I agree that this isn't a good idea to use for important websites. But it would be an improvement over using a single throwaway password for all the less important sites.
I have about 10 important accounts that I visit often. Those passwords are randomly generated passwords and memorized. I have another 10 or so important accounts that I visit infrequently, and so those passwords are randomly generated and stored in an encrypted file. Then there are about 100 stupid sites that required me to create an account, and for which I used one of a handful of throwaway passwords (more than one due to differences in password policies).
Most organizations will want more than a week commitment for anything more complex than grunt labor. Just like with a job, it takes time to ramp people up, and it isn't worth the effort on their part to do so for someone who is only going to be helping for a week.
For example, consider the task of setting up a new network. They will need to familiarize you with the current infrastructure. Then you can design, purchase equipment, and setup the new network. Finally, you must explain what you did to whoever will be maintaining the network. That will take more than a week, and it would be just as easy if the normal guy that maintains everything upgraded the network himself. If you can find a charity that just happens to be in the middle of an upgrade the week you take on vacation, they would be happy to have the extra hand, but that's unlikely.
For volunteer social work like counseling (and even some tutoring), most organizations like you to go though several days of training before hand. Even if your wife is more than qualified to do the work off the bat, they need to make sure you are both on the same page (not to mention the CYA aspects).
If you can find time in your schedule to volunteer a couple hours a week, you will find more volunteer organizations that are able to use your skills. There are websites where organizations can post for help they need, such as Volunteer Match or 1-800-volunteer.
DisplayPort 1.1+ includes HDCP just like HDMI does. It is enabled on all Apple products, and Blu-ray manufacturers are required to enable it as well. Thus any display manufacturer that wants to work with those segment of the markets will also include HDCP support.
Android is open source. Some of Google's applications are closed, but they have had just as many problems with people in western countries including the applications in their custom firmware builds, as in China. Furthermore, China can reverse engineer the applications just as easily whether the phone is sold there or not. It is possible that Google had some Chinese employees working on localization who had access to the code, which would increase the chance of stolen code, but it is equally likely that the coding was all done in the states, and the localization teams in china just provided translations and testing.
I put up with exactly one bit of abuse - sometimes I have to reload a page a time or two as I selectively enable scripts to get to the content I want.
I tried using NoScript for a while. What really frustrated me was that I would completely fill out a form, then discover that I needed javascript enabled for the submit button to work. So I would enable javascript at which point the page would reload and clear all the form entries I just spent the last 5 minutes filling in. This happened on nearly half of the forms I would use. I got sick of that real quick and haven't used NoScript since.
The reporting on this has been extremely bad. This all has to doing video decoding in hardware. DirectX has APIs for that, and they are now being used in the Windows version. The Linux version continues to use the relevant Xorg extensions (XvMC?) for video decoding.
I read the Foundation series for the first time last year and I thought the books were very good, up until the "Scooby-Doo" ending of some of them (The Gods Themselves had the same problem). I don't think they would make a very good movie or miniseries though.
Yes more people could review it, and they might even pass their critiques onto the original author, who may incorporate them if he thinks they are valid. However, those changes will go into the final published draft - the version on arXiv is (and in almost all cases will remain) a preprint draft which has not received any peer review. Any unintentional mistakes/typos will remain and continue to cause confusion or mislead future readers. Even if an article is completely debunked by every peer who reviews it will remain on arXiv as-is, with nothing to distinguish it from articles that have been accepted by peer review.
Pre-print posting is a bad reaction to a bad situation, both of which we will have to live with until a better compromise with the journals can be met.
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On the otherhand, less than 40% of consumers have upgraded to HDTV yet. When I finally get around to buying one, if I can get a 3D for only 10% more I might spring for it (assuming a standard has been established). It may also provide more incentive for people who haven't upgraded yet to do so if they see more value in 3D then they did in HD.
I was confused about that comment too - if I connect to some unknown wireless AP they can see my traffic whether WPA is enabled or not, and they are much more likely to be monitoring my traffic then someone with a wireless snooper. So allowing shared WPA2 connections doesn't make much sense to me.
I suppose another way to interpret that comment is that it would be nice to have WPA2 enabled on my router for my use with my machines, but still allow unencrypted access to the same router. That way you could have another layer of security yourself, while still sharing the connection with others. Bonus points if the unencrypted connections couldn't access my LAN, just the WAN.
The second class sounds like a crammed together sampling of different topics that will leave you without enough knowledge in any one of them to do anything useful. If you want to do some sort of computational physics in the future then you will need many more classes than that one, so you might as well start at the beginning and take them all individually. It will be less overwhelming, and you will have a much better understanding of the subject.
