Why not? I've never been seriously ill, but I visited a physician on a occasion to deal with minor inconveniences. None of those required any knowledge about evolution or even genetics to treat them. We've had doctors for millennia, most of their knowledge is not based on evolution/genetics. Understanding evolution is not required for most medical treatments.
FYI, I do believe in evolution but I can't ignore the fact that it is not required for most medical procedures. Not all doctors are surgeons
Neelie Kroes has been amazing me for years. She comes from a conservative party that tends to follow the wishes of big corporations. Yet somehow she left all that baggage behind when she joined the EU and has been fighting for consumers and against corporate greed.
Yes, there is probably just some other industry that is pulling her strings, but so far it all works out great for European consumers.
Making the effort of compiling a good collection of software/media is also a gift in itself. Anyone can make a drawing, yet people still value receiving a good or personal picture.
That's not the point at all. Frankly, this has only little to do with SSL.
The point is that if you pay for Google-ads, you will receive the referer-information, regardless of whether your site uses HTTPS or not, even when its breaks security for the user. If you don't pay you won't get the info.
Even worse - home users, who most likely do NOT have a working DNS setup and have to type the damn things in. And just when my parents have gotten used to typing the long string of nonsense garbage to hit the printer, the ISP changes their prefix and they have to learn a new set of IPs.
Multicast DNS is gaining traction. Multicast is a requirement for IPv6 anyway so it has a reasonable chance of working. In my experience most parent-class-beings are unable to deal with raw IPv4 either.
Most people in the (western) world speak English to some degree, but not very good. When you work in an international environment you'll get used to poor English to some degree.
I do not agree with you. DNSSEC does not make any claims about who owns/hosts a domain, it only proves that you get the information as intended by the owner of the domain. If you ask for kokakola.com, you'll get kokakola.com. SSL on the other hand is supposed to be verified. If a certificate say "The Coca-Cola Company" you can trust that it is really that specific manufacturer of soft-drinks, and not a clever competitor. (obviously theory != practice)
In reality an SSL-certicate is only usefull for encrypting your connection to the server. If you drop the "verified" identity part it should be possible to spread SSL-certificates via DNS.
DNSSECs offerings are much more moderate than those of SSL, but the goods are real.
If you have any interest in A.I. you should check this out. These two guys are legendary in the A.I. world and they are not even dead! Among AI-studens Norvigs book is referred to as 'the bible'. Thrun did more make self-driving cars a reality than anybody else because he is not just very smart but also very charismatic.
Keep in mind that this report throws wired and wireless connections together. Imagine a modern with one 100mbit connection to the family PC and 5 mobile phones (barely 4mbit) would have an average connection speed of only 20mbit.
I think they should leave the amendment in. The amendment allows for an _opt-in_ internet filter from your provider. I think many parents would not mind a some kind of a filter for their children. Without this amendment it is not legal for a provider to offer it.
Of course the proponents of this law will mostly use it to filter based on their religion but as long as they only do it to their own connections it's fine by me.
There is a bit of a loophole here, but only a tiny one. The amendment requires that unfiltered access should be available at the same price. Unfortunately that also works the other way, providers will not be allowed to charge extra for a filter so the bill will have to divided over all customers.
My university allowed most graphical calculators, as long as the couldn’t be networked. The reasoning is that the test-assignments should be designed in such a way that you don’t need a calculator. As one is supposed to show all intermediate steps, having a calculator (which only shows the final answer) is not very useful. It can be useful for verifying results, though. To take away this advantage some om my teachers would give the answer to the question. This was also advantageous in multi-part questions as it would prevent students from continuing to use a wrong answer in the subsequent parts.
Maximize all your windows by default, that's what I do.
I got rid of the minimize and maximize buttons a long time ago. All windows (except for dialogs) are started maximized. If I don't want a window maximized I double-click the title bar. I've bound "minimize" to mouse-wheel down on the titlebar. This way I can scroll through my windows by positioning my mouse on the titlebar and scrolling down. (remember, all windows are maximized, so the title bars are perfectly aligned).
Even with a thorough audit you will never be sure. That's the beauty of these kinds of accusations, no matter what you do, you can never 100% sure. OpenBSD is among the best audited code in the world. People have been looking for this backdoor specifically for an entire week and nothing fishy has been found yet.
