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Man digs up corpse and cooks the body parts
Beijing - A Chinese man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for digging up a woman's corpse and eating her ears, nose and breasts, the government said on Monday.
Gui Jiachun was convicted of defiling a corpse by a court in Shitai County, in the eastern province of Anhui, reports said.
It said the offence was committed February 11 but didn't give the date of the ruling.
The court ruled that Gui should be imprisoned instead of beingt taken to hospital for mental illness because he was capable of controlling his actions.
Gui took an axe and a razor to the cemetery the same day that a fellow villager was buried after dying from an illness.
I just finished reading "Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology", and it talks greatly about exactly this. The problem is that, due to wonderful things like public-key encryption, evildoers could conduct an attack like this without leaving a trace.
I'd highly recommend the book (no, I don't know that author).
...prohibits accessing a protected system via code copied on to the system to, among other things, disseminate personal information.
Could a shared cookie be considered spyware? (I visit foo.com, which has an image on evil.com that places an evil.com cookie on my machine. Then I visit bar.com, which also has an image on evil.com. Evil.com shares this information between foo and bar. $Profit$
I thought Copyrights and Patents were the same thing
(ducks)
Also, what about SCO? Doesn't that cross Linux, Copyright, Patent, and Anti-Establishment? In fact, if someone modded up an iPod to do a Google search for SCO headlines, that'd make all six! Hooray!
Seriously though, how about this idea: You can go back in time, but you don't go back in your own "universe"-- you branch off (like a new CVS branch) which starts out as a copy of your branch. You change something (breathe, step on a bug, etc), your changes go to the new branch. This means that there's no "kill your grandfather" paradox. Unfortunately this also means that you can't go into the future, since there's no way to choose which branch you'd follow). (You could put yourself in "suspended hibernation" and that would probably be close enough).
The other point about this is that every instant, new branches are being created (with every event), so there's not one static time-line, but rather a huge tree of time-lines. YOU happen to follow one of them based on one set of decisions and events that happen.
I think it's a bit Startrekkian, but whatever, it makes sense to me, and I don't like the whole, "I'm my own father" complaints.
I've got to get back to my time machine now. The Mets are likely to have a good season finally in 2431.
If Windows ran on Risc, that vulnerability would still exist, but it would be a non-issue because the exploit opportunity would be more theoretical than practical.
Funny how exploits that are "just theoretical" don't stay that way forever...
You don't need 14-character passwords or smartcards if you're protecting a PC that has no internet connection and no important files on it.
Security should be also be implicit, and invisible. It's currently not, but that's where we need to head. No one should need to memorize 14-character passwords like y&1bv,10-ine,. It's just silly. If smartcards make things easier, then fine. Same with biometrics.
I think it's possible to be "too paranoid". If you get a kick out of having your home PC behind four firewalls, changing passwords every 30 minutes and team of experts constantly reading through logs, comparing files with their official MD5 signatures (oops, can't use MD5 anymore, maybe MD5+SHA1 now), and constantly backing up to DVDs which are immediately encrypted and sent off-site for safe keeping, etc, etc etc.
If you like that stuff, that's fine, but you're crazy. If you're in the 90% percentile (router + o/s patches + application patches + don't click on the.vbs email attachments), then you're fine. You can spend your entire life locking down your system, and then what. You realize that Windows 98 is no longer supported and you need to upgrade and do it all again.
The problem currently stands that proof to Fermat's Last Theorem can only be given by some very complicated math that maybe 1% of the population could understand.
I think you could probably make that 1% of mathematicians. I tried reading the 186-page book as an undergrad. Got through page 4 and then realized I wasn't cut out to be a theoretical mathematician.
The underlying problem is that there is a short-term (and perhaps long-term) commercial advantage to shipping buggy, poor quality software "today" rather than higher quality software "tomorrow".
OSS has no advantage to shipping software before it's ready-- This can sometimes backfire, because if the OSS developers stop making updates/bugfixes, either other people pick it up, or the project is stalled. A commercial company would still need to do at least major bug fixes if they want to keep customers coming back for version 2.0.
