You are too kind. They might possibly enjoy it.
Instead, ream them with commensurate consideration: insert baseball bat in glue, then in broken glass, then in...
Surveillance so intrusive it is putting certain subjects out of bounds would seem like cause for alarm in a country that prides itself as the world's most free
Continuing to believe that is a sign you're delusional, not 'free'.
Ah, but they have the freedom to be delusional in any way they wish...
And to prevent any of the command lines going into your command history, and thus exposing your passphrases, be sure to run (once on each account that will use the shell script):
Here's a crutch for those with too few passwords on too many sites. Just paste it to something like safepassword.sh in/usr/local/bin or similar:
#!/bin/bash
# script: safepassword
# this script depends on sha512sum
if [ "$2" = "" ]
then
echo "usage: safepassword constant_key password_purpose"
echo " where constant_key is a string of printable non-whitespace characters,"
echo " and password_purpose is a memorable string related to the purpose of"
echo " the password, e.g. a website address and year. Since the script removes"
echo " any characters outside 0-9 a-z A-Z it is possible that the password"
echo " could be too short in some cases."
else
echo -n "$1-$2" | sha512sum | xxd -r -p | tr -cd [:print:] | sed -e "s/[^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]//g" | sed -e "s///g"
echo
fi
And to prevent any of the command lines going into your command history, and thus exposing your passphrases, be sure to run (once on each account that will use the shell script):
The article was about 16 - 24 year olds. They probably already know how to pirate. Ease of sharing was also another issue. Prices can be reduced, but the business model of eBooks seems to be based on reducing sharing, so that road block isn't going away.
My own kids put it differently. It's the feel and smell and convenience of a book that counts. Above all, it's the feel of the paper as the pages are turned.
Having to use an ebook reader would probably diminish their liking for books (we're all bookworms). They have little or no interest in ebooks, although we have a good number of PDF books on topics which interest them. So accessing books with file-sharing tools is also not an issue. Also, the cost is irrelevant; we give them books whenever they want, and they also get lots of books based on their marks at school (this turns out a bit pricey, but it's worth it for the motivating effect).
You can bet it's not me. I almost get sex more often than Slashdot mod points.
Damn. I get 5 mod points almost every day. It can be quite exhausting.
A couple of years ago, I was getting 15 mod points daily for a few weeks. Couldn't have taken it much longer...
Vertical lines are still very key to some people. Long before 1920x1080 became "HD" after a few years of severe regression in vertical resolution, there *were* 1600x1200 screens.
Yep. And there were 1920x1200 displays as well, giving 16:10. Actually, I'm writing this on a 9½ year old laptop with 1920x1200 pixels on its built-in 17" screen (it's a Sony Vaio VGN-A117S). It runs fine with Xubuntu, and if its replacement lasts as long, it will be a bargain. I had planned on upgrading to something with more pixels, but some years ago all the laptops - other than a few linux-hostile Macs - went to fewer pixels. Luckily, that looks like changing again, although I'll wait a bit for the price to drop before getting one with 3200x1800 pixels. Even 16:9 is acceptable with enough vertical pixels, avoiding the shortscreen consequences of full HD.
Incidentally, we still have a 20" 1600x1200 display on one of the desktops. It was bought in the last century and has been used daily, often for several hours; it's in perfect working order and a real joy to use. The other desktop has a pair of full HD screens. Turning one sideways gives a narrow screen for viewing A4 pages, while in regular orientation, they're an annoyance even for editing photos. They're going to get replaced by something more useful...
anyhow, in finland I never noticed that much of a difference in fuel range from +30c to -30c.
Agreed. Most of the apparent range difference between summer and winter is attributable to differences in the wheel diameter. Usually studded winter tyres are less compliant with the road, thus having a greater effective diameter, even if their nominal diameter is about the same as summer tyres on the same car. The odometer on cars is just counting revolutions of the wheels, so a difference in effective diameter of a couple of percent gives a comparable effect in apparent fuel economy. The engine is working slightly less hard for the same apparent distance.
