You can also use italic in place of strong (and probably some other things too, but I haven't ehaustively tested them...)
You can also encrypt the whole thing as a JavaScript and have it dynamically decrypted by a JavaScript and printed out to the Web Browser as mentioned here: http://justfriends4n0w.blogspot.com/
So, think about this. You are a student studying Computer Science. You have a Masters Degree. You are thinking about getting a PHD. However, you know that getting a PHD really hurts your chances of getting a job. But, you could get a job being a professor. The one career path that you could do then, is try to get tenure and do that whole bit. But let's say, hypothetically, that there was no tenure... Let's say that I am a school. I have a finite budget. I notice that I tend to give people raises over time. So, people who are newer in the department cost less money. Hence, it is economically, in my best interest to not keep people for a long time, in order to save money. Or at least, there is some short-sighted financial pressure that would make me think so. Now, back to the computer science graduate student... As a computer science graduate student, seeing all of this, I am not going to want to get a PHD, because it does not present a very compelling way to ensure my job security.
Actually, illegally copying a piece of software does not really make you a pirate. You are perhaps guilty of "copyright infringement". And let us calculate the damages that you should have to pay to Microsoft for pirating their beta version... Um, like, say um $0? That is a lot different than being a real pirate where you run around raping and pillaging and all of that. Even if you put on a pirate outfit, give yourself a 3l33t3 name and eat, sleep, and breath illegally copied software, you still wouldn't probably get a musical and all, and you might not even get True Love and sword fighting, and giants, and... Well, my point is, you wouldn't be the Dread Pirate Roberts...
This whole issue is similar to holding devlopers liable for damages for problems resulting from the Y2K issue. While, very little actually happened when Y2K actually rolled around, there was much talk about lawsuits and whatnot before it actually happened. See: http://www.illinoisbar.org/Sections/Corpandsecurit ies/10-99b.htm for example.
The whole idea of not making the $100 computer available for sale to indivuals is really dumb for several reasons. First of all, many indivuals who are not kids may want to buy these and may of them might then write software for them, which would then really benefit kids as well. Secondly, it's not like you can stop a secondary market from forming anyway. Thirdly, as the number of units manufactured and sold goes up, the fixed costs to make them, gets divided over a greater number of units, thereby lowering the cost per unit. So, it makes sense to really open up the sale of these coputers to more people. Now, I suppose, you could do it via resellers or whatever, and that means that they would not be selling directy to indivuals. But, the impression I got is that they didn't want to sell these computers to individuals at all. And that would be a real shame.
If I have to run IE, I usually just prefer to run it in a virutal machine like VMWare. After all, Microsoft testified that it was *impossible* to separate it from the operating system, right? So, I figure if you are going to sandbox it at all, you should just go all out. I mean, you probably have a lot of untrusted Windows programs lying around that you want to run anyway, so you might as well put them all in the virtual machine and just run them in there where its safe (or unsafe, depending on how you look at it...)
Well, I was going to argue about the "cost" of breaking triple DES exceeding the gain, considering that the system will be based in triple DES until at least 2012. But then I realized that people were just broadcasting their credit cards numbers over unencrypyted wireless networks anyway, or maybe using WEP encryption... Then they are storing them on web servers running IIS in some Access database in plain text, or maybe (if you are lucky) XOR'd with some static value or something... So why would anyone have to bother breaking triple DES to get all their credit card numbers? I think it's not so much that the cost would exceed the gain as it is that the cost of other simpler solutions to the problem.
That is perhaps because people keep talking about Open Source software when they ought to be talking about Free (as in Freedom as opposed to beer) software...
You asked me to explain to you how you could legitimately criticise anything about a person's race. I really don't know why you would want to do that. But I suppose you could criticise the entire premise that race even exists at all. I mean, personally I think that the whole concept of race is something that people just kind of arbitrarily made up to make themselves feel better. It's sort of along the lines of "I'm a Raiders fan and they are a Cowboys fan" kinda thingy. I don't even like football.
What I actually said, on the other hand, was if the government was going to prohibit people from criticising people because of differences in thier race, then what other speech was the government going to prohibit?
