I've used goto in C against better judgement when implementing a key derivation algorithm from an ANSI standard. The algorithm was described using some horrible spaghetti pseudo code with goto jumps between code sections which made it impossible to break it up in neat functions. I ended up writing it all as one big function with the goto's and everything. It works and is still used 10 years later, but I get to explain myself every time that function goes through a code review.
The police themselves has announced that copyright crimes wont be prioritised.
It's even better than that; swedish law (PUL) forbids any registering of IP addresses if the suspected crime isn't serious enough to render a prison sentence if caught.
This effectively means that the small scale pirate copying that most people do on DC++ etc (which not even in theory can get you in prison) isn't even possible to investigate.
This is a pure bullshit law, and everyone knows it.
Actually, if I remember my Ethernet correctly, that means that the TOTAL bandwidth on the segment between the desktop and the fiber switch is 10mb, regardless of which end the packets originate on. So a desktop used as a client might average 8 down/2 up, and a server might average 1 down/9 up, but the total wouldn't exceed 10.
That would be true if you are using any half duplex equipment (switch, firewall etc). I'm using this ISP and I know for a fact that the switch in the basement is a full duplex 10/100, and ever since I switched to a firewall with full duplex ethernet ports, I can run full speed in both directions. Atleast according to DC++.
Funny I didn't see the Reuters article mention anything about 10mbit/10mbit. They just mentioned 10mbit being 20x faster than "traditional cable modems".
The ISP in question is not cable modem based, it's an ethernet jack on the wall and 10M/10M full duplex. They'll even crank it up to 100Mbit/s for $30 extra per month.
I guess that would make it..uh..60x faster then..:)
I could have sworn that ENIGMA was unbroken until they got their hands on an ENIGMA machine.
The first crack of the ENIGMA was done by polish codebreakers even before the war. The cracking of later versions of the ENIGMA at Bletchley Park essentially build on the polish efforts.
no big deal, right? a few days later, i see that 60 euros was removed from my account from that exact cash machine on the exact date i was there! i contact my bank in California and they tell me that i need to contact the bank that owns the machine.
You sure you didn't get your money back automatically after like 3-5 days? Because these things happen every now and then, ie the ATM fails because some local problem (software or mechanical), you don't get the money, and later you see that the amout has disappeared from your account.
But in (almost) every case, the money is not actually withdrawn, only "reserved" (that's what the banks call it) for a number of days, after which they are "unreserved" and show up on your account again.
I had a similar experience with an ATM in Romania once, the ATM software completed the transaction and then crashed before it handed out the money. Later that evening I connected to my bank account from an internet cafe, and of course - that money had disappeared from the account.
I called my bank in sweden to report it, but they just told me that the money was not withdrawn, only reserved, and that it would be back on my account in a few days - which it was, to my relief.
Generally, banking systems (including ATMs and card payment terminals) have good failsafe machanisms that aborts the transaction if it encounters a problem in any little detail along the way.
There is a difference.
If you do the chmod +x thing, it will not attempt to run the contents as executable code, but as a shell script.
root@fs1:~$ echo "This is a text file." >file.txt root@fs1:~$ echo "Lets run it" >>file.txt root@fs1:~$ chmod +x file.txt root@fs1:~$./file.txt ./file.txt: This: command not found ./file.txt: Lets: command not found
...while renaming a.txt file to.com in windows will actually make it blindly try to execute it as a binary.
Fake the response from the card. You'll be right a certain percentage of the time.
Umm..no.He is talking about asymmetric cipher using private/public keypairs (you know, RSA). It is a proven concept. If it would be that easy to "fake the response" by random guessing, then we should all stop using ssh, SSL etc.
This is a growing trend. Along with other questionably legal items, you can find a card reader from Ebay [ebay.com] for a fraction of what you can scam.
Or buy a reader from Magtek, there is nothing legally questionable with that. These devices have lots of applications, and reading track 2 of your bank/credit card happens to be just as easy as reading any track of any magstripe card. The information there is not encrypted in any way.
