The MD5 hash of the real file is 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7. If you download it, then you can check it with any tool to generate the MD5 hash, and if they match, you can be certain it hasn't been messed with.
That's the whole point of telling people what the hash of the file is.
And you know this is the hash of the genuine file precisely how?
Tycoon Guy writes "Is that the sound of desperation I hear? TrekToday is reporting that, according to a trailer shown at CBS Television City, William Shatner will be appearing on Star Trek: Enterprise for a two-episode guest stint - as James T. Kirk!
"I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)."
No doubt accompanied by a whizzy graphical presentation with lots of graphs and that spinny cube effect thing, preceeded naturally by the intro for the iPod.
Look - the way the world works is this. There is the way things are supposed to run, and there is the way they actually run. We geeks do have a hard time with this concept, as to us, a spade is a spade.
Its like for example, I posted a comment about Google and search engines recently, which I posted intending it to be funny. The mods obviously agreed, and it's presently rated +5 Funny. HOWEVER, two guys still replied "correcting" my "claim" that searching Google for "search engine" took me to the home page. The fact is, whether my "claim" is accurate or not is irrelevant - it's funny to think that someone searched Google to find out what a "search engine" is and was taken back to the Google homepage and thinks Google is broken (get it??) What the joke is implying is that Google is so good, for many people it is the only way to search the web and has in fact become a verb - "Googling" for something rendering the "search engine" phrase obsolete.
In a similar fashion, if you are employed as a sysadmin and part of your job role is to "identify misuse of the net" or company hardware, this does not mean you have carte blanche to spy on the boss, (or worse, their superiors). If you want to lose your job, sure - go right ahead but people do not hire you to spy on them. You will very rarely see any of these "unwritten rules" formalised - it's just "the done thing", and the very fact the phrase "unwritten rule" exists should tell you something.
It's the geek syndrome - taking things literally. It's why we are traditionally so bad with the feminine mind set (I'm not being sexist here, men (typically gay men) can exhibit the feminine mind set too) until we understand the rules; and there are rules - for example if the average woman asks you "does her arse look big in this" she is most definitely NOT looking for an honest answer, she is looking for a compliment.
Learning to read between the lines is a useful skill. A wise person once said something along the lines of "often rather than what you do say, it's what you don't say that can be the difference between a sucessful career and an unsucessful one".
I agree, it sucks, however it's the way things are and the people who can adapt to this are sucessful.
I accidentally left my 802.11B Symbol Compact Flash card in a shirt pocket once and only realised while I was removing my washing from the machine and it clattered to the ground. I'd only just bought it too.
Left it on the radiator for a week or two and it worked fine.
underage hackers could purchase alcohol or adult movies, and pranksters could simply reprogram the inventory of an entire store by just walking up and down the isles.
Too complicated, will never work. Besides - it's being considered by governments which means it's obviously never going to work as lets face it, with regard to IT, governments don't have a clue as they are fed constant lies from people who stand to make a lot of taxpayer money.
Malone said he went so far as to start setting up the newspaper's pages on the art department's Macintosh desktops, hoping to get at least something printed.
Ahh gotta love that type of user. No printers available, but still sets it up on the Mac. You know I once had one ask me while I had a printer in bits if he could print on it. I had to say no on account of it was in the middle of being repaired. He then asked me (no joke) if he could "print in colour on this black and white printer" pointing to an old LaserWriter.
I had to say "no on account that it is a black and white printer and only colour printers can print in colour". The look on his face told me it was going over his head. Encounters like that frighten me.
The iPods will have audio and text on them including special university content such as "faculty-provided course content, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books."
...and pr0n. Maybe not exactly when they are handed out, but give it time.
I have a 3G model which I bought a few months ago, but I have to say looking at the 4G, I'd rather keep the seperate buttons for play / pause and track forward / back, and interesting to see they have not used the 60Gb drive from Toshiba.
There is in my opinion nothing physically wrong with the 3G model, however the biggest problem with the iPod in my opinion has still not been addressed and that is the missing ability to change playlists from the remote. I mean c'mon Apple - talk about obvious and how hard can it be??
At the risk of being called a troll, the GUI for UO is so shit how could anyone tell if a character is a samurai or anything for that matter?
I think they are LONG past due on graphics improvement (the crappy GUI is the reason I cancelled my account after 10 minutes of play after being convinced to join by a friend). I know about the UOX plans and cancellation etc. but lets hope they go ahead with what I've heard and plumb in the UOX engine into UO proper. I think I'd sign up then.
I like the idea of this greylisting - it sounds perfect for my work BSD mail system.
Thanks for the info.
It appears to be implementing the concept I was originally posting about which is concentrating on filtering in mail rather than out - if mail systems behave appropriately then you are accepting. Sounds good and I will be taking a closer look when your site is responding!
I didn't say it was a solution to spam - I don't think such a thing exists - what I am saying is that it is working much better for me than trying to filter out spam.
