Touch manipulation just makes more sense on a horisontal surface to me.
Real-world experience has shown that an angled surface is better than both horizontal or vertical, which is why nearly anyone who draws for a living, like draftsmen, and animators, all use angled "drafting" tables. The fact that the images on the screen can't fall off, (unlike paper which has to be taped down) eliminates the only (minor) downside that an angled table normally has. It would also prevent you from setting coffee cups on it, which is probably a good idea:)
But I agree, I would love a big drafting-table like touch-screen.
I don't know about AU, but the US has long standing laws and precedent for how to deal with situations where people try and get around the law using silly technicalities like this. You don't think organized crime hasn't played these sort of games in the real world before?
That is my first thought - what is preventing them from doing this right now?
There is noting that says you can't incorporate a "business" as a non-profit, or rather nothing prevents a non-profit from generating revenue. One of the major disadvantages is that since you don't have profit, it's hard to have investors, which makes getting capital for expansion harder.
So to me the most important question is what does this bill allow the newspaper companies to do that a normal non-profit couldn't and is that really a good idea? Of course the story completely neglected to include that information.
Why is it that every story I read, or news report I watch I leave thinking that journalists completely failed to investigate the heart of the story? They rarely even explain what the relevant details of the situation are, let alone think to ask any of the important questions (the ones I would ask:), instead just running whatever random quotes they could get from people.
Wha arr yoo taalkn about? I wenn down ta tha bar an they had sum greeaat I.P.A.s an Lagers for reasonububle prices. Zactly whaat he tol me to find. An NO I don hab a drinkn problem.
The shares that the government bought are all non-voting shares. So while the government can reap the benefit if the company's share price ever recovers, they have absolutely no say in how the company is run.
One very important thing to remember if you choose to use Windows built in encryption is that it uses the Windows password to encrypt the keys, and by default that password is stored using an LM hash which is extremely insecure (in addition to the NTLM which is less insecure).
To prevent this, you can either modify a registry setting to disable LM Hashes, or you can pick a password 15 characters or longer (since LM is limited to 14, it will be filled in with garbage and NTLM used instead).
Note that this also applies if you use TrueCrypt or some other program, but use the same password as you use for Windows.
Do you know, when you mount with the noalloc option, is it really the same as ext3 with the data=ordered option, or is the behavior closer to ext3 with the data=writeback option?
Not entirely. In Chrome you can still type in the form and click on the buttons and they actually submit the page giving you search results. When I tried it in Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows and Linux, I could not select the text box once it had fallen, nor did clicking the buttons do anything. If I select the text box before it falls I can keep typing, but hitting enter also does not submit the form.
The Voting Machine division was acquired from outside, and shares none of the same engineers, management (apart from the top) or accountability with the rest of the company.
it would be less of a problem for them than AMD losing the rights to use x86-anything.
That is not going to happen. Patents only last 20 years, which means that any patents filed on 486 or older technology is no longer covered by patents. If anything AMD would lose the extensions that have been added since then like MMX, SSE, 3dNow.
In my opinion, the real threat here isn't loosing their license to the instruction set, but rather other licenses with regards to process (fabrication) and design details (like patents on instruction set to microcode translation, or branch prediction algorithms, etc).
I bought the HD-280 a couple years ago (although I think they were on sale for $65) and I thought they were a great deal. They sound much better than any speaker/receiver combination I could get for that price. Alternately, they are much less expensive than a good set of speakers/receiver would cost me.
Unlike speakers I can use them in the office, and don't have to compete with the television at home. Furthermore, they have pretty decent sound isolation which means I can play them at lower volume than a cheap set of headphones, saving my hearing.
Heck, when I was doing a lot of traveling, I even shelled out about $90 (also on sale) for a pair of Etymotic ER-6 in-ear headphones. Those things are an absolute hearing savior on airplanes. Their noise isolation has a very flat frequency response, so you can block out nearly all of the background noise on the plane but still hear the attendants when they speak to you. I've taken to wearing those things the entire flight regardless of whether I'm listening to music or not. They also pack a lot better than a pair of over-the-ear headphones.
I updated at home, downloading directly, and it asked me to install Yahoo Toolbar. I updated at work, pushed out corporate, and it asked me to install MSN Toolbar.
Anyone know why the difference?
Either way I think it completely sucks. As a Java developer who tries to maintain a professional image, I don't like having to ask my clients to install software that comes bundled with crapware.
I haven't been watching much TV now that I've started working on my Master's again (nor did I had time to upgrade my MythTV box before the DTV switchover). What do you guys think of Dollhouse so far?
Ubuntu isn't a rolling release, like Debian stable. Nor is this like windows freeware that constantly bugs you to install the newest version. Ubuntu only issue updates to patch known security problems and critical bugs, not to add new features.
