I stopped using CNET a very long time ago. Sourceforge.net and Filehippo.com are about all I trust anymore. This really doesn't surprise me, the reason I stopped using CNET is that I got infected downloading something from their site years ago. The only thing I hate trying to download and find are Microsoft compatible drivers for old hardware companies that have long since bit the dust. I usually try to convince those end users to switch to linux after I confirm the kernel has drivers for their crappy old hardware.
You just don't understand! Hacking is a genetic mutation that only some small percentage of the global population are born with! These mutants have too much power to be trusted! Google obviously intentionally hired these people with the intent of finding out my XBOX 360 MAC address so that they could log into my Kinect and take pictures of my innocent children in their home! Think about the Children! We can't fault the bank if someone with mutant powers could simply walk right through the vault, how can we fault TCP/IP for being vulnerable to mutants?
From my perspective it appears that FDR got us INTO WWII in order to generate revenue by creating the worlds largest military-industrial complex to make it look like his "New Deal" was working when it was actually creating the United State's longest and deepest depression...
The Treasury Department can prioritize payments in order to avoid a default. In addition, the Treasury could sell some of its assets in order to pay the bills. There are approximately $2.6 trillion dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund; those assets can be used to pay benefits. Furthermore, there is already trillions of dollars of interagency debt that counts toward the $14.29 trillion debt limit. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could convert that inter-agency debt into publicly-held debt, preventing not only a technical default but also preventing any delay in government payments. While the Treasury cannot use money from the Social Security Trust Fund, it can “disinvest” from other trust funds to pay for benefits. The Treasury Department could also make cash available from the trust fund by “disinvesting” some of the money used to buy government bonds. The disinvesting approach is a temporary accounting device that would help maintain the Treasury’s cash flow. In other words, the debt ceiling being reached will have little affect on seniors, poor people, veterans, military + their families. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Republicans also offered to raise the debt limit as long as the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill was passed, and it is the president who is failing to compromise with them and is waging a mostly emotional political fight that has little to no basis on facts at the expense of not coming to an agreement in time.
That's what is confusing to me, who are these people who even bother to think or make up theories about "What if you could catch the carrot" once we have proven time and time again that its impossible within the scope of the laws of this universe. That is far less productive than trying to figure out if catching up with the carrot could somehow be forced into happening in the first place.
Your confusing me, I'm just content with knowing that speed of light is always 299 792 458 m/s no matter how fast your going in relation to someone else. Thus, if you launch from earth at 149 896 229 m/s, and you measure light in a vacuum guess what, light is still going 299 792 458 m/s when you measure it. Knowing this, how could you possibly start even thinking about going the speed of light when in reality your no better than a horse trying to catch up to a carrot hanging from a stick on its head?
Your missing my main point but I'll bite... If a country has a magnetic cannon on the moon they do not even need nuclear warheads to cause mass destruction without the use of radiation.
The problem is too many people try to turn the government into a direction of creating new and overreaching entities which have little to no accountability to anyone, i.e. the military, NASA, Social Security, Medicare, ICE, NSA, DEA, ATF etc... Money is a very powerful motivator for creating a larger corpora...err...I mean government;-)
It's because of the Cold War. Republicans want a viable space program to stay ahead of the rest of the world for recon and weaponry. They see national defense as the one and only use for government, and NASA fell under that definition for them as well. This is the real reason why NASA hasn't ventured for the moon since the Russians stopped trying. It was never for science or exploration, rather a race to the best spot to shoot heavy and fast objects on the enemy using a magnetic canon on the moon. The real reason for project constellation is to impede china from re-igniting another cold war space race. If a nation places a moon base and disregards the space treaty it could mean a great tactical advantage in war.
The dysfunction of the Government was planned by the founders. It was intended to prevent the Government from even trying to create huge wasteful programs, because if they have so much trouble with small things why take on huge complex projects with wide-reaching consequences? The dysfunction of government is inherent to all governments, whether under the pretense of one party "cooperative" or "efficient" rule or not. Dysfunction is beneficial as it naturally keeps the government small, and aims toward anarchism as close as possible.
Because when, not if, Hotmail servers are compromised either externally or internally and the account hashes are collected in bulk, one can brute force the hashes all day long since nothing can detect failed attempts once your just running hashes against a text file.
