"Oh, right, everyone in the government is stupid, and can be easily conned."
Closer to true than you can imagine. The few that are intelligent sit near the top of the heap and will not have an effect on a project like this for political reasons to intricate to go into here. The young and stupid who are not qualified to make any real money are left to evaluate the feasibility of insanse ideas like this one.
When we made our latest move, we did not order cable for the new house. It was tough but now we are very glad to have done so.
OTA ATSC we get about 15 channels here in Dayton. With commercial skip via our HTPC (Vista WITHOUT the "TV Pack") we don't waste as much of our time watching what we do choose to watch.
We also have Zinc (www.zeevee.com) integrated into the Vista Media Center menu. This gives us couch-surfable Internet television including Hulu and Youtube - also with reduced or zero commercial interruption. Also has an interface to Amazon and Netflix, which are more than adequate replacements for the cable company's "On Demand" feature.
All of this in sparkling HD quality. And then there is justin.tv, which though lower quality is our "movie channel".
We see absolutely no reason to go back to spending $100 / mo just for entertainment. We do spend some of that now on entertainment outside of the house: movies are easier to justify, as well as evenings out with friends.
...is a really nice way to watch these. Subtitles, links to related materials, a timeline, links to places in the timeline - silverlight really shines in this presentation.
Why should MS support their competition? Why don't you Linux whiners develop your own "integrated set of application programming tools for creating compelling applications, content, and video for every possible audience"?
Absolutely. I've been involved in development of several major Java desktop apps and this is always the take of most of our Windows user set - things don't look, feel or act quite "right".
Absolutely. This is not for the normal processors we all know and love, nor is it any good for javascript or python etc.
Compilers for C++, C#, java etc. on normal CPUs all have pretty ferocious optimizers already. Not that an attentive human programmer can't make much more of a difference, usually.
Both of the referenced articles are utter nonsense.
The purported change of search engine pointed at the Windows file indexer, not the Internet search. The most likely explanation by far is that the Google toolbar mis-fired its warning on initialization after an upgrade. The facts and illustrations in the article support this.
As for the "previous time" the company has beeb "caught", this has already been shown to be http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/microsoft_update_quietly_insta.html/ (read the comments) completely false as well.
I am really sick of this site's propensity for publishing any ridiculous attack on Microsoft as if it were gospel. None of the headline authors seem to have any critical thinking skills whatever. I have enough morons in my life without having to wade through them for tech news.
Much of the data are gathered by ultra-secretive government agencies -- which need to justify their own existence...
It seems like the OP is trying to justify his or her own existence - face it, you can't escape self-interest no matter what your side is in a political discussion. The secretive government agencies just might have some data that justifies their paranoia. There are methods which could come with estimates as to how true that is. But the blatant opinion of the OP and quite a few of the replies is hardly any more authoritative.
In my experience, Zinc doesn't get in the way of WMC at all. I used Link Studio from Greenbutton.org to create a link to Zinc under More Programs, so I can even launch it with the remote from within MCE. FWIW Zinc also has a launcher for MCE in it, haven't tried it though.
For my money, its Zinc (oops, its free)
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I have really been liking Zinc - very smooth operation, plus it looks so cool. Since I can use Zinc to access Hulu (and it does a pretty good job of runing Hulu - maximizing when it can, letting me pause and skip and so forth with the remote) and so many other sources, I see no need for Hulu Desktop. My Media Center bliss is nearly complete... If only it would aggregate Justin TV (a nice source which could really use a UI makeover)
A computer consultant advocating Windows is like a doctor advocating a healthy lifestyle. Stop twisting reality to fit your fundamentalist preconceptions.
Yes, Linux is way primitive when it comes to synchronization technology, as in other areas. Windows has a history of providing more-or-less effective solutions for this out of the box, going back at least to the My Briefcase feature of Windows 95. Now there are Offline Files, Live Sync, Sync Center, and even a more consumer-level gadget called Sync Toy. Another example of how much time you can waste trying to use Linux for serious business use.
Did the OA really say the system would generate 30 kWh / year? (It did not.) So without more information I don't think anyone can pull a real cost/benefit analysis out of their ass.
How much of the available water will be permanently dispersed by this experiment? What will be the effects of a 6-mile-high explosion on any water-bearing subsurface features? It seems to me that NASA is making establishing a permanent human presence on the moon harder by this rather sophomoric stunt.
