Puzzles help to distinguish programmers from lawyers. Not to discriminate good programmers from bad programmers.
But identifying a problem is not identical to finding the correct solution.
It is a prerequisite, though.
Perhaps not.
A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with statistics, tables of population, decrease of crime among Congregationalists, growth of hysteria among policemen, and similar ascertained facts; it ends with a chapter that is generally called "The Remedy." It is almost wholly due to this careful, solid, and scientific method that "The Remedy" is never found. For this scheme of medical question and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology. It is always called stating the disease before we find the cure. But it is the whole definition and dignity of man that in social matters we must actually find the cure before we find the disease .
"Invalid username and/or password. Please enter your email password, not your LinkedIn account password"
You can try that yourself, using any dummy email address.
I saved a screenshot here.
(notice that it's not even a secure -https- page!)
Ok, I said to my myself, it seems I must enter my google password... I entered it, press "continue"... and two seconds later I though:
"Wait a moment... What...? What I have done?? How can linkedin ask me to sent to THEM my Google password ? Are they nuts? Am I nuts?"
I immediately went to my Google account and changed my password, just in case. But I still can't understand it.
The old policy said our files were encrypted with mil-spec encryption, etc etc. Now they're telling us they'll turn our files over if asked. Dropbox lied.
I don't follow the reasoning, I really don't get the lie. Files are encrypted, but Dropbox system knows the encryption keys. That "employees" cannot decrypt them, it's an issue of internal privileges and internal security - I always assumed that we are speaking of support/maitainance people here. Mr root-Dropbox can read my files (if I've not encrypted them myself), I always have taken that for granted, as a Dropbox user.
To point to another privacy issue: it's well know, for example, that Dropbox has a clever management of file contents, based on hashes, to allow efficient renames and content sharing. Say I upload a porn clip and I call it "leaning_java.avi". If another user has upload the same clip with a truthful name, then dropbox is aware of that (and ot doesn't duplicate the storage bytes, just links both files to the same storage), and my upload is practically instantaneous. So, Dropbox knows that my "learning_java.avi" is the same file as pornaddict's file "anal_fest.avi". Go figure.
I too was once an ardent pi supporter. However, I have seen the light... let us eliminate spurious factors of two everywhere and embrace a more reasonable transcendental number: tau
Agree. Pi es definitely overrated.
You don't buy a computer because of its culture, you buy it because it serves you purposes better than other brands.
Often your real purpose is belonging to a culture (ie: being cool).
The funny thing is that the article seems to blame the browser for SQL Injection...
...all of the exploits blamed on the browsers are based on SQL Injections and propagating malicious code from the originator of the web..
No. "Vulnerabities in web aplications" is the total set, of which just 8% correspond to web browsers. (From that 8%, the 44% goes to Firefox) The remaining 92% are problems due to web servers and applications (phpMyAdmin, and so); SQL Injections among them. I agree with many other posters, though, in that the report is bullshit, just some graphs and no information about how the data was obtained.
for the same bitrate (1000 kbit/s) the Mpeg-4 file is 5.2% bigger than the Ogg one;
Isn't this like saying "At the same speed (100 km/h) my car goes 10% faster than yours" ?
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
