How will jdLinux be different than the hundreds of other distributions out there?
Not saying that you don't have some ideas that haven't been tried, but it's not like there's exactly a shortage of existing distributions, so yours would have to have something pretty unique to gain any real traction.
I really hate these "security" features that are based on the assumption that you've always got phone service available.
I've run into this recently with my credit card company. It used to be that I could use their service to generate a one-time use credit card number for use in online transactions. But now they've implemented a policy that every time you use it, you have to first receive a code via text message and type that into their website -- so if (like me) you spend a lot of time in places with no cell phone service, but with internet access, it becomes unusable.
The end result: I'm now stuck giving everyone my real credit card information again if I purchase something online. Genius "security" move, guys.
I don't have anything against the idea of having the option of receiving a code via a cell phone for added security -- but it needs to be an option, not something that's required across the board.
The gauges I've been looking at sell for between $100-$300 EACH,...so if I could avoid spending $1600 for a full set of gauges by going digital, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Somehow, I suspect that the same people that are able to convince you to spend $300 on a premium analog gauge are going to be able to sell you a $300 digital version just as easily.
Amiga stuff and friends were made in assembly, C or even BASIC for the slow stuff, with no memory protection, no safety and no networking. Dumbphone firmware would be the boring, shitty equivalent...
In my experience, modern "dumbphones" are as bad or worse than smartphones in terms of the speed of their interfaces. (My understanding is that they're written mostly in Java, which is a bizarre choice given the hardware constraints.) If you have had the misfortune to use one, it's obvious that the designers and programmers never actually use these phones.
$35 is not a great deal for a phone. Granted, it is cheap. But you can get Chinese smart phones for around $100.
Not everyone has an extra $65 sitting in their pockets. The people that are being targeted here have the choice between the $35 phone and no smartphone, not a choice between the $35 phone and the $100 phone.
It sounds like this phone is not a good deal for $35.
Also, your $100 estimate is way too high -- you can get low-end smartphones here in the US for $50, retail; I've got one of them, and it's much more functional than the phone described by the article.
This has been going on forever -- it used to be back in the early 2000s that every other article was a link to the New York Times with a "subscription required" warning.
People frequently used to request an option to get rid of postings that linked to pay sites, but we never got it. Although at least we eventually got the "Shut Up JonKatz" option.
Football is *REALLY* *REALLY* stupid. I can't get my head around the overwhelming exuberance that people feel over this brief period of watching people chase a ball around a field.
Tell me, is it more or less stupid than watching a bunch of people dress up in spandex and pretend to fly a spaceship?
That, combined with the "device drive congestion" phrase (WTF is that supposed to mean?) makes it obvious that the submitter doesn't really understand anything about the topic.
And given that samzenpus gave it the green light, he obviously doesn't understand it either. Which I suppose is unsurprising.
In the case of Argentina it sounds like they're flat out lazy. How can you not see a house built on a lot that was supposedly vacant? You have to plat the lot, take out permits presumably and then have inspections. Maybe in Argentina they don't have building codes? I doubt that but somebody isn't doing their job.
In the case of Argentina, they're not using Google Maps (etc.) They're going out and taking pictures of the property, getting timely evidence. That's what the whole article is about -- them using drones to do their job.
Lazy is when now during re-appraisals (which we go through annually here) means that they have to have an up to date photo of the property to assess "condition" We caught them last year using a 6 year old Google Street View image. That's lazy and I already pay well enough for these morons to just drive around and get up to date information, it's in the tax law for my state and we caught them not doing their job.
If they legally need a photo less than a year old, and they're instead grabbing photos off of Google, then yes, they're using Google inappropriately, and it's fair to call it lazy.
Its stale. I've got news for you Google Street View and Satellite images can be years old. If I were relying on it for up to date information then I'd be mistaken. My house on street view was taken in 2010. A lot has changed since then.
How much is that more-up-to-date information worth to you?
Depending on what the government is using it for, using street view or maps images may or may not be effective. A blanket statement characterizing it as "lazy" doesn't make sense until you have determined whether or not the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
20,000 is not a brute force attack. That will only succeed if your password was 3 characters long.
I find it hard to believe anyone was actually vulnerable to this.
While you're correct that 20,000 attempts is too small to "brute-force" a password (by trying all combinations of characters), it's plenty to do a dictionary attack. If you can try 20,000 popular passwords on a whole bunch of accounts, you'll almost certainly be able to break some of them.
What if I dressed up as a doctor, had an air of gravitas, videoed from what looks like an ivy covered university and gave terrible terrible medical advice about Tylenol maximum dosages?
