The really sad thing is that Slashdot contains many fans of his, most if not all of whom have read the Hitchhiker series, that will nonetheless still discuss Democrat vs. Republican with a straight face. They still argue about which Career Politician would be best, or suggest that John McAfee is too crazy to be President, blah blah blah.
People: throw your Hitchhiker's Guide away. You don't deserve to own it.
I've pointed out many times in posts on slashdots that all the "republicans are crazy" and "democrats are crazy" posters are simply voting for a lizard in case the wrong lizard gets in. Asking democrat supporters or republican supporters to use their vote *for* a politician and not *against* a party is crazy talk, apparently - it's a wasted vote, after all!
To the rest of us on the outside, those two parties act the same.
Watch this year's DEFCON talk on Bitcoin hacking to see why correcthorsebatterystaple actually isn't a good password idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Many attack routines now simply combine many words together, like this, to brute force, so you're not actually looking at entropy based on character length - your entropy is based on number of words, which is far less. In you "maddisoncompromisedmarriagelost" example, you only have an entropy of 4 - which is not, I think you'll agree, a large number.
If you're this new to encryption you shouldn't try to sound authoritative - getting entropy so wrong on such a low level means you should perhaps read more before attempting to criticise something.
I wanted to be a history major when I was a kid. I loved the American Revolution, the founding of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. These days I take a keen interest in the history of computers.
You haven't answered the question - what would you say to someone who told you that they have a "remembering dates" degree?
Note that he didn't say money is bad, he said there are more reasons to do things than money. He specifically said about money: "
I don't object to making money in an ethical way."
I'm (mostly) on the side of RMS, but this is a lawyer-written weasel-my-way-out sentence if I ever saw one... After all, who decides the line separating ethical from non-ethical?
[lawyer mode]"I don't object to making money in an ethical way"
[few sentences later] "In my religion, stoning gays is perfectly acceptable"
[few weeks later] "Step up to my funland - pay me $10 a throw to stone a gay person to death."
That's not a democracy. The structure of the Maker Movement is better than a democracy, since there is more freedom. The editor who wrote that stupid title seems to think democracy means perfect or good. I think the word you're looking for is egalitarian.
It's even better than egalitarian it's meritocratic.
Careful there - meritocracy is deemed exclusionary to that 51% minority.
become??? I dont ever recall a time when it was good
Then you have a poor memory. There was a time when MBR and TSR viruses for MS-DOS could be removed either by a format or by using McAfee. Norton came soon after, IIRC. But for a while McAfee reigned king in the AV space.
"The only way a corporation could or would raise prices in order to cover the tax bill is if they could collude with everyone else in their industry to raise prices by exactly that amount. That's a federal crime."
Think for a moment about the consequences of what you say if that were true. Like... uh... anything would be sold for Zero... but, you see, thinks are not usually sold by nil, so something must be happening there, something like, let's see... like producers selling goods for a price that covers *all* their costs (you know, raw materials, tooling, wages *and* taxes) plus, at least, what Adam Smith called an ordinary rate of profit.
Producers don't do that - they don't sell for cost + markup, they sell for what the market will bear.
It's not just a dodge to make citizens feel like corporations are paying their fair share, as it is in the US.
Corporate taxes in general get rolled into the purchase price of the item. You and I are de facto paying the taxes, regardless of what the legalities are, and the same is true for any other taxes or fees that are assessed prior to the sale of the finished item to the ultimate customer.
No. The selling price of an item is not "cost + %markup", it is "what can the market bear". If the market can bear paying $100 for a widget that cost you $10 to produce, why the hell would you sell it for $15?
This whole "cost + %markup" myth has to go. Companies don't charge you based on what an items costs to produce, they charge based on what you are prepared to pay. Raising a copmpany's taxes may not necessarily mean an increased selling price of goods.
Ufnfortunatly most of the programing tools I use for embedded systems are windows only.
Wait wat?
Which embedded systems do you target? I've been doing embedded systems for 10+ years now, and the only tool I need Windows for is Excel - to fill in the company travel expenses.
Synopsys, Mentor, Xilinx, Altera, TI, ARM - they all run on Linux. Plus all the compilers for the microcontrollers tend to be gcc based anyways. And the small startup companies' embedded system IDEs seem to invariably be built on Eclipse.
