WHEN YOU ARE ON A GAME SHOW, YOU ONLY GET ONE ATTEMPT!
Yes, and in that one attempt, you'd be better of switching.
You don't NEED to play the game numerous times to get a conclusion that switching doors is better, you can reason that switching doors is beneficial in any given trial.
There is a 1/3 chance that your original door is the prize, and a 2/3 chance that the other door is the prize. A person using reason will switch doors.
The author only suggested that you play the game in case you didn't understand the reasoning. If you understand the reasoning then you don't need to play the game.
I did the online game in the latter link. I switched doors.. and ended up with a goat.
Nice anecdote. Nobody said that you must win, of course in either option there is still the chance to lose.
All the probability theory in the world doesn't make me feel better about not winning the car. (Which, of course I had actually correctly selected with my first guess).
Then playing game shows isn't for you. A reasonable person might feel unhappy at losing if he switched doors, but he will not have regretted his decision (he WOULD regret losing by keeping his original door, however, because that decision would have been unreasonable).
Difficult when you CANNOT due to limitations of your provider. Anyone who has AT&T's U-verse product *must* run the 2WIRE box in router mode. There is no other choice.
Sure there's another choice. You can always attach another router to it which does DNS recursion (not forwarding). Or do the DNS recursion on your computer with BIND 9 or other software.
For the most part, it is the spammers paying the spammers. Almost all of the spam I notice is for selling advertisement services. You know, the kind of thing that spammers use.
Wow. That definately deserves a "WTF". I have a IP35 board and I installed Fedora 7 on it last year without an issue. Maybe it is just an Ubuntu thing.
Sure, they can manage their own terminals. But their terminals have no hard disk, no removable storage, no USB and no internet connectivity. No problem.
99.99%* of ads can be avoided by blocking cross-site images and scripts (cross-site scripts should be killed outright, while images can be replaced with placeholders).
The other 0.01%* of sites that actually host their own ads have special deals with the companies to advertise their products directly. Those usually result in reasonable, non obtrusive ads that actually make sense on the site.
Or suppose that the evidence is planted before or during seizure, before any lawyers get involved. When only one or two cops are coming to pick up someone's equipment, it is highly likely that evidence can be planted without getting noticed.
md5summing or not, all the trust is placed in the prosecutor's lab. There are too many opportunities for wrongdoing.
While flash only "paints to the screen", it shares memory with the browser, and it can make system calls like any other application, so even a small bug can be dangerous.
Bugs like buffer overflows, the uber-exploits anyone can use to run code on your machine.
Software will suck as long as speed is more important than correctness.
I'm fascinated by the LHC and can't wait to see it started up.
Most likely all that will happen is we will learn some new useful info about physics. The doom-sayers will then find something else to waste people's time about.
Consider if things actually DO go wrong and it swallows up the earth. So what? Nobody will be left to regret it anyway. So let 'er rip.
You're right. I was under the impression that PDF is only intended as a "display" format. In my years of dealing with computer users nobody ever asked me how to edit a PDF.
If you wanted to change a PDF you would change the underlying LaTeX or OO file you produced it from.:)
As was pointed out already, they didn't look at referers.
But hypothetically even if they did, it would still suck for people who disable referers for privacy purposes.
Incidentally, my HTTP proxy strips out referers and other unnecessary junk for privacy. I don't particularly care to let every website know where I came from, what serch terms I entered, what messageboards I was visiting, etc.
Anyone know of any way to make software security function the way business people dream of? Namely, only approved code running approved processes.
As long as the hardware that the software is running on is in the hands of people you don't trust, then no. Your only hope is to separate the user from the sensitive hardware.
Prefferably with several inches of steel and several armed guards.
But you can't do that reliably with a cell phone, so we get useless gimmicks for security.
Even putting security features in the chips themselves, as I've heard they are developing, will just be a relatively minor roadblock.
Intel actually does this in a way with their microcode updates. I assume it is only a matter of time before chip makers start to plant many (thousands of?) keys into the chips and sell the keys to software publishers. Not that that will last, either, though.
The logic went something like this - some "unethical third party" could be snooping on my connection, and, seeing that I was looking into a domain purchase, they could snap up the domain and then try to sell it to me at an inflated rate.
Isn't that exactly what happened?
I don't own a Dell nor do I have any Google software installed on my computer. Why again would I want to have my Google searches hijacked by my DNS provider? How is hijacking search results justified in that case?
Why accuse someone of working for Google or Dell when they say they don't want their searches hijacked?
Note, I don't work for Google or Dell or OpenDNS. Actually I just run BIND 9 on my network to do DNS recursion and get the answers from authority nameservers directly. Cut out the middleman and save yourself a lot of trouble if it is such a big deal.
If the attacker is able to run code on your computer, all bets are off and a DNS hijack is the least of your worries.
