If alcohol prohibition required an amendment to the constitution then how was the gov't suddenly able to prohibit another substance w/o changing the constitution?
The stigma associated with HIV/AIDS is so great in Indonesia that many people who are infected with the disease refuse to seek medical assistance because they are too ashamed - I know because I am Indonesian and have met such people.
What the Indonesian government needs to work on is to remove the stigma of HIV testing and the use of condoms and to educate people about the disease.
Threatening HIV positive people with a chip implant will achieve exactly the opposite and instead and will simply put HIV positive people into hiding and make it that much more difficult to educate these people about how the disease is transmitted - think about people who believe that having sex with virgins heals you of HIV or the South African minister who admitted to having sex with an HIV positive woman but took a shower afterwards to reduce chances of infection - these are the exact same people who need to be educated and not alienated
When I opened the site I thought that the map points are incidents of piracy where violence was threatened so I was surprised to see that most of the reports are about covert robberies of anchored ships... I guess they're still technically incidents of piracy since a ship was robbed but it's probably not what people have in mind when they think about pirates
I'm not sure if this is still the case but back in the day using an exe packer (like upx) on a trojan or virus would prevent detection by most anti-virus software and as an added bonus the payload also becomes much smaller
I'd want to use the USB model with my Eee PC which has the standard Xandros OS installed. I wonder if it will work?
I'm on debian and use wvdial to connect via a 3g usb modem I suspect it would also work for this.
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Yes timing and resource allocation are a crucial part of a manager's job but when he doesn't know anything about coding he's going to have to ask the coders how long a project might take and what resources will be required... which is a problem because that manager won't be able to tell if he's being lied to - and as a contractor I've seen this happen all the time.
It used to be that "white hat" simply described a person who hacked the system with access to the internals of it (i.e. source code or server configuration details) and the "black hat" only had information that was available to the outside world.
Looks like the definition has changed to describe good vs evil... sigh
Doctors, firefighters, police, soldiers, social workers... there are tons of jobs that are more stress inducing than IT security. Me thinks this guy just needs to grow a pair.
Sudoku isn't a math puzzle, it's a logic puzzle - just one where you're filling in digits instead of the man in the blue house smoking Pall Malls and having a goldfish.
The digits 1-9 in Sudoku could be replaced with any 9 other symbols without changing the underlying rules. So yeah, logic can be used to solve it.
How did this get modded insightful? Just because numbers don't have to be used doesn't mean it's not math.
Israel is "the largest total recipient since World War II" of U.S. aid. "Total direct U.S. aid to Israel for this period amounts to well over $140 billion since World War II. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is about one-fifth of America's foreign aid budget." The authors claim that "This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain."
"Israel is the only recipient of U.S. aid that does not have to account for how the aid is spent." According to the authors, this makes it "virtually impossible to prevent the money from being used for purposes the United States opposes."
This sounds ripe for abuse. For example, a heavy censorship nation like China could use this to block critical sites that they claim are 'attacking' them far more efficiently than their current human-based censoring.
How is it more efficient for China to tell this software that a particular site is 'attacking' them than to block the site at their great firewall and be done with it?
Yes, everyone shares a SINGLE cert, you will only get full validation if you form your URL like https://yoursite.godaddy.com/ or whatever it is that godaddy offers you. Otherwise your visiters get a warning that this cert isn't for your site.
I know damned well that if you're a male you have seen a beautiful female, not known her age, and actually envisioned yourself having sex with her.
It's one thing to be attracted to a person who may seem older than they actually are. But it's entirely another thing to be sexually attracted to a person that you KNOW is a child.
I agree with the gp that the latter requires psychological help because it's not healthy for a sexual creature to be attracted to an asexual one
When you consider how much money Microsoft drains from various countries' economies, it's easy to see how the money could be put to better use.
The problem with your argument is that the money that MS drains is primarily from rich countries and not the countries that it helps.
society will have a lot of money left over to spend on fixing disease, starvation, etc.
