That's a common misattribution. As that link notes, however, it is aa paraphrasing of a comedic play from 400 BC in which Socrates was caricatured:
I will, therefore, describe the ancient system of education, how it was ordered, when I flourished in the advocacy of justice, and temperance was the fashion. In the first place it was incumbent that no one should hear the voice of a boy uttering a syllable; and next, that those from the same quarter of the town should march in good order through the streets to the school of the harp-master, naked, and in a body, even if it were to snow as thick as meal. Then again, their master would teach them, not sitting cross-legged, to learn by rote a song, either “pallada persepolin deinan” or “teleporon ti boama” raising to a higher pitch the harmony which our fathers transmitted to us. But if any of them were to play the buffoon, or to turn any quavers, like these difficult turns the present artists make after the manner of Phrynis, he used to be thrashed, being beaten with many blows, as banishing the Muses. And it behooved the boys, while sitting in the school of the Gymnastic-master, to cover the thigh, so that they might exhibit nothing indecent to those outside; then again, after rising from the ground, to sweep the sand together, and to take care not to leave an impression of the person for their lovers. And no boy used in those days to anoint himself below the navel; so that their bodies wore the appearance of blooming health. Nor used he to go to his lover, having made up his voice in an effeminate tone, prostituting himself with his eyes. Nor used it to be allowed when one was dining to take the head of the radish, or to snatch from their seniors dill or parsley, or to eat fish, or to giggle, or to keep the legs crossed.
I'm particularly amused about the reference to dutifully marching to school, naked, in the snow. That the joke should be 2400 years old speaks to the truth of how the old perceive the young.
Because no networking vulnerability ever requires the use of packet crafting unless it uses XML. Yes, this is a failure of a plain text data serialization format. If only they'd used JSON, this never would have happened.
Really? My experience says the opposite. When you get to the point where you need clusters, high core counts, and standby sites, the licensing costs of your RDBMS are a drop in the bucket. Sure, $100,000 looks like a lot, but next to the $500,000 you're spending on infrastructure and the $10 million you're spending on the application itself, you're really not spending all that much.
Eh, there is less control in SQL Server over locking than there is in other RDBMSs, and it is infamous for escalating locks to the page or table level even when you ask for lower level locks. It's rare that it happens, but it's not unheard of. The fact that the system uses optimistic locking and there's no good equivalent to SELECT... FOR UPDATE is also somewhat problematic.
It's greatly mitigated in 2005+ by using read committed row versioning (MVCC) and/or snapshot isolation, but those are database level options and you may need to specifically request the right isolation levels with your code. The biggest problem is that you have to remember to use the feature; it's just always on with Oracle from what I hear (I haven't used it since I was in school).
There's a mountain of documentation (and videos!) from Microsoft on all this. The greatest thing about SQL Server is the extremely high quality of the documentation. It's a joy to learn about compared to IBM's DB2 documentation (but then, anything is better than IBM documentation), and Books Online is a step ahead of Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Seriously, why aren't Election Days mandatory holidays? Do it over two days: The last Thursday before normal Election Day is Alternate Election Day, when people who will be working on Election Day must have off. Then everybody else takes Tuesday as a holiday. That, combined with absentee ballots should be an excellent start.
That's true, although it's historically not been enabled by default, although AC was kind enough to say it is now.
One of the biggest problems I find people have coming from a MySQL background is not understanding why aggregate queries they're used to working suddenly emit errors like, "Column 'LAST_NAME' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause."
The next big problem I see people having is people violating First Normal Form and then complaining that their queries perform really poorly or are hugely complicated, but that's not exactly MySQL's fault.
Instead, the application should be calling *into* the database, not the other way around.
Which is great... until you want two different applications to use the same database at the same time and need to occasionally do the same things the same way. When your data is more complex than what Amazon or Google use and closer to what a hospital information system or school information system use, you can no longer rely on a single application from a single vendor using a single database. Shit ain't that simple anymore.
I was born in 1976. I vividly recall both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. I saw The China Syndrome probably 20 years ago.
Today, I had no fucking clue what "Uruguay Syndrome" would refer to. For that matter, I wouldn't have remembered what "China Syndrome" refers to other than a movie I once saw.
