If you're in the U.S. simply reply "STOP ALL" to any one of the texts. Every shortcode operator is required to implement this command by permanently ceasing all future messages upon receiving it. There are a few other keyword commands mandated by the CTIA but this one is by far, the most useful.
Corn and carrots did not exist in their current form a thousand years ago, we agree on that; however, there is a very large difference between the artificial selection our human ancestors performed and what Monsanto is currently doing by splicing sheep DNA and injecting it into vegetables - often for no other reason than to sell patented pesticides that pair with their crop seeds. I'm not saying gene splicing is "wrong", as a man of science, I'm in favor of pushing boundaries but there's a difference between that and artificial selection using nature's own rules. There's also no reason why people shouldn't be informed about exactly what they are putting into their bodies. That's not a decision you or any scientist has the right to make. Less we forget, DDT, Thalidomide and Agent Orange were all deemed "safe" by experts at one time, my friend.
Even if you remove the health risk argument, there are other legitimate concerns. Have you tasted Parisian food lately? I dare you to find a french beefsteak tomato that has as bland a flavor as our U.S. equivalent - one reason for that is because we've bread our beefsteak tomatoes to have skins thick enough to survive truck transport but in the process we've inadvertently bread out the flavor.
Also for someone claiming no special interest, you seem pretty determined to counter EVERY single comment on this article that's not in line with your views.
I agree, they likely have some of my records; however, because of the proprietary nature of medical IT solutions they do not have all of my medical records and if they wanted to collect them all, they would have to subpoena every single doctor I've ever visited which I would argue is a very good, albeit unintended consequence of the current medical IT cluster the author rails on.
I read TFA and the author completely misses the issue. The Clinton administration tried to implement this and congress (rightfully) voted against it. Until congress revokes the Patriot Act and proves that the Bill of Rights is still a valid contract, no informed citizen wants their medical records stored in a national archive. The privacy implications far outweigh the benefits and no amount of PCI compliance is going to ease that concern when the man-in-the-middle is tapping backbones with god damn nuclear submarines and lying to the tax payers about it. I'll stick to carrying my medical records in a banker box, thank you.
The "think of the women/children" card is the tactic of a scoundrel and I thought Al Franken to be above such methods - his opinion on this matter appears to favor emotion over critical thinking.
Revenge porn is a despicable concept, don't get me wrong, but you know what else is despicable? Writing laws under emotional pretense without weighing the potential for abuse. When the only thing that separates "homemade porn" and "revenge porn" is intent, god help the innocent. I can think of a dozen hypothetical situations in which such laws could be (and would be) abused and that's just off the top of my head.
Here's an obvious one: my wife and I made a sex tape yesterday (not really). Neither of us filled out consent forms because....who would? 10 years from now we find ourselves divorced due to unrelated matters. What then would prevent my ex-wife from posting the sex tape via a public computer terminal and reporting it to the FBI's "revenge porn" task force? Nothing....and it would be my word against hers and her ass on every computer screen in the country so there goes 5-10 years of my freedom.
Like most emotionally-charged laws in this country, anyone who takes issue commits political suicide so no one will stop this madness. Meanwhile America's legal system slips further into a cruel, hypocritical mess written with the "best" of intentions. It's a shame, I like Al Franken.
TCPDF Open-source PDF-reader built in PHP FPDF Combine with TCPDF above to create a PDF-writer using PHP SetAssign Not open-source but this company offers both free and paid libraries that combine with the libraries above to allow PDF encryption / decryption using PHP.- The paid versions support more complex ciphers and I swear by them personally
"To date, no known flaws have been found against DES" : Er, differential calculus? Why do you think we created Triple-DES? Because we like things in threes? Supposedly the NSA made it more difficult to use differential calculus against DES by changing the S-Box permutations but it is still possible.
There was a time when the NSA had integrity....
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What if I don't want to save my changes?
"You can use the 'undo' command they say..."
Yes but the undo command isn't persistent between applications, much less a power failure.
You haven't solved anything, you've merely shifted the problem.
You realize that up until roughly two years ago (in the US at least) the majority of people who identified themselves as "libertarians" were left-wing hippies from Vermont who embraced social contracts but wanted the government out of their personal affairs, pot gardens and gun racks? It wasn't until the "Tea Party" under right-wing funding and Carl Rove style propaganda was the term "libertarian" bastardized to enable right-wing nut jobs to hide under the guise of a small government agenda. I am a libertarian and I vote Democrat; not because they are equal but because if you go by historical facts and numbers, the Democrats have consistently been the party of fiscal responsibility since the 1960's.