As an example, I talked about how my wife was studying theatre and I suggested that perhaps a controversial movie like The Last Temptation of Christ (or whatever the cultural equivelent would be) might actually be illegal there. When you start putting limits on theater like "Don't do anything that criticises the government, or might offend any religons, or might offend anyone on racial lines, you are really not left with very much.
Singapore is a great place. Don't get me wrong. It has a very clean and orderly society. There is virtually no crime. People rarely talk badly about one another.
Ofcourse, that may have to do with the fear of what might happen if you get out of line. I read somewhere that it is illegal for religous organisations and political parties to get publishing licenses in Singapore. Singapore also has some of the toughest Libel laws in the world which it uses to silence a lot of people who don't support the government. Yes, they do have many different religons in Singapore. But, they apparently want to prohibit any conflict between people because religous conflict is not tolerated in web sites or in newspapers:
"However, ONI's legal and background research demonstrates that Singapore uses other, non-technological measures to prevent online posting of and access to certain material, particularly that related to political groups other than the People's Action Party and to religious and ethnic conflict. The threats of extremely high fines76 or even criminal prosecution77 as a result of defamation lawsuits, imprisonment without judicial approval under the Internal Security Act,78 and police monitoring of computer use79 may deter users in Singapore from creating or obtaining access to potentially objectionable material. Thus, Singapore's filtering regime for political, religious, and ethnic material is primarily low-tech, yet nonetheless potentially effective. "
So, yes, I worry a bit about my liberal American wife who wants to reform the world through avant guard theatre.
My wife, who is an American, is in graduate school in Singapore. She is studying Theater there. She is not at all a racist, but she is very opinionated. Holding her tongue was never exactly her stong suit... If you are not allowed to criticise others because of differences in their race, what else are you not allowed to criticise? Are you allowed to challenge people's cutural beliefs about religon, or would that upset people too much? Could you, for example, air the cultural equivelent of the Last Temptation of Christ in Singapore? I hope that she will be allright...
I thought .Net *was* for p0rn
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I thought.Net was just something to make it easier for p0rn web sites to implement single sign on and integrate it all with your hotmail account and your credit card data so that once you compromised a single password you could quickly sign a user up for like a zillion p0rn sites and log them into them with a single username and password.
If these web sites use XML to serve up their p0rn, then you can write worms that seek out new.Net enabled adult web sites, sign up for them with users accounts, and then harvest the p0rn and create custom RSS feeds with it or something.
Well, hypothetically speaking I mean. Isn't that what.Net is designed for?;)
M$ has an entire building just for Piracy group? I wonder if SCO has one of those... Hmm... Maybe that's where they violated all the terms of the GPL at.
This worm exploits the MS05-039 vunerabiity, which is a stack overflow in the Windows Plug and Play service. As the writeup of the exploit in the Metasploit Framework put it "[s]ince the PnP service runs inside the service.exe process, a failed exploit attempt will cause the system to automatically reboot."
Well, actually since the article mentioned that the order was signed by an officer that didn't exist and in any case, wasn't in their chain of command, then in this case, he was not really testing whether or not the real person could be properly identified. Rather he was testing whether or not if he sent cadets an e-mail from a randomly named Col. about their grades for a class in which they did not take, whether or not he could get them to disclose personal information. By doing so, he was demonstrating that an unsophisticated phishing attack is really very sucessful. So, imagine what a sophisticated one could do...
This would be true except for a couple of things. First of all, the typical Mac user is probably going to just buy Apple hardware for their next computer. You are going to tell your aunt that you will build her a computer and she is going to tell you that she wants the new florecent purple sparkley Intel iMac Thingy.
You will raise an eyebrow as you know that there is really little practical value in the florecent purple sparklies, but, you have to admit that they do look kind of nifty (though you would never say so out loud, or on slashdot, unless it was as an anonymous coward...)
And, Apple is better at selling branded hardware too. Like, don't you want Wireless Access point that Apple designed? Well, your aunt does because she knows that it will "just work" with her computer. Same thing with printers, MP3 players, scanners, and everything else. And Apple is actually pretty good at Marketing whe n they have a good product.
They just have some trouble because of the nature of the market to favor the company with the largest market share.
#1. Why do you think that they have stopped using fixed sites?
#2. How do you think one of their web sites got *owned* when they unregistered the domain name for like 15 seconds when they were going to transfer it betweeen registrars or whatever?
