I've been wondering for a while (basically every time I look at my HTC android phone) why my top of the line Asus monitor is not as good as my phone, and it cost way, way more.
The idea of predicting elections is quite fascinating. I wonder how its accuracy would compare to one of the better election prediction sites out there, Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
It's not called the KGB anymore. It's called the Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnosti or Federal Security Service or just FSB. The name didn't actually change that much because KGB stood for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee of State Security.
In fact, all of the border agents in Russia are part of the uniformed FSB.
You haven't been to Moscow for a while, have you? The police's treatment of gastarbajteri (migrant workers) has not changed one bit, and unfortunately will not change for a long time. However, police treatment of the rest of the people on the street has improved drastically. You don't get shaken down nearly at all anymore. Some other cities are still very bad, but it all depends on where you're talking about. I found that Ukraine was much, much worse about having brazenly corrupt asshole police. I know that quite a few Africans are afraid to even go there right now to see the Euro Cup.
The thing is, just don't pay the bribe. I have never paid the GBDD/DPS in Russia nor the GAI in Ukraine, nor the street cops in either place. They do make it sound like bad things will happen to you, but it's all bluster. Another pointer is to have your embassy on speed dial on your phone. Telling the police who you're calling is typically enough to straighten them out. Handing them the phone after you talk to the duty person who picks up definitely straightens them out. Another little trick if you don't want to spend the time dealing with the GAI/DAI/DPS is to hand them one of those $5 "International Driver's Licenses" that you can buy online. They will verify the info in it against your passport, then if you really did break some driving rule and they threaten to confiscate it let them and go on about you business. When you get home make sure you put another "International Driver's License" in your wallet to replace the one they took.
The expat numbers are severely skewed in favor of counting citizens of European Union member countries as expats when they are working somewhere else in the EU than where they are from. A Brit working in Paris is technically an expat, but that is nothing like a Yank working in Moscow or even working one office down from the Brit in Paris.
Yes, according to CVS/SVN logs here FreeBSD has had support for blowfish password hashes for 11 years and 2 months. Don't you love dispelling anti-FreeBSD FUD?
Hi there! I am very real. You can run a dedicated Kerberos box on a pre-packaged Debian VPS here. That will cost you $4 per month, or $3 per month if you are willing to pay for a year at a time. If you are paranoid like me, you can run that dedicated Kerberos box on a VPS that you self-install with whatever OS and configuration you feel like using (I prefer FreeBSD because Heimdal kerberos is included in the base OS). That can be done here, and will cost you $6.95 per month.
I guess you are right that there is no way to have a separate authentication server without spending more money, but you might just think about increasing that by $3 a month and do things the right way.
Where were you this past weekend? Every reputable news source in the US has white house sources on background confirming that Obama authorized stuxnet. Perhaps doing so is necessary to protect national interests. That's a different discussion. I want to know whether or not identity theft and credit card fraud against innocent random individuals was committed as a means to creating the botnet.
Using computer generated RSA/DSA keys is actually a bit less secure than the best option, SRP. I'm not clear on why the Secure Remote Password protocol is not deployed more widely.
Thanks for that ultra closeup. That explains a lot about the material. It would be nice to have something with clean edges like molded plastics can exhibit. On the topic of cheaper, what is the material cost of a model like your example?
The US government has admitted to authorizing stuxnet. Now it looks like Flame is probably also a government authorized weapon.
My question is where did the money for the C&C servers come from? Those C&C domains were paid for with stolen credit cards and stolen identities. The same thing was used to purchase the VPSs used as the C&C servers. Why isn't there an outcry because the US government stole the identities and credit card numbers of private individuals to make these botnets? Where did they get these stolen identities? Did they use criminal means and buy them on the black market from other botherders? Did they just open their own files and roll the dice choosing people at random?
This is actually the first time I've seen 3D printing material up that close. It actually doesn't look very high quality. The edges are not at all sharp. It actually looks a bit like some kind of foam rubber or styrofoam cut into those shapes with an exacto.
