Explain New Hampshire or Vermont. Two states with relatively lax firearms laws (Hell, New Hampshire probably has the most lax in the world).
Just to pick nits, it's the other way around. Vermont has no gun laws. In New Hampshire you have to pay $10 every four years for a concealed carry permit. And through some asspoliticary, they've decided that open carrying a pistol while driving is 'concealed carry', as is hunting with a long jacket, so if you have a pistol you're either paying or your risking a felony.
The flip side this downside is that it gets New Hampshire residents reciprocity with ~18 other States. Vermonters need to apply for an out-of-state pistol permit whenever they travel as they have no basis for reciprocity.
New Hampshire is a 'shall-issue' State, so it's not a huge hurdle.
But your overall point is sound - [gun] crime is a socioeconomic problem, not an ownership problem.
15 years later and hunters will still defend their pass time with the fervor of a rabid PETA campaigner, or Muslim cleric. Saving the world you know. Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
Well, sure, responsible ones will defend their hobby, they should.
The irresponsible ones, judging from my back 30, are largely driven by beer. Drug-induced crazes are a bad mix with weaponry.
I'd bet good money that if these guys were toking instead of drinking in the woods, much of the malfeasance we see would be reduced. Hurray for illegal prohibitions.
(6) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book's read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
Curiously, HDMI neglects to provide transport for closed captioning. The text is rendered by the decoder and shipped along as a bitmap.
Probably the most feasible way to offer closed captioning from a BluRay to the deaf and blind is to play the BluRay once with CC on, once with it off. Capture the HDMI frames, difference them before and after, and do OCR on the differences. A custom-built player could automate this process. With a fast enough processor it could be done in real-time (latency not being terribly important) and drive a Braille reader.
To a deaf and blind person, the only value of a BluRay disc may be as an eBook. A library with such a goal may be possible as an open source project.
Millions of gallons leaking into the Gulf, however, seem to have had pretty much zero effect on gas prices. Am I wrong?
The Maconodo well was in the process of being converted from exploration to production. A non-producing well didn't come into production, not 'a producing well went out of production'. So, the supply wasn't impacted. If demand was level then the price should have stayed mostly level.
Only if oil futures had figured in the Macondo production already, or speculators thought that BP's costs would somehow drive up the world market costs (why would Exxon increase its prices?, e.g. - they wouldn't) would this have affected oil prices. The biggest supply risk right now is from the US Government, but it seem unlikely they're going to undertake the draconian options at this point.
If hostile users have local access, you're pretty much boned anyway.
So, with this exploit you're one buggy CGI away from being pwned. And that's buggy as in "for some reason one user's script won't run in perl taint mode so he turned it off", not "we sell shell accounts to second graders for fifty cents a month". Outside of security research labs, we can thus reduce the O() this problem to:
If you have local users, you're pretty much boned anyway.
This approximates the possibility, not the certainty, of course. And, yes, there's some guy somewhere who has SELinux setup so that this can't happen - I just mean the other 99.9%.
Flaws in the standard libraries wouldn't count any more than flaws in glibc or X.org would count for Linux
You could break it down like that, but if there were a glibc vulnerability that gave local users root access, most people wouldn't care, except academically, which part of the system was the weak link. We care if our machines can be taken and controlled remotely.
That said, I honestly don't know how many local-Administrator-level compromises NT-based systems have had this year. Perhaps it is zero, but that would be an improvement from usual. Anybody?
Why does the summary and articles read like a paid advertisement for Ksplice?
Probably because the Ksplice guys offer a solution to a problem for admins who have standalone servers that can't be rebooted and nobody else does.
I don't understand the Ksplice hate here - they're filling a niche. I'd advise my clients (should I slashvertize too?) to instead go with a redundant clustered solution, preferably with automatic failover and/or live migrations of vm's so reboots don't hurt. But, that's more expensive than Ksplice, if really all you need is a single server (there being other benefits to clusters, naturally, but they do cost more) so it's not the best solution for everybody.
Either is better than staying unpatched if you have folks using your machines who don't deeply understand security. One buggy cgi and a local root exploit makes your day pretty rotten.
You're too kind - it's of course pretty obvious that the submitter is trying to write a cryptosystem and hasn't even gotten around to reading (and comprehending) Applied Cryptography. That's the link to the used page with $11 options, submitter. Curl up with it for a couple months' of night reading.
Sounds like deregulating your electric system really worked out for you then.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the power industry in CA is, in actuality, highly regulated and building a new power plant is therefore incredibly cost-challenging.
At those rates, there should be new plants going up frequently to get their share of the pie.
Yes. I'd be happy to live near any sort of nuclear reactor. Hell, I'd live on the god damn property.
But you're smart. There's been half a century of lunatic and government fear-mongering over atomic power. One clever approach I've heard is to offer free electric bills (cap it at $500/mo or so) to everybody in the town where a new one gets built. It's not really that much of a cost.
