I just inherited a Bluetooth financial transaction system project and was wondering what freely available STL I should use? Thanks...
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Your understanding of XML, "...XML is nothing more than formatted text -- utterly devoid of value until two or more parties agree on a shared vocabulary (in the form of a DTD or Schema" is exactly what XML is defined to be. See? Point #2 is probably the most appropriate here.
If it's true that you can't enter a legally binding agreement while drunk, just pound a few brews before clicking "I agree." Time to go install some more software...
The only real reason grocery stores have food cards is to make more money. They use various combinations of data mining tools and predictive analytics to figure out what people like to buy, who the best(read most profitable) customers are, and who are the cherry pickers(read most costly). Then they market to their best customers and not the cherry pickers. Or they devise promotions to sell a well-selling item with a poor-selling item. Or a well-selling item with a high-profit item. The list goes on and on. The only reason they do it though, is to make money. The only way the analyses are at all accurate is because of the aggregate amount of data they collect. Performing an analysis on 1 person's data would be useless. Most retail-specific applications don't even provide tools to look at specific customers, only categories of customers that satisfy specific criteria. Retailers don't make money by looking at your purchasing habits. They do it by looking at everyone's purchasing habits together. You alone are not valuable to them.
Now, could all this be abused by selling your information to others? Possibly. Except retailers are most likely making money directly off your information themselves, and prefer to keep it that way. Grocers are usually quite territorial with their shoppers and generally would not risk anyone else getting hold of their customers; they make too much money compared to the amount they'd make by simply selling a list.
A friend of mine at VT strobed (portscanned) some.mil machine his freshman year(96-97). A few days later he was called into a meeting with the Dean of the A&S college and some G-Men. They then went back to his dorm room and got copies of every h4X0r1ng tool he had on his linux machine.
Why on earth does the XML-RPC spec require HTTP? This, IMO, is one of the stupidest things in the spec. It's right up there with their ASCII requirement for Strings. The XML-RPC protocol should be separate from the transport(HTTP) of that protocol. As for the ASCII string dependence...
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It's true that Sun's reference implementation on Windows doesn't scale very well(at all?) with respect to large numbers of simultaneous connections. I am unclear as to whether Sun's I/O improvements made with 1.4 will help RMI's connection handling ability. As with most things dealing with reference implementations though, one usually has to buy something to get performance improvements. Depending on how much one believes weblogic, their implementation of RMI seems to be quite the performer
Wouldn't your bandwidth bills increase by having to serve ads from your own servers? Unless you're telling me that ads pay for their own bandwidth plus that of the content...
There was an article in Air&Space about a restoration of a WWI vintage airplane. It turns out the original had a flaw in the fuel tank baffles that starved the engine during rolls. To keep the plane as original as possible, they utilized the same type of flawed-baffle system even though a fix for the problem was easily contrived. Such exactness is extremely important to the restoration crowd. That's according to my memory though...
Since when doesn't reliability sell? That's exactly why the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry are consistently the most popular sedans sold in the U.S. and not the Geo Metro or Daewoo Anything. It's exactly why Consumer Reports is so popular. People read it to find out which things work well and which things don't break. It's exactly why people buy computers from manufacturers(they're supposedly pieces of electronics that work). That's exactly why Apple's iMac sold so well, and why it continues to do so.
Imagine if physicists were to take the arrogant attitude of today's security developers and say, "If I can build it, I should and also tell everyone else how to do it!"
Considering most college-level physics books describe the workings of nuclear weapons and rail guns, I fail to see your distinction between physicists and security developers.
Worms aren't just a Microsoft thing. You should know(remember?) that the first worm ever written infected many *NIX systems (and the net in general) quite badly.
Would you rather them test the procedure on an astoundingly complex surgery that nobody has experience with? If the robot arm screwed up, any number of doctors in the vicinity of the woman could have taken over the procedure, which was part of the plan I'm sure. It would be idiotic to test this on anything other than a simple, reasonably common surgery.
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I pressed submit. I should always preview. I even posted a response acknowledging my dumbass mistake, but it didn't seem to work. D'oh!
At my old school, before they instituted message box sizes, a few students decided to mail themselves backups of their hard drives. This was probably the primary factor in instituting size restrictions. Pretty clever, to say the least...
I don't know exactly how high you think 2300m/s is, considering my air rifle, an RWS Model 36, shoots.177 pellets at 1000m/s. The model 45 will plunk one out at 1100m/s.
They remind me of my college id. Use it to get snacks from the vending machines, swipe it for the laundry machines, go to restaurants and pay with it, buy books with it, buy alcohol at the grocery store. Use it to get into electronically-locked rooms. Make long distance phone calls with it. I just wish I was back in college.
I'm still waiting for the clause in the Windows license that states you cannot publish vulnerabilities or defects with their product. It's already been done with database performance as seen with Oracle. Why not Microsoft and security?
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Yeah, my parent post was supposed to be a play on two posts above, this one and this one. Wooosh! Oh well...
I just inherited a Bluetooth financial transaction system project and was wondering what freely available STL I should use? Thanks...
Your understanding of XML, "...XML is nothing more than formatted text -- utterly devoid of value until two or more parties agree on a shared vocabulary (in the form of a DTD or Schema" is exactly what XML is defined to be. See? Point #2 is probably the most appropriate here.
