Why the hell are all these problems cropping up? Voting is simple enough, add one to the vote counter of a candidate/issue, like this:
vote++;
(WARNING: The code above is probably owned by SCO too, so just to be safe, I'm mailing a check for $699 tomorrow morning)
Is this really so hard? I'm working on my own OSS voting program. You can see the early version at herrvinny.com. It supports multiple choice (you can select several options together, or just one option), write in, no choice, etc. Anyone in UW-Madison want to help me test it, let me know.
Anyway, from my experiences writing this program, it doesn't seem so hard. And my program is done in Java, so all you little Java == SUV people out there are just plain wrong, the program works great.
Anyone have a mirror of these files? I'll mirror them myself, and we can play a game of keepaway with Sequoia just like with Diebold.
That's great that MS FP will have an opensource competitor, but while they're at it, could they write a HTML display engine for Java? Seriously, Sun's built in Java HTML engine sucks. Can't use anything except the most basic HTML elements, and even those behave a little wacky. I know Java would be whole lot more useful if I could write help pages in HTML, then display them inside a Java application.
Sorry for this newbie type question, I'm fairly new to Linux, but I'm downloading the SCO stuff to mirror it, and I could use some help. Is it right that only the kernel matters, the.rpm's that begin with the filename kernel-source...? Because a lot of everything else just seems to be redundant stuff one could get anywhere, like the mod_perl and samba packages. If not, what else should I mirror from the sco ftp site, including the kernel files?
was basically that MS buys G5's and that he works in a particular building. So what? He didn't draw a map, just stated he worked in a single, solitary building. He didn't even say where the building's physical location was. Check the excerpt:
(MSCopy, the print shop I work in, is in the same building as MS's shipping and receiving).
but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.
Okay, for this to be a security risk, someone would have to know where shipping and handling is in the first place. So what? If I ask the FedEx guy, he'll tell me where S&H is. Even if he's been told not to tell, a $50 bill would probably loosen his tongue. MS Security was a bit out of line here.
Options:
-t Ping the specified host until stopped.
To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
To stop - type Control-C.
-a Resolve addresses to hostnames.
-n count Number of echo requests to send.
-l size Send buffer size.
-f Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
-i TTL Time To Live.
-v TOS Type Of Service.
-r count Record route for count hops.
-s count Timestamp for count hops.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-k host-list Strict source route along host-list.
-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.
C:\>
I suppose your flood ping capability is on Linux. Too bad. Anyone have a Windows program that would do the same?
Okay, for the 1000th time, let's get this straight people:
WE NEED space exploration. Just because some people died, doesn't mean we should completely stop space exploration. People who think like this should be shot. Following that logic, Spain, France, etc shouldn't have tried to sail "around the world" and find a new way to get to India. A lot of explorers died then, should we say that the discovery of America should never have happened because explorers died? Boo hoo. Cry me a river. Damn it, the human race will ALWAYS look for more adventures. WE will always try to search for new lands. WE will always keep researching new and better technologies. It's built into the human psyche; to always want for something new.
For you people who don't want to explore space, fine. Stay home and cower. Build a tinfoil hat manufacturing facility. The rest of us, the ones whose blood runs hot, will go out a blaze new trails for the rest of you to follow.
I don't know about you, but I would be happy to go up into space. Damn straight I would be more than happy to put my life in NASA's hands, because those people are doing the best they can. If they make mistakes, so what? Lots of astronauts died during the space race, but we NEVER gave in. If I died going up into space, I wouldn't blame NASA, and if anyone of my family did, I'd haunt them.
Little offtopic (sorry), but you want to get a soda or something and discuss this? The alumni association that admins the patents is just near my place. Anyone that lives near Madison, come in.
Because, think about it. All those computers that have been infected will still be scanning for computers to infect, even if the internet is saturated with virii. So when the worm attacks a honeypot, the honeypot can then erase the worm. As long as the honeypots clean faster than the worm spreads (which would take a very big honeypot network indeed) then the worm infestation will slowly go down.
This honeypot can either be a "sacrificial lamb" (a normal host without the very latest updates applied on, sacrificed in expectation of an attack), or just a simulation of services.
If a host had the latest patches applied, wouldn't it be immune from attack? Didn't MS release the patch for the RPC exploit months before the virus came out? I think it would be better to have a small network of 6-8 computers (wouldn't have to be much, just get a rack off Ebay and a few of those mini-itx components, load em in, don't need a fan, case, etc) and have each computer at varying levels of patches. One computer is patched every day, one patched every two weeks, etc. There isn't enough time to customize a computer to be infected by the worm; by the time you hear about it, the worm has already infested millions of computers.
