UPDATE: It appears that ladepujd was not the password to the actual database, but to the backup of the database, put there by the backup program
The password to the actual database appears to be reidar (the creators first name)
And before you all start bitching and moaning about bad password security. The database was an index of a collection of about 14000 documents and books and stuff, and would have no value unless you owned those documents. So basically there was no need for a password, and it probably was only there because the program asked for one. After all the guy was not an admin (as a lot of posters seem to believe) but a researcher and if the program wants a password you give it one. But not beeing completely clueless he used an easy password, since there was no need for a strong one
The problem arose because when Reidar Djupedal died, and his collection was donated to the museum, noone knew the password, and indexing 14000 books and documents takes a lot longer than cracking passwords
The thing I hope to see in the future is that this story about the password and the ensuing problems, slashdotting and cracking actually is told at the museum, we as a collective entity could become a part of Norwegian history:)
UN official 1: Well the nazis treated the jews pretty bad
UN official 2: Yes we should do something to make it up to them
UN official 1: How bout we give them that piece of land over there?
UN official 2: Won't the people that live there object
UN official 1: Probably not but just in case we'll ask USA to give the new country a lot of guns
UN official 2: Yeah, then there shouldn't be any problems there at all
UN official 1: But maybe we should give the people that live there something to stop them from complaining
UN official 2: Nah, after all the jewish people would have learnt from the nazis how they shouldn't act. So they will probably treat the others nice
I know for a fact than china is considered one of the most interesting market for mobile communications, not because any large percent could actually afford a cellphone, but because there are so many chinese that you still would have a lot of potential customers. The same applies to the Internet
The question I raised was not how the internet would affect the chinese, but how the chinese would affect the internet
How much funding would a suicide bomber need? I think they could get what they need without any help if they tried. The real problem is that the israeli way of treating paestinians creates a lot of desperate people. Desperate people with nothing to lose and a grudge against the country that opresses them (and the big country that funds their opressors), seems dangerous enough to me. Of course those leaders that claims islam means the will go to heaven for blowing them selves up is only making matters worse, bot the root problem is that people are beeing treated like shit in the first place
Mod me down if don't like what I say, or maybe ask the chinese how to stop my outside influuence from giving you 'bad ideas'
Well they let the cat out of the bag and now they can't get it back in. Politicians underestimate the possibilities of the internet, nothing new here.
The interesting idea is that AFAIK China has the largest population on earth, what will happen to the internet once the chinese politicians give up and let them roam free? Even if just a small part is on the net we will begin to see the influence of chinese culture. And what about language? Today english is de dominant language in the internet, but there is an awful lot of chinese speakin people that might get connected. Time for a new language class anyone?
Looking at the article and the site I could find no information about the economy of it all
Sure there were numbers about the energy used vs energy wasted when using fuel cells compared to gasoline. But not any predictions about what it would cost per mile/km when it becomes mass market
Will this be an option for regular people (cost of car plus cost of methanol/hydrogen fuel) or will it simply be too expensive?
What about the environment, the methanol/hydrogen fuel has to come from somewhere, what is the cost of producing this fuel? Will we simply be moving the pollution from the roads to the "fuel plants"
What about safety? Some posters have asked for crash tests, I still think it's to early for that since we're talking prototypes here. But can fuelcells be made 'blow-up-proof' at least in theory?
Never mind picture quality and degradation, if they say DVHS gives better picture then let them, I couldn't care less. The problem is that this will take us back to winding/rewinding.
Not having to rewind, and the ability to skip to anywhere in the movie is IMHO the reason DVD beat VHS. Making VHS digital isn't going to remove this. People are lazy and impatient and going back to a tape based format is not an option for home users. Especially as most already own a DVD player and paying for a new box isn't that attractive
If I was wrong redundant may have been correct, but overrated? And I wasn't wrong as a reply suggested, at the time i wrote the comment I could not access the story linked to, but I could access other websites. To me that translates to slashdotted
If the warrant means jail they only have to offer them a "vacation", not specifying where. Then they can't complain when they are sent off to prison.
