I work at a hospital..what if one of our critical care systems were to be infected? Now, we have backups and take pains to ensure that no outside things can get in, but nothing is foolproof. If it affects the care of patient (I.e doctor cant get into a system to see past history of medications right away), who's fault is it?
What if it infects the police computer system, and a cop in a squad car cant identify a criminal who has a warrant out, and then he goes and commits murder that would have been prevented?
Extreme and unlikely examples, yes, but people who write such things open up the possibilities that this may happen and they should be punished.
Do they deserve the death penalty? I don't think so, but life is a reasonable sentence considering the systems that it could affect.
I am very impressed by Ubuntu ease of use, and even more, by their commitment. When you have such an active community and big money behind such a project, it has a very good chance to succeed. It is amazing how much the folks at Ubuntu pay attention to minor usability issues.
If Linux ever becomes mainstream, it will be because of distributions like Ubuntu.
I don't get any spam whatsoever.
Here is the solution:
Have 2 email addresses:
1) you give to friends, coworkers, etc. The one you use.
2) use to sign up for crap
Your #1 will be free of spam and you only use #2 when you need to activate an account, or etc.
Even if you dont use this method, dont give out your email to random websites (duh!). I never understand people who put down their email everywhere.
I think Walmart gives an example of why 100% pure capitalism is a bad thing. Walmart tends to lower the standrd of living in many of the communities it moves in, and increases the unemployment rates. Even when their practices are perfectly legal, they tend to hurt many of the small businesses in the community.
Free market, you say?
Well, if 'free market' lowers the standard of living for so many people, then the concept is flawed.
A lot of free market supporters use the same fervor as the socialists/communitsts do when defending their idealogy and fail to realize there is no such thing as a perfect system.
I am still a Libertarian, but some Wal-Mart fan-boy's need to calm down and analyze exactly what they are supporting.
Something nice I read on www.stophiphop.de (got pointed there by a comment on www.macguardians.de) is this nice story of a hacker: http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?s toryid=184 (site might be down, quite a lot of people are reading this).
In case you don't speak german (just as this hacker), I've tried a little translation to english. I might have made some spelling errors, but the original spelling wasn't perfect either. The guy really said "buy buy" in the german version. I've posted this on the forum on http://www.desertcombat.com before, so if this looks familiar, might be the same. I've corrected some mistakes and put the < > back to the right version (The DC forum does not support them). All censoring was done by this particular forum here. Notice that in germany we get DST earlier than in the US.
The story starts (I'm shortcutting here) with an [Please control your cussing] insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and original author of the comments, who is talking here, is known as Elch. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP-adress of the computer you're currently using, any request there will return to your computer.
QUOTE * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-a97f9137.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#) * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-61a2169c.dip.t-dialin.net) has joined #stopHipHop <bitchchecker> why do you kick me <bitchchecker> can't you discus normally <bitchchecker> answer! <Elch> we didn't kick you <Elch> you had a ping timeout: * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-a97f9137.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#) <bitchchecker> what ping man <bitchchecker> the timing of my pc is right <bitchchecker> i even have dst <bitchchecker> you banned me <bitchchecker> amit it you son of a bitch <HopperHunter|afk> LOL <HopperHunter|afk> shit you're stupid, DST^^ <bitchchecker> shut your mouth WE HAVE DST! <bitchchecker> for two weaks already <bitchchecker> when you start your pc there is a message from windows that DST is applied. <Elch> You're a real computer expert <bitchchecker> shut up i hack you <Elch> ok, i'm quiet, hope you don't show us how good a hacker you are ^^ <bitchchecker> tell me your network number man then you're dead <Elch> Eh, it's 129.0.0.1 <Elch> or maybe 127.0.0.1 <Elch> yes exactly that's it: 127.0.0.1 I'm waiting for you great attack <bitchchecker> in five minutes your hard drive is deleted <Elch> Now I'm frightened <bitchchecker> shut up you'll be gone <bitchchecker> i have a program where i enter your ip and you're dead <bitchchecker> say goodbye <Elch> to whom? <bitchchecker> to you man <bitchchecker> buy buy <Elch> I'm shivering thinking about such great Hack0rs like you * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-61a2169c.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
What happened is clear: That guy entered his own IP-Adress in his mighty Hack-Tool and crashed his own PC. This way, the attack on my PC was a failure. I was already starting to think that I did not have to worry, but a good hacker never calls it a day. Two minutes later he returned.
QUOTE * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-b5cd558e.dip.t-dialin.net) has joined #stopHipHop <bitchchecker> dude be happy my pc crashed otherwise you'd be gone <Metanot> lol <Elch> bitchchecker: Then try hacking me again... I still have the same IP: 127.0.0.1 <bitchchecker> you're so stupid man <bitchchecker> say buy buy <Metanot> ah, [Please control your cussing] off <bitchchecker> buy buy elch * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-b5cd558e.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
Malicious hackers should be flogged in public and executed.
