Especially in AD you have to assume that everybody knows all user names. Every account has the rights to enumerate and read all nonsecret properties of every other account, and in most environments (especially university ones) getting access to one account is trivial.
Adding a bit of security-through-obscurity to the usernames is akin of putting a bike lock on a bank safe.
A team of physicists has worked 10 years on this, writing hundreds of pages of papers to coerce funding out of federal institutes but you can spot the flaw in their plans after 30 seconds of thinking and writing an Internet comment?
When Silverlight 1 came out in 2007, there were three competitors for it: - ActiveX which was a horrible 90s idea and is unable to function in a world where you can't trust people not to try to build exploits - Java which was so bad at doing what it was supposed to do that it went from almost 100% market share to almost 0% with the rise of Flash. - Flash which did the job it was supposed to do but had horrible development tools and literally hundreds of security problems since then due to shoddy product quality
Microsoft created Silverlight to solve these shortcomings and they did a pretty good job at it. Programming web code in Visual Studio is a leaps better than Flash and the Netflix probably saved millions by not wasting their developers' time with the horrible Flash UI and code oddities.
Only now, four years later, is HTML5 beginning to come to a point where it can be a proper tool to do what you used to use one of the above plugins for.
And by the way, IT changes fast in general, no developer can honestly expect to code in the same language from college to retirement. HTML5 - and the languages that you actually write code in like JQuery - are in an extreme prototype state right now, going to change radically several times in the next years before people figure out that they completely screwed up some important paradigms and start parts of the standard from scratch for HTML6. Everyone will have to keep relearning their languages if they want to stay current.
People don't write 20 books a day about how to fix your roof (and if someone did write a book on how to fix a roof, he wouldn't sell it for a dollar). What they do is run a web spider, aggregate random blog text found on Google by whatever search term is popular that week, apply some automated formatting then sell the results. Then spam their own ratings with bots.
In the cases serviced by assisted suicide, "not suffering" is not an option. Even if given painkillers barely below the lethal dose, terminal stage cancer is still painful. This is a medical issue that is currently not solvable. Maybe we'll find a treatment for cancer in a few decades, but until then the only available choice is: - suffering, then death - death
What's the best practice when reinstalling Windows from disc so that the computer doesn't get owned before it finishes downloading the updates over a slow Internet connection?
Use Windows XP SP2 or later (the integrated firewall started then) and don't browse the Internet until the updates are done.
Does Microsoft pull crap like considering my copy of Windows 7 no longer validly licensed if I travel to another country? I seem to remember that Microsoft region-codes Windows. For example, it has reserved some versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic, exclusively for developing countries.
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You can only buy the region restricted versions in shops in developing countries, but you can install them anywhere and take the PC they are installed on anywhere.
You got your history turned upside down. The UN agreed with the Afghanistan war in 2001 mission as there was a proper reason for it. Only when Bush extended it to Iraq in 2003 for no reason at all against the will of every country other than the UK (prime minister only, the population was against the war too) and a few paid off votes did the global opinion turn around.
And opening a second front in Iraq and splitting the forces is one of the main reason why Afghanistan turned into the quagmire it is now, so there's no surprise in countries like Spain and Germany wanting to pull out from there after the US fucked that one up.
It's probably true that 90+% of the people that were in Al-Qaeda on 11/9/2001 are now either dead, in prison or have stopped working for the them. But underground groups such as that are defined by their ideology and not membership cards, and as long as the ideology behind them has a compelling influence on people they will never die.
The Arabs are building nukes in Iran? Someone needs to tell the Iranian government about this I'm sure they're going to be just as shocked as everyone else.
By the way, the reason why they do this is that such donations cost Microsoft absolutely nothing because the recipient wouldn't have bought the software anyway - in fact a donation like that probably ends up as a positive value as it prevents people from getting experience with Linux which is worth money down the road. But on the other hand it makes a nice 5*$100 + 5*$500 + $1000 = $4000 tax deduction at the end of the year.
> If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia
I've never heard of these.
Also I would postulate that even if as a webcomic writer you obviously know a lot more webcomics than an average schmuck like me, that is only a justification why _not_ to include them in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia should be documenting globally notable things, otherwise you're in for an explosion of local knowledge where everybody who wants a little notorierity and SEO puts his own biography and pet projects into Wikipedia.
Because people that live in non-first-world countries should be able to play games too. And if you earn maybe $500 a month, you can't be expected to shell out $50 for a game, that's just silly. Valve is doing the ethically right thing by allowing people living in low wage countries to buy the games at a lower price.
Now of course a libertarian will object to this because "waah waah free market" but if you envy them so much why don't you move to Africa and get a job there so you can live the high life of subsidized goods.
You quoted the one case where a police officer noticed someone acting "suspiciously" and ended up being right. You didn't quote the 1000 other cases everywhere around the country - not just in airports - where police bother someone who they think acts suspiciously and end up as a false alert.
Phone browsing is one of the things you never think about using until you actually have access to it. Once you do, you can't figure out how you were able to live without it.
