> Worse yet, we elect those who can _lie_ convincingly
Uh huh. Like I said. The voters are the stupid ones. Especially the ones who _reelect_ some allegedly stupid person.
How can you call a politician incompetent if they get _reelected_ time after time?
The voters are the incompetent ones (unless we're talking about one of those "Dictator's fake re-elections" or countries with "Democratic" ironically in their names).
If the voters don't like any of the candidates, they could be candidates themselves, or try to convince better people to run/stand.
Everyone keeps saying the politicians are stupid. Maybe they are, but they aren't that stupid. The voters who _keep_ voting for them are even more stupid/incompetent. As for the voters who don't bother to vote at all - they are saying they don't care.
Uh, RTFA. Or go do some testing, or troll elsewhere.
The write speeds certainly are significantly different.
There's the crap 4-6MB/sec range. And there's the 12MB-20+MB range.
They certainly are not the same. The sandisk cruzer contour has a far faster write speed than the sandisk cruzer mini (which was tested in the article), but it's _wide_, so it blocks adjacent USB ports to the side. Some laptops only have two USB ports side-by-side (not top-bottom), so this can be quite annoying.
If this results in a cure for malaria or dengue, then yes this is a big improvement on building pyramids.
FWIW I don't like Bill Gates or Microsoft much, but they haven't done even half as much damage to the world/USA as a few people in the US Gov or even in the finance industry.
"His users however would tunnel all their traffic through the corporate lan while connected"
This is not a problem. This is how it should be.
VPN = Virtual Private Network.
It's not private if your traffic leaks out to somewhere else.
When you use your office VPN, you should use it for work related stuff only. If you want to do personal stuff (e.g. download non-work-related porn, MP3s), don't use the office VPN.
Actually, the VPN config is insecure (screwed up?) - when you are using the VPN the DNS requests should be going through the VPN tunnel, and not in plaintext to the ISP.
IANAL. But the courts can decide whether it's binding or not.
The courts might be rather negative to you when it turns out after investigation that you have a habit of making random scribbles on most of your contracts with the intention to get out of them when "stuff happens".
Hard to make more money when you are out of stock.
In theory AMD could have charged higher, but they had already committed to certain prices, and even if they could at a certain point people would buy Intel. If you have orders for 10000 PCs, and AMD only provides you 5000 CPUs, you have a problem. Worse if they are orders specifically for AMD PCs.
Seems obvious to me. Jail the people who were responsible.
If you're a CxO or VP of Whatever in a big company, fines come out of the company's wallet. And if the fines are << profit, you might still get a bonus.
However time in prison comes out of _your_ lifespan. While you're in prison you can't go skiing or have a nice cocktail in the Bahamas. Prison hurts billionaires as much as it hurts millionaires.
So go figure which would be a greater deterrent.
I guess you could do fines first, then jail if the fines don't work e.g. same person or company does a similar thing again - this is to make it harder to avoid punishment by swapping in/out companies or people.
Well, I've got Win XP on different machines, two with IE7, and others without.
For some reason the ones with IE7 seem to have problems with fast user switching - sometimes you cannot enter a password so you can't relogin. Coincidence maybe. But given the way MS does stuff, I'm going to skip the IE "upgrades" on other machines till I really have to.
Since IE is tied up with so much of windows, I'd rather be a guinea pig with Chrome or firefox or whatever than with IE.
1) Shielding aka shelter - but I suppose tons of water could work as shielding against radiation and other crap? 2) The colony being able to self repair and reproduce itself from raw materials (e.g. asteroids).
I've been waiting for the superpda wearable thingy since the late 1980s. After all it was obvious that if you could do away with the huge laptop screens they'd be lighter and consume less power.
Add the other advances e.g. controlling devices by thought - possible already just needs to be safer etc, and video neural interfaces current = very low res vision for blind. Google "seeing tongue".
Include a good UI, video cams and you'd have a "auxiliary brain" which allows people to perform virtual telepathy and virtual telekinesis as a day to day thing, with other benefits like photographic/videographic/audiographic memory.
Some years ago I also proposed that the.here TLD be reserved, to make it easier for people to find stuff ( devices, people, services, information) available in the general physical area. It would be useful to be able to quickly list, control and access stuff "virtually" in your surroundings. And I proposed.here and _one_ stepping stone to making the addressing easier. Right now when you use free WiFi at some place, it's often not easy to figure out who is providing it, why, what's the T&C, what local services are available, etc. Easier if you could just do http://here/.
