You have to understand, there is a effort by many people in the US to recreate the Taliban here. Yes, there are some slight differences (such as being based upon Christianity instead of Muslim), but it is essentially the same thing.
One of those aspects is to treat men as the Muslims treat women in the middle east. Here every man is considered an evil serial killing rapist who must be controlled. This registry is a first step to forcing all men into having to stay indoors at all times (unless escorted by a woman).
You need more than that. Continuous code auditing is needed. You never know when a person has been compromised. Maybe they got paid lots of money, or maybe they are the member of an extremist group.
There is also the possibility of a password being stolen, and you don't find out about it. A smart attacker could just make small subtle changes so they aren't discovered.
These guys seemed to be going for the brute force push through on everything. Which is why they were caught.
Who the fuck said anything about wikipedia being "sanitized"??? Not me. What do you think will happen if they take away all the protections? I tell you what will happen: a whole bunch of fucking crazy nutjobs will constantly update just about every article with conspiracy theories, company pr, vandalism, spam, and just plain nonsensical shit.
If you still insist this would not happen, why don't you read slashdot at -1 for a while. On second thought, you won't get the full brunt because many trolls give up because most people don't read below 1 (many just read at 5). They realize they don't have an audience. You should go back several years and find where there were waves of shit posted by scripts and just loons with lots of time on their hands. This is also why slashdot uses captchas.
Wikipedia (and slashdot) would be useless if there wasn't some sort of system to filter out total shit.
How do you propose they filter out heavily biased views, or people writing false articles for manipulation of the public? The way they do it may not be great, but it isn't any worse than a free for all.
You would have a much more difficult time getting published in a dead tree encyclopedia.
You mean a "Trusted Computing" device? Yes, and maybe we should call congress and ask them to try passing the SSSCAagain so Palladium will be required by law. Then Microsoft can rule us all!
I was thinking Soekris Engineering's vpn accelerator card would help, but it appears to only be able to do 250 Mbps. (You wanted 1 gigabit/s, right?)
That card is really old too. I first read about it probably 10 years ago. I don't think it has changed in that time... I wonder if someone makes a faster accelerator? Then again, what about the GPU? Has anyone tried encryption with GPUs before? They've done other supercomputing tasks. A quick search says they have.
If you had two mice, you could move in four dimensions. Two dimensions for each mouse. I don't know about you, but my head would probably explode if I tried to use such a setup though.
Then again. maybe it would be a good way to do 3d editing? The various current methods seem cumbersome to me. Almost as easy to type in coordinates manually.
MP3 and gif were both bad examples in that case. People knew (or should have known) they were violating patents when they used those formats.
Audio MPEG is similar to MPEG-LA in that they are both based on the work of a for-profit consortium who has patents on them. Anyone doing work on an mp3 encoder probably would have known they were violating a patent, they just may have thought no one would try to enforce the patents against open source developers because they were giving away the programs for free. Many companies who had patents would say they were free for non-profit and educational use.
GIF was created by compuserv in the '80s. They specifically stated LZW in the spec, so they did not just come up with a compression scheme on their own and it happened to be the same as a patented one. They had to know it was patented.
From what I understand of Theora, a company designed the codec (VP3) which they sold for a while, then decided to donate it to the ogg project. Most undoubtedly, they must have had at least a few lawyers and patent experts verify they weren't violating anyone's patents. On2 also explicitly released any patent claims they have to VP3, so I don't see how there are any worries there.
The only possibility would be if some patent troll produces a patent which they "creatively reinterpret" into a claim which Theora violates, and they have to spend a half million to defend themselves. How is any other codec safe from such claims? How is anything safe from such claims? Even a wheel. Which is why the current patent system is shit.
You are saying they would not use SSL? If the guy was paranoid enough to want people to use a bootable CD, I'm sure he would configure the thing to only give Firefox one certificate authority: the bank's. Then any other SSL server visited, even if it has a "valid" certificate from one of the major vendors, the bank customer will get big scary warning.
Actually, it may not be a bad idea to create a user account just for banking, delete all the certificates in Firefox for that user, and add only the bank's certificate. I do remember seeing a "save this key" option somewhere. Just as long as you don't browse the web with an admin level account and your OS doesn't have a local root exploit (or you accidentally install malware), an attacker would have one hell of a time trying to get in...
