Just curious, how would it be abused? Soylent have had it for ages, and I haven't seen any signs of problems, it's no different to moderating a discussion you're not part of. At best, it forces someone to apply one extra step of using a sockpuppet to mod the discussion they've contributed to.
Danger Will Robinson! MS have just re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reissued KB2976978 again, just saw it pop up There's also a KB3135449 which may be a problem..
Unicode support. This has been an open sore for years.
More generally, at the risk of sounding snarky, copy some of the stuff Soylent News has done, e.g. ability to moderate individual posts rather than having to scroll to the bottom and moderate all, ability to moderate in a discussion you've contributed to, etc. Soylent was forked to fix various Slashdot problems, and they've done a pretty good job of addressing the major issues.
Yes it can. I get asked to do audits of crypto code and see stuff like this all over the place. You mention things like the Miller-Rabin test (I kinda like Frobenius myself) and the extended Riemann Hypothesis when the guy who wrote the code/made the change probably didn't get any further than using Google and copying the result from the first hit he found on Stackexchange, which copied it from somewhere else and got the endianness wrong or something (hmm, must find a machine with Mathematica and feed it in byte-reversed to see what drops out).
Given that it also used 512-bit primes, which are toy keys that were weak twenty years ago, it's more likely a screwup. Seeing messed-up crypto written by people whose crypto knowledge extends to reading the Wikipedia page on RSA and perhaps one or two chapters of Applied Cryptography is pretty much par for the course.
From a very brief Google of socat howtos, I couldn't see much about enabling or applying checking of certs, which means it probably doesn't do that either. In addition the advisory is pretty confusing, what does "OpenSSL address implementation" mean? Since the server supplies the DH values and OpenSSL itself has known-good DH values, why is there some other value hardcoded into socat?
You say that like it (not being made to downgrade to 10) is a bad thing.
Man am I glad I scraped every vestige of the Win10 malware droppers out of both my system and the machines of assorted family and neighbours I support some months ago, and switched Windows Update to manual. Now I can control what does (security fixes) and doesn't (the Win10 droppers) get installed.
The US federal highway spending is about $50B a year. I'm pretty sure that a few $175 font licenses aren't the reason why Clearview has problems.
If you look at the font images it doesn't seem like a very good choice, if you just dropped that in front of me I'd say it was a condensed form of a standard font, which would be hard to read at a distance. Something like DIN 1451 seems like a much better font for this.
I live in Iceland and I'm wondering if I'm going to be affected
I live on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic that's only above water about half the time. I think I might be affected, but I'm still waiting for the seawater to drain out of my TV so I can check.
Sheesh, this is a Land Rover we're talking about here, not some woosy hatchback. It doesn't need collision avoidance or other fancy gadgets, it just drives through or over everything, including deer, pedestrians, bikes, houses, hills, rivers, and most mountain ranges.
The only thing you'd really need is a non-Land Rover following on behind to pick up the bits that fall off it from time to time, driven by a priest to deal with any Lucas Electric problems.
Since the only app that would run in HURD would be emacs, they might as well just make emacs the front end of the OS, instead of bothering about bash/csh/ksh/ et al
That's not quite correct, I have it on good authority that when HURD is finally ready it will also be running Xanadu.
If you want to really reform the system, we should get rid of voting based on geography
It's not nearly as simple as that, or in fact any other silver-bullet solution. A lot of it depends on national proclivities. Look at two examples of countries that have had proper proportional representation for ages. Germany, stability and, well, Germanness. Italy, instability and, well, Italianness. Same system (with minor, mostly irrelevant differences details, and in both cases they've changed over time), opposite results.
Same with other countries. In Scandinavian countries you could apply just about any voting system you like and by and large you'd get a decent government. In Russia you could apply just about any voting system you like and by and large you'll get a corrupt government.
It is the way of things. If you want a government of type X, move to a country that tends towards having that sort of government.
Would they just vent all this into the room for hours on end?
Once China figures out how to make a resistance sintering furnace they can sell on Alibaba for $1,995 then yes, quite probably. And none of this woosy zirconia stuff, they'll use thoria so you can read in the dark while you're working.
They're so exhausted from strenuous days of arguing over the relative merits of M855, Mk.262, and Mk.318 that they decided to leave the issue of COMSEC for a later meeting, once they've voted on whether Bubba looks better in a Feldgrau or Hechtgrau thong.
The important thing is that someone is pointing this out. The 3D printers I've worked with (large commercial units) all have fully enclosed ventilated fume hoods. I've always wondered about cheapie open-air ones and the amount of VOCs they'd spread throughout the environment. At least people will now be a bit more aware of the issue.
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Just curious, how would it be abused? Soylent have had it for ages, and I haven't seen any signs of problems, it's no different to moderating a discussion you're not part of. At best, it forces someone to apply one extra step of using a sockpuppet to mod the discussion they've contributed to.
Danger Will Robinson! MS have just re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-reissued KB2976978 again, just saw it pop up There's also a KB3135449 which may be a problem..
Unicode support. This has been an open sore for years.
More generally, at the risk of sounding snarky, copy some of the stuff Soylent News has done, e.g. ability to moderate individual posts rather than having to scroll to the bottom and moderate all, ability to moderate in a discussion you've contributed to, etc. Soylent was forked to fix various Slashdot problems, and they've done a pretty good job of addressing the major issues.
