They might be able to fake one hash, but don't most P2P networks use a combination of different hashes? if not then it would be easy to implement - you can either go for more than one different type of hash like md5 and sha etc or add salt/pepper to a chunk and make any number of hashes where each additional hash makes it insanely harder to crack..
The design document should be the source code with a few big blocks of comment at the start of various modules and one readme file that tells you which source file to start reading first. The reason is that in the heat of coding, everything thats not source code is going to get lost, no-one is going to bother opening up a word processor and the only place you can easily write something and expect to find it again is in a comment. Also the only way someone is going to read your design document is if its in the section of code they're looking at. Diagrams and tables? ASCII art.
If your boss asks you for a formal document printed and bound, just write a script to dump all the comments to a file - you could even have a system to mark single line code-explanatory comments so that they don't go in the doc - then your document is always up to date.
She sounds like shes money and attention grabbing. She started talking to him at 15 (he was 23), when she was 17 (above the legal age where I come from?) they arranged to meet, now shes 19 and trying to make some cash off of it. This is really fucking pathetic because you just know the knee-jerk reaction will be that shes a poor little victim. She needs to grow up because there are kids out there who have REALLY been abused and had a bad time and she is a fucking attention whore.
Its all about money - setting up moon bases and exploring mars is worth nothing, in fact less than nothing because it costs so much, all its worth is the knowledge and experience we would gain in living on other planets and maybe some better space ship designs but none of that is commercially viable except maybe for very very long term investments. We have the technology to do loads of things, but most of the time they aren't done because it just isn't worth it money wise.
When the police are lazy and corrupt go directly to technology - i like it! Perhaps when someone speeds 3 times or more the car can automatically drive to the amputation centre to get their hands chopped off? oh wait, sorry my bad, its only the left hand right?
I don't know about the name. Phone companies have always worked on the basis that they had something we needed - a network of transmitters maintained 24/7 and connected to the general phone system. Local calls in cities don't need to touch the phone system, or even the internet, just switch on some cheap routers and let them create a city wide network at practically no cost - it would be like one big cordless phone, sure it would probably be patchy, but people would live with it for most calls - which in the city go something like: "hey where are you? im outside x" "oh im like 1 minute away from x, stay there" and text messaging would work fine. If there was congestion or you wanted to call a land line then your phone just switches to your usual network and you pay for the call. Personally i think this would be good for everyone including the networks - that push-to-talk bullshit is a lesser version of this.
I've watched the first 3 episodes and i had only seen a couple of Dr Who's before that, but the old ones seemed more entertaining, tonights show will make or break it for me, I wonder if the ratings will still be high?
But dont forget with 3 LEDs you have a variable colour light, it might sound novelty and useless but you can make a lot of difference to a room just by subtly changing colours - just look at the difference between crappy energy saving bulbs and old-fashioned ones?
I don't block banner ads but i do block annoying flash and pop-up ads, because those are breaking _my_ social contract by pissing me off. If im interested in your product then im going to click on the banner, if im not interested in it then it doesn't matter if you take over my entire screen and play me a 5 minute advert IM NOT GOING TO MOTHER FUCKING BUY IT.
'Communist' connections are obviously a response to people being unhappy with the price of broadband. At the moment the industry is in limbo - should connections be almost free, and profit made from selling content, or should connections cost allot but essentially become a tax that pays for content (like taxing blank cd's)? the ISPs want one, the entertainment industry wants another, and really they both want both! Then there's wireless net connections which will eventually become as ubiquitous as home connections - you'll wonder how you ever lived a day without having a flat-rate net connection on your phone or laptop, just like now you wonder how anyone can live a day without a mobile phone.
Yeah mass compulsory finger printing _could_ solve petty crime, but would it? and at what cost? People would still probably be able to stay out of the system - even if you had to use your id card to buy absolutely anything, there would still be a black market. But would you want to live in a world like that? If you've got 'nothing to hide' then why not let the government install cameras/microphones in everyones home and on every road and park and field? it won't be long until thats technically and economically viable - video cameras are already mass-produced dirt cheap and the network infrastructure to handle all that data isn't all that hard to imagine. Software to detect and flag 'suspicious activities' is already being developed - it doesn't have to be perfect. We are already technologically at the stage where we can implement 1984, the only reason we haven't is because of a sense of decency - you are innocent until proven guilty, you don't have to submit to scrutiny unless there's something or some suspicion connecting you to a crime.
NASA could out-source its astronauts - maybe to boy bands, telemarketers, lawyers or politicians? give them some training, do just about everything else by remote control, and if something goes wrong there's no need for a rescue mission? just saying, put it there on the table as an option.
