That would be so convenient. Let me know if you find something! I'm getting tired of using git to handle my distributed hosts file!
I found this really cool thing called DNS. I've discovered that you can encode all your hosts into a single string, then put it into something called a TXT record. I'm not sure of all its capabilities but all you need to do is ask it for that TXT record, then deconstruct the hosts file on whatever machine you need it.
That's a bit like how we name our workstations, only we use a concatenation of person's full name, SSN, date of birth, mother's maiden name, person's present address and phone number, medical history, plus a single random digit for security reasons.
45 songs deemed the most fun to play, rather than the band's most iconic numbers, come with the game.
Translation: We chose the 45 songs that would cost us the least amount to license. After all, it's not like we've shied away from including difficult tracks before.
This brings about the possibility for competing services. Your email gets hosted by this new company who checks whether there are any SMTP connections initiated from that service. If it detects one, it temporarily rejects the email then alerts the hit squad to kill you. Finally, once you are confirmed dead it will then accept the email and a highly trained team of witty satirists will compose and deliver a suitable comeback to the next of kin of the person who sent you the email.
At least one country is going to try to close this massive loophole of never destroying a user's information when they want to remove their account. I mean I can understand that being able to just "deactivate" an account is useful when a user just wants to stop using facebook for a while but how hard is it to have a remove feature that deletes a users information?
If I close my Slashdot account, will Slashdot purge all of my posts as well?
And there is no such thing. It's not mathematically possible, unless the hash is longer than the input data, which makes it mostly pointless.
We're talking a unique identifier. It is mathematically possible to not have collisions between numbers. A GUID is like a hash, but can be guaranteed unique if the first N digits of the number are completely unique.
Ok...so it gives you a unique identifier to replace the D/L number or SSN with. But to what end? Like I stated, the entire keyspace can be calculated within a few weeks at most with a modest number of computers.
You were talking about finding collisions. That's irrelevant. As to what the point is... [shrug]... wasn't my point being made.
So let's say that I hack into a commerce site and download a hundred thousand addresses with their credit card information. Now, I cover my tracks and I store that on my computer and a couple weeks later, the feds come knocking on my door for something else (let's say dog fighting because I want to play in the NFL). And they check out my computer which has all this private data. Now, I've not done anything with it, I haven't sold it or anything. I haven't committed fraud with it. Really, I obtained it out of mere curiosity. And, by your logic, I have a right to retain it.
You have as much right to retain it as you have a right to retain a hacked list of customer names and their favorite flower. Which is to say, none. But whether it does or does not contain SSNs is orthogonal to the legality.
And you're saying that I shouldn't be prosecuted for that?
Let's say the post office accidentally delivered to you someone else's mail and you opened the package, which contained a CDROM. Just then, you noticed it wasn't addressed to you and you put everything back right away. Now, unknown to you, that CDROM contained a complete database of some company's customers with SSN details. Technically, you have committed a felony by opening someone else's mail. Are you saying that they should also prosecute you for intent to commit identity theft? Since it seems that you're arguing that possession == intent, you'd have no problem serving jail time for intent to commit identity theft?
(something similar to md5 but which is guaranteed to be unique).
No such algorythm is guaranteed to be unique, because it's lossy. It's the same reason you can't zip and rezip a 100 MB file down to 1 byte. There are only a certain number of combinations that you can fit in 32 bits, and eventually you're going to get collisions.
It's too bad you wasted all of your time posting that because you didn't comprehend what was written. Read it again. "Something similar to MD5 but which is guaranteed to be unique". The GP didn't say that MD5 or hashes like it are guaranteed to be unique. The "but" clause admits that it's not guaranteed, essentially saying "Find something like it -- except -- one that actually is unique."
You have to ask yourself, would people not install my "free" software if they knew what it was doing - if the answer is anywhere close to yes, you have a moral obligation to reveal the details.
I take a bit of a different angle. From the T&C they post:
"15. USAGE OF COMPUTER RESOURCES. You agree to permit the Software to use the processing power of your computer when it is idle to run downloaded algorithms (mathematical equations) and code within a process. You understand that when the Software uses your computer, it likewise uses your CPU, bandwidth, and electrical power. The Software will use your computer to solve distributed computing problems, such as but not limited to, accelerating medical research projects, analyzing the stock market, searching the web, and finding the largest known prime number. This functionality is completely optional and you may disable it at any time."
