If security questions are used in addition to a password, then it's merely as if you used a longer password. I thought that their purpose was always an alternate means of access, in case you forget your password. The idea is that you know the answers without having to memorize them. Thus, this usage always decreases security, since it provides an additional way to access your account.
When someone has access to your hardware, the only thing that will protect you is strong encryption. Having the CPU prevent access to your data is like sticking a post-it on a stack of money saying "you may not take this".
Of course you can use a GPL program with data under other licenses. Do you think all data stored in MySQL databases has to be released under the GPL or all code compiled with GCC must be GPL?
This wasn't a question of whether anything the program read or wrote had to be GPL-licensed, but whether essential files for the program to run at all had to be.
I really like this new change; it saves 20 pixels of vertical space on my 640x480 monitor. I'm just waiting for them to put the entire web page into the title bar. Imagine the space savings then!
I think the best solution to this would be to extend the window on top, adding a new bar above this new tab bar, with this new bar having the forward/back buttons and the title of the web page. The implementation might be difficult, but I'm sure they can pull it off.
Can the GPL even be applied to an incomplete program that requires non-GPL data to even run? Maybe this restriction only applies to derivitive works. Can someone clarify?
Hey, it worked for Kinect. If it had come with PC drivers and without the challenge of being "locked up for your own good", it would have been ignored.
The study had 28 participants... and they were asked to remember species of aliens...
Uh oh, it's starting to make sense now. Small study size so they wouldn't get too much attention, it's the aliens doing some user testing before they announce their existence to the world. They want to be sure we can remember their weird species names by printing their flyers with the proper font.
Why would you expect otherwise? That's what people do all the time: calculate expected cost of something, then choose the one that gives the best cost/benefit ratio. The problem here is that the cost of a lawsuit or likelihood is too low.
Apparently Slashdot is just a blog that anyone can post to and set the tone for. Oh well. I once was like you, hoping someone would keep it a news discussion site where summaries simply summarized the news, rather than spinning it as well.
A program's mainline code is statically linked. At least when I'm writing a program, I often use small utilities I've written over the years. They aren't substantial enough to be put into a shared library, and they contain plenty of functions a given program never calls.
All those years they made fun of me for running 2560x1600 on my 19" CRT, saying I was going to ruin my eyes because it was so hard to read. At least I remember everything I read over the years.
all without jailbreaking your iPhone or having to pay thousands to access to the Apple Dock Connector. This makes it possible for students, hackers, and DIYers to extend the phone's functionality to the physical world
Or if you're a genius hacker, you can buy something with an ADC connector and... cut the cable, strip the wires, and have access to all its functions for a few dollars. Or maybe I'm missing something.
Low quality alloy cause of Shuttle main tank issue
It's interesting that a quality alloy simply put at a lower altitude would cause an issue. You'd think it was something more obvious, like a missing hyphen.
Sure, if the customers don't idiotically support the companies they loathe. But keep sending them money each month for their crappy service and what do you expect?
Really? I thought this was standard stuff for profile-guided-optimization. It's common knowledge that when a system initializes, it jumps all over the image, which is bad if it's paged. Seems a big "duh" to reorder functions so that all the init code is together.
Another optimization that was common old Mac compilers was "dead-stripping", where they avoided linking in any functions that were never called. Apparently this isn't commonly done and instead if a single function in a file is called, then ALL are linked in, at least when I looked into it for Linux a while back.
To make sure we can keep offering our $40 Unlimited Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting a speed limit in place for anyone on that plan who uses over 5GB in a month
Translation: To make sure we can keep offering our $40 "Unlimited" Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting limitations on it, but still calling it unlimited. Simple, really.
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If security questions are used in addition to a password, then it's merely as if you used a longer password. I thought that their purpose was always an alternate means of access, in case you forget your password. The idea is that you know the answers without having to memorize them. Thus, this usage always decreases security, since it provides an additional way to access your account.
If the name of the product were "ClamAV for Windows", then it would be correct, though confusing, to call it ClamAV for Windows 3.0.
BTW, your post would have been more readable if you used paragraphs with a blank line between them. It helps the eye parse the structure better.
I assume you're being sarcastic, but why?
When someone has access to your hardware, the only thing that will protect you is strong encryption. Having the CPU prevent access to your data is like sticking a post-it on a stack of money saying "you may not take this".
This wasn't a question of whether anything the program read or wrote had to be GPL-licensed, but whether essential files for the program to run at all had to be.
I really like this new change; it saves 20 pixels of vertical space on my 640x480 monitor. I'm just waiting for them to put the entire web page into the title bar. Imagine the space savings then!
I think the best solution to this would be to extend the window on top, adding a new bar above this new tab bar, with this new bar having the forward/back buttons and the title of the web page. The implementation might be difficult, but I'm sure they can pull it off.
Can the GPL even be applied to an incomplete program that requires non-GPL data to even run? Maybe this restriction only applies to derivitive works. Can someone clarify?
If you written that in a hard-to-read-font, I would have paused a bit longer to think.
Hey, it worked for Kinect. If it had come with PC drivers and without the challenge of being "locked up for your own good", it would have been ignored.
Uh oh, it's starting to make sense now. Small study size so they wouldn't get too much attention, it's the aliens doing some user testing before they announce their existence to the world. They want to be sure we can remember their weird species names by printing their flyers with the proper font.
Why would you expect otherwise? That's what people do all the time: calculate expected cost of something, then choose the one that gives the best cost/benefit ratio. The problem here is that the cost of a lawsuit or likelihood is too low.
Hmmm, they're both sidescroller games involving a biped player and gravity?
Apparently Slashdot is just a blog that anyone can post to and set the tone for. Oh well. I once was like you, hoping someone would keep it a news discussion site where summaries simply summarized the news, rather than spinning it as well.
Which God did he thank that claims that Earth is that old?
A program's mainline code is statically linked. At least when I'm writing a program, I often use small utilities I've written over the years. They aren't substantial enough to be put into a shared library, and they contain plenty of functions a given program never calls.
All those years they made fun of me for running 2560x1600 on my 19" CRT, saying I was going to ruin my eyes because it was so hard to read. At least I remember everything I read over the years.
Or if you're a genius hacker, you can buy something with an ADC connector and... cut the cable, strip the wires, and have access to all its functions for a few dollars. Or maybe I'm missing something.
It's interesting that a quality alloy simply put at a lower altitude would cause an issue. You'd think it was something more obvious, like a missing hyphen.
Sure, if the customers don't idiotically support the companies they loathe. But keep sending them money each month for their crappy service and what do you expect?
With or without the parenthesis?
Another optimization that was common old Mac compilers was "dead-stripping", where they avoided linking in any functions that were never called. Apparently this isn't commonly done and instead if a single function in a file is called, then ALL are linked in, at least when I looked into it for Linux a while back.
Translation: To make sure we can keep offering our $40 "Unlimited" Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting limitations on it, but still calling it unlimited. Simple, really.
I think they should be required by law to only process non-evil bits. The implementation is trivial: just add an extra "evil" bit to every bit.