Exactly, locks (unless you pay a shitload for them) are not designed to keep people out. Any locksmith will tell you that the only thing a lock will do is make your neighbours house an easier target.
Computer security is the same way.
Actually I'd argue there is still enough difference between the meat space analogy and actualy computer security to make it not work.
It's a lot of work (comparatively) for a thief to physically break into a house and loot the valuables. So they actually do recon work ahead of time to ensure they have an easier target with better potential pay off.
However, it's relatively low cost for someone with access to a botnet to just try a range of attacks on a large number of potential victims. If you are vulnerable the attack, it doesn't matter if you are "15% more secure" than the next guy. You will just both get owned.
Windows Live Family Safety operates in two modes: basic and strict......The author of the post was probably running in STRICT mode and didn't realize the purpose of the software.
From TFP:
...so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google...
They just have to be smart about how the ads are posted. I don't really mind the single line text ad on the top of my gmail inbox. I sometimes click them if they happen to draw my interest.
However, if a someone decides to make pop-up, animated, cursor/focus stealing, flashing, seizure/vomit-inducing, 10MB flash file, expect it to be blocked.
ok, contrary to certain common believes, the average Chinese people do have a sense of humor, which is what this ultimately is, and it will be recognized as such.
Now someone with a giant stick of wood up his ass in media control may object to this meme because the humor part just goes whoosh right over his head, and if he is lucky, may end up getting a censor put on this in the end. However I doubt it will gather enough steam to force anyone into slave labor.
It will be as ridiculous as prosecuting someone for a tom cruise missile comment.
I can't bother to RTFA so I sure as hell can't be bothered to read your link, but I have to say that Chinese characters didn't evolve phonetically, but were actual representations (ie drawings) of the word they represent (more complex ideas being made up of combinations of simpler concepts).
Actually, many are. There are a few method of character creations (with Japanese pronouciations for your benefit):
Xiangxin/shoukei(look alike): pictures, basically. From drawing of the object.
Zheshi/shiji(indicator): simple ideas expressed by modified pictogram and such. Since you are a
Huiyi/kaii(combined meaning): combined objects to express certain ideas
Xingsheng/keisei(shape-sound combo): now we are into phonetically created characters. Theses character often contain one part which is a picture that express certain idea, accompanied by another part that gives it a sound. This actually accounts for a good number of chinese characters.
Jiajie/kasha(false-loan): These are the purely phonetically created characters. They are the use of existing character of similar sound for things in speech that does not have a character for. This method has been abused over and over and caused many... unfortunate puns.
Zhuanzu/tenchuu(now, there is a pun)... "reciprocal meaning" from wiki... I've never really understood this category.. even though my father and grandfather are both ancient Chinese teachers, this subject gives me massive headaches. As far as I can tell, characters that are similar enough are used in place of each other either to make a rhyme in poetry or to avoid certain taboo.
Mandarin (which is the official nation-wide dialect) is much more phonetically impoverished than Cantonese: fewer tones, fewer consonants. So if there's a more lucrative language for punsters anywhere in the world than Mandarin, I'd be surprised.
You'd actually be ok. My wife is tone deaf and she speaks just fine.
The thing is, we are not listening to absolute tones, but relative changes in tone during the pronunciation of the syllable, such as a flat tone, a rising tone, a falling tone, a falling-then-raising tone, or the light tone (removal of the vowel).
They could have just offered free snacks on sticks, like corn dogs or popsicle, and maybe drinks, in their holding cells, and make the collection voluntary...
*please discard sticks&plastic cups in this recycling bin*
$5,000 discount just for listening to ads, that you may find a way to turn off? Unlikely.
What I do think may happen is, it maybe marketed as a 'feature' with some actual perks. Such as free access to extra live GPS information (reads, advertised businesses on your map), free satellite radio/digital music where they interject these ads (basically like traditional radio, but they can monopolize), or something along those lines.
I know certain... people... who would definitely go for this if it offered live sale notifications... "*beep* 20% off on woman's footwear, 200 metres ahead on your right"
You could always have the dealer look for one that fits your preference in another location (most of them have exchange programs so they can trade a car on their lot for one in another dealer's inventory), or just order a custom build. It takes a could months, which is not long at all a wait for a purchase that you may be using for 10+ years.
I had to order a custom build when I traded my SUV in for a mini van for the growing family, because I never trusted sun roofs, and for some reason, the dealerships were convinced that "people love sun roofs". So every single one on their lot and across Canada had a sun roof.
