That's what I was thinkg at first, but if you change any part of the text, the decode process fails. Therefore they must be doing a checksum, or MD5, or something that generates a key based on a large body of data.
So they've come up with a couple stupid "spammy" sounding messages. They're adding a few random numbers to it, making an MD5 hash out of it, storing that in a database, along with the message you originally entered. Then when you decode it, they're just getting the hash ( or whatever they're using) and do a lookup in the database to retrieve your original message.
Since when is 3rd-party storage ingenious technology.
Any other programmers out there every had to write anything to update customer data file definitions to a newer version regardless of what the current definition was? I sure have with a few different file formats.
I sure we can come up with a couple thousand examples of prior art on this one.
Of course, we must wait until there is a bounty is set.
Since when did these guys own the patent on indexing a database? The soul reason they have a patent seems to be based on indexing a database that is stored in more than one location. How the hell can location make an idea unique enough to be granted a patent?
I could take every patent in existance, find some way of making it take place across a network, and I'd be granted a new patent.
I've stated in many times before. Just because something that used to take place on one machine, now takes place on a network doesn't mean it can be re-patented.
The high-tech companies will hire unskilled labor at 4x minumum wage to pedal bicycles to power the servers, thus bringing more people into CA, thus causing a higher usage of electricity, thus requiring more pedal-power people to come in...
And when there are problems, doesn't the public have the right to know? (Whose dollars put those folks up there in the first place?)
Yes, it's our money and they probably want to see more of that in the future. The public's perception of government run facilities is critical. What's worse is the fact that the press and even places like/. tend to blow stories out of proportion. If the public believes they aren't doing anything right, then there may be enough resistance to delay future development.
Personally, I'd like to see what's going on just because I know that I'm not going to put on my tunnel vision glasses when I read the information. However, things like "oxygen leak" can be very minor depending on size, location and several other factors. But we all know that just those two words are enough to have a 15 minutes story on every news station in the country.
Autodesk has done this with AutoCad for at least a couple years now, that I know of, could be longer. Every time you install it on a new machine, you actually have to call them to get an activation code.
It should be ok if MS decides to release it like that. It probably won't take too long to crack the security. It probably has a buffer overflow bug in it like every routine in all their software. Just type in a code of 257 characters.
I do some of the tech support for the ISP side of the company I work for. Had a lady call up with Win 95 and didn't have DUN installed, nor did she have the CD. Told her to find somebody that had a copy she could "borrow". She ended up calling Microsoft and asking if they had an extra. The person at MS that she talked to, told her to ask her friends for a copy.
Maybe they did screw up the defaults and they figure you're a stupid user like most of the people on the net. At least they informed you and gave you time to change it.
Isn't/.'s motto "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". I guess it matters if a moderator has the same thing happen to him.
What the hell are we suppose to discuss about this anyways? Do you have any proof that they didn't have the defaults screwed up?
In the time it took you to load/. and post the story, you could have gone to e-bay and flipped the switches off.
Not that I don't see how it's a stupid action, I just think you two are whining a little too much about it.
I use OOP and procedural programming because they each have benefits. It enables me to clearly envision the flow of code and make everything modular. It also enables me to manage multiple instances of the same type of object easier. However, it's possible to implement the same functionality in procedural form. And somebody familiar with coding everything as procedures can visualize the code just as easily. If you have used procedural all your life and are familiar with it, then you can perform the same tasks as somebody that is experienced in OOP.
Using procedures, you may have a separate source file for procs related to working with strings. You could also use OOP to declare a string object, and just put all the functions within the object. Note: The above is just an example, don't EVER waste time with string objects unless you are forced to.
It's really more of a personal preference than anything else. Synonymous with your wallpaper. In the end, all that really matters is whether or not the software performs its intended function.
Just because 75 gigs will only hold 30 minutes doesn't mean it won't be distributed. Besides, that's probably the uncompressed figure. What size would it be when you run it through an mpeg4 encoder? The Mandrake distro is a gig for everything, and people download that.
Truth is, it'll be a couple years at least before this technology gets into the hands of the average consumer, and movies start getting distributed in that format. Besides, it can always be scaled down to 1/4 its resolution, or lower.
Content providers need to get over themselves and wipe the dollar signs from their eyes.
For the most part, the content providers need to stop thinking of getting rich from simply starting any ol' website. It's a real shame, because I've seen some pretty good sites come and go because they've decided that they need some VC funding and tried to become millionaires from pretty basic ideas.
Now, it does cost money to run a website. But if it's going to be treated like a business, standard practices should be followed. For one, don't assume starting a website today is going to give you profit tomorrow. Another, don't assume that somebody is going to pay you for nothing. For example, starting a company in January and trying to sell it by July. Starting a company is a long-term prospect.
