computer science degrees.
I agree with you about the shitty code out there. I simply can't agree with anything else you've wrote. Why do you assume that only people with Computer Science background should be writing code? Your post also just assume that because he is a security guard, that he just should write code that would never see the light of the day. That's plain stupid you know. The submitter already told me two thing with his article. First is that he truly loves programming, and second is that he is able to self study any language without the need of a course where he could ask many questions about issues he didn't understood. That's more than I find in many people with a computer related education. Your computer science background can teatch you important concepts, and the right way to do things. It can be a valuable and important background. It can't teach you how to be creative with your algorithms, and how to be smart enough to write complex programs.
* Windows XP with SP2 or a later version
* Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0
* Windows Imaging Component
* 250 MB or more of hard disk space
* A 1.0-gigahertz (GHz) processor (2.8 GHz or faster is recommended)
* 256 MB of system memory (1 GB is recommended)
* A 32-MB video card (256 MB is recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9, with 3D hardware acceleration enabled
* A high-speed or broadband Internet connection
I have moonlight(linux silverlight implemented with mono) installed, and looking by the requirement specifications I guess you are wrong.
Also - a lot of Bing Maps is beta or just freshly out of Beta. I'm using their API on web sites where I am asked to integrate a map as it just really works better IMHO.
Also by the obvious specs above I guess they will never support Linux, so I guess I will never know how much better it works unless I buy their OS. I have a rule of thumb here. I don't buy proprietary software to browse the web. I'm probably crazy.
"3D is currently not supported for your browser. For a list of supported browsers, see Help."
Seeing help: Supported browsers.
* Internet Explorer 6 or later
* Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later
* Safari 3.1 or later
I'm using Firefox 3.6. But I guess it's not my browser that isn't supported. It's probably because I'm running it on Gentoo. I guess I will have to stick with Goggle Maps after all.
[sarcasm] One more point for Microsoft for web neutrality.[/sarcasm]
If the user has to type a "hidden" command in order to access help files, then the system is already broke. This is the advantage mature OSes like Windows and MacOS have - you can access the help files with a mouse click.
So. What you are saying is that man is an obscure command on Linux?
We don' have software patents over here, but It's a subject that I fallow regularly here on Slashdot. I found this analogy about English prose one of the bests I saw to inform non computer literates about this subject.
Take my example. I'm currently writing an FTP client for learning and contribute purposes. One of the things about FTP is that each server vendor as some kind of slightly different application. So if I want to make a client that has some kind of success I have to test many of the servers(closed sourced and open) out there, so my program can parse every line.
I've mostly wrote this software from scratch fallowing the RFC specifications.
At some point I've downloaded the source code of some popular open-source FTP clients(FileZilla, KFtpGrabber), to analize the code and look for different approaches. It was surprising to see that while both this programs and mine are very complex applications, and that my work is completely original, we have very common programming techniques(and code) on several identical subjects(even the variables have the same name sometimes).
What I've realize is that for some problems there are out there have just about one or two best solutions. No one can argue that my creativity is not original. I've only looked at the code of these programs after the engine was almost written, but hypothetically if at any point some FTP client program or idea was patented my program wold violate that for sure(although it would not violate copyright since it's not the same code).
Patenting code is like patenting solutions to problems and it could be justified if there were many different solutions out there but the reality is that many problems have only one or two correct approach.
Holy shit. Is this for real. I'm starting to understand how the world is so fucked up when people like this are taken seriously.
first-time users of computers should have to earn a licence to surf the web.
Because first time users are major responsible for ciber-crime.
... There's been some discussion in Europe about the use of what's called a computer drivers licence - where you have a standard set of skills people should learn before they start using computers," Dr Smith told iTnews.
Becouse it's users that do not knowing how to browse the web responsible for computer crime.
"At the moment we have drivers licences for cars, and cars are very dangerous machines. Computers are also quite dangerous in the way that they can make people vulnerable to fraud.
This guy actually made this analogy. WTF???
"I think at the starting point of it you need manufacturers of both hardware and software to devise technology that makes it difficult or impossible for people to be defrauded," Dr Smith said.
We have a very similar laws in Portugal. Consume and possession is not criminalized. We also have a limit that you can justify for consume. Everything above that limit you can be considered a drug dealer.
We still have a very stupid understanding about copyright. There were this small music band that had everything apprehended after a police inspection on the establishment were they were playing because they had home recorded CD's with their music on it. To the police home recorded Cd's == pirate music.
You call my behavior child-like and yet it's you that had the trouble to try to look up my info on the net to make any kind of weird point. You are crossing some line you know. I'm sorry that my English is not so sophisticated like yours, but try to express yourself in Portuguese. I'm sure you will sound more than childish. Is my bad English or confrontational behavior excuse for you to be an asshole. Yes. I think I've wine the right to call you an asshole with the succession of personal attacks that you've made to my person. How much does this sound childish to you?
I really did suspect that I couldn't have a proper conversation right from my first response to your comment, and I should have stopped there, so this is really my fault. Yet I'm learning with assholes like you, not to respond to comments that have nothing more than being condescending to prove their point. Good day.