I agree, but the question is whether the rich countries would have spent this left over money on helping poor African countries. In other words, would the countries that currently benefit from the B&M Foundation be better off in a world w/o Microsoft?
the primary gripe the population have there is the U.S. propping up an unpopular monarchy that is mismanaging and/or stealing the country's wealth
I agree with your post but it's not only support of the Saud government that upsets many middle easterners - it's also support of Israel - and I think if the US was at least a little more fair and impartial it would go a long way towards improving its image in the mideast because many there believe (and rightly so IMHO) that the US enables Israel to commit human rights violations by supplying them with weapons and protecting them from critical UN resolutions.
Take the UN vote on the security barrier for example. The barrier was voted as illegal by 150 nations and only 6 nations - Israel, US, Australia, Micronesia, Palau, and Marshal Islands - voted against it.
The US is regularly the lone vetoer of UN resolutions critical of Israel and has used 8 of its last 10 vetoes to prevent criticism against Israel - in total 36 out of 77.
companies would have an effective way of forcing developers and business units to focus on security issue
I don't think developers need to be 'forced' because generally they understand the importance of making their software secure and if they don't do it then it's usually due to external pressures such as unreasonable deadlines and management not wanting them to spend time on something that does not have tangible results.
In short, the problem with a lot of companies is that management doesn't value security as much as it should. If they did then they probably would handle vulnerabilities as defects - but then again a lot of these vulnerabilities would have been prevented to begin with by giving developers sufficient time to properly design and test their code.
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If alcohol prohibition required an amendment to the constitution then how was the gov't suddenly able to prohibit another substance w/o changing the constitution?
The stigma associated with HIV/AIDS is so great in Indonesia that many people who are infected with the disease refuse to seek medical assistance because they are too ashamed - I know because I am Indonesian and have met such people.
What the Indonesian government needs to work on is to remove the stigma of HIV testing and the use of condoms and to educate people about the disease.
Threatening HIV positive people with a chip implant will achieve exactly the opposite and instead and will simply put HIV positive people into hiding and make it that much more difficult to educate these people about how the disease is transmitted - think about people who believe that having sex with virgins heals you of HIV or the South African minister who admitted to having sex with an HIV positive woman but took a shower afterwards to reduce chances of infection - these are the exact same people who need to be educated and not alienated
RPGs on a super oil tanker ... what could possibly go wrong?
When I opened the site I thought that the map points are incidents of piracy where violence was threatened so I was surprised to see that most of the reports are about covert robberies of anchored ships ... I guess they're still technically incidents of piracy since a ship was robbed but it's probably not what people have in mind when they think about pirates
I'm not sure if this is still the case but back in the day using an exe packer (like upx) on a trojan or virus would prevent detection by most anti-virus software and as an added bonus the payload also becomes much smaller
I'd want to use the USB model with my Eee PC which has the standard Xandros OS installed. I wonder if it will work?
I'm on debian and use wvdial to connect via a 3g usb modem I suspect it would also work for this.
Yes timing and resource allocation are a crucial part of a manager's job but when he doesn't know anything about coding he's going to have to ask the coders how long a project might take and what resources will be required ... which is a problem because that manager won't be able to tell if he's being lied to - and as a contractor I've seen this happen all the time.
Macs already have one Webkit based browser, out of the box, and it simply rocks.
Google's browser is interesting because it uses separate processes for each tab - not because it uses webkit.
It used to be that "white hat" simply described a person who hacked the system with access to the internals of it (i.e. source code or server configuration details) and the "black hat" only had information that was available to the outside world.
Looks like the definition has changed to describe good vs evil ... sigh
They treated you like an animal and that's what you became
Should someone win, they get to keep the drive. They also will receive $40.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".
Maybe they should offer a better prize to get more people to participate
They will probably be hired as interns (see free labor)
Doctors, firefighters, police, soldiers, social workers ... there are tons of jobs that are more stress inducing than IT security. Me thinks this guy just needs to grow a pair.
Could you please express sudoku as a set theoretic problem?
