"Review is boring and time consuming, and it's hard," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center. "Simply putting the source code out there and telling folks 'here it is' doesn't provide any assurance or degree of likelihood that the review will occur."
And if somethings hard, we just shouldn't do it, right? And "boring"! Like testing software is ever "fun".
So, MS's suggestion seems to be that, since it's kinda tough and not super fun to look through source code for problems, we just shouldn't bother having the source available at all. Great logic!
Here's the god awful color again. How tough it this to change? Who decided on this horrible, horrible, horrible color scheme? I have no idea, by I'm blaming TacoBoy!
Here's an idea. Next time my dog takes a really nasty crap I'll pick it up, pit it in a box, and send it you. Then you can base the next color scheme change on the colors you find in there.
Sound good? Oh... and I don't want to get modded down so:
Exactly... We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod. So, are they saying that what Real was doing was trying to learn how the iPod insides work in a search for knowledge?
Good job, Apple. Way to push the Hacker term even deeper into people's minds as a person who does bad things. You'd think a fairly savy computer company would know to use the word cracker, not hacker. Here's the headline that thousands and thousands of CNN readers will see: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Apple Computer accused RealNetworks Thursday of adopting the tactics of a hacker and breaking into the technology behind its popular music player iPod device.
Hacker = good
Cracker = bad
Bad apple! Stupid twats. It's not that tough to understand. Now go back to making pretty shiny things.
And where are they putting these funds by default?
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Come up with the physics to get anywhere else, and then it becomes interesting. You'll have to travel faster than c, though.
Or develop cryrogenics. Then all you need is the ability to travel sort of fast, say 5-10% of c. Sucks for the people you leave back at home, but oh well, they should have come with you.
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That's roughly $134 million dollars for the plutonium. Say, triple it for all the liquid, since I don't know how heavy it is. I'll take that any day over a 50 billion dollar price tag for cleanup.
The plutonium is the cheap (and easy) part.
a liter of water weighs a kg. we'll assume radioactive liquid waste weighs roughly what water does
the mods all seem to be either a bunch of wacked out communists who only mod up things like "KERRY OWNZ BU$H IZ TEH F@G!" or posts that are absolutely incorrect, but were posted soon after the article came out so they must be good!
I was referring to his comment on taxing one's inheritance. That is double taxation. Capital gains should be taxed at a reasonable rate. The poster I was responding to basically said "I'm not getting any dividends or capital gains, so they should be taxed through the roof!"
I see no reason why a dollar earned from going to work at your job as a software engineer, WalMart greeter or jizz mopper at the Lusty Lady should be taxed at a different rate than a dollar earned from interest income, dividends or capital gains. Different taxation rates for different types of income are inherently discriminatory and set up a system where some are more privileged than others by virtue of the tax rates they pay
As far as having different tax rates, you're right! Let's have a flat tax. Everyone pays the same percentage! No matter what the income is you pay the exact same percentage on it. Although, in reality, the jizz mopper should get a tax cut. Man what a horrible job.
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"Review is boring and time consuming, and it's hard," said Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security response center. "Simply putting the source code out there and telling folks 'here it is' doesn't provide any assurance or degree of likelihood that the review will occur."
And if somethings hard, we just shouldn't do it, right? And "boring"! Like testing software is ever "fun".
So, MS's suggestion seems to be that, since it's kinda tough and not super fun to look through source code for problems, we just shouldn't bother having the source available at all. Great logic!
hmm... that is interesting. if you just drop the "it." from the front, the color scheme disappears and you get the normal slashdot colors.
The worlds largest company, flagship of US captitalism, but not interested in keeping the jobs at home.
That's Walmart.
Here's the god awful color again. How tough it this to change? Who decided on this horrible, horrible, horrible color scheme? I have no idea, by I'm blaming TacoBoy!
Here's an idea. Next time my dog takes a really nasty crap I'll pick it up, pit it in a box, and send it you. Then you can base the next color scheme change on the colors you find in there.
