Yeah, but if all their customers leave it will just lead to another bailout by the government.
Look at the airlines: many of them lost their asses when air travel became so much of a hassle and fee-minefield that people stopped flying and started driving/riding the train/bus. Of course, the government was like "No! We're a rich successful country, and we can't let a big industry fail even if they're morons! That makes our country look weak. Cash! Throw it at them hard and quick!"
Welcome to the 21st century, when a company is no longer allowed to fail because of its own shitty service.
This isn't 'the truth'. That doesn't exist in the world of governments and nuclear technology. At least not to us peons.
What this is, is nothing but another attempt to assuage brain-dead, Fox News-fueled, unfounded fears of a nuclear disaster at home.
The fact is, the plant is SHUTDOWN. There is no reaction occurring. There is undoubtedly hot material, but it's under control. This is never going to turn into a situation like Fukushima Daiichi. Ever. It just can't.
Also, a couple feet of water leaking into a plant over barriers is far from the same as a 40-ft wall of water spontaneously cresting a 30-ft protective barrier, inundating the whole thing with 10ft of water pretty much instantly.
Also, a trickle over a berm or barrier is far less water than the 10-ft instant flood at Fukushima. I'm sure a simple sump pump would be adequate to remove water and keep most systems operating at full capacity...except that the plant is SHUT DOWN. As in NOT REACTING.
They could generate and store all keys on an offline server, under heavy lock-and-key. Then only employee misuse and social engineering are the attack vectors. It's a lot easier to protect against.
Remember Mission: Impossible? The 'secure server' room? Do something like that (but probably on a lesser level). I like to hack into stuff, but I'm sure as hell not going to crawl through vents unless it will be a big enough score to pay off governments.
Python is a great, powerful language...if you're willing to deal with the whitespace nonsense it requires.
Also, saying that it is closer to spoken word than C is just untrue. First, you can name your functions/methods whatever normal-language word you want(except keywords and invalid C names). Second, C requires more natural whitespace considerations than Python does. In a sentence, how often do you have to hit return between parts of a sentence?
If jack is going to the store,
ask him to get me some milk, please.
Spaces and punctuation are more natural in C-based language than they are in Python.
It has its uses, but learning programming should not be considered one of them. VB.NET teaches you managed.NET programming - not actual, functional, cross-platform coding.
The only language I would recommend anyone start out with, beyond BASIC, is C and/or C++. Almost everything in the computer world is built from these base languages. Including most of the C#/VB.NET compilers/linkers/MSIL encoders, etc. It's essentially an easier-to-understand wrapper for the ASM and machine code.
Learning C/C++ to start gives you a fundamental understanding of how the data is moved and manipulated - without abstracting into a simple datatype and method to do everything for you.
Do people still use Hulu? Haven't they figured out that it's a complete ripoff yet? Pay for a service that still inundates you with commercials? Yeah...fuck that.
Every program on Hulu is available with less stress and bullshit elsewhere on the net.
Prices and contracts being discussed are for 3G, not 4G/LTE. You're paying $30/month for 2GB of the same shitty 3G service you've been getting unlimited for the last 3 years. Congratufuckinglations.
Fuck that, I run torrents on my droid pretty much nonstop. I pay $30 a month for UNLIMITED fucking bandwidth, and I'll be damned if I'm not going to use it.
I also refuse to pay more to go 'beyond unlimited' so I can tether, so I just rooted the bitch and now my computer has free 'net anywhere, anytime.
Ask Verizon what a gig of data costs them to transfer. Seriously. I'm sure it's well below a nickel. So how does charging ~300x the cost of an item not qualify them for a lawsuit somehow? Isn't that usury? Price gouging? Something?
200MB would be the best plan for the majority...if the majority of people could consume less than 200MB of data. I use more than that just checking my email on my phone.
Seriously, fuck cell phone companies. Don't give them an inch, as they've already taken a mile and are eying up the rest of the superhighway.
A hospital can't turn anyone away...from the emergency room. If you go into the ER with stomach pain, and it turns out to be cancer, they are more than welcome to say "Hey, we took care of you...and found out you have cancer. Without insurance, we won't help you anymore." That's how they work. That's what they do.
