I'm pretty sure the millions of phones and tablets people are using to play facebook games instead of PCs and consoles is proving his point.
There were also a fairly large number of Ouya's sold and shipped from their kickstarter. I think their downfall is that now that it's out in the wild, they have a very small selection of games to play on it. I've bought a couple of games on mine and, entertainment wise, it's just as good as my PS3, or Wii, it's just there isn't much there I'm interested in.
I will as soon as I get home, but I have yet to verify if TFA is correct or just FUD for myself.
Normally passwords should be hashed, but in this case it would be pointless as hashing is used to compare. So I hash my password the first time then if I enter the same password each time its hash value will always be the same as the original, but once hashed the original password is "lost" in that it becomes unknown to the system. The problem is in order for your machine to automatically connect to an access point it needs the password. So either you type it in every time or you store it somewhere where the system can access it. Hashing is one way so if the system can only retrieve a hash of the password not the password itself so a hash can't be used to connect to an access point. You'd still have to enter your password every time or store it.
As others have pointed out you need root access to view the file, if someone has root access to your machine then you have bigger problems, so it doesn't matter if the password file is encrypted or not. If you wrote your password down and stored it in a bank vault and only the bank manager could retrieve it for you would it matter if people could still walk into the banks lobby? Maybe encrypting it would be a good extra step just in case, but I can't see it being a necessity.
I don't know why I'm bothering to respond at this point, but I did say IE 10 was better than IE 9.
I also pointed out the issues I'm having is with a mapping engine written in HTML 5 and JavaScript. The mapping application works awesome in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, but it is slow to the point that it's next to unusable, not totally unusable, but very very slow to load in IE 10. I don't know if it's the HTML 5 IE can't handle properly or the JavaScript. In either case it's not FUD, It's an actually real world example of how IE is failing.
I also said I haven't used IE 11 yet and I hope they have the issue worked out. If it is IE will finally be on par with where all the other major browsers were two years ago.
Even between versions of IE there are serious issues, so anyone who claims to be a web developer and that Firefox is the problem browsers doesn't know what they're talking about and/or is blatantly lying.
I'm a web developer. Firefox is fine. If I develop a site for Firefox, or Chrome, or Opera, or Safari it will work in any of those four browsers without issue, but I have to redevelop the site for IE. If I develop for IE I have to redevelop the site again to work in the other browsers.
I will give that my company recently decided to stop supporting IE 6, 7, and 8. IE 9 isn't nearly as bad, and doesn't require as many workarounds as the previous iterations. IE 10 is a little better, it's still slow as shit for mapping applications that HTML 5 and javascript (not written by me) for the mapping engine (works great in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari), and I haven't used IE 11 as of yet. Hopefully with IE 11 they'll finally have it right and I won't have to waste time rewriting sites and having to explain over and over to management why it's necessary. It's so stupid, our management insists sites work in all major browsers, but then they get pissy when extra time is needed to actually make sure things are working correctly.
I'd also like to know who sets the metrics for how long development should take, because it's not me.
According to TFS, the government bought controlling shares in GM. Does that not mean the government, and the tax payer by extension, are the shareholders?
I've found for testing some things installing an alternate distro in VirtualBox works for testing. As an example I had issues with the Planetary Annihilation Beta and couldn't get it running under my Ubuntu 13.10 installation. I installed Linux Mint in VB and ran Planetary Annihilation. The game played like crap of course under the VM, but it loaded normally confirming it was an issue with the game running specifically under Ubuntu 13.10. After confirming the issue if was a lot easier to pin point what was causing the issue and we were able to come up with a temporary work around.
That's pretty much the way it is for my Dad's community box. Just fliers and junk mail littering the ground. Most people in rural areas have done with out house to house deliver for years here in Nova Scotia. I don't really care one way or the other, I get all my bills online now and pretty much just get junk and christmas cards in my mail box, so nothing that would need immediate attention.
Since alcohol is often used as a sedative in old school child rearing, we should allow drip feeders to be sold commercially? I'm all for "freedom" and personal responsibility". There is a very clear distinction between allowing companies to profit off of ignorance at the expense of members of society (which must be enforced by regulation), and "freedom and personal responsibility".