Indeed. While men have high hormone levels as teenagers, women have the same high hormone levels in their 30s. Men don't have more obsession with sex compared to women overall, they just have their "peak" earlier.
I suppose you could get your "revenge" in your 30s by treating them the way they did to you in your teenage years, but it is all stupid.
Umm...try the local university? If you want to spend money, I'm sure they have plenty of hangouts around campus where "inventor-type women" go. Just walk up to any student and ask, "where do I go to have sex with inventor-type women? Are you an inventor-type woman? Will you have my children?" If she doesn't slap you, you're in!
Or just stay with the 3.5.x series. Problem is, I don't see where they even link to it on their website. Even the 3.5.8 release notes page seems to link to 3.6 for downloads...
This is what I was wondering, however the firefox site does point to the experimental 3.6 version last time I checked. When I upgraded to 3.5.8, I had to find the ftp site to download it. WTF? I know they want testers, but seriously, that is crap.
The mozilla project isn't so immature they need lots of people testing their new experimental code. I could see them putting a note on the main page saying "Hey, some of you try out our experimental version 3.6, it has new wiz bang technologies! (not ready for production use)" This is what is wrong with software development today.
I don't want to be accessing my bank's site with experimental software which is more likely to have security problems. Craxy. (Cue Mad Hatter with his eyeballs rolling around in his head.)
ALERT!!! Microsoft is the psycho stalking boyfried of the computing world! Girls, never date him! You will need a restraining order in a matter of days!!!
I went out on a date with hime ONCE in 98. At first I thought he was a nice guy that just had a little quirky behavior. Crashing my window, letting malwares in, forgetting things I told him, sometimes bringing down my hole computers cause i forgots twos put the swap on a different partition, and he always would stutter alot. I was like "are you okay?" But I felt sorry for him because I thought maybe he was like...you know...a little retarded or something.
Then...i noticed he had integrated his browser into my entire os to avoid antitrust prosecution! He had this "embrace extend extingush" program. He would take a standard like java or kerberos and add incompatible stuff so when i would make stuff or try to talk to others with it, it wouldn't work with thier systems. Like totally not cool!
So then I tried dating other guys like OS/2 and Linux, but he totally found out and tried to put a stop to it with his nasty vendor lock in and stuff. I couldn't even find an isp which would let me connect without at least setting up with windows! Who does this guy think he is?
I met this cool guy called BeOS and thought we might hit it off, but the day we were supposed to go out, there was this eviction notice on his door. Apparently ole MS didn't want me dating Be either, so Be was pushed out of his job. The gaul! ARRRRGGGHHH.
He would totally like buy companies and make their stuff only work with his, so if you wanted to like do *anything*, you'd have to start dating him again. Then he started with the ultimate lock in: DRM, claiming "hollywood made me do it!" And I was like "no way! I'm never dating you again!"
So I just started dating that Linux guy because he was the only one left....well except for those BSD guys, which are really cool and I would like to date but they are totally high maintence and I am not up to the task these days. That microsoft guy is totally making it a pain too. I have to check all my hardware carefully to make sure they didn't only make it compatible with ms. Nasty.
In short, like stay away from microsoft. He is totally bad news! kthksby
You are not distinguishing between generations. The baby boomers put us in debt. The "everybody has to live in mansions and have 6 cars" and "I should be an instant millionaire rockstar without doing any work" attitude, along with trying to achieve this by not saving, living off of credit, and doing any psychopathic thing to extract money from people--frivolous lawsuits, selling the cheapest shoddy products for high prices (often moving jobs overseas in the process), focusing everything on brainwashing with advertising and PR rather than making decent products, and so on. They screwed up the US. Unfortunately many of their children think this is how things are supposed to be run, so copy their behavior.
The generation before (known as the "greatest generation") are the ones who made this country great. They built this country into a superpower. The wealth, technology and most of what the United States has today was from their hard work.
Then don't report copyright infringement when you see it. I don't see how copying hollywood movies and tv is "civil disobedience."
