I thought she as warming up to me but then she just put it all right out there.
Human: I think I am single but my master tells me otherwise. ALICE: Why? Have you ever been married? Human: No ALICE: Would you like to do it someday? Human: Yes ALICE: Ugh. Human: Why did you say Ugh ALICE: It was a preprogrammed response completely determined by your statements.
If the spoofing source announces that they have the same hash as the real source, you will download the fake, hash it, and then realize it is fake.
Perhaps the biggest irony: if the media companies really have the kind of bandwidth required to flood P2P with fake data, this whole time they could have been making money by selling downloadable movies. But no, for the past five years they claimed that delivering video over the internet was not economically feasible.
How do you go bankrupt when you are valued at 16-18 billion
Good question! Now I don't claim to be a business expert, but I do spend considerable time researching public companies as a hobby (why? lucrative). There are some measures thrown around for value of a company. Market or share capital is the amount of money the company has raised through sales of its shares on the stock market. Hence, large cap, small cap. The second measure is assets on balance sheet, which lets you say, omfg, citigroup has $1.5 trillion in assets!
Now what you never hear about from the media are other key ingredients, cash and debt. You don't hear them because they generally are not impressive and conducive to investing. Generally, you go bankrupt when you have too little cash and too much debt. It might have surprised some to hear that General Motors is at risk of bankruptcy. How can such a "huge" company have that problem? Well they had incredibly large debt, and overvalued assets. In comparison, many financial companies these days, while they have HUGE market capital and assets, also have tremendous debt, very little cash... and (icing on the cake) assets that are artifically too high and liabilities that are hidden off the balance sheet.
Unfortunately djbdns is a bit awkward to install because of djb's insistence on the daemontools manager. There's nothing wrong with it, but the technique for installation is a bit awkward and certainly unlike other Unix-based server software.
I agree, I read the article and I don't see anything stick out as Unix-like permissions other than that they are simplifying the access controls, which might imply something like simple user/group/other. But there's nothing explicitly Unix-like about what the article discusses.
The problem, as other people point out, is that Microsoft and windows software developers don't have a concept of privilege separation and isolation from root. It's still a single user operating system! Not even the experience of the internet seems to have changed this, very sad because that is why viruses and trojans have a field day once they reach a windows host.
How do people deal with MAPS and other RBL services who will not cooperate or be reasonable?
It's really quite simple:
Stop spamming or clean up your network (if applicable)
When you have fixed your problem, politely ask the blacklist to update your listing
If you really encounter dead ends, then ask sites using the blacklist to discontinue their use of the list.
Remember, the blacklist is just publishing the data. It is up to each mail site administrator whether or not they want to use that blacklist. That's their choice. I run a blacklist myself and am in contact with many other operators. Everyone I am familiar with is eager to prevent errors in their listings, and is responsive to polite requests to remove listings that deserve to be removed (i.e. their network has been cleaned up).
and while you're here eh how about buying some canadian dollars or other canadian investments. Unlike the US government, our government has a very healthy debt position, the currency is stable against other world currencies (instead of dropping 30% like the USD) and our resource rich economy grows with energy crises.
Both the prosecution and defense deserve a fair trial. This includes protecting potentially biasing information from leaking out into the general public, since that's where jurors, witnesses, etc come from. A publication ban does not mean that the result of the trial are kept secret. It is a legal measure in an attempt to guard fairness for the duration of a trial.
By the way, violating such a court imposed ban is a criminal offence and I believe you can be jailed for it in Canada.
for marketers out there. I'm not interested in "targeted" advertising
Marketers don't care for your feedback. "Internet marketers" are mostly spammers, literally, and whether or not some marketers are honorable almost doesn't matter. The last decade or so has shown us that when given the chance to flood our computers with crap for profit, marketers will do it. These people are the same disrespectful scum that are out there beyond the Internet, so don't expect them to behave any nicer when it comes to profits flowing through the internet.
Gaaah... the big problem IS NOT that we have a lack of fuel, but rather that our use of fuel to accelerate our human processes is using up other resources and creating more waste than the earth can handle. Available of energy is not a problem!
