There is a BIG problem in the state of New South Wales with criminals getting hold of guns and using them as part of crimes. Violent criminal gangs in particular are causing major issues (and shooting each other up all the time).
The new law has nothing to do with wanting to put the 3D printing genie back in the bottle and everything to do with making it harder for these criminal gangs to get more guns to shoot people with.
In addition to banning 3D printed guns, the law also increases the penalty for tampering with serial numbers and identification marks on firearm barrels, extends the penalty to other gun parts (not just barrels). It also does some stuff to penalties for possession of such parts. And it strengthens the penalties for using, supplying, acquiring or possessing a stolen gun (or gun parts).
Oh and the ban doesn't just cover 3D printer plans, it covers plans for use with milling machines and other things too (i.e. any digital plans that can be used to make guns or gun parts are covered)
A lot of the cars will get the seat-belt inspection as part of their next regular maintanence/servicing. So the actual cost to do the check wont be anywhere near as high (even less if you include all the cars who's owners wont bother with the recall at all)
We dont need the ISIS oil, crude oil prices are at record lows and there is more than enough supply from all the many many other places we can get oil from.
And if you do it right (e.g. covert ops and precision attacks rather than large scale bombing) you can take out the infrastructure and stopping the exports without harming the oil wells directly.
Why dont they just add "oil infrastructure" to the list of targets they are taking out in the IS controlled territory? Drop a few bombs on whatever infrastructure IS are using get their oil out to these middlemen. If IS cant get the oil out, they wont be able to sell it and will be cut off from a big source of financing.
We should be completly replacing fossil fuels of all kinds in electricity generation. Replacing power plants that run on coal with power plants that run on coal gas is like re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, it doesn't do a thing to stop climate change.
We should be replacing the fossil fuel with modern safe generation IV nuclear reactor designs (that includes breeder reactors and spent-fuel reprocessing to reduce the amount of waste that we have to store at the end of it all), solar thermal plants, geothermal plants, biofuel plants and tidal/wave plants. All of these technologies are more than just blueprints or thought bubbles in some lab somewhere, all of them can generate baseload power 24/7/365 and all of them are better for the planet than anything running on fossil fuels.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c... seems to be a good way to stop the update from installing by mistake whilst still allowing you to have Windows Update set to "automatically install everything" Saying no to kb3035583 (and setting it to "hide this and dont install it") also helps stop Windows 10 from being installed.
Why is it that Google (a company that no doubt employs some very smart people) cant fix google.com (one of the most popular sites on the entire internet) so it gets an A grade from this SSL test? YouTube (another Google asset) also gets a similarly poor grade.
In fact every Google-owned domain I tested ALL get the B grade. Does Google not have any people on staff who understand SSL security?
Except when its a distributed attack and its comming from infected machines belonging to clueless users all over the world its not possible to black hole all the traffic...
No, this only affects SSL certificates using the SHA-1 hash. Git isn't using the SHA-1 hash in a way where generating a collision would have security risks so there is no reason why anything has to change for Git.
The problem with nets is that the area you need to cover is massive.
I did some measuring on Google Maps of the US federal prison outside Atlanta (just as an example) and the space inside the main fence is equivilant to over 21 NFL football fields in area.
Now I dont know how much netting costs these days but even at the bulk buy cheap pricing the government would be getting it at, 1214732.80sq ft worth of netting is a LOT of money.
Having airport screening under the control over the government instead of the airports or airlines is good. Spending all this money on expensive kit that doesn't actually pick up weapons any better than the old kit did is not. (forcing other countries to spend money on the same expensive kit or be shut out of the global air transport system is even worse)
The reason many people hate systemd so much is that it goes against the core philosophy of Unix as originally thought up by Ken Thompson all those years ago.
The philosophy of having programs that do one thing and one thing only but do it right.
There is no reason you cant have a modern init system (including the ability to do the things you get out of that systemd config file and to do parallel startup of software and other things) that is JUST an init system and doesn't try to take over su, logs, inetd, ntpd, dbus and all that other stuff.
Used to be the same in Australia too where each state had its own government owned TAB agency that was generally the only legal off-track betting agency. And the money from the TAB went back into racing.
Of course the state governments were stupid and sold off these state TAB agencies to companies like Tatts and Tabcorp (all except Western Australia where both the TAB and lotto agency are still government owned).
The monopoly is gone though with online betting options from the companies that own the TAB, online betting options from the companies that own the casinos, online betting options imported from the UK and others.
