Hm, well, that's really not what I meant at all. I meant that if you properly secure your wifi network with WPA2, then you are pretty damn secure, irrespective of what anyone else is doing (or not doing) to secure theirs. It's not about diverting attackers to easier targets, it's about being secure in the face of an attacker determined to get into your network via electronic means.
After watching several 3D movies back to back, I now find myself completely addicted to 3D and finding myself craving it all the time in my everyday life. I've tried to give it up, but after only a few minutes of having one eye shut I start to get a headache and my eye muscles get sore, not to mention I'm completely unable of functioning and find myself bumping into things and knocking things over when I reach for them. James Cameron must be stopped!
There are also a ton of people who don't secure their APs at all...
Which as a practical matter means that many wireless networks are trivial to break into, yet is irrelevant to a security-minded person wanting to know if their own wireless network will be secure.
"I'm sorry we didn't prevent the Islamic revolution in 1979...... by not overthrowing your democratic government in 1953."
I agree, that would be a nice place to start.
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Ah, the Sun Conure. Beautiful and intelligent birds. Not so great at the vocal mimicry as others, but fully equipped with an ear-piercing shriek designed to travel great distances through the thick South American rain forests which serves as their equivalent of "hi". Also, quite social and friendly, so they like to say "hi" a lot when they know you're home, though they're not quite up on human social norms enough to understand the concept of sleeping in on a Saturday.
Assuming we're talking a modern encrypted network, #5 is going to be hard to work out. The handshake algorithm is no longer vulnerable to replay attacks, so I'm not sure what you plan on doing with your recorded authentication attempts.
More like another way to mess with old people! Rearranging the aisles is fun by itself, but then when we give them the satnav system programmed with the wrong information, then, my friend, hilarity will truly ensue.
For those of you too lazy to go searching for it (I'm rather surprised I'm not in this group this time)
Much like with mod points, Slashcode randomly distributes Desire to Read and Understand TFA to a few select slashdotters each day. Your number must have come up!
How are most of these practices problematic? Why should there be anything wrong with them selling chips for servers at below cost? Yes, it keeps them dominant but the result is cheaper servers for the rest of us. If the point of anti-trust regulations is to benefit the consumer then it isn't clear to me what the problem is with that aspect.
It can be confusing, if you only think about the cheaper servers you get today. If you had been around before AMD was competing with Intel on more than the budget desktop space, or even worse when AMD was nothing more than a second-source supplier of x86 chips, then you'd see the danger inherent in this and be petrified. Do you know how much Intel charged for a server chip before the Opetron came out? A high-end Xeon could cost you $4000 just for the processor. Shortly after the Opetron, that dropped to just over $1k. When they had no competition in the server market, they could charge whatever they wanted, and they used the buckets of money made there to fund price wars with AMD on the desktop. When they had no competition in the desktop market, they simply charged whatever they wanted for all their chips.
So today you get cheap servers, sold below cost and funded by Intel's significant cash reserves and still quite high margins in laptops. Tomorrow, when cash-strapped debt-laden AMD folds because they can't afford to sell chips below cost, Intel once again has the market to itself. And. You. Don't. Want. That.
Whether it should be illegal or not is debatable, but whether it's good for you in anything but the very short term is not.
Their own governments are just as guilty, if not more so, than foreign corporations.
In many cases that is certainly true. In other cases of governments that were not corrupt (or at least, wanted to keep power and wealth inside the country rather than sell it out to a foreign company), the government of the country the foreign company was from would overthrow the insufficiently corrupt government and install one that was sufficiently corrupt. In which case the guilt of the foreign corp and their government is not just exploiting a poorer nation's national resources, but subverting their sovereignty itself.
Well, Bolivia has other resources. Heck, I'm betting that one of the problems with opening up the salt flats for lithuim harvesting, is the cocaine industry there. I'm guessing they don't want the competition for US dollars?
The cocaine industry is already pissed at the lithium industry, ever since they convinced GM to cancel their cocaine-powered vehicle, the Chevy White Horse, and their proposed cocaine-heroin hybrid, the Saturn Speedball (to be called the Belushi in the North American market), in favor of the Volt.
Forget the characters Magneto could insta-kill, practically none of those jokers would seriously be able to take on full-power Magneto. So just assume it's a weakened Magneto, like the post-Onslaught or alternate-universe Age of Apocalypse Magneto or something.;)
But then there's things like Hulk vs Sakura... Come on, the game is awesome silly fun.:)
Thank you, but I'm somehow immune to ever having a memory loss, or vomiting, from alcohol. Believe me. I've tried it
No vomiting? I've had cases where vomiting was the only thing preventing me from getting alcohol poisoning. So did you end up in the hospital, or were you just not trying hard enough?;)
Anyway, while I can believe you wouldn't suffer from memory loss, I assure you that you are not immune to the brain-cell-killing effects of alcohol. It's not targeted or anything, so it may take a long while and dedication, but eventually those brain cells will be taken out.
