If this matters to you so much cancel your account and switch to a different photo-hosting provider. There are hundreds. If you don't switch, you obviously don't really care. So stop whining.
Yes. If you do not agree with the EULA, don't tell Microsoft that you do (by using it). Switch to a product with a less restrictive agreement, there are PLENTY out there.
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration.
British law doesn't apply in the US. If this guy wants to escape from prison to testify against slashdot in the US, then I guess slashdot would have to change the headline. Otherwise, it's Too Fucking Bad For Him (tm).
> And some of us don't want every one of our transactions tracked and stored in some massive database to be used against us at some time in the future.
Better wear a bag over your head, then, so nobody can see you. You should also get a fucking grip.
> It's pretty frustrating standing in a long line at a convenience store, while people buy $5 worth of chips and soda with a credit card.
What planet are you from? I find it much faster to tap the credit card against the reader and press "OK" than it is to dig out 4 pennies from my pocket, then find the $5 bill mixed in with $1s, $10s, and $20s (all exactly alike), then wait for the clerk to make change for me.
> It's uncool to use cash now??
A waste of money. If I wait a month to pay, I can put the money in my savings and earn 5% interest. In addition, my credit card puts 1% of every purchase in a savings account, too. Not counting compound interest, this adds up to about $200 in free money a year.
All in all, I don't see how using a credit card for everything is a bad idea. It's faster and it gives me free money.
> $5 is too valuable to turn into an easy-to-replicate coin. $1 is at the breaking point.
Tell that to Japan, who has a 500 Yen ($5 or so) coin. The lowest-valued bill is 1000 Yen ($10). You get used to it, it works fine. It's much easier to pull out a distinctive coin than a piece of paper that looks exactly like a $1 bill, $10 bill, and $100 bill.
> Aluminium qualifies (at around a buck per pound), but it is rather soft. So it looks like we'll need something else for use in an alloy.
Japan uses Aluminum for their 1 Yen coins, and it works fine. They don't get damaged, but they are really really light (which makes them feel like a toy, not money).
If we're going to generalize like that, I would say that calling any American music good is also insane. 99% of commercial music is crap, regardless of country. Stupidity is global.
However, I don't see any modules on CPAN for non-Japanese bands:
> It won't play unless a secure path exists from input to output.
A secure path directly into the "DVI amplifier" that "forgets" to re-apply the HDMI encryption. Trusting 3rd party devices is the fatal flaw.
DRM only exists to force consumers to buy newer hardware when they don't need it. I got my 24" Dell flat-panel for ultra-cheap because it wasn't selling anymore (it was a non-HDMI model). Why anyone wants to watch HD content on their computer is beyond me, though. I just want 1920x1200 pixels worth of emacs:)
s/carries/links to offsite/. Apple doesn't host the podcasts, they just link to the site that hosts it. Even my lame podcast from a few years ago is on iTMS.
or example, if I get a pump and dump spam I can buy it dirt cheap, wait a few hours or days and see it shoot up 2-5% and then at that point I can sell all my shares and make a short sell, which means I can make another 2-5% when the stock returns to its normal value or even lower after people realize they've been pump'd and dumped. Thats potentially a 10% return for a 5% movement;-)
I doubt that you can sell short on OTC stocks. On the real market, being able to sell short is not something you can just "do". You need to have a broker that will loan you the stocks. (Selling short works by you saying, "loan me xxx shares of this stock and I'll give them back to you in a few days". You then sell them and then re-buy them at the lower price, and pocket the difference. Or lose massive amounts of money if the stock goes up.) To get the stock loaned to you, you have to have a brokerage account with the ability to buy on margin (and then you can only use a certain percentage of your margin to sell short). Then, you can only short-sell when the stock is not falling (which means you need to plan ahead; you can't just read about a company going bankrupt and then short 10000 shares of its stock).
So it's not just "sell short and profit", it's actually a difficult thing to do, and it's heavily regulated. I don't know how it works for OTC stocks though == if you get a friend to loan you the shares, then you could be all set.
