He's a nut and says crazy things, but I don't think he's a danger to himself or others. Thankfully we don't lock people up for believing crazy things just yet, otherwise probbably 30% of the population would be behind bars.
I don't know about your water, but mine contains chlorine, which I don't like the taste of. Sure, I could just fill water jugs and let them sit in the frig for a day and the chlorine would all evaporate, but I prefer the convienence of filtered water.
There's also the unknown factor of lead leached from solder in the plumbing. While it doesn't really keep me up at night worrying about the small possibility of lead, I have a slight preference to filtered water to eliminate this small risk.
I am deeply suspicious that Lance's chemo and related drugs somehow altered his body to make him much stronger;
Why would you even suggest this as a possibility? Do you have any evidence whatsoever to suggest this is even possible, or is this just pure and utter bullshit speculation on your part?
but for jamie to suggest "consensus seems to be that IBM would lose any court action" that is downright dirty without evidence to back that claim up.
Oh please, I guess people aren't entitled to opinions anymore. This is slashdot, not your lawyers office. There's nothing wrong with off-the-cuff remarks like that. Is Jamie purporting to be a lawyer or expert on this algorithm? No? Then it's just one guys opinion on slashdot, and we all know how much that's worth.
More like the US didn't (and doesn't) have state sponsored chess schools like the former Soviet Union did. If chess is such a great "purely intellectual pursuit", then why aren't all the great chess masters great geniuses and create wonderful things outside of chess? Chess may be a fun game and all, but all this connection between chess and "being intellectual" is just nonsense.
After four decades of space travel, you can count the currently operative interplanetary spacecraft with one hand, and the number of manned interplanetary spacecraft with Captain Hook's lost hand. That is pretty pathetic, if you really think about it.
Pathetic based on what? In what context are you judging space travel? Historically 40 years isn't a hell of a long time for a drastically new technology. Spacecraft aren't just a new form of a cart with different power sources (horse, steam engine, internal combustion engine, etc) it's an entirely different technology taking us into an entirely different and alien environment.
If this was what you meant by "well regulated", then ignore this rant; otherwise please explain what regulations did you mean, and why are they neccessary ?
There's a number of issues other than flaming death falling from the skies. Mostly they boil down to space junk, and pollution. Nasa put up Cassini with a radioactive power generator. All well and good, Nasa is pretty good about keeping that kind of thing safe. Private companies on the other hand are often willing to take far bigger risks where it only hurts the public. (e.g. Union Carbide in Bhopal India). Space junk could also be an even larger problem if anyone and everyone could put up a satelite, no questions asked.
Yah, this is exactly what I think when there's 2 probes on Mars, one orbiting Saturn, and one to land on Titan in December. Who's been more successful in space than Nasa? No one.
I don't have any problems with private space launch, as long as it's well regulated. I do have a problem with badmouthing of Nasa. They've been enormously successfull on a comparitively small amount of money. Just for comparisons sake, how many billions of dollars did it take to create Windows 2000?
That's the only instance where this is much of a security compromise, and it's still a pretty minor one. Reading any/all files is in itself a very large security breach. At that point you've severly compromised the privacy of your system.
Considering that people already have guessable passwords like "password" or their dogs name I'm not going to lose much sleep over this one.
If your password is under 8 characters and contains only lowercase letters and digits, you deserve to be cracked. If you use a proper password, then you have nothing to fear from this "service"
Why am I so vulnerable if I don't have > 8 character passwords? Only root can look at/etc/shadow, so I guess if you already have root, you could guess my password. Big deal. Root can do anything to the system+account anyway, so this isn't much of a security compromise
I don't exactly disagree with you, but I think you're being fatalistic. CACert hasn't made a great first impression, but that hardly means the whole thing is crap, and is going to fail. First impressions are important, but they aren't the be-all-end all of sucess or failure. I also don't think it's quite as bad as you make it out to be. There's a couple ambuguities, but the idea is solid enough.
If you really look at big errors made by big successful companies there's just a TON of them. In the field of CA's alone one of the big CA's issued a certificiate to someone claiming to be Microsoft that actually wasn't. Taken in context, a not-so-great website and a few ambiguities are really a minor issue.
I think you're right. The Nation estate has far more to lose than the Beeb. The Beeb and Dr. Who can survive quite easily without The Daleks (a sad omission of course), but the Nation estate can't do much with the Daleks without Dr. Who as an adversary.
