Yes...because the highly technical operation "pasting into the addressbar" is far, far beyond the level of knowledge of the average user*. The bigger problem is that the average Windows user can't even read or click buttons, and will, when frustrated, end up throwing their own feces at the screen.
*This is based on the assumption that the average Windows user is, in fact, a chimpanzee.
Ah, but the key important thing that you're fixing is that the screencap thing can't be done on a free host.
But even there, you're probably getting a little more sophisticated than you need to be because of one fundamental thing: robots can't read javascript.
All you'd have to do is encase the image URL in some fancy javascript that is dependent upon destination IP address, and it'll be too difficult for spammers to use -especailly if the generation algorithm changes slightly.
It would be relatively easy to make a javascript generator such that the only way to use it would be to actually have a javascript parser. That's a bit too much work for most spammers.
A dollar, a stamp, an envolope, and the need to fill them all out by hand are all part of the cost.
Doing that with the latency of snailmail certainly sets the opportunity cost too high for a site that's going to make less than a dollar.
At the very least, it separates the wheat from the chaffe: spammers won't use it because it costs anything, and they can get a site from the totally free content providers, whereas honest people will use it because the quality of service is so much higher than a spam-allowing service.
I think it's pretty clear that the problem is the same as spam: the opportunity cost is too low.
There are many, many things that one could do to make it reasonable. You could have them send a $1 bill, or pay a similar trifling amount through an online broker, or even require a waiting period during which content is machine-inspected for scamming.
I personally use a "free" server that pretty much keeps spam at bay by requiring a $1 bill sent through the mail in order to gain memebership.
You're absolutely correct. Given an infinite length of time, a finite number of monkeys with an finite number of typewriters will type out the complete works of Shakespeare (and for the more dimwitted among you, monkeys=universe, and Shakespeare=sustaining life).
The trouble is, that given our prediction of the size and age of the universe, these metaphorical monkeys have hit upon the right answer WAY sooner than makes sense from a probablistic point of view. So one of these must be true: 1) there are more monkeys than we think 2) they've been at it longer than we think 3) this miraculous coincidence has happened 4) the error in the probability determination is huge 5) it's all horribly wrong
To me, that big of an uncertainty moves the theory from "scientifically tested, probably correct" to "wild speculation." Could be correct, but I don't trust it.
Well, as I said you can't do use mod_php, mod_perl, and mod_ruby that way - specifically because it does persistent namespacing. However, you can do what you're looking for. Separate using mod_suexec along with dynamically created, per user vhosts. I actually have access on a server that does this.
Are you a troll? Looking for advice on how to do that with apache? You can: 3) Set handler based on extension. 4) Set handler based on directories.
Both of these options are actually available even within.htaccess files, so users can handle this themselves if you don't mind.
This is actually done quite commonly. A lot of the popular distros ship with a canned apache configuration file that uses the directory based approach.
Then you're dealing with the possibility of a whole group of users sharing a common namespace. Of course you are, though. That's the whole point of mod_* - persistence.
If you want php, perl, ruby, but don't want to share namespaces, don't use the apache modules - just use the languages as shells, and assign the cgi-script handler to take care of them. None of the other webservers have that anyway, and you can't really complain about a feature because it works like it's supposed to.
3. While it will be confidential information that shouldn't be shared without some form of regulation, losing said information off the back of a truck means that the negligent companies will recieve a stern talking to and a slap on the wrist.
About the only mechanism we seem to have for actually ensuring a stable and popular government in a country is a process that involves adding more stars to the flag.
So West Germany and Japan don't count? Those both have stable and popular governments mostly because of our intervention (West Germany eventually even became successful enough to convert East Germany!)
Yeah...like when they did that with "SG1." Oh wait...
How many shows have they even picked up? The only ones I know about are SG1 and Sliders, and the biggest thing about Sliders is that quite a few of them were big-budget movie stars, AND the show was already reaching the end of popularity after many successful seasons. They couldn't afford them.
There's no magic wand that means that non-profit organisations, charities or hospitals don't get pwn3d by viruses.
Having an industry standardized computer system, constant computer auditing, and IT guys on budget are a very good magic wand. Schools, non-profits, and charities I can understand, but hospitals have record-keeping ordinances to obey, and negligence in that department is punishible at maximum by loss of license, or at the very least steep fines.
There's no excuse for that kind of thing in a hospital.
Actually, cracking today is a bit more like hotwiring a car using the just the fusebox. It takes about as much knowledge of the electrical subsystem to build the car as it does to do that.
