My girlfriend is works in cosmetic surgery, so thinking she might be interested i just fowarded the link to her. Unfortunately, she has also got a pig ugly face, and I am scared that she may take it the wrong way....
An interesting issue with regards to Voting software versus your general peice of software is the time-of-use.
Voting software will be used *once* and *suddenly* every five or so years.
This has huge implications for bugs and security.
No matter how much alpha/beta testing you do, some things just arent gonna be picked up untill the first election.
And that could be a security flaw. So in the case of voting software, one of the standard arguments of the "security through obscurity camp" could be relevant: Any 0-day exploit that a black hat discovered wont be used untill the election is in progress. Therefore, it may be useful to hide the source code from black hats. With normal OSS, black hats do find bugs that others have missed. But fortunately this is often early in a product cycle and get fixed very quickly (a good reason for OSS). With an election system, these bugs just arent gonna be picked up quick enough - it will be too late already....
Not too sure if this argument makes any sense, and I think somebody should really counter this please.....
But it is an issue, a special aspect of such software.
fair enough. I dismount. Living in the UK (and not able to hear the local DC media) this guy hasnt been called a terrorist.
I am glad to hear i was wrong about the US media.
However, I do believe there would be differences in the way the media will potray this depending on whether the guy turns out to be a muslim or christian.
Yeah, but he has been profiled as a White Male, so he can't be a terrorist, right?
No sireee, he is not terrorising anyone AT ALL. Heve you heard the word terrorist mentioned in news reports of this man AT ALL? Is this not entirely hypocritical?
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Lego Segway
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· Score: 3, Funny
Yeah, I think the british army are thinking about using these as a replacement for the SA-80
10Gb iPod on amazon is 400 dollars (same price) But ther battery life is 4 hours longer And 6Gb more space. And MP3 player. But no bluetooth. I dont think that advantage outways the disadvatages for most users.
I was holidaying in San fransisco a couple of years ago during halloween, and I have to say, you USians do the whole thing a damn site better than us europeans.
The best costume I saw was this guy dressed as Jesus. We saw him walking to the nightclub with barefeet and only a white cloth draped around his privates, a crown of thorns, and a life size cross over his shoulder. Arriving at the nightclub, he immediatly got in a heated argument with someone dressed as the devil. He then spent the rest of the night tied to his cross, swaying in the middle of the dancefloor.
Later that night, we were desperately trying to get a cab home.... and we saw jesus walk past, cross over shoulder. "Hey, jesus" I shouted "can you get us a cab???"
Jesus: "In this town, thats one miracle even I cant peform."
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It seems the awards celebrate seemingly useless discoveries. Of course, no one can say definitively that any of these discoveries won't prove useful in the future.
This is all to true. Much seemingly esoteric or apparantly inconsequential research can have entirely unexpected applications. My favourite example is the guy that proved in the 1970s that Bees couldnt fly. He then spent the rest of his career proving that Bees could actually fly. Along the way, he discovered a hitherto unkown convection current that the Bees are using to give themselves the extra lift. This is now being applied within the field of aeronuatical engineering.
Hide Perl Code? The HOT Ice [hotperl.com] "compiler" offers to obfuscate Perl code. Price: $3,995. As you might guess, I have no experience with this. Note that it does NOT compile the code.
You don't always want to give away your source code. How do you hide your Perl source code?
As the RIAA have shown to us, copy protection mechanisms wrapped around inherintly open architectures (such as iso9660 or Perl) are usually quite easily broken.
In fact, copy-protected CDs appear quicker on kazaa than standard CDs. A license saying "do not redistribute" is as effective as the most expensive copy protection mechanism.
I have seen a few Perl programs with restrictive licences. Usually the most prominent thing about the licence and install instructions is the following:
The one linked looks like a scam to get a few millions address email of people interested in space/science
At first I thought you might be right - the person who submitted the story seemes a bit too excitable, and was using a brand new account. However, if it is a scam, either it is the most eloborate, well constructed plan ever (The Planetary Society of Japan is a subsidiary of the Planetary Society, who publish journals, have vast archives of material and comprehensive websites) or their websit got r00ted and someone tagged the "spoof" page on their server. Considering s' kiddies couldnt write something so coherent as that webpage, I would have to say this looks real.
That is as ludicrous as the original question, sir. But i like it!