Also, some projects just don't work well with the OSS model. Games, for instance-- some of them are more like movies, and needs $$$ to back them.
I've gone through about 10 CD-R/DVD-R drives in the past 8 years. I've found that the expensive ones last just about as long as the cheap ones (expect to get no more than around 100 burned discs out of them.
Now with DVD-R burners around $80 and CD-Rs about half that, they're commodity items. They break, you get another one.
I think this sucks-- my hard drives (Western Digital) last practically forever, but whether the burners are HP, Sony, or no-names, they're all just crap.
I use Maddog currently, and have gotten about 85 DVDs out of it before it started writing shit on the discs (need to get a new one now).
Some of the particles are only microns across which means once they get into your lungs, they stay there. This could cause a lung disease similar to silicosis."
Since when are people walking around on the moon breathing in the lack-of-oxygen?
Or are we talking post-"Total-Recall" terraforming?
This is a bit because I like hearing myself talk (yes, I'm dictating to my secretary), but how about getting a Firefox-esque NY Times article to pay for it? I bet more people would pay $50 if they knew they could tell their friend's about "their page" in the NY Times...
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Man digs up corpse and cooks the body parts
Beijing - A Chinese man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for digging up a woman's corpse and eating her ears, nose and breasts, the government said on Monday.
Gui Jiachun was convicted of defiling a corpse by a court in Shitai County, in the eastern province of Anhui, reports said.
It said the offence was committed February 11 but didn't give the date of the ruling.
The court ruled that Gui should be imprisoned instead of beingt taken to hospital for mental illness because he was capable of controlling his actions.
Gui took an axe and a razor to the cemetery the same day that a fellow villager was buried after dying from an illness.
I just finished reading "Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology", and it talks greatly about exactly this. The problem is that, due to wonderful things like public-key encryption, evildoers could conduct an attack like this without leaving a trace.
I'd highly recommend the book (no, I don't know that author).
...prohibits accessing a protected system via code copied on to the system to, among other things, disseminate personal information.
Could a shared cookie be considered spyware? (I visit foo.com, which has an image on evil.com that places an evil.com cookie on my machine. Then I visit bar.com, which also has an image on evil.com. Evil.com shares this information between foo and bar. $Profit$
Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if God released DNA as open-source? (and perhaps provided some comments??)
David Letterman, though, does acknowledge that his very popular "Will It Float" segment is based on the original British "Is It Buoyant."
Only because the majority of American's don't know what the word "buoyant" means.
I thought Copyrights and Patents were the same thing
(ducks)
Also, what about SCO? Doesn't that cross Linux, Copyright, Patent, and Anti-Establishment? In fact, if someone modded up an iPod to do a Google search for SCO headlines, that'd make all six! Hooray!
We can finally make people more comfortable when we toss them off a bridge into the ocean!
#3 - Like Groundhog Day?
Seriously though, how about this idea: You can go back in time, but you don't go back in your own "universe"-- you branch off (like a new CVS branch) which starts out as a copy of your branch. You change something (breathe, step on a bug, etc), your changes go to the new branch. This means that there's no "kill your grandfather" paradox. Unfortunately this also means that you can't go into the future, since there's no way to choose which branch you'd follow). (You could put yourself in "suspended hibernation" and that would probably be close enough).
The other point about this is that every instant, new branches are being created (with every event), so there's not one static time-line, but rather a huge tree of time-lines. YOU happen to follow one of them based on one set of decisions and events that happen.
I think it's a bit Startrekkian, but whatever, it makes sense to me, and I don't like the whole, "I'm my own father" complaints.
I've got to get back to my time machine now. The Mets are likely to have a good season finally in 2431.
Furthermore, the aliens obtained in Roswell have been transported to R24 along with Specialist Peck for observation.
I knew it!!!
If Windows ran on Risc, that vulnerability would still exist, but it would be a non-issue because the exploit opportunity would be more theoretical than practical.
