It does? Bits of the web-facing APIs are open source (with core underlying functionality like sandboxing stripped out and no guarantee of compatibility) but the backend stuff definitely isn't...
It's quite scummy really though. They offered it for free or cheap for long enough to allow people to write applications based on it, then pushed up the prices to the point it'd be far cheaper to host them on traditional hosting - but the users couldn't because Google App Engine had proprietary APIs that locked them into that service.
The 9 dollars is just the base fee. If I'm reading this correctly the only thing you get for that $9/month is the ability to pay additional pay-as-you-go usage fees to get more resources; the monthly fee doesn't increase your inclusive resource allocation at all. If your application is actively used most of the time, you'll apparently end up paying quite a bit more...
Anyone that can launch a man-in-the-middle attack can block OSCP verification requests, and for non-EV certificates they can do so in a way that causes all browsers to accept the certificate as valid with no kind of warning whatsoever.
The article claims that you can set it so that anyone in the world with a Facebook account (possibly even people without one?) can see it except the victim...
Probably at around the time social networking sites became many people's main method of communication. Most forms of social justice activism require involving other people, and it's not as though you can control what method the people you want to communicate with choose to make themselves available through...
Apparently it affects all use of Google Reader, Picasa etc aside from stuff you could do without logging in (and in some cases it may even have affected that)...
Last I heard the MythTV developers were talking about dropping Xv and requiring OpenGL support in order to get any kind of video. Don't suppose you know if that's still planned?
There's also an interesting quirk on Linux and probably many other Unix-like systems where if any program has a deleted file open for reading, you can't remount the filesystem as read-only and therefore can't shut the system down cleanly. Only really affects people writing init systems because everything else gets killed during the shutdown process though.
In reality, almost nobody* is going to call md5 via crypt() when a standalone md5() function exists
Yes they are, because the two don't do the same thing. md5 just calculates the md5 of data, whereas the md5 support of crypt uses salting and a large number of rounds to make password cracking harder.
There are Android phones available that are as cheap as the iPod Touch (if not quite as capable) and can be used on PAYG. This is especially true in countries other than the US with decent mobile providers.
You'll notice that the Fedora packagers are putting their foot down and refusing to ship rsync or zsync with their own internal bundled version of zlib...
Here's a fun fact I recently learned: Thatcher privatised the UK water supply when she was in power and it's still privately owned now (first country to do so I believe) - except there's a rule that the water companies can't totally cut off people's water supply if they don't pay their bills, they can only install a flow restrictor. That rule didn't originally exist. The reason it was created was because there werea bunch of outbreaks of dysentry due to people being unable to afford clean running water. In the UK.
Obviously Violet Blue is either not famous enough or not pro-Google enough for Google's liking; they're quite happy to not only allow celebrities to register under the fake-sounding psedonyms (not even actual names!) that they're known by, but even to verify them. I'm guessing not pro-Google enough personally.
Google have been quite happy to let big-name celebrities use their "fake" names that everyone knows them by rather than their real names - no matter how unusual those names are. It's just normal peons that are forced to use the name on their ID. Part of Google's strategy seems to be to get as many celebrities on Google+ as possible.
So, let me get this straight: after the civil rights movement succeeded - in spite of the Democratic party - all the racists went and joined the other side? LBJ, there's a great man. He supported the Civil Rights Act because he felt it would "keep the n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years."
He also apparently said "We have lost the South for a generation". He was right - it was a very politically expensive decision for the Democrats.
Of course, it's not limited to politicians themselves. Hell, Jesse Jackson is a prominent Democrat and supposed "civil rights leader" who referred to New York as "Hymietown". I supposed that's OK because Jews aren't part of the permanent brown underclass that the Democrats have tried long and hard to create.
The Jewish population of America is more or less considered white these days, and as far as I can tell being Jewish gives someone no more qualms about screwing over black people than being white does in general. Also, "permanent brown underclass that the Democrats have tried long and hard to create"? Maybe if you believe - as so many Republicans seem to - that if you cut them off from any way to feed themselves and stay alive other than getting a job, they'll miraculasly manage to find jobs in areas where they need to, and that anyone who can't obviously doesn't care if they starve to death on the streets. There's no other way to square that statement with reality...