I did not know that the music created by the likes of "Reel Big Fish", "The Clash" or other Ska bands could be used to find intelligent life somewhere...
I find it scary that at the same time as trying to make it unlawful to use encryption that the government doesn't have a "backdoor" into, they are also trying to push "secure" internet voting. Goodbye democracy, we hardly knew you...
Looks like some "research group" a.k.a R&D for a company in the works with this Slusallek guy as the C.E.O.
If that is the case then you can bet that down the line you will see him try to sue WebGL for patent infringement...
Obviously he can't benefit monetarilly from an OpenSource project like WebGL so he makes his own browser based on Firefox which uses HIS proprietary 3D rendering and still wants to call it "Firefox"
A fine patent troll in the making if I may say so myself...
It seems to me that most of the people who complain about the color follow up with a "I'm glad I use Mac OSX or Windows 7" comment.
These people pick apart ubuntu for the color brown but really they would choose anything if they had to.
I wish Canonical wouldn't listen to them though, while I have changed the default theme in the past, I always seem to come back to it. If you really use it you find that the box-shipped brown theme can actually be a lot more visually stunning than people are giving it credit for.
I have always wanted to make a UI based around the actual physical layout of the computer itself. For instance, say you are working on a Optiplex Dell of some sort, I would find it very useful to see a layout not unlike the physical damage indicators you see in Star Wars Podracers. You want to access a file? Click on the hard drive, want to see CPU usage reports? Click on the CPU! Not only would it be a cool UI but it would also be a useful educational tool.
If this could be done it would be awesome. The hardest part would be creating all of the different layouts for all of the differrent computer models.
Hmmm, let’s see here, one device, marketed as a medical device, is made in a heavily government controlled environment where there is much need of tort reform. The other is a repurposed game device with similar components of equal quality where tort reform is not an issue
Sure, a lot has to do with the fact that there is much more demand for the Wii balance board than the Medical Scale, but because of all the bureaucracy and litigation involved in the medical field the price of the medical scale includes not only the equipment’s accuracy and the quality of its components or the demand for such a device, but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. Hospitals and doctors are paying the manufacturer high prices so that the company who makes the device can cover for the likely case that somebody who may have been misdiagnosed and had used the device may try to make a case against the company based on the theory that the improper diagnosis could have been due to a “technical malfunction”. The money that has to be paid when the company gets sued all the time is huge. This cost is passed on to the doctors and hospitals and the cost that the doctors and hospitals incur for the device is passed on to the patient. This contributes to the higher cost of health care which has caused a heavy reliance on health insurance as opposed to people being able to save money for healthcare as they need it and for making health insurance much more expensive.
What is amazing to me is that people who advocate more market tampering and control would have failed to notice that the free market Gaming sector of the economy would be able to generate enough demand to bring down the price for what would otherwise be an obscure piece of medical equipment.
In a controlled market the idea of investing money and resources in gaming devices would have been deemed wasteful and there would never have been this possibility for an incredible price drop.
I'm sorry, but a security study who's report starts off comparing security vulnerabilities in software, to swine flu, a biological virus that kills people, loses all credibility with me right off the start.
They even bring in a little politics by invoking the US president's name...
You are the type of person who would call Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla, "Pirates"
They had "radical piracy-like agendas" Touting dangerous ideas that knowledge, invention, innovation, even energy should be given away for free for the advancement of human civilization.
The RIAA does not protect "poor artists and musicians", they protect themselves, and huge record corporations.
This is why Jamendo and Magnatune are popular with some artists.
Which is why they should ban preloads of commercial software in an anti-trust lawsuit. I would love to see what happens to all of those "Linux is hard to install" Reviews once they have a run at installing windows properly and securely lol.
Not to mention the amount of revolt against Microsoft's high costs!
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I stopped using CNET a very long time ago. Sourceforge.net and Filehippo.com are about all I trust anymore. This really doesn't surprise me, the reason I stopped using CNET is that I got infected downloading something from their site years ago. The only thing I hate trying to download and find are Microsoft compatible drivers for old hardware companies that have long since bit the dust. I usually try to convince those end users to switch to linux after I confirm the kernel has drivers for their crappy old hardware.