They also should look more into that counterstrike idea. Seriously, if you attack my computer, even if you didn't know about the virus, then I have the right to self defense. I'll gladly install some of that counterstrike software when I set up a honeypot. You're PO'ed because I attacked your computer? You attacked me first. I'm only exploiting the same vulnerability the worm did. If you were a SMART web citizen, you would have gotten a firewall to protect yourself from the worm in the first place.
IANAL, but it seems to me you would have to define the word "ad" first. What if a poster just said that he thought this/that product would be good for you, and he didn't think it was an ad? Like, say, "The definition of an ad is one that sells a product, the posting is done by a bot, etc". Also, just by having a verified account, you pretty much scare away all the spammers. How are you going to verify? Credit card numbers? A spammer would just steal one. Phone numbers? Ditto.
From what they're saying, and from what I've heard on previous/. discussions, I think There will go places. Just a place to go online, hang out with friends, play a game, etc. It's so simple and crazy, it works. $50 a year sounds fairly reasonable as well.
because you know, the concept of people selling to other people is obviously a new one. *sigh*
Is it that simple? If the patent was just people selling stuff, then there's milleniums of prior art available. If the USPTO granted the patent just on those grounds, well, they're hit an all time low.
Wouldn't that be illegal under something? The DMCA, or some Patriot Act whatnot? You're breaking into something that supposed to protect society, etc...
Saw Unsolicited Commando. Looks like fun. I'm just reviewing the source code to see how you do the Tactical Orders thing. One question:
how do you know which form box is used for what? For example, a text box could be labeled (on the monitor, the text the user sees) as "Put Your First Name in the below box", but the textbox's NAME attribute could be "phonenumber". Do you parse the page to see what box is related to what, or is it included in your Tactical Orders/Strategic Target orders?
If only they didn't cost so much. Compaq and Toshiba's Tablet PC offerings cost at least $1700, and a top of the line notebook from Dell costs like $1500, including DVD, CDRW, 15in. screen, etc. When they drop to less than $500, then I'll consider it. MS needs to refocus on what people need in Tablets. I don't need the latest processors, the ability to watch movies, etc, but I could use the ability to write notes on a big screen, open up the usual productivity apps like Excel and Word, etc. And they need to drop the price on the Tablet PC OS itself.
I never get them either, but maybe that's because ZoneAlarm (free version) stops them. Does anyone know if Zonealarm blocks these by default? I don't think I've ever been prompted by the firewall to allow a netsend connection. Although, periodically, ZoneAlarm asks me if I want to accept an incoming connection from some weird IP attempting to connect to tcpman.exe or something. Anyone know what that's all about?
It does. I still remember sixth grade, where we had to do all this worthless garbage. At the end of the year, my class all got DARE shirts and had to sing in the school auditorium about how drugs were stupid, etc, to an audience of OUR PARENTS! However, I convenietly "forgot" to tell my parents about the assembly, and missed the whole thing. Oh well.
Seriously, DARE is completely worthless garbage. I remember a study done in 1995-1996 I think, that showed DARE didn't work.
By the way, since the MPAA and RIAA are going into classrooms, is there a chance we can build our own lesson plan and go into classrooms?
This version doesn't have it yet, but I'm working on a One Time Pad (OTP) encryption. Encryption is really only needed at the server side because the clients don't keep the voting data.
2. One register
It's not a question of redundancy, it's a question of getting accurate results. With the Diebold machine, three separate registers are used, and each can be changed to show different things, so if you spot check a county and double check the votes, you'll get the right answer out of one register, but for the whole state results, that comes out of register 2. So register 2 could be changed without anyone being the wiser. And nobody knows what register 3 does. My program keeps only one register, and compiles the reults just from that. And even if you want redundancy, the program is designed to write logs about everything, including when the voting judge saw a pretty lady and accidently hit the wrong button. And it keeps full backups of all ballots on the hard drive, and prints it out too.
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Tried it. Didn't work. Anyone else get it?
