2) Bush already has a UN resolution he can use for authorization of force - UN Resoution 1540 which was engineered by the US and proclaims "nuclear proliferation" as a "threat to peace", which under the UN Charter authorizes the UN (if not the US) to use force. But only the US will interpret it that way - the UN will not.
3) Bush does not need Congressional approval to attack Iran - he's demonstrated that he thinks he's above the law. Besides, virtually every US Congressman except Ron Paul, Conyers and Peter DeFazio is already on board for attacking Iran, Lugar's comments notwithstanding. Bush already has "authorization of force" resolutions by Congress that he can "interpret" as giving him the right plus his usual "War President = Dictator" excuse he's used repeatedly now. Congress is a wimp - while they will thwart Bush on domestic issues that involve votes, when it comes to security, they will tow the line because they are afraid of being called "un-patriotic" in an election season.
4) They will never conscript ten million Americans, that IS not politically feasible. They only drafted a million or two during the Vietnam war. But there WILL be a draft because they WILL need at least one to two million US Army troops, and more of the other services. Besides, the draft is an excellent way to deal with dissidents - draft 'em and send 'em to get killed. Count on all the illegal immigrants being drafted, for one, as part of their "punishment" for being illegal. They already had the green card program to get people into the Army - they'll just expand that.
5) Domestic issues will not stop Bush from attacking Iran. Neither will opposition from within the Pentagon or the retired generals or the Congress. Bush and the neocons have their agenda and it will be run regardless of public attitude, as it has been from day one.
Anybody who believes a war in Iran is not imminent is either seriously naive or has a bad case of glaucoma.
See my reply below. It will escalate into a ground war. This isn't like Kosovo where we had no ground troops there to begin with. And the Bushies want Khuzestan province which has most of Iran's oil and is right across the border from Iraq.
And the Iranians have already said they just won't sit there and be pounded on like Saddam did.
The problem with the notion that Iran will merely be an air war is threefold:
1) Wars don't follow OUR gameplan - they follow their own. Escalation is certain in Iran's case.
2) The Bushies see tha capture of Khuzestan province - right across the border from Iraq - as top priority since it has most of Iran's oil. Remember how Iraq oil was going to pay for the Iraq war, according to Wolfowitz?
3) The US is already running PKK and M.E.K. dissidents across the Iraq-Iran border, and Iran has done incursions into Iraq to stop it. What happens after the airstrikes begin when Iran runs Revolutionary Guards into Iraq to stir up the Shia against the US occupation of Iraq. Does anybody really believe Bush won't send US troops into Iran to stop those incursions?
The war will escalate into a ground war. Guaranteed.
And since Iran's conventional military is no match for ours, that will inevitably lead to a guerrilla war similar to Vietnam - but two to four times as big. The Iranians will bleed us for the next ten years just like the Vietnamese did.
I'm getting off five years Supervised Release in a couple weeks. I was asked last year, I think it was, to do this. It's a new requirement for anyone on Federal probation or supervised release.
Because the US is attacking Iran in the next one to five months - before the fall elections.
Two aircraft carriers are moving through the Pacific to join a third already in the Gulf as we speak.
The US is running Kurdish and Iranian dissident groups on incursions into Iran, to stimulate Iranian incursions into Iraq. The Turks are severely upset, having massed 250,000 troops on the Turkey side of the Iraq border.
Once the Iran war launches, it will "bomb" all other concerns off the front pages - including the Republican bribery scandals, the CIA agent leaking, the wreck of the US intelligence services by Bush, etc., ad nauseum.
The end result of the attacks on Iran will be a ten-year guerrilla war two to four times as big and damaging to the US as Vietnam.
By this time in 2008, even Karl Rove will be demanding Bush's impeachment - oh, wait, Karl's being indicted this week (he told the President so last week and AG Gonzales went into the courthouse Friday to hear the indictment.)
So forget the spying on US citizens.
By the way, the Narus company that builds the hardware referenced in the EFF case is run by an "Israeli immigrant" (read: Mossad) - and one of the the directors is a former NSA guy.
