It's used mainly by crackers to comprise websites. Fuck this tool and fuck the arrogant script kiddies padding their resumes with it. This software has no legitimate purpose.
Sounds like the righteous anger of someone who left some back doors open for a few script kiddies in his time, and got burned by it.
In the article,t he numbers show that Vista SP2 gives a clear edge over Win XP SP3 in every case. I'm surprised that this wasn't commented on, given the general perception of Vista's sluggishness.
Except that so far, I'm seeing table construction and table layouts. I guess that's technically code - as any SQL technically is - but a good case can be made to say that it's just the database structure. Which can, of course, be subjected to a hash check.
Except that the DDL isn't in a bunch of scripts that are building the schema, the schema exists in a bunch of strings that are concatenated together in stored procedures with some arguments to the procs munged in, and passed to Exec statements when the stored procedures are run.
That's not normal table building, that's an unabashedly self-modifying database.
It seems more like a matter of the database dump being the/full/ database schema - including the stored procs they run to create new ballots.
Now... this is unabashedly crappy design, but I don't see that it qualifies as self-modifying. "Self-creating" perhaps, if anything.
So you're saying that in Linux, you can control from a centralized location which specific user groups and workstations get specific software, and control which versions of that software, across every single workstation in an enterprise? Using nothing but SELinux and the built in ACLs?
But please don't spread the MS cool-aid without actually knowing what you are talking about.
I'd have to say that goes both ways. The controls that windows gives in the enterprise space go far, far beyond ACLs.
Just change the permissions, or remove the stuff or make it not even executable.
The only reason apps exist for windows to do this stuff is because of the incompetence of the average windows sysadmin.
Right, and don't forget to sync up your passwd fiels across 30,000 desktops in your enterprise. I mean, it's just copying a file, right?
Obviously there are better ways to do it than that, even on *nix today (ldap, nis, etc) but hey - maybe those only exist for linux due to the incompetence of the average unix admin? Or those other tools that make things easier, like config files. Who needs config files? You can just configure each daemon when you start it up manually, with command line params! At least, you can if you're competent.
I think that's part of the framework used to set up a given ballot, based on the way it looks. In other words - it's used to generate the tables for a specific election, and is not likely dynamically executing during the election itself.
... This is cool and all but..
BAL_ID null
-- 1 - show candidate on ballot (default)
-- 0 - remove candidate from the ballot
-- 2 - don't show candidate on the ballot, but reserve space for
-- her on the layout
, IS_ON_BALLOT T_P_BOOL null
-- Code used by State reports
, STATE_CODE char(7) null
-- Reference to AUDIO; clip used to describe candidate header
-- in English
, AUDIO_ID T_GLOBAL_ID null
-- For grid style: which slate the candidate goes into
, SLATE int null
, constraint PK_CANDIDATE primary key clustered (CANDIDATE_ID)
-- create indexes on table CANDIDATE
Exec("
create index FK_CANDIDATE_AUDIO_FK on CANDIDATE (AUDIO_ID)
Exec("
create index FK_CANDIDATE_CONTEST_FK on CANDIDATE (CONTEST_ID)
If this is the worst of the "business logic" that "controls or influences the flow" of elections, I think they're in for a disappointing read. Using a value in a database isn't considered "business logic" hte last I checked.
* t violates the federal rulebook on voting systems on several levels: the rules require that code be hash-checked to prove authenticity in the field for obvious reasons. If the real working code is buried in with the data, no such hash-checks are possible.
Except that so far, I'm seeing table construction and table layouts. I guess that's technically code - as any SQL technically is - but a good case can be made to say that it's just the database structure. Which can, of course, be subjected to a hash check.
The federal rulebook is also clear that code can't be interpreted, apparently to avoid modification "in the field" (generally county or city election offices).
Well shit, in that case, they can't use SQL at all. Since a database is a fairly reasonable way to track the candidate data, display strings, etc... I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the intent of the law. (No, IANAL, just applying common sense).
I do think it's great and long overdue that this information is now available. But I also think they'll want to finish the analysis and get some people who understand what they're looking at, before they start making claims. There may be validity to them - but so far it's tenuous if there at all. (Full disclosure: I'd love to electronic voting either a) shut down or preferably b) administered in a 100% transparent fashion... so I'm not making this post in anybody's defense)
Why not just ignore it? Of course the company is looking out for its own interests, is this somehow a surprise to you? Were you so naive when you accepted the job that you thought that they/wouldn't/?