I understand that there are many submitters from all over the globe here on slashdot, and many of them are second language speakers of english. But that is no excuse for the editors of this site letting so many gross errors make it past them and into published articles. Do they proofread, or even read for that matter, the articles that they accept?
I've had stability problems with both ATI cards that I've owned recently. The older one was a 4xxx series that was totally inadequate, and my current one is a Radeon HD 6670 which should be adequate for most things, but really doesn't provide a smooth experience in Skyrim under Windows 7 nor is it the best in Linux. Compositing under KDE is not stable with this card. I don't use the closed source driver, however, under Linux, but I don't feel that I should need to use the Catalyst driver just to get KDE's eye candy to work right.
This begs the question: what is a good stable video card that can give modern games under Windows an enjoyable experience and also provides a solid experience under Linux with preferably an open source driver?
You do realize that you are looking at Google Maps, not QUICC, right? All they did was plot the locations of data points from their system on Google Maps.
Are any of these patents software patents? If not, then this is not really a big concern. Software patents are an obscenity, regular patents can be a good thing. Perhaps the system needs a bit of reform, but only software patents should be abolished.
Keep in mind that it isn't bias to state that the evidence points in one direction or another. Its the way that you say it that introduces bias. Using words and phrases such as "actually works" and "laughably disproved" are the problem. The author can't let her own views, opinions, and emotions bleed into the writing.
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I've been wondering for a while (basically every time I look at my HTC android phone) why my top of the line Asus monitor is not as good as my phone, and it cost way, way more.
It seems that everyone would agree with you. This is a post made to the freebsd-security mailing list today. The new default for FreeBSD is now SHA512.
The idea of predicting elections is quite fascinating. I wonder how its accuracy would compare to one of the better election prediction sites out there, Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
It's not called the KGB anymore. It's called the Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnosti or Federal Security Service or just FSB. The name didn't actually change that much because KGB stood for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee of State Security.
In fact, all of the border agents in Russia are part of the uniformed FSB.
You haven't been to Moscow for a while, have you? The police's treatment of gastarbajteri (migrant workers) has not changed one bit, and unfortunately will not change for a long time. However, police treatment of the rest of the people on the street has improved drastically. You don't get shaken down nearly at all anymore. Some other cities are still very bad, but it all depends on where you're talking about. I found that Ukraine was much, much worse about having brazenly corrupt asshole police. I know that quite a few Africans are afraid to even go there right now to see the Euro Cup.
The thing is, just don't pay the bribe. I have never paid the GBDD/DPS in Russia nor the GAI in Ukraine, nor the street cops in either place. They do make it sound like bad things will happen to you, but it's all bluster. Another pointer is to have your embassy on speed dial on your phone. Telling the police who you're calling is typically enough to straighten them out. Handing them the phone after you talk to the duty person who picks up definitely straightens them out. Another little trick if you don't want to spend the time dealing with the GAI/DAI/DPS is to hand them one of those $5 "International Driver's Licenses" that you can buy online. They will verify the info in it against your passport, then if you really did break some driving rule and they threaten to confiscate it let them and go on about you business. When you get home make sure you put another "International Driver's License" in your wallet to replace the one they took.
The expat numbers are severely skewed in favor of counting citizens of European Union member countries as expats when they are working somewhere else in the EU than where they are from. A Brit working in Paris is technically an expat, but that is nothing like a Yank working in Moscow or even working one office down from the Brit in Paris.
Yes, according to CVS/SVN logs here FreeBSD has had support for blowfish password hashes for 11 years and 2 months. Don't you love dispelling anti-FreeBSD FUD?
