Yes and No. WINE has a very nice implementation of DirectX 9 that seems to run my games very bloody well. And no, I am not using real windows binaries.
Huh? I only get about 1/2 to 1/3 the FPS I get in Windows when I use Wine. I thought this was because D3D calls were emulated.
I live in a very small farming town. I can pick up 3 networks from my house, there are 5 in town. Mine is the only secure one (WPA2). Try to explain it to anyone else and they'll say "Why shouldn't my neighbors get on my network?"
I leave mine open for that very reason. I monitor it and haven't seen anything other than casual web browsing. And in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else, it's even less likely someone will use their AP for evil.
If I was running a bank or something that needed more security, I wouldn't leave it open, though.
Thanks for this, I have repeated this comment hundreds of times to various people setting up their networks and yet they still seem to think that setting the essid as "hidden" is providing some small extra security, when in fact it only obscures your network for legitimate users, since anyone sniffing for a networks will see it regardless of whether you have it set to broadcast or not.
Worse, when your clients can't see the cloaked SSID, they send probes for it that include the SSID. If it's an obscure one, you can just go to Wigle and find out where that AP is. A bit of a privacy problem, if you don't want random people to know where you live, especially if you're out of town.
I don't believe this a good test of "security" since the majority of the hotels on the Strip have multiple unsecure Wifi networks for their guests. You have to go to a launch page first before you're even allowed access, sometimes entering a code.
I was at DEFCON and stayed at Circus Circus. In about 30 seconds, I cloned someone else's MAC address and was on their WiFi. Also I could have pulled up Wireshark and seen all their traffic (see: Wall of Sheep).
If I want communication to be private I snail mail, fax, or phone on landline.
Even if the ISP or whomever cannot share or pry into email for whatever reason, what's to prevent someone from accidentally hitting "reply all" or copying their entire address book and sending it out to the world? That's what I meant by my original statement. It's not so much folks prying, it's "accidents" that I'm worried about.
You can't patent code, you can only patent the underlying idea.
The problem has been that companies can make the underlying idea sound so complex to a patent examiner because computer science has so many levels of specialization. Thus, Amazon can make buying with one click sound like a novel idea to someone who doesn't fully understand their explanation.
2nd link - "Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime."
Given that non-sex offenders cannot be *re*arrested for a sex crime, the ratio out to be infinite, not 4.
The non-sex offender could be released, and then arrested twice for a sex offense.
Unfortunately (for the better part of a century), the Congress has behaved as if there were no restrictions whatsoever on their authority. As if "anything we can dream up, we can do." This is one of those rare times that a federal court seems to understand the Fed (and it's agencies') power is limited.
Exactly. Congress follows the letter of the law, not the spirit. If they think they can get away with passing a blatantly unconstitutional law, nothing stops them from trying, especially if someone with deep pockets wants the law to pass. (See: The War on Drugs, banning online gambling, the 55 MPH speed limit, etc.)
(from the episode when Homer was a food critic) Homer: I can't believe they're paying me to eat! Bart: Now if you could just get someone to pay you for scratching your butt, we'd be on easy street.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Yeah, we all know how well censorship works on the internet.
Patents==Bad and subject to prior art.
Trademarks==Good, and not subject to prior art.
Patents & Trademarks == Good
Patent & Trademark Abuse == Bad
And orientation
There are a lot of sites I don't want to give my phone number to.
Yes and No. WINE has a very nice implementation of DirectX 9 that seems to run my games very bloody well. And no, I am not using real windows binaries.
Huh? I only get about 1/2 to 1/3 the FPS I get in Windows when I use Wine. I thought this was because D3D calls were emulated.
I live in a very small farming town. I can pick up 3 networks from my house, there are 5 in town. Mine is the only secure one (WPA2). Try to explain it to anyone else and they'll say "Why shouldn't my neighbors get on my network?"
I leave mine open for that very reason. I monitor it and haven't seen anything other than casual web browsing. And in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else, it's even less likely someone will use their AP for evil.
