Before you rush to post about how insecure Microsoft is, don't forget that your social security number and financial history were released in a hack of Linux / Apache / Struts.
Funny thing this wasn't a windows hack. FTA: "The group, variously called Morpho, Butterfly and Wild Neutron by security researchers elsewhere, exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees' Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
I mean this is/. so I think you already know the answer to your question. The vast majority of/. readers are technologically stuck in the 80's and 90's.
I'm sorry but was anyone ever assuming anything on Skype (or any other hosted IM platform, SMS platform, hosted email platform, etc) was really "private" to begin with?
Sorry, I had it in reverse. They detected the gaps in the light left from the Big Bang. Basically shadows of the gas particles. The lukewarm gas itself doesn't emit anything detectable. Put together a bunch of pictures of microscopic gaps and you can build up a shadow of a mass in the shape of a thread.
Which just means that aberglas didn't actually read the article or they would know this already. Got to love/.
The title says "matter" and whatever Dark Matter is it is most definitely matter so either the reference to "matter" is wrong or the 50% number is wrong because what is described is not the discovery of 50% of the missing matter in the universe, only 50% of the missing baryonic matter.
So what you are saying is that you didn't even bother to read the summary, much less the article or the actual papers linked in the article, and you are arguing the validity of all that based on the headline?
Neither the slashdot nor the linked article said "half the normal matter". That's why I linked the actual arrive paper.
That quote is straight from "the slashdot" so I don't know what slashdot you were reading but here is one from the paper's summary:
Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the local universe can account for only 10% of the baryon content inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background and from nuclear reactions in the early Universe. Locating the remaining 90% of baryons has been one of the major challenges in modern cosmology. Cosmological simulations predict that the 'missing baryons' are spread throughout filamentary structures in the cosmic web...
Dark matter was/is the explanation for the missing regular matter. Less missing regular matter, less dark matter.
The only data for dark matter is gravitational lensing in excess of what was accounted for by the previously known regular matter. All those numbers need to get run again in light of this discovery.
Science reporting sucks.
We suspect a certain amount of normal matter, and a certain amount of dark matter in the universe. All this study did was help confirm that we were right about the amount of normal matter out there. It has no effect, at all, on the amount of dark matter science thinks is out there as well. It didn't shift the totals one bit.
Yea I didn't realize reading comprehension around here was so bad. I mean I knew it wasn't great, but damn, this is needs a job coach to flip burgers bad.
So by half the matter in the universe, we are taking 2.0-2.3% tops.
This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.
This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far.
This paper is talking about the missing non-dark matter that the current models said should be there. I had nothing to do with dark matter, and the matter they found has no impact on the expected amount of dark matter in the universe.
Exactly what I was thinking. Who the hell lets inbound unsolicited connections into their network?
Way more people than anyone who knows better would believe. Just look at all of the security camera hacks from the past few years. Almost all of those involve people exposing their devices (like security cameras) to the internet via port forwarding so they can remotely access them. The same people who don't know to set a damn password (or reset the default) on those devices. All it usually takes is some port scanning or even just a little google-fu to find them.
Face it Microsoft, you absolutely suck at these "me too" offerings you keep doing.
Microsoft really should stick to their core competencies instead of endlessly trying to rip off other people's products.
Nobody wants these things from you, because you're terrible at them.
Microsoft was actually pretty early to the subscription music market with Zune Music Pass (which eventually morphed into Groove music), before most of the current major players had offering. But, it started out attached to the Zune so... yea.
"We have an unfortunate loop-hole in the law that allows conversion parts to be sold legally, as long as you do not posses the weapon they can be used to convert. "
That is not true either. Anything that can be used to convert a weapon to full-auto falls under the NFA and must be registered as well. A full-auto seer, for example is a trivial $2 part that now sells for $20k if properly registered.
Nope. You can buy a full auto kit for under $100. Seriously, just go search around for M16 full auto fire control group. For example, here is one for about $90: Fire Control Group Only
1- OEM M16 Full Auto Trigger
1- OEM Full Auto Hammer
1- OEM Full Auto Selector
1- OEM Full Auto Disconnector
1- OEM Auto Sear With Pin Set
From their FAQ:
Q: Are there any special requirements to purchase the F.A.lower receiver parts?Tax Stamp or Form 4 paperwork? Or is it just cash and order?
A: This is not a transferable item. Nothing is required to purchase it. Thank you
Was this answer helpful?
