Worse, irregular password change schedule ( different cycles on different machines, some with longer or shorter periods) and different password policies on each machine. (No fewer than 8 chars, no more than 8 chars, must have a numeric, cannot begin with a numeric, can't contain certain characters... )
If you put a low-income exemption into this plan, the spammers would simply subcontract to the poor in order to avoid your taxation scheme. Once you leave a loophole, someone will exploit it.
I was 6. I stood in line for hours five different times. I was too young (and not yet geeky enough) to claim "I have seen it [pick a two or three digit number] times", but I did make it into the mid single digits.
But a lot of spammers use compromised formmail to send out spam. With that scenario, neither scheme would help. As long as they left the "from" pointing to the compromised machine the mail would be passed along without a problem. So, what do we gain by finding out where a compromised fomrmail script resides? (Especially as Matt's Archive guarantees there will be a thousand more installed tomorrow...)
I don't know if I would want evey call to any fiel read to go to a matching web page. It seems like it might open a whole lot of security holes. After all, most firewalls pass out any request. So, if you have a webserver, to get exploit code on a machine all you have to do is find a badly written cgi and pass the argument template="http://badman.com". The suggestion to modify all of libc would give your entirte OS the weaknesses inherent in languages like PHP, the inability to tell the difference between more secure local files and totally insecure remote files.
Admittedly, my wrapper would add this weakness to cp, but only on a per-user basis, and only from the login shell. Still a security hole, but a much smaller one.
cp http://foo.com/bar.html.
There are three utilities to do this already:
fetch
wget
lynx [-source|-dump]
You could easily wrap cp in a perl script (if $arg[1]=~/http:\/\//){`fetch...`;}else{`cp....`;} and so on) then alias your cp command to this script. Why bother reinventing the wheel?
Thank you! I was about to write something critical of the semi-Kantian analytic/empirical dualism. The idea that some knowledge is "inherent" is absurd. Yes, some definitions lead to other conclusions, but at some point those definitions rest on sensory input of some form. At root everything is in some way abstracted from empirical data. "Three" does not exist but for the experience that objects of some kind exist. Without the concept of differentiating between objects of some sort enumeration is not possible. (The one dimensional universe in Flatland is a fair example of how an undifferentiated space would not allow enumeration. Everything is part of the single inhabitant. Perhaps he could conceive of "one, but "zero" and "two" have no meaning if he fills all available space.)
The fact that later generations of bacteria inherit immunity to antibiotics to which ancestors have been exposed does actually prove one of the basic tenets of evolution. (I know, "Inherit" is a bad choice, as it suggests Lamarckianism... OK, bacteria are selected for resistance by exposure to antibiotics...) It is also possible to see genetic continuity between generations in any species. Doesn't this count as "evidence".
Apologies to the Gentoo folks for singling them out in the last post. It was just the first LInux distro that came to mind. (They are pretty vocal on slashdot.) Should have said "Linux (and Mac and BSD and BeOS and Amiga...) zealots". The point is still the same, "I can do it, so you should too" doesn't mean a problem doesn't exist.
I would agree if Windows did not sell itself as an out-of-the-box, user-friendly solution. The truth is, out of the box, without any active management, using default settings my BSD machine has never crashed, where my factory pre-installed Windows machine crashes regularly. This does not fit well with their image as user-friendly. In fact, your arguments sound more like the Gentoo zealots: "I never have problems, you must be doing something wrong. The One True OS can not be at fault."
I am not a Windows basher, but I have to disagree with one point. Windows IS unstable. Ok, with XP it doesn't blue screen often (3-4/month), but it does crash the explorer and reload my desktop about once every two days. My non-windows box (FreeBSD... yeah, yeah is dead, yadda yadda yadda) has been up since I installed it. The fact that 3-4 BSOD a month is an improvement argues that stability is not Windows' strong suit.
Just caught my own mistake. Hear Your Muisic Anywhere would be HYMA, which is senseless, but not as potentially offensive as hymie would be. (I got so annoyed with NEwhere that the E somehow stuck with me...) So, ignore my last post. (Except that it is still a REALLY bad acronym.)
Two quotes seem to contradict one another:
1. I support John Kerry....Kerry spoke about trade with China and India -- his main trade priorities there will be to curb their "software piracy."
2....nihilistic compromise with the old-fashioned IP distributors.
Is the writer for or against US IP laws? If against, what is the logic of the first quote? If for, why call them old-fashioned and nihilistic?
Why would you use public/private keys for this? You would only need key pairs if one party encrypted and the other decrypted. That would mean either the user encrypted the music himself, or he could decrypt it and get plain, unencrypted files.
What you need for your scenario is symmetric encryption.
Of course it can. The process to synthesize LSD is protected under US copyright, but completing that process at home is still illegal. Patents/copyrights have nothing to do with the legallity of something.
Unless the original post was using the definition of billion as one million squared. In which case the population is over six thousand million, while Intel has six million million chip models.
Ok, I doubt this was the case, but it is possible.
You missed the most popular use of 'sic'... showing off that the reviewer is much more clever than the writer being reviewed. Why else would reviewers so often directly quote bad syntax rather than paraphrasing?
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Worse, irregular password change schedule ( different cycles on different machines, some with longer or shorter periods) and different password policies on each machine. (No fewer than 8 chars, no more than 8 chars, must have a numeric, cannot begin with a numeric, can't contain certain characters... )
That's right. Now there is the animated dog whenever I try to find a file on windows XP... Rover jokes anyone?
