One of the astronomers in that list was punished for realizing he had emotional feelings about a student and telling her to go seek another adviser.
You're leaving out the part where he also harassed a second student. She provided the school with chat logs and other correspondence where he said things like âoeDo you think I am a shady person because I let myself be emotionally involved with my student?â and âoeI think I may actually be prone to this sort of thing.â The guy knew he was in the wrong, but instead of correcting his own behavior, he just moved on to the next student he could harass the same way.
The university barred him from contact with students and forced him undergo rehabilitative training not to punish him, but because he was a lawsuit waiting to happen when he finally went too far.
I think you mean "cyberspies" since this is about cyberespionage. But cyberspies can be cyberhackers, too (and they're all cyberpatriots who protect our cybershores from cyberterrorists).
The article is about TrendMicro urging people to consider the damage that could come from releasing security vulnerability information improperly, not about the government making it illegal.
The AC I originally responded to posted about prior restraint (censorship imposed on expression before the expression takes place), but no censorship is being imposed here. I pointed that out in my post.
You responded that the companied just pays the government off to make it illegal and asked "Why else would it be made illegal?" even though nothing was been made illegal and absolutely nothing in the article or summary could possibly lead to that conclusion.
It's a thing, all right. A paranoid, delusional thing.
I'm not the one who was making paranoid, delusional claims that the government made something illegal when absolutely nothing in the summary or article could possibly lead to that conclusion. The person who did that was you. Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss my advice.
It hasn't been made illegal and the company hasn't suggested that it should be. Put down your crack pipe, go back on the lithium to keep your paranoid schizophrenia under control and read the the article (or, hell, even the summary). The danger that TrendMicro warned of is a disclosed vulnerability being used by others, not that the government would come get you.
There's a big difference between a private company urging people to think about the potential damage that could come from releasing information improperly and the government passing a law that makes it illegal to release information.
The government that pretty much saved the world during WWII.
The government that is pretty much the only thing standing between you and actual, honest-to-god, slavery at the hands of corporations.
The government that provides food stamps so that you have at least a chance of not starving to death if you become unemployed.
The government that built all the highways, bridges and other infrastructure that allows modern commerce to happen.
The government that funded the creation of the internet which so much of modern society depends upon.
The government that provides clean water so that everyone isn't getting toxic water like Flint, MI without any alternative (and that same federal government is taking steps to fix the problem caused by the local idiots, so don't think that's a point toward your argument).
The government that prevents modern food supplies from resembling what Upton Sinclair described in The Jungle. Or maybe you want BSE infected beef in your diet and see this as a negative.
The government that enforces bans on lead in the paint used on children's toys.
The government that forced the recall of pet food tainted with melamine which was killing pets.
I could keep going. It's easier to make a list of the good things that come from our government than it is to come up with bad things. The reality is that nothing is perfect and refusing anything that isn't perfect is an impossible way to live.
If you think there's a serious problem with the government, suggest an alternative that will actually work rather than just saying "this isn't perfect, abandon it and let chaos reign!" because that's the most idiotic thing we could possibly do.
Because a lot of people know fuck all about security and will never update anything on their own. The alternative to turning on automatic updates is them running an unpatched system that they'll have someone reformat and reinstall in a few months after they've managed to pick up a dozen different types of malware.
In ye olden days, writing zeroes to a chunk of memory when it was freed could actually take a long time and bog down the single processing thread that existed in your CPU. To avoid that, the memory was simply marked as unused without clearing it. This was a significant performance enhancement at the time.
We're long past the days when we need that particular performance enhancement, but it's still there because "that's the way it's always been done." It's not that it can't be fixed; it's that nobody in the OS world has cared enough to fix it.
The last war will be between the followers of FSM and IPU.
Maybe the last religious war, but certainly not the last war. If there is one thing that humans excel at above all other things, it's finding reasons to hate other humans and commit acts of violence against them. As long as there are two people left on the planet, they'll find a way to hate each other, so the only way there will ever be a last war is if humanity goes extinct.
