I support the best way to manage the regestry is to let windows keep allocating more space for it as it becomes more bloated.
And the best way to deal with viruses is let outlook and windows deal with them, spaming them out to thousands of other people.
Windows (and Linux) come setup for the average no-body, with most Linux install many deamons are turned off of hardened on startup, the default is failsafe for you granny and that usually not the best option.
I think it's 'quite' common to brute force the password people place on there keys because: a: The password is usually in a smaller keyspace than the key. b: The algorithm use to protect the key via a password is relatively simple, i.e. if I took me ten seconds to test each key a 40bit key would have been good enough.
'Sadly, we have seen our gains from the 90's wiped clean over the last 4 years.'
There were no gains, switching to computers has not increased efficiency or created any new jobs. It has just replaced some old jobs with some new ones. Since the new jobs cost about as much as the old ones did the transaction costs are comparable to before computer automation.
Unless it is under contract to provide an immediate service that is needed
If everyone though like that the Government would never hand grants out to anyone. If the Government thinks that it good for the country (or the world) as a whole then they give it funding.
If I were to start up a small business the Government would give me a lot of backing, including the ability to apply for several grants, because small businesses are good for the country.
If I start up a charity then the Government gives me extra money on top of the donations I receive because charities are considered good for the country or the world.
Money spent of OSS ends up being spent on everyone, when compared to money being spent on the contractor that stays in the pocket of the contractor. Maybe you look at short term goals and the here and now, but the Government looks into the feature.
The Catholic Douay-Reims was a literal translation into English, and controlled by the Catholic church. In terms of copyright legislation this is similar to Sony releasing a track using ASF + DRM and releasing the same track in ACC + DRM.
The King James is an non-lateral translation e.g. it's in English not grenglish or piglatin depending on if the translation came from Greek or Latin. It's was also produced by the Protestants against the will of the Catholic church, under copyright this would be deemed a new work produced without consent of the license holders, the protastants considered the bible to be in the public domain.
'There is only one person that can change this, the Author'
If a work is created when you are working for a company the company holds copyright not the Author. Elvis slipped out of copyright in the UK at the beginning of the year, and copyright law wasn't changed to stop it happening.
The Beatles will start coming out of copyright in a few years time, I'm going to make sure my MP is aware of the issues and the potential lobbying that will happen so he can make a decision before he starts getting lobbied by the media companies. It would be interesting to know what the remaining Beatles think about their work being in the public domain, instead of being held by some company.
Cliff Richard may be cause an extension to copyright laws though, because he's paranoid about his music being used in porn movies. Apparently he thought 'She's just a devil woman' was a good christian song about evil taking over a woman.
Well, Elvis has come out of copyright in the Europe. Poe and Bach are out of copyright too. just because you've already accepted never-ending copyright doesn't make it a fact, or the law.
Well, the bible wasn't allowed to be translated into a different language, King James commissioned a bible in English that 'common' people could understand.
The comment makes perfect sense, given that DRM is an effort to keep the media in a format that only the distributor understands.
I would either, a: consider it a gift, copyright and license has just gone out the window. b: Phone them up and say you'll be charging them rental of the HDD, memory and CPU space/time it is taking up at $100 a day until they send an engineer round to remove it from you system.
You buy a full dell PC for a few hundred dollars, put a few monitors and keyboards hanging off of it and setup multiple clients on the same box.
Most office users still need word, the company I used to work for had a lot of big iron The users has a PC for email, word documents, outlook etc.. but mainly worked via a text terminal.
Hell, I still spend most of my time on the console.
They are planning to remove those once all cards are chip-and-pin
Doesn't sound possible, what happens when I go to the US or some other country where they don't support chip-and-pin?
I'm sure you could clip something onto your finger that would read the stripe as the customer inserted it into the reader someone done a similar thing to the mag-stripe reader on the door of a bank just around the corner from me, it should be easy to mod the reader to record the pin number.
Now I have the pin number , and you cards details I can do what I want and the bank can tell you that they used your pin number so it's your fault.
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' so if they're going to assult you for your card they might as well ask for your pin too.'
A pick pocket will just follow you into the shop, look over your sholuder, watch where you put your card and make their move whilst your carying the shopping out of the shop. Your an easy target, since your carying a lot of shopping and there will be a lot of other people around who may bump into you.