Also, because dealers do prefer to sell car off their lot so they don't get stuck with a stale inventory, they would probably not go all out on an unpopular option, even if that makes them some extra.
I have a hunch that the toddler line of Mega Blocks is aiming at an even lower age group. The difference maybe more in the design requirement.
My son (3yro) an daughter (1yro) can easily construct simple structures with the softer and more lose fitting Mega Blocks that we had purchased at various garage sales.
We also got a bucket of oversized lego, which are more rigid and fit tighter. They prefer the Mega Blocks because the lego is "too hard". I've packed the lego away and plan to have them try again maybe in another year or two.
Also that I would never buy lego other than from garage sale and second hand stores. They are usually way overpriced and the newer kits are so full of specialized pieces that they leave little room for imagination.
Dealing with telus for me was nothing but severe pain in the backside. They care nothing about customer satisfaction. They will screw you over and cheat you out of your money as much as they can, and when you finally leave, they then proceed to harass you with endless calls and try to con you into switching back with false incentives.
Here is an example of their borderline criminal conduct. I used to subscribe to their home phone service. I had it on automatic payment (big mistake) One day, I noticed that my bill had been steadily increased from $30/mo for a single line to $40, $60, and then as high $80/mo for the past few months.
I called them trying to sort it out. After several hours of navigating through the labyrinth of automated voice menu (no, 0 for operator did not work) I finally got put on hold for over an hour to speak with a human, and was cut off while waiting in the queue. After a few tries I finally got though, and got an explanation. Apparently, they had been taking the liberty to 'introduce new services' onto my account, without notifying me, and took my not noticing and canceling them a sign of agreement to adapt those service.
They of course, refused to refund the charges because I had been 'enjoying the additional services' so I requested to cancel them on the spot. Apparently I could not do that either because I don't have this password somehow set on my account.
While I was contemplating canceling the whole account and start over with a new number, with the hassle of informing all my contacts of a number change, Shaw called to promote their $25/mo digital line. So I switched. For the past year I have not paid over the $25/mo I agree to pay. There had not been additional features secretly added to my line.
However, Telus was not happy about my switching. They called about 3 times a week asking me to switch back. Their call usually started with a pompous voice asking me to identify myself to them. They even demanded that I explained to them why I switched, to which their representatives received some colourful words from me and a request to never calling back again.
Then they called again offering me ridiculous deals such as a comparatively lower 3-month INTRODUCTORY rate (and it would eventually go back up) if I switched my phone AND internet services to them. At this point, I started threatening with a harassment suit if they didn't stop calling. The call finally stopped.
And you wonder why telus spends so much on their 'the future is friendly' PR campaign to tell people how well they treat their customers.
We could sign up for the anti-captcha.com service, and constantly send them faked CAPTCHA that are impossible to solve. (make maybe 100 of them and rotate) Thus waste their resources without getting charged for it. According to their feature page, they can only take on 1,000,000 CAPTCHA a day. I am sure the the order can easily be filled.
I had this old compaq PC way back when a 33.6kbps dial-up was a fast modem. It came with a software phone which turns the PC and it's modem into a virtual phone. It was an interesting feature, but I soon realized I was much better off using a separate device for audio calls. They aren't expansive anyways.
The cars are subsidized by the state, so if you sell it in another state you are basically taking tax dollars away from California residents
Logics like this makes me wonder if the whole world has gone mad or just me.
The R&D is done. The money is gone. Whether the car is sold outside the state or not it wouldn't cost more tax dollars. Instead of setting such stupid prohibiting fines, they really should have just made an agreement to tax each and every out of state sale in a reasonable manner and recover some of that R&D cost back for the tax payers.
That logic is so faulty I donno where to start.....
First of all, the inability to punish someone for a crime past a physical limitation (1 life sentance / death penalty) does not neccessarily mean that he does not deserve more. I am sure many would agree that certain leaders who went and started wars for either a twisted personal believe and/or personal gain deserve a lot more than whatever we can physically do to them.
Secondly, punishment for crimes does not have to be, and should not be proportional. This isn't tweaking the class marks so it fits nicely into a bell curve. There isn't a mathmatical formula for calculating the amount of punishment. Every case is unique and may have more factors than just the amount/degree of crime commited. Someone in poverty stealing a loaf of bread to sustain life wouldn't neccessarily deserve the same punishment as someone say, stealing a prada hand bag for nothing more than to satisfy his/her vanity.