Right now ipsec requires you to pre-share secrets. There is no way to do ipsec with any random host on the internet. You need a way to share keys in a reliable way. DNS could do it if it were reliable, hence the need for DNSSEC.
It's harder to debug. Error-messages may be misleading or may not occur at all. If things break, somebody will have to pay for it, some companies will thus avoid it.
There is a neat little trick that's only usefull with 10.0.0.x: leave out the inner zero's. You may know this from IPv6, but you are allowed to leave out leading zero's and field that are entirely zero. Instead of 10.0.0.1 you can write 10.1 . It's not 100% foolproof as not all software knows about this possibility, but ping & ssh understand it just fine.
That's one of the advantages of HTML5. You are no longer stuck with whatever embedded flash app the webdesigner bought for his website. Your browser is completely free to choose any player, be it embedded or external. If your browser is extensible enough you should be able to replace the video component with any plugin you like.
People are single-threaded, we work best with one window at the time. Why bother with starting video in a seperate window if that window is just going to cover the previous window? If you really want it you can still spawn a second browser window for your video. While I agree that there plenty of uses for video in a seperate window I believe that embedded video is preferred in most cases.
Can't we just get rid of all those portable media ASAP? Flash memory may be more durable than CDs but they still break, especially the cheap ones. Just put everything on a server that can be properly secured. I can't remember the last time that I used a computer that was not connected to the internet. I prefer to have my files accessible online so I don't have to care about where the latest version of my file is stored or if the right stuff is on my usb key. Neither do I have to worry about the media being stolen, nor do I have to bother with encryption.
I'm rather happy with a Linksys WRT320N. It has a gigabit switch and easily does 100mbit wireless. (It claims 300mbit but I'm more than happy with the 100mbit that I get from my setup). It's not the fastest hardware around but it's supports every DD-WRT feature with room to spare at an excellent price.
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Why not? I've never been seriously ill, but I visited a physician on a occasion to deal with minor inconveniences. None of those required any knowledge about evolution or even genetics to treat them. We've had doctors for millennia, most of their knowledge is not based on evolution/genetics. Understanding evolution is not required for most medical treatments.
FYI, I do believe in evolution but I can't ignore the fact that it is not required for most medical procedures. Not all doctors are surgeons
Neelie Kroes has been amazing me for years.
She comes from a conservative party that tends to follow the wishes of big corporations.
Yet somehow she left all that baggage behind when she joined the EU and has been fighting for consumers and against corporate greed.
Yes, there is probably just some other industry that is pulling her strings, but so far it all works out great for European consumers.
Making the effort of compiling a good collection of software/media is also a gift in itself.
Anyone can make a drawing, yet people still value receiving a good or personal picture.
I hope nobody from the Netherlands will be posting here complaining if they haven't already at least sent a message to their Members of Parliament.
The Pirate Party is not in the Dutch Parliament yet, so that may be harder.
I think you have things reversed. Anycast works just fine with ipv4. On the other hand, IPv6 breaks if you disable multicast.
That's not the point at all. Frankly, this has only little to do with SSL.
The point is that if you pay for Google-ads, you will receive the referer-information, regardless of whether your site uses HTTPS or not, even when its breaks security for the user. If you don't pay you won't get the info.
Even worse - home users, who most likely do NOT have a working DNS setup and have to type the damn things in. And just when my parents have gotten used to typing the long string of nonsense garbage to hit the printer, the ISP changes their prefix and they have to learn a new set of IPs.
Multicast DNS is gaining traction. Multicast is a requirement for IPv6 anyway so it has a reasonable chance of working.
In my experience most parent-class-beings are unable to deal with raw IPv4 either.
Most people in the (western) world speak English to some degree, but not very good. When you work in an international environment you'll get used to poor English to some degree.
I do not agree with you. DNSSEC does not make any claims about who owns/hosts a domain, it only proves that you get the information as intended by the owner of the domain. If you ask for kokakola.com, you'll get kokakola.com.
SSL on the other hand is supposed to be verified. If a certificate say "The Coca-Cola Company" you can trust that it is really that specific manufacturer of soft-drinks, and not a clever competitor. (obviously theory != practice)
In reality an SSL-certicate is only usefull for encrypting your connection to the server. If you drop the "verified" identity part it should be possible to spread SSL-certificates via DNS.
DNSSECs offerings are much more moderate than those of SSL, but the goods are real.
This only works for a limited number of variables and equations. If it works there may be many solutions.
