That's just because they don't have the recipe entirely correct. First you have to add beer to the water, then slowly raise the temperature. (I'm not joking. This is the recipe for the most tender lobster. If you put it into cold water, with beer, then slowly raise the temperature to boiling, it will fall asleep before boiling, so the meat will be tender.)
I'm sure you're worried about all of your old systems, and keeping them up to date, but pay attention to the cost you're talking about. A PC133 64MB DIMM sells for $9.
Buy a PC2100 1GB DIMM for $120, and that same 64MB costs $7.50.
If you can't afford the $10 or so in memory costs for the speed upgrade, keep an old version of X installed, and those of us who are willing to give up those extra two beers, or bag lunch it for a day or three will happily enjoy a better computing experience.
It's the same reason that blowing on a fire reignites coals, and they have those blowing devices for fireplaces (yeah, I'm sorry, the name escapes me at the moment). As long as there is any oxygen content, moving air will just provide a fresher fuel and inflame the fires.
Obligatory, karma-whoring quote "Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
As opposed to the fake Linux stuff everyone's got? Linux is used in millions of shipped units of networking equipment, and there's no reason to expect less of it. Heck, if nothing else, add all of the Net-Link/D-Sys/Linkgear equipment together and you've got solid numbers. And they all support complex networking.
Up until recently, the Cisco PIX series was nothing more then a modified PC running a customized version of BSD (and when they first bought the company that made them, it was barely even a modified PC, with floppy drive and all...).
Software is the hardware of our times, and Linux is damn impressive software...
Here. The downside to it is it's windows/mac only as it relies on the driver to do the printer rendering. If you need to connect it to a network, or to a *nix machine, get the 2500L (It's $200 more expensive). Once the 2500L (or equivalent at the time) hits $500, I'm getting one for home. None of that bubble/inkjet shit for me. I've got a B&W laser printer (HP 5L) that has lasted for 4 years now (and I bought it used at the MIT hardware swap for $90!), and I've only had to replace the toner cartridge once.
Swiping licenses is used to prevent fake ids and it works very well. They are simply combining this with a way to keep track of trouble makers. Take off your tinfoil hats
Oh yeah, they're so innocent. Go to The Rack in downtown Boston, and end up with flyers and special offers in your mailbox. (Yes, they save you're address with swipe machines and use it for marketing purposes.) Combine this with the fact that it's a pretty popular hangout for athletes, and you've got the setup for a movie with Robert De Niro (The Fan). It's why I don't go to The Rack anymore. (That, and because I've moved out of town...:) )
Anmother trick that I'm starting to see pop up is control characters in the headers, so spamd/spamc get a screwed up byte count and allow the message through. I'm not running the latest version of SpamAssassin yet, though, so this may have been fixed already...
They never took his name, number, sent him a get-out-of-free card, or anything.
That's naive. Just because they didn't ask for his number, doesn't mean the call isn't logged with a CID string somewhere. And even if they don't depend on CID, the RIAA has already shown that it's more than happy to subpoena the phone company when it thinks it could find some useful information...
There's a French version of this floating around, and I had no problems reading it, even though my French is pretty bad. (I'm just learning it.) I could'nt get two words right off the bat, because it turns out that I don't know those two words at all, but the rest came as fast as the English version.
I think the key here is that the foreigners (Japanese) were people who speak a pictograph language (correct term?). I think anyone who speaks a language based roughly off of the roman alphabet will have no problem with a version of this for any language that they know that uses the roman alphabet...
Arguably the most important form of security for something like this is application security. When you receive variables in a form, do you check them in the form page before submitting AND in the receiving page to make sure you don't have any rogue POST'ers?
In fact, have you disabled passing variables by GET? This doesn't protect variables absolutely, but it will stop the casual snoopers.
Also, if you have any includes that are just utility pages, are they built/secured so that someone couldn't wright a webpage on another computer, include it, and get access to information allowing them to break the code? (Server-side includes should be in a non-publicly accessible directory, or failing that, should be coded such that they produce a blank page. This can be accomplished by recquiring a server side variable be set a certain way before the include to enable the page.)
Also, after you've authenticated a user, how do you keep the session open? Do you just pass a user variable around, or do you verify at each page? If you just pass the variable around, it could be susceptible to altering, especially if it's a numeric id that is auto-incremented, or an obvious string like an email address.
