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Hopnestly, I kinda figured that when the housing bubble butst, like it's starting to do now in places like Boston and San Fransisco, it'd take a lot of the economy with it. That, and rising energy prices mean that there'll be a lot less money floating around in the system for future tech investment. It really seems to me like we're in for a rough few years.
P.S.: I googled briefly for links between real estate and the economy in general, but couldn't find anything useful.
Yup, you're right, you've gotta use https://mail.google.com/ if you want SSL. Leave it to me to make up a URL rather than just copying my bookmark.
Mods, please mod parent up, lest people start using my bad URL under the illusion of security.
I think that either you or the users you have in mind are missing the point of an anonymous Internet proxy. The idea is that when you go through a proxy network, the website you're viewing/posting can't (easily) identify you by your IP. Sure, the site admins can see what you posted, but they can't be sure where it originated.
If you're worried about man-in-the-middle attacks, then the website you're visiting is probably the party you trust most in the transaction, and every step that your info takes along the way is another set of eyes that might be snooping on it. In this situation, you are correct that an anonymizing proxy will probably result in subjectively poorer security.
Then again, any website that has private data that you'd like to keep that way most likely has SSL enabled anyway. If you're using an end-to-end SSL-enabled webmail service like Gmail (httpS://gmail.com), and you trust 128-bit SSL, then you've probably got nothing to fear*. If you don't trust SSL, then you're probably worried about Big Brother and No Such Agency and the like. In this case, you're probably better off just hiding under your bed.
*Note that Yahoo! mail SSL-enables only their login page. Anybody in the middle running a packet sniffer or checking their web proxy logs can see your mail when you read it. They just can't see your Yahoo! password.
Given that nearly all digital still cameras, and all digital video cameras have video out (usually RCA), I could see some photographers buying this as a chimping tool.
Wow, you learn something new every day here on Slashdot. I had no idea "chimp" was a verb, but I will take a WAG at its meaning and attempt to use it in casual conversation as often as possible from now on.
Also, remember to take the answers to these types of questions with a grain of salt. Vague responses like, "Oh, the software you'll be maintaining is pretty good" or "The last guy who held your position left for personal reasons" or "Sure, the company's in okay shape" should raise warning flags in your head.
Just something to watch for, from someone who's been around the block once or twice.
Err, umm, how about Apple just lets music companies set their own pricing schedules? Apple can charge the music companies the distribution costs (bandwidth, storage space, etc.) plus whatever percentage they feel like, and the music companies who want more money for their tracks can set the prices at whatever *their* marketing gurus think the market will bear.
Maybe the next big predicted hit goes on sale and prices are set high for the first week to catch the gotta-have-it-now crowd, and maybe they come down later for the heard-it-on-the-radio-and-kinda-liked-it crowd. Heck, maybe they go up later for the gotta-have-it-and-nobody-else-stocks-it crowd. The lower limit on the price is whatever Apple is charging the music companies for distribution, and the upper limit is whatever the labels think somebody will pay before they give up and just steal the song.
Since the supply-side costs are so low, might as well let the folks whose bottom lines are most affected (music labels) take their best shot at guessing demand.
Hmm, nearly-direct link to a 145-megabyte video file on the/. front page, posted right as the geeks of the world are getting home from work. What are you, crazy? Are you trying to Slashdot Microsoft?
When a Real Java Programmer refers to a Java "memory leak", (s)he's being a little bit snarky. Real Java Programmers know that there's no such thing as a traditional memory leak in a Java program, so they use the term generically to refer to inadvertently unfreed memory.
Beware, for by openly objecting to this usage, you open yourself to the Real Java Programmer for characterization as an old-school programmer (the bad, bit-flipping kind) or worse, a n00b in need of a lecture. The best approach, rather, is to nod, smile and call them a jerk under your breath.
Or better yet, bitch about them on Slashdot.
P.S.: I'm a Java guy myself, but this post is only half-sarcastic. I'll leave figuring out which half as an exercise to the reader.
