Seriously - this app encodes your data as URLs. Imagine splitting a DVD image into URL sized chunks and then submitting them one by one. Does that sound like a workable storage system to you?
As a fully-distributed system for illegally distributed or illegal materials?
Absolutely.
The reason an abuse shell script wouldn't be as bad is because of motive. This is a way to abuse the system which is useful.
The catpcha system is an interesting problem but not insurmountable. The third-world anti-captcha sweatshop seems like a pretty tricky thing to circumvent.
...advertising also has the advantage of placement v.s. cost. They can charge more to advertise if the medium is more expensive to advertise in.
But HTML isn't based on paper... it just tends to be rendered that way for the bennefit of sighted humans. Web designers then respond by tweaking and hacking it with the assumption that it is going to be rendered using a page metaphor on a web browser.
When non-sighted humans view HTML, it's not using a page metaphor. When software programs index or analyze documents based on HTML, they do it based on the logical structure.
I think this guy is thinking in an artsy kind of way... text is linear, thought is not. Text becomes a straightjacket for communicating non-linear ideas. Non-linear ideas like the stuff he's trying to communicate... which comes out like nonsense when written down in a short, linear fashion.
He probably makes more sense when communicating in a pub with a beer, lots of arm waving, feedback from peers and his audience and the bennefit of body language.
I personally think aside from providing artistic direction, non-linear ideas have no value in science and technology. That is, you might design a chat room so that people around the world can communicate... there would be no linear goal... But despite having no clear end result, we all know what the technical direction would be.
In the same way, you might decide that ideas need to be able to be linked together in a distributed shared way... just like the outcome of a chat room, there would be no clear goal... but like a chat room, smashing IRC beyou shouldn't be poking around with HTML to do so unless you can quantify the limitations of HTML which prevent you from accomplishing your goals.
I drove a Civic hatchback for a few years until I was rear-ended by an SUV.
I could carry 8' lengths of lumber in that car by folding the passenger seat back and still close the hatch, then load in a floor sander and strap two bicyles on the back... and if I needed more storage... I'd rent.
No doubt there are people who need the SUVs. I'm just saying that the Civic is wonderfully designed and immensely practical. I was shocked once to realize that a friend's SUV couldn't seat more than 4 people... My Civic could seat 5.
It may be cyclic too... poor public transit --> more vehicles --> less walking to trains and busses --> less exercise --> more stress --> traffic congestion --> expanding cities --> worse public transit.
I noticed this cycle when I started driving... I read less, exercise less and have a higher base level of stress. I didn't realize that a base level of stress existed until I started driving and noticed how it affected my personality. I don't think anyone who started driving before they started working full time would notice this.
Increase fuel prices, housing prices and improve public transit and everyone might get thinner, more well read and more relaxed. There won't be riots because.... there isn't enough parking!
People spend a long time on the roads commuting. SUV's are high off the ground and comfortable. This is important, many people spend more time in their SUV's than they do with their families. SUV's are also particularly comfortable if you're overweight.
The engines are good for acceleration, low and high end. It makes up in part for the automatic transmission. You need the automatic transmission so that you can eat your breakfast or speak on the cell phone while in traffic. It's also less frustrating in a traffic jam. You need the acceleration to be able to cut people off on the roads, and the height lets you see over sedans.
Finally, relatively speaking, gas is cheap in the U.S.
From what I can tell, he's trying to make a point that the police officers being killed in the games are real people... that putting officers in that kind of a game in that kind of a way should be viewed by the game designers in the same way as putting images of themselves and their families in the game.
Yeah, I think he's stretching it. Maybe officers should volunteer to have their faces added to the graphics in the game.
Friendly domestic scene of an officer with a family, "hey dad, watch what I can do when I rip off your head!"
If they have a userid and password, the logic to block a subnet to AC's but leave it unblocked to accounts older than the block, or at least paid subscribers should not be difficult.
It might even attract paid subscribers, imagine that!
"...as he urinates onto the severed brain stems of the Eibel family victims..."
This man is evidence that age restrictions in video games make no difference. If you're insane, they'll mess with your head. He should get into a different line of work. Like suing kids who pirate mp3's.
When video games start to affect your professional life like they have his, you've got to get out.