Finally, 5% is a good one-day return (it's a good 6-month return, too), but you need to factor in how much it costs to trade. If it's $0.01 per share to buy (and the same to sell), and the share is priced at $0.03, then your 5% gain becomes a net loss.
So be careful with penny stocks. Your investment strategy is a great way to lose tons of money.
I see. All non-Communists are cryptographers! Regardless of the spin, the article is crap and shouldn't have been on slashdot. It's "news for nerds", not propaganda for sheep. We want facts, not emotions.
> I find the irony of THIS statement quite remarkable, given the above.
I find the irony of THAT statement quite remarkable, given the above.
Well said. I'm pretty sure that this is just the English translation of a Chinese state-run newspaper. (The "read original Chinese" link at the bottom gives this away.)
While important, it doesn't mean that the Chinese suddenly own the NSA and Microsoft, as the article implies.
The article doesn't make sense. There are no technical details and SHA-1 is a cryptographic digest algorithm, not an encryption algorithm. AES is what everyone uses for encryption now -- message digests are used for signatures. Important, yes, but encryption hasn't been rendered useless.
They also use the word "online" too many times for me to take them seriously. The implication is that because the professor broke SHA 1 that my online bank account is going to be drained. Not likely.
No, on Slashdot, there is a depraved vocal minority that wants to feel like they are okay objectifying women in selfish, addictive, and animal-like ways.
I'm not a Baptist; I'm just getting tired of the stereotype that techies are perverts and that if you belong to that *club* that makes porn acceptable.
What happened to the techie that had a sister or a mother or a cute little daughter and wanted to protect them from exploitation?
You are aware that there exists a large quantity of porn directed at females, right? It's not just men that like porn... PEOPLE LIKE SEX. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you can stop posting this drivel to slashdot.
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If this matters to you so much cancel your account and switch to a different photo-hosting provider. There are hundreds. If you don't switch, you obviously don't really care. So stop whining.
Yes. If you do not agree with the EULA, don't tell Microsoft that you do (by using it). Switch to a product with a less restrictive agreement, there are PLENTY out there.
Did you read the book? His experience is modeled off Subversion (he wrote it). Subversion is pretty successful.
As an aside, we run Catalyst the same way (but with a little bit less bureaucracy, and fewer core contributers).
If you're actually looking for open source collaboration tips, take a look at Karl Fogel's (freely-available) book:
http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/index.html
You've neglected to mention that Apple used to call their PowerPC-based machines... PowerPCs.
4) Dude, have you read the 16th amendment?
16th Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration.
> You do realise that the USA has libel laws too, don't you?
Sure. And someone in the USA needs to be upset enough to invoke them.
British law doesn't apply in the US. If this guy wants to escape from prison to testify against slashdot in the US, then I guess slashdot would have to change the headline. Otherwise, it's Too Fucking Bad For Him (tm).
Murderer.
> And some of us don't want every one of our transactions tracked and stored in some massive database to be used against us at some time in the future.
Better wear a bag over your head, then, so nobody can see you. You should also get a fucking grip.
> Can you name one law that has never been broken?
The second law of thermodynamics.
> It's pretty frustrating standing in a long line at a convenience store, while people buy $5 worth of chips and soda with a credit card.
What planet are you from? I find it much faster to tap the credit card against the reader and press "OK" than it is to dig out 4 pennies from my pocket, then find the $5 bill mixed in with $1s, $10s, and $20s (all exactly alike), then wait for the clerk to make change for me.
> It's uncool to use cash now??
A waste of money. If I wait a month to pay, I can put the money in my savings and earn 5% interest. In addition, my credit card puts 1% of every purchase in a savings account, too. Not counting compound interest, this adds up to about $200 in free money a year.
All in all, I don't see how using a credit card for everything is a bad idea. It's faster and it gives me free money.
> Or, if it's going to be 2.00, might as well make it 2.95. That's what will really happen, probably.
Until the store next door starts selling it for $2.00 again.
> $5 is too valuable to turn into an easy-to-replicate coin. $1 is at the breaking point.
