This just amazes me that there so much money is being spent on stuff like mystery mesons when that money could be better spent on things like disease cure research, or simply feeding the homeless and hungry.
I've always thought there was a difference between Democrats and Republicans. While the Republicans screw the whole country at once, the Democrats tend to screw one woman at a time!
This sure looks very similar to how I set up the computer lab at my kids school about 5 years ago. I created the first machine, Ghosted the image to a network file server, and then applied the image to all the other machines. All that then had to be done was to give each machine a unique name and IP address. Sure seems like prior art to me, and I know I was far from the first one to do this.
The SAIC team specifically excluded the procedures for voter identification, registratoin, etc., from their report. That is unfortunate. One of the biggest problems in Maryland is that you can vote without providing any kind of identification. No driver's license, voter registration card, or anything else.
Let's suppose you are a pollster for one of the major parties. You get a list of the registered voters for the other party. You call and ask questions like, "Do you plan to vote?" and "Whom do you plan to vote for?", just like any other poll. However, what you are doing is compiling a list of those that don't plan on voting. You then get a bunch of people to go to the various precincts and vote as those people. If you do it early enough, even if the real person does actually show up, it won't be until after the fakes have already voted for them. You can cast lots of illegal ballots that way. If the real person does show up and is told they have already voted, they can prove their identity and cast a provisional ballot, subject to investigation. If there are only a few of those, it probably won't affect the outcome and there won't be any investigation. If for some reason, there are a lot of those, it will throw the election results into chaos and probably force a new election. The liklihood of anyone getting caught is almost nil because of the lack of identification, surveillence cameras, or anything else that could be used to ensure that only those leagally registered can vote, and then can only vote as themselves.
I find it very interesting that the State of Maryland redacted almost anything of value from the report that it released. In contrast, the Department of Justice redacted only 1 line from the Carnivore report. The voting report as posted tells very little about what was really found. Perhaps there should be some public call for the unredacted version. Maybe the Baltimore Sun can do a FOIA request.
Most PhD folks I've known in industry were full of book knowledge but had almost no ability whatsoever to apply that knowledge. Obviously there have been exceptions. I'd suggest that for most jobs a BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering is more than sufficient.
It is encrypted with your 128-bit key from your machine to the GoToMyPc server. It is also encrypted from their server to the target machine with a different 128-bit key. It is during the proxy at the GoToMyPc server that it is not encrypted. At least this is the way it worked when first introduced 2 years ago. I have not done a lot of investigation since, as I wrote them off as a security risk.
However, it passes all your data through a third party, who if they wanted to could steal everything. GoToMyPc works because both systems call home to the GoToMyPc server. That server then relays all the info. This is the classic "man-in-the-middle" scenario that cryptographers worry about. It is this security hole that makes it a bad program.
I just tried the attack with my own hotmail account and was able to change the password. For those of you trying, remember to change the attacker@attacker.com to another valid email account, or you won't receive the reset email message. That should be obvious, but apparently some posters hadn't figured that out.
No, because they didn't. Imagine a coin flipping contest with tiers and thousands of contestants. After several rounds, you'll have a person who has won six or seven coin tosses in a row. Miraculous? Amazing? No: necessarily inevitable.
Yes, I understand the probablity and statistics rules that show that. However, comparing evolution to coin tossing would be like someone that tossed the coin a few billion or more times and had it come up heads every time. If they had a fair coin, that probability, while non-zero, is so close to zero that it might as well be zero.
I really don't see how sarcasm can be considered forcing either.
As for overwhelming evidence, there is plenty of evidence for microevolution, that is, adaptation within a species. However, there is no evidence of macroevolution, one species evolving from another. Scientists and other evolutionists have been looking for the "missing link" for years, without being able to find it.
I for one believe that God has an incredible sense of humor, and created things like dinosaur fossils, and other tantalizing evidence, simply to mess with the minds of scientists. Given all that exists in nature, with all the complexity of scientific laws, the makeup of molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles, etc. I simply find it much easier to believe that God created this, than that it simply came about as the result of a long string of fortuitous happenings starting with some Big Bang. By the way, where did the material for the Big Bang come from>
The most disturbing thing is not that you believe in God, it is that you force me to believe in him as well.