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here, this seems completely disconnected from anything I/we were discussing. FYI we still use alcohol based products for teething and colic. Read the ingredients on Grape water next time you're at your local pharmacy, hint not the one that says "alcohol free"
In other words, it was the worst kind of lie.
Except it wasn't a lie and the actuation is liable unless you have proof, not that I'd press charges even if I did know who you were. So yeah, that must be award for you...
You see no issue with the ipad baby sitter which damages mental and physical growth in infants? Implying or claiming that the people pushing for a recall of the device because of its harmful impact are "bad" people?
Actually I do disagree with giving tablets to infants. I never said I did agree with it, I'm just much more rational about it and think it should be left up to the parents to do the parenting and they should be able to do it, baring sexual or physical abuse, without Joe public coming after them, physically or with child services. The last paragraph is anecdotal and is intended to demonstrate there are real crazies out there. Visit any animal shelter and you'll see the kind of things pets are put through by crazy people. In this case it was a neighbour instead of the owner.
People are messed up and have hugely varying opinions about everything. Some people have little to no sense of reality and would feel completely justified in coming after someone with a conflicting view to their own, they're the dangerous ones.
And that's exactly why "anonymity" is so important on the web, especially when posting opinions and comments. Someone with time and the right skills *could* track us down, but normally those kind of people are 1) smart and 2) reasonable. It's the moronic overly political hypocritical extremist that take offense to anything spelled with the letters A through Z we need to protect our identities from. If it requires more than pasting a screen name into Google they're already onto screaming at their monitor for something else they've read.
I've read a lot of articles from journalist claiming we should do away with anonymous comment sections because they have to put their names on their articles, my response is normally, "I don't get paid for my comment and my career won't be advanced for anything I say. If anything something I said fifteen years ago could be used against me by someone hell bent on causing me pain and suffering because they have nothing better to do with their time.". I've read articles about people fired because some wacko group traced a picture of a high heal stepping on a cats tail back to someone. The comment sections filled with "Good they deserve to be fired.". No one considers, what if they got the wrong person?
No, the only thing that should be displayed on the HUD are system status. It should not have the ability to load apps from third party sources, and manufactures that make use of it should not have app stores, this is ONLY for car systems. It's not a toy, and hacking the HUD to do other things should be the equivalent to illegally modifying your vehicle, like removing the brakes or taking out the speedometer. I don't know about other places, but in Nova Scotia we have regulations that govern how a person can modify a vehicle.
Just to drive the point home, from the comment section on the CBC article:
"Off grid gal
The radiation from these things is unbelievable, parents should not even be holding their kids hands when they're on these things...I even have witnessed mothers breast feeding while they hold their smart phones centimeters from their baby's brains!!! We need to wake up out of our techno-haze stupour and get back out into nature, untethered!!"
"globecare
No, they should be banned. Not available. This is a children's rights issue. We want healthy, well developed children."
And what, listen to the car read off the current status for dozens of different systems in the car?
Have you ever called a company (maybe a bank) and gotten that "Press 1 for.... Press 2 for... Press 9 for..." or "Say the name of the person or department you're trying to reach?" and three menus in forgotten what you were calling for in the first place? That's kind of how I picture that kind of a system working.
Sounds more distracting that just having it posted as a visual interface near where you're suppose to be looking anyway.
I've had death threats and threats to burn down my house from commenters, not on/., before for simple things like saying abortion is a hot button topic. Not even picking a side, just pointing out people get riled up over it. I'd be willing to stand behind anything I post in a public forum, but I have a wife and child and don't want some overly conservative, overly liberal or someone with an extremist view on some other topic showing up at my house with a molotov cocktail while we're asleep or while I'm away on business. I have no delusions that I'm anonymous and know I *could* be tracked down, but I'm not going to just hand out that info. There are too many crazies out there.
I mean heck, CBC posted a story about a baby chair that lets someone stick an iPad in front of an infant and people are flying off the hinge about how that should be considered reckless endangerment and child services should be involved for anyone using that product. Are those really the kind of people you want showing up at your house because they think they know what's better for your child than you do?
