I'm betting that there's been a increase in people checking both the source of their favourite OSS encryption (et al) software, and checking their compilers in the last week or so.
Congratulations! +1 internet to you. What gave it away?
(no really, you should feel proud, reading the other comments it seems that a whole lot of people can't spot a joke even when it rubs ROT13 in their faces)
Remember all the fuss about the US government using Huawei kit?
Whether or not there is backdoors there for the Chinese, you can bet that part of the problem is that they refused to put backdoors in for the NSA. So, to make sure that there wasn't too many routers etc. out there that they couldn't access (and that might be backdoor'ed by the Chinese), they spread FUD about Huawei to make sure that they're not bought. Instead everyone turns to nice, "trustworthy", Cisco gear, and the NSA can has all your data.
And this is why the NSA is monitoring all the internet traffic in the country, to stop things like this happening.
Except it didn't work very well this time did it?
Certainly there's many sexual behaviours which are entirely legal in the UK between consenting adults, which might *look* like rape if you took a photo, would that be rape porn?
I can see where they're coming from, but you run into the same problems as defining if an image (or video etc.) is pornographic or not.
Unfortunately cracking down on actual rape wouldn't make as many headlines as promising to band internet porn.
"You could try straightening out your network cable, just go down behind your computer and massage out any kinks in it that might be slowing down the data."
By the time they've finished doing that, you'll probably have worked out what was causing the slowdown, and either fixed it, or allowed it to fix it's self.
Same here, The Old Reader (we're going to have to come up with a different acronym than TOR) is the closest to what I used to use Google reader for. I switched over last week, and apart from my muscle memory typing the wrong address, it's going fine.
I do notice the formatting of posts is more basic, but at least that's always readable.
They left the binaries in RAM, so just a reboot would remove them. They also left a text file with contact info and an explanation in, and they didn't take data from the affected systems, they used the systems to probe other IPs.
There's not really a physical analogy that fits here but the only damage they did to each individual device would be to slightly raise it's power consumption and bandwidth usage. Insignificant to any individual, although it might well have added up to quite a lot.
Rock Paper Shotgun have an irregular feature about Do's and Don'ts in games, including important points like:
"Do: agree to an industry wide standard on the location of save games. Save games are not a secret. They are not a treasure. They’re something most right-thinking people want to be able to preserve after a game’s uninstalled. They’re something many people need to get at when building a new machine, or simply continuing the game on another machine. They aren’t a DRM risk. We just want to know where our save games are, and we don’t want to have to trawl through seventeen different possible locations in the very bowels of Windows, trying to discern which lunatic name you’ve filed them under. When I install a game you let me choose the install location. Can you guess where I want the save games to go to? Here’s a hint. It’s not in C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Roaming\Documents\Programs\Features\Gardening\Knitwear\Publisher\Developer\GameName\Sausages\X34265\"
Just wondering, I'm sure you could get away with charging someone who showed up and begged to be allowed to charge their car, but if you started making a business of it, how legal would it be?
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I'm betting that there's been a increase in people checking both the source of their favourite OSS encryption (et al) software, and checking their compilers in the last week or so.
(no really, you should feel proud, reading the other comments it seems that a whole lot of people can't spot a joke even when it rubs ROT13 in their faces)
So what, precisely, does this "new header" gain anyone except a circle-jerk of self-congratulatory "we did something"?
It gave the rest of us a good chuckle when you failed to notice that the article was a joke :)
It must work because I've never been shot :)
Remember all the fuss about the US government using Huawei kit? Whether or not there is backdoors there for the Chinese, you can bet that part of the problem is that they refused to put backdoors in for the NSA. So, to make sure that there wasn't too many routers etc. out there that they couldn't access (and that might be backdoor'ed by the Chinese), they spread FUD about Huawei to make sure that they're not bought. Instead everyone turns to nice, "trustworthy", Cisco gear, and the NSA can has all your data.
And this is why the NSA is monitoring all the internet traffic in the country, to stop things like this happening. Except it didn't work very well this time did it?
Certainly there's many sexual behaviours which are entirely legal in the UK between consenting adults, which might *look* like rape if you took a photo, would that be rape porn?
I can see where they're coming from, but you run into the same problems as defining if an image (or video etc.) is pornographic or not.
Unfortunately cracking down on actual rape wouldn't make as many headlines as promising to band internet porn.
By the time they've finished doing that, you'll probably have worked out what was causing the slowdown, and either fixed it, or allowed it to fix it's self.
It was sarcasm, not a troll.
Why not use regular expressions?
The missing item no. 10 from TFA.
Hold down Ctrl and press the + key, and watch as the small print gets magically bigger.
Same here, The Old Reader (we're going to have to come up with a different acronym than TOR) is the closest to what I used to use Google reader for. I switched over last week, and apart from my muscle memory typing the wrong address, it's going fine. I do notice the formatting of posts is more basic, but at least that's always readable.
Depends on your business needs. I use it to run small linux VMs for testing on a Windows host and it's been fine, completely rock solid.
"Yank" is British shorthand for any US citizen. The fact that it rhymes with 'wank' just makes it more amusing.
aka, cats don't have owners, they have staff
The US version was Manned Orbiting Laboratory and was pretty similar in intent, although it was cancelled before it flew.
That used to be the case, but in the UK we generally use billion to mean 10^9, as with the US usage.
Sure the thief is still liable to get punished (if caught), but stupidity has it's own reward.
There's not really a physical analogy that fits here but the only damage they did to each individual device would be to slightly raise it's power consumption and bandwidth usage. Insignificant to any individual, although it might well have added up to quite a lot.
"Do: agree to an industry wide standard on the location of save games. Save games are not a secret. They are not a treasure. They’re something most right-thinking people want to be able to preserve after a game’s uninstalled. They’re something many people need to get at when building a new machine, or simply continuing the game on another machine. They aren’t a DRM risk. We just want to know where our save games are, and we don’t want to have to trawl through seventeen different possible locations in the very bowels of Windows, trying to discern which lunatic name you’ve filed them under. When I install a game you let me choose the install location. Can you guess where I want the save games to go to? Here’s a hint. It’s not in C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Roaming\Documents\Programs\Features\Gardening\Knitwear\Publisher\Developer\GameName\Sausages\X34265\"
Yes, but only if the computer you receive on then accesses the URL through "a source other than the first device", ie, not through your modem.
You could just not run the app the entire time, the same way most people don't leave Bluetooth on most of the time.
Just wondering, I'm sure you could get away with charging someone who showed up and begged to be allowed to charge their car, but if you started making a business of it, how legal would it be?
I never get mod points when I want them, only when I want to comment on something.