The only way to test if something is secure is to try and break it, because usually a scientist, developer, etc,. can declare if something is secure only in theory.
Hell, it's a lot worse than that. Most of the people making the security software think, "yeah, this will probably work." They don't even attempt to determine if it was a good idea.
Heh, I'm just learning TeX (LaTeX actually, since I like the recursive scoping). The things you can do in it and the ease that they can be done with, even knowing very little TeX yet, amazes me.
Science and technology is a big collaborative developpement between people from many nations and it feels really silly to have to mention this here.
Yeah, I was thinking about posting some anti-anti-US stuff, but you're right about that. The arguments about who's better and who's superior are fucking stupid.
No, I think he's just showing that there is good reason to be skeptical of religion if it has been shown to be so easy to make up. There was no claim that his argument used perfect logic in the mathematical sense you used.
Anyway, you definitions of A, B, and C don't make any sense for pure logic (that is, they can't be translated into math without adding more logical events), and are not close to what he claimed. I was going to make a logic example here, but it just wouldn't work. His post was more of a probability argument.
How about: I don't care or believe whether God exists, so why should you? I think this is a perfectly valid position, and that the people asking the question can be legitimatly told to "F*** off." This isn't my position, I just think that it should be recognized as one.
Yeah, I'll die. I don't have any belief in an afterlife, so it's kind of depressing, which sucks. Not enough to make me believe in any religion though. I'm scared of death, but not so terrified to make me cling to faith to feel better.
Well, MHz numbers can be pretty meaningful when comparing two different chips from the same architecture, at least if all the data fits in the cache so that memory speed isn't an issue. The people who are saying that MHz is meaningful know that you can't directly compare different types of chips using it, but there can be a multiplier factor. For example, when I see an AMD vs. Intel comparison, I think, OK, so that Athlon 1.5 is really like a (1.5*1.4)= 2.1GHz Intel. Sure, it's not completely accurate, but it's just as good as AMD's fake rating, without hiding the real technical information.
There are definitely improvements that could be made with a dedicated networked-PC OS designed with an eye to protecting the user's data from less-trusted network programs such as the web browser.
That's an interesting idea. For *NIX systems, maybe there could be another account that the browsers etc. could run as, so that they could create files in your home directory, but not delete or modify them. You might have to have an extra account for each user, I dunno. Something like that, or some kind of ACLs could make an improvement in user-level protection.
No, it's the password of the user who is executing sudo. I know, after trying to figure out why it wasn't working for me; I was using the root password instead of my own!
Actually, they tried to do a by-machine breakdown as well this time, which is where the 80,000 figure comes from. The direct quote: "Of the 80,000 ip addresses no longer running Microsoft-IIS, only around 2,000 are now running a competing web server."
I tried this just for fun...Took me 11 minutes. Does that make me a good programmer (I hope)? Only difficulty was that I for some reason confused bitwise-and with bitwise-xor in my swap function...Made for some interesting results.
Text of program: (stupid disallowed < sign)
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
void swap (char& a, char& b)
{
a ^= b;
b ^= a;
a ^= b;
}
void strrev (char string[])
{
int count = strlen(string) >> 1;
for (int front = 0, back = strlen(string) - 1; front < count; front++, back--)
swap(string[front], string[back]);
}
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
char * string = new char[20];
strcpy(string, "This is a string");
strrev(string);
cout << string << endl;
return 0;
}
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Hey, wait a minute...are any of MS's sites closely tied enough to their illegal monopolistic activities that they violated their own license terms? That would be hilarious.
I think that the GPL requires that the program be modifiable, which in the absence of source necessitates reverse-engineering it or hacking the binary of the GPL program.
They don't even call this trojan anything. This could be any old trojan from any old operating system 30 years ago, and it could be described almost exactly the same. This will be pointed out many times I'm sure, but I've already read a dozen uninformed, stupid comments. You would have to download an untrusted binary, install it somewhere, and run it as root to do any damage. Who the hell runs untrusted binaries as root?!? Sure, I run some untrusted binaries, but never as root! And besides, who has ever e-mailed linux binaries as attachments to someone else? This article is stupid.
Maybe We'll start to see robots that throw nets at the spinning robots to screw them up. Son of Whatever couldn't have worked too well if it was all tangled up, methinks.
