Microsoft just did its first step in imporving Skype. They cut the Asterisk plugin license. They are trying to make it an isolated island. Call this an improvement if you wish.
There is only one way to go. Open standards, and FaceTime:)
Encrypt password + salt with public key. It is strong, probably close to as good as a hash. You can add the MD5 as additional salt to get longer ciphertext.
Then protect private key, and use only when government needs it.
That should be easy to implement, if encryption is legal in France.
I agree, Asymetric encryption / public key with salt. This should be close to a one way hash for hackers. The safety then depends on how secure you store the private key. Should be stored offline.
The interpretation of the EU regulation is different. I think the latest bet on how Denmark understand the EU regulation is:
The users must be informed that cookies are used, and always have easy access to the "cookie policy". The user must have a way to opt-out. It is still debated if it is enough to inform him how he adds sites to the Internet Zone, and denies cookies to sites in the Internet Zone. Persistent Cookies needs user approval, session cookies not.
There is also the other solution that wil kill the regulation: Just tell users that to use the site they must accept cookies. If they don't, they can go away. When they can visit no websites at all, they will start accepting the cookies. Most technical skilled people thinks this is the worst law ever decided by the EU. So many websites are dependent on cookies today, that most of the web would stop working if cookies was disabled.
As it is now, it is the user that decides if he want JavaScript or Cookies.
Nobody believes it is Steve Jobs apart from the same journalists who used to see aliens and flying saucerers all the time. Why would Steve drive a Honda Civic ? Why would he use a 2nd rate US clinic when he went through the treatment at a specialist clinic in Europe ?
I am long in APple shares, and thinks all this is stupid, but after options expires today, there is potential for new record highs.
What happens when Steve is gone ? Nobody knows. But the people in Apple should be able to come up with new products without Steve. Can they find a replacement ? Maybe not. Can they find a QA guy who can approve/reject designs as Steve did ? Maybe. But I doubt he will also be the CEO, but that is not important.
Copy to laptop harddrive if on the road, to external drive at home. I used to back up to DVD, but it is too bothersome. So I have a Synology NAS for local copies. I also have a USB dock for raw SATA disks, so I can replace them. That is for easy access backup. Stored at home. Finally I have just started using Crashplan. That is online backup. Covers the situation where my laptop and media at home is stolen/burned etc.
I was thinking about carrying a backup disk to work. But there is a large risk that you do not remember to shuffle the 2 disks. The Crashplan backup software will allow for this though. Syncing only changes to each of you external backup disks. I might do that with the raw disks I have.
Why don't Microsoft tell users what 3rd party app is costing them money ?
Users should have a possibility of deleting or disabling the offending app. As it is now, Microsoft should get the bill for this data forwarded. They know about it and do not act. here in Denmark that is reason for court action, it is actively taking responsibility if you do not act in a timely manner.
Or maybe Microsoft is getting their percentage of the money for data transfer ? So it is money straight in their pocket.
Have you used the Galaxy Tab ? It's hardware is supposedly no worse than the iPad, yet the GUI seems sluggish and in a very different league that the iPad, which even has higher screen res.
Android, given that it started out as a mobile OS shuld be way faster and smoother. Apple is just using an adaption of an old resource hog of a Desktop OS, but still performs way better than Android.
So what he was saying is, that they are padding with a potentially unencrypted random number, that can be used to guess earlier and later random numbers, and thus break SSH. The random number is a hint for crackers / PRNG guessers.
Here in Denmark, I think all 3G / UMTS providers does at least 21Mb/s. And one telecom does 42Mb/s in the large cities. That is what we call 3G. People expect 100Mb/s or more for 4G, not just some overclocked 3G
But I guess the US has been left behind and sees everything over 7.2Mb/s as 4G ?
Steve has said that the iPhone is open for Flash. He just said it needs to be not buggy, and not drain batteries. Adobe has not yet fulfilled those 2. All I hear about flash on Android is, that you are better off without, as it slows the device, eats battery, and crashes. I don't want my iPhone to be infected by such malware from Adobe.
I thought there was a problem with simultaneous data and call on the Verizon network. You can do one thing at a time.
Also the Nokia E51 on GSM had trouble like that. If you had a call ongoing using bluetooth headset and data transfer started, it would drop the connection.
If you can't call and have data at the same time, it is a dumb phone + PDA put together.
The problem is, that replacing/fixing the 10 million iPhones 4 out there will serious limit supply of new devices to all the consumers willing to part money. I expect a fix to be announced when Apple has no problems handling demand. Maybe Apple already silently put some transparent paint on all new devices to limit the number they have to replace.
Giving away the protective band is to admit there is a problem, and will result in some of the class-action lawsuits getting money.
The rest of the world do not have software patents, so we don't care about MPEG.LA Just host it outside the USA, and everything is fine.