Personally, I don't do anything unnatural to my food. No other animal cooks their food, so I don't cook anything I eat, or eat anything that I didn't pull from the ground or kill with my bare hands. Also, I eat it without utensils, since no other animal does that, and I don't prepare anything I eat - I just pull whatever I want from the carcass right there. My backyard is starting to stink a lot, since I don't bury anything I kill since animals don't.
You could be right. There is a good reason to believe there isn't: there's almost nothing between the Earth and the moon, and there's even less the further we get away from the Sun. So the space between galaxies is most likely totally empty.
And if things are moving away from each other as we believe, then it is also likely that something between galaxies will never come into contact with anything else.
Haven't you read Newton's laws? "An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force."
Perpetual motion is trivial to accomplish. Just start something moving in an environment without outside forces to affect it - such as, for instance, in outer space between galaxies.
I know what you're thinking - you've heard about thermodynamics and people say that it's impossible and all, but you just haven't heard the whole story. It's impossible to have something moving forever in an environment full of friction because friction=energy loss. If something could work forever even with an energy loss, then it must be generating energy constantly, which is the thing that breaks the law of thermodynamics.
The energy to sustain it is to keep it cold and start it rotating. You could start it rotating in space - which is already about that cold, and it would forever.
I don't know what kind of history you're talking about. The console seller with the strictest control over it's system has historically been Nintendo, and their most popular system ever - gameboy - has not been opened up to developers much at all.
I can't think of a single company that had a loss-lead product that was very hackable and also very successful. I-opener springs to mind as a counterexample of such a thing. They don't want the "buying it to modify it" market. Feel free to expound on your theories. I'd very much like to know of a hackable loss-lead console that did better because it was hackable.
Buying it to modify it=not buying it to play games, or even to make games. Tinkerers don't really have the resources to make games. It takes hundreds of man-hours, and lots and lots of work. They have the resources to make the PSP into something other than a gaming console, which might hurt it's sales of games. Remeber that it doesn't matter how many PSPs they sell. Only how many games they sell.
Unlike Xbox, which is basically a PC, PSP is a very custom box sold at a loss. If MS took a loss, they didn't take much, and even if they did, they've got cash to spare. If it gets hacked and used primarily in ways that have nothing to do with selling games, then they won't recoup their money in game sales.
I'm sure that Sony will be more than happy to let you hack their system as soon as they aren't losing money on the sales of consoles - so in about two years or so, when production costs have leveled off. But right now, they really want to make sure that people are buying games.
As a software developer at a GIS company, I can tell you that it's all spatial information. Modern GIS data often includes names & addresss, parcel information, communities, etc.
Basically, think of it as a new kind of database. One that is capable of generating maps.
And just like any other database, it could have who knows what in it. Some information is very private, and some isn't.
Developing winmodems, winprinters, etc is not cheap - it requires throwing away a lot of the company's IP for a start, so is unlikely to be an idea coming from modem/printer manufacturers.
That's an interesting idea. First of all, forget about the Unix market. Anyone selling crap this cheap is selling commodity parts - which is the very low-end; the domain of the cheap PC, and only the cheap PC. Second, you don't think that a single chip product without any custom microcontrollers at all will cost the company any less to make than one that has 2-5x as many chips, including a custom micro, especially when consumers will pay the same amount for the software controlled device?
I think that any extra development time (which, by the way, will probably be less because software development takes less time than hardware development, and the hardware is simpler) will be recouped quickly by the gains in sales.
The drivers for these kinds of things are written entirely by the manufacturers, and not by Windows at all. They're a pain in Windows' butt just as much as they are for other OSes.
Microsoft does have a lot of control, but they don't have all of it.
However, the worst one was a guy who suffered a severe personality loss. He was said to be just plain mean and nasty. And his nerves for some reason discharged electrical shocks many times their normal size.
What's this about? It's not in the original FF plot. Is there some joke I'm not getting, are you giving away parts of the movie plot that should have been a surprise, or are you just wrong?
On a similar note, Microsoft will be recalling 3 billion instances of RedHat from the market. Apparently all you have to install it, and the secret "doesn't crash or get hacked" function starts working, giving administrators an unfair advantage over other administrators.
It is suspected that Microsoft may make other recalls in light of this recent events, including the Playstation 2, Google's search engine, and the United States government.
In other news, any of you that have hot girlfriends (yeah...you're probably not real, but I can pretend) will have to hand them over. I'm recalling them.
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Yes...because the highly technical operation "pasting into the addressbar" is far, far beyond the level of knowledge of the average user*. The bigger problem is that the average Windows user can't even read or click buttons, and will, when frustrated, end up throwing their own feces at the screen.
*This is based on the assumption that the average Windows user is, in fact, a chimpanzee.