Trying to do more without increasing your people count. Eventually something has to give. You end up rushing people into jobs with the hope that they will learn on the job and the chiefs will make sure they know or learn what they need. The focus lately has been on being operational, with lower focus on training.
Throwing two small thing out is worse than reselling and reusing one big thing.
If the parts aren't replaceable you can't resell and reuse the big thing. You have to throw it out, lock stock & barrel.
What part of this are you not grasping?
Are you smoking crack? So if I can't upgrade my RAM I can't resell my laptop? Is that honestly the argument you are making? If you are trying to make it out that it can't be repaired, that's also false. There are plenty of 1st and 3rd party shops that can replace RAM and SSD on macbook and other non-socketed laptops. Guys like Louis Rossmann make a good living doing it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
Why you don't forget how to breathe.
Well at least you succeeded here, considering your obvious mental deficits.
When Reagan was negotiating the Machine Gun Ban of 1986, he refused to allow Congress to confiscate existing machine guns in circulation. So, existing machine guns were grandfathered in.
Yea I'd bet this wasn't one of those. Pre-ban full auto weapons go for quite a lot of money ($10K and up) and require a bunch of paperwork. Odds are this is an illegally converted semi-auto. We have an unfortunate loop-hole in the law that allows conversion parts to be sold legally, as long as you do not posses the weapon they can be used to convert. It requires some modification to the AR-15 lower but from what I understand it's not hard to do. Note that doing this, or even possessing both, is very illegal. I really don't get the purpose of allowing the parts to be sold at all. There is no real legit reason to purchase them unless you also own a registered M16.
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Before you rush to post about how insecure Microsoft is, don't forget that your social security number and financial history were released in a hack of Linux / Apache / Struts.
Funny thing this wasn't a windows hack. FTA: "The group, variously called Morpho, Butterfly and Wild Neutron by security researchers elsewhere, exploited a flaw in the Java programming language to penetrate employees' Apple Macintosh computers and then move to company networks"
This is all just propaganda.
Thank you for your insightful response and continued support comrade.
I've always found IMDB to be useless for recently released movies. It's too easy for fans/anti-fans to brigade the ratings on there.
And when will it be working on the iPhone?
Well considering it's only available on the iPhone X and that hasn't even been released yet....
I mean this is /. so I think you already know the answer to your question. The vast majority of /. readers are technologically stuck in the 80's and 90's.
It's currently optional.
Should I assume you are unfamiliar with the story about the camel getting its nose into the tent?
Should I also assume you have faith that even if it remained optional, it would never be activated as part of an update?
Thanks for letting me start my day wearing an "Isn't That Cute" smile.
Exactly! I mean they did it with Touch ID. It started out optional and now it's.... wait... still optional.
I'm sorry but was anyone ever assuming anything on Skype (or any other hosted IM platform, SMS platform, hosted email platform, etc) was really "private" to begin with?
Sorry, I had it in reverse. They detected the gaps in the light left from the Big Bang. Basically shadows of the gas particles. The lukewarm gas itself doesn't emit anything detectable. Put together a bunch of pictures of microscopic gaps and you can build up a shadow of a mass in the shape of a thread.
Which just means that aberglas didn't actually read the article or they would know this already. Got to love /.
The title says "matter" and whatever Dark Matter is it is most definitely matter so either the reference to "matter" is wrong or the 50% number is wrong because what is described is not the discovery of 50% of the missing matter in the universe, only 50% of the missing baryonic matter.
So what you are saying is that you didn't even bother to read the summary, much less the article or the actual papers linked in the article, and you are arguing the validity of all that based on the headline?
Neither the slashdot nor the linked article said "half the normal matter". That's why I linked the actual arrive paper.
That quote is straight from "the slashdot" so I don't know what slashdot you were reading but here is one from the paper's summary:
Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the local universe can account for only 10% of the baryon content inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background and from nuclear reactions in the early Universe. Locating the remaining 90% of baryons has been one of the major challenges in modern cosmology. Cosmological simulations predict that the 'missing baryons' are spread throughout filamentary structures in the cosmic web...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10378v1
We know there is a certain amount of total mass. We don't know how that breaks down.
This is incorrect.
And I stand by my statement about three peer-reviewed papers.
Well if you read to the bottom of TFA, there are links to two papers. So just need one more to shut you up then?
Dark matter was/is the explanation for the missing regular matter. Less missing regular matter, less dark matter.
The only data for dark matter is gravitational lensing in excess of what was accounted for by the previously known regular matter. All those numbers need to get run again in light of this discovery.
Science reporting sucks.
