Bans will not only not prevent them being developed, probably even by a technologically advanced State that is a signatory to the treaty, but it will also not prevent them being used by rogue or puppet states who don't care about bans, or who use them at the behest of a signatory state that is just using them to do their dirty work.
Any state today is dependent on trade from the international community. If the US and the EU (or any other large fraction of the international community) decide not to trade with a country, and not grant bank transfers to that country, that has a huge effect on their economy. The countries able to withstand this are countable on one hand. Of course, trade sanctions are not a plan, but the lack of a plan.
It is always better though to help the particular country address their actual problems rather than supporting their approach. For example, perceived threats can be thwarted by establishing a neutral buffer zone controlled by a third party.
So no, contrary to the common opinion on Slashdot, I think collectively agreeing to not use a certain, dangerous technology can be useful, and is also enforceable.
I'm all for LGBT rights and such, but really to criticize a game just cuz it don't include your sexual orientation..? I dunno about that. What's next? Is the LGBT community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?
Now read that with s/LGBT/animals/.
Now read that with s/LGBT/power tools/.
I completely support the right of gays to marry (to the extent that I support any marriage, an institution I wholly reject, as does my long-term partner). But this amounts to a purely manufactured controversy. The game contains what it contains; don't like it? Don't play it. Send a message with your wallet, rather than pissing and moaning about a game you didn't create not behaving like you want it to.
Ehm, there are Disney movies about animals and power tools, you know?
And they were not made because someone cried "Is the power tools community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?" Mostly because they can not speak. Except in Disney movies. Where we empathize with them. Like with humans irregardless of race, sexual orientation and use of the word irregardless...
You think they didn't have sugar, fatty foods and exercising decades ago?
They did, but now it is in every thing you eat. Because we love the taste of fat and sugar.
Instead of a special occasion of the day when you eat sugar, it is eaten routinely. That is what is new.
For instance, replacing a piece of bread with a thin layer of bread and jam in the morning with a muffin (so essentially eating cake for breakfast). Drinks also have vast amounts of sugar in them. A typical Starbucks coffee contains tons of fat and sugar to make it tastier, whereas black coffee does not.
Animals are getting fatter too though. link, linkpaper
They were public with the URLs not published in an index anywhere, so you had to know the URL to access them. Dropbox and Box simply forgot that those URLs would appear in HTTP Referer headers, exposing them in the logs of any site linked to from within those "private" documents. Security by obscurity... isn't.
No, you buy AdSense words, and it delivers matching URLs entered into Google -- then you grab the data there. Anyone can set up a data-collection like that.
There is no conceptual difference between entering a password and a secret URL. It is not security by obscurity, it is security by "something you know". Once someone else knows, it's not secure anymore.
The difference to passwords entered into other sites or Google is that it may not be immediately clear on what site to use the password, and with which user name.
I'd prefer we just leave beef alone, let the price increase as demand increases, and place artificial limits on production. Seems like everyone would be better off, and the environment would be as well.
Slashing subsidies for meat production would be a start.
We've already passed "Peak Child" and the human race is in decline.
Non sequitur. People are not dying fast enough. Life expectancy increases everywhere.
So, the premise that we need to ramp up food production to cope with a growing population is a false one.
Non sequitur. Even if the population decreases, demand for meat is currently soaring, especially in the so-called emerging markets. This means drastically more land area and more water is needed than for growing traditional, primarily vegetarian diets.
If there's not enough meat for everyone in the short term, we feed the young and able bodied first, then the parents of the young and able bodied, then whoever is left, in that order.
More like, people with money will get the meat by paying for the land and water in other countries, while the people there starve. All this is already happening.
If only they had written OpenSSL in Java instead of C! I'm wondering how many friends I can get on Slashdot with that statement.
..., I think that we need to do three things:
1) Pay money for security audits of critical security infrastructure like OpenSSL
2) Write lots of unit and integration tests for these libraries
3) Start writing alternatives in safer languages
Given how difficult it is to write safe C, I don't see any other options....
Never had anyone get hit by one. Now they're banned. Sad.
Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
"let" statements -- really? And the selling feature is list comprehension? Looks like they are trying to go into Haskells direction. Testimonials say it's better than C# for data analysis? Well, that train has left the station, with R, Python (and Julia) being available. This can not be won by languages, but with high-quality statistics / visualisation / machine learning libraries.
Nothing significant can happen unless everyone does.
Not true. If 20% do something, it will be significant. Everyone blame everyone else, and don't do anything? No thank you. Try at least.
And here's the thing - most countries (especially poorer countries) don't give the tiniest bit of a fuck.
Not true. Countries are affected differently, and some poor countries are highly concerned.
If everyone in America did what I'm saying it would make an impact, but A) That will never happen and B) It would just delay the inevitable, because of china etc.
So scenario A It's true and we're all fucked and can't do anything about it. Thus we're arguing over..nothing.
