Apache 1.* forks another process to handle web requests and it is not particularly slow. Apache 2.* uses threads. mod_perl runs under either version I believe. With mason, you aren't even writing cgis anymore either.
As for IPC, most IPC should be done through a little piece of software called *GASP* a database. If you really need something other than that there are modules ( IPC::Sharable comes to mind ) that make IPC easy. Write a nice wrapper around your use of that and it is not hard - really.
Purveyors of Application Servers are just marketroids that try to FUD middle managers into telling their programmers to scrap all their perfectly functional and extensible code so they can buy ( for mucho $$ ) a buzzword-compatible 'framework' that their programmers will have to learn. This framework will be closed source and won't do everything you want it to. You will find yourself wanting to change something that you can't.
"But what's to change? Our framework has modules to speak tons of protocols and zillions of useful utilities." they say
SO DOES CPAN! and you can look at/change the source of those! I seriously doubt there is a canned Application Server with a 'useful code' library that can compete with CPAN.
But middle manager types make their careers by taking 'ideas' from salesmen and then taking credit for getting them implemented, so many will find themselves in charge of bigger budgets and get promotions for causing existing code to be reimplemented with an inferior product that locks their companies into spending more money. ( Look at how much money I can spend! Gee that's alot of responsibility. I need a raise or a promotion or something for pissing this much away! )
As long as the browser rendered the pages perfectly to standard that would be cool. Maybe if it detected errors in it's own code it could parse the output to the w3 standard checker program for that page to crosscheck itself before putting up such a notice.
Wouldn't be a bad idea to roll the space science stuff into the NSF. But the first step to getting there would probably be to cut NASA in half like the guy said.
I read all this crap at age 14 sitting in the library. Story of O was cool, and so are SOME things by Mr de Sade ( Justine for instance ) are ok, and even enjoyable to read. But I skimmed 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis and it's Jeffery Dahmer all the way through. Really gross stuff. I think he wrote it to shock and piss off more than to arouse. Anyway this was dead tree books in my local library and I was 13-14 yrs old reading it. This was before http://asstr.org or the internet. Why should computer porn be any different than text porn?
A one time pad is when 2 ppl pick a book, say the Guinness Book of World Records 1972 hardcover edition second printing ( UK version ) to use as a one time pad. Any messages they send to each other are encrypted by adding the characters of the message to the corresponding text in the Guinness Book. So if the message is 'Hi Joe' and the first sentence of the Guiness Book is, "This book is dedicated to my mother" the encrypted message is:
h i j o e = 07 08 09 14 04
+ t h i s b = 19 07 08 18 01
________________________________
a p r g f = 00 15 17 06 05
To decrypt:
a p r g f = 00 15 17 06 05
- t h i s b = 19 07 08 18 01
________________________________
h i j o e = 07 08 09 14 04
The above message used the thisb part of the one time pad. It's a one time pad because we only use it once, so the next message would be encrypted with 'ook is dedicated to my..'
One time pad encryption is unbreakable once the two parties have a copy of the pad and no spies get a copy of the book you are using. This is because you are essentially adding random noise to your message and there is no way to distinguish your message from the noise. This guy is not using an infinite one time pad. He is trying to generate numbers using a 'million bit virtual matrix' this may not be truely random and so it may be breakable. If say the digits of PI were random ( and some think they are ) then you could encrypt your message with say the digits of pi past the 373298327932749327432974329732987932th decimal point. To brute force your encryption, someone would have to encrypt your message with the digits of PI starting at the first decimal point and examine it or real words until it reached the 373298327932749327432974329732987932th decimal place when it would finally decrypt your message. Using a decimal place of Pi in the 2^256 range would guarantee that nobody could ever
use brute force to crack yer code.
Just take long random strings of characters and breed them as if they were chromasomes. Then have a million lit professors weed out the ones with least merit and breed the strings again. Eventually you end up with shakespeare. Prolly in like 1000000 generations.
