Of course it's about unions. Look who is being targeted. What other possibilities are there? These smart-phone toting "protestors" aren't protesting working conditions overseas, that would be amazingly hypocritical. It can't be the greenies, these ride shares are getting single occupant cars off the roads. It's not going to be any Democrat groups, many of those targeted are going to be liberal Dems given the region of the country. Who is left other than organized labor? Who else would have an axe to grind against these workers?
Maybe the people who both live and work in the city, and have done so for years, who suddenly find they can't afford to live there anymore due to new people who spend 90% of their time outside the city being hired by companies outside the city and provided with free transportation to their rental units.
Well, there were typos and dupes, so the 1.5M got modded up.
I thought the $40-50 million was in beowulf clusters of hot grits futures? Once Netcraft confirmed they were dead, the market deflated to a measly $1.5 million.
So, imagine a page that draws the same way every time you load it, but internally the non-password fields are randomly given name tags of 'field1' through 'field5'. Some times the username is field1, some times the recipient name is field1, and some times the amount to be transferred is field1. If those fields are shaped identically, a bot will have difficulty identifying which is which without parsing adjacent objects and looking for the drawn keywords that humans use.
...which is exactly how many of these programs work. Field labels tell the bot nothing; what they usually do is fuzz the site and test the results. If the field names change, so what?
Now, if the site uses images instead of text, and the images are generated and labelled randomly and on the fly, and the fields are randomized, this technique may stop forum spam and aid captcha in keeping out bots. It won't really do much against malware though.
Actually, this gives me a great idea for a new captcha mechanism: the captcha actually asks you about some other page element that is based on page randomization. It'd probably work better than the broken systems that are currently in use in most places.
Instead of one target to attack (the target website), there are now 2 targets to attack: the shapeshifter obfuscation box and the target website.
Indeed -- and if you target the web server and not shapeshifter, then you get free malware obfuscation that will likely bypass many malware scanners. Nothing like getting the local server to do the malware author's job for them -- I see these setups as being very desirable infection targets, as nobody will be sure whether the malicious code appended to the data stream is intentional or not.
One thing to add: FM stations come up against the same barriers as you do: music licensing. As a result, if you listen to FM, you're only going to hear around 1 or 2 new songs/artists per month. You can do better than that via word of mouth, with people humming or singing a catchy tune that others think they might want to google/spotify/etc. Hey... you can do better than that watching American Idol (or knowing someone who does). FM is for listening to a familiar set of music, plus radio jockey, plus ads, plus the odd news tidbit. Or for listening to created content (talk shows, news, traffic, weather, etc). You get a better music mix by taking 5 minutes to do it yourself before you leave the house.
Not sure how that will work out, a bunch of Americans with handguns/riffles and the army with cool toys like the 50-cal to "re-establish law and order".
Flip side they might suffer from "Tienanmen square syndrome" where the local army refused to open fire on its own citizens so they had to bring in the army from another region.
How many times has the US "taken up arms in revolution" vs taking whatever was given?
Actually, I think you'd find that most of the US millitary would refuse to open fire on citizens -- and you'd likely find that a large number of the people taking up arms were actually associated with the military in one way or another (national guard, vets, etc.).
Still -- history paints a detailed picture of how it would work out, and it's not a pretty one.
I am part of the Canadian music HOBBY and I'm not in favour either. The fact that you said "favor" makes me doubt whether you're really Canadian, but I know many musicians, both inside and outside the industry, who aren't in favour. In general, the CRIA is understood to represent RIAA interests and only represent the Canadian recording industry as a hobby themselves.
Why do these people think they deserve to be treated so specially? They're not the only ones who have their work "thieved" (hell, they're considered thieves by a lot of the people they're supposed to represent), and every concession we've made for them in Canada hasn't been enough. At some point you have to accept reality, and stop trying to control it.
Look at it the other way... they keep asking for another pony, and more often than not, they get it. Why would they want to stop asking?
It's slightly easier to bag on you because of the differences in our electoral systems. ~65-70% of the people that voted didn't vote for the current Conservative government. The Parliamentary system coupled with first-past-the-post voting means that highly contested ridings can go to someone that only got 30-40% of the vote.
But being lumped together isn't any fun, I'll grant you. Good luck.
Plus, in the US, taking up arms in revolution against corrupt government is enshrined in the constitution -- in Canada, we have to ask the Queen of England to intervene.
Don't they get money for MP3 player and memory card sales? It strikes me that nothing will make people think piracy is okay, like being billed for the music in advance through a tax on the device they buy.
The point is, if you're paying the tariff in advance and it's legal to copy, it's not piracy; it's legal copying of music available under copyright law to citizens of the country (and is already paid for through kickbacks to ASCAP et al). The people who lose out are the indy artists who aren't signed up to get a cut of the tariff -- because their material IS being pirated, but nobody realizes it. Of course, these are the groups who usually give away their music for free and make money in other ways.
All the music I listen to is 100% free to download.
