Put it another way, buy an Athlon64 MB and put an Athlon 32 cpu in it. WHY?
Sounds like a good upgrade path to me- Buy a socket754 mobo and a sempron, and later on down the road you can upgrade the memory and CPU and double your performance when you can afford it.
14gb * 30 days = 420gb, which equates to about 1.5mbit sustained per month. With what slashdot is paying for bandwidth, that SHOULD be about $150 a month. Not exactly an amazing drop for them in price. It's not hard to see why they haven't bothered.
The bug listed in the summary is about a general issue - no actual exploit was known. When an exploit was made known YESTERDAY, bug 250180 was filed, and fixed within 24hrs.
The longer known bugs are out there (and hell, even documented) the more time there is for someone to go out and actually write the exploit. Of course there won't be any exploits available when the bug is first found- unless the person who found the bug is the one who wrote the exploit (a rare case). I doubt in 2002 there was enough attention directed at mozilla to warrant a speedy bugfix, but since so many people are using it now it's under a lot more scrutiny. Now that mozilla is on the "radar" of crackers and other ne'er do wells out there, the exploits of known-but-not-fixed critical bugs are likely to start showing up more often.
I guess the only niche left after that is if you need something even smaller than an IPod Mini...
Yes, smaller, better battery life, more features... like this unit.
It's about the size of a pack of gum, can store 1gb, has great battery life, has a built-in FM tuner, can record and encode MP3's directly at up to 320kbps, and can play ogg's, too.
With a mic pre-amp hidden in an altoids tin and a pair of stealth binaural mics, it's a great setup for making bootlegs at concerts.:) Try the same with a hard-drive based player, and the constant spinning of the hard drive will eat the battery down in no time.
Did you ever read the comic books? Really. You're wondering how robotic arms could attach to someone's spine, but you're OK with the fact that there's a guy that can shoot webs out of his wrists?
I think some people actually go out of their way to NOT enjoy a movie at times. Just sit back, relax, and ignore the stupid shit. It's a fantasy movie, for chrissakes.
My point is that a simple two character salt would make a HUGE difference already- of course an even larger salt would make an even bigger difference. You might as well be using a random string equal in length to your representation of the current time... it would increase the number of available salts. In using the current time, crackers would only need to keep the keyspace equal to (epoch of timestamp based salts) to (current). That is a significantly smaller space than all possible random strings of the same length. Plus, once they have calculated all of them to current, they only need add each day's values with each passing day.
Sorry, I just geek out over implementation details.:)
It's the pidgeon hole principle. given one megabyte of data (8,388,608 bits), you have 2^8388608 possible combinations of files. Since you only have 2^128 possible MD5 checksums, there HAVE to be collisions. And hell, that's just with a megabyte.
Why not just use the method that crypt() uses, and use a salt? It's not terribly difficult to implement, and it would mean their database would need to be roughly 3,800 times as big as it is now ( assuming [a-zA-Z0-9]{2} ) Since they have 47.6 GB of lookup tables now, adding a salt would mean the resulting database would be over 180 terabytes.
Not to mention adding in special chars and uppercase letters, which would increase the database by 600 fold, assuming it's linear...
Please read the URL's I referenced. Edmunds.com's "COST PER MILE" estimate takes gas prices into account. Even if they didn't, at 15 mpg, the van would cost an extra 13 cents per mile to operate. That bumps it up to $0.80 cents per mile- still less than half as much.
According to This site, an estimated cost per mile for the segway is 18 cents per mile, with battery purchases included. Multiply that by 10 people, and you have a cost of $1.80 per mile.
According to Edmunds.com, the cost per mile on the Chevrolet van is $0.66 per mile.
I wont argue with the fact that segways have better access, but it's just not true that they are cheaper in any way, whatsoever.
