Not only this, but in order for a validating parser to parse XML, it must read the entire document.
Of course. How could it tell if the document were valid otherwise? Should it just be generous ("Well, it *seemed* valid enough, so I let it go by...")?
This is simply not practical for even modestly sized databases, as most current XML parsers will attempt to read the entire file into memory.
"most current XML parsers" (I notice you don't say 'validating parsers' there, so you must mean all XML parsers, of well-formed (but invalid due to no DTD) as well as valid documents?) I'd like to see some evidence to back up this assertion. And don't just point me to a couple of random examples, I can provide counter-examples to those and we'd be here for years...
There's no need for an apostrophe* in "interviews".
* The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations. (ex dictionary.com)
No, it does not beg the question. Begging the question means to present a circular argument.
But that begs the question... no, only kidding.
However, when I see incorrect usage outnumbering correct usage at least 25:1, even in the writings of people who seem otherwise at least moderately literate, it does make me wonder how long it takes before the 'rules' change. After all, a language is an evolving organism...
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.
I'm thinking that the Co$ isn't exactly known for its adherence to legality in its pursuit of those it sees as enemies anyway. One suspects that they would hack into your computer with or without this law, and then do anything possible to avoid being caught and punished.
It became a movie in 1974, and Dean rewrote it in 99 or 2000 to bring all the tech stuff up to date.
I think I may have read the rewrite -- given to me as a freebie when I bought a much better book:) (Koontz is entertaining in a trashy sort of way, but he's not the sort of author I'd pay good money for...) I remember some gratuitous mentions of the Internet grafted in there...
I did wonder why they were giving it away, though. Trying to boost sales figures?
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After you log out of Hotmail, you are sent directly to the MSN site.
No you aren't. You're sent to the Hotmail Sign-In page.
Here in Australia, it (used to?) redirect you to ninemsn.com.au -- a joint project between the most watched television station nationwide and MS. (I wouldn't know if it still does, it's been a while since I've visited Hotmail.)
So this could well vary in different regions around the globe.
I don't think so... but this just means that Microsoft Research has been secretly working on a time machine! That must have been the first trial, otherwise they probably would have produced something truly innovative by now... even if they had to steal it from the citizens of 2120.:)
I guess it depends what you find entertaining -- Larry is "kooky", while Steve B. is just plain *weird*. I'd want some serious hallucinogens before sitting in a crowd watching him doing the Monkeydance...
Heee! Of course more than a few times I've spoken on the net to people who think Australia is some sort of southern US state or something.:)
I'm actually an Aussie as well:)
BTW, I thought we were some sort of satellite state of the US by now... everything seems to be going that way: health care, industrial policies, franchised fast food stores, etc.:/
(plus I knew the folks there, and they were well-connected to the cypherpunks community.)
Not to argue with the other points in your (well-written) post... but surely a certain percentage of the 'cypherpunk' community is going to be undercover stooges for the FBI/CIA/NSA? Sort of like COINTELPRO in the Nixon years -- strong encryption is perceived as a strong enough threat to warrant this sort of spying on your citizens, according to that mindset.
I'm not saying this is fact, but merely that it's probably a factor that should be considered... the easiest way to break this sort of encryption is to already have someone on the inside, or to get someone to talk.
Back in the anon.penet.fi days, I was looking around for a topic for a paper in law school, and briefly considered something related to porn on usenet, so I spent a couple weeks gathering all the porn that came through my newsreader.
Ah, so that's why you did it.
Sure, I might believe you... thousands wouldn't.:)
I bet in certain cases Google's cache could be a big security hole too. One that springs to mind is how after 9.11 nuclear power plants removed a bunch of info off of their sites. I just checked, and these pages (now 404's) are still in Google's cache.
Once the information has been made available to the public, shouldn't it already be treated as "compromised"? Taking it off the site isn't going to instantly wipe the knowledge from the minds of any people who read it... anyone who saved the pages could republish it later, not just Google.
Is really Powerpoint XP that bloated? I don't think so.
I haven't seen the current version... but for every program that comes from Microsoft, I can only shake my head at the version requirements. I used to use an office suite that fit into 38K of RAM! (not all at once, mind you, but it all fit on a 180K floppy:)
Sure, today's programs do more, but I'd be happy with a *cheap* laptop that approximated the performance of that C64, or maybe an early 286. Monochrome screen, etc. -- priced to compete with today's models, maybe < $50?
Yeah, because sasha is an underground artist, like Moby.
I've certainly seen a lot of marketing over the last decade for these two "underground" artists.
It's just a label. Most people making electronic music are just as greedy, money-hungry and prepared to sell out as people in the musical "mainstream". Deal with it.
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Look at the username... CmdrTroll.
:)
"CmdrKarmaWhoringFromLazyModerators" would be more like it for a comment like that, of course...
Not only this, but in order for a validating parser to parse XML, it must read the entire document.
Of course. How could it tell if the document were valid otherwise? Should it just be generous ("Well, it *seemed* valid enough, so I let it go by...")?
This is simply not practical for even modestly sized databases, as most current XML parsers will attempt to read the entire file into memory.
"most current XML parsers" (I notice you don't say 'validating parsers' there, so you must mean all XML parsers, of well-formed (but invalid due to no DTD) as well as valid documents?) I'd like to see some evidence to back up this assertion. And don't just point me to a couple of random examples, I can provide counter-examples to those and we'd be here for years...
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There's no need for an apostrophe* in "interviews".
* The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations. (ex dictionary.com)
100 GB, eh? Imagine the amount of pr0n -- um, sorry, I meant copyright MP3s -- oh no, my mistake, I'll start again.
Imagine the amount of 'Redundant' Slashdot messages that you could fit on there!