The Canadian 'scope won't sit for long atop the list of the world's largest telescope. In fact, Poland has already begun construction of a monstrous telescope nearly triple the size of the one planned for Canada.
The telescope is being installed where the temperature and humidity are nearly constant: several miles underground in an abandoned salt mine.
Nah, see, he linked to the Wikipedia site, which doesn't actually have the offending image. However, if you still feel this to be inappropriate, please feel free to contact the admins.
Ermm, one question: is your poker simulator multi-threaded? If not, try ArrayLists in place of your Vectors in the Java code. Vectors are internally synchronized, which will hit you for a pretty big performance penalty.
Sorry, Vector over-use is one of my pet peeves. It's silly little programming goofs like this that make our programs slow, and give the anti-Java trolls more ammo.
Amen brotha. I've been a semi-rabid Gentoo zealot for a year or two, but one of the biggest things that bugs me is the lack of testing/maintenence that goes into some of the ebuilds. Heck, Java 5 has been out for...some time now, and the ebuild is still "unstable". Heck, I just went to Google Java 5's release date, and my newly-emerged (as of yesterday) Firefox's search widget is busted.
Gentoo ebuild developers will tell you that this is due to inadequate user feedback. I don't know if that's necessarily the case. Don't get me wrong, I still love Gentoo, but sometimes it gets annoying...
Ditto for Palm OS. I was on the Treo boards the other day, browsing the rumors of the new 700, and was mystified by the talk of a POS-based Treo as opposed to a Windows Mobile Treo.;)
[U]ntil the infodynamic boundary between humans and machines is no longer mediated by non-nervous tissue (like typing fingers and seeing eyes), it will primarily define our machines, as well as ourselves.
The point I was making was that your spiel about "removing infodynamic boundaries" is completely counter to your entire metaphor, and just thrown in at the end to sound 1337. When you are part of the computer, it makes it harder to separate your information from the machine's, eh? The same thing happened when computers became part of networks: it became harder to keep your info in (passwords, credit card numbers) and bad information out (viruses, trojans).
Higher levels of encapsulation between systems generally makes both sides of the transaction more robust and secure, whether it be keeping DNA relatively safe inside a cell nucleus or keeping our personal information separate from our computer's unless there's a good reason to share. Thus, the general trend in the evolution of systems is toward more encapsulation. Removing the boundary between yourself and your keyboard is the opposite of encapsulation, so according to your own pattern, it is less likely to occur.
However, it *would* slightly increase the odds of you getting some, by allowing you to seduce women without being discovered for the whiny dork that you most likely are until the last possible moment. Your "tipping point" is mostly wishful thinking: you're an outcast in this world, so you might as well fantasize about the next one where you might fare better.
First paragraph: A little heavy on the high-net-worth words, but essentially valid. Yup, trust webs will change things...someday.
Second paragraph: Half-assed biological metaphor, most likely yoinked from some half-assed article in Popular Science. What the hell does "removing infodynamic boundaries" by becoming a Borg have to do with the transition *from* mishmashed information distribution (prokaryotes) *to* cells with nucleii(eukaryotes)? You've got your directions reversed. Jacking in directly would just give hackers access to your PIN number right through the back of your skull, without you ever lifting a finger.
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Hopnestly, I kinda figured that when the housing bubble butst, like it's starting to do now in places like Boston and San Fransisco, it'd take a lot of the economy with it. That, and rising energy prices mean that there'll be a lot less money floating around in the system for future tech investment. It really seems to me like we're in for a rough few years.
P.S.: I googled briefly for links between real estate and the economy in general, but couldn't find anything useful.
How little does the American public care about this launch? So little that we've got to look to British news outlets to find decent coverage!
Yup, you're right, you've gotta use https://mail.google.com/ if you want SSL. Leave it to me to make up a URL rather than just copying my bookmark. Mods, please mod parent up, lest people start using my bad URL under the illusion of security.
