I was in a situation where I literally had to choose between swerving and wrecking in to the cars beside me on the freeway or hitting the deer. Needless to say, if its an animal, it's game.
I work in education. We filter websites for many reasons, but the biggest ones are: 1) Child protection. They are minors, and we have a duty of care to protect them, while in our care, from the dangers of the unfiltered internet. Don't tell me it's not necessary; The first time one of them finds rotten.com or sends a link to Goatse, it's game over publicity wise. 2. Network protection. We don't want kids downloading the latest and greatest screensavers to our (Yes, OUR, paid for by your taxes) PCs, meaning we have to spend hour upon hour each week cleaning up infections from workstations. God forbid they should find something not picked up by the virus scanner / IDS and it hits the servers. 3) Kids are stupid. Offer them the choice between writing an essay on the ancient Greeks or playing PokeBallFlashExtremeWOW 2 on $gamewebsite, and you're gonna have a bad day. Yes, the teachers should keep the pupils on task, but they are one person with 30 kids, and some of them just want to dick about all day. FWIW, this last group is filtered by time slot, so at breaks and lunch they're accessible.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know about this guy's website. I'll be sure to add it to the list of sites to grep and add to the filter. Like I say, my time spent cleaning up workstations is your tax money down the toilet.
"Looks like I'm not popular enough with this party to get into power; I'll swap sides, displaying a total lack of personal enthusiasm for the views of either party, and try and get into power with these other guys."
Please do tell me if I'm wrong, but this immediately stinks like last week's kippers in a hotel kettle.
I've lost 2 days of "free time" thanks to the way Offline Mode works with Steam. You either cache your credentials before going offline, as though you're taking your laptop on a trip, or you are locked out of your Steam games totally until you can access the internet again.
Try it: Log in to Steam, unplug your network cable / disconnect from wireless, and restart Steam. Offline mode won't even load. So, that one time when you have some free time but can't watch iPlayer / YouTube / Hulu etc because the internet is down? Can't play Steam games either.
That isn't true. The key used to encrypt the container is different to the key used to unlock the container. When you supply the password / keyfile to TrueCrypt, it searches for the word "TRUE" in a portion of the container file reserved for this check. If this the case, the password and keyfile are used to decrypt the container key, which is then used to decrypt the volume. If "TRUE" isn't found, the key is incorrect and the container key is not decrypted.
When you change the password, you change the only the password used to encrypt the container key. The container key doesn't change, which is why you don't need to decrypt and re-encrypt the volume every time you change the password. TrueCrypt offers this as a way to recover a lost volume password; Overwrite the container key with the backed-up key, enter your original password, and you will be able to decrypt the container key (which remained unchanged) and therefore mount the encrypted volume.
Sorry this is a little garbled, but it's difficult to explain. I hope it's clear enough.
Frankly, his crime is akin to someone picking your locker door, and then going "look, you shouldn't store your wallet in here when you're swimming, it's not very secure".
Close, but needs to be more closely comparable with the actual situation. The systems he accessed had blank passwords. This is more like you putting you wallet in a locker at the swimming baths, but not bothering to lock it, then insisting that the guy who looked inside to see what's in there was going to plant a bomb, steal your identity, sell it on the black market, and is essentially responsible for the downfall of democracy.
I wouldn't class any of those CPUs as anything less than "enthusiast", and that is a much smaller market than "gamer". Not one of those CPUs can be bought for under $700; That paid for my CPU, motherboard, and memory this upgrade cycle, and like I said I'm a PC gamer. Your single GTX 680 falls well short; Same bandwidth as the 670 at 192GB/s.
Unless you're running an outrageously overpowered PSU for your rig (750w runs it all including 4 spinning platter drives, an optical drive and an SSD), you're in the same boat as me. You just paid more for the privilege.
Care to tell me how you know for certain that the next-gen gaming consoles or even set-top cable boxes won't meet all of these requirements 5-7 years from now? That's a hell of a lot of "server farms" running in damn near every household.
I know for certain that neither next-gen gaming consoles, nor set top cable boxes, will have a 1 Kilowatt draw. I will bet lots and lots of money on it, because the only consumer items which draw upwards of 1KW of electricity are used to either to cook your food or heat your home.
All criteria must be met to be exempt. It's stated in the very first line, right above the specifications list.
And that he wasn't in the US when he commited a crime in the US is a weak argument too.
If you stand on the French-German border on the French side and I on the German side and I shoot you, wouldn't I have commited a crime in France (as well as in Germany, of course)?
