Sorry, it's my last year. With senioritis and all, I can barely be assed to actually pay attention, let alone commit a murder over a class. I mean, hiding a body is hard work, and that my normal dump site is still full from the Adobe Illustrator class...
Besides, I just bring my laptop in and do my work for other classes while waiting for IIS. Or play Unreal Tournament.
Make sure the computers themselves are capable of running what you need them to run. Sounds obvious, but I'm currently enrolled in a college course that has us running IIS, Visual Studio and MS Office inside Windows Server 08, all inside VMWare. On a reasonably modern computer with plenty of memory, it would be tolerable. On the Pentium IV, 2GB RAM machines we're using, though, we spend as much time working as we do waiting for the computer to respond.
(If you're about to say "just use LAMP ffs", that's what I told the prof. He said MS is requiring the class be taught this way for them to maintain their MSAA license).
What about the actual application usage by end-users? Will the x86 Android phone come with an ARM emulator to run applications that has native ARM libraries (at least until there are enough generic or x86-specific Android apps)?
Andoid apps are run on a platform-independent, Java-esque virtual machine. All that would need porting is Dalvik, not the individual apps.
1) It would be logical to test in any large market. Europe would probably be the best (more logical healthcare, in general), but I assume America's proximity to Canada made it a more attractive option in this case.
2) Perhaps I phrased it wrong. I know the US is a bureaucratic nightmare to get a drug approved in, particularly relative to Europe. They may have had sufficient confidence in their vaccine that they thought, "hey, if we can get it approved in America, getting it approved elsewhere will be easy".
I assume it's because they want to run the trials in the United States. I imagine there's practical reasons for that - the US is a pretty significant pharma market, and anything denied there is quite likely to be blocked in other countries, whereas Canada is a smaller country (11% the size of the US by population) that's not as critical for a pharmaceutical company to sell in.
I have a "regular password" that I tend to use for everything (about a year ago, I started adding a use-specific suffix so someone who stole one password wouldn't automatically have the rest).
It's a fairly secure one, but it includes a _, a $ and a * (as well as a number and letters of both cases). Linux was fine with it. Windows was fine with it. GMail was fine with it. Slashdot was fine with it. Various mailing lists were fine with it. The only things not fine with it? Debit card PIN (only four numbers!) Voicemail passcode (also only four numbers!) Wachovia's online banking system (wait, what?)
Yep. Wachovia did not allow passwords with symbols. No !@#$%^&* allowed. Just letters and numbers.
Not only did that significantly decrease password strength (it went from 77^x to 62^x for a given length x), it also made it impossible for me to remember my password. I had to write down instructions on how to regenerate it (change the $ to 4, * to 8, and so on by not using shift, and drop the _ entirely). Most people would've just wrote down their password, making it even more secure.
Needless to say, I rarely used their website anyways, as it was unimaginably slow as well as pointlessly undersecure. Just waited for the monthly snail-mail summary to check my balance.
We still have to trust the person we gave a password to, so that they can access the plaintext information in the first place
The point of it is that you have the passwords, and all "The Cloud" has is the theoretically-useless-and-indistinguishable-from-garbage ciphertext. You can tell The Cloud to perform certain operations and retrieve the data, but there's (theoretically) no way for the Cloud to know what, exactly, they have.
Before they start giving quarterbacks iPads, try letting the refs use the cameras to make more informed decisions. I don't even keep up with football, but I hear constant complaints from friends and family that do about referees making "bad calls" that you can totally see on the instant replay, but apparently they aren't allowed to use that.
(I am quite possibly completely misinformed, here - as I said, this is a problem I know exists only at second hand)
Perhaps the advantage is that it amounts to a giant "FUCK YOU!" to Sony. I for one would totally hack a console just to spite them. If I ever do get a PS3 (used, so they don't get any money), I'll be sure to slap Linux on it just because.
To be fair, he says that about everything. You could tell him that you made him an open-source sandwich ("sudo make sandwich"), but the mayonnaise was under CC-NC-ND, and he would launch into a rant on how "fake open source is destroying the global economy" and that they might as well be molesting his taste buds with their incompatible, anti-change licenses.
Because before, companies would either not even know that it was possible for someone to do that (they would assume that the company actually wrote the code it was selling), or they would view the open-source one as unreliable and unusable simply because it was "unprofessional" (as if adding a price tag to the code magically made it better).
Now, even businesses that hate open source are aware of it. There's enough examples of huge open-source successes both in "being widely used" AND in "makes the investors money", from Apache to MediaWiki to Quake to zlib. And with all the "Facebook uses ____" (fill in your own favorite open-source thingie) headlines combined with how Facebook alone is nearly another investment bubble, a lot of companies are thinking open-source isn't inherently bad, possibly even the Way To Do Things.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure you will), but wasn't the point of the GPL to enforce the rules of open-source while it was still emerging? The idea was that open-source projects would be more vulnerable when the open-source movement was new, and it would be more likely that some company would take BSD-licensed code and not just release it as their own, but be able to effectively relegate the open-source one to a small niche of irrelevancy. Now that pretty much every company takes open source seriously, it's not as necessary - if someone were to take Firefox, tweak the branding, and release it as their own commercial product, they wouldn't be able to take all the marketshare Firefox has simply by virtue of being a "real" company, not "a bunch of open-source basement-dwelling commie nerds".
