I guess these days you could send flowers with "call me" just as fast as a telegram
Actually, I have never been able to send flowers without the reciever's phone number. They usually want to call to make sure someone is home before they go to deliver.
If he was really so giving, why doesn't he donate off 20 billion or so? Why all these plerthy hundred thousand dollar donations (a pittance to him)?
He could donate 20 billion dollars next year, and *sill* have 20 billion left. Of god, I wonder if he can live on 20 billion dollars??? Here come the violins...
Condiser this - Christian Childrens Fun is one of the largest charities catering to the third world in America. Even so, since 1938 they have only delivered 2.5 billion dollars in aid. Gates could give 10 times that at once and still be one of the richest people in the world. Such a massive donation would save the lives of millions upon millions.
Or alternativly, if he wanted to stay closer to home, Bill G alone could build low-income housing for every single homless person in the country, and pay their bills for a year until they get on ther feet.
No matter what he is giving now, it is a pittance to what he should be giving when you consider his net worth.
All individuals in the United States that are current residential subscribers or
customers of Defendants' telephone services or Internet services, or that were
residential telephone or Internet subscribers or customers at any time after September
2001.
Remember, AT&T == SBC now as well, and they specifically name them in their lawsuit. SBC and AT&T provide long distance and internet access to tens of millions of people. Basically they are asking for dasmages of billions of dollars for every day this happened.
Such a judgement would basically bankrupt the company and leave the US's telecommunications infrastructure in a complete shambles.
There is no pricing given anywhere in the article, you have no basis to make these assumptions.
I think the ideal price point for this would be about $9 a movie, or about 1/2 of what a DVD costs retail. It is significantly less than buying it retail, but significantly more than renting it, which it should be since you get to keep it.
(Just forget the fact that anyone can rent a DVD and copy it, because that is not legal, and remember you should be assuming that you're dealing with someone who likely wouldn't know how to rip a DVD anyways).
The point is not that people who crack it can make fake cards (which they *can*, but anyways...), it is that people can read the info off my "secure" biometric ID card from a relativly long distance and use it to steal my identity, for any reason whatsoever.
I mean, 10m? Some guy could set up a listening post outside my office and read it all through the wall at 10m. The capacity for identity theft is very alarming.
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I'm sure there's a hundred things wrong with what I've said, I'm not a hacker--I just like to point out possible security holes.
Let's dive into what *is* wrong...
First of all, files in your home directory are normally not in your $PATH on any Linux system. Anyone who has their system set up like this, *let alone* having their $HOME have priority over/sbin and/usr/sbin, deserves to be shot.
Secondly, a webserver should (and does by default in any distro I know of) runs as the nobody/httpd/apache/someone user, and does not have a home directory. So any exploit in the web server would not allow you to write a 'la' binary anywhere.
Third, your whole attack scheme is just a big run around for no reason. If you can write a binary called 'la', why wouldn't you just write it as 'ls' in the first place, istead of crossing your fingers and hoping he mistypes? And if you can write a binary to disk, you can also obviously execute it, so why don't you? Why would you wait around? Is it because you hope someone is going to log in as root and run it? Because if that is the case, you will be way out of luck, because root *never* has $HOME in his path (and the webserver shouldn't be able to write to/root anyways).
This isn't how these kinds of attacks work... what *usually* happens is, the buffer overflow allows one to write and execute files as the unprivilidged user. The cracker attacks and does this to gaina remote shell on the machine, as this unprivilidged user. They then use this shell to try to find holes in other system services that may not be remotely exploitable, for example say mysql or postgresql. If mysql is running locally and not set up right, they could use it to gain full superuser privilidge by SELECT'ing to a file. Then, all bets are off.
They rest of the stuff is just userland utilities. And frankly, I can't see why *anyone* would want to take any of the userland utilities from Solaris. Quite the oppposite in fact, Solaris has been taking all the userland from the GNU camp for a long time (GNOME).
Though this could mean an opening of the floodgates to a lot of sharing between Linux and Solaris
Linus already said that Linux is not now, and will not in the near future, be released under GPLv3. And since GPLv3 is not reverse compatible with GPLv2 (it has more restrictions), this won't happen.
I haven't checked, but I suspect he also leaves his TV and amp on standby.
