How is that any different than a guy and his girlfriend in the car having a fight, or some selfish schmuck stuffing themselves on McDonalds because they can't wait 5 minutes to get to work? There are more accidents caused by eating while driving than any other activity (upwards of 80%).
They should really attack the biggest problems first, no pun intended. People stuffing their face causes more accidents than drunk driving. It's also disgusting because it makes your car stink simply opening the bags in there. My brother's car smells like a KFC that hasn't been cleaned in a couple of weeks.
When my kid acted up in the car, I pulled over and solved the problem. He hasn't done it since;-)
The bottom line is you have to drive with your kids in the car sometimes, you don't need to drink, eat, smoke, text, talk on the phone and fight with your girlfriend in the car. Discipline is up to each parent. I agree that some people do stupid shit in their cars with their kids in the back screaming. Other people, like me, don't have the problem in the first place.
By your logic, school buses should be the biggest hazard on the road. They account for fewer than 0.33% of accidents.
"...it seems to have been taken a little too far..."
No it hasn't.
You are piloting 2-4000 pounds of metal that kills people when you hit them with it. Driving and the other men, women and children on the road deserve your full attention.
If I had my way you'd get your license taken. If you don't pay attention to what you are doing on the road you aren't worthy of the privilege of driving. Looking where you are going is a requirement to do it safely.
So far so good. Other than the fact that a piece of hardware I have doesn't work in a 64 bit OS, Windows 7 64 bit is a winner.
That's why I kept my XP 32 bit OS disk and installed Win 7 on a new one. Dual boot 4tw. It's fast and does well with all of the programs I've tested so far.
500 or 750 points? Do we get style kudos for drifting around corners or achieving air? How many points for nudging the rear bumper of the fast-lane campers if we send them into the jersey wall and do everyone a favor?
I definitely want the Twisted Metal - Reality expansion pack for my Honda. That way I can just blow them up without damaging my car.
I was all excited that my new car came with a satellite radio reciever, then bitterly disappointed with the sound quality and didn't subscribe. I'm considering replacing it with an HD reciever, once I hear one to find out what "HD" really means. Satellite radio is utter crap for sound quality.
CD quality mp3 is 320kbps.I can understand not being able to tell 48kbps from 160kbps (especially when a different codec is used for each, the quality of the codec and the configuration of it is key). It's hard to tell the difference between crap and sh*t. The test is only meaningful as a bitrate test if the same codec and encoding settings are used. Otherwise it's apples to oranges. The bitrate isn't nearly as important as how it's encoded unless both streams are done exactly the same way (except for bitrate).
This test smacks of Apple fanboism. Do a real bitrate test using the same codec and settings (outside of bitrate) and I guarantee you'll get better listener accuracy.
Why on earth would you do a bitrate test with two different codecs unless the test was really marketing propaganda for one of the codecs?/filed in the Apple marketing bullshit drawer
This is a codec test, not a bitrate test. As a "can a user tell the difference between these bitrates" test, the results are completely worthless. It's more like a "AAC rulez! look a 48k AAC stream sounds as good as a 160kbps Ogg stream!"/barf
the only way to know for sure is to run other experiments before trying to create a Higgs boson.
If it runs reliably for lots of other experiments, then blows up when they try for the Higgs boson, this theory might be possible. They would only need to prove it's repeatable then, which could be very expensive.
If they go straight for the Higgs boson and it blows up, it could still be a design flaw in the collider, which would make it an inconclusive test.
My money is on design flaw or faulty parts. lex parsimoniae. It would be wise to try other experiments first so the result would be meaningful if the Higgs boson experiment takes it out again.
It's not about rewarding mediocrity, it's about keeping it challenging. If the game is too easy people stop playing. If the game is too hard people stop playing.
I buy all of my apps, or use open source alternatives for non-work stuff. Admittedly I used to use software from warez sites. I stopped that around 1999.
Way too risky... I equate it to dollar cost, time and morals. If it takes me 6+ hours to rebuild my computer, get all of my apps reinstalled, and get my computer back to where it was, and my time is worth $80-120 an hour (depending on where I'm working), all of a sudden that $29.99-$59.99 game or software package doesn't seem so expensive if buying it mitigates the risk of my PC getting toasted by some new malware. I have no software that costs more than $600.
I need my PC operational for making money. If I find a package useful, I like to support the developers.
I just read lots of reviews and make sure I'm not buying crap first.
One thing I miss is the lack of obnoxious copy protection... It's ironic how the people that actually pay for the software have to put up with an assload of frustration and people that steal it don't.
