Yes, the Windows x64 3.0.0 version is now at http://download.videolan.org/v.... I downloaded and installed it. It works fine for both streaming broadcasts and local.mp4 video files on my PC.
The home page for VideoLAN at https://www.videolan.org/ still indicates the current version is 2.2.8. The downloads page at http://download.videolan.org/v... does show a version 3.0.0. For Windows, however, there is no x64 version yet. Since I usually use VLC for listening to streaming broadcasts of classical music, I will wait for an x64 Windows version.
I believe it is very important to expose the jackass for what he is and not to hide him. Hiding Trump's mutterings would be far more dangerous to our democracy than anything he tweets.
I tried the test at http://test-ipv6.com/ cited in the article. It said "Connections to IPv6-only sites are timing out. Any web site that is IPv6 only, will appear to be down to you."
I have a browser extension that displays the IP address of whatever Web page I am viewing. I often see IPv6 addresses in that display. While some IPv6 addresses might not be available to me, that could be a case of a server down or the address defunct. In any case, Web sites with IPv6 addresses do not appear down for me.
While my browser does indeed render IPv6 Web pages okay, I have disabled IPv6 for my newsgroup (NNTP) reader. One NNTP server to which I subscribe too often times out unless I disable IPv6. I do not know if that is a problem with the server or with my NNTP reader application. I really do not care.
On 8 December 2017 at around 01:54 UTC, bitcoin was over US$17,147. Less than 11 hours later -- 8 December 2017 at around 11:35 UTC -- it was less than US$14,100. That is a drop of 18% or 1.84% per hour.
The gHacks news item dated 4 December linked in this Slashdot article says: "The developer of the popular Classic Shell application for Microsoft's Windows operating system released the last version of the program yesterday." The Web site for Classic Shell says the latest version is 4.3.1, the version I installed under Windows 7 more than three months ago. Was a newer version really released this month?
I just now visited a few Web sites that do geolocation.
One site has me at the opposite end of the county in which I live, about 40 miles away. On repeating that request, that same Web site placed me in Moscow, Russia.
Another Web site has me in a city in an adjacent county. Two other sites have me in different states. Accuweather has me in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, DC; but I am actually about 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
All this is because I use a browser extension that sends fake headers when I request a Web page.
I notice that many of the comments on this topic praise how well Winamp plays mp3 files. I installed it, however, because I enjoy streaming classical music (from radio stations that also stream into the Internet) and many of the streams could not be played by RealPlayer (which at one time was a dominant streaming application). Even today, there are streams that are mp3, mp4, m3u, sdp, ram, and possibly others. I now have Winamp, VideoLAN (VLC), and RealAudio so that I can "play" all of them. (VLC seems to be able to play most of them.) I have very few music files on my PC, but I have a list of radio stations that stream into the Internet.
By the way, if any application for streaming is crap, it must be Windows Media Player (Does it still exists?). And I really dislike streams that use Web-based players that require you remain on the source's Web page.
If I were involved in a lawsuit (civil, not criminal) and wanted to send relevant documentation to my attorney, I would definitely want end-to-end encryption. After all, there have been real instances of attorneys and their private investigators engaging in illegal practices in attempts to gain sensitive data about their opponents.
First of all, see "Stop Password Masking" at https://www.nngroup.com/articl.... The author, Jakob Nielsen, is supposedly an expert on human-computer interfaces.
The PGP encryption application likely has the best implementation. When entering a pass-phrase (more complex than a mere password), there is a checkbox to expose what is entered. When starting the application, the default is always to have the checkbox cleared, which means hide the pass-phrase.
