You shouldn't make fun of the Lords of Cobol or you'll be ejected from the Twelve Colonies and banished to an abandoned asteroid with only a malfunctioning daggit for company.
Maybe Australia should just ban regional locks and require that digital goods be priced within say 5% of the US/EU price.
Australia (or at least John Howard, Bush's antipodean doormat) signed the AUSFTA, a sort of dry run for the TPP. Australia is pretty much at the mercy of US business interests here, they don't have much choice.
A little known secret about electrons is that they are rarely shipped from A to B.
That's because they're really hard to get through customs. I recently ordered a shipment of electrons in convenient 18x65mm cylindrical form from the Golden Phoenix 10,000 Years Happy Luck battery factory (you know that's got to be a good brand) and it was blocked from being shipped by air, some nonsense about "vent with flame" which I'm sure is just anti-Chinese protectionism.
It is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, I think comsci qualifies for the last three but not for the first one and I have a comsci degree.
Beat me to it. It's a mixture of engineering, maths, and art (we don't have technology degrees here so I'm not sure what that entails), but very little science. Like other fields that feel the need to put "science" in their name (for example political science), it mostly isn't.
I wonder who decided at which point things went from "appropriate" to "inappropriate"? Is there a government guidebook that says that spending up to $17M monitoring someone who's charged with having a quick shag in Sweden is appropriate, but once the bill reaches $18M it's getting a bit out of hand?
Just to put this into perspective, the cost of this little adventure would have put nearly two hundred extra police on the streets over the period in which it ran. So watching one attention-seeking Australian in an embassy potentially took two hundred policemen off the streets catching actual criminals.
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time.
Could you let us know where your warehouse full of food is located? We need to know where to go to get food when the acrapalypse comes. Don't worry, we'll ask politely, we won't open fire unless you refuse to hand over all your food.
And that's the crazy thing about this, they're deprecating NPAPI, whose main user is Flash, "for security reasons", but specifically leaving in support for... Flash, the most dangerous, buggy attack vector there is. It's like the TSA announcing that they're going to continue running their long-running security theatre performance in order to annoy all travellers, but will be waving through anyone with dynamite strapped to their body.
For a minor example of the kind of problem from a few decades ago "Should a man hold a door open for a woman?"
For those who weren't around then, the term that was applied to this at the time was, and I kid you not, "non-contact rape". Yep, holding a door open for someone, a.k.a. "common courtesy", was labelled as a form of rape when it was a man holding the door for a woman.
"I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro,"
I asked a friend from a subgroup of the Congolese Luba people and in their dialect of Luba-Kasai "br" means "sodomise my three-year-old with a cucumber". Only three people actually speak this dialect and they're all over ninety, but still, someone somewhere finds it offensive, so your choice of "br" cannot be used as it is both offensive and racist.
I demand that you change the extension to "cutefluffybunniessoftcottonwoolwarmness", but only after polling every single ethnic group, subculture, and political and religious belief in the world to ensure that none of them can figure out a way in which it offends them.
People have been attacking SHA-1 since 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No need for any conspiracy since people were warned about potential weaknesses in SHA-1 for a decade.
It's also important to point out that this is a free-start collision, where the attacker gets to choose the initial values, something that isn't possible with full SHA-1. This makes the attack much, much easier than an attack on full SHA-1. It took nearly a decade to go from the first free-start collision on MD5 to an actual attack, and MD5 was a much weaker function than SHA-1. Their estimate of "end of the year" may be a bit optimistic.
+1 Insightful. The way to ignite PC sales is to treat them like a PC, not to pretend they're a cellphone. To date 100% of my friends-and-family circle that I support IT-wise have decided to stick with Windows 7 because it's Windows, not some bizarro hermaphrodite Windows/iPhone crossbreed.
after having uninstalled and hidden their updates related to Win 10 they actually unhid them and had those "optional" updates checked so that if I didn't do the research they would be re-installed again.
