My father was a sheriff and handled the prisons for our county. (Ironically, my grandfather was a felon for robbing a bank) Here's my 2.5 cents. We don't have more criminals than other nations, actually we're quite low in the number of offenses. But we do have mandatory sentencing and very long prison terms, so we have more criminals in the system. Every holiday, Thanksgiving for example, there would be 2 or 3 convicts invited to our house to have a good meal and a chance for a break from the prison grind. Usually the guys committed property or other non violent crime, but sometimes assault and battery. While in most other nations these criminals would server sentences ranging from 6-20 months, and was the case in the US decades ago, in our system today they now serve 3-5 years.
So you've got some dude that, for whatever reason, decided to rob a house or steal from a liquor store. He gets caught, you always do eventually, and end up in jail. He probably feels bad and remorseful, even if only because he got caught. Either way, you'll end up spending a decent chunk of time in the slammer that usually costs you your job and maybe even your family. Hence why my old man liked to bring these guys around. It wasn't charity. He'd invite them, they could turn him down or not. Nor were they expected to 'work it off' as so many people seem to think when I tell them this story.
Other things he did before mandatory sentencing became overbearing were;
1) Weekend prison stays for non-violent and first time offenders. There was an honor system involved in this. The idea being if you were truly sorry you'd do the time and be thankful you still had a job on the weekdays.
2) Work release programs where local businesses would hire prisoners for odds and ends. They got paid immediately, perhaps it was low I do not know, but it was real money that lots of guys gave to their families who needed it now that the bread winner was in the slammer.
3) Mock chain gangs. Prisoners who wanted a chance to leave the walls could dress up in the joke outfits and go around place to place singing stupid songs about prison life. Shools, malls, places like that.
4) A slew of other options for men to do their time with dignity. Decades ago, it was thought that surrounding normally decent people with true thugs was not such a good idea.
What happened in the last couple of decades was the use of metrics and statistics. Politicians could go out and say things like, "vote for me and I'll keep the prisoners in jail longer. Look at what [insert State here] did! They upped minimum sentences and now property theft is down 20%". Sounds good to a voter I suppose, however it's really kind of useless since it discounts better law enforcement and education in the first place, not to mention the dramatic increase in repeat offenses. The solution... "Longer prison terms for repeat offenders!" Now you rob a store that is occupied and it's jail for 15 years. You get caught with drugs 'next' (within 3 miles) of a school and you get tossed in the big house for 6 years. Good luck trying to not live withing 6 miles of a school, or robbing a store with people in it. I'm not trying to put on a liberal sob story, but from my very conservative point of view and upbringing things have dramatically changed. It's almost as if you've got nothing to lose, I mean hell, if you get caught you know you're done for the rest of your life so 'just go for it.' There are very few second chances, and almost no third chances. So in my opinions, prisons haven't become a place to punish criminals, they've become a place to get rid of them forever.
Keep in mind, the prisons I'm talking about are the majority of minimum or medium security facilities managed by counties. I'm not talking about the super-max industrial complexes. That's a whole different ball-o-wax, yet it does seem that they are growing while the others are shrinking due to the reasons cited above.
Yup. Intelligence would be knowing your time is better spent memorizing market facts and mathematical equations instead of sport trivia. That way you can afford to memorize sports trivia once your 401(k) keeps on trucking through the 'financial crisis.'
When I was a teenager, after the wall fell down, a Russian scientist looking to hawk his invention moved in with my family. He was great, and taught me a lot, especially how to drink vodka. But one thing he said will always stick with me - "America and Russia always competed to see who was first. America built first nuclear submarine. Russia build first space rocket. America built first moon rocket. Eventually we had nothing to compete for, so we raced to see who spend money fastest. Russia won!"
It is quite impressive isn't it? BTW, I'm glad to see you do not think greedy investors who think perpetual growth is not only NOT possible, but is a good idea to short, are to blame. Thanks for not holding me to account. No excuse me while I go fill my pool full of dollar bills.
It's probably something in the water making them crazy.
We must protect our precious bodily fluids from water fluoridation of our public water supply by communist spies. So I demand that the President launches a full scale preemptive attack against The former USSR, China, Berkley, and Harvard.
More than that. I've never been body scanned or pat downed the 2-dozen or so flights since the start of the program a year and a half ago??? I'm kind of sad that I'll have to share my good fortune with the plebs in my special line for people who shower and shave before boarding an airplane. What's the point of American Express upgrades anymore?
