Didn't the guy offer to give the passwords to the Mayor but not to his boss, by his bosses (or department's) own policy?
I've not seen any evidence that the policy actually existed, outside of his imagination. If it was in writing, did the defence subpoena a copy and present it as exhibit?
CSS btw was Microsoft's recommendation to the W3C in the first place.
[citation needed]. No, they were just on board before Netscape, who were backing JSSS. Håkon Lie and Bert Bos were the primary inventors.
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Can this really happen easily? I thought for really ugly things to happen, you need to have switches (without working STP, that is).
Spanning tree can not deal with the situation where there is a loop on a single port, which you can do easily by attaching a consumer grade switch. There are various workarounds (such as BPDU protection) but they aren't standard, and require manual configuration. Once your network gets big enough, you probably can't afford not to use them, though.
True, but if you could actually measure the mass of the butane molecule with enough precision, you would find that it is more massive than the constituent atoms alone. This extra mass (m=E/c^2) is actually due to the potential energy stored in the bonds.
The coalition is unpopular with a lot of Liberal Democrat voters (not sure what they'd prefer - probably for the LibDems to continue to be completely ineffectual, rather than to get at least some of their policies passed)
It's most loudly objected to by natural Labour supporters, who voted Liberal Democrat where their own candidate was a no-hoper. Sure, the left of the party aren't too pleased with the coalition but it's the Labour supporters, with their massive sense of entitlement that are really annoyed.
There is no intervening. You already let that convicted mass murderer go free to his homeland. What you are referring to is the US' discovery of that abhorrent action, and inherent need to find the truth of the matter.
Somehow I doubt that you would have been happier had his conviction been overturned on appeal, which had every chance of happening if hadn't been released on compassionate grounds. If there was any dodgy deals done, it was because that would have been a huge political embarrassment.
If I were British, I'd be fighting tooth and nail against this extradition, too. Not so much because I care for this particular individual, but because I wouldn't want to be extradited because I supposedly committed a crime in some other country from the comfort of the living room of my suburban castle thousands of miles away.
Also the low burden of proof that the US authorities need to provide is an issue. It's made a bit of a nonsense of the 'fast track' extradition process: after several years, and appeals to the House of Lords, the case is still ongoing. Would it have been so burdensome for the US to have laid an outline case before a magistrate in the first place?
This might be a stupid question, but how do they check a password one character at a time unless they're saving the password in plaintext or some other reversible method?
I think that's just a slightly sloppy writeup. You probably get to know individual bytes of the hashed password. It's likely that you can vastly reduce the key space for an attack by this method, with carefully chosen plaintext. No, you probably don't get individual plain text characters, one at a time, like in a bad movie.
I believe Microsoft deserves some cred, along with certain hardware firms like AMD/Intel, with bringing 64 bit to the fore.
Sadly, that's largely a reflection on the distorting effect that Microsoft has on the market. Intel and Microsoft were just following where just about everybody else had gone before.
The interent is a powerful tool, but having access to unlimited and unmediated information is not always the best thing possible when you need specific ideas.
There's been some good stuff going on wikiversity since way before the election. What gets posted to the government website, likely 99% junk.
Compared to other government expenditures, I'd suggest the cost of website development is equivalent to a few red staplers. Besides, I think we'd all agree that the employment of developers and IT staff is preferrable to hiring more counter clerks.
Well, yes, but this is a "news for nerds" site. If you want to know about the other cost-cutting measures, try a real news site.
The counter clerk argument is misleading, I think. Firstly, because, as others have said, most of your in-person interactions with government in the UK are likely to be at a Post Office. Secondly, a central government site that is actually useful (online tax returns, for example), will have millions of visitors. Those aren't the ones that are in danger.
We were quite a small council and I built a website and CMS which met the targets of guidelines; I used all open-source tools and implemented things in a very standards compliant way...It's pretty criminal really; ~450 councils in the UK all going off in different directions and spending the same amount of money.
"She [MLF] will also look at sharing resources and facilities and using low-cost open source products to reduce running costs."
Fewer expensive CMS systems in the future, it appears.
But are we talking about 100Gb/s over copper or fiber?
-Rick
Fibre and short-haul (~10m) copper, at least for the current standard. Historically, there's usually a lag of several years between a new Ethernet standard and a 100m copper version.
I'm a bit sceptical about folks who say they'll never be a copper version, because I've heard that tale often enough before. I confidently predict it will be the Year of Linux on the desktop before it's the year of Fibre to the Desktop.
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Obviously these are prototype case designs for the iPhone 5. Grip it the wrong way and you lose a finger.
It could be the Russians talking to other operatives they have lurking about.
Yes, it actually says: 'No more rubbish spy movies please, Angelina".
Didn't the guy offer to give the passwords to the Mayor but not to his boss, by his bosses (or department's) own policy?
I've not seen any evidence that the policy actually existed, outside of his imagination. If it was in writing, did the defence subpoena a copy and present it as exhibit?
CSS btw was Microsoft's recommendation to the W3C in the first place.
[citation needed]. No, they were just on board before Netscape, who were backing JSSS. Håkon Lie and Bert Bos were the primary inventors.
Can this really happen easily? I thought for really ugly things to happen, you need to have switches (without working STP, that is).
Spanning tree can not deal with the situation where there is a loop on a single port, which you can do easily by attaching a consumer grade switch. There are various workarounds (such as BPDU protection) but they aren't standard, and require manual configuration. Once your network gets big enough, you probably can't afford not to use them, though.
