Why do they let Dvorak on TWiT then, if he's very frequently wrong? He does seem to honestly believe what he says too... he was defending his assertion that Apple might switch the OS layer to Windows on TWiT, and you could hear in his voice that he really believed what he was saying (even while he was simultaneously acknowledging that most people thought he was a moonbat for suggeesting the idea)
It's a convention, which means that it should be broken in certain circumstances. Lists of links, particularly a list whose formating indicates that a certain section of the page will ALWAYS have a link (eg. a column in a table, for instance), can have the underline taken away, and it's still clear that they're links. In border-collapse tables, this is especially useful, because you end up with a lot of text that's separated by two separate lines (one line for the underline, one line for the cell separator).
So is instant messaging outlawed then? Or must IM's be archived for two years too?
Also, does anybody know whether company VPN's are allowed in China? China is semi-pro corporation, but not pro-individual-rights... If VPN's are allowed, are internal emails covered by this?
In the professional world though, Sony can push a format like Betamax or BluRay through, and the market will eventually accept it, even if it means somewhat higher prices.
Also, the corporate world is often conservative and sticks to long-established names longer than other markets do... how long did shops continue to purchase genuine IBM P/C desktops, long after the market had moved on?
For things that are a natural monopoly (electricity, gas, etc), it's more or less accepted that the government should regulate these more than products that aren't prone to natural monopolies.
I don't understand why republicans want to frame last-mile telecom companies as largely not being natural monopolies. (or why requiring an interoperable PSTN network, with number portability, is good, but net neutrality is not).
... So you distribute that key via assymetric encryption, very soon before you send the actual message. That narrows the keyspace a bit, but means that if the attacker doesn't have the computing power to brute-force the assymetric encryption between the time that the key is sent, and the time that the quasar is monitored, that the attacker has failed.
In other words, it makes it exceedingly difficult to brute-force, even for well-funded governments, so dedicated attackers will almost certainly use other methods to break the encryption.
The name of the quasar and time to start monitoring are the cryptographic keys. That doesn't sound like a lot of bits in the keyspace.
Yes, but it's more secure than other keys, because the only way to attack it is to steal the keys before the time that the quasar is monitored. If an attacker discovers the keys afterwards, the key is useless.
Also, the keyspace is larger than you think... the article mentions that quasars have a very broad frequency spectrum. So, #quasars (that are visible to both) X monitoring-time-choices X monitoring-frequency-choices may result in a large-ish keyspace (or, at the very least, means that it may be physically extremely expensive to try to decrypt a message against all possible keys).
Well, the payload was a microsatellite, so the actual hardware didn't cost a huge amount really (~$100,000?). Anybody have any idea how much the USAF Academy paid for the launch?
Also, a large part of satellite cost is in the R&D, so if there are further funds, then building a duplicate would cost a fair bit less than the first one, right?
Well, some of the XBL downloads are for $5-10 games, and for paid themes/icons/etc. But yes, it would be nice if the press release noted the number of paid downloads, rather than lumping free downloads (maps, preview games, movie trailers) into the number. (though large companies are notoriously unwilling to give out numbers that would give others a peek into the financials of a product)
Hell, even giving new hires email that's not backed up, and whose mail server is down 50% of the time... that's still better than telling new hires that they can't email their boss at all. (I mean, any random non-backed-up non-redundant mail server can be set up with parts from a dumpster, with a maximum of two man-weeks of IT time)
Of course email costs something (apparently I should have bolded "free to end users"), but what company has no email for new-hires, even if it's slow, requires users to constantly delete email to keep under the storage quota, isn't remotely interoperable, and it constantly deletes things as spam?
My main point in bringing up email's relative low cost (again: not free), is that the comparison of saying that you can hire two more field agents for the price of email seems bunk. Yes, initial setup, and ongoing backups, may require a decent portion of an IT employee's time, but still... this is friggin' 2006, doing any sort of work without email is like sending sending a traffic cop out without a car and without a radio. Sure, that lets you hire more police officers, but it's better to properly equip a handful of employees than it is to have two handfuls of employees, none of whom can do their job.
