So my wifi wpa2-psk password is something like "wh@t w3r3 th0s3 p30pl3 th!nk!ng!"
I've been reading that passwords should random but to me a password like this seems basically impossible to crack. Am I missing something about the randomness part?
I actually typed www.google.co There is no google domain in the.co TLD since the.co TLD doesn't exist. But comcast didn't mind returning me a page full of ads asking me if I mistyped www.google.com
because your ISP is tasting all the domains you visit through their DNS. Can they not sell a list of the most popular misspelled domain names? I was alarmed the other day when I mistyped a nonexistant domain and comcast's domain helper came up.
So I assume you'll be finger painting to take notes with it? There's no reason why it can't be have both multitouch input from fingers and stylus support. The stylus should be analogous to a pencil not a navigation device like traditional pdas.
I can see the reason to get rid of profiles(to get people who are friends doubling up on one account when they could each have their own) but I highly doubt they are completely ridding themselves of preferred queuing. Virtual queuing can be done in one profile via different methods. You could have a single profile with tagged movies. Imagine you could tag a movie saying this one's for me and this one the whole family will love. The profile could then be configured to prioritize the way movies are shipped out based on tags.
fastmail.fm... They've treated me well for years and they have great tools to host my domain. It's not free but the feature set is well worth the price.
I mean sure this sounds like an interesting find but let's not break out the party hats and kazoos just yet. Don't anomalies exist in all of this? I mean we have examples of anomalies today, ala MIDGET. Let's say a million years from now a civilization is studying our planet and finds the remains of a midget. The find in this article is like saying "we've found the midget and its the missing link!" Of course we know midgets have nothing in common with the speculated evolutionary path of humans.
My step-father was in the "decontamination zone" of a very busy airport and was stopped by airport security who stopped him to do a search. They didn't say what they were searching for. They said they were conducting the search because they received a "tip." He didn't want any trouble and had nothing to hide so he let them do what they wanted to do. They searched him right there in front of many people. They did not even offer to do it privately. Kind of embarrassing. Not sure if this is legal or not. Anyone have any info on these type of searches?
That's what a guild has done on the server I play on. Since French Speaking Quebec is part of the American servers the french speakers created a Guild called "Les Protecteurs du Lys" It's a very large guild.
What are the odds that an old story be posted on the front page of digg and slashdot on the same day. The only difference between Digg and Slashdot mirroring each other now is that the so called "digg effect"(I wonder where they got that name) didn't even put a scratch in their server. 5 minutes after it hit the front page of slashdot grand daddy "slashdot effect" finished the job.
Being a peeping tom is treated as a crime based on sexual deviancy, with various names in different states. It forms the basis for a lawsuit by the victim on the basis of invasion of privacy.
your comment is a dupe.... who cares... grow up... this site is more about discussion than anything. More discussion about technology has gone down in the halls of slashdot than anywhere else on the web.
As far as I can tell every comment left at digg.com was written by 13-16 year olds.
So an article popped up on digg.com a few days before slashdot. Big deal, hasn't ruined my day.
The best thing about digg is that it's drawing people like you out of here and leaving people who want to have real discussion, people who don't want to pollute the posts with "DUPPPE!!!!"
Actually you are wrong. I am not sticking up for hard drive industry and it only becomes misleading because the hard drive industry and operating systems report their values in different bases. These units have been standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). They have standardized a "megabyte (MB)" to mean 10^6 bytes or 1,000,000 bytes. However operating systems report in what they should be calling "mebibytes (Mib)" where one MiB is equal to 2^20 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes. Because of the use of different bases and depending on what filesystem the partitions are formatted with it appears the hard drive industry gave you the shaft. The "gigabyte (GB)" is also standardized as 10^9 bytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes and the "gibibyte (GiB)" standardized as 2^30 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. If you want more information on the historical confusion of this read this article: Bruce Barrow, "A Lesson in Megabytes," IEEE Standards Bearer, January 1997
After browsing the posts in this thread I can't help but think of the trillions of dollars we've spent on what i'll refer to as the price of "sin." Imagine living in a society where everyone played by the rules, everyone had integrity. People wanted to be honest to their neighbor not because big brother was watching but because they wanted to.
Imagine...
Putting those trillions of dollars we've spent in law enforcement, national defense, and patriot actish debates and laws into knowledge and learning. Imagine how much further along we might be. Some might argue that the price of "sin" has actually driven our technology and learning. There's a lot of truth to that. I'm just saying I'd much rather see a full page of interesting news for nerds then a bunch of threads relating to the price of "sin". Stuff that matters.
I don't mind this at all. This 1-click software is quite useful and others should be informed about it. Anytime I see a word that's unfamiliar I just alt+click and I get the wiki. Any application. Very nice.