If you don't want to do computational physics, then all that continuous math is worthless. I took Calculus 1-3, ODEs, PDEs, Vectors, Complex Analysis, and like VAXcat have never once used them in my job as a programmer (still working on getting a masters so I can get a job where I will use that info). Discrete math *is* useful, especially if the focus is on algorithm analysis and graphs.
In either case Numerical Methods is a very good class to have - depending on the level it is taught at, this may be a good time to do so, or you may want to wait till after you've had at least Linear Algebra and possibly Differential Equations.
Oh definitely, most of it is good to have done, unlike the Best Buy warranty garbage. The only scummy thing about it is that they attract people with reasonable rates on oil change, then charge really exorbitant rates for all the other services they up-sell. I've also heard that they can really screw your car up when they try to do anything more advanced than an oil change.
I actually don't mind them asking because it reminds me look up when I actually do need to take the car into a real mechanic.
If you ever watch the Point-Of-Sale software used at every JiffyLube, you'll see that it displays a barrage of screens listing options that the attendant is supposed to try to upsell. They are supposed to ask the normal things like whether you want standard/synthetic/blend oil, as well as windsheild wipers, oil filter and air filter every time. Then the software looks up the "recommended" maintenance schedule for you car (usually about twice as often as the schedule in the owners manual), and they are supposed to recommend anything that comes up, like belts, engine tuning, etc.
Most of the places I've been to the attendant asks, but with a quick, "I have to ask this, just say no" sort of delivery. Some ask about the oil, then flat out state that the wipers, oil filter, and air filter were fine, while clicking through those screens. A few have actually made an effort to try and to push the extra services on me.
The natural world may only be approximated using a mathematical framework (at least at present), but the devices that we create based on that knowledge is a direct application of the mathematical models. And it is those devices that are under question when one applies for a patent, not science or nature as a whole.
So say you have an algorithm, and claim that it is nothing more than math. You can implement that algorithm in a programming language, convert it to machine language for a general purpose processor, implement it as a giant logic table in an FPGA, implement it using TTL logic circuits, or make a custom ASIC of the same logic. Many algorithms, such as signal processing, can be implemented to within a desired precision with either digital or analog filters. There are also mechanical implementations of the same ideas - mechanical calculators are obvious, but even simple things like automatic valves may be more robust in for certain applications than converting to the electronic/digital realm and back again. At what point do you draw the line and say that it is no longer just a mathematical algorithm?
The problem is that most people aren't going to filter ads based on site or ad-host. They will either live with them, all of them, or install an adblocker and let it run on it's default settings, which is to block all ads.
So even if a specific site or advertiser only uses a unobtrusive ads, they will still be blocked just as often as the horribly annoying ads. The good advertisers are at the mercy of the advertising community as a whole. And once someone starts using ad blockers it is unlikely they will stop using it - even if all the ads on the web became polite, how would they know?
The fact that the current adblockers don't have that type of granularity is the reason I stopped using them. There are a handful of sites that I go to which are entirely supported by ads and usually have unobtrusive, tasteful ones. I don't want to deprive them of income just because other sites have annoying ads. Anymore, if I come to a site like that I just don't go back. If they really annoy me, I add them to my CustomizeOptimize Google blacklist so they don't even show up in my searches.
But it seems like I'm in the minority. Just look at how many posts here are of the "I don't care if it's just a text ad I'm going to block it" school of thought. Look at how the adblockers are all focused on removing as many ads as possible, without giving any sort of content-based (as opposed to host-based) granularity. I can understand the tracking concerns, for which blocking all ads really is the only safe way to go. I've been torn about doing so for that reason myself.
Instead I've tried to cobble together a set of plugins/config settings. I use Better Privacy and have third-party cookies turned off. NoScript was just too annoying for me, as was using a cookie white-list. I have pop-up blocking and Flash Block - I don't even watch legitimate flash widgets half the time, why waste the bandwidth and page loading time. I wish there was something similar for animated GIFs. Right now the browsers have the option of "don't play", "play once", "play continuous". I would really like it if a little play icon showed up when you hovered over paused animated GIFs that would let you view them, so I could keep that setting off for ads but still view legitimate animations when I wanted.
I use my butler Jeeves for everything. He arranges my travel, does my bills, and picks up anything I need from the store. He is fast, courteous and usually reliable. At the same time I know that he is aware of everything I do; I can see it in the way he can often provide suggestions which tend to match my interests. Do to some misplaced comments of his, I am now suspicious that he may not respect my privacy. How do I remain anonymous from my butler while still having him provide all the personal services that I am accustomed to?