Why the hell are all these problems cropping up? Voting is simple enough, add one to the vote counter of a candidate/issue, like this:
vote++;
(WARNING: The code above is probably owned by SCO too, so just to be safe, I'm mailing a check for $699 tomorrow morning)
Is this really so hard? I'm working on my own OSS voting program. You can see the early version at herrvinny.com. It supports multiple choice (you can select several options together, or just one option), write in, no choice, etc. Anyone in UW-Madison want to help me test it, let me know.
Anyway, from my experiences writing this program, it doesn't seem so hard. And my program is done in Java, so all you little Java == SUV people out there are just plain wrong, the program works great.
Anyone have a mirror of these files? I'll mirror them myself, and we can play a game of keepaway with Sequoia just like with Diebold.
That's great that MS FP will have an opensource competitor, but while they're at it, could they write a HTML display engine for Java? Seriously, Sun's built in Java HTML engine sucks. Can't use anything except the most basic HTML elements, and even those behave a little wacky. I know Java would be whole lot more useful if I could write help pages in HTML, then display them inside a Java application.
Sorry for this newbie type question, I'm fairly new to Linux, but I'm downloading the SCO stuff to mirror it, and I could use some help. Is it right that only the kernel matters, the .rpm's that begin with the filename kernel-source...? Because a lot of everything else just seems to be redundant stuff one could get anywhere, like the mod_perl and samba packages. If not, what else should I mirror from the sco ftp site, including the kernel files?
I want to download SCO's stuff.
was basically that MS buys G5's and that he works in a particular building. So what? He didn't draw a map, just stated he worked in a single, solitary building. He didn't even say where the building's physical location was. Check the excerpt:
(MSCopy, the print shop I work in, is in the same building as MS's shipping and receiving).
but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.
Okay, for this to be a security risk, someone would have to know where shipping and handling is in the first place. So what? If I ask the FedEx guy, he'll tell me where S&H is. Even if he's been told not to tell, a $50 bill would probably loosen his tongue. MS Security was a bit out of line here.
Windows XP shows:
C:\>ping
Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]
[-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]
[-w timeout] target_name
Options:
-t Ping the specified host until stopped.
To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;
To stop - type Control-C.
-a Resolve addresses to hostnames.
-n count Number of echo requests to send.
-l size Send buffer size.
-f Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.
-i TTL Time To Live.
-v TOS Type Of Service.
-r count Record route for count hops.
-s count Timestamp for count hops.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-k host-list Strict source route along host-list.
-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.
C:\>
I suppose your flood ping capability is on Linux. Too bad. Anyone have a Windows program that would do the same?
Okay, for the 1000th time, let's get this straight people:
WE NEED space exploration. Just because some people died, doesn't mean we should completely stop space exploration. People who think like this should be shot. Following that logic, Spain, France, etc shouldn't have tried to sail "around the world" and find a new way to get to India. A lot of explorers died then, should we say that the discovery of America should never have happened because explorers died? Boo hoo. Cry me a river. Damn it, the human race will ALWAYS look for more adventures. WE will always try to search for new lands. WE will always keep researching new and better technologies. It's built into the human psyche; to always want for something new.
For you people who don't want to explore space, fine. Stay home and cower. Build a tinfoil hat manufacturing facility. The rest of us, the ones whose blood runs hot, will go out a blaze new trails for the rest of you to follow.
I don't know about you, but I would be happy to go up into space. Damn straight I would be more than happy to put my life in NASA's hands, because those people are doing the best they can. If they make mistakes, so what? Lots of astronauts died during the space race, but we NEVER gave in. If I died going up into space, I wouldn't blame NASA, and if anyone of my family did, I'd haunt them.
Little offtopic (sorry), but you want to get a soda or something and discuss this? The alumni association that admins the patents is just near my place. Anyone that lives near Madison, come in.
Then hackers might figure out that your system was a honeypot and DOS it off the net
As long as the "wrong" computers are patched correctly, no problem.
Because, think about it. All those computers that have been infected will still be scanning for computers to infect, even if the internet is saturated with virii. So when the worm attacks a honeypot, the honeypot can then erase the worm. As long as the honeypots clean faster than the worm spreads (which would take a very big honeypot network indeed) then the worm infestation will slowly go down.
This honeypot can either be a "sacrificial lamb" (a normal host without the very latest updates applied on, sacrificed in expectation of an attack), or just a simulation of services.
