If you make an anti-anything statement, you can expect to be modded down unless you also justify your complaint. If you make an anti-$THING_SOMEONE_BELIEVES_STRONGLY statement, you might get modded down anyways. That's just how the moderation system works. If you say something people don't like, those people will mod you down.
*grabs python-calculator* Yea, that's just 2813198901284745919258621029615971520741376 different combinations, just with lowercase characters. I presume he has at least one second wait between each failed login, so that it would take about one hundred million billion billion billion years to crack, minus one second for the first try. Just goes to show that given enough time, any security can be compromised. But then if he forgets the password, he's screwed, so he probably chose the first 30-character passphrase from a "most common passwords" book.
Just in case you didn't know, global warming does not equate to less snowfall. In fact, I can see global warming causing more snow to fall, due to more water evaporating. Do you know where one of the world's dryest deserts is? In the south pole! Very little snow falls there, because by the time air reaches that far south, all the moisture has already fallen out as rain or snow.
The truely funny part though, is that the available replacements for CFCs as refrigerents are less efficient and therefore contribute to -- you guessed it -- global warming due to increased energy use.
Because the amount of energy we use is sooo much greater than the amount of solar energy that falls on the earth, right? (Although I suppose that it would result in higher CO2 output at the power plants.)
How is this case going to benefit anybody but Real Networks or Apple?
By opening competition in the media player market. Most users would be too lazy to search for and install the superior media player if one is already bundled (integrated?) into Windows. I think that it would be pretty cool if Microsoft sold Windows, and users could choose to insall any "distro" they want, or a custom one, rather than just IE + WMP + MSOffice.
I thought the point of breaking up the "Microsoft Monopoly" was so that people wouldn't be "forced" into using Microsoft's unstable and unsecure operation system
No, it was to prevent them from forcing people who already do use Windows to use stuff like internet explorer, allowing them to take over the browser market, etc.
No units are given for any of the variables. What unit is the result in? It's completely meaningless.
Well, someone skipped class the day they talked about statistics. A probability is a real number between 0 and 1 inclusively, with no units. Probabilities are often expressed as a percentage, in which case you multiply the probability by 100 and add a percent sign (this is not a unit. Technically, you could write 25% feet == 3 inches). That said I think this is mostly bullshit, but be accurate enough to be of use to some people (psychiatrists, politicians). Anyways, 3 days is a short time to wait to see if he made a fool of himself, so I think he is fairly confident about what he says.
I plan on denying my Social Security benefits even after paying into the system all my life. Hopefully I won't need them, because I will plan better than my parents did. It may be a drop in the bucket, and more symbolic than anything, but that is doing my part to keep the system from fucking some poor Joe who gets the short end of the stick in 40-60 years.
Unfortunately, few others think that way, and would be more than happy to fuck over that poor Joe you want to help. If you feel this way, though, you might want to lobby against Social Security and donate the money directly to people who need it. There is nothing expensive, that won't get more expensive by having a bunch of corrupt politicians do it for you.
That they will be able to do something for people with currently irreparable injuries. I could only imagine losing an arm or a leg, and having to live a thousand years without it.
More of a "You can't say that." than "That isn't correct.
And they might in fact be right. I'm opposed to this getting any publicity because of the sheer number of people who do not understand statistics and will say that an individual woman is worse at math. Because the number of people who don't understand statistics far outnumbers the proportion of women who are worse at math (if any). If such a study becomes widely accepted, it will become a self-fulfiling prophecy.
Just as an example about how bad people are at statistics: NHTSA says 30% of fatal accidents are speed related. So, is speeding safer, or unsafer, than driving at the speed limit? Truth is, more than 70% of people speed, meaning that the 30% who aren't speeding are involved in 70% of fatal accidents
Actually, he was killed because he refused to give his brother an heir. The greedy bastard wanted to inherit his brother's posessions. He was supposed to sleep with his brother's wife until she had a child. Or, he should have refused publicly, in which case the widow was to slap him, spit in his face, and take his sandals (a ritual public humiliation that would be remembered for about a generation).