They put out less radiation each year than *a fucking coal plant* (due to the uranium in the coal being burned).
Thorium is the bigger contributor but your point is quite valid nonetheless.
People do build large Xen clouds when they could afford VMWare if they wanted it. EMC bought VMWare because it recognizes the power of virtualization. Now they're back for more. SuSE and Fedora are the only distros that are actually keeping up with Xen, and Fedora has been doing well only by two (awesome) community members who garner little inner-circle support.
Redhat has been chasing after KVM trying to be like VMWare, when it's VMWare that's been trying to be like Xen.
Capitalization is a cycle that builds on industrialization. If we, the people, had invested in it instead of the rich, we would have reaped the rewards. In fact, we could have borrowed against our own future expansion.
During the first two years of the revolution when workers' soviets practiced shop floor and local government participatory democracy. When people were practicing Marx's original idea rather than the bastard form of totalitarian communism that came later.
Is that before or after Lenin returned from exile? Why didn't this form last?
Karl Marx's ideas were successful for several years until proto-fascists took over the revolution.
Where and when were Marx's ideas faithfully executed and successful? It's also important to specify which version of Marxism - his ideas changed over the decades, and he eventually supported a 'management class', which he so reviled in the beginning. I can think of a few examples, the Armana Colony being a notable one, but they were dependent on trade with an external non-Communistic entity for survival. Being non-violent in nature, I fully support the Armanans, but their model wasn't pure Communism.
Marx's ideas were also based on the concepts that everything that needed to be invented already had been and that the existing factories were sufficient. He didn't have mechanisms for R&D or investment in capital (e.g. new factories).
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Explain New Hampshire or Vermont. Two states with relatively lax firearms laws (Hell, New Hampshire probably has the most lax in the world).
Just to pick nits, it's the other way around. Vermont has no gun laws. In New Hampshire you have to pay $10 every four years for a concealed carry permit. And through some asspoliticary, they've decided that open carrying a pistol while driving is 'concealed carry', as is hunting with a long jacket, so if you have a pistol you're either paying or your risking a felony.
The flip side this downside is that it gets New Hampshire residents reciprocity with ~18 other States. Vermonters need to apply for an out-of-state pistol permit whenever they travel as they have no basis for reciprocity.
New Hampshire is a 'shall-issue' State, so it's not a huge hurdle.
But your overall point is sound - [gun] crime is a socioeconomic problem, not an ownership problem.
It might take you a day or two, but the deer will collapse and die.
Won't the meat be fully anerobic by then?
I still think the right to have a gun is a good idea but it does seem like only the wrong people ever bother to actually buy one.
So change the equation - it's within your power. I recently bought a nice lightly used .308 off guntrader.com (the eBay for guns) for easy money.
My very smartest friends are polyarmorous, as are my very dumbest friends. There's an unarmed valley in the middle of the distribution.
15 years later and hunters will still defend their pass time with the fervor of a rabid PETA campaigner, or Muslim cleric. Saving the world you know. Thinning pests, and over population of grazing animals...
Well, sure, responsible ones will defend their hobby, they should.
The irresponsible ones, judging from my back 30, are largely driven by beer. Drug-induced crazes are a bad mix with weaponry.
I'd bet good money that if these guys were toking instead of drinking in the woods, much of the malfeasance we see would be reduced. Hurray for illegal prohibitions.
Curiously, HDMI neglects to provide transport for closed captioning. The text is rendered by the decoder and shipped along as a bitmap.
Probably the most feasible way to offer closed captioning from a BluRay to the deaf and blind is to play the BluRay once with CC on, once with it off. Capture the HDMI frames, difference them before and after, and do OCR on the differences. A custom-built player could automate this process. With a fast enough processor it could be done in real-time (latency not being terribly important) and drive a Braille reader.
To a deaf and blind person, the only value of a BluRay disc may be as an eBook. A library with such a goal may be possible as an open source project.
I thought people killed *because* they haven't yet had their first cup...
Who is S. Hawkins?
An early-90's pop singer. I had no idea she dabbled in xenosociology.
Millions of gallons leaking into the Gulf, however, seem to have had pretty much zero effect on gas prices. Am I wrong?
The Maconodo well was in the process of being converted from exploration to production. A non-producing well didn't come into production, not 'a producing well went out of production'. So, the supply wasn't impacted. If demand was level then the price should have stayed mostly level.
Only if oil futures had figured in the Macondo production already, or speculators thought that BP's costs would somehow drive up the world market costs (why would Exxon increase its prices?, e.g. - they wouldn't) would this have affected oil prices. The biggest supply risk right now is from the US Government, but it seem unlikely they're going to undertake the draconian options at this point.
No silicon heaven, where do all the calculators go?
To court with TI, probably.
If hostile users have local access, you're pretty much boned anyway.
