Again, I ask you, if I write a book and no bookstore will carry it are my free speech rights limited?
If no bookstore will carry it because they decided that don't like the content, then no, obviously your free speech rights were not limited, because you have no right to force bookstores to carry your book. No rights were infringed by stores not selling OJ Simpson's book.
If no bookstore will carry it (despite the fact that it's a popular book) because the government passed a law saying that maybe they'll be charged with a crime, then the government has stepped over the line.
Now, a crow finds a raw material, slightly modified it, and uses it to obtain, kill and eat something it otherwise would not be able to get. How is this different?
Because humans perceive spears to be weapons and twigs to be harmless.
remember: this hacker only got access to a computer AFTER the target first sought out child porn
Or so he says.
Yet out of 3000 people's computers who he claims to control, he's only managed to find evidence on a handful of them? The numbers don't add up, unless the only child porn that the person ever sought to find was his trojan.
Semantically, what's the difference if a script does my grinding or if hit the attack button a dozen times while reading a book? Would a complicated OCR+mechanical keypresser setup be cheating?
Something non-human is playing the game for you.
Is it cheating to have something flash on your screen if you're being attacked? Is it cheating to modify UI elements to be more useable?
Programmer that says: "do this on wednesday at 3h00 pm" and then store wednesday and 3pm are begging for troubles and deserve to be badly hit with a cluestick.
But if the government changes what 3PM means, that person's program will still do what the user (following the government's orders) expects.
You store time in milliseconds, and you convert to/from when the data is inputted/outputted to the user.
Good plan, but it doesn't take into account the fact that the number of seconds from the epoch to Wednesday at 3PM just changed for the four weeks that were affected.
Except that peak and off-peak mean something, namely volume of calls. So as a matter of fact, no, they are not "equally likely to charge you off-peak rates during peak periods" because you're more likely to be making a peak period call than an off-peak call.
Information which I hope I can teach them not to supply to strangers on MySpace etc....
"Hello [sir|ma'am] this is [insert nearby but not closest middle school to your address], we need to speak with you regarding your seventh grade daughter's vaccination record."
Are you going to answer A) "I don't have a seventh grade daughter" B) "What about it?" C) "Your caller ID says you're..." D) "Huh? Jenny goes to [insert school here] not [other school]!"
Forums, blogs, profiles, bulletins... all of that is simply variations on a theme of communication. The fact that it's written down instead of spoken doesn't change anything but the permanence of the message. You're inventing new shapes for holes that have been around for a very long time. Pen pals are probably out of vogue these days thanks to the internet, but I wonder how many kids back in the day had pen pals of indeterminate origin?
If I picked a random number and called up and told the person who answers (assuming that the person who answers isn't a kid) that I was calling from their local school about their 7th grade daughter, I would almost certainly confirm whether or not there was such a girl at that number/address. This is classic social engineering as well as classic computer security (this is why your username and password are always wrong, even if you got one of them right). It's also nearly instinctive to reject incorrect information immediately. Hell, if someone tried it on me, I'd probably give up the information without even thinking about it or checking caller id. I even grew up being told never to tell anyone that my parents weren't home.
Have you ever heard of an "in listed number?"
This takes an actual action (and expenditure in most places) on behalf of the parents. Easier to simply say that the phone company should have known the guy calling their daughter was a 20 year old pedo and blocked him.
Your plan isn't paying for bandwidth, your plan is paying for the amount of data transferred. It's the difference between paying for a pipe that delivers 10 gallons of water a minute, versus paying for 500 gallons of water.
Once upon a time that might not have been such a bad plan, but these days, a computer that was turned off would probably consume a good chunk of that allocation based on just the port scans and random worms flying around the internet, depending on how you were connected to the internet. If you didn't use enough data to push you out of the lowest tier, then the ISP could certainly add a few more pings into the mix just to make sure, or just accidentally drop a few TCP packets so you pay more to retransmit them. Or heck, just mark it up 30%, it's not like you can prove you didn't receive those packets. (On a related note, I wonder how many people ever actually test their electric meter or water meter for accuracy. Or how one would go about doing such a thing, since I hadn't even thought of that until just now.)
Man, if only someone put together a list of phone numbers and published them... let's say in a big thick book. Then they could sell ad space and make millions!
