Spending money you HAVE on projects is a good thing... borrowing money and letting your children and grandchildren live with the legacy is NOT a good thing.
Yes, Japan, the land where hariy minges are pixellated out, but smooth minges are acceptable. They could have saved themselves a whole lot of money by just mandating that every woman should be smooth shaven before going out in public.
Possibly they could make this an attachment for the Japanese iPhone ? Instead of a stylus, they get a BIC razor integrated into the unit ?
I wasn't aware that a blurry shot of a pair of panties was in any way illegal, any more than a far more revealing shot of bikini clad babes on a beach is illegal.
And of course, in UK, there is something called "indecent exposure", meaning any lady NOT wearing panties is probably commiting an offence herself.
So, here's the solution. When plod nicks you for not having a clicky camera, you simply explain you are neighbourhood watch working undercover, upholding the countrys' morals by collecting evidence of these blatant hussys exposing themselves on public transport.
Increasingly, they don't get arrested for trading kiddy porn or bragging about it... they get arrested on SUSPICION of doing the same. And that's a big bloody difference, because whilst most arrests never makit it into the court system (my original point), they still manage to leak out the name, address and other vital details to the community, and that person IS tainted, whether eventually found guilty or released with no charge after 72 hours.
Allowing the police access to this data "without cost", will just lead to more arrests, not more convictions... ergo, more people tainted by false accusations.
Forgot your password ? Please enter the e-mail address you registered with and we'll send it to you !... three minutes later...
Your password is abH7f9KLJgh78943/.dsfjku67389d81... and there was me thinking it was "OrAnGe175"... ?
Despite your intimate knowledge of SHA functions, some people actually DO just want to be reminded of their existing password, not just be told to supply a new one when they forget theirs.
But, and I think this is very important... pirated software comes from sites, and is used by people who are more likely to be aware of this likelihood (that it has a trojan or whatever).
Thus, they are more likely to examine the contents with care, run it through an antivirus or two, instead of blindly double clicking to install it.
The bigger attack vector I feel it the ignorant casual users, who blindly open anything anyone sent them as an email attachment.
More than 300 people get arrested on a single Friday night for having had too much to drink. They get to sleep it off in the cells and get released at 4am, even if the police station is 4 miles from where you actually live. All were arrested, none were convicted.
Likewise, out of those 10000 requests leading to 300 arrests, we might assume that 10 actually made it into the courts system ? And if it isn't thrown out for improperly appropriated evidence (police fishing attempts), or thrown out because the arresting office decided to stick the boot in before bundling the suspect into the paddy-wagon, maybe we might just see one conviction.
At what point does 100,000 pounds of taxpayers money and 299 peoples lives tainted due to false arrests cease to justify the successful conviction of the one person who spent too much time surfing 4chan ? Or does "won't somebody think of the children" throw a mental blanket over common sense ?
Whenever I see a marked slowdown on my PC, I remove the casing and give the thing a damn good clean. You'd be amazed how even in a clean room with air conditioning, the amount of gunk and dust builds up on the fans, even after 6 months. And that means all of them, CPU fan, graphics card fan, and even open up the PSU and clean those fans too.
Fans running even slightly slower will cause all your components (PSU, Hard Disks, CPU) to run hotter, and that leads to random slowdowns, data corruption, even bluescreens at times.
The EU, the loonys who brought you the "standard for curvature in bananas", causing producers to destroy perfectly good food because it wasn't the correct shape.
Something, that after 15 years, they saw the error of their ways, and repealed the standard.
The thing is with Adobe Reader, it is just that... a reader.
It's infinitely more likely that you will only ever use that application to read an existing PDF, because let's face it, it's not as if you can actually use that application to make a "new" document. So double clicking on the document rather than opening the PDF Viewer and choosing "open..." will always be more intuitive.
Office tried to do something "document-orientated" by integrating "make a new...." into the context menus, but it doesn't really work for me. It simply makes a blank placeholder file on the system, and then you still have to double click to open it in the correct application. If they'd done that properly, i.e. create the blank file, AND auto-opened the application, so you can just work right away, I think it would be a great improvement.
How does it know to open Excel when I double click that.xls file. How does it know to open Word when I double click that.doc file. How does it know to open Access when I double click that.mdb file.
