If I'd not hit your "idiot filter" before (I've been posting longer than I've had an account here) then either by your own admission I'm not an idiot or you're a damn fool. Either way works with me.
Ah, yes. The Soweto Uprising defense. Nobody with brains accepted that excuse then, nobody with brains accepts it now. Riot gear at the time was all but invulnerable to rocks, Molotov Cocktails and similar. Tanks and armoured vehicles all the more so. The police were at less than zero risk.
I despise gun ownership precisely because people DO believe the nauseating claim that a minor disturbance is just cause for opening fire with intent to kill. It is patently obvious to any but the brain-dead that you simply cannot trust ANYONE - police, army, civilians - with anything capable of deadly force. Not a single one of you has the capacity to reason when usage is appropriate.
Interesting, as one of the complaints make by the most recent investigation into Bloody Sunday was that issued rifles at that time DID have effective non-lethal accessories. So link please or they did.
Ah, yes, because a rock has laser sights, a long range and can travel through riot shields. Or are you assuming protestors with rocks also carry Roman-era siege engines?
Besides, most of the severe injuries were to people NOT carrying rocks, weapons or any other such device. Reports and - where it exists - video footage usually does indeed show police going berserker mode on demonstrators who had absolutely zero offensive capability beyond not showering regularly. Indeed, that seems to be the ONLY offensive weapon the anti-protestors can reliably point to, and I'd hardly call that a deadly weapon.
So far, all evidence points to a completely out-of-control police force with no discipline acting in a manner with no legal basis purely because Sovereign Immunity allows it to do so with absolute impunity.
"Not been repeated" is more optimistic than fact. Deaths of protestors in the US is not unknown. Neither are serious injuries, caused by actions not that different from those from 40 years ago, such as at the Oakland site where several protestors were put into intensive care and are likely to have permanent severe disabilities due to brain injuries sustained from brutality.
A "hacktivist" is someone who is either a Black Hat or a Grey Hat who uses their skills for political activist purposes rather than curiosity, non-directional malice, boredom or because they have a script. It has a definite meaning, it serves a definite purpose, so it's not a buzzword. It may be overused, but that's not the word's fault.
I don't know if the word is in the OED yet, but if it is then it is a proper word. The OED is the bastion of the English Language and what it say goes. It is the only definitive source for the language and therefore any word therein is a part of the language.
Basic chemistry tells us that heat transfer isn't instantaneous, that solid objects remain at melting point until fully melted, and that heat != temperature. It's why you can walk over hot coals without burning yourself. The composition of the comet would be easy to determine, since absorption spectrometry will tell you what the tail is made of. We also know, from the Giotto probe, that comets don't evaporate from the outside. That was one of the biggest blunders in the mission. Never, ever make assumptions in science because it WILL bite you. Facts are the only acceptable currency.
Iron takes more energy to fuse than it releases. Any star with more than a trivial amount of iron tends to go kablooey, for that reason. Mainstream stars like the sun don't do that because they just don't have iron cores.
What fools we have to suffer with. "Audio fingerprinting" is a fancy name of "a hash". A hash is simply a way of reducing a large chunk of data to a small chink of data. Nothing more. If the hash actually *worked* then I wouldn't be seeing the problem I'm seeing because there wouldn't be a collision, ergo it doesn't work, ergo it doesn't matter a damn if "conventional binary hashing algorithms can't possibly survive lossy compression" because it's bloody obvious that things aren't surviving. How much longer do I have to suffer such imbeciles? Come on sweet death, you can't be any worse than these cretins.
1. The more the courts deal with the trivial, the less the courts can deal with the important. 2. The costs not paid at government-level will be passed on to the consumer as a tax by the corporations. You buy Windows for a PC even if Windows is never installed because that's the cheapest way for manufacturers to work with Microsoft, so you pay even for what you don't buy. 3. Corporations have a finite budget. The more that is spent on lawsuits, the less that is spent on QA, improvements, R&D, customer service and other things that you might actually want a corporation to do.
So, yes, it is the end of civilization when corporations drain all of their - and your - resources on such things.
Not that I know of. The three links below can give you dynamic failover, and if you install the MOSIX kernel (free for 4 nodes) you've automatic load balancing, but these all work at the node level on a single WAN. I can find nothing similar that would give you extranet failover/load balancing.
It's far, far worse than that. The requests are fully automated and seem to use some sort of faulty hashing algorithm, to judge by what videos I've uploaded over time and the totally different content the challenge claims it to be. I'm not talking MD5 faulty - that would be reliable in comparison as the breakages there are mostly massaged content. My guess would be CRC32 at the very best (yes, best) and more likely lower-grade still. The aliasing is just too bad.
Precisely because corporations are defined by SCOTUS as being a person, they should have no rights a person does not have. I don't agree with the definition but that's immaterial. That's the definition and the corporations need to suffer the bad as well as take the good if they want it. If they decide that's not what they really want after all, then they can use the legal process to challenge it -- because, as individuals, they have no rights to change it any other way.