If you can't detect my sarcasm, let's add a little more.
If I were in charge for the pilot program, I'd have a simple question. "Do you want to overthrow the Federal Government" Anything from "Hell yes!" to "Not really, but I wouldn't be sad to see it happen" will guarantee you're harmless and ready for accelerated screening techniques. Shifty eyes and an "Absolutely not. God bless America, and No One Else!" answer will guarantee you're a lying tarwowist. I think we can all agree on that... and nothing else.
It's amazing that people don't understand this. I work from home and have a dual-wan, only as a fail-over in case something happens on the ISP end. It doesn't do squat when the sewer company knocks off my 'tubes by 'missing the mark', so to speak.
The point of 'The Cloud' isn't to provide redundant on-demand services to a single location. The point is I can take my laptop to Panera and still have access to my files and e-mail when the power goes out in my home/business. Or even better, I can go buy a laptop when mine is lost/stolen/broken and still have access to my files 1,000 miles away without having to worry about a VPN on some dinky 'business DSL' line, or hope that the office IT guy isn't away on vacation the minute we lose power to a server room and my laptop breaks.
The point of 'The Cloud' is that I can spin up servers anywhere in the world, either internally or via a partner/vendor, and quickly have new or redundant access to external and internal services required to do business. Personal PC backups are nice, but some of us don't have time to wait hours for a new hard drive to be installed and cloned.
So yea, I don't trust Rackspace alone. But having a Rackspace and EC2 account is significantly safer and more reliable, and way cheaper, than having a Technet account, a server cabinent, and an internet connection or two (no matter how fast they may be).
Exactly. The CIA and NSA and other Alphabet Soup Agencies send their boys and gals to military bases for much of their training. Not just technical stuff, but languages, combat training, and intelligence. I'm really tired of this crap. Anti-sec Teenage anst isn't going to get a massive retaliatory strike if you 'server pawn' a military subcontractor. In a shooting war, all bets are off. The job of the officer is not to be the be-all end-all oracle of knowledge. Your C/O might not be the world's greatest super hacker, just as he isn't' the world's greatest marksman or the world's greatest radar operator. The job of the officer is to facilitate the needs of his command.... period! In other words, our officers ARE 'ignorant managers', but they are ignorant managers who have command of a group that can usually wipe the floor with any enemy, and they are good at using them. Last time I checked, Norad isn't dealing with a Suxtnet type worm infecting every system from super computers to auto-flush toilets. Maybe the guys who helped write the book on the Internet actually know how to use it?
Or I could be wrong. the README seems to allude that a public facing server had SSH/remote deskop enabled and accepted clear text passwords without any kind of certificate verification, and did not use a 'Fail2Ban' like application. Doesn't say if it was Windows or Linux or OS/2, but it appears that whatever it was it was installed and left to sit as is. How long would a bot be able to brute force a computer accepting remote logins? I don't know, but I'd bet a couple of weeks at most.
This is line 2 on securing your Database servers. It really is getting ridiculous. It's like a flood of teenage angst running around a neighborhood pissing on the carpets of unlocked houses, and nobody has figured out that it's because their doors are unlocked. Really, what's the point of pretending half the 'experts' know what the hell they are doing?
I wish iwe didn't have to worry about security. But we do. Not just because of a bunch of people mad at the world want to piss on your carpet, but because of a bunch of people mad at the world who want to shoot you in the head. A pox on all their houses.
I'll bet my bottom dollar this has nothing to do with OS security. It's more likely yet another injection attack that could have been prevented by simply prepending statements and sanitizing user input... like it says on practically every paper ever written about securing your database. At least the passwords were hashed. I wonder if a salt was used? I doubt it.
Q) Can you tell me the difference between FIFO and LIFO? A) Nope, but I can open a new window on a browser using BOTH client side and server side scripting. That's because I went to Stanford. It's a totally cutting edge difficult school!
Seriously though, I think this has to be a very introductory course for CS students with zero programming experience or a light course for non CS students. By the start of their second year, Stanford CS students will be doing Operating System Designs in C, I checked their curriculum. It's exactly the same as mine 10 years ago. Our intro was parsing text and learning loops in C, and most kids needed a crap load of help to get Borland going on their computer. I can totally understand using a scripting language that just needs a browser. It probably could have been harder for me and these guys, but most of us were/will be struggling enough in chemistry and electronics 101 to give a fart. By year 2 they'll be writing buffer outputs in ASM and building disk caches in C. Should they go on to graduate school, they'll be writing in languages their advisor has developed that many 3 other people on the planet have any familiarity with.