Yes it can. I get asked to do audits of crypto code and see stuff like this all over the place. You mention things like the Miller-Rabin test (I kinda like Frobenius myself) and the extended Riemann Hypothesis when the guy who wrote the code/made the change probably didn't get any further than using Google and copying the result from the first hit he found on Stackexchange, which copied it from somewhere else and got the endianness wrong or something (hmm, must find a machine with Mathematica and feed it in byte-reversed to see what drops out).
Given that it also used 512-bit primes, which are toy keys that were weak twenty years ago, it's more likely a screwup. Seeing messed-up crypto written by people whose crypto knowledge extends to reading the Wikipedia page on RSA and perhaps one or two chapters of Applied Cryptography is pretty much par for the course.
From a very brief Google of socat howtos, I couldn't see much about enabling or applying checking of certs, which means it probably doesn't do that either. In addition the advisory is pretty confusing, what does "OpenSSL address implementation" mean? Since the server supplies the DH values and OpenSSL itself has known-good DH values, why is there some other value hardcoded into socat?
It would if it was an ECL computer, which would run in a positive-ground car.
They don't consider how this crap works in a slow internet environment. I'm on boat in Mexico.
El Chapo Guzman?
Windows 10 is terribly unpredictable. It'll sleep with your wife if you leave the room.
That happened to me the other day. My wife said the laptop went to sleep on her after ten minutes, just like me.
stupid loosers
Literacy isn't your strong point, is it?
It is if he's talking about incompetent archers.
That Windows 10 recommender update is really tenacious! Fire is just about necessary to beat it down.
Crossing over from the Land Rover discussion, I wonder what would happen if you put the Windows 10 dropper on a computer made by Lucas Electric?
You say that like it (not being made to downgrade to 10) is a bad thing.
Man am I glad I scraped every vestige of the Win10 malware droppers out of both my system and the machines of assorted family and neighbours I support some months ago, and switched Windows Update to manual. Now I can control what does (security fixes) and doesn't (the Win10 droppers) get installed.
Exactly. Once the upgrade to the HURD is finished, then they'll address that silly i18n thing.
The US federal highway spending is about $50B a year. I'm pretty sure that a few $175 font licenses aren't the reason why Clearview has problems.
If you look at the font images it doesn't seem like a very good choice, if you just dropped that in front of me I'd say it was a condensed form of a standard font, which would be hard to read at a distance. Something like DIN 1451 seems like a much better font for this.
I'm one of the affected Norwegian customers
I live in Iceland and I'm wondering if I'm going to be affected
I live on a rock in the middle of the North Atlantic that's only above water about half the time. I think I might be affected, but I'm still waiting for the seawater to drain out of my TV so I can check.
Sheesh, this is a Land Rover we're talking about here, not some woosy hatchback. It doesn't need collision avoidance or other fancy gadgets, it just drives through or over everything, including deer, pedestrians, bikes, houses, hills, rivers, and most mountain ranges.
The only thing you'd really need is a non-Land Rover following on behind to pick up the bits that fall off it from time to time, driven by a priest to deal with any Lucas Electric problems.
Since the only app that would run in HURD would be emacs, they might as well just make emacs the front end of the OS, instead of bothering about bash/csh/ksh/ et al
That's not quite correct, I have it on good authority that when HURD is finally ready it will also be running Xanadu.
systemctl start mongod
Well there's your problem, you've mangled your languages. If you'd used:
systemctl start mondieu
you'd have got the response you were expecting:
# Bonjour, je m'appelle Linus.
Every story, save for a couple, since the announcement of the takeover has ostensibly been posted by timothy.
Oh Ghod, I've just realised: "timothy" is actually Bennett Haselton.
If you want to really reform the system, we should get rid of voting based on geography
It's not nearly as simple as that, or in fact any other silver-bullet solution. A lot of it depends on national proclivities. Look at two examples of countries that have had proper proportional representation for ages. Germany, stability and, well, Germanness. Italy, instability and, well, Italianness. Same system (with minor, mostly irrelevant differences details, and in both cases they've changed over time), opposite results.
Same with other countries. In Scandinavian countries you could apply just about any voting system you like and by and large you'd get a decent government. In Russia you could apply just about any voting system you like and by and large you'll get a corrupt government.
It is the way of things. If you want a government of type X, move to a country that tends towards having that sort of government.
So Xerox has made two copies of itself?
Windows 10? Slashdot beta? Comcast? Rogers? Heck, any telco or cable provider?
Would they just vent all this into the room for hours on end?
Once China figures out how to make a resistance sintering furnace they can sell on Alibaba for $1,995 then yes, quite probably. And none of this woosy zirconia stuff, they'll use thoria so you can read in the dark while you're working.
They're so exhausted from strenuous days of arguing over the relative merits of M855, Mk.262, and Mk.318 that they decided to leave the issue of COMSEC for a later meeting, once they've voted on whether Bubba looks better in a Feldgrau or Hechtgrau thong.
The important thing is that someone is pointing this out. The 3D printers I've worked with (large commercial units) all have fully enclosed ventilated fume hoods. I've always wondered about cheapie open-air ones and the amount of VOCs they'd spread throughout the environment. At least people will now be a bit more aware of the issue.
You may also want to set dom.push.serverURL to 127.0.0.1 as extra insurance.
Great to think that anything that can spoof or MITM that site can push whatever crap they want into your browser...