it is essentially less difficult to write exploits for Mac OS/Linux than it is for Windows, given the many anti-exploitation mechanisms Microsoft has embedded in the last years, so in the long run, if the attackers want your data, the entire move is moot.
As opposed to the anti-exploitation frameworks which were present in UNIX systems from the moment they were conceived? and continually updated since? You've been listening to too much Microsoft advertising if you think they're Superior. (Competitive? Maybe. Superior? Not a chance).
My understanding is that it's easier to disambiguate one capital letter from another if the printing is degraded, but it's easier to read words in lower (or mixed-) case. For instance, a smudged or half-printed e, o, and c all might resemble each other, but E, O, C are easier to tell apart. It's a more resilient case.
Actual venture capitalists are relatively few, and their business reporting practices obscured from the average citizen's eye. High-five/six-figure-salaried software engineers who'll have to pay their "fair share" of Obama's triple-the-national-debt package sooner or later (since, like all rich people, they obviously lied/cheated/murdered the lower classes to get where they are) are probably more common. Even in These Perilous Economic Times (tm).
There's an interesting lecture (by John Conway) on quantum mechanics and free will, specifically with regards to how (human) observers interact with quantum systems. I forget all the interesting specifics, but remembered that doesn't come up with an answer about whether or not there's free will -- just ties it to some other things.
It's a "convenience charge" that they can charge you because you didn't feel like going through the effort of getting a bank that doesn't charge the stupid fees. (A number of banks do that, mostly the smaller ones and online ones. Charles Schwab and E*Trade's banking units, for instance, will refund ATM withdrawal fees at ANY atm.)
Yahoo! has also done a fairly good job of supporting initiatives like Open Street Map (the Wikipedia of online maps). Google... just buys map data from the usual suspects. Support free information.:)
Imagine the surface of a typical PVC pipe. It's long in one direction (perhaps infinitely long, probably not though) but in the other dimension it's actually kind of small - it's sort of "rolled up". Keep going around and you loop.
Dimensions can have all sorts of zany topologies going out to infinity.
Java always had some fun stuff too. I remember downloading some sample applets (the 'clock' applet, for instance) and the license at the top of the source had the disclaimer that the program was not intended for use "in the design, construction, or maintenance of any nuclear facility".
Unethical and unscrupulous lenders began issuing loans, sure, but the government subsidized them and everyone else had to either a) do the same and make some money, or b) don't, and give up millions, while all your competitors are doing the same and making a bundle, and hope that they get their comeuppance before you go bankrupt or get bought out. (And, as Keynes once said, "The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.")
The power to tax is widely recognized as the power to destroy, but the power to subsidize isn't far behind.
My company has a Linux box (named "slow-router") that does exactly that, to simulate network latency talking to remote devices over the network. I think it might even simulate random packet loss and such as well. It's useful to be able to do, but it's also not all that difficult... or newsworthy... good blog post, poor Slashdot post.
Slightly-nutty (but carefully analytical) Libertarian magazines were bandying these ideas around in 1997, and they'd already been around a while by then. I'm a big fan of the "paint it white" approach - increase the urban albedo by using concrete instead of asphalt, using light-colored roofs and paints... Not only does it reflect sunlight (cooling the earth) it also reduces the "heat island" effect so you don't need as much air conditioning in the summer.
The real problem with any such approach, they argue, is
Having sinned against Mother Nature inadvertently, many are keenly reluctant to intervene knowingly. Sherwood Rowland, a chemist at the University of California at Irvine who predicted, with Mario Molina, the depletion of the ozone layer, declared, "I am unalterably opposed to global mitigation." This added considerable weight to the abstention cause. At root, such people see mankind as the problem; only by behaving humbly, living lightly upon our Earth, can we atone.
This religiosity in climate-change politics fascinates me - it's why I like the Michael Crichton essays/speeches on the topic even though he says "climate change is fake!" and it's pretty much Not Fake. More recently, I've seen stuff in that same Libertarian magazine comparing the current climate-change political scene to "denigrating HIV treatment and blocking condom distribution in order to discourage promiscuity. [It] is every bit as callous and irresponsible."
I'm waiting to see the live video footage of that scene where the poor sweet little baby polar bear is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off to be eaten by sharks or some garbage like that *splash*
Not 24 hours after the launch Obama's up there making his big speech on nuclear disarmament... the UN is having emergency Security Council meetings, Japan is screaming, Russia is annoyed, China and Indonesia are mildly concerned due to rising tensions, Mexico is going to come up with a Strongly Worded Statement... and random Congress-critters are making statements to the media... Heck, check out the BBC's quotes from various worldwide officials on the matter.