I don't know why you are disturbed. Nobody has "forced" you to believe anything. If you'll note, my original post to this thread said, "I'd suggest reading Genesis chapter 1."
The last time I checked, suggestions weren't forcing.
Amazing that all those accidents of nature worked out just perfectly, isn't it? I think that is even more unbelievable than Creation.
A while back I heard a joke about how God and a bunch of Evolutionists were discussing the origins of life. The Evolutionists said they could show how to create life. God said to go ahead and show Him. They said "let's take some dirt and water and..."
God interrupted and said "Wait a minute. That is My dirt and water. Go create your own."
I was not trying to defend SWA, only responding to how the blind person might even know about the web discounts.
A good question is whether it is fair to offer discounts for one method of purchase over another? Blind folks aren't the only ones that cannot get the discount. Remember, there are still a significant number of people that do not have any access to the internet. Thus, they can't get the discount either. However, not having internet access is not protected by the ADA.
Offering different prices to different people is not new either. A remember a while back that Amazon and maybe some others were displaying different prices for items based on the profiles they maintained for their users. A flood of consumer protest caused those systems to be scrapped. Perhaps a similar flood of protest to SWA would cause them to charge the same price regardless of method of reservation (web vs. phone).
The actual problem you are thinking of is finding the prime factors of very large numbers. As already noted, finding the factors of prime numbers is trivial.
If one goes to the TurboLinux website and clicks through to news and events, there is a new entry there for today, 7/19/02. In that entry it talks about a new agreement to provide Linux for IBM mainframes. If they were going under immediately, why would they enter into this agreement?
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This just amazes me that there so much money is being spent on stuff like mystery mesons when that money could be better spent on things like disease cure research, or simply feeding the homeless and hungry.
I've always thought there was a difference between Democrats and Republicans. While the Republicans screw the whole country at once, the Democrats tend to screw one woman at a time!
This sure looks very similar to how I set up the computer lab at my kids school about 5 years ago. I created the first machine, Ghosted the image to a network file server, and then applied the image to all the other machines. All that then had to be done was to give each machine a unique name and IP address. Sure seems like prior art to me, and I know I was far from the first one to do this.
The SAIC team specifically excluded the procedures for voter identification, registratoin, etc., from their report. That is unfortunate. One of the biggest problems in Maryland is that you can vote without providing any kind of identification. No driver's license, voter registration card, or anything else.
Let's suppose you are a pollster for one of the major parties. You get a list of the registered voters for the other party. You call and ask questions like, "Do you plan to vote?" and "Whom do you plan to vote for?", just like any other poll. However, what you are doing is compiling a list of those that don't plan on voting. You then get a bunch of people to go to the various precincts and vote as those people. If you do it early enough, even if the real person does actually show up, it won't be until after the fakes have already voted for them. You can cast lots of illegal ballots that way. If the real person does show up and is told they have already voted, they can prove their identity and cast a provisional ballot, subject to investigation. If there are only a few of those, it probably won't affect the outcome and there won't be any investigation. If for some reason, there are a lot of those, it will throw the election results into chaos and probably force a new election. The liklihood of anyone getting caught is almost nil because of the lack of identification, surveillence cameras, or anything else that could be used to ensure that only those leagally registered can vote, and then can only vote as themselves.
I find it very interesting that the State of Maryland redacted almost anything of value from the report that it released. In contrast, the Department of Justice redacted only 1 line from the Carnivore report. The voting report as posted tells very little about what was really found. Perhaps there should be some public call for the unredacted version. Maybe the Baltimore Sun can do a FOIA request.
I'd sure hate for the automatic update to interrupt my game playing by rebooting my machine!
Most PhD folks I've known in industry were full of book knowledge but had almost no ability whatsoever to apply that knowledge. Obviously there have been exceptions. I'd suggest that for most jobs a BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering is more than sufficient.
