One can think about "rotating" space-time because one uses the fictional time dimension as if it were a physical reality. And yet, time has never been physically shown to be a physical reality. What would Einstein's work have been like if time were not part of the equations?
Perhaps instead of thinking of objects that have a speed approaching the speed of light as having a slower time, we might think of them as having less total energy available for local phenomenon because so much energy is being used for overall movement? Just a thought. I'm not a physicist at all. I only know enough to get in way over my head. I just can't help but wonder how science and science fiction would have developed differently if time were not assumed to be physical.
Here's a thought for you: Time doesn't exist. It's an abstraction of change. For all practical purposes, it may as well exist because it helps us measure things. But aside from the fact that the relative positions of 3 dimensional objects change in those dimensions and that "time" is used to measure that rate of change, "time" per se as a physical phenomenon doesn't exist.
Now, position within the 3 dimensions and change of that position exists, but that's really it. Obviously change does exist, we see it happen all the time. Time is merely comparing one type of 3D change (e.g. a moving car) to another 3D change which is more constant (e.g. the ticks of an atomic clock).
Am I off my rocker here? Has anyone actually proved that time exists as a physical phenomenon? I can understand the usefulness of time within formulas, much as imaginary numbers are also useful. But like imaginary numbers, time has no natural physical presence.
Therefore, for us to speak of moving through the "dimension of time" in any "direction" doesn't make sense. There can be no time travel if time itself doesn't exist in the physical world, right?
Should open-minded science and rational religion actually converge at some point, we would have great cause to celebrate. Ultimately, shouldn't they produce the same conclusions about the nature of reality? This may occur through totally different methods and vocabularies, but it should still occur.
I was going to bash it to -1, but my 3 remaining mod points have expired. Sorry.;+)
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BTW, I got a question: here in Finland, the Xbox + the remote (needed if you want to watch DVDs) will cost me 290 Eur, which is roughly about 290 US$. How much do you Americans pay for it?
The XBOX + 2 games right now in the new Christmas bundle is $200 USD. Add in a DVD kit for $29 USD + tax for a grand total of around $240.
I doubt you were trying to be funny about this. All I can tell you is this: Go find the exploit code and try it. When you're done filling your pants, go find a Mozilla based browser you like and stick with that.
Yup, it's that bad. It's getting to the point where I only use IE for intranet applications. What's the point in being the best browser when it's not safe to use?!
To some extent, I think you've been lucky. Normally, my experience mirrors your own: "No problem and what the hell is everyone getting so worked up about?!"
Sometimes though, I have problems. Serious ones. Every single time I've had a problem, it has been because of a piece of hardware (e.g. a bad RAM stick) or the 3rd party driver for that hardware.
Very true.. "game IDs" would be the situation here, wouldn't it? If they've decided they don't like you and your account is banned, then you would have to go buy a whole new one to get back in, no?
Then, if they want to be really devious, they could ban the credit card too. So, not only would you have to purchase a new subscription, but you would have to do it with a different card. *Then*, if they really want to be bastards, they could double-check all new subscriptions against the banned list. That banned list would contain the game ID and credit card information right? They could also have held on to the address information from that banned credit card. So, if you purchase another subscription with a different card, but you're still at the same address... Well, that could suck.
Oh, and in case you object that "well, they can't do all that screening at the till in the store", you would be right. But they wouldn't have to do it there. They could wait until you tried to login, then deny you access and give you instructions on how to get your money back and "please alllow 8 - 12 business weeks to process your refund".
Just be glad I didn't program it.;+) I doubt that they were that thorough.
You are exactly right, this will be a landfill problem even worse than the AOL CD problem.
I don't know where companies get these stupid ideas. I have nothing against "Music DVDs" (whatever the hell that is, a DVD with music + videos maybe?), but this expiring medium stuff is a bunch of crap.
As an American - I ain't buying it. I don't care how cool it gets. I don't care if they give it away for free; I'll have nothing to do with it. They can grind it up and spread it on toast for their own personal consumption. It would be more useful that way.
You know, I get pretty angry about stuff like this. Don't they realize people do not like planned/intended obsolescence?
Not everyone on here is an anti-Microsoft zealot. (I'd wager the majority reading this site are accessing it from a Windows computer.)
Too true! I've come to the conclusion that there is no moral high ground to be had anymore in IT. It seems like every technology camp is intent on demeaning everyone else because they believe themselves to be superior. It's just another form of primitive tribalism where each tribe attempts to propagate itself through the zealotry of its constituency. The relative merits of each style of development and technology philosophy become lost and almost irrelevant in the cacophony of arrogance. It's getting very old...
