How the hell is that not a patch? The bug was, you can link using an invalid URL, and IE will display the resulting page as being on a different site than it actually is on. The fix would be not to display pages linked to with invalid URLs... which this does. It also logs all the invalid URLs people are tricked into following, and tells them when they have attempted to follow them.
I've been looking for Bubba Hotep, but the only theaters I can find are in CA, Canada, or the northeast US. Is anyone showing this around the Dallas Fort/Worth area?
After the astonishingly good finale to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I'm hungry to consume some more excellent movies.
Re:I think my form of encryption is better
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Sure, all codes (except one time pads and equivalents) can be broken. The difference is whether it takes a day to crack the code or it can be proven that it requires either a centuries-sought breakthrough in mathematics or all the computers in the world working for ten thousand years.
I don't know how you feel about it, but quantitative differences on those scales qualify as qualitative differences to me. Your 2048 bit PGP key simply isn't crackable by any reasonable standard. The reason people succeed at these challenges is because the bar has been set intentionally low.
Wow, thanks for the link, I didn't know anything about this.
I still can't see how it could affect who can declare war, though. It is a constitutional assertion that only Congress can declare war; I can't see how any statutory law could legally change that. Without a constitutional amendment, this sounds to me like another FDA or national drug law - an illegal law.
Unfortunately, the constitutionality of a law doesn't seem to affect the reality of its enforcement much.
Really? When was war declared? War is a pretty big deal - Congress has to declare war, and unless I'm sorely misinformed, they haven't.
Try looking up the treaties (e.g. the Geneva Convention) the US has signed with regard to war. After the war is over, we have to return soldiers to their home country. Are we still at war in Afghanistan? No? Then why are we holding Swiss and Austrian (and Afghani) citizens in X-Ray for things they ostensibly did as soldiers in Afghanistan? Why aren't we told the names of who is being held at X-Ray? Why aren't their governments? These are not enemy governments that we're keeping this information from - they're supposed to be our allies. We treat them like lap-dogs. It's despicable.
Try _reading_ 1984. The whole point is that the government invents a perpetual war so that citizens accept a loss of rights for a supposed increase in security. If you don't think our government would do that, try googling on Operation Northwoods or the sinking of the Maine.
Thank you for that insight into the dirty politics of the book industry.:(
Re:It?s a matter of semantics
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Punishing people for producing wealth? People are taxed for the money they take from others, not for the wealth they produce. Much more money is taken because we don't have any choice but to give it than we give because we get a good value.
You seem to be arguing from a fairness point of view - to complete that point of view all money from inheritance should be put into a common pool, no one should be allowed to give gifts beyond some token value, and anyone who dupes or forces other people to give them money should be punished. Those things are too hard to do (and I daresay you wouldn't like the results if they were done), so progressive taxation is used. In fact, the very highest income earners pay immensely less proportionately than the lowest (I'm talking about the upper 1 in 10,000).
It sounds to me as if you were born into the part of the bell curve with more, and you want to justify your outrage at having some of it taken away to support the people who put you there (or whose ancestors helped put your ancestors there). That doesn't sound very bloody fair to me.
Double dumbass on you. The way BG slew the competition was by first becoming somewhat ubiquitous, and for that part, yes, he had to give people what they wanted. However, since then he's stayed on top by doing everything in his power to require that you run MS Windows to have access to virtually any application. BeOS was easier to use, Mac is easier to use. Linux is becoming easier to use. However, to run most apps, you just have to have Windows for the undocumented OS apis that most apps require to run.
It's as if only one brand of car could drive to certain destinations. Of course that's the easiest one to use, but it's only because the guy who's selling you the cars has made it so that only those cars can drive on the road to Chicago.
I believe [sic] means "I know this is (or may be) wrong, but I'm quoting it verbatim from another source". I use (sp?) to mean "I don't know if I'm spelling this right or not.
You have no right to duplicate the copyrighted material.
Are you a troll? At least in the US, you absolutely have fair use rights, which include parody, archiving, and excerpts for exemplary or non-commercial purposes.
Try reading the law before telling people what rights they don't have.
What's more, you have every right to get together with friends and make tape copies or digital copies of music on digital audio recording equipment.
