Which is why you take ten votes and discard responses that aren't unanimous. Even with random responses, a 0.1% failure rate isn't too bad. Ban the voters who don't vote with the majority most of the time.
The only obvious reason to DDoS a bunch of DNS servers is if you're going to be doing some cache poisoning and mounting a massive MITM attack, and if you're lucky you recently obtained a trusted intermediate CA via an MD5 collision attack on a lousy root CA like RapidSSL.
Has anyone bothered to petition Mozilla to remove all the offending root CAs with the weakness shown in MD5 considered harmful today?
What exactly makes an SSL based protocol (OpenVPN) better than an SSL based protocol (OpenSSH)? Obviously having a secure network connection is useful, but this is not always what you want, or the minimum that you need. Either one offers the possibility of remote management.
So obviously if they've been drive-by installed once, a simple disclaimer: "note, this will stop all the pop-up ads from appearing on your screen and secure your computer" should get clicked on just as readily, making it legal.
Humans are the only animals capable of thinking deeply about their actions. If you think most animals are learning by trial and error, you are incorrect. Humans are the only animals who are capable of enough self-reflection to analyze our actions in such a way. We have to decide how to act; for most animals its simply automatic. Don't you think we should think about it? Or, should we just go on instinct?
You would be proving my point if you weren't wrong. If animals truly could not learn by trial and error, then what I said would be trivially true; animals make some mental/instinctual prediction and whether it comes true or not determines whether they survive. Rats and plenty of other animals have been shown to learn by trial and error, however.
As it is, the major evolutionary difference between humans and most animals is not that they don't think about themselves, but that the thought happens on a different level. Natural selection has the effect of allowing genes to think about their own actions, by actively removing the ones that think poorly. Humans, on the other hand, have the ability to apply the same kind of selection to their thoughts within a single individual.
That said, it's *all* instinct, whether it's animal or human behavior. Human instinct just changes faster, and is not limited to gene propagation for its major changes. To paraphrase, it's survival of the fittest all the way down.
You're confusing the issue. If I said I believed in universal truth, or not, that would be philosophy. I said *regardless* of the existence of universal truth or even the truth of individual theorems, there will be successful predictions and unsuccessful ones. The successful predictions will allow the predictor to survive and reproduce. The predictions that are successful are completely defined by the universe, not by philosophy. Hence, my prediction in this post may be completely wrong, but that has nothing to do with philosophy either, instead it depends on what actually happens in the universe.
That's a philosophical statement. You made a philosophical choice to make survival and reproduction your standards. You didn't have to pick that. You could have said anything at all. But, no matter your standard for induction, you had to make the choice, one way or another. And you did that using philosophy.
I didn't pick the standard, the universe did. If you want to argue with the universe, go drop rocks on your head. A philosophical viewpoint will not change reality, and therefore it is possible to make predictions independent of philosophy. If you are a solipsist you might believe otherwise, but it still wouldn't change anything and would in fact lead to a contradiction; if your beliefs influence reality then they *are* reality and no longer philosophy.
Why would they need to? There were "experiments" going on all the time in the ancient world, just as there are in refrigerators all over the planet today. A piece of food would get left somewhere, and when it was found again, it would be covered with mold, maggots and flies. It was obvious.
So how would they explain food preservation like salting/smoking/drying meats, or storing grain in dry places?
How many times do you have to repeat that before you can come to the conclusion that the rock will fall to the ground whenever you drop it? That's a philosophical question. There is no way to develop a theory from a finite series of observations, without using induction. And I don't see any reason that you should accept the principal of induction without some philosophizing.
You only have to repeat experiments until you can rely on the outcome enough to survive and reproduce. Absolute truth is not necessary for survival, only statistical relevance. If I can be 99.9% sure that rocks fall when released above the ground, I will try to avoid heavy rocks being released above my head regardless of whether there's any Universal Truth or Falsehood to general relativity.
There is also money in the information, like the information you feed to a fabricator to actually make the things you want. Future economies will not be based on selling widgets, but rather on selling widget designs.
Kind of like how people are buying and selling basic algorithms and mathematical formulas? Or buying and selling GNU, Linux, and BSD software? Honestly, I think home fabrication will be the final nail in the coffin for "intellectual property".
BGiving birth to a premie is about as unlikely to happen to the average person as getting hit by a bus. It's not that common. And I'm not sure where you got the $100,000 pricetag for heart surgery and ICU? My father had a pacemaker installed and it cost around $10,000. My grandfather spent time in ICU, and it was about $300 a day.
That's why insurance *works*. The people who it doesn't happen to pay for the people it does happen to. When exactly did your grandfather go to the ICU? Prices are in the $3000 a day range, at least: cite. I've had a couple relatives in the ICU for close to a month. Heart transplants are even more expensive.
People like yourself tend to exaggerate the health costs. They are expensive, but they are certainly not in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Almost all health costs are less than the cost of buying an SUV.
My insurance company paid close to a million dollars for my premature twins. What am I supposed to do with a million dollar hospital bill? "Almost all" does nothing to help the people who actually do have massive bills. There's no way I could save up a million dollars to pay for health care, and no way I could pay the interest on a million dollar loan if I had to get one to pay my hospital bill.
