... then they will ask for one more month, and one more, and three more, and one more year...... and then they will ask to expand the censorship to other form of media...... there is no way to fully satisfy the insatiable appetite for censorship for the Islamists...... ask the people in North Mali how them Islamists had treated them...... no music, no tee vee, not even ringtones on the phones
That was the most pedantic comment I got, ever, upon a Slasdhot post. Congratulations,sir, you broke the pedantry sound barrier in my user space.
Well, you were kind of asking for it. Some of us find them interesting even though whatever product it is would never find it's way onto our shopping lists. For example, I've checked out ipod and iphone teardowns but would never have one. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you have to be an ass.. oh wait, this is the internet - that's exactly what it means. My mistake.
American here. I've always thought Bush Jr.'s Iraq war was a simple case of "Love me, daddy". "I'll get that Saddam for you. If I do, will you love me then?" A truly disgusting abuse of power. George jr. is not heard or seen much in the media since he left office, he's figured out how most of us do not like him, if some of us ever did. I hope that the world knows that the average U.S. citizen was against Bush from the beginning, when the voting shenanigans in Florida (hanging chads!) led to the outright theft of the office of the presidency. There are a lot of disillusioned voters who could only watch with disbelief what went on then. Many Anti-Bush demonstrations at the White House lawn happened, their effect was nothing changed, the friends of Bush kept profitting from these unnecessary wars. Truly a shameful time to be an American, imo.
It's true, he's a turd. Like father, Like son.. I think that's how the old saying goes. The only thing I wonder is whether or not he was really out to screw his own country or was just incompetent.
no other explanation is necessary. For the old folks here who used to have a landline phone service in the old days, do you remember all those mysterious little "charges" they tacked on your bill? Like $1.05 "User Service fee" and $0.87 "DCF Maintenance fee" or some crap like that? Well even the federal gov't realized they were just plain thieves and sued them, which they settled for a few dozen million dollars. And went right back to doing it again.
Also there was the dial-up modem scam the telcos used to pull... Dvorak's summary
I guess I'm old? I still have a land line since no cellphone I've ever heard sounds anywhere close quality wise.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
If they've already compromised the systems and have access to the resources on it, why would they want passwords? In hopes you've reused that password somewhere else?
Naive question, does anyone still brute force attack passwords? Are there websites out there that will allow you to try more than, say ten times before locking your account? If you're talking about the difference between 10 million different passwords and 4 billion, but facebook will lock down your account after 20 tries, there's not really a significant difference between the two. It seems like my accounts are always being locked down due to trying the wrong password from trying to "brute force" using every password I remember.
I've often wondered the same thing, and for the same reasons. I'm thinking brute force techniques would only be good against something like encrypted data that the attacker already has but needs the key in order to decrypt. Passwords are out of hand, and it seems to me like password managers are a bad idea from a security perspective. Things like iris recognition sound like a great idea, except the world can't even seem to get simple biometric readers like those on my kids' laptops to work reliably.
The funny thing is it doesn't document anything you don't let it. One can argue that the privacy settings should be adjusted by default to protect you... but you're getting a free account on a social network, what do you expect, a parade in your honor & some $?
Nope, I'd expect to pay for the "free" account with my private information. This is why I don't use Facebook, and is also gp's point. Just because they're bartering for your information rather than charging you dollars does not mean it's free.
I like the look of this. Would make a nice beefy HTPC.
I don't think I'd call the specs "beefy". It seems to have an older version intel cpu since the current ones have integrated graphics. Also, the cpu speed is really slow at 1.1Ghz (slower than many cell phones now days). You could probably get a beefier HTPC by just using a regular cheap walmart computer. You could also just get an old cell phone with hdmi out and do most of what this thing does with a smaller footprint.
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator. This contrasted with the batch processing or time-sharing models which allowed larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time. Large data processing systems require a full-time staff to operate efficiently.
By no means authoritative, but it seems like a reasonable definition to me. If you go by that, game consoles are definitely not personal computers. I could go either way on phones (and tablets which really are the exact same thing as a phone with a slightly bigger screen).
For starters, the abuse that comes from it, like people that lose their job and whole their social life because somebody planted child porn on their pcs, which isn't really common, but its not unheard off.
Secondary, children themselves that send pics of them naked to their boyfriend/girlfriend. At the age of 16 or even 14 in many countries they can fuck, but if they send a picture of themselves naked, they are distributing child porn. Its not so much a fault with blocking child porn as their is a fault with the rules made. If you allow sex at 16 but down allow naked pictures of 16 year olds... I mean, legally I could go fuck a 16 year old but I would be a pedophile if I recorded it.
Oh, and lets bring in our friends the RIAA and MPAA, the free distribution of movies devaluates movies and costs the industry several times the BNP of the world each year. Thus if we allow free distribution of child porn, not for profit, we are effectively devaluating the child porn industry, likely bringing them debts of trillions per year, destroying the whole business. At least, that is if the MPAA and RIAA are correct in their analysis, but aint nobody that doubts that.
So tighten up the law that currently allows screwing 14 year old kids. Problem solved, right?
