Pansy? You mean the folks out there that don't like the idea of criminals having even easier access to firearms than they enjoy at the present? Especially firearms with basically no metal, except the firing pin, in them that are much easier to smuggle past metal detectors.
They're not just pansies, they're also idiots. No criminal is going to spend the obscene amount of money required for a 3D-printed gun that's reliable enough to not shatter in one's hand; not when there are so many cheaper alternatives to the problem of "there is a metal detector between me and the person I want to kill".
Simulating how the neurons and connections function won't be enough. You also need an initial state for each of them. Get even a tiny precentage of them wrong, and the result would probably be a virtual seizure.
Terrorists have just taken control of an oil tanker in San Francisco's bay. They have over a hundred hostages and have threatened to blow holes in the hull and scuttle the ship, causing a massive environmental disaster, unless a dozen of their copatriots from Guantanamo Bay are released. You have twenty four hours to comply. Do you:
a) Blow up the tanker with your orbital ion cannon because war is about murdering other people, and thus causing a massive ecological disaster and billions of dollars in economic damages, or;
b) Sneak a small team of Navy SEALS on board, neutralize the terrorists, and retake the ship with minimal casualties.
Okay, I can agree with the overall statement of your post, but wow. That's an absolutely massive strawman you've set up there.
Its retarded to say Sony took away 'Other OS' when you could have simply not upgraded
No, it is not. The advertised capabilities of the PS3 were "it plays games, and you can also run Linux on it!". Then Sony entered phase 2 of the bait-and-switch and that statement became "it plays games or you can run Linux on it, and once you choose option A you can never again have option B."
the Japanese Empire... with the Constitution more or less intact
Americans of Japanese descent might disagree with that. Forcing hundreds of thousands of innocent people into internment camps was probably not constitutional...
Well, I suppose you could lob a few bricks through the windows of their nearest office once a month, with the number of windows smashed determined by (monthly price of service * (number of ports blocked + number of false claims made against you + (advertised speed - actual speed)) / price of window).
Note that the units of advertised speed and actual speed can be determined by how you feel about the ISP's overall behavior and level of service. Slightly annoyed? Use MBps. Extremely pissed off? baud.
It seems he's saying that the Earth is almost too close to the Sun to sustain life, so I have to ask... are we talking about the same Earth here? You know, the one that's had dozens of ice ages?
It works for Apple because the products provide more utility than they take from you. Apple products are liberating, Microsoft products are painstaking.
You may be a bit off with your assessment, because I remember what using those iMacs were like in school, back before OSX. Do you remember how slow it was to boot up? The way CDs could get jammed in the drive? The inevitable crashes when trying to run Photoshop or Pagemaker, which not only lost all your work but also typically brought the entire system down with it? The hand-crampingly awful puck mouse? I do, and it made me avoid Macs like the plague a whole decade.
Can't say I'm surprised about how vulnerable our infrastructure is. TheDailyWTF is chock-full of stories about massive security holes in company networks, and the firing of anyone who tries to point them out and get them fixed.
I'm pretty sure they didn't mean for them to see the power outage in the subway system, and especially not all the NK citizens automatically pulling out their flashlights (indicating "yeah, this happens all the time").
Did you even read his response? His answer was: nothing directly, but educated people tend not to want to move to locations infamous for their lack of education.
OK, I did the unthinkable and skimmed the actual article, but I still have no idea what NTLM does, why it was chosen for whatever task it does, or what the potential repercussions are now that it's broken. Even the "Reminder About the Downside of Doing Nothing" section, which I hoped would explain exactly what an attacker could do, was light on details. Something about sending passwords to a remote machine?
No. They tried to make it work once, including filling the machine with all the quartars necessary to give exact change on a trillion-dollar coin, but the resulting black hole has discouraged subsequent efforts.
This might work in the short term, but infrastructue is a durable good; once built, it lasts a very long time. Look at the national highway system. Still there,
You may want to use a different example, since almost all the bridges of that highway system now need complete replacement.
Didn't the latest crazed gunman have almost no Internet presence at all? If this is just an excuse to more closely monitor people online, it's a pretty transparent one.
I see nothing wrong with developers targeting a stable and popular distribution. Linux is Linux, and once it runs on Ubuntu, any who are interested can make it run on other distos.
After all, a common reason developers used to give for not developing for Linux was the vast number of competing distros they'd have to deal with (tweaking their program such that it was able to run on each one, and each one had a different set of default libraries, configurations, media locations, etc...). That argument has all but disappeared now that Ubuntu has emerged as the "common face of Linux",
Probably because the OP does not have anywhere near enough time to spare setting up and maintaining a custom domain name and SMTP account for every relative.
If Republicans were slightly less corrupt and incompetent, they could have mopped the floor with Obama this year.
Yep, I think it's a real shame, even though I voted for Obama. Hopefully one day the Republican party will come back to its senses and pick an actual Republican as its presidential candidate, instead of the batch of crazed neocons we've been getting from them for over two decades.
Slashdot Mirror
The technology of 1995, today!
Then, after the cold war, there are no longer "Marxist Terror Gangs". They all just gave up and went home, I guess.
They're still around, just not in Europe anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)
Pansy? You mean the folks out there that don't like the idea of criminals having even easier access to firearms than they enjoy at the present? Especially firearms with basically no metal, except the firing pin, in them that are much easier to smuggle past metal detectors.
