If we are going to patent things, then I would like to patent "salted" domain names.
1) User enters URL 2) Browser obtains DNS for www.hardcore.com 3) Browser "salts" domain name (eg. "www.hardcore.com" becomes www.War3Nop3.com) 4) Browser sends request 5) Web server "desalts" (through plugin) and finds that its www.hardcore.com website matches 6) Web server sends www.hardcore.com data
Some extra overhead -- but not much. Needs a bit of tuning, but voila. Of course, we could also just use HTTPS instead.
So what does this do? And why is it installed? Any when I try to get rid of it, why does it re-installs itself?
I had to kill it, remove it with msconfig, and then delete the "AT/" script that they installed to automatically re-install it when somebody removed it.
Pure spyware , bet the browser isn't much different.
The main reason for using it seems to be its faster Javascript engine, at it sure isn't crash proof either.
And although her creator is dead -- Eliza is the first AI who will live on, restarted over-and-over again for all eternity by CS / AI & Phych students.
There is something profoundly deep in that -- but I am not getting it.
10 Euro a day makes sense for business travelers. Sure the locals know where the wireless hotspots are. But if you are on on business trip abroad you don't get access to any locally offered monthly discount packages. You just want to make sure you have access in a taxi, during a lunch meeting or sitting in the hotel lobby. Convenience matters more than spending an hour locating a rundown Internet cafe.
This is aimed at the GSM global roaming crowd who need to access the Internet wherever they are and it competes against the rates set by the business class hotels.
It is also aimed at GSM operators worldwide (think Asia) who won't mind cashing in an extra 10 Euro from each business visitor on their network. A lot of them already have the network capability in place. What is missing is making it easy for "rich" foreign roamers to add to their bottom line. Hence Ericson dreaming up "global Internet roaming" ; which is just a way to charge for roaming Internet users.
Expect free wireless Internet to disappear from airports worldwide quickly as the local telecoms finally figure out how to make money from it.
When will people realize that not everything that can be done online should be done online. The article is very light on details one of the big reasons I won't even try Google Apps is because all the files are located on Googles servers and I wouldn't have any control over them. The only detail the article does mention is that this "Live" office has Office 2003's look and feel. OpenOffice is free and has Office 2003's "look" and yet it hasn't replaced MS Office, google apps is free and hasn't replaced MS Office.
Despite having used computers on a daily basis for the past 10 or more years, my dear wife is just not the right person to have to fiddle with USB sticks to carry her documents around, e-mail them to herself etc. She works both at home, in the office, and whenever we are visiting our parents and have a space hour or so. She is one of these people who only need indented lists, bold, italics and headings.
These days, she logs in to her Google account, and continues typing ; minimal hassle and my life is easier than ever.
How about nuclear weapons security? The first thing everyone said when that bomber crossed the US was "this is impossible" ; "there are so many layers of protection to avoid this"; "we have insane levels of highly structured protocols to make this highly unlikely"
Turns out that the field people decided to "optimize" things a little bit to be able to get some work done before they went off-shift.
Funny, makes you wonder how serious you have to take the statements saying "even if they dropped them, they would have been unarmed and harmless" , "there are many layers of protection build to avoid it going 'life'"
Ah, but you're forgetting: Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's a reverse-engineered clone of the Win32 APIs, running natively on Linux. When you run a Windows game on Wine, the game is actually running natively, on your hardware, using Win32 API calls, just like it runs on Windows... except it's not running on Windows. So, there should be no performance hit at all, and memory usage shouldn't be any higher.
(Disclaimer: I've never used Wine and have no idea what I'm talking about.) The problem for games comes in the form of DirectX (7,8,9) which Linux of course does not have a native version off. So WINE can't just call the equivalent operating system functions; and instead has to build a bridge through OpenGL; which IS supported by the video driver. This gives a performance hit as of course you try to refresh the screen
as often as possible for a smooth experience; and that is a lot of function calling.
If I play Eve Online under Wine, I get about 30-40 fps ; while under Windows the same hardware would get about 70-100fps (depending on the level of complexity of the screen).
Still I am amazed it works at all -- Wine has come a LONG way since the early days, and its two week release schedule makes continues improvements pretty aggressively.