On our cars (both diesels), the apparent economy difference between summer (10C to 30C) and winter (-30C to -10C) is less than 8%, about half of which is due to the compliance and diameter of the tyres. It's easy to check the accuracy of the odometer by passing through the roadside speed checks at a constant 80km/h according to the speedometer. The speed indicated by the roadside radar gives the error in the speedometer.
I never noticed any particular difference when using the same tyres all year around (in Canada) on a car with a petrol motor. Then again, fuel in Canada was so cheap it was almost an irrelevancy and I didn't track economy much. Here, the price of fuel is more significant, being about US$8 per US gallon.
Is this the same plant in Yantai where Foxconn essentially forced students to work for free on Apple and/or Sony stuff? If so, the sabotage is understandable, albeit still reprehensible.
Bcache, merged in 3.11, improves IO up to 100X. Not 100%, 100X, or 10,000%. It may well be worth an upgrade if you're running a distro 2.3x and have random IO on multi TB storage.
The multi-queue block layer which is merged in kernel 3.13 gives a 3.5x to 10x increase in IOPS. This change is mostly targeted for SSDs, but gives similar improvements on HDs as well. However, it's not clear whether this improvement is relative to 3.11 or not.
Actually, now that you mention it, I can't find any yahoo bots in recent log files. Perhaps yahoo is also responsible for some of those stupid multi-gigabyte downloads as bingbot.
Actually, bingbot is particularly stupid. It has downloaded several zip files of public domain material (each exceeding 1GB with total over 10GB) from our web site at home. It does so about once per month despite the fact that these files are unchanging, instead of merely doing a conditional GET and checking for a 304 return. The various googlebots all do it this way, as do other bots (e.g. docomo, yahoo, yandex).
We don't yet bar bingbot, but if it starts dowloading several GB at times when other visitors are looking at videos (mostly 720p and 1080p), it will find itself in the wrong part of robots.txt. If I get really irritated, then it will get customized garbage results, just like the ZmEu crap...
And you can't just exclude the problem files instead of blocking the whole site?
Well, yes I could, obviously enough. But then the googlebot and other bots would be handicapped (I expect a change to at least two of those PD zipfiles during 2014). In summary, bingbot does it wrong while other bots do it right. These PD zipfiles are the most egregious examples, but there are also many smaller files where bingbot does it wrongly. So I'm likelier to bar bingbot than to bar other bots or to exclude these specific files.
As I said, bingbot is earnestly hoping for a customized middle finger instead of getting the entire >100GB site every time it looks. In short, bingbot does it wrongly.
Actually, bingbot is particularly stupid. It has downloaded several zip files of public domain material (each exceeding 1GB with total over 10GB) from our web site at home. It does so about once per month despite the fact that these files are unchanging, instead of merely doing a conditional GET and checking for a 304 return. The various googlebots all do it this way, as do other bots (e.g. docomo, yahoo, yandex).
We don't yet bar bingbot, but if it starts dowloading several GB at times when other visitors are looking at videos (mostly 720p and 1080p), it will find itself in the wrong part of robots.txt. If I get really irritated, then it will get customized garbage results, just like the ZmEu crap...
The way I see it, no one would be using encryption nowadays if Obama managed to be president in the nineties.
Not before 1997, according to the age rules in the constitution. Since Obama was born in August 1961, this limits his eligibility for presidency to August 1996 onwards, which effectively means January 1997 onwards due to the schedule of presidencies in the US.
It doesn't flow for shit. Compare that to (La)TeX, where it flows not completely naturally, but it makes sense and actually writes in the order it will be, and mostly the order it's said when you say it.
And tools like tex4ht make translation of LaTeX to html a breeze. You get the best of both worlds, with nice LaTeX documents (from which Postscript or dvi or PDF etc. can also be made) translated to html. It will even generate jsMath if you want.
