Performance drops dramatically if you disable precaching. I run Firefox with precaching disabled and haven't noticed such a big drop in performance, and precaching has some security issues, so it may need some work in that area. (Yeah, I'm paranoid.) All around though, I'm impressed for a first release! Very little bloat, and it still does pretty much everything I need it to.
I also noticed Chrome trying to add Google Updater to my registry to run at logon. That's probably what some people noticed trying to connect to the 'net. I disabled it and Chrome works fine without it.
SecurID tokens are also time-sensitive to prevent against MitM attacks, but they have no choice but to give you a little leeway. The question is: how long is that delay? For RSA, it can be as much as 3 minutes. For Yubikey, you say 10%. 10% of what? How many seconds does that amount to, because a few milliseconds would be enough for this attack to work...
It gave him 18.9% of the popular vote even though he was an independent in a highly two-party driven system? That was unheard of for the United States up to that point (and since)!
What you say is true, and the time-to-market requirements of the current market certainly aren't conducive to long QA cycles prior to release, but still; Using the word "innovation" as an excuse in a story about Microsoft? Get real!
What, cause it's spelled somewhat similarly to arsenal? It's a relatively common French name, and pronounced "Arseno", so your analysis breaks down a little...:-)
No where in the bible does it say that God created the world in seven or even six days. Uh, actually it does explicitly say that in many versions of the bible.
It's "fortunate" that your country prevents two entities from engaging in a consensual exchange of information? That sounds quite repressive to me. I prefer to live somewhere that allows me to make my own decisions, but I understand we all can't handle that level of responsibility. PIPEDA only prevents two entities from engaging in a consensual exchange of information when said information belongs to neither party. In other words, it prevents a company from selling your personal information to another company without your consent. In any case, it's a pretty tame law, you can't get fined via this law for breaching, and consent doesn't have to be explicit.
3.5E Wasn't a mistake, 3E was. They released it too early, it needed more playtesting.
When 3.5E came out, my play group was pissed off and decided not to buy it. Then a friend took a look at the new rules and uttered the words that rattle me to this day: "The new rules are WAY better; more balanced, etc..." We switched and rebought all of the damn books. I learned my lesson though. We'll skip 4E until we're sure they won't come out with 4.5E to tweak it.
So, we've got kind of a chicken-and-the-egg situation here:
The big advantage of the RFID is that you can't forget or lose it, which is useful for the absent-minded. Some may say that it also can't be taken from you, but if someone is willing enough it CAN be stolen, only in a much more painful/dangerous way for you. Also, it can be disabled temporarily or permanently in a multitude of ways, so you need a backup way to get into the house. Solution? Carry a key around with you everywhere as a backup. Result: you're back to carrying something around with you everywhere you go that can be lost, forgotten or stolen. Back to square one, only now you have an expensive and intrusive device in your body that can potentially be used to track you at medium range. Have I got that right? Sign me up!
But if you're going to carry around something that can be stolen anyway, why not just have the RFID attached to something on your person rather than being implanted? You could have it glued to your watch or something, easier to change that way, and no risk of infection.
It's the implant part that I find ridiculous if you're going to bother carrying a key around...
We've had plastic fiber for several years now. However, it is not the material itself that costs so much, it is the installation. While every statement in your post is true, please note that, AFAIK, acrylic fibre is not currently used for long-haul runs, nor any single-mode applications. It's just not as efficient as glass fibre as far as attenuation goes.
Why would you need transmitters to provide whitespace? Whitespace is a range of frequencies where nobody transmits. Just because that whitespace is there even when there's a transmitter doesn't mean that it's provided by said transmitter! You do need a separate transmitter to provide this new service in those whitespaces, but that has nothing to do with the presence or absence of existing transmitters. Plus, at those frequencies, a transmitter could more easily provide service to rural areas, so it might indeed help people who have no other broadband options.
And no, you can't count on a wireless technology to help people living in a radio quiet zone. That's the kind of thing someone could (should) find out about and consider before buying property there. In any case, a quick search on the NRQZ seems to indicate that it is not, in fact, a deadzone. There are merely more requirements and restrictions for anyone wanting to place a transmitter there...
I doubt that's an accurate stat. Why? Because if it was, UPS, FedEx, or the US Postal Service would stick their trucks on the train to transfer packages from point A to point B. It's precisely because of the "free rider" problem that this is the case. It's cheaper to use the roads, but only because truckers don't have to pay their fair share of the road's maintenance. They use the roads more than the average citizen, and cause way more damage to said road, but don't have to pay proportionally more for it's use. If they did, the cost of shipping by truck would be more than by train.