Take at look at CACert's site. You'll find carelessness, spelling mistakes, pieces that have not been thought out.
Yah, it's not a very professional looking site. That's just how it works when you have a limited budget. I think your expectations and standards are a bit to high for an organization that just started. If they still have the same problems in 6 months, I'd be a little worried. It's ridiculous to exclude so many people from receiving certificates just because their bureaucrats are corrupt, and it's completely contrary to the transnational spirit of the Internet.
Whoa.. hold on their chief. Who ever said there would be one policy for identify verification for EVERYONE? If you live in a kleptocracy, gov. issued ID could be considered a joke and there would be other means to verify yourself. I'm sure (or at least I hope) that Verisign and Thawte have tackled this problem, there's no reason that CAcert can't do the same thing.
There's a big difference between sheltering your kids, and feeding them crap. If you don't shelter kids from the "evils" of the world they'll be much more able to deal with the real world.
I don't know much about contract law, but I do know that for a contract to be legal there must be something gained by both parties. I.E Orkut agrees not to develop social circle software (and Affinity gains a strategic advantage), and Affinity gives Orkut something in exchange.
Europe has cars with much higher compression ratios than the US because higher compression ratios give better fuel economy. Since gas is so much more expensive in Europe people are much more concerned about fuel economy.
As a result of the higher compression ratios you need higher octane fuel otherwise the fuel will self-ignite under the higher pressures. (Higher octane fuels are more difficult to ignite, and will tolerate the higher compression ratios).
In the US the only cars with high compression ratios are high performance cars, cars with massive engines, and a few expensive imports.
Some car models are designed to run on higher octane gas. These cars are mostly high-performance cars with high compression ratios. The vast majority though will get no benefit at all from higher octane gas (i.e. > 87)
But the landlord can tell you whatever he pleases, it's his house!
Absolutely false. Every state gives renters certain rights that cannot be taken away by a lease. Look them up here. As I said, it's the landlords house, but he gives up a certain amount of rights in exchange for rent.
Just like when you are on MY network you won't be running Kazaa!
Computer networks aren't property, so your analogy fails.
But if they own the house, I see no reason why they can't dictate who runs what in the house.
There's this new invention called Rent, where you take money and give up some of your rights. When you rent someone an apartment you have no right to tell the renters if they can eat cheese inside the apartment (even though you own the apartment). There's restrictions of course, (like not allowing pets, etc). Massport could possibly ban WiFi equipment entirely, but they can't say who can and cannot use the spectrum.
Toothpaste is a commodity and there's very little difference among the major name brands. As long as it's ADA approved I bet any sane dentist couldn't care less which toothpaste you chose.
As far as the "Athlon vs Celeron" discussion goes, people will buy on price 9 times out of 10, and don't even have any idea what Celeron or AMD IS, much less the difference between them. The problem is your summary made the Celeron look like it was a viable choice for anyone that isn't brainwashed into branding. It's quite clear the Celeron is a POS (and I don't mean point of sale). Try to remember this is Slashdot, where the majority of readers understand benchmarks and value. Hiding behing what the majority of people look for just doesn't cut it, since slashdot is NOT the majority of people.
This Celeron may be able to compete with AMD's offerings based on more then name brand alone
Ummm.. what? The fastest $117 2.8ghz celeron got the shit kicked out of it by a lowly $55 Athlon 2400XP. Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips? I guess if you really want SSE3 or the only game you play is Quake3 it's a good deal, but otherwise there's no point.
It irritates me even more when someone like Bill Gates or some incredibly weathly celebirty donats something like a few tens of thousand to someone or a charity.
You really didn't do your homework with regards to Bill Gates. So far he's given away money in the 10s of billions to the Gates foundation, which among other things is trying to vaccinate people in Africa against various diseases. Like him or dislike him, but don't put him in with the money hoarders.
Maybe he should be bitching, but it's hard for us non-millionairs to feel much sympathy for him. For the millionairs and billionairs out their I could see it though, since it's pretty hard to live on only 10 million bucks. That won't even buy you one Gulfstream 5!
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The issue here isn't really one of defacement, but of using something for advertising that isn't yours to begin with. How is this much different from putting up posters on walls?
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He's a nut and says crazy things, but I don't think he's a danger to himself or others. Thankfully we don't lock people up for believing crazy things just yet, otherwise probbably 30% of the population would be behind bars.
