> "OMG FLASH LETS PUT FLASH IN OUR SITES" and make user > experience WORSE.
Actually this applies to more than just the use of Flash. My computers have gotten exponentially faster, same with the connection, the browser promise 20 and more percent more speed with each major release....and yet tons of farking pages load slower and slower. Woe you if you try to scroll before the whole damn thing actually loaded its crap. Then it jumps all over the place and whatnot. Even clicking on a story and then going Back reloads the page again with a similar waiting period. There are sites (for example, some news sites) I hardly use anymore specifically because of abysmal performance issues. I can see the advantage of correlating and aggregating information from various sources and using dynamic techniques to display them. And yet, there's a very distinct point of diminishing and then reversing 'benefits'. Too bad most site developers haven't gotten that yet and still think, the more pictures move around, flip up and down, advertisements scroll along with user scrolling and various other completely annoying stuff, incl. soundtrack, the 'more exciting' the site. It's bullshit and the blink-tag craze all over. KEEP IT SIMPLE AND USEFUL, YOU MORONS!
> I'm 37. I've had combo analog/digital watches almost continuously > since I was about 10. I source them from exotic boutiques like > K-Mart where they sell obscure brands like Timex.
Dude...this was supposed to be kept secret among us watch connoisseurs. Now everbody is gonna go to K-Mart!!:-O
> 1. Go through each exercise, 2. Type in each sample exactly
> Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programming > languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being > your tool for doing interesting things.
Yes, but to type in the programming exercises, do you recommend using vi or emacs?:-/
> A self-signed certificate gives a false sense of security, so plain http > is better
[...]
Sorry bro...1995 called and wants its arguments back.
On surface level you sound correct and reasonable. And yet, it's still total nonsense. Not to be too personal....most of the nonsense is really in the SSL model as used (like trusting people you have no reason to trust) and browsers by extension implementing that messed up model.
To make it short: a CA-signed certificate does not protect you from MITM-attacks. Why? Because every TLA (and other folks) worth its salt will have perfectly acceptable CA-signed certs, which they can use to inject themselves into the "trust"-chain, i.e. your session. Whereas a self-signed certificate does not automatically make you vulnerable to an MITM. It depends entirely, whether the fingerprint of the presented cert is distributed through some other, out-of-band, channel. In fact, it can even be more secure if you use it right.
The rest is, well, just as silly. For example, the much-touted "sense-of-security" users have is a complete pipe-dream of developers. IT DOES NOT EXIST!! We tried "training" users to watch for the lock that tells them, that all is well. Now we don't even show them a lock anymore! How's that for consistency? And with the multiple warnings they get every day, your user will not wonder about anything anymore. They will click on whatever it takes to get to the page! Even the wrong one. In Sum: SSL, as you presented it so well, is a complete failure and needs to be scrapped for some different model.
> Please clear up my confusion. After the XCP fiasco, and the > OtherOS fiasco, how can you possibly trust Sony? You do realise > that they could wipe out your library in a single stroke, and aren't > above doing such evil if it suited their twisted purposes, don't you?
Well, they can try. But they'd have a pretty hard time of it because my e-reader doesn't have wifi!:-D I transfer my books via normal USB. No Sony connection required.
And while I agree with your sentiment, the PRS-650 is a very nice e-reader. It's to the kindle, what a cowon is to an ipod....nicer and supports more formats. The lack of Wifi for me was (not last for your aforementioned reasons) a feature, not a lack thereof!
> It's NOT ridiculous to expect them to disappear completely. > It IS ridiculous to expect them NOT to... because on the > timeline we all live on, EVERYTHING will cease to exist > at some point. Believing in the contrary is insane.
Of course, this also applies to digital copies! Perhaps even more so. I believe, counting on huge, thus "indestructible", numbers of copies to be floating around somewhere, is a fallacy. The more complicated the technology in use, the more prone to failure. E-Readers & E-Books, while they certainly have their good uses, are no exception. Trust me...after one or two EMP's paper-copies of ANYTHING will be all the rage again...
Am new to this e-reader thing. Got a Sony PRS-650. So far so good.
Question: Is it possible to push selected entire Slashdot discussions incl. all comments (-1) onto the thing and read it offline? If so how would I go about it?