Things are getting weeded out right now. It's not just the companies with bad ideas. It's the companies being run by greedy little pricks only out to make a quick buck for themselves. They're the ones that only want to run the company for the sake of saying that they run a company. Those types are not needed.
Companies also need to stop jumping at VC funding. Starting a company is long-term. Don't expect to start off at full speed.
If it's to be revolutionary, it needs heat sensors to detect your body temperature and adjust the A/C or heater according to the preset temperature you have specified. Of course that idea is well suited for an individual. Multiple family members may be a little complex, especially if they have different comfort zones. Maybe an ID tag of some sort, but it would be nice to track individuals in other ways.
For lighting, it would be nice to tell if you are coming from a room that has had the lights off, such as waking in the middle of the night. In that scenario, it would be nice to have lights come on automatically but be dim. Maybe if a person needs to be waking during the night hours for an early job, allowing the programming to gradually increase the brightness as the person wakes up would be a nice feature.
The real trick would be a simple way to do train the neural network. I'm not sure what would be best, but a simple method would definitely be a good idea, even if the individual only has to go through the process once, they won't use it if it's too complex to program. I know several people that have security systems but don't use them because they don't feel like learning the interface.
Ok, so why are we still using gas-powered vehicles?
Nevermind, I'll answer that myself: because oil still exists in the Earth and therefore not every penny that can be made from it, has been made by the perto companies.
So if this nuclear material can be used to send a rocket to Mars in 2 weeks, then assumming it can be controlled and throttled, for how many years could it power a car running at 60 mph.
It would take a well trained, intelligent human being to discover security flaws. If your need for security is more than the average home-based internet surfer running ZoneAlarm, then you should hire a 3rd-party company specializing in security to evaluate your system.
I would use scanners only to perform automated checks to make sure that known holes have not been opened after the initial check. Periodically, the 3rd-party company should be hired to come back and recheck the system for old holes as well as new ones that have been discovered since the previous system test.
Personally, I'd like to see a Palm powered bot with hydraulics and rotary tools, compete in BattleBots. Maybe they should create a new category for those bots. They're much more programmable that the current breed of R/C cars with steel plating on them.
Here's a suggestion. Make patents available only for unique ideas that don't fall under the category of evolution (human or commercial) and aren't obvious solutions. Putting a brick under the tire of a car to keep it from rolling down the hill should not be patentable, even if you design a special block to fit the need.
Human genes should not be considered patents. Why should the companies researching those genes get any protection? Can I get a patent on the AIDS virus, leaving only me to do research on it, making me the only one to profit from a cure?
This is synonymous with calling shotgun for a ride in your friends new car. And doesn't the reservation of genes eliminate any possible competition? Everybody is just getting a little too greedy. Actually genes should just be licensed under GPL.
We respect your privacy and will make every effort not to monitor you, but we reserve the right to do so.
All this says is that you will do whatever you want to do. When it comes down to it though, privacy policies are all just words, and they only exist to appease the ignorant.
My advice: just save some time and "borrow" somebody elses. Of course in this day and age that's probably a copyright violation. So instead, take somebody elses, read it, get the basic ideas, and rewrite it in your own words (cleanroom implementation). Or to save time, just let the VC's write it. If there's something really horrible in it, it'll end up on/. for review anyways.
No matter what the case, they aren't read by most people, and they aren't adhered to by the companies that write them, so does it really matter? It's not like you're going to get some revolutionary that you'll be applauded for if VCs are involved.
I always liked the think that the future would hold the readily accessible information like seen in the Next Generation series. I could vocally request a song and it would play. No 20 minute wait for a download, no prompt for credit card information. It was music, or video, or information and it was all just there. It looks like it won't happen in my lifetime then. It probably will be 400 years in the future before the economic powers that be will ease up on the rest of the world and finally come to the realization that there isn't a difference if you have 1 billion dollars, 2 billion dollars, or even a quarter of that, you're still going to live the same lifestyle. Meanwhile, the rest of the people on the planet that actually work for their money by coming up with creative solutions are nickel and dimed to death just so they can relax and enjoy some entertainment.
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However, I don't think we need an 8 foot tall case of books on it at Borders.
XML Certification Test:
Question 1: Do you understand HTML tags?
Answer: Yes.
Result: You're certified.
Anyways, you'd have to expect any XML book that's any larger than a post-it note, to largely be filled with useless information on unrelated topics.
That's what I was thinkg at first, but if you change any part of the text, the decode process fails. Therefore they must be doing a checksum, or MD5, or something that generates a key based on a large body of data.
