There needs to be distros like Debian which, while always delayed, has all the important bugs ironed out.
Debian is like Debian. Seriously, how many Debian distros do we really need? 1 is fine with me.
Also I am pretty sure that Ubuntu is based on Debian.
Ubuntu is based on Debian Unstable. Their release processes are entirely different. Ubuntu includes buggy packages that Debian would reject in a stable release.
The counter, on West 44th Street near Sixth Avenue, is more visible to those walking west; for those walking east, the sign is already behind them once they walk by the building.
Imagine that. The clock is behind you after you walk past it. Who knew?
Thank you for your insight on the details of how SSL works, oh wise and powerful omuls. However, it has got nothing to do with the topic at hand, unless you are suggesting that SSL is indeed just as fast and secure as symmetric encryption, just because it uses symmetric encryption at a lower level. Of course, that would be idiotic, because the key-exchange part of SSL is still slow, still the weakest point against cracking, and useless in the case where symmetric encryption can and should be used from the start.
Thinking back, I never even mentioned MITM attacks, which an SSL-based router would be vulnerable to.
Seriously. We've had a number of standards with names like "Wired Equivalency Protocol" and "Wifi Protected Access" and yet they seem to be falling, one-by-one, to relatively trivial attacks. I'm not saying that WPA is as bad as WEP, but how come they can't copy/paste something as good as good old-fashioned SSL?
Wow.
1) WPA is good. It has never been broken.
2) SSL has never been broken, but there have been implementation problems in the past, as with WPA
3) SSL (asymmetric encryption) is inappropriate for this type of communication, because:
a) asymmetric encryption is not as secure as same keysize symmetric encryption
b) asymmetric encryption requires a lot more processing power
WPA uses AES, which is a good choice. The sun will burn out before a random WPA key is cracked (at modern computer speeds). In contrast, industry standard 128-bit or 256-bit SSL takes hours or days to crack on a single modern computer, and 1024-bit SSL would take years for a supercomputer.
SSL is designed for another purpose entirely, and is inappropriate for low level wireless security.
I am sure that you felt that your suggestions were good when you made them, but it is important to understand that you don't understand encryption well enough to make good suggestions. Your suggestion of using standard, well-proven communication methods, however, are good. And that is why we will be continuing to use WPA.
Microsoft got right the idea of requiring higher privileges for making system-wide changes, but they really borked the implementation. Things like rearranging the Start Menu requires UAC popups. That's dumb. A user should be able to rearrange their own Start Menu without affecting the system. And the Windows installation still does not create a Regular User account by default.
Perhaps we would still access it, but would not submit personal information. I use a fake name and a sneakemail address for most sites, and read the policies and terms anywhere that I give my real name, such as banks.
I recently moved my Open Source Gamebook Project from Sourceforge, solely because of their asinine TOS. I have since moved my svn to cvsdude, who specifically respects my rights to my code. Launchpad also has a reasonable TOS.
If they care about their privacy, they had better well read the privacy policy.
All you really need to read is this part: "SourceForge reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Statement from time to time." If they can retro-actively change the policy at any time after you give them your data, then your data is never safe with them.
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Although, I guess they [Debian] made the decision for 2.6.26 before they realised that a September release would be an impossible target.
Yeah. Nobody could have predicted that a Debian release would be late.
And Youtube comments, as well as blog posts, are often discussions and people replying to each other. Because it breaks up the logical order of discussion. Why is top posting bad?
Wow! You a smart mother----er. I would have never thought to -- that.
Seriously, that's kind of obvious. A lot of us have seen redacted government documents, and it's usually pretty obvious what words go where. I've seen one where they left the bottom few pixels of a line, and it was simple to figure out what it said.
The only way redacting a document has a chance of working is if you are redacting numbers, or entire paragraphs, and there is no way you are going to recover an account number that has been blacked out. Redacting words in a sentence is just silly.
Yep. That's what I was pointing out, that Firefox has lost it's way. It is no longer a small, lightweight browser.
Phoenix was the original name for Firefox. Then Firebird. It's purpose was to be small and light-weight, without all of the extra features of the Mozilla web browser (now Seamonkey). So Mozilla stripped out the extra features, and now they are adding them again. I am suggesting that they strip them out again. Everything old is new again.
Much of this DVR technology is "obvious" now but when TIVO first began building these boxes there was no one out there doing it.
This is one of the worst (most effective and hardest to fight) tactics used by patent trolls. They patent the next obvious step in technology. There is no prior art, but no innovation either. Good for Tivo for being first on the DVR scene, but DVRs were the next step after VCRs, and pausing and rewinding live TV is an obvious part of a DVR.
I mean really, if it was so obvious and simple why is it that every other damned commercial DVR out there sucks ass?
UIs are hard to do right. Tivo got it right. Good for them. But that doesn't mean they should be allowed to patent obvious technology.
My parents had a Scientific Atlanta box that came with their cable, back when they had cable. That box was great. It was only lacking a feature to skip commercials, and to jump forward and backward in a stream by an arbitrary amount, such as 1 minute.
