Anger is not a good reaction to geographical slips like that. There is no issue as long as major sites and news sources like CNN have their geography right. And they always do.
Maybe the Mozilla team can get the Guinness Book of World Record's "Most effective self inflicted denial of service attack." Yeah, they should have gone for the Darwin Awards instead of Guinness...
IMHO, the ability to spot problems in designs comes with experience, and it's also the reason why tech guys and marketing guys usually don't get along very well. The first time the marketing team presents its newest killer idea in the presence of an engineer, they'll get back a lot of critical feedback. It is, in other words, the difference between dreamers and doers.
The same is true in a number of other countries, including Austria, where the Parliament's two chambers are the National Council (Nationalrat) and the Federal Council (Bundesrat). The National Council holds almost all of the legislative power, while the much smaller Federal Council is supposed to serve the interests of the nine states. Its only real power is a delaying veto, much like the UK's House of Lords.
"Data ransom"? I don't think that this is a legal term - IANAL, but there is no mention of data ransom in Wikipedia, and all the Google results are referring to stories about viruses/trojans of this kind. But you're still correct, it's not blackmail, it's extortion, the difference being that a blackmailer is threatening to reveal some information about you, while extortion involves a independent underlying criminal act.
A 2001-bit RSA key is not twice harder to crack than a 2000-bit key
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Here is the relevant (somewhat outdated) paragraph from the Wikipedia article you linked:
As of 2003 RSA Security claims that 1024-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 80-bit symmetric keys, 2048-bit RSA keys to 112-bit symmetric keys and 3072-bit RSA keys to 128-bit symmetric keys. RSA claims that 1024-bit keys are likely to become crackable some time between 2006 and 2010 and that 2048-bit keys are sufficient until 2030. An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required beyond 2030.[2] NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 256-bit symmetric keys.
Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can - along with a regular urn containing the rest...
So... which part did they put into the Pringles can? I shudder to think.
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A much harder question than "How did everything get created?" is when your kid asks you "Where do we go after we die?" Heaven is a very convenient concept there... don't worry, Grandma isn't really gone, you'll see her again in Heaven.
The pure and honest empiricist answer doesn't quite cut it when you're talking to small kids. You can't just say, all we know is that your body will slowly rot away (unless we burn it first).
I don't know. IANAP yet. How do you handle such questions?
I don't see how it does. Whether you use alphanumeric symbols or graphical blocks, it's still programming. What Turtle Art teaches is how to approach a problem (like, drawing a hexagon) analytically, and break it up into parts that are small enough for a computer to understand.
Of course there's more to programming, granted. But kids don't need to know all that when they make their first steps. The trick is to show them that programming isn't magic, and get them interested.
I don't have the live CD anymore to check, but I'm pretty sure TA also had a mode where you could see the actual LOGO script that you've created. That would make the transition to "real" programming even easier.
I just remembered a project I'd heard about a few months ago: JUXlala is a specialized Linux distribution for kids from 3+ years. It's usually loaded from a live CD, so there won't be any chance to accidentally delete or move important stuff (or you could install it on a dedicated library PC, I guess).
I'm not entirely sure, but it's possible that this distro is still only available in German. If so, I'm sure you can contact the maintainers and organize a translation of the main content.
Fish Fillets (Next Generation) is a cute and intelligent puzzle game that trains problem solving skills. It's apparently a port of a 1998 game by ALTAR interactive, but the OSS version works just fine. The player interaction is very nicely done - the version I downloaded 18 months ago only had Polish voices, but even so, it was easy to understand and quite addictive.
(I just checked, and it seems that the game is now available in 13 languages)
I saw a very nice graphical LOGO implementation on the OLPC Live CD. It's called Turtle Art, and rather than writing lines of code, you work in a very visual style, by snapping together puzzle-piece type blocks. Here is a screenshot of a very basic script that draws a square. It was fun for me, an adult, to play and tinker with the code blocks, and I'm sure a lot of smart kids would love it, too. This is a great way to learn about programming.
Here's a neat way to do Suspended Animation In Mice as a DIY hardhack project.
I believe this has even been covered on Slashdot before.
Oh, and this is from 2002.
Why should suicide bombers care if the bomb they are carrying is making them sterile?
They're alreade en route (so to say) to enter the Darwin Awards...
If you crowd an animal into smaller and smaller cages, starving it and/or torturing it, eventually the meekest, most mild-tempered and balanced animal is going to develop neuroses and sooner or later it'll either lash out viciously, or just lose it's will to live.
