When you actually understand the theory of control, analog electronics, and quantumn theory, you generally regard computer science as a house of cards. It is that simple because you are meant to think of it as simple. It has as much to do with the reality of the situation as high school physics does to general relativity.
I believe the analogy is flawed. Computer Science isn't inferior or necessarily wrong: it's an abstraction, which is completely different. It's nice that there's so much complexity underneath and that you understand it, but give us a break. I don't know any chemists who look down on cooking.
You will never trust another security system again.
I trust 25 years or more of empirical data in support of current practice and theories. Sort of.:)
Because of that requirement, it is difficult to judge the impact of these attack without knowing the source code extremely well, and knowing all ways in which a program is used.
So...can you also say that an attack such as this is nearly impossible to successfully mount against a closed-source system?
I'm not trolling, just wondering. (And yes, I do know that you can make your program virtually immune by using a more secure hash function, so we don't need to bring that up.)
Abandon your playground logic. It makes you look stupid.
And no, I don't care if I get modded down for saying so. I'm utterly sick of world events being explained by the Allegory of the Playground. It's called a false analogy.
I do. And I agree with the parent post, it is not possible for clothing to be degrading. The way other people react to it can be degrading to them.
Americans have farked up attitudes about their bodies.
Interesting view. Tell me: how does my daughter control how other people react to what she wears?
She doesn't. She has a measure of control by choosing what it is she wears in the first place, though.
I challenge you to do everything naked for the next two weeks. Don't change your routine in the slightest. Come back and tell us all how you fared.
The point is that it has nothing to do with attitude toward the human body, and everything to do with helping other people respect you. If you dress like a whore, that's what they'll think you are. This is how clothing may or may not be degrading. If you don't like it, find another planet (or another race besides the human race) where these things aren't so.
It's only entrapment when law enforcement gets you to do something you otherwise wouldn't do. Sorry about the bold, but you people just don't seem to get it through your thick skulls...
Calling it "entrapment" just because they were being sneaky isn't going to cut it.
I thought it was more of a 'make Linux look just like windows to get people adjusted to the OS' (and, therefore, not have any BSOD's or instability).
Funny. I've been using XP for over half a year now both at work and at home, and haven't seen a BSOD yet. I'm a software developer/3D artist, which means I punish the poor things. SQL Server 2000 + Gimp + GtkRadiant (with 200 MB of textures loaded) + two instances of VS.NET + a Quake 3 client AND server + miscellaneous browser windows and other crap doesn't kill it. I use RAM and CPU like I'm munching candy, and I'm still getting months of uptime.
Tell me, why should Lindows interest me? No BSODs? Don't make me laugh.
I use Linux for things that Linux is good at: firewalling, SMB (file and print), web services and mail, and getting it running reliably on cheap hardware with only a CLI.
In the future the key is to ask "Would you like a larger desktop?" instead of "Are you a woman?" Allow personalization without mandating bias.
That's really not the point. (Fwoosh! Did you see that? It was the point going right over your head!)
Here's one area in which this study helps: there has always been a very significant difference between the numbers of men and the numbers of women (or boys and girls) who play video games. There are very few women who play Quake, for example. This study helps to explain why that might be, and how the people who make computer games might better expand into other demographics.
It also points to solutions to problems. Say Microsoft rolls out a new 3D desktop, and it actually works well. The problem is that a lot of people in a company don't like it and prefer the 2D, though the company for some reason needs everyone on the new interface. (A UI development group for a software company might fit this situation.) When they call up Microsoft and report that most women in the company despise it, Microsoft can give them the correct solution: buy bigger monitors and faster graphics cards.
...I realized that he/she...and those worked pretty well for them
So was this person male or female?
Really, you don't have to do that, even for Political Correctness. That is, unless PC has changed for the worst and now requires that you conceal the gender of every third party.
Back to the point, I have a question for the original poster: How do you do with 3D video games?
while Iraqis were looting the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Interior, The Ministry of Ministries (whichever), their History Musems -- there were a half-dozen military vehicles and 100 marines outside (with barbwire etc) the.... wait for it, wait for it... yep you guessed it:
Ministry of Oil!
