git does include support for gpg signing of commits and tags, which I think is what the GP was talking about (though wrapping one's head around the cryptographic security of how git does it is a bit difficult).
SHA1 in git isn't really used as a cryptographic security measure
I bought into Litecoin at under $5 with some hobby money some months ago and it's hanging out at $30. I cashed out my original investment (leaving several times that in Litecoin, yay profit), bought ten Radeon cards and some cheap motherboards with the money, threw together some Debian USB sticks in an evening and am now mining on P2Pool for shits and giggles.
In a few weeks the equipment will have paid for itself, even accounting for the insane difficulty increases. Power is cheap here, so I will do pretty well for a while yet. Bonus: the rigs run hot so I'm basically making a little money heating my house.
You can laugh all you want. I'm having a blast, I've made a tidy profit, I have a bunch of new toys to play with, and if Litecoin ever does go ballistic like Bitcoin did I won't be left on the sidelines like you will. Don't really care about the likelihood of *coins taking over the world, or whatever - there is money to be made and I'm happy to make it.
It's a fun hobby. Honestly, it's play money to me and I've multiplied it several times. Not complaining. More fun than hitting the casino like some people I know, even if it's gambling all the same.
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village...
One might argue that verifying Bitcoins is less meaningful a computation than contributing to a BOINC project. That said, yes, you do get money out of the one but not the other. But lets look at what you gained. You bought goods that before you didn't have a need for, and you now have a hobby that fills some of your spare time, which is partly technology and partly, as you put it, gambling.
No thanks, I'd rather spend my spare time thinking about solving problems. All your story tells me is that fossil-fuel electricity is too cheap.
The status of German copyright laws is ridiculous. Any law firm can send out threatening letters, literally saying "pay us X Euros or we will take you to court". It's like the Mob.
Installing too many extensions is well known to cause performance and/or stability problems with Firefox.
Having too many extensions does not cause performance/stability problems. Individual, poorly written extensions do, when they leak memory.
Every time Firefox comes up as a topic on/., people say they want it simpler and smaller, and follow the newest trends young browser projects bring. It's ridiculous to expect it to not change the UI at the same time.
-- You have to hope that the random person continues to update the extension so that it works with future versions of Firefox
Firefox extensions don't need to be updated by the developer for future versions.
-- You have to depend on some random person to create the extensions you need
If that is true, then there are not enough people that have your problem, and are happy with the change Firefox devs introduced.
No, we should ban people who dare to commit typos, and have a zero-tolerance policy on it!
Every time I hear zero-tolerance policy I want to vomit. As if not for every illegal action there isn't be a valid reason that may justifies it. That's the whole point of a jurisdiction, and not to execute the law by letter but in spirit, with some humanity.
Those comments are distracting. Just because others do it, does not make it any better.
The answer to spying is not reverse spying (ala "give me my secret information back") but to exert pressure. Spying is a sign of mistrust and means communication is poor.
Actually it's not an authorization dialog, but a "click-to-play" on the embed objects. You can get the same functionality already by setting plugins.click_to_play to true in about:config. That is just going to be a default setting on new installs, but you can set it to false. I set it to true myself, because it is useful to not have arbitrary Flash code to just start running (and playing).
The gamble Mozilla makes is that because of the extra step, companies will move to putting content into HTML5 rather than external plugins, because it makes their website more clunky. They also do replace external PDF viewer plugins with a HTML5/JS based one, so it is a coherent strategy towards open technologies. There are plenty of benefits if it works out, security is one of them. And it's a phased, non-invasive method, which can be disabled.
LyX for reports and paper writing, with some raw LaTeX sprinkled in. I have a short python script that can merge multiple documents so I don't have extremely long bulks of content. And there is the python environment for LaTeX, which is awesome with sympy and matplotlib. LibreOffice for quick documents perhaps with images for a quick WYSIWYG. There is no reason to do everything in text, for some (many?) things the feedback loop is just way too long. reStructuredText for code documentation, anything that should be readable from command line, but also can be used to make pretty html websites. Sphinx helps. rst exports into plenty of formats via docutils (just expand for rst2* commands). Converters to epub for stuff I want to read on my ebook reader (from Calibre). For the text formats my usual editor is gedit. Simple and plain.
It doesn't matter much if you prefer Markdown or rst, that's like arguing which wiki has the best syntax. There are plenty of utilities that can cross-convert and export (pandoc is one of them).
Web applications that have write access to directories they then load code from have always seemed a bit iffy to me
You misspelled "batshit-insane".
By itself, that's not batshit-insane. Any web app that supports a user-friendly installation of plugins has to do that (Wordpress, Joomla!,... ). If it only fetches plugins from its own, managed repository, it can be secure.
