Re: Urgh
AFAIK there is no sandboxing for extensions. Extensions like NoScript definitely could not run if there were. There should be though.
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and that includes the compiler itself in case you're wondering
Stop watching BBC.
Definition - What does Nonce mean?
A nonce is a type of data bit identification in IT security and other types of technical systems. It is a number or other data variable that is used only once.
Leaving a friend's car unlocked with the keys in the ignition in a dodgy neighbourhood is not only only stupid, it's probably a crime in itself in most places.
Most places in Amurrica only, I hope?
Oh, sorry, I forgot - it's done to show up the companies with weak security, right?
I don't think so. They just look for low-hanging fruit and shark the dangling bits.
What, was the 20,000 euros just to cover bandwidth costs and associated stuff?
They seem to make it quite clear that is for cigarillos and carribean vacations.
OTOH, the original "Maxwell Equations" were rather less pleasant to look at than today. It took a serious refactoring effort during the next 25 years:
The Long Road to Maxwell's Equations
It could be argued that these equations got their start 150 years ago this month, when Maxwell presented his theory uniting electricity and magnetism before the Royal Society of London, publishing a full report the next year, in 1865. It was this work that set the stage for all the great accomplishments in physics, telecommunications, and electrical engineering that were to follow.
But there was a long gap between the presentation and the utilization. The mathematical and conceptual underpinnings of Maxwell’s theory were so complicated and counterintuitive that his theory was largely neglected after it was first introduced.
It took nearly 25 years for a small group of physicists, themselves obsessed with the mysteries of electricity and magnetism, to put Maxwell’s theory on solid footing. They were the ones who gathered the experimental evidence needed to confirm that light is made up of electromagnetic waves. And they were the ones who gave his equations their present form. Without the Herculean efforts of this group of “Maxwellians,” so named by historian Bruce J. Hunt, of the University of Texas at Austin, it might have taken decades more before our modern conception of electricity and magnetism was widely adopted. And that would have delayed all the incredible science and technology that was to follow.
That would mean mathematical consistency of Einstein's theory is a necessary and sufficient condition for Einstein being sure not having made mistakes. Wrong on both counts:
Mathematical consistency of the theory might exist (insofar as one can be sure about that), but it might be totally useless in physics, describing a world that is not this one (e.g. a 2D+1 spacetime).
Mathematical consistency or even soundness of the theory might be missing but it might well be very useful in physics (most of physics is dirty tricks, fast haxx and formulae that look good for unfathomable reasons)
You need that telescope.
This remind me of the SciFi story where a marketing experiment is run (in a [spoiler]groundhog-day closed-world environment[/spoiler]) to see whether a good, fat heckling by megaphone at 0600 to BUY THE FUCKING FRIDGE YOU SHIT followed by an apology a bit later will actually result in more sales. I can't remember who wrote it though.
Whole crusades have been won by HAM BOMBARDMENT! And Yurope's "Common Agricultural Policy" is heavy into channelling taxpayer funds (current or future) to BIG HAM, the consumption of which will VERY SOON be made less appealing by the ham-fisted application of sin taxes ("to ensure continuing health of the populace", natch) to these fatty goods with artificially depressed prices. Coincidence? I THINK NOT. I CAN SMELL THE BACON!
So you are smarter than NASA?
No, but I'm not stupid enough to believe that all of physics from the ground up needs to be rewritten because some idiots didn't pay attention in class when error bars were explained.
quantum entanglement
Amazingly, that kind of thing can be tested anywhere, consistently and we have the math to describe it (even if it did take von Neumann to write the primer). That "NASA" retardation, not so much.
If it's on Arxiv, it probably could not make it through peer review at a Journal.
You completely misunderstand the nature of Arxiv (and vixra, for that matter), as well as peer review.
And the incentives behind peer review.
Go sit in a corner, dunderhead.
(Damn, I'm too serious again. Time for "venerable ancient bum" icon).
Maybe obfuscation math is looking at prime time. Unless outlawed, of course.
(No, I have no idea how that would work, but it sounds like a good premise for a SciFi story written in the 80s where describing the current state of the world would have meant using the adjective "dystopian". John Brunner, anyone?)
“Your business partners are accountable to their governments, and you can’t expect them to put your interests above their own or those of their government.”
The government's interests trump those of the citizen and corporations line up behind that?
I think Robert O. Paxton wrote about that in "The Anatomy of Fascism". So did Günter Reimann in "Doing Business under Fascism".
In other news, people are a-ok with providing data to the Zuckoberg/NSA complex and to cloudify stuff on companies established on the "4-eyes" compact.
They also vote in the same dumb fucks who a currently driving the car to the next wall at breakneck speed every single time.
The experiment has failed.
Remove humanity!
Ever hear of browsing using your phone? wifi?
I hate to break it to you, but these systems actually use cabling to bring the data to whatever exchange point it needs to go to.
hope you never work in my building
Is that the one where unicorns magically radiate data to the destinations, powered by bionic carrots up their arses?
Go to bed, PHB!
Organic stuff needs to e transported faster as it spoils faster, requiring more fossil fuels to be burned.
Actually, the main burning happens in the car driven by punters to the big food logistic centers known as "malls" and back to their conapts.
Additionally, experiments in my fridge consistently show that standard pepperonis and chilis decay *way* before organic pepperonis and chilis and the organic ones look better to boot. I don't know why, but there you go.