I was wondering if this was about preventing SQL injection, and they'd never heard of parameterized queries.
That would have been my first guess, though any SQL system, even if it doesn’t support paramaterized queries, can (and should) be secure if you correctly escape your data, so there’s really no excuse.
We are approaching the point where recycling plastic is Smart, and when it becomes Really Smart then landfills will start being dug up (especially older ones, where all the biodegradable stuff is gone) just for the profit potential (plastics, metals...)
^^ This.
Perhaps we haven’t yet reached the point where it is worthwhile to dig up old landfills, but breakthroughs (like this one) are exactly what we need to move in that direction.
I’ve adblocked Facebook’s content on non-Facebook sites.
And you might also try what I suggested to metrix007 in my other comment, next time/. breaks, if it’s a recurring problem for you. I had something screwy with my account that your method didn’t fix, and none of the controls in the D2 system would fix (that/my/comments page isn’t accessible from within D2).
Go to http://slashdot.org/my/comments, turn off D2, Save, then Restore Defaults, re-customize the options on that page, Save, and then re-enable D2 and Save again. Might help.
IMHO bugmenot is pretty much useless since (a) permitting websites to opt themselves out and (b) webmasters got savvy and started banning accounts listed on bugmenot.
Yeah, I just registered an online banking account and their password requirements were 8-12 characters, no special characters.
WTF people?
But then they use security questions as a second line of defense, which is just another password, and a much longer and therefore stronger one at that (if it’s done properly – which most people don’t do, of course). Now, hopefully they’d require someone logging in from an unrecognized IP address to pass a security question...
The Constitution left the definition of 'Citizen' as an undefined term, but the weasel-wording it "three fifths of all other Persons" established the baseline, pretty explicitly;
I’m guessing you don’t know much about that (and regardless, I’m sure that most other people don’t), so I’ll go into a little bit more detail.
The three-fifths compromise was made when southern states, which naturally had a lot of slaves, thought that since they had so many more mouths to feed, they should get greater representation in Congress. But slaves couldn’t vote, so that representation would have represented the rich white guys, not the slaves. Obviously this was just a power-grab by the rich white guys, and the northern states opposed it. In the end, the only way to come to any agreement at all was to compromise.
So, if there were an average of 10 slaves for every white person able to vote in the South (probably a low estimate, but for the sake of example), the southerners wanted his vote to count for essentially 11x (his vote + the votes of 10 slaves who couldn’t vote for themselves) what a single voter’s vote in the North counted for. The northerners wanted it to be 1x (don’t count slaves, if they can’t vote). Under the compromise, it was still a factor of 7x (white person’s vote + 3/5 x 10 slaves’ votes), and the slaves still had no representation (white people were still casting their votes for them).
Flickr is at least as easy to use and doesn't force us into the walled garden if we don't want to.
You do realize that unless you pay for Flickr, it only lets people see your most recent 30 or 50 photos or something like that.
And Facebook doesn’t force you into a walled garden, as you put it. Every album has a public link that you can share with people who don’t want to register.
Money is just a barter system. We could just as well be using bottle caps or round rocks with holes in them or bushels of wheat. It wouldn’t make any difference.
At the time it was written, blacks were not considered part of "We the People".
They were wrong. That doesn’t mean the Constitution was wrong or needed to be changed, only that their interpretation of it was wrong and needed to be changed.
Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property.
So every state gets the freedom to decide for themselves whether black people are people? What other conditions do states have the right to place on a person’s “person-hood”? Do we really need a constitutional amendment to clarify that yes, people are actually people?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
“First sale” means that if you buy a copyrighted CD, you are free to sell it to your buddy after you’re tired of it, or sell it in a garage sale, or on ebay, or even to sell it to a used book store that commercially buys and sells used CDs. The copyright holder only has the right to force the first seller to be a licensed and authorized seller of the CD. After that, it belongs to the person who bought it, with the obvious stipulation that they can’t copy it.
Now they’ve said that this only applies if the product was made in the US. So if you buy something that was made outside the US, and the company who manufactured it claims that it is a copyrighted work, they have the right to control everyone who is allowed to sell it... which means you can’t sell it without their permission.
By that logic, before the UN recognizes any self-proclaiming sovereign state (Israel? Palestine?) it should send in some troops first and find out whether their claim of sovereignty is legitimate.