Uh, unless something's changed, Verizon never had CarrierIQ to begin with. If you're concerned about it, I think "never did it" trumps "stopped doing it when they got caught".
Brazil I imagine has rather high infection rates, due to the high piracy rates (I'm pretty sure Windows_XP_NoWGA_+_Keygen.torrent doesn't have all the patches slipstreamed in).
Australia is probably just because if the inhabitants can handle thousands of incredibly toxic spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, and even exploding trees, they can probably handle a browser that's slightly more broken than normal.
Shit, I remember reading about that in school. Latin class, to be specific - translating a section of Cassius Dio's Historia Romana about its construction. That alone tells you how incredibly old and overdesigned that thing is.
Apparently they didn't teach spelling at business school, though: Vendors, not venders You meant would, not word ("word distract"?). "Failed miserably", not "failed miserable" Investments, not envestments
An example might be to create a software program that outputs every possible combination of notes permissible under the rules of standard musical notation, then file copyright on it. Using this copyrighted "song", file DMCA takedown notices of every single big media production featuring a musical score, claiming that they are profiting illegally from a partial inclusion of your copyrighted "song".
Problem: Copyright applies to the recordings, not to the score. Hence why many copies of Bach or Chopin are still under copyright - they may have been *written* centuries ago, but they were recorded *now*, so the copyright is *now*.
If it weren't for that, what you propose would've effectively already happened naturally via old music entering public domain.
Ah, but remember, corporations have been legally declared people. The only difference between John Q. Citizen and Ubercorp GmbH-LLC, Incorporated is... well, campaign donation limits and taxation.
Or hell, just find some jurisdiction where the old laws are still on the books, and challenge the other to a duel. Throw down the gauntlet, demand your satisfaction, pistols at dawn, field of honor, and so on.
In addition, trial by combat has never been explicitly made illegal in the United States (according to Wikipedia, IANAL, citation needed, etc.)
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Thermonuclear weapons are cheaper.
know enough Russian to 'ask for a lift.'
"Odin jezda na kosmose, pozalujsta. Spasibo."
(I'm probably massacring that, and await the thousand irate Slavic Slashdotters bickering over my declensions)
Sorry, it's my last year. With senioritis and all, I can barely be assed to actually pay attention, let alone commit a murder over a class. I mean, hiding a body is hard work, and that my normal dump site is still full from the Adobe Illustrator class...
Besides, I just bring my laptop in and do my work for other classes while waiting for IIS. Or play Unreal Tournament.
Make sure the computers themselves are capable of running what you need them to run. Sounds obvious, but I'm currently enrolled in a college course that has us running IIS, Visual Studio and MS Office inside Windows Server 08, all inside VMWare. On a reasonably modern computer with plenty of memory, it would be tolerable. On the Pentium IV, 2GB RAM machines we're using, though, we spend as much time working as we do waiting for the computer to respond.
(If you're about to say "just use LAMP ffs", that's what I told the prof. He said MS is requiring the class be taught this way for them to maintain their MSAA license).
What about the actual application usage by end-users? Will the x86 Android phone come with an ARM emulator to run applications that has native ARM libraries (at least until there are enough generic or x86-specific Android apps)?
Andoid apps are run on a platform-independent, Java-esque virtual machine. All that would need porting is Dalvik, not the individual apps.
Because death would be too good for them. *
(* still hyperbole)
1) It would be logical to test in any large market. Europe would probably be the best (more logical healthcare, in general), but I assume America's proximity to Canada made it a more attractive option in this case.
2) Perhaps I phrased it wrong. I know the US is a bureaucratic nightmare to get a drug approved in, particularly relative to Europe. They may have had sufficient confidence in their vaccine that they thought, "hey, if we can get it approved in America, getting it approved elsewhere will be easy".
I assume it's because they want to run the trials in the United States. I imagine there's practical reasons for that - the US is a pretty significant pharma market, and anything denied there is quite likely to be blocked in other countries, whereas Canada is a smaller country (11% the size of the US by population) that's not as critical for a pharmaceutical company to sell in.
Did you know that you can lie to people on the Internet? Like, just straight up not tell the truth.
Amazing technology, this "internet", isn't it?
Hell, finance in general is retarded.
I have a "regular password" that I tend to use for everything (about a year ago, I started adding a use-specific suffix so someone who stole one password wouldn't automatically have the rest).
It's a fairly secure one, but it includes a _, a $ and a * (as well as a number and letters of both cases). Linux was fine with it. Windows was fine with it. GMail was fine with it. Slashdot was fine with it. Various mailing lists were fine with it. The only things not fine with it?
Debit card PIN (only four numbers!)
Voicemail passcode (also only four numbers!)
Wachovia's online banking system (wait, what?)
