The idea is to store credit card numbers in a format such that they could be used for recurring billing through surepay... how would hashing a credit card number work, since surepay would have to recognize the hash and somehow connect it to a particular credit card?
A slightly more useable option would be to store the credit card numbers offline somewhere in another server, which only comes online to do the surepay billing, and through a firewall which allows connections to/from surepay only.
Guns are no more violent by themselves than action figures. I like to see a/. poll asking whether people were trained by their parents in the proper use of firearms. The reason we have accidents with firearms is due to a lack of training that every American child should receive. However, the reason we have violence in schools and such has much more to do with two-parent households than with the invention of guns.
There are 100 thousand million potential individual combinations available if all digits between 0 and 9 are employed. It is likely, however, that each country would administer its own numbers and use its own area and country codes, which could further increase the possible combinations.
Does anyone else find it interesting that no matter what country/area code scheme is used, there are still only 100 billion (or 100 million, as the author cleverly states to increase his word count) combinations available?
Wait a sec, photons have no mass! Therefore, they have no momentum! Therefore, they can't transmit any force of motion to another object. Only by vaporizing some small amount of the object being deflected can they create particles which will actually affect the motion of the object. Of course, a laser can be used to provide the energy to do this, but the energy requirements are huge, as many have pointed out. Just shining a flashlight on some dust in the air doesn't move the dust!
Request that ICANN re-open the membership drive.
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Instead of worrying about who we're going to endorse and vote on, shouldn't we be making sure that ICANN's at-large membership is truly representative of the Internet community? According to the e-mail I recieved from ICANN, only some 158,000 Internet users signed up to be members
However, according to this article, the total number of Internet users will reach 375 MILLION (!) sometime during this year. The last time I checked, 158,000 out of 378 million is only 0.000421 % representation of the entire community. Obviously, this is a case of a minority making decisions for the entire community, something which history has almost always proved a Very Bad Idea(TM).
The only reason American democracy can (used to) work is because a majority of the voters choose to make their opinions count. Unfortunately, in the last national election in America, only 45% of voters voted, so we're approaching the same fate here in the USA. In the Constitution it is called a quorum, by which more than half the members of either house of Congress must be present for any action to be taken at all.
Of course, getting half of all the Internet users to sign up for ICANN's at-large membership is, in my opinion, a pipe-dream of the most grandoise sort, but there should be at least 1% representation before any action is taken. 3.75 million members wouldn't be that hard to find, would they?
Therefore, I would like to propose a massive e-mail campaign to urge ICANN to not take any action on this election until a much larger percentage of Internet users will be represented in the final results.
Please e-mail ICANN and tell them that you demand the membership drive be re-opened! The future of the free Internet depends on it!
Let's think about that comment for just a minute, and then apply it to a mission critical server running two redundant hard drives. If both drives are the same model from the same manufacturer, then both drives are identical. Therefore, they have the same design bugs, manufacturing bugs, and control bugs. What on earth would lead you to expect that they won't fail in the same way? Oh my god, I can just imagine them both crapping out within minutes of each other. I guess you'd better buy drives from different manufacturers for your next system with RAID.
Seriously, though, the reason to send out two probes is really to prevent against a single random event from destroying the mission. This way, if one lands in the wrong place and can't point it's antenna at earth, then the other hopefully won't have suffered the same fate. Just like two redundant hard drives, which are very unlikely to die on the same day, these two probes will provide back up for each other, and, if everything goes right, then they'll provide us with twice the data! I say it's a bargain.
While we're on the topic of music copyrights, what does the RIAA own with regards to a piece of music? The only concrete thing they own is the transcription of the music on paper, just like an author owns the transcription of his thoughts on paper. Does the artist (or his record label) *own* the sound waves generated by the instruments creating the music? Of course not! Do they own the magnetic bias on a tape recording of their music, and how about the 0s and 1s on a CD recording of their music, do they own those? Obviously, the answer to these questions is no, in which case the artist/label can only own/control the instructions for playing the music, the sheet music and other transcriptions that allow a musician to play a particular piece. They do not own the sound that is created by those instructions, only the instructions themselves.
