Back in the 60s you werent getting 40mpg and 500 mile range in a car that required no warm-up time in the dead of winter, went 10000 miles between oil changes / servicing (easily), and was affordable on a waiter's salary.
As opposed to the complete lack of policies from the Republicans? I'd also love to see what policies are "divorced from reality,"
The idea that you can help poor people by throwing money at them.
Go work with some homeless people, see what their situation is, and see what happens when you throw money at them. Better yet, next time a homeless person asks for money for food, offer to take him to a meal: You will see an astonishing entitlement mentality. Ive been cursed at for offering food because I wouldnt give cash. Ive gotten maybe 4-5 people accepting my offer, and probably a dozen walking away when they realized they werent getting cash. One almost starts to suspect that people constantly giving cash makes the problem worse.
"complete lack of policies" is incredibly broad, but generally republicans arent easily convinced that everything HAS to be regulated, or that everything is necessarily the government's business, or even that the government can always be trusted to have the best judgement.
It makes a bit of a change for all of the vitriol thats usually directed at conservatives. Its not my preference for how these discussions go, but I cant say that its exactly unprecedented.
Werent liberals hoping that the hurricane during the RNC resulted in the drowning of key leaders? With followup posts indicating that, no hyperbole, the hope was sincere? Arent there regularly posts laughing at how stupid and backwater conservatives must be?
You would be right to say that his comment is out of bounds for civil discourse, but Id say at this point liberals on slashdot have very little room to criticize.
I might note that there are probably a lot of conservatives who are against programs that they qualify for, but still take advantage of them. It would be pretty stupid to pay taxes for said program and get nothing back from it, even if you would prefer that the program simply went away.
No ActiveSync implementations Ive seen has an option to detect or warn when the thumbprint or even signing CA change, which makes it nigh impossible to detect when youve been compromised.
"Cracked" is a pretty arbitrary standard of security when in practical terms a great many attackers have the means to silently subvert your encryption and see everything youre doing. Most security fails come not through an encryption crack, but through implementation weaknesses. SSL is itself a gigantic implementation weakness where you need to trust a huge number of signing authorities.
If you want real security, the answer is per-device keys, not PKI. Its a bigger pain to manage, but then thats exactly where BES shined. Theres a reason governments werent on Microsoft's case to subvert ActiveSync: its really not that hard when youre a trusted CA.
I was talking kelvin because thats the only unit you could use when "halving the distance to zero", which we both agree is bogus. Celsius' zero is arbitrary, and halving the distance to it would be warmer, not colder.
Ditto. I think I may be the last remaining blackberry fan, and I just got a Nexus 5. I was sure I would be suffering without the blackberry keyboard (I had a torch before), but SwiftKey is amazingly good. I prefer it greatly to blackberry keyboards now-- I can type 1 or 2 handed equally well, and can very nearly do it by touch.
Plus, when you have voice input as good as android does, the keyboard just isnt that big a deal anymore.
Well, except that SSL / TLS will never be as secure as symmetric encryption with per-device keys. You're right that it got shoved to the side, but for what it did and was designed to do it was quite good. I feel like iOS / android is just now getting to where blackberry has been for ages, at least in enterprise messaging.
Not sure if anyone else feels the same, but Im at the point where I deeply loathe anyone who brings the whole climate change discussion up in anything tangentially related to weather patterns.
That would mean it goes from 233K (-40C) to 136K, which is -136C. I rather suspect thats not what they mean, and its why GP is spot on with his criticism.
SSL certs can be forged, and SSL itself can be subverted in a lot of ways. It solves a number of problems but its not a silver bullet; the answer isnt always "throw more SSL at it".
PETA takes the stance that people are animals too. If theyre going to object to the killing of flies, I would expect them to make at least a passing statement on a belief on abortion.
The reality is that if you were to poll PETA members I can almost guarantee that they would be pro-choice, and completely miss the intellectual fail there.
