It's a joke right? We're talking about vocabulary, and AC makes a purposeful typographical error right? Right? Come one guys! It's funny! Just remember next time you are about to get angry at someone's typos or ignorance of English grammar, etc. Just remember that at least you're not getting shot in the fact with a rifle! See, when you put life in perspective you will be much happier... personally I hate getting shot in the face a lot more than grammatical errors;)
I'm glad Germany seems to have backed down from its anti-hacker legislation. Wasn't it last year we heard they were threatening their security experts and admins with legislation to take away even such benign utilities as password recovery tools?
I was going to your right to publish such information wouldn't be violated in America, but then I remembered the subway-hack kids and the guy who took a plea bargain for distributing Hezbollah satellite feeds in NY...
Yeah, it's all the lefties. It couldn't be because there's anything wrong in the world. Those damn lefties. Always finding something to complain about in this perfect world of ours...
The way I remember it is that (especially on Mac System 7) Netscape was better for the most part up until IE (5?) surpassed them at the end of the Mac browser wars... IIRC Netscape had the better browser for years (till about the middle of the anti-trust lawsuit?)
Don't ask me to go into too much detail... I was ~12 at the time:) I do remember that Netscape was faster until Mac IE beat it and that was the best for a while until Firefox came out and kicked Mac IE 5's and IE 6's asses.
What I do remember well is that Netscape was the better browser for years (on both Mac and Windows), until MS realized that they had a real threat to take care of, because of the lawsuit, and kicked their browser into high gear for a few years.
Haven't used IE 7 yet... still pretty sure MS has always been playing catch-up in the "browser wars" (and still is).
teh FOSSies still can't forgive MS for competing with their beloved Netscape
The problem was that MS used anti-competitive measures to hurt Netscape's market share and promote I.E.
Would you REALLY trust a FOSS tax program?
Yes, we would trust it if, say, a company such as H&R Block had the code analyzed and was able to certify its accuracy.
that's why Slashdot grants Apple their "most favored monopoly" status
The editors? Maybe. The commentators?... I generally see about a ratio of 4 anti-fanboi posts to 1 Apple fanboi post when Apple comes up in discussion. In fact, I am noticing that there are more people complaining about Slashdot nowadays, but the posters they complain about seem to be harder to find...
Just wanted to point out that that happens over thousands to millions of years itself. What is more liekly than one fish having a genetic mutation that makes it blue and breeding this trait into the general population is that the group of fish have genes which would dispose an individual to look more blue. As generations and generations pass, if there is a natural benefit to looking blue, more of the fish who are more blue will survive and over time will become a new species that is always blue.
Is that totally off base? It seems like a lot of ID debates come about because of nuanced misunderstandings of the theory of evolution or the purpose of religion...
Interesting question. You always hear that it's because of "prime factorization" or something, and to tell the truth I hadn't thought about what that actually meant. The article on RSA at Wikipedia seems informative:
The RSA problem is defined as the task of taking eth roots modulo a composite n: recovering a value m such that c=me mod n, where (n, e) is an RSA public key and c is an RSA ciphertext.
Look, sometimes it's nice to know you have a new email or a file has downloaded, etc without being interrupted from your word processing or web browsing! I have to agree with the article here. For instance, Growl is awesome - it provides a way to know what is going on with my system while not having to interrupt my work by grabbing the mouse and clicking on a button just because I have a new email (which I may want to read now, in 10 minutes, in a couple hours, etc).
It's pretty nice. There's an iTunes plugin that pops up notifications when a new song starts playing - imagine that being a modal dialog box. How annoying!
As much as civil suits can be abused, that's a very good point, and one that I don't think is pointed out often enough. (I hadn't thought of it before at least;)
You're right, and I'm glad they chose that distribution model because it will certainly get a lot of people's attention when they can't update their favorite game. Hopefully Blizzard will make some effort to point out the stupidity of this law, although I'm sure they will fix the updates in Australia if they are forced to...
Also, a nitpick, quotes aren't used that way. They are legally using bt, or *legally* using bt, but "legally" using bt implies that they aren't really using bt legally, or that they are using it in a way that is hardly legal or only pretending to be legal.