The US Government spends Billions on research of every conceivable kind, including batteries and biomedical. I should know, it pays my bills. The ignorance of the OP would be astounding if this were not/.
Your're a big fucking idiot.
Nalgene is dropping BPA because they are, or think they will be, losing sales because people are afraid that BPA is dangerous. But their fears are contrary to 50 years of research which have not identified any toxic effects. Their statement http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/bpaInfo.html/ says exactly this. Do you have any facts to back up your assertion to the contrary, or is disagreeing with your worldview enough to earn one of your epithets?
The spreadsheet purports to calculate the number of guesses per minute needed to break the password. But in how much time? Also, the comment next to the final result says that it represents guesses per second. 65 guesses per second should cause some notice somewhere in your system.
TFA claims that "usually I'm able to break most passwords in under three days, if not in hours". I'm guessing that "most" refers to six-character, birthday or pet-name passwords.
My takeaway is that the most effective defense against poor passwords is a [3]-minute lockout after [5] wrong guesses. This will limit the bandwidth of the attack to an unusably low rate.
I just can't resist adding that it is really easy for us to enforce password policy for all services domain-wide by a simple policy setting on our DC. In our cluster computing group, where Linux boxen are the norm, chaos reigns and it is a really good thing that those machines are not accessible from the external network.
What is most disturbing about this is that in this "highly technical" (ahem) community, only one poster noticed that what is important is not whether or not BPA is present in the urine or blood of people who use the bottles, but rather it is what are the health effects if any when it is present? A related question still unasked here is, how far away does a 69% increase in BPA levels put us from FDA-posited unsafe levels? Since the normal level in the population is thousands of times less than the unsafe level, this is an important piece of data that was missing from TFA.
Parent is probably a joke, but I have to note that the RF wavelengths under consideration are much less subject to atmospheric attenuation, are safer for any life form that happens to be in the beam path, and convert to electricity much more efficiently on the receiving end, than optical wavelengths.
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COIL wavelength is 1.3 microns (near infrared)
"Oh, right, everyone in the government is stupid, and can be easily conned." Closer to true than you can imagine. The few that are intelligent sit near the top of the heap and will not have an effect on a project like this for political reasons to intricate to go into here. The young and stupid who are not qualified to make any real money are left to evaluate the feasibility of insanse ideas like this one.
When we made our latest move, we did not order cable for the new house. It was tough but now we are very glad to have done so. OTA ATSC we get about 15 channels here in Dayton. With commercial skip via our HTPC (Vista WITHOUT the "TV Pack") we don't waste as much of our time watching what we do choose to watch. We also have Zinc (www.zeevee.com) integrated into the Vista Media Center menu. This gives us couch-surfable Internet television including Hulu and Youtube - also with reduced or zero commercial interruption. Also has an interface to Amazon and Netflix, which are more than adequate replacements for the cable company's "On Demand" feature. All of this in sparkling HD quality. And then there is justin.tv, which though lower quality is our "movie channel". We see absolutely no reason to go back to spending $100 / mo just for entertainment. We do spend some of that now on entertainment outside of the house: movies are easier to justify, as well as evenings out with friends.
Indeed.
...is a really nice way to watch these. Subtitles, links to related materials, a timeline, links to places in the timeline - silverlight really shines in this presentation.
Why should MS support their competition? Why don't you Linux whiners develop your own "integrated set of application programming tools for creating compelling applications, content, and video for every possible audience"?
Absolutely. I've been involved in development of several major Java desktop apps and this is always the take of most of our Windows user set - things don't look, feel or act quite "right".
Absolutely. This is not for the normal processors we all know and love, nor is it any good for javascript or python etc. Compilers for C++, C#, java etc. on normal CPUs all have pretty ferocious optimizers already. Not that an attentive human programmer can't make much more of a difference, usually.
Both of the referenced articles are utter nonsense. The purported change of search engine pointed at the Windows file indexer, not the Internet search. The most likely explanation by far is that the Google toolbar mis-fired its warning on initialization after an upgrade. The facts and illustrations in the article support this. As for the "previous time" the company has beeb "caught", this has already been shown to be http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/microsoft_update_quietly_insta.html/ (read the comments) completely false as well. I am really sick of this site's propensity for publishing any ridiculous attack on Microsoft as if it were gospel. None of the headline authors seem to have any critical thinking skills whatever. I have enough morons in my life without having to wade through them for tech news.