"Coming from one of the company’s most senior executives, it’s hard to imagine AT&T employees thinking the memo was merely a suggestion."
We get periodic emails along similar lines, couched as suggestions, in the large bank in which I am a cog. Know what happens? The vast majority of our 10s of thousands of employees just ignore them. They often get lost in the daily email noise. I suspect that the people at AT&T are no different. And surprise! no repercussions, because they/are/ just suggestions.
I don't like this in any way (it also irritates me when they do it at work), but to imply that people are somehow being coerced into actually doing as stated in the email it is its own kind of aggravating. Try to give us drones some credit, eh?
Now pardon me, I've got to go -- I almost forgot to write out my monthly check to our PAC!
I went looking for that headline and couldn't find any reference to it in any of several billion web pages, except this one. I also searched several variations of it, and -- after an arduous 3 minutes of my life -- have come to the conclusion that you fabricated this one completely.
I know what the original article was, but I also know what your replies were - that was the context in which I was responding, and not to the original article discussion.
So now that I've called you on your tactics, you back off and try to say that I'm clearly the party in error? If in your original post you hadn't brought up marriage to goats and children (in an indirect comparison to gay marriage), I could almost believe your reply to mine.
Let's just throw up a bunch of straw men and hope that a sufficient distraction is created.
It would be idiotic to vote on who you yourself could marry. So while you could say "placing restrictions on marriage bothers me", it is non-sensical to say what you have.
Might as well get the insult in there too, right? But seriously, what are you talking about? It's idiotic for one adult to marry another adult, and to have that marriage legally recognized?
And further I cannot agree with it. Certainly, restricting adults from marrying 9-year-olds is something I agree with.
I should hope so. But the age of consent has nothing to do with what's under discussion - legal recognition of marriage of consenting adults.
So if I don't want to give a man the right to take a standard tax deduction as a married couple because he decided to marry a sheep, I should be shot?
Who's talking about sheep? Again, we're talking about legal recognition of the marriage of consenting adults.
On the other hand: no one has told you who you can or cannot marry. The discussion is over the legal recognition of said marriage.
Why yes, yes it is. So why are you trying to turn the discussion away from that point, in practically every other sentence you posted?
That was my first thought when I read this -- this argument sure sounds familiar, it's just that we're usually hearing about it as a way to justify video issues with Vista. That doesn't mean there's not a grain of truth to it (as is the case with Vista). Where I have an issue is not with the statement about drivers, but "drivers and applications" -- because it's not reasonable to expect that an application that is misbehaving will break sound for other applications that aren't.
Yep, unfortunately. There are third-party theme that you can hack in - but basically, the problem is that each of the portions of the decorations are actually PNG files. You can change some things (window text/background), but not the decorations themselves or the coloring of titles/borders/buttons/etc.
Anyone else feel we're not getting the whole story here? Descriptions of emails and events -- but I saw nothing that sounded threatening. Then there's the fact that she "made" her boyfriend sleep with a can of mace... but never called the cops. Methinks there's more here than we're hearing.
So in other words, they relied on the psychology of people who feed the need to be int he top 500 players, and the rationalizations people will make (it's only a few dollars... not so bad) in order to make a profit. It actually sounds like a pretty good business plan, since there will always be a subset of players for whom being on top is important enough to pay for.
As to how ethical this is... well, there's an opportunity there as well -- for those businesses who can advertise their moral superiority for not doing it this way.
Is it an improvement over VIsta? Hell ya. Is it an improvement over XP? That's not so clear. Many operations are still slower - or at least, they subjectively feel slower when I switch between my 3-year old desktop at work (XP) and my 6 month old quad-core 4GB laptop at home(Win7 64 RC) every day. The limitations in themes are frustrating visually - if you don't want to run Aero, you're stuck with specific window decoration color scheme that you can't change (unlike windows xp). Large file copy operations still take much, much longer than they do on XP (though on the flip side, the recovery from copy errors is much more robust). Applications launch times seem to be no better or worse than on my older XP machine -- which I take as a net loss in performance, since the XP machine's hardware is far slower than my laptop's.