Have I just been lucky? Or do we define 'embedded' diferently?
You have been lucky. You've been lucky not to have coded for that software-crippled, anti-OSS platform known as PIC micro. The last I used it (MPLAB 5.5?) I had to hunt around for a windows machine just to run the damn IDE, which wouldn't let you use your own editor and you were forced to use the crappy less-features-than-notepad editor. It generated the hex files in ram, not on disk, so that the IDE alone (which generated the hex files) could program the dev board (pickit?).
I've worked on only one project using PICs. I will never work with them again. Luckily, I never have to as they are increasingly sidelined by superior dev environments:-)
I'm not ragging on gimp because you can't do stuff on it as obviously you can its just you shouldn't fight the tool to use it. Car analog, you go from driving a nice auto luxury car to diving a hoopty, manual with a bad clutch. They're both gonna get you to your location is just you'll be frustrated as hell with the hoopty.
I feel your analogy is inaccurate: I've never used Photoshop but I have used Gimp since it came out. Now when I try to use Photoshop I cannot understand the workflow and find it very unintuitive.
IOW, you're labelling one of the options bad because you're used to the other way of doing things. The way you're used to doing things may not necessarily be the best way to do things.
So how does one go about seeking "just compensation" for a vehicle that the government impounded by placing a red light?
Nothings been impounded. You are free to get off your bike and carry it away. Or carry it across the pedestrian crossing. Or just wait near the kerb until a vehicle triggers the traffic light.
You have lots of options - it's hyperbole to suggest that by obeying a red traffic light, your vehicle is destined to sit there forever. If you were a considerate biker in the first place you wouldn't be in the center of the lane anyway; you'd be off to one side and a car would sooner or later pull up next to you and trigger the loop.
I bike too. I used to ride a motorcycle as well. I do my best to ensure that traffic can flow past me, which sometimes involves pushing my bike on the sidewalk.
If you very inconsiderately prevent traffic from activating the loop because "I HAVE RIGHTS TOO!!!!" then you should simply try exercising your patience in addition to your rights and wait for a vehicle to activate the loop.
Bicyclists should wait at red lights just like everyone else, for example. It doesn't mean "stop, look, then proceed if you don't see a car crossing". It means you wait until it turns green.
If a traffic signal's induction loop detector is not detecting a bicycle because of insufficient metal surface, how many minutes is a cyclist expected to wait at a red light before making a U-turn and finding another route?
You wait forever because it's the damn law - don't blow through a red light.
Biases are bad generalizations as you can tell: Don't use them. Each individual should be treated uniquely.
Respect is earned, it cannot be given, even by Mommy and Daddy. That includes self respect.
GP fully misses the irony - if everyone is unique, then no one is. I agree with parent; snowflake syndrome is much more prevalent than it used to be.
The GP's position is that respect is the default, and actions can change that. Parent (and my own) position is that no-respect is the default, but actions can change that.
It doesn't work for men! We are waaaay more disadvantaged in the game of finding casual partners. Blame it on the economic law of supply and demand, perhaps.
It's actually very easy: you need to possess and display power and influence. With sufficient power and influence you don't even need to hide - you can openly have as many women as you want. Regardless of power and influence women still have to hide their extramarital dalliances unless they want to lose the marriage. Powerful and influential men don't.
So, stop complaining and get to work on becoming a millionaire:-)
No, I'm claiming that a large number of teens get into sex because of peer pressure.
That's still consensual. If you want to claim that peer pressure is *coerced*, then you should get ready to jail the coerced teens peers, not the *other* teen they had sex with.
nobody should be convicted on the word of an accuser alone;
Oh really?
So witness testimony is worthless in your opinion?
Please justify why you think such an opinion is worth consideration.
You appear to forget that there are *two* witness testimonies in he said/she said cases. Why do you feel that the accuser's testimony should carry more weight?
Let's say it all together: Acquittal doesn't mean that the accuser lied. Just like in the vast majority of cases, rape is incredibly hard to prove. If they felt there was evidence that she lied, rather than insufficient evidence to prove "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt", then they would be trying her for making false charges - which, computer used or not, is usually a felony.
Regardless, I won't consider justice "blind" until "she consented to the sex" is treated by the same legal standard as a robbery defendant's claim "he consented to give me the money" - as an affirmative defense / defense theory.