If I was running a bank or something that needed more security, I wouldn't leave it open, though.
Thanks for this, I have repeated this comment hundreds of times to various people setting up their networks and yet they still seem to think that setting the essid as "hidden" is providing some small extra security, when in fact it only obscures your network for legitimate users, since anyone sniffing for a networks will see it regardless of whether you have it set to broadcast or not.
Worse, when your clients can't see the cloaked SSID, they send probes for it that include the SSID. If it's an obscure one, you can just go to Wigle and find out where that AP is. A bit of a privacy problem, if you don't want random people to know where you live, especially if you're out of town.
I don't believe this a good test of "security" since the majority of the hotels on the Strip have multiple unsecure Wifi networks for their guests. You have to go to a launch page first before you're even allowed access, sometimes entering a code.
I was at DEFCON and stayed at Circus Circus. In about 30 seconds, I cloned someone else's MAC address and was on their WiFi. Also I could have pulled up Wireshark and seen all their traffic (see: Wall of Sheep).
Yet curiously, many exploits in OSS software seem to be found during the beginning of August.
If I want communication to be private I snail mail, fax, or phone on landline.
Even if the ISP or whomever cannot share or pry into email for whatever reason, what's to prevent someone from accidentally hitting "reply all" or copying their entire address book and sending it out to the world? That's what I meant by my original statement. It's not so much folks prying, it's "accidents" that I'm worried about.
Don't you know about warrantless wiretapping?
You must be new here.
You can't patent code, you can only patent the underlying idea.
The problem has been that companies can make the underlying idea sound so complex to a patent examiner because computer science has so many levels of specialization. Thus, Amazon can make buying with one click sound like a novel idea to someone who doesn't fully understand their explanation.
This is the first post I'm making informing you of your new, patent-holding, overlord. I suggest you welcome him, you insensitive Clod!
I threw a chair at him but it missed and hit a statue of Natalie Portman.
IIRC, ISPs have never had common carrier status.
No, but they should lose their DMCA safe harbor status if they start censoring content.
2nd link - "Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime."
Given that non-sex offenders cannot be *re*arrested for a sex crime, the ratio out to be infinite, not 4.
The non-sex offender could be released, and then arrested twice for a sex offense.
That's how I read it.
If no one did, Oprah would be out of a job.
Unfortunately (for the better part of a century), the Congress has behaved as if there were no restrictions whatsoever on their authority. As if "anything we can dream up, we can do." This is one of those rare times that a federal court seems to understand the Fed (and it's agencies') power is limited.
Exactly. Congress follows the letter of the law, not the spirit. If they think they can get away with passing a blatantly unconstitutional law, nothing stops them from trying, especially if someone with deep pockets wants the law to pass. (See: The War on Drugs, banning online gambling, the 55 MPH speed limit, etc.)
Don't then. Someone that is more into coding and _does_ have side projects in their off time might get the job you're applying for. Simple as that.
Yup, that's already happened.
It's why I decided not to be a programmer.
Obligatory Simpsons quote:
(from the episode when Homer was a food critic)
Homer: I can't believe they're paying me to eat!
Bart: Now if you could just get someone to pay you for scratching your butt, we'd be on easy street.
After spending 8+ hours in a cubicle writing code, the last thing I'd want to do at the end of the day is come home and write more code.
The same is true if I spend the entire day opening up computers and repairing them, setting up networks, etc.
Human wishes to start breathing. Cancel/Allow?
Try naming one 'slashdot.'
In any case I guessed that considering how high your GDP are you could pay it of quite quickly.
But then americans probably don't like taxes as much as swedes does :)
Or we could cut spending. But our politicians never seem to want to do that.
You know that little national debt thingy we have? Only $9 trillion, or about $30,000 for every man, woman, and child, or 2/3 of our GDP?
Most of it is loans from Chinese (both citizens and government), Japanese, Egyptions, Russians, and Europeans. source
That's why the dollar is so weak.
No, but there is another way.