For supersonic speeds it makes a bit of sense, given that the obvious point of reference for objects moving that fast is the speed of sound. Military fighters often have their speed reported in mach. Most people know the speed of sound in m/s, few know it in km/h.
I agree though, km/h probably makes more sense for a passenger aircraft, but m/s is still a fairly sane unit, IMO.
The fact is, there is no "clean" energy that can be built anywhere.
did I miss anything?
Yes. Nobody has said that there's a one size fits all clean energy source, so pretending one required and start attacking that false hypothesis is nothing but a straw man technique. By your reasoning, the entire world is dead of starvation, as there's pretty much no source of food that can be grown everywhere. Different solutions for different locations.
For the record, I'm relatively pro nuclear power - but you're still arguing against a straw man.
Salted passwords don't matter - you can recover the password. Heck, you can reverse engineer hashing algorithms by just making a bunch of passwords then recovering them.
That would require you not only steal the password hash file but also the software used to create that file, including the salt, etc.
No. The context of this subthread was that using the same password on two separate systems would give the owners of one of the systems access to the other. Presumably, they won't need to "steal" anything, as they already control both the relevant data and software.
If the only boxes they have are forward pointing webservers, then this link is relevant. That is obviously not the case.
They would have had to intentionally bypass Linux security basics and roll their own to end up in such a mess.
Intentionally bypass? Please. Of course you don't create operating system level users for users in your web app. They are way too much overhead for that. Of course they (and everybody else that provide web services of some sort) "roll their own" user system.
Storing passwords in plain text is still inexcusable of course, but the rest of your post is nonsense.
I notice a lot of US centric answers, including references to "sexual harassment training". The submitter's profile page indicates he's located in the Czech Republic. As another European, I can say that the only time I've heard of "sexual harassment training" (interesting name, btw - does it train you to be better at it?) is in slashdot posts, by Americans, on the topic. While sexual harassment laws exist here, they obviously don't work the same way, or are enforced with the same rigour on this side of the pond.
Now, I do agree with the general advice, which is essentially grow the fuck up, but assuming American law and corporate procedures when giving advice is probably not very helpful.
Yes, I agree. It is completely ludicrous that an investigation can produce more evidence as time goes on. I say that's nonsense. Police officers should hold a seance for 30 seconds after the discovery of a potential crime. If nobody has had a revelation by then, they should ignore it and move on to the next alleged crime. This whole idea of spending time to look for evidence is completely bugus.
It doesn't help artists (and therefore, creation) better than the alternative, and therefore "Copyright"'s only basis of existence, the 1 line of the constitution "to promote science and the useful arts" is unfulfilled. [Citation needed BADLY]
Not really. Citation badly needed for the opposite. You don't need a good reason to not make a law. You need a very good reason to make one.
The ID on brass probably won't even be admissible in court for the reason that brass gets reused all the time.
To be fair, everything doesn't have to be admissible in court. A police investigation involves numerous things that are not brought up as evidence, but still help put police on the right track. If they have a lead - based on this ID - they can at least go talk to the owner and ask him where he was at the time of the shooting, or if he knows where his gun happened to be at that time. Or where he's usually shooting, and who has access to that place. Sometimes it may help, sometimes it may not, but it's not really meaningful to discard everything the police use in an investigation just because it's inadmissible.
Open sourcing the code is out of the question as all of that code isn't just from internal employees, as getting everyone who has written lines of code to agree to their code being available under a open source licence would be a huge task.
I call bullshit on this. No way did their contract say "I relinquish my rights to the code I produce to Nvidida, under the condition that they do not open source it". That would be the stupidest contract I've ever seen, and the liars^H^H^H^Hawyers wouldn't even have the knowledge to produce such a contract.
I can't really answer that, no. My understanding is that there's simply laws saying that the questioning must be in person, on Swedish soil, but I am most certainly not a lawyer, and I can't guarantee that my understanding is correct.
Disclaimer: I'm a Swedish resident, and thus biased.
To answer your question; because Sweden has changed. At the time when the Egyptians were rendered, the Swedish population was convinced that Sweden was the best freest and marvelousest country the entire world. We simply didn't pay attention to things like this, because quite frankly we couldn't believe it would happen. The case of the Egyptians was a big eye opener for many here, and we were quite pissed off (well, as pissed off as Swedish people get).
The Assange case has, before anything really bad has even happened, attracted an enormous amount of publicity, and thus has the attention of every Swedish resident before it has even started (w/r to comparing it to the Egyptians). Some here may think Assange is an ass, some may think he should be put in prison and rot, and some may think he's innocent and/or a hero, but nobody seems to think that he should be given to the US. The public is keeping a very close eye on this case, and an extradition would be a political shit storm beyond anything we've seen for ages.
