It doesn't matter if the first node is not legit. First, you can deny that you originated the traffic, as you can be relying packets for other Tor nodes. Second, the route changes every 10 minutes.
Moot, because at this point you're already proven to have software which can be used to violate Chinese censorship policies.
I could be wrong, but in a case like this, the Tor system might actually be worse; normal Tor operation says that you only have to trust that most of the nodes are legit onion routers. However, in the case of China, I believe that you need to trust that the first node is legit. Why? Because if that first node is the Chinese embassy or another node owned by China, and your IP is coming from a Chinese netblock, then your secrecy is blown.
At least with this system, you're encouraged to form a relationship of trust with the node you're communicating with.
Because aether is a fundamentally different concept from dark matter. aether was presumed to be the fabric of space itself--a massless medium for the purpose of transmitting forces across "empty" space. On the other hand, dark matter is simply theorized as matter which doesn't interact with photons.
Possibly the greatest space flight sim of all time. Freespace 2 was the sequel to the phenomenal Descent: Freespace. The sequel surpassed the original giving you an incredible feel for the massive scale of the ships involved (sometimes many kilometers long, while you flew in a fighter or bomber only a few meters long), and had absolutely incredible dogfighting. Tons of varied weapons, and extremely diverse gameplay; you've got escort missions, stealth reconnaisance, bombing runs, search and rescue, etc.
The game gets complicated with all the different tasks it requires you to do (switch the targetted subsystem to destroy critical points of capital ships, commanding squadmates to attack specific targets, targetting bombs, etc.) but flows into it smoothly with a very forgiving learning curve.
This is an all-around fantastic game. It's showing its age, but still looks excellent graphically.
...nothing, except Serenity and the entire crew (sans Wash and Book). They already hinted at a possible continuation with the bounty hunter admitting that the Alliance government lost some support but was only slightly weakend, and they don't exactly take kindly to those who've helped do that.
If Stargate can pull a really good Season 9 completely from nowhere when every plotline is closed and sealed shut, with half the cast gone, then Firefly could easily have another excellent season.
A couple of people have pointed out that the larger the sample size, the less chance there is to attribute a meaningful difference to a situation that is actually a random fluctuation. That may be true, but I believe the point the parent is trying to make is that one of the key advantages of statistical modeling is that you can accurately model very large groups by studying very small samples of that group.
Right, but you're confusing the means and the end. The reason we use smaller samples and apply statistics to them is because collecting data about massive numbers of samples is difficult. If Google can collect data for one billion webpages with little more effort than ten thousand, then they should. Statistics is only a means towards the end of collecting data for large groups, by extrapolating the values of large groups from a relatively small sample size. If, however, we have access to the entire dataset, then there's no point in testing a subset of it.
Maybe an easy to use version of "system restore" would give people the nerve to try some things, and if whatever they try fails: just push some reset button and a default OS magically respawns. Fear of doing something wrong again after a bad experience with computers stops a lot of people from learning more about them.
This is self-defeating. I agree, in that all I know about computers today I learned by seriously screwing shit up, and figuring out how to fix it. But providing a "reset button" only encourages people to hit the button and go back to the default, "safe" configuration. No experimenting, no toying around. Something broken? Reset it back.
So how exactly do they "steal" the loot at the end? Either set it to a master looter, or do random rolls. 90% of the stuff in dungeons is Bind on Pickup anyway, so it's not like they're going to steal random crap they can sell to a vendor for two gold. And if they do manage to "steal" the stuff on the final boss, whoop-de-fucking-doo; that's one guy out of the ten or so in each dungeon, and they usually don't even have the good stuff anyway.
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I'm going to paraphrase your post, and we'll see if you can catch on to what most of the other readers here are probably noticing.
Perl is great! I didn't understand the concepts being taught to me in my Data Structures class, until I found Perl. Perl actually has things like hashes and lists built in, so I don't have to think about things on that level! That's when I went back to C++. I started trying to rewrite these data structures, but in the end I didn't actually have to! It turns out that these data structures were in the STL all along! I'm going to go back and tell my professor about that; he probably didn't know, or else why would he have made us write the things in the first place?
The market does not solve every problem. The market has failed to provide affordable health care for every American...
