"... On average, enabling 64-bit WEP encryption extracts an approximate 5% performance penalty. Depending on your need for security versus speed, that penalty may be a little or a lot. The same average 5% penalty applies when WEP is enabled in high speed mode."
"Our federal government's 15-year industrial policy to make sure the conversion to HDTV is complete by 2006 looks more like an impending train wreck with each passing month."
"What went wrong? A lot of things are to blame but ultimately it comes down to a federal industrial policy that substitutes bureaucratic mandates for the wisdom of markets and the desires of consumers."
"There are no easy escape routes from this industrial policy mess. Perhaps the best solution would be to cut our losses and allow the broadcasters to keep what they've got, and more importantly, to sell it as they wish. This option would be difficult for some to swallow because the broadcasters would be getting away with murder. But it would achieve the important goal of freeing the spectrum they're hoarding by encouraging them to sell it through private auctions to those who value it more highly. And it would get the feds out of the business of micro-managing the television industry."
"Congress should have auctioned off this spectrum back in the mid-1990s and let the chips fall where they may. HDTV would probably have emerged, but through other means (satellite or cable), and other wireless providers would have snatched up the spectrum at auction and put it to better use. As it stands now, we're left with the mother of all industrial policies, and few pretty TV pictures to show for it." (more...)
"Hopefully they will replace the paypal [employees] with the nice eBay people." -pictureman1
"Not sure how I feel about this one. I think I'm leaning towards not happy here. Billpoint has been so easy to use/accept." -luvs-to-read-2
"Will PayPal change and put in place security for sellers against chargebacks as Billpoint has? Will PayPal demand now that everyone be verified and charge a fee to everyone thereby forcing it to be a business type venue as it should be? Will PayPal now quit freezing folks accounts and tying up there funds on a whim without just cause?" -ishipfree.biz
"eBay Payments (Billpoint) will continue to function as a provider of online payment services until the acquisition is finalized around year-end 2002. At that time we plan to phase out eBay Payments (Billpoint) as we integrate PayPal into our platform. Since a majority of eBay Payments (Billpoint) users already use PayPal too, the transition will be quite simple for them. For eBay Payments (Billpoint) users who have never used PayPal, we will work closely with them to make sure that the transition happens in the most user-friendly way possible."
Found the bug, (140638) but after browsing numerous pages on nytimes.com and maccentral.com, I still can't get popups to appear. (Mozilla 1.0 2002053012, Open unrequested windows unchecked)
Some of the code nytimes uses:
function pop_me_up(pURL,features){
new_window = window.open (pURL, "popup_window", features);
new_window.focus();
}
function pop_me_up2(pURL,name,features){
new_window = window.open (pURL,name,features);
new_window.focus();
Speaking of pop-ups, from the NewsForge article -- "It'd be even greater if it worked all the
time -- the popups at some sites still keep popping -- nytimes.com, for example."
Can anyone reproduce this?
I tried several pages on nytimes.com and nothing popped up for me.
It's free, and doesn't report anything back to anyone. In other words, it's not spyware or adware.
Actually a pretty useful tool. Not only tells you what you have on your system, but reports free memory slots and current CPU speed as well.
Print the output, use as a handy reference.
Should you ever reformat, the list might come in handy.
You'll likely discover software you didn't know you had.
So was it insightful or not?
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Reminds me of an old joke about double negatives:
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
"In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive.
In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. However," he pointed out, "there is no
language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah. Right."
Scripts and Windows
x Enable Javascript
x Open Windows by themselves
x Move or resize existing windows
x Make windows flip over or under other windows
x Change status bar text
x Change Images
x Create or change cookies
x Read cookies
Can you guess which one stops pop-ups?
Would a usabilityexpert know what half these prefs mean?
Good job on the prefs, Moz-team, but please, hire Jakob Nielsen before 1.0 ships.
"The D.M.C.A. outlaws technologies designed to circumvent other technologies
that protect copyrighted material. It is law protecting software code
protecting copyright. The trouble, however, is that technologies that
protect copyrighted material are never as subtle as the law of copyright.
Copyright law permits fair use of copyrighted material; technologies that
protect copyrighted material need not. Copyright law protects for a limited
time; technologies have no such limit.
"Thus when the D.M.C.A. protects technology that in turn protects
copyrighted material, it often protects much more broadly than copyright law
does. It makes criminal what copyright law would forgive...
"Authors have an important and legitimate interest in protecting their
copyrights. The law should help authors where it can. But the law should not
push its power beyond the protection of copyright, and the law should
especially not criminalize activities that are central to research in
encryption and security." --Lawrence Lessig, in a July 31, 2001 NY Times op-ed
Add a few bulleted examples of how the D.M.C.A. affects the typical web surfer's life and he'll sit up and listen.
fictitious force, n. Coriolis isn't even a real force, since it doesn't make anything speed up or slow down -- it only explains why things appear to speed or slow as the world spins out from under them. This sort of impostor is known as a fictitious force.
Water in the sink doesn't go far enough to trigger a noticeable north/south deflection. Most often, it simply spirals down the sink the way it went into the sink, and the same is true of things like the famous "demonstration" of the Coriolis force shown at tourist traps along the Equator. Maybe there's a conspiracy to manufacture right-handed sinks in the Northern Hemisphere and left-handed sinks in the Southern Hemisphere?
In any case, don't blame it on the Coriolis force unless your sink [or toilet] is the size of a small ocean.
Slashdot Mirror
"... On average, enabling 64-bit WEP encryption extracts an approximate 5% performance penalty. Depending on your need for security versus speed, that penalty may be a little or a lot. The same average 5% penalty applies when WEP is enabled in high speed mode."
