However, Cisco isn't sure yet if routers bought prior to 2011 will get IPv6. "We are currently looking into which 'legacy' Linksys product can support IPv6. (There are many things that influence us being able to do it -- including if there is enough memory, as well as other factors.) The engineer teams are working on that," the spokesperson said.
I would be shocked if they offered firmware upgrades for old hardware to add IPv6 support even if the hardware could do it. It seems more likely they and others will use it as an excuse to obsolete a ton of old hardware and force people to buy new stuff.
R rated movies are shown in theaters all the time and are easily sold in stores. You are thinking of NC-17 rated movies, those ones aren't shown in theaters as much.
If, all of the sudden, Americans woke up one day and found Google (mind you, Amazon, Facebook, and a few other web presences would have a similar effect) gone, they would go into a frothing mad rage. As soon as one person pointed a finger at Hollywood or the DHS, you'd have a God damned holy war on your hands. We Americans are certainly passive little government lap dogs as long as we have a steady soma dose of useless crap pumped into our veins via T.V. and the internet. But if you cut off that IV, you will learn really quick like just how much rage a bunch of pissed off house wives that can no longer access their lolcats pictures can generate.
"Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people – as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes..."
- Quark
They have a vested interest in not finding a cause.
While I'm unsure if there is indeed an actual software problem, you kind of do have a point. If I'm not mistaken drive by wire type systems for other things like planes are more regulated and have more legally required testing.
Toyota and the other car companies do have a vested interest in it not being a software glitch because it would cause a huge public outcry. Lawmakers would probably add new regulations to make them put their hardware through more rigorous testing and possibly 3rd party code inspection. Which I'm not against actually but the car companies would hate it.
Not to mention that it would open the door for lots of lawsuits claiming such and such happened due to a software fault in the car.
Plenty of people advertise that kind of information on Facebook. You can even indicate who your parents are on there. And they made it so if you get married you can still list your previous name so people can search for it.
While people are dumb for publicly giving that kind of information away (at least set your profile to private!); banks and other financial institutions should also have more rigorous security questions. Even better is what I've seen some sites do where instead of having 5-8 predefined security questions, they let you write your own.
I take it you don't consider space exploration important. Despite what you think, space exploration should be something near the top of everyone's list to worry about.
Why? A multitude of reasons, firstly the perpetuation of the species. If we can live in space and/or on another planet, say Mars. In the event of a major widespread illness or natural disaster, there would be enough people living on another planet to survive. The second reason is population, with 7 billion people on the planet it is getting pretty full, we need new places to expand. Thirdly, natural resources, we can probably find lots of much needed natural resources on the other planets in the solar system.
Being able to have space stations in orbit or other places in the solar system would allow for the safe R&D of dangerous technologies, for example if research on infectious disease could be done on a space ship or space station, in the event of an accident they wouldn't risk the entire planet.
Plus space exploration has a major trickle down effect on a lot of other industries. For example long range (like to go to mars) space ships are going to need efficient long term power generation, food production and high speed communications, compact life support systems, all that technology can be applied to other areas here on earth. Not to mention all the jobs it can create since people need to design and build that stuff.
All those rockets NASA burned up during the Mercury program to get a working launch vehicle that could send an object into orbit paved the way for all the satellite systems we now enjoy.
As for the people that died in 1986, while tragic and completely avoidable, we have to realize some people are going to die pioneering this frontier. Sure NASA has been caught twice now (Challenger and Columbia) taking some safety for granted but that is a fixable problem. If you think they should have stopped in 86 because of the loss of the Challenger, they should have stopped after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts. But it didn't stop them, they figured out what went wrong and made to design changes to prevent it happening again. And with Challenger while being negligent in authorizing the launch, afterwards they did redesign the O-ring system to better prevent the issue from happening.
Yes that was very tragic however that wasn't really "death by GPS", they were using paper maps. They got trapped due to a combination of BLM not having the gate closed for a logging road that was impassable for most of the winter, not turning back soon enough and missing certain road signs.
What happened to the Kims was sad and certainly could happen to a lot of people for sure but isn't the target of the article in question.
