A steel roof certainly costs more than the asphalt shingles used it the US. You might think using shingles was a sign of poverty, except that American homes are the size of African airport terminals.
when will US posters finally stop using imperial manner and units
Right after they start using coins bigger than a quarter-dollar, implement universal health-care, give their streets names, stop believing in God, replace grid-iron with soccer, and drive on left.
It would not hurt to mention the country in the summary, even if this is a US-centric site. The author appears to be unaware that laws are not the same in all countries.
It would be interesting to compare, as most developed countries have a warranty by law (statutory) that cannot be disclaimed. The US has implied warranty , but that does not cover failures if it works at first??
The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act offers the cop-out of letting companies choose a full or limited warranty. So guess what Apple does? Do many US companies offer a full warranty? So what's the point? It seems Apple/Samsung just needs to say the magic words limited warranty and do whatever the hell the want.
I'm confused, by QM generally, and this in particular. Is there any military application, or are those guys just going to keep using boring old physical key distribution, and one-time-pads for the serious stuff?
The attacker does not have to be "in the middle" . But standard defence against MITM - don't trust unencrypted connections - would work fine for this as well, I would think.
If you are looking for an argument to support basic income, check TFA:
The study found that, on average, it costs $10,300 overall to prevent a spell of homelessness when the costs of operating the call centers and maintaining the funding networks are included.... only a fraction of that money goes directly to the person in need,
$10k for $1k received! Just one of numerous expensive and inefficient welfare systems. How many billions could be saved by scrapping them, and replace it with a single non-means-tested payment system?
My key fob broke and Dodge wants several hundred dollars to replace it with a new one.
So you car still starts, but no keyless entry? You should be able to get cheap generic fobs and receiver, and wire it to the unlock button inside your car.
He has made health insurance much more available, and health care much more affordable, in general.
It seems to have take a massive chunk of his energies to achieve very modest reforms that should have been easy, but the establishment opposed even the most obvious reforms. Health expenditure is still 17% of GDP.
He has reduced the deficit massively,
He has? People are too quick to blame/credit the leader for economic factors. How are the USs major trading partners doing over the same period? What would Clinton or Romney have done any differently? The GFC was many administrations in the making. What financial reforms have been put in place since?
Obama is intelligent, articulate, hard-working and has noble goals. But he is just one guy, and the presidency is not as powerful as we think, at least not for domestic matters. Sure the president can fuck the country up by starting expensive wars, he can block legislation, but sadly he can only do a little to fix things.
If you believe Obama was ever being genuine you must think Hillary is too.
Why? There is a big gap in your logic there. But I'm sure Hilary was once young and idealistic. Most people were before they became old and jaded. Its just that in Obama's case we got to see it happening.
You really think the Russian intelligence services are as stupid as the typical American voter and believes the elections in America have any real input into the purposeful mismanagement of the country
Its not about being stupid. Even Obama seems to have gone into office genuinely believing he could "make a difference". 7 years later, GTMO is still going and Obama is presumably wiser.
What's the difference between a DDoS attack and 4 million people all trying to submit their census all at the same time?
In simplest terms, real census users would peak on the order of 1000 new sessions per second. A large botnet DDOS can do a million connection requests per second.
At this stage all reports indicate that the ABS cocked things up big time. The DDoS angle seems to be furious spin doctoring.
ABS decided a while ago to outsource the hosting to IBM, paying $10 million for development (simple webforms) and hosting (the hard part). Given IBM's record in Australia, you might argue this choice was a cockup.
I've been in the "1st class" lounges in the US and Australia,
Not sure where you are, but out West, the lounge that was once full of business travellers in suits is now full of FIFOs (fly-in, fly-out mine workers), many in safety-boots and hi-vis clothing. Times have changed.
I would not be surprised if it ends up similar to Osama's case.
What? Send a special forces team into Moscow and risk world war III? Despite what you may have seen on some shitty FX TV show, the KGB and CIA have never gone around killing people on the other's home soil. It would be a bad precedent. Then again it might be wise for Snowden to run a Geiger counter over his tea.
You keep using those words, but I don't think you know what they mean.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
That very much applies to these words. Treason law is rarely and inconsistently applied in the US. The last case was the Rosenbergs, who passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets in the early Cold War.
That would be high treason. But it is treason to wage war against the king in his realm. If that's not enough, they allied with the French when they were already at war with England! But treason is always political: none of the Confederate leaders were ever charged with treason, even though clearly guilty under US law.
Its funny how history always sides with the victors. The War of Independence was good, the Confederate war of indep^Wsecession^Wrebellion was bad.
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A steel roof certainly costs more than the asphalt shingles used it the US. You might think using shingles was a sign of poverty, except that American homes are the size of African airport terminals.
I shuddered at "RealDoll CEO" . A CEO with three working offices?
when will US posters finally stop using imperial manner and units
Right after they start using coins bigger than a quarter-dollar, implement universal health-care, give their streets names, stop believing in God, replace grid-iron with soccer, and drive on left.
It would not hurt to mention the country in the summary, even if this is a US-centric site.
The author appears to be unaware that laws are not the same in all countries.
It would be interesting to compare, as most developed countries have a warranty by law (statutory) that cannot be disclaimed.