We all know that implementation takes time, but Unicode has been around for over twenty years now. Granted, you did spend about a decade (okay, two years or so, but it felt like a decade) screwing around with that crappy beta interface that everyone hated, but you gave up on that almost a year ago. You could have gotten this done by now if you hadn't been so intent on putting commercials (oh, sorry, videos) on the front page, but hey... bygones. Now would be a good time to fix something that people have literally been complaining about since the turn of the century.
You'd have a point if there was any substance to the article, but there isn't. There's a quote in the article, repeated in large, bold letters, which sums up what they're saying:
âoeWhile the standard could be good and secure, implementations by different vendors can have weaknesses and security issues."
But the large bold lettered part leaves out what followed; "This is common to all protocols,â and the entire article ignores that.
There is no protocol available that is 100% secure against hacking, but using one that actually has open source implementations that vendors can use (or at least use as a reference for their own implementation) is a vast improvement over the current situation. What we have now are half-assed proprietary protocols whose primary purpose is to enforce incompatibility with third party products and lock you into purchasing from a single manufacturer.
You aren't being Cassandra. You're being the descendant of the lone nutjob who ran around in the 70s screaming that nobody should implement TCP and everyone should stick with incompatible protcols because he thought nothing good could could possibly come from a universal standard.
Except the trademark applied for is a standard character format trademark which protects the actual phrase regardless of the particular font, color, design, etc. Sony is literally trying to get a trademark that will allow them to sue anyone who uses the phrase "Let's Play" for "Electronic transmission and streaming of video games via global and local computer networks; streaming of audio, visual, and audiovisual material via global and local computer networks."
There is nothing ambiguous and the only idiot is the one who is assuming that they're not doing what the application says they're doing; you.
You DO know, I hope, that I was replying to someone who said that the explosion was from a balloon filled with hydrogen, right?
It should be painfully obvious that I was bored (said so at the end, inf act) and was just wondering how much hydrogen it would take to make a six kiloton explosion and how big the balloon would have to be to hold that hydrogen. Some of us do pointless math for fun.
From the article: "an estimated explosive yield of six kilotons and a quake with a magnitude of 4.8 were detected Wednesday"
Hmmm....
One mole of Hydrogen will produce 241.8 kilojoules of energy when burned.
A kiloton explosion releases 4.184*10^12 joules, so we're looking at 2.51*10^13 joules for this explosion. That would require 1.04*10^8 moles of hydrogen.
A mole of hydrogen is 22.4 liters, so that gives us 2.3*10^14 liters of hydrogen. That means the balloon had to be 230 cubic kilometers and, when popped, it would have sucked up all the oxygen in a surrounding area of about 547 cubic kilometers.
This tells us one absolutely undeniable fact; I'm really fucking bored.
In this case, that would be the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration who answers to the Secretary of the Treasury who is a part of the President's Cabinet and thus answers to the President who answers to Congress and we pretend that Congress answers to the people.
What jurisdiction does England have over a Japanese fishing vessel?
England governs Ascension Island, so they have jurisdiction over all ships that enter the waters around the island, regardless of where they originated from. Being from a different country does not give you a free pass to violate the local laws.
Well that's a horrible idea. Let's use a car analogy to explain why!
You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on fuel for your car over the time you own it. Should we make it illegal for car manufacturers to make cars that allow you to use that much fuel? Should the car stop working after you've spend X dollars on fuel and refuse to allow any more fuel to be put in the tank until you contact the manufacturer, provide proof of identity and authorize another X dollars worth of fuel usage?
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One of the astronomers in that list was punished for realizing he had emotional feelings about a student and telling her to go seek another adviser.
You're leaving out the part where he also harassed a second student. She provided the school with chat logs and other correspondence where he said things like âoeDo you think I am a shady person because I let myself be emotionally involved with my student?â and âoeI think I may actually be prone to this sort of thing.â The guy knew he was in the wrong, but instead of correcting his own behavior, he just moved on to the next student he could harass the same way.
