I use my first name and my initial, as well as my email, that way you can still reference it when applying for a job (whereas you'd look like an idiot claiming that you did excellent coding work but never gave a real name or used your regular email)
And the GDR was called the German Democratic Republic. That must mean it was a democratic republic right?
I wouldn't called extreme racism, homophobia etc. left-wing.
There's also the matter of his constant public speeches about how the left-wing movements were Jewish attempts to topple him and how socialists must be destroyed for Germany to prevail. He arrested all trade union leaders and enforced a pay freeze on all workers. Of course he did claim prior to the election that we would do just the opposite and give workers more control, but dishonesty seemed to be one of his faults.
A big part of anti-racism laws is to prevent offensive speech as it relates to race, right?
Well yes, but I for one think that it's stupid, they should be about stopping violence and discrimination, not someone making nigger jokes. Of course once you try to stop violence people claim you must stop "incitement to violence", which is a blanket term they use for nigger jokes and using the word "black" instead of "coloured".
Hitler wasn't really that left wing, he had some left wing policies but overall I'd definitely not call him left-wing.
Olame-a "I'll give everyone 5000$" is trying to do the same in America.
oicwutudidthar, how clever, I'm sure you've influenced everyone's vote for 2012, now that we know that he is both lame and trying to emulate Hitler/Stalin/Mao, you're proof of his plans for genocide are very convincing.
As far as I know they tried to figure out how long it would be until an exploit was released for it and/or it was reported on a security site, then they could check those results by searching on exploit/security sites.
Of course if theres a group of 5 or 6 people who made an exploit for that bug and DIDN'T publish it, they couldn't tell and therefore their numbers would be slightly off, but if it was exploited on a large scale it would have been discovered anyway.
Except for the 5 completely unpatched exploits for a month.
Of course if the 15 they fix are very severe, and the 5 left unfixed are only locally exploitable or affect and/or only a small amount of machines then it's only slightly humiliating, which I guess is what they're trying to do now. It's not the best solution, and clearly it's only 40% effective but it IS an improvement.
Yeah by allowing homeless people to register to vote they basically rigged the election. I mean who the fuck wants homeless people to be allowed vote, society has made it clear that they aren't wanted
Offhand, I can think of 3 major resource hogs that justify the need for more resources: Search Indexing, Sidebar, and Aero. All of which can be quite useful (Aero is a *little* more than eye candy, and has potential to be very useful if properly utilized by applications), and all of which consume a decent amount of resources, even if they are optimized a bit better.
But I can have search indexing, desktop widgets (a lot of them) and desktop effects (I can't say whether they're the same par as Aero since I haven't used Vista too much) all run fine on 512MB RAM with Linux. I don't see the justification for the extra 1 and a half GB to make it run acceptably (Yes, I've seen it run on 1GB, it runs but is very slow).
Side bar is a collection of small applications which is like having a bunch of extra crap open, which is simply more resources used...there may be some optimization that can go on there, but how much?
The widgets in sidebar are basically equivalent to desktop widgets (Or screenlets, plasmoids, whatever the individual implementation is called) on Linux or OS X, not a new or novel idea, or something that can't be done without using too much resources.
That said, I'm obviously no expert, I've not even used Vista that much, (Although when I did use it I was amazed by the bloat), really I'm just glad that Windows 7 should be an improvement on it. It's beginning to look like Windows 7 is turning out to be what Windows Vista should have been.
A computer is not a refrigerator or similar appliance you should expect to perform well for over five years.
But I don't see the point upgrading when I don't need a faster or newer computer, since I can do anything I need to on this old 512MB RAM computer I got in a sale years ago and it runs fine with latest version of any Linux distro (with desktop effects) or Windows XP.
To says Vista's demands are reasonable is stupid, and I'd ask you to point out why it's acceptable that it eats so much resources
95 ran fine on 32MB of RAM, 98 ran on 64 or 128....XP, you'd better have 512, and I guess Vista is best with at least 2048. Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that the requirements have gone up.
I ran XP fine on 224MB RAM, no slowdown at all, but I've seen Vista hang for a few seconds every couple of minutes using nothing but notepad and 2 firefox tabs (without flash or Java) on 2GB RAM, that is a serious problem
I've only ever used Vista for about an hour, I had Firefox and Notepad open, every couple of minutes (mostly while typing in notepad) the system would hang for a few seconds.
Only a few seconds, and only the interface appears to have been affected, no crashes or BSODs but it was very fucking annoying. Other than UAC being annoying I saw no other problems, both are supposedly fixed in 7, of course there may have been more problems I'd notice if I used Vista longer.
Really the article may be correct, but APPEARING fast is almost as good as actually being fast for 99% of people.
I'm not a security or crypt expert, but I can't imagine how anyone can expect this kind of security to remain secure for 10 years.
Because they want to sell it, and want the movie industry to use it, the movie industry won't use it unless it's secure. So they say it'll be 10 years before it's broken.