They've also yet again pushed out the Win10 nagware update, KB 3035583, and marked it Important to it's automatically (re-)installed even if you got rid of it the previous times they've forced it on you. This was within the last day or two, so check your PC to see whether it's been re-infected recently.
It's all right fanboi, the nice men in the white coats will be along any minute to take you back to your cell in Redmond. In the meantime just keep repeating the mantra "I love Bill and Steve. Everything Bill and Steve tell me to do is the right thing. I have no mind of my own".
I wonder if the CIA ever did something like this... had a spy change the measurement on some engineering specs just slightly, make them waste a ton of money.
In that case someone should tell the CIA to stop messing with US defence programs (F35, Zumwalt, SBX, GMD, etc). The mess they've made there makes a Russian hangar pale into insignificance.
if there's anything that describes the US military brass, it's "relentlessly competent"?
This goes back to (at least) WWII, where there was a saying among the ground troops that "When the Germans flew over, the British ducked. When the British flew over, the Germans ducked. When the Americans flew over, everyone ducked".
There's a - possibly apocryphal - story of Patton nominating some USAF pilots for the Iron Cross after being strafed by them three times in one day. Less apocryphal is that more US troops, including the highest-ranking casualty in the war, a Lt.General, were killed by USAF pilots than Luftwaffe pilots during D-Day (Operation Cobra, in which US ground troops fired at their own planes in frustration).
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You shouldn't make fun of the Lords of Cobol or you'll be ejected from the Twelve Colonies and banished to an abandoned asteroid with only a malfunctioning daggit for company.
Yes, Visual COBOL is a real thing: http://www.microfocus.com/down...
Just curious, is Microfocus still run covertly by satan as a means of torturing its clients, or has he gone public about his role?
Maybe Australia should just ban regional locks and require that digital goods be priced within say 5% of the US/EU price.
Australia (or at least John Howard, Bush's antipodean doormat) signed the AUSFTA, a sort of dry run for the TPP. Australia is pretty much at the mercy of US business interests here, they don't have much choice.
A little known secret about electrons is that they are rarely shipped from A to B.
That's because they're really hard to get through customs. I recently ordered a shipment of electrons in convenient 18x65mm cylindrical form from the Golden Phoenix 10,000 Years Happy Luck battery factory (you know that's got to be a good brand) and it was blocked from being shipped by air, some nonsense about "vent with flame" which I'm sure is just anti-Chinese protectionism.
It is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, I think comsci qualifies for the last three but not for the first one and I have a comsci degree.
Beat me to it. It's a mixture of engineering, maths, and art (we don't have technology degrees here so I'm not sure what that entails), but very little science. Like other fields that feel the need to put "science" in their name (for example political science), it mostly isn't.
I wonder who decided at which point things went from "appropriate" to "inappropriate"? Is there a government guidebook that says that spending up to $17M monitoring someone who's charged with having a quick shag in Sweden is appropriate, but once the bill reaches $18M it's getting a bit out of hand?
Just to put this into perspective, the cost of this little adventure would have put nearly two hundred extra police on the streets over the period in which it ran. So watching one attention-seeking Australian in an embassy potentially took two hundred policemen off the streets catching actual criminals.
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time.
Could you let us know where your warehouse full of food is located? We need to know where to go to get food when the acrapalypse comes. Don't worry, we'll ask politely, we won't open fire unless you refuse to hand over all your food.
And that's the crazy thing about this, they're deprecating NPAPI, whose main user is Flash, "for security reasons", but specifically leaving in support for... Flash, the most dangerous, buggy attack vector there is. It's like the TSA announcing that they're going to continue running their long-running security theatre performance in order to annoy all travellers, but will be waving through anyone with dynamite strapped to their body.
Access to more than 2GB of memory? For displaying web pages?
You haven't used Firefox much have you?
"the propensity to lie on the beach and watch girls"
OH, shock horror !
They forgot to mention that he was once overheard calling someone .bro. He should have been deleted on the spot for that transgression.
For a minor example of the kind of problem from a few decades ago "Should a man hold a door open for a woman?"
