credit card applications require your social security number to be put on the app in the first place
They provide a place for your SSN, but it is illegle for anyone but the social security or IRS to actually REQUIRE it. There is a several hundered or thousand dollar penalty for requiring it. You are NOT required to disclose that information to anyone but a few government agencies.
I forget the particular section of the US code that defines this, but I've read it, its easy to find.
IMO, the trademark would have a better chance if it was something other than an obvious description of the product.
However, I don't think changing OpenSSH's name is a big deal at all. Most people could care less what its called, as long as its stable, free, and easy to find.
With that said you are correct in saying that switching databases is not an easy task. Each implements its own subset/superset of whichever SQL standard(92, 89). Plus, to get top performace you usually tweak database specific things, such as giving the query optimizer hints on which index to use. These tweaks are very database dependent
Absolutely correct, plus, most databases have a bunch of annoying design flaws (and more often that not, one or two critical flaws) that make them even harder to move. Particularly big, fat, established business databases.
You should see the amazing, steaming piles of crap that some of those AS400's have to push around.
I don't see how nVidia is sue-able any more than I am for having a card that uses the fan
The fact is, you ARE just as sue-able for this as is nVidia.
Welcome to the US, where anyone can sue anyone for any damn thing they please, and the defendant either looses or spends boatloads of money to defend themselves.
To go along with that, how about disposible, pre-paid credit cards? I know, Amex is setting up that unique number thing, but why would I want to have an account if I could just buy a card a the store and have it totally anonymous?
Re:Good, The New Workers need to unionise.
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Unions were necessary a century or so ago, when we didn't have the tremendous opportunity of mobility and communication that we do in our present
society. Today, unions are as anachronistic to a good economy as homeopathy is to good medicine.
I disagree. It's easy for us, the majority of which are single and highly skilled, to assume that the freedoms that apply to us apply to everyone. If I were married with
children, my mobility would be hampered by a range of factors. If I were married, with children, and without the skills I have now, I'd have to accept most jobs in the
locality I was offered.
Everyone has these freedoms. It is your right to choose NOT to excerize these rights because you find it too inconvienant to not be able to see your children every night, or maintain your standard of living.
how exactly is banning encryption supposed to stop terrorists from using it?
Its not, its just supposed to give the monkeys in the suits a way to identify potential targets, and a legal basis on which to harras them if they so choose.
I like it, but it wouldn't work, because companies would just make new controlled companies to try to patent stuff for them. If one of those got locked out, they'd just dissolve it and reincorporate again under a new name.
I don't think it would help. If you announce that there's a gaping security hole in bind, and that a fix is now available, come and get it, how long do you suppose its going to take for the crackers to figure out what the problem is, write and release an exploit? Particularly when the payoff for the work is root access to the huge installbase.
A better idea would be to put a notice in the BIND docs that mentions that the software is ridden with security holes that will give any kiddie root access to the box, and that for the administrators own good, he should sign on to bugtraq so he can be notified about the discovery of such holes in a timely manner.
If you rob a bank and are caught, will you be thrown in jail? Answer: yes, so why is it that the thought or imaginatory act, or in this case the depiction of it in 'cartoon' format is OK? It just doesn't make sense that we can't draw the line.
Simple answer, because depiction of the action is NOT the same as actually PERFORMING the action.
Actors portraying rape hurts no one. Actors portraying murder hurts no one. Images of non-existant children engaged in sexual activity hurts no one.
Laws should punish those who actually violate others rights, not attempt to prevent those violations from occuring. Men are not hanged because horses are stolen, men are hanged so that horses will not be stolen.
When the CG is so good that the product is indistinguishable from the real thing, it will be easier, cheaper and faster to use CG to produce the porn. The market will be saturated, and the incentive to risk obtaining, photographing and disposing of real children will evaporate.
Perhaps virtual child porn actors can fill the small market for this material and reduce the risk to real children.
One of the cool things Kittinger said about the jump was that he could feel no wind resistance, because there wasn't enough atmosphere. He said it was almost boring (IIRC), he fell face down for a while, then turned over and faced up for a while.
Re:Pressure and Oxygen
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> Oxygen - Pressurized oxygen is required at higher altitude levels. Oxygen by
> itself it not enough, because at those levels, the partial pressure of oxygen in
> your blood is not enough to diffuse into your tissues.
From what I've read, as long as the partial pressure of oxygen is about the same as it is in the normal atmosphere, you're ok. All the way down until you are breathing pure oxygen at about 3 psi (which isn't as dangerous as it sounds, because at that low pressure, things don't combust nearly as well as at higher pressure. Course, if you're wearing a mask and something ignites, that would pretty much suck). Below that and the lungs cannot create a pressure differential high enough to move the oxygen in and out.