Why not honestly promote this in a completely transparent way, and do it with some class? Something like:
"We hope you enjoy this software, which you are receiving at no charge. In order to help us fund continued development we've partnered with a company that is making great strides in coming up with research into a number of medical conditions. You probably know someone who has a family member who has cancer/Parkinson's/Alzheimer's/whatever. By allowing calculations to run on your computer when it's not doing anything else, you can help put a stop to these diseases and find a cure. It's a win-win. Your computer is being used for good, and Digsby gets a penny now and then. It's our hope that if enough people participate, those pennies will add up and, besides, helping out is the right thing to do. Would you like to participate?"
Appeal to their emotions, up-front and honestly, and I think you'll see voluntary adoption for things like this.
What if you had a "Bring an MP3" party. You wouldn't be too upset if people listened to more music than they brought. But would you be upset if someone copied the MP3s and sold the copies? That hasn't affected your party in the slightest as nobody was deprived of the enjoyment of the music that was brought.
There is a difference between redirecting on a keyword (not in URL format) and with a properly formatted (yet incorrect) URL.
"slashdot" should do a search, "slashdot.gobcom" should show an nxdomain error.
"slashdot" could be a misspelling of a valid computer on my domain and it should show an nxdomain error. "string.sort" should do a search for the sort method of the string object.:)
Personally, I like to keep an open mind. Sure, we've made a lot of observations about how nature works, but given our very limited range compared to the universe, who's to say that there isn't some place where everything we know is worth zilk because our laws of nature have all gone bonkers?
Neither you nor I have been beyond the known universe to see whether there is some dude behind all this. How could we disqualify the idea? Just because it is abused by religious zealots?
So if I write some software to generate one hundred plausible-sounding theories, will you allow them to be taught alongside everything else because, heck... nobody knows whether any of them are true or not? How about we open up chemistry, physics, and biology classes to alternate viewpoints? Maybe physical education should also be similarly open. Historically, it's been shown that physical exertion gets a person in shape. However, what if someone has an idea that stuffing your underpants with bananas and shouting really loud can also get a person in shape? Let's give that one a go. The ones who try it and don't get in shape clearly didn't have the correct ripeness of bananas, or weren't shouting loud enough or with the right technique.
Perhaps burying cabbage in a field and then sitting on it for half an hour every day is another valid approach to understanding mathematics. If only students would bury the correct sized cabbage, sit on it for the precise amount of time, think really hard, and not move a muscle... they would truly understand!
What if it's a hundred monkeys? A million monkeys? A billion? What if there's a 5% chance it might help? What if it's a researcher who thinks it might help, but hasn't been right to date?
As long as it's not an infinite number of monkeys brains being bashed in with an infinite number of typewriters because then we'd not only destroy the complete works of Shakespeare, but also the cure for every problem there is.
Lastly he said "Please direct me to your nearest porcelain receptacle that I may initiate peristalsis and thus deposit my faeces therein."
On a related note, there's those baby wipes called "Baby Faces" and I so which I could photoshop those in real life and add an "e" to make it "Baby Faeces".
I'm being facetious to make a point. You said that all exclusivity agreements are evil, without qualification. I find your viewpoint absurd, much as my example of your marriage was.
Does McDonald's only agreeing to sell Coca-Cola beverages make them a monopoly? Does Taco Bell only agreeing to sell Pepsi beverages make them a monopoly? Does one dentist agreeing to exclusively use Oral-B products make them a monopoly? Does Nike only selling Nike products in the Nike store make them a monopolist? Should the government step in and force them to sell Reebok and Adidas products in their stores too? If you were an artist and you only sold your artwork to Christians, does that make you a monopolist and the government should step in and deal with you as such?
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That would be so convenient. Let me know if you find something! I'm getting tired of using git to handle my distributed hosts file!
I found this really cool thing called DNS. I've discovered that you can encode all your hosts into a single string, then put it into something called a TXT record. I'm not sure of all its capabilities but all you need to do is ask it for that TXT record, then deconstruct the hosts file on whatever machine you need it.
That's a bit like how we name our workstations, only we use a concatenation of person's full name, SSN, date of birth, mother's maiden name, person's present address and phone number, medical history, plus a single random digit for security reasons.
Makes perfect sense to me to go by the fun factor rather than chart position or sales.
Oh, I agree. I'm simply being cynical and ascribing to cheapness what is likely better explained as prudence.
