Actually, no. Leaded glass does not have enough lead to make that much of a difference to xrays of the strength used to scan luggage. Its not the same high lead content glass you find in radiation shielding items.
Further, nobody wastes leaded glass on perfume bottles any more, which is why all of the old ones are becoming such collector's items.
Finally, anything you put in or on your body would/should not be stored in leaded glass. You might drink wine or bourbon from a leaded glass, but you should never store it in such.
then why do they use leaded glass windows (between the technicians station and the room the x-ray machine is in) to block radiation in the x-ray rooms of hospitals?
That is 99% of the airplane security we need, because no matter what, if someone wants to get explosives on a plane, they will.
Obviously, that is not true. There are thousands of people worldwide who want to get on an explosive on a plane, but have failed. Even the shoe bomber got nowhere.
and the underwear bomber failed and every-other wouldbe highjacker/bomber since we put locks on the cabin door
I'm deeply disappointed that this issue was decided over philosophical instead of technical merits. If Clang was superior to GCC in the majority of benchmarks, then I would support this decision. But that’s not the case, GCC is still leading in most benchmarks and can be an order of magnitude faster when the popular OpenMP library is used.[1] Sadly, BSD users are the losers here.
So what would you prefer? That BSD threw out their entire licensing policy and adopted the GPL3? Or that they stuck with an old version of GCC that was licensed under the just about permissible to them GPL2 but that got no updates.
Maybe they could have forked GCC then tried to maintain a version that was licensed under GPL2 and backported GPL3 GCC fixes into their fork but that strikes me as being a legal nightmare to be honest.
It would have been more useful it phoronix compared LLVM/Clang 3.3 to GCC 4.2.1 and you posted that as that is the only thing the BSD community could use instead.
This decision was forced by the GCC adopting the GPL3 but was probably always going to happen sooner or later. The BSD community and the FSF have VERY different ideas of what constitutes "free" software with the FSF actually wanting their code to be less free in order to make sure that if you use it you have to let other people see how you use it and keep any derivatives free.
gcc being gpl v3 does not effect the output of the complier only code linked to or borrowed from it
they haven't back-doored the main encryption algorithms they have a back door on the implementation. what they do is instead of attacking the encryption is they demand keys from sites and get blank certificates signed by the certificate signatories so they can fake a secure link. They have also demanded companies like MS build back doors into their systems like Skype so they can get the to the plain-text before it is encrypted. the actual crypto algorithms are sound they infrastructure is not though that is why i said to use key signing services outside of the the US so the NSA can't simply demand that they give them whatever they want.
isp's are dumb pipes if you use a encrypted link, while US based certificate signatories may be untrustworthy that just means you need your cirt signed by a non us based signatory to prevent nsa man in the middle attacks.
yes it called the $5 dollar wrench but only get used against you if they think your a terrorist (OR your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate is suspected terrorist.)
many of those listed on that page are either no longer actively maintained, hard to administer or requires a web server besides it making it even more work to set up and administer.
You don't even need to set up an OpenID server. Set up a url, put the delegate tags to point to some other server that handles all the delegation. When stackoverflow.com starting using OpenID for authentication, MyOpenID was their recommended provider. I read up a bit before signing up and figured out how to do delegation from my own domain name. Now that OpenID is shutting down, I could set up my own server, but I could also just point the delegate information to another OpenID server, or point it to StackExchange, which has become it's own OpenID provider.
I have thought of doing that but but then openID providers come and go as seen by the subject of this thread. Also I don't want to use others as they can be used by the provider to, effectively, track you web usage. As my goal is to be A) independent of others services and B) to not be tracked on the web using a openid referrer does not mesh with my goals.
The best to have way to do that would be to host your own openID server, in fact I have been looking at setting up an openid server for personal use on my home sever but there don't seem to be many actively maintained standalone and easy to administer openid packages out there. Anyone else on slashdot know of any or have any tips on setting up an openid server?
So Elop left Microsoft to head up Nokia, where he made supposedly very idiotic changes that had the effect of destroying Nokia's share price. Microsoft then buys Nokia at a fraction of the cost it would otherwise have been, and Elop returns to a prestigious role at Microsoft, where he's in with a shot at the CEO role.
That doesn't look the slightest bit dodgy at all.
EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH.
Well in this case it looks more like: INFILTRATE - WEAKEN - ASSIMILATE
where's the defecate step? 'cause the profit, that sure isn't in sight.