I remember my first job interview. "Give me a book and a couple weeks" was the answer to "We think you'll be a good fit, but what other languages can you program in."
And that's why the original question strikes me as stinking of colonialistic snobbery. OTOH, if some genius here can somehow, with only second- to third-hand knowledge of what kind of resources are really available and what conditions are really like over there, come up with a solution which will make their life easier, I'm all for it.
I'm not holding my breath.
No kidding. What kind of snob asks how to actively and passively cool a city that has been around longer than almost any other city on the planet. I can seriously imagine some ridiculous sandal wearing tree hunger walking around Cairo right now dripping all over the place bitching and moaning about how "quaint these people are that they can't figure out how to survive in the desert. iPhone... to the Internet. Find me the the answers that have alluded this ancient civilization for millennia. While we're at it,;let's start a blog to figure out perpetual motion so we can finally put big oil out of business."
So here's my advice. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or in parlance... If you can't stand the heat, take your iPhone and fly back to your air conditioned hovel in New England. And try to avoid 'constructive criticism' of that 'authentic demonstrating mother' whose taken her child outside in the 'child endangering' heat... mother's always know best.
This just pisses me off more than my relatives visiting me in New Mexico and bitching about the heat... ignoring the crystal clear skies, clean air, and mosquito free evenings.
As for testing - that's a later stage in the process of development.
Apparently by teenagers and young adults angry at the world who like nothing more than to 'test' websites with a nice little Iranian program, complete with a GUI and tutorial. They are all to happy to share their results with as many people as possible... all for free. Normally you have to pay for that:P
One of my biggest gripes is testers who don't know SQL. How do you set up your test cases without preloading the database? If you're manually entering data through the app you're testing you still need to verify that data got input correctly and that involves looking under the hood in the actual DB.
And yet we wonder why there is a rash of SQL injection attacks on public websites and servers by teenagers who are pissed at the world.
Other than that lovely little sentence, you'd be correct. Generally speaking, our words are no different than traditional American English. Some might call it less sophisticated however, as we tend to leave out the colorful expressions one can use with words such as "Dawg," "Brah" and "yo' Bitch" in our daily conversations. I suspect it has something to do with our conservative nature. Either way, it's quite the burden...."fa' realz!"
Exactly. It's likely they came from some sort of government employee program, like free viagra for postal workers or something... anything, I don't know. It's highly unlikely the organization (NSA) that has paper after paper detailing the need to hash passwords using a random salt to prevent rainbow attacks went ahead and stored their accounts in clear-text [*@nsa.ic.gov].
This is yet another Bobby Tables script attack against yet another site failing to use prepared statements and sanitation as suggested in every freaking doc, book, and manual for every freaking database for the last 10 years! I'm convinced this is all the result of lowest bidder and India-sourcing el Cheapo front end projects. You know, giving the job to people who don't even know what a mailing list is, let alone how to subscribe to one.
Regardless, this is not the "OMG I now have the codes to play chess with the Nuclear Launch Computer!!!! Mega LoLZ"
Float a Trojan coffee pot outside the station and watch as astronauts play snap dragon with the icy cold of space... all for a fresh cup of piping hot Java.
Rare earths are not rare. It was a horrible, horrible mistake to call them rare. Some of the elements in that family are more abundant than copper. They were coined 'rare' because as far as metals go, they are quite reactive, which makes them great for batteries, but also means they don't have much time to bond with eachother...which makes them great FOR BATTERIES! In essence, you do not find chunks of Cerium just laying around like you do, or did in some cases, as iron and boxite (aluminum) and copper. Thus they are usually found as minor, but significant, traces in other minerals and not all by themselves or as significant ores.