The ability to look up public transit schedules, city maps, restaurant menus, phone numbers and street addresses wherever you are can sometimes save you a large amount of time.
It's economically unrealistic to have a single company to maintain dozens of different architectures, some of which are in use maybe minutes a month. It would be nice of course by VA Software to take the cost but you can't really expect it from them.
I see it more that if someone likes a certain fringe platform so much that he wants to see Linux software ported to it, he should maintain a compiler/test machine with the help of standardized deployment software. Sourceforge could release the tools they were using on their machines to the public, then other people could step in and take over the job of actually running the machines it runs on.
The virtual items this current issue revolves about were worth at least $10,000 USD at the time when the GM awarded them to his guild. They've since dropped in value because of game balance changes but are still easily worth $5,000. On top of that is the interest gained from their possession which in Eve Online can reach several percent _a month_.
The accusation now thrown around is of course that the GM created those items with his administrative powers.
And a smart but not very mature kid would probably try to build a bomb in the kitchen just for the fun of it, and in the process lose his own hands or life.
But then there's still the question, why would you pay 1.5 billion for a site that loses a few millions a month. You could instead just wait until Youtube implements annoying ads, then create another video sharing site with more bandwidth paid off for a full year, no ads and all give everybody that signs up a $100 gift certificate and it would still run you cheaper than buying Youtube.
Even though you may know the language quite well, you can only contribute in international articles. You're not qualified to write articles on local topics. And while a Swahili Wikipedia would certainly need articles about what Pluto is etc., it also needs history of towns to actually be an alive representation of the knowledge of a people.
There are many small size Wikipedias which are really just a collection of Q&D translated articles from the english or french version which is a bit sad to see.
Only L4 and L5 are stable over astronomical time scales. Orbits around L2 decay over a few years so the point is just about free of natural objects.
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But what is that maximum?
If there's an item that you're willing to pay up to $10 for, you would probably still take it for $10.05. If it's one that's worth $10.05, you'd probably still consider it a pretty good deal for $10.10. That's where proxy bidding fails, because in the end, unless you enter a massively overpriced proxy bid, you're just going to be sniped by some other guy by 5 cents.
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Especially in AD you have to assume that everybody knows all user names. Every account has the rights to enumerate and read all nonsecret properties of every other account, and in most environments (especially university ones) getting access to one account is trivial.
Adding a bit of security-through-obscurity to the usernames is akin of putting a bike lock on a bank safe.
It's 1938 so far, they have much older maps that they're still working on. 1838 was the year the first full-country map of Switzerland was published.
A team of physicists has worked 10 years on this, writing hundreds of pages of papers to coerce funding out of federal institutes but you can spot the flaw in their plans after 30 seconds of thinking and writing an Internet comment?
When Silverlight 1 came out in 2007, there were three competitors for it:
- ActiveX which was a horrible 90s idea and is unable to function in a world where you can't trust people not to try to build exploits
- Java which was so bad at doing what it was supposed to do that it went from almost 100% market share to almost 0% with the rise of Flash.
- Flash which did the job it was supposed to do but had horrible development tools and literally hundreds of security problems since then due to shoddy product quality
Microsoft created Silverlight to solve these shortcomings and they did a pretty good job at it. Programming web code in Visual Studio is a leaps better than Flash and the Netflix probably saved millions by not wasting their developers' time with the horrible Flash UI and code oddities.
Only now, four years later, is HTML5 beginning to come to a point where it can be a proper tool to do what you used to use one of the above plugins for.
And by the way, IT changes fast in general, no developer can honestly expect to code in the same language from college to retirement. HTML5 - and the languages that you actually write code in like JQuery - are in an extreme prototype state right now, going to change radically several times in the next years before people figure out that they completely screwed up some important paradigms and start parts of the standard from scratch for HTML6. Everyone will have to keep relearning their languages if they want to stay current.
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People don't write 20 books a day about how to fix your roof (and if someone did write a book on how to fix a roof, he wouldn't sell it for a dollar).
What they do is run a web spider, aggregate random blog text found on Google by whatever search term is popular that week, apply some automated formatting then sell the results. Then spam their own ratings with bots.
In the cases serviced by assisted suicide, "not suffering" is not an option. Even if given painkillers barely below the lethal dose, terminal stage cancer is still painful. This is a medical issue that is currently not solvable. Maybe we'll find a treatment for cancer in a few decades, but until then the only available choice is:
- suffering, then death
- death
What's the best practice when reinstalling Windows from disc so that the computer doesn't get owned before it finishes downloading the updates over a slow Internet connection?
Use Windows XP SP2 or later (the integrated firewall started then) and don't browse the Internet until the updates are done.
Does Microsoft pull crap like considering my copy of Windows 7 no longer validly licensed if I travel to another country? I seem to remember that Microsoft region-codes Windows. For example, it has reserved some versions of Windows, such as Windows Vista Starter and Windows 7 Home Basic, exclusively for developing countries.
