AGGG!!!! My Brain! My Brain! You've burned all logic from it.
That's like saying that we shouldn't produce safer cars because everyone doesn't buy one. And hell, why train drivers, because, you know, crappy drivers are everywhere. Or like saying we shouldn't make furniture fireproof, because, you know, something else will burn. Of course, it completely disregards those of us who routinely patch our managed systems and keep them dead secure, compatibility and testing be damned. This is DMCA logic. If we criminalize software holes, only criminals will know of exploits. See the problem?
Is this a Self-Elimating Business Model? The point of the new plan is to ensure that 'the millions of users who rely on our anti-spam systems can be assured we'll be here for as long as spammers plague the Internet As they eliminate spam, spam becomes less profitable, thus decreasing the need for them. Not only that, but the less spam, the less people will request their services, as they can do it in-house. What do you guys think?
Lets get it out of the way now.... 1. Block spam 2. ???? 3. Profit. There. Are you trolls happy?
No, you're missing the point. We should ban the shift key. Not only that, if computers allow piracy, we should ban them. And anyone who hums has their voicebox removed, unless they hummed less than 10% of the song, and god forbid if it was an important part.
From the up-up-down-down-a-a-b-a dept...
Perhaps you ment up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select dept? That's the Konami code, if that's what you're thinking of.
I've said it before and I'll repost it again: If anyone on this thread had half a clue, they'd realize that those things, except the optical one, block by using the FLASH by reflection of light. Clearly, every car can't be recongnized by flash photography, image processing and character recognition is a much more logical choice for this. The spray will not work and I'm sure the lens is blatantly illegal.
And here's an experiment you can do at home!
How the spray works:
Go to a mirror with a digital camera in a dark room. Be sure the flash is on. Stand way too close to the mirror. Take a picture. Came out really bright and crappy, didn't it? Thats exactly what happens with the license plates. They reflect the light if a certain amount of it is transmitted and hits the plate covered with the spray. One of them uses refractive optics to blur the image, but it doesn't work the same way as the spray. To demonstrate how it works, bend the mirror *Warning: do not try this with the average mirror*. Can't see yourself in the picture at all now, eh?
If anyone on this thread had half a clue, they'd realize that those things block by using the FLASH by reflection of light. Clearly, every car can't be recongnized by flash photography, image processing and character recognition is a much more logical choice for this.
And here's an experiment you can do at home!
Go to a mirror with a digital camera in a dark room. Be sure the flash is on. Stand way too close to the mirror. Take a picture with the flash on. Came out really bright and crappy, didn't it? Thats exactly what happens with the license plates. They reflect the light if a certain amount of it is transmitted and hits the plate covered with the spray. One of them uses refractive optics to blur the image, but it doesn't work the same way as the spray. See above for how that spray works.
On a completely unrelated tangent, I'm in Physics C (calc based physics), and I understand Maxwell's equations, but I couldn't even tell you why natural magnets cause the qv x b effect. As far as my teacher knows, that's just the way it is.
If one had a safe, and said safe was completely uncrackable, and there was a good likelyhood that the critical piece of evidence to a crime was inside it, could the owner of the safe be forced to divulge the combination? This is how I envision encryption keys. Honestly, under the fifth amendment, I'm not sure.
If this were passed, would countries that don't have annoying 4th and 5th amendments be able to force Americans to divulge their keys or risk extradition?
Actually, if you've ever developed PHP, you'll start to notice bugs in get vars. For instance, if one were to notice ?authenticated=no, one could chane it to yes. And such. Made by really shoddy coders, though.
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AGGG!!!! My Brain! My Brain! You've burned all logic from it.
That's like saying that we shouldn't produce safer cars because everyone doesn't buy one. And hell, why train drivers, because, you know, crappy drivers are everywhere. Or like saying we shouldn't make furniture fireproof, because, you know, something else will burn. Of course, it completely disregards those of us who routinely patch our managed systems and keep them dead secure, compatibility and testing be damned. This is DMCA logic. If we criminalize software holes, only criminals will know of exploits. See the problem?
If someone has reassembled the zip, could they please post a link?
Anonymous Authorities a plenty. That's all I got to say 'bout that source.
