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Will be enough to spark the interest of your friends. With the girlfriend it will probably be a bit more challenging. http://i.imgur.com/TKax6.jpg

Hi, I've uploaded some of my fascinating Quake Live screenshot collection in this tiny imgur gallery: http://imgur.com/a/yjxRl

So the first problem went away after 1. upgrading kernel and 2. disabling hardware acceleration in Flash.

Now it's only like once a day that I have pink walls in game or everything is upside down, but game restart fixes it.

"Fixes" as in: there still are colorful stains on some walls but no problem, I can play at least, all praise nVidia's driver!

Before you say it's a hardware problem: I've had 3 different GPUs from 2 different manufacturers (all GTX 570) and 2 motherboards (same model, free upgrade to "B3" stepping Intel chipset last year). Shuffling hardware didn't fix anything, but kernel+driver update did a little.

Using VDPAU on certain input (either in MPlayer or enabling accel in Flash) makes whole system unstable, which basically is an exploitable DOS attack against the nvidia module.

If you say ATI/AMD cards have more issues, I really pity their users :(

Another angle photo of Linus "pointing" ...
http://i.imgur.com/zEC7j.png

Been there 25 years ago; moved on. ;)

http://i.imgur.com/MdXaq.jpg

What's wrong with windows 8? This is best illustrated with a picture, (1000 words and all that)

http://imgur.com/nNcMm

Been there, moved on.

The original essay was in Japanese

If only the Japanese would read it and heed its lessons...

I feel a sudden disturbance in the internet, as though a million slashdotters just came over their keyboards.

The original essay was in Japanese

If only the Japanese would read it and heed its lessons...

Graphical version, but with the man walking backwards:
http://i.imgur.com/wgNdy.png

Screenshots here:
http://imgur.com/a/rAnZs

I have one picture for you: http://i.imgur.com/PTol8.jpg

So much for race not existing.

I think he messed up by comparing NASA's budget to social safety net and education budgets in the video though, the implication that one should grow at a cost to the others is not going to sit well with many. He carefully stepped around mentioning the bloated military budget for some reason.

In fact, I thought about including a comment about this in my post —

He realizes that our military infrastructure is one of the things that also drives and protects our society, and while war isn't preferable to other motivations for technical progress and scientific research, it is one of the chief motivations throughout our history. He also realizes that exploration can reinvigorate the human spirit, even stoking industry and the economy, which actually would help the people served by the "government safety net" more in the long term by creating a robust economic environment instead of having an environment where half of US households are on the government dole.

There was an interesting part of his UW-Madison speech where he reflected on how many Americans assume that NASA's budget is a lot larger than it actually is. He then went on to (jokingly) propose a new model for government budgets, wherein each agency would get the amount of money that the public thinks they get.

I was amused because if that were true, even among this informed and educated audience, that would mean that DOD would get something like "50%" or "over half" of the federal budget — as many people erroneously assume — when in reality, all of "national defense, veterans, and foreign affairs" is closer to 20%, while "Social programs" and "Social Security, Medicare, and other retirement" are what accounts for "over half" (55%) of our spending.

And some people will still say it's too much; to that I say that China exceeded US space launches for the first time in 2011, has increased their military spending 12% every year for the last decade, and is on track to exceed US military spending by 2025. Hint: that's not all for "peaceful regional defense". In sum, Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't anti-military, and recognizes its necessity and the significant scientific and research contributions it has brought to our society. He also talks about the broader historical context for war. You should really listen to his speech.

I think he messed up by comparing NASA's budget to social safety net and education budgets in the video though, the implication that one should grow at a cost to the others is not going to sit well with many. He carefully stepped around mentioning the bloated military budget for some reason.

In fact, I thought about including a comment about this in my post —

He realizes that our military infrastructure is one of the things that also drives and protects our society, and while war isn't preferable to other motivations for technical progress and scientific research, it is one of the chief motivations throughout our history. He also realizes that exploration can reinvigorate the human spirit, even stoking industry and the economy, which actually would help the people served by the "government safety net" more in the long term by creating a robust economic environment instead of having an environment where half of US households are on the government dole.

