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I saw this on Google News and went to check it out, but got annoyed quickly when I couldn't search all four engines at once with collated results. It can't be that hard to do.
Plus they dumped at least 10 cookies on me. Google only uses one. I'll keep Googling...
On the contrary, the cable provider where I used to live only provided one-way cable that still required a modem for upstream connectivity, because of old infrastructure that still hasn't been updated in two years.
Where I live now, a coworker still had to have the line to his house upgraded to get a cable modem running. So the infrastructure issue for cable isn't negligible.
Don't get me wrong, I like cable. I use Adelphia's PowerLink and it's good in my area. It's two-way and I have essentially no competition for the bandwidth.
The Blair Witch girl cried so much...
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... I was waiting for snot to come out of her nose again.
I have a cheat sheet with my SSH host keys on it in my wallet, so I can make sure I've got the right system when I connect to one of my systems.
Actually I've wondered how to check that. When I ssh into a new host, it gives me a warning like:
The authenticity of host 'foo.bar.org (111.222.33.44)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is (some sequence of colon-separated 2-digit hexadecimals).
How do I check that "fingerprint" against the contents of ~/.ssh/known_hosts/ which I presume is what's on your cheat sheet? Or to put it another way, how do you generate a cheat sheet of those RSA key fingerprints?
That blows the snot out of the old "even episodes good", "odd episodes bad" theorem.
Unfortunately the theorem hinges on Star Trek 6 not being "bad;" I'd argue you could only describe it as "good" compared to the excruciating Star Trek 5. It looks more like the TNG movies are slipping (Insurrection, now this) just like the TOS movies did (Final Frontier, then Undiscovered Country).
Plus, they cut Wil. The movie therefore must suck.
Unlike Robert Gallo and David Baltimore, who survived the scandal virtually unscathed, the physicists involved in today's scandals are actually being held accountable.
Well, in the particular case of Baltimore and his collaborator (Imanishi-Kari), the allegations of misconduct were eventually found to be false, and Imanishi-Kari was exonerated. The article you linked noted that Baltimore suffered for his defense of his collaborator, which doesn't qualify as "virtually unscathed" IMO.
So, these biologists were held accountable (at least for a while), but for something they didn't do.
Why go to the bother of making robust cracking software to exploit that particular problem unless you're actually a bad person doing bad things with a computer?
Such software in general needn't only be used by blackhats. Whitehats can use it to test the security of their own systems.
In this particular case, it could be used to see how exposed the rest of the internal network is to a lousy security scheme (WEP).
Besides, these tools already exist on other platforms, so it's not like the blackhats suddenly have something they didn't have before to make our lives miserable.
It just worked-for-me. NavZilla theme (MacOS X only) broke on 1.2, so I just went to install Pinstripe and was surprised that I did not have to "restart Mozilla for themes to take effect."
What I don't understand is today's Electronics recommendation of a Handspring Visor Deluxe (Graphite), "because [I] purchased or rated Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins."
Agreed; the correlations Amazon tries to draw across product types are usually quite poor. Rating Diablo II high might mean I'd be interested in other fantasy RPGs, but probably not that I want to read a bunch of lousy Diablo II novels.
For electronics, it's even worse. Buy a DVD player, rate it highly, and it recommends more DVD players when instead it should be smart, recommending DVDs with DTS for that new DTS player, or a new A/V receiver that's particularly compatible, similarly priced, etc.
LOTR also generates a lot of recommendations that I'd describe as incestuous... multiple printings of the same books, or grouped boxed sets, plus all the calendars and making of the films, LOTR stuff is always sneaking into my recs.
Actually, it was Amazon.com that classified someone as a "pregnant gay man" based on a gift he bought for someone else. I've been mistakenly classified as a pet owner from purchasing items for others' wish lists.
Rather than go through all the trouble of engineering a profile, though, he could have found the purchased item in "Improve your recommendations" and deselected the "Use to make recommendations" box. Problem solved.
I like the system; over time it's brought authors to my attention that I might not otherwise have noticed.
Drive/CPU/graphics card upgrade compatibility databases, and very detailed hardware upgrade and review articles with benchmarks are the real gems here. Front page has daily news updates for upgraders. The forums are good, but closed to newcomers.
Why put the intake right next to the output? Seems to me like it'll just be sucking that hot air right back in.
Assuming that you leave enough space behind the PC the card is installed in (that may or may not be a fair assumption), the turbulent jet of air blowing out will penetrate quite a bit farther into the surrounding still air around the PC than the intake is able to draw back in.
It's similar to how you can't feel the air blowing towards a fan intake as well as you can feel the air blowing out. Try it with a household fan sometime. Orient your hand parallel to the intake/output so that you're not blocking the flow much.
So, if they can get the cool air from outside, it's a better solution than using the pre-heated air from in the case.
However it has a BAD false-positive rate. I mean hell its been flagging CERT advisories as spam. That kind of crap is really annoying. It's flagged co-workers' mail as spam numerous times..
