I've seen this argument before, and I'm not sold on it. If someone breaks into a department store, the same types of things could happen. The company doesn't inform all its customers that someone may have gotten their credit card numbers from receipts or reports or anything. They don't close down for a week and conduct massive searches and such to make sure there's nothing else wrong. They don't replace their entire stock, just in case its damaged. (ok, that's a bit extreme, but it still applies)
I think the computer break-in is oversensationalized compared to the brick and mortar break in, when in theory, the trespasser could do the same thing in either case. If you have to assume the worst when your computer is compromised, why not when your building is compromosed?
It's not as useful as a back button, and not all sites are organized in a way to make it useful. But sometimes I think to myself, "Self.. I wish I had an up button on my browser."
On this train of thought.. would it be that difficult to put one into Mozilla? Everytime I sit down to look into it, some other shiny object comes along.. oo, tin foil
I agree that DNS is not supposed to replace IP, but what I think registered_user was saying is that everyone's address book says person@host.name, not person@127.0.0.1. Losing the use of symbolic names IS disasterous. It won't stop you from getting where you know the IP, but how many IP's do people know off the top of their heads?
If DNS goes away, how is that mail going to get routed? How will people browse all the other sites people only know by name? Sure, you can have an updated/etc/hosts, but I know I don't want to maintain one for every site I visit.
Sure, you have the redundancy of secondary DNS servers.. but what if someone takes most of the root servers down, and compromises the others to start giving out the wrong IP's? Ok, this is a little contrived, but I see what registered_user is getting at. We ARE awfully dependent on DNS.
I'm jus sayin!
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Q: How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Because the board that sets the cost of USPS postage (which is not made up of USPS employees, btw) probably thinks (correctly) that it's more of a pain for Joe Schmo to go buy A stamp when it's not a round number of cents.
Your examples make perfect sense, but the fact is, if there's one message you want hidden, you're still trying to hide something. Otherwise you're using it simply for the sake of using it.
Not that there's anything wrong with having something to hide. That's what privacy is all about.
Yeesh, people are always turning this into some kind of stupid holy war. It's a tool, just like anything else.
We've used hungarian notation for a couple years where I work, and believe it adds value. Everyone hated it at first, but it sure helps you when you're wondering why looping your BYTE variable from 0 to 300 doesn't work.
Some people may not need to know base types for certain things, but in the embedded world it comes in handy. You can't necessarily make everything an int, when a char will do.
Pick tools that will help you and don't use ones you don't want to. It doesn't make much sense to bash them simply because you choose not to see or try to use the value they provide.
That's such a sad outlook to have. (The company's point of view, I mean) Sure, if you train your people, they might leave. But.. if you don't train your people.. they might stay.
I have never seen, nor will I ever see, how this is "ripping off" casinos.
Using a little prob and stats to get up on the house in which almost every game GUARANTEES you will lose over time is not wrong. It's well within in the rules to look at the cards being played, and it's well within the rules to bet what you want, when you want.
It is kinda funny that the only way the house can win against people this organized is to take its ball and go home.
I hope this works out as well as they're touting. We just got one of these theaters a year or two ago, but I'm just not interested in 'Avalanche' or stuff like that. Show classics, like the Indiana Jones movies and such, and I'll gladly spend money to go there, probably more often than a regular theater.
A friend of mine showed me a similar article earlier today, but this one mentioned about 5 different foreign (to me anyway) automobile manufacturers planning on using Windows CE, for just displays I think.
I wonder how happy people will be knowing they'll get to pay for a Windows license.
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If you'd like to create a highly scientific reenactment of the physical implications of such an event, obtain the following items:
Saucepan
Water
Spaghetti
1. Cook spaghetti.
2. Insert one end of a piece of spaghetti in your mouth.
3. Suck.
But if you say it, you have to say it like Ben Jabituya from Short Circuit:
"Voodn't choo like dto be a pepper dtoo."
It just loses something. *sigh*
All I can think of while reading this is Chekov saying, "Nuclear wessels.. we're looking for the nuclear wessels!"
