I don't look forward to the next few years. I see our brethren to the south starting a rather nasty and violent revolution to get rid of the corporate and government trough-feeders. The poor always outnumber the rich, but in the US they not only dramatically outnumber the rich, most of them have guns. It's going to be a lot messier than the last American Revolution was...
Americans would never stand for hand counting each ballot, because it's a ridiculous waste of time and money.
Paper (fill in the bubble) ballots with electronic counting (and hand recounts if needed) are the way to go. Yes, there are huge problems with these touch-screen systems, because they're made by idiots out to make money, and pushed by "gee wiz, isn't this neat" officials who don't know anything. but Hand counting ballots is hugely open to fraud and abuse. Sure, in theory you have people from both parties looking at each ballot. (now there's some real efficiency!) but the fact that they belong to a certainly party doesn't really mean are loyal to it.
Any fraud is probably canceled out by fraud in the other way, but, that's hardly any way to run an election.
If you're system is so perfect, I have a question for you. Do you ever do recounts? And if so, how much of a difference between count and recount is there?
There's a huge difference between a journalist writing a critical piece on Microsoft in some subsidiary getting fired, and getting fired for violating a clear company policy, and giving away information that could have been considered sensitive (that so and so group was doing work with new Macs).
Microsoft may not even have the legal right to fire this journalist (OSDN can't, for example, fire Rob or Hemos as slashdot editors due the contract they originally signed with Andover). If they did put pressure on slate, or if slate acted unilaterally, it would hugely damage slate as an independent news source.
Java applets are just as bad unfortunately. Once they are trusted they no longer run in the sandbox.
Well for one thing, ActiveX controls need to be trusted completely to run at all. You can either give some website root access to your box (basically), or see nothing at all.
With java, an applet can do most everything you'd want an applet to do, without any extra security rights at all. and contrary to what you've said, Java has a very granular security model. You can grant very specific rights, such as the right to read and write to one specific file, or read the files in one specific directory, make a network connection to a specific machine, etc.
for comming up with the "split long documents into seperate pages, because users don't understand how the scrollbar works, and would much rather wait a minute or two while their slow-ass modem loads up the next page" advice. Which ungodly numbers of people followed.
Beta JDKs for 1.5 have been out for a while, so it's entirely possible people may have written code using 1.5 features in the past few months, in anticipation of the new release. It would make sense for them to put down J2se5 experiance, I guess.
Well, the 'language', the 'ideal' of java is at version 2, while the development kit is 1.4. However, apperantly Sun has decided to rename their development kit from 1.5 to 5. So now we have J2SDK 5. Which is just bizzare.
If you want to get into the HIV -> AIDS (use the right notation, HIV implies AIDS, it does not equal AIDS... if this confuses you read up on Discrete)
Christ you're an idiot. You say 'read up on discrete' (I assume you mean Descartes) and you don't even understand the most basic logic.
It isn't "HIV -> AIDS", the question is "AIDS -> HIV", which means if you have AIDS, you also have HIV. (It also says: if you have HIV, you may or may not have AIDS. If you do not have HIV, youd o not have AIDS)
Saying "HIV causes AIDS" is completly diffrent from saying "HIV implies AIDS", retard.
I'm tired, it's five in the morning after being up all night coding, under a tignt deadline. I see the directory listing of the files I want to clean up
I type rm -rf *
I realize my mistake quickly, and do a ctrl + c, which stops the deletion. I run to the sys-admin who says "well we did a backup around 10pm last night". Great, that's about when I start working.
Eventualy I find most of my files scattered about the decimated filesystem:P
I think the *best* thing to do would be to replace rm with something that gzips the files you were trying to delete, and stores them somewhere for rollback.
Later, you can go back and undelete your stuff if you need to.
Okay. Your post made no sense whatsoever. I'm assuming that the page you linked to is the output of some kind of clustering algorithm. But yeah. It wouldn't have made any sense at all if I'd hadn't taken graduate level CS classes.
Intelligent people should be able to understand the difference between a nation or a group of people, and an individual. For some reason, idiots such as yourself are unable to grasp this simple fact. An individual internet user can't really do much, especially if the country is corrupt. And they certainly can't stop hackers from the outside world breaking into servers in that country.
A friend of mine (Actually the guy that runs sinfulshirts.com) refuses to sell to Russia just because it's not on a list of countries that another T-shirt site will sell to. No more reason then that and "Well, they must have a reason.".
It bugged me, because another friend of mine was saying that Russians didn't wear t-shirts with funny sayings, and if he got an order from Russia, I would have irrefutable proof she was wrong!
