There's zero functionality derived from transparency for UI elements.
Transparency is occasionally useful when you have limited screen space. It rarely makes sense for things like menus, but every so often it's nice to have a transparent shell (for example) so that I can follow a guide from another document that is sitting behind it, instead of resizing everything or alt-tabbing between windows.
Saying that there is "zero functionality" is overboard.
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When a machine accesses the site for the first time, you're required to answer extra questions (mother's maiden name type of thing); after answering these questions correctly, you can specify if you want to skip this process the next time that you try to login. After all of this, you can enter your password.
If there were a MITM, you would see these questions which you should not need to answer from your computer any more. Granted, most people would just assume that something had expired, and it was time to answer the questions again; but, I suppose if you were security-minded, you might suspect something was up.
Well, in some scenarios it is. The attack is a related key attack (sort of like what can be used against WEP). However, it's still quite strong. From the page:
Q.: Is this attack practical?
A.: No. Even after improvements we are still over 2^100 encryptions, which is beyond the computational power of the human kind. Moreover this attack works in a related key attack model which assumes a more powerful attacker than the single key model.
There are lots of elements used in the "Music Engine." One of those crucial elements is radio play. Another is wide-spread marketing. And still another is hiring girls to scream during performances.
I'm sorry, but unless you want to be the next Hoobastank or some such nonsense, those things are completely unnecessary.
This seems nuts to me... I always thought the last thing Microsoft would do was allow you to work with truly open formats. What would prompt them to give FOSS such an easy opening?
You didn't think the tiered-pricing scam was actually going to save you money, did you? No company ever does stuff like this unless they think they can squeeze more money out of their customers.
Actually, just like your typical "sales", it can both save you money *and* make them more money. By lowering prices, they attract more sales and can end up with higher total revenue. Now, arguing whether or not they have actually lowered prices is a different story...
With such an obvious name, linux.com is where many newbs go first. The forums were not that great to begin with, and in the last few weeks they even lost all formatting, including newlines. I'm glad to see that such an important domain name will be put to good use now.
I also found it disturbing. The death of a human should not be treated so... disgustingly.
Somebody needs to do something about Samzenpus and the garbage he puts out.
And if you're not an arrogant bastard, who really isn't a sheep? How many of us really come up with original (or at least self-created) ways of deciding to do things? The decently smart among us are just good at figuring out which smart people to follow, and spend the rest of our time enjoying our lives.
Maybe I'm just gullible, but are you saying that you can get a tax deduction for fixing pothole? I would figure that to be illegal as it might be consider "competing" with the State DOT, which has a legal monopoly.
Absolutely those subsidies should be gone, I agree one-hundred percent. Of course, so should a thousand-and-one other things too. The problem is that the US is burning the candle at both ends by spending like there's no tomorrow. In reality, not only is there a tomorrow, but a whole lot more of them after that. Science funding is the last on my list of things to cut, but it's on the list nonetheless.
For Christ's sake, even as much as I love the idea of space exploration, I totally agree for financial reasons only. Has anybody else seen the national debt lately? While there are plenty of better things to cut, we do have to start somewhere.
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There's zero functionality derived from transparency for UI elements.
Transparency is occasionally useful when you have limited screen space. It rarely makes sense for things like menus, but every so often it's nice to have a transparent shell (for example) so that I can follow a guide from another document that is sitting behind it, instead of resizing everything or alt-tabbing between windows.
Saying that there is "zero functionality" is overboard.
When a machine accesses the site for the first time, you're required to answer extra questions (mother's maiden name type of thing); after answering these questions correctly, you can specify if you want to skip this process the next time that you try to login. After all of this, you can enter your password.
If there were a MITM, you would see these questions which you should not need to answer from your computer any more. Granted, most people would just assume that something had expired, and it was time to answer the questions again; but, I suppose if you were security-minded, you might suspect something was up.
'nuff said.
AES-128 is in fact stonger.
Well, in some scenarios it is. The attack is a related key attack (sort of like what can be used against WEP). However, it's still quite strong. From the page:
Q.: Is this attack practical?
A.: No. Even after improvements we are still over 2^100 encryptions, which is beyond the computational power of the human kind. Moreover this attack works in a related key attack model which assumes a more powerful attacker than the single key model.
There are lots of elements used in the "Music Engine." One of those crucial elements is radio play. Another is wide-spread marketing. And still another is hiring girls to scream during performances.
I'm sorry, but unless you want to be the next Hoobastank or some such nonsense, those things are completely unnecessary.
This seems nuts to me... I always thought the last thing Microsoft would do was allow you to work with truly open formats. What would prompt them to give FOSS such an easy opening?
Note you'll never see a scamming CEO or embezzling CFO in jail with murderers, rapists, and kidnappers. They have a separate prison for them.
That's not what I read...
You didn't think the tiered-pricing scam was actually going to save you money, did you? No company ever does stuff like this unless they think they can squeeze more money out of their customers.
Actually, just like your typical "sales", it can both save you money *and* make them more money. By lowering prices, they attract more sales and can end up with higher total revenue. Now, arguing whether or not they have actually lowered prices is a different story...
It will use a new layout engine with deep Silverlight integration.
I think you are spot on with this... and I dread it. Deep Silverlight integration will open a whole new world of incompatibilities.
With such an obvious name, linux.com is where many newbs go first. The forums were not that great to begin with, and in the last few weeks they even lost all formatting, including newlines. I'm glad to see that such an important domain name will be put to good use now.
No.
By "low end", he was insinuating netbooks, not every computer connected to the internet. Now, his number might be a bit high, but it's much closer.
I also found it disturbing. The death of a human should not be treated so ... disgustingly.
Somebody needs to do something about Samzenpus and the garbage he puts out.
Did you not finish reading the summary? From TFS: "ext2/ext3 don't seem to be on the list..."
And if you're not an arrogant bastard, who really isn't a sheep? How many of us really come up with original (or at least self-created) ways of deciding to do things? The decently smart among us are just good at figuring out which smart people to follow, and spend the rest of our time enjoying our lives.
They didn't have to stare at that red-handled wrench for 8 hours a day.
Apparently, they didn't agree with our decision or they would have gotten the Aircraft Carrier!
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Brilliant, sir! Most brilliant... I am now haunted by images of a cyborg Sarah Palin.
Yes my post's subject's acronym doesn't exist and no I have no idea how to pronounce it.
Then it should have been YMPSADEANIHNIHTPI.
Use a slow machine with little free memory to test your code.
Or, in other words, use Eclipse.
Hah! Apparently you've never used Netbeans!
Maybe I'm just gullible, but are you saying that you can get a tax deduction for fixing pothole? I would figure that to be illegal as it might be consider "competing" with the State DOT, which has a legal monopoly.
Absolutely those subsidies should be gone, I agree one-hundred percent. Of course, so should a thousand-and-one other things too. The problem is that the US is burning the candle at both ends by spending like there's no tomorrow. In reality, not only is there a tomorrow, but a whole lot more of them after that. Science funding is the last on my list of things to cut, but it's on the list nonetheless.
Wait, wait, wait! You say congress has problems spending money on something? Surely you must be mistaken.
For Christ's sake, even as much as I love the idea of space exploration, I totally agree for financial reasons only. Has anybody else seen the national debt lately? While there are plenty of better things to cut, we do have to start somewhere.