Rather, I think the insightful thing to say here is that you don't gain security by adding arbitrary hoops for your consumers to jump through, but by implementing a real authentication protocol.
Exactly. The deceit here is the same as before, there are just more hoops (for the customer, not the phisher). The problem with authentication here is that the banks want their customers to be able to log in from anywhere in the world. You simply can't properly authenticate a computer out in the wild without some additional device, like secureid.
In other words srop using the word free when something is not free. Perhaps someone should give you a christmas gift, and when you through it away when your done, charge you a 200 dollar termination fee?
If you hold up your end of the deal by staying through the length of the contract, you don't pay a fee. You keep the phone, and you can walk away. What's wrong with calling that "free"?
they're really not all that effective against a concerted enemy when there's a lot of money on the line... Since message boards, which are the major users of CAPTCHAs, are practically by design little fiefdoms, I don't think they're nearly as hard to patrol as a common-carrier network like email.
Little feifdom bulletin boards don't generally have a lot of money on the line, which is why captcha works so well. The cost of paying human captcha solvers is high enough that it's fairly rare to see spam on a captcha-protected site. The effect of captchas on my own tiny personal feifdom brought spam down from a significant daily annoyance to zero. I simply don't get spam on my site anymore.
For example, you can use your Outlook address book with Thunderbird.
Intellisync for Yahoo lets you synchronize your Yahoo webmail address book with Outlook and your PDA. Works great for me. Also syncs calendar, todo, and notepad.
... in more than one place within a function, I have copy-and-paste code. One-liners like this used in multiple places can cause bugs to get fixed in one place and not another. Now, are you telling me that I should wrap the foo function call in another function? Then I'd end up with...
fooWrapper(bar);
... in multiple places instead. Tell me how to refactor this copy-and-paste code so that "copy-and-paste" code is gone.
I'm not using Vista, and I'm writing this on my Debian box. But this is ridiculous.
It is the same bug (essentially) reported in 2005, and it should have been caught in a matter of hours or even minutes after the 2005 bug was initially reported to them.
Do you write code? It sounds like some copy-and-paste code had a bug in it, and they didn't catch both places. They probably should have caught it, but they didn't. If they are incompetent merely because they have code that is exploitable by stack overflows, then every OS and most network applications out there are the result of incompetence. There is no software development process that will guarantee every potential exploit will be caught.
On top of all of that, this is yet another (of about three instances I have found so far), where it's clear that Vista is not "all new code" as MS likes to maintain it is.
Got a reference to back that up? Anywhere that a MS spokesperson has stated that Vista is "all new code"?
> how can you imagine that seeing a picture of a topless woman is worse than losing brain cells to drugs?
I completely agree. However, everyone sets their own priorities.
>> What is needed is a comprehensive, open source filtering system that requires you to contribute without any anonymity. > Call when you develop a porn classification system that everyone accepts.
I think the idea is great. Millions of eyeballs creating metacontent could certainly yield useful information. In practice, though, I don't expect that people who are intentionally browsing for porn would submit this information. It might help with the false-positive and false-negative edge cases though, like non-pornographic but adult-oriented sites that carry occasional nudity or whatever.
The land we're talking about is scrub desert too far from anywhere to be of any use for industry, and too dry to be of any use for any form of agriculture.
That's what they said about Las Vegas!
(BTW: I'd put this argument in the "pro-spaceport" column.)
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Hamburglar's law: As an online discussion about a lawsuit grows longer, the probability of a debate about the merits of the McDonald's hot coffee case approaches one.
Doesn't make sense for Nintendo to postpone revenues into the next fiscal year.
Game companies, especially large ones, do this kind of thing all the time. It's all about hitting the expectations for the quarter or year. If they've already hit their numbers this period, they want to do as much as possible to delay sales until the beginning of the next, so they'll have a better chance of hitting the numbers then. Project schedules for many products I've worked on have been moved around entirely to increase the chance of hitting guidance in a particular quarter.
Materials reflect different amounts of specific wavelengths of light. If you want to see how much green a material reflects, you pretty much have to shine some green light on it. You might be able to get a partial mapping by using a database of materials with their IR and visible spectrum reflections, but there's no simply mapping that can be done.