It's gotten so bad with viruses/spyware, etc that I basically have to go to my parents house every month to clean out their computer, even with anti virus software, and anti spyware.
To say a single language is 'all you need' is just plain ignorant. PHP has a lot of things going for it, and for some projects, it might be the best solution.
However, in my experience it has been that although ColdFusion is not free, its cost is recouperated very quickly because the application development time is much lower than that of PHP, and the code is easier to debug and maintain.
Developer time is a lot more expensive than licence fees.
Well, unless the developer is in Banglore:)
ColdFusion is a great web technology thats usually underrated by web developers. I hope Adobe continues to develop it. I prefer it over other languages such as PHP, ASP, etc.
With the MX version, you can actually write java code and call the methods directly from ColdFusion. It would be a shame if it ends.
Crackpottery would be saying something is true and then saying everything must conform to that. Science doesn't work like that. You have a bunch of data, and you make a theory that best fits the evidence. Or you make a theory that makes some prediction. That theory remains valid until some piece of data is uncovered that does not fit in with the theory, at which point the theory is modified.
Right now, black holes are what seem to fit observations and theory. If we get more data (perhaps what this article is referring to) that does not conform, then the theory will change with it.
Thats not crackpottery, thats the way its supposed to work. There is no such thing as a 'final' theory. Its a process.
NASA doesn't need someone who can build a rocket engine. As chief, he wont be building anything himself. His job is to MANAGE and LEAD. And he has the knowledge and experience to do just that.
Computers are a tool. The experience you have while using that tool is an experience:).
Same with, say a drill. FOr example, how was your experience in using that drill?
Also, since computers are tools for entertainment too, it is appropriate to ask that question, just as you would after the movies, concert, etc..
Processor power has been overrated for quite some time. A lot of people don't realize that other components, especially RAM matter just as much, if not more in most every day tasks than pure CPU power. If I had a choice between 2GHZ and 1GB ram, vs. a 4GHZ and 512mb ram, I would definatly recommend the former.
So although this technology will help some people, most people should stay away from it if you are just doing day to day. Does grandma really need dual core processors for sending email and browsing the web anytime soon? Hell, a 500mhz and 256mb is more than enough for a lot of people to write documents and browse the web, but you will never see such a system on Dell website for $120:).
Most people agree that the first two movies were pretty much a disgrase to the fanchise. It seems Lucas has decided that special effects should be the focus of the story, instead of the story. The originals were groundbreaking in their look, but also magnificently told a story. The new movies lack that.
With that said, the second one was slightly better than the abortion that was Episode 1. From early word, the new movie will be dark and full of action, and hopefully it will be worthy of the name Star Wars.
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Very good explanation. Though I think the four letter limit was more of a hinderence than a help.
Another good book is 'Relativity and Common Sense'. It explains the logical progression from Newton to Einstein. It starts off with Gravity, newtonian principles and then starts adding twists.
However, I think that quantom mechanics probably was a bigger discovery than Einstein. The concept of chance at the atomic level was a revelation, and even Einstein had trouble accepting it. However, we can only hope that within our lifetime, someone will succeed in crafting the 'THeory of Everything' which combines theory of large objects such as Planets, galaxies of Einstein with the theory of small things such as atoms of quantam mechanics. Maybe M (string theory) is the answer, maybe not.
But these are exciting times we live in!
By well, if you mean 'not so well', then yes. Compared to management, a lot of phD's don't make all that much in research. Most people go into research (any type of research) because they are intrested in the field and subject.
A 10.0 earthquake has energy equivilant 1,000,000,000,000 tons of TNT. It would create a fault that circles the earth.
A 12.0 on the other hand, with 160,000,000,000,000 tons of tnt energy, would break the hearth in half.
Comparatively, the Northridge, CA quake of 1994 was "only" equal to 5,000,000 tons of emergy.
I would not think a quake, even of this magnitude could have that much effect on rotation. Then again, the speculation is that there could never be enough energy for a 10.0 quake, so 9.0 is pretty high up on the list.
It is impossible to comprehend, but an 8.6 earthquake has enough energy to equal 60,000 hydrogen bombs. Amazing.
Well, I think that it is important to prepare for the eventuality of an ansteroid being on a collision course with us. It wouldn't be fun to test new technology right when an asteroid is heading this way.
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I work at a hospital..what if one of our critical care systems were to be infected? Now, we have backups and take pains to ensure that no outside things can get in, but nothing is foolproof. If it affects the care of patient (I.e doctor cant get into a system to see past history of medications right away), who's fault is it? What if it infects the police computer system, and a cop in a squad car cant identify a criminal who has a warrant out, and then he goes and commits murder that would have been prevented? Extreme and unlikely examples, yes, but people who write such things open up the possibilities that this may happen and they should be punished. Do they deserve the death penalty? I don't think so, but life is a reasonable sentence considering the systems that it could affect.