Yeah, it needs to be fixed, it just sucks that this will be lumped in with the pundits' vital stats of # of Mozilla bugs per month v.s. # of IE bugs per month.
Where I live, it's illegal to wear headphones on the road, whether in a car or on a bicycle. I also happen to think it a bad idea.
I can't say I blame you for wearing them. I used to do it, but I just don't like the feeling of having cars sneak up on me, and I found cycling with one headphone in my ear isn't much more safe, so for me, it's nothing but wind and car engines.
You make a small fraction of that after taxes and living expenses.
I stuff 1/4 of what I make into savings, and I'm considered reasonably well paid and very frugal. That would put me in the ballpark of actually working for $7/hour after taxes and expenses.
Other than that, I have no opinion about actually spending the money on MMORPG items, I'm just pointing out that $50 is probably a whole day of work less the cost of using your car that day, taxes, eating, sleeping, stuff like that.
Mitnick was arrested at a time when failure to provide due process, innocent before being proven guilty and right to a fair trial were still popular ideals.
Yes, he was guilty, yes he served his time, yes it was probably an appropriate amount of time... but!
... the process he went through to get to that outcome was very unfair and ignored his rights.
When you get down to it, Mitnick was a screwed up kid who got a power trip out of manipulating people and accessing secret information. He amassed power to do terrible things and did nothing with it. He was physically thrown in handcuffs and locked behind bars, his property seized, his rights were abused and stomped all over, but nobody was held accountable for the violations of his rights, and they probably never will be.
Now who's more dangerous? The criminal Mitnick, or the people who kept him for years without allowing him to see the evidence against him?
This "unknown" can be explained by a mass distributed through the universe. In fact, under the current model, a certain percentage of the universe could be comprised of this "unknown matter"
This "unknown matter" has a problem. If it does exist, it is obviously undetectable using normal methods. It reflects nor produces electromagnetic radiation, but it has a gravitational effect.
Hmmm... since it reflects nor emits radiation, we could say that if it were to exist, it would be "dark"
Given that should it exist, it would be "dark" and "matter", this leads to the inevitable handle "pixie dust."
Not to say all the stuff is great, but there are some tricks to putting it together properly. It sounds like you might have nailed the back on to the bookshelves before making sure they were completely straight. The backs keep them rigid, some of their stuff has grooves to minimize how crooked you can make them by putting the backs on wrong, but for some peices, you can be off by a half-centimeter or so even if you're careful. It's not in the instructions, you just have to have put one together crooked to realize it. I can only check this with a square or nailing in the upper half of the backing, then lifting the peice upright before lining it up straight then nailing in the rest of the back.
I'm not sure about how you aligned the glass doors, but once the thing is in place, I loosen off the screws so that the doors are loosely held, then I close the doors carefully and use something like a spatula to pry the doors into the right spot, then I open up the doors and tighten them appropriately.
But if the back isn't on quite straight, the glass doors will never look quite correct.
I haven't done a lot of their stuff, but every time you do one, you learn a little bit more about what can go wrong. You might have just taken on too big a job for a first-time assembler:-)
It sure beats an omnipotent, omnisentient judge with a poorly communicated sense of morals and a tendency to attribute unpleasantness to other entities of his design.
I can respect people's love of tradition, I can respect what the church has done in the past to assemble communities, but ultimately, I think a bunch of guys made up this whole God thing to use people's existentialist angst to steal their land and money.
Nobody's killed anyone in the name of the flying spagetti monster. It will no doubt happen one day, but until then, it is a far less corrupt vision of the universe.
Sessions which never time out, and no option to time them out... requiring wrappers to create watchdogs for OpenSSH sessions.
Non-expiring passwordless accounts forcing a password change on passwordless accounts because of OpenSSH's poor integration with Redhat PAM (get around it with some undocumented chage commands)
SFTP not allowing you to cd into directories with execute only permissions.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously - this app encodes your data as URLs. Imagine splitting a DVD image into URL sized chunks and then submitting them one by one. Does that sound like a workable storage system to you?
As a fully-distributed system for illegally distributed or illegal materials?
Absolutely.
The reason an abuse shell script wouldn't be as bad is because of motive. This is a way to abuse the system which is useful.
