It's just terribly poorly worded. Say, you have a capacity of 1mAh; you multiply it by ten, then subtract that from the 1mAh == -9mAh capacity? What? No, the proper wording would be "Supercapacitors store a tenth of the energy of current.." rather than "Supercapacitors store ten times less energy than current..."
I don't like this growing trend where people insist on creating everything as video, even things where the video doesn't actually serve any purpose other than showing a talking head. Information is so much easier to consume when you can consume it at your own pace, depending on your own speed of reading with no distracting heads and not being limited by the speed at which the video happens to progress. Text also happens to let you quickly jump over things you already are familiar with or jump back and forth between interesting passages.
I don't know, if they're the first to devise a working setup to achieve that, haven't they discovered how to do it?
According to http://www.gizmag.com/experime... the Breit-Wheeler theory hasn't actually been proven yet and remains a theory. The scientists in question believe they have found a way of proving the theory and doing it in a manner that requires only a fraction of the amount of energy than believed previously. Ie. they've set out to doing two things: proving a theory or disproving it, and trying out a new, more energy-efficient method of creating these Breit-Wheeler particles. I suggest just reading the article on Gizmag, it's short and kept easy-to-read.
I can certainly understand the appeal of watching game replays and "let's plays" - heck I watch them myself. But why is live playing popular?
That's what I've been wondering about myself. Twitch.tv - integration in games is seemingly a growing trend, yet I've never had even the slightest of urges to broadcast my gaming-sessions, let alone sit there with a finger up my ass watching as someone else plays. Where the fuck is the fun in that?
And I say this as an occasional gamer.
I say the above as a pretty much addicted/hardcore gamer.
If you go with XBMC may I recommend setting Dirty Regions to 1 instead of the default of 3? It gives XBMC a nice speed boost and drops its CPU-usage a whole bunch. See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php... for details.
Most Intel's hardware doesn't ship with vPro, so it's unlikely to be much of a problem. Also, most smart-TVs and the likes still ship with ARM-chips, not Intel.
I'm not sure why you responded to me with that. I was talking about passphrases and you jump to server-implementations. I don't disagree with you; a well-made scheme does include limiting login-attempts and logging failed attempts and all that. Just..did you intend the reply to someone else?
*Uses dictionary attack, breaks password in a few hours at most
You clearly have no idea how that works. For one, let's assume that we have a passphrase that consists on 4 different words and there are no characters or numbers that aren't part of the words. A hacker knows the passphrase consists of 4 words, but that's all he knows. He has a, say, 50,000 word dictionary to use for his attack. Now, you have to remember that we have words as small as 2 letters and ranging all the way to several tens of letters, but also that you have 4 of such words of which you do not know the length of -- not knowing the length of the words means the words, when looking at it from a programmatical viewpoint, could start or end at any point in the passphrase.
With the above in mind the hacker would have no choice but to simply try every single word in the dictionary in every possible combination. You probably assume he would just have to make 50,000 tries, but alas, you'd be forgetting there's 4 words and not just one; he'd have to try 50,000^4 combinations, ie. 6250000000000000000 different combinations. And that is only if all the words are spelled correctly and are all found in the dictionary -- what if they're not all actually in the dictionary, like e.g. most of us made up lots of nonsense words when we were children and we could use those in the passphrases? Or what if there are additional characters in the passphrases and you don't know if they're at the end, middle, the start or in the middle of the words themselves? You'd basically have to still drop down to bruteforcing.
While you have a point, you could also take away from the article that OpenSSL needs money.
Good thing, then, that that's being actively taken care of. Ars Technica just posted an article recently that they're getting a lot more donations now and some large companies pledged to donate $50,000 yearly for 3 or 5 years. That should definitely help for a while, though I hope that after those 3 or 5 years have passed things don't go back to the way they were.
Has it ever been a surprise to anyone that a measure that service-providers must voluntarily follow would not be followed? I mean, if by not following the measure you can generate more cash than by following it then why would you choose to do it, especially if no one else does it either? No, do-not-track was doomed all the way from the beginning.