College universities with no bias, ROFL. That made my day.
That's like saying a democrat or republican with no bias. In case you haven't noticed, colleges are on the other side of the RIAA's beatdown stick.
For such a study to be truly unbiased it'd have to be done by aliens, or someone who doesn't participate in p2p or beatdowns (and has no friends that do either). That rules out universities as a possibility to do such an unbiased study.
Or you could just install a free copy of VMWare server, a free linux distro, and install the free apache software with the free OpenSSL on it, then configure a virtual server, create a csr, process it to build the cert, install the cert and learn all about how it works using the documentation and How To's.
I'll give you a little hint though. Just remember that the certificate negotiation is done at the lower layers in the OSI model, so to have multiple certs on one server, you need to put each cert on it's own IP. It doesn't process the host request header til after the SSL connection is negotiated. Because of this you can't have a bunch of VHosts running SSL on the same IP. Only one will serve pages without a warning if you do... the exception being when all of the hosts are subdomains of the same domain, and you have a wildcard cert that's valid for all of the vhosts.
There's no better way to learn something than to do it, work through it and actually make it work;)
It's definitely possible. You can add CA's willy nilly to any install. This feature is present to allow companies to have self signed certificates used by their employees. You just need to have a server online that it contacts for the CA verification. You can check the list yourself and compare it to what it should be at:
It will take some digging but it's in there. What's scary is that a hostile pc maker could replace the stock IE with their own that has hardcoded CA's which aren't visible by checking the list in IE... This would be tough to do though with the regular updates that MS does, unless they coded up a rootkit too, which hid the actual executibles from the update process and swapped the malware back in after the update.
Unlikely, but possible... The only way to be sure is to build your own PC and install "Genuine" media, which could be tampered with too, since it's packaged and printed overseas. Someone at Microsoft would catch on to that though, I hope.
>as the guy said in the article, it should kick you from a session at expired certs, not allow click through options >if the cert is expired/ unverifiable, the browser should simply kick the session, end of story
As long as that's a default setting you can override... Otherwise I have to have a valid paid cert on every one of my dev servers? F*** THAT.
>No, I'm afraid it's not. It's still vulnerable to "Do you accept this made-up key" attacks where people have become far too accustomed to accepting unsigned keys, and to the purchase of centrally signed keys
Um, that's a social engineering attack, not a fault of the protocol itself. The protocol is secure, users aren't. To be fair, the browser manufacturers could do a better job of writing the warnings so that anyone could understand them. Again, this is not a fault of the protocol, rather how people use it.
And adding a layer of PGP to it, would have the _exact_ same issue. Instead of "Do you accept this SSL key" It would be "Do you accept this PGP key". In addition, adding PGP would introduce a whole new slew of security bugs related to added complexity of PGP support in browsers, along with all the bugs guaranteed to be introduced with the additional new code.
More accurately Eve partitions their blade servers slightly differently than this. A busy system like Jita will be on it's own blade, and probably one of the newer ones. However slow systems with fewer players may be on a blade with 20 other systems.
With alliance and fleet battles, an administrator actually needs to move the busy system on to it's own blade to handle the load. I'm pretty sure this isn't automatic yet. I've heard fleet commanders say they'd talked to a GM and they were moving the system. Some systems are always busy so are already on their own blade.
Another factor is that Eve online limits each player's bandwidth to 28.8k. When you are talking about 500 ships in the same grid it's _impossible_ for there not to be lag. Every client needs to talk to the server which then needs to pass on what that player is doing to everyone else in the grid. There's simply not enough bandwidth to handle the throughput of all this data past a certain point. They limit everyone to 28.8k in the interest of fairness so people don't gain advantage because of their connection speed as well as the fact that their bandwidth is finite. At some point you get packet loss, which is why you activate your guns and nothing happens, or you are firing, run out of ammo and your weapons keep firing for 5 minutes and you can't control your ship. In reality you are probably already dead.
For the same reason when you are on teamspeak with 250 people in channel, no one is allowed to talk but officers and fleet commanders. Otherwise bandwidth gets choked and everyone is talking over each other.
Sorry I'm an ex eve geek =D I still play occasionally now but it's around 1-2 hours a week mission whoring in empire. I used to do the whole pvp/alliance thing (RAZOR, and before that fighting with IRON alliance as a 0.0 guest corp) so do have some 3 years experience with lag in 500+ ship alliance battles, but then I got a life;-)
Then there's also the whole thing of nVidia producing utter crap chipsets... That might have a teeny weeny little something to do with it.