Same thing with Firefox 21.0a1. Based on the posts, it sounds like the mobile site is broken for more browsers than it works on. Following standards generally solves things like that. Even the basic w3c html validator shows errors. I guess dice didn't do any proper testing prior to releasing it?
I guess that's a matter of opinion. I liked Lost and Star Trek. In fact, my opinion is that the reboot was one of the best trek films to date. Apparently the majority agrees based on what you said about "pointing out the relative lack of talent."
you can already order a huge number of expensive things custom 3d printed in a vast array of metals and have them mailed to your door. I personally have purchased a set of gaming dice 3d printed from stainless steel. The same company will print in various plastics, silver, gold, or even glass and ceramic. Anything you design that will fit the dimensions their hardware can print, you can order. (they may have a ban on sexually explicit items and weapons, i've never checked). Based on that, I think the idea of printing a working circuit board is more like 5-7 years out, on an experimental scale, and 10-15 on a 'I designed this board, and they printed and mailed it to me' scale.
It would probably be trivial to etch a board with a subtractive laser device like most maker shops have. It would be easier, of course, to go to radio shack and get a DIY circuit board kit with pretty much consists of a fully copper clad board, a bottle of etchant solution, and a magic marker. I think I bought my first one about 15 years ago - they were probably around long before that. If you require precision, you can print iron-on patters rather than hand drawing with a marker. My point is that there are already solutions out there for this problem that are easier than 3d printing copper or some other material for circuits. Until we are able to 3d print carbon nanotubes, that is.
Yeah those bastards! Good thing they didn't damage any of our centrifuges, but instead only went after the plc's that are used to operate the citizens!
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... then they will ask for one more month, and one more, and three more, and one more year ... ... and then they will ask to expand the censorship to other form of media ... ... there is no way to fully satisfy the insatiable appetite for censorship for the Islamists ... ... ask the people in North Mali how them Islamists had treated them ... ... no music, no tee vee, not even ringtones on the phones
Was that a play on "Jesus Christ Superstar?" Damn, man....
That was the most pedantic comment I got, ever, upon a Slasdhot post. Congratulations,sir, you broke the pedantry sound barrier in my user space.
Well, you were kind of asking for it. Some of us find them interesting even though whatever product it is would never find it's way onto our shopping lists. For example, I've checked out ipod and iphone teardowns but would never have one. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you have to be an ass.. oh wait, this is the internet - that's exactly what it means. My mistake.
Oops, "facts". That spelling issue again.
It's okay, the copyright troll referenced in this article seems to lack an understanding of them as well.
...don't you mean people trying to defend their IP?
One man's "defense" is another man's extortion....
American here. I've always thought Bush Jr.'s Iraq war was a simple case of "Love me, daddy". "I'll get that Saddam for you. If I do, will you love me then?" A truly disgusting abuse of power. George jr. is not heard or seen much in the media since he left office, he's figured out how most of us do not like him, if some of us ever did. I hope that the world knows that the average U.S. citizen was against Bush from the beginning, when the voting shenanigans in Florida (hanging chads!) led to the outright theft of the office of the presidency. There are a lot of disillusioned voters who could only watch with disbelief what went on then. Many Anti-Bush demonstrations at the White House lawn happened, their effect was nothing changed, the friends of Bush kept profitting from these unnecessary wars. Truly a shameful time to be an American, imo.
It's true, he's a turd. Like father, Like son.. I think that's how the old saying goes. The only thing I wonder is whether or not he was really out to screw his own country or was just incompetent.
no other explanation is necessary. For the old folks here who used to have a landline phone service in the old days, do you remember all those mysterious little "charges" they tacked on your bill? Like $1.05 "User Service fee" and $0.87 "DCF Maintenance fee" or some crap like that? Well even the federal gov't realized they were just plain thieves and sued them, which they settled for a few dozen million dollars. And went right back to doing it again.
Also there was the dial-up modem scam the telcos used to pull... Dvorak's summary
I guess I'm old? I still have a land line since no cellphone I've ever heard sounds anywhere close quality wise.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
If they've already compromised the systems and have access to the resources on it, why would they want passwords? In hopes you've reused that password somewhere else?
Naive question, does anyone still brute force attack passwords? Are there websites out there that will allow you to try more than, say ten times before locking your account? If you're talking about the difference between 10 million different passwords and 4 billion, but facebook will lock down your account after 20 tries, there's not really a significant difference between the two. It seems like my accounts are always being locked down due to trying the wrong password from trying to "brute force" using every password I remember.
I've often wondered the same thing, and for the same reasons. I'm thinking brute force techniques would only be good against something like encrypted data that the attacker already has but needs the key in order to decrypt. Passwords are out of hand, and it seems to me like password managers are a bad idea from a security perspective. Things like iris recognition sound like a great idea, except the world can't even seem to get simple biometric readers like those on my kids' laptops to work reliably.
Unless you mysteriously don't give it to them. So... just because it's the internet, does that mean common sense goes out the door... for everybody?
I don't think it's true for literally everybody, but I'd bet it does for "most" people.