The bottom line is that I'm going to implement the best tool for the job for a customer using whatever vendor makes the most sense. When a given vendor becomes too much of a pain in the ass, I'll move on to the next, and so on.
My viewpoint leads me to believe that Microsoft, OSS, IBM, and a few others will be around a long time to come. Some other vendors (Sun, Apple, etc) will be too much of a pain to bother with, and they will remain in their respective niche corners. Some of them may die entirely (possibly Sun, among others), and some may even transcend niche status (possibly Apple, among others). We'll see.
If they were, then you should also expect them to police your activities. Forget porn, forget warez, forget your MP3s, forget violent multiplayer online games, etc. Forget anything society currently deems questionable.
Do you really want that? Me neither...
An ISP will react to the economics of the situation though. If they get too many complaints, that costs them money. The spammer in question gets whacked for costing the ISP money.
Once spam becomes too expensive to send, it won't be sent. Let's face it though, when the scams are cleaned up (they're already dropping off somewhat I think), spammer reputations will improve. Then spam itself becomes less odious. Complaints will drop. Spam's not going away...
...and just sell your product as a product that happens to run on Linux as well as other platforms. It can run on other platforms right? Keeping your product limited to just one platform isn't "A Good Idea" in this day and age.
You really need to think about why anyone would, from a business perspective, bother with your product at all. If the only card you've got is "IM using Linux", then just check out now while you've still got your money. That's not a strong card to play in this market.
As a citizen, I am fed up to the gills with this type of crap. The primary culprit here seems to be the CIA. I don't hear about the NSA, FBI, or even just the straight DoD doing this stuff; just the CIA.
It's getting very, very old having the whole world thinking we're evil just because this bunch of jerks likes to play god with other countries. Any well meaning intention or action they make is undoubtedly founded entirely on fear. Everything else they do is for their own job security. I mean hey, now that Saddam is a threat, now we need to be *saved* from him.
I happen to agree with the plugin sentiment. That said, I still recommend trying this thing out. It may not be a technical victory per se, but it's still damn cool. I can't get over how fast it works. I may never really use it, but it's still damn cool.
I thought so too. I was thinking more along the lines of "Ankh", like from the Indiana Jones movie. Nice subconscious message of being invaluable.
Incidentally, I went over to MozillaZine and I didn't see a way to get this idea seen without getting buried in the pages upon pages of posts (no moderation system?/. has spoiled me.)
It's just like Phoenix, only it can carry off elephants (read between the lines here).;+)
According to the list: Anka Arctic mythical bird that was said to carry off elephants. It was also believed to live for 1700 years and, like the phoenix, had the ability to burn and renew itself.
Well, you have to consider that it extends far beyond telecommuting. Think of all the CAD/CAM systems for example that save companies from having to construct hundreds, if not thousands, of prototypes of a product or product assembly process. Think of all the efficiencies gained on those lines by the fact that the computer can (properly programmed of course) think far enough ahead to reduce or eliminate waste. I would guess that those impacts are very big. What we lack here is a cost benefit analysis of the computer technology that we have. No one really knows the real net impact/savings that the technology has made/enabled.
Of course, one could argue that all the above is for naught anyway and does nothing more than feed our materialistic urges, but that's a whole nuther can of worms.
That is, the strap that holds you on to the sled when you snap back up the hill. Otherwise, you'll be eating a lot of powder.
Oh, and don't forget to make sure that the bungie is attached to an extremely strong point on the sled. Without that, you'll just break the sled.
Oh, and don't forget that the sled in question will probably have to be a saucer. The slighest angular twist in your path to the bungie mounting point will probably cause you to roll/drag on your way back up the hill otherwise.
Oh, and... don't do that. It sounds like a good way to die. Especially if you just missed a tree on the way down and the damn bungie finishes you off just as you're taking a sigh of relief.
Yup.. they did. And I've still got that zip file ferreted away on my hard drive.;+) My wife won't use newer versions of Money. She just uses the planning wizards anyway for what-if type stuff; we don't use that online payment/statement junk they offer.
First of all, I'm with you on the crappy artists thing, but not on the price. I personally will not buy CDs that cost over $12. That's my mental limit; that's what they're worth to me. Not a cent more. Frankly, I think they'd still make a killing at $10/CD for all new releases. They're sales would jump so high initially they'd have to backorder some stuff while people went nuts.
