Members of the American religious right also oppose its creation on moral grounds.
I respect freedom of opinion, but this attitude is plain fucking stupid. As if pornography will become more/less prevalent if the.xxx tld is approved/denied.
This is the same brand of ignorance that believes teens will have more sex if educated about it, or that prostitution should be outlawed instead of regulated.
As a species, we wouldn't still be here if sex wasn't a big deal to us, but the range of cultural attitudes today is astounding. There's Amsterdam, where one can window shop for sexual services. There are ultra-religious societies where women must be covered from head-to-toe since, presumably, their men could not control themselves in the presence of exposed female flesh. There are countries where women have their genitals mutilated to prevent the enjoyment of sex. And there is America, where murder and violence are standard fare for entertainment, but God help us all if a nipple pops out!
It doesn't say anything about how this actually works and how it differs from existing solutions.
Are you sure you actually read the article?
How is it different?
Our system makes it very clear what is data and what is code without asking the developer to jump through hoops to make that expression as with existing secure coding options for string-injection prevention.
How does it work?
It requires developers to use different prefixes that describe variables of the strings, without requiring any major changes to their coding style, he says. And the resulting code is automatically formatted...
Not an in-depth explanation, but hardly a case of "doesn't say anything". It works by drawing a line between what is data and what is code. Crossing that line is a common way for bad guys break into systems.
So the fact that this is intended to be a commercial product makes it unimportant? Put down the FOSS banner you've been waving and get off your high horse.
Kaminsky is one of the most brilliant security researchers on the planet. For people who care about computer security, when Dan Kaminsky makes an announcement, it's "worth reading".
More like "Whiny nerds. Inconsequential personal preferences."
Seriously. Who gives a **** whether some random Sys Admin likes his job. Lots of people make poor career choices. So grow a pair, and switch to job that you like.
malware now executes in stealth mode, running in the background with an oblivious end-user
I've long need puzzled by malware that doesn't do this. Many trojans I've cleaned from people's computers download other pieces of malware. I once gave a demonstration of "drive-by" infection where merely viewing a malicious web page on an unpatched system resulted in nearly 20 new processes being spawned in the background. Impressive, in a way, but exceedingly obvious. Even clueless users can't help but notice that something is wrong, and IT gets called in to clean it.
I'm currently using a pair of SyncMaster 2443bw monitors. They're both running at native 1920x1200.
People tend to be surprised by my setup, however, because I have the left monitor in landscape orientation, but the right monitor in portrait orientation. I find that some things (such as spreadsheets) look better on a wide display, whereas other things (like web pages) look better on a tall display. It's the best of both worlds - I just click the content over to whichever screen it looks best on. This is especially easy to do with a program like Ultramon.
When you punch "2÷3" into a calculator, you are not getting "an accurate result". You're getting another approximation.
Using more decimals to represent 2/3 does not solve the problem, it merely increases the total number of votes that can be counted before a borderline case occurs again.
Nevertheless, at some point the concept of "2/3" must be converted to an integer to compare with the integer number of votes in favour. Hence, if you want a solution that is scalable, you should not choose a repeating decimal as your fraction of votes.
When there are more than 163 votes in total, going from 2 to 3 decimal places in the representation of 2/3 increases the number of votes required by one.
Perhaps choosing a repeating decimal in your definition of a majority is not very smart.
Short of a trusty old cattle prod, what on Earth would motivate a cow to work a treadmill for 8 hours per day?
Why don't we just tie long ropes to elephants and then frighten them into stampeding! We could attach the ropes to pulleys and drive electric generators.
I can't recall ever seeing a battery rated in Joules. Small batteries are rated in both volts and mAh. The voltage times the amperage tells you how much power it can put out. The power times the duration tells you how much energy it can deliver.
Rather than stating that the battery can "hold 4 megawatts of power for up to 8 hours", the article should perhaps have stated that the battery can "deliver four megawatts of power for up to 8 hours", as is stated in the/. summary. From this you could derive that it holds about 115 GJ.
For comparison, I have a laptop battery in front of me rated at 11.1V, 7800mAh. It would take approx. 369,600 of these batteries to store 115 GJ.
Telnet is not available by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7, but can be enabled via "Control Panel" > "Programs and Features" > "Turn Windows features on or off".
The reason that NZB's even exist is that large files uploaded to Usenet get broken up into a ridiculous number of small fragments. It then becomes a chore to locate and reassemble all the pieces.
Bandwidth and storage capacities have increased tremendously over the years that Usenet has been around. Why do people who operate NNTP servers still impose such restrictive limits on file size?
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Members of the American religious right also oppose its creation on moral grounds.
I respect freedom of opinion, but this attitude is plain fucking stupid. As if pornography will become more/less prevalent if the .xxx tld is approved/denied.
This is the same brand of ignorance that believes teens will have more sex if educated about it, or that prostitution should be outlawed instead of regulated.
As a species, we wouldn't still be here if sex wasn't a big deal to us, but the range of cultural attitudes today is astounding. There's Amsterdam, where one can window shop for sexual services. There are ultra-religious societies where women must be covered from head-to-toe since, presumably, their men could not control themselves in the presence of exposed female flesh. There are countries where women have their genitals mutilated to prevent the enjoyment of sex. And there is America, where murder and violence are standard fare for entertainment, but God help us all if a nipple pops out!
p.p.s Pay A Fucking Dividend You Stupid Motherfucker.
