1) the IP address of the originating end of the TCP connection, for lookup in a block list, is not in the headers 2) the SMTP HELO/EHLO - not in the headers 3) the envelope from and to addresses - not in the headers 4) the triplet of IP address, from and to for grey listing - not in the headers 5) the text of the body 6) the domains in any URLs in the body, for looking up in blocklists 7) the IP addresses that the domains in 6 resolve to.
The patent is very badly worded. I would claim that every header would contain some information which would be "usefiul (sic) to the recipient in understanding more about the context in which the sender sent the message".
In that case, how could any message "not contain such reference".
Is the patent just claiming to cover the headers, or the body as well. And as for the misspelling!
Things in the header that might possibly be covered might be any pre-existing "received-from" IP addresses for looking up in blacklists, X-Mailer, Mime and Content type headers.
What about "Missing Headers"? could this patent be claimed to cover looking for something which doesn't exist in the headers?
One of the items in the first photo on the website looked rather familiar: the USB cradle for a Handspring Visor. Only yesterday I received a Garmin Geko 301 to replace a 101 after the firmware hit a date related bug[1]. The prices for a serial cable are ridiculous, so after finding some useful hints[2], I decided to make one up myself. An expired British Computer Society membership card was cut up, and I went through my box of old bits to scavenge a 9 pin D serial connector and cable from the docking cradle for an 1997 Palm Pilot Personal.
Re:your first sentence is technically flawed
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A couple of years later, RISC iX was running on ARM.
Ah, memories of the Unix Kernel Validation Suite project I led for Acorn, March to October 1988. We started out writing it for BSD 4.2 on a Sun workstation with a "Winchester", until an A680 was available. A long, long time ago when I asked questions such as "what is the difference between Internet + ethernet?"
after the Mail took some general research into unnamed social networking sites and attributed the dangers specifically to Facebook.
I would think it far more likely that AdultFriendFinder or GetItOn would be responsible for any increase in STDs, and that it's bad journalists seeking to sensationalise stories, by trying to make them more familiar and relevant to their readers, who are using Facebook as a synonym for any social networking site.
I can find no other evidence of such a database. Can you provide any?
I've just found a UK Member of Parliament's web site that mentions such a database: go to http://www.gregknight.com/ and then select Press (which redirects to a home directory on an IP address, which is why I'm not posting the direct link), then scroll down to 1st April 2009.
It's still misuse of the word database. I would hope that Slashdotters would appreciate the difference between a related collection of tables stored on a computer and a forensic laboratory procedure for measuring the correlation between two DNA sequences. As somebody joked earlier, if one row and two columns make a database, then I'll have to stop disparaging Excel.
A week ago the UK government published a proposal for further controlling dangerous dogs. Mention is made of compulsory insurance, microchipping and a database of owner's details, but there is no mention at all of a DNA database, even a proposed one.
It's a just a clueless journalist misusing the word database.
This BBC report doesn't mention the word at all. There is no central registry of dog DNA samples. It's just the first time that DNA matching, between a sample of blood found at the crime scene and a sample taken from the dog belonging to a suspect caught nearby has been used in a UK court.
If there was a bug, it's unlikely the final result would make sense. "It would go fastest with the engine in the ground!", or "it would go fastest with the engine backwards!". With that many calculations, one error would be magnified.
A floating point conversion error caused an Ariane 5 rocket to explode back in 1996
The sooner the general election comes the better - there are only weeks left of the current parliament, and so all the politicians are posturing not in the expectation of changing the law, but only in the hope of getting re-elected.
In today's news, the Lib Dem's have selected a female porn director as their prospective candidate, so perhaps there is some hope left.
Because I'd sure love to see someone memorise a string of 1 and 0 that is 256 digits long.
You don't memorise ones and zeros, you pack them into characters.
The life that I have is all that I have And the life that I have is yours The love that I have of the life that I have Is yours and yours and yours. A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall have Yet death will be but a pause For the peace of my years in the long green grass Will be yours and yours and yours.
306 characters: far far more than is needed.
The author of the poem was a truly remarkable man who led an amazing life.
The unique aspect of fwknop is that it is a one way channel - there is no reply from the server to the client. There is no difference at all between sending a packet hashed with an invalid password to a server and sending a packet to a random IP address that is not running fwknop.
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... without looking at the headers.
1) the IP address of the originating end of the TCP connection, for lookup in a block list, is not in the headers
2) the SMTP HELO/EHLO - not in the headers
3) the envelope from and to addresses - not in the headers
4) the triplet of IP address, from and to for grey listing - not in the headers
5) the text of the body
6) the domains in any URLs in the body, for looking up in blocklists
7) the IP addresses that the domains in 6 resolve to.
The patent is very badly worded. I would claim that every header would contain some information which would be "usefiul (sic) to the recipient in understanding more about the context in which the sender sent the message".
In that case, how could any message "not contain such reference".
Is the patent just claiming to cover the headers, or the body as well. And as for the misspelling!
Things in the header that might possibly be covered might be any pre-existing "received-from" IP addresses for looking up in blacklists, X-Mailer, Mime and Content type headers.
What about "Missing Headers"? could this patent be claimed to cover looking for something which doesn't exist in the headers?
And in England we had Fred Dibnah digging a replica coal mine in his back garden.
Perhaps the authorisation and charging will somehow be linked to your oyster Card
The BBB report rates them only "F"
http://sanjose.bbb.org/Business-Report/Cherrypal-1000000896
So, at a rate of 4 barrels per second, there is a library of congress worth of oil being dumped into the Gulf about every 47 hours.
Can we have that converted to the Firkin/Furlong/Fortnight system of units please?
Yes in fact we are all going to die. ... Most of us in 30 to 50 years but yes we are all going to die.