The university barred him from contact with students and forced him undergo rehabilitative training not to punish him, but because he was a lawsuit waiting to happen when he finally went too far.
What is a summary? Why does it not contain every detail about a story?
For bonus points, use a dictionary to find out what a summary is and use Google to find out what those people did along with when, where, why and how.
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I think you mean "cyberspies" since this is about cyberespionage. But cyberspies can be cyberhackers, too (and they're all cyberpatriots who protect our cybershores from cyberterrorists).
In the 80s and 90s being fired for having AIDS was an issue; but I really hope it isn't now.
Let me crush those hopes for you.
Modern science isn't conducted by rubbing two sticks together and seeing what happens, it requires complicated equipment.
Sometimes it's not much more complicated than rubbing two sticks together, no complicated equipment required.
Perhaps you should re-read the posts.
The article is about TrendMicro urging people to consider the damage that could come from releasing security vulnerability information improperly, not about the government making it illegal.
The AC I originally responded to posted about prior restraint (censorship imposed on expression before the expression takes place), but no censorship is being imposed here. I pointed that out in my post.
You responded that the companied just pays the government off to make it illegal and asked "Why else would it be made illegal?" even though nothing was been made illegal and absolutely nothing in the article or summary could possibly lead to that conclusion.
It's a thing, all right. A paranoid, delusional thing.
I'm not the one who was making paranoid, delusional claims that the government made something illegal when absolutely nothing in the summary or article could possibly lead to that conclusion. The person who did that was you. Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss my advice.
It hasn't been made illegal and the company hasn't suggested that it should be. Put down your crack pipe, go back on the lithium to keep your paranoid schizophrenia under control and read the the article (or, hell, even the summary). The danger that TrendMicro warned of is a disclosed vulnerability being used by others, not that the government would come get you.
There's a big difference between a private company urging people to think about the potential damage that could come from releasing information improperly and the government passing a law that makes it illegal to release information.
What great social good is Krauss providing by trying to scoop the investigators?
He loves his imaginary internet points
The government that pretty much saved the world during WWII.
The government that is pretty much the only thing standing between you and actual, honest-to-god, slavery at the hands of corporations.
The government that provides food stamps so that you have at least a chance of not starving to death if you become unemployed.
The government that built all the highways, bridges and other infrastructure that allows modern commerce to happen.
The government that funded the creation of the internet which so much of modern society depends upon.
The government that provides clean water so that everyone isn't getting toxic water like Flint, MI without any alternative (and that same federal government is taking steps to fix the problem caused by the local idiots, so don't think that's a point toward your argument).
The government that prevents modern food supplies from resembling what Upton Sinclair described in The Jungle. Or maybe you want BSE infected beef in your diet and see this as a negative.
The government that enforces bans on lead in the paint used on children's toys.
The government that forced the recall of pet food tainted with melamine which was killing pets.
I could keep going. It's easier to make a list of the good things that come from our government than it is to come up with bad things. The reality is that nothing is perfect and refusing anything that isn't perfect is an impossible way to live.
If you think there's a serious problem with the government, suggest an alternative that will actually work rather than just saying "this isn't perfect, abandon it and let chaos reign!" because that's the most idiotic thing we could possibly do.
Because a lot of people know fuck all about security and will never update anything on their own. The alternative to turning on automatic updates is them running an unpatched system that they'll have someone reformat and reinstall in a few months after they've managed to pick up a dozen different types of malware.
Technically, it's a feature.
In ye olden days, writing zeroes to a chunk of memory when it was freed could actually take a long time and bog down the single processing thread that existed in your CPU. To avoid that, the memory was simply marked as unused without clearing it. This was a significant performance enhancement at the time.
We're long past the days when we need that particular performance enhancement, but it's still there because "that's the way it's always been done." It's not that it can't be fixed; it's that nobody in the OS world has cared enough to fix it.
I think it's more likely that Diablo was extremely horny.
The last war will be between the followers of FSM and IPU.