You mean like this?
A classic Dilbert - April 17th, 1996.
(waiving index finger side to side) You bad man! You very very bad man!
You didn't need to "say" FOSS, because your knee-jerk reaction to marketing terms spoke for you.
If anyone sounds "hopping mad", it's you. Are you so averse to any type of marketing that you turn your brain off the second your hear it?
It doesn't say anything about how this actually works and how it differs from existing solutions.
Are you sure you actually read the article?
How is it different?
Our system makes it very clear what is data and what is code without asking the developer to jump through hoops to make that expression as with existing secure coding options for string-injection prevention.
How does it work?
It requires developers to use different prefixes that describe variables of the strings, without requiring any major changes to their coding style, he says. And the resulting code is automatically formatted...
Not an in-depth explanation, but hardly a case of "doesn't say anything". It works by drawing a line between what is data and what is code. Crossing that line is a common way for bad guys break into systems.
So the fact that this is intended to be a commercial product makes it unimportant? Put down the FOSS banner you've been waving and get off your high horse.
Kaminsky is one of the most brilliant security researchers on the planet. For people who care about computer security, when Dan Kaminsky makes an announcement, it's "worth reading".
+3 Insightful
I'm surprised that a single-bit error is even an issue on such an important (and expensive) piece of equipment.
Hamming codes have been around since the 1940's.
It took them like three hours to finish the shading on the upper lips of those terraces.
If you'd ever seen old-fashioned farm equipment, you wouldn't find the look of those wheels very unusual.
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters."?
More like "Whiny nerds. Inconsequential personal preferences."
Seriously. Who gives a **** whether some random Sys Admin likes his job. Lots of people make poor career choices. So grow a pair, and switch to job that you like.
malware now executes in stealth mode, running in the background with an oblivious end-user
I've long need puzzled by malware that doesn't do this. Many trojans I've cleaned from people's computers download other pieces of malware. I once gave a demonstration of "drive-by" infection where merely viewing a malicious web page on an unpatched system resulted in nearly 20 new processes being spawned in the background. Impressive, in a way, but exceedingly obvious. Even clueless users can't help but notice that something is wrong, and IT gets called in to clean it.
I'm currently using a pair of SyncMaster 2443bw monitors. They're both running at native 1920x1200.
People tend to be surprised by my setup, however, because I have the left monitor in landscape orientation, but the right monitor in portrait orientation. I find that some things (such as spreadsheets) look better on a wide display, whereas other things (like web pages) look better on a tall display. It's the best of both worlds - I just click the content over to whichever screen it looks best on. This is especially easy to do with a program like Ultramon.
When you punch "2÷3" into a calculator, you are not getting "an accurate result". You're getting another approximation.
Using more decimals to represent 2/3 does not solve the problem, it merely increases the total number of votes that can be counted before a borderline case occurs again.
Nevertheless, at some point the concept of "2/3" must be converted to an integer to compare with the integer number of votes in favour. Hence, if you want a solution that is scalable, you should not choose a repeating decimal as your fraction of votes.
When there are more than 163 votes in total, going from 2 to 3 decimal places in the representation of 2/3 increases the number of votes required by one.
Perhaps choosing a repeating decimal in your definition of a majority is not very smart.
Short of a trusty old cattle prod, what on Earth would motivate a cow to work a treadmill for 8 hours per day?
Why don't we just tie long ropes to elephants and then frighten them into stampeding! We could attach the ropes to pulleys and drive electric generators.
What about tying a firewall into an authentication system so that when jdoe logs in, only then are the firewalls opened to pass her traffic?
OpenBSD has had this for a while now. It's called authpf, and it can dynamically load NAT or redirection rules in addition to simply opening ports.
You won't find a better firewall than pf. It's secure, extremely capable, and has a logical and refined syntax for defining rulesets.
I can't recall ever seeing a battery rated in Joules. Small batteries are rated in both volts and mAh. The voltage times the amperage tells you how much power it can put out. The power times the duration tells you how much energy it can deliver.
Rather than stating that the battery can "hold 4 megawatts of power for up to 8 hours", the article should perhaps have stated that the battery can "deliver four megawatts of power for up to 8 hours", as is stated in the /. summary. From this you could derive that it holds about 115 GJ.
For comparison, I have a laptop battery in front of me rated at 11.1V, 7800mAh. It would take approx. 369,600 of these batteries to store 115 GJ.
Is the flash loader itself not firmware?
Windows... comes with ftp and telnet...
Telnet is not available by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7, but can be enabled via "Control Panel" > "Programs and Features" > "Turn Windows features on or off".
Who cares? Rachel failed it, and I still woulda dun her!
girls in a bar?
And should I use a bar magnet because I'm in a bar, or a horseshoe magnet because I'm hoping to get lucky?
and the role he played in investigating the Challenger disaster.
It's too bad he's not around to help out with the Toyota mystery.
The reason that NZB's even exist is that large files uploaded to Usenet get broken up into a ridiculous number of small fragments. It then becomes a chore to locate and reassemble all the pieces.
Bandwidth and storage capacities have increased tremendously over the years that Usenet has been around. Why do people who operate NNTP servers still impose such restrictive limits on file size?