This guy's been caught once, and he decided to evade the law and just start another crime spree else where. He doesn't seem to me to be the type of person who would reform, ever. IMHO, this is the type of person you'd want to keep locked up, away from the society, so he can't do more harm. 30 years, I think, is hardly enough.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court of Canada just released a decision that cuts the opposite way.
From the article linked:
Ontario and Quebec have since passed laws saying companies cannot implement mandatory arbitration clauses.
The Supreme Court wrote that the laws are not retroactive in Dumoulin's case.
It seems that the law makers are reaching the same decision what companies cannot have mandatory arbitration clauses, just that the supreme court won't let it it retroactively affect this case. Just as well, I'd say, since this case is more of an issue of greedy consumers rather than evil corporations.
From the article:
The case was prompted when Dell Inc. in 2003 posted incorrect low prices for Axim hand-held computers on its website. Instead of correct prices of $379 and $549 for the computers, prices were listed at $89 and $118.
Dell learned of the mistake and immediately erected an electronic barrier to block the page, but some consumers were able to circumvent the barrier, found the incorrect listings and placed orders.
Dell normally received between one and three weekend orders for Axim computers, but orders for 509 computers were placed that weekend.
The company issued a correction notice and offered the customers a discount, but refused to honour the incorrect price listings.
Olivier Dumoulin of Saint-Laurent, Que., in response began the class-action lawsuit, insisting that Dell honour terms and conditions of sale.
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Exactly, locks (unless you pay a shitload for them) are not designed to keep people out. Any locksmith will tell you that the only thing a lock will do is make your neighbours house an easier target. Computer security is the same way.
Actually I'd argue there is still enough difference between the meat space analogy and actualy computer security to make it not work.
It's a lot of work (comparatively) for a thief to physically break into a house and loot the valuables. So they actually do recon work ahead of time to ensure they have an easier target with better potential pay off.
However, it's relatively low cost for someone with access to a botnet to just try a range of attacks on a large number of potential victims. If you are vulnerable the attack, it doesn't matter if you are "15% more secure" than the next guy. You will just both get owned.
From TFP:
They just have to be smart about how the ads are posted. I don't really mind the single line text ad on the top of my gmail inbox. I sometimes click them if they happen to draw my interest. However, if a someone decides to make pop-up, animated, cursor/focus stealing, flashing, seizure/vomit-inducing, 10MB flash file, expect it to be blocked.
ok, contrary to certain common believes, the average Chinese people do have a sense of humor, which is what this ultimately is, and it will be recognized as such.
Now someone with a giant stick of wood up his ass in media control may object to this meme because the humor part just goes whoosh right over his head, and if he is lucky, may end up getting a censor put on this in the end. However I doubt it will gather enough steam to force anyone into slave labor.
It will be as ridiculous as prosecuting someone for a tom cruise missile comment.
I can't bother to RTFA so I sure as hell can't be bothered to read your link, but I have to say that Chinese characters didn't evolve phonetically, but were actual representations (ie drawings) of the word they represent (more complex ideas being made up of combinations of simpler concepts).
Actually, many are. There are a few method of character creations (with Japanese pronouciations for your benefit):
Xiangxin/shoukei(look alike): pictures, basically. From drawing of the object.
Zheshi/shiji(indicator): simple ideas expressed by modified pictogram and such. Since you are a
Huiyi/kaii(combined meaning): combined objects to express certain ideas
Xingsheng/keisei(shape-sound combo): now we are into phonetically created characters. Theses character often contain one part which is a picture that express certain idea, accompanied by another part that gives it a sound. This actually accounts for a good number of chinese characters.
Jiajie/kasha(false-loan): These are the purely phonetically created characters. They are the use of existing character of similar sound for things in speech that does not have a character for. This method has been abused over and over and caused many... unfortunate puns.
Zhuanzu/tenchuu(now, there is a pun)... "reciprocal meaning" from wiki... I've never really understood this category.. even though my father and grandfather are both ancient Chinese teachers, this subject gives me massive headaches. As far as I can tell, characters that are similar enough are used in place of each other either to make a rhyme in poetry or to avoid certain taboo.
Mandarin (which is the official nation-wide dialect) is much more phonetically impoverished than Cantonese: fewer tones, fewer consonants. So if there's a more lucrative language for punsters anywhere in the world than Mandarin, I'd be surprised.
