I think there are some tailpipe emissions laws that are hard/expensive to get around with diesel engines. Extra filters etc required to make the engine comply which add to the cost.
There is also the catch 22 problem of supply. The fuel depot around the corner closed down (is apparently being rebuilt...) a while back and while they had a diesel pump, it was always out of order whenever I wanted to fill up. If you know there isn't a place to get diesel fuel close by you might be less inclined to buy a diesel car.
My little C4 has done around 900km since I last filled up and is just today beeping at me telling me I should think about filling up again. And almost all of that 900km is city driving.
The malware works by redirecting search queries through a proxy. It should be easy for the proxy to just remove the warning or reroute it so Google can't identify the malware.
It's just another leap in the perpetual game of leapfrog...
The risk to mother and child associated with childbirth is precisely why the birth rate needs to be high in such countries. In a world where a lot of kids die before reaching adulthood you need to have a lot of backup children so that some make it to be old enough to keep the farm/village/tribe/whatever going.
should we REALLY be trying to save people from starvation who will never be able to provide for themselves?
Possibly... if you consider the desperate measures a starving country might use to get food. Especially if they put a religious loony in charge who makes great promises if only the infidel can be cleansed from the planet.
But you're right in that throwing food at them isn't really solving the problem... but it's definitely worth educating the population of such a country about basic economics, birth control, and how to live life sustainably.
Sounds reasonable. And if you look at what the typical non-targeted brute force dictionary contains, it really is only picking off the most low hanging fruit. It is reasonable that the password 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111112 is unlikely to be guessed in a useful amount of time unless you had specific knowledge of the users password habits.
That's a damn good point. It's not like modern systems can't afford the few extra tens of bytes.
For user authentication there is no need to store the plaintext password, a hash is all you should need to store, which is fixed length. That way anyone who gains access to the password database still has to bruteforce a hash.
Having a hard-to-guess password on a post-it note stuck to your monitor is entirely appropriate in a lot of places. If the threat from inside the organisation is close to zero (eg a home office with no external cleaning contractor where all staff have equal network access) but the threat from outside is high (eg remote access to email or desktop) then it's a better outcome than an easy-to-guess password that exists only in the users head... and in the dictionary.
Whatever the Payoffs were in Investing in Space Flight, it's more than offset by the lost time spent arguing about whether all of that money should have been spent or not...
Of course changes != LoC. You'd have to make a hell of a lot of changes in order to make one Library of Congress' worth.
which is the whole point... you could do it in one change or you could do it in millions. The number of changes wouldn't be a good measure of the amount of work done.
In LWN.net's evaluation of the number of lines of code changed, Srinivasan and Microsoft are therefore nearer the bottom of the list. LWN.net found that Microsoft developers changed 11,564 lines of code (1.3 per cent) – compared to Intel's 163,232 (18.1 per cent).
Little changes are good, but simple count of changes isn't necessarily a good measure of work done. Lines of Code, while itself not a perfect measure, is better than simply Number of Commits.
A big problem that results from this over-prescription is the fact that people will believe the way the drug makes them feel is "normal". These drugs are definitely strong enough to be felt and isolated as a cause, and so the uninformed patient will assume that the doctor found something wrong with me, and this pill is fixing it. This creates more demand for the product, which is great for the companies, but with the wide range of effects these drugs can have on different people and personality types, I doubt it's good for the population as a whole.
The other problem it creates is a lack of empathy for those who really do have a mental illness... "Depression? Yeah I had a bad case of that the other day, but I took one of these and now I feel all better. Maybe you just need to take more pills?"
Maybe the scientologists, while a little extreme, had a point;)
In times where people get grabbed at airports, wiretaps are done at almost random, why would the NSA NOT use and abuse google?
Someone gets it. And even if they did confirm it... what then? If I was an American citizen I wouldn't sleep any better with confirmation of the obvious. The next ruling by the judge would be "and you can't do anything about it".
