On Friday, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote in a blog posting that the 10-day pledge is not Mozilla's policy, saying 'We do not think security is a game, nor do we issue challenges or ultimatums.'
Upon hearing the news of this "flip-flopping," President Bush confidently stepped in for the Mozilla group and challenged the black hats to "bring it on."
The greater problem is the gathering of personal data to serve the ads. For me personally, the scariest thing isn't them developing an accurate profile, but an inaccurate one and it spreading to potential employers, etc, if they ever attach my name to it.
Neat, and because the angle of incidence is the opposite of normal, I can finally make a true mirror. You know, without the added hassle and expense of buying two regular mirrors.
My advice: Get a frickin' Google mail account already and use Google Talk instead.
Because occasional random censorship (MSN), or using evil companies (AIM, MSN), is worse than having all your conversations logged or otherwise datamined to sell ads? And that doesn't even get into the ease of using products to encrypt your IMs to evade this.
Hating Google in 10 years will be as cool as hating Microsoft now. I'm getting a headstart.
He said it was a challenge to create an ambitious game for two very different platforms but declined to say what the hitches actually were. "The technology that we're developing for 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is pretty complex. It's a big game. There are technical challenges across the board on both PS3 and 360. Our intention is to create a game that is the same experience on both 360 and PS3. I know that there have been rumors in the market about frame-rate and some other issues. We don't think it's helpful or beneficial to go into what the technological issues are. We are pushing the envelope on both platforms."
So, trying to make two different engines is twice as hard? No shit. But I think it's fair to blame this on the PS3, because their stupid architecture is the one that deviated from the standard.
A proof of concept for getting around HDCP has already been published.
Yeah, but the author didn't understand the combinatorics involved. He implied you only needed 400 queries to decipher the HDCP, when it is still orders of magnitude more. I think around 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 attempts.
The cheapest normally available unit (and the most expensive normally available unit) maintained the same price. What you get for your money increased, but absent getting one of the discontinued models, you cannot get a PS3 for less money. Hence, it is not $100 less.
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Sir, you seem to have accidentally clicked the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, abusing something meant for whistleblowers. I trust you will reply to this with your name.
They're having a firesale of old 40gig units, lowering the price of the 60 gig units to where the 40 were, and adding an 80 gig unit where the 60 gig used to be priced. But they aren't making 40 gig units anymore.
Because apparently starting from square one with a new OS is easier than keeping your current install of XP Pro or Win2000.
But in 2017, MS has promised to stop supporting XP. It's like the getting ready for the 2038 problem, it's never too soon to switch your OS to a different solution that will not be in use a decade from now.
Maybe I'm a Linux snob but that seems like a striking lack of understanding.
You probably are, but that's not relevant. He wasn't saying, which version of Linux, with which desktop (and should I fork that version and change schedulers) best fits my needs, but which distro. Period. You choose bad defaults, you lose. And that is the selection critera, which, frankly, is the only way software becomes friendly enough for 99.9% of people to use. More Linux snobs should insist it work best for most users by default.
And somehow I suspect 'linux plans' might not mean complete replacement of Windows on the desktop.
A good point, considering if even if none of those 8% "acknowledging Linux plans" are talking about on the desktop, there is still a 102% pie being split up between Windows (Any) and Mac OSX.
Also, note this is in the next three months. Yeah, most businesses tend to be slow in adopting something that could put them out of business. Now, if it covered the next 3 years, then we could talk.
The fact that the RIAA published images that they had no rights to seems to me to make them just as guilty as the anybody using a P2P program. They took copyrighted material that they had no rights to and published it for their own proposes. If ignorance of the law is no excuse for P2P users then the RIAA doesn't have a leg to stand on..
While ignorance of the law might not give the RIAA a leg to stand on, knowledge of it will. In general, while the pictures are protected under copyright law, the contents of a directory are not.
It all has to fit inside a one-quart plastic bag...
And the screeners don't pay any attention to my logic of "The purpose of the one-quart bag is to limit the total liquids carried on a plane. It's only one less than 3 oz item item. Of course it could fit in a one-quart bag. Now give me back my cologne."
