A few years there was a great story in Wired about breaking locks. In summary, even the world's most secure locks are not meant to survive more than 10-15 minutes. And it tells the story of a few experts that broke down one of these locks in under a minute.
3 minutes on a car lock? Either the hackers haven't figured out the best way to break in yet or the security is actually amazing.
Wired story
If memory serves me right, in Matrix the energy was generated off bioelectricity and body heat. Here, instead, is a biofuel cell powered by sugar and oxygen. That's like comparing a solar power cell to an internal combustion engine. Now what this invention does replicate is a parasitic organism, or, if the cell actually does something useful, a symbiotic organism.
Thank you. That's the first comment here to point out the probable source of the problem rather than campaign for Linux. That's exactly what scared me when I heard of FF going crazy with boosting up version numbers. Sure, even before you sometimes had to wait for developers to update their plugins and extensions to work with new versions, but the quicker FF changes things, the harder it gets to keep up. By the time McAfee fixes the bugs, FF will be another few versions ahead, with new issues cropping up.
I've used two recent Norton products. They take up about 12 MB of RAM and occasionally a couple % of CPU while scanning. Did you mean a 5-year old PC or 25? The only slow down I can attribute to them is that programs take a fraction of a second longer to start since antiviruses usually scan launched executables, but that's hardly noticeable.
Innocent until proven guilty? Hahaha, what a medieval concept, go back to 1200's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lemoine#Works) if you want to talk about it. We live in a civilized time, way past such barbaric ideas.
I've spent years waiting for mobile OS's to approach desktop OS's interface and system features - I really hate seeing a phone with specs good enough to run XP on and a pretty decent resolution but has a GUI that's more reminiscent of a ten-year-old flip phone and apps that look like flash games from around same time. Instead, Microsoft is trying to ruin a desktop OS.
Well, the good news is, it looks like at least the old interface is hiding somewhere below this tile/touch/swipe thing. Considering most laptops and desktops don't have a touchscreen, we can assume all that stuff they demo'ed will be turned off by most people to just use what looks exactly like Win7. At which point people will wonder what's the point of upgrading.
Clearly, they will not calculate in same scenarios or with same or with reasonable use figures. Maybe pageflips matters more, or standby time, or whether wi-fi is on, or some combination of them. Nook also claims it fits "thousands... of songs" in 8 GB (and decimal ones, at that) of space; an average song in my music library is about 9MB (and that's with a lot of old low-bitrate stuff) so that doesn't quite add up either. Pretty sure their amount of books fitting in memory is based on like fifty-page text files.
What we really want to see if a comparison, done under EXACTLY same conditions, by an independent source, run on all the different devices. It can be multiple tests, i.e. separately done pageflips and continuous use and standby and some sort of use scenario. The important part is that the measurements are done in same way for the results to be comparable, and then from there you can estimate which one works better for you. This is a good chance for Wired or CNet or PCMag or gizmodo or any of scores of others to step in - if you trust them to be independent of course.
To continue your thought, the argument can be made that the loudest supporters of the TSA are overly nymphomaniac and likely sexually expressive. So a TSA touched you, it's not like they actually want to have sex with everyone they grope. What are you, a free love hippie, not having physical contact is a crime against humanity?
Yeah my first thought was how anyone with slightest knowledge of statistics would laugh at this test. A blank page, a mysterious "news site" (which was probably one of MS sites tailored for IE), and something weird that's not even supported by one of the tested items. That's meaningless. You want a large range of sites, with every kind of content, say webmail, video, large image photo gallery, social networking sites, and so on and so forth. And not just loading a page but have the user move the mouse over stuff, click on pretty buttons and links and menus and so on. Oh, and include plenty of plug-in content like flash and other video/audio/animation, maybe a bit of Java to top it off. This is a hand-picked joke of a test, lamest attempt at marketing I've seen in a while.
Yea, now people will finally stop arguing for it and give solar, wind, etc. more attention. Awesome. I'm sorry, but I'll never be a proponent for something that has a good chance of causing horrible diseases and mutations and birth defects, regardless of how good the technology protecting it is (you could blame Chernobyl on outdated and weak Soviet tech if you want, but a modern plant by the gods of technology, Japanese, is faring no better). And there is the matter of having to bury the leftovers for thousands of years.
If you actually follow the links and look at NYTclean, it's over 25 lines of code (http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js). Did it grow in the time between the article posting and now?
Yep, that's why currently many are being reclassified based on genetic comparison, although I'm not sure what the cutoff is and whether the same one is used by all biologists.
