Is that really a model for security? Heartbleed is a huge vulnerability that was inserted, by accident, more than two years ago, without getting fixed. The code was written by somebody way better at coding than me. It was reviewed by somebody way better at coding than me. Surely it was looked over by a number of people way better at coding than me.
Is it really hard to believe that an intentional backdoor by an expert could get past this review process? A review process that couldn't even stop an accidental buffer over-read?
At the very least, the CIA/KGB/Pinkerton Detective Agency must have looked at Heartbleed lasting in the wild for more than two years and thought "very interesting - we can do that, but even better."
Linux takes contributions from a basically anonymous group of international contributors. It seems to me extremely naive to believe that there are no intentional backdoors built into Linux by every single spy agency,
I was referring to PRC stock markets. Of course you know Hong Kong isn't PRC proper, so why make a long post about it? It will possibly be PRC in 30 years.
The summary seems to think that Alibaba filing for an IPO in the US means that it must be opening operations in the US...actually it just filed in IPO in the US because it's a very large company and China's stock markets are sort of a joke, not really set up for a company of Alibaba's size...
You're already easily able to use alibaba.com in the US. It's kind of cool especially if you want to open your own stall at a flea market. I used taobao.com in China, it's like eBay with better consumer protection. Competing with eBay would take a massive marketing push to build up an entirely new business, basically. What makes taobao.com interesting is all the smaller specialty shops, there's a million logistical reasons why them selling directly from these Chinese shops to US customers would be a total nightmare, the language barrier being the most obvious.
The US is a big country. Maybe you were in the countryside for some reason. In the Bay Area I get 50Mbps/s for cheap, my 4G is fast & cheap. I can download "Game of Thrones" in just a couple minutes. I don't really see much room for improvement.
Right, fucking Democrats, always pushing the police into buying surplus military vehicles...god damn it I have family in Berkeley and they're always going on about the police needing to buy like a diesel submarine or maybe an Apache helicopter.
Just press ctrl+shift+F7 to print! Word was about 300 times more usable than Wordperfect, even the DOS versions nobody used. It just led in market share, & people didn't want to lose file compatibility.
Oh no, a movie manipulated our emotions! That means it must be terrible! I prefer movies that don't engage our emotions in any way. Like it's just a bunch of facts and figures dealing with a subject I don't really care about.
What the fuck? ET is a great movie. You were just a stupid kid. It was Steven Spielberg at his prime, it's the only one of his movies I think you could argue was better than Raiders of the Lost Ark.
John Kerry said diplomacy was simpler then than it is today - considering his experience as a soldier and a prominent protestor in the Cold War, and now as a top diplomat, he might know what he's talking about.
On a similar note, I saw Star Wars and I'm really disappointed that we still don't have hyperdrives or laser guns or even translator droids! It's been all of 35 years!
It doesn't *have* to be done. There's a gigantic number of seeds which are commercially available already, there's many government and private organizations safeguarding these seeds, and the amount of patented seeds is comparatively insignificant. In addition, modern farming operations don't save seeds for future crops.
In fact, the basic idea behind Monsanto controlling the seed supply has been standard industry practice for 50+ years. Most vegetables commercially grown are F1 hybrids. In 1960, 99% of corn grown was an F1 hybrid. If you buy a Better Boy Tomato, an F1 hybrid also popular for home gardening, there will be little variation between the plants grown. However, the seed from these plants will be unusable. Peas and beans pollinate their own flowers, so for these plants such a strategy isn't practical. However, that doesn't mean the death of the species - even if most commercially grown tomatoes are F1 hybrids where the seeds are unusable, of course there's still a million variety of tomatoes which may be planted from seed (with a little care) and are easily available.
This is a symbolic marketing/propaganda move against Monsanto. Monsanto developed a soybean that is invulnerable to the safe, cheap, and environmentally benign herbicide Round-Up. They sell seeds with a contract stipulation that the seeds not be re-sown (again, normal farming practice is to buy all seed anyway), and won a lawsuit against a farmer who intentionally grow a Monsanto crop without paying Monsanto- he would buy the Monsanto crop for the first planting of the year, and use saved seed for the second planting of the year.
This group imagines that it's hard to find seeds that aren't patented, or at least that it will be in the future, to make some point that you shouldn't be allowed to patent seeds because think of how horrible it would be if you needed to deal with Monsanto to plant a carrot. However, if that future does come to pass, this wouldn't really help - you'd need something with the infrastructure to supply huge amounts of seeds, not just supply fun little seed packets to home gardeners.
Right now, the three most pirated games on piratebay are goatsimulator, Minecraft, and Sims 3. Goat Simulator is $10 off steam (very easy), Sims3 is $20 off steam (very easy) Minecraft is any easy purchase as well. What do you want, it's $1 and they mail the DVD to your house on a silk pillowcase?
