Hum, last I saw, Firefox only auto-updates if you authorizes it. (What, by the way, I don't do, on any of my computers, for reasons that are completely different from not trusting the updates.)
I welcome the news of no more IE6, IE7 and IE8. But the means aren't good (well, I don't depend on Windows personaly, so I don't relly care - the IT of my workplace may think differently).
Normaly, ssh doesn't allow login by root, despite pam settings.
Those people can login as root physicaly on the computers, but not by a network. Also, there is little difference from having a normal user account with sudo powers compromissed, or a root account compromissed.
50% of the population has access to the Internet at home. All of those accessed the Internet at least once, they are not on the headline. 50% of the population doesn't have access to the Internet at home. Half of those (25% of the total) have already accessed the net by other means. The other half (the remaining 25% of the total) have never accessed the net.
Everybody that uses social networks have connections to somebody that gone broke, or made bad comments on the past. That fictional bank wouldn't be able to lend money. Thus wouldn't generate any revenue.
Searching social networks will probably happen on the real world, but you can bet the information the banks will gather will be way saner than that, and they won't jump to conclusion that fast.
Now, about the real problem. Why is everybody so concerned about their credit worthness?
I wouldn't expect people to try to login as root all that much, as most distros disable root logins out of the box. Maybe it is because VPS and rented hosts, those often come allowing root logins (and it would be useless to try any other user).
That distributed attack is probably comming from botnets. If it is so, the country of the computer attacking you may not be the country of the hacker controlling it. It can be that what you are measuring is just the number of outdated computers by country.
Just because you are spending a lot of money/time, it doesn't mean the thing you are spending it on is useful. Rarely anything runs in an optimal way*, thus nearly every time there is rom for increasing some of those variables without reducing the others.
Agile programming is an aswer to iterated design. Altought iterated design was an answer to the wastefull beast that is waterfall development, it still didn't get ride of all the waste. Agile improved it. Now, it won't make your software write itself, or take all the bugs away. It just makes you stop burning some of the money you are burning with iterated design.
* A few hints for knowing when you are NOT working in near optimal way: Middle management and near optimal work are seldon seen toghether; if you measure a process, you've already made it not optimal; if you formalize a process you've made it not optimal again (except if you also automatize it).
Let's see someone just starting out attempt this and find out if they make $500,000 in 4 days.
Despite that being true, avoiding DRM (and not fighting piracy) is a great way to make a devoted fan base, who you can plead to donate some money to you latter.
It pops above floats (while the status bar was out of the document area), and doesn't carry the same information once you install some of the thousands of plugins that used it.
we can't even imagine a kind of physical or chemical process to get rid of it
There are physical processes to get rid of it. Recycling spent fuel and breeder reactors solve the fuel problem (you'll still have to protect the residue for 100-200 years). Reusuing the materials and water solve that problem too, but it was never such a big deal to star with (they were initialy at the <200 years bucket).
Putting a torrent for people to download is a form of contract (where you grant rights - the right to download it, and the right to seed the torrent - and doesn't restict any).
Did you read the post you are "replying" to? They are distributing the moveis in a format that implies it will be redistributed.
If they go to libraries and give them several copies of their works, fully conscient that it is a library they are giving the copies to, say nothing and go away, do you think they can sue the libraries once they start to lend the movies? (Or theaters, once they start showing the movie to audiences, or museums, once they start displaying the movies, etc.)
I don't understand why everybody seems to have a problem with vacuum instability. Ok, not with instability per se, but what is the problem with meta-stability? Wouldn't it explain inflation?
I use AdBlock, installed myself, know about it (otherwise wouldn't be commenting about it), and have no problem with unobstrusive ads.
The only problem is that now I'll have to check if their definition of unobstrusive is the same as mine. That is quite an easy (passive indeed) check, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Also, I care that the sites I see should have some revenue stream. I wouldn't pay for most of them, in part because I don't want to care about currency conversion and tarifs for sending money overseas, in part because I wouldn't find new sites if I had to pay for every one of them. But so many sites make browsing so bad an experience that I prefer to block all ads if it must be a binary choice.
The announcement today just narrows the mass. The/. summary is perfectly adequate, and is a complete summary of the situation!
There is also a small point, about a candidate mass just under 127GeV, with less than 3 sigma. The/. title is talking about that, but doesn't clarify it. Of course, some information with less than 3 sigma can change any time.
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Hum, last I saw, Firefox only auto-updates if you authorizes it. (What, by the way, I don't do, on any of my computers, for reasons that are completely different from not trusting the updates.)
I welcome the news of no more IE6, IE7 and IE8. But the means aren't good (well, I don't depend on Windows personaly, so I don't relly care - the IT of my workplace may think differently).
Well, THAT explains it. Yet, it doesn't make any sense since that insurance isn't against economical problems.
Anyway, I live with different rules. But that does explain why everybody cares so much.
Yeah, I should've got some coffe too.
If so, not only the metric defeats itself, but also Facebook should be lobbing against such usage, since it will destroy their market.
