Are you making the same argument of authors? Must they make and publish corrected editions for as long as their work is under copyright? Will they then also publish a redaction edition too if said work becomes outdated or is determined to be wrong (in the case of non-fiction)?
The difference is that with closed source, the only exploits that are discovered by third parties and get fixed are those that have already been exploited, and already resulted in vulnerable systems.
This is an unprovable statement. You have no idea how many exploits are discovered by the authors or those in charge of maintaining closed code nor how many of those are fixed.
What your statement really is saying is that the only publicized exploits are those found by third parties. And this is, for the most part, the same with open source code.
With open source, such critical bugs can and actually *will* be fixed,....
Eight years later? And this in code needed for security. Are you saying my confidence in open source code review should be increased now?
I'm not so sure it is "late to the game" - the trend has been there for a while. Polling data always needs to be viewed cautiously. Americans have a history of telling pollers what they think they want to hear or at the least, not giving an answer which they think might embarass themself to the poll taker. Giving a 'not religious' answer today is a lot more socially acceptable than it was 30 or 50 years ago.
This story should prove once and for all that "open source" != secure and that "open source" does not provide any different level of security than closed source. Over eight years and well.. nobody noticed. Nobody cared. And if they did, they certainly were not up to the task at hand. You would think that code that is critical to a secure connection might, just might, get a little more thorough review than say.. the latest eye candy in kde or gnome? Where were all those eyes that we always hear about that will vet open source code? Was it just too hard? Or maybe it just didn't get them hard because it was not a sexy project?
And before RS marks me a troll - this is not to say closed source is inherently secure or less prone to bugs either. The point in this particular case is that any one trusting the veracity of code, crypto stuff in particular, is kidding themself and that in general the openess of code does not make it better.
the os only boots once a day.. or week or.. so speed improvements there are cosmetic. Nobody is going to notice the time it takes to load a small driver or other OS file during the day whether it is ssd or hdd.
Even some of the piggy programs like firefox or xyzOffice - how often do people close them once they are open?
Outside of special users who regularly load and save very large files throughout the day the SSD "boost" ain't all that its cracked up to be.
Meanwhile, new PCs are dirt cheap and available from about $350 on up to insane Apple prices. Latest CPUs. Latests buses. Latest RAM. Frankly the biggest problem I have is Firefox or similar getting pokey when it starts shuffling around 1GB of in use RAM (even though much more is available).
Really? Was he calling for rounding up all the homosexuals and shooting them at dawn? Or was he expressing his view on marriage? Personally I have a different view on marriage than Eich or the gay mob who managed to oust him. Does that disqualify me too?
You are wrong. Really. You clearly need to expand your resources on the subject past what you have so far. And honestly, it seems more that you have a fixation on Stalin than anything else.
The best that can be arugued is that Fuchs sped up the development of the implosion atomic weapon, largely by helping them better focus their resources. The Soviets could have made a gun device but opted instead to go to the high yield/smaller deliverable. And the further removed you get from the end of the war the less he mattered. His "info" on the hydrogen bomb was incorrect, yet the Joe 4 boosted and the later RDS 37 megaton weapons happened on similar timeframes as the US project.
This just means its ok now for corps, non-profits, anyone at all to say "you did what outside of work? you're FIRED!" This was about as dishonest a campaign as I have ever seen. Tolerance? No such thing. The people leading the charge on this one have done more to damage public opinion of gays in general and same sex marriage in particular than Eich ever did with his donation.
I assume that the boycott will not end and will continue until nobody uses Javascript. Afterall, he created Javascript so that too is tainted with "anti-gay". Or is it ok to make use of his works but just not let him be CEO of anything?
Fail. The surface area of a side view mirror is far larger so even when covered by a significant amount of snow mud or whatever you can often still get useful information from it. Mirrors are analog. Cameras are not.
And the unwrecked fail rate for camera systems > fail rate for mirrors.
Dude.. really you need to read a bit more on this. The Russian program was not dependent upon Fuchs for the either the atomic or hydrogen bomb. And all intelligence the Russians received had to be double and triple checked. Fuchs aided their atomic program but it would have been build in much the same time frame without him.
So now everybody buying a car or light truck will be saddled with an additional cost. Is this to "save" the children? All... 14 a year? All 1,100 injuries a year? Or is it about over a $1B bottom line to some industry? Or is it just another excuse to medddle in our lives? More kids probably die eating pop tarts each year.
The safety nannies are out of fucking control and it is high time they all were run over - without helmets of course.
I have a neighbor who has two autistic kids, or at least that is the diagnosis. I'm not sure its the proper one but there is definitely an issue. The mother did have the kids relatively late in the child bearing age range and the husband is in that upper band too. I don't doubt there could be something to this. All that said, I cringe at how much our society leans on the crutch of illnesses (especially psychological) to try to explain bad behavior or reasonable departure from the norm. Child behavior and intelligence are not a measurement with sigma -> 0. I personally think much of the behavior issues of the past 25 years can be attributed to two things: a) parents who are overworked and/or self distracted, b) parents who are unwilling (for reasons good or bad) to discipline children. A lesser reason is the safety cocoon society now places around 'the children'. There are few, if any, consequences for kids these days. And we wonder why they have more behavior problems?
