Mod parent up. Take the 15 minutes needed to understand why this is part of a very interesting and important new development for C++, which can also be seen in the work already slated to go into C++14, namely to improve the C++ standard library to a level where it can compete with newer languages.
Notably, the goal is not to reinvent the wheel (which is why they're standardizing existing libraries), and portability is a must... which is why you should not expect e.g. a standard GUI library (oh, and people... graphics library != GUI library).
Don't know, but scuzzlebutt posted an interesting link further up, at which you can read:
Scientists believe that on large scales the Universe is isotropic (the same in all directions). Thus, from our perspective, half of all spiral galaxies should spin clockwise, and half counter-clockwise. A recent analysis of the spin of spiral galaxies confirms this. The public classified over 35,000 spiral galaxies with spins both clockwise and counter-clockwise in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as part of the Galaxy Zoo project.
From what I can tell, unions in Denmark share little in common with unions in the United States besides the name.
In some ways, certainly; e.g. the US teamsters having links to organized crime, something which has never been the case in Denmark, nor to my knowledge, Germany (to return to the subject of the article). A more important difference is perhaps that Danish unions and employers have a more amiable relationship than is the case in the US. Although in other areas, I'll wager that there's a strong resemblance.
Yes, the US is larger; why should that be a problem? If anything, synergy effects should benefit a larger country?
You're right that the US has a higher per-capita GDP than Denmark, but that is a very narrow measurement of economic success, and is really besides my point; namely that Denmark has strong unions, and yet the sky isn't falling. We may be 22nd in per-capita GDP, but the credit rating is flawless and the foreign debt non-existent.
what about other EU countries like Greece?
It's not like Denmark is unique in EU; the union densities in Sweden (70% of the work force unionized) and Finland (74%) are even higher than in Denmark (67%), and these economies are also doing well, despite the financial crisis.
Greece (25%) and Italy (35%), on the other hand, have much lower union densities - and MUCH higher corruption levels.
The lesson most Americans take from observing their unions is "Unions are bad." But perhaps the lesson you should be taking is that unions, like any organization, performs better when the mafia is not involved.
Once upon a time, the value created by the manufacture of many products far exceeded the labor costs to produce them. Many workers felt they were not receiving a sizable enough share of that value, so they formed unions and used the government (NLRA) to force the companies to pay them more. This did have knock-on effects on unemployment and labor force participation, but those were largely ignored.
How's this for a bedtime story? Once upon a time, Danish workers felt that they were not receiving a sizable enough share of the value of their labor, so they formed unions. Through unions, Danish workers obtained privileges such as a $20/hr. minimum wage, a 37 hour work week and six weeks of paid vacation every year. This immense increase in quality of life led to a higher level of education among the populace, as well as higher productivity. In fact, the model was such a great success that businesses even extended these benefits to non-unionized workers, such as me.
Areas with lower rates of unionization tend to have lower unemployment, and moreover tend to have more labor mobility.
Maybe in the US. Denmark has lower unemployment than the US and high labor mobility.
Yup. Dell, at least, has an authentication chip in most of their chargers (the center pin in the typical Dell charger). The chip (or its wire) is invariably the first thing to break, and bam! laptop refuses to charge the battery, or even run the processor at full speed. This causes the weird behavior that the laptop speeds up when you switch to battery power. It also means that you have to ditch an otherwise fully functional charger.
The purpose of the chip is of course to prevent the charger from being overloaded, and not at all an attempt at extorting money from customers as well as frustrating third-party charger manufacturers.
I'll eat my hat(*) if bog standard Linux or FreeBSD installations try to execute anything on a USB stick unless it's rebooted with that stick as boot medium
They won't do that intentionally. But bog standard Linux machines can certainly be infected just by inserting a compromised USB stick.
First of all, the stick will be mounted. Typically, this happens automatically, but if not, the user will still have to do it manually. The USB filesystem can be modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a kernel bug, leading to a compromise of the machine. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2006, but don't worry, the NSA has zero-days on file if they need them. It is well-known that kernel "oopses" (such as this bug in ext4 from 2013) can often be converted into full exploits by a sufficiently determined adversary.