I am very impressed by Ubuntu ease of use, and even more, by their commitment. When you have such an active community and big money behind such a project, it has a very good chance to succeed. It is amazing how much the folks at Ubuntu pay attention to minor usability issues.
If Linux ever becomes mainstream, it will be because of distributions like Ubuntu.
To give your email away would be an invitation to spammers. Either way A) They win B) They win, and you get spammed I choose, A)..
I don't get any spam whatsoever. Here is the solution: Have 2 email addresses: 1) you give to friends, coworkers, etc. The one you use. 2) use to sign up for crap Your #1 will be free of spam and you only use #2 when you need to activate an account, or etc. Even if you dont use this method, dont give out your email to random websites (duh!). I never understand people who put down their email everywhere.
I think Walmart gives an example of why 100% pure capitalism is a bad thing. Walmart tends to lower the standrd of living in many of the communities it moves in, and increases the unemployment rates. Even when their practices are perfectly legal, they tend to hurt many of the small businesses in the community. Free market, you say? Well, if 'free market' lowers the standard of living for so many people, then the concept is flawed. A lot of free market supporters use the same fervor as the socialists/communitsts do when defending their idealogy and fail to realize there is no such thing as a perfect system. I am still a Libertarian, but some Wal-Mart fan-boy's need to calm down and analyze exactly what they are supporting.
Tin foil hat is firmly secured. Bring it on.
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Something nice I read on www.stophiphop.de (got pointed there by a comment on www.macguardians.de) is this nice story of a hacker: http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new...php?s toryid=184 (site might be down, quite a lot of people are reading this).
In case you don't speak german (just as this hacker), I've tried a little translation to english. I might have made some spelling errors, but the original spelling wasn't perfect either. The guy really said "buy buy" in the german version. I've posted this on the forum on http://www.desertcombat.com before, so if this looks familiar, might be the same. I've corrected some mistakes and put the < > back to the right version (The DC forum does not support them). All censoring was done by this particular forum here.
Notice that in germany we get DST earlier than in the US.
The story starts (I'm shortcutting here) with an [Please control your cussing] insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and original author of the comments, who is talking here, is known as Elch. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP-adress of the computer you're currently using, any request there will return to your computer.
QUOTE
* bitchchecker (~java@euirc-a97f9137.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
* bitchchecker (~java@euirc-61a2169c.dip.t-dialin.net) has joined #stopHipHop
<bitchchecker> why do you kick me
<bitchchecker> can't you discus normally
<bitchchecker> answer!
<Elch> we didn't kick you
<Elch> you had a ping timeout: * bitchchecker (~java@euirc-a97f9137.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
<bitchchecker> what ping man
<bitchchecker> the timing of my pc is right
<bitchchecker> i even have dst
<bitchchecker> you banned me
<bitchchecker> amit it you son of a bitch
<HopperHunter|afk> LOL
<HopperHunter|afk> shit you're stupid, DST^^
<bitchchecker> shut your mouth WE HAVE DST!
<bitchchecker> for two weaks already
<bitchchecker> when you start your pc there is a message from windows that DST is applied.
<Elch> You're a real computer expert
<bitchchecker> shut up i hack you
<Elch> ok, i'm quiet, hope you don't show us how good a hacker you are ^^
<bitchchecker> tell me your network number man then you're dead
<Elch> Eh, it's 129.0.0.1
<Elch> or maybe 127.0.0.1
<Elch> yes exactly that's it: 127.0.0.1 I'm waiting for you great attack
<bitchchecker> in five minutes your hard drive is deleted
<Elch> Now I'm frightened
<bitchchecker> shut up you'll be gone
<bitchchecker> i have a program where i enter your ip and you're dead
<bitchchecker> say goodbye
<Elch> to whom?
<bitchchecker> to you man
<bitchchecker> buy buy
<Elch> I'm shivering thinking about such great Hack0rs like you
* bitchchecker (~java@euirc-61a2169c.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
What happened is clear: That guy entered his own IP-Adress in his mighty Hack-Tool and crashed his own PC. This way, the attack on my PC was a failure. I was already starting to think that I did not have to worry, but a good hacker never calls it a day. Two minutes later he returned.
QUOTE
* bitchchecker (~java@euirc-b5cd558e.dip.t-dialin.net) has joined #stopHipHop
<bitchchecker> dude be happy my pc crashed otherwise you'd be gone
<Metanot> lol
<Elch> bitchchecker: Then try hacking me again... I still have the same IP: 127.0.0.1
<bitchchecker> you're so stupid man
<bitchchecker> say buy buy
<Metanot> ah, [Please control your cussing] off
<bitchchecker> buy buy elch
* bitchchecker (~java@euirc-b5cd558e.dip.t-dialin.net) Quit (Ping timeout#)
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Malicious hackers should be flogged in public and executed. It's gotten so bad with viruses/spyware, etc that I basically have to go to my parents house every month to clean out their computer, even with anti virus software, and anti spyware.