Can you tell us which 7 netblocks they are (were) using, so that we can block them on our firewalls?
All that I could find was the fourth comment to this article, in which a/20 block is mentioned. The article itself was previously linked on Slashdot; it's about a sysadmin who decided to block the RBN's address ranges and was rewarded by a noticable drop in compromised customer boxes.
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Anger is not a good reaction to geographical slips like that. There is no issue as long as major sites and news sources like CNN have their geography right. And they always do.
IMHO, the ability to spot problems in designs comes with experience, and it's also the reason why tech guys and marketing guys usually don't get along very well. The first time the marketing team presents its newest killer idea in the presence of an engineer, they'll get back a lot of critical feedback. It is, in other words, the difference between dreamers and doers.
The same is true in a number of other countries, including Austria, where the Parliament's two chambers are the National Council (Nationalrat) and the Federal Council (Bundesrat). The National Council holds almost all of the legislative power, while the much smaller Federal Council is supposed to serve the interests of the nine states. Its only real power is a delaying veto, much like the UK's House of Lords.
"Data ransom"? I don't think that this is a legal term - IANAL, but there is no mention of data ransom in Wikipedia, and all the Google results are referring to stories about viruses/trojans of this kind. But you're still correct, it's not blackmail, it's extortion, the difference being that a blackmailer is threatening to reveal some information about you, while extortion involves a independent underlying criminal act.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
Here is the relevant (somewhat outdated) paragraph from the Wikipedia article you linked:
Dude, how can your first post be a reply to someone?
...and who's making that whoooshing sound over my head?
Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can - along with a regular urn containing the rest...
So... which part did they put into the Pringles can?
I shudder to think.
Or maybe... phlashdotting?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a conference of blue-hats suddenly cried out:
"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
A much harder question than "How did everything get created?" is when your kid asks you "Where do we go after we die?" Heaven is a very convenient concept there... don't worry, Grandma isn't really gone, you'll see her again in Heaven.
The pure and honest empiricist answer doesn't quite cut it when you're talking to small kids. You can't just say, all we know is that your body will slowly rot away (unless we burn it first).
I don't know. IANAP yet. How do you handle such questions?
Of course there's more to programming, granted. But kids don't need to know all that when they make their first steps. The trick is to show them that programming isn't magic, and get them interested.
I don't have the live CD anymore to check, but I'm pretty sure TA also had a mode where you could see the actual LOGO script that you've created. That would make the transition to "real" programming even easier.
I'm not entirely sure, but it's possible that this distro is still only available in German. If so, I'm sure you can contact the maintainers and organize a translation of the main content.
Fish Fillets (Next Generation) is a cute and intelligent puzzle game that trains problem solving skills. It's apparently a port of a 1998 game by ALTAR interactive, but the OSS version works just fine. The player interaction is very nicely done - the version I downloaded 18 months ago only had Polish voices, but even so, it was easy to understand and quite addictive. (I just checked, and it seems that the game is now available in 13 languages)
I saw a very nice graphical LOGO implementation on the OLPC Live CD. It's called Turtle Art, and rather than writing lines of code, you work in a very visual style, by snapping together puzzle-piece type blocks. Here is a screenshot of a very basic script that draws a square. It was fun for me, an adult, to play and tinker with the code blocks, and I'm sure a lot of smart kids would love it, too. This is a great way to learn about programming.
Here's a neat way to do Suspended Animation In Mice as a DIY hardhack project.
I believe this has even been covered on Slashdot before.
Oh, and this is from 2002.
Why should suicide bombers care if the bomb they are carrying is making them sterile?
They're alreade en route (so to say) to enter the Darwin Awards...
Thank you for this.
You deserve better than (Score: 1).
Trans-umbilical breast augmentation?
Wow.
Can you tell us which 7 netblocks they are (were) using, so that we can block them on our firewalls?
/20 block is mentioned. The article itself was previously linked on Slashdot; it's about a sysadmin who decided to block the RBN's address ranges and was rewarded by a noticable drop in compromised customer boxes.
All that I could find was the fourth comment to this article, in which a
China locked in poverty, with little hope of economic growth?
Excuse me, but what are you talking about?
You are correct, I was't aware that MS had removed the download package.
The fonts themselves, however, can still be downloaded from SourceForge and other locations, which (I assume) is where the installer gets them.
The fonts are free-as-in-beer, but not free-as-in-speech.
If you use a Debian based distribution,
sudo aptitude install msttcorefonts
will install the font installer, which then fetches the fonts from MS's website.