I've seen this argument before, and I'm not sold on it. If someone breaks into a department store, the same types of things could happen. The company doesn't inform all its customers that someone may have gotten their credit card numbers from receipts or reports or anything. They don't close down for a week and conduct massive searches and such to make sure there's nothing else wrong. They don't replace their entire stock, just in case its damaged. (ok, that's a bit extreme, but it still applies)
I think the computer break-in is oversensationalized compared to the brick and mortar break in, when in theory, the trespasser could do the same thing in either case. If you have to assume the worst when your computer is compromised, why not when your building is compromosed?
"We got chick brains -- in vitro -- to dump 80 percent of the natural opioids in their brains,'"
Aw, man! I've been tryin to get chicks to dump their brain opioids for all this time without infrasound!
I don't know what that means, but it sure sounds pimpin.
It's not as useful as a back button, and not all sites are organized in a way to make it useful. But sometimes I think to myself, "Self.. I wish I had an up button on my browser."
On this train of thought.. would it be that difficult to put one into Mozilla? Everytime I sit down to look into it, some other shiny object comes along.. oo, tin foil
On Monday, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reported a 3.7 percent decline in recorded music sales in the fourth quarter of 2002...
When I first read that, I thought it said British Pornographic Industry.. that sure changed the tone of the article...
I agree that DNS is not supposed to replace IP, but what I think registered_user was saying is that everyone's address book says person@host.name, not person@127.0.0.1. Losing the use of symbolic names IS disasterous. It won't stop you from getting where you know the IP, but how many IP's do people know off the top of their heads?
/etc/hosts, but I know I don't want to maintain one for every site I visit.
If DNS goes away, how is that mail going to get routed? How will people browse all the other sites people only know by name? Sure, you can have an updated
Sure, you have the redundancy of secondary DNS servers.. but what if someone takes most of the root servers down, and compromises the others to start giving out the wrong IP's? Ok, this is a little contrived, but I see what registered_user is getting at. We ARE awfully dependent on DNS.
I'm jus sayin!
Q: How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 2 - but I want to know how they got in there.
Because the board that sets the cost of USPS postage (which is not made up of USPS employees, btw) probably thinks (correctly) that it's more of a pain for Joe Schmo to go buy A stamp when it's not a round number of cents.
I hate stuff that sucks.
Your examples make perfect sense, but the fact is, if there's one message you want hidden, you're still trying to hide something. Otherwise you're using it simply for the sake of using it.
Not that there's anything wrong with having something to hide. That's what privacy is all about.
It's all about hiding, actually. Cause that's what cryptography does.. is.. uh.. hide stuff.
Like the example the writer gave, if your ISP tech knows you're out of town, you could come home to an empty house.
If you're just using cryptography for the sake of using cryptography, what's the point?
Yeesh, people are always turning this into some kind of stupid holy war. It's a tool, just like anything else.
We've used hungarian notation for a couple years where I work, and believe it adds value. Everyone hated it at first, but it sure helps you when you're wondering why looping your BYTE variable from 0 to 300 doesn't work.
Some people may not need to know base types for certain things, but in the embedded world it comes in handy. You can't necessarily make everything an int, when a char will do.
Pick tools that will help you and don't use ones you don't want to. It doesn't make much sense to bash them simply because you choose not to see or try to use the value they provide.
That's such a sad outlook to have. (The company's point of view, I mean) Sure, if you train your people, they might leave. But.. if you don't train your people.. they might stay.
Think about it.
I have never seen, nor will I ever see, how this is "ripping off" casinos.
Using a little prob and stats to get up on the house in which almost every game GUARANTEES you will lose over time is not wrong. It's well within in the rules to look at the cards being played, and it's well within the rules to bet what you want, when you want.
It is kinda funny that the only way the house can win against people this organized is to take its ball and go home.
I hope this works out as well as they're touting. We just got one of these theaters a year or two ago, but I'm just not interested in 'Avalanche' or stuff like that. Show classics, like the Indiana Jones movies and such, and I'll gladly spend money to go there, probably more often than a regular theater.
No disassemble number five!
Oh wait.. they already do that.
This is the article I saw earlier.
Bwaaaaaahahaha!
A friend of mine showed me a similar article earlier today, but this one mentioned about 5 different foreign (to me anyway) automobile manufacturers planning on using Windows CE, for just displays I think.
I wonder how happy people will be knowing they'll get to pay for a Windows license.
He's not foolin anyone.