It doesn't even work for your example:
0 + 0 = 0
0 * 0 = 0
If the number of equations growth it quickly becomes infeasible to solve it, especially if the formulas are a bit more complicated (e.g. non-linear).
If you have any interest in A.I. you should check this out. These two guys are legendary in the A.I. world and they are not even dead! Among AI-studens Norvigs book is referred to as 'the bible'. Thrun did more make self-driving cars a reality than anybody else because he is not just very smart but also very charismatic.
Keep in mind that this report throws wired and wireless connections together.
Imagine a modern with one 100mbit connection to the family PC and 5 mobile phones (barely 4mbit) would have an average connection speed of only 20mbit.
I think they should leave the amendment in. The amendment allows for an _opt-in_ internet filter from your provider. I think many parents would not mind a some kind of a filter for their children. Without this amendment it is not legal for a provider to offer it.
Of course the proponents of this law will mostly use it to filter based on their religion but as long as they only do it to their own connections it's fine by me.
There is a bit of a loophole here, but only a tiny one. The amendment requires that unfiltered access should be available at the same price. Unfortunately that also works the other way, providers will not be allowed to charge extra for a filter so the bill will have to divided over all customers.
My university allowed most graphical calculators, as long as the couldn’t be networked. The reasoning is that the test-assignments should be designed in such a way that you don’t need a calculator. As one is supposed to show all intermediate steps, having a calculator (which only shows the final answer) is not very useful. It can be useful for verifying results, though. To take away this advantage some om my teachers would give the answer to the question. This was also advantageous in multi-part questions as it would prevent students from continuing to use a wrong answer in the subsequent parts.
Maximize all your windows by default, that's what I do.
I got rid of the minimize and maximize buttons a long time ago.
All windows (except for dialogs) are started maximized.
If I don't want a window maximized I double-click the title bar.
I've bound "minimize" to mouse-wheel down on the titlebar.
This way I can scroll through my windows by positioning my mouse on the titlebar and scrolling down. (remember, all windows are maximized, so the title bars are perfectly aligned).
Even with a thorough audit you will never be sure. That's the beauty of these kinds of accusations, no matter what you do, you can never 100% sure.
OpenBSD is among the best audited code in the world. People have been looking for this backdoor specifically for an entire week and nothing fishy has been found yet.
Right now ipsec requires you to pre-share secrets. There is no way to do ipsec with any random host on the internet. You need a way to share keys in a reliable way. DNS could do it if it were reliable, hence the need for DNSSEC.
Please, also implement IPSEC while you are at it. IPSEC nicely brings IPv6 and DNSSEC together.
It's harder to debug. Error-messages may be misleading or may not occur at all.
If things break, somebody will have to pay for it, some companies will thus avoid it.
That's the whole story.
90% of all charity done by corporations is just a matter of advertising.
There is a neat little trick that's only usefull with 10.0.0.x: leave out the inner zero's.
You may know this from IPv6, but you are allowed to leave out leading zero's and field that are entirely zero.
Instead of 10.0.0.1 you can write 10.1 . It's not 100% foolproof as not all software knows about this
possibility, but ping & ssh understand it just fine.
That's one of the advantages of HTML5. You are no longer stuck with whatever embedded flash app the webdesigner bought for his website. Your browser is completely free to choose any player, be it embedded or external. If your browser is extensible enough you should be able to replace the video component with any plugin you like.
People are single-threaded, we work best with one window at the time. Why bother with starting video in a seperate window if that window is just going to cover the previous window? If you really want it you can still spawn a second browser window for your video.
While I agree that there plenty of uses for video in a seperate window I believe that embedded video is preferred in most cases.
Can't we just get rid of all those portable media ASAP?
Flash memory may be more durable than CDs but they still break, especially the cheap ones.
Just put everything on a server that can be properly secured.
I can't remember the last time that I used a computer that was not connected to the internet.
I prefer to have my files accessible online so I don't have to care about where the latest version of my file is stored or if the right stuff is on my usb key.
Neither do I have to worry about the media being stolen, nor do I have to bother with encryption.
I'm rather happy with a Linksys WRT320N.
It has a gigabit switch and easily does 100mbit wireless. (It claims 300mbit but I'm more than happy with the 100mbit that I get from my setup).
It's not the fastest hardware around but it's supports every DD-WRT feature with room to spare at an excellent price.