Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu had switched to libav by default, then switched back to ffmpeg.
FFmpeg supporters wanted to keep development velocity in favour of more features, while Libav supporters wanted to improve the state of the code, take the time to design better APIs.[9][10]
The maintainer of the FFmpeg packages for Debian[11] and Ubuntu,[12] being one of the group of developers who forked FFmpeg, switched the packages to this fork in 2011. Hence, most software on these systems that depended on FFmpeg automatically switched to Libav. In July 8, 2015, Debian announced it would return to FFmpeg[13] for various, technical reasons.[14] Several arguments justified this step. FFmpeg first had a better record of responding to vulnerabilities than libav . Secondly, Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk, a security-oriented developer at Google, argued that all issues he found were fixed in a timely manner, and the situation was entirely different with libav still affected by a bunch of bugs. Finally, the feature gap between FFmpeg and libav, with FFmpeg supporting a far wider variety of codecs and containers than libav does.
Even if it has been expressed several time to merge back the two projects, this has still not happened yet. With Debian and Ubuntu stopping to use that library, the future of libav might be compromised and its development may be not sustainable any more without Debian.[15]
GP translation is bad. The German text says someone in the finance department was used (presumably by someone outside). Therefore fraud, scam or perhaps social engineering.
No, because at that point he becomes a telecom provider, and has to follow rules and regulations of telecom companies, which include net neutrality, i.e. not preferring your & your buddies' companies.
Port scans are not attacks though, they are a survey tool to get information about the device. It is a bit strange that the scans are persistent -- what can repeated port scans tell you?
Anyways, another option is to set up a honeypot, expose some ports and see what the source does.
Intuition is good for math, but bad for statistics. Just search for how bad even statisticians are at answering common problems like the Monty Hall problem. We just suck at it, primarily because we can not imagine combinatorics well.
This is the first leak I have seen where the password hint questions are leaked too. Will be interesting to see how users in the real world link passwords and password hints, and if algorithms can be developed to uncover 99% of all passwords/answers from password hints -- I presume many password hints contain the answer or substantial parts of it (e.g. "pass + 123" = "pass123").
You would have to not only change the random agent though (which may hide the fact you are running Linux or 64bi-vs-32bit). The plugin string is also pretty damning -- which version of Flash you have (and additional plugins, etc). For any GNOME user, the gnome Firefox plugin is a give-away. It would be useful if there was a extension that shows plugins to a site only on request (the gnome plugin is only important for extensions.gnome.org), Flash may be only important for a few websites of your choosing. That does not exist at the moment.
Not only that, they provide a concentrated source of necessary nutrition, some of which is really hard to find in just plants...
If I feed an animal 2000 corns/kg over its lifetime, then consume the animals flesh and gain the energy content equivalent of 100 corns/kg, then each kg is indeed concentrated. But it is also an extremely lossy way of using that corn (or its originating land area).
Yes, but per-capita the US is the biggest emitter of green house gases (with Australia, and some smaller countries), therefore it is important that in the US legislation against climate change proceeds.
Truecrypt, LUKS,... Essentially a symmetric key is encrypted with all asymmetric keys. You decrypt the symmetric key, and then use it to access the data.
An optimist could also argue that we have some rough idea how life began, at least on Earth. We do have some pieces of evidence of how it went from A to B.
Stars predominately form He (which is chemically inert), C, N, O (see CNO-cycle), a bit of Fe as well as a little bit of heavier elements from supernovae. Therefore life anywhere will most likely be formed of a combination these elements just because of their abundance.
Most variables have become known to some degree in the last few years, namely the number of planets per star, the size distribution of planets, fraction of planets in the habitable zone, etc. see http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.0120... (it does not use the Drake equation).
The unknown in the Drake equation is the fraction of habitable planets in which life (or a intelligent civilisation) arises, which probably remains speculation until either >3 civilations have been found or civilations have been ruled out for a few hundred exoplanets.
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The 14th century started in 1301, so it is not off-by-one.
Apparently you do, since that is what Chrome and Firefox do (Sqlite 3).
Just don't subscribe to anything -- every page requires you to grant it permission.
