> Actually, Google translate on Finnish-English sucks
Your southern cousins in Estonia have it even worse. It appears that google translate thinks that (a) Estonian is just Finnish with a different set of root words, but the same grammar (b) user-submitted translations are trustworthy (I once saw the same word translated into "yes", "no", and "maybe", for example).
You'll be pleased to know that when I have to resort to google translate for FI<->EN translation, I never provide any suggestions when I have more insight than google does, so your mail will remain cryptic to the evil-doers!
> A fourteen character password is, by definition, pretty weak.
You're propagating security through bogosity.
Let's take one of these clusters, and get it to crack an arbitrary 14-character password using upper and lower case letters, digits, and some of the more reliably-typeable symbols:
((26+26+10+5)^14)/77e6/86400/365 = 15,126,898,948 years = the age of the universe.
You can multiply that by ten if you throw a dozen more symbols into the alphabet (taking you up to 88 bits of security). If you consider that a weak password, then you're on drugs. Even NIST consider 80 bits to be strong enough for "Protection of long-term shared secrets".
> They deliberately submitted to Google an unverified list claiming it was infringing under "penalty of perjury".
Nope, they deliberately submitted to google an unverified list claiming "in good faith" that they considered them infringing, and that "under penalty of perjury" they represented the copyright owners.
And as they do represent the copyright owners, they cannot be charged with perjury.
I know in the UK they were called "Trash 80"s on the street. If they really wanted to highlight Tandy's stupidity, they could have adopted that moniker until Tandy begged them to use their trademarked name again.
You were two clicks away from seeing the exact wording in the take-down notices:
""" SWORN STATEMENTS
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
The information in this notification is accurate, and I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. """
> To see this taken out of the DSM-5 is the greatest gift any kid with it can have.
But the collection of symptoms being considered a disease has not been taken out of the DSM, it's simply been explicitly included within the range of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is how most people have viewed it for many years anyway.
> No longer will they feel outcast
Bollocks. They've got "autism" now. Congratulations on getting rid of the German doctor's name. How well do you think an argument like "No, it's not *autism*, it's simply 'a mostly harmless set of symptoms associated with the Autism Spectrum Disorder'" is going to wash with those who want to give the condition a single-word name? You might regret your present joy in a few years.
Upthread ( http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3288637&cid=42161809 ) is the wonderful quote "Pity, so many people lost jobs because of a few retarded managers at the top of their companies."
I find it odd that you consider Nokia to be an example of strength. I'd consider it to be the exact opposite, and an embodyment of the same retardedness.
> The message is: don't quit too easily.
Agreed. But there are different ways of not quiting, with different likelyhoods of success.
I've said, on usenet, "google groups sucks" probably between 50 and 100 times, but if you search for those posts, you'll be lucky if you find more than a handful. Oooh - it doesn't return any now! The best thing is that I use this example every time it's relevant. The more they suck, the more I say they suck, and the more they demonstrate that they suck. It's hard to use this example without mention the concept of censorship.
I'm guessing that "google groups sucks" might be the new "X-no-archive: yes"...
a) There's no "its scheduler" - there are a whole host of different schedulers you can use, which are optimised for different expected workload types. And if I/O's a major part of your workload (if you're dealing with lots of large image/audio/video files) then you've even got a selection of different I/O schedulers to chose from, again optimised for differnt types of workloads. You can parametrise how swappy you want the kernel to be too, and lots of other things. I've been using linux on my desktop for a decade, and I've never seen linux get in the way of my work. Shitty userspace apps like firefox which don't know how to deal with contention properly piss me off every 2 minutes, but that's not linux's fault, they're just as shit on windows and even worse on OSX.
b) Linus holds as an overriding principle that kernel interface changes must never break userspace. Even to the extent that he prevented some real fixes being included in the kernel, which annoyed Alan Cox so much he resigned from being subsystem maintainer for ttys ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/375 ) So whilst the kernel may grow new interfaces with each release, it doesn't lose old ones.