I'm honestly not particularly proud of how "my" country has acted in this - I can certainly see that the Swedish prosecution seems quite incompetent - but I really do not think that Assange would be dumped off the US. It would be political suicide for everybody involved in the process.
This is possible, but at least it hasn't happened yet. While I'm not particularly happy about the Stuxnet attack, I couldn't accuse it of murdering hospital patients & civilians. The same can not be said for the gun using meat space branch of the American war machine.
This is a stunt, pure and simple. IE7 use is trivial and you can readily conclude that people who haven't upgraded in 10 years are NOT the primary customer of a computer retailer.
(emphasis mine)
IE8 was released three, not ten years ago. Heck, IE7 wasn't even released ten years ago.
Gotcha: No matter what M$ does is evil becuase you feel like it and the facts don't matter. Have you considered working for Assad to spread propaganda about the Syrian people?
No matter what Microsoft does is evil because, frankly, that's the historical record. Fool me once, and all that. When Microsoft has spent as long behaving well as they did behaving evil I'll give them the benefit of doubt. Right now, they still have two decades (give or take) of repentance left.
Thanks for bringing Assad into this. I wouldn't trust him either, even if I see him handing out free toys to kids for a few days. Would you stand there spouting some "Whatever he does, you'll call him evil!" bullshit while I back away from him and suggest that you might want to check the toys for bombs.
The mere fact that a book written by someone nearly 70 years ago is still under copyright is ridiculous
Count on Slashdot to turn a story about naziism into an anti-copyright rant.
The story is a copyright story. The book hasn't been banned. The book has simply not been published, because the people sitting on the copyright refused to publish it. The reason it is now about to be published is because the copyright is finally expiring.
How much more deserving can a story be of triggering anti-copyright rants than when copyright is explicitly and directly used to enforce censorship?
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For supersonic speeds it makes a bit of sense, given that the obvious point of reference for objects moving that fast is the speed of sound. Military fighters often have their speed reported in mach. Most people know the speed of sound in m/s, few know it in km/h.
I agree though, km/h probably makes more sense for a passenger aircraft, but m/s is still a fairly sane unit, IMO.
The fact is, there is no "clean" energy that can be built anywhere.
did I miss anything?
Yes. Nobody has said that there's a one size fits all clean energy source, so pretending one required and start attacking that false hypothesis is nothing but a straw man technique.
By your reasoning, the entire world is dead of starvation, as there's pretty much no source of food that can be grown everywhere. Different solutions for different locations.
For the record, I'm relatively pro nuclear power - but you're still arguing against a straw man.
http://xkcd.com/1050/ would be much more relevant to this topic, methinks.
Last I added it up, three of me.
It's just me, myself and I.
(actually just came home from a De La Soul concert! couldn't help myself:)
Salted passwords don't matter - you can recover the password. Heck, you can reverse engineer hashing algorithms by just making a bunch of passwords then recovering them.
That would require you not only steal the password hash file but also the software used to create that file, including the salt, etc.
No. The context of this subthread was that using the same password on two separate systems would give the owners of one of the systems access to the other. Presumably, they won't need to "steal" anything, as they already control both the relevant data and software.
Yahoo runs nothing but Linux
If the only boxes they have are forward pointing webservers, then this link is relevant. That is obviously not the case.
They would have had to intentionally bypass Linux security basics and roll their own to end up in such a mess.
Intentionally bypass? Please. Of course you don't create operating system level users for users in your web app. They are way too much overhead for that. Of course they (and everybody else that provide web services of some sort) "roll their own" user system.
Storing passwords in plain text is still inexcusable of course, but the rest of your post is nonsense.
Quite probably a deliberate typo.
I notice a lot of US centric answers, including references to "sexual harassment training". The submitter's profile page indicates he's located in the Czech Republic.
As another European, I can say that the only time I've heard of "sexual harassment training" (interesting name, btw - does it train you to be better at it?) is in slashdot posts, by Americans, on the topic. While sexual harassment laws exist here, they obviously don't work the same way, or are enforced with the same rigour on this side of the pond.
Now, I do agree with the general advice, which is essentially grow the fuck up, but assuming American law and corporate procedures when giving advice is probably not very helpful.
Significant digits, motherfucker! Do you know them?
Yes, I agree. It is completely ludicrous that an investigation can produce more evidence as time goes on. I say that's nonsense. Police officers should hold a seance for 30 seconds after the discovery of a potential crime. If nobody has had a revelation by then, they should ignore it and move on to the next alleged crime.
This whole idea of spending time to look for evidence is completely bugus.
