coincidentally, IE gets confused on the corporate intranet with aliases seemingly all the time, where i have to put the http:/// in there to show I'm not searching for a corporate server on google.
Trying putting a trailing dot or./ on the server name, in some environments that works for me. Save yourself a bunch of keypresses. When it works it is because of the internals of how DNS does lookups.
If it is a professional car thief, the gone in 60 seconds type, then yeah you are probably right. If it is just some street thug who is a criminal because they have impulse control problems then all bets are off. I'm thinking you are looking at worse than 20:1 odds that you get a professional.
What is the evidence that the vehicles were locked? Statements from the victims who would loose the insurance award if they admitted that they forgot to lock their vehicle?
In the USA, not locking your car (or your house) is not grounds for insurance to deny a theft claim.
> You can't prove that anyone else *did* know about it.
Yep, you were the one hanging your hat on a unsupportable assertion - I didn't say anything beyond that. If your arguments start with unsupportable hyperbole, don't expect anyone to take you seriously.
> But if a spear-phishing attack occurs, we will know immediately that this is now in the wild.
It doesn't sound like you understand how spear-phishing works.
> Ormandy found the exploit -- making his knowledge of it unique.
Nope. The only thing unique here is his public disclosure of his knowledge. You have no way of knowing who else knew of this bug. Even without any exploits in the wild, it could easily be in a handful of spear-phishing attacks currently in use by any of those organizations that have been buying zero-day exploits for the last decade or so.
Let's think about this for a second, lets say you were falsely arrested for rape, it happens EVERY day thanks to a certain breed of woman, would you really want that footage to immediately be uploaded for the public's viewing? Probably not.
Is the video of the arrest any worse than the public record of your arrest permanently attached to your name?
Why are the grants drying up? Despite the much-hyped "austerity", in reality the government has spent more money in each of the recent years than ever before.
He didn't say a word about the government. Private grants are very common, anyone who has ever watched a PBS program through the credits has heard of several big name private grant programs - McArthur, Koch, etc.
Do you think the tiny wheels can be geared to the wind mill such that they will spin relatively faster than the wind,
I was good up to this point - once the wind mill is moving at the same rate as the wind the wind mill will stop spinning because the effective wind-speed will be zero. I don't see how any amount of gearing can make zero into non-zero.
Not really. It's perfectly reasonable for them to match your prints against unknown prints found at other crime scenes.
I totally agree, I realized I left that part out only after I hit submit. But it doesn't make a significant difference to my point, you can run them against a list of open cases but once they results come back negative, the police should be required to delete what was collected at the point of arrest.
Oh, and no funny business like having some database searches never complete so as to never have to delete the biometrics. Put a time limit, like 2 weeks, on it.
That hardly answers the question. Why does he think he'd be in so much more danger in Sweden? Why is being in the UK, where extradition is easy, better than being in Sweden, where extradition is hard?
Because he's not technically in the UK, he's in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Why is being in Ecuador, where the CIA doesn't mind sending in assassins, better than being in Sweden?
Because assassinating him would be such an enormous political fuck-up, the kind of thing that gets a president impeached, that it won't happen. Convicting him in a kangaroo court is a means of giving political cover to his persecution, but assassinating him would be to completely discard it.
The problem here isn't so much with the collection of DNA, but the retention. That seems to be a common theme here at the start of the 21st century - data collected for one purpose is then reused for other purposes.
I think it is reasonable for the police to check if someone they've arrested is a convicted felon. But once they've looked you up in their database of convicts, the collected data should be destroyed, be it DNA, fingerprints or even a mugshot. If you are subsequently convicted, they can go and re-collect the data for the purposes of making a permanent entry into the database of convicts.
The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
This VM is a VPN link from one or more users to a TOR bridge. Where the packets hit the un-encrypted internet has nothing to do with where the VM is hosted, it will only be TOR exit nodes. This VM will have minimal impact on the "reputation" of EC2 because TOR's entire purpose is to hide the origin.
Don't any of these places have lockers where you could leave a monitor and any other misc equipment? 22 1920x1080 monitors are pretty damn cheap nowadays, you could probably afford to leave one at each site. Use it in portrait mode and you've got tons of lines of text visible at once.
So much of what is wrong with police conduct boils down to putting police interests ahead of the interests of the people they are sworn to protect and serve.
My hypothesis was just that: an alternative hypothesis
Whatever man, if your intent was just to throw out a random hypothesis rather than to contradict the OP's claims it sure was an odd coincidence that (a) you didn't say that and (b) your hypothesis happened to be a direct contradiction of the OP's claims. Call it whatever you want, but I'm calling the kettle black.
> Who wants to stare at 30Hz on their computer all day? Is this 1992? That's the last time I saw an interlaced display on a computer.
30Hz is perfectly acceptable on a computer display - especially if you are staring at it all day. If you want to play video games, that is another issue, but for work like photo editing or software development or spread-sheets, word proceessing, email, or even just web browsing, 30hz is plenty. You won't even notice the difference.