If the attacker is just subverting your DNS outside your computer, say by breaking into your router via javascript and a weak password on the router, then SSL will still clearly help (as long as you aren't the type to go clicking "OK" on every warning box).
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Yes, and in that one attempt, you'd be better of switching.
You don't NEED to play the game numerous times to get a conclusion that switching doors is better, you can reason that switching doors is beneficial in any given trial.
There is a 1/3 chance that your original door is the prize, and a 2/3 chance that the other door is the prize. A person using reason will switch doors.
The author only suggested that you play the game in case you didn't understand the reasoning. If you understand the reasoning then you don't need to play the game. I did the online game in the latter link. I switched doors.. and ended up with a goat.
Nice anecdote. Nobody said that you must win, of course in either option there is still the chance to lose.
All the probability theory in the world doesn't make me feel better about not winning the car. (Which, of course I had actually correctly selected with my first guess).
Then playing game shows isn't for you. A reasonable person might feel unhappy at losing if he switched doors, but he will not have regretted his decision (he WOULD regret losing by keeping his original door, however, because that decision would have been unreasonable).
Please keep it there!
Black text #000000 on light yellow background #FFFFDD
None of the items on that page are BIND, and half of them are Microsoft products. Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!
I'd rather take my chances with administering DNS software on my network than risk using a vulnerable router, anyway.
Sure there's another choice. You can always attach another router to it which does DNS recursion (not forwarding). Or do the DNS recursion on your computer with BIND 9 or other software.
Somebody's gotta do it.
For the most part, it is the spammers paying the spammers. Almost all of the spam I notice is for selling advertisement services. You know, the kind of thing that spammers use.
Wow. That definately deserves a "WTF". I have a IP35 board and I installed Fedora 7 on it last year without an issue. Maybe it is just an Ubuntu thing.
Sure, they can manage their own terminals. But their terminals have no hard disk, no removable storage, no USB and no internet connectivity. No problem.
99.99%* of ads can be avoided by blocking cross-site images and scripts (cross-site scripts should be killed outright, while images can be replaced with placeholders).
The other 0.01%* of sites that actually host their own ads have special deals with the companies to advertise their products directly. Those usually result in reasonable, non obtrusive ads that actually make sense on the site.
*numbers pulled out of my ass
How exactly does encrypting your drive protect you from evidence-planting? You forget about external drives and CDRs that may be found lying around...
Or suppose that the evidence is planted before or during seizure, before any lawyers get involved. When only one or two cops are coming to pick up someone's equipment, it is highly likely that evidence can be planted without getting noticed.
md5summing or not, all the trust is placed in the prosecutor's lab. There are too many opportunities for wrongdoing.
While flash only "paints to the screen", it shares memory with the browser, and it can make system calls like any other application, so even a small bug can be dangerous.
Bugs like buffer overflows, the uber-exploits anyone can use to run code on your machine.
Software will suck as long as speed is more important than correctness.
I'm fascinated by the LHC and can't wait to see it started up.
Most likely all that will happen is we will learn some new useful info about physics. The doom-sayers will then find something else to waste people's time about.
Consider if things actually DO go wrong and it swallows up the earth. So what? Nobody will be left to regret it anyway. So let 'er rip.
You're right. I was under the impression that PDF is only intended as a "display" format. In my years of dealing with computer users nobody ever asked me how to edit a PDF.
:)
If you wanted to change a PDF you would change the underlying LaTeX or OO file you produced it from.
Or, you could just use KPDF to read PDFs instead of using a whole office suite / word processor.
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As was pointed out already, they didn't look at referers.
But hypothetically even if they did, it would still suck for people who disable referers for privacy purposes.
Incidentally, my HTTP proxy strips out referers and other unnecessary junk for privacy. I don't particularly care to let every website know where I came from, what serch terms I entered, what messageboards I was visiting, etc.
Prefferably with several inches of steel and several armed guards.
But you can't do that reliably with a cell phone, so we get useless gimmicks for security.
Intel actually does this in a way with their microcode updates. I assume it is only a matter of time before chip makers start to plant many (thousands of?) keys into the chips and sell the keys to software publishers. Not that that will last, either, though.
It went bankrupt.
Isn't that exactly what happened?
According to most banks, yes.
I don't own a Dell nor do I have any Google software installed on my computer. Why again would I want to have my Google searches hijacked by my DNS provider? How is hijacking search results justified in that case?
Why accuse someone of working for Google or Dell when they say they don't want their searches hijacked?
Note, I don't work for Google or Dell or OpenDNS. Actually I just run BIND 9 on my network to do DNS recursion and get the answers from authority nameservers directly. Cut out the middleman and save yourself a lot of trouble if it is such a big deal.
If the attacker is able to run code on your computer, all bets are off and a DNS hijack is the least of your worries.
If the attacker is just subverting your DNS outside your computer, say by breaking into your router via javascript and a weak password on the router, then SSL will still clearly help (as long as you aren't the type to go clicking "OK" on every warning box).
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