Right now the members of Congress could not agree that the earth is round, the sky is blue, and the sun is the center of the solar system.
Especially when some of them act as if the Earth were flat and is the center of the Solar System (or even the center of the Universe for hard-liners).
I guess you meant "day time sky above any clouds but within the troposphere as perceived by a fully trichromatic human". They'd argue endlessly on definitions involved in "the sky is blue", and legally formalize an appalling consensus when they eventually got bored enough to move on to other diatribes.
Nope, but assuming both spy, whose spying would you care the most? As a home user, the Chinese government has no interest in me. I have no contacts with the Dalai Lama. The US government probably has, since I'm hurting their sponsors by downloading the latest movies.
This analysis is probably breaks down somewhat for persons of particular interest - their data would be traded. For instance, China might trade your downloading history and identity to the US in return for some dirt on activities of one of the Dalai Lama's acolytes. Neither of these has much direct value to the spy who has it, but it has rather more value to the other. The analysis breaks down more generally for monitored persons in third countries. For instance, if one is in France or Egypt or Brazil, one's data is of interest to both of these protagonists, mostly for trade to third parties in return for other data.
No spying at all (or no sharing of such data with other agencies) would be preferable for most of us.
The bigger a nationally sponsored corporation becomes, the more obviously it becomes an asset. It's like choosing between corrupt police and the mob.
Just because the NSA spies doesn't prove Huawei doesn't. This line of reasoning is guaranteed to fool a few morons and nobody else.
Unfortunately, it leaves those morons with a semi-conscious or unconscious choice between being spied on by A (and possibly others) and being spied on by B (and possibly others). The wise person, on the other hand, merely faces a conscious choice between being spied on by A (and possibly others) and being spied on by B (and possibly others).
As a man who is 6'6" and 255, I have a place in mind where they can stick these new seats.
I'm only 6' 1" and 230, the biggest pain for me is my knees hitting the seat in front of me. Since I have only a 36" inseam, I am seeing 30" between my back and the row in front of me beautiful in theory. In reality, I know my shins are longer than 6", so I am still puzzled on what they are measuring here.
At 6'1" and 230 your Body Mass Index is over 30 - obese.
At 6'6" your BMI is just below 30, overweight but not quite obese.
The airlines suck, but they are not the only problem. You both probably thought you were just " big men" but basically normal.
FWIW, the BMI scale was invented before calculators etc., existed, so it's rather oversimplified. There is an alternative, which better represents BMI of tall and short persons. It gives lower BMI values for tall persons, but higher BMI values for short persons.
Of course, even using this BMI scale, the 6'1" person comes in at around 29 (overweight, but not quite obese). The 6'6" person comes in at just over 27 (somewhat overweight). Neither of them is in the "normal" BMI category, even on the scale which is kinder to tall persons.
Read the user agent backwards, as indicated in the blog: "edit by 04882 joel back door". Stupidity indeed, even leaving a name.
Luckily, my D-Link router is not vulnerable to this attack (maybe the attack just needs to be tweaked). It's stacked behind a non-D-Link router, just in case.
In particular, Hillary Clinton said "we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK". Now, what did she mean with that remark, and would it be similar to the meaning that the common person might assign to it?
From ancient Greek demos + kratos, democracy = rule by the people.
One suspects that what the rulers and would-be rulers mean is closer to autocracy = rule over the people, coupled with the assertion that if the people don't actively resist (via rebellion), then they tacitly accept the whims of their rulers.
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So yes, fuck Elsevier.
You are too kind. They might possibly enjoy it. ...
Instead, ream them with commensurate consideration: insert baseball bat in glue, then in broken glass, then in
Continuing to believe that is a sign you're delusional, not 'free'.
Ah, but they have the freedom to be delusional in any way they wish...