It is encrypted with your 128-bit key from your machine to the GoToMyPc server. It is also encrypted from their server to the target machine with a different 128-bit key. It is during the proxy at the GoToMyPc server that it is not encrypted. At least this is the way it worked when first introduced 2 years ago. I have not done a lot of investigation since, as I wrote them off as a security risk.
However, it passes all your data through a third party, who if they wanted to could steal everything. GoToMyPc works because both systems call home to the GoToMyPc server. That server then relays all the info. This is the classic "man-in-the-middle" scenario that cryptographers worry about. It is this security hole that makes it a bad program.
I just tried the attack with my own hotmail account and was able to change the password. For those of you trying, remember to change the attacker@attacker.com to another valid email account, or you won't receive the reset email message. That should be obvious, but apparently some posters hadn't figured that out.
No, because they didn't. Imagine a coin flipping contest with tiers and thousands of contestants. After several rounds, you'll have a person who has won six or seven coin tosses in a row. Miraculous? Amazing? No: necessarily inevitable.
Yes, I understand the probablity and statistics rules that show that. However, comparing evolution to coin tossing would be like someone that tossed the coin a few billion or more times and had it come up heads every time. If they had a fair coin, that probability, while non-zero, is so close to zero that it might as well be zero.
I really don't see how sarcasm can be considered forcing either.
As for overwhelming evidence, there is plenty of evidence for microevolution, that is, adaptation within a species. However, there is no evidence of macroevolution, one species evolving from another. Scientists and other evolutionists have been looking for the "missing link" for years, without being able to find it.
I for one believe that God has an incredible sense of humor, and created things like dinosaur fossils, and other tantalizing evidence, simply to mess with the minds of scientists. Given all that exists in nature, with all the complexity of scientific laws, the makeup of molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles, etc. I simply find it much easier to believe that God created this, than that it simply came about as the result of a long string of fortuitous happenings starting with some Big Bang. By the way, where did the material for the Big Bang come from>
I'd suggest that using Adam and Eve as the sole basis for the entire human gene pool is factually, provably impossible.
Actually, I'd suggest that due to the Great Flood, the basis for the entire gene pool would be Noah and his wife, and their sons and their wives.
The most disturbing thing is not that you believe in God, it is that you force me to believe in him as well.
I don't know why you are disturbed. Nobody has "forced" you to believe anything. If you'll note, my original post to this thread said, "I'd suggest reading Genesis chapter 1."
The last time I checked, suggestions weren't forcing.
Amazing that all those accidents of nature worked out just perfectly, isn't it? I think that is even more unbelievable than Creation.
A while back I heard a joke about how God and a bunch of Evolutionists were discussing the origins of life. The Evolutionists said they could show how to create life. God said to go ahead and show Him. They said "let's take some dirt and water and ..."
God interrupted and said "Wait a minute. That is My dirt and water. Go create your own."
I'd suggest reading Genesis chapter 1.
Turning them off would be a "denial of service".
While you don't see NSA employees on your ballot,
Actually, the former Deputy Directory for Information Security at NSA was Mayor of College Park, MD at the same time.
I was not trying to defend SWA, only responding to how the blind person might even know about the web discounts.
A good question is whether it is fair to offer discounts for one method of purchase over another? Blind folks aren't the only ones that cannot get the discount. Remember, there are still a significant number of people that do not have any access to the internet. Thus, they can't get the discount either. However, not having internet access is not protected by the ADA.
Offering different prices to different people is not new either. A remember a while back that Amazon and maybe some others were displaying different prices for items based on the profiles they maintained for their users. A flood of consumer protest caused those systems to be scrapped. Perhaps a similar flood of protest to SWA would cause them to charge the same price regardless of method of reservation (web vs. phone).
Uh, he is blind, not deaf. I assume someone could have told him about the reduced rate, and thus went to the web to try to obtain it.
The actual problem you are thinking of is finding the prime factors of very large numbers. As already noted, finding the factors of prime numbers is trivial.
If one goes to the TurboLinux website and clicks through to news and events, there is a new entry there for today, 7/19/02. In that entry it talks about a new agreement to provide Linux for IBM mainframes. If they were going under immediately, why would they enter into this agreement?