So that they wouldn't be affected by bugs in OpenSSL?
The idea that it's a bad idea to roll your own security features because you're probably not a security expert is not something that is necessarily applicable to an organization as large as Apple, which can certainly afford to employ as many security researchers as it needs to to match the security knowledge of other common security tool organizations.
Further, a world in which there is only one (hopefully well-researched) implementation of critical security software also has drawbacks, as any errors in that software will affect everyone.
Personally, I would prefer that Plutonium be reserved for RTGs for space power. Outside of the inner solar system, solar-powered probes just don't cut it.
But how do you define "equal"? It's not just a matter of in/out - a netflix stream is a great example. There wouldn't be a stream if the individual customer didn't request it, and clearly Netflix is a driver for faster internet connections. But Netflix wouldn't have a business without delivering those streams, so they clearly have value to both entities. How do you value the traffic for the transport?
I assume the ISPs have generally figured this out. I'd think maybe railroads would be a good model - charge by distance traveled rather than balance of bits.
That sounds pretty awesome. Their website doesn't look like they offer residential service, sadly. It occurs to me that my largest use of internet by volume is probably Netflix, why not get service from the same company....
Tax and Spend "liberals" are rarely interested in repairing the crumbling roads and other infrastructure. You can usually find them finding a new ways to generate revenue from the infrastructure, but they use the funds generated for everything but. The roads crumble and anyone who proposes a reduction in the stifling taxes is shown the crumbling roads as evidence that there's just nothing that can be cut.
What's weird is that for all their talk about progressive taxation, they love the least progressive taxes you can find - gas tax, sales/VAT tax (and "broadening" it to cover clothing and groceries in states where previously those were excluded).
It's almost as if they want to provide all these social programs to keep the population compliant, but they don't want to fund them on the backs of those who are actually rich and powerful.
Why is carrier grade NAT a superior solution from an economic sense compared to IPv6? I mean, doesn't it effectively add bits to the address space, only in a more complicated way? I'd think that it should be more expensive to implement than just straight increasing the address size.
If IPv6 requires more resources to implement than the current solutions involving NAT, maybe it should be scrapped in favor of another standard that can be implemented with existing resources, or at least with fewer additional resources than NAT requires.
If we can depopulate the Georges Bank of Atlantic cod, a fish of questionable deliciousness, we can depopulate a few narrow rivers any fish that is even remotely tasty.
The problem with many environmentalists isn't so much that they are identifying problems that we all wish weren't, but that they often propose outrageous and ineffective remedies, sometimes to the point of opposing real solutions in favor of their half-baked fantasy plans.
The format isn't designed so that it can degrade gracefully, allowing lower-performing decoders to ignore/skip over functionality that they cannot support, resulting in a less detailed output?
They claim they do. But.. they don't clock in (or don't clock in for all of the hours they're claiming - the argument is that they work at home grading and planning, etc.), so who knows.
How can the french monthly wage per capita be more than 10%? There are 12 months in a year.....
Also, average wages don't really tell the story. High wage-earners skew the numbers one way, and non-wage compensation skews in another (profit sharing? Medical/Retirement benefits? etc.)
The last curve I saw had an asymptote at about 12 Billion. It was hard to guess what the causes of that logistic curve are, though. It'd be nice if the cause is that, faced with more potential mates to choose from, people being pickier start later and have fewer kids. It would be less nice if the cause is that population pressures cause more conflict resulting in more deaths offsetting the births.
Also, something happened around 1950ish that changed the coefficients. Prior to that we were on track for a much lower asymptote. I'm hoping the reason was the green revolution, rather than the end of WWII....
Painted matte black with no shiny surfaces to give away your position when using it, I assume. Not sure how useful that would be in a flashlight, though.
Another option might be tactical vs. strategic. As in, it's good for one operation, very good for that one operation, but don't count on keeping it with you for an entire campaign. A flashlight that burns extra bright or extra long or both, but only has a single use might be considered tactical.
Or it could have several components made of cast 6061 Aluminum. Although that is often referred to as "Aircraft grade" depending on who you want to impress, even though that term could easily refer to the tray table supports rather than wing spars.
Boycott? Really? Is that really necessary? Isn't it enough to point out the flaws, and, if the new site becomes inevitable and is no good, just leave then?
I occasionally try to use the page profiling tools that come with every browser now. I'm not great at interpreting the results, but from what I can tell, it looks like the problem with javascript slowing you down isn't the javascript running, it's downloading the javascript itself from a 3rd party source, and the javascript itself fetching other data (possibly more javascript) from another 3rd party source.
