In a story a few days back about GPS jamming somebody mentioned how ineffective it was because of the use of radiation-guided missiles - could soldiers operating this giant radar end up in HARM's way (geddit?), and wouldn't it be possible to create a simple radiation detector that could show when such a radar is operating nearby?
It's the same with all dictionary attacks, that's why "correct horse battery staple" isn't nearly as secure a password as Mr. XKCD claims when you're facing a moderately sophisticated adversary.
If you wanted to make a "correct horse battery staple" password more secure against this kind of attack, you could just capitalise some of the letters, or mash your unbound mod keys when entering passwords (i.e. ctl, alt, mod4, etc).
I'd love it if it weren't for the fact that you have to mouse over the top bar to get an application menu. I still can't understand what having to mouse over the top bar is supposed to achieve, other then confuse newcomers.
Does the browser have the ability to restrict an extension or a plugin on a per site basis?
I recently switched from chromium to FF7, and this is the one feature I miss from chromium. Oh, and the ability to only run plugins when you right click them on the page and select "Run plugin". I shouldn't have to run Flashblock to do something so simple.
If one country has cheaper labor than the other, then all the production is going to move to that country; it's that simple.
Wrong. Most labour intensive production will move to that country, because they have a comparative advantage in producing labour intensive products (or simply producing products in a labour intensive way). And that is where economic convergence comes in, as the country with an advantage in labour becomes wealthier, pay and living standards increase, and thus their comparative advantage in labour decreases. Eventually, the economy of both countries would equalize, and grow at the same (or at a similar) rate. Of course, this is only in theory. In practice there are numerous external factors that could alter the time period over which such a scenario occurs, or the manner in which it occurs, i.e. natural disasters.
That that theory is crap shouldn't be surprising, because much of economics is crap; it's a crap science, not a real science, and economists just make up stuff that sounds good to them because they have little way to actually test theories like in a real science.
So all theoretical science is "crap science"? I see.
Say what you want about Australia's leaders being in bed with the US, but right now mining + free trade is keeping our economy chugging along pretty well (and has been for the last few decades). Protecting inefficient industries simply delays the inevitable whilst giving those in said industries free reign over pricing in local markets. Case in point: bananas. Bilateral FTAs are a win-win situation.
Berners-Lee still could have patented HTTP (or core parts of it) without any problems. The HTML spec is only a very small part of the "web", and even then the real patent troll payoffs come from registering far more vague and general patents like "Method of Communication and Rendering of Styled, Semantically Structured Documents over a Network"
These people were sharing files too, only they did it on physical media for profit. You're very clever, young man, very clever - but it's data all the way down!
I'll feed the troll and answer your question because I wasn't really clear the first time. The reason Google's integrated IM is different to most others is the fact that they use XMPP/Jabber+Jingle and give users access to the underlying protocol - no more reverse engineering MSN or proprietary AJAX systems. You can even use Google's infrastructure to talk to people using Jabber providers that aren't Google (GASP)! And I'm not sure what planet you're living on if you don't think physical retailing sucks - I can't stand a lot of brick-and-mortar electronics/tech stores because of the horrible 90s pop music and "SALE" banners plastered all over the doors. So far it seems that Google stores are similar to/copied from Apple stores (which have an excellent layout) only hardware vendor agnostic (unless they only sell CR-48s, which would suck).
It's not what Google does, but how. Google has the ability to realise when something sucks or is broken, and they re-invent it into something that works again. They've done it by enhancing search, simplifying mail, opening up phones, opening up Java, integrating IM and are now hoping to do it with social media and physical retailing. Notice how AltaVista, Hotmail, Nokia and Sun have shrunken back into the shadow of their former glory, yet Google keeps powering along? That's the difference between Google and the multitude of other consumer tech brands and companies out there.
Under House Bill 75, teens who receive explicit images won't be charged if they took reasonable steps to report it, did not solicit the image and did not send it to someone.
Ah, and there's the catch. I challenge anybody to find a teen who will report their girlfriend/boyfriend/whoever to the authorities for sending nude pictures. If they delete it, do not encourage the behaviour and do not show it to anybody other then the intended recipient, I fail to see the harm to either party.
Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average
TFA:
Apple, trading at about $420, would have the largest weighting in the 30-company measure because Dow companies are ranked by stock price, not market value.