I don't know what model TV you have, but if I unplug mine to get it out of standby, I lose all the programmed in channels and settings. Next time I plug it back in I have to reprogram it all. Same with my reciever.
Sometimes. Probably not usually, but with an oven like this, you could in theory prepare a few dishes on the weekend, put them in the bottom of the refrigerator for the rest of the weekend, then put Tuesday's dinner in the oven (set to refrigerate) on Monday night before you go to bed.
Unless the oven also has built-in regridgeration (which some do, but most dont), you would not want to do this. Leaving any kind of meat out that long at room temperature, even if it is going to be subsequently cooked well, is a very, very bad idea.
The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write.
Does this even make sense anymore? What about all the people who watch BBC news or Al-Jazerra on satelite TV / digital cable?
In this era of globalization, unless they totally block these channels (and international news websites like bbc.co.uk) out wholesale, it's kinda hard for the military to control all the information disseminated to the populace. Propeganda *is going to ge through*.
And if they *did* block them out, it'd be pretty obvious something was going on.
I've said it before. Coders devalue themselves - coders have ALL the power in this world. They then turn around and give it away for a paycheck.
Until you can show me how I can write some code that will make beer and pizza flow out of my PC's uSB port, I am pretty sure I will continue to need that paycheque. At least until the replicator is invented, or the whole world becomes communist.
It doesn't have to be big, it has to be timed.
Any large scale explosion placed on a fault line causes a force ripple throughout the magma along this channel. Alone this does not matter, but if there is another explosion at a complimentary point that is timed properly, it will cause an opposite force ripple that will double the effect of the initial one. Mutiplying this by 50-100 times by strategic placement and computer-controlled timing and it is *very simple* to do.
I am not saying you would plant these bombs to steilize the earth, I am saying you plant them to literally destroy it.
If you placed a bunch of hydrogen bombs at the right strategic places in the mantle (think vulnerable fault lines and plate intersections), detonating them all at the same time would cause such a shockwave through the earth's core that it would likely tear itself apart. Afterwards the shards would either drift closer to the sun cooking any and all life on them, or drift away form the sun, freezing it all.
Any microscopic life that survived would need to be hearty indeed, since it would need to be able to survive in a vaccum for extended periods, as the atmosphere would have long since vanished.
It's highly unlikely that any life that has evolved on present day earth could survive those conditions long enough to evolve resistance to them.
So basically the difference is between motor memory and other memory, correct?
One would wonder then, if someone who was deaf had the same thing happen, how their memory would be affected? Because teaching them facts would involve using ASL, which you think would be equated with the motor memory.
Nature doesn't give a shit what we do. We don't have it in our capacity to make this world uninhabitable.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
Regardless of what crop is used to produce it, ethanol requires areable land, and lots of it.
To produce enough ethanol to sustain the US alone, would require hudreds of thousands of acres of crops. Regardless of the sustainability of the crops, it is a huge management issue in and of itself to control all that production.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be produced readily in a power-plant type fashion.
Most of the nutrients in the soil come from the rain, not from bio-degrading material.
Think about it for a second, if all of the nutrients in the soil came from other plants and animals that bio-degraded, then the ecosystem in that area would be unsustainable over the long haul.
Since the government won't have to subsidize the corn industry by charging duties on sugar, maybe you americans can get all the Fructose crap out of your soda and use real sugar.
The article is written by the typical wank reporter then who did not do his research.
Disabling ActiveX **does not** have anything to do with disabling access to the ActiveX() wrapper in javascript. Unless your security settings are set to thre absolute max (ie, unless you disable scripting altogether), you can still create XMLHttpRequest COM objects. It is a trusted object, because it can only be used to talk to the site that loads it.
So once again, no benefit. And I am standing by the fact that it is a coding shortcut - until someone shows me that IE7 does not link to MSXML2.dll (yeah right!)
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I guess these days you could send flowers with "call me" just as fast as a telegram
Actually, I have never been able to send flowers without the reciever's phone number. They usually want to call to make sure someone is home before they go to deliver.