Just what the world needs,
So they've come up with a couple stupid "spammy" sounding messages. They're adding a few random numbers to it, making an MD5 hash out of it, storing that in a database, along with the message you originally entered. Then when you decode it, they're just getting the hash ( or whatever they're using) and do a lookup in the database to retrieve your original message.
Since when is 3rd-party storage ingenious technology.
Just what the world needs,
Any other programmers out there every had to write anything to update customer data file definitions to a newer version regardless of what the current definition was? I sure have with a few different file formats.
I sure we can come up with a couple thousand examples of prior art on this one.
Of course, we must wait until there is a bounty is set.
Just what the world needs,
Since when did these guys own the patent on indexing a database? The soul reason they have a patent seems to be based on indexing a database that is stored in more than one location. How the hell can location make an idea unique enough to be granted a patent?
I could take every patent in existance, find some way of making it take place across a network, and I'd be granted a new patent.
I've stated in many times before. Just because something that used to take place on one machine, now takes place on a network doesn't mean it can be re-patented.
The high-tech companies will hire unskilled labor at 4x minumum wage to pedal bicycles to power the servers, thus bringing more people into CA, thus causing a higher usage of electricity, thus requiring more pedal-power people to come in...
Aw, screw it, just build some more power plants.
And when there are problems, doesn't the public have the right to know? (Whose dollars put those folks up there in the first place?)
/. tend to blow stories out of proportion. If the public believes they aren't doing anything right, then there may be enough resistance to delay future development.
Yes, it's our money and they probably want to see more of that in the future. The public's perception of government run facilities is critical. What's worse is the fact that the press and even places like
Personally, I'd like to see what's going on just because I know that I'm not going to put on my tunnel vision glasses when I read the information. However, things like "oxygen leak" can be very minor depending on size, location and several other factors. But we all know that just those two words are enough to have a 15 minutes story on every news station in the country.
Autodesk has done this with AutoCad for at least a couple years now, that I know of, could be longer. Every time you install it on a new machine, you actually have to call them to get an activation code.
It should be ok if MS decides to release it like that. It probably won't take too long to crack the security. It probably has a buffer overflow bug in it like every routine in all their software. Just type in a code of 257 characters.
I do some of the tech support for the ISP side of the company I work for. Had a lady call up with Win 95 and didn't have DUN installed, nor did she have the CD. Told her to find somebody that had a copy she could "borrow". She ended up calling Microsoft and asking if they had an extra. The person at MS that she talked to, told her to ask her friends for a copy.
Maybe they did screw up the defaults and they figure you're a stupid user like most of the people on the net. At least they informed you and gave you time to change it.
/.'s motto "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". I guess it matters if a moderator has the same thing happen to him.
/. and post the story, you could have gone to e-bay and flipped the switches off.
Isn't
What the hell are we suppose to discuss about this anyways? Do you have any proof that they didn't have the defaults screwed up?
In the time it took you to load
Not that I don't see how it's a stupid action, I just think you two are whining a little too much about it.
It tends to be a little too anti-oop though.
I use OOP and procedural programming because they each have benefits. It enables me to clearly envision the flow of code and make everything modular. It also enables me to manage multiple instances of the same type of object easier. However, it's possible to implement the same functionality in procedural form. And somebody familiar with coding everything as procedures can visualize the code just as easily. If you have used procedural all your life and are familiar with it, then you can perform the same tasks as somebody that is experienced in OOP.
Using procedures, you may have a separate source file for procs related to working with strings. You could also use OOP to declare a string object, and just put all the functions within the object. Note: The above is just an example, don't EVER waste time with string objects unless you are forced to.
It's really more of a personal preference than anything else. Synonymous with your wallpaper. In the end, all that really matters is whether or not the software performs its intended function.
Just because 75 gigs will only hold 30 minutes doesn't mean it won't be distributed. Besides, that's probably the uncompressed figure. What size would it be when you run it through an mpeg4 encoder? The Mandrake distro is a gig for everything, and people download that.
Truth is, it'll be a couple years at least before this technology gets into the hands of the average consumer, and movies start getting distributed in that format. Besides, it can always be scaled down to 1/4 its resolution, or lower.
Content providers need to get over themselves and wipe the dollar signs from their eyes.
For the most part, the content providers need to stop thinking of getting rich from simply starting any ol' website. It's a real shame, because I've seen some pretty good sites come and go because they've decided that they need some VC funding and tried to become millionaires from pretty basic ideas.
Now, it does cost money to run a website. But if it's going to be treated like a business, standard practices should be followed. For one, don't assume starting a website today is going to give you profit tomorrow. Another, don't assume that somebody is going to pay you for nothing. For example, starting a company in January and trying to sell it by July. Starting a company is a long-term prospect.