Disclaimer: I work for a company that maintains double opt-in lists of people who want to get "free porn" in their inboxes. The "free porn" we send out is mostly ads for paysites, but we also do actually send out actual "free porn" as well. We require people to: -put their email address in on a site -receive an email from us -click on a link in that email to validate their email address -use their email address as a username and the provided password to log into our members area -verify that they are 18, and agree to our terms of service
So, yes, our list truly is double-opt in mail. I don't want to hear anything about how we're evil spammers, these people asked for it.
The big loophole in the FTC ruling is the second part. Paragraph (a) is the text that enumerates all of the rules that need to be followed to be compliant with the law. Here's Paragraph (b):
(b) Prior affirmative consent. Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to the transmission of an electronic mail message if the recipient has given prior affirmative consent to receipt of the message.
I can tell you right now that a lot of cases brought up against people sending out mail will be defeated by this part of the rule. A lot of adult sites have this "prior affirmative consent" buried in the terms of service of the sites you join, so that once you cancel your membership they can start spamming you relentlessly, or even sell your email address to a third party who now has "prior affirmative consent."
The only messages we have to watch out for are the reminders we send to people to either confirm their subscriptions to the service or opt out entirely. The rest of the mail we are sending out does not have any of this stuff on it.
wrong, wrong, wrong. The law enuerates that you must have the following ASCII characters in the following order as the first nineteen characters of the email:
SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:
Nineteen, as it includes the space at the end, immediately folowing the colon. I guess since nobody around here reads the articles, it's a bit much to think they would actually read the law referenced.
This is a side-note really, since it doesn't deal with the word googol, but it's at least halfway on-topic...
I was talking to a friend who works at Google, and apparently the general consensus is that the company does not want the name of the company to be verbed like Xerox has. Like:
"Just go google 'litigious bastards' and see what comes up!"
I can see where they're coming from, as once a term makes it into the lexicon like there is a considerable dilution to the name. Xerox fought that for years. I'm not entirely sure the same thing could happen in this case- but I bet a lot of people were saying the same thing at Xerox in the early 80's.
The only thing it lacks is usb 2.0. I actually have the 395t, the 512mb version of the 390.. and let me tell you, it takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to transfer 512mb of stuff to it.
That being said, the sound quality is excellent, which is why I bought it in the first place. iRiver's internal amplifiers in their players are much higher quality (and higher output) than most competing players. That was a big selling point when I was shopping for a player, and it does end up making a pretty big difference. I was very surprised to find out that a mp3 player the size of a pack of gum can actually drive my Sony MDR-V70 studio monitor headphones with ease.
iRiver does publish new firmware for their players from time to time, so they may eventually support.ogg files if there is enough demand.
And frankly, a lot of companies are scared. At this point everybody is just making sure their 18 USC 2257 links are up to date, and hoping for the best. The company I work for recently stopped selling videos (actually, before the Extreme Associates case) for the reasons listed in the article... and we've maintained a list of states that we will not send tapes to, exactly for the reason that got EA busted. That whole inter-state commerce thing can really get you in trouble.
If they are actually going to go after the major TV and cable networks over their hardcore stuff, the industry as a whole is screwed. The majority of the "good" sites out there now make the spice channel look like hotel porn.
I just hope that Bush gets voted out in november, so that we can ditch Ashcroft. He is completely out of touch with morality in this country! I'm not trying to say we should be selling explicit hardcore porn from vending machines, it has its place in our culture, and he and his cronies seem to not see that.
Plenty of mail servers do this. In practice I've seen both AOL and Yahoo mail do this at certain times during the day. The thing is, the way the email is "blocked" does not cause it to never get delivered... it is just delayed. The mail just gets a deferred, and it is up to the mail server to try sending it again until it is accepted by the remote server.
The implications are that the message is not delivered *IMMEDIATELY*, but it will get there... just late.
If checkfree is not their "offical" electronic payment service, then checkfree IS actually cutting a check to them. That's how these billpay services can serve so many different companies. They just have giant check printing machines that print out checks with your name, address, account number, and routing number on them.