The defecate step of Nokia is the profit step for Microsoft.
So Elop left Microsoft to head up Nokia, where he made supposedly very idiotic changes that had the effect of destroying Nokia's share price. Microsoft then buys Nokia at a fraction of the cost it would otherwise have been, and Elop returns to a prestigious role at Microsoft, where he's in with a shot at the CEO role.
* NASCAR drivers: Nobody cares about machines going in circles. It's not worth watching if there's no person in the center of that giant exploding crash thing.
I think with nascar that its not worth watching even with someone in the car. it like oh watch the blue care passes the red car as they go in a circle. I can watch traffic for free if i were that board.
If you spend your entire life perfecting your trade, only at the last minute to have that trade become obsolete, then what do you plan to do?
What do you do to perfect the trade of truck driver? Drink bad gas station coffee more efficiently? learn to cut people off of the freeway with more finesse? Drive next to another truck (so as no one can pass you) at low speeds and back up the whole highway for miles behind you better then other drivers?
Forgive me if I'm forgetting something, but couldn't you just encrypt your home directory? While root has rw access to everything else, they only have access to ~/ in an encrypted format. It's one of the settings available in Ubuntu's default installation. However, I haven't looked into it TOO deeply, so it may be that it's a relatively weak protection that can be worked around by having your password changed. Either way, such a setup could be accomplished.
You can do just that encrypt home directory but if you do and the meat-headed non-computer people with the badges forget their password all of their information is lost when you reset their password for them. So they probably were not encrypting the data because your meatheads get angry when they loose all their stuff.
The "sudo" and "su" commands are two different tools for a similar job. You would use one or the other, not both together. If you want a root shell, use either "sudo -s" or "su". If you want to execute a single command as root, use "sudo" or "su -c". There isn't much of a use case for running "sudo su", which is redundant.
Unless you don't have the root password but you do have sudo privileges and need to be in root or sudo won't do, so to become root you would sudo su
Here is hoping the next CEO hires the Jolla and Neo900(N900 based GTA04 mod OpenMoko upgrade system board) team and they get back to making amazing hardware with a great OS. Then I wake up...
This is about replacing the Microsoft CEO not Nokia CEO. As much as we talk about smartphones here Elops most criminal cut was Meltemi a featurephone OS aimed at low hardware.
If Elop does move back to Microsoft, Nokia would then need a replacement CEO, no?
No the entire reason Elop has gone to work for Nokia was to get it ready for a Microsoft takeover. Once He return to his home company he will take over nokia, giving Microsoft a mobile company and lots more patents for the war chest.
FWIW, Venus and Mars are the other 2 samples we have
exsept Mars is about what a third s.taller al hundreds of millions of miles farther away from the sun has no magnetosphere. and almost no atmosphere and what little there is is composed of different gases.
as for Venus it is much closer to the sun and has a wildly different atmospheric composition
Yes, it's terrible to think that professional sports players should actually be rewarded for training and talent rather than drugs.
except the roids only work if you use them in combination with training and have tallent. roids don't magically make you have the coordination to catch the baseball or throw a football.
i loved that they made compost-able bags and i consciously bought sunchips over other chips while they had those bags so what it the made a crinkly noise. I always composted those bags to. To bad people are so stupid.
Yeah I am thinking about build router/dns/dhcp/wpa2-radius and possible openVPN box out of a old pc with a few ethernet cards and wireless nic so inside my network will be invisible to the isp except for my one box
The problem is that the people that are defending gun rights are by and large not technical people. They get there news from the local paper of which they only read the sports section and local news, and get national stat and international new from the tv. But the tv is now not reporting the important news about our right being violated on a unprecedented scale they are talking about Hillery election bid for 16, the Kardasians latest divorce, what politician with an ironic name took pictures of his pecker or what athlete got caught eating 'roids by the fist full.
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Actually, no.
Leaded glass does not have enough lead to make that much of a difference to xrays of the strength used to scan luggage.
Its not the same high lead content glass you find in radiation shielding items.
Further, nobody wastes leaded glass on perfume bottles any more, which is why all of the
old ones are becoming such collector's items.
Finally, anything you put in or on your body would/should not be stored in leaded glass.
You might drink wine or bourbon from a leaded glass, but you should never store it in such.
then why do they use leaded glass windows (between the technicians station and the room the x-ray machine is in) to block radiation in the x-ray rooms of hospitals?