Straw man. The market has also "failed" to provide every American with affordable flying cars and a personal staff of servants to tend to their every need.
The market has, however, provided adequate medical care for those who have anything meagerly above poverty level income. Government intrusion into the system has caused the rise in healthcare costs; in most states, the coverage available to you is mandated by the government. So instead of getting to pick and choose which kinds of services you're covered on, you have to pay a blanket cost to cover the fact that the insurance company has to provide coverage for psychiatric evaluations, abortions, marriage counseling, drug abuse, alcoholism, cosmetic surgery, weight loss, wigs, Christian Science practitioners, etc.
...and most of all - too many little buttons that aren't important. And the start menu thing that loads up in most versions of XWindows (etc) is more unorganized than a 1st Graders bakpack at the end of a school year.
Nah, tactically speaking, I'd assume that it's best to release a mega-worm about a week and a half to two weeks before patch day. The reason why is simple: if you release it too early and it's bad enough, Microsoft will break stride and release a patch early. On the other hand, if the time to develop a patch and test it (I'm guessing around a week to a week and a half, depending on the difficulty of the patch) is within four or five days of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft is politically better off waiting until Tuesday to release th epatch anyways, for fear of a large media buzz over the emergency patch.
Alternatively, two or three days before Patch Tuesday might also be prudent. It's highly unlikely Microsoft would be able to release a fix by that Tuesday (in many cases, they might not even recognize the true scope of an exploit during that time), so you get a week or so without the patch, and Micrsoft needs to issue an emergency patch anyway.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish, I suppose. The first option gives you the best chance of infecting more systems. On the other hand, the second option has a far better chance of getting egg on the face of Microsoft. Then again, it might have a backwards effect, increasing people's trust of Microsoft in that they broke protocol and offered an emergency patch.
I spent the first half hour figuring out how to get something other 640x480 resolution...
Desktop->Preferences->Screen Resolution
...then about 10 minutes or so looking for how to turn off windows animations...
What, exactly, are windows animations? I've yet to see anything animate in GNOME.
And this is the award winning, "User Friendly" distro? Treating your users like idiots, but making them have "guru" skills just to play an mp3 is "friendly"?
Applications->Sound & Video->Music Player
No offense, but how in the hell are these "hard" tasks to accomplish, that require "guru" level knowledge? Don't mistake familiarity with your old DE for complexity in a new DE.
No. I've talked to people, and often your "fixes" are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were "too confusing to the user" That's _not_ like any other open source project I know about.
Wasn't it Antoine de Saint-Exupery who said,
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.
Actually, WMV9 is a surprisingly good format. It gives both a significant compression ratio while still preserving a larger amount of the original image fidelity than other codecs.
A friend of mine recently worked for a company doing digital signage, and part of the job involved viewing multiple codecs at varying rates of compression. By his accounts, WMV9 was clearly the best (and this guy is a pretty hardcore Linux/OSX user).
What makes Debian different from any other distribution in this regard? Further, what makes a Debian maintainer any more likely to inject their own backdoor code as opposed to the upstream maintainer? The entire point of open-source is that sometimes these things happen, but without the source, it's significantly harder to detect.
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I could be wrong, but in a case like this, the Tor system might actually be worse; normal Tor operation says that you only have to trust that most of the nodes are legit onion routers. However, in the case of China, I believe that you need to trust that the first node is legit. Why? Because if that first node is the Chinese embassy or another node owned by China, and your IP is coming from a Chinese netblock, then your secrecy is blown.
At least with this system, you're encouraged to form a relationship of trust with the node you're communicating with.
Because aether is a fundamentally different concept from dark matter. aether was presumed to be the fabric of space itself--a massless medium for the purpose of transmitting forces across "empty" space. On the other hand, dark matter is simply theorized as matter which doesn't interact with photons.
God, I know what you mean. I've played this game several dozen times, each time I have as much fun as the previous.
Possibly the greatest space flight sim of all time. Freespace 2 was the sequel to the phenomenal Descent: Freespace. The sequel surpassed the original giving you an incredible feel for the massive scale of the ships involved (sometimes many kilometers long, while you flew in a fighter or bomber only a few meters long), and had absolutely incredible dogfighting. Tons of varied weapons, and extremely diverse gameplay; you've got escort missions, stealth reconnaisance, bombing runs, search and rescue, etc.