Instead of paassing the variable around, if you can't depend on server-side sessions, it's a good idea to generate one-off unique session id's that are good for a limited amount of time, and aren't auto-incremented (maybe an MD5 hash, or a GUID), which makes it much more difficult to hijack.
If you use access to an out-of-process resource (like a database), do you implement user security there, too? If you have read only, or no access to important tables, than even if you application code is compromised, that still prevents an attacker from wreaking havoc elsewhere...
I've seen photos of billboards, and that's not one. It has the appearance of an LCD with it's poor viewing angle. I hope that the picture displays better than it photographs...
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It is not immoral to break an unjust law. Law is not morality. And to those who would argue that most people use the law in place of morality, I ask you this: How many people do you know that have conscience attacks when crossing the street away from an intersection, or when the light would not allow them to do so? Just like with jaywalking, people fashion their own rules and morals based on their interactions with others, and not based on law.
I'm not advocating anarchy, I'm just trying to point out the reality of the situation. People do what they want to.
Because of this, I say to all of you, go on breaking this unjust law. Encourage the behavior in your friends and family. Act as if this is the most ridiculous thing in the world (as it is), and hopefully in twenty years time, or thirty, someone will publish the RIAA asininity in a list of dumb laws from long ago...
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That's just because they don't have the recipe entirely correct. First you have to add beer to the water, then slowly raise the temperature. (I'm not joking. This is the recipe for the most tender lobster. If you put it into cold water, with beer, then slowly raise the temperature to boiling, it will fall asleep before boiling, so the meat will be tender.)
With a name like Cougar, and a release of 10.4.6, I thought someone had released the next version of OS X! (Bad Slashdot, bad...)
I'm sure you're worried about all of your old systems, and keeping them up to date, but pay attention to the cost you're talking about. A PC133 64MB DIMM sells for $9.
Buy a PC2100 1GB DIMM for $120, and that same 64MB costs $7.50.
If you can't afford the $10 or so in memory costs for the speed upgrade, keep an old version of X installed, and those of us who are willing to give up those extra two beers, or bag lunch it for a day or three will happily enjoy a better computing experience.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Yes, it is...
It's the same reason that blowing on a fire reignites coals, and they have those blowing devices for fireplaces (yeah, I'm sorry, the name escapes me at the moment). As long as there is any oxygen content, moving air will just provide a fresher fuel and inflame the fires.
Obligatory, karma-whoring quote "Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
As opposed to the fake Linux stuff everyone's got? Linux is used in millions of shipped units of networking equipment, and there's no reason to expect less of it. Heck, if nothing else, add all of the Net-Link/D-Sys/Linkgear equipment together and you've got solid numbers. And they all support complex networking.
Up until recently, the Cisco PIX series was nothing more then a modified PC running a customized version of BSD (and when they first bought the company that made them, it was barely even a modified PC, with floppy drive and all...).
Software is the hardware of our times, and Linux is damn impressive software...
Here. The downside to it is it's windows/mac only as it relies on the driver to do the printer rendering. If you need to connect it to a network, or to a *nix machine, get the 2500L (It's $200 more expensive). Once the 2500L (or equivalent at the time) hits $500, I'm getting one for home. None of that bubble/inkjet shit for me. I've got a B&W laser printer (HP 5L) that has lasted for 4 years now (and I bought it used at the MIT hardware swap for $90!), and I've only had to replace the toner cartridge once.
You know, I tried, but all I get is this pretty azure-blue puzzle piece on a white background... (Scratches head)
Yay Linux on sparc!
Swiping licenses is used to prevent fake ids and it works very well. They are simply combining this with a way to keep track of trouble makers. Take off your tinfoil hats
Oh yeah, they're so innocent. Go to The Rack in downtown Boston, and end up with flyers and special offers in your mailbox. (Yes, they save you're address with swipe machines and use it for marketing purposes.) Combine this with the fact that it's a pretty popular hangout for athletes, and you've got the setup for a movie with Robert De Niro (The Fan). It's why I don't go to The Rack anymore. (That, and because I've moved out of town... :) )
Anmother trick that I'm starting to see pop up is control characters in the headers, so spamd/spamc get a screwed up byte count and allow the message through. I'm not running the latest version of SpamAssassin yet, though, so this may have been fixed already...
