You don't have to write down the password and put it on a public announcement board. Write down your passwords on a scrap of paper. Don't include any username/system information on the same scrap. Make a few systematic errors in the written down passwords (eg. switch capitalization on the second letter). Put that scrap of paper in your wallet.
Now, many passwords you use daily you'll remember anyway. Looking up more rarely used ones shouldn't be a problem, since you probably have some kind of idea which of the written down password works for which account. If your wallet is lost/stolen, there is no info for which systems/usernames the passwords work, and they won't work out-of-the-box anyway./p
True, but this data is usually a small nonexistent alley or something. I doubt they add or remove highway ramps or do other things that harm the navigation. On purpose that is.
As another openmoko user I can sadly confirm that (for me) it doesn't work as a primary phone. I tried to do it several times with different distributions, but it just never worked well enough, even with android
If didn't randomly stop accepting calls and SMSs now and then, I might have used it. But in addition to that, the audio wasn't good, and the interface was slow, and you should never completely let if be discharged, since then you couldn't charge the battery anymore.
Now I just use a normal phone, but I guess MeeGo will be my next shot. Maemo5 already looks really nice.
This happened with quantum entanglement effects, where someone may have told a journalist (when working on first principles of entanglement, or an early experiment) that "this works as if we have teleported the particle from one side to the other"; the journalist turned that to "Physicists discover Star Trek-style teleportation!!!".
If one needs wifi only, one can probably pick up a N810 for pretty cheaply nowadays. Skype works nicely on it, and in my experience one can even get decent battery life.
Haha, don't worry, I didn't take offence to what you said, and as you said we're a Nordic, but not Scandinavian country. And I do agree that there's a distinct difference between Scandinavia and Finland. Also the fact that Finland was part of Russia (well some some finns like saying Russia was a part of Finland) did of course have an impact on our culture. I don't directly disagree with your other points either, but I think things might not be quite that drastic.
But my main point is that at least nowadays, I think Finland's culture is closer to Scandinavian than Russian. It's probably been getting closer for a long time. But having spent time in all the Nordic countries and Russia and Estonia, and meeting a lot of people from them, imho the difference between Scandinavia and Finland is there, but it's not that big. Compared to Swedes and Norwegians, Russians are alien to me (generalizing of course).
We still love you, Finland, we're just not the same.
To feed your fire, I just have to say, we tough finnish men don't need love. Or at least show it;).
P.S. Finland is not Scandinavian because of its ethnic, historical and cultural background. In my opinion Finland has much more in common with its eastern neighbor, Russia, and the Baltic states.
As a finn I just have to say, uhm, what? Sure, we have higher suicide rates and alcohol consumption than sweden, but that's about it. Oh, and we don't have Burger King. Otherwise while Sweden and Finland aren't indistinguishable, they are far closer than Finland vs. baltic countries, or especially Russia.
No, I'm just saying that the original statement was misinterpreted.
Both myself and the GP disagree.
That is your right
No, we were arguing how speed affects safety. If you take that into extremes, it'll result in that. If you're a bit more reasonable, it says that the idiots who speed 20 [insert unit] over the limit are much more dangerous that people going 5 [insert unit] over the limit.
Of course. It's a higher delta. Just as someone going 20 slower is more dangerous than someone going 5 faster.
Well there is litte or no evidence of that. 5 faster might be much more dangerous than 20 slower.
the evidence shows that the risk of having a crash is increased both for vehicles traveling slower than the average speed, and for those traveling above the average speed.
So let me get this right. You're arguing the point that the GP already conceded was wrong?
No, I'm just saying that the original statement was misinterpreted.
If you want to cut down on accidents have police focus on following distance. Ticket the crap out of that. Media campaign the crap out of that. If everyone is properly spaced the number of accidents will be reduced. The problem is that it's completely against human nature.
Yes I agree that that would help, but the distance you need to have is also greatly affeced by the speed you're going.
Your argument results in everyone going 5 mph. since it's impossible to get hurt at that speed.
No, we were arguing how speed affects safety. If you take that into extremes, it'll result in that. If you're a bit more reasonable, it says that the idiots who speed 20 [insert unit] over the limit are much more dangerous that people going 5 [insert unit] over the limit.