No-one can prove them wrong until AFTER it sells enough to be worth breaking.
The problem is that you're assuming everyone registers their material.
Right now I doubt much people except large corporations actually go to the bother of registering their copyright, a band on a small record label releases a song, sticks a copyright logo on it and it belongs to them, assuming they have a small amount of proof when it was created, that will hold up in court.
But if everyone was required to register their stuff after just 1 year, most people would lose their copyright because they just don't have the time or can't be bothered going to paperwork.
Except of course large corporations who could just hire a couple of people to keep everything up to date, another problem is of course that the world consists of more than just America, you're assuming that paying the US copyright office should be enough worldwide, what happens to artists outside America?
Yes, but really, do we even need TLDs at all anymore, if they're going to allow anyone with enough cash to register a TLD, why not just do away with them altogether.
Realistically this would be better than having them register "http://*.google/", "http://*.microsoft/", etc. and would basically achieve the same purpose, TLDs were originally made to keep things organised, clearly they no longer want that.
Of course this would probably cause problems if you have "foo.com" and "foo.org" fighting over "foo"
Neither grep nor YouTube are search engines, in the accepted sense of the word. YouTube employs a search engine to return results, but it isn't one in its own right.
Well then the search engine Youtube employs has overtaken Yahoo.
This argument was a waste of my screen space, moreso than the very debatedly inaccurate summary
Or even a team that takes network hardware components that are known to be used by this bank (that information can be easily gained via social engineering, no question). Reverse engineer the network hardware's firmwares etc., or even better, social-engineer the manufacturer to get in-detail system specs.
They don't need to reverse engineer OR social engineer, They just need to make an outright demand.
Or they think "What the fuck, from my knowledge of movies I know he is a terrorist hacker about to kidnap the president, better send this back to the tech guys.".
The entire archive wasn't uploaded as far as I know, unless it was done long after the buzz died down, there were screenshots of like 3 emails, a couple of family pictures and contact list.
Basically the guy just released enough to prove he did it, I doubt he cared about the rest of it. He just wanted to look like an internet tough guy.
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Yeah, they should've just included the amount of Linux systems in the summary instead of forcing everyone to RTFA.
I use my first name and my initial, as well as my email, that way you can still reference it when applying for a job (whereas you'd look like an idiot claiming that you did excellent coding work but never gave a real name or used your regular email)
And the GDR was called the German Democratic Republic. That must mean it was a democratic republic right?
I wouldn't called extreme racism, homophobia etc. left-wing.
There's also the matter of his constant public speeches about how the left-wing movements were Jewish attempts to topple him and how socialists must be destroyed for Germany to prevail.
He arrested all trade union leaders and enforced a pay freeze on all workers.
Of course he did claim prior to the election that we would do just the opposite and give workers more control, but dishonesty seemed to be one of his faults.
A big part of anti-racism laws is to prevent offensive speech as it relates to race, right?
Well yes, but I for one think that it's stupid, they should be about stopping violence and discrimination, not someone making nigger jokes.
Of course once you try to stop violence people claim you must stop "incitement to violence", which is a blanket term they use for nigger jokes and using the word "black" instead of "coloured".
Hitler wasn't really that left wing, he had some left wing policies but overall I'd definitely not call him left-wing.
Olame-a "I'll give everyone 5000$" is trying to do the same in America.
oicwutudidthar, how clever, I'm sure you've influenced everyone's vote for 2012, now that we know that he is both lame and trying to emulate Hitler/Stalin/Mao, you're proof of his plans for genocide are very convincing.
Yeah, the money English scholars spend is worth much more than that monopoly money spent by TheGratefulNet
As far as I know they tried to figure out how long it would be until an exploit was released for it and/or it was reported on a security site, then they could check those results by searching on exploit/security sites.
Of course if theres a group of 5 or 6 people who made an exploit for that bug and DIDN'T publish it, they couldn't tell and therefore their numbers would be slightly off, but if it was exploited on a large scale it would have been discovered anyway.
Except for the 5 completely unpatched exploits for a month.
Of course if the 15 they fix are very severe, and the 5 left unfixed are only locally exploitable or affect and/or only a small amount of machines then it's only slightly humiliating, which I guess is what they're trying to do now.
It's not the best solution, and clearly it's only 40% effective but it IS an improvement.
Yeah by allowing homeless people to register to vote they basically rigged the election.
I mean who the fuck wants homeless people to be allowed vote, society has made it clear that they aren't wanted
Offhand, I can think of 3 major resource hogs that justify the need for more resources: Search Indexing, Sidebar, and Aero. All of which can be quite useful (Aero is a *little* more than eye candy, and has potential to be very useful if properly utilized by applications), and all of which consume a decent amount of resources, even if they are optimized a bit better.
But I can have search indexing, desktop widgets (a lot of them) and desktop effects (I can't say whether they're the same par as Aero since I haven't used Vista too much) all run fine on 512MB RAM with Linux. I don't see the justification for the extra 1 and a half GB to make it run acceptably (Yes, I've seen it run on 1GB, it runs but is very slow).
