not a "snap" for me. That's a play on an old yellow pages commercial.
You are quite right that the full fingerprint is not generally found in web logs, but user agent string plus IP address is -- and that is not a bad fingerprint, in itself.
Now if you happen to be
a major online retailer that also offers cloud computing services.
a major search engine that also offers online apps
a major social networking site with tendrils all over the 'net
a major web hosting/colo company
a government that likes to keep tabs on dissidents
you could easily have access to the sorts of logs in question.
And those sorts of logs are attractive targets for data mining by third parties of various sorts.
The general public still has very little awareness that web surfing is, at least potentially, a lot less anonymous than one might think or hope.
Is this a problem? That depends on one's individual situation.
Ah, but if you can be ID'd on a single site, much of what you do can be tracked. A lot of http access logs are web-accessible.
So if I can associate you with your browser signature on ANY site, I can let my google fingers do the walking. It's a snap.
The snake oil then was a carburator, not fuel injector.
Carburation was one bit of snake oil. There was also:
fuel additives/catalysts
super spark plugs
gadgets to increase voltage to those plugs to make a better spark and as a result faster, more efficient combustion
gadgets to change the airflow pattern in the combustion chamber
and others.
I witnessed one demo in which the mods worked so well that as the demo guy yanked spark plug wires off the plugs, the engine ran better and better. It purred like a kitten when he was down to two working cylinders on a V8. And people were still buying it.
LOAD "PROGRAM",8,1 which directs the external drive to load that code directly into memory
Almost.
the,8 specified device 8 (generally the primary floppy drive) rather than the default cassette tape drive.
(The under 30 drive probably has no idea what either device looks like)
the,8,1 specifies not only device 8, but that code should load not to the default memory loading location (where basic expects it to be) but rather where the code "wants" to live -- the programmer saves with similar options so the code will load into memory ranges used by the programmer when s/he wrote the code.
It booted into the basic interpreter by default, leaving you with 38K for basic. You could configure the memory differently. Writing in assembly not only offered a huge improvement in speed, but freed up the memory range from B000 to Bfff. (And the C000 range was often used by calls to machine language subroutines from basic.)
So, no, it was not just a basic interpreter.
There's at least one running as a web server now.
I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hardware.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Wargames. Ferris Bueller never hacked into any goverment computers.
Unless you consider the school district to be a form of government, that is. (And since school boards are elected, I think they count.) He hacked in to change his number of absences from 9 to (if memory serves) 2.
Sure. One always needs a plan B.
If you rely on cabs and the cabbies go on strike, you need a backup plan.
If your SaaS provider has downtime or goes belly up, you need a backup plan.
If you run your own shop, and equipment or wetware fails, you need a backup plan
Pick your poison. And have a backup plan.
Cabs have to meet a plethora of standards for training, service, pricing, and the vehicle - before it was sold - had to meet engineering standards, and has regular maintenance performed on it to remain insurable.
Standards are dependent on local rules. As to vehicle pre-sale standards -- Servers sold to you are the same ones sold to service providers. There are good cab drivers and bad ones. There are good service providers and bad ones. There are good auto mechanics and bad ones. I would argue that it is easier to get reviews on software service providers than on an individual cabbie before "taking your ride."
All of those things are tantamount to having someone you trust inspect the source you are running on and verify the security of the server for you.
Wait. This is/. Are you saying you trust the government? Oh. that must be why you posted as AC.
You can take a taxicab instead of owning a car that you can work on in your back yard. You don't get to do mechanical work on the cab. You don't care. You are paying for the service -- which includes not having to worry about maintaining the thing.
The whole point of SAaS is turning over control and headaches to someone else.
For starters, hurricanes play a role in climate regulation,
My question was rhetorical.
Given that we can't even get an accurate climate model (or even an accurate local weather report) it would seem that intentionally monkeying with hurricane formation would be a VERY BAD IDEA ®
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to clean up space and restore order.
Are we proposing something like the various ISAC groups such as ren-isac? These have been around for quite a few years.
My memory isn't that good. You are most likely correct.
