AOL is a service which was providing you with free CDs for decorative purposes. It was, however, a bad idea to put them into you computer's CD drive. And yes, they also operated in Europe.
Depends, how confident are you that every eventuality has been planned for and provided for by the system? A significant outage can easily eat up an entire years worth of $15 an hour salaries if you hit an unforeseen condition which causes the whole data center to go down. Sure it's unlikely if the people doing the planning know what they're doing, but I'm sure that the folks in the WTC weren't expecting their records to be destroyed by a terrorist attack taking the entire building down.
Of course any number of $15/h techs in the WTC wouldn't have helped them with this problem anyway.
while he's had a couple months of reading all your mail and possibly even contacting people on your behalf through your email. Dad could you email me your login/password for that website again? I forgot it...
More likely, using the password reset feature of many sites which works by sending out an email.
Don't really see the advantage in this instance; if someone can get into your email, either way they're into your account.
With sending a new username/password combination, someone who can read your mail but doesn't have the old password can get into your account. While with a personalized link, you'd hopefully still have to authenticate with your old password, so only someone who has both access to your mail and your old password can get into your account.
No, if you zoom beyond Planck distance, you observe and thus collapse quantum states which were never intended to be observed, and therefore you'll destroy God's mind instead of reading it.
Well, this is veering off-topic, but do you really believe Ude can do it? He's popular in Munich, true, but outside of it? Besides, who else is there to fill the ranks as ministers and secretaries? As much as I'd love to see the CSU go next time, I'll only believe it when I see it.
Anyway, Servus to a fellow Bavarian slashdotter.
Well, it will certainly not be because of Ude alone, but it certainly helps if there's a candidate which you at least have heard of before (but then, I might overestimate that because I'm originally from Oberbayern). There's also the all-time low of the FDP (which I hope will continue until then). OTOH, the Grüne are currently quite strong; it will be seen how much they can save until 2013. I doubt that the CSU will again get absolute majority, therefore I see a real chance to get a change (even more so if the Piratenpartei should manage to get over 5%, but I admit that might be unrealistic).
Of course there's a lot of time until 2013, so things can still change much, but that's true in both directions.
They tried taking power away in the United States, with the interesting idea of only providing enumerated powers to the [federal] government, and setting up checks and balances to keep things that way.
Look at how well that is turning out...
Well, the corporations figured out that sending checks to the government works better, because it increases the balance on their bank account.
But they're really very conservative Germans who vote the christian right (CSU) every fucking time and I am ashamed of them.
Don't over-generalize. Yes, many people in Bavaria vote CSU, but not all (I don't, for one). And actually the number of people doing so is declining (the CSU already lost the absolute majority in Bavaria, and it is already speculated that after next elections, they might not even get enough votes to get into government again).
Also, part of the problem may be that the Bavarian SPD has a long tradition of putting up bad top candidates. This time they actually have a good top candidate, which may help quite a bit.
while you are correct in saying that they might be able to stop you taking a pic there's no chance that a security muppet from a private firm has any rights to confiscate your property.. in Scotland that would theft along with "wilful deprivation of property"
Now what would have been hilarious would be if that man taking a photo had actually been a policeman, the security man would have the camera taken away, and then the policeman would have taken out his police badge and said "you are hereby arrested for theft of a mobile phone..."
The bulb makes new light all the time. Mirrors reflect the incoming light back, and the better they are, the lower the losses. If the light from the evening is still there in the morning, you must have incredibly low losses, and therefore incredibly high quality mirrors.
OK, strictly speaking, light has no identity. But the point is, with your bulb there's an energy flow from the bulb to anything absorbing the light in your kitchen (i.e. basically everything). With ideal mirrors everywhere in the kitchen (and -- probably incorrectly -- neglecting the absorption by the air), you'd need not have a light source to still have light in the kitchen in the morning if it was there in the evening (but then, the very moment you opened the door, it would already be gone anyway:-)).
It would also allow to add an extra security barrier: Things on your normal computer are technically prohibited from publishing. There's a special, separated publishing computer network, where the scanners are attached.
Winning a galactic lottery may be frequent. Winning the galactic lottery is, however, extremely unlikely.
Well, here's how the galactic lottery works: For each star in the galaxy, a random number is drawn from the integers between 1 and the age of the universe in Planck times (to be exact, the longest time path from big bang to the place of the lottery drawing is taken). Only if you guess each single number right, you'll win. Indeed, it has been won just one time yet, however some people claim to have measured an infinite improbability field, and therefore doubt the legitimacy of the win.
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Given that they suspended 93000 accounts (see the first line of the summary), Id expect that to be the number of compromised accounts.
"login information likely acquired from other sources was tested en masse on the networks."
Acquired from other sources? Maybe from wine hq?
There goes your excuse for calling the umpire an idiot.
Well, you could argue about the correctness of the software. Calling the developers idiots included.
