Yeah, that's true. It's pretty easy to get friends and family to switch. And I suppose a geek with a position in authority could get a whole company to switch, but it doesn't seem to make much of a dent. My website logs still show approx 90% of hits are from IE. Although there is a nice scattering of Firefox users recently.
I think I'll just have to be content that great browsers like Firefox are available for me to use, because obviously the masses are never going to be interested. With these unpatched IE flaws in the wild, IE users don't even have to do something silly to get infected. But I suppose you could argue they are already doing something silly!
Well you may well be right, but you aren't exactly giving me any facts here. None of their policies or pledges are inherently racist. Of course, by talking tough on immigration, they are certain to appeal to a lot of racists
Unfortunately, I think you may be right. Many people such as myself may be tempted to vote for UKIP due to their tough stance on Europe... but it seems that it is just impossible for a party to have such strong 'nationalistic' opinions without picking up some racist element.
The UKIP previously made every effort to separate themselves from racism accusations. What the hell are they thinking parading Kilroy-Silk about the place right after he lost his TV job over racist remarks...
For instance, read any review of MP3 players and you'll find that Apple's sound output hardware (DA converters, amp, etc.) is the best. But you can't really market that.
We are talking about devices whose primary purpose is to play music, and you don't think having the best sound quality is an easily marketable feature?
Has the world gone totally mad? I really hope you are wrong.
All the downloads are DRMed WMA files. You can play them in Winamp in a playlist along with your Ogg files if you want to. That's about as far as Ogg 'support' goes. To convert the WMA files to Ogg, you would have to circumvent the DRM. Most likely by burning a CD then ripping it and encoding to Ogg. The sound quality would suffer.
Napster price comparison: (at current exchange rate)
Napster Canada: $1.19 Canadian = $0.87 US Napster USA: $0.99 US Napster UK: 0.99 GBP = $1.80 US
Why do us Brits get such a raw deal? I guess music prices have always been this unfair. I was going to say that hopefully when some more services launch, competition will bring the price down, but this is the RIAA we are talking about...
I think I'll be sticking to independant labels and 2nd hand LPs:-)
It's true that he wouldn't be able to fit the image on even a huge flash card. But since this isn't actually a digital camera, that's pretty irrelevant. The image negative has to be very carefully scanned. Once it has been scanned into digital form, it needs many colour corrections and adjustments. The guy says he can only do at most a few of these in a year - it's not like he's taking holiday snaps!:-)
RTFA - the metric paper is much more convenient than most other systems.
When I want to photograph 2 pages of an A4 book, I can fit them perfectly on 1 sheet of A4 paper by using the preset size reduction. I'm sure there are many other conveniences as well, but I don't use hard copies much:-)
Of course, I don't recommend converting a whole country full of incompatible printing infrastructure just for these benefits. But it's nice to have them!
Even though your post seems to imply it is I who doesn't understand, I'll forgo the urge to simply say "you're stupid," and try to explain. There is a great deal of difference between scattering a beam across a foot or two of phosphor dots, relatively regardless of where it lands, and actually having to be INCREDIBLY precise at where you hit, AND calculate data from the reflection of the beam. It's the difference between simply shining a flashlight at the night sky, and trying to tell what's in a pitch-black indoor arena using only a pen-laser.
I know this. But that isn't what you said. If you take what you actually said before, it sounded pretty stupid:-)
I would agree with you that it sounds like a tough thing to do - but then I would never believe it possible to take a cheap plastic disc, drop it on the floor then stick in in a cheap machine, slam the tray in and read 9GB of data flawlessly off one side of it! Except I do it every day, and it actually works.
Sadly the appeals and whinging are likely to drag on for many years. Hopefully the EU will be able to make the ruling stick in the end. The fine may not be all that much to MS, but being forced to unbundle Media Player, etc could have quite an effect on their future strategies.
According to the page you linked to, you don't need to buy a boring USB drive to let you carry the knife. Just keep a supply of beer bottles with you at all times and say you neeed the knife to open them!