SQLite3 is a fantastic product, but it's primarily intended as an embedded SQL database, not an RDBMS. They're not really intended to do the same things.
My suspicion is that MS is planning to roll out a life cycle for consumer Windows 10 that matches OS X. That is, you should expect to pay for a service pack in the form of a point revision in a year or two.
Remember when Google switched GMail from HTTP to mandatory HTTPS back in 2010? You know what they had to do to cover the new TLS overhead in CPU, memory, and network bandwidth? Nothing. The biggest thing they did was patch OpenSSL to reduce memory per connection, and that patch has already been integrated upstream.
I'm not saying the other issues aren't real, but overhead is really unconvincing unless your network load balancer is a potato.
I always assumed CCV was designed to offer basic protection against incidental photographs of the card being taken, and other situations where only one side of the card has been compromised.
I've got one as well, and I've really liked it. I also replaced my aging G15 with this.
My only complaints are:
1. To use the LED backlighting -- and you'll want to because the keys are not easy to read without it on -- you have to flip a DIP switch that disables the context button (between the right OS key and right Ctrl) and turns it into the modal button for the backlighting. You rarely need to use this key, but I have missed it once or twice since nothing replaces it. I don't understand why they didn't pick something truly useless, like Scroll Lock, or let the button continue to function normally on top of the additional buttons. I like to be able to turn the light off, so I leave the DIP on.
2. The left shift key squeaks once in awhile. I tend to depress the far right of the key and it's a pretty wide key. It makes a squeak if I'm not careful. It's entirely my typing and I mostly don't do it anymore, but it did annoy me at first.
Otherwise it's easily the best keyboard I've used. For a mechanical keyboard, it's very quiet.
I'm not sure what you mean by "sign packages as a whole" since that wording is somewhat ambiguous, but apt, at least, doesn't sign individual packages. The only signature in place for secure apt is the one placed on the package file listing in the repository. That signed file contains the list of checksums (MD5, SHA1, and SHA256) for each package archive in the repository.
Human language is, by it's own nature, hopelessly ambiguous. We use technical terms and jargon to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible, but completely concrete communication is not achievable. With plain text, you lack the voice inflections and tone. With a phone, you lack body language can't get direct listener feedback. Being in person enhances communication in a very real way. About the only thing that's nicer in text is a code snippet, but code snippets on their own are not exactly crystal clear.
Or have you honestly never had a chain of emails over the course of a couple days, only to have the entire issue hammered out in a few seconds of direct, in person, conversation? Or had a conference call where you know two people are just not understanding what the other is saying?
My best guess is the Cybex SQRL bike may be well-known there.
However, I don't really like the idea of SQRL. Neither this protocol, nor GRC, has a particularly good reputation in security circles. [SQRL doesn't seem to do what it claims very well](http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43374/could-sqrl-really-be-as-secure-as-they-say).
Hey, maybe the helicopters simply convince people to not report crimes. Maybe it makes them bitter towards the police, so they don't want to call. Maybe it makes them feel like they're in a dangerous neighborhood and therefore can't expect reasonably police services, so why bother?.
I saw the writing on the wall years back. I posted an bug in the official bug forum, and the thread got locked in less than 5 minutes with a complaint that I didn't search. Except I did search. The first line of my post was even, "I searched, and while I found a similar bug, this one is actually different," and went on to explain why. Mine dealt with default column sorting (column A ascending, column B descending), theirs dealt with default column order (changing columns A, B, C to B, A, C). There was no similar request. It was locked so fast, the mod couldn't have actually paid attention to it. Alright, that's kind of stupid, but whatever.
About half an hour later, I was in a post and made a comment on a different bug. This one was about interface layout, but it seemed to me like there was confusion going on about what the bug was, so I made an image with arrows describing the issue rather well (IMO) since I was able to replicate it. 5 minutes later, my post was deleted and my account was banned. No reason given.