Just a few more in the list, and just as weak as their previous filtering attempts. Someone put up this site almost immediately when instant search came out http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/ and it points quite a lot of funny examples or words that do or don't get filtered very inconsistently. Mind you, if you enter "bit" it shows bitcomet (a bittorrent client), doesn't filter out eMule and other non-torrent P2P programs, and for "thep" or "pir" the first result is thepiratebay. Doesn't filter out any other trackers that I know of either. For autocomplete it's no different, even better - shows an ad for thepiratebay on top of the suggestions and lists more torrent clients. Clearly it's not an effective censorship/filtering of any sort, which leads me to wonder why exactly is it that way. I doubt Google programmers are stupid and would miss a lot of obvious things. What's more likely is that they aren't comfortable with this either and try to block as little as possible - just enough to satisfy managers and/or companies complaining.
You mean you weren't aware that they were extensively blocking instant search result since the launch? This list went up months ago http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/
And don't forget a few more popular things... Like promoting a pretty picture or a poster for something by tagging every single one of your friends in random spots on it even though it has nothing to do with them. Or one of those pictures with a bunch of drawn faces or characters from somewhere or some other short description where you match each one with a friend. And all of these count
Not only does this kill small companies' as well as individual users' chances at internet presence, but what a great way to kill off any p2p protocols by dumping them whosesale into the 'slow lane'.
We can all keep dreaming. It will happen around same time when programs will ask during install whether we actually want their quickstart/autoupdate services/startup items/tray icons. I remember QuickTime used to bug me with installing one of those automatic programs (qttask?), which I had to either disable with some startup control utility or open the program and go through several hard to find screens of options to disable it (not explicitly either, it was rather disabling updates). Then newer versions (since around 2007) had an option during install whether to set the program to update automatically. Guess what? After making sure I select the right thing during install, on a clean new system, it would still run on startup with automatic updates set to 'on' in options. Haven't used the program for over a year now, so not sure if that bug (intentional or not) was ever fixed. I think that was the point when I lost the remains of my faith that friendly software installations will ever exist.
How come Apple missed all the other i's, like iRiver (mp3 player), iRobot (Roomba vacuum cleaner), iGoogle (personalized homepage made by Apple's major nemesis) et al?
Slashdot Mirror
And then kidnap... err, arrest her, ship off to Gitmo, and torture her to his heart's delight.
In vacuum...
A few years there was a great story in Wired about breaking locks. In summary, even the world's most secure locks are not meant to survive more than 10-15 minutes. And it tells the story of a few experts that broke down one of these locks in under a minute. 3 minutes on a car lock? Either the hackers haven't figured out the best way to break in yet or the security is actually amazing. Wired story
It took me a few minutes to dig it out, but I think this might be it http://www.hack-test.com/
If memory serves me right, in Matrix the energy was generated off bioelectricity and body heat. Here, instead, is a biofuel cell powered by sugar and oxygen. That's like comparing a solar power cell to an internal combustion engine. Now what this invention does replicate is a parasitic organism, or, if the cell actually does something useful, a symbiotic organism.
Thank you. That's the first comment here to point out the probable source of the problem rather than campaign for Linux. That's exactly what scared me when I heard of FF going crazy with boosting up version numbers. Sure, even before you sometimes had to wait for developers to update their plugins and extensions to work with new versions, but the quicker FF changes things, the harder it gets to keep up. By the time McAfee fixes the bugs, FF will be another few versions ahead, with new issues cropping up.
I've used two recent Norton products. They take up about 12 MB of RAM and occasionally a couple % of CPU while scanning. Did you mean a 5-year old PC or 25? The only slow down I can attribute to them is that programs take a fraction of a second longer to start since antiviruses usually scan launched executables, but that's hardly noticeable.
The last Norton product I had took less than a minute to uninstall both on an old and on two new computers.
Innocent until proven guilty? Hahaha, what a medieval concept, go back to 1200's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lemoine#Works) if you want to talk about it. We live in a civilized time, way past such barbaric ideas.
You mean like the governments of Arab nations like Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran..? Were you even watching the news this year?
No legitimate claim? Go back to your history class. The Kingdom of Israel was in place for centuries before Arabs even came to existence.
I've spent years waiting for mobile OS's to approach desktop OS's interface and system features - I really hate seeing a phone with specs good enough to run XP on and a pretty decent resolution but has a GUI that's more reminiscent of a ten-year-old flip phone and apps that look like flash games from around same time. Instead, Microsoft is trying to ruin a desktop OS.
Well, the good news is, it looks like at least the old interface is hiding somewhere below this tile/touch/swipe thing. Considering most laptops and desktops don't have a touchscreen, we can assume all that stuff they demo'ed will be turned off by most people to just use what looks exactly like Win7. At which point people will wonder what's the point of upgrading.
