I've been saying this among friends for a while... the only reason that these early electric and hybrid cars all look like ass! I think Honda caught onto the design thing, and thus we have the hybrid Civic. Other than that, this new car looks almost attractive.
As if slashdotting some poor guy's PDA earlier today wasn't enough, the hounds behind slashdot, the worlds #1 DOS trigger, had to go take out an entire community.
Yeah!! I noticed this behavior starting with RC3. Its a serious problem not being able to open multiple instances of my web browser! The whole "profile" idea is lame anyway.
Here's what I do about the multiple instance problem... in the same directory as the user's prefs.js... usually somewhere deep in the.mozilla hidden directory, is a file named "lock". Basically, if you delete the lock file, Mozilla will then launch in a new instance without a problem.
Like I said before, its a major pain in the ass. Seems like the lock file is a poor-man's fix to a bigger problem. I'll probably move back to RC2 and stick with it for a while.
There are a number of applications by which the methodology can not be applied entirely, but it serves as a good example to get the mind thinking about secure engineering practices.
Put on your "think like a cable company" hat for a moment... as a straight up cable TV network without broadband, it only makes sense to install line equipment to filter premium channels. Regardless of whatever cable package the customer orders, its always going to contain basic channels as a minimum. Hence, cable companies don't normally have filters installed for basic channels.
Ok, so lets throw in broadband. With the advent of internet access via cable, people who were previously without cable lines are now ordering cable for broadband only. Ok well, the internet access is running over a pre-existing cable network which probably wasn't designed with broadband in mind. Cable lines are coming installed, but carry basic channels at the very minimum because those signals aren't filtered.
Some cable companies play 'hush-hush' about it, and others don't. The good companies will "throw in basic cable" at no extra charge... which isn't really of much value beyond a marketing gimmick, because they probably can't NOT deliver basic cable anyway.
For example in dealing with encrypted passwords in a database... lets say I have a user database with encrypted passwords in it. (Could also be credit card info, etc.) For security purposes, I'd like to NOT decrypt any passwords for authentication, because that will place the password in plain text somewhere in memory, which is undesireable. Instead, for authentication, when the user supplies a password, I encrypt it and compare against the encrypted string in the database.
Same can be applied to credit card info. Once encrypted, you should rarely have to decrypt. Think of dealing with it from the standpoint of encrypting user input for comparison and validation against encrypted info in the database. This will save you from having to decrypt at all.
The other argument is "its not secure if its attached to the net". Basically, you should have the info stored on a separate database server with a direct cable link to the application server via a private NIC.
Think of the milky way as our "neighborhood". (or, "my network places" for you windows people). I may be slightly innacurate, but I'm nearly sure there are a few billion galaxies in the universe. Just because our neighborhood is a little trashy, doesn't mean the rest of the universe is. In our earth society terms, just as one town may be a slum the town next to it may be very hospitable.
I base my belief in the existence of alien life on one fact: probability. The universe is far larger than our minds can comprehend... chances are pretty good that there is some life out there, and if you believe in god, than chances are pretty good that alien life can be a lot like us.
According to what I've learned on TV about "1337 h4x0r5", this kid got caught because he didn't have roller blades and a backpack full of satellite equipment. Pretty simple. If you're going to be a good hacker, you better get some roller blades.
The original "flight simulator" was created by a guy named Bruce Artwick under the name SubLOGIC in 1979. In the early 1980's, Microsoft picked up flight simulator from SubLOGIC and released it for the XT. (The original was intended for TRS-80, Apple II).
If you think that today's Flight Simulator 2002, with very advanced 3d graphics and advanced flight simulation still has original code in it... you're wrong. Not only would XT code be of no use today, they re-wrote the whole thing between FS4 and FS5 anyway.
Flight Sim Cockpits are becoming a popular thing among FS junkies. I admit, I'm one of "them".
