I can't wait to see if they make a decent movie out of Ubik, but the chances are, they'll make another Paycheck instead of Bladerunner or Scanner Darkly
Jeez, do guys you turn off lights by hitting the switch with a hammer? No - I use a pneumatic drill to remove all the wiring all the way back to the fusebox
I agree with you about cigarette smoke, I don't think it's really much of a problem in the open air. Inside, however I can see it being more of a nuisance, but I think that it should be up to the owner/manager of the premises to decide whether to ban smoking (I'm in the UK and disagree with the smoking ban despite not being a smoker myself).
Transport fumes are far more of a problem if only because of the amount of vehicles on the road. People need to wake up and realise that we live in a society where our actions can (and most likely will) have negative effects on others, but there's no point in blaming fat people or smokers whilst ignoring the elephant in the room.
I always thought that you could get around the eternal damnation by accepting Jesus into your heart. Kind of like a get-out-of-jail-free card if you do that and repent before you die. Sudden death presents more of a problem however.
How does moving to a different country change the way that people on slashdot use language?
By the way, what's the penalty if we transgress the laws laid out in the bible?
There's more reason to trust independant coders than a company: independant coders usually produce code because they want the features that they are coding or because they want the kudos for writing it. This would mean that they are far more likely to want to produce quality code, whereas a company will usually want to produce the cheapest code that will gain them money.
Also, the independant coder's code can be peer reviewed and modified as and when necessary, but the proprietary coder is safe in the knowledge that no-one is even allowed to vet the code.
I think this is more of a programming error than a vulnerability. The examples are concatenating the session's representation of a date and then running the resultant sql. It doesn't make much sense to use dynamic sql when you can just directly compare the date variable without having to represent it as a string.
An easy way to bypass this kind of problem (if you really want it to be a dynamic query) is to explicitly specify what date format you want e.g.
to_date(@date, 'YYYYMMDD')
Of course, you wouldn't want dynamic sql anyway unless the database statistics were poorly set up (no histograms on skewed data sets).
You're probably right about the law not caring about the details. However, I don't agree that the uploader is making the copy. I'm no expert on p2p, but isn't the uploader just reading the data and sending pieces of it over the network - the copy doesn't exist until the downloader saves to disk.
It'll be interesting to see how the case continues - I'm rooting for the EFF as I believe there has to be proof that copyright was infringed, not just an intention to infringe. I personally believe that copyrights have outlived their usefulness in this age - technology is advancing too quickly for the law to be able to keep up.
Hmmm - I'm not sure your analogy is that much better.
The guy on the street is actually making the copy, whereas with p2p, the recipient is making the copy - which is not infringing copyright if they are authorised. A policeman being authorised to buy unauthorised copies is different to an authorised person making a copy over p2p.
Why should the onus be on the defendant to ensure that other people are authorized?
Bad Car Analogy 1: If I lend my car to a friend, would it be my responsibility to ensure that they comply with the law? How am I supposed to ensure that they don't speed or drive recklessly?
As I understand it, the potential downloader/borrower is responsible for whether their own actions are in compliance with the law.
That's a fair point - it's much more difficult to beef up security if the user is blind. My bank (LloydsTSB) uses the drop down list method to enter three characters from my super-secret password (you need a normal userid and password to get to that screen), so I imagine that screen readers would be able to speak the current letter/number and of course you can use up/down cursor keys to use the drop down list.
There are easy methods to defeat a keylogger though most of them rely on the server side. Asking for only certain characters from a password (e.g. characters 1,4,8 & 9); virtual screen keyboards (just mouseclicks are recorded); drop down lists to select characters.
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Time slowed down for me when I watched "Perfect Storm"
I don't see why you'd need RFIDs to track down the person returning rubbish. Most stores I've been to take your address when you return something, so if someone is scamming, it should be easy for the store to track down the person by looking up the serial number on the box.
I was being deadly serious.
Madonna is quite simply the best artist in the world (including all other art-forms both past and present). She is also the mother of Christ and a superb footballer. No-one compares to her.
When comparing stealing from a store with copying music, there's important differences.
Stealing from a store is a criminal act and directly deprives the store of the physical media.
Copying music is not a criminal act and doesn't deprive anyone of the physical media.
Also, it's a basic human desire to share something good with other people. It's partly how society develops - the sharing of knowledge. I can understand the uses of a reasonable copyright term, but the current copyright terms are ridiculous (i.e. way beyond the life of the artist).
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I can see why you chose to post anonymously. If you don't like Blade Runner, you should hand your geek card in on your way out.
I liked the effect - it gave it a kind of alternate reality look to it which is a common theme in P.K.Dick's work.
It was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS which was semi-autobiographical.