Dear Sir,
We are happy to inform you that you are one of several lucky individuals that will recieve a free stay at one of our country resorts. You will receive free room and board at our expense, all you need to do is meet at the address below to collect your prize.
you should be able to look at a block of asm or c or c++ or vb and understand it
Yes you should be able to, but you shouldn't have to unless that is the block you're going to modify.
It seems obvious to me that you have never worked on something that is part of a bigger system. You try spending a few hours 'reverse engineering' a flowchart from the code to find the place to make your addition so that the impact (read: work) will be smaller. Then you can tell me how to do that without any form of conceptual model
try a different carreer, maybee in the fast food industry
Been there, done that, ain't going back. But whith your attitude that using conceptual models is wrong, just because you never needed it to write 'Hello World', maybe you should?
You can, if you can make batteries light enough. I have no idea if it's possible right now, but by the time we start landing on mars battery technology is likely to have advanced further.
ryptating the data with a one way encryption schem
Encryption in itself does not prevent reading of any data, only understanding of the it. We still need to ensure that the encrypted data cannot be read
it does not allow random access writing.
We're talkin about WOM (Write only Memory) here not RAWOM (Random Access Write Only Memory)
But still: How about preceeding every byte written to the laser with its memory address. Then you'll have random access with a complete history of the state of the data since the first write. With a little careful encoding of the data to indicate where the memory address ends and the data starts we will still have an infinite address space to store our data in
a true WOM (data get stored, but can't be read), or is it a "fake" optimized WOM (data never gets stored,
Interesting point. So to be true Write Only Memory the data has to be there, but impossible to read.
My proposal for a true WOM with infinite storage capacity: A poverful laser poining into space, turn the laser on and off to encode 1 and 0. With enough power and careful aim to not hit a black hole or anything the data will be there forever, but nobody will be able to read it back
Potential problem are: If faster than light travel becomes available we could race past the beam and read the data. Aliens could read the data if they fly into the beam. Even in space the beam could hit a few atoms, and the light could be 'reflected' back at earth and read
And in case anyone wonders: Yes I'm a nerd, and thyis stuff matters.
The point I was trying to make is that the logic of using salaries to measure what is a good place to live is flawed. A better measure would be for instance how much of the post-tax salaries is used for housing and food, or looking at what you could get for what is left after the necessities But that would still be juggling numbers instead of fact
I agree with you (if I have understood your meaning right) that CNN.com article posted should not be treated as absolute truth, nor should any other statistic.
What makes a country good to live in is a personal preference and there are many factors (e.g freedom, wealth, lack of poverty, crime rate, environment, cost of living, health care, quality of education, cost of education, type of government,...). But basing an argument on only one of those factors and then claiming that the USA is better than some other country is wrong. Yes you might be right that the US is a better country to live in than some other one, but not based on salaries alone.
In America you have a choice. Only if you can afford it
my medical insurance costs $46/month Could you please tell us what that covers? What quality hospital would you go to, if you got a disease would it cover treatment for the rest of your life? The number by itself doesn't say anything
Depends on whether you're talking mean or median. We aree talking about what is a good place for people to live. Not what is a good place for the rich people.So if we were to use these statistics median would be better
Uou need to compare what is left after all the nesessary stuff is paid for. That means cost of housing, food, medical care, etc
In the US if you want to play it safe a significatnt amount of your income would go to medical insurance, this mens you cannot compare salaries directly with countrie where medical care is free / sponsored by the state.
That a country is poorer per capita than the US does not mean anything, it may still be more poor people in the US, what matters is how the money is distributed. (One really rich person + 3 poor people makes a better average than 4 middle-class people, the latter gives a better average quality of life, which is what we're talking about here)
The logic of using migration between the US and canada to measure relative quality of life between the two countries is also flawed. That more people move to the US is a logical consequence of the US having more places to move to. (Unless you want to live alone in the woods). Did you consider that this menans that rlative to their current population Canada has received mor? Which would indicate that Canada is a better place to live
Haven't been watching the news lately have we? Does the words Pakistan and India mean anything to you. And Nuclear Capability, thats a big word, can you say Nuclear Capability?
