But you still need a baseline, which will be a lot of DVDs, and you want to take one fairly often so you (a) have lower risk of the backup going kaput and (b) don't have to restore through a year and a half of differential backups.
However, I think that getting a person who we completely agree with elected is at least as important... how can you possibly disagree? It just doesn't make sense.
I would like that. Which candidate do I completely agree with? (Hint: none. Further hint: the closest are too extreme to be elected.)
I agree that the 2008 election is basically a drain on one's energy and optimism, but THE EXCEPTION IS RON PAUL
By contrast, I find Ron Paul's campaign one of the more annoying parts of it.
Their attitude is, "I do not care whether the position is correct. If my party supports it, then I support it." Or maybe their attitude is "this party's platform is consistently closer to my viewpoint, so I'll make it my party. Hey look, the candidate running as my party has a platform that is closer to my view than the other guy. What a surprise."
It shouldn't be a warning sign that most people vote along party lines... it should be expected. Actually, I'm surprised it's as low as 61%.
(Sure, some people, maybe even many people don't look at the platform of the candidates, but at least for the bigger races, I doubt that's the common case.)
Keep in mind that was just the.Net framework so I could run the target application, not the dev environment. I wasn't suggesting that it should be there for development; if anything, I was suggesting that it could very possibly be removed to make space for even more things.
I've put a stripped-down version of XP Embedded on a computer with 384 MB of flash memory. A large portion of the space I took up was for the.Net framework; if I didn't need that, the OS would have filled half.
There would be plenty of room for software. The idea really isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
You don't need a payphone to provide anonymous information the next day. Just post it as "AC" on slashdot.:) Or email, or snail mail.
Given the right in the U.S. legal system for the accused to confront his accuser, I'm not sure that anonymous tips would be that helpful to the prosecution. Anonymous tips aren't even good enough for a warrant. (IANAL, but I'm pretty sure this is true.) Nevertheless, they can jumpstart an investigation, point the police in the right direction, etc. So no, they aren't worth squat to the prosecution, but they are often invaluable to the police and detectives who are investigating a crime.
No, but maybe you go around the corner. Or maybe you wait a day, call the police, and give an anonymous tip. Won't help the present victim, but could still lead to them catching the people who did it and getting them off the streets.
Some people don't like to read, they would rather watch TV.
This is my problem with subtitles. If I'm watching TV, I can do stuff like have it on in the background and pay half attention to it, following along with the audio and sometimes looking away for other stuff. Subtitles bind you to putting all of you attention to the screen. If you want to do this, that's fine, but my TV and movie watching habits are often not amenable to that.
That struck me too. But it's an experiment, so we can watch how it turns out. If it hurts DVD sales, then the studios get an additional argument for why they should take down YouTube videos and such. If it doesn't, then maybe other studios will get less protective about their content appearing online.
Also likely not true. Without explicit permission your rights to use copyrighted work begin and end at fair use.
You could argue that this would be fair use, but I'd imagine it would be hard since it's in a commercial product and, it sounds like, copied entirely and without attribution.
If there is no copyright claim by the original author then I don't see what the problem is. AFAIK that means it's in the public domain (I'd check the website's disclaimer or terms of use though)
You'd better take a refresher course in copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice means little; your creations are implicitly copyrighted.
I may agree with you elsewhere, but you are flat out wrong on that point.
Sure its not "bricking" but its a Mac equivalent to a Blue Screen of Death
Um, no, it's not. A BSOD is usually a temporary condition, and rebooting "solves" it. Sure it's an indication of a bug, but if that bug only causes a fault every 1000 hours of operation, that's not too horrible. Certainly well below the "you need to reinstall" level.
Sure, there are things that will prevent you from booting again that also cause BSODs, but these are a small part of all BSODs.
Yes, but again, not likely to be used in security applications. Something like RSA needs either an entirely different representation of numbers or a BigInteger-style class for instance.
I could still be wrong, but I still think the poster who started this thread is onto something.
The authors essentially broke PlanetPoker's shuffling algorithm. The algorithm was broken to begin with, and then they used the current time as the seed. These combined to make it possible, with some brute-force testing of potential seeds, to determine the entire shuffle of the deck from the face-up cards in Texas Hold'um.
What about DES? DES has been used all over the place, and is a publicly-known algorithm, but there are still concerns about where some constants came from. They seem to work, but is there a back door? No one really knows.
The principle that things like RSA work on is that it is very easy to generate a set of keys and, given keys, do encryption/decryption, but very hard to go backwards from cyphertext to plaintext without knowing the keys. How do we know there isn't something analogous in the algorithm? Maybe there is a backdoor that took some cleverness and work to come up with, but is extremely difficult to detect without knowledge known only by those who put it there in the first place.
I don't consider myself terribly paranoid, and I am a little bit suspect of the above argument, but at the same time you can't just dismiss it as impossible.
Maybe the poster you're replying to isn't the one who needs to learn how to read. He was replying to a post that said "1. CIA=sharp, Academe=smart. The NSA boys are both smart and sharp."
Slashdot Mirror
And Lazlo, and his underground lair.
But you still need a baseline, which will be a lot of DVDs, and you want to take one fairly often so you (a) have lower risk of the backup going kaput and (b) don't have to restore through a year and a half of differential backups.
I would strongly recommend not clicking that.
It seems to me that GWB took us on a wild and crazy trip to Iraq, and now reality is biting us in the ass.
Yes, Ron Paul would be better than GWB.
Congratulations, you set the limbo bar about seven feet off the ground.
However, I think that getting a person who we completely agree with elected is at least as important... how can you possibly disagree? It just doesn't make sense.
