The "freedom of speech" and "common carriage", and on the other side, the "rights of private companies" arguments are all oversimplifications.
There are a lot of overlapping matters of both law and ethics involved here.
For example, there's a difference between providing services without discrimination based on X, and providing services which may imperil your business through either legal liability or placing your services or other customers in a position where either reputational or real damages are more likely. There's a difference between allowing repugnant ideas to be expressed and allowing slander or advocacy of violence against individuals.
If you want to actually understand this issue, go to law school. It'll take a few years.
In this case it happens when "Object Oriented" is taken too literally. People think of data as inert. People think of "Objects" as inert. So they figure translating between data and objects is just transforming one inert thing into another.
But "objects" are not inert in almost any dynamic language. They are quite active, with instantiation methods, etc., and some are quite dangerous. One has to adjust one's paradigm when learning OO programming from a procedural background.
Well, they might exhibit less/different interaction with environmental factors so there's less opportunity for a side-channel attack to make them spit out predicatbly, or be able to generate more bits faster, or just be compatible with the rest of a chip made mostly out of nanotubes. But yeah, until I RTFA, I suspect it's just "BECAUSE... NANOTUBES!"
The most valuable thing you can teach is a taxonomy of what there is to learn, and the methods to learn it. But throwing some random data from some leaf nodes of that taxonomy can lead to a few "ah-ha I know this one" moments which will provide emotional motivation to put some flesh on those bones.
Really to get a full workout, you need to be re-traversing the map so you come it the same room from different angles/perspectives. If you always respawn in the same place and run the same path to go get killed by the boss again and again, you'll regress into only exerting your response centers.
So, nix on the spawn poles, too, or at least have a lot of eligible spawn points within range from which to randomly choose.
Civ2 and AlphaC aren't games that are likely to build your spatial cognitive abilities. It's the maze-solving/navigation variety that do... and sandboxes with complicated maps, if you play them in an exploratively.
Actually, it's just another sensationalist headline saying wrong things about a study that is really very interesting. I recommend RTFA.
Twitch games build up one part of the brain and make the hippocampus atrophy. 3-D platformers (VR?) build up the hippocampus. The authors suggest FPS game makers take away the mini-maps and wayfinders and add more scenery and mazes to balance things out.
Which makes me surprised that BL2 was to them a typical action game... the maps in that are usually best navigated by scenery and aren't linear or especially simple.
There are still benefits... not everyone who wants to p0wn you has a MITM; some can only eavesdrop. But yes, trust has obviously been spread too widely.
Either will allow them to issue new certificates since:
Observed unacceptable security practices include back-dating SHA-1 certificates
...one could argue they did this to work around some SHA-1 retirement quirk, but it is only a shade of difference for them to resort to back-dating anything. Of course, if they get caught doing that, store maintainers could escalate to just removing their root entirely. Which they may or may not care about depending on the legal system over there.
I don't see anything in TFA that makes a claim as to which side of the political spectrum had more bots. Please do those anti-persecution-complex breathing exercises the shrink showed you.
The technical work just has a global reach now. Whereas the janitor job does not.
Yes, it does, as it is kinda hard for the techies to do their great globally-effective job while holding it in for fear of having to use the filthy can.
My point is all of us who have the privilege to work in fields where lots of people rely on us are in turn relying on other more humble people. We should be grateful for that and afford them the respect and dignity they deserve.
FreeRADIUS will be one, as they use OpenSSL because "everything else is worse." No actually, because SSL's API, though cretinous, doesn't require sessions to be bound to an IO handle, and allows some introspection into the state of sessions that other APIs apparently do not, which is kinda handy when you're handling a large number of really slow negotiations.
In fact, those running FreeRADIUS and using an LDAP backend have to go compile their own OpenLDAP linked against OpenSSL to avoid icky concurrency related crashes caused by GNUTLS's shortcomings.
That is effectively equivalent to removing SSL entirely
Not quite. First, it does still protect you against eavesdrop-only attacks. Second I think what they mean is to just accept them on first contact but pin them thereafter, which is still a bit dicey, but a heck of a lot better than allowing them to change.