After spending the last 20 odd year's playing Metal of Honor ; and thus being suitably "trained" the American infantry will drop into Normandy, make a big mess of the coast and head for Berlin at high speed; reaching the operational "goal" in less than 24 hours as they can just take the train instead of grunting it out by foot.
The French will barely notice ; but the Germans will wonder why Checkpoint Charlie was rebuild overnight.Berlin disco's will put on a "retro" 40's theme.
The European Union will then spend the next six months debating who will pay for the environmental damage done to the French coast and whether or not the shrimp industry qualifies for subsidies.
My NVIDIA setup runs two screens without any problems.
Done this ages ago, the setup was only a few lines. Ok, granted, not as user friendly as doing the same in XP.
Dumbest thing I ever did however was to get two monitors of different sizes -- it looks cool in double screen mode, but I miss pieces on the second screen.
I usually play EVE windowed on one screen, and firefox/whatever on the other.
Laugh all you want, but EVE online runs mighty fine in either Wine (or still a bit better) Cedega. And what does one really want in life besides freaking big spaceships with overpowered laser cannons? Maybe just play WOW ?
And I can't even switch to XP because then the kids will complain that the NFS server is down;-)
I would happily help the Government slaughter half the population if that had the smallest chance of stopping this madness..... This can be arranged -- through help of a little alien intervention and a death ray.
I think Linux has always had this "everything at the same time" feeling to it; so things move ever so slowly. Some languish, some die, sometimes people get angry about it and things get fixed. So many people pulling in different directions ; many projects died but their best ideas live on.
It used to be a nightmare to configure hardware -- its now easier than installing XP on a Vista machine. X had (and has) so many problems it wasn't funny; but these days you can click around for days and it mostly just works. Wine was a joke for years -- but I can run my favorite online (DirectX) games at decent frame rates and progress is fast. For years it felt like all Linux coders lived in the USA; now proper Unicode support & multi language support make for example Chinese/Japanese input much easier.
Linux is a giant wave always moving slightly behind the edge, companies can make money by living on the bleeding edge. But slowly all of them get washed away.
I do not see why people actually get upset about this. How you ever seen dynamic democracy in action? Taiwan does a great job of making sure that it is #1 all the time.
Come on, you have to keep those Taiwanese manufacturers busy!
USB to Serial dongle USB to Parallel dongle
Quite nice actually, one little USB hub on the right spot, and just one tiny cable to the PC.
And yes, I am buy my laser printers second hand; the LaserJet 6MP is perfectly fine for most purposes, and good, low page count second hands go for little money.
All nice and orwellian; but actually these camera's are watching the traffic wardens. So instead of just quietly slipping into civy street wear, and drinking the afternoon away in the pub they are now part of the city wide CCTV network. No more quickly at the struck of five just ticketing the whole street outside the pub and getting your quota.
And then there is the boss screaming on the walkie-talkie -- robbers, robbers, i want visuals, get a moveable camera^H^H^H^H^H warden to stand in the middle of traffic at Charring Cross...
As someone who is less than 48 hours away from a completed thesis Ph.D. thesis and a little over a week away from my defense, there is only one thing I have to say about this.
First thing that struck my mind when reading this -- you did make sure to backup recently?
You might actually already have seen the best format ever in BlueRay / HD-DVD-- for at least another 20 years.
Online delivery will be much like what MP3's did to those caring about audio quality, instead of going to a higher fidelity format it will go to low bandwidth, high compression (eg. much worse picture quality). But who cares when you can have any movie produced in the last 100 years directly accessible from the (pick a name) Apple iMovie website? That is the kind of choice my local videostore doesn't deliver (which basically has some big names, a good kiddie section, and a couple of slasher shelves). I do have a quickish & unlimited (read a 650Mb ISO takes 10 mins around these waters, and there are no caps) ADSL line, so here is me hoping.
Now the USA seems to have this mail order video store business -- but something like this is not available around where i live; and the video pirates only have the latest holywood trash. I read a lot of overseas newspapers -- and some of the movies reviewed sound positively interesting but without shelling out big $$$ at Amazon + international shipping there is no way of getting to see them.
The Economist itself is one of the few fine print magazines that does not have to worry about going extinct anytime soon, but I second this-- the website and its pathetic implementation, not to mention the "submit your ideas, we will give you a honorable mention" fall far short of what I expect from the Economist.
