So you are saying no one has died of prostate cancer in the US? Or is it just the ones with insurance? If someone doesn't have insurance do they have the money out of pocket to get tested? If they don't get tested they probably aren't one of your 100%;) If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?
Anyone who tells you 100% of anything has been cured or survived on a scale of 300+ million really needs a reality check.
This is a simple thing for any company, if you asked a professional's opinion to make a decision then you have to consult them again to change it. I don't doubt that they have teams of kids making min wage surfing Google trying to find things about claimants (its not like they accidentally found this picture) but it should even be declared malpractice since they are substituting their 'diagnosis' for that of an actual practitioner. This could be an interesting case against insurance companies although IANAL, if a diagnosis is rendered by a certified practitioner and a treatment is started based on that diagnosis then should any deviation of that treatment be considered correct by the field of the diagnosing practitioner? I guess in other words if a doctor of any field makes a diagnosis and authorizes a treatment(or some sort of action) then would the person or company withholding that treatment be considered for malpractice? Maybe fraud for assuming the position of a practicing doctor/professional?
If you use data, it seems reasonable to me to charge a fee even if you just made "a mistake".
That's gotta be a troll but what the hell. The problem is not that they are charging you for something you used even by mistake, the issue is they are charging you for much more then you are actually using and apparently they don't allow you to use what you've been charged for. So lets say you accidentally push a button that opens up a browser or what ever and you load a page that is about 50KB you get charged for a megabyte so I should be able to go back and load the page again with out getting charged again since another 50KB would only be 100KB out of my 1000KB right? That $1.99 should actually provide you with a megabyte of usage right? So I should be able to make about 1000 1KB mistakes and only be charged $1.99 because I've only used 1MB of data on their network. The idea is if I charge you for 1MB why shouldn't it be reasonable to be able to use it all? If you intentionally check out a web page and someone calls while it loads will you have to start again? So would it be reasonable to you if I charged you for a dozen doughnuts but only let you keep the ones you could stuff in your mouth at once?
I actually RTFA and the vulnerabilities it accounts for are
SQL Injection 25%
XSS 17%
Web Server 2%
Buffer Errors 12%
Web Browser 8%
Authentication / Authorization 14%
Plus a few under 10%. The funny thing is that the article seems to blame the browser for SQL Injection, Web Server, Information Leak / Disclosure? WTF?
Information Leaks could be the result of any attack, SQL Injection has nothing at all to do with any browser and "Web Server"? There is no real information other than a nice shaded 3D pie chart so what this guy is trying to prove is beyond me. It also includes Path Traversal which is server side as well, code injection well injection into what? The browser, the server... what?
Popular vendors including Sun, IBM, and Apache continue to be among the top 10 most vulnerable Web applications named.
Even if some agrees that these companies are actual web applications and not software companies, you would have to agree that there really are only about 10 commonly used web servers in total so Sun, IBM and Apache will be on this list regardless of the exploit.
Looking at the real report all of the exploits blamed on the browsers are based on SQL Injections and propagating malicious code from the originator of the web site so how could one browser handle this more effectively then another? This doesn't really make a lot of sense so anyone gifted with more ability then myself please reply below.
You also have to remember most of these deaths come from electrical wiring and not the plugs themselves.
Home electrical wiring causes twice as many fires as electrical appliances.From the article you linked
It is the daisy chaining of outlets that cause most fires as well as of course Christmas tress (also from your link) that are real, dry and have lots of lights on them. The plugs themselves as long as they are plugged in properly are fine, I've even touched a live wire, not that I'm proud but it stings like a bitch but that's about it. Just like everything else they just want to be able to regulate. As far as lock-in plugs and other "safe plugs" its not really safer since once a "regular" since most electrical wiring problems exist within the walls or by overloading sockets by over use of extension cords. So really the discussion of a best socket is really moot.
Maybe we should discuss how plugs and power sources should be adapted to suit 'current' electronics, such as looking into DC power rather than AC.
Wow, I just looked up that Blair guy, I must have had my head stuck in the sand for the past 6 years. It seems that this kid was a liar from day one, makes you wonder how many more of these types are around taking up print.
As QuantumG said they can definitely open it but can that use that as evidence against you? It may be grounds for further investigation but they might not be able to submit it in a trial.
Sorry about that but ya they are watching you, you know why? Not because the governament is watching you its because your ISP is watching you;)
Why you ask, would they do such a thing? Because companies like profit. What profit can they make from reading your stuff? Meta data my friend meta data. Why do you think (especially or publicly in Canada anyway) ISPs now are getting into DPI as well as testing ad pages on its unsuspecting customers when you mistype a URL? Why would they feel so confident that they would put man hours making these modifications to their system so they can put a random set of ad's in front of your nose? Cause they see Google doing it and Google is making damn good money off of it. Google collects data at a higher level then the ISP so being an ISP they would have to be able to get higher quality meta data then Google can get their hands on, right? Pretty much.