Any deviations from this process can lead to a lawsuit. Right or wrong, that is what Diebolt is claiming.
But they aren't even claiming that. Diebold freely states that the office acted in good faith, and that there was no impropriety. They were just surprised that they didn't win, and came to the decision that it was cost effective to challenge it in court.
OK, I feel bad about my mattress joke being modded "informative". So here's informative for you. They've apparently researched lots of cool things, from the design of space elevators, to space hotels for astronauts visiting mars. It seems like much of their work is looking at the feasibility of bringing things that seem like science fiction into reality. All their papers are available as.pdf files. I wish I had the time to read them all, but I do plan on reading a few.
Nothing is wrong with digital it all depends on the medium.
It depends on the content as well. Content that is inherently analog tends to be more 'robust' in analog form. For instance, in the military they say, "A computer with a bullet in it is just a paperweight. A map with a bullet in it is still a map."
I think the development process has little to do with the product's patentability.
Agreed. I mention the process to show that there is an algorithm that is initially run entirely as software, and then is synthesized into a piece of hardware. I would argue that, by your reasoning, you could encapsulate any software within a black box of hardware and patent it. Then, if someone implemented the same algorithm in software, you would have a strong case for infringement.
I assume the resulting device operates on its own and isn't merely a processor with a form of ROM containing instructions?
This is correct. The logic gates are etched into the ASIC. Another interesting thing is, the same process can be used to program the gates of an FPGA, which is a device that acts like an ASIC, but it is reprogrammable. Rather than etching the gates, an array of gates are configured as needed. (In many ways, an FPGA is to an ASIC as an EPROM is to a ROM.)
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C:\> vi C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts ;)
vi: command not found.
Rather, I think the insightful thing to say here is that you don't gain security by adding arbitrary hoops for your consumers to jump through, but by implementing a real authentication protocol.
Exactly. The deceit here is the same as before, there are just more hoops (for the customer, not the phisher). The problem with authentication here is that the banks want their customers to be able to log in from anywhere in the world. You simply can't properly authenticate a computer out in the wild without some additional device, like secureid.
In other words srop using the word free when something is not free. Perhaps someone should give you a christmas gift, and when you through it away when your done, charge you a 200 dollar termination fee?
If you hold up your end of the deal by staying through the length of the contract, you don't pay a fee. You keep the phone, and you can walk away. What's wrong with calling that "free"?
I'm pretty sure you can get Cingular service on a month-to-month basis with no contract if you don't opt for a subsidized phone.
What equipment?
The modem? well, no I can get my own.
Many of the intro rate contract plans include the DSL modem.
they're really not all that effective against a concerted enemy when there's a lot of money on the line... Since message boards, which are the major users of CAPTCHAs, are practically by design little fiefdoms, I don't think they're nearly as hard to patrol as a common-carrier network like email.
Little feifdom bulletin boards don't generally have a lot of money on the line, which is why captcha works so well. The cost of paying human captcha solvers is high enough that it's fairly rare to see spam on a captcha-protected site. The effect of captchas on my own tiny personal feifdom brought spam down from a significant daily annoyance to zero. I simply don't get spam on my site anymore.
For example, you can use your Outlook address book with Thunderbird.
Intellisync for Yahoo lets you synchronize your Yahoo webmail address book with Outlook and your PDA. Works great for me. Also syncs calendar, todo, and notepad.
Real engineering sucks, doesn't it?
An in-depth look at Linux filesystems. Specifically, how to make use of the mysterious "ls" command.
I'm not using Vista, and I'm writing this on my Debian box. But this is ridiculous.
It is the same bug (essentially) reported in 2005, and it should have been caught in a matter of hours or even minutes after the 2005 bug was initially reported to them.
Do you write code? It sounds like some copy-and-paste code had a bug in it, and they didn't catch both places. They probably should have caught it, but they didn't. If they are incompetent merely because they have code that is exploitable by stack overflows, then every OS and most network applications out there are the result of incompetence. There is no software development process that will guarantee every potential exploit will be caught.