This is absolutely fundamental to why this extradition cannot have been allowed to occur. He is not a spy, he didn't send the information he uncovered to anyone else, and he didn't cause any damage beyond identifying a weakness in security which shouldn't have existed in the first place. In the UK, under the provisions of the Computer Misuse Act, he'd get a maximum of 2 years in prison. In the US, he'd be tried as a terrorist and faced sixty years in federal prison.
Let's take that to your France / Germany analogy above. You stand on the border and throw a stone at a policeman in France. In Germany, you're charged with assault and get probation. If extradited to France, you're charged with GBH and attempted murder and you spend the rest of your natural life in an 8 x 6 cage with a hairy-backed bear named Jim.
Why the fuck would anybody try to cover up a health care problem with news about graphics cards?
Did you take a wrong turning somewhere? This is a site for nerds, many of whom play games or work in the tech industry. This is exactly the kind of story I'd publish if I wanted to hide something.
Not a lawyer, but am a PC gamer. The computer needs to meet all of those requirements, and I would think that there are very few enthusiast PCs which hit all of them. My rig flies through the most recent games, but only meets one of those specs: 16GB RAM. I run a 750W PSU, Core i5 2500k (4 cores), and a GTX 670 (198GB/s bandwidth) which puts me well under the mark.
This exemption is for servers and parallel computing setups with multiple discrete GPUs. The only single cards which hit the 320GB/s bandwidth mark are the dual GPU cards, which is just two regular cards in Crossfire / SLI on one card. Top line Core i7 still only have 4 cores; You need Xeon or high-end Bulldozer CPUs to qualify (cores per CPU, remember).
This isn't a gamer's exemption. This is for server farms and universities running clusters.
Automatic safety gear exists because people can't be trusted to drive sensibly and safely. "Only a fool breaks the two second rule." If everyone left 2 seconds between themselves and the car in front all of the time ABS wouldn't even have been invented.
I have been reading Slashdot for fourteen years and I have never once complained about the grammar in a summary before. Usually there are enough pedants out there to do more than enough complaining, but this summary is horrible. I do not blame the submitter because I realize that English may not be his or her first language, but I thought Slashdot was supposed to have some sort of editorial staff who at least read the summary once before posting it to the front page. I had to read the second sentence several times to confirm that it meant what I thought it did, and in the rest of the summary the article "the" is missing at least two times. I really do love this site, but if you want to call yourself an editor, then please do the job or turn it over to someone who will.
This isn't the event horizon. This is the closest distance matter can achieve a stable orbit. It's approx 5.5x the event horizon radius, where light cannot escape.
Of all of the things the editor got wrong on this post, this is one of the things actually stated in the stub. I can forgive you for not getting that far, though; This post is utterly appalling.
Christianity is a blight on humanity and evil things like those emanating from Westboro' Baptist Church flow directly from Christianity.
Your generalisation is a clear sign of your ignorance. Go read up on moral panic specifically the bit about disproportionality. These two groups do not represent the respective majority of their religions, and their behaviour is not representative of the larger group.
I wrote to my then MP three years ago regarding some legislation regarding copyright and fair use. She said many things about IP being an important part of our economy, protection or rights being important, but ultimately this new law wouldn't help and her party (Lib Dem) and therefore herself would be voting against it.
She didn't even turn up to the vote. Don't think personally written correspondence is treated any better.
If he were trolling Mozilla he would have said "here's the patch!" and linked the IE download page. Um, did the IE vuln get fixed yet? Opera is looking better and better!
You can prise Mosaic from my cold, dead, Compaq Presario PC with 200MB hard drive and Pentium MMX CPU!
Yeah, but scammers had to originally tear out pages and hand them to call reps, which was time consuming and man-hour intensive. Now all they have to do is slip them all into a modem call list and when you pick up, they have your home address and full name on screen and linked up ready to jump straight into "Hello Mr Fest. I am calling from Windows Techincal Support about your home computer. You currently reside at $address, correct?".
It's like the bastard child of spear phishing and cold call scamming.
Conscience: an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong Consciousness: the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
If SkyNET developed a conscience, it would cancel third world debt and cut spending from pork-barrel programs, and would also be vegetarian.
Just FYI; It's an important distinction. No need to mod.
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I was in a situation where I literally had to choose between swerving and wrecking in to the cars beside me on the freeway or hitting the deer. Needless to say, if its an animal, it's game.
Actually in this instance it's venison.
Moat alligators are known to cause Cancer in the state of California.
Cure for Cancer:
1) Move to California
2) Kill all moat alligators.