The amount of money King spends on TV ads around here is MASSIVE. Candy Crush Saga. Farm Heroes Saga. Pet Rescue Saga. Candy Crush Soda Saga. Bubble Witch. The list goes on and all of them have had very flashy (and to someone who doesn't play their crap, annoying) TV ads running on high rotation.
Naah, the kiwis would have been too busy partying after their win in some kind of sporting contest (I am a little fuzzy on the details but aparently whatever sport it was is the national game over there and its considered un-kiwi to not follow the relavent national team)
Here in Australia, a TV show called "Good Game SP" (which does gaming news, game reviews and other gaming related stuff aimed at kids) did a series of segments using the Scratch environment to build a game. I thought it was a great way to introduce kids to programming in a simple way (with things like if statements, loops etc) but without (as far as I can tell) teaching any of the bad habits you might get from something like BASIC.
The LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit also seems like a great way to teach the simpler programming concepts without teaching bad habits (coincidentally both LEGO Mindstorms and Scratch came out of the MIT Media Lab)
We have what is effectively a 2 party system too and both parties are equally willing to rubber stamp anything the big media companies want (like the recent bill allowing media companies to force ISPs to block pirate websites)
Until such time as Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft and the other online ad networks can gaurantee that their ads are free of malware and nasties, I will keep blocking.
The Mythbusters have gotten to play with (or use in their experiments) some cool stuff over the years. Things like a Boeing 747. And guns of every shape and size from tiny little pocket pistols through to massive mini-guns that wouldn't look out of place on a helicopter gunship. Oh and they had some of the best F/A-18 Hornet pilots in the world fly as low and fast as the military (and FAA) would let them in order to test if a sonic boom could break glass.
Not to mention that they have probably used every kind of explosive known to man short of a nuclear bomb (and I am sure if it was possible they would have used one of those too...)
The right answer is to stop connecting important medical devices like IV pumps to insecure networks. If someone actually has to be standing next to the device in order to hack it, the risk of hacks goes way down.
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There is a BIG problem in the state of New South Wales with criminals getting hold of guns and using them as part of crimes.
Violent criminal gangs in particular are causing major issues (and shooting each other up all the time).
The new law has nothing to do with wanting to put the 3D printing genie back in the bottle and everything to do with making it harder for these criminal gangs to get more guns to shoot people with.
In addition to banning 3D printed guns, the law also increases the penalty for tampering with serial numbers and identification marks on firearm barrels, extends the penalty to other gun parts (not just barrels). It also does some stuff to penalties for possession of such parts. And it strengthens the penalties for using, supplying, acquiring or possessing a stolen gun (or gun parts).
Oh and the ban doesn't just cover 3D printer plans, it covers plans for use with milling machines and other things too (i.e. any digital plans that can be used to make guns or gun parts are covered)
A lot of the cars will get the seat-belt inspection as part of their next regular maintanence/servicing. So the actual cost to do the check wont be anywhere near as high (even less if you include all the cars who's owners wont bother with the recall at all)
We dont need the ISIS oil, crude oil prices are at record lows and there is more than enough supply from all the many many other places we can get oil from.
And if you do it right (e.g. covert ops and precision attacks rather than large scale bombing) you can take out the infrastructure and stopping the exports without harming the oil wells directly.
Why dont they just add "oil infrastructure" to the list of targets they are taking out in the IS controlled territory? Drop a few bombs on whatever infrastructure IS are using get their oil out to these middlemen. If IS cant get the oil out, they wont be able to sell it and will be cut off from a big source of financing.
Ummm, Cisco doesn't run Linux on their routers, they run IOS (no, not iOS from Apple) which is something Cisco invented themselves.
We should be completly replacing fossil fuels of all kinds in electricity generation. Replacing power plants that run on coal with power plants that run on coal gas is like re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, it doesn't do a thing to stop climate change.
We should be replacing the fossil fuel with modern safe generation IV nuclear reactor designs (that includes breeder reactors and spent-fuel reprocessing to reduce the amount of waste that we have to store at the end of it all), solar thermal plants, geothermal plants, biofuel plants and tidal/wave plants. All of these technologies are more than just blueprints or thought bubbles in some lab somewhere, all of them can generate baseload power 24/7/365 and all of them are better for the planet than anything running on fossil fuels.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c... seems to be a good way to stop the update from installing by mistake whilst still allowing you to have Windows Update set to "automatically install everything"
Saying no to kb3035583 (and setting it to "hide this and dont install it") also helps stop Windows 10 from being installed.