With ordering online, the final price minus all discounts, shipping and taxes is posted on the final page that states click here to finalize your order. That is the point where you make an agreement and agree with the terms. Not the main page that claims "all merchandise is 50%" off, not the page that says, "add to cart", not the page that offers an extended warranty and accessories. Not the page that asks for your address and phone number. You do not purchase the product and enter into an agreement until that final page that states what will be charged to your card. Every single person that has ever shopped online has backed out at that last minute and hit cancel because they did not want to go through with it or did not agree to the final price. Everything that lead to that page with the final click is not relevant because you did not agree to anything before that.
And if the person used amazon's One Click Shopping (r, tm, c, patented) to buy the items without having to go through all those pages to complete the checkout process? What then?
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The biggest question about this whole "doesn't exist" thing is whether it means that Maureen O'Gara was stalking a figment of her imagination earlier.
That's because you don't have the correct options;) Debian solves this between the "fakeroot" utility as well as flags that let you specify alternative list and cache directories.
I found that out when I was setting up a chroot debian install in a subdirectory when I was playing with network booting and nfs root filesystems.
Nothing like having the *AA park their domain on godaddy, complete with such relevant ads as "Gnutella P2p: Download free MP3 music" or "eDonkey Free Downloads: Unlimited music, movies and games. 15 billion files". Also listed are ads for "American Legal Funding: pre-settlement advance, pay only if you win" and "Illegal Downloading: Experienced, aggressive criminal attourney in Texas"
The US recently arrested British citizens for the crime of visiting the US between connecting flights (oh, and having founded and subsequently retired from a money transfer company used by online gambling sites at one time before such a thing was made illegal).
It might be of interest to Americans to know that should they, or their company, or their former employer (all the way back to that job you worked evenings in high school), or any company that they might own stock in (or hold funds that hold stock in, etc) ever post any kind of positive review of themselves on the internet where it can be read in Europe, then you probably should schedule your flights to make sure none of them stop there.
So it's still related, even if only on the idea that one of these days some European agency is going to decide to play tit-for-tat for some of the stupid shit America does to them.
Depends on your goals behind such purchase decisions. If you want to put the company out of business, then you'll have to check real hard, especially with the number of companies all shared by the giant conglomerates (like Colgate-Palmolive, or Ralston Purina, or Kraft... the list goes on and on). If you just want them to change their ways, then if enough people are preferring the less-advertised sub-brand over the heavily advertised main brand, then rational companies would decide that the sub-brands are doing something right and try to do that more often. Which would hopefully mean less advertising, and not heavy advertisement of their popular new brand (formerly the sub-brand).
It seems that I glossed over my explanation a bit much. Each limb didn't have its own hitpoints, instead they simply became damaged when struck by a critical hit or something. If they were injured, then they would become broken, if they were broken, they'd be lost. They were also somewhat separate from healing, meaning that if you lost a limb, you could drink enough low level potions to refill your HP to max, but your limb would still be missing, leading to situations where you could have lost most of your body parts yet still have full HP. Or where you were killed without injuring a single limb.
and he sketched out a system (in the context of a true medieval RPG) where each limb would have its own status: broken, different levels of bleeding, etc.
Phantasie III on the C64 (I think there was a PC version as well, amongst others) had that kind of a system. In addition to hit points, your limbs, chest, and head could be "injured" "broken" or "gone", with obvious implications for losing your head or body. It led to interesting battles, where I'd have characters with two broken arms continuing to fight because they still had most of their hitpoints and I needed to conserve the appropriate level of potion (IIRC, Potion 3 would heal 60hp and either 2 broken limbs or one lost limb). As far as actual gameplay went, it didn't really add or detract anything significant, it just made it different.
And naturally, after the PRC-77 run was over, every engineer that made it robust was taken out back and shot, and the plans shredded, pulped and incinerated, and the contractor began working on the PRC-78, spending 5 years trying to figure out just how to make it robust.
In the real world, robustness is solved. Engineers don't need half a decade to build some contraption that can take a licking and keep on ticking, they just have to look at the previous designs and apply the same techniques to a modern device. But hey, when its the government's money, spending 2 months researching 400 different types of rubber grommets to determine which one works best for shock absorbing because, you know, physics might have changed in the last year or so, is a perfectly reasonable idea.
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He also mentioned using options like no-index.
= default&deleteallrecords=confirmed
The spider wouldn't see that until AFTER they followed the link to http://www.sucker.com/admin.php?user=default&pass
Again, I ask you, if I write a book and no bookstore will carry it are my free speech rights limited?
If no bookstore will carry it because they decided that don't like the content, then no, obviously your free speech rights were not limited, because you have no right to force bookstores to carry your book. No rights were infringed by stores not selling OJ Simpson's book.
If no bookstore will carry it (despite the fact that it's a popular book) because the government passed a law saying that maybe they'll be charged with a crime, then the government has stepped over the line.
