All I've been able to find is that they are removing it from their video and voice chat (hangout, google voice, etc) systems and that they may disable the federation system (allowing google users to chat with non-google users). Do you have any references to them closing the xmpp chat altogether?
I'm pretty sure if you "slipped" enough powdered alcolhol to kill someone into their cheeseburger they would notice the taste. Hell, at those levels you could probably smell it from the next room!
And how long did it take to fix it once it was discovered? Not only was this bug NOT fixed the first time (only hidden better), but it probably won't get fixed very quickly (if at all) and we'll have no way to verify they actually DID fix it.
With open source, you can see the change logs and verify that the version you are running is no longer vulnerable to the attack. With proprietary software you just have to trust them that they fixed it this time...
There's a reason most bakers don't grow their own wheat and mill their own flour.
Bakers, as in a single person, no. But when a company like General Mills makes food, they generally do mill their own flour. Its just more cost effective that way.
I don't know what's funnier. A broken link in a slashdot post, or someone trusting a slashdot post as the correct location to acquire said security software.
All the "pictures" in TFA are computer renderings. For a road that, apparently, has already been painted you'd think they could have taken at least 1 photo of it.
Not sure about the branded Chrome, but Chromium on my arch machine shows one hell of a scary message about the browser down-right refusing to connect to it due to the certificate.
Do you have any idea how quickly GPS murders a cellphone battery? If I had to have that on every time I was carpooling, I'd never make it home before the damn thing died.
So we should also outlaw conversations with passengers?
I am completely against holding a phone to your ear or texting while driving, but I feel that hands-free devices are fairly safe. As long as you aren't fiddling with them while trying to answer/make the call in the first place.
Could this question be any more vague? "Society interrupted" and "no more computers" is the total of the description of our situation? How is society interrupted, did we forget spoken language, or did Facebook go down for a week? What does "no more computers" even MEAN? Does it mean they all evaporated? Does electricity (like what keeps your damn heart beating) no longer exist? Did an EMP destroy all the transistors meaning we just need to make more?
If the technology suddenly poofed or broke (massive EMP, etc), fine, fix or replace them it. I think you'll find slashdot users to be invaluable during a global technology rebuild. Did humanity simply have all of their knowledge of technology erased from their minds? If that's the case, those doctors are going to be pretty useless as well seeing as 99% of medicin was discovered thanks to some sort of technology. Or is the "electricity no longer exists" BS scenerio where nobody's heart would be beating anymore, rendering the rest of you just as "useful" as the slashdot community?
A team of CSIRO scientists has discovered the holy grail of aquaculture by developing the world's first fish-free prawn food: According to the article there is intense global interest in Novaq because it solves one of the farmed prawn industry's biggest problems — its reliance on wild fisheries as a core ingredient in prawn food. The Novaq formula is a closely guarded secret, but it is known that the product is based on microscopic marine organisms. Not only will the new feed introduce greater sustainability into a growth industry but prawns fed on the new diet grow 40% faster and are healthier and more robust.
Don't worry prawn farmers, now you'll only be reliant on CSIRO.
No, but my scripts sure find them a pain in the ass to parse! If you're going to spend the time to organize and release a collection of data like this, at least provide a csv version as well.
I too prefer tmux to screen, but I would like to warn you about 1 danger of using it. Do NOT disconnect from a tmux session that is being used to upgrade tmux. If tmux happens to upgrade to a version with a newer protocol, you will not be able to reconnect to the tmux session. I did this once and had to build a static version of tmux from the previous version and use that to reconnect and continue the upgrade. Screen is theoretically susceptible to the same problem, but the protocol almost never changes.
I still use tmux as my regular persistent terminal on my server, but I now double-check if it's in the upgrade list before starting it.
It's not just the closed format, but the whole formatting of the file itself. Anyone wanting to do any half-decent analysis of this data is going to have to do a fair bit of formatting before this "data" can be turned into anything useful like a CSV. The current layout is good for little more than looking at. They may as well have released it as a PDF or a chart!
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Other than offline messages, that post seems to imply that they are still using XMPP and that things like OTR encryption should still work just fine.
All I've been able to find is that they are removing it from their video and voice chat (hangout, google voice, etc) systems and that they may disable the federation system (allowing google users to chat with non-google users). Do you have any references to them closing the xmpp chat altogether?
A lot of very tall buildings such as the Word Trade Center and Willis (formerly Sears) Tower actually do have a number of elevators that don't go to the bottom (or top).
How did they forget the most important question? "If the door opens towards you, does it crush you into the wall?"
Fair enough.
