Wrong. Go look at the CERT advisory. It says: "Compromise by the Apache/mod_ssl worm indicates that a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code as the apache user on the victim system."
An interesting qestion is: is there such a thing as true randomness? How would you define it?
Most people consider throwing a dice and reading the number on the top a random value. Is it? In theory, if you could measure the mass, stability, material etc. of the dice, the force which threw it, the properties of the table it is going to land on, the circumstances (such as wind etc.) you could calculate the result in advance. Similary, if you could observe these electromagnetic fields around this circuit, you could predict the output. It only requires good sensors and processing power.
Now, next time go and measure the lottery balls and do some calculations before you select your numbers:-)
This reminds me of when i was young: I used to sit on the back seat in my father's car and I always hated that I cannot see the traffic in front of the car. I came up with an idea: put a camera above the headrest and show the image on a flat screen behind it (in front of me) real time. This way I could've see throught the seat (and anybody sitting in it).
Uhm. You know, once I saw a show of David Copperfield. He was floating around a scene, and a lot of cameras recorded it from every direction as he flew by.
Sorry, but it will be an EU guideline, not a law. This will be implemented by laws independently in each member country. And, this will not happen too fast.
IMHO the main problem is that the EU tries to follow the US in many ways, even if those are Not Good(tm).
Who was it who said "We'd better follow the American's dreams instead of the American dream..."?
Assuming you are right-handed, that's a pretty cheesy shortcut. You have to take off your hand from the mouse to use it.
I usually use Opera, where you can switch between the windows using ^tab. Therefore my left hand is on the keyboard, right is on the mouse. Combine this with mouse gestures and this is unbeatable.
Seems to me that the developers put in a keyb-shortcut, but never actually used it in The Real World. (Unless it's configureable, of course.)
I do not have a phd. I do not have a college degree. Hell, I don't even have my high school diploma yet. If you can explain this, please email me.
You are either too young or too dumb.
(You wanted the explanation:-)
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One more addition: now much money did the companies send on developing copy protection systems? Who pays for that? Aren't those the consumers who _buy_ the products? This means that actually the ones who buy, who may have difficulties using the products - _they_ sponsor this whole crazyness.
Right and wrong. This was fundamentally different in IE/NS.
IE used to display all that was downloaded, even if the layout was going to be changed because of a big pic at the top. This resulted in parts of the page 'jumping' around while loading. It drove me mad, since the text i was reading was always running around.
OTOH, NS (=4.x) waited until it was sure where each element should be placed; this caused it to not show _anything_ until a 1x1 gif at the top was finally downloaded. You could just sit in front of a blank window endlessly, if the connection was instable... Oh yeah, and it reloaded everything again if one resized the browser window... which was a nightmare when using a _slow_ NCD xterm. And then came the famous 'bus error':-) Man, those were the days:-)
I am personally fond of Opera, but there are sites that do not work with it (i see problems with iframes all the time), and i still want to view their content. Okay, we should always email them to support standards, but hey, since the majority (okay, maybe not 95%) uses IE, they _can_ ignore this. This is sad.
As far as new users are concerned, would you choose a) an ISP who will deny you access to web sites you want to contact, or b) one who will allow you access to anything you want? Simple market forces would mean that people would chose the ISPs which weren't attempting to extort the large portals.
I personally don't think that the Indian telco and ISP infrastructure is so advanced that you can choose from say 5 LTOs ant 10 ISPs... You think they can have a choice at all?
Heh, how do you know they don't have it? Do you think they would announce it right away? The military has always been ahead of the rest of the world.
Anyways, once i read a theory that suggested using a graph-theory based encryption scheme. The idea was interesting, particulary because - as others mentioned - we simply have no proof that factorization is an NP-full task, while on the ther hand, we _have_ proof that the graph theory has some problems like this (e.g. finding Hamilton-circles IIRC).
It seems to me that this has already been done using NAS (netowrk attached storage). That could be a separate hw in the restricted zone, that can be contacted by two users: on r/w, and one r/o. The public server uses the RO user, the private uses the RW. This way, if someone hacks the public part, they will get no chance to connect by RW, therefore they cannot erase/update the data. Simple enough.