The largest mines prior to the mid 90s were located in the United States in Oregon, Brazil, and South Africa. There were literally Indiana Jones like warehouses full of 'rare earths' that were unneeded because the chemical properties of this family mean they are not found in huge chunks, but rather spread out in a given area. If you are digging for Lanthanum, for example, you'll end up with 'worthless' Neodymium and other metals. Prior to the mid-90s, these elements would often flip flop on the market as mines started pulling out different metals (Scandium vs Yttrium and Neodymium vs. Iridium)
China undercut global demand for the metals 20 years ago, and the World hasn't looked back since. It was an arrangement of convenience, as China started pulling out the damn stuff faster than the world could 'spend it.' No longer did lamp makers and battery manufacturers have to worry about ridiculous future contracts for rare earths. Prices stabilized quite dramatically, and the Wold loved it. China got a huge boost to a nascent technological and manufacturing industries due to the flood of foreign investment, as well as first dips on cheap metals.
The minute the so called 'Peak Earth' hits, and rare earths spike on the market because they have all 'disappeared', mines across the Globe will open up once again since it will be cost effective to sell the damn things.
So no, it will not be commercially viable to dig these elements out of the ocean floor for many many years. Keep in mind, the ocean floor is also full of gold nuggets, and the ocean itself as a vast amount of gold in solution. But just as it wouldn't be worth it to fly to the Moon where it made of gold, it isn't worth it to go panning for the stuff 1km below the ocean surface.
Honestly, I'm reading a lot of comments and this seems to be the only plausible idea. Either some idiot with the password was spear phished, or more likey, yet another major organization failed to sanitize their user input and somebody managed to use injection on their ass. I can easily see FOX, or another or big outfit with a twitter account, having an employee site that allows authorized personal to log in an send a 'tweet.' A script then formats the 'tweet' and sends it along to twitter. Anyway, when will people start sanitizing their data?
By the by, as funny as the parodies are,what's with the original? The guy on the right looks like he's pointing to the ground and saying "Ah... look how close I am to the edge." And the others are just looking onward, as if to say, "Chan is a very brave man for walking so close to that edge. We should all be very proud of this very safe road that one can walk on the edge so close without falling over."
Slashdot Mirror
Referring to the script (the letters), not the name per se. I suppose a comma would have made that clearer:
What's odd is that it's in English, not Arabic, script.
Latin characters, but whatever, close enough for me.
Every comrade knows, Soviet Russian SLFP are bigger than American SLFP. Soviet Russian SLFP are biggest SLFP! Sing to the Motherland home of the FREE!
My father was a sheriff and handled the prisons for our county. (Ironically, my grandfather was a felon for robbing a bank) Here's my 2.5 cents. We don't have more criminals than other nations, actually we're quite low in the number of offenses. But we do have mandatory sentencing and very long prison terms, so we have more criminals in the system. Every holiday, Thanksgiving for example, there would be 2 or 3 convicts invited to our house to have a good meal and a chance for a break from the prison grind. Usually the guys committed property or other non violent crime, but sometimes assault and battery. While in most other nations these criminals would server sentences ranging from 6-20 months, and was the case in the US decades ago, in our system today they now serve 3-5 years.
So you've got some dude that, for whatever reason, decided to rob a house or steal from a liquor store. He gets caught, you always do eventually, and end up in jail. He probably feels bad and remorseful, even if only because he got caught. Either way, you'll end up spending a decent chunk of time in the slammer that usually costs you your job and maybe even your family. Hence why my old man liked to bring these guys around. It wasn't charity. He'd invite them, they could turn him down or not. Nor were they expected to 'work it off' as so many people seem to think when I tell them this story.
Other things he did before mandatory sentencing became overbearing were;
1) Weekend prison stays for non-violent and first time offenders. There was an honor system involved in this. The idea being if you were truly sorry you'd do the time and be thankful you still had a job on the weekdays.
2) Work release programs where local businesses would hire prisoners for odds and ends. They got paid immediately, perhaps it was low I do not know, but it was real money that lots of guys gave to their families who needed it now that the bread winner was in the slammer.
3) Mock chain gangs. Prisoners who wanted a chance to leave the walls could dress up in the joke outfits and go around place to place singing stupid songs about prison life. Shools, malls, places like that.
4) A slew of other options for men to do their time with dignity. Decades ago, it was thought that surrounding normally decent people with true thugs was not such a good idea.