The *only* way modern health care can work is by sharing the risk through insurance; socialized or otherwise.
Also, you are overestimating the cost of SUV ownership; a 5 year old SUV will have ~half of its value left at tradein, making each subsequent purchase about $15,000, using your average.
It's not the $6,000 or even $30,000 hospital bill. It's the $500,000 NICU care for a premature infant, $150,000 for a week in ICU, or $100,000 heart surgery. Only the super-rich could take the risk of self insurance.
Face recognition combined with the security cameras pointed at every register make (or probably will make, in the near future) that a stupid way to keep your privacy. Pay someone else to shop and do a blind drop, or grow your own food and mine your own silicon to build your own computers.
Credit Card numbers are quite reliable and for 1 dollar we would get *all* of the information on the card holder. This included name, address, age, spouse's name and age, children's names and ages, your income, and various demographic information for your neighbourhood.
So, uh, basically everything you'd need to impersonate the person whose card number you have? No wonder credit card companies are so eager to do chargebacks and eat the loss on fraud... There's actually negative personal security by having a credit card.
Just how choosy was the company you were doing lookups with? Can any cheapo web store get an account with them?
I always laugh at the higher priced "audio" discs sitting next to the data discs and wonder who actually buys them. I suppose if I blew the dust off of them I might be able to find a date of manufacture...
It's much simpler to create a snapshot and copy from that.
I'm not sure exactly what configuration you're talking about, but if the database server load is so high that you need to backup from a snapshot, wouldn't replaying the logs to keep the replicate up to date cause a huge load on the server hosting the replicate, too? Or are you talking about taking a snapshot of the raw storage using a feature of the SAN/OS and then applying enough archive logs to that to make it a consistent database, and then backing that up?
There are only about a hundred different ways to do proper database backups...
ACID compliant databases use a log, much like a filesystem journal, that contains all the changes made to the database before those changes were actually written out to the main database storage. When you back up the raw database, you back up all the logs since at least the time you started backup up the raw files until the time the backup was finished, and when you need to restore the database you put the raw data back and then let the database replay the logs.
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Who the hell knows that shit??? O_o
Google.
In other news, it's probably a bad idea to base a captcha on something Google will look up for you.
The trouble is, those also tend to exclude Americans.
Epic win!
So the solution to spam is to equalize the world's economies, bringing everyone into the middle class? Sounds good to me.
Which is why you take ten votes and discard responses that aren't unanimous. Even with random responses, a 0.1% failure rate isn't too bad. Ban the voters who don't vote with the majority most of the time.
The only obvious reason to DDoS a bunch of DNS servers is if you're going to be doing some cache poisoning and mounting a massive MITM attack, and if you're lucky you recently obtained a trusted intermediate CA via an MD5 collision attack on a lousy root CA like RapidSSL.
Has anyone bothered to petition Mozilla to remove all the offending root CAs with the weakness shown in MD5 considered harmful today?
What exactly makes an SSL based protocol (OpenVPN) better than an SSL based protocol (OpenSSH)? Obviously having a secure network connection is useful, but this is not always what you want, or the minimum that you need. Either one offers the possibility of remote management.
So obviously if they've been drive-by installed once, a simple disclaimer: "note, this will stop all the pop-up ads from appearing on your screen and secure your computer" should get clicked on just as readily, making it legal.
Give the passphrase a few million extra hashes and make dictionary attacks closer to the difficulty of a brute force attack.
Humans are the only animals capable of thinking deeply about their actions. If you think most animals are learning by trial and error, you are incorrect. Humans are the only animals who are capable of enough self-reflection to analyze our actions in such a way. We have to decide how to act; for most animals its simply automatic. Don't you think we should think about it? Or, should we just go on instinct?
You would be proving my point if you weren't wrong. If animals truly could not learn by trial and error, then what I said would be trivially true; animals make some mental/instinctual prediction and whether it comes true or not determines whether they survive. Rats and plenty of other animals have been shown to learn by trial and error, however.
As it is, the major evolutionary difference between humans and most animals is not that they don't think about themselves, but that the thought happens on a different level. Natural selection has the effect of allowing genes to think about their own actions, by actively removing the ones that think poorly. Humans, on the other hand, have the ability to apply the same kind of selection to their thoughts within a single individual.
That said, it's *all* instinct, whether it's animal or human behavior. Human instinct just changes faster, and is not limited to gene propagation for its major changes. To paraphrase, it's survival of the fittest all the way down.
You're confusing the issue. If I said I believed in universal truth, or not, that would be philosophy. I said *regardless* of the existence of universal truth or even the truth of individual theorems, there will be successful predictions and unsuccessful ones. The successful predictions will allow the predictor to survive and reproduce. The predictions that are successful are completely defined by the universe, not by philosophy. Hence, my prediction in this post may be completely wrong, but that has nothing to do with philosophy either, instead it depends on what actually happens in the universe.
