IE6 and some other older OSes don't support the new stuff (tm). The very fact that they even support the old stuff (tm) gives them a lower rating. They are a company that profits on Everyone being able to access the site, which unfortunately, somewhat compromises the security of everyone else.
This is still better than the US. He would have had to register as a sex offender, which is a life-long sentence. He would not allowed to live near a school or attend a school, and would have to notify his neighbors that he is a registered sex offender...for the rest of his life.
I still don't understand why this is so bad, especially to the point of being compared to the Nixon tapes. (I'm a Dem, but not really a Hillary fan)
The emails in question were believed to not contain classified info, so they would have been sent on the official unclassified server anyway. It wasn't against the law to have her own server, but possibly against policy. If she fired people for doing the same, that makes her a hypocrite, not a criminal. (although, hypocrites don't make good leaders either)
There has been speculation that she may have tried to intentionally wipe incriminating evidence off the server. So far, that seems to be pure speculation. I haven't seen/heard of any reason yet that makes me think this is even likely true. By all means investigate, but at least consider the possibility that it didn't happen. If this charge seems likely true (based on actual evidence), then we can start trying to compare this to Watergate/Nixon.
Even if she turns out completely/mostly innocent, her reputation has already be irreparably destroyed. Even if her innocence is proven likely, there will be a good number of people that will never believe it.
I don't think it's as bad as it sounds. It doesn't say it can't detect objects, just that it can't always determine if that object is a human. So it's not going to just run people over. If you had to decide between hitting a cone or a person, most people would prefer to hit the cone. Autonomous cars strive to make the same decisions. Another thought, we already know Google's autonomous cars try to predict what an object might do next. A cone will likely act differently than a human, which may affect how the car chooses to act when it gets close to the object/person. (Slowing down when it gets close to the human, even if it's not in the car's direct path)
A single bit coin can be broken down into parts almost infinity (so you could pay someone 0.00003 bitcoin). It's limited now to something like 8 decimal places, but there's room in the spec to allow even more granularity than that. So while technically every bitcoin in the world could be lost, it's very unlikely.
And then? If a wallet is lost, the bitcoin is lost forever? No way to re-mine it or anything? Because this would be bad for the future of bitcoin. 7% disappeared with the demise of MtGox. A large number got lost to some UK garbage belt. More will be lost to whatever causes. Over time there may be no bitcoin left!
Supply and demand, then the value of all other coins go up. Traditional currencies have inflation because they are printing money faster than old bills get destroyed. This causes the value of traditional currencies to go down over time. It's argued that some inflation is good as it encourages investment or spending (as opposed to keeping it under your mattress). Having a currency with deflation has never been really tested. At the least, some specter cannot decrease it's value by just creating more at will (no, mining bt is different).
My biggest issue is that I'm stuck on some ancient version of Android. OS updates are the responsibility of the carriers, yet they carry no liability when they don't offer the updates in a timely manner (or at all). I'm sure old iPhone hardware has a limit, but they are certainly guaranteed to get updates for a much larger time frame than a majority of android devices.
I can root my phone, and I have rooted some phones, but the same issue exists there as well. As soon as the phone hardware is sufficiently old you can no longer find well supported updates for the OS. These updates are also often offered by random, unknown individuals, which is obviously a big risk. The problem is even more difficult when phone manufacturers are actually successful at preventing rooting.
I'm fine with old hardware eventually not being able to run the latest OS, but I have no indication of when that will be. When I buy a new phone, I don't know if I will get updates for 5 years, or even less.
Why do I have to upgrade my entire OS just to get security updates? Why can't I have patches?
Imagine if BestBuy were tasked with making available Windows updates for that Dell you just bought from BestBuy. No, I'd much rather get my updates directly from Microsoft. I want the same thing for my phone, updates directly from the OS maintainer. If I have to buy an Apple product to get that, then they are the winners in my book.
(I own several Android devices and no Apple devices. I'm thinking of buying Apple in the future.)
I never did like that you had to download putty from a "random" domain. The putty.org website takes you to some greenend.org.uk domain. If you google for putty, it takes you directly to the greenend.org.uk domain. The official binary really should be hosted on the putty.org domain, or at the least have the actual download link on the official domain, using that greenend.org.uk domain as a CDN for the binary.
Even if you wanted to, how could you possibly regulate this? Once items get to the point of being able to be easily manufactured in your own house, in mass, relatively cheaply, it's nearly impossible to regulate this away.
Think of prohibition. People can/could easily make their own alcohol in their own house by just leaving grapes in a barrel. It was next to impossible to regulate and required substantial man power to prevent the little they did. Grape juice in the era actually said on the label "Do not leave in a jug for 20 days as it might turn into wine." CNC mills are not illegal, just as grape juice wasn't illegal during prohibition. You're likely to start seeing CNC mills with warnings like "do not use to make firearms."