> Interestingly, the TUC (time of useful consciousness, i.e. the length of
> time you would last without pressurized oxygen) at 25,000 feet is about one minute
That varies quite a bit by person. I fly in an unpressurized private plane at 25-28,000 feet on occasion, and without oxygen I'm good for 5 minutes without too much trouble. Now, I'm not doing calculus or anything, but I can work on the computer or play cards without much trouble. If I'm just sitting there I can go quite a while (but thats not exactly useful conciousness:)
> The reason things burn up when they hit the atmosphere
> is due to one thing : friction
Two things actually. The space shuttle is heated by friction. The old reentry capsules with the blunt bottoms were heated by the air they compressed under them as they came in. Boyles law and all that.
If you check the source repositories, you'll find that there are at least three different versions of the backdoor username and password. One in firebird, one in the sourceforge interbase project, and one in the interbase source you can get off conxion's mirror of the source. And from the comments in the code, it appears there the backdoor user and password orginally had yet a fourth version (likely the original), although the comment has been changed in the sourceforge repositories.
It takes about 3 minutes to find this backdoor, even if you've never seen the interbase sourcecode, and have only a passing familiarity with C. You get the source, find the central authentication file (grep the tree for password and make a guess based on the file names. pwd.c is pretty obvious). Then you simply open the file and look at the authentication routine, where its as plain as day.
Any somewhat-above-average kiddie that cared to look could have been trashing databases (and getting root, most installations I've seen have IB running as root) for about a year now.
If Jordanian and Turkish inspectors rarely examine "small" shipments under 100 poundsThen why aren't they sticking Athelons inside stuffed animals or something?
The problem isn't really the power of the mobile transmitters, consider that the Iridium phones are transmitting to orbit. The problem is that the transmission path at these frequencies must be line-of-sight.
Thats why there is currently research into autonomous zepplins to maintain station above an area and provide wireless services. Just one at 60,000 feet can provide service for a whole city and surrounding areas.
First they establish stable capitalist democracies
Oh, of course, everybody knows that capitalist democracies are the only government system under which the population can be prosperous.
I think I'd notice any extra little boxes on the keyboard port.
You had better start taking apart your keyboard and checking inside, because that is likely where they are placing it, ala the keyghost device, which you can buy as a keyboard wedge, or as a device that comes built into the keyboard. From there it is a small step to make a device which is installed into your existing keyboard and includes a small RF transmitter to broadcast your keystrokes to a panel van down the street.
Or at the very least take apart the keyboard and pot the whole thing in clear epoxy with some unique items imbedded to make it nearly tamper-proof.:)
It just goes to show you how important the physical security of the system is.
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'specially considering that they aren't 'designed' at all.
Na, we'll develop treatments to repair defective genes. Those that used to be unfit will become fit.
Why play the game with limitations when you can hack the source code?
They provide a place for your SSN, but it is illegle for anyone but the social security or IRS to actually REQUIRE it. There is a several hundered or thousand dollar penalty for requiring it. You are NOT required to disclose that information to anyone but a few government agencies.
I forget the particular section of the US code that defines this, but I've read it, its easy to find.
Hmm, Secure Login... Would that be SLO?
IMO, the trademark would have a better chance if it was something other than an obvious description of the product.
However, I don't think changing OpenSSH's name is a big deal at all. Most people could care less what its called, as long as its stable, free, and easy to find.
Ok, why would you put a 15Gb HD in a battle bot?
Absolutely correct, plus, most databases have a bunch of annoying design flaws (and more often that not, one or two critical flaws) that make them even harder to move. Particularly big, fat, established business databases.
You should see the amazing, steaming piles of crap that some of those AS400's have to push around.
The fact is, you ARE just as sue-able for this as is nVidia.
Welcome to the US, where anyone can sue anyone for any damn thing they please, and the defendant either looses or spends boatloads of money to defend themselves.
To go along with that, how about disposible, pre-paid credit cards? I know, Amex is setting up that unique number thing, but why would I want to have an account if I could just buy a card a the store and have it totally anonymous?
Everyone has these freedoms. It is your right to choose NOT to excerize these rights because you find it too inconvienant to not be able to see your children every night, or maintain your standard of living.
how exactly is banning encryption supposed to stop terrorists from using it?
Its not, its just supposed to give the monkeys in the suits a way to identify potential targets, and a legal basis on which to harras them if they so choose.
I like it, but it wouldn't work, because companies would just make new controlled companies to try to patent stuff for them. If one of those got locked out, they'd just dissolve it and reincorporate again under a new name.
I don't think it would help. If you announce that there's a gaping security hole in bind, and that a fix is now available, come and get it, how long do you suppose its going to take for the crackers to figure out what the problem is, write and release an exploit? Particularly when the payoff for the work is root access to the huge installbase.
