Though, yes, it implies you're using accented characters and have blowfish as your algorithm.
So it's a vulnerability enabled by a very small portion of a very small population.
Which is why it lasted for 13 years with nobody caring much, except academically.
But, if you knew you could use 8-bit characters, and you generated your passwords randomly, this could affect half of your password space. Which could be significant if your passwords were kept in compartmentalized files that themselves are accessible only to different authorized people. Bureaucracy can get very hairy, in such circumstances.
There are only two possible outcomes of an investigation into a request for a waiver:
1. the waiver would cause the risk the regulation was meant to prevent and is denied, and,
2. the regulation is unnecessarily restrictive and the waiver is granted.
In both cases direct eyes-on-the-problem expertise is used to determine the facts, instead of relying on the broad and numb application of a regulation.
So saying they're granting waivers isn't news. They're going to grant waivers.
The question is whether they're ignoring relevant facts that should be causing them not to grant waivers.
Either the plaintiffs didn't read that law and it clearly states that anyone is exempt from being sued as long as they follow EPA regs, or the Supreme Court inferred that anyone who follows EPA regs is indemnified but it doesn't actually say that in the law.
With woo-woo plaintiffs and a classic Alice-in-Wonderland Supreme Court, I give it a 50-50 shot that it went either way.
Except that this was a unanimous decision, and I know at least 3 of these justices know enough to read the law before voting on it.
We can get those benefits from nuclear power while causing 1/100,000 as many cancers. We need coal-burning energy production like we need injections of benzene.
The universe is a nudger, and the nudgees generally don't have the first clue about it; in fact, many are sent to oblivion by their ignorance; so is the universe unethical?
The tidal force relieves the gravitational pressure on part of the star, putting out fusion right there.
Is the loss of fusion pressure going to allow that region to collapse on itself enough to super-nova? Or is the tidal force now great enough to keep it from collapsing to that density? Or was the fusion pressure itself causing fusion in a region that couldn't attain the density without the shockwave?
I think most of the star continues to fuse until it's so close it couldn't fuse if it tried. Anything that stops fusing just gets pulled farther away.
If it did go supernova, it would be extremely assymetric. It's no longer a collapsing sphere; it's an egg or ellipse with a part inside the stretched end(s) exploding next to a black hole with an active fusion reaction going on too. It should actually release a lot less energy than a supernova of a star of the same size, as it would happen more slowly and consume less of the total mass. It'd be a small supernova inside an active star.
There's probably some range of masses for which that happens. No way to rule it out from here. And then figure in the warping of spacetime from being that close to a black hole, which may be spinning, too.
According to TFA, all but 10%. Probably some small amount gets blown away by various processes that accelerate particles to near-light speed, but we're talking about a gravitational field capable of sucking down a star like a pan-dimensional soda straw. Anything with remaining rest mass is getting drained, eventually.
If the fusion has stopped because the tidal force from the black hole is relieving the gravitational pressure between the star's atoms, it's no longer a star. It's now the gas-giant formerly known as the star, soon to be the accretion disk.
But you can still safely say "the black hole shredded the star", because nothing else could.
But this event, first spotted on 28 March 2011 and designated Sw 1644+57, does not have the marks of an imploding sun.
More like it got ripped apart. Shredded. As TFA's headline said.
The summary confused me, since pulling mass away from a star would remove the mass that contributes to implosion (which occurs when the continuous explosion within it slows to where it can't keep the star inflated enough and the density gets low enough for implosion to begin, leaving a neutron star or a black hole). But TFA straightened it out.
Yup. And, the consoles have probably replaced a bunch of Asteroids and Ms. Pac-Man machines. The MP3 players? Dirt-cheap jukeboxes. Also useful for transmitting information.
People need to start questioning missiles that cost $1M a copy, not handhelds that cost $1M a war.
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In the US maybe.
Though, yes, it implies you're using accented characters and have blowfish as your algorithm.
So it's a vulnerability enabled by a very small portion of a very small population.
Which is why it lasted for 13 years with nobody caring much, except academically.
But, if you knew you could use 8-bit characters, and you generated your passwords randomly, this could affect half of your password space. Which could be significant if your passwords were kept in compartmentalized files that themselves are accessible only to different authorized people. Bureaucracy can get very hairy, in such circumstances.
I always assume that crackers know about these and are using them secretly.
And when caught at it publish everything they have and blame you for not securing your system.
There are only two possible outcomes of an investigation into a request for a waiver:
1. the waiver would cause the risk the regulation was meant to prevent and is denied, and,
2. the regulation is unnecessarily restrictive and the waiver is granted.