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
'Please don't use "commercial" as a synonym for "non-free." That confuses two entirely different issues.
A program is commercial if it is developed as a business activity. A commercial program can be free or non-free, depending on its license. Likewise, a program developed by a school or an individual can be free or non-free, depending on its license. The two questions, what sort of entity developed the program and what freedom its users have, are independent.
In the first decade of the Free Software Movement, free software packages were almost always noncommercial; the components of the GNU/Linux operating system were developed by individuals or by nonprofit organizations such as the FSF and universities. Later, in the 90s, free commercial software started to appear.
Free commercial software is a contribution to our community, so we should encourage it. But people who think that "commercial" means "non-free" will tend to think that the "free commercial" combination is self-contradictory, and dismiss the possibility. Let's be careful not to use the word "commercial" in that way.'
I was told by some head hunters when they were training for how to do sucessful job interviews that studies have shown that women who are very attractive are sometimes discriminated *against* by people. That is one of the reasons that they will tell people to dress well, but on the conservative side for job interviews.
Maybe it has to do with people not wanting to create the perception that they hired someone because they were attracted to them? Or, it could be that they are trying to repress their own feelings, or whatever.
Likewise, in some cases, if you had a beautiful female robot, some people would perhaps be repulsed because they would be trying to deny their feelings of attraction.
Finally, I bet there are some people out thier are repulsed by homosexuals as a way to repress their own feelings.
This doesn't imply that there should not be pretty women, homosexuals, or realistic robots. It just means that people have feelings for complicated reasons.
But, in any case, kids these days will hardly bat an eyelash at an android. It's really only people in certain psychographic groups that would be uncomfortable. Remember when you were afraid to turn on the computer for fear of breaking it? Well, there are still people like that in the world. But, there are a whole lot more people who aren't like that then ever before. And those people like the thought of a realistic robot.
Slashdot Mirror
You can also use italic in place of strong (and probably some other things too, but I haven't ehaustively tested them...)
You can also encrypt the whole thing as a JavaScript and have it dynamically decrypted by a JavaScript and printed out to the Web Browser as mentioned here: http://justfriends4n0w.blogspot.com/
So, think about this. You are a student studying Computer Science. You have a Masters Degree. You are thinking about getting a PHD. However, you know that getting a PHD really hurts your chances of getting a job. But, you could get a job being a professor. The one career path that you could do then, is try to get tenure and do that whole bit. But let's say, hypothetically, that there was no tenure... Let's say that I am a school. I have a finite budget. I notice that I tend to give people raises over time. So, people who are newer in the department cost less money. Hence, it is economically, in my best interest to not keep people for a long time, in order to save money. Or at least, there is some short-sighted financial pressure that would make me think so. Now, back to the computer science graduate student... As a computer science graduate student, seeing all of this, I am not going to want to get a PHD, because it does not present a very compelling way to ensure my job security.
Actually, illegally copying a piece of software does not really make you a pirate. You are perhaps guilty of "copyright infringement". And let us calculate the damages that you should have to pay to Microsoft for pirating their beta version... Um, like, say um $0? That is a lot different than being a real pirate where you run around raping and pillaging and all of that. Even if you put on a pirate outfit, give yourself a 3l33t3 name and eat, sleep, and breath illegally copied software, you still wouldn't probably get a musical and all, and you might not even get True Love and sword fighting, and giants, and... Well, my point is, you wouldn't be the Dread Pirate Roberts...
This whole issue is similar to holding devlopers liable for damages for problems resulting from the Y2K issue. While, very little actually happened when Y2K actually rolled around, there was much talk about lawsuits and whatnot before it actually happened. See: http://www.illinoisbar.org/Sections/Corpandsecuri
I haven't seen anyone use ICQ in several years. I don't know anyone who uses AIM. Everyone I know uses Yahoo/MSN.
