I'd like to see any of you try to put your coffee on a screen set at a typical drafting table angle. You put it on the level keyboard shelf in front, or on a level shelf to the side if you're using an under-the-table keyboard.
There's usually at least one day a year of ice storm in Texas. It's because of rain that is cold enough to freeze as it hits the ground, but not cold enough to freeze into snow/whatever before it hits. Super-chilled but no nucleation sites or whatever. You can end up with everything coated in a thick layer of ice in a really bad one. Most of the time it melts by noon because the temperature goes above freezing, but if it doesn't, you're fucked until it does.
Snow is nice stuff, you can still get traction. But ice that forms right on the roadways/sidewalks makes transportation impossible. Also, even without an ice storm, highway overpasses get chilled from the wind underneath them and will freeze up. (At least most divided highways in Texas have surface frontage roads, and we have some nice gravels that are good for overpasses.)
This is why I thought back in the '80s that computers would eventually become a drafting desk configuration. Take a monster-sized flat-panel iMac, set it to about 20 degrees from horizontal, add a capacitive touch screen, and add the ability to filter out signals from non-touch objects on the screen. (cap touch should already be mostly immune to that) But what if you put papers over the screen and cover stuff up? If the screen big enough it's still just a window management problem. (Unless you're one of those idiots who always runs Windows apps maximized to full screen no matter how big it is.)
Now I'm starting to think this could still actually happen. We've got all the parts today, it just has to be put together.
It's clearly not an official mozilla.org build, but cool. (I actually upgraded that old box to 10.5, losing Classic as a result, because I knew that SM needed 10.5. Only then did I find out the lack of a PPC build.)
When the PS3 was new, the blue lasers were so expensive and hard to find that there were people who actually bought brand new PS3s, removed the laser, and put it into what was the most awesome laser pointer of its time. Then they sold the laser pointer for a profit.
It was my understanding from the Geohot hack days that Sony compromised their keys by simply not initializing the random number generator in their signing app. That made one part of the crypto be a constant (because the app only generated one key per run), and made the master keys a lot easier to solve. And certain keys couldn't be revoked without locking out genuine game discs, because it wouldn't be possible to tell a genuine game apart from one signed with a hacked key.
I recall that Geohot intentionally didn't even try to solve the lower level signing keys because they weren't needed for homebrew, and he didn't want to be directly responsible for wholesale piracy. Sony sued him anyhow.
So apparently Sony doesn't need to release LV0 keys as part of some conspiracy to enable hacking the PS3. It just needs someone with too much free time and knowledge of how the crypto works.
The problem with the PSX/PS1 was that they made region lock dependent on the same mechanism as copy protection. In my opinion, this was a very stupid decision by Sony because that meant that region unlocking, which is very desirable to some users and does not in and of itself require piracy, necessarily opened the gates for wholesale piracy. Until that point, most console region locks were done by hard-wired select inputs that could be changed by adding region select switches.
The PS2 was an interesting case, in that chips required wires going everywhere, and were a pain to install. But a buried loophole in all the hard drive capable models (only removed late in the Slim era) allowed booting code from a memory card. All you had to do was convince something to execute unsigned code that wrote to the memory card.
Then there's the PSP, which is a complete joke. When people found a big loophole in application signing that allowed you to sign your own homebrew code, you didn't even need to flash custom firmware anymore. (except if you want to play ISOs easily, which I do with mostly rips of games I already have UMDs of, because UMDs are a pain in the ass)
The PS3 was (is) a freaking mess as far as I can tell. Its architecture is going to be a pain in the ass to emulate in the future, and Cell is highly unlikely to be the basis of the PS4. But using a random number generator to generate keys in their signing app and forgetting to call srand() at the start? That's just too stupid to be intentional. Maybe later they secretly wanted the PS3 to be hacked, but the bad security could only be intentional if they did it in full knowledge that "rolling your own crypto never works". I think that the exploitation of bugs in the USB subsystem for the initial break-in was particularly clever. Who would think of buffer overflows being a problem when writing a USB stack?
There's also the original Xbox, which is famous for its loopholes, and ease of installing a mod chip (MS effectively provided a port specifically for a mod chip!), which you don't even need to leave in after finishing some kinds of mods. That makes three "jukebox" capable systems: PS2, Xbox, PSP. And while I rarely use them now (less free time since I got my current job 2 years ago), I like the idea of being able to take a system loaded with games (mostly ripped from originals because I'm too lazy to download) to some sort of nerd-in event.
Will the PS3 be jukebox-able in the future? It has the hardware for it, but hasn't (AFAIK) got the setup for ripping games to the hard drive yet. Until it becomes as easy to use as a hacked PSP, I'm not getting one. (I don't have a 360 either, and I really should hack my Wii someday but haven't even turned it on since before they patched the Twilight Hack.)
