"The Jews, Christians, and Muslims don't charge $360,000 for it, nor do they sue people who hand out copies of their scriptures."
True, but only 500 years ago the Christians tended to kill or at least excommunicate anyone who translated the scriptures into something comprehensible for the 99,9% of the masses that did not understand Latin.
This was 500 years after the Romans killed anyone spreading the Christian scriptures in a language 99,9% of the masses did understand, Latin.
"Arguably, the embryo is a person (or would be left to his one devices). Destroying the embryo to create stem cells is not voluntary, and it reduces the embryo to mere property. Thus, how is it not slavery?"
First of all you can argue that an embryo is a person but it would not be a strong argument. An embryo does not have a free will. Nor is it self-aware or does it have a conscience, as it does not yet have a functioning brain. Secondly, I understand that you are argueing from a juridical point of view, but you are using those arguments to make an ethical point. The law is not ethical per se, so your juridical arguments to a moral conclusion hold no ground. Secondly, I do not see how destroying the embryo reduces it to property. This is play of words, most notably 'destroying'. If an embryo were a person, you would not say you would destroy it, but you would say you would murder or kill it. Thirdly, quid pro quo, if it were property, it would be owned by the mother and how could you then say the embryo is not a slave of it's mother, by your own reasoning? She is keeping it captive, feeding it or not feeding it, and might have plans to reap financial benefits from it later on (as a pension plan for instance, like in many third world countries). The body of the mother might decide to abort spontaniously... should we then arrest the mother for murder of her slave?
"1) We buy oil at fair market value, even after the countries in question nationalized their oil production - which was by and large owned by western corporations at the time. In effect, the countries in question stole from the West."
This is really historically shortsighted. These western corporations that 'owned' their national resources were just spinoffs of the periods 'the West' you speak of colonized these countries. See Saoudi Arabia, Irak, Iran, basically all the large oil producing nations.
Nations steal from each other when they are in the position to. It is now America's turn, enjoy it while it lasts!
We've got code here that refers to 'insurrances', 'insurances', 'insurrences' and 'insurences', I'm not kidding.
People here making fun of his request and saying that this should be set in stone in design documents, or be checked in peer code reviews are obviously not working in a run-of-the-mill software company where there's neither the inclination nor the time to do everything the formal way. Also, I have to see the first design document that correctly enumerates all the requirements for the software, let alone all the names for the variables to be used.
... so you can stop your 'WTF?!? Ethical Hacker' and 'I won't RTFA but will try to sound insightful' comments... it's has a great short tour on assembly and although I've only browsed the part on C programming and nmap (as I know these techniques), I'm sure someone new to this stuff would learn a lot.
Hacking is knowing about a lot of stuff: system administration, network engineering, programming, database administration and social skills, and the writer has done a great job introducing some of these complex subjects from a hacking perspective... it's make it a bit tiring to hear all the uninformed slashdot bitching as a thank you for somebody that obviously put a lot of time and effort into writing this article.
... by making the link between IP address and student. I don't think all of these students have their own IP address on internet, do you? So what the university must be doing is something similar to the ISP's searching their logs and making a link between a student and an IP address used.
It doesn't sound like the RIAA has a name to start with. If they had, they could just send it by mail...
"If you don't give them money, why do you think they should be giving you free updates?"
Eeeh, because I didn't give them money, they must be free, no? If I was giving them money, I would expect them to be paid updates, you see, as I gave them money...
My wife had to switch to **brrrr** Microsoft Office on her powerbook because OO.org on the Mac just didn't work for her, being unstable and what have you.
Try to change the frequency of your monitor under any windows version and you will see a similar warning. I bet this doesn't void the warranty if you use windows though.
"So if I gather correctly, you can grab my bookmarks or downloaded files, IF I actually type all the letters to those specific paths? That's it?"
No, someone using this exploit could grab any file on your filesystem that you have permissions to read. Interesting targets would be e.g./etc/passwd,/etc/fstab, you name it.
Common mistake made here: most of these exploits are pretty harmless by themselves... it's the combination that hurts.
"With 90%+ certainty her lifetime of misery was A DIRECT RESULT of having sex with a man carrying the HPV virus in his semen. Perhaps only once. I never asked."
Pardon me for not being as emotionally involved with this one case as you obviously are, but this is bullshit.
Instead, there are a few other factors you conviniently ignore here, such as the HPV virus actually triggering a cancer to grow, the state of medicine being what it was in the 70's, the man having slept with a woman that contaminated him with the HPV he passed on, etc etc.
I though this would be a list of technical reasons to get misbranded as spam, I think lots of small companies that send out (requested) mailings make these mistakes (or have them made by their providers) in all earnesty:
1. Incorrect reverse DNS. 1.1.1.1 == mydomain.com but mydomain.com != 1.1.1.1 Spam filters really hate this, even if it reverses to the same class C network 2. Mailserver on another IP address. www.mydomain.com == 1.1.1.1 but mail.mydomain.com != 1.1.1.1
Just my recent experiences, hope it helps someone.