Contribute to community? Get told to fuck off. I've never encountered such blatant hostility to your own community before, and knew immediately that whatever uTorrent was doing wasn't worth my time. I was so irritated that I uninstalled uTorrent immediately and a found another client even though at the time they were all significantly worse (I started with Transmission, when was just getting popular on OS X, then Deluge, still in beta, then eventually qBittorrent where I've stayed since 1.x days). I didn't even wait for my current torrents to finish downloading or seeding. I have never and will never use any software from that company ever again under any circumstances. They're below Oracle. They're below Symantec. They're below Pearson. I'd install BonziBuddy before uTorrent. It's been a secret pleasure of mine watching those fuckers crash and burn over the last several years.
That's an extremely ignorant and ethnocentric way to put it.
The issue is that they have a completely different driving culture. In the west, traffic control devices are so old that they were originally human operated signs because there was no electricity to operate them. They are as old to us as the automobile itself, meaning that all drivers in the West started out using traffic signals in the form of signs and, later, lights. There has never been a generation of drivers who did not have foreknowledge of learn to drive on roads without traffic control devices.
In Africa, they have learned to expect a human figure to dictate flow of traffic. Building a mechanical human figure is the most obvious solution to automating it because everybody who already drives there will understand it. They won't understand some funny looking street lights. You're taking all your presumed knowledge that you were raised on from well over 100 years of development and education which you erroneously term "common sense" and start complaining that a culture which has not had 100 years of the same can't magically find the same solution. The thing is, our driving culture isn't better. It just has different priorities. Ours favors safety and obeying rules regardless of how practical or necessary, theirs favors convenience and expedience. You've never sat at a traffic light with no opposing traffic and felt just a bit silly? You don't know that one stop sign that everybody knows is a waste of time because the cross road has such little traffic and they put up a 4 way instead of a 2 way or should've been a yeild? Or the traffic light that runs all night in the middle of nowhere because some kid got hit in the middle of the night back in the 80s? You enjoy paying thousands of dollars annually to cover the cost of insurance even though you've never been involved in an accident? You can justify all these things because your culture has already given you the reasons why they exist and you accept them because your culture tells you they're acceptable. You don't know why other cultures do what they do. That's why they look alien, backwards, and silly. That doesn't mean they're wrong.
And it's important to note that, by and large, iOS devices still cost more and do less while being pretty. They have much better processor and graphics hardware today, relatively speaking, but they're still a small market segment overall. It's just that individually, each phone holds a large percentage of the marketplace.
Not only that, but Oracle bought it on July 21, 2011. The current version of Ksplice? Released on July 28, 2011. The major feature of the current release? The changelog says the only change was "Removed unnecessary zlib detection from configure." But now only Oracle Linux is supported.
It's still available through source code, which you can find with a bit of digging (you can't navigate to it from the top level page, as far as I can tell... Ksplice isn't listed as a project). I think the amount of investment and effort put in that site makes it clear what Oracle's stance is.
At least Microsoft extends before they extinguish....
Yes, traditional zombie-ism is modeled like a disease that is highly contagious, highly virulent, and requires direct contact to transmit. Truthfully, the prominent characteristic of zombie-ism is that the infected are easily distinguishable.
Imagine a highly contagious disease which was transmitted by physical contact with two symptoms: it drastically increases the infected subject's sex drive, and it reduces social inhibitions. It also has exactly one prognosis: It renders 100% the infected subjects totally and incurably sterile.
How fast do you think that would burn through the population? What steps do you think the uninfected would take?
No, they have expressed concern over how the FCC plans to evaluate "harm," specifically with how seven rules for harm will be defined so that adequate legal challenges to them -- one way or the other -- might be brought. They're afraid they might be ambiguous.
However, overall they, like what the FCC is proposing.
They summarize:
[I]t appears that many of the proposed rules will make sense for the Internet. Based on what we know so far, however, the general conduct proposal may not.
To say that such concerns constitute "serious issues with the vast extent of the FCC's net neutrality rules" is hyperbolic.
Furthermore, if you read the ex parte letter linked, the EFF actually suggests additional regulation by considering what unbundling rules "might be appropriate for the 21st century, in a separate proceeding." If the EFF is so concerned about the "vast extent" of these new rules, why would they also be asking for additional rules?
