TFA is incredibly light on details. Where's the link to the report itself?
How is a threat defined? And is than statistic of three times the number of threats normalized over all sites in each category (as TFA suggests), or just the infected ones (as the summary suggests)?
It is interesting to note that websites hosting adult/pornographic content are not in the top five, but ranked tenth
So how are they categorizing pornographic websites? What are the other 9 categories that are more "dangerous"?
I think they're using the word "exponential" in the colloquial sense to mean "it gets more and more and more!!!", rather than in the precise mathematical sense.
Then the GP should've said "edit", not "type", since the wording suggested he was aiming his complaint at the submitter.
Can't these people express themselves clearly anymore?
Who the hell said anything about "rights"? This isn't about what we have the right to, it's a question of what's sensible and practical. Besides, regulators like Ofcom exist to ensure that we, the people, don't get screwed over.
The HUP is more fundamental than that. It doesn't just say that we can't know where a particle is because measurement disturbs it; rather it's telling you that the particle actually doesn't have a definite trajectory. In fact, it's so fundamental that it has its own mathematical formalism (commutativity of operators), upon which most of quantum mechanics is constructed.
It's important to realize that in quantum mechanics, the position of a particle is indefinite, and is specified by a diffuse/spread-out "cloud" probability, and only in special cases does this cloud collapse to a single point (which corresponds to the particle being in a definite place).
Note that it is possible (theoretically) to know the position or momentum of a particle, just not at the same time, since measuring one causes the other to become indeterminate.
I hear you. I've had far too many problems with stupid and unnecessary restrictions on password strength. I use a 32 character password of all printable ASCII characters wherever I can.
For all intents and purposes, KeePass's encryption cannot be broken. The only "what if" is if your master password is somehow compromised, but since that should be exceptionally strong and never written down, that shouldn't happen!
Use a password database like KeePass and have a long, unique, completely unmemorable password for each site you use (except perhaps a few of the more common ones you're likely to access regularly). If you have a smart phone this is even better because you can carry your password database around with you and have it sync automatically with your computer.
Remember that having the same password for many sites not only means that if it's bruteforced for one site it's compromised on one site it can be used on others, bu also that if a site itself might be malicious enough to store your log in details and test them on other sites. See xkcd.
The on-site data centres at CERN are actually terrible when it comes to cooling (at least they were when I went there). I was expecting the server rooms to be low-ceilinged rooms with AC units good enough to keep the rooms at least chilly, but they were actually swelteringly hot, and one of them seemed to be in an old warehouse with very high ceilings.
Ugh THAT IS NOT EVOLUTION.
An evolution is a change to better suit the environment, NOT a result of people's apathy and laziness.
Please stop using that as an excuse to speak/write bad English and use words incorrectly. If we all did that, language would pretty soon degenerate into a pile of uselessness.
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So how are they categorizing pornographic websites? What are the other 9 categories that are more "dangerous"?
Not really; the American accent is so ubiquitous that pretty much everyone, English speaking or not, is just thoroughly used to it.
I think they're using the word "exponential" in the colloquial sense to mean "it gets more and more and more!!!", rather than in the precise mathematical sense.
Then the GP should've said "edit", not "type", since the wording suggested he was aiming his complaint at the submitter. Can't these people express themselves clearly anymore?
So I guess you've never made a typo before in your life?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure car thieves don't steal cars because they need them for themselves.
Who the hell said anything about "rights"? This isn't about what we have the right to, it's a question of what's sensible and practical. Besides, regulators like Ofcom exist to ensure that we, the people, don't get screwed over.
...here's the new name, complete with domain registration: http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=thesunonsunday.co.uk
...as opposed to? An analogue download?
The HUP is more fundamental than that. It doesn't just say that we can't know where a particle is because measurement disturbs it; rather it's telling you that the particle actually doesn't have a definite trajectory. In fact, it's so fundamental that it has its own mathematical formalism (commutativity of operators), upon which most of quantum mechanics is constructed.
It's important to realize that in quantum mechanics, the position of a particle is indefinite, and is specified by a diffuse/spread-out "cloud" probability, and only in special cases does this cloud collapse to a single point (which corresponds to the particle being in a definite place).
Note that it is possible (theoretically) to know the position or momentum of a particle, just not at the same time, since measuring one causes the other to become indeterminate.
As much as I'd trust any other open source project.
I hear you. I've had far too many problems with stupid and unnecessary restrictions on password strength. I use a 32 character password of all printable ASCII characters wherever I can.
For all intents and purposes, KeePass's encryption cannot be broken. The only "what if" is if your master password is somehow compromised, but since that should be exceptionally strong and never written down, that shouldn't happen!
Use a password database like KeePass and have a long, unique, completely unmemorable password for each site you use (except perhaps a few of the more common ones you're likely to access regularly). If you have a smart phone this is even better because you can carry your password database around with you and have it sync automatically with your computer. Remember that having the same password for many sites not only means that if it's bruteforced for one site it's compromised on one site it can be used on others, bu also that if a site itself might be malicious enough to store your log in details and test them on other sites. See xkcd.
The on-site data centres at CERN are actually terrible when it comes to cooling (at least they were when I went there). I was expecting the server rooms to be low-ceilinged rooms with AC units good enough to keep the rooms at least chilly, but they were actually swelteringly hot, and one of them seemed to be in an old warehouse with very high ceilings.
Who the hell stores years as 11-bit integers?
Ugh THAT IS NOT EVOLUTION. An evolution is a change to better suit the environment, NOT a result of people's apathy and laziness. Please stop using that as an excuse to speak/write bad English and use words incorrectly. If we all did that, language would pretty soon degenerate into a pile of uselessness.
Super Hans and Jeremy... "Now it's your turn."
RTFA. He's not suggesting an un-blurring technique.
Where did I say I was worried?
The divers are only harming themselves.
That was so last week.
I sense a sense of humour failure.
/pwns geobeck from 205Km with his T2 Tachyons + advanced beam crystals :P