Most of the sim cockpits are of large jets. Many flight simmers fly these things, including military jets, because they're fun and they'll never have the opportunity to fly one in real life. With today's computing power, one can build an incredibly realistic simulation.
I recently started thinking about building a full scale 737 cockpit after purchasing the Dreamfleet 737-400 for simulation. (www.dreamfleet2000.com). The DF737 is the most realistic 737 simulation available for flight sim. I located some good cockpit building information, and even a source of replica panels.
www.a-g-t.com has replica panels of an F-16, F-18, Airbus A320, Airbus A340, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 777.
A good source of information is www.projectmagenta.com. Project Magenta was started in the interest of making "Glass Cockpits". In a modern big jet, there aren't likely to be guages for the primary flight instruments. These have been replaced with computer screens. Because glass cockpits are real, and computer screens are easily available to simmers, new modern jets become easy to simulate with 3 or 4 computer monitors embedded beneath the simulated flightdeck. Projectmagenta.com has pics illustrating what I'm talking about.
The only thing keeping me from building my 737 cockpit is money. I'm about to dump a bunch of money into a kit plane and go flying for real. Perhaps the 737 simulator will come afterward.
Even with real flight, I'll stick around in flight sim (as many pilots do) because I love the big jets!
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems."
Perhaps it should read...
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which informs technically capable people how DVDs are encrypted."
Clarification... DeCSS by itself does not circumvent copy protection!!! Only the *abuse* of DeCSS during application does.
Technically inept people shouldn't be making decisions about technology they don't understand. For example, would I, a computer programmer, make critical decisions about launching the space shuttle? Probably not.
Has anybody patented spam yet? If somebody could patent spam, and then deny its use, that would be the end of it!!!!
I normally despise these types of silly patents, however in one sick and twisted way, I hope these guys get the patent for pop-under ads. There is potential that they *could* do the right thing and deny right to use. (for american companies at least).
Could somebody please explain *why* The Sims is such a popular game? I've played the game, and found it to be completely boring and even slightly confusing. Whats the appeal?
Thank you for your explanation of how cancer works.
Surely, mother nature doesn't balance the population via magic. Cancer, disease, etc. are just some of the ways.
Evolution is a constant battle between a species and nature. Nature makes a play against a species, the species will make a play against nature. This occurs when the "un-fit" die, and the "fit" live, carrying traits into the general population of the species that is beneficial in terms of evolution.
In the instance of cancer, human beings that display resistence to cancer, live, carrying that trait to the general population. Granted these are just simple terms for illustration.
Irony is usually humorous in nature, although I believe Mr. Gould was at peace with dying from cancer, given that cancer is one of nature's many ways of balancing species population. Irony? Perhaps.
I agree with that! Not only for the benefit of others, I usually find the WHY in my comments to be beneficial to myself when I go back to a piece of code 6 months later.
First of all, i-95 doesn't go to texas. It probably wouldn't have hurt the producers, writers, and anybody else involved, to pick up a map and take a quick look.
Besides that slight innacuracy,can anybody explain how Mulder is suddenly able to communcate with dead people now?
Seriously, I'm not very impressed by this finale. It was poorly written, and the trial scene was simply a cheap way out for the writers to explain "the big picture" without putting much effort into it.
Guess there are plenty of holes left for the next movie.
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I wish I was the global administrator of some stuff!
Nobody could be as 1337 as me, if I was a global administrator of something. I could tell my boss to suck it.
Sorry... thats what I get for posting in haste!
It should read:
"...the only reason that these early electric and hybrid cars haven't caught on is because they all look like ass!"
I've been saying this among friends for a while... the only reason that these early electric and hybrid cars all look like ass! I think Honda caught onto the design thing, and thus we have the hybrid Civic. Other than that, this new car looks almost attractive.
"Thank you for watching MTV, the shiny things network"
As if slashdotting some poor guy's PDA earlier today wasn't enough, the hounds behind slashdot, the worlds #1 DOS trigger, had to go take out an entire community.
