The National Geographic story refers to the asteroid belt as "massive", but neither NG nor NASA say just how massive. So why is it being referred to as "massive"? Are we talking mass-of-Jupiter here?
I never liked the lock-you-out-until-admin-unlocks-it thing. I think all you need to do is have increasing pause times between unsuccessful attempts. For instance, if the pause time were to start at 0 seconds and grow by one second for every successive failed attempt, then it would require O(n^2) time to guess a password with n possibilities. Modifications to this could make the time-to-guess grow at any desired asymptotic rate, while still responding in a reasonable time to the poor user who has forgotten his password. (The latter is why I didn't suggest exponential growth.:-)
Granted it's theft, but theft of one $8.00 movie ticket at the most. Even if it is stealing (which I do consider it)...
Then you're wrong. It's copyright infringement, not theft, any way you look at it. Opportunity costs never count as theft. If my friend is going to get a lift in a Taxi and I offer to give him a ride instead, I don't get charged with theft of the cab fare from the cabby.
Adopt a standard which will ensure that if some piece of software is compiled on one LSB-compliant system, it will run on any other LSB-compliant system.
No, that's not what LSB does at all. Even overlooking the obvious architectural differences between, say, PowerPC and Pentium LSB-compliant systems, you still have the various extensions that individual distros add. (Otherwise, why do we need different distros?) If you use one of those distro-specific features, then your code won't run on another LSB-compliant system.
It would seem to be a breeding ground of fighting, flaming, and trolling.
Yes, it would. There is some of that, but much less than might be expected, and it apparently doesn't affect the quality of the articles. It's interesting to ponder why that is.
Some numbnut says this every fucking time Moore's Law is mentioned. It wasn't Interesting nor Insightful the last dozen times, and it's not this time either.
In particular, note the definition given here at the bottom: 5. A generalization based on consistent experience or results.
Reverse engineering is ok by me, but breaking license agreements is not. If Tridge did his reverse engineering without agreeing to any license agreements that forbade it, then I'm on his side. I'd like to know a bit more about that side of things.
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Ah, thanks. I had been looking for the word "mass".
This is a direct quote from TFA.
The National Geographic story refers to the asteroid belt as "massive", but neither NG nor NASA say just how massive. So why is it being referred to as "massive"? Are we talking mass-of-Jupiter here?
I never liked the lock-you-out-until-admin-unlocks-it thing. I think all you need to do is have increasing pause times between unsuccessful attempts. For instance, if the pause time were to start at 0 seconds and grow by one second for every successive failed attempt, then it would require O(n^2) time to guess a password with n possibilities. Modifications to this could make the time-to-guess grow at any desired asymptotic rate, while still responding in a reasonable time to the poor user who has forgotten his password. (The latter is why I didn't suggest exponential growth. :-)
Not according to this.
Yes that's a better word.
Wetsuit.
Dude, take another look at the sentence I quoted.
Right on. And while they are at it, they should put everyone in jail for a few days to pay back society for the murders that get committed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia.
I, for one, usually take "a couple" to mean "roughly two". If someone said "a couple" and actually meant twenty, I'd consider that misleading.
This is so freaking obvious I don't even know where to begin.
In particular, note the definition given here at the bottom: 5. A generalization based on consistent experience or results.
See this.
You don't need to be psychic to know you need to squint when someone flips a light switch in a dark room.
Reverse engineering is ok by me, but breaking license agreements is not. If Tridge did his reverse engineering without agreeing to any license agreements that forbade it, then I'm on his side. I'd like to know a bit more about that side of things.
"Even worse, over 100 watts of the power is lost to heat!"... Hey, I have news for you: all the power is lost as heat.