While (almost) everything you say is correct, you misunderstand what "security through obscurity" is. See my post further up for why using passwords for security is not security through obscurity.
Changing your port, in fact, does not make you computer more secure in a literal sense. Anyone who wanted to seriously look for vulnerabilities would look for open ports and they would find your ssh daemon. What it does do is prepare for the (somewhat likely) discovery of new exploits in ssh or other services for which the port has been changed to a non-default port. People who are scanning hundreds or thousands of computers for exploits will overlook your server.
On the other hand that's kind of mincing words (you are too though:) Anyway, I use "secure" casually all the time to describe that practice too, so my point is, there is a casual and a technical definition of "secure" and they are different. Cheers!
The password is obscure, sure, but the underlying security mechanism shouldn't be. If you rely on the your password-checking algorithm being secret for security, this is "security through obscurity" (no security at all really because it will likely be easily reverse-engineered or discovered some other way). If, instead, the password-checking algorithm is publicly available and yet still cannot be defeated without knowing the password, you've been doing your job right. That's security.
If it is intended to be religious proselytizing, I think it fails pretty well... I think it is more of a disturbed, absurd parody of religious propaganda. But yes, it is completely off-topic:D
All in all, we're not. There are still a few problems. (Obviously!) However, the climate in Ancient Greece, Arabia, hell, even apparently Ancient Egypt wasn't so ridiculous as during the European Dark Ages, which is what I think you are generally referring to. This is probably the best time for Science in the history of Humanity. (IANA Historian.)
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
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It's a joke right? We're talking about vocabulary, and AC makes a purposeful typographical error right? Right? Come one guys! It's funny! Just remember next time you are about to get angry at someone's typos or ignorance of English grammar, etc. Just remember that at least you're not getting shot in the fact with a rifle! See, when you put life in perspective you will be much happier... personally I hate getting shot in the face a lot more than grammatical errors
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
2!
Well, you're only half right...
I'm glad Germany seems to have backed down from its anti-hacker legislation. Wasn't it last year we heard they were threatening their security experts and admins with legislation to take away even such benign utilities as password recovery tools?
I was going to your right to publish such information wouldn't be violated in America, but then I remembered the subway-hack kids and the guy who took a plea bargain for distributing Hezbollah satellite feeds in NY...
Yeah, it's all the lefties. It couldn't be because there's anything wrong in the world. Those damn lefties. Always finding something to complain about in this perfect world of ours...
The way I remember it is that (especially on Mac System 7) Netscape was better for the most part up until IE (5?) surpassed them at the end of the Mac browser wars... IIRC Netscape had the better browser for years (till about the middle of the anti-trust lawsuit?)
:) I do remember that Netscape was faster until Mac IE beat it and that was the best for a while until Firefox came out and kicked Mac IE 5's and IE 6's asses.
Don't ask me to go into too much detail... I was ~12 at the time
What I do remember well is that Netscape was the better browser for years (on both Mac and Windows), until MS realized that they had a real threat to take care of, because of the lawsuit, and kicked their browser into high gear for a few years.
Haven't used IE 7 yet... still pretty sure MS has always been playing catch-up in the "browser wars" (and still is).
teh FOSSies still can't forgive MS for competing with their beloved Netscape
The problem was that MS used anti-competitive measures to hurt Netscape's market share and promote I.E.
Would you REALLY trust a FOSS tax program?
Yes, we would trust it if, say, a company such as H&R Block had the code analyzed and was able to certify its accuracy.
that's why Slashdot grants Apple their "most favored monopoly" status
The editors? Maybe. The commentators? ... I generally see about a ratio of 4 anti-fanboi posts to 1 Apple fanboi post when Apple comes up in discussion. In fact, I am noticing that there are more people complaining about Slashdot nowadays, but the posters they complain about seem to be harder to find...
One species is now two. Evolution.
Just wanted to point out that that happens over thousands to millions of years itself. What is more liekly than one fish having a genetic mutation that makes it blue and breeding this trait into the general population is that the group of fish have genes which would dispose an individual to look more blue. As generations and generations pass, if there is a natural benefit to looking blue, more of the fish who are more blue will survive and over time will become a new species that is always blue.