This is also why they get to be so expensive, since you're paying for all the physical work and postage of sending out all the envelopes.
I have had directv for 3 years now, and I never had any problems with weather or trees getting in the way of the signal. Granted I live in southern California, where 2 inches of rain is enough to make the news.
As far as the ads where they show the morons adjusting the dish every day to get a good signal.. that's pure BS. I've lived in 3 different houses with the dish, and I've not ONCE had to re-adjust the dish once I put it up, even after being up for over a YEAR. Just make sure you have good southern exposure from somewhere on your house and you will have zero problems.
Beyond that, directv's user interface and usability is WAY better than comcast. Navigating the program guide in directv is super easy, and it fits an hour and a half of guide for 8 channels on the screen at once. With comcast, you get an ad for TV guide that takes up 1/4 of the screen, an ad for a current movie that takes up another 1/4 of the screen, and whatever's currently playing this half hour on the other half of the screen. Not only that, but the remote is not ergonomic at all, and it's extremely frustrating to navigate through the menus with it.
Signal quality? Well, directv is full digital for everything.. whereas your comcast is most likely a hybrid system, with all your locals and most of your basic cable as analog, and the additional ones as digital. You don't get the full advantage of digital quality for the channels you end up watching the most, which is pretty ridiculous.
If you're at all considering tivo, get one of the directv/tivo combo units... you'll never look back. Because they're integrated into one unit, the signal stays digital all the way from the dish to the hard drive. There's no conversion to analog and then back to digital again, and then back to analog AGAIN to get to your tv! Suck. I bought the directv/tivo combo unit when they first came out, and you can have it when you pry the remote from my cold, dead hands!
I call BS based on this translation. Unless babelfish has gotten a lot better, this is article text written in english and automatically translated into spanish. The only thing "wrong" with this translation is the literal translation of some of the words- the sentence structure is quite english.
There's definitely a high pitched whine, and I can hear it too. I have some of the symptoms of ADHD, but was diagnosed as just being a lazy bastard when I wasn't doing good in school. Oh well, no ritalin for me.
Yeah, and we could use duct tape instead of titanium screws to hold the whole thing together.. it'll be great! The cost savings will be HUGE!
You know, there are some times when it is better to not be a cheap bastard, and this is one of them. When it's your $29 dvd player from wal mart that quits working, you can just return it and get a different one... you can't exactly do that on mars.
Right now, that basically means electricity from fossil fuel plants, or in a few locations in the US, hydroelectric, nuclear, and possibly a tiny bit of solar. So all a hydrogen car will do will move the source of pollution from the car to the power plant.
Nobody is really arguing that point. Assuming that there is not a huge effeciency loss in the "moving the source of polution from the car to the power plant", it is definitely a net gain. Why?
* Having a centralized location where the polution emanates from means that it is much easier to control, monitor, and as technology allows- upgrade. This is MUCH easier than going back and installing upgraded catalytic converters on every car on the road.
* When another source of energy becomes feasible (like solar) the infrastructure is already there to support it.
* Imagine, no more smog checks for cars. That's a huge cost savings there not only in regulation but also for consumers.
I don't know enough about submarines to know where they get their power from (giant batteries? nuclear plants?), but they don't crack H2O for free.
As far as submarines go, the majority of them out there now are nuclear. They use a combination of oxygen generators (water crackers) and CO2 scrubbers along with some pretty sophisticated monitoring hardware to keep the sub livable.
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Put it another way, buy an Athlon64 MB and put an Athlon 32 cpu in it. WHY?
Sounds like a good upgrade path to me- Buy a socket754 mobo and a sempron, and later on down the road you can upgrade the memory and CPU and double your performance when you can afford it.
14gb * 30 days = 420gb, which equates to about 1.5mbit sustained per month. With what slashdot is paying for bandwidth, that SHOULD be about $150 a month. Not exactly an amazing drop for them in price. It's not hard to see why they haven't bothered.
