Sending you an e-mail costs you money. If politicians want to communicate with you they can send you a letter, which only costs you the time to pick it up.
I really fail to understand this mentality. Even on dialup, downloading a 5K spam message would cost a few pennies at most; for those on broadband it doesn't cost a thing. Snail mail costs me - as you said - the time to pick it up, whereas email takes about a second to delete. Plus it takes up physical space in my mailbox.
So how can someone sending me spam possibly cost me money?
Apparently the exploit uses a very small image that follows your mouse pointer as the "drop target". Don't ask me why IE lets you move layers over the scrollbar...
Pure aluminum is a metal. Aluminum oxide is not - it's like the difference between hydrogen and water.
As I understand it, pure metals can't be transparent because light is an electromagnetic wave which gets "short-circuited" by conductive materials. Presumably the oxides disrupt this conductivity. And anyway, the alumina is combined with other oxides before being used to form glass.
In fact, I did (well, at least the claims). There are two processes: a non-privileged process such as your shell, which starts sudo (a privileged process). Sudo uses its command line as a request and executes it. Clear now?
executing an administrative security process under the administrative privilege level;
bash forks/execs the sudo process, which gains root privileges through the setuid bit.
the administrative security process accepting a request from a user process executing under the non-administrative privilege level to initiate a particular administrative method
The request is passed on the command line and accepted by sudo.
the user process calling the administrative security process with parameters comprising (a) an identification of the particular administrative method and (b) arguments to be provided to said particular administrative method; and
Now, this depends on your definition of a method. If an executable program counts as one - and it should, as most administrative tasks under UNIX use separate commands - then this fits perfectly.
the administrative security process calling the identified particular administrative method on behalf of the user process and providing the arguments to said identified particular administrative method.
Sudo execs the requested program. QED.
The thing is, the patent doesn't specifically say the privileged process has to handle multiple requests. Sudo DOES run in its own process before it transfers control.
In theory it's possible, but that's where the geologists come in. I would think that they can analyze the rocks and come to a pretty reliable conclusion as to whether they're meteorites, volcanic, or (fingers crossed) sedimentary.
One problem with this is that "orbiting" is not well defined. When you get right down to it every body in the universe exerts a tiny force on every other.
Say there are two asteroids orbiting the sun whose orbits intersect every couple years, so that they perturb each other. Are they orbiting?
If three asteroids, or ten, are all following a mutual chaotic orbit, does it make sense to call one of them a planet?
Or say Microsoft signs the hash of Windows XP SP3 with their special key. I tweak the firewall to allow in a nasty backdoor, put data in the padding to give it the same hash as before, and put it out on a BitTorrent site for hundreds of unsuspecting geeks to download. The signature verifies fine, so it must be OK, right?
Points 1 and 2: The holodeck used holograms for the scenery, but objects were created using the replicators (for example, clothes). So when you reach down towards a patch of snow, it quickly created some real snow that you can pick up, instead of just using a force field.
The EMH on Voyager, IIRC, used something slighty different. Instead of a replicator, his mini-projector used a true hologram with force fields. He attached it to his shoulder and the force fields held it up. What I don't understand is where it got its power supply... antimatter perhaps?
The submitter DID NOT read the article AT ALL, and apparenty neither did the editors.
First of all, it specifically says that the phone DOES NOT text premium numbers. The problem is NOT a virus; it's not even really a trojan. It's a feature that "calls home" in case it's an unlicensed copy. Not only that, the feature was removed in later versions; the cracked version was older. They got what they deserved.
Given that we're told our rights to speech CANNOT be infringed...
May I quote the First Amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
This decision was made by a federal court, not through legislation. The court has the right to, and indeed often does, abridge freedom of speech; this allows for things like gag orders.
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Sending you an e-mail costs you money. If politicians want to communicate with you they can send you a letter, which only costs you the time to pick it up.
I really fail to understand this mentality. Even on dialup, downloading a 5K spam message would cost a few pennies at most; for those on broadband it doesn't cost a thing. Snail mail costs me - as you said - the time to pick it up, whereas email takes about a second to delete. Plus it takes up physical space in my mailbox.
So how can someone sending me spam possibly cost me money?
Apparently the exploit uses a very small image that follows your mouse pointer as the "drop target". Don't ask me why IE lets you move layers over the scrollbar...
