I was wondering if there's already a 35mm SLR ban in place and this is just extending it to DSLRs or something. They would be about a decade late in enacting the ban, but that's politics for you.
I don't know about your corporate policies, but if the main IT department doesn't want to deal with it, you could set up your own root cert for your department and just use that. Presumably you have a bit of internal server space somewhere that you could host it on. They're not really that hard to set up, there are a lot of tutorial online that will help you.
Every browser has a way to store the security exceptions so that you don't get that warning every time. Just set the box up on a private network the first time to avoid a MitM attack and store the cert. If you ever get another warning about an untrusted cert from the box, then you might have a MitM attack going on, but otherwise if the cert matches you're fine.
You could also set up your own local root authority (most larger companies do this) and make your own certs.
7 years ago a new system would have been built with a 1.8-2.3Ghz Athlon XP or a 2.5-3.5Ghz Pentium 4. If you managed to make an MP3 decode eat up 45% of the CPU with any of those chips, you were doing something horribly wrong.
I've often thought it was odd that CGA went white instead of yellow for that fourth color. At least with Yellow you could have pretended to be kinda sorta colorful, instead of just having basically two highlight colors like it did. Granted, people might not like reading yellow text all of the time, but a lot of computers throughout history have used alternate default colors (blue backgrounds, yellow text, who doesn't remember the old days?).
There is a lot of outrage in the Gizmondo comments thread, but honestly this is encouraging to me. It shows that at least the low level peons know there's a problem and that hopefully they're pushing back against their superiors internally.
This is only legible if you have a decent monitor and reasonably good eyeballs. Also helps if your monitors dot pitch is not excessively high and your web browser isn't set to automatically scale images (even minor artifacts are going to render this nigh-unreadable). Even then it's a bit tricky in a lot of places. I certainly wouldn't want to read a lot of text with this font.
It's impossible for a hash algorithm not to have collisions. You're mapping an arbitrarily large problem space down into just a handful of bits. There are infinitely more possible inputs to the algorithm than there are outputs. That said, it's supposed to be computationally prohibitive to find those collisions, and that's where MD5 and SHA1 are failing.
The idea of being the first to explore another world and die doing it sounds pretty romantic, but honestly it would suck. Not only do you have to endure several months of travel to get there, but when you arrive the place is a cold lifeless (probably) dusty rock with nothing going on except for some gentle windstorms. There's virtually nothing to do, and you're going to die when something goes wrong. It's not like going to the moon where the astronauts had to pound out a bunch of experiments on a tight schedule before going back home, you're going to be bored in a hurry, unless the repair work keeps you too busy.
It would be sort of like manning one of those arctic research stations, except that summer never arrives.
It was also heavy (although other MP3 players were heavier), had a somewhat fragile HDD that was a bit too small for a lot of music collections, required a rather hoggy program (iTunes) to manage it, had no ogg support (nobody cared), and had kinda mediocre battery life thanks to having to spin that hard drive. The clickwheel was also prone to damage. Basically, it had too many moving parts for something that someone would want to wear to the gym. It took Apple a couple of generations to start really shrinking and removing the excess moving parts from the iPod.
For what it's worth, the G1 iPod was pretty lame. They sold better than the existing MP3 players of the day, but that wasn't exactly a high bar to hurdle.
So the results of this study is that kids who are social and use social tools are more likely to party and have sex? Of course this is opposed to the nonsocial kids that are much less likely to do so. I think someone needs to remind the reporters that latched on to this study that correlation and causation are not the same thing. In fact I'm pretty sure this dynamic has existed for a lot longer than Facebook. It could have just as easily been titled:
So the kids that are social and interacting with friends on a constant basis are more sexually active than the antisocial trolls who spurn human contact? I find this finding shocking and counter intuitive. Or, wait, what's the opposite of that? Oh yes, obvious.
I hate to beat on a dead horse here, but the media that picked up on this story has apparently forgotten that correlation and causation are in fact not the same thing, yet again.