I don't know about all the online casino's, but I actually worked on the win/lose algorithm's for one (poker, blackjack, machinepoker, roulette). The win/lose ratio is actually prescribed by law, IIRC e.g. the Antiguan government (lot's of online casino's are based in Antigua) says there should be a 97% win/lose ratio.
All gambling was random, but with corrections to get to this ratio. The most difficult part was to make the corrections feel natural for the players.
Let me give you the cosmopolitan view on this: 98% or so of the world population use metric, 2% uses imperial.
Why use a shitty system 2% of the time when you can use a good systeem 100% of the time?
Or to give you the domestic american picture: imagine if only NYC used imperial and the rest of the country metric and you had to recalculate everything just for the sake of them?
First, you imply Russia is a mafia state because it has been socialist. There are two problems with this argument (among others).
- russia has not been a socialist state. Communist yes, not socialist.
- the historical origin of the word you use, 'mafia', already proves that one doesn't need to have a socialist nor communist state to grow mafiosi. They did fine by themselves in Italy.
Thank you for your patience. Please check yourself regulary for conservative bias.
If this is microsoft innovation, it's not very innovative. All these 'technologies' are basically extra layers of software to fix the bugs in the first layers... be it security (phishing stuff, adaptive firewalls, etc etc) or losing emails... which should not happen anyway and we already have basically the same technique they're developing in the mail protocol, namely confirming a received email.
Solar cells cost a lot of energy to make, so what's the life span on these things? What's left if you subtract the manufactoring costs from the life-time energy generation of these things?
Plasma power consumption BAD LCD power consumption GOOD
Free market: like in your healthcare system?
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Education is important, people know this and will pay anything they can muster to get the best education for their children. Companies know this. If you leave education to the forces of the free market, prices of education will just rise ad infinitum, as their is not a point that parents will say 'this education thing is too expensive, little Joe doesn't need any'. The companies will just bleed em dry.
Same basically as the American healthcare system... there's isn't a point where people say 'curing this cancer is too expensive, forget it'. So what are you left with? The most expensive system in the world with the least actual care and the highest number of uninsured citizens for any first world country.
I think you really need to rethink your 'let the free market sort it out' kind of philosophy.
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"The Jews, Christians, and Muslims don't charge $360,000 for it, nor do they sue people who hand out copies of their scriptures."
True, but only 500 years ago the Christians tended to kill or at least excommunicate anyone who translated the scriptures into something comprehensible for the 99,9% of the masses that did not understand Latin.
This was 500 years after the Romans killed anyone spreading the Christian scriptures in a language 99,9% of the masses did understand, Latin.
"Arguably, the embryo is a person (or would be left to his one devices). Destroying the embryo to create stem cells is not voluntary, and it reduces the embryo to mere property. Thus, how is it not slavery?"
... should we then arrest the mother for murder of her slave?
First of all you can argue that an embryo is a person but it would not be a strong argument. An embryo does not have a free will. Nor is it self-aware or does it have a conscience, as it does not yet have a functioning brain.
Secondly, I understand that you are argueing from a juridical point of view, but you are using those arguments to make an ethical point. The law is not ethical per se, so your juridical arguments to a moral conclusion hold no ground.
Secondly, I do not see how destroying the embryo reduces it to property. This is play of words, most notably 'destroying'. If an embryo were a person, you would not say you would destroy it, but you would say you would murder or kill it.
Thirdly, quid pro quo, if it were property, it would be owned by the mother and how could you then say the embryo is not a slave of it's mother, by your own reasoning? She is keeping it captive, feeding it or not feeding it, and might have plans to reap financial benefits from it later on (as a pension plan for instance, like in many third world countries). The body of the mother might decide to abort spontaniously
"1) We buy oil at fair market value, even after the countries in question nationalized their oil production - which was by and large owned by western corporations at the time. In effect, the countries in question stole from the West."
This is really historically shortsighted. These western corporations that 'owned' their national resources were just spinoffs of the periods 'the West' you speak of colonized these countries. See Saoudi Arabia, Irak, Iran, basically all the large oil producing nations.
Nations steal from each other when they are in the position to. It is now America's turn, enjoy it while it lasts!
We've got code here that refers to 'insurrances', 'insurances', 'insurrences' and 'insurences', I'm not kidding.
People here making fun of his request and saying that this should be set in stone in design documents, or be checked in peer code reviews are obviously not working in a run-of-the-mill software company where there's neither the inclination nor the time to do everything the formal way. Also, I have to see the first design document that correctly enumerates all the requirements for the software, let alone all the names for the variables to be used.
Hacking is knowing about a lot of stuff: system administration, network engineering, programming, database administration and social skills, and the writer has done a great job introducing some of these complex subjects from a hacking perspective
... by making the link between IP address and student. I don't think all of these students have their own IP address on internet, do you? So what the university must be doing is something similar to the ISP's searching their logs and making a link between a student and an IP address used.