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You can only buy the region restricted versions in shops in developing countries, but you can install them anywhere and take the PC they are installed on anywhere.
You got your history turned upside down. The UN agreed with the Afghanistan war in 2001 mission as there was a proper reason for it. Only when Bush extended it to Iraq in 2003 for no reason at all against the will of every country other than the UK (prime minister only, the population was against the war too) and a few paid off votes did the global opinion turn around.
And opening a second front in Iraq and splitting the forces is one of the main reason why Afghanistan turned into the quagmire it is now, so there's no surprise in countries like Spain and Germany wanting to pull out from there after the US fucked that one up.
It's probably true that 90+% of the people that were in Al-Qaeda on 11/9/2001 are now either dead, in prison or have stopped working for the them.
But underground groups such as that are defined by their ideology and not membership cards, and as long as the ideology behind them has a compelling influence on people they will never die.
The Arabs are building nukes in Iran? Someone needs to tell the Iranian government about this I'm sure they're going to be just as shocked as everyone else.
He's probably right, the TV era is going away and getting replaced with the MMORPG era.
Not that it makes any difference whether we waste our time on soap operas or getting epix though.
By the way, the reason why they do this is that such donations cost Microsoft absolutely nothing because the recipient wouldn't have bought the software anyway - in fact a donation like that probably ends up as a positive value as it prevents people from getting experience with Linux which is worth money down the road. But on the other hand it makes a nice 5*$100 + 5*$500 + $1000 = $4000 tax deduction at the end of the year.
> If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia
I've never heard of these.
Also I would postulate that even if as a webcomic writer you obviously know a lot more webcomics than an average schmuck like me, that is only a justification why _not_ to include them in an encyclopedia. Wikipedia should be documenting globally notable things, otherwise you're in for an explosion of local knowledge where everybody who wants a little notorierity and SEO puts his own biography and pet projects into Wikipedia.
Because people that live in non-first-world countries should be able to play games too. And if you earn maybe $500 a month, you can't be expected to shell out $50 for a game, that's just silly.
Valve is doing the ethically right thing by allowing people living in low wage countries to buy the games at a lower price.
Now of course a libertarian will object to this because "waah waah free market" but if you envy them so much why don't you move to Africa and get a job there so you can live the high life of subsidized goods.
The problem here is selective attention.
You quoted the one case where a police officer noticed someone acting "suspiciously" and ended up being right.
You didn't quote the 1000 other cases everywhere around the country - not just in airports - where police bother someone who they think acts suspiciously and end up as a false alert.
Phone browsing is one of the things you never think about using until you actually have access to it. Once you do, you can't figure out how you were able to live without it.
The ability to look up public transit schedules, city maps, restaurant menus, phone numbers and street addresses wherever you are can sometimes save you a large amount of time.
It's economically unrealistic to have a single company to maintain dozens of different architectures, some of which are in use maybe minutes a month. It would be nice of course by VA Software to take the cost but you can't really expect it from them.
I see it more that if someone likes a certain fringe platform so much that he wants to see Linux software ported to it, he should maintain a compiler/test machine with the help of standardized deployment software. Sourceforge could release the tools they were using on their machines to the public, then other people could step in and take over the job of actually running the machines it runs on.
The virtual items this current issue revolves about were worth at least $10,000 USD at the time when the GM awarded them to his guild. They've since dropped in value because of game balance changes but are still easily worth $5,000. On top of that is the interest gained from their possession which in Eve Online can reach several percent _a month_.
The accusation now thrown around is of course that the GM created those items with his administrative powers.
And a smart but not very mature kid would probably try to build a bomb in the kitchen just for the fun of it, and in the process lose his own hands or life.
There are quite a few wikipedia mirrors on the net that usually update from the main site with delays
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For instance http://www.answers.com/topic/npa-personality-theo
Only those of the federal government. Those of most states aren't.
But then there's still the question, why would you pay 1.5 billion for a site that loses a few millions a month.
You could instead just wait until Youtube implements annoying ads, then create another video sharing site with more bandwidth paid off for a full year, no ads and all give everybody that signs up a $100 gift certificate and it would still run you cheaper than buying Youtube.
Even though you may know the language quite well, you can only contribute in international articles. You're not qualified to write articles on local topics. And while a Swahili Wikipedia would certainly need articles about what Pluto is etc., it also needs history of towns to actually be an alive representation of the knowledge of a people.
There are many small size Wikipedias which are really just a collection of Q&D translated articles from the english or french version which is a bit sad to see.
Only L4 and L5 are stable over astronomical time scales. Orbits around L2 decay over a few years so the point is just about free of natural objects.
But what is that maximum?
If there's an item that you're willing to pay up to $10 for, you would probably still take it for $10.05. If it's one that's worth $10.05, you'd probably still consider it a pretty good deal for $10.10. That's where proxy bidding fails, because in the end, unless you enter a massively overpriced proxy bid, you're just going to be sniped by some other guy by 5 cents.