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OK, Mr AC, care to explain how you plan to cache SSL-encrypted objects? All your caching proxy sees is the "connect me securely to server X" request - after that, it's encrypted and your proxy cannot tell what's being loaded. Worse, since SSL inflates the data sizes of whatever you've requested, your images are up to 50% more data, and your (already compressed with gzip) HTML, CSS, JS etc is the same. So you've added 50% to your traffic for ... potentially nothing.

Seriously, what do you gain (actual, measurable improvements) from switching from http://www.comics.com/garfield... to https://www.comics.com/garfiel...? Nothing but overhead.

And that's leaving aside the fact that SSL no longer guarantees the source server (too many options for MITM server certificate hacks) or security (POODLE etc).

No, make no mistake, this is Google throwing its weight around, screw anybody who doesn't want or need a certificate for their site, or has made a conscious decision NOT to use SSL (not to mention all the corporates with proxies that inspect for malware - now you're mandating SSL MITM by the organisation, or you have a channel for malware into any system).

OK, Mr AC, care to explain how you plan to cache SSL-encrypted objects? All your caching proxy sees is the "connect me securely to server X" request - after that, it's encrypted and your proxy cannot tell what's being loaded. Worse, since SSL inflates the data sizes of whatever you've requested, your images are up to 50% more data, and your (already compressed with gzip) HTML, CSS, JS etc is the same. So you've added 50% to your traffic for ... potentially nothing.

Seriously, what do you gain (actual, measurable improvements) from switching from http://www.comics.com/garfield... to https://www.comics.com/garfiel...? Nothing but overhead.

And that's leaving aside the fact that SSL no longer guarantees the source server (too many options for MITM server certificate hacks) or security (POODLE etc).

No, make no mistake, this is Google throwing its weight around, screw anybody who doesn't want or need a certificate for their site, or has made a conscious decision NOT to use SSL (not to mention all the corporates with proxies that inspect for malware - now you're mandating SSL MITM by the organisation, or you have a channel for malware into any system).

http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-09-01/

aka Poor Man's Opera

Like this?

Well, they mentioned the Wii once at the end of the article:

Over Christmas 2008, they narrowed their focus on three ideas, sport being one. “We wanted to compete head-on with Wii Sports,” Andreas admits. “We knew we could do so much more with Kinect than you could with Wii.”

Because the launch titles were aimed at the family market, Rare chose the more popular sports. “We put a bowling prototype together in three days: can we significantly improve on Wii Sports’ bowling? Could we allow people to run at the screen with the ball? We realised we could improve on it.

I think that quote is hilarious. They never mention how exactly they improved upon Wii bowling. Personally, I can't see how it could be better because the controller is why Wii bowling feels so intuitive. It gives feedback straight to your hand, both audio and rumble. It may not feel like a bowling ball, but it comes closer to simulating the experience of bowling because there is something to physically connect you with what you're seeing on screen.

I see potential in Kinect but it has less to do with gaming and more to do with XBox Live. It's good for this: http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-10-05/

I can also see potential for games that use the regular controller. Like an Elder Scrolls where you play the game normally, but when you talk to people they interact with your more realistically, perhaps recognizing your facial expressions so the character could make a comment like, "Why, you're looking happy today!" (of course, with gamers playing ES, it's more likely to say, "Why, you're looking lethargic and near-comotose!"). It's one of those things that would be best a complimentary input device, like the microphones that were used for Mario Party. If they insist on developing games using Kinect as the only input device, I don't see it going anywhere because it's not more immersive, when you take the physical controller out of one's hand you've further detached them from the game world. This thing might be pretty sweet if they combined it with something like Nintendo or Sony's motion controllers, but they seem pretty determined to do it controller-less.

...my thoughts about BP.

http://comics.com/pc_and_pixel/2010-01-27

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Would you be prepared if gravity reversed itself?

If you think about it, it is actually quite hard to say what makes a good comic. Humor plays some role, but it isn't so straightforward either. Calvin and Hobbes was definitely my favorite comic as a kid. I did read Donald Duck too (obviously, as everyone did), but apart from that I can't remember any other as good comic. And I went to library solely to read Calvin and Hobbes. I didn't like the alien parts, but otherwise it was great fun.