Anything more you want to know?
Better learn to welcome your new Bush overlord...cause he already knows if you don't approve.
I do that DAILY! ALL my Windows partitions are FAT32! I save images, Web pages...
What the fuck is this on about?
And I haven't seen one show-stopping bug in Mandriva 2006 (other than their braindead menu editor, which sucks.) The only one they mention in the article is is Kat, which I haven't tried yet.
Oh, I see what they're talking about now - they're bitching that the/etc/fstab is set up for read-only on vfat by default.
Oh, big fucking deal!
And you don't have to recompile from source to change that! That's bullshit! The article doesn't even say that - you just change the umask for the partition. I didn't bother with that, I just edited/etc/fstab directly (the average home user couldn't, so it's nice they mentioned the other way.)
The only place where it has a serious need to be changed is in setting up the repositories. That needs to be much more automated than it is. Having to go to a Web site, select repositories and then cut and paste a command line into a terminal to set them up is too much for a naive user, although anybody with ANY Web browser and command line experience could do it easily enough. After the repositories are set up, though, the Mandriva GUI package manager is WAY easier to use and more informative than the crap Fedora uses. The Fedora package management sucks rocks - bring back KPackage - that did the job. The only way to deal with packages in Fedora is either use yum from the command line or rpm straight. Using yum from the command line is not naive user friendly.
The people dumping on Mandriva are morons. This distro is perfect for someone switching from Windows. I haven't tried Ubuntu (or Kubuntu since I prefer KDE to GNOME) yet, so maybe it IS better. But dumping on Mandriva as not being suitable for home users is bullshit.
Microsoft today announced that it will solve the Iraq civil war crisis by sending all its Vista developers there if they don't get Vista out by December 2006.
"Making friends and money is our motto", Ballmer said in announcing the new "employee motivation" program.
"There is a deep-rooted belief that if a company like Google is successful, then they are an enemy per se."
The reason is that Bill wants everybody else's money - not just his own.
The magnitude of greed in this asshole is mind-boggling.
I'm surprised he isn't trying to have Microsoft make aircraft, cars and nuclear power plants - or maybe tanks - or run his own bank and stock exchange as well.
Bill - fix your fucking operating system before you do ANYTHING else today, okay?
News today is that Gartner is saying no way will Vista ship even to volume licensees in 2006. They don't expect Vista to ship to consumers until at LEAST 2nd quarter of 2007 and possibly even third quarter. The reason is that MS has scheduled only ONE release candidate for Vista. Also:
"The analysts point out that the release of Vista is more akin to the release of Windows 2000 than Windows XP, which was basically a renovation of Windows 2000. Thus, the timing of Microsoft's release schedule, in which the company allots just five months between the beta 2 release, expected in June this year, and the final product has been questioned.
The gap between Windows XP beta 2 and final was release was just five months. However, the gap between Windows 2000 beta 2 and final release was 16 months."
On the other hand, if you view Vista as a gussied up XP, maybe we can halve the difference to eight or ten months. But based on the Microsoft employees who have been bitching on blogs about bad test results being certified as accepted and the like, I'd guess Vista has a long way to go yet.
And if it comes out of the box with the sort of bugs and bad design features Thurriot was complaining about, it could well be dead in the water.
Not to mention it will only be installed on new consumer PCs - most of the old ones won't run it effectively at all. So it's doubtful that consumers are going to drive its adoption.
Even corporationa are probably going to implement it only as machines are upgraded to newer ones via attrition. The article I read about Gartner also says analysts don't expect Vista to be deployed by most corporations until sometime in 2008.
I foresee Vista being adopted by corporations even more slowly than XP was. In other words, in 2010, probably thirty percent of corporations will still be using Windows XP.
Well, the problem the director has is to keep Windows running long enough to get the shot...
Or imagine that you're the director and you have this critical scene - and then Windows says, "You must restart your system for the changes to take effect"...
