jabiko

Are you sure? It's no secret that "Scott Alexander" are the first and middle name. The author wants to keep his last name secret.

> A nation can withdraw from a treaty instead of ignoring it

Yes, as far as I can see both the INF and the Outer Space Treaty explicitly include the possibility for a withdrawal (with prior notice).

At least this publicly signals the intent of a nation to do something which would violate the treaty instead of just silently ignoring it.

> These mutual arms restriction treaties are only followed by the major power as long as they see a mutual interest in doing so.

Sorry, but this really rubs me the wrong way. The whole reason we have these kind of treaties is to protect nations which don't have the power to defend their interests should a conflict arise.

Saying that it is normal for a nation to just ignore a treaty they have ratified IMHO instills a very wrong mindset. If a nation ignores a treaty, the reaction should not be "Oh, that was to be expected".

It makes sense to promote renewable energies, as this makes sense both from a social and environmental point of view.

Keeping coal mining on life support makes no sense. In the Ruhr area, the consequences of coal mining will still be felt for a very long time. It is necessary to run pumps for centuries to come so that the toxic mine water does not reach the groundwater level.

I just get a 404 for this URL. Is the repo private?

The browser could check whether the cursor image would be painted outside the page viewport.

In this case the browser could create a clipped version of the cursor image and set it as the new cursor.

It depends entirely on type of his business entity.

If he founded a GmbH (the most common type of business entity in Germany), his private funds are protected in case the business goes bankrupt.

On the other hand, if his business was a GbR he can also be held liable with his private money.

This are just examples. There are a lot of different business types out there with different liability implications.

If you want to do the proper way, call it "StöMeVo".

And only use the abbreviation, never call it "Störungsmeldevorrichtung" so people will forget what it stands for.

Looks like they have a typo in the CVE numbers.

CVE-2015-13XX should be CVE-2015-31XX.

It seems like this is a known bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921528

The linked article is about someone who managed to lock himself out of his Google account. No word about Dropbox.

Somewhat related: Some time ago I wanted to create a dyndns service for Rasperry Pi devices.

I registered the domains (my-pi.net, my-py.net, my-pi.de) but never created the actual website. So if anyone wants these domains for free, contact me.

Interesting. http://linux.die.net/man/2/sync says

    On Linux, sync is guaranteed only to schedule the dirty blocks for
    According to the standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001), sync()
    schedules the writes, but may return before the actual writing is done.
    
    However, since version 1.3.20 Linux does actually wait. (This still
    does not guarantee data integrity: modern disks have large caches.)

So it seems like the sleep(2) is there to give the disk enough time to write the cache data.

Besides the whole source code compromise discussion I would really want to know whether there is any incident report planned.

Until the redesign kernel.org stated: "We will be writing up a report on the incident in the future.".

But since the compromise was more than 2 years ago it seems unlikely.

Start of the verbal abuse discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/58049/focu...

#) It seems like you're not sanitizing the input parameters before using them to construct a SQL query. You should propably fix this.

#) You shouldn't output the SQL error messages to the user.

#) The purchase column shouldn't have a sort icon if it isn't sortable.

#) IMHO the back button doesn't add any value since it just duplicates browser functionality.

Another little nitpick‎: The sort icon on the page is a image ;-)

Wikileaks has now published the list of countries: http://wikileaks.org/Edward-Snowden-submits-asylum.html

  The requests were made to a number of countries including the Republic of Austria, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of India, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, the Swiss Confederation and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

No. According to http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-putin-sn...:

  The official didn't name the countries, but said that Russia was among them.

The .VG nameservers are giving inconsistent replies.

vg.cctld.authdns.ripe.net, asia.zone.vg and europe.zone.vg are pointing to suspended.meridiantld.net. Only ns1.root-servers.vg replies with dns{1,2}.stabletransit.com.

The intention of the city is not to push its citizens to use Linux. They just want you to install Linux instead of disposing your old PC because it's not capable of running a newer version of Windows than XP.

Sources (German):

- Original motion: http://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII2/RII/DOK/ANTRAG/2927956.pdf

- News article: http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Muenchen-will-Windows-Ausst...

It seems like deb(ian)-multimedia was asked to stop using "debian" as a part of the domain name [1]. But I don't see why they decided to let the domain expire instead of setting up a redirect.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-main...

Hi, it would by great if you could send an invite to lobstersinv@inboxee.net. Thanks.

The parent comment has been removed but I think it's fair to add the missing context: http://i.imgur.com/xx7WLkx.png

This is strange. I was able to resolve the IP using the host command. But curl and ping won't work.

    $ host dk
    dk has address 193.163.102.24
    dk has IPv6 address 2a01:630:0:40:b1a:b1a:2011:1
    $ curl dk
    curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'dk'
    $ ping dk
    ping: unknown host dk
    $

EDIT: Putting a . behind dk solves the problem.

> What we need […] trust between people.

The funny thing is that the bank trusted him by lending him money. He has taken advantage of this trust and betrayed the bank.

Came here to say the same. At least they should detect a scroll wheel click and open the link in a new tab.

Or they could use the google approach and change the link in the last moment to point to a tracking service.

I can still get a fast response:

    # tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se
    traceroute to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15), 128 hops max, 60 byte packets
    128  thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15) <syn,ack>  38.726 ms  39.877 ms  39.333 ms

This time I regret clicking a link before reading the surrounding text. Maybe you want to replace "http:// with "hxxp://"?

I can't reproduce the PHP example:

  $ uname -p
  x86_64
  $ php -v
  PHP 5.4.6-1ubuntu1 (cli) (built: Aug 22 2012 21:13:52)
  Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
  Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
  $ php -r 'var_dump(1000000 * 8.2);'
  float(8200000)
  $