The problem is that if you have a system that's susceptible to MitM attacks and doesn't throw up huge red flags whenever there's a possibility of it, then the users will get complacent and not notice that their browser's icon is yellow instead of green like it should be. Then their banking information is stolen from a supposedly "secure" site and they're hopping mad at you. Partial security can be worse than no security, because at least with no security there are no illusions about it.
Some hotels have that too. Its part of a computer system that decides how to load the elevators for maximum efficiency. It also works great apparently, cutting wait times to just seconds instead of the minutes people used to wait.
It's cute that people still think that academics are the primary reason people go to Ivy League schools. Academics won't get you nearly as far as a good network will, and the people with the best networks send their kids to Ivy League schools. If you want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or a Senator, or Ambassador, or a high profile lawyer it's almost impossible to do that without first building (or inheriting) a huge network. To do that, you need to get in the right social circles, and you're not going to get that at State U.
If you want to be an engineer or other such professional, then there's not nearly as much need to get into Stanford, Harvard, etc... You'll just as well served by a much less expensive education in almost all respects. There are some exceptions, like MIT, but for the most part you'll be fine in a "well respected" school in your field.
It doesn't sound like they're going to be like exercise bands or anything, just slightly undersized unitard made out of stretchy material. You probably won't notice it at all 5 minutes after you put it on.
You know what though? Torrents are kind of a pain. I've got Netflix setup on the Wii and it's wonderful. You just fire up the channel (no more disk required!), choose the movie you want, and hit play. Finding the torrent, waiting for it to download, then setting it up to play on the TV is a lot more effort, and since I have Netflix anyway there's just no point. Sure the Netflix instant play selection is a bit sparse, but I still have dozens of movies on the queue and no danger of running out anytime soon.
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I was wondering if there's already a 35mm SLR ban in place and this is just extending it to DSLRs or something. They would be about a decade late in enacting the ban, but that's politics for you.
I don't know about your corporate policies, but if the main IT department doesn't want to deal with it, you could set up your own root cert for your department and just use that. Presumably you have a bit of internal server space somewhere that you could host it on. They're not really that hard to set up, there are a lot of tutorial online that will help you.
Every browser has a way to store the security exceptions so that you don't get that warning every time. Just set the box up on a private network the first time to avoid a MitM attack and store the cert. If you ever get another warning about an untrusted cert from the box, then you might have a MitM attack going on, but otherwise if the cert matches you're fine.
You could also set up your own local root authority (most larger companies do this) and make your own certs.
7 years ago a new system would have been built with a 1.8-2.3Ghz Athlon XP or a 2.5-3.5Ghz Pentium 4. If you managed to make an MP3 decode eat up 45% of the CPU with any of those chips, you were doing something horribly wrong.
I've often thought it was odd that CGA went white instead of yellow for that fourth color. At least with Yellow you could have pretended to be kinda sorta colorful, instead of just having basically two highlight colors like it did. Granted, people might not like reading yellow text all of the time, but a lot of computers throughout history have used alternate default colors (blue backgrounds, yellow text, who doesn't remember the old days?).
Wait, isn't the Register the UK version of the National Enquirer? Isn't the like taking an Onion article seriously?
Well, they do appear to be business majors...
There is a lot of outrage in the Gizmondo comments thread, but honestly this is encouraging to me. It shows that at least the low level peons know there's a problem and that hopefully they're pushing back against their superiors internally.
This is only legible if you have a decent monitor and reasonably good eyeballs. Also helps if your monitors dot pitch is not excessively high and your web browser isn't set to automatically scale images (even minor artifacts are going to render this nigh-unreadable). Even then it's a bit tricky in a lot of places. I certainly wouldn't want to read a lot of text with this font.
It's impossible for a hash algorithm not to have collisions. You're mapping an arbitrarily large problem space down into just a handful of bits. There are infinitely more possible inputs to the algorithm than there are outputs. That said, it's supposed to be computationally prohibitive to find those collisions, and that's where MD5 and SHA1 are failing.