And to prevent any of the command lines going into your command history, and thus exposing your passphrases, be sure to run (once on each account that will use the shell script):
echo "export HISTIGNORE=\"safepassword*\"" >> ~/.profile
Or you could just put a space before the command you are running - this works for me in every bash shell I've encountered recently.
Which only works if you have either
"HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth"
or
"HISTCONTROL=ignorespace"
in your .bashrc file.
Here's a crutch for those with too few passwords on too many sites. Just paste it to something like safepassword.sh in /usr/local/bin or similar:
#!/bin/bash //g"
# script: safepassword
# this script depends on sha512sum
if [ "$2" = "" ]
then
echo "usage: safepassword constant_key password_purpose"
echo " where constant_key is a string of printable non-whitespace characters,"
echo " and password_purpose is a memorable string related to the purpose of"
echo " the password, e.g. a website address and year. Since the script removes"
echo " any characters outside 0-9 a-z A-Z it is possible that the password"
echo " could be too short in some cases."
else
echo -n "$1-$2" | sha512sum | xxd -r -p | tr -cd [:print:] | sed -e "s/[^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]//g" | sed -e "s/
echo
fi
And to prevent any of the command lines going into your command history, and thus exposing your passphrases, be sure to run (once on each account that will use the shell script):
echo "export HISTIGNORE=\"safepassword*\"" >> ~/.profile
Since sha512sum should work the same way on all operating systems, a script such as this could probably be made for Windows as well as BSD/Linux/OSX.
The article was about 16 - 24 year olds. They probably already know how to pirate. Ease of sharing was also another issue. Prices can be reduced, but the business model of eBooks seems to be based on reducing sharing, so that road block isn't going away.
My own kids put it differently. It's the feel and smell and convenience of a book that counts. Above all, it's the feel of the paper as the pages are turned.
Having to use an ebook reader would probably diminish their liking for books (we're all bookworms). They have little or no interest in ebooks, although we have a good number of PDF books on topics which interest them. So accessing books with file-sharing tools is also not an issue. Also, the cost is irrelevant; we give them books whenever they want, and they also get lots of books based on their marks at school (this turns out a bit pricey, but it's worth it for the motivating effect).
Who mods this garbage up?
You can bet it's not me. I almost get sex more often than Slashdot mod points.
Damn. I get 5 mod points almost every day. It can be quite exhausting.
A couple of years ago, I was getting 15 mod points daily for a few weeks. Couldn't have taken it much longer...
Vertical lines are still very key to some people. Long before 1920x1080 became "HD" after a few years of severe regression in vertical resolution, there *were* 1600x1200 screens.
Yep. And there were 1920x1200 displays as well, giving 16:10. Actually, I'm writing this on a 9½ year old laptop with 1920x1200 pixels on its built-in 17" screen (it's a Sony Vaio VGN-A117S). It runs fine with Xubuntu, and if its replacement lasts as long, it will be a bargain. I had planned on upgrading to something with more pixels, but some years ago all the laptops - other than a few linux-hostile Macs - went to fewer pixels. Luckily, that looks like changing again, although I'll wait a bit for the price to drop before getting one with 3200x1800 pixels. Even 16:9 is acceptable with enough vertical pixels, avoiding the shortscreen consequences of full HD.
Incidentally, we still have a 20" 1600x1200 display on one of the desktops. It was bought in the last century and has been used daily, often for several hours; it's in perfect working order and a real joy to use. The other desktop has a pair of full HD screens. Turning one sideways gives a narrow screen for viewing A4 pages, while in regular orientation, they're an annoyance even for editing photos. They're going to get replaced by something more useful...
anyhow, in finland I never noticed that much of a difference in fuel range from +30c to -30c.
Agreed. Most of the apparent range difference between summer and winter is attributable to differences in the wheel diameter. Usually studded winter tyres are less compliant with the road, thus having a greater effective diameter, even if their nominal diameter is about the same as summer tyres on the same car. The odometer on cars is just counting revolutions of the wheels, so a difference in effective diameter of a couple of percent gives a comparable effect in apparent fuel economy. The engine is working slightly less hard for the same apparent distance.
