Naah. When we finally decode data from an ETI site, it will probably be something like
100% Guaranteed Stamen Enhancement - not only have users reported gains in length and girth of up to 50% or more, but enhanced spectral response as well - have the iridiescence that impresses females....
Larvae gone wild - See these hot young females in action - catch them quick before they pupate....
I am writing to you on a matter of utmost importance, which must be treated with the highest delicacy. My name is T'Jek, senior wife of the recently deceased Ska-al-ath, Subprefect for Industrial Development for Remnalon. Prior to his death, he was able to set aside in a special account the sum of 5 trillion Kalkaks, but due to banking regulations it will be necessary for me to move the money to an account in a different Prefecture in order to access it...
Please forward this message to as many sentient entities as possible. As G'iarc D'log-rerh-s lies dying of the incurable Andorian Wasting Disease, he has but one wish - to set the record for having a message forwarded to the highest number of sentient beings in the known galaxy....
Check out network channel 904753cx for a 'buffer overrun'
In Teivos Empire - your computational device exploits h4x0r5!
The signal is tracked from 2 receivers, and a line drawn from the receivers towards the transmitted signal (rotate antenna, and the strongest signal indicates direction of transmitter) . . . where the lines cross is the location.
Well, that's not much of a "triangle" is it.
Two recievers + one transmitters = three points. That's why it's called 'triangulation' It is a BIT of a misnomer, in that there are really only two angles being used to find the third point. But the two angles in question aren't angles of the triangle formed by the three points, they are bearings - angles relative to north.
Tell me what my mail client should be written in? Java? C#?
If I write code 'close to the metal', then it's up to me to take care not to introduce insecurities into it. If there is a known exploit in a library, I can use a patched library, or even use a different function call that doesn't need to be patched. But it's my responsibility to know the vulnerability is there.
If I write in Java, it's no longer only my code that is involved. The JRE itself can be exploited, and I have no control over that at all.
Or just go to your browser's View menu, and look for Source. A link looks like this as source code:
<a href=http://www.worldpress.org> World Press Review </a>
See? The part between the 'opening tag' (the thing that starts with 'a') and the 'closing tag' (the thing that starts with '/a') is what you see on the screen. The browser typically underlines it for you and/or changes the color, and if you click on it it takes you to the address to the right of the href=, which is inside the tag, and therefore is not text to be displayed, but an instruction to your browser.
The borg is virtually unknown in the alpha quadrant for at least 2 more centuries until Picard is introduced to them by Q.
But there is a loophole for this. Remember First Contact? The Borg went back in time to try to prevent Cochrane's first warp flight from happening when the Vulcans were in a position to detect it, and therefore prevent the formation of the Federation, the only civilization that has successfully resisted assimilation.
In that movie, we are led to believe that when Picard takes hisEnterprise back to follow the Borg, and defeats the Borg Queen, that everything is hunky-dory. But we know that Cochrane's companions on the voyage that caught the attention of the benevolent Vulcans were Riker and LaForge. It's reasonable to assume that something they did 'changed history' in some non-obvious way. There is also the potential for some of the Borg to have survived the events of that film, or some signal to have been sent out that causes the Borg to come to the quadrant sooner in this timeline.
First Contact is a blank check for Berman to totally change anything we've seen, any way he wants, and his 'temporal cold war' is an indication that he's thinking along parallel lines already.
Rather than randomly padding the response time, how about running tests to determine the longest time that can be reasonably expected to take for the calculation, then adding some fudge factor to arrive at a set constant.
Where 'constant' need only be constant for a specific length of message. An implementation that allows different sized-packets to be input would be allowed to use a formula to determine the response time, such that any two packets of the same size would have the same response time
Set a timer to that constant prior to the calculation to trigger the actual reply at the specified time. That way EVERY transaction takes EXACTLY the same time, and no information is given up. Even the dumbest smart cards should be capable of keeping track of time
Alternatively, add your random padding to the constant, not to the time required to do the calculation. That has the advantage of giving DISinformation to the attacker. And there is a certain charm to that, don't you think?
You mean Bill Gates didn't send you that check for forwarding the chain letter? And to top it all off, now he wants to CHARGE you for sending it? I sure wish he'd make up his mind.
They should do themselves a favour and work out an agreement with the kernel developers before they really get burned.