If you want to deal a blow for the hollywood entertainment cartel, you should help create a culture where their material doesn't exist. Preferably a culture which helps create content instead of just passively watching it.
Hmmm...I am trying to decide if you are saying poor people shouldn't be allowed to have any health care at all or if you are saying all poor people should be homeless (or have to live in caves/tents) because they can't afford to pay for all the expensive "safety" equipment you demand.
Or, maybe they should be allowed to go to health care providers they can afford. Because of stupid lawsuits like these, "insurance" communism, and the attitude patients should not negotiate prices, people end up with much lower quality of care than what they pay for. Everyone is getting milked by lawsuit trolls and various large companies who have put themselves into the position to take advantage of all this.
It is interesting the article mentions airbags, as while they may save lives (arguably not much more than seat belts), they also cause their own safety problems for anyone outside the range it was designed--healthy adult male weighing 150 pounds IIRC. Some headless children could tell you about it...well maybe not, since they were decapitated by an airbag! This page seems to discuss the issue fairly well.
One has to wonder if this saw will really prove to be more safe than a normal saw, once it is in wide use. Just one thought off the top of my head: what if the brake causes part of the saw to come off and fly out? The finger you saved could turn into a serious head injury. Safety isn't such a simple thing.
Perhaps. But even then it is a business decision. Not until some regulatory agency forces them to put a particular device on the product is a requirement.
And how do you think the regulatory agency process works? That's right, someone has a complaint, the agency investigates, and if found guilty, the company has to pay out money (in the form of a fine.)
How is a lawsuit different from the companies perspective? In a lawsuit, someone has a complaint, their lawyer investigates and files a lawsuit, if found guilty, the company has to pay out money. Looks the same to me...
This is also old information. I read this 10 or 15 years ago along with linuxassembly.org. All C programmers should at least look through some of this stuff so they know how the underlying system works.
This type of stuff would be useful for embedded programming, because linking to and needing bloated libc wastes a lot of space (and is slightly slower). Direct syscalls and static linking should be options because they are useful at certain times.
The problem in the US isn't nationwide, it is regional. Take Utah for example. There is massive discrimination and harassment against non-Mormons, and they elect religious leaders into public offices on a regular basis.
They also create laws thinly disguised so as to force others to conform to their religious beliefs. Where are the dance clubs in Provo? Last time I checked, they had put them all out of business using any excuse (one was after the olympics were held, "certain" businesses were required to have metal detectors.)
They restrict alcohol in any way they can think. When one church leader gave a talk at BYU denouncing anyone over the age of 25 and not married, calling them a "menace to society," "coincidently" in the years following, BYU off campus housing (which handles the rules for BYU students not living on BYU owned property) made their rules more restrictive to say anyone who wasn't a student couldn't live in off campus housing for single.
You see, BYU certifies off campus housing, and if you are a single student attending BYU, you are required to live in the "BYU approved" housing and abide by their rules or you are kicked out of the university. BYU requires that all BYU approved housing require all residents who live in the building sign the BYU approved contract. In this contract it actually states all tenants are required to live by BYU honor code and LDS standards. This includes things such as not watching R rated movies or having sex out of wedlock. Many of the rules are selectively enforced though, but they are still in the contract and you can get kicked out for violations. I can remember one roommate (BYU student) was kicked out of the apartment for having sex.
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/4229 (Note: the apartment complexes discussed in the story have nothing to do with BYU except students use them for housing.)
I don't know how it is now, but several years ago when the rules changed (around 1995), it meant anyone who was in provo and single had very limited housing options. Many of the other apartments were "married housing only" meaning they wouldn't even let you apply unless you were married. Then just after 2000, Provo city decided this wasn't enough and wrote some parking laws which they used to selectively enforce against most of the remaining housing options claiming people who had two or three roommates who had a car each were more of a nuisance than large families who had the same amount of cars.
These are just a few examples of what it is like in Utah. I'm certain others could give examples for other areas. So there are regions of the US where the government effectively establishes a religion.
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A strawberry pearl is just a pink one. You see, in some tropical areas, oysters feed on human flesh. All the blood turns the pearls pink.
