At least half of your comments are true only subjectively, and several are objectively false (particularly crime statistics, which are at a decades-long low, at least on the national average). Additionally, 12 and 13 are diametrically opposed, since political correctness is nothing if not politeness taken to an absurd level (though I would argue that it was more a phenomenon of the 90s than the present).
If we don't provide technology to be used by human rights abusers, then someone else will! I thought preserving profits was an implicit part of the golden rule. (He who has the gold makes the rules).
Presumably this would become a "value added" service of existing merchant services, leaving mom & pop operations with little or no up front costs. This is either patently obvious, or else I've given merchant services the next big idea, in which case -- money please!
The majority of people are against programs that don't offer them any perceived direct benefit. It's as simple as that. We the people are too selfish to put our neighbor's needs ahead of our own because we suck too much at seeing the big picture to realize that our fates are intertwined.
Have your web client hash the password before if goes to the host (even when it's a secure connection). That would help
Not really; it just shifts things around a bit. Replay attacks would work just fine and it doesn't solve the issue of securely storing the hashes at all.
I think it's much more likely that the writer was making a double entendre by alluding to both the fact that the key appears to be a Battleship log, and that it also sinks DRM. The interpretation that he didn't know what he was posting seems rather ridiculous. Yes, most people wouldn't know a hex key string if their lives depended on it, but while this *resembles* a battleship log, it's equally clear that it cannot be one (double numbers, double letters), which suggests that the author knew its true function.
As for the fact that it was yanked, it could just as easily mean that legal decided to reign him in after the fact. Things like this happen all the time with comedians. Shows get edited after their first airing, or it turns out that running for President with a corporate sponsor is illegal (or not, as the case may be). The point is, there has to be some amount of "damn the torpedoes" for a comedian or else his jokes are boring, but at the same time, his corporate overlords will still keep their thumbs on him as much as possible, especially if he crosses a legal line that could cost them money.
I see a lot of comments like this. People have this mistaken idea that there's some correlation to the physical world when it comes to software; that price dictates quality. There isn't, and it doesn't. You can't make 1 supercar and then sell millions for a buck or two unless you like losing money, but you CAN do that with one AAA game because economies of scale will win every time. The "problem" is that if you're selling crap, you probably won't sell it in enough volume to turn a profit, especially when your product is presented and rated alongside competing products. Nintendo and other software houses know this. They know that if they put out quality titles, they will turn the same or greater profits selling at a significantly lower price point, but they very much enjoy their existing business model and would prefer to keep the barriers to entry as high as possible to keep competition low.
So far there are three known causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles: improperly installed floor mats, sticky pedals, and driver error.
"But I repeat myself." (With apologies to Mark Twain).
Just because there is no fault with the electronics doesn't mean the machines were perfectly fine.
True, but just because the machines weren't perfectly fine doesn't mean it's not the driver's (or owner's) fault. Essentially these are all issues that the operator is responsible for, *especially* ensuring proper operation of the controls before taking the vehicle out on the road. Even in the (thus far) fictional scenario where an electronic malfunction sends the vehicle into WOT, if you don't know how to mitigate that by shifting into neutral and/or turning off the engine then you've directly contributed to the end result. Yeah, sometimes people panic and do the wrong thing, but that's still the individual's fault.
Bloatware is generally on a computer to help subsidize the cost down to "commodity item" prices.
Yeah, that's the company line, but there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the quantity of bloatware and the markup of a machine. At least, that's what I'd expect to see if the manufacturers were truly using it to keep costs low. I can only conclude, then, that the bloatware is bloating the manufacturer's profits rather than the consumer's wallet.
Goddamn metric standards. Can someone please convert this to fully laden Boeing 787s per fortnight? I know I should be able to do this in my head by now, but I can never remember whether to divide or multiply by the conversion factor when going from Nonsensius to Ridiculii.
Right, the problem is that politics attracts the wrong bunch of people. Maybe we should draft politicians instead of electing them. Pick names at random and when your number is called, you go serve for 2 years. It sounds insane at first glance, but if random sampling is good enough for science (and war), it should be good enough for government.
IMO the problem with communication is in the other direction. I can understand English through the thickest of accents, but it's struggle enough to make first-tier support understand a technical problem without adding a language barrier to the mix. It's also *less* helpful that they're trained to say that they understand when they clearly do not.
Now how about some copyright reform while they're at it? Let's return the duration to something less than the average lifespan of an Arctica islandica.
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At least half of your comments are true only subjectively, and several are objectively false (particularly crime statistics, which are at a decades-long low, at least on the national average). Additionally, 12 and 13 are diametrically opposed, since political correctness is nothing if not politeness taken to an absurd level (though I would argue that it was more a phenomenon of the 90s than the present).
If we don't provide technology to be used by human rights abusers, then someone else will! I thought preserving profits was an implicit part of the golden rule. (He who has the gold makes the rules).
