Being someone from the side of the Atlantic where half the population doesn't consist of idiots stupid enough to consider voting for the side that supports Palin, let me enlighten you on the topic.
The problem isn't that Palin is inexperienced. The problem is that she's batshit insane.
I only watched one episode, but it consisted of them talking about "pwning n00bs", and interviewing someone who was supposedly "seriously 31337" about some shareware app of his, before talking about counter strike for a few minutes. They also mentioned some game on Steam, which they commented on by saying - and this is a direct quote - "of course, everybody uses it already".
I'm not saying it was bad - I would have loved this show when i was 13-15. But... Seriously?
I hate doing security work (why can't ve just assume that all users are friendly people who would never rockroll or goatse anyone?), but I still don't like life.;)
Is it a sad or happy day for Microsoft, when their competitors get bored with beating them, and instead try to improve the Microsoft products to make them competitive - for free?
I was babysitting my mother's new puppy a few months back.
I was happily IRC:ing away from the couch, when I heard the puppy standing by the door.
For those of you that don't know, the thing about puppies is that they do prefer to pee outside, but their bladder system isn't really that good, so when they decide they want to go out, you only have a few seconds to avoid an accident.
So, I quickly put my laptop on the table, throw my headset away, and start to quickly move towards the door. Unfortunately, I didn't really put the computer down very good - half of it was hanging outside the table. As I tried to move past it, my knee touched it, and that was enough to throw the computer of the table, letting it fall for 4-5 decimeters before it hit the floor. It gave up a faint "peeep!" before it died.
My hard drive only kindof worked after that - booting was fine, but there were lots of broken clusters that sent the computer into a (seemingly) infinite loop, forcing the computer to use all CPU resources waiting for the hard drive, in effect freezing it. Slowly but surely, more and more clusters broke down, more and more files got damaged, until I finally bought a new drive. Trust me - at that point, I really, really wanted to buy a SSD.
I wonder if the demonstrations against the Swedish government, which mostly have been peaceful except for DoS attacks against the government's web servers when the FRA law was approved, would continue to be peaceful if TPB was shut down...
Having said that, the Pirates have some competition in the opposition against the FRA law. Yesterday, the environmental party (who have consistently opposed the law) and Sweden's biggest party, the social democrats (who will probably try to get some form of light version of the law passed later on), promised to overturn the law if they win the next national election.
Uhm.... What!?
They said that they wouldn't overthrow the law! The green party have said all along that they would, but yesterday they changed their mind. They said that they will start an investigation that is supposed to figure out whether the FRA law is a good idea.
The lefties, on the other hand, are going to try to prevent the law from becoming true this autumn.
That would be great, but IIRC they were almost ignored at the polls last time...
They received about 2/3 of a percent. That made them the third biggest party outside of parliament, which puts them in tenth place overall. Not amazing, but they had existed for about 6 moths at the time.
While the police's illegal TPB raid gave them a lot of power, all traditional media thought they wouldn't receive any votes at all. In polls, they weren't even an alternative. In party leader debates, they weren't invited - even if it was an event that was also open to parties outside of parliament.
The 2/3 of a percent proved to the mainstream that they are serious - nowadays, their party leader frequently gets to comment on integrity issues in mainstream media, and they're just much more visible. Things haven't stayed the same since the last time.
you don't go from a fringe party getting a negligible number of votes to winning an election in just a few years.
Probably not in an election for the national parliament, no. However, almost nobody votes for the EU election (little more than a third of the population, usually), and those who do don't really care who their vote support.
Last time, the party Junilistan ("the June list") got 14.5% of the votes. The election was held in June, the party was established February the same year. So it's quite possible for the non-established parties to have amazing successes in the EU Parliament elections.
Oh, and the Pirate Party beat Junilistan in the last national election.
German on the other hand is only beneficial in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and most people speak English anyways...
Not true!
