Also, the official "move your domain day" was the 29th IIRC, so while this could be an insignificant blip, it might be an indicator of how many will move later.
Yes, but Starbucks is also likely to record MAC addresses and computer names. Spoofable, but only if you know what you're doing (the 12-year-old script kiddies who mostly make up Anon probably don't). Might even have video survellience, and if they don't there are probably neighboring stores or traffic cams nearby which may or may not have seen your face/ license plate.
Anonymous goes after whomever the hell they feel like. That is the point. And we just had a story a few days ago about how the crowd is often completely wrong. Anonymous is a mob: anything can get an idea in their heads, and they will pursue it, right or wrong, till someone ends up paying. And fuck all whether they are guilty or not. Anon lost any high-horse credibility when they started calling it "LulzXmas." Not that they had any before IMO. They do it because it's fun. Also, because most of them are losers who have nothing better to do than lash out at the society that they pretend to reject, but really has rejected them (and they are rejected because they hang out at sites like 4chan, and think "forever alone" is the peak of comedy).
Ok, first thing, the very link you gave said the work "holocaust" derived from the Greek word (holókauston) via the way of the Latin (holocaustum) and was from the Septuagint (the Greek translation by the Jews of the Old Testament) originally. The word is Jewish and invented by the Jews, so you're wrong there.
And secondly, a horrific act that was ignored at the time by many countries and to this day is denied in many Muslim countries is not made any less horrific because other people have also done horrific things in the past.
I always take the phrase "The Holocaust" as referring specifically to the murder of the Jews (which was an attempted act of genocide), given the Jewish origin of the word, and not referring to the 5-6 million other people the Nazi's also murdered. Which is why I stated the 6 million figure, and recognized at the end of my post that it wasn't a fair comparison as the actual figure killed was larger (10-12 million).
It is a bit sad that everyone forgets about all the other murders, but they weren't specifically directed at any one specific race, so I don't see that it would be insulting, exactly. Besides, after a million people can't even recognize anything beyond just the scale of the numbers anymore: not to make light of it, but for most people (looking at it historically) 6 million or 12 makes little difference, the basic idea (Hitler was evil) gets through either way. People just cannot comprehend numbers that large, much less make a comparison of them.
To be fair, OP referred to a) the holocaust (which was specifically the 6 million figure you cited) and b) the Soviets, not Stalin in particular. The Soviets killed plenty of people that Stalin was not personally responsible for. 10 times is probably a pretty decent ballpark figure. I'm not an expert on it by any means, of course. And that isn't a completely fair comparison, either, the Nazi's killed far more than just the Jews.
On the other hand, the Space Shuttle (for example) had only 2 catastrophic failures out of 135 launches. Can't seem to find a list of NASA's failures or how frequent they were, but 5 in one year seems like an awful lot.
but at least they are trying in the face of failure, instead of giving up and whining about for a decade like the US did after the shuttle disasters.
Yes, "whining", by launching the shuttles dozens of times afterwards. And then retiring them like they should have done 20 years ago.
I wish I could get even a small quantity of that "nothing." A nothing which funded hundreds of shuttle launches, both Voyager probes, several Mars probes, and dozens of miscellaneous projects. Amazing what nothing can get you these days.
Also, $15 billion (a year) isn't "nothing" even in congressional spending terms. One of the most expensive and advanced aircraft in the world (the F-22) cost only ~4 years at that budget. And that was stock full of pork.
Of course I would love to see them have more. Just pointing out that even for the US budget $15+ billion is a fair bit.
"Good" is in this case equivocal. Are picture passwords highly secure? Probably not. SO they aren't very good in that sense. Are they easy to use and secure enough for most purposes? Yes, making them extremely good for the average user. Which makes them better security in many ways than multi-factor authentication, which would be absurd for a tablet device that isn't carrying top-secret documents. As people have pointed out many times, complex security often ends up being less secure, as the user has to find ways of remembering long passwords, gets sick of the wasted time and just used "1234" for the both of the redundant passwords, or just turns off the security as soon as they can or ignores it entirely (Windows UAC under Vista).
Living in the midwest, ah, you could see it coming days away. Very predictable over large land area.
Not during the summer, at least not where I live. Winter, sure, 5 day prediction no problem. Summer? Storms can hit hours after they give a prediction for sunny skies. And visa-versa: I've seen 95% chance of rain with not a single drop falling (hell, sometimes barely even any clouds). Always the possibility of tornadoes too: they can barely predict a likelihood for those during the storm.
