Somebody who posted here a week ago the last time we had this article had asked this question of Abbott somewhere and got the answer that they favoured a stronger filtering scheme. I suppose I could dig it up but that was what I read anyway.
I have been doing a bit of work with sqlite lately and I am surprised to find that the C api is basically a way to pass in strings containing SQL commands. Now even in C I could imagine an API which allows you to build up queries to do everything SQL does without using commands in text strings.
Somebody rings you up or corners you in the street and asks you if you support internet filtering and you say yes so you don't look like a creep but when you get into the polling booth it might be an entirely different situation.
It'd be funny if Conroy put his top secret plans in that static array. Of course accessing them would be illegal hacking by the definition currently used in government here.
almost three quarters of the people stayed mainly within about a 20-mile circle for the entire six months, and nearly half the people rarely strayed outside a six-mile circle.
Reading that I had this eerie recollection of radio tagging studies on animals, and how they seem to follow patterns similar to this.
I think my disquiet with the idea of life on Enceladus involves the fact that while there might be a lot of heat on Enceladus there is very little concentrated, high quality heat. Volcanos, impacts and solar energy on Earth create pockets of highly concentrated energy which can act as incubators. These can't exist in the interior of Enceladus. Impacts may raise the temperature of the surface but the environments they create will be short lived.
I just want to point out that Enceladus can't have undersea volcanic vents like ours because it is a lump of ice a few hundred kilometers across. It may well have some rock deep down but there won't be enough for it to be liquid and to have volcanos. To have volcanos you need a deep mantle of hot rock.
You can have cryovolcanos but we don't have evidence of life forming there.
The conditions on Enceladus are believed to be short lived.
Where are you getting that from? Why would its tidal force heating have been less in the past?
There have been many articles which try to explain the gap in the known energy input from tidal heating and the known energy output of the plumes. This PDF suggests that we are now seeing energy released from a recent period when the orbital eccentricity was higher and the moon absorbed more heat. The upshot seems to be that current conditions are temporary and can't be used to model the entire history of the moon.
Even if conditions inside Enceladus could support some of the bacteria we have now on Earth they would not allow it to evolve. Most of the theories about the evolution of very primitive life require high quality energy from impacts, lightening, etc. Enceladus doesn't have these things. It also takes time. Possibly 500 million years or more and Enceladus doesn't have that as well.
If there happen to be biological fragments floating around in space, they might land on Enceladus and take advantage of the short-term conditions.
That was my second point. The surface is at 50 degrees K and is exposed to a lot of radiation. "Biological fragments floating around in space" would not find their way into the warm environment under ground.
The conditions on Enceladus are believed to be short lived. It hasn't been going on for billions of years so complex life forms can not have had time to evolve.
Life could come from elsewhere on comets, meteors, etc but the habitable places are deep inside the moon so they can't be colonized that way.
Yeah but I think that is changing. Now a cheap cell phone is the easiest way to get communicating, and amateur gear won't get that working. If the infrastructure is in place but not working then hooking up a generator may be the best thing you can do. Amateur radio operators could help if local communication infrastructure is totally destroyed but doubt that was the case in Haiti.
it is my understanding that the same filter will be applied at school and at home w/ the release of the laptops for all yr9 students.
Deals Direct had an asus netbook for $250. Its not like people can't buy their own gear. Or they could just run a live cd. If the school owns the laptop there isn't much you can do about filtering.
I really don't see a problem with that. Students can go home and search to their hearts content and to my knowledge teachers and administrators act as if their control ends at the school boundary. My son is a grade two student at an Australian primary school. Students have internet access so they can run online educational applications. At home I supervise his internet access. I accept that teachers can't to that every second of the day at school.
So the lawyer thought they could win and was wrong. That somehow excuses them from being pricks by suing in the first place? You make it sound like the lawyer somehow forced Magic Jack to sue.
Yes. A good lawyer should have told them they had no chance of winning the lawsuit. Prosecuting a libel case in the US is extremely difficult even when the plaintiff has a legitimate case to make.
But that lawyer would have walked away with less money.
IIRC a scammer replaced the reader on a supermarket checkout at one point and skimmed a lot of cards.
Here in Perth, Western Australia, there have been lots of cases where skimmers have been installed at fake food joints like McDonalds or Hungry Jack's.
Nothing at Dead Rooster?
I think the case I recall was in Coles or Safeway in Melbourne.
Buy a commercial van, outfit it with signage "Bobs fuel pump repair services" or some such. Carry the right tools. Make the attendant sign a receipt for the work. Turn up, install your stuff and go. Fake plates obviously.
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This is like indicting a *nix shell for letting you do "rm -rf /".
Unix has an API for that. You are not supposed to invoke shell commands to remove files.
Somebody who posted here a week ago the last time we had this article had asked this question of Abbott somewhere and got the answer that they favoured a stronger filtering scheme. I suppose I could dig it up but that was what I read anyway.
Sounds like a problem with sqlite, not SQL in general.
So why can sql code ever be injected on other platforms?
