"When Yahoo purchased Tumblr in May, Tumblr founder David Karp said Tumblr wouldn't be changing, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said, 'Part of our strategy here is to let Tumblr be Tumblr.'
And Tumblr hasn't changed.
Yahoo's search index changed (if anyone actually uses it).
Why is this story worth babbling about? It's not news for nerds, and certainly not stuff that matters.
It shouldn't be possible to intercept passwords by snooping on IP connections, as long as you're using encryption such as SSL, and not a shitty password-in-plaintext service like FTP.
Actually, all it requires is that the route be compromised such that MITM attacks are feasible. For example, if the route from $customer to $bank is compromised by $baddies, then SSL or any encryption involving a negotiated key gets you nowhere. The SSL request from $customer goes to $baddies who respond with a key that they know and understand, while they pass on another SSL request to $bank. Everything between $customer and $bank is available in cleartext to $baddies, who can either (i) snoop on all of $customer's transactions, or (ii) insert their own transactions under $customer's authority. This is MITM basics...
It's also how many corporate firewalls work, and how they must work in any corporation doing business in the US (thank Congress and their weird laws). They have a built-in MITM going on all the time. It may not be wise to do your banking while at work if you don't trust your employer, or whoever they outsource network security to.
I turned off Backup on Android after discovering this.
I turned it off before I ever knew this, because I'm increasingly finding that I don't trust Google -- either in intent or execution.
Likewise. Nothing in particular against Google, but the number of entities in which trust is required should be minimized.
I don't allow any passwords or other information to be "backed up" outside my own domain. All backups are local on our own servers and external disks. Remote administration is switched off for the router, and server administration is allowed only from specific LAN IP addresses (router not allowed). Passwords for external sites may be intercepted en route to their intended sites, but only if the route is compromised (MITM style) or if the destination is compromised (thank you, NSA).
Could someone do me a solid and check to see if the following website is available to you?
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
As of this morning, it is "forbidden" from all machines in my house. I know this because I read chapter 1 last night just before bed.
Works fine here (Finland).
I also have the book in both dead-tree form and in PDF, so that site is largely irrelevant to me.
Vietnam was a political firestorm, bring in the nukes and suddenly the problem is solved.
ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant - Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, 98AD. "where they make a desert, they call it peace". That is neither a solution to a problem, nor a way to make peace.
DC is the Asshole of America - Hence the foul odor, hot air, and irritating sounds that originate from within.... Which is quite an amazing feat, considering that it's situated squarely between the nation's armpit (NJ) and limp dick (FL).
Until you realize that the Horn of Plenty (White House or Congress, take your pick) is right in there, reaming away in a frenzy.
Sometimes, plain coordinates or a normal address would be better. Our house is on just over a hectare of land. That's about 1000 of those damn word triplets; even a fast talker would go blue in the face saying them. Our cottage is on 6½ hectares - a whole chorus would be left breathless.
Then it is similar to a real life version of The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick, but with a different crime prediction method.
The crime prediction method is the same as that in David Brin's Sundiver novel. This is the first book in his Uplift trilogy, all of which rely on directed genetic manipulation.
If you used the Windows calculator[*], then the result of the calculation 3.11 - 3.1 would give zero, exactly. MS initially claimed it was just a display bug, but backed down later, and even fixed it after 10 years or so (Win 95). Even if you multiplied it by 1000 it still remained zero. With linux, the difference 3.11 - 3.1 is likely a tad larger.
[*] All Windows versions from Win 386 to WfWg 3.11, and possibly earlier but I did not check with Windows 1 or Windows 286. It even did this in WinOS2 (OS/2 versions 2.x, 3, and 4) and was touted as proof that WinOS2 used the same source code as Windows; it even had the same bugs.
Ball points just don't work for me, gel pens are barely tolerable, felt tips and markers are okay, but the only writing tools which I really enjoy and am pleased to use are fountain pens (preferrably with italic nibs).
What they're about to get is nothing to celebrate, and should motivate one towards resisting the trend. The rest of the world either will get the same shortly thereafter, or is getting it already. The difficulty is that a group of persons must interpret the limits expounded in their constitution, and are not doing so well at it. One is reminded of the comparable commands in Orwell's Animal Farm, and their weasely reinterpretation:
No animal shall drink alcohol. (No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.)
No animal shall sleep in a bed. (No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.)
It's one of the big errors that scifi movies have with lasers in space combat (the other error being that laser pulses move slow enough to be seen). even with insanely powerful lasers, they'd be practically invisible in space because there's nothing for them to reflect off. Unless, of course, you want to pretend that all laser space battles take place in dust or gas clouds...
Thus the use of sandcasters in the
Traveller RPG. Basically dump bags of sand into space around your ship to absorb/reflect any laser weapons.
And lots of other SciFi, such as the Earth Strike series by Ian Douglas (a pseudonym of ex-Navy W.H. Keith). Too bad for Hollywood, which requires an unthinking and/or ignorant audience, or somehow equates SciFi with unscientific Fantasy.