Scenario B It's not true and we're arguing over..nothing.
It doesn't paint the greatest picture of humanity but I'm fairly certain it's an accurate one.
You are falsely blaming others. Even if not everyone contributes, change can be achieved, and it should be tried. Non-contributing countries could even be fined for not contributing to the common rescue attempt.
China has about the same emissions as the US. And guess why China has so much emissions? Because of the outsourced productions (electronics, clothing, toys). The US could easily implement requirements that their outsourced products have to adhere to emission limits!
I use it on two big monitors, and it works fine. It's just windows and a status bar, and two bars which get out of your way. I like it. It's not as clunky as KDE/XFCE, and more polished.
You can create a file system on a file on your disk (similar to a swap file). Contrary to popular believe this is not slower than a partition, because if the file is mostly continuous, it can be mapped to disk directly by the kernel. Here I create a file system using a sparse file: $ truncate +20G mylocal.fs $ mkfs.btrfs mylocal.fs $ mkdir -p mylocal; sudo mount mylocal.fs mylocal/
You can use such file systems, for example, to bundle directories with many files, which are deleted/created many times. This causes fragmentation in the file system. Contrary to another popular believe, yes, this is a problem on Linux file systems, and it slows down reads. None of the file system currently has a defragger implemented. Btrfs is actually developing one, but I think it is not in the release yet. The recommended solution is rewriting files (shake).
Sub file system containers can be easily resized, and with sparse files only use up the space filled with data. I use them for the linux kernel build directory (you shouldn't build in/usr/src), for portage (many files, changing frequently), and scientific data directories, to limit the fragmentation, and keep speed high. I use reiserfs for this -- find a managing script here: https://github.com/JohannesBuc...
If it were GPL, every recipient would be required to pass his organs on upon his death. And the organ would perpetually be passed on, because organs want to be free.
Actually not just the organ he received, but all his organs, because the other components require the one received. Although I guess you can argue a generic API.
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Bans will not only not prevent them being developed, probably even by a technologically advanced State that is a signatory to the treaty, but it will also not prevent them being used by rogue or puppet states who don't care about bans, or who use them at the behest of a signatory state that is just using them to do their dirty work.
Any state today is dependent on trade from the international community. If the US and the EU (or any other large fraction of the international community) decide not to trade with a country, and not grant bank transfers to that country, that has a huge effect on their economy. The countries able to withstand this are countable on one hand. Of course, trade sanctions are not a plan, but the lack of a plan.
It is always better though to help the particular country address their actual problems rather than supporting their approach. For example, perceived threats can be thwarted by establishing a neutral buffer zone controlled by a third party.
So no, contrary to the common opinion on Slashdot, I think collectively agreeing to not use a certain, dangerous technology can be useful, and is also enforceable.
I'm all for LGBT rights and such, but really to criticize a game just cuz it don't include your sexual orientation..? I dunno about that. What's next? Is the LGBT community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?
Now read that with s/LGBT/animals/.
Now read that with s/LGBT/power tools/.
I completely support the right of gays to marry (to the extent that I support any marriage, an institution I wholly reject, as does my long-term partner). But this amounts to a purely manufactured controversy. The game contains what it contains; don't like it? Don't play it. Send a message with your wallet, rather than pissing and moaning about a game you didn't create not behaving like you want it to.
Ehm, there are Disney movies about animals and power tools, you know?
And they were not made because someone cried "Is the power tools community going to demand air time in Disney cartoons next?" Mostly because they can not speak. Except in Disney movies. Where we empathize with them. Like with humans irregardless of race, sexual orientation and use of the word irregardless ...
You think they didn't have sugar, fatty foods and exercising decades ago?
They did, but now it is in every thing you eat. Because we love the taste of fat and sugar.
Instead of a special occasion of the day when you eat sugar, it is eaten routinely. That is what is new.
For instance, replacing a piece of bread with a thin layer of bread and jam in the morning with a muffin (so essentially eating cake for breakfast).
Drinks also have vast amounts of sugar in them. A typical Starbucks coffee contains tons of fat and sugar to make it tastier, whereas black coffee does not.
Animals are getting fatter too though. link, link paper
Keep reading to the end ...
Should be with the users consent though, that a program starts sending data. For games, this consent probably comes with accepting the EULA.
They were public with the URLs not published in an index anywhere, so you had to know the URL to access them. Dropbox and Box simply forgot that those URLs would appear in HTTP Referer headers, exposing them in the logs of any site linked to from within those "private" documents. Security by obscurity... isn't.
No, you buy AdSense words, and it delivers matching URLs entered into Google -- then you grab the data there. Anyone can set up a data-collection like that.
There is no conceptual difference between entering a password and a secret URL. It is not security by obscurity, it is security by "something you know". Once someone else knows, it's not secure anymore.