It wasn't actually my website content that got him riled. It was, in fact, a comment I made on slashdot. He just used the info in my website's whois to find my home phone number and address.
In fact, I had just that thing happen, although on a very small scale. Some kid decided that what I had to say about SUVs made him mad, so he looked up my home phone number from whois (easy enough, considering my sig) and gave me a drunken, incomprehensible phone call.
About three weeks later, when we got back from an evening out (in my wife's car), my car had been rammed in the rear. There was also a pumpkin smashed behind it.
I'm not a person with a lot of enemies. It's possible that it was random teenage asininity, and that the timing was just coincidence. But it's never happened to me or to anyone in my neighborhood before.
I kept the digital audio of stream of cursewords and bile for quite a while, but power went out and I lost it off the voicemail before I transferred it to the computer:( I wanted to link to it in my Slashdot sig;)
Help pay back the RIAA's 12-year-old victim Emmett Plant is running a collection-plate to pay back the 12-year-old honor student who lives in a New York housing project who was intimidated into turning $2000 over to the RIAA to keep them from suing her for file-sharing.
Removing the control rods shuts down the reaction. Control rods are there to slow down the neutrons enough so that they react with other nuclei to continue the reaction.
I would like to request that you respond to the opposing viewpoint that's listed in reply to your post. I am honestly interested in seeing some resolution between these two very opposed but also reasonable sounding positions.
Has the whole business of "you don't own this copy of software you just bought" been settled? I personally don't accept that bullshit that I didn't buy a copy of the software the same way I buy a book. It looked just like a sale to me when I gave my money at the register. I didn't sign anything.
Don't accept that your rights are lessened simply because someone asserts they are. Unless you signed something, and until a court rules otherwise, your software is yours. If you can figure out a way to get it to run without clicking "I agree" (do you have a 12 year old to install the software?) I recommend doing so.
If we didn't have immense industries planting their croneys in our government and bribing the government members they don't already own, the market would be a sane way to decide what energy resource to use.
As it is, with subsidies, wars calculated to process industries, tax breaks, and the lack of factoring damage to people from pollutants into the cost, there's no way to know what is the best resource. However, from the effort put into propping up the oil industry, it sure seems like it's the buggy industry in a world ready for automobiles.
Good point! Makes me feel better about the way I'm leaning - for the particular applications I'm working on (see sig), I know the app will outlive the db, so I'm safe.
For the vast majority of business applications, I think you're 100% correct.
That sounds very nice, that we should just focus the tax money on defending individual rights, until you look at the actual results we've gotten. When was our big push for scientific advancement? Maybe the 1960s & 1970s space programs? When was our biggest advance in US economic power? Hmm, wasn't it starting about 10 years later?
Corporations have proven that they only care about next quarter, at least since the advent of stock value as the primary measure of a company's worth. Trusting them to advance our quality of life the way fundamental advances in science can is setting yourself up to fail.
We lost our interest in advancing science about 10 or 20 years ago, and we've been on the decline ever since.
because how else are you to ensure that the data you pull out of it is correct?
Umm, because you make sure the app only puts valid data in the db, and only access the db through the app?
If the app attempts to put bad data in the db, you're in trouble anyway. No amount of db-logic is going to solve this.
I suspect this boils down to dbas vs software developers, and the right answer is somewhere in the middle. But I don't see a good reason to put data integrity logic (beyond transactions) in the database and I do see a good reason (db platform independence) to put it in the application. This is assuming you have only one application that accesses the db, as is often the case.
I don't understand why those ding-dongs used MD5. The value of MD5 is that it's hard to make a file with the same MD5 hash but different contents. If all you want to do is identify the file, CRC is much faster and just as good.
The obvious way for P2P users to circumvent this is to use a tool to modify at least one bit on all of their mp3 files randomly (thus changing the hash), so the RIAA can't see what they're trading. It's much more valuable to appear not to be doing something illegal than it is to flood their sniffers by always appearing to be doing something illegal. Not to mention, it's conceivable that it would be considered a violation of the DMCA to circumvent their detection system by reproducing the hashes they're looking for.
No matter what hash the RIAA uses, changing bits in the file will almost certainly change the hash. They need real watermarks to do what they want, and they will be too expensive to calculate on a broad basis until computers get much faster.