In most countries, a contract is an agreement between 2 parties. So unless they have a paper with my signature, I am not bound by any contract with them. I think USA is the only country where you can enter a contract without knowing so, and without ever accepting it.
I think the US of A should look to the free world for how things are done.
1. Apple introduces new devices once a year, and support reaches back for at least 2 years. With Android devices, you get new devices on the market a few times per month, and the manufacturer will not support devices older than 6 month, when they have become fossile devices. There is a big difference here. And Android devices are everything from phones to full size computers, all with different hardware and capabilities. It is like coding for the PC.
2. Apple will leave features out from old models. iPhone OS 4 will not guive my 3G any multitasking, and the 3GS have way better 3D graphics than my 3G. And the hardware they introduce in less than a week will probably run past all Android devices. But Apple is not just about hardware specs, it is about quality. I tthink all agreed that 2MPix from iPhone 3G camera was better than 3MPix in all competition. iPhone has the best touch screen, and are generally considered to be of googd quality, nto designed to be replaced every 6 months.
3. Apple does not kill hardware out of contract. My phone was officially unlocked by Apple after 6 months. And I have been using it with 4 ot 5 other providers, also some that do not have any Apple relationship. My iPhone 3G ran fine everywhere. And the old iPhone 2G also works for everybody.
Apple do have fragmentation, the iPad is the biggest difference. But it is considered a different device.
But there is a difference in having fragmentation happen once per year or twice per month.
Because a bullet that does not hit will not stop anything.
Hitting the target at the right place with the right ammo/weapon is key.
And since many law officers have a 20 pound trigger pull (because they are nervous, and has not learned how to handle weapons), the weapons makes it almost impossible to hit.
1 pound trigger pull, and teach them to put the finger on the trigger only if they are ready to fire would increase stopping power of any caliber. But also increase accidental discharges, as they are not ready for the situation.
Stress management and smooth weapons wins. Not stress and cannons
You can not burn fat without carbohydrates. So you can die from starvation even when fat.
When a normal person is running for 1+ hour, the body will run out of carbs after around 45 minutes, and get dizzy as the brain does not get the carbs it needs. With training, your body will learn that it should reserve carbs for the brain, and for what is needed to burn the fat, and you can go much longer.
It takes training to teach the body to burn fat instead of sugar. Most people not in shape are not capable of converting much fat to energy. When I was running a lot, all fat disappeared from my arms and legs. But my belly did not shrink much. Guess fat is used locally.
Everything I hear about weight loss is, that you can get a maximum of around 1 pound per week sustainable weight loss. The average is more than half of that. And does not take muscle gain into account.
Whenever in my life I have started training for some goal, my initial weight go up as muscles gain mass. Then weight drops later.
When I trained for marathon, I was running 2 time 8km + 1 times long run, when my long run started to go beyond 75 minutes, I kept losing around half a pound per week. And I was on normal food, but bigger portions. I was on half a liter of icecream and 200 grams of potato chips as supplement so as not to lose too much weight too quickly, and not be too tired.
Exercise works. Especially 60-65%+ of Heart Rate Reserve in more than 75 minutes at a time. Most people burns mostly sugar the first 45 minutes. The body need to be starved off carbohydrates during exercise, so that the body will learn to use fat as the primary energy source, and keep carbs as a fuel for the brain.
That webpage will son be Photoshopped with their usual success to say August 2009. Otherwise they would be break contractual obligations. At least here in Europe, you can demand from your reseller that the product does what the manufacturer says it should do.
Or in another way, all consumers who bought a laptop within the last 2 years (so still under warranty) should go to the shop. Demand to have this defective product repaired, and if the store denies, then they should demand to have the purchase reversed. Getting back the $1000 they bought for the machine, so they can get the faster fancier Windows 7 equipped machine for $800, and $200 in the pocket.
Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot here. I recommend that you look around for a trustworthy company to upgrade to.
If you put the plates on a downhill ramp, then the car need to move vertically anyway. So instead of having to use the brakes to convert energy into waste heat, they can convert it into electricity.
A Parking house with multiple levels would be perfect if there are different lanes up and down. Or other descending roads.
We have e=m*v^2 - So the faster the plate can be pressed down, the more enery we will get, but there will also be some impact force. So the number can be much lower.
I use XCode, combined with Textmate (commercial), but XCode alone is pretty good, and I actually like it. Nothing better for coding for your phone and desktop in the same IDE.
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Microsoft just did its first step in imporving Skype. They cut the Asterisk plugin license.
They are trying to make it an isolated island. Call this an improvement if you wish.
There is only one way to go. Open standards, and FaceTime :)
It must be the Monty Python chocolate then.
The one from: Whizzo Chocolate Company
See transscript if you have no clue
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode06.htm
Encrypt password + salt with public key.
