Obscurity is just one valid tool in a security arsenal -- but it shouldn't be the only one. Ranked high above it in importance is "user education" - a feat that's nearly impossible as we continue to dumb down the computing experience.
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His lessons are too slow. It's like getting a lesson from Grandpa Simpson. He only teaches one tiny basic concept per video and it takes him at least five minutes to get there and another five repeating, and repeating, and repeating. I can't watch more than half a video before I can't take it anymore.
Not all students can learn as quickly and easily as most/. readers.
Indeed. In fact/.ers are so smart that most of them don't even have to read an article to know all the answers!
So if there's anything you want to change to what you have now, maybe start there.
It's perhaps a technicality but assault rifles are a specific class of weapons that are highly illegal and nearly impossible to buy legally here in the US. That said, I can see why you'd find it unbelievable. As much as gun-control opponents would like to deny it (and I'm one of them) the logic here is pretty unassailable: someone with a semiautomatic weapon will typically do a lot more damage before being brought under control than will someone with just about any other type of legal weapon. The other side of that coin is that there is a well-established black market for weapons already - so by further restricting them you only give more power to the people who will buy them anyway.
Locking people up based on just a psychological profile seems to me to be a bad idea. And this particular person, a very bright student, probably would have aced such tests anyway. Psychiatrists are notorious for misdiagnosing people, locking up sane people and letting pedophiles and serial killers walk free. And when would he have been tested anyway? Should all people have such a test once a year?
Agreed, this is a slippery slope. BUt I don't think that's what GP was suggesting.
I don't think there's a sensible way to screen people to avoid this sort of thing without locking up thousands of innocent people.
What if instead we can work on better identifying underlying root causes and risk factors? In that way we can try to address them - obviating the need to lock people up at all.
It was a project made by google labs for the google browser. The reason for it not to support Opera 11.6 could be as simple as the people who maintain it don't wnat to have to test it across multiple browsers -- you know, the kind of thing an actual stable standard would render unnecessary, thus making it more likely that these projects could support multiple browsers...
So what you're saying is that modern web dev means implementing workarounds for platforms that don't support the technology you want to use, resulting in maintaining multiple branches of your web "application"?
How is this different from yesterday's web dev again?
maybe so i can watch 3d movies on netflix instant stream.
Wouldn't it be spiffy if we could use a dedicated video player (and all of the advanced features it supports) for watching Netflix, instead of being forced to use an embedded player?
or so i can see google streetveiw/maps/earth in 3d
Imagine what could be done if you had a Google Maps Viewer application that had full access to system libraries - including 3d.
or becuase i want to write a web app game so that i can have my app on multiple platforms without porting with 3d
Let me translate that for you: because I want to write a web app game that offers a sub-par experience on multiple platforms because it fails to use what those platforms have to offer; and instead has been shoehorned into a web app.
There are huge areas for improvement in web apps. There is no good way to do 3D. A web app should have direct access to an OpenGL. HTML5 can play audio (usually poorly) but there is no API for recording it. There should be a way to interface with cameras, etc. But all of this belongs in HTML6.
Alternatively, you can use hte native tools provided for the environments you want to work in, and stop trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.
Not to ruin a perfectly good rant, but Apple wasn't actually involved in this case. It was a suit brought by Bose against the makers of third party speaker docks for i-devices.
Or - hey this one is even better - the astronauts get tehre, they're successful, and media interest drops off along with ratings as the first year drones on.
Suddenly funding dries up, nobody wants to renew. So sorry, we can't afford to send any more crews out. Too bad, nice knowing you!
Don't get me wrong, I think this is an ambitious, great plan - but funding it through reality TV has way too many pitfalls.
Media partners telling you that the revenue model is viable is far from them telling you that they're going to hop on board and foot the bill. Particularly given the rather speculative nature of the venture -if the crew dies in landing, that's a lot of lost revenue for the studios (in spite of the short term ratings spike that it will undoubtedly garner).
Ok, so why stop at pedophilia / ephebophilia? Why not report people openly admitting to smoking marijuana, or underage persons talking about drinking, or people with active lifestyle pictures when they're claiming disability?
Because "protecting the children" is only controversial to a small but vocal minority.
If they were to report the things you itemized, people would get offended and there would be backlash.
So Google has the right to monitor your chats and emails?
Why yes, yes they do.
Did you really believe otherwise?
Do you think that just because someone offers a secure endpoint via https, that they somehow are prevented from reading the content you send through their servers?
The only way to ensure your communications are private is not to send it through untrusted third parties.
As some of my personal projects have gotten bigger, the standard TODO file became cumbersome to manage. I've recently been working with Taskwarrior an open source command line task management tool that can act as a simple todo manager, but also includes advanced features like projects, tags, filter-able queries -- all from the command line.
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Obscurity is just one valid tool in a security arsenal -- but it shouldn't be the only one. Ranked high above it in importance is "user education" - a feat that's nearly impossible as we continue to dumb down the computing experience.
::golf clap::
What? I didn't understand you!
Here, let me illustrate with a picture.
Almost all of that ASCII art was done decades before by the RTTY radio geeks, and most of the best stuff was porn [roysac.com].
Partially nude women == porn? What a strange definition.
Or just someone looking to hide a few bodies
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bodybed.asp
I wish I hadn't read that. You see, the hotel room we just stayed in last week had a pretty bad smell in the bedroom portion...
d'oh. offtopic the above, someone? I thought I was replying to a question about Ars's mountain lion review article. :D
It's easy - just start here.