That is 99% of the airplane security we need, because no matter what, if someone wants to get explosives on a plane, they will.
Obviously, that is not true. There are thousands of people worldwide who want to get on an explosive on a plane, but have failed. Even the shoe bomber got nowhere.
and the underwear bomber failed and every-other wouldbe highjacker/bomber since we put locks on the cabin door
I'm deeply disappointed that this issue was decided over philosophical instead of technical merits. If Clang was superior to GCC in the majority of benchmarks, then I would support this decision. But that’s not the case, GCC is still leading in most benchmarks and can be an order of magnitude faster when the popular OpenMP library is used.[1] Sadly, BSD users are the losers here.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm_33svn_competes&num=5
So what would you prefer? That BSD threw out their entire licensing policy and adopted the GPL3? Or that they stuck with an old version of GCC that was licensed under the just about permissible to them GPL2 but that got no updates.
Maybe they could have forked GCC then tried to maintain a version that was licensed under GPL2 and backported GPL3 GCC fixes into their fork but that strikes me as being a legal nightmare to be honest.
It would have been more useful it phoronix compared LLVM/Clang 3.3 to GCC 4.2.1 and you posted that as that is the only thing the BSD community could use instead.
This decision was forced by the GCC adopting the GPL3 but was probably always going to happen sooner or later. The BSD community and the FSF have VERY different ideas of what constitutes "free" software with the FSF actually wanting their code to be less free in order to make sure that if you use it you have to let other people see how you use it and keep any derivatives free.
gcc being gpl v3 does not effect the output of the complier only code linked to or borrowed from it
they haven't back-doored the main encryption algorithms they have a back door on the implementation. what they do is instead of attacking the encryption is they demand keys from sites and get blank certificates signed by the certificate signatories so they can fake a secure link. They have also demanded companies like MS build back doors into their systems like Skype so they can get the to the plain-text before it is encrypted. the actual crypto algorithms are sound they infrastructure is not though that is why i said to use key signing services outside of the the US so the NSA can't simply demand that they give them whatever they want.
isp's are dumb pipes if you use a encrypted link, while US based certificate signatories may be untrustworthy that just means you need your cirt signed by a non us based signatory to prevent nsa man in the middle attacks.
Digitial Forensics for Prosecutors presentation suggests Truecrypt has a backdoor.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=770&pgno=0
yes it called the $5 dollar wrench but only get used against you if they think your a terrorist (OR your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former room-mate is suspected terrorist.)
Unless you exchange private keys offline, manually, preferably not using any temporary electronic storage means, the NSA has your keys.
um you never exchange privet key's you only share public keys.
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Running your own openid server is rather simple if you're willing to install some packages.
For fucks sake, a simple google search results in the following first link: http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run%20your%20own%20identity%20server
many of those listed on that page are either no longer actively maintained, hard to administer or requires a web server besides it making it even more work to set up and administer.
You don't even need to set up an OpenID server. Set up a url, put the delegate tags to point to some other server that handles all the delegation. When stackoverflow.com starting using OpenID for authentication, MyOpenID was their recommended provider. I read up a bit before signing up and figured out how to do delegation from my own domain name. Now that OpenID is shutting down, I could set up my own server, but I could also just point the delegate information to another OpenID server, or point it to StackExchange, which has become it's own OpenID provider.
I have thought of doing that but but then openID providers come and go as seen by the subject of this thread. Also I don't want to use others as they can be used by the provider to, effectively, track you web usage. As my goal is to be A) independent of others services and B) to not be tracked on the web using a openid referrer does not mesh with my goals.
The best to have way to do that would be to host your own openID server, in fact I have been looking at setting up an openid server for personal use on my home sever but there don't seem to be many actively maintained standalone and easy to administer openid packages out there. Anyone else on slashdot know of any or have any tips on setting up an openid server?
So Elop left Microsoft to head up Nokia, where he made supposedly very idiotic changes that had the effect of destroying Nokia's share price. Microsoft then buys Nokia at a fraction of the cost it would otherwise have been, and Elop returns to a prestigious role at Microsoft, where he's in with a shot at the CEO role.
That doesn't look the slightest bit dodgy at all.
EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH.
Well in this case it looks more like: INFILTRATE - WEAKEN - ASSIMILATE
where's the defecate step? 'cause the profit, that sure isn't in sight.
The defecate step of Nokia is the profit step for Microsoft.