You're not crazy, the two groups are far more agreeable than you think.
Is it off topic? I blame Microsoft.
You realize that up until roughly two years ago (in the US at least) the majority of people who identified themselves as "libertarians" were left-wing hippies from Vermont who embraced social contracts but wanted the government out of their personal affairs, pot gardens and gun racks? It wasn't until the "Tea Party" under right-wing funding and Carl Rove style propaganda was the term "libertarian" bastardized to enable right-wing nut jobs to hide under the guise of a small government agenda. I am a libertarian and I vote Democrat; not because they are equal but because if you go by historical facts and numbers, the Democrats have consistently been the party of fiscal responsibility since the 1960's.
You're not crazy, the two groups are far more agreeable than you think.
And what happens when I need to tweak the virtual host settings or tune the database to better meet the demands of my specific application? You want me to f-over every other application running on the production server?
Screw you, man. Just wack off a dedicated VPS chunk and put it behind whatever paranoid tin-foil hat firewall sandbox you want. I don't want to have to open a support ticket and wait two hours every time I need to check the logs on my application server.
Sadly a lot of PDF printers will retain javascript code even if you print it and re-assemble it back into a PDF. The problem lies in the fact that Adobe allows javascript to be embedded inside image objects and compressed blocks of PDF binary. It's not as simple as opening the file and stripping out anything that starts with . Code can be fired on almost any user event and it can be attached to almost any high-level object. It's not impossible to create a scrubber but it's a lot more complicated than you might think.
I spent the better part of a week attempting to create a PDF scrubber at my office for this same reason. We had become victim to highly targeted attacks from PDF sources. I wrote a scrubber in PHP using an open-source PDF parser and a series of regular expressions to strip out any javascript. At the end of the day, I came very close to a working solution but I ran into issues with encrypted PDF's.
The project was shelved in favor of making users open all external PDF's on a virtual server that was hardened and re-imaged every evening to prevent any malicious code from running rampant. That's the simplest solution.
Agreed. You may not always need a math background depending on what you decide to do. I have a CS and Applied math degree and I worked in finance for 5 years where the math background was an invaluable tool that helped me excel where my coworkers without it did not. For other jobs I've had developing apps and UI's for start-ups, it rarely came up; however, whether you use the math or not on the job there will always be fundamental math quizzes during technical job interviews and having a higher understanding of mathematics will always help you in that regard.
Also if you ever develop a large-scale database or system, mathematical optimization will always come into play in ways you never thought it would.
"We've dedicated well over 10 years to come up with this solution. We have a lot of people in this company who've put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it and never gotten a penny out of it. If we were in it for the money, we would have been out of it a long time ago. "Our motto is... if we save the life of one child, it's a miracle to that child and everyone that child touches."
If they were true to their motto they should have dropped the project and donated their funding to a children's hospital 10 years ago.
Also exempt from the cost analysis is the ISP fee for unlocking inbound port 80. I know my ISP blocks it unless you pay for a business account which is nearly $80 more a month. You could try to route around it with dyndns but it's not fun and I don't think a dyndns account is free anymore. That alone puts you over the VPS budget which is why I use VPS hosting.
I'm not supporting Obama's policy but I don't think this is as evil as everyone is making it out to be. Our country is theoretically "at war" with Al Quada as an organization (whether that makes any sense is a whole other tangent). During World War II, plenty of German-American citizens living in the US flue back to Germany and fought against American forces. We didn't need due process to kill them on the battlefield. Whether you're an American citizen or not, if you're on foreign territory and pose a threat to our armed forces, there's not a large legal barrier to killing you.
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If you're in the U.S. simply reply "STOP ALL" to any one of the texts. Every shortcode operator is required to implement this command by permanently ceasing all future messages upon receiving it. There are a few other keyword commands mandated by the CTIA but this one is by far, the most useful.
We show for the first time that commodity devices can be used to generate wireless data transmissions that are confined to the human body
This isn't "wireless" you've simply turned the human body into a "wire" and no, this isn't the first time that's been done.
See: Texas' criminal sentencing laws for murder...
