The hash function could be replaced with a function that retrieves information from your computer at random "could be"? So what? There's lots of thing one *could* do to hack your computer. Replace the words "hash function" with oh, say, "notepad.exe". ZOMG! Microsoft be invadin' mah privacies!
"I'm guessing there's no girlfriend, either, but the only evidence I have supporting this is that, well, this guy memorized 100,000 digits of Pi. C'mon..."
I dunno, I think most women would pretty pleased with a man showing such oral mastery of pi(e).
"Shaun Gabb, director of the anti-censorship organization the Libertarian Alliance, said: 'If you are criminalizing possession then you are giving police inquisitorial powers to come into your house and see what you've got, now we didn't have this in the past.'"
That's preposterous. Possession of a handgun is also criminal in the UK. The fact that it's criminal does not give the police 'inquisitorial powers to come into your house...' Every country in the world [including America, the land of the free] has laws criminalzing possession of certain things. That doesn't mean the cops can barge into your house without just cause or a reasonable suspicion that you actually have the illegal item in question. Shaun, irrational and reactionary arguements weaken your position.
In my humble opinion, we have an unjustified polemic in the world of mathematics, yet again. My background is tertiary level mathematics and concomitant research
#1 - Humble my ass
#2 - Such excessive sesquipedalianism is an immediate flag that the writer is writing not to inform or help. He's just masturbating his brain in public.
Instead of calling the government to snitch on border jumpers I could see a lot of people calling cousin Seth who lives near that camera to go take care of the mexicans texan style.
Everyone knows any media format crafted by Sony is doomed to fail. Maybe it's a curse, maybe God's pissed at them, who knows. But the fact remains, Sony formats fail. Always.
$255 - $500 US? Man, you Yanks are getting burned! There are places up here in the Great White North that will mod your box for $50 plus the cost of the hard drive (Canadian dollars).
Not that I would do anything like that myself. Golly, that wouldn't be nice at all.
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Ah, I misunderstood. Forget I said anything.
No, it does not reference other books. It only tells you how to work with an existing table.
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No, it does not take an indepth look at MySQL database design. It only explains how to interact with an existing MySQL instance.
I have to say, I disagree with the importance you place on this in a PHP book. If a person needs to know more about MySQL then they should get a book on MySQL. This book also has examples of connecting to an FTP server - should it also go into the proper way to setup an FTP server? And creating clean HTML code? Optimizing Apache? Sendmail? If it did that it would no longer be a 600+ page book on PHP but rather a 10,000+ page library on the entire world of computing.
Facts:
1) Radio signals are part of the elctromagnetic spectrum and travel at the speed of light.
2) The nearest star (Proxima Centari) is 4.2 light years away.
3) The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across and we're near one edge (SETI is only really looking within the Milky Way, right?)
So we're looking at signals ranging from 4.2 years old to 100,000 years old. But wait, they'd need to learn about our computer systems before they could write any malicious code: light/radio signals from earth need to reach them first. So, their viruses will have been written for system from 8.4 to 200,000 years old. Anyone out there running an 8 year old system is probably too frustrated with how slow it is already without running SETI@home on it. At the other end of this time-frame though... Has everyone updated their virus definitions on their abaci?
When the adolescent, videogame-playing male demographic ceases to exist.
Rather: When the industry realizes that the adolescent, videogame-playing male demographic the industry was founded upon 20 years ago has grown up and is still playing videogames. The customer base for videogames is much broader than it used to be. I'm surprised the industry still hasn't figured this out.
Far too many open source apps are designed by geeks for geeks. Maybe every one here on./ can make sense of them but I flatter myself/ourselves that we are somewhat special. Every one in the open source community dreams of the day when open source over throws the evil empire of Lord Gates, but that won't happen until open source apps are as easy to use as the competition.