I love how civil your arguments are been, Thank You!
You just don't understand! Hacking is a genetic mutation that only some small percentage of the global population are born with! These mutants have too much power to be trusted! Google obviously intentionally hired these people with the intent of finding out my XBOX 360 MAC address so that they could log into my Kinect and take pictures of my innocent children in their home! Think about the Children! We can't fault the bank if someone with mutant powers could simply walk right through the vault, how can we fault TCP/IP for being vulnerable to mutants?
From my perspective it appears that FDR got us INTO WWII in order to generate revenue by creating the worlds largest military-industrial complex to make it look like his "New Deal" was working when it was actually creating the United State's longest and deepest depression...
The Treasury Department can prioritize payments in order to avoid a default. In addition, the Treasury could sell some of its assets in order to pay the bills. There are approximately $2.6 trillion dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund; those assets can be used to pay benefits. Furthermore, there is already trillions of dollars of interagency debt that counts toward the $14.29 trillion debt limit. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could convert that inter-agency debt into publicly-held debt, preventing not only a technical default but also preventing any delay in government payments. While the Treasury cannot use money from the Social Security Trust Fund, it can “disinvest” from other trust funds to pay for benefits. The Treasury Department could also make cash available from the trust fund by “disinvesting” some of the money used to buy government bonds. The disinvesting approach is a temporary accounting device that would help maintain the Treasury’s cash flow. In other words, the debt ceiling being reached will have little affect on seniors, poor people, veterans, military + their families. Also, if I'm not mistaken, Republicans also offered to raise the debt limit as long as the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill was passed, and it is the president who is failing to compromise with them and is waging a mostly emotional political fight that has little to no basis on facts at the expense of not coming to an agreement in time.
Has it been completely demagnetized?
That's what is confusing to me, who are these people who even bother to think or make up theories about "What if you could catch the carrot" once we have proven time and time again that its impossible within the scope of the laws of this universe. That is far less productive than trying to figure out if catching up with the carrot could somehow be forced into happening in the first place.
Your confusing me, I'm just content with knowing that speed of light is always 299 792 458 m/s no matter how fast your going in relation to someone else. Thus, if you launch from earth at 149 896 229 m/s, and you measure light in a vacuum guess what, light is still going 299 792 458 m/s when you measure it. Knowing this, how could you possibly start even thinking about going the speed of light when in reality your no better than a horse trying to catch up to a carrot hanging from a stick on its head?
Your missing my main point but I'll bite... If a country has a magnetic cannon on the moon they do not even need nuclear warheads to cause mass destruction without the use of radiation.
The problem is too many people try to turn the government into a direction of creating new and overreaching entities which have little to no accountability to anyone, i.e. the military, NASA, Social Security, Medicare, ICE, NSA, DEA, ATF etc... Money is a very powerful motivator for creating a larger corpora...err...I mean government ;-)
It's because of the Cold War. Republicans want a viable space program to stay ahead of the rest of the world for recon and weaponry. They see national defense as the one and only use for government, and NASA fell under that definition for them as well. This is the real reason why NASA hasn't ventured for the moon since the Russians stopped trying. It was never for science or exploration, rather a race to the best spot to shoot heavy and fast objects on the enemy using a magnetic canon on the moon. The real reason for project constellation is to impede china from re-igniting another cold war space race. If a nation places a moon base and disregards the space treaty it could mean a great tactical advantage in war.
The dysfunction of the Government was planned by the founders. It was intended to prevent the Government from even trying to create huge wasteful programs, because if they have so much trouble with small things why take on huge complex projects with wide-reaching consequences? The dysfunction of government is inherent to all governments, whether under the pretense of one party "cooperative" or "efficient" rule or not. Dysfunction is beneficial as it naturally keeps the government small, and aims toward anarchism as close as possible.
So THIS is the real reason for the FBI roundup, I didn't think it was simply because of "The Sun".
Because when, not if, Hotmail servers are compromised either externally or internally and the account hashes are collected in bulk, one can brute force the hashes all day long since nothing can detect failed attempts once your just running hashes against a text file.
I did not know that the music created by the likes of "Reel Big Fish", "The Clash" or other Ska bands could be used to find intelligent life somewhere...