Way to go guys!
I just dug around in Mozilla and found this:
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764
There's a lot of information in there. Apparently the profile locking issue goes back a while, and there are a few reasons for it.
Yeah!! I noticed this behavior starting with RC3. Its a serious problem not being able to open multiple instances of my web browser! The whole "profile" idea is lame anyway.
.mozilla hidden directory, is a file named "lock". Basically, if you delete the lock file, Mozilla will then launch in a new instance without a problem.
Here's what I do about the multiple instance problem... in the same directory as the user's prefs.js... usually somewhere deep in the
Like I said before, its a major pain in the ass. Seems like the lock file is a poor-man's fix to a bigger problem. I'll probably move back to RC2 and stick with it for a while.
don't forget to park the heads before shutting off the lights.
I agree.
There are a number of applications by which the methodology can not be applied entirely, but it serves as a good example to get the mind thinking about secure engineering practices.
Isn't much of a surprise.
Put on your "think like a cable company" hat for a moment... as a straight up cable TV network without broadband, it only makes sense to install line equipment to filter premium channels. Regardless of whatever cable package the customer orders, its always going to contain basic channels as a minimum. Hence, cable companies don't normally have filters installed for basic channels.
Ok, so lets throw in broadband. With the advent of internet access via cable, people who were previously without cable lines are now ordering cable for broadband only. Ok well, the internet access is running over a pre-existing cable network which probably wasn't designed with broadband in mind. Cable lines are coming installed, but carry basic channels at the very minimum because those signals aren't filtered.
Some cable companies play 'hush-hush' about it, and others don't. The good companies will "throw in basic cable" at no extra charge... which isn't really of much value beyond a marketing gimmick, because they probably can't NOT deliver basic cable anyway.
For example in dealing with encrypted passwords in a database... lets say I have a user database with encrypted passwords in it. (Could also be credit card info, etc.) For security purposes, I'd like to NOT decrypt any passwords for authentication, because that will place the password in plain text somewhere in memory, which is undesireable. Instead, for authentication, when the user supplies a password, I encrypt it and compare against the encrypted string in the database.
Same can be applied to credit card info. Once encrypted, you should rarely have to decrypt. Think of dealing with it from the standpoint of encrypting user input for comparison and validation against encrypted info in the database. This will save you from having to decrypt at all.
The other argument is "its not secure if its attached to the net". Basically, you should have the info stored on a separate database server with a direct cable link to the application server via a private NIC.
Here we go...
Think of the milky way as our "neighborhood". (or, "my network places" for you windows people). I may be slightly innacurate, but I'm nearly sure there are a few billion galaxies in the universe. Just because our neighborhood is a little trashy, doesn't mean the rest of the universe is. In our earth society terms, just as one town may be a slum the town next to it may be very hospitable.
I base my belief in the existence of alien life on one fact: probability. The universe is far larger than our minds can comprehend... chances are pretty good that there is some life out there, and if you believe in god, than chances are pretty good that alien life can be a lot like us.
The FBI released a trace of Mafiaboy's hacking session... I've pasted it below
--
C:/> hack yahoo.com
Select hack type:
1) Denial of Service
2) Packet Trace
3) Steal Accounts
4) Get Root
Selection: 1
Enter Name: MafiaBoy
Proceed with hack #1 by MafiaBoy? [y/n]: Y
Hacking yahoo.com... please wait
...................FBI trace detected!
*abort*
C:\> cd 1337
C:\1337>
--
Thats pretty much all of the trace that the FBI released. I wasn't sure about the syntax of the hack command, but I guess this helps.
According to what I've learned on TV about "1337 h4x0r5", this kid got caught because he didn't have roller blades and a backpack full of satellite equipment. Pretty simple. If you're going to be a good hacker, you better get some roller blades.
The original "flight simulator" was created by a guy named Bruce Artwick under the name SubLOGIC in 1979. In the early 1980's, Microsoft picked up flight simulator from SubLOGIC and released it for the XT. (The original was intended for TRS-80, Apple II).
