Yup. When I got the job, the backend of the site sucked ass. Full of things like delete links, everything was hard-coded everywhere, and the list goes on and on. After the spider hit, I updated the security a bit and, yes, removed all state-changing links.
When I used to administer a website (b2b, you've never heard of it) my boss loved Alexa. I told him time and again to uninstall it, and even did so myself a number of times... but he'd put it back every time. Then, one day, all dynamic content on the main page just vanished. I brought it back from backup, and chocked it up to a bug. Then, it happened again a little while later. I started snooping around our logs.
Turns out, Alexa's spiders were ignoring the robots.txt file, and capturing usernames and passwords. It logged into the administrative area, and followed the "delete" link for every entry. My dumbass boss still didn't want to uninstall Alexa. Could have strangled the man.
i would personally like to see all pieces of hardware sold with schematics for the hardware. with other products, like cars, this is trivial anyway--anybody can open up the car and see what bit goes where. with computer hardware, because of things like microcode, this is impossible. You don't know much about cars, do you? For the past decade or so, every BMW to come out has had a microcontroller, or a handful of them, for every mechanical part in the car. Pretty much every other manufacturer has followed suit. Starting around 1984, every American car had a computer. They were mostly diagnostic... but they started getting more and more invasive. Now, a friend who works in a repair shop spends *most* of his time there upgrading firmware.
I have no qualms whatsoever about destroying embryos for therapeutic purposes. Man. I've always found killing squirrels to be therapeutic... but damn. Embryos? Do you squish 'em under a microscope or something? Burning can't be much fun, though -- that's my favorite way with the squirrels. But I just don't see any sport in embryos. Maybe getting them is fun?
Negative. For one thing, I don't wear a belt. Second, I crawl through tight spots, and traipse through the woods quite a bit. I've lost 2 leathermans (leathermen?) to the leather holster popping open, and never lost one that was in my pocket.
My pockets must contain: keys, wallet, cellphone, leatherman. Keys+leatherman makes for loud clanking, wallet keeps leatherman vertical; back pockets are out of the question (wallet would be ok, but gives back problems). Hence, keys & cell go together, and I only buy flip phones. The surface gets a little scratched, but that's fine by me since the screen & buttons are protected.
Alice & Bob sit down together and match their resistors to within a hundredth or so of a percent. You can really get fantastic results with good variable resistors. Then, they buy a few miles of copper, and stretch it between their locations. This idea does not scale. It's like quantum crypto, only, you don't need line of sight -- you just need an unbroken electrical connection.
There exist these little beasts called "variable resistors" which allow tuning down to hundredths of a percent. Now. However, let's make your job easy, and say that we'll restrict to integer-valued resistors between 1kohm and 2kohm. Alice and Bob have agreed upon one "low" resistor, and one "high" resistor. You've got a 1 in 1 million chance to correctly guess at their resistors. And you only get one guess: if you sit in the middle with the wrong resistors for even a few bits, Alice and Bob will know immediately that their line has been compromised, and cease transmission. Or worse, they'll send garbabe, that you won't recognize as such, and do some timing analysis which would reveal your exact location to their agents. Welcome to Guantanamo.
Yeah. I've got an otter box for my ~16in widescreen laptop. Together, they weight a frikkin' TON. But, it's waterproof, and protects the laptop when dropped. Which, sadly, happens a lot since the hooks on the shoulder strap are so shittily designed. However, I can jump up & down on the thing with my laptop running inside, and nothing gets hurt. Except me, if I land wrong. But that hasn't happened, yet.
Ex post facto. The copyright wouldn't be retroactive. However: suppose, for sake of argument, that Springer-Verlag owns the copyright to Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem. Wait a hundred years, or a thousand years. Springer-Verlag is long gone, Wiles' bloodline has died out, but the company was bought by a money-grubbing organization who sells copies for thousands of (insert futuristic monetary equivalent of a dollar here). Now, the mathematical community faces a situation similar to Microsoft suing the Linux community over patents. We need to re-prove, without copying, every major mathematical result once "owned" by Springer-Verlag, if we want them to be reasonably attainable.
Perpetual copyrights are today's equivalent to burning down the Library at Alexandria.
Same goes for SAGE. Thanks to jsmath, Maxima, and the work of a few SAGE developers, the notebook interface renders latex quickly and beautifully, right in the browser.
He did say, "at least". That means, driving at the speed limit the whole time. No acceleration, no deceleration. Just *BAM*, we're movin', and 20 years later, *BAM*, we're here. No potty breaks.
No! This is frikkin' great! I can implement this in approx. 10 minutes in JavaScript. Post it for free, and his admittedly unpatentable $34000 server + subscription fee is rendered valueless! Think I'll do that now...
Nope. Anybody doing this sort of market / traffic analysis will look at the correlation between "unique" pageviews and sales. The actual number of "unique" pageviews does not matter. Inflating it by 200%, or even a million times, does not matter. Scaling by a constant factor has zero effect on correlation analysis. All it does is sets the value of a "unique" hit -- scale the hits up by 100%, and it scales the value per hit down 50%. Nobody is getting cheated, and nobody who knows anything about browsers or the internet believes that a metric of "unique" pageviews based on cookies alone is accurate. Fact of the matter is, without biometric identification, you'll never get anywhere near the accuracy this article implies people want. And even biometrics are hackable.
Shotgun? Think simpler. The thing relies on the Coanda Effect. Toss a large, wet wad of toilet paper at the thing. Land it on the top, and the thing should spin out of control, if not fall like a rock.
