I don't understand the concern, at least if I'm reading the documentation for the speculative connect API correctly (first link in blurb).
All this seems to do is make the TCP connection (whether SSL or not) in anticipation of a link being clicked. The speculative connect API does not send any data in the TCP pipe it is creating. By opening the TCP link early, once the link is clicked, the TCP connection is probably ready to go, cutting down a bit on setup delay (which can sometimes be substantial if DNS is slow to resolve or the connection is using SSL), thus making the click seem more responsive to the user.
But nowhere in the docs is any mention of actual requests made to the server or any data downloaded from the server... until you click the link. Thus, the only information leaked by hovering over a link but not clicking on it is your externally-known IP address, which may show up in the error logs of the webserver as a dropped connection. There seems to be no danger of accidentally downloading a virus simply by hovering over a click.
This discount is on the version that you have to hook to your computer in order to update. A single $25 discount seems inappropriate for this devices.
I would rather see a discount on the free-3G/wifi version of the unit. In this product, you get free 3G for life. An ad-supported model makes more sense because you continue to receive a service in exchange for continuing to receive ads. It would also allow them to update those ads more often.
The best solution would be to discount the reader a bit *and* discount each kindle book you buy, say maybe by 10%.
Just a guess, but removing authplay.dll might help mitigate the Reader portion of this exploit. I generally do that after every Reader upgrade because a similar vulnerability happened once before. Besides, who ever uses Flash inside a PDF document anyway?
Just because you pass static emissions tests does not mean your car would pass a full-dyno emission test like they do when the car is under development. The bi-annual test usually only tests the car at a couple of load points, and they assume if it passes those, it is in working condition. You car should not pass a California inspection because they are supposed to check that the CAT actually exists (unless you've simply cored it out or welded a CAT shell around the exhaust pipe to fake it).
My guess since you are tuned for performance is that you are emitting a lot more HC and CO than you would be if you had a CAT installed.
There is indeed an efficiency cost to smog reduction devices. An engine running at best efficiency will probably put out too much NOx, which is the nastiest of smog products. Think LA air, 1970s, or Bejing, 2008.
It can be very discouraging to an artist when an entire medium is practically devoted to destroying that construction. And if they care more about their artistic integrity than making further sales, I can only applaud them.
Partial listening has been a problem since opera houses seated people after the first act, since needles on record players could be dropped anywhere, since tape players had a fast-forward feature, and since CDs had a track skip feature.
The only thing iTunes adds is the ability to partially pay for parts of the music. Before iTunes, you had to pay for the whole thing even if you didn't listen to it all.
So this obviously has nothing to do with "integrity". It has to do with getting paid for stuff people don't want to buy.
You obviously have never used VSC. VSC is multiple copies, going back as far as you have slack space on your hard drive. On our server at work, it goes back 2-3 months. This capability has been in Win2k3 server since, well, 2003.
Why didn't you start your own business, then? I did. I used to think engineers were gods from which all wealth flowed. I learned quickly that engineers are about 10% of what it takes to make a successful company. All those people I thought were useless at my old job? Turns out that they are really valuable and neccessary.
Who do you think is going to overthrow the old boys in suits? The new boys in suits? Nothing is going to change unless people like yourself actually go out and start doing it for yourself.
Houses in CA are built extremely cheaply. In Santa Barbara, a $500k home costs under $100k to rebuild (not including contents). A $900k home costs about $250k to rebuild. It's all about the property and the right to build on that property with sewer and water hookups, not the house itself. Going without earthquake insurance can be an easily acceptable risk for many people, especially if you bought it 5-10 years ago. So long as your property doesn't catch on fire as a result of the earthquake and you don't have an expensive Huml collection, you could make out okay.
There's another thing none of you guys are even thinking about because you haven't reversed engine code. The 1990-94 Eagle Talon / Mitsubishi Eclipse engine computer would effectively shut down oxygen sensor fuel feedback around 4000 RPM. In top gear on this car, MPH ~= RPM / 50, so that meant around 80 MPH, the engine went open loop rich. Can't really consider this a bug, as 55/65 MPH was the limit in 1990. I fixed this table to keep feedback running up through 90 MPH. Running all the way across the country with this fix, I managed to get 27 MPG at 80-85 cruise. Car would usually get about 28-29 MPG at old school speed limits on the freeway and 20 MPG above 70 MPH.
