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Comment Re:When every feature undocumented (Score 1) 199

Plus, there is no such thing as intuitive GUI

I dunno, I'd say it's fair to call the user interface at most ATMs and credit-card machines intuitive. Granted, some of those user interfaces aren't graphical, but some are.

To put it another way, the learning curve on these things is so shallow that if there's a difference between its shallow learning curve and what you would call an "intuitive GUI" I'm not seeing it.

Everything you think as being "intuitive" is simply you being used to other software behaving in a similar way, or you expecting some icon to match the behavior / usage of a real-world item it kind of looks like. It's training, whether you realize it or not.

Comment Re:That's not what van der Waals is! (Score 1) 74

Air doesn't have to "move faster". Viewing the profile of a wing and using it as a fixed reference point, the air on top doesn't have to move faster in the horizontal plane at all, it just has to be deflected. Air moving at a velocity (or a relatively faster one) doesn't create a force. Air moving faster than other air doesn't create lift.
What creates lift is the deflection of air. This is achieved by the angle of attack of the wings. When air has to change direction there's acceleration, and thus force.

If lift was caused by air moving faster over one face of the wing than the other, it would be impossible for planes to fly upside down. The shape of the wings (top face vs bottom face) has a very minor role in creating lift. Wings are shaped the way they are for stability and efficiency (the reduced drag and slight spoiler effect).

Get some large pieces of cardboard. Your latest Amazon shipment or pizza order will do. Cut out rectangle wings and strap them onto your arms so they are level when you stretch out your arms to your sides. Spin in a circle. No lift. Stop.
Tilt the wings up (leading edge is higher). Spin in a circle. Holy shit your arms want to ascend. Stop.
Tilt the wings down (leading edge is lower). Spin in a circle. Holy shit your arms want to descend. Stop.

Lift is due to the deflection of air under the wing. The difference in relative linear velocity between the airstream above the wing and the airstream below the wing is a result of this deflection. This difference is not the cause of lift nor is it dependent on the shape of the wing looking like a traditional wing. Perfectly flat wings will do just fine.

Comment Re:That's not what van der Waals is! (Score 1) 74

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Where have I failed to grasp the relevant concepts? I'm merely criticizing the mistaken impression that TFS (which is apparently lifted directly from TFA) gives about what vdW forces are.

I'm saying you do exhibit a basic grasp of relevant concepts, that on Slashdot people who are correct usually get shat upon, and that the "experts" in TFA often don't have a basic grasp of the relevant concepts, as your post illustrates.

Comment Re:This is going to end so well for them! (Score 1) 147

Irrelevant - if T-Mobile's T&C says you cannot use the service for bittorrent or other P2P protocols, and the T&C was available at the time the customers signed up, T-Mobile is fully within its remit to throttle these.

Irrelevant - if T-Mobile advertises their shit as "unlimited" then they need to be held to that.
Advertising claims, contracts, etc. should be enforced hierarchically, with the largest, loudest, most-repeated, etc. claims ruling over the smaller, hidden, whispered, or quickly-spoken ones.

Comment Re:That's not what van der Waals is! (Score 2) 74

You're lucky Slashdot doesn't have a "-1: Basic Grasp of Relevant Concepts", because I'm sure you'd be modbombed by it.

Maybe I'm just old, but I'm really sick of seeing articles, interviews, etc. where the "expert", often times an actual degree-wielding scientist, gets fundamental concepts completely wrong. Every time I hear someone explain lift with "air on the top of the wing has to move faster, so... lift!" I want to defecate into their open mouths.

Comment Re:This guy might be overvaluing his files (Score 1) 100

As if you understand how spam prevention works.

What happened here is that the spammers have turned over the fingerprint of their spam directly to the spam stoppers. By emailing these particular addresses they are directly supplying information that can be used to block spam. They don't need to 'confirm' these messages are spam, THEY ARE SPAM, by definition. They don't need to wait for several people to report them as spam, they don't need to manually inspect them or weight them as 'potentially spam'.