Even selling this meta data back to Google would turn a profit but now with all this data being kicked around the government can get at it much easier so who are they to complain? You were the one who signed the agreement! Those of you thinking that these companies are not spying or putting data together on you cause that would just be a conspiracy theory and those are never real(TM) also have to look at if this is profitable, and it is, and in the long run its really money for nothing.
Hell maybe its time Google just becomes an ISP and cut out the middle man at least we know who we are getting snooped by.
You shouldn't have to encrypt anything to keep someone else from reading it. Right now we take a written letter and place it in an envelope, no hacking or genius knowledge required to open it but the law states if you open something thats not signed to you, you cannot open it. Now we take the same message and put it into a bunch of packets with the same type of notification of the source and destination and because the message is being handled by someone other than your self they have the "right" to open it?
I'm guessing sniffing network traffic and siphoning private data is ok as long as your not in the building your stealing it from then?
When you are calculating ROI on a project like this you have to remember the longevity of your investment. Communications is very important to almost the entire population, the way it looks it's not like they are going to lay the cables and find out a couple of years later every one went back to paper print. While the initial cost will be greater compared to that of Japan or other more advanced layouts once the layout is complete how will the system preform over a length of time? Will laying fiber involve less attenuation resulting in fewer base stations? (which contributes to a possible point of failure) Yes, it will. Will fewer points of failure contribute to a more profitable system once the cost of the layout is consumed? Yes, it will. Will a fiber layout require less maintenance over time compared to the current coaxial/twisted pair? Likely. Will someone eventually move into the same neighborhood as you parents who live 50 miles from any particular point in your country who does want more then satellite / dial-up and curse nschubach to the heavens on Slashdot? Yes they will.
The main reason for submitting binary code is for accountability, if it is binary code it ensures a limited list of attack vectors but having your commands generated at run-time is that if one is created for each user of the system you have that many opportunities for improper access whether intentional or not. When you scale to large numbers of individual inputs you are almost guaranteed to have one exploit a bug inadvertently and possibly make further damage to the system. At least a binary with a logging facility would be able to raise flags to the attention of a/the admin where as most interpreted coded will just return a true/false response which is very particular of SQL servers, so if I happen to change the SQL statement I can unintentionally do anything from cast an improper vote to causing damage to tables which is bad since I am effecting my vote as well as yours and others. This is the reason for the laws, regulations and this thread:)
Think about that for a second, why do you think some are right and left brain thinkers? These are traits of human beings one being analytical the other being abstract, that is why some people take to music and acting and others take to mathematics in many ways you are born into these fields the same way you are born with a sex and race. If we do take your 'extreme' case where there are no laws enforcing copyrights why don't we look back before there were such laws? Was there music before then? If so what was the motivation for people to do so if they couldn't profit? Did they profit with out these laws? You are comparing laws made only in the past 100 years with something that has been happening for thousands and mention false equivalence? Please elaborate.
If we take a look at the relationship between an artist and the person beholding the art you could say it draws an attraction. If there was no way of reproducing music artificially (by use of phonograph or otherwise) would you listen to the people around you preforming music on their porches? This is the power of music it gives power to the artist as a type of leader this is what seems to be the issue. The power is monetized and absorbed, the artist is left with nothing other than some paper which is in many cases short lived. If artists did not have copyrights they would have power which is much greater then any contract.
Bribery can also involve something other than money. As a Canadian I can say pretty much each one of our Prime Ministers (equiv to President) has been found out after they left to using their powers to get massive estates built, pushing tax payers money in the form of legislation into the hands of friends and of course lofty and well paid positions within the Government. In politics it is not really about the size of the cheques it is the power transferred. In Canada we just seem to have more effective "Watch Dog" campaigns and people who actually care enough (Mr Geist, thank you!) on their own to bring this public. If anyone reading this is from Canada you will probably have seen the "Stop the TV Tax" ad campaigns which is both sad and ironic, the Government takes huge chunks of tax payer money to pay for local channels (CTV et al) to be aired and then also legislate communications companies (Bell, Rogers) into God-Like status, now Bell and Rogers turn around and say now that they are broadcasting in digital the game has changed and they want more money and if the Government doesn't pay they will charge all of the customers a $10CDN "Tax" on their bills each month to allow us to get our local news. This reminds me of the movie Natural Born Killers, there is a line "A woman picked up a snake in the snow... one day it bit her... the snake said Bitch you knew I was a snake". With all the money we pay in taxes a part of that goes to these guys and then we pay additional already on our monthly bills we should have independent data connections and then all these TV stations could pass by these companies and broadcast regardless but now we have this bottleneck and they are stuck in it, beautiful.
