As long as you keep it encrypted with a sufficiently strong key, is it really any different from using "one-and-only strong password for many sites"?
Yes.
When using one-strong-password for many sites you can't verify the security measures used to protect that password at any given site. They could be storing your password in plain text for all you know. Once one is compromised and linked to your personal information, that could potentially be used by an attacker to access other sites you use.
By using a keyring where only you have access to its password and how it's being treated (ie. not on some remote website), you avoid that problem.
The statement by Artifex is NOT an additional requirement. It is merely restating the existing requirements of the GPL licence.
Please take a few minutes and actually read the GPL...
GPL v2.0 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
2c. You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
I agree. If we as a society are ever to overcome racial biases and discrimination, this is the attitude we need to have. A race-neutral attitude... Is that really so hard?
Agreed. Those were my thoughts as well. Stallman's insight to see what was coming and draft the GPL has contributed immeasurably to the freedom and variety in the current software landscape. I honestly think it was a stroke of genius to use Copyright law itself in such a way as to create a code base that cannot be bought-out/subverted by corporations. Stallman had the vision to make it possible.
OK... Just to be clear, the space elevator is designed to get you out PAST geosynchronous orbit. The space platform at the top of the cable must be beyond geosynchronous in order to hold the cable up. So, you'll already have escape velocity when you reach the top platform and if you exit the platform, you'd go flying off into space rather than falling back to earth.
It sounds like you don't have much practical experience using telescopes either.;)
The Rayleigh equation you state is for the theoretical *MINIMUM* resolvable angle based on aperture size but if you think that's all there is to telescope optics, you probably haven't had experience using a wide range of telescopes. I've used home-ground 10" refractors that have MUCH better resolving power than other commercial 14" scopes.
Size matters, but so do a lot of other factors that ultimately determine a scope's actual resolving power.
In common parlance, uploading means you are sending data and downloading means you are receiving data. There is no other definition, common or otherwise that is correct.
The initiator does come into play when speaking of proper usage.
If someone uploads some data to my ftp server. In my experience, it is NOT common (or even proper IMHO) to say that I downloaded that data. Rather one might say that the server received an upload of the data.
If I ever heard anyone say that an ftp server had downloaded data from them, I'd definitely consider them a newbie.;)
... they are openly trying to suggest mankind is mostly a bunch of morons.
Um... I hate to break it to you, but mankind IS mostly a bunch of morons.:-)...However, as you imply, there is a very small percentage of mankind that are the great minds that have put us where we are today.
People in the future might get a clue and manage nuclear power correctly instead. The reason this 'waste' is dangerous is because of the available energy it possesses. It still has over 90% of its energy producing capability and we're burying it!
It the future it'll be re-processed and used in breeder reactors until only short-half-lived products remain! Those won't be a danger for tens of thousands of years.
...Unless we have an Idiocracy develop (might be probable considering the way TV is heading, and our current government's managing skills).
As a side note, the levels at which radiation is first considered 'dangerous' by the EPA, NRC, etc is ridiculously low and is another political/money-grubbing issue. The LNT was a stopgap that was never meant to be realistic, but now it's being used as a way to get billions for cleaning up radiation levels that would be safe to EAT! (Note I'm not talking about the high-level stuff here)
If the clocks differ by 1 ppm then you still have an extra second of samples every 20.8 seconds.
Ouch! That's some bad math. Should be "a single extra SAMPLE every 20.8 seconds"
To be off by an extra second of samples it would take a MILLION seconds @1ppm, or 11.5 days!
If the clocks differ by 1ppm then one clock would be at 48KHz and the other would be at 48000.05 Hz! It would take 20.8 seconds before they were off by one SINGLE sample. Let alone 1 second worth of samples. Just omitting the extra sample entirely would be totally unnoticeable by the best listener.
Both teams could be on the RED team...
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What's interesting is that since it's an online computer game, it could allow you to pick ANY color for your team, regardless of what color the other team wanted or even members of your own team.
Internally, the computer would just have teams A and B, but the computer could display for you your team wearing whatever colors/name you chose and show the other team wearing some other color.
You could have a game where everyone was on the RED team. And the OTHER guys were always 'shown' as a different color.
