All very interesting but do we really need that level of resolution?
Taking the goatse guy as an example, do we really care that the pimple on his ass is a lighter shade of red?
Um, sorry about the mind pictures.....
Anyway, the human mind processes images very well, so we do not really need to go through every possible combination to get the gist of the picture on the screen. Moreover we could do very well with just mono-chrome pictures.
Are you saying it is common for locks on desk drawers to have numbers on the lock so you can send to the manufacturer or perhaps a locksmith to get a replacement?
It is here:-( For instance my 3 locked drawer/cabinet locks are all stamped with W426 as is my key (ok I lied about the ACTUAL number).
but I wouldn't think one dummy password would occupy a hacker more five or ten minutes.
But how many people try to obfuscate (sp?) the password by adding a few random chars in the written one, or maybe reversing it, or maybe using every second character,....
If the message is some text (as opposed to binary information), then a sufficiently powerful computer (whatever that means) can try out all possible combinations of bits in all possible positions given the length of the message to try to extract the information. Combine this with a dictionary and grammar rules, and eventually the message pops out.
Of course I will be retired by then.
It still comes down to the queston of "How long does it need to be secure?". Forever in encryption is a misnomer...
WalMart reduces competition. If WalMart was to go bankrupt, then maybe all those smaller stores could come back (competition). And a bunch of smaller stores would actually hire more people than are employed at the WalMart (overall).
And the smaller stores are unlikely to spent wads of money to implement an RFID system. Heck, half the smaller stores do not even use bar codes, they punch in the price manually.
The different HTML-Strict DTDs are nit-picking to the point that they preclude humans from writing code.
YES.
We should get ALL langauge compilers to ignore simple little syntax errors.
Why should we need a semi-colon to end a statement. The line feed should be enough.
Why should we need a closing brace. Cannot the compier SEE that it is the end of a block simply because the indenting is different?
!
The real problem is that people have been getting away with sloppy HTML. No closing TD, TR, TABLE tags because, hey, the browser allows it, and it works. Don't close italics in a TD cell? No problem!
MS started this mess when they had IE ignore HTML syntax errors. Netscape (at the time) was still strict. Suddenly many pages would not work in Netscape that worked in IE. This was perceived to be a Netscape problem, where in reality it was the coders problem.
Would YOU blame a compiler for trapping syntax errors? Of course not. So why should we allow sloppy HTML??
Slashdot Mirror
WordPerfect presumably has the "reveal code" function because it does all its formatting using embedded markup that's usually hidden.
And?
How else would you apply formatting to a document? Use a seperate buffer somewhere which holds character positions and their formatting?
If you like this mode of operation you can always edit raw HTML in notepad
Nope. It is more like using an HTML GUI composer, where you can view the raw HTML and make custom changes.
Word OTOH never lets you see the raw HTML and you must reply on the composer to "get it right".
I prefer WordPerfect. And I have heavily used both.
Mind you, WordPerfect has its own quirks....
COBOL was developed the way it was to allow managers to look at the code and have some reasonable chance at understanding what it does.
Which is why you have "sentences" and "paragraphs" and why COBOL is so damned wordy.
It is supposed to read like English. And if you go to some trouble with the naming of your variables you can almost make it like that.
Perl is the opposite of COBOL. Succinct to the point of incomprehensibility.
All very interesting but do we really need that level of resolution?
Taking the goatse guy as an example, do we really care that the pimple on his ass is a lighter shade of red?
Um, sorry about the mind pictures.....
Anyway, the human mind processes images very well, so we do not really need to go through every possible combination to get the gist of the picture on the screen. Moreover we could do very well with just mono-chrome pictures.
MyEclipse plugin
I just read through their Subscription Terms
They are nuts!
A $30 fee every year or the software stops working!! Shades of IBM mainframe licencing.
Looks like a good product, but I will NOT get into that sort of payment schedule!!
Um, two naked bodies moving toward each other at 30 miles per hour (50 Kph) and impacting.
Both wouild be dead.
Only through impact time stretching (such as crumple zones, air bags, seat belts) can collisions be survivable.
Because of weight reduction, the solar car could not have these things.
