It's an option. They cost a helluva lot more (The $S is currently $549, I presume the 5 would be $100 more), and I don't know if the carriers give much of a discount for no-contract BYOP plans. (T-Mobile does, but you're not going to get 3G, no less LTE with an iPhone on T-Mobile).
I haven't played the game in years, but it was the only MMORPG I ever played in which I actually made it to the endgame.
The combat seemed faster paced and generally less grindy than other MMORPGs at the time.
It helped that I played a Tanker, which was a horribly unbalanced class at the time. I remember forming a team, and single-handedly holding aggro on an entire instance worth of mobs, herding them into a corner, and letting the blasters let loose all at once. Good times.
There's no indication that Microsoft themselves keeps track of which individuals downloaded/installed which programs.
The issue this article seems to propose is that somebody could sniff the network traffic between yourself and Microsoft to grab the SmartScreen data and see what you'd installed when Windows contacts MS to see if the file is marked as safe/unsafe/unknown.
If they're in a position to do that, wouldn't they theoretically be in a position to have potentially snooped on the download of the software which is triggering the SmartScreen traffic? (Depending of course, on where in the network their sniffer is at.)
The only valid complaint seems to be that Microsoft is using a known-insecure version of SSL for the website all this data is sent to. If they fix that, I'm not sure what reasonable issue would be there.
I would argue that for the average user, SmartScreen is a useful feature and having it turned on by default (assuming MS is tracking individual user downloads of software for some nefarious purpose) is a good thing.
Forcing Metro on desktop users to keep the experience consistent between tablet and PC is like selling SUVs that you steer with handlebars to make driving consistent with your scooter.
Propaganda? The summary comes straight from the policy guideline document.
Knowledge-Based Education - We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
Science Max: It just so happens that your moon here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Moontoya: What's that?
Science Max: Go through its craters and look for loose helium-3.
If somebody doesn't trust vaccines, why are they going to a doctor in the first place?
The sound science behind vaccinations is by and large the same sound science that doctor is going to be using when he diagnoses you and prescribes a treatment. You can't reject one without rejecting the other.
Libraries don't necessarily enjoy removing materials from the collection, but the two main reasons to do so are to make sure we have current/accurate materials and make room in our always limited shelf space. (The first is of presumably higher importance in an academic library.)
Unless libraries can get an unlimited budget for expansion of their physical space or off-site archives, weeding materials will be a necessary evil.
I'm not worried about my Steam password, I can go change it when I get home, it was fairly complex, and it's not a reused password anywhere else, but how hard would it be to crack these?
For those of us who aren't cryptography experts, does cracking one of the easy passwords (love, password, money) then help crack the more complex ones (m4sT3rm!nd)? I'm guessing this is crypto 101 stuff.
I am glad I no longer store credit card information with steam, and only used PayPal (and have an authentication card attached to my PP account.)
Fortunately, the linked story addresses this, and the author talks about how he'll meet with local officials to get permission before playing fire inspector.
Ubuntu using Wubi is pretty brain dead easy to install. No partitioning required, it lives inside your Windows filesystem and handles adding itself to your boot menu.
Performance is slightly degraded, and bugs can come up with regards to hard reboots, but really it's the best option I know of if you're not running off a USB stick or DVD.
I have one of these already. It's a NETGEAR WNR3500L. I've not seen any impact on my connection quality. Quite the contrary, I've used its reporting functions twice already in trying to get my ISP to track down connection quality issues at their end.
It keeps a running log of your ping, throughput, packet loss, etc. which you can access freely through their website. I was able to use this to document periods of latency spikes and massive packet loss.
I guess if you think the FCC is taking a particularly convoluted route to spy on me, rather than just, tapping in at the ISP itself, you're free to do that. I'll just think you're probably more than a bit daft.
The problem is, when you look at relativity and do the math, time acts just like another dimension. In fact, it has to, or else relativity just won't work.
There's certainly something odd about it (re: thermodynamic arrow of time) but if it looks like a dimension, and quacks like a dimension, it's probably a dimension.
Maybe this is proof that the entirety of existence is merely a simulation in a computer run by a superior race.
After all, our increasing number of dimensions seems to match up with the increasing number of dimensions in video games. (Except Space War and Pong had the decency to skip that entire 1D thing.)
Sure you laugh, but I'm starting to seriously consider the nature of that giant disembodied hand in the sky that periodically gives me orders to gather more vespene gas.
You aren't any better than the fundamentalist Christians. You're playing the same game, pissing all over the education system just to mark your turf. The only difference between you and them is that you're on different sides. Some of you believe in God and some of you don't. I wish you'd all just shut the fuck up and let teachers teach science without politicising it.
Actually, the other difference is that the atheists are right.
Really? Because I'm pretty sure they follow a fair approximation of the scientific method.
Define the question (Can you destroy ships using an Archimedes style death-ray?)
Gather information and resources (They look up how he theoretically did it.)
Form hypothesis (Reflective shields using ancient construction materials are (in)sufficient to focus light to function as a death ray.)
Perform experiment and collect data (They build a giant death ray and try to burn up a ship.)
Analyze data (Did the ship burn? Which parts burned? Which parts didn't? Did the mirrors act as expected?)
Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for a new hypothesis (The heat simply built up too slowly to set the ship on fire effectively. Smaller scale reproductions showed that further tests could be warranted.)
Publish results (Tune into Discovery HD next week at xxx o'clock.)
Retest (Their second and third goes at the myth.)
Looks like a textbook example of the scientific method to me.
In the academic library at which I work, we use student ID cards as stored-value cards to pay for printing in our computer labs. For people who don't have or forgot their student ID, we have some "loaner" cards that they can load money onto to pay for their printing session.