Delegating 120% of cpu time seems like a bad idea.
If you put a low-income exemption into this plan, the spammers would simply subcontract to the poor in order to avoid your taxation scheme. Once you leave a loophole, someone will exploit it.
How much of a femme fatale can she be if she's invisible? And what would be the point?
I was 6. I stood in line for hours five different times. I was too young (and not yet geeky enough) to claim "I have seen it [pick a two or three digit number] times", but I did make it into the mid single digits.
But a lot of spammers use compromised formmail to send out spam. With that scenario, neither scheme would help. As long as they left the "from" pointing to the compromised machine the mail would be passed along without a problem. So, what do we gain by finding out where a compromised fomrmail script resides? (Especially as Matt's Archive guarantees there will be a thousand more installed tomorrow...)
Someone is using my email address!?!?!
I don't know if I would want evey call to any fiel read to go to a matching web page. It seems like it might open a whole lot of security holes. After all, most firewalls pass out any request. So, if you have a webserver, to get exploit code on a machine all you have to do is find a badly written cgi and pass the argument template="http://badman.com". The suggestion to modify all of libc would give your entirte OS the weaknesses inherent in languages like PHP, the inability to tell the difference between more secure local files and totally insecure remote files.
Admittedly, my wrapper would add this weakness to cp, but only on a per-user basis, and only from the login shell. Still a security hole, but a much smaller one.
cp http://foo.com/bar.html .
There are three utilities to do this already:
...`;}else{`cp ....`;} and so on) then alias your cp command to this script.
fetch
wget
lynx [-source|-dump]
You could easily wrap cp in a perl script (if $arg[1]=~/http:\/\//){`fetch
Why bother reinventing the wheel?
Thank you! I was about to write something critical of the semi-Kantian analytic/empirical dualism. The idea that some knowledge is "inherent" is absurd. Yes, some definitions lead to other conclusions, but at some point those definitions rest on sensory input of some form. At root everything is in some way abstracted from empirical data. "Three" does not exist but for the experience that objects of some kind exist. Without the concept of differentiating between objects of some sort enumeration is not possible. (The one dimensional universe in Flatland is a fair example of how an undifferentiated space would not allow enumeration. Everything is part of the single inhabitant. Perhaps he could conceive of "one, but "zero" and "two" have no meaning if he fills all available space.)
The fact that later generations of bacteria inherit immunity to antibiotics to which ancestors have been exposed does actually prove one of the basic tenets of evolution. (I know, "Inherit" is a bad choice, as it suggests Lamarckianism... OK, bacteria are selected for resistance by exposure to antibiotics...) It is also possible to see genetic continuity between generations in any species. Doesn't this count as "evidence".
Apologies to the Gentoo folks for singling them out in the last post. It was just the first LInux distro that came to mind. (They are pretty vocal on slashdot.) Should have said "Linux (and Mac and BSD and BeOS and Amiga...) zealots". The point is still the same, "I can do it, so you should too" doesn't mean a problem doesn't exist.
I would agree if Windows did not sell itself as an out-of-the-box, user-friendly solution. The truth is, out of the box, without any active management, using default settings my BSD machine has never crashed, where my factory pre-installed Windows machine crashes regularly. This does not fit well with their image as user-friendly. In fact, your arguments sound more like the Gentoo zealots: "I never have problems, you must be doing something wrong. The One True OS can not be at fault."
I am not a Windows basher, but I have to disagree with one point. Windows IS unstable. Ok, with XP it doesn't blue screen often (3-4/month), but it does crash the explorer and reload my desktop about once every two days. My non-windows box (FreeBSD... yeah, yeah is dead, yadda yadda yadda) has been up since I installed it. The fact that 3-4 BSOD a month is an improvement argues that stability is not Windows' strong suit.
Or even a standard mouse. Attach the sensor wheels to the wheel's axle.
"the guy likes the tool and performs better with it". Isn't this true of every guy?
Maybe it's related to Lumix?
Just caught my own mistake. Hear Your Muisic Anywhere would be HYMA, which is senseless, but not as potentially offensive as hymie would be. (I got so annoyed with NEwhere that the E somehow stuck with me...) So, ignore my last post. (Except that it is still a REALLY bad acronym.)
What a horrible acronym (NEwhere is not a word, neither is L8R. sorry L33t-speak types.). Then again "Hymie" isn't a great name for software either.
Two quotes seem to contradict one another: ...nihilistic compromise with the old-fashioned IP distributors.
1. I support John Kerry....Kerry spoke about trade with China and India -- his main trade priorities there will be to curb their "software piracy."
2.
Is the writer for or against US IP laws? If against, what is the logic of the first quote? If for, why call them old-fashioned and nihilistic?
Why would you use public/private keys for this? You would only need key pairs if one party encrypted and the other decrypted. That would mean either the user encrypted the music himself, or he could decrypt it and get plain, unencrypted files.
What you need for your scenario is symmetric encryption.
Of course it can. The process to synthesize LSD is protected under US copyright, but completing that process at home is still illegal. Patents/copyrights have nothing to do with the legallity of something.
Unless the original post was using the definition of billion as one million squared. In which case the population is over six thousand million, while Intel has six million million chip models.
Ok, I doubt this was the case, but it is possible.
You missed the most popular use of 'sic'... showing off that the reviewer is much more clever than the writer being reviewed. Why else would reviewers so often directly quote bad syntax rather than paraphrasing?