The world runs on broken things. Thiis move might even be bad for global security given some of the half-assery that is bound to happen to work around it for stuff that PHBs consider "too critical to upgrade." Wonder how many 3rd party distro servers will pop up offering backwards compatible OpenSSLs and how many people will just grab them in desperation while trying to make a deadline.
The coulda/woulda/shoulda here is that any protocol allowing version and parameter negotiation really ought to protect that negotiation.
Even IKEv2 got this wrong, though you can work around it if you've got some extra RAS IPs to burn.
Incidentally, anyone know if Apple is doing TLS1.2 yet for dot1x? If not, that'll be fun to watch.
The complaint is really that the economy has artificially low valuations for manual labor of the type humans do, and does not need to devolve into a self-righteous weenie-measuring contest.
I don't know anyone who argues that putting in the time to train up should not be rewarded, but in so doing we seem to have spawned a class of individuals who think everything everyone else does in the GED sector of the labor force is completely worthless and without merit. They fail to see that it is the humility of these people who clean their toilets and make their sandwiches which enables them to excel in their fields. These people don't go to work with the motivation that they can "do great things"... they don't get any of that ego-nourishing fluff. But they put their backs into it anyway, often breaking their bodies over the long term in ways much worse than carpel tunnel syndrome or the back problems from sitting all day.
In many cases these people are looking to better themselves and escape from these thankless occupations, but are kept in their place by the perpetual catch-22 which is capitalism's calling card: you don't have enough resources to get enough resources to improve your life.
Meanwhile the highly educated elite essentially do the moral equivalent of putting the cherry on top of an ice-cream-sunday that someone else scooped into the glass, the glass that someone else washed, the ice-cream that someone else made from the milk that someone else farmed, and these cherry-placers declare to themselves and the world "look, I made you an ice-cream-sunday."
The responsibility of a university is to provide the best possible environment and resources to enable and encourage students to learn
It's the resources thing that is lacking here. Sounds to me like: go buy a textbook, read it and/or research the topics on the web, then go to group discussion.
Not that that won't work for many people.
But it's higher education's damn job to figure out how to teach, not just how to hold group discussions after the fact. I don't get the impression anyone is doing that job at this school. Or in general, I certainly haven't seen any sample learning formats that weren't just either A) youtube videos of lectures B) some sort of CMS which essentially just provides a wiki written by the prof or C) warmed over online test-taking software masquerading as an interactive learning tool. At best you get widgets showing relations which you can play with.
I remain unimpressed.
You'd think with the tech and funding we have these days, much more progress would have been made in expressing educational material... even if expecting said progress to be made using evidence-based methodology is asking too much, you'd think we would have stumbled into some effective new techniques by now.
In an active learning setting, you expect the students to learn about the equations before they get there.
So in other words, they have no solution to accelerate the initial process of learning the material, so they just shovel that responsibility entirely onto the student.
Not that active learning is bad, but you'd think if you are "replacing lectures" you'd actually replace them with something, not just skip to the lab/homework.
Yeah, people don't know crap about all the junk they are breathing. And yet, there are towns that have started banning smoking out in the middle of parks. Where BBQing and gas-power lawnmowers are allowed.
I'm very tempted to go out and set up a BBQ grill, then keep throwing packs of cigarettes onto it until some cop tries to give me a ticket, just for the fun of telling the magistrate I was just flavoring my meat.
Biological metabolism is even more inefficient than ICEs, and the production of the fuel used (food) is a primary source of all sorts of pollution. But luddites gotta lud.
There were always options to be able to move them to the other side.
Oh, good. Because that's not generally the case with desktop environments. Usually you have to decompile and recompile some binary-ized markup/scripting language installed in system directories, or use some configuration tweaking tool outside the normal one that ends up obsolete by the time you upgrade to the next version of the desktop, or fiddle with trying to figure out which of tens of possible locations for rc-ish files actually work between three competing "lets put all the options in one place" projects, or install some extension from a third party that is outside your OSes package control system and who's site certificate is pointing to the wrong domain because it wasn't updated when the project last changed its name.