I have never been mugged or forcibly robbed. While vacationing in Washington DC, however, my pocket was picked. My wallet contained about $150 in cash, driver's license, Visa card, Medicare card, and some cherished family photos. By the time I contacted Visa, the pickpocket had exhausted my credit limit. Yes, Visa cancelled the card and sent me a new one, but they did not cancel the bogus charges for several days. Thus, my new card was worthless. We had to put our hotel bill and charge our meals on my wife's Master Card. Before the new card arrived, I went to a credit union that was on the same Service Center network as the credit union where I have an account and was able to get $200 from my checking account without having to write a check. (The Service Center concept is like going into Wells Fargo and making a withdrawal or deposit for a Bank of America account.) For me, cash is always available while plastic might have a delay several days if there is a problem.
I always try to keep at least $40 in my wallet. If I get that low, I visit a no-fee ATM (also a credit union feature) and get $100 to $120 more. On the other hand, my wife rarely has more than $20 in her purse. She writes many checks for less than $10.
As for the pickpocket having my Medicare Card, I had already used a hole punch to remove all the digits of my Medicare number. After all, my Medicare number is also my Social Security number. A California driver's license does not contain a Social Security number. Thus, I was protected against identity theft.
We traveled from Washington DC to Chicago via Amtrak. While still in Washington, I notified the travel agent through whom I had booked the trip. To fly home from Chicago, I had no ID -- no wallet -- for airport security. My travel agent had notified the airline; and I cleared security more quickly than did my wife, who had her driver's license for ID. I was not able to replace my stolen driver's license until I returned to California.
As requested by Visa, I filed a crime report with the Washington DC police department. The pickpocket had charged some $7,000 for merchandise at an electronics store. In many jurisdictions, this is grand theft, a felony. Since this was apparently a local independent store, I thought the police might actually be able to identify the culprit. When I mailed a letter to the DC police department several weeks later asking about the crime, I receive no response.
So far this calendar year, Symantec has had at least two failures in its operations, failures that had the possibility of creating significant security vulnerabilities for end-users. Mozilla has demanded that Symantec remedy the situation, with Mozilla requiring a clear schedule for implementing the remedies.
If a house with extensive I0T devices is being monitored, the mere existence of Internet traffic can be a serious problem. If such traffic ceases or merely drops, that can be an indicator that no one is home, making the house a target for burglars.
More than four years ago, this vulnerability was described relative to so-called smart electric meters. The lack of encryption in the signals transmitted by those meters made it even easier to determine which houses should be targeted for burglary. That is because a vacant house might still have a refrigerator running or a lamp left on. With no encryption, the meter readings can be analyzed to determine the amount of electricity being used. Minimal usage means no one is home. The reality of this vulnerability was described in a research paper presented at the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in 2012.
U.S. citizens should be far more concerned about what was leaked than the fact that there were leaks. The leaks clearly show our government is out of control, spying on us citizens without cause.
No, this spying did not start with either Trump or Obama. It might have started with one of the Bushes, or it might have started even earlier. Whenever it started, it should stop.
However, Trump want this spying to continue. That is the real reason for his focus on ending the leaks.
I tried Browserprint twice just now. Each time, it gave a different browser, none of which were correct. In one case, it even responded that I was using a Mac; but I am using a Windows PC.
Browserprint is not new. I first tried Browserprint almost a year ago. I have also tried Panopticlick several times. Secret Agent always defeats the attempt to identify my browser.
The cover article in the March 2017 issue of Scientific American was about using multiple light sails and miniature sensors to visit Alpha Centauri, with a large array of lasers -- either earth-based or space-based -- as the primary accelerant. The use of light sails, however, can be problematical.
First of all, consider solar wind, the stream of gases and particles emitted by the sun. If solar wind is faster than the sails, it will accelerate them beyond the force of the proposed laser array. If the solar wind is slower than the sails, however, the sails will decelerate. In either case, the solar wind and the sun's gravity can alter the trajectory of the sails.
The Oort cloud also requires consideration. If the sails are not punctured by the particles in the Oort cloud, impacts of those particles on the sails will decelerate them. If the sails are punctured, they will become useless in decelerating the sensors when the target star is approached.