No, it does not beg the question. Begging the question means to present a circular argument.
But that begs the question... no, only kidding.
However, when I see incorrect usage outnumbering correct usage at least 25:1, even in the writings of people who seem otherwise at least moderately literate, it does make me wonder how long it takes before the 'rules' change. After all, a language is an evolving organism...
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.
I'm thinking that the Co$ isn't exactly known for its adherence to legality in its pursuit of those it sees as enemies anyway. One suspects that they would hack into your computer with or without this law, and then do anything possible to avoid being caught and punished.
Don't give bin Laden a three-letter acronym. It's a sign of admiration.
:)
What, like the IRS? Or the VAT? Or the CIA? Or the KKK?
It's just a sign that the author is getting tired of typing out 'Osama Bin Laden' all the time
Studies show that 80% if all statistics are made up on the spot. ;-)
:)
No, it's actually 85%. Trust me, I just made it u- uhm, yeah, that's right, a study. Hrm.
yeah, the original name of kate was kant(pronounced kunt) people thought it was too close to cunt :)...
:)
And even if you disregard that, the way some people would have said it sounded too much like "can't".
sample conversation:
- What text editor are you using?
- Kant.
- Why not?
Obviously not a good idea...
It became a movie in 1974, and Dean rewrote it in 99 or 2000 to bring all the tech stuff up to date.
:) (Koontz is entertaining in a trashy sort of way, but he's not the sort of author I'd pay good money for...) I remember some gratuitous mentions of the Internet grafted in there...
I think I may have read the rewrite -- given to me as a freebie when I bought a much better book
I did wonder why they were giving it away, though. Trying to boost sales figures?
* Bonus points on why I would call my home automation system "Alfred"
:)
I hope that this is a reference to Bruce Wayne's (Batman's) butler, and not to Alfred E. Neumann of MAD Magazine
Anybody wanna register "pcaudioshell.com"? ;-)
:)
Is that "PC audio shell" or "PC audios hell"?
After you log out of Hotmail, you are sent directly to the MSN site.
No you aren't. You're sent to the Hotmail Sign-In page.
Here in Australia, it (used to?) redirect you to ninemsn.com.au -- a joint project between the most watched television station nationwide and MS. (I wouldn't know if it still does, it's been a while since I've visited Hotmail.)
So this could well vary in different regions around the globe.
Is BG old enough to be LT's grandfather?
:)
I don't think so... but this just means that Microsoft Research has been secretly working on a time machine! That must have been the first trial, otherwise they probably would have produced something truly innovative by now... even if they had to steal it from the citizens of 2120.
Regardless of ideology, I'd say Emacs, GCC and the GPL have had more impact than Fetchmail and The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
The man for entertainment is Balmer.
I guess it depends what you find entertaining -- Larry is "kooky", while Steve B. is just plain *weird*. I'd want some serious hallucinogens before sitting in a crowd watching him doing the Monkeydance...
Shouldn't they call that getting goatse'd?
Yuck...
Heee! Of course more than a few times I've spoken on the net to people who think Australia is some sort of southern US state or something. :)
:)
:/
I'm actually an Aussie as well
BTW, I thought we were some sort of satellite state of the US by now... everything seems to be going that way: health care, industrial policies, franchised fast food stores, etc.
brought over by Afghan camel drivers (on boats of course!)
:)
It's a shame you clarified that -- I had this wonderful vision of camels swimming the Indian Ocean, with men in turbans on their backs.
There's More Than One Way To Do It, indeed.
gimick: No entry found for gimick in the dictionary.
...
gimmick: a device employed to cheat, deceive...
Always adds to your credibility when you know how to spell
Yes, I've always thought so.
(plus I knew the folks there, and they were well-connected to the cypherpunks community.)
Not to argue with the other points in your (well-written) post... but surely a certain percentage of the 'cypherpunk' community is going to be undercover stooges for the FBI/CIA/NSA? Sort of like COINTELPRO in the Nixon years -- strong encryption is perceived as a strong enough threat to warrant this sort of spying on your citizens, according to that mindset.
I'm not saying this is fact, but merely that it's probably a factor that should be considered... the easiest way to break this sort of encryption is to already have someone on the inside, or to get someone to talk.
Back in the anon.penet.fi days, I was looking around for a topic for a paper in law school, and briefly considered something related to porn on usenet, so I spent a couple weeks gathering all the porn that came through my newsreader.
:)
Ah, so that's why you did it.
Sure, I might believe you... thousands wouldn't.
I bet in certain cases Google's cache could be a big security hole too. One that springs to mind is how after 9.11 nuclear power plants removed a bunch of info off of their sites. I just checked, and these pages (now 404's) are still in Google's cache.
Once the information has been made available to the public, shouldn't it already be treated as "compromised"? Taking it off the site isn't going to instantly wipe the knowledge from the minds of any people who read it... anyone who saved the pages could republish it later, not just Google.
Is really Powerpoint XP that bloated? I don't think so.
:)
I haven't seen the current version... but for every program that comes from Microsoft, I can only shake my head at the version requirements. I used to use an office suite that fit into 38K of RAM! (not all at once, mind you, but it all fit on a 180K floppy
Sure, today's programs do more, but I'd be happy with a *cheap* laptop that approximated the performance of that C64, or maybe an early 286. Monochrome screen, etc. -- priced to compete with today's models, maybe < $50?
I know, I'm dreaming...
Yeah, because sasha is an underground artist, like Moby.
I've certainly seen a lot of marketing over the last decade for these two "underground" artists.
It's just a label. Most people making electronic music are just as greedy, money-hungry and prepared to sell out as people in the musical "mainstream". Deal with it.