It would be great if Mozilla, or somebody else, would make a light version of Firefox, which only had web browsing. It could be extendable, so that user's could have just what they want, and not a lot of feature creep. Perhaps they could call it Phoenix, or Firebird.
As I understand it, Linux bought, or was given, an IBM-compatible 386 computer. The only operating system that ran on it at the time was DOS, which he was not happy with. So he made a new operating system for it, with the help of Minix.
Here's my comment from the firehose. Stupid how those don't carry over.
Barring you from working on the same project again (or same field again?) might be unenforceable. Several jobs have non-compete clauses in their contracts, but several judges have struck them down. It really doesn't seem practical, or reasonable, to accept a lifetime ban for a job. Also, how long does your contract with your new employer last? Definitely do not accept if it is an "at-will" employment offer. They'll just fire you the first month, and they have eliminated a competitor with minimal cost. Also this part, "Moreover, they would take ownership of not just to what they'd pay for, but also of my changes leading up to this moment" needs to be crossed out unless they are buying the work you have done so far. Don't give that away for free.
Basically, what you have described are unreasonable terms. If I was offered a job that paid better than what I get now, I would seriously consider taking it, even if it was at the cost of the open source community. I would continue to contribute in other ways. But that doesn't seem to be what is happening here. At worst you are being scammed, and they will fire you when they get what they want, and at best you are getting a bad deal.
That's easy to say when you know what the problem is. But when you don't, there are a million possibilities, from faulty discs to cosmic rays, and disconnecting the device's internet connection seems an unlikely solution, especially for a non-techie who connected it because their instruction manual told them to.
According to one of the bosses in "Office Space," they try to fire people on a Friday, so that they have the weekend to cool off, in case they were thinking of coming into work the next day with a machine gun.
Maybe it's kind of like that? Maybe they pass unpopular bills on a Friday so that angry protesters have the weekend to cool off before coming into Congress with a machine gun?
"Don't be afraid to be funny in your write-up; let's face it, colon cleaning is a funny topic! "
Unfortunately, the blog that the summary links to links to a craigslist ad, which presumably had the contact address. And for some reason, craigslist removed the post. It is unfortunate. I would have done this for a month for $250.
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There needs to be distros like Debian which, while always delayed, has all the important bugs ironed out.
Debian is like Debian. Seriously, how many Debian distros do we really need? 1 is fine with me.
Also I am pretty sure that Ubuntu is based on Debian.
Ubuntu is based on Debian Unstable. Their release processes are entirely different. Ubuntu includes buggy packages that Debian would reject in a stable release.
The counter, on West 44th Street near Sixth Avenue, is more visible to those walking west; for those walking east, the sign is already behind them once they walk by the building.
Imagine that. The clock is behind you after you walk past it. Who knew?
Thank you for your insight on the details of how SSL works, oh wise and powerful omuls. However, it has got nothing to do with the topic at hand, unless you are suggesting that SSL is indeed just as fast and secure as symmetric encryption, just because it uses symmetric encryption at a lower level. Of course, that would be idiotic, because the key-exchange part of SSL is still slow, still the weakest point against cracking, and useless in the case where symmetric encryption can and should be used from the start.
Thinking back, I never even mentioned MITM attacks, which an SSL-based router would be vulnerable to.
Seriously. We've had a number of standards with names like "Wired Equivalency Protocol" and "Wifi Protected Access" and yet they seem to be falling, one-by-one, to relatively trivial attacks. I'm not saying that WPA is as bad as WEP, but how come they can't copy/paste something as good as good old-fashioned SSL?
Wow.
1) WPA is good. It has never been broken. 2) SSL has never been broken, but there have been implementation problems in the past, as with WPA 3) SSL (asymmetric encryption) is inappropriate for this type of communication, because: a) asymmetric encryption is not as secure as same keysize symmetric encryption b) asymmetric encryption requires a lot more processing power
WPA uses AES, which is a good choice. The sun will burn out before a random WPA key is cracked (at modern computer speeds). In contrast, industry standard 128-bit or 256-bit SSL takes hours or days to crack on a single modern computer, and 1024-bit SSL would take years for a supercomputer.
SSL is designed for another purpose entirely, and is inappropriate for low level wireless security.
I am sure that you felt that your suggestions were good when you made them, but it is important to understand that you don't understand encryption well enough to make good suggestions. Your suggestion of using standard, well-proven communication methods, however, are good. And that is why we will be continuing to use WPA.
Microsoft got right the idea of requiring higher privileges for making system-wide changes, but they really borked the implementation. Things like rearranging the Start Menu requires UAC popups. That's dumb. A user should be able to rearrange their own Start Menu without affecting the system. And the Windows installation still does not create a Regular User account by default.
Perhaps we would still access it, but would not submit personal information. I use a fake name and a sneakemail address for most sites, and read the policies and terms anywhere that I give my real name, such as banks.
I recently moved my Open Source Gamebook Project from Sourceforge, solely because of their asinine TOS. I have since moved my svn to cvsdude, who specifically respects my rights to my code. Launchpad also has a reasonable TOS.
If they care about their privacy, they had better well read the privacy policy.
