As long as nothing went catastrophically wrong that would have been helped by a containment building that they didn't have...
But yeah, your description sounds pretty accurate. It's not like the operators were just doing it for shits and giggles; it was an experiment to see how much juice they could get out of the turbines while they spun down after shutting down the reactor. But the reactor took awhile to cool down even after you SCRAMed it, which also produced a burst of radiation that could cause an out of control reaction if most of the safety systems were disabled and you were operating outside the approved safety parameters with a small margin for error.
Sounds like it would get in the way of consulting with a lawyer first, though. Unless you go everywhere with a lawyer by your side, when you got arrested and "have" to talk to the cop, it would be without the benefit of legal advice initially.
a system for which security updates are released every once in a while is completely unacceptable
The whole point of LMDE is that it's a (semi) rolling update system. What do you mean by "every once in awhile"? As opposed to Microsoft, where there are so many vulnerabilities they have to regularly schedule a weekly update?
What is wrong with taking/forking/whatever a very good, capable and mature installer (I am talking about debian now...;-)) and customise it to include the mint specific stuff?
I would guess they probably *did* customize the Ubuntu installer. (Admittedly, I haven't seen *the* most recent version of the Mint installer...I think I installed the one before that, though.) Just because it doesn't look like what they modified doesn't mean it isn't the same original codebase.
Somewhere in the 2009-2011 range, I tried to install Debian. After digging around online forever trying to even *find* the right image that would give me a GUI installer, I seem to remember that it was significantly less friendly and successful than Ubuntu's (not that that was surprising). Just yesterday I went digging again...Debian's documentation organization seems a bit whack to me. More words != more clear. Just putting a link on the front page saying "click here for the x86 GUI-based install disc" is apparently too much to ask. But we have Ubuntu for that. Oh wait, they're still wanking around with Unity...and Mir...and...
As with most of the Bill of Rights, this was something that the British were using against the colonists. Some printer guy got forced to testify against himself IIRC.
Not sure how prevalent minimum speed limits are either. It probably varies state to state; I think all the minimum speed limit highways I've seen were out west (of the Mississippi).
I am struggling to remember whether I have ever heard *anyone* in the U.S. use the word "motorway." We do use "highway," "freeway," and "interstate" though, which I've always been a bit fuzzy on, interstate being a subtype and freeway...higher-density, maybe?
I personally would define a highway as a road with a significant contiguous portion of its length being free of stoplights; anything else is a road. That's probably not the actual definition though.
I was interpreting "motorway" literally, yes, which I suppose is an assumption.
Well, if you leave your cellphone sitting around, it's a lot easier to steal than a desktop, and somewhat easier than a laptop or tablet. And do you keep your cell locked when you're not using it? How effective is the security on it to a real computer? I'm not knowledgeable about such things so I couldn't say.
Oh, so it's a synonym for "highway." Damn Brits and their other words for common things. I hear "motorway" and thing "road where motored vehicles travel," which would include pretty much everything other than bike paths and trails.
They haven't had time to address and patch it because the team wasn't aware of it. Hence, when the vulnerability is found is considered the "zeroeth day."
Zero-day attacks occur during the vulnerability window that exists in the time between when vulnerability is first exploited and when software developers start to develop and publish a counter to that threat.
I'm not a fan of the term either (as most vulnerabilities will end up being "zero-day" anyway so we never stop hearing it), but unless the specific vulnerability was known 10 years ago and they've been purposely ignoring it all this time, it's not a zero-day.
Firefox (unless you turn on the master password) and Pidgin also store passwords in cleartext. The Pidgin devs explained that this is because they don't want to implement security through obscurity, as anyone with access to the stored plaintext xml file already has access to your computer anyway and could presumably decrypt it if they tried to secure it anyway.
Admittedly, it's a bit different when we're talking about cell phones.
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There are a number of pacifists who would disagree with you on that point.
Okay, that explains *one* VM. Although I don't see the reason why it needs to be a VM versus just a background process.
Admittedly web browsing habits these days chew up a lot of memory and power, and I would assume graphics-heavy games do as well.
What, you've never fixed a busted pipe over Skype before? Geez.
As long as nothing went catastrophically wrong that would have been helped by a containment building that they didn't have...
But yeah, your description sounds pretty accurate. It's not like the operators were just doing it for shits and giggles; it was an experiment to see how much juice they could get out of the turbines while they spun down after shutting down the reactor. But the reactor took awhile to cool down even after you SCRAMed it, which also produced a burst of radiation that could cause an out of control reaction if most of the safety systems were disabled and you were operating outside the approved safety parameters with a small margin for error.
How sporting of them. It rankles me a bit that in every cop show these days, the police are shown to have "lost" if the suspect lawyers up.