That's completely ridiculous. Representative democracy was not invented because we didn't have the technology to do widescale voting. Its a safeguard because most of the population is naive on most issues that representatives have to vote on. Now we could do a direct democracy but in order to be a responsible citizen you would almost be required to make it a full time job to make sure you know the facts before you cast your vote. And from what I've observed in most democracies especially in the USA more than half the population can't even get off their butt once every four years to vote for a president. People would end up voting just to vote. It would be a disaster.
Advertising, in my opinion, is a huge reason behind the controversy. The traditional distribution model allows media outlets to force consumers to have interrupted commercial sessions. With a single point of exit media outlets can statistically figure out how much viewership they have and set appropriate advertising rates. Now that ABC has broken the mold its causes much concern among affiliates on the future of advertising rates and whether they can still drive as much revenue. Of course I'm just speculating.
Most of national advertising rates fluctuate as they are based off of current Nielsen ratings which samples viewing habits year round. However local advertising rates are set for a yearly basis based off the TV audience during a specific period 4 times a year(Sweeps Week). With a smaller audience watching TV through this traditional method local affiliates lose a huge chunk of ad revenue.
Why is price fixing illegal? What caused governments to enact laws to prevent this? Is it because it destroys competition? Usually a company acting alone can sell a product for whatever price they want. However if a company creates an alliance with another company to keep their prices within a certain margain it becomes illegal. Can anybody answer this for?
Let them split...just see how long it will last. The article says China, Brazil, Russia, and some Arab states may end up creating their own versions of the internet. I say go ahead. I don't read Chinese, Brazillian-Portuguese, Russian or Arabic anyway. If the EU decided to jump in on this too I say go ahead it won't last long. No matter how much pressure the EU puts on the US to gain partial control of the root servers the bottom line is by splitting the internet you are going to piss off 225 million+ internet users in the EU who no longer can get to all their favorite sites anymore. For many people this might just be enough to cause a massive loss of business which would bring pressure from the thousands of ISPs throughout europe against the EU. I applaud these countries for wanting to actively participate in the architecture of the internet but I think they should remember not to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Slashdot Mirror
So my wifi wpa2-psk password is something like "wh@t w3r3 th0s3 p30pl3 th!nk!ng!"
I've been reading that passwords should random but to me a password like this seems basically impossible to crack. Am I missing something about the randomness part?
*Colombians
I facepalmed after I hit submit. Them poor columbians.
I actually typed www.google.co There is no google domain in the .co TLD since the .co TLD doesn't exist. But comcast didn't mind returning me a page full of ads asking me if I mistyped www.google.com
because your ISP is tasting all the domains you visit through their DNS. Can they not sell a list of the most popular misspelled domain names? I was alarmed the other day when I mistyped a nonexistant domain and comcast's domain helper came up.
http://www.comcastvoices.com/2009/07/domain-helper-service-here-to-help-you.html
So I assume you'll be finger painting to take notes with it? There's no reason why it can't be have both multitouch input from fingers and stylus support. The stylus should be analogous to a pencil not a navigation device like traditional pdas.
Thank you pointing this out. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Thank you pointing this o
I can see the reason to get rid of profiles(to get people who are friends doubling up on one account when they could each have their own) but I highly doubt they are completely ridding themselves of preferred queuing. Virtual queuing can be done in one profile via different methods. You could have a single profile with tagged movies. Imagine you could tag a movie saying this one's for me and this one the whole family will love. The profile could then be configured to prioritize the way movies are shipped out based on tags.
fastmail.fm ... They've treated me well for years and they have great tools to host my domain. It's not free but the feature set is well worth the price.
I mean sure this sounds like an interesting find but let's not break out the party hats and kazoos just yet. Don't anomalies exist in all of this? I mean we have examples of anomalies today, ala MIDGET. Let's say a million years from now a civilization is studying our planet and finds the remains of a midget. The find in this article is like saying "we've found the midget and its the missing link!" Of course we know midgets have nothing in common with the speculated evolutionary path of humans.
My step-father was in the "decontamination zone" of a very busy airport and was stopped by airport security who stopped him to do a search. They didn't say what they were searching for. They said they were conducting the search because they received a "tip." He didn't want any trouble and had nothing to hide so he let them do what they wanted to do. They searched him right there in front of many people. They did not even offer to do it privately. Kind of embarrassing. Not sure if this is legal or not. Anyone have any info on these type of searches?
That's what a guild has done on the server I play on. Since French Speaking Quebec is part of the American servers the french speakers created a Guild called "Les Protecteurs du Lys" It's a very large guild.
Let's award the Sober Virus writer a patent. I think he'd qualify.