However, It sounds like are working on getting slashdot to be more standards compliant.
The bug listed in the summary is about a general issue - no actual exploit was known. When an exploit was made known YESTERDAY, bug 250180 was filed, and fixed within 24hrs.
The longer known bugs are out there (and hell, even documented) the more time there is for someone to go out and actually write the exploit. Of course there won't be any exploits available when the bug is first found- unless the person who found the bug is the one who wrote the exploit (a rare case). I doubt in 2002 there was enough attention directed at mozilla to warrant a speedy bugfix, but since so many people are using it now it's under a lot more scrutiny. Now that mozilla is on the "radar" of crackers and other ne'er do wells out there, the exploits of known-but-not-fixed critical bugs are likely to start showing up more often.
I guess the only niche left after that is if you need something even smaller than an IPod Mini...
:) Try the same with a hard-drive based player, and the constant spinning of the hard drive will eat the battery down in no time.
Yes, smaller, better battery life, more features... like this unit.
It's about the size of a pack of gum, can store 1gb, has great battery life, has a built-in FM tuner, can record and encode MP3's directly at up to 320kbps, and can play ogg's, too.
With a mic pre-amp hidden in an altoids tin and a pair of stealth binaural mics, it's a great setup for making bootlegs at concerts.
One thing is bugging me about your comment....
Did you ever read the comic books? Really. You're wondering how robotic arms could attach to someone's spine, but you're OK with the fact that there's a guy that can shoot webs out of his wrists?
I think some people actually go out of their way to NOT enjoy a movie at times. Just sit back, relax, and ignore the stupid shit. It's a fantasy movie, for chrissakes.
My point is that a simple two character salt would make a HUGE difference already- of course an even larger salt would make an even bigger difference. You might as well be using a random string equal in length to your representation of the current time... it would increase the number of available salts. In using the current time, crackers would only need to keep the keyspace equal to (epoch of timestamp based salts) to (current). That is a significantly smaller space than all possible random strings of the same length. Plus, once they have calculated all of them to current, they only need add each day's values with each passing day.
:)
Sorry, I just geek out over implementation details.
It's the pidgeon hole principle. given one megabyte of data (8,388,608 bits), you have 2^8388608 possible combinations of files. Since you only have 2^128 possible MD5 checksums, there HAVE to be collisions. And hell, that's just with a megabyte.
Why not just use the method that crypt() uses, and use a salt? It's not terribly difficult to implement, and it would mean their database would need to be roughly 3,800 times as big as it is now ( assuming [a-zA-Z0-9]{2} ) Since they have 47.6 GB of lookup tables now, adding a salt would mean the resulting database would be over 180 terabytes.
Not to mention adding in special chars and uppercase letters, which would increase the database by 600 fold, assuming it's linear...
Please read the URL's I referenced. Edmunds.com's "COST PER MILE" estimate takes gas prices into account. Even if they didn't, at 15 mpg, the van would cost an extra 13 cents per mile to operate. That bumps it up to $0.80 cents per mile- still less than half as much.
consider the cost of ownership of a ten passenger van versus the cost of ten segways. The segways win compared to the cost of a new van.
What?
Segway Human Transporter (HT) I Series
Price: $4,495.00
X 10: $44,950.00
2004 Chevrolet Express 2500 15 Passenger Van
MSRP: $26,175.00
According to This site, an estimated cost per mile for the segway is 18 cents per mile, with battery purchases included. Multiply that by 10 people, and you have a cost of $1.80 per mile.
According to Edmunds.com, the cost per mile on the Chevrolet van is $0.66 per mile.
I wont argue with the fact that segways have better access, but it's just not true that they are cheaper in any way, whatsoever.