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His lessons are too slow. It's like getting a lesson from Grandpa Simpson. He only teaches one tiny basic concept per video and it takes him at least five minutes to get there and another five repeating, and repeating, and repeating. I can't watch more than half a video before I can't take it anymore.
Not all students can learn as quickly and easily as most /. readers.
Indeed. In fact /.ers are so smart that most of them don't even have to read an article to know all the answers!
So if there's anything you want to change to what you have now, maybe start there.
It's perhaps a technicality but assault rifles are a specific class of weapons that are highly illegal and nearly impossible to buy legally here in the US. That said, I can see why you'd find it unbelievable. As much as gun-control opponents would like to deny it (and I'm one of them) the logic here is pretty unassailable: someone with a semiautomatic weapon will typically do a lot more damage before being brought under control than will someone with just about any other type of legal weapon. The other side of that coin is that there is a well-established black market for weapons already - so by further restricting them you only give more power to the people who will buy them anyway.
Locking people up based on just a psychological profile seems to me to be a bad idea. And this particular person, a very bright student, probably would have aced such tests anyway. Psychiatrists are notorious for misdiagnosing people, locking up sane people and letting pedophiles and serial killers walk free. And when would he have been tested anyway? Should all people have such a test once a year?
Agreed, this is a slippery slope. BUt I don't think that's what GP was suggesting.
I don't think there's a sensible way to screen people to avoid this sort of thing without locking up thousands of innocent people.
What if instead we can work on better identifying underlying root causes and risk factors? In that way we can try to address them - obviating the need to lock people up at all.
It's obvious from this and previous blog posts that this douche is just another Apple fanbois.
From usage, I would say that you pronounce that "fan-bwah"?
, but it was not through a sense of entitlement to someone else's money that paid for the work to be done.
You're right, clearly your sense of entitlement to the fruits of somebody else's labor trumps their sense of entitlement to be paid for it.
So you're suggesting that what we have now is working so well that we don't need to look any further for a better solution?
It was a project made by google labs for the google browser. The reason for it not to support Opera 11.6 could be as simple as the people who maintain it don't wnat to have to test it across multiple browsers -- you know, the kind of thing an actual stable standard would render unnecessary, thus making it more likely that these projects could support multiple browsers...
So what you're saying is that modern web dev means implementing workarounds for platforms that don't support the technology you want to use, resulting in maintaining multiple branches of your web "application"?
How is this different from yesterday's web dev again?
maybe so i can watch 3d movies on netflix instant stream.
Wouldn't it be spiffy if we could use a dedicated video player (and all of the advanced features it supports) for watching Netflix, instead of being forced to use an embedded player?
or so i can see google streetveiw/maps/earth in 3d
Imagine what could be done if you had a Google Maps Viewer application that had full access to system libraries - including 3d.
or becuase i want to write a web app game so that i can have my app on multiple platforms without porting with 3d
Let me translate that for you: because I want to write a web app game that offers a sub-par experience on multiple platforms because it fails to use what those platforms have to offer; and instead has been shoehorned into a web app.
There are huge areas for improvement in web apps. There is no good way to do 3D. A web app should have direct access to an OpenGL. HTML5 can play audio (usually poorly) but there is no API for recording it. There should be a way to interface with cameras, etc. But all of this belongs in HTML6.
Alternatively, you can use hte native tools provided for the environments you want to work in, and stop trying to fit a round peg into a square hole.
Your users will thank you.
Personally I find the question of oranges v. trashcan to be far more prestigious.
Not to ruin a perfectly good rant, but Apple wasn't actually involved in this case. It was a suit brought by Bose against the makers of third party speaker docks for i-devices.
Or - hey this one is even better - the astronauts get tehre, they're successful, and media interest drops off along with ratings as the first year drones on.
Suddenly funding dries up, nobody wants to renew. So sorry, we can't afford to send any more crews out. Too bad, nice knowing you!
Don't get me wrong, I think this is an ambitious, great plan - but funding it through reality TV has way too many pitfalls.
Media partners telling you that the revenue model is viable is far from them telling you that they're going to hop on board and foot the bill. Particularly given the rather speculative nature of the venture -if the crew dies in landing, that's a lot of lost revenue for the studios (in spite of the short term ratings spike that it will undoubtedly garner).
Ok, so why stop at pedophilia / ephebophilia? Why not report people openly admitting to smoking marijuana, or underage persons talking about drinking, or people with active lifestyle pictures when they're claiming disability?
Because "protecting the children" is only controversial to a small but vocal minority.
If they were to report the things you itemized, people would get offended and there would be backlash.
So Google has the right to monitor your chats and emails?
Why yes, yes they do.
Did you really believe otherwise?
Do you think that just because someone offers a secure endpoint via https, that they somehow are prevented from reading the content you send through their servers?
The only way to ensure your communications are private is not to send it through untrusted third parties.
If I had a mod option for "+0.25 Mildly Entertaining" it would've been yours just now.
You start up the small business, Amazon lowers the prices again - regionally, quite possibly.
They can afford to operate a small segment of their product sales at a loss or break-even for a very, very long time. A small business, not so much.
As some of my personal projects have gotten bigger, the standard TODO file became cumbersome to manage. I've recently been working with Taskwarrior an open source command line task management tool that can act as a simple todo manager, but also includes advanced features like projects, tags, filter-able queries -- all from the command line.