If "Bob Smith" is a registered sex offender in a large urban area, another Bob Smith in the same area might have some difficulty getting hired for a job. Perhaps the scrapers might see some revenue in selling "whitelist" services.
Don't even go there. How long before someone has the bright idea of creating suspect names just to be able to charge for an opt out.
French government subsidises breathing air. You will be able to buy a €50 card for just €25, the rest of which will be paid for by the state. Any guess how many takers there will be?
I'll be able to keep going now when I'm driving late and tired instead of pulling in at a rest stop, knowing that the car will wake me. Technology has done so much for drivers, with ABS we don't need to slow down in snow and ice, air bags mean we don't need to bother with seat belts and cruise control means you don't need to look at the speedo.
I'm sorry if the above paragraph is offensive; I don't mean to be. I do, though, dislike general assumptions or statements about aboriginal American peoples. We weren't (and are not) a monolithic culture.
Not at all, I'm sorry I offended you. (incidentally Western European" is standard). I was referring to a practice I had heard of and admire but really know little about. I should have at least put "Some" native Americans.
I should have known better because I do realise how assumptions that you believe and follow a particular practice because it is practised somewhere in your wider culture can be can be upsetting if it is something that your particular group does not follow or recognise or even finds repulsive. As a Hindu I am quite used to people bringing up practices such as the Nepalese Bali sacrifice as if it is something that I must approve of because of my beliefs!
Am I strange? I quite like the idea oif my remains being eaten by badgers. Its part of the circle of life. I have always thought that the Native American tree burials and Zoroastrian towers of silence are somehow very satisfying and symbolic of our return to nature.
I imagine that this is something that an EDF electrical engineer would know about. My guess is that at a city level a flat's worth of electricity won't make much difference.
I think it depends on the detail. If someone came up with detailed plans and engineering drawings of something that would enable you to jump safely off a bridge then they would have rights over this - though you would be free to come up with a different design and do it. I don't know if this is the case here though.
Fourth way, if you live near high voltage cables run cables beneath to tap of electricity by induction. People have been prosecuted in the UK for doing this.
Citation needed. I am sure that the loss would be insignificant compared to the total power in HV transmission lines.
Or run electricity into building, through a box that looks like a meter, only gives out a faulty reading.
The article talks about buildings that are split into apartments. In the UK sometimes the landlord pays the electric company, and then has private meters for each apartment - all going through the main meter. (This is much less common than it was because there are strict limits on markup and additional charges. Most new flats now have electric company meters). The safest way to fiddle the bill would be to have one or two flats going through the main meter and the rest using an illegal collection. The landlord of course collects money from all the tenants!
The point is that most security vulnerabilities are not at the lowest levels of the kernel. And those are the only parts that need something as low level as assembler. And no C won't do. At the bottom of any OS source code you'll find some assembler.
About the only thing you can't do from C is register manipulation and soft breaks. Though strictly speaking it is using assembler at the extreme you would have one or two instructions embedded in c code.
The "supercookie" thing is perhaps the one legitimate thing mentioned but browsers should (or probably will if they don't already) clear out most of those locations (except Flash, but you can't blame the browsers for that really) when you clear your private data, which at least Firefox and Chrome can do for you.
Also they have nothing to do with HTML5, and can be implemented in flash-enabled browsers
I should have been more specific, you will need unchecked references and unchecked treating of data as different objects. If you introduce these you basically have pointers or casts by another name.
For sure, at the very lowest level of the kernel you have to have some assembler code, and that's dealing with pointers and untyped data.
Or use C
But that is in the hands of the OS creators.
What part of "Whatever language you write an operating system in" didn't you understand?
Whilst it's written with C, you might as well be trying to repair a roof with swiss cheese.
Whatever language you write an operating system in will have to have the same "dangerous" facilities as C, pointer access, type casting, etc. Remember without an OS you cannot have safe managed code - you need to be able to implement things like page table mappings, page protection, interrupt processing, etc. Basically you are not going to get around the fact that writing operating systems is hard
Arguably in this environment C is safer than C++ because of its simplicity. Now that said, a lot of the utilities around the core OS could be written in safer languages.
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Also in the news; writing your phone-number in a public convenience with a marker pen can get you unwanted attention.
Funny, I just got ready to type in my name, finished the first name, and then thought, "Hey... wait a second..." and then closed the window.
Don't worry. I typed in your name and came up with a number of hits,
If "Bob Smith" is a registered sex offender in a large urban area, another Bob Smith in the same area might have some difficulty getting hired for a job. Perhaps the scrapers might see some revenue in selling "whitelist" services.
Don't even go there. How long before someone has the bright idea of creating suspect names just to be able to charge for an opt out.
French government subsidises breathing air. You will be able to buy a €50 card for just €25, the rest of which will be paid for by the state. Any guess how many takers there will be?