I don't see it that way. If Windows gives me the option to install or not install several different media softwares then that suits me. It also gives me the option to not install the bloat if I don't want it. I notice from Windows XP that MS seem to be playing a bit more nicely with other mail clients, browsers, etc by enabling the MS products to be completely hidden. I'd like to see more of that.
When I install a Windows machine I go through the settings and pretty much invert all the defaults which are silly/ugly:-)
Although there has been at least one known attempt to deliberately insert a security hole into the Linux kernel before, it would be a pretty outrageous thing for a government to attempt. It would almost certainly be spotted.
If the NSA are into that sort of thing, they are more likely to sneak/coerce their backdoor into closed source software where it is more likely to go unnoticed and perhaps be harder to trace back to it's authors.
Seeing as any changes the NSA make are presumably only used internally by the agency, they are under no obligation to release the source. So this is quite a community spirited move on their part.
Unless of course they are trying to sneak some NSA backdoors into Linux kernels:-)
If the conventional download sites are so crushed under the load that you can't get the file at all then bittorrent makes perfect sense, even for just a small download.
If you find a working mirror, then of course just use that. I tried a mirror and it was overloaded. Then I tried bittorrent and it worked. Simple.
Select the "must be licenced under CC" box, and then search for music and other stuff you can download guilt-free. Not sure there would be many results to your search though, but it might catch on.
1. Why would someone attack a server if they don't know it has open ports? I will admit it would make a DoS attack much more effective if the attacker knew the server had port knocking.
2. So the baddies sniff the knock sequence and are then able to open the port... How exactly are they any better off than if the port knocking just hadn't been implemented in the first place?
Although people are right in saying that packet sniffing can easily defeat this, I think it still improves security.
It leaves the impression that the machine has no ports open, so script kiddies will leave you alone. Also, an attacker can't just exploit a server bug to crack the system without also being in a suitable location to packet sniff the knock combination to get the port open in the first place.
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Yeah, that's true. It's pretty easy to get friends and family to switch. And I suppose a geek with a position in authority could get a whole company to switch, but it doesn't seem to make much of a dent.
My website logs still show approx 90% of hits are from IE. Although there is a nice scattering of Firefox users recently.
I think I'll just have to be content that great browsers like Firefox are available for me to use, because obviously the masses are never going to be interested.
With these unpatched IE flaws in the wild, IE users don't even have to do something silly to get infected. But I suppose you could argue they are already doing something silly!
Well you may well be right, but you aren't exactly giving me any facts here. None of their policies or pledges are inherently racist. Of course, by talking tough on immigration, they are certain to appeal to a lot of racists
Unfortunately, I think you may be right.
Many people such as myself may be tempted to vote for UKIP due to their tough stance on Europe... but it seems that it is just impossible for a party to have such strong 'nationalistic' opinions without picking up some racist element.
The UKIP previously made every effort to separate themselves from racism accusations. What the hell are they thinking parading Kilroy-Silk about the place right after he lost his TV job over racist remarks...
We are talking about devices whose primary purpose is to play music, and you don't think having the best sound quality is an easily marketable feature?
Has the world gone totally mad? I really hope you are wrong.
Obligatory joke question maybe?
All the downloads are DRMed WMA files. You can play them in Winamp in a playlist along with your Ogg files if you want to. That's about as far as Ogg 'support' goes. To convert the WMA files to Ogg, you would have to circumvent the DRM. Most likely by burning a CD then ripping it and encoding to Ogg. The sound quality would suffer.
Napster price comparison:
:-)
(at current exchange rate)
Napster Canada: $1.19 Canadian = $0.87 US
Napster USA: $0.99 US
Napster UK: 0.99 GBP = $1.80 US
Why do us Brits get such a raw deal? I guess music prices have always been this unfair. I was going to say that hopefully when some more services launch, competition will bring the price down, but this is the RIAA we are talking about...