I would like that. Which candidate do I completely agree with? (Hint: none. Further hint: the closest are too extreme to be elected.)
I agree that the 2008 election is basically a drain on one's energy and optimism, but THE EXCEPTION IS RON PAUL
By contrast, I find Ron Paul's campaign one of the more annoying parts of it.
Their attitude is, "I do not care whether the position is correct. If my party supports it, then I support it."
Or maybe their attitude is "this party's platform is consistently closer to my viewpoint, so I'll make it my party. Hey look, the candidate running as my party has a platform that is closer to my view than the other guy. What a surprise."
It shouldn't be a warning sign that most people vote along party lines... it should be expected. Actually, I'm surprised it's as low as 61%.
(Sure, some people, maybe even many people don't look at the platform of the candidates, but at least for the bigger races, I doubt that's the common case.)
Keep in mind that was just the .Net framework so I could run the target application, not the dev environment. I wasn't suggesting that it should be there for development; if anything, I was suggesting that it could very possibly be removed to make space for even more things.
I've put a stripped-down version of XP Embedded on a computer with 384 MB of flash memory. A large portion of the space I took up was for the .Net framework; if I didn't need that, the OS would have filled half.
There would be plenty of room for software. The idea really isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
They learned their lesson with the flashlight though... starting with EP2, sprint and flashlight power are decoupled.
This is one of my favorites from that strip that gives commentary on what you can and can't do within the HL universe.
Now if only they would add Postscript file viewing so that Windows would have a PS reader that doesn't completely suck (*cough* GSView *cough*)...
You don't need a payphone to provide anonymous information the next day. Just post it as "AC" on slashdot. :)
Or email, or snail mail.
Given the right in the U.S. legal system for the accused to confront his accuser, I'm not sure that anonymous tips would be that helpful to the prosecution.
Anonymous tips aren't even good enough for a warrant. (IANAL, but I'm pretty sure this is true.) Nevertheless, they can jumpstart an investigation, point the police in the right direction, etc. So no, they aren't worth squat to the prosecution, but they are often invaluable to the police and detectives who are investigating a crime.
No, but maybe you go around the corner. Or maybe you wait a day, call the police, and give an anonymous tip. Won't help the present victim, but could still lead to them catching the people who did it and getting them off the streets.
IANAL, that would be my argument too.
Some people don't like to read, they would rather watch TV.
This is my problem with subtitles. If I'm watching TV, I can do stuff like have it on in the background and pay half attention to it, following along with the audio and sometimes looking away for other stuff. Subtitles bind you to putting all of you attention to the screen. If you want to do this, that's fine, but my TV and movie watching habits are often not amenable to that.
That struck me too. But it's an experiment, so we can watch how it turns out. If it hurts DVD sales, then the studios get an additional argument for why they should take down YouTube videos and such. If it doesn't, then maybe other studios will get less protective about their content appearing online.
There are also subtitles, which very well may be being made anyway, for the deaf. Then you "just" need to translate them.
A lot of people say original language + subtitles is better than dubbing, though I'm not sure I agree.
Also likely not true. Without explicit permission your rights to use copyrighted work begin and end at fair use.
You could argue that this would be fair use, but I'd imagine it would be hard since it's in a commercial product and, it sounds like, copied entirely and without attribution.
If there is no copyright claim by the original author then I don't see what the problem is. AFAIK that means it's in the public domain (I'd check the website's disclaimer or terms of use though)
You'd better take a refresher course in copyright law. The lack of a copyright notice means little; your creations are implicitly copyrighted.
I may agree with you elsewhere, but you are flat out wrong on that point.
Sure its not "bricking" but its a Mac equivalent to a Blue Screen of Death
Um, no, it's not. A BSOD is usually a temporary condition, and rebooting "solves" it. Sure it's an indication of a bug, but if that bug only causes a fault every 1000 hours of operation, that's not too horrible. Certainly well below the "you need to reinstall" level.
Sure, there are things that will prevent you from booting again that also cause BSODs, but these are a small part of all BSODs.
So? Blame the people, not the tools. I haven't carried a balance since I got my card.
Command line FTP. Windows still comes with that! ;-)
(And I, sadly, still use it from time to time.)
Yes, but again, not likely to be used in security applications. Something like RSA needs either an entirely different representation of numbers or a BigInteger-style class for instance.
I could still be wrong, but I still think the poster who started this thread is onto something.
For another example of the entropy problems in using the current time as a PRNG seed, see How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker.
The authors essentially broke PlanetPoker's shuffling algorithm. The algorithm was broken to begin with, and then they used the current time as the seed. These combined to make it possible, with some brute-force testing of potential seeds, to determine the entire shuffle of the deck from the face-up cards in Texas Hold'um.
What about DES? DES has been used all over the place, and is a publicly-known algorithm, but there are still concerns about where some constants came from. They seem to work, but is there a back door? No one really knows.
The principle that things like RSA work on is that it is very easy to generate a set of keys and, given keys, do encryption/decryption, but very hard to go backwards from cyphertext to plaintext without knowing the keys. How do we know there isn't something analogous in the algorithm? Maybe there is a backdoor that took some cleverness and work to come up with, but is extremely difficult to detect without knowledge known only by those who put it there in the first place.
I don't consider myself terribly paranoid, and I am a little bit suspect of the above argument, but at the same time you can't just dismiss it as impossible.
Learn how to read. CIA != NSA.
Maybe the poster you're replying to isn't the one who needs to learn how to read. He was replying to a post that said "1. CIA=sharp, Academe=smart. The NSA boys are both smart and sharp."