Why don't they just stop fucking with customers' machines and actually join the ARB? Then they can help develop some open-source interoperable standards instead of their broken closed-everything type browsers/plugins/systems. Knowing Microsoft they'd probably do everything they could to shoot the process in the foot and then try to make their own competing technology......oh wait...
Buying (or even finding and using) an iPhone is saying that Apple is right to do stupid shit like this. Please, please PLEASE be smart, and vote with your wallet.
The iPhone means no freedom to use your purchases as you want, and no avenue for recourse because "whatever they say, goes". Buy something else.
These people are complete morons. Anyone with Firefox and a couple HTML dev addons can perform the exact same hacks that have been going on against Sony, Software Companies, and FBI contractors. Who the fuck lets people with no understanding of the issue legislate it?
The onus of the hack rests SOLELY on the person managing the network, and not at all on the people who stumbled upon a URL that lets them see passwords and usernames. The problem part of 'hacking' is that you assume unauthorized access to a computer system. All of the information gained thus far has been gained through publicly-visible pages which requires no unauthorized access. By making a publicly-visible page(often indexed by Google) containing your sensitive information, it is YOU who should be going to jail for improper security measures.
Trying to make out like the hackers are evil geniuses is bullshit. I taught my 14 year old little sister how to modify a URL for directory traversal or SQL injection. It's simple shit that the developers should have taken care of, but were too lazy or understaffed/underpaid to complete. You should be thanking these people for pointing out your security shortcomings instead of knee-jerking all of the potentially useful development and anti-hacker tools out of existence.
There weren't any passwords listed in the sony data as ******* - as you typed it. If you can write the actual password instead of the masked version I could tell you for sure...
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Yeah, but if all their customers leave it will just lead to another bailout by the government.
Look at the airlines: many of them lost their asses when air travel became so much of a hassle and fee-minefield that people stopped flying and started driving/riding the train/bus. Of course, the government was like "No! We're a rich successful country, and we can't let a big industry fail even if they're morons! That makes our country look weak. Cash! Throw it at them hard and quick!"
Welcome to the 21st century, when a company is no longer allowed to fail because of its own shitty service.
This isn't 'the truth'. That doesn't exist in the world of governments and nuclear technology. At least not to us peons.
What this is, is nothing but another attempt to assuage brain-dead, Fox News-fueled, unfounded fears of a nuclear disaster at home.
The fact is, the plant is SHUTDOWN. There is no reaction occurring. There is undoubtedly hot material, but it's under control. This is never going to turn into a situation like Fukushima Daiichi. Ever. It just can't.
Also, a couple feet of water leaking into a plant over barriers is far from the same as a 40-ft wall of water spontaneously cresting a 30-ft protective barrier, inundating the whole thing with 10ft of water pretty much instantly.
Also, a trickle over a berm or barrier is far less water than the 10-ft instant flood at Fukushima. I'm sure a simple sump pump would be adequate to remove water and keep most systems operating at full capacity...except that the plant is SHUT DOWN. As in NOT REACTING.
They could generate and store all keys on an offline server, under heavy lock-and-key. Then only employee misuse and social engineering are the attack vectors. It's a lot easier to protect against.
Remember Mission: Impossible? The 'secure server' room? Do something like that (but probably on a lesser level). I like to hack into stuff, but I'm sure as hell not going to crawl through vents unless it will be a big enough score to pay off governments.
closed source products
Again coming back to a lack of trust, of your customers and clients. Trust them with the source code, and verify they aren't misusing it.
Java's great.
If you don't mind that you'll probably lose support for it and get sued by Oracle now.
This would be a good argument.... ...except:
C:
if (a == b){do_something();}
Works.
Python:
if a == b: do_something()
Doesn't work.
Python is a great, powerful language...if you're willing to deal with the whitespace nonsense it requires.
Also, saying that it is closer to spoken word than C is just untrue. First, you can name your functions/methods whatever normal-language word you want(except keywords and invalid C names). Second, C requires more natural whitespace considerations than Python does. In a sentence, how often do you have to hit return between parts of a sentence?
If jack is going to the store,
ask him to get me some milk, please.
Spaces and punctuation are more natural in C-based language than they are in Python.
Python is like 'fake programming'. You will learn even less about how real coding works using Python than VB.
It has its uses, but learning programming should not be considered one of them. VB.NET teaches you managed .NET programming - not actual, functional, cross-platform coding.