Things are getting weeded out right now. It's not just the companies with bad ideas. It's the companies being run by greedy little pricks only out to make a quick buck for themselves. They're the ones that only want to run the company for the sake of saying that they run a company. Those types are not needed.
Companies also need to stop jumping at VC funding. Starting a company is long-term. Don't expect to start off at full speed.
If it's to be revolutionary, it needs heat sensors to detect your body temperature and adjust the A/C or heater according to the preset temperature you have specified. Of course that idea is well suited for an individual. Multiple family members may be a little complex, especially if they have different comfort zones. Maybe an ID tag of some sort, but it would be nice to track individuals in other ways.
For lighting, it would be nice to tell if you are coming from a room that has had the lights off, such as waking in the middle of the night. In that scenario, it would be nice to have lights come on automatically but be dim. Maybe if a person needs to be waking during the night hours for an early job, allowing the programming to gradually increase the brightness as the person wakes up would be a nice feature.
The real trick would be a simple way to do train the neural network. I'm not sure what would be best, but a simple method would definitely be a good idea, even if the individual only has to go through the process once, they won't use it if it's too complex to program. I know several people that have security systems but don't use them because they don't feel like learning the interface.
A manager said that. We need a "+1 Scary" mod rating in here.
Ok, so why are we still using gas-powered vehicles?
Nevermind, I'll answer that myself: because oil still exists in the Earth and therefore not every penny that can be made from it, has been made by the perto companies.
So if this nuclear material can be used to send a rocket to Mars in 2 weeks, then assumming it can be controlled and throttled, for how many years could it power a car running at 60 mph.
It would take a well trained, intelligent human being to discover security flaws. If your need for security is more than the average home-based internet surfer running ZoneAlarm, then you should hire a 3rd-party company specializing in security to evaluate your system.
I would use scanners only to perform automated checks to make sure that known holes have not been opened after the initial check. Periodically, the 3rd-party company should be hired to come back and recheck the system for old holes as well as new ones that have been discovered since the previous system test.
It takes a Mac to wirelessly hack into a martian mothership and plant a system disabling virus.
Personally, I'd like to see a Palm powered bot with hydraulics and rotary tools, compete in BattleBots. Maybe they should create a new category for those bots. They're much more programmable that the current breed of R/C cars with steel plating on them.
Here's a suggestion. Make patents available only for unique ideas that don't fall under the category of evolution (human or commercial) and aren't obvious solutions. Putting a brick under the tire of a car to keep it from rolling down the hill should not be patentable, even if you design a special block to fit the need.
Human genes should not be considered patents. Why should the companies researching those genes get any protection? Can I get a patent on the AIDS virus, leaving only me to do research on it, making me the only one to profit from a cure?
This is synonymous with calling shotgun for a ride in your friends new car. And doesn't the reservation of genes eliminate any possible competition? Everybody is just getting a little too greedy. Actually genes should just be licensed under GPL.
I guess they got wise to Microsoft's impending failure over the next decade and figured this is the only way they'd make their billions from MS.
We respect your privacy and will make every effort not to monitor you, but we reserve the right to do so.
/. for review anyways.
All this says is that you will do whatever you want to do. When it comes down to it though, privacy policies are all just words, and they only exist to appease the ignorant.
My advice: just save some time and "borrow" somebody elses. Of course in this day and age that's probably a copyright violation. So instead, take somebody elses, read it, get the basic ideas, and rewrite it in your own words (cleanroom implementation). Or to save time, just let the VC's write it. If there's something really horrible in it, it'll end up on
No matter what the case, they aren't read by most people, and they aren't adhered to by the companies that write them, so does it really matter? It's not like you're going to get some revolutionary that you'll be applauded for if VCs are involved.
I always liked the think that the future would hold the readily accessible information like seen in the Next Generation series. I could vocally request a song and it would play. No 20 minute wait for a download, no prompt for credit card information. It was music, or video, or information and it was all just there. It looks like it won't happen in my lifetime then. It probably will be 400 years in the future before the economic powers that be will ease up on the rest of the world and finally come to the realization that there isn't a difference if you have 1 billion dollars, 2 billion dollars, or even a quarter of that, you're still going to live the same lifestyle. Meanwhile, the rest of the people on the planet that actually work for their money by coming up with creative solutions are nickel and dimed to death just so they can relax and enjoy some entertainment.
Where do I go to get a full-time job clicking a submit button once an hour without actually having to validate the submission?
Nobody.
/. or Andover. They use enough anchor tags.
This discussion is really getting boring.
And why the hell would they only sue Prodigy???? Why not AOL? Or hell, sue