Just because you got some high schoolers involved in a competition doesn't mean something is now "cool", and no, letters from congressmen or navy scholarships don't make things cool either.
This just shows a lack of understanding as to why people idolize sports/entertainment stars.
Well the letters aren't really that cool per-se but a full ride scholarship is. That is actually a lot of money and if you don't need to spend any money on school, it means while in school any money you earn you can spend on whatever you like. And when you graduate you will be part of the minority that don't have student loans to pay off.
People idolize sports and entertainment stars because they are famous and rich. This competition probably won't give you much fame but it will make you rich in the sense that you won't go massively into debt paying for school like your peers. And really I think it is much better to be rich than famous.
If you read the article, it is an issue that isn't apparent right away (Intel had to use a extraordinary testing conditions to cause it to happen) and when it does, the 2 SATA3 ports are unaffected. From the Anandtech article:
So far Intel has only been able to document the issue after running extended testing at high temperatures (in a thermal chamber) and voltages. My recommendation is to try to only use ports 0 & 1 (the 6Gbps ports) on your 6-series motherboard until you get a replacement in place.
So it isn't like your computer is unusable, most people will never experience the issue between now and April when replacement boards are available. So the CPU you bought is hardly worthless.
Seems to me that they are handling it well enough, clearly they are working with their vendors to make the process easy. NewEgg will either give you a refund now or a replacement board in April, no questions asked.
I think part of Microsoft's problem is that in the Office and OS markets in particular, their biggest competitor is themselves. They've made their products good enough where people don't bother upgrading when the new version comes out.
They could intentionally break backwards compatibility with former products to try and get people to upgrade but that doesn't really work for them. Case and point: they ended up releasing the backwards compatibility add-on so Office 2003 could read and write the 2007/2010 file formats.
I doubt they will really give up trying to break into new markets, they have their huge install base of core products to fall back on. It isn't like they are hurting for cash.
As soon as I read the summary I thought about this. People do weird stuff with tagging, I know some people that will tag someone not in the picture as a way of telling that person that they should look at it and like you pointed out people will tag pictures without people even in it.
That kind of renders the feature less than optimal. They are trying to rely data that by its very nature is unreliable.
Isn't there some way to put your friends into groups on FB? If so, if you could set the feature to only draw from certain groups of friends it would at least give you a better chance of getting it right.
why would PC gamers use a TV as a screen? true gamers don't cut their screen so much, we use 1920 x 1440 or 1920 x 1200
Please tell that to the companies that make computer monitors. Models that run at 1920x1200 are much less common now, they've all gone to 1920x1080 which is sad.
In fact if you were to do that, you could use snapshots with your VMs to make it even easier. With your trusted VM after each use or every few uses roll it back to the known clean snapshot and you can make new snapshots after important security patches.
And for your VM for naughty activities you could just roll it back to the base snapshot every once in a while to ensure it hasn't been compromised.
FB is wanting to stay as private as possible. Nothing wrong with that.
I find the irony of FB (and Mark Zuckerberg) not wanting the public to know much about the companies financial information amazing. If only they cared about their product (aka the users) the same way.
They are just using that as an excuse to not let him get extradited. As so many people have pointed out here before, publishing classified information is not a crime in the US. The person that leaked it to the entity publishing the information is the one that broke the law. Just because on Fox News they maintain the narrative that he should be eliminated doesn't mean it is going to happen. This is just FUD.
Granted his lawyers are just doing what lawyers do, they are trying to find some way to win. But I hope it doesn't work.
While not a sampling of the average computer user, gamers seem to (rightly) prefer Windows 7 64-bit over the 32-bit version: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
XP 64-bit has a pretty small usage on that survey.
Now, for the fun part of this post. Anyone here hanging onto unused copies of XP just incase you decide to build a new machine? I know I am.
So you never plan to put more than 3 or 4GB of RAM into a computer?
Sure there is XP 64-bit which is uses the Windows 2003 kernel but drivers might be more of a problem now that there is Vista 64-bit and 7 64-bit, especially for brand new hardware.
