An insult only says something about the person telling it. The target has to have quite a fragile ego to give any care about it. Unless, maybe,f it's the truth. But then, is it still called an insult ?
BMW are considered expensive cars in Europe in general. And it used to be for good reasons : there is no contest between the driving pleasure of even a small one against, say, an Audi and of course the more popular VW. It was feeling like sliding on silk at full power but with an incredible grip on the road. The price of the "low range" is about the same as the "high range" or other brands.
Used to because for the last few years it's going down fast, at least for the "smaller" models, They are removing the traction for the 1 and 2 (or how to kill the image of a brand) and having changed recently : the engine lost some punch.
How did we switch to speaking about cars ? Oh, right.
If AS owners were filtering the traffic in and out, it would reduce this kind of attacks.
By filtering I mean that if a packet goes out, it has to originate from an IP of the AS; and if a packet goes in, it cannot come from an IP on the inside.
This would effectively anihilate a type of DDOS I will not describe here for obvious reasons.
But AFAIK, the infrastructure cost is not worth it... yet ?
First off : I would consider a $30 metal pin or a $1000 toilet paper sheet expensive. This is a stupid piece of hardware worth about 10 EUR, but since it's Apple it costs closer to 50EUR here. So yes : expensive. Not that it is relevant but if you must know around the Hanami, a good hotel room cost about 200EUR/day and the meal typically from 50EUR up to 250EUR. The thing is : they are worth it.
This is a tragedy, and this is the world we are living in now. Politicians will surely use this to increase control and restrain individual liberties one way or another : it's what they do. People can be manipulated because they are uneducated and unhappy. The idea of improving education, teaching humanism and philosophy, better healthcare especially for the mentally unstable seems a straightforward answer to this. Alas I dream : money first, who cares about a few human lifes?
We'll get some news, we'll get advertising between shocking images, we'll get bored and will move on. Nothing will change. Some people will argue against guns, some will say that answer to violence is to ensure that idiots can have guns (and we are all idiots, just thing the last time you did something stupid because of anger, alcohol, pain,...).
I'm just curious about one thing : when the French shooting happened, Donald Trump has been quoted saying : "Paris terror attacks would not have been as deadly if the French had GUNS". (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/639692/Donald-Trump-Paris-terror-attacks-not-as-deadly-if-the-French-had-GUNS)
The only thing I don't know is what lie will this horrible Trump narcissist say now ?
Who would be stupid enough to use FaceBook or any of its clones for personal stuff ? Why not post their pictures and their lives in the newspaper while they are at it ? (And they must not fail to advertise when they are abroad). This is to be used only for bland avatars, left rotting in the wind after a few days/weeks, with all advertising blocked.
Microsoft is mostly evil, always has been, and after their Xbox1 E3 presentation, nobody should expect chivalrous behaviour from them. Users thought they got a special offer (or not), got a trinked for their inconvenience, that's small money. (Although, I wonder if some of the buyers have paid for something, like a console, to specifically take advantage of this offer, but I disgress).
EA destroyed game souls. If you remember what happened to Westwood, Bullfrog, Origin Systems... and their games. EA is still the prime evil and if he had to have a runner-up, it would be Ubisoft. I find Uplay to be even more obnoxious that Origin. (Not that I bought any of their games for years)
On a trip around Japan, I had some hardware issue with an 64GB SD card that simply died on me. Since I bough two of these (original and backup) I tried to make a copy on a (new) third one. The plan was to use an iPad (4?) and the (expensive) thunderbolt sd-card adapter. I was able to read the pictures from the card, but to my surpise, it was not possible to write the pictures back on the backup. Read-only ? How braindead is that ? I took a mental note never buy an apple device myself, and managed to do what I wanted with the help of a Raspberry Pi (Total price, about the same of the useless adapter)
And don't get me started with the convoluted way you need to go though to export pictures.
This is wrong. Muslims are getting criticized a lot in Europe, there is no problem doing that there. We are not infected by the SJW... yet. But try to even joke about Jews and you are in a world of trouble. The humorist/provocateur Dieudonné is a good example of this. Not that the guy is a saint, but when he say horrors about Christians or Muslims and see people smile or laugh; when he says horrors about Jews nobody smiles anymore. He got his shows censored and forbidden. Can you imagine that in a country supposed to be "free" ?
If you are speaking about the French president, his name is "Hollande" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande) As for religion, like many European he was raised Catholic. He is now an atheist.
As many among you, I plan to buy a VR set in the next few months. The choice between the brands was kind of difficult. Thanks to this, it just became one brand easier. So, thanks, I guess...
