Your telling me that winter tires are not mandatory in wintery states in the US?!
We can get quite a bit of snow in my area of the US, but get by with 2WD and normal tires just fine. This is how it's done: The city, county and state all have huge fleets of massive snow plow trucks and kilotons of rock salt. This armada goes to work the second it starts snowing (and lately, they even pretreat the roads with brine before it starts).
Occasionally, they fail to predict the weather correctly and people have to deal with a little bit of snow on the roads for a few hours. When this happens, angry mobs appear online virtually threatening to lynch the mayor and city council for denying them their God-given right to drive unfettered 24x7x365. (These seem to be many of the same people who complain about "socialist" government taxing and spending.)
Commodore put together probably the only system in history where the floppy drive had as much horsepower than the main computer, but they somehow managed to make the thing as slow as a cassette tape. I can't figure out what they were thinking.
Surely it would have been faster and cheaper to control the floppy through a stripped-down controller chip connected to I/O signals from the main CPU the way the PC did it.
This is not an issue with a hash function. This is a security issue that involves validating external inputs to a program before attempting to operate on them.
The web servers shouldn't be attempting to store these values in a hashtable at all. Sanity checks should be rejecting requests that have too many parameters in the first place.
It sounds like all of your gear has been damned. That probably means that you have bigger things to worry about than security threats coming from this world.
Let's look at the issue from the other end: top down. If it's true that China doesn't make net revenue manufacturing stuff for the US, then the overall trade balance between the US and China would be neutral. But it's not, to the tune of $2e11 per year.
Worked real well in Iran a little over a week ago.
The situation wasn't ideal, but there was nowhere near as much egg on our face as with the little adventure with Gary Powers and his U2.
Drones seem like a great way to turn over leading edge tech to those that are our enemies or will be at some point in the future.
Don't forget the B-29s that made emergency landings in the Soviet Union during WWII, which were promptly cloned rivet-for-rivet into the Tu-4. Or how about that Navy surveillance plane that crash landed in China shortly after GWB was elected, and which was eventually returned to the US in pieces. Having crews didn't prevent the losses, and just made the situations more politically volatile. Oh yea, then there's that stealth helicopter than Pakistan got to have and share with its friends as a result of the OBL mission.
At any rate, if you have military equipment that's too precious to actually risk in combat, it ends up being nothing more a huge waste of money, like all those expensive battleships that the various parties in WWI kept mostly in their home ports so they wouldn't risk losing them.
I can believe that giving a subset of the lights in one city a longer yellow would reduce accidents, for those particular lights. However, the key question is what happens when you adjust *all* the yellow lights in a city. My experience says that people generally time yellow lights, and try to get away with getting through just as the lights turn red. If they're uniformly longer, people will just keep going for a few more seconds of yellow.
Think about how much more fun it would be if there were no huddles - faster paced = more plays to enjoy. Add in the execution improvement that would come with a quarterback being able to tell a receiver to break left now or a receiver calling for the ball when the DB slips. Communication links could dramatically improve the game.
Wow... that all would be cool. But it would be even cooler to put each player inside a giant robot like on the Power Rangers!
Well, let me know when the first spaceship launched by Virgin starts off towards another planet then.
That toy for the rich is just as much of a silly stunt as NASA's cancelled rockets (only a lot cheaper).
For decades, commercial off-the-shelf rockets have been available to launch serious science payloads throughout the solar system. New commercial ventures are bringing lower-cost versions of the same as we speak. At this point, NASA shouldn't be spending a single dime on launch technology. Any such spending only detracts from their scientific goals.
For oblivious users, it's better to discover that some Java app is temporarily broken than to discover that their system has been 0wned via security holes that are being actively exploited.
Face it, there's no possible way to resolve this situation without the end user getting involved unless Oracle changes their licensing policies. What do you propose to do?
Continuing this stupid analogy: Your current water pump has security issues. Thieves can use it to steal your car! It has to be replaced, even if you're so incompetent that it takes you "several days" to get the job done.
Ubuntu no longer has access to OEM pumps, due to decisions made by the manufacturer. If Ubuntu's 3rd-party pump won't work for you, you can still go directly to the OEM, download the exact replacement pump and install it, for free.
