It is wrong to have pillars that close to the track and Stephen Plate shows this to the rest of the world.
Period!
No discussion!
And yet, here we are discussing it. I think it is fine for pillars to be that close, on a track for a sport that is participated in voluntarily and with full knowledge that those pillars are there. All it would have taken is for the lugers to say "we aren't going down that course with those pillars there", if it were so clear that the pillars shouldn't have been there.
Of course the athletes can choose not to participate. However, most athletes have been training for years for this event, so the threshold for not participating is really high, even if they had a pool of sharks with friggin lasers at the bottom. Just because you don't have to participate, doesn't mean that the security measures can be inadequate. Simply raising the walls doesn't make the sport equivalent to kitten hugging
Finally someone who is responsible with their time machine use. Now when you go back in time and do something nasty that changes the future, just roll back to last Saturday morning with the nice bacon and eggs.
Shitty jobs? Exploding friggin mines with explosives, after exploding a warning explosive? I for one would welcome the cool job of our robot underlings.
Nice stereotyping. What's wrong with laziness, anyway? One of the virtues of a good programmer.
That is actually one statement I disagree with completely. Laziness is not a virtue. Code reuse is a virtue. If you're really lazy you do an ugly copy-paste, and leave it like that. Then you hardcode some stuff in there because it's easier. If you put some effort in it, you integrate it properly, which is more work, but it'll make it easier to maintain in the future. Laziness in all IT in general is bad, horrible in most cases. Put some effort in it and you reduce your workload.
So, this will mean people will sit on their assess, riding the electric bike and go "oh, that was some good exercise, now I can eat a tub of chocolate ice-cream since I burned all those calories". Then they bitch everywhere that they can't lose weight no matte rhow much they exercise.
Not that I'm against electric bikes, that would make a 15km trip to work enjoyable, without too much sweat on the way there. But I fear laziness will win for most people.
If we say it's safe and we're wrong, we'll all be dead and it won't matter.
Uhm, it won't matter? Well legally maybe, but you know, scientist at CERN are not some crazy mad scientists with a deathwish for themselves and everybody else. It's not like they say "Hmm, well, the earth will probably be destroyed, but that means I don't have to go to that boring annual tea party in june. Ah, what the heck, let's say it's safe". It would be more like "Uhm, guys, check these calculations, we'd better send this to mr big boss NOW, since if we go to higher energies we might fuck things up"
I wouldn't say that this is any proof that GPL shouldn't be used. Yes, in long running bigger projects, who holds the code copyright can of course become an issue, but this also means that contributions to the code muse be respected. This is actually more acout copyright than license. There would be the same problems in a hypothetical multi-developer closed source code. It would just be harder to verify if the source and the contributions aren't available. It's just that closed source code is usually run by companies, which own the copyright of the code their coders produce.
People like you are as much a problem as Big Media's absurd power grabs.
Uhm, people like him, the problem? What he's doing could be completely legal outside the US. For example if I'm not completely mistaken, in Finland it's still legal to make a few copies to your friends of media you legally own. I don't see how this differs? ACTA might aim to put a stop on that, but I really would like to see how the law fares in EU. I think, and hope, it will be heavily criticised by enough people to not make it pass
True but I don't understand how my comment is labeled troll but the two above, equally off-topic quotes are insightful when all I did was expand on them.
Ah well, even if the/. mod system is the best I've seen, that doesn't mean that the moderators are perfect. I fear any female moderators at a bad time of the month. Not to be sexist, I bet the men are just as bad sometimes. And everyone also has their own view of things, nobody can be totally objective all the time. That said, in general still, kudos to the moderators (no, it's not a cheap trick to get modded up:P) .
There are plenty of people working on ITER who do agree. But they figure that it's a worthy endeavor without necessarily being a commercially viable final product. (ie They think we'll learn a lot from doing it.)
Plus, it's funded by the EU and they're just throwing money it at with very little expectation of anything in return.
Well, Wikipedia disagrees a bit, under 50% of it is funded by EU. And EU isn't a magical money fairy which throws around money without any expectations of future gains, although in this case, the gains may be pretty far in the future. That said, I know there have lately been more questions about th feasibility if ITER, but I doubt it'll be shut down either.
So you didn't bother to RTFA did you now? It was after all ONE click away and stuff.Apparently just a specific subset, though it would probably be easy to find other websites with vulnerabilities similar to Twitter's. Basically, although he couldn't directly read the encrypted user name and password passed between Twitter servers and clients, he was able to exploit functionality in Twitter's public API to log the data from the request to a location he could access, including the stuff that had been encrypted in transit.
Well, I live in France, but I really don't speak enough to follow the local newspapers. But I think the main issue is that Scientology is not considered a religion, it's considered a cult. And I'm not saying religions should have more freedoms, but they do, so doing the same to religions would prove much more tricky.
Yeah, 'blame Canada' - to put it in context, most Canadians west of Ontario, view Ontario in the same way most Americans view France - that is, hopelessly and utterly broken.
Funny, in France it's the other way around. And to lend some credence to their point, the did just convicted Scientology of fraud. (And no, I'm not French)
Who pays for this human right of broadband Internet access in Finland? Is it completely subsidized by the government?
