Can't remember the details but didn't microsoft have some sort of open redirection script on their site that was used to redirect unsuspecting customers to trojan-providing sites whilst purporting to be coming from microsoft.com? Or was that someone else? Can anyone confirm?
Next, RIAA advisor appointed as judge in IP case, Disney spokeperson heads the new congressional committee for copyright term balance, and Pakistan appoints Hans Blix's replacement at the head of the UN Arms Inspectors Committee.
We all know we can trust corporations to do the right thing. I'm sure they'll sort it out and it will all be alright. Anyone who says they're trying to screw everyone to get some sort of competitive advantage by breaking well-established protocols is an unpatriotic leftist and should be arrested under the terms of the PATRIOT act and put away to let the good people get on with God's work.
It *is* security through obscurity, as is a password. And cryptography teaches us that security through obscurity (through a secret) only works when that secret can be easily changed.
So unless you want to change the combination of clicks all the time, it's worthless.
As a final argument in this thread, if the other people quoting astronomical numbers of schools that can be built for $7mil are not enough to convince you, check this link.
Dunno about you people, but if $5mil can build a hospital and 4 teaching clinics, I'm pretty sure it can build a lot of schools too.
So a big narf to all those who think that schools have to 20 zillion dollars to be worth building.
So the law could be written to prevent any extension of copyright terms from being ever allowed without an 80% positive popular vote, non-alterable by congress or any other political group...
Works fine in Switzerland, why shouldn't it work in the states?
Once again, you're thinking of the wrong kind of school. Start from the idea that you can build a school for free with volunteers, then add the $1mil into it, and it's easy to build a school for $1mil. No one said it had to be a posh TV-series-set-in-Beverly-Hills type of school. Go to Afghanistan and you'll see how easy it is to build a school for $1mil!
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Which doesn't really invalidate his point. Cosmic rays are extremely high-energy particles, because they were emitted, maybe by a quasar or a similar high-energy emitter, somewhere far, far away in another frame of reference, which gives them even higher kinetic energy in our frame of reference.
Now alpha and beta rays from radioactivity can be shielded against, and alpha rays are just a couple of protons with a couple of neutrons, so you'd think that cosmic rays can also be shielded out completely... except that natural radioactive alpha and beta radiation usually comes in extremely low energies comparatively to cosmic rays. These cosmic ray particles are moving really fucking fast, so you'd need kilometers of tin foil to stop them (you still get cosmic rays underground, though the density of them goes down of course). Obviously there's some logistic problems with fitting that amount of shielding on a satellite:-)
Unless of course he's talking about reducing the cost, rather than reducing the difficulty. And from the wording, it sounds more like the cost is being reduced by 3-4 orders of magnitude. So from $10mil to $10k-$1k is a pretty good step. Would mean that for the same price they could crack 1000-10000 more keys per unit time.
I never mentioned building schools. If you have to build the school, then probably 7 million will get one school done.
But there are other ways to open schools than raze a building and rebuild it - such as finding an appropriate building that's already there, and adapting it to the needs of a school. Might not make for a good-looking school, but sure is better than no school at all. And I was talking about funding it for one year.
On my calculations, I was taking: hack a building into something that can be used as a school: $200k. Hire 10 decent but motivated teachers at $30k for the year, $300k. Hire a head for the school, and a part-time secretary or two, let's say $120k for the year. Bam, you still have $380k to spend on books, computers and other fixtures, and a school that will be able to take something around a hundred students through the school year.
If you really wanted to, you could open a school for free, in your backyard (if you have a backyard). So you sure can do it with a million bucks too.
People who know that it can't be done shouldn't get in the way of people who are doing it:-) (I'm not personally, but I know that there are people who are doing it).
So if they have a spare $7mil, maybe they should get their budget decreased by $7mil so that can be spent on more constructive things.
What business is the army in? Protecting the country or brainwashing the country? I thought the brainwashing was the job of other governmental agencies?
Result? Third party says "There's a lot of dumb stuff being said here" and each of the trolls looks at the other with a deep feeling of satisfaction that someone else understands the situation.
You forget the really cool thing: Buddhism. Designed from the start to use all the resources nicely without overheating or causing memory leaks. The choice of all the true religion hackers. Originally written by a certain Buddhixm Torvalds.
Why not blame them? Maybe there should be an ADSL licence that you have to pass before being allowed online. But the fact that these 90% are complete morons is not something to be blamed on the ISP. My modem shipped with that exact same password (it's a Zyxel Prestige, of course). First thing the docs say is "change your password on your modem" - and I'm willing to be that the Sprint "set-up docs" also say that. So what did I do? I changed the damn password!
