Comment Re:Easy. (Score 1) 250
He said she should have the power to choose a career for herself. Where is the inequality?
He said she should have the power to choose a career for herself. Where is the inequality?
They are free to believe what they want, but they are not free to consider their beliefs as factual as actual facts.
In order to succeed as a scientist, one must be of above-average intelligence.
Could not one of average intelligence yet above-average perseverance perform an experiment building on another's experiment and be called a "successful" scientist. You did not show that above-average intelligence is a necessary condition for success as a scientist.
Are AdBlock Plus and Ghostery available for MobileIE?
the Windows version [of Safari] is flaky in my experience.
(Emphasis mine).
Do you mean the three-year-old, discontinued, non-supported, version 5.1.7 of Safari for Windows? By citing such dated information, you make me wonder on what basis you've formed the rest of the opinions expressed in your post.
No, but they tend to have more influence than most individuals, hence being a good reply to 'enough people that mattered', with emphases on the word 'mattered'.
On the internet, nobody knows if one is a dog, or a 'bot; they assume one is a "guy".
Does Robocopy do integrity checking of the copies? Also, with zero retries, what happens on a failed backup? Are you notified? While your solution only takes a moment to set up, there are far better solutions that take as little (or less time) but offer more robust copying, to multiple destinations, with encryption, and without needing to copy over exact copies.
TIL is a fairly common, in recent years, initialism for "today I learned." The very first result I got for a Google search for "til" is the TIL Reddit. The very second result was an urban dictionary entry. I don't know why I bothered to do the work for you; I suppose I felt generous being your Google-bot.
You did not answer my question. I asked "What are the patent issues with the C++ standard?". You answered that something one implements might infringe on someone else's patent, but that is irrelevant to the question.
Then just stop developing anything, period.
There are patent issues with *everything*
What are the patent issues with the C++ standard? Please, cite a specific patent.
When I was young I had an old Saab. I guess I have always been odd. Anyhow, that Saab was terrible and I had little money or expertise to repair it. I could not trust it to get me to my destination. Yet, strangely enough, I still used it. I could not trust it to start, trust the brakes to work, or even trust the lights to remain on for very long. (I did fix the brakes.)
You do not need to trust something to use it.
You do, to some degree. You trusted the Saab not to explode when you attempted to start it, for example. Trust is not a 0% or 100% thing, it's more complicated than that. When someone says they don't trust X, they really mean they don't trust X to do Y. That Y is important, if sometimes implied. You did not trust your Saab in many regards, but you did trust it in some regards. If you did not trust it in *ANY* regards, you wouldn't use it.
I trust nobody
That is not to say I don't use products, but use does not imply 100% trust. It implies just enough trust to use something.
You seem to contradict yourself there. You cannot trust nobody but then trust somebody just enough to use something. My entire point was that non-zero trust was impossible when using anything you did not build yourself. A point you seem to agree with despite your protestations that you completely disagree.
What am I "trusting" Slashdot (or "the readership".. wtf?) with exactly?
You are trusting Slashdot with your username, your password, and the text you submitted in any comments or stories you may have written. If you do not use this username or password anywhere but here, (and good for you on that), then you are making the data you give them less valuable. That's a sensible thing to do, but you do trust them with that.
If you had zero trust in Slashdot, you wouldn't even give them that. They could, if they were malicious, alter your submitted posts to make you out to be a pathological monster vowing to murder a world leader and alert authorities of that country. Those authorities might not believe in the rule of law and send agents after you.
A far fetched example of course, which means you don't have to trust them very much, but it cannot be zero, or you wouldn't give them the little information you did.
You must trust some things some times with some data, or you can get no meaningful work done. Balancing that trust (the risk) with that data (the value) is what security is about. I put this data, that I just wrote, on this website, because it is low value and low risk. I wouldn't post here my social-security number because that would be high risk. I wouldn't post my private key here either, but I do store my private key on a hard drive I did not build myself nor did I verify myself running an OS I did not build myself nor did I verify myself because while it's high value, it is low risk due to the many rounds of secure math protecting it.
As to trusting Apple or any other corporation or government. You implicitly trust your hardware manufacturers, all of them, unless you build your own hardware from scratch. Same goes for software, even open source software.
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943