because soldiers == citizens and would probably not attack the general population if ordered to do so
Sorry to piss on your parade, but that happens. Happened even when soldiers were ordered to shoot their fellow citizens. In losta places, lotsa times.
Not even exclusively in 'thrid world'. Even in the US, of all the places. Remember that incident when soldiers shot 4 students at the universtity in Ohio? (As immortalised in Neil Young's 'Ohio') I'm too lazy to provide a link, but I'm sure it's googlable.
So, no problem. Real, trained soldiers do what they are told to do.
Determine your personality here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
IMHO, this is useless. If I took the test 5 times I'd get 5 different results. The questions themselves are vague at best and I'd say people generally have no way of answering them truthfully. At best it shows you what you like to think about yourself at the particular moment of taking the test.
At one point, a computer magazine proposed a SolMark computer speed test: The faster the cascade, the faster your computer.
Solitaire _was_ my benchmark. After each gfx or cpu upgrade the first thing after booting was to fire up Solitaire.:-)
I can't tell you how disappointed I was when they included timing code in W2k and later releases, so the cards always fall with a fixed speed. But, I guess it was inevitable once times went under a couple of seconds...
On the other hand, I'd love to have something like this to work with (Reason 2 is my weapon of choice these days).
Grab an Amiga emulator and Amiga Workbench 1.3 (OS disks, basically). On it, you'll find 'Narrator' a program that can, well, narate given text. Sounds exactly the same as the voice on 'Fitter'. And was released in 1985. or thereabouts.
You can even make it sing if you work at it a bit, and hillarious results happen when you feed it something like 'auoiuaoiauaia'... There was a file in circulation with a rendition of Daisy, Daisy made famous by HAL from '2001'.
Record lables/companies don't only create & distribute, but they MARKET the artists and artists' products.
And which is exactly the reason they should die a horrible death. Artists shouldn't have to be marketed like products. That only fosters the music culture we have today - MTV and the like where the actual music takes a back seat to a host of other things - the look, the video, the hype, the bullshit.
To enjoy music, I don't particularly need to know how the performers look like, where they shop, who they hang out with and did or did not they break up with whoever.
Most of the time, the only reason you need to reboot is for windows to replace a protected file.
But, most of those most times include the situation when the file to be replaced is an.exe or.dll currently loaded and running. If that file turns out to be something that can't be unloaded (a base service, kernel or whatnot), you have to reboot, no way around it.
For the uninitiated, Windows File Protection monitors designated crucial files and folders for change, and replaces them with a trusted copy if one happens.
Ok- on one hand, we can spent the money to free 25 million people from a brutal and oppressive dictator, give credibility to the UN, provide a catalyst for the democratization of one of the most volatile regions in the world, and eliminate a threat to our national security.
Too bad Bush decided against that solution and chosen to attack Iraq instead...
And it will. We've got plenty of coal and oil to last for centuries...
Is this a fact? According to my research, we should reach the peak of worldwide oil production one of these years (200x), and then it all downhill. Am I missing something?
The malware would make much less progress if the dialog used "Run Virus" instead of "Open".
Actually, latest versions of IE & OE do actually say something along the lines of 'what you're about to run could be a malicious program, don't do it if you're not sure what it is or where it comes from', and give you a choice of declining.
But, who in their right mind could resist clicking on a program that will speed up your internet connection tenfold, cure cancer, end world hunger and give you a 10" dick?
There was one activist from the military, who took the statistics from the massacre (number of shots fired vs hits, on which part of the body, etc.) and claimed that they were better than most military people, and this expertise had to have come from the large number of hours they spent playing Quake.
I beileve this to be true. I'm pretty sure that every experienced FPS could be an very efficient killer, especially without anyone firing back (since most players obviously rely on respawn), like in an average public setting. But, this can happen only if said gamer could click a switch in their head and simply not care about taking human life, and furthermore, actively plan and prepare for it.
Which is, thankfully, hardly possible in a vast majority of population. So I think it's crazy to try to ban FPS games, maybe that energy would be better spent in trying to make real, actual weapons unavailable to that minority that 'flicked the switch'.
Ok, I'm off to shoot some people. People I know will respawn in 14 seconds tops./me fires up DayOfDefeat...
Or perhaps my irrationality extends to thinking that when the pigeons around the UK's nuclear waste processing plants are so radioactive they would be classed as nuclear waste themselves if they were inert.