WTF?! There were no IBM computers in WWII. Computers didn't exist for starters
IBM sold punched card tabulating machines at the time. They were like a useful subset of a SQL database, but not 100% automated. Human intervention was required to help orchestrate the computations. This mature technology probably handled real world business (and genocide) tasks much better than the flaky early computers would have.
That sounds fascinating. Please name the event it so we can google it.
Ok, it took me about 3 seconds on Google to find this page on the USGS website:
At the end of the last Ice Age, a finger of the Cordilleran ice sheet crept southward into the Idaho panhandle, forming a large ice dam that blocked the mouth of the Clark Fork River, creating a massive lake 2000 feet deep and containing more than 500 cubic miles of water. Glacial Lake Missoula stretched eastward for some 200 miles and contained more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined. When the highest of these ice dams failed, lake water burst through, shooting out at a rate 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world.
This towering mass of water and ice literally shook the ground as it thundered toward the Pacific Ocean, stripping away hundreds of feet of soil and cutting deep canyons -- "coulees" -- into the underlying bedrock. With flood speeds approaching 65 miles per hour, the lake would have drained in as little as 48 hours.
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BS. Part of any captain's job description is to act as a hero if disaster strikes.
How can you tell an introverted software developer from an extroverted one?
When an introverted programmer talks to you, he stares at his shoes.
When an extroverted programmer talks to you, he stares as your shoes.
Your telling me that winter tires are not mandatory in wintery states in the US?!
We can get quite a bit of snow in my area of the US, but get by with 2WD and normal tires just fine. This is how it's done: The city, county and state all have huge fleets of massive snow plow trucks and kilotons of rock salt. This armada goes to work the second it starts snowing (and lately, they even pretreat the roads with brine before it starts).
Occasionally, they fail to predict the weather correctly and people have to deal with a little bit of snow on the roads for a few hours. When this happens, angry mobs appear online virtually threatening to lynch the mayor and city council for denying them their God-given right to drive unfettered 24x7x365. (These seem to be many of the same people who complain about "socialist" government taxing and spending.)
Commodore put together probably the only system in history where the floppy drive had as much horsepower than the main computer, but they somehow managed to make the thing as slow as a cassette tape. I can't figure out what they were thinking.
Surely it would have been faster and cheaper to control the floppy through a stripped-down controller chip connected to I/O signals from the main CPU the way the PC did it.
You're exactly wrong on each point. All of those things were exploited with a great deal of success.
The truly big one is making "libertarian" a filthy word. That's the one sole unifying thing the US was built on.
You have a very myopic view of history. The US was actually built on corporate welfare, forced labor and ethnic cleansing.
This is not an issue with a hash function. This is a security issue that involves validating external inputs to a program before attempting to operate on them.
The web servers shouldn't be attempting to store these values in a hashtable at all. Sanity checks should be rejecting requests that have too many parameters in the first place.
It sounds like all of your gear has been damned. That probably means that you have bigger things to worry about than security threats coming from this world.
Let's look at the issue from the other end: top down. If it's true that China doesn't make net revenue manufacturing stuff for the US, then the overall trade balance between the US and China would be neutral. But it's not, to the tune of $2e11 per year.
Verdict: argument is false.
This kind of story makes me sad. So much wasted potential - Think of how much more this team could have achieved if they had only stayed off drugs.
That's nice, but not relevant to the loss of its design secrets.
Worked real well in Iran a little over a week ago.
The situation wasn't ideal, but there was nowhere near as much egg on our face as with the little adventure with Gary Powers and his U2.
Drones seem like a great way to turn over leading edge tech to those that are our enemies or will be at some point in the future.
Don't forget the B-29s that made emergency landings in the Soviet Union during WWII, which were promptly cloned rivet-for-rivet into the Tu-4. Or how about that Navy surveillance plane that crash landed in China shortly after GWB was elected, and which was eventually returned to the US in pieces. Having crews didn't prevent the losses, and just made the situations more politically volatile. Oh yea, then there's that stealth helicopter than Pakistan got to have and share with its friends as a result of the OBL mission.