I hear the rocket was carrying a load of BS... and that, given the international community's response to the launch, we can say that the rocket did, in fact, hit its target.
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As opposed to the anti-exploitation frameworks which were present in UNIX systems from the moment they were conceived? and continually updated since? You've been listening to too much Microsoft advertising if you think they're Superior. (Competitive? Maybe. Superior? Not a chance).
My understanding is that it's easier to disambiguate one capital letter from another if the printing is degraded, but it's easier to read words in lower (or mixed-) case. For instance, a smudged or half-printed e, o, and c all might resemble each other, but E, O, C are easier to tell apart. It's a more resilient case.
Actual venture capitalists are relatively few, and their business reporting practices obscured from the average citizen's eye. High-five/six-figure-salaried software engineers who'll have to pay their "fair share" of Obama's triple-the-national-debt package sooner or later (since, like all rich people, they obviously lied/cheated/murdered the lower classes to get where they are) are probably more common. Even in These Perilous Economic Times (tm).
Oh, look, there's a random blog posting linking to the paper and a recording.
It's a "convenience charge" that they can charge you because you didn't feel like going through the effort of getting a bank that doesn't charge the stupid fees. (A number of banks do that, mostly the smaller ones and online ones. Charles Schwab and E*Trade's banking units, for instance, will refund ATM withdrawal fees at ANY atm.)
Like .psd files? Or, um, normal image jpeg gif png et cetera like the rest of the world uses?
Yahoo! has also done a fairly good job of supporting initiatives like Open Street Map (the Wikipedia of online maps). Google... just buys map data from the usual suspects. Support free information. :)
Dimensions can have all sorts of zany topologies going out to infinity.
Java always had some fun stuff too. I remember downloading some sample applets (the 'clock' applet, for instance) and the license at the top of the source had the disclaimer that the program was not intended for use "in the design, construction, or maintenance of any nuclear facility".
First they came for the AIG executive bonuses, but I did not speak up, because the AIG executives were a bunch of jerks...
The power to tax is widely recognized as the power to destroy, but the power to subsidize isn't far behind.
No, but I remember you talked about it on Slashdot the time they had that story about Obama's BlackBerry and RF scanning threats.
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Oh, wait, you meant the other "Flash media".
Phew. For a moment I thought you were going to say "09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0". We would have been doomed.
My company has a Linux box (named "slow-router") that does exactly that, to simulate network latency talking to remote devices over the network. I think it might even simulate random packet loss and such as well. It's useful to be able to do, but it's also not all that difficult... or newsworthy... good blog post, poor Slashdot post.
The real problem with any such approach, they argue, is
This religiosity in climate-change politics fascinates me - it's why I like the Michael Crichton essays/speeches on the topic even though he says "climate change is fake!" and it's pretty much Not Fake. More recently, I've seen stuff in that same Libertarian magazine comparing the current climate-change political scene to "denigrating HIV treatment and blocking condom distribution in order to discourage promiscuity. [It] is every bit as callous and irresponsible."
Yes, I know that. And yet somehow I get a 'Score 1, Insightful' and you get the 5, Funny. There ain't no justice.
I'm waiting to see the live video footage of that scene where the poor sweet little baby polar bear is trapped on an ice floe which shrinks until he falls off to be eaten by sharks or some garbage like that *splash*
Maybe that ice troll's not happy because he's in the middle of a burning desert somewhere. Look at all the sand.
You, sir, are completely right. Google has failed me and I didn't even notice! haha. :( You may continue your mockery of my 1336 internet ski11z.
Not 24 hours after the launch Obama's up there making his big speech on nuclear disarmament... the UN is having emergency Security Council meetings, Japan is screaming, Russia is annoyed, China and Indonesia are mildly concerned due to rising tensions, Mexico is going to come up with a Strongly Worded Statement... and random Congress-critters are making statements to the media... Heck, check out the BBC's quotes from various worldwide officials on the matter.
I hear the rocket was carrying a load of BS ... and that, given the international community's response to the launch, we can say that the rocket did, in fact, hit its target.
Seriously: Nagasaki? They had a simple aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, and they couldn't even take it out with a nuclear bomb! (Stupid crosswinds...)
The satellite appears to have communicated something to the International Community (tm), one way or another! Obviously it is a success.