Apple is not too big for the DJIA, it just has a ridiculously high stock price. On its own this is meaningless. The basic formula for stock price is market capitalisation (company size in dollars) divided by number of shares in circulation, which means that a company can increase their stock price without increasing company size simply by reducing the number of shares in circulation. Don't you love financial illiteracy?
Chromium uses its own abstraction layer on top of "native" widget toolkits in order to give it the look-and-feel of the platform (MFC on Windows, Cocoa on OSX and GTK everywhere else). Initially chromium was hard-coded to only use the MFC, and that is why porting it took so long.
If the total pool of software patents numbers 1.5 trillion, then the total pool of relevant software patents is probably 1.4 trillion. Really, there is no such thing as a "relevant patent" when you're writing software, because everything from pure maths to data structures can be patented. Even if the codec is patent free, there is no guarantee the implementation will be. If one developer throws in an "information storage and retrieval utility" utilising "a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data" then they are liable to be sued by Bedrock - as was the case with Linux.
Yes, but the primary patent on VP8 is released under an "irrevocable free patent license". From Wikipedia:
On May 19, 2010 Google released VP8 codec software under a BSD-like license and the VP8 bitstream format specification under an irrevocable free patent license...
OTOH H.264 is covered by a range of patents, and payment for the use of the codec is mandatory in all countries which recognise software patents. Whilst there may be some submarine patents still lurking on parts of VP8, it sounds like a far safer bet in the long run. I suspect that the only reason Apple and Microsoft want H.264 is because it raises the cost bar for potential competitors in the browser market. It's difficult to create a free browser when you have to cough up for codec licensing to some patent troll. With H.264 everybody loses, but the small players lose slightly more:)
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In a story a few days back about GPS jamming somebody mentioned how ineffective it was because of the use of radiation-guided missiles - could soldiers operating this giant radar end up in HARM's way (geddit?), and wouldn't it be possible to create a simple radiation detector that could show when such a radar is operating nearby?
It's the same with all dictionary attacks, that's why "correct horse battery staple" isn't nearly as secure a password as Mr. XKCD claims when you're facing a moderately sophisticated adversary.
If you wanted to make a "correct horse battery staple" password more secure against this kind of attack, you could just capitalise some of the letters, or mash your unbound mod keys when entering passwords (i.e. ctl, alt, mod4, etc).
My guess: Tasmania.
I can buy a seedbox to bypass all of this nonsense. Even better, I can open up my WiFi for some plausible deniability. Eat your heart out AFACT.
I'd love it if it weren't for the fact that you have to mouse over the top bar to get an application menu. I still can't understand what having to mouse over the top bar is supposed to achieve, other then confuse newcomers.
Here, here, here and here. Yep folks, unfortunately I'd say he really is dead :(
One of the tests:
Does the browser have the ability to restrict an extension or a plugin on a per site basis?
I recently switched from chromium to FF7, and this is the one feature I miss from chromium. Oh, and the ability to only run plugins when you right click them on the page and select "Run plugin". I shouldn't have to run Flashblock to do something so simple.
If one country has cheaper labor than the other, then all the production is going to move to that country; it's that simple.
Wrong. Most labour intensive production will move to that country, because they have a comparative advantage in producing labour intensive products (or simply producing products in a labour intensive way). And that is where economic convergence comes in, as the country with an advantage in labour becomes wealthier, pay and living standards increase, and thus their comparative advantage in labour decreases. Eventually, the economy of both countries would equalize, and grow at the same (or at a similar) rate. Of course, this is only in theory. In practice there are numerous external factors that could alter the time period over which such a scenario occurs, or the manner in which it occurs, i.e. natural disasters.
That that theory is crap shouldn't be surprising, because much of economics is crap; it's a crap science, not a real science, and economists just make up stuff that sounds good to them because they have little way to actually test theories like in a real science.
So all theoretical science is "crap science"? I see.
That's not the point of an FTA. Have a look at economic convergence and comparative advantage.
Say what you want about Australia's leaders being in bed with the US, but right now mining + free trade is keeping our economy chugging along pretty well (and has been for the last few decades). Protecting inefficient industries simply delays the inevitable whilst giving those in said industries free reign over pricing in local markets. Case in point: bananas. Bilateral FTAs are a win-win situation.
Berners-Lee still could have patented HTTP (or core parts of it) without any problems. The HTML spec is only a very small part of the "web", and even then the real patent troll payoffs come from registering far more vague and general patents like "Method of Communication and Rendering of Styled, Semantically Structured Documents over a Network"
Why can't you be banned from the Internet?