They're not just pansies, they're also idiots. No criminal is going to spend the obscene amount of money required for a 3D-printed gun that's reliable enough to not shatter in one's hand; not when there are so many cheaper alternatives to the problem of "there is a metal detector between me and the person I want to kill".
Simulating how the neurons and connections function won't be enough. You also need an initial state for each of them. Get even a tiny precentage of them wrong, and the result would probably be a virtual seizure.
I knew I couldn't be the only one!
Maybe they meant "homeopathic" encryption. The worse the encryption scheme, the safer your data is!
Terrorists have just taken control of an oil tanker in San Francisco's bay. They have over a hundred hostages and have threatened to blow holes in the hull and scuttle the ship, causing a massive environmental disaster, unless a dozen of their copatriots from Guantanamo Bay are released. You have twenty four hours to comply. Do you:
a) Blow up the tanker with your orbital ion cannon because war is about murdering other people, and thus causing a massive ecological disaster and billions of dollars in economic damages, or;
b) Sneak a small team of Navy SEALS on board, neutralize the terrorists, and retake the ship with minimal casualties.
Okay, I can agree with the overall statement of your post, but wow. That's an absolutely massive strawman you've set up there.
PS: "gung-ho", not "gun-ho"
Its retarded to say Sony took away 'Other OS' when you could have simply not upgraded
No, it is not. The advertised capabilities of the PS3 were "it plays games, and you can also run Linux on it!". Then Sony entered phase 2 of the bait-and-switch and that statement became "it plays games or you can run Linux on it, and once you choose option A you can never again have option B."
the Japanese Empire ... with the Constitution more or less intact
Americans of Japanese descent might disagree with that. Forcing hundreds of thousands of innocent people into internment camps was probably not constitutional...
Well, I suppose you could lob a few bricks through the windows of their nearest office once a month, with the number of windows smashed determined by (monthly price of service * (number of ports blocked + number of false claims made against you + (advertised speed - actual speed)) / price of window).
Note that the units of advertised speed and actual speed can be determined by how you feel about the ISP's overall behavior and level of service. Slightly annoyed? Use MBps. Extremely pissed off? baud.
It seems he's saying that the Earth is almost too close to the Sun to sustain life, so I have to ask... are we talking about the same Earth here? You know, the one that's had dozens of ice ages?
Yep, Slashdot could really use a "-1, obviously only read the first sentence" mod.
It works for Apple because the products provide more utility than they take from you. Apple products are liberating, Microsoft products are painstaking.
You may be a bit off with your assessment, because I remember what using those iMacs were like in school, back before OSX. Do you remember how slow it was to boot up? The way CDs could get jammed in the drive? The inevitable crashes when trying to run Photoshop or Pagemaker, which not only lost all your work but also typically brought the entire system down with it? The hand-crampingly awful puck mouse? I do, and it made me avoid Macs like the plague a whole decade.
Can't say I'm surprised about how vulnerable our infrastructure is. TheDailyWTF is chock-full of stories about massive security holes in company networks, and the firing of anyone who tries to point them out and get them fixed.
I'm pretty sure they didn't mean for them to see the power outage in the subway system, and especially not all the NK citizens automatically pulling out their flashlights (indicating "yeah, this happens all the time").
Did you even read his response? His answer was: nothing directly, but educated people tend not to want to move to locations infamous for their lack of education.
OK, I did the unthinkable and skimmed the actual article, but I still have no idea what NTLM does, why it was chosen for whatever task it does, or what the potential repercussions are now that it's broken. Even the "Reminder About the Downside of Doing Nothing" section, which I hoped would explain exactly what an attacker could do, was light on details. Something about sending passwords to a remote machine?
Can anyone shine some light on this?
No. They tried to make it work once, including filling the machine with all the quartars necessary to give exact change on a trillion-dollar coin, but the resulting black hole has discouraged subsequent efforts.
This might work in the short term, but infrastructue is a durable good; once built, it lasts a very long time. Look at the national highway system. Still there,
You may want to use a different example, since almost all the bridges of that highway system now need complete replacement.
Didn't the latest crazed gunman have almost no Internet presence at all? If this is just an excuse to more closely monitor people online, it's a pretty transparent one.
I see nothing wrong with developers targeting a stable and popular distribution. Linux is Linux, and once it runs on Ubuntu, any who are interested can make it run on other distos.
After all, a common reason developers used to give for not developing for Linux was the vast number of competing distros they'd have to deal with (tweaking their program such that it was able to run on each one, and each one had a different set of default libraries, configurations, media locations, etc...). That argument has all but disappeared now that Ubuntu has emerged as the "common face of Linux",
Probably because the OP does not have anywhere near enough time to spare setting up and maintaining a custom domain name and SMTP account for every relative.
If Republicans were slightly less corrupt and incompetent, they could have mopped the floor with Obama this year.
Yep, I think it's a real shame, even though I voted for Obama. Hopefully one day the Republican party will come back to its senses and pick an actual Republican as its presidential candidate, instead of the batch of crazed neocons we've been getting from them for over two decades.
"Four potential policy solutions are proposed: statutory damage reform, expansion of fair use, punishing false copyright claims, and limiting copyright terms."
YES. That one alone would go a long ways towards leveling the playing field between individuals and huge corporations.
...but then come the medical bills.