Slightly OffT: Wasn't it originally The County's Best Yogurt, until they expanded?
Is this a Self-Elimating Business Model?
The point of the new plan is to ensure that 'the millions of users who rely on our anti-spam systems can be assured we'll be here for as long as spammers plague the Internet
As they eliminate spam, spam becomes less profitable, thus decreasing the need for them. Not only that, but the less spam, the less people will request their services, as they can do it in-house. What do you guys think?
Lets get it out of the way now....
1. Block spam
2. ????
3. Profit.
There. Are you trolls happy?
Don't worry, there's infinitly more.
No, you're missing the point. We should ban the shift key. Not only that, if computers allow piracy, we should ban them. And anyone who hums has their voicebox removed, unless they hummed less than 10% of the song, and god forbid if it was an important part.
I, for one, welcome our new DMCA overlords.
From the up-up-down-down-a-a-b-a dept... Perhaps you ment up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select dept? That's the Konami code, if that's what you're thinking of.
The really good players make it look like dance and not like slamming. It's really troubling.
No, everyone then has the ability to benefit from that knowlege. And isn't the government supposed to give back to the community?
Latin was the original language of learning throughout Europe. Thus, an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowlege has a latin motto.
Why not decide for yourself? It's a lamp, but, you know...
Yeah but do they run... oh... wait... nevermind.
By that logic the yellow pages is guilty of all gun crime, because they tell you where to get guns.
Do you really think those infected with sasser will know how to block off a TCP port, much less what TCP is?
Jeez, they never fully test these worms before release. No wonder they'd have security issues.
You post no info from the site. The site's name is badgerpackaging.com What did you think was going to happen, editors?
Kind of early for halloween, isn't it?
I've said it before and I'll repost it again:
If anyone on this thread had half a clue, they'd realize that those things, except the optical one, block by using the FLASH by reflection of light. Clearly, every car can't be recongnized by flash photography, image processing and character recognition is a much more logical choice for this. The spray will not work and I'm sure the lens is blatantly illegal.
And here's an experiment you can do at home!
How the spray works:
Go to a mirror with a digital camera in a dark room. Be sure the flash is on. Stand way too close to the mirror. Take a picture. Came out really bright and crappy, didn't it? Thats exactly what happens with the license plates. They reflect the light if a certain amount of it is transmitted and hits the plate covered with the spray. One of them uses refractive optics to blur the image, but it doesn't work the same way as the spray. To demonstrate how it works, bend the mirror *Warning: do not try this with the average mirror*. Can't see yourself in the picture at all now, eh?
If anyone on this thread had half a clue, they'd realize that those things block by using the FLASH by reflection of light. Clearly, every car can't be recongnized by flash photography, image processing and character recognition is a much more logical choice for this.
And here's an experiment you can do at home!
Go to a mirror with a digital camera in a dark room. Be sure the flash is on. Stand way too close to the mirror. Take a picture with the flash on. Came out really bright and crappy, didn't it? Thats exactly what happens with the license plates. They reflect the light if a certain amount of it is transmitted and hits the plate covered with the spray. One of them uses refractive optics to blur the image, but it doesn't work the same way as the spray. See above for how that spray works.
On a completely unrelated tangent, I'm in Physics C (calc based physics), and I understand Maxwell's equations, but I couldn't even tell you why natural magnets cause the qv x b effect. As far as my teacher knows, that's just the way it is.
There goes your funding! Bush doesn't believe in climate change, or that kooky science thing for that matter.
Hell, I've got Karma to burn: Fuck You. Not Funny.
If one had a safe, and said safe was completely uncrackable, and there was a good likelyhood that the critical piece of evidence to a crime was inside it, could the owner of the safe be forced to divulge the combination? This is how I envision encryption keys. Honestly, under the fifth amendment, I'm not sure.
If this were passed, would countries that don't have annoying 4th and 5th amendments be able to force Americans to divulge their keys or risk extradition?
Actually, if you've ever developed PHP, you'll start to notice bugs in get vars. For instance, if one were to notice ?authenticated=no, one could chane it to yes. And such. Made by really shoddy coders, though.