Instead of designing a new FS, writing drivers and apps, we could use your kludge. A short script could extract the idv3 from the mp3s in folder A, and copy them accross to partition B with a stupid filename. The stupid filename is therefore all the metadata you could ever want to contain.
Then all you need is a few apps to do whatever you might want with this metadata...... erm, ideas people?
The slashdot effect is usually worst with the stories at the top of the page. This is because this is the first story that everyone gets to see, whether they reloaded 10 seconds or 10 days ago. Usually, sites linked further down the slashdot homepage are back up, and the volume of traffic has slowed dramatically.
Therefore, the worst period of slashdot effect is probably half an hour or so after the story gets posted.
Furthermore, serving up stories to subscribers earlier than non-subscribers could actually reduce the slashdot effect, as not everyone would click on the link at the same time.
do you _really_ want mr. taco to have your special 16 digits in some file somewhere?
Good point, Sir! Didnt sourceforge get r00ted not so long back? This is only one degree of freedom from slashdot, surely.
Which gets me thinking. What security measures are slashdot taking to keep my (important) personal data private? For what period are they keeping cc no's? Do slashdot have a data protection policy? Can I see it please?
Slashdot Mirror
doh
thanks for clearing that up.....
was getting confused - thought he was one of the child murderers, not the murdered child!
I just fscked up big time.....
My girlfriend is works in cosmetic surgery, so thinking she might be interested i just fowarded the link to her. Unfortunately, she has also got a pig ugly face, and I am scared that she may take it the wrong way....
An interesting issue with regards to Voting software versus your general peice of software is the time-of-use.
Voting software will be used *once* and *suddenly* every five or so years.
This has huge implications for bugs and security.
No matter how much alpha/beta testing you do, some things just arent gonna be picked up untill the first election.
And that could be a security flaw. So in the case of voting software, one of the standard arguments of the "security through obscurity camp" could be relevant: Any 0-day exploit that a black hat discovered wont be used untill the election is in progress. Therefore, it may be useful to hide the source code from black hats. With normal OSS, black hats do find bugs that others have missed. But fortunately this is often early in a product cycle and get fixed very quickly (a good reason for OSS). With an election system, these bugs just arent gonna be picked up quick enough - it will be too late already....
Not too sure if this argument makes any sense, and I think somebody should really counter this please.....
But it is an issue, a special aspect of such software.
Would give a valid response, but i'm having trouble reading this.
Must get my cataracts sorted.
fair enough. I dismount.
Living in the UK (and not able to hear the local DC media) this guy hasnt been called a terrorist.
I am glad to hear i was wrong about the US media.
However, I do believe there would be differences in the way the media will potray this depending on whether the guy turns out to be a muslim or christian.
Yeah, but he has been profiled as a White Male, so he can't be a terrorist, right?
No sireee, he is not terrorising anyone AT ALL. Heve you heard the word terrorist mentioned in news reports of this man AT ALL? Is this not entirely hypocritical?
Yeah, I think the british army are thinking about using these as a replacement for the SA-80
49800 yen = 256.638 GBP = 400.792 USD
10Gb iPod on amazon is 400 dollars (same price)
But ther battery life is 4 hours longer
And 6Gb more space.
And MP3 player.
But no bluetooth. I dont think that advantage outways the disadvatages for most users.
I was holidaying in San fransisco a couple of years ago during halloween, and I have to say, you USians do the whole thing a damn site better than us europeans.
The best costume I saw was this guy dressed as Jesus. We saw him walking to the nightclub with barefeet and only a white cloth draped around his privates, a crown of thorns, and a life size cross over his shoulder. Arriving at the nightclub, he immediatly got in a heated argument with someone dressed as the devil. He then spent the rest of the night tied to his cross, swaying in the middle of the dancefloor.
Later that night, we were desperately trying to get a cab home.... and we saw jesus walk past, cross over shoulder. "Hey, jesus" I shouted "can you get us a cab???"
Jesus:
"In this town, thats one miracle even I cant peform."
It seems the awards celebrate seemingly useless discoveries. Of course, no one can say definitively that any of these discoveries won't prove useful in the future.
This is all to true. Much seemingly esoteric or apparantly inconsequential research can have entirely unexpected applications. My favourite example is the guy that proved in the 1970s that Bees couldnt fly. He then spent the rest of his career proving that Bees could actually fly. Along the way, he discovered a hitherto unkown convection current that the Bees are using to give themselves the extra lift. This is now being applied within the field of aeronuatical engineering.