Not to be pedantic (okay, to be pedantic), while the Matrix itself was in the future, the reality it represented was approximately 1999. So it's possible that SSH 2 wasn't implemented yet on that system.
Besides, we all know how behind any regulated entity is in computer tech. This was the power company, for Christ's sakes! PG&E! An accurate representation of PG&E by the AIs!
Nah, Swordfish wasn't that bad. And besides, who knows what that hacker was using for a GUI or an IDE? Maybe he LIKED seeing his code represented visually? I sure would like to.
I agree that Hackers did the usual "super-GUI" trick where some massive visual representation of ordinary computing is being done. It's irritating - but you gotta have cool special effects. Having the camera peering over the shoulder of some geek onto a 15" screen isn't going to work for the audience. They did that in the Matrix for a few seconds but that was it - the rest of it was that stupid dribbling down the screen effect.
I challenge you to find a hacker who doesn't say that - at least when someone else is standing there - and sometimes when someone else isn't standing there. (Hackers talk to themselves a LOT.)
Well, to be fair, while some of the dialog in Sowrdfish was obviously thrown in, at least a lot of the terminology was real.
And he didn't use code stored on an ancient tape drive. He RETRIEVED his original worm code from the tape drive on the "only PDP-10 still on the Internet". My complaint with that was how likely was it that the tape would still be mounted - after a couple years (the time he spent in the joint), that tape probably would be unreadable if it was mounted for two years. But, hey, how likely was it that the PDP-10 had a hard drive he could retrieve his code from? It was mildly plausible to people who don't know anything about computers - let alone tape drives.
The first scene where he breaks into DOD from a laptop (an unwired laptop at that, and I didn't see a wireless antenna or access point anywhere, did you?) was a bit ridiculous, but then the idea was to establish him as a world-class hacker. Later they explained that he really "doesn't understand how I do it - I just see the code in my head." Well, that bit of dues ex machina solves a lot of technical problems...
I liked the hacker who got killed in the interrogation room being a Finnish guy named Torvalds. Now THAT was pretty obvious!
The rest of the movie was okay on the technical standpoint. When was the last time you heard anybody in a movie referring to DS-3 commo lines as "serious bandwidth"? Most computer movies are still on dialup and modems.
And they even excused his past as a hacker by explaining that he was arrested for dropping a virus in on the FBI Carnivore program, setting it back by two years. In other words, he was a righteous hacker doing "what no Federal judge would do."
Swordfish was probably one of the best hacking movies ever made - and a very good movie in general. And the initial action scenes where the hostage blows up were fabulous. The acting was pretty good - if you can stand John Travolta doing his Scientologist impression.
And of course, there's Halle Berry's naked tits! Worth the price of admission even if it was only a couple seconds. Not that she has the best tits in the world, but, hey, tits are tits!
Spaces have always been problematic for the simple reason that nobody wants to write every utility with the ability to interpret arbitrary sets of strings.
In other words, without conceptual processing or a lot of custom coding, computers can't do it.
Sure, Unix allows file names with embedded spaces, as does Windows (these days). But you still have to put quotes around such a file name in Unix because it uses the spaces to tokenize the command line.
You'd think a lot of other areas would allow spaces as well, including email addresses, but in fact it's almost automatic for software engineers to deny the use of embedded spaces and other punctuation. It's just too much work to - in essence - start processing ordinary English in a utility.
I hate it when Windows bitches about using the forward slash in a file name. Incredibly fucking stupid! Makes saving any Web page or file name that uses the forward slash as in "Unix/Linux" requiring editing the file name. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard for Windows to parse a file path that included a forward slash in the file name by merely looking for matching directories and if you don't find any, assume the text string is the file name. Obviously if the user has a real directory path AND a file name which tokenizes out to the same string, that would be a problem. But how often is that going to happen? And if it does, ASK the user what to do?
We'll still have this problem twenty years from now if conceptual processing doesn't get developed.
You're right and I HATE it - because nobody has a utility for Firefox yet to capture movies shown in Flash. There's a utility that susses out the real URL of videos that aren't adequately protected for regular video streaming, but nothing for Flash yet that I know of.
