I have been annoyed by this for a long, long time. Put in a 100bit+ entropy password and the moron that implemented this has his software claim that your password is "insecure". Seriously, all lowercase letters and digits at random is about 5.2 bit/character in entropy. Lowercase letters, digits and a special symbol (and who does not just append a "!") and an uppercase letter (and who does not simply make that the first) is, *ta-da* 5.2bit/charabter entropy! Of course, making random places uppercase or a random symbol would be a bit better, but even that would only be 6.1bit/character in entropy (with 10 possible special symbols), i.e. it does not really matter.
Password rules are complete and utter nonsense perpetrated by people that value rituals over understanding and that, in addition, have none of the latter. Of course, many things in IT today are done by ritual and not by understanding, but this is one of the most stupid ones.
Nor does it become corruption because money was thrown at politicians. It becomes corruption when politicians pass laws and regulations because of that money.
You are right about that. But who keeps throwing money at politicians without getting anything back? At the very least, the recipients would need to do full, public disclosure about everything they got and explain conclusively with any decision they make why they were not influenced by that money.
It is corruption, but legalized corruption. I would call that super-corruption or the like, because the corrupt have managed top make their depravity legal.
So market failure caused by anti-competitive politics. And that in the "home of capitalism". Pretty bad. I wonder how much corruption is involved. Corruption kills societies.
Either get a laptop with a physical RF-off switch, or remove the wireless card. If you bought a really crappy one, you can still almost always disconnect the antenna.
That is not a "pay gap". That is a skill, and time and effort invested in education and work gap. It seems to indicate that women have it easier to be lazy in the workplace. (No difference in laziness in men and women in general, but whether you actually can be lazy if you want to be depends on opportunities.)
Not quite, but almost. If you look at competently done studies, you find that there is a gender pay-gap of around 5% or so. That is mostly attributed to women generally negotiating worse than men do. But even that is shrinking, because you can actually negotiate the salary in less and less jobs. Were you cannot, no gender pay gap exists.
So there really is nothing that needs doing, except to stop listening to these idiots that cannot read statistics (or are intentionally lying).
That seems to be mostly a problem in the US. In Europe, slow Internet is something you usually find in the countryside, but not in cities. Market failure?
Linux is not magic, it is just (mostly) solid engineering. You are spot-on about Microsoft though. I mean it has gotten so bad that they are not implementing a "gaming mode" in Win10 to reduces all the inefficiencies. Who has ever heard of such a thing in a decent OS?
Given that one of the FBI's mandates is to stop foreign spying, I think it would be treason if they knowingly do nothing about that. Not that I think the FBI is above treason. A brief look at their history is pretty illuminating.
But the point is the were no danger because they had zero chance of pulling it off alone. If you start to lock up anybody that would do a crime but cannot and claim them to be a real danger, then you are massively inflating the perception of the problem. And that is the issue here.
Your argument fails, BTW, because if they had been in contact with real terrorists, then real terrorists would have been in the picture and there would hence have been a real danger. There was not.
No, it is not. Java does not have a working file-system abstraction that eliminates differences. If you need performance, platforms also behave vastly different. There are other issues.
Without a good implementation of the UNIX API on the other platforms this is not going to happen. Even Java would need that for good cross-platform capabilities. And of course, there are entirely brain-dead things on some platforms, like Windows filesystem being case-aware but not case-sensitive. These can probably not be fixed and will always be a problem.
I use going shopping as a major part of my exercise. I usually do not go to the nearest shop either, a nice 20 minute walk each way 4 times a week or so is entirely fine. (Yes, I know that is at the low end, but far better than nothing.) The second thing is that for vegetables, fruit and meat, I like to look at what is available and not just from some pretty pictures, but the actual product.
I did the same thing with an Acer netbook in the same price class. Only I had to let it boot windows once to find out where the POS UEFI bios stores the boot-loader (not the standard location), and then removed the windows one and put the Linux one in there. Works fine ever since.
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All to make them more obedient slaves...
Makes sense. Taxpayers do not get to decide whether they like something, they just have to pay.