Besides, this is more secure and faster, since RAID and caching are usually implemented on NAS.
So, I see no point to this.
(IIRC some VAXes had disks with two independent controllers and cabling, so they could be connecterd to two separate machines. These were both r/w, though.)
I remember abandoning Interbase when a "SELECT id,name FROM table" returned like 5 rows, while at the same time a "SELECT name,id FROM table" returned 3 (there were no updates to the db between).
Oh well, those were the days... Most of the ppl used unchecked scripts, which was like a habit or something (Phoenix by Vassago, etc.) The famous bot wars, op wars, splits and floodings;-)
You got some good points here, but in my opinion PM _is_ about managing people, too. It plays a very important part.
Personally I would say whether a PM needs to be a techie guy depends mainly on the size of a project (besides many other things).
When working on smaller projects, everyone has to understand the big picture, has to know at least a little from the others' fields of work. That's how they interact.
However, on larger projects (say, 50+ ppl) PMs cannot kow everything, they have to rely on all kind of experts. Their job is to identify and make plans on using all kinds of resources, build and operate timelines, control workflow. On each of these points, they have to rely on their experts. On this scale, a PM cannot tell if a DB design is good or not. (I've worked with PMs who wanted to understand every bit we did, why we did that way, etc. The PM quickly became a single point of failure and speed limit.)
Suppose Google doesn't exist, but you have your own knowledge, experience, team etc. for building such a system. Would you do it? What would you do differently? The initial design, the marketing, the techs? Would it be a free or a subscription based system?
(That's one question, of course, only it has four question marks:-)
Right. But then, if you read Asimov, you know that these could lead to "interesting" behaviour. Personally, I fear my own kitchen robot will not let my tea cool down, because it's more vital when it's warm, or such things:-)
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Just curious: how does this work with online services? Say, applying for a membership? There you have no receipt and no "real" delivery.
Wrong. Go look at the CERT advisory. It says: "Compromise by the Apache/mod_ssl worm indicates that a remote attacker can execute arbitrary code as the apache user on the victim system."
An interesting qestion is: is there such a thing as true randomness? How would you define it?
:-)
Most people consider throwing a dice and reading the number on the top a random value. Is it? In theory, if you could measure the mass, stability, material etc. of the dice, the force which threw it, the properties of the table it is going to land on, the circumstances (such as wind etc.) you could calculate the result in advance. Similary, if you could observe these electromagnetic fields around this circuit, you could predict the output. It only requires good sensors and processing power.
Now, next time go and measure the lottery balls and do some calculations before you select your numbers
This reminds me of when i was young: I used to sit on the back seat in my father's car and I always hated that I cannot see the traffic in front of the car. I came up with an idea: put a camera above the headrest and show the image on a flat screen behind it (in front of me) real time. This way I could've see throught the seat (and anybody sitting in it).
Wasn't implemented though.
Uhm. You know, once I saw a show of David Copperfield. He was floating around a scene, and a lot of cameras recorded it from every direction as he flew by.
So it's pretty clear he _was_ flying.
Sorry, but it will be an EU guideline, not a law. This will be implemented by laws independently in each member country. And, this will not happen too fast.
IMHO the main problem is that the EU tries to follow the US in many ways, even if those are Not Good(tm).
Who was it who said "We'd better follow the American's dreams instead of the American dream..."?
Let's hope it's not run by Win Embedded :-))
Assuming you are right-handed, that's a pretty cheesy shortcut. You have to take off your hand from the mouse to use it.
I usually use Opera, where you can switch between the windows using ^tab. Therefore my left hand is on the keyboard, right is on the mouse. Combine this with mouse gestures and this is unbeatable.
Seems to me that the developers put in a keyb-shortcut, but never actually used it in The Real World. (Unless it's configureable, of course.)
I do not have a phd. I do not have a college degree. Hell, I don't even have my high school diploma yet. If you can explain this, please email me.
:-)
You are either too young or too dumb.
(You wanted the explanation
One more addition: now much money did the companies send on developing copy protection systems? Who pays for that? Aren't those the consumers who _buy_ the products? This means that actually the ones who buy, who may have difficulties using the products - _they_ sponsor this whole crazyness.