That is practically impossible. I don't know the exact number of people who have contributed code to various sections of the kernel; maybe nobody knows that number. Those people don't even agree on how to pronounce the name 'Linux' (Is it LIH-nuks, LIE-nuks,... or guh-NEW-lih-nuks...) so getting them to all agree to any arrangements in this case isn't worth talking about.
The only thing that could dissuade ALL of the copyright holders from filing would be for the offenders to post all the source code, and an apology, on their website before ANY of them get to the courthouse.
First they claim that the remote infringes on their patent for the 'Rolling Code' system, then they turn around and claim that the remotes do NOT in fact generate Rolling Codes, but instead send the same code each time.
You can't have it both ways.
Unless I'm really dense, the whole point of Rolling Codes is that there is an algorithm shared by the remote and opener that defines previously-used codes as invalid, so that a burglar who sniffs the code you use to open the garage today can't come back and use that code tomorrow. In that case, these devices should not be working, which should be grounds for the consumers to file a class-action, but it would be proof that they are NOT violating the patent on the Rolling Codes.
Chemists in the United States have constructed the simplest possible genetic language.
What they've found is that they can build a functional ribozyme out of diaminopurine and uracil.
We've all probably seen perfectly valid i86 machine code entirely composed of printable ASCII, too, (I recall one which could be used to convert binaries to emailable text, which was used to post DOS utilities back in the day) but that doesn't make it a 'language' that the processor understands
The form factor doesn't have to be functional - now it can be customized to fit a decorating scheme, or even satisfy some Feng Shui need to keep the Qi flowing smoothly. This is the sort of thing that makes the wife/gf more willing to put up with the puter where people can see it.
And it makes next year's Jack-'o-Lantern mod trivial.
Like I said on the gun debate, it comes down to an irrational fear of tools/technology. The fact is that tools are neither good nor evil; it is what people do with them that makes the difference.
they do it in the name of the company they work for
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Linux can do that, and more, and with more freedom
For the Kansas City Linux User Group booth at ITEC a few months ago, we threw together our own Free (at least as in speech - mostly GPL but some other licenses too) Software for Windows CD, and handed it out alongside our Linux offerings (inxluding Demo Linux, which allowed people to get used ). I called this the 'gateway drug', explaining to people that once they got a taste of what free software could do on a closed-source OS, the next step is to see what it could do when it's completely free. Our collection included a lot of things the Open CD people didn't - we had things like Apache and Ethereal on ours, but Open Office and the GIMP were probably the ones that most people would find helpful.
it's a lot more work to sort through physical mail and throw it out.
It also costs the senders more than it does the receivers - he pays absolutely nothing for unsolicited p-mail, and if he has a fireplace in that new house of his, can use it for kindling. In fact, I have heard of someone who deliberately got on mailing lists, bundled up the junk mail, and used it in his wood-burning stove to heat his house.
The English word 'Word', when capitalized, has been associated with Jesus Christ since at least the time of King James. I doubt that even Microsoft's attorneys are dumb enough to go there... The thought of ministers preaching that they are part of some kind of Satanic machinations in response should be sufficent to keep them from pulling that one.
when does handing the enemy a blueprint of the fortress make guarding the castle easier?
When you know that the enemy can get a copy of the blueprints anyway. If your security depends on the enemy not knowing where the walls of the fortress are, he has a powerful incentive to gain that knowledge, and once he does the security is gone. So let him know where the walls and doors are, by opening the blueprints up for public comment before you break ground to make sure the design is sound, But make sure that you change all the combinations on the locks from what the contractor set them to, so even if the enemy bribes him, he can't compromise your security.
Out of the entire Slashdot population, one person said "hey, there's no Backstreet Boy named Jim," and then set out to discover who it was.
Just because he beat me to it:
"Backstreet Boy" Nick Carter hat die Domino-Lawine um Punkt 21.00 Uhr ausgelöst: Der 22-jährige Popsänger setzte den letzten Stein und hat so die rund zwei Meter hohe "Domino"-Waage mit einer Spannweite von fünf Metern aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht.
You don't even have to know much German to follow what happened here - you can probably figure out that Nick is 22 years old, for instance...
