They all talked, and there was not much separation. If they had been separated, the design department would have designed parts which would not have been easily manufactured. I'm saying TFA's assumptions about manufacturing are erroneous. The NC program, part routing, or anything else eqiuvalent to source code in the author's analogy is not a "specification".
Attempting to bypass standard engineering practics would have similar results as to what it does in software. Initially you'd show great progress, but you'd still end up with a poorly functioning hack which takes a lot of time to meet the original specs.
The author's conceptions about the manufacturing world are entirely wrong.
In the manufacturing world, seperating your design and manufacturing departments leads to parts which are very expensive (if even possible) to manufacture.
The end goal of a small production product is not the specifications. It is typically a list of raw materials, tools, a plant specific part routing, step by step directions for every cut and alignment need, CNC programs, and a testing program. These specific instructions (possibly comparable to code) are meant to create a product which should meet the specifications. Product testing is necessary to make sure that the specifications are met.
With the exception that there still is a human at the controls. We won't see a fully computer-controlled plane... ever. (A good thing, I want to be a pilot).
It has already happened. An airbus plane crashed due to computer override of the pilot. See
Airbus 320 crash at the Paris Airshow, 1988 The only "benefit" of having this technology in cars is that the problem will liekly be fixed after only one death.
Automobiles would be far safer without humans controlling them, even if the software contained a large number of bugs. Millions of unimpaired drivers are killed every year due to human error, something which would not be considered acceptible in any other context.
Self-sufficient space colonies - survival of the species in case of a large meteor strike or something similar is a benefit.
Earth after a meteor strike will still be far more hospitable than any planet in our solar system. For this goal, the money would be much better spent building indoor greenhouses to provide food.
This is fairly neat, and somewhat related to one of my side projects.
I've been working on adapting my UPC reading code for series 60 mobile phones to query upcdatabase.com and read the output via a screen reader such as talx. My biggest obstacle has been trying to contact developers of such of programs in order to get information on how to get their programs to speak the text I print on their screen. Another problem is the lack of a web database which maps EAN-13 values to product names, which is necessary for global use.
Usually they forward the submitted form data to a US host via mysql or email. You can sometimes find out what these are by crashing their scripts and having them dump debug info. Some common ways to do it are disabling javascript and placing quotes into numeric fields. Another way is to modify the form and submit a large file with it. Phishers tend to be clueless when it comes to writing code.
Most phishing sites use images pulled from the real sites, as well as direct people to them when they are done entering their information. Many banks and sites such as paypal could easily track these people by watching their referral logs and looking for foreign referrals to things such as their navigation images. They could then contact the nocs of ISPs who are unknowingly hosting them on hacked machines to get them taken down immediately. Most ISPs are extremely willing to take these down quickly, I've had quite a few respond to me within minutes when I've informed them. Eventually phishers would just grab the whole site and host the images as well, but the increased bandwidth would be more likely to be noticed.
Mail clients should also notify users when the displayed http:// url differs from the actual href.
A better fix would be for banks and other organizations to set up contact addresses for people to inform them. Many of them take days to read feedback I've sent them regarding someone trying to scam their customers.
Trusted computing will make current spyware and worm problems a lot worse.
As soon as a bug is found in a trusted computing architecture, which WILL happen, things will get a whole lot worse for the average user. Spyware will be created which your hardware refuses to allow you to remove, even with a boot disk or safe mode. Your computer will refuse allow you to install anti-virus and spyware cleaning tools. The spyware will install a certificate with high trust levels for spyware vendors.
Even if no bug is found, companies like AOL have proven they're willing to sell out their customers by bundling adware with AIM without disclosure. This will likely create an initial hole which can be opened up much wider.
Issues like this are killing Windows. I learned my lesson a few years ago that almost no shareware or freeware can be trusted. This makes Windows a lot less useful and is one of the many reasons why I usually run linux on my desktop.
IMHO, trusted computing will only hurt Windows' usability by the average user.
