true. but sometimes much more relevent sites are not in google or dont come up for the key words that we use. often i have come across very valuable sites which i forget to bookmark and when i try to use google to find those sites even using keywords that i know was in there i cant find them.
i often links that are very valuable when reading ask slashdot articles like this. so its not only the person who asked the question that get benifits.
agreed microsoft cant be blamed much for people not applying security patches. i seem to remember that the ftp server of a popular opensource website running linux or some other *nix got hacked because of not having security patches applied to it.
BUT since this is microsoft owned site they shouldve had better security procedures or find better people to run their servers (i mean its not like they dont have money or something). specially when the site affected holds peoples personal information.
i do this already. i wrote a small java midlet which allows me to read ebooks on my mobile. it only has around 750k so the size of a book is limited but its still real handy when ur stuck in some reletives house with nothing to do. there are also plenty of midlets available online which allow you to do this.
agreed. some of my friends arent that comp. savy to unzip files so sometimes i need to send them exe files which they can just execute. extremly annoying when u find that exe's are blocked. i know its for a good reason but still very annoying
i have heard of domain group policies. have even used them. i admit that i'm no expert in them but from my experiance domain policies doesnt make life much easier if anything it makes it much harder to track just where u went wrong.
i cant agree with you on this one. at worst linux would require the same amount of people required to run windows system. it also helps that linux is much better at being remotely administrated (SSH/Commandline is much more efficient than Terminal Services). only reason i can think of linux requiring more people is because the admins arent properly trained.
i didnt know much about MySQL (still dont) but with all the people talking about it i figured i should give it a try for a new project. i was stunned to see that it either doesnt support or has very wierd quirkies for a relational database. referential integrity is not good, automatic defualt values etc, i admit mysql is fast. but with mysql i end up having to do most of the validation that i would otherwise use the sql server to do.
true i also wonderd this. but in some stories asimov makes it apparent that the robots cannot always comprehend what things might danger a human ex: if the robot doesnt know that smoking is bad then he wont try to stop u. there are some stories where robots actually allow humans to come to harm because they dont know that it would happen. and in that mind reading robot story the robot lies because he can understand that telling the truth may hurt them whereas normal robots dont lie because they dont understand about it.
this isnt a perfect explanation but gives enough logic to accept most plots in the book:).
In my school the admin set up the default mapping so that it would map the and A: and B: drive and restricted the novell map command. so we couldnt copy anything to or from the floppy drive. i soon 'broke' this when i found out figured out that the windows 3.1 filemanager allowed u to map and unmap drives anyway u want. soo i was able to bring games and stuff into computer.
2 years later after i finished my exams the admin left the school (he was a university student working part time) before he left he appointed myself as the admin:).
what u need is a java powered mobile phone:). with it u can write something just like SecureID. there is already a midet which does something like this (search google). though i'm trying to write a new one my self for the ssh server at home.
i dont use the same password for exactly this reason. my critical passwords (primary email, domain cpanel, remote login acccount of my home pc) all have unique passwords. and for other sites which arent critical and dont have any private info i have three passwords which i use randomly.
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if your sufficiently smart you could write code on paper and run it without ever debugging it. paul allen did it once. i read it originaly on a book (i think it was 'making of microsoft') but the basic story is:
Paul Allen flies from Harvard to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to meet with Ed Roberts at MITS, to demonstrate the newly written BASIC interpreter for the Altair. Paul writes a paper tape reader on the plane trip, for the Altair to load the BASIC software. At MITS, Paul enters the loader, the Altair reads the paper tape, and is ready to execute BASIC instructions. Despite never having touched an Altair before, the BASIC works flawlessly. Paul types "PRINT 2 + 2", and the Altair responds "4". Paul then types in the BASIC source code for a Lunar Lander game from a book. This becomes the first sofware program ever run on what would later become MS BASIC.
the only key that i personally dont use is the scroll lock key. every other key in the keyboard saves me time. i know because of the difficulty of not having those keys (or having to Fn+KEY) in most laptops. i'm sure that those keys with fewer keys are usefull for people that work mainly with the mouse or dont do anything but basic typing on it, but for most of the others i dont think there are to any 'extra' keys on the keyboard.
I cant figure out how having less keys than we have on standard keyboard makes it easier to use. having less keys means that we have less ways to quickly access features in our application so that means now we have have to hold down even more keys to access 'shortcuts'.
AFAIK the only way OTP can be broken is by finding the random data set. no amount of work on the cipher text can break the encryption. so there is only one kind of "technology" that can break OTP encryption. thats ESP;-). but i dont think we have to worry about this much;).
no i'm not bitching or moaning. but asia is not USA farmers dont have lots of land they dont have the option of choosing from multiple companies. they are trying to get around the companies by developing "aclimitized" varieties from heirloom seeds but like you said these arent perfect.
the problem is the farmers here arent rich. they cant afford to buy seeds every year. there getting deaper and deaper into debts. they simply cant afford it.
i'm not sure if its Monsanto but here in asia one of the problems is that these companies give sterilized seeds so that the harvesting seeds cannot be used to to grow crop for next year. so the farmers have ltl choice but to buy seed every year.
i tried it as well i also tried xmule. but for somereason it didnt work for me (the downloaded would are always queued) so i had to end up with Wine+emule. also i dont think xmule had KAD support back then as well as a few other features. maybe it has improved i'll give it a try again.
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true. but sometimes much more relevent sites are not in google or dont come up for the key words that we use. often i have come across very valuable sites which i forget to bookmark and when i try to use google to find those sites even using keywords that i know was in there i cant find them.
i often links that are very valuable when reading ask slashdot articles like this. so its not only the person who asked the question that get benifits.
agreed microsoft cant be blamed much for people not applying security patches. i seem to remember that the ftp server of a popular opensource website running linux or some other *nix got hacked because of not having security patches applied to it.
