...I did a preliminary risk analysis which indicates that relying on nuclear weapons for our security is thousands of times more dangerous than having a nuclear power plant built next to your home.
The problem with this quote is that these days a freeway/airport is probably thousands of times more dangerous than having a nuclear power plant build next to your home.
I don't like it, but I'll probably get used to it. When something is so completely integrated into your daily routine and all of a sudden it's totally changed it won't make people happy even if it is better.
e.g. I used to middle-click on all the new e-mails which needed attention into a bunch of tabs, now they just expand the widget into a window in the trimmed down gmail so I need to go one at a time.
Also am I really the only person who only uses 1 tab? E-mail, links, weather, calendar, RSS feeds. That all fits in one tab, but the tab section still takes up a big slice of the screen even with only one tab in it.
Well I guess Munroe is a lot more used to a 1 frame cartoon format, whereas Katz usually does 3 frames. Also Katz' humor is about the topic, he doesn't just choose some stupid topic and make it funny.
Conclusion: Katz couldn't do comics for a magazine, now lets see Munroe write a comic that'll only make a computer science student laugh.
Due to the increasingly obnoxious "I'm a Mac" ads I just like to see Apple fail these days (not especially proud of it, but it's true), and Apple dropping FireWire after pushing it so hard and battling against USB is a pleasing example of this.
The worst thing is the update to iGoogle (which is extensive and undoubtedly the cause of the outage) is quite a step backwards. It's a pretty clunky hybrid of a window based system and a widget based system, with a lot more AJAX and a lot fewer clickable links.
I like Eclipse, and can't build Flash apps using it. I think Microsoft are making a good move here, hopefully they'll get it right where Java applets have got it so wrong (despite a 10 year head start).
Because when it comes to modern encryption "secure" means "would take every computer on the planet longer than the age of the universe to break" and "less secure" might mean "would take every computer on the planet a few months to break".
But what if the man in the middle is there before the first connection begins, and also intercepts my wireless communication on all the wireless hotspots I use? A false sense of security is even worse than no security at all.
Of course, it'll help keep the global economy (which is centered around America) going. All over the world governments have been restoring liquidity (or "bailing-out") financial institutions.
It's the same thing as always; whenever there's a financial problem free market proponents will say "the market's not free enough" while those opposed will say they're too free.
Who is to say that Russian authorities are not using this coder as a cover for much more malicious activities? All we know is that there is a virus that encrypts your data. What is it that we don't know yet?
I've read the RTFA, if you thought "Russian KGB are letting mysterious virus author do as he wishes" was too bizarre to be true you're right.
This is how it breaks down:
The virus author contacted Kaspersky asking for money for the tool to decrypt the encrypted files
Kaspersky attempted to trace the author, and found that (surprise, surprise) he is using various proxies in the US, Hungary, Russia, etc
Russian authorities apparently haven't rushed to the location of the Russian proxies (there's no mention of whether the US and Hungarian ones did)
Implying that the KGB are the master-mind hackers of an intricate spiders web of zombie-PCs may be a little premature based on this techworld.com article..
I wish there were sites which reported computer security news like it is, without the bullshit
Slashdot articles may give the impression that every piece of 2nd hand electronics contains nuclear silo passcodes or celebrity porno tapes but I don't think that's actually the case
I'm in Australia and get a 3 times higher GB:$ ratio (assuming you were using AU$, it's higher than 3 if those were US$).
Maybe basing a whole country's state of development on two people you know in an online game isn't a great idea? Why do you think it would be so different over here anyway?
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...I did a preliminary risk analysis which indicates that relying on nuclear weapons for our security is thousands of times more dangerous than having a nuclear power plant built next to your home.
The problem with this quote is that these days a freeway/airport is probably thousands of times more dangerous than having a nuclear power plant build next to your home.