It is strong, probably close to as good as a hash. You can add the MD5 as additional salt to get longer ciphertext.
Then protect private key, and use only when government needs it.
That should be easy to implement, if encryption is legal in France.
I agree, Asymetric encryption / public key with salt. This should be close to a one way hash for hackers.
The safety then depends on how secure you store the private key. Should be stored offline.
But then there is the session cookie that the friend on the wifi can use almost forever.
The interpretation of the EU regulation is different. I think the latest bet on how Denmark understand the EU regulation is:
The users must be informed that cookies are used, and always have easy access to the "cookie policy".
The user must have a way to opt-out. It is still debated if it is enough to inform him how he adds sites to the Internet Zone, and denies cookies to sites in the Internet Zone. Persistent Cookies needs user approval, session cookies not.
There is also the other solution that wil kill the regulation: Just tell users that to use the site they must accept cookies. If they don't, they can go away. When they can visit no websites at all, they will start accepting the cookies. Most technical skilled people thinks this is the worst law ever decided by the EU. So many websites are dependent on cookies today, that most of the web would stop working if cookies was disabled.
As it is now, it is the user that decides if he want JavaScript or Cookies.
It is all about stock pumping and dumping.
Nobody believes it is Steve Jobs apart from the same journalists who used to see aliens and flying saucerers all the time. Why would Steve drive a Honda Civic ? Why would he use a 2nd rate US clinic when he went through the treatment at a specialist clinic in Europe ?
I am long in APple shares, and thinks all this is stupid, but after options expires today, there is potential for new record highs.
What happens when Steve is gone ? Nobody knows. But the people in Apple should be able to come up with new products without Steve. Can they find a replacement ? Maybe not. Can they find a QA guy who can approve/reject designs as Steve did ? Maybe. But I doubt he will also be the CEO, but that is not important.
For me the workflow is like this:
Copy to laptop harddrive if on the road, to external drive at home.
I used to back up to DVD, but it is too bothersome. So I have a Synology NAS for local copies.
I also have a USB dock for raw SATA disks, so I can replace them. That is for easy access backup. Stored at home.
Finally I have just started using Crashplan. That is online backup. Covers the situation where my laptop and media at home is stolen/burned etc.
I was thinking about carrying a backup disk to work. But there is a large risk that you do not remember to shuffle the 2 disks. The Crashplan backup software will allow for this though. Syncing only changes to each of you external backup disks. I might do that with the raw disks I have.
Why don't Microsoft tell users what 3rd party app is costing them money ?
Users should have a possibility of deleting or disabling the offending app. As it is now, Microsoft should get the bill for this data forwarded. They know about it and do not act. here in Denmark that is reason for court action, it is actively taking responsibility if you do not act in a timely manner.
Or maybe Microsoft is getting their percentage of the money for data transfer ? So it is money straight in their pocket.
Drop MS, go for the walled garden.
Have you used the Galaxy Tab ? It's hardware is supposedly no worse than the iPad, yet the GUI seems sluggish and in a very different league that the iPad, which even has higher screen res.
Android, given that it started out as a mobile OS shuld be way faster and smoother. Apple is just using an adaption of an old resource hog of a Desktop OS, but still performs way better than Android.
So what he was saying is, that they are padding with a potentially unencrypted random number, that can be used to guess earlier and later random numbers, and thus break SSH. The random number is a hint for crackers / PRNG guessers.
Here in Denmark, I think all 3G / UMTS providers does at least 21Mb/s. And one telecom does 42Mb/s in the large cities. That is what we call 3G. People expect 100Mb/s or more for 4G, not just some overclocked 3G
But I guess the US has been left behind and sees everything over 7.2Mb/s as 4G ?
Steve has said that the iPhone is open for Flash. He just said it needs to be not buggy, and not drain batteries.
Adobe has not yet fulfilled those 2. All I hear about flash on Android is, that you are better off without, as it slows the device, eats battery, and crashes.
I don't want my iPhone to be infected by such malware from Adobe.
I thought there was a problem with simultaneous data and call on the Verizon network. You can do one thing at a time.
Also the Nokia E51 on GSM had trouble like that. If you had a call ongoing using bluetooth headset and data transfer started, it would drop the connection.
If you can't call and have data at the same time, it is a dumb phone + PDA put together.
The problem is, that replacing/fixing the 10 million iPhones 4 out there will serious limit supply of new devices to all the consumers willing to part money. I expect a fix to be announced when Apple has no problems handling demand. Maybe Apple already silently put some transparent paint on all new devices to limit the number they have to replace.
Giving away the protective band is to admit there is a problem, and will result in some of the class-action lawsuits getting money.
Facetime is an open standard from Apple.
People really loves the iPhone 4 implementation.