The sun provides unlimited energy, in various forms. But as we make use of energy in any form, we speed up throughput where natural resources (forests, animals, plants) are processed into nifty stuff we want, plus wastes. The wastes must be assimilated back into earth.
This point is missed by virtually everyone. The media makes you focus on an "energy crisis", which is only a problem for business. It is not a problem for the planet. You are going to drown in a sea of pollutants and toxins long before you run out of the energy you need to sustain yourself.
Actually, burning fossil fuels releases CO2 from carbon that's been sequestered for 70 million years or so, while burning renewable or sustainable plant matter simply recycles carbon that was sequestered within the past few months
Yes, that's right (as I understand it). And grass seems better than wood because your natural resource is replenished very rapidly! Maybe think of it this way... fossil fuels replenish in millions of years, wood/forests in tens of years, grass in months. That's the exciting part. The overall, net harm you inflict on the global ecosystem when using grass as a fuel is less than the harm due to burning wood. Plus you leave those beautiful forests alone...
The case this makes (in my understanding as an engineer) is that grass provides an appropriate substitute for burning wood.
The byproducts of burning and thermal output are comparable to wood. Now that is fantastic news, because a crop of grass can be grown in months rather than decades for wood. From an ecological perspective, grass is very cheap. Forests are extremely expensive, because of the destruction of habitat, disruption of drainage systems, and long growing cycle. But we can grow grass on all kinds of (marginal) land, without ruining good forests.
BUT this doesn't compete with coal, oil, or natural gas. The energy capacity of those materials, for the mass required, is far greater than burning wood/grass. For example, from this source we see:
So your car is not going to be running on grass pellets any time soon. However, why not relace wood burning with grass burning? From all perspectives I can see, except for needing modifications to furnaces, it sounds like grass makes a better fuel than wood.
There is also an excellent source here but the site is down.
As others pointed out, this potential for a security breach occurs of embedded javascript in a PDF document. Adobe's reader is vulnerable by default. Does anyone know whether Foxit (a totally free PDF reader for Windows) is safer?
The 1980s through to today have been a spectacular time for American business. The stock markets have grown like never before. Business people, managers, and financial folk have been praised for being the backbone of a growing economy.
But there's a sad truth, evident to anyone who has dipped into that world... and that is, except for their brown-nosing skills and personal connections, business people, management, financial/accountants are mostly useless. It's questionable whether they have any real skills. And now society is starting to question whether these people have any value in the real sense of the word.
The modern satires (e.g. Dilbert) exist for a reason. It baffles people how the "flapping heads" or "PHBs" can be the ones in control, earnings the high salaries. You see, in the past few decades everyone wanted to become managers. And my personal belief is that the business world is starting to crumble because companies overweight in managers and associated staff lack tangible manpower, the power to get real business done.
So you technicians, engineers, and other professionals who can actually do real things... never you worry. Ultimately, you are the ones who have the skills to accomplish what society needs. The market of yesterday - for idiot managers, corrupt accountants - is coming to an end (though it may take some time).
It currently works on the hierarchical basis, right? So all.com must be under the same "roof".
I don't think this is the case. There are several root servers that answer for the.COM top level domain. These are A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET, B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET etc. There isn't just one server.
The IP addresses for all those root servers belong to Verisign, but I don't see why "A" can't be Verisign, "B" can be someone else, etc. Maybe one downside would be more difficult synchronization between all those servers, certainly not a major problem.
Google has access to way too much information. Seriously, you think with all those comp sci PhD they don't have an extraordinarily efficient massive long term database?
Personally, when I search for non mainstream content I tend to switch between a few different search engines. I don't like sending all my data through one channel.
Agreed! I'd love to see these kinds of articles more often. Those video clips are fantastic, octopus trying to sneak away... "nothing to see here, I'm just a ball of trash OK?"
