One thing I do like on the [URL=http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/mxsun_2073_47824807]Sun keyboards[/URL] is that they have dedicated keys for COPY, CUT and PASTE. IMHO, they are fundamental enough to deserve their own keys, and it resolve this common shortcut conflict.
1. Why should software go through Ubuntu to get validated by UI Experts? I'm thinking he's trying to herd cats in order to create the mythical 'consistent user interface.'*
Er, you're complaining about free access to UI professionals? I haven't heard of any other organizations offering this.
2. If he wants to make Ubuntu financially self-sustaining, Linux desktops that play well with media conglomerates aren't going to get anywhere.
I don't understand what you mean by this, or what this has to do with the article. Wouldn't a distro that works with popular media sources be more viable, not less?
Amen to that. Fortunately, there is a godsend for Ubuntu users: Amarok 1.4 series PPA. You just add it to your package sources and install "amarok14". Thank you Bogdan Butnaru.
Heh...it's been proven that the PVC polymer chains that comprise LPs don't offer as much resolution, even on the molecular level, as 44.1 KHz sampled audio.
For the rear channels of quadrophonic they modulated the signals with a 44kHz tone, which was demodulated in the player. A CD's top frequency is 22kHz. If what you say had any validity, quadrophonic would have been impossible.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the ability of an analog medium to reproduce a given tone doesn't really say anything about the breadth of tones it can reproduce, which depends on the granularity.
You're right; it's a shame they don't make it today, but it's hard to go back from laser mice and scroll wheels. Thumb button I could care less about, though; I always used ESDF instead of WASD so I had Q/A/Z available for convenient macros.
Ah, the classic Mouseman 96. I loved that thing so much back in my Quake days. I used to collect them so I'd always have a spare, I still have one or two of them tucked away amidst my old PC stuff (although it's quite likely they've already been picked over and scavenged for replacement parts over the years). You could practically forget it was under your hand, it was perfectly shaped and effortless to move.
They did make a USB version called the Wingman but I never tried it; you can still find PS/2 ports on a surprising number of PCs.
The headline makes it sound like hackers are routinely scamming the system, but there is no indication of this whatsoever in the article. It is improper of/. to impugn these guys when all they have done is demonstrate the vulnerability.
Are you kidding? What about all the calls that would have been 45-59 seconds long in the last minute? That 15 seconds costs you an extra minute on 25% of your voicemail calls.
I agree, using "obsolete" is bordering on flamebait. And the meaning of these figures are unclear; at a first guess, I'd think "% obsolete" meant "percentage of programs with a newer upstream version", but then how a figure of 78.94% come about when the sample size is 20 packages? I can't figure out what "Avg # New Rels" means at all, or over what sort of time period.
While important, compression isn't the only issue. You'll also have to consider issues such as resolution, cropping, noise, blurriness, color balance, white level... especially if you're dealing with non-digital sources. I went through a phase of collecting scans of HR Giger works and came across all sorts of subjective issues. One scan might be extremely high res but cuts off the edges. Another might be blurry but have more accurate colors (compared to low-res images from the artist's official sites). Many times I ended up keeping multiple images since I couldn't find a single one reproducing everything faithfully.
Apple is being petty and obnoxious to their own PAYING CUSTOMERS simply because some people made the cardinal sin of buying a semi-related product they didn't make.
Not necessarily -- iTunes is a free download and runs on both Windows and OSX.
This must be a different use of "hiding" that I'm aware of, which apparently means 'make it blatantly obvious that this image is encoding something'. The point of steganography is that the image doesn't appear to have any hidden data in it.
So I suppose there might be some use for this, but it's not about to fool any hosting provider that dislikes torrents.
(3) no one can suggest solutions: identify a potential problem and move on (4) close the loop: make sure all solutions get documented and passed to review participants.
Er, where are these solutions you're documenting coming from, if no one is allowed to suggest them?
Slashdot Mirror
This is not a weakness or an exploit, it's simply a javascript bookmarklet. You could make something like this for any site, such as Slashdot.
It's only an exploit if you can force other people to run that code without their consent.
One thing I do like on the [URL=http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/mxsun_2073_47824807]Sun keyboards[/URL] is that they have dedicated keys for COPY, CUT and PASTE. IMHO, they are fundamental enough to deserve their own keys, and it resolve this common shortcut conflict.
1. Why should software go through Ubuntu to get validated by UI Experts? I'm thinking he's trying to herd cats in order to create the mythical 'consistent user interface.'*
Er, you're complaining about free access to UI professionals? I haven't heard of any other organizations offering this.
