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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:38AM (#13480038)
Do a search for "Obama Antichrist" and you'll see plenty of examples. "Obama devil" gets some hits, too.
Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:36AM (#13480030)
The worst election result is losing the house, senate, and presidency all at once. Look at who has power, not the votes.
Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:19AM (#13479957)
For instance, the "alternative facts" comment/incident is being talked about everywhere
That's exactly why they said it. Notice how it distracted everyone from talking about the marches? Trump knows how to change the media narrative.
Re:Why Wordpress?
on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:31PM (#13310910)
2 factor authentication is great, but it won't stop an attacker from using an XSS attack to get the authentication cookie.
In general, security isn't something that can be tacked on as an afterthought, it has to be built in from the beginning.
Re:Why Wordpress?
on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:32PM (#13298043)
Not to mention, it doesn't matter if things are kept up to date when Wordpress takes months to issue a patch for critical security problems.
Re:Why Wordpress?
on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:59PM (#13297906)
Yeah, I wish I could recommend WordPress to people because it's really nice at what it does, but the security flaws are too serious.The fact that it takes months for them to fix serious vulns reported to them only makes it worse.
Seriously, there are youtube tutorials about 'How to Hack Wordpress.' It can't get much worse than that:
Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:16PM (#12847955)
Yeap, you're right, I misread. Here is a quote from the paper: "15% of these exploits were created before the disclosure of the corresponding vulnerability." So there's a lower bound.
Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:24AM (#12843977)
The study says that most vulnerabilities were being exploited before being disclosed.
Re:Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:29PM (#12842650)
It should be pointed out that most vulnerabilities are, in fact, being exploited before they are patched. Citation in this article: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
Re:The No More Ransom Project
on Sunday October 30, 2016 @06:04PM (#12832644)
No, absolutely not. Even if their intentions are good, they still have shown some questionable competence, for example:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/31/trend_micro_patches_...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3020327/antivirus-software-co...
Re:So You Want to Learn Physics
on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:07PM (#12697391)
I'm curious whether any physicists here have read this book and found its claims justified.
Which claim in particular? I recommend the book, not so much because of its conclusions, but rather because of its excellent history telling.
Re:So You Want to Learn Physics
on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:34PM (#12695400)
"The End of Physics" is a good one. You may also re-think your desire to learn physics. If you get through the book and still want to learn, then you will do it completely without illusions.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Physics-Myth-Unified-Theory/dp/04...
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:49AM (#12693903)
I'm doubting the sentence quoted.
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:11PM (#12686970)
"And it's not possible to shift a person people into all of those categories, it's mostly inborn"
You're making a helluvan assertion there. You're going to need a citation, because psychology has no clue about this.
-signed, A Psychopath
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:08PM (#12686944)
Democracy works as well as the voters.
It hasn't stopped working, for an example close-to-home, look at the corruption in SF, that has been there for over a century. As long as voters don't pay attention, we'll have lousy government. Voters are the watchdogs.
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:07PM (#12686929)
The article itself addresses your point, saying, "modern writers have tried to show that the Spanish conquistadors exaggerated the human sacrifice; archaeology has shown that, if anything, they lowballed it."
Sometimes 'atrocities' are real.
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:05PM (#12686914)
So......do you understand what they were doing with all those human sacrifices? Because I sure don't. I can make guesses, just as the article does, but I sure don't understand it.
Re:We May Never Truly Fathom Other Cultures
on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:57PM (#12686814)
Most cultures of the world had some form of human sacrifice in their past history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
It's kind of a strange aspect of humanity.
Re:L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment
on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @02:20PM (#12541892)
To the point that sometimes, it seems they go out of their way to make things insecure...........
Re:L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment
on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @11:59AM (#12540505)
At DefCon, someone did a talk investigating the wireless security of some drones. Some of them had a TELNET port open for anyone to log in. The problem here isn't a lack of formal verification, it's a lack of people caring.
There is only one thing that will fix the problem, and that is when corporations get hit in the wallet for having security flaws, see for example: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates
on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:44AM (#12462091)
To some degree that's a compromise. There are people who want neither nudity nor violence on TV, but they've lost the violence fight (somewhat: there are still limits, see http://screencrush.com/avengers-rated-r/ ), while winning the nudity fight.
Often when laws don't make sense, you'll find the law was forged as a compromise, rather than a logical overmind creating it. the constitution is a clear example of this.
Irresponsible Disclosure
Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:23AM (#12453248)
Me too.
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name ...
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:25PM (#12445294)
It matters if you're actually formulating an argument. I understand what you are saying
What is the argument? If you start thinking about it, I think you'll find it's actually quite hard to create a coherent counter-argument.
Re:Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:01PM (#12444463)
>In certain areas, hours might be enough,
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name ...
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:21AM (#12444117)
Doesn't matter if it is long or short, as long as people understand it.
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name ...
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:20AM (#12443586)
Time for some irresponsible disclosure: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name ...
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @10:18AM (#12443570)
The big difficulty here is letting people know that the project even exists. Most people here could build it, but figuring out how to bring in customers is the hard part.
Re:16-year-old British girl earns £48,000 helping Chinese people name ...
on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:15AM (#12443097)
It's kind of a problem. I knew a Chinese girl who chose the English name "Squirrel." When I told her it wasn't a real name, she didn't quite understand.