So THAT'S why Vista is so slow... every application on your system is preloaded and running all the time, just in case a user wants to DO SOMETHING.
If the NSA spied on "everyone", then surely they'd have to spy on themselves also ? That's an awful lot of spys ! Do they have a rota system to ensure that no one ends up spying on themselves ? Do they need a Beowulf cluster of spys ?
That headlin is really like the casino bosses who used to proclaim "everyone's a winner". If that were true, and everyone did in fact win, they'd go out of business pretty damn quick.
Now if the article headline had been, for example, "NSA spied on eveyone who mattered", then that's something more pertinent. The existing one is just pure tabloid sensationalism.
Nah, they're just pissed that their 70's business model has failed, they can no longer sell you 42 volumes that will cost an arm and a leg, and will take the next 25 years to pay off.
I put Britannica in the same mental pigeon-hole as Tupperware, Avon and Amway. They are all glorified pyramids, selling overpriced junk on the virtue of their "name" and encouraging more people into the network by hosting parties, seminars, training sessions etc., where they sell you "training aids" so you can more effectively sell the overpriced junk they sold you in the first place and offload it to someone else.
Oh I'm not saying it's a cure-all for ALL potential viruses... I'm just saying that it seems to work for the current ones doing the rounds precisely because the virus writers HAVEN'T thought of that yet.
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Bearing in mind that this new robot is called STAIR, does that mean it is using gradient descent algorithms ?
I see you finally managed to stomp on that 25 year old BSD filesystem bug in 2008 though ... congrats.
A little tip for you Americans ...
Spending money you HAVE on projects is a good thing ... borrowing money and letting your children and grandchildren live with the legacy is NOT a good thing.
Do you see how that works ?
Last time *I* checked, Saddam Hussein WASN'T responsible for 9/11, neither did he have the WMDs capable of doing anything to Israel.
Still, don't let little things like facts get in the way of a good rant. GWB never did.
Yes, Japan, the land where hariy minges are pixellated out, but smooth minges are acceptable. They could have saved themselves a whole lot of money by just mandating that every woman should be smooth shaven before going out in public.
Possibly they could make this an attachment for the Japanese iPhone ? Instead of a stylus, they get a BIC razor integrated into the unit ?
I wasn't aware that a blurry shot of a pair of panties was in any way illegal, any more than a far more revealing shot of bikini clad babes on a beach is illegal.
And of course, in UK, there is something called "indecent exposure", meaning any lady NOT wearing panties is probably commiting an offence herself.
So, here's the solution. When plod nicks you for not having a clicky camera, you simply explain you are neighbourhood watch working undercover, upholding the countrys' morals by collecting evidence of these blatant hussys exposing themselves on public transport.
Problem solved.
For the protection of the general populace, all police officers will be required to tase the person(s) being photographers.
There, fixed that for you.
I'm number 1, muwahaha, muwahahaha ...
Oh shut yer gob (splat) ...
Who throws a cupcake, really ?
And yet for all your lambasting of the system, you still posted as Anonymous Coward.
No I think you miss the point a little ...
Increasingly, they don't get arrested for trading kiddy porn or bragging about it ... they get arrested on SUSPICION of doing the same. And that's a big bloody difference, because whilst most arrests never makit it into the court system (my original point), they still manage to leak out the name, address and other vital details to the community, and that person IS tainted, whether eventually found guilty or released with no charge after 72 hours.
Allowing the police access to this data "without cost", will just lead to more arrests, not more convictions ... ergo, more people tainted by false accusations.
Forgot your password ? Please enter the e-mail address you registered with and we'll send it to you ! ... three minutes later ...
Your password is abH7f9KLJgh78943/.dsfjku67389d81 ... and there was me thinking it was "OrAnGe175" ... ?
Despite your intimate knowledge of SHA functions, some people actually DO just want to be reminded of their existing password, not just be told to supply a new one when they forget theirs.
Offtopic I know, so save your mod points for somethign worthy.
On the frontpage of slashot, this story has "33 of 32 comments" ?
No, I wouldn't agree with that.
But, and I think this is very important ... pirated software comes from sites, and is used by people who are more likely to be aware of this likelihood (that it has a trojan or whatever).
Thus, they are more likely to examine the contents with care, run it through an antivirus or two, instead of blindly double clicking to install it.
The bigger attack vector I feel it the ignorant casual users, who blindly open anything anyone sent them as an email attachment.
