Also, new management, maybe you could make Slashdot actually support unicode or pasting in weird things so that articles don't have weird symbols like this one?
Doesn't every single printer and every single guide say to use in a well ventilated area for obvious reasons? You don't want to solder in a small office with no ventilation either.
Wait a sec...I actually don't see that slogan anywhere anymore. I don't know when the last time I saw it was. Is this like Google getting rid of their motto?
You do need some price regulations on basic industries. If my neighbor has trouble affording enough electricity, water and phone for basic things (necessary heating, clean water to maintain health, ability to apply for and maintain a job) then it can reduce overall economic production and, indirectly, hurt me personally. Increasing baseline well-being for the country, especially when it has relatively little cost, is absolutely good for economic growth...even when it limits utilities' profits. Sorry not sorry.
I might have some choice words with my neighbor if they decided to allow helicopter landings right next door to me. For the noise and one heck of a lot of other reasons, aircraft landings affect way more peoples' rights to use their own private property than just the guy who owns the pad.
If you use it for target shooting instead of self defense (I do), then I'm pretty sure it'll function when I "need" it to. If it doesn't, who cares, I guess I'm renting from the range today.
It doesn't sound like this was written with anything to do with copyright. It looks like it's just a matter of recognizing someone who was an early inspiration. What's wrong with studying the way that sharing of ideas happened?
Depends on how much of an effect you want. The light from a full moon is about one millionth as bright as the light from the sun (thanks Wikipedia), and its albedo is a lot less than a mirror (0.136 to be precise). All of which means...yes, it would take a gigantic mirror to get full sunlight, but you can get away with a relatively small one if you could be happy with something merely as bright as a full moon or three. It also means that your mirrors aren't necessarily dangerous as weapons--you don't need a big one for them to be useful.
If you're flying some big 10 pound commercial octocopter and it falls from the sky over a crowd of kids, but you didn't see exactly where it landed--I'd say you have a moral obligation, and quite possibly a legal one, to go take responsibility for whatever happened instead of driving off before you get caught.
In general, people who come to the USA are the most liberal members of their own cultures. I saw a study showing that US muslims had a stronger belief in gender equality than christians, they're extremely open to women working outside the home vs. traditional american culture of stay-at-home mothers. General opinion of burqa-wearing women I met at college was that they were a great tool to keep unwanted guys from leering at them and they saw it as a big help, not an unwanted obligation.
So it's not 18 years, but my ten year old laptop is going fine. Only problem is having to change the batteries every ~18 months. Someday they're going to stop selling 'em.
Seems to me that if you wanted to brute force something, you'd start with the minimum size allowed and go up from there. If there's 50 different characters allowed for any letter of a password, then testing all possible 7-length passwords takes 1/50th the time as testing all possible 8-length passwords, and so on. Negligible.
I guess it could be useful to know whether or not a given password IS brute forceable, though, and give you a rough ETA. An attacker could say "huh, this guy only has a 6 letter password, we can grab that in a minute", or "this guy has a length 20 password, we have no chance".
I use my gun exclusively at the target range. It's a fun, if expensive, pastime. I don't really have an interest in using it for self defense; I think that would encourage me towards unsafe behaviors and make me more likely to get killed (compared to fleeing the area / hiding / giving the mugger my money). Staying alive is more important than ego. Also, they tend to get stolen by unstable family members or robbers or otherwise used against you, and I'm not willing to invest the $$$$$ in a super ultra fancy foolproof safe (though we do take lesser precautions).
Therefore, for my use case, having a gun that fails "off" instead of failing "on" is great. Lock it to me, and if it stops working--guess I'm renting a gun that day. Maybe find some way to lock it to certain locations like ranges if the tech can do that. I wouldn't count on the protections being perfect of course, but if they stopped 9 out of 10 accidents, that's a big plus.
I'm certain I'll still be coding if I go old and senile. Probably nothing too exciting, but I could find a copy of QB45 and code like I was a kid again.
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...They said "Parents React" twice. I guess they really like parents reacting.
Also, new management, maybe you could make Slashdot actually support unicode or pasting in weird things so that articles don't have weird symbols like this one?
Yeah, I don't think I'd characterize anything like this as "professional".
Doesn't every single printer and every single guide say to use in a well ventilated area for obvious reasons? You don't want to solder in a small office with no ventilation either.