All you really need to read is this part: "SourceForge reserves the right to update and change this Privacy Statement from time to time." If they can retro-actively change the policy at any time after you give them your data, then your data is never safe with them.
Although, I guess they [Debian] made the decision for 2.6.26 before they realised that a September release would be an impossible target.
Yeah. Nobody could have predicted that a Debian release would be late.
Yes, then people, would realize, how their comment wheezes, when it is full, of unnecessary commas.
And Youtube comments, as well as blog posts, are often discussions and people replying to each other. Because it breaks up the logical order of discussion. Why is top posting bad?
Completely on topic, since this is idle and we are talking about pants.
What does "idle is pants" mean? I laugh every time I see it, but have no clue to its meaning.
Wow! You a smart mother----er. I would have never thought to -- that.
Seriously, that's kind of obvious. A lot of us have seen redacted government documents, and it's usually pretty obvious what words go where. I've seen one where they left the bottom few pixels of a line, and it was simple to figure out what it said.
The only way redacting a document has a chance of working is if you are redacting numbers, or entire paragraphs, and there is no way you are going to recover an account number that has been blacked out. Redacting words in a sentence is just silly.
Yep. That's what I was pointing out, that Firefox has lost it's way. It is no longer a small, lightweight browser.
Phoenix was the original name for Firefox. Then Firebird. It's purpose was to be small and light-weight, without all of the extra features of the Mozilla web browser (now Seamonkey). So Mozilla stripped out the extra features, and now they are adding them again. I am suggesting that they strip them out again. Everything old is new again.
Much of this DVR technology is "obvious" now but when TIVO first began building these boxes there was no one out there doing it.
This is one of the worst (most effective and hardest to fight) tactics used by patent trolls. They patent the next obvious step in technology. There is no prior art, but no innovation either. Good for Tivo for being first on the DVR scene, but DVRs were the next step after VCRs, and pausing and rewinding live TV is an obvious part of a DVR.
I mean really, if it was so obvious and simple why is it that every other damned commercial DVR out there sucks ass?
UIs are hard to do right. Tivo got it right. Good for them. But that doesn't mean they should be allowed to patent obvious technology.
My parents had a Scientific Atlanta box that came with their cable, back when they had cable. That box was great. It was only lacking a feature to skip commercials, and to jump forward and backward in a stream by an arbitrary amount, such as 1 minute.
It would be great if Mozilla, or somebody else, would make a light version of Firefox, which only had web browsing. It could be extendable, so that user's could have just what they want, and not a lot of feature creep. Perhaps they could call it Phoenix, or Firebird.
As I understand it, Linux bought, or was given, an IBM-compatible 386 computer. The only operating system that ran on it at the time was DOS, which he was not happy with. So he made a new operating system for it, with the help of Minix.
Here's my comment from the firehose. Stupid how those don't carry over.
Barring you from working on the same project again (or same field again?) might be unenforceable. Several jobs have non-compete clauses in their contracts, but several judges have struck them down. It really doesn't seem practical, or reasonable, to accept a lifetime ban for a job. Also, how long does your contract with your new employer last? Definitely do not accept if it is an "at-will" employment offer. They'll just fire you the first month, and they have eliminated a competitor with minimal cost. Also this part, "Moreover, they would take ownership of not just to what they'd pay for, but also of my changes leading up to this moment" needs to be crossed out unless they are buying the work you have done so far. Don't give that away for free.
Basically, what you have described are unreasonable terms. If I was offered a job that paid better than what I get now, I would seriously consider taking it, even if it was at the cost of the open source community. I would continue to contribute in other ways. But that doesn't seem to be what is happening here. At worst you are being scammed, and they will fire you when they get what they want, and at best you are getting a bad deal.
Meanwhile, someone, somewhere had divided by zero, causing my calendar to indicate that it was the year 1900.
"D'oh!" -- God
The introduction of VOIP actually degraded the reliability of fixed-lines phones
Wahh??? Are you claiming that VOIP somehow managed to degrade POTS lines? Care to explain how they did that? And cite your source?
That's easy to say when you know what the problem is. But when you don't, there are a million possibilities, from faulty discs to cosmic rays, and disconnecting the device's internet connection seems an unlikely solution, especially for a non-techie who connected it because their instruction manual told them to.
too bad euthanasia is not legal
I live in Oregon you insensitive clod!
According to one of the bosses in "Office Space," they try to fire people on a Friday, so that they have the weekend to cool off, in case they were thinking of coming into work the next day with a machine gun.
Maybe it's kind of like that? Maybe they pass unpopular bills on a Friday so that angry protesters have the weekend to cool off before coming into Congress with a machine gun?
With a e-book reader, you can get Cheetos on all of your books at the same time. Progress!
"Don't be afraid to be funny in your write-up; let's face it, colon cleaning is a funny topic! "
Unfortunately, the blog that the summary links to links to a craigslist ad, which presumably had the contact address. And for some reason, craigslist removed the post. It is unfortunate. I would have done this for a month for $250.
(of course, it's possible some may think that the idle. is only a step above..)
Or a step below...