The proper time to update is when you know a program well enough to know that a newer version has a feature you want.
Sometimes there are corner cases in software that you only run into occasionally. Just because you haven't hit it yet doesn't mean you won't in the future. Waiting until you know that you want to upgrade to install an update, may very well mean waiting until the software has unnecessarily corrupted your project files.
someone who doesn't run a DNS resolver shouldn't have to keep up with the corresponding software, or even have it installed!
You're right they shouldn't have it installed. If they do then that is another problem altogether. But if it is installed they do need to be installing security updates otherwise they setting themselves up for trouble.
As long as unmodified OpenGL is still in use, *nix will always still be a step behind Windows in gaming. OpenGL and DirectX are simply common APIs for accessing features on graphics cards. OpenGL is no longer a good representation for how these cards operate, and is thus not a good API for programming them.
The question is what is the best way to keep up-to-date with hardware features in a market that is driven by external forces. Do you sit and wait for phoronix to update OpenGL and then try and convince hardware/driver designers and game developers to use it? Do you depend on hardware designers to create their own extensions and developers to write several code paths for different types of cards? Do you create your own extensions to try and unify the vendor extensions?
All of those options sound like a constant game of catch-up to me. On the other hand, consider if *nix adopted a driver framework that better matched the capabilities of today's cards (like Gallium3D), one which DirectX would just be a thin layer to wrap around - practically a native interface, rather than just accessible via the WINE stack, wrapped around a less featurefull interface.
Yes, you would have to update when Microsoft updates in order to keep up, but since the hardware itself is in lockstep with DirectX today, you would need to update anyway. These APIs are usually out for a while before games requiring them are released, and the hardware companies (the ones writing the drivers) will be in talks with Microsoft long before that. By making life easier for driver developers and game programs, you wouldn't be spending as much time playing catch-up because they would be doing more of the work for you.
I haven't tried yet. I actually have one on order as we speak to try it out. From what I understand, the software from Wave Systems allows you to unlock and lock internal non-boot drives in Windows. I don't see any reason why an eSATA enclosure would be any different, but I don't expect USB enclosures to work.
AFAIK, no one has written Linux client software for doing this or any other password administration yet.
If it is not securely implemented then people will break it and eventually one of these people will be a white-hat, and will let the community know. If the manufacturer had advertised that the drives were encrypted, and they were in fact not, they will be hit with some pretty damn big lawsuits. Even if the exploit was just a mistake they will likely lose a good number of sales over it.
I don't think this is a risk that any of the major drive makers would be willing to take of for a quick buck. El-cheapo flash drive makers, sure, but not Seagate, Western Digital, or Hitachi.
What you described is very similar to how the current seagate drives work, minus the external keyfob.
Out of the box the drives store a single copy of the non-encrypted key. When you set an administrator password, that key becomes encrypted using that password. You can create up to 4 additional user accounts. Doing so creates an copy of the key (still on the drive) this time encrypted with their password. The commands to change settings on the drive require the administrator password (don't know how the security on that is implemented).
One advantage of doing this all on-drive, is that there is are no commands to read the encryption keys, and thus they can never exist off the drive in unencrypted form.
I have one of the seagate encrypted drives. There is nothing about them that is tied to a specific motherboard or TPM chip. The encryption keys are protected by a password, and there are a couple of ways to provide the password to the drive. The computer manufacturer can implement this functionality in the BIOS, and have it prompt for the password on boot (this is what Lenevo does). Alternately the MBR is not encrypted, so you can install a boot loader that prompts for the password, passes it onto the drive and then continues booting (this is what Dell does, using software from Wave Systems).
As long as you remember the password, you can access the drive in another computer. Furthermore, the drive can have upto 5 passwords - an administrator password, and 4 user passwords. A competent computer support center will set the administrator password when they image the machine, handling proper key management across the organization, and have the user select a separate user password. This should should make the chances of not being able to access an encrypted drive low enough for practical purposes.
Yeah, they were always the last place I checked when shopping for electronics. I did get my TV there - bought the floor unit of a discontinued model at a very good discount. During the going out of business sale, I did pick up an UPS for $5 less that it was selling for online, and saved a good bit more by not paying shipping, so that was nice. I had to laugh though, overhearing some poor mother explain to her pre-teen daughter that $16.99 is not a good price for a CD even if they claim it is 20% off.
That $1.3 billion is the amount that has been allocated to be spent. Last I read, less than half of that had actually been spent and the rest was tied up in coupons that had been requested but had neither been used, nor expired yet.
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I agree with most of that but,
Touch manipulation just makes more sense on a horisontal surface to me.