But it IS artificially blocking all content IS the old way of thinking.
That doesn't even make sense with what I said.
Yes, I did misunderstand a bit. Mainly I assumed that the GGPS post about a few years of control by content providers actually meant current style (or worse) strong DRM and strict enforcement, which I see wasn't the point.
If you take away their ability to make a profit, they will stop making movies, music, games, and books.
If you're talking about MAFIAA then yesplease thankyoukindlywherecanisignup? It would improve the variety of all media worldwide. But on a more serious note, sure, artists should be able to make profit. But it IS artificially blocking all content IS the old way of thinking. Ger revenue from moviegoers, concerts, even having a good online store where you can buy it for a reasonable amount and use it the way you want. And have artists get that revenue. I guess the main point is try to be innovative for a change, and plese your customers.
Your evidence clearly states everyone going really fast is just as safe as everyone going really slow. It also states that not speeding can be dangerous.
Well if you really read what it said you'd see that you're mistaken. GP said that the risk increased both when going too slow and going too fast. The relative risks were not mentioned, but he even said "That most crashes related to speed involve speed too fast for the conditions", which indicated that speeding is a bigger reason for crashes than going too slow.
In addition to that, the consequences of having a crash with higher speeds are a lot worse. This means that going really fast is much much more dangerous than going really slow.
This is once again one of those numbers that will be thrown around by IP holders to get attention from the politicians. And yet the study does the same idiotic assumption as all the other ones.
Saying one download is one lost sale is idiotic. It has never been true and never will be. It's probably off by at least a factor of 10. And haven't many studies already shown (well, at least with music) that the people who pirate are also the people who buy the most?
The only technical advantage Xen enjoys right now is a lack of dependency on hardware virtualization features. Since it's impossible to buy a new machine that you can call a server with a straight face that lacks hardware virtualization, this is meaningless in the enterprise world, but Fedora (like other community distros) has a much broader scope, so there's still a real chance there for necessity to give birth to more invention, much like it did in the early days of Xen when x86 hardware virtualization was still a whisper in the halls at Intel and AMD.
I do agree with the post in general, but I wouldn't belittle the fact that XEN doesn't need hardware support. I have already been affected by the dropping of xen from distributions. I do work in academia, so I have to work with older, but completely functional machines.
We've tried to set up our own interal eucalyptus cloud, but ran into trouble when it wanted to use KVM by default (can't recall which installation this was). Also for other basic virtual machines, we'd need HW support, which we don't have in most machines.
While I'd gladly use KVM instead of XEN, I can't and I think I'm not the only one. I welcome the avaliability of xen, and think dropping support for it is a bit premature
Yup, the move to Xen4 is pretty interesting. Most other distros go towards KVM, and I tell you, it's not completely trivial to run xen on Ubuntu 10.04. At least stable production systems.
I know.. KVM shoud be better and all that, but that still needs the HW support. This makes reusing older HW tricky.
A whopping three Apple articles out of the last 26, and two are from a developing story about a lost iPhone prototype. You people claiming Slashdot is full of Apple articles are full of shit.
Ok, look at the list, and see, how many stories there are about other software/hardware vendors? Compared to other companies, yes,/. is full of Apple news.
Actually, I needed a cheque once (France... yes the only place here that still uses them?), and my bank (actually two, in different countries) were a bit confused and said that they really don't do that kind of thing. Other than that, I think the last time I saw them were in the mid 80's. So no, in many countries you can't talk your banks into it.
I can't believe that tethering is (still) an issue. I was doing it in Finland 7 years ago using gprs with a monthly flat rate of something like 20$ (for the monthly flat rate, tethering was just there..) . It's seriously fudged up that you still have to fight for it with some manufacturers/operators. This attitude pretty much the main reason I dislike (well, loathe) Apple.
Are there any ideas how moving to webkit affects using Steam over Wine? Now I manage to get the basic Steam installed, but buying games or downloading demos just doesn't work. Let's hope these changes help with that too.
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You don't have to write down the password and put it on a public announcement board. Write down your passwords on a scrap of paper. Don't include any username/system information on the same scrap. Make a few systematic errors in the written down passwords (eg. switch capitalization on the second letter). Put that scrap of paper in your wallet.