I find it scary that at the same time as trying to make it unlawful to use encryption that the government doesn't have a "backdoor" into, they are also trying to push "secure" internet voting. Goodbye democracy, we hardly knew you...
Looks like some "research group" a.k.a R&D for a company in the works with this Slusallek guy as the C.E.O.
If that is the case then you can bet that down the line you will see him try to sue WebGL for patent infringement...
Obviously he can't benefit monetarilly from an OpenSource project like WebGL so he makes his own browser based on Firefox which uses HIS proprietary 3D rendering and still wants to call it "Firefox"
A fine patent troll in the making if I may say so myself...
It seems to me that most of the people who complain about the color follow up with a "I'm glad I use Mac OSX or Windows 7" comment.
These people pick apart ubuntu for the color brown but really they would choose anything if they had to.
I wish Canonical wouldn't listen to them though, while I have changed the default theme in the past, I always seem to come back to it. If you really use it you find that the box-shipped brown theme can actually be a lot more visually stunning than people are giving it credit for.
I have always wanted to make a UI based around the actual physical layout of the computer itself. For instance, say you are working on a Optiplex Dell of some sort, I would find it very useful to see a layout not unlike the physical damage indicators you see in Star Wars Podracers. You want to access a file? Click on the hard drive, want to see CPU usage reports? Click on the CPU! Not only would it be a cool UI but it would also be a useful educational tool.
If this could be done it would be awesome. The hardest part would be creating all of the different layouts for all of the differrent computer models.
Hmmm, let’s see here, one device, marketed as a medical device, is made in a heavily government controlled environment where there is much need of tort reform. The other is a repurposed game device with similar components of equal quality where tort reform is not an issue
Sure, a lot has to do with the fact that there is much more demand for the Wii balance board than the Medical Scale, but because of all the bureaucracy and litigation involved in the medical field the price of the medical scale includes not only the equipment’s accuracy and the quality of its components or the demand for such a device, but also the insurance the manufacturer has to carry in case something goes wrong. Hospitals and doctors are paying the manufacturer high prices so that the company who makes the device can cover for the likely case that somebody who may have been misdiagnosed and had used the device may try to make a case against the company based on the theory that the improper diagnosis could have been due to a “technical malfunction”. The money that has to be paid when the company gets sued all the time is huge. This cost is passed on to the doctors and hospitals and the cost that the doctors and hospitals incur for the device is passed on to the patient. This contributes to the higher cost of health care which has caused a heavy reliance on health insurance as opposed to people being able to save money for healthcare as they need it and for making health insurance much more expensive.
What is amazing to me is that people who advocate more market tampering and control would have failed to notice that the free market Gaming sector of the economy would be able to generate enough demand to bring down the price for what would otherwise be an obscure piece of medical equipment.
In a controlled market the idea of investing money and resources in gaming devices would have been deemed wasteful and there would never have been this possibility for an incredible price drop.
laissez-faire FTW.
I'm sorry, but a security study who's report starts off comparing security vulnerabilities in software, to swine flu, a biological virus that kills people, loses all credibility with me right off the start. They even bring in a little politics by invoking the US president's name...
You are the type of person who would call Benjamin Franklin and Nikola Tesla, "Pirates"
They had "radical piracy-like agendas" Touting dangerous ideas that knowledge, invention, innovation, even energy should be given away for free for the advancement of human civilization.
The RIAA does not protect "poor artists and musicians", they protect themselves, and huge record corporations.
This is why Jamendo and Magnatune are popular with some artists.
On the linked site there are comments like "Yeah, people are looking for more Help running ubuntu"
And they search XP for what, kicks and giggles?
More people asking for help mean more people are using it, just as people ask google for answers to their XP problems every day!
Which is why they should ban preloads of commercial software in an anti-trust lawsuit. I would love to see what happens to all of those "Linux is hard to install" Reviews once they have a run at installing windows properly and securely lol.
Not to mention the amount of revolt against Microsoft's high costs!
Man-in-the-middle attack
Apache-SSL 1.3.28+1.52 and all earlier versions permit a client to use real basic authentication to forge a client certificate.
BTW, this has been patched, but there are still vulnerabillities...