Corn and carrots did not exist in their current form a thousand years ago, we agree on that; however, there is a very large difference between the artificial selection our human ancestors performed and what Monsanto is currently doing by splicing sheep DNA and injecting it into vegetables - often for no other reason than to sell patented pesticides that pair with their crop seeds. I'm not saying gene splicing is "wrong", as a man of science, I'm in favor of pushing boundaries but there's a difference between that and artificial selection using nature's own rules. There's also no reason why people shouldn't be informed about exactly what they are putting into their bodies. That's not a decision you or any scientist has the right to make. Less we forget, DDT, Thalidomide and Agent Orange were all deemed "safe" by experts at one time, my friend.
Even if you remove the health risk argument, there are other legitimate concerns. Have you tasted Parisian food lately? I dare you to find a french beefsteak tomato that has as bland a flavor as our U.S. equivalent - one reason for that is because we've bread our beefsteak tomatoes to have skins thick enough to survive truck transport but in the process we've inadvertently bread out the flavor.
Also for someone claiming no special interest, you seem pretty determined to counter EVERY single comment on this article that's not in line with your views.
I agree, they likely have some of my records; however, because of the proprietary nature of medical IT solutions they do not have all of my medical records and if they wanted to collect them all, they would have to subpoena every single doctor I've ever visited which I would argue is a very good, albeit unintended consequence of the current medical IT cluster the author rails on.
I read TFA and the author completely misses the issue. The Clinton administration tried to implement this and congress (rightfully) voted against it. Until congress revokes the Patriot Act and proves that the Bill of Rights is still a valid contract, no informed citizen wants their medical records stored in a national archive. The privacy implications far outweigh the benefits and no amount of PCI compliance is going to ease that concern when the man-in-the-middle is tapping backbones with god damn nuclear submarines and lying to the tax payers about it. I'll stick to carrying my medical records in a banker box, thank you.
The "think of the women/children" card is the tactic of a scoundrel and I thought Al Franken to be above such methods - his opinion on this matter appears to favor emotion over critical thinking.
Revenge porn is a despicable concept, don't get me wrong, but you know what else is despicable? Writing laws under emotional pretense without weighing the potential for abuse. When the only thing that separates "homemade porn" and "revenge porn" is intent, god help the innocent. I can think of a dozen hypothetical situations in which such laws could be (and would be) abused and that's just off the top of my head.
Here's an obvious one: my wife and I made a sex tape yesterday (not really). Neither of us filled out consent forms because....who would? 10 years from now we find ourselves divorced due to unrelated matters. What then would prevent my ex-wife from posting the sex tape via a public computer terminal and reporting it to the FBI's "revenge porn" task force? Nothing....and it would be my word against hers and her ass on every computer screen in the country so there goes 5-10 years of my freedom.
Like most emotionally-charged laws in this country, anyone who takes issue commits political suicide so no one will stop this madness. Meanwhile America's legal system slips further into a cruel, hypocritical mess written with the "best" of intentions. It's a shame, I like Al Franken.
TCPDF Open-source PDF-reader built in PHP
FPDF Combine with TCPDF above to create a PDF-writer using PHP
SetAssign Not open-source but this company offers both free and paid libraries that combine with the libraries above to allow PDF encryption / decryption using PHP.- The paid versions support more complex ciphers and I swear by them personally
Not sure if you meant desktop software or...
Exactly how does "two Ethernet ports" and "a USB port" translate into "a ton of I/O to connect anything"?
What is this, 1992? I can buy a 16-port gigabit router on eBay for $50 and flash it with whatever WRT variant I want.
- ZOMG LEDs, it must be awesome
"To date, no known flaws have been found against DES" : Er, differential calculus? Why do you think we created Triple-DES? Because we like things in threes? Supposedly the NSA made it more difficult to use differential calculus against DES by changing the S-Box permutations but it is still possible.
There was a time when the NSA had integrity....
What if I don't want to save my changes?
"You can use the 'undo' command they say..."
Yes but the undo command isn't persistent between applications, much less a power failure.
You haven't solved anything, you've merely shifted the problem.