The difference to passwords entered into other sites or Google is that it may not be immediately clear on what site to use the password, and with which user name.
I'd prefer we just leave beef alone, let the price increase as demand increases, and place artificial limits on production. Seems like everyone would be better off, and the environment would be as well.
Slashing subsidies for meat production would be a start.
We've already passed "Peak Child" and the human race is in decline.
Non sequitur. People are not dying fast enough. Life expectancy increases everywhere.
So, the premise that we need to ramp up food production to cope with a growing population is a false one.
Non sequitur. Even if the population decreases, demand for meat is currently soaring, especially in the so-called emerging markets. This means drastically more land area and more water is needed than for growing traditional, primarily vegetarian diets.
If there's not enough meat for everyone in the short term, we feed the young and able bodied first, then the parents of the young and able bodied, then whoever is left, in that order.
More like, people with money will get the meat by paying for the land and water in other countries, while the people there starve. All this is already happening.
Also the concept of memes used here is highly dubious even in the context used here, and may not be useful at all.
It's a MITM attack. Heartbleed is not MITM.
Obviously since OpenBSD is running their fork of OpenSSL 0.9.8 which essentially doesn't have this exploit, this is just a shameless plug.
OpenBSD 5.3 - 5.5 was affected: see their Security Advisories
Still doesn't answer the question if the Akamai code was vulnerable to Heartbleed in the first place.
Everything is vulnerable to Heartbleed.
No, what it means is that the majority of accounts are bots, created to increase follower-numbers.
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One person said something mean in a comment thread. Shocking! This is not the climate of the family-friendly internet I grew up with!
Seriously, a death threat is only relevant if it was specific and realistic threat.
If only they had written OpenSSL in Java instead of C! I'm wondering how many friends I can get on Slashdot with that statement.
(from http://blog.existentialize.com..., someone else linked this below).
Never had anyone get hit by one. Now they're banned. Sad.
http://mentalfloss.com/article...
And one was killed.
Just use plastic ones!
"let" statements -- really?
And the selling feature is list comprehension? Looks like they are trying to go into Haskells direction.
Testimonials say it's better than C# for data analysis?
Well, that train has left the station, with R, Python (and Julia) being available. This can not be won by languages, but with high-quality statistics / visualisation / machine learning libraries.
License is Apache v2 by the way.
I O U
Nothing significant can happen unless everyone does.
Not true. If 20% do something, it will be significant.
Everyone blame everyone else, and don't do anything? No thank you. Try at least.
And here's the thing - most countries (especially poorer countries) don't give the tiniest bit of a fuck.
Not true. Countries are affected differently, and some poor countries are highly concerned.
If everyone in America did what I'm saying it would make an impact, but A) That will never happen and B) It would just delay the inevitable, because of china etc.
So scenario A It's true and we're all fucked and can't do anything about it. Thus we're arguing over..nothing.
Scenario B It's not true and we're arguing over..nothing.
It doesn't paint the greatest picture of humanity but I'm fairly certain it's an accurate one.
You are falsely blaming others. Even if not everyone contributes, change can be achieved, and it should be tried. Non-contributing countries could even be fined for not contributing to the common rescue attempt.
China has about the same emissions as the US. And guess why China has so much emissions? Because of the outsourced productions (electronics, clothing, toys). The US could easily implement requirements that their outsourced products have to adhere to emission limits!
I use it on two big monitors, and it works fine. It's just windows and a status bar, and two bars which get out of your way. I like it. It's not as clunky as KDE/XFCE, and more polished.
There is this thing that automatically generates music for a movie, based on what is shown in the movie: http://juke-bot.com/
You can create a file system on a file on your disk (similar to a swap file).
Contrary to popular believe this is not slower than a partition, because if the file is mostly continuous, it can be mapped to disk directly by the kernel. Here I create a file system using a sparse file:
$ truncate +20G mylocal.fs
$ mkfs.btrfs mylocal.fs
$ mkdir -p mylocal; sudo mount mylocal.fs mylocal/
You can use such file systems, for example, to bundle directories with many files, which are deleted/created many times. This causes fragmentation in the file system. Contrary to another popular believe, yes, this is a problem on Linux file systems, and it slows down reads. None of the file system currently has a defragger implemented. Btrfs is actually developing one, but I think it is not in the release yet. The recommended solution is rewriting files (shake).
Sub file system containers can be easily resized, and with sparse files only use up the space filled with data. I use them for the linux kernel build directory (you shouldn't build in /usr/src), for portage (many files, changing frequently), and scientific data directories, to limit the fragmentation, and keep speed high. I use reiserfs for this -- find a managing script here: https://github.com/JohannesBuc...
Yes, the example is called Weston.
If it were GPL, every recipient would be required to pass his organs on upon his death. And the organ would perpetually be passed on, because organs want to be free.
Actually not just the organ he received, but all his organs, because the other components require the one received. Although I guess you can argue a generic API.