I know big pharma and teachers union would hate the idea but lets stop medicating the kids as a start.
Right.. and that is their problem when they are wiped out.
I'm not talking about once in a life time events. If you live in CA you accept the risk of large earthquakes - there is a long history of them. If you live on the Gulf coast you accept the risk of hurricanes - they come every year. Likewise tornados and trailer parks in Kansas.
And I am not suggesting that people not live in those places, only that they not come crying to everyone else about how they lost their home or loved ones after an event.
Back in the 70s the same people would say cigarette smoking caused crashes because a large % of drivers smoked. Studies have shown that talking on a cell phone is as 'distracting' as talking to somebody else in the car. And given the exuberance to ban cell phone use, can we tackle the most serious problem facing drivers?
Driving with children isn’t just slightly more dangerous; it’s a full 12 times more dangerous, according to the study. When researchers installed cameras in the cars of 12 families over a three-week period, they found talking on the phone only accounted for one percent of distractions. Distractions from children, meanwhile, accounted for 12 percent of all distractions. Over the course of an average 16-minute trip, parents that had kids present spent three minutes and 22 seconds with their eyes not on the road.
Last I checked driving fatalities have been on a downward slope forever. Please stop the safety nanny crowd before it is too late.
this is an example of anti-tolerance. It is unfortunate that the LGBT community, at Mozilla in particular, is acting this way. The guy donated to a Prop 8 pac. That is his private affair and his private life. These same people need to get over themself and calling anyone who opposes (on whatever grounds) gay marriage as "hateful". Yes, perhaps some are. But the fact that somebody has a different opinion on a moral or social issue does not make them hateful. That kind of approach does not help your cause.
And for the record, I don't give a fuck who marries who or what. Marriage is strictly a matter for your church of record to confer, not the government(s).
In the roughly 10 years I've had Netflix I've had one DVD that would not play. DVD's just work. Streaming is subject, even if the libraries were the same, server problems at netflix, problems at Cognet, problems with my inet, problems with my wifi (which may be caused externally)...
I would also suggest your definition of convenient does not apply to everyone. For some people dvd by mail is very convenient and easier than dealing with the connection headaches (not every one has high speed inet, not everyone can afford it, not everyone wants to pay for it). For some people having everything available all the time may even be a negative as Netflix then becomes too easy a time sink.
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Are you making the same argument of authors? Must they make and publish corrected editions for as long as their work is under copyright? Will they then also publish a redaction edition too if said work becomes outdated or is determined to be wrong (in the case of non-fiction)?
Excellenet idea comrade!
This is an unprovable statement. You have no idea how many exploits are discovered by the authors or those in charge of maintaining closed code nor how many of those are fixed.
What your statement really is saying is that the only publicized exploits are those found by third parties. And this is, for the most part, the same with open source code.
Eight years later? And this in code needed for security. Are you saying my confidence in open source code review should be increased now?
I'm not so sure it is "late to the game" - the trend has been there for a while. Polling data always needs to be viewed cautiously. Americans have a history of telling pollers what they think they want to hear or at the least, not giving an answer which they think might embarass themself to the poll taker. Giving a 'not religious' answer today is a lot more socially acceptable than it was 30 or 50 years ago.
This story should prove once and for all that "open source" != secure and that "open source" does not provide any different level of security than closed source. Over eight years and well.. nobody noticed. Nobody cared. And if they did, they certainly were not up to the task at hand. You would think that code that is critical to a secure connection might, just might, get a little more thorough review than say.. the latest eye candy in kde or gnome? Where were all those eyes that we always hear about that will vet open source code? Was it just too hard? Or maybe it just didn't get them hard because it was not a sexy project?
And before RS marks me a troll - this is not to say closed source is inherently secure or less prone to bugs either. The point in this particular case is that any one trusting the veracity of code, crypto stuff in particular, is kidding themself and that in general the openess of code does not make it better.
the os only boots once a day.. or week or.. so speed improvements there are cosmetic. Nobody is going to notice the time it takes to load a small driver or other OS file during the day whether it is ssd or hdd.
Even some of the piggy programs like firefox or xyzOffice - how often do people close them once they are open?
Outside of special users who regularly load and save very large files throughout the day the SSD "boost" ain't all that its cracked up to be.
Meanwhile, new PCs are dirt cheap and available from about $350 on up to insane Apple prices. Latest CPUs. Latests buses. Latest RAM. Frankly the biggest problem I have is Firefox or similar getting pokey when it starts shuffling around 1GB of in use RAM (even though much more is available).
Really? Was he calling for rounding up all the homosexuals and shooting them at dawn? Or was he expressing his view on marriage? Personally I have a different view on marriage than Eich or the gay mob who managed to oust him. Does that disqualify me too?
You are wrong. Really. You clearly need to expand your resources on the subject past what you have so far. And honestly, it seems more that you have a fixation on Stalin than anything else.
