I have been using LastPass also and it seems to work a treat, as well as keeping things sync'd between my Windows and Linux sessions. I also like the fact it automatically checks for and flags when you repeat the same password between multiple sites.
It is also pretty smart about determining non-password based logins (I have one that uses a combination of SSN/DOB/and a PIN.)
And I will admit I use it too. But I use it because some ad networks have been shown to serve malware content, and nothing pisses me off as much as loading a page and not being able to read it because it won't render until some dogging ad network FINALLY throws up an advertisement.
Took a look at the address in Earth's Street View. (Yes, I know I could have done it in Maps, but Earth is just so much more fun.)
An ordinary house in an ordinary residential neighborhood.
Considering the fact that the USA's major source of violent crime comes from fewer than fifteen counties (that's right,counties...not states), logically, the remainder USA must be a remarkably safe place to be, despite all of the guns, all of the media violence.
The US has very poor areas with low violence rates, very rich places with low violence rates, and it has places where the very rich and the very poor share the same relatively cramped geography. The trend is the violence is most often found in the latter. My belief is the greatest contribution to violence is wildly varying income disparity.
know I'm probably the minority, but when I buy a technical book in electronic form, I immediately print it out and put it in a three-ring binder, much easier to locate what I'm interested and flip back and forth between sections... And here's the high-tech sacrilege: I print them out single-sided with wide margins. I use the blank side for notes...
Now get off my lawn.
Grrrrrrrr. And when an ePub can't get the bloody ass footnotes right....
"But, this STILL doesn't seem to beat the real gorilla in the room - availability of bandwidth. So, you have your USB stick, and your busted ass old computer, but no connection. How useful is this?"
Do you REALLY not see any way a computer can be useful without an internet?
Staggering.
I do see the point of computing without internet, but, this discussion seems driven largely by the idea of empowering people through access to information, so I ran with it. And, of course, what happens if one of the included apps has a showstopper bug? No internet means no patches.
"It's not clear to me how a bootable thumb drive is going to resurrect a non-functional computer."
No? What causes a computer to be written off as 'non-functional?'
The first thing that comes to mind is a failed hard drive. Plug in a system on a stick and it's functional again.
Very often there is actually *nothing* physically wrong with the hard drive, it's just a corrupted/infected filesystem, but the typical computer user doesnt know the difference and junks it anyway. And system on a stick fixes that too.
"Neither is it clear what this will accomplish for all those people too poor to own one at all"
It will allow them either a) pick up a 'dead' computer either free or a a very low (scrap metal value) price and use it or b) borrow/rent computer time but still be able to boot their own system on the temporary hardware, maintaining some semblance at least of their privacy.
But, this STILL doesn't seem to beat the real gorilla in the room - availability of bandwidth. So, you have your USB stick, and your busted ass old computer, but no connection. How useful is this? As usual, most mainstream media posits a free OS on a stick as the be all end all solution to third world connectivity issues.
Wow. Sorry to trip your meters there. Wouldn't have thought you would fixate so strongly on BOTTLES and forget the base idea behind what I was saying. I hope that works well for you.
Wow. Leach is actually a chemistry term. Leech means to drain or draw off; Leach means to dissolve and carry away a chemical content by the passing of water. Didn't know that.
Well, the context of the misuse of leech in this case struck me as funny, thus the comment.
Slashdot Mirror
And this is why I wish Ninite could do browser extensions...
Windows 95? You kids and your new technology...
Or, for that matter, ending up going to see an event at $SHITBOX_COMPANY Stadium/Park/Arena/Center.
Or as I mentioned above, multiple OSs on the same machine.
I have been using LastPass also and it seems to work a treat, as well as keeping things sync'd between my Windows and Linux sessions. I also like the fact it automatically checks for and flags when you repeat the same password between multiple sites. It is also pretty smart about determining non-password based logins (I have one that uses a combination of SSN/DOB/and a PIN.)
Does anyone have a clue what happened to it?
Look, man. I know my rights. If I am arrested I get one photo post...
Well, I am working on an Arduino-driven underdesk sanitation system....
I got to beta one of those. It was pretty amazing in its day.
Yeah, because, you know, expert advice doesn't count for anything.
Not so much. I already have the razor. They just make a blade for my architecture.
WHAT? No more BSG?
And I will admit I use it too. But I use it because some ad networks have been shown to serve malware content, and nothing pisses me off as much as loading a page and not being able to read it because it won't render until some dogging ad network FINALLY throws up an advertisement.
I have had to work with EDS before. What was that you said about reputations?
Took a look at the address in Earth's Street View. (Yes, I know I could have done it in Maps, but Earth is just so much more fun.) An ordinary house in an ordinary residential neighborhood.
Considering the fact that the USA's major source of violent crime comes from fewer than fifteen counties (that's right,counties...not states), logically, the remainder USA must be a remarkably safe place to be, despite all of the guns, all of the media violence.
The US has very poor areas with low violence rates, very rich places with low violence rates, and it has places where the very rich and the very poor share the same relatively cramped geography. The trend is the violence is most often found in the latter. My belief is the greatest contribution to violence is wildly varying income disparity.
Citation, please?
know I'm probably the minority, but when I buy a technical book in electronic form, I immediately print it out and put it in a three-ring binder, much easier to locate what I'm interested and flip back and forth between sections... And here's the high-tech sacrilege: I print them out single-sided with wide margins. I use the blank side for notes...
Now get off my lawn.
Grrrrrrrr. And when an ePub can't get the bloody ass footnotes right....
Stross is one such writer.
Plus, personally, he's a pretty awesome guy, so there's that too.
Well, if I have to be shot by a criminal, I would much rather it be by a gangstar than just some mook.
Well, that explains why he can't get anything done in a timely manner.
"But, this STILL doesn't seem to beat the real gorilla in the room - availability of bandwidth. So, you have your USB stick, and your busted ass old computer, but no connection. How useful is this?" Do you REALLY not see any way a computer can be useful without an internet? Staggering.
I do see the point of computing without internet, but, this discussion seems driven largely by the idea of empowering people through access to information, so I ran with it. And, of course, what happens if one of the included apps has a showstopper bug? No internet means no patches.
Hear hear, that's a good one, but, again, assumes there is infrastructure to use.
"It's not clear to me how a bootable thumb drive is going to resurrect a non-functional computer." No? What causes a computer to be written off as 'non-functional?' The first thing that comes to mind is a failed hard drive. Plug in a system on a stick and it's functional again. Very often there is actually *nothing* physically wrong with the hard drive, it's just a corrupted/infected filesystem, but the typical computer user doesnt know the difference and junks it anyway. And system on a stick fixes that too. "Neither is it clear what this will accomplish for all those people too poor to own one at all" It will allow them either a) pick up a 'dead' computer either free or a a very low (scrap metal value) price and use it or b) borrow/rent computer time but still be able to boot their own system on the temporary hardware, maintaining some semblance at least of their privacy.
But, this STILL doesn't seem to beat the real gorilla in the room - availability of bandwidth. So, you have your USB stick, and your busted ass old computer, but no connection. How useful is this? As usual, most mainstream media posits a free OS on a stick as the be all end all solution to third world connectivity issues.
Wow. Sorry to trip your meters there. Wouldn't have thought you would fixate so strongly on BOTTLES and forget the base idea behind what I was saying. I hope that works well for you.
Wow. Leach is actually a chemistry term. Leech means to drain or draw off; Leach means to dissolve and carry away a chemical content by the passing of water. Didn't know that.
Well, the context of the misuse of leech in this case struck me as funny, thus the comment.