I think that either you or the users you have in mind are missing the point of an anonymous Internet proxy. The idea is that when you go through a proxy network, the website you're viewing/posting can't (easily) identify you by your IP. Sure, the site admins can see what you posted, but they can't be sure where it originated.
If you're worried about man-in-the-middle attacks, then the website you're visiting is probably the party you trust most in the transaction, and every step that your info takes along the way is another set of eyes that might be snooping on it. In this situation, you are correct that an anonymizing proxy will probably result in subjectively poorer security.
Then again, any website that has private data that you'd like to keep that way most likely has SSL enabled anyway. If you're using an end-to-end SSL-enabled webmail service like Gmail (httpS://gmail.com), and you trust 128-bit SSL, then you've probably got nothing to fear*. If you don't trust SSL, then you're probably worried about Big Brother and No Such Agency and the like. In this case, you're probably better off just hiding under your bed.
*Note that Yahoo! mail SSL-enables only their login page. Anybody in the middle running a packet sniffer or checking their web proxy logs can see your mail when you read it. They just can't see your Yahoo! password.
I can't wait until FreeBSD and other inferior OSes get tools to find memory leaks. One day....
(That last line was sarcasm and not a flame).
Can't it be both?
Given that nearly all digital still cameras, and all digital video cameras have video out (usually RCA), I could see some photographers buying this as a chimping tool.
Wow, you learn something new every day here on Slashdot. I had no idea "chimp" was a verb, but I will take a WAG at its meaning and attempt to use it in casual conversation as often as possible from now on.
What?
So clearly, the best way to save a show is to give the networks a better chance of selling it to advertisers.
Not a Nielson family? Just buy every product advertised during your favorite shows.
In my experience, they usually say something like, "It's a frikkin' fast food joint. What do you think?"
Also, remember to take the answers to these types of questions with a grain of salt. Vague responses like, "Oh, the software you'll be maintaining is pretty good" or "The last guy who held your position left for personal reasons" or "Sure, the company's in okay shape" should raise warning flags in your head.
Just something to watch for, from someone who's been around the block once or twice.
Err, umm, how about Apple just lets music companies set their own pricing schedules? Apple can charge the music companies the distribution costs (bandwidth, storage space, etc.) plus whatever percentage they feel like, and the music companies who want more money for their tracks can set the prices at whatever *their* marketing gurus think the market will bear.
Maybe the next big predicted hit goes on sale and prices are set high for the first week to catch the gotta-have-it-now crowd, and maybe they come down later for the heard-it-on-the-radio-and-kinda-liked-it crowd. Heck, maybe they go up later for the gotta-have-it-and-nobody-else-stocks-it crowd. The lower limit on the price is whatever Apple is charging the music companies for distribution, and the upper limit is whatever the labels think somebody will pay before they give up and just steal the song.
Since the supply-side costs are so low, might as well let the folks whose bottom lines are most affected (music labels) take their best shot at guessing demand.
Hmm, nearly-direct link to a 145-megabyte video file on the /. front page, posted right as the geeks of the world are getting home from work. What are you, crazy? Are you trying to Slashdot Microsoft?
Don't answer that.
When a Real Java Programmer refers to a Java "memory leak", (s)he's being a little bit snarky. Real Java Programmers know that there's no such thing as a traditional memory leak in a Java program, so they use the term generically to refer to inadvertently unfreed memory.
Beware, for by openly objecting to this usage, you open yourself to the Real Java Programmer for characterization as an old-school programmer (the bad, bit-flipping kind) or worse, a n00b in need of a lecture. The best approach, rather, is to nod, smile and call them a jerk under your breath.
Or better yet, bitch about them on Slashdot.
P.S.: I'm a Java guy myself, but this post is only half-sarcastic. I'll leave figuring out which half as an exercise to the reader.
Hey, I'm sure he'll come up with some peer reviews. Of course, the guy's peers are cranks too...
Look, any government that can make growing and consuming a plant in your house illegal can make analog recording illegal.
