I was thinking, how long until someone figures out how to hack this program, firewall it off, redirect a port, or something so that they get the money* but the emails never make it to their destination.
*assuming the spammers are honest enough to pay...I wouldn't take that bet
Oh, please. I have no idea if my dad was there for my birth or not, but I really couldn't give a crap either way.
Whether he was able to be contacted and whether he was conveniently nearby when some only-vaguely-predictable event occurred means nothing to me. It means a billion times more how he's treated me for almost 30 years now. The only way it could ever matter what he did on that one day is if he were a crappy dad the rest of my life, and if that were the case it's not like him being around on that one particular day would redeem him.
Not that I agree with such a strategy, but I'm not so sure your concerns are too much of a stopping point. After all, I'm sure there are plenty of unemployed people that already have government clearance. These people are already being trusted to work on things like weapons and defense systems. Letting them work on financial data can't be all that much more dangerous. Plus it's not like these people would be working with any secret processes or anything. They would just mostly be entering data line by line from copies of tax returns, W2s, 1040s, etc...all of which are public knowledge. Only the actual numbers on them would be confidential (and I'm sure there could be measures taken to hide the personally identifying info from the data entry people).
However, I'm not even sure I believe this is the issue. It seems to me that if we could enter the data by hand, we should know the formats and be able to write code to convert between them. I suspect the real problem is something bigger, like coming up with an all-encompassing scheme that is flexible enough to be able to integrate everything together seamlessly. (Of course, maybe I'd know the answer if I'd just go RTFA)
I'm betting it's 100 times easier to scale your web farm than it is to scale your database cluster Not to mention cheaper. Fast CPU's (for a web server) are dirt cheap. Large/fast raid arrays (for a DB server) are expensive. And that's just assuming they are running a free/inexpensive DB. An Oracle license could be more than the hardware costs of the server.
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To elaborate slightly on the parent poster, the condition is called Hyponatremia. Essentially, it's the opposite of dehydration. Too much water decreases electrolyte concentration. So the important factor is, does coffee contain electrolytes? I suspect the answer is no.
Sure, maybe it was lame because nothing terrible ended up happening. However, I was watching a documentary of it on the History Channel last week, and the most frightening thing about it was how poorly the situation was handled. As the situation inside the plant was deteriorating, they kept telling the public "there was a problem, but we've handled it". At one point, their engineers and the NRC had miscalculated the rate of buildup of explosive gasses. Their calculations showed that the containment facility was in danger of blowing open in a matter of hours, yet they made no effort to evacuate the nearby residents (later on they recommended that only pregnant women and small children evacuate).
Oh really? So you mean that Viacom required DishNetwork to sign a contract stating that if the customer wants one of Viacom's channels, they must also be forced to subscribe to the channels of one of Viacom's competitors such as Disney or Time Warner? Somehow I doubt that was in the contract.
Dish wants to pick and choose what they want to air, instead of taking packages...and Viacoms stance is its a package, they want some they take them all.
I find it ironic that when dealing with the customer, Dish Network (along with every other Sat and Cable provider) ends up taking Viacom's position on the matter. Customers ask to pick and choose channels, but they are forced to take packages. I couldn't give a crap about the golf channel, but I have to take it (and 10 others I don't want) if I want Discovery. Maybe they need to learn that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Please tell which vulnerability would screw all my properly made backups
The type of vulnerability where, by the time you realize someone has exploited the vulnerability, all of your safe backups have been put back into rotation, and the only backups that exist anymore are the ones that were made after the system was compromised.
Floating point math is slow, really slow. Maybe you should check out some benchmarks on something newer than a 486, because most current CPUs can actually do floating point calculations faster than integer ones.
but why waste all that powerful hardware if it's there Because when rendering 3D, the chip consumes more electricity causing it to run hotter, making the system more difficult to cool, causing variable speed fans run at a higher RPM, thus causing more noise. So now for the novelty of using 3D just because it's there doing nothing most of the time, my computer room is hotter, louder, and costing more money.
But do you really think that when a new game comes out, all these people that are more skilled than me suddenly can't figure out how to play this new game, so I become better than them again at first? And the thing is, that was never a problem for me in the days when cheating was more underground and less well known. I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but there seems to be a VERY strong correlation...strong enough to make me very suspicious.