Despite Google saying otherwise, it is still impossible to comment on YouTube without first creating a Google+ account.
Why is it that Google (a company that no doubt employs some very smart people) cant fix google.com (one of the most popular sites on the entire internet) so it gets an A grade from this SSL test?
YouTube (another Google asset) also gets a similarly poor grade.
In fact every Google-owned domain I tested ALL get the B grade. Does Google not have any people on staff who understand SSL security?
Except when its a distributed attack and its comming from infected machines belonging to clueless users all over the world its not possible to black hole all the traffic...
No, this only affects SSL certificates using the SHA-1 hash. Git isn't using the SHA-1 hash in a way where generating a collision would have security risks so there is no reason why anything has to change for Git.
The problem with nets is that the area you need to cover is massive.
I did some measuring on Google Maps of the US federal prison outside Atlanta (just as an example) and the space inside the main fence is equivilant to over 21 NFL football fields in area.
Now I dont know how much netting costs these days but even at the bulk buy cheap pricing the government would be getting it at, 1214732.80sq ft worth of netting is a LOT of money.
Having airport screening under the control over the government instead of the airports or airlines is good. Spending all this money on expensive kit that doesn't actually pick up weapons any better than the old kit did is not. (forcing other countries to spend money on the same expensive kit or be shut out of the global air transport system is even worse)
The reason many people hate systemd so much is that it goes against the core philosophy of Unix as originally thought up by Ken Thompson all those years ago.
The philosophy of having programs that do one thing and one thing only but do it right.
There is no reason you cant have a modern init system (including the ability to do the things you get out of that systemd config file and to do parallel startup of software and other things) that is JUST an init system and doesn't try to take over su, logs, inetd, ntpd, dbus and all that other stuff.
Used to be the same in Australia too where each state had its own government owned TAB agency that was generally the only legal off-track betting agency. And the money from the TAB went back into racing.
Of course the state governments were stupid and sold off these state TAB agencies to companies like Tatts and Tabcorp (all except Western Australia where both the TAB and lotto agency are still government owned).
The monopoly is gone though with online betting options from the companies that own the TAB, online betting options from the companies that own the casinos, online betting options imported from the UK and others.
Considering that Activision have gone from DLC to microtransactions for the latest Guitar Hero game, they obviously have experience in that area...
The amount of money King spends on TV ads around here is MASSIVE. Candy Crush Saga. Farm Heroes Saga. Pet Rescue Saga. Candy Crush Soda Saga. Bubble Witch. The list goes on and all of them have had very flashy (and to someone who doesn't play their crap, annoying) TV ads running on high rotation.
Naah, the kiwis would have been too busy partying after their win in some kind of sporting contest (I am a little fuzzy on the details but aparently whatever sport it was is the national game over there and its considered un-kiwi to not follow the relavent national team)
Here in Australia, a TV show called "Good Game SP" (which does gaming news, game reviews and other gaming related stuff aimed at kids) did a series of segments using the Scratch environment to build a game. I thought it was a great way to introduce kids to programming in a simple way (with things like if statements, loops etc) but without (as far as I can tell) teaching any of the bad habits you might get from something like BASIC.
The LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit also seems like a great way to teach the simpler programming concepts without teaching bad habits (coincidentally both LEGO Mindstorms and Scratch came out of the MIT Media Lab)
We have what is effectively a 2 party system too and both parties are equally willing to rubber stamp anything the big media companies want (like the recent bill allowing media companies to force ISPs to block pirate websites)
Which is exactly why their final experiment should culminate in an even bigger explosion.
Until such time as Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft and the other online ad networks can gaurantee that their ads are free of malware and nasties, I will keep blocking.
The Mythbusters have gotten to play with (or use in their experiments) some cool stuff over the years. Things like a Boeing 747. And guns of every shape and size from tiny little pocket pistols through to massive mini-guns that wouldn't look out of place on a helicopter gunship. Oh and they had some of the best F/A-18 Hornet pilots in the world fly as low and fast as the military (and FAA) would let them in order to test if a sonic boom could break glass.
Not to mention that they have probably used every kind of explosive known to man short of a nuclear bomb (and I am sure if it was possible they would have used one of those too...)
+1 to this, comments should explain why the code does what it does, not just what it does.
The right answer is to stop connecting important medical devices like IV pumps to insecure networks. If someone actually has to be standing next to the device in order to hack it, the risk of hacks goes way down.