Japanese.
You'd actually be ok. My wife is tone deaf and she speaks just fine.
The thing is, we are not listening to absolute tones, but relative changes in tone during the pronunciation of the syllable, such as a flat tone, a rising tone, a falling tone, a falling-then-raising tone, or the light tone (removal of the vowel).
They could have just offered free snacks on sticks, like corn dogs or popsicle, and maybe drinks, in their holding cells, and make the collection voluntary...
*please discard sticks&plastic cups in this recycling bin*
$5,000 discount just for listening to ads, that you may find a way to turn off? Unlikely.
What I do think may happen is, it maybe marketed as a 'feature' with some actual perks. Such as free access to extra live GPS information (reads, advertised businesses on your map), free satellite radio/digital music where they interject these ads (basically like traditional radio, but they can monopolize), or something along those lines.
I know certain... people... who would definitely go for this if it offered live sale notifications... "*beep* 20% off on woman's footwear, 200 metres ahead on your right"
You could always have the dealer look for one that fits your preference in another location (most of them have exchange programs so they can trade a car on their lot for one in another dealer's inventory), or just order a custom build. It takes a could months, which is not long at all a wait for a purchase that you may be using for 10+ years.
I had to order a custom build when I traded my SUV in for a mini van for the growing family, because I never trusted sun roofs, and for some reason, the dealerships were convinced that "people love sun roofs". So every single one on their lot and across Canada had a sun roof.
Also, because dealers do prefer to sell car off their lot so they don't get stuck with a stale inventory, they would probably not go all out on an unpopular option, even if that makes them some extra.
I have a hunch that the toddler line of Mega Blocks is aiming at an even lower age group. The difference maybe more in the design requirement.
My son (3yro) an daughter (1yro) can easily construct simple structures with the softer and more lose fitting Mega Blocks that we had purchased at various garage sales.
We also got a bucket of oversized lego, which are more rigid and fit tighter. They prefer the Mega Blocks because the lego is "too hard". I've packed the lego away and plan to have them try again maybe in another year or two.
Also that I would never buy lego other than from garage sale and second hand stores. They are usually way overpriced and the newer kits are so full of specialized pieces that they leave little room for imagination.
Read on the -exec thingie in find. Your construction will hit command line length limits in many patforms easily.
That's what the xargs is for. The data is passed via stdin instead of command line.
find . | grep [string]
Nah, that's just the same as a find . -name "*[string]*"... You want something crazier...
try this:
find . | xargs grep [string]
Software that does this (like Websense) may not be impossible to get around, but it makes it damn hard
I am browsing through a lolwebsense filter right now.
ssh tunnel... forward proxy port to local port... point firefox to local proxy port.... Done
oh wow, that was hard. ^_-
...to just ASK the user during the sign up?
Are you [ ]Male [ ]Female
Would you like to use a avatar that is
[ ] Male
[ ] Female
[ ] Generic Genderless
[ ] Tentacle Monster
[ ] Cowboyneal
Dealing with telus for me was nothing but severe pain in the backside. They care nothing about customer satisfaction. They will screw you over and cheat you out of your money as much as they can, and when you finally leave, they then proceed to harass you with endless calls and try to con you into switching back with false incentives.
Here is an example of their borderline criminal conduct. I used to subscribe to their home phone service. I had it on automatic payment (big mistake) One day, I noticed that my bill had been steadily increased from $30/mo for a single line to $40, $60, and then as high $80/mo for the past few months.
I called them trying to sort it out. After several hours of navigating through the labyrinth of automated voice menu (no, 0 for operator did not work) I finally got put on hold for over an hour to speak with a human, and was cut off while waiting in the queue. After a few tries I finally got though, and got an explanation. Apparently, they had been taking the liberty to 'introduce new services' onto my account, without notifying me, and took my not noticing and canceling them a sign of agreement to adapt those service.
They of course, refused to refund the charges because I had been 'enjoying the additional services' so I requested to cancel them on the spot. Apparently I could not do that either because I don't have this password somehow set on my account.
While I was contemplating canceling the whole account and start over with a new number, with the hassle of informing all my contacts of a number change, Shaw called to promote their $25/mo digital line. So I switched. For the past year I have not paid over the $25/mo I agree to pay. There had not been additional features secretly added to my line.