...it sounds better than Custer's Revenge
If he was really so giving, why doesn't he donate off 20 billion or so? Why all these plerthy hundred thousand dollar donations (a pittance to him)? He could donate 20 billion dollars next year, and *sill* have 20 billion left. Of god, I wonder if he can live on 20 billion dollars??? Here come the violins... Condiser this - Christian Childrens Fun is one of the largest charities catering to the third world in America. Even so, since 1938 they have only delivered 2.5 billion dollars in aid. Gates could give 10 times that at once and still be one of the richest people in the world. Such a massive donation would save the lives of millions upon millions. Or alternativly, if he wanted to stay closer to home, Bill G alone could build low-income housing for every single homless person in the country, and pay their bills for a year until they get on ther feet. No matter what he is giving now, it is a pittance to what he should be giving when you consider his net worth.
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Where do I sign up???
All individuals in the United States that are current residential subscribers or customers of Defendants' telephone services or Internet services, or that were residential telephone or Internet subscribers or customers at any time after September 2001.
Remember, AT&T == SBC now as well, and they specifically name them in their lawsuit. SBC and AT&T provide long distance and internet access to tens of millions of people. Basically they are asking for dasmages of billions of dollars for every day this happened.
Such a judgement would basically bankrupt the company and leave the US's telecommunications infrastructure in a complete shambles.
There is no pricing given anywhere in the article, you have no basis to make these assumptions.
I think the ideal price point for this would be about $9 a movie, or about 1/2 of what a DVD costs retail. It is significantly less than buying it retail, but significantly more than renting it, which it should be since you get to keep it.
(Just forget the fact that anyone can rent a DVD and copy it, because that is not legal, and remember you should be assuming that you're dealing with someone who likely wouldn't know how to rip a DVD anyways).
I think you missed the point.
The point is not that people who crack it can make fake cards (which they *can*, but anyways...), it is that people can read the info off my "secure" biometric ID card from a relativly long distance and use it to steal my identity, for any reason whatsoever.
I mean, 10m? Some guy could set up a listening post outside my office and read it all through the wall at 10m. The capacity for identity theft is very alarming.
I'm sure there's a hundred things wrong with what I've said, I'm not a hacker--I just like to point out possible security holes.
Let's dive into what *is* wrong...
First of all, files in your home directory are normally not in your $PATH on any Linux system. Anyone who has their system set up like this, *let alone* having their $HOME have priority over /sbin and /usr/sbin, deserves to be shot.
Secondly, a webserver should (and does by default in any distro I know of) runs as the nobody/httpd/apache/someone user, and does not have a home directory. So any exploit in the web server would not allow you to write a 'la' binary anywhere.
Third, your whole attack scheme is just a big run around for no reason. If you can write a binary called 'la', why wouldn't you just write it as 'ls' in the first place, istead of crossing your fingers and hoping he mistypes? And if you can write a binary to disk, you can also obviously execute it, so why don't you? Why would you wait around? Is it because you hope someone is going to log in as root and run it? Because if that is the case, you will be way out of luck, because root *never* has $HOME in his path (and the webserver shouldn't be able to write to /root anyways).
This isn't how these kinds of attacks work... what *usually* happens is, the buffer overflow allows one to write and execute files as the unprivilidged user. The cracker attacks and does this to gaina remote shell on the machine, as this unprivilidged user. They then use this shell to try to find holes in other system services that may not be remotely exploitable, for example say mysql or postgresql. If mysql is running locally and not set up right, they could use it to gain full superuser privilidge by SELECT'ing to a file. Then, all bets are off.
The OS *is* the kernel.
They rest of the stuff is just userland utilities. And frankly, I can't see why *anyone* would want to take any of the userland utilities from Solaris. Quite the oppposite in fact, Solaris has been taking all the userland from the GNU camp for a long time (GNOME).
Though this could mean an opening of the floodgates to a lot of sharing between Linux and Solaris
Linus already said that Linux is not now, and will not in the near future, be released under GPLv3. And since GPLv3 is not reverse compatible with GPLv2 (it has more restrictions), this won't happen.
I haven't checked, but I suspect he also leaves his TV and amp on standby.
I don't know what model TV you have, but if I unplug mine to get it out of standby, I lose all the programmed in channels and settings. Next time I plug it back in I have to reprogram it all. Same with my reciever.
No thanks, it's worth the $1 a month.