Some of the amenities are nice - the Explorer changes (mostly done in Vista) are very helpful, but at the same time the Explorer interface now takes up much more room than it needs to. The only thing I actively like about 7 is the new taskbar -- but even that has its frustrations, primarily that it's not friendly for running applications that are configured based on command line options. An example is java -- while it recognizes java apps that you "pin" as JRE-based, it loses any additional information/parameters when you attempt to launch a jar file from the pinned menu. Another is putty, which lets you specify a parameter controlling startup profile, but this is not available to pinned instances.
All in all - it is definitely better than Vista. Whether it's better than the XP-based configuration that Dell is talking about... I think that's very much up for debate.
Actually, let me add a bit more: if a large corporation dumped a lot of stock, then the price would drop as the market was flooded. Now... there's no guarantee that will happen, because of day traders -- thus keeping the price artificially inflated.
However did such people manage before '97, when day trading as we know it became possible and prevalent? Or hell, at the very earliest 1975 when SEC opened the market to discount brokers? Answer: people still purchased stocks, without the presence or aid of day traders.
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It's used mainly by crackers to comprise websites. Fuck this tool and fuck the arrogant script kiddies padding their resumes with it. This software has no legitimate purpose.
Sounds like the righteous anger of someone who left some back doors open for a few script kiddies in his time, and got burned by it.
In exchange, the original author gets a) a job, and b) the ability to work full time on the code base he's passionate about. And probably some cash.
How exactly does "a job" and "the ability to work full time" for someone else constitute compensation for something you've already created?
If the author of the code agrees that this is sufficient compensation, then it is sufficient compensation. Otherwise, the sale couldn't be made.
How do we know that AC isn't making things up to stir up discussion? ;)
In the article,t he numbers show that Vista SP2 gives a clear edge over Win XP SP3 in every case. I'm surprised that this wasn't commented on, given the general perception of Vista's sluggishness.
Except that so far, I'm seeing table construction and table layouts. I guess that's technically code - as any SQL technically is - but a good case can be made to say that it's just the database structure. Which can, of course, be subjected to a hash check.
Except that the DDL isn't in a bunch of scripts that are building the schema, the schema exists in a bunch of strings that are concatenated together in stored procedures with some arguments to the procs munged in, and passed to Exec statements when the stored procedures are run. That's not normal table building, that's an unabashedly self-modifying database.
It seems more like a matter of the database dump being the /full/ database schema - including the stored procs they run to create new ballots.
Now... this is unabashedly crappy design, but I don't see that it qualifies as self-modifying. "Self-creating" perhaps, if anything.
Though realistically, businesses will be using the "LTS" distros which are extremely stable.
But please don't spread the MS cool-aid without actually knowing what you are talking about.
I'd have to say that goes both ways. The controls that windows gives in the enterprise space go far, far beyond ACLs.
If you control the machines what is the issue?
Just change the permissions, or remove the stuff or make it not even executable.
The only reason apps exist for windows to do this stuff is because of the incompetence of the average windows sysadmin.
Right, and don't forget to sync up your passwd fiels across 30,000 desktops in your enterprise. I mean, it's just copying a file, right?
Obviously there are better ways to do it than that, even on *nix today (ldap, nis, etc) but hey - maybe those only exist for linux due to the incompetence of the average unix admin? Or those other tools that make things easier, like config files. Who needs config files? You can just configure each daemon when you start it up manually, with command line params! At least, you can if you're competent.
Now get off my lawn.
I think that's part of the framework used to set up a given ballot, based on the way it looks. In other words - it's used to generate the tables for a specific election, and is not likely dynamically executing during the election itself.
* t violates the federal rulebook on voting systems on several levels: the rules require that code be hash-checked to prove authenticity in the field for obvious reasons. If the real working code is buried in with the data, no such hash-checks are possible.
Except that so far, I'm seeing table construction and table layouts. I guess that's technically code - as any SQL technically is - but a good case can be made to say that it's just the database structure. Which can, of course, be subjected to a hash check.
The federal rulebook is also clear that code can't be interpreted, apparently to avoid modification "in the field" (generally county or city election offices).
Well shit, in that case, they can't use SQL at all. Since a database is a fairly reasonable way to track the candidate data, display strings, etc... I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the intent of the law. (No, IANAL, just applying common sense).
I do think it's great and long overdue that this information is now available. But I also think they'll want to finish the analysis and get some people who understand what they're looking at, before they start making claims. There may be validity to them - but so far it's tenuous if there at all. (Full disclosure: I'd love to electronic voting either a) shut down or preferably b) administered in a 100% transparent fashion... so I'm not making this post in anybody's defense)
Why not just ignore it? Of course the company is looking out for its own interests, is this somehow a surprise to you? Were you so naive when you accepted the job that you thought that they /wouldn't/?