Have you ever had an X-ray of some part of you taken? Noticed the lab coat the technician that operated the x-ray machine was wearing? If it was in a nuclear power plant, it would be designated as a _medium_ grade radioactive waste.
And the guy just keeps on wearing it. Irrational, innit?
I don't think "free of charge" is fair to the manufacturer.
Yes, it is. I work in a company that produces children educational software. We replace damaged discs for free. Out of 30+ thousands sold, so far we replaced less than 50.
And, yes, we use SecuROM.:-) SecuROM is not there to thwart dedicated priates, because it just can't do that. SecuROM is there to stop casual copying by end users, and it does that very well.
What the software does, is to overwrite appearently insignificant portions of the "container" data (the audio/picture/text/whatever file that transports the smaller hidden file).
Which is why they are not a steganography tools, but at most toys. Real steganography, embeds the payload in the most significant parts of the host data.
Not to repeat myself, you may check some of my other comments, or look up 'spread spectrum encoding'.
It's simply astonishing to me that the only stego method the whole of Slashdot commentators (I read so far) are capable of thinking is hiding data in least significant parts of data (LSB). Which is, in reality, as powerful technique as is rot-13 encryption-wise.
Writing something in LSB doesn't survive _any_ data manipulation, filtering, re-coding or pretty much anything else. If you want to hide something, you hide it in MOST significant part of data, where your payload is guaranteed to survive as long as host data does.
You generally achieve this by spread spectrum encoding which is roughly a method of splitting the power of your signal over a large number of most significant data bins (frequencies, various transformation factors or whatnot). By using this technique, not only is your data imperceptible, algthough it is hidden in MSBs (of sorts), it is also hidded by the fact that only by having the key for selecting the right data bins you can dechypher the stego data.
Spread spectrum techniques can be made unbelievably robust. So much that you could embed a message in a picture, print it out, scan it back in, crop half of it, and still be able to recover the message (now that's a nice James Bond trick).
Granted, usable payload wouldn't be on the order of 1/10th of the carrier data (as with LSB techniques), more on the order of 1/10000th, but large volumes of carrier data these days are easy to come by.
The point of steganography is to hide information so that its presence cannot be detected. This means hiding information below the noise floor of the media.
Steganography is not your strong suit, is it?
If you hide the data, you probably wouldn't want it to be obvious and easily erasable, wouldn't you? Hiding something in LSB is trivially defeatable (can't survive simple JPEGing, for example, not to mention any special purpose filters). Besides, it would be a nice boon if it can't be universally decodable, but only by knowing the secret key used for encoding, right?
If you really need to hide something and want it to be robust and really _hidden_, you need to hide it in MOST significant bits. Why? Because the most significant bits are guaranteed to survive any and all data manipulations (otherwise te data isn't data anymore, it's all noise).
You accomplish all of this by spread spectrum encoding, encoding only a small fraction of signal's power in each of the selected MSBs. Works like a charm. I did my graduation thesis on this. By carefully crafting your encoding and decoding you can for example decode a message encoded in a picture that has been JPEGed, printed, scanned and turned to grayscale. Try and do that with LSB encoding...
Give $15B to 2B people -- it's $7.50 per capita. In other words, if direct subsidies are the answer to poverty then NASA's budget would be inconsequential.
Well, if you're gonna go with that route, better leave NASA budget intact, and dole out money intended for the army. After all, it's an order of magnitude larger.:-)
The URL encoded like this into tag should mask the portion after %00 so you are led to believe you're going to a differnt server. At least according to a CERT advisory I got a few days back. I don't have any Mozilla based browsers to test it out, though.
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because soldiers == citizens and would probably not attack the general population if ordered to do so
Sorry to piss on your parade, but that happens. Happened even when soldiers were ordered to shoot their fellow citizens. In losta places, lotsa times.
Not even exclusively in 'thrid world'. Even in the US, of all the places. Remember that incident when soldiers shot 4 students at the universtity in Ohio? (As immortalised in Neil Young's 'Ohio') I'm too lazy to provide a link, but I'm sure it's googlable.
So, no problem. Real, trained soldiers do what they are told to do.
Determine your personality here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
IMHO, this is useless. If I took the test 5 times I'd get 5 different results. The questions themselves are vague at best and I'd say people generally have no way of answering them truthfully. At best it shows you what you like to think about yourself at the particular moment of taking the test.
At one point, a computer magazine proposed a SolMark computer speed test: The faster the cascade, the faster your computer.