Yep. Wachovia did not allow passwords with symbols. No !@#$%^&* allowed. Just letters and numbers.
Not only did that significantly decrease password strength (it went from 77^x to 62^x for a given length x), it also made it impossible for me to remember my password. I had to write down instructions on how to regenerate it (change the $ to 4, * to 8, and so on by not using shift, and drop the _ entirely). Most people would've just wrote down their password, making it even more secure.
Needless to say, I rarely used their website anyways, as it was unimaginably slow as well as pointlessly undersecure. Just waited for the monthly snail-mail summary to check my balance.
We still have to trust the person we gave a password to, so that they can access the plaintext information in the first place
The point of it is that you have the passwords, and all "The Cloud" has is the theoretically-useless-and-indistinguishable-from-garbage ciphertext. You can tell The Cloud to perform certain operations and retrieve the data, but there's (theoretically) no way for the Cloud to know what, exactly, they have.
Before they start giving quarterbacks iPads, try letting the refs use the cameras to make more informed decisions. I don't even keep up with football, but I hear constant complaints from friends and family that do about referees making "bad calls" that you can totally see on the instant replay, but apparently they aren't allowed to use that.
(I am quite possibly completely misinformed, here - as I said, this is a problem I know exists only at second hand)
It's for The Cloud. It lets you have the database hosted by people you don't fully trust, without compromising security.
Perhaps the advantage is that it amounts to a giant "FUCK YOU!" to Sony. I for one would totally hack a console just to spite them. If I ever do get a PS3 (used, so they don't get any money), I'll be sure to slap Linux on it just because.
To be fair, he says that about everything. You could tell him that you made him an open-source sandwich ("sudo make sandwich"), but the mayonnaise was under CC-NC-ND, and he would launch into a rant on how "fake open source is destroying the global economy" and that they might as well be molesting his taste buds with their incompatible, anti-change licenses.
Because before, companies would either not even know that it was possible for someone to do that (they would assume that the company actually wrote the code it was selling), or they would view the open-source one as unreliable and unusable simply because it was "unprofessional" (as if adding a price tag to the code magically made it better).
Now, even businesses that hate open source are aware of it. There's enough examples of huge open-source successes both in "being widely used" AND in "makes the investors money", from Apache to MediaWiki to Quake to zlib. And with all the "Facebook uses ____" (fill in your own favorite open-source thingie) headlines combined with how Facebook alone is nearly another investment bubble, a lot of companies are thinking open-source isn't inherently bad, possibly even the Way To Do Things.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure you will), but wasn't the point of the GPL to enforce the rules of open-source while it was still emerging? The idea was that open-source projects would be more vulnerable when the open-source movement was new, and it would be more likely that some company would take BSD-licensed code and not just release it as their own, but be able to effectively relegate the open-source one to a small niche of irrelevancy. Now that pretty much every company takes open source seriously, it's not as necessary - if someone were to take Firefox, tweak the branding, and release it as their own commercial product, they wouldn't be able to take all the marketshare Firefox has simply by virtue of being a "real" company, not "a bunch of open-source basement-dwelling commie nerds".
Uh, unless something's changed, Verizon never had CarrierIQ to begin with. If you're concerned about it, I think "never did it" trumps "stopped doing it when they got caught".
Neither has IE - they call them "Favorites" over there.
Brazil I imagine has rather high infection rates, due to the high piracy rates (I'm pretty sure Windows_XP_NoWGA_+_Keygen.torrent doesn't have all the patches slipstreamed in).
Australia is probably just because if the inhabitants can handle thousands of incredibly toxic spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, and even exploding trees, they can probably handle a browser that's slightly more broken than normal.
Ponte Fabrico
Shit, I remember reading about that in school. Latin class, to be specific - translating a section of Cassius Dio's Historia Romana about its construction. That alone tells you how incredibly old and overdesigned that thing is.
Apparently they didn't teach spelling at business school, though:
Vendors, not venders
You meant would, not word ("word distract"?).
"Failed miserably", not "failed miserable"
Investments, not envestments
An example might be to create a software program that outputs every possible combination of notes permissible under the rules of standard musical notation, then file copyright on it. Using this copyrighted "song", file DMCA takedown notices of every single big media production featuring a musical score, claiming that they are profiting illegally from a partial inclusion of your copyrighted "song".
Problem: Copyright applies to the recordings, not to the score. Hence why many copies of Bach or Chopin are still under copyright - they may have been *written* centuries ago, but they were recorded *now*, so the copyright is *now*.
If it weren't for that, what you propose would've effectively already happened naturally via old music entering public domain.
Ah, but remember, corporations have been legally declared people. The only difference between John Q. Citizen and Ubercorp GmbH-LLC, Incorporated is... well, campaign donation limits and taxation.
Or hell, just find some jurisdiction where the old laws are still on the books, and challenge the other to a duel. Throw down the gauntlet, demand your satisfaction, pistols at dawn, field of honor, and so on.
In addition, trial by combat has never been explicitly made illegal in the United States (according to Wikipedia, IANAL, citation needed, etc.)