In both cases direct eyes-on-the-problem expertise is used to determine the facts, instead of relying on the broad and numb application of a regulation.
So saying they're granting waivers isn't news. They're going to grant waivers.
The question is whether they're ignoring relevant facts that should be causing them not to grant waivers.
If the coal industry doesn't follow the law, it doesn't matter who makes them.
And the coal industry is notorious for ignoring the law in brazen and voluminous manner.
I haven't read the law that created the EPA, but,
Either the plaintiffs didn't read that law and it clearly states that anyone is exempt from being sued as long as they follow EPA regs, or the Supreme Court inferred that anyone who follows EPA regs is indemnified but it doesn't actually say that in the law.
With woo-woo plaintiffs and a classic Alice-in-Wonderland Supreme Court, I give it a 50-50 shot that it went either way.
Except that this was a unanimous decision, and I know at least 3 of these justices know enough to read the law before voting on it.
We can get those benefits from nuclear power while causing 1/100,000 as many cancers. We need coal-burning energy production like we need injections of benzene.
The universe is a nudger, and the nudgees generally don't have the first clue about it; in fact, many are sent to oblivion by their ignorance; so is the universe unethical?
Two cakes are a lie group.
The rest of the spectrum is, if not negligible, then somewhat less significant than the X-rays.
The distribution is not flat. It will have a big hump peaking in the x-rays and long tails above and below.
The case law regarding squatting on trademarks in domain names is pretty cut-and-dried by now.
One case extending all of that to TLDs would be sufficient, and would take about 5 minutes in the court of a judge who isn't a total dunce.
Hope you didn't sink too much money into books in e-reader form.
Because you're just going to buy them again in e-recaller form.
Only if you remember first where you put your memory.
Neither of them does. The cyborg, however...
The tidal force relieves the gravitational pressure on part of the star, putting out fusion right there.
Is the loss of fusion pressure going to allow that region to collapse on itself enough to super-nova? Or is the tidal force now great enough to keep it from collapsing to that density? Or was the fusion pressure itself causing fusion in a region that couldn't attain the density without the shockwave?
I think most of the star continues to fuse until it's so close it couldn't fuse if it tried. Anything that stops fusing just gets pulled farther away.
If it did go supernova, it would be extremely assymetric. It's no longer a collapsing sphere; it's an egg or ellipse with a part inside the stretched end(s) exploding next to a black hole with an active fusion reaction going on too. It should actually release a lot less energy than a supernova of a star of the same size, as it would happen more slowly and consume less of the total mass. It'd be a small supernova inside an active star.
There's probably some range of masses for which that happens. No way to rule it out from here. And then figure in the warping of spacetime from being that close to a black hole, which may be spinning, too.
According to TFA, all but 10%. Probably some small amount gets blown away by various processes that accelerate particles to near-light speed, but we're talking about a gravitational field capable of sucking down a star like a pan-dimensional soda straw. Anything with remaining rest mass is getting drained, eventually.
If the fusion has stopped because the tidal force from the black hole is relieving the gravitational pressure between the star's atoms, it's no longer a star. It's now the gas-giant formerly known as the star, soon to be the accretion disk.
But you can still safely say "the black hole shredded the star", because nothing else could.
No, they take chunks of your body with them. That's not "right through".
No, it's saying that it could not, because it's stripping matter away, preventing formation of a black hole or neutron star.
From TFA:
But this event, first spotted on 28 March 2011 and designated Sw 1644+57, does not have the marks of an imploding sun.
More like it got ripped apart. Shredded. As TFA's headline said.
The summary confused me, since pulling mass away from a star would remove the mass that contributes to implosion (which occurs when the continuous explosion within it slows to where it can't keep the star inflated enough and the density gets low enough for implosion to begin, leaving a neutron star or a black hole). But TFA straightened it out.
You'd rather be lifted by your blue balls?
Only if the nudgee gets no benefit in return, or loses in the process.
You did that well.
Here's your cookie: @
Tomorrow you will empty your bank account and mail it to me.
Tomorrow you will get cake.
No, the sarcastic reply.
Yup. And, the consoles have probably replaced a bunch of Asteroids and Ms. Pac-Man machines. The MP3 players? Dirt-cheap jukeboxes. Also useful for transmitting information.
People need to start questioning missiles that cost $1M a copy, not handhelds that cost $1M a war.
He was lucky. In Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait (and probably several other places), you can't drink, even though you can't leave the base.
Apparently, owing to the lack of bar culture, the USO is doing a land-rush business on those posts.