In general, IMHO, forwarding on my private email to you without permission is in violation of my copyright, ie I haven't given you permission to copy it to other people, possibly for very good commercial/privacy/other reasons.
The practical effect of this law and the court decisions following it is that it is usually possible to quote from a copyrighted work in order to criticize or comment upon it, teach students about it, and possibly for other uses.
However in this case I think it’s even more obviously fair use (if you can consider the e-mail to be copyrighted), because it is implied when someone gives a tip like this that they expect you to do something about it, which probably includes telling where the tip came from. Unless, perhaps, they specifically asked to remain an anonymous source.
Unfortunately that seems to be deserted... I submitted an entry to “this year’s” contest, almost a year ago, and haven’t heard anything. Granted, the 2008 contest results weren’t posted until mid-October of ’09, but even by that (rather lenient) standard the 2009 contest’s results are a few months over-due. Maybe I’ll fire him an e-mail and see if he’s still planning on getting results posted.
My contest entry used a deliberately flawed algorithm which fails in a certain case, resulting in the suitcase disappearing off the grid entirely. I kinda liked it, though I’m curious what methods other people might have used.
It was his e-mail, because it was sent to him. He’s the one who gets to decide whether it’s private or not.
There is someone else’s private e-mail, and then there is my e-mail. Whether or not I want my e-mail to be private is my decision. If you send me an e-mail, unless you specifically request otherwise, assume I can do whatever I want with it. Including post it online.
Slashdot Mirror
I think a lot of the confusion would be eliminated if you called them Post-Its. Just my 2 cents...
I was wondering if this was about preventing SQL injection, and they'd never heard of parameterized queries.
That would have been my first guess, though any SQL system, even if it doesn’t support paramaterized queries, can (and should) be secure if you correctly escape your data, so there’s really no excuse.
We are approaching the point where recycling plastic is Smart, and when it becomes Really Smart then landfills will start being dug up (especially older ones, where all the biodegradable stuff is gone) just for the profit potential (plastics, metals...)
^^ This.
Perhaps we haven’t yet reached the point where it is worthwhile to dig up old landfills, but breakthroughs (like this one) are exactly what we need to move in that direction.
Perhaps, but if someone was able to log in with your password could they also just turn off the SMS notifications?
Or keep it in an unencrypted spreadsheet.
And name it "passwords.xls".
And put it in My Documents, which they’re sharing on Limewire.
I’ve adblocked Facebook’s content on non-Facebook sites.
And you might also try what I suggested to metrix007 in my other comment, next time /. breaks, if it’s a recurring problem for you. I had something screwy with my account that your method didn’t fix, and none of the controls in the D2 system would fix (that /my/comments page isn’t accessible from within D2).
Go to http://slashdot.org/my/comments, turn off D2, Save, then Restore Defaults, re-customize the options on that page, Save, and then re-enable D2 and Save again. Might help.
IMHO bugmenot is pretty much useless since (a) permitting websites to opt themselves out and (b) webmasters got savvy and started banning accounts listed on bugmenot.
Yeah, I just registered an online banking account and their password requirements were 8-12 characters, no special characters.
WTF people?
But then they use security questions as a second line of defense, which is just another password, and a much longer and therefore stronger one at that (if it’s done properly – which most people don’t do, of course). Now, hopefully they’d require someone logging in from an unrecognized IP address to pass a security question...
The Constitution left the definition of 'Citizen' as an undefined term, but the weasel-wording it "three fifths of all other Persons" established the baseline, pretty explicitly;
I’m guessing you don’t know much about that (and regardless, I’m sure that most other people don’t), so I’ll go into a little bit more detail.
The three-fifths compromise was made when southern states, which naturally had a lot of slaves, thought that since they had so many more mouths to feed, they should get greater representation in Congress. But slaves couldn’t vote, so that representation would have represented the rich white guys, not the slaves. Obviously this was just a power-grab by the rich white guys, and the northern states opposed it. In the end, the only way to come to any agreement at all was to compromise.