And don't give me the "Chilling effect" response...
Why not? Do you think that having the government retroactively decide that you've broken the law after the fact is a good way to run a country?
Now, a crow finds a raw material, slightly modified it, and uses it to obtain, kill and eat something it otherwise would not be able to get. How is this different?
Because humans perceive spears to be weapons and twigs to be harmless.
remember: this hacker only got access to a computer AFTER the target first sought out child porn
Or so he says.
Yet out of 3000 people's computers who he claims to control, he's only managed to find evidence on a handful of them? The numbers don't add up, unless the only child porn that the person ever sought to find was his trojan.
Semantically, what's the difference if a script does my grinding or if hit the attack button a dozen times while reading a book? Would a complicated OCR+mechanical keypresser setup be cheating?
Something non-human is playing the game for you.
Is it cheating to have something flash on your screen if you're being attacked? Is it cheating to modify UI elements to be more useable?
You are playing the game for you.
You think police offices are bad, you should see how post offices drive! They don't even care if its raining, sleeting or snowing!
1906? That's a blast from the past, I've been in 19107 for over a month now.
Programmer that says: "do this on wednesday at 3h00 pm" and then store wednesday and 3pm are begging for troubles and deserve to be badly hit with a cluestick.
But if the government changes what 3PM means, that person's program will still do what the user (following the government's orders) expects.
You store time in milliseconds, and you convert to/from when the data is inputted/outputted to the user.
Good plan, but it doesn't take into account the fact that the number of seconds from the epoch to Wednesday at 3PM just changed for the four weeks that were affected.
Except that peak and off-peak mean something, namely volume of calls. So as a matter of fact, no, they are not "equally likely to charge you off-peak rates during peak periods" because you're more likely to be making a peak period call than an off-peak call.
Information which I hope I can teach them not to supply to strangers on MySpace etc....
..."
"Hello [sir|ma'am] this is [insert nearby but not closest middle school to your address], we need to speak with you regarding your seventh grade daughter's vaccination record."
Are you going to answer
A) "I don't have a seventh grade daughter"
B) "What about it?"
C) "Your caller ID says you're
D) "Huh? Jenny goes to [insert school here] not [other school]!"
Forums, blogs, profiles, bulletins... all of that is simply variations on a theme of communication. The fact that it's written down instead of spoken doesn't change anything but the permanence of the message. You're inventing new shapes for holes that have been around for a very long time. Pen pals are probably out of vogue these days thanks to the internet, but I wonder how many kids back in the day had pen pals of indeterminate origin?
If I picked a random number and called up and told the person who answers (assuming that the person who answers isn't a kid) that I was calling from their local school about their 7th grade daughter, I would almost certainly confirm whether or not there was such a girl at that number/address. This is classic social engineering as well as classic computer security (this is why your username and password are always wrong, even if you got one of them right). It's also nearly instinctive to reject incorrect information immediately. Hell, if someone tried it on me, I'd probably give up the information without even thinking about it or checking caller id. I even grew up being told never to tell anyone that my parents weren't home.
Have you ever heard of an "in listed number?"
This takes an actual action (and expenditure in most places) on behalf of the parents. Easier to simply say that the phone company should have known the guy calling their daughter was a 20 year old pedo and blocked him.
Your plan isn't paying for bandwidth, your plan is paying for the amount of data transferred. It's the difference between paying for a pipe that delivers 10 gallons of water a minute, versus paying for 500 gallons of water.
Once upon a time that might not have been such a bad plan, but these days, a computer that was turned off would probably consume a good chunk of that allocation based on just the port scans and random worms flying around the internet, depending on how you were connected to the internet. If you didn't use enough data to push you out of the lowest tier, then the ISP could certainly add a few more pings into the mix just to make sure, or just accidentally drop a few TCP packets so you pay more to retransmit them. Or heck, just mark it up 30%, it's not like you can prove you didn't receive those packets. (On a related note, I wonder how many people ever actually test their electric meter or water meter for accuracy. Or how one would go about doing such a thing, since I hadn't even thought of that until just now.)
(IIRC, links is actually better than lynx.)
Better is subjective, but links is generally more capable than lynx. You can even compile it with javascript support if you want to go that far.
if you dont have their number already?
Man, if only someone put together a list of phone numbers and published them... let's say in a big thick book. Then they could sell ad space and make millions!