It could compute the digits of a known but provably random digited number. I don't know of any numbers that this has been proven for but I remember reading an article a while back that said that the digits of PI are probably random and can be computed in linear time starting arbitrarily at any digit. The number PI could probably be your one time pad.
Know the method used to generate the random digits
Decipher the protocol used to tell the clients what digit in the 'book' to use to start decoding
Decode the message
Profit
Even if the 'server' caches 'bookmarks' in the Big Book Of Digits for each of the clients that connect to it, there must still be a way of establishing those 'bookmarks' through unencrypted channels ( or sneakernet ). This is the point where this kind of thing is vulnerable unless it falls back on standard number-crunching-intense encryption techniques to perform these handshake tasks. The only advantage I see for this technology would be in speeding the transfer of large ammounts of encrypted data.
The sci-fi channel can't produce anything. This CoD will suck as bad as their remake of Dune did. They should not make things, but buy them already made from other people.
Online, often the only way to know something is forbidden is to fail to access it because of a security system. At the very least a username and a password should be required as a no-trespassing sign. But why stop there? Banks have their cash delivered by BRINKS truck because the insurance rating is better than for Kid with a Radio Flier Bagz-o-Cash Courier Service. Paying BRINKS is cheaper than eating the losses from the robberies that would take place or paying an insurance company to eat the losses of the robberies that would take place. So though no law of man would require me to pay armored guards to deliver a Bag-o-Priceless Joolz natural law ( i.e. common sence ) would.
You can walk whereever you want unless you come to a fence or a no-tresspassing sign. You can even walk on private property. To keep people off your land you need to build a fence or put up signs. But if I walk on your land anyway and get caught, it's a $100 fine.
It's more if I open your unlocked door and even more if I jimmy the lock with my credit card. It is also more if I cut a hole in the chainlink fence at a military base or even worse if I break into a bank. In general, the more incentive there might be to break into something, the better it is secured, and the more trouble I might get in for breaking in. The more trouble I could get in for breaking in the more determined I'd have to be to try it. I might miss a no trespassing sign and be where I shouldn't but it'd just be a small fine. I might knock at my friend's house before opening the door and yelling 'Hello'. I might jimmy the door with a credit card if I thought he might be on the floor dying of a heart attack or choking on a chicken bone. I might piss him off and maybe get reported to the cops, especially if his girlfriend was the only one home and didn't answer the door because she was playing in the shower with the vibro-masssage. I might have some explaining to do but jail time would suprise me.
If I climbed over the military's chain link fence to get my football, I'd be in for some trouble if I got caught. But probably more since that would just be an excuse for my real mission which would be spying. If I was caught burglerizing a bank I'd be in jail 15 yrs or more. The odds of being innocent and getting in trouble goes down with the security of the situation - an person with innocent motives is very unlikely to have overcome decent security.
But fences and safes are expensive. However big tough locks are freely available for computers and data. This changes the equation taking some responsibility away from the government protect the public and puts more responsibility on the public to protect themselves. There should not be only one penalty for breaking into joe shmoe's computer and putting a goatse.cx wallpaper on it which is meant for people who break into a companies website and post erroneous figures to drive the price of the stock down so they can buy it low and profit later."
First of all let me say that I agree wholeheartedly.
But if the rules of a protocol are the only rules I need to follow in cyberspace then consider the following valid telnet sessions:
login: abe
password: lincoln
Wrong password, try again:
login: abe
password: Lincoln
Wrong password good bye.
DISCONNECTED
login: abe
password:linc0ln
connected!
$ sudo rm -r/
password: linc0ln
DISCONNECTED
I would argue that insecure systems deserve to be broken in to. The person here shouldn't have had such an easy to guess password. He also shouldn't have used an unencrypted protocol like telnet that anyone can listen to. If you want to have a telnet service running accessable by the public then it should be your responsibility to have a hard to guess password and keep people outside your firewall from being able to connect.
That they created a special page for opera seems to imply that they were not satisfied with the look of the standard page. This would seem to imply that they created an altered page that looked crappy ON PURPOSE. BUT the guy who made the special page may have just done something that should have IF IT WORKED, made the page look better in Opera but not tested it.
