I decided to cut and paste someone else's comment. It just seemed easier than buying a comment or writing one myself.;-)
Seriously, our government imposes an illegal tax whenever we buy blank electronic media that Assumes we are going to use it for illegal (copyright infringement) purposes. This not only violates the innocent until proven guilty but also results in a flow of money back to the artists through SOCAN based on our probable crimes.
If someone in the US has actual knowledge of a physical IP infringement activity in Canada, tell the police here. They will go and arrest the people responsible. Sheesh - we are members of WIPRO and do enforce IP laws as per our obligations. What we will not bow to is unsubstantiated claims without facts. Show us the crimes!
Re:you're wrong about it being called the "http callback interface." Its the "loopback interface"
D'oh! typo on my part. I lie forever disgraced in the eyes of/.;-)
Good catch. Too little sleep, not enough caffeine.
It's definitely != home unless the person using it has somehow found a way to reside in the various daemons that listen to the loopback.
Duane
(reeling from jetlag)
If I wanted to launch an attack, the most effective type would be a Denial of Service type attack against critical infrastructure targets. These are the hardest types of attacks to guard against given the attack is not about compromising the target, just rendering it useless for others. There are some steps that make sense (recgonizing a DoS attack and instantly reconfiguring the firewall to drop all packets form the attacker), but a large scale attack from multiple roaming sources might be impossible to mitigate in a timely manner. Also - most defenses like the one above are based on the assumption you know where the packets are coming from. Most DoS attacks masquerade their true IP addresses and spoof others so it might be able to trick the defense into actually taking malicious action against a legitimate source.
I also worry about some of the web service extensions currently under development in various standards bodies. Using certain flags like the Web Services Reliable Messaging Nacks (basically stating that they explicitly did not receive a message the endpoint was expecting), a smart attacker could trick a huge number of WS-RX endpoints into sending back messages to a single IP address. This smurf style DoS attack could be orchestrated by using smaller SME's with less than mature IT systems to attack larger targets without even compromising a single SME machine. Given the WS push to get businesses to adopt, I find this a bit worrying. I've raised this as an issue in the past.
Why would Vista engineers not make the API's backwards compatible? The whole gist of object oriented programming / SOA / interface based design is to try and abstract away dependencies on what provides the functionality from the interface exposing the functionality itself. True - new API's come and old ones are deprecated but I find it odd that a company the size of Apple would have issues. When win2k came out, the win98 API's were largely still supported as were win2k in XP. Does Vista represent a wholesale breakage of backwards compatibility or have too many companies (Apple) jsut become lazy in not heeding the warning that the API's really were being deprecated? Or am I completely off base here?
I guess I am venting. Thanks for the info. Still - I have seen a few companies that I suspect are in on the scam. One particular one had no way to contact them either via telephone or by email and had echoed the spammer message on their website. I also noticed that they had the same IP address the email originated from.
I will personally do everything I can to put these crooks in jail where they belong. Here is a list of companies that have sent me an average of 50++ spams per company. Everyone associated with them is on my hit list. That means I will literally make a citizen's arrest via whatever force is necessary if I ever encounter one of the small dicked cowards who perpetrates this type of thing.
VSUS.PK
Wild Brush Energy Symbol: WBRS
APPM.PK
NanoSensors, Inc. (Symbol NNSR)
MARSHALL HOLDINGS INTERNATIONAL INC(MHII.OB)
TWRAQ
Aeroform Metals (AFML)
XNYH
(the list is actually way longer than I can spend on a sunday)
Most people only look two meters in front of their own noses. Here are some things to consider:
Solar: Calculate the energy that it will provide over its' useful lifetime, then subtract the energy used to mine, refine, manufacture, ship and install the solar panels. In most cases, this seems to still be a net winner and as manufacturing processes get better, will continue to deliver real value.
Hydrogen: Really bad idea. First - if you have electricity, use the goddamn electricity. Don't waste 75% of it by converting it to hydrogen and then back to electricity. Hydrogen production is very difficult if you use electricity to do it. It is slow and inefficient. IF you turn the voltage up, you end up generating thermal energy as a second by product which causes steam contamination. Calculate the energy used to produce the hydrogen, all the equipment used to consume or generate it and subtract the energy the hydrogen produces. This will always be a negative boys and girls. Sorry - but the laws of physics cannot be repealed, no matter how cool it seems.