The funny thing is it doesn't document anything you don't let it. One can argue that the privacy settings should be adjusted by default to protect you... but you're getting a free account on a social network, what do you expect, a parade in your honor & some $?
Nope, I'd expect to pay for the "free" account with my private information. This is why I don't use Facebook, and is also gp's point. Just because they're bartering for your information rather than charging you dollars does not mean it's free.
I like the look of this. Would make a nice beefy HTPC.
I don't think I'd call the specs "beefy". It seems to have an older version intel cpu since the current ones have integrated graphics. Also, the cpu speed is really slow at 1.1Ghz (slower than many cell phones now days). You could probably get a beefier HTPC by just using a regular cheap walmart computer. You could also just get an old cell phone with hdmi out and do most of what this thing does with a smaller footprint.
Ubuntu with Unity is the new EMACS. It makes any computer slow.
That is not news. You can use Xubuntu/Fedora/Suse/Mageia/PCLinusOS or any number of alternatives and they will all work fine.
You could also skip the hassle and go with Slackware. It works well on both high end and outdated hardware.
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator. This contrasted with the batch processing or time-sharing models which allowed larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time. Large data processing systems require a full-time staff to operate efficiently.
Source:Wikipedia
By no means authoritative, but it seems like a reasonable definition to me. If you go by that, game consoles are definitely not personal computers. I could go either way on phones (and tablets which really are the exact same thing as a phone with a slightly bigger screen).
I could easily find a fault in outlaw child porn.
For starters, the abuse that comes from it, like people that lose their job and whole their social life because somebody planted child porn on their pcs, which isn't really common, but its not unheard off.
Secondary, children themselves that send pics of them naked to their boyfriend/girlfriend. At the age of 16 or even 14 in many countries they can fuck, but if they send a picture of themselves naked, they are distributing child porn. Its not so much a fault with blocking child porn as their is a fault with the rules made. If you allow sex at 16 but down allow naked pictures of 16 year olds... I mean, legally I could go fuck a 16 year old but I would be a pedophile if I recorded it.
Oh, and lets bring in our friends the RIAA and MPAA, the free distribution of movies devaluates movies and costs the industry several times the BNP of the world each year. Thus if we allow free distribution of child porn, not for profit, we are effectively devaluating the child porn industry, likely bringing them debts of trillions per year, destroying the whole business. At least, that is if the MPAA and RIAA are correct in their analysis, but aint nobody that doubts that.
So tighten up the law that currently allows screwing 14 year old kids. Problem solved, right?
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Same thing with Firefox 21.0a1. Based on the posts, it sounds like the mobile site is broken for more browsers than it works on. Following standards generally solves things like that. Even the basic w3c html validator shows errors. I guess dice didn't do any proper testing prior to releasing it?
I guess that's a matter of opinion. I liked Lost and Star Trek. In fact, my opinion is that the reboot was one of the best trek films to date. Apparently the majority agrees based on what you said about "pointing out the relative lack of talent."
What model of Ethernet controller was tested. What Firmware version are they using? Has the problem been reported to Intel?
I realize you found the article difficult to read, but it wasn't that long. 2/3 of your questions were addressed in the article.
It's Slashdot. Most people don't even read the whole summary before asking questions like that.
you can already order a huge number of expensive things custom 3d printed in a vast array of metals and have them mailed to your door. I personally have purchased a set of gaming dice 3d printed from stainless steel. The same company will print in various plastics, silver, gold, or even glass and ceramic. Anything you design that will fit the dimensions their hardware can print, you can order. (they may have a ban on sexually explicit items and weapons, i've never checked). Based on that, I think the idea of printing a working circuit board is more like 5-7 years out, on an experimental scale, and 10-15 on a 'I designed this board, and they printed and mailed it to me' scale.
It would probably be trivial to etch a board with a subtractive laser device like most maker shops have. It would be easier, of course, to go to radio shack and get a DIY circuit board kit with pretty much consists of a fully copper clad board, a bottle of etchant solution, and a magic marker. I think I bought my first one about 15 years ago - they were probably around long before that.
If you require precision, you can print iron-on patters rather than hand drawing with a marker.
My point is that there are already solutions out there for this problem that are easier than 3d printing copper or some other material for circuits. Until we are able to 3d print carbon nanotubes, that is.
More info: http://www.eham.net/articles/20120
If a gig entails solving a problem that can be solved in the time-frame of an interview it wasn't much of a gig anyway.
Where businesses publicly announce plans to deliberately not give their customers the thing the customer paid for.
then fine Jonathan Coulton for stealing the lyrics from Sir Mix A Lot
a cover of a cover is not theft and never will be...
so cry more.
"my neckbeard, growin
chinline dragging
Songs don't work
my right palm keeps naggin."
I thought in that case, the viruses scam you.
No, that's what happens everywhere. Not just soviet Russia.
Maybe you don't have the latest MacBook with Mountain Lion. But you also don't wear pleather pants with the butt cut out.
[citation needed]
They are the worst hypocrites.
Yeah those bastards! Good thing they didn't damage any of our centrifuges, but instead only went after the plc's that are used to operate the citizens!