I don't understand everyone's automatic assumption that so many people are cheating
Here is what I base my assumption on. I've always been good at online games, usually finishing first or near first place of any game I was in. However, over the years, as cheating has grown more common, I've noticed that my apparent skills have followed a pattern. When a new game comes out, I do very good at it. However after a few months of playing, once the cheats start spreading, I find myself doing worse and worse. Eventually it gets to the point that I feel like I'm a n00b at the game. When a new but very similar game comes out, again I find I'm very good at the new game for a few months, but gradually start getting worse again. Now it may be innocent coincidence, but I have a hard time believing that either a) my skill level declines with practice, or b)other players get better than me but are somehow unable to transfer those skills over to other games, and thus take months of practice to surpass me again.
I've reached the point that I've just given up on online games completely.
That's what UDP is for. Send the magic word in a UDP packet. If you get it right, you get a response back and can setup your TCP connection. If you get no response back, that could mean you got it wrong or it could mean that there is nothing listening in on that port.
That would be WAY simpler than this multiple port idea. Plus it gives you more security options...you can use the server's public key to encrypt the magic word in the UDP packet. Nobody sniffing would be able to intercept the magic word, as opposed to the port knocking method, where anybody can sniff the port numbers out of the unencrypted packet header.
They may get worse than just being dropped. Wasn't Comcast the company that sent out bills for nearly $1000 a few months ago to customers that they found to be using modified cable boxes to steal movie channels and PPV? I wouldn't be surprised if uncapping your cable modem is in some way prohibited by some FCC regulation and these hackers get a letter saying "pay us or pay a lawyer".
A few things wrong with you proposed scenario. 1) TiVo doesn't track personal info, so even if you were to get a subpoena (which no judge would grant for such a situation) there would be no data to use.
2) The logs are erased from he TiVo box each day when the call in is made, so unless you had a really crazy 24 hour porn session the day your wife walked out on you AND your wife knew that TiVo records viewing logs AND you let her walk out the door with your TiVo (because no judge is going to issue a warrant to come into your home and take your TiVo for a divorce case)AND her lawyers were able to retrieve the TiVo logs from it, there wouldn't be any evidence to use.
3) Even IF all the above happened, there is no way to prove that you wife didn't doctor the "evidence" by recording all those shows herself. You would have to take her at her word that the logs are truthful. So if it comes down to trusting her word, all she has to do is say you watched those shows. The TiVo really adds no credible evidence.
Silent PC Review is a good site for finding out about quiet components. According to their ratings on power supplies, there are actually a few 400 watt PSU's that they ranked better than this one: http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?op =modlo ad&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid= 28&page=2
Seems their adword budget ran out. The adword links don't appear on "hutton report" or "hutton enquiry" anymore. At least not on google.co.nz, google.com or google.co.uk.
Not necessarily. One of the features of the Google AdWords system is that it will automatically drop a particular ad when the click through rate on that ad goes below a certain percent.
what MS is good at is "damage and dillition" of an open standard....SMB
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I didn't think SMB was an open standard. I thought it was a MS proprietary protocol that others reverse engineered. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That isn't the problem at all. The TiVo guide data already contains correct times for these shows, so the TiVo already knows too start recording the show at 9:59 or whatever. The problem is when you also record another show on another channel immediately before it, say one that runs from 9:00-10:00. From 9:59 to 10:00, you have this one minute period where the 2 shows overlap. Since Tivo can only record one show at a time, and since it has no option for only recording part of a show, you are forced to pick one show or the other to record. Of course, you can set up a manual recording for 9:00-9:59 and let it pick up the 9:59-11:00 automatically, but thats a bit more of a hassle and it defeats the purpose of TiVo's automatic scheduling feature.
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I was thinking, how long until someone figures out how to hack this program, firewall it off, redirect a port, or something so that they get the money* but the emails never make it to their destination.
*assuming the spammers are honest enough to pay...I wouldn't take that bet
Here is one such advocate:4 10122.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/drudged/032
Pretty soon he'll be paying taxes out the ass.