I had this problem early-on as well. I fixed it by marking the false positives as "Not Junk." You can do these even when it's in "Automatic" mode as opposed to "Training." All the "Automatic" does is enable the filter that send the marked messages to the "Junk" folder.
But it still learns in either mode! Early on my shipping notices from Amazon.com (and even Apple.com, ha ha) were being flagged as Junk, but not anymore. I think it's great and will only improve with time, with others' caveats about client-side email spam checking being flawed noted.
Lal said that he chose only isotopes that emit beta particles because their energy is small enough not to penetrate skin. Radioactive material can emit beta particles, alpha particles or gamma rays--the last two of which are carry enough energy to be hazardous, said Lal.
Alpha particles are helium nuclei, and cannot penetrate the skin. Alpha emmitters aren't much concern unless ingested or inhaled. Beta particles are electrons, they can penetrate the skin and/or burn it. So either it's really an alpha emitter and harmless, or it's a beta emitter and of concern.
This is for PowerMac G4s (Digital Audio, Quicksilver, Quicksilver 2002). The flat-panel iMac update has been out for weeks. The 17" iMac already has the update, as do the Mirrored Drive Doors PowerMac G4s. You can get at them both, along with all the details, here:
300 kWh may not be much on its own, but it may be better in the long run to rely on many smaller forms of energy production... Opinions and nitpicks about this greatly appreciated...
As someone else noted, it's 300kW. So it provides enough power in 1 hour to power a typical home for a month (baseline allocation in California being 300 kW-hr), or enough power every month for about 700 homes (1 home/hr * 24 hr/day * 30 day/month).
That's not much. Doesn't speak well for tidal power in general, as the tidal currents noted of nearly 2 m/s are strong. There aren't that many places in the world with tidal currents like that; while it's strong in the bay area, a typical beach has no current from the tide.
With each power plant only providing energy for about 1000 people, it won't scale well. The article notes it will cost $100 million (US). That's about $100k/home. You can build a pretty kick-ass solar array for $100k, probably enough to power everyone on your suburban street, not just one home.
I agree in principle with what you're saying about distributed power, but these turbines aren't as distributable as other solutions and are too expensive for the small power they generate even from energetic tidal currents.
5 of the 6 bugs are already fixed in 1.0.1 which has been out for a couple months now. I believe the sixth is already fixed in the 1.2 nightlies.
The same 5 of the 6 that are fixed in 1.0.1 are also fixed in 1.1. The last one is already fixed in 1.2 beta. Maybe even alpha or earlier (but why would one use those).
I saw this mentioned on The Screensavers last night and IMO the Register article is greatly overstating the magnitude of the vulnerabilities. These are all known, patched bugs. Good to motivate people to stay up to date, but this is a lousy way to evaluate a product's security.
Let's talk about the known, unpatched bugs in MSIE instead.
At first I was interested, but upon visiting the sites, that looks more like a scooter to me. Look at the handle for turning. Definitely doesn't have the balance and control issues that a skateboard would present.
Hey, by the way, how is it going with your Insight?
I own one, have ~50k miles on it, and have averaged ~74 mpg so far. You can learn a lot more about it at Insight Central which has a very rich database of information about the car. No problems to speak of other than a known issue (which also affected the S-2000) with the auto-down on the side power windows.
The interior is very nice, and the standard features like ABS, airbags, power windows, climate control would have been hard to match in a Civic hatchback the year I bought my Insight (2000). At 74 mpg I'm doing better-than-expected on the gas savings and I'll happily pay up-front to an innovate car company in order to make it back by not paying an oil company so much. Performance is fine by me (0-60 in 10s) and I keep up with traffic on the highway.
Downsides are a little rougher feel on the road with tight suspension and 40psi tires, and poor rear visibility (careful backing out of parking spaces!).
Definitely at least test-drive one, you will be amazed.
All seawalls should be illegal, because they destroy beaches. The landowner is tossing rocks or concrete into the ocean to save his property at the expense of the public's property (the beach). Seawalls erode beaches by burying them under rubble (placement loss), reflecting waves and causing the sand to move offshore (active loss) and by simply being there as the shoreline retreats towards them (passive loss). Read works by Orrin Pilkey, or visit The Surfrider Foundation for more information.
Many states have banned seawalls altogether. Washington is one example. In California, seawall construction is limited by the Coastal Act (passed in 1976) but not banned, and there are major loopholes, including language to protect "existing structures" which can be creatively interpreted to include a structure that did not exist yesterday but exists today. More and more of California's coastline is being buried under seawalls, including "temporary" "emergency" piles of rock that are never removed because the Commission doesn't have a police force to patrol the beaches. What little monitoring there is, is done entirely by volunteers, and kudos to them if they've gotten access to a helicopter to keep our beaches from vanishing!
Even some of the G4s (cube) keep the fan off unless critical.
A nitpick: G4 Cube has no fan, although you can add an 80mm fan to it very easily. Mount points for the fan are already there, and the fan will blow air out the cube's "chimmney."
Most of the fan noise in the DP QS 2002 machine is in the power supply. This also appears to be true for the MDD PowerMac G4s, although their main fan is variable-speed and can get loud, like the PowerBook G4's CPU fan.