If you think that today's Flight Simulator 2002, with very advanced 3d graphics and advanced flight simulation still has original code in it... you're wrong. Not only would XT code be of no use today, they re-wrote the whole thing between FS4 and FS5 anyway.
Flight Sim Cockpits are becoming a popular thing among FS junkies. I admit, I'm one of "them".
Most of the sim cockpits are of large jets. Many flight simmers fly these things, including military jets, because they're fun and they'll never have the opportunity to fly one in real life. With today's computing power, one can build an incredibly realistic simulation.
I recently started thinking about building a full scale 737 cockpit after purchasing the Dreamfleet 737-400 for simulation. (www.dreamfleet2000.com). The DF737 is the most realistic 737 simulation available for flight sim. I located some good cockpit building information, and even a source of replica panels.
www.a-g-t.com has replica panels of an F-16, F-18, Airbus A320, Airbus A340, Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Boeing 777.
A good source of information is www.projectmagenta.com. Project Magenta was started in the interest of making "Glass Cockpits". In a modern big jet, there aren't likely to be guages for the primary flight instruments. These have been replaced with computer screens. Because glass cockpits are real, and computer screens are easily available to simmers, new modern jets become easy to simulate with 3 or 4 computer monitors embedded beneath the simulated flightdeck. Projectmagenta.com has pics illustrating what I'm talking about.
The only thing keeping me from building my 737 cockpit is money. I'm about to dump a bunch of money into a kit plane and go flying for real. Perhaps the 737 simulator will come afterward.
Even with real flight, I'll stick around in flight sim (as many pilots do) because I love the big jets!
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems."
Perhaps it should read...
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project today asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court's decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which informs technically capable people how DVDs are encrypted."
Clarification... DeCSS by itself does not circumvent copy protection!!! Only the *abuse* of DeCSS during application does.
Technically inept people shouldn't be making decisions about technology they don't understand. For example, would I, a computer programmer, make critical decisions about launching the space shuttle? Probably not.
Go 2600 and stick it to 'em!
Has anybody patented spam yet? If somebody could patent spam, and then deny its use, that would be the end of it!!!!
I normally despise these types of silly patents, however in one sick and twisted way, I hope these guys get the patent for pop-under ads. There is potential that they *could* do the right thing and deny right to use. (for american companies at least).
Could somebody please explain *why* The Sims is such a popular game? I've played the game, and found it to be completely boring and even slightly confusing. Whats the appeal?
Thank you for your explanation of how cancer works.
Surely, mother nature doesn't balance the population via magic. Cancer, disease, etc. are just some of the ways.
Evolution is a constant battle between a species and nature. Nature makes a play against a species, the species will make a play against nature. This occurs when the "un-fit" die, and the "fit" live, carrying traits into the general population of the species that is beneficial in terms of evolution.
In the instance of cancer, human beings that display resistence to cancer, live, carrying that trait to the general population. Granted these are just simple terms for illustration.
Irony is usually humorous in nature, although I believe Mr. Gould was at peace with dying from cancer, given that cancer is one of nature's many ways of balancing species population. Irony? Perhaps.
The moon base idea is cool, but since when was China interested in humanity?
I agree with that! Not only for the benefit of others, I usually find the WHY in my comments to be beneficial to myself when I go back to a piece of code 6 months later.
First of all, i-95 doesn't go to texas. It probably wouldn't have hurt the producers, writers, and anybody else involved, to pick up a map and take a quick look.
Besides that slight innacuracy,can anybody explain how Mulder is suddenly able to communcate with dead people now?
Seriously, I'm not very impressed by this finale. It was poorly written, and the trial scene was simply a cheap way out for the writers to explain "the big picture" without putting much effort into it.
Guess there are plenty of holes left for the next movie.
I thought that was just a gimick they used in their TV commercials. Somebody's smoking crack.