There are also morality codes as part of the scholarship. The students must have known about them and disregarded them.
They made a choice. It's the same choice I made. They got caught. Legal proceedings are separate from school and scholarship findings. The law has more stringent requirements for prosecution but I doubt they would have much standing should they choose to contest the actions taken.
Then why do machines exist that don't get updated? Why do people turn off that feature? These features are turned on by default. Grandma does NOT even KNOW how to turn this off. It's that lack of a robust OS that causes this problem. It's very easy for malware, network software bloat, poor 3rd party "security" software or default crapware that OEM's install that really shuts this stuff down, not an intentional action by the end user. It's still the burden of the OS vendor IMBFO.
If there is a safety recall because the car explodes when someone throws a rock at it, grandma gets a letter in the mail. She has to get in the car, drive down to the dealership and wait while it gets fixed.
Problem exists, send notification and allow the user to do it. It's much easier to click "auto-install these updates, please" than it is to get into a car, drive to the dealership and wait.
Wow, you found a collision in md5! Great work! There will be a *big* raise for you. Yes siree, jonasj will be going places now. Just picture it your name all lit up in neon lights with a mess of people fightin to get a look at the man that cracked md5!
And no one commented on your Last Starfighter quote (kinda).
The linguist is not arguing copies of the software (or movie in the example) being obtained through illicit means being non-genuine.
He is arguing that a copy of the software purchased legitimately through proper channels but not registered with Microsoft is still genuine despite Windows Genuine Advantage stating that it is not.
It is the act of registration that is making the copy genuine to Microsoft. It is still a genuine, authentic, legal, acceptable and fully ethical copy of the software. Microsoft gained their profit off of that copy of the software. If no one registers it, it is still genuine according to the dictionary definition. It is not genuine to WGA.
If we both paid full price to get into the movie and watch it but do not tell Steven Spielberg that we did so, our viewing was not genuine according to Microsoft's definition.
I started out programing in BASIC on my CoCo when I was a kid and I had no problem switching to C++ later.
Maybe I'm just weird, but the point is that using BASIC as a kid doesn't necessarily destroy your brain.
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Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
I think your sig sums it up. You did have your brain mutilated but you learned C++ through brain-dinners.
I also learned on BASIC on a CoCo. Studying the long lists of code as I was transcribing it from the magazines until I knew what was going on. BASIC itself allows someone to destroy their brain. It does not force them to. Early on, I learned (un)maintainability of spaghetti code and made better use of GOSUB than was generally the case. I observed the code of others and saw how bad things really could be. I made myself more disciplined with my code because not being disciplined was incredibly painful when you were loading to and from cassette tapes.
The transition to other languages was not that painful. ASM caused me to be disciplined as well.
only read about these techniques a month or so ago, and was surprized at how easy it is... Even thought many would say that its good to release this type of information into the public domain, I would say this isn't allways the case. Before I had ready anything about this topic I assumed that it was not easy, and that one requires training/experience/tools, etc. and I think that most people think the same way.
I would contend that you did not know of this technique because you weren't in the business where you would need to know. I am assuming you are neither a locksmith or a burglar. Someone in either of these professions would already know about it.
I am in neither. I knew about it. Hiding information like this from the general public does no good unless you can hide it from EVERYONE, bad guys included. Not gonna happen.
I sat through half of a security expert's seminar (business continuity and data center security). He actually blamed Google Earth, Mapquest, et al for terrorism. These products make it too easy for terrorists to get the information, including building tennant information. That is why I only sat through half of it. I determined the guy was not as credible as I would have liked in a "security professional." He obviously never thought about maps, yellow pages, telephones, etc.
If people want the information, they will get it. Sharing the information with the public only helps to let the public know what type of information is out there for the bad guys.
Before you found out about lock bumping, you were blissfully unaware of the potential that the bad guys already knew about. Now that you know what they know, you can take more precautions if you decide to. You are now enabled to make the decision to buy a better lock (perhaps with mushroomed heads on the pins at the shear line, which are impervious to this technique).
Share the information with everyone or with no one. Let people make informed decisions about their lock purchases instead of just letting the bad guys know and let us buy vulnerable locks.