On our cars (both diesels), the apparent economy difference between summer (10C to 30C) and winter (-30C to -10C) is less than 8%, about half of which is due to the compliance and diameter of the tyres. It's easy to check the accuracy of the odometer by passing through the roadside speed checks at a constant 80km/h according to the speedometer. The speed indicated by the roadside radar gives the error in the speedometer.
I never noticed any particular difference when using the same tyres all year around (in Canada) on a car with a petrol motor. Then again, fuel in Canada was so cheap it was almost an irrelevancy and I didn't track economy much. Here, the price of fuel is more significant, being about US$8 per US gallon.
See this article: http://www.neowin.net/news/foxconn-intern-claims-ps4-was-sabotaged-during-manufacturing Seems the workers were not happy.
Is this the same plant in Yantai where Foxconn essentially forced students to work for free on Apple and/or Sony stuff? If so, the sabotage is understandable, albeit still reprehensible.
Screw passing the coffee, we can all do that easily enough. So, can it pass a kidney stone, or do some other job that would save effort?
Bcache, merged in 3.11, improves IO up to 100X. Not 100%, 100X, or 10,000%. It may well be worth an upgrade if you're running a distro 2.3x and have random IO on multi TB storage.
The multi-queue block layer which is merged in kernel 3.13 gives a 3.5x to 10x increase in IOPS. This change is mostly targeted for SSDs, but gives similar improvements on HDs as well. However, it's not clear whether this improvement is relative to 3.11 or not.
Actually, now that you mention it, I can't find any yahoo bots in recent log files. Perhaps yahoo is also responsible for some of those stupid multi-gigabyte downloads as bingbot.
Actually, bingbot is particularly stupid. It has downloaded several zip files of public domain material (each exceeding 1GB with total over 10GB) from our web site at home. It does so about once per month despite the fact that these files are unchanging, instead of merely doing a conditional GET and checking for a 304 return. The various googlebots all do it this way, as do other bots (e.g. docomo, yahoo, yandex).
We don't yet bar bingbot, but if it starts dowloading several GB at times when other visitors are looking at videos (mostly 720p and 1080p), it will find itself in the wrong part of robots.txt. If I get really irritated, then it will get customized garbage results, just like the ZmEu crap...
And you can't just exclude the problem files instead of blocking the whole site?
Well, yes I could, obviously enough. But then the googlebot and other bots would be handicapped (I expect a change to at least two of those PD zipfiles during 2014). In summary, bingbot does it wrong while other bots do it right. These PD zipfiles are the most egregious examples, but there are also many smaller files where bingbot does it wrongly. So I'm likelier to bar bingbot than to bar other bots or to exclude these specific files.
As I said, bingbot is earnestly hoping for a customized middle finger instead of getting the entire >100GB site every time it looks. In short, bingbot does it wrongly.
Actually, bingbot is particularly stupid. It has downloaded several zip files of public domain material (each exceeding 1GB with total over 10GB) from our web site at home. It does so about once per month despite the fact that these files are unchanging, instead of merely doing a conditional GET and checking for a 304 return. The various googlebots all do it this way, as do other bots (e.g. docomo, yahoo, yandex).
We don't yet bar bingbot, but if it starts dowloading several GB at times when other visitors are looking at videos (mostly 720p and 1080p), it will find itself in the wrong part of robots.txt. If I get really irritated, then it will get customized garbage results, just like the ZmEu crap...
What's with the Red Army Faction these days? Did they get some fast airplanes or what?
The way I see it, no one would be using encryption nowadays if Obama managed to be president in the nineties.
Not before 1997, according to the age rules in the constitution. Since Obama was born in August 1961, this limits his eligibility for presidency to August 1996 onwards, which effectively means January 1997 onwards due to the schedule of presidencies in the US.
is already a Slashdotted site...