That's a philosophical statement. You made a philosophical choice to make survival and reproduction your standards. You didn't have to pick that. You could have said anything at all. But, no matter your standard for induction, you had to make the choice, one way or another. And you did that using philosophy.
I didn't pick the standard, the universe did. If you want to argue with the universe, go drop rocks on your head. A philosophical viewpoint will not change reality, and therefore it is possible to make predictions independent of philosophy. If you are a solipsist you might believe otherwise, but it still wouldn't change anything and would in fact lead to a contradiction; if your beliefs influence reality then they *are* reality and no longer philosophy.
The heteros would just have to have way more sex and kids. Sounds fine to me.
Photons? Neutrinos? Quarks?
Why would they need to? There were "experiments" going on all the time in the ancient world, just as there are in refrigerators all over the planet today. A piece of food would get left somewhere, and when it was found again, it would be covered with mold, maggots and flies. It was obvious.
So how would they explain food preservation like salting/smoking/drying meats, or storing grain in dry places?
How many times do you have to repeat that before you can come to the conclusion that the rock will fall to the ground whenever you drop it? That's a philosophical question. There is no way to develop a theory from a finite series of observations, without using induction. And I don't see any reason that you should accept the principal of induction without some philosophizing.
You only have to repeat experiments until you can rely on the outcome enough to survive and reproduce. Absolute truth is not necessary for survival, only statistical relevance. If I can be 99.9% sure that rocks fall when released above the ground, I will try to avoid heavy rocks being released above my head regardless of whether there's any Universal Truth or Falsehood to general relativity.
There is also money in the information, like the information you feed to a fabricator to actually make the things you want. Future economies will not be based on selling widgets, but rather on selling widget designs.
Kind of like how people are buying and selling basic algorithms and mathematical formulas? Or buying and selling GNU, Linux, and BSD software? Honestly, I think home fabrication will be the final nail in the coffin for "intellectual property".
BGiving birth to a premie is about as unlikely to happen to the average person as getting hit by a bus. It's not that common. And I'm not sure where you got the $100,000 pricetag for heart surgery and ICU? My father had a pacemaker installed and it cost around $10,000. My grandfather spent time in ICU, and it was about $300 a day.
That's why insurance *works*. The people who it doesn't happen to pay for the people it does happen to. When exactly did your grandfather go to the ICU? Prices are in the $3000 a day range, at least: cite. I've had a couple relatives in the ICU for close to a month. Heart transplants are even more expensive.
People like yourself tend to exaggerate the health costs. They are expensive, but they are certainly not in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Almost all health costs are less than the cost of buying an SUV.
My insurance company paid close to a million dollars for my premature twins. What am I supposed to do with a million dollar hospital bill? "Almost all" does nothing to help the people who actually do have massive bills. There's no way I could save up a million dollars to pay for health care, and no way I could pay the interest on a million dollar loan if I had to get one to pay my hospital bill.
The *only* way modern health care can work is by sharing the risk through insurance; socialized or otherwise.
Also, you are overestimating the cost of SUV ownership; a 5 year old SUV will have ~half of its value left at tradein, making each subsequent purchase about $15,000, using your average.
Whatever happened with those electronic cash equivalents (hashcash, etc.)? It seems like it might be about time to replace the credit industry...
It's not the $6,000 or even $30,000 hospital bill. It's the $500,000 NICU care for a premature infant, $150,000 for a week in ICU, or $100,000 heart surgery. Only the super-rich could take the risk of self insurance.
Face recognition combined with the security cameras pointed at every register make (or probably will make, in the near future) that a stupid way to keep your privacy. Pay someone else to shop and do a blind drop, or grow your own food and mine your own silicon to build your own computers.
Credit Card numbers are quite reliable and for 1 dollar we would get *all* of the information on the card holder. This included name, address, age, spouse's name and age, children's names and ages, your income, and various demographic information for your neighbourhood.
So, uh, basically everything you'd need to impersonate the person whose card number you have? No wonder credit card companies are so eager to do chargebacks and eat the loss on fraud... There's actually negative personal security by having a credit card.
Just how choosy was the company you were doing lookups with? Can any cheapo web store get an account with them?
See how politics works now?
I always laugh at the higher priced "audio" discs sitting next to the data discs and wonder who actually buys them. I suppose if I blew the dust off of them I might be able to find a date of manufacture...
It's much simpler to create a snapshot and copy from that.
I'm not sure exactly what configuration you're talking about, but if the database server load is so high that you need to backup from a snapshot, wouldn't replaying the logs to keep the replicate up to date cause a huge load on the server hosting the replicate, too? Or are you talking about taking a snapshot of the raw storage using a feature of the SAN/OS and then applying enough archive logs to that to make it a consistent database, and then backing that up?
There are only about a hundred different ways to do proper database backups...
ACID compliant databases use a log, much like a filesystem journal, that contains all the changes made to the database before those changes were actually written out to the main database storage. When you back up the raw database, you back up all the logs since at least the time you started backup up the raw files until the time the backup was finished, and when you need to restore the database you put the raw data back and then let the database replay the logs.