I'd guess that almost every site on the internet would perform much better if they had a policy of serving mostly their own javascript, designing the pages so that all javascript resources that are needed are identified in the header, and never using 3rd party javascript which itself has 3rd party dependencies.
I want to use my whole widesceen monitor. I do not want the site to use my whole widescreen monitor unless I give it that width to work in. That's one of the problems with the current design - if you shrink your browser width, there is a point (on my non-hd laptop that point is 60% of the width of my screen...) where the comments no longer shrink, so I can't have slashdot on the side of my screen, shrunk to newspaper-column width, while working on other things, for instance gathering information to add to a comment of my own.
Also, the minimum width of a comment is still a bit long for easily tracking back to the beginning of the next line. With my font settings, the comments are over 100 characters wide. With larger font settings, the whitespace padding on the left side takes over more and more of the screen for no good reason.
The site should use the full width of the window, and a text-based site should try very hard to avoid circumstances requiring a horizontal scroll bar. I realize that you can't accommodate arbitrarily narrow windows, but a minimum of 60% is really pushing it, especially when 15% is used by whitespace..
They used to be. Eventually we learned the difference. One of the problems with standard measurements is the use of pounds for both, which became pounds-force and pounds-mass, and then slugs were grafted on for some reason.
SI has deliberately has separate terms for both to keep the concepts distinct.
If you insist on using kilograms as a weight, please turn in your "making fun of the US system of measurements" card.
The second problem happens to me about every 15s on the last half-hour of my commute. The problem is that there are too many cars on too few lanes, and they'd probably have to go double-decker to accommodate everyone with a safe gap. Or start a ring-road bus. Why do I have to go 15 miles into a city and back, with more than 3 transfers and a 1-3 mile walk at the end if I want to use public transportation to traverse 5 miles of ring-road?
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Well, what would you call a meter reduced by 1/10th?
So that they wouldn't be affected by bugs in OpenSSL?
The idea that it's a bad idea to roll your own security features because you're probably not a security expert is not something that is necessarily applicable to an organization as large as Apple, which can certainly afford to employ as many security researchers as it needs to to match the security knowledge of other common security tool organizations.
Further, a world in which there is only one (hopefully well-researched) implementation of critical security software also has drawbacks, as any errors in that software will affect everyone.
Personally, I would prefer that Plutonium be reserved for RTGs for space power. Outside of the inner solar system, solar-powered probes just don't cut it.
But how do you define "equal"? It's not just a matter of in/out - a netflix stream is a great example. There wouldn't be a stream if the individual customer didn't request it, and clearly Netflix is a driver for faster internet connections. But Netflix wouldn't have a business without delivering those streams, so they clearly have value to both entities. How do you value the traffic for the transport?
I assume the ISPs have generally figured this out. I'd think maybe railroads would be a good model - charge by distance traveled rather than balance of bits.
That sounds pretty awesome. Their website doesn't look like they offer residential service, sadly. It occurs to me that my largest use of internet by volume is probably Netflix, why not get service from the same company....
Tax and Spend "liberals" are rarely interested in repairing the crumbling roads and other infrastructure. You can usually find them finding a new ways to generate revenue from the infrastructure, but they use the funds generated for everything but. The roads crumble and anyone who proposes a reduction in the stifling taxes is shown the crumbling roads as evidence that there's just nothing that can be cut.
What's weird is that for all their talk about progressive taxation, they love the least progressive taxes you can find - gas tax, sales/VAT tax (and "broadening" it to cover clothing and groceries in states where previously those were excluded).
It's almost as if they want to provide all these social programs to keep the population compliant, but they don't want to fund them on the backs of those who are actually rich and powerful.
This question might seem obvious, but..
Why is carrier grade NAT a superior solution from an economic sense compared to IPv6? I mean, doesn't it effectively add bits to the address space, only in a more complicated way? I'd think that it should be more expensive to implement than just straight increasing the address size.
If IPv6 requires more resources to implement than the current solutions involving NAT, maybe it should be scrapped in favor of another standard that can be implemented with existing resources, or at least with fewer additional resources than NAT requires.
If we can depopulate the Georges Bank of Atlantic cod, a fish of questionable deliciousness, we can depopulate a few narrow rivers any fish that is even remotely tasty.
The problem with many environmentalists isn't so much that they are identifying problems that we all wish weren't, but that they often propose outrageous and ineffective remedies, sometimes to the point of opposing real solutions in favor of their half-baked fantasy plans.