I don't like it, but I'll probably get used to it. When something is so completely integrated into your daily routine and all of a sudden it's totally changed it won't make people happy even if it is better.
e.g. I used to middle-click on all the new e-mails which needed attention into a bunch of tabs, now they just expand the widget into a window in the trimmed down gmail so I need to go one at a time.
Also am I really the only person who only uses 1 tab? E-mail, links, weather, calendar, RSS feeds. That all fits in one tab, but the tab section still takes up a big slice of the screen even with only one tab in it.
Doesn't the loser have to pay legal fees though? If you're really sure of yourself that's quite a light at the end of the tunnel.
/. has a long history of being frequented by talented lawyers.
Does anyone know if they have to pay interest on legal fees too? I know
Well I guess Munroe is a lot more used to a 1 frame cartoon format, whereas Katz usually does 3 frames. Also Katz' humor is about the topic, he doesn't just choose some stupid topic and make it funny.
Conclusion: Katz couldn't do comics for a magazine, now lets see Munroe write a comic that'll only make a computer science student laugh.
Due to the increasingly obnoxious "I'm a Mac" ads I just like to see Apple fail these days (not especially proud of it, but it's true), and Apple dropping FireWire after pushing it so hard and battling against USB is a pleasing example of this.
The worst thing is the update to iGoogle (which is extensive and undoubtedly the cause of the outage) is quite a step backwards. It's a pretty clunky hybrid of a window based system and a widget based system, with a lot more AJAX and a lot fewer clickable links.
Cathode ray tubes were pretty pointless too, the inventor said so himself..
I think someone is trying to polarize voters.
Yet Windows 95 (arguably) made Microsoft as a company, and (arguably) since then only the internals of the OS have changed.
I like Eclipse, and can't build Flash apps using it. I think Microsoft are making a good move here, hopefully they'll get it right where Java applets have got it so wrong (despite a 10 year head start).
Keep up the good work, MySQL is excellent.
Because when it comes to modern encryption "secure" means "would take every computer on the planet longer than the age of the universe to break" and "less secure" might mean "would take every computer on the planet a few months to break".
But what if the man in the middle is there before the first connection begins, and also intercepts my wireless communication on all the wireless hotspots I use? A false sense of security is even worse than no security at all.
-- A deeply concerned VeriSign employee
Of course, it'll help keep the global economy (which is centered around America) going. All over the world governments have been restoring liquidity (or "bailing-out") financial institutions.
It's the same thing as always; whenever there's a financial problem free market proponents will say "the market's not free enough" while those opposed will say they're too free.
What the fuck are you ranting about? (No I'm not American)
Both the bill that was shot down and the bill that passed were disapproved by the majority of the citizenry.
Everyone disapproves of the fact that this bill was required, but it was required nonetheless.
Congratulations, you're a cheating sack of shit.
Next time why not just grab someone's handbag? You should at least have the balls to look at the person you're stealing money from
I know, I was making fun of the GGP's paranoia
(Just to be 100% clear and frank "Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus" is just a plain lie)
Who is to say that Russian authorities are not using this coder as a cover for much more malicious activities? All we know is that there is a virus that encrypts your data. What is it that we don't know yet?
I've read the RTFA, if you thought "Russian KGB are letting mysterious virus author do as he wishes" was too bizarre to be true you're right.
This is how it breaks down:
Implying that the KGB are the master-mind hackers of an intricate spiders web of zombie-PCs may be a little premature based on this techworld.com article..
I wish there were sites which reported computer security news like it is, without the bullshit
Slashdot articles may give the impression that every piece of 2nd hand electronics contains nuclear silo passcodes or celebrity porno tapes but I don't think that's actually the case
I'm in Australia and get a 3 times higher GB:$ ratio (assuming you were using AU$, it's higher than 3 if those were US$).
Maybe basing a whole country's state of development on two people you know in an online game isn't a great idea? Why do you think it would be so different over here anyway?
ahem *too bad
I get ADSL2 at 12M/1M, 60GB/month, $100AU/month. Doesn't seem to bad, though it's hard to get a frame of reference.