Samba won't be production ready for a while yet so server 2008 isn't compatible with anything right now. Right now what they can say is that if you deploy Server 2008 now when Samba 4 comes out of testing you will be able to... replace your 2008 servers with it?
Don't worry about the physical bandwidth as it will open the door to more ideas like distributed caching and broadcasting single packets among multiple devices. Then again the more people cry about the sky falling the more incentive there is to impliment ideas like this for way too much money to satisfy egos. Wireless is really the way to go for the end consumer and if it does really get that big then cell carriers will devote their towers into the mix(for a price of course). Remember it's not all the bandwidth that's being eaten up it's just this particular portion as demand goes up so eventually will the supply, we will just come up with more effective and clever ways of doing it.
Manipulating images is fine as long as it is obvious that it is art and not a representation of something real. Wheather or not they used Photoshop to do the work doesn't really mean anything it's just so damn obvious it's fake I'm supprised marketing let it out the door. People should definately be able to laugh at this kind of stuff cause well it is funny. It also is fucked they want to show this kind of thing cause I would probably shit myself if I saw a man or woman looking anything remotely like that, maybe pay a couple of bucks at a freak show but that's about it.
It would be more like seeing some idiot swerving between lanes and you descide to tail gate him as he goes. The kicker is your a driving instructor. At the end of the day you write to everyone how you almost threw your car off a bridge because of this.
Shit I actually felt privilaged to finally get a phishing email. Previously I've never recieved one just heard of them. When I actually got one it did look very much like an authentic email but then the "new scam feel wore off" and I was able to get on with the rest of my life, deleted my email, my browser history, cookies and cache just to be sure and that was it. Still waiting for my own 419 scam... Damn you gmail for robbing me of this!!!
How about if there was one year where there were multiple breakthroughs? Wouldn't that make a massive backlog? This is only slightly more important then the Academy Awards.
You forget the wealthy don't like to get their hands dirty and they like to believe they are better than someone else. If the poor / middle class never existed they would be killed off by those with more power then them. There are some things you just can't get away from.
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So you are saying no one has died of prostate cancer in the US? Or is it just the ones with insurance? If someone doesn't have insurance do they have the money out of pocket to get tested? If they don't get tested they probably aren't one of your 100% ;) If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?
Anyone who tells you 100% of anything has been cured or survived on a scale of 300+ million really needs a reality check.
This is a simple thing for any company, if you asked a professional's opinion to make a decision then you have to consult them again to change it. I don't doubt that they have teams of kids making min wage surfing Google trying to find things about claimants (its not like they accidentally found this picture) but it should even be declared malpractice since they are substituting their 'diagnosis' for that of an actual practitioner. This could be an interesting case against insurance companies although IANAL, if a diagnosis is rendered by a certified practitioner and a treatment is started based on that diagnosis then should any deviation of that treatment be considered correct by the field of the diagnosing practitioner? I guess in other words if a doctor of any field makes a diagnosis and authorizes a treatment(or some sort of action) then would the person or company withholding that treatment be considered for malpractice? Maybe fraud for assuming the position of a practicing doctor/professional?
I like turtles.
That's gotta be a troll but what the hell. The problem is not that they are charging you for something you used even by mistake, the issue is they are charging you for much more then you are actually using and apparently they don't allow you to use what you've been charged for. So lets say you accidentally push a button that opens up a browser or what ever and you load a page that is about 50KB you get charged for a megabyte so I should be able to go back and load the page again with out getting charged again since another 50KB would only be 100KB out of my 1000KB right? That $1.99 should actually provide you with a megabyte of usage right? So I should be able to make about 1000 1KB mistakes and only be charged $1.99 because I've only used 1MB of data on their network. The idea is if I charge you for 1MB why shouldn't it be reasonable to be able to use it all? If you intentionally check out a web page and someone calls while it loads will you have to start again? So would it be reasonable to you if I charged you for a dozen doughnuts but only let you keep the ones you could stuff in your mouth at once?
Plus a few under 10%. The funny thing is that the article seems to blame the browser for SQL Injection, Web Server, Information Leak / Disclosure? WTF?
... what?
