idProQuo

>If the evidence is as clear as Obama is trying to make it appear, why not have an independent body from the U.N. review the evidence?

The thought is that Russia will find a way to veto the proposal no matter what, because they have financial interests in Syria.

Not the same person, but I've found that learning other languages (and making mistakes in other languages) makes you attuned to what kinds of mistakes happen when speakers of that language learn English.

Just off the top of my head, Russian doesn't have articles. A Russian learning English is more likely to confuse definite and indefinite articles than a speaker of a Romance language.

I've been learning Thai and teaching English in Thailand. Thai has no articles, no tenses (in the way we think about them) and a simpler syntax with many prepositions and other "small words" omitted. When they start learning English, they often omit too many words and don't conjugate anything, so a sentence like "I don't have any pencils." becomes "No have pencil".

I suppose you could say it has a responsive definition, changing to suit the needs of the people saying it.

Sure we don't have to use IE if we don't want to, but we still have to design for it. IE6 has a broken box model and more recent versions have been slow to keep up with new web standards.

If it was just a case of sites looking "less beautiful" in IE, that would be fine too, except that IE often breaks websites by not supporting certain CSS properties or Javascript functions.

The amount of work that goes into IE-proofing websites (which could've gone into more productive things) is huge. It's not just "hipsterism", a lot of these people are angry for a reason.

I keep hearing this argument, but I don't feel like it's relevant to RDRAND. Let's say the numbers are generated by by XORing RDRAND as "a" and the other parts as "b", such that for any given call:

/dev/random = a XOR b

If the NSA only knows "a", that's fine, "b" is still pretty random. They can't compromise the randomness of "b" unless they know "b".

Now if they know "b", then we're screwed whether we use RDRAND or not, and safe encryption using Intel chips is just impossible. However I don't think anybody is suggesting that.

The entropy Randall calculated for "correcthorsestaplebattery" was a lower bound, meaning that if the attacker knows that you made your password out of 4 dictionary words, it still has tons of entropy. If the attacker doesn't know how you came up with your password, it'll take them even longer.

I'm new to web development, so I haven't dealt with a truly hairy stylesheet yet (though I've had plenty of experience with overcoupled and hard to maintain code). Do you think tools like Sass can help alleviate some of these CSS problems? I've heard that some people who go crazy with Sass end up with a couple thousand selectors, yet the organization and logic helps them manage the complexity.