What happened in the last couple of decades was the use of metrics and statistics. Politicians could go out and say things like, "vote for me and I'll keep the prisoners in jail longer. Look at what [insert State here] did! They upped minimum sentences and now property theft is down 20%". Sounds good to a voter I suppose, however it's really kind of useless since it discounts better law enforcement and education in the first place, not to mention the dramatic increase in repeat offenses. The solution... "Longer prison terms for repeat offenders!" Now you rob a store that is occupied and it's jail for 15 years. You get caught with drugs 'next' (within 3 miles) of a school and you get tossed in the big house for 6 years. Good luck trying to not live withing 6 miles of a school, or robbing a store with people in it. I'm not trying to put on a liberal sob story, but from my very conservative point of view and upbringing things have dramatically changed. It's almost as if you've got nothing to lose, I mean hell, if you get caught you know you're done for the rest of your life so 'just go for it.' There are very few second chances, and almost no third chances. So in my opinions, prisons haven't become a place to punish criminals, they've become a place to get rid of them forever.
Keep in mind, the prisons I'm talking about are the majority of minimum or medium security facilities managed by counties. I'm not talking about the super-max industrial complexes. That's a whole different ball-o-wax, yet it does seem that they are growing while the others are shrinking due to the reasons cited above.
2.5 cents. Caveat emptor.
Yup. Intelligence would be knowing your time is better spent memorizing market facts and mathematical equations instead of sport trivia. That way you can afford to memorize sports trivia once your 401(k) keeps on trucking through the 'financial crisis.'
Personally, I'd get Anonymous involved.
NYPA
QFT!
The race is over. We won!
When I was a teenager, after the wall fell down, a Russian scientist looking to hawk his invention moved in with my family. He was great, and taught me a lot, especially how to drink vodka. But one thing he said will always stick with me - "America and Russia always competed to see who was first. America built first nuclear submarine. Russia build first space rocket. America built first moon rocket. Eventually we had nothing to compete for, so we raced to see who spend money fastest. Russia won!"
It is quite impressive isn't it? BTW, I'm glad to see you do not think greedy investors who think perpetual growth is not only NOT possible, but is a good idea to short, are to blame. Thanks for not holding me to account. No excuse me while I go fill my pool full of dollar bills.
It's probably something in the water making them crazy.
We must protect our precious bodily fluids from water fluoridation of our public water supply by communist spies. So I demand that the President launches a full scale preemptive attack against The former USSR, China, Berkley, and Harvard.
More than that. I've never been body scanned or pat downed the 2-dozen or so flights since the start of the program a year and a half ago??? I'm kind of sad that I'll have to share my good fortune with the plebs in my special line for people who shower and shave before boarding an airplane. What's the point of American Express upgrades anymore?
If you can't detect my sarcasm, let's add a little more.
If I were in charge for the pilot program, I'd have a simple question. "Do you want to overthrow the Federal Government" Anything from "Hell yes!" to "Not really, but I wouldn't be sad to see it happen" will guarantee you're harmless and ready for accelerated screening techniques. Shifty eyes and an "Absolutely not. God bless America, and No One Else!" answer will guarantee you're a lying tarwowist. I think we can all agree on that... and nothing else.
It's amazing that people don't understand this. I work from home and have a dual-wan, only as a fail-over in case something happens on the ISP end. It doesn't do squat when the sewer company knocks off my 'tubes by 'missing the mark', so to speak.
The point of 'The Cloud' isn't to provide redundant on-demand services to a single location. The point is I can take my laptop to Panera and still have access to my files and e-mail when the power goes out in my home/business. Or even better, I can go buy a laptop when mine is lost/stolen/broken and still have access to my files 1,000 miles away without having to worry about a VPN on some dinky 'business DSL' line, or hope that the office IT guy isn't away on vacation the minute we lose power to a server room and my laptop breaks.
The point of 'The Cloud' is that I can spin up servers anywhere in the world, either internally or via a partner/vendor, and quickly have new or redundant access to external and internal services required to do business. Personal PC backups are nice, but some of us don't have time to wait hours for a new hard drive to be installed and cloned.
So yea, I don't trust Rackspace alone. But having a Rackspace and EC2 account is significantly safer and more reliable, and way cheaper, than having a Technet account, a server cabinent, and an internet connection or two (no matter how fast they may be).
First it's our medicare... then it's our Borg icons!