I can't wait to see if they make a decent movie out of Ubik, but the chances are, they'll make another Paycheck instead of Bladerunner or Scanner Darkly
Why was 3.1 any good? Multi-tasking? Shiny gui?
You keep using that word - I don't think you understand what it means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
Why would that be abusing relational database techniques?
How about an EMPLOYEE table that has a primary key (ID) and a field called MANAGER that links to the primary key?
I agree with you about cigarette smoke, I don't think it's really much of a problem in the open air. Inside, however I can see it being more of a nuisance, but I think that it should be up to the owner/manager of the premises to decide whether to ban smoking (I'm in the UK and disagree with the smoking ban despite not being a smoker myself).
Transport fumes are far more of a problem if only because of the amount of vehicles on the road. People need to wake up and realise that we live in a society where our actions can (and most likely will) have negative effects on others, but there's no point in blaming fat people or smokers whilst ignoring the elephant in the room.
I always thought that you could get around the eternal damnation by accepting Jesus into your heart. Kind of like a get-out-of-jail-free card if you do that and repent before you die. Sudden death presents more of a problem however.
Excellent! I'm going to wait by my letterbox.
How does moving to a different country change the way that people on slashdot use language?
By the way, what's the penalty if we transgress the laws laid out in the bible?
There's more reason to trust independant coders than a company: independant coders usually produce code because they want the features that they are coding or because they want the kudos for writing it. This would mean that they are far more likely to want to produce quality code, whereas a company will usually want to produce the cheapest code that will gain them money. Also, the independant coder's code can be peer reviewed and modified as and when necessary, but the proprietary coder is safe in the knowledge that no-one is even allowed to vet the code.
Can I ask why are you reading and posting on this discussion if you have no interest in it?
I think this is more of a programming error than a vulnerability. The examples are concatenating the session's representation of a date and then running the resultant sql. It doesn't make much sense to use dynamic sql when you can just directly compare the date variable without having to represent it as a string. An easy way to bypass this kind of problem (if you really want it to be a dynamic query) is to explicitly specify what date format you want e.g. to_date(@date, 'YYYYMMDD') Of course, you wouldn't want dynamic sql anyway unless the database statistics were poorly set up (no histograms on skewed data sets).
You're probably right about the law not caring about the details. However, I don't agree that the uploader is making the copy. I'm no expert on p2p, but isn't the uploader just reading the data and sending pieces of it over the network - the copy doesn't exist until the downloader saves to disk. It'll be interesting to see how the case continues - I'm rooting for the EFF as I believe there has to be proof that copyright was infringed, not just an intention to infringe. I personally believe that copyrights have outlived their usefulness in this age - technology is advancing too quickly for the law to be able to keep up.
Hmmm - I'm not sure your analogy is that much better. The guy on the street is actually making the copy, whereas with p2p, the recipient is making the copy - which is not infringing copyright if they are authorised. A policeman being authorised to buy unauthorised copies is different to an authorised person making a copy over p2p.
Why should the onus be on the defendant to ensure that other people are authorized? Bad Car Analogy 1: If I lend my car to a friend, would it be my responsibility to ensure that they comply with the law? How am I supposed to ensure that they don't speed or drive recklessly? As I understand it, the potential downloader/borrower is responsible for whether their own actions are in compliance with the law.
That's a fair point - it's much more difficult to beef up security if the user is blind. My bank (LloydsTSB) uses the drop down list method to enter three characters from my super-secret password (you need a normal userid and password to get to that screen), so I imagine that screen readers would be able to speak the current letter/number and of course you can use up/down cursor keys to use the drop down list.
There are easy methods to defeat a keylogger though most of them rely on the server side. Asking for only certain characters from a password (e.g. characters 1,4,8 & 9); virtual screen keyboards (just mouseclicks are recorded); drop down lists to select characters.
Time slowed down for me when I watched "Perfect Storm"
I don't see why you'd need RFIDs to track down the person returning rubbish. Most stores I've been to take your address when you return something, so if someone is scamming, it should be easy for the store to track down the person by looking up the serial number on the box.
Because of all the wars and misery created by religions
I was being deadly serious. Madonna is quite simply the best artist in the world (including all other art-forms both past and present). She is also the mother of Christ and a superb footballer. No-one compares to her.
When comparing stealing from a store with copying music, there's important differences. Stealing from a store is a criminal act and directly deprives the store of the physical media. Copying music is not a criminal act and doesn't deprive anyone of the physical media. Also, it's a basic human desire to share something good with other people. It's partly how society develops - the sharing of knowledge. I can understand the uses of a reasonable copyright term, but the current copyright terms are ridiculous (i.e. way beyond the life of the artist).
I don't see how copyright infringement is breaking the law. What law has been broken? All the RIAA lawsuits are civil cases, not criminal cases.