I speak from experience, I used to have one of those Viewsonic 3840x2400 22" monitors. The model I had could do about 32Hz at most and as long as I wasn't playing a video game, you'd never know the refresh rate was so low.
> Read the article again. It certainly does not say conservatives "...will fuck themselves just to not have anything to do with the opposing tribe."
You are right, that OP was exaggerating. But your hypothesis about "green" being associated with inferior products is reading more into the study than was there - just like the OP did with his claims.
2) PoV machine also prints out a receipt for every voter after voting is complete, with detailed results that the voter can read and visually verify. Receipt includes a machine-readible 2D barcode.
That barcode is a bad idea - it is a point in which the human-readable part of the ballot can differ with the machine read part of the ballot.
Better to design the ballot such that what the human voter reads and verifies is the same as what the machine reads - make it tabular or something so simple that it is not hard for either to read and understand with a very low error rate.
I don't think you can make a reasonable comparison with that example. For anyone besides slashdot types 3d printing is brand new, they probably never even heard of it before Defense Distributed started making headlines. They do not have the kind of context that most of the population has with CFL since all they've ever heard about 3d printers was about printing guns.
> X on Wayland allows you to continue to use X's network support.
Watch your word choice. X on Wayland does nothing for native wayland apps. Which is about as meaningful as saying X allows you to continue to use X's network support.
Don't confuse short term with long term. The issue with Game of Thrones is due to all kinds of tail wagging the dog problems like the inertia of the cable industry, foreign distribution contracts, etc.
Here's a more long-term example -- DIVX. DIVX isn't just missing Game of Thrones, it is missing just about every movie and every TV show ever.
So they don't trust their hospital staff to wash their hands, but they do trust Indian staff to report them.
As the article says - it is mostly about cognitive load. People focus on the hard things and forget the easy things. Checklists deal with exactly the same phenomena and have produced great results in healthcare as well as exactly the same bogus complaints about lack of trust.
The article points out that something like 100,000 deaths per year are due to infections acquired while the patient was in the hospital and dirty hands are the primary means of transmitting those infections between patients. This is a problem that absolutely must be fixed. simple "trust" has not been sufficient so far.
The indians who do the watching do not have any harder problems to distract them. They may grow bored, like anyone who has to watch the same thing over and over again, but that's manageable. Maybe they give the indians a bounty to encourage them to focus, maybe they just rotate them through other tasks frequently enough that boredom does not overwhelm them.
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coincidentally, IE gets confused on the corporate intranet with aliases seemingly all the time, where i have to put the http:/// in there to show I'm not searching for a corporate server on google.
Trying putting a trailing dot or ./ on the server name, in some environments that works for me. Save yourself a bunch of keypresses. When it works it is because of the internals of how DNS does lookups.
I very much doubt most carjackers will kill you.
If it is a professional car thief, the gone in 60 seconds type, then yeah you are probably right. If it is just some street thug who is a criminal because they have impulse control problems then all bets are off. I'm thinking you are looking at worse than 20:1 odds that you get a professional.
What is the evidence that the vehicles were locked? Statements from the victims who would loose the insurance award if they admitted that they forgot to lock their vehicle?
In the USA, not locking your car (or your house) is not grounds for insurance to deny a theft claim.
> You can't prove that anyone else *did* know about it.
Yep, you were the one hanging your hat on a unsupportable assertion - I didn't say anything beyond that. If your arguments start with unsupportable hyperbole, don't expect anyone to take you seriously.
> But if a spear-phishing attack occurs, we will know immediately that this is now in the wild.
It doesn't sound like you understand how spear-phishing works.
> Ormandy found the exploit -- making his knowledge of it unique.
Nope. The only thing unique here is his public disclosure of his knowledge. You have no way of knowing who else knew of this bug. Even without any exploits in the wild, it could easily be in a handful of spear-phishing attacks currently in use by any of those organizations that have been buying zero-day exploits for the last decade or so.
Let's think about this for a second, lets say you were falsely arrested for rape, it happens EVERY day thanks to a certain breed of woman, would you really want that footage to immediately be uploaded for the public's viewing? Probably not.
Is the video of the arrest any worse than the public record of your arrest permanently attached to your name?
Why are the grants drying up? Despite the much-hyped "austerity", in reality the government has spent more money in each of the recent years than ever before.
He didn't say a word about the government. Private grants are very common, anyone who has ever watched a PBS program through the credits has heard of several big name private grant programs - McArthur, Koch, etc.
OK, I assumed it was running directly downwind rather than tacking. If it tacks back and forth, I can see that.
Do you think the tiny wheels can be geared to the wind mill such that they will spin relatively faster than the wind,
I was good up to this point - once the wind mill is moving at the same rate as the wind the wind mill will stop spinning because the effective wind-speed will be zero. I don't see how any amount of gearing can make zero into non-zero.
Not really. It's perfectly reasonable for them to match your prints against unknown prints found at other crime scenes.
I totally agree, I realized I left that part out only after I hit submit. But it doesn't make a significant difference to my point, you can run them against a list of open cases but once they results come back negative, the police should be required to delete what was collected at the point of arrest.