Tell that to Japan, who has a 500 Yen ($5 or so) coin. The lowest-valued bill is 1000 Yen ($10). You get used to it, it works fine. It's much easier to pull out a distinctive coin than a piece of paper that looks exactly like a $1 bill, $10 bill, and $100 bill.
> Aluminium qualifies (at around a buck per pound), but it is rather soft. So it looks like we'll need something else for use in an alloy.
Japan uses Aluminum for their 1 Yen coins, and it works fine. They don't get damaged, but they are really really light (which makes them feel like a toy, not money).
> You don't need to show your driver's license to the cops every time you start the car, tell them where you're going, and get permission.
Yet.
> Seriously, someone explain to me what is wrong with a national ID standard... without saying "papers please".
Papers, please.
Seriously, that's the problem.
If we're going to generalize like that, I would say that calling any American music good is also insane. 99% of commercial music is crap, regardless of country. Stupidity is global.
However, I don't see any modules on CPAN for non-Japanese bands:
Acme::MorningMusume
> It won't play unless a secure path exists from input to output.
:)
A secure path directly into the "DVI amplifier" that "forgets" to re-apply the HDMI encryption. Trusting 3rd party devices is the fatal flaw.
DRM only exists to force consumers to buy newer hardware when they don't need it. I got my 24" Dell flat-panel for ultra-cheap because it wasn't selling anymore (it was a non-HDMI model). Why anyone wants to watch HD content on their computer is beyond me, though. I just want 1920x1200 pixels worth of emacs
s/carries/links to offsite/. Apple doesn't host the podcasts, they just link to the site that hosts it. Even my lame podcast from a few years ago is on iTMS.
I doubt that you can sell short on OTC stocks. On the real market, being able to sell short is not something you can just "do". You need to have a broker that will loan you the stocks. (Selling short works by you saying, "loan me xxx shares of this stock and I'll give them back to you in a few days". You then sell them and then re-buy them at the lower price, and pocket the difference. Or lose massive amounts of money if the stock goes up.) To get the stock loaned to you, you have to have a brokerage account with the ability to buy on margin (and then you can only use a certain percentage of your margin to sell short). Then, you can only short-sell when the stock is not falling (which means you need to plan ahead; you can't just read about a company going bankrupt and then short 10000 shares of its stock).
So it's not just "sell short and profit", it's actually a difficult thing to do, and it's heavily regulated. I don't know how it works for OTC stocks though == if you get a friend to loan you the shares, then you could be all set.
Finally, 5% is a good one-day return (it's a good 6-month return, too), but you need to factor in how much it costs to trade. If it's $0.01 per share to buy (and the same to sell), and the share is priced at $0.03, then your 5% gain becomes a net loss.
So be careful with penny stocks. Your investment strategy is a great way to lose tons of money.
I see. All non-Communists are cryptographers! Regardless of the spin, the article is crap and shouldn't have been on slashdot. It's "news for nerds", not propaganda for sheep. We want facts, not emotions.
> I find the irony of THIS statement quite remarkable, given the above.
I find the irony of THAT statement quite remarkable, given the above.
Well said. I'm pretty sure that this is just the English translation of a Chinese state-run newspaper. (The "read original Chinese" link at the bottom gives this away.)
While important, it doesn't mean that the Chinese suddenly own the NSA and Microsoft, as the article implies.
Do the editors read ANYTHING before posting!?
The article doesn't make sense. There are no technical details and SHA-1 is a cryptographic digest algorithm, not an encryption algorithm. AES is what everyone uses for encryption now -- message digests are used for signatures. Important, yes, but encryption hasn't been rendered useless.
They also use the word "online" too many times for me to take them seriously. The implication is that because the professor broke SHA 1 that my online bank account is going to be drained. Not likely.
You are aware that there exists a large quantity of porn directed at females, right? It's not just men that like porn... PEOPLE LIKE SEX. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you can stop posting this drivel to slashdot.
The RIAA won't sue Sony, though, because Sony is a large part of the RIAA.