Well, the 8 char max is a bit of a problem. Does it need to be precisely one digit, or can you have multiple, and are other non-alphabetic characters allowed?
If multiple digits and non-alphas are allowed, then you only loose a bit by not allowing shorter passwords (but you gain more by not allowing users to be too lazy), and my only real complaint is limiting the password to less than 9 characters.
Canada's problem isn't two languages. It's the non-consensual nature of the union.Quebec was (kinda) absorbed into British North America (which included much of the US at the time) after a long war. They never really agreed to be a part of Canada, and they've held on to that grudge over the centuries.
Even the Quebec motto ("Je me souviens") more properly translates to 'I hold a grudge' than I remember ("je souviens").
We can survive (with varying degrees of discomfort) without a central government, but if we trash the environment badly enough our ({,grand}children's) physical survival is at risk.
The apparent isolation from the environment we have here in the first world is just that -- apparent, but not real. You can't sustain yourself by eating $100 bills. Nowadays, your bank balance is mostly electronic-only so you don't even have that. Ultimately, our food supply depends on a working environment -- more so than on a working government. Until recently food was just abundant enough that government idiocy was the apparent bottleneck.
According to a friend of mine (who had a single-digit Unix license #), AT&T originally refused to release UNIX on the advice of their lawyers because the anti-trust agreement prevented them from getting into non-phone markets. The universities who wanted access to the, then fledgling, OS then sued them over a clause that prevented AT&T from suppressing technology. The universities won that battle.
So (after probably sticking their tongue out at the lawyers who originally nixed the release) they released UNIX... and were then sued by other computer companies for violating the "phones only" clause of the anti-trust agreement. AT&T also lost that battle.
So now it was law. They couldn't suppress the technology, but they couldn't market or support it because it wasn't directly phone- related. That's where they came up with the rather convoluted system where, for a nominal price ($1 for universities, and more ($20K, I think for companies), and signing a non-disclosure agreement, anybody could get a mag tape with a working system, and source code, a pat on the back and a 'good luck'.
ALL support was done by users (who, pretty early on got better at it than any company would have been) -- but the non-disclosure agreement meant that you couldn't just post a file with the fixed code in it... so that's where diff(1) patches came into play -- they exposed the fix without exposing too much of the source code. In some cases where patches were extensive, the originator of the patch would simply announce it and require people to fax a copy of the first page of their license before being emailed the fix.
AT&T was also rather pedantic about protecting their trademark, which resulted in people often using the UN*X moniker rather than include the trademark footnote at the end of their postings.
Well, if you read the Microsoft EULA, you'll notice that they don't promise bug fixes either. It just isn't advertised that way (although they definitely do supply advertising)... and sometimes the support just consists of "yes, I think that's unfortunate, too".
There is a reasonable (vs. absolute) expectation of privacy in internet communications. Under normal circumstances, nobody other than the sender and receiver will read a given message. It's like the phone system -- even though the operators have an ability to listen in on the conversation, there's a reasonable expectation that they won't, and that, if they have to, they won't blab the contents to your neighbors and friends. ( aside).
Older DSLRs have this problem. The Nikon D100 truly pissed me off with the problem. If I knew that I'd likely want a 'fast' series of pictures (i.e. more than 5 in 5 minutes), I'd just switch to JPEG mode and eat the loss in quality.
More recent DSLRs are generally fast enough that this isn't an issue. Even the D70 (the next camera after the D100) manages to sustain about 1 image/second almost indefinitely. After that, the next limit in getting rapid photo sequences is being able to charge the flash fast enough. For that issue, you may need to use an external flash -- and if you're really extreme, an external battery pack.
Not forever -- only for as long as you have unused entropy in the pads exchanged. Exchanging encryption keys can help extend the life of the pads... but then if you can exchange pads, then why not just exchange keys.
On the other hand, the whole point of asymmetric keys is that they're for communicating securely with someone that you haven't been able to otherwise exchange secure keys (or pads) with.
Traditional police surveillance is self-limiting in terms of numbers -- They only have so many officers that can follow people -- but for the cost of following me for 1 week, they can buy a couple dozen GPS units and follow random people. Rinse repeat. There needs go be SOME process in place to limit the practice.