But the ICANN seemed more interested in approving "Yet Another Dot Coms" like.biz and.info. Which to me added very little benefit to the world.
Anyway, I guess the MPAA and RIAA would require "auxiliary brains" to be crippled by DRM. Maybe people would have to pay USD0.99 for each recall;).
Shame though. The technology is all there, all it needs is someone to put it all together in a form that's practical and usable.
So when Lenovo comes out and basically says the future of the netbook is a larger netbook aka "laptop", it's quite disappointing or even disgusting to me.
Yeah, that sounds like the "SUV" thinking that got the US car industry in trouble- "The future of cars= Larger, lalala, I'm not listening".
Totally ignoring the netbook market.
A lot of people want something that they can use like a laptop (do work, use gmail, facebook, MSN etc), but it MUST fit their _handbag_.
The laptop market is not going away anytime soon, neither is the netbook one.
FWIW, I'd rather have a wearable computer that is actually practical (very usable) and won't result in the special forces shooting me in the back of my head. But I guess there are only a few like me:).
Strange you're having problems figuring it out. The top hit from Google seems to lead to a few good candidates for the hp2600n driver.
#1 Use this download package if you want to add the printer driver to the communications port that already exists (e.g. driver was deleted but port still exists). For first time installations where the communications port does not exist use the Plug and Play package that is available for download.
The HP Color LaserJet 2600n Driver download package provides the following:
* HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer driver (same driver found on the version 4.0 CD)
* 32-bit driver for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 (20070627.000 version shown when selecting the About button in the Basics tab of the driver)."
#2 Use this software for first time USB installations only. Do NOT attach USB cable until prompted by the EZInstall program.
The HP Color LaserJet 2600n Plug and Play package provides the following:
* An EZInstall program to assist with installation of the print driver.
* Plug and Play installable printer driver. (same driver found on the version 4.0 CD)
o 32-bit driver for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 (20070627.000 version shown when selecting the About button in the Basics tab of the driver).
See the way some pedestrians cross the road- they walk and only stop when someone horns. I guess those really believe in reincarnation;).
If Tata is really providing affordable and reasonably decent shelter (and transportation) to the masses in India, I salute them. They'd be doing a lot more good than many charities.
Google seems to think elsevier is OK too (despite google's rules).
AFAIK Google has a rule where a website is not allowed to give Google's spiders a different page from what normal users would get.
I often see google search results linking to elsevier (or other journal) pages, with relevant keywords and text in them, however if you click on the link you get a page that doesn't have the same info. Such search results are not useful to me - in fact they get in the way of more useful results.
BMW got smacked down by Google for doing something similar.
"It was pointed out in the questions that another reason for concatenating hashes is not to try to increase the theoretical security, but for practical considerations in case one of them gets broken. This is probably why SSL, for example, used MD5 along with SHA1. That is still a valid reason."
Thus I'm still not sure that one would be better off using a single X bit hash, than two different smaller hashes of half the size.
So if you do have better info, it'll be good if you could share it.
"if you're willing to use 256 bytes of hash, you're much better off using SHA-256 than two 128-byte hashes."
Proof or citation please?
That said SHA1 is 160 bit (not byte), and md5 is 128 bit. So let's just have a proof that SHA256 is harder to crack than SHA1 + MD5 (where the hashes are used independently on the same data - e.g. not something like hash=sha1(md5(data)), but rather hash= concat(sha1(data),md5(data)) ).
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> Worse yet, we elect those who can _lie_ convincingly
Uh huh. Like I said. The voters are the stupid ones. Especially the ones who _reelect_ some allegedly stupid person.
How can you call a politician incompetent if they get _reelected_ time after time?
The voters are the incompetent ones (unless we're talking about one of those "Dictator's fake re-elections" or countries with "Democratic" ironically in their names).
If the voters don't like any of the candidates, they could be candidates themselves, or try to convince better people to run/stand.
Everyone keeps saying the politicians are stupid. Maybe they are, but they aren't that stupid. The voters who _keep_ voting for them are even more stupid/incompetent. As for the voters who don't bother to vote at all - they are saying they don't care.
> The "speed differences" are largely imaginary
Uh, RTFA. Or go do some testing, or troll elsewhere.
The write speeds certainly are significantly different.