Wow... kind of reminds me of my first special relativity class. "No, YOUR clocks are slower". "No yours are...";)
I visited the LBT last fall and it seemed pretty large to me. The base of the building is about 5 stories high and the top part that houses the telescope and rotates is 10 stories high. It's a great tour.
Yes, there were ultimatums and sanctions in place before the country was invaded. There was more process to it than just, well, its Tuesday so lets invade....*throws a dart on a map*....Uzbekistan Sure, like "Show us your WMDs or else we will invade". Never mind that they didn't actually have any WMDs and repeatedly told the US as much.
How would you react to an ultimatum that was impossible to comply with? I do agree that there was more process than throwing a dart, but unfortunately the American public is not privy to the real process or the true end goals.
if I ever buy a 500-gig HD, when I put (2) of them together I want an ACTUAL TERABYTE OF STORAGE, not 900-odd Gigabytes!!
Um... if you want a terabyte when you put them together, you better start with two 512 Gig hard drives instead.;)
Personally, I'm used to and prefer kB == 1024bytes and MB == 1024kB etc. because that was their ORIGINAL meaning. Those quantities were never used as even powers of ten until the marketers of hard drives started marketing using these terms.
Try it yourself. Open MS Word in one window, copy or type in a paragraph or three. Copy the same text to an OOo Writer window. Run the word count function in both apps, and compare. Pitiful. And even worse if your sample text includes any CJK text.
I just tried this using the first paragraph from your post and found that they did report different numbers of words, but that Microsoft Office was counting some punctuation (the slashes and double hyphens) as words while OpenOffice didn't.
Personally I don't consider "/ / --" to be three words.
Maybe they should have different modes for how to count, but IMHO OpenOffice is the one that got this correct.
I haven't tried OOo 2.3 with CJK text, but at least for English, IMHO it's Word 2003 that has the bug and OOo that is more accurate.
How does a theatre know if you're video taping all of the movie or just part of it?
Well, for starters they could have ASKED to see her camera which would have showed only 20 seconds near the END of the movie.
I would think an experienced theatre manager would have more common sense, but maybe common sense is relative. Blowing this out of proportion like he did seems like real bad PR to me.
This is all old news. If you read the full forum discussionj of this, they've had a software only hack to read the volume IDs for quite some time. No desoldering/flashing required.
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Sorry, that may be true, but it's not the placebo effect. Try looking up the origin of the effect to gain a little insight. :)
Not the kind of thing you're going to do in your kitchen!
What!? You obviously have never seen my kitchen. ;)
No. Actually, that was Virtual Impossibility == Finite Improbability.
5$/week * 35 subscribers * 15 weeks = 9000$ ??
I'm guessing they're quoting 'yearly' figures: 35 * $5/wk * 52weeks = $9100
A person could litterally use the password abc123 and never be bruteforced
You've got to be kidding me. Just what do you think "Brute Force" means anyway, and how do you imagine such an attack is carried out?
Hint: during such an attack, there has to be SOME mechanism for determining success of each attempt.
As long as you keep it encrypted with a sufficiently strong key, is it really any different from using "one-and-only strong password for many sites"?
Yes.
When using one-strong-password for many sites you can't verify the security measures used to protect that password at any given site. They could be storing your password in plain text for all you know. Once one is compromised and linked to your personal information, that could potentially be used by an attacker to access other sites you use.
By using a keyring where only you have access to its password and how it's being treated (ie. not on some remote website), you avoid that problem.
So how many of these 11 arc-minutes squares are there in the sky? ...
Well, some quick math gives about 25.7 million of this size region to cover the entire sky. (assuming I didn't miss a decimal point
As far as number of galaxies in the photo, I'll leave that up to you to count. ;)
The statement by Artifex is NOT an additional requirement. It is merely restating the existing requirements of the GPL licence.
Please take a few minutes and actually read the GPL...
GPL v2.0 TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 2c. You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
I agree. If we as a society are ever to overcome racial biases and discrimination, this is the attitude we need to have. A race-neutral attitude... Is that really so hard?
Agreed. Those were my thoughts as well. Stallman's insight to see what was coming and draft the GPL has contributed immeasurably to the freedom and variety in the current software landscape. I honestly think it was a stroke of genius to use Copyright law itself in such a way as to create a code base that cannot be bought-out/subverted by corporations. Stallman had the vision to make it possible.
The new equation aims to develop a single index for habitability based on variables totally unknown to anyone within many orders of magnitude.