The catpcha system is an interesting problem but not insurmountable. The third-world anti-captcha sweatshop seems like a pretty tricky thing to circumvent.
...advertising also has the advantage of placement v.s. cost. They can charge more to advertise if the medium is more expensive to advertise in.
.... but you get the idea.
But HTML isn't based on paper... it just tends to be rendered that way for the bennefit of sighted humans. Web designers then respond by tweaking and hacking it with the assumption that it is going to be rendered using a page metaphor on a web browser.
When non-sighted humans view HTML, it's not using a page metaphor. When software programs index or analyze documents based on HTML, they do it based on the logical structure.
I think this guy is thinking in an artsy kind of way... text is linear, thought is not. Text becomes a straightjacket for communicating non-linear ideas. Non-linear ideas like the stuff he's trying to communicate... which comes out like nonsense when written down in a short, linear fashion.
He probably makes more sense when communicating in a pub with a beer, lots of arm waving, feedback from peers and his audience and the bennefit of body language.
I personally think aside from providing artistic direction, non-linear ideas have no value in science and technology. That is, you might design a chat room so that people around the world can communicate... there would be no linear goal... But despite having no clear end result, we all know what the technical direction would be.
In the same way, you might decide that ideas need to be able to be linked together in a distributed shared way... just like the outcome of a chat room, there would be no clear goal... but like a chat room, smashing IRC beyou shouldn't be poking around with HTML to do so unless you can quantify the limitations of HTML which prevent you from accomplishing your goals.
I drove a Civic hatchback for a few years until I was rear-ended by an SUV.
I could carry 8' lengths of lumber in that car by folding the passenger seat back and still close the hatch, then load in a floor sander and strap two bicyles on the back... and if I needed more storage... I'd rent.
No doubt there are people who need the SUVs. I'm just saying that the Civic is wonderfully designed and immensely practical. I was shocked once to realize that a friend's SUV couldn't seat more than 4 people... My Civic could seat 5.
It may be cyclic too... poor public transit --> more vehicles --> less walking to trains and busses --> less exercise --> more stress --> traffic congestion --> expanding cities --> worse public transit.
I noticed this cycle when I started driving... I read less, exercise less and have a higher base level of stress. I didn't realize that a base level of stress existed until I started driving and noticed how it affected my personality. I don't think anyone who started driving before they started working full time would notice this.
Increase fuel prices, housing prices and improve public transit and everyone might get thinner, more well read and more relaxed. There won't be riots because.... there isn't enough parking!
People spend a long time on the roads commuting. SUV's are high off the ground and comfortable. This is important, many people spend more time in their SUV's than they do with their families. SUV's are also particularly comfortable if you're overweight.
The engines are good for acceleration, low and high end. It makes up in part for the automatic transmission. You need the automatic transmission so that you can eat your breakfast or speak on the cell phone while in traffic. It's also less frustrating in a traffic jam. You need the acceleration to be able to cut people off on the roads, and the height lets you see over sedans.
Finally, relatively speaking, gas is cheap in the U.S.
Taxis do it in Canada, the conversion is much more expensive though, I bet they're being subsidized (more) where you were in Europe.
You lose some trunk space, but it's old technology:
http://www.ngvontario.com/own_options.html#after
Very boring stuff :-)
From what I can tell, he's trying to make a point that the police officers being killed in the games are real people... that putting officers in that kind of a game in that kind of a way should be viewed by the game designers in the same way as putting images of themselves and their families in the game.
Yeah, I think he's stretching it. Maybe officers should volunteer to have their faces added to the graphics in the game.
Friendly domestic scene of an officer with a family, "hey dad, watch what I can do when I rip off your head!"
If they have a userid and password, the logic to block a subnet to AC's but leave it unblocked to accounts older than the block, or at least paid subscribers should not be difficult.
It might even attract paid subscribers, imagine that!
"...as he urinates onto the severed brain stems of the Eibel family victims..."
This man is evidence that age restrictions in video games make no difference. If you're insane, they'll mess with your head. He should get into a different line of work. Like suing kids who pirate mp3's.
When video games start to affect your professional life like they have his, you've got to get out.
Yeah, it needs to be fixed, it just sucks that this will be lumped in with the pundits' vital stats of # of Mozilla bugs per month v.s. # of IE bugs per month.