How do people usually find out about these recording artists who offer their own professional-quality music for download at no charge? Virtually none of the music played on FCC-licensed U.S. FM stations is free as in speech or free as in beer, and I doubt CRTC-licensed Canadian FM stations differ.
Well... there you have it. People who are still limiting themselves to FM transmissions are missing out.
For the rest of us, new music is promoted through social media and "if you listen to this, you might also like...." on streaming radio. Just using Google does amazingly well too.
And then, of course, there's the fact that CBC Radio 2 picks up a lot of independent music, and provides links to the band's websites on their site, along with a historical playlist so you can find the songs/artists you listened to earlier in the day on FM, if you're into that.
I presume this is supposed to be sarcasm or irony, but I don't get it.
The reason for full access is so that the people running the system have an understanding of what its doing and can do a thorough review. If they're hacked or leak sensitive information, that's their problem. But if they depend on a black box from a major tech company, they have no idea whether it has been hacked or not, until it's too late.
Thinking about it some more, it could be due to the fact that their primary food source in the wild (not city landfills) is the same fish that eagles and other predatory birds go after -- so often seagulls will create a swarming shield around the eagles to keep them away from the food source, with individual gulls dropping out to feed and then resuming the shield. So the swarming method just works better for them when they're not soaring as individuals.
I see a good thesis around the study of gull flight behaviour....
It was assumed by many, but it's been tested in one manner or another for decades.
a definitive account of the aerodynamic implications of these formations has remained elusive.
I guess it depends what you consider "definitive" -- and that's going to be different for each type of bird. The aerodynamic implications have been tested before, and the conclusions, unsurprisingly, were the same.
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Of course it's about unions. Look who is being targeted. What other possibilities are there? These smart-phone toting "protestors" aren't protesting working conditions overseas, that would be amazingly hypocritical. It can't be the greenies, these ride shares are getting single occupant cars off the roads. It's not going to be any Democrat groups, many of those targeted are going to be liberal Dems given the region of the country. Who is left other than organized labor? Who else would have an axe to grind against these workers?
Maybe the people who both live and work in the city, and have done so for years, who suddenly find they can't afford to live there anymore due to new people who spend 90% of their time outside the city being hired by companies outside the city and provided with free transportation to their rental units.
Well, there were typos and dupes, so the 1.5M got modded up.
I thought the $40-50 million was in beowulf clusters of hot grits futures? Once Netcraft confirmed they were dead, the market deflated to a measly $1.5 million.
But . . . but . . . . but . . . . but . . . . Cmdr Taco says "Slashdot combines editor quality control and insight"
It must be true!!!
I definitely gain insight into the control of quality editors on /. -- but I'm not sure I'd want to brag about it.
Emacs!
Fun fact about Canada, if you live in Southern Ontario ... if you were educated in the 80's, ... it's been hell ever since.
Well, if you live in Southern Ontario, you're south of 49 anyway :D
So, imagine a page that draws the same way every time you load it, but internally the non-password fields are randomly given name tags of 'field1' through 'field5'. Some times the username is field1, some times the recipient name is field1, and some times the amount to be transferred is field1. If those fields are shaped identically, a bot will have difficulty identifying which is which without parsing adjacent objects and looking for the drawn keywords that humans use.
...which is exactly how many of these programs work. Field labels tell the bot nothing; what they usually do is fuzz the site and test the results. If the field names change, so what?
Now, if the site uses images instead of text, and the images are generated and labelled randomly and on the fly, and the fields are randomized, this technique may stop forum spam and aid captcha in keeping out bots. It won't really do much against malware though.
Actually, this gives me a great idea for a new captcha mechanism: the captcha actually asks you about some other page element that is based on page randomization. It'd probably work better than the broken systems that are currently in use in most places.
If anybody knows how to configure this thing to produce better content, we're hiring -- check the dice.com job board to apply.
http://interconnected.org/home...
It's time to reKant!
No, it will "polymorphically" add Slashvertisements to the pages you get served.
... maybe it'll prevent dupes?
Instead of one target to attack (the target website), there are now 2 targets to attack: the shapeshifter obfuscation box and the target website.
Indeed -- and if you target the web server and not shapeshifter, then you get free malware obfuscation that will likely bypass many malware scanners. Nothing like getting the local server to do the malware author's job for them -- I see these setups as being very desirable infection targets, as nobody will be sure whether the malicious code appended to the data stream is intentional or not.
One thing to add: FM stations come up against the same barriers as you do: music licensing. As a result, if you listen to FM, you're only going to hear around 1 or 2 new songs/artists per month. You can do better than that via word of mouth, with people humming or singing a catchy tune that others think they might want to google/spotify/etc. Hey... you can do better than that watching American Idol (or knowing someone who does). FM is for listening to a familiar set of music, plus radio jockey, plus ads, plus the odd news tidbit. Or for listening to created content (talk shows, news, traffic, weather, etc). You get a better music mix by taking 5 minutes to do it yourself before you leave the house.