Normaly, ssh doesn't allow login by root, despite pam settings.
Those people can login as root physicaly on the computers, but not by a network. Also, there is little difference from having a normal user account with sudo powers compromissed, or a root account compromissed.
You should go drink some coffe.
50% of the population has access to the Internet at home. All of those accessed the Internet at least once, they are not on the headline.
50% of the population doesn't have access to the Internet at home. Half of those (25% of the total) have already accessed the net by other means. The other half (the remaining 25% of the total) have never accessed the net.
Everybody that uses social networks have connections to somebody that gone broke, or made bad comments on the past. That fictional bank wouldn't be able to lend money. Thus wouldn't generate any revenue.
Searching social networks will probably happen on the real world, but you can bet the information the banks will gather will be way saner than that, and they won't jump to conclusion that fast.
Now, about the real problem. Why is everybody so concerned about their credit worthness?
That's very interesting.
I wouldn't expect people to try to login as root all that much, as most distros disable root logins out of the box. Maybe it is because VPS and rented hosts, those often come allowing root logins (and it would be useless to try any other user).
That distributed attack is probably comming from botnets. If it is so, the country of the computer attacking you may not be the country of the hacker controlling it. It can be that what you are measuring is just the number of outdated computers by country.
Here. This is it. Too bad I've already posted.
Somebody please mod the parent up.
Just because you are spending a lot of money/time, it doesn't mean the thing you are spending it on is useful. Rarely anything runs in an optimal way*, thus nearly every time there is rom for increasing some of those variables without reducing the others.
Agile programming is an aswer to iterated design. Altought iterated design was an answer to the wastefull beast that is waterfall development, it still didn't get ride of all the waste. Agile improved it. Now, it won't make your software write itself, or take all the bugs away. It just makes you stop burning some of the money you are burning with iterated design.
* A few hints for knowing when you are NOT working in near optimal way: Middle management and near optimal work are seldon seen toghether; if you measure a process, you've already made it not optimal; if you formalize a process you've made it not optimal again (except if you also automatize it).
Despite that being true, avoiding DRM (and not fighting piracy) is a great way to make a devoted fan base, who you can plead to donate some money to you latter.
BSD is the perfect license to apply to a layer of software that helps people talking to the hardware you sell.
If somebody wants to "steal" it, and make something great without sharing upstream, well, great for you, more people will buy your hardware.
"It is shit, but will be supported and won't stop working after the kernel upgrades from 3.8.54-patch3 to 3.8.54-patch4."
Seems to be a sane option.
No C++ is not one of the culprits.
That is because this optimization happens on link time, and has no relation at all with the complexity of the compiler.
It pops above floats (while the status bar was out of the document area), and doesn't carry the same information once you install some of the thousands of plugins that used it.
There are physical processes to get rid of it. Recycling spent fuel and breeder reactors solve the fuel problem (you'll still have to protect the residue for 100-200 years). Reusuing the materials and water solve that problem too, but it was never such a big deal to star with (they were initialy at the <200 years bucket).
Those things are just expensive, not impossible.
That is the main reason why size matters. Small reactors can be cooled by conduction into its surroundings, and (infrared) radiation.
You haven't read many EULAs at the last 10 years, have you?
You can't publish a review of most Microsoft or Oracle products without authorization.
Putting a torrent for people to download is a form of contract (where you grant rights - the right to download it, and the right to seed the torrent - and doesn't restict any).
Did you read the post you are "replying" to? They are distributing the moveis in a format that implies it will be redistributed.
If they go to libraries and give them several copies of their works, fully conscient that it is a library they are giving the copies to, say nothing and go away, do you think they can sue the libraries once they start to lend the movies? (Or theaters, once they start showing the movie to audiences, or museums, once they start displaying the movies, etc.)
People that don't want to jailbreak their phones don't care about the security of jailbreaked phones.
People that want to jailbreak their phones see a reduced value on phones that are hard to jailbreak.
Any way you cut it, you can't make a hard to jailbreak phone more valuable.
They see something like 0.001% of one kind of particle, or 0.01% of other more than expected.
I don't understand why everybody seems to have a problem with vacuum instability. Ok, not with instability per se, but what is the problem with meta-stability? Wouldn't it explain inflation?
I use AdBlock, installed myself, know about it (otherwise wouldn't be commenting about it), and have no problem with unobstrusive ads.
The only problem is that now I'll have to check if their definition of unobstrusive is the same as mine. That is quite an easy (passive indeed) check, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Also, I care that the sites I see should have some revenue stream. I wouldn't pay for most of them, in part because I don't want to care about currency conversion and tarifs for sending money overseas, in part because I wouldn't find new sites if I had to pay for every one of them. But so many sites make browsing so bad an experience that I prefer to block all ads if it must be a binary choice.
The announcement today just narrows the mass. The /. summary is perfectly adequate, and is a complete summary of the situation!
There is also a small point, about a candidate mass just under 127GeV, with less than 3 sigma. The /. title is talking about that, but doesn't clarify it. Of course, some information with less than 3 sigma can change any time.