But I guess that comes out when people basically only hear the english language but don't practice it by actually reading text (i.e. TV and no newspaper makes everybody dumb).
A Christian fundi I went to school with once told me that all translations of the bible were 100% accurate because the translators were guided by "the hand of God". So I don't think Christian fundis point to the Hebrew original when arguing about the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment.
Pity you, you're mixing up Third Geneva Convention with Fourth Geneva Convention. And just because the enemy doesn't honor human rights doesn't give you the right to throw all human rights over board. Think about it.
Anybody who understands the historical context of the Geneva Convention would agree that it is obsolete. Read the bloody document, then come back and participate in the discussion.
I read it. It's not obsolete. It's only called "obsolete" by certain people who want to justify their "need" for systematical torture.
The Geneva Convention was designed for exactly the kind of crisis that we face, namely large-scale conflicts where a lot of people are threatened by certain forces. While it wasn't specifically written for the case of terrorism, its teleological ideas of human rights hold up, and it's the duty of democrat (as in "believes in the democratic system", not as in the political party) to rise up against a government pulling human rights through the dirt, for a very unspecific "war on terror" with badly defined targets.
Make no mistake, times will come where the US government will be punished for their self-righteousness they currently show to the world.
Maybe KDE has better design... Most certainly not.
Most certainly _yes_. They've got the concept of kioslaves, they have DCOP, they have great interoperation between the applications. Ever seen the integration of KMail, aKregate, KNode and the KDE address book (forgot the name)? It's awesome. And this is the kind of features that Gnome is mostly lacking. Don't get me wrong, I personally prefer using Gnome to using KDE, but from the technical point of view, KDE is definitely leaps ahead of Gnome, and they achieved an increased productivity compared to Gnome because they're using an object-oriented language and toolkit.
At least Linux uses a directory hierarchy that resembles more closely the _original_ directory hierarchy of Unix (and I'm talking about the real one, i.e. Unix V7) than any of the commercial Unix versions, _and_ it is well-documented (Linux FHS).
FUD, FUD, FUD. Linux so far scales to up to 256 CPUs on real computers (SGI Altix 3700, single node), while Solaris hasn't scaled to more than 106 CPUs on real computers (Sun Fire 15K).
A bit OT, but nevertheless quite interesting to read and it contains information about SIMD instruction sets other than just MMX/SSE:
http://www.fefe.de/ccccamp2003-simd.pdf
In fact, for most servers, BSD is a better choice.
Could you please back this assertion with facts? The scalability of the BSD systems doesn't really look too good compared with Linux (well, except for NetBSD): http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
The third option would be that they come up with some definition of what is patentable, and we see some restricted form of software patents.
Actually, there is already a definition, but is doesn't define itself what "software as such" contrary to only "software" and what the term "technical" means. And the pro-swpat activists refuse to give any meaningful definitions (they "define" them via some self-references), but also reject any definitions from the anti-swpat activists.
Basically, the author of the article asserts that many "traditional" CAPTCHAs (images showing distorted text) have been broken to promote his own, complicated system. This is basically bullshit. If it was so, we would have super-duper OCR already, but we don't. And the worst thing is: his system is so complicated, I couldn't understand it by RTFA once. Instead of overcomplicating things, he should think about trying to understand why CAPTCHAs _are_ secure (if one CAPTCHA has been broken, just add more distortions, and it is secure again; as a side effect, and AI-complete problem has been solved).
I'm mean, all this "has been broken, has been broken, has been broken" bullshit in this article: he should just take a look at e.g. the authimage plugin for WordPress, which uses a very interesting font that draws every letter from a lot of small circles.
You don't need a right mouse button. Of course, you can use a mouse that has a right mouse button and a mouse wheel, and they all will be supported by Mac OS X, but you don't really need them (at least the right mouse button).
They were just too early and the right hardware wasn't available yet (i.e. the 20 MHz or so ARM CPU they used was too slow), but the user experience was superb, e.g. the way of deleting text (simply cross it out) or setting the current time (draw the watch hands on a clock).
This "there is no program to exploit it, so this security issue is not important"-type of attitude is extremely dangerous. The slogan is to act, not to react, especially with security issues. And Microsoft actually should have learned from their part of history...
That assumes that you don't have any data about the valid, real certificate, and thus cannot check fingerprint and stuff. But I agree with you, you described a possible attack vector, although it's on a completely different layer (social engineering) than a man-in-the-middle attack (technical attack on SSL/TLS).
Well, according to Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder), there are indeed people who only check all the changes that are made to articles for their correctness (if they know something about the topic). So, there are editors, but they're not full-time employed, and they don't exist by intention, but came out of the whole Wikipedia community process.
As a side effect of all this, the us is Third World when it comes to cell phone technology.
You are so absolutely right. Actually, I was shocked when I saw a map of the US showing huge areas without any base stations for mobile phones at all, and the rest is splintered up between CDMA and GMS. And does routing SMS between different mobile phone providers work already?
I mean, Europe has never been a technology leader (nor is today, and I'm saying this is as a European), but I was really surprised that the US are so much behind with these technologies.
On a side note: I always wonder how much Europe is behind e.g. Japan, and how Japanese tourists think about our stone-old mobile phones.;-)
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Incidentally, the ability to solve puzzles in real-time during an interview also doesn't correlate with being a useful employee of a large, innovative company.
Well, not if the company's business concept is centered around solving puzzles in real-time.
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But I guess that comes out when people basically only hear the english language but don't practice it by actually reading text (i.e. TV and no newspaper makes everybody dumb).
When was the last time you won a football tournament?
England always wins in the Premier League...
A Christian fundi I went to school with once told me that all translations of the bible were 100% accurate because the translators were guided by "the hand of God". So I don't think Christian fundis point to the Hebrew original when arguing about the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment.