Now, many passwords you use daily you'll remember anyway. Looking up more rarely used ones shouldn't be a problem, since you probably have some kind of idea which of the written down password works for which account. If your wallet is lost/stolen, there is no info for which systems/usernames the passwords work, and they won't work out-of-the-box anyway./p
True, but this data is usually a small nonexistent alley or something. I doubt they add or remove highway ramps or do other things that harm the navigation. On purpose that is.
As another openmoko user I can sadly confirm that (for me) it doesn't work as a primary phone. I tried to do it several times with different distributions, but it just never worked well enough, even with android
If didn't randomly stop accepting calls and SMSs now and then, I might have used it. But in addition to that, the audio wasn't good, and the interface was slow, and you should never completely let if be discharged, since then you couldn't charge the battery anymore.
Now I just use a normal phone, but I guess MeeGo will be my next shot. Maemo5 already looks really nice.
This happened with quantum entanglement effects, where someone may have told a journalist (when working on first principles of entanglement, or an early experiment) that "this works as if we have teleported the particle from one side to the other"; the journalist turned that to "Physicists discover Star Trek-style teleportation!!!".
As always, there's an xkcd for that http://xkcd.com/465/
If one needs wifi only, one can probably pick up a N810 for pretty cheaply nowadays. Skype works nicely on it, and in my experience one can even get decent battery life.
Haha, don't worry, I didn't take offence to what you said, and as you said we're a Nordic, but not Scandinavian country. And I do agree that there's a distinct difference between Scandinavia and Finland. Also the fact that Finland was part of Russia (well some some finns like saying Russia was a part of Finland) did of course have an impact on our culture. I don't directly disagree with your other points either, but I think things might not be quite that drastic.
But my main point is that at least nowadays, I think Finland's culture is closer to Scandinavian than Russian. It's probably been getting closer for a long time. But having spent time in all the Nordic countries and Russia and Estonia, and meeting a lot of people from them, imho the difference between Scandinavia and Finland is there, but it's not that big. Compared to Swedes and Norwegians, Russians are alien to me (generalizing of course).
We still love you, Finland, we're just not the same.
To feed your fire, I just have to say, we tough finnish men don't need love. Or at least show it ;).
P.S. Finland is not Scandinavian because of its ethnic, historical and cultural background. In my opinion Finland has much more in common with its eastern neighbor, Russia, and the Baltic states.
As a finn I just have to say, uhm, what? Sure, we have higher suicide rates and alcohol consumption than sweden, but that's about it. Oh, and we don't have Burger King. Otherwise while Sweden and Finland aren't indistinguishable, they are far closer than Finland vs. baltic countries, or especially Russia.
No, I'm just saying that the original statement was misinterpreted.
Both myself and the GP disagree.
That is your right
No, we were arguing how speed affects safety. If you take that into extremes, it'll result in that. If you're a bit more reasonable, it says that the idiots who speed 20 [insert unit] over the limit are much more dangerous that people going 5 [insert unit] over the limit.
Of course. It's a higher delta. Just as someone going 20 slower is more dangerous than someone going 5 faster.
Well there is litte or no evidence of that. 5 faster might be much more dangerous than 20 slower.
the evidence shows that the risk of having a crash is increased both for vehicles traveling slower than the average speed, and for those traveling above the average speed.
So let me get this right. You're arguing the point that the GP already conceded was wrong?
No, I'm just saying that the original statement was misinterpreted.
If you want to cut down on accidents have police focus on following distance. Ticket the crap out of that. Media campaign the crap out of that. If everyone is properly spaced the number of accidents will be reduced. The problem is that it's completely against human nature.
Yes I agree that that would help, but the distance you need to have is also greatly affeced by the speed you're going.
Your argument results in everyone going 5 mph. since it's impossible to get hurt at that speed.
No, we were arguing how speed affects safety. If you take that into extremes, it'll result in that. If you're a bit more reasonable, it says that the idiots who speed 20 [insert unit] over the limit are much more dangerous that people going 5 [insert unit] over the limit.
But it IS artificially blocking all content IS the old way of thinking.
That doesn't even make sense with what I said.
Yes, I did misunderstand a bit. Mainly I assumed that the GGPS post about a few years of control by content providers actually meant current style (or worse) strong DRM and strict enforcement, which I see wasn't the point.