Let's see...I'd say that most of those ministries have no value for the Iraqi people. (Especially the Ministry of Education. You think education in your country is really bad - and at best, full of propaganda? Check out Iraq's sometime.) And they didn't protect the museum because they were taking fire from inside it.
Looting the Ministry of Oil would have serious repercussions on the country - and upon rebuilding in particular - since oil is nearly the only source of wealth. Sounds like they did the right thing to me.
But friends, we're all predisposed to believe what we want to. You can go right ahead with your "oil grab" theory if you like - just don't get too bitter when Iraq turns out well.
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The grammar fascist's question to you is, "Do you know the meaning of grammar?" Here is a translation of the previous post that definitely makes more sense:
Most hackers have lost sleep over an especially challenging problem at some point. When you were younger I expect that you lost sleep over hacking and phreaking. Each of us is plagued by different kinds of problems, but but it is the drive and focus that we have in common. Do you still have moments like this? If you do, what type of problem grabs you now?
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When you actually understand the theory of control, analog electronics, and quantumn theory, you generally regard computer science as a house of cards. It is that simple because you are meant to think of it as simple. It has as much to do with the reality of the situation as high school physics does to general relativity.
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I believe the analogy is flawed. Computer Science isn't inferior or necessarily wrong: it's an abstraction, which is completely different. It's nice that there's so much complexity underneath and that you understand it, but give us a break. I don't know any chemists who look down on cooking.
You will never trust another security system again.
I trust 25 years or more of empirical data in support of current practice and theories. Sort of.
Because of that requirement, it is difficult to judge the impact of these attack without knowing the source code extremely well, and knowing all ways in which a program is used.
So...can you also say that an attack such as this is nearly impossible to successfully mount against a closed-source system?
I'm not trolling, just wondering. (And yes, I do know that you can make your program virtually immune by using a more secure hash function, so we don't need to bring that up.)
Abandon your playground logic. It makes you look stupid.
And no, I don't care if I get modded down for saying so. I'm utterly sick of world events being explained by the Allegory of the Playground. It's called a false analogy.
Hey moderators:
Last time I checked, it wasn't "flamebait" to call someone on the table for an obvious lie. Somebody fix this.
Yes, but nobody expects rational thought from the rest of those groups.
Funny you should mention rational thought, as humans are the only species capable of it. So much for our non-uniqueness, eh?
I do. And I agree with the parent post, it is not possible for clothing to be degrading. The way other people react to it can be degrading to them.
Americans have farked up attitudes about their bodies.
Interesting view. Tell me: how does my daughter control how other people react to what she wears?
She doesn't. She has a measure of control by choosing what it is she wears in the first place, though.
I challenge you to do everything naked for the next two weeks. Don't change your routine in the slightest. Come back and tell us all how you fared.
The point is that it has nothing to do with attitude toward the human body, and everything to do with helping other people respect you. If you dress like a whore, that's what they'll think you are. This is how clothing may or may not be degrading. If you don't like it, find another planet (or another race besides the human race) where these things aren't so.
Farking Ultra-liberals.
How can clothing ever be degrading, for that matter?
You obviously don't have daughters.
Nothing else worthwhile.
It's only entrapment when law enforcement gets you to do something you otherwise wouldn't do. Sorry about the bold, but you people just don't seem to get it through your thick skulls...
Calling it "entrapment" just because they were being sneaky isn't going to cut it.
If there were only 1 person in this world, he could not damage the earth regardless of how stupid his decisions might be.
And if there were no people, the Earth could retain its natural, pristine whatevers for all eternity. What a paradise it would be!
Let me guess: you're a card-carrying member of The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, right?
PLanting a few seedlings is really going to help replenish forests that took THOUSANDS of years to develop, yet only minutes to cut down.
I'm afraid I don't follow you. Are you saying that logging should take thousands of years per forest?