Spam one of these addresses then:
Your host is instantly on a blacklist in most cases.
URLs in the message are ranked as high probability of spam
The message is fingerprinted and added to anti-spam software

All of that without any user actually having to report it as spam, and thats just the simple stuff that happens.

This is EXACTLY WHY this list is online, to catch stupid spammers who aren't careful enough to avoid these addresses.

Its working EXACTLY AS DESIGNED. Hitting just one of these fake addresses can save it from hitting MILLIONS of real addresses.

So before calling someone else stupid, look in the mirror, you're at peak ignorant.

100% fucking wrong.
They're trying to log into these email addresses.
They addresses CANNOT be sent to - they are INVALID addresses for their domains.
It's right there in the fucking summary.

Comment Re:Why no 1 Tb version? (Score 1) 183

Mb? Really? You don't know the difference between Megabits and GigaBytes? You're off by a factor of 8192.

Not quite. You're confusing Mb with Mib and GB with GiB.

There are 1000 MB in a GB, not 1024. This was changed a while ago. I don't know why people haven't adopted the new rules. Science uses 1000 for everything, except for some things where it makes sense like temperature, and some things where other bases are much more convenient, like time.

But for computers we need to use 1000. Even though with computers things are binary and we need to deal with factors of 2 all the time, people might get confused between 1000 and 1024 when they buy a hard drive. So for science purposes we need to use 1000. I know this is confusing, but once everyone starts using 1000 for Kb and 1024 for Kib, and we update all the old references that people already wrote, it'll be much easier for everyone.

The next step is to change a byte to be 10 bits. Don't worry - the IEC and SI are already working on the best way to force this bullshit down your throat, too.

Comment Re: There we go again (Score 1) 383

Your initial post in this thread exposed the fact that you don't know what the fuck a hash is, and thus don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

That's weird. My initial post nor the post I responded to said anything about hashes. My initial post was responding to someone talking about using a dictionary attack to get someone's password. I presume you falsely think my "initial post" was the one in response to AC-x which it wasn't. I also very much do know what a hash is. You and him seem to have a reading comprehension problem since you failed to understand my post. The point of my post was to say that, yes, having a password hash which you can use to try to recreate the original password does defeat what I stated, but that is tautological. If you can do an end run around the authentication protections it is no different than, as I said in an analogy, to having someone's PIN to their phone. I never once stated that having a hash was the same as having a plaintext password nor was their any such implication. Him stating that I believed the two were the same is basically a false presumption on his part by failing to understand my analogy.

You should have simply stopped posting, but here you are, digging deeper and deeper, committing more and more errors. You couldn't even quote a post properly.

I only messed up a quote once out of more than a dozen posts. Yeah, I totally don't know how to quote properly. Oh wait, I do.

Do you have an actual argument or just stupid ad homs like AC-x?

The fact that you've made a dozen (and counting) posts trying to re-re-re explain and rectify your mistakes should clue you in to the fact that you got called out for spewing bullshit and no one is buying the repeated attempts to retcon your hilarious error.

Comment Re: There we go again (Score 1) 383

To clarify, I should say any brute forcing attacks rather than just dictionary attack. Any authentication program that allows unlimited tries without any rate limiting is totally broken.

You're absolutely fucking retarded and you need to stop. The vast majority of "authentication programs" are nothing more than:
if (HASH(inputPW & getSalt(inputUser)) == getHASH(inputUser))
    successfulLogin(inputUser);
else
    unsuccessfulLogin(inputUser);

How the fuck do you think people attack passwords once they have the hash? Rate limiting doesn't stop an offline attacking from succeeding on the first try online after it cracks the password offline. Rate limiting doesn't stop an online attack because an online attack is going to take forever due to the fucking latency. And with no latency, an online brute force or dictionary attack simply turns into a DoS attack if you have rate limiting enabled.

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