You have to understand, there is a effort by many people in the US to recreate the Taliban here. Yes, there are some slight differences (such as being based upon Christianity instead of Muslim), but it is essentially the same thing.
One of those aspects is to treat men as the Muslims treat women in the middle east. Here every man is considered an evil serial killing rapist who must be controlled. This registry is a first step to forcing all men into having to stay indoors at all times (unless escorted by a woman).
You need more than that. Continuous code auditing is needed. You never know when a person has been compromised. Maybe they got paid lots of money, or maybe they are the member of an extremist group.
There is also the possibility of a password being stolen, and you don't find out about it. A smart attacker could just make small subtle changes so they aren't discovered.
These guys seemed to be going for the brute force push through on everything. Which is why they were caught.
Who the fuck said anything about wikipedia being "sanitized"??? Not me. What do you think will happen if they take away all the protections? I tell you what will happen: a whole bunch of fucking crazy nutjobs will constantly update just about every article with conspiracy theories, company pr, vandalism, spam, and just plain nonsensical shit.
If you still insist this would not happen, why don't you read slashdot at -1 for a while. On second thought, you won't get the full brunt because many trolls give up because most people don't read below 1 (many just read at 5). They realize they don't have an audience. You should go back several years and find where there were waves of shit posted by scripts and just loons with lots of time on their hands. This is also why slashdot uses captchas.
Wikipedia (and slashdot) would be useless if there wasn't some sort of system to filter out total shit.
How do you propose they filter out heavily biased views, or people writing false articles for manipulation of the public? The way they do it may not be great, but it isn't any worse than a free for all.
You would have a much more difficult time getting published in a dead tree encyclopedia.
I believe this situation is what many slashdotters refer to as "woosh!"
You mean a "Trusted Computing" device? Yes, and maybe we should call congress and ask them to try passing the SSSCAagain so Palladium will be required by law. Then Microsoft can rule us all!
I was thinking Soekris Engineering's vpn accelerator card would help, but it appears to only be able to do 250 Mbps. (You wanted 1 gigabit/s, right?)
That card is really old too. I first read about it probably 10 years ago. I don't think it has changed in that time... I wonder if someone makes a faster accelerator? Then again, what about the GPU? Has anyone tried encryption with GPUs before? They've done other supercomputing tasks. A quick search says they have.
If you had two mice, you could move in four dimensions. Two dimensions for each mouse. I don't know about you, but my head would probably explode if I tried to use such a setup though.
Then again. maybe it would be a good way to do 3d editing? The various current methods seem cumbersome to me. Almost as easy to type in coordinates manually.
The poster's entire point was you don't have to spend huge amounts of money to make a video game.
MP3 and gif were both bad examples in that case. People knew (or should have known) they were violating patents when they used those formats.
Audio MPEG is similar to MPEG-LA in that they are both based on the work of a for-profit consortium who has patents on them. Anyone doing work on an mp3 encoder probably would have known they were violating a patent, they just may have thought no one would try to enforce the patents against open source developers because they were giving away the programs for free. Many companies who had patents would say they were free for non-profit and educational use.
GIF was created by compuserv in the '80s. They specifically stated LZW in the spec, so they did not just come up with a compression scheme on their own and it happened to be the same as a patented one. They had to know it was patented.
From what I understand of Theora, a company designed the codec (VP3) which they sold for a while, then decided to donate it to the ogg project. Most undoubtedly, they must have had at least a few lawyers and patent experts verify they weren't violating anyone's patents. On2 also explicitly released any patent claims they have to VP3, so I don't see how there are any worries there.
The only possibility would be if some patent troll produces a patent which they "creatively reinterpret" into a claim which Theora violates, and they have to spend a half million to defend themselves. How is any other codec safe from such claims? How is anything safe from such claims? Even a wheel. Which is why the current patent system is shit.
You are saying they would not use SSL? If the guy was paranoid enough to want people to use a bootable CD, I'm sure he would configure the thing to only give Firefox one certificate authority: the bank's. Then any other SSL server visited, even if it has a "valid" certificate from one of the major vendors, the bank customer will get big scary warning.