On the plus side, if he has the electricity to produce hydrogen, he can probably power 2-3 fully electric cars. If the range is the issue, this could be an area where some entrepreneurs might start looking (quick change battery standard for electric automobiles). Imagine you pull into an "energy" station and instead of filling your gas tank, someone takes your battery and replaces it with another. To make this effective, someone would have to create an ecosystem around this to determine testing for batteries etc.
I am going to get one of these rigs next time I go fishing. Lay it in the water, turn it on and all the fish rise up above the surface... perfect!!
Mmmm sushi....
D
I will disagree with your sentiment that both Adobe and Mozilla produce large bloated code bases. I think that given the stated requirements, both have done a good job. Nevertheless, if you don't like the code, at least now you can have a say and fix what you perceive is broken.
There are are lot of us within Adobe that haven't forgotten our roots and our first experiences with code often involved Open Source. Time to give back to the community. We also started RIA Forge and have some more open source projects on the go. www.riaforge.org.
Tschuss!
Duane Nickull
(Disclaimer - I did not read the article) Check out the first laws of physics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be converted. Second thing to consider is probability and statistics.
The problem is that too many people see facts and draw the wrong conclusions. Let's take one specific example as an illustration. There seems to be a growing fear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent in the southern US and people are attributing this to global warming. To determine if that is in fact true, you would first have to know the statistical average patterns and norms for variations in the patterns. The big problem here is we don't have enough data to make intelligent decisions. A 25 year old who has seen gradually warmer average summers for the last 18 years will panic about global warming BUT statistically, it is not meaningful. Our limited view of the last 250, 2500 years is inconsequential. The only really reliable data is from the last 50 years. "Data" that often gets quoted in the press is in fact hyperbole and innuendo based on someone interpretting a clump of clay or ice drilled out of the earth. That is not necessairly factual, although it could be.
Understanding the laws of energy are critical to add another dimension to the analysis. Nature loves to neutralize any imbalances that exist in most energy fields. Hurricanes happen when the water surface is warmed. A hurricance is simply a process converting thermal energy to kinetic energy and dissapating the energy. More hurricanes and more powerful instances means that nature is at work neutralizing the energy imbalance presumably created by man.
So what is the $64k question? When do things break to a point where the biosphere can no longer compensate? Trust me on this one - there is no consensus on the answer.
The notion that we can raise the world's temperature has also not been proven scientifically. Many scientists have hypothesized about links between certain polutants and an apparent warming trend over the last 50 years. Assuming one concludes that there is in fact a warming trend (a recent visit to my grandmothers house resulted in laughter over a 1970's issue of national geographic with the cover story "New ice age coming?") the question that needs to be answered is "is this above the normal fluctuations in the earths temperature range and is it a normal part of the cycle?". Anyone who claims to know that for sure is a fool.
I am much more concerned about the polutants and the effect they have on the general environment. Dumping draino to clear our drains before a salmon dinner is clearly the actions of a stupid race. Washing hair color and bleach down the drain then consuming duck pate is also as stupid. The bigger worry is that man is artificially binding atoms together than nature would not allow to exist otherwise. The earth has no mechanism to protect itself against many man made polutants.
For the record, I drove less than 3500 MK last year while putting 9,000 on my bike, don't use hair spray and use electricity generated via gravity. I didn't do this for global warming reasons but in fact just a general realization that car pollutants are bad. I grow my own organic food and do a number of other things to really think through my purchase decisions, even where conventional wisdom might seem to contradict.
Both sides can agree to this since it neatly wraps up all the arguments in a three word solution.
Get over it, move on to more important things like why we are killing our fellow man.
Yes - GPS is required for more finite measurements however if you exceeded 100 MPH you might have a hard time justifying it back the them. No rental company would probably subject their renters to a harrassment like this however I was aware of a few specialty rental outfitters who had high end cars and told renters they had a black box to detect "spinning the wheels". Not sure if it was actually implemented or designed to scare.
I reviewed a recent rental agreement from National to see if there is anything in it about data ownership. There is a section about the Onstar that says the renter should be aware that the vehicle *may* be equipped with Onstar. Under section two it specifically names that GPS devices are owned by the car company but does not mention who owns the data. I would presume data ownership would be likely to fault to the car owner who also owned the GPS device.