The US has implied warranty , but that does not cover failures if it works at first??
The Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act offers the cop-out of letting companies choose a full or limited warranty. So guess what Apple does? Do many US companies offer a full warranty? So what's the point? It seems Apple/Samsung just needs to say the magic words limited warranty and do whatever the hell the want.
The facts of this story have been "everywhere" for about 5 days, now, and yet it's just made it to Slashdot?
This means Slashdot is improving. Slashdot - always with the latest news.
I'm confused, by QM generally, and this in particular.
Is there any military application, or are those guys just going to keep using boring old physical key distribution, and one-time-pads for the serious stuff?
How is this different from a typical MITM attack?
The attacker does not have to be "in the middle" .
But standard defence against MITM - don't trust unencrypted connections - would work fine for this as well, I would think.
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I hope the programmers put some floating hills and dragons in the VR simulation, just for fun.
I'd favor a basic income. A very basic income.
If you are looking for an argument to support basic income, check TFA:
The study found that, on average, it costs $10,300 overall to prevent a spell of homelessness when the costs of operating the call centers and maintaining the funding networks are included. ... only a fraction of that money goes directly to the person in need,
$10k for $1k received! Just one of numerous expensive and inefficient welfare systems. How many billions could be saved by scrapping them, and replace it with a single non-means-tested payment system?
My key fob broke and Dodge wants several hundred dollars to replace it with a new one.
So you car still starts, but no keyless entry?
You should be able to get cheap generic fobs and receiver, and wire it to the unlock button inside your car.
He has made health insurance much more available, and health care much more affordable, in general.
It seems to have take a massive chunk of his energies to achieve very modest reforms that should have been easy, but the establishment opposed even the most obvious reforms. Health expenditure is still 17% of GDP.
He has reduced the deficit massively,
He has? People are too quick to blame/credit the leader for economic factors. How are the USs major trading partners doing over the same period? What would Clinton or Romney have done any differently? The GFC was many administrations in the making. What financial reforms have been put in place since?
Obama is intelligent, articulate, hard-working and has noble goals. But he is just one guy, and the presidency is not as powerful as we think, at least not for domestic matters. Sure the president can fuck the country up by starting expensive wars, he can block legislation, but sadly he can only do a little to fix things.
If you believe Obama was ever being genuine you must think Hillary is too.
Why? There is a big gap in your logic there. But I'm sure Hilary was once young and idealistic. Most people were before they became old and jaded.
Its just that in Obama's case we got to see it happening.
Yes. Unless the is some evidence that he was a whistle-blower, e.g. Assange actually says it, this is firmly in the conspiracy-theory territory.
just like in that extraordinary film.
Film? I don't think they had films in the 12th century. Henry II was not a Hollywood sequel.
You really think the Russian intelligence services are as stupid as the typical American voter and believes the elections in America have any real input into the purposeful mismanagement of the country
Its not about being stupid. Even Obama seems to have gone into office genuinely believing he could "make a difference". 7 years later, GTMO is still going and Obama is presumably wiser.
This isn't "dihydrogen monoxide", ... It never degrades and will last millions of years.
DHMO can last millions of years, and is one of the leading causes of death in toddlers in the US.
I'm just saying that a DDOS can be orders of magnitude bigger than even a nation census.
And it is 12 million responses total, maybe 6 million online, spread over days and weeks.
Time is not especially critical.
What's the difference between a DDoS attack and 4 million people all trying to submit their census all at the same time?
In simplest terms, real census users would peak on the order of 1000 new sessions per second.
A large botnet DDOS can do a million connection requests per second.
At this stage all reports indicate that the ABS cocked things up big time. The DDoS angle seems to be furious spin doctoring.
ABS decided a while ago to outsource the hosting to IBM, paying $10 million for development (simple webforms) and hosting (the hard part).
Given IBM's record in Australia, you might argue this choice was a cockup.
I've been in the "1st class" lounges in the US and Australia,
Not sure where you are, but out West, the lounge that was once full of business travellers in suits is now full of FIFOs (fly-in, fly-out mine workers), many in safety-boots and hi-vis clothing. Times have changed.
I would not be surprised if it ends up similar to Osama's case.
What? Send a special forces team into Moscow and risk world war III?
Despite what you may have seen on some shitty FX TV show, the KGB and CIA have never gone around killing people on the other's home soil. It would be a bad precedent. Then again it might be wise for Snowden to run a Geiger counter over his tea.
Snowden is like the Founding Fathers of America.
That's a bit harsh. Snowden has not started a war that killed a hundred thousand people.
You keep using those words, but I don't think you know what they mean.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
That very much applies to these words.
Treason law is rarely and inconsistently applied in the US. The last case was the Rosenbergs, who passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets in the early Cold War.
But back in the US civil war, a man was executed for treason for pulling down a US flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did the Americans overthrow the King?
That would be high treason. But it is treason to wage war against the king in his realm. If that's not enough, they allied with the French when they were already at war with England!
But treason is always political: none of the Confederate leaders were ever charged with treason, even though clearly guilty under US law.
Its funny how history always sides with the victors. The War of Independence was good, the Confederate war of indep^Wsecession^Wrebellion was bad.