See, they _say_ that they are thinking about doing this big awful nasty thing, and then it gets people *begging* for an increase in the gas tax. They will give the people an increase in the gas tax and people will love them for it (since it beats this nasty alternative).
The politicians in Oregon seem to have their stuff together.
Anakin has two kids with Amadala. She think he's repulsive in his mechanical suit though, and runs away. Anakin is heartbroken and becomes Vader. He and palpatine take over the empire. The rebellion forms. It gets mostly crushed somehow, before it even gets off the ground. Darkness ensues. Cue the lights and closing credits.
I haven't watched the last two though, so I could be wrong.
It'd be cool if this got an open consortium to start talking. It'd suck if this got aol/ms/etc together to decide what it is we want/need for the next mail transport layer...
The fact of the matter is, DDT is not significantly harmful to people.
You mean not directly significantly harmful to people. Let's not forget what it does to birds, fish, and other wild critters. Disrupting the food chain could have very serious future consequences for people, which is the sort of thing that environmentals wish to avoid.
If we're all starving in 50 years because all the critters die due to some widely used chemical "not significantly harmful to people," killing everything else, you'll change your mind. But then it will be too late.
Nuclear needs to be 100% safe and environmentally friendly because if it is not, then the effects that it can cause are massive compared to killing birds or salmon.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but last I checked, killing a bird or salmon does not cause human birth deformities for a several hundred mile radius, and does not require 60 billion dollars worth of cleanup funding (which still hasn't been entirely successful). No one that I know of has even completed a comprehensive study of the effect chernobyl had on wildlife.
I'm not saying that power in general has to be 100% safe; nothing is. I simply advocate sticking with power that we are sure has less environmental impact when things go wrong.
There will be future accidents with wind and solar energy, and there will be future accidents with nuclear energy. Which power source would you rather live next to when the next accident happens?
While it's true that environmentalists distrust technological creations' effects on the environment and on health, this doesn't discount environmentalists trusting the scientific method for observation.
Besides, science and technology cannot be relied upon to build a safe atomic power plant (Chernobyl, Three Mile Island are fine counterexamples). Pesticides do have negatives effects on the environment (remember DDT?). Chemical preservatives cause cancer (More potassium benzoate in your maple syrup?).
Sorry if I don't trust things that have proven themselves untrustworthy.
Observation is something completely different. In fact it is this very same scientific observation that causes environmentalists to realize that this technology is untrustworthy.
George Reisman should go back to commenting on economics and stop pretending to be an scientist.
If you're interested in what giving the government broader spying powers on its citizens can do for you, check out the Leipzig Stasi Museum, the headquarters of the Stasi police in the GDR. People's careers could be broken because they wrote essays or letters critical of the socialist system.
Two reasons:.01) if you don't trust your kids, you're not a good parent. if your kids really are bad and something just went wrong, playing big brother won't help the situation..02) how does the crypto work? is it really secure? what if a pedophile figures out how to exploit the system to track his favorite child?
Gee, that's a terrific battery comparison chart. They're "comparing" both units under completely different operating conditions. At least they come right out and say it, but this gives absolutely no indication that they've fixed the 5500's weak battery life. Bummer.
In the scenario where the ISP eats the bill, it is now taking the responsibility for people not keeping their software up-to-date. I think that's a bad idea. People need an incentive to apply patches. Slamming them with a bill for the problems they caused by not patching is one way to get the message out.
This will also help push the liability "down" to where it belongs. Pushing it down to the (ISP) customer will force the customer to put pressure on the software writers to take liability for bad code. But saying that an ISP must let its users off-the-hook won't get to the source of the problem.
If an ISP wants to start pushing for software writer liability, it will need its customers backing it up saying, "I was running software X and it caused this financial burden." But the ISP customer has no incentive to do that because it isn't seeing any financial hardship. So the legal process on the ISP would involve lots of annoying subpoenas, and evidence from people that don't want to be there...never a good thing.
Keep It Simple, Silly, is the phrase here, I think. It sounds evil for the end customer to be left with the burden, but at the end of the day that is how things are supposed to work.
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MacOS supports it too. You can create AES encrypted disk images and mount them. And of course so does linux (and I'd guess *bsd). You can make a file and mount it encrypted through the loopback device.
Usually when you're small, you want any record deal you can take. Usually you get a 7-album contract or something ridiculous, and you get the same money for each album. The money sounds good if you've never had a record deal before, but if your first albums do really well, tough luck renegotiating.
And then of course if you decide to back out of the contract, the company owns the copyright to your music, making it more difficult to find a new label (because you can't put out any of your old music). Besides leaving your label at that point means other labels probably won't want to touch you because _they_ won't make as much money from you, since you'll know what you're really worth. Bummer huh?
NASA Probe Lost: Scientists forget to convert football fields to ice hockey rinks
You're right, we should standardize on our field measurements. I suggest we use the current world record for the discus toss, since the Greeks are sort of the father of sports and that's probably the most famous of them all. Now if only I knew how far that was...
