As for lacking sufficient knowledge of firewalls, you're welcome to try and hack mine. It's been up for 7 years now without an intrusion. And not for trying, according to my logs.
Put your money where your mouth is and post your IP on/. then (;
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Fortunately, companies haven't yet figured out how to advertise on the inside of my eyelids. ..
you obviously haven't seen the episode of futurama where fry finds out advertisers now control his dreams.
IANAL, but I believe that if you have not read the TOS, and have not been made aware of them, they are not binding.
As soon as you become aware of the TOS however, you are (in most cases) obliged to read them and take the appropriate course of action if you disagree...
This is what I have been told by a friend studying Law anyway (Australia)...
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I'm guessing (and the article didn't say anything and i'm not french, but i do like to speculate:p) that the pin allows you to fill your card up from a nominated bank account - so punching in that PIN replaces you going to an ATM to get out cash.
So the pin is protecting your more significant finances while still giving you the convenience of electronic transfers and not carrying coins
I would guess - though without confirmation from an official source i can't be sure - that the Moneo/smart card system would be similar to VISA etc in that there is a database that stores the information, and to increase your balance illegally would require hacking that
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"totally anonymous" - it is (or can be), the cards store no personal information (unless you attach it to your credit card which has limited personal info on it)
"never expires" - it does? thats not what the article says...
"never gets damaged" - all physical currency only exists in a physical and damagable form, paper rips, burns, gets washed... plastic money isn't especially sturdy and who wants to keep massive volumes of coins?
the money card would have a database (physically located in several places across the country/world) which is something physical cash cannot offer - a backup
sounds to me like this money card is just as anonymous, safe from expiry and damage than normal cash....
my computer, with the aid of quack.wav can quack like a duck... but its not a duck.
its cashless because you don't swap small bits of annoying metal around of which you always end up with hundreds of the really small ones...
no one said money-less, just cash-less.
That, I believe, is not how this effect works - it disassembles and reassembles the matter, this is a physical process, not (yet?) one that you can just store the instructions for in a computer.
At this point in time (and for the foreseeable future... whatever that means) a computer or infact anything besides matter itself can act with such precision at the atomic (and subatomic) level.
Quantum effects are indeed an incredible thing, and New Scientist has a Quantum World section that will no doubt have some fascinating articles to read if you want to know more... It's all way over a/. thread though (I barely get half of it and i'm 2/3 through a physics degree largely based on quantum:p)
From my (limited) knowledge on the subject I believe it is limited to transporting energy or matter - not replicating it (this would of course violate the conservation of energy principle that tends to keep the universe seemingly in one piece).
While this could mean that your local Spooky Action At A Distance (SAAAD) Store would be able to send you products instantly (why wait 5 minutes when you have a truly instantaneous action?) it would not pass through a computer either - the principle is related to *transportation*. While its quite alright for light to dance along an optical fibre, the new Hover Board you just bought on your SAAAD connection is still matter which cannot traverse optical fibres. For the time being I think we'll be limited to doing really cool things with light.
Not to say there won't be some method of mass reconstruction/replication developed over the coming years (millennia...if we still exist), but this particular effect i believe is limited to line-of-sight and requires the energy/matter to be able to move through the medium between - its only cutting down the time taken to travel really...
The comment about UD packets isn't offtopic, for those who modded it such.
The United Devices (UD) Cancer Research project allows people to crunch data (much like SETI@Home) but instead of finding alien life the idea is to find a cure for cancer. The software (as far as i can tell) models how various chemicals interact (IANAChemist, so I can't really give much more detail than that - check out the site if you're interested of course).
Though this post to clarify the previous one may be getting offtopic:p
It is believed this worm leverages a vulnerability published in June 2002.
While I don't want to support any attacks on servers, whatever their choice of software, this (once again) brings to the fore the problem of admins who don't look after their systems/networks (read: regularly check for security updates/patches, let alone set it up securely in the first place).