So Elop left Microsoft to head up Nokia, where he made supposedly very idiotic changes that had the effect of destroying Nokia's share price. Microsoft then buys Nokia at a fraction of the cost it would otherwise have been, and Elop returns to a prestigious role at Microsoft, where he's in with a shot at the CEO role.
That doesn't look the slightest bit dodgy at all.
EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH.
* NASCAR drivers: Nobody cares about machines going in circles. It's not worth watching if there's no person in the center of that giant exploding crash thing.
I think with nascar that its not worth watching even with someone in the car. it like oh watch the blue care passes the red car as they go in a circle. I can watch traffic for free if i were that board.
If you spend your entire life perfecting your trade, only at the last minute to have that trade become obsolete, then what do you plan to do?
What do you do to perfect the trade of truck driver? Drink bad gas station coffee more efficiently? learn to cut people off of the freeway with more finesse? Drive next to another truck (so as no one can pass you) at low speeds and back up the whole highway for miles behind you better then other drivers?
Forgive me if I'm forgetting something, but couldn't you just encrypt your home directory? While root has rw access to everything else, they only have access to ~/ in an encrypted format. It's one of the settings available in Ubuntu's default installation. However, I haven't looked into it TOO deeply, so it may be that it's a relatively weak protection that can be worked around by having your password changed. Either way, such a setup could be accomplished.
You can do just that encrypt home directory but if you do and the meat-headed non-computer people with the badges forget their password all of their information is lost when you reset their password for them. So they probably were not encrypting the data because your meatheads get angry when they loose all their stuff.
The "sudo" and "su" commands are two different tools for a similar job. You would use one or the other, not both together. If you want a root shell, use either "sudo -s" or "su". If you want to execute a single command as root, use "sudo" or "su -c". There isn't much of a use case for running "sudo su", which is redundant.
Unless you don't have the root password but you do have sudo privileges and need to be in root or sudo won't do, so to become root you would sudo su
Here is hoping the next CEO hires the Jolla and Neo900(N900 based GTA04 mod OpenMoko upgrade system board) team and they get back to making amazing hardware with a great OS.
Then I wake up...
This is about replacing the Microsoft CEO not Nokia CEO. As much as we talk about smartphones here Elops most criminal cut was Meltemi a featurephone OS aimed at low hardware.
If Elop does move back to Microsoft, Nokia would then need a replacement CEO, no?
No the entire reason Elop has gone to work for Nokia was to get it ready for a Microsoft takeover. Once He return to his home company he will take over nokia, giving Microsoft a mobile company and lots more patents for the war chest.
FWIW, Venus and Mars are the other 2 samples we have
exsept Mars is about what a third s.taller al hundreds of millions of miles farther away from the sun has no magnetosphere. and almost no atmosphere and what little there is is composed of different gases.
as for Venus it is much closer to the sun and has a wildly different atmospheric composition
neither planet makes a treasonable comparison.
evidently they did as there is just very putrid compost that far down in the composter
i have got an idea why not have two leagues organic and roid muncher league
Yes, it's terrible to think that professional sports players should actually be rewarded for training and talent rather than drugs.
except the roids only work if you use them in combination with training and have tallent. roids don't magically make you have the coordination to catch the baseball or throw a football.
Companies that do try to use plant plastic get whined at by the consumers for the most ridiculous reasons. Because it's too noisy? Wow.
http://myplasticfreelife.com/2010/10/sunchips-discontinues-compostable-bag-do-we-care/
i loved that they made compost-able bags and i consciously bought sunchips over other chips while they had those bags so what it the made a crinkly noise. I always composted those bags to. To bad people are so stupid.
Yeah I am thinking about build router/dns/dhcp/wpa2-radius and possible openVPN box out of a old pc with a few ethernet cards and wireless nic so inside my network will be invisible to the isp except for my one box
what do you mean the terrorists aren't working hard it takes a lot of work to wiretap the planet. oh you meant the Islamic zealots not big brother
The problem is that the people that are defending gun rights are by and large not technical people. They get there news from the local paper of which they only read the sports section and local news, and get national stat and international new from the tv. But the tv is now not reporting the important news about our right being violated on a unprecedented scale they are talking about Hillery election bid for 16, the Kardasians latest divorce, what politician with an ironic name took pictures of his pecker or what athlete got caught eating 'roids by the fist full.
out of sight out of mind.