Once again, this is about logical net neutrality, not physical net neutrality, which is a whole other ball of wax. This is about making sure that Comcast doesn't charge you extra for access to NetFlix or Twitch.tv, and then turn around and charge NetFlix and Twitch.tv more to access you. Because prior to Title II classification, that was entirely possible.
Local loop unbundling is not a simple thing and does have significant technical barriers and significant cost. Politics is a slow, gradual, arduous process. It will take time to get where we need to be. Don't proclaim the journey a failure because the first step was taken with the left foot instead of the right.
Presumably the statement is less tautological than that. I would assume it means that a new foal is capable of the same speed that any older immature gazelles are capable of, with the possibly that it means they can move as fast as a fully grown gazelle.
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That's a common misattribution. As that link notes, however, it is aa paraphrasing of a comedic play from 400 BC in which Socrates was caricatured:
I'm particularly amused about the reference to dutifully marching to school, naked, in the snow. That the joke should be 2400 years old speaks to the truth of how the old perceive the young.
Because no networking vulnerability ever requires the use of packet crafting unless it uses XML. Yes, this is a failure of a plain text data serialization format. If only they'd used JSON, this never would have happened.
Really? My experience says the opposite. When you get to the point where you need clusters, high core counts, and standby sites, the licensing costs of your RDBMS are a drop in the bucket. Sure, $100,000 looks like a lot, but next to the $500,000 you're spending on infrastructure and the $10 million you're spending on the application itself, you're really not spending all that much.
Eh, there is less control in SQL Server over locking than there is in other RDBMSs, and it is infamous for escalating locks to the page or table level even when you ask for lower level locks. It's rare that it happens, but it's not unheard of. The fact that the system uses optimistic locking and there's no good equivalent to SELECT ... FOR UPDATE is also somewhat problematic.
It's greatly mitigated in 2005+ by using read committed row versioning (MVCC) and/or snapshot isolation, but those are database level options and you may need to specifically request the right isolation levels with your code. The biggest problem is that you have to remember to use the feature; it's just always on with Oracle from what I hear (I haven't used it since I was in school).
There's a mountain of documentation (and videos!) from Microsoft on all this. The greatest thing about SQL Server is the extremely high quality of the documentation. It's a joy to learn about compared to IBM's DB2 documentation (but then, anything is better than IBM documentation), and Books Online is a step ahead of Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Seriously, why aren't Election Days mandatory holidays? Do it over two days: The last Thursday before normal Election Day is Alternate Election Day, when people who will be working on Election Day must have off. Then everybody else takes Tuesday as a holiday. That, combined with absentee ballots should be an excellent start.
That's true, although it's historically not been enabled by default, although AC was kind enough to say it is now.
One of the biggest problems I find people have coming from a MySQL background is not understanding why aggregate queries they're used to working suddenly emit errors like, "Column 'LAST_NAME' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause."
The next big problem I see people having is people violating First Normal Form and then complaining that their queries perform really poorly or are hugely complicated, but that's not exactly MySQL's fault.
Which is great... until you want two different applications to use the same database at the same time and need to occasionally do the same things the same way. When your data is more complex than what Amazon or Google use and closer to what a hospital information system or school information system use, you can no longer rely on a single application from a single vendor using a single database. Shit ain't that simple anymore.
I was born in 1976. I vividly recall both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. I saw The China Syndrome probably 20 years ago.
Today, I had no fucking clue what "Uruguay Syndrome" would refer to. For that matter, I wouldn't have remembered what "China Syndrome" refers to other than a movie I once saw.
SQLite3 is a fantastic product, but it's primarily intended as an embedded SQL database, not an RDBMS. They're not really intended to do the same things.
On the other hand, at least SQLite doesn't "feature" silent non-deterministic aggregates.
My suspicion is that MS is planning to roll out a life cycle for consumer Windows 10 that matches OS X. That is, you should expect to pay for a service pack in the form of a point revision in a year or two.
Remember when Google switched GMail from HTTP to mandatory HTTPS back in 2010? You know what they had to do to cover the new TLS overhead in CPU, memory, and network bandwidth? Nothing. The biggest thing they did was patch OpenSSL to reduce memory per connection, and that patch has already been integrated upstream.