If you try to regulate schematics, people can just download plans from some P2P service. Now you guns that are made from lower grade materials AND questionable designs.
Yesterday it was alcohol prohibition. Today it is drug prohibition. Tomorrow it will be homemade gun parts. You can try to regulate away these things, but once you can easily make them in your own home, it's a losing battle. Attempting to regulate these impossible to regulate things leads to no-knock raids, death, and more criminals. Nobody is safer and I'd argue we're all less safe. Even if they are illegal tomorrow, 20 years and 1 million no-knock raids later, they will be legal again. Prohibition never lasts.
If more guns on the street is creating a problem, then you need to start thinking about different solutions. Making it illegal to possess a firearm isn't going to fix anything.
Perhaps we can stop giving woman owned businesses special treatment now? No more penalties if you don't give enough contracts to woman owned businesses.
If the government can listen in, so can all the other "bad guys". I want tech that solves the problems, not laws. All government needs to do is move out of the way and stop proposing dumb things like outlawing strong encryption.
And again, my media PC combined with torrents is still better. It can already play 4k videos. Don't have to buy any new hardware, don't have to re-buy movies I've already bought. Don't have to worry about the kids breaking the disk. Don't have to worry if that disk you bought in Europe will work back in the States. DVDs were a large upgrade from VHS, the next step is better digital distribution. Blue-ray and UHD are just stepping stones to them realizing physical media is dead.
Give me a digital distribution system that will work even if the company goes out of business. One that I allows me to backup the media. One that allows for offline storage so I can watch when I don't have internet. One that works on all platforms. One that I can re-download the file if I do lose it. The only thing that satisfies all of that is DRM free files. Until they provide that, torrents will still win.
The question shouldn't be if they can legally do it. The question should be why is this type of interception even possible without the cooperation of the phone company? If they can do it, so can the "bad guys".
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IE6 and some other older OSes don't support the new stuff (tm). The very fact that they even support the old stuff (tm) gives them a lower rating. They are a company that profits on Everyone being able to access the site, which unfortunately, somewhat compromises the security of everyone else.
Is it ironic that Slashdot is advertising drones for sale?
Gotta maintain the status quo. And if it does pass, that means they don't need to ask for it to get it.
FTFA, this change only affects the YouTube "app" installed in Chrome. Uninstall the app and you're golden.
This is still better than the US. He would have had to register as a sex offender, which is a life-long sentence. He would not allowed to live near a school or attend a school, and would have to notify his neighbors that he is a registered sex offender...for the rest of his life.
and I'm surprised you could believe Clinton's utterly false claims
When you attack me directly instead of the facts, you hurt your argument
I still don't understand why this is so bad, especially to the point of being compared to the Nixon tapes. (I'm a Dem, but not really a Hillary fan)
The emails in question were believed to not contain classified info, so they would have been sent on the official unclassified server anyway. It wasn't against the law to have her own server, but possibly against policy. If she fired people for doing the same, that makes her a hypocrite, not a criminal. (although, hypocrites don't make good leaders either)
There has been speculation that she may have tried to intentionally wipe incriminating evidence off the server. So far, that seems to be pure speculation. I haven't seen/heard of any reason yet that makes me think this is even likely true. By all means investigate, but at least consider the possibility that it didn't happen. If this charge seems likely true (based on actual evidence), then we can start trying to compare this to Watergate/Nixon.
Even if she turns out completely/mostly innocent, her reputation has already be irreparably destroyed. Even if her innocence is proven likely, there will be a good number of people that will never believe it.
I don't think it's as bad as it sounds. It doesn't say it can't detect objects, just that it can't always determine if that object is a human. So it's not going to just run people over. If you had to decide between hitting a cone or a person, most people would prefer to hit the cone. Autonomous cars strive to make the same decisions. Another thought, we already know Google's autonomous cars try to predict what an object might do next. A cone will likely act differently than a human, which may affect how the car chooses to act when it gets close to the object/person. (Slowing down when it gets close to the human, even if it's not in the car's direct path)
A single bit coin can be broken down into parts almost infinity (so you could pay someone 0.00003 bitcoin). It's limited now to something like 8 decimal places, but there's room in the spec to allow even more granularity than that. So while technically every bitcoin in the world could be lost, it's very unlikely.
And then? If a wallet is lost, the bitcoin is lost forever? No way to re-mine it or anything? Because this would be bad for the future of bitcoin. 7% disappeared with the demise of MtGox. A large number got lost to some UK garbage belt. More will be lost to whatever causes. Over time there may be no bitcoin left!