This is why black holing ip ranges is fucking lame. Legitimate traffic gets lost in the process. We all know Spam is a problem, but black holing large ranges only hurts people.
We can be a little smarter then this, in this day and age.
According to the page, they are not using a dictionary attack. In any event, you may not get back the password you put in, but some peice of data that has the same md5 sum.
The problem isn't technological, it's pure economics. It's just not worth it to fill that many slots of programming. Unless you want to do what PPV stations do: show the same thing all day on a channel. I mean, where could you possibly get content to fill 500 unique channels of programming?
You know, I'm all for privacy and everything. But, the data that you could get from monitoring all SMS messages, all emails, etc would be fascinating from a sociological research perspective. I mean, you could do things like building a complete social network for all of society. Of course, you could do pretty bad things with it if you were a totalitarian government, but it would still be really interesting to look at.
Makes me wonder if AOL or someone would ever try something like this, just for market research.
but yeah, it would suck to live in China.
Interestingly, China isn't the only nation to pull some internet censorship in east Asia lately, South Korea (of all places) has been censoring internet sites that link to the video of a Korean getting decapitated in Iraq. They've got to the point of blocking most major blog hubs. Goes to show you that totalitarianism isn't limited to "communist." In fact, both SK and Taiwan were pretty bad in the past, but we supported them because "communism" was much worse then "totalitarianism." But those two are getting better, both being democracies now.
Agreed. An iPod mini with a tiny FM transmitter seems an underpowered solution to this problem. A better answer would be a directed electromag pulse to burn out the electronics in the gangsta's CD player, his amps, AND his car's ignition. Then you just need the middle-finger salute as you drive off, leaving him in befuddled silence. HA!
Well, if by "drive off" you mean "sit there like an idiot while he beats the crap out of you."
So for the moron in the SUV listening to to rap, they will most likely be stupified by the silence. Of course, if he changes channels, your shit out of luck, until you again find the one he's on again (if you have time and the chance, like following someone who is unawares).
He'll be "most likely" listening to a CD. Your failure to realize this marks you out as more of a moran then the average SUV driver, I would think.
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I don't look forward to the next few years. I see our brethren to the south starting a rather nasty and violent revolution to get rid of the corporate and government trough-feeders. The poor always outnumber the rich, but in the US they not only dramatically outnumber the rich, most of them have guns. It's going to be a lot messier than the last American Revolution was...
Have you ever actualy been to the United States?
Americans would never stand for hand counting each ballot, because it's a ridiculous waste of time and money.
Paper (fill in the bubble) ballots with electronic counting (and hand recounts if needed) are the way to go. Yes, there are huge problems with these touch-screen systems, because they're made by idiots out to make money, and pushed by "gee wiz, isn't this neat" officials who don't know anything. but Hand counting ballots is hugely open to fraud and abuse. Sure, in theory you have people from both parties looking at each ballot. (now there's some real efficiency!) but the fact that they belong to a certainly party doesn't really mean are loyal to it.
Any fraud is probably canceled out by fraud in the other way, but, that's hardly any way to run an election.
If you're system is so perfect, I have a question for you. Do you ever do recounts? And if so, how much of a difference between count and recount is there?
There's a huge difference between a journalist writing a critical piece on Microsoft in some subsidiary getting fired, and getting fired for violating a clear company policy, and giving away information that could have been considered sensitive (that so and so group was doing work with new Macs).
Microsoft may not even have the legal right to fire this journalist (OSDN can't, for example, fire Rob or Hemos as slashdot editors due the contract they originally signed with Andover). If they did put pressure on slate, or if slate acted unilaterally, it would hugely damage slate as an independent news source.
Java applets are just as bad unfortunately. Once they are trusted they no longer run in the sandbox.
Well for one thing, ActiveX controls need to be trusted completely to run at all. You can either give some website root access to your box (basically), or see nothing at all.
With java, an applet can do most everything you'd want an applet to do, without any extra security rights at all. and contrary to what you've said, Java has a very granular security model. You can grant very specific rights, such as the right to read and write to one specific file, or read the files in one specific directory, make a network connection to a specific machine, etc.
for comming up with the "split long documents into seperate pages, because users don't understand how the scrollbar works, and would much rather wait a minute or two while their slow-ass modem loads up the next page" advice. Which ungodly numbers of people followed.
Beta JDKs for 1.5 have been out for a while, so it's entirely possible people may have written code using 1.5 features in the past few months, in anticipation of the new release. It would make sense for them to put down J2se5 experiance, I guess.
Well, the 'language', the 'ideal' of java is at version 2, while the development kit is 1.4. However, apperantly Sun has decided to rename their development kit from 1.5 to 5. So now we have J2SDK 5. Which is just bizzare.