So if two of these collided at speed, both drivers would have died (or at least would have been seriously injured).
Slashdot is art??
Absolutely!
I was just making the code work.....
not if you have a
define('index',$index);
above it
he'd have to find it too...
:-))
Just don't leave it in the car when you visit the peeler bar on the way home
Are you saying it is common for locks on desk drawers to have numbers on the lock so you can send to the manufacturer or perhaps a locksmith to get a replacement?
:-( For instance my 3 locked drawer/cabinet locks are all stamped with W426 as is my key (ok I lied about the ACTUAL number).
....
It is here
but I wouldn't think one dummy password would occupy a hacker more five or ten minutes.
But how many people try to obfuscate (sp?) the password by adding a few random chars in the written one, or maybe reversing it, or maybe using every second character,
First of all, they could put their passwords on post-its in the locking drawers most desks have. Almost as convenient, but MUCH more secure.
You mean those locking drawers where the key number is stamped on the lock?
I usually place a sticky note with a ramdom number of characters under my keyboard. It looks like a password, and may even BE someones password.
But it is not MY password and is it not close to my password. This entertains whoever is trying to break into my computer for hours....
I would not debase myself....
But how the hell is this all going to be powered?
It is obvious. By the two wheeled battery cart the soldier pulls behind him/her.
ya see, you DO learn stuff on /.
a one time pad is unconditionally secure
I wonder.
If the message is some text (as opposed to binary information), then a sufficiently powerful computer (whatever that means) can try out all possible combinations of bits in all possible positions given the length of the message to try to extract the information. Combine this with a dictionary and grammar rules, and eventually the message pops out.
Of course I will be retired by then.
It still comes down to the queston of "How long does it need to be secure?". Forever in encryption is a misnomer...
WalMart ... bankrupts reducing competition
You're kidding right?
WalMart reduces competition. If WalMart was to go bankrupt, then maybe all those smaller stores could come back (competition). And a bunch of smaller stores would actually hire more people than are employed at the WalMart (overall).
And the smaller stores are unlikely to spent wads of money to implement an RFID system. Heck, half the smaller stores do not even use bar codes, they punch in the price manually.
why you are still over paranoid about security?
Hmmm, I did not think that my post implied this.
The virus scanner is run via its scheduler as are the defnition updates. The Spyware scanning I run once in a while (every 2-3 weeks).
The rest is just common sense. I AM careful, my SO has been trained, as have my children. But paranoid? Nope, just aware.
I would asy that nayigeta (792068) does for one...
I would prefer weighing this to keep 80-90% of pings within the ip range of the ISP.
My machines are behind a 10. NAT. This would not work for me.
Mind you, I AM behind a firewall, don't use IE, don't use Outlook, virus scan daily, use Ad and spyware spotters, etc.
exposure to the native environment is fatal.
Damnit, I should have stayed in the womb!
US has always focused on fighter aircraft
Yes, because this is such a foolproof system.
That does not make sense.
Factoring in the usual attention span of the general populace it does.
1. My magazine does bad review of one of my products.
2. Wait a few weeks.
3. Sell off magazine
4. Um, what was 1. again??
I suppose I should add
5. Profit!
It was part of the specification that closing tags are not needed.
So that would mean that Netscape was wrong and IE was right?
The different HTML-Strict DTDs are nit-picking to the point that they preclude humans from writing code.
YES.
We should get ALL langauge compilers to ignore simple little syntax errors.
Why should we need a semi-colon to end a statement. The line feed should be enough.
Why should we need a closing brace. Cannot the compier SEE that it is the end of a block simply because the indenting is different?
!
The real problem is that people have been getting away with sloppy HTML. No closing TD, TR, TABLE tags because, hey, the browser allows it, and it works. Don't close italics in a TD cell? No problem!
MS started this mess when they had IE ignore HTML syntax errors. Netscape (at the time) was still strict. Suddenly many pages would not work in Netscape that worked in IE. This was perceived to be a Netscape problem, where in reality it was the coders problem.
Would YOU blame a compiler for trapping syntax errors? Of course not. So why should we allow sloppy HTML??
You mispelled scared