Right and wrong. This was fundamentally different in IE/NS.
:-) Man, those were the days :-)
IE used to display all that was downloaded, even if the layout was going to be changed because of a big pic at the top. This resulted in parts of the page 'jumping' around while loading. It drove me mad, since the text i was reading was always running around.
OTOH, NS (=4.x) waited until it was sure where each element should be placed; this caused it to not show _anything_ until a 1x1 gif at the top was finally downloaded. You could just sit in front of a blank window endlessly, if the connection was instable... Oh yeah, and it reloaded everything again if one resized the browser window... which was a nightmare when using a _slow_ NCD xterm. And then came the famous 'bus error'
That should be called 'write-only'... You may write, but no one reads :)
I am personally fond of Opera, but there are sites that do not work with it (i see problems with iframes all the time), and i still want to view their content. Okay, we should always email them to support standards, but hey, since the majority (okay, maybe not 95%) uses IE, they _can_ ignore this. This is sad.
I currently run a 22-year-old Moskvitch. Makes driving most adventrous :)
There are no reasons to change the number OTHER THAN BEING ILLEGAL.
I remember the RIAA saying something similar about P2P networks...
Think again.
How many of them have heard of computers? How many of them have Internet connection? How many of them have a VISA or similar card to pay online?
I don't want to be rude against India, but i don't think they represent that much consumer potential. Yet...
As far as new users are concerned, would you choose a) an ISP who will deny you access to web sites you want to contact, or b) one who will allow you access to anything you want? Simple market forces would mean that people would chose the ISPs which weren't attempting to extort the large portals.
I personally don't think that the Indian telco and ISP infrastructure is so advanced that you can choose from say 5 LTOs ant 10 ISPs... You think they can have a choice at all?
Heh, how do you know they don't have it? Do you think they would announce it right away? The military has always been ahead of the rest of the world.
Anyways, once i read a theory that suggested using a graph-theory based encryption scheme. The idea was interesting, particulary because - as others mentioned - we simply have no proof that factorization is an NP-full task, while on the ther hand, we _have_ proof that the graph theory has some problems like this (e.g. finding Hamilton-circles IIRC).
It seems to me that this has already been done using NAS (netowrk attached storage). That could be a separate hw in the restricted zone, that can be contacted by two users: on r/w, and one r/o. The public server uses the RO user, the private uses the RW. This way, if someone hacks the public part, they will get no chance to connect by RW, therefore they cannot erase/update the data. Simple enough.
Besides, this is more secure and faster, since RAID and caching are usually implemented on NAS.
So, I see no point to this.
(IIRC some VAXes had disks with two independent controllers and cabling, so they could be connecterd to two separate machines. These were both r/w, though.)
I remember abandoning Interbase when a "SELECT id,name FROM table" returned like 5 rows, while at the same time a "SELECT name,id FROM table" returned 3 (there were no updates to the db between).
Oh well, those were the days... Most of the ppl used unchecked scripts, which was like a habit or something (Phoenix by Vassago, etc.) The famous bot wars, op wars, splits and floodings ;-)
How true this was in 1998. But after Java1.2 came out (we're on java 1.4 atm), its been compairable to C++.
:-)
Well, it's always been comparable. The results, however, seem to be changing
You got some good points here, but in my opinion PM _is_ about managing people, too. It plays a very important part.
Personally I would say whether a PM needs to be a techie guy depends mainly on the size of a project (besides many other things).
When working on smaller projects, everyone has to understand the big picture, has to know at least a little from the others' fields of work. That's how they interact.
However, on larger projects (say, 50+ ppl) PMs cannot kow everything, they have to rely on all kind of experts. Their job is to identify and make plans on using all kinds of resources, build and operate timelines, control workflow. On each of these points, they have to rely on their experts. On this scale, a PM cannot tell if a DB design is good or not. (I've worked with PMs who wanted to understand every bit we did, why we did that way, etc. The PM quickly became a single point of failure and speed limit.)
(That's one question, of course, only it has four question marks :-)
Right. But then, if you read Asimov, you know that these could lead to "interesting" behaviour. Personally, I fear my own kitchen robot will not let my tea cool down, because it's more vital when it's warm, or such things :-)