It's not about cancer. There are many other ways to be harmful to our continued existence.
OGMs that are unable to produce offsprings are very dangerous for the world, and by that I mean humans. If something goes wrong, we are potentially in big trouble.
_ We need diversity, so a plant do not go the way of the banana of the 50s (and soon, it seems, the current one).
_ If the developper goes belly-up (for any financial, technical, catastrophic reason), the farms cannot produce anymore (starvation)
_ OGMs should be produced in the country/region they are used, for what I believe are obvious strategical reasons. They become a kind of weapon (no production or production of "nasty" strain).
_ If OGMs spread through "normal" cultures, they could infect farms with their copyrighted dead genes, reducing (killing?) the crops and making the already difficult work of farmers even harder.
As for the seeds that do not die in a fixed number of generations, it should be forbidden to lawer-up against farmers having OGM'ed productions. It feels wrong to copyright life. Besides : life evoles, so there are probably a lot of changes at the DNA level between a OGMed seed and its surviving next generation (disclaimer: I'm not a biologist),
Open and Free DNS ? I believe you underestimate the problem.
There is no need for an alternative for DNS. The only need is for an alternative TLD or a parallel ROOT : DNS itself is easy.
At home I had some issues with an ISP doing funky redirections on DNS. I ended up buying an ARM box (Odroid, Raspberry,...) and simply setup a validating/caching nameserver. This of course could be setup on one's desktop computer.
If I want to add rules for a.whatever I easily can. I only need to have the zone somewhere. Either edited "by hand" on the machine, either downloaded from some data server (http, ftp,...) either loaded from an authoritative nameserver (probably the easiest as nobody in his right mind blocks 53).
It would have to be set on multiple servers around the world, from a known v4 and v6. list of IPs. It also should be a secure zone to avoid tampering. Between NSEC & NSEC3 the choice amounts as how easy it would be to enumerate the content of the zone.
Making this a package/installer for less technically-minded users isn't a challenge.
And now comes the Open and Free : the "only" real problem to solve here would be fair/decentralized management. And yes, this is a biggie. There are no good rules (it always involve challenge of ownership at some point and in the real world : laws, rules and lawyers). A few ideas come to mind. For example, something involving a PGP chain of trust authenticating zones/configurations. I simply don't think they would work in the end.
The current "monopoly" requires a lot work from teams of technical operators, developers, lawyers and, yes, politicians. It's hard to put it a fault because protection of for what may be construed as criminal activity is not its chief concern.
In my humble opinion there are two realistic choices: using a TLD that has no reason to comply to laws of another country, or changing the law of said country.
PS: thank you so much Slashdot to make me spend 20 minutes to find that the acronym that covers NSEC and SEC3 was lame. Yet another reason to forget you exist.
When I was till a student, waiting for a teacher in a lab, I stumbled upon a paper that was showing the changes in the brain with the usage of a cell phone. Three measurements where showing a cut before, while and after the use of a GSM (I don't recall all the details, it was 15 years ago). It was clear there was an increase in temperature slowly decreasing after use.
In the same period of time, there was this student that was always on the phone. He ended up with a patch of grey hair just around where he put the phone.
I've briefly known that antenna communication amateur in his sixties that told me he stopped because most of the other amateurs he knew got leukemia (because of the power of the antennas ). That one is not about GSM but about the "non-ionizing radiation is OK" I've seen on other reporting of the study.
So you'll forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical about the message "GSM is safe" because a study shows no (significant) increase over background noise of brain cancer.
Since when can you know the gender of a seller on e-bay ? Ah yes : it seems it's possible to advertise your gender (and not lie about it ?). I didn't know. Then again I only care about reputation and the pristine state of what I'm buying. (Is it just me ?)
The title would be reason enough to discard the article. If it was "Women get less money for their items" it would already have a bad smell.
How do you compare items sold in eBay ? It's either shops, either second hand stuff in various states. Did the study found sellers for the exact same product in the same general state ?
It suggests (and "found") men would describe the article differently. But, maybe the descriptions are actually accurate ? (yes, I actually read the article) It says the users seem to be accurate at guessing the sex of the seller from his nickname about 56% of the time! (What ? You mean like if there was 50% chances to guess it wrong ?) And goes on about unconscious gender bias. (And me thinking it was simply basic heads/tails statistics)
And this heap of dung "findings" is presented as "because they are women". If all the above had the modicum of credibility, one could expect a title in the vein of "on eBay, women suck at sales". Not very politically correct but since when feelings are relevant presenting data ?