Actually, it may not be a bad idea to create a user account just for banking, delete all the certificates in Firefox for that user, and add only the bank's certificate. I do remember seeing a "save this key" option somewhere. Just as long as you don't browse the web with an admin level account and your OS doesn't have a local root exploit (or you accidentally install malware), an attacker would have one hell of a time trying to get in...
Indeed. While men have high hormone levels as teenagers, women have the same high hormone levels in their 30s. Men don't have more obsession with sex compared to women overall, they just have their "peak" earlier.
I suppose you could get your "revenge" in your 30s by treating them the way they did to you in your teenage years, but it is all stupid.
Umm...try the local university? If you want to spend money, I'm sure they have plenty of hangouts around campus where "inventor-type women" go. Just walk up to any student and ask, "where do I go to have sex with inventor-type women? Are you an inventor-type woman? Will you have my children?" If she doesn't slap you, you're in!
Or just stay with the 3.5.x series. Problem is, I don't see where they even link to it on their website. Even the 3.5.8 release notes page seems to link to 3.6 for downloads...
This is what I was wondering, however the firefox site does point to the experimental 3.6 version last time I checked. When I upgraded to 3.5.8, I had to find the ftp site to download it. WTF? I know they want testers, but seriously, that is crap.
The mozilla project isn't so immature they need lots of people testing their new experimental code. I could see them putting a note on the main page saying "Hey, some of you try out our experimental version 3.6, it has new wiz bang technologies! (not ready for production use)" This is what is wrong with software development today.
I don't want to be accessing my bank's site with experimental software which is more likely to have security problems. Craxy. (Cue Mad Hatter with his eyeballs rolling around in his head.)
ALERT!!! Microsoft is the psycho stalking boyfried of the computing world! Girls, never date him! You will need a restraining order in a matter of days!!!
I went out on a date with hime ONCE in 98. At first I thought he was a nice guy that just had a little quirky behavior. Crashing my window, letting malwares in, forgetting things I told him, sometimes bringing down my hole computers cause i forgots twos put the swap on a different partition, and he always would stutter alot. I was like "are you okay?" But I felt sorry for him because I thought maybe he was like...you know...a little retarded or something.
Then...i noticed he had integrated his browser into my entire os to avoid antitrust prosecution! He had this "embrace extend extingush" program. He would take a standard like java or kerberos and add incompatible stuff so when i would make stuff or try to talk to others with it, it wouldn't work with thier systems. Like totally not cool!
So then I tried dating other guys like OS/2 and Linux, but he totally found out and tried to put a stop to it with his nasty vendor lock in and stuff. I couldn't even find an isp which would let me connect without at least setting up with windows! Who does this guy think he is?
I met this cool guy called BeOS and thought we might hit it off, but the day we were supposed to go out, there was this eviction notice on his door. Apparently ole MS didn't want me dating Be either, so Be was pushed out of his job. The gaul! ARRRRGGGHHH.
He would totally like buy companies and make their stuff only work with his, so if you wanted to like do *anything*, you'd have to start dating him again. Then he started with the ultimate lock in: DRM, claiming "hollywood made me do it!" And I was like "no way! I'm never dating you again!"
So I just started dating that Linux guy because he was the only one left. ...well except for those BSD guys, which are really cool and I would like to date but they are totally high maintence and I am not up to the task these days. That microsoft guy is totally making it a pain too. I have to check all my hardware carefully to make sure they didn't only make it compatible with ms. Nasty.
In short, like stay away from microsoft. He is totally bad news! kthksby
You are not distinguishing between generations. The baby boomers put us in debt. The "everybody has to live in mansions and have 6 cars" and "I should be an instant millionaire rockstar without doing any work" attitude, along with trying to achieve this by not saving, living off of credit, and doing any psychopathic thing to extract money from people--frivolous lawsuits, selling the cheapest shoddy products for high prices (often moving jobs overseas in the process), focusing everything on brainwashing with advertising and PR rather than making decent products, and so on. They screwed up the US. Unfortunately many of their children think this is how things are supposed to be run, so copy their behavior.
The generation before (known as the "greatest generation") are the ones who made this country great. They built this country into a superpower. The wealth, technology and most of what the United States has today was from their hard work.