The point is we have countries that have recently been at war showing off their rokets. At least US and Soviet had never been (directly) at war with each other, which explains why we're not all glowing in the dark by now
pesky suit-case nuke carrying arabs
That's racism. And anyway I wouldn't worry too much about them, although any information I would need to make a nuke is publicly available the equipment amd raw materials are not. Also I would probably die from poisoning or radiation long before I managed to finish one, if I tried to build a nuke in my basement.
This means that those suit-case nukes has to come pre built and should be easy enough to stop at the border.
Remember Oklahoma? Americans can be crazy too, what if one dropped a little plutonium (very poisonous plus the added fear in the public because its the stuff of nuclear bombs) or a biological agent in a water supply? How long could the investigation go before your Mr Bush has to have someone to blame? Maybe drop a few bombs on a country that looks a little guilty?
And do you remember the end of WW2 ? When a so called civilized country dropped the big one on civilians? twice. When a few nukes in the sea or an uninhabited area probably would have scared the japanese into surrender
One of the biggest dangers to the world lies not in "pesky suit-case nuke carrying arabs" but in big countries (no names mentioned) that think that because they have the most bombs they should be allowed to do whatever they want
I would wager less than 10,000 years before a huge asteroid destroys life
I would wager less than that before humans destroy life on earth
Crew members for any permanent base on Mars should be selected to have absolutely no agressive tendenscies. Then humanity might live on when the earth erupts into a ball of mushroom clouds
If this actually works (big if) strap one onto the CPU of a laptop, while it cools down the processor it converts the heat into electricity. Then use this electricity to power the laptop
Of course there will be some loss of energy so it won't run forever, but it might extend the battery life. Also you could put the fastest prosessors available in a laptop since you don't need to worry (as much) about excess heat and enegy consumption
Cana nyone tell me how much of a laprops battery is used to power the prosessor, and how much of this is released as heat? How efficient would these cool chips have to be before it makes a noticable difference on battery lilfe?
Maybe I shouldn't haave posted this (prior art) and patented the idea instead?
Pr0n generates traffic => Traffic generates income => income pays for infrastructure
Explain to me how this will make the service more expensive for all of us?
When the basic ifrastructure is already there (Cables, Antennas, Srvers etc..) The cost of adding capacity should be significantly cheaper than making the service available in the first place. Those horny bandwidth hogs are actually helping to make the service cheaper and more accessible. Now why they would want to pay to get pr=n on their mobile is beyond me (unless they live at their parents/inlaws and the computer is in the living room), but I won't complain, at least its better if they surf discreetly on the bus than if they sit yelling at their phone like most other people seem to.
Why do people climb Mount Everest? Go to the North/South Pole?
Too see if they can!
You are right it's not practical, efficient or in any way useful. And a great waste of time. And if anybody tried this at work they should get fired. But it's fun!
In my opinion the amount of fun you are able to have with programming is an indication of your skill in programming. If you don't have fun you may still be good, but you'll never be great. Simply because you'll go for the easiest solution every time. You may be good at programming things that have been done a 1000 times before but when it comes to creative new solutions you'll loose
And it isn't facist to critisize someones opinion (which is what both of you does). Its facism when you prevent the other part from expressing his opinion
Slashdot Mirror
UPDATE: It appears that ladepujd was not the password to the actual database, but to the backup of the database, put there by the backup program
The password to the actual database appears to be reidar (the creators first name)
And before you all start bitching and moaning about bad password security. The database was an index of a collection of about 14000 documents and books and stuff, and would have no value unless you owned those documents. So basically there was no need for a password, and it probably was only there because the program asked for one. After all the guy was not an admin (as a lot of posters seem to believe) but a researcher and if the program wants a password you give it one. But not beeing completely clueless he used an easy password, since there was no need for a strong one
The problem arose because when Reidar Djupedal died, and his collection was donated to the museum, noone knew the password, and indexing 14000 books and documents takes a lot longer than cracking passwords
The thing I hope to see in the future is that this story about the password and the ensuing problems, slashdotting and cracking actually is told at the museum, we as a collective entity could become a part of Norwegian history :)
Yousa funnie, but engliss not mesa firs languigg
That made me laugh, you may not have made my day but you certainly made my next half hour. Thank you
UN official 1: Well the nazis treated the jews pretty bad
UN official 2: Yes we should do something to make it up to them
UN official 1: How bout we give them that piece of land over there?