OK, who are the morons who moderated this insightful? I suggest both of them and the parent go work on their math skills, or at least get some common sense. Does he actually think you can add up a probability and a dollar?
That should read (corruption probability)*(number of affected clients)*(value of each client) + (cost of patch) - min((cost of reinstall), (cost of cleanup)). If that is less then zero, they lose money by getting the patch. There are also other factors, like bad marketing or protecting sensitive information.
But it is easy to tell, as evidenced by you not stealing any cars. You might feel a GTA-inspired urge to size up the car and take the nice fast one so you can evade the cops(I do too), but you know that you are in reality and that the real-world consequences (not just legal for you, but the consequences for the one you steal the car from) stop you.
But they still had the thought, and if they weren't thinking they might have done something. I could imagine a rather sleepy or possibly drunk driver staring into space then suddenly realizing there was a pedestrian there that he could hit if he turned just a little and WHAM! I would have less of a problem with Quake, since few people are walking around with a rocket launcher.
Not at all. I'm saying keep it in proportion: "one swallow does not a summer make", and a limited number of bugs do not an insecure system make.
Um, yes they do. You really only need one (really bad) bug to make your entire system insecure (that it can be cracked). On a multiuser system, you might also need a second bug to allow root privilage escalation. Seriously, which of your favorite $MS_VIRUS uses 10 or more different bugs to take over a system?
Truth is, no system is - or can be - totally secure unless you encase it in steel and disconnect it from the 'net.
Don't be silly -- you just need to make sure that any inputs are secured, and you will have your perfect security. Bugs are needed in order to crack a system, and at least one in the program must be a user input bug. This can be verified, but it becomes expensive. But not impossible.
First of all, the GP was talking about global cooling. That was intended to be funny since we would never build at that scale (not for a long time, anyways), and even if we did, our energy consumption would increase to match the reduction, and we would eventually return the energy as heat.
As for your own post, while it is true that solar panels will see a drastic reduction in heat absorbed by the wall, that should not be a concern since the insulation would prevent it from actually entering the house anyways. Heating the outside of the house would reduce the loss of heat, but it would be insignificant. If you were worried about that, you should paint your house black, but keep in mind that black radiates heat more easily than does white. Does anyone know how well solar panels radiate heat?
What I meant was that if you are finding spyware on your computer, perhaps you are not as computer savvy as you might like. How did the spyware get there in the first place? (OK, so if your not-so-savvy boyfriend uses your computer, then it is totally different. Nevertheless, running anti-virus/spyware does not even come close to making you a hacker.)
1: Poison resistance is a must, but many corpses that grant it will also poison you, reducing your strength. Check a corpse spoiler, or have a way to restore it.
2: Starving to death is pathetic. "Father who art in heaven, give us this day our daily bread..." My own advice is to eat almost every corpse (even stealing from your pet). Pray if you get food poisoned.
3: Get a unicorn horn as early as posible. You might corner it and let your pet kill it, or possibly with a rolling boulder trap (it won't get within your line of fire and might teleport to avoid you). If you have speed or invisibility or fireball, you can kill it yourself. Unicorn horns restore stats, cure hallucination, stunning, confusion, blindness, foodpoisoning, illness.
4: I usually do Gnome-town first (for the guaranteed altar and stores). The most effective way to rob stores is to have your pet steal your money, then buy/sell to use up your credit. The altar is so you can check whether your armor is cursed or not before trying it on.
My favorite class is a wizard, especially when I manage to get my hands on an Identify spellbook.
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If you make an anti-anything statement, you can expect to be modded down unless you also justify your complaint. If you make an anti-$THING_SOMEONE_BELIEVES_STRONGLY statement, you might get modded down anyways. That's just how the moderation system works. If you say something people don't like, those people will mod you down.
*grabs python-calculator* Yea, that's just 2813198901284745919258621029615971520741376 different combinations, just with lowercase characters. I presume he has at least one second wait between each failed login, so that it would take about one hundred million billion billion billion years to crack, minus one second for the first try. Just goes to show that given enough time, any security can be compromised. But then if he forgets the password, he's screwed, so he probably chose the first 30-character passphrase from a "most common passwords" book.