Here's a little tip from a geek who is actually married to a female human... Some of them (including The Bride of Monster) actually like the Backstreet Boys, so knowing their names might come in handy when you want to have a conversation about something she likes, because the story that of that sed-regexp-in-a-do-loop I threw together at work the other day for one of the Guys in the Ties (to save him half a day's manual editing work that was holding up hundreds of thousands of dollars of a customer's cashflow) was kinda neat, but not something she can relate to that well, beyond the obvious "Monster did something at work that made the higher-ups happy - maybe that means he'll keep his job if there are layoffs". Who am I kidding - if she were a real geek, it wouldn't have impressed her anyway, because it was trivial, and with a little thought she'd probably have shown me a more efficient way to do it! (I do hope for one of the Monsterettes to eventually achieve that status, however.)
So, here are the names of the other 4 Boys, in the interests of helping fellow geeks get some play:
A. J. McLean
Brian Littrell
Howie Dorough
Kevin Richardson
Litrell and Richardson are cousins, and are married (Kevin's wife is from near here, and Brian's wife is expecting their first child) while McLean is engaged
The last word on the date was 2 Jan, which is coincidentally the anniversary of my marriage to TBOM - there is a lesson here too - for reasons not immediately apparent to the average geek, women think that remembering such dates and, uh,
relationships is important. I recommend a crontab entry to email yourself a reminder a week before such events.
For now, this little HOW-TO will have to substitute for the lack of
It has an external supply that keeps the card powered.
It's a lot more expensive to buy this thing than a UPS, which can signal the computer that it's running low on battery so that the ramdrive/disk cache can sync out to the real HD before the power shuts off. Only reason that wouldn't work is if the OS crashes, so I can maybe see a PCI card like this with an onboard IDE or SCSI port, and its own processor (would not have to be anything fancy here), capable of committing everything to HD transparently to the CPU for Windows users.
I'm sorry, but racists, sexists, and homophobes are outright scum!
They deserve no rights...
So, this expression on your part that certain people, because of their beliefs, are sub-human, and therefore not covered by the notion of 'human rights' is not 'hate speech' on your part?
Where is the tolerance for their lifestyles? Sounds like you are a racistophobe, sexistophobe, and homophobeophobe!
One of the worst things about hate speech laws is that they have the perverse effect of making the bad guys victims, so that they can gain sympathy. The Forbidden Fruit effect gives the hate groups some additional impetus - people want to know what it is that they are not being allowed to evaluate for themselves. And since the promulgation of the hateful ideas is kept out of the bright lights of open, public discourse, there is no opportunity for the haters to prove to the public, with their own words, what idiots they are.
The attempt to suppress all but the Orthodox line is a hallmark of a repressive regime - by adopting such policies, the Europeans have by vote reversed what was won on the battlefield (in no small part with the blood of servicemen from the country that made freedom of speech and religion the first article of the Bill of Rights - Pity that they didn't see fit to adopt it themselves after seeing what happens when governments try to control how people think.)
So, Mr. Torvalds only accept patches from MALE programmers, is it?
I guess I'm showing my age here, but before Radical Feminism rewrote the textbooks, it was proper usage in English to indicate the male when speaking of an individual of unspecified gender. Everybody understood this. 'She' specifically means a female, and excludes males, while 'he' could be either.
Kinda like the way the word 'day' can either mean the entire 24-hour period, or just the part when the Sun is above the horizon, but 'night' only means the part when it's below. Except that a 'fortnight' includes both parts.... Bad example.
Besides, one of the people who Linus trusts and maintains a tree that Linus specifically mentioned, is -aa, which is Andrea Arcangeli.
Now, how can anything that includes someone named 'Andrea' be considered 'sexist'?
Slashdot Mirror
DOS was the bastard child of CP/M and Unix.
If I write in Java, it's no longer only my code that is involved. The JRE itself can be exploited, and I have no control over that at all.
Go read the World Wide Web Consortium's 10-minute introduction to HTML
Or just go to your browser's View menu, and look for Source. A link looks like this as source code:
<a href=http://www.worldpress.org> World Press Review </a>
and looks like this in the browser window:
World Press Review
See? The part between the 'opening tag' (the thing that starts with 'a') and the 'closing tag' (the thing that starts with '/a') is what you see on the screen. The browser typically underlines it for you and/or changes the color, and if you click on it it takes you to the address to the right of the href=, which is inside the tag, and therefore is not text to be displayed, but an instruction to your browser.