It works just fine over HTTPS giving you a lot of extra security without a ridiculous ssh tunnel setup needed for any security in CVS.
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Most phishing sites link you into your bank's website at some point or include graphics directly from them. Banks should carefully monitor their image referrers and investigate when they all of the sudden have a high number from http://citibank.com@1.2.3.4/.
Another thing to do is to hack the phishing sites.
Phishers are typically terrible coders. This means that many standard web attacks can be used to divulge information about them. Even if the site is hosted in a remote nation, they typically forward information elsewhere. Typically they rely on javascript to check for valid input. Disabling javascript and adding some extra ' and " can sometimes give you a PHP error which will also dump the host name of their mysql server, sometimes it's hosted on a US site. Another simple attack is to save the form, edit the form target to be absolute, and then experiment with the hidden values in the data. Typically they do not check to make sure id fields are numeric before creating sql strings out of them. Adding a letter to a numeric id field or using -1 instead can sometimes cause a phishing site to dump useful debug information.
Typically if one of these phishing emails slips by spamassassin I'll try to hack it and forward information to the banks and ISPs involved. I have yet to receive a response, so I assume they either don't care or are way ahead of me. I would think if they were ahead of me they would take less than 10 hours to shut the site down however.
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One lazy way is to archive porn newsgroups and search for files with matching MD5 sums.
My mother was a contaminant-leaching, sewage adsorbing overlord, you insensitive clod.
This is going to hurt America's poor the most.
As well as the companies that profit off of convincing America's poor to buy things they don't need via advertising.
Duke Nukem Forever will only run on vaporware.
This is just as likely as his previous essay stating that bayesian filtering would end all of our spam problems.
Sexual contacts with aliens occur frequently
Aliens live underground
They all talked, and there was not much separation. If they had been separated, the design department would have designed parts which would not have been easily manufactured. I'm saying TFA's assumptions about manufacturing are erroneous. The NC program, part routing, or anything else eqiuvalent to source code in the author's analogy is not a "specification".
Attempting to bypass standard engineering practics would have similar results as to what it does in software. Initially you'd show great progress, but you'd still end up with a poorly functioning hack which takes a lot of time to meet the original specs.
The author's conceptions about the manufacturing world are entirely wrong.
In the manufacturing world, seperating your design and manufacturing departments leads to parts which are very expensive (if even possible) to manufacture.
The end goal of a small production product is not the specifications. It is typically a list of raw materials, tools, a plant specific part routing, step by step directions for every cut and alignment need, CNC programs, and a testing program. These specific instructions (possibly comparable to code) are meant to create a product which should meet the specifications. Product testing is necessary to make sure that the specifications are met.
The product IS NOT the specification.
With the exception that there still is a human at the controls. We won't see a fully computer-controlled plane... ever. (A good thing, I want to be a pilot).
It has already happened. An airbus plane crashed due to computer override of the pilot. See Airbus 320 crash at the Paris Airshow, 1988 The only "benefit" of having this technology in cars is that the problem will liekly be fixed after only one death.
Automobiles would be far safer without humans controlling them, even if the software contained a large number of bugs. Millions of unimpaired drivers are killed every year due to human error, something which would not be considered acceptible in any other context.
It'd be cheaper to replace the printer and get a free cartridge instead. That's why new printers come with cartridges that are only half full.
Self-sufficient space colonies - survival of the species in case of a large meteor strike or something similar is a benefit.
Earth after a meteor strike will still be far more hospitable than any planet in our solar system. For this goal, the money would be much better spent building indoor greenhouses to provide food.
This is fairly neat, and somewhat related to one of my side projects.
I've been working on adapting my UPC reading code for series 60 mobile phones to query upcdatabase.com and read the output via a screen reader such as talx. My biggest obstacle has been trying to contact developers of such of programs in order to get information on how to get their programs to speak the text I print on their screen. Another problem is the lack of a web database which maps EAN-13 values to product names, which is necessary for global use.
More information on my project is located here
Could your mother set up a digital camera or printer in linux? Until basics like this are easy to do, linux is not ready for general use.