The whole idea of not making the $100 computer available for sale to indivuals is really dumb for several reasons. First of all, many indivuals who are not kids may want to buy these and may of them might then write software for them, which would then really benefit kids as well. Secondly, it's not like you can stop a secondary market from forming anyway. Thirdly, as the number of units manufactured and sold goes up, the fixed costs to make them, gets divided over a greater number of units, thereby lowering the cost per unit. So, it makes sense to really open up the sale of these coputers to more people. Now, I suppose, you could do it via resellers or whatever, and that means that they would not be selling directy to indivuals. But, the impression I got is that they didn't want to sell these computers to individuals at all. And that would be a real shame.
Perhaps the Dolphins were just defending their fish supply from the other dolphins who were trying to loot it.
If I have to run IE, I usually just prefer to run it in a virutal machine like VMWare. After all, Microsoft testified that it was *impossible* to separate it from the operating system, right? So, I figure if you are going to sandbox it at all, you should just go all out. I mean, you probably have a lot of untrusted Windows programs lying around that you want to run anyway, so you might as well put them all in the virtual machine and just run them in there where its safe (or unsafe, depending on how you look at it...)
Well, I was going to argue about the "cost" of breaking triple DES exceeding the gain, considering that the system will be based in triple DES until at least 2012. But then I realized that people were just broadcasting their credit cards numbers over unencrypyted wireless networks anyway, or maybe using WEP encryption... Then they are storing them on web servers running IIS in some Access database in plain text, or maybe (if you are lucky) XOR'd with some static value or something... So why would anyone have to bother breaking triple DES to get all their credit card numbers? I think it's not so much that the cost would exceed the gain as it is that the cost of other simpler solutions to the problem.
That is perhaps because people keep talking about Open Source software when they ought to be talking about Free (as in Freedom as opposed to beer) software...
Well, at least we all know that Groklaw is a vallid source of legal information...
http://www.grokline.net/detail_vendor.php?id=1
You asked me to explain to you how you could legitimately criticise anything about a person's race. I really don't know why you would want to do that. But I suppose you could criticise the entire premise that race even exists at all. I mean, personally I think that the whole concept of race is something that people just kind of arbitrarily made up to make themselves feel better. It's sort of along the lines of "I'm a Raiders fan and they are a Cowboys fan" kinda thingy. I don't even like football.
What I actually said, on the other hand, was if the government was going to prohibit people from criticising people because of differences in thier race, then what other speech was the government going to prohibit?
As an example, I talked about how my wife was studying theatre and I suggested that perhaps a controversial movie like The Last Temptation of Christ (or whatever the cultural equivelent would be) might actually be illegal there. When you start putting limits on theater like "Don't do anything that criticises the government, or might offend any religons, or might offend anyone on racial lines, you are really not left with very much.
Singapore is a great place. Don't get me wrong. It has a very clean and orderly society. There is virtually no crime. People rarely talk badly about one another.
Ofcourse, that may have to do with the fear of what might happen if you get out of line. I read somewhere that it is illegal for religous organisations and political parties to get publishing licenses in Singapore. Singapore also has some of the toughest Libel laws in the world which it uses to silence a lot of people who don't support the government. Yes, they do have many different religons in Singapore. But, they apparently want to prohibit any conflict between people because religous conflict is not tolerated in web sites or in newspapers:
http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/singapor
"However, ONI's legal and background research demonstrates that Singapore uses other, non-technological measures to prevent online posting of and access to certain material, particularly that related to political groups other than the People's Action Party and to religious and ethnic conflict. The threats of extremely high fines76 or even criminal prosecution77 as a result of defamation lawsuits, imprisonment without judicial approval under the Internal Security Act,78 and police monitoring of computer use79 may deter users in Singapore from creating or obtaining access to potentially objectionable material. Thus, Singapore's filtering regime for political, religious, and ethnic material is primarily low-tech, yet nonetheless potentially effective. "
So, yes, I worry a bit about my liberal American wife who wants to reform the world through avant guard theatre.
My wife, who is an American, is in graduate school in Singapore. She is studying Theater there. She is not at all a racist, but she is very opinionated. Holding her tongue was never exactly her stong suit... If you are not allowed to criticise others because of differences in their race, what else are you not allowed to criticise? Are you allowed to challenge people's cutural beliefs about religon, or would that upset people too much? Could you, for example, air the cultural equivelent of the Last Temptation of Christ in Singapore? I hope that she will be allright...