I would also probably note a precedent that the miles charged for a rental are also given to the car company via an electronic reporting system on board the car (the odometer). The high level architectural pattern is the exact same as something from a GPS device. The odometer logs data, the data is given to the car company, the car company bills you based on the data.
I highly suspect that a car company using logged data from otehr sources would be successful if suing in court.
There are two common ways. One is the manufacturer can download the data when the car is serviced. This could theoretically be used against you to invalidate your warranty ( "I am sorry Bob but we cannot replace your shock absorbers even though they are under warranty. Your Black Box told us you frequently get your vehicle airborn which invalidates the warranty."). While most responsible and reputable manufacturer's would probably not do this, they also may use it as data to help build better cars based on your habits.
When you do get into an accident, if your can is written off, your insurance company will buy it from you for salvage. When they do this, they will settle but as part of the deal, they will receive the salvage rights to sell, use, own everything left in the car. The precedent has been set in Vancouver, BC that the data is part of that package by our evil monopolistic overlords of insurance - ICBC.
Another possible scenario might be rental car agencies. Imagine something breaks on a car while you have it and they want to prove that you did it. If they can access the data recorder, they might be able to use that data against you. Arguably, the data is probably theirs anyways. Imagine if they had a rental car siezed under the patriot act and gathered all the data. How many speeding tickets can you get in one day?
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Suppo rt_OpenDocument/1152166759
"In a surprise move, Microsoft is bending to pressure from governments and will sponsor an open source project to build tools that enable conversion between its Open XML formats in Office 2007 and OpenDocument (ODF). The forthcoming Office suite will also support an add-in for saving directly to ODF."
I have to go scare some pigs off my roof that just flew in....
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Which is why it is relevant but there are
I meant to say WIPO.
I decided to cut and paste someone else's comment. It just seemed easier than buying a comment or writing one myself. ;-)
Seriously, our government imposes an illegal tax whenever we buy blank electronic media that Assumes we are going to use it for illegal (copyright infringement) purposes. This not only violates the innocent until proven guilty but also results in a flow of money back to the artists through SOCAN based on our probable crimes.
If someone in the US has actual knowledge of a physical IP infringement activity in Canada, tell the police here. They will go and arrest the people responsible. Sheesh - we are members of WIPRO and do enforce IP laws as per our obligations. What we will not bow to is unsubstantiated claims without facts. Show us the crimes!
Re:you're wrong about it being called the "http callback interface." Its the "loopback interface" D'oh! typo on my part. I lie forever disgraced in the eyes of /. ;-)
Good catch. Too little sleep, not enough caffeine.
It's definitely != home unless the person using it has somehow found a way to reside in the various daemons that listen to the loopback.
Duane
(reeling from jetlag)
127.0.0.1 = localhost, more commonly known as the http callback interface. Not sure why this is posted on this thread. Enlighten me?
I think their plan is to just re-route all incoming USA bound HTTP traffic to myspace. ;-)
If I wanted to launch an attack, the most effective type would be a Denial of Service type attack against critical infrastructure targets. These are the hardest types of attacks to guard against given the attack is not about compromising the target, just rendering it useless for others. There are some steps that make sense (recgonizing a DoS attack and instantly reconfiguring the firewall to drop all packets form the attacker), but a large scale attack from multiple roaming sources might be impossible to mitigate in a timely manner. Also - most defenses like the one above are based on the assumption you know where the packets are coming from. Most DoS attacks masquerade their true IP addresses and spoof others so it might be able to trick the defense into actually taking malicious action against a legitimate source. I also worry about some of the web service extensions currently under development in various standards bodies. Using certain flags like the Web Services Reliable Messaging Nacks (basically stating that they explicitly did not receive a message the endpoint was expecting), a smart attacker could trick a huge number of WS-RX endpoints into sending back messages to a single IP address. This smurf style DoS attack could be orchestrated by using smaller SME's with less than mature IT systems to attack larger targets without even compromising a single SME machine. Given the WS push to get businesses to adopt, I find this a bit worrying. I've raised this as an issue in the past.
Why would Vista engineers not make the API's backwards compatible? The whole gist of object oriented programming / SOA / interface based design is to try and abstract away dependencies on what provides the functionality from the interface exposing the functionality itself. True - new API's come and old ones are deprecated but I find it odd that a company the size of Apple would have issues. When win2k came out, the win98 API's were largely still supported as were win2k in XP. Does Vista represent a wholesale breakage of backwards compatibility or have too many companies (Apple) jsut become lazy in not heeding the warning that the API's really were being deprecated? Or am I completely off base here?