It doesn't help artists (and therefore, creation) better than the alternative, and therefore "Copyright"'s only basis of existence, the 1 line of the constitution "to promote science and the useful arts" is unfulfilled. [Citation needed BADLY]
Not really. Citation badly needed for the opposite. You don't need a good reason to not make a law. You need a very good reason to make one.
The chicken with almost absolute certainty did not cross the road!
Why didn't the chicken cross the road?
They do teach all the other urban legends. The one about God, to start with.
The ID on brass probably won't even be admissible in court for the reason that brass gets reused all the time.
To be fair, everything doesn't have to be admissible in court. A police investigation involves numerous things that are not brought up as evidence, but still help put police on the right track. If they have a lead - based on this ID - they can at least go talk to the owner and ask him where he was at the time of the shooting, or if he knows where his gun happened to be at that time. Or where he's usually shooting, and who has access to that place.
Sometimes it may help, sometimes it may not, but it's not really meaningful to discard everything the police use in an investigation just because it's inadmissible.
Open sourcing the code is out of the question as all of that code isn't just from internal employees, as getting everyone who has written lines of code to agree to their code being available under a open source licence would be a huge task.
I call bullshit on this. No way did their contract say "I relinquish my rights to the code I produce to Nvidida, under the condition that they do not open source it". That would be the stupidest contract I've ever seen, and the liars^H^H^H^Hawyers wouldn't even have the knowledge to produce such a contract.
I can't really answer that, no. My understanding is that there's simply laws saying that the questioning must be in person, on Swedish soil, but I am most certainly not a lawyer, and I can't guarantee that my understanding is correct.
Disclaimer: I'm a Swedish resident, and thus biased.
To answer your question; because Sweden has changed. At the time when the Egyptians were rendered, the Swedish population was convinced that Sweden was the best freest and marvelousest country the entire world. We simply didn't pay attention to things like this, because quite frankly we couldn't believe it would happen. The case of the Egyptians was a big eye opener for many here, and we were quite pissed off (well, as pissed off as Swedish people get).
The Assange case has, before anything really bad has even happened, attracted an enormous amount of publicity, and thus has the attention of every Swedish resident before it has even started (w/r to comparing it to the Egyptians). Some here may think Assange is an ass, some may think he should be put in prison and rot, and some may think he's innocent and/or a hero, but nobody seems to think that he should be given to the US. The public is keeping a very close eye on this case, and an extradition would be a political shit storm beyond anything we've seen for ages.
I'm honestly not particularly proud of how "my" country has acted in this - I can certainly see that the Swedish prosecution seems quite incompetent - but I really do not think that Assange would be dumped off the US. It would be political suicide for everybody involved in the process.
This is possible, but at least it hasn't happened yet. While I'm not particularly happy about the Stuxnet attack, I couldn't accuse it of murdering hospital patients & civilians.
The same can not be said for the gun using meat space branch of the American war machine.
Bruce.
This is a stunt, pure and simple. IE7 use is trivial and you can readily conclude that people who haven't upgraded in 10 years are NOT the primary customer of a computer retailer.
(emphasis mine)
IE8 was released three, not ten years ago. Heck, IE7 wasn't even released ten years ago.
Gotcha: No matter what M$ does is evil becuase you feel like it and the facts don't matter. Have you considered working for Assad to spread propaganda about the Syrian people?
No matter what Microsoft does is evil because, frankly, that's the historical record. Fool me once, and all that. When Microsoft has spent as long behaving well as they did behaving evil I'll give them the benefit of doubt. Right now, they still have two decades (give or take) of repentance left.
Thanks for bringing Assad into this. I wouldn't trust him either, even if I see him handing out free toys to kids for a few days. Would you stand there spouting some "Whatever he does, you'll call him evil!" bullshit while I back away from him and suggest that you might want to check the toys for bombs.
I think Microsoft has found that this is cheaper than developing good products.
How did they figure that out? It's not like they could have any first hand data on the cost of developing good products.
Are you seriously implying that there is never a need for anonymity in civilized societies?
Good thing the politicians are making sure to protect the children against... online... parental abuse, then. Yeah.
What- and whenenver did "want" have anything to do with it?
The mere fact that a book written by someone nearly 70 years ago is still under copyright is ridiculous
Count on Slashdot to turn a story about naziism into an anti-copyright rant.
The story is a copyright story. The book hasn't been banned. The book has simply not been published, because the people sitting on the copyright refused to publish it. The reason it is now about to be published is because the copyright is finally expiring.
How much more deserving can a story be of triggering anti-copyright rants than when copyright is explicitly and directly used to enforce censorship?