What are the odds that an old story be posted on the front page of digg and slashdot on the same day. The only difference between Digg and Slashdot mirroring each other now is that the so called "digg effect"(I wonder where they got that name) didn't even put a scratch in their server. 5 minutes after it hit the front page of slashdot grand daddy "slashdot effect" finished the job.
Being a peeping tom is treated as a crime based on sexual deviancy, with various names in different states. It forms the basis for a lawsuit by the victim on the basis of invasion of privacy.
your comment is a dupe.... who cares... grow up... this site is more about discussion than anything. More discussion about technology has gone down in the halls of slashdot than anywhere else on the web.
As far as I can tell every comment left at digg.com was written by 13-16 year olds.
So an article popped up on digg.com a few days before slashdot. Big deal, hasn't ruined my day.
The best thing about digg is that it's drawing people like you out of here and leaving people who want to have real discussion, people who don't want to pollute the posts with "DUPPPE!!!!"
Actually you are wrong. I am not sticking up for hard drive industry and it only becomes misleading because the hard drive industry and operating systems report their values in different bases. These units have been standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). They have standardized a "megabyte (MB)" to mean 10^6 bytes or 1,000,000 bytes. However operating systems report in what they should be calling "mebibytes (Mib)" where one MiB is equal to 2^20 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes. Because of the use of different bases and depending on what filesystem the partitions are formatted with it appears the hard drive industry gave you the shaft. The "gigabyte (GB)" is also standardized as 10^9 bytes or 1,000,000,000 bytes and the "gibibyte (GiB)" standardized as 2^30 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. If you want more information on the historical confusion of this read this article: Bruce Barrow, "A Lesson in Megabytes," IEEE Standards Bearer, January 1997
After browsing the posts in this thread I can't help but think of the trillions of dollars we've spent on what i'll refer to as the price of "sin." Imagine living in a society where everyone played by the rules, everyone had integrity. People wanted to be honest to their neighbor not because big brother was watching but because they wanted to.
Imagine...
Putting those trillions of dollars we've spent in law enforcement, national defense, and patriot actish debates and laws into knowledge and learning. Imagine how much further along we might be. Some might argue that the price of "sin" has actually driven our technology and learning. There's a lot of truth to that. I'm just saying I'd much rather see a full page of interesting news for nerds then a bunch of threads relating to the price of "sin". Stuff that matters.
Watch Executive Vice President Jonathan Schwartz demo Project Looking Glass. The video is kind of old but first time I saw it was pretty impressed relative to the desktop eye candy at the time:- 1312_forjds.mov
http://webcast-east.sun.com/archives/GSN-1312/GSN
I don't mind this at all. This 1-click software is quite useful and others should be informed about it. Anytime I see a word that's unfamiliar I just alt+click and I get the wiki. Any application. Very nice.
That's completely ridiculous. Representative democracy was not invented because we didn't have the technology to do widescale voting. Its a safeguard because most of the population is naive on most issues that representatives have to vote on. Now we could do a direct democracy but in order to be a responsible citizen you would almost be required to make it a full time job to make sure you know the facts before you cast your vote. And from what I've observed in most democracies especially in the USA more than half the population can't even get off their butt once every four years to vote for a president. People would end up voting just to vote. It would be a disaster.
Advertising, in my opinion, is a huge reason behind the controversy. The traditional distribution model allows media outlets to force consumers to have interrupted commercial sessions. With a single point of exit media outlets can statistically figure out how much viewership they have and set appropriate advertising rates. Now that ABC has broken the mold its causes much concern among affiliates on the future of advertising rates and whether they can still drive as much revenue. Of course I'm just speculating.
Most of national advertising rates fluctuate as they are based off of current Nielsen ratings which samples viewing habits year round. However local advertising rates are set for a yearly basis based off the TV audience during a specific period 4 times a year(Sweeps Week). With a smaller audience watching TV through this traditional method local affiliates lose a huge chunk of ad revenue.
Why is price fixing illegal? What caused governments to enact laws to prevent this? Is it because it destroys competition? Usually a company acting alone can sell a product for whatever price they want. However if a company creates an alliance with another company to keep their prices within a certain margain it becomes illegal. Can anybody answer this for?
Let them split...just see how long it will last. The article says China, Brazil, Russia, and some Arab states may end up creating their own versions of the internet. I say go ahead. I don't read Chinese, Brazillian-Portuguese, Russian or Arabic anyway. If the EU decided to jump in on this too I say go ahead it won't last long. No matter how much pressure the EU puts on the US to gain partial control of the root servers the bottom line is by splitting the internet you are going to piss off 225 million+ internet users in the EU who no longer can get to all their favorite sites anymore. For many people this might just be enough to cause a massive loss of business which would bring pressure from the thousands of ISPs throughout europe against the EU. I applaud these countries for wanting to actively participate in the architecture of the internet but I think they should remember not to look a gift horse in the mouth.