It's a SlashBI story. If you check the firehose, you'll see that this guy posts at least 2 or 3 of them every day for some reason. Most of them go nowhere, because they're crap, just like the rest of SlashBI.
WTF are you talking about? ABP works fine with Seamonkey 2.1 and later. The only difference I see is that the stop sign icon is in the lower right corner of the window instead of the upper right corner.
The IRC client is built in. (I can see the "CZ" logo on my status bar.) I wish I could install it without the editor and e-mail client. It's a real pain in the ass when you accidentally click on "mail this link", then have to figure out how to cancel that properly. Back in the old days when it was still called Mozilla, the installer would let you prevent most of that stuff from installing.
Sorry, but I beat you by a few years. I never hopped on the Firefox bandwagon, sticking with the old Mozilla through its renaming, and I was proven right by the absurd variety of UI and other changes that have been made to FF over the years. Seamonkey's UI now is where Firefox was in the 3.x days before they started chasing Chrome. As long as I can run ABP, I'm happy. (FWIW, I can't run it on my old PowerMac that I use for file storage and downloads because 2.1 for OS X is x86 only, and ABP is 2.1+ only.)
I would prefer that the editor simply not be there. Or at least remove the freaking menu key binding. I don't need to edit pages on a whim with a keystroke, much less at all, and control-E is too close to control-W and gets hit too much by accident. It can be changed, but you have to go in and unzip the right file, and remove the menu key binding, but then your work gets wiped a week later when there's an update.
It is designed to cut from the balloon and land with its own parachute. Not only is there equipment in there that they need for every jump, it's his emergency return option. It wouldn't be the most comfortable landing, but it would be survivable.
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I'd like to see any of you try to put your coffee on a screen set at a typical drafting table angle. You put it on the level keyboard shelf in front, or on a level shelf to the side if you're using an under-the-table keyboard.
Including a former CEO.
There's usually at least one day a year of ice storm in Texas. It's because of rain that is cold enough to freeze as it hits the ground, but not cold enough to freeze into snow/whatever before it hits. Super-chilled but no nucleation sites or whatever. You can end up with everything coated in a thick layer of ice in a really bad one. Most of the time it melts by noon because the temperature goes above freezing, but if it doesn't, you're fucked until it does.
Snow is nice stuff, you can still get traction. But ice that forms right on the roadways/sidewalks makes transportation impossible. Also, even without an ice storm, highway overpasses get chilled from the wind underneath them and will freeze up. (At least most divided highways in Texas have surface frontage roads, and we have some nice gravels that are good for overpasses.)
This is why I thought back in the '80s that computers would eventually become a drafting desk configuration. Take a monster-sized flat-panel iMac, set it to about 20 degrees from horizontal, add a capacitive touch screen, and add the ability to filter out signals from non-touch objects on the screen. (cap touch should already be mostly immune to that) But what if you put papers over the screen and cover stuff up? If the screen big enough it's still just a window management problem. (Unless you're one of those idiots who always runs Windows apps maximized to full screen no matter how big it is.)
Now I'm starting to think this could still actually happen. We've got all the parts today, it just has to be put together.
The given response isn't that far out of line with the US Population ether, or at least the Republican population of the US
See the poll question in a reply above before you go blaming this on eeeeeevil Republicans:
Will you vote for Obama or Romney?
Obama [ 72% ] Romney [ 23%] Not Sure [ 5%]
A Schottky diode will probably be a good start.
It's clearly not an official mozilla.org build, but cool. (I actually upgraded that old box to 10.5, losing Classic as a result, because I knew that SM needed 10.5. Only then did I find out the lack of a PPC build.)
You can do that
That's nice. Mind giving me a hint how to do it? (Without doing something like manually ripping out chunks of its file tree every time it upgrades?)
reasonably priced blu-ray player
When the PS3 was new, the blue lasers were so expensive and hard to find that there were people who actually bought brand new PS3s, removed the laser, and put it into what was the most awesome laser pointer of its time. Then they sold the laser pointer for a profit.
It was my understanding from the Geohot hack days that Sony compromised their keys by simply not initializing the random number generator in their signing app. That made one part of the crypto be a constant (because the app only generated one key per run), and made the master keys a lot easier to solve. And certain keys couldn't be revoked without locking out genuine game discs, because it wouldn't be possible to tell a genuine game apart from one signed with a hacked key.
I recall that Geohot intentionally didn't even try to solve the lower level signing keys because they weren't needed for homebrew, and he didn't want to be directly responsible for wholesale piracy. Sony sued him anyhow.