Then there is the fact that space is not a perfect vacuum. Without dark matter, space still contains gas and dust, which can decelerate the sails. If dark matter does indeed pervade space, the deceleration might be sufficient to prevent the sails and their sensors from ever reaching their target stars.
This does not make the concept of light sails impossible. Before such a project is launched, however, more knowledge is needed about the solar wind, the Oort cloud, and what exists in space between here and any target star.
Some password managers rely on remote servers or the cloud to store your password. That is risky for two reasons. (1) A service holding passwords for many users is a more likely target for hackers than your own individual computer. (2) If the server or cloud service goes down even temporarily, you are stuck without your passwords.
You should choose a password manager application that is installed within your computer and does not rely on you having an Internet connection. The application should use a master password -- actually a master pass-phrase -- to encrypt the individual passwords. That master pass-phrase itself is not stored anywhere. Instead, if it is entered incorrectly, it fails to decrypt any passwords. By "pass-phrase", I mean a longer expression containing blanks, punctuation, etc.
Note that Mozilla-based applications have internal password managers that reflect my second paragraph above.
There already is a Web page called "Internet Health Report" at http://internetpulse.keynote.c.... It has been reporting the status of the U.S. backbone providers since possibly 1993 (23+ years). At least, that was when the domain keynote.com was first registered.
It reports latency in msec, percent availability, and percent of packets lost. The page is copyrighted. The terms of service indicate there might be a trademark on the name "Internet Health Report".
This was presented more than 50 years ago by Gordan J. F. MacDonald, at that time professor of geophysics at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. His paper "Origin of the Moon: Dynamical Considerations" appeared in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on 7 May 1965. As one of his computer programmers, I did the calculations for that paper. I think, however, that I might have done those calculations a few years earlier and that MacDonald published the same theory earlier than 1965.
The basic issue is not about bitcoin. It is about the scope of warrants, summonses, and subpoenas. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, > papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, > shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable > cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing > the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I doubt there is "probable cause" that tax evasion has indeed been committed by Coinbase's users. Such a broad summons fails to describe which persons' accounts are to be examined. Since the summons was served on Coinbase, which has not been suspected of a crime, a challenge of the summons to appeals courts or the US Supreme Court might be very successful.
Only 19 persons were tested. All were from the same religion. There was no control set of non-religious individuals tested to see if the MRI scans were indeed representative of "religious and spiritual experience".
Most important, the Slashdot headline "Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds " differs from the title of the original study report. In the original report, the title is "Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons", clearly limiting the scope of the study to one religion.
I too wonder about the efficiency. Relative to the amount of electricity that can be obtained by burning the ethanol, how much electricity is required to run the conversion? How much can be obtained relative to the amount electricity needed to dissolve CO2 in water?
I do not know about Chrome. However, there are two preferences that control the checks for malware and phishing sites in Mozilla-based browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey).
For SeaMonkey:
1. Select [Edit > Preferences] on the menu bar.
2. On the Preferences window, select Privacy & Security.
3. On the Privacy & Security pane, there are two checkboxes, one for malware Web sites and one for phishing sites. Unchecking a checkbox disables the corresponding check.
For Firefox, I am not sure if there is a user interface. However, the preference variable browser.safebrowsing.enabled controls the check for phishing Web sites; and the preference variable browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled controls the check for mailware sites. Setting one of these to False via about:config disables the corresponding check. I have the PrefBar extension installed for SeaMonkey. In it, I created buttons to enable and disable each of these checks.
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Yes, the Windows x64 3.0.0 version is now at http://download.videolan.org/v.... I downloaded and installed it. It works fine for both streaming broadcasts and local .mp4 video files on my PC.
And it's been years since the last version of VLC was released. We've been waiting for WebM WebVTT subtitle support for that entire time.
It has NOT been years since the last version of VLC. Version 2.2.8 was released for OS X and Windows (both x32 and x64) less than three months ago.