If a host had the latest patches applied, wouldn't it be immune from attack? Didn't MS release the patch for the RPC exploit months before the virus came out? I think it would be better to have a small network of 6-8 computers (wouldn't have to be much, just get a rack off Ebay and a few of those mini-itx components, load em in, don't need a fan, case, etc) and have each computer at varying levels of patches. One computer is patched every day, one patched every two weeks, etc. There isn't enough time to customize a computer to be infected by the worm; by the time you hear about it, the worm has already infested millions of computers.
They also should look more into that counterstrike idea. Seriously, if you attack my computer, even if you didn't know about the virus, then I have the right to self defense. I'll gladly install some of that counterstrike software when I set up a honeypot. You're PO'ed because I attacked your computer? You attacked me first. I'm only exploiting the same vulnerability the worm did. If you were a SMART web citizen, you would have gotten a firewall to protect yourself from the worm in the first place.
*cries how could my college do this to me...
mp3s4free.net is down. Guess the dark side won...
Then let's back up the site. How big is the WH site?
IANAL, but it seems to me you would have to define the word "ad" first. What if a poster just said that he thought this/that product would be good for you, and he didn't think it was an ad? Like, say, "The definition of an ad is one that sells a product, the posting is done by a bot, etc". Also, just by having a verified account, you pretty much scare away all the spammers. How are you going to verify? Credit card numbers? A spammer would just steal one. Phone numbers? Ditto.
From what they're saying, and from what I've heard on previous /. discussions, I think There will go places. Just a place to go online, hang out with friends, play a game, etc. It's so simple and crazy, it works. $50 a year sounds fairly reasonable as well.
because you know, the concept of people selling to other people is obviously a new one. *sigh*
Is it that simple? If the patent was just people selling stuff, then there's milleniums of prior art available. If the USPTO granted the patent just on those grounds, well, they're hit an all time low.
Time to start working on the mod for my Toyota."
Wouldn't that be illegal under something? The DMCA, or some Patriot Act whatnot? You're breaking into something that supposed to protect society, etc...
Saw Unsolicited Commando. Looks like fun. I'm just reviewing the source code to see how you do the Tactical Orders thing. One question: how do you know which form box is used for what? For example, a text box could be labeled (on the monitor, the text the user sees) as "Put Your First Name in the below box", but the textbox's NAME attribute could be "phonenumber". Do you parse the page to see what box is related to what, or is it included in your Tactical Orders/Strategic Target orders?
If only they didn't cost so much. Compaq and Toshiba's Tablet PC offerings cost at least $1700, and a top of the line notebook from Dell costs like $1500, including DVD, CDRW, 15in. screen, etc. When they drop to less than $500, then I'll consider it. MS needs to refocus on what people need in Tablets. I don't need the latest processors, the ability to watch movies, etc, but I could use the ability to write notes on a big screen, open up the usual productivity apps like Excel and Word, etc. And they need to drop the price on the Tablet PC OS itself.
I never get them either, but maybe that's because ZoneAlarm (free version) stops them. Does anyone know if Zonealarm blocks these by default? I don't think I've ever been prompted by the firewall to allow a netsend connection. Although, periodically, ZoneAlarm asks me if I want to accept an incoming connection from some weird IP attempting to connect to tcpman.exe or something. Anyone know what that's all about?
It does. I still remember sixth grade, where we had to do all this worthless garbage. At the end of the year, my class all got DARE shirts and had to sing in the school auditorium about how drugs were stupid, etc, to an audience of OUR PARENTS! However, I convenietly "forgot" to tell my parents about the assembly, and missed the whole thing. Oh well.
Seriously, DARE is completely worthless garbage. I remember a study done in 1995-1996 I think, that showed DARE didn't work.
By the way, since the MPAA and RIAA are going into classrooms, is there a chance we can build our own lesson plan and go into classrooms?
1. Security
This version doesn't have it yet, but I'm working on a One Time Pad (OTP) encryption. Encryption is really only needed at the server side because the clients don't keep the voting data.
2. One register
It's not a question of redundancy, it's a question of getting accurate results. With the Diebold machine, three separate registers are used, and each can be changed to show different things, so if you spot check a county and double check the votes, you'll get the right answer out of one register, but for the whole state results, that comes out of register 2. So register 2 could be changed without anyone being the wiser. And nobody knows what register 3 does. My program keeps only one register, and compiles the reults just from that. And even if you want redundancy, the program is designed to write logs about everything, including when the voting judge saw a pretty lady and accidently hit the wrong button. And it keeps full backups of all ballots on the hard drive, and prints it out too.
My email is below.
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