Maybe if we had a lower income-gap, better paying jobs, and opportunity for people this wouldn't be such a problem?
Ah the Nativity of youth. I have two words for you. Jeffrey Archer.
I think you got the 100% irrelevant spot on.
I'll be able to keep going now when I'm driving late and tired instead of pulling in at a rest stop, knowing that the car will wake me. Technology has done so much for drivers, with ABS we don't need to slow down in snow and ice, air bags mean we don't need to bother with seat belts and cruise control means you don't need to look at the speedo.
a = b a^2 = ab a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2 (a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b) a + b = b 2b = b 2 = 1
For those who didn't spot it the funny bit is (a+b)(a-b) = (a-b) cannot be simply cancelled because "a-b" is zero, so you are saying (a+b)*0 = b*0.
They have mathematics in Montana?
The surprise is that someone can read wikipedia in Montana where they have had this information complete with the same proof for years.
I'm sorry if the above paragraph is offensive; I don't mean to be. I do, though, dislike general assumptions or statements about aboriginal American peoples. We weren't (and are not) a monolithic culture.
Not at all, I'm sorry I offended you. (incidentally Western European" is standard). I was referring to a practice I had heard of and admire but really know little about. I should have at least put "Some" native Americans.
I should have known better because I do realise how assumptions that you believe and follow a particular practice because it is practised somewhere in your wider culture can be can be upsetting if it is something that your particular group does not follow or recognise or even finds repulsive. As a Hindu I am quite used to people bringing up practices such as the Nepalese Bali sacrifice as if it is something that I must approve of because of my beliefs!
Am I strange? I quite like the idea oif my remains being eaten by badgers. Its part of the circle of life. I have always thought that the Native American tree burials and Zoroastrian towers of silence are somehow very satisfying and symbolic of our return to nature.
I imagine that this is something that an EDF electrical engineer would know about. My guess is that at a city level a flat's worth of electricity won't make much difference.
You need to be a daredevil to go around with a name like Felix Baumgartner. I'll be buggered if I would.
I think it depends on the detail. If someone came up with detailed plans and engineering drawings of something that would enable you to jump safely off a bridge then they would have rights over this - though you would be free to come up with a different design and do it. I don't know if this is the case here though.
this is like 2 years old.
You like 2 year olds! Where's the report button....
These are 500px wide...
If 640 is enough for everyone, 500 should be enough for 78% of the population.
I'm one of the 0.16% of the population with a 1 pixel display you insensitive clod.
Fourth way, if you live near high voltage cables run cables beneath to tap of electricity by induction. People have been prosecuted in the UK for doing this.
Citation needed. I am sure that the loss would be insignificant compared to the total power in HV transmission lines.
Or run electricity into building, through a box that looks like a meter, only gives out a faulty reading.
The article talks about buildings that are split into apartments. In the UK sometimes the landlord pays the electric company, and then has private meters for each apartment - all going through the main meter. (This is much less common than it was because there are strict limits on markup and additional charges. Most new flats now have electric company meters). The safest way to fiddle the bill would be to have one or two flats going through the main meter and the rest using an illegal collection. The landlord of course collects money from all the tenants!
If I could be any imaginary person with superpowers, I'd be God.
If I can be Jesus we could be the dynamic duo.
The one big question would be which to trash first, New Jersey or Iran.
About the only thing you can't do from C is register manipulation and soft breaks. Though strictly speaking it is using assembler at the extreme you would have one or two instructions embedded in c code.
The "supercookie" thing is perhaps the one legitimate thing mentioned but browsers should (or probably will if they don't already) clear out most of those locations (except Flash, but you can't blame the browsers for that really) when you clear your private data, which at least Firefox and Chrome can do for you.
Also they have nothing to do with HTML5, and can be implemented in flash-enabled browsers
Well its 5mb per origin (draft proposal ) not much more than flash or silverlight, which are 100kb per object and 1mb per file.
I should have been more specific, you will need unchecked references and unchecked treating of data as different objects. If you introduce these you basically have pointers or casts by another name.
For sure, at the very lowest level of the kernel you have to have some assembler code, and that's dealing with pointers and untyped data.
Or use C
What part of "Whatever language you write an operating system in" didn't you understand?
Whilst it's written with C, you might as well be trying to repair a roof with swiss cheese.
Whatever language you write an operating system in will have to have the same "dangerous" facilities as C, pointer access, type casting, etc. Remember without an OS you cannot have safe managed code - you need to be able to implement things like page table mappings, page protection, interrupt processing, etc. Basically you are not going to get around the fact that writing operating systems is hard
Arguably in this environment C is safer than C++ because of its simplicity. Now that said, a lot of the utilities around the core OS could be written in safer languages.