Victim blaming is unhealthy because it shifts the focus away from companies trying to come up with better methods to secure accounts.
Why say "we're at fault for not securing our database and not hashing passwords in a way where rainbow tables are impractical" when you can say "they shouldn't have used such weak passwords!" and take the blame off of themselves?
Two factor authentication for example is a very effective way of securing 'stupid' users. Heck it's secure enough to enable a lot of banks to store two-way encrypted passwords and make their log in algorithms more robust against keyloggers (it's a myth that passwords have to be hashed for the best security). Two factor Authentication however is difficult and expensive so there's all the more incentive for blaming users who get infected with trojans or suffer when their passwords get compromised.
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Drupal is great in that it's gotten me lots of jobs and also lessens the whole "we need you to learn the structure of our horrible proprietary CMS" situation.
It is depressing just how many horrible hacks you find you need to do for 'basic' things. At the end of large projects I always tend to find I've a huge number of indecipherable preprocess functions in template files and custom modules.
At least 99% of the time, someone has had the exact same issue you're having. Just a shame you have to sift through 100 post threads with dozens of different patches to try or people who fixed the problem but in Drupal 6 (it's going to be fun when Drupal 8 arrives and 99% of the message board becomes unhelpful)
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(Needle, haystack) , (haystack, needle) is something that irritates. Ensures I'm never sure of my syntax when coding.
There are a couple of annoyances outside of that which are trap lots of people learning to code in the language:
"while (fgets($file))" doesn't return false when it should (eg at the end of the file or if there's an issue with the file handler like most readline functions in other languages do. Given this will often cause the server to become completely unresponsive until the script (hopefully) times out, it seems a massive oversight.
if ($variable = 5) . A simple typo that can take hours to debug and spot and most developers fall victim to it at least once. Is a warning really too much to ask?
The more effort you put into telling people something is safe and the more visible this effort is, the more people will naturally question just why they're having to make this effort.
When you order a burger from McDonalds you probably wouldn't be too happy if worker who gives it to you said "don't worry, the chances of you having got a burger that has been spat on are tiny so it is very unlikely I spat in it! Enjoy your meal!"
The weakness was apparently down to the site treating a txid (transaction ID) field as a unique identifier. Turns out not only was it not actually a unique transaction identifier, it could also be spoofed easily without altering the (real) destination for the transaction. Made it trivial to make fake deposits and real withdrawals.
MTGox's fault for not understanding a spec whilst using it to move vast sums around but it probably highlights the importance of good naming practices when creating a spec.
Lets say you spend $5000 on services and repairs for the $30K car's life, that's $65K for fuel. How many miles is that?
A $30K performance high performance car is probably 30mpg. At $3.50 per gallon, That's 8.5miles per $. $65K would get you around 550K miles of driving.
Of course pretty much any car in existence would fall to bits long before hitting 550K but that's enough to show that you saving money is most definitely not a good reason for buying a Tesla..
But if you show criminals that they can escape punishment easily by initiating a high speed chase, you'll simply encourage more people to speed away in a dangerous manner. In addition, if people think they're more likely to get away scott-free, they're more likely to commit criminal acts in the first place.
There is always a balance to be had, you can't simply say that criminals should be universally allowed to get away because you'll almost certainly cause more harm to society and danger to the public through the knock on effects of that.
200 plastic bags is under a kilo of plastic, compared to the food packaging (especially for micromeals) it's negligable. In terms of carbon footprint, it's impact is tiny and barely any better than re-usable bags.
Rather than using it to raise funds, how about mandating supermarkets to use biodegradable/compostable materials instead? Better yet, make supermarkets do "litter patrol" like they do in England with McDonalds.
Musk is comparing a population of new, low milage , well maintained cars driven short distances by caring owners to the general population of cars including 10 year old 80,000 mile rustbuckets driven by teens who haven't had it serviced in years.
If you are not comparing like for like, you cannot draw any sort of reliable conclusion from your stats
Wait... is this the same nationalized BT that wouldn't let 'upgrade' my phone line from rotary to touch tone dialing without paying a massive fee?
Read some of the horror stories about people who had to deal with BT for company phone systems whilst they had a monopoly. Outdated, awful equipment that you had little choice to go with because there was no one else to choose from.
I find the romantic view that people take of nationalized monopolies amusing. British Rail is another example. Awful punctuality, constant strikes, 30-40 year old trains (still having dangerous 'slam door' trains in the 90's was an embarrassment) and almost as poor signalling equipment.
They're only responsibility for the minimum, vaguely defined, time period (typically six months), past that you'll be referred back to the manufacturer for the term of the warranty.