I've gave you the Schrödinger's cat and the "every problem is a people's problem" examples to make a point that if a problem exists and no one know about it, and in any way it interferes with nothing in the present or in the future, for practical means, it isn't a problem.
Of course the issue exists in reality. I'm not a moron that don't understand that things have to be acknowledged to exist, but you are the one who failed to understand the true meaning of what I've wrote, instead of using literal interpretation to call me a moron and to be offensive.
Slashdot Mirror
After verifying the truthfulness of this allegations only one phrase came to my head.
GOOGLE IS EVIL
Yea! One of the things I loved about the first movie was that it was flawless about the logic. There was an absolutely logic explanation to why we see people jumping between impossible building gaps, and disappear in phone bots.
That was completely ruined at the end of the second movie with the telekinetic stuff, so unless they justify that with some-kind of a multilevel depth of matrixes, the next movies can't be nothing more than entertainment to me .
so i suppose saying "correlation is not causation" is of value if the average slashdot reader is a 12 year old. but otherwise,
It is when you continue try to make a relation between who uses that phrase and the dumbness of who uses that phrase out of context. Since you are continually making a "correlation with causation", I'm pointing the irony of your comments. See that I'm not saying you are ironic, I'm pointing the irony of your comments.
To reach the value of an argument you can't attack the people who uses that argument as a way of reaching the real value of the argument. That's not being honest. You have to discuss the argument itself.
other than conveniently labelling yourself for everyone else's sake as the idiot in the room
Based on your last phrase, perhaps it's too much to ask for you to discuss arguments rather than attacking people who use them.
"Correlation is not equal to causation" is what an unintelligent person says when they wish to sound intelligent. it's something they once heard they thought was clever, and they think that by aping this simpleminded thought they are adding something to the conversation, when they are just generating useless noise
an intelligent person would actually be looking at the merits or lack thereof of the correlation, and talking about if causation is implied or not
Perhaps, but even considering true that most people who use that phrase are unintelligent wishing to sound intelligent, It doesn't mean that all people using that phrase are unintelligent and using the phrase out of context. To support what I'm saying: "correlation is not causation"
I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.
I believe you are wrong. The mere fact that you are intentionally using ( inherently informed consent), disqualifies jailbreak/rooting as malware.
From wikipedia: "Malware (also: scumware), short for malicious software, is software designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent. "
The proposal is to "censor the entire net in Australia"
What a surprise, encryption has flaws!
RTFA. It's not about flaws in encryption. It's about "ASP.NET's implementation of AES has a bug in the way that it deals with errors when the encrypted data in a cookie has been modified"
So it's the ASP.NET AES implementation that has flaws. The problem seems to be that the errors reveal enough information about how to decrypt the data.
I think it's a good idea for them to change the passwords
I think that too. But perhaps a better approach would be to contact people first asking permission, don't you think. Perhaps they didn't do that because it's a little more expensive than just running a script to automatically change default passwords to cover their asses.
Every time someone did a disconnect they had to send back equipment or pay a fee for not returning it
IANAL, Even if that is true, the router is rented, so it belongs while he pays his connection. In my country and I think in most countries, a landlord can't enter in any of his rented houses without consent of the people who live there. By your way of thinking Verizon could enter your network even if you protected it, just because they own the router.
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Not native English speaker, so don't break my balls.
So, without an industry that is strong in copyright, the country has no major incentives to be a strong proponent of copyright.
So, without an industry to fill the pockets of politicians, the country has no major incentives to uphold totally insane laws.
I don't know whether there are any other self-taught coders such as myself who can back this up
Yes there are plenty around to back you up. And I'm one of them. And I do a Pepsi-challenge with my code, with many out there with computer science degrees.
I agree with you about the shitty code out there. I simply can't agree with anything else you've wrote.
Why do you assume that only people with Computer Science background should be writing code? Your post also just assume that because he is a security guard, that he just should write code that would never see the light of the day. That's plain stupid you know.
The submitter already told me two thing with his article. First is that he truly loves programming, and second is that he is able to self study any language without the need of a course where he could ask many questions about issues he didn't understood.
That's more than I find in many people with a computer related education. Your computer science background can teatch you important concepts, and the right way to do things. It can be a valuable and important background. It can't teach you how to be creative with your algorithms, and how to be smart enough to write complex programs.
From the help:
* Windows XP with SP2 or a later version .NET Framework 2.0
* Microsoft
* Windows Imaging Component
* 250 MB or more of hard disk space
* A 1.0-gigahertz (GHz) processor (2.8 GHz or faster is recommended)
* 256 MB of system memory (1 GB is recommended)
* A 32-MB video card (256 MB is recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9, with 3D hardware acceleration enabled
* A high-speed or broadband Internet connection
I have moonlight(linux silverlight implemented with mono) installed, and looking by the requirement specifications I guess you are wrong.
Also - a lot of Bing Maps is beta or just freshly out of Beta. I'm using their API on web sites where I am asked to integrate a map as it just really works better IMHO.
Also by the obvious specs above I guess they will never support Linux, so I guess I will never know how much better it works unless I buy their OS.