So apparently Sony doesn't need to release LV0 keys as part of some conspiracy to enable hacking the PS3. It just needs someone with too much free time and knowledge of how the crypto works.
The problem with the PSX/PS1 was that they made region lock dependent on the same mechanism as copy protection. In my opinion, this was a very stupid decision by Sony because that meant that region unlocking, which is very desirable to some users and does not in and of itself require piracy, necessarily opened the gates for wholesale piracy. Until that point, most console region locks were done by hard-wired select inputs that could be changed by adding region select switches.
The PS2 was an interesting case, in that chips required wires going everywhere, and were a pain to install. But a buried loophole in all the hard drive capable models (only removed late in the Slim era) allowed booting code from a memory card. All you had to do was convince something to execute unsigned code that wrote to the memory card.
Then there's the PSP, which is a complete joke. When people found a big loophole in application signing that allowed you to sign your own homebrew code, you didn't even need to flash custom firmware anymore. (except if you want to play ISOs easily, which I do with mostly rips of games I already have UMDs of, because UMDs are a pain in the ass)
The PS3 was (is) a freaking mess as far as I can tell. Its architecture is going to be a pain in the ass to emulate in the future, and Cell is highly unlikely to be the basis of the PS4. But using a random number generator to generate keys in their signing app and forgetting to call srand() at the start? That's just too stupid to be intentional. Maybe later they secretly wanted the PS3 to be hacked, but the bad security could only be intentional if they did it in full knowledge that "rolling your own crypto never works". I think that the exploitation of bugs in the USB subsystem for the initial break-in was particularly clever. Who would think of buffer overflows being a problem when writing a USB stack?
There's also the original Xbox, which is famous for its loopholes, and ease of installing a mod chip (MS effectively provided a port specifically for a mod chip!), which you don't even need to leave in after finishing some kinds of mods. That makes three "jukebox" capable systems: PS2, Xbox, PSP. And while I rarely use them now (less free time since I got my current job 2 years ago), I like the idea of being able to take a system loaded with games (mostly ripped from originals because I'm too lazy to download) to some sort of nerd-in event.
Will the PS3 be jukebox-able in the future? It has the hardware for it, but hasn't (AFAIK) got the setup for ripping games to the hard drive yet. Until it becomes as easy to use as a hacked PSP, I'm not getting one. (I don't have a 360 either, and I really should hack my Wii someday but haven't even turned it on since before they patched the Twilight Hack.)
It's a SlashBI story. If you check the firehose, you'll see that this guy posts at least 2 or 3 of them every day for some reason. Most of them go nowhere, because they're crap, just like the rest of SlashBI.
it's essentially just what Netscape was to Navigator, or what Mozilla was to Phoenix/Thunderbird/Firefox
It's not "essentially" Mozilla. It IS main-line trunk Mozilla. They simply changed the name a few years ago.
WTF are you talking about? ABP works fine with Seamonkey 2.1 and later. The only difference I see is that the stop sign icon is in the lower right corner of the window instead of the upper right corner.
The IRC client is built in. (I can see the "CZ" logo on my status bar.) I wish I could install it without the editor and e-mail client. It's a real pain in the ass when you accidentally click on "mail this link", then have to figure out how to cancel that properly. Back in the old days when it was still called Mozilla, the installer would let you prevent most of that stuff from installing.
Sorry, but I beat you by a few years. I never hopped on the Firefox bandwagon, sticking with the old Mozilla through its renaming, and I was proven right by the absurd variety of UI and other changes that have been made to FF over the years. Seamonkey's UI now is where Firefox was in the 3.x days before they started chasing Chrome. As long as I can run ABP, I'm happy. (FWIW, I can't run it on my old PowerMac that I use for file storage and downloads because 2.1 for OS X is x86 only, and ABP is 2.1+ only.)
I would prefer that the editor simply not be there. Or at least remove the freaking menu key binding. I don't need to edit pages on a whim with a keystroke, much less at all, and control-E is too close to control-W and gets hit too much by accident. It can be changed, but you have to go in and unzip the right file, and remove the menu key binding, but then your work gets wiped a week later when there's an update.
I expect at least some of them will be studies of beer and poutine.
The step to skip was putting the visor down. His visor was clearly already down in the video.
It is designed to cut from the balloon and land with its own parachute. Not only is there equipment in there that they need for every jump, it's his emergency return option. It wouldn't be the most comfortable landing, but it would be survivable.
I meant during the checklist. That's kind of something you don't want to fuck up.
FYI, youtube is up to 6.58 million "watching now".
No sound barrier, less speed than a Nomad. Lame.
I think he just forgot to hit the talk switch. Still, he could've been more communicative.
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