Giving microsoft the benefit of the doubt, that the original page looked fine in opera seems to imply that the guy who made the page never bothered to look at the original page in opera and made an alteration for opera without even looking at the page under opera ever.
Though it could have been an on-purpose mistake too.
Considering that it is a low explosive at most, why not use gunpowder to make a bomb.
Buying an exotic chemical like H2O2 would make it easy for the cops to trace it right to you. Though gunpowder is sold in every Wal*Mart, you could make large quantities yourself even less tracably. Just go down to Home Depot or any other Hardware Store or Agway and pick up either Potassium or Sodium Nitrate fertilizer. Sulfur is available for $2.00/lb at most Agways as fungicide ( though my local one seems to sell copper sulfate for that now you might have to look ) but even if you can't find sulfur, and mix in powdered charcoal briquettes, you can mix confectioner's sugar directly with KNO3 or NaNO3 to make something that will explode. Completely untracable as long as you wait a year or so after purchasing or buy it somewhere far away. You could have your own Keg of gunpowder like on Bugs Bunny & Yosemite Sam for 30 bucks.
Or you could easily make nitroglycerine from stuff from Wal*Mart/Home Depot and use it to set off a charge of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer ala Tim MicVeigh ( tho he had commercial primacord that is not something most people have access to so homemade Nitro Glycerine would have to be used ) If you don't want to blow your head off making Nitroglycerine, there are tons of other High explosives you can make easy: Mercury Fulminate for instance, Or Silver Fulminate, or that stuff the palestinian suicide bombers strap to themselves to blow up israelis. That stuff is made with hair bleach and other stuff from the grocery hardware store though I forgot what it is. THe recipe is on totse.com . You need a refrigerator to make it or it is WAY too unstable to use/store.
The only way I know of to get conc H2O2 is to make it starting from the 3% crap you get out of the grocery store.
The ( i admit never actually tried by me ) process is the same as used in the olden days to make applejack out of fermented apple cider. Alcohol ( and I believe H202 as well ) freezes at a lower temp than water. By filling a barrel with apple cider( or hair bleach ) and nailing it to an oak tree in the winter you cause ice crystals to form around the outside of the barrel. The wind blows and rattles the barrel around and soon the alcohol or H2O2 drains from between them into the center of the barrel. Then another cold spell and more of the water freezes and sticks to the outside of the barrel. By the end of the winter, the cold and wind have caused most of the water to freeze around a ball of concentrated alcohol/H2O2 by drilling a hole in the hollow ice, you can drain it out.
Of course you can distill alcohol, but this doesn't work for H2O2 since it would decompose under the heat. So you have to concentrate it by freezing.
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As for IPC, most IPC should be done through a little piece of software called *GASP* a database. If you really need something other than that there are modules ( IPC::Sharable comes to mind ) that make IPC easy. Write a nice wrapper around your use of that and it is not hard - really.
Purveyors of Application Servers are just marketroids that try to FUD middle managers into telling their programmers to scrap all their perfectly functional and extensible code so they can buy ( for mucho $$ ) a buzzword-compatible 'framework' that their programmers will have to learn. This framework will be closed source and won't do everything you want it to. You will find yourself wanting to change something that you can't.
"But what's to change? Our framework has modules to speak tons of protocols and zillions of useful utilities." they say
SO DOES CPAN! and you can look at/change the source of those! I seriously doubt there is a canned Application Server with a 'useful code' library that can compete with CPAN.
But middle manager types make their careers by taking 'ideas' from salesmen and then taking credit for getting them implemented, so many will find themselves in charge of bigger budgets and get promotions for causing existing code to be reimplemented with an inferior product that locks their companies into spending more money. ( Look at how much money I can spend! Gee that's alot of responsibility. I need a raise or a promotion or something for pissing this much away! )
Too bad we can't just turn the universe upside down and peek at the answers.
The CMB aka the Cash Money Brothers were a pair of criminal types from New Jack City, a bad movie about Crack's appearance on the streets of NY.