Maybe the last religious war, but certainly not the last war. If there is one thing that humans excel at above all other things, it's finding reasons to hate other humans and commit acts of violence against them. As long as there are two people left on the planet, they'll find a way to hate each other, so the only way there will ever be a last war is if humanity goes extinct.
PS: Dear slashdot,
We all know that implementation takes time, but Unicode has been around for over twenty years now. Granted, you did spend about a decade (okay, two years or so, but it felt like a decade) screwing around with that crappy beta interface that everyone hated, but you gave up on that almost a year ago. You could have gotten this done by now if you hadn't been so intent on putting commercials (oh, sorry, videos) on the front page, but hey... bygones. Now would be a good time to fix something that people have literally been complaining about since the turn of the century.
You'd have a point if there was any substance to the article, but there isn't. There's a quote in the article, repeated in large, bold letters, which sums up what they're saying:
âoeWhile the standard could be good and secure, implementations by different vendors can have weaknesses and security issues."
But the large bold lettered part leaves out what followed; "This is common to all protocols,â and the entire article ignores that.
There is no protocol available that is 100% secure against hacking, but using one that actually has open source implementations that vendors can use (or at least use as a reference for their own implementation) is a vast improvement over the current situation. What we have now are half-assed proprietary protocols whose primary purpose is to enforce incompatibility with third party products and lock you into purchasing from a single manufacturer.
You aren't being Cassandra. You're being the descendant of the lone nutjob who ran around in the 70s screaming that nobody should implement TCP and everyone should stick with incompatible protcols because he thought nothing good could could possibly come from a universal standard.
Except the trademark applied for is a standard character format trademark which protects the actual phrase regardless of the particular font, color, design, etc. Sony is literally trying to get a trademark that will allow them to sue anyone who uses the phrase "Let's Play" for "Electronic transmission and streaming of video games via global and local computer networks; streaming of audio, visual, and audiovisual material via global and local computer networks."
There is nothing ambiguous and the only idiot is the one who is assuming that they're not doing what the application says they're doing; you.
As a bonus, the maintainer should be grumpy.
But I don't want to maintain anything.
He was concerned that his comment might be a security risk, so he dumbed the fuck out of it to make it more secure.
You DO know, I hope, that I was replying to someone who said that the explosion was from a balloon filled with hydrogen, right?
It should be painfully obvious that I was bored (said so at the end, inf act) and was just wondering how much hydrogen it would take to make a six kiloton explosion and how big the balloon would have to be to hold that hydrogen. Some of us do pointless math for fun.
From the article:
"an estimated explosive yield of six kilotons and a quake with a magnitude of 4.8 were detected Wednesday"
Hmmm....
One mole of Hydrogen will produce 241.8 kilojoules of energy when burned.
A kiloton explosion releases 4.184*10^12 joules, so we're looking at 2.51*10^13 joules for this explosion. That would require 1.04*10^8 moles of hydrogen.
A mole of hydrogen is 22.4 liters, so that gives us 2.3*10^14 liters of hydrogen. That means the balloon had to be 230 cubic kilometers and, when popped, it would have sucked up all the oxygen in a surrounding area of about 547 cubic kilometers.
This tells us one absolutely undeniable fact; I'm really fucking bored.
In this case, that would be the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration who answers to the Secretary of the Treasury who is a part of the President's Cabinet and thus answers to the President who answers to Congress and we pretend that Congress answers to the people.
What jurisdiction does England have over a Japanese fishing vessel?
England governs Ascension Island, so they have jurisdiction over all ships that enter the waters around the island, regardless of where they originated from. Being from a different country does not give you a free pass to violate the local laws.
Well that's a horrible idea. Let's use a car analogy to explain why!
You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on fuel for your car over the time you own it. Should we make it illegal for car manufacturers to make cars that allow you to use that much fuel? Should the car stop working after you've spend X dollars on fuel and refuse to allow any more fuel to be put in the tank until you contact the manufacturer, provide proof of identity and authorize another X dollars worth of fuel usage?