The question for me is whether the change in alpha is just based on direction (i.e. the telescopes could be the cause) or if the change is also dependent on distance? If one telescope is seeing bigger changes for objects further away, then the problem is unlikely to just be caused by a systemic error in the telescope.
One description of the law that I saw said that the US couldn't fund organizations that accepted The PLO as full members. If that was accurate then the US action is against both their treaty obligations and the law. As far as I can tell it wasn't the PLO that was admitted, it was The Palestinian Authority -- a completely different beast.
(former) poppy trafficers were among the warlords who (happily) signed on to help the US oust the Taliban. Once the Taliban were out, they were free to return to they opium-making ways, and the US-backed government (which included many opium traffickers was pretty much bound to turn a blind eye.\
Then, of course, there's the fact that we need to keep the war on drugs going domesically. If that war stops, then a lot of the excuses for infringing our rights dissapear in a puff of logi
If the undocumented API changes or disappears, be ready to either (1) change your code, or (2) emulate the old API. Nothing nefarious -- just too damned lazy to document something that might be unstable.
Human nature -- If you document it, people will expect it to be stable (no matter what you may say to the contrary). Undocumented API's have a built-in "we told you so" flavour to them.
They have 12V -> usb converters in the dollar store here in Vancouver. Each $1 unit provides 2 USB sockets..one is 1Amp the other is 0.5amp. Then all you need is a 3 head Accessory splitter from Radio Shack (whatever they're now called), and you can charge 6 cell phones at once.
Another potential solution is to have someone park a car nearby and keep it running with a 20foot extension cord attached to the accessory plug. Put a car battery at the other end for when they have to drive away and you have your backup power supply. The expensive part is buying the 50foot extension cord and loping it's ends off.
I can't get to the text of TFA, and I can't find the names of either the plaintiff or the defendant. Without that, it's too difficult to track down the case and related documentation.
Possible flow: Microsoft and Casio arrange a broad patent swap. Microsoft attaches a rider that says their patents can be used on Linux. Casio doesn't mind this. Microsoft puts out a news release that Casio is buying patent licenses for Linux.
FUD.
Microsoft Corp. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. have entered into a broad, multiyear patent cross-licensing agreement that, among other things, will provide Casio’s customers with patent coverage for their use of Linux in certain Casio devices.
It may even be that Microsoft is paying Casio more money than Casio is paying Microsoft. Details are lacking.
The patents were almost certainly under RAND (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) conditions, which would have almost certainly included an "As long as you don't sue us" clause. Apple signed onto that agreement -- even though they could have paid more for am unconditional license or used a different protocol. Then apple went ahead and sued Motorola.
It's apple who started a gunfight with a really really sharp knife -- and now they're complaining that their intended victim actually has a gun. I don't feel sorry for them.
Furthermore, Apple is lining up it's (slimy) software patents against Motorola's hardware patents. The FOSS community doesn't really have much complaint against hardware patents... It's software patents that are seriously pissing in our soup.
If you have an endemic virus like, say, hepatitis, could it make your kidney explode? Even otherwise harmless viruses that are endemic to a critical system could cause fatal side effects.
Windows needs a lot more support than Linux does -- but if the charity already has a full-time on-site support person/crew for Windows, then that's not an issue.Check with their support crew to see what they'd prefer. If they have a part-time / on contract support crew, then I'd strongly suggest Linux. The kids will have a blast figuring it out, it's less likely that they'll contract a nasty system-wide virus (since there are so few, in the wild for Linux, and a user-sandboxed browser virus can usually be handled by replacing the user-id)..., and there is just SOOO MUCH more free software easily available with Linux. (and so trivial to install).
I've had some experience with roommates being moved to Linux... They ask more questions for the first couple of weeks, and then they settle down and just enjoy it. I also support the public computer at a local Community Radio station that I set up 'temporarily' with Linux (Ubuntu Studio) about 4 years ago (because XP had self-destructed, and the support person (who was scared witless about using Linux) didn't have time to fix it). "More support" consists of dropping by every month or two, and making sure that there's nothing wrong with it. In 4 years, I've only been called in about a problem once (someone changed the default desktop), and recently, I spent about a couple of hours upgrading the OS version. The other public terminal (XP) has since died, and not been replaced.