There was a Flintstones episode on this topic. More about the lyrics, though.
10.6 ships with Rosetta, but it is an optional install.
IIRC, you need it to run Symantec's AV product. (which is wrong on SO many levels.)
No. And I consider it to be a feature, not a bug.
noscript has a means of doing this on a per-site basis. Wildcards are accepted.
You are quite right that the full fingerprint is not generally found in web logs, but user agent string plus IP address is -- and that is not a bad fingerprint, in itself. Now if you happen to be
you could easily have access to the sorts of logs in question.
And those sorts of logs are attractive targets for data mining by third parties of various sorts.
The general public still has very little awareness that web surfing is, at least potentially, a lot less anonymous than one might think or hope.
Is this a problem? That depends on one's individual situation.
Ah, but if you can be ID'd on a single site, much of what you do can be tracked. A lot of http access logs are web-accessible.
So if I can associate you with your browser signature on ANY site, I can let my google fingers do the walking. It's a snap.
Link to a pdf version of the paper? Given recent security problems with that format, does anyone else find it funny?
You forgot the methane and C02 produced by the cows.
Carburation was one bit of snake oil. There was also:
and others.
I witnessed one demo in which the mods worked so well that as the demo guy yanked spark plug wires off the plugs, the engine ran better and better. It purred like a kitten when he was down to two working cylinders on a V8. And people were still buying it.
Same snake oil that was being pitched at county fairs in the 1970s.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
Commercial fusion power will be a reality in 20 years.
hmm. I had birthday set to nobody. After the "upgrade" it was set to everybody. One or two other settings were similarly affected.
Ribbons, Spheres...
We're all in the middle of a cosmic rhythmic gymnastics competition!
LOAD "PROGRAM",8,1 which directs the external drive to load that code directly into memory
Almost. ,8 specified device 8 (generally the primary floppy drive) rather than the default cassette tape drive. ,8,1 specifies not only device 8, but that code should load not to the default memory loading location (where basic expects it to be) but rather where the code "wants" to live -- the programmer saves with similar options so the code will load into memory ranges used by the programmer when s/he wrote the code.
the
(The under 30 drive probably has no idea what either device looks like)
the
It booted into the basic interpreter by default, leaving you with 38K for basic. You could configure the memory differently. Writing in assembly not only offered a huge improvement in speed, but freed up the memory range from B000 to Bfff. (And the C000 range was often used by calls to machine language subroutines from basic.)
So, no, it was not just a basic interpreter.
There's at least one running as a web server now.
I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hardware.
How are you going to explain that if you want to sell that house???
Call it radiant floor heating?
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Wargames. Ferris Bueller never hacked into any goverment computers.
Unless you consider the school district to be a form of government, that is. (And since school boards are elected, I think they count.)
He hacked in to change his number of absences from 9 to (if memory serves) 2.
Car shuts down on tornado chaser that got a bit too close?
Sure. One always needs a plan B.
If you rely on cabs and the cabbies go on strike, you need a backup plan.
If your SaaS provider has downtime or goes belly up, you need a backup plan.
If you run your own shop, and equipment or wetware fails, you need a backup plan
Pick your poison. And have a backup plan.
Standards are dependent on local rules. As to vehicle pre-sale standards -- Servers sold to you are the same ones sold to service providers.
There are good cab drivers and bad ones. There are good service providers and bad ones.
There are good auto mechanics and bad ones.
I would argue that it is easier to get reviews on software service providers than on an individual cabbie before "taking your ride."
Wait. This is /. Are you saying you trust the government? Oh. that must be why you posted as AC.
You can take a taxicab instead of owning a car that you can work on in your back yard.
You don't get to do mechanical work on the cab. You don't care.
You are paying for the service -- which includes not having to worry about maintaining the thing.
The whole point of SAaS is turning over control and headaches to someone else.
For starters, hurricanes play a role in climate regulation,
My question was rhetorical.
Given that we can't even get an accurate climate model (or even an accurate local weather report) it would seem that intentionally monkeying with hurricane formation would be a VERY BAD IDEA ®