You don't even need XSS-like attacks. If you compromise the server you can re-write all the JS to send the encryption keys, the plaintext, or whatever you want to your server instead. Or back to the original server, and have it forward things on to you.
A) Probable, but not definite. It depends upon the scale and the speed. After all, we can always wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war before we wipe ourselves out with greenhouse gasses. B) False, while that would help with the CO2 the immediate unrest caused would be a vastly greater harm to society than using a more reasonable plan. Doing nothing has the potential to cause much greater long-term harm, but an immediate shutdown of all coal plants would be like knocking out all your teeth to prevent cavities, instead of starting to use a toothbrush. C) Almost certainly not. D) Possibly, but it's impossible to tell at this point. Local effects like hurricanes shouldn't change much during the initial warming stages. E) Almost certainly, though where that point is is unknown. If you managed to change the atmosphere of Earth to match that of Venus you'd get such an effect, and would get such an effect before you reached the Venusian composition. How far before is not fully known. F) False. Increased atmospheric CO2 has already had noticeable effects with ocean acidification. G) This statement is meaningless. Which mean? H) False.
Yep. A big thing people don't get is safety. Have you ever had a cheap multimeter fuse blow and toss shards of glass through the case, avoiding your hand only because you weren't holding the meter there? I have. $100-$200 more for a meter with proper input protection, HRC fuses, a strong case, etc, is well worth the money. There is of course a lot more to Fluke meters' quality than just their input protection, they're ridiculously reliable (Dave Jones took a Fluke 87-V caving, swam with it, dropped it off a 15-meter bridge onto concrete repeatedly, and still didn't break it) and very accurate (for handhelds, good bench meters are of course better than handheld meters.) Fluke makes great equipment. Of course, the other top-end brands make similarly good equipment. Agilent meters are great, etc, etc.
I do not have a left-to-right order to my tabs. I have a hierarchical tree: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
The relations between the tabs are important to me, bookmarks don't provide a good way to preserve the relational information.
Of course I could store it all in a SQL database and write scripts to manage opening and closing the pages with an HTML viewer or such, but that's far more effort than using the tools already available.
Folders don't quite work. Think of it as an outline Let's say I have tabs A, B, and C. Tab A has children 1 and 2, B has 3 and 4, and C has one child, 5. 1 has I and II and III, 2 has IV and VI, etc. With folders, there's no way to preserve the links between levels easily, except perhaps naming the folders to match their corresponding tabs. With multiple tabs at one level, each of which has multiple subtabs it's hard to distinguish what came from where, it's just not well-suited to organizing things in this way. It's possible, but not worth the effort.
I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.
Java and "Mocha Java" are both coffees, and both use beans from the island of Java, but are very different drinks. Java and Javascript are both programming languages, and both were originally created by Sun Microsystems, but they're very different languages.
That's because CS is math, not engineering. Computer Engineering is engineering, Computer Science is the study of the mathematics of computer systems. CE is a lot rarer than CS though, so a lot of people with CS degrees try to be engineers, but aren't trained for it.
Black holes are the brightest objects in the universe. As far as we know nothing escapes the event horizon, but plenty of things get thrown out at very high energy from the accretion disk.
True, light can go through insulation if the opacity is too low, and at small scales the light tunneling across the barrier will become a problem. What you don't get is a direct equivalent to induction that happens in electrical systems, but all the other sources of interference still apply. It's still crosstalk, but not from the cause most often seen in the generally familiar electrical systems.
"Crosstalk" is a feature of electromagnetic induction: a changing current in one set of wires induces a current in the adjacent set. With light this won't happen at all. You can also have multiple frequency signals across a single wire/fiber optic cable, both will have interference from nearby frequency bands since you can't create ideal filters. These are entirely separate problems, even though they both deal with interference between two (or more) signals.
Good code needs commenting, but "too many comments" also happens. It tends to be common when people think that comments should tell what the code does, instead of why the code does what it does. If you can't explain why you have a method/function in the comment for that item, there's a problem.
It should also probably be mentioned that part of why the ACLU doesn't (often) actively support the second amendment not because the members don't believe in it, but because the NRA serves the purpose well enough that it would be a waste of donations.
