I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it. Now it seems you get it for not being like the guy before you.
Hey,
compared to recent standards being president of the USA for eight months without invading another country is a real achievement. Standards are getting lower.
I think he may possibly deserver the prize, but its too early to say. Shouldn't they have waited to see if he manages to sort out Iraq, bring peace to the Middle East or something like that? After all if he does manage it now there will be nothing to reward him with.
The problem is that PGP/GPG certificates are too open. If you trust a few certificates, say for software support, then trust the certificates they trust pretty soon you end up trusting almost everyone. Even worse GPG (and maybe PGP) by default will try and download a certificate from a public server when encountering an unknown certificate. This makes it as easy to set up a trust certificate for a "throw away" email account as to create a throw-away account in the first place.
True if you follow the guidelines in the GPG manual, find a trusted friend, verify the fingerprint of their email by phone, both agree only to sign certificates where you have gone through the same process, you can set up a trusted web - but its not as easy as having someone verify it for you.
There's never any justification for slaughtering your brethren or destroying property. There is no victory in war, only degrees of defeat.
In the case of WW2 with someone invading potentially the whole of Europe and then exterminating Jews and others I think it was justified. If this happened I would probably volunteer for the medical corps, if you believe that a war is right you should be prepared to put your life at risk as well as others but I would find killing someone myself very difficult.
Other than military secrets like we have a spy in such and such position. I'm going to call upon.. "If you don't act in a manner that would embarrass yourself/department you should have nothing to worry about." They have been using it to justify countless forms of monitoring.. let's see how they like it when the positions are switched.. Yes I know I'm living in fantasy land.
I think the UK government reached an all time low in this is when Thatcher's government tried to use the official secrets act to prevent it becoming public knowledge that they had encouraged Matrix Churchill and Sheffield Forgemasters to make Saddam Hussain's supergun, even though keeping it quiet would have resulted in the directors going to prison. So they were prepared to see innocent men who had cooperated with the intelligence services (even offering to fit a tracking device) go to prison rather than be embarrassed.
When asked about the 2CVs performance and acceleration, many owners said it went "from 0-60 in one day". Others jokingly said they "had to make an appointment to merge onto an interstate highway system".
Yep, a heck of a ride...
I was once driven around Strasbourg in a 2CV, on a route that involved going up and down kerbs, steps, pedestrian areas and gardens (don't ask). I can honestly say that it did things that would be impossible in most modern cars, and much more smoothly than a 4x4. I remember bracing myself for the bump I expected when we approached a kerb at 20 mph, and none came - the ultra spongy suspension just took the impact and the car raise up slowly. The same soft suspension made the car lean on every bend in a most disconcerting way though.
Or went red in the face and said "no I'm sure that absolutely nobody here would ever commit fraud", as they try to cover up their vintage Rolex with the sleeve of their hand-made Savile Row suite.
I have a lot of Pakistani friends who are afraid to enter the USA since the Canadian CitizenMaher Arar was whisked off to Syria to be tortured when he tried to enter the USA. I can't say I blame them, all it needs is for their name to match someone on the list and they could be sent off to the Middle East and tortured.
you make valid points in general but, "cultural capital"? really? You must be joking
It is certainly one of the worlds great cultural cities, but much as I love London I would be hard pressed to place it above Paris, Athens, Florence, or many others.
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Well, if it did get stuck or go out of control she might have to swallow a pig to get it shifted. Ouch...
Just watch out for the Russians ... you know how they ignore robots.txt files.
I fall in the line of not having a clue what TLS is, or what it means.
Although i rarely wander out of the same usual sites these days.
Don't worry about it Grandpa (following story's ageist agenda)
In general Java devs know ZIP about anything out side of a JAR file.
They may not even know that JAR files are ZIP format.
I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it. Now it seems you get it for not being like the guy before you.
Hey, compared to recent standards being president of the USA for eight months without invading another country is a real achievement. Standards are getting lower.
I think he may possibly deserver the prize, but its too early to say. Shouldn't they have waited to see if he manages to sort out Iraq, bring peace to the Middle East or something like that? After all if he does manage it now there will be nothing to reward him with.