I love superhero - movies and I've seen pretty much all of them, including all the Spider-Man - ones. That said, I never found Spider-Man an interesting character in the first place, he's just so damn dull and predictable. "The Amazing Spider-Man" certainly was better than the earlier movies, but still, I rather watch movies about other heroes. That said, I would like to see a real-proper movie of Deadpool -- he's insane, as far away from politically correct as ever possible, he really doesn't give a flying fuck about who he kills and he's got enough personality-deficiencies and mental issues to fill a series of books, and as such he'd make a great movie-character if only someone dared to tackle such a controversial one.
I don't mind reboots when they bring something worth it to the table. I totally love Christopher Nolan's Batman-movies, for example, as they don't even try to present Batman as some high, respectable, totally-sane, funny and colourful superhero of the 90's -- *cough* George Cloney *cough* -- and they really bring out more what Batman is like. Man of Steel also tried to make Superman a deeper character than just a flying boy scout and while it wasn't all that good as a movie it at least tried to deviate from all the previous movies.
No, it's a completely new movie. Different director, different plot, different cast and all. You could've just read the review, though, and answered the question yourself.
What a tool. It is *not* meat. It *is* fake meat. Die in a fire.
What does it matter if it's not "real" meat if it looks, smells and tastes like it? I certainly simply do not care if it comes from disgusting-looking ooze growing in labs or whatnot, all I care is whether it's as cheap/expensive as real meat and tastes the same.
the Elder Scrolls games not so much, they are about theme
You must not have played them much as there is always a plot to follow in those games, too, you're just not being hand-held through it. These games allow you to suspend the progression of the plot at your behest, but it is still there and it is waiting for you. It's a very different kind of a way of telling a story than in games where you've constantly hand-held and simply disallowed from deviating from the story, but that's really only about the delivery-mechanics of the story, not about its absence.
Good thing then that metered Internet outside of US isn't as popular. Don't just stare at your own navel and realize that Netflix works in quite a handful of countries these days.
Seriously, I already have problems keeping my connection below my monthly cap (60 GB combined up/down). I don't want to share it with other subscribers.
They're just exploring the option and there is no indication that if they ever did implement this that it would become mandatory for everyone -- you could most likely turn it off. No need to jump on the walls yet, so calm the fuck down.
There's this line in the article that says "people with similar beliefs tend to cluster together" -- it may be my best defense against datamining me. The people I have on my Facebook - account pretty much have nothing in common with me except for family members, and even they only share blood with me. If you were to base your opinion on me on the people that have added me to their circles you'd pretty much be totally off the course.
It costs $1600 and doesn't seem to have interchangeable lenses -- what, are they insane?
I may be wrong, but since it captures the rays themselves there's less need for various kinds of lenses -- you can just apply the distortions and the likes afterwards in software and achieve exactly the same result. Of course it doesn't completely remove the need for lenses, but it does lessen the need.
Since the short excerpt doesn't mention this I thought to mention: their forums say Illum produces a 4 megapixel image once it's exported in a regular 2D format.
yep, then you can just be vulnerable to the NSA heartbleed instead.
You might want to research things before you go off on a tangent like this. As http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/content/heartbleed-dd-wrtdd-wrt-online-services quite well explains it, DD-WRT is only vulnerable if you run any of the following services on it: openvpn, squid, freeradius, asterisk, curl, pound, tor, transmission. None of these are enabled by default and most people don't use these services in the first place. DD-WRT's configuration interface, its own, built-in SSH-server and the likes are not vulnerable.
The link also quite conveniently mentions the following tidbit: "OpenSSL was updated immediately in the DD-WRT SVN repository. It can take a view days until we can provide updated versions for all routers."
Speaking of routers, DD-WRT is vulnerable, but only if you use its VPN-service. It doesn't use OpenSSL for anything else, and if the VPN-service isn't enabled then there's not even that.
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It's just terribly poorly worded. Say, you have a capacity of 1mAh; you multiply it by ten, then subtract that from the 1mAh == -9mAh capacity? What? No, the proper wording would be "Supercapacitors store a tenth of the energy of current.." rather than "Supercapacitors store ten times less energy than current..."