Just in case you didn't know, global warming does not equate to less snowfall. In fact, I can see global warming causing more snow to fall, due to more water evaporating. Do you know where one of the world's dryest deserts is? In the south pole! Very little snow falls there, because by the time air reaches that far south, all the moisture has already fallen out as rain or snow.
The truely funny part though, is that the available replacements for CFCs as refrigerents are less efficient and therefore contribute to -- you guessed it -- global warming due to increased energy use.
Because the amount of energy we use is sooo much greater than the amount of solar energy that falls on the earth, right? (Although I suppose that it would result in higher CO2 output at the power plants.)
How is this case going to benefit anybody but Real Networks or Apple?
By opening competition in the media player market. Most users would be too lazy to search for and install the superior media player if one is already bundled (integrated?) into Windows. I think that it would be pretty cool if Microsoft sold Windows, and users could choose to insall any "distro" they want, or a custom one, rather than just IE + WMP + MSOffice.
I thought the point of breaking up the "Microsoft Monopoly" was so that people wouldn't be "forced" into using Microsoft's unstable and unsecure operation system
No, it was to prevent them from forcing people who already do use Windows to use stuff like internet explorer, allowing them to take over the browser market, etc.
No units are given for any of the variables. What unit is the result in? It's completely meaningless.
Well, someone skipped class the day they talked about statistics. A probability is a real number between 0 and 1 inclusively, with no units. Probabilities are often expressed as a percentage, in which case you multiply the probability by 100 and add a percent sign (this is not a unit. Technically, you could write 25% feet == 3 inches). That said I think this is mostly bullshit, but be accurate enough to be of use to some people (psychiatrists, politicians). Anyways, 3 days is a short time to wait to see if he made a fool of himself, so I think he is fairly confident about what he says.
Well, you certainly seem to be depressed. Don't worry -- it should wear off in two or three days.
Superman? Don't you mean Suprman? ;-)
I've heard said, "Not all lawyers are blood sucking bastards. It's just that the 99% who are give the other 1% a bad name."
I plan on denying my Social Security benefits even after paying into the system all my life. Hopefully I won't need them, because I will plan better than my parents did. It may be a drop in the bucket, and more symbolic than anything, but that is doing my part to keep the system from fucking some poor Joe who gets the short end of the stick in 40-60 years.
Unfortunately, few others think that way, and would be more than happy to fuck over that poor Joe you want to help. If you feel this way, though, you might want to lobby against Social Security and donate the money directly to people who need it. There is nothing expensive, that won't get more expensive by having a bunch of corrupt politicians do it for you.
more than 300 years old.
That they will be able to do something for people with currently irreparable injuries. I could only imagine losing an arm or a leg, and having to live a thousand years without it.
More of a "You can't say that." than "That isn't correct.
And they might in fact be right. I'm opposed to this getting any publicity because of the sheer number of people who do not understand statistics and will say that an individual woman is worse at math. Because the number of people who don't understand statistics far outnumbers the proportion of women who are worse at math (if any). If such a study becomes widely accepted, it will become a self-fulfiling prophecy.
Just as an example about how bad people are at statistics:
NHTSA says 30% of fatal accidents are speed related. So, is speeding safer, or unsafer, than driving at the speed limit? Truth is, more than 70% of people speed, meaning that the 30% who aren't speeding are involved in 70% of fatal accidents
Actually, he was killed because he refused to give his brother an heir. The greedy bastard wanted to inherit his brother's posessions. He was supposed to sleep with his brother's wife until she had a child. Or, he should have refused publicly, in which case the widow was to slap him, spit in his face, and take his sandals (a ritual public humiliation that would be remembered for about a generation).
OK, who are the morons who moderated this insightful? I suggest both of them and the parent go work on their math skills, or at least get some common sense. Does he actually think you can add up a probability and a dollar?
