Re: your sig.: I don't know your definition of "beautiful", but PETSc (mcs.anl.gov/petsc) is a fine example of open-source computational software. Written in C/Fortran, using each language where it makes sense, very actively maintained and always trying to stay current with the state-of-the art. It is also notable for being useful for solving a large variety of problems in physics.
You can turn it off, just hold the power button for 15 seconds (or something). This is recommended if you store your Kindle without using it for a long time.
If you read my original post, I said median income, not average. The average income in the US is 40% higher than the median income, in large part because the top 4% earn above $ 200,000 per year.
According to this, Android only broadcasts a partial PNL: it sorts network into those you added from the scanning list and those you have configured manually. It assumes that all SSIDs configured manually are hidden ones, for which it must broadcast the PNLs. So if you have never added a network manually on your Android phone, the PNL broadcast list is empty.
It can't be that specifically sensitive either, since then a wet, sweaty, greasy or dirty finger would not work. I'm fairly sure that Apple has realized that the most useless security technology is the one no-one bothers to use.
Oh dear god. As a physicist, skimming that article made me even more sure that people who write technology blogs about Apple are mindnumbingly stupid. To wit:
We all have a small amount of electrical current running through our bodies, and capacitive technology utilizes that to sense touch.
If you fail that hard in your understanding of such a basic smartphone technology as capacitance, then your opinion on technical matters will be considered irrelevant and background noise. They then go ahead and fail at biology:
Once the tissue is dead -- which, in the case of someone chopping your finger off without your consent, should happen within a matter of minutes.
A chopped off human finger can be successfully re-attached to the person after 12 hours if kept warm and up to four days if kept refrigerated. This claim is thus patently false.
Not only does that article never discuss disembodied or severed fingers, but it also misses the huge issue with biometric ID: you're "broadcasting" it daily, and it can never be changed. Once someone gets your fingerprint associated with your name, do you have any idea how large the black-market value will be if biometric IDs like this become common? If your fingerprint can be used with your credit card, for instance? That is a much larger incentive for criminals than stealing your iphone passcode.
It's also largely undetectable: sit at a coffee shop, pose like a hipster with your DSLR, wait until you can pick up someone's name, then take their glass and photograph it after they leave. If you think this is just paranoia, there were several people who were succesful in copying Angela Merkel's fingerprint a few years back. If they can do it to the prime minister of Germany, they can do it to you.
The new Samsung GS4 actually has a glove mode! It's not very advertised on the GS4 (it is on the "Active" version), but it is there, and it works with fairly thick lether gloves. I expect this to become a fairly standard future on Android in the future.
Yep, quality cameras on phones have always been a Nokia strongpoint, perhaps together with Sony. I remember one of the final Nokia Symbian smartphones (think it was the N8?) where they actually shot the commercial photos with the phone (I wouldn't have guessed it).
+1 for Llama. I use it to turn my phone to silent at work, and then the sound back on again when I leave work. Also, why do people leave their wifi on? I always do: unlock screen, turn on wifi, do whatever, turn off wifi, lock screen. Gets me almost 20% increase in battery life (Android 2.3).
There's Europe, and then there's Europe. The southern countries, and Italy and Greece in particular, are much closer to the US in terms of low consumer rights, low median income and high unemployment than the northern countries are.
Try finding a reasonably attractive, fertile western woman with a pleasant disposition and life skillset, who doesn't have a giant feminist chip on her shoulder waiting to lash out post wedding day.
From what I've heard talking to American friends, this seems to be much more common in the US than in Europe. It also seems to be more common in California than in, say, Minnesota. (My guess: you're from round about SoCal somewhere?) So I would suggest moving to a more sane country/state if this is bothering you that much;)
Another trick is if you have a small-to-midsize bathroom, run hot water in the shower until the room is all foggy, and then wait until the humidity drops. That way almost all dust particles in the air will have been removed together with the water.