If you take away their ability to make a profit, they will stop making movies, music, games, and books.
If you're talking about MAFIAA then yesplease thankyoukindlywherecanisignup? It would improve the variety of all media worldwide. But on a more serious note, sure, artists should be able to make profit. But it IS artificially blocking all content IS the old way of thinking. Ger revenue from moviegoers, concerts, even having a good online store where you can buy it for a reasonable amount and use it the way you want. And have artists get that revenue. I guess the main point is try to be innovative for a change, and plese your customers.
Your evidence clearly states everyone going really fast is just as safe as everyone going really slow. It also states that not speeding can be dangerous.
Well if you really read what it said you'd see that you're mistaken. GP said that the risk increased both when going too slow and going too fast. The relative risks were not mentioned, but he even said "That most crashes related to speed involve speed too fast for the conditions", which indicated that speeding is a bigger reason for crashes than going too slow.
In addition to that, the consequences of having a crash with higher speeds are a lot worse. This means that going really fast is much much more dangerous than going really slow.
This is once again one of those numbers that will be thrown around by IP holders to get attention from the politicians. And yet the study does the same idiotic assumption as all the other ones.
Saying one download is one lost sale is idiotic. It has never been true and never will be. It's probably off by at least a factor of 10. And haven't many studies already shown (well, at least with music) that the people who pirate are also the people who buy the most?
Why? Just use vmware or similar.
Well we'd still need some kind of performance. Of course qemu / vmware would work, but the performance difference vs xen is pretty huge.
The only technical advantage Xen enjoys right now is a lack of dependency on hardware virtualization features. Since it's impossible to buy a new machine that you can call a server with a straight face that lacks hardware virtualization, this is meaningless in the enterprise world, but Fedora (like other community distros) has a much broader scope, so there's still a real chance there for necessity to give birth to more invention, much like it did in the early days of Xen when x86 hardware virtualization was still a whisper in the halls at Intel and AMD.
I do agree with the post in general, but I wouldn't belittle the fact that XEN doesn't need hardware support. I have already been affected by the dropping of xen from distributions. I do work in academia, so I have to work with older, but completely functional machines.
We've tried to set up our own interal eucalyptus cloud, but ran into trouble when it wanted to use KVM by default (can't recall which installation this was). Also for other basic virtual machines, we'd need HW support, which we don't have in most machines.
While I'd gladly use KVM instead of XEN, I can't and I think I'm not the only one. I welcome the avaliability of xen, and think dropping support for it is a bit premature
Yup, the move to Xen4 is pretty interesting. Most other distros go towards KVM, and I tell you, it's not completely trivial to run xen on Ubuntu 10.04. At least stable production systems.
I know.. KVM shoud be better and all that, but that still needs the HW support. This makes reusing older HW tricky.
And actually, if you write "/." in the address bar in Opera, it knows where to take you..
Yes, i had the exact same thought. Reading real news one thing, but come on, this is getting ridiculous.
stuff that apples
A whopping three Apple articles out of the last 26, and two are from a developing story about a lost iPhone prototype. You people claiming Slashdot is full of Apple articles are full of shit.
Ok, look at the list, and see, how many stories there are about other software/hardware vendors? Compared to other companies, yes, /. is full of Apple news.
Stop with the Apple slashvertisments already. it continues like this, soon /. is i., news for fanboys, stuff that really doesn't matter.
Actually, I needed a cheque once (France... yes the only place here that still uses them?), and my bank (actually two, in different countries) were a bit confused and said that they really don't do that kind of thing. Other than that, I think the last time I saw them were in the mid 80's. So no, in many countries you can't talk your banks into it.
Not as hard as reading the article
I can't believe that tethering is (still) an issue. I was doing it in Finland 7 years ago using gprs with a monthly flat rate of something like 20$ (for the monthly flat rate, tethering was just there..) . It's seriously fudged up that you still have to fight for it with some manufacturers/operators. This attitude pretty much the main reason I dislike (well, loathe) Apple.
Are there any ideas how moving to webkit affects using Steam over Wine? Now I manage to get the basic Steam installed, but buying games or downloading demos just doesn't work. Let's hope these changes help with that too.