I don't use an unmunged email address because then I would receive more spam. I don't want to receive more spam because, even though POPFile is effective at deleting it, not receiving it in the first place is preferable.
I wouldn't be able to use your application because it only works on Windows.
So take a look at quepasa. It combines remembering a passphrase, with cryptographically generated passwords (SHA-256 hashing of the passphrase and account name followed by mapping of the hash to typeable characters).
The combination means that I can always "recall" the password for any of my accounts using the quepasa application (all I remember is a single passphrase), and the passwords are not stored anywhere.
Yes, folks, it's true. Ever since I started using POPFile I've been surrounded by some of the most beautiful women in the world, and next week I am marrying the Olsen twins. It's all down to POPFile, and my email is sorted automatically!!!
Oops, I guess I should have click the "Post Anonymously" button.
Even the apology makes Fleury look bad. Instead of actually admitting that it happened, and apologizing and then promising that it wont happen again, he instead makes a grand gesture of saying that astroturfing is bad and isn't acceptable at JBoss.
Dude, we already knew it was unethical, we didn't need you to tell us. If this stuff was going on in your company then (a) admit it, (b) apologize.
But I'm glad that this whole thing came out in public, because the practice itself and the lame-ass apology speaks volumes about the integrity of the JBoss group.
How hard do you think it would be to write a script that emails files from your system to your gmail account is a sort of backup scheme. If the Subject : line included the date the message was sent I could keep multiple full backups in my free gmail account. Shouldn't be hard to base64 encode and email my $HOME to myself. Let's see my $HOME is $20G so I can keep ~50 full backups in my gmail account.
And since they support IMAP I can restore from backup with another script... I think I've got another little Perl hack coming on:-)
Is this guy the new JonKatz? Two of his stories on the front page pimping links to his weblogs where he has his own advertising. And he submitted them himself!
The article clearly points this fact out, as does every other frikkin' article on Alan Turing, to which the answer should probably be: WHO GIVES A CRAP?
Why waste ink on this almost useless fact (other than it perhaps leading to the circumstances of his death) when there's a lot more worth saying about the guy.
I just hope that if I ever doing something amazing that after my death we don't get to read:
"John Graham-Cumming invented the Banana Wumpus Driver. At age 13 he realized that he was attracted to women and spent his entire life in pursuit of sexual encounters with various women until he finally married..."
I think the point is that he described a machine that could change what it did based on "instructions" that were fed to it. In this case the tape of the Turing machine contains both the data and the program for a specific task.
The machine itself just interpreted the symbols on the tape, but key to Turing's insight was that although he intially said that a Turing machine might compute a single function, he realized that that single function could be a Turing machine itself (hence the "universal machine") and so the instructions could come from the tape.
This itself was fundamental because it meant that machines could compute functions of machine and lead to the Halting Problem: i.e. no machine can compute whether another machine will halt.
If you still have time before your final read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#Univer sal_Turing_machines:-)
The reason Bob and Clippy are so hated is because they are patronizing, whiny, know-it-alls. Who the hell wants one of those as a friend or on a computer?
One the banned list is the word "kitt". pr0n surfers will think this refers to sites like Persian Kitty, but those of us in the know realize that this is all a plot by Knight Industries to prevent the Iranians from stealing plans for the Knight Industries Two Thousand.
> There are people who've been writing perl code for years and still don't believe the language is "human readable".
And that's the fault of the authors of that code and *not* the language. Nothing makes me more insane than people who talk about how Perl is "write only". No, it's not. It's the people who write crappy Perl scripts and use every obfuscation feature they can to make the thing unreadable. It's perfectly possible to make readable Perl code, just take a look at POPFile. It's also perfectly possible to write unreadable C/C++: just look at the obfuscation contests.
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Pretty fundamental concepts right there. A better example than the military is pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups. I have strong feelings on one side of that debate, but that doesn't mean I should pervert F/OSS to help perpetuate my views. If I want to do that I can create an EULA:-)
Neither of the linked articles helps understand the issue but this one does,
Furthermore, RFC-793 allows a TCP implementation to verify both sequence and acknowledgement numbers prior to accepting a RST control flag as valid. No TCP stack implemention tested currently implements checking of both sequence and acknowledgement. All tested TCP stacks currently verify only the sequence number. This allows connections to be reset with dramatically less effort than previously believed.
Hence this is an implementation issue that can be patched in TCP stacks.
> Management and business types, and of course home users, > don't think security is a big complex model. They think > "oh, we have a firewall... we're safe" and that's the end of it.
> Are you capable of drawing any female pornstar > so that she looks different enough from the others > that the search engine can find her?
Damn, you've uncovered by secret super-power. Oh, you didn't think there was an X-man with the amazing porn star drawing mutation? How wrong you were...
And they developed this for searching for "industrial objects". Riiighht.
Seriously though the pr0n industry is an extreme early adopter of most technologies, I'm sure that the researchers could fund research for the rest o their lives by creating an adult search engine.
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I don't use an unmunged email address because then I would receive more spam. I don't want to receive more spam because, even though POPFile is effective at deleting it, not receiving it in the first place is preferable.
I wouldn't be able to use your application because it only works on Windows.
John.
So take a look at quepasa. It combines remembering a passphrase, with cryptographically generated passwords (SHA-256 hashing of the passphrase and account name followed by mapping of the hash to typeable characters).