Pity you, you're mixing up Third Geneva Convention with Fourth Geneva Convention. And just because the enemy doesn't honor human rights doesn't give you the right to throw all human rights over board. Think about it.
Anybody who understands the historical context of the Geneva Convention would agree that it is obsolete. Read the bloody document, then come back and participate in the discussion.
I read it. It's not obsolete. It's only called "obsolete" by certain people who want to justify their "need" for systematical torture.
The Geneva Convention was designed for exactly the kind of crisis that we face, namely large-scale conflicts where a lot of people are threatened by certain forces. While it wasn't specifically written for the case of terrorism, its teleological ideas of human rights hold up, and it's the duty of democrat (as in "believes in the democratic system", not as in the political party) to rise up against a government pulling human rights through the dirt, for a very unspecific "war on terror" with badly defined targets.
Make no mistake, times will come where the US government will be punished for their self-righteousness they currently show to the world.
Maybe KDE has better design ...
Most certainly not.
Most certainly _yes_. They've got the concept of kioslaves, they have DCOP, they have great interoperation between the applications. Ever seen the integration of KMail, aKregate, KNode and the KDE address book (forgot the name)? It's awesome. And this is the kind of features that Gnome is mostly lacking. Don't get me wrong, I personally prefer using Gnome to using KDE, but from the technical point of view, KDE is definitely leaps ahead of Gnome, and they achieved an increased productivity compared to Gnome because they're using an object-oriented language and toolkit.
The companys choice of programming environment might seem silly, but you need to think about stuff like that when you are building your resume.
I agree. Even though I don't really like writing software for Symbian OS (which I did for the last 8 months), it looks great in my CV.
At least Linux uses a directory hierarchy that resembles more closely the _original_ directory hierarchy of Unix (and I'm talking about the real one, i.e. Unix V7) than any of the commercial Unix versions, _and_ it is well-documented (Linux FHS).
FUD, FUD, FUD. Linux so far scales to up to 256 CPUs on real computers (SGI Altix 3700, single node), while Solaris hasn't scaled to more than 106 CPUs on real computers (Sun Fire 15K).
Well, me too, as "Dylan" in the Apple context is way more likely the language than anything else, since they invented it.
A bit OT, but nevertheless quite interesting to read and it contains information about SIMD instruction sets other than just MMX/SSE: http://www.fefe.de/ccccamp2003-simd.pdf
In fact, for most servers, BSD is a better choice.
Could you please back this assertion with facts? The scalability of the BSD systems doesn't really look too good compared with Linux (well, except for NetBSD): http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
The third option would be that they come up with some definition of what is patentable, and we see some restricted form of software patents.
Actually, there is already a definition, but is doesn't define itself what "software as such" contrary to only "software" and what the term "technical" means. And the pro-swpat activists refuse to give any meaningful definitions (they "define" them via some self-references), but also reject any definitions from the anti-swpat activists.
Basically, the author of the article asserts that many "traditional" CAPTCHAs (images showing distorted text) have been broken to promote his own, complicated system. This is basically bullshit. If it was so, we would have super-duper OCR already, but we don't. And the worst thing is: his system is so complicated, I couldn't understand it by RTFA once. Instead of overcomplicating things, he should think about trying to understand why CAPTCHAs _are_ secure (if one CAPTCHA has been broken, just add more distortions, and it is secure again; as a side effect, and AI-complete problem has been solved).
I'm mean, all this "has been broken, has been broken, has been broken" bullshit in this article: he should just take a look at e.g. the authimage plugin for WordPress, which uses a very interesting font that draws every letter from a lot of small circles.
You don't need a right mouse button. Of course, you can use a mouse that has a right mouse button and a mouse wheel, and they all will be supported by Mac OS X, but you don't really need them (at least the right mouse button).
They were just too early and the right hardware wasn't available yet (i.e. the 20 MHz or so ARM CPU they used was too slow), but the user experience was superb, e.g. the way of deleting text (simply cross it out) or setting the current time (draw the watch hands on a clock).
That is how you prioritize things in real life.
This "there is no program to exploit it, so this security issue is not important"-type of attitude is extremely dangerous. The slogan is to act, not to react, especially with security issues. And Microsoft actually should have learned from their part of history...
And in Soviet Russia, you drive your mum to work.
That assumes that you don't have any data about the valid, real certificate, and thus cannot check fingerprint and stuff. But I agree with you, you described a possible attack vector, although it's on a completely different layer (social engineering) than a man-in-the-middle attack (technical attack on SSL/TLS).
It is feasible, but that's exactly what server certificates are for, as they are pretty hard to spoof.
The difference is explained in this wonderful Wikipedia article on object-relational databases.
Anybody who exposes a CIA agent should get an award. The CIA and their agents are the scum of the world.
Well, according to Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder), there are indeed people who only check all the changes that are made to articles for their correctness (if they know something about the topic). So, there are editors, but they're not full-time employed, and they don't exist by intention, but came out of the whole Wikipedia community process.
As a side effect of all this, the us is Third World when it comes to cell phone technology.
;-)
You are so absolutely right. Actually, I was shocked when I saw a map of the US showing huge areas without any base stations for mobile phones at all, and the rest is splintered up between CDMA and GMS. And does routing SMS between different mobile phone providers work already?
I mean, Europe has never been a technology leader (nor is today, and I'm saying this is as a European), but I was really surprised that the US are so much behind with these technologies.
On a side note: I always wonder how much Europe is behind e.g. Japan, and how Japanese tourists think about our stone-old mobile phones.
Incidentally, the ability to solve puzzles in real-time during an interview also doesn't correlate with being a useful employee of a large, innovative company.
Well, not if the company's business concept is centered around solving puzzles in real-time.