For those who weren't around then, the term that was applied to this at the time was, and I kid you not, "non-contact rape". Yep, holding a door open for someone, a.k.a. "common courtesy", was labelled as a form of rape when it was a man holding the door for a woman.
Who says that?
Metrosexuals who think being 'feminist' will help them get laid?
Losing about a hundred pounds and shaving their legs and armpits would be a better start in that direction.
"I have asked a feminist friend from the North American culture-sphere, and she advised against bro,"
I asked a friend from a subgroup of the Congolese Luba people and in their dialect of Luba-Kasai "br" means "sodomise my three-year-old with a cucumber". Only three people actually speak this dialect and they're all over ninety, but still, someone somewhere finds it offensive, so your choice of "br" cannot be used as it is both offensive and racist.
I demand that you change the extension to "cutefluffybunniessoftcottonwoolwarmness", but only after polling every single ethnic group, subculture, and political and religious belief in the world to ensure that none of them can figure out a way in which it offends them.
People have been attacking SHA-1 since 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No need for any conspiracy since people were warned about potential weaknesses in SHA-1 for a decade.
It's also important to point out that this is a free-start collision, where the attacker gets to choose the initial values, something that isn't possible with full SHA-1. This makes the attack much, much easier than an attack on full SHA-1. It took nearly a decade to go from the first free-start collision on MD5 to an actual attack, and MD5 was a much weaker function than SHA-1. Their estimate of "end of the year" may be a bit optimistic.
+1 Insightful. The way to ignite PC sales is to treat them like a PC, not to pretend they're a cellphone. To date 100% of my friends-and-family circle that I support IT-wise have decided to stick with Windows 7 because it's Windows, not some bizarro hermaphrodite Windows/iPhone crossbreed.
after having uninstalled and hidden their updates related to Win 10 they actually unhid them and had those "optional" updates checked so that if I didn't do the research they would be re-installed again.
They've also yet again pushed out the Win10 nagware update, KB 3035583, and marked it Important to it's automatically (re-)installed even if you got rid of it the previous times they've forced it on you. This was within the last day or two, so check your PC to see whether it's been re-infected recently.
It's all right fanboi, the nice men in the white coats will be along any minute to take you back to your cell in Redmond. In the meantime just keep repeating the mantra "I love Bill and Steve. Everything Bill and Steve tell me to do is the right thing. I have no mind of my own".
Exactly. 50M devices ran the Storm botnet, so it's not an unusual install base for a forced-on-you piece of crapware.
No need to panic, I've talked to the Windows Phone user and he says he doesn't use their app store, so it's all good.
They would just build two more towers, each twice as big as the other.
They don't have to be twice as big, they just have to go to 11 instead of only 10.
controls were developed in Ukraine, and are now lost to Russians
Tsar Putin is working to correct that, please hold...
I wonder if the CIA ever did something like this... had a spy change the measurement on some engineering specs just slightly, make them waste a ton of money.
In that case someone should tell the CIA to stop messing with US defence programs (F35, Zumwalt, SBX, GMD, etc). The mess they've made there makes a Russian hangar pale into insignificance.
But of COURSE Comrade Putin is symmetrical!
In fact, he's a polygon of 132 sides.
I'd heard he was two-faced, but for someone like Putin I can easily believe he's 132-faced.
if there's anything that describes the US military brass, it's "relentlessly competent"?
This goes back to (at least) WWII, where there was a saying among the ground troops that "When the Germans flew over, the British ducked. When the British flew over, the Germans ducked. When the Americans flew over, everyone ducked".
There's a - possibly apocryphal - story of Patton nominating some USAF pilots for the Iron Cross after being strafed by them three times in one day. Less apocryphal is that more US troops, including the highest-ranking casualty in the war, a Lt.General, were killed by USAF pilots than Luftwaffe pilots during D-Day (Operation Cobra, in which US ground troops fired at their own planes in frustration).
I'd be impressed to see an animated GIF run for a couple of years, let alone 1000.
Not to mention the encoding bug they introduced that'll be triggered in year 567. Then they'll have to start the whole thing from scratch.