His boss was visiting him in jail? I thought people were saying that any employee of Elcomsoft could be arrested while entering the US. If they arrest Skylarov, but don't arrest his boss, how are they consistent?
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This is surely redundant, but...(-1: Didn't read the article)
Oh wow, at first I thought you put: catch(...) {...}, but the braces are empty. Wow is that shitty
Hah! Thanks for the great ending to my workday!
Heh, I'm just learning TeX (LaTeX actually, since I like the recursive scoping). The things you can do in it and the ease that they can be done with, even knowing very little TeX yet, amazes me.
Really? which side is he on?
No, I think he's just showing that there is good reason to be skeptical of religion if it has been shown to be so easy to make up. There was no claim that his argument used perfect logic in the mathematical sense you used. Anyway, you definitions of A, B, and C don't make any sense for pure logic (that is, they can't be translated into math without adding more logical events), and are not close to what he claimed. I was going to make a logic example here, but it just wouldn't work. His post was more of a probability argument.
How about: I don't care or believe whether God exists, so why should you? I think this is a perfectly valid position, and that the people asking the question can be legitimatly told to "F*** off." This isn't my position, I just think that it should be recognized as one.
Yeah, I'll die. I don't have any belief in an afterlife, so it's kind of depressing, which sucks. Not enough to make me believe in any religion though. I'm scared of death, but not so terrified to make me cling to faith to feel better.
Well, MHz numbers can be pretty meaningful when comparing two different chips from the same architecture, at least if all the data fits in the cache so that memory speed isn't an issue. The people who are saying that MHz is meaningful know that you can't directly compare different types of chips using it, but there can be a multiplier factor. For example, when I see an AMD vs. Intel comparison, I think, OK, so that Athlon 1.5 is really like a (1.5*1.4)= 2.1GHz Intel. Sure, it's not completely accurate, but it's just as good as AMD's fake rating, without hiding the real technical information.
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No, it's the password of the user who is executing sudo. I know, after trying to figure out why it wasn't working for me; I was using the root password instead of my own!
There's no String in C++ either. It's std::string (lowercase). I'm guessing that String is #defined to char *
Actually, they tried to do a by-machine breakdown as well this time, which is where the 80,000 figure comes from. The direct quote: "Of the 80,000 ip addresses no longer running Microsoft-IIS, only around 2,000 are now running a competing web server."
Well, I guess you could just ask the FBI to collate their information for you...I'm sure they have a significant sample like you wanted already. blah.
Yeah, I guess I'm a dumbass...oh well.
I tried this just for fun...Took me 11 minutes. Does that make me a good programmer (I hope)? Only difficulty was that I for some reason confused bitwise-and with bitwise-xor in my swap function...Made for some interesting results.
Text of program: (stupid disallowed < sign)
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
void swap (char& a, char& b)
{
a ^= b;
b ^= a;
a ^= b;
}
void strrev (char string[])
{
int count = strlen(string) >> 1;
for (int front = 0, back = strlen(string) - 1; front < count; front++, back--)
swap(string[front], string[back]);
}
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
char * string = new char[20];
strcpy(string, "This is a string");
strrev(string);
cout << string << endl;
return 0;
}
Hey, wait a minute...are any of MS's sites closely tied enough to their illegal monopolistic activities that they violated their own license terms? That would be hilarious.
I think that the GPL requires that the program be modifiable, which in the absence of source necessitates reverse-engineering it or hacking the binary of the GPL program.
Nope, just posting comments as a logged-in user. You can read slashdot without cookies as much as you want.
They don't even call this trojan anything. This could be any old trojan from any old operating system 30 years ago, and it could be described almost exactly the same. This will be pointed out many times I'm sure, but I've already read a dozen uninformed, stupid comments. You would have to download an untrusted binary, install it somewhere, and run it as root to do any damage. Who the hell runs untrusted binaries as root?!? Sure, I run some untrusted binaries, but never as root! And besides, who has ever e-mailed linux binaries as attachments to someone else? This article is stupid.
Maybe We'll start to see robots that throw nets at the spinning robots to screw them up. Son of Whatever couldn't have worked too well if it was all tangled up, methinks.
His boss was visiting him in jail? I thought people were saying that any employee of Elcomsoft could be arrested while entering the US. If they arrest Skylarov, but don't arrest his boss, how are they consistent?