Sounds like it would get in the way of consulting with a lawyer first, though. Unless you go everywhere with a lawyer by your side, when you got arrested and "have" to talk to the cop, it would be without the benefit of legal advice initially.
All your wizard friends--shot, everyone who ever sold you perogi--shot.
Hmm. Well, this *is* Putin we're talking about here.
Darth Invladimir? Darth Invalid?
Dmitri: [Dmitri rings in on the final question in the physics bowl] The answer is minus eight pi alpha.
Sheldon: Hang on, hang on a second, that is not our answer! What are you doing?
Dmitri: [wearily] Answering question; winning physics bowl.
Sheldon: How do *you* know anything about physics?
Dmitri: Here I am janitor. In former Soviet Union, I am physicist; Leningrad Polytechnica - Go Polar Bears.
a system for which security updates are released every once in a while is completely unacceptable
The whole point of LMDE is that it's a (semi) rolling update system. What do you mean by "every once in awhile"? As opposed to Microsoft, where there are so many vulnerabilities they have to regularly schedule a weekly update?
What is wrong with taking/forking/whatever a very good, capable and mature installer (I am talking about debian now... ;-)) and customise it to include the mint specific stuff?
I would guess they probably *did* customize the Ubuntu installer. (Admittedly, I haven't seen *the* most recent version of the Mint installer...I think I installed the one before that, though.) Just because it doesn't look like what they modified doesn't mean it isn't the same original codebase.
Somewhere in the 2009-2011 range, I tried to install Debian. After digging around online forever trying to even *find* the right image that would give me a GUI installer, I seem to remember that it was significantly less friendly and successful than Ubuntu's (not that that was surprising). Just yesterday I went digging again...Debian's documentation organization seems a bit whack to me. More words != more clear. Just putting a link on the front page saying "click here for the x86 GUI-based install disc" is apparently too much to ask. But we have Ubuntu for that. Oh wait, they're still wanking around with Unity...and Mir...and...
Hmm.
As with most of the Bill of Rights, this was something that the British were using against the colonists. Some printer guy got forced to testify against himself IIRC.
While I concede that that would be a rather jackass thing to do, I don't think that's a reason to convict the guy in and of itself.
Not sure how prevalent minimum speed limits are either. It probably varies state to state; I think all the minimum speed limit highways I've seen were out west (of the Mississippi).
I am struggling to remember whether I have ever heard *anyone* in the U.S. use the word "motorway." We do use "highway," "freeway," and "interstate" though, which I've always been a bit fuzzy on, interstate being a subtype and freeway...higher-density, maybe?
I personally would define a highway as a road with a significant contiguous portion of its length being free of stoplights; anything else is a road. That's probably not the actual definition though.
I was interpreting "motorway" literally, yes, which I suppose is an assumption.
Why would it hurt you? Is this under the suspicion "maybe he just made it up between the arrest and the courtroom"?
Well, if you leave your cellphone sitting around, it's a lot easier to steal than a desktop, and somewhat easier than a laptop or tablet. And do you keep your cell locked when you're not using it? How effective is the security on it to a real computer? I'm not knowledgeable about such things so I couldn't say.
Well according to Wikipedia the monarch technically has the power to withhold consent. Just none of them have since 1708.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Consent
As a non-Brit, I would be interested in hearing an explanation for this.
Oh, so it's a synonym for "highway." Damn Brits and their other words for common things. I hear "motorway" and thing "road where motored vehicles travel," which would include pretty much everything other than bike paths and trails.
You can walk pretty much wherever you like, except on motorways
And jaywalking doesn't involve walking on a motorway...?
They haven't had time to address and patch it because the team wasn't aware of it. Hence, when the vulnerability is found is considered the "zeroeth day."
Zero-day attacks occur during the vulnerability window that exists in the time between when vulnerability is first exploited and when software developers start to develop and publish a counter to that threat.
I'm not a fan of the term either (as most vulnerabilities will end up being "zero-day" anyway so we never stop hearing it), but unless the specific vulnerability was known 10 years ago and they've been purposely ignoring it all this time, it's not a zero-day.
Hmm...I stand corrected. It appears rum as well is flavored by the products of yeast.
No, that's beer.
Firefox (unless you turn on the master password) and Pidgin also store passwords in cleartext. The Pidgin devs explained that this is because they don't want to implement security through obscurity, as anyone with access to the stored plaintext xml file already has access to your computer anyway and could presumably decrypt it if they tried to secure it anyway.
Admittedly, it's a bit different when we're talking about cell phones.
Because you don't know the definition of a zero-day attack?
I thought they *had* done a rollup of all the security fixes and called it SP4? But I can't seem to find evidence of this. Hmm...