People were not returning the loaner cards after they were done using them, so I printed a new batch in bright pink. The return rate rose dramatically afterwards.
Slashdot Mirror
It's an option. They cost a helluva lot more (The $S is currently $549, I presume the 5 would be $100 more), and I don't know if the carriers give much of a discount for no-contract BYOP plans. (T-Mobile does, but you're not going to get 3G, no less LTE with an iPhone on T-Mobile).
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone4s
Pick a color, then "Unlocked" is an option instead of carrier.
The science issues are not tied to public policy positions of the left.
The public policy positions of the left are tied to the science issues.
There's a considerable difference.
I haven't played the game in years, but it was the only MMORPG I ever played in which I actually made it to the endgame.
The combat seemed faster paced and generally less grindy than other MMORPGs at the time.
It helped that I played a Tanker, which was a horribly unbalanced class at the time. I remember forming a team, and single-handedly holding aggro on an entire instance worth of mobs, herding them into a corner, and letting the blasters let loose all at once. Good times.
That should be "assuming MS is not tracking individual"... Way to use the preview there, self.
There's no indication that Microsoft themselves keeps track of which individuals downloaded/installed which programs.
The issue this article seems to propose is that somebody could sniff the network traffic between yourself and Microsoft to grab the SmartScreen data and see what you'd installed when Windows contacts MS to see if the file is marked as safe/unsafe/unknown.
If they're in a position to do that, wouldn't they theoretically be in a position to have potentially snooped on the download of the software which is triggering the SmartScreen traffic? (Depending of course, on where in the network their sniffer is at.)
The only valid complaint seems to be that Microsoft is using a known-insecure version of SSL for the website all this data is sent to. If they fix that, I'm not sure what reasonable issue would be there.
I would argue that for the average user, SmartScreen is a useful feature and having it turned on by default (assuming MS is tracking individual user downloads of software for some nefarious purpose) is a good thing.
Forcing Metro on desktop users to keep the experience consistent between tablet and PC is like selling SUVs that you steer with handlebars to make driving consistent with your scooter.
Unfortunately, I suspect it comes down to "Can the next guy after you maintain that code you just wrote using calculus?"
My guess is it'll go back to a linear calculation as soon as the function needs tweaking, and you're no longer there.
Congratulations on your job with Microsoft.
Propaganda? The summary comes straight from the policy guideline document.
Exact same situation here. Maybe it works well on something that's not a no frills work PC, but definitely not on this one.
Science Max: It just so happens that your moon here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Moontoya: What's that?
Science Max: Go through its craters and look for loose helium-3.
If somebody doesn't trust vaccines, why are they going to a doctor in the first place?
The sound science behind vaccinations is by and large the same sound science that doctor is going to be using when he diagnoses you and prescribes a treatment. You can't reject one without rejecting the other.
Libraries don't necessarily enjoy removing materials from the collection, but the two main reasons to do so are to make sure we have current/accurate materials and make room in our always limited shelf space. (The first is of presumably higher importance in an academic library.)
Unless libraries can get an unlimited budget for expansion of their physical space or off-site archives, weeding materials will be a necessary evil.
I'm not worried about my Steam password, I can go change it when I get home, it was fairly complex, and it's not a reused password anywhere else, but how hard would it be to crack these?
For those of us who aren't cryptography experts, does cracking one of the easy passwords (love, password, money) then help crack the more complex ones (m4sT3rm!nd)? I'm guessing this is crypto 101 stuff.
I am glad I no longer store credit card information with steam, and only used PayPal (and have an authentication card attached to my PP account.)
Fortunately, the linked story addresses this, and the author talks about how he'll meet with local officials to get permission before playing fire inspector.
Ubuntu using Wubi is pretty brain dead easy to install. No partitioning required, it lives inside your Windows filesystem and handles adding itself to your boot menu.
Performance is slightly degraded, and bugs can come up with regards to hard reboots, but really it's the best option I know of if you're not running off a USB stick or DVD.
What would be particularly surprising, would be if only one of them was on Slashdot.
It's a Schrodinger's ocean. All quantum-y, you see.
I have one of these already. It's a NETGEAR WNR3500L. I've not seen any impact on my connection quality. Quite the contrary, I've used its reporting functions twice already in trying to get my ISP to track down connection quality issues at their end.
It keeps a running log of your ping, throughput, packet loss, etc. which you can access freely through their website. I was able to use this to document periods of latency spikes and massive packet loss.
I guess if you think the FCC is taking a particularly convoluted route to spy on me, rather than just, tapping in at the ISP itself, you're free to do that. I'll just think you're probably more than a bit daft.
The problem is, when you look at relativity and do the math, time acts just like another dimension. In fact, it has to, or else relativity just won't work.
There's certainly something odd about it (re: thermodynamic arrow of time) but if it looks like a dimension, and quacks like a dimension, it's probably a dimension.
Maybe this is proof that the entirety of existence is merely a simulation in a computer run by a superior race.
After all, our increasing number of dimensions seems to match up with the increasing number of dimensions in video games. (Except Space War and Pong had the decency to skip that entire 1D thing.)
Sure you laugh, but I'm starting to seriously consider the nature of that giant disembodied hand in the sky that periodically gives me orders to gather more vespene gas.
Actually, the other difference is that the atheists are right.
The best part is, book works with the shelves you have at home. No need to get a new storage device.
Really? Because I'm pretty sure they follow a fair approximation of the scientific method.
Looks like a textbook example of the scientific method to me.
In the academic library at which I work, we use student ID cards as stored-value cards to pay for printing in our computer labs. For people who don't have or forgot their student ID, we have some "loaner" cards that they can load money onto to pay for their printing session.
People were not returning the loaner cards after they were done using them, so I printed a new batch in bright pink. The return rate rose dramatically afterwards.