Real-world experience has shown that an angled surface is better than both horizontal or vertical, which is why nearly anyone who draws for a living, like draftsmen, and animators, all use angled "drafting" tables. The fact that the images on the screen can't fall off, (unlike paper which has to be taped down) eliminates the only (minor) downside that an angled table normally has. It would also prevent you from setting coffee cups on it, which is probably a good idea :)
But I agree, I would love a big drafting-table like touch-screen.
Thanks. I guess I'll be sticking with 8.04 again.
I don't know about AU, but the US has long standing laws and precedent for how to deal with situations where people try and get around the law using silly technicalities like this. You don't think organized crime hasn't played these sort of games in the real world before?
That is my first thought - what is preventing them from doing this right now?
There is noting that says you can't incorporate a "business" as a non-profit, or rather nothing prevents a non-profit from generating revenue. One of the major disadvantages is that since you don't have profit, it's hard to have investors, which makes getting capital for expansion harder.
So to me the most important question is what does this bill allow the newspaper companies to do that a normal non-profit couldn't and is that really a good idea? Of course the story completely neglected to include that information.
Why is it that every story I read, or news report I watch I leave thinking that journalists completely failed to investigate the heart of the story? They rarely even explain what the relevant details of the situation are, let alone think to ask any of the important questions (the ones I would ask :), instead just running whatever random quotes they could get from people.
Wha arr yoo taalkn about? I wenn down ta tha bar an they had sum greeaat I.P.A.s an Lagers for reasonububle prices. Zactly whaat he tol me to find. An NO I don hab a drinkn problem.
Yeah that's what I want. A government that can revoke my ability to do business on it's whim. Fuck that.
The shares that the government bought are all non-voting shares. So while the government can reap the benefit if the company's share price ever recovers, they have absolutely no say in how the company is run.
One very important thing to remember if you choose to use Windows built in encryption is that it uses the Windows password to encrypt the keys, and by default that password is stored using an LM hash which is extremely insecure (in addition to the NTLM which is less insecure).
To prevent this, you can either modify a registry setting to disable LM Hashes, or you can pick a password 15 characters or longer (since LM is limited to 14, it will be filled in with garbage and NTLM used instead).
Note that this also applies if you use TrueCrypt or some other program, but use the same password as you use for Windows.
Do you know, when you mount with the noalloc option, is it really the same as ext3 with the data=ordered option, or is the behavior closer to ext3 with the data=writeback option?
Not entirely. In Chrome you can still type in the form and click on the buttons and they actually submit the page giving you search results. When I tried it in Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows and Linux, I could not select the text box once it had fallen, nor did clicking the buttons do anything. If I select the text box before it falls I can keep typing, but hitting enter also does not submit the form.
The Voting Machine division was acquired from outside, and shares none of the same engineers, management (apart from the top) or accountability with the rest of the company.
it would be less of a problem for them than AMD losing the rights to use x86-anything.
That is not going to happen. Patents only last 20 years, which means that any patents filed on 486 or older technology is no longer covered by patents. If anything AMD would lose the extensions that have been added since then like MMX, SSE, 3dNow.
In my opinion, the real threat here isn't loosing their license to the instruction set, but rather other licenses with regards to process (fabrication) and design details (like patents on instruction set to microcode translation, or branch prediction algorithms, etc).
Do you mean $1500 or $100?
I bought the HD-280 a couple years ago (although I think they were on sale for $65) and I thought they were a great deal. They sound much better than any speaker/receiver combination I could get for that price. Alternately, they are much less expensive than a good set of speakers/receiver would cost me.
Unlike speakers I can use them in the office, and don't have to compete with the television at home. Furthermore, they have pretty decent sound isolation which means I can play them at lower volume than a cheap set of headphones, saving my hearing.
Heck, when I was doing a lot of traveling, I even shelled out about $90 (also on sale) for a pair of Etymotic ER-6 in-ear headphones. Those things are an absolute hearing savior on airplanes. Their noise isolation has a very flat frequency response, so you can block out nearly all of the background noise on the plane but still hear the attendants when they speak to you. I've taken to wearing those things the entire flight regardless of whether I'm listening to music or not. They also pack a lot better than a pair of over-the-ear headphones.
I updated at home, downloading directly, and it asked me to install Yahoo Toolbar.
I updated at work, pushed out corporate, and it asked me to install MSN Toolbar.
Anyone know why the difference?
Either way I think it completely sucks. As a Java developer who tries to maintain a professional image, I don't like having to ask my clients to install software that comes bundled with crapware.
I haven't been watching much TV now that I've started working on my Master's again (nor did I had time to upgrade my MythTV box before the DTV switchover). What do you guys think of Dollhouse so far?
Ubuntu isn't a rolling release, like Debian stable. Nor is this like windows freeware that constantly bugs you to install the newest version. Ubuntu only issue updates to patch known security problems and critical bugs, not to add new features.
