Except that it would be easy to exploit this. Here's an example:
1) Send out a phishing expedition, asking people to log into their BofA account to update their account information. Make it look real official, and include a link that goes to "https://www.bankofamerica.com". The new window takes them to the real site, encrypted and everything. 2) Customers login and check their mailing address, or whatever. 3) Some percentage of them will leave their windows open for more than 10 minutes, at which point BofA sends their standard pop-up window warning about account inactivity and logout. 4) Hijack the pop-up window and do Something Nefarious, like initiate a funds transfer.
Now, this isn't a perfect example. But there are an untold number of different sites out there who use pop-ups for perfectly reasonable applications, and it would be trivial for some phisher to get people to go to those sites using his link.
The best thing to do is, for those sites who use pop-ups to communicate with their visitors, use some nonstandard form for naming those windows. Use the person's username, a random string, a DES hash with the first two characters of the day of the week as the salt and the time the page is first loaded as the string, whatever (no, don't use "whatever", that's just a figure of speech)'
Not to mention, it's far less surprising to see how many successful people DID go to college.
All it means is, college can help you be successful, but the lack of it doesn't mean you absolutely cannot be. It'll just take more [money|time|effort], that's all.
You left out Karl Rove, who is basically ruling the world right now as the puppeteer of the most powerful government in history.
Well, the site I quoted left him out. If you go there, there's a submission link you can use to get him added.
Leaving aside your comment about him being a "puppeteer", it is interesting that someone in his position is a college dropout. I wonder how many other major politicians are?
Here's a partial list of famous (and rich) college dropouts.
Computers: Bill Gates (Microsoft) dropped out of Harvard, 1976 Steve Jobs (Apple, NeXT, Pixar) left Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after 1 semester Steve Wozniak (with Jobs, founded Apple Computer) Lawrence Ellison (Oracle Computer) Michael Dell (Dell Computer) dropped out of the University of Texas
Other Business: David Geffen (Geffen Records, Dreamworks SKG) flunked out of University of Texas, Austin, AND Brooklyn College, NY H Wayne Huizenga (Blockbuster Video millionaire, owner of Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers and Florida Marlins) attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for 3 semesters Ted Turner (media mogul) -kicked out, I hear! Ron Popeil (tv huckster, RONCO) William Hanna (Hanna-Barbera)
To see the complete list, go to http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/7734/cdoaa.ht ml. Well, it's not complete, in that not everyone who ever dropped out of college is on there, but you'll be surprised by who is!
Reminds me of how I learned the difference between "who" and "whom". It was because my 9th grade German teacher beat into us (not literally, she wasn't actually German herself) the proper use of "wer" and "wem". None of the English teachers I'd had before or since, in both public and private schools, had ever even brought up the concept. Kinda scary, actually.
How do you think these will impact the U.S. economic outlook:
- Crop failure Monsanto's stock will rise when their GE crops survive - Floods More rivers = more riverboat casinos - Drought Stock of Coca-Cola and Pepsico shoot through the roof - Class 5+ Hurricanes (Hurricanes were a big boon to the construction industry in Florida I'll grant you). You already answered this one - Flooding coastal cities(which tends to be where lots of people live), flooding islands and most of Florida Again, construction boom as people move further inland, or attempt to reclaim land - Massive Wildfires and forests cratering Aside from Bambi, nobody important lives in forests...well, OK, aside from Bambi and the Smurfs, but that's it - Devastation of the reefs and the seafood that lives in them Eh, fish are over rated, anyway....except for unagi, they're too tasty to let die off! - Mass extinctions Just makes the remaining animals that much more precious
I'll grant you Kyoto was flawed but not for the reason you give. Thanks to globalization putting pollution limits on national boundries is insane.
Which is exactly the reason why the US, under the previous and current administrations, didn't ratify it.
Truthfully, homosexual marriage was still uncommon, as the purpose of marriage for the greeks was mainly to produce children.
Wow, you actually admitted this. I can't believe it.
Yes, the Greeks encouraged men and boys to be lovers. But they specifically did not encourage them to be married, nor did they allow it. Why? Because men can't have children together, and that's the purpose of marriage!
You then state that marriage in America is not geared for creating and raising children. That's the the whole crux of the debate. Those of us against gay marriage consider it to be exactly that. So like I said before, you have to prove it isn't. And until you realize that the other side has valid concerns with the issue and start addressing them, you won't be winning (m)any converts.