But the title starts with "Even", implying a trend. (Do you feel the rot?) And, naturally, it's repeating that old lie about women earning less. Going up to finding a 0.80 on the dollar close to the usual 0.79 (or so) repeated by the lie. This casts yet more doubt on the "study". (If it was still needed) Who said "bias" ? Who said "doctored numbers" ? Who said "agenda" ?
I just looked-up the first writer (Tamar Kricheli-Katz) on google and was not too surprised it's a woman with a page on "The Clayman institute for gender research" where you can find equally illuminating studies. Still, I thought it was funny (and a bit sad also).
And this gets published in a "science" magazine, then reported on the news for nerds. Is this the worthless "social science" I heard about ?
What's up next ? "We actually use 9% of our brain, not 10 as previously believed (by other morons)" ? Oh, wait, don't tell me. I know : "Everything is sexist" ?
That sounds like nonsense isn't it ? SHA1(data) is a constant for a given "data" MD5(data) is a (different) constant for a given "data"
SHA1(MD5(data)) is thus SHA1 of a constant which gives you exactly zilch in term of improvement of (in)security. At least it is not worse.
Trying to improve on a "broken" cryptography function by combining simply does not work, especially if the theory is not well understood. For an example, applying two different cryptographic functions after each other on some data ( f(g(data)) ) could, in theory, give you back the original data. It's always safer to simply use the next, theoreticians-approved, well-proven, algorithm.
People have been saying a lot of things. Now there is a concrete drive. Steam is the biggest shop. SteamOS is their gaming system and it's a Linux If it picks up it's a strong money incentive for developers, as any traditional console would be. If you take into account a lot of AAA games are already developped for a Unix/openGL system (PS4) I don't think luck will be much of a factor.
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An insult only says something about the person telling it.
The target has to have quite a fragile ego to give any care about it.
Unless, maybe,f it's the truth. But then, is it still called an insult ?
BMW are considered expensive cars in Europe in general.
And it used to be for good reasons : there is no contest between the driving pleasure of even a small one against, say, an Audi and of course the more popular VW. It was feeling like sliding on silk at full power but with an incredible grip on the road. The price of the "low range" is about the same as the "high range" or other brands.
Used to because for the last few years it's going down fast, at least for the "smaller" models, They are removing the traction for the 1 and 2 (or how to kill the image of a brand) and having changed recently : the engine lost some punch.
How did we switch to speaking about cars ? Oh, right.
If AS owners were filtering the traffic in and out, it would reduce this kind of attacks.
By filtering I mean that if a packet goes out, it has to originate from an IP of the AS; and if a packet goes in, it cannot come from an IP on the inside.
This would effectively anihilate a type of DDOS I will not describe here for obvious reasons.
But AFAIK, the infrastructure cost is not worth it ... yet ?
First off : I would consider a $30 metal pin or a $1000 toilet paper sheet expensive. This is a stupid piece of hardware worth about 10 EUR, but since it's Apple it costs closer to 50EUR here. So yes : expensive. Not that it is relevant but if you must know around the Hanami, a good hotel room cost about 200EUR/day and the meal typically from 50EUR up to 250EUR. The thing is : they are worth it.
Second: for being able to write back : http://www.apple.com/shop/ques...
Thanks for the product reference, but now I've got the linux/arm box way. Easy, light, small, and I can do whatever I want with it.
This is a tragedy, and this is the world we are living in now. Politicians will surely use this to increase control and restrain individual liberties one way or another : it's what they do.
People can be manipulated because they are uneducated and unhappy. The idea of improving education, teaching humanism and philosophy, better healthcare especially for the mentally unstable seems a straightforward answer to this. Alas I dream : money first, who cares about a few human lifes?
We'll get some news, we'll get advertising between shocking images, we'll get bored and will move on. Nothing will change. Some people will argue against guns, some will say that answer to violence is to ensure that idiots can have guns (and we are all idiots, just thing the last time you did something stupid because of anger, alcohol, pain, ...).
I'm just curious about one thing : when the French shooting happened, Donald Trump has been quoted saying : "Paris terror attacks would not have been as deadly if the French had GUNS". (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/639692/Donald-Trump-Paris-terror-attacks-not-as-deadly-if-the-French-had-GUNS)
The only thing I don't know is what lie will this horrible Trump narcissist say now ?
Who would be stupid enough to use FaceBook or any of its clones for personal stuff ? Why not post their pictures and their lives in the newspaper while they are at it ? (And they must not fail to advertise when they are abroad).