It has nothing to do with intel's "market dominance" and everything to do with nVidia's inability to be competitive in a market segment they know little about, and the shoddy crap they try to pass off as a chipset. Once you put the koolaid down and have an objective look at their product, it simply sucks.
I've had 3 of them and all three were utter garbage. DFI, Gigabyte, ASUS, it didn't matter. Every time it turned out to be the MCP in the chipset or some other part of it failing or not working correctly to begin with. In one case the interrupt controller didn't work at all with a dual core CPU and on both linux and MS Windows they had to put a "software" interrupt controller in the kernel to make it work with a dual core cpu. As you might guess this made the multi cpu performance _worse_ than a single cpu. And this was a chipset designed for multi-core CPUs.
I've subsequently had 2 AMD crossfire chipsets, both worked perfectly. nVidia chipsets are 0-3 in my book.
Good riddance...
That's hundreds of thousands of consumers that won't get burned. Intel or AMD chipsets for the win...
... than a half assed product full of bugs in your enterprise: One nobody uses that's been sitting on someone's test server for 2 years.
It's been my experience that if your project takes more than 3 months, someone else's project to do the same job, half assed or not, is the one that will be used. There's always some busybody doing a secret project, which they will show to a VP, usually on their smart phone, while they are buying them drinks at happy hour.
Then when it doesn't scale, they'll find a way to blame their co-workers, who will need to work overtime to make the steaming pile of dung work, while the guy that built it is gathering requirements for his next shitty project. He's a mover and shaker after all!
Git'er done or get plutoed. People don't care if there are bugs, as long as you fix them. They get really pissed when they have to wait ; )
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Dunno, they got what they wanted in the first place, fiber ;-)
How is that any different than a guy and his girlfriend in the car having a fight, or some selfish schmuck stuffing themselves on McDonalds because they can't wait 5 minutes to get to work? There are more accidents caused by eating while driving than any other activity (upwards of 80%).
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/07/19/2009-07-19_eatdrive_sure_recipe_for_a_crash.html
They should really attack the biggest problems first, no pun intended. People stuffing their face causes more accidents than drunk driving. It's also disgusting because it makes your car stink simply opening the bags in there. My brother's car smells like a KFC that hasn't been cleaned in a couple of weeks.
When my kid acted up in the car, I pulled over and solved the problem. He hasn't done it since ;-)
The bottom line is you have to drive with your kids in the car sometimes, you don't need to drink, eat, smoke, text, talk on the phone and fight with your girlfriend in the car. Discipline is up to each parent. I agree that some people do stupid shit in their cars with their kids in the back screaming. Other people, like me, don't have the problem in the first place.
By your logic, school buses should be the biggest hazard on the road. They account for fewer than 0.33% of accidents.
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/personal_injury/bus/statistics.html
I drive stick and I'm a yank. Generalization is bad, mkay?
"...it seems to have been taken a little too far..."
No it hasn't.
You are piloting 2-4000 pounds of metal that kills people when you hit them with it. Driving and the other men, women and children on the road deserve your full attention.
If I had my way you'd get your license taken. If you don't pay attention to what you are doing on the road you aren't worthy of the privilege of driving. Looking where you are going is a requirement to do it safely.
End of story.
I thought Raman scattering occurred if you didn't open the packaging carefully enough, scattering nano noodles all over the place.
Had Win 7 on preorder...
So far so good. Other than the fact that a piece of hardware I have doesn't work in a 64 bit OS, Windows 7 64 bit is a winner.
That's why I kept my XP 32 bit OS disk and installed Win 7 on a new one. Dual boot 4tw. It's fast and does well with all of the programs I've tested so far.
I like it...
500 or 750 points?
Do we get style kudos for drifting around corners or achieving air?
How many points for nudging the rear bumper of the fast-lane campers if we send them into the jersey wall and do everyone a favor?
I definitely want the Twisted Metal - Reality expansion pack for my Honda. That way I can just blow them up without damaging my car.
Ammo is hella cheaper than body work XD
Would that be a Nintonda, or a Nintenda? Hopefully you don't throw the controller through the windshield when it slips out of your hand.
I guess the Nissan version would be the Nintendosan or the Nisstendo. Very Japanese...
I'm all for OurSQL.
I was all excited that my new car came with a satellite radio reciever, then bitterly disappointed with the sound quality and didn't subscribe. I'm considering replacing it with an HD reciever, once I hear one to find out what "HD" really means. Satellite radio is utter crap for sound quality.