Imperative languages dominate computing because the real world is imperative.
I sure hope not. I was under the impression that the world was concurrent ;)
Whilst I understand that the concepts are not mutually exclusive, imperative programming alone does not seem like a great fit for the real world.
These people were sharing files too, only they did it on physical media for profit. You're very clever, young man, very clever - but it's data all the way down!
I knew there was something odd about the fact that Limewire was claimed to have caused damage in excess of global GDP. Now we have a name for it ;)
I'll feed the troll and answer your question because I wasn't really clear the first time. The reason Google's integrated IM is different to most others is the fact that they use XMPP/Jabber+Jingle and give users access to the underlying protocol - no more reverse engineering MSN or proprietary AJAX systems. You can even use Google's infrastructure to talk to people using Jabber providers that aren't Google (GASP)! And I'm not sure what planet you're living on if you don't think physical retailing sucks - I can't stand a lot of brick-and-mortar electronics/tech stores because of the horrible 90s pop music and "SALE" banners plastered all over the doors. So far it seems that Google stores are similar to/copied from Apple stores (which have an excellent layout) only hardware vendor agnostic (unless they only sell CR-48s, which would suck).
It's not what Google does, but how. Google has the ability to realise when something sucks or is broken, and they re-invent it into something that works again. They've done it by enhancing search, simplifying mail, opening up phones, opening up Java, integrating IM and are now hoping to do it with social media and physical retailing. Notice how AltaVista, Hotmail, Nokia and Sun have shrunken back into the shadow of their former glory, yet Google keeps powering along? That's the difference between Google and the multitude of other consumer tech brands and companies out there.
Under House Bill 75, teens who receive explicit images won't be charged if they took reasonable steps to report it, did not solicit the image and did not send it to someone.
Ah, and there's the catch. I challenge anybody to find a teen who will report their girlfriend/boyfriend/whoever to the authorities for sending nude pictures. If they delete it, do not encourage the behaviour and do not show it to anybody other then the intended recipient, I fail to see the harm to either party.
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Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average
TFA:
Apple, trading at about $420, would have the largest weighting in the 30-company measure because Dow companies are ranked by stock price, not market value.
Apple is not too big for the DJIA, it just has a ridiculously high stock price. On its own this is meaningless. The basic formula for stock price is market capitalisation (company size in dollars) divided by number of shares in circulation, which means that a company can increase their stock price without increasing company size simply by reducing the number of shares in circulation. Don't you love financial illiteracy?
It's not like this is hurting any of the big corporations, so there's no reason for government to stop it.
It's hurting the people running the corporations, who are arguably more influential than the corporations themselves.
Chromium uses its own abstraction layer on top of "native" widget toolkits in order to give it the look-and-feel of the platform (MFC on Windows, Cocoa on OSX and GTK everywhere else). Initially chromium was hard-coded to only use the MFC, and that is why porting it took so long.
In Sony-speak, "poor internal security" translates into "massive business opportunity".
Summary:
Earlier today, a tragic crash at the Reno National Championship Air Races killed at least 12 spectators, and left at least 75 injured.
TFA:
AT LEAST three people have been killed, and 56 injured, many critically, when a fighter plane crashed in front of grandstands at a US air show.
Is proff raeding really that hard?
If the total pool of software patents numbers 1.5 trillion, then the total pool of relevant software patents is probably 1.4 trillion. Really, there is no such thing as a "relevant patent" when you're writing software, because everything from pure maths to data structures can be patented. Even if the codec is patent free, there is no guarantee the implementation will be. If one developer throws in an "information storage and retrieval utility" utilising "a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removal of expired data" then they are liable to be sued by Bedrock - as was the case with Linux.
As opposed to what? All the formats are patented.
Yes, but the primary patent on VP8 is released under an "irrevocable free patent license". From Wikipedia:
On May 19, 2010 Google released VP8 codec software under a BSD-like license and the VP8 bitstream format specification under an irrevocable free patent license...
OTOH H.264 is covered by a range of patents, and payment for the use of the codec is mandatory in all countries which recognise software patents. Whilst there may be some submarine patents still lurking on parts of VP8, it sounds like a far safer bet in the long run. I suspect that the only reason Apple and Microsoft want H.264 is because it raises the cost bar for potential competitors in the browser market. It's difficult to create a free browser when you have to cough up for codec licensing to some patent troll. With H.264 everybody loses, but the small players lose slightly more :)