The best that can be arugued is that Fuchs sped up the development of the implosion atomic weapon, largely by helping them better focus their resources. The Soviets could have made a gun device but opted instead to go to the high yield/smaller deliverable. And the further removed you get from the end of the war the less he mattered. His "info" on the hydrogen bomb was incorrect, yet the Joe 4 boosted and the later RDS 37 megaton weapons happened on similar timeframes as the US project.
This just means its ok now for corps, non-profits, anyone at all to say "you did what outside of work? you're FIRED!" This was about as dishonest a campaign as I have ever seen. Tolerance? No such thing. The people leading the charge on this one have done more to damage public opinion of gays in general and same sex marriage in particular than Eich ever did with his donation.
I assume that the boycott will not end and will continue until nobody uses Javascript. Afterall, he created Javascript so that too is tainted with "anti-gay". Or is it ok to make use of his works but just not let him be CEO of anything?
Fail. The surface area of a side view mirror is far larger so even when covered by a significant amount of snow mud or whatever you can often still get useful information from it. Mirrors are analog. Cameras are not.
And the unwrecked fail rate for camera systems > fail rate for mirrors.
Some things are just better left as is.
This is a really good blog on crypto in the WWII era http://chris-intel-corner.blog...
Dude.. really you need to read a bit more on this. The Russian program was not dependent upon Fuchs for the either the atomic or hydrogen bomb. And all intelligence the Russians received had to be double and triple checked. Fuchs aided their atomic program but it would have been build in much the same time frame without him.
the material Fuchs gave was not a game changer by any means and had even less bearing of the H-bomb.
The judge once again gives Samsung another avenue for appeal. If anything, Apple should also be asking not to use the video to avoid that outcome.
So now everybody buying a car or light truck will be saddled with an additional cost. Is this to "save" the children? All... 14 a year? All 1,100 injuries a year? Or is it about over a $1B bottom line to some industry? Or is it just another excuse to medddle in our lives? More kids probably die eating pop tarts each year.
The safety nannies are out of fucking control and it is high time they all were run over - without helmets of course.
I have a neighbor who has two autistic kids, or at least that is the diagnosis. I'm not sure its the proper one but there is definitely an issue. The mother did have the kids relatively late in the child bearing age range and the husband is in that upper band too. I don't doubt there could be something to this. All that said, I cringe at how much our society leans on the crutch of illnesses (especially psychological) to try to explain bad behavior or reasonable departure from the norm. Child behavior and intelligence are not a measurement with sigma -> 0. I personally think much of the behavior issues of the past 25 years can be attributed to two things: a) parents who are overworked and/or self distracted, b) parents who are unwilling (for reasons good or bad) to discipline children. A lesser reason is the safety cocoon society now places around 'the children'. There are few, if any, consequences for kids these days. And we wonder why they have more behavior problems?
I know big pharma and teachers union would hate the idea but lets stop medicating the kids as a start.
And at what cost to Costco? Are they going to be able to recoup cost of legal defense? Not likely.
Right.. and that is their problem when they are wiped out.
I'm not talking about once in a life time events. If you live in CA you accept the risk of large earthquakes - there is a long history of them. If you live on the Gulf coast you accept the risk of hurricanes - they come every year. Likewise tornados and trailer parks in Kansas.
And I am not suggesting that people not live in those places, only that they not come crying to everyone else about how they lost their home or loved ones after an event.
And that is the fault of the head of household and any other adults involved.
So... where is the study showing that people travelling one time zone have a 25% increase in heart attack risk? Hmmmmm?
I'm glad you can link to a post with your own definition of tolerance!
a slightly more authoritative definition of the word. But being tolerant, I'm fine with you using whatever definition you want.
I'd mod the AC up.. thats really the point here. If people want to build and live in a dangerous location then they have to accept the risks.
Back in the 70s the same people would say cigarette smoking caused crashes because a large % of drivers smoked. Studies have shown that talking on a cell phone is as 'distracting' as talking to somebody else in the car. And given the exuberance to ban cell phone use, can we tackle the most serious problem facing drivers?
Last I checked driving fatalities have been on a downward slope forever. Please stop the safety nanny crowd before it is too late.
this is an example of anti-tolerance. It is unfortunate that the LGBT community, at Mozilla in particular, is acting this way. The guy donated to a Prop 8 pac. That is his private affair and his private life. These same people need to get over themself and calling anyone who opposes (on whatever grounds) gay marriage as "hateful". Yes, perhaps some are. But the fact that somebody has a different opinion on a moral or social issue does not make them hateful. That kind of approach does not help your cause.
And for the record, I don't give a fuck who marries who or what. Marriage is strictly a matter for your church of record to confer, not the government(s).
In the roughly 10 years I've had Netflix I've had one DVD that would not play. DVD's just work. Streaming is subject, even if the libraries were the same, server problems at netflix, problems at Cognet, problems with my inet, problems with my wifi (which may be caused externally)...
I would also suggest your definition of convenient does not apply to everyone. For some people dvd by mail is very convenient and easier than dealing with the connection headaches (not every one has high speed inet, not everyone can afford it, not everyone wants to pay for it). For some people having everything available all the time may even be a negative as Netflix then becomes too easy a time sink.