"However, HSMs [Hardware Security Modules] implementing several common PIN generation methods have a flaw. The first ATMs were IBM 3624s, introduced widely in the US in around 1980, and most PIN generation methods are based upon their approach. They calculate the customer's original PIN by encrypting the account number printed on the front of the customer's card with a secret DES key called a 'PIN generation key'."
Weird. So they're talking about _generated_ PINs. Every bank account I've opened in the last 7 years, I've been able to request my PIN. And if I wanted to change it, I request what to change it to. Does any bank actually still use this method?
"total cost to charge the ht for the 14 days of commuting = $0.06 x 14 = $0.84. in seattle we get 82% of our power from hydropower, seattle does not have coal or nuclear plants--it does get other power from other areas which do for the remaining percentage."
Tis a shame that the economy has hit a downturn, but there's an interesting site that a happy owner has up, about how he's losing weight and saving money with his: The book of Seg.
Actually you can, but not with just the computer. There are companies that sell fun cards with a little bit of radioactive material inside. The card also has a little Geiger counter in it, and when the material fires off a alpha particle, the geiger counter goes "blip" and generates a 1. Since the rate of decay of a radioactive material is perfectly random over the short term, this generates truly random numbers.
Cards aren't very expensive. You can even roll your own cheap serial port model
Right, but a tiny shred of security through obscurity never hurts. I would bet that clueless script kiddiez trying out their latest h4cker software wouldn't be as successful against yet another unix flavor (system calls won't work exactly the same under Darwin as they do under the other *bsds). Kiddiez probably won't bother learning darwin internals just to crack.000001% of the web servers out there. I know folks that run linux on obscure hardware for the same reason...not much risk of worms, kiddiez, and the like.
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It's all a political ploy.
See, they _say_ that they are thinking about doing this big awful nasty thing, and then it gets people *begging* for an increase in the gas tax. They will give the people an increase in the gas tax and people will love them for it (since it beats this nasty alternative).
The politicians in Oregon seem to have their stuff together.
Plot. Hm. Let me take a guess. *Spoiler warning*.
Anakin has two kids with Amadala. She think he's repulsive in his mechanical suit though, and runs away. Anakin is heartbroken and becomes Vader. He and palpatine take over the empire. The rebellion forms. It gets mostly crushed somehow, before it even gets off the ground. Darkness ensues. Cue the lights and closing credits.
I haven't watched the last two though, so I could be wrong.
Agreed.
It'd be cool if this got an open consortium to start talking. It'd suck if this got aol/ms/etc together to decide what it is we want/need for the next mail transport layer...
As a bit of trivia, this is where the mac sound "Sosumi" comes from it (it means "So sue me!" (for giving apple computers sound)).
The fact of the matter is, DDT is not significantly harmful to people.
You mean not directly significantly harmful to people. Let's not forget what it does to birds, fish, and other wild critters. Disrupting the food chain could have very serious future consequences for people, which is the sort of thing that environmentals wish to avoid.
If we're all starving in 50 years because all the critters die due to some widely used chemical "not significantly harmful to people," killing everything else, you'll change your mind. But then it will be too late.
Nuclear needs to be 100% safe and environmentally friendly because if it is not, then the effects that it can cause are massive compared to killing birds or salmon.
Feel free to prove me wrong, but last I checked, killing a bird or salmon does not cause human birth deformities for a several hundred mile radius, and does not require 60 billion dollars worth of cleanup funding (which still hasn't been entirely successful). No one that I know of has even completed a comprehensive study of the effect chernobyl had on wildlife.
I'm not saying that power in general has to be 100% safe; nothing is. I simply advocate sticking with power that we are sure has less environmental impact when things go wrong.
There will be future accidents with wind and solar energy, and there will be future accidents with nuclear energy. Which power source would you rather live next to when the next accident happens?
While it's true that environmentalists distrust technological creations' effects on the environment and on health, this doesn't discount environmentalists trusting the scientific method for observation.
Besides, science and technology cannot be relied upon to build a safe atomic power plant (Chernobyl, Three Mile Island are fine counterexamples). Pesticides do have negatives effects on the environment (remember DDT?). Chemical preservatives cause cancer (More potassium benzoate in your maple syrup?).
Sorry if I don't trust things that have proven themselves untrustworthy.
Observation is something completely different. In fact it is this very same scientific observation that causes environmentalists to realize that this technology is untrustworthy.
George Reisman should go back to commenting on economics and stop pretending to be an scientist.
If you're interested in what giving the government broader spying powers on its citizens can do for you, check out the Leipzig Stasi Museum, the headquarters of the Stasi police in the GDR. People's careers could be broken because they wrote essays or letters critical of the socialist system.
Will it include a laser scope, or will they develop something even more complex?