The default - which some update forced on everyone - is to start with at the PlayStation Store, so you get ads as soon as your PSN account is logged in.
On my PS3 (which is up-to-date on firmware etc.), there is no such page of ads and there never has been. When the PS3 is powered up, it automatically logs me in to PSN. Then it does nothing - just waits at the XMB forever (or until it goes into screensaver mode). Occasionally, just after booting, it may suggest that there should be a firmware update. Occasionally, on starting a previously downloaded title, it may suggest that the title be updated.
There is no "page full of ads", so either you're trolling or you have set some really weird startup default. It is certainly not a default which was "forced on everyone" as you erroneously claim.
Canada is the only country that has kick the US's ass in war.
Well, not exactly the only one (anyway, wasn't the 1812 débâcle a war between the US and the British Empire?). As one prominent other country, the Vietnamese were victorious in their American war. Also, the US actually managed to kick its own ass, although in this achievement it is hardly alone.
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The US constitution was a brave experiment in bypassing these tenets. It has been gravely devalued by both POTUS and SCOTUS, especially in recent years.
Being politely voted out of the White House is not the same as being thrown out by the military. Gives no incentive for the next guy to hold onto his words.
As Seneca the Younger said: "Ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor" (Might is right, fear oppresses laws). This applies mostly to those who consider themselves rulers.
Or, according to Lucius Accius: "Oderint, dum metuant" (Let them hate, as long as they fear). This applies mostly to those who are ruled.
Ancient wisdoms which still apply, whether you're referring to Egypt or the USA, or just about anywhere.
It's been, what, 50 years now and Kissinger has never as much been indicted for war crimes?
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer.
Political satire has been beaten, bloodied, bludgeoned into unconsciousness, and dumped unceremoniously in an unmarked grave by the antics of almost every US administration since Nixon. The amount of ammunition provided by them for satirists is stupendous; the failure of anyone notable to use it satirically is shameful.
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"When Yahoo purchased Tumblr in May, Tumblr founder David Karp said Tumblr wouldn't be changing, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said, 'Part of our strategy here is to let Tumblr be Tumblr.'
And Tumblr hasn't changed.
Yahoo's search index changed (if anyone actually uses it).
Why is this story worth babbling about? It's not news for nerds, and certainly not stuff that matters.
There should be nothing left on which a bounty could be claimed.
Obviously, there is no need to buy a license, either.
It shouldn't be possible to intercept passwords by snooping on IP connections, as long as you're using encryption such as SSL, and not a shitty password-in-plaintext service like FTP.
Actually, all it requires is that the route be compromised such that MITM attacks are feasible. For example, if the route from $customer to $bank is compromised by $baddies, then SSL or any encryption involving a negotiated key gets you nowhere. The SSL request from $customer goes to $baddies who respond with a key that they know and understand, while they pass on another SSL request to $bank. Everything between $customer and $bank is available in cleartext to $baddies, who can either (i) snoop on all of $customer's transactions, or (ii) insert their own transactions under $customer's authority. This is MITM basics...
It's also how many corporate firewalls work, and how they must work in any corporation doing business in the US (thank Congress and their weird laws). They have a built-in MITM going on all the time. It may not be wise to do your banking while at work if you don't trust your employer, or whoever they outsource network security to.
I turned it off before I ever knew this, because I'm increasingly finding that I don't trust Google -- either in intent or execution.
Likewise. Nothing in particular against Google, but the number of entities in which trust is required should be minimized.
I don't allow any passwords or other information to be "backed up" outside my own domain. All backups are local on our own servers and external disks. Remote administration is switched off for the router, and server administration is allowed only from specific LAN IP addresses (router not allowed). Passwords for external sites may be intercepted en route to their intended sites, but only if the route is compromised (MITM style) or if the destination is compromised (thank you, NSA).
Could someone do me a solid and check to see if the following website is available to you?
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984
As of this morning, it is "forbidden" from all machines in my house. I know this because I read chapter 1 last night just before bed.
Works fine here (Finland).
I also have the book in both dead-tree form and in PDF, so that site is largely irrelevant to me.
Vietnam was a political firestorm, bring in the nukes and suddenly the problem is solved.
ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant - Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, 98AD. "where they make a desert, they call it peace". That is neither a solution to a problem, nor a way to make peace.
Did Congress repeal the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Yes. And because that makes us all criminals now, it means the NSA snooping is quite legitimate...
DC is the Asshole of America - Hence the foul odor, hot air, and irritating sounds that originate from within. ... Which is quite an amazing feat, considering that it's situated squarely between the nation's armpit (NJ) and limp dick (FL).
Until you realize that the Horn of Plenty (White House or Congress, take your pick) is right in there, reaming away in a frenzy.
Sometimes, plain coordinates or a normal address would be better. Our house is on just over a hectare of land. That's about 1000 of those damn word triplets; even a fast talker would go blue in the face saying them. Our cottage is on 6½ hectares - a whole chorus would be left breathless.