Not really the same thing, as that could cause death (or death-like symptoms).
Or if I dressed as a garage mechanic used all kinds of mechanical words and gave horrible advice such as sugar in the gas tank eliminates the squeal when you hit the brakes?
This falls under the category of life lesson. Just like the iPhone trick.
Stephen Hawking can only communicate at about 1 word per minute. Using morse code may be slow compared to speaking, but it still could represent a pretty substantial improvement for some people.
Exactly. It looks like the change that actually helped was that, near to intersections, they replaced a lane used for parking with a left turn lane. I don't know why anyone would be surprised that adding a traffic lane would help improve traffic flow.
The only thing that the bike lanes apparently have to do with it is that adding bike lanes was the reason why they decided to change the lane layout.
Anyone and everyone that has walked in much hotter temperatures, surely would.
It's making blanket statements like this that is making you sound like an idiot. I know very few people that consider 85F to be a comfortable temperature, let along "nice and cool."
The average person finds their comfort range for room temperature to be in the low- to mid-70s; and when exerting oneself (even to a small extent), the comfortable temperature will generally be lower than that. While I'm sure there are some people that prefer temperatures as high as 85 F, they are certainly outside the norm.
It's funny; I was actually looking into a replacement for my WRT54G (using DD-WRT) last night. It's been great for a long time, but during the past couple months it periodically craps out and stops responding. Unfortunately, it seems like the only router that everyone can agree on being good is the WRT54G series itself.
But there's some good leads from this post. Brings me back to the days when Ask Slashdot was actually frequently useful or interesting.
So they've found that encouraging students to take CS courses based on their skin color or genitals is less effective than encouraging students who have an interest or aptitude for the subject? Gee, I never would have guessed that result.
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How will jdLinux be different than the hundreds of other distributions out there?
Not saying that you don't have some ideas that haven't been tried, but it's not like there's exactly a shortage of existing distributions, so yours would have to have something pretty unique to gain any real traction.
I really hate these "security" features that are based on the assumption that you've always got phone service available.
I've run into this recently with my credit card company. It used to be that I could use their service to generate a one-time use credit card number for use in online transactions. But now they've implemented a policy that every time you use it, you have to first receive a code via text message and type that into their website -- so if (like me) you spend a lot of time in places with no cell phone service, but with internet access, it becomes unusable.
The end result: I'm now stuck giving everyone my real credit card information again if I purchase something online. Genius "security" move, guys.
I don't have anything against the idea of having the option of receiving a code via a cell phone for added security -- but it needs to be an option, not something that's required across the board.
The gauges I've been looking at sell for between $100-$300 EACH,...so if I could avoid spending $1600 for a full set of gauges by going digital, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Somehow, I suspect that the same people that are able to convince you to spend $300 on a premium analog gauge are going to be able to sell you a $300 digital version just as easily.
Amiga stuff and friends were made in assembly, C or even BASIC for the slow stuff, with no memory protection, no safety and no networking. Dumbphone firmware would be the boring, shitty equivalent...
In my experience, modern "dumbphones" are as bad or worse than smartphones in terms of the speed of their interfaces. (My understanding is that they're written mostly in Java, which is a bizarre choice given the hardware constraints.) If you have had the misfortune to use one, it's obvious that the designers and programmers never actually use these phones.
$35 is not a great deal for a phone. Granted, it is cheap. But you can get Chinese smart phones for around $100.
Not everyone has an extra $65 sitting in their pockets. The people that are being targeted here have the choice between the $35 phone and no smartphone, not a choice between the $35 phone and the $100 phone.
It sounds like this phone is not a good deal for $35.
Also, your $100 estimate is way too high -- you can get low-end smartphones here in the US for $50, retail; I've got one of them, and it's much more functional than the phone described by the article.
This has been going on forever -- it used to be back in the early 2000s that every other article was a link to the New York Times with a "subscription required" warning.
People frequently used to request an option to get rid of postings that linked to pay sites, but we never got it. Although at least we eventually got the "Shut Up JonKatz" option.
Football is *REALLY* *REALLY* stupid. I can't get my head around the overwhelming exuberance that people feel over this brief period of watching people chase a ball around a field.
Tell me, is it more or less stupid than watching a bunch of people dress up in spandex and pretend to fly a spaceship?
That, combined with the "device drive congestion" phrase (WTF is that supposed to mean?) makes it obvious that the submitter doesn't really understand anything about the topic.
And given that samzenpus gave it the green light, he obviously doesn't understand it either. Which I suppose is unsurprising.