Oh, please. I have no idea if my dad was there for my birth or not, but I really couldn't give a crap either way.
Whether he was able to be contacted and whether he was conveniently nearby when some only-vaguely-predictable event occurred means nothing to me. It means a billion times more how he's treated me for almost 30 years now. The only way it could ever matter what he did on that one day is if he were a crappy dad the rest of my life, and if that were the case it's not like him being around on that one particular day would redeem him.
What percentage of our income taxes paid in the US goes towards collecting those same taxes?
Well, I'm not sure I'm understanding it correctly (since intuitively the figure seems kind of high to me), but according to the article:
the cost of collecting $1 of revenue--45 cents in 2002, the last year for which statistics are available--has not appreciably declined in two decades.
Not that I agree with such a strategy, but I'm not so sure your concerns are too much of a stopping point. After all, I'm sure there are plenty of unemployed people that already have government clearance. These people are already being trusted to work on things like weapons and defense systems. Letting them work on financial data can't be all that much more dangerous. Plus it's not like these people would be working with any secret processes or anything. They would just mostly be entering data line by line from copies of tax returns, W2s, 1040s, etc...all of which are public knowledge. Only the actual numbers on them would be confidential (and I'm sure there could be measures taken to hide the personally identifying info from the data entry people).
However, I'm not even sure I believe this is the issue. It seems to me that if we could enter the data by hand, we should know the formats and be able to write code to convert between them. I suspect the real problem is something bigger, like coming up with an all-encompassing scheme that is flexible enough to be able to integrate everything together seamlessly. (Of course, maybe I'd know the answer if I'd just go RTFA)
I'm betting it's 100 times easier to scale your web farm than it is to scale your database cluster
Not to mention cheaper. Fast CPU's (for a web server) are dirt cheap. Large/fast raid arrays (for a DB server) are expensive. And that's just assuming they are running a free/inexpensive DB. An Oracle license could be more than the hardware costs of the server.
To elaborate slightly on the parent poster, the condition is called Hyponatremia. Essentially, it's the opposite of dehydration. Too much water decreases electrolyte concentration. So the important factor is, does coffee contain electrolytes? I suspect the answer is no.
Actually, I was talking about Three Mile Island, not Chernobyl.
Sure, maybe it was lame because nothing terrible ended up happening. However, I was watching a documentary of it on the History Channel last week, and the most frightening thing about it was how poorly the situation was handled. As the situation inside the plant was deteriorating, they kept telling the public "there was a problem, but we've handled it". At one point, their engineers and the NRC had miscalculated the rate of buildup of explosive gasses. Their calculations showed that the containment facility was in danger of blowing open in a matter of hours, yet they made no effort to evacuate the nearby residents (later on they recommended that only pregnant women and small children evacuate).
I would have thought God would have had a lower slashdot ID# than that.
Oh really? So you mean that Viacom required DishNetwork to sign a contract stating that if the customer wants one of Viacom's channels, they must also be forced to subscribe to the channels of one of Viacom's competitors such as Disney or Time Warner? Somehow I doubt that was in the contract.
Dish wants to pick and choose what they want to air, instead of taking packages...and Viacoms stance is its a package, they want some they take them all.
I find it ironic that when dealing with the customer, Dish Network (along with every other Sat and Cable provider) ends up taking Viacom's position on the matter. Customers ask to pick and choose channels, but they are forced to take packages. I couldn't give a crap about the golf channel, but I have to take it (and 10 others I don't want) if I want Discovery. Maybe they need to learn that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Please tell which vulnerability would screw all my properly made backups
The type of vulnerability where, by the time you realize someone has exploited the vulnerability, all of your safe backups have been put back into rotation, and the only backups that exist anymore are the ones that were made after the system was compromised.
Floating point math is slow, really slow.
Maybe you should check out some benchmarks on something newer than a 486, because most current CPUs can actually do floating point calculations faster than integer ones.
but why waste all that powerful hardware if it's there
Because when rendering 3D, the chip consumes more electricity causing it to run hotter, making the system more difficult to cool, causing variable speed fans run at a higher RPM, thus causing more noise. So now for the novelty of using 3D just because it's there doing nothing most of the time, my computer room is hotter, louder, and costing more money.