Actualy, they're only skipping 2 numbers, 3 and 4. "Java 1.5" is actualy JDK 1.5
If you want to get into the HIV -> AIDS (use the right notation, HIV implies AIDS, it does not equal AIDS... if this confuses you read up on Discrete)
Christ you're an idiot. You say 'read up on discrete' (I assume you mean Descartes) and you don't even understand the most basic logic.
It isn't "HIV -> AIDS", the question is "AIDS -> HIV", which means if you have AIDS, you also have HIV. (It also says: if you have HIV, you may or may not have AIDS. If you do not have HIV, youd o not have AIDS)
Saying "HIV causes AIDS" is completly diffrent from saying "HIV implies AIDS", retard.
The part that got taken out was the part about the patriot act, which, IMO was lame and pointless.
But most CDRs wouldn't have a problem with this, I'd think.
I type ls ./some_directory
:P
I'm tired, it's five in the morning after being up all night coding, under a tignt deadline. I see the directory listing of the files I want to clean up
I type rm -rf *
I realize my mistake quickly, and do a ctrl + c, which stops the deletion. I run to the sys-admin who says "well we did a backup around 10pm last night". Great, that's about when I start working.
Eventualy I find most of my files scattered about the decimated filesystem
I think the *best* thing to do would be to replace rm with something that gzips the files you were trying to delete, and stores them somewhere for rollback.
Later, you can go back and undelete your stuff if you need to.
Okay. Your post made no sense whatsoever. I'm assuming that the page you linked to is the output of some kind of clustering algorithm. But yeah. It wouldn't have made any sense at all if I'd hadn't taken graduate level CS classes.
Intelligent people should be able to understand the difference between a nation or a group of people, and an individual. For some reason, idiots such as yourself are unable to grasp this simple fact. An individual internet user can't really do much, especially if the country is corrupt. And they certainly can't stop hackers from the outside world breaking into servers in that country.
How long have you been reading slashdot? 3 days?
uh, shouldn't that be 403?
A friend of mine (Actually the guy that runs sinfulshirts.com) refuses to sell to Russia just because it's not on a list of countries that another T-shirt site will sell to. No more reason then that and "Well, they must have a reason.".
It bugged me, because another friend of mine was saying that Russians didn't wear t-shirts with funny sayings, and if he got an order from Russia, I would have irrefutable proof she was wrong!
This is why black holing ip ranges is fucking lame. Legitimate traffic gets lost in the process. We all know Spam is a problem, but black holing large ranges only hurts people.
We can be a little smarter then this, in this day and age.
This is not a dictionary attack, it's something else. All a long passphrase will get you is some other string with the same hash.
According to the page, they are not using a dictionary attack. In any event, you may not get back the password you put in, but some peice of data that has the same md5 sum.
The problem isn't technological, it's pure economics. It's just not worth it to fill that many slots of programming. Unless you want to do what PPV stations do: show the same thing all day on a channel. I mean, where could you possibly get content to fill 500 unique channels of programming?
You know, I'm all for privacy and everything. But, the data that you could get from monitoring all SMS messages, all emails, etc would be fascinating from a sociological research perspective. I mean, you could do things like building a complete social network for all of society. Of course, you could do pretty bad things with it if you were a totalitarian government, but it would still be really interesting to look at.
Makes me wonder if AOL or someone would ever try something like this, just for market research.
but yeah, it would suck to live in China.
Interestingly, China isn't the only nation to pull some internet censorship in east Asia lately, South Korea (of all places) has been censoring internet sites that link to the video of a Korean getting decapitated in Iraq. They've got to the point of blocking most major blog hubs. Goes to show you that totalitarianism isn't limited to "communist." In fact, both SK and Taiwan were pretty bad in the past, but we supported them because "communism" was much worse then "totalitarianism." But those two are getting better, both being democracies now.
'moron' + 'irony' = moran
Moran: the new black.
Agreed. An iPod mini with a tiny FM transmitter seems an underpowered solution to this problem. A better answer would be a directed electromag pulse to burn out the electronics in the gangsta's CD player, his amps, AND his car's ignition. Then you just need the middle-finger salute as you drive off, leaving him in befuddled silence. HA!
Well, if by "drive off" you mean "sit there like an idiot while he beats the crap out of you."
So for the moron in the SUV listening to to rap, they will most likely be stupified by the silence. Of course, if he changes channels, your shit out of luck, until you again find the one he's on again (if you have time and the chance, like following someone who is unawares).
He'll be "most likely" listening to a CD. Your failure to realize this marks you out as more of a moran then the average SUV driver, I would think.