I think I'll be sticking to independant labels and 2nd hand LPs
It's true that he wouldn't be able to fit the image on even a huge flash card. But since this isn't actually a digital camera, that's pretty irrelevant. The image negative has to be very carefully scanned. Once it has been scanned into digital form, it needs many colour corrections and adjustments. The guy says he can only do at most a few of these in a year - it's not like he's taking holiday snaps! :-)
erm... I of course meant photocopy, not photograph
RTFA - the metric paper is much more convenient than most other systems.
:-)
When I want to photograph 2 pages of an A4 book, I can fit them perfectly on 1 sheet of A4 paper by using the preset size reduction. I'm sure there are many other conveniences as well, but I don't use hard copies much
Of course, I don't recommend converting a whole country full of incompatible printing infrastructure just for these benefits. But it's nice to have them!
What does that mean? Stupid AC.
I thought my first message might get a funny mod, but obviously the moderators didn't agree.
I know this. But that isn't what you said. If you take what you actually said before, it sounded pretty stupid :-)
I would agree with you that it sounds like a tough thing to do - but then I would never believe it possible to take a cheap plastic disc, drop it on the floor then stick in in a cheap machine, slam the tray in and read 9GB of data flawlessly off one side of it! Except I do it every day, and it actually works.
Yeah, because TVs aren't in the consumer price-range
Sadly the appeals and whinging are likely to drag on for many years.
Hopefully the EU will be able to make the ruling stick in the end. The fine may not be all that much to MS, but being forced to unbundle Media Player, etc could have quite an effect on their future strategies.
The /. effect got to the page before I did... But I wonder if the robot looks something like this:
m pg
http://home.comcast.net/~themichaelsmith/VWHiRes.
Thank goodness! I would hate to think you were anywhere near me.
According to the page you linked to, you don't need to buy a boring USB drive to let you carry the knife. Just keep a supply of beer bottles with you at all times and say you neeed the knife to open them!
I don't see it that way. If Windows gives me the option to install or not install several different media softwares then that suits me. It also gives me the option to not install the bloat if I don't want it.
:-)
I notice from Windows XP that MS seem to be playing a bit more nicely with other mail clients, browsers, etc by enabling the MS products to be completely hidden. I'd like to see more of that.
When I install a Windows machine I go through the settings and pretty much invert all the defaults which are silly/ugly
Of course. And hence my smiley.
Although there has been at least one known attempt to deliberately insert a security hole into the Linux kernel before, it would be a pretty outrageous thing for a government to attempt. It would almost certainly be spotted.
If the NSA are into that sort of thing, they are more likely to sneak/coerce their backdoor into closed source software where it is more likely to go unnoticed and perhaps be harder to trace back to it's authors.
Seeing as any changes the NSA make are presumably only used internally by the agency, they are under no obligation to release the source. So this is quite a community spirited move on their part.
:-)
Unless of course they are trying to sneak some NSA backdoors into Linux kernels
If the conventional download sites are so crushed under the load that you can't get the file at all then bittorrent makes perfect sense, even for just a small download.
If you find a working mirror, then of course just use that. I tried a mirror and it was overloaded. Then I tried bittorrent and it worked. Simple.
Surely not! Next you'll be telling me that people could just take commercial code and submit it into the GPLed Linux kernel.
Select the "must be licenced under CC" box, and then search for music and other stuff you can download guilt-free.
Not sure there would be many results to your search though, but it might catch on.
Erm...
1. Why would someone attack a server if they don't know it has open ports? I will admit it would make a DoS attack much more effective if the attacker knew the server had port knocking.
2. So the baddies sniff the knock sequence and are then able to open the port... How exactly are they any better off than if the port knocking just hadn't been implemented in the first place?
Although people are right in saying that packet sniffing can easily defeat this, I think it still improves security.
It leaves the impression that the machine has no ports open, so script kiddies will leave you alone. Also, an attacker can't just exploit a server bug to crack the system without also being in a suitable location to packet sniff the knock combination to get the port open in the first place.