At any rate, if you have military equipment that's too precious to actually risk in combat, it ends up being nothing more a huge waste of money, like all those expensive battleships that the various parties in WWI kept mostly in their home ports so they wouldn't risk losing them.
I can believe that giving a subset of the lights in one city a longer yellow would reduce accidents, for those particular lights. However, the key question is what happens when you adjust *all* the yellow lights in a city. My experience says that people generally time yellow lights, and try to get away with getting through just as the lights turn red. If they're uniformly longer, people will just keep going for a few more seconds of yellow.
Think about how much more fun it would be if there were no huddles - faster paced = more plays to enjoy. Add in the execution improvement that would come with a quarterback being able to tell a receiver to break left now or a receiver calling for the ball when the DB slips. Communication links could dramatically improve the game.
Wow... that all would be cool. But it would be even cooler to put each player inside a giant robot like on the Power Rangers!
Do the names Titan, Delta, Ariane, Atlas, etc. ring a bell?
Well, let me know when the first spaceship launched by Virgin starts off towards another planet then.
That toy for the rich is just as much of a silly stunt as NASA's cancelled rockets (only a lot cheaper).
For decades, commercial off-the-shelf rockets have been available to launch serious science payloads throughout the solar system. New commercial ventures are bringing lower-cost versions of the same as we speak. At this point, NASA shouldn't be spending a single dime on launch technology. Any such spending only detracts from their scientific goals.
Alas our current US government has sought to sink our space program so it will need to wait for another day.
You mean when they cancelled shuttle-derived boondoggle money pits?
That's actually the best way to *increase* the resources available to do real the planetary science you're talking about.
For oblivious users, it's better to discover that some Java app is temporarily broken than to discover that their system has been 0wned via security holes that are being actively exploited.
Face it, there's no possible way to resolve this situation without the end user getting involved unless Oracle changes their licensing policies. What do you propose to do?
Sure, pull it off the shelves, but who gives them the right to come out to my house and pull off my existing water pump, leaving me stranded?
Don't be obtuse. You are the only one who decides whether automatic updates occur, and/or whether to pin a package to a particular version.
Continuing this stupid analogy: Your current water pump has security issues. Thieves can use it to steal your car! It has to be replaced, even if you're so incompetent that it takes you "several days" to get the job done.
Ubuntu no longer has access to OEM pumps, due to decisions made by the manufacturer. If Ubuntu's 3rd-party pump won't work for you, you can still go directly to the OEM, download the exact replacement pump and install it, for free.
Slashdot seems to post a lot of stories about improved solar cells, but solar cells never seem to improve.
True, but only if you define a double-digit percentage drop in unit price every year as "not improving".
WTF?! There were no IBM computers in WWII. Computers didn't exist for starters
IBM sold punched card tabulating machines at the time. They were like a useful subset of a SQL database, but not 100% automated. Human intervention was required to help orchestrate the computations. This mature technology probably handled real world business (and genocide) tasks much better than the flaky early computers would have.
This FBI investigation reminds me of the ending of Casablanca, where the French police captain says "Round up the usual suspects."
Sorry, I assumed that one page would be enough to get you started. I think I used the query "ice dam canyon".
That sounds fascinating. Please name the event it so we can google it.
Ok, it took me about 3 seconds on Google to find this page on the USGS website:
At the end of the last Ice Age, a finger of the Cordilleran ice sheet crept southward into the Idaho panhandle, forming a large ice dam that blocked the mouth of the Clark Fork River, creating a massive lake 2000 feet deep and containing more than 500 cubic miles of water. Glacial Lake Missoula stretched eastward for some 200 miles and contained more water than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario combined. When the highest of these ice dams failed, lake water burst through, shooting out at a rate 10 times the combined flow of all the rivers of the world.
This towering mass of water and ice literally shook the ground as it thundered toward the Pacific Ocean, stripping away hundreds of feet of soil and cutting deep canyons -- "coulees" -- into the underlying bedrock. With flood speeds approaching 65 miles per hour, the lake would have drained in as little as 48 hours.