"Coming from one of the company’s most senior executives, it’s hard to imagine AT&T employees thinking the memo was merely a suggestion."
We get periodic emails along similar lines, couched as suggestions, in the large bank in which I am a cog. Know what happens? The vast majority of our 10s of thousands of employees just ignore them. They often get lost in the daily email noise. I suspect that the people at AT&T are no different. And surprise! no repercussions, because they /are/ just suggestions.
I don't like this in any way (it also irritates me when they do it at work), but to imply that people are somehow being coerced into actually doing as stated in the email it is its own kind of aggravating. Try to give us drones some credit, eh?
Now pardon me, I've got to go -- I almost forgot to write out my monthly check to our PAC!
I went looking for that headline and couldn't find any reference to it in any of several billion web pages, except this one. I also searched several variations of it, and -- after an arduous 3 minutes of my life -- have come to the conclusion that you fabricated this one completely.
So now that I've called you on your tactics, you back off and try to say that I'm clearly the party in error? If in your original post you hadn't brought up marriage to goats and children (in an indirect comparison to gay marriage), I could almost believe your reply to mine.
It would be idiotic to vote on who you yourself could marry. So while you could say "placing restrictions on marriage bothers me", it is non-sensical to say what you have.
Might as well get the insult in there too, right? But seriously, what are you talking about? It's idiotic for one adult to marry another adult, and to have that marriage legally recognized?
And further I cannot agree with it. Certainly, restricting adults from marrying 9-year-olds is something I agree with.
I should hope so. But the age of consent has nothing to do with what's under discussion - legal recognition of marriage of consenting adults.
So if I don't want to give a man the right to take a standard tax deduction as a married couple because he decided to marry a sheep, I should be shot?
Who's talking about sheep? Again, we're talking about legal recognition of the marriage of consenting adults.
On the other hand: no one has told you who you can or cannot marry. The discussion is over the legal recognition of said marriage.
Why yes, yes it is. So why are you trying to turn the discussion away from that point, in practically every other sentence you posted?
That was my first thought when I read this -- this argument sure sounds familiar, it's just that we're usually hearing about it as a way to justify video issues with Vista. That doesn't mean there's not a grain of truth to it (as is the case with Vista). Where I have an issue is not with the statement about drivers, but "drivers and applications" -- because it's not reasonable to expect that an application that is misbehaving will break sound for other applications that aren't.
Yep, unfortunately. There are third-party theme that you can hack in - but basically, the problem is that each of the portions of the decorations are actually PNG files. You can change some things (window text/background), but not the decorations themselves or the coloring of titles/borders/buttons/etc.
Beyond that... I can't see how much fun it will be when you know that every single player you encounter is guaranteed to be a spy...
Anyone else feel we're not getting the whole story here? Descriptions of emails and events -- but I saw nothing that sounded threatening. Then there's the fact that she "made" her boyfriend sleep with a can of mace... but never called the cops. Methinks there's more here than we're hearing.
Sweet - thanks!
Both home and work are 7200 SATA; the work one is SATA1 while home is SATA2
As to how ethical this is... well, there's an opportunity there as well -- for those businesses who can advertise their moral superiority for not doing it this way.
Some of the amenities are nice - the Explorer changes (mostly done in Vista) are very helpful, but at the same time the Explorer interface now takes up much more room than it needs to. The only thing I actively like about 7 is the new taskbar -- but even that has its frustrations, primarily that it's not friendly for running applications that are configured based on command line options. An example is java -- while it recognizes java apps that you "pin" as JRE-based, it loses any additional information/parameters when you attempt to launch a jar file from the pinned menu. Another is putty, which lets you specify a parameter controlling startup profile, but this is not available to pinned instances.
All in all - it is definitely better than Vista. Whether it's better than the XP-based configuration that Dell is talking about... I think that's very much up for debate.
Actually, let me add a bit more: if a large corporation dumped a lot of stock, then the price would drop as the market was flooded. Now... there's no guarantee that will happen, because of day traders -- thus keeping the price artificially inflated.
However did such people manage before '97, when day trading as we know it became possible and prevalent? Or hell, at the very earliest 1975 when SEC opened the market to discount brokers? Answer: people still purchased stocks, without the presence or aid of day traders.