"a website could notify you when something important happened, even if you [don’t] have the site open"
Cool!
Is RSS dead now, like web onthologies?
...disregard it if it continues to exhibit faulty timing.
Sure, you just have to update the configuration of all GPS devices on earth... it is more realistic to turn it off.
Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu had switched to libav by default, then switched back to ffmpeg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
IIRC Ubuntu does not come with vim, but nano as a text editor for terminals (gedit for graphical). Which is fine.
GP translation is bad. The German text says someone in the finance department was used (presumably by someone outside). Therefore fraud, scam or perhaps social engineering.
No, because at that point he becomes a telecom provider, and has to follow rules and regulations of telecom companies, which include net neutrality, i.e. not preferring your & your buddies' companies.
Just do something that is company-independent. For example provide free internet for everyone at 56k speed. Or provide web-only (not internet).
But preference of one companies' service (Wikipedia, I am also looking at you) is destroying equal opportunity for the next Google/Wikipedia/Facebook.
Port scans are not attacks though, they are a survey tool to get information about the device.
It is a bit strange that the scans are persistent -- what can repeated port scans tell you?
Anyways, another option is to set up a honeypot, expose some ports and see what the source does.
Intuition is good for math, but bad for statistics. Just search for how bad even statisticians are at answering common problems like the Monty Hall problem. We just suck at it, primarily because we can not imagine combinatorics well.
This is the first leak I have seen where the password hint questions are leaked too. Will be interesting to see how users in the real world link passwords and password hints, and if algorithms can be developed to uncover 99% of all passwords/answers from password hints -- I presume many password hints contain the answer or substantial parts of it (e.g. "pass + 123" = "pass123").
ReactOS is wine-based.
ies4linux worked fine for me. Can't really blame them that they keep apps that do not work completely.
You do not want a unique hash, you want to have the same hash as everyone else. So every field value has to be common to avoid fingerprinting.
2 interesting things about panopticlick: first, they report on browser fingerprinting, which is notoriously hard to defeat.
Would it help to add some randomisation into the properties? Quick googling suggests it might be a solution, and there are some plugins: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... https://www.dephormation.org.u... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
You would have to not only change the random agent though (which may hide the fact you are running Linux or 64bi-vs-32bit). The plugin string is also pretty damning -- which version of Flash you have (and additional plugins, etc). For any GNOME user, the gnome Firefox plugin is a give-away.
It would be useful if there was a extension that shows plugins to a site only on request (the gnome plugin is only important for extensions.gnome.org), Flash may be only important for a few websites of your choosing. That does not exist at the moment.
Not only that, they provide a concentrated source of necessary nutrition, some of which is really hard to find in just plants...
If I feed an animal 2000 corns/kg over its lifetime, then consume the animals flesh and gain the energy content equivalent of 100 corns/kg, then each kg is indeed concentrated. But it is also an extremely lossy way of using that corn (or its originating land area).
Yes, but per-capita the US is the biggest emitter of green house gases (with Australia, and some smaller countries), therefore it is important that in the US legislation against climate change proceeds.
Truecrypt, LUKS, ...
Essentially a symmetric key is encrypted with all asymmetric keys. You decrypt the symmetric key, and then use it to access the data.
That's what I said.
An optimist could also argue that we have some rough idea how life began, at least on Earth. We do have some pieces of evidence of how it went from A to B.
Stars predominately form He (which is chemically inert), C, N, O (see CNO-cycle), a bit of Fe as well as a little bit of heavier elements from supernovae. Therefore life anywhere will most likely be formed of a combination these elements just because of their abundance.
Most variables have become known to some degree in the last few years, namely the number of planets per star, the size distribution of planets, fraction of planets in the habitable zone, etc. see http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.0120... (it does not use the Drake equation).
The unknown in the Drake equation is the fraction of habitable planets in which life (or a intelligent civilisation) arises, which probably remains speculation until either >3 civilations have been found or civilations have been ruled out for a few hundred exoplanets.
that is MarsOne's job!
If you don't like the definition of planets because it is too fuzzy --- wait until you learn the distinction between stars and planets :)