If it's true that you can't enter a legally binding agreement while drunk, just pound a few brews before clicking "I agree." Time to go install some more software...
You'd think the military would have jumped on that Iridium sale based on their demand for satellite communications.
Except for the fact that the xml-rpc spec is dependent on HTTP. And that Strings can only be US-ASCII. Get rid of those two problems and it's great.
The only real reason grocery stores have food cards is to make more money. They use various combinations of data mining tools and predictive analytics to figure out what people like to buy, who the best(read most profitable) customers are, and who are the cherry pickers(read most costly). Then they market to their best customers and not the cherry pickers. Or they devise promotions to sell a well-selling item with a poor-selling item. Or a well-selling item with a high-profit item. The list goes on and on. The only reason they do it though, is to make money. The only way the analyses are at all accurate is because of the aggregate amount of data they collect. Performing an analysis on 1 person's data would be useless. Most retail-specific applications don't even provide tools to look at specific customers, only categories of customers that satisfy specific criteria. Retailers don't make money by looking at your purchasing habits. They do it by looking at everyone's purchasing habits together. You alone are not valuable to them.
Now, could all this be abused by selling your information to others? Possibly. Except retailers are most likely making money directly off your information themselves, and prefer to keep it that way. Grocers are usually quite territorial with their shoppers and generally would not risk anyone else getting hold of their customers; they make too much money compared to the amount they'd make by simply selling a list.
A friend of mine at VT strobed (portscanned) some .mil machine his freshman year(96-97). A few days later he was called into a meeting with the Dean of the A&S college and some G-Men. They then went back to his dorm room and got copies of every h4X0r1ng tool he had on his linux machine.
Why on earth does the XML-RPC spec require HTTP? This, IMO, is one of the stupidest things in the spec. It's right up there with their ASCII requirement for Strings. The XML-RPC protocol should be separate from the transport(HTTP) of that protocol. As for the ASCII string dependence...
It's true that Sun's reference implementation on Windows doesn't scale very well(at all?) with respect to large numbers of simultaneous connections. I am unclear as to whether Sun's I/O improvements made with 1.4 will help RMI's connection handling ability. As with most things dealing with reference implementations though, one usually has to buy something to get performance improvements. Depending on how much one believes weblogic, their implementation of RMI seems to be quite the performer
Wouldn't your bandwidth bills increase by having to serve ads from your own servers? Unless you're telling me that ads pay for their own bandwidth plus that of the content...
There was an article in Air&Space about a restoration of a WWI vintage airplane. It turns out the original had a flaw in the fuel tank baffles that starved the engine during rolls. To keep the plane as original as possible, they utilized the same type of flawed-baffle system even though a fix for the problem was easily contrived. Such exactness is extremely important to the restoration crowd. That's according to my memory though...
Since when doesn't reliability sell? That's exactly why the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry are consistently the most popular sedans sold in the U.S. and not the Geo Metro or Daewoo Anything. It's exactly why Consumer Reports is so popular. People read it to find out which things work well and which things don't break. It's exactly why people buy computers from manufacturers(they're supposedly pieces of electronics that work). That's exactly why Apple's iMac sold so well, and why it continues to do so.
Where is your sig from? I know I've heard it before, I just don't know where.
Or you can always use a microwave. The effect of a microwave on a cd is quite spectacular. 5 seconds should be more than enough to destroy the disk.
This post was really a trick to get all of the dorks to confess. I will now be taking your lunch money and delivering wedgies.
Imagine if physicists were to take the arrogant attitude of today's security developers and say, "If I can build it, I should and also tell everyone else how to do it!"
Considering most college-level physics books describe the workings of nuclear weapons and rail guns, I fail to see your distinction between physicists and security developers.
Worms aren't just a Microsoft thing. You should know(remember?) that the first worm ever written infected many *NIX systems (and the net in general) quite badly.
Would you rather them test the procedure on an astoundingly complex surgery that nobody has experience with? If the robot arm screwed up, any number of doctors in the vicinity of the woman could have taken over the procedure, which was part of the plan I'm sure. It would be idiotic to test this on anything other than a simple, reasonably common surgery.
Well, that's about all our state is good for. Banks and punkin' chunkin'. I'm so proud of "Slower Lower" Delaware.
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I pressed submit. I should always preview. I even posted a response acknowledging my dumbass mistake, but it didn't seem to work. D'oh!
At my old school, before they instituted message box sizes, a few students decided to mail themselves backups of their hard drives. This was probably the primary factor in instituting size restrictions. Pretty clever, to say the least...
I don't know exactly how high you think 2300m/s is, considering my air rifle, an RWS Model 36, shoots .177 pellets at 1000m/s. The model 45 will plunk one out at 1100m/s.
They remind me of my college id. Use it to get snacks from the vending machines, swipe it for the laundry machines, go to restaurants and pay with it, buy books with it, buy alcohol at the grocery store. Use it to get into electronically-locked rooms. Make long distance phone calls with it. I just wish I was back in college.
I'm still waiting for the clause in the Windows license that states you cannot publish vulnerabilities or defects with their product. It's already been done with database performance as seen with Oracle. Why not Microsoft and security?