"Our federal government's 15-year industrial policy to make sure the conversion to HDTV is complete by 2006 looks more like an impending train wreck with each passing month."
"What went wrong? A lot of things are to blame but ultimately it comes down to a federal industrial policy that substitutes bureaucratic mandates for the wisdom of markets and the desires of consumers."
"There are no easy escape routes from this industrial policy mess. Perhaps the best solution would be to cut our losses and allow the broadcasters to keep what they've got, and more importantly, to sell it as they wish. This option would be difficult for some to swallow because the broadcasters would be getting away with murder. But it would achieve the important goal of freeing the spectrum they're hoarding by encouraging them to sell it through private auctions to those who value it more highly. And it would get the feds out of the business of micro-managing the television industry."
"Congress should have auctioned off this spectrum back in the mid-1990s and let the chips fall where they may. HDTV would probably have emerged, but through other means (satellite or cable), and other wireless providers would have snatched up the spectrum at auction and put it to better use. As it stands now, we're left with the mother of all industrial policies, and few pretty TV pictures to show for it." (more...)
... back on v1.0. Cool, but it made Mozilla crash a lot. Many talkbacks submitted.
...
Gestures got uninstalled in under two hours, after which Moz never crashed again.
Hope things work better in 1.1b
But at least he knows how to water that lawn really well.
"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." -- Mark Twain
Selected commentary:
"Hopefully they will replace the paypal [employees] with the nice eBay people." -pictureman1
"Not sure how I feel about this one. I think I'm leaning towards not happy here. Billpoint has been so easy to use/accept." -luvs-to-read-2
"Will PayPal change and put in place security for sellers against chargebacks as Billpoint has? Will PayPal demand now that everyone be verified and charge a fee to everyone thereby forcing it to be a business type venue as it should be? Will PayPal now quit freezing folks accounts and tying up there funds on a whim without just cause?" -ishipfree.biz
Nobody knew what a "Zshop" was.
Amazon hasn't promoted Zshops or Auctions in years -- they earn far more profit on Marketplace sales.
What will happen to eBay Payments (Billpoint) users?
"eBay Payments (Billpoint) will continue to function as a provider of online payment services until the acquisition is finalized around year-end 2002. At that time we plan to phase out eBay Payments (Billpoint) as we integrate PayPal into our platform. Since a majority of eBay Payments (Billpoint) users already use PayPal too, the transition will be quite simple for them. For eBay Payments (Billpoint) users who have never used PayPal, we will work closely with them to make sure that the transition happens in the most user-friendly way possible."
FAQ
Original announcement
Discussion #1
Discussion #2
First look at the teaser poster and more plot speculations were reported first at corona.
Here's the screenshot.
Plus, it's coded by some guy at Microsoft. :
Spilt coffee into my Microsoft Natural Keyboard and two keys stopped working.
So I tried to wash it.
Now all the keys don't work.
Some of the code nytimes uses:
function pop_me_up(pURL,features){
new_window = window.open
(pURL, "popup_window", features);
new_window.focus();
}
function pop_me_up2(pURL,name,features){
new_window = window.open
(pURL,name,features);
new_window.focus();
Can anyone reproduce this? I tried several pages on nytimes.com and nothing popped up for me.
Notable is their Opera 7 wishlist, which includes a wish for configurable keyboard shortcuts. (yes please)
is that some of the fake emails it generates will be real.
Why you should not use a flag as a symbol of a language
It's free, and doesn't report anything back to anyone.
In other words, it's not spyware or adware.
Actually a pretty useful tool.
Not only tells you what you have on your system,
but reports free memory slots and current CPU speed as well.
Print the output, use as a handy reference.
Should you ever reformat, the list might come in handy.
You'll likely discover software you didn't know you had.
Can you guess which one stops pop-ups?
Would a usability expert know what half these prefs mean?
Good job on the prefs, Moz-team, but please, hire Jakob Nielsen before 1.0 ships.
Greyfox made an interesting post that might help you: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25189&cid=2739 024.
Add a few bulleted examples of how the D.M.C.A. affects the typical web surfer's life and he'll sit up and listen.
Already done.
Primary Function: Heavy bomber
Contractor: Boeing Military Airplane Co.
Power plant: Eight Pratt & Whitney engines TF33-P-3/103 turbofan
Thrust: Each engine up to 17,000 pounds
Length: 159 feet, 4 inches (48.5 meters)
Height: 40 feet, 8 inches (12.4 meters)
Wingspan: 185 feet (56.4 meters)
Speed: 650 miles per hour (Mach 0.86)
Ceiling: 50,000 feet (15,151.5 meters)
Weight: Approximately 185,000 pounds empty (83,250 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 488,000 pounds (219,600 kilograms)
Range: Unrefueled 8,800 miles (7,652 nautical miles)
Armament: Approximately 70,000 pounds (31,500 kilograms) mixed ordnance -- bombs, mines and missiles. (Modified to carry air-launched cruise missiles, Harpoon anti-ship and Have Nap missiles.)
Crew: Five (aircraft commander, pilot, radar navigator, navigator and electronic warfare officer)
Accommodations: Six ejection seats
Unit Cost: $74 million
Date Deployed: February 1955
Inventory: Active force, 85; ANG, 0; Reserve, 9
More facts and an imposing photo at AF.MIL
Oh btw, great post, Hemos / Merry / Greygent!
Quick, change the headline before someone notices!
Acceptable choices include:
Automated Ripping with CD Jukeboxes?
Automated Ripping with a CD Jukebox?
Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!
Good site too. (linuxbrit.co.uk/procmail)