There is no "kW/h", but there IS "kWh" which is actually the unit my utility company measures and bills my usage in (currently 0,234 EUR per kWh).
Likewise it should be "gigawatthours", not "gigawatts per hour". But then it makes perfectly sense. If my device has a power usage of 1 kW and I let it running for an hour, well it's 1 kWh.
I believe the argument is, that if the liquid is in a greater bottle it can not be (that) easily determined if the amount of liquid is within the limits. If it is already in a small bottle which does not exceed the limit it's clear. So it is probably a way to speed up security checking.
Yes, there are some sysadmins of the kind you describe out there. But this is really not the norm. More often than not the admins are only carrying out - often stupid - policies forced upon them by the mighty above. Many try (or tried in the past) to fight stupid policies, but they are usually not successful.
Been there, done that, so your accusations are insulting to me, and to many colleagues I know.
What a BS comment. Many of the legitimate users won't be able to use regular spots because they need to increased width of the handicapped spots. Ever seen a wheelchair user get out of his car?
But these reckless abusers of handicapped parking spots are never short on explanations and justifications for their sad behavior.
This sounds like nonsense. There are VPN providers on non-standard ports. If you have your own server and a spare IP, you can even use some netfilter rewrite magic to allow connection on ANY port of that IP which is helpful in a lot of situations.
In my opinion neither the title nor the article are overly sensational as claimed by you. While it is technically true that the device vendor does the lock out, this is nothing more than a smoke grenade tampering with the truth.
The fact is that Microsoft will require the manufacturers to support this technology if they want to sell devices on which windows will run. Even more the fact is, that this means that they will have to include keys by Microsoft which will prevent the device from running unsigned code like Linux.
And while it is still a rumor it can probably be taken as a fact that disabling this feature (if made possible by the manufacturers) will likely cause Windows to not start because this is what malicious software would do as well and allowing this would circumvent the security improvement.
So cut the crap. Yes, it will be the device manufacturers who will effectively bring this restriction into life. But it will be Microsoft who forces them to do so.
Same goes for me. Still reading but not much commenting. But whenever I see some discussion where posting with a low UID would be fun, I (have to) do it:-)
Seeing Rob leaving really brings nostalgic feelings. I can't say when I exactly started reading slashdot (of course before the UIDs were introduced) but it's a very long time and when I think what all happened in my life in this time and how the internet has changes so drastically... Only slashdot was kind of constant through these years.
Also this is only a momentary statistic. The article says that many power plants are down for maintenance currently and will add their capacity in the near future again.
The article also says that Germany currently imports electricity but it is told that this is only due to pricing.
No. According to the article: The total capacity of all plants is 160,200 MW. The "assured" capacity (which deducts plants down for maintenance etc. and also two nuclear plants which are down for years) is 93,100 MW. Without the "security margin" the capacity is 86,100 MW. The actual use is 40,000 to - absolute worst case - 80,000 MW. The capacity without the old nuclear plants is 79,800 MW.
You can train nearly everything, but training does not make you good.
Errr... yes it does. Or were you always a good driver / writer / programmer? Training is exactly the process of making someone good at something!
All the training will not help if basic ability is lacking. If you can't sing a bit, it's very unlikely you will get good even if you practice all your life.
And if you lack ability in analyzing, you will have a hard time in CS or IT. Some people just don't get it, that is simply a fact.
No, it's not absolutely necessary to have those years of experience before attempting CS/IT. It helps however.
But it is absolutely necessary to be capable of learning new stuff in a very short time period AND be able to do something good with that knowledge. As others pointed out IT more than many professions requires life-long learning.
If you are not willing or able to absorb new technology in next to no time, you will never be a good or competent IT person. Thats the simple truth and therefore it is good when such people are sorted out at university entry level already so that they can choose are more appropriate profession for them instead of some how making it through and then suck at work life.
I can speak only for Germany but during my studies I noticed quite a number of students which had no background (beside having played computer games all day in earlier days), had absolutely no talent (everyone can learn how to program, but most people won't become good at it), no clue and struggled a lot. Yet most of them made it through the finals, have now a B.Sc. and compete with people who really know the shit on the job market, negatively influencing hourly rates and reputation of IT. In my professional life so far I had to work with many many idiots who nethertheless had a degree.
So I believe I disagree with this professor. Yes, not everyone might be willing to achieve the results in that time frame. But I honestly believe that most people who don't deserve to be there in the first place. Either you have what it takes or you don't. As said: You can train nearly everything, but training does not make you good. Programming is very often a task which included creativity (figuring out how to solve a problem in the best way) and if you don't have that ability, you will produce bad results. It's as simple as that.