I expect that if he sharpens his public speaking he could hit that circuit and make an extra 5K per talk or more. Though, Ken probably already knows that.
Maybe not. That seems like a seasonal type job to me...
Then again, he just might be that good with absolutly useless knowledge, in which case, good for him for making it pay off. Most know-it-alls I've met worked at McDonalds.
Nope, not McDonalds. Record shops and game stores, those are both guaranteed to have regular Stephen Hawkings working the register.
No, I don't either. Could you explain it to me? Please be specific, and tell us how such changes directly affect you.
Does society currently allow men to marry men, or women to marry women? No. So, allowing that would be a change. Has Western civilization, going back to the Romans and Greeks, ever condoned gay marriage? No. So doing so now would be a huge change.
I don't have to prove the changes would be bad, you have to prove the changes would be good. Refusing to acknowledge that it would entail change won't convince those of us who want to leave things as they are. The burden of proof is on you, not me.
Perhaps if someone could provide a coherent explanation of how allowing gay marriages would be "changing the very foundations of our society", I might be able to understand why people are against it.
Hang on a second. You don't understand how allowing gay marriage is a huge change to society? You have got to be joking. Do you even understand what marriage is?
A gay coubple being married does not affect anyone outside the gay couple.
The people who are against gay marriage disagree. That's why they're against gay marriage.
In this case, a minority is directly influencing what everyone can and cannot watch on TV.
Watching TV is trivial. Deciding how to define the very foundations of a society is not. It amazes me that you get up in arms when people want to keep morally objectionable material from the public airwaves (airwaves which those people own, along with you), yet you cannot understand why someone would be against changing the very foundations of our society to fit the whims and desires of a very few people. Simply amazing.
the case you're talking about is this one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/inte l_gun_ man/
The case you referenced was about a guy who wanted to go postal on the plant where he used to work. It didn't say anything about him dropping DBs, and implied he was a line worker until being fired for some unknown reason. Hardly someone with root level access to a production DB.
Besides, there's a world of difference between dropping a DB and sprayin' and prayin' with your trusty Kalishnikov brand happy joy stick.
When the red states profess a great concern for moral values and then embrace sleazy shows, that's hypocrisy, is it not?
No. It isn't. That's not hypocrisy.
Yeah, actually, it is. Hypocrisy is when you say one thing, and do another. So advocating "moral values" while pushing immoral behavior is the textbook example of hypocrisy.
If you don't want some vocal group imposing its religious values on you, I suppose you'll have to be just as vocal.
Substitute "religous values" with "political desires", and I completely agree with you. Just look at gay marriage. The overwhelming majority of Americans want nothing to do with it, yet a very small, very vocal minority is trying to push its values on the rest of the country. It sucks when either side does it.
No they are not out to "destroy the western world" they just want us to stay the hell of their world.
I don't know if many Arabs discern a difference between those points. I think their ill will towards us has gotten to the point where, in their view, the only thing they can do is destroy our society in order to advance their own.
It is accurate, though, to say they hate "freedom", inasmuch as they hate the concept of freedom which is prevalent in the Western world. The Islamic concept of freedom is more along the lines of freedom from temptation, while ours, of course, encourages temptation. Ask most Arabs what they think of America and Europe, and you're bound to hear words like "decadent" and "corrupt" far more often than "intrusive" or "imperial".
What he's saying is that the brain actually USES these quantum principals, ie, if an electron is spinning this way, release this chemical, or send this impulse.
That sounds implausible, at best. What part of the brain is capable of measuring the spin of an electron? Let me think about this for a second....nope, can't tell what the spin is of that electron that just bounced off the inside of my skull from dendrite #105922-ZT. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but somehow I doubt it.
The first said the human brain works not only on mechanical, chemical, biological, and electrical principles, but also on quantum principles....
Wow, so something that exists in the physical universe is effected by laws of nature which effect everything else in that universe? Groovy, man.
Seriously, "quantum principles" aren't magic, they're how the basic building blocks of matter work. At least that's my layman's understanding of them, at any rate.
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Except that it would be easy to exploit this. Here's an example:
1) Send out a phishing expedition, asking people to log into their BofA account to update their account information. Make it look real official, and include a link that goes to "https://www.bankofamerica.com". The new window takes them to the real site, encrypted and everything.
2) Customers login and check their mailing address, or whatever.
3) Some percentage of them will leave their windows open for more than 10 minutes, at which point BofA sends their standard pop-up window warning about account inactivity and logout.