This is to be used only for bland avatars, left rotting in the wind after a few days/weeks, with all advertising blocked.
It does not compare.
Microsoft is mostly evil, always has been, and after their Xbox1 E3 presentation, nobody should expect chivalrous behaviour from them. Users thought they got a special offer (or not), got a trinked for their inconvenience, that's small money. (Although, I wonder if some of the buyers have paid for something, like a console, to specifically take advantage of this offer, but I disgress).
EA destroyed game souls. If you remember what happened to Westwood, Bullfrog, Origin Systems ... and their games.
EA is still the prime evil and if he had to have a runner-up, it would be Ubisoft. I find Uplay to be even more obnoxious that Origin. (Not that I bought any of their games for years)
Exactly.
On a trip around Japan, I had some hardware issue with an 64GB SD card that simply died on me.
Since I bough two of these (original and backup) I tried to make a copy on a (new) third one.
The plan was to use an iPad (4?) and the (expensive) thunderbolt sd-card adapter.
I was able to read the pictures from the card, but to my surpise, it was not possible to write the pictures back on the backup. Read-only ? How braindead is that ? I took a mental note never buy an apple device myself, and managed to do what I wanted with the help of a Raspberry Pi (Total price, about the same of the useless adapter)
And don't get me started with the convoluted way you need to go though to export pictures.
This is wrong. Muslims are getting criticized a lot in Europe, there is no problem doing that there. We are not infected by the SJW ... yet.
But try to even joke about Jews and you are in a world of trouble. The humorist/provocateur Dieudonné is a good example of this. Not that the guy is a saint, but when he say horrors about Christians or Muslims and see people smile or laugh; when he says horrors about Jews nobody smiles anymore. He got his shows censored and forbidden. Can you imagine that in a country supposed to be "free" ?
Insightful, I don't know. But if I had mod points I would +1 Funny ^_^
If you are speaking about the French president, his name is "Hollande" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Hollande)
As for religion, like many European he was raised Catholic. He is now an atheist.
How many North Corean people will die because of this ?
Or is the crazyness not to that level yet ?
Very informative, thank you. :)
As many among you, I plan to buy a VR set in the next few months. ...
The choice between the brands was kind of difficult.
Thanks to this, it just became one brand easier.
So, thanks, I guess
It's not about cancer. There are many other ways to be harmful to our continued existence.
OGMs that are unable to produce offsprings are very dangerous for the world, and by that I mean humans.
If something goes wrong, we are potentially in big trouble.
_ We need diversity, so a plant do not go the way of the banana of the 50s (and soon, it seems, the current one).
_ If the developper goes belly-up (for any financial, technical, catastrophic reason), the farms cannot produce anymore (starvation)
_ OGMs should be produced in the country/region they are used, for what I believe are obvious strategical reasons. They become a kind of weapon (no production or production of "nasty" strain).
_ If OGMs spread through "normal" cultures, they could infect farms with their copyrighted dead genes, reducing (killing?) the crops and making the already difficult work of farmers even harder.
As for the seeds that do not die in a fixed number of generations, it should be forbidden to lawer-up against farmers having OGM'ed productions. It feels wrong to copyright life. Besides : life evoles, so there are probably a lot of changes at the DNA level between a OGMed seed and its surviving next generation (disclaimer: I'm not a biologist),
Open and Free DNS ? I believe you underestimate the problem.
There is no need for an alternative for DNS.
The only need is for an alternative TLD or a parallel ROOT : DNS itself is easy.
At home I had some issues with an ISP doing funky redirections on DNS. ...) and simply setup a validating/caching nameserver. This of course could be setup on one's desktop computer.
I ended up buying an ARM box (Odroid, Raspberry,
If I want to add rules for a .whatever I easily can. I only need to have the zone somewhere. Either edited "by hand" on the machine, either downloaded from some data server (http, ftp, ...) either loaded from an authoritative nameserver (probably the easiest as nobody in his right mind blocks 53).
It would have to be set on multiple servers around the world, from a known v4 and v6. list of IPs.
It also should be a secure zone to avoid tampering. Between NSEC & NSEC3 the choice amounts as how easy it would be to enumerate the content of the zone.
Making this a package/installer for less technically-minded users isn't a challenge.
And now comes the Open and Free : the "only" real problem to solve here would be fair/decentralized management. And yes, this is a biggie. There are no good rules (it always involve challenge of ownership at some point and in the real world : laws, rules and lawyers).