The summary is very uninformative. This needs to be mentioned:
- The reason for the seizure was topic of speculation all day long. It was very soon suspected that the reason was abuse of the "piratenpad", a publically available etherpad installation operated by the pirate party. Apparently this platform was used to coordinate a DDoS attack against the french energy and utility company (according to Wikipedia the largest of the world) EDF. Pirate party later stated that a SSH key for there webserver was posted on the piratenpad. See http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Polizei-kapert-Server-der-Piratenpartei-1246963.html (german).
- This service was only running on one of the servers but the police took all servers nethertheless which includes their mail and other important infrastructure.
- The seizure was not the result of some german investigation but rather a reaction to a judicial assistance request by the french police.
- As well-known german lawyer Udo Vetter points out (http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2011/05/20/ein-akt-der-deutschen-behrden/ - german) the german police was not required by law to react in this way. Furthermore political parties are somewhat protected by law and it is very arguable that the measures taken were adequate as required by law.
- There is a state election in the German state of Bremen on Sunday. The pirate party is running there. This seizure is of course very unfortunate in light of this. This has promptly caused conspiracy theories that the reason for the seizure might be political.
but the implication is that 55 was a realistic range
No it was not. They clearly said, that this would be the range interpolated from their driving test on their track. Anyone who has ever watched this show knows how they drive on their track and that this can't be a realistic range. I vaguely remember the episode and I believe the "on our track" part was even emphasized.
I don't know your mental capacity, but I am sure that most people got that right.
This: "The second point is that the figure of 55 miles came not from our heads, but from Teslaâ(TM)s boffins in California. They looked at the data from that car and calculated that, driven hard on our track, it would have a range of 55 miles."
So they are suing the BBC over a claim they themselves fed to the Top Gear producers which was only relayed in the show.
Yeah, really, I can see how Top Gear acted in bad faith here. How dare they trust the information from the manufacturer!
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There is no "kW/h", but there IS "kWh" which is actually the unit my utility company measures and bills my usage in (currently 0,234 EUR per kWh).
Likewise it should be "gigawatthours", not "gigawatts per hour". But then it makes perfectly sense. If my device has a power usage of 1 kW and I let it running for an hour, well it's 1 kWh.
I believe the argument is, that if the liquid is in a greater bottle it can not be (that) easily determined if the amount of liquid is within the limits. If it is already in a small bottle which does not exceed the limit it's clear. So it is probably a way to speed up security checking.
Well, if you understand German, I highly recommend the "Fnord Jahresrückblick" (or Fnord News Show).
And of course watch the Hacker Jeopardy!
The 28C3 ended on December 30th (not 31st), and the Recordings have been available for Days already.
Sorry, no. I'm German and I can't find any correct german sentence where "macht" (make) would be at the end. I'm not sure how you got this idea.
German would be "Ein Kernel macht/ist (noch) kein Betriebssystem" translated wordly to "A Kernel makes/is (yet) no operation system".
Well, i was too lazy to RTFA, but maybe these infected sticks are "lost" on purpose? I mean this has reportedly been done before.
Oh, bollocks.
Yes, there are some sysadmins of the kind you describe out there. But this is really not the norm. More often than not the admins are only carrying out - often stupid - policies forced upon them by the mighty above. Many try (or tried in the past) to fight stupid policies, but they are usually not successful.
Been there, done that, so your accusations are insulting to me, and to many colleagues I know.
Well, be careful and you can score some good deals with Ryanair. Sometimes they really offer flights "all fees included" for only a few bucks.
I flew from Germany to Dublin for only 10 EUR total some while ago, and from Germany to Poland for 5 EUR.
What a BS comment. Many of the legitimate users won't be able to use regular spots because they need to increased width of the handicapped spots. Ever seen a wheelchair user get out of his car?
But these reckless abusers of handicapped parking spots are never short on explanations and justifications for their sad behavior.
This sounds like nonsense. There are VPN providers on non-standard ports. If you have your own server and a spare IP, you can even use some netfilter rewrite magic to allow connection on ANY port of that IP which is helpful in a lot of situations.
I'm a happy customer of overplay.net. For US$ 9.95 you get access to VPN servers in 48 countries, with multiple servers in many cases.
I can't say how secure my data is with them but it works reasonably well with OpenVPN and mostly fast as well.
You should probably take a step out of the cave you spent the last ten years in and have a look around at reality.
HTML5+JavaScript+etc. are absolutely great for programming a GUI. You might be confusing the GUI with the backend behind.
In my opinion neither the title nor the article are overly sensational as claimed by you. While it is technically true that the device vendor does the lock out, this is nothing more than a smoke grenade tampering with the truth.
The fact is that Microsoft will require the manufacturers to support this technology if they want to sell devices on which windows will run. Even more the fact is, that this means that they will have to include keys by Microsoft which will prevent the device from running unsigned code like Linux.