I have a friend in animal control who had to deal with a case where a neighbour went into someone else's backyard and killed their puppy by gouging it's eyes out with his bare hands because he thought tethering it to a stake in the yard was cruel.
Yes, it does defeat the purpose, but sometimes we need to know the current state of something in order to issue a new command. So you might not know what radio station your tuner is currently set to so you'd have to look down at the radio. Or you want to adjust the temperature/fan/defogger settings so you'd have to look down to see what the current settings are. I suppose you could have something like, "Car, what is the current vent setting?", reply, "The current vent setting is open for the driver side foot and torso.", "Car, open foot and windshield vents", "Acknowledged, opening driver side door.", "What? No don't do that.", "Acknowledged, unlatching safty restraint.", "Are you trying to kill me?", "Acknowledged, killing driver."
Ok, I got a little carried away, but something I'd like to see is the use of smart glass to display interfaces on the users windshield in a sort of out of the way place, but where the driver doesn't have to take their eyes off the road. The top left or bottom left corner for countries where the driver sits on the left of the car as an example. Something like this, but it would have to be well designed and less cluttered. Maybe even not applied to the whole windshield just the part where a HUD is required so crap isn't popping up in front of you all the time.
I agree, I don't know how the other things mentioned work, but they seem to only "mirror" one type of device or only certain apps on certain devices. At the moment I have a media server laptop running Ubuntu 13.10 in my bedroom closet with an HDMI cable running though the wall to my TV. It would be much more convenient to be able to move the laptop somewhere else and not have to worry about finding a longer HDMI cable or cutting holes in the wall to run the cables. I do use Plex on the laptop upstairs to play content on my smart TV downstairs, which is fine for the most part.
Which part of that was the question?
Was it suppose to be two questions?
And did you mean "You are an ignorant buffoon!" or "Are you an ignorant buffoon?"?
Just curious at this point. You're not normally one to be that unclear.
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Agreed. The Ouya isn't bad, but you're right, it's just now quite right.
I'm pretty sure the millions of phones and tablets people are using to play facebook games instead of PCs and consoles is proving his point.
There were also a fairly large number of Ouya's sold and shipped from their kickstarter. I think their downfall is that now that it's out in the wild, they have a very small selection of games to play on it. I've bought a couple of games on mine and, entertainment wise, it's just as good as my PS3, or Wii, it's just there isn't much there I'm interested in.
Should it at least be hashed? Sure
I will as soon as I get home, but I have yet to verify if TFA is correct or just FUD for myself.
Normally passwords should be hashed, but in this case it would be pointless as hashing is used to compare. So I hash my password the first time then if I enter the same password each time its hash value will always be the same as the original, but once hashed the original password is "lost" in that it becomes unknown to the system. The problem is in order for your machine to automatically connect to an access point it needs the password. So either you type it in every time or you store it somewhere where the system can access it. Hashing is one way so if the system can only retrieve a hash of the password not the password itself so a hash can't be used to connect to an access point. You'd still have to enter your password every time or store it.
As others have pointed out you need root access to view the file, if someone has root access to your machine then you have bigger problems, so it doesn't matter if the password file is encrypted or not. If you wrote your password down and stored it in a bank vault and only the bank manager could retrieve it for you would it matter if people could still walk into the banks lobby? Maybe encrypting it would be a good extra step just in case, but I can't see it being a necessity.
I don't know why I'm bothering to respond at this point, but I did say IE 10 was better than IE 9.
I also pointed out the issues I'm having is with a mapping engine written in HTML 5 and JavaScript. The mapping application works awesome in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari, but it is slow to the point that it's next to unusable, not totally unusable, but very very slow to load in IE 10. I don't know if it's the HTML 5 IE can't handle properly or the JavaScript. In either case it's not FUD, It's an actually real world example of how IE is failing.
I also said I haven't used IE 11 yet and I hope they have the issue worked out. If it is IE will finally be on par with where all the other major browsers were two years ago.
Even between versions of IE there are serious issues, so anyone who claims to be a web developer and that Firefox is the problem browsers doesn't know what they're talking about and/or is blatantly lying.