Wait a sec...I actually don't see that slogan anywhere anymore. I don't know when the last time I saw it was. Is this like Google getting rid of their motto?
If the computer could beat a 2-dan professional, then it's clearly even smarter than SHODAN!
You do need some price regulations on basic industries. If my neighbor has trouble affording enough electricity, water and phone for basic things (necessary heating, clean water to maintain health, ability to apply for and maintain a job) then it can reduce overall economic production and, indirectly, hurt me personally. Increasing baseline well-being for the country, especially when it has relatively little cost, is absolutely good for economic growth...even when it limits utilities' profits. Sorry not sorry.
I might have some choice words with my neighbor if they decided to allow helicopter landings right next door to me. For the noise and one heck of a lot of other reasons, aircraft landings affect way more peoples' rights to use their own private property than just the guy who owns the pad.
Shouldn't they still have been able to reach addresses on their own continent?
I'm pretty sure 40% of Americans aren't single-issue voters about guns.
If you use it for target shooting instead of self defense (I do), then I'm pretty sure it'll function when I "need" it to. If it doesn't, who cares, I guess I'm renting from the range today.
Not every gunowner has self defense in mind.
It doesn't sound like this was written with anything to do with copyright. It looks like it's just a matter of recognizing someone who was an early inspiration. What's wrong with studying the way that sharing of ideas happened?
Depends on how much of an effect you want. The light from a full moon is about one millionth as bright as the light from the sun (thanks Wikipedia), and its albedo is a lot less than a mirror (0.136 to be precise). All of which means...yes, it would take a gigantic mirror to get full sunlight, but you can get away with a relatively small one if you could be happy with something merely as bright as a full moon or three. It also means that your mirrors aren't necessarily dangerous as weapons--you don't need a big one for them to be useful.
Sounds like this lawsuit was filed about behavior before that TOS went into effect.
If you're flying some big 10 pound commercial octocopter and it falls from the sky over a crowd of kids, but you didn't see exactly where it landed--I'd say you have a moral obligation, and quite possibly a legal one, to go take responsibility for whatever happened instead of driving off before you get caught.
I mean, I'd hope they would have security guards at least. Otherwise it makes a pretty tasty target.
In general, people who come to the USA are the most liberal members of their own cultures. I saw a study showing that US muslims had a stronger belief in gender equality than christians, they're extremely open to women working outside the home vs. traditional american culture of stay-at-home mothers. General opinion of burqa-wearing women I met at college was that they were a great tool to keep unwanted guys from leering at them and they saw it as a big help, not an unwanted obligation.
So it's not 18 years, but my ten year old laptop is going fine. Only problem is having to change the batteries every ~18 months. Someday they're going to stop selling 'em.
Seems to me that if you wanted to brute force something, you'd start with the minimum size allowed and go up from there. If there's 50 different characters allowed for any letter of a password, then testing all possible 7-length passwords takes 1/50th the time as testing all possible 8-length passwords, and so on. Negligible.
I guess it could be useful to know whether or not a given password IS brute forceable, though, and give you a rough ETA. An attacker could say "huh, this guy only has a 6 letter password, we can grab that in a minute", or "this guy has a length 20 password, we have no chance".
If copyright ended on the creator's death, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the unethical re-publisher.
I use my gun exclusively at the target range. It's a fun, if expensive, pastime. I don't really have an interest in using it for self defense; I think that would encourage me towards unsafe behaviors and make me more likely to get killed (compared to fleeing the area / hiding / giving the mugger my money). Staying alive is more important than ego. Also, they tend to get stolen by unstable family members or robbers or otherwise used against you, and I'm not willing to invest the $$$$$ in a super ultra fancy foolproof safe (though we do take lesser precautions).
Therefore, for my use case, having a gun that fails "off" instead of failing "on" is great. Lock it to me, and if it stops working--guess I'm renting a gun that day. Maybe find some way to lock it to certain locations like ranges if the tech can do that. I wouldn't count on the protections being perfect of course, but if they stopped 9 out of 10 accidents, that's a big plus.
I'm certain I'll still be coding if I go old and senile. Probably nothing too exciting, but I could find a copy of QB45 and code like I was a kid again.
Is that a clever reference I'm missing, or are you just nutty?
Either that, or the Transcendence ending was really, really hardcore.
Hate to say it, but that seems pretty legit. Articles about organizations ought to be of interest to people outside of the organization.