They already are treated by the same standard. If someone grabs $10 of you and you have no way to prove that it is yours (no witnesses, etc), then that person will not be convicted. Your accusation alone is not enough to get someone convicted.
I personally (my home) use around 1kW on average. The problem with using solar is that the payback period (in SA, anyway) from electric bill savings exceeds the expected lifetime of the panels and related kit needed to set it up.
15kW per house? This is Africa, not America - typical usage in Europe is 4kW per house. It is probably 40W per house in Africa. Only 0.001% of houses have A/C.
And, as pointed out elsewhere, most electricity comes from Diesel in Africa (The rest mostly from Hydroelectric).
I'm South African. You're wrong. Usage per house varies from between 1kW to 4kW. Running a house on 40W basically lights a room dimly for an hour. Also, we have AC everywhere - I certainly have AC at home, at work and in my Mercedes-Benz.
Oh, wait! You thought Africa was a poor *country*... silly you.. *South Africa* is a country in *Africa*, and we're more first-world than third-world.
Their private servers got hacked. In much the same way if I were to get mugged
Lots of people conflating individuals with corporations here.
If you leave the back door open and your customers' stuff gets stolen, you should be liable, criminally and civilly. Just as if you don't maintain your underwater oil rig properly, and there's a catastrophic blow-out and millions of gallons of crude get dumped into the ecosystem, you should be criminally liable.
The situation in this case is more analogous to there being no blow out, but deliberate sabotage. Seriously, you, at some time in your life (maybe even right now) have had under your control at least one machine with a zero day exploit that you did not know about. Should you be penalised when someone actually exploits the...erm... exploit?
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The really sad thing is that Slashdot contains many fans of his, most if not all of whom have read the Hitchhiker series, that will nonetheless still discuss Democrat vs. Republican with a straight face. They still argue about which Career Politician would be best, or suggest that John McAfee is too crazy to be President, blah blah blah.
People: throw your Hitchhiker's Guide away. You don't deserve to own it.
I've pointed out many times in posts on slashdots that all the "republicans are crazy" and "democrats are crazy" posters are simply voting for a lizard in case the wrong lizard gets in. Asking democrat supporters or republican supporters to use their vote *for* a politician and not *against* a party is crazy talk, apparently - it's a wasted vote, after all!
To the rest of us on the outside, those two parties act the same.
Watch this year's DEFCON talk on Bitcoin hacking to see why correcthorsebatterystaple actually isn't a good password idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Many attack routines now simply combine many words together, like this, to brute force, so you're not actually looking at entropy based on character length - your entropy is based on number of words, which is far less. In you "maddisoncompromisedmarriagelost" example, you only have an entropy of 4 - which is not, I think you'll agree, a large number.
If you're this new to encryption you shouldn't try to sound authoritative - getting entropy so wrong on such a low level means you should perhaps read more before attempting to criticise something.
I wanted to be a history major when I was a kid. I loved the American Revolution, the founding of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. These days I take a keen interest in the history of computers.
You haven't answered the question - what would you say to someone who told you that they have a "remembering dates" degree?
Note that he didn't say money is bad, he said there are more reasons to do things than money. He specifically said about money: " I don't object to making money in an ethical way."
I'm (mostly) on the side of RMS, but this is a lawyer-written weasel-my-way-out sentence if I ever saw one... After all, who decides the line separating ethical from non-ethical?
[lawyer mode]"I don't object to making money in an ethical way"
[few sentences later] "In my religion, stoning gays is perfectly acceptable"
[few weeks later] "Step up to my funland - pay me $10 a throw to stone a gay person to death."
How much more democratic does it have to be ?
That's not a democracy. The structure of the Maker Movement is better than a democracy, since there is more freedom. The editor who wrote that stupid title seems to think democracy means perfect or good. I think the word you're looking for is egalitarian.
It's even better than egalitarian it's meritocratic.
Careful there - meritocracy is deemed exclusionary to that 51% minority.
You want to be a real maker, get some metal, drill set, file set, a couple micrometers and scales, and start sculpting metal.
OOh so in your world, you can only be a real maker or a true scotsman if you work with metal or wood.
Where the did he say that? He said you can be a real maker by doing $FOO; He never said that *only* by doing $FOO can you be a real maker.