One of the aspect of this test, as far as I understood, is reading comprehension. If that fails, everything else fails, because any other training -- programming included -- requires reading. There is a surprisingly high share of adults who can not comprehend a text they read (a skill, ironically, often practized in math classes).
Sounds to me like those people think the essentials of education can be quantized. Sure some measurements are important, but that's not all there is to learning. And those students probably will start valuing themselves by their ranking, and only have those numbers in their heads. I can see how HR departmants will be fans. Another method, like the IQ statistic, to assign numbers to people. What a dumb idea to get yourself ranked.
Previous status:
- Matt gets small donations for his pet project, uses Facebook happily, has a Facebook fan page with 200,000 followers Current status:
- Matt is under threats he can not financially challenge (see reasoning in article), so he has to make a choice. Facebook demands removal of a few (key) features. Option A:
- Fight legally. Costs: Facebook can ban Matt, keep his fan page removed, and destroy his life. Option B:
- Comply. Matt gets his fan page back, and can continue as before, except that some (important) features will be missing (again, see blog post). Option C (what you are suggesting):
- Open Source it. Matt won't get any donations anymore, Facebook can still block him, keep his fan page removed. Matt also mentioned that Facebook has added FBPurity and other projects to a list of URLs that can not be shared on Facebook -- so they could do that too with a open source project.
So what you are suggesting is even worse than what he is considering. He mentions contacting the EFF, but for the smartest move is probably to comply for now.
The reason why they are doing this, is the big push by major industries for more DRM.
I think you are mixing up cause and effect. Major industries would like to continue using desktop apps or even "Trusted Computing". But the web is a platform, so they try to force their DRM onto it.
Uhm, no? Apparently you don't know anything about copyright. The person on the picture has rights to their picture. That's why you can't go around taking pictures of strangers and put them on the internet.
Secondarily, there is privacy. Meaning you can't take a surveillance cam video of customers and put it online. Or in the context of this story, you share a intimate photo with someone close. But reposting outside that context is a violation of your privacy.
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git does include support for gpg signing of commits and tags, which I think is what the GP was talking about (though wrapping one's head around the cryptographic security of how git does it is a bit difficult).
SHA1 in git isn't really used as a cryptographic security measure
All you sign is the commit, i.e. a SHA1 hash.
I bought into Litecoin at under $5 with some hobby money some months ago and it's hanging out at $30. I cashed out my original investment (leaving several times that in Litecoin, yay profit), bought ten Radeon cards and some cheap motherboards with the money, threw together some Debian USB sticks in an evening and am now mining on P2Pool for shits and giggles.
In a few weeks the equipment will have paid for itself, even accounting for the insane difficulty increases. Power is cheap here, so I will do pretty well for a while yet. Bonus: the rigs run hot so I'm basically making a little money heating my house.
You can laugh all you want. I'm having a blast, I've made a tidy profit, I have a bunch of new toys to play with, and if Litecoin ever does go ballistic like Bitcoin did I won't be left on the sidelines like you will. Don't really care about the likelihood of *coins taking over the world, or whatever - there is money to be made and I'm happy to make it.
It's a fun hobby. Honestly, it's play money to me and I've multiplied it several times. Not complaining. More fun than hitting the casino like some people I know, even if it's gambling all the same.
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/09/08/the-fisherman-and-the-businessman/
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village...
One might argue that verifying Bitcoins is less meaningful a computation than contributing to a BOINC project. That said, yes, you do get money out of the one but not the other. But lets look at what you gained. You bought goods that before you didn't have a need for, and you now have a hobby that fills some of your spare time, which is partly technology and partly, as you put it, gambling.
No thanks, I'd rather spend my spare time thinking about solving problems. All your story tells me is that fossil-fuel electricity is too cheap.
The status of German copyright laws is ridiculous. Any law firm can send out threatening letters, literally saying "pay us X Euros or we will take you to court". It's like the Mob.
Why not separate every process from each other one ... it's called SELinux and much finer grained than making partitions
they could use BOINC too -- its the largest supercomputer on earth :)
Also, the repository package managers are all shit on Windows. (Yes, there are some.)
ISON, not ISDN -- Inter Stellar Object Notation .
Actually, it's International Scientific Optical Network, and the comets name is C/2012 S1 or Comet Nevski–Novichonok.
Installing too many extensions is well known to cause performance and/or stability problems with Firefox.
Having too many extensions does not cause performance/stability problems. Individual, poorly written extensions do, when they leak memory.
Every time Firefox comes up as a topic on /., people say they want it simpler and smaller, and follow the newest trends young browser projects bring. It's ridiculous to expect it to not change the UI at the same time.
-- You have to hope that the random person continues to update the extension so that it works with future versions of Firefox
Firefox extensions don't need to be updated by the developer for future versions.
-- You have to depend on some random person to create the extensions you need
If that is true, then there are not enough people that have your problem, and are happy with the change Firefox devs introduced.