Side bar is a collection of small applications which is like having a bunch of extra crap open, which is simply more resources used...there may be some optimization that can go on there, but how much?
The widgets in sidebar are basically equivalent to desktop widgets (Or screenlets, plasmoids, whatever the individual implementation is called) on Linux or OS X, not a new or novel idea, or something that can't be done without using too much resources.
That said, I'm obviously no expert, I've not even used Vista that much, (Although when I did use it I was amazed by the bloat), really I'm just glad that Windows 7 should be an improvement on it. It's beginning to look like Windows 7 is turning out to be what Windows Vista should have been.
A computer is not a refrigerator or similar appliance you should expect to perform well for over five years.
But I don't see the point upgrading when I don't need a faster or newer computer, since I can do anything I need to on this old 512MB RAM computer I got in a sale years ago and it runs fine with latest version of any Linux distro (with desktop effects) or Windows XP.
To says Vista's demands are reasonable is stupid, and I'd ask you to point out why it's acceptable that it eats so much resources
95 ran fine on 32MB of RAM, 98 ran on 64 or 128....XP, you'd better have 512, and I guess Vista is best with at least 2048. Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that the requirements have gone up.
I ran XP fine on 224MB RAM, no slowdown at all, but I've seen Vista hang for a few seconds every couple of minutes using nothing but notepad and 2 firefox tabs (without flash or Java) on 2GB RAM, that is a serious problem
It insulted Vista/Windows 7, moderators are more than happy to overlook trolling
I've only ever used Vista for about an hour, I had Firefox and Notepad open, every couple of minutes (mostly while typing in notepad) the system would hang for a few seconds.
Only a few seconds, and only the interface appears to have been affected, no crashes or BSODs but it was very fucking annoying.
Other than UAC being annoying I saw no other problems, both are supposedly fixed in 7, of course there may have been more problems I'd notice if I used Vista longer.
Really the article may be correct, but APPEARING fast is almost as good as actually being fast for 99% of people.
So it's not a government action if it takes place on the state level.
It's just a happy group of elected representatives governing the people of tha-- oh wait...
Well you could have 90 downtime like this and still count? If it's down for 9 minutes, up for 1, down for 9 etc.
But of course measuring it googles way that would still be 100% uptime.
I'm not a security or crypt expert, but I can't imagine how anyone can expect this kind of security to remain secure for 10 years.
Because they want to sell it, and want the movie industry to use it, the movie industry won't use it unless it's secure. So they say it'll be 10 years before it's broken.
No-one can prove them wrong until AFTER it sells enough to be worth breaking.
The problem is that you're assuming everyone registers their material.
Right now I doubt much people except large corporations actually go to the bother of registering their copyright, a band on a small record label releases a song, sticks a copyright logo on it and it belongs to them, assuming they have a small amount of proof when it was created, that will hold up in court.
But if everyone was required to register their stuff after just 1 year, most people would lose their copyright because they just don't have the time or can't be bothered going to paperwork.
Except of course large corporations who could just hire a couple of people to keep everything up to date, another problem is of course that the world consists of more than just America, you're assuming that paying the US copyright office should be enough worldwide, what happens to artists outside America?
Yes, but really, do we even need TLDs at all anymore, if they're going to allow anyone with enough cash to register a TLD, why not just do away with them altogether.
http://slashdot/
http://google/
http://microsoft/
etc.
Realistically this would be better than having them register "http://*.google/", "http://*.microsoft/", etc. and would basically achieve the same purpose, TLDs were originally made to keep things organised, clearly they no longer want that.
Of course this would probably cause problems if you have "foo.com" and "foo.org" fighting over "foo"
What's to say the "md5sum" executable on that machine is clean?
Neither grep nor YouTube are search engines, in the accepted sense of the word. YouTube employs a search engine to return results, but it isn't one in its own right.
Well then the search engine Youtube employs has overtaken Yahoo.
This argument was a waste of my screen space, moreso than the very debatedly inaccurate summary
Or even a team that takes network hardware components that are known to be used by this bank (that information can be easily gained via social engineering, no question). Reverse engineer the network hardware's firmwares etc., or even better, social-engineer the manufacturer to get in-detail system specs.
They don't need to reverse engineer OR social engineer, They just need to make an outright demand.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20080919TDY01306.htm
Of course this hasn't happened quite yet?
Or they think "What the fuck, from my knowledge of movies I know he is a terrorist hacker about to kidnap the president, better send this back to the tech guys.".
The entire archive wasn't uploaded as far as I know, unless it was done long after the buzz died down, there were screenshots of like 3 emails, a couple of family pictures and contact list.
Basically the guy just released enough to prove he did it, I doubt he cared about the rest of it. He just wanted to look like an internet tough guy.
That's why it's in "Entertainment", not "News"