BASIC on an HP-3000 mainframe in 1980. We had a DECWriter terminal (basically a dot-matrix printer with a keyboard attached) that connected from our junior high school to a local university's mainframe via modem. You took a regular phone, lifted the handset, dialed the number, the modem on the other end would pick up, and you'd put the handset into this cradle that was attached to the DECWriter. Then you'd get a login prompt. Awesome. }:-)
"The supposed "backdoor" the Guardian is describing is actually a feature working as intended, and it would require significant collaboration with Facebook to be able to snoop on and intercept someone's encrypted messages, something the company is extremely unlikely to do."
A backdoor that requires Facebook's help to snoop is still a backdoor, is it not?
His model suggests that the ones that collided to make these gravitational waves were stars that formed 12 billion years ago, became black holes 5 million years later, and then merged 10.3 billion years after that.
Did he do his experiment 3.3 billion years in the future?
I was running Android studio 1.5 on an i3 with 4GB of RAM. Emulator load time was about 3 minutes, gradle builds were 1-3 minutes, time between gradle build finish and app launch was about a minute.
After upgrading to 2.0, emulator load time is now 11 minutes, gradle builds are nearly five minutes and it takes nearly 3 minutes between gradle build finish and app launch.
It's only obstruction of justice if you do it to a phone that the FBI already has in its possession. Phones which have not been seized as evidence are fair game.
Apple should create the version of iOS that the government is asking for that is specific to the phone in question. That keeps them out of trouble.
At the same time, and prior to turning over the signed image to the FBI, they should also create a version of iOS that doesn't accept updates if the phone is locked.
They should then very quietly push the secure version of iOS out to all iPhones. From that moment forward, they will be unable to comply with any further court orders.
The only reason that websites know that the ads aren't reaching the intended target is because they're using javascript to test to see if the ad makes it into the page. The solution is to stop checking. As long as you're making a good faith effort to display the ads, it's not your job to be sure that they made it to the target. If I'm the publisher of a print magazine and I put ads in the magazine, I bill the vendors for the ad space. I have no way of knowing whether the reader actually reads the ad and it's not my job to know. The same principle applies to websites. Bill the vendors for the ads you attempted to insert and you're not losing money.
You can configure Zonealarm to alert you when programs attempt to send traffic out. When Windows 10 tries to phone home, disallow it from doing so. Problem solved.
The law only governs the manufacture of phones. It provides no guidance or penalty for possession of an 'unapproved' phone. If Bush were still in office, I would expect to see a division of the Department of Homeland Security created to monitor cell phone pictures, but...
Besides, if a bill is passed that says all cars manufactured after 2010 have to get at least 100 mpg, that doesn't mean that every other car has to leave the road. Eventually all of the older cars will stop working and only the high mileage cars will be left. Similarly, when all of the 'predatory' phones meet their demise, only the 'safe' phones will be left.
The real question is, why the hell is Congress wasting time with this tripe? Is this supposed to fix the economy?
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In-house geeks can provide far more than just IT skills. You just have to have a CEO that knows how to exploit (the good way) our abilities to analyze processes, recognize patterns, and generally think outside the box. Those abilities are just as useful in the physical world as they are inside a machine.
I do Bowflex, Dance Dance Revolution, Wii Fit, yoga, and floor exercises (pushups, situps, etc).
I also stopped drinking sodas (no diet drinks either), and stopped eating deep fried foods (i.e. chicken, tortilla chips, fries, etc). After four years, I now occasionally eat fried chicken and I might have had three sodas in the past four years.
I read labels on food and make informed decisions about what to eat. If something I eat is high in fat, it's also either high in protein or other nutrients.
I stopped refilling my chocolate drawer at work and stopped putting three tablespoons of sugar in my coffee.
I don't deny myself anything, but when I indulge, I do so with restraint.
I went from 225 to 180 and have kept my weight between 180-185 for over two years.
Now when politicians get caught saying things on camera and later say the exact opposite, the previous statement can be purged from YouTube permanently (and automatically).