Sound good? Oh... and I don't want to get modded down so:
Apple good. US bad. Bush evil!
That should do it. +5 insightful here I come.
The name game? (Score:-1, Redundant)
Redundant? Where? How? Huh? Redundant?
Exactly...
We are stunned that RealNetworks has adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod.
So, are they saying that what Real was doing was trying to learn how the iPod insides work in a search for knowledge?
Good job, Apple. Way to push the Hacker term even deeper into people's minds as a person who does bad things. You'd think a fairly savy computer company would know to use the word cracker, not hacker. Here's the headline that thousands and thousands of CNN readers will see:
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Apple Computer accused RealNetworks Thursday of adopting the tactics of a hacker and breaking into the technology behind its popular music player iPod device.
Hacker = good
Cracker = bad
Bad apple! Stupid twats. It's not that tough to understand. Now go back to making pretty shiny things.
Microsoft now publishes/develops the MechWarrior series
And they changed it! :)
another vote for how dreadful this fucking color scheme is
Hey Slashboys, there's a reason sites don't use these colors... it's because it's fucking ugly as all hell
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Come up with the physics to get anywhere else, and then it becomes interesting. You'll have to travel faster than c, though.
Or develop cryrogenics. Then all you need is the ability to travel sort of fast, say 5-10% of c. Sucks for the people you leave back at home, but oh well, they should have come with you.
ACTUALLY! yoo dind't failed it!
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I think they just do it to show off
i was guessing that we could some how figure out a way to get the price down, especially if we were moving this much stuff... but who knows?
actually it's 190 million liters so...
$418 billion
and that's only if we could find a way to get the price down to $1000 / lb (as another poster pointed out)
That's roughly $134 million dollars for the plutonium. Say, triple it for all the liquid, since I don't know how heavy it is. I'll take that any day over a 50 billion dollar price tag for cleanup.
/lb * 90 million liters = $198 billion
The plutonium is the cheap (and easy) part.
a liter of water weighs a kg. we'll assume radioactive liquid waste weighs roughly what water does
a kg ~ 2.2 lbs
so... 2.2 lbs/liter * $1000
and that's just to lift it into space.
they reprocess some of it and burn it again, the rest, I would assume, goes into a landfill.
And lets see... coal dust... nuclear waste... coal dust... nuclear waste... what would you rather live by?
I thought that would be a great idea too, until I realized how much waste there was.
67 tons of plutonium and 190 million liters of liquid radioactive waste stored in underground tanks
So, at $1000 or so a pound... well, you do the math.
Newer coal plants trap most of the coal dust and many of the other polutants. They're actually getting much cleaner.
It's the old ones (especially in places like China) that are the problem.
over 50% of Americans think we should annex Canada. So... sounds like it's a go!
dove feathers
When did you stop going to school? First grade, second grade? When, I'm curious
Bollocks. Take off the tin foil hat and join the rest of us in the real world.
Yeah, no shit. The Forbes article implies that they should have more money in stocks, not less.
no shit
the mods all seem to be either a bunch of wacked out communists who only mod up things like "KERRY OWNZ BU$H IZ TEH F@G!" or posts that are absolutely incorrect, but were posted soon after the article came out so they must be good!
I was referring to his comment on taxing one's inheritance. That is double taxation. Capital gains should be taxed at a reasonable rate. The poster I was responding to basically said "I'm not getting any dividends or capital gains, so they should be taxed through the roof!"
I see no reason why a dollar earned from going to work at your job as a software engineer, WalMart greeter or jizz mopper at the Lusty Lady should be taxed at a different rate than a dollar earned from interest income, dividends or capital gains. Different taxation rates for different types of income are inherently discriminatory and set up a system where some are more privileged than others by virtue of the tax rates they pay
As far as having different tax rates, you're right! Let's have a flat tax. Everyone pays the same percentage! No matter what the income is you pay the exact same percentage on it. Although, in reality, the jizz mopper should get a tax cut. Man what a horrible job.