They gathered their most notorious underachievers in one spot -- and set them up to hang themselves?
Potentially good idea -- but so far looks pretty shitty.
I think it would be nice for MY kids to carry a portable notepad, encyclopedia, communicator with them to school that is near impossible to break even when on school trips. Current laptops don't qualify ; so far a pen & pencil is superior in every way.
If introduced in the now neglected "first" world, this could spur development of a huge quantity of educational materials. (Eg. Wikipedia, but with animated examples and at different levels of difficulty (eg. for pre-schoolers to PHD's) which in turn would be also available as a basis for the third world projects that still need to develop their digital education materials (but probably cannot afford to spend millions getting this done from scratch) . OLPC needs to handle this carefully, it has lots of potential, but without the backstory (eg. the education materials) its just a green box of wires.
Sounds like the beginning of the Diamond age here...
I see a great gray/black market develop -- US$ 100 devices given out by truckload that can be resold in the 1st world for 2-3 times that price. So expect a few truckloads to go "missing".
It worked for donated clothing, it got dumped in such quantities that an industry picking the valuable items out for resale in second hand shops in the 1st world sprung up.
Queue Nigerian spam -- my late husband's private container of OLPC computers got stuck in Rotterdam...
Ok, the story as I understand it now, or at least as far as it is reported in the various press releases.
NewLine has limited time left to produce the Hobbit, before the movie rights return back to another company. Peter Jackson is suing New Line because their own audit of Fellowship of the Ring came up with figures that didn't match what NewLine paid to them. Their contract has regulations for this , and since NewLine refuses give more insight into their accounting, they are left with a courtcase.
NewLine then tried to get Peter Jackson to drop the lawsuit by telling him "drop the lawsuit, and you can make the hobbit". This was refused by PJ in a public letter, who stated that he wouldn't want to invest time and efford into a new project while the courtcase is still unresolved.
NewLine can now make a Hobbit without PJ, or do nothing and see the rights to a valuable movie franchise revert to its previous owners within the not too far future.
Meanwhile, MGM holds the distribution rights for the Hobbit, and has already said on record that they would want Peter Jackson to direct the film.
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If we are going to patent things, then I would like to patent "salted" domain names.
1) User enters URL
2) Browser obtains DNS for www.hardcore.com
3) Browser "salts" domain name (eg. "www.hardcore.com" becomes www.War3Nop3.com)
4) Browser sends request
5) Web server "desalts" (through plugin) and finds that its www.hardcore.com website matches
6) Web server sends www.hardcore.com data
Some extra overhead -- but not much. Needs a bit of tuning, but voila. Of course, we could also just use HTTPS instead.
(1) GoogleUpdate.exe
Chrome comes for free with GoogleUpdate.exe
So what does this do? And why is it installed? Any when I try to get rid of it, why does it re-installs itself?
I had to kill it, remove it with msconfig, and then delete the "AT /" script that they installed to automatically re-install it when somebody removed it.
Pure spyware , bet the browser isn't much different.
The main reason for using it seems to be its faster Javascript engine, at it sure isn't crash proof either.
Then try to get Firefox to start up with the original profile. You might be able to automatically login to his Gmail/Hotmail etc accounts.
And although her creator is dead -- Eliza is the first AI who will live on, restarted over-and-over again for all eternity by CS / AI & Phych students.
There is something profoundly deep in that -- but I am not getting it.
10 Euro a day makes sense for business travelers. Sure the locals know where the wireless hotspots are. But if you are on on business trip abroad you don't get access to any locally offered monthly discount packages. You just want to make sure you have access in a taxi, during a lunch meeting or sitting in the hotel lobby. Convenience matters more than spending an hour locating a rundown Internet cafe.
This is aimed at the GSM global roaming crowd who need to access the Internet wherever they are and it competes against the rates set by the business class hotels.
It is also aimed at GSM operators worldwide (think Asia) who won't mind cashing in an extra 10 Euro from each business visitor on their network. A lot of them already have the network capability in place. What is missing is making it easy for "rich" foreign roamers to add to their bottom line. Hence Ericson dreaming up "global Internet roaming" ; which is just a way to charge for roaming Internet users.
Expect free wireless Internet to disappear from airports worldwide quickly as the local telecoms finally figure out how to make money from it.