Im objecting to language so vague that there isnt really an argument there. Some of his post has some substance (there are countries releasing industrial chemicals into waterways), but again its so vague that its meaningless; the only point of such a post is to whip up a sort of empty hysteria. See for example with the Snowden/NSA posts that are running rampant right now: whatever substance might have been there is completely invalidated by how mindless and empty the posts are, completely obscuring the actual issue. The result is either that people now believe something thats completely false ("biggest extinction event ever"-- demonstrably false as we're becoming a lot more environmentally responsible in this country, and it was quite bad in the 19th/20th centuries), or are going to tune out a potential issue because of how hysterical the tone of the post is ("releasing chemicals"-- an actual issue in a number of countries like China).
His use of "chemicals" I find particularly bad because its in the same vein as "processed food". "Chemicals" can be good (mosquito control in malaria ridden areas), just as "processing food" is often good (pasteurization), but such comments tend to sway people against such technologies "just because it sounds scary". Starting with "I read that..." just indicates that he was too lazy to actually fact check his one source, and so isnt willing to attach his own name to the statement.
If you know of a better word than chemical to use,
Yes, you refer to specific things rather than waving your hands and saying "...and all of the bad stuff we're doing". Could you have been any MORE vague than you are?
I've previously read that there over 100,000 man-made chemicals released into the environment.
Great. Are they biodegradeable? Does refined sugar count? does salt count? What exactly counts? What quantity? Who's doing it, and on what scale? Is it environmentally relevant?
If you havent learned by now that figures like that tend to be worthless, nows a good time to start. Always demand specifics, or file the factoid under "suspect".
Voluntarily visiting an ad-sponsored website and then complaining about ads is like shooting yourself in the foot and complaining that your foot has a bullet in it.
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Sonicwall sells a lot of irrelevant crap.
Gets pretty close, but symmetric keys are generally a lot more secure than asymmetric keys.
Back in the 60s you werent getting 40mpg and 500 mile range in a car that required no warm-up time in the dead of winter, went 10000 miles between oil changes / servicing (easily), and was affordable on a waiter's salary.
In the old days you could manually (and I do mean manually) manipulate the bits of your data record if something went wrong.
Doesnt mean those were better times.
As opposed to the complete lack of policies from the Republicans? I'd also love to see what policies are "divorced from reality,"
The idea that you can help poor people by throwing money at them.
Go work with some homeless people, see what their situation is, and see what happens when you throw money at them. Better yet, next time a homeless person asks for money for food, offer to take him to a meal: You will see an astonishing entitlement mentality. Ive been cursed at for offering food because I wouldnt give cash. Ive gotten maybe 4-5 people accepting my offer, and probably a dozen walking away when they realized they werent getting cash. One almost starts to suspect that people constantly giving cash makes the problem worse.
"complete lack of policies" is incredibly broad, but generally republicans arent easily convinced that everything HAS to be regulated, or that everything is necessarily the government's business, or even that the government can always be trusted to have the best judgement.
It makes a bit of a change for all of the vitriol thats usually directed at conservatives. Its not my preference for how these discussions go, but I cant say that its exactly unprecedented.
Werent liberals hoping that the hurricane during the RNC resulted in the drowning of key leaders? With followup posts indicating that, no hyperbole, the hope was sincere? Arent there regularly posts laughing at how stupid and backwater conservatives must be?
You would be right to say that his comment is out of bounds for civil discourse, but Id say at this point liberals on slashdot have very little room to criticize.
I might note that there are probably a lot of conservatives who are against programs that they qualify for, but still take advantage of them. It would be pretty stupid to pay taxes for said program and get nothing back from it, even if you would prefer that the program simply went away.
No ActiveSync implementations Ive seen has an option to detect or warn when the thumbprint or even signing CA change, which makes it nigh impossible to detect when youve been compromised.
"Cracked" is a pretty arbitrary standard of security when in practical terms a great many attackers have the means to silently subvert your encryption and see everything youre doing. Most security fails come not through an encryption crack, but through implementation weaknesses. SSL is itself a gigantic implementation weakness where you need to trust a huge number of signing authorities.