I have been annoyed by this for a long, long time. Put in a 100bit+ entropy password and the moron that implemented this has his software claim that your password is "insecure". Seriously, all lowercase letters and digits at random is about 5.2 bit/character in entropy. Lowercase letters, digits and a special symbol (and who does not just append a "!") and an uppercase letter (and who does not simply make that the first) is, *ta-da* 5.2bit/charabter entropy! Of course, making random places uppercase or a random symbol would be a bit better, but even that would only be 6.1bit/character in entropy (with 10 possible special symbols), i.e. it does not really matter.
Password rules are complete and utter nonsense perpetrated by people that value rituals over understanding and that, in addition, have none of the latter. Of course, many things in IT today are done by ritual and not by understanding, but this is one of the most stupid ones.
Nor does it become corruption because money was thrown at politicians.
It becomes corruption when politicians pass laws and regulations because of that money.
You are right about that. But who keeps throwing money at politicians without getting anything back? At the very least, the recipients would need to do full, public disclosure about everything they got and explain conclusively with any decision they make why they were not influenced by that money.
Indeed. It actually is much worse than illegal corruption. This state of affairs explains a few things though.
It is corruption, but legalized corruption. I would call that super-corruption or the like, because the corrupt have managed top make their depravity legal.
So market failure caused by anti-competitive politics. And that in the "home of capitalism". Pretty bad. I wonder how much corruption is involved. Corruption kills societies.
Either get a laptop with a physical RF-off switch, or remove the wireless card. If you bought a really crappy one, you can still almost always disconnect the antenna.
Because some people (fascists at heart) think that everybody must be forced to be equal.
That is not a "pay gap". That is a skill, and time and effort invested in education and work gap. It seems to indicate that women have it easier to be lazy in the workplace. (No difference in laziness in men and women in general, but whether you actually can be lazy if you want to be depends on opportunities.)
Not quite, but almost. If you look at competently done studies, you find that there is a gender pay-gap of around 5% or so. That is mostly attributed to women generally negotiating worse than men do. But even that is shrinking, because you can actually negotiate the salary in less and less jobs. Were you cannot, no gender pay gap exists.
So there really is nothing that needs doing, except to stop listening to these idiots that cannot read statistics (or are intentionally lying).
That seems to be mostly a problem in the US. In Europe, slow Internet is something you usually find in the countryside, but not in cities. Market failure?
And where did you miss that this is about a vulnerability in Firefox, not in Tor?
Then please explain to me why Thunderbird connecting to a Linux server (over WAN, no less) does not seem to have that issue?
Linux is not magic, it is just (mostly) solid engineering. You are spot-on about Microsoft though. I mean it has gotten so bad that they are not implementing a "gaming mode" in Win10 to reduces all the inefficiencies. Who has ever heard of such a thing in a decent OS?
Given that one of the FBI's mandates is to stop foreign spying, I think it would be treason if they knowingly do nothing about that. Not that I think the FBI is above treason. A brief look at their history is pretty illuminating.
Unfortunately, yes.
But the point is the were no danger because they had zero chance of pulling it off alone. If you start to lock up anybody that would do a crime but cannot and claim them to be a real danger, then you are massively inflating the perception of the problem. And that is the issue here.
Your argument fails, BTW, because if they had been in contact with real terrorists, then real terrorists would have been in the picture and there would hence have been a real danger. There was not.
You should have a look at their official mission statement. That says something different.
No, it is not. Java does not have a working file-system abstraction that eliminates differences. If you need performance, platforms also behave vastly different. There are other issues.
Without a good implementation of the UNIX API on the other platforms this is not going to happen. Even Java would need that for good cross-platform capabilities. And of course, there are entirely brain-dead things on some platforms, like Windows filesystem being case-aware but not case-sensitive. These can probably not be fixed and will always be a problem.
I use going shopping as a major part of my exercise. I usually do not go to the nearest shop either, a nice 20 minute walk each way 4 times a week or so is entirely fine. (Yes, I know that is at the low end, but far better than nothing.) The second thing is that for vegetables, fruit and meat, I like to look at what is available and not just from some pretty pictures, but the actual product.
Fortunately, it is still quite optional unless you want Gnome.
Maybe you failed to install that one? You know, if you do not install drivers in Windows, you get much the same problem...
I did the same thing with an Acer netbook in the same price class. Only I had to let it boot windows once to find out where the POS UEFI bios stores the boot-loader (not the standard location), and then removed the windows one and put the Linux one in there. Works fine ever since.
No, this is Linux were you do not need an ungodly amount of CPU power to do the simplest things...