Ah, but the key important thing that you're fixing is that the screencap thing can't be done on a free host.
But even there, you're probably getting a little more sophisticated than you need to be because of one fundamental thing: robots can't read javascript.
All you'd have to do is encase the image URL in some fancy javascript that is dependent upon destination IP address, and it'll be too difficult for spammers to use -especailly if the generation algorithm changes slightly.
It would be relatively easy to make a javascript generator such that the only way to use it would be to actually have a javascript parser. That's a bit too much work for most spammers.
A dollar, a stamp, an envolope, and the need to fill them all out by hand are all part of the cost.
Doing that with the latency of snailmail certainly sets the opportunity cost too high for a site that's going to make less than a dollar.
At the very least, it separates the wheat from the chaffe: spammers won't use it because it costs anything, and they can get a site from the totally free content providers, whereas honest people will use it because the quality of service is so much higher than a spam-allowing service.
I think it's pretty clear that the problem is the same as spam: the opportunity cost is too low.
There are many, many things that one could do to make it reasonable. You could have them send a $1 bill, or pay a similar trifling amount through an online broker, or even require a waiting period during which content is machine-inspected for scamming.
I personally use a "free" server that pretty much keeps spam at bay by requiring a $1 bill sent through the mail in order to gain memebership.
It's not supposed to be descriptive product name.
It's named after it's creator, Iram Wolfestrom.
Could be, anyway. Best reason I could come up with for a stupid name like that.
You're absolutely correct. Given an infinite length of time, a finite number of monkeys with an finite number of typewriters will type out the complete works of Shakespeare (and for the more dimwitted among you, monkeys=universe, and Shakespeare=sustaining life).
The trouble is, that given our prediction of the size and age of the universe, these metaphorical monkeys have hit upon the right answer WAY sooner than makes sense from a probablistic point of view. So one of these must be true:
1) there are more monkeys than we think
2) they've been at it longer than we think
3) this miraculous coincidence has happened
4) the error in the probability determination is huge
5) it's all horribly wrong
To me, that big of an uncertainty moves the theory from "scientifically tested, probably correct" to "wild speculation." Could be correct, but I don't trust it.
Well, as I said you can't do use mod_php, mod_perl, and mod_ruby that way - specifically because it does persistent namespacing. However, you can do what you're looking for.
Separate using mod_suexec along with dynamically created, per user vhosts. I actually have access on a server that does this.
Are you a troll? Looking for advice on how to do that with apache? You can:
.htaccess files, so users can handle this themselves if you don't mind.
3) Set handler based on extension.
4) Set handler based on directories.
Both of these options are actually available even within
This is actually done quite commonly. A lot of the popular distros ship with a canned apache configuration file that uses the directory based approach.
Then you're dealing with the possibility of a whole group of users sharing a common namespace. Of course you are, though. That's the whole point of mod_* - persistence.
If you want php, perl, ruby, but don't want to share namespaces, don't use the apache modules - just use the languages as shells, and assign the cgi-script handler to take care of them. None of the other webservers have that anyway, and you can't really complain about a feature because it works like it's supposed to.
3. While it will be confidential information that shouldn't be shared without some form of regulation, losing said information off the back of a truck means that the negligent companies will recieve a stern talking to and a slap on the wrist.
About the only mechanism we seem to have for actually ensuring a stable and popular government in a country is a process that involves adding more stars to the flag.
So West Germany and Japan don't count? Those both have stable and popular governments mostly because of our intervention (West Germany eventually even became successful enough to convert East Germany!)
Yeah...like when they did that with "SG1." Oh wait...
How many shows have they even picked up? The only ones I know about are SG1 and Sliders, and the biggest thing about Sliders is that quite a few of them were big-budget movie stars, AND the show was already reaching the end of popularity after many successful seasons. They couldn't afford them.
It's a bad idea to stereotype anyone, be they Amish, or "the rest of the U.S. population."
Everyone hates being stereotyped almost as much as machines want to be anthropomorphized.
There's no magic wand that means that non-profit organisations, charities or hospitals don't get pwn3d by viruses.
Having an industry standardized computer system, constant computer auditing, and IT guys on budget are a very good magic wand. Schools, non-profits, and charities I can understand, but hospitals have record-keeping ordinances to obey, and negligence in that department is punishible at maximum by loss of license, or at the very least steep fines.
There's no excuse for that kind of thing in a hospital.
Actually, cracking today is a bit more like hotwiring a car using the just the fusebox. It takes about as much knowledge of the electrical subsystem to build the car as it does to do that.
I think Hitler would agree with you.
Unnatural, isn't it?