There was an interesting part of his UW-Madison speech where he reflected on how many Americans assume that NASA's budget is a lot larger than it actually is. He then went on to (jokingly) propose a new model for government budgets, wherein each agency would get the amount of money that the public thinks they get.

I was amused because if that were true, even among this informed and educated audience, that would mean that DOD would get something like "50%" or "over half" of the federal budget — as many people erroneously assume — when in reality, all of "national defense, veterans, and foreign affairs" is closer to 20%, while "Social programs" and "Social Security, Medicare, and other retirement" are what accounts for "over half" (55%) of our spending.

And some people will still say it's too much; to that I say that China exceeded US space launches for the first time in 2011, has increased their military spending 12% every year for the last decade, and is on track to exceed US military spending by 2025. Hint: that's not all for "peaceful regional defense". In sum, Neil deGrasse Tyson isn't anti-military, and recognizes its necessity and the significant scientific and research contributions it has brought to our society. He also talks about the broader historical context for war. You should really listen to his speech.

Yes, just like the Coke bottle... if the Coke bottle application looked somewhat like this.

But the idea is valid if you include easy to remember made-up words and proper nouns and such. If you include uppercase at the beginnings of words and include spaces, then you've really given the rainbow table generator guy a run for his money.

I am glad that you didn't fall into the trap that people do and then say OMG, YOU USED REAL WORDS!!!@#!@$#!!ONE!!1 and then assume that partial passwords are recoverable and you only need to test for one word. Which, is not how it works. I've run into that argument time and again and I don't know where people get the idea.

If you also read further, he goes on to say that the length of a password is really important, and gives two examples: one that looks easy to crack, and one that looks secure, but the one that looks easy isn't the easy one, because it has all elements of a "secure" password and is longer (more bits to run through the crack) that the "difficult" one. And once you make the person running the crack have to guess how long the password is, you've probably already won.

I just wanted to run the xkcd password through to see what I'd get. I'm sure the xkcd password is part of everyone's dictionary by now and is useless as an actual password.

A secure password doesn't have to look like an already hashed password.

As for a source of words not found in typical dictionary files that will give squiggly lines everywhere when used in documents, go to the Phrontistery.info, which on my screen is squiggly-lined.

>. With four words, that's 44 bits total as their entropy is multiplied together.

Order matters, it's not just multiplication. 11 bits ^4

http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations-calculator.html

Screenshot: 2000 words, 4 of each, order matters, repetition ok: http://imgur.com/0n5XL

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BMO

Wrong.

I guess you are claiming that LG and Nokia preemptively copied the iPhone then? I've seen plenty of biased before-after picks. Here's the iPhone version. Wow, it's so obvious how drastically Apples "design language" changed when you leave out a bunch of iPods and the original iPhone to mask everything that happened in the middle. Fact is three very similar phones were released just about at the same time without Apple going nuclear on the other two, that is the very definition of a trend. Yes, Apple has their own peculiar detailing on the concept, but so do the others!

Please leave the design snob wankery at the door, the design of the new crop of smart phones revolved around putting the touchscreen as the center element and evolved from there. A big screen dictates a rectangular shape. A rectangular shape is simples without extraneous curves. The corners need to not catch on the pocket, round them. A smoothed back makes it slide into a pocket easier (the original iPhone got that one right, then proceeded to do the stupid thing as the Prada had originally, likely to have more space for components). I could pull up copious amounts of touchscreen oriented devices (cell phone designs were heavily centered on the keypad, of course they looked wildly different from the touchscreen ones, anyone who claims to understand design would see that...) that have those features in various combinations.