Sometimes. Probably not usually, but with an oven like this, you could in theory prepare a few dishes on the weekend, put them in the bottom of the refrigerator for the rest of the weekend, then put Tuesday's dinner in the oven (set to refrigerate) on Monday night before you go to bed.
Unless the oven also has built-in regridgeration (which some do, but most dont), you would not want to do this. Leaving any kind of meat out that long at room temperature, even if it is going to be subsequently cooked well, is a very, very bad idea.
You can still ride a horse and buggy through most cities. Let alone Model Ts.
You can still use a black-and-white TV to watch any television broadcast (save HDTV).
Not that you are necessairily wrong, but you gave really horrible examples, that really are counter-arguments to yourself!
The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write.
Does this even make sense anymore? What about all the people who watch BBC news or Al-Jazerra on satelite TV / digital cable?
In this era of globalization, unless they totally block these channels (and international news websites like bbc.co.uk) out wholesale, it's kinda hard for the military to control all the information disseminated to the populace. Propeganda *is going to ge through*.
And if they *did* block them out, it'd be pretty obvious something was going on.
I've said it before. Coders devalue themselves - coders have ALL the power in this world. They then turn around and give it away for a paycheck.
Until you can show me how I can write some code that will make beer and pizza flow out of my PC's uSB port, I am pretty sure I will continue to need that paycheque. At least until the replicator is invented, or the whole world becomes communist.
It doesn't have to be big, it has to be timed. Any large scale explosion placed on a fault line causes a force ripple throughout the magma along this channel. Alone this does not matter, but if there is another explosion at a complimentary point that is timed properly, it will cause an opposite force ripple that will double the effect of the initial one. Mutiplying this by 50-100 times by strategic placement and computer-controlled timing and it is *very simple* to do.
What program combinations, or websites do you use to uproot that last bit of unwanted software intrusion?"
http://www.ubuntu.org
'Nuff said.
I am not saying you would plant these bombs to steilize the earth, I am saying you plant them to literally destroy it.
If you placed a bunch of hydrogen bombs at the right strategic places in the mantle (think vulnerable fault lines and plate intersections), detonating them all at the same time would cause such a shockwave through the earth's core that it would likely tear itself apart. Afterwards the shards would either drift closer to the sun cooking any and all life on them, or drift away form the sun, freezing it all.
Any microscopic life that survived would need to be hearty indeed, since it would need to be able to survive in a vaccum for extended periods, as the atmosphere would have long since vanished.
It's highly unlikely that any life that has evolved on present day earth could survive those conditions long enough to evolve resistance to them.
So basically the difference is between motor memory and other memory, correct?
One would wonder then, if someone who was deaf had the same thing happen, how their memory would be affected? Because teaching them facts would involve using ASL, which you think would be equated with the motor memory.
Nature doesn't give a shit what we do. We don't have it in our capacity to make this world uninhabitable.
I am pretty sure planting a few hundred hydrogen bombs a couple of miles below the surface of the planet at strategic locations, and detonating them, would make the world uninhabitable.
Trust me, if we really wanted to, we could.
Regardless of what crop is used to produce it, ethanol requires areable land, and lots of it.
To produce enough ethanol to sustain the US alone, would require hudreds of thousands of acres of crops. Regardless of the sustainability of the crops, it is a huge management issue in and of itself to control all that production.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be produced readily in a power-plant type fashion.
Most of the nutrients in the soil come from the rain, not from bio-degrading material.
Think about it for a second, if all of the nutrients in the soil came from other plants and animals that bio-degraded, then the ecosystem in that area would be unsustainable over the long haul.
Since the government won't have to subsidize the corn industry by charging duties on sugar, maybe you americans can get all the Fructose crap out of your soda and use real sugar.
Trust me, it tastes WAY better.
The title sounded good and I just had to try it out. But would it live up to the name that it bore?"
No.
The article is written by the typical wank reporter then who did not do his research.
Disabling ActiveX **does not** have anything to do with disabling access to the ActiveX() wrapper in javascript. Unless your security settings are set to thre absolute max (ie, unless you disable scripting altogether), you can still create XMLHttpRequest COM objects. It is a trusted object, because it can only be used to talk to the site that loads it.
So once again, no benefit. And I am standing by the fact that it is a coding shortcut - until someone shows me that IE7 does not link to MSXML2.dll (yeah right!)