CD quality mp3 is 320kbps.I can understand not being able to tell 48kbps from 160kbps (especially when a different codec is used for each, the quality of the codec and the configuration of it is key). It's hard to tell the difference between crap and sh*t. The test is only meaningful as a bitrate test if the same codec and encoding settings are used. Otherwise it's apples to oranges. The bitrate isn't nearly as important as how it's encoded unless both streams are done exactly the same way (except for bitrate).
This test smacks of Apple fanboism. Do a real bitrate test using the same codec and settings (outside of bitrate) and I guarantee you'll get better listener accuracy.
Why on earth would you do a bitrate test with two different codecs unless the test was really marketing propaganda for one of the codecs? /filed in the Apple marketing bullshit drawer
This is a codec test, not a bitrate test. As a "can a user tell the difference between these bitrates" test, the results are completely worthless. It's more like a "AAC rulez! look a 48k AAC stream sounds as good as a 160kbps Ogg stream!" /barf
the only way to know for sure is to run other experiments before trying to create a Higgs boson.
If it runs reliably for lots of other experiments, then blows up when they try for the Higgs boson, this theory might be possible. They would only need to prove it's repeatable then, which could be very expensive.
If they go straight for the Higgs boson and it blows up, it could still be a design flaw in the collider, which would make it an inconclusive test.
My money is on design flaw or faulty parts. lex parsimoniae. It would be wise to try other experiments first so the result would be meaningful if the Higgs boson experiment takes it out again.
agreed. you'll also end up with advanced knowledge about RNG which is very important for security.
I'm with parent.
It's not about rewarding mediocrity, it's about keeping it challenging. If the game is too easy people stop playing. If the game is too hard people stop playing.
I buy all of my apps, or use open source alternatives for non-work stuff. Admittedly I used to use software from warez sites. I stopped that around 1999.
Way too risky... I equate it to dollar cost, time and morals. If it takes me 6+ hours to rebuild my computer, get all of my apps reinstalled, and get my computer back to where it was, and my time is worth $80-120 an hour (depending on where I'm working), all of a sudden that $29.99-$59.99 game or software package doesn't seem so expensive if buying it mitigates the risk of my PC getting toasted by some new malware. I have no software that costs more than $600.
I need my PC operational for making money. If I find a package useful, I like to support the developers.
I just read lots of reviews and make sure I'm not buying crap first.
One thing I miss is the lack of obnoxious copy protection... It's ironic how the people that actually pay for the software have to put up with an assload of frustration and people that steal it don't.
-Viz
College universities with no bias, ROFL. That made my day.
That's like saying a democrat or republican with no bias. In case you haven't noticed, colleges are on the other side of the RIAA's beatdown stick.
For such a study to be truly unbiased it'd have to be done by aliens, or someone who doesn't participate in p2p or beatdowns (and has no friends that do either). That rules out universities as a possibility to do such an unbiased study.
Or you could just install a free copy of VMWare server, a free linux distro, and install the free apache software with the free OpenSSL on it, then configure a virtual server, create a csr, process it to build the cert, install the cert and learn all about how it works using the documentation and How To's.
I'll give you a little hint though. Just remember that the certificate negotiation is done at the lower layers in the OSI model, so to have multiple certs on one server, you need to put each cert on it's own IP. It doesn't process the host request header til after the SSL connection is negotiated. Because of this you can't have a bunch of VHosts running SSL on the same IP. Only one will serve pages without a warning if you do... the exception being when all of the hosts are subdomains of the same domain, and you have a wildcard cert that's valid for all of the vhosts.
There's no better way to learn something than to do it, work through it and actually make it work ;)
It's definitely possible. You can add CA's willy nilly to any install. This feature is present to allow companies to have self signed certificates used by their employees. You just need to have a server online that it contacts for the CA verification. You can check the list yourself and compare it to what it should be at:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/
It will take some digging but it's in there. What's scary is that a hostile pc maker could replace the stock IE with their own that has hardcoded CA's which aren't visible by checking the list in IE... This would be tough to do though with the regular updates that MS does, unless they coded up a rootkit too, which hid the actual executibles from the update process and swapped the malware back in after the update.
Unlikely, but possible... The only way to be sure is to build your own PC and install "Genuine" media, which could be tampered with too, since it's packaged and printed overseas. Someone at Microsoft would catch on to that though, I hope.