Assuming your Linux distro has a graphical desktop, you may next try opening the stick in a file browser, such as Nautilus. (Or it may even autolaunch when you insert the stick.) This too can cause your computer to be compromised, if e.g. the stick contains a PDF, which has been modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a userspace bug in the program that generates the PDF thumbnail. By the time you think, "Wait, I never put any PDF on this stick", you're already compromised. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2011.
If you're really paranoid, you'll forgo filesystems and desktop environments entirely and just dd plain ASCII files directly to the USB block device. But if your networked computer has been infected, you can never be sure that it's only doing that...
Rape threats and other cases of "angry menz syndrome" are actually agent provocateur campaigns made possible through the anonymity of the internet, for the express purpose of gaining allies to their cause, no matter what the cause is.
Yup, it's all just a conspiracy. Applekid is in fact also a woman, only pretending to be a misogynistic douchebag in order to gain support for her radical feminist notions (such as allowing women to be depicted on bank notes!).
(Of course, by Applekid's logic, I am also just a woman seeking to defend my sisters and/or a man trying to gain favors with women by posting snarky comments on Slashdot. Because OkCupid is so last decade.)
That's another thing to like about DDG: The fact that all settings can be stored as URL parameters in your browser, instead of a cookie (meaning you can simply disable cookies for duckduckgo.com entirely).
The same way a bank account can be seized, despite not existing as a tangible object.
In this case, it appears the suspect actually made an account transfer to a DEA agent, making it extra trivial to seize the bitcoins.
Another way to size bitcoins is to obtain the suspect's bitcoin wallet (essentially a private key). Of course, multiple copies of the private key may exist, allowing other people than the DEA to access the bitcoins even after seizure. The obvious solution is for the DEA to immediately transfer the bitcoins to a new, DEA controlled, wallet.
This is often quoted as an example of NSA's supposed superiority in cryptography but that happened back in the '70s when there were hardly any cryptographers or computers in the world.
Actually, what happened in the 70's was that IBM learned of differential cryptanalysis, at a time where the technique was not publicly known. At that point, the NSA had known about it for some time already. But yes, the gap has closed considerably in the mean time.
A more recent example is SHA-0, which was published in 1993 but withdrawn shortly thereafter by the NSA, because they had discovered flaws in the algorithm. It was only in 1998 that academia identified a flaw in the algorithm. So in the 90's, there was still a gap of 5 years between the NSA and the public.
Anyway, it's clear that cryptography has reached a level where attacking the algorithms is a waste of time. Sidechannel attacks, on the other hand, are numerous and easily exploited, and you can bet that the NSA is hard at work developing such attacks.
2/3 of 2 years is 16 months. He's been held for 9 months already, so he has another 7 to go (until Jan 2014).
Yeah, and afterwards he's likely going to Denmark, to stand trial there for breaching servers belonging to the Danish police (hosted by the ever-incompetent CSC).
Remember, he's not serving time for his Pirate Bay involvement (yet?); he's serving time for breaching bank systems and using the access in an attempt to steal millions. Since he was extradited for this case, not the Pirate Bay case, it seems that the Swedish prosecutors actually consider this worse than file sharing. (Who would've thought?)
No. Getting credit for you work falls under the legal umbrella of moral rights, which is related to, yet separate from copyright, which is about getting paid for your work.
Moral rights [...] include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work. [...] Moral rights are distinct from any economic rights tied to copyrights. Even if an artist has assigned his or her copyright rights to a work to a third party, he or she still maintains the moral rights to the work.
Sigh. The fact that you think British time equals GMT speaks volumes to your lack of understanding of the complexities of time.
(And what is "British time"? Do you mean UK time? What about overseas territories?)
More importantly, if the clock on the user's own computer isn't "good enough", what is? Just agreeing on the requirements could easily take 100 staff days.