And what does "spying for NSA" mean anyway? It could be "tell me google... how many searches today for 'how to use anthrax as a biological weapon'" or it could be "what has IP address 1.2.3.4 been searching for?". The former is probably a bit of a stretch for "spying", but you'd need a lot more information that "does google spy for NSA" for it to actually be useful.
If the software is a problem can't they just sell a blank phone without an OS and leave it up to the user to load an OS (which they can download from HTC's Russian website)?
Or do what some games do - release the game without the disputed content then leak a patch (again, via a Russian website:) to put that content back in again.
they didn't want to get automatically syndicated to google's news portals. so they asked to be removed from that auto syndication, which probably was giving them headaches as they didn't have copyrights to allow for such. so now what google did was to remove them totally from google services. it's just one example why you should keep a search service separate from auto generated portals. or just reform copyright and get out of the mess.
Could they not have solved this problem with robots.txt? I'm guessing there must be a technical reason why not, but if re-licensing of the content was a problem maybe the smarter thing to do would have been to tap google on the shoulder and say "we have a problem with you 'republishing' some of the content on our site because we don't have a license for us to allow you to do that. Can we work out a robots.txt-like solution?". I assume it was the lawyers idea just to take it to court...
If the software is a problem can't they just sell a blank phone without an OS and leave it up to the user to load an OS (which they can download from HTC's Russian website)?
I seem to remember reading that one of the very early 8 bit computers (might have even been the Apple) was having a problem getting it's PSU approved by the FCC or some authority so they sold it without a PSU and the user had to source one themselves.
OTOH... I believe the iPhone comes without iOS loaded and you have to load it via iTunes, so maybe Apple already has a patent on this concept too;)
In Australia we lock up innocent[1] foreigners who come here illegally, so there is probably a lot to be learned from the behavior of guards and prisoners in that situation. Given the nature of their arrival the foreigners aren't necessarily already completely undamaged from a psychological point of view but i'm sure we can learn things from this situation... even if the thing we learn is that locking up innocent people isn't the best thing for their mental health.
[1] While it's possible that some of them come here illegally as a means to shortcut the legal means of coming here, a lot are tricked into coming here illegally by people smugglers or are children who have no choice but to come with their parents, so I think "innocent" is perfectly valid in this context.
On FB I sometimes see friends 'Like' things that seem surprising for them... I think some sites have figured out how to make you 'like' things without clicking on the 'like' button/link as long as your browser has you logged in to facebook.
I'm always reminded of the "First they came" (eg "First they came for the communists...") poem when I hear about stuff like this, but it doesn't quite sit right....
"First they came for the paedaphiles and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a paedaphile Then they came for the violent rapists and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a violent rapist ..."
I guess you could rewrite it like:
"First they filtered the paedaphiles and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a paedaphile... and also the filter was an ineffective political stunt that wasn't fooling anyone, least of all the paedophiles Then they came for the violent rapists ... Then they filtered me and I just changed my DNS settings and laughed in their faces"
but it doesn't quite have the same poetic measure so... umm... i guess I didn't really have a point.
The only thing I remember being actually blocked in Australia (until now of course) was some overseas male porn star who shared the same name as an Australian Idol winner or finalist, and somebody accidentally posted the URL of the former instead of the latter in the media release (.com instead of.com.au I think). And even then it wasn't really censorship... I think the user just got a message like "sorry... we think you probably meant to go to.com.au instead of.com", with an option to go to the original link if that's what you wanted. They fully disclosed what they were doing and I don't think anyone got particularly upset about it (except perhaps the.com website owner who might have liked to have profited from the ad revenue generated by the mistake:).
But now it seems like we're finally catching up to the UK:)
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I think there are some tailpipe emissions laws that are hard/expensive to get around with diesel engines. Extra filters etc required to make the engine comply which add to the cost.
There is also the catch 22 problem of supply. The fuel depot around the corner closed down (is apparently being rebuilt...) a while back and while they had a diesel pump, it was always out of order whenever I wanted to fill up. If you know there isn't a place to get diesel fuel close by you might be less inclined to buy a diesel car.
