I keep seeing comments left like this, but they're always vague. All the actual stories I've read of people having the G+ account suspended say all their other google services were NOT affected. Do you have any actual report of other google services being suspended as well, or are you just repeating something you think you heard someone else say?
Know of any US banks that offer SecureID or something similar? I'd sure like to know, as in order for my LLC to accept credit cards I have to have a US bank, so it's not like I can shop around even if I wanted to.
Completely true. There's still tons of things that can be repaired these days: I've replaced the display in my Palm Treo smartphone, and the touchscreen overlay in my Nintendo DS. I've re-soldered headphone jacks (and then coated in glue to prevent it from breaking again). I've taken my PC video card apart and put a new fan and heatsinks on it.
And as for making things from scratch, that too is actually becoming easier. You design with free software and have a PCB manufactured in single quantities for $2.50 a square inch (batchpcblaen pcb). There are services that will produce plastic parts from uploaded 3D models for a fee (shapewaysponoko), or you can put together one of the many rising 3D printer kits and create your own parts out of plastic (makerbotbfbultimaker).
Mozilla doesn't need to bundle h.264 codecs...they simply need to use the codecs that are included with most operating systems these days. This would avoid them from needing to get a license, but they don't want to do it because they'd prefer to do as Google, remove built-in support so as to try and push their other codecs.
If true, this is actually a GOOD thing. Showing different pages to google bot and to actual users, violates Google's ToS. So this might get them banned from google. One can only hope.
They dropped h.264 much as every single other browser has, except IE who is a h.264 patent holder.
You forgot Safari. So the default browser on the two most popular desktop operating systems, both support h.264. There is no technical or legal reason both FF and Chrome can't support h.264, it's all political.
"The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy."
Sorry, but that's not how things work. I discounted the entire thing after I read that sentence. Either they are naive, or trying to fool us.
Perhaps all these legacy APIs are the problem? I mean there has to be some reason Android has gained so much marketshare so quickly, while the other Linux-based smartphones sat on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs.
Perhaps...though I believe a large majority of Arduino users are non-professional developers, and will never become a professional developer. Of course, there are a lot more non-developers than developers, so it's a good target market for Arduino themselves.
I used Eclipse with the LaunchPad, didn't have to pay anything. Seemed pretty full featured, included a debugger and everything. Eclipse is FOSS right? This just seems like anti-arduino-competitor FUD to me.
"Dictionary attack" == computing hashes of things like "password" and "sparky" and seeing if they match. Finds poor passwords much quickly than testing every possible combination
pure brute force == computing hashes of everything from "aaaaa" "aaaab" "aaaac" all the way to "zzzzz" (a simplification).
If I know the salt, say it's !@#, then I can still run a dictionary attack, such as "!@#password" and "!@#sparky". If I don't know the salt, I have to do the much slower pure brute force, testing every possible combination.
I think you're confusing dictionary attacks with rainbow tables, where you compute all possible hashes in advance, so when you want to reverse a given hash, you just compare it to your pre-computed "rainbow table" and find the answer right away.
Yes it de...but having the salt means he can do a dictionary attack, easily breaking badly chosen passwords. If he has only the hash but without the salt, dictionary attacks would be impossible, requiring him to do the much more costly & slow pure brute force attacks.
High end smartphones (eg iPhone, Droid, etc) run in the $400-$600 price range on release. These prices aren't advertised as much, usually you only see the 'subsidized' prices. Eg the phone might be advertised as $99 or $200 -- but that's plus a $30/month data plan for two years. You do the math.
Weird, I'm also in California, and I just got a new cell phone for free with 2 year contract from T-Mobile. The MSRP for that phone is around $500 (T-Mobile G2 aka HTC Vision), but I didn't pay a dime of sales tax. My guess is Verizon is just making things up in order to screw you, and then trying to pass the blame onto the CA govt.
They only claim that for the specific tool that 'interoperates' with DRM protected/encrypted Flash video, in order to save the video stream to disk, specifically against the terms of service of the people offering that video for viewing.
There are many many open source software products out there that can produce or play Flash Video, and none of them have been threatened by Adobe, because none of them are designed to circumvent copyright protection measures (eg, the specific thing that the DMCA was written for).
The official Flash compiler (known as the Flex SDK), written by Adobe, is free, open source, and you can even download nightly updates to the compiler from their SVN repository.
It's crossplatform, you can compile under anything that runs Java pretty much.
It's not that hard to get a certificate from a commercial certificate authority. Sure it costs some money, but then so does buying a SSL certificate, or a Java code signing certificate, etc.