Given that gigs and gigs of GMail are available to end-users for free, and HTTPS-secured web-mail is available to end-users for free as well, how expensive can it be for the FBI to set up email addresses? Answer: email is nearly free. It's not really a cost issue, it's a management or incompetence issue.
Also along those lines... Just because it's possible for one person to park in the middle of a road, and tie up traffic for 20 minutes, doesn't mean we dedicate roads to individual organizations. If a person tries to disrupt physical traffic, soon enough a police officer comes along, identifies the individual, and eventually an appropriate penalty is handed out.
With radio signals, it's a bit harder to identify someone who's trying to be disruptive, but it's also easier to jump to another "road" that's not busy. And if a perpetrator really disrupting a large number of channels, that makes it all the easier to identify them.
They're still going after City of Heroes for other trademark reasons. Sheesh. Pretty soon, a man with a nice-looking body won't be able to dress up in spandex without violating some law.
So, would it require wikipedia.org split part of its content off into wikipedia.xxx? Note that all of those are (ostensibly) there to be used for encyclopedia articles. Nonetheless, per the law, quite a number of them are "lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-pubescent female breast".
And if Wikipedia doesn't have to split its content off, does that mean that full-on porn sites can simply copy some wikipedia content onto their site, and therefore claim that the site is not primarily/exclusively meant for serving porn?
Being able to IM your friends, no matter what game they're in
High-score lists
Okay, granted, it wasn't clear that this stuff would readily trasnfer to consoles, and still be popular. What I don't get is, now that one console has shown these are far and away very popular, why other consoles don't pick up on it ASAP?
I guess, to some extent, we have to wait and see whether Sony's PNP or Nintendo's online service do these things. But given how unenthusiastically the companies have been dragged into having a centralized online service, and the likelihood that Sony will focus on trying to sell its other media assets, and might neglect the gaming aspects of the online service (central IM, high-score lists, and there's still room for more features).
Right, so Moore's law now means that today we buy 2 video cards, next year we buy 4, the year after that 8, and 20 years from now, we buy 2097152 video cards?
For what it's worth, Wikipedia uses ImageMagick to automatically resize png/jpeg/gif images for articles (eg. photos uploaded at 1920x1080 can be displayed at 300x169 in an article). So it's good enough to run on a high-traffic website (and is pretty flexible for ad-hoc command-line use too).
We have pictures of the LCD TopGun third-party controller (see the bottom third of the page), which gives you a quick idea of how it might look, at least. Though Nintendo has said it will only be a single sensor bar, with two (three?) sensors on it, so hopefully it will be moderately less intrusive than the LCD TopGun.
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Why do they let Dvorak on TWiT then, if he's very frequently wrong? He does seem to honestly believe what he says too... he was defending his assertion that Apple might switch the OS layer to Windows on TWiT, and you could hear in his voice that he really believed what he was saying (even while he was simultaneously acknowledging that most people thought he was a moonbat for suggeesting the idea)
It's a convention, which means that it should be broken in certain circumstances. Lists of links, particularly a list whose formating indicates that a certain section of the page will ALWAYS have a link (eg. a column in a table, for instance), can have the underline taken away, and it's still clear that they're links. In border-collapse tables, this is especially useful, because you end up with a lot of text that's separated by two separate lines (one line for the underline, one line for the cell separator).
Has anybody heard much about Sony/PS3 offerings at E3? So far, I've heard a lot more about Nintendo's upcoming stuff than I have about Sony's.
Yeah, Pacifica (AMD's hardware virtualization support) is going to be available for the first time with AM2.
So is instant messaging outlawed then? Or must IM's be archived for two years too? Also, does anybody know whether company VPN's are allowed in China? China is semi-pro corporation, but not pro-individual-rights... If VPN's are allowed, are internal emails covered by this?
Also, the corporate world is often conservative and sticks to long-established names longer than other markets do... how long did shops continue to purchase genuine IBM P/C desktops, long after the market had moved on?
I don't understand why republicans want to frame last-mile telecom companies as largely not being natural monopolies. (or why requiring an interoperable PSTN network, with number portability, is good, but net neutrality is not).
