Re: for the 'drones can't cause problems' crowd.
That's where the wing is accelerating like a bat out of hell pushed by solid rocket boosters and is also made of rather flimsy carbon material meant to withstand a blowtorch...
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Maybe "apparent drone" is the Foo Fighter of the two-oh-tenners?
while engaging with engineers earlier in the design cycle
Earlier than after a marketdroid announcement has been issued??
Yeah, I know that soundbite has been generated by the "PubCannounce Salespitcher" web-based application which serializes standard marketing cant soundbites into a phrase that's nearly-grammatically-correct, but still.
MD5 is not worse than anything else for hashing passwords, as long as you add a large salt to prevent rainbow table attacks:
Two real reasons for not using MD5 for hashing the salted passwords is: 1) it's too fast 2) public relations as said here: Why do people still use/recommend MD5 if it is cracked since 1996?
Your correct statement about MD5 being too fast and unsalted aside (because that also goes for the SHA family) I would still stay away from MD5 for a non-technical reason: Public Relations. It's a drag to have to convince your boss or client of what you explain. And tons of technical guys (whose opinions are valued by the same people you are trying to convince) are also deluded. After all, there is plenty of 'proof' on the internet that support their conviction that MD5 should not be used because it was broken in 2004.
For the details, see also this excellent answer:
How to securely hash passwords?
Yep, read it!
"By Dawn's Early Light"
Fuck yeah, it had a guy with a totally McCain vibe in it.
I also fell in love with bomber girl...
And of course "The Day After" classic can be found on YouTube. 80's quality! Nuclear test stock footage! Could El Reg grab a picture from there instead of that weird stuff I see here which seems to have quickly shopped by a hippie on a trip?
The German title is
"Eine Handvoll Venus und ehrbare Kaufleute"
(A fistful of Venus and honorable merchants)
which made me laugh.
On a tangent, HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR FECKLE FREEZER YET? You know who owns an Ajax Freezer? Fairies own Ajax Freezers! You know who owns a Triplecold Freezer? Commies own Triplecold Freezers! Every freezer but a brand-new Feckle Freezer stinks! I'm warning you! Get out and buy a Feckle Freezer right away! Hurry up! Hurry for Feckle! Hurry for Feckle! Hurry, hurry, hurry, Feckle, Feckle, Feckle, Feckle, Feckle, Feckle...
”This is a contentious election"
Is this like describing a nuclear meltdown as a little core excursion?
Choosing between the Neocon/Oligarch-anointed Queen of Chaos and Monkeywrench Boy:
Hillary as the Not-Trump Candidate
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, if the election is between the most unpopular woman candidate in America and the most unpopular male candidate, the winner is going to be whoever can make the election fought over the other person. Trump will win if he can make the election all about Hillary, and Hillary will win if she can make the election all about Trump. It looks like she’s able to do this, because Trump is even more narcissistic than she is.
All the Democrats have to do is goad him, as they did with the Afghan parents of the American soldier who died. Trump should have bounced the ball back into Hillary’s court and said, “Wait a minute. The soldier died in a war that you voted for Hillary. A war that you want to continue to escalate.” Instead, he talked about himself.
And at least Hillary is coached enough so that when he attacks her, she bounces the ball back and makes him the issue. She doesn’t try to defend herself. So people are beginning to think, wait a minute, here’s a personality of Mr. Trump who doesn’t even know the first thing about political strategy. You don’t let the other person win by making you the issue. You make them the issue. In an economy where people are angry, you want to steer their anger toward the other candidate.
So in this election, unlike earlier elections, it’s not about whose positive program is better. Neither have a positive program. Neither have really any policy that they’re announcing. It’s about whose policy is worse. Who’s the lesser evil? It’s almost an inside out election.
Assange Strongly Implies DNC Staffer Was Murdered for Being Wikileaks Source
It's like we are in the deepest thicket of Bush Junior's second campaign again.