Their failure rates were abysmal. A drive failing after 6 months is appalling. A drive failing suddenly after 6 months, suddenly with zero warning is completely unacceptable. Even if you have a backup routine, that's probably going to result in days of lost work, plus the need to re-install everything on another drive whilst you RMA it.
To add financial injury to insult, in the UK, RMA'ing an OCZ drive requires you to send it insured and recorded to the Netherlands. It cost me around £20 to send it off. I'm certainly never going to buy OCZ again. The 15% return rate for OCZ drives that failed after 1 year is unacceptable and frankly, should've been grounds for a recall.
Lithium cells (especially old or damaged ones) can build up hydrogen as moisture gets in. Unlike petrol, you won't smell this and probably wouldn't know it's happening until it explodes or creates an insanely hast burning fire.
The biggest worry I have with electric cars however are shorts. Electrical fires in petrol cars happen but they're rare. The Tesla motor can suck up 270KW and the battery is 375V. 700A at relatively high voltage is pretty scary, any short would probably cause an instant fire.
Apparently about 2/3rds of crooks get away with it. The ones who do are the ones who do a one off of $500,000 or so and the banks decide it's better to absorb the loss then to go to the police and take the PR and resources hit that goes with it. The ones who do get caught are the ones who get greedy and do it multiple times or go for too much. There was an interview on Radio 4 talking about it (may have been the catch-me-if-you-can guy, can't remember for sure).
King's works are probably heavily trimmed and re-arranged by editors but normally ghostwritten books by established authors stick out like a sore thumb as differences in writing style are too obvious. It's not as easy as creating a book where the main character is a recovering alcoholic writer from Maine.
For example the last Discworld novel really stood out to me as being ghostwritten. For one thing, it was far too respectful of long established characters (if you're a ghostwriter you may not won't to do anything major with someone else's characters) but what really stood out was something tiny and simple: One of the characters casually used a swearword that you never see in Discworld novels (Pratchett has always been PG in his approach to language). It's more understandable with him though given his embuggerance.
Still, his daughter is officially taking the reigns of the series and she's shown herself to be a good writer in her own right.
Because it's designed so that you take a picture with a resolution 12megapixels (not sure of the exact resolution) and it just uses the extra pixels in the sensor to make sure it's sharp and has less noise. It's not meant for you to take 41megapixel images.
How is it any more off the shelf than any other tablet or mobile device?
When was the last time Intel released a new generation of CPU where you could simply take out an old generation CPU and put in a new one? The motherboard will be completely different, the CPU is different, the GPU is different, the ram chips will be different heck, even the cooling and power arrangements are likely different. The only thing that is possibly the same is the screen .
Is doubling the ram and moving to a newer generation CPU (with presumably the faster GPU it brings) with a 2 hour boost to battery life really a 'modest' spec boost?
I know it's fun to hate on the Surface pro but an all round boost to memory, power and battery life is a pretty good spec bump no?
Yeah, I can't believe Slashdot's memory either. Care to show me a single example of Linux on PS3 being advertised?
You can't. Because it was never advertised, it was never even mentioned on the box. The only 'promotion' it ever had was a few Sony reps talking about it and the fact it was included with the console. It was always a little bonus, it was never a promoted feature. It wasn't even any good, performance was poor and the sandbox it run under gave you very little hardware access.
Besides which, it wasn't forcibly removed, you were free to choose not to agree to getting the latest version of the PS3 firmware if you wanted to. They made you choose between Linux and the latest firmware but you still had the choice (so that Navy example everyone gave as pretty much the only people who had found a use for it wasn't affected).
I'm not as convinced his case is as strong as he's making out.
As it's not clear how long the clip was or how it was used (was it the subject of the lecture? was it background music? Was it intro music?) we're probably missing the most important facts. Fair use doesn't mean you get free backing or intro music, for it to be fair use, there has to be original content involving that song.
The non-profit / no loss to the record label doesn't seem relevant. That could protect you against damages or criminal prosecution but not against a takedown. It would also be trivial to argue that even if he didn't make any money from the lecture and putting it on youtube, it serves as a valuable bit of self promotion that could help him make money. The educational aspect is another dead end avenue, all the record label would have to show is that they've licensed out their music to educational material in the past.
Ultimately, it's just going to come down to the length of the clips and/or if they're used properly which is something we can't tell.
To a large portion of the world, You're the fat blowhard who will have slightly less money. They meanwhile could find themselves facing starvation or freezing in the winter because food and energy prices shot up.
This isn't hyperbole, just look what Bio-diesel did to some of the world's poorest.
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Victim blaming is unhealthy because it shifts the focus away from companies trying to come up with better methods to secure accounts.
Why say "we're at fault for not securing our database and not hashing passwords in a way where rainbow tables are impractical" when you can say "they shouldn't have used such weak passwords!" and take the blame off of themselves?