I anticipate in the future that lesbians will be able to have their partner's children through 'cloning'.
Interesting. There was a movie with Julie Bowen starring with this concept as a premise. Seems men were too aggressive to be allowed to continue in the species, so they decided to only allow women to survive. Decent movie.
I think it is time for a paradigm shift in travel.
Long security lines, sneakier ways to get harmful equipment on and off the plane, these could all be resolved by forcing all luggage, save for your id and boarding pass, through baggage checkin. This also alleviates the resources (personnel, scanning equipment) needed at the security checkpoints.
Getting on and off the plane would be faster, as there would never be another wait for the people in front of you to get their luggage and then get off the plane; they just stand and go. Not to mention the fact that you never have to worry again about foot- and head-room problems. And how about cabin turnaround? The faster people get off the plane the faster the crew can turn around the plane for another flight.
Yep. That would work provided it didn't already take an extra 45 minutes or more to get the luggage off the plane and into the baggage claim. If the baggage was waiting for me when I got there, it wouldn't be so bad.
I'm with you all the way on the liberty thing, but all we're really talking so far is made some people a bit late and made the flight more boring than usual.
I'll grant you that's a massive understatement and they'd be very late due to security delays and very bored due to not having all the usual electronic toys.
But still, that's probably better than being dead. Or living in Milton Keynes.
OK. You're late getting to your plane (hope you make it on before it leaves). That's one problem. Now, you've checked everything you need while you're on business travel for the next 7 to 14 days. Your luggage goes somewhere you don't. Now, you don't have a change of clothes, your toiletries, your feminine products (where applicable) or even clean underwear. Hopefully you brought enough money and built in enough time into your schedule to go buy new EVERYTHING.
Yep. This brings you a bit of peace of mind because your chances of getting blown up are down from 0.00001% (numbers made up just because I felt like it) all the way to 0.000001%. I'm sure you'll be glad you lost that extra couple of hours in security, dignity dragging around your personal products in a clear bag and all of the money spent buying duplicates of the essentials you would have carried on.
I love this false sense of security for dignity, time and money trade.
How is it that the "possibility of a sub-plot they don't know about" merits a highest-level "this means an attack is imminent" alert?
Because they were already at the next to highest level. It's been one down from the top for flights into the US since about the beginning. They only had one level higher to go to.
Doesn't it seem useless if they only have two levels, "really scary" and "really really scary?" It kinda loses something for me.
Diving with just O2 will make your life very difficult and completely ruin your day with or without running out. I'm sure you meant air, not O2. Breating pure O2 at greater than 2 bars is poisonous.
Mini-pedantic-me sitting on my shoulder whispering in my ear forced me to do this. Sorry. I have do what the little voices tell me to do.
The analogy falls down, because in the case of GW, we're doing something that we need to stop, in the truck analogy, we have to do something to get out of the way. With GW, we're probably better off doing less, (emitting less C02) and watching.
OK, this was the first use of the shortening to "GW" I encountered in this series of comments. It took me half a second to realize it was Global Warming. I have a short attention span, it seems. Read this sentence the was I read it. "...because in the case of GW Bush, we're doing something that we need to stop.... With GW Bush, we're probably better off doing less..."
Mmm. Good humor. Short attention span and easily entertained. I've got it all going for me.
Yeah, but the phone book doesn't contain a correlation with "likely to be a pirate".
According to the RIAA numbers on the losses due to pirating, I would have to disagree with your assumption. Based on their numbers, if you're listed in the phone book, you're likely a pirate.
I can't imagine any legitimate reason for them interfering with the cameras in this way - it should be illegal unless clearly authorised by the warrant.
One reason is for their own security. It may be standard practice to obstruct remote viewing to stop others from knowing their exact locations, etc. Not so important when you are raiding a place such as this but critical when you are raiding a crack house or meth lab. No sense giving the well armed guys watching the video in the other room more info on your whereabouts. If it's standard practice, they probably do not want to start building in exceptions to a potentially life-saving step in a raid.
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People have been skipping commercials for years - mostly to go get whatever the commercial is selling out of the fridge.