Exactly. The CIA and NSA and other Alphabet Soup Agencies send their boys and gals to military bases for much of their training. Not just technical stuff, but languages, combat training, and intelligence. I'm really tired of this crap. Anti-sec Teenage anst isn't going to get a massive retaliatory strike if you 'server pawn' a military subcontractor. In a shooting war, all bets are off. The job of the officer is not to be the be-all end-all oracle of knowledge. Your C/O might not be the world's greatest super hacker, just as he isn't' the world's greatest marksman or the world's greatest radar operator. The job of the officer is to facilitate the needs of his command.... period! In other words, our officers ARE 'ignorant managers', but they are ignorant managers who have command of a group that can usually wipe the floor with any enemy, and they are good at using them. Last time I checked, Norad isn't dealing with a Suxtnet type worm infecting every system from super computers to auto-flush toilets. Maybe the guys who helped write the book on the Internet actually know how to use it?
Or I could be wrong. the README seems to allude that a public facing server had SSH/remote deskop enabled and accepted clear text passwords without any kind of certificate verification, and did not use a 'Fail2Ban' like application. Doesn't say if it was Windows or Linux or OS/2, but it appears that whatever it was it was installed and left to sit as is. How long would a bot be able to brute force a computer accepting remote logins? I don't know, but I'd bet a couple of weeks at most.
This is line 2 on securing your Database servers. It really is getting ridiculous. It's like a flood of teenage angst running around a neighborhood pissing on the carpets of unlocked houses, and nobody has figured out that it's because their doors are unlocked. Really, what's the point of pretending half the 'experts' know what the hell they are doing?
I wish iwe didn't have to worry about security. But we do. Not just because of a bunch of people mad at the world want to piss on your carpet, but because of a bunch of people mad at the world who want to shoot you in the head. A pox on all their houses.
I'll bet my bottom dollar this has nothing to do with OS security. It's more likely yet another injection attack that could have been prevented by simply prepending statements and sanitizing user input... like it says on practically every paper ever written about securing your database. At least the passwords were hashed. I wonder if a salt was used? I doubt it.
It's Ok. Next year they'll be teaching Rails.
Q) Can you tell me the difference between FIFO and LIFO?
A) Nope, but I can open a new window on a browser using BOTH client side and server side scripting. That's because I went to Stanford. It's a totally cutting edge difficult school!
Seriously though, I think this has to be a very introductory course for CS students with zero programming experience or a light course for non CS students. By the start of their second year, Stanford CS students will be doing Operating System Designs in C, I checked their curriculum. It's exactly the same as mine 10 years ago. Our intro was parsing text and learning loops in C, and most kids needed a crap load of help to get Borland going on their computer. I can totally understand using a scripting language that just needs a browser. It probably could have been harder for me and these guys, but most of us were/will be struggling enough in chemistry and electronics 101 to give a fart. By year 2 they'll be writing buffer outputs in ASM and building disk caches in C. Should they go on to graduate school, they'll be writing in languages their advisor has developed that many 3 other people on the planet have any familiarity with.
I remember my first job interview. "Give me a book and a couple weeks" was the answer to "We think you'll be a good fit, but what other languages can you program in."
And that's why the original question strikes me as stinking of colonialistic snobbery. OTOH, if some genius here can somehow, with only second- to third-hand knowledge of what kind of resources are really available and what conditions are really like over there, come up with a solution which will make their life easier, I'm all for it.
I'm not holding my breath.
No kidding. What kind of snob asks how to actively and passively cool a city that has been around longer than almost any other city on the planet. I can seriously imagine some ridiculous sandal wearing tree hunger walking around Cairo right now dripping all over the place bitching and moaning about how "quaint these people are that they can't figure out how to survive in the desert. iPhone... to the Internet. Find me the the answers that have alluded this ancient civilization for millennia. While we're at it, ;let's start a blog to figure out perpetual motion so we can finally put big oil out of business."
So here's my advice. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or in parlance... If you can't stand the heat, take your iPhone and fly back to your air conditioned hovel in New England. And try to avoid 'constructive criticism' of that 'authentic demonstrating mother' whose taken her child outside in the 'child endangering' heat... mother's always know best.
This just pisses me off more than my relatives visiting me in New Mexico and bitching about the heat... ignoring the crystal clear skies, clean air, and mosquito free evenings.
As for testing - that's a later stage in the process of development.
Apparently by teenagers and young adults angry at the world who like nothing more than to 'test' websites with a nice little Iranian program, complete with a GUI and tutorial. They are all to happy to share their results with as many people as possible... all for free. Normally you have to pay for that:P
One of my biggest gripes is testers who don't know SQL. How do you set up your test cases without preloading the database? If you're manually entering data through the app you're testing you still need to verify that data got input correctly and that involves looking under the hood in the actual DB.