The other problem to think about with donating XP computers is License hell. The machine is registered to you. If they have to do a re-install, there could be hell to pay when they give the wrong name to the licensing drone. It'll probably be figured out after an hour or two on the phone, but most non-profits have better things to do with their time.
Even a "cage" that's only on 3 sides (or 4 with a roof) would seriously help. Combine that with the other suggested solutions (using wireless 'a/n', a directional antenna, etc.) should get you enough discrimination that you can get a reasonably clean signal to your devices., If you can choose your booth location so that you can point the 'cage' towards the nearest wall, that would help as well.
In my experience trying to find nice 'free' wireless, I'd also note that I've had my best results with linksys (now cisco) routers.
No bump. Microsoft's base business model is fixed costs with variable income. Once their fixed costs are paid off, the rest is almost pure profit that goes to the nearest (often foreign) tax haven.
That sucking sound isn't the economy being inflated -- it's the sound of money being 'renditioned'.
They claim that links to their sites are illegal and sue to have them removed -- soo now they're removed.
Google doesn't want to have to deal with another lawsuit over whether this link or that link is illegal. Nor are they going to spend extra money trying to be nice to somebody who used a blunderbuss lawsuit against them.
All of the links that they want removed are removed. Job done. The rest is just Google being very, very thorough.
It's kinda like a kid pissing on a wasps nest and complaining that the wasps didn't just quietly wait to drown. He'll be holding his breath a long time waiting for me to feel sorry for him -- or stop laughing, for that matter.
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If multiple digits and non-alphas are allowed, then you only loose a bit by not allowing shorter passwords (but you gain more by not allowing users to be too lazy), and my only real complaint is limiting the password to less than 9 characters.
Even the Quebec motto ("Je me souviens") more properly translates to 'I hold a grudge' than I remember ("je souviens").
We can survive (with varying degrees of discomfort) without a central government, but if we trash the environment badly enough our ({,grand}children's) physical survival is at risk.
The apparent isolation from the environment we have here in the first world is just that -- apparent, but not real. You can't sustain yourself by eating $100 bills. Nowadays, your bank balance is mostly electronic-only so you don't even have that. Ultimately, our food supply depends on a working environment -- more so than on a working government. Until recently food was just abundant enough that government idiocy was the apparent bottleneck.
So (after probably sticking their tongue out at the lawyers who originally nixed the release) they released UNIX ... and were then sued by other computer companies for violating the "phones only" clause of the anti-trust agreement. AT&T also lost that battle.
So now it was law. They couldn't suppress the technology, but they couldn't market or support it because it wasn't directly phone- related. That's where they came up with the rather convoluted system where, for a nominal price ($1 for universities, and more ($20K, I think for companies), and signing a non-disclosure agreement, anybody could get a mag tape with a working system, and source code, a pat on the back and a 'good luck'.
ALL support was done by users (who, pretty early on got better at it than any company would have been) -- but the non-disclosure agreement meant that you couldn't just post a file with the fixed code in it... so that's where diff(1) patches came into play -- they exposed the fix without exposing too much of the source code. In some cases where patches were extensive, the originator of the patch would simply announce it and require people to fax a copy of the first page of their license before being emailed the fix.
AT&T was also rather pedantic about protecting their trademark, which resulted in people often using the UN*X moniker rather than include the trademark footnote at the end of their postings.
Well, if you read the Microsoft EULA, you'll notice that they don't promise bug fixes either. It just isn't advertised that way (although they definitely do supply advertising)... and sometimes the support just consists of "yes, I think that's unfortunate, too".
There is a reasonable (vs. absolute) expectation of privacy in internet communications. Under normal circumstances, nobody other than the sender and receiver will read a given message. It's like the phone system -- even though the operators have an ability to listen in on the conversation, there's a reasonable expectation that they won't, and that, if they have to, they won't blab the contents to your neighbors and friends. ( aside).