Actually that's a popular myth. It's a lot more complicated, but the biggest factor was the usual one - in a mature economy the only thing that increases the standard of living is technological advance.
Technological advance is necessary to increase the standard of living, but it's not enough to do so by itself - there's nothing about it that ensures more than a few people see an increase in their standard of living. In fact, if anything it has the potential to have the opposite effect: as technology becomes more advanced, it requires more in the way of capital and raw materials and less in the way of labour, which concentrates wealth in the capital-owning classes whilst screwing over everyone else.
One of those advances was that the size of businesses such as the railroads required the creation of publicly-held corporations (a fundamentally democratic institution) and the need for a professional management structure.
The "professional management structure" is part of the reason why we're screwed right now. We've somehow ended up with a distinct CEO class whose members can give each other jobs and vote each other pay rises at the expense of everyone else in society...
One can even see the institution of labor laws (which were indeed largely the result of labor lobbying and a popular sense of rightness) as one of those advances.
Labour laws - at least in the US - were a result of businesses' activities being too nasty to be politically viable and of the fear of a Marxist revolution. These days no-one's really scared of Marxism and thanks to better understanding of the media and better spin (see also: this/. summary) there's no political will to stand up to large corporations - indeed, any attempt to do so is portrayed as evil and harmful to everyone, whereas benefitting big businesses and the wealthy is painted as the path to success.
You obviously haven't tried running games using Wine on Linux. For quite a long time, the only obstacle to running Portal 2 under Linux that anyone could find was the incredibly temperamental DRM that didn't even work reliably under Windows. People had successfully run it after cracking it... once they'd managed to find a complete crack that is, because Valve had constructed some kind of obnoxious multi-layered DRM scheme where just naively cracking it left behind game-breaking DRM triggers later on the game.
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It does? Bits of the web-facing APIs are open source (with core underlying functionality like sandboxing stripped out and no guarantee of compatibility) but the backend stuff definitely isn't...
It's quite scummy really though. They offered it for free or cheap for long enough to allow people to write applications based on it, then pushed up the prices to the point it'd be far cheaper to host them on traditional hosting - but the users couldn't because Google App Engine had proprietary APIs that locked them into that service.
The 9 dollars is just the base fee. If I'm reading this correctly the only thing you get for that $9/month is the ability to pay additional pay-as-you-go usage fees to get more resources; the monthly fee doesn't increase your inclusive resource allocation at all. If your application is actively used most of the time, you'll apparently end up paying quite a bit more...
Anyone that can launch a man-in-the-middle attack can block OSCP verification requests, and for non-EV certificates they can do so in a way that causes all browsers to accept the certificate as valid with no kind of warning whatsoever.
The article claims that you can set it so that anyone in the world with a Facebook account (possibly even people without one?) can see it except the victim...
Probably at around the time social networking sites became many people's main method of communication. Most forms of social justice activism require involving other people, and it's not as though you can control what method the people you want to communicate with choose to make themselves available through...
Apparently it affects all use of Google Reader, Picasa etc aside from stuff you could do without logging in (and in some cases it may even have affected that)...
Last I heard the MythTV developers were talking about dropping Xv and requiring OpenGL support in order to get any kind of video. Don't suppose you know if that's still planned?
There's a fairly interesting argument that paying down the national debt would actually harm the economy... macroeconomics seems to be a tad counter-intuitive.
If you don't like corporations and the rich buying gov power, you have to eliminate the gov power.
And your proposal to do this without the rich buying private-sector power (see also: the history of the Pinkertons) is what exactly?
Wait, there's no quorum requirement for keeping Congress in session? *facepalm*
There's also an interesting quirk on Linux and probably many other Unix-like systems where if any program has a deleted file open for reading, you can't remount the filesystem as read-only and therefore can't shut the system down cleanly. Only really affects people writing init systems because everything else gets killed during the shutdown process though.
Actually, it's worse than that - Apple's launch left the competing players unable to get microdrives at all...
And it was basically impossible to buy them - they had fuck-all of them in stock, the websites kept going down and cancelling people's orders, etc...
The price of a MicroSD card + adapter is about the same as the price of a full-size SD card from what I recall... cheaper in some cases even.
In reality, almost nobody* is going to call md5 via crypt() when a standalone md5() function exists
Yes they are, because the two don't do the same thing. md5 just calculates the md5 of data, whereas the md5 support of crypt uses salting and a large number of rounds to make password cracking harder.