I work in education. We filter websites for many reasons, but the biggest ones are:
1) Child protection. They are minors, and we have a duty of care to protect them, while in our care, from the dangers of the unfiltered internet. Don't tell me it's not necessary; The first time one of them finds rotten.com or sends a link to Goatse, it's game over publicity wise.
2. Network protection. We don't want kids downloading the latest and greatest screensavers to our (Yes, OUR, paid for by your taxes) PCs, meaning we have to spend hour upon hour each week cleaning up infections from workstations. God forbid they should find something not picked up by the virus scanner / IDS and it hits the servers.
3) Kids are stupid. Offer them the choice between writing an essay on the ancient Greeks or playing PokeBallFlashExtremeWOW 2 on $gamewebsite, and you're gonna have a bad day. Yes, the teachers should keep the pupils on task, but they are one person with 30 kids, and some of them just want to dick about all day. FWIW, this last group is filtered by time slot, so at breaks and lunch they're accessible.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know about this guy's website. I'll be sure to add it to the list of sites to grep and add to the filter. Like I say, my time spent cleaning up workstations is your tax money down the toilet.
What? Is this even possible?
"Looks like I'm not popular enough with this party to get into power; I'll swap sides, displaying a total lack of personal enthusiasm for the views of either party, and try and get into power with these other guys."
Please do tell me if I'm wrong, but this immediately stinks like last week's kippers in a hotel kettle.
I've lost 2 days of "free time" thanks to the way Offline Mode works with Steam. You either cache your credentials before going offline, as though you're taking your laptop on a trip, or you are locked out of your Steam games totally until you can access the internet again.
Try it: Log in to Steam, unplug your network cable / disconnect from wireless, and restart Steam. Offline mode won't even load. So, that one time when you have some free time but can't watch iPlayer / YouTube / Hulu etc because the internet is down? Can't play Steam games either.
Irrelevant conclusion; Whether you can get a CPU for under $600 doesn't address that you still need a 1kW PSU.
That isn't true. The key used to encrypt the container is different to the key used to unlock the container. When you supply the password / keyfile to TrueCrypt, it searches for the word "TRUE" in a portion of the container file reserved for this check. If this the case, the password and keyfile are used to decrypt the container key, which is then used to decrypt the volume. If "TRUE" isn't found, the key is incorrect and the container key is not decrypted.
When you change the password, you change the only the password used to encrypt the container key. The container key doesn't change, which is why you don't need to decrypt and re-encrypt the volume every time you change the password. TrueCrypt offers this as a way to recover a lost volume password; Overwrite the container key with the backed-up key, enter your original password, and you will be able to decrypt the container key (which remained unchanged) and therefore mount the encrypted volume.
Sorry this is a little garbled, but it's difficult to explain. I hope it's clear enough.
Frankly, his crime is akin to someone picking your locker door, and then going "look, you shouldn't store your wallet in here when you're swimming, it's not very secure".
Close, but needs to be more closely comparable with the actual situation. The systems he accessed had blank passwords. This is more like you putting you wallet in a locker at the swimming baths, but not bothering to lock it, then insisting that the guy who looked inside to see what's in there was going to plant a bomb, steal your identity, sell it on the black market, and is essentially responsible for the downfall of democracy.
I wouldn't class any of those CPUs as anything less than "enthusiast", and that is a much smaller market than "gamer". Not one of those CPUs can be bought for under $700; That paid for my CPU, motherboard, and memory this upgrade cycle, and like I said I'm a PC gamer. Your single GTX 680 falls well short; Same bandwidth as the 670 at 192GB/s.
Unless you're running an outrageously overpowered PSU for your rig (750w runs it all including 4 spinning platter drives, an optical drive and an SSD), you're in the same boat as me. You just paid more for the privilege.
Care to tell me how you know for certain that the next-gen gaming consoles or even set-top cable boxes won't meet all of these requirements 5-7 years from now? That's a hell of a lot of "server farms" running in damn near every household.
I know for certain that neither next-gen gaming consoles, nor set top cable boxes, will have a 1 Kilowatt draw. I will bet lots and lots of money on it, because the only consumer items which draw upwards of 1KW of electricity are used to either to cook your food or heat your home.
All criteria must be met to be exempt. It's stated in the very first line, right above the specifications list.
And that he wasn't in the US when he commited a crime in the US is a weak argument too. If you stand on the French-German border on the French side and I on the German side and I shoot you, wouldn't I have commited a crime in France (as well as in Germany, of course)?
This is absolutely fundamental to why this extradition cannot have been allowed to occur. He is not a spy, he didn't send the information he uncovered to anyone else, and he didn't cause any damage beyond identifying a weakness in security which shouldn't have existed in the first place. In the UK, under the provisions of the Computer Misuse Act, he'd get a maximum of 2 years in prison. In the US, he'd be tried as a terrorist and faced sixty years in federal prison.
