Kindly wipe the aspergers from your mouth and note that further down the page he states, "Wifi occupies the radio frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum between actual radio waves and microwaves".
He is clearly using the term "radio waves" to describe waves in the portion of the RF spectrum reserved for wireless audio receivers, normally modulated either by amplitude or frequency, commonly known as radio.
You can click on "Fallout" to see prevailing weather patterns taken into account. Perhaps the 3D version considers land countours - I haven't tried it.
As others have pointed out here, it's not established that Google is storing these passwords in the clear, merely that they are stored in a reversible format. That this information needs to be able to be recovered should be obvious to all but the most clueless of users.
But it doesn't matter.
No one with any expectation of privacy will be storing passwords online anyway - as soon as you upload a secret to an online service (aka some other guy's computer), it can no longer be considered a secret. This may be a perfectly acceptable tradeoff to some people for very low security applications like web forums, etc, but certainly not anything serious. Just don't kid yourselves that your passwords can be safely stored online and remain yours alone.
Some people might think this sort of discovery will vindicate claims made by dubious inventors like Keely. Be on the look out for anyone here mentioning "vibratory sympathy".
ATX poweroff. These machines are effectively powered down, ie not in sleep or hibernate modes. In this state most sane BIOSes can respond to PME events such as Wake on LAN (so you can send them a magic packet to turn them on), but none seem to poll for USB events.
I still keep at least one PS/2 device, either keyboard or mouse, on every computer. Why? Because no BIOS I have ever seen has the capability to wake up a PC from USB events. Presumably this is due to USB controllers not using hardware interrupts (IRQs), instead relying on polling to give some software-emulated interrupts.
It's so much more convenient to be able to hit the space bar or jiggle the mouse to switch the computer on rather than fumbling beneath the desk for a flimsy power button.
Maybe will won't ever leave our back yard, but I'm encouraged at the moment by the revelation that some of the stars that you can see with a decent telescope are located outside our own galaxy. Stars in the SMC, for example, can be easily detected (I think 'resolved' is the wrong term here, since we can't determine their shape). Strafing around the Milky Way and SMC in Celestia gives some idea of the scale we're talking here.
For some reason I find the idea of imaging stars in another galaxy, if only a dwarf galaxy, much cooler than detecting exoplanets, which I still rate very highly.
No it's really not. Your examples show how poorly some people can react to such accidents. They are condescending, and annoy you greatly. I sympathize with that. Blaming the victim in a rape is beyond condescending -- it's encouraging a group of potential rapists to go out and horribly violate innocent women. They are not anywhere near the same thing, and the comparison is not accurate.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make the case that rape is worse than what happened here. In this case the victim was killed.
Not everyone is going to respond to an engine being revved, while a horn is well established in every driving culture as a universal warning sound.
However I see you were riding a motorcycle so it is possible your horn is under-powered. That is a fault of the manufacturers of course, and regulators for allowing vehicles with such quiet kiddie whistles on the road in the first place.
You also have my sympathy - a lot of drivers simply aren't conditioned to look for anything smaller than a car when pulling out or changing lanes.
I'm sorry to hear that your horn does not work. It's good to know that you had for wits to do that trick with the engine though. How long did it take to rev? A second or two? You should really get that horn fixed though, so next time that happens the other driver will notice you STRAIGHT AWAY.
It never worked well. It's not as bad as the same function in Ubuntu, though - that one doesn't work at all, and never worked for me.
Yeah, granted. Though it's always worked better under XP, at least for very large multi-domain enterprises.
I know a person who had to dump a perfectly good color laser printer just because there are no Win7 drivers for it. Well built printers can last a decade.
That really annoys me - otherwise perfect hardware made useless by lack of software support.
What is this "support" thing that everyone talks about? I know nobody who would ever need support with XP - and especially support from MS. The OS is a commodity for many years now. Need an OS? Install from a CD, and it will work. Afraid of Internet hackers? Use a hardware firewall. There is not much else to do to be safe.
Security updates. Security updates for Windows XP end on 8 April 2014, meaning that companies with policies mandating up-to-date patched software will no longer be able to run Windows XP. This will of course not affect a lot of home or small business users who will use other methods to protect themselves (firewalls, etc) like you mentioned.
I think you are right, but it's important to distinguish between GNOME 3 the framework and GNOME Shell, the desktop environment.
GNOME Shell, so far as I can tell is a feature-lacking tech demo and should not be used by anyone outside the GNOME development community. I actually somewhat like the basic idea behind GNOME 3 - that you can make your own DE with a bit of Javascript and CSS.
One example would be Cinnamon, though perhaps not a particularly good one, since they started by forking GNOME Shell.
No, the UI of XP and of 7 is similar enough, and I never heard any complaints about that transition.