My mom and dad have a computer (but 10 years ago they wouldn't touch mine) and there's no way in hell they'd figure out how to configure Linux to print, or network or even change the display resolution. The number of people with personal computers today is astronomically higher than it was 10 years ago and one of the core reasons for that is that they are no longer intimidating to the uninitiated; if you take all those people and throw them back to the usability of ten years ago they'll just give up on computers like they did back then.
You can shout RTFM all you want, Joe Blow doesn't want to read it. So if you want Joe Blow to use your wares make them as easy to use as the competition.
I'm just guessing here, but Apple probably went with an assumption on the type of hardware that would be used with OS X Server vs. OS X Client.
On OS X Client you'll have a family with a handful of computers and one or two printers (low end printers.) They'll just plug the printer into one machine and share it. And for their needs this is just fine.
OS X Server on the other hand was not intended for Ward Clevers' home network. It's made for office environments with a lot of machines connecting. Who here has worked in an office where the boss decided to save money on the printer? I know I have: $100 Cannon bubblejet intended for home use but the boss-man wants it shared with all 80 people in the office. It was a frickin' catastrophy! The tech team spent 2 - 4 hours a day every day dealing with the printer for a few weeks until the boss finally saw the error of his ways a got a printer designed for the task at hand.
I figure this decision from Apple was, a) saving themselves a little work in supporting shared USB printers and, b) protecting people from their own stupidity. But I do agree; they should have left it in and let people make their own decisions. If you want to share a 3ppm bubblejet desktop printer intended for small use on a 100+ user office network - go ahead, have fun keeping it online. Or if you want to spend $1,000 for a server for your family's $100 printer - more power to ya.
1365x768 on a 61" display?!? I wouldn't pay for a 19" display that couldn't do better than that. At 61" the pixel pitch must be, what? 11.5mm?
I hope it only does 16 colours. I mean, why go half-way on bad displays? At least with a low colour depth it would have some nostalgia value. Remember your Vic-20? Nice big, chunky-style pixels in primary colours. Mmm-hmm.
While Bowling for Columbine accurately pointed out the number of guns in Canada and it's gun crime rate it was still somewhat misleading.
Guns are legal in Canada, yes. But they are far more controlled. You need a special permit to carry one and that permit is very hard to get; you must prove your life is in immediate danger and that a gun would actually help to protect you. Otherwise the laws surrounding owning and using a gun make it very difficult to do anything with it. People that own them rarely take them out for anything other than hunting or the firing range because if they get caught just having it on them in an urban area without a permit they'll loose every gun they own and any chance of ever getting one again.
I live in Canada's largest city [Toronto] and while guns exist here (both legal and illegal) and we do have shootings in the news every now and then I think I can unequivocably state that very few people in this city actually own a gun. If you want to find all those guns in Canada you'll have to leave the cities and get out into the sticks. And almost every gun you'll find will be an actual hunting gun. Not a semi-automatic sidearm, not a military assault rifle, but a hunting rifle. Ones used for shooting at deers and bears.
I gather from the media that a good many of the guns in America are not hunting guns, but combat weapons. Nobody hunts with with a glok 9mm or an Ussi (sp?). Many of the American's that support guns say it's for personal defence; I'm not arguing the validity of that here but it ultimately means one thing, those guns are not meant for deers and bears they're meant for people. In Canada that's pretty rare.
I'd like to see a better break down of those statistics in Bowling for Columbine. Per capita hunting guns vs per capita combat weapons in Canada and America. I think it would paint a very different picture.
With a fast CPU, wizzy graphics card, ethernet, DVD and TV out, it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS.
I've read many allusions to this all over the web and I have one question: What the h3ll are you talking about?
It's a GAME CONSOLE! Here's what you do with it: 1) plug it in, 2) turn it on, 3) insert a game disk and 4) start playing.
Exactly what is it that you want to do with this thing that requires a 'real OS'? If your answer goes beyond steps 1 through 4 above then I think you're a bit confused; you don't want a game console, you want something else entirely. It's called a computer.