Talk about strawmen...
And why is that exactly? Is there another reason other than wanting to feel superior?
Nah... mostly people who want to feel superior construct strawmen so they can display how good they are at "winning" .... Oh, wait....
become??? I dont ever recall a time when it was good
Then you have a poor memory. There was a time when MBR and TSR viruses for MS-DOS could be removed either by a format or by using McAfee. Norton came soon after, IIRC. But for a while McAfee reigned king in the AV space.
"The only way a corporation could or would raise prices in order to cover the tax bill is if they could collude with everyone else in their industry to raise prices by exactly that amount. That's a federal crime."
Think for a moment about the consequences of what you say if that were true. Like... uh... anything would be sold for Zero... but, you see, thinks are not usually sold by nil, so something must be happening there, something like, let's see... like producers selling goods for a price that covers *all* their costs (you know, raw materials, tooling, wages *and* taxes) plus, at least, what Adam Smith called an ordinary rate of profit.
Producers don't do that - they don't sell for cost + markup, they sell for what the market will bear.
It's not just a dodge to make citizens feel like corporations are paying their fair share, as it is in the US. Corporate taxes in general get rolled into the purchase price of the item. You and I are de facto paying the taxes, regardless of what the legalities are, and the same is true for any other taxes or fees that are assessed prior to the sale of the finished item to the ultimate customer.
No. The selling price of an item is not "cost + %markup", it is "what can the market bear". If the market can bear paying $100 for a widget that cost you $10 to produce, why the hell would you sell it for $15?
This whole "cost + %markup" myth has to go. Companies don't charge you based on what an items costs to produce, they charge based on what you are prepared to pay. Raising a copmpany's taxes may not necessarily mean an increased selling price of goods.
If you very inconsiderately prevent traffic from activating the loop
That was never what I meant.
Mea Culpa. I apologise.
Ufnfortunatly most of the programing tools I use for embedded systems are windows only.
Wait wat? Which embedded systems do you target? I've been doing embedded systems for 10+ years now, and the only tool I need Windows for is Excel - to fill in the company travel expenses. Synopsys, Mentor, Xilinx, Altera, TI, ARM - they all run on Linux. Plus all the compilers for the microcontrollers tend to be gcc based anyways. And the small startup companies' embedded system IDEs seem to invariably be built on Eclipse.
Have I just been lucky? Or do we define 'embedded' diferently?
You have been lucky. You've been lucky not to have coded for that software-crippled, anti-OSS platform known as PIC micro. The last I used it (MPLAB 5.5?) I had to hunt around for a windows machine just to run the damn IDE, which wouldn't let you use your own editor and you were forced to use the crappy less-features-than-notepad editor. It generated the hex files in ram, not on disk, so that the IDE alone (which generated the hex files) could program the dev board (pickit?).
I've worked on only one project using PICs. I will never work with them again. Luckily, I never have to as they are increasingly sidelined by superior dev environments :-)
I'm not ragging on gimp because you can't do stuff on it as obviously you can its just you shouldn't fight the tool to use it. Car analog, you go from driving a nice auto luxury car to diving a hoopty, manual with a bad clutch. They're both gonna get you to your location is just you'll be frustrated as hell with the hoopty.
I feel your analogy is inaccurate: I've never used Photoshop but I have used Gimp since it came out. Now when I try to use Photoshop I cannot understand the workflow and find it very unintuitive.
IOW, you're labelling one of the options bad because you're used to the other way of doing things. The way you're used to doing things may not necessarily be the best way to do things.
Hey, if your jurisdiction allows it, then go for it. If it's *not* against the law I see no need to sit on the road for no good reason.
So how does one go about seeking "just compensation" for a vehicle that the government impounded by placing a red light?
Nothings been impounded. You are free to get off your bike and carry it away. Or carry it across the pedestrian crossing. Or just wait near the kerb until a vehicle triggers the traffic light.
You have lots of options - it's hyperbole to suggest that by obeying a red traffic light, your vehicle is destined to sit there forever. If you were a considerate biker in the first place you wouldn't be in the center of the lane anyway; you'd be off to one side and a car would sooner or later pull up next to you and trigger the loop.