The US government has http://www.time.gov/ which has most definitely taken 100 staff days to create, plus on-going maintenance.
If setup right, you should be shown a picture you choose to confirm that you are on the legit site.
"SiteKey" only marginally improves security compared to regular TLS/https and notably doesn't help against a MITB attack as described in TFA. If this malware is worth anything, that picture will still be there.
Then in addition to your password, you can setup a system where a six digit numeric token is sent to your cell phone which is also needed to authenticate.
Ooh, two-factor authentication. That's been mandatory in Danish banks for years, but hey, good to see some American banks actually providing security beyond "mother's maiden name"... even if the user has to opt-in.
Simple two-factor authentication still doesn't help against MITB attacks, of course. ("VERY good online security", indeed.)
Given the cost of batteries, I too would be somewhat dubious unless the car came with a warranty offering free (or extremely reduced cost) battery replacements for the first 10-15 years.
(An average car does 12,000 miles per year, so one is unlikely to hit the 125,000 miles limit on the 65 kWh model. People who drive a lot will probably want the 85 kWh model anyway.)
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Skip to 1:15:00 and watch Herb Sutter explain why they're doing this stuff. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012/C-11-VC-11-and-Beyond
I hate reading the comments on Slashdot.
Mod parent up. Take the 15 minutes needed to understand why this is part of a very interesting and important new development for C++, which can also be seen in the work already slated to go into C++14, namely to improve the C++ standard library to a level where it can compete with newer languages.
Notably, the goal is not to reinvent the wheel (which is why they're standardizing existing libraries), and portability is a must... which is why you should not expect e.g. a standard GUI library (oh, and people... graphics library != GUI library).
Am I the only one reminded of this?
So is this the result of our effort?
Don't know, but scuzzlebutt posted an interesting link further up, at which you can read:
Scientists believe that on large scales the Universe is isotropic (the same in all directions). Thus, from our perspective, half of all spiral galaxies should spin clockwise, and half counter-clockwise. A recent analysis of the spin of spiral galaxies confirms this. The public classified over 35,000 spiral galaxies with spins both clockwise and counter-clockwise in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as part of the Galaxy Zoo project.
Our time has not been wasted. :)
Posting to undo moderation.
From what I can tell, unions in Denmark share little in common with unions in the United States besides the name.
In some ways, certainly; e.g. the US teamsters having links to organized crime, something which has never been the case in Denmark, nor to my knowledge, Germany (to return to the subject of the article). A more important difference is perhaps that Danish unions and employers have a more amiable relationship than is the case in the US. Although in other areas, I'll wager that there's a strong resemblance.
Yes, the US is larger; why should that be a problem? If anything, synergy effects should benefit a larger country?
You're right that the US has a higher per-capita GDP than Denmark, but that is a very narrow measurement of economic success, and is really besides my point; namely that Denmark has strong unions, and yet the sky isn't falling. We may be 22nd in per-capita GDP, but the credit rating is flawless and the foreign debt non-existent.
what about other EU countries like Greece?
It's not like Denmark is unique in EU; the union densities in Sweden (70% of the work force unionized) and Finland (74%) are even higher than in Denmark (67%), and these economies are also doing well, despite the financial crisis.
Greece (25%) and Italy (35%), on the other hand, have much lower union densities - and MUCH higher corruption levels.
The lesson most Americans take from observing their unions is "Unions are bad." But perhaps the lesson you should be taking is that unions, like any organization, performs better when the mafia is not involved.
Once upon a time, the value created by the manufacture of many products far exceeded the labor costs to produce them. Many workers felt they were not receiving a sizable enough share of that value, so they formed unions and used the government (NLRA) to force the companies to pay them more. This did have knock-on effects on unemployment and labor force participation, but those were largely ignored.
How's this for a bedtime story? Once upon a time, Danish workers felt that they were not receiving a sizable enough share of the value of their labor, so they formed unions. Through unions, Danish workers obtained privileges such as a $20/hr. minimum wage, a 37 hour work week and six weeks of paid vacation every year. This immense increase in quality of life led to a higher level of education among the populace, as well as higher productivity. In fact, the model was such a great success that businesses even extended these benefits to non-unionized workers, such as me.