There's the crap 4-6MB/sec range. And there's the 12MB-20+MB range.
They certainly are not the same. The sandisk cruzer contour has a far faster write speed than the sandisk cruzer mini (which was tested in the article), but it's _wide_, so it blocks adjacent USB ports to the side. Some laptops only have two USB ports side-by-side (not top-bottom), so this can be quite annoying.
If this results in a cure for malaria or dengue, then yes this is a big improvement on building pyramids.
FWIW I don't like Bill Gates or Microsoft much, but they haven't done even half as much damage to the world/USA as a few people in the US Gov or even in the finance industry.
Those that keep getting reelected seem smart enough.
It's the "normal people" I worry about.
Many politicians just pretend to be stupid because in many cases voters prefer voting for people who are like them (i.e. stupid).
In some places voters might prefer voting for people who are smarter. But in others, appearing to be smart seems to lose you votes.
If your company doesn't deal with porn, then it's easy - no downloading of porn at all through the VPN.
But if it does deal with porn, your company's yet to be released porn footage is likely to be company confidential.
If the company you are working for deals with porn, I'm sure you'd figure it out.
"His users however would tunnel all their traffic through the corporate lan while connected"
This is not a problem. This is how it should be.
VPN = Virtual Private Network.
It's not private if your traffic leaks out to somewhere else.
When you use your office VPN, you should use it for work related stuff only. If you want to do personal stuff (e.g. download non-work-related porn, MP3s), don't use the office VPN.
Actually, the VPN config is insecure (screwed up?) - when you are using the VPN the DNS requests should be going through the VPN tunnel, and not in plaintext to the ISP.
IANAL. But the courts can decide whether it's binding or not.
The courts might be rather negative to you when it turns out after investigation that you have a habit of making random scribbles on most of your contracts with the intention to get out of them when "stuff happens".
In some places it's called "bad faith".
IIRC back when the Athlon 64 was blowing away Intel, AMD had chip shortages.
http://www.crn.com/white-box/193500828
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1014180/unprecedented-demand-for--athlon-64-x2s-prompts-shortage-fear
Hard to make more money when you are out of stock.
In theory AMD could have charged higher, but they had already committed to certain prices, and even if they could at a certain point people would buy Intel. If you have orders for 10000 PCs, and AMD only provides you 5000 CPUs, you have a problem. Worse if they are orders specifically for AMD PCs.
Seems obvious to me. Jail the people who were responsible.
If you're a CxO or VP of Whatever in a big company, fines come out of the company's wallet. And if the fines are << profit, you might still get a bonus.
However time in prison comes out of _your_ lifespan. While you're in prison you can't go skiing or have a nice cocktail in the Bahamas. Prison hurts billionaires as much as it hurts millionaires.
So go figure which would be a greater deterrent.
I guess you could do fines first, then jail if the fines don't work e.g. same person or company does a similar thing again - this is to make it harder to avoid punishment by swapping in/out companies or people.
You can't gain market share if you can't produce enough chips.
http://forums.vr-zone.com/news-around-the-web/85897-resellers-claim-shortage-athlon-64-x2s.html
http://www.crn.com/white-box/193500828
Intel has also had it's share of shortage problems.
Well, I've got Win XP on different machines, two with IE7, and others without.
For some reason the ones with IE7 seem to have problems with fast user switching - sometimes you cannot enter a password so you can't relogin. Coincidence maybe. But given the way MS does stuff, I'm going to skip the IE "upgrades" on other machines till I really have to.
Since IE is tied up with so much of windows, I'd rather be a guinea pig with Chrome or firefox or whatever than with IE.
Th other stuff that's important:
1) Shielding aka shelter - but I suppose tons of water could work as shielding against radiation and other crap?
2) The colony being able to self repair and reproduce itself from raw materials (e.g. asteroids).
I've been waiting for the superpda wearable thingy since the late 1980s. After all it was obvious that if you could do away with the huge laptop screens they'd be lighter and consume less power.
Add the other advances e.g. controlling devices by thought - possible already just needs to be safer etc, and video neural interfaces current = very low res vision for blind. Google "seeing tongue".
Include a good UI, video cams and you'd have a "auxiliary brain" which allows people to perform virtual telepathy and virtual telekinesis as a day to day thing, with other benefits like photographic/videographic/audiographic memory.