I bike too. I used to ride a motorcycle as well. I do my best to ensure that traffic can flow past me, which sometimes involves pushing my bike on the sidewalk.
If you very inconsiderately prevent traffic from activating the loop because "I HAVE RIGHTS TOO!!!!" then you should simply try exercising your patience in addition to your rights and wait for a vehicle to activate the loop.
Bicyclists should wait at red lights just like everyone else, for example. It doesn't mean "stop, look, then proceed if you don't see a car crossing". It means you wait until it turns green.
If a traffic signal's induction loop detector is not detecting a bicycle because of insufficient metal surface, how many minutes is a cyclist expected to wait at a red light before making a U-turn and finding another route?
You wait forever because it's the damn law - don't blow through a red light.
Biases are bad generalizations as you can tell: Don't use them. Each individual should be treated uniquely.
Respect is earned, it cannot be given, even by Mommy and Daddy. That includes self respect.
GP fully misses the irony - if everyone is unique, then no one is. I agree with parent; snowflake syndrome is much more prevalent than it used to be.
The GP's position is that respect is the default, and actions can change that. Parent (and my own) position is that no-respect is the default, but actions can change that.
it doesn't work for me
It doesn't work for men! We are waaaay more disadvantaged in the game of finding casual partners. Blame it on the economic law of supply and demand, perhaps.
It's actually very easy: you need to possess and display power and influence. With sufficient power and influence you don't even need to hide - you can openly have as many women as you want. Regardless of power and influence women still have to hide their extramarital dalliances unless they want to lose the marriage. Powerful and influential men don't.
So, stop complaining and get to work on becoming a millionaire :-)
No, I'm claiming that a large number of teens get into sex because of peer pressure.
That's still consensual. If you want to claim that peer pressure is *coerced*, then you should get ready to jail the coerced teens peers, not the *other* teen they had sex with.
Oh really? So witness testimony is worthless in your opinion? Please justify why you think such an opinion is worth consideration.
You appear to forget that there are *two* witness testimonies in he said/she said cases. Why do you feel that the accuser's testimony should carry more weight?
You are a very confused person.
Let's say it all together: Acquittal doesn't mean that the accuser lied. Just like in the vast majority of cases, rape is incredibly hard to prove. If they felt there was evidence that she lied, rather than insufficient evidence to prove "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt", then they would be trying her for making false charges - which, computer used or not, is usually a felony.
Regardless, I won't consider justice "blind" until "she consented to the sex" is treated by the same legal standard as a robbery defendant's claim "he consented to give me the money" - as an affirmative defense / defense theory.
They already are treated by the same standard. If someone grabs $10 of you and you have no way to prove that it is yours (no witnesses, etc), then that person will not be convicted. Your accusation alone is not enough to get someone convicted.
You know what they call the person that graduates from med school at the very bottom of their class? Doctor.
A comment above this links to the good doctors profile - apparently she provides homepathic remedies.... Make of that what you will.
I personally (my home) use around 1kW on average. The problem with using solar is that the payback period (in SA, anyway) from electric bill savings exceeds the expected lifetime of the panels and related kit needed to set it up.
15kW per house? This is Africa, not America - typical usage in Europe is 4kW per house. It is probably 40W per house in Africa. Only 0.001% of houses have A/C.
And, as pointed out elsewhere, most electricity comes from Diesel in Africa (The rest mostly from Hydroelectric).
I'm South African. You're wrong. Usage per house varies from between 1kW to 4kW. Running a house on 40W basically lights a room dimly for an hour. Also, we have AC everywhere - I certainly have AC at home, at work and in my Mercedes-Benz.
Oh, wait! You thought Africa was a poor *country*... silly you.. *South Africa* is a country in *Africa*, and we're more first-world than third-world.
Idiot.
Lots of people conflating individuals with corporations here.
If you leave the back door open and your customers' stuff gets stolen, you should be liable, criminally and civilly. Just as if you don't maintain your underwater oil rig properly, and there's a catastrophic blow-out and millions of gallons of crude get dumped into the ecosystem, you should be criminally liable.
The situation in this case is more analogous to there being no blow out, but deliberate sabotage. Seriously, you, at some time in your life (maybe even right now) have had under your control at least one machine with a zero day exploit that you did not know about. Should you be penalised when someone actually exploits the ...erm... exploit?