Is that totally off base? It seems like a lot of ID debates come about because of nuanced misunderstandings of the theory of evolution or the purpose of religion...
I'm from the Bible Belt you insensitive clod! Seriously, though it's a great place.
figuring out how to turn that data into money ... might involve some black magic, and definitely requires luck too.
So what you are saying is:
1. Data
2. ???
3. Profit!
:~)
The RSA problem is defined as the task of taking eth roots modulo a composite n: recovering a value m such that c=me mod n, where (n, e) is an RSA public key and c is an RSA ciphertext.
Keep in mind these are typically 1024-bit (or more) numbers -- 2 ^ 1024 possible numbers to factor. Also, the world's record for factorization at the moment is for factoring a 668-bit number that took "several months of computer time using the combined power of 80 AMD Opteron CPUs."
Hmmm... maybe you have a point there...
Look, sometimes it's nice to know you have a new email or a file has downloaded, etc without being interrupted from your word processing or web browsing! I have to agree with the article here. For instance, Growl is awesome - it provides a way to know what is going on with my system while not having to interrupt my work by grabbing the mouse and clicking on a button just because I have a new email (which I may want to read now, in 10 minutes, in a couple hours, etc).
It's pretty nice. There's an iTunes plugin that pops up notifications when a new song starts playing - imagine that being a modal dialog box. How annoying!
Hide everything in that one other page!!! ????
Not that you're white necessarily, but I think this is a good parody of why people think it is silly to get so up in arms about grammar and spelling in casual conversation.
Whatever, fruit cake is delicious. Just don't buy the cheap, sucky grocery store kind and you will be in for a treat or find a recipe and make some...
As much as civil suits can be abused, that's a very good point, and one that I don't think is pointed out often enough. (I hadn't thought of it before at least ;)
You're right, and I'm glad they chose that distribution model because it will certainly get a lot of people's attention when they can't update their favorite game. Hopefully Blizzard will make some effort to point out the stupidity of this law, although I'm sure they will fix the updates in Australia if they are forced to...
Also, a nitpick, quotes aren't used that way. They are legally using bt, or *legally* using bt, but "legally" using bt implies that they aren't really using bt legally, or that they are using it in a way that is hardly legal or only pretending to be legal.
While (almost) everything you say is correct, you misunderstand what "security through obscurity" is. See my post further up for why using passwords for security is not security through obscurity.
:) Anyway, I use "secure" casually all the time to describe that practice too, so my point is, there is a casual and a technical definition of "secure" and they are different. Cheers!
Changing your port, in fact, does not make you computer more secure in a literal sense. Anyone who wanted to seriously look for vulnerabilities would look for open ports and they would find your ssh daemon. What it does do is prepare for the (somewhat likely) discovery of new exploits in ssh or other services for which the port has been changed to a non-default port. People who are scanning hundreds or thousands of computers for exploits will overlook your server.
On the other hand that's kind of mincing words (you are too though
The password is obscure, sure, but the underlying security mechanism shouldn't be. If you rely on the your password-checking algorithm being secret for security, this is "security through obscurity" (no security at all really because it will likely be easily reverse-engineered or discovered some other way). If, instead, the password-checking algorithm is publicly available and yet still cannot be defeated without knowing the password, you've been doing your job right. That's security.
If it is intended to be religious proselytizing, I think it fails pretty well... I think it is more of a disturbed, absurd parody of religious propaganda. But yes, it is completely off-topic :D
I think it's an elaboration on the text found here. At least that's what came up when I Googled "God was busy so he sent me" ;)
A pretty interesting offtopic/troll to say the least.
I woulda modded you funny. Somebody had to do it might as wella been you!
All in all, we're not. There are still a few problems. (Obviously!) However, the climate in Ancient Greece, Arabia, hell, even apparently Ancient Egypt wasn't so ridiculous as during the European Dark Ages, which is what I think you are generally referring to. This is probably the best time for Science in the history of Humanity. (IANA Historian.)
Free time? More like TREE time. Har.
Of course, we don't know if those friends and family members are real ;)