Disclaimer: I work for a company that maintains double opt-in lists of people who want to get "free porn" in their inboxes. The "free porn" we send out is mostly ads for paysites, but we also do actually send out actual "free porn" as well. We require people to:
-put their email address in on a site
-receive an email from us
-click on a link in that email to validate their email address
-use their email address as a username and the provided password to log into our members area
-verify that they are 18, and agree to our terms of service
So, yes, our list truly is double-opt in mail. I don't want to hear anything about how we're evil spammers, these people asked for it.
The big loophole in the FTC ruling is the second part. Paragraph (a) is the text that enumerates all of the rules that need to be followed to be compliant with the law. Here's Paragraph (b):
(b) Prior affirmative consent. Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to the transmission of an electronic mail message if the recipient has given prior affirmative consent to receipt of the message.
I can tell you right now that a lot of cases brought up against people sending out mail will be defeated by this part of the rule. A lot of adult sites have this "prior affirmative consent" buried in the terms of service of the sites you join, so that once you cancel your membership they can start spamming you relentlessly, or even sell your email address to a third party who now has "prior affirmative consent."
The only messages we have to watch out for are the reminders we send to people to either confirm their subscriptions to the service or opt out entirely. The rest of the mail we are sending out does not have any of this stuff on it.
wrong, wrong, wrong. The law enuerates that you must have the following ASCII characters in the following order as the first nineteen characters of the email:
SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:
Nineteen, as it includes the space at the end, immediately folowing the colon. I guess since nobody around here reads the articles, it's a bit much to think they would actually read the law referenced.
This is a side-note really, since it doesn't deal with the word googol, but it's at least halfway on-topic...
I was talking to a friend who works at Google, and apparently the general consensus is that the company does not want the name of the company to be verbed like Xerox has. Like:
"Just go google 'litigious bastards' and see what comes up!"
I can see where they're coming from, as once a term makes it into the lexicon like there is a considerable dilution to the name. Xerox fought that for years. I'm not entirely sure the same thing could happen in this case- but I bet a lot of people were saying the same thing at Xerox in the early 80's.
You need to move to southern california, the NPR station here rocks.
Barring that, you can also listen to it on your computer, or wifi device here:
kcrw.org
Some of the musical programming would be right up your alley, and you'd probably like the rest of it too.
The only thing it lacks is usb 2.0. I actually have the 395t, the 512mb version of the 390.. and let me tell you, it takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to transfer 512mb of stuff to it.
.ogg files if there is enough demand.
That being said, the sound quality is excellent, which is why I bought it in the first place. iRiver's internal amplifiers in their players are much higher quality (and higher output) than most competing players. That was a big selling point when I was shopping for a player, and it does end up making a pretty big difference. I was very surprised to find out that a mp3 player the size of a pack of gum can actually drive my Sony MDR-V70 studio monitor headphones with ease.
iRiver does publish new firmware for their players from time to time, so they may eventually support
And frankly, a lot of companies are scared. At this point everybody is just making sure their 18 USC 2257 links are up to date, and hoping for the best. The company I work for recently stopped selling videos (actually, before the Extreme Associates case) for the reasons listed in the article... and we've maintained a list of states that we will not send tapes to, exactly for the reason that got EA busted. That whole inter-state commerce thing can really get you in trouble.
If they are actually going to go after the major TV and cable networks over their hardcore stuff, the industry as a whole is screwed. The majority of the "good" sites out there now make the spice channel look like hotel porn.
I just hope that Bush gets voted out in november, so that we can ditch Ashcroft. He is completely out of touch with morality in this country! I'm not trying to say we should be selling explicit hardcore porn from vending machines, it has its place in our culture, and he and his cronies seem to not see that.
Plenty of mail servers do this. In practice I've seen both AOL and Yahoo mail do this at certain times during the day. The thing is, the way the email is "blocked" does not cause it to never get delivered... it is just delayed. The mail just gets a deferred, and it is up to the mail server to try sending it again until it is accepted by the remote server.
The implications are that the message is not delivered *IMMEDIATELY*, but it will get there... just late.