The only language I would recommend anyone start out with, beyond BASIC, is C and/or C++. Almost everything in the computer world is built from these base languages. Including most of the C#/VB.NET compilers/linkers/MSIL encoders, etc. It's essentially an easier-to-understand wrapper for the ASM and machine code.
Learning C/C++ to start gives you a fundamental understanding of how the data is moved and manipulated - without abstracting into a simple datatype and method to do everything for you.
The astronomers are the indirect object, putting the 'comprised of' descriptor onto the direct object, which is the Nebula.
Do people still use Hulu? Haven't they figured out that it's a complete ripoff yet? Pay for a service that still inundates you with commercials? Yeah...fuck that.
Every program on Hulu is available with less stress and bullshit elsewhere on the net.
Prices and contracts being discussed are for 3G, not 4G/LTE. You're paying $30/month for 2GB of the same shitty 3G service you've been getting unlimited for the last 3 years. Congratufuckinglations.
Fuck that, I run torrents on my droid pretty much nonstop. I pay $30 a month for UNLIMITED fucking bandwidth, and I'll be damned if I'm not going to use it.
I also refuse to pay more to go 'beyond unlimited' so I can tether, so I just rooted the bitch and now my computer has free 'net anywhere, anytime.
Ask Verizon what a gig of data costs them to transfer. Seriously. I'm sure it's well below a nickel. So how does charging ~300x the cost of an item not qualify them for a lawsuit somehow? Isn't that usury? Price gouging? Something?
200MB would be the best plan for the majority...if the majority of people could consume less than 200MB of data. I use more than that just checking my email on my phone.
Seriously, fuck cell phone companies. Don't give them an inch, as they've already taken a mile and are eying up the rest of the superhighway.
A hospital can't turn anyone away...from the emergency room. If you go into the ER with stomach pain, and it turns out to be cancer, they are more than welcome to say "Hey, we took care of you...and found out you have cancer. Without insurance, we won't help you anymore." That's how they work. That's what they do.
Why don't they just stop fucking with customers' machines and actually join the ARB? Then they can help develop some open-source interoperable standards instead of their broken closed-everything type browsers/plugins/systems. Knowing Microsoft they'd probably do everything they could to shoot the process in the foot and then try to make their own competing technology... ...oh wait...
Buying (or even finding and using) an iPhone is saying that Apple is right to do stupid shit like this. Please, please PLEASE be smart, and vote with your wallet.
The iPhone means no freedom to use your purchases as you want, and no avenue for recourse because "whatever they say, goes". Buy something else.
These people are complete morons. Anyone with Firefox and a couple HTML dev addons can perform the exact same hacks that have been going on against Sony, Software Companies, and FBI contractors. Who the fuck lets people with no understanding of the issue legislate it?
The onus of the hack rests SOLELY on the person managing the network, and not at all on the people who stumbled upon a URL that lets them see passwords and usernames. The problem part of 'hacking' is that you assume unauthorized access to a computer system. All of the information gained thus far has been gained through publicly-visible pages which requires no unauthorized access. By making a publicly-visible page(often indexed by Google) containing your sensitive information, it is YOU who should be going to jail for improper security measures.
Trying to make out like the hackers are evil geniuses is bullshit. I taught my 14 year old little sister how to modify a URL for directory traversal or SQL injection. It's simple shit that the developers should have taken care of, but were too lazy or understaffed/underpaid to complete. You should be thanking these people for pointing out your security shortcomings instead of knee-jerking all of the potentially useful development and anti-hacker tools out of existence.
I take it to mean "We downloaded the un/pw list from the sony hack, and tried every one on Gawker. 67% worked."
There weren't any passwords listed in the sony data as ******* - as you typed it. If you can write the actual password instead of the masked version I could tell you for sure...
I believe what you meant to say was:
"How do they know it was Sarah Palin's fans? It could have been her opposition."
Hooked on phonics could work for you.
I am somehow not in any way against that prospect. Beam them all up, god.
Fuck you! My friend died hacking Windows 98!
I would recommend Wisconsin, but then Scott-the-Dick Walker is here, so you should wait until we kick his ass out first.
Is that a new derivative of the QWERTY keyboard? They can patent that if they like - I don't see many people adopting it.