Idea is to select a few interesting stories before a long commute and read them/the discussions on the train...
we are greatly honored and moved by the reactions, the release of our fully playable "Duke Nukem Forever" demo has received. While we are working diligently on the final version (to be out real soon now, wink wink), we will take your numerous suggestions into account, perhaps even into Duke's dialogs, to make DNF the greatest game ever released. Things are looking good despite being very busy and without promising too much, we are on track for the final release target date, which, according to our lawyer, may or may not be within this awesome decade. But the code is mostly in place and once the technical issues like a lack of holographic displays, quantum consoles and their telepathic controllers are resolved, we'll be gold(en). Looking forward to Forever....ain't 'ya excited? ^__^
> humor being offensive is something personal. i don't think they will > be able to include much humor that i would find offensive. > on the other hand, my grand mother might get a heart attack due to > it.
Somebody HAD something to hide?? Wow...didn't think, I'd hear that in my lifetime...
But then, for 175k probably a lot of us might (pretend) to have had something to hide. So they can post about it in excruciating detail on Facebook and write plain-text sms and e-mails about everything they were doing, they didn't want anyone to know about.
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> "OMG FLASH LETS PUT FLASH IN OUR SITES" and make user
> experience WORSE.
Actually this applies to more than just the use of Flash. My computers have gotten exponentially faster, same with the connection, the browser promise 20 and more percent more speed with each major release....and yet tons of farking pages load slower and slower. Woe you if you try to scroll before the whole damn thing actually loaded its crap. Then it jumps all over the place and whatnot. Even clicking on a story and then going Back reloads the page again with a similar waiting period. There are sites (for example, some news sites) I hardly use anymore specifically because of abysmal performance issues. I can see the advantage of correlating and aggregating information from various sources and using dynamic techniques to display them. And yet, there's a very distinct point of diminishing and then reversing 'benefits'. Too bad most site developers haven't gotten that yet and still think, the more pictures move around, flip up and down, advertisements scroll along with user scrolling and various other completely annoying stuff, incl. soundtrack, the 'more exciting' the site. It's bullshit and the blink-tag craze all over. KEEP IT SIMPLE AND USEFUL, YOU MORONS!
They had nothing to hide anyway...
> I'm 37. I've had combo analog/digital watches almost continuously
> since I was about 10. I source them from exotic boutiques like
> K-Mart where they sell obscure brands like Timex.
Dude...this was supposed to be kept secret among us watch connoisseurs. Now everbody is gonna go to K-Mart!! :-O
> 1. Go through each exercise, 2. Type in each sample exactly
> Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programming
> languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being
> your tool for doing interesting things.
Yes, but to type in the programming exercises, do you recommend using vi or emacs? :-/
> To be an American president you at least have to pay lip service to Jesus.
Well, I guess, that's a step up from being an altar boy...
> Does anyone else remember the days when slashdot readers
> were technical? This discussion is fucking painful.
Well, in the enterprising tech spirit feel free to establish: :-)
"Slashfork.org - News for real Nerds, Stuff that used to matter!"
> Experts -- What do they know?
Enough to tell you in excruciating detail why they were wrong! :-)
> A self-signed certificate gives a false sense of security, so plain http
> is better
[...]
Sorry bro...1995 called and wants its arguments back.
On surface level you sound correct and reasonable. And yet, it's still total nonsense.
Not to be too personal....most of the nonsense is really in the SSL model as used (like trusting people you have no reason to trust) and browsers by extension implementing that messed up model.
To make it short:
a CA-signed certificate does not protect you from MITM-attacks. Why? Because every TLA (and other folks) worth its salt will have perfectly acceptable CA-signed certs, which they can use to inject themselves into the "trust"-chain, i.e. your session.
Whereas a self-signed certificate does not automatically make you vulnerable to an MITM. It depends entirely, whether the fingerprint of the presented cert is distributed through some other, out-of-band, channel. In fact, it can even be more secure if you use it right.
The rest is, well, just as silly. For example, the much-touted "sense-of-security" users have is a complete pipe-dream of developers. IT DOES NOT EXIST!!
We tried "training" users to watch for the lock that tells them, that all is well. Now we don't even show them a lock anymore! How's that for consistency? And with the multiple warnings they get every day, your user will not wonder about anything anymore. They will click on whatever it takes to get to the page! Even the wrong one.
In Sum: SSL, as you presented it so well, is a complete failure and needs to be scrapped for some different model.