Want to make airport security less untolerable. Tell the screeners to use common sense and not inflexibly apply procedures when there is an as/more efficent way that applies in this one case.
No, I don't remember that. NYC has been the home of the wealthy and powerful for a long time. NYC may have been more libertine, but politically, conservative forces have been quite strong in NYC as well.
NYC has a powerful anti-tax political sway, but before Gulliani, it was a fairly liberal place when it came to, well, everything. Liberal != high taxes, in fact liberal is silent on economic matters. Onyl Ann Coulter/Bill O'Reilly disciples believe otherwise.
The ACLU says that they leave second amendment cases to the NRA, and will continue to do so as long as the NRA is an effective advocate. Why shouldn't they? I once very graciously allowed my coworker to do some of my work too.
What I find interesting is that you not only blame the ACLU, but the constitutional rights they protect. I personally like freedom of speech, the ability to not be randomly searched, etc. Further, I would argue that they help limit the police's ability to act capriciously, thus focusing their attention on real criminals.
And while I would like fewer criminals on the streets, I believe I can safely say that you would disagree with having GPS chips send your position to the police every millisecond? Or the police randomly strapping lie-detectors on everyone in the town because a crime was committed? Universal fingerprint and DNA collection? Because if you object to any of these, then we have an area where reasonable people can disagree.
They get tax-exempt status because they exist to expouse a viewpoint, as opposed to amass profit. Much like the Catholic Church or Green Party, to use two examples whose viewpoint I disagree with. See, in a democracy, how much someone agrees with you or the government, is fortunately not a determining factor in legal status. Although I suppose that gets back to that pesky first amendment you hate.
Thanks for the forumlaic argument. I hope you don't mind, but I've modified it somewhat. Tell me what you think, as I think it's analgous. The bold text represents the new words I've used:
I'm sorry, but this is one of the instances where I disagree with Slashdot.
You're out on the Internet. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy. No civil right is being violated, IMO.
Is this another example of us basically having less and less privacy when we send packets outside of our homes? Yes? Are our searches and requests being recorded more and more and is it getting annoying? Yes? But claim that the police recording the contents of every packet, as well as the sender and reciever on the open Internet is unconstitutional? Can't side with you.
You're exactly right. Market forces are why I don't worry about net neutrality, for instance. Or a more pertinent example would be employer drug testing. They're competing for the best employees after all.
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Upon hearing the news of this "flip-flopping," President Bush confidently stepped in for the Mozilla group and challenged the black hats to "bring it on."
The greater problem is the gathering of personal data to serve the ads. For me personally, the scariest thing isn't them developing an accurate profile, but an inaccurate one and it spreading to potential employers, etc, if they ever attach my name to it.
Neat, and because the angle of incidence is the opposite of normal, I can finally make a true mirror. You know, without the added hassle and expense of buying two regular mirrors.
Because occasional random censorship (MSN), or using evil companies (AIM, MSN), is worse than having all your conversations logged or otherwise datamined to sell ads? And that doesn't even get into the ease of using products to encrypt your IMs to evade this.
Hating Google in 10 years will be as cool as hating Microsoft now. I'm getting a headstart.
Wiggum: Once a man is in your home, anything you do to him is nice and legal *rubs gun*.
Homer: *out window* Flanders, get in here.
Flanders: *offscreen* Okily-dokily.
Wiggum: Uhh... it doesn't work if you invite them.
*Flanders enters the Homer's kitchen*
Homer: *disappointed* Flanders, go home.
So, trying to make two different engines is twice as hard? No shit. But I think it's fair to blame this on the PS3, because their stupid architecture is the one that deviated from the standard.
Yeah, but the author didn't understand the combinatorics involved. He implied you only needed 400 queries to decipher the HDCP, when it is still orders of magnitude more. I think around 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 attempts.
The cheapest normally available unit (and the most expensive normally available unit) maintained the same price. What you get for your money increased, but absent getting one of the discontinued models, you cannot get a PS3 for less money. Hence, it is not $100 less.
Is Blueray. That's going to last another decade.
--- Anonymous Coward
Sir, you seem to have accidentally clicked the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, abusing something meant for whistleblowers. I trust you will reply to this with your name.