I'm not saying the other issues aren't real, but overhead is really unconvincing unless your network load balancer is a potato.
I always assumed CCV was designed to offer basic protection against incidental photographs of the card being taken, and other situations where only one side of the card has been compromised.
I've got one as well, and I've really liked it. I also replaced my aging G15 with this.
My only complaints are:
1. To use the LED backlighting -- and you'll want to because the keys are not easy to read without it on -- you have to flip a DIP switch that disables the context button (between the right OS key and right Ctrl) and turns it into the modal button for the backlighting. You rarely need to use this key, but I have missed it once or twice since nothing replaces it. I don't understand why they didn't pick something truly useless, like Scroll Lock, or let the button continue to function normally on top of the additional buttons. I like to be able to turn the light off, so I leave the DIP on.
2. The left shift key squeaks once in awhile. I tend to depress the far right of the key and it's a pretty wide key. It makes a squeak if I'm not careful. It's entirely my typing and I mostly don't do it anymore, but it did annoy me at first.
Otherwise it's easily the best keyboard I've used. For a mechanical keyboard, it's very quiet.
I'm not sure what you mean by "sign packages as a whole" since that wording is somewhat ambiguous, but apt, at least, doesn't sign individual packages. The only signature in place for secure apt is the one placed on the package file listing in the repository. That signed file contains the list of checksums (MD5, SHA1, and SHA256) for each package archive in the repository.
Human language is, by it's own nature, hopelessly ambiguous. We use technical terms and jargon to eliminate as much ambiguity as possible, but completely concrete communication is not achievable. With plain text, you lack the voice inflections and tone. With a phone, you lack body language can't get direct listener feedback. Being in person enhances communication in a very real way. About the only thing that's nicer in text is a code snippet, but code snippets on their own are not exactly crystal clear.
Or have you honestly never had a chain of emails over the course of a couple days, only to have the entire issue hammered out in a few seconds of direct, in person, conversation? Or had a conference call where you know two people are just not understanding what the other is saying?
My best guess is the Cybex SQRL bike may be well-known there.
However, I don't really like the idea of SQRL. Neither this protocol, nor GRC, has a particularly good reputation in security circles. [SQRL doesn't seem to do what it claims very well](http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/43374/could-sqrl-really-be-as-secure-as-they-say).
Hey, maybe the helicopters simply convince people to not report crimes. Maybe it makes them bitter towards the police, so they don't want to call. Maybe it makes them feel like they're in a dangerous neighborhood and therefore can't expect reasonably police services, so why bother?.
I saw the writing on the wall years back. I posted an bug in the official bug forum, and the thread got locked in less than 5 minutes with a complaint that I didn't search. Except I did search. The first line of my post was even, "I searched, and while I found a similar bug, this one is actually different," and went on to explain why. Mine dealt with default column sorting (column A ascending, column B descending), theirs dealt with default column order (changing columns A, B, C to B, A, C). There was no similar request. It was locked so fast, the mod couldn't have actually paid attention to it. Alright, that's kind of stupid, but whatever.
About half an hour later, I was in a post and made a comment on a different bug. This one was about interface layout, but it seemed to me like there was confusion going on about what the bug was, so I made an image with arrows describing the issue rather well (IMO) since I was able to replicate it. 5 minutes later, my post was deleted and my account was banned. No reason given.
Contribute to community? Get told to fuck off. I've never encountered such blatant hostility to your own community before, and knew immediately that whatever uTorrent was doing wasn't worth my time. I was so irritated that I uninstalled uTorrent immediately and a found another client even though at the time they were all significantly worse (I started with Transmission, when was just getting popular on OS X, then Deluge, still in beta, then eventually qBittorrent where I've stayed since 1.x days). I didn't even wait for my current torrents to finish downloading or seeding. I have never and will never use any software from that company ever again under any circumstances. They're below Oracle. They're below Symantec. They're below Pearson. I'd install BonziBuddy before uTorrent. It's been a secret pleasure of mine watching those fuckers crash and burn over the last several years.
That's an extremely ignorant and ethnocentric way to put it.