Great. I can see it now. There will be proximity devices in our TVs that automatically pause the broadcast when we walk away. Not only will Tivo-like devices continue to survive, they will be mandatory so the broadcasters can ensure eyeballs stay glued to the commercials. They won't allow time-shifting any longer and will not fast-forward but they sure will do a fine job of pausing the broadcast so we do not accidentally miss a commercial.
If we would just give everyone a physical tag at birth that cannot be removed, we could then ensure no photographic equipment would operate to photograph underage individuals if the RFIDs in the clothing are not detected. RFID in people, RFID in clothing and RFID readers in the cameras. All set.
This has the added benefit that we could ensure adult RFIDs do not get too close to child RFIDs.
There are a few technical details to work out such as making sure the clothing isn't opened to reveal sensitive bits and defining the adult/child proximity for normal child rearing. There will undoubtedly be a few false positives but that's acceptable. I can live with that. We'd also have to address that whole "cannot be removed" part. Maybe we can monitor the location of all of those tags and make it a crime punishable by a free all expenses paid vacation to Gitmo for removal of the tag.
(Oh, yeah. Did I forget to open my [sarcasm] tag?)
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Who's going to accept that? Do you trust that when the computer routes you an extra couple of miles that it's actually QUICKER to get to where you are going than the direct route? Logically, maybe you do. Instinctually, don't you feel that you're smarter than the computer? Wouldn't you resent being rerouted like that without being consulted? If you're consulted, would you opt to take the longer (but potentially quicker) way?
Besides, someone has to be allowed to go the direct route. Why shouldn't it be you? What did the guy behind you do to deserve the direct route that just got all that much quicker now that you've been sent around the block?
Unfortunately, this may only exacerbate the issue. Some people would lose some of the fear of sliding that is currently holding them back. If someone does not know at what speed their car will slide in snow going around a curve, they will keep it well below that (OK, not everyone, some people are just doofuses and we'll never fix that). If they learn that the car will actually stick to the road at higher speeds than is physically comfortable, they may push the car nearer the limits.
Of course, it will also have the opposite effect on some people. Some may be severely overestimating their and their car's abilities. What are the odds that someone so sure of their abilities would think they need to go learn the limits?
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There are also morality codes as part of the scholarship. The students must have known about them and disregarded them. They made a choice. It's the same choice I made. They got caught. Legal proceedings are separate from school and scholarship findings. The law has more stringent requirements for prosecution but I doubt they would have much standing should they choose to contest the actions taken.
Bananaphone. There. Weird Al should be gone.
If there is a safety recall because the car explodes when someone throws a rock at it, grandma gets a letter in the mail. She has to get in the car, drive down to the dealership and wait while it gets fixed.
Problem exists, send notification and allow the user to do it. It's much easier to click "auto-install these updates, please" than it is to get into a car, drive to the dealership and wait.
What do I know, though? I'm a Linux user...
Her left or your left?
And no one commented on your Last Starfighter quote (kinda).
The linguist is not arguing copies of the software (or movie in the example) being obtained through illicit means being non-genuine.
He is arguing that a copy of the software purchased legitimately through proper channels but not registered with Microsoft is still genuine despite Windows Genuine Advantage stating that it is not.
It is the act of registration that is making the copy genuine to Microsoft. It is still a genuine, authentic, legal, acceptable and fully ethical copy of the software. Microsoft gained their profit off of that copy of the software. If no one registers it, it is still genuine according to the dictionary definition. It is not genuine to WGA.
If we both paid full price to get into the movie and watch it but do not tell Steven Spielberg that we did so, our viewing was not genuine according to Microsoft's definition.
I think your sig sums it up. You did have your brain mutilated but you learned C++ through brain-dinners.
I also learned on BASIC on a CoCo. Studying the long lists of code as I was transcribing it from the magazines until I knew what was going on. BASIC itself allows someone to destroy their brain. It does not force them to. Early on, I learned (un)maintainability of spaghetti code and made better use of GOSUB than was generally the case. I observed the code of others and saw how bad things really could be. I made myself more disciplined with my code because not being disciplined was incredibly painful when you were loading to and from cassette tapes.
The transition to other languages was not that painful. ASM caused me to be disciplined as well.
