Not here in the USA. I have never seen a chip-and-PIN-capable reader here at the point of sale. Not all countries are as advanced and security-conscious as, say, the United Kingdom.
The reason is to verify that the number stamped into the plastic is the same as the number encoded on the magstripe. It's really easy to overwrite magstripe data. I have been asked to confirm the last four at grocery stores; they usually ask for the card, but if you recite the last four, it's usually satisfactory.
If I can update the IP range, what is to prevent the attacker from doing the same? It's not like my ISP tells me when their servers are going to change my address. I understand, in general, how whitelisting works, but I don't know how it is handled by the registrars who provide this service.
I'm not familiar with EAC, but I did catch the bit about moving away from XP. That is why I mentioned wine. Wine supports some software better than others, and EAC seems to work well. (Now that I look in their database, it appears that Polderbits is not listed, so all bets are off.) Are you acquainted with Wine?
Based on your description, it seems like Polderbits would suit your needs better than EAC since it is designed for the purpose of archiving analog audio, while EAC seems geared towards digital audio. It may be that neither one can be made to work well under Linux, but it sounded like you were interested in possibilities, so I shared the one that came to mind. YMMV.
If 'better than Audacity' means (for you) good at recording albums and splitting tracks, then you might want to check out Polderbits. I used it for the purpose of digitizing cassette tapes many years ago, and I'm sure it has only gotten better. In terms of general features it is very limited compared to Audacity, but it is good at automatically detecting sensible places to split tracks. It is only released for Windows, but it may run in Wine.
Well, sure. I was responding to the 'no dual-booting phones' portion of your comment, but it is true that no amount of Linux will help us compare Windows to iOS. (Well, perhaps that is not true. One day we may be able to install roughly the same Ubuntu on a Nokia Lumia as well as an iPhone. That might give us some kind of transitive benchmarks.)
The Nexus 4 can allegedly run both Android and Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone. I have not tried it, and I don't think there's a dual-booting bootloader yet, but it sounds interesting.
I know they both use the same kernel (more or less), but the software ecosystem is probably quite different, including the power management.
Have you ever used TeXmacs, and do you have an opinion of it? I suspect you have, since "what you see is what you mean" is a phrase of which they are quite fond.
For those who have not: TeXmacs is a graphical editor which implements the typesetting rules from TeX in an editor whose interface is inspired by emacs. (M-x commands, and all.) It does not use LaTeX as an intermediate rendering engine. I used it for a while. It has some virtue.
Hear, hear! Moderation is first about sifting threads for quality discussion. Rewarding and penalizing commenters comes later. I wonder, does the grandparent also never mod down anonymous comments?
(Posting non-anonymously as I haven't had any mod points since Saturday.)
I lived in Scotland for a spell, and (while I didn't do any driving there) I used to see billboards encouraging people to actually shut off their engines while stopped at a light. Blew my mind. To be fair, the lights there have a half-second yellow-red combo to indicate that the lights are about to be green again. But I am genuinely curious what the laws in the US might have to say about (a) putting an automatic transmission in park and (b) switching off the engine while at a light.
Has Waze really gotten better in this regard? I stopped using it after a couple of months because it was always pestering me with alerts that were tens of miles off my course. I think the idea of crowdsourcing traffic patterns is brilliant, but the idea of social driving is bizarre.
And don't get me started on the new Google Maps. It is unusable in landscape mode, which is how I mount my phone to the dashboard. The controls take up so much space that there is no room left on screen for the map.
I guess my first line above could have been paraphrased like this:
You mean like this?--
Not really, because that solution is a poor shadow of svn's sparse checkouts.
Your point, however, stands: it is clear that – whatever sparse checkout features git may have – git's 'sparse checkout' abilities were added because of popular demand, not because sparse checkouts are a good idea. You obviously view them as a crutch, and I have no argument; I even believe I can see where you're coming from. If I invested the time necessary to master git, and spent time collaborating with others and sharing my code, I would probably reach the same conclusions.
That seems pretty clear-cut, since HTTP doesn't protect the IP address or domain name you request. If you're communicating with IP's of Facebook, Facebook pays Verizon. If you're communicating with IP's of/., then/. gets charged.
Well, that's most of the way there but it still requires downloading the whole repository first, and then some configuration, and you have additional unnecessary directory structure.
However, upon reflection, I'll agree that it is probably better for the OP to go all the way and make a repo for each project, which is the standard practice with git. But I'm not convinced that sparse checkouts, as described in your link, is a drop-in replacement for svn.
Thanks a lot! Last time I had looked for such a feature in git, it didn't exist. I do understand that the git philosophy is to make many discrete repositories rather than one repo with many projects organized in subdirectories. It just seemed that sparse checkouts were a closer analogue to OP's current situation, which might mean a lower learning curve. Although as I think about it, making several sparse checkouts for different projects is nigh-indistiguishable from cloning several discrete repositories, from the user's perspective.
svn is appealing in this case because you can check out subdirectories of a repo without downloading the whole thing, which is more similar to his current organization.
How much would you pay per month for this service?
See, I would pay for the service, but I don't think we'll ever be given that option. I expect that Google will add it to a spring cleaning list long before they try to charge for it. It doesn't matter how much I would be willing to pay; they'll never take my money.
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Not here in the USA. I have never seen a chip-and-PIN-capable reader here at the point of sale. Not all countries are as advanced and security-conscious as, say, the United Kingdom.
The reason is to verify that the number stamped into the plastic is the same as the number encoded on the magstripe. It's really easy to overwrite magstripe data. I have been asked to confirm the last four at grocery stores; they usually ask for the card, but if you recite the last four, it's usually satisfactory.