I was actually hoping they come out with a 7850 or similar soon. My 5770 is still pretty strong, but I wouldn't mind an upgrade soon, and I like to have all the newest features (I can do without the top speed).
But that doesn't mean people are ignorant of cultures. English is simply a good language for technical matters, for a large number of reasons. Being the de facto standard is only the most obvious.
Also, I should point out the British invented English, not the US, and they spread it around the world, so I'm really not sure what your point here is. Point of fact, the US probably has more variety of culture than any other nation in the world.
In the Democrat's defense, it's unlikely Newt would have used it anyway. He still thinks the internet is just something hippies use to plot the overthrow of this blessed Christian nation.
O rly? www.newt.org must have been put up by the Democrats than too. How generous of them.
Just off the top of my head: fixed cameras have much more limited vision (so you need lots more, meaning more eyes to watch them as well), are much easier to avoid and/or damage, and (related to the first one and second) can only see a few hundred feet on either side of the border. The border is almost 2000 miles (3,196km), which is a lot of fixed cameras to watch. Can't rely entirely on motion detection either, since trees and animals move too. Also, tunnels can be seen from the air a lot easier.
Those are the technical advantages I can see. As for privacy, I won't touch that, aside from saying: any technology can be used for that, you really need to rely on the law to stop the government from going overboard. I know that isn't working, just saying you can't stop or blame the technology for the government's problem.
It is possible to trigger a memory error in the system file win32k.sys by accessing a crafted HTML file in Safari....According to webDEViL, the source of the vulnerability is the function NtGdiDrawStream.
So it is possible other programs could be affected. It is also possible that Safari itself handles the function in a broken manner. Note that Firefox appears to also have crashes related to that function (on x86 Windows, though, it's like the second Google result for that function). So, really impossible to say at this point. Also, they could only cause Windows to crash, not to run arbitrary code or anything. So far anyways.
The prevailing difference is it isn't an ARM chip. It is an x86 chip, meaning off-the-shelf x86 programs and OSes should run on it. Getting an x86 processor below the performance/power threshold of an ARM chip (while keeping it small enough to fit in a phone) is a pretty major breakthrough.
The term "metal" refers as much to the physical properties of the substance as it does to structure or composition. It basically just means you have a cloud of free electrons (oversimplification). Although it depends on exactly how you define it, the term can apply to compounds or substances in certain states which are otherwise not metallic (such as hydrogen: not a metal in the conventional sense, but can theoretically become one). The fact it doesn't change structure but still exhibits metallic properties is part of why this is surprising.
You claim "if the ends ever justified the means", the ends would always automatically justify any means. Ridiculous!
I think you might have meant the opposite (if not, that sentence doesn't make any sense). No, the statement doesn't need qualification. What needs qualification (very carefully) is what exactly counts as an evil means. Killing is not in and of itself necessarily an evil means. Murder, yes, but not killing. Exactly why is an argument that ethicists have argued over for centuries, but you seem to have the right idea (your argument was more or less correct about that: it would be justified to kill in self-defense. Also, in defense of others).
On the other hand, if your only means of stopping the invasion was the murder of, say, 100 completely innocent people (if for example the invaders tell you they will invade unless you do so, and they are too powerful to stop otherwise), that would not be justified (because of the axiom I originally stated).
I also can't use apt-get on Ubuntu unless I'm root. So... would that also make Ubuntu "not open" by your definition? Plenty of other things I can't do without root in Linux.
Do not confuse "security" with "closed." Don't know anything about the app you reference, but I'm guessing it requires privileges not normally granted to a user-installed app. For security reasons. That's pretty common to Linux in general.
The means themselves do. If the means are ethical, then they can be used. If they are not, they cannot. Simple as that. The argument for this is nearly as simple as saying we cannot know the future, so it becomes impossible to say definitely that the end will result. In this case, we do not know that this vaccine will cure HIV, so we could not use unethical means. It is a bit more complex than that, of course, but I'm trying to not get embroiled in a major argument on Slashdot (again).
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Also, the official "move your domain day" was the 29th IIRC, so while this could be an insignificant blip, it might be an indicator of how many will move later.
GoDaddy got the seized domains from the last round of ICE seizures. I'll let you connect the dots.