We suspect a certain amount of normal matter, and a certain amount of dark matter in the universe. All this study did was help confirm that we were right about the amount of normal matter out there. It has no effect, at all, on the amount of dark matter science thinks is out there as well. It didn't shift the totals one bit.
Nope, as this is not about dark matter at all.
Yea I didn't realize reading comprehension around here was so bad. I mean I knew it wasn't great, but damn, this is needs a job coach to flip burgers bad.
So by half the matter in the universe, we are taking 2.0-2.3% tops.
This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.
Summary never said it was about dark matter. It's clearly talking about the missing baryon matter.
This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe -- protons, neutrons and electrons -- unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space. You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be about twice as much ordinary matter out there, compared with what we have observed so far.
This paper is talking about the missing non-dark matter that the current models said should be there. I had nothing to do with dark matter, and the matter they found has no impact on the expected amount of dark matter in the universe.
Exactly what I was thinking. Who the hell lets inbound unsolicited connections into their network?
Way more people than anyone who knows better would believe. Just look at all of the security camera hacks from the past few years. Almost all of those involve people exposing their devices (like security cameras) to the internet via port forwarding so they can remotely access them. The same people who don't know to set a damn password (or reset the default) on those devices. All it usually takes is some port scanning or even just a little google-fu to find them.
Zune Music Pass turned into "Xbox Music" when THEN turned into "Groove".
So what you are saying is that it eventually morphed into Groove music. Thanks for clearing that up AC.
Face it Microsoft, you absolutely suck at these "me too" offerings you keep doing.
Microsoft really should stick to their core competencies instead of endlessly trying to rip off other people's products.
Nobody wants these things from you, because you're terrible at them.
Microsoft was actually pretty early to the subscription music market with Zune Music Pass (which eventually morphed into Groove music), before most of the current major players had offering. But, it started out attached to the Zune so... yea.
"We have an unfortunate loop-hole in the law that allows conversion parts to be sold legally, as long as you do not posses the weapon they can be used to convert. "
That is not true either. Anything that can be used to convert a weapon to full-auto falls under the NFA and must be registered as well. A full-auto seer, for example is a trivial $2 part that now sells for $20k if properly registered.
Nope. You can buy a full auto kit for under $100. Seriously, just go search around for M16 full auto fire control group. For example, here is one for about $90:
Fire Control Group Only
1- OEM M16 Full Auto Trigger
1- OEM Full Auto Hammer
1- OEM Full Auto Selector
1- OEM Full Auto Disconnector
1- OEM Auto Sear With Pin Set
From their FAQ:
Q: Are there any special requirements to purchase the F.A.lower receiver parts?Tax Stamp or Form 4 paperwork? Or is it just cash and order?
A: This is not a transferable item. Nothing is required to purchase it. Thank you Was this answer helpful?
Trying to do more without increasing your people count. Eventually something has to give. You end up rushing people into jobs with the hope that they will learn on the job and the chiefs will make sure they know or learn what they need. The focus lately has been on being operational, with lower focus on training.
How hard would it be for someone with access to a machine shop (and plans) to fabricate the necessary parts to convert semi-auto to fully automatic?
No idea, but it would be a lot harder than just buying them at a gun show and converting an existing AR15 lower.
If the parts aren't replaceable you can't resell and reuse the big thing. You have to throw it out, lock stock & barrel.
Are you smoking crack? So if I can't upgrade my RAM I can't resell my laptop? Is that honestly the argument you are making? If you are trying to make it out that it can't be repaired, that's also false. There are plenty of 1st and 3rd party shops that can replace RAM and SSD on macbook and other non-socketed laptops. Guys like Louis Rossmann make a good living doing it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
Why you don't forget how to breathe.
Well at least you succeeded here, considering your obvious mental deficits.
When Reagan was negotiating the Machine Gun Ban of 1986, he refused to allow Congress to confiscate existing machine guns in circulation. So, existing machine guns were grandfathered in.
Yea I'd bet this wasn't one of those. Pre-ban full auto weapons go for quite a lot of money ($10K and up) and require a bunch of paperwork. Odds are this is an illegally converted semi-auto. We have an unfortunate loop-hole in the law that allows conversion parts to be sold legally, as long as you do not posses the weapon they can be used to convert. It requires some modification to the AR-15 lower but from what I understand it's not hard to do. Note that doing this, or even possessing both, is very illegal. I really don't get the purpose of allowing the parts to be sold at all. There is no real legit reason to purchase them unless you also own a registered M16.