Verisign's main corporate asset is trust, the entire certificate business is centered arround that trust. What we have to trust is that Verisign has in place an effective mechanism to insure that entities are in fact who they say they are and is applying that mechanism effectivly. It appears that Verisign is not effectivley applying that mechanism, and are wasting their most important asset. For quite a while I've suspected that a Verisign cert only meant that some paperwork was filled out and a check cashed.
Personaly I don't care if Tony Suprano is doing it as long as he insures the entities are who they say they are and is actually enforcing the contract.Tony might be better, the dirtbags are less likely to jerk him arround.
no I think the implication is that the pressure from the whacko-religious near-terrorist christian extremists would become to much to bear if the governament started patenting human-animal chimeras. It would errode the sacredicity of humanity by forcing them to move from their present all-or-nothing view humans, i.e. that thing god created first to an actual definition that would stand muster in a secular legal scope.
there are about 40k genes in humans I'm not sure that anyone really has any idea how many are truely human genes, how many are advanced primate genes, how many are shared by primates in general. I once remember a study that suggested that humans and gorillas were 98% the same geneticaly. That was before genomics, I still assume we'd find the results of a modern genomic comparisson embarrassing to our human ego's.
its much weaker gravity makes me dubious that any substantial atmosphere could be maintained
True but there could easily be a mass increase program as well, the asteroid belt would provide lots of raw material; 1. let's start with the earth-crossing astroids first. 2. then fill up the major mass deficit from iron-nickle astroids, once we're up to a mass that would resonably be expected to hold an atmosphere 3. switch to carbonaceous astroids, to add trace gasses and drop the albedo down to get some solar gain on the surface. 4. switch to icey astroids to add water, both for lakes-seas, but also to be dissociated into 2H2-O2 gases, the H2 of course would tend to escape the atmosphere leaving lots of nice O2!
Personaly I don't think this would be too practical, if the goal is to realy have a 2nd "home-world"; I think building a ring-world would be more practical. If the goal is the scientific challenge, then Cooling off Venus would be more interesting.
of course if they sued you for violating this patent, they couldn't easily force your to rack up hundreds of thousands to millions in legal expenses to defend yourself now could they.
US Patent Office has a say in what is and isn't patentable. The problem is they are not using their say, a patent is supposed to be for a novel, unique, and previously undiscovered method that advances science, commerce or the arts; not issuing a patent for converting a base 10 floating point number into a base 30 integer! Base convertions are not novel, unique or undiscorvered method.
Considering that child-porn is one area where your guilty until proven innocent in most countries, the potential effects of pasteing some kiddy-porn onto a background of your rival or nemisis's living room is truely scarey.
Consider closely some of the whacked flamewars that start on slashdot, then consider the effects where the cost of losing is life in prison rather than a karma hit
I remember taking my final exam in RPG II, my program didn't work, the thing refused to fetch the headers in the new page. No matter what I did it wouldn't work correctly, the instructor looked at the code and finaly decided I had found an obsure compiler bug.
the Forth subtree is the only one without outside influences. APL not only had no outside influences, it inturn influenced nothing else. In fact to program it, you needed a special keyboard.
The huge surge in '95 is probably due to the increase in powerful PC's and Open Source, allowing developement to occur outside of the research centers.
Basic wasn't intended for real use, it was a training language, a kinder-gentler way to ease into Fortran. Today Fortran is a niche language and Basic is pretty much forgotten.
Lisp was the language for patrrn matching back in its day, it's syntax has it's origins in IBM 360 assembly language, the CAR,CDR refer to IBM 360 registers. Noting that Lisp - SmallTalk - Objective C linage, an argument could be made that Lisp evolved into OOPs.Logo is an variant of Lisp with cleaned up syntax; and was popular for a while, a subset of logo was turtle graphics, which was used to teach programming concepts to young children.
Was a joke attempt, but now its better run Linux in Ipod, run i386 emulator in linux in ipod, run wine in i386 emulator in linux in ipod, run window in wine in i386 emulator in linux on ipod...
Everything looked good to me untill the line that said "BatMax Principle" then it kind of started to look like bullshit.
If battery life is a problem for you I'd try a desulphater first. It's basicaly a square wave generator that you connect to the battery, the frequency locks on to any resonates that the battery has and pulse charges it better than a straight DC will. This Explains it in detail and has the circiut which can be built for about $10.00 in parts. A word of caution this circuit will put high voltage spikes and RF noise into the battery and anything connected to it, including blowing the computers in you automoble! unhook the battery from sensitive electronics befor using. People have reported that these work with NiCd and lithium batteries as well. I personaly have not used one.
the sticker antenna's were cut in a fractal pattern, which meant the at least theoreticaly a wave-length could almost always be found that was harmonic of the received signal and could easily inductively couple with the radio antenna of the phone. Nothing there obviously violate any science that I know of, and a lot of people claim benifits from them.