With ordering online, the final price minus all discounts, shipping and taxes is posted on the final page that states click here to finalize your order. That is the point where you make an agreement and agree with the terms. Not the main page that claims "all merchandise is 50%" off, not the page that says, "add to cart", not the page that offers an extended warranty and accessories. Not the page that asks for your address and phone number. You do not purchase the product and enter into an agreement until that final page that states what will be charged to your card. Every single person that has ever shopped online has backed out at that last minute and hit cancel because they did not want to go through with it or did not agree to the final price. Everything that lead to that page with the final click is not relevant because you did not agree to anything before that.
And if the person used amazon's One Click Shopping (r, tm, c, patented) to buy the items without having to go through all those pages to complete the checkout process? What then?
The biggest question about this whole "doesn't exist" thing is whether it means that Maureen O'Gara was stalking a figment of her imagination earlier.
That's because you don't have the correct options ;) Debian solves this between the "fakeroot" utility as well as flags that let you specify alternative list and cache directories.
I found that out when I was setting up a chroot debian install in a subdirectory when I was playing with network booting and nfs root filesystems.
Nothing like having the *AA park their domain on godaddy, complete with such relevant ads as "Gnutella P2p: Download free MP3 music" or "eDonkey Free Downloads: Unlimited music, movies and games. 15 billion files". Also listed are ads for "American Legal Funding: pre-settlement advance, pay only if you win" and "Illegal Downloading: Experienced, aggressive criminal attourney in Texas"
On top of that, two separate ads for "The Beacon Review" and "The Download Guide", which were amusing to compare side-by-side.
The US recently arrested British citizens for the crime of visiting the US between connecting flights (oh, and having founded and subsequently retired from a money transfer company used by online gambling sites at one time before such a thing was made illegal).
It might be of interest to Americans to know that should they, or their company, or their former employer (all the way back to that job you worked evenings in high school), or any company that they might own stock in (or hold funds that hold stock in, etc) ever post any kind of positive review of themselves on the internet where it can be read in Europe, then you probably should schedule your flights to make sure none of them stop there.
So it's still related, even if only on the idea that one of these days some European agency is going to decide to play tit-for-tat for some of the stupid shit America does to them.
Depends on your goals behind such purchase decisions. If you want to put the company out of business, then you'll have to check real hard, especially with the number of companies all shared by the giant conglomerates (like Colgate-Palmolive, or Ralston Purina, or Kraft... the list goes on and on). If you just want them to change their ways, then if enough people are preferring the less-advertised sub-brand over the heavily advertised main brand, then rational companies would decide that the sub-brands are doing something right and try to do that more often. Which would hopefully mean less advertising, and not heavy advertisement of their popular new brand (formerly the sub-brand).
by keeping tabs of the hitpoints of the limbs?!
It seems that I glossed over my explanation a bit much. Each limb didn't have its own hitpoints, instead they simply became damaged when struck by a critical hit or something. If they were injured, then they would become broken, if they were broken, they'd be lost. They were also somewhat separate from healing, meaning that if you lost a limb, you could drink enough low level potions to refill your HP to max, but your limb would still be missing, leading to situations where you could have lost most of your body parts yet still have full HP. Or where you were killed without injuring a single limb.
I think we should take game ratings to the SquareSoft school of numbering.
This game would receive an 8000/9999.
Bah. Forget Squaresoft, use Nippon Ichi numbering. Then we can have games that score 280K and up.
and he sketched out a system (in the context of a true medieval RPG) where each limb would have its own status: broken, different levels of bleeding, etc.
Phantasie III on the C64 (I think there was a PC version as well, amongst others) had that kind of a system. In addition to hit points, your limbs, chest, and head could be "injured" "broken" or "gone", with obvious implications for losing your head or body. It led to interesting battles, where I'd have characters with two broken arms continuing to fight because they still had most of their hitpoints and I needed to conserve the appropriate level of potion (IIRC, Potion 3 would heal 60hp and either 2 broken limbs or one lost limb). As far as actual gameplay went, it didn't really add or detract anything significant, it just made it different.
But the PRC-77 was far more robust.
And naturally, after the PRC-77 run was over, every engineer that made it robust was taken out back and shot, and the plans shredded, pulped and incinerated, and the contractor began working on the PRC-78, spending 5 years trying to figure out just how to make it robust.
In the real world, robustness is solved. Engineers don't need half a decade to build some contraption that can take a licking and keep on ticking, they just have to look at the previous designs and apply the same techniques to a modern device. But hey, when its the government's money, spending 2 months researching 400 different types of rubber grommets to determine which one works best for shock absorbing because, you know, physics might have changed in the last year or so, is a perfectly reasonable idea.