In fact, if you'd put them on a timeline you'd probably see the trend towards the "iPhone aesthetic" quite clearly. Oh, hey, someone did just that with a small selection with the predictable result of seeing that if you don't pick the most dissimilar devices it's quite clear why three phones with the same aesthetic were released in 2007. Designs snobs should be gushing about the evolution of design and convergence of form and function, not pretending that the iPhone suddenly sprang into existence and justifying that naivety with confirmation bias.

Wrong.

I guess you are claiming that LG and Nokia preemptively copied the iPhone then? I've seen plenty of biased before-after picks. Here's the iPhone version. Wow, it's so obvious how drastically Apples "design language" changed when you leave out a bunch of iPods and the original iPhone to mask everything that happened in the middle. Fact is three very similar phones were released just about at the same time without Apple going nuclear on the other two, that is the very definition of a trend. Yes, Apple has their own peculiar detailing on the concept, but so do the others!

Please leave the design snob wankery at the door, the design of the new crop of smart phones revolved around putting the touchscreen as the center element and evolved from there. A big screen dictates a rectangular shape. A rectangular shape is simples without extraneous curves. The corners need to not catch on the pocket, round them. A smoothed back makes it slide into a pocket easier (the original iPhone got that one right, then proceeded to do the stupid thing as the Prada had originally, likely to have more space for components). I could pull up copious amounts of touchscreen oriented devices (cell phone designs were heavily centered on the keypad, of course they looked wildly different from the touchscreen ones, anyone who claims to understand design would see that...) that have those features in various combinations.

In fact, if you'd put them on a timeline you'd probably see the trend towards the "iPhone aesthetic" quite clearly. Oh, hey, someone did just that with a small selection with the predictable result of seeing that if you don't pick the most dissimilar devices it's quite clear why three phones with the same aesthetic were released in 2007. Designs snobs should be gushing about the evolution of design and convergence of form and function, not pretending that the iPhone suddenly sprang into existence and justifying that naivety with confirmation bias.

Hi. This is my email. Sorry. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/umu85/re_gabe_says_yes_i_am_joe_davison/ http://i.imgur.com/E380I.jpg

Right, he used WorldEdit, MCEdit, and Spritecraft, as it says in the caption.

But not because nobody outside North America has "The Hub" (the channel on which the content is originally aired) that the fans feel they "have to download it" from other sources.

It's because the fanbase produces most of its own content in the form of derivative works (video: spliced from the Indiana Jones tribute. Audio, both music and vocals, entirely fan-made), and in order to meaningfully contribute, you have to have watched the show. Or seen Epic Meal Time (Video and audio entirely fan-made with the exception of a few seconds of bass, but the voices are from fans doing impressions of the characters). Anyone seen GLaDOS lately?)

Even if the content industry solved the distribution/licensing problem by making it possible for viewers to watch the show regardless of geographical limitations, the sorts of draconian IP regimes envisioned by SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, CIPSA, and whatever the next one is, would serve only to prevent the creation of derivative works, parodies, fan mashups and tributes.

Seems to be more of a correlation, but if this graph generated at gunpolicy.org is at all accurate, that would be interesting.

Excuse me, the thumbnails in my screenshots collection deceived me. Firefox cookie approval dialog.

This used to be the default setting in many browsers. It changed because people complained it asked them annoying questions, and site authors complained about users that had the temerity to refuse cookies.

I was going to give you a screenshot of exactly that preferences dialog in Firefox to smugly help you do that, but it looks like the simplification Nazis ripped that out too. It used to look like this.

You can still configure it in, of all places, the "history" settings. Once you do so, it acts exactly as you want.

You do if you are a gamer.

Never stopped me: http://i.imgur.com/qG2qw.jpg

Mass Effect 3, World of Warcraft and Heroes of Newerth also run just fine.

The onion has covered this :) Fast foward to 2:21, the mockup phone always makes me laugh http://i.imgur.com/KO0Xg.jpg

> And here's the saddest part

Yeah. Almost all forums for discussion on the internet and in real life** have devolved to using extreme soundbites and belittling the people who hold opposing viewpoints. Doesn't matter how polite or insightful or close-knit the community starts off, once the general populace arrives, the discussions become nothing but dregs.