However, Telus was not happy about my switching. They called about 3 times a week asking me to switch back. Their call usually started with a pompous voice asking me to identify myself to them. They even demanded that I explained to them why I switched, to which their representatives received some colourful words from me and a request to never calling back again.
Then they called again offering me ridiculous deals such as a comparatively lower 3-month INTRODUCTORY rate (and it would eventually go back up) if I switched my phone AND internet services to them. At this point, I started threatening with a harassment suit if they didn't stop calling. The call finally stopped.
And you wonder why telus spends so much on their 'the future is friendly' PR campaign to tell people how well they treat their customers.
We could sign up for the anti-captcha.com service, and constantly send them faked CAPTCHA that are impossible to solve. (make maybe 100 of them and rotate) Thus waste their resources without getting charged for it. According to their feature page, they can only take on 1,000,000 CAPTCHA a day. I am sure the the order can easily be filled.
I would have thought having multiple sets of in-laws would shorten your life expectancy through frustration alone...
Not if you are capable of setting onto each other and watch the fireworks from afar.
But it's fine to put them on Visa cards and checks. I think the latter diminishes the value of the symbol much more than the former!
I am pretty sure VISA is paying for the use. On the other hand, the makers of the video probably did not.
I had this old compaq PC way back when a 33.6kbps dial-up was a fast modem. It came with a software phone which turns the PC and it's modem into a virtual phone. It was an interesting feature, but I soon realized I was much better off using a separate device for audio calls. They aren't expansive anyways.
"they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects"
like turning it sideways so it disappears from view, as in Hanjuku hero vs 3D and Paper Mario?
You think California has the power to tax sales made in other states?
My bad, let me reword that... royalty
They paid for the R&D, they can try to demand some compensation if the automakers profit from said R&D.
The cars are subsidized by the state, so if you sell it in another state you are basically taking tax dollars away from California residents
Logics like this makes me wonder if the whole world has gone mad or just me.
The R&D is done. The money is gone. Whether the car is sold outside the state or not it wouldn't cost more tax dollars. Instead of setting such stupid prohibiting fines, they really should have just made an agreement to tax each and every out of state sale in a reasonable manner and recover some of that R&D cost back for the tax payers.
That logic is so faulty I donno where to start.....
First of all, the inability to punish someone for a crime past a physical limitation (1 life sentance / death penalty) does not neccessarily mean that he does not deserve more. I am sure many would agree that certain leaders who went and started wars for either a twisted personal believe and/or personal gain deserve a lot more than whatever we can physically do to them.
Secondly, punishment for crimes does not have to be, and should not be proportional. This isn't tweaking the class marks so it fits nicely into a bell curve. There isn't a mathmatical formula for calculating the amount of punishment. Every case is unique and may have more factors than just the amount/degree of crime commited. Someone in poverty stealing a loaf of bread to sustain life wouldn't neccessarily deserve the same punishment as someone say, stealing a prada hand bag for nothing more than to satisfy his/her vanity.
This guy's been caught once, and he decided to evade the law and just start another crime spree else where. He doesn't seem to me to be the type of person who would reform, ever. IMHO, this is the type of person you'd want to keep locked up, away from the society, so he can't do more harm. 30 years, I think, is hardly enough.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court of Canada just released a decision that cuts the opposite way.
From the article linked:
Ontario and Quebec have since passed laws saying companies cannot implement mandatory arbitration clauses.
The Supreme Court wrote that the laws are not retroactive in Dumoulin's case.
It seems that the law makers are reaching the same decision what companies cannot have mandatory arbitration clauses, just that the supreme court won't let it it retroactively affect this case. Just as well, I'd say, since this case is more of an issue of greedy consumers rather than evil corporations.
From the article:
The case was prompted when Dell Inc. in 2003 posted incorrect low prices for Axim hand-held computers on its website. Instead of correct prices of $379 and $549 for the computers, prices were listed at $89 and $118.
Dell learned of the mistake and immediately erected an electronic barrier to block the page, but some consumers were able to circumvent the barrier, found the incorrect listings and placed orders.
Dell normally received between one and three weekend orders for Axim computers, but orders for 509 computers were placed that weekend.
The company issued a correction notice and offered the customers a discount, but refused to honour the incorrect price listings.
Olivier Dumoulin of Saint-Laurent, Que., in response began the class-action lawsuit, insisting that Dell honour terms and conditions of sale.