If you want real security, the answer is per-device keys, not PKI. Its a bigger pain to manage, but then thats exactly where BES shined. Theres a reason governments werent on Microsoft's case to subvert ActiveSync: its really not that hard when youre a trusted CA.
I was talking kelvin because thats the only unit you could use when "halving the distance to zero", which we both agree is bogus. Celsius' zero is arbitrary, and halving the distance to it would be warmer, not colder.
Ditto. I think I may be the last remaining blackberry fan, and I just got a Nexus 5. I was sure I would be suffering without the blackberry keyboard (I had a torch before), but SwiftKey is amazingly good. I prefer it greatly to blackberry keyboards now-- I can type 1 or 2 handed equally well, and can very nearly do it by touch.
Plus, when you have voice input as good as android does, the keyboard just isnt that big a deal anymore.
Well, except that SSL / TLS will never be as secure as symmetric encryption with per-device keys. You're right that it got shoved to the side, but for what it did and was designed to do it was quite good. I feel like iOS / android is just now getting to where blackberry has been for ages, at least in enterprise messaging.
Not sure if anyone else feels the same, but Im at the point where I deeply loathe anyone who brings the whole climate change discussion up in anything tangentially related to weather patterns.
Im pretty sure thats the one temperature where you can safely omit the unit.
So, negative 136 celsius then. That is, after all, "twice as cold" as -40 celsius when computed via Kelvin (the only way that makes sense).
That would mean it goes from 233K (-40C) to 136K, which is -136C. I rather suspect thats not what they mean, and its why GP is spot on with his criticism.
What the heck do exchange address lists have to do with anything?
SSL certs can be forged, and SSL itself can be subverted in a lot of ways. It solves a number of problems but its not a silver bullet; the answer isnt always "throw more SSL at it".
The problem with durian isnt how it hits your palette, its how it hits your nose.
And here I thought conservatism was deeply unpopular on slashdot.
PETA takes the stance that people are animals too. If theyre going to object to the killing of flies, I would expect them to make at least a passing statement on a belief on abortion.
The reality is that if you were to poll PETA members I can almost guarantee that they would be pro-choice, and completely miss the intellectual fail there.
Im objecting to language so vague that there isnt really an argument there. Some of his post has some substance (there are countries releasing industrial chemicals into waterways), but again its so vague that its meaningless; the only point of such a post is to whip up a sort of empty hysteria. See for example with the Snowden/NSA posts that are running rampant right now: whatever substance might have been there is completely invalidated by how mindless and empty the posts are, completely obscuring the actual issue. The result is either that people now believe something thats completely false ("biggest extinction event ever"-- demonstrably false as we're becoming a lot more environmentally responsible in this country, and it was quite bad in the 19th/20th centuries), or are going to tune out a potential issue because of how hysterical the tone of the post is ("releasing chemicals"-- an actual issue in a number of countries like China).
His use of "chemicals" I find particularly bad because its in the same vein as "processed food". "Chemicals" can be good (mosquito control in malaria ridden areas), just as "processing food" is often good (pasteurization), but such comments tend to sway people against such technologies "just because it sounds scary". Starting with "I read that..." just indicates that he was too lazy to actually fact check his one source, and so isnt willing to attach his own name to the statement.
Dont forget folks looking for any excuse to bring up the NSA.
If you know of a better word than chemical to use,
Yes, you refer to specific things rather than waving your hands and saying "...and all of the bad stuff we're doing". Could you have been any MORE vague than you are?
I've previously read that there over 100,000 man-made chemicals released into the environment.
Great. Are they biodegradeable? Does refined sugar count? does salt count? What exactly counts? What quantity? Who's doing it, and on what scale? Is it environmentally relevant?
If you havent learned by now that figures like that tend to be worthless, nows a good time to start. Always demand specifics, or file the factoid under "suspect".
Voluntarily visiting an ad-sponsored website and then complaining about ads is like shooting yourself in the foot and complaining that your foot has a bullet in it.
They also scream bloody murder about killing flies, but dont think its important as an organization to take a stance on abortion.
Someones gonna have to explain the rationale to me, cause I dont get it.