My little C4 has done around 900km since I last filled up and is just today beeping at me telling me I should think about filling up again. And almost all of that 900km is city driving.
The malware works by redirecting search queries through a proxy. It should be easy for the proxy to just remove the warning or reroute it so Google can't identify the malware.
It's just another leap in the perpetual game of leapfrog...
I do like the idea though.
The risk to mother and child associated with childbirth is precisely why the birth rate needs to be high in such countries. In a world where a lot of kids die before reaching adulthood you need to have a lot of backup children so that some make it to be old enough to keep the farm/village/tribe/whatever going.
should we REALLY be trying to save people from starvation who will never be able to provide for themselves?
Possibly... if you consider the desperate measures a starving country might use to get food. Especially if they put a religious loony in charge who makes great promises if only the infidel can be cleansed from the planet.
But you're right in that throwing food at them isn't really solving the problem... but it's definitely worth educating the population of such a country about basic economics, birth control, and how to live life sustainably.
length trumps entropy
Sounds reasonable. And if you look at what the typical non-targeted brute force dictionary contains, it really is only picking off the most low hanging fruit. It is reasonable that the password 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111112 is unlikely to be guessed in a useful amount of time unless you had specific knowledge of the users password habits.
That's a damn good point. It's not like modern systems can't afford the few extra tens of bytes.
For user authentication there is no need to store the plaintext password, a hash is all you should need to store, which is fixed length. That way anyone who gains access to the password database still has to bruteforce a hash.
(Srry, posted as anon before, dang sign-in isn't as convenient as it used to be.)
Couldn't remember your password?
Having a hard-to-guess password on a post-it note stuck to your monitor is entirely appropriate in a lot of places. If the threat from inside the organisation is close to zero (eg a home office with no external cleaning contractor where all staff have equal network access) but the threat from outside is high (eg remote access to email or desktop) then it's a better outcome than an easy-to-guess password that exists only in the users head... and in the dictionary.
Whatever the Payoffs were in Investing in Space Flight, it's more than offset by the lost time spent arguing about whether all of that money should have been spent or not...
Of course changes != LoC. You'd have to make a hell of a lot of changes in order to make one Library of Congress' worth.
which is the whole point... you could do it in one change or you could do it in millions. The number of changes wouldn't be a good measure of the amount of work done.
In LWN.net's evaluation of the number of lines of code changed, Srinivasan and Microsoft are therefore nearer the bottom of the list. LWN.net found that Microsoft developers changed 11,564 lines of code (1.3 per cent) – compared to Intel's 163,232 (18.1 per cent).
Little changes are good, but simple count of changes isn't necessarily a good measure of work done. Lines of Code, while itself not a perfect measure, is better than simply Number of Commits.
I am on these class of drugs. For over 10 years now. When I was diagnosed I told my shrink some jibberish about aliens
I've always assumed that this is why the scientologists don't like mental illness being treated properly...
A big problem that results from this over-prescription is the fact that people will believe the way the drug makes them feel is "normal". These drugs are definitely strong enough to be felt and isolated as a cause, and so the uninformed patient will assume that the doctor found something wrong with me, and this pill is fixing it. This creates more demand for the product, which is great for the companies, but with the wide range of effects these drugs can have on different people and personality types, I doubt it's good for the population as a whole.
The other problem it creates is a lack of empathy for those who really do have a mental illness... "Depression? Yeah I had a bad case of that the other day, but I took one of these and now I feel all better. Maybe you just need to take more pills?"
Maybe the scientologists, while a little extreme, had a point ;)
Next time vote for the candidate that supports electoral reform.
You mean a third-party candidate?
Go ahead, throw your vote away!
In times where people get grabbed at airports, wiretaps are done at almost random, why would the NSA NOT use and abuse google?
Someone gets it. And even if they did confirm it... what then? If I was an American citizen I wouldn't sleep any better with confirmation of the obvious. The next ruling by the judge would be "and you can't do anything about it".