Trust me - I know how to read SMTP headers ;-)
I hate spammers. Wish we could round them all up and put them in a big hole.
I guess I am venting. Thanks for the info. Still - I have seen a few companies that I suspect are in on the scam. One particular one had no way to contact them either via telephone or by email and had echoed the spammer message on their website. I also noticed that they had the same IP address the email originated from.
I will personally do everything I can to put these crooks in jail where they belong. Here is a list of companies that have sent me an average of 50++ spams per company. Everyone associated with them is on my hit list. That means I will literally make a citizen's arrest via whatever force is necessary if I ever encounter one of the small dicked cowards who perpetrates this type of thing. VSUS.PK Wild Brush Energy Symbol: WBRS APPM.PK NanoSensors, Inc. (Symbol NNSR) MARSHALL HOLDINGS INTERNATIONAL INC(MHII.OB) TWRAQ Aeroform Metals (AFML) XNYH (the list is actually way longer than I can spend on a sunday)
Most people only look two meters in front of their own noses. Here are some things to consider: Solar: Calculate the energy that it will provide over its' useful lifetime, then subtract the energy used to mine, refine, manufacture, ship and install the solar panels. In most cases, this seems to still be a net winner and as manufacturing processes get better, will continue to deliver real value. Hydrogen: Really bad idea. First - if you have electricity, use the goddamn electricity. Don't waste 75% of it by converting it to hydrogen and then back to electricity. Hydrogen production is very difficult if you use electricity to do it. It is slow and inefficient. IF you turn the voltage up, you end up generating thermal energy as a second by product which causes steam contamination. Calculate the energy used to produce the hydrogen, all the equipment used to consume or generate it and subtract the energy the hydrogen produces. This will always be a negative boys and girls. Sorry - but the laws of physics cannot be repealed, no matter how cool it seems. On the plus side, if he has the electricity to produce hydrogen, he can probably power 2-3 fully electric cars. If the range is the issue, this could be an area where some entrepreneurs might start looking (quick change battery standard for electric automobiles). Imagine you pull into an "energy" station and instead of filling your gas tank, someone takes your battery and replaces it with another. To make this effective, someone would have to create an ecosystem around this to determine testing for batteries etc.
I am going to get one of these rigs next time I go fishing. Lay it in the water, turn it on and all the fish rise up above the surface... perfect!! Mmmm sushi.... D
What are the business drivers for this? Not ragging on it but curious to know why it exists.
I will disagree with your sentiment that both Adobe and Mozilla produce large bloated code bases. I think that given the stated requirements, both have done a good job. Nevertheless, if you don't like the code, at least now you can have a say and fix what you perceive is broken.
There are are lot of us within Adobe that haven't forgotten our roots and our first experiences with code often involved Open Source. Time to give back to the community. We also started RIA Forge and have some more open source projects on the go. www.riaforge.org. Tschuss! Duane Nickull
(Disclaimer - I did not read the article)
Check out the first laws of physics. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Energy can only be converted. Second thing to consider is probability and statistics.
The problem is that too many people see facts and draw the wrong conclusions. Let's take one specific example as an illustration. There seems to be a growing fear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent in the southern US and people are attributing this to global warming. To determine if that is in fact true, you would first have to know the statistical average patterns and norms for variations in the patterns. The big problem here is we don't have enough data to make intelligent decisions. A 25 year old who has seen gradually warmer average summers for the last 18 years will panic about global warming BUT statistically, it is not meaningful. Our limited view of the last 250, 2500 years is inconsequential. The only really reliable data is from the last 50 years. "Data" that often gets quoted in the press is in fact hyperbole and innuendo based on someone interpretting a clump of clay or ice drilled out of the earth. That is not necessairly factual, although it could be.
Understanding the laws of energy are critical to add another dimension to the analysis. Nature loves to neutralize any imbalances that exist in most energy fields. Hurricanes happen when the water surface is warmed. A hurricance is simply a process converting thermal energy to kinetic energy and dissapating the energy. More hurricanes and more powerful instances means that nature is at work neutralizing the energy imbalance presumably created by man.
So what is the $64k question? When do things break to a point where the biosphere can no longer compensate? Trust me on this one - there is no consensus on the answer.