And, you know, no terrorist organization/malicious foreign government/etc has ever built a lab and done research once they know something can be done...
Without knowing what the vulnerabilities are the users can't take steps to protect themselves other than researching to find the vulnerabilities. Attackers will be researching the vulnerabilities anyway. Censorship like this makes people less safe.
It's not even that difficult. Any college-level introductory physics class will include friction. Once differential equations are learned air resistance can be included.
Both are also general case statements. There are many, many programs which can be proven to halt or to loop indefinitely quite easily. The trick is that you can't create a program which, when given ANY program as input determines whether it will halt. Your program may well work for billions of programs, but there is at least one program for which it must fail. (Actually, there are infinitely many programs for which it must fail, but they're sparse in the space of all possible programs...)
There's also the security aspect to software. Unless you're designing army bunkers you probably aren't trying to make the walls bulletproof. But if you're designing software that interacts with networks, well, you have to consider security.
Also, quite a lot of software is under active attack. Civil engineers don't design their bridges to resist being dynamited, because to do so would require ridiculous amounts of extra work. Software engineers DO need to design their applications to be secure, and when they don't they have to go back and try to fix things. Either way it takes much more work. The environment is much more hostile.
"Mining" IS processing transactions. You can't mine without doing so. And a sufficiently large mining pool has quite a number of attacks possible, the entire system is vulnerable to collusion. Bitcoin has many, many problems, but "no one will mine once all possible coins are mined" isn't one of them.
The "free" bitcoins gained by miners are one way for miners to earn coins, but not the only way. They can also set a transaction fee. That's why mining is likely to continue. That said, as transaction fees increase the value of the currency decreases, since it becomes less favorable to use it over other currencies with lower fees.
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You don't even need XSS-like attacks. If you compromise the server you can re-write all the JS to send the encryption keys, the plaintext, or whatever you want to your server instead. Or back to the original server, and have it forward things on to you.
Answering a troll, but what the hell....
A) Probable, but not definite. It depends upon the scale and the speed. After all, we can always wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war before we wipe ourselves out with greenhouse gasses.
B) False, while that would help with the CO2 the immediate unrest caused would be a vastly greater harm to society than using a more reasonable plan. Doing nothing has the potential to cause much greater long-term harm, but an immediate shutdown of all coal plants would be like knocking out all your teeth to prevent cavities, instead of starting to use a toothbrush.
C) Almost certainly not.
D) Possibly, but it's impossible to tell at this point. Local effects like hurricanes shouldn't change much during the initial warming stages.
E) Almost certainly, though where that point is is unknown. If you managed to change the atmosphere of Earth to match that of Venus you'd get such an effect, and would get such an effect before you reached the Venusian composition. How far before is not fully known.
F) False. Increased atmospheric CO2 has already had noticeable effects with ocean acidification.
G) This statement is meaningless. Which mean?
H) False.
Yep. A big thing people don't get is safety. Have you ever had a cheap multimeter fuse blow and toss shards of glass through the case, avoiding your hand only because you weren't holding the meter there? I have. $100-$200 more for a meter with proper input protection, HRC fuses, a strong case, etc, is well worth the money. There is of course a lot more to Fluke meters' quality than just their input protection, they're ridiculously reliable (Dave Jones took a Fluke 87-V caving, swam with it, dropped it off a 15-meter bridge onto concrete repeatedly, and still didn't break it) and very accurate (for handhelds, good bench meters are of course better than handheld meters.) Fluke makes great equipment. Of course, the other top-end brands make similarly good equipment. Agilent meters are great, etc, etc.
I do not have a left-to-right order to my tabs. I have a hierarchical tree:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
The relations between the tabs are important to me, bookmarks don't provide a good way to preserve the relational information.
Of course I could store it all in a SQL database and write scripts to manage opening and closing the pages with an HTML viewer or such, but that's far more effort than using the tools already available.
Folders don't quite work. Think of it as an outline Let's say I have tabs A, B, and C. Tab A has children 1 and 2, B has 3 and 4, and C has one child, 5. 1 has I and II and III, 2 has IV and VI, etc.