On top of all of that, this is yet another (of about three instances I have found so far), where it's clear that Vista is not "all new code" as MS likes to maintain it is.
Got a reference to back that up? Anywhere that a MS spokesperson has stated that Vista is "all new code"?
> how can you imagine that seeing a picture of a topless woman is worse than losing brain cells to drugs?
I completely agree. However, everyone sets their own priorities.
>> What is needed is a comprehensive, open source filtering system that requires you to contribute without any anonymity.
> Call when you develop a porn classification system that everyone accepts.
I think the idea is great. Millions of eyeballs creating metacontent could certainly yield useful information. In practice, though, I don't expect that people who are intentionally browsing for porn would submit this information. It might help with the false-positive and false-negative edge cases though, like non-pornographic but adult-oriented sites that carry occasional nudity or whatever.
They are a rouge nation,
They might wear a little too much make-up at times, but that hardly makes them a "rouge nation".
People have known about, and even explored, these caverns of Mars for over two decades.
Point is, uh, yeah the 360 has usb ports.
The land we're talking about is scrub desert too far from anywhere to be of any use for industry, and too dry to be of any use for any form of agriculture.
That's what they said about Las Vegas!
(BTW: I'd put this argument in the "pro-spaceport" column.)
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Hamburglar's law: As an online discussion about a lawsuit grows longer, the probability of a debate about the merits of the McDonald's hot coffee case approaches one.
Doesn't make sense for Nintendo to postpone revenues into the next fiscal year.
Game companies, especially large ones, do this kind of thing all the time. It's all about hitting the expectations for the quarter or year. If they've already hit their numbers this period, they want to do as much as possible to delay sales until the beginning of the next, so they'll have a better chance of hitting the numbers then. Project schedules for many products I've worked on have been moved around entirely to increase the chance of hitting guidance in a particular quarter.
standard USB peripheral interface
You haven't actually seen an XBox 360, have you?
Materials reflect different amounts of specific wavelengths of light. If you want to see how much green a material reflects, you pretty much have to shine some green light on it. You might be able to get a partial mapping by using a database of materials with their IR and visible spectrum reflections, but there's no simply mapping that can be done.
Any deviations from this process can lead to a lawsuit. Right or wrong, that is what Diebolt is claiming.
But they aren't even claiming that. Diebold freely states that the office acted in good faith, and that there was no impropriety. They were just surprised that they didn't win, and came to the decision that it was cost effective to challenge it in court.
OK, I feel bad about my mattress joke being modded "informative". So here's informative for you. They've apparently researched lots of cool things, from the design of space elevators, to space hotels for astronauts visiting mars. It seems like much of their work is looking at the feasibility of bringing things that seem like science fiction into reality. All their papers are available as .pdf files. I wish I had the time to read them all, but I do plan on reading a few.
http://www.niac.usra.edu/studies/studies.jsp
Seems to me like it's worth 1/4000th of NASA's budget.
"Memory-foam" mattresses
Nothing is wrong with digital it all depends on the medium.
It depends on the content as well. Content that is inherently analog tends to be more 'robust' in analog form. For instance, in the military they say, "A computer with a bullet in it is just a paperweight. A map with a bullet in it is still a map."
I think the development process has little to do with the product's patentability.
Agreed. I mention the process to show that there is an algorithm that is initially run entirely as software, and then is synthesized into a piece of hardware. I would argue that, by your reasoning, you could encapsulate any software within a black box of hardware and patent it. Then, if someone implemented the same algorithm in software, you would have a strong case for infringement.
I assume the resulting device operates on its own and isn't merely a processor with a form of ROM containing instructions?
This is correct. The logic gates are etched into the ASIC. Another interesting thing is, the same process can be used to program the gates of an FPGA, which is a device that acts like an ASIC, but it is reprogrammable. Rather than etching the gates, an array of gates are configured as needed. (In many ways, an FPGA is to an ASIC as an EPROM is to a ROM.)
As your assistant, I told you more than once, the ideal drive for this application was the IBM Deathstar 75GXPs.