BUT since this is microsoft owned site they shouldve had better security procedures or find better people to run their servers (i mean its not like they dont have money or something). specially when the site affected holds peoples personal information.
u dont need a 'continuity tester' just a simple flashlight bulb and a battery and a piece of wire.
your tax money that is given to cops doesnt entitle you to commit crimes but to be safe from crimes.
Wierd Science :). i ought to watch it again.
i do this already. i wrote a small java midlet which allows me to read ebooks on my mobile. it only has around 750k so the size of a book is limited but its still real handy when ur stuck in some reletives house with nothing to do. there are also plenty of midlets available online which allow you to do this.
slashcode style bbs are more for geek elitists who bother to memorize html than they are for your average human.
;)
errr.. i always though that geek elistists were the intended audiance of slashdot
for winamp there is a dsp plugin called tomsteady which does exactly this. i use it when i play mp3's at night.
agreed. some of my friends arent that comp. savy to unzip files so sometimes i need to send them exe files which they can just execute. extremly annoying when u find that exe's are blocked. i know its for a good reason but still very annoying
i have heard of domain group policies. have even used them. i admit that i'm no expert in them but from my experiance domain policies doesnt make life much easier if anything it makes it much harder to track just where u went wrong.
i cant agree with you on this one. at worst linux would require the same amount of people required to run windows system. it also helps that linux is much better at being remotely administrated (SSH/Commandline is much more efficient than Terminal Services). only reason i can think of linux requiring more people is because the admins arent properly trained.
i didnt know much about MySQL (still dont) but with all the people talking about it i figured i should give it a try for a new project. i was stunned to see that it either doesnt support or has very wierd quirkies for a relational database. referential integrity is not good, automatic defualt values etc, i admit mysql is fast. but with mysql i end up having to do most of the validation that i would otherwise use the sql server to do.
true i also wonderd this. but in some stories asimov makes it apparent that the robots cannot always comprehend what things might danger a human ex: if the robot doesnt know that smoking is bad then he wont try to stop u. there are some stories where robots actually allow humans to come to harm because they dont know that it would happen. and in that mind reading robot story the robot lies because he can understand that telling the truth may hurt them whereas normal robots dont lie because they dont understand about it.
:).
this isnt a perfect explanation but gives enough logic to accept most plots in the book
In my school the admin set up the default mapping so that it would map the and A: and B: drive and restricted the novell map command. so we couldnt copy anything to or from the floppy drive. i soon 'broke' this when i found out figured out that the windows 3.1 filemanager allowed u to map and unmap drives anyway u want. soo i was able to bring games and stuff into computer.
:).
2 years later after i finished my exams the admin left the school (he was a university student working part time) before he left he appointed myself as the admin
what u need is a java powered mobile phone :). with it u can write something just like SecureID. there is already a midet which does something like this (search google). though i'm trying to write a new one my self for the ssh server at home.
i dont use the same password for exactly this reason. my critical passwords (primary email, domain cpanel, remote login acccount of my home pc) all have unique passwords. and for other sites which arent critical and dont have any private info i have three passwords which i use randomly.
if your sufficiently smart you could write code on paper and run it without ever debugging it. paul allen did it once. i read it originaly on a book (i think it was 'making of microsoft') but the basic story is :
Paul Allen flies from Harvard to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to meet with Ed Roberts at MITS, to demonstrate the newly written BASIC interpreter for the Altair. Paul writes a paper tape reader on the plane trip, for the Altair to load the BASIC software. At MITS, Paul enters the loader, the Altair reads the paper tape, and is ready to execute BASIC instructions. Despite never having touched an Altair before, the BASIC works flawlessly. Paul types "PRINT 2 + 2", and the Altair responds "4". Paul then types in the BASIC source code for a Lunar Lander game from a book. This becomes the first sofware program ever run on what would later become MS BASIC.
but if this has enough processing power and can accept a network adapter it would work nicely as a highly customisable linux router.
the only key that i personally dont use is the scroll lock key. every other key in the keyboard saves me time. i know because of the difficulty of not having those keys (or having to Fn+KEY) in most laptops. i'm sure that those keys with fewer keys are usefull for people that work mainly with the mouse or dont do anything but basic typing on it, but for most of the others i dont think there are to any 'extra' keys on the keyboard.
I cant figure out how having less keys than we have on standard keyboard makes it easier to use. having less keys means that we have less ways to quickly access features in our application so that means now we have have to hold down even more keys to access 'shortcuts'.
AFAIK the only way OTP can be broken is by finding the random data set. no amount of work on the cipher text can break the encryption. so there is only one kind of "technology" that can break OTP encryption. thats ESP ;-). but i dont think we have to worry about this much ;).
no i'm not bitching or moaning. but asia is not USA farmers dont have lots of land they dont have the option of choosing from multiple companies. they are trying to get around the companies by developing "aclimitized" varieties from heirloom seeds but like you said these arent perfect.
the problem is the farmers here arent rich. they cant afford to buy seeds every year. there getting deaper and deaper into debts. they simply cant afford it.
i'm not sure if its Monsanto but here in asia one of the problems is that these companies give sterilized seeds so that the harvesting seeds cannot be used to to grow crop for next year. so the farmers have ltl choice but to buy seed every year.
i tried it as well i also tried xmule. but for somereason it didnt work for me (the downloaded would are always queued) so i had to end up with Wine+emule. also i dont think xmule had KAD support back then as well as a few other features. maybe it has improved i'll give it a try again.