Smoked a large pure joint (no tobacco, because I'm allergic to it)
I would never have thought otherwise... must suck to be in a place where making such a disclaimer is necessary. By the same token, I wouldn't be sure it wasn't oregano. And don't go by the fact that your dumbass friend who bought a bag of seasoning said he got soooooo high from it.:)
If you're unemployed, you're not a college professor.
Bah, that's as stupid as saying that I'm not an unemployed Divine Emperor of Everything! And I'd crush you beneath my boot heel (or rather order my underlings to crush you) for saying such a thing. At least as soon as a position opens up...
But seriously: why do some people insist on perverting Quantum Mechanics into Quantum Mysticism and treating it like magic?
I think it started with a selective mis-reading of Schroedinger's "The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics" where the word "observation", used as a synonym for (and in the same paper interchangeably with) "measurement", is instead anthropomorphized to mean that there must be an observer, a sentient entity watching what happens, before the waveform will collapse. Which is then the silly person's spring board for saying that if it takes a sentient entity to observe a quantum state and cause it to collapse, maybe this entity can somehow influence the collapse.
That the very purpose of the whole thought experiment was to illustrate how the the-current state of QM had large gaps which could lead to absurdities (a cat both alive and dead) without contradicting the theory is rather lost on them.
So if they existed in reality, the Jedi would look more like Jabba the Hut?
There are things, that you just can't unthink...
Hello, person with a thought or memory they wish they could erase. Let me introduce you to my friends, Jose Cuervo and Don Julio. They can help you out.
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They can sleep in on Saturday, provided thier cage is covered.
Well someone forgot to inform Zazu the Sun Conure of that fact. -_-
Hm, well, that's really not what I meant at all. I meant that if you properly secure your wifi network with WPA2, then you are pretty damn secure, irrespective of what anyone else is doing (or not doing) to secure theirs. It's not about diverting attackers to easier targets, it's about being secure in the face of an attacker determined to get into your network via electronic means.
After watching several 3D movies back to back, I now find myself completely addicted to 3D and finding myself craving it all the time in my everyday life. I've tried to give it up, but after only a few minutes of having one eye shut I start to get a headache and my eye muscles get sore, not to mention I'm completely unable of functioning and find myself bumping into things and knocking things over when I reach for them. James Cameron must be stopped!
There are also a ton of people who don't secure their APs at all...
Which as a practical matter means that many wireless networks are trivial to break into, yet is irrelevant to a security-minded person wanting to know if their own wireless network will be secure.
"I'm sorry we didn't prevent the Islamic revolution in 1979... ... by not overthrowing your democratic government in 1953."
I agree, that would be a nice place to start.
Ah, the Sun Conure. Beautiful and intelligent birds. Not so great at the vocal mimicry as others, but fully equipped with an ear-piercing shriek designed to travel great distances through the thick South American rain forests which serves as their equivalent of "hi". Also, quite social and friendly, so they like to say "hi" a lot when they know you're home, though they're not quite up on human social norms enough to understand the concept of sleeping in on a Saturday.
Plus they can live for 20-40 years.
Have fun! =D
Assuming we're talking a modern encrypted network, #5 is going to be hard to work out. The handshake algorithm is no longer vulnerable to replay attacks, so I'm not sure what you plan on doing with your recorded authentication attempts.
Another thing parrots can do that I can't! When will this humiliation end?
More like another way to mess with old people! Rearranging the aisles is fun by itself, but then when we give them the satnav system programmed with the wrong information, then, my friend, hilarity will truly ensue.
For those of you too lazy to go searching for it (I'm rather surprised I'm not in this group this time)
Much like with mod points, Slashcode randomly distributes Desire to Read and Understand TFA to a few select slashdotters each day. Your number must have come up!
Heh, and here I was reading the headline and thinking "Shouldn't that say 'Klingons Wiped From Final Star Trek movie'?"
How are most of these practices problematic? Why should there be anything wrong with them selling chips for servers at below cost? Yes, it keeps them dominant but the result is cheaper servers for the rest of us. If the point of anti-trust regulations is to benefit the consumer then it isn't clear to me what the problem is with that aspect.