More recent DSLRs are generally fast enough that this isn't an issue. Even the D70 (the next camera after the D100) manages to sustain about 1 image/second almost indefinitely. After that, the next limit in getting rapid photo sequences is being able to charge the flash fast enough. For that issue, you may need to use an external flash -- and if you're really extreme, an external battery pack.
On the other hand, the whole point of asymmetric keys is that they're for communicating securely with someone that you haven't been able to otherwise exchange secure keys (or pads) with.
If you used the same one-time pad to encrypt 2 different one-time pads, Just how detectable would the double-use be?
Traditional police surveillance is self-limiting in terms of numbers -- They only have so many officers that can follow people -- but for the cost of following me for 1 week, they can buy a couple dozen GPS units and follow random people. Rinse repeat. There needs go be SOME process in place to limit the practice.
The question for me is whether the change in alpha is just based on direction (i.e. the telescopes could be the cause) or if the change is also dependent on distance? If one telescope is seeing bigger changes for objects further away, then the problem is unlikely to just be caused by a systemic error in the telescope.
One description of the law that I saw said that the US couldn't fund organizations that accepted The PLO as full members. If that was accurate then the US action is against both their treaty obligations and the law. As far as I can tell it wasn't the PLO that was admitted, it was The Palestinian Authority -- a completely different beast.
Then, of course, there's the fact that we need to keep the war on drugs going domesically. If that war stops, then a lot of the excuses for infringing our rights dissapear in a puff of logi
Human nature -- If you document it, people will expect it to be stable (no matter what you may say to the contrary). Undocumented API's have a built-in "we told you so" flavour to them.
Another potential solution is to have someone park a car nearby and keep it running with a 20foot extension cord attached to the accessory plug. Put a car battery at the other end for when they have to drive away and you have your backup power supply. The expensive part is buying the 50foot extension cord and loping it's ends off.
The results would probably be quite different against a properly random sampling of malware.
I can't get to the text of TFA, and I can't find the names of either the plaintiff or the defendant. Without that, it's too difficult to track down the case and related documentation.
FUD.
It may even be that Microsoft is paying Casio more money than Casio is paying Microsoft. Details are lacking.
It's apple who started a gunfight with a really really sharp knife -- and now they're complaining that their intended victim actually has a gun. I don't feel sorry for them.
Furthermore, Apple is lining up it's (slimy) software patents against Motorola's hardware patents. The FOSS community doesn't really have much complaint against hardware patents... It's software patents that are seriously pissing in our soup.
If you have an endemic virus like, say, hepatitis, could it make your kidney explode? Even otherwise harmless viruses that are endemic to a critical system could cause fatal side effects.
I've had some experience with roommates being moved to Linux... They ask more questions for the first couple of weeks, and then they settle down and just enjoy it. I also support the public computer at a local Community Radio station that I set up 'temporarily' with Linux (Ubuntu Studio) about 4 years ago (because XP had self-destructed, and the support person (who was scared witless about using Linux) didn't have time to fix it). "More support" consists of dropping by every month or two, and making sure that there's nothing wrong with it. In 4 years, I've only been called in about a problem once (someone changed the default desktop), and recently, I spent about a couple of hours upgrading the OS version. The other public terminal (XP) has since died, and not been replaced.
The other problem to think about with donating XP computers is License hell. The machine is registered to you. If they have to do a re-install, there could be hell to pay when they give the wrong name to the licensing drone. It'll probably be figured out after an hour or two on the phone, but most non-profits have better things to do with their time.
In my experience trying to find nice 'free' wireless, I'd also note that I've had my best results with linksys (now cisco) routers.
That sucking sound isn't the economy being inflated -- it's the sound of money being 'renditioned'.
Google doesn't want to have to deal with another lawsuit over whether this link or that link is illegal. Nor are they going to spend extra money trying to be nice to somebody who used a blunderbuss lawsuit against them.
All of the links that they want removed are removed. Job done. The rest is just Google being very, very thorough.
It's kinda like a kid pissing on a wasps nest and complaining that the wasps didn't just quietly wait to drown. He'll be holding his breath a long time waiting for me to feel sorry for him -- or stop laughing, for that matter.
That's one flight every 1.76 days..... ouch.