Remember, these people aren't really selling you a CD - they're selling you art. And that art shapes you. It contributes to making you someone to whom they can market additional services and products down the road more easily. Because of those CD sales, they will also be able to sell you through tertiary cultural forces: concert tickets, cable subscriptions (and that opens a whole nuther level of marketing capabilities), shoes (gotta look like Eminem, can't just listen to him you know), and the list goes on and on.
Think about it. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay through the nose for their marketing machine.
If they continue screwing up, what the record companies will do longer term is create a somewhat more de-commercialized generation of consumers. If that ever happens in a big way, these big media companies can kiss their asses goodbye. People will finally see this racket for what it is, stop being so materialistic, and tell these companies to take a flying leap.
Personally, I can't wait.;+) It may take 20 years more for this to happen, but I'll be right there in the crowd at 50+ years old with all the young kids wearing a friggin tie-dye t-shirt or something wishing I could just forget the last 20 years of commercialism.
YMMV on that scenario, but I'm definitely ready for people to stop wanting their MTV so much (metaphorically speaking).
...because no system is uncrackable or unbreakable, given enough time. The question isn't "will anyone ever be able to see my data?". The question a user should ask "how long would it take someone to get into my data and will it matter if they finally do get into it?".
Purists will argue against that idea, but I am being realistic here.
We have an application (VB.NET no less) which is installed on the IIS server to not allow anonymous usage, Basic authentication, or Digest authentication. It only allows Integrated Windows authentication.
Now, when I browse to our application using Phoenix (I'm using 0.3 right now), I get a login prompt. I'm able to login at this point and go from there.
Obviously, IE (we use 6.0) would do this automatically without the login prompt. Phoenix does do this, it's just not quite as convenient. If I'm feeling sloppy, I can even tell it to remember my login for future use so it requires exactly one more click of the mouse to get working. Not too bad...
My question is this: Is the above working scenario using NTLM, or what?
I've always been confused on the difference between NTLM vs. "other Windows authentication schemes". I understand the Basic, Digest, and Anonymous authentication schemes, but I'm really fuzzy on what actually happens when "Integrated Windows authentication" gets used. Any light on this would be appreciated.
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One can think about "rotating" space-time because one uses the fictional time dimension as if it were a physical reality. And yet, time has never been physically shown to be a physical reality. What would Einstein's work have been like if time were not part of the equations?
Perhaps instead of thinking of objects that have a speed approaching the speed of light as having a slower time, we might think of them as having less total energy available for local phenomenon because so much energy is being used for overall movement? Just a thought. I'm not a physicist at all. I only know enough to get in way over my head. I just can't help but wonder how science and science fiction would have developed differently if time were not assumed to be physical.
Here's a thought for you: Time doesn't exist. It's an abstraction of change. For all practical purposes, it may as well exist because it helps us measure things. But aside from the fact that the relative positions of 3 dimensional objects change in those dimensions and that "time" is used to measure that rate of change, "time" per se as a physical phenomenon doesn't exist.
Now, position within the 3 dimensions and change of that position exists, but that's really it. Obviously change does exist, we see it happen all the time. Time is merely comparing one type of 3D change (e.g. a moving car) to another 3D change which is more constant (e.g. the ticks of an atomic clock).
Am I off my rocker here? Has anyone actually proved that time exists as a physical phenomenon? I can understand the usefulness of time within formulas, much as imaginary numbers are also useful. But like imaginary numbers, time has no natural physical presence.
Therefore, for us to speak of moving through the "dimension of time" in any "direction" doesn't make sense. There can be no time travel if time itself doesn't exist in the physical world, right?
Should open-minded science and rational religion actually converge at some point, we would have great cause to celebrate. Ultimately, shouldn't they produce the same conclusions about the nature of reality? This may occur through totally different methods and vocabularies, but it should still occur.
I was going to bash it to -1, but my 3 remaining mod points have expired. Sorry. ;+)
BTW, I got a question: here in Finland, the Xbox + the remote (needed if you want to watch DVDs) will cost me 290 Eur, which is roughly about 290 US$. How much do you Americans pay for it?
The XBOX + 2 games right now in the new Christmas bundle is $200 USD. Add in a DVD kit for $29 USD + tax for a grand total of around $240.
I doubt you were trying to be funny about this. All I can tell you is this: Go find the exploit code and try it. When you're done filling your pants, go find a Mozilla based browser you like and stick with that.
Yup, it's that bad. It's getting to the point where I only use IE for intranet applications. What's the point in being the best browser when it's not safe to use?!
To some extent, I think you've been lucky. Normally, my experience mirrors your own: "No problem and what the hell is everyone getting so worked up about?!"