The Batmax on the other hand, hast to have enough power too get its waves through the batteries' metal case to inside where the chemicals to be affected actualy bee. So to me anyways, it's an obvious plot by the black-helocoptered ober-secret government agent teme too get there mind-control rays through my tin-foil hat. This means that I'm goeng too half to get a new copper-foil hat, an aluminum face mask, and wear metalic socks just to defete this unwarented escalation of hostilies! Damn look at my spelling, every time I try to warn people it goes to shit, somebody must have on of those suckers around me now!
(Note: Only live-action scenes in Super35 movies have the mattes removed. Super35 scenes with special effects are hard-matted at 2.35:1 and must undergo the pan-and-scan process to fit the screen, thus resulting in a loss of about 45% of the original image.)
Personaly I've always prefered the widescreen 16:9, but from what I've seem my argurment from widescreen are invalid because both are cropped from the production full apature format. when special effect are added the fx are shot in 16:9 widescreen and additionaly cropped to get the 4:3 tv fullscreen format. For a better explaination see for details.
Most people don't actually do queries across the network to the database server You would be suprised. Ome time a web app I was working on seemed to not be updating the database on my dep platform only I later discovered my Developement system was acutaly using the database server on the web instead of my local machine! Seems to me that if the server is comprmised a virus attacking your database server through a socket is not much differnet than through a tcp/ip port.
It exploits weak passwords to gain root within MySQL. Which has nothing to do with weak or non-existant administrator passwords in Windows XP Database root != system root. Hell I can create a database user shitbird, grant shitbird all of the privilages of root then delete root as a user of the database and everything runs fine. The virus attacks root because it the one database account likely, but not necessary, to be on all databases.
Want an eye-opener, nmap a chunk of the internet for open MySQL port 3306's and try to connect to them as any user, no password, and database test, you will be amazed!
No it's about 1. MySQL is doing what it is supposed to 2. having any password on a known user means, sooner or later it's going to be cracked. 3. how readily MS software will try to execute anything even remotely looking like an executable 4. the only thing I'm not sure about is if Windows can run MySQL as a non-priveliged user? I know its standard practice on linux/unix systems to run MySQL as a standard user with no shell account.
The old jeeps M 151 and other gasoline engine military vehicle actualy had a shielded ignition system from the distributer to the spark plugs and coil; the engine would not only be shielded electricaly, but would run under-water with a snorkel kit for the carb.
TV crews are usualy vary consciensious about not displaying un-involved persons in un-complimentary situations without their release. On the flip side in civil disturbance training in the Nation Guard we were told to grab the tv crews and try to drag them along and with us, the presence of the media strips away Joe Public's feeling of anonymity and allows him to better resist the urge to commit anti-social acts and keeps him out of jail when mob-mentality runs rampant. Additionally the media record on tape which are archived and and are often useful durring trials. This tends to keep those innocent of wrong doing out and those guilty of wrong-doing in jail, a win-win situation for most of us.
Until Linux is ready for my mum to use, it's not ready to replace Window.
if Mum can't use Linux, chances are she really can't use windows either Windows is just better at disgising user incompetence than Linux is but Linux is better at limiting the effect of it than Windows is. As for your Mum's incompetence, I'd bet that you'd be very surprized at what she could learn if you took the time and started out slowly
I would not be surprised that when this new method of getting updates from MS is up and running
I'd say the system is in beta testing right now, Couple of weeks ago i installed the windows beta spyware scanner on the wife's machine. At the download page I was instructed to click a button to alow microsoft to scan the machine for "authentic Windows" which I did, and 1. They proptly proceeded to fail to Id my authentic dell OEM version of windows as authentic 2. had to get down on my hands and knees and copy down the key 3. had to key in the key on the web page and everything went fine after that.
I figure that that means that in the near future, anybody who has lost their key is really going to be SOL. Still this is not new, a lot of the upgrade versions of software seem to count on the fact that sooner or later, people are going to lose or have corupted install media on the original and will have to buy a full version when the next virus wipes out their hard-drive. OBTW I was pretty impressed with the software installed, found 3 malware that everbody else had been missing. Of course it changed all of the internet setting, and default program settings back to the official MS versions which was a pain in the ass.