Supply and demand, then the value of all other coins go up. Traditional currencies have inflation because they are printing money faster than old bills get destroyed. This causes the value of traditional currencies to go down over time. It's argued that some inflation is good as it encourages investment or spending (as opposed to keeping it under your mattress). Having a currency with deflation has never been really tested. At the least, some specter cannot decrease it's value by just creating more at will (no, mining bt is different).
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
Leap second strikes again
Geotags
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
My biggest issue is that I'm stuck on some ancient version of Android. OS updates are the responsibility of the carriers, yet they carry no liability when they don't offer the updates in a timely manner (or at all). I'm sure old iPhone hardware has a limit, but they are certainly guaranteed to get updates for a much larger time frame than a majority of android devices.
I can root my phone, and I have rooted some phones, but the same issue exists there as well. As soon as the phone hardware is sufficiently old you can no longer find well supported updates for the OS. These updates are also often offered by random, unknown individuals, which is obviously a big risk. The problem is even more difficult when phone manufacturers are actually successful at preventing rooting.
I'm fine with old hardware eventually not being able to run the latest OS, but I have no indication of when that will be. When I buy a new phone, I don't know if I will get updates for 5 years, or even less.
Why do I have to upgrade my entire OS just to get security updates? Why can't I have patches?
Imagine if BestBuy were tasked with making available Windows updates for that Dell you just bought from BestBuy. No, I'd much rather get my updates directly from Microsoft. I want the same thing for my phone, updates directly from the OS maintainer. If I have to buy an Apple product to get that, then they are the winners in my book.
(I own several Android devices and no Apple devices. I'm thinking of buying Apple in the future.)
I never did like that you had to download putty from a "random" domain. The putty.org website takes you to some greenend.org.uk domain. If you google for putty, it takes you directly to the greenend.org.uk domain. The official binary really should be hosted on the putty.org domain, or at the least have the actual download link on the official domain, using that greenend.org.uk domain as a CDN for the binary.
Yep, we have no idea who shot the video. When slashdot cannot keep up with the TV news...
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Even if you wanted to, how could you possibly regulate this? Once items get to the point of being able to be easily manufactured in your own house, in mass, relatively cheaply, it's nearly impossible to regulate this away.
Think of prohibition. People can/could easily make their own alcohol in their own house by just leaving grapes in a barrel. It was next to impossible to regulate and required substantial man power to prevent the little they did. Grape juice in the era actually said on the label "Do not leave in a jug for 20 days as it might turn into wine." CNC mills are not illegal, just as grape juice wasn't illegal during prohibition. You're likely to start seeing CNC mills with warnings like "do not use to make firearms."
If you try to regulate schematics, people can just download plans from some P2P service. Now you guns that are made from lower grade materials AND questionable designs.
Yesterday it was alcohol prohibition. Today it is drug prohibition. Tomorrow it will be homemade gun parts. You can try to regulate away these things, but once you can easily make them in your own home, it's a losing battle. Attempting to regulate these impossible to regulate things leads to no-knock raids, death, and more criminals. Nobody is safer and I'd argue we're all less safe. Even if they are illegal tomorrow, 20 years and 1 million no-knock raids later, they will be legal again. Prohibition never lasts.
If more guns on the street is creating a problem, then you need to start thinking about different solutions. Making it illegal to possess a firearm isn't going to fix anything.
Try "Deluge". Supports proxies, is cross platform, and supports RSS.
Necessary link http://xkcd.com/927/
Remotes work through windows
Well, MS office running on Wine made made my wife cry yesterday. So in my house, free software is on the defensive.
Perhaps we can stop giving woman owned businesses special treatment now? No more penalties if you don't give enough contracts to woman owned businesses.
If the government can listen in, so can all the other "bad guys". I want tech that solves the problems, not laws. All government needs to do is move out of the way and stop proposing dumb things like outlawing strong encryption.
And again, my media PC combined with torrents is still better. It can already play 4k videos. Don't have to buy any new hardware, don't have to re-buy movies I've already bought. Don't have to worry about the kids breaking the disk. Don't have to worry if that disk you bought in Europe will work back in the States. DVDs were a large upgrade from VHS, the next step is better digital distribution. Blue-ray and UHD are just stepping stones to them realizing physical media is dead.
Give me a digital distribution system that will work even if the company goes out of business. One that I allows me to backup the media. One that allows for offline storage so I can watch when I don't have internet. One that works on all platforms. One that I can re-download the file if I do lose it. The only thing that satisfies all of that is DRM free files. Until they provide that, torrents will still win.
The question shouldn't be if they can legally do it. The question should be why is this type of interception even possible without the cooperation of the phone company? If they can do it, so can the "bad guys".