Here, just echo your string through this:
tr A-Za-z A-Za-z
That'll ROT26 it for your and get you going. Ex:
only read about these techniques a month or so ago, and was surprized at how easy it is... Even thought many would say that its good to release this type of information into the public domain, I would say this isn't allways the case. Before I had ready anything about this topic I assumed that it was not easy, and that one requires training/experience/tools, etc. and I think that most people think the same way.
I would contend that you did not know of this technique because you weren't in the business where you would need to know. I am assuming you are neither a locksmith or a burglar. Someone in either of these professions would already know about it.
I am in neither. I knew about it. Hiding information like this from the general public does no good unless you can hide it from EVERYONE, bad guys included. Not gonna happen.
I sat through half of a security expert's seminar (business continuity and data center security). He actually blamed Google Earth, Mapquest, et al for terrorism. These products make it too easy for terrorists to get the information, including building tennant information. That is why I only sat through half of it. I determined the guy was not as credible as I would have liked in a "security professional." He obviously never thought about maps, yellow pages, telephones, etc.
If people want the information, they will get it. Sharing the information with the public only helps to let the public know what type of information is out there for the bad guys.
Before you found out about lock bumping, you were blissfully unaware of the potential that the bad guys already knew about. Now that you know what they know, you can take more precautions if you decide to. You are now enabled to make the decision to buy a better lock (perhaps with mushroomed heads on the pins at the shear line, which are impervious to this technique).
Share the information with everyone or with no one. Let people make informed decisions about their lock purchases instead of just letting the bad guys know and let us buy vulnerable locks.
I anticipate in the future that lesbians will be able to have their partner's children through 'cloning'.
Interesting. There was a movie with Julie Bowen starring with this concept as a premise. Seems men were too aggressive to be allowed to continue in the species, so they decided to only allow women to survive. Decent movie.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0193283/ - Last Man on Planet Earth
I think it is time for a paradigm shift in travel. Long security lines, sneakier ways to get harmful equipment on and off the plane, these could all be resolved by forcing all luggage, save for your id and boarding pass, through baggage checkin. This also alleviates the resources (personnel, scanning equipment) needed at the security checkpoints. Getting on and off the plane would be faster, as there would never be another wait for the people in front of you to get their luggage and then get off the plane; they just stand and go. Not to mention the fact that you never have to worry again about foot- and head-room problems. And how about cabin turnaround? The faster people get off the plane the faster the crew can turn around the plane for another flight.
Yep. That would work provided it didn't already take an extra 45 minutes or more to get the luggage off the plane and into the baggage claim. If the baggage was waiting for me when I got there, it wouldn't be so bad.
Your time savings just got chewed up. Try again.
I'm with you all the way on the liberty thing, but all we're really talking so far is made some people a bit late and made the flight more boring than usual. I'll grant you that's a massive understatement and they'd be very late due to security delays and very bored due to not having all the usual electronic toys. But still, that's probably better than being dead. Or living in Milton Keynes.
OK. You're late getting to your plane (hope you make it on before it leaves). That's one problem. Now, you've checked everything you need while you're on business travel for the next 7 to 14 days. Your luggage goes somewhere you don't. Now, you don't have a change of clothes, your toiletries, your feminine products (where applicable) or even clean underwear. Hopefully you brought enough money and built in enough time into your schedule to go buy new EVERYTHING.
Yep. This brings you a bit of peace of mind because your chances of getting blown up are down from 0.00001% (numbers made up just because I felt like it) all the way to 0.000001%. I'm sure you'll be glad you lost that extra couple of hours in security, dignity dragging around your personal products in a clear bag and all of the money spent buying duplicates of the essentials you would have carried on.
I love this false sense of security for dignity, time and money trade.
Doesn't it seem useless if they only have two levels, "really scary" and "really really scary?" It kinda loses something for me.
Diving with just O2 will make your life very difficult and completely ruin your day with or without running out. I'm sure you meant air, not O2. Breating pure O2 at greater than 2 bars is poisonous. Mini-pedantic-me sitting on my shoulder whispering in my ear forced me to do this. Sorry. I have do what the little voices tell me to do.
