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This is NOTHING like lack of sanitizing or SQL injection.
Yes, the act of processing user-supplied data in an unintended manner is exactly what "lack of sanitizing" means.
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Because of its distributed and decentralized nature, it would be very difficult to sneak any changes into a project or its history undetected. Every other copy of the project repo will begin screaming "foul play" when their developers try to sync.
Reformatting and replacing the system image that's provided for you does not strike me as a good idea. Perhaps your best bet is to get a speedy external drive and boot off of it when you absolutely need personal privacy.
If you're bringing people over from the Windows world, please encourage KDE. It's a pretty good take on the "taskbar w/ a start button" GUI-style and will be immediately familiar to most folks. One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Very few people want to actually go through the trouble to do this just to spend some money.
And that's completely fine by me. But I think if most people actually knew what you could do with it, that "very few" number would become "overwhelming" over night.
It's been awhile since I read Applied Cryptography, but I'm pretty sure the intro chapter of that book talks about how the Romans were using something a bit more sophisticated than ROT-13. It was essentially state-of-the-art cryptography for their time. It could be broken, yes, but it wasn't nearly as simple as ROT-13.
With all of this talk about bitcoins, which are based on cryptography, why aren't there more Slashdotters asking why in the hell those bitcoins weren't stored in an encrypted format?
It doesn't matter who hosts your VPS if you apply some common sense to your valuable data.
Once I learned where and how to spend bitcoins, I kinda felt like repeating the "Fight Club" mantra to myself. Rule #1 is you don't talk about it. Rule #2 is you don't talk about it.
Rule #3 is go download Tor and see if you can dig up any interesting.onion URLs.
No wonder there have been a string of thefts, as this currency seems designed to avoid leaving an audit trail.
No, it's not the lack of an audit trail that makes bitcoins susceptible to this type of theft. It's the decentralized P2P nature of bitcoins that prevents any single entity (like your bank) from reversing an unauthorized transaction. With no central authority to regulate these transactions, bitcoins are very literally "finder's keepers."
If Sony hadn't spent so much money on that complicated CELL processor, maybe they could have afforded to add an extra 64MB of RAM to the incredibly limiting memory ceiling. That's where so many of the difficulties come from.
making it illegal to use the Internet to communicate with people in countries whose governments object to such communication (that last one is one of ITU's rules about amateur radio).
Holy crap, my friend who's into HAM radio big time was talking to me about this just yesterday. It blows my mind that it's against US law to use amateur radio to talk to someone in another country if that country doesn't want me talking to him. How bizarre, I thought. And here you're telling me it's related to the buffoons at ITU? Slashdot just gave me a rather valuable lesson (also yesterday) on them in the UN story.
We need to deploy more P2P systems, more cryptography, more wireless links and mesh networks, and so forth.
Here you've touched on the exact reason why I was talking to my HAM friend yesterday to begin with. He burst that bubble real quick: in the US, it's also illegal to use encryption over amateur radio.
We run MOD_PHP with Apache 2.2, should we expect to have MUCH lower memory usage - currently the servers have 8GB of memory and are limited by huge memory per apache connection.
Sounds like you need to check what's happening in your PHP code.
I'm not sure that targeted advertisement really bothers me that much. I have to say, my ads in GMail have been spot on more than a few times. Compared to the mind-numbing mass-appeal aim of television advertising, I guess that targeted ads really don't bother me that much.
If for some masochistic reason I want to see what happens, I download it and get rid of ads altogether.
I too believe that watching television is an incredibly painful experience. But there is some good content out there, and I pay Netflix $8 a month to watch it ad-free. I seriously think Netflix is easier and more convenient than TPB. Eventually, I suspect that significant price hikes and/or advertisements will make their way into Netflix, but until that happens I think Netflix is superior.
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This informative and highly-modded comment appears to be lost on so many other highly-modded (but incorrect) posts.
This is NOTHING like lack of sanitizing or SQL injection.
Yes, the act of processing user-supplied data in an unintended manner is exactly what "lack of sanitizing" means.
Because of its distributed and decentralized nature, it would be very difficult to sneak any changes into a project or its history undetected. Every other copy of the project repo will begin screaming "foul play" when their developers try to sync.
Tagged the story "philosopherkings" and came here to find this.
Reformatting and replacing the system image that's provided for you does not strike me as a good idea. Perhaps your best bet is to get a speedy external drive and boot off of it when you absolutely need personal privacy.