It doesn't flow for shit. Compare that to (La)TeX, where it flows not completely naturally, but it makes sense and actually writes in the order it will be, and mostly the order it's said when you say it.
And tools like tex4ht make translation of LaTeX to html a breeze. You get the best of both worlds, with nice LaTeX documents (from which Postscript or dvi or PDF etc. can also be made) translated to html. It will even generate jsMath if you want.
Right now the members of Congress could not agree that the earth is round, the sky is blue, and the sun is the center of the solar system.
Especially when some of them act as if the Earth were flat and is the center of the Solar System (or even the center of the Universe for hard-liners).
I guess you meant "day time sky above any clouds but within the troposphere as perceived by a fully trichromatic human". They'd argue endlessly on definitions involved in "the sky is blue", and legally formalize an appalling consensus when they eventually got bored enough to move on to other diatribes.
Or bring it into compliance with the GPLv2 or BSD3 licenses.
Nope, but assuming both spy, whose spying would you care the most? As a home user, the Chinese government has no interest in me. I have no contacts with the Dalai Lama. The US government probably has, since I'm hurting their sponsors by downloading the latest movies.
This analysis is probably breaks down somewhat for persons of particular interest - their data would be traded. For instance, China might trade your downloading history and identity to the US in return for some dirt on activities of one of the Dalai Lama's acolytes. Neither of these has much direct value to the spy who has it, but it has rather more value to the other. The analysis breaks down more generally for monitored persons in third countries. For instance, if one is in France or Egypt or Brazil, one's data is of interest to both of these protagonists, mostly for trade to third parties in return for other data.
No spying at all (or no sharing of such data with other agencies) would be preferable for most of us.
The bigger a nationally sponsored corporation becomes, the more obviously it becomes an asset. It's like choosing between corrupt police and the mob.
Just because the NSA spies doesn't prove Huawei doesn't. This line of reasoning is guaranteed to fool a few morons and nobody else.
Unfortunately, it leaves those morons with a semi-conscious or unconscious choice between being spied on by A (and possibly others) and being spied on by B (and possibly others). The wise person, on the other hand, merely faces a conscious choice between being spied on by A (and possibly others) and being spied on by B (and possibly others).
As a man who is 6'6" and 255, I have a place in mind where they can stick these new seats.
I'm only 6' 1" and 230, the biggest pain for me is my knees hitting the seat in front of me. Since I have only a 36" inseam, I am seeing 30" between my back and the row in front of me beautiful in theory. In reality, I know my shins are longer than 6", so I am still puzzled on what they are measuring here.
At 6'1" and 230 your Body Mass Index is over 30 - obese.
At 6'6" your BMI is just below 30, overweight but not quite obese.
The airlines suck, but they are not the only problem. You both probably thought you were just " big men" but basically normal.
FWIW, the BMI scale was invented before calculators etc., existed, so it's rather oversimplified. There is an alternative, which better represents BMI of tall and short persons. It gives lower BMI values for tall persons, but higher BMI values for short persons.
Of course, even using this BMI scale, the 6'1" person comes in at around 29 (overweight, but not quite obese). The 6'6" person comes in at just over 27 (somewhat overweight). Neither of them is in the "normal" BMI category, even on the scale which is kinder to tall persons.
Read the user agent backwards, as indicated in the blog: "edit by 04882 joel back door". Stupidity indeed, even leaving a name.
Luckily, my D-Link router is not vulnerable to this attack (maybe the attack just needs to be tweaked). It's stacked behind a non-D-Link router, just in case.
In particular, Hillary Clinton said "we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK". Now, what did she mean with that remark, and would it be similar to the meaning that the common person might assign to it?
From ancient Greek demos + kratos, democracy = rule by the people.
One suspects that what the rulers and would-be rulers mean is closer to autocracy = rule over the people, coupled with the assertion that if the people don't actively resist (via rebellion), then they tacitly accept the whims of their rulers.