In fact, you do get a bit of that even in European languages. For example, in English we say "I am lost," but the French say "I have lost myself." That's only partially true. (It's a little bit of a bad example, though better ones do exist.) In effect, in French you can literally say "I am lost" (Je suis perdu). When one says "Je me suis perdu", he is effectively saying "I have gotten myself lost", in essence, "I have made a mistake resulting in my losing my way." The fact that the second form is used a little more commonly is very different from the vast differences between English and Japanese phrasing.
The only way it can be abused is if it is left unprotected by the network administrator, much the same as a house can be abused if you leave your doors and windows unlocked. That's actually a really good example if you want the judge to rule against you. The fact that windows and doors are left unprotected doesn't suddenly make entering the premises legal. Bad analogy!
Well, this way only people intending on reading it closely and entirely would have it printed, meaning fewer wasted copies. Used to be that a bunch of people were automatically sent copies whether they intended on reading it or not. That's what's being saved.
For a lot of these things, even B&W would still be artistic impression. Some of these things have no physical manifestation in the visible range. You could be a few light-years away and look straight at them and see NOTHING, or just a faint cloud of dust with no details! They send out infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, but no light!
Still, these things exist and have structure and we can only perceive and study them through shifting the various wavelengths to a visible color. If you need to do that anyways, why no choose a color that makes the resulting image aesthetically pleasing as well? Human eyes are meant to see in color, and we miss some details if only B&W is applied. I see that as justification for coloring images even in the visible spectrum, such as the surface of Mars. Those who need to know are aware that the colors aren't realistic, and everyone else shouldn't care.
but AFAICT, there is no way to tell WHAT is being shared, and by extention, whether what is being shared is copyrighted and, if so, whether it is being shared with permission. And you'd think that would be enough to deter them from this folly, but no! Since they don't give a flying fsck about us and our legal use of P2P, a lot of ISPs have started throttling ALL encrypted traffic in case it *might* contain illegally shared copyrighted material. That's why net neutrality laws are becoming necessary, because ISPs don't care about residential customers and they don't mind punishing everyone to please the media companies.
And that tends to change on how you define an embryo. According to some an embryo is a fertilized ovum, according to others it is a partically developed organism that stands a fair chance of being carried to term. The line is blurry and as with all of natures works it defies definition and can not be caught in a simple binary category. It's a continuum, just like 'tall' and 'hot'. Some collections of cells are more of an embryo than others, with a 'peak' of 'embryoness' somewhere in those magical 9 months. A born baby is not an embryo, a fertilized ovum probably also isn't one. Actually, science already has a far more precise definition of "embryo" than that! A fertilized ovum is called a zygote. After the first cell division, it is called an embryo until the 8th week, after which it's called a foetus. Though I do agree with your sentiment...
Yeah, as long as your local government is smart enough to manage such a project intelligently, and that half the project doesn't get canned after the next election. Quebec/Montreal spent obscene amounts of money of it's Mirabel airport and now we're about to decommission it because the high-speed train and connecting highway was never completed, so people keep using the old Airport on the island...
Nope. Just the master boot record. But it will clear out any third-party boot loaders in the MBR however. (Like Lilo ou Grub...) So, if you also dual-boot Linux, have a recovery CD on hand to restore the boot loader. (In fact, just doing that would likely fix the corrupted MBR!)
Uhh, last time I checked, water used in a hydroelectric dam wasn't wasted, it just kept on flowing down-river after going through the dam? Someone told you that it was no longer potable after that?
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Performance drops dramatically if you disable precaching. I run Firefox with precaching disabled and haven't noticed such a big drop in performance, and precaching has some security issues, so it may need some work in that area. (Yeah, I'm paranoid.) All around though, I'm impressed for a first release! Very little bloat, and it still does pretty much everything I need it to.
I also noticed Chrome trying to add Google Updater to my registry to run at logon. That's probably what some people noticed trying to connect to the 'net. I disabled it and Chrome works fine without it.
SecurID tokens are also time-sensitive to prevent against MitM attacks, but they have no choice but to give you a little leeway. The question is: how long is that delay? For RSA, it can be as much as 3 minutes. For Yubikey, you say 10%. 10% of what? How many seconds does that amount to, because a few milliseconds would be enough for this attack to work...
