This is the first I've heard about the Loon project, and at first I thought it was just a site left over from April 1st. But it's actually a very cool idea for rural connectivity.
git rm id_rsa*; git commit -a -m "problem solved\!"
Not quite. They're already out there. The keys are still in the revision history. People have forked and cloned it.
Hopefully the developers who created these keys know that besides removing them from the repo, the keys can no longer be used. They must be removed from every.ssh/authorized_keys file, every service like Github that uses them for deploying code, etc.
What sites are so damned slow? It's not the Javascript in most cases, it's the asset loading. The tubes are still the bottleneck on the web.
If anything, Javascript is speeding things up. AJAX content updates without a full page refresh are commonplace now, and there are more and more sites that are mostly client-side, using frameworks like Backbone.
They would get a lot more done when they finish their transition over to Git (although they should seriously consider Github instead of whatever custom thing they're building). I've had things to contribute, mostly bugfixes for modules, but the whole community is still stuck on CVS and patch files, so it was too much of a pain to do.
There is something *seriously* wrong with a Content Management System if it prompts someone to write a book on how to use it for editing content.
Never mind the nightmarish coding practices that developers have to deal with, the always-one-version-behind modules, views in the database, or all the other things that make Drupal a pain to work with. The first thing a CMS should do is make content administration simple.
Hopefully Drupal 7 will solve some of these problems...
I'd rather have Adobe create a 64bit browser plugin for non-Linux platforms. The x64 build of Firefox (Minefield) on MacOS 10.6 was nice and fast, but I couldn't use it for a surprisingly high number of sites just because of the lack of Flash support.
And the alpha version for Linux has been "in development" for what, 3 years now?
They don't just mow down the field and turn it all into Cheerios, otherwise you'd have lots of leaves and stalks from the wheat plants in your cereal bowl.
Anyway, such monoculture is unsustainable, especially when combined with our current industrial agriculture practices. It ruins and erodes the soil, is dependent on petroleum and herbicides, and is beginning to require plants with genetic modifications.
I was shocked at the absolute lack of biodiversity the last time I walked through a wheat field. Imagine it: A huge field, hundreds of acres, where they've managed to grow almost nothing but wheat! What a waste.
It works much better without the sarcasm tags. Repeat that over and over, and perhaps you'll get it.
There is something wrong with such a lack of biodiversity, especially when you consider that approximately 40% of the land in the US is currently cultivated like this.
Maybe now that Thawte is making email certification less useful (and more expensive), clients like Thunderbird and Mail.app will start to prefer GPG/PGP. That's all I can hope for anyway, since GPGMail for Mail.app is now broken under Snow Leopard for the foreseeable future.
Are we so sure that intelligent life on distant planets will follow the same path as us? Especially after reading Daniel Quinn's books, it seems far more likely that intelligent beings are living in a similar way that ancient humans did. Complex monocultures like ours seem to be the exception, not the rule, and they are relatively very short-lived (ours was started about 10k years ago, according to Quinn, while the modern human species has been around for much longer).
I don't think there's any reason to assume that other beings will wipe themselves out so quickly (why shouldn't they survive and adapt for millions of years?), but since great technological achievements seem to require an unsustainable lifestyle of conquest and over-use of resources, we might not have much luck contacting or being contacted by them.
(As I'm posting this, I realized that this post is similar to mine, and is probably better written...)
Why? Because you have to oppress someone else because you do not want to have children of your own to compete?
Competition isn't the reason -- it's that we have far too many people on the planet at the expense of other species and our own well-being. I don't see the reason for specifying more than three, though, when the average is already below that, and it still results in population growth. Two should be the maximum.
However, according to people like Daniel Quinn, laws such as this would not do much good. Instead, the food supply must stabilize and slowly shrink.
You must have never tried using/dev/random to wipe a drive. You could easily run it through many passes of/dev/urandom in the same amount of time.
Additionally, I'm not an expert at this, but I think the quality of the random number isn't really important anyway, since you aren't encrypting the existing data. There is no problem in having someone guess the next bit of random data, since that random data is right there on the disk, no matter how it was generated.
It will of course need a modified design, but it can still all be handled by CSS. Just change the background-image URL, or remove the background altogether and do it with text.
Luckily, these days not "supporting" a browser no longer means putting up some kind of error message that says "This site is optimized for X; your browser sucks!" It's more a matter of simply not testing it in IE6.
I recently bought a Mac Pro, and noticed that I could box up my old PC and send it to Apple for recycling for no charge. Of course I didn't send it in, since it's not completely dead yet...
I only glanced at it, but it seems to send the ODF file through an XSLT stylesheet, effectively turning your document into a web page. It's still in development, though.
It seems like it's the same effect as noise cancellation... firing pulses at the exact opposite frequency of the atom.
And about the mirror versus using an actual dime or something else--a perfectly smooth, very thin object probably makes atomic-level laser targeting much easier than a relatively rough object such as a coin.
The Drafthouse is definitely one of the best things about Austin. I live next to two mega-theaters, and I still prefer to go downtown (or S Lamar) for a movie. Pitchers of local beer, decent food for the price of candy and soda at other places, and they don't run ads for 20 minutes before the show.
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This is the first I've heard about the Loon project, and at first I thought it was just a site left over from April 1st. But it's actually a very cool idea for rural connectivity.
Not quite. They're already out there. The keys are still in the revision history. People have forked and cloned it.
Hopefully the developers who created these keys know that besides removing them from the repo, the keys can no longer be used. They must be removed from every .ssh/authorized_keys file, every service like Github that uses them for deploying code, etc.