100,000 users, 99,999 of which are male.
There is one female there, she's 240lbs, hairier than a gorilla, and not answering her PM's.
I wonder how long before THAT gets slahdotted.
More than 300 people get arrested on a single Friday night for having had too much to drink. They get to sleep it off in the cells and get released at 4am, even if the police station is 4 miles from where you actually live. All were arrested, none were convicted.
Likewise, out of those 10000 requests leading to 300 arrests, we might assume that 10 actually made it into the courts system ? And if it isn't thrown out for improperly appropriated evidence (police fishing attempts), or thrown out because the arresting office decided to stick the boot in before bundling the suspect into the paddy-wagon, maybe we might just see one conviction.
At what point does 100,000 pounds of taxpayers money and 299 peoples lives tainted due to false arrests cease to justify the successful conviction of the one person who spent too much time surfing 4chan ? Or does "won't somebody think of the children" throw a mental blanket over common sense ?
And hope to god the random 512 byte block is the right one from the possible 3.0691830754069217948799249581913e+1194 hash collisions ?
For the inevitable query on the math ...
Collisions = 256 ^ 512 / 2 ^ 128
Whenever I see a marked slowdown on my PC, I remove the casing and give the thing a damn good clean. You'd be amazed how even in a clean room with air conditioning, the amount of gunk and dust builds up on the fans, even after 6 months. And that means all of them, CPU fan, graphics card fan, and even open up the PSU and clean those fans too.
Fans running even slightly slower will cause all your components (PSU, Hard Disks, CPU) to run hotter, and that leads to random slowdowns, data corruption, even bluescreens at times.
The EU, the loonys who brought you the "standard for curvature in bananas", causing producers to destroy perfectly good food because it wasn't the correct shape.
Something, that after 15 years, they saw the error of their ways, and repealed the standard.
The thing is with Adobe Reader, it is just that ... a reader.
It's infinitely more likely that you will only ever use that application to read an existing PDF, because let's face it, it's not as if you can actually use that application to make a "new" document. So double clicking on the document rather than opening the PDF Viewer and choosing "open..." will always be more intuitive.
Office tried to do something "document-orientated" by integrating "make a new ...." into the context menus, but it doesn't really work for me. It simply makes a blank placeholder file on the system, and then you still have to double click to open it in the correct application. If they'd done that properly, i.e. create the blank file, AND auto-opened the application, so you can just work right away, I think it would be a great improvement.
Apple doesn't get viruses, EVER !!!!! It's so secure !!!!!
There, can I join the iFanboi club now ?
How does it know to open Excel when I double click that .xls file. .doc file. .mdb file.
How does it know to open Word when I double click that
How does it know to open Access when I double click that
So THAT'S why Vista is so slow ... every application on your system is preloaded and running all the time, just in case a user wants to DO SOMETHING.
</sarcasm>
Everyone ?
If the NSA spied on "everyone", then surely they'd have to spy on themselves also ? That's an awful lot of spys ! Do they have a rota system to ensure that no one ends up spying on themselves ? Do they need a Beowulf cluster of spys ?
That headlin is really like the casino bosses who used to proclaim "everyone's a winner". If that were true, and everyone did in fact win, they'd go out of business pretty damn quick.
Now if the article headline had been, for example, "NSA spied on eveyone who mattered", then that's something more pertinent. The existing one is just pure tabloid sensationalism.
Nah, they're just pissed that their 70's business model has failed, they can no longer sell you 42 volumes that will cost an arm and a leg, and will take the next 25 years to pay off.
I put Britannica in the same mental pigeon-hole as Tupperware, Avon and Amway. They are all glorified pyramids, selling overpriced junk on the virtue of their "name" and encouraging more people into the network by hosting parties, seminars, training sessions etc., where they sell you "training aids" so you can more effectively sell the overpriced junk they sold you in the first place and offload it to someone else.
HTTPHeaders can be as useful as anything else.
It will list the full URL of every html, image, css, js, and flv requested from the server for the current page.
Simply copy the flv URL and paste stright back into the browser ... instant save-as prompt and your done :-)
Oh I'm not saying it's a cure-all for ALL potential viruses ... I'm just saying that it seems to work for the current ones doing the rounds precisely because the virus writers HAVEN'T thought of that yet.