I'd love a "keep cookies until" setting that behaves similarly to sessionStorage: every tab gets its own cookie jar which lasts until the tab closes, but the jar can be shared in certain situations (middle-clicking on a link to the same domain, for example). There are a number of policy details to get right to make this non-intrusive, but I believe this is the way to go.
An immobiliser is a device used to prevent the engine of a car from running unless the correct key is used (this may or may not be the same key as used for the ignition). The first immobiliser was patented in 1919, although I wouldn't describe that as an "immobiliser chip" because that pre-dates integrated circuits. Anyway, immobilisers have been commonplace for many decades, and even mandatory for all cars in a number of countries since the '90s.
Normally you need a key to turn the ignition, but a car thief can reconnect the wiring to bypass the ignition lock and send power to the engine (this is known as "hot-wiring"). The immobiliser is there to prevent hot-wired cars from starting, making it considerably more difficult to steal them. That's all there is to it, really - it's not a remote-control shutdown switch.
That's true. I had skimmed the article and jumped to the false conclusion that they were blackmailing officials into accepting the use of the very device that was being used to blackmail them.
What it actually claims is that a "top gold industry businessman" and a "bank employee" imported this illegally from Israel, with the help of a "senior government official", in order to secure (through blackmail) lucrative government contracts that might otherwise not have been awarded to them ("multibillion-rand" according to TFA - so the pay-off was in excess of 80 times the cost of the device, even assuming that the device was paid at full price).
They were caught because they attempted to resell the device once they no longer needed it. Oops.
I'm looking forward to learning who these individuals are.
Unfortunately, if this implicates JZ in any way then the case might be dropped and the entire division of the police involved disbanded. Investigating corruption has been difficult since last time that happened.
The article says that it's worth $2 million, not that that is what it cost. Something like this needs to have a very large profit margin because of (1) a limited target audience and (2) the risk involved in needing to win a tender, which might not happen. So the actual cost is likely to be far less than $2 million. Besides, it's not unusual at all for large investments to be made in an attempt to win a tender, particularly when the investors are confident of winning, and the fact that the device itself can be used to manipulate the tender process if it doesn't go as planned no doubt boosted their confidence.
Sadly, the perception at the moment is that nearly all tender processes are manipulated, and that you can't win without doing something underhanded yourself.
I use most of those as well. I also assign various Win+Function keys to my media player's global hotkeys, and use AutoHotkey to make Win+Up/Down a bit more to my liking. Incidentally, here's the AutoHotkey script I developed, in case anyone finds it useful.
; Disable Win+F1 opening Windows help - have it mute the volume instead #F1::Send {Volume_Mute}
; Win+F11/F12 control the system volume #F11::Send {Volume_Down} #F12::Send {Volume_Up}
; Win+Up toggles maximise instead of always maximising #Up:: WinGetPos, width, height, , , A if ( width < 0 and height < 0) {
WinRestore, A } else {
WinMaximize, A } return
; Win+Down always minimises, instead of sometimes unmaximising #Down::WinMinimize, A
I suspect that's the very point GP was trying to get across. The summary notes that the context menu button is used roughly 0.1% of the time and ponders whether it might be a good idea to remove it, but that is poor reasoning because the fact that you don't need to press it anywhere near as as often as alphanumerics or the spacebar doesn't diminish its usefulness.
Pressing the Windows logo key is equivalent to Ctrl+Esc - it opens the "start" menu on Windows 95 and later operating systems. It also functions as a modifier key which is all-but-guaranteed not to have a meaning imposed by specific applications (unlike Ctrl and Alt, which apps all use for internal shortcuts) so you can safely use it for global hotkeys. Windows has several of these built-in - for example, you can press Win+E to launch Explorer, or Win+R to open the Run dialog, Win+D to hide all windows to expose the desktop, Win+T to give keyboard focus to the taskbar (this is extremely useful, but not widely-known) or Win+L to lock your computer.
It's a handy key, but is horribly-positioned on the keyboard - especially the one on the left, and especially when playing games.