I thought it was more of a 'make Linux look just like windows to get people adjusted to the OS' (and, therefore, not have any BSOD's or instability).
.NET + a Quake 3 client AND server + miscellaneous browser windows and other crap doesn't kill it. I use RAM and CPU like I'm munching candy, and I'm still getting months of uptime.
Funny. I've been using XP for over half a year now both at work and at home, and haven't seen a BSOD yet. I'm a software developer/3D artist, which means I punish the poor things. SQL Server 2000 + Gimp + GtkRadiant (with 200 MB of textures loaded) + two instances of VS
Tell me, why should Lindows interest me? No BSODs? Don't make me laugh.
I use Linux for things that Linux is good at: firewalling, SMB (file and print), web services and mail, and getting it running reliably on cheap hardware with only a CLI.
"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling judges and that mangy dog!"
You can't forget the mangy dog. It's just not the same without it.
In the future the key is to ask "Would you like a larger desktop?" instead of "Are you a woman?" Allow personalization without mandating bias.
That's really not the point. (Fwoosh! Did you see that? It was the point going right over your head!)
Here's one area in which this study helps: there has always been a very significant difference between the numbers of men and the numbers of women (or boys and girls) who play video games. There are very few women who play Quake, for example. This study helps to explain why that might be, and how the people who make computer games might better expand into other demographics.
It also points to solutions to problems. Say Microsoft rolls out a new 3D desktop, and it actually works well. The problem is that a lot of people in a company don't like it and prefer the 2D, though the company for some reason needs everyone on the new interface. (A UI development group for a software company might fit this situation.) When they call up Microsoft and report that most women in the company despise it, Microsoft can give them the correct solution: buy bigger monitors and faster graphics cards.
...I realized that he/she...and those worked pretty well for them
So was this person male or female?
Really, you don't have to do that, even for Political Correctness. That is, unless PC has changed for the worst and now requires that you conceal the gender of every third party.
Back to the point, I have a question for the original poster: How do you do with 3D video games?
while Iraqis were looting the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Interior, The Ministry of Ministries (whichever), their History Musems -- there were a half-dozen military vehicles and 100 marines outside (with barbwire etc) the .... wait for it, wait for it... yep you guessed it:
Ministry of Oil!
Let's see...I'd say that most of those ministries have no value for the Iraqi people. (Especially the Ministry of Education. You think education in your country is really bad - and at best, full of propaganda? Check out Iraq's sometime.) And they didn't protect the museum because they were taking fire from inside it.
Looting the Ministry of Oil would have serious repercussions on the country - and upon rebuilding in particular - since oil is nearly the only source of wealth. Sounds like they did the right thing to me.
But friends, we're all predisposed to believe what we want to. You can go right ahead with your "oil grab" theory if you like - just don't get too bitter when Iraq turns out well.
"You've got dupes!!"
/me ducks
Dupes? Who, the editors?
Not only that, but they'd probably be of the "If you don't want to subscribe, please reply" type.
Except 'but but' isn't really proper grammar.
Thank you! Thank you! I'm gone already.
Crap! Here I am being clever and pissy like the last dude, and the stupid duplicate word just jumps in and messes me up...
The grammar fascist's question to you is, "Do you know the meaning of grammar?" Here is a translation of the previous post that definitely makes more sense:
Most hackers have lost sleep over an especially challenging problem at some point. When you were younger I expect that you lost sleep over hacking and phreaking. Each of us is plagued by different kinds of problems, but but it is the drive and focus that we have in common. Do you still have moments like this? If you do, what type of problem grabs you now?
Thank you! Thank you! I'm here all week.
The cookie on the inside is floppy.
Why is this insightful?
The photographers used to make a sport out of getting the best shots with both the speaker and the exposed breast. At best, it was distracting.
Why must everything be an issue of Free speech?
Even better, use ShellExecute() or ShellExecuteEx(). You don't need a batch file that way - you just pass in a URL.
Whoops! "s/telling me I/telling me to" in the paraphrase.
:D
Thanks for not laughing at the grammar fascist.