From the linked article:
It is strongly recommended that a rule be added to each organization's
firewall such that any packet destined for UDP port 1434 on the 'clean' side
of the firewall be dropped and logged. No host, even DNS Servers, should be
allowed to send traffic to this port.
And of course a patch was released by MS to remove the problem...
All this 8 months ago and still it manages to have a fairly crippling effect on the InternetAsWeKnowIt(tm)?
I don't care what OS or software you use (I won't even say what I use to let this become a flame war about UNIX being better than win32) but pleeeeease care about your network and check for updates and announcements... though i spose i'm preaching to the converted around here...
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As for lacking sufficient knowledge of firewalls, you're welcome to try and hack mine. It's been up for 7 years now without an intrusion. And not for trying, according to my logs.
/. then (;
Put your money where your mouth is and post your IP on
Fortunately, companies haven't yet figured out how to advertise on the inside of my eyelids. . .
you obviously haven't seen the episode of futurama where fry finds out advertisers now control his dreams.
IANAL, but I believe that if you have not read the TOS, and have not been made aware of them, they are not binding.
As soon as you become aware of the TOS however, you are (in most cases) obliged to read them and take the appropriate course of action if you disagree...
This is what I have been told by a friend studying Law anyway (Australia)...
Disclaimer: any law suits or bad karma related to this post may be directed to Xtra. All donations and good karma will be handled by me.
So the pin is protecting your more significant finances while still giving you the convenience of electronic transfers and not carrying coins
I would guess - though without confirmation from an official source i can't be sure - that the Moneo/smart card system would be similar to VISA etc in that there is a database that stores the information, and to increase your balance illegally would require hacking that
"never expires" - it does? thats not what the article says...
"never gets damaged" - all physical currency only exists in a physical and damagable form, paper rips, burns, gets washed... plastic money isn't especially sturdy and who wants to keep massive volumes of coins?
the money card would have a database (physically located in several places across the country/world) which is something physical cash cannot offer - a backup
sounds to me like this money card is just as anonymous, safe from expiry and damage than normal cash....
my computer, with the aid of quack.wav can quack like a duck... but its not a duck. its cashless because you don't swap small bits of annoying metal around of which you always end up with hundreds of the really small ones... no one said money-less, just cash-less.
It might lessen the effects of /.ing
At this point in time (and for the foreseeable future... whatever that means) a computer or infact anything besides matter itself can act with such precision at the atomic (and subatomic) level.
Quantum effects are indeed an incredible thing, and New Scientist has a Quantum World section that will no doubt have some fascinating articles to read if you want to know more... It's all way over a /. thread though (I barely get half of it and i'm 2/3 through a physics degree largely based on quantum :p)
I think you may be missing the point...
From my (limited) knowledge on the subject I believe it is limited to transporting energy or matter - not replicating it (this would of course violate the conservation of energy principle that tends to keep the universe seemingly in one piece).
While this could mean that your local Spooky Action At A Distance (SAAAD) Store would be able to send you products instantly (why wait 5 minutes when you have a truly instantaneous action?) it would not pass through a computer either - the principle is related to *transportation*. While its quite alright for light to dance along an optical fibre, the new Hover Board you just bought on your SAAAD connection is still matter which cannot traverse optical fibres. For the time being I think we'll be limited to doing really cool things with light.
Not to say there won't be some method of mass reconstruction/replication developed over the coming years (millennia...if we still exist), but this particular effect i believe is limited to line-of-sight and requires the energy/matter to be able to move through the medium between - its only cutting down the time taken to travel really...
my AUD$0.02
The United Devices (UD) Cancer Research project allows people to crunch data (much like SETI@Home) but instead of finding alien life the idea is to find a cure for cancer. The software (as far as i can tell) models how various chemicals interact (IANAChemist, so I can't really give much more detail than that - check out the site if you're interested of course).
Though this post to clarify the previous one may be getting offtopic :p