If you're in eastern Europe, a lot of people don't speak English. They speak their own language (Russian, Czech, Estonian... There are plenty), and German, since that was what was considered The International Language in the Soviet days.
I don't know if todays eastern European youth speak English or not, though.
1. Every country in the world has one TLD each, and then one or a very limited number of international ones (.com - is there any reason why we even need.net or.org?). Or something similar. People who take a country code TLD and sell domains on it to everyone (.nu,.tv,.tk, etc) would be spanked. Only very few TLD:s that are very general purpose.
2. Everyone can create any TLD they choose. ICANN would be free to make demands in terms of cash, purpose, or whatever - that's fine - but if I wanted a.geek TLD, I could in theory create it.
The current system, however, is that ICANN act like a kind of high priests that have the power to create as general or specific TLD:s they choose (.museum,.mobi, and all that junk), but won't allow anyone else to. This sounds unfair to me.
I instinctively believe that my first ideal system would be better than my second, but since ICANN seem to be moving away from that system, I guess my second ideal system is still better than the current one.
The actual file transfers are peer-to-peer, so they won't be effected (also, they're usually encrypted already, to avoid bandwidth throttling). This is for accessing the website and/or for contacting the tracker.
Web pages have been using SSL for years without being especially slow.
Contacting a tracker is a lightweight request that is being performed once every 30 minutes or so - if it was a few seconds slower, nobody'd notice anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
You're right: I don't get it. Why would a web browser need to see more than 2 GB of RAM in a single process?
I said the same thing. Then I tried Firefox...
Being someone from the side of the Atlantic where half the population doesn't consist of idiots stupid enough to consider voting for the side that supports Palin, let me enlighten you on the topic.
The problem isn't that Palin is inexperienced. The problem is that she's batshit insane.
Great for advanced users?
I only watched one episode, but it consisted of them talking about "pwning n00bs", and interviewing someone who was supposedly "seriously 31337" about some shareware app of his, before talking about counter strike for a few minutes. They also mentioned some game on Steam, which they commented on by saying - and this is a direct quote - "of course, everybody uses it already".
I'm not saying it was bad - I would have loved this show when i was 13-15. But... Seriously?
Git could [..] buy you a girlfriend
Dunno 'bout you guys, but that right there settles it for me. Git it is!
Personally, I'm studying Open Source Computer Science. Proprietary software is failing? Open solutions are taking over? Jay, I say!
The QBasic Nerd guy tells you to get of his lawn. And learn to sing.
I hate doing security work (why can't ve just assume that all users are friendly people who would never rockroll or goatse anyone?), but I still don't like life. ;)
Is it a sad or happy day for Microsoft, when their competitors get bored with beating them, and instead try to improve the Microsoft products to make them competitive - for free?
We'll use the slashdot moderation system and let the public police the police that police the police.
What's great about this is that we already have a metamoderation system, so we can police the public that police the police that police the police.
What they don't tell you is that those 25.000 cops are Indian and working in India to lower the costs.
I was babysitting my mother's new puppy a few months back.
I was happily IRC:ing away from the couch, when I heard the puppy standing by the door.
For those of you that don't know, the thing about puppies is that they do prefer to pee outside, but their bladder system isn't really that good, so when they decide they want to go out, you only have a few seconds to avoid an accident.
So, I quickly put my laptop on the table, throw my headset away, and start to quickly move towards the door. Unfortunately, I didn't really put the computer down very good - half of it was hanging outside the table. As I tried to move past it, my knee touched it, and that was enough to throw the computer of the table, letting it fall for 4-5 decimeters before it hit the floor. It gave up a faint "peeep!" before it died.
My hard drive only kindof worked after that - booting was fine, but there were lots of broken clusters that sent the computer into a (seemingly) infinite loop, forcing the computer to use all CPU resources waiting for the hard drive, in effect freezing it. Slowly but surely, more and more clusters broke down, more and more files got damaged, until I finally bought a new drive. Trust me - at that point, I really, really wanted to buy a SSD.