Detective picks up ANYTHING (old shoes, toilet paper, whatever): Run this down to the lab and put it in the computer.
Forensic Guy: Right, chief!
I always wondered what computer they had which had a hopper attached to it that you could just dump ANY GODDAMN THING into it and get an analysis of it...
I know most PC users ARE dumping just about anything ON their computers, but IN them, too?
Heh, heh, I just commented on exactly this scenario elsewhere here concerning X-Men 2.
Mystique is pulling data from Stryker's computer by PRINTING IT on the laser printer. Why the hell didn't she use a flash drive? Or upload it somewhere else?
Well, because it wouldn't be as suspenseful with Lady Deathstryke coming around the corner if it was a flash drive rather than a slower laser printer.
Also, we could surmise that since Stryker was enough of a security nut to have voice recognition on his password utility, he probably had the USB ports locked down as well.
But then of course, he allowed the janitors to come and go - big mistake with Mystique.
"Underworld" was pretty good in that respect. Selene used an image enhancer to enhance an image of Michael and while the result was enough to match the image with the memory she had of him in the subway during the shootout, it wasn't crystal clear, either.
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1) Iran has no nukes - and won't have for years.
2) Bush already has a UN resolution he can use for authorization of force - UN Resoution 1540 which was engineered by the US and proclaims "nuclear proliferation" as a "threat to peace", which under the UN Charter authorizes the UN (if not the US) to use force. But only the US will interpret it that way - the UN will not.
3) Bush does not need Congressional approval to attack Iran - he's demonstrated that he thinks he's above the law. Besides, virtually every US Congressman except Ron Paul, Conyers and Peter DeFazio is already on board for attacking Iran, Lugar's comments notwithstanding. Bush already has "authorization of force" resolutions by Congress that he can "interpret" as giving him the right plus his usual "War President = Dictator" excuse he's used repeatedly now. Congress is a wimp - while they will thwart Bush on domestic issues that involve votes, when it comes to security, they will tow the line because they are afraid of being called "un-patriotic" in an election season.
4) They will never conscript ten million Americans, that IS not politically feasible. They only drafted a million or two during the Vietnam war. But there WILL be a draft because they WILL need at least one to two million US Army troops, and more of the other services. Besides, the draft is an excellent way to deal with dissidents - draft 'em and send 'em to get killed. Count on all the illegal immigrants being drafted, for one, as part of their "punishment" for being illegal. They already had the green card program to get people into the Army - they'll just expand that.
5) Domestic issues will not stop Bush from attacking Iran. Neither will opposition from within the Pentagon or the retired generals or the Congress. Bush and the neocons have their agenda and it will be run regardless of public attitude, as it has been from day one.
Anybody who believes a war in Iran is not imminent is either seriously naive or has a bad case of glaucoma.
See my reply below. It will escalate into a ground war. This isn't like Kosovo where we had no ground troops there to begin with. And the Bushies want Khuzestan province which has most of Iran's oil and is right across the border from Iraq.
And the Iranians have already said they just won't sit there and be pounded on like Saddam did.
The problem with the notion that Iran will merely be an air war is threefold:
1) Wars don't follow OUR gameplan - they follow their own. Escalation is certain in Iran's case.
2) The Bushies see tha capture of Khuzestan province - right across the border from Iraq - as top priority since it has most of Iran's oil. Remember how Iraq oil was going to pay for the Iraq war, according to Wolfowitz?
3) The US is already running PKK and M.E.K. dissidents across the Iraq-Iran border, and Iran has done incursions into Iraq to stop it. What happens after the airstrikes begin when Iran runs Revolutionary Guards into Iraq to stir up the Shia against the US occupation of Iraq. Does anybody really believe Bush won't send US troops into Iran to stop those incursions?
The war will escalate into a ground war. Guaranteed.
And since Iran's conventional military is no match for ours, that will inevitably lead to a guerrilla war similar to Vietnam - but two to four times as big. The Iranians will bleed us for the next ten years just like the Vietnamese did.