The rest of the world do not have software patents, so we don't care about MPEG.LA
Just host it outside the USA, and everything is fine.
In most countries, a contract is an agreement between 2 parties. So unless they have a paper with my signature, I am not bound by any contract with them. I think USA is the only country where you can enter a contract without knowing so, and without ever accepting it.
I think the US of A should look to the free world for how things are done.
1. Apple introduces new devices once a year, and support reaches back for at least 2 years. With Android devices, you get new devices on the market a few times per month, and the manufacturer will not support devices older than 6 month, when they have become fossile devices. There is a big difference here. And Android devices are everything from phones to full size computers, all with different hardware and capabilities. It is like coding for the PC.
2. Apple will leave features out from old models. iPhone OS 4 will not guive my 3G any multitasking, and the 3GS have way better 3D graphics than my 3G. And the hardware they introduce in less than a week will probably run past all Android devices. But Apple is not just about hardware specs, it is about quality. I tthink all agreed that 2MPix from iPhone 3G camera was better than 3MPix in all competition. iPhone has the best touch screen, and are generally considered to be of googd quality, nto designed to be replaced every 6 months.
3. Apple does not kill hardware out of contract. My phone was officially unlocked by Apple after 6 months. And I have been using it with 4 ot 5 other providers, also some that do not have any Apple relationship. My iPhone 3G ran fine everywhere. And the old iPhone 2G also works for everybody.
Apple do have fragmentation, the iPad is the biggest difference. But it is considered a different device.
But there is a difference in having fragmentation happen once per year or twice per month.
That pictures of women who are not covered top to toe are considered porn.
I am sure thare are some communities of strict muslims in the US.
As a result, all newsstands must be closed down, and all newspapers will have to show pictueres only of men.
Stupidity rulez
Because a bullet that does not hit will not stop anything.
Hitting the target at the right place with the right ammo/weapon is key.
And since many law officers have a 20 pound trigger pull (because they are nervous, and has not learned how to handle weapons), the weapons makes it almost impossible to hit.
1 pound trigger pull, and teach them to put the finger on the trigger only if they are ready to fire would increase stopping power of any caliber. But also increase accidental discharges, as they are not ready for the situation.
Stress management and smooth weapons wins. Not stress and cannons
You can not burn fat without carbohydrates. So you can die from starvation even when fat.
When a normal person is running for 1+ hour, the body will run out of carbs after around 45 minutes, and get dizzy as the brain does not get the carbs it needs. With training, your body will learn that it should reserve carbs for the brain, and for what is needed to burn the fat, and you can go much longer.
It takes training to teach the body to burn fat instead of sugar. Most people not in shape are not capable of converting much fat to energy. When I was running a lot, all fat disappeared from my arms and legs. But my belly did not shrink much. Guess fat is used locally.
Everything I hear about weight loss is, that you can get a maximum of around 1 pound per week sustainable weight loss. The average is more than half of that. And does not take muscle gain into account.
Whenever in my life I have started training for some goal, my initial weight go up as muscles gain mass. Then weight drops later.
When I trained for marathon, I was running 2 time 8km + 1 times long run, when my long run started to go beyond 75 minutes, I kept losing around half a pound per week. And I was on normal food, but bigger portions. I was on half a liter of icecream and 200 grams of potato chips as supplement so as not to lose too much weight too quickly, and not be too tired.
Exercise works. Especially 60-65%+ of Heart Rate Reserve in more than 75 minutes at a time. Most people burns mostly sugar the first 45 minutes. The body need to be starved off carbohydrates during exercise, so that the body will learn to use fat as the primary energy source, and keep carbs as a fuel for the brain.
That webpage will son be Photoshopped with their usual success to say August 2009.
Otherwise they would be break contractual obligations. At least here in Europe, you can demand from your reseller that the product does what the manufacturer says it should do.
Or in another way, all consumers who bought a laptop within the last 2 years (so still under warranty) should go to the shop. Demand to have this defective product repaired, and if the store denies, then they should demand to have the purchase reversed. Getting back the $1000 they bought for the machine, so they can get the faster fancier Windows 7 equipped machine for $800, and $200 in the pocket.
Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot here. I recommend that you look around for a trustworthy company to upgrade to.
If you put the plates on a downhill ramp, then the car need to move vertically anyway.
So instead of having to use the brakes to convert energy into waste heat, they can convert it into electricity.
A Parking house with multiple levels would be perfect if there are different lanes up and down. Or other descending roads.
We have e=m*v^2 - So the faster the plate can be pressed down, the more enery we will get, but there will also be some impact force. So the number can be much lower.
I use XCode, combined with Textmate (commercial), but XCode alone is pretty good, and I actually like it.
Nothing better for coding for your phone and desktop in the same IDE.