Does anyone know of a good search engine with a better privacy policy?
As long as the browser rendered the pages perfectly to standard that would be cool. Maybe if it detected errors in it's own code it could parse the output to the w3 standard checker program for that page to crosscheck itself before putting up such a notice.
Wouldn't be a bad idea to roll the space science stuff into the NSF. But the first step to getting there would probably be to cut NASA in half like the guy said.
Hmm if they swept the Starship Enterprise for Baryons then there would be nothing left but electrons....
Censorship.
I read all this crap at age 14 sitting in the library. Story of O was cool, and so are SOME things by Mr de Sade ( Justine for instance ) are ok, and even enjoyable to read. But I skimmed 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis and it's Jeffery Dahmer all the way through. Really gross stuff. I think he wrote it to shock and piss off more than to arouse. Anyway this was dead tree books in my local library and I was 13-14 yrs old reading it. This was before http://asstr.org or the internet. Why should computer porn be any different than text porn?
The above message used the thisb part of the one time pad. It's a one time pad because we only use it once, so the next message would be encrypted with 'ook is dedicated to my..'
One time pad encryption is unbreakable once the two parties have a copy of the pad and no spies get a copy of the book you are using. This is because you are essentially adding random noise to your message and there is no way to distinguish your message from the noise. This guy is not using an infinite one time pad. He is trying to generate numbers using a 'million bit virtual matrix' this may not be truely random and so it may be breakable. If say the digits of PI were random ( and some think they are ) then you could encrypt your message with say the digits of pi past the 373298327932749327432974329732987932th decimal point. To brute force your encryption, someone would have to encrypt your message with the digits of PI starting at the first decimal point and examine it or real words until it reached the 373298327932749327432974329732987932th decimal place when it would finally decrypt your message. Using a decimal place of Pi in the 2^256 range would guarantee that nobody could ever use brute force to crack yer code.
Just take long random strings of characters and breed them as if they were chromasomes. Then have a million lit professors weed out the ones with least merit and breed the strings again. Eventually you end up with shakespeare. Prolly in like 1000000 generations.
one millon bits. That's 256K that must be stored. In small devices like cell phones, that's alot of data to store just to have a million bit key
It could compute the digits of a known but provably random digited number. I don't know of any numbers that this has been proven for but I remember reading an article a while back that said that the digits of PI are probably random and can be computed in linear time starting arbitrarily at any digit. The number PI could probably be your one time pad.
You could prolly just use the digits of PI that's prolly random.
Even if the 'server' caches 'bookmarks' in the Big Book Of Digits for each of the clients that connect to it, there must still be a way of establishing those 'bookmarks' through unencrypted channels ( or sneakernet ). This is the point where this kind of thing is vulnerable unless it falls back on standard number-crunching-intense encryption techniques to perform these handshake tasks. The only advantage I see for this technology would be in speeding the transfer of large ammounts of encrypted data.
Me too.
It was gay gay gay. Dune the movie was OK though.
The sci-fi channel can't produce anything. This CoD will suck as bad as their remake of Dune did. They should not make things, but buy them already made from other people.
I wanna see the DEVILZ yeah yeah DEVILZ with no TP for their BUNGHOLES
Eggs
You can walk whereever you want unless you come to a fence or a no-tresspassing sign. You can even walk on private property. To keep people off your land you need to build a fence or put up signs. But if I walk on your land anyway and get caught, it's a $100 fine.
It's more if I open your unlocked door and even more if I jimmy the lock with my credit card. It is also more if I cut a hole in the chainlink fence at a military base or even worse if I break into a bank. In general, the more incentive there might be to break into something, the better it is secured, and the more trouble I might get in for breaking in. The more trouble I could get in for breaking in the more determined I'd have to be to try it. I might miss a no trespassing sign and be where I shouldn't but it'd just be a small fine. I might knock at my friend's house before opening the door and yelling 'Hello'. I might jimmy the door with a credit card if I thought he might be on the floor dying of a heart attack or choking on a
chicken bone. I might piss him off and maybe get reported to the cops, especially if his girlfriend was the only one home and didn't answer the door because she was playing in the shower with the vibro-masssage. I might have some explaining to do but jail time would suprise me.