And what does "spying for NSA" mean anyway? It could be "tell me google... how many searches today for 'how to use anthrax as a biological weapon'" or it could be "what has IP address 1.2.3.4 been searching for?". The former is probably a bit of a stretch for "spying", but you'd need a lot more information that "does google spy for NSA" for it to actually be useful.
Replying to myself...
If the software is a problem can't they just sell a blank phone without an OS and leave it up to the user to load an OS (which they can download from HTC's Russian website)?
Or do what some games do - release the game without the disputed content then leak a patch (again, via a Russian website :) to put that content back in again.
they didn't want to get automatically syndicated to google's news portals. so they asked to be removed from that auto syndication, which probably was giving them headaches as they didn't have copyrights to allow for such. so now what google did was to remove them totally from google services. it's just one example why you should keep a search service separate from auto generated portals. or just reform copyright and get out of the mess.
Could they not have solved this problem with robots.txt? I'm guessing there must be a technical reason why not, but if re-licensing of the content was a problem maybe the smarter thing to do would have been to tap google on the shoulder and say "we have a problem with you 'republishing' some of the content on our site because we don't have a license for us to allow you to do that. Can we work out a robots.txt-like solution?". I assume it was the lawyers idea just to take it to court...
If the software is a problem can't they just sell a blank phone without an OS and leave it up to the user to load an OS (which they can download from HTC's Russian website)?
I seem to remember reading that one of the very early 8 bit computers (might have even been the Apple) was having a problem getting it's PSU approved by the FCC or some authority so they sold it without a PSU and the user had to source one themselves.
OTOH... I believe the iPhone comes without iOS loaded and you have to load it via iTunes, so maybe Apple already has a patent on this concept too ;)
What color is it?
Green, presumably.
saying 'looser' when you meant 'loser' is just bad spelling, no matter how 1337 you think you are.
In Australia we lock up innocent[1] foreigners who come here illegally, so there is probably a lot to be learned from the behavior of guards and prisoners in that situation. Given the nature of their arrival the foreigners aren't necessarily already completely undamaged from a psychological point of view but i'm sure we can learn things from this situation... even if the thing we learn is that locking up innocent people isn't the best thing for their mental health.
[1] While it's possible that some of them come here illegally as a means to shortcut the legal means of coming here, a lot are tricked into coming here illegally by people smugglers or are children who have no choice but to come with their parents, so I think "innocent" is perfectly valid in this context.
On FB I sometimes see friends 'Like' things that seem surprising for them... I think some sites have figured out how to make you 'like' things without clicking on the 'like' button/link as long as your browser has you logged in to facebook.
I'm always reminded of the "First they came" (eg "First they came for the communists...") poem when I hear about stuff like this, but it doesn't quite sit right....
"First they came for the paedaphiles
..."
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a paedaphile
Then they came for the violent rapists
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a violent rapist
I guess you could rewrite it like:
"First they filtered the paedaphiles
...
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a paedaphile... and also the filter was an ineffective political stunt that wasn't fooling anyone, least of all the paedophiles
Then they came for the violent rapists
Then they filtered me
and I just changed my DNS settings and laughed in their faces"
but it doesn't quite have the same poetic measure so... umm... i guess I didn't really have a point.
Sometime on or before November 30, 2013 there will be a paper poll that the government will really take notice of...
The only thing I remember being actually blocked in Australia (until now of course) was some overseas male porn star who shared the same name as an Australian Idol winner or finalist, and somebody accidentally posted the URL of the former instead of the latter in the media release (.com instead of .com.au I think). And even then it wasn't really censorship... I think the user just got a message like "sorry... we think you probably meant to go to .com.au instead of .com", with an option to go to the original link if that's what you wanted. They fully disclosed what they were doing and I don't think anyone got particularly upset about it (except perhaps the .com website owner who might have liked to have profited from the ad revenue generated by the mistake :).
But now it seems like we're finally catching up to the UK :)