As a side job simply to learn PHP, I built a E-Commerce site using osCommerce, and was shocked to find that they stored the customer CC in plain text in a table. After dealing the the 30 other issues osC has, I grabbed a OS PHP encrypt class from somewhere and added 512-bit encryption to the CC number and stored it like that.
I wonder why they don't just mandate something along these lines, for now, at least.
I think this (along with, unfortunately, corporate sponsorship) is the future of original music sales. Several years ago, after downloading the fantastic "Source Tags and Codes" album from the Band "And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead", I tried to email the lads and offer them $5 directly for the music.
I got a nice email from someone saying "thanks, but due to contract restrictions with the record label, they could not accept direct donations...please support us by purchasing our album from traditional sources" or something along those lines.
There is something 10x more satisfying by trying to give my hard earned money directly to the artist, and not to the scum-sucking music executives who have, for years, been stealing millions from naive, unsuspecting bands.
well ok relatively the death rate is close, but actually dying is pretty darn absolute, so your attempt to statistically link the two fails.
All that matters when it comes to death is absolute numbers...perhaps 2 out 3 people who enjoy jumping out of 3 story buildings die. With your analysis, this would make this the most dangerous thing in the world, with a 66% death rate.
It sure is dangerous, and dumb, but just because it rates the highest in percentage does NOT make it the most dangerous thing to do.
I hate articles like this...doesn't anyone actually use, you know, MATH to quantify terms like "safe" and "unsafe", without just throwing around FUD like this? BY FAR, the most dangerous thing we all do everyday is drive our cars around, which account for 44.3% of all accidental deaths in this country. This is followed by "Unspecified non-transport accidents" at 17.6%, and Falls at 13.6%.
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amen to this comment...in fact, its almost a new trend these days. I have lately been telling colleagues to just reformat their hard drives (minus a few key files, of course) and start fresh with xp/ubuntu/fedora/etc. They look at me like I am crazy but EVERY SINGLE ONE of them that took my advice has come back and thanked me for the advice...they feel a huge sense of relief that there computers are no longer loaded with worthless junk that SEEMED important.
Why are consumers being denied the information they need to make a considered choice?
Because we are viewed as irreverent by the large multinational corporations that stuff gadgets down our throats. In reality, they want us to buy both formats, and, of course, the content (at least) twice, also.
I can't help but remember that line from Charlie Brown when I read this sort of thing. In general, scientist have a pretty poor record of making accurate predictions about things, in the long run. How many thousands of "scientists" for untold centuries were more than happy to tell their rulers that, yes of course the earth is the center of the universe and everything revolves around it? And more recently, what happened to all those hurricanes that were supposed to hit? Lorenz back in 50's proved that the non-linearity of weather patterns made it mathematically impossible to make any realistic predictions of future event, yet new trends in atmospheric science seem to have no problem predicting weather 50 to 100 years from now.
It seems a relatively new phenomenon these days, where scientist think they have some sort of carte blanche to purpose something, and expect the world to spin around on a dime and provide huge federal grants to modify everyone's behavior. If you ask me it is more than a little disingenious.
Sometimes a think that *some* scientist are trying to replace the priesthood of yesteryear as our all-knowing overlords. They use many of the same techniques, based on fear, to convince the happily ignorant populace that REPENT AND CHANGE YOUR WAYS OR CERTAIN DOOM IS AT HAND!
The Church for 1500 years used the fear of an everlasting tortuous afterlife to keep people under control, and I personally see many similarities with the current wave of supposed "scares" that science churns out these days.
Why in the world would I use *my* upload bandwidth to help the bloated Hollywood junkies make $$$, AND PAY THEM FOR IT ON TOP OF IT?? Do they really think that...
1. I am going to download and seed files that I have to pay to view. (ok...maybe)
2. On top of that, I will then use my expensive connection to allow others to download from me so Hollywood can get a no cost distribution network. (uhhh..no way)
Perhaps if they allowed me free access to the movie if my share rate went over 200% or something, then I would consider it. But they have to be smoking some seriously dumb stuff if they think I am going to pay them for the right to waste my bandwidth.
This is a excellent point and a very insightful comment. People can only affect change to the extent that *they* are willing to support those companies that compete against the status quo.
Is it just me, or does the whole DNA/Genome decoding process sound like rather complex dis-assembly project? Every living thing on this planet is nothing but a quad-nary based executable with VERY VERY good error-correction duplication.
Closed? Not at all. It is possibly the most open system we know.
Well, you are correct has far as the physics go, but not biologically. How many other life forms have come from space?? (not counting those stashed at Roswell of course)
I dunno about you, but I think many people do consider it a "big deal" that our civilisation, and indeed our species, could be made obsolete by these actions, and that's the motivation for the concern over global warming.