Areas with lower rates of unionization tend to have lower unemployment, and moreover tend to have more labor mobility.
Maybe in the US. Denmark has lower unemployment than the US and high labor mobility.
Yup. Dell, at least, has an authentication chip in most of their chargers (the center pin in the typical Dell charger). The chip (or its wire) is invariably the first thing to break, and bam! laptop refuses to charge the battery, or even run the processor at full speed. This causes the weird behavior that the laptop speeds up when you switch to battery power. It also means that you have to ditch an otherwise fully functional charger.
The purpose of the chip is of course to prevent the charger from being overloaded, and not at all an attempt at extorting money from customers as well as frustrating third-party charger manufacturers.
Well, you just had to go and ruin my poor attempt at a joke with facts and research. :)
Oh, please, not this "It was Austria, not Germany!" again. Next you'll tell us Hitler wasn't German either.
You can already get tacos from an octorotor, so what makes you think this model won't be scalable to delivering other goods in a decade and a half?
Sigh. You're attempting to disprove one hoax with another? Why You Can't Have A Tacocopter Drone Deliver You A Taco For Lunch Today.
I can see I've been modded as a Troll. How ironic.
And I can see that your understanding of irony is on roughly the same level as your understanding of global warming.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1258/
There, FTFY.
I'll eat my hat(*) if bog standard Linux or FreeBSD installations try to execute anything on a USB stick unless it's rebooted with that stick as boot medium
They won't do that intentionally. But bog standard Linux machines can certainly be infected just by inserting a compromised USB stick.
First of all, the stick will be mounted. Typically, this happens automatically, but if not, the user will still have to do it manually. The USB filesystem can be modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a kernel bug, leading to a compromise of the machine. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2006, but don't worry, the NSA has zero-days on file if they need them. It is well-known that kernel "oopses" (such as this bug in ext4 from 2013) can often be converted into full exploits by a sufficiently determined adversary.
Assuming your Linux distro has a graphical desktop, you may next try opening the stick in a file browser, such as Nautilus. (Or it may even autolaunch when you insert the stick.) This too can cause your computer to be compromised, if e.g. the stick contains a PDF, which has been modified to contain just the right corrupt data structures to trigger a userspace bug in the program that generates the PDF thumbnail. By the time you think, "Wait, I never put any PDF on this stick", you're already compromised. If you think this is far out, think again. This was 2011.
If you're really paranoid, you'll forgo filesystems and desktop environments entirely and just dd plain ASCII files directly to the USB block device. But if your networked computer has been infected, you can never be sure that it's only doing that...
If you don't like what people say on Twitter. Don't go on Twitter. Simple as that.
And someone posts your address on Twitter, and the death threats starts arriving in your mail? Don't open your mail. Simple as that.
Rape threats and other cases of "angry menz syndrome" are actually agent provocateur campaigns made possible through the anonymity of the internet, for the express purpose of gaining allies to their cause, no matter what the cause is.
Yup, it's all just a conspiracy. Applekid is in fact also a woman, only pretending to be a misogynistic douchebag in order to gain support for her radical feminist notions (such as allowing women to be depicted on bank notes!).
(Of course, by Applekid's logic, I am also just a woman seeking to defend my sisters and/or a man trying to gain favors with women by posting snarky comments on Slashdot. Because OkCupid is so last decade.)
That's another thing to like about DDG: The fact that all settings can be stored as URL parameters in your browser, instead of a cookie (meaning you can simply disable cookies for duckduckgo.com entirely).
And it's well-documented and easy to do:
In other browsers, the process is more roundabout, but that's hardly DDG's fault.
How exactly can virtual currency be seized?
The same way a bank account can be seized, despite not existing as a tangible object.
In this case, it appears the suspect actually made an account transfer to a DEA agent, making it extra trivial to seize the bitcoins.