This is why VISA/Mastercard and banks are pushing the new EMV standard with chip cards (smartcards) that cannot be skimmed and copied.
guys are actually hiding back doors in the Linux code to trick Joe User who grabs it off an anonymous FTP server.
That is why you never download the Linux code from an anonymous FTP server. Why would Joe go to an anonymous FTP server or Dc++ or Kazaa to download the kernel when he can download it for free from a trusted source, which should be easier to find anyway?
To me, both systems are equally insecure. Linux because I can't trust it
You don't trust it because someone else might be naive enough to download it from an untrusted source? Why should that concern your own decision whether to run Linux or not?
Or maybe you mean you are Joe User and you don't trust yourself to be smart enough to not download it from an anonymous FTP server? Yet you seem concerned by the possibility, which makes this scenario unlikely anyway.. I don't get it...
So what happens to your competitive edge if you're forced to give out the secrets behind your product?
The terms in the GPL license is not a secret in any way. They actually had a choice to either use their competitive edge to write their software from scratch, or to derive it from other peoples work under GPL.
didn't build my house either, but I wouldn't be happy if RMS & crew tried to strongarm me into burning it down.
where S is some small constant 0<S<=1 where X and Y are approaching zero, hence (X*Y) is approaching zero, so Z is approaching infinity. It's gonna get ugly. Better pay up for those licenses.... Uh... yeah....
Nah.. That would generate a division by zero error, which is a fatal condition. They would just be shut down for attempting an illegal action.;)
xDSL/cable sucks. I only keep my ADSL line because that ISP provides a static IP, but with a measy 2.5Mbit bandwidth and 768Kbit upload.
My real pipe is a 10BaseT socket, connected to a switch in the basement, and fiber optics from there. Broadband is here:)
In Iraq, France proppsed up Saddam Hussein as he executed 100,000 or so a year.... while the US is rebuilding the place.
Excuse me? Like the US didn't help Iraq build its military and WMD capabilities, especially during its war against Iran.
You don't have to dig deep to find that from 1982 to 1990 the United States supplied Iraq with not only conventional arms and cash but also chemical and biological materials, including the precursors for anthrax and botulism, so point your own dirty finger elsewhere.
The GPL is designed to force open-source distribution of derivatives
The choice is really simple. Don't like the GPL terms? Then don't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Nobody is actually forcing you, unless you take the shortcut of using somebody elses GPLd work.
The question was really how many values you can represent using 7 binary bits (which is 128), not how many words you can write using 7-bit characters.
In this case, they actually *could* represent 1500 values using 7 bits, because they were using more than one colour (which means it wasnt actually binary at all).
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I've used goto in C against better judgement when implementing a key derivation algorithm from an ANSI standard. The algorithm was described using some horrible spaghetti pseudo code with goto jumps between code sections which made it impossible to break it up in neat functions. I ended up writing it all as one big function with the goto's and everything. It works and is still used 10 years later, but I get to explain myself every time that function goes through a code review.
It's even better than that; swedish law (PUL) forbids any registering of IP addresses if the suspected crime isn't serious enough to render a prison sentence if caught.
This effectively means that the small scale pirate copying that most people do on DC++ etc (which not even in theory can get you in prison) isn't even possible to investigate.
This is a pure bullshit law, and everyone knows it.
Only a sith lord deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.
You mean something like this? (photo of a swedish ATM machine running out of memory)
That would be true if you are using any half duplex equipment (switch, firewall etc). I'm using this ISP and I know for a fact that the switch in the basement is a full duplex 10/100, and ever since I switched to a firewall with full duplex ethernet ports, I can run full speed in both directions. Atleast according to DC++.
The ISP in question is not cable modem based, it's an ethernet jack on the wall and 10M/10M full duplex. They'll even crank it up to 100Mbit/s for $30 extra per month. I guess that would make it..uh..60x faster then.. :)
No, that would imply that SCO actually had something . After all, even shit can be spread on a field to make something productive...