RSS programs today make it really nice to read comics too. I am reading Cyanide & Happiness, Pearls Before Swine, a few local comics and xkcd. I actually have some others in my rss program, but a lot of times I skip them because they're not that up to quality and not that funny.

Now a days I like Pearls Before Swine for its good humor and references to other comics, culture and politics. The random appearances of Stephan Pastis himself and being self-satiric also make it great. I remember there being some reference to Calvin and Hobbes sometimes too.

But some resist...

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But some resist...

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Mozilla previously blocked

Is Mozilla actually Elly the Elephant? The Pearls Before Swine Oct 18, 2009 strip shows Elly the Elephant using blocks to save the world. I think the Internet has made me feel closer to others ...

As for the ego, are you referring to the motorists or the cyclists ? :)

Do you operate more like Dilbert or more like Get Fuzzy?

I've never seen a stores sale insert contain manufacturer's coupons before...??

No, for that you go here. I figured you'd be a big enough boy to have found Coupons.com yourself.

Just about anything you get in the Sunday paper can be found on the web itself for free.

News? Check.
Comics? Check.
Inserts and coupons - we already covered that.

Hell, you can even read PARADE Magazine online, free. That's how little the Sunday Paper Experience® really costs you in the online world.

Of course, there's always the classic feel of reading off a piece of paper, but lately even that doesn't earn me spending $1.50.

I know this is off topic, but I saw this cartoon today in a similar vein. But it took my a few seconds to get it...

Glad I wasn't the only one to think of Get Fuzzy. Still, robot Bucky Katt's seem easy to beat. Pin them down and they go into sleep mode: http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-06-22/

Did you read yesterdays comics in the paper?

Matt Bors has it right!

Obama has a good chance. The publicity of the prolonged campaign and eventual victory over Billary is a very clear evidence of how much support he has within a party that ought to believe it has the best chance of winning. Bush has made the Republicans quite a forgettable party for the next election, so if the Democrats are particularly certain of winning, wouldn't they put their best forward? Well, it happens that Obama is their best, and if the Democrats believed they could have found someone better, they would have.

Does it matter that Obama's name is a reminder of notoriety? Some of us may believe in conspiracy theories, supersition, astrology, or outlandish prophesies. Is there anything in the coincidences of names? Doubtless, much will be made of it.

Wood.

Organic molecules involve many carbon atoms. One way of removing carbon is to grow forests, cut them down and turn the wood into buildings.

Rather than spending megabucks to dump carbon into a hole, why not ship wood to the third world, so long as they don't burn it?

Wood is a lot safer than carbon dioxide stored somewhere, which can suddenly escape.

One of causes of unaffordable housing is the lack of it. Who wants to work for 30 years just to pay off a house? Meanwhile we hear that the rich are getting richer and everyone else isn't. Simultaneously people are driving around emitting carbon dioxide, driving the environment to ruin, trying to make ends meet. Raising real-estate quality in the third world helps the poor and reduces the environmental impact of our efforts just to live. Furthermore, industries that have been hurting from subprime can be rejuvenated. It just gets better and better.

Wood.

Organic molecules involve many carbon atoms. One way of removing carbon is to grow forests, cut them down and turn the wood into buildings.

Rather than spending megabucks to dump carbon into a hole, why not ship wood to the third world, so long as they don't burn it?

Wood is a lot safer than carbon dioxide stored somewhere, which can suddenly escape.

One of causes of unaffordable housing is the lack of it. Who wants to work for 30 years just to pay off a house? Meanwhile we hear that the rich are getting richer and everyone else isn't. Simultaneously people are driving around emitting carbon dioxide, driving the environment to ruin, trying to make ends meet. Raising real-estate quality in the third world helps the poor and reduces the environmental impact of our efforts just to live. Furthermore, industries that have been hurting from subprime can be rejuvenated. It just gets better and better.

here's the html version:
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/index.html

Very useful tip. I was still using www.dilbert.com/comics/... for a variety of strips, which now goes to a dilbert-based 404 page rather than the standard comics.com one. I'd not seen it before, and it's worth a read!

Guess what? It still exists. I found this mentioned in a post above. Different domain name, but part of the same web syndication. Hopefully that will remain in place.