I was going to say this. Mod parent up. Couple it with two ZFS-Raid1 (or Raid6 if you have > 3TB) setups at different physical locations, and you're safe from almost anything.
I must say I am intrigued by your project. However, the main requirement for me (and many other scientists with semi-legacy codes) is Fortran interoperability. Can I use your project with my Fortran code? If not, that should be a goal for the project IMO.
Use ArchLinux. There, you take the PKGBUILD template file, modify it to download the correct source (it even supports git and hg nicely), tell it how to make/configure, and you're done. Running makepkg on this PKGBUILD will then build and tar-up the result into a.tar.xz file which can be installed (and later uninstalled) using the system package manager (pacman).
This. When a company says "our compiler will never support all of C99", that's a clue to avoid it like the plague, as it won't support all of either. C++11, I'm looking at you.
How would you respond to people who create a partition to remove something which already has a "disable" flag in the kernel? It's as simple as getting the source, changing one bool to true, and compiling. These people are ignorant as hell, and Linus is calling them out on it.
Indeed. What about the Autobahn in Germany, where there is currently no speed limit? Is the EU saying it will impose speed limits on the Autobahn? In which case I suspect das Volk will have Frau Merkel rolling her Leopards into Brussels faster than you can say "Jawohl!".
Indeed. ArchLinux, which is the fastest bleeding-edge, rolling-release distro out there, never released 3.10.8 into [core]. [core] is now at 3.10.7 and an update is flagged to 3.10.9 within a couple of days, skipping.8. The only way you would install 3.10.8 is if you (a) roll your own kernel or (b) use the [testing] repo in Arch. Both of these indicate that you are not a regular user, you are a developer (in some sense).
and yes, it also appears some webmasters code their websites assumiing their users have machines with quad cores and 16GB of RAM.
This. I had to throw more RAM into my wife's laptop because a significant portion of the interior design blogs she reads are coded by seriously inept people.
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Re: your sig.: I don't know your definition of "beautiful", but PETSc (mcs.anl.gov/petsc) is a fine example of open-source computational software. Written in C/Fortran, using each language where it makes sense, very actively maintained and always trying to stay current with the state-of-the art. It is also notable for being useful for solving a large variety of problems in physics.
You can turn it off, just hold the power button for 15 seconds (or something). This is recommended if you store your Kindle without using it for a long time.
This is very interesting. I will definitely have a close look at LGD in the next weeks, I'll be sure to drop you an email if there are any questions :)
If you read my original post, I said median income, not average. The average income in the US is 40% higher than the median income, in large part because the top 4% earn above $ 200,000 per year.
According to this, Android only broadcasts a partial PNL: it sorts network into those you added from the scanning list and those you have configured manually. It assumes that all SSIDs configured manually are hidden ones, for which it must broadcast the PNLs. So if you have never added a network manually on your Android phone, the PNL broadcast list is empty.
It can't be that specifically sensitive either, since then a wet, sweaty, greasy or dirty finger would not work. I'm fairly sure that Apple has realized that the most useless security technology is the one no-one bothers to use.
It seems a lot of uninformed appleblogs/fanboys think there is an RF scanner simply because Apple has patented one.
We all have a small amount of electrical current running through our bodies, and capacitive technology utilizes that to sense touch.
If you fail that hard in your understanding of such a basic smartphone technology as capacitance, then your opinion on technical matters will be considered irrelevant and background noise. They then go ahead and fail at biology:
Once the tissue is dead -- which, in the case of someone chopping your finger off without your consent, should happen within a matter of minutes.
A chopped off human finger can be successfully re-attached to the person after 12 hours if kept warm and up to four days if kept refrigerated. This claim is thus patently false.
Not only does that article never discuss disembodied or severed fingers, but it also misses the huge issue with biometric ID: you're "broadcasting" it daily, and it can never be changed. Once someone gets your fingerprint associated with your name, do you have any idea how large the black-market value will be if biometric IDs like this become common? If your fingerprint can be used with your credit card, for instance? That is a much larger incentive for criminals than stealing your iphone passcode.