I'm getting off five years Supervised Release in a couple weeks. I was asked last year, I think it was, to do this. It's a new requirement for anyone on Federal probation or supervised release.
And yes, they do take a blood sample.
Because the US is attacking Iran in the next one to five months - before the fall elections.
Two aircraft carriers are moving through the Pacific to join a third already in the Gulf as we speak.
The US is running Kurdish and Iranian dissident groups on incursions into Iran, to stimulate Iranian incursions into Iraq. The Turks are severely upset, having massed 250,000 troops on the Turkey side of the Iraq border.
Once the Iran war launches, it will "bomb" all other concerns off the front pages - including the Republican bribery scandals, the CIA agent leaking, the wreck of the US intelligence services by Bush, etc., ad nauseum.
The end result of the attacks on Iran will be a ten-year guerrilla war two to four times as big and damaging to the US as Vietnam.
By this time in 2008, even Karl Rove will be demanding Bush's impeachment - oh, wait, Karl's being indicted this week (he told the President so last week and AG Gonzales went into the courthouse Friday to hear the indictment.)
So forget the spying on US citizens.
By the way, the Narus company that builds the hardware referenced in the EFF case is run by an "Israeli immigrant" (read: Mossad) - and one of the the directors is a former NSA guy.
Anything more you want to know?
Better learn to welcome your new Bush overlord...cause he already knows if you don't approve.
You insensitive clod!
Compile from source to write to FAT partitions?
/etc/fstab is set up for read-only on vfat by default.
/etc/fstab directly (the average home user couldn't, so it's nice they mentioned the other way.)
Since fucking when?
I do that DAILY! ALL my Windows partitions are FAT32! I save images, Web pages...
What the fuck is this on about?
And I haven't seen one show-stopping bug in Mandriva 2006 (other than their braindead menu editor, which sucks.) The only one they mention in the article is is Kat, which I haven't tried yet.
Oh, I see what they're talking about now - they're bitching that the
Oh, big fucking deal!
And you don't have to recompile from source to change that! That's bullshit! The article doesn't even say that - you just change the umask for the partition. I didn't bother with that, I just edited
The only place where it has a serious need to be changed is in setting up the repositories. That needs to be much more automated than it is. Having to go to a Web site, select repositories and then cut and paste a command line into a terminal to set them up is too much for a naive user, although anybody with ANY Web browser and command line experience could do it easily enough. After the repositories are set up, though, the Mandriva GUI package manager is WAY easier to use and more informative than the crap Fedora uses. The Fedora package management sucks rocks - bring back KPackage - that did the job. The only way to deal with packages in Fedora is either use yum from the command line or rpm straight. Using yum from the command line is not naive user friendly.
The people dumping on Mandriva are morons. This distro is perfect for someone switching from Windows. I haven't tried Ubuntu (or Kubuntu since I prefer KDE to GNOME) yet, so maybe it IS better. But dumping on Mandriva as not being suitable for home users is bullshit.
Microsoft today announced that it will solve the Iraq civil war crisis by sending all its Vista developers there if they don't get Vista out by December 2006.
"Making friends and money is our motto", Ballmer said in announcing the new "employee motivation" program.
Microsoft wants to merge with Yahoo or at least work closely with Yahoo.
Coincedence?
I think NOT!
Remember the Claria - Windows antispyware debacle?
"There is a deep-rooted belief that if a company like Google is successful, then they are an enemy per se."
The reason is that Bill wants everybody else's money - not just his own.
The magnitude of greed in this asshole is mind-boggling.
I'm surprised he isn't trying to have Microsoft make aircraft, cars and nuclear power plants - or maybe tanks - or run his own bank and stock exchange as well.
Bill - fix your fucking operating system before you do ANYTHING else today, okay?