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The idea is to store credit card numbers in a format such that they could be used for recurring billing through surepay... how would hashing a credit card number work, since surepay would have to recognize the hash and somehow connect it to a particular credit card?
A slightly more useable option would be to store the credit card numbers offline somewhere in another server, which only comes online to do the surepay billing, and through a firewall which allows connections to/from surepay only.
Guns are no more violent by themselves than action figures. I like to see a /. poll asking whether people were trained by their parents in the proper use of firearms. The reason we have accidents with firearms is due to a lack of training that every American child should receive. However, the reason we have violence in schools and such has much more to do with two-parent households than with the invention of guns.
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This is going to be a sweet first post... cuz I am wicked drunk and I am the first post to this shiznit artice.
There are 100 thousand million potential individual combinations available if all digits between 0 and 9 are employed. It is likely, however, that each country would administer its own numbers and use its own area and country codes, which could further increase the possible combinations.
Does anyone else find it interesting that no matter what country/area code scheme is used, there are still only 100 billion (or 100 million, as the author cleverly states to increase his word count) combinations available?Wait a sec, photons have no mass! Therefore, they have no momentum! Therefore, they can't transmit any force of motion to another object. Only by vaporizing some small amount of the object being deflected can they create particles which will actually affect the motion of the object. Of course, a laser can be used to provide the energy to do this, but the energy requirements are huge, as many have pointed out. Just shining a flashlight on some dust in the air doesn't move the dust!
Instead of worrying about who we're going to endorse and vote on, shouldn't we be making sure that ICANN's at-large membership is truly representative of the Internet community? According to the e-mail I recieved from ICANN, only some 158,000 Internet users signed up to be members
However, according to this article, the total number of Internet users will reach 375 MILLION (!) sometime during this year. The last time I checked, 158,000 out of 378 million is only 0.000421 % representation of the entire community. Obviously, this is a case of a minority making decisions for the entire community, something which history has almost always proved a Very Bad Idea(TM).
The only reason American democracy can (used to) work is because a majority of the voters choose to make their opinions count. Unfortunately, in the last national election in America, only 45% of voters voted, so we're approaching the same fate here in the USA. In the Constitution it is called a quorum, by which more than half the members of either house of Congress must be present for any action to be taken at all.
Of course, getting half of all the Internet users to sign up for ICANN's at-large membership is, in my opinion, a pipe-dream of the most grandoise sort, but there should be at least 1% representation before any action is taken. 3.75 million members wouldn't be that hard to find, would they?
Therefore, I would like to propose a massive e-mail campaign to urge ICANN to not take any action on this election until a much larger percentage of Internet users will be represented in the final results.
Please e-mail ICANN and tell them that you demand the membership drive be re-opened! The future of the free Internet depends on it!
Let's think about that comment for just a minute, and then apply it to a mission critical server running two redundant hard drives. If both drives are the same model from the same manufacturer, then both drives are identical. Therefore, they have the same design bugs, manufacturing bugs, and control bugs. What on earth would lead you to expect that they won't fail in the same way? Oh my god, I can just imagine them both crapping out within minutes of each other. I guess you'd better buy drives from different manufacturers for your next system with RAID.
Seriously, though, the reason to send out two probes is really to prevent against a single random event from destroying the mission. This way, if one lands in the wrong place and can't point it's antenna at earth, then the other hopefully won't have suffered the same fate. Just like two redundant hard drives, which are very unlikely to die on the same day, these two probes will provide back up for each other, and, if everything goes right, then they'll provide us with twice the data! I say it's a bargain.
While we're on the topic of music copyrights, what does the RIAA own with regards to a piece of music? The only concrete thing they own is the transcription of the music on paper, just like an author owns the transcription of his thoughts on paper. Does the artist (or his record label) *own* the sound waves generated by the instruments creating the music? Of course not! Do they own the magnetic bias on a tape recording of their music, and how about the 0s and 1s on a CD recording of their music, do they own those? Obviously, the answer to these questions is no, in which case the artist/label can only own/control the instructions for playing the music, the sheet music and other transcriptions that allow a musician to play a particular piece. They do not own the sound that is created by those instructions, only the instructions themselves.
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