Not sure how that will work out, a bunch of Americans with handguns/riffles and the army with cool toys like the 50-cal to "re-establish law and order".
Flip side they might suffer from "Tienanmen square syndrome" where the local army refused to open fire on its own citizens so they had to bring in the army from another region.
How many times has the US "taken up arms in revolution" vs taking whatever was given?
Actually, I think you'd find that most of the US millitary would refuse to open fire on citizens -- and you'd likely find that a large number of the people taking up arms were actually associated with the military in one way or another (national guard, vets, etc.).
Still -- history paints a detailed picture of how it would work out, and it's not a pretty one.
I am part of the Canadian music HOBBY and I'm not in favour either. The fact that you said "favor" makes me doubt whether you're really Canadian, but I know many musicians, both inside and outside the industry, who aren't in favour. In general, the CRIA is understood to represent RIAA interests and only represent the Canadian recording industry as a hobby themselves.
Why do these people think they deserve to be treated so specially? They're not the only ones who have their work "thieved" (hell, they're considered thieves by a lot of the people they're supposed to represent), and every concession we've made for them in Canada hasn't been enough. At some point you have to accept reality, and stop trying to control it.
Look at it the other way... they keep asking for another pony, and more often than not, they get it. Why would they want to stop asking?
It's slightly easier to bag on you because of the differences in our electoral systems. ~65-70% of the people that voted didn't vote for the current Conservative government. The Parliamentary system coupled with first-past-the-post voting means that highly contested ridings can go to someone that only got 30-40% of the vote.
But being lumped together isn't any fun, I'll grant you. Good luck.
Plus, in the US, taking up arms in revolution against corrupt government is enshrined in the constitution -- in Canada, we have to ask the Queen of England to intervene.
Don't they get money for MP3 player and memory card sales? It strikes me that nothing will make people think piracy is okay, like being billed for the music in advance through a tax on the device they buy.
The point is, if you're paying the tariff in advance and it's legal to copy, it's not piracy; it's legal copying of music available under copyright law to citizens of the country (and is already paid for through kickbacks to ASCAP et al). The people who lose out are the indy artists who aren't signed up to get a cut of the tariff -- because their material IS being pirated, but nobody realizes it. Of course, these are the groups who usually give away their music for free and make money in other ways.
All the music I listen to is 100% free to download.
How do people usually find out about these recording artists who offer their own professional-quality music for download at no charge? Virtually none of the music played on FCC-licensed U.S. FM stations is free as in speech or free as in beer, and I doubt CRTC-licensed Canadian FM stations differ.
Well... there you have it. People who are still limiting themselves to FM transmissions are missing out.
For the rest of us, new music is promoted through social media and "if you listen to this, you might also like...." on streaming radio. Just using Google does amazingly well too.
And then, of course, there's the fact that CBC Radio 2 picks up a lot of independent music, and provides links to the band's websites on their site, along with a historical playlist so you can find the songs/artists you listened to earlier in the day on FM, if you're into that.
Stick shift models:
LRLRUUDD
Gives you the entire deluxe package, and is hard-coded into the vehicle.
... that the Solarian civil war had finally ended and the sun was at peace once more.
I presume this is supposed to be sarcasm or irony, but I don't get it.
The reason for full access is so that the people running the system have an understanding of what its doing and can do a thorough review. If they're hacked or leak sensitive information, that's their problem. But if they depend on a black box from a major tech company, they have no idea whether it has been hacked or not, until it's too late.
Didn't we just have an article about people fabricating arms for poor people in Africa?
Oh wait... that was legs. Nevermind.
What happened to China supporting Red Flag Linux? And Ubuntu China? Why are they doing yet another nationalized distro?
Does this one have any benefit over the others?
Maybe the one where they've got so much money that they can drop $3.2bn on a thermostat company and count it as an operating expense?
An ATM should be running off a custom embedded OS targeted for this purpose, not a commodity OS.
It is... it's called XP Embedded, as outlined in the summary. And yes, bank machines were a major target during XP Embedded's design phase.
Of course, it would make MORE sense to use an embedded OS where the banks/ATM manufacturers have full access to the source.
2000's: naughties
2010's: twenteens (or just teens)
GIF: Ghiff
PNG: Ping
LOL: ell-oh-ell (lolling is something different)
Shall we play again?
Thinking about it some more, it could be due to the fact that their primary food source in the wild (not city landfills) is the same fish that eagles and other predatory birds go after -- so often seagulls will create a swarming shield around the eagles to keep them away from the food source, with individual gulls dropping out to feed and then resuming the shield. So the swarming method just works better for them when they're not soaring as individuals.
I see a good thesis around the study of gull flight behaviour....
It was assumed by many, but it's been tested in one manner or another for decades.
a definitive account of the aerodynamic implications of these formations has remained elusive.
I guess it depends what you consider "definitive" -- and that's going to be different for each type of bird. The aerodynamic implications have been tested before, and the conclusions, unsurprisingly, were the same.