I'm a web developer. Firefox is fine. If I develop a site for Firefox, or Chrome, or Opera, or Safari it will work in any of those four browsers without issue, but I have to redevelop the site for IE. If I develop for IE I have to redevelop the site again to work in the other browsers.
I will give that my company recently decided to stop supporting IE 6, 7, and 8. IE 9 isn't nearly as bad, and doesn't require as many workarounds as the previous iterations. IE 10 is a little better, it's still slow as shit for mapping applications that HTML 5 and javascript (not written by me) for the mapping engine (works great in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari), and I haven't used IE 11 as of yet. Hopefully with IE 11 they'll finally have it right and I won't have to waste time rewriting sites and having to explain over and over to management why it's necessary. It's so stupid, our management insists sites work in all major browsers, but then they get pissy when extra time is needed to actually make sure things are working correctly.
I'd also like to know who sets the metrics for how long development should take, because it's not me.
Nail, meet hammer. *BANG*
According to TFS, the government bought controlling shares in GM. Does that not mean the government, and the tax payer by extension, are the shareholders?
It's even in beer.
No wonder my daughter turned out to be a genius. Guess I've got nothing to worry about.
I've found for testing some things installing an alternate distro in VirtualBox works for testing. As an example I had issues with the Planetary Annihilation Beta and couldn't get it running under my Ubuntu 13.10 installation. I installed Linux Mint in VB and ran Planetary Annihilation. The game played like crap of course under the VM, but it loaded normally confirming it was an issue with the game running specifically under Ubuntu 13.10. After confirming the issue if was a lot easier to pin point what was causing the issue and we were able to come up with a temporary work around.
There's an idea.
That's pretty much the way it is for my Dad's community box. Just fliers and junk mail littering the ground. Most people in rural areas have done with out house to house deliver for years here in Nova Scotia. I don't really care one way or the other, I get all my bills online now and pretty much just get junk and christmas cards in my mail box, so nothing that would need immediate attention.
Since alcohol is often used as a sedative in old school child rearing, we should allow drip feeders to be sold commercially? I'm all for "freedom" and personal responsibility". There is a very clear distinction between allowing companies to profit off of ignorance at the expense of members of society (which must be enforced by regulation), and "freedom and personal responsibility".
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here, this seems completely disconnected from anything I/we were discussing. FYI we still use alcohol based products for teething and colic. Read the ingredients on Grape water next time you're at your local pharmacy, hint not the one that says "alcohol free"
In other words, it was the worst kind of lie.
Except it wasn't a lie and the actuation is liable unless you have proof, not that I'd press charges even if I did know who you were. So yeah, that must be award for you...
You see no issue with the ipad baby sitter which damages mental and physical growth in infants? Implying or claiming that the people pushing for a recall of the device because of its harmful impact are "bad" people?
Actually I do disagree with giving tablets to infants. I never said I did agree with it, I'm just much more rational about it and think it should be left up to the parents to do the parenting and they should be able to do it, baring sexual or physical abuse, without Joe public coming after them, physically or with child services. The last paragraph is anecdotal and is intended to demonstrate there are real crazies out there. Visit any animal shelter and you'll see the kind of things pets are put through by crazy people. In this case it was a neighbour instead of the owner.
*That* is very true.
People are messed up and have hugely varying opinions about everything. Some people have little to no sense of reality and would feel completely justified in coming after someone with a conflicting view to their own, they're the dangerous ones.
It's still Monopoly, just with inflation factored in.
And that's exactly why "anonymity" is so important on the web, especially when posting opinions and comments. Someone with time and the right skills *could* track us down, but normally those kind of people are 1) smart and 2) reasonable. It's the moronic overly political hypocritical extremist that take offense to anything spelled with the letters A through Z we need to protect our identities from. If it requires more than pasting a screen name into Google they're already onto screaming at their monitor for something else they've read.
I've read a lot of articles from journalist claiming we should do away with anonymous comment sections because they have to put their names on their articles, my response is normally, "I don't get paid for my comment and my career won't be advanced for anything I say. If anything something I said fifteen years ago could be used against me by someone hell bent on causing me pain and suffering because they have nothing better to do with their time.". I've read articles about people fired because some wacko group traced a picture of a high heal stepping on a cats tail back to someone. The comment sections filled with "Good they deserve to be fired.". No one considers, what if they got the wrong person?