I'd probably check out Hasbro's website, since, y'know, they bought MB, and produce the game now. At least, that's what every group I've ever gamed with does, when rule disputes come up.
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Yup. When I got the job, the backend of the site sucked ass. Full of things like delete links, everything was hard-coded everywhere, and the list goes on and on. After the spider hit, I updated the security a bit and, yes, removed all state-changing links.
When I used to administer a website (b2b, you've never heard of it) my boss loved Alexa. I told him time and again to uninstall it, and even did so myself a number of times... but he'd put it back every time. Then, one day, all dynamic content on the main page just vanished. I brought it back from backup, and chocked it up to a bug. Then, it happened again a little while later. I started snooping around our logs.
Turns out, Alexa's spiders were ignoring the robots.txt file, and capturing usernames and passwords. It logged into the administrative area, and followed the "delete" link for every entry. My dumbass boss still didn't want to uninstall Alexa. Could have strangled the man.
And no, you can't see the schematic.
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Negative. For one thing, I don't wear a belt. Second, I crawl through tight spots, and traipse through the woods quite a bit. I've lost 2 leathermans (leathermen?) to the leather holster popping open, and never lost one that was in my pocket.
My pockets must contain: keys, wallet, cellphone, leatherman. Keys+leatherman makes for loud clanking, wallet keeps leatherman vertical; back pockets are out of the question (wallet would be ok, but gives back problems). Hence, keys & cell go together, and I only buy flip phones. The surface gets a little scratched, but that's fine by me since the screen & buttons are protected.
Alice & Bob sit down together and match their resistors to within a hundredth or so of a percent. You can really get fantastic results with good variable resistors. Then, they buy a few miles of copper, and stretch it between their locations. This idea does not scale. It's like quantum crypto, only, you don't need line of sight -- you just need an unbroken electrical connection.
There exist these little beasts called "variable resistors" which allow tuning down to hundredths of a percent. Now. However, let's make your job easy, and say that we'll restrict to integer-valued resistors between 1kohm and 2kohm. Alice and Bob have agreed upon one "low" resistor, and one "high" resistor. You've got a 1 in 1 million chance to correctly guess at their resistors. And you only get one guess: if you sit in the middle with the wrong resistors for even a few bits, Alice and Bob will know immediately that their line has been compromised, and cease transmission. Or worse, they'll send garbabe, that you won't recognize as such, and do some timing analysis which would reveal your exact location to their agents. Welcome to Guantanamo.
Yeah. I've got an otter box for my ~16in widescreen laptop. Together, they weight a frikkin' TON. But, it's waterproof, and protects the laptop when dropped. Which, sadly, happens a lot since the hooks on the shoulder strap are so shittily designed. However, I can jump up & down on the thing with my laptop running inside, and nothing gets hurt. Except me, if I land wrong. But that hasn't happened, yet.
Ex post facto. The copyright wouldn't be retroactive. However: suppose, for sake of argument, that Springer-Verlag owns the copyright to Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem. Wait a hundred years, or a thousand years. Springer-Verlag is long gone, Wiles' bloodline has died out, but the company was bought by a money-grubbing organization who sells copies for thousands of (insert futuristic monetary equivalent of a dollar here). Now, the mathematical community faces a situation similar to Microsoft suing the Linux community over patents. We need to re-prove, without copying, every major mathematical result once "owned" by Springer-Verlag, if we want them to be reasonably attainable.
Perpetual copyrights are today's equivalent to burning down the Library at Alexandria.
Yeah. Not only are they too big to fit in the slots, but they'd only touch one pole anyway. I had much more success with paperclips as a child.
Never saw 'em in my 12 years of public education. Still haven't, and I'll be graduating with a BS pretty soon.
Probably not a sharpie... but a drill would do the trick.
Worse, imagine what the feds would do to this guy!
Unless you live in a third-world country, and a site license is as high as the cost to employ a few professors full-time. Then, you use SAGE.
Same goes for SAGE. Thanks to jsmath, Maxima, and the work of a few SAGE developers, the notebook interface renders latex quickly and beautifully, right in the browser.
Don't you mean, an href?
He did say, "at least". That means, driving at the speed limit the whole time. No acceleration, no deceleration. Just *BAM*, we're movin', and 20 years later, *BAM*, we're here. No potty breaks.
No! This is frikkin' great! I can implement this in approx. 10 minutes in JavaScript. Post it for free, and his admittedly unpatentable $34000 server + subscription fee is rendered valueless! Think I'll do that now...
Nope. Anybody doing this sort of market / traffic analysis will look at the correlation between "unique" pageviews and sales. The actual number of "unique" pageviews does not matter. Inflating it by 200%, or even a million times, does not matter. Scaling by a constant factor has zero effect on correlation analysis. All it does is sets the value of a "unique" hit -- scale the hits up by 100%, and it scales the value per hit down 50%. Nobody is getting cheated, and nobody who knows anything about browsers or the internet believes that a metric of "unique" pageviews based on cookies alone is accurate. Fact of the matter is, without biometric identification, you'll never get anywhere near the accuracy this article implies people want. And even biometrics are hackable.
Interesting resolution to an old debate:
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? T-Rex!
Excellent idea! And it should be fully-automatic. I'd bet those things are gonna be a trick to hit.
Shotgun? Think simpler. The thing relies on the Coanda Effect. Toss a large, wet wad of toilet paper at the thing. Land it on the top, and the thing should spin out of control, if not fall like a rock.
I'd probably check out Hasbro's website, since, y'know, they bought MB, and produce the game now. At least, that's what every group I've ever gamed with does, when rule disputes come up.
http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/monins.pdf