It can be confusing, if you only think about the cheaper servers you get today. If you had been around before AMD was competing with Intel on more than the budget desktop space, or even worse when AMD was nothing more than a second-source supplier of x86 chips, then you'd see the danger inherent in this and be petrified. Do you know how much Intel charged for a server chip before the Opetron came out? A high-end Xeon could cost you $4000 just for the processor. Shortly after the Opetron, that dropped to just over $1k. When they had no competition in the server market, they could charge whatever they wanted, and they used the buckets of money made there to fund price wars with AMD on the desktop. When they had no competition in the desktop market, they simply charged whatever they wanted for all their chips.
So today you get cheap servers, sold below cost and funded by Intel's significant cash reserves and still quite high margins in laptops. Tomorrow, when cash-strapped debt-laden AMD folds because they can't afford to sell chips below cost, Intel once again has the market to itself. And. You. Don't. Want. That.
Whether it should be illegal or not is debatable, but whether it's good for you in anything but the very short term is not.
2. It has no access to ocean ports.
Until both of the above are solved, don't bet on Bolivia.
Are you sure that you, a Chilean, want to encourage the Bolivians to solve this problem?
Their own governments are just as guilty, if not more so, than foreign corporations.
In many cases that is certainly true. In other cases of governments that were not corrupt (or at least, wanted to keep power and wealth inside the country rather than sell it out to a foreign company), the government of the country the foreign company was from would overthrow the insufficiently corrupt government and install one that was sufficiently corrupt. In which case the guilt of the foreign corp and their government is not just exploiting a poorer nation's national resources, but subverting their sovereignty itself.
Well, Bolivia has other resources. Heck, I'm betting that one of the problems with opening up the salt flats for lithuim harvesting, is the cocaine industry there. I'm guessing they don't want the competition for US dollars?
The cocaine industry is already pissed at the lithium industry, ever since they convinced GM to cancel their cocaine-powered vehicle, the Chevy White Horse, and their proposed cocaine-heroin hybrid, the Saturn Speedball (to be called the Belushi in the North American market), in favor of the Volt.
In French Québec, we're lucky enough to combine all four.
And not just in your profanity!
As explained in this Daily Show clip.
Forget the characters Magneto could insta-kill, practically none of those jokers would seriously be able to take on full-power Magneto. So just assume it's a weakened Magneto, like the post-Onslaught or alternate-universe Age of Apocalypse Magneto or something. ;)
But then there's things like Hulk vs Sakura... Come on, the game is awesome silly fun. :)
Thank you, but I'm somehow immune to ever having a memory loss, or vomiting, from alcohol. Believe me. I've tried it
No vomiting? I've had cases where vomiting was the only thing preventing me from getting alcohol poisoning. So did you end up in the hospital, or were you just not trying hard enough? ;)
Anyway, while I can believe you wouldn't suffer from memory loss, I assure you that you are not immune to the brain-cell-killing effects of alcohol. It's not targeted or anything, so it may take a long while and dedication, but eventually those brain cells will be taken out.
Smoked a large pure joint (no tobacco, because I'm allergic to it)
I would never have thought otherwise... must suck to be in a place where making such a disclaimer is necessary. By the same token, I wouldn't be sure it wasn't oregano. And don't go by the fact that your dumbass friend who bought a bag of seasoning said he got soooooo high from it. :)
And I fucking hate the Beatles.
Then your opinion on music is empirically worthless.
Hate to break it to you, but that's just science.
They tried playing Deathklok but it just made them crave human flesh.
If you're unemployed, you're not a college professor.
Bah, that's as stupid as saying that I'm not an unemployed Divine Emperor of Everything! And I'd crush you beneath my boot heel (or rather order my underlings to crush you) for saying such a thing. At least as soon as a position opens up...
Oh gee, and here I thought his name was spelled Yoni.
But seriously: why do some people insist on perverting Quantum Mechanics into Quantum Mysticism and treating it like magic?
I think it started with a selective mis-reading of Schroedinger's "The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics" where the word "observation", used as a synonym for (and in the same paper interchangeably with) "measurement", is instead anthropomorphized to mean that there must be an observer, a sentient entity watching what happens, before the waveform will collapse. Which is then the silly person's spring board for saying that if it takes a sentient entity to observe a quantum state and cause it to collapse, maybe this entity can somehow influence the collapse.
That the very purpose of the whole thought experiment was to illustrate how the the-current state of QM had large gaps which could lead to absurdities (a cat both alive and dead) without contradicting the theory is rather lost on them.
So if they existed in reality, the Jedi would look more like Jabba the Hut?
There are things, that you just can't unthink...
Hello, person with a thought or memory they wish they could erase. Let me introduce you to my friends, Jose Cuervo and Don Julio. They can help you out.