Just what our cloak-and-dagger government needs.... more cloak.
Do you really think that the timing of the removal of all Daily Show and Colbert Report clips from YouTube isn't part of this effort?
When some elected dork says "I never said that" on national television, Jon and Steven have a habit of showing the clip of them saying "I never said that" followed by the clip(s) of them saying it? We can't have misinformation like that running around on the Internet. Voters could see it
and get the right idea.
Actually, many modern screen readers have the capability of analyzing the HTML document and creating an alphabetical list of the links on the page that they can navigate.
Here's a list of Features and Enhancements for the latest versions of JAWS (a widely used screen reader). Reading through them will give you some idea of how screen readers operate. There's a lot more to it than you think.
Here's a clip from one of them:
HTML and the Internet Improved Performance on the Web
With the new Internet and HTML support in JAWS 7.10, you will experience increased accuracy, improved navigation, and better text recognition when reading Web pages or other virtual documents. Visible Focus Rectangle
When you press TAB or SHIFT+TAB to move to links and buttons in Internet Explorer and Firefox, the focus rectangle is now visible. This rectangle is useful to sighted users because it visually indicates the location of the cursor. The focus rectangle does not move when you use the arrow keys or Navigation Quick Keys to read. Route the Virtual Cursor to the JAWS Cursor
You can now press INSERT+NUM PAD PLUS in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and virtual documents to route the Virtual Cursor to the mouse pointer. Using this command moves the Virtual Cursor to the current location of the mouse pointer and can help sighted users navigate Web pages. In addition, routing the JAWS Cursor to the Virtual Cursor (INSERT+NUM PAD MINUS) is much more accurate and moves the mouse pointer to the exact character the Virtual Cursor is located on. Route the PC Cursor to the Virtual Cursor
You can now press CTRL+INSERT+DELETE in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and virtual documents to route the PC Cursor to the Virtual Cursor. Using this command moves the PC Cursor (and the application focus) to the current location of the Virtual Cursor. Visually, the page will scroll so that the area containing the Virtual Cursor is visible on the screen. This command is the opposite of the Route Virtual to PC Cursor command (INSERT+DELETE). One Setting for Controlling Page Refreshes
There is now only one setting for controlling page refreshes. Previously there were two settings, one for controlling page refreshes caused by the browser, and another for controlling refreshes caused by embedded ActiveX controls, such as Macromedia Flash. These have been consolidated into a single option for controlling both since it is often not apparent which is causing the page to refresh. Improved Detection of Dynamic Page Updates
Previously, if script code was used on a page to control visibility without the user actually interacting with the page, JAWS would not detect the page update and would either show content that was not really there or not show content which was made visible. This should no longer occur. Enhanced Screen Tracking
The screen no longer scrolls up or down erratically while you are using the Say All command or navigating by other means. The screen only moves when the content about to be read is not visible. Document Presentation Mode Line Length
You can now define how long a single line will be when viewing an HTML page in Document Presentation Mode. This can help you read lengthy tables easier because all the content from each row in the table can fit on a single line. The increased line length stops JAWS from rendering rows across multiple lines. When you exit Document Presentation Mode, JAWS will render the page using the normal maximum line length.
The default line length in Document Presentation Mode is 400 characters, which is enough to fit most table rows on one line. To change the line length, open the Utilities menu and choose Configuration Manager. Then, open the Set Options menu and choose HTML Options. Enter a new line length in the Document Presentation Mode Maximum Line Length edit box located on the Text tab.
The bill is S. 2453. Working title is National Security Surveillance Act of 2006.
There are a couple of other bills worth noting. One is S. 2455 (Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006), sponsored by Senators DeWine and Graham. The other is S . 3001 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act of 2006) sponsored by Senators Specter and Feinstein.