If I climbed over the military's chain link fence to get my football, I'd be in for some trouble if I got caught. But probably more since that would just be an excuse for my real mission which would be spying. If I was caught burglerizing a bank I'd be in jail 15 yrs or more. The odds of being innocent and getting in trouble goes down with the security of the situation - an person with innocent motives is very unlikely to have overcome decent security.
But fences and safes are expensive. However big tough locks are freely available for computers and data. This changes the equation taking some responsibility away from the government protect the public and puts more responsibility on the public to protect themselves. There should not be only one penalty for breaking into joe shmoe's computer and putting a goatse.cx wallpaper on it which is meant for people who break into a companies website and post erroneous figures to drive the price of the stock down so they can buy it low and profit later."
But if the rules of a protocol are the only rules I need to follow in cyberspace then consider the following valid telnet sessions:
login: abe
password: lincoln
Wrong password, try again:
login: abe
password: Lincoln
Wrong password good bye.
DISCONNECTED
login: abe
password:linc0ln
connected!
$ sudo rm -r /
password: linc0ln
DISCONNECTED
I would argue that insecure systems deserve to be broken in to. The person here shouldn't have had such an easy to guess password. He also shouldn't have used an unencrypted protocol like telnet that anyone can listen to. If you want to have a telnet service running accessable by the public then it should be your responsibility to have a hard to guess password and keep people outside your firewall from being able to connect.
Giving microsoft the benefit of the doubt, that the original page looked fine in opera seems to imply that the guy who made the page never bothered to look at the original page in opera and made an alteration for opera without even looking at the page under opera ever.
Though it could have been an on-purpose mistake too.
Buying an exotic chemical like H2O2 would make it easy for the cops to trace it right to you. Though gunpowder is sold in every Wal*Mart, you could make large quantities yourself even less tracably. Just go down to Home Depot or any other Hardware Store or Agway and pick up either Potassium or Sodium Nitrate fertilizer. Sulfur is available for $2.00/lb at most Agways as fungicide ( though my local one seems to sell copper sulfate for that now you might have to look ) but even if you can't find sulfur, and mix in powdered charcoal briquettes, you can mix confectioner's sugar directly with KNO3 or NaNO3 to make something that will explode. Completely untracable as long as you wait a year or so after purchasing or buy it somewhere far away. You could have your own Keg of gunpowder like on Bugs Bunny & Yosemite Sam for 30 bucks.
Or you could easily make nitroglycerine from stuff from Wal*Mart/Home Depot and use it to set off a charge of Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer ala Tim MicVeigh ( tho he had commercial primacord that is not something most people have access to so homemade Nitro Glycerine would have to be used ) If you don't want to blow your head off making Nitroglycerine, there are tons of other High explosives you can make easy: Mercury Fulminate for instance, Or Silver Fulminate, or that stuff the palestinian suicide bombers strap to themselves to blow up israelis. That stuff is made with hair bleach and other stuff from the grocery hardware store though I forgot what it is. THe recipe is on totse.com . You need a refrigerator to make it or it is WAY too unstable to use/store.
The ( i admit never actually tried by me ) process is the same as used in the olden days to make applejack out of fermented apple cider.
Alcohol ( and I believe H202 as well ) freezes at a lower temp than water. By filling a barrel with apple cider( or hair bleach ) and nailing it to an oak tree in the winter you cause ice crystals to form around the outside of the barrel. The wind blows and rattles the barrel around and soon the alcohol or H2O2 drains from between them into the center of the barrel. Then another cold spell and more of the water freezes and sticks to the outside of the barrel. By the end of the winter, the cold and wind have caused most of the water to freeze around a ball of concentrated alcohol/H2O2 by drilling a hole in the hollow ice, you can drain it out.
Of course you can distill alcohol, but this doesn't work for H2O2 since it would decompose under the heat. So you have to concentrate it by freezing.