People are willing to spend $2000 on a gaming PC and then will pirate a $30 piece of software, so obviously these are people who are willing to pay for games on some level...the idea that nobody pirates as an alternative to buying strikes me as ludicrous, because the people who are most into piracy today are the sort of people who spent all their money on computer games a decade ago.
And it's believable to me that if all "Game of Thrones" torrents became unavailable, more than a few people would be motivated to subscribe to HBO.
I know Slashdotters are a bunch of nerds who got bullied hard and now want their revenge. But what did the judge do wrong? Recording private conversations is illegal and frankly I am glad that I can have a private conversation and not have it used against me in a court of law.
So if the evidence against the bullies was illegally gathered, it simply shouldn't be usable. It's like, if the cops beat up a suspect and he confesses to a murder, I agree that also shouldn't be used against the subject. Because it's important not to have cops beat people up to get confessions, just as it's important that we don't live in some surveillance state where everything we say is recorded and then used against us.
I'm sure the school is anti-bullying and would have offered some help if the boy had directly asked for it. However they don't go along with setting up wiretaps, and good for them.
Freedombox has a wikipedia page, and seems to want to place Facebooking/email/all your communications on an independent private server that only let you communicate with other people who have freedomboxes.
Maybe if they can put this on a machine that costs $5 and requires 5 minutes (or less) of setup it will actually go somewhere. As it is, it's like being the only person you know to own a videophone.
The best graphics are generally on PC games that were originally developed for consoles. Computer-only releases are generally MMORPGs or indie games, which tend to have worse graphics.
Film: Not popularized by porn TV: Not popularized by porn 8mm movies: Not popularized by porn VCRs: Not popularized by Porn Beta: Yes it also had porn just as much as VHS Video Games Machines: Not popularized by porn DVDs: Not popularized by porn Online Streaming Video: Not popularized by porn Blu-Rays: Not popularized by porn Bittorrent pirating: Not popularized by porn Streaming Devices: Not popularized by porn (are there even any legit porn channels, at all, for any device?)
Porn was basically the only thing to use the multi-angle feature on DVDs, so there is that.
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Is that really a model for security? Heartbleed is a huge vulnerability that was inserted, by accident, more than two years ago, without getting fixed. The code was written by somebody way better at coding than me. It was reviewed by somebody way better at coding than me. Surely it was looked over by a number of people way better at coding than me.
Is it really hard to believe that an intentional backdoor by an expert could get past this review process? A review process that couldn't even stop an accidental buffer over-read?
At the very least, the CIA/KGB/Pinkerton Detective Agency must have looked at Heartbleed lasting in the wild for more than two years and thought "very interesting - we can do that, but even better."
Linux takes contributions from a basically anonymous group of international contributors. It seems to me extremely naive to believe that there are no intentional backdoors built into Linux by every single spy agency,
So yes, the internet is dying
What the fuck? Everybody uses the internet, all the time. That's like saying electricity is going out of fashion.
I was referring to PRC stock markets. Of course you know Hong Kong isn't PRC proper, so why make a long post about it? It will possibly be PRC in 30 years.
The summary seems to think that Alibaba filing for an IPO in the US means that it must be opening operations in the US...actually it just filed in IPO in the US because it's a very large company and China's stock markets are sort of a joke, not really set up for a company of Alibaba's size...
You're already easily able to use alibaba.com in the US. It's kind of cool especially if you want to open your own stall at a flea market. I used taobao.com in China, it's like eBay with better consumer protection. Competing with eBay would take a massive marketing push to build up an entirely new business, basically. What makes taobao.com interesting is all the smaller specialty shops, there's a million logistical reasons why them selling directly from these Chinese shops to US customers would be a total nightmare, the language barrier being the most obvious.
The US is a big country. Maybe you were in the countryside for some reason. In the Bay Area I get 50Mbps/s for cheap, my 4G is fast & cheap. I can download "Game of Thrones" in just a couple minutes. I don't really see much room for improvement.
What did I miss?
An article before the word "bad."
Right, fucking Democrats, always pushing the police into buying surplus military vehicles...god damn it I have family in Berkeley and they're always going on about the police needing to buy like a diesel submarine or maybe an Apache helicopter.
What the hell are you talking about? That certainly didn't get mentioned in the original trilogy, which is all that counts.
Just press ctrl+shift+F7 to print! Word was about 300 times more usable than Wordperfect, even the DOS versions nobody used. It just led in market share, & people didn't want to lose file compatibility.
Oh no, a movie manipulated our emotions! That means it must be terrible! I prefer movies that don't engage our emotions in any way. Like it's just a bunch of facts and figures dealing with a subject I don't really care about.
What the fuck? ET is a great movie. You were just a stupid kid. It was Steven Spielberg at his prime, it's the only one of his movies I think you could argue was better than Raiders of the Lost Ark.