Apparently, the 1750 running as Domain Controller gets killed after SP1 application. It bluescreens "BAD_REGISTRY". Lucky for me, someone else had this problem on USENET. The solution is to contact Dell and get this regprep.iso image that you burn onto a CD, boot the 1750 onto it, and it fixes the problem by booting tiny WinXP and changing the registry. After that, everything is okay.
Dell is recommending not applying SP1 until they've had a good crack at it. Looks like June.
When Costco has rebates, they print a URL on your charge slip plus a rebate code. Go home, type in the rebate code, and it tells you right then and there whether or not the rebate info is good. Takes a couple weeks to get the check after that. You can check status on multiple rebates you might have.
...now what? It is pre-loading right now very slowly, but am going to be able to play it once it is downloaded since I already registered this key with Steam?
What a lightweight piece. It tells us to beware of these hidden costs, with no facts to back that warning up. Then concludes by saying if we did pay attention to these hidden costs, conditions in China would get worse. Huh?
If they could afford to pay the workers more, they'd probably move production up the chain to Singapore or Korea or Mexico or Canada or the US or Japan, depending on just how high those wages would be. China is probably not going to get those jobs unless the labor is as cheap as absolutely possible.
Also not mentioned is that poor people (not dirt poor) around the world are able to afford TVs and DVD players because of cheap labor. Paying $250 for a DVD player doesn't affect me and my middle class paycheck very much. It would have a huge impact on the working poor in richer countries and the middle class in other countries.
BTW, I was sure that the US Customs Service would certainly block any inbound shipments that hadn't paid their ransom to the DVD Forum. How do these "untaxed" units sneak through?
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There are indeed some apps that are non-removable, but the mentioned ones have always been removable using PowerShell.
I don't understand the concern, at least if I'm reading the documentation for the speculative connect API correctly (first link in blurb).
All this seems to do is make the TCP connection (whether SSL or not) in anticipation of a link being clicked. The speculative connect API does not send any data in the TCP pipe it is creating. By opening the TCP link early, once the link is clicked, the TCP connection is probably ready to go, cutting down a bit on setup delay (which can sometimes be substantial if DNS is slow to resolve or the connection is using SSL), thus making the click seem more responsive to the user.
But nowhere in the docs is any mention of actual requests made to the server or any data downloaded from the server... until you click the link. Thus, the only information leaked by hovering over a link but not clicking on it is your externally-known IP address, which may show up in the error logs of the webserver as a dropped connection. There seems to be no danger of accidentally downloading a virus simply by hovering over a click.
If I'm missing something, please let me know.
I have a 3MB Verizon DSL line and the HD indicator on Netflix lights up most of the time. No problems with rebuffering, etc.
I thought a new feature for 11.2 was autoupdate in the background. Did not work for 11.3.
This discount is on the version that you have to hook to your computer in order to update. A single $25 discount seems inappropriate for this devices.
I would rather see a discount on the free-3G/wifi version of the unit. In this product, you get free 3G for life. An ad-supported model makes more sense because you continue to receive a service in exchange for continuing to receive ads. It would also allow them to update those ads more often.
The best solution would be to discount the reader a bit *and* discount each kindle book you buy, say maybe by 10%.
Just a guess, but removing authplay.dll might help mitigate the Reader portion of this exploit. I generally do that after every Reader upgrade because a similar vulnerability happened once before. Besides, who ever uses Flash inside a PDF document anyway?
we could run them based on maximizing efficiency and public good.
Who's "we"? What is "we"'s motivation to maximize efficiency and public good?
Just because you pass static emissions tests does not mean your car would pass a full-dyno emission test like they do when the car is under development. The bi-annual test usually only tests the car at a couple of load points, and they assume if it passes those, it is in working condition. You car should not pass a California inspection because they are supposed to check that the CAT actually exists (unless you've simply cored it out or welded a CAT shell around the exhaust pipe to fake it).
My guess since you are tuned for performance is that you are emitting a lot more HC and CO than you would be if you had a CAT installed.
There is indeed an efficiency cost to smog reduction devices. An engine running at best efficiency will probably put out too much NOx, which is the nastiest of smog products. Think LA air, 1970s, or Bejing, 2008.
The only thing iTunes adds is the ability to partially pay for parts of the music. Before iTunes, you had to pay for the whole thing even if you didn't listen to it all.
So this obviously has nothing to do with "integrity". It has to do with getting paid for stuff people don't want to buy.