If a congressperson was given a petition with over 100000 signatures on it I would expect him or her to take action.
If I was a congressman I wouldn't. Petitions just mean that a small number of people took the time to hassle others into giving a signature. I wouldn't treat it any differently than a form letter or a position letter from an activist group. I suppose if all I was interested in was getting reelected then paying attention to the loud people who can make me look good/bad to others would be important, but I would be more interested in the reasons people are for/against a topic, not aggregate numbers.
My '79 truck had one of those. Only thing it was good for was decreasing gas millage (caused by having to operate the pump? or by increasing the pressure engine that the engine had to push against when expelling exhaust?) My parents yanked that thing off pretty quickly at the recommendation of our mechanic. But, to this day I cannot register that truck in the city because I have removed an "emission decreasing device", even though the actual emission are well below the limits, and the damn pump actually increased actual emissions since it burns more gas with it on. I might not be so opposed to the idea of government regulation if the people doing so didn't constantly prove themselves to be idiots.
They're not entering, but they haven't really done great in the smartphone market thus far. The Blackjack reception was lackluster. Here is the closest thing to official smartphone marketshare numbers, and it puts Samsung in 5th with 3.5% of the market, which is pretty low especially compared to their popularity in the general cellphone market.
RealID was a horrible idea, many states refused to do it...it is dead in the water as far as I can tell.
Nope, it was passed into law. All the states requested an extension, so the deadline for implementation was pushed back to the end of March 2008 and then again to the end of December 2009. Since then, 20 states have become compliant, 14 have passed legislation prohibiting their DMV departments from complying, and the remaining 16 are somewhere in between. The DHS has offered the 30 non-compliant states an extension till May 2011 provided they implement a certain number of the requirements. If they don't, then all the residents of those states will have need a passport to fly starting January 1st. I do have to wonder the DHS would really risk implementing this during holiday travels, but that is the plan as of now.
I got this info from our state's Real ID FAQ(PDF) - it is probably on Wikipedia as well.
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I agree that this isn't a good idea to use for important websites. But it would be an improvement over using a single throwaway password for all the less important sites.
I have about 10 important accounts that I visit often. Those passwords are randomly generated passwords and memorized. I have another 10 or so important accounts that I visit infrequently, and so those passwords are randomly generated and stored in an encrypted file. Then there are about 100 stupid sites that required me to create an account, and for which I used one of a handful of throwaway passwords (more than one due to differences in password policies).
Most organizations will want more than a week commitment for anything more complex than grunt labor. Just like with a job, it takes time to ramp people up, and it isn't worth the effort on their part to do so for someone who is only going to be helping for a week.
For example, consider the task of setting up a new network. They will need to familiarize you with the current infrastructure. Then you can design, purchase equipment, and setup the new network. Finally, you must explain what you did to whoever will be maintaining the network. That will take more than a week, and it would be just as easy if the normal guy that maintains everything upgraded the network himself. If you can find a charity that just happens to be in the middle of an upgrade the week you take on vacation, they would be happy to have the extra hand, but that's unlikely.
For volunteer social work like counseling (and even some tutoring), most organizations like you to go though several days of training before hand. Even if your wife is more than qualified to do the work off the bat, they need to make sure you are both on the same page (not to mention the CYA aspects).
If you can find time in your schedule to volunteer a couple hours a week, you will find more volunteer organizations that are able to use your skills. There are websites where organizations can post for help they need, such as Volunteer Match or 1-800-volunteer.
DisplayPort 1.1+ includes HDCP just like HDMI does. It is enabled on all Apple products, and Blu-ray manufacturers are required to enable it as well. Thus any display manufacturer that wants to work with those segment of the markets will also include HDCP support.
Android is open source. Some of Google's applications are closed, but they have had just as many problems with people in western countries including the applications in their custom firmware builds, as in China. Furthermore, China can reverse engineer the applications just as easily whether the phone is sold there or not. It is possible that Google had some Chinese employees working on localization who had access to the code, which would increase the chance of stolen code, but it is equally likely that the coding was all done in the states, and the localization teams in china just provided translations and testing.
I put up with exactly one bit of abuse - sometimes I have to reload a page a time or two as I selectively enable scripts to get to the content I want.
I tried using NoScript for a while. What really frustrated me was that I would completely fill out a form, then discover that I needed javascript enabled for the submit button to work. So I would enable javascript at which point the page would reload and clear all the form entries I just spent the last 5 minutes filling in. This happened on nearly half of the forms I would use. I got sick of that real quick and haven't used NoScript since.
