Ever heard the joke that everyone is within six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Insert any known terrorist's name in his place and it'll still hold true for most people.
Existing anti-terrorism laws are so loose that essentially anyone can be investigated/wiretapped without a real court order.
The Patriot Act even added a loophole to the wiretap act to render it null when communications pass through a digital switch or router, thus allowing wiretaps with only a search warrant if they do it right.
And finally there's a special FIFA court which they can all go through to get any and all surveillance approved. Not a single request to that court has been denied in over 15 years.
The 4th amendment's wording is flexible enough that none of this blatantly violates the constitution. They're just steps backwards from the level of privacy we're all used to, and many bills are worded to hide to extent of of their impact. The law is getting pretty scary in the US these days.
Discipline him, sure, though maybe not suspension unless he has been warned several times in the past. But to call it hacking is just an admission of ignorance. The last thing we need is more ingorant people teaching our children.
The problem is not that this hack allows you to edit protected documents, because anyone who can read it could just reproduce the document from scratch, and the password protection is not intended to prevent reading. The problem is that after editing with the hack, the document is still protected with the same password. Previously, if the document was still protected, you could be sure that only someone who had the password could have edited it.
They should not have stored just the password hash, but rather a combined cryptographic hash of the password and the form. Then it would be computationally infeasable for someone without the password to edit the form without detection.
Plus a 32 bit unsalted hash is pretty goddamn weak in the first place. You gotta wonder where their 6+ billion a year (only 1/5th of their revenue) R&D budget goes. Certainly not even 1/100th of that goes into their products.
I doubt I ever got it to play unbeatably though, as I myself am not unbeatable. The game just went on forever anyway so there was no winner or loser in the absolute sense. It was like a practice mode for when you're not playing humans.
It had better give you a score based on how tough you were.
I made an adaptive pong game once. Almost anyone could beat it. If you sucked enough, the computer's paddle would essentially stop moving altogether. If you were very good, it would predict exactly where the ball would land and become unbeatable.
Even if SCO's impossible claims of massive kernel copying prove to be true, they still have to prove that they own sufficient rights to UNIX, which Novell still disputes.
When the user clicks a popup link. I think it's still possible to have a link that pops up an ad before sending someone to the page related to the link, but popups not in direct response to a click are blocked, like when entering or leaving a page.
A closer look shows that they sampled a completely different demographic for the last set of statistics, almost entirely wealthy college graduates, as opposed to the poor high school dropouts in the first few samples.
I'm no lawyer, but I don't think you'd lose it if it was an opt-in feature. I can tell the telephone company to block incoming calls from people who have anonymous caller id.
You can set them up with an alternative browser. Mozilla Firebird is fast and does popup blocking, and is by no means proprietary.
Blocking website popups at the ISP level would be hard. Sure, you could set up your own http proxy and replace occurances of "open(" with something else, but it's so easy for a web site to obfuscate their popup code to get past such a filter and you would also be breaking countless sites that don't use popup ads.
You can no doubt block gator and a bunch of other insidious adware though. Just block all their domains and executable filenames. Most low end firewall/routers have a url filtering feature that's adequate for this. The people who are hit by the most popups often have one or more of these installed and don't know about it.
I have that problem too. I'm able to turn off the alarm clock without really being fully awake, and not remember ever doing so. It's a loud alarm clock, and I've put it out of reach where I have to get up and walk to turn it off, but I think it's just made me a better sleep walker.
No extremely practical solutions come to mind though. Perhaps two alarm clocks on opposite sides of the room, set to go off maybe 20 minutes apart.
It's not specifically that they won't play on a PC. Some of them are autorun CD's that install Windows drivers without asking to prevent you from reading the CD on the computer. They don't care if their "copy protection" schemes cause problems unrelated to their task. That sort of disregard for their customers earns them a class action suit.
Win95 wasn't nearly as bloated as later versions. I was impressed to see it run on a 386 with 4mb of ram with minimal problems and a fast response speed. But I found Win98SE to be quite stable and user friendly, although bloated, and was only forced to upgrade when I wanted to install Visual Studio.NET. It even came with a stripped down version of IIS, Personal Web Server, which they took out of XP Home.
I think they felt they put too much into Win98. Possibly done to encourage people to upgrade to 2000 or XP Pro, a quick trip to Windows Update with a Win98 PC will now impair it so that you can no longer install Personal Web Server from the Windows install CD, requiring you to manually find and install an additional update, or upgrade to a newer version of Windows.
Microsoft's support phases last a lot longer than most proprietary software companies out there.
I expect that the next big virus will knock a bunch of the remaining 98 computers offline once Microsoft stops making patches. Zone Labs will probably experience a small surge in downloads of their free firewall product.
The majority of the time that I get tech support requests from AOL users, my email replies are blocked. Sure, you could blame them for setting it up to block addresses not in their address book, but most seem surprised when I tell them AOL is giving replies saying that's how they have it set up, as if they were uninformed as to all the spam blocking settings. I haven't used AOL so I can't say exactly what so many of them are doing wrong.