So you think that the people that copy your card won't be able to copy you pin number from the box you type it into.
I can even copy it remotley, all I have to do is send out some RF and look for changes in the signal I that's bounced back.
When you press a key you close the loop in the contacts of the box, which will interfear with the RF signal and can be detected. Because each key probably has a different length of circuit it will affect the RF in a different way. So I can work out exactly what number you typed in, even if I'm not looking over your sholder.
Then all I have to do is pickpocket you, and go on a spending spree, but because I have your pin I don't even need to forged your signiture so there's no way you can hope to prove that I took you card.
RSS is good for pumping down undates about a product too, the government telling companies that a law is about to change and affect their business, or the government actually advertising consultations for a change.
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I support the best way to manage the regestry is to let windows keep allocating more space for it as it becomes more bloated.
And the best way to deal with viruses is let outlook and windows deal with them, spaming them out to thousands of other people.
Windows (and Linux) come setup for the average no-body, with most Linux install many deamons are turned off of hardened on startup, the default is failsafe for you granny and that usually not the best option.
That's the second best way...
the best way is to save up $50 and stick another gig of ram in the box.
Mr. Viscusi argues that using a flat value discriminates against young people. A study he conducted puts a $7 million value on a human life. But applying that figure to both the 12-year old saved by an auto-safety rule and the 70-year old whose life has been slightly prolonged by clean-air rules "creates a severe inequity," he says.
1 human == $7 million (that's a lot more than the UK government says a human costs).
Now, the MPAA would say a DvD costs about $20, and a downloaded movie directly relates to a lost sale.
Do the math and it works out that a human life is worth about 5000 downloads of all seven movies.
I think it's 'quite' common to brute force the password people place on there keys because:
a: The password is usually in a smaller keyspace than the key.
b: The algorithm use to protect the key via a password is relatively simple, i.e. if I took me ten seconds to test each key a 40bit key would have been good enough.
'Sadly, we have seen our gains from the 90's wiped clean over the last 4 years.'
There were no gains, switching to computers has not increased efficiency or created any new jobs. It has just replaced some old jobs with some new ones. Since the new jobs cost about as much as the old ones did the transaction costs are comparable to before computer automation.
Unless it is under contract to provide an immediate service that is needed
If everyone though like that the Government would never hand grants out to anyone. If the Government thinks that it good for the country (or the world) as a whole then they give it funding.
If I were to start up a small business the Government would give me a lot of backing, including the ability to apply for several grants, because small businesses are good for the country.
If I start up a charity then the Government gives me extra money on top of the donations I receive because charities are considered good for the country or the world.
Money spent of OSS ends up being spent on everyone, when compared to money being spent on the contractor that stays in the pocket of the contractor. Maybe you look at short term goals and the here and now, but the Government looks into the feature.
The Catholic Douay-Reims was a literal translation into English, and controlled by the Catholic church. In terms of copyright legislation this is similar to Sony releasing a track using ASF + DRM and releasing the same track in ACC + DRM.
The King James is an non-lateral translation e.g. it's in English not grenglish or piglatin depending on if the translation came from Greek or Latin. It's was also produced by the Protestants against the will of the Catholic church, under copyright this would be deemed a new work produced without consent of the license holders, the protastants considered the bible to be in the public domain.
'There is only one person that can change this, the Author'
If a work is created when you are working for a company the company holds copyright not the Author. Elvis slipped out of copyright in the UK at the beginning of the year, and copyright law wasn't changed to stop it happening.
The Beatles will start coming out of copyright in a few years time, I'm going to make sure my MP is aware of the issues and the potential lobbying that will happen so he can make a decision before he starts getting lobbied by the media companies.
It would be interesting to know what the remaining Beatles think about their work being in the public domain, instead of being held by some company.
Cliff Richard may be cause an extension to copyright laws though, because he's paranoid about his music being used in porn movies.
Apparently he thought 'She's just a devil woman' was a good christian song about evil taking over a woman.
Wouldn't any 40bit cipher be 'easy' to crack due to the small keyspace, especially if it's easy to compute.
I just hope that the passwords on my private keys use a algorithm that's so slow no one could brute force my password.
the bbc are putting all their archive content online.
Are there BBC TV channels carried via satellite?
That's your idea, not mine. Have you given up already?
