If I'm reading it right their prize pot is $30,000. They're selling at $5 a throw and apple get 1/3 of that. So to break even they've got to sell 9000 copies. Doesn't sound a lot but I bet the majority of iphone apps never get near that.
It's not even proposed as law yet. It's just an idea. The gov. has a number of committees whos sole purpose is to come up with ideas to see what will fly. 90% of it never ever gets as far as being read in the commons... Slashdot consistently gets this wrong and reports it as if it was a done deal.
What also happens is the gov. takes an idea and leaks it to see what the public reception would be. This one looks like one of those.. and judging by the reaction on TFA it ain't going anywhere.
Not true at all. They offer you incentives (like a bonus topup) if you register but there is absolutely no need to. You can just go to a shop and buy credit with cash. Most of my PayG sims haven't been registered for example.
Mobile phone market penetration has been >100% for many months. That's why we can get such good deals here.. everyone already has one so the companies have to come up with something really special to get customers.
The growing market now is the free laptop market. Get a 3g dongle on an 18 months contract and they'll throw in a laptop... was just shopping today and that's all over the place - it's going to be huge over christmas.
Sounds wierd to me. Personally I can't imagine dreaming in black and white - hell I'm not sure I'd do a good job of imagining a black and white world (it'd probably wake me up.. going from the 3d technicolour dolby surround that's a typical dream to a crappy black and white movie would be quite a shock:p).
If a mainframe doesn't have damned near 100% uptime then someone needs to be fired. Those things just don't break. Hell, they phone the service engineer for you *before* they break and you suddenly get the IBM guy turn up on the doorstep with a replacement CPU (which is hotswapped.. no downtime).
You'd probably have trouble on AS/400 unless they've done a version that copes with all the nasty EBCDIC issues porting to that platform (and the fact that it doesn't use directories in any meaningful sense, and what there is of its filesystem is completely alien to the average PC user).
There are lots of those in operational use that have been doing mundane work for years.. and nobody is going to change them in a hurry, because replacement is very expensive and you don't get a better system at the end of it.
Hell, I'd hesitate to compile OpenSSL on quite mainstream OSs like HPUX (although probably someone has already gone through the pain of doing it I'm sure).
I've watched the old series end to end recently and it was pretty good, for its day... they just didn't have the special effects to pull it off back then.
The 'new' BSG is just a completely different story and shouldn't have even had the same name, really.. not that it's particularly bad (although I still can't sit through most of the episodes in the first series) but would have been easier to swallow with completely new ideas.
At that level and higher you don't pay it off you get interest only if you want any kind of living standard for those 20 years (3* income you're looking at about 50% of your monthly salary on a repayment loan).. the bank uses the money from the sale of the house to pay the loan off (and you get any extra that was left over from price rises).
House prices fluctuate but it's odds on they've increased over that time span. The problem is people who buy a house expecting to move in 2-3 years then find it's worth less than they paid for it.
Please learn how FRB really works rather than listen to some loony consipracy theorist's idea of how it works.
A loan is a transfer of balance from one place to another. For the positive balance created in your account a negative is created in the bank's account. There is no change in the amount of money in the system. At some point the bank will have lent out to its reserve limit and be unable to lend any more money (at which point it borrows of another bank generally, which is why inter-bank loans are so important).
No, with UAC all you get is a hit return dialog... it's got nothing to do with whether the admin has a password or not. If you invoke UAC under an unprivileged account (not even power user) then you may get a password, but the default is not to ask for one.
You learn very quickly to mash return every time you hear the beep.
Good idea. OTOH you're still relying on DNS not being compromised (anyone capable of an MITM can compromise both DNS and Web at the same time), so whether it really gives you anything over a self signed cert on its own is debatable.
Without endpoint validation you're back to it being no different to self signed certs, which already work and don't require everyone to adopt a new protocol.
Also the technique in TFA has *exactly* the same issues.
If you want encryption without any endpoint authentication self signed certificates are the way forward - they're supported by every browser and it's a small change for them to work transparently/remove the lock icon if that's deemed necessary. At the moment only firefox has the major issue with them.. and I'm sure that'll be fixed soon.
So it's actually useless.. for a MITM attack all you have to do is stop the client requesting it, or even knowing that the server is capable of it, and everything drops back to plain text.
Hell, if it gets up the nose of ISPs they'll probably do exactly that with their proxies.
They're specced to work within a certain range (and they'll have a step down as that's how you save power) and merely don't default to working at the maximum speed in that range. Makes sense from a heat/power point of view... most of the time the processor isn't doing a lot and having it ticking over at idle whilst running cooler is good. If you fire up Crysis it revs up to max for you.
Overclocked = faster than specified in the data sheets.
There's a difference - many chips are sold at a lower clock rate for either heat or marketing reasons, so the factory clock isn't really that relevant.
windows 95 -> Windows 98 3 years Windows 98 -> Windows 2000 2 years Windows 2000 -> Windows XP 1 year (2 if you're generous). Windows XP -> Windows Vista 7 years
It's never actually *been* 4 year between releases!
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How are they going to make money?
If I'm reading it right their prize pot is $30,000. They're selling at $5 a throw and apple get 1/3 of that. So to break even they've got to sell 9000 copies. Doesn't sound a lot but I bet the majority of iphone apps never get near that.
It's not even proposed as law yet. It's just an idea. The gov. has a number of committees whos sole purpose is to come up with ideas to see what will fly. 90% of it never ever gets as far as being read in the commons... Slashdot consistently gets this wrong and reports it as if it was a done deal.