The home page for VideoLAN at https://www.videolan.org/ still indicates the current version is 2.2.8. The downloads page at http://download.videolan.org/v... does show a version 3.0.0. For Windows, however, there is no x64 version yet. Since I usually use VLC for listening to streaming broadcasts of classical music, I will wait for an x64 Windows version.
I believe it is very important to expose the jackass for what he is and not to hide him. Hiding Trump's mutterings would be far more dangerous to our democracy than anything he tweets.
I tried the test at http://test-ipv6.com/ cited in the article. It said "Connections to IPv6-only sites are timing out. Any web site that is IPv6 only, will appear to be down to you."
According to the test site Down For Everyone Or Just Me at http://downforeveryoneorjustme..., the IPv6 test URI http://ipv6.vm1.test-ipv6.com/... -- timed out for me -- is down for everyone. The IPv6 test URI http://2001470118119/ip/?callb... gives the result "Huh? [2001:470:1:18::119] doesn't look like a site on the interwho." (While the IPv6 address in that URI copied and pasted correctly in http://downforeveryoneorjustme..., Slashdot's editor for this comment deleted the colons in the preview.)
I have a browser extension that displays the IP address of whatever Web page I am viewing. I often see IPv6 addresses in that display. While some IPv6 addresses might not be available to me, that could be a case of a server down or the address defunct. In any case, Web sites with IPv6 addresses do not appear down for me.
While my browser does indeed render IPv6 Web pages okay, I have disabled IPv6 for my newsgroup (NNTP) reader. One NNTP server to which I subscribe too often times out unless I disable IPv6. I do not know if that is a problem with the server or with my NNTP reader application. I really do not care.
On 8 December 2017 at around 01:54 UTC, bitcoin was over US$17,147. Less than 11 hours later -- 8 December 2017 at around 11:35 UTC -- it was less than US$14,100. That is a drop of 18% or 1.84% per hour.
The gHacks news item dated 4 December linked in this Slashdot article says: "The developer of the popular Classic Shell application for Microsoft's Windows operating system released the last version of the program yesterday." The Web site for Classic Shell says the latest version is 4.3.1, the version I installed under Windows 7 more than three months ago. Was a newer version really released this month?
I do not understand why some people in the U.S. are adverse to using the National Weather Service, which does not track your visits to its Web sites.
I just now visited a few Web sites that do geolocation.
One site has me at the opposite end of the county in which I live, about 40 miles away. On repeating that request, that same Web site placed me in Moscow, Russia.
Another Web site has me in a city in an adjacent county. Two other sites have me in different states. Accuweather has me in Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington, DC; but I am actually about 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
All this is because I use a browser extension that sends fake headers when I request a Web page.
I notice that many of the comments on this topic praise how well Winamp plays mp3 files. I installed it, however, because I enjoy streaming classical music (from radio stations that also stream into the Internet) and many of the streams could not be played by RealPlayer (which at one time was a dominant streaming application). Even today, there are streams that are mp3, mp4, m3u, sdp, ram, and possibly others. I now have Winamp, VideoLAN (VLC), and RealAudio so that I can "play" all of them. (VLC seems to be able to play most of them.) I have very few music files on my PC, but I have a list of radio stations that stream into the Internet.
By the way, if any application for streaming is crap, it must be Windows Media Player (Does it still exists?). And I really dislike streams that use Web-based players that require you remain on the source's Web page.
If I were involved in a lawsuit (civil, not criminal) and wanted to send relevant documentation to my attorney, I would definitely want end-to-end encryption. After all, there have been real instances of attorneys and their private investigators engaging in illegal practices in attempts to gain sensitive data about their opponents.
For other reasons why end-to-end encryption might be important to non-terrorists, see my http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_....
First of all, see "Stop Password Masking" at https://www.nngroup.com/articl.... The author, Jakob Nielsen, is supposedly an expert on human-computer interfaces.
The PGP encryption application likely has the best implementation. When entering a pass-phrase (more complex than a mere password), there is a checkbox to expose what is entered. When starting the application, the default is always to have the checkbox cleared, which means hide the pass-phrase.