The problem is that PGP/GPG certificates are too open. If you trust a few certificates, say for software support, then trust the certificates they trust pretty soon you end up trusting almost everyone. Even worse GPG (and maybe PGP) by default will try and download a certificate from a public server when encountering an unknown certificate. This makes it as easy to set up a trust certificate for a "throw away" email account as to create a throw-away account in the first place.
True if you follow the guidelines in the GPG manual, find a trusted friend, verify the fingerprint of their email by phone, both agree only to sign certificates where you have gone through the same process, you can set up a trusted web - but its not as easy as having someone verify it for you.
recent wars are unjustified.
There's never any justification for slaughtering your brethren or destroying property. There is no victory in war, only degrees of defeat.
In the case of WW2 with someone invading potentially the whole of Europe and then exterminating Jews and others I think it was justified. If this happened I would probably volunteer for the medical corps, if you believe that a war is right you should be prepared to put your life at risk as well as others but I would find killing someone myself very difficult.
You're the cunt, racist
If I worked on something for years, I'd want more than $90,000 before I signed it over.
Just sayin'...
True, I can just imagine if Intel came and claimed rights on my porn collection.
that causes political harm or embarrassment
Other than military secrets like we have a spy in such and such position. I'm going to call upon.. "If you don't act in a manner that would embarrass yourself/department you should have nothing to worry about." They have been using it to justify countless forms of monitoring.. let's see how they like it when the positions are switched.. Yes I know I'm living in fantasy land.
I think the UK government reached an all time low in this is when Thatcher's government tried to use the official secrets act to prevent it becoming public knowledge that they had encouraged Matrix Churchill and Sheffield Forgemasters to make Saddam Hussain's supergun, even though keeping it quiet would have resulted in the directors going to prison. So they were prepared to see innocent men who had cooperated with the intelligence services (even offering to fit a tracking device) go to prison rather than be embarrassed.
You've mist the most obvious difference... it was monochrome.
Way ahead of it's time, as well. What a ride!
When asked about the 2CVs performance and acceleration, many owners said it went "from 0-60 in one day". Others jokingly said they "had to make an appointment to merge onto an interstate highway system".
Yep, a heck of a ride ...
I was once driven around Strasbourg in a 2CV, on a route that involved going up and down kerbs, steps, pedestrian areas and gardens (don't ask). I can honestly say that it did things that would be impossible in most modern cars, and much more smoothly than a 4x4. I remember bracing myself for the bump I expected when we approached a kerb at 20 mph, and none came - the ultra spongy suspension just took the impact and the car raise up slowly. The same soft suspension made the car lean on every bend in a most disconcerting way though.
Or went red in the face and said "no I'm sure that absolutely nobody here would ever commit fraud", as they try to cover up their vintage Rolex with the sleeve of their hand-made Savile Row suite.
If shit gets that bad, I hope you're investing in bacon and not gold.
I'm Jewish you insensitive clod.
They'll give up and outsource it to a Chinese company...
Well, if the scum are the quickest to recover ....
I have a lot of Pakistani friends who are afraid to enter the USA since the Canadian CitizenMaher Arar was whisked off to Syria to be tortured when he tried to enter the USA. I can't say I blame them, all it needs is for their name to match someone on the list and they could be sent off to the Middle East and tortured.
Or "The doctor". It could be a new virus that will make us all slaves of the daleks.
"I'm sorry miss, I thought the phone was an alarm warning of a gas attack. Let me help you get back in again". .....
Breaking news... "Jack Thompson sues Slashdot and OrangeMonkey11 $40M for not removing angry postings about him".
Unless they are sneaking out to the local linux kernel developer's symposium.
Troll? I thought it was rather funny.
Oh, so your cool with "no Jews" as an immigration rule?
I think it would be despicable, but I would say that a sovereign state would have the right to specify it.
you make valid points in general but, "cultural capital"? really? You must be joking
It is certainly one of the worlds great cultural cities, but much as I love London I would be hard pressed to place it above Paris, Athens, Florence, or many others.