If checkfree is not their "offical" electronic payment service, then checkfree IS actually cutting a check to them. That's how these billpay services can serve so many different companies. They just have giant check printing machines that print out checks with your name, address, account number, and routing number on them.
This is also why they get to be so expensive, since you're paying for all the physical work and postage of sending out all the envelopes.
Is anybody else having trouble with suprnova's tracker? I keep getting connection refused errors...
I have had directv for 3 years now, and I never had any problems with weather or trees getting in the way of the signal. Granted I live in southern California, where 2 inches of rain is enough to make the news.
As far as the ads where they show the morons adjusting the dish every day to get a good signal.. that's pure BS. I've lived in 3 different houses with the dish, and I've not ONCE had to re-adjust the dish once I put it up, even after being up for over a YEAR. Just make sure you have good southern exposure from somewhere on your house and you will have zero problems.
Beyond that, directv's user interface and usability is WAY better than comcast. Navigating the program guide in directv is super easy, and it fits an hour and a half of guide for 8 channels on the screen at once. With comcast, you get an ad for TV guide that takes up 1/4 of the screen, an ad for a current movie that takes up another 1/4 of the screen, and whatever's currently playing this half hour on the other half of the screen. Not only that, but the remote is not ergonomic at all, and it's extremely frustrating to navigate through the menus with it.
Signal quality? Well, directv is full digital for everything.. whereas your comcast is most likely a hybrid system, with all your locals and most of your basic cable as analog, and the additional ones as digital. You don't get the full advantage of digital quality for the channels you end up watching the most, which is pretty ridiculous.
If you're at all considering tivo, get one of the directv/tivo combo units... you'll never look back. Because they're integrated into one unit, the signal stays digital all the way from the dish to the hard drive. There's no conversion to analog and then back to digital again, and then back to analog AGAIN to get to your tv! Suck. I bought the directv/tivo combo unit when they first came out, and you can have it when you pry the remote from my cold, dead hands!
I call BS based on this translation. Unless babelfish has gotten a lot better, this is article text written in english and automatically translated into spanish. The only thing "wrong" with this translation is the literal translation of some of the words- the sentence structure is quite english.
There's definitely a high pitched whine, and I can hear it too. I have some of the symptoms of ADHD, but was diagnosed as just being a lazy bastard when I wasn't doing good in school. Oh well, no ritalin for me.
Yeah, and we could use duct tape instead of titanium screws to hold the whole thing together.. it'll be great! The cost savings will be HUGE!
You know, there are some times when it is better to not be a cheap bastard, and this is one of them. When it's your $29 dvd player from wal mart that quits working, you can just return it and get a different one... you can't exactly do that on mars.
Right now, that basically means electricity from fossil fuel plants, or in a few locations in the US, hydroelectric, nuclear, and possibly a tiny bit of solar. So all a hydrogen car will do will move the source of pollution from the car to the power plant.
Nobody is really arguing that point. Assuming that there is not a huge effeciency loss in the "moving the source of polution from the car to the power plant", it is definitely a net gain. Why?
* Having a centralized location where the polution emanates from means that it is much easier to control, monitor, and as technology allows- upgrade. This is MUCH easier than going back and installing upgraded catalytic converters on every car on the road.
* When another source of energy becomes feasible (like solar) the infrastructure is already there to support it.
* Imagine, no more smog checks for cars. That's a huge cost savings there not only in regulation but also for consumers.
I don't know enough about submarines to know where they get their power from (giant batteries? nuclear plants?), but they don't crack H2O for free.
As far as submarines go, the majority of them out there now are nuclear. They use a combination of oxygen generators (water crackers) and CO2 scrubbers along with some pretty sophisticated monitoring hardware to keep the sub livable.
if the 9000 is AGP 2X and the 9200 is AGP 8x, why not call it the 9100 since it's 4x? Oh wait, that would actually make sense. My bad...