In the case of Argentina it sounds like they're flat out lazy. How can you not see a house built on a lot that was supposedly vacant? You have to plat the lot, take out permits presumably and then have inspections. Maybe in Argentina they don't have building codes? I doubt that but somebody isn't doing their job.
In the case of Argentina, they're not using Google Maps (etc.) They're going out and taking pictures of the property, getting timely evidence. That's what the whole article is about -- them using drones to do their job.
Lazy is when now during re-appraisals (which we go through annually here) means that they have to have an up to date photo of the property to assess "condition" We caught them last year using a 6 year old Google Street View image. That's lazy and I already pay well enough for these morons to just drive around and get up to date information, it's in the tax law for my state and we caught them not doing their job.
If they legally need a photo less than a year old, and they're instead grabbing photos off of Google, then yes, they're using Google inappropriately, and it's fair to call it lazy.
Its stale. I've got news for you Google Street View and Satellite images can be years old. If I were relying on it for up to date information then I'd be mistaken. My house on street view was taken in 2010. A lot has changed since then.
How much is that more-up-to-date information worth to you?
Depending on what the government is using it for, using street view or maps images may or may not be effective. A blanket statement characterizing it as "lazy" doesn't make sense until you have determined whether or not the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Google Street View, Google Satellite View are all now being used by lazy local governments.
A rare example of governments using a cheap, effective method to do their jobs rather than finding an expensive and inefficient way to do it.
20,000 is not a brute force attack. That will only succeed if your password was 3 characters long.
I find it hard to believe anyone was actually vulnerable to this.
While you're correct that 20,000 attempts is too small to "brute-force" a password (by trying all combinations of characters), it's plenty to do a dictionary attack. If you can try 20,000 popular passwords on a whole bunch of accounts, you'll almost certainly be able to break some of them.
What if I dressed up as a doctor, had an air of gravitas, videoed from what looks like an ivy covered university and gave terrible terrible medical advice about Tylenol maximum dosages?
Not really the same thing, as that could cause death (or death-like symptoms).
Or if I dressed as a garage mechanic used all kinds of mechanical words and gave horrible advice such as sugar in the gas tank eliminates the squeal when you hit the brakes?
This falls under the category of life lesson. Just like the iPhone trick.
If you search for "microwave iphone", at least you end up with some articles with evidence that people actually tried this.
The dice.com article doesn't even manage that.
How the hell does this company manage to make any money with this kind of ineptitude running the show?
Stephen Hawking can only communicate at about 1 word per minute. Using morse code may be slow compared to speaking, but it still could represent a pretty substantial improvement for some people.
Exactly. It looks like the change that actually helped was that, near to intersections, they replaced a lane used for parking with a left turn lane. I don't know why anyone would be surprised that adding a traffic lane would help improve traffic flow.
The only thing that the bike lanes apparently have to do with it is that adding bike lanes was the reason why they decided to change the lane layout.
What's an extra $10-20? One or two pizzas.
Maybe I'd rather have the pizzas than waste money on something that I don't need?
A petition with 13 signatures is not worth mentioning. Any idiot can set one up.
You mean any idiot with 12 idiot friends.
Anyone and everyone that has walked in much hotter temperatures, surely would.
It's making blanket statements like this that is making you sound like an idiot. I know very few people that consider 85F to be a comfortable temperature, let along "nice and cool."
The average person finds their comfort range for room temperature to be in the low- to mid-70s; and when exerting oneself (even to a small extent), the comfortable temperature will generally be lower than that. While I'm sure there are some people that prefer temperatures as high as 85 F, they are certainly outside the norm.
Wow. So, we're modding up straight up racists now?
There is no evidence of racism in the post you replied to. It is obvious that he objects to a particular culture, not a particular race.
It's funny; I was actually looking into a replacement for my WRT54G (using DD-WRT) last night. It's been great for a long time, but during the past couple months it periodically craps out and stops responding. Unfortunately, it seems like the only router that everyone can agree on being good is the WRT54G series itself.
But there's some good leads from this post. Brings me back to the days when Ask Slashdot was actually frequently useful or interesting.
Not everyone bothers with these distinctions. To say that the debate is one rife with ignorance is to master the skill of understatement.
It's not the religious fundamentalist groups that are the ones that typically purposefully conflate the two.
Russia has had authoritarian governments for 500 years. What's the US's excuse?
Well, we haven't existed for 500 years, but give us some time -- we'll match that record!
"Why can you not see the Moon during the day?"
I'm really curious as to the answer you came up with for this question.
So they've found that encouraging students to take CS courses based on their skin color or genitals is less effective than encouraging students who have an interest or aptitude for the subject? Gee, I never would have guessed that result.