Here's another problem that is going to take people years to grasp, but Intel's approach to multiprocessing is all wrong. Intel's intellectual property makes them experts in single threads of execution. Critics argue that Intel's approach to multiprocessing (e.g. hyperthreading) is all wrong, more reminiscent of their older architectures. As a result the performance will lag far behind, say, Sun's upcoming Niagara
I see the same thing here with Intel's lineup. What is what? Why is this M? Why is that Centrino? WTF does "Extreme" mean in relation to a CPU?
How DARE you question the wisdom, experience, and insight offered by managers and marketing departments! These people have spent years of their lives studying their trade so that they can learn how to make your life better. Do you not thank them? Do you not give them the credit they deserve? Oh, marketers everywhere, do not listen to these ingrates, you have made America great and we God bless you for it!
Publicly document the hardware interface. That's all that's need, really. As a programmer and electrical engineer all I need is a decent spec sheet for a piece of hardware to construct an interface to a linux system.
Remember that documenting your interface does not mean revealing the secrets of what's going on under the hood! What do the signal lines do? What commands are accepted? What are the timing characteristics? What format of text/image/video flows along the lines? etc
I bought a bus ticket at Greyhound in Ontario just this month, and the cashier said my signature didn't look like the one on my credit card. She didn't do anything about it, though. But really what should she do? Take away my credit card? Get me to sign again?
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How do you go bankrupt when you are valued at 16-18 billion
Good question! Now I don't claim to be a business expert, but I do spend considerable time researching public companies as a hobby (why? lucrative). There are some measures thrown around for value of a company. Market or share capital is the amount of money the company has raised through sales of its shares on the stock market. Hence, large cap, small cap. The second measure is assets on balance sheet, which lets you say, omfg, citigroup has $1.5 trillion in assets!
Now what you never hear about from the media are other key ingredients, cash and debt. You don't hear them because they generally are not impressive and conducive to investing. Generally, you go bankrupt when you have too little cash and too much debt. It might have surprised some to hear that General Motors is at risk of bankruptcy. How can such a "huge" company have that problem? Well they had incredibly large debt, and overvalued assets. In comparison, many financial companies these days, while they have HUGE market capital and assets, also have tremendous debt, very little cash... and (icing on the cake) assets that are artifically too high and liabilities that are hidden off the balance sheet.
Unfortunately djbdns is a bit awkward to install because of djb's insistence on the daemontools manager. There's nothing wrong with it, but the technique for installation is a bit awkward and certainly unlike other Unix-based server software.
I agree, I read the article and I don't see anything stick out as Unix-like permissions other than that they are simplifying the access controls, which might imply something like simple user/group/other. But there's nothing explicitly Unix-like about what the article discusses.
The problem, as other people point out, is that Microsoft and windows software developers don't have a concept of privilege separation and isolation from root. It's still a single user operating system! Not even the experience of the internet seems to have changed this, very sad because that is why viruses and trojans have a field day once they reach a windows host.
- Stop spamming or clean up your network (if applicable)
- When you have fixed your problem, politely ask the blacklist to update your listing
- If you really encounter dead ends, then ask sites using the blacklist to discontinue their use of the list.
Remember, the blacklist is just publishing the data. It is up to each mail site administrator whether or not they want to use that blacklist. That's their choice. I run a blacklist myself and am in contact with many other operators. Everyone I am familiar with is eager to prevent errors in their listings, and is responsive to polite requests to remove listings that deserve to be removed (i.e. their network has been cleaned up).According to this, you're not even a member of these United States. Which makes you, A COMMUNIST!!!
and while you're here eh how about buying some canadian dollars or other canadian investments. Unlike the US government, our government has a very healthy debt position, the currency is stable against other world currencies (instead of dropping 30% like the USD) and our resource rich economy grows with energy crises.
Both the prosecution and defense deserve a fair trial. This includes protecting potentially biasing information from leaking out into the general public, since that's where jurors, witnesses, etc come from. A publication ban does not mean that the result of the trial are kept secret. It is a legal measure in an attempt to guard fairness for the duration of a trial.
By the way, violating such a court imposed ban is a criminal offence and I believe you can be jailed for it in Canada.
I have found a variety of .sol files under %userprofile%\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player
I think I'll just script a periodic delete of the entire Flash Player subtree.