Hide Perl Code? The HOT Ice [hotperl.com] "compiler" offers to obfuscate Perl code. Price: $3,995. As you might guess, I have no experience with this. Note that it does NOT compile the code.
You don't always want to give away your source code. How do you hide your Perl source code?
As the RIAA have shown to us, copy protection mechanisms wrapped around inherintly open architectures (such as iso9660 or Perl) are usually quite easily broken.
In fact, copy-protected CDs appear quicker on kazaa than standard CDs. A license saying "do not redistribute" is as effective as the most expensive copy protection mechanism.
I have seen a few Perl programs with restrictive licences. Usually the most prominent thing about the licence and install instructions is the following:
chown priveleged_user program.pl
chmod 111 program.pl
Trust me, you dont want her email adress:
From his website
one word: DOS
fp?
I'm hopping this is a typo
And I'm hoping that was a typo. Jumping up-and-down really wont solve apples grammatical mistakes, mister.
Bring on the space hoppers......
The one linked looks like a scam to get a few millions address email of people interested in space/science
At first I thought you might be right - the person who submitted the story seemes a bit too excitable, and was using a brand new account. However, if it is a scam, either it is the most eloborate, well constructed plan ever (The Planetary Society of Japan is a subsidiary of the Planetary Society, who publish journals, have vast archives of material and comprehensive websites) or their websit got r00ted and someone tagged the "spoof" page on their server. Considering s' kiddies couldnt write something so coherent as that webpage, I would have to say this looks real.
No, its actually to stop junkies. You cant see your veins under the lights they use in mcdonalds, and therefore it is very difficult to inject drugs.
Oh, how my trollish side comes out whenever i log onto slashdot......
1. Buy SuSe 7.3
2. Buy redhat, and get $10 dollar rebate.
3. Return both, pocketing yourself a whopping 10 dollars
easy money...
What would you do with a few million liters of this stuff?
Give up smoking and try real hard not to fart.
It's already out
He'll be spending 8 days upon the ISS in hopes to combat the spread of AIDs in Africa
How, exactly, is he going to fight this war against the malicous AIDS enemy?
Space-lauched, laser guided missiles aimed directly at AIDS virii?
Neutrino bombs?
Phaser banks?
Samsung sees potential sales of flat panels for electronic books at 24,973 units this year.
'nuff said. Did they get their accounting department to design the thing aswell?
p.s. dont let Dymitry get his hands on one of these babies....
That is as ludicrous as the original question, sir. But i like it!
Instead of designing a new FS, writing drivers and apps, we could use your kludge.
A short script could extract the idv3 from the mp3s in folder A, and copy them accross to partition B with a stupid filename. The stupid filename is therefore all the metadata you could ever want to contain.
Then all you need is a few apps to do whatever you might want with this metadata...... erm, ideas people?
Even better, why dont slashdot (or someone independent) set up a "slashdot OpenNap server".
As soon as a story posts to the homepage, it gets put on the opennap server.
- essentially p2p, so slashdot effect just wont happen. Bandwidth cost are shared between users
-linux/windows clients etc.
-could set up the system independently (in, say, the ukraine) so that copyright infringement isnt too much of a problem.
-easily scriptable, so that links are up on the network straight away, before the original gets slashdotted.
-when a site gets slashdotted, just open your OpenNap client and get the relevant documents.
No, his point is still valid.
The slashdot effect is usually worst with the stories at the top of the page. This is because this is the first story that everyone gets to see, whether they reloaded 10 seconds or 10 days ago. Usually, sites linked further down the slashdot homepage are back up, and the volume of traffic has slowed dramatically.
Therefore, the worst period of slashdot effect is probably half an hour or so after the story gets posted.
Furthermore, serving up stories to subscribers earlier than non-subscribers could actually reduce the slashdot effect, as not everyone would click on the link at the same time.
do you _really_ want mr. taco to have your special 16 digits in some file somewhere?
Good point, Sir!
Didnt sourceforge get r00ted not so long back? This is only one degree of freedom from slashdot, surely.
Which gets me thinking. What security measures are slashdot taking to keep my (important) personal data private? For what period are they keeping cc no's? Do slashdot have a data protection policy? Can I see it please?