You can get them from Verisign, Equifax, GlobalTrust, etc. Then you avoid the 'Test Mode', and you also have the advantage of being able to sign your application itself, which gives you a nicer warning dialog than the default 'This application has no digital signature' popup you get when trying to open a downloaded EXE (which I'm sure nobody even reads anymore, so it's a moot point).
That whole controversy about "omg windows will only allow approved drivers!11!" is really just a joke, I'm surprised people still believe in it.
Microsoft has always pushed h.264? Ever heard of WMV?
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You can't convert DisplayPort to VGA cheaply. It needs a complex controller in it...DisplayPort is all digital, VGA is analog. The reason you can convert DVI to VGA so cheaply, is that most DVI-out ports, carry both digital and analog signals.
(I believe some mac laptop displayport outputs also carry analog signals, but those are in the minority)
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My TV has a VGA port and a HDMI port. The resolution of the panel is 1366x768. The funny thing is, over DVI, you can only send 1280x720 or 1920x1080, and they get scaled by the TV to 1366x768. If you want pixel-accurate, you HAVE to use the VGA port if you want to get the full 1366x768 pixels.
It's already been announced. They're calling their new portable 3D stereo vision handheld the 3DS. Likely with being easily held in your hand and not requiring glasses, it wont flop like the virtual boy.
Huh? I don't think I've ever seen an arcade game with a motion controller like the wiimote, where it senses the motion of your controller.
Are you only talking about the pointing feature? The technology behind that is completely different from the "light guns" used in arcade games (of which there are actually a couple different kinds of tech). (The wiimote actually has an IR camera in it).
Apple did not invent smartphones, but when the iPhone came out, it was significantly better than anything on the market. Palm was getting long in the tooth, Blackberry too focused on the enterprise, Windows Mobile always sucked (They imported too much from the desktop, such as the start button, and crashes that require reboots) and Nokia never really had true smartphones. Their standard phones were among the best out there, but you couldn't compare what they had to even windows mobile.
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"taking out other Google services in the process"
I keep seeing comments left like this, but they're always vague. All the actual stories I've read of people having the G+ account suspended say all their other google services were NOT affected. Do you have any actual report of other google services being suspended as well, or are you just repeating something you think you heard someone else say?
Know of any US banks that offer SecureID or something similar? I'd sure like to know, as in order for my LLC to accept credit cards I have to have a US bank, so it's not like I can shop around even if I wanted to.
Hmm... did you miss some previous stories?
RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised
Completely true. There's still tons of things that can be repaired these days: I've replaced the display in my Palm Treo smartphone, and the touchscreen overlay in my Nintendo DS. I've re-soldered headphone jacks (and then coated in glue to prevent it from breaking again). I've taken my PC video card apart and put a new fan and heatsinks on it.
And as for making things from scratch, that too is actually becoming easier. You design with free software and have a PCB manufactured in single quantities for $2.50 a square inch (batchpcb laen pcb). There are services that will produce plastic parts from uploaded 3D models for a fee (shapeways ponoko), or you can put together one of the many rising 3D printer kits and create your own parts out of plastic (makerbot bfb ultimaker).
Mozilla doesn't need to bundle h.264 codecs...they simply need to use the codecs that are included with most operating systems these days. This would avoid them from needing to get a license, but they don't want to do it because they'd prefer to do as Google, remove built-in support so as to try and push their other codecs.
If true, this is actually a GOOD thing. Showing different pages to google bot and to actual users, violates Google's ToS. So this might get them banned from google. One can only hope.
They dropped h.264 much as every single other browser has, except IE who is a h.264 patent holder.
You forgot Safari. So the default browser on the two most popular desktop operating systems, both support h.264. There is no technical or legal reason both FF and Chrome can't support h.264, it's all political.
"The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy." Sorry, but that's not how things work. I discounted the entire thing after I read that sentence. Either they are naive, or trying to fool us.
Perhaps all these legacy APIs are the problem? I mean there has to be some reason Android has gained so much marketshare so quickly, while the other Linux-based smartphones sat on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs.
Perhaps...though I believe a large majority of Arduino users are non-professional developers, and will never become a professional developer. Of course, there are a lot more non-developers than developers, so it's a good target market for Arduino themselves.
Except the standard arduino model costs $30, so might be hard to build a $10 alarm clock using a $30 board.
I used Eclipse with the LaunchPad, didn't have to pay anything. Seemed pretty full featured, included a debugger and everything. Eclipse is FOSS right? This just seems like anti-arduino-competitor FUD to me.