Then it is similar to a real life version of The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick, but with a different crime prediction method.
The crime prediction method is the same as that in David Brin's Sundiver novel. This is the first book in his Uplift trilogy, all of which rely on directed genetic manipulation.
If you used the Windows calculator[*], then the result of the calculation 3.11 - 3.1 would give zero, exactly. MS initially claimed it was just a display bug, but backed down later, and even fixed it after 10 years or so (Win 95). Even if you multiplied it by 1000 it still remained zero. With linux, the difference 3.11 - 3.1 is likely a tad larger.
[*] All Windows versions from Win 386 to WfWg 3.11, and possibly earlier but I did not check with Windows 1 or Windows 286. It even did this in WinOS2 (OS/2 versions 2.x, 3, and 4) and was touted as proof that WinOS2 used the same source code as Windows; it even had the same bugs.
Yeah, but for the scanners we wasted money on, that was revenue and probably a lot of profit for the manufacturers.
Are you familiar with the Broken Window Fallacy? Napolitano and the makers of those scanners certainly should be.
Ball points just don't work for me, gel pens are barely tolerable, felt tips and markers are okay, but the only writing tools which I really enjoy and am pleased to use are fountain pens (preferrably with italic nibs).
My fountain pen has a Comic Sans nib.
Perhaps you should patent such an exotic thing. The fairly mundane italic nib is quite well known to afficionados of fountain pen nibs.
Two words; hot grits.
You mean Natalie Portman is responsible? Did she hump him to death or what?
You Americans deserve what you're about to get.
What they're about to get is nothing to celebrate, and should motivate one towards resisting the trend. The rest of the world either will get the same shortly thereafter, or is getting it already. The difficulty is that a group of persons must interpret the limits expounded in their constitution, and are not doing so well at it. One is reminded of the comparable commands in Orwell's Animal Farm, and their weasely reinterpretation:
And so forth...
Did you bother to RTFA?
It says: "We’re now using an LG LP129QE: 12.85, 2560 x 1700 pixels (239ppi), with a 24-bit color depth. It looks gorgeous."
The one that richard stallman used? Or was it like custom made or something?
This one has a fairly decent display at 2560x1700 (should that be 1600?), unlike the crappy 1024x600 that Stallman finds acceptable.
It's one of the big errors that scifi movies have with lasers in space combat (the other error being that laser pulses move slow enough to be seen). even with insanely powerful lasers, they'd be practically invisible in space because there's nothing for them to reflect off. Unless, of course, you want to pretend that all laser space battles take place in dust or gas clouds...
Thus the use of sandcasters in the Traveller RPG. Basically dump bags of sand into space around your ship to absorb/reflect any laser weapons.
And lots of other SciFi, such as the Earth Strike series by Ian Douglas (a pseudonym of ex-Navy W.H. Keith). Too bad for Hollywood, which requires an unthinking and/or ignorant audience, or somehow equates SciFi with unscientific Fantasy.
The default - which some update forced on everyone - is to start with at the PlayStation Store, so you get ads as soon as your PSN account is logged in.
On my PS3 (which is up-to-date on firmware etc.), there is no such page of ads and there never has been. When the PS3 is powered up, it automatically logs me in to PSN. Then it does nothing - just waits at the XMB forever (or until it goes into screensaver mode). Occasionally, just after booting, it may suggest that there should be a firmware update. Occasionally, on starting a previously downloaded title, it may suggest that the title be updated.
There is no "page full of ads", so either you're trolling or you have set some really weird startup default. It is certainly not a default which was "forced on everyone" as you erroneously claim.
Canada is the only country that has kick the US's ass in war.
Well, not exactly the only one (anyway, wasn't the 1812 débâcle a war between the US and the British Empire?). As one prominent other country, the Vietnamese were victorious in their American war. Also, the US actually managed to kick its own ass, although in this achievement it is hardly alone.
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The US constitution was a brave experiment in bypassing these tenets. It has been gravely devalued by both POTUS and SCOTUS, especially in recent years.
Being politely voted out of the White House is not the same as being thrown out by the military. Gives no incentive for the next guy to hold onto his words.
As Seneca the Younger said: "Ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor" (Might is right, fear oppresses laws). This applies mostly to those who consider themselves rulers.
Or, according to Lucius Accius: "Oderint, dum metuant" (Let them hate, as long as they fear). This applies mostly to those who are ruled.
Ancient wisdoms which still apply, whether you're referring to Egypt or the USA, or just about anywhere.
It's been, what, 50 years now and Kissinger has never as much been indicted for war crimes?
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer.
Political satire has been beaten, bloodied, bludgeoned into unconsciousness, and dumped unceremoniously in an unmarked grave by the antics of almost every US administration since Nixon. The amount of ammunition provided by them for satirists is stupendous; the failure of anyone notable to use it satirically is shameful.
It must be smellable computing! Yeah, stinky computers.
After all, YSL peddles a load of overpriced fragrances.
Soviet Microsoft requires that YOU pay to make positive posts...