UN official 2: Won't the people that live there object
UN official 1: Probably not but just in case we'll ask USA to give the new country a lot of guns
UN official 2: Yeah, then there shouldn't be any problems there at all
UN official 1: But maybe we should give the people that live there something to stop them from complaining
UN official 2: Nah, after all the jewish people would have learnt from the nazis how they shouldn't act. So they will probably treat the others nice
I blame the united nations
0.5% of a lot of people is still a lot of people!
I know for a fact than china is considered one of the most interesting market for mobile communications, not because any large percent could actually afford a cellphone, but because there are so many chinese that you still would have a lot of potential customers. The same applies to the Internet
The question I raised was not how the internet would affect the chinese, but how the chinese would affect the internet
fund suicide bombings
How much funding would a suicide bomber need? I think they could get what they need without any help if they tried. The real problem is that the israeli way of treating paestinians creates a lot of desperate people. Desperate people with nothing to lose and a grudge against the country that opresses them (and the big country that funds their opressors), seems dangerous enough to me. Of course those leaders that claims islam means the will go to heaven for blowing them selves up is only making matters worse, bot the root problem is that people are beeing treated like shit in the first place
Mod me down if don't like what I say, or maybe ask the chinese how to stop my outside influuence from giving you 'bad ideas'
Well they let the cat out of the bag and now they can't get it back in. Politicians underestimate the possibilities of the internet, nothing new here.
The interesting idea is that AFAIK China has the largest population on earth, what will happen to the internet once the chinese politicians give up and let them roam free? Even if just a small part is on the net we will begin to see the influence of chinese culture. And what about language? Today english is de dominant language in the internet, but there is an awful lot of chinese speakin people that might get connected. Time for a new language class anyone?
Looking at the article and the site I could find no information about the economy of it all
Sure there were numbers about the energy used vs energy wasted when using fuel cells compared to gasoline. But not any predictions about what it would cost per mile/km when it becomes mass market
Will this be an option for regular people (cost of car plus cost of methanol/hydrogen fuel) or will it simply be too expensive?
What about the environment, the methanol/hydrogen fuel has to come from somewhere, what is the cost of producing this fuel? Will we simply be moving the pollution from the roads to the "fuel plants"
What about safety? Some posters have asked for crash tests, I still think it's to early for that since we're talking prototypes here. But can fuelcells be made 'blow-up-proof' at least in theory?
Never mind picture quality and degradation, if they say DVHS gives better picture then let them, I couldn't care less. The problem is that this will take us back to winding/rewinding.
Not having to rewind, and the ability to skip to anywhere in the movie is IMHO the reason DVD beat VHS. Making VHS digital isn't going to remove this. People are lazy and impatient and going back to a tape based format is not an option for home users. Especially as most already own a DVD player and paying for a new box isn't that attractive
Verdict: Too little too late.
How is this overrated?
If I was wrong redundant may have been correct, but overrated? And I wasn't wrong as a reply suggested, at the time i wrote the comment I could not access the story linked to, but I could access other websites. To me that translates to slashdotted
Does anyone have the text, or a mirror?
Too lazy too try google cache
If the warrant means jail they only have to offer them a "vacation", not specifying where. Then they can't complain when they are sent off to prison.
