Comment Re:Food for thought (Score 2) 646
I miss the bus more often when I run after it than when I don't.
I miss the bus more often when I run after it than when I don't.
The number of terrorism attempts since the TSA has started isn't zero, the underwear and shoe bombers off the top of my head. The TSA has missed all of them.
Before the TSA screening was privately run by the airports and airlines. It was still pointless security theater, but it was just as effective and much less expensive and inconvienent.
Is there any evidence that any attacker has used certificate update to do that, or do people just not know how it works?
On Windows, removing a CA from the CA cache does nothing, you have to add it to the untrusted list
Not really. Any government can get their state CA included in the windows root CA list just for the asking. OSX and Firefox are slightly more restrictive, but not in a useful way, they allow lots of state CAs as well.
This is a broad problem with the HTTPS system, too many unrestricted root CAs with no concern for realistic security scenarios.
This is not a good system, but it has nothing to do with Tunisia. The wikileaks cable you posted doesn't even talk about SSL, just about how using supported Microsoft software in the government will make the government more effective at everything, including domestic espionage.
The entire point of SSL is that you don't trust the network.
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NH is mostly a mixture of exurbs and retirement/vacation homes for Boston, so it's economic model is "leech of the city" and it's social safety net is "move to Massachusetts". California has nowhere to beggar-thy-neighbor to.
New Hampshire has the lowest birth rate in the nation, California's is above-average. Children are expensive but necessary.
Small states tend to do a better job getting their money's worth from the federal government. California is a massive wealth exporter to the rest of the country. The California federal tax/spending shortfall is about the same size as the California budget shortfall.
The problem with overtesting is that a positive test on someone with no symptoms or high risk factors gives you very little information, due to the risk of false positives.
There are lots of cures for cancer, most of them made by drug companies. They don't all work on every (or even most) types of cancer, but they generally either work or don't after some finite number of doses, then you stop taking them.
The reason there's no pill to fix heart disease isn't because the drug companies are hiding the secret cure in a warehouse next to the ark of the covenant, it's because heart disease is a result of decades of physical damage to an organ, all drugs are going to be able to do to a condition like that is slow the damage or reduce the consequences.
findstr isn't a powershell command, it's just a console
The salt isn't a second secret, it's there to prevent the use of a pre-constructed rainbow table for the standard hash functions. Without a rainbow table, you can still do dictionary attacks of weak passwords--and there is no way to prevent this short of not using passwords for authentication. This only harms people who use guessable passwords and re-use passwords between sites.
I love how the article is equally fact-free, but makes sure to include several opinion polls.
At least in the US, take-home pay doesn't dominate the entire cost of an employee to a business. Most of those costs don't scale down with less work. Think recruitment, most benefits, management, much office equipment/floor space, IT overhead, training...
Also, most employees not don't do fungible factory work anymore. Putting 25% more workers on a project doesn't get 25% more done. For any job with a high burden of communication or analysis (i.e. most knowledge worker jobs that aren't easily automated), every hour is more productive than the last up to the point the worker gets tired and quality drops.
If employees are actually working productively 40 hours a week (and not just seat-warming and fiddling with facebook because it's expected), then dropping to 32 hours would be a drastic reduction in productivity and would eliminate a whole lot of marginal workers and companies. (If they are just seat-warming, you could just let them go home but that wouldn't reduce unemployment)
If you want to do work-sharing without messing everything up, either figure out how to reduce per-employee fixed overhead (more cash pay, less benefits, more telecommuting, less ability to sue your employer, more off-job training... basically make everyone a contractor) or do it more long-term, like making working 4 out of 5 years the norm
Wikipedia made it official policy that all biographies are uncritical fan-sites years ago.
It would have automatically died yesterday along with everything else that didn't pass before the ending of the 111th Congress.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.