Going the "oh, they're too brain addled, you can't blame them" way is stupid. If they're too brain addled to read the installation docs and follow them, they will be hacked by someone scanning for zyxel routers and it will serve them right.
It's fun to begin with, but then it catches you in this cycle of trying to get a better character than everyone else, and by the time it's not fun anymore you're too obnubilated by the idea of getting a really good unique poleaxe on your level 75 barb. In the back of your mind you realise it's a bit pointless but you play on, zombified a bit... the reasoning is kind of "well, it's not that harmful anyway, is it? It's just a game. And I've spent all this time playing it already, it won't make much difference if I play a little more".
However when this reasoning gets you from a month spent playing D2 to six months spent playing D2, you suddenly realise there's something wrong with your logic. And then, if you have the backbone, you take a step back and realise how pointless the game is, that you weren't having that much fun anyway after the first couple of months (how much fun is it to keep killing the exact same monsters over and over and over and over and over... all in hope of getting a nice unique item), and that you've wasted a tremendous amount of time on it. Time being the most precious resource we have on this world, it's quite a shock when you count up and you realise you've wasted thousands of hours.
I mean, imagine all the stuff you can learn, do, etc, in just one thousand hours. At 10 hours a day (a rate easily beaten when you're on holiday) that's only 3 months of playing. I feel really sorry for people who get caught in D2 for much longer periods, and even more sorry for those who are snatched up in EQ for years... Imagine waking up tomorrow and finding out you've been shifted into the future (with aging of course), you've just lost X years of your life and you have nothing to show for it except for some vague memories of a virtual, imaginary world manufactured by a games company to make money.
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Can't remember the details but didn't microsoft have some sort of open redirection script on their site that was used to redirect unsuspecting customers to trojan-providing sites whilst purporting to be coming from microsoft.com? Or was that someone else? Can anyone confirm?
Daniel
Next, RIAA advisor appointed as judge in IP case, Disney spokeperson heads the new congressional committee for copyright term balance, and Pakistan appoints Hans Blix's replacement at the head of the UN Arms Inspectors Committee.
Daniel
We all know we can trust corporations to do the right thing. I'm sure they'll sort it out and it will all be alright. Anyone who says they're trying to screw everyone to get some sort of competitive advantage by breaking well-established protocols is an unpatriotic leftist and should be arrested under the terms of the PATRIOT act and put away to let the good people get on with God's work.
Daniel
It *is* security through obscurity, as is a password. And cryptography teaches us that security through obscurity (through a secret) only works when that secret can be easily changed.
So unless you want to change the combination of clicks all the time, it's worthless.
Daniel
Don't worry, he'll delete it after a 24-hour trial period. Daniel
Send that to the people who have been building potato bazookas and wounding people in germany.
Hmm, on second thoughts, no, don't send that to them. Last thing they need is someone to build a portable potato railgun...
Daniel
As a final argument in this thread, if the other people quoting astronomical numbers of schools that can be built for $7mil are not enough to convince you, check this link.
:-)
Dunno about you people, but if $5mil can build a hospital and 4 teaching clinics, I'm pretty sure it can build a lot of schools too.
So a big narf to all those who think that schools have to 20 zillion dollars to be worth building.
NARF!
Daniel
So the law could be written to prevent any extension of copyright terms from being ever allowed without an 80% positive popular vote, non-alterable by congress or any other political group...
Works fine in Switzerland, why shouldn't it work in the states?
Daniel
I reckon the chip is a better investment. We need a better ratio of female first-year college students anyway.
Chicks with Chips... hmm...
Daniel
Or rather...
in.soviet.russia.mil.registers.you.mil
Daniel
It's certainly something that George Orwell would have frowned upon, but it's not incorrect sentence construction per se.
PS: Read that Orwell article if you haven't yet, it's really very good
Two words:
Video Editing
Daniel
Oh come on, those were fun, when you had to load into memory and uncompress a file larger than that :-)
:-)
Oh the fond memories
Daniel
Hmm, ok, fair enough.
/me kicks Sprint. :-)
Daniel
Once again, you're thinking of the wrong kind of school. Start from the idea that you can build a school for free with volunteers, then add the $1mil into it, and it's easy to build a school for $1mil. No one said it had to be a posh TV-series-set-in-Beverly-Hills type of school. Go to Afghanistan and you'll see how easy it is to build a school for $1mil!
Daniel
Which doesn't really invalidate his point. Cosmic rays are extremely high-energy particles, because they were emitted, maybe by a quasar or a similar high-energy emitter, somewhere far, far away in another frame of reference, which gives them even higher kinetic energy in our frame of reference.
