In other cases, systems that were configured securely became vulnerable later (for instance, when a system crashed and original software was re-installed without patches that had been on the system before the crash).
The great windows tradition of "reformat, reinstall" at work. I wonder how long until this secure XP starts suffering the same fate because users find it too restrictive to do what they need.
On the cultural sensitivity angle, I believe it is because Jews or Muslims would be unlikely to seek treatment if they suspected they were infected by a disease caused by contact with unclean animals (which is of course an incorrect assumption, but that is the problem with the name). It would be like a nun seeking treatment for an STD.
The availability of a desktop-wide embeddable scripting language for application extension and plugin writing will enable users to add lots of rich new functionality to the environment.
Why not Python? Seems like many Gnome apps already have Python bindings.
We had a 20/20 FiOS install where a Windows laptop could not get the advertized download speeds. The tech applied a registry patch to change TCP window and then we were able to hit the full bandwidth. Sounds like that is exactly what is described in the post.
Open source? What could that possibly have to do with a textbook? Is it compiled? Why don't they just say: Virginia Begins Creative-Commons Physics Textbook
I believe Blizzard's anti-cheating component for WoW did the same thing. People defended "it's only a hash," but there are a lot of static files/programs out there which could easily be hashed and identified. For example: MPAA could just go to Pirate Bay and hash all media files, as you noted. Too much room for abuse. There is no need to send the hashes across the internet.
Not sure, but I know that these images will be shot in infrared, which makes the scrolls easier to read (according to the CNN article). So it seems that the new digitization process is the main impetus for the new work.
These may be the oldest fairy tales on the net when the project is complete.
You can at least the following genres among the fragments: Poetry, wisdom, legal code, historical narrative, genealogy, myth/fable, prophetic writing, construction schematics, census, apocalypse/vision.
TFA did not mention whether or not the scrolls would be translated into other languages, it would be interesting to read them in english.
This is not the first time the scrolls have been published. There are also translations available in numerous languages. What is significant here is that all of the fragments will be digitized and put online.
My big concern is over the principle that once these are made publicly digitally available, they will be easily tampered with. How are we going to be able to validate the good copies from the publicly tampered ones? From a technical standpoint is there anyway to protect things like this so the average Jo knows which is real and which is not?
The average Jo also does not know how to read ancient Hebrew, so perhaps we should not be too concerned about him. If people want the real thing, they can always go to the source, and cryptographic hashes could be provided to validate photos hosted on other sites.
So what? You're talking about a religion that has had its primary texts re-written countless times over the centuries, already. Nobody today can point at any kind of original "Bible". Whether or not these are "accurate" is pretty irrelevant, even if you're somebody who is Christian/Jewish.
That was my first question as well. Sadly, Safari does not support Gopher. However, I wonder if someone could sneak a Gopher client into the App store, seeing as it is not explicitly denied like browsers are in the SDK license.
Great idea, accept documents created by the very people accused of cheating as proof that they didn't cheat.
I had the same initial reaction. But honestly, how else (other than official Chinese documents) would we be able to determine her age? Or will the IOC have to send in a private investigator to check every athlete's age?
The point is that the DNS attack can be used to be issued real, signed certs by trusted CAs. Think about it: most means of domain ownership authentication rest somehow on DNS (WHOIS, etc).
You need to check those numbers. I know the budget is not necessarily the exact same as what the president asked for, but for 2008 Bush requested $324 billion for welfare, plus $608 billion for social security, $386 billion for medicare, and $209 billion for medicaid. Domestic spending far outpaces the military, though it is clearly not 10x.
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Obligatory complaint about PHP's namespace implementation.
The cult of Free Software was established in 1983, you HERETIC!
In other cases, systems that were configured securely became vulnerable later (for instance, when a system crashed and original software was re-installed without patches that had been on the system before the crash).
The great windows tradition of "reformat, reinstall" at work. I wonder how long until this secure XP starts suffering the same fate because users find it too restrictive to do what they need.