(In spite of all that, somehow, I have managed to keep my GNOME hotspot in the upper left corner so I don't accidentally mouse into it when reaching to grab a scrollbar for a few years solid... knock on wood, because I have no idea how I managed to fix that at this point.)
I think ugen's point is, and I agree, not that this is a good thing, but a "good idea" as in an effective tactic, and that the reason it is an effective tactic is because people seem to be pre-inclined to fill their information bubbles with the most outrageous, negative news they can find. This makes the market for real good news unprofitable, and so none is produced, despite there being plenty of people doing lots of really good things all the time. Then when people get exhausted from the online dystopia they have created for themselves and thrash around for some reason to regain hope for humanity, the fake good news is there to greet them, written by government stooges and full of subtle contextual lies that benefit the establishment.
1) application A wants to perform operation B 2) application A depends on libB 3) A bug in libB is discovered that prevents Application C from using it 4) Application C embeds a fixed version of libB 5) libB eventually gets upgraded while maintaining ABI compatibility 6) Application C drops its embedded version of libB and resumes sharing the system libB by depending on it with a version restriction in their next version
How code re-use works on andriod:
1) application A wants to perform operation B 2) Luckily android happens to have libB preinstalled (for argument's sake) so application A just uses it 3) A bug is discovered in the preinstalled libB that prevents Application C from using it 4) Application C embeds a fixed version of libB 5) nothing happens for a year or so until all major carriers upgrade the whole OS 6) The whole OS gets upgraded and other things in the upgrade break both application A and C even while libB gets fixed 7) The authors of application A and B say "screw this, that sucked" and embed their own copies of everything
so they never have to deal with that kind of mess again.
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A right to speak, A right to fair trial, even being treated as innocent until convicted should NOT be abridged.
Nobody is stopping his supporters from writing stuff on a cardboard box and standing at intersections. I don't see a problem here.
The "freedom of speech" and "common carriage", and on the other side, the "rights of private companies" arguments are all oversimplifications.
There are a lot of overlapping matters of both law and ethics involved here.
For example, there's a difference between providing services without discrimination based on X, and providing services which may imperil your business through either legal liability or placing your services or other customers in a position where either reputational or real damages are more likely. There's a difference between allowing repugnant ideas to be expressed and allowing slander or advocacy of violence against individuals.
If you want to actually understand this issue, go to law school. It'll take a few years.
In this case it happens when "Object Oriented" is taken too literally. People think of data as inert. People think of "Objects" as inert. So they figure translating between data and objects is just transforming one inert thing into another.
But "objects" are not inert in almost any dynamic language. They are quite active, with instantiation methods, etc., and some are quite dangerous. One has to adjust one's paradigm when learning OO programming from a procedural background.
(mandatory missing sarcasm tag warning)
Not that many developers would base a decision on an AC slashdot post, but...
Well, they might exhibit less/different interaction with environmental factors so there's less opportunity for a side-channel attack to make them spit out predicatbly, or be able to generate more bits faster, or just be compatible with the rest of a chip made mostly out of nanotubes. But yeah, until I RTFA, I suspect it's just "BECAUSE... NANOTUBES!"
The most valuable thing you can teach is a taxonomy of what there is to learn, and the methods to learn it. But throwing some random data from some leaf nodes of that taxonomy can lead to a few "ah-ha I know this one" moments which will provide emotional motivation to put some flesh on those bones.
Really to get a full workout, you need to be re-traversing the map so you come it the same room from different angles/perspectives. If you always respawn in the same place and run the same path to go get killed by the boss again and again, you'll regress into only exerting your response centers.
So, nix on the spawn poles, too, or at least have a lot of eligible spawn points within range from which to randomly choose.
Civ2 and AlphaC aren't games that are likely to build your spatial cognitive abilities. It's the maze-solving/navigation variety that do... and sandboxes with complicated maps, if you play them in an exploratively.
Actually, it's just another sensationalist headline saying wrong things about a study that is really very interesting. I recommend RTFA.