OK. Rex Banner did.
you spend less time spamming F5
Congratulations. You just found a way to misuse the term spamming in a way I had never heard before.The analogy falls down, because in the case of GW, we're doing something that we need to stop, in the truck analogy, we have to do something to get out of the way. With GW, we're probably better off doing less, (emitting less C02) and watching.
OK, this was the first use of the shortening to "GW" I encountered in this series of comments. It took me half a second to realize it was Global Warming. I have a short attention span, it seems. Read this sentence the was I read it. "...because in the case of GW Bush, we're doing something that we need to stop.... With GW Bush, we're probably better off doing less..."
Mmm. Good humor. Short attention span and easily entertained. I've got it all going for me.
Yeah, but the phone book doesn't contain a correlation with "likely to be a pirate".
According to the RIAA numbers on the losses due to pirating, I would have to disagree with your assumption. Based on their numbers, if you're listed in the phone book, you're likely a pirate.Gives old people a chance to go to the bathroom before they piss their Depends
Quick, everyone! He's an advertising shill for Depends. Get 'im!
Oh, sorry. I thought it was product placement in a Slashdot comment.I can't imagine any legitimate reason for them interfering with the cameras in this way - it should be illegal unless clearly authorised by the warrant.
One reason is for their own security. It may be standard practice to obstruct remote viewing to stop others from knowing their exact locations, etc. Not so important when you are raiding a place such as this but critical when you are raiding a crack house or meth lab. No sense giving the well armed guys watching the video in the other room more info on your whereabouts. If it's standard practice, they probably do not want to start building in exceptions to a potentially life-saving step in a raid.People have been skipping commercials for years - mostly to go get whatever the commercial is selling out of the fridge.
Great. I can see it now. There will be proximity devices in our TVs that automatically pause the broadcast when we walk away. Not only will Tivo-like devices continue to survive, they will be mandatory so the broadcasters can ensure eyeballs stay glued to the commercials. They won't allow time-shifting any longer and will not fast-forward but they sure will do a fine job of pausing the broadcast so we do not accidentally miss a commercial.Come on, people. It's easier than that.
If we would just give everyone a physical tag at birth that cannot be removed, we could then ensure no photographic equipment would operate to photograph underage individuals if the RFIDs in the clothing are not detected. RFID in people, RFID in clothing and RFID readers in the cameras. All set.
This has the added benefit that we could ensure adult RFIDs do not get too close to child RFIDs.
There are a few technical details to work out such as making sure the clothing isn't opened to reveal sensitive bits and defining the adult/child proximity for normal child rearing. There will undoubtedly be a few false positives but that's acceptable. I can live with that. We'd also have to address that whole "cannot be removed" part. Maybe we can monitor the location of all of those tags and make it a crime punishable by a free all expenses paid vacation to Gitmo for removal of the tag.
(Oh, yeah. Did I forget to open my [sarcasm] tag?)
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Who's going to accept that? Do you trust that when the computer routes you an extra couple of miles that it's actually QUICKER to get to where you are going than the direct route? Logically, maybe you do. Instinctually, don't you feel that you're smarter than the computer? Wouldn't you resent being rerouted like that without being consulted? If you're consulted, would you opt to take the longer (but potentially quicker) way?
Besides, someone has to be allowed to go the direct route. Why shouldn't it be you? What did the guy behind you do to deserve the direct route that just got all that much quicker now that you've been sent around the block?
I think it's time for my meds. Sorry about that.
Unfortunately, this may only exacerbate the issue. Some people would lose some of the fear of sliding that is currently holding them back. If someone does not know at what speed their car will slide in snow going around a curve, they will keep it well below that (OK, not everyone, some people are just doofuses and we'll never fix that). If they learn that the car will actually stick to the road at higher speeds than is physically comfortable, they may push the car nearer the limits.
Of course, it will also have the opposite effect on some people. Some may be severely overestimating their and their car's abilities. What are the odds that someone so sure of their abilities would think they need to go learn the limits?
Are you even suppose to be submitting stories? Where's Zonk? Is Zonk on the phone? Get him in here....
That was HILARIOUS!
Unfortunately, I can't get the image of a severely medicated Taco in his bathrobe out of my head.