I've been following these bills since their introduction. I knew that one or more of them would make it to the table before November. If any of them pass, Bush will have gotten away with wiping his ass with the Constitution yet again
I've been writing business applications exclusively in PHP for almost 4 years. WHen I attended PHPCon in 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf was the keynote speaker. During a question and answer session, one attendee asked about the limitations of PHP in computationally intense situations. Rasmus said to write your business logic in C and call those binaries from PHP. Since that time, various PHP compilers have emerged which may may or may not make the whole issue irrelevant. I've never felt it necessary to either write external C routines or compile a PHP app because the apps I've written perform acceptably on commodity hardware. I love C and C++ dearly, but writing userland business applications in C is just way too much hassle.
But what interpreted language can I use to write a device driver? Or a web browser? Or an operating system?
Interpreted and compiled languages have coexisted peacefully for decades. It is reasonable to conclude that they will continue to do so.
There are applications called screen readers that can parse out HTML files independently of the web browser and actually "render" the page as an off-screen model. They also provide hotkeys that allow blind and visually-impaired users to more easily navigate websites with the keyboard. Some build off-screen tables of the links on a page for easier navigation. For images, the alt tag is simply read to the user.
When a screen reader encounters a page that's just one big flash animation with link areas embedded and no supporting text, all the user hears is "graphic". Some users will send a complaint. Others won't bother and will just look elsewhere. They don't care what your site looks like as long as they can find the information they need.
The best practice that I've seen in designing accessible websites is to ditch all the flashy thingys and just use plain old text and graphics. Some people try to maintain two versions of the site, one with text and images and one with flashy thingys. If you use PHP or some other dynamic content generator, you can do that pretty easily and still only have one codebase to maintain.
There are 5 assistive technology centers in Tennessee (I work for one) that can provide you with more information on this topic and many others regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. The Alliance For Technology Access website has links and contact info.
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BASIC on an HP-3000 mainframe in 1980. We had a DECWriter terminal (basically a dot-matrix printer with a keyboard attached) that connected from our junior high school to a local university's mainframe via modem. You took a regular phone, lifted the handset, dialed the number, the modem on the other end would pick up, and you'd put the handset into this cradle that was attached to the DECWriter. Then you'd get a login prompt. Awesome. }:-)
"The supposed "backdoor" the Guardian is describing is actually a feature working as intended, and it would require significant collaboration with Facebook to be able to snoop on and intercept someone's encrypted messages, something the company is extremely unlikely to do."
A backdoor that requires Facebook's help to snoop is still a backdoor, is it not?
Replaces all instances of Trump with Drumpf (go to youtube and search for John Oliver Drumpf if you don't get it.)
LOL... the 5 was million, not billion. Misread on my part... }:-)
His model suggests that the ones that collided to make these gravitational waves were stars that formed 12 billion years ago, became black holes 5 million years later, and then merged 10.3 billion years after that.
Did he do his experiment 3.3 billion years in the future?
Of course, it could just be a typo...
I was running Android studio 1.5 on an i3 with 4GB of RAM. Emulator load time was about 3 minutes, gradle builds were 1-3 minutes, time between gradle build finish and app launch was about a minute.
After upgrading to 2.0, emulator load time is now 11 minutes, gradle builds are nearly five minutes and it takes nearly 3 minutes between gradle build finish and app launch.
It's only obstruction of justice if you do it to a phone that the FBI already has in its possession. Phones which have not been seized as evidence are fair game.
More than half of 1000 people are wrong. The header is misleading as hell.
Apple should create the version of iOS that the government is asking for that is specific to the phone in question. That keeps them out of trouble.
At the same time, and prior to turning over the signed image to the FBI, they should also create a version of iOS that doesn't accept updates if the phone is locked.
They should then very quietly push the secure version of iOS out to all iPhones. From that moment forward, they will be unable to comply with any further court orders.
Problem solved.
The only reason that websites know that the ads aren't reaching the intended target is because they're using javascript to test to see if the ad makes it into the page. The solution is to stop checking. As long as you're making a good faith effort to display the ads, it's not your job to be sure that they made it to the target. If I'm the publisher of a print magazine and I put ads in the magazine, I bill the vendors for the ad space. I have no way of knowing whether the reader actually reads the ad and it's not my job to know. The same principle applies to websites. Bill the vendors for the ads you attempted to insert and you're not losing money.