Twitch games build up one part of the brain and make the hippocampus atrophy. 3-D platformers (VR?) build up the hippocampus. The authors suggest FPS game makers take away the mini-maps and wayfinders and add more scenery and mazes to balance things out.
Which makes me surprised that BL2 was to them a typical action game... the maps in that are usually best navigated by scenery and aren't linear or especially simple.
There are still benefits... not everyone who wants to p0wn you has a MITM; some can only eavesdrop. But yes, trust has obviously been spread too widely.
Either will allow them to issue new certificates since:
Observed unacceptable security practices include back-dating SHA-1 certificates
...one could argue they did this to work around some SHA-1 retirement quirk, but it is only a shade of difference for them to resort to back-dating anything. Of course, if they get caught doing that, store maintainers could escalate to just removing their root entirely. Which they may or may not care about depending on the legal system over there.
I don't see anything in TFA that makes a claim as to which side of the political spectrum had more bots. Please do those anti-persecution-complex breathing exercises the shrink showed you.
The technical work just has a global reach now. Whereas the janitor job does not.
Yes, it does, as it is kinda hard for the techies to do their great globally-effective job while holding it in for fear of having to use the filthy can.
My point is all of us who have the privilege to work in fields where lots of people rely on us are in turn relying on other more humble people. We should be grateful for that and afford them the respect and dignity they deserve.
FreeRADIUS will be one, as they use OpenSSL because "everything else is worse." No actually, because SSL's API, though cretinous, doesn't require sessions to be bound to an IO handle, and allows some introspection into the state of sessions that other APIs apparently do not, which is kinda handy when you're handling a large number of really slow negotiations.
In fact, those running FreeRADIUS and using an LDAP backend have to go compile their own OpenLDAP linked against OpenSSL to avoid icky concurrency related crashes caused by GNUTLS's shortcomings.
That is effectively equivalent to removing SSL entirely
Not quite. First, it does still protect you against eavesdrop-only attacks. Second I think what
they mean is to just accept them on first contact but pin them thereafter, which is still a bit
dicey, but a heck of a lot better than allowing them to change.
It is deliberately removing broken things.
The world runs on broken things. Thiis move might even be bad for global security given some of the
half-assery that is bound to happen to work around it for stuff that PHBs consider "too critical to upgrade."
Wonder how many 3rd party distro servers will pop up offering backwards compatible OpenSSLs and how
many people will just grab them in desperation while trying to make a deadline.
The coulda/woulda/shoulda here is that any protocol allowing version and parameter negotiation really ought
to protect that negotiation.
Even IKEv2 got this wrong, though you can work around it if you've got some extra RAS IPs to burn.
Incidentally, anyone know if Apple is doing TLS1.2 yet for dot1x? If not, that'll be fun to watch.
The complaint is really that the economy has artificially low valuations for manual labor of the type humans do, and does not need to devolve into a self-righteous weenie-measuring contest.
I don't know anyone who argues that putting in the time to train up should not be rewarded, but in so doing we seem to have spawned a class of individuals who think everything everyone else does in the GED sector of the labor force is completely worthless and without merit. They fail to see that it is the humility of these people who clean their toilets and make their sandwiches which enables them to excel in their fields. These people don't go to work with the motivation that they can "do great things"... they don't get any of that ego-nourishing fluff. But they put their backs into it anyway, often breaking their bodies over the long term in ways much worse than carpel tunnel syndrome or the back problems from sitting all day.
In many cases these people are looking to better themselves and escape from these thankless occupations, but are kept in their place by the perpetual catch-22 which is capitalism's calling card: you don't have enough resources to get enough resources to improve your life.
Meanwhile the highly educated elite essentially do the moral equivalent of putting the cherry on top of an ice-cream-sunday that someone else scooped into the glass, the glass that someone else washed, the ice-cream that someone else made from the milk that someone else farmed, and these cherry-placers declare to themselves and the world "look, I made you an ice-cream-sunday."