> I'll probably be looking for a book on how to obtain food and clean
> water, make shelter, and use weapons.
Yeah. As they old saying goes:
"Give a man a fish, he'll be satisfied for a night. Give a man a book about fishing, he'll be warm for the night."
Or something like that...
> Please clear up my confusion. After the XCP fiasco, and the
> OtherOS fiasco, how can you possibly trust Sony? You do realise
> that they could wipe out your library in a single stroke, and aren't
> above doing such evil if it suited their twisted purposes, don't you?
Well, they can try. But they'd have a pretty hard time of it because my e-reader doesn't have wifi! :-D
I transfer my books via normal USB. No Sony connection required.
And while I agree with your sentiment, the PRS-650 is a very nice e-reader. It's to the kindle, what a cowon is to an ipod....nicer and supports more formats. The lack of Wifi for me was (not last for your aforementioned reasons) a feature, not a lack thereof!
> It just a natural progression, cave wall to stone > clay > wax > ... > paper > digital > rock from space > cave wall
> parchment > paper > digital
> It's NOT ridiculous to expect them to disappear completely.
> It IS ridiculous to expect them NOT to... because on the
> timeline we all live on, EVERYTHING will cease to exist
> at some point. Believing in the contrary is insane.
Of course, this also applies to digital copies! Perhaps even more so. I believe, counting on huge, thus "indestructible", numbers of copies to be floating around somewhere, is a fallacy. The more complicated the technology in use, the more prone to failure. E-Readers & E-Books, while they certainly have their good uses, are no exception. Trust me...after one or two EMP's paper-copies of ANYTHING will be all the rage again...
> For example, despite having seen Jurassic Park, I still maintain that
> I've never seen a dinosaur.
Are you saying I am still...I am still....a VIRGIN??! ;__;
Am new to this e-reader thing. Got a Sony PRS-650. So far so good.
Question: Is it possible to push selected entire Slashdot discussions incl. all comments (-1) onto the thing and read it offline? If so how would I go about it?
Idea is to select a few interesting stories before a long commute and read them/the discussions on the train...
Advice appreciated!
> It'll never compete with the "feeling" put behind words
[...]
> narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.
> I expect no automated spam there.
"VIAGRA, Motherfucker...DO YOU TAKE IT??!!" :-D
Dear Ars Reviewer, Dear Slashdot'ers,
we are greatly honored and moved by the reactions, the release of our fully playable "Duke Nukem Forever" demo has received. While we are working diligently on the final version (to be out real soon now, wink wink), we will take your numerous suggestions into account, perhaps even into Duke's dialogs, to make DNF the greatest game ever released.
Things are looking good despite being very busy and without promising too much, we are on track for the final release target date, which, according to our lawyer, may or may not be within this awesome decade. But the code is mostly in place and once the technical issues like a lack of holographic displays, quantum consoles and their telepathic controllers are resolved, we'll be gold(en). Looking forward to Forever....ain't 'ya excited? ^__^
> ...we should wait for the sequel then ?
Actually until it's really good and all you wanted it to be you just need to wait until Service Pack (203)1!
> humor being offensive is something personal. i don't think they will
> be able to include much humor that i would find offensive.
> on the other hand, my grand mother might get a heart attack due to
> it.
Mine already did. Damn you, Duke! :-/
Somebody HAD something to hide??
Wow...didn't think, I'd hear that in my lifetime...
But then, for 175k probably a lot of us might (pretend) to have had something to hide. So they can post about it in excruciating detail on Facebook and write plain-text sms and e-mails about everything they were doing, they didn't want anyone to know about.
> In Scotland we are not covered by stupid English laws...
FREEEEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!
Sales Tax:
5% to the local community
3% to the local State
2% to the FedGov.
= 10% tax on everything sold. Easy to calculate and pretty fair (spend more, pay more).
Get rid of everything else...
Of course there's (potentially very lucrative) porn! Why do you think, Disney bought the rights to "Seal Team 6"?
Many marriages do exist, but when you look closer....don't.
> You would be shocked how many really smart people don't know
> the difference between a week and a strong password.
But there's certainly a correlation: If it takes you a week to enter your passphrase, it's probably pretty good! :-)
> As is, basic drive encryption with dm-crypt and luks is good enough
> for my needs.
As is, basic drive encryption with dm-crypt and luks and a matching 128bit+ passphrase is good enough for my needs.
TFIFY!