Well, Elvis has come out of copyright in the Europe.
Poe and Bach are out of copyright too. just because you've already accepted never-ending copyright doesn't make it a fact, or the law.
Well, the bible wasn't allowed to be translated into a different language, King James commissioned a bible in English that 'common' people could understand.
The comment makes perfect sense, given that DRM is an effort to keep the media in a format that only the distributor understands.
What would have happened if the bible was DRMed.
I would either,
a: consider it a gift, copyright and license has just gone out the window.
b: Phone them up and say you'll be charging them rental of the HDD, memory and CPU space/time it is taking up at $100 a day until they send an engineer round to remove it from you system.
What happens in 150 years time when copyright lapses on the disk?
At the moment things get released into the public domain every day, DRM vs no DRM is like the church vs the King James bible.
You buy a full dell PC for a few hundred dollars, put a few monitors and keyboards hanging off of it and setup multiple clients on the same box.
Most office users still need word, the company I used to work for had a lot of big iron
The users has a PC for email, word documents, outlook etc.. but mainly worked via a text terminal.
Hell, I still spend most of my time on the console.
I've never seen a study that shows the more people you have the more stupid they become.
Whey they say 'hacked' I think they mean...
for(x in ipblock){
send(13374x0r)
}
They are planning to remove those once all cards are chip-and-pin
Doesn't sound possible, what happens when I go to the US or some other country where they don't support chip-and-pin?
I'm sure you could clip something onto your finger that would read the stripe as the customer inserted it into the reader someone done a similar thing to the mag-stripe reader on the door of a bank just around the corner from me, it should be easy to mod the reader to record the pin number.
Now I have the pin number , and you cards details I can do what I want and the bank can tell you that they used your pin number so it's your fault.
But it's still got a magnetic stripe.
Its a good system, I think the banks just need to do more to educate their customers
People keep saying this but it never happenes.
no seriously code weavers do certification too.
Desktop Linux CertifiedTM Program
Question: Why do applications run on Windows in a reasonably uniform manner?
Answer: Because software developers test their applications against the Windows API, that's why.
Wouldn't it be great if a similar mechanism existed for certifying Windows applications running on Linux desktops? Now there is...
In order to continue gaining credibility on the desktop, Linux needs its own certification program. That's why CodeWeavers has taken the lead in establishing Desktop Linux Certification. We have created a common Linux testing API (CrossOver), and a set of open, freely available testing tools (the Compatibility Center and its CXTest regression testing suite). By doing so, we are meeting the needs of users for superior functionality and true portability of their applications, no matter what operating system they were originally written for.
An application that is Desktop Linux CertifiedTM has passed a set of compatibility and reliability tests, and can be relied upon to perform in a productive fashion when running under CrossOver. Certification also demonstrates that the software developer for the certified application is serious about working with the Linux community.
We work actively with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to enable them to achieve and maintain Desktop Linux Certification. We can either work directly with the ISVs development and QA teams, or work independently to bring the needed application(s) into Certification.
Benefits for Linux Users
Certification gives software users:
# The assurance that their favorite Windows applications are also certified to run on all Linux desktops under CrossOver.
# The knowledge that your Application is portable across both Windows and Linux.
' so if they're going to assult you for your card they might as well ask for your pin too.'
A pick pocket will just follow you into the shop, look over your sholuder, watch where you put your card and make their move whilst your carying the shopping out of the shop. Your an easy target, since your carying a lot of shopping and there will be a lot of other people around who may bump into you.
Uhmm. DUH?
So you think that the people that copy your card won't be able to copy you pin number from the box you type it into.
I can even copy it remotley, all I have to do is send out some RF and look for changes in the signal I that's bounced back.
When you press a key you close the loop in the contacts of the box, which will interfear with the RF signal and can be detected. Because each key probably has a different length of circuit it will affect the RF in a different way. So I can work out exactly what number you typed in, even if I'm not looking over your sholder.
Then all I have to do is pickpocket you, and go on a spending spree, but because I have your pin I don't even need to forged your signiture so there's no way you can hope to prove that I took you card.
Does my RSS feed work? it looks ok but all the readiers I've tried either only shoe me my CV or choke.
RSS is good for pumping down undates about a product too, the government telling companies that a law is about to change and affect their business, or the government actually advertising consultations for a change.