>as the guy said in the article, it should kick you from a session at expired certs, not allow click through options
>if the cert is expired/ unverifiable, the browser should simply kick the session, end of story
As long as that's a default setting you can override... Otherwise I have to have a valid paid cert on every one of my dev servers? F*** THAT.
>No, I'm afraid it's not. It's still vulnerable to "Do you accept this made-up key" attacks where people have become far too accustomed to accepting unsigned keys, and to the purchase of centrally signed keys
Um, that's a social engineering attack, not a fault of the protocol itself. The protocol is secure, users aren't. To be fair, the browser manufacturers could do a better job of writing the warnings so that anyone could understand them. Again, this is not a fault of the protocol, rather how people use it.
And adding a layer of PGP to it, would have the _exact_ same issue. Instead of "Do you accept this SSL key" It would be "Do you accept this PGP key". In addition, adding PGP would introduce a whole new slew of security bugs related to added complexity of PGP support in browsers, along with all the bugs guaranteed to be introduced with the additional new code.
No thanks =D.
More accurately Eve partitions their blade servers slightly differently than this. A busy system like Jita will be on it's own blade, and probably one of the newer ones. However slow systems with fewer players may be on a blade with 20 other systems.
With alliance and fleet battles, an administrator actually needs to move the busy system on to it's own blade to handle the load. I'm pretty sure this isn't automatic yet. I've heard fleet commanders say they'd talked to a GM and they were moving the system. Some systems are always busy so are already on their own blade.
Another factor is that Eve online limits each player's bandwidth to 28.8k. When you are talking about 500 ships in the same grid it's _impossible_ for there not to be lag. Every client needs to talk to the server which then needs to pass on what that player is doing to everyone else in the grid. There's simply not enough bandwidth to handle the throughput of all this data past a certain point. They limit everyone to 28.8k in the interest of fairness so people don't gain advantage because of their connection speed as well as the fact that their bandwidth is finite. At some point you get packet loss, which is why you activate your guns and nothing happens, or you are firing, run out of ammo and your weapons keep firing for 5 minutes and you can't control your ship. In reality you are probably already dead.
For the same reason when you are on teamspeak with 250 people in channel, no one is allowed to talk but officers and fleet commanders. Otherwise bandwidth gets choked and everyone is talking over each other.
Sorry I'm an ex eve geek =D I still play occasionally now but it's around 1-2 hours a week mission whoring in empire. I used to do the whole pvp/alliance thing (RAZOR, and before that fighting with IRON alliance as a 0.0 guest corp) so do have some 3 years experience with lag in 500+ ship alliance battles, but then I got a life ;-)
Then there's also the whole thing of nVidia producing utter crap chipsets... That might have a teeny weeny little something to do with it.
It has nothing to do with intel's "market dominance" and everything to do with nVidia's inability to be competitive in a market segment they know little about, and the shoddy crap they try to pass off as a chipset. Once you put the koolaid down and have an objective look at their product, it simply sucks.
I've had 3 of them and all three were utter garbage. DFI, Gigabyte, ASUS, it didn't matter. Every time it turned out to be the MCP in the chipset or some other part of it failing or not working correctly to begin with. In one case the interrupt controller didn't work at all with a dual core CPU and on both linux and MS Windows they had to put a "software" interrupt controller in the kernel to make it work with a dual core cpu. As you might guess this made the multi cpu performance _worse_ than a single cpu. And this was a chipset designed for multi-core CPUs.
I've subsequently had 2 AMD crossfire chipsets, both worked perfectly. nVidia chipsets are 0-3 in my book.
Good riddance...
That's hundreds of thousands of consumers that won't get burned. Intel or AMD chipsets for the win...
Sorry, been using no-script for so long I've forgotten =D
LOL yea right. Banking and insurance, no duct tape? Those places are duct tape palaces.
... than a half assed product full of bugs in your enterprise: One nobody uses that's been sitting on someone's test server for 2 years.
It's been my experience that if your project takes more than 3 months, someone else's project to do the same job, half assed or not, is the one that will be used. There's always some busybody doing a secret project, which they will show to a VP, usually on their smart phone, while they are buying them drinks at happy hour.
Then when it doesn't scale, they'll find a way to blame their co-workers, who will need to work overtime to make the steaming pile of dung work, while the guy that built it is gathering requirements for his next shitty project. He's a mover and shaker after all!
Git'er done or get plutoed. People don't care if there are bugs, as long as you fix them. They get really pissed when they have to wait ; )
He should realize that scofflaws believe that hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for good blaster at your side.
If he were a trouble causing hoodie wearer, he'd have a gun, not a light saber!