Bullshit. Where exactly do they plan to get the power to charge those supercaps? From thin air?
I don't like this growing trend where people insist on creating everything as video, even things where the video doesn't actually serve any purpose other than showing a talking head. Information is so much easier to consume when you can consume it at your own pace, depending on your own speed of reading with no distracting heads and not being limited by the speed at which the video happens to progress. Text also happens to let you quickly jump over things you already are familiar with or jump back and forth between interesting passages.
I want less videos. I want more text.
Something that is probably true but remains unproven is a hypothesis. It doesn't become a theory until it is proven.
Well, I apologize for misusing the term, then, and will try to remember the distinction in the future.
I don't know, if they're the first to devise a working setup to achieve that, haven't they discovered how to do it?
According to http://www.gizmag.com/experime... the Breit-Wheeler theory hasn't actually been proven yet and remains a theory. The scientists in question believe they have found a way of proving the theory and doing it in a manner that requires only a fraction of the amount of energy than believed previously. Ie. they've set out to doing two things: proving a theory or disproving it, and trying out a new, more energy-efficient method of creating these Breit-Wheeler particles. I suggest just reading the article on Gizmag, it's short and kept easy-to-read.
I can certainly understand the appeal of watching game replays and "let's plays" - heck I watch them myself. But why is live playing popular?
That's what I've been wondering about myself. Twitch.tv - integration in games is seemingly a growing trend, yet I've never had even the slightest of urges to broadcast my gaming-sessions, let alone sit there with a finger up my ass watching as someone else plays. Where the fuck is the fun in that?
And I say this as an occasional gamer.
I say the above as a pretty much addicted/hardcore gamer.
If you go with XBMC may I recommend setting Dirty Regions to 1 instead of the default of 3? It gives XBMC a nice speed boost and drops its CPU-usage a whole bunch. See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php... for details.
There's a good breakdown on infowars about why it won't work:
http://www.infowars.com/91497/
Most Intel's hardware doesn't ship with vPro, so it's unlikely to be much of a problem. Also, most smart-TVs and the likes still ship with ARM-chips, not Intel.
I'm not sure why you responded to me with that. I was talking about passphrases and you jump to server-implementations. I don't disagree with you; a well-made scheme does include limiting login-attempts and logging failed attempts and all that. Just..did you intend the reply to someone else?
*Uses dictionary attack, breaks password in a few hours at most
You clearly have no idea how that works. For one, let's assume that we have a passphrase that consists on 4 different words and there are no characters or numbers that aren't part of the words. A hacker knows the passphrase consists of 4 words, but that's all he knows. He has a, say, 50,000 word dictionary to use for his attack. Now, you have to remember that we have words as small as 2 letters and ranging all the way to several tens of letters, but also that you have 4 of such words of which you do not know the length of -- not knowing the length of the words means the words, when looking at it from a programmatical viewpoint, could start or end at any point in the passphrase.
With the above in mind the hacker would have no choice but to simply try every single word in the dictionary in every possible combination. You probably assume he would just have to make 50,000 tries, but alas, you'd be forgetting there's 4 words and not just one; he'd have to try 50,000^4 combinations, ie. 6250000000000000000 different combinations. And that is only if all the words are spelled correctly and are all found in the dictionary -- what if they're not all actually in the dictionary, like e.g. most of us made up lots of nonsense words when we were children and we could use those in the passphrases? Or what if there are additional characters in the passphrases and you don't know if they're at the end, middle, the start or in the middle of the words themselves? You'd basically have to still drop down to bruteforcing.
While you have a point, you could also take away from the article that OpenSSL needs money.
Good thing, then, that that's being actively taken care of. Ars Technica just posted an article recently that they're getting a lot more donations now and some large companies pledged to donate $50,000 yearly for 3 or 5 years. That should definitely help for a while, though I hope that after those 3 or 5 years have passed things don't go back to the way they were.
Has it ever been a surprise to anyone that a measure that service-providers must voluntarily follow would not be followed? I mean, if by not following the measure you can generate more cash than by following it then why would you choose to do it, especially if no one else does it either? No, do-not-track was doomed all the way from the beginning.