I know this is off topic, but it's about win2k so I'm posting it anyway.
There's a billboard I pass every day on my way to work. Presently it reads...
Microsoft Windows 2000 All the security of Windows NT And all the reliability of your mother
Obviously, no one from Microsoft has ever had a phone call from my mother when she was trying to install something new on her computer. But from what I've heard about win2k, the statement seems fair.
The radio investigators say they are now close to raiding and seizing the equipment of an RDS pirate operation. This will allow them to find out precisely how the pirates operate their listener-stealing trick. They then hope to help broadcasters around the world develop countermeasures.
Why just help the broadcasters? How about coming up with countermeasures to help the listeners? Forgive me for sounding like an over-zealous culture-jammer; but does anyone else feel that maybe they should be concerned about the listeners that are having something they didn't ask for forced upon them? Rather than the corporations that are having business stolen from them?
There seems to be a bias here. More of a concern for businesses then human beings. If a rep from Pepsi stole my Coke and forced me to drink a Pepsi (no offence intended to Pepsi) I'd like to think the police would arrest him and press charges on my behalf rather than Coke's. They sound more concerned that a company is losing business than they are about people's rights being violated.
This is really not a very good rating, just average.
C2 equates to 'CONTROLLED ACCESS PROTECTION'. All your software really needs to do to get this classification is require a user login, auditing of security events (read logging), and restricted resources. It doesn't require the system to actually STOP unauthorized activity.
Notice NT's not very high in the list, of course few things are.
At http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/epl/epl-by-class.h tml you can read some brief info on these classifications. If you want info coming out the whazoo on this kind of thing browse around http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/
What difference does the name make anyway? Even if journalists and the public at large clued in to the definitions of 'hacker' and 'cracker', they'd act the same way. They'll still fear what they don't understand and every time a government machine gets cracked, the feds will panic, the media will panic, and every 'hacker' will be labeled 'cracker' and we'll all be right back were we started. The only difference will be instead of saying 'no, no, hackers don't do that', you'll be saying 'no, no, I'm not a cracker, I'm a hacker'. You'll still be getting the same side-long looks and the same hassles.
sed s/hacker/cracker/g cnn.old > cnn.new
The article will be just a misinformed as it was before. The President will make the same speeches, the media will spread the same FUD and every hacker will have the same hassles as he/she had before.
The message the media and the public at large have to learn is not an english lesson, it's a simple idea...
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"I'm guessing there's no girlfriend, either, but the only evidence I have supporting this is that, well, this guy memorized 100,000 digits of Pi. C'mon..."
I dunno, I think most women would pretty pleased with a man showing such oral mastery of pi(e).
That's preposterous. Possession of a handgun is also criminal in the UK. The fact that it's criminal does not give the police 'inquisitorial powers to come into your house...' Every country in the world [including America, the land of the free] has laws criminalzing possession of certain things. That doesn't mean the cops can barge into your house without just cause or a reasonable suspicion that you actually have the illegal item in question. Shaun, irrational and reactionary arguements weaken your position.
In my humble opinion, we have an unjustified polemic in the world of mathematics, yet again. My background is tertiary level mathematics and concomitant research
#1 - Humble my ass
#2 - Such excessive sesquipedalianism is an immediate flag that the writer is writing not to inform or help. He's just masturbating his brain in public.
#3 - Humble my ass
Instead of calling the government to snitch on border jumpers I could see a lot of people calling cousin Seth who lives near that camera to go take care of the mexicans texan style.
Everyone knows any media format crafted by Sony is doomed to fail. Maybe it's a curse, maybe God's pissed at them, who knows. But the fact remains, Sony formats fail. Always.
Not that I would do anything like that myself. Golly, that wouldn't be nice at all.
No, it does not reference other books. It only tells you how to work with an existing table.