John Kerry said diplomacy was simpler then than it is today - considering his experience as a soldier and a prominent protestor in the Cold War, and now as a top diplomat, he might know what he's talking about.
On a similar note, I saw Star Wars and I'm really disappointed that we still don't have hyperdrives or laser guns or even translator droids! It's been all of 35 years!
Before ME2, the last game worth my time Bioware produced came out in 2003.
DA:O was amazing, Jade Empire and Mass Effect 1 were very good as well.
It doesn't *have* to be done. There's a gigantic number of seeds which are commercially available already, there's many government and private organizations safeguarding these seeds, and the amount of patented seeds is comparatively insignificant. In addition, modern farming operations don't save seeds for future crops.
In fact, the basic idea behind Monsanto controlling the seed supply has been standard industry practice for 50+ years. Most vegetables commercially grown are F1 hybrids. In 1960, 99% of corn grown was an F1 hybrid. If you buy a Better Boy Tomato, an F1 hybrid also popular for home gardening, there will be little variation between the plants grown. However, the seed from these plants will be unusable. Peas and beans pollinate their own flowers, so for these plants such a strategy isn't practical. However, that doesn't mean the death of the species - even if most commercially grown tomatoes are F1 hybrids where the seeds are unusable, of course there's still a million variety of tomatoes which may be planted from seed (with a little care) and are easily available.
This is a symbolic marketing/propaganda move against Monsanto. Monsanto developed a soybean that is invulnerable to the safe, cheap, and environmentally benign herbicide Round-Up. They sell seeds with a contract stipulation that the seeds not be re-sown (again, normal farming practice is to buy all seed anyway), and won a lawsuit against a farmer who intentionally grow a Monsanto crop without paying Monsanto- he would buy the Monsanto crop for the first planting of the year, and use saved seed for the second planting of the year.
This group imagines that it's hard to find seeds that aren't patented, or at least that it will be in the future, to make some point that you shouldn't be allowed to patent seeds because think of how horrible it would be if you needed to deal with Monsanto to plant a carrot. However, if that future does come to pass, this wouldn't really help - you'd need something with the infrastructure to supply huge amounts of seeds, not just supply fun little seed packets to home gardeners.
Right now, the three most pirated games on piratebay are goatsimulator, Minecraft, and Sims 3. Goat Simulator is $10 off steam (very easy), Sims3 is $20 off steam (very easy) Minecraft is any easy purchase as well. What do you want, it's $1 and they mail the DVD to your house on a silk pillowcase?
People are willing to spend $2000 on a gaming PC and then will pirate a $30 piece of software, so obviously these are people who are willing to pay for games on some level...the idea that nobody pirates as an alternative to buying strikes me as ludicrous, because the people who are most into piracy today are the sort of people who spent all their money on computer games a decade ago.
And it's believable to me that if all "Game of Thrones" torrents became unavailable, more than a few people would be motivated to subscribe to HBO.
I thought Windows 8.1 was the defecto standard.
I know Slashdotters are a bunch of nerds who got bullied hard and now want their revenge. But what did the judge do wrong? Recording private conversations is illegal and frankly I am glad that I can have a private conversation and not have it used against me in a court of law.
So if the evidence against the bullies was illegally gathered, it simply shouldn't be usable. It's like, if the cops beat up a suspect and he confesses to a murder, I agree that also shouldn't be used against the subject. Because it's important not to have cops beat people up to get confessions, just as it's important that we don't live in some surveillance state where everything we say is recorded and then used against us.
I'm sure the school is anti-bullying and would have offered some help if the boy had directly asked for it. However they don't go along with setting up wiretaps, and good for them.
Freedombox has a wikipedia page, and seems to want to place Facebooking/email/all your communications on an independent private server that only let you communicate with other people who have freedomboxes.
Maybe if they can put this on a machine that costs $5 and requires 5 minutes (or less) of setup it will actually go somewhere. As it is, it's like being the only person you know to own a videophone.
Plenty of futurists imagined watches that functioned as one-way radios or one-way TVs.
Short of a two-way radio, I can't think of anybody imagining a wristwatch would be a great way to create content.
The best graphics are generally on PC games that were originally developed for consoles. Computer-only releases are generally MMORPGs or indie games, which tend to have worse graphics.
Film: Not popularized by porn
TV: Not popularized by porn
8mm movies: Not popularized by porn
VCRs: Not popularized by Porn
Beta: Yes it also had porn just as much as VHS
Video Games Machines: Not popularized by porn
DVDs: Not popularized by porn
Online Streaming Video: Not popularized by porn
Blu-Rays: Not popularized by porn
Bittorrent pirating: Not popularized by porn
Streaming Devices: Not popularized by porn (are there even any legit porn channels, at all, for any device?)
Porn was basically the only thing to use the multi-angle feature on DVDs, so there is that.
You stay away from my nanna