Two factor authentication for example is a very effective way of securing 'stupid' users. Heck it's secure enough to enable a lot of banks to store two-way encrypted passwords and make their log in algorithms more robust against keyloggers (it's a myth that passwords have to be hashed for the best security). Two factor Authentication however is difficult and expensive so there's all the more incentive for blaming users who get infected with trojans or suffer when their passwords get compromised.
Drupal is great in that it's gotten me lots of jobs and also lessens the whole "we need you to learn the structure of our horrible proprietary CMS" situation.
It is depressing just how many horrible hacks you find you need to do for 'basic' things. At the end of large projects I always tend to find I've a huge number of indecipherable preprocess functions in template files and custom modules.
At least 99% of the time, someone has had the exact same issue you're having. Just a shame you have to sift through 100 post threads with dozens of different patches to try or people who fixed the problem but in Drupal 6 (it's going to be fun when Drupal 8 arrives and 99% of the message board becomes unhelpful)
(Needle, haystack) , (haystack, needle) is something that irritates. Ensures I'm never sure of my syntax when coding.
There are a couple of annoyances outside of that which are trap lots of people learning to code in the language:
"while (fgets($file))" doesn't return false when it should (eg at the end of the file or if there's an issue with the file handler like most readline functions in other languages do. Given this will often cause the server to become completely unresponsive until the script (hopefully) times out, it seems a massive oversight.
if ($variable = 5) . A simple typo that can take hours to debug and spot and most developers fall victim to it at least once. Is a warning really too much to ask?
The more effort you put into telling people something is safe and the more visible this effort is, the more people will naturally question just why they're having to make this effort.
When you order a burger from McDonalds you probably wouldn't be too happy if worker who gives it to you said "don't worry, the chances of you having got a burger that has been spat on are tiny so it is very unlikely I spat in it! Enjoy your meal!"
The weakness was apparently down to the site treating a txid (transaction ID) field as a unique identifier. Turns out not only was it not actually a unique transaction identifier, it could also be spoofed easily without altering the (real) destination for the transaction. Made it trivial to make fake deposits and real withdrawals.
MTGox's fault for not understanding a spec whilst using it to move vast sums around but it probably highlights the importance of good naming practices when creating a spec.
Lets say you spend $5000 on services and repairs for the $30K car's life, that's $65K for fuel. How many miles is that?
A $30K performance high performance car is probably 30mpg. At $3.50 per gallon, That's 8.5miles per $. $65K would get you around 550K miles of driving.
Of course pretty much any car in existence would fall to bits long before hitting 550K but that's enough to show that you saving money is most definitely not a good reason for buying a Tesla..
So... there was a recall and it was big enough news to be reported on. That is kinda proving his point...
Alternatively, the criminals could just steal your car and torch it once they're done.
But if you show criminals that they can escape punishment easily by initiating a high speed chase, you'll simply encourage more people to speed away in a dangerous manner. In addition, if people think they're more likely to get away scott-free, they're more likely to commit criminal acts in the first place.
There is always a balance to be had, you can't simply say that criminals should be universally allowed to get away because you'll almost certainly cause more harm to society and danger to the public through the knock on effects of that.
200 plastic bags is under a kilo of plastic, compared to the food packaging (especially for micromeals) it's negligable. In terms of carbon footprint, it's impact is tiny and barely any better than re-usable bags.
Rather than using it to raise funds, how about mandating supermarkets to use biodegradable/compostable materials instead? Better yet, make supermarkets do "litter patrol" like they do in England with McDonalds.
You don't understand the stats either.
Musk is comparing a population of new, low milage , well maintained cars driven short distances by caring owners to the general population of cars including 10 year old 80,000 mile rustbuckets driven by teens who haven't had it serviced in years.
If you are not comparing like for like, you cannot draw any sort of reliable conclusion from your stats
Wait... is this the same nationalized BT that wouldn't let 'upgrade' my phone line from rotary to touch tone dialing without paying a massive fee?
Read some of the horror stories about people who had to deal with BT for company phone systems whilst they had a monopoly. Outdated, awful equipment that you had little choice to go with because there was no one else to choose from.
I find the romantic view that people take of nationalized monopolies amusing. British Rail is another example. Awful punctuality, constant strikes, 30-40 year old trains (still having dangerous 'slam door' trains in the 90's was an embarrassment) and almost as poor signalling equipment.
They're only responsibility for the minimum, vaguely defined, time period (typically six months), past that you'll be referred back to the manufacturer for the term of the warranty.