Hi there! I am very real. You can run a dedicated Kerberos box on a pre-packaged Debian VPS here. That will cost you $4 per month, or $3 per month if you are willing to pay for a year at a time. If you are paranoid like me, you can run that dedicated Kerberos box on a VPS that you self-install with whatever OS and configuration you feel like using (I prefer FreeBSD because Heimdal kerberos is included in the base OS). That can be done here, and will cost you $6.95 per month.
I guess you are right that there is no way to have a separate authentication server without spending more money, but you might just think about increasing that by $3 a month and do things the right way.
I did see the musical off-Broadway. It was really good. Did you see it too?
Don't hold your breath.
What, you don't want to watch every episode of Star Trek ever made?
BTW: here's your citation: Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran. Cheers! Also, start reading news sources outside of slashdot.
Where were you this past weekend? Every reputable news source in the US has white house sources on background confirming that Obama authorized stuxnet. Perhaps doing so is necessary to protect national interests. That's a different discussion. I want to know whether or not identity theft and credit card fraud against innocent random individuals was committed as a means to creating the botnet.
Using computer generated RSA/DSA keys is actually a bit less secure than the best option, SRP. I'm not clear on why the Secure Remote Password protocol is not deployed more widely.
Another point is that you can use Google authenticator rather than the SMS garbage. This is much more secure and uses HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm (RFC 4226) and Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm (RFC 6238). It even has a PAM module that you can use with just about anything that supports PAM, and it has iOS, Android, and Blackberry versions of the client app.
Thanks for that ultra closeup. That explains a lot about the material. It would be nice to have something with clean edges like molded plastics can exhibit. On the topic of cheaper, what is the material cost of a model like your example?
The US government has admitted to authorizing stuxnet. Now it looks like Flame is probably also a government authorized weapon.
My question is where did the money for the C&C servers come from? Those C&C domains were paid for with stolen credit cards and stolen identities. The same thing was used to purchase the VPSs used as the C&C servers. Why isn't there an outcry because the US government stole the identities and credit card numbers of private individuals to make these botnets? Where did they get these stolen identities? Did they use criminal means and buy them on the black market from other botherders? Did they just open their own files and roll the dice choosing people at random?
This is actually the first time I've seen 3D printing material up that close. It actually doesn't look very high quality. The edges are not at all sharp. It actually looks a bit like some kind of foam rubber or styrofoam cut into those shapes with an exacto.
I looked up the GTX 670, and I like the comments I've read on Newegg. It's pretty high on the expensive end of expensive, however.
I understand that there are many submitters from all over the globe here on slashdot, and many of them are second language speakers of english. But that is no excuse for the editors of this site letting so many gross errors make it past them and into published articles. Do they proofread, or even read for that matter, the articles that they accept?
I've had stability problems with both ATI cards that I've owned recently. The older one was a 4xxx series that was totally inadequate, and my current one is a Radeon HD 6670 which should be adequate for most things, but really doesn't provide a smooth experience in Skyrim under Windows 7 nor is it the best in Linux. Compositing under KDE is not stable with this card. I don't use the closed source driver, however, under Linux, but I don't feel that I should need to use the Catalyst driver just to get KDE's eye candy to work right.
This begs the question: what is a good stable video card that can give modern games under Windows an enjoyable experience and also provides a solid experience under Linux with preferably an open source driver?
You do realize that you are looking at Google Maps, not QUICC, right? All they did was plot the locations of data points from their system on Google Maps.
You're saying that a software tool developed by NASA to interpret data from a scientific instrument aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites orbiting Earth is something strange or outside of their mission? All you really did by making that comment was to put your ignorance on public display.
We need the government "helping" fight botnets.
Are any of these patents software patents? If not, then this is not really a big concern. Software patents are an obscenity, regular patents can be a good thing. Perhaps the system needs a bit of reform, but only software patents should be abolished.
Keep in mind that it isn't bias to state that the evidence points in one direction or another. Its the way that you say it that introduces bias. Using words and phrases such as "actually works" and "laughably disproved" are the problem. The author can't let her own views, opinions, and emotions bleed into the writing.