Dear Sir,
We are happy to inform you that you are one of several lucky individuals that will recieve a free stay at one of our country resorts. You will receive free room and board at our expense, all you need to do is meet at the address below to collect your prize.
you should be able to look at a block of asm or c or c++ or vb and understand it
Yes you should be able to, but you shouldn't have to unless that is the block you're going to modify.
It seems obvious to me that you have never worked on something that is part of a bigger system. You try spending a few hours 'reverse engineering' a flowchart from the code to find the place to make your addition so that the impact (read: work) will be smaller. Then you can tell me how to do that without any form of conceptual model
try a different carreer, maybee in the fast food industry
Been there, done that, ain't going back. But whith your attitude that using conceptual models is wrong, just because you never needed it to write 'Hello World', maybe you should?
You can, if you can make batteries light enough. I have no idea if it's possible right now, but by the time we start landing on mars battery technology is likely to have advanced further.
ryptating the data with a one way encryption schem
Encryption in itself does not prevent reading of any data, only understanding of the it. We still need to ensure that the encrypted data cannot be read
it does not allow random access writing.
We're talkin about WOM (Write only Memory) here not RAWOM (Random Access Write Only Memory)
But still: How about preceeding every byte written to the laser with its memory address. Then you'll have random access with a complete history of the state of the data since the first write. With a little careful encoding of the data to indicate where the memory address ends and the data starts we will still have an infinite address space to store our data in
a true WOM (data get stored, but can't be read), or is it a "fake" optimized WOM (data never gets stored,
Interesting point. So to be true Write Only Memory the data has to be there, but impossible to read.
My proposal for a true WOM with infinite storage capacity: A poverful laser poining into space, turn the laser on and off to encode 1 and 0. With enough power and careful aim to not hit a black hole or anything the data will be there forever, but nobody will be able to read it back
Potential problem are: If faster than light travel becomes available we could race past the beam and read the data. Aliens could read the data if they fly into the beam. Even in space the beam could hit a few atoms, and the light could be 'reflected' back at earth and read
And in case anyone wonders: Yes I'm a nerd, and thyis stuff matters.
and a query language
XML Query for when qpath isn't enough
The point I was trying to make is that the logic of using salaries to measure what is a good place to live is flawed. A better measure would be for instance how much of the post-tax salaries is used for housing and food, or looking at what you could get for what is left after the necessities But that would still be juggling numbers instead of fact
I agree with you (if I have understood your meaning right) that CNN.com article posted should not be treated as absolute truth, nor should any other statistic.
What makes a country good to live in is a personal preference and there are many factors (e.g freedom, wealth, lack of poverty, crime rate, environment, cost of living, health care, quality of education, cost of education, type of government, ...). But basing an argument on only one of those factors and then claiming that the USA is better than some other country is wrong. Yes you might be right that the US is a better country to live in than some other one, but not based on salaries alone.
In America you have a choice. Only if you can afford it
my medical insurance costs $46/month Could you please tell us what that covers? What quality hospital would you go to, if you got a disease would it cover treatment for the rest of your life? The number by itself doesn't say anything
Depends on whether you're talking mean or median. We aree talking about what is a good place for people to live. Not what is a good place for the rich people.So if we were to use these statistics median would be better
You cannot compare salaries across countries
Uou need to compare what is left after all the nesessary stuff is paid for. That means cost of housing, food, medical care, etc
In the US if you want to play it safe a significatnt amount of your income would go to medical insurance, this mens you cannot compare salaries directly with countrie where medical care is free / sponsored by the state.