Agreed. I, for one, am outraged by the US government's recent crackdowns on agugula and winter squash for personal use. Vegetation wants to be free!
The Canadian 'scope won't sit for long atop the list of the world's largest telescope. In fact, Poland has already begun construction of a monstrous telescope nearly triple the size of the one planned for Canada.
The telescope is being installed where the temperature and humidity are nearly constant: several miles underground in an abandoned salt mine.
Heh, try living in Boston the last couple of years and not giving a rat's patootie about baseball.
Nah, see, he linked to the Wikipedia site, which doesn't actually have the offending image. However, if you still feel this to be inappropriate, please feel free to contact the admins.
Nanotoxicity? If you ask me, anyone stupid enough to eat their iPod deserves what they get.
Ermm, one question: is your poker simulator multi-threaded? If not, try ArrayLists in place of your Vectors in the Java code. Vectors are internally synchronized, which will hit you for a pretty big performance penalty.
Sorry, Vector over-use is one of my pet peeves. It's silly little programming goofs like this that make our programs slow, and give the anti-Java trolls more ammo.
Err, umm...yeah. ldconfig fixed my Firefox fast. Pardon the premature pissiness. Also, ignore all this assinine alliteration.
Still pissed off that Eclipse 3.1 is "unstable", though.
Amen brotha. I've been a semi-rabid Gentoo zealot for a year or two, but one of the biggest things that bugs me is the lack of testing/maintenence that goes into some of the ebuilds. Heck, Java 5 has been out for...some time now, and the ebuild is still "unstable". Heck, I just went to Google Java 5's release date, and my newly-emerged (as of yesterday) Firefox's search widget is busted.
Gentoo ebuild developers will tell you that this is due to inadequate user feedback. I don't know if that's necessarily the case. Don't get me wrong, I still love Gentoo, but sometimes it gets annoying...
Ditto for Palm OS. I was on the Treo boards the other day, browsing the rumors of the new 700, and was mystified by the talk of a POS-based Treo as opposed to a Windows Mobile Treo. ;)
[U]ntil the infodynamic boundary between humans and machines is no longer mediated by non-nervous tissue (like typing fingers and seeing eyes), it will primarily define our machines, as well as ourselves.
The point I was making was that your spiel about "removing infodynamic boundaries" is completely counter to your entire metaphor, and just thrown in at the end to sound 1337. When you are part of the computer, it makes it harder to separate your information from the machine's, eh? The same thing happened when computers became part of networks: it became harder to keep your info in (passwords, credit card numbers) and bad information out (viruses, trojans).
Higher levels of encapsulation between systems generally makes both sides of the transaction more robust and secure, whether it be keeping DNA relatively safe inside a cell nucleus or keeping our personal information separate from our computer's unless there's a good reason to share. Thus, the general trend in the evolution of systems is toward more encapsulation. Removing the boundary between yourself and your keyboard is the opposite of encapsulation, so according to your own pattern, it is less likely to occur.
However, it *would* slightly increase the odds of you getting some, by allowing you to seduce women without being discovered for the whiny dork that you most likely are until the last possible moment. Your "tipping point" is mostly wishful thinking: you're an outcast in this world, so you might as well fantasize about the next one where you might fare better.
Dude, lay down the keyboard.
Seriously.
First paragraph: A little heavy on the high-net-worth words, but essentially valid. Yup, trust webs will change things...someday.
Second paragraph: Half-assed biological metaphor, most likely yoinked from some half-assed article in Popular Science. What the hell does "removing infodynamic boundaries" by becoming a Borg have to do with the transition *from* mishmashed information distribution (prokaryotes) *to* cells with nucleii(eukaryotes)? You've got your directions reversed. Jacking in directly would just give hackers access to your PIN number right through the back of your skull, without you ever lifting a finger.
You, sir, are 100% correct: anime *is* teh suck. For gosh sake, I wish they'd make a separate animated kiddie porn channel for that crap.