Suggestions have been given how to avoid getting your passwords stolen, but sometimes it happens despite one's best efforts. Here are two very useful tips to limit the damage that can be done if any passwords are stolen.
Change your passwords regularly. Be sure to make a list of those used on your vacation and change those when you get back.
Compartementalize your passwords. It's unrealistic to have a unique password for everywhere that requires one, but at least use unique passwords for every service where money is involved.
When you add text to a text file, the text is added at the cursor. In shell's case, the new lines (commands) are always added at the end, not at the cursor. It's not similar to text editing at all.
In conventional command history, the cursor is moved to the end of the list when you add a line to the list, just like you'd have to do in a text editor.
There's also a lack of consistency in doing the most common history task: repeating two commands. Let's say the two commands are "dir a" and "dir b"
Windows:
dir a<enter>
dir b<enter>
<up><up><enter>
<down><enter>
<down><enter> ...
Conventional:
dir a<enter>
dir b<enter>
<up><up><enter>
<up><up><enter>
<up><up><enter> ...
I don't see anyone arguing the merits of Google's action, so I will. From what I can see from the Google cache of the web site, I see that following:
They perform automated queries on Google to get the map pieces in order to produce composite images. (Terms of Service violation)
They produced composite images from Copyrighted material. (Copyright violation)
They hosted (distributed) the composite images made from Copyrighted material. (Copyright violation)
This gives Google good reason to shut down "Google Wallpapers" as it stands. I don't think it Google has any claims against the python script itself, just its users (which includes "Google Wallpapers").
This differs from "Google Sightseeing" and "Chicago Crime" (as far as I know, since I can't verify util the sites are back up), which only link to maps on Google, which means
There are no automated queries. The user must click on the link to view the image.
No derivative product is made. They only provide a link to Google.
No distribution is made. The maps are solely on Google's server.
x.com once announced they were getting a "gazillion" spams a day too. I notice it's now redirects to PayPal. I wonder if they had to get rid of their domain because of the spam.
One has to wonder if the law defines any of the following:
What exactly does shared mean? Windows creates a (password protected) administrative share called \\1.2.3.4\C$ when File Sharing is installed. Does that mean I cannot put the file anywhere on my hard drive (even if I have a legitimate right to the file)? What if someone guesses my password?
What happens the user doesn't know the folder is shared? What happens if malware installs a backdoor sharing my hard drive?
What happens if someone shares the folder after the file is already in it? Does the person who placed the file or the person who shared the folder take the fall?
Useless? Not at all! If the merchant doesn't check the signature, that's his problem. If you don't sign with your own signature, you can then claim "that's not my signature" if you ever need to dispute the charge.
The electronic signature screens around here don't offer proper arm/wrist support while writting, so it's hard to write the signature small enough. Given that, I just sign those with my initials.
That's not a problem, since you don't pay to download those web pages. 0% of $0 is $0. If the web site requires a payed subscription, then a tax can be levied against the payement for the subscription.
I wouldn't put much stock into the parent post. Laws change a lot over 100s of years, and not all of Canada uses a law system based on the British system. Some parts (Québec) use a law system based on the French system.
I beg to differ. You can post intructions (flow chars, pseudocode) on your website to make a certain computer program. You can even post the program yourself (in source code or binary format), as long as you wrote it yourself.
That's no different than your Carbon Tetrachloride example. You can make your own Carbon Tetrachloride, but you can't take some from someone else's warehouse.
Of course, you could ripost with the "copying programs is not stealing" argument, which I won't get into.
So you're saying it's not damage when a tornado or hurricance rips someone's house or town in two?
True, it's is natural behaviour. True, it is changed. But the change came around from the previous environment being obliterated.
Re:"The only way not to get caught is to stop"
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"The only way not to get caught is to stop" only says what happens if you don't stop. Specifically, it says you will get caught if you don't stop. (It's not necessarily true, though.) It doesn't say what happens if you do stop, so there's no implication of amnesty.
Not all of us get this 3 pixel difference.
Co-workers's WinNT + IE (with presumably minimal internal support):
Displays a black box instead of the first 'a'.
My Win2k + IE6:
Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel.
My WinXP + IE6:
Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel.
My WinXP + Mozilla:
Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel.
To "translate foreign movies and make English subtitles" is simply to sub. To fansub is to do this noncommerically. It implies the distribution (for free) of the subbed material.
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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Why would you ban a game (both legit and pirated copies) because it's being pirated? It makes no sense unless there are no legit copies of the game in the country. How can there be no legit copies of a game in the country? Because the country already bans the content of those games (e.g. maybe the game contains a map China doesn't like). So no, this isn't a piracy crackdown.
Flash has a very limited lifetime. For a computer's main memory, I'd prefer a hard drive over flash. Both my camera and my mp3 player use a hard drive, and I've had no problems.
Just how durable is a pizza box? Wouldn't it get damaged really quickly?
What about appearances? Wouldn't carrying a pizza box to college or work every morning get undesired attention? What about people you want to impress? Carrying a pizza around would probably lessen their opinion of you.
Three months is very short. Companies would be more willing to hire you, and more willing to get you a security clearance if necessary, if they can get a better return on their investment.
If a car alarm goes off in the parking lot, who cares.
If someone was driving down the street with a car whose alarm is active, yeah, I'd call the cops.
If someone was walking around with a laptop whose alarm is active, yeah, I'd call the cops.
If it's a false alarm, the cops can sort that out.