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Plus they dumped at least 10 cookies on me. Google only uses one. I'll keep Googling...
Where I live now, a coworker still had to have the line to his house upgraded to get a cable modem running. So the infrastructure issue for cable isn't negligible.
Don't get me wrong, I like cable. I use Adelphia's PowerLink and it's good in my area. It's two-way and I have essentially no competition for the bandwidth.
... I was waiting for snot to come out of her nose again.
The authenticity of host 'foo.bar.org (111.222.33.44)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is (some sequence of colon-separated 2-digit hexadecimals).
How do I check that "fingerprint" against the contents of ~/.ssh/known_hosts/ which I presume is what's on your cheat sheet? Or to put it another way, how do you generate a cheat sheet of those RSA key fingerprints?
Plus, they cut Wil. The movie therefore must suck.
So, these biologists were held accountable (at least for a while), but for something they didn't do.
In this particular case, it could be used to see how exposed the rest of the internal network is to a lousy security scheme (WEP).
Besides, these tools already exist on other platforms, so it's not like the blackhats suddenly have something they didn't have before to make our lives miserable.
It just worked-for-me. NavZilla theme (MacOS X only) broke on 1.2, so I just went to install Pinstripe and was surprised that I did not have to "restart Mozilla for themes to take effect."
For electronics, it's even worse. Buy a DVD player, rate it highly, and it recommends more DVD players when instead it should be smart, recommending DVDs with DTS for that new DTS player, or a new A/V receiver that's particularly compatible, similarly priced, etc.
LOTR also generates a lot of recommendations that I'd describe as incestuous... multiple printings of the same books, or grouped boxed sets, plus all the calendars and making of the films, LOTR stuff is always sneaking into my recs.
Rather than go through all the trouble of engineering a profile, though, he could have found the purchased item in "Improve your recommendations" and deselected the "Use to make recommendations" box. Problem solved.
I like the system; over time it's brought authors to my attention that I might not otherwise have noticed.
Drive/CPU/graphics card upgrade compatibility databases, and very detailed hardware upgrade and review articles with benchmarks are the real gems here. Front page has daily news updates for upgraders. The forums are good, but closed to newcomers.
It's similar to how you can't feel the air blowing towards a fan intake as well as you can feel the air blowing out. Try it with a household fan sometime. Orient your hand parallel to the intake/output so that you're not blocking the flow much.
So, if they can get the cool air from outside, it's a better solution than using the pre-heated air from in the case.
But it still learns in either mode! Early on my shipping notices from Amazon.com (and even Apple.com, ha ha) were being flagged as Junk, but not anymore. I think it's great and will only improve with time, with others' caveats about client-side email spam checking being flawed noted.
http://www.apple.com/hardware/superdrive/
That's not much. Doesn't speak well for tidal power in general, as the tidal currents noted of nearly 2 m/s are strong. There aren't that many places in the world with tidal currents like that; while it's strong in the bay area, a typical beach has no current from the tide.
With each power plant only providing energy for about 1000 people, it won't scale well. The article notes it will cost $100 million (US). That's about $100k/home. You can build a pretty kick-ass solar array for $100k, probably enough to power everyone on your suburban street, not just one home.
I agree in principle with what you're saying about distributed power, but these turbines aren't as distributable as other solutions and are too expensive for the small power they generate even from energetic tidal currents.
I saw this mentioned on The Screensavers last night and IMO the Register article is greatly overstating the magnitude of the vulnerabilities. These are all known, patched bugs. Good to motivate people to stay up to date, but this is a lousy way to evaluate a product's security.
Let's talk about the known, unpatched bugs in MSIE instead.
Scooters predate skateboarding by about half a century. They're not the same thing.
The interior is very nice, and the standard features like ABS, airbags, power windows, climate control would have been hard to match in a Civic hatchback the year I bought my Insight (2000). At 74 mpg I'm doing better-than-expected on the gas savings and I'll happily pay up-front to an innovate car company in order to make it back by not paying an oil company so much. Performance is fine by me (0-60 in 10s) and I keep up with traffic on the highway.
Downsides are a little rougher feel on the road with tight suspension and 40psi tires, and poor rear visibility (careful backing out of parking spaces!).
Definitely at least test-drive one, you will be amazed.
Many states have banned seawalls altogether. Washington is one example. In California, seawall construction is limited by the Coastal Act (passed in 1976) but not banned, and there are major loopholes, including language to protect "existing structures" which can be creatively interpreted to include a structure that did not exist yesterday but exists today. More and more of California's coastline is being buried under seawalls, including "temporary" "emergency" piles of rock that are never removed because the Commission doesn't have a police force to patrol the beaches. What little monitoring there is, is done entirely by volunteers, and kudos to them if they've gotten access to a helicopter to keep our beaches from vanishing!
Most of the fan noise in the DP QS 2002 machine is in the power supply. This also appears to be true for the MDD PowerMac G4s, although their main fan is variable-speed and can get loud, like the PowerBook G4's CPU fan.
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More tips at Junkbusters. Now we tend only to get long distance phone company calls.