$30. The standard base model is $30.
"Dictionary attack" == computing hashes of things like "password" and "sparky" and seeing if they match. Finds poor passwords much quickly than testing every possible combination
pure brute force == computing hashes of everything from "aaaaa" "aaaab" "aaaac" all the way to "zzzzz" (a simplification).
If I know the salt, say it's !@#, then I can still run a dictionary attack, such as "!@#password" and "!@#sparky". If I don't know the salt, I have to do the much slower pure brute force, testing every possible combination.
I think you're confusing dictionary attacks with rainbow tables, where you compute all possible hashes in advance, so when you want to reverse a given hash, you just compare it to your pre-computed "rainbow table" and find the answer right away.
Yes it de...but having the salt means he can do a dictionary attack, easily breaking badly chosen passwords. If he has only the hash but without the salt, dictionary attacks would be impossible, requiring him to do the much more costly & slow pure brute force attacks.
High end smartphones (eg iPhone, Droid, etc) run in the $400-$600 price range on release. These prices aren't advertised as much, usually you only see the 'subsidized' prices. Eg the phone might be advertised as $99 or $200 -- but that's plus a $30/month data plan for two years. You do the math.
Weird, I'm also in California, and I just got a new cell phone for free with 2 year contract from T-Mobile. The MSRP for that phone is around $500 (T-Mobile G2 aka HTC Vision), but I didn't pay a dime of sales tax. My guess is Verizon is just making things up in order to screw you, and then trying to pass the blame onto the CA govt.
They only claim that for the specific tool that 'interoperates' with DRM protected/encrypted Flash video, in order to save the video stream to disk, specifically against the terms of service of the people offering that video for viewing.
There are many many open source software products out there that can produce or play Flash Video, and none of them have been threatened by Adobe, because none of them are designed to circumvent copyright protection measures (eg, the specific thing that the DMCA was written for).
The official Flash compiler (known as the Flex SDK), written by Adobe, is free, open source, and you can even download nightly updates to the compiler from their SVN repository.
It's crossplatform, you can compile under anything that runs Java pretty much.
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK
Top of the line Android device (T-mobile G2, aka HTC Vision): Free, with two year contract
Phone plan: $65/mo, 500 minutes, unlimited data, 400 SMS
iPhone 4: $200, with two year contract
Phone plan: $65/mo, 450 minutes, 2GB data, no SMS included
I'd say Android does compete pretty well on price.
It's not that hard to get a certificate from a commercial certificate authority. Sure it costs some money, but then so does buying a SSL certificate, or a Java code signing certificate, etc.
You can get them from Verisign, Equifax, GlobalTrust, etc. Then you avoid the 'Test Mode', and you also have the advantage of being able to sign your application itself, which gives you a nicer warning dialog than the default 'This application has no digital signature' popup you get when trying to open a downloaded EXE (which I'm sure nobody even reads anymore, so it's a moot point).
That whole controversy about "omg windows will only allow approved drivers!11!" is really just a joke, I'm surprised people still believe in it.
Microsoft has always pushed h.264? Ever heard of WMV?
You can't convert DisplayPort to VGA cheaply. It needs a complex controller in it...DisplayPort is all digital, VGA is analog. The reason you can convert DVI to VGA so cheaply, is that most DVI-out ports, carry both digital and analog signals. (I believe some mac laptop displayport outputs also carry analog signals, but those are in the minority)
My TV has a VGA port and a HDMI port. The resolution of the panel is 1366x768. The funny thing is, over DVI, you can only send 1280x720 or 1920x1080, and they get scaled by the TV to 1366x768. If you want pixel-accurate, you HAVE to use the VGA port if you want to get the full 1366x768 pixels.
It's already been announced. They're calling their new portable 3D stereo vision handheld the 3DS. Likely with being easily held in your hand and not requiring glasses, it wont flop like the virtual boy.
Huh? I don't think I've ever seen an arcade game with a motion controller like the wiimote, where it senses the motion of your controller. Are you only talking about the pointing feature? The technology behind that is completely different from the "light guns" used in arcade games (of which there are actually a couple different kinds of tech). (The wiimote actually has an IR camera in it). Apple did not invent smartphones, but when the iPhone came out, it was significantly better than anything on the market. Palm was getting long in the tooth, Blackberry too focused on the enterprise, Windows Mobile always sucked (They imported too much from the desktop, such as the start button, and crashes that require reboots) and Nokia never really had true smartphones. Their standard phones were among the best out there, but you couldn't compare what they had to even windows mobile.