Information Leaks could be the result of any attack, SQL Injection has nothing at all to do with any browser and "Web Server"? There is no real information other than a nice shaded 3D pie chart so what this guy is trying to prove is beyond me. It also includes Path Traversal which is server side as well, code injection well injection into what? The browser, the server
Even if some agrees that these companies are actual web applications and not software companies, you would have to agree that there really are only about 10 commonly used web servers in total so Sun, IBM and Apache will be on this list regardless of the exploit.
Looking at the real report all of the exploits blamed on the browsers are based on SQL Injections and propagating malicious code from the originator of the web site so how could one browser handle this more effectively then another? This doesn't really make a lot of sense so anyone gifted with more ability then myself please reply below.
And that is the correct answer!
You also have to remember most of these deaths come from electrical wiring and not the plugs themselves.
Home electrical wiring causes twice as many fires as electrical appliances.From the article you linked
It is the daisy chaining of outlets that cause most fires as well as of course Christmas tress (also from your link) that are real, dry and have lots of lights on them. The plugs themselves as long as they are plugged in properly are fine, I've even touched a live wire, not that I'm proud but it stings like a bitch but that's about it. Just like everything else they just want to be able to regulate. As far as lock-in plugs and other "safe plugs" its not really safer since once a "regular" since most electrical wiring problems exist within the walls or by overloading sockets by over use of extension cords. So really the discussion of a best socket is really moot.
Maybe we should discuss how plugs and power sources should be adapted to suit 'current' electronics, such as looking into DC power rather than AC.
MS Windows = Explorer.exe Linux = X11 MacOS = Quartz
Wow, I just looked up that Blair guy, I must have had my head stuck in the sand for the past 6 years. It seems that this kid was a liar from day one, makes you wonder how many more of these types are around taking up print.
As QuantumG said they can definitely open it but can that use that as evidence against you? It may be grounds for further investigation but they might not be able to submit it in a trial.
Sorry about that but ya they are watching you, you know why? Not because the governament is watching you its because your ISP is watching you ;)
Why you ask, would they do such a thing? Because companies like profit. What profit can they make from reading your stuff? Meta data my friend meta data. Why do you think (especially or publicly in Canada anyway) ISPs now are getting into DPI as well as testing ad pages on its unsuspecting customers when you mistype a URL? Why would they feel so confident that they would put man hours making these modifications to their system so they can put a random set of ad's in front of your nose? Cause they see Google doing it and Google is making damn good money off of it. Google collects data at a higher level then the ISP so being an ISP they would have to be able to get higher quality meta data then Google can get their hands on, right? Pretty much.
Even selling this meta data back to Google would turn a profit but now with all this data being kicked around the government can get at it much easier so who are they to complain? You were the one who signed the agreement! Those of you thinking that these companies are not spying or putting data together on you cause that would just be a conspiracy theory and those are never real(TM) also have to look at if this is profitable, and it is, and in the long run its really money for nothing.
Hell maybe its time Google just becomes an ISP and cut out the middle man at least we know who we are getting snooped by.
You shouldn't have to encrypt anything to keep someone else from reading it. Right now we take a written letter and place it in an envelope, no hacking or genius knowledge required to open it but the law states if you open something thats not signed to you, you cannot open it. Now we take the same message and put it into a bunch of packets with the same type of notification of the source and destination and because the message is being handled by someone other than your self they have the "right" to open it?
I'm guessing sniffing network traffic and siphoning private data is ok as long as your not in the building your stealing it from then?
When you are calculating ROI on a project like this you have to remember the longevity of your investment. Communications is very important to almost the entire population, the way it looks it's not like they are going to lay the cables and find out a couple of years later every one went back to paper print. While the initial cost will be greater compared to that of Japan or other more advanced layouts once the layout is complete how will the system preform over a length of time? Will laying fiber involve less attenuation resulting in fewer base stations? (which contributes to a possible point of failure) Yes, it will. Will fewer points of failure contribute to a more profitable system once the cost of the layout is consumed? Yes, it will. Will a fiber layout require less maintenance over time compared to the current coaxial/twisted pair? Likely. Will someone eventually move into the same neighborhood as you parents who live 50 miles from any particular point in your country who does want more then satellite / dial-up and curse nschubach to the heavens on Slashdot? Yes they will.
The main reason for submitting binary code is for accountability, if it is binary code it ensures a limited list of attack vectors but having your commands generated at run-time is that if one is created for each user of the system you have that many opportunities for improper access whether intentional or not. When you scale to large numbers of individual inputs you are almost guaranteed to have one exploit a bug inadvertently and possibly make further damage to the system. At least a binary with a logging facility would be able to raise flags to the attention of a/the admin where as most interpreted coded will just return a true/false response which is very particular of SQL servers, so if I happen to change the SQL statement I can unintentionally do anything from cast an improper vote to causing damage to tables which is bad since I am effecting my vote as well as yours and others. This is the reason for the laws, regulations and this thread :)
Out of curiosity what could this mean if there are flaws and the last 3 elections were wrong?