You could write a song with those lyrics. Oh, wait ... William Shatner did.
A month ago is was mentioned here that parasites were advertising on Amazon print-on-demand articles from Wikipedia
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/04/03/2112203/Print-On-Demand-Publisher-VDM-Infects-Amazon
I am sure that many US weapon makers now will start doing the same thing.
Coincidentally, this comes on the same day that it is reported that the US Army is cancelling its mini cruise missile in a box project:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/27/nlos_ls_chopped/
Don't forget the Therac-25
Poor software design and development led to radiation overdoses for 6 patients being treated for cancer, with 3 dying as a direct result.
Sadly, mistakes still keep on happening.
One of the items in the first photo on the website looked rather familiar: the USB cradle for a Handspring Visor. Only yesterday I received a Garmin Geko 301 to replace a 101 after the firmware hit a date related bug[1]. The prices for a serial cable are ridiculous, so after finding some useful hints[2], I decided to make one up myself. An expired British Computer Society membership card was cut up, and I went through my box of old bits to scavenge a 9 pin D serial connector and cable from the docking cradle for an 1997 Palm Pilot Personal.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/10/garmin_dates/
[2] http://www.jens-seiler.de/etrex/datacable.html
A couple of years later, RISC iX was running on ARM.
Ah, memories of the Unix Kernel Validation Suite project I led for Acorn, March to October 1988. We started out writing it for BSD 4.2 on a Sun workstation with a "Winchester", until an A680 was available. A long, long time ago when I asked questions such as "what is the difference between Internet + ethernet?"
Look for anything on Amazon by one or more of Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, and Susan F. Marseken
"Showing 1 - 12 of 18,308 Results" for just Surhone alone
For instance
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Battlecrab-Spacecraft-Humanoid-Technomage/dp/6130461658
A rip off of a Wikipedia page on Babylon 5, or
http://www.amazon.com/Valgrind-Programming-Debugger-Performance-Debugging/dp/613052904X
Here's an article in the local press of March 19th:
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2010/03/19/syphilis-cases-rise-400-on-teesside-84229-26067098/
No mention of Facebook.
There was then an article on the 24th in The Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html
Again, no direct claim that Facebook was responsible, just an unsubstantiated paragraph stating that
Case have increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular.
[sic]
There was another instance recently where Facebook are threatening to sue the Daily Mail
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/11/facebook-daily-mail
after the Mail took some general research into unnamed social networking sites and attributed the dangers specifically to Facebook.
I would think it far more likely that AdultFriendFinder or GetItOn would be responsible for any increase in STDs, and that it's bad journalists seeking to sensationalise stories, by trying to make them more familiar and relevant to their readers, who are using Facebook as a synonym for any social networking site.
I can find no other evidence of such a database. Can you provide any?
I've just found a UK Member of Parliament's web site that mentions such a database: go to
http://www.gregknight.com/ and then select Press (which redirects to a home directory on an IP address, which is why I'm not posting the direct link), then scroll down to 1st April 2009.
See also http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/greg_knight/east_yorkshire to confirm that his web site is genuine.
In fact I think if you really look into it this database is really simply used to identify dog breed and characteristics from DNA
Dog breed identification from a DNA sample seems to be commercially available
http://www.whatbreedismydog.co.uk/dna-test/
They claim to have all of 62 breeds identified so far.
It is clear that there is a central database, and not just a laboratory comparison between two samples gathered as evidence.
I can find no other evidence of such a database. Can you provide any?
It's still misuse of the word database. I would hope that Slashdotters would appreciate the difference between a related collection of tables stored on a computer and a forensic laboratory procedure for measuring the correlation between two DNA sequences. As somebody joked earlier, if one row and two columns make a database, then I'll have to stop disparaging Excel.
A week ago the UK government published a proposal for further controlling dangerous dogs. Mention is made of compulsory insurance, microchipping and a database of owner's details, but there is no mention at all of a DNA database, even a proposed one.
It's a just a clueless journalist misusing the word database.
This BBC report doesn't mention the word at all. There is no central registry of dog DNA samples. It's just the first time that DNA matching, between a sample of blood found at the crime scene and a sample taken from the dog belonging to a suspect caught nearby has been used in a UK court.
If there was a bug, it's unlikely the final result would make sense. "It would go fastest with the engine in the ground!", or "it would go fastest with the engine backwards!". With that many calculations, one error would be magnified.
A floating point conversion error caused an Ariane 5 rocket to explode back in 1996
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html
An implosion, ... would have caused all of ABE’s other spheres to implode
It's just the same as the way as a chain reaction at the Super Kamiokande neutrino observatory destroyed thousands of its photo-multiplier tubes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande
The sooner the general election comes the better - there are only weeks left of the current parliament, and so all the politicians are posturing not in the expectation of changing the law, but only in the hope of getting re-elected.
In today's news, the Lib Dem's have selected a female porn director as their prospective candidate, so perhaps there is some hope left.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/kent/8563214.stm
In the UK it was recently reported that the government will not buy services from any ISP that does not implement the IWF blacklist.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article7055882.ece
And in the USA, the Minnesota Senate is considering a proposal to prevent state employees staying in hotels that offers "violent" pornography.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=843624
Because I'd sure love to see someone memorise a string of 1 and 0 that is 256 digits long.
You don't memorise ones and zeros, you pack them into characters.
The life that I have is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years in the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.
306 characters: far far more than is needed.
The author of the poem was a truly remarkable man who led an amazing life.
The unique aspect of fwknop is that it is a one way channel - there is no reply from the server to the client. There is no difference at all between sending a packet hashed with an invalid password to a server and sending a packet to a random IP address that is not running fwknop.