It's now incredibly rare to find insightful "shades of grey" discussions about the pros and cons of any given approach.***

Too many people who obstinately refuse to believe that subsidizing an industry to promote advances in it's technology is useful (and who seem blissfully unaware of the subsidies given to all of the existing competing technologies such as oil and gas).

Too many people who don't understand or have the information available about the subleties of cross border power demands (I'd like to thank the people who posted tidbits of factual information about all of that).

I personally think that Japan's shutdown of all it's nuclear plants is a zealous over-reaction -- but on the other hand some of it's plants are just as old as Fukshima, and their industry and organizations definitely can't be trusted.

I've seen people claiming that "look, all the nukes are off and nothing changed", but other people point out that Germany has gone from exporting massive amounts of power to being nearly neutral in it's energy needs. I'd expect that this means someone else who used to be using clean German nuclear energy is now buying it from .... France? Burning Russian Natural Gas? I haven't seen anyone say what the net effects in total are, everyone is cherry picking their "problem boundaries" to advance their own point of view.

On top of all that my own province has it's head firmly buried in the sand. Won't build new Nukes because they are too expensive. Can't shut down existing ones because there is *no* replacement power nor enough power lines to import electricity even if there was sufficient nearby capacity. And can't build wind as fast as needed because everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) is zealously NIMBYish about "the hidden effects of having a wind mill nearby" ... cause you know ... that low frequency noise ... etc etc etc ... ( all the while driving down highways with their windows open and running fans and AC units indoors, etc etc).

Seriously, there are people in rural areas building small houses every 500m on their property and at the four corners of their properties, because the law says that no windmill can be located within 500m of a "house".

Meanwhile in Europe: http://imgur.com/HcX87

(**) I think the way people think and hold their beliefs is bleeding over and/or being infected by their experiences on the internet

(***) Hmmm, so I kinda know what news sources not to read because it'll be sensationalized BS and soundbites "trolling us" and taken out of context and lacking entirely in subtle details and shades of grey. Is there any forum out there that is similar? Where people that fall for the "trolls" or are incapable of discussing shades of grey politely and using facts - are banned, and the rest of us can sort out what's what? A place that's not entirely one side of the argument or the other? Not nuclear phobes and not anti-greenies? It's not slashdot. It's not reddit.

What's the process ID of the nfssvr in this Windows Server 2008 log: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731909(v=ws.10).aspx [microsoft.com] Or this log: http://www.petri.co.il/images/ie7_on_ex2003_1.gif [petri.co.il]

Both of them are system logs, not application logs. Please tell me what advantage would you get from knowing what was the process id at the time of execution, since (usually) you can't have services with the same name running at the same time. And both of the error messages are quite clear on the problem and what went wrong (but sometimes you can really get some cryptic messages).

Here http://imgur.com/C2pFB you have an example of process id on the application log.

As for the "object reference" errors, in other systems/programming languages you get way more useful error messages like: (...)

You example is apples and oranges. The errors you mentioned are _parsing errors_, not runtime errors. Try with a compiled language.

In contrast I see my colleagues working till late at night wrestling with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.", and it's not always their code they're having to fix. Maybe there's a way of turning on debugging symbols so that message is replaced with something a lot more useful, but so far they seem to get the same useless error message even with debugging on.

I don't know your colleagues nor their expertise in programming, but those kind of errors are language-dependant and not platform-dependant, and are usually easily by static analysis tools or avoided altogether with good programming practices (by the description, it reminds me of some common bugs of VB applications that were mostly solved by using "option explicit on").

FWIW I do write windows programs/services that log more informative "syslog style" error messages (with process AND thread ID- makes debugging multithreaded stuff easier), but Microsoft's own stuff doesn't do it.