4) Hijack the pop-up window and do Something Nefarious, like initiate a funds transfer.
Now, this isn't a perfect example. But there are an untold number of different sites out there who use pop-ups for perfectly reasonable applications, and it would be trivial for some phisher to get people to go to those sites using his link.
The best thing to do is, for those sites who use pop-ups to communicate with their visitors, use some nonstandard form for naming those windows. Use the person's username, a random string, a DES hash with the first two characters of the day of the week as the salt and the time the page is first loaded as the string, whatever (no, don't use "whatever", that's just a figure of speech)'
Not to mention, it's far less surprising to see how many successful people DID go to college.
All it means is, college can help you be successful, but the lack of it doesn't mean you absolutely cannot be. It'll just take more [money|time|effort], that's all.
You left out Karl Rove, who is basically ruling the world right now as the puppeteer of the most powerful government in history.
Well, the site I quoted left him out. If you go there, there's a submission link you can use to get him added.
Leaving aside your comment about him being a "puppeteer", it is interesting that someone in his position is a college dropout. I wonder how many other major politicians are?
Here's a partial list of famous (and rich) college dropouts.
t ml. Well, it's not complete, in that not everyone who ever dropped out of college is on there, but you'll be surprised by who is!
Computers:
Bill Gates (Microsoft) dropped out of Harvard, 1976
Steve Jobs (Apple, NeXT, Pixar) left Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after 1 semester
Steve Wozniak (with Jobs, founded Apple Computer)
Lawrence Ellison (Oracle Computer)
Michael Dell (Dell Computer) dropped out of the University of Texas
Other Business:
David Geffen (Geffen Records, Dreamworks SKG) flunked out of University of Texas, Austin, AND Brooklyn College, NY
H Wayne Huizenga (Blockbuster Video millionaire, owner of Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers and Florida Marlins) attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for 3 semesters
Ted Turner (media mogul) -kicked out, I hear!
Ron Popeil (tv huckster, RONCO)
William Hanna (Hanna-Barbera)
To see the complete list, go to http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/7734/cdoaa.h
I often wonder how she was able to (lie/cheat/steal) her way into that position.
Maybe she used some other verb? Maybe something to do with the last noun in that sentance?
Reminds me of how I learned the difference between "who" and "whom". It was because my 9th grade German teacher beat into us (not literally, she wasn't actually German herself) the proper use of "wer" and "wem". None of the English teachers I'd had before or since, in both public and private schools, had ever even brought up the concept. Kinda scary, actually.
As for the Kyoto Treaty, that was negotiated for the US by the same guy who invented the internet so how could it really be that bad?
I dunno, why don't you ask the 95 Senators who voted against it?
How do you think these will impact the U.S. economic outlook:
- Crop failure Monsanto's stock will rise when their GE crops survive
- Floods More rivers = more riverboat casinos
- Drought Stock of Coca-Cola and Pepsico shoot through the roof
- Class 5+ Hurricanes (Hurricanes were a big boon to the construction industry in Florida I'll grant you). You already answered this one
- Flooding coastal cities(which tends to be where lots of people live), flooding islands and most of Florida Again, construction boom as people move further inland, or attempt to reclaim land
- Massive Wildfires and forests cratering Aside from Bambi, nobody important lives in forests...well, OK, aside from Bambi and the Smurfs, but that's it
- Devastation of the reefs and the seafood that lives in them Eh, fish are over rated, anyway....except for unagi, they're too tasty to let die off!
- Mass extinctions Just makes the remaining animals that much more precious
I'll grant you Kyoto was flawed but not for the reason you give. Thanks to globalization putting pollution limits on national boundries is insane.
Which is exactly the reason why the US, under the previous and current administrations, didn't ratify it.
...claiming this is a dirty trick of Karl Rove?
Well, that explains why Bill Clinton is behind it. Slick Willy will do anything to advance the Republican agenda.
(Psst, that was me being sarcastic.)
Truthfully, homosexual marriage was still uncommon, as the purpose of marriage for the greeks was mainly to produce children.
Wow, you actually admitted this. I can't believe it.
Yes, the Greeks encouraged men and boys to be lovers. But they specifically did not encourage them to be married, nor did they allow it. Why? Because men can't have children together, and that's the purpose of marriage!
You then state that marriage in America is not geared for creating and raising children. That's the the whole crux of the debate. Those of us against gay marriage consider it to be exactly that. So like I said before, you have to prove it isn't. And until you realize that the other side has valid concerns with the issue and start addressing them, you won't be winning (m)any converts.