:-)
Solitaire _was_ my benchmark. After each gfx or cpu upgrade the first thing after booting was to fire up Solitaire.
I can't tell you how disappointed I was when they included timing code in W2k and later releases, so the cards always fall with a fixed speed. But, I guess it was inevitable once times went under a couple of seconds...
On the other hand, I'd love to have something like this to work with (Reason 2 is my weapon of choice these days).
Grab an Amiga emulator and Amiga Workbench 1.3 (OS disks, basically). On it, you'll find 'Narrator' a program that can, well, narate given text. Sounds exactly the same as the voice on 'Fitter'. And was released in 1985. or thereabouts.
You can even make it sing if you work at it a bit, and hillarious results happen when you feed it something like 'auoiuaoiauaia'... There was a file in circulation with a rendition of Daisy, Daisy made famous by HAL from '2001'.
Heaps of fun.
But, it was also showed (by putting headphones on them, playing a mouse sound and watching how their heads moved)
Ok, so where's the obligatory link to the owl with the headphones?
but, what still bugs me, is that they haven't yet implemented a 'html only' version of their page....
Like this?
Record lables/companies don't only create & distribute, but they MARKET the artists and artists' products.
And which is exactly the reason they should die a horrible death. Artists shouldn't have to be marketed like products. That only fosters the music culture we have today - MTV and the like where the actual music takes a back seat to a host of other things - the look, the video, the hype, the bullshit.
To enjoy music, I don't particularly need to know how the performers look like, where they shop, who they hang out with and did or did not they break up with whoever.
Most of the time, the only reason you need to reboot is for windows to replace a protected file.
.exe or .dll currently loaded and running. If that file turns out to be something that can't be unloaded (a base service, kernel or whatnot), you have to reboot, no way around it.
But, most of those most times include the situation when the file to be replaced is an
For the uninitiated, Windows File Protection monitors designated crucial files and folders for change, and replaces them with a trusted copy if one happens.
Well, for one, I doubt that my posting to slashdot will get me 47 megs of spam in my inbox within a days time.
I have yet to recieve my first spam from NYT, being registered for a couple of years now. Your point is?
Ok- on one hand, we can spent the money to free 25 million people from a brutal and oppressive dictator, give credibility to the UN, provide a catalyst for the democratization of one of the most volatile regions in the world, and eliminate a threat to our national security.
Too bad Bush decided against that solution and chosen to attack Iraq instead...
And it will. We've got plenty of coal and oil to last for centuries...
Is this a fact? According to my research, we should reach the peak of worldwide oil production one of these years (200x), and then it all downhill. Am I missing something?
The malware would make much less progress if the dialog used "Run Virus" instead of "Open".
Actually, latest versions of IE & OE do actually say something along the lines of 'what you're about to run could be a malicious program, don't do it if you're not sure what it is or where it comes from', and give you a choice of declining.
But, who in their right mind could resist clicking on a program that will speed up your internet connection tenfold, cure cancer, end world hunger and give you a 10" dick?
There was one activist from the military, who took the statistics from the massacre (number of shots fired vs hits, on which part of the body, etc.) and claimed that they were better than most military people, and this expertise had to have come from the large number of hours they spent playing Quake.
/me fires up DayOfDefeat...
I beileve this to be true. I'm pretty sure that every experienced FPS could be an very efficient killer, especially without anyone firing back (since most players obviously rely on respawn), like in an average public setting. But, this can happen only if said gamer could click a switch in their head and simply not care about taking human life, and furthermore, actively plan and prepare for it.
Which is, thankfully, hardly possible in a vast majority of population. So I think it's crazy to try to ban FPS games, maybe that energy would be better spent in trying to make real, actual weapons unavailable to that minority that 'flicked the switch'.
Ok, I'm off to shoot some people. People I know will respawn in 14 seconds tops.
If there aren't bugs in your code, you'll literally write yourself out of the market.
:-)
Or you could try selling your software as a subscription service...
And all of a sudden, it starts to make sense.
If there are open file handles, data in the write cache will be lost, and WinXP will freeze up for a few minutes while waiting for the IDE timeout.
IMHO, removing or disabling the drive from device manager should ensure you have no open files and flush the cache.
seems to me the north shores of germany would be an excellent place for hydro-electric power.
Which is kinda funny, since more poeple have died from hydro-electric power plants than nuclear power plants. Much more.