Now with added spice of "War with Russia Possible Any Minute Now, so vote Hillary". Great stuff, I have ordered a bunker full of popcorn.
I think it was a "plain old peculiar" somebody might have noticed by now.
Looks like this kind of approach is classed under "explaining away" or "under-carpetting". This was well explained in Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (which does not quite match how things happen, which is actually rather meta-meta).
I particularly like this "First of all, the object in question may be a genuine "one off", or it may prove to be a member of a new or existing class of variable.". So it's peculiar because ... it's peculiar. Move along, nothing to see here.
For the nebula, you would look at nearby stars (next to the "dimming cat" in space & on the pixel array) to see whether they exhibit similar effects.
A quick eyeballing of the paper reveals that npo such effects are being observed
Somebody may be cleaning up the neighborhood ...
Linux is just a system that works based off 60's tech. Nothing exceptional here.
Nice but...
The really good stuff is yet to be designed
> you think are there to run your systems are there to allow you to manage the failures of the system
How do you know what I think?
Thats' WEIRD!
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/
"9 features that make Microsoft Edge a better browser than others"
"How to enable and use Cortana straight from the Windows 10 lock screen"
"15 reasons why you should get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update today"
You seem to be missing out.....
We're, um, Straight Outta 'fourth' 'trons... 'trinos... you know what we mean – scientists
Yo, El Reg!
I hope you realize that the "neutrino" has nothing to do with "threes" (the separation into electron/muon/tau families is something that goes sideways across all particle classes).
It's "neutrino" for "the little neutron" in italian.
I think it was Fermi who came up with that to explain mysterious missing momentum in subnuclear physics, apparently going to a particle that did not show up on any photographic plates...
> As for Dune, I wonder if Sting ever regrets appearing in that turkey?
I remember that he said that we would never again play someone who will use violence to reach his goals (i.e Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen).
Note that Sting was a bit on the old side to play that particular nasty brat. Even if he carried good genetic material and managed to entertain a harem at 15, it was time to release the water (or some saying like that).
we start getting our machines to do most of the science then things will truly go exponential
(From The Lack of Progress in Science: Sex Differences)
"All models are wrong, but there are still superior and inferior models. Their measure is in how they correspond to, and predict, reality. Not how they correspond to our ethical judgements of how the universe should be.
Many sociologists dissent from this position. They’ve marched into the academy and taken it over. Because of their ideology that all things are social, they believe they can reshape the fabric of the universe through their own normative preferences. To me this is a problem. I struggle against it. Our deep human intuitions often reject, and recoil, against fragments of reality. But to successfully grapple with reality we need to attempt to understand reality on its own terms, not our own.
I may struggle in vain. Could it be the liberal Whiggish scientific moment in history is over? History is written by the winners, but perhaps in the future science will also be written by the winners. I’m not sure that the truth will win out. Perhaps the glass will become darker, rather than clearer. There are genuine difficult empirical questions about the nature of human variation and our dispositions, and how it relates to the values that we hold to be true. The fact that we’re still discussing sex segregation in sports and how it is unjust illustrates how far we’ve come in the solipsistic and socially constructionist direction.
Imagine that in the end of days all the mandarins will be sociologists, who come not to bring illumination of the truth, but to determine the nature of the truth for us to agree upon. Perhaps this is the true end of history, as humanity returns to an equilibrium where the bracing aspects of reality are shielded from the masses, which lay indolent in their delusions, while the technocrats and artificial intelligences confront the outside.
Meanwhile, theoreticists (theoreticians?) are going overboard. "You want particles? I give you particles!"
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
This article needs the picture of "f*cking cowboy" or sweating towel guy.
I have found that modern IT veers into the tri-modal mode whereby the third mode is "too fast and too furious", where you are fully agile, have impossible deadlines imposed from on-high with "roadmaps" (such as they exist) kept secret lest the peons beome restive and "it has been decided that funding will not be increased in the foreseeable future". The only way to "work" in those conditions is having another tea.