No, we should ban people who dare to commit typos, and have a zero-tolerance policy on it!
Every time I hear zero-tolerance policy I want to vomit. As if not for every illegal action there isn't be a valid reason that may justifies it. That's the whole point of a jurisdiction, and not to execute the law by letter but in spirit, with some humanity.
Finally a real cloud drive!
One day, our sun will go up in flame, and not even a trace of our existence will be left behind.
There will be traces, and their names are Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons.
in the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6738
Those comments are distracting. Just because others do it, does not make it any better.
The answer to spying is not reverse spying (ala "give me my secret information back") but to exert pressure. Spying is a sign of mistrust and means communication is poor.
Actually it's not an authorization dialog, but a "click-to-play" on the embed objects. You can get the same functionality already by setting plugins.click_to_play to true in about:config. That is just going to be a default setting on new installs, but you can set it to false. I set it to true myself, because it is useful to not have arbitrary Flash code to just start running (and playing).
The gamble Mozilla makes is that because of the extra step, companies will move to putting content into HTML5 rather than external plugins, because it makes their website more clunky. They also do replace external PDF viewer plugins with a HTML5/JS based one, so it is a coherent strategy towards open technologies. There are plenty of benefits if it works out, security is one of them. And it's a phased, non-invasive method, which can be disabled.
LyX for reports and paper writing, with some raw LaTeX sprinkled in. I have a short python script that can merge multiple documents so I don't have extremely long bulks of content. And there is the python environment for LaTeX, which is awesome with sympy and matplotlib.
LibreOffice for quick documents perhaps with images for a quick WYSIWYG. There is no reason to do everything in text, for some (many?) things the feedback loop is just way too long.
reStructuredText for code documentation, anything that should be readable from command line, but also can be used to make pretty html websites. Sphinx helps. rst exports into plenty of formats via docutils (just expand for rst2* commands).
Converters to epub for stuff I want to read on my ebook reader (from Calibre).
For the text formats my usual editor is gedit. Simple and plain.
It doesn't matter much if you prefer Markdown or rst, that's like arguing which wiki has the best syntax. There are plenty of utilities that can cross-convert and export (pandoc is one of them).
You misspelled "batshit-insane".
By itself, that's not batshit-insane. Any web app that supports a user-friendly installation of plugins has to do that (Wordpress, Joomla!, ... ). If it only fetches plugins from its own, managed repository, it can be secure.
But please, suggest a user-friendly alternative.
LavaRnd works based on a CCD in a dark can producing noise, not a lava lamp.
One of the aspect of this test, as far as I understood, is reading comprehension. If that fails, everything else fails, because any other training -- programming included -- requires reading.
There is a surprisingly high share of adults who can not comprehend a text they read (a skill, ironically, often practized in math classes).
Can you request an index of FOIAable documents?
Sounds to me like those people think the essentials of education can be quantized. Sure some measurements are important, but that's not all there is to learning. And those students probably will start valuing themselves by their ranking, and only have those numbers in their heads.
I can see how HR departmants will be fans. Another method, like the IQ statistic, to assign numbers to people. What a dumb idea to get yourself ranked.
If you go to http://www.usa.gov/shutdown.shtml you will see these blatant violations of international law are continuing as "Essential Services".
Previous status:
- Matt gets small donations for his pet project, uses Facebook happily, has a Facebook fan page with 200,000 followers
Current status:
- Matt is under threats he can not financially challenge (see reasoning in article), so he has to make a choice. Facebook demands removal of a few (key) features.
Option A:
- Fight legally. Costs: Facebook can ban Matt, keep his fan page removed, and destroy his life.
Option B:
- Comply. Matt gets his fan page back, and can continue as before, except that some (important) features will be missing (again, see blog post).
Option C (what you are suggesting):
- Open Source it. Matt won't get any donations anymore, Facebook can still block him, keep his fan page removed. Matt also mentioned that Facebook has added FBPurity and other projects to a list of URLs that can not be shared on Facebook -- so they could do that too with a open source project.
So what you are suggesting is even worse than what he is considering. He mentions contacting the EFF, but for the smartest move is probably to comply for now.
if you treat your primary users as second-class citizens, they'll all jump ship.
There are more phone users than desktop users. So maybe it's worth declaring them primary.
The reason why they are doing this, is the big push by major industries for more DRM.
I think you are mixing up cause and effect. Major industries would like to continue using desktop apps or even "Trusted Computing". But the web is a platform, so they try to force their DRM onto it.
Uhm, no? Apparently you don't know anything about copyright.
The person on the picture has rights to their picture. That's why you can't go around taking pictures of strangers and put them on the internet.
Secondarily, there is privacy. Meaning you can't take a surveillance cam video of customers and put it online. Or in the context of this story, you share a intimate photo with someone close. But reposting outside that context is a violation of your privacy.