Yes, but Starbucks is also likely to record MAC addresses and computer names. Spoofable, but only if you know what you're doing (the 12-year-old script kiddies who mostly make up Anon probably don't). Might even have video survellience, and if they don't there are probably neighboring stores or traffic cams nearby which may or may not have seen your face/ license plate.
Anonymous goes after whomever the hell they feel like. That is the point. And we just had a story a few days ago about how the crowd is often completely wrong. Anonymous is a mob: anything can get an idea in their heads, and they will pursue it, right or wrong, till someone ends up paying. And fuck all whether they are guilty or not. Anon lost any high-horse credibility when they started calling it "LulzXmas." Not that they had any before IMO. They do it because it's fun. Also, because most of them are losers who have nothing better to do than lash out at the society that they pretend to reject, but really has rejected them (and they are rejected because they hang out at sites like 4chan, and think "forever alone" is the peak of comedy).
Ok, first thing, the very link you gave said the work "holocaust" derived from the Greek word (holókauston) via the way of the Latin (holocaustum) and was from the Septuagint (the Greek translation by the Jews of the Old Testament) originally. The word is Jewish and invented by the Jews, so you're wrong there.
And secondly, a horrific act that was ignored at the time by many countries and to this day is denied in many Muslim countries is not made any less horrific because other people have also done horrific things in the past.
I always take the phrase "The Holocaust" as referring specifically to the murder of the Jews (which was an attempted act of genocide), given the Jewish origin of the word, and not referring to the 5-6 million other people the Nazi's also murdered. Which is why I stated the 6 million figure, and recognized at the end of my post that it wasn't a fair comparison as the actual figure killed was larger (10-12 million).
It is a bit sad that everyone forgets about all the other murders, but they weren't specifically directed at any one specific race, so I don't see that it would be insulting, exactly. Besides, after a million people can't even recognize anything beyond just the scale of the numbers anymore: not to make light of it, but for most people (looking at it historically) 6 million or 12 makes little difference, the basic idea (Hitler was evil) gets through either way. People just cannot comprehend numbers that large, much less make a comparison of them.
To be fair, OP referred to a) the holocaust (which was specifically the 6 million figure you cited) and b) the Soviets, not Stalin in particular. The Soviets killed plenty of people that Stalin was not personally responsible for. 10 times is probably a pretty decent ballpark figure. I'm not an expert on it by any means, of course. And that isn't a completely fair comparison, either, the Nazi's killed far more than just the Jews.
On the other hand, the Space Shuttle (for example) had only 2 catastrophic failures out of 135 launches. Can't seem to find a list of NASA's failures or how frequent they were, but 5 in one year seems like an awful lot.
but at least they are trying in the face of failure, instead of giving up and whining about for a decade like the US did after the shuttle disasters.
Yes, "whining", by launching the shuttles dozens of times afterwards. And then retiring them like they should have done 20 years ago.
Right. Wait, Foxconn is American, right?
I wish I could get even a small quantity of that "nothing." A nothing which funded hundreds of shuttle launches, both Voyager probes, several Mars probes, and dozens of miscellaneous projects. Amazing what nothing can get you these days.
Also, $15 billion (a year) isn't "nothing" even in congressional spending terms. One of the most expensive and advanced aircraft in the world (the F-22) cost only ~4 years at that budget. And that was stock full of pork.
Of course I would love to see them have more. Just pointing out that even for the US budget $15+ billion is a fair bit.
"Good" is in this case equivocal. Are picture passwords highly secure? Probably not. SO they aren't very good in that sense. Are they easy to use and secure enough for most purposes? Yes, making them extremely good for the average user. Which makes them better security in many ways than multi-factor authentication, which would be absurd for a tablet device that isn't carrying top-secret documents. As people have pointed out many times, complex security often ends up being less secure, as the user has to find ways of remembering long passwords, gets sick of the wasted time and just used "1234" for the both of the redundant passwords, or just turns off the security as soon as they can or ignores it entirely (Windows UAC under Vista).
Living in the midwest, ah, you could see it coming days away. Very predictable over large land area.
Not during the summer, at least not where I live. Winter, sure, 5 day prediction no problem. Summer? Storms can hit hours after they give a prediction for sunny skies. And visa-versa: I've seen 95% chance of rain with not a single drop falling (hell, sometimes barely even any clouds). Always the possibility of tornadoes too: they can barely predict a likelihood for those during the storm.