Very much agreed. And also on what the people with the different machines are doing. I think the average Excel/Powerpoint/Word/Outlook user (accounts, marketting, secretarial) are more likely to get into and less likely to be able to solve the problems themselves in the MS world, than the (wannabe) rocket-scientist developers on the unix workstations and networks who see a problem as a challenge, and even if they can't fix it will diagnose it with enough precision that an admin can just fix with a [tap][tap][tap].
If people fall for this scam, and Dell get away with it, I can identify 4 parties who are to blame: Developers, developers, developers, and developers.
Ah, you're probably too young to have encountered the Young-Hammond-Baker Theory. Just google for "YHBT", and you should find all you need to know about it.
He comes out with some nonsense, but I quite like - and agree with - a lot of what Sewell says. A lot of people in the art world are so puffed up and do need puncturing, I don't see why Brian should have less right to do that than anyone else. I don't think the accusations of hypocrisy are fair - for example he's not just an art critic, he's an artist himself, and when asked why he didn't have any exhibitions he said something like "why would anyone want to see what I've done?". He probably wishes other artists had the same respect for others.
In my experience (mostly big IT companies), the number of windows admins required is nearly 4 times the number of unix admins required, for the same number of desktop machines.
An extreme example was the last job I had, where there was a typical level of windows admins, and there were zero unix admins. Everyone was given a machine with a blank hard drive, and told on their first day to install whatever OS/distro they wanted, and were comfortably running themselves. I guess a third went debian, a third ubuntu, a couple of gentoos, some redhats, and a few others too.
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> Actually, Google translate on Finnish-English sucks
Your southern cousins in Estonia have it even worse. It appears that google translate thinks that (a) Estonian is just Finnish with a different set of root words, but the same grammar (b) user-submitted translations are trustworthy (I once saw the same word translated into "yes", "no", and "maybe", for example).
You'll be pleased to know that when I have to resort to google translate for FI<->EN translation, I never provide any suggestions when I have more insight than google does, so your mail will remain cryptic to the evil-doers!
> You're propagating security through bogosity.
And flagging this:
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html
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Warning Sign #5: Ridiculous key lengths.
> A fourteen character password is, by definition, pretty weak.
You're propagating security through bogosity.
Let's take one of these clusters, and get it to crack an arbitrary 14-character password using upper and lower case letters, digits, and some of the more reliably-typeable symbols:
((26+26+10+5)^14)/77e6/86400/365 = 15,126,898,948 years = the age of the universe.
You can multiply that by ten if you throw a dozen more symbols into the alphabet (taking you up to 88 bits of security). If you consider that a weak password, then you're on drugs. Even NIST consider 80 bits to be strong enough for "Protection of long-term shared secrets".
> They deliberately submitted to Google an unverified list claiming it was infringing under "penalty of perjury".
Nope, they deliberately submitted to google an unverified list claiming "in good faith" that they considered them infringing, and that "under penalty of perjury" they represented the copyright owners.
And as they do represent the copyright owners, they cannot be charged with perjury.
I know in the UK they were called "Trash 80"s on the street. If they really wanted to highlight Tandy's stupidity, they could have adopted that moniker until Tandy begged them to use their trademarked name again.
You were two clicks away from seeing the exact wording in the take-down notices:
"""
SWORN STATEMENTS
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
The information in this notification is accurate, and I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
"""
It's attempting to waste 10 minutes of 2000000 people's time.
Are you sure you've never got any figures out by a factor of 10? Now give it a 20th read to be sure.
> Notice that this constructs an entirely new list
Nope. I notice that it may construct an unbounded number of new list, one for each level of the recursion.
Everyone who's worked in the industry has called that cluster of companies "the mafia" at one time.
> To see this taken out of the DSM-5 is the greatest gift any kid with it can have.
But the collection of symptoms being considered a disease has not been taken out of the DSM, it's simply been explicitly included within the range of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is how most people have viewed it for many years anyway.
> No longer will they feel outcast
Bollocks. They've got "autism" now. Congratulations on getting rid of the German doctor's name. How well do you think an argument like "No, it's not *autism*, it's simply 'a mostly harmless set of symptoms associated with the Autism Spectrum Disorder'" is going to wash with those who want to give the condition a single-word name? You might regret your present joy in a few years.