News today is that Gartner is saying no way will Vista ship even to volume licensees in 2006. They don't expect Vista to ship to consumers until at LEAST 2nd quarter of 2007 and possibly even third quarter. The reason is that MS has scheduled only ONE release candidate for Vista. Also:
"The analysts point out that the release of Vista is more akin to the release of Windows 2000 than Windows XP, which was basically a renovation of Windows 2000. Thus, the timing of Microsoft's release schedule, in which the company allots just five months between the beta 2 release, expected in June this year, and the final product has been questioned.
The gap between Windows XP beta 2 and final was release was just five months. However, the gap between Windows 2000 beta 2 and final release was 16 months."
On the other hand, if you view Vista as a gussied up XP, maybe we can halve the difference to eight or ten months. But based on the Microsoft employees who have been bitching on blogs about bad test results being certified as accepted and the like, I'd guess Vista has a long way to go yet.
And if it comes out of the box with the sort of bugs and bad design features Thurriot was complaining about, it could well be dead in the water.
Not to mention it will only be installed on new consumer PCs - most of the old ones won't run it effectively at all. So it's doubtful that consumers are going to drive its adoption.
Even corporationa are probably going to implement it only as machines are upgraded to newer ones via attrition. The article I read about Gartner also says analysts don't expect Vista to be deployed by most corporations until sometime in 2008.
I foresee Vista being adopted by corporations even more slowly than XP was. In other words, in 2010, probably thirty percent of corporations will still be using Windows XP.
My prediction: by 2015, Windows is history.
Well, the problem the director has is to keep Windows running long enough to get the shot...
Or imagine that you're the director and you have this critical scene - and then Windows says, "You must restart your system for the changes to take effect"...
Not to be pedantic (okay, to be pedantic), while the Matrix itself was in the future, the reality it represented was approximately 1999. So it's possible that SSH 2 wasn't implemented yet on that system.
Besides, we all know how behind any regulated entity is in computer tech. This was the power company, for Christ's sakes! PG&E! An accurate representation of PG&E by the AIs!
Nah, Swordfish wasn't that bad. And besides, who knows what that hacker was using for a GUI or an IDE? Maybe he LIKED seeing his code represented visually? I sure would like to.
I agree that Hackers did the usual "super-GUI" trick where some massive visual representation of ordinary computing is being done. It's irritating - but you gotta have cool special effects. Having the camera peering over the shoulder of some geek onto a 15" screen isn't going to work for the audience. They did that in the Matrix for a few seconds but that was it - the rest of it was that stupid dribbling down the screen effect.
Open source starships!
Now we KNOW that Gene Roddenberry was a prophet! He predated even Stallman!
Wait a minute! Does that mean all open source is now copyrighted to Roddenberry's estate?
Nope.
Only Windows would use that level of stupid eye candy - or steal it from OSX if it used it.
Remember Clippy? Or that stupid search dog?
Ah, but Hackers featured a geek with a hot girlfriend who WAS ALSO A GEEK!
And Angelina Jolie, to boot!
Now how realistic is THAT?
I challenge you to find a hacker who doesn't say that - at least when someone else is standing there - and sometimes when someone else isn't standing there. (Hackers talk to themselves a LOT.)
Well, to be fair, while some of the dialog in Sowrdfish was obviously thrown in, at least a lot of the terminology was real.
And he didn't use code stored on an ancient tape drive. He RETRIEVED his original worm code from the tape drive on the "only PDP-10 still on the Internet". My complaint with that was how likely was it that the tape would still be mounted - after a couple years (the time he spent in the joint), that tape probably would be unreadable if it was mounted for two years. But, hey, how likely was it that the PDP-10 had a hard drive he could retrieve his code from? It was mildly plausible to people who don't know anything about computers - let alone tape drives.
The first scene where he breaks into DOD from a laptop (an unwired laptop at that, and I didn't see a wireless antenna or access point anywhere, did you?) was a bit ridiculous, but then the idea was to establish him as a world-class hacker. Later they explained that he really "doesn't understand how I do it - I just see the code in my head." Well, that bit of dues ex machina solves a lot of technical problems...
I liked the hacker who got killed in the interrogation room being a Finnish guy named Torvalds. Now THAT was pretty obvious!