I was actually hoping they come out with a 7850 or similar soon. My 5770 is still pretty strong, but I wouldn't mind an upgrade soon, and I like to have all the newest features (I can do without the top speed).
Wait, how do you know my password?! You hacker!!
But that doesn't mean people are ignorant of cultures. English is simply a good language for technical matters, for a large number of reasons. Being the de facto standard is only the most obvious.
Also, I should point out the British invented English, not the US, and they spread it around the world, so I'm really not sure what your point here is. Point of fact, the US probably has more variety of culture than any other nation in the world.
In the Democrat's defense, it's unlikely Newt would have used it anyway. He still thinks the internet is just something hippies use to plot the overthrow of this blessed Christian nation.
O rly? www.newt.org must have been put up by the Democrats than too. How generous of them.
There is no "-1 No in favor of my political party", that's not what troll means!
It often does around here.
Even better: just put a basket on the drone.
Just off the top of my head: fixed cameras have much more limited vision (so you need lots more, meaning more eyes to watch them as well), are much easier to avoid and/or damage, and (related to the first one and second) can only see a few hundred feet on either side of the border. The border is almost 2000 miles (3,196km), which is a lot of fixed cameras to watch. Can't rely entirely on motion detection either, since trees and animals move too. Also, tunnels can be seen from the air a lot easier.
Those are the technical advantages I can see. As for privacy, I won't touch that, aside from saying: any technology can be used for that, you really need to rely on the law to stop the government from going overboard. I know that isn't working, just saying you can't stop or blame the technology for the government's problem.
The flaw seems to be in a call to a Windows API.
It is possible to trigger a memory error in the system file win32k.sys by accessing a crafted HTML file in Safari....According to webDEViL, the source of the vulnerability is the function NtGdiDrawStream.
So it is possible other programs could be affected. It is also possible that Safari itself handles the function in a broken manner. Note that Firefox appears to also have crashes related to that function (on x86 Windows, though, it's like the second Google result for that function). So, really impossible to say at this point. Also, they could only cause Windows to crash, not to run arbitrary code or anything. So far anyways.
The prevailing difference is it isn't an ARM chip. It is an x86 chip, meaning off-the-shelf x86 programs and OSes should run on it. Getting an x86 processor below the performance/power threshold of an ARM chip (while keeping it small enough to fit in a phone) is a pretty major breakthrough.
The term "metal" refers as much to the physical properties of the substance as it does to structure or composition. It basically just means you have a cloud of free electrons (oversimplification). Although it depends on exactly how you define it, the term can apply to compounds or substances in certain states which are otherwise not metallic (such as hydrogen: not a metal in the conventional sense, but can theoretically become one). The fact it doesn't change structure but still exhibits metallic properties is part of why this is surprising.
Lysergic acid diethylamide is probably the easiest way.
You claim "if the ends ever justified the means", the ends would always automatically justify any means. Ridiculous!
I think you might have meant the opposite (if not, that sentence doesn't make any sense). No, the statement doesn't need qualification. What needs qualification (very carefully) is what exactly counts as an evil means. Killing is not in and of itself necessarily an evil means. Murder, yes, but not killing. Exactly why is an argument that ethicists have argued over for centuries, but you seem to have the right idea (your argument was more or less correct about that: it would be justified to kill in self-defense. Also, in defense of others).
On the other hand, if your only means of stopping the invasion was the murder of, say, 100 completely innocent people (if for example the invaders tell you they will invade unless you do so, and they are too powerful to stop otherwise), that would not be justified (because of the axiom I originally stated).
I also can't use apt-get on Ubuntu unless I'm root. So... would that also make Ubuntu "not open" by your definition? Plenty of other things I can't do without root in Linux.
Do not confuse "security" with "closed." Don't know anything about the app you reference, but I'm guessing it requires privileges not normally granted to a user-installed app. For security reasons. That's pretty common to Linux in general.
The means themselves do. If the means are ethical, then they can be used. If they are not, they cannot. Simple as that. The argument for this is nearly as simple as saying we cannot know the future, so it becomes impossible to say definitely that the end will result. In this case, we do not know that this vaccine will cure HIV, so we could not use unethical means. It is a bit more complex than that, of course, but I'm trying to not get embroiled in a major argument on Slashdot (again).