Uhm, what I heard is that the Church considered being physically clean a "pleasure of the body" and thus evil, praising ascets who were smelly instead.
Don't worry, starting tomorrow they'll redirect all DNS queries to their own servers.
A local ISP I sometimes conslut for did this because of a few "computer repair/shop" punks making all machines they put their grubby mitts use a certain DNS server ran by another telco. Suddenly, that server was changed to not answer requests from the outside (ie, sane protection vs DNS amplification attacks), and guess what -- customers who ever came into contact with that rogue repair shop started screaming "the Internet is not working, fix it!".
It was so much simpler to iptables --dport 53 -j REDIRECT instead of explaining whose fault it is. Since people had their computers purchased or "repaired" in that shop working for some time, the outage must have been on the ISP's side, right?
Now take a guess what will happen if this is done for more nefarious purposes...
You know what is going to happen the first time ARIN says no? The organization will go "Oh, ok.Can I get a nice block of IPv6 instead?" and add some protocol translation to their network to deal with anything that can't handle IPv6. Done. Problem solved.
Except, that block of addresses will be worthless since no one who uses brain-dead ISPs (ie, 99% of them) will be able to connect to you.
And that "protocol translation" is functionally identical to NAT, with all of its downsides. In fact, the popular solutions for that are named NAT64 and NAT46, even though they are a bit more heavyweight, requiring DNS hackery. And both do absolutely nothing a dual-stack node can't do. Hint: all modern systems are dual-stack.
The IE you were using made an explicit man-at-the-end attack against a properly coded website. Your session was secure until your browser decided to break it.
It would also help against many non-violent crimes.
A couple of years ago, two municipal cops stopped me in a park. They claimed I crossed a street on the red light -- which I didn't. The crossing was ~40 meters away, partially obscured by waist-level bushes, a few trees and a statue. When I protested, they asked if I have any witnesses -- obviously, everyone was already gone. The cops told me that if I keep denying, it will be their word vs mine, and since they were two, their word would prevail in the court. As I heard rumours about similar cases and that the law indeed says so, I had no way to fight it and paid the fine -- and it was pretty steep.
If I had such a recorder, the fuckers wouldn't be able to pull such tricks.
Network bandwidth taken by emails is indeed nearly free -- a typical piece of spam is just around 5KB (median). Yet, with more and more complex processing needed to run spam filters, you need quite a bit of CPU to weed them out. Looking at my logs, SpamAssassin runs are around 8 seconds each. Part of that time is spent for DNS queries, but there's a number of CPU-intensive tests as well.
Except that pre-allocating small chunks of expected size can be done much faster in-thread if you first allocate large chunks and then sub-allocate constant sized parts. That's what g_slice() from glib does.
Replacing malloc() with g_slice() tends to improve allocation speed by insane factors -- I've seen cases where the speedup of allocations was 10x, and since the program in question was quite malloc-heavy, the overall speed was increased by over 100%.
https is very easy to MITM if you can inject bogus signed certificates. For that you need to control a CA. Like, for example, CNNIC whose root certificate is included in MSIE and Firefox.
Please to vote on the bug report to remove this security hole.
While I despise being sue-happy, this is one of the cases where I really hope the child sues her parents when she grows up for intentionally crippling her.
Perhaps some machines exist where nVidia's proprietary drivers can successfully hibernate, but I have yet to see one. And I tried on three different setups.
For building software, it diverts libGL.so with its own version, and fails to properly set it up. You can correct it by hand, but out of the box, it breaks automatic compiles. Quite a few packages Build-Conflict with nvidia-glx...
And not 100% stable. And 0% able to hibernate. And being unable to build OpenGL software without jumping through hoops because their driver moves aside mesa libraries while failing to properly set up the replacement.
parts of Georgia tried to succeed (and seek friendly relation with Russia)
What the FUCK??? Mister 5 Mao (-> your other posts), you are not really deserving your pay, you are supposed to troll in a semi-believable way. If you call officers of FSB ordering a group of crooks shell an independent country "seeking friendly relations", you'd better concentrate on posting on domestic forums. People in China will of course ignore you, but at least they're used to such outrageous name calling.
Communism _is_ a totalitarian dictatorship, even if it tells you fairy tales about being "for the good of the workers".
If every single time communism was tried it instantly showed its true colours, doesn't this mean there's something wrong with its core idea? There were over fourty implementations of communism so far, so you can't call that a fluke.
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Uhm, what I heard is that the Church considered being physically clean a "pleasure of the body" and thus evil, praising ascets who were smelly instead.
Actually, it was originally created not to "encourage production of more art", but to provide another source of revenue for a king.
Use iswprint() or even wcwidth() instead of hard-coding a white/blacklist by hand.
Don't worry, starting tomorrow they'll redirect all DNS queries to their own servers.