If you're bringing people over from the Windows world, please encourage KDE. It's a pretty good take on the "taskbar w/ a start button" GUI-style and will be immediately familiar to most folks. One word of advice: "Classic Menu Style" for the launcher will help keep things much more traditional.
Very few people want to actually go through the trouble to do this just to spend some money.
And that's completely fine by me. But I think if most people actually knew what you could do with it, that "very few" number would become "overwhelming" over night.
It's been awhile since I read Applied Cryptography, but I'm pretty sure the intro chapter of that book talks about how the Romans were using something a bit more sophisticated than ROT-13. It was essentially state-of-the-art cryptography for their time. It could be broken, yes, but it wasn't nearly as simple as ROT-13.
ROT-13 twice? Pfft. I optimized my own crypto functions by hand and get it all done with a single pass of ROT-26.
With all of this talk about bitcoins, which are based on cryptography, why aren't there more Slashdotters asking why in the hell those bitcoins weren't stored in an encrypted format?
It doesn't matter who hosts your VPS if you apply some common sense to your valuable data.
Hmm, storing valuable data on a 3rd party host? Better not forget to use the "Encrypt Wallet" option.
Just where exactly can I spend a bitcoin
Once I learned where and how to spend bitcoins, I kinda felt like repeating the "Fight Club" mantra to myself. Rule #1 is you don't talk about it. Rule #2 is you don't talk about it.
.onion URLs.
Rule #3 is go download Tor and see if you can dig up any interesting
No wonder there have been a string of thefts, as this currency seems designed to avoid leaving an audit trail.
No, it's not the lack of an audit trail that makes bitcoins susceptible to this type of theft. It's the decentralized P2P nature of bitcoins that prevents any single entity (like your bank) from reversing an unauthorized transaction. With no central authority to regulate these transactions, bitcoins are very literally "finder's keepers."
If Sony hadn't spent so much money on that complicated CELL processor, maybe they could have afforded to add an extra 64MB of RAM to the incredibly limiting memory ceiling. That's where so many of the difficulties come from.
making it illegal to use the Internet to communicate with people in countries whose governments object to such communication (that last one is one of ITU's rules about amateur radio).
Holy crap, my friend who's into HAM radio big time was talking to me about this just yesterday. It blows my mind that it's against US law to use amateur radio to talk to someone in another country if that country doesn't want me talking to him. How bizarre, I thought. And here you're telling me it's related to the buffoons at ITU? Slashdot just gave me a rather valuable lesson (also yesterday) on them in the UN story.
We need to deploy more P2P systems, more cryptography, more wireless links and mesh networks, and so forth.
Here you've touched on the exact reason why I was talking to my HAM friend yesterday to begin with. He burst that bubble real quick: in the US, it's also illegal to use encryption over amateur radio.
I've always had to laugh at the name "Office 365" -- the fact this happened on Leap Day amuses me to no end.
I forgot all about the concept of geohashing. With spring on its way, I'm daydream about getting my motorcycle back out and cruising around for hours.
Geohashing on a Saturday afternoon sounds like the perfect compliment!
Intel will also make available the LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE in Intel AppUp center.
There are a few too many proper nouns for this sentence to make any sense.
When I'm at a bar I use quarters as counters, one per beer, which is both the bartender's tip
Stingy bastard.
Saw reference to Hamilton County, expected to read story about a clown operating as head of the court room.
We run MOD_PHP with Apache 2.2, should we expect to have MUCH lower memory usage - currently the servers have 8GB of memory and are limited by huge memory per apache connection.
Sounds like you need to check what's happening in your PHP code.
I definitely don't want to hire someone that has trouble using something as simple as Apache.
Holy crap, do you even use Apache? At my job, I get to roll my own from source and I own every line of httpd.conf and each of our vhosts.
Simple is not the word I would use to describe it. "Specialized" is much more like it.
Force me to sign up for a social network? Sure thing. That's way less invasive of my privacy than asking me to pee in a cup.
I'm not sure that targeted advertisement really bothers me that much. I have to say, my ads in GMail have been spot on more than a few times. Compared to the mind-numbing mass-appeal aim of television advertising, I guess that targeted ads really don't bother me that much.
If for some masochistic reason I want to see what happens, I download it and get rid of ads altogether.
I too believe that watching television is an incredibly painful experience. But there is some good content out there, and I pay Netflix $8 a month to watch it ad-free. I seriously think Netflix is easier and more convenient than TPB. Eventually, I suspect that significant price hikes and/or advertisements will make their way into Netflix, but until that happens I think Netflix is superior.