Luckily they're not going to start fingerprinting people for passports immediately - its gona take a year or so, and even then only for first passports initially. I recently put mine in the wash, so I better get a new one quick!
Maybe there has been a debate about this in parliament but I haven't seen it, no-one seems to be bringing up the glaring questions: Why will ID cards be exempt from the Data Protection Act? What will happen when people start stealing fingers in order to steal identities? How do you change your fingerprint if someone manages to get a copy of it? How can already proven hacks and vulnerabilities in fingerprinting be prevented?
A search on the DPA register seems to show them up, so you can write to them and get a copy of any personal data they have on you (if thats what they do?) do they share this data with other countries?
Data classes are: -Personal Details -Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances -Goods or Services Provided
I dont think the FCC has jurisdiction over film ratings.. although im sure they'd love to!
You can't have prejudice against violence - that would mean being anti-gun and you can't have that! sex on the other hand serves no purpose other than brushing with someone elses toothbrush or something, condoms have holes in them and homosexuality is the devils work.
People make out spam to be a bigger problem than it is. Sure it can be quite serious from an admin perspective if your basically getting DoS'd but from an inbox perspective its really not that big of a deal unless for some reason your poor address has been hit with hundreds of spams a day. Most filters are pretty good, web-based email like gmail is absolutely excellent and there _are_ ways to solve the problem, theres no need for one 'final solution' but things like challenge-response servers and micro-payment providers (the micro-payment should go to the recipient) will probably become popular and the web as a whole will decide which is the best solution. Obviously education is key here as well - people need to understand the basic fact: if anyone you don't actually know personally calls you up or emails you, theres no way of telling who they are, if they are legit or not, and where your credit card number will end up if you're retarded enough to give it to them, if anyone has been educated and yet still responds to spam and looses all their money i have no sympathy for them, in fact i think of them as scum, almost as bad as the spammer because they are the only reason spam/telemarketing is a viable business.
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They might be able to fake one hash, but don't most P2P networks use a combination of different hashes? if not then it would be easy to implement - you can either go for more than one different type of hash like md5 and sha etc or add salt/pepper to a chunk and make any number of hashes where each additional hash makes it insanely harder to crack..
The design document should be the source code with a few big blocks of comment at the start of various modules and one readme file that tells you which source file to start reading first. The reason is that in the heat of coding, everything thats not source code is going to get lost, no-one is going to bother opening up a word processor and the only place you can easily write something and expect to find it again is in a comment. Also the only way someone is going to read your design document is if its in the section of code they're looking at. Diagrams and tables? ASCII art.
If your boss asks you for a formal document printed and bound, just write a script to dump all the comments to a file - you could even have a system to mark single line code-explanatory comments so that they don't go in the doc - then your document is always up to date.
She sounds like shes money and attention grabbing. She started talking to him at 15 (he was 23), when she was 17 (above the legal age where I come from?) they arranged to meet, now shes 19 and trying to make some cash off of it. This is really fucking pathetic because you just know the knee-jerk reaction will be that shes a poor little victim. She needs to grow up because there are kids out there who have REALLY been abused and had a bad time and she is a fucking attention whore.
Its all about money - setting up moon bases and exploring mars is worth nothing, in fact less than nothing because it costs so much, all its worth is the knowledge and experience we would gain in living on other planets and maybe some better space ship designs but none of that is commercially viable except maybe for very very long term investments. We have the technology to do loads of things, but most of the time they aren't done because it just isn't worth it money wise.
vapour?
Sorry my bad, but UAE does have lashing and im pretty sure they have the death penalty too.
When the police are lazy and corrupt go directly to technology - i like it! Perhaps when someone speeds 3 times or more the car can automatically drive to the amputation centre to get their hands chopped off? oh wait, sorry my bad, its only the left hand right?
encrypted tunnelling trumps juicy logs.. decent security trumps sk'iddies.
I don't know about the name. Phone companies have always worked on the basis that they had something we needed - a network of transmitters maintained 24/7 and connected to the general phone system. Local calls in cities don't need to touch the phone system, or even the internet, just switch on some cheap routers and let them create a city wide network at practically no cost - it would be like one big cordless phone, sure it would probably be patchy, but people would live with it for most calls - which in the city go something like:
"hey where are you? im outside x"
"oh im like 1 minute away from x, stay there"
and text messaging would work fine. If there was congestion or you wanted to call a land line then your phone just switches to your usual network and you pay for the call. Personally i think this would be good for everyone including the networks - that push-to-talk bullshit is a lesser version of this.
He'd make a good time lord.
I've watched the first 3 episodes and i had only seen a couple of Dr Who's before that, but the old ones seemed more entertaining, tonights show will make or break it for me, I wonder if the ratings will still be high?