What would be optimal is immaterial and no two people agree on it anyway. What we have is what we have and the corporations can be no less crippled than those they are equal to for it or they cease to be equal and the definition is violated.
Online banking typically uses two-step authentication -- precisely because SSL is crap. But even then, do a Slashdot search for CitiBank. If you're brave, you might even want to look up prior discussions on certs and look at which ones mention fake PayPal certs being issued. It has come up a few times. Online banking's not dead, the banks have improved some, but it is dangerous and ill-advised for more than a few banks.
Note to those abusing their mod points: It's not off-topic to point out that a lack of standards is bad for SSL certification and that prior proto-standards were extremely good for certification.
Note to real Slashdotters: Do try and meta-moderate, at least once a year. Maybe twice. It'll limit the mod trolls at least a bit.
If Microsoft can get lawsuits to age out of the court cache, just by paying for enough delays, it becomes immune to prosecution by anyone. Anyone at all. For anything. The same would go for any other corporation.
Star Office (the original Open Office) came out for the Zilog Z80, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Microsoft Office didn't even exist then. Microsoft itself barely existed back then. That means that the market share isn't UP to 20%, it's DOWN to 20%.
Whether Windows, Linux or BSD, I can tell you now that no application of any serious weight will run on a phone, tablet, netbook, PDA or abacus. If it hasn't serious crunching power, serious memory and something with more juice than the overweight liquorice stick manufacturers claim is a battery and not an incendiary device, it's simply not going to run anything remotely like the applications real people use for real work.
And, yes, most real people use a *nix. Imaginary people use Windows, complex people use Plan 9 and quaternion folk use VMS.
Your average factory worker is lucky if the boss obeys the law and pays minimum wage. The only phones they are likely to see are the recycled ones from 10 years back. They may outnumber the geeks 99:1 but they're not reading eBooks, wordprocessing or surfing YouTube on those phones. If the screen even has graphics.
Depends on the university. Where I went, people ran their own 386BSD (and Linux, once it existed) installs, running 16-player games of Netrek or XTank over the campus network using X11R4 on large (for the time) monitors, or were playing DOSish games like Wing Commander using the LAPC1 for sound. Not cheap setups and not something phones or tablets could replicate today by any stretch.
Yeah, but SSL's useless because the CAs are crap about maintaining security and the customers want dirt-cheap rather than integrity. You can't get cheaper than a thief.
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Welcome to the Slashdot of today, where moderators abuse points and nobody metamoderates. It's not the site it used to be.
If I'd not hit your "idiot filter" before (I've been posting longer than I've had an account here) then either by your own admission I'm not an idiot or you're a damn fool. Either way works with me.
See CODiNE's response for why humans do indeed ablate material.
Ah, yes. The Soweto Uprising defense. Nobody with brains accepted that excuse then, nobody with brains accepts it now. Riot gear at the time was all but invulnerable to rocks, Molotov Cocktails and similar. Tanks and armoured vehicles all the more so. The police were at less than zero risk.
I despise gun ownership precisely because people DO believe the nauseating claim that a minor disturbance is just cause for opening fire with intent to kill. It is patently obvious to any but the brain-dead that you simply cannot trust ANYONE - police, army, civilians - with anything capable of deadly force. Not a single one of you has the capacity to reason when usage is appropriate.
Interesting, as one of the complaints make by the most recent investigation into Bloody Sunday was that issued rifles at that time DID have effective non-lethal accessories. So link please or they did.
Ah, yes, because a rock has laser sights, a long range and can travel through riot shields. Or are you assuming protestors with rocks also carry Roman-era siege engines?
Besides, most of the severe injuries were to people NOT carrying rocks, weapons or any other such device. Reports and - where it exists - video footage usually does indeed show police going berserker mode on demonstrators who had absolutely zero offensive capability beyond not showering regularly. Indeed, that seems to be the ONLY offensive weapon the anti-protestors can reliably point to, and I'd hardly call that a deadly weapon.
So far, all evidence points to a completely out-of-control police force with no discipline acting in a manner with no legal basis purely because Sovereign Immunity allows it to do so with absolute impunity.
"Not been repeated" is more optimistic than fact. Deaths of protestors in the US is not unknown. Neither are serious injuries, caused by actions not that different from those from 40 years ago, such as at the Oakland site where several protestors were put into intensive care and are likely to have permanent severe disabilities due to brain injuries sustained from brutality.
A "hacktivist" is someone who is either a Black Hat or a Grey Hat who uses their skills for political activist purposes rather than curiosity, non-directional malice, boredom or because they have a script. It has a definite meaning, it serves a definite purpose, so it's not a buzzword. It may be overused, but that's not the word's fault.
I don't know if the word is in the OED yet, but if it is then it is a proper word. The OED is the bastion of the English Language and what it say goes. It is the only definitive source for the language and therefore any word therein is a part of the language.
Basic chemistry tells us that heat transfer isn't instantaneous, that solid objects remain at melting point until fully melted, and that heat != temperature. It's why you can walk over hot coals without burning yourself. The composition of the comet would be easy to determine, since absorption spectrometry will tell you what the tail is made of. We also know, from the Giotto probe, that comets don't evaporate from the outside. That was one of the biggest blunders in the mission. Never, ever make assumptions in science because it WILL bite you. Facts are the only acceptable currency.