I have to say, I disagree with the importance you place on this in a PHP book. If a person needs to know more about MySQL then they should get a book on MySQL. This book also has examples of connecting to an FTP server - should it also go into the proper way to setup an FTP server? And creating clean HTML code? Optimizing Apache? Sendmail? If it did that it would no longer be a 600+ page book on PHP but rather a 10,000+ page library on the entire world of computing.
Facts:
1) Radio signals are part of the elctromagnetic spectrum and travel at the speed of light.
2) The nearest star (Proxima Centari) is 4.2 light years away.
3) The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across and we're near one edge (SETI is only really looking within the Milky Way, right?)
So we're looking at signals ranging from 4.2 years old to 100,000 years old. But wait, they'd need to learn about our computer systems before they could write any malicious code: light/radio signals from earth need to reach them first. So, their viruses will have been written for system from 8.4 to 200,000 years old. Anyone out there running an 8 year old system is probably too frustrated with how slow it is already without running SETI@home on it. At the other end of this time-frame though... Has everyone updated their virus definitions on their abaci?
Rather: When the industry realizes that the adolescent, videogame-playing male demographic the industry was founded upon 20 years ago has grown up and is still playing videogames. The customer base for videogames is much broader than it used to be. I'm surprised the industry still hasn't figured this out.
My mom and dad have a computer (but 10 years ago they wouldn't touch mine) and there's no way in hell they'd figure out how to configure Linux to print, or network or even change the display resolution. The number of people with personal computers today is astronomically higher than it was 10 years ago and one of the core reasons for that is that they are no longer intimidating to the uninitiated; if you take all those people and throw them back to the usability of ten years ago they'll just give up on computers like they did back then.
You can shout RTFM all you want, Joe Blow doesn't want to read it. So if you want Joe Blow to use your wares make them as easy to use as the competition.
And my all-time favourite BS buzzword:
Synergistic
I'm just guessing here, but Apple probably went with an assumption on the type of hardware that would be used with OS X Server vs. OS X Client.
On OS X Client you'll have a family with a handful of computers and one or two printers (low end printers.) They'll just plug the printer into one machine and share it. And for their needs this is just fine.
OS X Server on the other hand was not intended for Ward Clevers' home network. It's made for office environments with a lot of machines connecting. Who here has worked in an office where the boss decided to save money on the printer? I know I have: $100 Cannon bubblejet intended for home use but the boss-man wants it shared with all 80 people in the office. It was a frickin' catastrophy! The tech team spent 2 - 4 hours a day every day dealing with the printer for a few weeks until the boss finally saw the error of his ways a got a printer designed for the task at hand.
I figure this decision from Apple was, a) saving themselves a little work in supporting shared USB printers and, b) protecting people from their own stupidity. But I do agree; they should have left it in and let people make their own decisions. If you want to share a 3ppm bubblejet desktop printer intended for small use on a 100+ user office network - go ahead, have fun keeping it online. Or if you want to spend $1,000 for a server for your family's $100 printer - more power to ya.
1365x768 on a 61" display?!? I wouldn't pay for a 19" display that couldn't do better than that. At 61" the pixel pitch must be, what? 11.5mm?
I hope it only does 16 colours. I mean, why go half-way on bad displays? At least with a low colour depth it would have some nostalgia value. Remember your Vic-20? Nice big, chunky-style pixels in primary colours. Mmm-hmm.
While Bowling for Columbine accurately pointed out the number of guns in Canada and it's gun crime rate it was still somewhat misleading.
Guns are legal in Canada, yes. But they are far more controlled. You need a special permit to carry one and that permit is very hard to get; you must prove your life is in immediate danger and that a gun would actually help to protect you. Otherwise the laws surrounding owning and using a gun make it very difficult to do anything with it. People that own them rarely take them out for anything other than hunting or the firing range because if they get caught just having it on them in an urban area without a permit they'll loose every gun they own and any chance of ever getting one again.