The proper time to update is when you know a program well enough to know that a newer version has a feature you want.
Sometimes there are corner cases in software that you only run into occasionally. Just because you haven't hit it yet doesn't mean you won't in the future. Waiting until you know that you want to upgrade to install an update, may very well mean waiting until the software has unnecessarily corrupted your project files.
someone who doesn't run a DNS resolver shouldn't have to keep up with the corresponding software, or even have it installed!
You're right they shouldn't have it installed. If they do then that is another problem altogether. But if it is installed they do need to be installing security updates otherwise they setting themselves up for trouble.
As long as unmodified OpenGL is still in use, *nix will always still be a step behind Windows in gaming. OpenGL and DirectX are simply common APIs for accessing features on graphics cards. OpenGL is no longer a good representation for how these cards operate, and is thus not a good API for programming them.
The question is what is the best way to keep up-to-date with hardware features in a market that is driven by external forces. Do you sit and wait for phoronix to update OpenGL and then try and convince hardware/driver designers and game developers to use it? Do you depend on hardware designers to create their own extensions and developers to write several code paths for different types of cards? Do you create your own extensions to try and unify the vendor extensions?
All of those options sound like a constant game of catch-up to me. On the other hand, consider if *nix adopted a driver framework that better matched the capabilities of today's cards (like Gallium3D), one which DirectX would just be a thin layer to wrap around - practically a native interface, rather than just accessible via the WINE stack, wrapped around a less featurefull interface.
Yes, you would have to update when Microsoft updates in order to keep up, but since the hardware itself is in lockstep with DirectX today, you would need to update anyway. These APIs are usually out for a while before games requiring them are released, and the hardware companies (the ones writing the drivers) will be in talks with Microsoft long before that. By making life easier for driver developers and game programs, you wouldn't be spending as much time playing catch-up because they would be doing more of the work for you.
I haven't tried yet. I actually have one on order as we speak to try it out. From what I understand, the software from Wave Systems allows you to unlock and lock internal non-boot drives in Windows. I don't see any reason why an eSATA enclosure would be any different, but I don't expect USB enclosures to work.
AFAIK, no one has written Linux client software for doing this or any other password administration yet.
If it is not securely implemented then people will break it and eventually one of these people will be a white-hat, and will let the community know. If the manufacturer had advertised that the drives were encrypted, and they were in fact not, they will be hit with some pretty damn big lawsuits. Even if the exploit was just a mistake they will likely lose a good number of sales over it.
I don't think this is a risk that any of the major drive makers would be willing to take of for a quick buck. El-cheapo flash drive makers, sure, but not Seagate, Western Digital, or Hitachi.
What you described is very similar to how the current seagate drives work, minus the external keyfob.
Out of the box the drives store a single copy of the non-encrypted key. When you set an administrator password, that key becomes encrypted using that password. You can create up to 4 additional user accounts. Doing so creates an copy of the key (still on the drive) this time encrypted with their password. The commands to change settings on the drive require the administrator password (don't know how the security on that is implemented).
One advantage of doing this all on-drive, is that there is are no commands to read the encryption keys, and thus they can never exist off the drive in unencrypted form.
I have one of the seagate encrypted drives. There is nothing about them that is tied to a specific motherboard or TPM chip. The encryption keys are protected by a password, and there are a couple of ways to provide the password to the drive. The computer manufacturer can implement this functionality in the BIOS, and have it prompt for the password on boot (this is what Lenevo does). Alternately the MBR is not encrypted, so you can install a boot loader that prompts for the password, passes it onto the drive and then continues booting (this is what Dell does, using software from Wave Systems).
As long as you remember the password, you can access the drive in another computer. Furthermore, the drive can have upto 5 passwords - an administrator password, and 4 user passwords. A competent computer support center will set the administrator password when they image the machine, handling proper key management across the organization, and have the user select a separate user password. This should should make the chances of not being able to access an encrypted drive low enough for practical purposes.
Note that even laws like the DMCA talk about copy protection, rather than DRM.
That's not entirely correct. While they refer to them as copyright protection devices, the actual definition of infringement in USC 17.12.01 is:
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
So according to the law copyright protection devices control access to the work not just copying of the work. Another reason that it is a bad law.
Yeah, they were always the last place I checked when shopping for electronics. I did get my TV there - bought the floor unit of a discontinued model at a very good discount. During the going out of business sale, I did pick up an UPS for $5 less that it was selling for online, and saved a good bit more by not paying shipping, so that was nice. I had to laugh though, overhearing some poor mother explain to her pre-teen daughter that $16.99 is not a good price for a CD even if they claim it is 20% off.
That $1.3 billion is the amount that has been allocated to be spent. Last I read, less than half of that had actually been spent and the rest was tied up in coupons that had been requested but had neither been used, nor expired yet.