The problem with disarmament asks for something impossible - positive evidence of non-activity. A state can merrily destroy its weapons in front of the whole world, but how do you prove that they aren't secretly building some weapons in another place? You can do all the inspections you want and find nothing but that does not prove that they don't have a small stockpile stashed away somewhere. A dozen ICBMs or so should not be that hard to hide, and with megaton payloads have all the destructive power one needs for retaliation.
Consider the Therac 25. The repercussions were nowhere near "minimal". These machines can do irreparable damage if the software or hardware fails in a catastrophic way.
Boost made one of my cross-platform projects extremely easy to write; wrapping network functions to account for differences between Windows and Linux was not fun.
On a more serious side though, isn't it ironic that Japanese care so much about privacy only when it applies to them? They couldn't care less if gaijin (foreigners) get fingerprinted and photographed when they enter Japan. (The only Japanese who ever get fingerprinted are criminals)
Mercurial is the solution currently in use at Mozilla, Sun, and quite a few Linux projects. (Though not the main kernel branch. That's GIT. Think something more along the lines of ALSA.) ALSA does not use Mercurial any more, they switched to GIT on 2008-05-20.
There is strong pressure on the education system to "improve"; and these improvements are measured by tests. Students are generally not going to get smarter, so why not make the tests easier to make it seem like you are doing your job?
Quantum cryptography is supposed to provide secrecy by detecting eavesdroppers, since other parties observing your conversation should disturb some physical properties that you can subsequently measure.
It's hard to prosecute hackers and spammers when they hide behind the Great Firewall of China. The information is of course in the NAT logs, but these are controlled by their government. Thats why when I see automated SSH cracking attempts at my computer I can't really do anything other than block it.
This isn't the first or the last time Flash will have vulnerabilities discovered, and I understand this can happen with any software. It is just the frequency and consistency of these vulnerabilities that concerns me. When I install a binary blob from Adobe its always in the back of my mind that I could be opening up my system to attack.
By Rice's theorem, proving any non-trivial property of a program is equivalent to the halting problem. Hence AV detection is an ultimately losing battle.
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This is another example where the intention of the law doesn't mean anything, what is actually written and what that can be stretched to mean does.
This is rather troublesome. If these situations continue our representatives may be forced to actually read the legislation they're passing.
Instead of thinking of the children?
The problem with disarmament asks for something impossible - positive evidence of non-activity. A state can merrily destroy its weapons in front of the whole world, but how do you prove that they aren't secretly building some weapons in another place? You can do all the inspections you want and find nothing but that does not prove that they don't have a small stockpile stashed away somewhere. A dozen ICBMs or so should not be that hard to hide, and with megaton payloads have all the destructive power one needs for retaliation.
Why can't we use electoral ink in American elections to help protect against people voting twice?
Consider the Therac 25. The repercussions were nowhere near "minimal". These machines can do irreparable damage if the software or hardware fails in a catastrophic way.
Standby, I'm seeing pigs flying outside my window.
Boost made one of my cross-platform projects extremely easy to write; wrapping network functions to account for differences between Windows and Linux was not fun.
On a more serious side though, isn't it ironic that Japanese care so much about privacy only when it applies to them? They couldn't care less if gaijin (foreigners) get fingerprinted and photographed when they enter Japan. (The only Japanese who ever get fingerprinted are criminals)
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Deluge works great and has a similar UI to uTorrent. I used to use utorrent in wine until I found it and haven't looked back since.
There is strong pressure on the education system to "improve"; and these improvements are measured by tests. Students are generally not going to get smarter, so why not make the tests easier to make it seem like you are doing your job?
Quantum cryptography is supposed to provide secrecy by detecting eavesdroppers, since other parties observing your conversation should disturb some physical properties that you can subsequently measure.
It's hard to prosecute hackers and spammers when they hide behind the Great Firewall of China. The information is of course in the NAT logs, but these are controlled by their government. Thats why when I see automated SSH cracking attempts at my computer I can't really do anything other than block it.
This isn't the first or the last time Flash will have vulnerabilities discovered, and I understand this can happen with any software. It is just the frequency and consistency of these vulnerabilities that concerns me. When I install a binary blob from Adobe its always in the back of my mind that I could be opening up my system to attack.
The UK is the country furthest along the road to 1984.
They seem to have no problem removing videos related to Scientology.
Confirmed on Gutsy server edition.
Lock and load those Windows 95 floppies!
By Rice's theorem, proving any non-trivial property of a program is equivalent to the halting problem. Hence AV detection is an ultimately losing battle.