That's not really powdered water anymore than a sponge is solid water.
I'm pretty sure if you "slipped" enough powdered alcolhol to kill someone into their cheeseburger they would notice the taste. Hell, at those levels you could probably smell it from the next room!
And how long did it take to fix it once it was discovered? Not only was this bug NOT fixed the first time (only hidden better), but it probably won't get fixed very quickly (if at all) and we'll have no way to verify they actually DID fix it.
With open source, you can see the change logs and verify that the version you are running is no longer vulnerable to the attack. With proprietary software you just have to trust them that they fixed it this time...
Pens and pencils should be banned, replaced with keyboards and swipe screens.
Are you nuts? Have you seen what someone can do with a keyboard? http://youtu.be/XH7CXtxOflI?t=...
At least with swipe screens their arms will be too tired to hit anyone with!
There's a reason most bakers don't grow their own wheat and mill their own flour.
Bakers, as in a single person, no. But when a company like General Mills makes food, they generally do mill their own flour. Its just more cost effective that way.
I wonder how high he jumped the first time his phone got a notification while he was using it as a headset.
This sounds like a neat project for even kids to do.
I don't know what's funnier. A broken link in a slashdot post, or someone trusting a slashdot post as the correct location to acquire said security software.
In appearance maybe, but the technology itself is not even close.
All the "pictures" in TFA are computer renderings. For a road that, apparently, has already been painted you'd think they could have taken at least 1 photo of it.
Yes, I understood what you said. What I was implying was that your post could be read as a cover story for a pump&dump scheme.
Not sure about the branded Chrome, but Chromium on my arch machine shows one hell of a scary message about the browser down-right refusing to connect to it due to the certificate.
How about passengers on a train?
Um, GPS.
Do you have any idea how quickly GPS murders a cellphone battery? If I had to have that on every time I was carpooling, I'd never make it home before the damn thing died.
So we should also outlaw conversations with passengers?
I am completely against holding a phone to your ear or texting while driving, but I feel that hands-free devices are fairly safe. As long as you aren't fiddling with them while trying to answer/make the call in the first place.
Could this question be any more vague? "Society interrupted" and "no more computers" is the total of the description of our situation? How is society interrupted, did we forget spoken language, or did Facebook go down for a week? What does "no more computers" even MEAN? Does it mean they all evaporated? Does electricity (like what keeps your damn heart beating) no longer exist? Did an EMP destroy all the transistors meaning we just need to make more?
If the technology suddenly poofed or broke (massive EMP, etc), fine, fix or replace them it. I think you'll find slashdot users to be invaluable during a global technology rebuild. Did humanity simply have all of their knowledge of technology erased from their minds? If that's the case, those doctors are going to be pretty useless as well seeing as 99% of medicin was discovered thanks to some sort of technology. Or is the "electricity no longer exists" BS scenerio where nobody's heart would be beating anymore, rendering the rest of you just as "useful" as the slashdot community?
This question is just stupid.
A team of CSIRO scientists has discovered the holy grail of aquaculture by developing the world's first fish-free prawn food: According to the article there is intense global interest in Novaq because it solves one of the farmed prawn industry's biggest problems — its reliance on wild fisheries as a core ingredient in prawn food. The Novaq formula is a closely guarded secret, but it is known that the product is based on microscopic marine organisms. Not only will the new feed introduce greater sustainability into a growth industry but prawns fed on the new diet grow 40% faster and are healthier and more robust.
Don't worry prawn farmers, now you'll only be reliant on CSIRO.
Seriously, who green-lighted this advertisement?
No, but my scripts sure find them a pain in the ass to parse! If you're going to spend the time to organize and release a collection of data like this, at least provide a csv version as well.
I too prefer tmux to screen, but I would like to warn you about 1 danger of using it. Do NOT disconnect from a tmux session that is being used to upgrade tmux. If tmux happens to upgrade to a version with a newer protocol, you will not be able to reconnect to the tmux session. I did this once and had to build a static version of tmux from the previous version and use that to reconnect and continue the upgrade. Screen is theoretically susceptible to the same problem, but the protocol almost never changes.
I still use tmux as my regular persistent terminal on my server, but I now double-check if it's in the upgrade list before starting it.
Trying for a pump and dump are we?
Well, other than a frame job or stolen credentials.
It's not just the closed format, but the whole formatting of the file itself. Anyone wanting to do any half-decent analysis of this data is going to have to do a fair bit of formatting before this "data" can be turned into anything useful like a CSV. The current layout is good for little more than looking at. They may as well have released it as a PDF or a chart!