Personally, I don't do anything unnatural to my food. No other animal cooks their food, so I don't cook anything I eat, or eat anything that I didn't pull from the ground or kill with my bare hands.
Also, I eat it without utensils, since no other animal does that, and I don't prepare anything I eat - I just pull whatever I want from the carcass right there. My backyard is starting to stink a lot, since I don't bury anything I kill since animals don't.
It's healthier because animals do it that way.
I would, but I think I'd rather stay home with my Marylin Monrobot.
You could be right. There is a good reason to believe there isn't: there's almost nothing between the Earth and the moon, and there's even less the further we get away from the Sun. So the space between galaxies is most likely totally empty.
And if things are moving away from each other as we believe, then it is also likely that something between galaxies will never come into contact with anything else.
Haven't you read Newton's laws?
"An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force."
Perpetual motion is trivial to accomplish. Just start something moving in an environment without outside forces to affect it - such as, for instance, in outer space between galaxies.
I know what you're thinking - you've heard about thermodynamics and people say that it's impossible and all, but you just haven't heard the whole story. It's impossible to have something moving forever in an environment full of friction because friction=energy loss. If something could work forever even with an energy loss, then it must be generating energy constantly, which is the thing that breaks the law of thermodynamics.
The energy to sustain it is to keep it cold and start it rotating. You could start it rotating in space - which is already about that cold, and it would forever.
I don't know what kind of history you're talking about. The console seller with the strictest control over it's system has historically been Nintendo, and their most popular system ever - gameboy - has not been opened up to developers much at all.
I can't think of a single company that had a loss-lead product that was very hackable and also very successful. I-opener springs to mind as a counterexample of such a thing. They don't want the "buying it to modify it" market. Feel free to expound on your theories. I'd very much like to know of a hackable loss-lead console that did better because it was hackable.
Buying it to modify it=not buying it to play games, or even to make games. Tinkerers don't really have the resources to make games. It takes hundreds of man-hours, and lots and lots of work.
They have the resources to make the PSP into something other than a gaming console, which might hurt it's sales of games. Remeber that it doesn't matter how many PSPs they sell. Only how many games they sell.
Unlike Xbox, which is basically a PC, PSP is a very custom box sold at a loss. If MS took a loss, they didn't take much, and even if they did, they've got cash to spare. If it gets hacked and used primarily in ways that have nothing to do with selling games, then they won't recoup their money in game sales.
I'm sure that Sony will be more than happy to let you hack their system as soon as they aren't losing money on the sales of consoles - so in about two years or so, when production costs have leveled off. But right now, they really want to make sure that people are buying games.
As a software developer at a GIS company, I can tell you that it's all spatial information. Modern GIS data often includes names & addresss, parcel information, communities, etc.
Basically, think of it as a new kind of database. One that is capable of generating maps.
And just like any other database, it could have who knows what in it. Some information is very private, and some isn't.
Nice sig. Did you think it up independantly, or get it from somewhere else?
(I've been a bit gratified to know that since I thought it up, it's been slowly spreading through the web, and I keep seeing it more and more places).
Developing winmodems, winprinters, etc is not cheap - it requires throwing away a lot of the company's IP for a start, so is unlikely to be an idea coming from modem/printer manufacturers.
That's an interesting idea. First of all, forget about the Unix market. Anyone selling crap this cheap is selling commodity parts - which is the very low-end; the domain of the cheap PC, and only the cheap PC. Second, you don't think that a single chip product without any custom microcontrollers at all will cost the company any less to make than one that has 2-5x as many chips, including a custom micro, especially when consumers will pay the same amount for the software controlled device?
I think that any extra development time (which, by the way, will probably be less because software development takes less time than hardware development, and the hardware is simpler) will be recouped quickly by the gains in sales.
The drivers for these kinds of things are written entirely by the manufacturers, and not by Windows at all. They're a pain in Windows' butt just as much as they are for other OSes.
Microsoft does have a lot of control, but they don't have all of it.
However, the worst one was a guy who suffered a severe personality loss. He was said to be just plain mean and nasty. And his nerves for some reason discharged electrical shocks many times their normal size.
What's this about? It's not in the original FF plot. Is there some joke I'm not getting, are you giving away parts of the movie plot that should have been a surprise, or are you just wrong?
On a similar note, Microsoft will be recalling 3 billion instances of RedHat from the market. Apparently all you have to install it, and the secret "doesn't crash or get hacked" function starts working, giving administrators an unfair advantage over other administrators.
It is suspected that Microsoft may make other recalls in light of this recent events, including the Playstation 2, Google's search engine, and the United States government.
In other news, any of you that have hot girlfriends (yeah...you're probably not real, but I can pretend) will have to hand them over. I'm recalling them.