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Suggestions have been given how to avoid getting your passwords stolen, but sometimes it happens despite one's best efforts. Here are two very useful tips to limit the damage that can be done if any passwords are stolen.
When you add text to a text file, the text is added at the cursor. In shell's case, the new lines (commands) are always added at the end, not at the cursor. It's not similar to text editing at all.
In conventional command history, the cursor is moved to the end of the list when you add a line to the list, just like you'd have to do in a text editor.
There's also a lack of consistency in doing the most common history task: repeating two commands. Let's say the two commands are "dir a" and "dir b"
Windows:
dir a<enter>
...
dir b<enter>
<up><up><enter>
<down><enter>
<down><enter>
Conventional:
dir a<enter>
...
dir b<enter>
<up><up><enter>
<up><up><enter>
<up><up><enter>
I don't see anyone arguing the merits of Google's action, so I will. From what I can see from the Google cache of the web site, I see that following:
This gives Google good reason to shut down "Google Wallpapers" as it stands. I don't think it Google has any claims against the python script itself, just its users (which includes "Google Wallpapers").
This differs from "Google Sightseeing" and "Chicago Crime" (as far as I know, since I can't verify util the sites are back up), which only link to maps on Google, which means
x.com once announced they were getting a "gazillion" spams a day too. I notice it's now redirects to PayPal. I wonder if they had to get rid of their domain because of the spam.
Wouldn't a real geek be annoyed by their usage of gram as a unit of weight/force?
Or even soft linking! Every try to do something with "c:\shortcut_to_dir\bla.doc"? "c:\shortcut_to_dir.lnk\bla.doc" fails too.
One has to wonder if the law defines any of the following:
What exactly does shared mean? Windows creates a (password protected) administrative share called \\1.2.3.4\C$ when File Sharing is installed. Does that mean I cannot put the file anywhere on my hard drive (even if I have a legitimate right to the file)? What if someone guesses my password?
What happens the user doesn't know the folder is shared? What happens if malware installs a backdoor sharing my hard drive?
What happens if someone shares the folder after the file is already in it? Does the person who placed the file or the person who shared the folder take the fall?
I bet this law has many holes.
Not only does not having an atmosphere leaves dust very sharp, it also makes it very hard to breathe!
Does NAFTA allow us to say no?
Useless? Not at all! If the merchant doesn't check the signature, that's his problem. If you don't sign with your own signature, you can then claim "that's not my signature" if you ever need to dispute the charge.
The electronic signature screens around here don't offer proper arm/wrist support while writting, so it's hard to write the signature small enough. Given that, I just sign those with my initials.
That's not a problem, since you don't pay to download those web pages. 0% of $0 is $0. If the web site requires a payed subscription, then a tax can be levied against the payement for the subscription.
I wouldn't put much stock into the parent post. Laws change a lot over 100s of years, and not all of Canada uses a law system based on the British system. Some parts (Québec) use a law system based on the French system.
No more risky than assuming that 0 is compatible with all pointer types.
While all of those items are useful, noone of them are gadgets.
Not at all. Many open source projects are recreation of closed source, copyrighted software. Samba and WINE come to mind instantly.
I beg to differ. You can post intructions (flow chars, pseudocode) on your website to make a certain computer program. You can even post the program yourself (in source code or binary format), as long as you wrote it yourself.
That's no different than your Carbon Tetrachloride example. You can make your own Carbon Tetrachloride, but you can't take some from someone else's warehouse.
Of course, you could ripost with the "copying programs is not stealing" argument, which I won't get into.
So you're saying it's not damage when a tornado or hurricance rips someone's house or town in two? True, it's is natural behaviour. True, it is changed. But the change came around from the previous environment being obliterated.
"The only way not to get caught is to stop" only says what happens if you don't stop. Specifically, it says you will get caught if you don't stop. (It's not necessarily true, though.) It doesn't say what happens if you do stop, so there's no implication of amnesty.
Not all of us get this 3 pixel difference. Co-workers's WinNT + IE (with presumably minimal internal support): Displays a black box instead of the first 'a'. My Win2k + IE6: Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel. My WinXP + IE6: Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel. My WinXP + Mozilla: Both 'a's are displayed indetically, pixel by pixel.
To "translate foreign movies and make English subtitles" is simply to sub. To fansub is to do this noncommerically. It implies the distribution (for free) of the subbed material.
Why would you ban a game (both legit and pirated copies) because it's being pirated? It makes no sense unless there are no legit copies of the game in the country. How can there be no legit copies of a game in the country? Because the country already bans the content of those games (e.g. maybe the game contains a map China doesn't like). So no, this isn't a piracy crackdown.
Flash has a very limited lifetime. For a computer's main memory, I'd prefer a hard drive over flash. Both my camera and my mp3 player use a hard drive, and I've had no problems.
Just how durable is a pizza box? Wouldn't it get damaged really quickly?
What about appearances? Wouldn't carrying a pizza box to college or work every morning get undesired attention? What about people you want to impress? Carrying a pizza around would probably lessen their opinion of you.
Three months is very short. Companies would be more willing to hire you, and more willing to get you a security clearance if necessary, if they can get a better return on their investment.
If a car alarm goes off in the parking lot, who cares. If someone was driving down the street with a car whose alarm is active, yeah, I'd call the cops. If someone was walking around with a laptop whose alarm is active, yeah, I'd call the cops. If it's a false alarm, the cops can sort that out.