What also happens is the gov. takes an idea and leaks it to see what the public reception would be. This one looks like one of those.. and judging by the reaction on TFA it ain't going anywhere.
Not true at all. They offer you incentives (like a bonus topup) if you register but there is absolutely no need to. You can just go to a shop and buy credit with cash. Most of my PayG sims haven't been registered for example.
Mobile phone market penetration has been >100% for many months. That's why we can get such good deals here.. everyone already has one so the companies have to come up with something really special to get customers.
The growing market now is the free laptop market. Get a 3g dongle on an 18 months contract and they'll throw in a laptop... was just shopping today and that's all over the place - it's going to be huge over christmas.
Remembering dreams is a nice skill to have... I don't remember all mine but quite a few of them.
The pinnnacle is Lucid dreams - imagine being in your own personal matrix :p (OK I overstate it's rare you get *that* much control but it does happen).
Sounds wierd to me. Personally I can't imagine dreaming in black and white - hell I'm not sure I'd do a good job of imagining a black and white world (it'd probably wake me up.. going from the 3d technicolour dolby surround that's a typical dream to a crappy black and white movie would be quite a shock :p).
If a mainframe doesn't have damned near 100% uptime then someone needs to be fired. Those things just don't break. Hell, they phone the service engineer for you *before* they break and you suddenly get the IBM guy turn up on the doorstep with a replacement CPU (which is hotswapped.. no downtime).
You'd probably have trouble on AS/400 unless they've done a version that copes with all the nasty EBCDIC issues porting to that platform (and the fact that it doesn't use directories in any meaningful sense, and what there is of its filesystem is completely alien to the average PC user).
There are lots of those in operational use that have been doing mundane work for years.. and nobody is going to change them in a hurry, because replacement is very expensive and you don't get a better system at the end of it.
Hell, I'd hesitate to compile OpenSSL on quite mainstream OSs like HPUX (although probably someone has already gone through the pain of doing it I'm sure).
You're paying less than $1 a week per user. If email was important to you you'd be paying a *lot* more than that. Stop being a cheapskate.
No. Google Apps is free if you just want the standard stuff like mail. I have several domains in it and have never paid a penny.
You can pay for it to get extra services and a faster response time, but for the most part it's free.
Been using mine all day with no problems.. clearly the outage didn't affect everyone.
I've watched the old series end to end recently and it was pretty good, for its day... they just didn't have the special effects to pull it off back then.
The 'new' BSG is just a completely different story and shouldn't have even had the same name, really.. not that it's particularly bad (although I still can't sit through most of the episodes in the first series) but would have been easier to swallow with completely new ideas.
At that level and higher you don't pay it off you get interest only if you want any kind of living standard for those 20 years (3* income you're looking at about 50% of your monthly salary on a repayment loan).. the bank uses the money from the sale of the house to pay the loan off (and you get any extra that was left over from price rises).
House prices fluctuate but it's odds on they've increased over that time span. The problem is people who buy a house expecting to move in 2-3 years then find it's worth less than they paid for it.
Please stop linking to that bullshit.
LOANS DO NOT CREATE MONEY
Please learn how FRB really works rather than listen to some loony consipracy theorist's idea of how it works.
A loan is a transfer of balance from one place to another. For the positive balance created in your account a negative is created in the bank's account. There is no change in the amount of money in the system. At some point the bank will have lent out to its reserve limit and be unable to lend any more money (at which point it borrows of another bank generally, which is why inter-bank loans are so important).
No, with UAC all you get is a hit return dialog... it's got nothing to do with whether the admin has a password or not. If you invoke UAC under an unprivileged account (not even power user) then you may get a password, but the default is not to ask for one.
You learn very quickly to mash return every time you hear the beep.
Until you've crossed the border you're not in the US so don't have any rights not granted to you by the border patrol.
So basically they can do anything to you, including sieze your laptop and detain you without charge. It's not wise to piss them off.
Good idea. OTOH you're still relying on DNS not being compromised (anyone capable of an MITM can compromise both DNS and Web at the same time), so whether it really gives you anything over a self signed cert on its own is debatable.
Without endpoint validation you're back to it being no different to self signed certs, which already work and don't require everyone to adopt a new protocol.
Also the technique in TFA has *exactly* the same issues.
If you want encryption without any endpoint authentication self signed certificates are the way forward - they're supported by every browser and it's a small change for them to work transparently/remove the lock icon if that's deemed necessary. At the moment only firefox has the major issue with them.. and I'm sure that'll be fixed soon.
So it's actually useless.. for a MITM attack all you have to do is stop the client requesting it, or even knowing that the server is capable of it, and everything drops back to plain text.
Hell, if it gets up the nose of ISPs they'll probably do exactly that with their proxies.
No they don't.. that's not overclocking.
They're specced to work within a certain range (and they'll have a step down as that's how you save power) and merely don't default to working at the maximum speed in that range. Makes sense from a heat/power point of view... most of the time the processor isn't doing a lot and having it ticking over at idle whilst running cooler is good. If you fire up Crysis it revs up to max for you.
Plus just about any database system.
Of course the OS is doing just that, by caching disk access in the spare memory & (ideally) keeping the memory utilisation at max.
Overclocked = faster than specified in the data sheets.
There's a difference - many chips are sold at a lower clock rate for either heat or marketing reasons, so the factory clock isn't really that relevant.
The data and address lines are connected. No amount of design can change that.
4 years???
windows 95 -> Windows 98 3 years
Windows 98 -> Windows 2000 2 years
Windows 2000 -> Windows XP 1 year (2 if you're generous).
Windows XP -> Windows Vista 7 years
It's never actually *been* 4 year between releases!