A local ISP I sometimes conslut for did this because of a few "computer repair/shop" punks making all machines they put their grubby mitts use a certain DNS server ran by another telco. Suddenly, that server was changed to not answer requests from the outside (ie, sane protection vs DNS amplification attacks), and guess what -- customers who ever came into contact with that rogue repair shop started screaming "the Internet is not working, fix it!".
It was so much simpler to iptables --dport 53 -j REDIRECT instead of explaining whose fault it is. Since people had their computers purchased or "repaired" in that shop working for some time, the outage must have been on the ISP's side, right?
Now take a guess what will happen if this is done for more nefarious purposes...
Right... and, pray tell, how did you connect to slashdot.org which lacks an AAAA entry?
You know what is going to happen the first time ARIN says no? The organization will go "Oh, ok.Can I get a nice block of IPv6 instead?" and add some protocol translation to their network to deal with anything that can't handle IPv6. Done. Problem solved.
Except, that block of addresses will be worthless since no one who uses brain-dead ISPs (ie, 99% of them) will be able to connect to you.
And that "protocol translation" is functionally identical to NAT, with all of its downsides. In fact, the popular solutions for that are named NAT64 and NAT46, even though they are a bit more heavyweight, requiring DNS hackery. And both do absolutely nothing a dual-stack node can't do. Hint: all modern systems are dual-stack.
The IE you were using made an explicit man-at-the-end attack against a properly coded website. Your session was secure until your browser decided to break it.
It would also help against many non-violent crimes.
A couple of years ago, two municipal cops stopped me in a park. They claimed I crossed a street on the red light -- which I didn't. The crossing was ~40 meters away, partially obscured by waist-level bushes, a few trees and a statue. When I protested, they asked if I have any witnesses -- obviously, everyone was already gone. The cops told me that if I keep denying, it will be their word vs mine, and since they were two, their word would prevail in the court. As I heard rumours about similar cases and that the law indeed says so, I had no way to fight it and paid the fine -- and it was pretty steep.
If I had such a recorder, the fuckers wouldn't be able to pull such tricks.
Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
-- "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates"
Network bandwidth taken by emails is indeed nearly free -- a typical piece of spam is just around 5KB (median). Yet, with more and more complex processing needed to run spam filters, you need quite a bit of CPU to weed them out. Looking at my logs, SpamAssassin runs are around 8 seconds each. Part of that time is spent for DNS queries, but there's a number of CPU-intensive tests as well.
And servers are certainly not free.
Except that pre-allocating small chunks of expected size can be done much faster in-thread if you first allocate large chunks and then sub-allocate constant sized parts. That's what g_slice() from glib does.
Replacing malloc() with g_slice() tends to improve allocation speed by insane factors -- I've seen cases where the speedup of allocations was 10x, and since the program in question was quite malloc-heavy, the overall speed was increased by over 100%.
There is one with much worse performance: Banshee. And Ubuntu guys want to make it the default player in place of Rhythmbox...
3) F-Spot is slow...
And what exactly did you expect from a program written in Mono? It has been pushed in due to political considerations, not because it's usable.
Screw typing... what about engraving "AAARGH" in stone as you die?
Indeed -- talking is merely a distraction, texting should be prosecuted as attempted murder.
https is very easy to MITM if you can inject bogus signed certificates. For that you need to control a CA. Like, for example, CNNIC whose root certificate is included in MSIE and Firefox.
Please to vote on the bug report to remove this security hole.
And that's bad how?
They didn't conceive the child naturally, they selected embryos to ensure deafness.
While I despise being sue-happy, this is one of the cases where I really hope the child sues her parents when she grows up for intentionally crippling her.
Perhaps some machines exist where nVidia's proprietary drivers can successfully hibernate, but I have yet to see one. And I tried on three different setups.
Here's a screenshot of one.
For building software, it diverts libGL.so with its own version, and fails to properly set it up. You can correct it by hand, but out of the box, it breaks automatic compiles. Quite a few packages Build-Conflict with nvidia-glx...
And not 100% stable. And 0% able to hibernate. And being unable to build OpenGL software without jumping through hoops because their driver moves aside mesa libraries while failing to properly set up the replacement.
parts of Georgia tried to succeed (and seek friendly relation with Russia)
What the FUCK??? Mister 5 Mao (-> your other posts), you are not really deserving your pay, you are supposed to troll in a semi-believable way. If you call officers of FSB ordering a group of crooks shell an independent country "seeking friendly relations", you'd better concentrate on posting on domestic forums. People in China will of course ignore you, but at least they're used to such outrageous name calling.
Actually, it's not Taiwan being a rebel province of China, it's the mainland who are rebels, who managed to hold almost all of the country.
Communism _is_ a totalitarian dictatorship, even if it tells you fairy tales about being "for the good of the workers".
If every single time communism was tried it instantly showed its true colours, doesn't this mean there's something wrong with its core idea? There were over fourty implementations of communism so far, so you can't call that a fluke.
Gold plated wine is absolutely exquisite
No idea about wine, but here's vodka.