I love superhero - movies and I've seen pretty much all of them, including all the Spider-Man - ones. That said, I never found Spider-Man an interesting character in the first place, he's just so damn dull and predictable. "The Amazing Spider-Man" certainly was better than the earlier movies, but still, I rather watch movies about other heroes. That said, I would like to see a real-proper movie of Deadpool -- he's insane, as far away from politically correct as ever possible, he really doesn't give a flying fuck about who he kills and he's got enough personality-deficiencies and mental issues to fill a series of books, and as such he'd make a great movie-character if only someone dared to tackle such a controversial one.
I don't mind reboots when they bring something worth it to the table. I totally love Christopher Nolan's Batman-movies, for example, as they don't even try to present Batman as some high, respectable, totally-sane, funny and colourful superhero of the 90's -- *cough* George Cloney *cough* -- and they really bring out more what Batman is like. Man of Steel also tried to make Superman a deeper character than just a flying boy scout and while it wasn't all that good as a movie it at least tried to deviate from all the previous movies.
No, it's a completely new movie. Different director, different plot, different cast and all. You could've just read the review, though, and answered the question yourself.
What a tool. It is *not* meat. It *is* fake meat. Die in a fire.
What does it matter if it's not "real" meat if it looks, smells and tastes like it? I certainly simply do not care if it comes from disgusting-looking ooze growing in labs or whatnot, all I care is whether it's as cheap/expensive as real meat and tastes the same.
the Elder Scrolls games not so much, they are about theme
You must not have played them much as there is always a plot to follow in those games, too, you're just not being hand-held through it. These games allow you to suspend the progression of the plot at your behest, but it is still there and it is waiting for you. It's a very different kind of a way of telling a story than in games where you've constantly hand-held and simply disallowed from deviating from the story, but that's really only about the delivery-mechanics of the story, not about its absence.
In lots of places in US Internet is Metered.
Good thing then that metered Internet outside of US isn't as popular. Don't just stare at your own navel and realize that Netflix works in quite a handful of countries these days.
Seriously, I already have problems keeping my connection below my monthly cap (60 GB combined up/down). I don't want to share it with other subscribers.
They're just exploring the option and there is no indication that if they ever did implement this that it would become mandatory for everyone -- you could most likely turn it off. No need to jump on the walls yet, so calm the fuck down.
There's this line in the article that says "people with similar beliefs tend to cluster together" -- it may be my best defense against datamining me. The people I have on my Facebook - account pretty much have nothing in common with me except for family members, and even they only share blood with me. If you were to base your opinion on me on the people that have added me to their circles you'd pretty much be totally off the course.
It costs $1600 and doesn't seem to have interchangeable lenses -- what, are they insane?
I may be wrong, but since it captures the rays themselves there's less need for various kinds of lenses -- you can just apply the distortions and the likes afterwards in software and achieve exactly the same result. Of course it doesn't completely remove the need for lenses, but it does lessen the need.
Since the short excerpt doesn't mention this I thought to mention: their forums say Illum produces a 4 megapixel image once it's exported in a regular 2D format.
So, you login to your router via http instead of https?
DD-WRT uses matrixssl to provide SSL/TLS when using HTTPS, not OpenSSL. As such it is not vulnerable.
yep, then you can just be vulnerable to the NSA heartbleed instead.
You might want to research things before you go off on a tangent like this. As http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/content/heartbleed-dd-wrtdd-wrt-online-services quite well explains it, DD-WRT is only vulnerable if you run any of the following services on it: openvpn, squid, freeradius, asterisk, curl, pound, tor, transmission. None of these are enabled by default and most people don't use these services in the first place. DD-WRT's configuration interface, its own, built-in SSH-server and the likes are not vulnerable.
The link also quite conveniently mentions the following tidbit: "OpenSSL was updated immediately in the DD-WRT SVN repository. It can take a view days until we can provide updated versions for all routers."
Speaking of routers, DD-WRT is vulnerable, but only if you use its VPN-service. It doesn't use OpenSSL for anything else, and if the VPN-service isn't enabled then there's not even that.