NTSC video uses the YIQ color space, very similar to YUV (used in PAL, JPEG, DVD, & stuff). Y is the brightness, which gets the highest resolution, and I & Q (or U & V) are the chroma values, which can be greatly subsampled because they have no effect on brightness (when everything's working correctly).
Most lossy image compression formats involve first transforming the image to the yuv color space. The RGB->YUV transform is also used by many paint programs for things like estimating differences between colors for color reduction & such.
My first post to the front page of Slashdot, I used a unique email address. Within several hours, the first spam arrived at that address. It was a Nigerian scam. I verified its origin with a whois. Other spam didn't arrive until days later. Boy those guys are fast.
It's both saddening and humorous to hear of people falling for those scams. From reading the article it sounds like he'd still give them more money if he had it. "Give me a few hundred thousand and then I'll give you 20 million. Just trust me, old buddy, old pal. I'm upset to hear you still consider me a stranger, after all this time. Have a little faith."
I spent years living in a place like that. It didn't impede my programming at all. In fact, I believe it improved my software design skills, by forcing me to figure out exactly what I wanted before I sat down to write it.
I think the laptop would be the better idea. Gasoline is costly. If you could get one with a seperate battery charger, and get two or more batteries, you could leave the used batteries to charge at a friend's house or your work and swap them whenever you're out. I have uncertainties about being able to use the solar power for your laptop, depending on your setup.
For the last week I've been playing Dragon Quest V for the first time. Sure, it's illegal on an emulator, but I never had the opportunity to purchase it, being only released in Japan, and 3x speed is much more playable than the original. I recognized most of the graphics from the original Dragon Warrior, with very few visible changes at all to the engine. If not for everything else that would make it a very cheap game. But the storyline was better than most RPG's I've played. It goes through several generations of warriors, and the main character turns out NOT to be the legendary hero. I'm at the point where I've rescued my wife (childhood best friend) and turned her back from stone, and am about to continue where my father left off to rescue my mother with the help of my two children.
A fairly humorous part of the article I noticed was "The game still resembles an old 32-bit RPG". It's like an 8 bit RPG ported to a 16 bit system.
Not really. Just an independent company hired to inspect the source calculated a visible defect rate that was 1/6th the average of the other products they had inspected, or 1 bug found per 10000 lines of code.
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Ever heard the joke that everyone is within six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Insert any known terrorist's name in his place and it'll still hold true for most people.
Existing anti-terrorism laws are so loose that essentially anyone can be investigated/wiretapped without a real court order.
The Patriot Act even added a loophole to the wiretap act to render it null when communications pass through a digital switch or router, thus allowing wiretaps with only a search warrant if they do it right.
And finally there's a special FIFA court which they can all go through to get any and all surveillance approved. Not a single request to that court has been denied in over 15 years.
The 4th amendment's wording is flexible enough that none of this blatantly violates the constitution. They're just steps backwards from the level of privacy we're all used to, and many bills are worded to hide to extent of of their impact. The law is getting pretty scary in the US these days.
Hacking = knowing more than they do.
Discipline him, sure, though maybe not suspension unless he has been warned several times in the past. But to call it hacking is just an admission of ignorance. The last thing we need is more ingorant people teaching our children.
I saw a film that had this back in high school that looked like it was made in the 80's. I think the quality was a little better too.
The problem is not that this hack allows you to edit protected documents, because anyone who can read it could just reproduce the document from scratch, and the password protection is not intended to prevent reading. The problem is that after editing with the hack, the document is still protected with the same password. Previously, if the document was still protected, you could be sure that only someone who had the password could have edited it.
They should not have stored just the password hash, but rather a combined cryptographic hash of the password and the form. Then it would be computationally infeasable for someone without the password to edit the form without detection.
Plus a 32 bit unsalted hash is pretty goddamn weak in the first place. You gotta wonder where their 6+ billion a year (only 1/5th of their revenue) R&D budget goes. Certainly not even 1/100th of that goes into their products.
I doubt I ever got it to play unbeatably though, as I myself am not unbeatable. The game just went on forever anyway so there was no winner or loser in the absolute sense. It was like a practice mode for when you're not playing humans.
You can eliminate the smell if you freeze then chocolate coat the pieces.
It had better give you a score based on how tough you were.
I made an adaptive pong game once. Almost anyone could beat it. If you sucked enough, the computer's paddle would essentially stop moving altogether. If you were very good, it would predict exactly where the ball would land and become unbeatable.
Even if SCO's impossible claims of massive kernel copying prove to be true, they still have to prove that they own sufficient rights to UNIX, which Novell still disputes.
SCO compared him to a commie.
Hey, we have the same favorite cartoons.
They'll run out of air within the next couple hundred days. But that's only if they have no reserve tanks and fail to patch the leak.
When the user clicks a popup link. I think it's still possible to have a link that pops up an ad before sending someone to the page related to the link, but popups not in direct response to a click are blocked, like when entering or leaving a page.
A closer look shows that they sampled a completely different demographic for the last set of statistics, almost entirely wealthy college graduates, as opposed to the poor high school dropouts in the first few samples.