I have a rule of thumb here. I don't buy proprietary software to browse the web. I'm probably crazy.
"3D is currently not supported for your browser. For a list of supported browsers, see Help."
Seeing help:
Supported browsers.
* Internet Explorer 6 or later
* Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later
* Safari 3.1 or later
I'm using Firefox 3.6. But I guess it's not my browser that isn't supported. It's probably because I'm running it on Gentoo. I guess I will have to stick with Goggle Maps after all.
[sarcasm] One more point for Microsoft for web neutrality.[/sarcasm]
I don't think Firefox was even a target ...
Perhaps not. But Google did know for sure what problems Firefox could have with the exclusive adoption of H264 on Youtube.
That has do make me think.
How to silently kill Firefox:
* Support Firefox trough funding (so that nobody can call you evil)
* Buy one of the most successful video sites.
* Implement a technology on this site that you know for sure Firefox can't use.
* Reduce competition on this site by using a video format not everyone can use on their site(increasing linking and video embedding to your own site)
* Support this video format on your own browser.
*Profit.
>>>man
>>>apropos
If the user has to type a "hidden" command in order to access help files, then the system is already broke. This is the advantage mature OSes like Windows and MacOS have - you can access the help files with a mouse click.
So. What you are saying is that man is an obscure command on Linux?
although it's not clear how Facebook can validate the death of a member if neither of those pieces of information is published on the internet.
You are not dead...
if there's no info on the internet.
Unfortunately, humans are quite stupid.
Compared to? Cats? An alien race you know of but the rest of us don't? A cherrypicked group of humans?
I bet he's talking about cats.
My cat will never fall for Nigerian scams.
We don' have software patents over here, but It's a subject that I fallow regularly here on Slashdot. I found this analogy about English prose one of the bests I saw to inform non computer literates about this subject.
Take my example. I'm currently writing an FTP client for learning and contribute purposes. One of the things about FTP is that each server vendor as some kind of slightly different application. So if I want to make a client that has some kind of success I have to test many of the servers(closed sourced and open) out there, so my program can parse every line. I've mostly wrote this software from scratch fallowing the RFC specifications.
At some point I've downloaded the source code of some popular open-source FTP clients(FileZilla, KFtpGrabber), to analize the code and look for different approaches. It was surprising to see that while both this programs and mine are very complex applications, and that my work is completely original, we have very common programming techniques(and code) on several identical subjects(even the variables have the same name sometimes).
What I've realize is that for some problems there are out there have just about one or two best solutions. No one can argue that my creativity is not original. I've only looked at the code of these programs after the engine was almost written, but hypothetically if at any point some FTP client program or idea was patented my program wold violate that for sure(although it would not violate copyright since it's not the same code).
Patenting code is like patenting solutions to problems and it could be justified if there were many different solutions out there but the reality is that many problems have only one or two correct approach.
first-time users of computers should have to earn a licence to surf the web.
Because first time users are major responsible for ciber-crime.
... There's been some discussion in Europe about the use of what's called a computer drivers licence - where you have a standard set of skills people should learn before they start using computers," Dr Smith told iTnews.
Becouse it's users that do not knowing how to browse the web responsible for computer crime.
"At the moment we have drivers licences for cars, and cars are very dangerous machines. Computers are also quite dangerous in the way that they can make people vulnerable to fraud.
This guy actually made this analogy. WTF???
"I think at the starting point of it you need manufacturers of both hardware and software to devise technology that makes it difficult or impossible for people to be defrauded," Dr Smith said.
We have a very similar laws in Portugal. Consume and possession is not criminalized. We also have a limit that you can justify for consume. Everything above that limit you can be considered a drug dealer.
We still have a very stupid understanding about copyright. There were this small music band that had everything apprehended after a police inspection on the establishment were they were playing because they had home recorded CD's with their music on it. To the police home recorded Cd's == pirate music.
You call my behavior child-like and yet it's you that had the trouble to try to look up my info on the net to make any kind of weird point. You are crossing some line you know.
I'm sorry that my English is not so sophisticated like yours, but try to express yourself in Portuguese. I'm sure you will sound more than childish. Is my bad English or confrontational behavior excuse for you to be an asshole.
Yes. I think I've wine the right to call you an asshole with the succession of personal attacks that you've made to my person. How much does this sound childish to you?
I really did suspect that I couldn't have a proper conversation right from my first response to your comment, and I should have stopped there, so this is really my fault.
Yet I'm learning with assholes like you, not to respond to comments that have nothing more than being condescending to prove their point.
Good day.
I'm sorry. You are totally right.
I should have said: "so I can hardly be just considered a fan-boy."
I've gave you the Schrödinger's cat and the "every problem is a people's problem" examples to make a point that if a problem exists and no one know about it, and in any way it interferes with nothing in the present or in the future, for practical means, it isn't a problem.
Of course the issue exists in reality. I'm not a moron that don't understand that things have to be acknowledged to exist, but you are the one who failed to understand the true meaning of what I've wrote, instead of using literal interpretation to call me a moron and to be offensive.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one's around...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat
No, moron. If nobody knew then it's a security issue that nobody knew about. It's still a security issue.
"every problem is a people problem".