"No one is born into artistry"
Think about that for a second, why do you think some are right and left brain thinkers? These are traits of human beings one being analytical the other being abstract, that is why some people take to music and acting and others take to mathematics in many ways you are born into these fields the same way you are born with a sex and race. If we do take your 'extreme' case where there are no laws enforcing copyrights why don't we look back before there were such laws? Was there music before then? If so what was the motivation for people to do so if they couldn't profit? Did they profit with out these laws? You are comparing laws made only in the past 100 years with something that has been happening for thousands and mention false equivalence? Please elaborate.
If we take a look at the relationship between an artist and the person beholding the art you could say it draws an attraction. If there was no way of reproducing music artificially (by use of phonograph or otherwise) would you listen to the people around you preforming music on their porches? This is the power of music it gives power to the artist as a type of leader this is what seems to be the issue. The power is monetized and absorbed, the artist is left with nothing other than some paper which is in many cases short lived. If artists did not have copyrights they would have power which is much greater then any contract.
Bribery can also involve something other than money. As a Canadian I can say pretty much each one of our Prime Ministers (equiv to President) has been found out after they left to using their powers to get massive estates built, pushing tax payers money in the form of legislation into the hands of friends and of course lofty and well paid positions within the Government. In politics it is not really about the size of the cheques it is the power transferred. In Canada we just seem to have more effective "Watch Dog" campaigns and people who actually care enough (Mr Geist, thank you!) on their own to bring this public. If anyone reading this is from Canada you will probably have seen the "Stop the TV Tax" ad campaigns which is both sad and ironic, the Government takes huge chunks of tax payer money to pay for local channels (CTV et al) to be aired and then also legislate communications companies (Bell, Rogers) into God-Like status, now Bell and Rogers turn around and say now that they are broadcasting in digital the game has changed and they want more money and if the Government doesn't pay they will charge all of the customers a $10CDN "Tax" on their bills each month to allow us to get our local news. This reminds me of the movie Natural Born Killers, there is a line "A woman picked up a snake in the snow ... one day it bit her ... the snake said Bitch you knew I was a snake". With all the money we pay in taxes a part of that goes to these guys and then we pay additional already on our monthly bills we should have independent data connections and then all these TV stations could pass by these companies and broadcast regardless but now we have this bottleneck and they are stuck in it, beautiful.
Samba won't be production ready for a while yet so server 2008 isn't compatible with anything right now. Right now what they can say is that if you deploy Server 2008 now when Samba 4 comes out of testing you will be able to... replace your 2008 servers with it?
Don't worry about the physical bandwidth as it will open the door to more ideas like distributed caching and broadcasting single packets among multiple devices. Then again the more people cry about the sky falling the more incentive there is to impliment ideas like this for way too much money to satisfy egos. Wireless is really the way to go for the end consumer and if it does really get that big then cell carriers will devote their towers into the mix(for a price of course). Remember it's not all the bandwidth that's being eaten up it's just this particular portion as demand goes up so eventually will the supply, we will just come up with more effective and clever ways of doing it.
Manipulating images is fine as long as it is obvious that it is art and not a representation of something real. Wheather or not they used Photoshop to do the work doesn't really mean anything it's just so damn obvious it's fake I'm supprised marketing let it out the door. People should definately be able to laugh at this kind of stuff cause well it is funny. It also is fucked they want to show this kind of thing cause I would probably shit myself if I saw a man or woman looking anything remotely like that, maybe pay a couple of bucks at a freak show but that's about it.
It would be more like seeing some idiot swerving between lanes and you descide to tail gate him as he goes. The kicker is your a driving instructor. At the end of the day you write to everyone how you almost threw your car off a bridge because of this.
I just called him the password is "swordfish"
Shit I actually felt privilaged to finally get a phishing email. Previously I've never recieved one just heard of them. When I actually got one it did look very much like an authentic email but then the "new scam feel wore off" and I was able to get on with the rest of my life, deleted my email, my browser history, cookies and cache just to be sure and that was it. Still waiting for my own 419 scam ... Damn you gmail for robbing me of this!!!
How about if there was one year where there were multiple breakthroughs? Wouldn't that make a massive backlog? This is only slightly more important then the Academy Awards.
You forget the wealthy don't like to get their hands dirty and they like to believe they are better than someone else. If the poor / middle class never existed they would be killed off by those with more power then them. There are some things you just can't get away from.