I have never been mugged or forcibly robbed. While vacationing in Washington DC, however, my pocket was picked. My wallet contained about $150 in cash, driver's license, Visa card, Medicare card, and some cherished family photos. By the time I contacted Visa, the pickpocket had exhausted my credit limit. Yes, Visa cancelled the card and sent me a new one, but they did not cancel the bogus charges for several days. Thus, my new card was worthless. We had to put our hotel bill and charge our meals on my wife's Master Card. Before the new card arrived, I went to a credit union that was on the same Service Center network as the credit union where I have an account and was able to get $200 from my checking account without having to write a check. (The Service Center concept is like going into Wells Fargo and making a withdrawal or deposit for a Bank of America account.) For me, cash is always available while plastic might have a delay several days if there is a problem.
I always try to keep at least $40 in my wallet. If I get that low, I visit a no-fee ATM (also a credit union feature) and get $100 to $120 more. On the other hand, my wife rarely has more than $20 in her purse. She writes many checks for less than $10.
As for the pickpocket having my Medicare Card, I had already used a hole punch to remove all the digits of my Medicare number. After all, my Medicare number is also my Social Security number. A California driver's license does not contain a Social Security number. Thus, I was protected against identity theft.
We traveled from Washington DC to Chicago via Amtrak. While still in Washington, I notified the travel agent through whom I had booked the trip. To fly home from Chicago, I had no ID -- no wallet -- for airport security. My travel agent had notified the airline; and I cleared security more quickly than did my wife, who had her driver's license for ID. I was not able to replace my stolen driver's license until I returned to California.
As requested by Visa, I filed a crime report with the Washington DC police department. The pickpocket had charged some $7,000 for merchandise at an electronics store. In many jurisdictions, this is grand theft, a felony. Since this was apparently a local independent store, I thought the police might actually be able to identify the culprit. When I mailed a letter to the DC police department several weeks later asking about the crime, I receive no response.
So far this calendar year, Symantec has had at least two failures in its operations, failures that had the possibility of creating significant security vulnerabilities for end-users. Mozilla has demanded that Symantec remedy the situation, with Mozilla requiring a clear schedule for implementing the remedies.
If a house with extensive I0T devices is being monitored, the mere existence of Internet traffic can be a serious problem. If such traffic ceases or merely drops, that can be an indicator that no one is home, making the house a target for burglars.
More than four years ago, this vulnerability was described relative to so-called smart electric meters. The lack of encryption in the signals transmitted by those meters made it even easier to determine which houses should be targeted for burglary. That is because a vacant house might still have a refrigerator running or a lamp left on. With no encryption, the meter readings can be analyzed to determine the amount of electricity being used. Minimal usage means no one is home. The reality of this vulnerability was described in a research paper presented at the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in 2012.
U.S. citizens should be far more concerned about what was leaked than the fact that there were leaks. The leaks clearly show our government is out of control, spying on us citizens without cause.
No, this spying did not start with either Trump or Obama. It might have started with one of the Bushes, or it might have started even earlier. Whenever it started, it should stop.
However, Trump want this spying to continue. That is the real reason for his focus on ending the leaks.
Me too.
I tried Browserprint twice just now. Each time, it gave a different browser, none of which were correct. In one case, it even responded that I was using a Mac; but I am using a Windows PC.
How did I defeat it? It was simple. I have Secret Agent from https://www.dephormation.org.u... installed.
Browserprint is not new. I first tried Browserprint almost a year ago. I have also tried Panopticlick several times. Secret Agent always defeats the attempt to identify my browser.
The cover article in the March 2017 issue of Scientific American was about using multiple light sails and miniature sensors to visit Alpha Centauri, with a large array of lasers -- either earth-based or space-based -- as the primary accelerant. The use of light sails, however, can be problematical.