2. If he wants to make Ubuntu financially self-sustaining, Linux desktops that play well with media conglomerates aren't going to get anywhere.
I don't understand what you mean by this, or what this has to do with the article. Wouldn't a distro that works with popular media sources be more viable, not less?
Amen to that. Fortunately, there is a godsend for Ubuntu users: Amarok 1.4 series PPA. You just add it to your package sources and install "amarok14". Thank you Bogdan Butnaru.
Heh...it's been proven that the PVC polymer chains that comprise LPs don't offer as much resolution, even on the molecular level, as 44.1 KHz sampled audio.
For the rear channels of quadrophonic they modulated the signals with a 44kHz tone, which was demodulated in the player. A CD's top frequency is 22kHz. If what you say had any validity, quadrophonic would have been impossible.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but the ability of an analog medium to reproduce a given tone doesn't really say anything about the breadth of tones it can reproduce, which depends on the granularity.
This is good for wind energy. Wind energy has the problem that it sometimes doesnt blow, and other times it blows too much ;-)
Plus, all those turbines will help cool down the servers. Win-win!
You're right; it's a shame they don't make it today, but it's hard to go back from laser mice and scroll wheels. Thumb button I could care less about, though; I always used ESDF instead of WASD so I had Q/A/Z available for convenient macros.
Ah, the classic Mouseman 96. I loved that thing so much back in my Quake days. I used to collect them so I'd always have a spare, I still have one or two of them tucked away amidst my old PC stuff (although it's quite likely they've already been picked over and scavenged for replacement parts over the years). You could practically forget it was under your hand, it was perfectly shaped and effortless to move.
They did make a USB version called the Wingman but I never tried it; you can still find PS/2 ports on a surprising number of PCs.
The headline makes it sound like hackers are routinely scamming the system, but there is no indication of this whatsoever in the article. It is improper of /. to impugn these guys when all they have done is demonstrate the vulnerability.
Are you kidding? What about all the calls that would have been 45-59 seconds long in the last minute? That 15 seconds costs you an extra minute on 25% of your voicemail calls.
I sure hope no one tells 4chan about this.
Don't bother. PETA and Greenpeace both called and said it'll kill too many endagered fish species.
Fish? Oh, you mean sea kittens.
It doesn't necessarily have to be free, but it's well accepted that having high barriers to entry reduces competition and trends towards monopoly.
I agree, using "obsolete" is bordering on flamebait. And the meaning of these figures are unclear; at a first guess, I'd think "% obsolete" meant "percentage of programs with a newer upstream version", but then how a figure of 78.94% come about when the sample size is 20 packages? I can't figure out what "Avg # New Rels" means at all, or over what sort of time period.
While important, compression isn't the only issue. You'll also have to consider issues such as resolution, cropping, noise, blurriness, color balance, white level... especially if you're dealing with non-digital sources. I went through a phase of collecting scans of HR Giger works and came across all sorts of subjective issues. One scan might be extremely high res but cuts off the edges. Another might be blurry but have more accurate colors (compared to low-res images from the artist's official sites). Many times I ended up keeping multiple images since I couldn't find a single one reproducing everything faithfully.
Apple is being petty and obnoxious to their own PAYING CUSTOMERS simply because some people made the cardinal sin of buying a semi-related product they didn't make.
Not necessarily -- iTunes is a free download and runs on both Windows and OSX.
This must be a different use of "hiding" that I'm aware of, which apparently means 'make it blatantly obvious that this image is encoding something'. The point of steganography is that the image doesn't appear to have any hidden data in it.
So I suppose there might be some use for this, but it's not about to fool any hosting provider that dislikes torrents.
If you're depending on income from renting your car in a world where car usage is free, you'd better start working on your plan B...
It plays pretty well with ScummVM on the Wii
Running 3.0.11 here, print dialog defaults to a real printer, as it always has.
How do you use MythTV without breaking the law and without having a tuner/etc in your computer? All of these sites do that quite well.
For over-the-area channels, you can get an hdhomerun and stream the raw transport stream via ethernet. Plays well with MythTV.
That should be Ubuntu 8.10, as in 2008-10, the release month.
how to cite wikipedia
Good news, someone wrote up a letter pointing out the drawbacks... it's the last link in the summary.
(3) no one can suggest solutions: identify a potential problem and move on
(4) close the loop: make sure all solutions get documented and passed to review participants.
Er, where are these solutions you're documenting coming from, if no one is allowed to suggest them?