The notion that we can raise the world's temperature has also not been proven scientifically. Many scientists have hypothesized about links between certain polutants and an apparent warming trend over the last 50 years. Assuming one concludes that there is in fact a warming trend (a recent visit to my grandmothers house resulted in laughter over a 1970's issue of national geographic with the cover story "New ice age coming?") the question that needs to be answered is "is this above the normal fluctuations in the earths temperature range and is it a normal part of the cycle?". Anyone who claims to know that for sure is a fool.
I am much more concerned about the polutants and the effect they have on the general environment. Dumping draino to clear our drains before a salmon dinner is clearly the actions of a stupid race. Washing hair color and bleach down the drain then consuming duck pate is also as stupid. The bigger worry is that man is artificially binding atoms together than nature would not allow to exist otherwise. The earth has no mechanism to protect itself against many man made polutants.
For the record, I drove less than 3500 MK last year while putting 9,000 on my bike, don't use hair spray and use electricity generated via gravity. I didn't do this for global warming reasons but in fact just a general realization that car pollutants are bad. I grow my own organic food and do a number of other things to really think through my purchase decisions, even where conventional wisdom might seem to contradict.
I am sure there's a few more lawsuits here based on flames and other permathreads....
50 meter bug could be squashed with a few good lines of code. Still - I'll never think of anything else when logging into Bugzilla.
Both sides can agree to this since it neatly wraps up all the arguments in a three word solution. Get over it, move on to more important things like why we are killing our fellow man.
Yes - GPS is required for more finite measurements however if you exceeded 100 MPH you might have a hard time justifying it back the them. No rental company would probably subject their renters to a harrassment like this however I was aware of a few specialty rental outfitters who had high end cars and told renters they had a black box to detect "spinning the wheels". Not sure if it was actually implemented or designed to scare. I reviewed a recent rental agreement from National to see if there is anything in it about data ownership. There is a section about the Onstar that says the renter should be aware that the vehicle *may* be equipped with Onstar. Under section two it specifically names that GPS devices are owned by the car company but does not mention who owns the data. I would presume data ownership would be likely to fault to the car owner who also owned the GPS device. I would also probably note a precedent that the miles charged for a rental are also given to the car company via an electronic reporting system on board the car (the odometer). The high level architectural pattern is the exact same as something from a GPS device. The odometer logs data, the data is given to the car company, the car company bills you based on the data. I highly suspect that a car company using logged data from otehr sources would be successful if suing in court.
Black box this.... http://www.nickull.net/movies/MOV00358.MPG And yes - I am leasing this 2002 Porsche Twin Turbo....
There are two common ways. One is the manufacturer can download the data when the car is serviced. This could theoretically be used against you to invalidate your warranty ( "I am sorry Bob but we cannot replace your shock absorbers even though they are under warranty. Your Black Box told us you frequently get your vehicle airborn which invalidates the warranty."). While most responsible and reputable manufacturer's would probably not do this, they also may use it as data to help build better cars based on your habits. When you do get into an accident, if your can is written off, your insurance company will buy it from you for salvage. When they do this, they will settle but as part of the deal, they will receive the salvage rights to sell, use, own everything left in the car. The precedent has been set in Vancouver, BC that the data is part of that package by our evil monopolistic overlords of insurance - ICBC. Another possible scenario might be rental car agencies. Imagine something breaks on a car while you have it and they want to prove that you did it. If they can access the data recorder, they might be able to use that data against you. Arguably, the data is probably theirs anyways. Imagine if they had a rental car siezed under the patriot act and gathered all the data. How many speeding tickets can you get in one day?
While you're holding your breath, consider the following: 1. Why don't you ask the ad directors to make ads we actually might want to watch. For example, Volkswagen made some great ads that became popular as standalone downloads. Miss Helga has even become a cultural icon and even has page. The ads were some of the most popular downloads on YouTube.com The advertising model has changed - get over it and get on it. If an ad can attract more viewers than some of your regularly scheduled shows, you need to take a good look at why. The old model is no longer applicable and one could gamble and say the writing was on the wall with the advent of VHS recorders and remote controls.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Suppo rt_OpenDocument/1152166759
"In a surprise move, Microsoft is bending to pressure from governments and will sponsor an open source project to build tools that enable conversion between its Open XML formats in Office 2007 and OpenDocument (ODF). The forthcoming Office suite will also support an add-in for saving directly to ODF."
I have to go scare some pigs off my roof that just flew in....