Some years ago I also proposed that the .here TLD be reserved, to make it easier for people to find stuff ( devices, people, services, information) available in the general physical area. It would be useful to be able to quickly list, control and access stuff "virtually" in your surroundings. And I proposed .here and _one_ stepping stone to making the addressing easier. Right now when you use free WiFi at some place, it's often not easy to figure out who is providing it, why, what's the T&C, what local services are available, etc. Easier if you could just do http://here/.
I even submitted an internet draft: http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01.txt
Also emailed some people who were in the ICANN.
But the ICANN seemed more interested in approving "Yet Another Dot Coms" like .biz and .info. Which to me added very little benefit to the world.
Anyway, I guess the MPAA and RIAA would require "auxiliary brains" to be crippled by DRM. Maybe people would have to pay USD0.99 for each recall ;).
Shame though. The technology is all there, all it needs is someone to put it all together in a form that's practical and usable.
So when Lenovo comes out and basically says the future of the netbook is a larger netbook aka "laptop", it's quite disappointing or even disgusting to me.
Wow. Lin pus. What a name.
Yeah, that sounds like the "SUV" thinking that got the US car industry in trouble- "The future of cars= Larger, lalala, I'm not listening".
:).
Totally ignoring the netbook market.
A lot of people want something that they can use like a laptop (do work, use gmail, facebook, MSN etc), but it MUST fit their _handbag_.
The laptop market is not going away anytime soon, neither is the netbook one.
FWIW, I'd rather have a wearable computer that is actually practical (very usable) and won't result in the special forces shooting me in the back of my head. But I guess there are only a few like me
Strange you're having problems figuring it out. The top hit from Google seems to lead to a few good candidates for the hp2600n driver.
#1
Use this download package if you want to add the printer driver to the communications port that already exists (e.g. driver was deleted but port still exists). For first time installations where the communications port does not exist use the Plug and Play package that is available for download.
The HP Color LaserJet 2600n Driver download package provides the following:
* HP Color LaserJet 2600n printer driver (same driver found on the version 4.0 CD)
* 32-bit driver for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 (20070627.000 version shown when selecting the About button in the Basics tab of the driver)."
#2
Use this software for first time USB installations only. Do NOT attach USB cable until prompted by the EZInstall program.
The HP Color LaserJet 2600n Plug and Play package provides the following:
* An EZInstall program to assist with installation of the print driver.
* Plug and Play installable printer driver. (same driver found on the version 4.0 CD)
o 32-bit driver for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 (20070627.000 version shown when selecting the About button in the Basics tab of the driver).
I suspect a large number of the population in India might not buy leather made from cows even if they had the money :).
A lot of people here have no idea of what things are like in India.
The cheap tata car wouldn't reduce traffic safety much in India. Just look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
See the way some pedestrians cross the road- they walk and only stop when someone horns. I guess those really believe in reincarnation ;).
If Tata is really providing affordable and reasonably decent shelter (and transportation) to the masses in India, I salute them. They'd be doing a lot more good than many charities.
Hey cool, it's another place where Stevie Wonder can drive!
OK that's a better argument :).
Well I've reported such sites and Google still keeps them.
Google seems to think elsevier is OK too (despite google's rules).
AFAIK Google has a rule where a website is not allowed to give Google's spiders a different page from what normal users would get.
I often see google search results linking to elsevier (or other journal) pages, with relevant keywords and text in them, however if you click on the link you get a page that doesn't have the same info. Such search results are not useful to me - in fact they get in the way of more useful results.
BMW got smacked down by Google for doing something similar.
But I have looked it up.
So far what I've seen can be summarized by: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/5154
And that says:
"It was pointed out in the questions that another reason for concatenating
hashes is not to try to increase the theoretical security, but for
practical considerations in case one of them gets broken. This is
probably why SSL, for example, used MD5 along with SHA1. That is still
a valid reason."
Thus I'm still not sure that one would be better off using a single X bit hash, than two different smaller hashes of half the size.
So if you do have better info, it'll be good if you could share it.
"if you're willing to use 256 bytes of hash, you're much better off using SHA-256 than two 128-byte hashes."
Proof or citation please?
That said SHA1 is 160 bit (not byte), and md5 is 128 bit. So let's just have a proof that SHA256 is harder to crack than SHA1 + MD5 (where the hashes are used independently on the same data - e.g. not something like hash=sha1(md5(data)), but rather hash= concat(sha1(data),md5(data)) ).