Much of the data are gathered by ultra-secretive government agencies -- which need to justify their own existence...
It seems like the OP is trying to justify his or her own existence - face it, you can't escape self-interest no matter what your side is in a political discussion. The secretive government agencies just might have some data that justifies their paranoia. There are methods which could come with estimates as to how true that is. But the blatant opinion of the OP and quite a few of the replies is hardly any more authoritative.
Maybe because Plex is Mac-only.
In my experience, Zinc doesn't get in the way of WMC at all. I used Link Studio from Greenbutton.org to create a link to Zinc under More Programs, so I can even launch it with the remote from within MCE. FWIW Zinc also has a launcher for MCE in it, haven't tried it though.
I have really been liking Zinc - very smooth operation, plus it looks so cool. Since I can use Zinc to access Hulu (and it does a pretty good job of runing Hulu - maximizing when it can, letting me pause and skip and so forth with the remote) and so many other sources, I see no need for Hulu Desktop. My Media Center bliss is nearly complete... If only it would aggregate Justin TV (a nice source which could really use a UI makeover)
A computer consultant advocating Windows is like a doctor advocating a healthy lifestyle. Stop twisting reality to fit your fundamentalist preconceptions.
Yes, Linux is way primitive when it comes to synchronization technology, as in other areas. Windows has a history of providing more-or-less effective solutions for this out of the box, going back at least to the My Briefcase feature of Windows 95. Now there are Offline Files, Live Sync, Sync Center, and even a more consumer-level gadget called Sync Toy. Another example of how much time you can waste trying to use Linux for serious business use.
Did the OA really say the system would generate 30 kWh / year? (It did not.) So without more information I don't think anyone can pull a real cost/benefit analysis out of their ass.
TFA said that the same store is using rainwater for toilet flushing and solar panels on the roof. Doesn't sound so "faux" to me.
Take the Microsoft MSCE courses as often as you can afford to. You learn a lot and have the certification to put on resume.
How much of the available water will be permanently dispersed by this experiment? What will be the effects of a 6-mile-high explosion on any water-bearing subsurface features? It seems to me that NASA is making establishing a permanent human presence on the moon harder by this rather sophomoric stunt.
The US Government spends Billions on research of every conceivable kind, including batteries and biomedical. I should know, it pays my bills. The ignorance of the OP would be astounding if this were not /.
Your're a big fucking idiot. Nalgene is dropping BPA because they are, or think they will be, losing sales because people are afraid that BPA is dangerous. But their fears are contrary to 50 years of research which have not identified any toxic effects. Their statement http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/bpaInfo.html/ says exactly this. Do you have any facts to back up your assertion to the contrary, or is disagreeing with your worldview enough to earn one of your epithets?
The spreadsheet purports to calculate the number of guesses per minute needed to break the password. But in how much time? Also, the comment next to the final result says that it represents guesses per second. 65 guesses per second should cause some notice somewhere in your system. TFA claims that "usually I'm able to break most passwords in under three days, if not in hours". I'm guessing that "most" refers to six-character, birthday or pet-name passwords. My takeaway is that the most effective defense against poor passwords is a [3]-minute lockout after [5] wrong guesses. This will limit the bandwidth of the attack to an unusably low rate. I just can't resist adding that it is really easy for us to enforce password policy for all services domain-wide by a simple policy setting on our DC. In our cluster computing group, where Linux boxen are the norm, chaos reigns and it is a really good thing that those machines are not accessible from the external network.
What is most disturbing about this is that in this "highly technical" (ahem) community, only one poster noticed that what is important is not whether or not BPA is present in the urine or blood of people who use the bottles, but rather it is what are the health effects if any when it is present? A related question still unasked here is, how far away does a 69% increase in BPA levels put us from FDA-posited unsafe levels? Since the normal level in the population is thousands of times less than the unsafe level, this is an important piece of data that was missing from TFA.
Corporations not liable? You've got to be ignorant.
Parent is probably a joke, but I have to note that the RF wavelengths under consideration are much less subject to atmospheric attenuation, are safer for any life form that happens to be in the beam path, and convert to electricity much more efficiently on the receiving end, than optical wavelengths.