The reporting on this has been extremely bad. This all has to doing video decoding in hardware. DirectX has APIs for that, and they are now being used in the Windows version. The Linux version continues to use the relevant Xorg extensions (XvMC?) for video decoding.
There was when it launched, and by the time they increased the length, the momentum behind VHS was too much to overcome.
I read the Foundation series for the first time last year and I thought the books were very good, up until the "Scooby-Doo" ending of some of them (The Gods Themselves had the same problem). I don't think they would make a very good movie or miniseries though.
Yes more people could review it, and they might even pass their critiques onto the original author, who may incorporate them if he thinks they are valid. However, those changes will go into the final published draft - the version on arXiv is (and in almost all cases will remain) a preprint draft which has not received any peer review. Any unintentional mistakes/typos will remain and continue to cause confusion or mislead future readers. Even if an article is completely debunked by every peer who reviews it will remain on arXiv as-is, with nothing to distinguish it from articles that have been accepted by peer review.
Pre-print posting is a bad reaction to a bad situation, both of which we will have to live with until a better compromise with the journals can be met.
On the otherhand, less than 40% of consumers have upgraded to HDTV yet. When I finally get around to buying one, if I can get a 3D for only 10% more I might spring for it (assuming a standard has been established). It may also provide more incentive for people who haven't upgraded yet to do so if they see more value in 3D then they did in HD.
I was confused about that comment too - if I connect to some unknown wireless AP they can see my traffic whether WPA is enabled or not, and they are much more likely to be monitoring my traffic then someone with a wireless snooper. So allowing shared WPA2 connections doesn't make much sense to me.
I suppose another way to interpret that comment is that it would be nice to have WPA2 enabled on my router for my use with my machines, but still allow unencrypted access to the same router. That way you could have another layer of security yourself, while still sharing the connection with others. Bonus points if the unencrypted connections couldn't access my LAN, just the WAN.
The second class sounds like a crammed together sampling of different topics that will leave you without enough knowledge in any one of them to do anything useful. If you want to do some sort of computational physics in the future then you will need many more classes than that one, so you might as well start at the beginning and take them all individually. It will be less overwhelming, and you will have a much better understanding of the subject.
If you don't want to do computational physics, then all that continuous math is worthless. I took Calculus 1-3, ODEs, PDEs, Vectors, Complex Analysis, and like VAXcat have never once used them in my job as a programmer (still working on getting a masters so I can get a job where I will use that info). Discrete math *is* useful, especially if the focus is on algorithm analysis and graphs.
In either case Numerical Methods is a very good class to have - depending on the level it is taught at, this may be a good time to do so, or you may want to wait till after you've had at least Linear Algebra and possibly Differential Equations.
The NRO has no authority to hand over pictures that it took on behalf of the CIA.
Oh definitely, most of it is good to have done, unlike the Best Buy warranty garbage. The only scummy thing about it is that they attract people with reasonable rates on oil change, then charge really exorbitant rates for all the other services they up-sell. I've also heard that they can really screw your car up when they try to do anything more advanced than an oil change.
I actually don't mind them asking because it reminds me look up when I actually do need to take the car into a real mechanic.
If you ever watch the Point-Of-Sale software used at every JiffyLube, you'll see that it displays a barrage of screens listing options that the attendant is supposed to try to upsell. They are supposed to ask the normal things like whether you want standard/synthetic/blend oil, as well as windsheild wipers, oil filter and air filter every time. Then the software looks up the "recommended" maintenance schedule for you car (usually about twice as often as the schedule in the owners manual), and they are supposed to recommend anything that comes up, like belts, engine tuning, etc.
Most of the places I've been to the attendant asks, but with a quick, "I have to ask this, just say no" sort of delivery. Some ask about the oil, then flat out state that the wipers, oil filter, and air filter were fine, while clicking through those screens. A few have actually made an effort to try and to push the extra services on me.
The natural world may only be approximated using a mathematical framework (at least at present), but the devices that we create based on that knowledge is a direct application of the mathematical models. And it is those devices that are under question when one applies for a patent, not science or nature as a whole.
So say you have an algorithm, and claim that it is nothing more than math. You can implement that algorithm in a programming language, convert it to machine language for a general purpose processor, implement it as a giant logic table in an FPGA, implement it using TTL logic circuits, or make a custom ASIC of the same logic. Many algorithms, such as signal processing, can be implemented to within a desired precision with either digital or analog filters. There are also mechanical implementations of the same ideas - mechanical calculators are obvious, but even simple things like automatic valves may be more robust in for certain applications than converting to the electronic/digital realm and back again. At what point do you draw the line and say that it is no longer just a mathematical algorithm?