I've been sitting here for the last few days feeling much better about my email as I am only receiving notification when I receive messages from people I definitely want to receive messages from.
Obviously as it stands this would not scale very well, however the concept is one of variables, not simply using a white list.
For example, most of the junk I see lately uses mis-spellings or lists of words at the end of the message to defeat spam filters; this works as you can spell words quite badly - i.e. v'.1'a'g#ra and we humans can see what it means, however try teaching a machine to catch things like that - most difficult.
What we could do for example is get the machine to check spelling and grammar, and attribute a negative weight (i.e. less likely to be spam) to an email depending on how many words are spelt correctly with "good" grammar. Now obviously not everyone can spell and has good grammar, but most people have spelling checkers and so on and know how to be able to spell if they want to. (This could provide motivation for people to spell correctly!) The spammers could try to mis-spell their crap as much as they wanted - it would start to work against them rather than for them. We need to force them to conform to us, not attempt to adapt to them. If they have to spell words correctly then they are going to get nailed by filters. Yes I know grammar checking would start to get complicated but my point is variables, regardless of what those are; "ham" is easier to spot than "spam" because it has less to "go wrong" as it were. There are less variables involved in spotting ham than spam.
There is still a flaw in your filter. You will not be able to filter out new viruses/worms/trojans from your friends who were infected by these new viruses/worms/trojans. Note that I'm talking about new viruses that are not detectable by your AV and ISP.
I am aware of this, and that isn't a flaw; firstly my goal is to only notify me of mail from people in my address book - not to catch viruses - for this it works perfectly. Secondly I have virus scanning at my ISP, finally, I use a Mac for my email so even if something does get through, until there is a Mac virus then I'm safe for the time being.
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The MD5 hash of the real file is 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7. If you download it, then you can check it with any tool to generate the MD5 hash, and if they match, you can be certain it hasn't been messed with.
That's the whole point of telling people what the hash of the file is.
And you know this is the hash of the genuine file precisely how?
Now explain why we should take your word for it.
They said "Shatner" not "James T. Kirk."
erm... ^^
Tycoon Guy writes "Is that the sound of desperation I hear? TrekToday is reporting that, according to a trailer shown at CBS Television City, William Shatner will be appearing on Star Trek: Enterprise for a two-episode guest stint - as James T. Kirk!
...and from the original article...
"Join us this fall for a 2-episode special as William Shatner returns to the Star Trek universe, as James T. Kirk."
Bear in mind this whole story is based on a posting on a message board, so to be taken with a large pinch of salt.
If you can't figure out how it works (and therefore how easily you could be located), you shouldn't be using it, script kiddie.
I mean, get real. You won't get any chicks because of it.
...as we all know, chicks just love haxx0rs...
This idea reminds me of the free online novel Prime Intellect which I can strongly recommend.
"I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)."
No doubt accompanied by a whizzy graphical presentation with lots of graphs and that spinny cube effect thing, preceeded naturally by the intro for the iPod.
Glad he's ok though.
Actually that would be a seriously good use of the technology!
This makes it possible to allow, say, only Linux systems to connect to your SSH daemon.
You mean you could block all the leet blackhat Windows users from your box? You could really be in trouble if they were able to reach it...
Look - the way the world works is this. There is the way things are supposed to run, and there is the way they actually run. We geeks do have a hard time with this concept, as to us, a spade is a spade.
Its like for example, I posted a comment about Google and search engines recently, which I posted intending it to be funny. The mods obviously agreed, and it's presently rated +5 Funny. HOWEVER, two guys still replied "correcting" my "claim" that searching Google for "search engine" took me to the home page. The fact is, whether my "claim" is accurate or not is irrelevant - it's funny to think that someone searched Google to find out what a "search engine" is and was taken back to the Google homepage and thinks Google is broken (get it??) What the joke is implying is that Google is so good, for many people it is the only way to search the web and has in fact become a verb - "Googling" for something rendering the "search engine" phrase obsolete.
In a similar fashion, if you are employed as a sysadmin and part of your job role is to "identify misuse of the net" or company hardware, this does not mean you have carte blanche to spy on the boss, (or worse, their superiors). If you want to lose your job, sure - go right ahead but people do not hire you to spy on them. You will very rarely see any of these "unwritten rules" formalised - it's just "the done thing", and the very fact the phrase "unwritten rule" exists should tell you something.
It's the geek syndrome - taking things literally. It's why we are traditionally so bad with the feminine mind set (I'm not being sexist here, men (typically gay men) can exhibit the feminine mind set too) until we understand the rules; and there are rules - for example if the average woman asks you "does her arse look big in this" she is most definitely NOT looking for an honest answer, she is looking for a compliment.
Learning to read between the lines is a useful skill. A wise person once said something along the lines of "often rather than what you do say, it's what you don't say that can be the difference between a sucessful career and an unsucessful one".