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Verisign's main corporate asset is trust, the entire certificate business is centered arround that trust. What we have to trust is that Verisign has in place an effective mechanism to insure that entities are in fact who they say they are and is applying that mechanism effectivly. It appears that Verisign is not effectivley applying that mechanism, and are wasting their most important asset. For quite a while I've suspected that a Verisign cert only meant that some paperwork was filled out and a check cashed.
Personaly I don't care if Tony Suprano is doing it as long as he insures the entities are who they say they are and is actually enforcing the contract.Tony might be better, the dirtbags are less likely to jerk him arround.
dude that's called social security.
no I think the implication is that the pressure from the whacko-religious near-terrorist christian extremists would become to much to bear if the governament started patenting human-animal chimeras. It would errode the sacredicity of humanity by forcing them to move from their present all-or-nothing view humans, i.e. that thing god created first to an actual definition that would stand muster in a secular legal scope.
there are about 40k genes in humans
I'm not sure that anyone really has any idea how many are truely human genes, how many are advanced primate genes, how many are shared by primates in general. I once remember a study that suggested that humans and gorillas were 98% the same geneticaly. That was before genomics, I still assume we'd find the results of a modern genomic comparisson embarrassing to our human ego's.
its much weaker gravity makes me dubious that any substantial atmosphere could be maintained
True but there could easily be a mass increase program as well, the asteroid belt would provide lots of raw material;
1. let's start with the earth-crossing astroids first.
2. then fill up the major mass deficit from iron-nickle astroids, once we're up to a mass that would resonably be expected to hold an atmosphere
3. switch to carbonaceous astroids, to add trace gasses and drop the albedo down to get some solar gain on the surface.
4. switch to icey astroids to add water, both for lakes-seas, but also to be dissociated into 2H2-O2 gases, the H2 of course would tend to escape the atmosphere leaving lots of nice O2!
Personaly I don't think this would be too practical, if the goal is to realy have a 2nd "home-world"; I think building a ring-world would be more practical. If the goal is the scientific challenge, then Cooling off Venus would be more interesting.
of course if they sued you for violating this patent, they couldn't easily force your to rack up hundreds of thousands to millions in legal expenses to defend yourself now could they.
US Patent Office has a say in what is and isn't patentable.
The problem is they are not using their say, a patent is supposed to be for a novel, unique, and previously undiscovered method that advances science, commerce or the arts; not issuing a patent for converting a base 10 floating point number into a base 30 integer! Base convertions are not novel, unique or undiscorvered method.
or perhaps the reson they were not overly "well done" is to reduce the chances of a doctored photo being mis-construed as an un-doctored one.
Considering that child-porn is one area where your guilty until proven innocent in most countries, the potential effects of pasteing some kiddy-porn onto a background of your rival or nemisis's living room is truely scarey.
Consider closely some of the whacked flamewars that start on slashdot, then consider the effects where the cost of losing is life in prison rather than a karma hit
I remember taking my final exam in RPG II, my program didn't work, the thing refused to fetch the headers in the new page. No matter what I did it wouldn't work correctly, the instructor looked at the code and finaly decided I had found an obsure compiler bug.
the Forth subtree is the only one without outside influences.
APL not only had no outside influences, it inturn influenced nothing else. In fact to program it, you needed a special keyboard.
The huge surge in '95 is probably due to the increase in powerful PC's and Open Source, allowing developement to occur outside of the research centers.
Basic wasn't intended for real use, it was a training language, a kinder-gentler way to ease into Fortran. Today Fortran is a niche language and Basic is pretty much forgotten.
Lisp was the language for patrrn matching back in its day, it's syntax has it's origins in IBM 360 assembly language, the CAR,CDR refer to IBM 360 registers. Noting that Lisp - SmallTalk - Objective C linage, an argument could be made that Lisp evolved into OOPs.Logo is an variant of Lisp with cleaned up syntax; and was popular for a while, a subset of logo was turtle graphics, which was used to teach programming concepts to young children.
Was a joke attempt, but now its better ...
run Linux in Ipod,
run i386 emulator in linux in ipod,
run wine in i386 emulator in linux in ipod,
run window in wine in i386 emulator in linux on ipod
sure just load WINE.
Everything looked good to me untill the line that said "BatMax Principle" then it kind of started to look like bullshit.
