New Zealand is a sovereign nation right? (or were b4 you sold out to big media) How can France force you to give them back?
NZ was hoping that at least one other country would support them over the issue. Even the UK wasn't going to help prevent France hurting NZ trade to Europe. So the best NZ could hope for was a token compensation payment from France and handing the spies back.
Extra galling when tens of thousands of NZers died in two world wars defending France and the UK.
All those SQL Injection CVEs for both projects all seemed to me like they were in 3rd party addon modules/plugins.
Without any kind of looking into just how many 3rd party addons are available for each project and whether or not the vulnerable ones are ever likely to actually be installed on the average site, it's jumping to conclusions to use that to compare the two projects to each other.
eg for Drupal I looked at how many sites report using those Drupal modules, and got: 3423, 30*, 163, unknown*, 1957 for the 5 modules that had CVEs. The two marked (*) were marked with large warnings as insecure and abandoned with . And this is out of 19000+ modules hosted at drupal.org.
For comparison the most popular contributed Drupal addon module reported 547306 sites currently using it. It would be safe to say that less than 1% of Drupal sites have ever used any of those modules that had SQL Injection vulnerabilities this year.
Wordpress has even more addons available than Drupal. I don't think 5 or 6 SQL Injection vulnerabilities in a year out of roughly 20000 3rd party addons is enough evidence to claim either project is not doing a "pretty good job". You'd need to look at other factors.
It is in short supply these days, in all camps. Actually, to be fair, I frequently run into proponents of Climate Change who've as much understanding of scientific methodology as the Creationist posing for a photo next to the exhibit of the saddled triceratops. Maybe they 'believe' it because they saw it in a picture with text on facebook. Who knows. It doesn't help, either way.
I dunno.
In general for someone who doesn't know much about something and isn't able to really learn about it, blindly deferring to the experts is usually a far more tenable position than blindly refuting the experts.
Yeah... but how many record breaking vehicles look anything like their normal versions? Boats, planes, cars, etc, there are always huge trade offs they have to make to get maximum speed.
Up until just recently these records had been set by windsurfers and kitesurfers using very mainstream looking gear.
In fact the linked gizmodo article even has a section on how accessible that equipment is. As an example: The second fastest time set by a windsurfer this week (which would've been an outright 500m world record as recent as 2010) was set using off the shelf production equipment that anyone can just buy.
All of the "Why the hell are we talking about sports on Slashdot?" commentary above is to be expected... but let's get this established for the record: You people are talking about of your ass.
Actually, I have to cite another example for reason #2 because I know I'm going to get pushback on the notion that people who devote their lives to physical activity might possibly be really smart:
Here's some resources for those who aren't married to their own stereotypes:
Admittedly, I don't expect to change a lot of minds here. But knee-jerk haters need to STFU.
All that presumption and defensiveness really detracts from your otherwise insightful post. Basing on your own broad brush stereotypes is also a bit hypocritical too. Get over it.
Oh so now we're being nuanced? Two days ago when Sinofsky left Microsoft this site was ablaze with predictions of doom for Microsoft, including this sensationalist front page article entitled "The Empire in Decline. Now that a respected technologist and geek has something positive to say about Microsoft, all the "Well hold on a second, let's take a moment and be reasonable here..." comments get modded +5.
It's almost like there are differing opinions or something.
Anyway you're being a little bit hypocritical here Anonymous Coward - your posts are all over the place! You can't make your mind up about anything!
...which tells us that GUI usability is all that matters....which tells us that GUI usability is all that matters. OK, together with app availability, but whenever the latter is in balance for two competitors, GUI usability stands out as the only thing that matters. Desktop Linux should learn from Android. What Android got right: - Nice app names, mostly. - Excellent, easy to use GUI. - No Command line shit required to do stuff. - Great fonts - Easy customization.
You're just thinking Androids success is down to its technology. I'd bet a huge amount of that global smartphone marketshare is from people on their first smartphone who probably haven't used any other smartphone yet.
What it tells me is that a well known name, price, availability, OEM support, distribution channels and at least some amount of marketing is what really matters. Coincidentally these were mostly the same factors in the rise and dominance of Windows on the desktop. Which is why desktop Linux learning those UI lessons from Android still wouldn't make much difference.
Androids tech and UI probably only matters when competing against Apple for existing smartphone users in wealthy countries. Not so much for first time smartphone users who can't afford an iPhone, and go to a shop that is wall to wall with Android devices of all types and prices. I'm not even sure your list of things Android does right even matter much to the average user (globally). They're probably just happy to be able to do some occasional web browsing from their phone, and some (like my wife) don't even really know or care what Android is.
Can't fix the latency problem though. NZ isn't exactly close to many other significant countries.
The new cable can't fix the latency but it was designed to improve it a bit. The existing Southern Cross cable goes via Hawaii, while Pacific Fibre planned to take a more direct route by shaving off approx 2000km (from memory) and some extra landing points.
As an example of the fatigue life of these composites, consider Ben Ainslie's boat in the last three Olympics. It has been the same one...before carbon/aramid, boats used for one Olympics had to be replaced because of the damage caused by the stresses. Yet the carbon/aramid hull is lighter.
Guess what I'm making my new boat hull out of?
Another great marine example is modern windsurfing gear. Nearly all boards and masts these days have a high carbon content, and now have the highest strength to weight ratios ever.