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Hey, thanks a lot!! I know what I'm doing this week.
How the hell is that not a patch? The bug was, you can link using an invalid URL, and IE will display the resulting page as being on a different site than it actually is on. The fix would be not to display pages linked to with invalid URLs... which this does. It also logs all the invalid URLs people are tricked into following, and tells them when they have attempted to follow them.
Sounds like a pretty darn good patch to me.
I've been looking for Bubba Hotep, but the only theaters I can find are in CA, Canada, or the northeast US. Is anyone showing this around the Dallas Fort/Worth area?
After the astonishingly good finale to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I'm hungry to consume some more excellent movies.
Sure, all codes (except one time pads and equivalents) can be broken. The difference is whether it takes a day to crack the code or it can be proven that it requires either a centuries-sought breakthrough in mathematics or all the computers in the world working for ten thousand years.
I don't know how you feel about it, but quantitative differences on those scales qualify as qualitative differences to me. Your 2048 bit PGP key simply isn't crackable by any reasonable standard. The reason people succeed at these challenges is because the bar has been set intentionally low.
Wow, thanks for the link, I didn't know anything about this.
I still can't see how it could affect who can declare war, though. It is a constitutional assertion that only Congress can declare war; I can't see how any statutory law could legally change that. Without a constitutional amendment, this sounds to me like another FDA or national drug law - an illegal law.
Unfortunately, the constitutionality of a law doesn't seem to affect the reality of its enforcement much.
Really? When was war declared? War is a pretty big deal - Congress has to declare war, and unless I'm sorely misinformed, they haven't.
Try looking up the treaties (e.g. the Geneva Convention) the US has signed with regard to war. After the war is over, we have to return soldiers to their home country. Are we still at war in Afghanistan? No? Then why are we holding Swiss and Austrian (and Afghani) citizens in X-Ray for things they ostensibly did as soldiers in Afghanistan? Why aren't we told the names of who is being held at X-Ray? Why aren't their governments? These are not enemy governments that we're keeping this information from - they're supposed to be our allies. We treat them like lap-dogs. It's despicable.
Try _reading_ 1984. The whole point is that the government invents a perpetual war so that citizens accept a loss of rights for a supposed increase in security. If you don't think our government would do that, try googling on Operation Northwoods or the sinking of the Maine.
What a wonderful sig! Thanks.
Thank you for that insight into the dirty politics of the book industry. :(
Punishing people for producing wealth? People are taxed for the money they take from others, not for the wealth they produce. Much more money is taken because we don't have any choice but to give it than we give because we get a good value.
You seem to be arguing from a fairness point of view - to complete that point of view all money from inheritance should be put into a common pool, no one should be allowed to give gifts beyond some token value, and anyone who dupes or forces other people to give them money should be punished. Those things are too hard to do (and I daresay you wouldn't like the results if they were done), so progressive taxation is used. In fact, the very highest income earners pay immensely less proportionately than the lowest (I'm talking about the upper 1 in 10,000).
It sounds to me as if you were born into the part of the bell curve with more, and you want to justify your outrage at having some of it taken away to support the people who put you there (or whose ancestors helped put your ancestors there). That doesn't sound very bloody fair to me.
IM is a generic term for instant messenger. AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, etc. are all IM systems.
I think you win.
Double dumbass on you. The way BG slew the competition was by first becoming somewhat ubiquitous, and for that part, yes, he had to give people what they wanted. However, since then he's stayed on top by doing everything in his power to require that you run MS Windows to have access to virtually any application. BeOS was easier to use, Mac is easier to use. Linux is becoming easier to use. However, to run most apps, you just have to have Windows for the undocumented OS apis that most apps require to run.
It's as if only one brand of car could drive to certain destinations. Of course that's the easiest one to use, but it's only because the guy who's selling you the cars has made it so that only those cars can drive on the road to Chicago.
I believe [sic] means "I know this is (or may be) wrong, but I'm quoting it verbatim from another source". I use (sp?) to mean "I don't know if I'm spelling this right or not.
Try reading the law before telling people what rights they don't have.
What's more, you have every right to get together with friends and make tape copies or digital copies of music on digital audio recording equipment.