...
It doesn't sound like the RIAA has a name to start with. If they had, they could just send it by mail
All the constant blabbering about this iPhone thing, article upon article about a GSM phone, and now this:
"There is no indication that Apple users are affected."
Who cares about Linux?
"If you don't give them money, why do you think they should be giving you free updates?"
...
Eeeh, because I didn't give them money, they must be free, no? If I was giving them money, I would expect them to be paid updates, you see, as I gave them money
Including CmdrTaco? This is obviously a joke, so please don't take those quotes seriously ...
My wife had to switch to **brrrr** Microsoft Office on her powerbook because OO.org on the Mac just didn't work for her, being unstable and what have you.
Try to change the frequency of your monitor under any windows version and you will see a similar warning. I bet this doesn't void the warranty if you use windows though.
People who like to drive dangerously IRL have a preference for car racing games?
Did they rule that out?
"So if I gather correctly, you can grab my bookmarks or downloaded files, IF I actually type all the letters to those specific paths? That's it?"
/etc/passwd, /etc/fstab, you name it.
... it's the combination that hurts.
No, someone using this exploit could grab any file on your filesystem that you have permissions to read. Interesting targets would be e.g.
Common mistake made here: most of these exploits are pretty harmless by themselves
"With 90%+ certainty her lifetime of misery was A DIRECT RESULT of having sex with a man carrying the HPV virus in his semen. Perhaps only once. I never asked."
Pardon me for not being as emotionally involved with this one case as you obviously are, but this is bullshit.
Instead, there are a few other factors you conviniently ignore here, such as the HPV virus actually triggering a cancer to grow, the state of medicine being what it was in the 70's, the man having slept with a woman that contaminated him with the HPV he passed on, etc etc.
Get a grip mate, you're only making things worse.
I though this would be a list of technical reasons to get misbranded as spam, I think lots of small companies that send out (requested) mailings make these mistakes (or have them made by their providers) in all earnesty:
1. Incorrect reverse DNS. 1.1.1.1 == mydomain.com but mydomain.com != 1.1.1.1 Spam filters really hate this, even if it reverses to the same class C network
2. Mailserver on another IP address. www.mydomain.com == 1.1.1.1 but mail.mydomain.com != 1.1.1.1
Just my recent experiences, hope it helps someone.
I don't know about all the online casino's, but I actually worked on the win/lose algorithm's for one (poker, blackjack, machinepoker, roulette). The win/lose ratio is actually prescribed by law, IIRC e.g. the Antiguan government (lot's of online casino's are based in Antigua) says there should be a 97% win/lose ratio.
All gambling was random, but with corrections to get to this ratio. The most difficult part was to make the corrections feel natural for the players.
They're most definitely trying to paint him as a sucker, I mean, when have you ever seen an interview that transcribes every 'uh' the man says?
That's a patent for a DRM-enable operating system.
Seems Alan is trying to patent a subpart of DRM which will render it useless if it cannot be used.
Let me give you the cosmopolitan view on this: 98% or so of the world population use metric, 2% uses imperial.
Why use a shitty system 2% of the time when you can use a good systeem 100% of the time?
Or to give you the domestic american picture: imagine if only NYC used imperial and the rest of the country metric and you had to recalculate everything just for the sake of them?
As we all know, programmers are most productive in assembly, which is by nature many times denser than any programming language.
Oh wait! Never mind assembly, lets just do binary.
Followed you up until the last sentence there.
First, you imply Russia is a mafia state because it has been socialist. There are two problems with this argument (among others).
- russia has not been a socialist state. Communist yes, not socialist.
- the historical origin of the word you use, 'mafia', already proves that one doesn't need to have a socialist nor communist state to grow mafiosi. They did fine by themselves in Italy.
Thank you for your patience. Please check yourself regulary for conservative bias.
If this is microsoft innovation, it's not very innovative. All these 'technologies' are basically extra layers of software to fix the bugs in the first layers ... be it security (phishing stuff, adaptive firewalls, etc etc) or losing emails ... which should not happen anyway and we already have basically the same technique they're developing in the mail protocol, namely confirming a received email.
Solar cells cost a lot of energy to make, so what's the life span on these things? What's left if you subtract the manufactoring costs from the life-time energy generation of these things?
Plasma power consumption BAD
LCD power consumption GOOD
Education is important, people know this and will pay anything they can muster to get the best education for their children. Companies know this. If you leave education to the forces of the free market, prices of education will just rise ad infinitum, as their is not a point that parents will say 'this education thing is too expensive, little Joe doesn't need any'. The companies will just bleed em dry.
... there's isn't a point where people say 'curing this cancer is too expensive, forget it'. So what are you left with? The most expensive system in the world with the least actual care and the highest number of uninsured citizens for any first world country.
Same basically as the American healthcare system
I think you really need to rethink your 'let the free market sort it out' kind of philosophy.