There is nothing in the film that shows any originality or creativity in ideas.
So, what did Hollywood Studios see in this guy?
I think you just answered that yourself :)
The problem is that most people aren't going to filter ads based on site or ad-host. They will either live with them, all of them, or install an adblocker and let it run on it's default settings, which is to block all ads.
So even if a specific site or advertiser only uses a unobtrusive ads, they will still be blocked just as often as the horribly annoying ads. The good advertisers are at the mercy of the advertising community as a whole. And once someone starts using ad blockers it is unlikely they will stop using it - even if all the ads on the web became polite, how would they know?
The fact that the current adblockers don't have that type of granularity is the reason I stopped using them. There are a handful of sites that I go to which are entirely supported by ads and usually have unobtrusive, tasteful ones. I don't want to deprive them of income just because other sites have annoying ads. Anymore, if I come to a site like that I just don't go back. If they really annoy me, I add them to my CustomizeOptimize Google blacklist so they don't even show up in my searches.
But it seems like I'm in the minority. Just look at how many posts here are of the "I don't care if it's just a text ad I'm going to block it" school of thought. Look at how the adblockers are all focused on removing as many ads as possible, without giving any sort of content-based (as opposed to host-based) granularity. I can understand the tracking concerns, for which blocking all ads really is the only safe way to go. I've been torn about doing so for that reason myself.
Instead I've tried to cobble together a set of plugins/config settings. I use Better Privacy and have third-party cookies turned off. NoScript was just too annoying for me, as was using a cookie white-list. I have pop-up blocking and Flash Block - I don't even watch legitimate flash widgets half the time, why waste the bandwidth and page loading time. I wish there was something similar for animated GIFs. Right now the browsers have the option of "don't play", "play once", "play continuous". I would really like it if a little play icon showed up when you hovered over paused animated GIFs that would let you view them, so I could keep that setting off for ads but still view legitimate animations when I wanted.
I use my butler Jeeves for everything. He arranges my travel, does my bills, and picks up anything I need from the store. He is fast, courteous and usually reliable. At the same time I know that he is aware of everything I do; I can see it in the way he can often provide suggestions which tend to match my interests. Do to some misplaced comments of his, I am now suspicious that he may not respect my privacy. How do I remain anonymous from my butler while still having him provide all the personal services that I am accustomed to?
If a congressperson was given a petition with over 100000 signatures on it I would expect him or her to take action.
If I was a congressman I wouldn't. Petitions just mean that a small number of people took the time to hassle others into giving a signature. I wouldn't treat it any differently than a form letter or a position letter from an activist group. I suppose if all I was interested in was getting reelected then paying attention to the loud people who can make me look good/bad to others would be important, but I would be more interested in the reasons people are for/against a topic, not aggregate numbers.
My '79 truck had one of those. Only thing it was good for was decreasing gas millage (caused by having to operate the pump? or by increasing the pressure engine that the engine had to push against when expelling exhaust?) My parents yanked that thing off pretty quickly at the recommendation of our mechanic. But, to this day I cannot register that truck in the city because I have removed an "emission decreasing device", even though the actual emission are well below the limits, and the damn pump actually increased actual emissions since it burns more gas with it on. I might not be so opposed to the idea of government regulation if the people doing so didn't constantly prove themselves to be idiots.
They're not entering, but they haven't really done great in the smartphone market thus far. The Blackjack reception was lackluster. Here is the closest thing to official smartphone marketshare numbers, and it puts Samsung in 5th with 3.5% of the market, which is pretty low especially compared to their popularity in the general cellphone market.
So what you are saying is that the editors should be more parsimonious in their use of the English language?
RealID was a horrible idea, many states refused to do it...it is dead in the water as far as I can tell.
Nope, it was passed into law. All the states requested an extension, so the deadline for implementation was pushed back to the end of March 2008 and then again to the end of December 2009. Since then, 20 states have become compliant, 14 have passed legislation prohibiting their DMV departments from complying, and the remaining 16 are somewhere in between. The DHS has offered the 30 non-compliant states an extension till May 2011 provided they implement a certain number of the requirements. If they don't, then all the residents of those states will have need a passport to fly starting January 1st. I do have to wonder the DHS would really risk implementing this during holiday travels, but that is the plan as of now.
I got this info from our state's Real ID FAQ(PDF) - it is probably on Wikipedia as well.