That should read (corruption probability)*(number of affected clients)*(value of each client) + (cost of patch) - min((cost of reinstall), (cost of cleanup)). If that is less then zero, they lose money by getting the patch. There are also other factors, like bad marketing or protecting sensitive information.
But it is easy to tell, as evidenced by you not stealing any cars. You might feel a GTA-inspired urge to size up the car and take the nice fast one so you can evade the cops(I do too), but you know that you are in reality and that the real-world consequences (not just legal for you, but the consequences for the one you steal the car from) stop you.
But they still had the thought, and if they weren't thinking they might have done something. I could imagine a rather sleepy or possibly drunk driver staring into space then suddenly realizing there was a pedestrian there that he could hit if he turned just a little and WHAM! I would have less of a problem with Quake, since few people are walking around with a rocket launcher.
I wrote a much longer script that searches Google to find images (you provide the search term). Let me know if anyone wants it posted here.
Oh, and domai.com is one of the best sites. They have elegant (and large) pictures, and are among the few that could claim to be art.
Not at all. I'm saying keep it in proportion: "one swallow does not a summer make", and a limited number of bugs do not an insecure system make.
Um, yes they do. You really only need one (really bad) bug to make your entire system insecure (that it can be cracked). On a multiuser system, you might also need a second bug to allow root privilage escalation. Seriously, which of your favorite $MS_VIRUS uses 10 or more different bugs to take over a system?
Truth is, no system is - or can be - totally secure unless you encase it in steel and disconnect it from the 'net.
Don't be silly -- you just need to make sure that any inputs are secured, and you will have your perfect security. Bugs are needed in order to crack a system, and at least one in the program must be a user input bug. This can be verified, but it becomes expensive. But not impossible.
If you feel that too few resources are devoted to security in the kernel: volunteer. Or criticize and offer no helpful solutions. I choose option A).
I choose option C): to recruit hackers by shaming them with the fact that I, a nobody, am doing volunteer work and they were too lazy to do it.
Companies do not put profit ahead of all else. There are these things called laws, you see, by which they must abide.
Yea, because every company/person knows that they cannot get away with breaking the law. Just ask Microsoft and Enron.
First of all, the GP was talking about global cooling. That was intended to be funny since we would never build at that scale (not for a long time, anyways), and even if we did, our energy consumption would increase to match the reduction, and we would eventually return the energy as heat.
As for your own post, while it is true that solar panels will see a drastic reduction in heat absorbed by the wall, that should not be a concern since the insulation would prevent it from actually entering the house anyways. Heating the outside of the house would reduce the loss of heat, but it would be insignificant. If you were worried about that, you should paint your house black, but keep in mind that black radiates heat more easily than does white. Does anyone know how well solar panels radiate heat?
Resistance is Futile.
Only if it is about 1 Ohm or less.
Ah, if they can get one that absorbs green light, you could just sit there reading Slashdot and basking in the soothing green light.
What I meant was that if you are finding spyware on your computer, perhaps you are not as computer savvy as you might like. How did the spyware get there in the first place? (OK, so if your not-so-savvy boyfriend uses your computer, then it is totally different. Nevertheless, running anti-virus/spyware does not even come close to making you a hacker.)
My suggetions:
1: Poison resistance is a must, but many corpses that grant it will also poison you, reducing your strength. Check a corpse spoiler, or have a way to restore it.
2: Starving to death is pathetic. "Father who art in heaven, give us this day our daily bread..." My own advice is to eat almost every corpse (even stealing from your pet). Pray if you get food poisoned.
3: Get a unicorn horn as early as posible. You might corner it and let your pet kill it, or possibly with a rolling boulder trap (it won't get within your line of fire and might teleport to avoid you). If you have speed or invisibility or fireball, you can kill it yourself. Unicorn horns restore stats, cure hallucination, stunning, confusion, blindness, foodpoisoning, illness.
4: I usually do Gnome-town first (for the guaranteed altar and stores). The most effective way to rob stores is to have your pet steal your money, then buy/sell to use up your credit. The altar is so you can check whether your armor is cursed or not before trying it on.
My favorite class is a wizard, especially when I manage to get my hands on an Identify spellbook.