Ok, you non web-2.0-adopting retrograds... here's the html version:
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/index.html

Excuse me while I emerge myself in the synergistic experience of the new flash interface, and step into the 21st (maybe even 22nd) century, while leaving you the prisoners of the old web 1.0

I find F minus is funny quite frequently.

Two sundays ago, actually.

I'd personally add Pearls Before Swine and FoxTrot to that list of good newspaper comics. Of course, I actually read those comics almost entirely online. ;)

Is documented in Berke Breathed's latest comic:
http://www.comics.com/wash/opus/archive/opus-20071230.html

Currently, Dilbert contains material related comics.
For example:
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007152781206.gif

Coincidence ?

Opus this week says it pretty clear what the focus is.

What is needed is a certain conciousness of a threshold percentage in a population to change things in a country. Currently not given - so - how would it change?

More pain so people get thorougly pissed and go in masses on the streets with signs or the folks thinking they are better and priviledged actually realizing they are in the same boat.

The knowledge is present. What's missing is the courage to be consequent to pull it through and before that happens, the cart needs to go deeper in the dirt. That's what's happening and it's taking a while and may be too late.

And - since you know what I am doing, why do you criticise it?

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/images/getfuzzy2007090116399.jpg

Indie Rock Pete called; he wants his position back.

for Moore's Law to hold a true course for some time to come. Extrapolate, will you, to the day a machine can be used to remove problem points from your body. The results range from a cure for cancer to much longer lifespans.

I suppose we should also pray that is not a day people will feel free to neglect themselves.

I wonder how agriculture might change if a machine can really push a crop through (or in other fields, get whatever job done), like the next generation of iPhone.

a little humor break from off the mark

You new fangled proper English speakers don't know how easy it is. You could be forced to speak like this in school: http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/archive/pibgo rn-20061018.html

Cartoonist Carl Moore just published what might be the best comment so far on the topic.

I like to think of this comic as a sort of sequel to Calvin & Hobbes.

Last week, there was this strip: http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/frazz-2 0060603.html

For the benefit of those reading past the 30-day limit:

• fifth-grader to fourth-grader: "Well, I'm so old I can remember when people took pictures like this..." [gestures with hands against face]
• "...instead of like this." [gestures with hands at arm's length]
• 60-something teacher to janitor: "Leave it to fifth graders to put typewriters and cars without seatbelts into perspective."
• 20-something janitor (Frazz): "They made cars with no seatbelts?"

I imagine it went something like this.

http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/image s/dilbert2006073272217.gif

Dilbert with the current event commentary: Show up early, be stood upon!

(Herman, Jim Unger)

Honestly, has anyone really seen anything coming out that even remotely looks interesting? Chicken Little(already out last year)? Ice Age 2? Cars? Open Season? Over the Hedge? Any of these really grabbing you?

I look forward to anything Pixar makes, which includes Cars. Over The Hedge has always been a good comic strip, and after being thoroughly amused by Madagascar (so what if it wasn't deep? It was the best homage I've seen to Tex Avery since Animaniacs went off the air) I'm genuinely looking forward to it.

I'll get right on that.
;)

There is at least one other way to improve security...

http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/image s/dilbert2813960050912.gif

http://www.comics.com/comics/jumpstart/archive/ima ges/jumpstart2005082130811.jpg How does somthing as blatently plagerized as that make it into every Sunday Newspaper in the US, but yet downloading the same movie that its stolen from gets you tossed into jail?

I like this one better: http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/archive/chi ckweed-20050717.html/

Herman

The sources are unnamed because they'd rather not get themselves killed.

I think you overestimate the power of the Pentagon.

You're entitled to your opinion. Unfortunately, once again the leftists here on /. have decided that I'm not entitled to mine and have modded my previous post down to zero despite the help of one person who rated it "Insightful". These are probably the same people who shout about a vast right-wing conspiracy that is suppressing people who shout about vast right-wing conspiracies. Meanwhile, people suffering REAL repression get mocked because Bush might score points if they become free on his watch.

Well uhh what is your argument? The way I see it the touch screen seems a good way to enter in a URL. Beats using the on-screen keyboard on the PSP. I bet I will get modded something evil for this beacuse I'm not arguing in favour for either handheld *shrug*
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