A better idea would be to put a notice in the BIND docs that mentions that the software is ridden with security holes that will give any kiddie root access to the box, and that for the administrators own good, he should sign on to bugtraq so he can be notified about the discovery of such holes in a timely manner.
IIRC, the 221 Baker street address is currently a bank. Last I heard anyway.
Simple answer, because depiction of the action is NOT the same as actually PERFORMING the action.
Actors portraying rape hurts no one. Actors portraying murder hurts no one. Images of non-existant children engaged in sexual activity hurts no one.
Laws should punish those who actually violate others rights, not attempt to prevent those violations from occuring. Men are not hanged because horses are stolen, men are hanged so that horses will not be stolen.
When the CG is so good that the product is indistinguishable from the real thing, it will be easier, cheaper and faster to use CG to produce the porn. The market will be saturated, and the incentive to risk obtaining, photographing and disposing of real children will evaporate.
Perhaps virtual child porn actors can fill the small market for this material and reduce the risk to real children.
One of the cool things Kittinger said about the jump was that he could feel no wind resistance, because there wasn't enough atmosphere. He said it was almost boring (IIRC), he fell face down for a while, then turned over and faced up for a while.
> Oxygen - Pressurized oxygen is required at higher altitude levels. Oxygen by
:)
> itself it not enough, because at those levels, the partial pressure of oxygen in
> your blood is not enough to diffuse into your tissues.
From what I've read, as long as the partial pressure of oxygen is about the same as it is in the normal atmosphere, you're ok. All the way down until you are breathing pure oxygen at about 3 psi (which isn't as dangerous as it sounds, because at that low pressure, things don't combust nearly as well as at higher pressure. Course, if you're wearing a mask and something ignites, that would pretty much suck). Below that and the lungs cannot create a pressure differential high enough to move the oxygen in and out.
> Interestingly, the TUC (time of useful consciousness, i.e. the length of
> time you would last without pressurized oxygen) at 25,000 feet is about one minute
That varies quite a bit by person. I fly in an unpressurized private plane at 25-28,000 feet on occasion, and without oxygen I'm good for 5 minutes without too much trouble. Now, I'm not doing calculus or anything, but I can work on the computer or play cards without much trouble. If I'm just sitting there I can go quite a while (but thats not exactly useful conciousness
> The reason things burn up when they hit the atmosphere
> is due to one thing : friction
Two things actually. The space shuttle is heated by friction. The old reentry capsules with the blunt bottoms were heated by the air they compressed under them as they came in. Boyles law and all that.
If you check the source repositories, you'll find that there are at least three different versions of the backdoor username and password. One in firebird, one in the sourceforge interbase project, and one in the interbase source you can get off conxion's mirror of the source. And from the comments in the code, it appears there the backdoor user and password orginally had yet a fourth version (likely the original), although the comment has been changed in the sourceforge repositories. It takes about 3 minutes to find this backdoor, even if you've never seen the interbase sourcecode, and have only a passing familiarity with C. You get the source, find the central authentication file (grep the tree for password and make a guess based on the file names. pwd.c is pretty obvious). Then you simply open the file and look at the authentication routine, where its as plain as day. Any somewhat-above-average kiddie that cared to look could have been trashing databases (and getting root, most installations I've seen have IB running as root) for about a year now.
If Jordanian and Turkish inspectors rarely examine "small" shipments under 100 poundsThen why aren't they sticking Athelons inside stuffed animals or something?
O: Oh yes I did!
M: No you DIDN'T!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument!
(pause)
O: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
(pause)
M: It's just contradiction!
O: No it isn't!
M: It IS!
O: It is NOT!
Optical? I was expecting precision accelerometers!
The problem isn't really the power of the mobile transmitters, consider that the Iridium phones are transmitting to orbit. The problem is that the transmission path at these frequencies must be line-of-sight.
Thats why there is currently research into autonomous zepplins to maintain station above an area and provide wireless services. Just one at 60,000 feet can provide service for a whole city and surrounding areas.
Oh, of course, everybody knows that capitalist democracies are the only government system under which the population can be prosperous.
You had better start taking apart your keyboard and checking inside, because that is likely where they are placing it, ala the keyghost device, which you can buy as a keyboard wedge, or as a device that comes built into the keyboard. From there it is a small step to make a device which is installed into your existing keyboard and includes a small RF transmitter to broadcast your keystrokes to a panel van down the street.
Or at the very least take apart the keyboard and pot the whole thing in clear epoxy with some unique items imbedded to make it nearly tamper-proof.:)
It just goes to show you how important the physical security of the system is.
Thats only illegal if the intent is fraud. Its perfectly legal to destroy your own money if you wish.