Funny how exploits that are "just theoretical" don't stay that way forever...
You don't need 14-character passwords or smartcards if you're protecting a PC that has no internet connection and no important files on it.
.vbs email attachments), then you're fine. You can spend your entire life locking down your system, and then what. You realize that Windows 98 is no longer supported and you need to upgrade and do it all again.
Security should be also be implicit, and invisible. It's currently not, but that's where we need to head. No one should need to memorize 14-character passwords like y&1bv,10-ine,. It's just silly. If smartcards make things easier, then fine. Same with biometrics.
I think it's possible to be "too paranoid". If you get a kick out of having your home PC behind four firewalls, changing passwords every 30 minutes and team of experts constantly reading through logs, comparing files with their official MD5 signatures (oops, can't use MD5 anymore, maybe MD5+SHA1 now), and constantly backing up to DVDs which are immediately encrypted and sent off-site for safe keeping, etc, etc etc.
If you like that stuff, that's fine, but you're crazy. If you're in the 90% percentile (router + o/s patches + application patches + don't click on the
Anyone else remember warez.phantom.com? It was a DNS entry (duh) that resolved to 127.0.0.1. Very useful to fool the newbies.
HEY! This guy has all of my files!!!
I can now download Firefox at a blazing 6.7kbps.
/.er is downloading Firefox just to make the counter go up.
And it looks like every
As if this wasn't expected.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981
/., 2005
"640MB/sec ought to be enough for anybody." --Me,
The problem currently stands that proof to Fermat's Last Theorem can only be given by some very complicated math that maybe 1% of the population could understand.
I think you could probably make that 1% of mathematicians. I tried reading the 186-page book as an undergrad. Got through page 4 and then realized I wasn't cut out to be a theoretical mathematician.
IANAE, but I think this work is to prove the Serre conjecture, which itself implies Fermat's Last Theorem.
The underlying problem is that there is a short-term (and perhaps long-term) commercial advantage to shipping buggy, poor quality software "today" rather than higher quality software "tomorrow".
OSS has no advantage to shipping software before it's ready-- This can sometimes backfire, because if the OSS developers stop making updates/bugfixes, either other people pick it up, or the project is stalled. A commercial company would still need to do at least major bug fixes if they want to keep customers coming back for version 2.0.
Also, some projects just don't work well with the OSS model. Games, for instance-- some of them are more like movies, and needs $$$ to back them.
...humans are much better parsers
You obviously don't work at my company.
I hear there's a document-version of code-rot going around, removing whole paragraphs, and sometimes even entire revisions!
Uh no that would be 100 million dollars.
Hey, that's close enough. What, do you want perfection out of this guy? He's building flying cars, not.. oh.
I've gone through about 10 CD-R/DVD-R drives in the past 8 years. I've found that the expensive ones last just about as long as the cheap ones (expect to get no more than around 100 burned discs out of them.
Now with DVD-R burners around $80 and CD-Rs about half that, they're commodity items. They break, you get another one.
I think this sucks-- my hard drives (Western Digital) last practically forever, but whether the burners are HP, Sony, or no-names, they're all just crap.
I use Maddog currently, and have gotten about 85 DVDs out of it before it started writing shit on the discs (need to get a new one now).
According to Google, they're still hiring for Copernicus on the moon. Only about two years till that lab opens-- will the two be near each other?
Some of the particles are only microns across which means once they get into your lungs, they stay there. This could cause a lung disease similar to silicosis."
Since when are people walking around on the moon breathing in the lack-of-oxygen?
Or are we talking post-"Total-Recall" terraforming?
This is a bit because I like hearing myself talk (yes, I'm dictating to my secretary), but how about getting a Firefox-esque NY Times article to pay for it? I bet more people would pay $50 if they knew they could tell their friend's about "their page" in the NY Times...
BB: I'm not sure this is an event worthy of Slashdot [laughing].
/. Your event stands a good chance of being posted two or three times over the next month.
Don't you worry yourself about what's worthy of