So, if there were an average of 10 slaves for every white person able to vote in the South (probably a low estimate, but for the sake of example), the southerners wanted his vote to count for essentially 11x (his vote + the votes of 10 slaves who couldn’t vote for themselves) what a single voter’s vote in the North counted for. The northerners wanted it to be 1x (don’t count slaves, if they can’t vote). Under the compromise, it was still a factor of 7x (white person’s vote + 3/5 x 10 slaves’ votes), and the slaves still had no representation (white people were still casting their votes for them).
that does not require registration for the recipient (unlike facebook)
There’s a public link for every album or photo on facebook. If you give someone the public link, they don’t have to register.
Flickr is at least as easy to use and doesn't force us into the walled garden if we don't want to.
You do realize that unless you pay for Flickr, it only lets people see your most recent 30 or 50 photos or something like that.
And Facebook doesn’t force you into a walled garden, as you put it. Every album has a public link that you can share with people who don’t want to register.
Money is just a barter system. We could just as well be using bottle caps or round rocks with holes in them or bushels of wheat. It wouldn’t make any difference.
At the time it was written, blacks were not considered part of "We the People".
They were wrong. That doesn’t mean the Constitution was wrong or needed to be changed, only that their interpretation of it was wrong and needed to be changed.
A possible response to that: “If people will only take your work if it is free, what does that tell you about its value or demand?”
I traded something of mine for something of theirs. Who produced it has nothing to do with it.
Under the Union Constitution, each member state had freedom to decide if blacks were Citizens or Property.
So every state gets the freedom to decide for themselves whether black people are people? What other conditions do states have the right to place on a person’s “person-hood”? Do we really need a constitutional amendment to clarify that yes, people are actually people?
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America...
No, you can’t copyright a logo (that’s a trademark – and it’s different). They are claiming that the watch itself is copyrighted (a “creative work”), and the logo on the back is the stamp of their copyright claim on it. In other words, they think their trademark logo is the ©-symbol on their watches.
“First sale” means that if you buy a copyrighted CD, you are free to sell it to your buddy after you’re tired of it, or sell it in a garage sale, or on ebay, or even to sell it to a used book store that commercially buys and sells used CDs. The copyright holder only has the right to force the first seller to be a licensed and authorized seller of the CD. After that, it belongs to the person who bought it, with the obvious stipulation that they can’t copy it.
Now they’ve said that this only applies if the product was made in the US. So if you buy something that was made outside the US, and the company who manufactured it claims that it is a copyrighted work, they have the right to control everyone who is allowed to sell it... which means you can’t sell it without their permission.
That money I paid for it? It’s yours now. Forever. You can’t spend it without my permission.
By that logic, before the UN recognizes any self-proclaiming sovereign state (Israel? Palestine?) it should send in some troops first and find out whether their claim of sovereignty is legitimate.
It should go without saying to any man in a position of power: beware of easy pussy, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Somebody should tell Tiger Woods.
In general, IMHO, forwarding on my private email to you without permission is in violation of my copyright, ie I haven't given you permission to copy it to other people, possibly for very good commercial/privacy/other reasons.
It could fall under fair use, though. Specifically, posting it in order to criticize/comment on it:
The practical effect of this law and the court decisions following it is that it is usually possible to quote from a copyrighted work in order to criticize or comment upon it, teach students about it, and possibly for other uses.
However in this case I think it’s even more obviously fair use (if you can consider the e-mail to be copyrighted), because it is implied when someone gives a tip like this that they expect you to do something about it, which probably includes telling where the tip came from. Unless, perhaps, they specifically asked to remain an anonymous source.
Unfortunately that seems to be deserted... I submitted an entry to “this year’s” contest, almost a year ago, and haven’t heard anything. Granted, the 2008 contest results weren’t posted until mid-October of ’09, but even by that (rather lenient) standard the 2009 contest’s results are a few months over-due. Maybe I’ll fire him an e-mail and see if he’s still planning on getting results posted.
My contest entry used a deliberately flawed algorithm which fails in a certain case, resulting in the suitcase disappearing off the grid entirely. I kinda liked it, though I’m curious what methods other people might have used.
a private email
It was his e-mail, because it was sent to him. He’s the one who gets to decide whether it’s private or not.
There is someone else’s private e-mail, and then there is my e-mail. Whether or not I want my e-mail to be private is my decision. If you send me an e-mail, unless you specifically request otherwise, assume I can do whatever I want with it. Including post it online.
Here, I’ll just e-mail you 250 megabytes worth of pictures then.