That a country is poorer per capita than the US does not mean anything, it may still be more poor people in the US, what matters is how the money is distributed. (One really rich person + 3 poor people makes a better average than 4 middle-class people, the latter gives a better average quality of life, which is what we're talking about here)
The logic of using migration between the US and canada to measure relative quality of life between the two countries is also flawed. That more people move to the US is a logical consequence of the US having more places to move to. (Unless you want to live alone in the woods). Did you consider that this menans that rlative to their current population Canada has received mor? Which would indicate that Canada is a better place to live
Haven't been watching the news lately have we? Does the words Pakistan and India mean anything to you. And Nuclear Capability, thats a big word, can you say Nuclear Capability?
The point is we have countries that have recently been at war showing off their rokets. At least US and Soviet had never been (directly) at war with each other, which explains why we're not all glowing in the dark by now
pesky suit-case nuke carrying arabs
That's racism. And anyway I wouldn't worry too much about them, although any information I would need to make a nuke is publicly available the equipment amd raw materials are not. Also I would probably die from poisoning or radiation long before I managed to finish one, if I tried to build a nuke in my basement.
This means that those suit-case nukes has to come pre built and should be easy enough to stop at the border.
Remember Oklahoma? Americans can be crazy too, what if one dropped a little plutonium (very poisonous plus the added fear in the public because its the stuff of nuclear bombs) or a biological agent in a water supply? How long could the investigation go before your Mr Bush has to have someone to blame? Maybe drop a few bombs on a country that looks a little guilty?
And do you remember the end of WW2 ? When a so called civilized country dropped the big one on civilians? twice. When a few nukes in the sea or an uninhabited area probably would have scared the japanese into surrender
One of the biggest dangers to the world lies not in "pesky suit-case nuke carrying arabs" but in big countries (no names mentioned) that think that because they have the most bombs they should be allowed to do whatever they want
I would wager less than 10,000 years before a huge asteroid destroys life
I would wager less than that before humans destroy life on earth
Crew members for any permanent base on Mars should be selected to have absolutely no agressive tendenscies. Then humanity might live on when the earth erupts into a ball of mushroom clouds
Solution: Make brovsers default to displaying links to sites with non-ascii address different from regular links
Also since link display mey be overridden by style sheets, either make the browser override stylesheets for these links.
Display a warning when user follows one of these links
If this warning is displayed as a popup, if the user checks the "never show this warning again" display a text that explains why this is a bad idea
The only true way to security is to annoy your users into submission
If this actually works (big if) strap one onto the CPU of a laptop, while it cools down the processor it converts the heat into electricity. Then use this electricity to power the laptop
Of course there will be some loss of energy so it won't run forever, but it might extend the battery life. Also you could put the fastest prosessors available in a laptop since you don't need to worry (as much) about excess heat and enegy consumption
Cana nyone tell me how much of a laprops battery is used to power the prosessor, and how much of this is released as heat? How efficient would these cool chips have to be before it makes a noticable difference on battery lilfe?
Maybe I shouldn't haave posted this (prior art) and patented the idea instead?
it may end up making services more expensive
Pr0n generates traffic => Traffic generates income => income pays for infrastructure
Explain to me how this will make the service more expensive for all of us?
When the basic ifrastructure is already there (Cables, Antennas, Srvers etc..) The cost of adding capacity should be significantly cheaper than making the service available in the first place. Those horny bandwidth hogs are actually helping to make the service cheaper and more accessible. Now why they would want to pay to get pr=n on their mobile is beyond me (unless they live at their parents/inlaws and the computer is in the living room), but I won't complain, at least its better if they surf discreetly on the bus than if they sit yelling at their phone like most other people seem to.
Why do people climb Mount Everest? Go to the North/South Pole?
Too see if they can!
You are right it's not practical, efficient or in any way useful. And a great waste of time. And if anybody tried this at work they should get fired. But it's fun!
In my opinion the amount of fun you are able to have with programming is an indication of your skill in programming. If you don't have fun you may still be good, but you'll never be great. Simply because you'll go for the easiest solution every time. You may be good at programming things that have been done a 1000 times before but when it comes to creative new solutions you'll loose
And it isn't facist to critisize someones opinion (which is what both of you does). Its facism when you prevent the other part from expressing his opinion