When will people realize that not everything that can be done online should be done online. The article is very light on details one of the big reasons I won't even try Google Apps is because all the files are located on Googles servers and I wouldn't have any control over them. The only detail the article does mention is that this "Live" office has Office 2003's look and feel. OpenOffice is free and has Office 2003's "look" and yet it hasn't replaced MS Office, google apps is free and hasn't replaced MS Office.
Despite having used computers on a daily basis for the past 10 or more years, my dear wife is just not the right person to have to fiddle with USB sticks to carry her documents around, e-mail them to herself etc. She works both at home, in the office, and whenever we are visiting our parents and have a space hour or so. She is one of these people who only need indented lists, bold, italics and headings.
These days, she logs in to her Google account, and continues typing ; minimal hassle and my life is easier than ever.
How about nuclear weapons security? The first thing everyone said when that bomber crossed the US was
"this is impossible" ; "there are so many layers of protection to avoid this"; "we have insane levels of highly structured protocols to make this highly unlikely"
Turns out that the field people decided to "optimize" things a little bit to be able to get some work done before they went off-shift.
Funny, makes you wonder how serious you have to take the statements saying "even if they dropped them, they would have been unarmed and harmless" , "there are many layers of protection build to avoid it going 'life'"
After spending the last 20 odd year's playing Metal of Honor ; and thus being suitably "trained"
the American infantry will drop into Normandy, make a big mess of the coast and head for Berlin at high speed; reaching the operational "goal" in less than 24 hours as they can just take the train instead of grunting it out by foot.
The French will barely notice ; but the Germans will wonder why Checkpoint Charlie was rebuild overnight.Berlin disco's will put on a "retro" 40's theme.
The European Union will then spend the next six months debating who will pay for the environmental damage done to the French coast and whether or not the shrimp industry qualifies for subsidies.
My NVIDIA setup runs two screens without any problems.
Done this ages ago, the setup was only a few lines. Ok, granted, not as user friendly as doing the same in XP.
Dumbest thing I ever did however was to get two monitors of different sizes -- it looks cool in double screen mode, but I miss pieces on the second screen.
I usually play EVE windowed on one screen, and firefox/whatever on the other.
Laugh all you want, but EVE online runs mighty fine in either Wine (or still a bit better) Cedega. And what does one really want in life besides freaking big spaceships with overpowered laser cannons? Maybe just play WOW ?
And I can't even switch to XP because then the kids will complain that the NFS server is down ;-)
Would you like to kill (a) all woman (b) all men?
I think Linux has always had this "everything at the same time" feeling to it; so things move ever so slowly. Some languish, some die, sometimes people get angry about it and things get fixed. So many people pulling in different directions ; many projects died but their best ideas live on.
It used to be a nightmare to configure hardware -- its now easier than installing XP on a Vista machine. X had (and has) so many problems it wasn't funny; but these days you can click around for days and it mostly just works. Wine was a joke for years -- but I can run my favorite online (DirectX) games at decent frame rates and progress is fast. For years it felt like all Linux coders lived in the USA; now proper Unicode support & multi language support make for example Chinese/Japanese input much easier.
Linux is a giant wave always moving slightly behind the edge, companies can make money by living on the bleeding edge. But slowly all of them get washed away.
I do not see why people actually get upset about this. How you ever seen dynamic democracy in
action? Taiwan does a great job of making sure that it is #1 all the time.
Taiwanese parliament discussion, round #3
Yawn. Giving another MP the finger, falling asleep, that is just for countries where being an MP means skipping PE at school. Lazy overpaid gits.
Come on, you have to keep those Taiwanese manufacturers busy!
USB to Serial dongle
USB to Parallel dongle
Quite nice actually, one little USB hub on the right spot, and just one tiny cable to the PC.
And yes, I am buy my laser printers second hand; the LaserJet 6MP is perfectly fine for most
purposes, and good, low page count second hands go for little money.
Since its SMC making these phones let me balance this marketing advantage a little.
I actually own on of their phones ; bought it on a whim. The idea is neat -- a wireless Skype phone.
But the battery is so bad that it basically needs to be plugged in to make a phonecall.
And the user interface is very slow, making my 5 year old Nokia phone look like a speed freak.
So, it attempts to look like a mobile phone -- it just lacks about 15 years of engineering by
Ericsson / Nokia on energy saving and usability.