The idea of being the first to explore another world and die doing it sounds pretty romantic, but honestly it would suck. Not only do you have to endure several months of travel to get there, but when you arrive the place is a cold lifeless (probably) dusty rock with nothing going on except for some gentle windstorms. There's virtually nothing to do, and you're going to die when something goes wrong. It's not like going to the moon where the astronauts had to pound out a bunch of experiments on a tight schedule before going back home, you're going to be bored in a hurry, unless the repair work keeps you too busy.
It would be sort of like manning one of those arctic research stations, except that summer never arrives.
It was also heavy (although other MP3 players were heavier), had a somewhat fragile HDD that was a bit too small for a lot of music collections, required a rather hoggy program (iTunes) to manage it, had no ogg support (nobody cared), and had kinda mediocre battery life thanks to having to spin that hard drive. The clickwheel was also prone to damage. Basically, it had too many moving parts for something that someone would want to wear to the gym. It took Apple a couple of generations to start really shrinking and removing the excess moving parts from the iPod.
For what it's worth, the G1 iPod was pretty lame. They sold better than the existing MP3 players of the day, but that wasn't exactly a high bar to hurdle.
You have little kids that can punch through 3" thick boards? Are you sure you're not from Krypton or something?
So the results of this study is that kids who are social and use social tools are more likely to party and have sex? Of course this is opposed to the nonsocial kids that are much less likely to do so. I think someone needs to remind the reporters that latched on to this study that correlation and causation are not the same thing. In fact I'm pretty sure this dynamic has existed for a lot longer than Facebook. It could have just as easily been titled:
Popular kids more likely to have sex, party.
So the kids that are social and interacting with friends on a constant basis are more sexually active than the antisocial trolls who spurn human contact? I find this finding shocking and counter intuitive. Or, wait, what's the opposite of that? Oh yes, obvious.
I hate to beat on a dead horse here, but the media that picked up on this story has apparently forgotten that correlation and causation are in fact not the same thing, yet again.
The problem is that if you have a system that's susceptible to MitM attacks and doesn't throw up huge red flags whenever there's a possibility of it, then the users will get complacent and not notice that their browser's icon is yellow instead of green like it should be. Then their banking information is stolen from a supposedly "secure" site and they're hopping mad at you. Partial security can be worse than no security, because at least with no security there are no illusions about it.
Either that or the engineer got the message and didn't call you again. Either way, problem solved I guess.
Some hotels have that too. Its part of a computer system that decides how to load the elevators for maximum efficiency. It also works great apparently, cutting wait times to just seconds instead of the minutes people used to wait.
Vehicles aren't allowed to make a right turn on red if there are pedestrians in the crosswalk.
It's cute that people still think that academics are the primary reason people go to Ivy League schools. Academics won't get you nearly as far as a good network will, and the people with the best networks send their kids to Ivy League schools. If you want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or a Senator, or Ambassador, or a high profile lawyer it's almost impossible to do that without first building (or inheriting) a huge network. To do that, you need to get in the right social circles, and you're not going to get that at State U.
If you want to be an engineer or other such professional, then there's not nearly as much need to get into Stanford, Harvard, etc... You'll just as well served by a much less expensive education in almost all respects. There are some exceptions, like MIT, but for the most part you'll be fine in a "well respected" school in your field.
It doesn't sound like they're going to be like exercise bands or anything, just slightly undersized unitard made out of stretchy material. You probably won't notice it at all 5 minutes after you put it on.
No, it's the access controls that are the protected work. Microsoft effectively came out and said so in their response.
Yes, unless the technology contains any form of encryption or obfuscation, then it falls under the DMCA and is illegal.
You know what though? Torrents are kind of a pain. I've got Netflix setup on the Wii and it's wonderful. You just fire up the channel (no more disk required!), choose the movie you want, and hit play. Finding the torrent, waiting for it to download, then setting it up to play on the TV is a lot more effort, and since I have Netflix anyway there's just no point. Sure the Netflix instant play selection is a bit sparse, but I still have dozens of movies on the queue and no danger of running out anytime soon.