I live in Canada's largest city [Toronto] and while guns exist here (both legal and illegal) and we do have shootings in the news every now and then I think I can unequivocably state that very few people in this city actually own a gun. If you want to find all those guns in Canada you'll have to leave the cities and get out into the sticks. And almost every gun you'll find will be an actual hunting gun. Not a semi-automatic sidearm, not a military assault rifle, but a hunting rifle. Ones used for shooting at deers and bears.
I gather from the media that a good many of the guns in America are not hunting guns, but combat weapons. Nobody hunts with with a glok 9mm or an Ussi (sp?). Many of the American's that support guns say it's for personal defence; I'm not arguing the validity of that here but it ultimately means one thing, those guns are not meant for deers and bears they're meant for people. In Canada that's pretty rare.
I'd like to see a better break down of those statistics in Bowling for Columbine. Per capita hunting guns vs per capita combat weapons in Canada and America. I think it would paint a very different picture.
I've read many allusions to this all over the web and I have one question: What the h3ll are you talking about?
It's a GAME CONSOLE! Here's what you do with it: 1) plug it in, 2) turn it on, 3) insert a game disk and 4) start playing.
Exactly what is it that you want to do with this thing that requires a 'real OS'? If your answer goes beyond steps 1 through 4 above then I think you're a bit confused; you don't want a game console, you want something else entirely. It's called a computer.
I know this is off topic, but it's about win2k so I'm posting it anyway.
There's a billboard I pass every day on my way to work. Presently it reads...
Microsoft Windows 2000
All the security of Windows NT
And all the reliability of your mother
Obviously, no one from Microsoft has ever had a phone call from my mother when she was trying to install something new on her computer. But from what I've heard about win2k, the statement seems fair.
Why just help the broadcasters? How about coming up with countermeasures to help the listeners? Forgive me for sounding like an over-zealous culture-jammer; but does anyone else feel that maybe they should be concerned about the listeners that are having something they didn't ask for forced upon them? Rather than the corporations that are having business stolen from them?
There seems to be a bias here. More of a concern for businesses then human beings. If a rep from Pepsi stole my Coke and forced me to drink a Pepsi (no offence intended to Pepsi) I'd like to think the police would arrest him and press charges on my behalf rather than Coke's. They sound more concerned that a company is losing business than they are about people's rights being violated.
This is really not a very good rating, just average.
h tml you can read some brief info on these classifications. If you want info coming out the whazoo on this kind of thing browse around http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/
C2 equates to 'CONTROLLED ACCESS PROTECTION'. All your software really needs to do to get this classification is require a user login, auditing of security events (read logging), and restricted resources. It doesn't require the system to actually STOP unauthorized activity.
The rating system is as follows:
A1 'VERIFIED DESIGN'
B3 'SECURITY DOMAINS'
B2 'STRUCTURED PROTECTION'
B1 'LABELED SECURITY PROTECTION'
C2 'CONTROLLED ACCESS PROTECTION'
C1 'DISCRETIONARY ACCESS PROTECTION'
'MINIMAL PROTECTION'
Notice NT's not very high in the list, of course few things are.
At http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/epl/epl-by-class.
What difference does the name make anyway? Even if journalists and the public at large clued in to the definitions of 'hacker' and 'cracker', they'd act the same way. They'll still fear what they don't understand and every time a government machine gets cracked, the feds will panic, the media will panic, and every 'hacker' will be labeled 'cracker' and we'll all be right back were we started. The only difference will be instead of saying 'no, no, hackers don't do that', you'll be saying 'no, no, I'm not a cracker, I'm a hacker'. You'll still be getting the same side-long looks and the same hassles.
sed s/hacker/cracker/g cnn.old > cnn.new
The article will be just a misinformed as it was before. The President will make the same speeches, the media will spread the same FUD and every hacker will have the same hassles as he/she had before.
The message the media and the public at large have to learn is not an english lesson, it's a simple idea...
Technology is not a bad thing.