Where I live, it's illegal to wear headphones on the road, whether in a car or on a bicycle. I also happen to think it a bad idea.
I can't say I blame you for wearing them. I used to do it, but I just don't like the feeling of having cars sneak up on me, and I found cycling with one headphone in my ear isn't much more safe, so for me, it's nothing but wind and car engines.
This doesn't appear to be a buffer overflow though, the browser just freezes.
There isn't much incentive for malicious people to crash people's browsers.
The wording from the security company has me thinking they're just trying to make a name for themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Bridge
I'm sure there's something longer out there though. (Yes yes, this has nothing to do with suspension bridges)
You don't really make $25/hour.
You make a small fraction of that after taxes and living expenses.
I stuff 1/4 of what I make into savings, and I'm considered reasonably well paid and very frugal. That would put me in the ballpark of actually working for $7/hour after taxes and expenses.
Other than that, I have no opinion about actually spending the money on MMORPG items, I'm just pointing out that $50 is probably a whole day of work less the cost of using your car that day, taxes, eating, sleeping, stuff like that.
Mitnick was arrested at a time when failure to provide due process, innocent before being proven guilty and right to a fair trial were still popular ideals.
Yes, he was guilty, yes he served his time, yes it was probably an appropriate amount of time... but!
... the process he went through to get to that outcome was very unfair and ignored his rights.
When you get down to it, Mitnick was a screwed up kid who got a power trip out of manipulating people and accessing secret information. He amassed power to do terrible things and did nothing with it. He was physically thrown in handcuffs and locked behind bars, his property seized, his rights were abused and stomped all over, but nobody was held accountable for the violations of his rights, and they probably never will be.
Now who's more dangerous? The criminal Mitnick, or the people who kept him for years without allowing him to see the evidence against him?
...so let's call it "unknown"
This "unknown" can be explained by a mass distributed through the universe. In fact, under the current model, a certain percentage of the universe could be comprised of this "unknown matter"
This "unknown matter" has a problem. If it does exist, it is obviously undetectable using normal methods. It reflects nor produces electromagnetic radiation, but it has a gravitational effect.
Hmmm... since it reflects nor emits radiation, we could say that if it were to exist, it would be "dark"
Given that should it exist, it would be "dark" and "matter", this leads to the inevitable handle "pixie dust."
Management can no longer use the argument that open source products are not protected from patent problems the way that closed source products are.
Not to say all the stuff is great, but there are some tricks to putting it together properly. It sounds like you might have nailed the back on to the bookshelves before making sure they were completely straight. The backs keep them rigid, some of their stuff has grooves to minimize how crooked you can make them by putting the backs on wrong, but for some peices, you can be off by a half-centimeter or so even if you're careful. It's not in the instructions, you just have to have put one together crooked to realize it. I can only check this with a square or nailing in the upper half of the backing, then lifting the peice upright before lining it up straight then nailing in the rest of the back.
I'm not sure about how you aligned the glass doors, but once the thing is in place, I loosen off the screws so that the doors are loosely held, then I close the doors carefully and use something like a spatula to pry the doors into the right spot, then I open up the doors and tighten them appropriately.
But if the back isn't on quite straight, the glass doors will never look quite correct.
I haven't done a lot of their stuff, but every time you do one, you learn a little bit more about what can go wrong. You might have just taken on too big a job for a first-time assembler :-)
I don't know how they manage Ikea in your area, but comparing MySQL to Ikea is an insult to Ikea.
I'd describe Ikea something like this:
Choose two:
Whereas MySQL would be something like this:
Choose three:
It sure beats an omnipotent, omnisentient judge with a poorly communicated sense of morals and a tendency to attribute unpleasantness to other entities of his design.
I can respect people's love of tradition, I can respect what the church has done in the past to assemble communities, but ultimately, I think a bunch of guys made up this whole God thing to use people's existentialist angst to steal their land and money.
Nobody's killed anyone in the name of the flying spagetti monster. It will no doubt happen one day, but until then, it is a far less corrupt vision of the universe.
Problems I've had:
Those are off the top of my head.
Bah, it's only a different species if they can't produce fertile offspring with humans.
Oh... wait.