If battery life is a problem for you I'd try a desulphater first. It's basicaly a square wave generator that you connect to the battery, the frequency locks on to any resonates that the battery has and pulse charges it better than a straight DC will. This Explains it in detail and has the circiut which can be built for about $10.00 in parts. A word of caution this circuit will put high voltage spikes and RF noise into the battery and anything connected to it, including blowing the computers in you automoble! unhook the battery from sensitive electronics befor using. People have reported that these work with NiCd and lithium batteries as well. I personaly have not used one.
the sticker antenna's were cut in a fractal pattern, which meant the at least theoreticaly a wave-length could almost always be found that was harmonic of the received signal and could easily inductively couple with the radio antenna of the phone. Nothing there obviously violate any science that I know of, and a lot of people claim benifits from them.
The Batmax on the other hand, hast to have enough power too get its waves through the batteries' metal case to inside where the chemicals to be affected actualy bee. So to me anyways, it's an obvious plot by the black-helocoptered ober-secret government agent teme too get there mind-control rays through my tin-foil hat. This means that I'm goeng too half to get a new copper-foil hat, an aluminum face mask, and wear metalic socks just to defete this unwarented escalation of hostilies! Damn look at my spelling, every time I try to warn people it goes to shit, somebody must have on of those suckers around me now!
Personaly I've always prefered the widescreen 16:9, but from what I've seem my argurment from widescreen are invalid because both are cropped from the production full apature format. when special effect are added the fx are shot in 16:9 widescreen and additionaly cropped to get the 4:3 tv fullscreen format. For a better explaination see for details.
Most people don't actually do queries across the network to the database server
You would be suprised. Ome time a web app I was working on seemed to not be updating the database on my dep platform only I later discovered my Developement system was acutaly using the database server on the web instead of my local machine!
Seems to me that if the server is comprmised a virus attacking your database server through a socket is not much differnet than through a tcp/ip port.
It exploits weak passwords to gain root within MySQL.
Which has nothing to do with
weak or non-existant administrator passwords in Windows XP
Database root != system root. Hell I can create a database user shitbird, grant shitbird all of the privilages of root then delete root as a user of the database and everything runs fine. The virus attacks root because it the one database account likely, but not necessary, to be on all databases.
Want an eye-opener, nmap a chunk of the internet for open MySQL port 3306's and try to connect to them as any user, no password, and database test, you will be amazed!
No it's about
1. MySQL is doing what it is supposed to
2. having any password on a known user means, sooner or later it's going to be cracked.
3. how readily MS software will try to execute anything even remotely looking like an executable
4. the only thing I'm not sure about is if Windows can run MySQL as a non-priveliged user? I know its standard practice on linux/unix systems to run MySQL as a standard user with no shell account.
The old jeeps M 151 and other gasoline engine military vehicle actualy had a shielded ignition system from the distributer to the spark plugs and coil; the engine would not only be shielded electricaly, but would run under-water with a snorkel kit for the carb.
TV crews are usualy vary consciensious about not displaying un-involved persons in un-complimentary situations without their release. On the flip side in civil disturbance training in the Nation Guard we were told to grab the tv crews and try to drag them along and with us, the presence of the media strips away Joe Public's feeling of anonymity and allows him to better resist the urge to commit anti-social acts and keeps him out of jail when mob-mentality runs rampant. Additionally the media record on tape which are archived and and are often useful durring trials. This tends to keep those innocent of wrong doing out and those guilty of wrong-doing in jail, a win-win situation for most of us.
Until Linux is ready for my mum to use, it's not ready to replace Window.
if Mum can't use Linux, chances are she really can't use windows either Windows is just better at disgising user incompetence than Linux is but Linux is better at limiting the effect of it than Windows is. As for your Mum's incompetence, I'd bet that you'd be very surprized at what she could learn if you took the time and started out slowly
I would not be surprised that when this new method of getting updates from MS is up and running
I'd say the system is in beta testing right now, Couple of weeks ago i installed the windows beta spyware scanner on the wife's machine. At the download page I was instructed to click a button to alow microsoft to scan the machine for "authentic Windows" which I did, and
1. They proptly proceeded to fail to Id my authentic dell OEM version of windows as authentic
2. had to get down on my hands and knees and copy down the key
3. had to key in the key on the web page and everything went fine after that.
I figure that that means that in the near future, anybody who has lost their key is really going to be SOL. Still this is not new, a lot of the upgrade versions of software seem to count on the fact that sooner or later, people are going to lose or have corupted install media on the original and will have to buy a full version when the next virus wipes out their hard-drive.
OBTW I was pretty impressed with the software installed, found 3 malware that everbody else had been missing. Of course it changed all of the internet setting, and default program settings back to the official MS versions which was a pain in the ass.