In that movie, we are led to believe that when Picard takes his Enterprise back to follow the Borg, and defeats the Borg Queen, that everything is hunky-dory. But we know that Cochrane's companions on the voyage that caught the attention of the benevolent Vulcans were Riker and LaForge. It's reasonable to assume that something they did 'changed history' in some non-obvious way. There is also the potential for some of the Borg to have survived the events of that film, or some signal to have been sent out that causes the Borg to come to the quadrant sooner in this timeline.
First Contact is a blank check for Berman to totally change anything we've seen, any way he wants, and his 'temporal cold war' is an indication that he's thinking along parallel lines already.
Alternatively, add your random padding to the constant, not to the time required to do the calculation. That has the advantage of giving DISinformation to the attacker. And there is a certain charm to that, don't you think?
You mean Bill Gates didn't send you that check for forwarding the chain letter? And to top it all off, now he wants to CHARGE you for sending it? I sure wish he'd make up his mind.
The only thing that could dissuade ALL of the copyright holders from filing would be for the offenders to post all the source code, and an apology, on their website before ANY of them get to the courthouse.
You can't have it both ways.
Unless I'm really dense, the whole point of Rolling Codes is that there is an algorithm shared by the remote and opener that defines previously-used codes as invalid, so that a burglar who sniffs the code you use to open the garage today can't come back and use that code tomorrow. In that case, these devices should not be working, which should be grounds for the consumers to file a class-action, but it would be proof that they are NOT violating the patent on the Rolling Codes.
We've all probably seen perfectly valid i86 machine code entirely composed of printable ASCII, too, (I recall one which could be used to convert binaries to emailable text, which was used to post DOS utilities back in the day) but that doesn't make it a 'language' that the processor understands
And it makes next year's Jack-'o-Lantern mod trivial.
Like I said on the gun debate, it comes down to an irrational fear of tools/technology. The fact is that tools are neither good nor evil; it is what people do with them that makes the difference.
The English word 'Word', when capitalized, has been associated with Jesus Christ since at least the time of King James. I doubt that even Microsoft's attorneys are dumb enough to go there... The thought of ministers preaching that they are part of some kind of Satanic machinations in response should be sufficent to keep them from pulling that one.
Here's a little tip from a geek who is actually married to a female human... Some of them (including The Bride of Monster) actually like the Backstreet Boys, so knowing their names might come in handy when you want to have a conversation about something she likes, because the story that of that sed-regexp-in-a-do-loop I threw together at work the other day for one of the Guys in the Ties (to save him half a day's manual editing work that was holding up hundreds of thousands of dollars of a customer's cashflow) was kinda neat, but not something she can relate to that well, beyond the obvious "Monster did something at work that made the higher-ups happy - maybe that means he'll keep his job if there are layoffs". Who am I kidding - if she were a real geek, it wouldn't have impressed her anyway, because it was trivial, and with a little thought she'd probably have shown me a more efficient way to do it! (I do hope for one of the Monsterettes to eventually achieve that status, however.)
So, here are the names of the other 4 Boys, in the interests of helping fellow geeks get some play:
- A. J. McLean
- Brian Littrell
- Howie Dorough
- Kevin Richardson
Litrell and Richardson are cousins, and are married (Kevin's wife is from near here, and Brian's wife is expecting their first child) while McLean is engaged For now, this little HOW-TO will have to substitute for the lack ofOne of the worst things about hate speech laws is that they have the perverse effect of making the bad guys victims, so that they can gain sympathy. The Forbidden Fruit effect gives the hate groups some additional impetus - people want to know what it is that they are not being allowed to evaluate for themselves. And since the promulgation of the hateful ideas is kept out of the bright lights of open, public discourse, there is no opportunity for the haters to prove to the public, with their own words, what idiots they are.
The attempt to suppress all but the Orthodox line is a hallmark of a repressive regime - by adopting such policies, the Europeans have by vote reversed what was won on the battlefield (in no small part with the blood of servicemen from the country that made freedom of speech and religion the first article of the Bill of Rights - Pity that they didn't see fit to adopt it themselves after seeing what happens when governments try to control how people think.)
Kinda like the way the word 'day' can either mean the entire 24-hour period, or just the part when the Sun is above the horizon, but 'night' only means the part when it's below. Except that a 'fortnight' includes both parts.... Bad example.
Besides, one of the people who Linus trusts and maintains a tree that Linus specifically mentioned, is -aa, which is Andrea Arcangeli. Now, how can anything that includes someone named 'Andrea' be considered 'sexist'?