Early carbon gear (15-20yrs ago) was a quite fragile, but more experience and newer construction techniques mean it's very tough and more UV resistant now without getting any heavier. Breakages are not as common as they used to be - even for 6kg boards that regularly plummet from 40ft up with 80-90kg of rider standing on them.
M.any years ago they were talking about Enlightenment wanting to replace X11
You're not thinking of the Berlin Consortium or something are you? I think they changed their name to something catchier later, but it escapes me (<sarcasm>well that obviously worked</sarcasm>).
Enlightenment was always intended to be something on top of X11 as far as I can remember (could be wrong of course).
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NZ was hoping that at least one other country would support them over the issue. Even the UK wasn't going to help prevent France hurting NZ trade to Europe. So the best NZ could hope for was a token compensation payment from France and handing the spies back.
Extra galling when tens of thousands of NZers died in two world wars defending France and the UK.
I still don't think having huge breasts would help the average slashdotter land a job in a strip club.
That was the summary's fault.
The actual article didn't say there was no loop at all:
All those SQL Injection CVEs for both projects all seemed to me like they were in 3rd party addon modules/plugins.
Without any kind of looking into just how many 3rd party addons are available for each project and whether or not the vulnerable ones are ever likely to actually be installed on the average site, it's jumping to conclusions to use that to compare the two projects to each other.
eg for Drupal I looked at how many sites report using those Drupal modules, and got:
3423, 30*, 163, unknown*, 1957 for the 5 modules that had CVEs. The two marked (*) were marked with large warnings as insecure and abandoned with . And this is out of 19000+ modules hosted at drupal.org.
For comparison the most popular contributed Drupal addon module reported 547306 sites currently using it. It would be safe to say that less than 1% of Drupal sites have ever used any of those modules that had SQL Injection vulnerabilities this year.
Someone else wanting the same data for Wordpress (I ran out of enthusiasm), could look it up here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
Wordpress has even more addons available than Drupal. I don't think 5 or 6 SQL Injection vulnerabilities in a year out of roughly 20000 3rd party addons is enough evidence to claim either project is not doing a "pretty good job". You'd need to look at other factors.
I dunno.
In general for someone who doesn't know much about something and isn't able to really learn about it, blindly deferring to the experts is usually a far more tenable position than blindly refuting the experts.
I'm talking about any topic here BTW.
I presume the anti particles are made of teflons.
Could you condense that for me?
Up until just recently these records had been set by windsurfers and kitesurfers using very mainstream looking gear.
In fact the linked gizmodo article even has a section on how accessible that equipment is. As an example: The second fastest time set by a windsurfer this week (which would've been an outright 500m world record as recent as 2010) was set using off the shelf production equipment that anyone can just buy.
Is that VMG being compared to the windspeed at the surface or at the altitude of the kite?
If I had to guess, I'd say ash and felt?
All that presumption and defensiveness really detracts from your otherwise insightful post. Basing on your own broad brush stereotypes is also a bit hypocritical too. Get over it.
Iron Man? What? Was Sabbath out of town that weekend or something?
It's almost like there are differing opinions or something.
Anyway you're being a little bit hypocritical here Anonymous Coward - your posts are all over the place! You can't make your mind up about anything!
You're just thinking Androids success is down to its technology. I'd bet a huge amount of that global smartphone marketshare is from people on their first smartphone who probably haven't used any other smartphone yet.
What it tells me is that a well known name, price, availability, OEM support, distribution channels and at least some amount of marketing is what really matters. Coincidentally these were mostly the same factors in the rise and dominance of Windows on the desktop. Which is why desktop Linux learning those UI lessons from Android still wouldn't make much difference.
Androids tech and UI probably only matters when competing against Apple for existing smartphone users in wealthy countries. Not so much for first time smartphone users who can't afford an iPhone, and go to a shop that is wall to wall with Android devices of all types and prices. I'm not even sure your list of things Android does right even matter much to the average user (globally). They're probably just happy to be able to do some occasional web browsing from their phone, and some (like my wife) don't even really know or care what Android is.
Wow. I have never seen that much Whoosh from a single post before.
Well done.
I gave up Windows on account of a penguin.
Don't you mean VMWare?
The new cable can't fix the latency but it was designed to improve it a bit. The existing Southern Cross cable goes via Hawaii, while Pacific Fibre planned to take a more direct route by shaving off approx 2000km (from memory) and some extra landing points.
Another great marine example is modern windsurfing gear. Nearly all boards and masts these days have a high carbon content, and now have the highest strength to weight ratios ever.
Early carbon gear (15-20yrs ago) was a quite fragile, but more experience and newer construction techniques mean it's very tough and more UV resistant now without getting any heavier. Breakages are not as common as they used to be - even for 6kg boards that regularly plummet from 40ft up with 80-90kg of rider standing on them.
That's it. Yep - dead as a dodo.
Watching online video on Linux probably means using Flash which has awful performance on Linux.
Your phone is possibly (I'm guessing) using a nice native hardware accelerated video codec.
You're not thinking of the Berlin Consortium or something are you? I think they changed their name to something catchier later, but it escapes me (<sarcasm>well that obviously worked</sarcasm>).
Enlightenment was always intended to be something on top of X11 as far as I can remember (could be wrong of course).
Just like steroids in sports right?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't distillation actually physics rather than chemistry?
Sure it gets used a lot more often in chemistry class than physics class though.
The solar system. Over and over and over and over again...