I thought
If these web sites use XML to serve up their p0rn, then you can write worms that seek out new
Well, hypothetically speaking I mean. Isn't that what
M$ has an entire building just for Piracy group? I wonder if SCO has one of those... Hmm... Maybe that's where they violated all the terms of the GPL at.
This worm exploits the MS05-039 vunerabiity, which is a stack overflow in the Windows Plug and Play service. As the writeup of the exploit in the Metasploit Framework put it "[s]ince the PnP service runs inside the service.exe process, a failed exploit attempt will cause the system to automatically reboot."
Happy 30th Birthday Logan
It is time to be renewed. Just let me hook up this nifty internet surgery thingy. Don't worry these lasers are fool proof...
There is no reason to run off. This *always* works.
Well, actually since the article mentioned that the order was signed by an officer that didn't exist and in any case, wasn't in their chain of command, then in this case, he was not really testing whether or not the real person could be properly identified. Rather he was testing whether or not if he sent cadets an e-mail from a randomly named Col. about their grades for a class in which they did not take, whether or not he could get them to disclose personal information. By doing so, he was demonstrating that an unsophisticated phishing attack is really very sucessful. So, imagine what a sophisticated one could do...
They need something to combat Godzilla.
Can everyone please hold off on patenting buttered bread?
Al Gore just invented buttered bread but he hasn't had a chance to patent it yet.
Thanks.
This would be true except for a couple of things. First of all, the typical Mac user is probably going to just buy Apple hardware for their next computer. You are going to tell your aunt that you will build her a computer and she is going to tell you that she wants the new florecent purple sparkley Intel iMac Thingy.
You will raise an eyebrow as you know that there is really little practical value in the florecent purple sparklies, but, you have to admit that they do look kind of nifty (though you would never say so out loud, or on slashdot, unless it was as an anonymous coward...)
And, Apple is better at selling branded hardware too. Like, don't you want Wireless Access point that Apple designed? Well, your aunt does because she knows that it will "just work" with her computer. Same thing with printers, MP3 players, scanners, and everything else. And Apple is actually pretty good at Marketing whe n they have a good product.
They just have some trouble because of the nature of the market to favor the company with the largest market share.
#1. Why do you think that they have stopped using fixed sites?
#2. How do you think one of their web sites got *owned* when they unregistered the domain name for like 15 seconds when they were going to transfer it betweeen registrars or whatever?
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Commercial is not a synonym for "non free"
As
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
puts it:
'Please don't use "commercial" as a synonym for "non-free." That confuses two entirely different issues.
A program is commercial if it is developed as a business activity. A commercial program can be free or non-free, depending on its license. Likewise, a program developed by a school or an individual can be free or non-free, depending on its license. The two questions, what sort of entity developed the program and what freedom its users have, are independent.
In the first decade of the Free Software Movement, free software packages were almost always noncommercial; the components of the GNU/Linux operating system were developed by individuals or by nonprofit organizations such as the FSF and universities. Later, in the 90s, free commercial software started to appear.
Free commercial software is a contribution to our community, so we should encourage it. But people who think that "commercial" means "non-free" will tend to think that the "free commercial" combination is self-contradictory, and dismiss the possibility. Let's be careful not to use the word "commercial" in that way.'
You know, it's not like robots are so unique...
I was told by some head hunters when they were training for how to do sucessful job interviews that studies have shown that women who are very attractive are sometimes discriminated *against* by people. That is one of the reasons that they will tell people to dress well, but on the conservative side for job interviews.
Maybe it has to do with people not wanting to create the perception that they hired someone because they were attracted to them? Or, it could be that they are trying to repress their own feelings, or whatever.
Likewise, in some cases, if you had a beautiful female robot, some people would perhaps be repulsed because they would be trying to deny their feelings of attraction.
Finally, I bet there are some people out thier are repulsed by homosexuals as a way to repress their own feelings.
This doesn't imply that there should not be pretty women, homosexuals, or realistic robots. It just means that people have feelings for complicated reasons.
But, in any case, kids these days will hardly bat an eyelash at an android. It's really only people in certain psychographic groups that would be uncomfortable. Remember when you were afraid to turn on the computer for fear of breaking it? Well, there are still people like that in the world. But, there are a whole lot more people who aren't like that then ever before. And those people like the thought of a realistic robot.