Wow! Sounds very useful... </sarcasm>
Except that it's hard to polarize a projection when the polarization filter is rotating.
Ever heard of circular polarization filters? Orientation is NOT an issue. :)
OK... Just to be clear, the space elevator is designed to get you out PAST geosynchronous orbit. The space platform at the top of the cable must be beyond geosynchronous in order to hold the cable up. So, you'll already have escape velocity when you reach the top platform and if you exit the platform, you'd go flying off into space rather than falling back to earth.
It sounds like you don't have much practical experience using telescopes either. ;)
The Rayleigh equation you state is for the theoretical *MINIMUM* resolvable angle based on aperture size but if you think that's all there is to telescope optics, you probably haven't had experience using a wide range of telescopes. I've used home-ground 10" refractors that have MUCH better resolving power than other commercial 14" scopes.
Size matters, but so do a lot of other factors that ultimately determine a scope's actual resolving power.
The initiator does come into play when speaking of proper usage.
If someone uploads some data to my ftp server. In my experience, it is NOT common (or even proper IMHO) to say that I downloaded that data. Rather one might say that the server received an upload of the data.
If I ever heard anyone say that an ftp server had downloaded data from them, I'd definitely consider them a newbie. ;)
... they are openly trying to suggest mankind is mostly a bunch of morons.
Um... I hate to break it to you, but mankind IS mostly a bunch of morons. :-) ...However, as you imply, there is a very small percentage of mankind that are the great minds that have put us where we are today.
It the future it'll be re-processed and used in breeder reactors until only short-half-lived products remain! Those won't be a danger for tens of thousands of years.
As a side note, the levels at which radiation is first considered 'dangerous' by the EPA, NRC, etc is ridiculously low and is another political/money-grubbing issue. The LNT was a stopgap that was never meant to be realistic, but now it's being used as a way to get billions for cleaning up radiation levels that would be safe to EAT! (Note I'm not talking about the high-level stuff here)
If the clocks differ by 1 ppm then you still have an extra second of samples every 20.8 seconds.
Ouch! That's some bad math. Should be "a single extra SAMPLE every 20.8 seconds"
To be off by an extra second of samples it would take a MILLION seconds @1ppm, or 11.5 days!
If the clocks differ by 1ppm then one clock would be at 48KHz and the other would be at 48000.05 Hz! It would take 20.8 seconds before they were off by one SINGLE sample. Let alone 1 second worth of samples. Just omitting the extra sample entirely would be totally unnoticeable by the best listener.
Internally, the computer would just have teams A and B, but the computer could display for you your team wearing whatever colors/name you chose and show the other team wearing some other color.
You could have a game where everyone was on the RED team. And the OTHER guys were always 'shown' as a different color.
Wow... kind of reminds me of my first special relativity class. "No, YOUR clocks are slower". "No yours are..." ;)
I visited the LBT last fall and it seemed pretty large to me. The base of the building is about 5 stories high and the top part that houses the telescope and rotates is 10 stories high. It's a great tour.
How would you react to an ultimatum that was impossible to comply with? I do agree that there was more process than throwing a dart, but unfortunately the American public is not privy to the real process or the true end goals.
Um... if you want a terabyte when you put them together, you better start with two 512 Gig hard drives instead. ;)
Personally, I'm used to and prefer kB == 1024bytes and MB == 1024kB etc. because that was their ORIGINAL meaning. Those quantities were never used as even powers of ten until the marketers of hard drives started marketing using these terms.
I just tried this using the first paragraph from your post and found that they did report different numbers of words, but that Microsoft Office was counting some punctuation (the slashes and double hyphens) as words while OpenOffice didn't.
Personally I don't consider "/ / --" to be three words.
Maybe they should have different modes for how to count, but IMHO OpenOffice is the one that got this correct. I haven't tried OOo 2.3 with CJK text, but at least for English, IMHO it's Word 2003 that has the bug and OOo that is more accurate.
Well, for starters they could have ASKED to see her camera which would have showed only 20 seconds near the END of the movie.
I would think an experienced theatre manager would have more common sense, but maybe common sense is relative. Blowing this out of proportion like he did seems like real bad PR to me.
This is all old news. If you read the full forum discussionj of this, they've had a software only hack to read the volume IDs for quite some time. No desoldering/flashing required.