But dont forget with 3 LEDs you have a variable colour light, it might sound novelty and useless but you can make a lot of difference to a room just by subtly changing colours - just look at the difference between crappy energy saving bulbs and old-fashioned ones?
Whats the penalty for getting around the filters?
Im going to hazard a guess its not a small fine and a warning..
I don't block banner ads but i do block annoying flash and pop-up ads, because those are breaking _my_ social contract by pissing me off. If im interested in your product then im going to click on the banner, if im not interested in it then it doesn't matter if you take over my entire screen and play me a 5 minute advert IM NOT GOING TO MOTHER FUCKING BUY IT.
'Communist' connections are obviously a response to people being unhappy with the price of broadband. At the moment the industry is in limbo - should connections be almost free, and profit made from selling content, or should connections cost allot but essentially become a tax that pays for content (like taxing blank cd's)? the ISPs want one, the entertainment industry wants another, and really they both want both! Then there's wireless net connections which will eventually become as ubiquitous as home connections - you'll wonder how you ever lived a day without having a flat-rate net connection on your phone or laptop, just like now you wonder how anyone can live a day without a mobile phone.
Yeah mass compulsory finger printing _could_ solve petty crime, but would it? and at what cost? People would still probably be able to stay out of the system - even if you had to use your id card to buy absolutely anything, there would still be a black market. But would you want to live in a world like that? If you've got 'nothing to hide' then why not let the government install cameras/microphones in everyones home and on every road and park and field? it won't be long until thats technically and economically viable - video cameras are already mass-produced dirt cheap and the network infrastructure to handle all that data isn't all that hard to imagine. Software to detect and flag 'suspicious activities' is already being developed - it doesn't have to be perfect. We are already technologically at the stage where we can implement 1984, the only reason we haven't is because of a sense of decency - you are innocent until proven guilty, you don't have to submit to scrutiny unless there's something or some suspicion connecting you to a crime.
NASA could out-source its astronauts - maybe to boy bands, telemarketers, lawyers or politicians? give them some training, do just about everything else by remote control, and if something goes wrong there's no need for a rescue mission? just saying, put it there on the table as an option.
Because if it breaks up then it could shower bits of metal in a several hundred mile long line?
Luckily they're not going to start fingerprinting people for passports immediately - its gona take a year or so, and even then only for first passports initially. I recently put mine in the wash, so I better get a new one quick!
Maybe there has been a debate about this in parliament but I haven't seen it, no-one seems to be bringing up the glaring questions: Why will ID cards be exempt from the Data Protection Act? What will happen when people start stealing fingers in order to steal identities? How do you change your fingerprint if someone manages to get a copy of it? How can already proven hacks and vulnerabilities in fingerprinting be prevented?
Great, gona submit a DPA request and see what they have on me.
Not exactly sure what they do, but they have a UK division http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/
A search on the DPA register seems to show them up, so you can write to them and get a copy of any personal data they have on you (if thats what they do?) do they share this data with other countries?
Data classes are:
-Personal Details
-Family, Lifestyle and Social Circumstances
-Goods or Services Provided
Hmm..
... Its time to take them down any way possible and ensure that the west maintains a grip on the economy.
Unless of course they can make cheap iPods - then im all theirs!
You're obviously not quite aware that they hate our freedom. Our glorious leader George W Bush was sent here to deliver us from this evil.
.. Thats all that needs to be said.
I dont think the FCC has jurisdiction over film ratings.. although im sure they'd love to!
You can't have prejudice against violence - that would mean being anti-gun and you can't have that! sex on the other hand serves no purpose other than brushing with someone elses toothbrush or something, condoms have holes in them and homosexuality is the devils work.
People make out spam to be a bigger problem than it is. Sure it can be quite serious from an admin perspective if your basically getting DoS'd but from an inbox perspective its really not that big of a deal unless for some reason your poor address has been hit with hundreds of spams a day. Most filters are pretty good, web-based email like gmail is absolutely excellent and there _are_ ways to solve the problem, theres no need for one 'final solution' but things like challenge-response servers and micro-payment providers (the micro-payment should go to the recipient) will probably become popular and the web as a whole will decide which is the best solution. Obviously education is key here as well - people need to understand the basic fact: if anyone you don't actually know personally calls you up or emails you, theres no way of telling who they are, if they are legit or not, and where your credit card number will end up if you're retarded enough to give it to them, if anyone has been educated and yet still responds to spam and looses all their money i have no sympathy for them, in fact i think of them as scum, almost as bad as the spammer because they are the only reason spam/telemarketing is a viable business.