I don't know about your water, but mine contains chlorine, which I don't like the taste of. Sure, I could just fill water jugs and let them sit in the frig for a day and the chlorine would all evaporate, but I prefer the convienence of filtered water.
There's also the unknown factor of lead leached from solder in the plumbing. While it doesn't really keep me up at night worrying about the small possibility of lead, I have a slight preference to filtered water to eliminate this small risk.
I am deeply suspicious that Lance's chemo and related drugs somehow altered his body to make him much stronger;
Why would you even suggest this as a possibility? Do you have any evidence whatsoever to suggest this is even possible, or is this just pure and utter bullshit speculation on your part?
but for jamie to suggest "consensus seems to be that IBM would lose any court action" that is downright dirty without evidence to back that claim up.
Oh please, I guess people aren't entitled to opinions anymore. This is slashdot, not your lawyers office. There's nothing wrong with off-the-cuff remarks like that. Is Jamie purporting to be a lawyer or expert on this algorithm? No? Then it's just one guys opinion on slashdot, and we all know how much that's worth.
More like the US didn't (and doesn't) have state sponsored chess schools like the former Soviet Union did. If chess is such a great "purely intellectual pursuit", then why aren't all the great chess masters great geniuses and create wonderful things outside of chess? Chess may be a fun game and all, but all this connection between chess and "being intellectual" is just nonsense.
After four decades of space travel, you can count the currently operative interplanetary spacecraft with one hand, and the number of manned interplanetary spacecraft with Captain Hook's lost hand. That is pretty pathetic, if you really think about it.
Pathetic based on what? In what context are you judging space travel? Historically 40 years isn't a hell of a long time for a drastically new technology. Spacecraft aren't just a new form of a cart with different power sources (horse, steam engine, internal combustion engine, etc) it's an entirely different technology taking us into an entirely different and alien environment.
If this was what you meant by "well regulated", then ignore this rant; otherwise please explain what regulations did you mean, and why are they neccessary ?
There's a number of issues other than flaming death falling from the skies. Mostly they boil down to space junk, and pollution. Nasa put up Cassini with a radioactive power generator. All well and good, Nasa is pretty good about keeping that kind of thing safe. Private companies on the other hand are often willing to take far bigger risks where it only hurts the public. (e.g. Union Carbide in Bhopal India). Space junk could also be an even larger problem if anyone and everyone could put up a satelite, no questions asked.
NASA has been a disaster for space travel
Yah, this is exactly what I think when there's 2 probes on Mars, one orbiting Saturn, and one to land on Titan in December. Who's been more successful in space than Nasa? No one.
I don't have any problems with private space launch, as long as it's well regulated. I do have a problem with badmouthing of Nasa. They've been enormously successfull on a comparitively small amount of money. Just for comparisons sake, how many billions of dollars did it take to create Windows 2000?
That's the only instance where this is much of a security compromise, and it's still a pretty minor one. Reading any/all files is in itself a very large security breach. At that point you've severly compromised the privacy of your system.
Considering that people already have guessable passwords like "password" or their dogs name I'm not going to lose much sleep over this one.
If your password is under 8 characters and contains only lowercase letters and digits, you deserve to be cracked. If you use a proper password, then you have nothing to fear from this "service"
Why am I so vulnerable if I don't have > 8 character passwords? Only root can look at
Faster than cracking passwords of up to 8 characters consisting of [a-z][0-9] in 40 minutes? I think the answer to that is a very easy NO.
36^8 = 2821109907456 possible passwords.
Do these password crackers get > 1,175,462,461 crypts/sec? If the answer is no, then this method is faster.
I don't exactly disagree with you, but I think you're being fatalistic. CACert hasn't made a great first impression, but that hardly means the whole thing is crap, and is going to fail. First impressions are important, but they aren't the be-all-end all of sucess or failure. I also don't think it's quite as bad as you make it out to be. There's a couple ambuguities, but the idea is solid enough.
If you really look at big errors made by big successful companies there's just a TON of them. In the field of CA's alone one of the big CA's issued a certificiate to someone claiming to be Microsoft that actually wasn't. Taken in context, a not-so-great website and a few ambiguities are really a minor issue.
I think you're right. The Nation estate has far more to lose than the Beeb. The Beeb and Dr. Who can survive quite easily without The Daleks (a sad omission of course), but the Nation estate can't do much with the Daleks without Dr. Who as an adversary.