You can configure Zonealarm to alert you when programs attempt to send traffic out. When Windows 10 tries to phone home, disallow it from doing so. Problem solved.
Disable the Internet connection on the TV. Problem solved.
The law only governs the manufacture of phones. It provides no guidance or penalty for possession of an 'unapproved' phone. If Bush were still in office, I would expect to see a division of the Department of Homeland Security created to monitor cell phone pictures, but...
Besides, if a bill is passed that says all cars manufactured after 2010 have to get at least 100 mpg, that doesn't mean that every other car has to leave the road. Eventually all of the older cars will stop working and only the high mileage cars will be left. Similarly, when all of the 'predatory' phones meet their demise, only the 'safe' phones will be left.
The real question is, why the hell is Congress wasting time with this tripe? Is this supposed to fix the economy?
In-house geeks can provide far more than just IT skills. You just have to have a CEO that knows how to exploit (the good way) our abilities to analyze processes, recognize patterns, and generally think outside the box. Those abilities are just as useful in the physical world as they are inside a machine.
I do Bowflex, Dance Dance Revolution, Wii Fit, yoga, and floor exercises (pushups, situps, etc).
I also stopped drinking sodas (no diet drinks either), and stopped eating deep fried foods (i.e. chicken, tortilla chips, fries, etc). After four years, I now occasionally eat fried chicken and I might have had three sodas in the past four years.
I read labels on food and make informed decisions about what to eat. If something I eat is high in fat, it's also either high in protein or other nutrients.
I stopped refilling my chocolate drawer at work and stopped putting three tablespoons of sugar in my coffee.
I don't deny myself anything, but when I indulge, I do so with restraint.
I went from 225 to 180 and have kept my weight between 180-185 for over two years.
Friends of yours? }:-)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6100906.stm
... are far more likely to believe that an airplane crashing into a skyscraper causes the entire structure to collapse.
Now when politicians get caught saying things on camera and later say the exact opposite, the previous statement can be purged from YouTube permanently (and automatically).
Just what our cloak-and-dagger government needs.... more cloak.
Do you really think that the timing of the removal of all Daily Show and Colbert Report clips from YouTube isn't part of this effort? When some elected dork says "I never said that" on national television, Jon and Steven have a habit of showing the clip of them saying "I never said that" followed by the clip(s) of them saying it? We can't have misinformation like that running around on the Internet. Voters could see it and get the right idea.
We may get to witness the birth of the great-great-great-great-grandfather of yet another common Star Trek tool.
Cool! }:-)
Actually, many modern screen readers have the capability of analyzing the HTML document and creating an alphabetical list of the links on the page that they can navigate.
Here's a list of Features and Enhancements for the latest versions of JAWS (a widely used screen reader). Reading through them will give you some idea of how screen readers operate. There's a lot more to it than you think.
Here's a clip from one of them:
HTML and the Internet
Improved Performance on the Web
With the new Internet and HTML support in JAWS 7.10, you will experience increased accuracy, improved navigation, and better text recognition when reading Web pages or other virtual documents.
Visible Focus Rectangle
When you press TAB or SHIFT+TAB to move to links and buttons in Internet Explorer and Firefox, the focus rectangle is now visible. This rectangle is useful to sighted users because it visually indicates the location of the cursor. The focus rectangle does not move when you use the arrow keys or Navigation Quick Keys to read.
Route the Virtual Cursor to the JAWS Cursor
You can now press INSERT+NUM PAD PLUS in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and virtual documents to route the Virtual Cursor to the mouse pointer. Using this command moves the Virtual Cursor to the current location of the mouse pointer and can help sighted users navigate Web pages. In addition, routing the JAWS Cursor to the Virtual Cursor (INSERT+NUM PAD MINUS) is much more accurate and moves the mouse pointer to the exact character the Virtual Cursor is located on.
