I wonder why they don't just wind down all activities and give up. That has to be the cheapest way to resolve this. I don't think even a name change will help them now.
If you won't properly separate your security-critical systems from your Internet-facing systems, or cannot even keep them from being rooted multiple times, you have no business being a CA.
Honestly, it's understandable DigiNotar didn't want this information out: bankrupcy is inevitable now, and that's bad for shareholder value.
Also, since the middle ages we've been under pretty much constant thread of the sea washing away our country. The waterschappen (water boards), which are responsible for keeping our feet (and sometimes our heads) dry, are the oldest democratic institutions here, some dating back to the 13th century.
The geography of the Netherlands is so that you cannot keep just your bit of land dry. Thus on occasion even lords and cities that were otherwise formally at war had to cooperate to keep the dykes maintained and the water out. This has created a deep democratic tradition and a strong respect for engineering in the Dutch civic mind. For example, the Deltawet, the system of laws describing how the major dykes are to be maintained, isn't based on some ideology or pork-barrel system as it would be in some other countries, but on statistical models and sound engineering.
Does the current state of knowledge tell us that the dykes are too low? Shucks, we'll have to heighten them then. Well, lets get started, otherwise it won't get done before the storm season is upon us again. And don't worry about the cost much, these things usually pay for themselves in one night.
tl;dr: We have to have good governance. Otherwise, the dykes fail and we die. Literally.
Google is actually doing a good thing: now I don't have to remember the password for my wireless network; any Android device can automatically look it up on Google's servers.
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
In the long run this will also be likely linked to Aspergers Syndrome
Of course, heavy internet use causes Asperger's syndrome and the usual comorbid social anxiety issues, instead of the other way around. How could we have been so stupid back in the 1940's?!
My ISP (XS4all in The Netherlands) gave me a/48, which is 65536 of those blocks. Actually, RIPE policy is that they're supposed to (ARIN allows/56's for residential users, which is a mere 256 64-bit blocks).
The rationale for this policy is that it allows for really easy routing while not even using one percent of the entire IPv6 address space.
Are you one of the investment bankers who caused stockmarkets to crash [...] ?
What does that have to do with taking care of people who happen to not have the money to pay for it themselves? If any one group has proven to be able to take care of themselves it's investment bankers.
The factory workers in Detroit had it pretty swank actually.
Thanks to the unions btw, which basically created the middle class and raised capitalism from the same old mess to something actually quite liveable. I still cannot comprehend why they're seen as malevolent on the western side of the atlantic.
Your wage does not correlate with how necessary you are to our society.
Spot on! Consider garbage collectors; no other profession has had a larger impact on the health of society as a whole. Without them rampant cholera would actually be the least of our troubles.
Why don't you have compassion for those whose labor is confiscated in order to pay for your social stability scheme?
Because we know it's mere chance separating those who can labor from those who cannot. It cannot be rationally dealt with, and it's therefore beyond capitalist economics (which assumes rational players).
Also, if it's about cost, consider this: the life of every ALS-patient ever lived and which shall ever live is quite nicely paid for by the life and works of one person, Stephen Hawking. The same can probably be said of every major illness.
MS shouldn't really be allowing such poor practices.
What are you proposing exactly, have them automatically analyse all code that is being released (and solve the halting problem at the same time)? And how would you propose they deal with the ensuing shitstorm? There are actually legitimate reasons for DLLs changing you know, like the common controls I mentioned.
Besides, what would you rather have, a program not working in its entirety, or working properly and using a meg more memory (that'd be a huge DLL; the code segment of most DLLs is barely half that)?
The real problem is C version Y not being backward compatible to C version X, leading to this idiocy of piling more and more complexity on top of a totally rotten mechanism.
It might surprise you, but Microsoft isn't actually to blame here. Rather, the legions of incompetent programmers that wrote DLLs such as C are to blame. We'd call them idiots, but Microsoft calls them paying customers. Thus prompting them to design SxS and incorporate it in WinXP.
Also, SxS is what made the restyling of the UI (through common controls version 6) technically possible.
Microsoft takes backwards compatibility very seriously.
the current versions of the public SDK still use Visual Studio 2005
For most projects, upgrading sources from VS2005 to VS2008 is really quite painless, no harder than opening the.SLN in 2008 and letting it save the converted result. Are the Source sources really that problematic?
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Nope, it's owned by VASCO, which is publicly traded.
I wonder why they don't just wind down all activities and give up. That has to be the cheapest way to resolve this. I don't think even a name change will help them now.