A few ideas come to mind. For example, something involving a PGP chain of trust authenticating zones/configurations. I simply don't think they would work in the end.
The current "monopoly" requires a lot work from teams of technical operators, developers, lawyers and, yes, politicians.
It's hard to put it a fault because protection of for what may be construed as criminal activity is not its chief concern.
In my humble opinion there are two realistic choices: using a TLD that has no reason to comply to laws of another country, or changing the law of said country.
PS: thank you so much Slashdot to make me spend 20 minutes to find that the acronym that covers NSEC and SEC3 was lame. Yet another reason to forget you exist.
Much being the operative word.
When I was till a student, waiting for a teacher in a lab, I stumbled upon a paper that was showing the changes in the brain with the usage of a cell phone.
Three measurements where showing a cut before, while and after the use of a GSM (I don't recall all the details, it was 15 years ago). It was clear there was an increase in temperature slowly decreasing after use.
In the same period of time, there was this student that was always on the phone. He ended up with a patch of grey hair just around where he put the phone.
I've briefly known that antenna communication amateur in his sixties that told me he stopped because most of the other amateurs he knew got leukemia (because of the power of the antennas ). That one is not about GSM but about the "non-ionizing radiation is OK" I've seen on other reporting of the study.
So you'll forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical about the message "GSM is safe" because a study shows no (significant) increase over background noise of brain cancer.
Nobody believed a word of it ^_^
Let's dumb down the general level ?
No thank you.
Instead of making knowledge easier students should be pushed to learn to learn, train their brain, the most they can.
Replace "advertisers" by "rapists" and "consumers" by "victims" or "bystanders" (your choice).
That's how I understand the article.
Don't worry, the article is not scientific at all either.
Since when can you know the gender of a seller on e-bay ? Ah yes : it seems it's possible to advertise your gender (and not lie about it ?). I didn't know. Then again I only care about reputation and the pristine state of what I'm buying. (Is it just me ?)
The title would be reason enough to discard the article.
If it was "Women get less money for their items" it would already have a bad smell.
How do you compare items sold in eBay ? It's either shops, either second hand stuff in various states.
Did the study found sellers for the exact same product in the same general state ?
It suggests (and "found") men would describe the article differently. But, maybe the descriptions are actually accurate ? (yes, I actually read the article)
It says the users seem to be accurate at guessing the sex of the seller from his nickname about 56% of the time! (What ? You mean like if there was 50% chances to guess it wrong ?) And goes on about unconscious gender bias. (And me thinking it was simply basic heads/tails statistics)
And this heap of dung "findings" is presented as "because they are women".
If all the above had the modicum of credibility, one could expect a title in the vein of "on eBay, women suck at sales". Not very politically correct but since when feelings are relevant presenting data ?
But the title starts with "Even", implying a trend. (Do you feel the rot?) And, naturally, it's repeating that old lie about women earning less. Going up to finding a 0.80 on the dollar close to the usual 0.79 (or so) repeated by the lie. This casts yet more doubt on the "study". (If it was still needed)
Who said "bias" ? Who said "doctored numbers" ? Who said "agenda" ?
I just looked-up the first writer (Tamar Kricheli-Katz) on google and was not too surprised it's a woman with a page on "The Clayman institute for gender research" where you can find equally illuminating studies. Still, I thought it was funny (and a bit sad also).
And this gets published in a "science" magazine, then reported on the news for nerds. Is this the worthless "social science" I heard about ?
What's up next ? "We actually use 9% of our brain, not 10 as previously believed (by other morons)" ?
Oh, wait, don't tell me. I know : "Everything is sexist" ?
That sounds like nonsense isn't it ?
SHA1(data) is a constant for a given "data"
MD5(data) is a (different) constant for a given "data"
SHA1(MD5(data)) is thus SHA1 of a constant which gives you exactly zilch in term of improvement of (in)security. At least it is not worse.
Trying to improve on a "broken" cryptography function by combining simply does not work, especially if the theory is not well understood.
For an example, applying two different cryptographic functions after each other on some data ( f(g(data)) ) could, in theory, give you back the original data.
It's always safer to simply use the next, theoreticians-approved, well-proven, algorithm.
People have been saying a lot of things.
Now there is a concrete drive.
Steam is the biggest shop. SteamOS is their gaming system and it's a Linux
If it picks up it's a strong money incentive for developers, as any traditional console would be.
If you take into account a lot of AAA games are already developped for a Unix/openGL system (PS4) I don't think luck will be much of a factor.