The issue is that they have a completely different driving culture. In the west, traffic control devices are so old that they were originally human operated signs because there was no electricity to operate them. They are as old to us as the automobile itself, meaning that all drivers in the West started out using traffic signals in the form of signs and, later, lights. There has never been a generation of drivers who did not have foreknowledge of learn to drive on roads without traffic control devices.
In Africa, they have learned to expect a human figure to dictate flow of traffic. Building a mechanical human figure is the most obvious solution to automating it because everybody who already drives there will understand it. They won't understand some funny looking street lights. You're taking all your presumed knowledge that you were raised on from well over 100 years of development and education which you erroneously term "common sense" and start complaining that a culture which has not had 100 years of the same can't magically find the same solution. The thing is, our driving culture isn't better. It just has different priorities. Ours favors safety and obeying rules regardless of how practical or necessary, theirs favors convenience and expedience. You've never sat at a traffic light with no opposing traffic and felt just a bit silly? You don't know that one stop sign that everybody knows is a waste of time because the cross road has such little traffic and they put up a 4 way instead of a 2 way or should've been a yeild? Or the traffic light that runs all night in the middle of nowhere because some kid got hit in the middle of the night back in the 80s? You enjoy paying thousands of dollars annually to cover the cost of insurance even though you've never been involved in an accident? You can justify all these things because your culture has already given you the reasons why they exist and you accept them because your culture tells you they're acceptable. You don't know why other cultures do what they do. That's why they look alien, backwards, and silly. That doesn't mean they're wrong.
And it's important to note that, by and large, iOS devices still cost more and do less while being pretty. They have much better processor and graphics hardware today, relatively speaking, but they're still a small market segment overall. It's just that individually, each phone holds a large percentage of the marketplace.
Oracle bought it. Still surprised?
Not only that, but Oracle bought it on July 21, 2011. The current version of Ksplice? Released on July 28, 2011. The major feature of the current release? The changelog says the only change was "Removed unnecessary zlib detection from configure." But now only Oracle Linux is supported.
It's still available through source code, which you can find with a bit of digging (you can't navigate to it from the top level page, as far as I can tell... Ksplice isn't listed as a project). I think the amount of investment and effort put in that site makes it clear what Oracle's stance is.
At least Microsoft extends before they extinguish....
Yes, traditional zombie-ism is modeled like a disease that is highly contagious, highly virulent, and requires direct contact to transmit. Truthfully, the prominent characteristic of zombie-ism is that the infected are easily distinguishable.
Imagine a highly contagious disease which was transmitted by physical contact with two symptoms: it drastically increases the infected subject's sex drive, and it reduces social inhibitions. It also has exactly one prognosis: It renders 100% the infected subjects totally and incurably sterile.
How fast do you think that would burn through the population? What steps do you think the uninfected would take?
No, they have expressed concern over how the FCC plans to evaluate "harm," specifically with how seven rules for harm will be defined so that adequate legal challenges to them -- one way or the other -- might be brought. They're afraid they might be ambiguous.
However, overall they, like what the FCC is proposing.
They summarize:
To say that such concerns constitute "serious issues with the vast extent of the FCC's net neutrality rules" is hyperbolic.
Furthermore, if you read the ex parte letter linked, the EFF actually suggests additional regulation by considering what unbundling rules "might be appropriate for the 21st century, in a separate proceeding." If the EFF is so concerned about the "vast extent" of these new rules, why would they also be asking for additional rules?
Once again, this is about logical net neutrality, not physical net neutrality, which is a whole other ball of wax. This is about making sure that Comcast doesn't charge you extra for access to NetFlix or Twitch.tv, and then turn around and charge NetFlix and Twitch.tv more to access you. Because prior to Title II classification, that was entirely possible.
Local loop unbundling is not a simple thing and does have significant technical barriers and significant cost. Politics is a slow, gradual, arduous process. It will take time to get where we need to be. Don't proclaim the journey a failure because the first step was taken with the left foot instead of the right.
Presumably the statement is less tautological than that. I would assume it means that a new foal is capable of the same speed that any older immature gazelles are capable of, with the possibly that it means they can move as fast as a fully grown gazelle.