Upthread ( http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3288637&cid=42161809 ) is the wonderful quote "Pity, so many people lost jobs because of a few retarded managers at the top of their companies."
I find it odd that you consider Nokia to be an example of strength. I'd consider it to be the exact opposite, and an embodyment of the same retardedness.
> The message is: don't quit too easily.
Agreed. But there are different ways of not quiting, with different likelyhoods of success.
> Kodak was the first to use a CCD to capture an image.
One has to ask what Fairchild (and others) were creating the sensors - two dimensional detectors of visible light - for, if not for capturing images.
Agreed.
I've said, on usenet, "google groups sucks" probably between 50 and 100 times, but if you search for those posts, you'll be lucky if you find more than a handful. Oooh - it doesn't return any now! The best thing is that I use this example every time it's relevant. The more they suck, the more I say they suck, and the more they demonstrate that they suck. It's hard to use this example without mention the concept of censorship.
I'm guessing that "google groups sucks" might be the new "X-no-archive: yes"...
What is this distinction between "corporations" and "governments" that you are trying to draw?
http://www.geke.us/MPAAVenn.html
You clearly know nothing about linux.
a) There's no "its scheduler" - there are a whole host of different schedulers you can use, which are optimised for different expected workload types. And if I/O's a major part of your workload (if you're dealing with lots of large image/audio/video files) then you've even got a selection of different I/O schedulers to chose from, again optimised for differnt types of workloads. You can parametrise how swappy you want the kernel to be too, and lots of other things. I've been using linux on my desktop for a decade, and I've never seen linux get in the way of my work. Shitty userspace apps like firefox which don't know how to deal with contention properly piss me off every 2 minutes, but that's not linux's fault, they're just as shit on windows and even worse on OSX.
b) Linus holds as an overriding principle that kernel interface changes must never break userspace. Even to the extent that he prevented some real fixes being included in the kernel, which annoyed Alan Cox so much he resigned from being subsystem maintainer for ttys ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/375 ) So whilst the kernel may grow new interfaces with each release, it doesn't lose old ones.
Very much agreed. And also on what the people with the different machines are doing. I think the average Excel/Powerpoint/Word/Outlook user (accounts, marketting, secretarial) are more likely to get into and less likely to be able to solve the problems themselves in the MS world, than the (wannabe) rocket-scientist developers on the unix workstations and networks who see a problem as a challenge, and even if they can't fix it will diagnose it with enough precision that an admin can just fix with a [tap][tap][tap].
If people fall for this scam, and Dell get away with it, I can identify 4 parties who are to blame:
Developers, developers, developers, and developers.
Odd that you don't take issue with the absurdity that came before that.
Whatever, a bite's a bite.
Ah, you're probably too young to have encountered the Young-Hammond-Baker Theory. Just google for "YHBT", and you should find all you need to know about it.
Yeah, the Top Gun ones were funny! The level of gullability of some people is incredible.
But my favourites are the NASA moon landing ones! To all intensive purposes, that's never been bettered.
He comes out with some nonsense, but I quite like - and agree with - a lot of what Sewell says. A lot of people in the art world are so puffed up and do need puncturing, I don't see why Brian should have less right to do that than anyone else. I don't think the accusations of hypocrisy are fair - for example he's not just an art critic, he's an artist himself, and when asked why he didn't have any exhibitions he said something like "why would anyone want to see what I've done?". He probably wishes other artists had the same respect for others.
It can render windows, icons, menus, and handle a mouse pointer - in what way is linux not technically suitable for the desktop?
Gotta love the irony of the person churning out the tired old "it's not ready for the desktop" line accusing another of trolling, though.
In my experience (mostly big IT companies), the number of windows admins required is nearly 4 times the number of unix admins required, for the same number of desktop machines.
An extreme example was the last job I had, where there was a typical level of windows admins, and there were zero unix admins. Everyone was given a machine with a blank hard drive, and told on their first day to install whatever OS/distro they wanted, and were comfortably running themselves. I guess a third went debian, a third ubuntu, a couple of gentoos, some redhats, and a few others too.