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Comment Re:Not technically a leak (Score 2) 92

They were public with the URLs not published in an index anywhere, so you had to know the URL to access them. Dropbox and Box simply forgot that those URLs would appear in HTTP Referer headers, exposing them in the logs of any site linked to from within those "private" documents. Security by obscurity... isn't.

No, you buy AdSense words, and it delivers matching URLs entered into Google -- then you grab the data there. Anyone can set up a data-collection like that.

There is no conceptual difference between entering a password and a secret URL. It is not security by obscurity, it is security by "something you know". Once someone else knows, it's not secure anymore.

The difference to passwords entered into other sites or Google is that it may not be immediately clear on what site to use the password, and with which user name.

Comment Re:We've already passed "Peak Child" (Score 4, Insightful) 291

We've already passed "Peak Child" and the human race is in decline.

Non sequitur. People are not dying fast enough. Life expectancy increases everywhere.

So, the premise that we need to ramp up food production to cope with a growing population is a false one.

Non sequitur. Even if the population decreases, demand for meat is currently soaring, especially in the so-called emerging markets. This means drastically more land area and more water is needed than for growing traditional, primarily vegetarian diets.

If there's not enough meat for everyone in the short term, we feed the young and able bodied first, then the parents of the young and able bodied, then whoever is left, in that order.

More like, people with money will get the meat by paying for the land and water in other countries, while the people there starve. All this is already happening.

Comment Re:Gee, that's worse than no encryption isn't it? (Score 1) 303

If only they had written OpenSSL in Java instead of C! I'm wondering how many friends I can get on Slashdot with that statement.

..., I think that we need to do three things:

  1) Pay money for security audits of critical security infrastructure like OpenSSL
  2) Write lots of unit and integration tests for these libraries
  3) Start writing alternatives in safer languages

Given how difficult it is to write safe C, I don't see any other options. ...

(from http://blog.existentialize.com..., someone else linked this below).

Comment Re:Sounds like a RC plane not a drone (Score 2) 178

Never had anyone get hit by one. Now they're banned. Sad.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.

http://mentalfloss.com/article...

And one was killed.

Just use plastic ones!

Comment Wow ... just why? (Score 3, Interesting) 100

"let" statements -- really?
And the selling feature is list comprehension? Looks like they are trying to go into Haskells direction.
Testimonials say it's better than C# for data analysis?
Well, that train has left the station, with R, Python (and Julia) being available. This can not be won by languages, but with high-quality statistics / visualisation / machine learning libraries.

License is Apache v2 by the way.

Comment Re:Projections (Score 4, Insightful) 987

Nothing significant can happen unless everyone does.

Not true. If 20% do something, it will be significant.
Everyone blame everyone else, and don't do anything? No thank you. Try at least.

And here's the thing - most countries (especially poorer countries) don't give the tiniest bit of a fuck.

Not true. Countries are affected differently, and some poor countries are highly concerned.

If everyone in America did what I'm saying it would make an impact, but A) That will never happen and B) It would just delay the inevitable, because of china etc.

So scenario A It's true and we're all fucked and can't do anything about it. Thus we're arguing over..nothing.

Scenario B It's not true and we're arguing over..nothing.

It doesn't paint the greatest picture of humanity but I'm fairly certain it's an accurate one.

You are falsely blaming others. Even if not everyone contributes, change can be achieved, and it should be tried. Non-contributing countries could even be fined for not contributing to the common rescue attempt.

China has about the same emissions as the US. And guess why China has so much emissions? Because of the outsourced productions (electronics, clothing, toys). The US could easily implement requirements that their outsourced products have to adhere to emission limits!

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