:-)
Now alpha and beta rays from radioactivity can be shielded against, and alpha rays are just a couple of protons with a couple of neutrons, so you'd think that cosmic rays can also be shielded out completely... except that natural radioactive alpha and beta radiation usually comes in extremely low energies comparatively to cosmic rays. These cosmic ray particles are moving really fucking fast, so you'd need kilometers of tin foil to stop them (you still get cosmic rays underground, though the density of them goes down of course). Obviously there's some logistic problems with fitting that amount of shielding on a satellite
Daniel
Unless of course he's talking about reducing the cost, rather than reducing the difficulty. And from the wording, it sounds more like the cost is being reduced by 3-4 orders of magnitude. So from $10mil to $10k-$1k is a pretty good step. Would mean that for the same price they could crack 1000-10000 more keys per unit time.
Daniel
I never mentioned building schools. If you have to build the school, then probably 7 million will get one school done.
:-) (I'm not personally, but I know that there are people who are doing it).
But there are other ways to open schools than raze a building and rebuild it - such as finding an appropriate building that's already there, and adapting it to the needs of a school. Might not make for a good-looking school, but sure is better than no school at all. And I was talking about funding it for one year.
On my calculations, I was taking: hack a building into something that can be used as a school: $200k. Hire 10 decent but motivated teachers at $30k for the year, $300k. Hire a head for the school, and a part-time secretary or two, let's say $120k for the year. Bam, you still have $380k to spend on books, computers and other fixtures, and a school that will be able to take something around a hundred students through the school year.
If you really wanted to, you could open a school for free, in your backyard (if you have a backyard). So you sure can do it with a million bucks too.
People who know that it can't be done shouldn't get in the way of people who are doing it
Daniel
So if they have a spare $7mil, maybe they should get their budget decreased by $7mil so that can be spent on more constructive things.
What business is the army in? Protecting the country or brainwashing the country? I thought the brainwashing was the job of other governmental agencies?
Daniel
Result? Third party says "There's a lot of dumb stuff being said here" and each of the trolls looks at the other with a deep feeling of satisfaction that someone else understands the situation.
Daniel
You could create and fund probably over 7 schools with that tiny budget. Every little bit helps.
Daniel
You forget the really cool thing: Buddhism. Designed from the start to use all the resources nicely without overheating or causing memory leaks. The choice of all the true religion hackers. Originally written by a certain Buddhixm Torvalds.
Daniel
Why not blame them? Maybe there should be an ADSL licence that you have to pass before being allowed online. But the fact that these 90% are complete morons is not something to be blamed on the ISP. My modem shipped with that exact same password (it's a Zyxel Prestige, of course). First thing the docs say is "change your password on your modem" - and I'm willing to be that the Sprint "set-up docs" also say that. So what did I do? I changed the damn password!
Going the "oh, they're too brain addled, you can't blame them" way is stupid. If they're too brain addled to read the installation docs and follow them, they will be hacked by someone scanning for zyxel routers and it will serve them right.
Since when is stupidity and excuse?
Daniel
That's why we all like Java... the Java compiler doesn't even let you have dead code.
Daniel
It's fun to begin with, but then it catches you in this cycle of trying to get a better character than everyone else, and by the time it's not fun anymore you're too obnubilated by the idea of getting a really good unique poleaxe on your level 75 barb. In the back of your mind you realise it's a bit pointless but you play on, zombified a bit... the reasoning is kind of "well, it's not that harmful anyway, is it? It's just a game. And I've spent all this time playing it already, it won't make much difference if I play a little more".
However when this reasoning gets you from a month spent playing D2 to six months spent playing D2, you suddenly realise there's something wrong with your logic. And then, if you have the backbone, you take a step back and realise how pointless the game is, that you weren't having that much fun anyway after the first couple of months (how much fun is it to keep killing the exact same monsters over and over and over and over and over... all in hope of getting a nice unique item), and that you've wasted a tremendous amount of time on it. Time being the most precious resource we have on this world, it's quite a shock when you count up and you realise you've wasted thousands of hours.
I mean, imagine all the stuff you can learn, do, etc, in just one thousand hours. At 10 hours a day (a rate easily beaten when you're on holiday) that's only 3 months of playing. I feel really sorry for people who get caught in D2 for much longer periods, and even more sorry for those who are snatched up in EQ for years... Imagine waking up tomorrow and finding out you've been shifted into the future (with aging of course), you've just lost X years of your life and you have nothing to show for it except for some vague memories of a virtual, imaginary world manufactured by a games company to make money.
Daniel