The format isn't designed so that it can degrade gracefully, allowing lower-performing decoders to ignore/skip over functionality that they cannot support, resulting in a less detailed output?
They claim they do. But.. they don't clock in (or don't clock in for all of the hours they're claiming - the argument is that they work at home grading and planning, etc.), so who knows.
How can the french monthly wage per capita be more than 10%? There are 12 months in a year.....
Also, average wages don't really tell the story. High wage-earners skew the numbers one way, and non-wage compensation skews in another (profit sharing? Medical/Retirement benefits? etc.)
The last curve I saw had an asymptote at about 12 Billion. It was hard to guess what the causes of that logistic curve are, though. It'd be nice if the cause is that, faced with more potential mates to choose from, people being pickier start later and have fewer kids. It would be less nice if the cause is that population pressures cause more conflict resulting in more deaths offsetting the births.
Also, something happened around 1950ish that changed the coefficients. Prior to that we were on track for a much lower asymptote. I'm hoping the reason was the green revolution, rather than the end of WWII....
Also, you don't have to worry about whether the replicator thinks washing hands is for sissies.
Law isn't a promotion from theory.
Theories are derived from laws and strive to be consistent within those assumptions.
Laws are just observations that are believed to be axiomatic.
How can you appeal an acquital?
Painted matte black with no shiny surfaces to give away your position when using it, I assume. Not sure how useful that would be in a flashlight, though.
Another option might be tactical vs. strategic. As in, it's good for one operation, very good for that one operation, but don't count on keeping it with you for an entire campaign. A flashlight that burns extra bright or extra long or both, but only has a single use might be considered tactical.
Or it could have several components made of cast 6061 Aluminum. Although that is often referred to as "Aircraft grade" depending on who you want to impress, even though that term could easily refer to the tray table supports rather than wing spars.
Where's ClamAV?
Boycott? Really? Is that really necessary? Isn't it enough to point out the flaws, and, if the new site becomes inevitable and is no good, just leave then?
Right. Also, it shouldn't start any program that won't eventually finish.
Hairy, admit to yourself that you have not quit consuming nicotine. If anything you have moved on to the pure drug. Hardly a progressive step.
Why? What are the negative side effects of e-cigs?
I occasionally try to use the page profiling tools that come with every browser now. I'm not great at interpreting the results, but from what I can tell, it looks like the problem with javascript slowing you down isn't the javascript running, it's downloading the javascript itself from a 3rd party source, and the javascript itself fetching other data (possibly more javascript) from another 3rd party source.
I'd guess that almost every site on the internet would perform much better if they had a policy of serving mostly their own javascript, designing the pages so that all javascript resources that are needed are identified in the header, and never using 3rd party javascript which itself has 3rd party dependencies.
... use my whole widescreen monitor ...
No. Just.. No.
I want to use my whole widesceen monitor. I do not want the site to use my whole widescreen monitor unless I give it that width to work in. That's one of the problems with the current design - if you shrink your browser width, there is a point (on my non-hd laptop that point is 60% of the width of my screen...) where the comments no longer shrink, so I can't have slashdot on the side of my screen, shrunk to newspaper-column width, while working on other things, for instance gathering information to add to a comment of my own.
Also, the minimum width of a comment is still a bit long for easily tracking back to the beginning of the next line. With my font settings, the comments are over 100 characters wide. With larger font settings, the whitespace padding on the left side takes over more and more of the screen for no good reason.
The site should use the full width of the window, and a text-based site should try very hard to avoid circumstances requiring a horizontal scroll bar. I realize that you can't accommodate arbitrarily narrow windows, but a minimum of 60% is really pushing it, especially when 15% is used by whitespace..
They used to be. Eventually we learned the difference. One of the problems with standard measurements is the use of pounds for both, which became pounds-force and pounds-mass, and then slugs were grafted on for some reason.
SI has deliberately has separate terms for both to keep the concepts distinct.
If you insist on using kilograms as a weight, please turn in your "making fun of the US system of measurements" card.
Kludge and hack are synonymous, just not maybe the first definition. jQuery should probably this XKCD
The second problem happens to me about every 15s on the last half-hour of my commute. The problem is that there are too many cars on too few lanes, and they'd probably have to go double-decker to accommodate everyone with a safe gap. Or start a ring-road bus. Why do I have to go 15 miles into a city and back, with more than 3 transfers and a 1-3 mile walk at the end if I want to use public transportation to traverse 5 miles of ring-road?