Their failure rates were abysmal. A drive failing after 6 months is appalling. A drive failing suddenly after 6 months, suddenly with zero warning is completely unacceptable. Even if you have a backup routine, that's probably going to result in days of lost work, plus the need to re-install everything on another drive whilst you RMA it.
To add financial injury to insult, in the UK, RMA'ing an OCZ drive requires you to send it insured and recorded to the Netherlands. It cost me around £20 to send it off. I'm certainly never going to buy OCZ again. The 15% return rate for OCZ drives that failed after 1 year is unacceptable and frankly, should've been grounds for a recall.
Lithium cells (especially old or damaged ones) can build up hydrogen as moisture gets in. Unlike petrol, you won't smell this and probably wouldn't know it's happening until it explodes or creates an insanely hast burning fire.
The biggest worry I have with electric cars however are shorts. Electrical fires in petrol cars happen but they're rare. The Tesla motor can suck up 270KW and the battery is 375V. 700A at relatively high voltage is pretty scary, any short would probably cause an instant fire.
Apparently about 2/3rds of crooks get away with it. The ones who do are the ones who do a one off of $500,000 or so and the banks decide it's better to absorb the loss then to go to the police and take the PR and resources hit that goes with it. The ones who do get caught are the ones who get greedy and do it multiple times or go for too much. There was an interview on Radio 4 talking about it (may have been the catch-me-if-you-can guy, can't remember for sure).
King's works are probably heavily trimmed and re-arranged by editors but normally ghostwritten books by established authors stick out like a sore thumb as differences in writing style are too obvious. It's not as easy as creating a book where the main character is a recovering alcoholic writer from Maine.
For example the last Discworld novel really stood out to me as being ghostwritten. For one thing, it was far too respectful of long established characters (if you're a ghostwriter you may not won't to do anything major with someone else's characters) but what really stood out was something tiny and simple: One of the characters casually used a swearword that you never see in Discworld novels (Pratchett has always been PG in his approach to language). It's more understandable with him though given his embuggerance.
Still, his daughter is officially taking the reigns of the series and she's shown herself to be a good writer in her own right.
Presumably he was on holiday when King finished the Dark Tower and crapped on a lot of the stuff from Insomnia...
Because it's designed so that you take a picture with a resolution 12megapixels (not sure of the exact resolution) and it just uses the extra pixels in the sensor to make sure it's sharp and has less noise. It's not meant for you to take 41megapixel images.
How is it any more off the shelf than any other tablet or mobile device?
When was the last time Intel released a new generation of CPU where you could simply take out an old generation CPU and put in a new one? The motherboard will be completely different, the CPU is different, the GPU is different, the ram chips will be different heck, even the cooling and power arrangements are likely different. The only thing that is possibly the same is the screen .
Is doubling the ram and moving to a newer generation CPU (with presumably the faster GPU it brings) with a 2 hour boost to battery life really a 'modest' spec boost?
I know it's fun to hate on the Surface pro but an all round boost to memory, power and battery life is a pretty good spec bump no?
Yeah, I can't believe Slashdot's memory either. Care to show me a single example of Linux on PS3 being advertised?
You can't. Because it was never advertised, it was never even mentioned on the box. The only 'promotion' it ever had was a few Sony reps talking about it and the fact it was included with the console. It was always a little bonus, it was never a promoted feature. It wasn't even any good, performance was poor and the sandbox it run under gave you very little hardware access.
Besides which, it wasn't forcibly removed, you were free to choose not to agree to getting the latest version of the PS3 firmware if you wanted to. They made you choose between Linux and the latest firmware but you still had the choice (so that Navy example everyone gave as pretty much the only people who had found a use for it wasn't affected).
And? Just because it's non-profit, that doesn't mean it doesn't diminish the value or market.
"Why should I pay a sum to licence some music when there are a bunch of other videos using it for free".
I'm not as convinced his case is as strong as he's making out.
As it's not clear how long the clip was or how it was used (was it the subject of the lecture? was it background music? Was it intro music?) we're probably missing the most important facts. Fair use doesn't mean you get free backing or intro music, for it to be fair use, there has to be original content involving that song.
The non-profit / no loss to the record label doesn't seem relevant. That could protect you against damages or criminal prosecution but not against a takedown. It would also be trivial to argue that even if he didn't make any money from the lecture and putting it on youtube, it serves as a valuable bit of self promotion that could help him make money. The educational aspect is another dead end avenue, all the record label would have to show is that they've licensed out their music to educational material in the past.
Ultimately, it's just going to come down to the length of the clips and/or if they're used properly which is something we can't tell.
To a large portion of the world, You're the fat blowhard who will have slightly less money. They meanwhile could find themselves facing starvation or freezing in the winter because food and energy prices shot up.
This isn't hyperbole, just look what Bio-diesel did to some of the world's poorest.