Well, if you want to get technical, it would be osh-tay-tay-pay-deuh-pwon-deuh-slash dobla-vay-dobla-vay-dobla-vay-pwon-slashdot-pwon-c om... :)
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Hey, American Linux users, there is no such thing as "back" slash, there is only slash and antislash.
*Ducks*
"The Venn diagram of facts doesn't intersect. The intersection of all of those statements is the null set," Geer said.
Ahhh, one of our own... :)
They never took his name, number, sent him a get-out-of-free card, or anything.
That's naive. Just because they didn't ask for his number, doesn't mean the call isn't logged with a CID string somewhere. And even if they don't depend on CID, the RIAA has already shown that it's more than happy to subpoena the phone company when it thinks it could find some useful information...
That reminds of seeing Episode II at the Boston Aquarium IMAX. A six-story closeup shot of Anakin's face was NOT a pretty sight...
There's a French version of this floating around, and I had no problems reading it, even though my French is pretty bad. (I'm just learning it.) I could'nt get two words right off the bat, because it turns out that I don't know those two words at all, but the rest came as fast as the English version.
I think the key here is that the foreigners (Japanese) were people who speak a pictograph language (correct term?). I think anyone who speaks a language based roughly off of the roman alphabet will have no problem with a version of this for any language that they know that uses the roman alphabet...
Gosh, you guys have such overly elaborate dreams. In my dreams, they're not dressed at all...
Arguably the most important form of security for something like this is application security. When you receive variables in a form, do you check them in the form page before submitting AND in the receiving page to make sure you don't have any rogue POST'ers?
In fact, have you disabled passing variables by GET? This doesn't protect variables absolutely, but it will stop the casual snoopers.
Also, if you have any includes that are just utility pages, are they built/secured so that someone couldn't wright a webpage on another computer, include it, and get access to information allowing them to break the code? (Server-side includes should be in a non-publicly accessible directory, or failing that, should be coded such that they produce a blank page. This can be accomplished by recquiring a server side variable be set a certain way before the include to enable the page.)
Also, after you've authenticated a user, how do you keep the session open? Do you just pass a user variable around, or do you verify at each page? If you just pass the variable around, it could be susceptible to altering, especially if it's a numeric id that is auto-incremented, or an obvious string like an email address.
Instead of paassing the variable around, if you can't depend on server-side sessions, it's a good idea to generate one-off unique session id's that are good for a limited amount of time, and aren't auto-incremented (maybe an MD5 hash, or a GUID), which makes it much more difficult to hijack.
If you use access to an out-of-process resource (like a database), do you implement user security there, too? If you have read only, or no access to important tables, than even if you application code is compromised, that still prevents an attacker from wreaking havoc elsewhere...
Actually, it doesn't stand for a damn thing. After all the arguing back and forth, DVD is not a TLA.
Record companies can proceed, thinking they have secure music, and developers can write software that will extract the songs from the audio part.
Everybody wins!"The PC sports a 2.08GHz XP processor"
XP processor, what's that? Is that what I use to run Windows 97 for my Outlook Explorer?
Hmmm.... A software based timeclock. Can you say Veee Ennnn Ceeee?
No witches? That can't be so! Everyone's always telling me I'm a son of a... Oh.. Carry on then, witches are non-existent after all...
I've seen photos of billboards, and that's not one. It has the appearance of an LCD with it's poor viewing angle. I hope that the picture displays better than it photographs...
It is not immoral to break an unjust law. Law is not morality. And to those who would argue that most people use the law in place of morality, I ask you this: How many people do you know that have conscience attacks when crossing the street away from an intersection, or when the light would not allow them to do so? Just like with jaywalking, people fashion their own rules and morals based on their interactions with others, and not based on law.
I'm not advocating anarchy, I'm just trying to point out the reality of the situation. People do what they want to.
In the U.S., it's damn near impossible to get a law removed from the books (just ask the woman in Michigan who isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.)
Because of this, I say to all of you, go on breaking this unjust law. Encourage the behavior in your friends and family. Act as if this is the most ridiculous thing in the world (as it is), and hopefully in twenty years time, or thirty, someone will publish the RIAA asininity in a list of dumb laws from long ago...