Hmm, nope--I can't say I remember when Heinlein said multinational corporations could be trusted. Possibly he had one of his characters say that, but I don't remember when. If so, I suspect I could find a number of his characters who said the opposite about large corporations.
And, I doubt he ever said private individuals in general could be trusted.
In a far-off future of barbarian, mutants and magic, they'll have actual cursed areas where people die if they enter. Just use the plain old trifoil, and eventually the smart ones will figure out that it's the ancient Merkan sign of death.
When I upgraded my computer, the saves went from a yawn-stretch-walk-around to a deep breath. I think it was the increase in ram (128M to 512M) that did it more than the processor boost.
Give it a try. You know you just have to play with the black/white dots during the startup again.
So they know a directory name. It won't get them much since asking for http://example.com/dirname/ will get them a big fat 404. They'll still be fishing in the dark for the actual file names. (Of course I'll turn off dir listings for that directory.)
Access controls are better, but you could still be burned by someone with malware that captures his password keystrokes or id information and then phones it home.
Yeah, it needs a "don't try this at home, I'm a trained paranoid" disclaimer.:) Ah heck, think about how many Win XP home users there are who don't even know that they're running a web server (and for Pro, a FTP server, SMTP server..)
You get a nice 404 and still know jack because I turned off dir listing for that directory. If anyone wants to try a brute force search, I'll probably notice and might slip them a server that generates an infinite maze of twisty sub-directories all slightly different.
The robots.txt will stop Google. No dir listings or links from elsewhere will stop spiders from other search engines. Spyware and crooked mail servers or pwned boxes will still work, so don't give the URL to anyone who uses them.;)
But if you read everything like you're supposed to when installing something, you won't need to be surprised by it.
But did the good friend that you passed the URL to (for his eyes only) also read the instructions when installing the Google Toolbar? (And did he clean off any Gator-like spyware that is also going to snitch?)
Yeah, I'm hiding a big directory called jack. Now what? Google got a tip-off from their toolbar to jack/TerrificCoffee.html, but when their crawler comes to take a look, it checks robots.txt first and stops. All you know is jack.;)
It's still a bad idea to leave unprotected files. At least slap a low-level security access password on the directory. (Which won't stop a malware toolbar that collects keystrokes.)
But do hackers have access to the information snitched by the Google Toolbar? If not, then there might be no easy way to crawl to those pages. (No links from visible pages, no dir listings.)
Sure, the page is still there and accessible, but there's a difference between groping for it in the dark and having Google spotlight it.
They're still going to talk to my IVR answering program unless they spoof a very small list of numbers. But just in case, I think I'll block the White House number.
I read that as By natural erosion, or about 2 minutes with a horse. Same thing really, I guess. How much horse poop is in the streets thanks to mounted police for crowd control?
And you think that going to a movie theater and either playing or watching other people play video games is socialiizing? (There might be a 12-step program for this, you know.)
Yes, but now they can quantify and measure it. Pretty soon they'll come up with a unit of revenge like the Scoville scale for hot peppers. Think about the endless arguments about who got whom better that could be instantly ended with a portable revenge-o-meter.
From there, other investigations can follow. Does cutting a SBD fart in a crowded elevator light up the same "revenge center" of the brain, and why? These are important questions for Science!
In 1895 a Russian scientist named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky looked at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and thought about such a tower. He wanted to put a "celestial castle" at the end of a spindle shaped cable, with the "castle" orbiting the earth in a geosynchronous orbit (i.e. the castle would remain over the same spot on the earth). The tower would be built from the ground to an altitude of 35,800 kilometers. It would be similar to the fabled beanstalk in the children's story "Jack and the Beanstalk," except that on Tsiolkovsky's tower an elevator would ride up the cable to the "castle".
Depending on how it was written, wouldn't this cover at least part of Arthur C. Clarke's idea (and patent) for using geostationary orbits? To fully cover it, the castle would have needed radios, but Marconi hadn't stolen the radio yet... Did it have semaphores?
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And, I doubt he ever said private individuals in general could be trusted.
Ah yes. Two arrested in large marijuana-growing operation (Click for 56k | High-Speed | Faked Demo)
And the punch-line is: how much radioactivity will you release by removing that much granite? (A fair amount as I recall.)
In a far-off future of barbarian, mutants and magic, they'll have actual cursed areas where people die if they enter. Just use the plain old trifoil, and eventually the smart ones will figure out that it's the ancient Merkan sign of death.
Give it a try. You know you just have to play with the black/white dots during the startup again.
I waited and got it and Creature Isle for $20 CDN. No printed manual or doodads, but for that price it was okay.
Access controls are better, but you could still be burned by someone with malware that captures his password keystrokes or id information and then phones it home.
Yeah, it needs a "don't try this at home, I'm a trained paranoid" disclaimer. :) Ah heck, think about how many Win XP home users there are who don't even know that they're running a web server (and for Pro, a FTP server, SMTP server ..)
You get a nice 404 and still know jack because I turned off dir listing for that directory. If anyone wants to try a brute force search, I'll probably notice and might slip them a server that generates an infinite maze of twisty sub-directories all slightly different.
The robots.txt will stop Google. No dir listings or links from elsewhere will stop spiders from other search engines. Spyware and crooked mail servers or pwned boxes will still work, so don't give the URL to anyone who uses them. ;)
But did the good friend that you passed the URL to (for his eyes only) also read the instructions when installing the Google Toolbar? (And did he clean off any Gator-like spyware that is also going to snitch?)
Three men can keep a secret ..
It's still a bad idea to leave unprotected files. At least slap a low-level security access password on the directory. (Which won't stop a malware toolbar that collects keystrokes.)
Sure, the page is still there and accessible, but there's a difference between groping for it in the dark and having Google spotlight it.
Since he was Irish-Canadian, maybe some Jameson as well? Oh and some of that .. umm .. it's green.
They're still going to talk to my IVR answering program unless they spoof a very small list of numbers. But just in case, I think I'll block the White House number.
I read that as By natural erosion, or about 2 minutes with a horse. Same thing really, I guess. How much horse poop is in the streets thanks to mounted police for crowd control?
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Bring your own laser-pointers and play pong. (The guy who plays the ball can do the sound-effects and keep score too.)
And you think that going to a movie theater and either playing or watching other people play video games is socialiizing? (There might be a 12-step program for this, you know.)
From there, other investigations can follow. Does cutting a SBD fart in a crowded elevator light up the same "revenge center" of the brain, and why? These are important questions for Science!
Why? Larry Ellison is no paragon of virtue or public benefactor. I doubt we'd be any happier if the CEO Fairy swapped them.
No, more likely via Lindon Utah. Who but an eevil space alien could handle the Revenue Accountant job? (Earth Defence Missles, locked on!)
There you go! (0.28 seconds) I'm sure that the Martian Embassy will have a link somewhere down in the (about) 139,000 hits.
And they made Buzz Aldrin sit in the back. No wonder he gets cranky if someone says that he didn't go to the Moon!