Step 1: Go to http://www.mikx.de/scrollbar/
Step 2: Drag the scrollbar down a bit and let go
Step 3: Start -> Programs -> Startup
That's just spooky.
Seriously, this is even worse than confusing aluminum and alumina!
First time? Out of 10 million comments? Surely you jest.
Who's the third besides Gandalf/Mithrandir and Saruman/Curunir?
You didn't watch the movie, did you?
Actually it was 2286. 2367 was the fourth season of ST:TNG.
Pure aluminum is a metal. Aluminum oxide is not - it's like the difference between hydrogen and water.
As I understand it, pure metals can't be transparent because light is an electromagnetic wave which gets "short-circuited" by conductive materials. Presumably the oxides disrupt this conductivity. And anyway, the alumina is combined with other oxides before being used to form glass.
In fact, I did (well, at least the claims). There are two processes: a non-privileged process such as your shell, which starts sudo (a privileged process). Sudo uses its command line as a request and executes it. Clear now?
I can certainly see how this could apply to sudo.
executing an administrative security process under the administrative privilege level;
bash forks/execs the sudo process, which gains root privileges through the setuid bit.
the administrative security process accepting a request from a user process executing under the non-administrative privilege level to initiate a particular administrative method
The request is passed on the command line and accepted by sudo.
the user process calling the administrative security process with parameters comprising (a) an identification of the particular administrative method and (b) arguments to be provided to said particular administrative method; and
Now, this depends on your definition of a method. If an executable program counts as one - and it should, as most administrative tasks under UNIX use separate commands - then this fits perfectly.
the administrative security process calling the identified particular administrative method on behalf of the user process and providing the arguments to said identified particular administrative method.
Sudo execs the requested program. QED.
The thing is, the patent doesn't specifically say the privileged process has to handle multiple requests. Sudo DOES run in its own process before it transfers control.
How about the shell or window manager as the non-privileged process?
The credit reporting agency (singular - owned by the same mega-corporation)
You misspelled Cingular.
Hmm, never mind. I guess I was thinking of the provision for ISPs and hosting providers, but that wouldn't apply anyway.
In light of the recent court decision, will Apple still be able to use the DMCA to bully Sourceforge into taking down the software?
In theory it's possible, but that's where the geologists come in. I would think that they can analyze the rocks and come to a pretty reliable conclusion as to whether they're meteorites, volcanic, or (fingers crossed) sedimentary.
One problem with this is that "orbiting" is not well defined. When you get right down to it every body in the universe exerts a tiny force on every other.
Say there are two asteroids orbiting the sun whose orbits intersect every couple years, so that they perturb each other. Are they orbiting?
If three asteroids, or ten, are all following a mutual chaotic orbit, does it make sense to call one of them a planet?
Or say Microsoft signs the hash of Windows XP SP3 with their special key. I tweak the firewall to allow in a nasty backdoor, put data in the padding to give it the same hash as before, and put it out on a BitTorrent site for hundreds of unsuspecting geeks to download. The signature verifies fine, so it must be OK, right?
Start -> Run -> "iexplore"
Ctrl-Alt-Del -> Task Manager
Applications: "Internet Explorer"
Processes: "IExplore.EXE"
They wouldn't let you off that easily.
Points 1 and 2: The holodeck used holograms for the scenery, but objects were created using the replicators (for example, clothes). So when you reach down towards a patch of snow, it quickly created some real snow that you can pick up, instead of just using a force field.
The EMH on Voyager, IIRC, used something slighty different. Instead of a replicator, his mini-projector used a true hologram with force fields. He attached it to his shoulder and the force fields held it up. What I don't understand is where it got its power supply... antimatter perhaps?
The submitter DID NOT read the article AT ALL, and apparenty neither did the editors.
First of all, it specifically says that the phone DOES NOT text premium numbers. The problem is NOT a virus; it's not even really a trojan. It's a feature that "calls home" in case it's an unlicensed copy. Not only that, the feature was removed in later versions; the cracked version was older. They got what they deserved.
May I quote the First Amendment?
This decision was made by a federal court, not through legislation. The court has the right to, and indeed often does, abridge freedom of speech; this allows for things like gag orders.
Well maybe not "insurance fraud" per se, but fraud against the insurance company.
And the word of the day is... INSURANCE FRAUD. Meaning 5 years in prison and a $50,000 fine if you get caught.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Mod +5 funny!