On the cultural sensitivity angle, I believe it is because Jews or Muslims would be unlikely to seek treatment if they suspected they were infected by a disease caused by contact with unclean animals (which is of course an incorrect assumption, but that is the problem with the name). It would be like a nun seeking treatment for an STD.
Yeah, OpenDNS should probably be supplemented, because Google image search, cache, etc. avoid name resolution.
Now we need congress to get revision control to increase transparency in the legislative process.
The availability of a desktop-wide embeddable scripting language for application extension and plugin writing will enable users to add lots of rich new functionality to the environment.
Why not Python? Seems like many Gnome apps already have Python bindings.
We had a 20/20 FiOS install where a Windows laptop could not get the advertized download speeds. The tech applied a registry patch to change TCP window and then we were able to hit the full bandwidth. Sounds like that is exactly what is described in the post.
It also looks almost exactly like Growl for OS X.
Well, it's a brain thing. But whatever.
Anyone else find it fitting that the icon for the Science section is Einstein?
Probably will actually be Chromium, the non-branded, open-source distro of Chrome.
Now we know how long Slashdot users can stand to browse the internet without AdBlock.
Open source? What could that possibly have to do with a textbook? Is it compiled? Why don't they just say: Virginia Begins Creative-Commons Physics Textbook
I believe Blizzard's anti-cheating component for WoW did the same thing. People defended "it's only a hash," but there are a lot of static files/programs out there which could easily be hashed and identified. For example: MPAA could just go to Pirate Bay and hash all media files, as you noted. Too much room for abuse. There is no need to send the hashes across the internet.
Not sure, but I know that these images will be shot in infrared, which makes the scrolls easier to read (according to the CNN article). So it seems that the new digitization process is the main impetus for the new work.
These may be the oldest fairy tales on the net when the project is complete.
You can at least the following genres among the fragments: Poetry, wisdom, legal code, historical narrative, genealogy, myth/fable, prophetic writing, construction schematics, census, apocalypse/vision.
TFA did not mention whether or not the scrolls would be translated into other languages, it would be interesting to read them in english.
This is not the first time the scrolls have been published. There are also translations available in numerous languages. What is significant here is that all of the fragments will be digitized and put online.
My big concern is over the principle that once these are made publicly digitally available, they will be easily tampered with. How are we going to be able to validate the good copies from the publicly tampered ones? From a technical standpoint is there anyway to protect things like this so the average Jo knows which is real and which is not?
The average Jo also does not know how to read ancient Hebrew, so perhaps we should not be too concerned about him. If people want the real thing, they can always go to the source, and cryptographic hashes could be provided to validate photos hosted on other sites.
So what? You're talking about a religion that has had its primary texts re-written countless times over the centuries, already. Nobody today can point at any kind of original "Bible". Whether or not these are "accurate" is pretty irrelevant, even if you're somebody who is Christian/Jewish.
Perhaps you should read up on textual criticism.
I'm sure they'll still have AA batteries 25 years from now.
As long as the enemy has aircraft, we will have anti-aircraft batteries.
Let us not miss the real question here:
Does it run Gopher?
That was my first question as well. Sadly, Safari does not support Gopher. However, I wonder if someone could sneak a Gopher client into the App store, seeing as it is not explicitly denied like browsers are in the SDK license.
Great idea, accept documents created by the very people accused of cheating as proof that they didn't cheat.
I had the same initial reaction. But honestly, how else (other than official Chinese documents) would we be able to determine her age? Or will the IOC have to send in a private investigator to check every athlete's age?
The point is that the DNS attack can be used to be issued real, signed certs by trusted CAs. Think about it: most means of domain ownership authentication rest somehow on DNS (WHOIS, etc).
You need to check those numbers. I know the budget is not necessarily the exact same as what the president asked for, but for 2008 Bush requested $324 billion for welfare, plus $608 billion for social security, $386 billion for medicare, and $209 billion for medicaid. Domestic spending far outpaces the military, though it is clearly not 10x.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget%2C_2008