But do you really think that when a new game comes out, all these people that are more skilled than me suddenly can't figure out how to play this new game, so I become better than them again at first? And the thing is, that was never a problem for me in the days when cheating was more underground and less well known. I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but there seems to be a VERY strong correlation...strong enough to make me very suspicious.
I don't understand everyone's automatic assumption that so many people are cheating
Here is what I base my assumption on. I've always been good at online games, usually finishing first or near first place of any game I was in. However, over the years, as cheating has grown more common, I've noticed that my apparent skills have followed a pattern. When a new game comes out, I do very good at it. However after a few months of playing, once the cheats start spreading, I find myself doing worse and worse. Eventually it gets to the point that I feel like I'm a n00b at the game. When a new but very similar game comes out, again I find I'm very good at the new game for a few months, but gradually start getting worse again. Now it may be innocent coincidence, but I have a hard time believing that either a) my skill level declines with practice, or b)other players get better than me but are somehow unable to transfer those skills over to other games, and thus take months of practice to surpass me again.
I've reached the point that I've just given up on online games completely.
That's what UDP is for. Send the magic word in a UDP packet. If you get it right, you get a response back and can setup your TCP connection. If you get no response back, that could mean you got it wrong or it could mean that there is nothing listening in on that port.
That would be WAY simpler than this multiple port idea. Plus it gives you more security options...you can use the server's public key to encrypt the magic word in the UDP packet. Nobody sniffing would be able to intercept the magic word, as opposed to the port knocking method, where anybody can sniff the port numbers out of the unencrypted packet header.
They may get worse than just being dropped. Wasn't Comcast the company that sent out bills for nearly $1000 a few months ago to customers that they found to be using modified cable boxes to steal movie channels and PPV? I wouldn't be surprised if uncapping your cable modem is in some way prohibited by some FCC regulation and these hackers get a letter saying "pay us or pay a lawyer".
A few things wrong with you proposed scenario.
1) TiVo doesn't track personal info, so even if you were to get a subpoena (which no judge would grant for such a situation) there would be no data to use.
2) The logs are erased from he TiVo box each day when the call in is made, so unless you had a really crazy 24 hour porn session the day your wife walked out on you AND your wife knew that TiVo records viewing logs AND you let her walk out the door with your TiVo (because no judge is going to issue a warrant to come into your home and take your TiVo for a divorce case)AND her lawyers were able to retrieve the TiVo logs from it, there wouldn't be any evidence to use.
3) Even IF all the above happened, there is no way to prove that you wife didn't doctor the "evidence" by recording all those shows herself. You would have to take her at her word that the logs are truthful. So if it comes down to trusting her word, all she has to do is say you watched those shows. The TiVo really adds no credible evidence.
Silent PC Review is a good site for finding out about quiet components. According to their ratings on power supplies, there are actually a few 400 watt PSU's that they ranked better than this one:p =modlo ad&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid= 28&page=2
http://www.silentpcreview.com/modules.php?o
Seems their adword budget ran out. The adword links don't appear on "hutton report" or "hutton enquiry" anymore. At least not on google.co.nz, google.com or google.co.uk.
Not necessarily. One of the features of the Google AdWords system is that it will automatically drop a particular ad when the click through rate on that ad goes below a certain percent.
what MS is good at is "damage and dillition" of an open standard....SMB
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I didn't think SMB was an open standard. I thought it was a MS proprietary protocol that others reverse engineered. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
That isn't the problem at all. The TiVo guide data already contains correct times for these shows, so the TiVo already knows too start recording the show at 9:59 or whatever. The problem is when you also record another show on another channel immediately before it, say one that runs from 9:00-10:00. From 9:59 to 10:00, you have this one minute period where the 2 shows overlap. Since Tivo can only record one show at a time, and since it has no option for only recording part of a show, you are forced to pick one show or the other to record. Of course, you can set up a manual recording for 9:00-9:59 and let it pick up the 9:59-11:00 automatically, but thats a bit more of a hassle and it defeats the purpose of TiVo's automatic scheduling feature.
Spoken by someone who watches too many music videos on MTV
Music videos? On MTV? When do they have those on?