For the remote locations (last 5% of the population) it will be partly subsidized. The cost will be split between the state, the city and the telco. The telco will pay at least 1/3 of the costs, the city at most 1/3 of the costs and the state at most 1/3 of the cost.
as the guy said in the article, it should kick you from a session at expired certs, not allow click through options
if the cert is expired/ unverifiable, the browser should simply kick the session, end of story
that should really be the only option available to anyone. its psychological: take this seriously, sorry for the inconvenience. otherwise, lazy admins will let their expired/ malformed certs hang out there for a lot longer (which i've seen even on a credit card site: capital one), because users just easily circumvent the roadblock. they'll definitely notice if no users can get through, and the angry emails pile in their inbox
I partly agree with you. The question is, would it help much? I could easily register verytrustedbusiness.com for stealing credit cards, and get a valid certificate for it. Now when a user surfs there he/she sees "ooh! A trusted web site!", which is only partly true. The certificate only confirms (well, should) that the owner of the domain is the one running the server. It doesn't mean the site should be trusted. Of course it would make it easier to track the culprits (me in this case), but that's a small comfort for the already cheated ones.
BS. Cracked robots in their current state are an inconvenience. I agree that they need to improve security, but mainly for future models which are more capable.
Show me a household robot which can stab you in the eye with a breadknife it took from the drawer, and I'll reconsider agreeing with you
Difference number 2: MS was hated by many geeks, and by geek sites such as Slashdot, or at least criticised for these actions. Apple on the other hand are loved, even by geeks, with these actions twisted around to be good things, and with sites given no end of free advertising and hype ("You can read this webpage On Your Iphone" as we once had, or witness yesterday's non-story of "Someone releases a second application for the Iphone"...)
I disagree a bit here. Among a good subset of geeks Apple is hated too. I am definately one of them, and wouldn't touch an Apple product to save my life. The difference is, Apple beats MS in user interface design and implementation, which is why it's probably hyped and loved by many. This of course doesn't change their horrible lock-in policies, and extreme secrecy, instead of openness, if they have a chance. So I dislike the company, and won't buy their products, even if the products themselves might be nice
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It makes us feel "save" in a way that if push comes to shove we will find some way to delay or attack the adversary.
Or we could just load and try again.
It is wrong to have pillars that close to the track and Stephen Plate shows this to the rest of the world. Period! No discussion!
And yet, here we are discussing it. I think it is fine for pillars to be that close, on a track for a sport that is participated in voluntarily and with full knowledge that those pillars are there. All it would have taken is for the lugers to say "we aren't going down that course with those pillars there", if it were so clear that the pillars shouldn't have been there.
Of course the athletes can choose not to participate. However, most athletes have been training for years for this event, so the threshold for not participating is really high, even if they had a pool of sharks with friggin lasers at the bottom. Just because you don't have to participate, doesn't mean that the security measures can be inadequate. Simply raising the walls doesn't make the sport equivalent to kitten hugging
remote time machine backups to a linux box
Finally someone who is responsible with their time machine use. Now when you go back in time and do something nasty that changes the future, just roll back to last Saturday morning with the nice bacon and eggs.
Shitty jobs? Exploding friggin mines with explosives, after exploding a warning explosive? I for one would welcome the cool job of our robot underlings.
Nice stereotyping. What's wrong with laziness, anyway? One of the virtues of a good programmer.
That is actually one statement I disagree with completely. Laziness is not a virtue. Code reuse is a virtue. If you're really lazy you do an ugly copy-paste, and leave it like that. Then you hardcode some stuff in there because it's easier. If you put some effort in it, you integrate it properly, which is more work, but it'll make it easier to maintain in the future. Laziness in all IT in general is bad, horrible in most cases. Put some effort in it and you reduce your workload.
So, this will mean people will sit on their assess, riding the electric bike and go "oh, that was some good exercise, now I can eat a tub of chocolate ice-cream since I burned all those calories". Then they bitch everywhere that they can't lose weight no matte rhow much they exercise.
Not that I'm against electric bikes, that would make a 15km trip to work enjoyable, without too much sweat on the way there. But I fear laziness will win for most people.
If we say it's safe and we're wrong, we'll all be dead and it won't matter.
Uhm, it won't matter? Well legally maybe, but you know, scientist at CERN are not some crazy mad scientists with a deathwish for themselves and everybody else. It's not like they say "Hmm, well, the earth will probably be destroyed, but that means I don't have to go to that boring annual tea party in june. Ah, what the heck, let's say it's safe". It would be more like "Uhm, guys, check these calculations, we'd better send this to mr big boss NOW, since if we go to higher energies we might fuck things up"
I wouldn't say that this is any proof that GPL shouldn't be used. Yes, in long running bigger projects, who holds the code copyright can of course become an issue, but this also means that contributions to the code muse be respected. This is actually more acout copyright than license. There would be the same problems in a hypothetical multi-developer closed source code. It would just be harder to verify if the source and the contributions aren't available. It's just that closed source code is usually run by companies, which own the copyright of the code their coders produce.