My work computer has 12GB of RAM and I have to say I love having that much RAM. Combined with the window manager improvements in Windows 7, I can keep a lot of stuff open and keep track of a lot of windows. The OS also keeps a huge program cache which makes apps open really fast.
At home my computer (Windows 7 64-bit) has 4GB of RAM and if I were to build a brand new computer I would put 6 or 8 into it. RAM is pretty cheap these days and having lots of it is nice. I like not having to close out whatever I am working on if I want to play a game for a little bit.
Plus once you start having 8-16 cores in a machine you need more than 4GB of RAM just because if you have enough tasks running to max out that many cores, their RAM usage can add up to a lot.
This is correct because courts have ruled in several states that recording a police officer in the process of a traffic stop or otherwise conducting his official duty on a public street is not a violation of the "all parties" wire tap laws, yet prosecutors keep bringing these charges.
I think it is kind of like the other crap in the legal system these days. As the little guy you might be 100% in the right but since you have comparatively very limited resources they bank on people being too afraid to having to spend tons of money proving their innocence. So they get to make it more or less illegal without the actual political blow back of making it illegal.
That is a really good article. If they are using very out of date Linux kernels there are probably a lot of other out of date software on their systems. That combined with the fact that they don't have any internal password strength policy and are using cryptographically broken encryption shows they don't seem to have any competent server admins and web developers.
There is a lesson to learn here and it is a simple one: Don't be stupid.
Given their demonstrated lack of competence in handling this whole situation I don't have a ton of faith that they can competently check their systems for other damage and any modifications made by Gnosis.
Or even cleartext; yes, I have seen this on production websites, and it is unbelievable.
As have I, a good way to test this is to try and reset your password on said site. If they show you or email you your existing password and not a random new one, you know their security is crap and shouldn't be trusted.
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However, Cisco isn't sure yet if routers bought prior to 2011 will get IPv6. "We are currently looking into which 'legacy' Linksys product can support IPv6. (There are many things that influence us being able to do it -- including if there is enough memory, as well as other factors.) The engineer teams are working on that," the spokesperson said.
I would be shocked if they offered firmware upgrades for old hardware to add IPv6 support even if the hardware could do it. It seems more likely they and others will use it as an excuse to obsolete a ton of old hardware and force people to buy new stuff.
R rated movies are shown in theaters all the time and are easily sold in stores. You are thinking of NC-17 rated movies, those ones aren't shown in theaters as much.
If, all of the sudden, Americans woke up one day and found Google (mind you, Amazon, Facebook, and a few other web presences would have a similar effect) gone, they would go into a frothing mad rage. As soon as one person pointed a finger at Hollywood or the DHS, you'd have a God damned holy war on your hands. We Americans are certainly passive little government lap dogs as long as we have a steady soma dose of useless crap pumped into our veins via T.V. and the internet. But if you cut off that IV, you will learn really quick like just how much rage a bunch of pissed off house wives that can no longer access their lolcats pictures can generate.
"Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people – as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes..." - Quark
They have a vested interest in not finding a cause.
While I'm unsure if there is indeed an actual software problem, you kind of do have a point. If I'm not mistaken drive by wire type systems for other things like planes are more regulated and have more legally required testing.
Toyota and the other car companies do have a vested interest in it not being a software glitch because it would cause a huge public outcry. Lawmakers would probably add new regulations to make them put their hardware through more rigorous testing and possibly 3rd party code inspection. Which I'm not against actually but the car companies would hate it.
Not to mention that it would open the door for lots of lawsuits claiming such and such happened due to a software fault in the car.
Plenty of people advertise that kind of information on Facebook. You can even indicate who your parents are on there. And they made it so if you get married you can still list your previous name so people can search for it.
While people are dumb for publicly giving that kind of information away (at least set your profile to private!); banks and other financial institutions should also have more rigorous security questions. Even better is what I've seen some sites do where instead of having 5-8 predefined security questions, they let you write your own.
I take it you don't consider space exploration important. Despite what you think, space exploration should be something near the top of everyone's list to worry about.