Oh, and no funny business like having some database searches never complete so as to never have to delete the biometrics. Put a time limit, like 2 weeks, on it.
That hardly answers the question. Why does he think he'd be in so much more danger in Sweden? Why is being in the UK, where extradition is easy, better than being in Sweden, where extradition is hard?
Because he's not technically in the UK, he's in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Why is being in Ecuador, where the CIA doesn't mind sending in assassins, better than being in Sweden?
Because assassinating him would be such an enormous political fuck-up, the kind of thing that gets a president impeached, that it won't happen. Convicting him in a kangaroo court is a means of giving political cover to his persecution, but assassinating him would be to completely discard it.
The problem here isn't so much with the collection of DNA, but the retention. That seems to be a common theme here at the start of the 21st century - data collected for one purpose is then reused for other purposes.
I think it is reasonable for the police to check if someone they've arrested is a convicted felon. But once they've looked you up in their database of convicts, the collected data should be destroyed, be it DNA, fingerprints or even a mugshot. If you are subsequently convicted, they can go and re-collect the data for the purposes of making a permanent entry into the database of convicts.
The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
This VM is a VPN link from one or more users to a TOR bridge. Where the packets hit the un-encrypted internet has nothing to do with where the VM is hosted, it will only be TOR exit nodes. This VM will have minimal impact on the "reputation" of EC2 because TOR's entire purpose is to hide the origin.
Don't any of these places have lockers where you could leave a monitor and any other misc equipment? 22 1920x1080 monitors are pretty damn cheap nowadays, you could probably afford to leave one at each site. Use it in portrait mode and you've got tons of lines of text visible at once.
+1
So much of what is wrong with police conduct boils down to putting police interests ahead of the interests of the people they are sworn to protect and serve.
My hypothesis was just that: an alternative hypothesis
Whatever man, if your intent was just to throw out a random hypothesis rather than to contradict the OP's claims it sure was an odd coincidence that (a) you didn't say that and (b) your hypothesis happened to be a direct contradiction of the OP's claims. Call it whatever you want, but I'm calling the kettle black.
Who knew that microsoft Bob was really just a manifestation of your inner dummy?
> Who wants to stare at 30Hz on their computer all day? Is this 1992? That's the last time I saw an interlaced display on a computer.
30Hz is perfectly acceptable on a computer display - especially if you are staring at it all day. If you want to play video games, that is another issue, but for work like photo editing or software development or spread-sheets, word proceessing, email, or even just web browsing, 30hz is plenty. You won't even notice the difference.
I speak from experience, I used to have one of those Viewsonic 3840x2400 22" monitors. The model I had could do about 32Hz at most and as long as I wasn't playing a video game, you'd never know the refresh rate was so low.
> Read the article again. It certainly does not say conservatives "...will fuck themselves just to not have anything to do with the opposing tribe."
You are right, that OP was exaggerating. But your hypothesis about "green" being associated with inferior products is reading more into the study than was there - just like the OP did with his claims.
2) PoV machine also prints out a receipt for every voter after voting is complete, with detailed results that the voter can read and visually verify. Receipt includes a machine-readible 2D barcode.
That barcode is a bad idea - it is a point in which the human-readable part of the ballot can differ with the machine read part of the ballot.
Better to design the ballot such that what the human voter reads and verifies is the same as what the machine reads - make it tabular or something so simple that it is not hard for either to read and understand with a very low error rate.
I don't think you can make a reasonable comparison with that example. For anyone besides slashdot types 3d printing is brand new, they probably never even heard of it before Defense Distributed started making headlines. They do not have the kind of context that most of the population has with CFL since all they've ever heard about 3d printers was about printing guns.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/30/do-green-products-turn-off-conservative-customers/
> X on Wayland allows you to continue to use X's network support.
Watch your word choice. X on Wayland does nothing for native wayland apps. Which is about as meaningful as saying X allows you to continue to use X's network support.
Content does not follow money.
I cannot get "Game of Thrones"...
Don't confuse short term with long term. The issue with Game of Thrones is due to all kinds of tail wagging the dog problems like the inertia of the cable industry, foreign distribution contracts, etc.
Here's a more long-term example -- DIVX. DIVX isn't just missing Game of Thrones, it is missing just about every movie and every TV show ever.
So they don't trust their hospital staff to wash their hands, but they do trust Indian staff to report them.
As the article says - it is mostly about cognitive load. People focus on the hard things and forget the easy things. Checklists deal with exactly the same phenomena and have produced great results in healthcare as well as exactly the same bogus complaints about lack of trust.
The article points out that something like 100,000 deaths per year are due to infections acquired while the patient was in the hospital and dirty hands are the primary means of transmitting those infections between patients. This is a problem that absolutely must be fixed. simple "trust" has not been sufficient so far.
The indians who do the watching do not have any harder problems to distract them. They may grow bored, like anyone who has to watch the same thing over and over again, but that's manageable. Maybe they give the indians a bounty to encourage them to focus, maybe they just rotate them through other tasks frequently enough that boredom does not overwhelm them.