Drop "of the game show Jeopardy" from that sentance, and I think you're really on to something. ;)
What is the number of laws of cricket?
I expect that if he sharpens his public speaking he could hit that circuit and make an extra 5K per talk or more. Though, Ken probably already knows that.
Maybe not. That seems like a seasonal type job to me...
Then again, he just might be that good with absolutly useless knowledge, in which case, good for him for making it pay off. Most know-it-alls I've met worked at McDonalds.
Nope, not McDonalds. Record shops and game stores, those are both guaranteed to have regular Stephen Hawkings working the register.
No, I don't either. Could you explain it to me? Please be specific, and tell us how such changes directly affect you.
Does society currently allow men to marry men, or women to marry women? No. So, allowing that would be a change. Has Western civilization, going back to the Romans and Greeks, ever condoned gay marriage? No. So doing so now would be a huge change.
I don't have to prove the changes would be bad, you have to prove the changes would be good. Refusing to acknowledge that it would entail change won't convince those of us who want to leave things as they are. The burden of proof is on you, not me.
Perhaps if someone could provide a coherent explanation of how allowing gay marriages would be "changing the very foundations of our society", I might be able to understand why people are against it.
Hang on a second. You don't understand how allowing gay marriage is a huge change to society? You have got to be joking. Do you even understand what marriage is?
Actually this is not like that at all.
No, they're exactly the same thing.
A gay coubple being married does not affect anyone outside the gay couple.
The people who are against gay marriage disagree. That's why they're against gay marriage.
In this case, a minority is directly influencing what everyone can and cannot watch on TV.
Watching TV is trivial. Deciding how to define the very foundations of a society is not. It amazes me that you get up in arms when people want to keep morally objectionable material from the public airwaves (airwaves which those people own, along with you), yet you cannot understand why someone would be against changing the very foundations of our society to fit the whims and desires of a very few people. Simply amazing.
the case you're talking about is this one:e l_gun_ man/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/int
The case you referenced was about a guy who wanted to go postal on the plant where he used to work. It didn't say anything about him dropping DBs, and implied he was a line worker until being fired for some unknown reason. Hardly someone with root level access to a production DB.
Besides, there's a world of difference between dropping a DB and sprayin' and prayin' with your trusty Kalishnikov brand happy joy stick.
When the red states profess a great concern for moral values and then embrace sleazy shows, that's hypocrisy, is it not?
No. It isn't. That's not hypocrisy.
Yeah, actually, it is. Hypocrisy is when you say one thing, and do another. So advocating "moral values" while pushing immoral behavior is the textbook example of hypocrisy.
If you don't want some vocal group imposing its religious values on you, I suppose you'll have to be just as vocal.
Substitute "religous values" with "political desires", and I completely agree with you. Just look at gay marriage. The overwhelming majority of Americans want nothing to do with it, yet a very small, very vocal minority is trying to push its values on the rest of the country. It sucks when either side does it.
No they are not out to "destroy the western world" they just want us to stay the hell of their world.
I don't know if many Arabs discern a difference between those points. I think their ill will towards us has gotten to the point where, in their view, the only thing they can do is destroy our society in order to advance their own.
It is accurate, though, to say they hate "freedom", inasmuch as they hate the concept of freedom which is prevalent in the Western world. The Islamic concept of freedom is more along the lines of freedom from temptation, while ours, of course, encourages temptation. Ask most Arabs what they think of America and Europe, and you're bound to hear words like "decadent" and "corrupt" far more often than "intrusive" or "imperial".
And oopsie needs an "i". :P
I think the gpp was using the Middle English version of "oops"....
What he's saying is that the brain actually USES these quantum principals, ie, if an electron is spinning this way, release this chemical, or send this impulse.
That sounds implausible, at best. What part of the brain is capable of measuring the spin of an electron? Let me think about this for a second....nope, can't tell what the spin is of that electron that just bounced off the inside of my skull from dendrite #105922-ZT. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but somehow I doubt it.
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Think about THAT.
Do I have to? *shudder*
The first said the human brain works not only on mechanical, chemical, biological, and electrical principles, but also on quantum principles....
Wow, so something that exists in the physical universe is effected by laws of nature which effect everything else in that universe? Groovy, man.
Seriously, "quantum principles" aren't magic, they're how the basic building blocks of matter work. At least that's my layman's understanding of them, at any rate.