Then don't report copyright infringement when you see it. I don't see how copying hollywood movies and tv is "civil disobedience."
If you want to deal a blow for the hollywood entertainment cartel, you should help create a culture where their material doesn't exist. Preferably a culture which helps create content instead of just passively watching it.
Hmmm...I am trying to decide if you are saying poor people shouldn't be allowed to have any health care at all or if you are saying all poor people should be homeless (or have to live in caves/tents) because they can't afford to pay for all the expensive "safety" equipment you demand.
Or, maybe they should be allowed to go to health care providers they can afford. Because of stupid lawsuits like these, "insurance" communism, and the attitude patients should not negotiate prices, people end up with much lower quality of care than what they pay for. Everyone is getting milked by lawsuit trolls and various large companies who have put themselves into the position to take advantage of all this.
It is interesting the article mentions airbags, as while they may save lives (arguably not much more than seat belts), they also cause their own safety problems for anyone outside the range it was designed--healthy adult male weighing 150 pounds IIRC. Some headless children could tell you about it...well maybe not, since they were decapitated by an airbag! This page seems to discuss the issue fairly well.
One has to wonder if this saw will really prove to be more safe than a normal saw, once it is in wide use. Just one thought off the top of my head: what if the brake causes part of the saw to come off and fly out? The finger you saved could turn into a serious head injury. Safety isn't such a simple thing.
And how do you think the regulatory agency process works? That's right, someone has a complaint, the agency investigates, and if found guilty, the company has to pay out money (in the form of a fine.)
How is a lawsuit different from the companies perspective? In a lawsuit, someone has a complaint, their lawyer investigates and files a lawsuit, if found guilty, the company has to pay out money. Looks the same to me...
Yeah, it's all fun and games until somebody puts an eye out!
This is also old information. I read this 10 or 15 years ago along with linuxassembly.org. All C programmers should at least look through some of this stuff so they know how the underlying system works.
This type of stuff would be useful for embedded programming, because linking to and needing bloated libc wastes a lot of space (and is slightly slower). Direct syscalls and static linking should be options because they are useful at certain times.
Pictures or it didn't happen!
The problem in the US isn't nationwide, it is regional. Take Utah for example. There is massive discrimination and harassment against non-Mormons, and they elect religious leaders into public offices on a regular basis.
They also create laws thinly disguised so as to force others to conform to their religious beliefs. Where are the dance clubs in Provo? Last time I checked, they had put them all out of business using any excuse (one was after the olympics were held, "certain" businesses were required to have metal detectors.)
They restrict alcohol in any way they can think. When one church leader gave a talk at BYU denouncing anyone over the age of 25 and not married, calling them a "menace to society," "coincidently" in the years following, BYU off campus housing (which handles the rules for BYU students not living on BYU owned property) made their rules more restrictive to say anyone who wasn't a student couldn't live in off campus housing for single.
You see, BYU certifies off campus housing, and if you are a single student attending BYU, you are required to live in the "BYU approved" housing and abide by their rules or you are kicked out of the university. BYU requires that all BYU approved housing require all residents who live in the building sign the BYU approved contract. In this contract it actually states all tenants are required to live by BYU honor code and LDS standards. This includes things such as not watching R rated movies or having sex out of wedlock. Many of the rules are selectively enforced though, but they are still in the contract and you can get kicked out for violations. I can remember one roommate (BYU student) was kicked out of the apartment for having sex.
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/4229 (Note: the apartment complexes discussed in the story have nothing to do with BYU except students use them for housing.)
http://www.mormonmentality.org/2007/04/12/byu-honor-code.htm
I don't know how it is now, but several years ago when the rules changed (around 1995), it meant anyone who was in provo and single had very limited housing options. Many of the other apartments were "married housing only" meaning they wouldn't even let you apply unless you were married. Then just after 2000, Provo city decided this wasn't enough and wrote some parking laws which they used to selectively enforce against most of the remaining housing options claiming people who had two or three roommates who had a car each were more of a nuisance than large families who had the same amount of cars.
These are just a few examples of what it is like in Utah. I'm certain others could give examples for other areas. So there are regions of the US where the government effectively establishes a religion.