The combination means that I can always "recall" the password for any of my accounts using the quepasa application (all I remember is a single passphrase), and the passwords are not stored anywhere.
John.
Yes, folks, it's true. Ever since I started using POPFile I've been surrounded by some of the most beautiful women in the world, and next week I am marrying the Olsen twins. It's all down to POPFile, and my email is sorted automatically!!!
Oops, I guess I should have click the "Post Anonymously" button.
Even the apology makes Fleury look bad. Instead of actually admitting that it happened, and apologizing and then promising that it wont happen again, he instead makes a grand gesture of saying that astroturfing is bad and isn't acceptable at JBoss.
Dude, we already knew it was unethical, we didn't need you to tell us. If this stuff was going on in your company then (a) admit it, (b) apologize.
But I'm glad that this whole thing came out in public, because the practice itself and the lame-ass apology speaks volumes about the integrity of the JBoss group.
John.
"I am not a number, I am a free man"
Oops.
Turns out that in the US the opposite is true.
How hard do you think it would be to write a script that emails files from your system to your gmail account is a sort of backup scheme. If the Subject : line included the date the message was sent I could keep multiple full backups in my free gmail account. Shouldn't be hard to base64 encode and email my $HOME to myself. Let's see my $HOME is $20G so I can keep ~50 full backups in my gmail account.
:-)
And since they support IMAP I can restore from backup with another script... I think I've got another little Perl hack coming on
John.
> Plus, if one of them blows up, who's going to cry?
My father was a giant Gambian rat, you insensitive clod!
John.
Is this guy the new JonKatz? Two of his stories on the front page pimping links to his weblogs where he has his own advertising. And he submitted them himself!
John.
Perhaps I missed "Graphics Algorithms 101" in a previous /. article, but after reading (or trying to read) TFA my response is: wibble.
John.
The article clearly points this fact out, as does every other frikkin' article on Alan Turing, to which the answer should probably be: WHO GIVES A CRAP?
Why waste ink on this almost useless fact (other than it perhaps leading to the circumstances of his death) when there's a lot more worth saying about the guy.
I just hope that if I ever doing something amazing that after my death we don't get to read:
"John Graham-Cumming invented the Banana Wumpus Driver. At age 13 he realized that he was attracted to women and spent his entire life in pursuit of sexual encounters with various women until he finally married..."
John.
I think the point is that he described a machine that could change what it did based on "instructions" that were fed to it. In this case the tape of the Turing machine contains both the data and the program for a specific task.
r sal_Turing_machines :-)
The machine itself just interpreted the symbols on the tape, but key to Turing's insight was that although he intially said that a Turing machine might compute a single function, he realized that that single function could be a Turing machine itself (hence the "universal machine") and so the instructions could come from the tape.
This itself was fundamental because it meant that machines could compute functions of machine and lead to the Halting Problem: i.e. no machine can compute whether another machine will halt.
If you still have time before your final read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#Unive
John.
I wonder if he was added to the CAPPS II system as a "no fly" person.
John.
> So since he has already made his fortune, why should he care if there are strong IP laws to insure that others get paid for their work?
> Actually, the same criticism applies to all these big name open-source advocates.
Right, RMS is in it for the $$$:-)
The reason Bob and Clippy are so hated is because they are patronizing, whiny, know-it-alls. Who the hell wants one of those as a friend or on a computer?
John.
One the banned list is the word "kitt". pr0n surfers will think this refers to sites like Persian Kitty, but those of us in the know realize that this is all a plot by Knight Industries to prevent the Iranians from stealing plans for the Knight Industries Two Thousand.
John.
> It's like drung dealing.
I'm sorry it's nothing like that. Dealing in one of the 56 ethnic groups in China is totally different to this.
I've never received a supply of free Chinese people only to have them turn around and ask to be paid.
John.
This is wonderful news, now I can grow teeth like Tom Cruise's.
Oh wait, this research was done in the UK.
Make that Austin Powers.
John.
I do.
:-(
Now you have made me feel very old
John.
> There are people who've been writing perl code for years and still don't believe the language is "human readable".
And that's the fault of the authors of that code and *not* the language. Nothing makes me more insane than people who talk about how Perl is "write only". No, it's not. It's the people who write crappy Perl scripts and use every obfuscation feature they can to make the thing unreadable. It's perfectly possible to make readable Perl code, just take a look at POPFile. It's also perfectly possible to write unreadable C/C++: just look at the obfuscation contests.
John.
John.
Move along, little to see here.
John.
> Management and business types, and of course home users,
:-)
> don't think security is a big complex model. They think
> "oh, we have a firewall... we're safe" and that's the end of it.
I am a management type, you insensitive clod
John.
They didn't actually test these passwords they just said "I'll give you a bar of chocolate if you give me your password".
So people can just make it up.
Yes Mr "Researcher" if offered chocolate 79% of people can think of a random word.
Big deal,
John.
> Are you capable of drawing any female pornstar
> so that she looks different enough from the others
> that the search engine can find her?
Damn, you've uncovered by secret super-power. Oh, you didn't think there was an X-man with the amazing porn star drawing mutation? How wrong you were...
John.
And they developed this for searching for "industrial objects". Riiighht.
Seriously though the pr0n industry is an extreme early adopter of most technologies, I'm sure that the researchers could fund research for the rest o their lives by creating an adult search engine.
John.