No, the only thing that should be displayed on the HUD are system status. It should not have the ability to load apps from third party sources, and manufactures that make use of it should not have app stores, this is ONLY for car systems. It's not a toy, and hacking the HUD to do other things should be the equivalent to illegally modifying your vehicle, like removing the brakes or taking out the speedometer. I don't know about other places, but in Nova Scotia we have regulations that govern how a person can modify a vehicle.
Just to drive the point home, from the comment section on the CBC article:
"Off grid gal
The radiation from these things is unbelievable, parents should not even be holding their kids hands when they're on these things...I even have witnessed mothers breast feeding while they hold their smart phones centimeters from their baby's brains!!! We need to wake up out of our techno-haze stupour and get back out into nature, untethered!!"
"globecare
No, they should be banned. Not available. This is a children's rights issue. We want healthy, well developed children."
And what, listen to the car read off the current status for dozens of different systems in the car?
.... Press 2 for ... Press 9 for ..." or "Say the name of the person or department you're trying to reach?" and three menus in forgotten what you were calling for in the first place? That's kind of how I picture that kind of a system working.
Have you ever called a company (maybe a bank) and gotten that "Press 1 for
Sounds more distracting that just having it posted as a visual interface near where you're suppose to be looking anyway.
I've had death threats and threats to burn down my house from commenters, not on /., before for simple things like saying abortion is a hot button topic. Not even picking a side, just pointing out people get riled up over it. I'd be willing to stand behind anything I post in a public forum, but I have a wife and child and don't want some overly conservative, overly liberal or someone with an extremist view on some other topic showing up at my house with a molotov cocktail while we're asleep or while I'm away on business. I have no delusions that I'm anonymous and know I *could* be tracked down, but I'm not going to just hand out that info. There are too many crazies out there.
I mean heck, CBC posted a story about a baby chair that lets someone stick an iPad in front of an infant and people are flying off the hinge about how that should be considered reckless endangerment and child services should be involved for anyone using that product. Are those really the kind of people you want showing up at your house because they think they know what's better for your child than you do?
I have a friend in animal control who had to deal with a case where a neighbour went into someone else's backyard and killed their puppy by gouging it's eyes out with his bare hands because he thought tethering it to a stake in the yard was cruel.
Yes, it does defeat the purpose, but sometimes we need to know the current state of something in order to issue a new command. So you might not know what radio station your tuner is currently set to so you'd have to look down at the radio. Or you want to adjust the temperature/fan/defogger settings so you'd have to look down to see what the current settings are. I suppose you could have something like, "Car, what is the current vent setting?", reply, "The current vent setting is open for the driver side foot and torso.", "Car, open foot and windshield vents", "Acknowledged, opening driver side door.", "What? No don't do that.", "Acknowledged, unlatching safty restraint.", "Are you trying to kill me?", "Acknowledged, killing driver."
Ok, I got a little carried away, but something I'd like to see is the use of smart glass to display interfaces on the users windshield in a sort of out of the way place, but where the driver doesn't have to take their eyes off the road. The top left or bottom left corner for countries where the driver sits on the left of the car as an example. Something like this, but it would have to be well designed and less cluttered. Maybe even not applied to the whole windshield just the part where a HUD is required so crap isn't popping up in front of you all the time.
I agree, I don't know how the other things mentioned work, but they seem to only "mirror" one type of device or only certain apps on certain devices. At the moment I have a media server laptop running Ubuntu 13.10 in my bedroom closet with an HDMI cable running though the wall to my TV. It would be much more convenient to be able to move the laptop somewhere else and not have to worry about finding a longer HDMI cable or cutting holes in the wall to run the cables. I do use Plex on the laptop upstairs to play content on my smart TV downstairs, which is fine for the most part.
Which part of that was the question? Was it suppose to be two questions? And did you mean "You are an ignorant buffoon!" or "Are you an ignorant buffoon?"? Just curious at this point. You're not normally one to be that unclear.
That is true.