And yet we wonder why there is a rash of SQL injection attacks on public websites and servers by teenagers who are pissed at the world.
I call bullshit on that being a dialect.
Other than that lovely little sentence, you'd be correct. Generally speaking, our words are no different than traditional American English. Some might call it less sophisticated however, as we tend to leave out the colorful expressions one can use with words such as "Dawg," "Brah" and "yo' Bitch" in our daily conversations. I suspect it has something to do with our conservative nature. Either way, it's quite the burden...."fa' realz!"
Exactly. It's likely they came from some sort of government employee program, like free viagra for postal workers or something... anything, I don't know. It's highly unlikely the organization (NSA) that has paper after paper detailing the need to hash passwords using a random salt to prevent rainbow attacks went ahead and stored their accounts in clear-text [*@nsa.ic.gov].
This is yet another Bobby Tables script attack against yet another site failing to use prepared statements and sanitation as suggested in every freaking doc, book, and manual for every freaking database for the last 10 years! I'm convinced this is all the result of lowest bidder and India-sourcing el Cheapo front end projects. You know, giving the job to people who don't even know what a mailing list is, let alone how to subscribe to one.
Regardless, this is not the "OMG I now have the codes to play chess with the Nuclear Launch Computer!!!! Mega LoLZ"
Float a Trojan coffee pot outside the station and watch as astronauts play snap dragon with the icy cold of space... all for a fresh cup of piping hot Java.
The advertisements will just roll in.
Rare earths are not rare. It was a horrible, horrible mistake to call them rare. Some of the elements in that family are more abundant than copper. They were coined 'rare' because as far as metals go, they are quite reactive, which makes them great for batteries, but also means they don't have much time to bond with eachother...which makes them great FOR BATTERIES! In essence, you do not find chunks of Cerium just laying around like you do, or did in some cases, as iron and boxite (aluminum) and copper. Thus they are usually found as minor, but significant, traces in other minerals and not all by themselves or as significant ores.
The largest mines prior to the mid 90s were located in the United States in Oregon, Brazil, and South Africa. There were literally Indiana Jones like warehouses full of 'rare earths' that were unneeded because the chemical properties of this family mean they are not found in huge chunks, but rather spread out in a given area. If you are digging for Lanthanum, for example, you'll end up with 'worthless' Neodymium and other metals. Prior to the mid-90s, these elements would often flip flop on the market as mines started pulling out different metals (Scandium vs Yttrium and Neodymium vs. Iridium)
China undercut global demand for the metals 20 years ago, and the World hasn't looked back since. It was an arrangement of convenience, as China started pulling out the damn stuff faster than the world could 'spend it.' No longer did lamp makers and battery manufacturers have to worry about ridiculous future contracts for rare earths. Prices stabilized quite dramatically, and the Wold loved it. China got a huge boost to a nascent technological and manufacturing industries due to the flood of foreign investment, as well as first dips on cheap metals.
The minute the so called 'Peak Earth' hits, and rare earths spike on the market because they have all 'disappeared', mines across the Globe will open up once again since it will be cost effective to sell the damn things.
So no, it will not be commercially viable to dig these elements out of the ocean floor for many many years. Keep in mind, the ocean floor is also full of gold nuggets, and the ocean itself as a vast amount of gold in solution. But just as it wouldn't be worth it to fly to the Moon where it made of gold, it isn't worth it to go panning for the stuff 1km below the ocean surface.
Anyway, 2.5 cents.
Honestly, I'm reading a lot of comments and this seems to be the only plausible idea. Either some idiot with the password was spear phished, or more likey, yet another major organization failed to sanitize their user input and somebody managed to use injection on their ass. I can easily see FOX, or another or big outfit with a twitter account, having an employee site that allows authorized personal to log in an send a 'tweet.' A script then formats the 'tweet' and sends it along to twitter. Anyway, when will people start sanitizing their data?
By the by, as funny as the parodies are ,what's with the original? The guy on the right looks like he's pointing to the ground and saying "Ah... look how close I am to the edge." And the others are just looking onward, as if to say, "Chan is a very brave man for walking so close to that edge. We should all be very proud of this very safe road that one can walk on the edge so close without falling over."
Nope. But they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
to make sure that thousand dollar escort treated the Senator just right.