45 songs deemed the most fun to play, rather than the band's most iconic numbers, come with the game.
Translation: We chose the 45 songs that would cost us the least amount to license. After all, it's not like we've shied away from including difficult tracks before.
This brings about the possibility for competing services. Your email gets hosted by this new company who checks whether there are any SMTP connections initiated from that service. If it detects one, it temporarily rejects the email then alerts the hit squad to kill you. Finally, once you are confirmed dead it will then accept the email and a highly trained team of witty satirists will compose and deliver a suitable comeback to the next of kin of the person who sent you the email.
At least one country is going to try to close this massive loophole of never destroying a user's information when they want to remove their account. I mean I can understand that being able to just "deactivate" an account is useful when a user just wants to stop using facebook for a while but how hard is it to have a remove feature that deletes a users information?
If I close my Slashdot account, will Slashdot purge all of my posts as well?
And there is no such thing. It's not mathematically possible, unless the hash is longer than the input data, which makes it mostly pointless.
We're talking a unique identifier. It is mathematically possible to not have collisions between numbers. A GUID is like a hash, but can be guaranteed unique if the first N digits of the number are completely unique.
Ok...so it gives you a unique identifier to replace the D/L number or SSN with. But to what end? Like I stated, the entire keyspace can be calculated within a few weeks at most with a modest number of computers.
You were talking about finding collisions. That's irrelevant. As to what the point is... [shrug]... wasn't my point being made.
At first I was (:^O)
but then I \(^o^)/
You moved from Facebook to Twitter?
So let's say that I hack into a commerce site and download a hundred thousand addresses with their credit card information. Now, I cover my tracks and I store that on my computer and a couple weeks later, the feds come knocking on my door for something else (let's say dog fighting because I want to play in the NFL). And they check out my computer which has all this private data. Now, I've not done anything with it, I haven't sold it or anything. I haven't committed fraud with it. Really, I obtained it out of mere curiosity. And, by your logic, I have a right to retain it.
You have as much right to retain it as you have a right to retain a hacked list of customer names and their favorite flower. Which is to say, none. But whether it does or does not contain SSNs is orthogonal to the legality.
And you're saying that I shouldn't be prosecuted for that?
Let's say the post office accidentally delivered to you someone else's mail and you opened the package, which contained a CDROM. Just then, you noticed it wasn't addressed to you and you put everything back right away. Now, unknown to you, that CDROM contained a complete database of some company's customers with SSN details. Technically, you have committed a felony by opening someone else's mail. Are you saying that they should also prosecute you for intent to commit identity theft? Since it seems that you're arguing that possession == intent, you'd have no problem serving jail time for intent to commit identity theft?
(something similar to md5 but which is guaranteed to be unique).
No such algorythm is guaranteed to be unique, because it's lossy. It's the same reason you can't zip and rezip a 100 MB file down to 1 byte. There are only a certain number of combinations that you can fit in 32 bits, and eventually you're going to get collisions.
It's too bad you wasted all of your time posting that because you didn't comprehend what was written. Read it again. "Something similar to MD5 but which is guaranteed to be unique". The GP didn't say that MD5 or hashes like it are guaranteed to be unique. The "but" clause admits that it's not guaranteed, essentially saying "Find something like it -- except -- one that actually is unique."
You have to ask yourself, would people not install my "free" software if they knew what it was doing - if the answer is anywhere close to yes, you have a moral obligation to reveal the details.
I take a bit of a different angle. From the T&C they post:
"15. USAGE OF COMPUTER RESOURCES.
You agree to permit the Software to use the processing power of your computer when it is idle to run downloaded algorithms (mathematical equations) and code within a process. You understand that when the Software uses your computer, it likewise uses your CPU, bandwidth, and electrical power. The Software will use your computer to solve distributed computing problems, such as but not limited to, accelerating medical research projects, analyzing the stock market, searching the web, and finding the largest known prime number. This functionality is completely optional and you may disable it at any time."
Why not honestly promote this in a completely transparent way, and do it with some class? Something like:
"We hope you enjoy this software, which you are receiving at no charge. In order to help us fund continued development we've partnered with a company that is making great strides in coming up with research into a number of medical conditions. You probably know someone who has a family member who has cancer/Parkinson's/Alzheimer's/whatever. By allowing calculations to run on your computer when it's not doing anything else, you can help put a stop to these diseases and find a cure. It's a win-win. Your computer is being used for good, and Digsby gets a penny now and then. It's our hope that if enough people participate, those pennies will add up and, besides, helping out is the right thing to do. Would you like to participate?"