There are Android phones available that are as cheap as the iPod Touch (if not quite as capable) and can be used on PAYG. This is especially true in countries other than the US with decent mobile providers.
You'll notice that the Fedora packagers are putting their foot down and refusing to ship rsync or zsync with their own internal bundled version of zlib...
Here's a fun fact I recently learned: Thatcher privatised the UK water supply when she was in power and it's still privately owned now (first country to do so I believe) - except there's a rule that the water companies can't totally cut off people's water supply if they don't pay their bills, they can only install a flow restrictor. That rule didn't originally exist. The reason it was created was because there werea bunch of outbreaks of dysentry due to people being unable to afford clean running water. In the UK.
Obviously Violet Blue is either not famous enough or not pro-Google enough for Google's liking; they're quite happy to not only allow celebrities to register under the fake-sounding psedonyms (not even actual names!) that they're known by, but even to verify them. I'm guessing not pro-Google enough personally.
Google have been quite happy to let big-name celebrities use their "fake" names that everyone knows them by rather than their real names - no matter how unusual those names are. It's just normal peons that are forced to use the name on their ID. Part of Google's strategy seems to be to get as many celebrities on Google+ as possible.
Oh, and he sabotaged their computer systems before he left, got his passwords revoked, and obtained the data by physically going to the data center and blagging his way inside because he didn't actually have access to it any other way.
So, let me get this straight: after the civil rights movement succeeded - in spite of the Democratic party - all the racists went and joined the other side? LBJ, there's a great man. He supported the Civil Rights Act because he felt it would "keep the n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years."
He also apparently said "We have lost the South for a generation". He was right - it was a very politically expensive decision for the Democrats.
Of course, it's not limited to politicians themselves. Hell, Jesse Jackson is a prominent Democrat and supposed "civil rights leader" who referred to New York as "Hymietown". I supposed that's OK because Jews aren't part of the permanent brown underclass that the Democrats have tried long and hard to create.
The Jewish population of America is more or less considered white these days, and as far as I can tell being Jewish gives someone no more qualms about screwing over black people than being white does in general. Also, "permanent brown underclass that the Democrats have tried long and hard to create"? Maybe if you believe - as so many Republicans seem to - that if you cut them off from any way to feed themselves and stay alive other than getting a job, they'll miraculasly manage to find jobs in areas where they need to, and that anyone who can't obviously doesn't care if they starve to death on the streets. There's no other way to square that statement with reality...
Actually that's a popular myth. It's a lot more complicated, but the biggest factor was the usual one - in a mature economy the only thing that increases the standard of living is technological advance.
Technological advance is necessary to increase the standard of living, but it's not enough to do so by itself - there's nothing about it that ensures more than a few people see an increase in their standard of living. In fact, if anything it has the potential to have the opposite effect: as technology becomes more advanced, it requires more in the way of capital and raw materials and less in the way of labour, which concentrates wealth in the capital-owning classes whilst screwing over everyone else.
One of those advances was that the size of businesses such as the railroads required the creation of publicly-held corporations (a fundamentally democratic institution) and the need for a professional management structure.
The "professional management structure" is part of the reason why we're screwed right now. We've somehow ended up with a distinct CEO class whose members can give each other jobs and vote each other pay rises at the expense of everyone else in society...
One can even see the institution of labor laws (which were indeed largely the result of labor lobbying and a popular sense of rightness) as one of those advances.
Labour laws - at least in the US - were a result of businesses' activities being too nasty to be politically viable and of the fear of a Marxist revolution. These days no-one's really scared of Marxism and thanks to better understanding of the media and better spin (see also: this /. summary) there's no political will to stand up to large corporations - indeed, any attempt to do so is portrayed as evil and harmful to everyone, whereas benefitting big businesses and the wealthy is painted as the path to success.
You obviously haven't tried running games using Wine on Linux. For quite a long time, the only obstacle to running Portal 2 under Linux that anyone could find was the incredibly temperamental DRM that didn't even work reliably under Windows. People had successfully run it after cracking it... once they'd managed to find a complete crack that is, because Valve had constructed some kind of obnoxious multi-layered DRM scheme where just naively cracking it left behind game-breaking DRM triggers later on the game.