Route the PC Cursor to the Virtual Cursor
You can now press CTRL+INSERT+DELETE in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and virtual documents to route the PC Cursor to the Virtual Cursor. Using this command moves the PC Cursor (and the application focus) to the current location of the Virtual Cursor. Visually, the page will scroll so that the area containing the Virtual Cursor is visible on the screen. This command is the opposite of the Route Virtual to PC Cursor command (INSERT+DELETE).
One Setting for Controlling Page Refreshes
There is now only one setting for controlling page refreshes. Previously there were two settings, one for controlling page refreshes caused by the browser, and another for controlling refreshes caused by embedded ActiveX controls, such as Macromedia Flash. These have been consolidated into a single option for controlling both since it is often not apparent which is causing the page to refresh.
Improved Detection of Dynamic Page Updates
Previously, if script code was used on a page to control visibility without the user actually interacting with the page, JAWS would not detect the page update and would either show content that was not really there or not show content which was made visible. This should no longer occur.
Enhanced Screen Tracking
The screen no longer scrolls up or down erratically while you are using the Say All command or navigating by other means. The screen only moves when the content about to be read is not visible.
Document Presentation Mode Line Length
You can now define how long a single line will be when viewing an HTML page in Document Presentation Mode. This can help you read lengthy tables easier because all the content from each row in the table can fit on a single line. The increased line length stops JAWS from rendering rows across multiple lines. When you exit Document Presentation Mode, JAWS will render the page using the normal maximum line length.
The default line length in Document Presentation Mode is 400 characters, which is enough to fit most table rows on one line. To change the line length, open the Utilities menu and choose Configuration Manager. Then, open the Set Options menu and choose HTML Options. Enter a new line length in the Document Presentation Mode Maximum Line Length edit box located on the Text tab.
original bill
changes as of 6.14
The bill is S. 2453. Working title is National Security Surveillance Act of 2006.
There are a couple of other bills worth noting. One is S. 2455 (Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006), sponsored by Senators DeWine and Graham. The other is S . 3001 (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act of 2006) sponsored by Senators Specter and Feinstein.
I've been following these bills since their introduction. I knew that one or more of them would make it to the table before November. If any of them pass, Bush will have gotten away with wiping his ass with the Constitution yet again
I've been writing business applications exclusively in PHP for almost 4 years. WHen I attended PHPCon in 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf was the keynote speaker. During a question and answer session, one attendee asked about the limitations of PHP in computationally intense situations. Rasmus said to write your business logic in C and call those binaries from PHP. Since that time, various PHP compilers have emerged which may may or may not make the whole issue irrelevant. I've never felt it necessary to either write external C routines or compile a PHP app because the apps I've written perform acceptably on commodity hardware. I love C and C++ dearly, but writing userland business applications in C is just way too much hassle.
But what interpreted language can I use to write a device driver? Or a web browser? Or an operating system?
Interpreted and compiled languages have coexisted peacefully for decades. It is reasonable to conclude that they will continue to do so.
... is that the director and chief economist of the US Cyber Consequences Unit is a guy named Borg. }8-o
There are applications called screen readers that can parse out HTML files independently of the web browser and actually "render" the page as an off-screen model. They also provide hotkeys that allow blind and visually-impaired users to more easily navigate websites with the keyboard. Some build off-screen tables of the links on a page for easier navigation. For images, the alt tag is simply read to the user.
When a screen reader encounters a page that's just one big flash animation with link areas embedded and no supporting text, all the user hears is "graphic". Some users will send a complaint. Others won't bother and will just look elsewhere. They don't care what your site looks like as long as they can find the information they need.
The best practice that I've seen in designing accessible websites is to ditch all the flashy thingys and just use plain old text and graphics. Some people try to maintain two versions of the site, one with text and images and one with flashy thingys. If you use PHP or some other dynamic content generator, you can do that pretty easily and still only have one codebase to maintain.
There are 5 assistive technology centers in Tennessee (I work for one) that can provide you with more information on this topic and many others regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. The Alliance For Technology Access website has links and contact info.