Not to poke holes in your argument.. but it is much better to store a zip code as an int and then pad it with zeroes at the application layer or view. Also, why would you use a varchar for a static length field? As an int your field would be 4 bytes, as a varchar 11 bytes, and as a char 10 bytes.
You know, posting it to virus total just runs it through a static file scanner. Most IE exploits are caught when they attempt to install - you can obfuscate the static code, but you can't obfuscate the call to the system API. VirusTotal is a useful resource, but it doesn't really show anything when it comes to live threats.
Have you not considered using a double with unix timestamps (with microseconds) generated by whatever script is inserting the data? It's essentially the same thing as a native timestamp assuming you don't need anything pre-1970..
I don't think it counts as irony when the statement is the actual point of the story, i.e., that had OSI been like FSF and dependent on a single person, his leaving would have disintegrated it. Nice whoring though:)
I think you are overlooking the fact that you can fit 90 gallons of 1atm air in a much smaller space than a 90 gallon tank via *drumroll*.....compression!
I hope that got modded funny because of the irony of an english nazi sig right under a glaring spelling error, rather than the [quite obvious] fact pointed out therein.
Was the first car designed to go 200mph? Was the first computer designed to do a teraflop? To say that because a concept extends its original specification that it is therefore dangerous is not only stupid, but dangerous backward thinking. With a terabyte of space plenty of parity could be build in and still offer vast improvements over current optical disc storage space.
Just because some stupid girl used a GUI that moved a spotlight over some boxes in Jurassic Park doesn't mean we all have to slave away to build a system to waste our time in an equally useless manner.
What is the need to implant something like this? You would be equally well suited in all those tasks to carry an unmarked gray card in your wallet with an RFID chip in it. I suppose it just seems cool and bleeding edge to want to mutilate your body with one of these things...
Using HAL, someone who could normally lift 100 kilograms at a leg press machine could lift 180 kilograms, Cyberdyne said.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a bad idea to start messing with technology produced by the Cyberdyne Corporation...? Anyone up for a little time travel?
The difference is that a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will kill X and give you a command prompt, whereas Windows has no such option.
That isn't true at all. When I am forced to use IE and it does actually hose my EXPLORER.EXE process, I can hit the three magic keys and restart EXPLORER.EXE through the run utility [in WinXP].
Intelligent and quick-witted people will use this limited tool to find ways to ultimately have a tool which is less limited, less restricted.
Most intelligent and quick-witted internet savvy Chinese have already found a simple way around this before it even came into existence -- that is they use proxy servers to access google.com and get all the uncensored material they want. The problem I think is much more related to people that are not so savvy or quick witted, but still interested in their own freedom.
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Not to poke holes in your argument.. but it is much better to store a zip code as an int and then pad it with zeroes at the application layer or view. Also, why would you use a varchar for a static length field? As an int your field would be 4 bytes, as a varchar 11 bytes, and as a char 10 bytes.
You know, posting it to virus total just runs it through a static file scanner. Most IE exploits are caught when they attempt to install - you can obfuscate the static code, but you can't obfuscate the call to the system API. VirusTotal is a useful resource, but it doesn't really show anything when it comes to live threats.
Have you not considered using a double with unix timestamps (with microseconds) generated by whatever script is inserting the data? It's essentially the same thing as a native timestamp assuming you don't need anything pre-1970..
I don't think it counts as irony when the statement is the actual point of the story, i.e., that had OSI been like FSF and dependent on a single person, his leaving would have disintegrated it. Nice whoring though :)
I think you are overlooking the fact that you can fit 90 gallons of 1atm air in a much smaller space than a 90 gallon tank via *drumroll*.... .compression!
Total crap that actually happens in real life?
I hope that got modded funny because of the irony of an english nazi sig right under a glaring spelling error, rather than the [quite obvious] fact pointed out therein.
What part of 'fiduciary duty' do you not understand?
Until you change the system, it will continue to be garbage-in garbage-out.
Maybe I'm being dense... but don't satellite internet providers route packets through space all day long?
I don't care what they do as long as they don't change the name... then I'd have to change all my doubleclick filters
If we painted all stupid people orange. Then we would know to just stay away from those ones.
There isn't enough manufacturing capacity in all the paint factories in all the world to produce that much orange paint...
Was the first car designed to go 200mph? Was the first computer designed to do a teraflop? To say that because a concept extends its original specification that it is therefore dangerous is not only stupid, but dangerous backward thinking. With a terabyte of space plenty of parity could be build in and still offer vast improvements over current optical disc storage space.
The UCPD is a wholly separate entity from the LAPD. It is the University of California Police Department, found at all UC Campuses.
Must there always be an adversary?
Yes.
Freedom is slavery
War is peace
Ignorance is strength
Or something like that..
I must say, that was the most delicious and artful bit of karma whoring I have ever seen. Cheers on the giant super plus karma missle headed your way.
The future of the past is not the present!
Just because some stupid girl used a GUI that moved a spotlight over some boxes in Jurassic Park doesn't mean we all have to slave away to build a system to waste our time in an equally useless manner.
What is the need to implant something like this? You would be equally well suited in all those tasks to carry an unmarked gray card in your wallet with an RFID chip in it. I suppose it just seems cool and bleeding edge to want to mutilate your body with one of these things...
Using HAL, someone who could normally lift 100 kilograms at a leg press machine could lift 180 kilograms, Cyberdyne said.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a bad idea to start messing with technology produced by the Cyberdyne Corporation...? Anyone up for a little time travel?
The difference is that a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will kill X and give you a command prompt, whereas Windows has no such option.
That isn't true at all. When I am forced to use IE and it does actually hose my EXPLORER.EXE process, I can hit the three magic keys and restart EXPLORER.EXE through the run utility [in WinXP].
Intelligent and quick-witted people will use this limited tool to find ways to ultimately have a tool which is less limited, less restricted. Most intelligent and quick-witted internet savvy Chinese have already found a simple way around this before it even came into existence -- that is they use proxy servers to access google.com and get all the uncensored material they want. The problem I think is much more related to people that are not so savvy or quick witted, but still interested in their own freedom.
Now if only we could get that hydrogen disk into some fuel cells...
Someone's bound to get caught for mail-fraud and bound for federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison (a la Office Space).