If you won't properly separate your security-critical systems from your Internet-facing systems, or cannot even keep them from being rooted multiple times, you have no business being a CA.
Honestly, it's understandable DigiNotar didn't want this information out: bankrupcy is inevitable now, and that's bad for shareholder value.
I say that as a dutchman. I'm ashamed to be from the same country as these bozos.
Also, since the middle ages we've been under pretty much constant thread of the sea washing away our country. The waterschappen (water boards), which are responsible for keeping our feet (and sometimes our heads) dry, are the oldest democratic institutions here, some dating back to the 13th century.
The geography of the Netherlands is so that you cannot keep just your bit of land dry. Thus on occasion even lords and cities that were otherwise formally at war had to cooperate to keep the dykes maintained and the water out. This has created a deep democratic tradition and a strong respect for engineering in the Dutch civic mind. For example, the Deltawet, the system of laws describing how the major dykes are to be maintained, isn't based on some ideology or pork-barrel system as it would be in some other countries, but on statistical models and sound engineering.
Does the current state of knowledge tell us that the dykes are too low? Shucks, we'll have to heighten them then. Well, lets get started, otherwise it won't get done before the storm season is upon us again. And don't worry about the cost much, these things usually pay for themselves in one night.
tl;dr: We have to have good governance. Otherwise, the dykes fail and we die. Literally.
Yeah, let's make lab mice smarter! What could possibly go wrong?
Google is actually doing a good thing: now I don't have to remember the password for my wireless network; any Android device can automatically look it up on Google's servers.
Thanks, Google!
Actually, I'd suggest to use both. If one fails, you still have the other.
That's pretty insightful of him!
At least let's hope we won't all end up like that guy in TFA's illustration. Looks like he's missing something.
Of course, heavy internet use causes Asperger's syndrome and the usual comorbid social anxiety issues, instead of the other way around. How could we have been so stupid back in the 1940's?!
My ISP (XS4all in The Netherlands) gave me a /48, which is 65536 of those blocks. Actually, RIPE policy is that they're supposed to (ARIN allows /56's for residential users, which is a mere 256 64-bit blocks).
The rationale for this policy is that it allows for really easy routing while not even using one percent of the entire IPv6 address space.
Effeminacy has nothing to do with sexual orientation. If anything, a majority of homosexual men are _more_ masculine than heterosexual men.
What does that have to do with taking care of people who happen to not have the money to pay for it themselves? If any one group has proven to be able to take care of themselves it's investment bankers.
Thanks to the unions btw, which basically created the middle class and raised capitalism from the same old mess to something actually quite liveable. I still cannot comprehend why they're seen as malevolent on the western side of the atlantic.
Spot on! Consider garbage collectors; no other profession has had a larger impact on the health of society as a whole. Without them rampant cholera would actually be the least of our troubles.
Because we know it's mere chance separating those who can labor from those who cannot. It cannot be rationally dealt with, and it's therefore beyond capitalist economics (which assumes rational players).
Also, if it's about cost, consider this: the life of every ALS-patient ever lived and which shall ever live is quite nicely paid for by the life and works of one person, Stephen Hawking. The same can probably be said of every major illness.
And why should your ability to produce enough for society be measured by how much money you have?
What an unfortunate choice of words.
Now they're locked in to PHP.
Apparently they were under a lot of pressure.
Oh, yeah, you're right, sorry. Somehow the myriad SxS calls I've seen littering the MFC source must've slipped my mind.
What are you proposing exactly, have them automatically analyse all code that is being released (and solve the halting problem at the same time)? And how would you propose they deal with the ensuing shitstorm? There are actually legitimate reasons for DLLs changing you know, like the common controls I mentioned.
Besides, what would you rather have, a program not working in its entirety, or working properly and using a meg more memory (that'd be a huge DLL; the code segment of most DLLs is barely half that)?
It might surprise you, but Microsoft isn't actually to blame here. Rather, the legions of incompetent programmers that wrote DLLs such as C are to blame. We'd call them idiots, but Microsoft calls them paying customers. Thus prompting them to design SxS and incorporate it in WinXP.
Also, SxS is what made the restyling of the UI (through common controls version 6) technically possible.
Microsoft takes backwards compatibility very seriously.
For most projects, upgrading sources from VS2005 to VS2008 is really quite painless, no harder than opening the .SLN in 2008 and letting it save the converted result. Are the Source sources really that problematic?