You obviously have never used VSC. VSC is multiple copies, going back as far as you have slack space on your hard drive. On our server at work, it goes back 2-3 months. This capability has been in Win2k3 server since, well, 2003.
Why didn't you start your own business, then? I did. I used to think engineers were gods from which all wealth flowed. I learned quickly that engineers are about 10% of what it takes to make a successful company. All those people I thought were useless at my old job? Turns out that they are really valuable and neccessary.
Who do you think is going to overthrow the old boys in suits? The new boys in suits? Nothing is going to change unless people like yourself actually go out and start doing it for yourself.
Houses in CA are built extremely cheaply. In Santa Barbara, a $500k home costs under $100k to rebuild (not including contents). A $900k home costs about $250k to rebuild. It's all about the property and the right to build on that property with sewer and water hookups, not the house itself. Going without earthquake insurance can be an easily acceptable risk for many people, especially if you bought it 5-10 years ago. So long as your property doesn't catch on fire as a result of the earthquake and you don't have an expensive Huml collection, you could make out okay.
There's another thing none of you guys are even thinking about because you haven't reversed engine code. The 1990-94 Eagle Talon / Mitsubishi Eclipse engine computer would effectively shut down oxygen sensor fuel feedback around 4000 RPM. In top gear on this car, MPH ~= RPM / 50, so that meant around 80 MPH, the engine went open loop rich. Can't really consider this a bug, as 55/65 MPH was the limit in 1990. I fixed this table to keep feedback running up through 90 MPH. Running all the way across the country with this fix, I managed to get 27 MPG at 80-85 cruise. Car would usually get about 28-29 MPG at old school speed limits on the freeway and 20 MPG above 70 MPH.
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Apparently, the 1750 running as Domain Controller gets killed after SP1 application. It bluescreens "BAD_REGISTRY". Lucky for me, someone else had this problem on USENET. The solution is to contact Dell and get this regprep.iso image that you burn onto a CD, boot the 1750 onto it, and it fixes the problem by booting tiny WinXP and changing the registry. After that, everything is okay.
Dell is recommending not applying SP1 until they've had a good crack at it. Looks like June.
When Costco has rebates, they print a URL on your charge slip plus a rebate code. Go home, type in the rebate code, and it tells you right then and there whether or not the rebate info is good. Takes a couple weeks to get the check after that. You can check status on multiple rebates you might have.
This is still a problem on a multiuser machine...
Humorous snippet from the landing module code...
...
P63SPOT3 CA BIT6 # IS THE LR ANTENNA IN POSITION 1 YET
EXTEND
RAND CHAN33
EXTEND
BZF P63SPOT4 # BRANCH IF ANTENNA ALREADY IN POSITION 1
CAF CODE500 # ASTRONAUT: PLEASE CRANK THE
TC BANKCALL # SILLY THING AROUND
CADR GOPERF1
TCF GOTOP00H # TERMINATE
TCF P63SPOT3 # PROCEED SEE IF HE'S LYING
P63SPOT4 TC BANKCALL # ENTER INITIALIZE LANDING RADAR
CADR SETPOS1
TC POSTJUMP # OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
CADR BURNBABY
...now what? It is pre-loading right now very slowly, but am going to be able to play it once it is downloaded since I already registered this key with Steam?
If you have an older gas heater without "instant on", turning off the pilot light in the summer would save a little.
That's only shown as an example desktop.
Where were the parents?
>Say there were an "it" keyword
Doesn't Perl's $_ variable come close?
What a lightweight piece. It tells us to beware of these hidden costs, with no facts to back that warning up. Then concludes by saying if we did pay attention to these hidden costs, conditions in China would get worse. Huh?
If they could afford to pay the workers more, they'd probably move production up the chain to Singapore or Korea or Mexico or Canada or the US or Japan, depending on just how high those wages would be. China is probably not going to get those jobs unless the labor is as cheap as absolutely possible.
Also not mentioned is that poor people (not dirt poor) around the world are able to afford TVs and DVD players because of cheap labor. Paying $250 for a DVD player doesn't affect me and my middle class paycheck very much. It would have a huge impact on the working poor in richer countries and the middle class in other countries.
BTW, I was sure that the US Customs Service would certainly block any inbound shipments that hadn't paid their ransom to the DVD Forum. How do these "untaxed" units sneak through?
Has no one heard of this site? It seems there is no law a celeb can break without making it there. Why is it a big deal to do this to non-celebs?