The tally so far, for direct deaths caused by power plant failures:
Nuclear: 34.
Hydro: 3500 in India alone.
Source:link
Or perhaps my irrationality extends to thinking that when the pigeons around the UK's nuclear waste processing plants are so radioactive they would be classed as nuclear waste themselves if they were inert.
Have you ever had an X-ray of some part of you taken? Noticed the lab coat the technician that operated the x-ray machine was wearing? If it was in a nuclear power plant, it would be designated as a _medium_ grade radioactive waste.
And the guy just keeps on wearing it. Irrational, innit?
I don't think "free of charge" is fair to the manufacturer.
:-) SecuROM is not there to thwart dedicated priates, because it just can't do that. SecuROM is there to stop casual copying by end users, and it does that very well.
Yes, it is. I work in a company that produces children educational software. We replace damaged discs for free. Out of 30+ thousands sold, so far we replaced less than 50.
And, yes, we use SecuROM.
What the software does, is to overwrite appearently insignificant portions of the "container" data (the audio/picture/text/whatever file that transports the smaller hidden file).
Which is why they are not a steganography tools, but at most toys. Real steganography, embeds the payload in the most significant parts of the host data.
Not to repeat myself, you may check some of my other comments, or look up 'spread spectrum encoding'.
Clueless poster and clueless moderators.
Indeed.
It's simply astonishing to me that the only stego method the whole of Slashdot commentators (I read so far) are capable of thinking is hiding data in least significant parts of data (LSB). Which is, in reality, as powerful technique as is rot-13 encryption-wise.
Writing something in LSB doesn't survive _any_ data manipulation, filtering, re-coding or pretty much anything else. If you want to hide something, you hide it in MOST significant part of data, where your payload is guaranteed to survive as long as host data does.
You generally achieve this by spread spectrum encoding which is roughly a method of splitting the power of your signal over a large number of most significant data bins (frequencies, various transformation factors or whatnot). By using this technique, not only is your data imperceptible, algthough it is hidden in MSBs (of sorts), it is also hidded by the fact that only by having the key for selecting the right data bins you can dechypher the stego data.
Spread spectrum techniques can be made unbelievably robust. So much that you could embed a message in a picture, print it out, scan it back in, crop half of it, and still be able to recover the message (now that's a nice James Bond trick).
Granted, usable payload wouldn't be on the order of 1/10th of the carrier data (as with LSB techniques), more on the order of 1/10000th, but large volumes of carrier data these days are easy to come by.
Feel free to google for more info.
The point of steganography is to hide information so that its presence cannot be detected. This means hiding information below the noise floor of the media.
Steganography is not your strong suit, is it?
If you hide the data, you probably wouldn't want it to be obvious and easily erasable, wouldn't you? Hiding something in LSB is trivially defeatable (can't survive simple JPEGing, for example, not to mention any special purpose filters). Besides, it would be a nice boon if it can't be universally decodable, but only by knowing the secret key used for encoding, right?
If you really need to hide something and want it to be robust and really _hidden_, you need to hide it in MOST significant bits. Why? Because the most significant bits are guaranteed to survive any and all data manipulations (otherwise te data isn't data anymore, it's all noise).
You accomplish all of this by spread spectrum encoding, encoding only a small fraction of signal's power in each of the selected MSBs. Works like a charm. I did my graduation thesis on this. By carefully crafting your encoding and decoding you can for example decode a message encoded in a picture that has been JPEGed, printed, scanned and turned to grayscale. Try and do that with LSB encoding...
Feel free to Google for more info.
Give $15B to 2B people -- it's $7.50 per capita. In other words, if direct subsidies are the answer to poverty then NASA's budget would be inconsequential.
:-)
Well, if you're gonna go with that route, better leave NASA budget intact, and dole out money intended for the army. After all, it's an order of magnitude larger.
Its called a mule.
But you can't spend $xxx billion developing a mule! So, what good would it do for our friends in the military industries?
Cause you had no browsers with native pop-up blocking,,No virus-free mail clients,, and no free anti-virus for XP before now
please...
Of course you did. But, what good does that do to the 90% of the public that only use the SW that comes with the box?
At least now, the lowest common security level will be a notch up.
What problem should I expect in Mozilla?
The URL encoded like this into tag should mask the portion after %00 so you are led to believe you're going to a differnt server. At least according to a CERT advisory I got a few days back. I don't have any Mozilla based browsers to test it out, though.