spam emails floating around in people's inboxes, many of which contain broken links that cause bad DNS lookups
Here's a link that lists how some spammers attempt to hide their real identities. This isn't necessarily exactly what the root server query guy was talking about, or maybe it is? Either way, it is very enlightening. Some slashdotters even occasionally try to hide a goatse link this way.
Great. I'm glad it's illegal. But I can still imagine telemarketers "stretching" the law a little. Let's see, let's open up a small division in our corporation with the codename: "Alex Trebek".
Many call centers opt to transmit no caller-ID data instead. Because of this, calls from telemarketers often appear as "out of area" or "unavailable" on caller-ID boxes.
This new technology allows the telemarketers to make any name appear that they want. Great. Now I'm going to get calls from "President Bush" and "Saddam Hussein" and "Michael Jackson", instead of "Unknown Out of Area Caller". Which is worse?;-)
Anyone that is 'holding off' should just go
and buy a $999 IBook right now (if you can afford $999, of course). That is a great computer to get if you want to play with an Apple and see what OSX is all about, etc. I bought one as soon as it hit $999, and it is the best purchase I ever made. And better yet, it'll sell for a great price on E-bay when I decide to upgrade to a Powerbook in the future.
The consumers over there won't be happy until and unless they can have Microsoft products for free. Why in the world would they pay for it when it is so easy to pirate it, regardless of the price.
NASA's track record seems to indicate that they'll happily keep monitoring any craft for eternity as long as it is still sending signals. The hard part is building the craft for several years. They'll have to collect money from U.S. tax payers over the course of multiple presidents to get enough funding for many projects. That's the hard part.
Unfortunately, due to the Columbia disaster, they will have even more ammunition. Obviously, Columbia and the Pluto-Rocket (Plutocket;-)) wouldn't have the same types of probabilities of hitting a populated area, but that doesn't matter to the general public.
Bush quietly signed an omnibus bill last week, SPACE.com has learned.
That, and Bush talked about Project Prometheus in his State of the Union Address. It seems like Bush wants to be remembered for something more than just Iraq.
The people at NetBSD, Apache or any other place would ever claim they could get rid of every vulnerability in their software. They know quite well that that will never happen.
In 10 or 15 years time we could achieve Trustworthy Computing and there will still be people that don't like us.
How can "Trustworthy Computing" ever be achieved? Ironically, the more that some people trust their computers, the more others will distrust them. The only way to completely trust the computer is if no human can break into it and steal your data. But if no human can break into the computer, then what do I do if the computer won't give me my data when I need it?
It is unfortunate that the people in a position to educate the masses to computer security do not even bother to educate themselves. When banner ad revenue for a media outlet becomes more important than accuracy, it's time to find a new profession.
A general question. With some programming languages... floating point is by its nature inexact. It is probably best if you imagined that after every floating point operation, a little demon came in and added or subtracted a tiny number to fuzz the low order bits of your result. (I quoted that from here).
Do any of the listed tools/languages take care of this problem for me? I understand the nature of the problem, but it is still very frustrating. What do the "pure" math programming languages do with this issue?
Can't the government still just use any civilian software/patents/etc however they want? Have you guys seen the movie Armageddon? In Armageddon, the military steals Bruce Willis' drill designs, and they claim they did it legally.
Will you change your license if you happen to agree with a specific war? For example, what if a foreign country's military was actively killing your neighbors and/or family?
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Here's a link that lists how some spammers attempt to hide their real identities. This isn't necessarily exactly what the root server query guy was talking about, or maybe it is? Either way, it is very enlightening. Some slashdotters even occasionally try to hide a goatse link this way.
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This new technology allows the telemarketers to make any name appear that they want. Great. Now I'm going to get calls from "President Bush" and "Saddam Hussein" and "Michael Jackson", instead of "Unknown Out of Area Caller". Which is worse? ;-)
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Those are great ideas... but a lot of companies would rather just sell you a new CD ;-).
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But $504 Million dollars is a lot of money! I could brush everyone's teeth in America with that money! Twice!
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That, and Bush talked about Project Prometheus in his State of the Union Address. It seems like Bush wants to be remembered for something more than just Iraq.
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So add this to your list:
A lot of people will always hate Microsoft, and they know it ;-)
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The people at NetBSD, Apache or any other place would ever claim they could get rid of every vulnerability in their software. They know quite well that that will never happen.
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In 10 or 15 years time we could achieve Trustworthy Computing and there will still be people that don't like us.
How can "Trustworthy Computing" ever be achieved? Ironically, the more that some people trust their computers, the more others will distrust them. The only way to completely trust the computer is if no human can break into it and steal your data. But if no human can break into the computer, then what do I do if the computer won't give me my data when I need it?
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Trolling, eh? But I love your .sig and the movie. Sometimes I can't get that stupid quote out of my head, Jesus told me so.
No doubt.
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Do any of the listed tools/languages take care of this problem for me? I understand the nature of the problem, but it is still very frustrating. What do the "pure" math programming languages do with this issue?
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The article is not slashdotted, and your text is not from any of the linked articles.
Will you change your license if you happen to agree with a specific war? For example, what if a foreign country's military was actively killing your neighbors and/or family?
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