The argument isn't about whether Romney is correct or not, it's about whether he's fit to be the President of the United States of America. A crazy moron really shouldn't be in that position (again) so it's not an ad hominem attack in the context of the political debate. In the context of a discussion about aircraft design it is an ad hominem.
As primary: Mandrake -> Slackware -> Gentoo -> Kubuntu -> LMDE (Minty Debian) OpenBSD on the firewall/router box the whole time. Secondary, generally just to try, no particular order: LFS Ubuntu Red Hat CentOS Fedora Knoppix, various live CDs SUSE
I definitely like Debian package management the best..
I'll second the recommendation of Comodo. It's a good suite, for both beginners and advanced users. The "Defense+" is especially nice, since it allows/blocks on application behavior.
He lives in a town. It's not a big town, but there's a post office, a store, etc. Just no DMV/source of photo ID. The polling place there is normally set up at the post office, so people in town can vote.
Getting a new driver's license would cost me about as much as I spent on food last week. I have a friend who lives out in the Mojave desert of California. He's about 150 miles from the nearest DMV/government office where he can get an ID. He doesn't drive. He spends even less on food than I do, and is on a low enough income that he doesn't have spare money. So if he has to show ID when he walks to the town church that is the local polling place he has to make it 150 miles to the DMV, then give up eating for a week to afford the license.
A Zero Day exploit is one that has not been released to the public or manufacturer. There are 0 days of public awareness of the exploit. Once released it's Day 1, and that counter increments until the exploit is fixed. The term has since changed, and now a 0-day seems to be any unpatched vulnerability, no matter how long the public/manufacturer have been aware of it. Under the old definition (which actually makes sense) news about a 0-day is impossible, since once it's in the news it's not a 0-day anymore. Thus, the announcement of a new 0-day is impossible. Under the new definition it's perfectly possible, and in fact 0-days can get quite old. There are some vulnerabilities (eg in SCADA systems) that the manufacturers have refused to fix, and so these will be 0-days forever.
So you're proposing that no one making bank QR reader software anywhere, ever, will modify an existing QR reading program to add the ability to scan bank codes and forget to remove the ability to scan URLs and launch a browser. You have great confidence in the competence of outsourced programmers!
Actually, they've found that some of the DNA that was considered junk is capable of functioning, but won't be activated during any normal operation of the cell. It's still junk. Programming analogy: while (false) {
var=5; } The "var=5" is functional, if called it will set var to 5. It's also junk, since it will never be called.
Have you ever had a walkie-talkie? You set the channel, and anyone on the same channel can hear what you're saying, and talk with you. They have a broadcast range of several miles. There's no reasonable expectation of privacy. If you want privacy you buy a special walkie-talkie with a scrambling system, and make sure everyone you want to talk to has the same key. Then there IS a reasonable expectation of privacy, since it's very unlikely two people would chose the same key randomly, and brute-forcing it would take quite a long time.
Open WiFi is the same as open walkie-talkies, but with shorter range and data. There's no reasonable expectation of privacy.
The ad companies know that some people don't like being tracked, and that these people tend to block all their ads. They realized that by offering not to track these users they might not block the ads. Thus, they chose to honor (and created) Do Not Track. They hope the decreased tracking revenue is offset by the increased number of viewers. By setting DNT on by default IE ruins this plan, and they go back to the way things were before DNT: track everything, get blocked by those who care.
I graduated in '04, and I remember swapping out a CPU because of that bug. My family's previous computer (486, with a whole 2MB of RAM!) had been strictly "do not open."
It clears up the "planet vs asteroid big enough to be round" debate. While I don't fully get how the "cleared the vicinity of its orbit" is unambiguous in most cases it seems that Astronomers think it is, so I'll take their word on that. Unambiguous definitions are almost always better.
They knew it was wrong. First, they only banned people who did it many, many times. The minimum for a ban (3-day, not even permanent) was over 100 times. Second, the items were seriously discounted. It would be like buying a car for the price of a soda. You'd have to have totally ignored the pricing on all other items to not notice it was wrong. Also, this was mid-level items, so you'd have to have ignored the prices on the low-level items vendor standing next to the mid-level vendor to not notice. Either the people banned were deliberately exploiting an obvious bug, or they were complete blithering morons.
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The argument isn't about whether Romney is correct or not, it's about whether he's fit to be the President of the United States of America. A crazy moron really shouldn't be in that position (again) so it's not an ad hominem attack in the context of the political debate. In the context of a discussion about aircraft design it is an ad hominem.
That would imply that his porn stash isn't in a truecrypt container. Since this is /., that's a silly implication.
As primary:
Mandrake -> Slackware -> Gentoo -> Kubuntu -> LMDE (Minty Debian)
OpenBSD on the firewall/router box the whole time.