With folders, there's no way to preserve the links between levels easily, except perhaps naming the folders to match their corresponding tabs. With multiple tabs at one level, each of which has multiple subtabs it's hard to distinguish what came from where, it's just not well-suited to organizing things in this way. It's possible, but not worth the effort.
You have to enable HTML5. https://www.youtube.com/html5
I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.
Java and "Mocha Java" are both coffees, and both use beans from the island of Java, but are very different drinks. Java and Javascript are both programming languages, and both were originally created by Sun Microsystems, but they're very different languages.
That's because CS is math, not engineering. Computer Engineering is engineering, Computer Science is the study of the mathematics of computer systems. CE is a lot rarer than CS though, so a lot of people with CS degrees try to be engineers, but aren't trained for it.
Black holes are the brightest objects in the universe. As far as we know nothing escapes the event horizon, but plenty of things get thrown out at very high energy from the accretion disk.
True, light can go through insulation if the opacity is too low, and at small scales the light tunneling across the barrier will become a problem. What you don't get is a direct equivalent to induction that happens in electrical systems, but all the other sources of interference still apply. It's still crosstalk, but not from the cause most often seen in the generally familiar electrical systems.
"Crosstalk" is a feature of electromagnetic induction: a changing current in one set of wires induces a current in the adjacent set. With light this won't happen at all. You can also have multiple frequency signals across a single wire/fiber optic cable, both will have interference from nearby frequency bands since you can't create ideal filters. These are entirely separate problems, even though they both deal with interference between two (or more) signals.
They are working on becoming arrogant enough to adopt French as the universal language, but several countries still insist on keeping humility legal.
That's just because USB connectors are 4-dimensional.
Good code needs commenting, but "too many comments" also happens. It tends to be common when people think that comments should tell what the code does, instead of why the code does what it does. If you can't explain why you have a method/function in the comment for that item, there's a problem.
It should also probably be mentioned that part of why the ACLU doesn't (often) actively support the second amendment not because the members don't believe in it, but because the NRA serves the purpose well enough that it would be a waste of donations.
And, you know, no terrorist organization/malicious foreign government/etc has ever built a lab and done research once they know something can be done...
Without knowing what the vulnerabilities are the users can't take steps to protect themselves other than researching to find the vulnerabilities. Attackers will be researching the vulnerabilities anyway. Censorship like this makes people less safe.
Of which country? There are quite a few Supreme Courts. The "Supreme Cort of The United States of America" takes quite a bit longer to type.
It's not even that difficult. Any college-level introductory physics class will include friction. Once differential equations are learned air resistance can be included.
Of course. It's a cryptographic attack, even if it's not malicious. But the users don't control the system, and so shouldn't trust it anyway.
Both are also general case statements. There are many, many programs which can be proven to halt or to loop indefinitely quite easily. The trick is that you can't create a program which, when given ANY program as input determines whether it will halt. Your program may well work for billions of programs, but there is at least one program for which it must fail. (Actually, there are infinitely many programs for which it must fail, but they're sparse in the space of all possible programs...)
There's also the security aspect to software. Unless you're designing army bunkers you probably aren't trying to make the walls bulletproof. But if you're designing software that interacts with networks, well, you have to consider security.
Also, quite a lot of software is under active attack. Civil engineers don't design their bridges to resist being dynamited, because to do so would require ridiculous amounts of extra work. Software engineers DO need to design their applications to be secure, and when they don't they have to go back and try to fix things. Either way it takes much more work. The environment is much more hostile.
"Mining" IS processing transactions. You can't mine without doing so. And a sufficiently large mining pool has quite a number of attacks possible, the entire system is vulnerable to collusion. Bitcoin has many, many problems, but "no one will mine once all possible coins are mined" isn't one of them.
The "free" bitcoins gained by miners are one way for miners to earn coins, but not the only way. They can also set a transaction fee. That's why mining is likely to continue.
That said, as transaction fees increase the value of the currency decreases, since it becomes less favorable to use it over other currencies with lower fees.