If I can update the IP range, what is to prevent the attacker from doing the same? It's not like my ISP tells me when their servers are going to change my address. I understand, in general, how whitelisting works, but I don't know how it is handled by the registrars who provide this service.
I see. Well, good luck with your quest.
I'm not familiar with EAC, but I did catch the bit about moving away from XP. That is why I mentioned wine. Wine supports some software better than others, and EAC seems to work well. (Now that I look in their database, it appears that Polderbits is not listed, so all bets are off.) Are you acquainted with Wine?
Based on your description, it seems like Polderbits would suit your needs better than EAC since it is designed for the purpose of archiving analog audio, while EAC seems geared towards digital audio. It may be that neither one can be made to work well under Linux, but it sounded like you were interested in possibilities, so I shared the one that came to mind. YMMV.
If 'better than Audacity' means (for you) good at recording albums and splitting tracks, then you might want to check out Polderbits. I used it for the purpose of digitizing cassette tapes many years ago, and I'm sure it has only gotten better. In terms of general features it is very limited compared to Audacity, but it is good at automatically detecting sensible places to split tracks. It is only released for Windows, but it may run in Wine.
It's rare to find an engineer that can write well[...]
For all the grousing that goes on here in regard to grammar in slashdot entries, one might think such engineers would not be so rare, after all.
Does the wait staff at that Dennys have a high rate of turnover? Sounds like they need to add "cool with open carry" to their job listings. :c)
Well, sure. I was responding to the 'no dual-booting phones' portion of your comment, but it is true that no amount of Linux will help us compare Windows to iOS. (Well, perhaps that is not true. One day we may be able to install roughly the same Ubuntu on a Nokia Lumia as well as an iPhone. That might give us some kind of transitive benchmarks.)
The Nexus 4 can allegedly run both Android and Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/phone. I have not tried it, and I don't think there's a dual-booting bootloader yet, but it sounds interesting.
I know they both use the same kernel (more or less), but the software ecosystem is probably quite different, including the power management.
That would make sense, too.
Have you ever used TeXmacs, and do you have an opinion of it? I suspect you have, since "what you see is what you mean" is a phrase of which they are quite fond.
For those who have not: TeXmacs is a graphical editor which implements the typesetting rules from TeX in an editor whose interface is inspired by emacs. (M-x commands, and all.) It does not use LaTeX as an intermediate rendering engine. I used it for a while. It has some virtue.
Hear, hear! Moderation is first about sifting threads for quality discussion. Rewarding and penalizing commenters comes later. I wonder, does the grandparent also never mod down anonymous comments?
(Posting non-anonymously as I haven't had any mod points since Saturday.)
FYI, Automatics can be stopped/started from the neutral gear just as well as from park. Just keep your foot on the brake.
A fair point, which had completely slipped my mind.
I lived in Scotland for a spell, and (while I didn't do any driving there) I used to see billboards encouraging people to actually shut off their engines while stopped at a light. Blew my mind. To be fair, the lights there have a half-second yellow-red combo to indicate that the lights are about to be green again. But I am genuinely curious what the laws in the US might have to say about (a) putting an automatic transmission in park and (b) switching off the engine while at a light.
Has Waze really gotten better in this regard? I stopped using it after a couple of months because it was always pestering me with alerts that were tens of miles off my course. I think the idea of crowdsourcing traffic patterns is brilliant, but the idea of social driving is bizarre.
And don't get me started on the new Google Maps. It is unusable in landscape mode, which is how I mount my phone to the dashboard. The controls take up so much space that there is no room left on screen for the map.
I guess my first line above could have been paraphrased like this:
You mean like this?--
Not really, because that solution is a poor shadow of svn's sparse checkouts.
Your point, however, stands: it is clear that – whatever sparse checkout features git may have – git's 'sparse checkout' abilities were added because of popular demand, not because sparse checkouts are a good idea. You obviously view them as a crutch, and I have no argument; I even believe I can see where you're coming from. If I invested the time necessary to master git, and spent time collaborating with others and sharing my code, I would probably reach the same conclusions.
That seems pretty clear-cut, since HTTP doesn't protect the IP address or domain name you request. If you're communicating with IP's of Facebook, Facebook pays Verizon. If you're communicating with IP's of /., then /. gets charged.
Well, that's most of the way there but it still requires downloading the whole repository first, and then some configuration, and you have additional unnecessary directory structure.
However, upon reflection, I'll agree that it is probably better for the OP to go all the way and make a repo for each project, which is the standard practice with git. But I'm not convinced that sparse checkouts, as described in your link, is a drop-in replacement for svn.
Thanks a lot! Last time I had looked for such a feature in git, it didn't exist. I do understand that the git philosophy is to make many discrete repositories rather than one repo with many projects organized in subdirectories. It just seemed that sparse checkouts were a closer analogue to OP's current situation, which might mean a lower learning curve. Although as I think about it, making several sparse checkouts for different projects is nigh-indistiguishable from cloning several discrete repositories, from the user's perspective.
svn is appealing in this case because you can check out subdirectories of a repo without downloading the whole thing, which is more similar to his current organization.
I really like your argument, here. It's the first time I've heard it put quite this way.
How much would you pay per month for this service?
See, I would pay for the service, but I don't think we'll ever be given that option. I expect that Google will add it to a spring cleaning list long before they try to charge for it. It doesn't matter how much I would be willing to pay; they'll never take my money.
Is that like the Parable of the Broken Window?
The linked article is the prologue to a series of seven posts chronicling a week spent using Gnome Classic. See the RECENT ENTRIES sidebar at the top of the page.