Appeal to their emotions, up-front and honestly, and I think you'll see voluntary adoption for things like this.
Brought to you by the same minds that thought Syfy was a good name change......
When a movie reminds you of that channel, would you say it's Syfylous?
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I'm not sure what you mean. Everything came through fine for me:
"hunter2, hunter2 you're hunter2. The hunter2 between a hunter2 and a hunter2 is hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 than that."
I've personally pushed an 18-wheeler over 150 mph.
You must have really strong legs!
What if you had a "Bring an MP3" party. You wouldn't be too upset if people listened to more music than they brought. But would you be upset if someone copied the MP3s and sold the copies? That hasn't affected your party in the slightest as nobody was deprived of the enjoyment of the music that was brought.
There is a difference between redirecting on a keyword (not in URL format) and with a properly formatted (yet incorrect) URL.
"slashdot" should do a search, "slashdot.gobcom" should show an nxdomain error.
"slashdot" could be a misspelling of a valid computer on my domain and it should show an nxdomain error. "string.sort" should do a search for the sort method of the string object. :)
Better to be a forum troll, than a patent-troll any day of the week.
Yeah, who needs yachts to drive on their oceans of money and naked women when we have strangers getting upset over what we think about Linux distros?
Don't do that. Besides not being very nice, it's quite the waste because you'll just end up having to buy more naked women to drive over.
Does the Terminator vision for the iPhone also overlay Apple II assembly code?
Personally, I like to keep an open mind. Sure, we've made a lot of observations about how nature works, but given our very limited range compared to the universe, who's to say that there isn't some place where everything we know is worth zilk because our laws of nature have all gone bonkers?
Neither you nor I have been beyond the known universe to see whether there is some dude behind all this. How could we disqualify the idea? Just because it is abused by religious zealots?
So if I write some software to generate one hundred plausible-sounding theories, will you allow them to be taught alongside everything else because, heck... nobody knows whether any of them are true or not? How about we open up chemistry, physics, and biology classes to alternate viewpoints? Maybe physical education should also be similarly open. Historically, it's been shown that physical exertion gets a person in shape. However, what if someone has an idea that stuffing your underpants with bananas and shouting really loud can also get a person in shape? Let's give that one a go. The ones who try it and don't get in shape clearly didn't have the correct ripeness of bananas, or weren't shouting loud enough or with the right technique.
Perhaps burying cabbage in a field and then sitting on it for half an hour every day is another valid approach to understanding mathematics. If only students would bury the correct sized cabbage, sit on it for the precise amount of time, think really hard, and not move a muscle... they would truly understand!
What if it's a hundred monkeys? A million monkeys? A billion? What if there's a 5% chance it might help? What if it's a researcher who thinks it might help, but hasn't been right to date?
As long as it's not an infinite number of monkeys brains being bashed in with an infinite number of typewriters because then we'd not only destroy the complete works of Shakespeare, but also the cure for every problem there is.
Phantom Scrotum Syndrome?
I call it the Burns Omni-Net.
Lastly he said "Please direct me to your nearest porcelain receptacle that I may initiate peristalsis and thus deposit my faeces therein."
On a related note, there's those baby wipes called "Baby Faces" and I so which I could photoshop those in real life and add an "e" to make it "Baby Faeces".
That's the 'warsh room' to you buddy. ;-)
Yes, if you're retarded or from the Maritimes, but I repeat myself.
<Groundskeeper Willie voice>Auch! No doot aboot it, lad!</Groundskeeper Willie voice>
I'm being facetious to make a point. You said that all exclusivity agreements are evil, without qualification. I find your viewpoint absurd, much as my example of your marriage was.
Does McDonald's only agreeing to sell Coca-Cola beverages make them a monopoly? Does Taco Bell only agreeing to sell Pepsi beverages make them a monopoly? Does one dentist agreeing to exclusively use Oral-B products make them a monopoly? Does Nike only selling Nike products in the Nike store make them a monopolist? Should the government step in and force them to sell Reebok and Adidas products in their stores too? If you were an artist and you only sold your artwork to Christians, does that make you a monopolist and the government should step in and deal with you as such?