The rest of the movie was okay on the technical standpoint. When was the last time you heard anybody in a movie referring to DS-3 commo lines as "serious bandwidth"? Most computer movies are still on dialup and modems.
And they even excused his past as a hacker by explaining that he was arrested for dropping a virus in on the FBI Carnivore program, setting it back by two years. In other words, he was a righteous hacker doing "what no Federal judge would do."
Swordfish was probably one of the best hacking movies ever made - and a very good movie in general. And the initial action scenes where the hostage blows up were fabulous. The acting was pretty good - if you can stand John Travolta doing his Scientologist impression.
And of course, there's Halle Berry's naked tits! Worth the price of admission even if it was only a couple seconds. Not that she has the best tits in the world, but, hey, tits are tits!
Spaces have always been problematic for the simple reason that nobody wants to write every utility with the ability to interpret arbitrary sets of strings.
In other words, without conceptual processing or a lot of custom coding, computers can't do it.
Sure, Unix allows file names with embedded spaces, as does Windows (these days). But you still have to put quotes around such a file name in Unix because it uses the spaces to tokenize the command line.
You'd think a lot of other areas would allow spaces as well, including email addresses, but in fact it's almost automatic for software engineers to deny the use of embedded spaces and other punctuation. It's just too much work to - in essence - start processing ordinary English in a utility.
I hate it when Windows bitches about using the forward slash in a file name. Incredibly fucking stupid! Makes saving any Web page or file name that uses the forward slash as in "Unix/Linux" requiring editing the file name. You'd think it wouldn't be that hard for Windows to parse a file path that included a forward slash in the file name by merely looking for matching directories and if you don't find any, assume the text string is the file name. Obviously if the user has a real directory path AND a file name which tokenizes out to the same string, that would be a problem. But how often is that going to happen? And if it does, ASK the user what to do?
We'll still have this problem twenty years from now if conceptual processing doesn't get developed.
You're right and I HATE it - because nobody has a utility for Firefox yet to capture movies shown in Flash. There's a utility that susses out the real URL of videos that aren't adequately protected for regular video streaming, but nothing for Flash yet that I know of.
Now do it in Perl.
.?y .mvm.:^ :?y :grr::^ .? udvn //,^ .)[1,0,2]:^ :?~e :^,\1:^ `^ &^'::^y?~f?@xz?xz@?:^:?~e:^,\1^,\2:^2 .,$/)
The result will look like this:
$..=$_ for( qw(^,?y,(.),:^ y?y ?@xz?:^
+'',(ebmv%
+^1^2::));
$_=$.;y*^y: @wx fez %db uvm?*$q; auc ysh top jil=*;eval;print for($q,$
+;,$
(From Perl Monks Obfuscated Code Web page.)
You mean you didn't socially engineer or dumpster dive her first?
What kind of tech are you?
Hey, in the old days, it was a LOT worse.
Detective picks up ANYTHING (old shoes, toilet paper, whatever): Run this down to the lab and put it in the computer.
Forensic Guy: Right, chief!
I always wondered what computer they had which had a hopper attached to it that you could just dump ANY GODDAMN THING into it and get an analysis of it...
I know most PC users ARE dumping just about anything ON their computers, but IN them, too?
Heh, heh, I just commented on exactly this scenario elsewhere here concerning X-Men 2.
Mystique is pulling data from Stryker's computer by PRINTING IT on the laser printer. Why the hell didn't she use a flash drive? Or upload it somewhere else?
Well, because it wouldn't be as suspenseful with Lady Deathstryke coming around the corner if it was a flash drive rather than a slower laser printer.
Also, we could surmise that since Stryker was enough of a security nut to have voice recognition on his password utility, he probably had the USB ports locked down as well.
But then of course, he allowed the janitors to come and go - big mistake with Mystique.
"Underworld" was pretty good in that respect. Selene used an image enhancer to enhance an image of Michael and while the result was enough to match the image with the memory she had of him in the subway during the shootout, it wasn't crystal clear, either.
They did that one right.