They're having a firesale of old 40gig units, lowering the price of the 60 gig units to where the 40 were, and adding an 80 gig unit where the 60 gig used to be priced. But they aren't making 40 gig units anymore.
But in 2017, MS has promised to stop supporting XP. It's like the getting ready for the 2038 problem, it's never too soon to switch your OS to a different solution that will not be in use a decade from now.
You probably are, but that's not relevant. He wasn't saying, which version of Linux, with which desktop (and should I fork that version and change schedulers) best fits my needs, but which distro. Period. You choose bad defaults, you lose. And that is the selection critera, which, frankly, is the only way software becomes friendly enough for 99.9% of people to use. More Linux snobs should insist it work best for most users by default.
A good point, considering if even if none of those 8% "acknowledging Linux plans" are talking about on the desktop, there is still a 102% pie being split up between Windows (Any) and Mac OSX.
Also, note this is in the next three months. Yeah, most businesses tend to be slow in adopting something that could put them out of business. Now, if it covered the next 3 years, then we could talk.
Oh, I forgot to mention, with apologies for responding to my own post, IANAL.
While ignorance of the law might not give the RIAA a leg to stand on, knowledge of it will. In general, while the pictures are protected under copyright law, the contents of a directory are not.
The infared heat scan is not a decided issue, AFAIK. Two appelate courts have made different opinions, and the Supreme Court hasn't weighed in yet.
Then again, IANAL, all my knowledge comes from helping a friend do research for the debate team, and is old.
And the screeners don't pay any attention to my logic of "The purpose of the one-quart bag is to limit the total liquids carried on a plane. It's only one less than 3 oz item item. Of course it could fit in a one-quart bag. Now give me back my cologne."
Want to make airport security less untolerable. Tell the screeners to use common sense and not inflexibly apply procedures when there is an as/more efficent way that applies in this one case.
NYC has a powerful anti-tax political sway, but before Gulliani, it was a fairly liberal place when it came to, well, everything. Liberal != high taxes, in fact liberal is silent on economic matters. Onyl Ann Coulter/Bill O'Reilly disciples believe otherwise.
NYC was a liberal enclave?
Why don't they just make a law against breathing so that the growth of police power via selective enforcement is complete.
The ACLU says that they leave second amendment cases to the NRA, and will continue to do so as long as the NRA is an effective advocate. Why shouldn't they? I once very graciously allowed my coworker to do some of my work too.
What I find interesting is that you not only blame the ACLU, but the constitutional rights they protect. I personally like freedom of speech, the ability to not be randomly searched, etc. Further, I would argue that they help limit the police's ability to act capriciously, thus focusing their attention on real criminals.
And while I would like fewer criminals on the streets, I believe I can safely say that you would disagree with having GPS chips send your position to the police every millisecond? Or the police randomly strapping lie-detectors on everyone in the town because a crime was committed? Universal fingerprint and DNA collection? Because if you object to any of these, then we have an area where reasonable people can disagree.
They get tax-exempt status because they exist to expouse a viewpoint, as opposed to amass profit. Much like the Catholic Church or Green Party, to use two examples whose viewpoint I disagree with. See, in a democracy, how much someone agrees with you or the government, is fortunately not a determining factor in legal status. Although I suppose that gets back to that pesky first amendment you hate.
I'd be careful of gerbil/hamster based backends. There's always that one sysadmin whose just too interested...
Thanks for the forumlaic argument. I hope you don't mind, but I've modified it somewhat. Tell me what you think, as I think it's analgous. The bold text represents the new words I've used:
I'm sorry, but this is one of the instances where I disagree with Slashdot.
You're out on the Internet. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy. No civil right is being violated, IMO.
Is this another example of us basically having less and less privacy when we send packets outside of our homes? Yes? Are our searches and requests being recorded more and more and is it getting annoying? Yes? But claim that the police recording the contents of every packet, as well as the sender and reciever on the open Internet is unconstitutional? Can't side with you.
Why do you find it odd? The GPL has a fairly viral nature, which they find does not works with their component based system.
They actually have very strong reasoning.
You're exactly right. Market forces are why I don't worry about net neutrality, for instance. Or a more pertinent example would be employer drug testing. They're competing for the best employees after all.