Wait, what? This already exists, no? (custom mods aside). It's called Steam
You realize that up until roughly two years ago (in the US at least) the majority of people who identified themselves as "libertarians" were left-wing hippies from Vermont who embraced social contracts but wanted the government out of their personal affairs, pot gardens and gun racks? It wasn't until the "Tea Party" under right-wing funding and Carl Rove style propaganda was the term "libertarian" bastardized to enable right-wing nut jobs to hide under the guise of a small government agenda. I am a libertarian and I vote Democrat; not because they are equal but because if you go by historical facts and numbers, the Democrats have consistently been the party of fiscal responsibility since the 1960's. You're not crazy, the two groups are far more agreeable than you think. Is it off topic? I blame Microsoft.
You realize that up until roughly two years ago (in the US at least) the majority of people who identified themselves as "libertarians" were left-wing hippies from Vermont who embraced social contracts but wanted the government out of their personal affairs, pot gardens and gun racks? It wasn't until the "Tea Party" under right-wing funding and Carl Rove style propaganda was the term "libertarian" bastardized to enable right-wing nut jobs to hide under the guise of a small government agenda. I am a libertarian and I vote Democrat; not because they are equal but because if you go by historical facts and numbers, the Democrats have consistently been the party of fiscal responsibility since the 1960's.
You're not crazy, the two groups are far more agreeable than you think.
Is it off topic? I blame Microsoft.
Probably not. Keep Hydrofracking! We need more money [cough] I mean jobs!
Bill Binney Interview on Real Time with Bill Maher
Because you fired the one guy who had your answer.
And what happens when I need to tweak the virtual host settings or tune the database to better meet the demands of my specific application? You want me to f-over every other application running on the production server?
Screw you, man. Just wack off a dedicated VPS chunk and put it behind whatever paranoid tin-foil hat firewall sandbox you want. I don't want to have to open a support ticket and wait two hours every time I need to check the logs on my application server.
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Sadly a lot of PDF printers will retain javascript code even if you print it and re-assemble it back into a PDF. The problem lies in the fact that Adobe allows javascript to be embedded inside image objects and compressed blocks of PDF binary. It's not as simple as opening the file and stripping out anything that starts with . Code can be fired on almost any user event and it can be attached to almost any high-level object. It's not impossible to create a scrubber but it's a lot more complicated than you might think.
I spent the better part of a week attempting to create a PDF scrubber at my office for this same reason. We had become victim to highly targeted attacks from PDF sources. I wrote a scrubber in PHP using an open-source PDF parser and a series of regular expressions to strip out any javascript. At the end of the day, I came very close to a working solution but I ran into issues with encrypted PDF's.
The project was shelved in favor of making users open all external PDF's on a virtual server that was hardened and re-imaged every evening to prevent any malicious code from running rampant. That's the simplest solution.
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Agreed. You may not always need a math background depending on what you decide to do. I have a CS and Applied math degree and I worked in finance for 5 years where the math background was an invaluable tool that helped me excel where my coworkers without it did not. For other jobs I've had developing apps and UI's for start-ups, it rarely came up; however, whether you use the math or not on the job there will always be fundamental math quizzes during technical job interviews and having a higher understanding of mathematics will always help you in that regard.
Also if you ever develop a large-scale database or system, mathematical optimization will always come into play in ways you never thought it would.
"We've dedicated well over 10 years to come up with this solution. We have a lot of people in this company who've put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it and never gotten a penny out of it. If we were in it for the money, we would have been out of it a long time ago. "Our motto is ... if we save the life of one child, it's a miracle to that child and everyone that child touches."
If they were true to their motto they should have dropped the project and donated their funding to a children's hospital 10 years ago.
Have you tried the new VS2012? They took a shotgun to the UI and the file menu is still screaming from the trauma.
Correction: ISPs block *outbound* port 80
Also exempt from the cost analysis is the ISP fee for unlocking inbound port 80. I know my ISP blocks it unless you pay for a business account which is nearly $80 more a month. You could try to route around it with dyndns but it's not fun and I don't think a dyndns account is free anymore. That alone puts you over the VPS budget which is why I use VPS hosting.
Been happy with www.vpsnoc.com
I'm not supporting Obama's policy but I don't think this is as evil as everyone is making it out to be. Our country is theoretically "at war" with Al Quada as an organization (whether that makes any sense is a whole other tangent). During World War II, plenty of German-American citizens living in the US flue back to Germany and fought against American forces. We didn't need due process to kill them on the battlefield. Whether you're an American citizen or not, if you're on foreign territory and pose a threat to our armed forces, there's not a large legal barrier to killing you.