Presumably this would become a "value added" service of existing merchant services, leaving mom & pop operations with little or no up front costs. This is either patently obvious, or else I've given merchant services the next big idea, in which case -- money please!
The majority of people are against programs that don't offer them any perceived direct benefit. It's as simple as that. We the people are too selfish to put our neighbor's needs ahead of our own because we suck too much at seeing the big picture to realize that our fates are intertwined.
Actually, Halo was originally supposed to be a Mac RTS.
PC and Mac.
Quick google will serve you well.
Word.
Your words are so artistic.
Sounds like every job I've ever had.
Depends how you use the app.
Right, that's what I was trying to say, but you did a better job. Such a system is essentially the same as using plaintext passwords.
Make no mistake, they were still being asshats. They were just being asshats to *each other* for a change.
Just wait for the passwords to come rolling in.
Exactly, but...
Have your web client hash the password before if goes to the host (even when it's a secure connection). That would help
Not really; it just shifts things around a bit. Replay attacks would work just fine and it doesn't solve the issue of securely storing the hashes at all.
I think it's much more likely that the writer was making a double entendre by alluding to both the fact that the key appears to be a Battleship log, and that it also sinks DRM. The interpretation that he didn't know what he was posting seems rather ridiculous. Yes, most people wouldn't know a hex key string if their lives depended on it, but while this *resembles* a battleship log, it's equally clear that it cannot be one (double numbers, double letters), which suggests that the author knew its true function.
As for the fact that it was yanked, it could just as easily mean that legal decided to reign him in after the fact. Things like this happen all the time with comedians. Shows get edited after their first airing, or it turns out that running for President with a corporate sponsor is illegal (or not, as the case may be). The point is, there has to be some amount of "damn the torpedoes" for a comedian or else his jokes are boring, but at the same time, his corporate overlords will still keep their thumbs on him as much as possible, especially if he crosses a legal line that could cost them money.
I see a lot of comments like this. People have this mistaken idea that there's some correlation to the physical world when it comes to software; that price dictates quality. There isn't, and it doesn't. You can't make 1 supercar and then sell millions for a buck or two unless you like losing money, but you CAN do that with one AAA game because economies of scale will win every time. The "problem" is that if you're selling crap, you probably won't sell it in enough volume to turn a profit, especially when your product is presented and rated alongside competing products. Nintendo and other software houses know this. They know that if they put out quality titles, they will turn the same or greater profits selling at a significantly lower price point, but they very much enjoy their existing business model and would prefer to keep the barriers to entry as high as possible to keep competition low.
So far there are three known causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles: improperly installed floor mats, sticky pedals, and driver error.
"But I repeat myself." (With apologies to Mark Twain).
Just because there is no fault with the electronics doesn't mean the machines were perfectly fine.
True, but just because the machines weren't perfectly fine doesn't mean it's not the driver's (or owner's) fault. Essentially these are all issues that the operator is responsible for, *especially* ensuring proper operation of the controls before taking the vehicle out on the road. Even in the (thus far) fictional scenario where an electronic malfunction sends the vehicle into WOT, if you don't know how to mitigate that by shifting into neutral and/or turning off the engine then you've directly contributed to the end result. Yeah, sometimes people panic and do the wrong thing, but that's still the individual's fault.
A better tool is fdisk.
Bloatware is generally on a computer to help subsidize the cost down to "commodity item" prices.
Yeah, that's the company line, but there doesn't seem to be any correlation between the quantity of bloatware and the markup of a machine. At least, that's what I'd expect to see if the manufacturers were truly using it to keep costs low. I can only conclude, then, that the bloatware is bloating the manufacturer's profits rather than the consumer's wallet.
What kind of psycho would completely neglect one important "piece of pie" because another "pie slice" is 10% larger?
The type who's 10% hungrier?
Why would you want to ruin a perfectly good Lemarchand's Box?
currently equivalent of 15 million cars a year
Goddamn metric standards. Can someone please convert this to fully laden Boeing 787s per fortnight? I know I should be able to do this in my head by now, but I can never remember whether to divide or multiply by the conversion factor when going from Nonsensius to Ridiculii.
Me too!
Right, the problem is that politics attracts the wrong bunch of people. Maybe we should draft politicians instead of electing them. Pick names at random and when your number is called, you go serve for 2 years. It sounds insane at first glance, but if random sampling is good enough for science (and war), it should be good enough for government.
behooves me
That word.. I do not think it means what you think it means.
IMO the problem with communication is in the other direction. I can understand English through the thickest of accents, but it's struggle enough to make first-tier support understand a technical problem without adding a language barrier to the mix. It's also *less* helpful that they're trained to say that they understand when they clearly do not.
Now how about some copyright reform while they're at it? Let's return the duration to something less than the average lifespan of an Arctica islandica.
Nice, that beats the shit out of using asterisks. Check it out, I copied and pasted your post from above and then put my password underneath:
hunter2 beyotches!!!