It's also largely undetectable: sit at a coffee shop, pose like a hipster with your DSLR, wait until you can pick up someone's name, then take their glass and photograph it after they leave. If you think this is just paranoia, there were several people who were succesful in copying Angela Merkel's fingerprint a few years back. If they can do it to the prime minister of Germany, they can do it to you.
The new Samsung GS4 actually has a glove mode! It's not very advertised on the GS4 (it is on the "Active" version), but it is there, and it works with fairly thick lether gloves. I expect this to become a fairly standard future on Android in the future.
Yep, quality cameras on phones have always been a Nokia strongpoint, perhaps together with Sony. I remember one of the final Nokia Symbian smartphones (think it was the N8?) where they actually shot the commercial photos with the phone (I wouldn't have guessed it).
+1 for Llama. I use it to turn my phone to silent at work, and then the sound back on again when I leave work. Also, why do people leave their wifi on? I always do: unlock screen, turn on wifi, do whatever, turn off wifi, lock screen. Gets me almost 20% increase in battery life (Android 2.3).
There's Europe, and then there's Europe. The southern countries, and Italy and Greece in particular, are much closer to the US in terms of low consumer rights, low median income and high unemployment than the northern countries are.
Try finding a reasonably attractive, fertile western woman with a pleasant disposition and life skillset, who doesn't have a giant feminist chip on her shoulder waiting to lash out post wedding day.
From what I've heard talking to American friends, this seems to be much more common in the US than in Europe. It also seems to be more common in California than in, say, Minnesota. (My guess: you're from round about SoCal somewhere?) So I would suggest moving to a more sane country/state if this is bothering you that much ;)
Another trick is if you have a small-to-midsize bathroom, run hot water in the shower until the room is all foggy, and then wait until the humidity drops. That way almost all dust particles in the air will have been removed together with the water.
rsync is designed to send things off site (with ssh), and it does compression. At least if mean compression for transmission over the network.
I was going to say this. Mod parent up. Couple it with two ZFS-Raid1 (or Raid6 if you have > 3TB) setups at different physical locations, and you're safe from almost anything.
I must say I am intrigued by your project. However, the main requirement for me (and many other scientists with semi-legacy codes) is Fortran interoperability. Can I use your project with my Fortran code? If not, that should be a goal for the project IMO.
Use ArchLinux. There, you take the PKGBUILD template file, modify it to download the correct source (it even supports git and hg nicely), tell it how to make/configure, and you're done. Running makepkg on this PKGBUILD will then build and tar-up the result into a .tar.xz file which can be installed (and later uninstalled) using the system package manager (pacman).
Aaand /. eats up yet another "insert here". Jeez.
This. When a company says "our compiler will never support all of C99", that's a clue to avoid it like the plague, as it won't support all of either. C++11, I'm looking at you.
How would you respond to people who create a partition to remove something which already has a "disable" flag in the kernel? It's as simple as getting the source, changing one bool to true, and compiling. These people are ignorant as hell, and Linus is calling them out on it.
Indeed. What about the Autobahn in Germany, where there is currently no speed limit? Is the EU saying it will impose speed limits on the Autobahn? In which case I suspect das Volk will have Frau Merkel rolling her Leopards into Brussels faster than you can say "Jawohl!".
Indeed. ArchLinux, which is the fastest bleeding-edge, rolling-release distro out there, never released 3.10.8 into [core]. [core] is now at 3.10.7 and an update is flagged to 3.10.9 within a couple of days, skipping .8. The only way you would install 3.10.8 is if you (a) roll your own kernel or (b) use the [testing] repo in Arch. Both of these indicate that you are not a regular user, you are a developer (in some sense).
and yes, it also appears some webmasters code their websites assumiing their users have machines with quad cores and 16GB of RAM.
This. I had to throw more RAM into my wife's laptop because a significant portion of the interior design blogs she reads are coded by seriously inept people.