Sometimes though, I have problems. Serious ones. Every single time I've had a problem, it has been because of a piece of hardware (e.g. a bad RAM stick) or the 3rd party driver for that hardware.
Very true.. "game IDs" would be the situation here, wouldn't it? If they've decided they don't like you and your account is banned, then you would have to go buy a whole new one to get back in, no?
;+) I doubt that they were that thorough.
Then, if they want to be really devious, they could ban the credit card too. So, not only would you have to purchase a new subscription, but you would have to do it with a different card. *Then*, if they really want to be bastards, they could double-check all new subscriptions against the banned list. That banned list would contain the game ID and credit card information right? They could also have held on to the address information from that banned credit card. So, if you purchase another subscription with a different card, but you're still at the same address... Well, that could suck.
Oh, and in case you object that "well, they can't do all that screening at the till in the store", you would be right. But they wouldn't have to do it there. They could wait until you tried to login, then deny you access and give you instructions on how to get your money back and "please alllow 8 - 12 business weeks to process your refund".
Just be glad I didn't program it.
GhostZilla isn't an extension. It's a whole nuther browser, like Phoenix. Just try it.
Who said I didn't get pissed off at the paper junk mail?
Cripes...
You are exactly right, this will be a landfill problem even worse than the AOL CD problem.
I don't know where companies get these stupid ideas. I have nothing against "Music DVDs" (whatever the hell that is, a DVD with music + videos maybe?), but this expiring medium stuff is a bunch of crap.
As an American - I ain't buying it. I don't care how cool it gets. I don't care if they give it away for free; I'll have nothing to do with it. They can grind it up and spread it on toast for their own personal consumption. It would be more useful that way.
You know, I get pretty angry about stuff like this. Don't they realize people do not like planned/intended obsolescence?
Not everyone on here is an anti-Microsoft zealot. (I'd wager the majority reading this site are accessing it from a Windows computer.)
Too true! I've come to the conclusion that there is no moral high ground to be had anymore in IT. It seems like every technology camp is intent on demeaning everyone else because they believe themselves to be superior. It's just another form of primitive tribalism where each tribe attempts to propagate itself through the zealotry of its constituency. The relative merits of each style of development and technology philosophy become lost and almost irrelevant in the cacophony of arrogance. It's getting very old...
The bottom line is that I'm going to implement the best tool for the job for a customer using whatever vendor makes the most sense. When a given vendor becomes too much of a pain in the ass, I'll move on to the next, and so on.
My viewpoint leads me to believe that Microsoft, OSS, IBM, and a few others will be around a long time to come. Some other vendors (Sun, Apple, etc) will be too much of a pain to bother with, and they will remain in their respective niche corners. Some of them may die entirely (possibly Sun, among others), and some may even transcend niche status (possibly Apple, among others). We'll see.
If they were, then you should also expect them to police your activities. Forget porn, forget warez, forget your MP3s, forget violent multiplayer online games, etc. Forget anything society currently deems questionable.
Do you really want that? Me neither...
An ISP will react to the economics of the situation though. If they get too many complaints, that costs them money. The spammer in question gets whacked for costing the ISP money.
Once spam becomes too expensive to send, it won't be sent. Let's face it though, when the scams are cleaned up (they're already dropping off somewhat I think), spammer reputations will improve. Then spam itself becomes less odious. Complaints will drop. Spam's not going away...
...and just sell your product as a product that happens to run on Linux as well as other platforms. It can run on other platforms right? Keeping your product limited to just one platform isn't "A Good Idea" in this day and age.
You really need to think about why anyone would, from a business perspective, bother with your product at all. If the only card you've got is "IM using Linux", then just check out now while you've still got your money. That's not a strong card to play in this market.
As a citizen, I am fed up to the gills with this type of crap. The primary culprit here seems to be the CIA. I don't hear about the NSA, FBI, or even just the straight DoD doing this stuff; just the CIA.
It's getting very, very old having the whole world thinking we're evil just because this bunch of jerks likes to play god with other countries. Any well meaning intention or action they make is undoubtedly founded entirely on fear. Everything else they do is for their own job security. I mean hey, now that Saddam is a threat, now we need to be *saved* from him.
It's pretty sickening...
I happen to agree with the plugin sentiment. That said, I still recommend trying this thing out. It may not be a technical victory per se, but it's still damn cool. I can't get over how fast it works. I may never really use it, but it's still damn cool.
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Damn cool. 'Nuff said.
I thought so too. I was thinking more along the lines of "Ankh", like from the Indiana Jones movie. Nice subconscious message of being invaluable.