Hmm, I wonder if anyone sells custom made computer cases like this? It would be really cool.
To say a single language is 'all you need' is just plain ignorant. PHP has a lot of things going for it, and for some projects, it might be the best solution. However, in my experience it has been that although ColdFusion is not free, its cost is recouperated very quickly because the application development time is much lower than that of PHP, and the code is easier to debug and maintain. Developer time is a lot more expensive than licence fees. Well, unless the developer is in Banglore :)
ColdFusion is a great web technology thats usually underrated by web developers. I hope Adobe continues to develop it. I prefer it over other languages such as PHP, ASP, etc. With the MX version, you can actually write java code and call the methods directly from ColdFusion. It would be a shame if it ends.
Crackpottery would be saying something is true and then saying everything must conform to that. Science doesn't work like that. You have a bunch of data, and you make a theory that best fits the evidence. Or you make a theory that makes some prediction. That theory remains valid until some piece of data is uncovered that does not fit in with the theory, at which point the theory is modified.
Right now, black holes are what seem to fit observations and theory. If we get more data (perhaps what this article is referring to) that does not conform, then the theory will change with it.
Thats not crackpottery, thats the way its supposed to work. There is no such thing as a 'final' theory. Its a process.
NASA doesn't need someone who can build a rocket engine. As chief, he wont be building anything himself. His job is to MANAGE and LEAD. And he has the knowledge and experience to do just that.
More likely, your ISP would be pissed off at the bandwith before Google notices.
Computers are a tool. The experience you have while using that tool is an experience :).
Same with, say a drill. FOr example, how was your experience in using that drill?
Also, since computers are tools for entertainment too, it is appropriate to ask that question, just as you would after the movies, concert, etc..
Processor power has been overrated for quite some time. A lot of people don't realize that other components, especially RAM matter just as much, if not more in most every day tasks than pure CPU power. If I had a choice between 2GHZ and 1GB ram, vs. a 4GHZ and 512mb ram, I would definatly recommend the former. So although this technology will help some people, most people should stay away from it if you are just doing day to day. Does grandma really need dual core processors for sending email and browsing the web anytime soon? Hell, a 500mhz and 256mb is more than enough for a lot of people to write documents and browse the web, but you will never see such a system on Dell website for $120 :).
Most people agree that the first two movies were pretty much a disgrase to the fanchise. It seems Lucas has decided that special effects should be the focus of the story, instead of the story. The originals were groundbreaking in their look, but also magnificently told a story. The new movies lack that. With that said, the second one was slightly better than the abortion that was Episode 1. From early word, the new movie will be dark and full of action, and hopefully it will be worthy of the name Star Wars.
Very good explanation. Though I think the four letter limit was more of a hinderence than a help.
Another good book is 'Relativity and Common Sense'. It explains the logical progression from Newton to Einstein. It starts off with Gravity, newtonian principles and then starts adding twists. However, I think that quantom mechanics probably was a bigger discovery than Einstein. The concept of chance at the atomic level was a revelation, and even Einstein had trouble accepting it. However, we can only hope that within our lifetime, someone will succeed in crafting the 'THeory of Everything' which combines theory of large objects such as Planets, galaxies of Einstein with the theory of small things such as atoms of quantam mechanics. Maybe M (string theory) is the answer, maybe not. But these are exciting times we live in!
By well, if you mean 'not so well', then yes. Compared to management, a lot of phD's don't make all that much in research. Most people go into research (any type of research) because they are intrested in the field and subject.
Hopefully, this will spur competition and drive the prices down on expensive plasma TV's as well as high end computer screens.
A 10.0 earthquake has energy equivilant 1,000,000,000,000 tons of TNT. It would create a fault that circles the earth. A 12.0 on the other hand, with 160,000,000,000,000 tons of tnt energy, would break the hearth in half. Comparatively, the Northridge, CA quake of 1994 was "only" equal to 5,000,000 tons of emergy.
I would not think a quake, even of this magnitude could have that much effect on rotation. Then again, the speculation is that there could never be enough energy for a 10.0 quake, so 9.0 is pretty high up on the list. It is impossible to comprehend, but an 8.6 earthquake has enough energy to equal 60,000 hydrogen bombs. Amazing.
Now my AOL email will have only 42,000 spam messages a day, instead of the 162,000.
Well, I think that it is important to prepare for the eventuality of an ansteroid being on a collision course with us. It wouldn't be fun to test new technology right when an asteroid is heading this way.