Pure FUD. Only 10,000 years ago (a mere blink of the geological eye), our "unsophisticated" ancestors survived an ice age where glaciers 100 meters thick covered most of the upper half of North America. Not only did our "species" survive this MAJOR event, but our "civilisation" thrived in the aftermath of the un-glaciation.
As the earth warmed, fresh water lakes appeared as the glaciers melted. Our Great Lakes are a direct result of this melting (global warming, in other words). These lakes spawned fish and other edible goodies, allows us humans access to food. We used these pathways (lakes and rivers) to fuel our "species" growth.
Now, everyone wants us to freak-friggin-out about a little more warming...whatever the sky is always falling.
..but WTF here is mine. I would argue that since the earth is a closed-system, and us humans are a product of this system, that anything that we may do can never be construed as "unnatural". It's not like we were beamed to this planet from some other one, and then proceeded to destroy the ecological balance of this "Eden".
We evolved from other animals, any of which would, in our shoes, behave the same way we do. So we like electricity, automobiles, and such...how can this be defined as unnatural, and therefore be construed as BAD?
Whatever we may or may not do will effect the earth this way or that, we, as all other plants and animals, will, like always, evolve to survive in the new conditions that are forever being created by this mudball Earth. IMO, we cannot separate our actions from the rest of nature.
We are just doing what we were gifted to do to survive. If the planet warms, big deal. All that means is some variant of us more adapted to a hotter planet will thrive and displace us, until, of course, the earth cools again as it wavers up and down in the galactic plane.
Well I am not sure if it counts, but I wrote a Bowling League Manager in FORTRAN at age 16 for my college programming Prof...he offered anyone in his class a deal. They could either go to class and do the work or write a bowling league program that handled handicapping and other league minutia.
Since I didn't like waking up before noon, I took him up on it...a couple of weeks later I had a very functional bowling league program. I showed it to the prof., of course he got "featuritus" and asked for some more stuff, i did it and got a A for the course, without ever showing up for one class.
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As a side job simply to learn PHP, I built a E-Commerce site using osCommerce, and was shocked to find that they stored the customer CC in plain text in a table. After dealing the the 30 other issues osC has, I grabbed a OS PHP encrypt class from somewhere and added 512-bit encryption to the CC number and stored it like that.
I wonder why they don't just mandate something along these lines, for now, at least.
In Soviet Russia, our brain blood flow reads computer memory...
Jimbob's Corollary to Moore's Law...
Every 18 months I will become ever more numbed by the announcement of denser and denser chips.
I think this (along with, unfortunately, corporate sponsorship) is the future of original music sales. Several years ago, after downloading the fantastic "Source Tags and Codes" album from the Band "And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead", I tried to email the lads and offer them $5 directly for the music.
I got a nice email from someone saying "thanks, but due to contract restrictions with the record label, they could not accept direct donations...please support us by purchasing our album from traditional sources" or something along those lines.
There is something 10x more satisfying by trying to give my hard earned money directly to the artist, and not to the scum-sucking music executives who have, for years, been stealing millions from naive, unsuspecting bands.
well ok relatively the death rate is close, but actually dying is pretty darn absolute, so your attempt to statistically link the two fails.
All that matters when it comes to death is absolute numbers...perhaps 2 out 3 people who enjoy jumping out of 3 story buildings die. With your analysis, this would make this the most dangerous thing in the world, with a 66% death rate.
It sure is dangerous, and dumb, but just because it rates the highest in percentage does NOT make it the most dangerous thing to do.
I hate articles like this...doesn't anyone actually use, you know, MATH to quantify terms like "safe" and "unsafe", without just throwing around FUD like this? BY FAR, the most dangerous thing we all do everyday is drive our cars around, which account for 44.3% of all accidental deaths in this country. This is followed by "Unspecified non-transport accidents" at 17.6%, and Falls at 13.6%.
Death stats found here http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html.
Aircraft deaths do not even make the list. How can something that accounts for less then 0.1% of all accidental deaths be called "unsafe"?
...this is defiantly not an "insanely great" idea.
well, it's obvious to me that he figured out where Jim Gray was, and liked the view...
all your axis are belong to us.
there is always twitter to replace email, right?
amen to this comment...in fact, its almost a new trend these days. I have lately been telling colleagues to just reformat their hard drives (minus a few key files, of course) and start fresh with xp/ubuntu/fedora/etc. They look at me like I am crazy but EVERY SINGLE ONE of them that took my advice has come back and thanked me for the advice...they feel a huge sense of relief that there computers are no longer loaded with worthless junk that SEEMED important.
...does it have x-ray vision? The glasses I bought 30 years ago are looking pretty rough these days...
Why are consumers being denied the information they need to make a considered choice?