First of all, consider solar wind, the stream of gases and particles emitted by the sun. If solar wind is faster than the sails, it will accelerate them beyond the force of the proposed laser array. If the solar wind is slower than the sails, however, the sails will decelerate. In either case, the solar wind and the sun's gravity can alter the trajectory of the sails.
The Oort cloud also requires consideration. If the sails are not punctured by the particles in the Oort cloud, impacts of those particles on the sails will decelerate them. If the sails are punctured, they will become useless in decelerating the sensors when the target star is approached.
Then there is the fact that space is not a perfect vacuum. Without dark matter, space still contains gas and dust, which can decelerate the sails. If dark matter does indeed pervade space, the deceleration might be sufficient to prevent the sails and their sensors from ever reaching their target stars.
This does not make the concept of light sails impossible. Before such a project is launched, however, more knowledge is needed about the solar wind, the Oort cloud, and what exists in space between here and any target star.
Some password managers rely on remote servers or the cloud to store your password. That is risky for two reasons. (1) A service holding passwords for many users is a more likely target for hackers than your own individual computer. (2) If the server or cloud service goes down even temporarily, you are stuck without your passwords.
You should choose a password manager application that is installed within your computer and does not rely on you having an Internet connection. The application should use a master password -- actually a master pass-phrase -- to encrypt the individual passwords. That master pass-phrase itself is not stored anywhere. Instead, if it is entered incorrectly, it fails to decrypt any passwords. By "pass-phrase", I mean a longer expression containing blanks, punctuation, etc.
Note that Mozilla-based applications have internal password managers that reflect my second paragraph above.
There already is a Web page called "Internet Health Report" at http://internetpulse.keynote.c.... It has been reporting the status of the U.S. backbone providers since possibly 1993 (23+ years). At least, that was when the domain keynote.com was first registered.
It reports latency in msec, percent availability, and percent of packets lost. The page is copyrighted. The terms of service indicate there might be a trademark on the name "Internet Health Report".
This was presented more than 50 years ago by Gordan J. F. MacDonald, at that time professor of geophysics at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. His paper "Origin of the Moon: Dynamical Considerations" appeared in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on 7 May 1965. As one of his computer programmers, I did the calculations for that paper. I think, however, that I might have done those calculations a few years earlier and that MacDonald published the same theory earlier than 1965.
The basic issue is not about bitcoin. It is about the scope of warrants, summonses, and subpoenas. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
> papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
> shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
> cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing
> the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I doubt there is "probable cause" that tax evasion has indeed been committed by Coinbase's users. Such a broad summons fails to describe which persons' accounts are to be examined. Since the summons was served on Coinbase, which has not been suspected of a crime, a challenge of the summons to appeals courts or the US Supreme Court might be very successful.
Only 19 persons were tested. All were from the same religion. There was no control set of non-religious individuals tested to see if the MRI scans were indeed representative of "religious and spiritual experience".
Most important, the Slashdot headline "Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds " differs from the title of the original study report. In the original report, the title is "Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons", clearly limiting the scope of the study to one religion.
I too wonder about the efficiency. Relative to the amount of electricity that can be obtained by burning the ethanol, how much electricity is required to run the conversion? How much can be obtained relative to the amount electricity needed to dissolve CO2 in water?
I do not know about Chrome. However, there are two preferences that control the checks for malware and phishing sites in Mozilla-based browsers (e.g., Firefox, SeaMonkey).
For SeaMonkey:
1. Select [Edit > Preferences] on the menu bar.
2. On the Preferences window, select Privacy & Security.
3. On the Privacy & Security pane, there are two checkboxes, one for malware Web sites and one for phishing sites. Unchecking a checkbox disables the corresponding check.
For Firefox, I am not sure if there is a user interface. However, the preference variable browser.safebrowsing.enabled controls the check for phishing Web sites; and the preference variable browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled controls the check for mailware sites. Setting one of these to False via about:config disables the corresponding check. I have the PrefBar extension installed for SeaMonkey. In it, I created buttons to enable and disable each of these checks.