Let's take that to your France / Germany analogy above. You stand on the border and throw a stone at a policeman in France. In Germany, you're charged with assault and get probation. If extradited to France, you're charged with GBH and attempted murder and you spend the rest of your natural life in an 8 x 6 cage with a hairy-backed bear named Jim.
Why the fuck would anybody try to cover up a health care problem with news about graphics cards?
Did you take a wrong turning somewhere? This is a site for nerds, many of whom play games or work in the tech industry. This is exactly the kind of story I'd publish if I wanted to hide something.
I'm betting it's CETA (AKA ACTA III) though.
Not a lawyer, but am a PC gamer. The computer needs to meet all of those requirements, and I would think that there are very few enthusiast PCs which hit all of them. My rig flies through the most recent games, but only meets one of those specs: 16GB RAM. I run a 750W PSU, Core i5 2500k (4 cores), and a GTX 670 (198GB/s bandwidth) which puts me well under the mark.
This exemption is for servers and parallel computing setups with multiple discrete GPUs. The only single cards which hit the 320GB/s bandwidth mark are the dual GPU cards, which is just two regular cards in Crossfire / SLI on one card. Top line Core i7 still only have 4 cores; You need Xeon or high-end Bulldozer CPUs to qualify (cores per CPU, remember).
This isn't a gamer's exemption. This is for server farms and universities running clusters.
Automatic safety gear exists because people can't be trusted to drive sensibly and safely. "Only a fool breaks the two second rule." If everyone left 2 seconds between themselves and the car in front all of the time ABS wouldn't even have been invented.
I have been reading Slashdot for fourteen years and I have never once complained about the grammar in a summary before. Usually there are enough pedants out there to do more than enough complaining, but this summary is horrible. I do not blame the submitter because I realize that English may not be his or her first language, but I thought Slashdot was supposed to have some sort of editorial staff who at least read the summary once before posting it to the front page. I had to read the second sentence several times to confirm that it meant what I thought it did, and in the rest of the summary the article "the" is missing at least two times. I really do love this site, but if you want to call yourself an editor, then please do the job or turn it over to someone who will.
Muphry's Law strikes again
Doesn't the play store run with escalated privileges in order to install apps?
Anyone versed in GTR here to help?
When the heart rules the mind
One look and love is blind
When you want the dream to last
Take a chance forget the past
Seasons will change
You must move on
Follow your dream
Burma Shave.
This isn't the event horizon. This is the closest distance matter can achieve a stable orbit. It's approx 5.5x the event horizon radius, where light cannot escape.
Of all of the things the editor got wrong on this post, this is one of the things actually stated in the stub. I can forgive you for not getting that far, though; This post is utterly appalling.
I sometimes wonder what happend since then
The Enlightenment happened
Christianity is a blight on humanity and evil things like those emanating from Westboro' Baptist Church flow directly from Christianity.
Your generalisation is a clear sign of your ignorance. Go read up on moral panic specifically the bit about disproportionality. These two groups do not represent the respective majority of their religions, and their behaviour is not representative of the larger group.
I wrote to my then MP three years ago regarding some legislation regarding copyright and fair use. She said many things about IP being an important part of our economy, protection or rights being important, but ultimately this new law wouldn't help and her party (Lib Dem) and therefore herself would be voting against it.
She didn't even turn up to the vote. Don't think personally written correspondence is treated any better.
If he were trolling Mozilla he would have said "here's the patch!" and linked the IE download page. Um, did the IE vuln get fixed yet? Opera is looking better and better!
You can prise Mosaic from my cold, dead, Compaq Presario PC with 200MB hard drive and Pentium MMX CPU!
Yeah, but scammers had to originally tear out pages and hand them to call reps, which was time consuming and man-hour intensive. Now all they have to do is slip them all into a modem call list and when you pick up, they have your home address and full name on screen and linked up ready to jump straight into "Hello Mr Fest. I am calling from Windows Techincal Support about your home computer. You currently reside at $address, correct?".
It's like the bastard child of spear phishing and cold call scamming.
You're still not reducing it down as far as it can go.
"This bill is not in the public interest, so we're not allowing the public to see it."
Or Skynet is gradually acquiring conscience
Conscience: an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong
Consciousness: the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
If SkyNET developed a conscience, it would cancel third world debt and cut spending from pork-barrel programs, and would also be vegetarian.
Just FYI; It's an important distinction. No need to mod.