It can be expressed as a set cover problem
Sudoku isn't a math puzzle, it's a logic puzzle - just one where you're filling in digits instead of the man in the blue house smoking Pall Malls and having a goldfish.
The digits 1-9 in Sudoku could be replaced with any 9 other symbols without changing the underlying rules. So yeah, logic can be used to solve it.
How did this get modded insightful? Just because numbers don't have to be used doesn't mean it's not math.
Sudoku is a set theory problem
"It's hard to con an honest man."
"It takes one to know one"
How suckers think, act, and lose their shit
Sounds more insidious than some of the neighboring countries we decry as anti-freedom.
I wonder how many of my tax dollars are being used by their government to subjugate their people? I don't like this at all, not for any nation.
According to "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
Israel is "the largest total recipient since World War II" of U.S. aid. "Total direct U.S. aid to Israel for this period amounts to well over $140 billion since World War II. Israel receives about $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is about one-fifth of America's foreign aid budget." The authors claim that "This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain."
"Israel is the only recipient of U.S. aid that does not have to account for how the aid is spent." According to the authors, this makes it "virtually impossible to prevent the money from being used for purposes the United States opposes."
This sounds ripe for abuse. For example, a heavy censorship nation like China could use this to block critical sites that they claim are 'attacking' them far more efficiently than their current human-based censoring.
How is it more efficient for China to tell this software that a particular site is 'attacking' them than to block the site at their great firewall and be done with it?
Yes, everyone shares a SINGLE cert, you will only get full validation if you form your URL like https://yoursite.godaddy.com/ or whatever it is that godaddy offers you. Otherwise your visiters get a warning that this cert isn't for your site.
Not true you can get your own cert: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979 ... although I don't know why anyone would get anything through GoDaddy
I know damned well that if you're a male you have seen a beautiful female, not known her age, and actually envisioned yourself having sex with her.
It's one thing to be attracted to a person who may seem older than they actually are. But it's entirely another thing to be sexually attracted to a person that you KNOW is a child.
I agree with the gp that the latter requires psychological help because it's not healthy for a sexual creature to be attracted to an asexual one
Re:How is this regime possible?
Had it not been for operation AJAX we would probably not have a theocracy in Iran today.
When you consider how much money Microsoft drains from various countries' economies, it's easy to see how the money could be put to better use.
The problem with your argument is that the money that MS drains is primarily from rich countries and not the countries that it helps.
society will have a lot of money left over to spend on fixing disease, starvation, etc.
I agree, but the question is whether the rich countries would have spent this left over money on helping poor African countries. In other words, would the countries that currently benefit from the B&M Foundation be better off in a world w/o Microsoft?
the primary gripe the population have there is the U.S. propping up an unpopular monarchy that is mismanaging and/or stealing the country's wealth
I agree with your post but it's not only support of the Saud government that upsets many middle easterners - it's also support of Israel - and I think if the US was at least a little more fair and impartial it would go a long way towards improving its image in the mideast because many there believe (and rightly so IMHO) that the US enables Israel to commit human rights violations by supplying them with weapons and protecting them from critical UN resolutions.
Take the UN vote on the security barrier for example. The barrier was voted as illegal by 150 nations and only 6 nations - Israel, US, Australia, Micronesia, Palau, and Marshal Islands - voted against it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3912487.stm
The US is regularly the lone vetoer of UN resolutions critical of Israel and has used 8 of its last 10 vetoes to prevent criticism against Israel - in total 36 out of 77.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2828985.stm
companies would have an effective way of forcing developers and business units to focus on security issue
I don't think developers need to be 'forced' because generally they understand the importance of making their software secure and if they don't do it then it's usually due to external pressures such as unreasonable deadlines and management not wanting them to spend time on something that does not have tangible results.
In short, the problem with a lot of companies is that management doesn't value security as much as it should. If they did then they probably would handle vulnerabilities as defects - but then again a lot of these vulnerabilities would have been prevented to begin with by giving developers sufficient time to properly design and test their code.