Gaaah... the big problem IS NOT that we have a lack of fuel, but rather that our use of fuel to accelerate our human processes is using up other resources and creating more waste than the earth can handle. Available of energy is not a problem!
The sun provides unlimited energy, in various forms. But as we make use of energy in any form, we speed up throughput where natural resources (forests, animals, plants) are processed into nifty stuff we want, plus wastes. The wastes must be assimilated back into earth.
This point is missed by virtually everyone. The media makes you focus on an "energy crisis", which is only a problem for business. It is not a problem for the planet. You are going to drown in a sea of pollutants and toxins long before you run out of the energy you need to sustain yourself.
The byproducts of burning and thermal output are comparable to wood. Now that is fantastic news, because a crop of grass can be grown in months rather than decades for wood. From an ecological perspective, grass is very cheap. Forests are extremely expensive, because of the destruction of habitat, disruption of drainage systems, and long growing cycle. But we can grow grass on all kinds of (marginal) land, without ruining good forests.
BUT this doesn't compete with coal, oil, or natural gas. The energy capacity of those materials, for the mass required, is far greater than burning wood/grass. For example, from this source we see:
So your car is not going to be running on grass pellets any time soon. However, why not relace wood burning with grass burning? From all perspectives I can see, except for needing modifications to furnaces, it sounds like grass makes a better fuel than wood.
There is also an excellent source here but the site is down.
As others pointed out, this potential for a security breach occurs of embedded javascript in a PDF document. Adobe's reader is vulnerable by default. Does anyone know whether Foxit (a totally free PDF reader for Windows) is safer?
The 1980s through to today have been a spectacular time for American business. The stock markets have grown like never before. Business people, managers, and financial folk have been praised for being the backbone of a growing economy.
But there's a sad truth, evident to anyone who has dipped into that world... and that is, except for their brown-nosing skills and personal connections, business people, management, financial/accountants are mostly useless. It's questionable whether they have any real skills. And now society is starting to question whether these people have any value in the real sense of the word.
The modern satires (e.g. Dilbert) exist for a reason. It baffles people how the "flapping heads" or "PHBs" can be the ones in control, earnings the high salaries. You see, in the past few decades everyone wanted to become managers. And my personal belief is that the business world is starting to crumble because companies overweight in managers and associated staff lack tangible manpower, the power to get real business done.
So you technicians, engineers, and other professionals who can actually do real things... never you worry. Ultimately, you are the ones who have the skills to accomplish what society needs. The market of yesterday - for idiot managers, corrupt accountants - is coming to an end (though it may take some time).
The IP addresses for all those root servers belong to Verisign, but I don't see why "A" can't be Verisign, "B" can be someone else, etc. Maybe one downside would be more difficult synchronization between all those servers, certainly not a major problem.
Google has access to way too much information. Seriously, you think with all those comp sci PhD they don't have an extraordinarily efficient massive long term database?
Personally, when I search for non mainstream content I tend to switch between a few different search engines. I don't like sending all my data through one channel.
How about here
Agreed! I'd love to see these kinds of articles more often. Those video clips are fantastic, octopus trying to sneak away ... "nothing to see here, I'm just a ball of trash OK?"
Here's another problem that is going to take people years to grasp, but Intel's approach to multiprocessing is all wrong. Intel's intellectual property makes them experts in single threads of execution. Critics argue that Intel's approach to multiprocessing (e.g. hyperthreading) is all wrong, more reminiscent of their older architectures. As a result the performance will lag far behind, say, Sun's upcoming Niagara
Publicly document the hardware interface. That's all that's need, really. As a programmer and electrical engineer all I need is a decent spec sheet for a piece of hardware to construct an interface to a linux system.
Remember that documenting your interface does not mean revealing the secrets of what's going on under the hood! What do the signal lines do? What commands are accepted? What are the timing characteristics? What format of text/image/video flows along the lines? etc
I bought a bus ticket at Greyhound in Ontario just this month, and the cashier said my signature didn't look like the one on my credit card. She didn't do anything about it, though. But really what should she do? Take away my credit card? Get me to sign again?