Another way to size bitcoins is to obtain the suspect's bitcoin wallet (essentially a private key). Of course, multiple copies of the private key may exist, allowing other people than the DEA to access the bitcoins even after seizure. The obvious solution is for the DEA to immediately transfer the bitcoins to a new, DEA controlled, wallet.
This is often quoted as an example of NSA's supposed superiority in cryptography but that happened back in the '70s when there were hardly any cryptographers or computers in the world.
Actually, what happened in the 70's was that IBM learned of differential cryptanalysis, at a time where the technique was not publicly known. At that point, the NSA had known about it for some time already. But yes, the gap has closed considerably in the mean time.
A more recent example is SHA-0, which was published in 1993 but withdrawn shortly thereafter by the NSA, because they had discovered flaws in the algorithm. It was only in 1998 that academia identified a flaw in the algorithm. So in the 90's, there was still a gap of 5 years between the NSA and the public.
Anyway, it's clear that cryptography has reached a level where attacking the algorithms is a waste of time. Sidechannel attacks, on the other hand, are numerous and easily exploited, and you can bet that the NSA is hard at work developing such attacks.
2/3 of 2 years is 16 months. He's been held for 9 months already, so he has another 7 to go (until Jan 2014).
Yeah, and afterwards he's likely going to Denmark, to stand trial there for breaching servers belonging to the Danish police (hosted by the ever-incompetent CSC).
Remember, he's not serving time for his Pirate Bay involvement (yet?); he's serving time for breaching bank systems and using the access in an attempt to steal millions. Since he was extradited for this case, not the Pirate Bay case, it seems that the Swedish prosecutors actually consider this worse than file sharing. (Who would've thought?)
So, instead of making up a translation, why not try it out?
They sat by the kitchen table and discussed the morning's news
becomes
She sat down at the kitchen table and discussed the morning news
or
They sat on the kitchen table to discuss the morning's news
which are arguably much worse...
No. Getting credit for you work falls under the legal umbrella of moral rights, which is related to, yet separate from copyright, which is about getting paid for your work.
Moral rights [...] include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work. [...] Moral rights are distinct from any economic rights tied to copyrights. Even if an artist has assigned his or her copyright rights to a work to a third party, he or she still maintains the moral rights to the work.
Sigh. The fact that you think British time equals GMT speaks volumes to your lack of understanding of the complexities of time.
(And what is "British time"? Do you mean UK time? What about overseas territories?)
More importantly, if the clock on the user's own computer isn't "good enough", what is? Just agreeing on the requirements could easily take 100 staff days.
The US government has http://www.time.gov/ which has most definitely taken 100 staff days to create, plus on-going maintenance.
If setup right, you should be shown a picture you choose to confirm that you are on the legit site.
"SiteKey" only marginally improves security compared to regular TLS/https and notably doesn't help against a MITB attack as described in TFA. If this malware is worth anything, that picture will still be there.
Then in addition to your password, you can setup a system where a six digit numeric token is sent to your cell phone which is also needed to authenticate.
Ooh, two-factor authentication. That's been mandatory in Danish banks for years, but hey, good to see some American banks actually providing security beyond "mother's maiden name"... even if the user has to opt-in.
Simple two-factor authentication still doesn't help against MITB attacks, of course. ("VERY good online security", indeed.)
Given the cost of batteries, I too would be somewhat dubious unless the car came with a warranty offering free (or extremely reduced cost) battery replacements for the first 10-15 years.
The Tesla Model S includes free battery replacements under warranty for the first 8 years or 125,000 miles for the 65 kWh battery (the 85 kWh battery warranty has no mileage limit). After 8 years, you can extend the warranty period for $7,500 for 3 years or 36,000 miles, which is ~10% of the Model S (85 kWh) purchase price.
(An average car does 12,000 miles per year, so one is unlikely to hit the 125,000 miles limit on the 65 kWh model. People who drive a lot will probably want the 85 kWh model anyway.)