So, with this exploit you're one buggy CGI away from being pwned. And that's buggy as in "for some reason one user's script won't run in perl taint mode so he turned it off", not "we sell shell accounts to second graders for fifty cents a month". Outside of security research labs, we can thus reduce the O() this problem to:
If you have local users, you're pretty much boned anyway.
This approximates the possibility, not the certainty, of course. And, yes, there's some guy somewhere who has SELinux setup so that this can't happen - I just mean the other 99.9%.
Flaws in the standard libraries wouldn't count any more than flaws in glibc or X.org would count for Linux
You could break it down like that, but if there were a glibc vulnerability that gave local users root access, most people wouldn't care, except academically, which part of the system was the weak link. We care if our machines can be taken and controlled remotely.
That said, I honestly don't know how many local-Administrator-level compromises NT-based systems have had this year. Perhaps it is zero, but that would be an improvement from usual. Anybody?
Why does the summary and articles read like a paid advertisement for Ksplice?
Probably because the Ksplice guys offer a solution to a problem for admins who have standalone servers that can't be rebooted and nobody else does.
I don't understand the Ksplice hate here - they're filling a niche. I'd advise my clients (should I slashvertize too?) to instead go with a redundant clustered solution, preferably with automatic failover and/or live migrations of vm's so reboots don't hurt. But, that's more expensive than Ksplice, if really all you need is a single server (there being other benefits to clusters, naturally, but they do cost more) so it's not the best solution for everybody.
Either is better than staying unpatched if you have folks using your machines who don't deeply understand security. One buggy cgi and a local root exploit makes your day pretty rotten.
Hard to say from your question
You're too kind - it's of course pretty obvious that the submitter is trying to write a cryptosystem and hasn't even gotten around to reading (and comprehending) Applied Cryptography. That's the link to the used page with $11 options, submitter. Curl up with it for a couple months' of night reading.
Thank you.
Sounds like deregulating your electric system really worked out for you then.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the power industry in CA is, in actuality, highly regulated and building a new power plant is therefore incredibly cost-challenging.
At those rates, there should be new plants going up frequently to get their share of the pie.
Yes. I'd be happy to live near any sort of nuclear reactor. Hell, I'd live on the god damn property.
But you're smart. There's been half a century of lunatic and government fear-mongering over atomic power. One clever approach I've heard is to offer free electric bills (cap it at $500/mo or so) to everybody in the town where a new one gets built. It's not really that much of a cost.
They put out less radiation each year than *a fucking coal plant* (due to the uranium in the coal being burned).
Thorium is the bigger contributor but your point is quite valid nonetheless.
Don't be surprised if EMC buys Citrix next.
People do build large Xen clouds when they could afford VMWare if they wanted it. EMC bought VMWare because it recognizes the power of virtualization. Now they're back for more. SuSE and Fedora are the only distros that are actually keeping up with Xen, and Fedora has been doing well only by two (awesome) community members who garner little inner-circle support.
Redhat has been chasing after KVM trying to be like VMWare, when it's VMWare that's been trying to be like Xen.
Capitalization is a cycle that builds on industrialization. If we, the people, had invested in it instead of the rich, we would have reaped the rewards. In fact, we could have borrowed against our own future expansion.
And what motivates people to invest?
we cold have a 2.6% growth
'We'? I'm not in Somalia, are you?
You didn't look at the paper, did you? It's the before-and-after comparison that's relevant.
During the first two years of the revolution when workers' soviets practiced shop floor and local government participatory democracy. When people were practicing Marx's original idea rather than the bastard form of totalitarian communism that came later.
Is that before or after Lenin returned from exile? Why didn't this form last?
It would be very hard to play with the strings in the wrong order, but I guess theoretically it would be possible.
If you did that, you'd sound like Dick Dale. Well, that and a hell of a lot of practice.
Karl Marx's ideas were successful for several years until proto-fascists took over the revolution.
Where and when were Marx's ideas faithfully executed and successful? It's also important to specify which version of Marxism - his ideas changed over the decades, and he eventually supported a 'management class', which he so reviled in the beginning. I can think of a few examples, the Armana Colony being a notable one, but they were dependent on trade with an external non-Communistic entity for survival. Being non-violent in nature, I fully support the Armanans, but their model wasn't pure Communism.
Marx's ideas were also based on the concepts that everything that needed to be invented already had been and that the existing factories were sufficient. He didn't have mechanisms for R&D or investment in capital (e.g. new factories).
You are recommending Somalia-style warlord fueled violence and chaos?
If the only two choices are their previous State structure and their 'anarchy' structure, the evidence is strongly in favor of the latter. See here:
http://www.independent.org/publications/working_papers/article.asp?id=1861
How do you figure industrialization was capitalized?
The title of the story says, "minors". Really, though, "1 moment", "1 year" doesn't really make much difference.