Instead of execute_command("create table X")
I want to see create_table("X")
I have been doing a bit of work with sqlite lately and I am surprised to find that the C api is basically a way to pass in strings containing SQL commands. Now even in C I could imagine an API which allows you to build up queries to do everything SQL does without using commands in text strings.
With an OO language it should be dead easy.
If it didn't work with year 11 students at my high school I doubt it would work with our other fauna.
Somebody rings you up or corners you in the street and asks you if you support internet filtering and you say yes so you don't look like a creep but when you get into the polling booth it might be an entirely different situation.
Any competent opposition could make it into a very major issue.
*sigh*..
Unfortunately the opposition would like to see an even stronger filter.
It'd be funny if Conroy put his top secret plans in that static array. Of course accessing them would be illegal hacking by the definition currently used in government here.
USE YOUR NOGGINS, INTERNET
Fat chance!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling
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almost three quarters of the people stayed mainly within about a 20-mile circle for the entire six months, and nearly half the people rarely strayed outside a six-mile circle.
Reading that I had this eerie recollection of radio tagging studies on animals, and how they seem to follow patterns similar to this.
It also takes time. Possibly 500 million years or more and Enceladus doesn't have that as well.
What are you talking about? Life here on Earth has only been around for 8000 years. Of course only non-intelligent life actually believes that.
Old meme is old.
I think my disquiet with the idea of life on Enceladus involves the fact that while there might be a lot of heat on Enceladus there is very little concentrated, high quality heat. Volcanos, impacts and solar energy on Earth create pockets of highly concentrated energy which can act as incubators. These can't exist in the interior of Enceladus. Impacts may raise the temperature of the surface but the environments they create will be short lived.
I just want to point out that Enceladus can't have undersea volcanic vents like ours because it is a lump of ice a few hundred kilometers across. It may well have some rock deep down but there won't be enough for it to be liquid and to have volcanos. To have volcanos you need a deep mantle of hot rock.
You can have cryovolcanos but we don't have evidence of life forming there.
The conditions on Enceladus are believed to be short lived.
Where are you getting that from? Why would its tidal force heating have been less in the past?
There have been many articles which try to explain the gap in the known energy input from tidal heating and the known energy output of the plumes. This PDF suggests that we are now seeing energy released from a recent period when the orbital eccentricity was higher and the moon absorbed more heat. The upshot seems to be that current conditions are temporary and can't be used to model the entire history of the moon.
There's nothing to say it couldn't happen much much faster on Enceladus
Overall there is less energy and less space on Enceladus so I predict that evolution will happen slower there.
Even if conditions inside Enceladus could support some of the bacteria we have now on Earth they would not allow it to evolve. Most of the theories about the evolution of very primitive life require high quality energy from impacts, lightening, etc. Enceladus doesn't have these things. It also takes time. Possibly 500 million years or more and Enceladus doesn't have that as well.
If there happen to be biological fragments floating around in space, they might land on Enceladus and take advantage of the short-term conditions.
That was my second point. The surface is at 50 degrees K and is exposed to a lot of radiation. "Biological fragments floating around in space" would not find their way into the warm environment under ground.
The conditions on Enceladus are believed to be short lived. It hasn't been going on for billions of years so complex life forms can not have had time to evolve.
Life could come from elsewhere on comets, meteors, etc but the habitable places are deep inside the moon so they can't be colonized that way.
I just mean: If you want to do your own stuff buy a cheap netbook.
Yeah but I think that is changing. Now a cheap cell phone is the easiest way to get communicating, and amateur gear won't get that working. If the infrastructure is in place but not working then hooking up a generator may be the best thing you can do. Amateur radio operators could help if local communication infrastructure is totally destroyed but doubt that was the case in Haiti.
it is my understanding that the same filter will be applied at school and at home w/ the release of the laptops for all yr9 students.
Deals Direct had an asus netbook for $250. Its not like people can't buy their own gear. Or they could just run a live cd. If the school owns the laptop there isn't much you can do about filtering.
I really don't see a problem with that. Students can go home and search to their hearts content and to my knowledge teachers and administrators act as if their control ends at the school boundary. My son is a grade two student at an Australian primary school. Students have internet access so they can run online educational applications. At home I supervise his internet access. I accept that teachers can't to that every second of the day at school.
So the lawyer thought they could win and was wrong. That somehow excuses them from being pricks by suing in the first place? You make it sound like the lawyer somehow forced Magic Jack to sue.
Yes. A good lawyer should have told them they had no chance of winning the lawsuit. Prosecuting a libel case in the US is extremely difficult even when the plaintiff has a legitimate case to make.
But that lawyer would have walked away with less money.
IIRC a scammer replaced the reader on a supermarket checkout at one point and skimmed a lot of cards.
Here in Perth, Western Australia, there have been lots of cases where skimmers have been installed at fake food joints like McDonalds or Hungry Jack's.
Nothing at Dead Rooster?
I think the case I recall was in Coles or Safeway in Melbourne.
Buy a commercial van, outfit it with signage "Bobs fuel pump repair services" or some such. Carry the right tools. Make the attendant sign a receipt for the work. Turn up, install your stuff and go. Fake plates obviously.