I agree, it sucks, however it's the way things are and the people who can adapt to this are sucessful.
Hosted on .mac too - nice hint of optimism there.
Bless.
I accidentally left my 802.11B Symbol Compact Flash card in a shirt pocket once and only realised while I was removing my washing from the machine and it clattered to the ground. I'd only just bought it too.
Left it on the radiator for a week or two and it worked fine.
underage hackers could purchase alcohol or adult movies, and pranksters could simply reprogram the inventory of an entire store by just walking up and down the isles.
COOL!
What if the awful truth is that hes just a ****ing idiot?
I think that would frighten me more.
What's a search engine?
I tried googling for it but it just took me to the home page. I think it's broken.
I think Apple may need the roof tiles changing in "steve-o's" office about now.
Too complicated, will never work. Besides - it's being considered by governments which means it's obviously never going to work as lets face it, with regard to IT, governments don't have a clue as they are fed constant lies from people who stand to make a lot of taxpayer money.
I was going to write a long reply but then you wouldn't be able to read it all as it wouldn't fit on your screen.
Malone said he went so far as to start setting up the newspaper's pages on the art department's Macintosh desktops, hoping to get at least something printed.
Ahh gotta love that type of user. No printers available, but still sets it up on the Mac. You know I once had one ask me while I had a printer in bits if he could print on it. I had to say no on account of it was in the middle of being repaired. He then asked me (no joke) if he could "print in colour on this black and white printer" pointing to an old LaserWriter.
I had to say "no on account that it is a black and white printer and only colour printers can print in colour". The look on his face told me it was going over his head. Encounters like that frighten me.
The iPods will have audio and text on them including special university content such as "faculty-provided course content, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books."
...and pr0n. Maybe not exactly when they are handed out, but give it time.
I have a 3G model which I bought a few months ago, but I have to say looking at the 4G, I'd rather keep the seperate buttons for play / pause and track forward / back, and interesting to see they have not used the 60Gb drive from Toshiba.
There is in my opinion nothing physically wrong with the 3G model, however the biggest problem with the iPod in my opinion has still not been addressed and that is the missing ability to change playlists from the remote. I mean c'mon Apple - talk about obvious and how hard can it be??
At the risk of being called a troll, the GUI for UO is so shit how could anyone tell if a character is a samurai or anything for that matter?
I think they are LONG past due on graphics improvement (the crappy GUI is the reason I cancelled my account after 10 minutes of play after being convinced to join by a friend). I know about the UOX plans and cancellation etc. but lets hope they go ahead with what I've heard and plumb in the UOX engine into UO proper. I think I'd sign up then.
And remember 'Funny' does not give one karma points...
IT DOESN'T? Crap! Now I know where I've been going wrong!
Aha - working now - I think it was the redirector to sourceforge you have.
I like the idea of this greylisting - it sounds perfect for my work BSD mail system.
Thanks for the info.
It appears to be implementing the concept I was originally posting about which is concentrating on filtering in mail rather than out - if mail systems behave appropriately then you are accepting. Sounds good and I will be taking a closer look when your site is responding!
I didn't say it was a solution to spam - I don't think such a thing exists - what I am saying is that it is working much better for me than trying to filter out spam.
I've been sitting here for the last few days feeling much better about my email as I am only receiving notification when I receive messages from people I definitely want to receive messages from.
Obviously as it stands this would not scale very well, however the concept is one of variables, not simply using a white list.
For example, most of the junk I see lately uses mis-spellings or lists of words at the end of the message to defeat spam filters; this works as you can spell words quite badly - i.e. v'.1'a'g#ra and we humans can see what it means, however try teaching a machine to catch things like that - most difficult.
What we could do for example is get the machine to check spelling and grammar, and attribute a negative weight (i.e. less likely to be spam) to an email depending on how many words are spelt correctly with "good" grammar. Now obviously not everyone can spell and has good grammar, but most people have spelling checkers and so on and know how to be able to spell if they want to. (This could provide motivation for people to spell correctly!) The spammers could try to mis-spell their crap as much as they wanted - it would start to work against them rather than for them. We need to force them to conform to us, not attempt to adapt to them. If they have to spell words correctly then they are going to get nailed by filters. Yes I know grammar checking would start to get complicated but my point is variables, regardless of what those are; "ham" is easier to spot than "spam" because it has less to "go wrong" as it were. There are less variables involved in spotting ham than spam.
There is still a flaw in your filter. You will not be able to filter out new viruses/worms/trojans from your friends who were infected by these new viruses/worms/trojans. Note that I'm talking about new viruses that are not detectable by your AV and ISP.
I am aware of this, and that isn't a flaw; firstly my goal is to only notify me of mail from people in my address book - not to catch viruses - for this it works perfectly. Secondly I have virus scanning at my ISP, finally, I use a Mac for my email so even if something does get through, until there is a Mac virus then I'm safe for the time being.