If beta 3 has been out for about a week?
It wasn't. Beta 3 was released on the 11th, the article was published on the 12th.
True, but if you could actually measure the mass of the butane molecule with enough precision, you would find that it is more massive than the constituent atoms alone. This extra mass (m=E/c^2) is actually due to the potential energy stored in the bonds.
Less, else it wouldn't be a bound state.
The internet really just needs to be classified as a utility and be done with it.
You'll be telling me that you don't get a choice of those in the US either I guess.
"If you showed some interest in LD but don't approve of the coalition, you are in fact just a New Labour supporter in disguise."
Is it strawman argument day, I missed the memo?
There is (was?) a swathe of left-leaning LD supporters who would naturally object to the LD/Con coalition.
I said in my earlier post - but also that it was Labour supporters making the most noise about it. Which you seem to be proving all on your own...
The coalition is unpopular with a lot of Liberal Democrat voters (not sure what they'd prefer - probably for the LibDems to continue to be completely ineffectual, rather than to get at least some of their policies passed)
It's most loudly objected to by natural Labour supporters, who voted Liberal Democrat where their own candidate was a no-hoper. Sure, the left of the party aren't too pleased with the coalition but it's the Labour supporters, with their massive sense of entitlement that are really annoyed.
There is no intervening. You already let that convicted mass murderer go free to his homeland. What you are referring to is the US' discovery of that abhorrent action, and inherent need to find the truth of the matter.
Somehow I doubt that you would have been happier had his conviction been overturned on appeal, which had every chance of happening if hadn't been released on compassionate grounds. If there was any dodgy deals done, it was because that would have been a huge political embarrassment.
If I were British, I'd be fighting tooth and nail against this extradition, too. Not so much because I care for this particular individual, but because I wouldn't want to be extradited because I supposedly committed a crime in some other country from the comfort of the living room of my suburban castle thousands of miles away.
Also the low burden of proof that the US authorities need to provide is an issue. It's made a bit of a nonsense of the 'fast track' extradition process: after several years, and appeals to the House of Lords, the case is still ongoing. Would it have been so burdensome for the US to have laid an outline case before a magistrate in the first place?
This might be a stupid question, but how do they check a password one character at a time unless they're saving the password in plaintext or some other reversible method?
I think that's just a slightly sloppy writeup. You probably get to know individual bytes of the hashed password. It's likely that you can vastly reduce the key space for an attack by this method, with carefully chosen plaintext. No, you probably don't get individual plain text characters, one at a time, like in a bad movie.
Much of the rest of the world (at least the good parts) have strong public education systems that have been very successful.
In any case public/private is irrelevant here, because private schools get inspected too.
I believe Microsoft deserves some cred, along with certain hardware firms like AMD/Intel, with bringing 64 bit to the fore.
Sadly, that's largely a reflection on the distorting effect that Microsoft has on the market. Intel and Microsoft were just following where just about everybody else had gone before.
This is why the big actors and producers always ask for a percentage of the gross revenue.
Hence the saying, "If Yoda is so wise, why didn't he hold out for a percentage of the gross like Obi-Wan?"
Pass the oil repellent bat-spray.
That's very difficult to imagine - even Cthulhu has some principles.
Yeah, he's opposed to deep water drilling, for a start.
I suspect that nobody is really that bothered by laws requiring those under 16 to practice with the longbow or cabs to carry bails of hay.
Generally, these stories are apocryphal, and were either never true or long ago repealed.
Finally that crazy law about shooting a Welshman with a crossbow after midnight can be stricken from the books.
That would require it to be on them in the first place, which of course it isn't.
It seems Britain would like to return to it's libertarian laissez faire ways. Kudos.
No, it's just a God (well, government) given opportunity for libertarians to have a rant, which let's face it, they're very good at.
The interent is a powerful tool, but having access to unlimited and unmediated information is not always the best thing possible when you need specific ideas.
There's been some good stuff going on wikiversity since way before the election. What gets posted to the government website, likely 99% junk.
Compared to other government expenditures, I'd suggest the cost of website development is equivalent to a few red staplers. Besides, I think we'd all agree that the employment of developers and IT staff is preferrable to hiring more counter clerks.
Well, yes, but this is a "news for nerds" site. If you want to know about the other cost-cutting measures, try a real news site.
The counter clerk argument is misleading, I think. Firstly, because, as others have said, most of your in-person interactions with government in the UK are likely to be at a Post Office. Secondly, a central government site that is actually useful (online tax returns, for example), will have millions of visitors. Those aren't the ones that are in danger.
We were quite a small council and I built a website and CMS which met the targets of guidelines; I used all open-source tools and implemented things in a very standards compliant way...It's pretty criminal really; ~450 councils in the UK all going off in different directions and spending the same amount of money.
"She [MLF] will also look at sharing resources and facilities and using low-cost open source products to reduce running costs."
Fewer expensive CMS systems in the future, it appears.
But are we talking about 100Gb/s over copper or fiber?
-Rick
Fibre and short-haul (~10m) copper, at least for the current standard. Historically, there's usually a lag of several years between a new Ethernet standard and a 100m copper version.
I'm a bit sceptical about folks who say they'll never be a copper version, because I've heard that tale often enough before. I confidently predict it will be the Year of Linux on the desktop before it's the year of Fibre to the Desktop.