I'm no lawyer, but I don't think you'd lose it if it was an opt-in feature. I can tell the telephone company to block incoming calls from people who have anonymous caller id.
You can set them up with an alternative browser. Mozilla Firebird is fast and does popup blocking, and is by no means proprietary.
Blocking website popups at the ISP level would be hard. Sure, you could set up your own http proxy and replace occurances of "open(" with something else, but it's so easy for a web site to obfuscate their popup code to get past such a filter and you would also be breaking countless sites that don't use popup ads.
You can no doubt block gator and a bunch of other insidious adware though. Just block all their domains and executable filenames. Most low end firewall/routers have a url filtering feature that's adequate for this. The people who are hit by the most popups often have one or more of these installed and don't know about it.
I have that problem too. I'm able to turn off the alarm clock without really being fully awake, and not remember ever doing so. It's a loud alarm clock, and I've put it out of reach where I have to get up and walk to turn it off, but I think it's just made me a better sleep walker.
No extremely practical solutions come to mind though. Perhaps two alarm clocks on opposite sides of the room, set to go off maybe 20 minutes apart.
It's not specifically that they won't play on a PC. Some of them are autorun CD's that install Windows drivers without asking to prevent you from reading the CD on the computer. They don't care if their "copy protection" schemes cause problems unrelated to their task. That sort of disregard for their customers earns them a class action suit.
Win95 wasn't nearly as bloated as later versions. I was impressed to see it run on a 386 with 4mb of ram with minimal problems and a fast response speed. But I found Win98SE to be quite stable and user friendly, although bloated, and was only forced to upgrade when I wanted to install Visual Studio .NET. It even came with a stripped down version of IIS, Personal Web Server, which they took out of XP Home.
I think they felt they put too much into Win98. Possibly done to encourage people to upgrade to 2000 or XP Pro, a quick trip to Windows Update with a Win98 PC will now impair it so that you can no longer install Personal Web Server from the Windows install CD, requiring you to manually find and install an additional update, or upgrade to a newer version of Windows.
Microsoft's support phases last a lot longer than most proprietary software companies out there.
I expect that the next big virus will knock a bunch of the remaining 98 computers offline once Microsoft stops making patches. Zone Labs will probably experience a small surge in downloads of their free firewall product.
They've blocked probably one trillion non spam.
The majority of the time that I get tech support requests from AOL users, my email replies are blocked. Sure, you could blame them for setting it up to block addresses not in their address book, but most seem surprised when I tell them AOL is giving replies saying that's how they have it set up, as if they were uninformed as to all the spam blocking settings. I haven't used AOL so I can't say exactly what so many of them are doing wrong.
Would tell you enough to understand how it works. We already knew what O(1) means.
It's only RGB after decoding.
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NTSC video uses the YIQ color space, very similar to YUV (used in PAL, JPEG, DVD, & stuff). Y is the brightness, which gets the highest resolution, and I & Q (or U & V) are the chroma values, which can be greatly subsampled because they have no effect on brightness (when everything's working correctly).
Most lossy image compression formats involve first transforming the image to the yuv color space. The RGB->YUV transform is also used by many paint programs for things like estimating differences between colors for color reduction & such.
First match on google for "YIQ YUV":
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/colour/conv
My first post to the front page of Slashdot, I used a unique email address. Within several hours, the first spam arrived at that address. It was a Nigerian scam. I verified its origin with a whois. Other spam didn't arrive until days later. Boy those guys are fast.
It's both saddening and humorous to hear of people falling for those scams. From reading the article it sounds like he'd still give them more money if he had it. "Give me a few hundred thousand and then I'll give you 20 million. Just trust me, old buddy, old pal. I'm upset to hear you still consider me a stranger, after all this time. Have a little faith."
I spent years living in a place like that. It didn't impede my programming at all. In fact, I believe it improved my software design skills, by forcing me to figure out exactly what I wanted before I sat down to write it.
I think the laptop would be the better idea. Gasoline is costly. If you could get one with a seperate battery charger, and get two or more batteries, you could leave the used batteries to charge at a friend's house or your work and swap them whenever you're out. I have uncertainties about being able to use the solar power for your laptop, depending on your setup.
For the last week I've been playing Dragon Quest V for the first time. Sure, it's illegal on an emulator, but I never had the opportunity to purchase it, being only released in Japan, and 3x speed is much more playable than the original. I recognized most of the graphics from the original Dragon Warrior, with very few visible changes at all to the engine. If not for everything else that would make it a very cheap game. But the storyline was better than most RPG's I've played. It goes through several generations of warriors, and the main character turns out NOT to be the legendary hero. I'm at the point where I've rescued my wife (childhood best friend) and turned her back from stone, and am about to continue where my father left off to rescue my mother with the help of my two children.
A fairly humorous part of the article I noticed was "The game still resembles an old 32-bit RPG". It's like an 8 bit RPG ported to a 16 bit system.
Not really. Just an independent company hired to inspect the source calculated a visible defect rate that was 1/6th the average of the other products they had inspected, or 1 bug found per 10000 lines of code.