Not all available software for linux/unix is that nice, also. It is true that you can tune up or down verbosity, but - as an example - postfix, samba and openvpn are god-awful to troubleshoot only by loggin in complex problems.

for example if there is a problem with an email message amongst a bunch of Microsoft Exchange servers, figuring out the path it took and where the message had problems, and why is so much more difficult than with postfix, qmail etc.

I'd say you never really had problems with qmail :D I have limited experience with Exchange (but a lot of experience with postfix), but I must say that what you describe is pretty much the experience my colleagues have reported me. From that limited experience, half of the problems arise from incompetent system administrators that don't understand the SMTP protocol. If you can access the message, you can easily examine the path taken. But hey, maybe your problems are more complex - I don't know.

Sometimes it seems to me that Microsoft's stuff was designed by some smart people, but the coding was outsourced to India or wherever. So the outsource coders will write in logging (and other features) as defined in the requirements in the easiest/cheapest way, which often turns out to be almost useless. But they don't care - they are not ever going to use what they write!

Maybe. But many applications have separate logging (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) to help with that. I'm not saying Windows logging is perfect, but it is not the unusable pile of crap everyone that never tried to use it say it is. I've had issues with cryptic message logs in both unix and windows (eg. try to run openvpn with certificates from "the future" - different timezones - a

On that note, think I could pull off one of those big, massive Flavor Flav clock necklaces from the 80s?

If you're going to go outrageous, go outrageous.....

http://i.imgur.com/0rST3.jpg

I just tested out 32-bit linux mint cinnamon in VirtualBox. Most of the text is missing!

http://i.imgur.com/F0af2.jpg

This is a good example case of some weird broken stuff you come across every now and then when using desktop Linux.

Can someone explain what happens there? Someone suggested it's about video memory. Then why does it not check if there's enough available?

Whatever the reason is, there's not enough robustness in the GUI.

I just tested out 32-bit linux mint cinnamon in VirtualBox.
Most of the text is missing!

http://i.imgur.com/F0af2.jpg

So, you're linking a SlashdotBI article to the Slashdot front page?

Well then.

There seem to be elongated star-trails and out-of-focus objects in the raw image. I've highlighted a few. What's interesting is that the star-trails aren't all in the same direction, or necessarily a spacecraft rotation artifact. Are these smaller objects in orbit around Methone, or the result of the image being a composite, perhaps?

Mainstream tech coverage is barely above tabloids.

I came here to say "that's why independent tech podcasts are so important" but then I realized my own tech podcast was completely and utterly irrelevant :(

Another go-nowhere project from Microsoft's social research group Fuse Labs, following in the footsteps of Live Labs, a previous group that disbanded in 2010. Anyone remember Pivot? Deepfish? Listas? Photosynth? And about 10 other discontinued products.

We all know this will be swept under the rug and forgotten faster than you can say "Google Wave", but it's amusing seeing Betteridge's Law of Headlines at play in the coverage, such as this gem from Fox News: "Is this the next Facebook? Microsoft unveils so.cl social network" The best part is that the article spends its first six paragraphs definitely answering its own headline with a no. Mainstream tech coverage is barely above tabloids.

At least since 1986

Metro has its roots from the work done for the Zune UI. Zune was released in 2006 so work was probably started a couple of years before that. Metro is more than 8 years old by now.

8 years ago, OSX looked like this -> http://i.imgur.com/6kni7.png

There is nothing subtly 2D or anything that can be even confused as retro about that interface.

Then everything shut down. Drive all that way at 0 dark thirty for a fizzle.

My first thought when it was obvious the engines shut down.

Ah, the good old days when launching a rocket involved someone named "Hans" and a big red button.

One-half of one penny of every tax dollar. That's what the NASA budget is. We spend an assload more money on trying to kill people than we do planning for the future of the human race. On top of the measly NASA budget, we still have to outsource most of our space program.