It might be useful to have capslock switch the minus and underscore iff the cursor is in the middle of a word. I'd like to see how that works out in practice. In fact, I've been wanting to try my hand at making Sublime Text Editor plugins for a while and a small tweak like this might be just the thing for a first project:)
What does"welcome-to-the-majors dept." mean? ODF was an ISO/IEC standard since 2006. The ODF 1.1 update was published by ISO/IEC in 2012. But now that the second update has been published they're considered "in the majors" for some reason?
It's certainly worthwhile to know that 1.2 is out and accepted as the new version of the standard, so I'm not complaining in a "why is this news" sense, but the " from the welcome-to-the-majors dept." byline that was added makes no sense - it's as though Soulskill was under the impression that ODF wasn't already an ISO standard the whole time.
You are incorrect. I have not confused "ape" with "great ape". Here's a Wikipedia article which explains the terms "ape" and "great ape" and contains plenty of relevent information to help you with your misconceptions on the topic. Read it and educate yourself before making yet more wild assertions.
Richard Dawkins is a biologist. he would never say something so stupid.
I'm curious what you feel is stupid about that straightforward statement. Regardless, Richard Dawkins did, in fact, say exactly that. Gaps in the Mind, by Richard Dawkins "We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes." "In truth, not only are we apes, we are African apes. The category 'African apes', if you don't arbitrarily exclude humans, is a natural one" "'Great apes', too, is a natural category only so long as it includes humans. We are great apes."
I did a search for the words "dawkins" and "ape" and the first result was a video of Dawkins saying that he is an ape. I challenge you to find any living biologist that claims otherwise.
we are all hominids, and we are certainly not apes.
Gorillas are hominids, and all hominids are apes. Humans are apes and hominids, just like gorillas.
Economy of scale. The HDTV standard settled on 1080p. That was worse than the 1200p that was getting quite commonplace at the time, but close enough that manufacturers could justify consolidating their product ranges into mostly making 1080p for everybody, thus reducing their operating costs. Price of 1080p went down, and the price of 1200p was raised as manufacturers' inclination to supply them dwindled, causing a resultant reduction in demand, and so 1080p became standard. It's a pity because 1900x1200 really hit a sweet spot. Still, consider that modern games tend to go so overboard with pixel shaders that people now complain about 1900x1080 being a too-high resolution.
As far as I'm aware most people find the grouping on the taskbar useful. Fortunately Microsoft did the right thing here and not only made a helpful feature but also remembered to make it optional. I wish they'd do that more often.
To disable it and have a separate button on your taskbar for each window, right-click on your taskbar and click "Properties". Look for a combo box labelled "Taskbar buttons"; it should have a value of "Always combine, hide labels" by default. Change it to one of the other values and press "OK" - no more button-grouping on your taskbar.
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RDP is still 10 times quicker than anything linux has to offer in this area
Except for RDP, of course. Linux offers RDP, and this protocol is obviously not 10 times quicker than itself;)
Pardon my pedantic attempt at levity. I haven't actually used RDP in Linux for ages, so I don't know how current implementations compare to those used in modern Windows, but I glanced on Wikipedia and found something you might find interesting: "In 2009, rdesktop was forked as FreeRDP, a new project aiming at modularizing the code, addressing various issues, and implementing new features. FreeRDP comes with its own command-line-client xfreerdp, which supports Seamless Windows in RDP6." Seamless windows is the thing you're looking for, so maybe give FreeRDP a try.
What happens if you send your own X-UIDH header? Does Verizon add a second header, replace the one you sent, or leave it alone? Can anyone on Verizon's network test this? I imagine that they probably ignore what headers are already being sent and simply add an additional one, as that would be the least work for them, but if they abstain from adding a X-UIDH header when one is already present then one could use this to re-anonymise your connection.
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Yes, it does. There's a preference named "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled".
I'd love a "keep cookies until" setting that behaves similarly to sessionStorage: every tab gets its own cookie jar which lasts until the tab closes, but the jar can be shared in certain situations (middle-clicking on a link to the same domain, for example). There are a number of policy details to get right to make this non-intrusive, but I believe this is the way to go.