Hmm, maybe they can buy some of the shit pouring out from that overfull AdTI stink tank.
No, that requires more extensive suckage, which would drain the batteries too fast.
The first crack of the ENIGMA was done by polish codebreakers even before the war. The cracking of later versions of the ENIGMA at Bletchley Park essentially build on the polish efforts.
Thus, the ultimate fraud protection. :P Hmmm well...
You sure you didn't get your money back automatically after like 3-5 days? Because these things happen every now and then, ie the ATM fails because some local problem (software or mechanical), you don't get the money, and later you see that the amout has disappeared from your account.
But in (almost) every case, the money is not actually withdrawn, only "reserved" (that's what the banks call it) for a number of days, after which they are "unreserved" and show up on your account again.
I had a similar experience with an ATM in Romania once, the ATM software completed the transaction and then crashed before it handed out the money. Later that evening I connected to my bank account from an internet cafe, and of course - that money had disappeared from the account. I called my bank in sweden to report it, but they just told me that the money was not withdrawn, only reserved, and that it would be back on my account in a few days - which it was, to my relief.
Generally, banking systems (including ATMs and card payment terminals) have good failsafe machanisms that aborts the transaction if it encounters a problem in any little detail along the way.
Just imagine the day when Darl realizes that his intellectual property helps powering everybodys houses...
Getting arrested for vandalizing an ATM: Priceless. :P
Umm..no.He is talking about asymmetric cipher using private/public keypairs (you know, RSA). It is a proven concept. If it would be that easy to "fake the response" by random guessing, then we should all stop using ssh, SSL etc.
Or buy a reader from Magtek, there is nothing legally questionable with that. These devices have lots of applications, and reading track 2 of your bank/credit card happens to be just as easy as reading any track of any magstripe card. The information there is not encrypted in any way.
This is why VISA/Mastercard and banks are pushing the new EMV standard with chip cards (smartcards) that cannot be skimmed and copied.
That is why you never download the Linux code from an anonymous FTP server. Why would Joe go to an anonymous FTP server or Dc++ or Kazaa to download the kernel when he can download it for free from a trusted source, which should be easier to find anyway?
To me, both systems are equally insecure. Linux because I can't trust it
You don't trust it because someone else might be naive enough to download it from an untrusted source? Why should that concern your own decision whether to run Linux or not?
Or maybe you mean you are Joe User and you don't trust yourself to be smart enough to not download it from an anonymous FTP server? Yet you seem concerned by the possibility, which makes this scenario unlikely anyway.. I don't get it...
It was Caterpillar who made the power loaders used in the movie, but I've never heard that they are sold (or used) IRL.
The terms in the GPL license is not a secret in any way. They actually had a choice to either use their competitive edge to write their software from scratch, or to derive it from other peoples work under GPL.
didn't build my house either, but I wouldn't be happy if RMS & crew tried to strongarm me into burning it down.
I'm quite sure you paid for your house though.
Or like this...
where S is some small constant 0<S<=1 where X and Y are approaching zero, hence (X*Y) is approaching zero, so Z is approaching infinity. It's gonna get ugly. Better pay up for those licenses.... Uh... yeah....
Nah.. That would generate a division by zero error, which is a fatal condition. They would just be shut down for attempting an illegal action. ;)
Excuse me? Like the US didn't help Iraq build its military and WMD capabilities, especially during its war against Iran.
You don't have to dig deep to find that from 1982 to 1990 the United States supplied Iraq with not only conventional arms and cash but also chemical and biological materials, including the precursors for anthrax and botulism, so point your own dirty finger elsewhere.
The choice is really simple. Don't like the GPL terms? Then don't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Nobody is actually forcing you, unless you take the shortcut of using somebody elses GPLd work.
The question was really how many values you can represent using 7 binary bits (which is 128), not how many words you can write using 7-bit characters.
In this case, they actually *could* represent 1500 values using 7 bits, because they were using more than one colour (which means it wasnt actually binary at all).
RTFA, why don't you...