Because we are viewed as irreverent by the large multinational corporations that stuff gadgets down our throats. In reality, they want us to buy both formats, and, of course, the content (at least) twice, also.
I can't help but remember that line from Charlie Brown when I read this sort of thing. In general, scientist have a pretty poor record of making accurate predictions about things, in the long run. How many thousands of "scientists" for untold centuries were more than happy to tell their rulers that, yes of course the earth is the center of the universe and everything revolves around it? And more recently, what happened to all those hurricanes that were supposed to hit? Lorenz back in 50's proved that the non-linearity of weather patterns made it mathematically impossible to make any realistic predictions of future event, yet new trends in atmospheric science seem to have no problem predicting weather 50 to 100 years from now.
It seems a relatively new phenomenon these days, where scientist think they have some sort of carte blanche to purpose something, and expect the world to spin around on a dime and provide huge federal grants to modify everyone's behavior. If you ask me it is more than a little disingenious.
Sometimes a think that *some* scientist are trying to replace the priesthood of yesteryear as our all-knowing overlords. They use many of the same techniques, based on fear, to convince the happily ignorant populace that REPENT AND CHANGE YOUR WAYS OR CERTAIN DOOM IS AT HAND!
The Church for 1500 years used the fear of an everlasting tortuous afterlife to keep people under control, and I personally see many similarities with the current wave of supposed "scares" that science churns out these days.
Why in the world would I use *my* upload bandwidth to help the bloated Hollywood junkies make $$$, AND PAY THEM FOR IT ON TOP OF IT?? Do they really think that...
1. I am going to download and seed files that I have to pay to view. (ok...maybe)
2. On top of that, I will then use my expensive connection to allow others to download from me so Hollywood can get a no cost distribution network. (uhhh..no way)
Perhaps if they allowed me free access to the movie if my share rate went over 200% or something, then I would consider it. But they have to be smoking some seriously dumb stuff if they think I am going to pay them for the right to waste my bandwidth.
..."meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
This is a excellent point and a very insightful comment. People can only affect change to the extent that *they* are willing to support those companies that compete against the status quo.
Is it just me, or does the whole DNA/Genome decoding process sound like rather complex dis-assembly project? Every living thing on this planet is nothing but a quad-nary based executable with VERY VERY good error-correction duplication.
I, for one, welcome our yogurt-eating AI 7 dollar PC overlords.
Closed? Not at all. It is possibly the most open system we know.
Well, you are correct has far as the physics go, but not biologically. How many other life forms have come from space?? (not counting those stashed at Roswell of course)
I dunno about you, but I think many people do consider it a "big deal" that our civilisation, and indeed our species, could be made obsolete by these actions, and that's the motivation for the concern over global warming.
Pure FUD. Only 10,000 years ago (a mere blink of the geological eye), our "unsophisticated" ancestors survived an ice age where glaciers 100 meters thick covered most of the upper half of North America. Not only did our "species" survive this MAJOR event, but our "civilisation" thrived in the aftermath of the un-glaciation.
As the earth warmed, fresh water lakes appeared as the glaciers melted. Our Great Lakes are a direct result of this melting (global warming, in other words). These lakes spawned fish and other edible goodies, allows us humans access to food. We used these pathways (lakes and rivers) to fuel our "species" growth.
Now, everyone wants us to freak-friggin-out about a little more warming...whatever the sky is always falling.
..but WTF here is mine. I would argue that since the earth is a closed-system, and us humans are a product of this system, that anything that we may do can never be construed as "unnatural". It's not like we were beamed to this planet from some other one, and then proceeded to destroy the ecological balance of this "Eden".
We evolved from other animals, any of which would, in our shoes, behave the same way we do. So we like electricity, automobiles, and such...how can this be defined as unnatural, and therefore be construed as BAD?
Whatever we may or may not do will effect the earth this way or that, we, as all other plants and animals, will, like always, evolve to survive in the new conditions that are forever being created by this mudball Earth. IMO, we cannot separate our actions from the rest of nature.
We are just doing what we were gifted to do to survive. If the planet warms, big deal. All that means is some variant of us more adapted to a hotter planet will thrive and displace us, until, of course, the earth cools again as it wavers up and down in the galactic plane.
Well I am not sure if it counts, but I wrote a Bowling League Manager in FORTRAN at age 16 for my college programming Prof...he offered anyone in his class a deal. They could either go to class and do the work or write a bowling league program that handled handicapping and other league minutia.
Since I didn't like waking up before noon, I took him up on it...a couple of weeks later I had a very functional bowling league program. I showed it to the prof., of course he got "featuritus" and asked for some more stuff, i did it and got a A for the course, without ever showing up for one class.
now hold on...you forgot the most important web 2.0 "feature"...
6. Gradiant header background.
...my torrent download filled my hard drive QUICK, but 45 minutes later it had plenty of room