People like you are as much a problem as Big Media's absurd power grabs.
Uhm, people like him, the problem? What he's doing could be completely legal outside the US. For example if I'm not completely mistaken, in Finland it's still legal to make a few copies to your friends of media you legally own. I don't see how this differs? ACTA might aim to put a stop on that, but I really would like to see how the law fares in EU. I think, and hope, it will be heavily criticised by enough people to not make it pass
True but I don't understand how my comment is labeled troll but the two above, equally off-topic quotes are insightful when all I did was expand on them.
Ah well, even if the /. mod system is the best I've seen, that doesn't mean that the moderators are perfect. I fear any female moderators at a bad time of the month. Not to be sexist, I bet the men are just as bad sometimes. And everyone also has their own view of things, nobody can be totally objective all the time. That said, in general still, kudos to the moderators (no, it's not a cheap trick to get modded up :P) .
"The people working on ITER clearly don't agree."
Er, no.
There are plenty of people working on ITER who do agree. But they figure that it's a worthy endeavor without necessarily being a commercially viable final product. (ie They think we'll learn a lot from doing it.)
Plus, it's funded by the EU and they're just throwing money it at with very little expectation of anything in return.
Well, Wikipedia disagrees a bit, under 50% of it is funded by EU. And EU isn't a magical money fairy which throws around money without any expectations of future gains, although in this case, the gains may be pretty far in the future. That said, I know there have lately been more questions about th feasibility if ITER, but I doubt it'll be shut down either.
So you didn't bother to RTFA did you now? It was after all ONE click away and stuff.Apparently just a specific subset, though it would probably be easy to find other websites with vulnerabilities similar to Twitter's. Basically, although he couldn't directly read the encrypted user name and password passed between Twitter servers and clients, he was able to exploit functionality in Twitter's public API to log the data from the request to a location he could access, including the stuff that had been encrypted in transit.
So, added slashdot formatting for you
I, eh.. seventh this? eight this? Anyway, get one.
If you really did GPLd it, you should have included the license with the code. So hah!
Well, I live in France, but I really don't speak enough to follow the local newspapers. But I think the main issue is that Scientology is not considered a religion, it's considered a cult. And I'm not saying religions should have more freedoms, but they do, so doing the same to religions would prove much more tricky.
Yeah, 'blame Canada' - to put it in context, most Canadians west of Ontario, view Ontario in the same way most Americans view France - that is, hopelessly and utterly broken.
Funny, in France it's the other way around. And to lend some credence to their point, the did just convicted Scientology of fraud. (And no, I'm not French)
First launc *Kaboooom*
Now if we could only implement a beer sharing protocol that works over internet...
Now taking the time to explain it this well and in length, would deserve the mod points I don't have. You'll have to do with a thank you post.
Who pays for this human right of broadband Internet access in Finland? Is it completely subsidized by the government?
For the remote locations (last 5% of the population) it will be partly subsidized. The cost will be split between the state, the city and the telco. The telco will pay at least 1/3 of the costs, the city at most 1/3 of the costs and the state at most 1/3 of the cost.
as the guy said in the article, it should kick you from a session at expired certs, not allow click through options
if the cert is expired/ unverifiable, the browser should simply kick the session, end of story
that should really be the only option available to anyone. its psychological: take this seriously, sorry for the inconvenience. otherwise, lazy admins will let their expired/ malformed certs hang out there for a lot longer (which i've seen even on a credit card site: capital one), because users just easily circumvent the roadblock. they'll definitely notice if no users can get through, and the angry emails pile in their inbox
I partly agree with you. The question is, would it help much? I could easily register verytrustedbusiness.com for stealing credit cards, and get a valid certificate for it. Now when a user surfs there he/she sees "ooh! A trusted web site!", which is only partly true. The certificate only confirms (well, should) that the owner of the domain is the one running the server. It doesn't mean the site should be trusted. Of course it would make it easier to track the culprits (me in this case), but that's a small comfort for the already cheated ones.
For really early adopters, C++0x includes built in threading support. You'll still have to use libs for sockets though.
BS. Cracked robots in their current state are an inconvenience. I agree that they need to improve security, but mainly for future models which are more capable.
Show me a household robot which can stab you in the eye with a breadknife it took from the drawer, and I'll reconsider agreeing with you
Difference number 2: MS was hated by many geeks, and by geek sites such as Slashdot, or at least criticised for these actions. Apple on the other hand are loved, even by geeks, with these actions twisted around to be good things, and with sites given no end of free advertising and hype ("You can read this webpage On Your Iphone" as we once had, or witness yesterday's non-story of "Someone releases a second application for the Iphone"...)
I disagree a bit here. Among a good subset of geeks Apple is hated too. I am definately one of them, and wouldn't touch an Apple product to save my life. The difference is, Apple beats MS in user interface design and implementation, which is why it's probably hyped and loved by many. This of course doesn't change their horrible lock-in policies, and extreme secrecy, instead of openness, if they have a chance. So I dislike the company, and won't buy their products, even if the products themselves might be nice
Lube is for pussies