/. has spoiled me.)
Incidentally, I went over to MozillaZine and I didn't see a way to get this idea seen without getting buried in the pages upon pages of posts (no moderation system?
Anyone know where to go with this?
I vote for "Anka".
;+)
It's just like Phoenix, only it can carry off elephants (read between the lines here).
According to the list:
Anka
Arctic mythical bird that was said to carry off elephants. It was also believed to live for 1700 years and, like the phoenix, had the ability to burn and renew itself.
Well, you have to consider that it extends far beyond telecommuting. Think of all the CAD/CAM systems for example that save companies from having to construct hundreds, if not thousands, of prototypes of a product or product assembly process. Think of all the efficiencies gained on those lines by the fact that the computer can (properly programmed of course) think far enough ahead to reduce or eliminate waste. I would guess that those impacts are very big. What we lack here is a cost benefit analysis of the computer technology that we have. No one really knows the real net impact/savings that the technology has made/enabled.
Of course, one could argue that all the above is for naught anyway and does nothing more than feed our materialistic urges, but that's a whole nuther can of worms.
That is, the strap that holds you on to the sled when you snap back up the hill. Otherwise, you'll be eating a lot of powder.
... don't do that. It sounds like a good way to die. Especially if you just missed a tree on the way down and the damn bungie finishes you off just as you're taking a sigh of relief.
Oh, and don't forget to make sure that the bungie is attached to an extremely strong point on the sled. Without that, you'll just break the sled.
Oh, and don't forget that the sled in question will probably have to be a saucer. The slighest angular twist in your path to the bungie mounting point will probably cause you to roll/drag on your way back up the hill otherwise.
Oh, and
I think you're right since it would be impossible to prove that it's not impossible.
Umm.... yeah.
Well, Microsoft did give away Money 95
;+) My wife won't use newer versions of Money. She just uses the planning wizards anyway for what-if type stuff; we don't use that online payment/statement junk they offer.
Yup.. they did. And I've still got that zip file ferreted away on my hard drive.
First of all, I'm with you on the crappy artists thing, but not on the price. I personally will not buy CDs that cost over $12. That's my mental limit; that's what they're worth to me. Not a cent more. Frankly, I think they'd still make a killing at $10/CD for all new releases. They're sales would jump so high initially they'd have to backorder some stuff while people went nuts.
;+) It may take 20 years more for this to happen, but I'll be right there in the crowd at 50+ years old with all the young kids wearing a friggin tie-dye t-shirt or something wishing I could just forget the last 20 years of commercialism.
Remember, these people aren't really selling you a CD - they're selling you art. And that art shapes you. It contributes to making you someone to whom they can market additional services and products down the road more easily. Because of those CD sales, they will also be able to sell you through tertiary cultural forces: concert tickets, cable subscriptions (and that opens a whole nuther level of marketing capabilities), shoes (gotta look like Eminem, can't just listen to him you know), and the list goes on and on.
Think about it. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay through the nose for their marketing machine.
If they continue screwing up, what the record companies will do longer term is create a somewhat more de-commercialized generation of consumers. If that ever happens in a big way, these big media companies can kiss their asses goodbye. People will finally see this racket for what it is, stop being so materialistic, and tell these companies to take a flying leap.
Personally, I can't wait.
YMMV on that scenario, but I'm definitely ready for people to stop wanting their MTV so much (metaphorically speaking).
...because no system is uncrackable or unbreakable, given enough time. The question isn't "will anyone ever be able to see my data?". The question a user should ask "how long would it take someone to get into my data and will it matter if they finally do get into it?".
Purists will argue against that idea, but I am being realistic here.
I'm a wee bit confused here. Please bear with me.
We have an application (VB.NET no less) which is installed on the IIS server to not allow anonymous usage, Basic authentication, or Digest authentication. It only allows Integrated Windows authentication.
Now, when I browse to our application using Phoenix (I'm using 0.3 right now), I get a login prompt. I'm able to login at this point and go from there.
Obviously, IE (we use 6.0) would do this automatically without the login prompt. Phoenix does do this, it's just not quite as convenient. If I'm feeling sloppy, I can even tell it to remember my login for future use so it requires exactly one more click of the mouse to get working. Not too bad...
My question is this: Is the above working scenario using NTLM, or what?
I've always been confused on the difference between NTLM vs. "other Windows authentication schemes". I understand the Basic, Digest, and Anonymous authentication schemes, but I'm really fuzzy on what actually happens when "Integrated Windows authentication" gets used. Any light on this would be appreciated.
Thanks!