An immobiliser is a device used to prevent the engine of a car from running unless the correct key is used (this may or may not be the same key as used for the ignition). The first immobiliser was patented in 1919, although I wouldn't describe that as an "immobiliser chip" because that pre-dates integrated circuits. Anyway, immobilisers have been commonplace for many decades, and even mandatory for all cars in a number of countries since the '90s.
Normally you need a key to turn the ignition, but a car thief can reconnect the wiring to bypass the ignition lock and send power to the engine (this is known as "hot-wiring"). The immobiliser is there to prevent hot-wired cars from starting, making it considerably more difficult to steal them. That's all there is to it, really - it's not a remote-control shutdown switch.
That's true. I had skimmed the article and jumped to the false conclusion that they were blackmailing officials into accepting the use of the very device that was being used to blackmail them.
What it actually claims is that a "top gold industry businessman" and a "bank employee" imported this illegally from Israel, with the help of a "senior government official", in order to secure (through blackmail) lucrative government contracts that might otherwise not have been awarded to them ("multibillion-rand" according to TFA - so the pay-off was in excess of 80 times the cost of the device, even assuming that the device was paid at full price).
They were caught because they attempted to resell the device once they no longer needed it. Oops.
I'm looking forward to learning who these individuals are.
Unfortunately, if this implicates JZ in any way then the case might be dropped and the entire division of the police involved disbanded. Investigating corruption has been difficult since last time that happened.
The article says that it's worth $2 million, not that that is what it cost. Something like this needs to have a very large profit margin because of (1) a limited target audience and (2) the risk involved in needing to win a tender, which might not happen. So the actual cost is likely to be far less than $2 million. Besides, it's not unusual at all for large investments to be made in an attempt to win a tender, particularly when the investors are confident of winning, and the fact that the device itself can be used to manipulate the tender process if it doesn't go as planned no doubt boosted their confidence.
Sadly, the perception at the moment is that nearly all tender processes are manipulated, and that you can't win without doing something underhanded yourself.
I use most of those as well. I also assign various Win+Function keys to my media player's global hotkeys, and use AutoHotkey to make Win+Up/Down a bit more to my liking. Incidentally, here's the AutoHotkey script I developed, in case anyone finds it useful.
; Disable Win+F1 opening Windows help - have it mute the volume instead
#F1::Send {Volume_Mute}
; Win+F11/F12 control the system volume
#F11::Send {Volume_Down}
#F12::Send {Volume_Up}
; Win+Up toggles maximise instead of always maximising
#Up::
WinGetPos, width, height, , , A
if ( width < 0 and height < 0) {
WinRestore, A
} else {
WinMaximize, A
}
return
; Win+Down always minimises, instead of sometimes unmaximising
#Down::WinMinimize, A
I suspect that's the very point GP was trying to get across. The summary notes that the context menu button is used roughly 0.1% of the time and ponders whether it might be a good idea to remove it, but that is poor reasoning because the fact that you don't need to press it anywhere near as as often as alphanumerics or the spacebar doesn't diminish its usefulness.
Pressing the Windows logo key is equivalent to Ctrl+Esc - it opens the "start" menu on Windows 95 and later operating systems. It also functions as a modifier key which is all-but-guaranteed not to have a meaning imposed by specific applications (unlike Ctrl and Alt, which apps all use for internal shortcuts) so you can safely use it for global hotkeys. Windows has several of these built-in - for example, you can press Win+E to launch Explorer, or Win+R to open the Run dialog, Win+D to hide all windows to expose the desktop, Win+T to give keyboard focus to the taskbar (this is extremely useful, but not widely-known) or Win+L to lock your computer.
It's a handy key, but is horribly-positioned on the keyboard - especially the one on the left, and especially when playing games.
Yes! The context menu button is the best part of the 104 key layout. I use it very often, and it would be terrible to see it go.
I find it very useful, but I truly HATE its position on the keyboard.