Iron takes more energy to fuse than it releases. Any star with more than a trivial amount of iron tends to go kablooey, for that reason. Mainstream stars like the sun don't do that because they just don't have iron cores.
What fools we have to suffer with. "Audio fingerprinting" is a fancy name of "a hash". A hash is simply a way of reducing a large chunk of data to a small chink of data. Nothing more. If the hash actually *worked* then I wouldn't be seeing the problem I'm seeing because there wouldn't be a collision, ergo it doesn't work, ergo it doesn't matter a damn if "conventional binary hashing algorithms can't possibly survive lossy compression" because it's bloody obvious that things aren't surviving. How much longer do I have to suffer such imbeciles? Come on sweet death, you can't be any worse than these cretins.
So you're jealous. Get the Netrek client and you needn't be.
1. The more the courts deal with the trivial, the less the courts can deal with the important.
2. The costs not paid at government-level will be passed on to the consumer as a tax by the corporations. You buy Windows for a PC even if Windows is never installed because that's the cheapest way for manufacturers to work with Microsoft, so you pay even for what you don't buy.
3. Corporations have a finite budget. The more that is spent on lawsuits, the less that is spent on QA, improvements, R&D, customer service and other things that you might actually want a corporation to do.
So, yes, it is the end of civilization when corporations drain all of their - and your - resources on such things.
Not that I know of. The three links below can give you dynamic failover, and if you install the MOSIX kernel (free for 4 nodes) you've automatic load balancing, but these all work at the node level on a single WAN. I can find nothing similar that would give you extranet failover/load balancing.
http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Releases
http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.corosync.org/doku.php
It's far, far worse than that. The requests are fully automated and seem to use some sort of faulty hashing algorithm, to judge by what videos I've uploaded over time and the totally different content the challenge claims it to be. I'm not talking MD5 faulty - that would be reliable in comparison as the breakages there are mostly massaged content. My guess would be CRC32 at the very best (yes, best) and more likely lower-grade still. The aliasing is just too bad.
Precisely because corporations are defined by SCOTUS as being a person, they should have no rights a person does not have. I don't agree with the definition but that's immaterial. That's the definition and the corporations need to suffer the bad as well as take the good if they want it. If they decide that's not what they really want after all, then they can use the legal process to challenge it -- because, as individuals, they have no rights to change it any other way.
What would be optimal is immaterial and no two people agree on it anyway. What we have is what we have and the corporations can be no less crippled than those they are equal to for it or they cease to be equal and the definition is violated.
Straw Man. A chocolate fire extinguisher is useless whether or not an imaginary one would also be useless.
Online banking typically uses two-step authentication -- precisely because SSL is crap. But even then, do a Slashdot search for CitiBank. If you're brave, you might even want to look up prior discussions on certs and look at which ones mention fake PayPal certs being issued. It has come up a few times. Online banking's not dead, the banks have improved some, but it is dangerous and ill-advised for more than a few banks.
Note to those abusing their mod points: It's not off-topic to point out that a lack of standards is bad for SSL certification and that prior proto-standards were extremely good for certification.
Note to real Slashdotters: Do try and meta-moderate, at least once a year. Maybe twice. It'll limit the mod trolls at least a bit.
If Microsoft can get lawsuits to age out of the court cache, just by paying for enough delays, it becomes immune to prosecution by anyone. Anyone at all. For anything. The same would go for any other corporation.
That kind of precedent is very relevant.
Star Office (the original Open Office) came out for the Zilog Z80, Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. Microsoft Office didn't even exist then. Microsoft itself barely existed back then. That means that the market share isn't UP to 20%, it's DOWN to 20%.
Whether Windows, Linux or BSD, I can tell you now that no application of any serious weight will run on a phone, tablet, netbook, PDA or abacus. If it hasn't serious crunching power, serious memory and something with more juice than the overweight liquorice stick manufacturers claim is a battery and not an incendiary device, it's simply not going to run anything remotely like the applications real people use for real work.
And, yes, most real people use a *nix. Imaginary people use Windows, complex people use Plan 9 and quaternion folk use VMS.
Your average factory worker is lucky if the boss obeys the law and pays minimum wage. The only phones they are likely to see are the recycled ones from 10 years back. They may outnumber the geeks 99:1 but they're not reading eBooks, wordprocessing or surfing YouTube on those phones. If the screen even has graphics.
Depends on the university. Where I went, people ran their own 386BSD (and Linux, once it existed) installs, running 16-player games of Netrek or XTank over the campus network using X11R4 on large (for the time) monitors, or were playing DOSish games like Wing Commander using the LAPC1 for sound. Not cheap setups and not something phones or tablets could replicate today by any stretch.
Yeah, but SSL's useless because the CAs are crap about maintaining security and the customers want dirt-cheap rather than integrity. You can't get cheaper than a thief.