Did you know the US spends more on the military's Air Conditioners than the entire NASA budget? http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-costs-more-than-nasas-entire-budget.

How much out of every tax dollar goes on keeping people in prison? From what I hear, the USA has about half the worlds prison population...

One-half of one penny of every tax dollar. That's what the NASA budget is. We spend an assload more money on trying to kill people than we do planning for the future of the human race. On top of the measly NASA budget, we still have to outsource most of our space program.

Ah, "future of the human race"? Sorry, but warp drive technology isn't exactly around the corner, and getting us to the moon isn't likely going to save a damn thing. We've got to learn to do more to save this little fragile planet we're destroying first.

Yes, the future of the human race. The exponential-growth problem alone means terrible hardships if we cannot emigrate off of this planet. If we don't start trying now, before there's a problem, how will we ever make it when the problem is in full swing and all resources are put to treating the problem instead of what can be the only cure: Space colonization.

One-half of one penny of every tax dollar. That's what the NASA budget is. We spend an assload more money on trying to kill people than we do planning for the future of the human race. On top of the measly NASA budget, we still have to outsource most of our space program.

Ah, "future of the human race"? Sorry, but warp drive technology isn't exactly around the corner, and getting us to the moon isn't likely going to save a damn thing. We've got to learn to do more to save this little fragile planet we're destroying first.

Did you know the US spends more on the military's Air Conditioners than the entire NASA budget? http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-costs-more-than-nasas-entire-budget.

Gee, only a few billion people on Earth and thousands of computer systems that rely on A/C...go figure the priority. Would you go to work for a company with no A/C? Would you buy a house with no A/C? How about a car?

When YOU can't even prioritize things above A/C, don't expect others to, and don't be so shocked when they don't.

One-half of one penny of every tax dollar. That's what the NASA budget is. We spend an assload more money on trying to kill people than we do planning for the future of the human race. On top of the measly NASA budget, we still have to outsource most of our space program.

Did you know the US spends more on the military's Air Conditioners than the entire NASA budget? http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-costs-more-than-nasas-entire-budget.

Nope, it's most certainly up.

https://imgur.com/hFJWO

You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII? Here's a before and after. (NSFWish, they're pinups). People have been photoshopping since before photoshop was invented. They still paid a team of analog artists to fix up all those photographs.

According to this, the duck-face look has been around for generations.

You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII? Here's a before and after. (NSFWish, they're pinups). People have been photoshopping since before photoshop was invented. They still paid a team of analog artists to fix up all those photographs.

If I try access the national lottery website (presumably blocked as it is gambling) over Virgin Mobile's 3G/GPRS connection I get the "adult content" block page, which invites me to some soft porn and a betting site that happens to pay for a spot on that page. Like so: http://imgur.com/6iLPN

(that image mentions reddit, as I've lost the pre-edited screenshot and can't be bothered to take a new one, but it was the same page for any page that trips the adult content warning)

That was my first reaction, too.
And when you zoom in, it gets really blurry. So the actual, useful resolution is... maybe 10 MegaPixel ?

Also, look at the borders of the Earth: http://imgur.com/7Z5OF.png
???
Please explain...

You have to show first, that you aren't already getting paid that "fair share".

Income disparity is the greatest it has been since right before the Great Depression.
40 years of profits have mostly been squirreled into low tax or offshore investments.
If that same money had gone to employees, it would have been subject to normal levels of taxation and kept our government solvent.

Really, it's almost like I talked right past you.
Did you bother to click the link and look at even one of those graphs?
Here's one: http://i.imgur.com/wBgyq.png

I'd say these numbers more or less speak for themselves.
That should more or less answer all your questions.

http://imgur.com/Intj2

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

Today we use ceramic recombination and phosphors to achieve near-blackbody radiation output from an LED. CRI past 90, all day.

I'm using them for my main computer station.

Here's a picture, sans the personal information (full names and workplaces): http://i.imgur.com/33ye8.png