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  Programming Question: Creating GUIDs

  by Elsewhere in

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  i am aware that a new guid can be created in c# using the following code:.

  what i am wondering is, what is the underlying algorithm for generating a guid?

  as i understand, a guid is described as follows: .

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  More from http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/www-mobile/2002-q1/0202.html

  If the current machine does not have a network interface card, a statistically unique value is synthesized and CoCreateGuid returns a distinguished HRESULT indicating that the value is only statistically unique globally but is truly uniquewhen used only on the machine.

  That should answer the question of uniqueness.

  If the issue is randomness, it appears that they are generated in a fairly sequential manner, and so they should not be used in an application where randomness is necessary for security purposes (e.g. cryptography).
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  Programming Question: Creating GUIDs

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am aware that a new guid can be created in c# using the following code:.

  what i am wondering is, what is the underlying algorithm for generating a guid?

  as i understand, a guid is described as follows: .

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  I would assume that it uses the Win32 API function CoCreateGUID. As far as I can tell from googling, CoCreateGUID uses the Open Software Foundation spec found at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/apdxa.htm#tagcjh_20

  That spec states that "This UUID specification assumes the availability of an IEEE 802 address", so I'm not sure what Windows does if no MAC address is available.
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  Is the Governing Body in Danger at Bethel as More Bethlites read the Net??

  by frankiespeakin in

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  2. friends

  do you think the gb should limit contact with bethelites because of possible harm that could come to them right there at headquarters.

  i mean think of how many bethelites have interent access and know the gb are tyrants, but are stuck there at bethel because they have no money and no place to turn because they have been there for many years.. i think many gbs purposely keeps to themselves now a days, they probably should even think seriously of a body guard even while at bethel.. have you notice the wt doesn't give any advance notice when a gb will be speaking at conventions anymore, could it be that they are worried that some father or other family member who lost a child through thier no blood policy, finds out throught the internet that the gb are phoneies and now blames the gb for the loss of life.

  think of how dangerous it would be to give advanced notice when so and so gb member would be giving a convention talk.

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  SNG... as far as I'm aware, SSL is transport-layer encryption. That means that the entire contents of the TCP transmission is encrypted. The only thing a sniffer could read would be the destination host and port number of the packets, and I suppose also the server certificate from the opening authentication.
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  WTS Bills US JWs $8.4 million for Traveling Overseers

  by ezekiel3 in

  1. watchtower
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  being announced at service meetings this week at all us congregations:.

  a letter read during the announcements states that due to increased costs of health insurance and vehicles provided for traveling overseers (circuit and district overseers) the watchtower bible and tract society has determined the need to ask for a specific "contribution" for the "traveling overseer assistance arrangement".. .

  until this date expenses of this sort were paid from the worldwide work or general fund of contributions.. .

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  This is nothing new... it's been at least since 2001, as far as I recall.
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  My new avatar. Does anyone get it?

  by M.J. in

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  whadd'ya think?

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  Euphemism

  That is a damn classic. If you ever change it, please archive a copy on this thread for posterity.
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  A decent and viable substitute for the WTS

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  let's suppose that a large number of ex jws decided to get together and set up a new religious entity to provide any spiritual benefits, that were provided by the wts but as we all know in an exploitative and destructive way.

  in a devious way much bitterness was added to whatever benefit they gave.

  what would your suggestions be in the way of forming such an entity?

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  I know you're just speaking hypotheticals, greendawn, but personally, I don't even like to go down that route. There are already plenty of religions out there; IMHO, the most important thing for a JW who's leaving is to find their own path.
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  Grocery Store Wars-ROFL

  by doodle-v in

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  lmao.... .

  http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html.

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  That is irredeemably cute.
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  Governing Body claims title to Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls

  by garybuss in

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  governing body claims title to kingdom halls and assembly halls.

  i'm told this is what the new "organized" book says about real estate on page 16: "what then are the "belongings"?

  these are all the spiritual assets on earth that have become christ's property in connection with his authority as heavenly king.

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  Apocalypse... just to be clear, I was not disagreeing with you. On another thread, I posted about an anecdote from the early 80's, when my dad was an elder in California. He was a member of a corporation that held the deed for the Assembly Hall. When Brooklyn decided they wanted to hold title, all the members of the corporation signed the title over without a murmur.

  So I think we're on the same page here... it ultimately doesn't matter whether or not the WTS has title, because they have control. (Granting the occasional exception that Blondie mentioned.)
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  Governing Body claims title to Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls

  by garybuss in

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  governing body claims title to kingdom halls and assembly halls.

  i'm told this is what the new "organized" book says about real estate on page 16: "what then are the "belongings"?

  these are all the spiritual assets on earth that have become christ's property in connection with his authority as heavenly king.

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  I think the key is in Blondie's earlier statements:

  Scripturally, the WTS sees the ownership of all these buildings, land, property as belonging to Christ and they see themselves as Christ's steward.

  The Organized book doesn't say that the slave owns all the Master's belongings... they say it has authority over them. What they're telling the congregations, IOW, is that whether the title is technically held in trust, by a local corporation, or by the society, any "theocratic direction" regarding the property should be followed.

  Now, it very well may be that the Society is centralizing ownership; they've done that in the past (e.g. for Assembly Halls in the US). But there's nothing new about the particular statement in the OD book.
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  Self-replicating / repairing robot proof-of-concept

  by seattleniceguy in

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  fellow techno-geeks, prepare to be wowed.

  here's the article:.

  http://www.physorg.com/news4055.html.

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  Damn! That is the perfect example of elegant thinking. Very cool.