Thanks, me too ;)
It wasn't actually my website content that got him riled. It was, in fact, a comment I made on slashdot. He just used the info in my website's whois to find my home phone number and address.
In fact, I had just that thing happen, although on a very small scale. Some kid decided that what I had to say about SUVs made him mad, so he looked up my home phone number from whois (easy enough, considering my sig) and gave me a drunken, incomprehensible phone call.
:( I wanted to link to it in my Slashdot sig ;)
About three weeks later, when we got back from an evening out (in my wife's car), my car had been rammed in the rear. There was also a pumpkin smashed behind it.
I'm not a person with a lot of enemies. It's possible that it was random teenage asininity, and that the timing was just coincidence. But it's never happened to me or to anyone in my neighborhood before.
I kept the digital audio of stream of cursewords and bile for quite a while, but power went out and I lost it off the voicemail before I transferred it to the computer
Already done.
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Help pay back the RIAA's 12-year-old victim
Emmett Plant is running a collection-plate to pay back the 12-year-old honor student who lives in a New York housing project who was intimidated into turning $2000 over to the RIAA to keep them from suing her for file-sharing.
Donate here
Removing the control rods shuts down the reaction. Control rods are there to slow down the neutrons enough so that they react with other nuclei to continue the reaction.
I would like to request that you respond to the opposing viewpoint that's listed in reply to your post. I am honestly interested in seeing some resolution between these two very opposed but also reasonable sounding positions.
Thanks!
Has the whole business of "you don't own this copy of software you just bought" been settled? I personally don't accept that bullshit that I didn't buy a copy of the software the same way I buy a book. It looked just like a sale to me when I gave my money at the register. I didn't sign anything.
Don't accept that your rights are lessened simply because someone asserts they are. Unless you signed something, and until a court rules otherwise, your software is yours. If you can figure out a way to get it to run without clicking "I agree" (do you have a 12 year old to install the software?) I recommend doing so.
If we didn't have immense industries planting their croneys in our government and bribing the government members they don't already own, the market would be a sane way to decide what energy resource to use.
As it is, with subsidies, wars calculated to process industries, tax breaks, and the lack of factoring damage to people from pollutants into the cost, there's no way to know what is the best resource. However, from the effort put into propping up the oil industry, it sure seems like it's the buggy industry in a world ready for automobiles.
Good point! Makes me feel better about the way I'm leaning - for the particular applications I'm working on (see sig), I know the app will outlive the db, so I'm safe.
For the vast majority of business applications, I think you're 100% correct.
That sounds very nice, that we should just focus the tax money on defending individual rights, until you look at the actual results we've gotten. When was our big push for scientific advancement? Maybe the 1960s & 1970s space programs? When was our biggest advance in US economic power? Hmm, wasn't it starting about 10 years later?
Corporations have proven that they only care about next quarter, at least since the advent of stock value as the primary measure of a company's worth. Trusting them to advance our quality of life the way fundamental advances in science can is setting yourself up to fail.
We lost our interest in advancing science about 10 or 20 years ago, and we've been on the decline ever since.
If the app attempts to put bad data in the db, you're in trouble anyway. No amount of db-logic is going to solve this.
I suspect this boils down to dbas vs software developers, and the right answer is somewhere in the middle. But I don't see a good reason to put data integrity logic (beyond transactions) in the database and I do see a good reason (db platform independence) to put it in the application. This is assuming you have only one application that accesses the db, as is often the case.
I don't understand why those ding-dongs used MD5. The value of MD5 is that it's hard to make a file with the same MD5 hash but different contents. If all you want to do is identify the file, CRC is much faster and just as good.
The obvious way for P2P users to circumvent this is to use a tool to modify at least one bit on all of their mp3 files randomly (thus changing the hash), so the RIAA can't see what they're trading. It's much more valuable to appear not to be doing something illegal than it is to flood their sniffers by always appearing to be doing something illegal. Not to mention, it's conceivable that it would be considered a violation of the DMCA to circumvent their detection system by reproducing the hashes they're looking for.
No matter what hash the RIAA uses, changing bits in the file will almost certainly change the hash. They need real watermarks to do what they want, and they will be too expensive to calculate on a broad basis until computers get much faster.