Secondary, generally just to try, no particular order:
LFS
Ubuntu
Red Hat
CentOS
Fedora
Knoppix, various live CDs
SUSE
I definitely like Debian package management the best..
The amount of math used expands to fill the user's ability. The more math I learn the more uses for that math I find.
That's a reasonable explanation of how it works, and a terrible explanation of why you'd want it.
Also, DES was an American cipher, so the attacking organization was more likely to be the KGB than the NSA.
I'll second the recommendation of Comodo. It's a good suite, for both beginners and advanced users. The "Defense+" is especially nice, since it allows/blocks on application behavior.
I could care less about this argument, but that would take significant amounts of alcohol.
He lives in a town. It's not a big town, but there's a post office, a store, etc. Just no DMV/source of photo ID. The polling place there is normally set up at the post office, so people in town can vote.
Getting a new driver's license would cost me about as much as I spent on food last week.
I have a friend who lives out in the Mojave desert of California. He's about 150 miles from the nearest DMV/government office where he can get an ID. He doesn't drive. He spends even less on food than I do, and is on a low enough income that he doesn't have spare money.
So if he has to show ID when he walks to the town church that is the local polling place he has to make it 150 miles to the DMV, then give up eating for a week to afford the license.
A Zero Day exploit is one that has not been released to the public or manufacturer. There are 0 days of public awareness of the exploit. Once released it's Day 1, and that counter increments until the exploit is fixed.
The term has since changed, and now a 0-day seems to be any unpatched vulnerability, no matter how long the public/manufacturer have been aware of it.
Under the old definition (which actually makes sense) news about a 0-day is impossible, since once it's in the news it's not a 0-day anymore. Thus, the announcement of a new 0-day is impossible. Under the new definition it's perfectly possible, and in fact 0-days can get quite old. There are some vulnerabilities (eg in SCADA systems) that the manufacturers have refused to fix, and so these will be 0-days forever.
So you're proposing that no one making bank QR reader software anywhere, ever, will modify an existing QR reading program to add the ability to scan bank codes and forget to remove the ability to scan URLs and launch a browser.
You have great confidence in the competence of outsourced programmers!
Actually, they've found that some of the DNA that was considered junk is capable of functioning, but won't be activated during any normal operation of the cell. It's still junk.
Programming analogy:
while (false) {
var=5;
}
The "var=5" is functional, if called it will set var to 5. It's also junk, since it will never be called.
Technically, Paedophilia and Ephebophilia are different things.
No, more like "My neighbors aren't responsible for eavesdropping if I'm shouting into a megaphone."
Have you ever had a walkie-talkie? You set the channel, and anyone on the same channel can hear what you're saying, and talk with you. They have a broadcast range of several miles. There's no reasonable expectation of privacy. If you want privacy you buy a special walkie-talkie with a scrambling system, and make sure everyone you want to talk to has the same key. Then there IS a reasonable expectation of privacy, since it's very unlikely two people would chose the same key randomly, and brute-forcing it would take quite a long time.
Open WiFi is the same as open walkie-talkies, but with shorter range and data. There's no reasonable expectation of privacy.
The ad companies know that some people don't like being tracked, and that these people tend to block all their ads. They realized that by offering not to track these users they might not block the ads. Thus, they chose to honor (and created) Do Not Track. They hope the decreased tracking revenue is offset by the increased number of viewers. By setting DNT on by default IE ruins this plan, and they go back to the way things were before DNT: track everything, get blocked by those who care.
I graduated in '04, and I remember swapping out a CPU because of that bug. My family's previous computer (486, with a whole 2MB of RAM!) had been strictly "do not open."
If it's just trash, then where did this sheet of particle board I've got come from?
It's another use for a byproduct, which already has some uses (particle/chipboard).
Also, arrests for violating an oath of office are handled by the executive branch.
It clears up the "planet vs asteroid big enough to be round" debate. While I don't fully get how the "cleared the vicinity of its orbit" is unambiguous in most cases it seems that Astronomers think it is, so I'll take their word on that. Unambiguous definitions are almost always better.
A brad is a type of tack/nail. Stealing fastening hardware from bakers is probably less efficient than stealing it from building suppliers.
Smooth is not the same as flat. A sine wave is smooth, but certainly not flat.
They knew it was wrong.
First, they only banned people who did it many, many times. The minimum for a ban (3-day, not even permanent) was over 100 times.
Second, the items were seriously discounted. It would be like buying a car for the price of a soda. You'd have to have totally ignored the pricing on all other items to not notice it was wrong. Also, this was mid-level items, so you'd have to have ignored the prices on the low-level items vendor standing next to the mid-level vendor to not notice.
Either the people banned were deliberately exploiting an obvious bug, or they were complete blithering morons.
So put the string's anchor on a big track at the equator.