Why? A multitude of reasons, firstly the perpetuation of the species. If we can live in space and/or on another planet, say Mars. In the event of a major widespread illness or natural disaster, there would be enough people living on another planet to survive. The second reason is population, with 7 billion people on the planet it is getting pretty full, we need new places to expand. Thirdly, natural resources, we can probably find lots of much needed natural resources on the other planets in the solar system.
Being able to have space stations in orbit or other places in the solar system would allow for the safe R&D of dangerous technologies, for example if research on infectious disease could be done on a space ship or space station, in the event of an accident they wouldn't risk the entire planet.
Plus space exploration has a major trickle down effect on a lot of other industries. For example long range (like to go to mars) space ships are going to need efficient long term power generation, food production and high speed communications, compact life support systems, all that technology can be applied to other areas here on earth. Not to mention all the jobs it can create since people need to design and build that stuff.
All those rockets NASA burned up during the Mercury program to get a working launch vehicle that could send an object into orbit paved the way for all the satellite systems we now enjoy.
As for the people that died in 1986, while tragic and completely avoidable, we have to realize some people are going to die pioneering this frontier. Sure NASA has been caught twice now (Challenger and Columbia) taking some safety for granted but that is a fixable problem. If you think they should have stopped in 86 because of the loss of the Challenger, they should have stopped after the Apollo 1 fire killed three astronauts. But it didn't stop them, they figured out what went wrong and made to design changes to prevent it happening again. And with Challenger while being negligent in authorizing the launch, afterwards they did redesign the O-ring system to better prevent the issue from happening.
Yes that was very tragic however that wasn't really "death by GPS", they were using paper maps. They got trapped due to a combination of BLM not having the gate closed for a logging road that was impassable for most of the winter, not turning back soon enough and missing certain road signs.
What happened to the Kims was sad and certainly could happen to a lot of people for sure but isn't the target of the article in question.
http://xkcd.com/605/
Just because you got some high schoolers involved in a competition doesn't mean something is now "cool", and no, letters from congressmen or navy scholarships don't make things cool either.
This just shows a lack of understanding as to why people idolize sports/entertainment stars.
Well the letters aren't really that cool per-se but a full ride scholarship is. That is actually a lot of money and if you don't need to spend any money on school, it means while in school any money you earn you can spend on whatever you like. And when you graduate you will be part of the minority that don't have student loans to pay off.
People idolize sports and entertainment stars because they are famous and rich. This competition probably won't give you much fame but it will make you rich in the sense that you won't go massively into debt paying for school like your peers. And really I think it is much better to be rich than famous.
If you read the article, it is an issue that isn't apparent right away (Intel had to use a extraordinary testing conditions to cause it to happen) and when it does, the 2 SATA3 ports are unaffected. From the Anandtech article:
So far Intel has only been able to document the issue after running extended testing at high temperatures (in a thermal chamber) and voltages. My recommendation is to try to only use ports 0 & 1 (the 6Gbps ports) on your 6-series motherboard until you get a replacement in place.
So it isn't like your computer is unusable, most people will never experience the issue between now and April when replacement boards are available. So the CPU you bought is hardly worthless.
Seems to me that they are handling it well enough, clearly they are working with their vendors to make the process easy. NewEgg will either give you a refund now or a replacement board in April, no questions asked.
I think part of Microsoft's problem is that in the Office and OS markets in particular, their biggest competitor is themselves. They've made their products good enough where people don't bother upgrading when the new version comes out.
They could intentionally break backwards compatibility with former products to try and get people to upgrade but that doesn't really work for them. Case and point: they ended up releasing the backwards compatibility add-on so Office 2003 could read and write the 2007/2010 file formats.
I doubt they will really give up trying to break into new markets, they have their huge install base of core products to fall back on. It isn't like they are hurting for cash.
That would be a great thing to read today. I am sure you aren't the only one that thought so at the time though.
As soon as I read the summary I thought about this. People do weird stuff with tagging, I know some people that will tag someone not in the picture as a way of telling that person that they should look at it and like you pointed out people will tag pictures without people even in it.
That kind of renders the feature less than optimal. They are trying to rely data that by its very nature is unreliable.