The responsibility of a university is to provide the best possible environment and resources to enable and encourage students to learn
It's the resources thing that is lacking here. Sounds to me like: go buy a textbook, read it and/or research the topics on the web, then go to group discussion.
Not that that won't work for many people.
But it's higher education's damn job to figure out how to teach, not just how to hold group discussions after the fact. I don't get the impression anyone is doing that job at this school. Or in general, I certainly haven't seen any sample learning formats that weren't just either A) youtube videos of lectures B) some sort of CMS which essentially just provides a wiki written by the prof or C) warmed over online test-taking software masquerading as an interactive learning tool. At best you get widgets showing relations which you can play with.
I remain unimpressed.
You'd think with the tech and funding we have these days, much more progress would have been made in expressing educational material... even if expecting said progress to be made using evidence-based methodology is asking too much, you'd think we would have stumbled into some effective new techniques by now.
In an active learning setting, you expect the students to learn about the equations before they get there.
So in other words, they have no solution to accelerate the initial process of learning the material, so they just shovel that responsibility entirely onto the student.
Not that active learning is bad, but you'd think if you are "replacing lectures" you'd actually replace them with something, not just skip to the lab/homework.
Yeah, people don't know crap about all the junk they are breathing. And yet, there are towns that have started banning smoking out in the middle of parks. Where BBQing and gas-power lawnmowers are allowed.
I'm very tempted to go out and set up a BBQ grill, then keep throwing packs of cigarettes onto it until some cop tries to give me a ticket, just for the fun of telling the magistrate I was just flavoring my meat.
Biological metabolism is even more inefficient than ICEs, and the production of the fuel used (food) is a primary source of all sorts of pollution. But luddites gotta lud.
However, if you could squeeze everyone together more, this would alleviate much of the problem
Please no. Separate people and avoid unnecessary contact. It'll reduce our health care costs due to less infection.
There were always options to be able to move them to the other side.
Oh, good. Because that's not generally the case with desktop environments. Usually
you have to decompile and recompile some binary-ized markup/scripting language installed
in system directories, or use some configuration tweaking tool outside the normal one
that ends up obsolete by the time you upgrade to the next version of the desktop, or
fiddle with trying to figure out which of tens of possible locations for rc-ish files actually work
between three competing "lets put all the options in one place" projects, or install some
extension from a third party that is outside your OSes package control system and who's
site certificate is pointing to the wrong domain because it wasn't updated when the project
last changed its name.
(In spite of all that, somehow, I have managed to keep my GNOME hotspot in the upper left
corner so I don't accidentally mouse into it when reaching to grab a scrollbar for a few
years solid... knock on wood, because I have no idea how I managed to fix that at this point.)
I think ugen's point is, and I agree, not that this is a good thing, but a "good idea" as in an effective tactic, and that the reason it is an effective tactic is because people seem to be pre-inclined to fill their information bubbles with the most outrageous, negative news they can find. This makes the market for real good news unprofitable, and so none is produced, despite there being plenty of people doing lots of really good things all the time. Then when people get exhausted from the online dystopia they have created for themselves and thrash around for some reason to regain hope for humanity, the fake good news is there to greet them, written by government stooges and full of subtle contextual lies that benefit the establishment.
How code re-use works on a real linux distro:
1) application A wants to perform operation B
2) application A depends on libB
3) A bug in libB is discovered that prevents Application C from using it
4) Application C embeds a fixed version of libB
5) libB eventually gets upgraded while maintaining ABI compatibility
6) Application C drops its embedded version of libB and resumes sharing the system libB by depending on it with a version restriction in their next version
How code re-use works on andriod:
1) application A wants to perform operation B
2) Luckily android happens to have libB preinstalled (for argument's sake) so application A just uses it
3) A bug is discovered in the preinstalled libB that prevents Application C from using it
4) Application C embeds a fixed version of libB
5) nothing happens for a year or so until all major carriers upgrade the whole OS
6) The whole OS gets upgraded and other things in the upgrade break both application A and C even while libB gets fixed
7) The authors of application A and B say "screw this, that sucked" and embed their own copies of everything
so they never have to deal with that kind of mess again.