AOL is a service which was providing you with free CDs for decorative purposes. It was, however, a bad idea to put them into you computer's CD drive.
And yes, they also operated in Europe.
Depends, how confident are you that every eventuality has been planned for and provided for by the system? A significant outage can easily eat up an entire years worth of $15 an hour salaries if you hit an unforeseen condition which causes the whole data center to go down. Sure it's unlikely if the people doing the planning know what they're doing, but I'm sure that the folks in the WTC weren't expecting their records to be destroyed by a terrorist attack taking the entire building down.
Of course any number of $15/h techs in the WTC wouldn't have helped them with this problem anyway.
More likely, using the password reset feature of many sites which works by sending out an email.
With sending a new username/password combination, someone who can read your mail but doesn't have the old password can get into your account. While with a personalized link, you'd hopefully still have to authenticate with your old password, so only someone who has both access to your mail and your old password can get into your account.
So you think the only think that can do harm is stealing? So I guess it's OK if someone burns your house down, because after all, it's not stealing.
At which height does US airspace end?
Unreadable just means our visual system cannot figure it out. It does not mean the information is not there.
No, if you zoom beyond Planck distance, you observe and thus collapse quantum states which were never intended to be observed, and therefore you'll destroy God's mind instead of reading it.
Just wait 30 years, and you'll be able to do it in seconds with the same algorithm.
Actually it's:
if(videohost==youtube && videosource=user) { bitrate=too_low; }
Videos provided by official channels often have quite good quality (assuming your quality settings are high enough).
Well, this is veering off-topic, but do you really believe Ude can do it? He's popular in Munich, true, but outside of it? Besides, who else is there to fill the ranks as ministers and secretaries? As much as I'd love to see the CSU go next time, I'll only believe it when I see it.
Anyway, Servus to a fellow Bavarian slashdotter.
Well, it will certainly not be because of Ude alone, but it certainly helps if there's a candidate which you at least have heard of before (but then, I might overestimate that because I'm originally from Oberbayern). There's also the all-time low of the FDP (which I hope will continue until then). OTOH, the Grüne are currently quite strong; it will be seen how much they can save until 2013. I doubt that the CSU will again get absolute majority, therefore I see a real chance to get a change (even more so if the Piratenpartei should manage to get over 5%, but I admit that might be unrealistic).
Of course there's a lot of time until 2013, so things can still change much, but that's true in both directions.
Yes, it's already speculated, because it's still two years to the election.
Well, that's factually wrong (although not too far from the truth). They didn't rule from 1954 to 1957.
They tried taking power away in the United States, with the interesting idea of only providing enumerated powers to the [federal] government, and setting up checks and balances to keep things that way.
Look at how well that is turning out...
Well, the corporations figured out that sending checks to the government works better, because it increases the balance on their bank account.
Don't over-generalize. Yes, many people in Bavaria vote CSU, but not all (I don't, for one). And actually the number of people doing so is declining (the CSU already lost the absolute majority in Bavaria, and it is already speculated that after next elections, they might not even get enough votes to get into government again).
Also, part of the problem may be that the Bavarian SPD has a long tradition of putting up bad top candidates. This time they actually have a good top candidate, which may help quite a bit.
So if you have a "men only" policy on your men's toilet and a "women only" policy on your women's toilet, you are violating the law? :-)
Now what would have been hilarious would be if that man taking a photo had actually been a policeman, the security man would have the camera taken away, and then the policeman would have taken out his police badge and said "you are hereby arrested for theft of a mobile phone ..."
The bulb makes new light all the time. Mirrors reflect the incoming light back, and the better they are, the lower the losses. If the light from the evening is still there in the morning, you must have incredibly low losses, and therefore incredibly high quality mirrors.
OK, strictly speaking, light has no identity. But the point is, with your bulb there's an energy flow from the bulb to anything absorbing the light in your kitchen (i.e. basically everything). With ideal mirrors everywhere in the kitchen (and -- probably incorrectly -- neglecting the absorption by the air), you'd need not have a light source to still have light in the kitchen in the morning if it was there in the evening (but then, the very moment you opened the door, it would already be gone anyway :-)).
But NNTP is plain ASCII.
You edit bitmap images in Word?
It would also allow to add an extra security barrier: Things on your normal computer are technically prohibited from publishing. There's a special, separated publishing computer network, where the scanners are attached.
What about manually replacing the text with a stars?
Winning a galactic lottery may be frequent. Winning the galactic lottery is, however, extremely unlikely.
Well, here's how the galactic lottery works: For each star in the galaxy, a random number is drawn from the integers between 1 and the age of the universe in Planck times (to be exact, the longest time path from big bang to the place of the lottery drawing is taken). Only if you guess each single number right, you'll win. Indeed, it has been won just one time yet, however some people claim to have measured an infinite improbability field, and therefore doubt the legitimacy of the win.