Isn't there some way to put your friends into groups on FB? If so, if you could set the feature to only draw from certain groups of friends it would at least give you a better chance of getting it right.
why would PC gamers use a TV as a screen? true gamers don't cut their screen so much, we use 1920 x 1440 or 1920 x 1200
Please tell that to the companies that make computer monitors. Models that run at 1920x1200 are much less common now, they've all gone to 1920x1080 which is sad.
I've never gotten a fake or malware-infected file; oh wait, I actually pay for the software, music, and movies that I want to watch. Maybe that's why.
While you have a point, as history has proven, buying legit doesn't always protect you from malware. And haven't there been cases where viruses and malware has gotten onto the installation discs of legit software at the CD factory?
That isn't an argument against buying legit software; my point is even with legitimate software you need to keep an eye out.
In fact if you were to do that, you could use snapshots with your VMs to make it even easier. With your trusted VM after each use or every few uses roll it back to the known clean snapshot and you can make new snapshots after important security patches.
And for your VM for naughty activities you could just roll it back to the base snapshot every once in a while to ensure it hasn't been compromised.
I wish I had mod points for you. That is good information.
They got rid of that feature years ago, not long before they opened it up to everyone if I remember right.
FB is wanting to stay as private as possible. Nothing wrong with that.
I find the irony of FB (and Mark Zuckerberg) not wanting the public to know much about the companies financial information amazing. If only they cared about their product (aka the users) the same way.
They are just using that as an excuse to not let him get extradited. As so many people have pointed out here before, publishing classified information is not a crime in the US. The person that leaked it to the entity publishing the information is the one that broke the law. Just because on Fox News they maintain the narrative that he should be eliminated doesn't mean it is going to happen. This is just FUD.
Granted his lawyers are just doing what lawyers do, they are trying to find some way to win. But I hope it doesn't work.
While not a sampling of the average computer user, gamers seem to (rightly) prefer Windows 7 64-bit over the 32-bit version: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
XP 64-bit has a pretty small usage on that survey.
Now, for the fun part of this post. Anyone here hanging onto unused copies of XP just incase you decide to build a new machine? I know I am.
So you never plan to put more than 3 or 4GB of RAM into a computer?
Sure there is XP 64-bit which is uses the Windows 2003 kernel but drivers might be more of a problem now that there is Vista 64-bit and 7 64-bit, especially for brand new hardware.
My work computer has 12GB of RAM and I have to say I love having that much RAM. Combined with the window manager improvements in Windows 7, I can keep a lot of stuff open and keep track of a lot of windows. The OS also keeps a huge program cache which makes apps open really fast.
At home my computer (Windows 7 64-bit) has 4GB of RAM and if I were to build a brand new computer I would put 6 or 8 into it. RAM is pretty cheap these days and having lots of it is nice. I like not having to close out whatever I am working on if I want to play a game for a little bit.
Plus once you start having 8-16 cores in a machine you need more than 4GB of RAM just because if you have enough tasks running to max out that many cores, their RAM usage can add up to a lot.
This is correct because courts have ruled in several states that recording a police officer in the process of a traffic stop or otherwise conducting his official duty on a public street is not a violation of the "all parties" wire tap laws, yet prosecutors keep bringing these charges.
I think it is kind of like the other crap in the legal system these days. As the little guy you might be 100% in the right but since you have comparatively very limited resources they bank on people being too afraid to having to spend tons of money proving their innocence. So they get to make it more or less illegal without the actual political blow back of making it illegal.
That is a really good article. If they are using very out of date Linux kernels there are probably a lot of other out of date software on their systems. That combined with the fact that they don't have any internal password strength policy and are using cryptographically broken encryption shows they don't seem to have any competent server admins and web developers.
There is a lesson to learn here and it is a simple one: Don't be stupid.
Given their demonstrated lack of competence in handling this whole situation I don't have a ton of faith that they can competently check their systems for other damage and any modifications made by Gnosis.
Or even cleartext; yes, I have seen this on production websites, and it is unbelievable.
As have I, a good way to test this is to try and reset your password on said site. If they show you or email you your existing password and not a random new one, you know their security is crap and shouldn't be trusted.