You need a lock picker to do a break in.. do we need to spell it out?
No idea whether the intended break-in target was Dunking Donuts or not.
All nice and orwellian; but actually these camera's are watching the traffic wardens. So instead of just quietly slipping into civy street wear, and drinking the afternoon away in the pub they are now part of the city wide CCTV network. No more quickly at the struck of five just ticketing the whole street outside the pub and getting your quota.
And then there is the boss screaming on the walkie-talkie -- robbers, robbers, i want visuals, get a moveable camera^H^H^H^H^H warden to stand in the middle of traffic at Charring Cross...
Takes the fun right out a job that does.
As someone who is less than 48 hours away from a completed thesis Ph.D. thesis and a little over a week away from my defense, there is only one thing I have to say about this.
First thing that struck my mind when reading this -- you did make sure to backup recently?
You might actually already have seen the best format ever in BlueRay / HD-DVD-- for at least another 20 years.
Online delivery will be much like what MP3's did to those caring about audio quality, instead of going to a higher fidelity format it will go to low bandwidth, high compression (eg. much worse picture quality). But who cares when you can have any movie produced in the last 100 years directly accessible from the (pick a name) Apple iMovie website? That is the kind of choice my local videostore doesn't deliver (which basically has some big names, a good kiddie section, and a couple of slasher shelves). I do have a quickish & unlimited (read a 650Mb ISO takes 10 mins around these waters, and there are no caps) ADSL line, so here is me hoping.
Now the USA seems to have this mail order video store business -- but something like this is not available around where i live; and the video pirates only have the latest holywood trash. I read a lot of overseas newspapers -- and some of the movies reviewed sound positively interesting but without shelling out big $$$ at Amazon + international shipping there is no way of getting to see them.
The Economist itself is one of the few fine print magazines that does not have to worry about going extinct anytime soon, but I second this-- the website and its pathetic implementation, not to mention the "submit your ideas, we will give you a honorable mention" fall far short of what I expect from the Economist.
They gathered their most notorious underachievers in one spot -- and set them up to hang themselves?
Potentially good idea -- but so far looks pretty shitty.
I think it would be nice for MY kids to carry a portable notepad, encyclopedia, communicator with them to school that is near impossible to break even when on school trips. Current laptops don't qualify ; so far a pen & pencil is superior in every way.
If introduced in the now neglected "first" world, this could spur development of a huge quantity of educational materials. (Eg. Wikipedia, but with animated examples and at different levels of difficulty (eg. for pre-schoolers to PHD's) which in turn would be also available as a basis for the third world projects that still need to develop their digital education materials (but probably cannot afford to spend millions getting this done from scratch) . OLPC needs to handle this carefully, it has lots of potential, but without the backstory (eg. the education materials) its just a green box of wires.
Sounds like the beginning of the Diamond age here...
I see a great gray/black market develop -- US$ 100 devices given out by truckload that can be resold in the 1st world for 2-3 times that price. So expect a few truckloads to go "missing".
It worked for donated clothing, it got dumped in such quantities that an industry picking the valuable items out for resale in second hand shops in the 1st world sprung up.
Queue Nigerian spam -- my late husband's private container of OLPC computers got stuck in Rotterdam...
Ok, the story as I understand it now, or at least as far as it is reported in the various press releases.
NewLine has limited time left to produce the Hobbit, before the movie rights return back to another company. Peter Jackson is suing New Line because their own audit of Fellowship of the Ring came up with figures that didn't match what NewLine paid to them. Their contract has regulations for this , and since NewLine refuses give more insight into their accounting, they are left with a courtcase.
NewLine then tried to get Peter Jackson to drop the lawsuit by telling him "drop the lawsuit, and you can make the hobbit". This was refused by PJ in a public letter, who stated that he wouldn't want to invest time and efford into a new project while the courtcase is still unresolved.
NewLine can now make a Hobbit without PJ, or do nothing and see the rights to a valuable movie franchise revert to its previous owners within the not too far future.
Meanwhile, MGM holds the distribution rights for the Hobbit, and has already said on record that they would want Peter Jackson to direct the film.
(and as for whom owns what, Google the details)
So how do you intend to get money out of leachers?
I though the whole point of the Pirate Bay was that they got everything for free?
Next RIAA tactic -- sue all honary citizens of Sealand.