Take at look at CACert's site. You'll find carelessness, spelling mistakes, pieces that have not been thought out.
Yah, it's not a very professional looking site. That's just how it works when you have a limited budget. I think your expectations and standards are a bit to high for an organization that just started. If they still have the same problems in 6 months, I'd be a little worried.
It's ridiculous to exclude so many people from receiving certificates just because their bureaucrats are corrupt, and it's completely contrary to the transnational spirit of the Internet.
Whoa.. hold on their chief. Who ever said there would be one policy for identify verification for EVERYONE? If you live in a kleptocracy, gov. issued ID could be considered a joke and there would be other means to verify yourself. I'm sure (or at least I hope) that Verisign and Thawte have tackled this problem, there's no reason that CAcert can't do the same thing.
There's a big difference between sheltering your kids, and feeding them crap. If you don't shelter kids from the "evils" of the world they'll be much more able to deal with the real world.
I don't know much about contract law, but I do know that for a contract to be legal there must be something gained by both parties. I.E Orkut agrees not to develop social circle software (and Affinity gains a strategic advantage), and Affinity gives Orkut something in exchange.
Europe has cars with much higher compression ratios than the US because higher compression ratios give better fuel economy. Since gas is so much more expensive in Europe people are much more concerned about fuel economy.
As a result of the higher compression ratios you need higher octane fuel otherwise the fuel will self-ignite under the higher pressures. (Higher octane fuels are more difficult to ignite, and will tolerate the higher compression ratios).
In the US the only cars with high compression ratios are high performance cars, cars with massive engines, and a few expensive imports.
Some car models are designed to run on higher octane gas. These cars are mostly high-performance cars with high compression ratios. The vast majority though will get no benefit at all from higher octane gas (i.e. > 87)
But the landlord can tell you whatever he pleases, it's his house!
Absolutely false. Every state gives renters certain rights that cannot be taken away by a lease. Look them up here.
As I said, it's the landlords house, but he gives up a certain amount of rights in exchange for rent.
Just like when you are on MY network you won't be running Kazaa!
Computer networks aren't property, so your analogy fails.
Read the benchmarks for the proof. The price/performance is a giant loser. Buy a low end Athlon instead of this junk.
But if they own the house, I see no reason why they can't dictate who runs what in the house.
There's this new invention called Rent, where you take money and give up some of your rights. When you rent someone an apartment you have no right to tell the renters if they can eat cheese inside the apartment (even though you own the apartment). There's restrictions of course, (like not allowing pets, etc). Massport could possibly ban WiFi equipment entirely, but they can't say who can and cannot use the spectrum.
Toothpaste is a commodity and there's very little difference among the major name brands. As long as it's ADA approved I bet any sane dentist couldn't care less which toothpaste you chose.
As far as the "Athlon vs Celeron" discussion goes, people will buy on price 9 times out of 10, and don't even have any idea what Celeron or AMD IS, much less the difference between them. The problem is your summary made the Celeron look like it was a viable choice for anyone that isn't brainwashed into branding. It's quite clear the Celeron is a POS (and I don't mean point of sale). Try to remember this is Slashdot, where the majority of readers understand benchmarks and value. Hiding behing what the majority of people look for just doesn't cut it, since slashdot is NOT the majority of people.
This Celeron may be able to compete with AMD's offerings based on more then name brand alone
Ummm.. what? The fastest $117 2.8ghz celeron got the shit kicked out of it by a lowly $55 Athlon 2400XP. Who in their right mind would buy one of these chips? I guess if you really want SSE3 or the only game you play is Quake3 it's a good deal, but otherwise there's no point.
It irritates me even more when someone like Bill Gates or some incredibly weathly celebirty donats something like a few tens of thousand to someone or a charity.
You really didn't do your homework with regards to Bill Gates. So far he's given away money in the 10s of billions to the Gates foundation, which among other things is trying to vaccinate people in Africa against various diseases. Like him or dislike him, but don't put him in with the money hoarders.
Maybe he should be bitching, but it's hard for us non-millionairs to feel much sympathy for him. For the millionairs and billionairs out their I could see it though, since it's pretty hard to live on only 10 million bucks. That won't even buy you one Gulfstream 5!
The issue here isn't really one of defacement, but of using something for advertising that isn't yours to begin with. How is this much different from putting up posters on walls?