The game gets complicated with all the different tasks it requires you to do (switch the targetted subsystem to destroy critical points of capital ships, commanding squadmates to attack specific targets, targetting bombs, etc.) but flows into it smoothly with a very forgiving learning curve.
This is an all-around fantastic game. It's showing its age, but still looks excellent graphically.
Yes, there's nothing at all</sarcasm>
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...nothing, except Serenity and the entire crew (sans Wash and Book). They already hinted at a possible continuation with the bounty hunter admitting that the Alliance government lost some support but was only slightly weakend, and they don't exactly take kindly to those who've helped do that.
If Stargate can pull a really good Season 9 completely from nowhere when every plotline is closed and sealed shut, with half the cast gone, then Firefly could easily have another excellent season.
Outrages. Yeah, I think we got it.
You're thinking from the perspective of someone who believes in evolution. They, sadly, aren't.
Clearly you have never been on one of these "first dates" :P
And this is coming from the guy who goes at least twice a week to play Crazies and Nightmares on the Exceed 2 machine.
So how exactly do they "steal" the loot at the end? Either set it to a master looter, or do random rolls. 90% of the stuff in dungeons is Bind on Pickup anyway, so it's not like they're going to steal random crap they can sell to a vendor for two gold. And if they do manage to "steal" the stuff on the final boss, whoop-de-fucking-doo; that's one guy out of the ten or so in each dungeon, and they usually don't even have the good stuff anyway.
I'm going to paraphrase your post, and we'll see if you can catch on to what most of the other readers here are probably noticing.
Straw man. The market has also "failed" to provide every American with affordable flying cars and a personal staff of servants to tend to their every need.
The market has, however, provided adequate medical care for those who have anything meagerly above poverty level income. Government intrusion into the system has caused the rise in healthcare costs; in most states, the coverage available to you is mandated by the government. So instead of getting to pick and choose which kinds of services you're covered on, you have to pay a blanket cost to cover the fact that the insurance company has to provide coverage for psychiatric evaluations, abortions, marriage counseling, drug abuse, alcoholism, cosmetic surgery, weight loss, wigs, Christian Science practitioners, etc.
Unfortunately, you'll never be able to prove your ownership and that someone else infringed on your copyrights at the same time.
Nah, tactically speaking, I'd assume that it's best to release a mega-worm about a week and a half to two weeks before patch day. The reason why is simple: if you release it too early and it's bad enough, Microsoft will break stride and release a patch early. On the other hand, if the time to develop a patch and test it (I'm guessing around a week to a week and a half, depending on the difficulty of the patch) is within four or five days of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft is politically better off waiting until Tuesday to release th epatch anyways, for fear of a large media buzz over the emergency patch.
Alternatively, two or three days before Patch Tuesday might also be prudent. It's highly unlikely Microsoft would be able to release a fix by that Tuesday (in many cases, they might not even recognize the true scope of an exploit during that time), so you get a week or so without the patch, and Micrsoft needs to issue an emergency patch anyway.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish, I suppose. The first option gives you the best chance of infecting more systems. On the other hand, the second option has a far better chance of getting egg on the face of Microsoft. Then again, it might have a backwards effect, increasing people's trust of Microsoft in that they broke protocol and offered an emergency patch.
Personally, I'd probably prefer the first option.
Actually, it's pretty easy to compress Mersenne primes. Due to their form (2^n - 1), their binary representation is a simple string of n 1's.
No offense, but how in the hell are these "hard" tasks to accomplish, that require "guru" level knowledge? Don't mistake familiarity with your old DE for complexity in a new DE.
Actually, WMV9 is a surprisingly good format. It gives both a significant compression ratio while still preserving a larger amount of the original image fidelity than other codecs.
A friend of mine recently worked for a company doing digital signage, and part of the job involved viewing multiple codecs at varying rates of compression. By his accounts, WMV9 was clearly the best (and this guy is a pretty hardcore Linux/OSX user).
What makes Debian different from any other distribution in this regard? Further, what makes a Debian maintainer any more likely to inject their own backdoor code as opposed to the upstream maintainer? The entire point of open-source is that sometimes these things happen, but without the source, it's significantly harder to detect.