And while it is still a rumor it can probably be taken as a fact that disabling this feature (if made possible by the manufacturers) will likely cause Windows to not start because this is what malicious software would do as well and allowing this would circumvent the security improvement.
So cut the crap. Yes, it will be the device manufacturers who will effectively bring this restriction into life. But it will be Microsoft who forces them to do so.
Same goes for me. Still reading but not much commenting. But whenever I see some discussion where posting with a low UID would be fun, I (have to) do it :-)
Seeing Rob leaving really brings nostalgic feelings. I can't say when I exactly started reading slashdot (of course before the UIDs were introduced) but it's a very long time and when I think what all happened in my life in this time and how the internet has changes so drastically... Only slashdot was kind of constant through these years.
I always find it funny when people with six (or even seven) digit UID's make claims about how slashdot used to be.
Also this is only a momentary statistic. The article says that many power plants are down for maintenance currently and will add their capacity in the near future again.
The article also says that Germany currently imports electricity but it is told that this is only due to pricing.
No. According to the article: The total capacity of all plants is 160,200 MW. The "assured" capacity (which deducts plants down for maintenance etc. and also two nuclear plants which are down for years) is 93,100 MW. Without the "security margin" the capacity is 86,100 MW. The actual use is 40,000 to - absolute worst case - 80,000 MW. The capacity without the old nuclear plants is 79,800 MW.
All the training will not help if basic ability is lacking. If you can't sing a bit, it's very unlikely you will get good even if you practice all your life.
And if you lack ability in analyzing, you will have a hard time in CS or IT. Some people just don't get it, that is simply a fact.
I honestly believe that much of what I said applies to CS as well, only with different topics and terms.
No, it's not absolutely necessary to have those years of experience before attempting CS/IT. It helps however.
But it is absolutely necessary to be capable of learning new stuff in a very short time period AND be able to do something good with that knowledge. As others pointed out IT more than many professions requires life-long learning.
If you are not willing or able to absorb new technology in next to no time, you will never be a good or competent IT person. Thats the simple truth and therefore it is good when such people are sorted out at university entry level already so that they can choose are more appropriate profession for them instead of some how making it through and then suck at work life.
I can speak only for Germany but during my studies I noticed quite a number of students which had no background (beside having played computer games all day in earlier days), had absolutely no talent (everyone can learn how to program, but most people won't become good at it), no clue and struggled a lot. Yet most of them made it through the finals, have now a B.Sc. and compete with people who really know the shit on the job market, negatively influencing hourly rates and reputation of IT. In my professional life so far I had to work with many many idiots who nethertheless had a degree.
So I believe I disagree with this professor. Yes, not everyone might be willing to achieve the results in that time frame. But I honestly believe that most people who don't deserve to be there in the first place. Either you have what it takes or you don't. As said: You can train nearly everything, but training does not make you good. Programming is very often a task which included creativity (figuring out how to solve a problem in the best way) and if you don't have that ability, you will produce bad results. It's as simple as that.
Don't make IT/CS easier. Make it harder, please.
The summary is very uninformative. This needs to be mentioned:
- The reason for the seizure was topic of speculation all day long. It was very soon suspected that the reason was abuse of the "piratenpad", a publically available etherpad installation operated by the pirate party. Apparently this platform was used to coordinate a DDoS attack against the french energy and utility company (according to Wikipedia the largest of the world) EDF. Pirate party later stated that a SSH key for there webserver was posted on the piratenpad. See http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Polizei-kapert-Server-der-Piratenpartei-1246963.html (german).
- This service was only running on one of the servers but the police took all servers nethertheless which includes their mail and other important infrastructure.
- The seizure was not the result of some german investigation but rather a reaction to a judicial assistance request by the french police.
- As well-known german lawyer Udo Vetter points out (http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2011/05/20/ein-akt-der-deutschen-behrden/ - german) the german police was not required by law to react in this way. Furthermore political parties are somewhat protected by law and it is very arguable that the measures taken were adequate as required by law.
- There is a state election in the German state of Bremen on Sunday. The pirate party is running there. This seizure is of course very unfortunate in light of this. This has promptly caused conspiracy theories that the reason for the seizure might be political.
No it was not. They clearly said, that this would be the range interpolated from their driving test on their track. Anyone who has ever watched this show knows how they drive on their track and that this can't be a realistic range. I vaguely remember the episode and I believe the "on our track" part was even emphasized.
I don't know your mental capacity, but I am sure that most people got that right.
This: "The second point is that the figure of 55 miles came not from our heads, but from Teslaâ(TM)s boffins in California. They looked at the data from that car and calculated that, driven hard on our track, it would have a range of 55 miles."
So they are suing the BBC over a claim they themselves fed to the Top Gear producers which was only relayed in the show.
Yeah, really, I can see how Top Gear acted in bad faith here. How dare they trust the information from the manufacturer!