Two reasons: .01) if you don't trust your kids, you're not a good parent. if your kids really are bad and something just went wrong, playing big brother won't help the situation. .02) how does the crypto work? is it really secure? what if a pedophile figures out how to exploit the system to track his favorite child?
Yes. And he's bumbling like an idiot. Perhaps you should highlight the "it's not weird" and "it's quite weird really" parts.
It kinda makes you wonder...
Gee, that's a terrific battery comparison chart. They're "comparing" both units under completely different operating conditions. At least they come right out and say it, but this gives absolutely no indication that they've fixed the 5500's weak battery life. Bummer.
That's crap. Hopefully you know it. Nobody in their right mind would rely on OS fingerprinting software for licensing.
If I put all my windows servers behind a firewall, suddenly I have no windows servers! So I don't need any licenses! Hooray!
Looks like someone is using the server locally on kerneltrap.org, as it's down...Hopefully they're getting something done at least :).
In the scenario where the ISP eats the bill, it is now taking the responsibility for people not keeping their software up-to-date. I think that's a bad idea. People need an incentive to apply patches. Slamming them with a bill for the problems they caused by not patching is one way to get the message out.
This will also help push the liability "down" to where it belongs. Pushing it down to the (ISP) customer will force the customer to put pressure on the software writers to take liability for bad code. But saying that an ISP must let its users off-the-hook won't get to the source of the problem.
If an ISP wants to start pushing for software writer liability, it will need its customers backing it up saying, "I was running software X and it caused this financial burden." But the ISP customer has no incentive to do that because it isn't seeing any financial hardship. So the legal process on the ISP would involve lots of annoying subpoenas, and evidence from people that don't want to be there...never a good thing.
Keep It Simple, Silly, is the phrase here, I think. It sounds evil for the end customer to be left with the burden, but at the end of the day that is how things are supposed to work.
MacOS supports it too. You can create AES encrypted disk images and mount them. And of course so does linux (and I'd guess *bsd). You can make a file and mount it encrypted through the loopback device.
Usually when you're small, you want any record deal you can take. Usually you get a 7-album contract or something ridiculous, and you get the same money for each album. The money sounds good if you've never had a record deal before, but if your first albums do really well, tough luck renegotiating.
And then of course if you decide to back out of the contract, the company owns the copyright to your music, making it more difficult to find a new label (because you can't put out any of your old music). Besides leaving your label at that point means other labels probably won't want to touch you because _they_ won't make as much money from you, since you'll know what you're really worth. Bummer huh?
So does pain smell like napalm?
That would actually make a lot of sense.
You're right, and I can see the headline now:
NASA Probe Lost:
Scientists forget to convert football fields to ice hockey rinks
You're right, we should standardize on our field measurements. I suggest we use the current world record for the discus toss, since the Greeks are sort of the father of sports and that's probably the most famous of them all. Now if only I knew how far that was...
Quoth the report:
"However, HSMs [Hardware Security Modules] implementing several common PIN generation methods have a flaw. The first ATMs were IBM 3624s, introduced widely in the US in around 1980, and most PIN generation methods are based upon their approach. They calculate the customer's original PIN by encrypting the account number printed on the front of the customer's card with a secret DES key called a 'PIN generation key'."
Weird. So they're talking about _generated_ PINs. Every bank account I've opened in the last 7 years, I've been able to request my PIN. And if I wanted to change it, I request what to change it to. Does any bank actually still use this method?
I'm a wee bit confused....
If you want to DoS any site that allows uploading of pictures, here's a fun way to do it.
Funny, I wonder if this will work with URL redirection, like if you use yahoo's little web redirector to visit a porn site? Will yahoo.com be blocked?
"total cost to charge the ht for the 14 days of commuting = $0.06 x 14 = $0.84. in seattle we get 82% of our power from hydropower, seattle does not have coal or nuclear plants--it does get other power from other areas which do for the remaining percentage."
He says it 2 lines below the gas prices.
Tis a shame that the economy has hit a downturn, but there's an interesting site that a happy owner has up, about how he's losing weight and saving money with his: The book of Seg.
Actually you can, but not with just the computer. There are companies that sell fun cards with a little bit of radioactive material inside. The card also has a little Geiger counter in it, and when the material fires off a alpha particle, the geiger counter goes "blip" and generates a 1. Since the rate of decay of a radioactive material is perfectly random over the short term, this generates truly random numbers.
Cards aren't very expensive. You can even roll your own cheap serial port model
I understand they're fairly popular.
.000001% of the web servers out there. I know folks that run linux on obscure hardware for the same reason...not much risk of worms, kiddiez, and the like.
Right, but a tiny shred of security through obscurity never hurts. I would bet that clueless script kiddiez trying out their latest h4cker software wouldn't be as successful against yet another unix flavor (system calls won't work exactly the same under Darwin as they do under the other *bsds). Kiddiez probably won't bother learning darwin internals just to crack