What sites are so damned slow? It's not the Javascript in most cases, it's the asset loading. The tubes are still the bottleneck on the web.
If anything, Javascript is speeding things up. AJAX content updates without a full page refresh are commonplace now, and there are more and more sites that are mostly client-side, using frameworks like Backbone.
They would get a lot more done when they finish their transition over to Git (although they should seriously consider Github instead of whatever custom thing they're building). I've had things to contribute, mostly bugfixes for modules, but the whole community is still stuck on CVS and patch files, so it was too much of a pain to do.
There's one here in the US called the Franklin Mint that does the same thing.
There is something *seriously* wrong with a Content Management System if it prompts someone to write a book on how to use it for editing content.
Never mind the nightmarish coding practices that developers have to deal with, the always-one-version-behind modules, views in the database, or all the other things that make Drupal a pain to work with. The first thing a CMS should do is make content administration simple.
Hopefully Drupal 7 will solve some of these problems...
Being able to amend the Constitution is exactly what is meant by the term "living document".
I'd rather have Adobe create a 64bit browser plugin for non-Linux platforms. The x64 build of Firefox (Minefield) on MacOS 10.6 was nice and fast, but I couldn't use it for a surprisingly high number of sites just because of the lack of Flash support.
And the alpha version for Linux has been "in development" for what, 3 years now?
I know this is a bit late for a response, but...
They don't just mow down the field and turn it all into Cheerios, otherwise you'd have lots of leaves and stalks from the wheat plants in your cereal bowl.
Anyway, such monoculture is unsustainable, especially when combined with our current industrial agriculture practices. It ruins and erodes the soil, is dependent on petroleum and herbicides, and is beginning to require plants with genetic modifications.
I was shocked at the absolute lack of biodiversity the last time I walked through a wheat field. Imagine it: A huge field, hundreds of acres, where they've managed to grow almost nothing but wheat! What a waste.
It works much better without the sarcasm tags. Repeat that over and over, and perhaps you'll get it.
There is something wrong with such a lack of biodiversity, especially when you consider that approximately 40% of the land in the US is currently cultivated like this.
Somebody should go there and wave "God hates IE6" signs.
If only I had mod points today...
Would this affect legality of "normal" drinks like coffee porters/stouts? How about Irish coffee?
Maybe now that Thawte is making email certification less useful (and more expensive), clients like Thunderbird and Mail.app will start to prefer GPG/PGP. That's all I can hope for anyway, since GPGMail for Mail.app is now broken under Snow Leopard for the foreseeable future.
Only if you purchased a new computer from Apple after June 8th.
Are we so sure that intelligent life on distant planets will follow the same path as us? Especially after reading Daniel Quinn's books, it seems far more likely that intelligent beings are living in a similar way that ancient humans did. Complex monocultures like ours seem to be the exception, not the rule, and they are relatively very short-lived (ours was started about 10k years ago, according to Quinn, while the modern human species has been around for much longer).
I don't think there's any reason to assume that other beings will wipe themselves out so quickly (why shouldn't they survive and adapt for millions of years?), but since great technological achievements seem to require an unsustainable lifestyle of conquest and over-use of resources, we might not have much luck contacting or being contacted by them.
(As I'm posting this, I realized that this post is similar to mine, and is probably better written...)
more than 3 children should be illegal
Why? Because you have to oppress someone else because you do not want to have children of your own to compete?
Competition isn't the reason -- it's that we have far too many people on the planet at the expense of other species and our own well-being. I don't see the reason for specifying more than three, though, when the average is already below that, and it still results in population growth. Two should be the maximum.
However, according to people like Daniel Quinn, laws such as this would not do much good. Instead, the food supply must stabilize and slowly shrink.
You must have never tried using /dev/random to wipe a drive. You could easily run it through many passes of /dev/urandom in the same amount of time.
Additionally, I'm not an expert at this, but I think the quality of the random number isn't really important anyway, since you aren't encrypting the existing data. There is no problem in having someone guess the next bit of random data, since that random data is right there on the disk, no matter how it was generated.
The point of the object tag is that it can fall back on a nested element if the preferred object can't be displayed.
A video tag sounds like a terrible idea, when XHTML is heading in the direction of replacing image tags with objects.
However, the article does not say that all of these things were taken from the same person, or even on the same day.
It will of course need a modified design, but it can still all be handled by CSS. Just change the background-image URL, or remove the background altogether and do it with text.
Luckily, these days not "supporting" a browser no longer means putting up some kind of error message that says "This site is optimized for X; your browser sucks!" It's more a matter of simply not testing it in IE6.
I recently bought a Mac Pro, and noticed that I could box up my old PC and send it to Apple for recycling for no charge. Of course I didn't send it in, since it's not completely dead yet...
There might be something else out there, like an Acrobat Reader style OOo plugin, but this extension looks interesting: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Firefox_O DFReader_extension
I only glanced at it, but it seems to send the ODF file through an XSLT stylesheet, effectively turning your document into a web page. It's still in development, though.
It seems like it's the same effect as noise cancellation... firing pulses at the exact opposite frequency of the atom.
And about the mirror versus using an actual dime or something else--a perfectly smooth, very thin object probably makes atomic-level laser targeting much easier than a relatively rough object such as a coin.
The Drafthouse is definitely one of the best things about Austin. I live next to two mega-theaters, and I still prefer to go downtown (or S Lamar) for a movie. Pitchers of local beer, decent food for the price of candy and soda at other places, and they don't run ads for 20 minutes before the show.
The Open Projector night is pretty cool, too.