This does a pretty good job of talking trash: http://unaesthetic.net/st/ht.htm
I can think several recent presidents who were not a part of the "illuminati".
If you truly hate the Iraqi people, then surely you support an immediate withdrawal from their country?
Usually they forward the submitted form data to a US host via mysql or email. You can sometimes find out what these are by crashing their scripts and having them dump debug info. Some common ways to do it are disabling javascript and placing quotes into numeric fields. Another way is to modify the form and submit a large file with it. Phishers tend to be clueless when it comes to writing code.
Most phishing sites use images pulled from the real sites, as well as direct people to them when they are done entering their information. Many banks and sites such as paypal could easily track these people by watching their referral logs and looking for foreign referrals to things such as their navigation images. They could then contact the nocs of ISPs who are unknowingly hosting them on hacked machines to get them taken down immediately. Most ISPs are extremely willing to take these down quickly, I've had quite a few respond to me within minutes when I've informed them. Eventually phishers would just grab the whole site and host the images as well, but the increased bandwidth would be more likely to be noticed.
Mail clients should also notify users when the displayed http:// url differs from the actual href.
A better fix would be for banks and other organizations to set up contact addresses for people to inform them. Many of them take days to read feedback I've sent them regarding someone trying to scam their customers.
Typically a phisher takes advantage of the IE exploit to fake the URL also, so a vulnerable user thinks they are at a legit URL.
Sorry, you'll have to wait a little longer. In 2050, your flying car will still be 20 years away.
Trusted computing will make current spyware and worm problems a lot worse.
As soon as a bug is found in a trusted computing architecture, which WILL happen, things will get a whole lot worse for the average user. Spyware will be created which your hardware refuses to allow you to remove, even with a boot disk or safe mode. Your computer will refuse allow you to install anti-virus and spyware cleaning tools. The spyware will install a certificate with high trust levels for spyware vendors.
Even if no bug is found, companies like AOL have proven they're willing to sell out their customers by bundling adware with AIM without disclosure. This will likely create an initial hole which can be opened up much wider.
Issues like this are killing Windows. I learned my lesson a few years ago that almost no shareware or freeware can be trusted. This makes Windows a lot less useful and is one of the many reasons why I usually run linux on my desktop.
IMHO, trusted computing will only hurt Windows' usability by the average user.
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It works just fine over HTTPS giving you a lot of extra security without a ridiculous ssh tunnel setup needed for any security in CVS.
Most phishing sites link you into your bank's website at some point or include graphics directly from them. Banks should carefully monitor their image referrers and investigate when they all of the sudden have a high number from http://citibank.com@1.2.3.4/.
Another thing to do is to hack the phishing sites. Phishers are typically terrible coders. This means that many standard web attacks can be used to divulge information about them. Even if the site is hosted in a remote nation, they typically forward information elsewhere. Typically they rely on javascript to check for valid input. Disabling javascript and adding some extra ' and " can sometimes give you a PHP error which will also dump the host name of their mysql server, sometimes it's hosted on a US site. Another simple attack is to save the form, edit the form target to be absolute, and then experiment with the hidden values in the data. Typically they do not check to make sure id fields are numeric before creating sql strings out of them. Adding a letter to a numeric id field or using -1 instead can sometimes cause a phishing site to dump useful debug information.
Typically if one of these phishing emails slips by spamassassin I'll try to hack it and forward information to the banks and ISPs involved. I have yet to receive a response, so I assume they either don't care or are way ahead of me. I would think if they were ahead of me they would take less than 10 hours to shut the site down however.
I should take this opportunity to point out I've been working on an OSS project to accomplish part of what this is. Here's a demo of my UPC code recognition software for nokia series 60 phones:a rcr-alpha2-bin.zip?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/barcr-reader/b
Right now it just displays the code on the screen. If you want to toy with the source, get a CVS checkout.
You need a macro lens on any current cell phone to focus on such close objects, or you need really