Clearly, they will not calculate in same scenarios or with same or with reasonable use figures. Maybe pageflips matters more, or standby time, or whether wi-fi is on, or some combination of them. Nook also claims it fits "thousands... of songs" in 8 GB (and decimal ones, at that) of space; an average song in my music library is about 9MB (and that's with a lot of old low-bitrate stuff) so that doesn't quite add up either. Pretty sure their amount of books fitting in memory is based on like fifty-page text files.
What we really want to see if a comparison, done under EXACTLY same conditions, by an independent source, run on all the different devices. It can be multiple tests, i.e. separately done pageflips and continuous use and standby and some sort of use scenario. The important part is that the measurements are done in same way for the results to be comparable, and then from there you can estimate which one works better for you. This is a good chance for Wired or CNet or PCMag or gizmodo or any of scores of others to step in - if you trust them to be independent of course.
To continue your thought, the argument can be made that the loudest supporters of the TSA are overly nymphomaniac and likely sexually expressive. So a TSA touched you, it's not like they actually want to have sex with everyone they grope. What are you, a free love hippie, not having physical contact is a crime against humanity?
Yeah my first thought was how anyone with slightest knowledge of statistics would laugh at this test. A blank page, a mysterious "news site" (which was probably one of MS sites tailored for IE), and something weird that's not even supported by one of the tested items. That's meaningless. You want a large range of sites, with every kind of content, say webmail, video, large image photo gallery, social networking sites, and so on and so forth. And not just loading a page but have the user move the mouse over stuff, click on pretty buttons and links and menus and so on. Oh, and include plenty of plug-in content like flash and other video/audio/animation, maybe a bit of Java to top it off. This is a hand-picked joke of a test, lamest attempt at marketing I've seen in a while.
Good point. And in that case, Opera would be miles ahead as it caches pages without reloading any data for them when you use back/forward buttons.
Yea, now people will finally stop arguing for it and give solar, wind, etc. more attention. Awesome.
I'm sorry, but I'll never be a proponent for something that has a good chance of causing horrible diseases and mutations and birth defects, regardless of how good the technology protecting it is (you could blame Chernobyl on outdated and weak Soviet tech if you want, but a modern plant by the gods of technology, Japanese, is faring no better). And there is the matter of having to bury the leftovers for thousands of years.
If you actually follow the links and look at NYTclean, it's over 25 lines of code (http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js). Did it grow in the time between the article posting and now?
Yep, that's why currently many are being reclassified based on genetic comparison, although I'm not sure what the cutoff is and whether the same one is used by all biologists.
Just a few more in the list, and just as weak as their previous filtering attempts. Someone put up this site almost immediately when instant search came out http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/ and it points quite a lot of funny examples or words that do or don't get filtered very inconsistently. Mind you, if you enter "bit" it shows bitcomet (a bittorrent client), doesn't filter out eMule and other non-torrent P2P programs, and for "thep" or "pir" the first result is thepiratebay. Doesn't filter out any other trackers that I know of either. For autocomplete it's no different, even better - shows an ad for thepiratebay on top of the suggestions and lists more torrent clients.
Clearly it's not an effective censorship/filtering of any sort, which leads me to wonder why exactly is it that way. I doubt Google programmers are stupid and would miss a lot of obvious things. What's more likely is that they aren't comfortable with this either and try to block as little as possible - just enough to satisfy managers and/or companies complaining.
You mean you weren't aware that they were extensively blocking instant search result since the launch? This list went up months ago http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/
And don't forget a few more popular things... Like promoting a pretty picture or a poster for something by tagging every single one of your friends in random spots on it even though it has nothing to do with them. Or one of those pictures with a bunch of drawn faces or characters from somewhere or some other short description where you match each one with a friend. And all of these count
Not only does this kill small companies' as well as individual users' chances at internet presence, but what a great way to kill off any p2p protocols by dumping them whosesale into the 'slow lane'.
We can all keep dreaming. It will happen around same time when programs will ask during install whether we actually want their quickstart/autoupdate services/startup items/tray icons.
I remember QuickTime used to bug me with installing one of those automatic programs (qttask?), which I had to either disable with some startup control utility or open the program and go through several hard to find screens of options to disable it (not explicitly either, it was rather disabling updates). Then newer versions (since around 2007) had an option during install whether to set the program to update automatically. Guess what? After making sure I select the right thing during install, on a clean new system, it would still run on startup with automatic updates set to 'on' in options. Haven't used the program for over a year now, so not sure if that bug (intentional or not) was ever fixed. I think that was the point when I lost the remains of my faith that friendly software installations will ever exist.
How come Apple missed all the other i's, like iRiver (mp3 player), iRobot (Roomba vacuum cleaner), iGoogle (personalized homepage made by Apple's major nemesis) et al?