It might be useful to have capslock switch the minus and underscore iff the cursor is in the middle of a word. I'd like to see how that works out in practice. In fact, I've been wanting to try my hand at making Sublime Text Editor plugins for a while and a small tweak like this might be just the thing for a first project :)
What does"welcome-to-the-majors dept." mean? ODF was an ISO/IEC standard since 2006. The ODF 1.1 update was published by ISO/IEC in 2012. But now that the second update has been published they're considered "in the majors" for some reason?
It's certainly worthwhile to know that 1.2 is out and accepted as the new version of the standard, so I'm not complaining in a "why is this news" sense, but the " from the welcome-to-the-majors dept." byline that was added makes no sense - it's as though Soulskill was under the impression that ODF wasn't already an ISO standard the whole time.
At the rate they're going, that will happen somewhere around the 8th of July 2022.
You are incorrect. I have not confused "ape" with "great ape". Here's a Wikipedia article which explains the terms "ape" and "great ape" and contains plenty of relevent information to help you with your misconceptions on the topic. Read it and educate yourself before making yet more wild assertions.
Which families would those be? The answer is: gibbons and hominids. Therefore all hominids are apes.
Richard Dawkins is a biologist. he would never say something so stupid.
I'm curious what you feel is stupid about that straightforward statement. Regardless, Richard Dawkins did, in fact, say exactly that.
Gaps in the Mind, by Richard Dawkins
"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes."
"In truth, not only are we apes, we are African apes. The category 'African apes', if you don't arbitrarily exclude humans, is a natural one"
"'Great apes', too, is a natural category only so long as it includes humans. We are great apes."
I did a search for the words "dawkins" and "ape" and the first result was a video of Dawkins saying that he is an ape. I challenge you to find any living biologist that claims otherwise.
we are all hominids, and we are certainly not apes.
Gorillas are hominids, and all hominids are apes. Humans are apes and hominids, just like gorillas.
Economy of scale. The HDTV standard settled on 1080p. That was worse than the 1200p that was getting quite commonplace at the time, but close enough that manufacturers could justify consolidating their product ranges into mostly making 1080p for everybody, thus reducing their operating costs. Price of 1080p went down, and the price of 1200p was raised as manufacturers' inclination to supply them dwindled, causing a resultant reduction in demand, and so 1080p became standard. It's a pity because 1900x1200 really hit a sweet spot. Still, consider that modern games tend to go so overboard with pixel shaders that people now complain about 1900x1080 being a too-high resolution.
As far as I'm aware most people find the grouping on the taskbar useful. Fortunately Microsoft did the right thing here and not only made a helpful feature but also remembered to make it optional. I wish they'd do that more often.
To disable it and have a separate button on your taskbar for each window, right-click on your taskbar and click "Properties". Look for a combo box labelled "Taskbar buttons"; it should have a value of "Always combine, hide labels" by default. Change it to one of the other values and press "OK" - no more button-grouping on your taskbar.
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Fill out that form and Epic will get in touch with you to negotiate terms for a custom licence.
RDP is still 10 times quicker than anything linux has to offer in this area
Except for RDP, of course. Linux offers RDP, and this protocol is obviously not 10 times quicker than itself ;)
Pardon my pedantic attempt at levity. I haven't actually used RDP in Linux for ages, so I don't know how current implementations compare to those used in modern Windows, but I glanced on Wikipedia and found something you might find interesting: "In 2009, rdesktop was forked as FreeRDP, a new project aiming at modularizing the code, addressing various issues, and implementing new features. FreeRDP comes with its own command-line-client xfreerdp, which supports Seamless Windows in RDP6." Seamless windows is the thing you're looking for, so maybe give FreeRDP a try.
Betteridge gets credit because of Stigler's law.
European Countries Using Terrorism to Seek Sweeping New Powers
Oh? I guess that's a story I missed. What happened with Mighty Number 9?
What happens if you send your own X-UIDH header? Does Verizon add a second header, replace the one you sent, or leave it alone? Can anyone on Verizon's network test this? I imagine that they probably ignore what headers are already being sent and simply add an additional one, as that would be the least work for them, but if they abstain from adding a X-UIDH header when one is already present then one could use this to re-anonymise your connection.
I've never heard of such a requirement until now. It's probably mainly a US thing.