And that worked exactly how well for Ross Perot?
It gave him 18.9% of the popular vote even though he was an independent in a highly two-party driven system? That was unheard of for the United States up to that point (and since)!
What you say is true, and the time-to-market requirements of the current market certainly aren't conducive to long QA cycles prior to release, but still; Using the word "innovation" as an excuse in a story about Microsoft? Get real!
What, cause it's spelled somewhat similarly to arsenal? It's a relatively common French name, and pronounced "Arseno", so your analysis breaks down a little... :-)
To be fair, this anecdote was referring to an Uzi water gun, which I've owned and is rather more realistic.
However, I still think that police reaction here was too aggressive...
Look at chapter 2, line 2 here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/HEBREWS/GENCREAT.HTM#P (I think this one is King James)
Though, even before I became agnostic, I never took Genesis as being meant to be taken literally.
3.5E Wasn't a mistake, 3E was. They released it too early, it needed more playtesting.
When 3.5E came out, my play group was pissed off and decided not to buy it. Then a friend took a look at the new rules and uttered the words that rattle me to this day: "The new rules are WAY better; more balanced, etc..." We switched and rebought all of the damn books. I learned my lesson though. We'll skip 4E until we're sure they won't come out with 4.5E to tweak it.
So, we've got kind of a chicken-and-the-egg situation here:
The big advantage of the RFID is that you can't forget or lose it, which is useful for the absent-minded. Some may say that it also can't be taken from you, but if someone is willing enough it CAN be stolen, only in a much more painful/dangerous way for you. Also, it can be disabled temporarily or permanently in a multitude of ways, so you need a backup way to get into the house. Solution? Carry a key around with you everywhere as a backup. Result: you're back to carrying something around with you everywhere you go that can be lost, forgotten or stolen. Back to square one, only now you have an expensive and intrusive device in your body that can potentially be used to track you at medium range. Have I got that right? Sign me up!
But if you're going to carry around something that can be stolen anyway, why not just have the RFID attached to something on your person rather than being implanted? You could have it glued to your watch or something, easier to change that way, and no risk of infection.
It's the implant part that I find ridiculous if you're going to bother carrying a key around...
If you need to carry a key with you everywhere as a backup, the purpose of the RFID implant is a bit defeated, don't you think?
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Why would you need transmitters to provide whitespace? Whitespace is a range of frequencies where nobody transmits. Just because that whitespace is there even when there's a transmitter doesn't mean that it's provided by said transmitter! You do need a separate transmitter to provide this new service in those whitespaces, but that has nothing to do with the presence or absence of existing transmitters. Plus, at those frequencies, a transmitter could more easily provide service to rural areas, so it might indeed help people who have no other broadband options.
And no, you can't count on a wireless technology to help people living in a radio quiet zone. That's the kind of thing someone could (should) find out about and consider before buying property there. In any case, a quick search on the NRQZ seems to indicate that it is not, in fact, a deadzone. There are merely more requirements and restrictions for anyone wanting to place a transmitter there...
Well, this way only people intending on reading it closely and entirely would have it printed, meaning fewer wasted copies. Used to be that a bunch of people were automatically sent copies whether they intended on reading it or not. That's what's being saved.
For a lot of these things, even B&W would still be artistic impression. Some of these things have no physical manifestation in the visible range. You could be a few light-years away and look straight at them and see NOTHING, or just a faint cloud of dust with no details! They send out infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, but no light!
Still, these things exist and have structure and we can only perceive and study them through shifting the various wavelengths to a visible color. If you need to do that anyways, why no choose a color that makes the resulting image aesthetically pleasing as well? Human eyes are meant to see in color, and we miss some details if only B&W is applied. I see that as justification for coloring images even in the visible spectrum, such as the surface of Mars. Those who need to know are aware that the colors aren't realistic, and everyone else shouldn't care.
Yeah, as long as your local government is smart enough to manage such a project intelligently, and that half the project doesn't get canned after the next election. Quebec/Montreal spent obscene amounts of money of it's Mirabel airport and now we're about to decommission it because the high-speed train and connecting highway was never completed, so people keep using the old Airport on the island...
Uhh, last time I checked, water used in a hydroelectric dam wasn't wasted, it just kept on flowing down-river after going through the dam? Someone told you that it was no longer potable after that?