Oh well, at least the puppy got out in time...
I wonder if the demonstrations against the Swedish government, which mostly have been peaceful except for DoS attacks against the government's web servers when the FRA law was approved, would continue to be peaceful if TPB was shut down...
Having said that, the Pirates have some competition in the opposition against the FRA law. Yesterday, the environmental party (who have consistently opposed the law) and Sweden's biggest party, the social democrats (who will probably try to get some form of light version of the law passed later on), promised to overturn the law if they win the next national election.
Uhm.... What!?
They said that they wouldn't overthrow the law! The green party have said all along that they would, but yesterday they changed their mind. They said that they will start an investigation that is supposed to figure out whether the FRA law is a good idea.
The lefties, on the other hand, are going to try to prevent the law from becoming true this autumn.
I see you're not European! ;)
That would be great, but IIRC they were almost ignored at the polls last time...
They received about 2/3 of a percent. That made them the third biggest party outside of parliament, which puts them in tenth place overall. Not amazing, but they had existed for about 6 moths at the time.
While the police's illegal TPB raid gave them a lot of power, all traditional media thought they wouldn't receive any votes at all. In polls, they weren't even an alternative. In party leader debates, they weren't invited - even if it was an event that was also open to parties outside of parliament.
The 2/3 of a percent proved to the mainstream that they are serious - nowadays, their party leader frequently gets to comment on integrity issues in mainstream media, and they're just much more visible. Things haven't stayed the same since the last time.
you don't go from a fringe party getting a negligible number of votes to winning an election in just a few years.
Probably not in an election for the national parliament, no. However, almost nobody votes for the EU election (little more than a third of the population, usually), and those who do don't really care who their vote support.
Last time, the party Junilistan ("the June list") got 14.5% of the votes. The election was held in June, the party was established February the same year. So it's quite possible for the non-established parties to have amazing successes in the EU Parliament elections.
Oh, and the Pirate Party beat Junilistan in the last national election.
German on the other hand is only beneficial in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and most people speak English anyways...
Not true!
If you're in eastern Europe, a lot of people don't speak English. They speak their own language (Russian, Czech, Estonian... There are plenty), and German, since that was what was considered The International Language in the Soviet days.
I don't know if todays eastern European youth speak English or not, though.
Which is true of both CC and legit stuff, BTW :)
In all seriousness, does anyone know what percentage of traditionally produced IP is even watchable?
Not more than 10% at least
There are two systems I'd consider good:
1. Every country in the world has one TLD each, and then one or a very limited number of international ones (.com - is there any reason why we even need .net or .org?). Or something similar. People who take a country code TLD and sell domains on it to everyone (.nu, .tv, .tk, etc) would be spanked. Only very few TLD:s that are very general purpose.
2. Everyone can create any TLD they choose. ICANN would be free to make demands in terms of cash, purpose, or whatever - that's fine - but if I wanted a .geek TLD, I could in theory create it.
The current system, however, is that ICANN act like a kind of high priests that have the power to create as general or specific TLD:s they choose (.museum, .mobi, and all that junk), but won't allow anyone else to. This sounds unfair to me.
I instinctively believe that my first ideal system would be better than my second, but since ICANN seem to be moving away from that system, I guess my second ideal system is still better than the current one.
The actual file transfers are peer-to-peer, so they won't be effected (also, they're usually encrypted already, to avoid bandwidth throttling). This is for accessing the website and/or for contacting the tracker.
Web pages have been using SSL for years without being especially slow.
Contacting a tracker is a lightweight request that is being performed once every 30 minutes or so - if it was a few seconds slower, nobody'd notice anyway.
This is the Netherlands. To the left, note "Noord-Holland" and "Zuid-Holland".
Also, while our European governments steal all our money for taxes, we use it for better things than throwing bombs at some desert...
Crack WEP/WPA
According to this, it's on the way.
I bought a new 120GB 2.5" disc last week - 256GB is "large enough" for now - if only the price was low enough...