Though that's assuming that it's very expensive to record the wide-band transmissions of all quasars in the visible sky... is that true, or not?
In other words, it makes it exceedingly difficult to brute-force, even for well-funded governments, so dedicated attackers will almost certainly use other methods to break the encryption.
Also, the keyspace is larger than you think... the article mentions that quasars have a very broad frequency spectrum. So, #quasars (that are visible to both) X monitoring-time-choices X monitoring-frequency-choices may result in a large-ish keyspace (or, at the very least, means that it may be physically extremely expensive to try to decrypt a message against all possible keys).
Also, a large part of satellite cost is in the R&D, so if there are further funds, then building a duplicate would cost a fair bit less than the first one, right?
Well, some of the XBL downloads are for $5-10 games, and for paid themes/icons/etc. But yes, it would be nice if the press release noted the number of paid downloads, rather than lumping free downloads (maps, preview games, movie trailers) into the number. (though large companies are notoriously unwilling to give out numbers that would give others a peek into the financials of a product)
Human language: it's unambiguous and somewhat inefficient. Get over it.
Hell, even giving new hires email that's not backed up, and whose mail server is down 50% of the time... that's still better than telling new hires that they can't email their boss at all. (I mean, any random non-backed-up non-redundant mail server can be set up with parts from a dumpster, with a maximum of two man-weeks of IT time)
My main point in bringing up email's relative low cost (again: not free), is that the comparison of saying that you can hire two more field agents for the price of email seems bunk. Yes, initial setup, and ongoing backups, may require a decent portion of an IT employee's time, but still... this is friggin' 2006, doing any sort of work without email is like sending sending a traffic cop out without a car and without a radio. Sure, that lets you hire more police officers, but it's better to properly equip a handful of employees than it is to have two handfuls of employees, none of whom can do their job.
Given that gigs and gigs of GMail are available to end-users for free, and HTTPS-secured web-mail is available to end-users for free as well, how expensive can it be for the FBI to set up email addresses? Answer: email is nearly free. It's not really a cost issue, it's a management or incompetence issue.
With radio signals, it's a bit harder to identify someone who's trying to be disruptive, but it's also easier to jump to another "road" that's not busy. And if a perpetrator really disrupting a large number of channels, that makes it all the easier to identify them.
They're still going after City of Heroes for other trademark reasons. Sheesh. Pretty soon, a man with a nice-looking body won't be able to dress up in spandex without violating some law.
And if Wikipedia doesn't have to split its content off, does that mean that full-on porn sites can simply copy some wikipedia content onto their site, and therefore claim that the site is not primarily/exclusively meant for serving porn?
- Flash-based downloadable games
- Being able to IM your friends, no matter what game they're in
- High-score lists
Okay, granted, it wasn't clear that this stuff would readily trasnfer to consoles, and still be popular. What I don't get is, now that one console has shown these are far and away very popular, why other consoles don't pick up on it ASAP?I guess, to some extent, we have to wait and see whether Sony's PNP or Nintendo's online service do these things. But given how unenthusiastically the companies have been dragged into having a centralized online service, and the likelihood that Sony will focus on trying to sell its other media assets, and might neglect the gaming aspects of the online service (central IM, high-score lists, and there's still room for more features).
Right, so Moore's law now means that today we buy 2 video cards, next year we buy 4, the year after that 8, and 20 years from now, we buy 2097152 video cards?
For what it's worth, Wikipedia uses ImageMagick to automatically resize png/jpeg/gif images for articles (eg. photos uploaded at 1920x1080 can be displayed at 300x169 in an article). So it's good enough to run on a high-traffic website (and is pretty flexible for ad-hoc command-line use too).
And just behind the ATF will be the EPA, complaining that Joust advocates the injury and killing of endangered species.
We have pictures of the LCD TopGun third-party controller (see the bottom third of the page), which gives you a quick idea of how it might look, at least. Though Nintendo has said it will only be a single sensor bar, with two (three?) sensors on it, so hopefully it will be moderately less intrusive than the LCD TopGun.
In Soviet Russia, Revolution controller strokes ... no, that's not right. Lord, I apologize, and save all the starving pigmies in New Guinea.