*ahem*
Not to dwell too much on the resource-hogging and ugly interface (much of which can be rectified with Classic Shell), the more important shortcomings have no solution at present:
Windows 7 removed the ability to select a logon domain via drop-down box, instead opting for the god-awful DOMAIN/USERNAME combination that currently needs to be TYPED into the username box. They also changed the login manager enough so as to make it very difficult for replacements such as pGina to put such functionality back (I understand they can do it now for non-AD domains, which is unfortunately of very little use).
How about the option to bring up a confirmation box on Logoff/Shutdown/Reboot? Sure us uber-geeks who never mis-click anywhere won't need it but the vast majority of users are, almost by definition, not uber-geeks.
The Network browser in Explorer is severely crippled for any network with more than a handful of hosts. While you can choose to Group by Workgroup to at least get some logical grouping back, most computers and domains don't show up straight away and can take several minutes before they appear if at all.
Hardware compatibility. Most older hardware (video cards, sound cards, printers) just doesn't work with Windows 7. At all. Even though it still works perfectly on XP and Linux builds (old and new). Granted, this is as much a fault of the OEMs as it is Microsoft, but it still remains as another reason not to move from XP (or Linux).
So far as I can tell the ONLY significant improvement of Windows 7 over XP is the 64-bit support which is, without a doubt, better than the backported Windows Server 2003 kludge we got with XP/64.
Of course there is the matter of Extended Support for XP ending on 8 April 2013, but that's another story...
It's already ridiculously easy to use Android as a desktop - plug in a USB mouse/keyboard via an OTG cable and you automatically get a mouse pointer and no on-screen keyboard. Hook in an external monitor via HDMI and you have a full desktop.
Now that sub-$200 dual-core tablets are plenty fast enough (and sub-$100 tablets are still usable) there's little reason to stick with Windows.
I still find KDE 4.x, at least as packaged with Fedora, too unstable for everyday use. Simple operations like opening a file explorer can be enough to crash it. Every time it starts it re-detects my sound card and asks if I would like it to forget about my "old" one (the same card it's just detected).
No, he was not. The best choice is almost never among the top two.
You must vote third party. You are certain not to get the president you want this time, but it's the only way, short of a bloody revolution, to begin to change the obviously unworkable status quo.
Seriously, if your vote is for either of the top two, you really are voting in either Kodos or Kang.
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GNOME left the users.
Also, people are abandoning desktops for "services in the cloud"? WTF?
Kindly wipe the aspergers from your mouth and note that further down the page he states, "Wifi occupies the radio frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum between actual radio waves and microwaves".
He is clearly using the term "radio waves" to describe waves in the portion of the RF spectrum reserved for wireless audio receivers, normally modulated either by amplitude or frequency, commonly known as radio.
You can click on "Fallout" to see prevailing weather patterns taken into account. Perhaps the 3D version considers land countours - I haven't tried it.
As others have pointed out here, it's not established that Google is storing these passwords in the clear, merely that they are stored in a reversible format. That this information needs to be able to be recovered should be obvious to all but the most clueless of users.
But it doesn't matter.
No one with any expectation of privacy will be storing passwords online anyway - as soon as you upload a secret to an online service (aka some other guy's computer), it can no longer be considered a secret. This may be a perfectly acceptable tradeoff to some people for very low security applications like web forums, etc, but certainly not anything serious. Just don't kid yourselves that your passwords can be safely stored online and remain yours alone.
Some people might think this sort of discovery will vindicate claims made by dubious inventors like Keely. Be on the look out for anyone here mentioning "vibratory sympathy".
Perhaps, but that flag looks rather like a screen grab of the actual logo. Then we're out of trademark soup and into copyright fritters.
No, but I've seen the results of someone plugging in a USB-A connector upside down. What a horrible, horrible design.
ATX poweroff. These machines are effectively powered down, ie not in sleep or hibernate modes. In this state most sane BIOSes can respond to PME events such as Wake on LAN (so you can send them a magic packet to turn them on), but none seem to poll for USB events.
I still keep at least one PS/2 device, either keyboard or mouse, on every computer. Why? Because no BIOS I have ever seen has the capability to wake up a PC from USB events. Presumably this is due to USB controllers not using hardware interrupts (IRQs), instead relying on polling to give some software-emulated interrupts.
It's so much more convenient to be able to hit the space bar or jiggle the mouse to switch the computer on rather than fumbling beneath the desk for a flimsy power button.
Why the hatred? This seems a genuinely interesting topic to us nerds, whom this site is ostensibly meant to be for.
As far as Ask Slashdot questions go, this is one of the better ones.
Maybe will won't ever leave our back yard, but I'm encouraged at the moment by the revelation that some of the stars that you can see with a decent telescope are located outside our own galaxy. Stars in the SMC, for example, can be easily detected (I think 'resolved' is the wrong term here, since we can't determine their shape). Strafing around the Milky Way and SMC in Celestia gives some idea of the scale we're talking here.
For some reason I find the idea of imaging stars in another galaxy, if only a dwarf galaxy, much cooler than detecting exoplanets, which I still rate very highly.
No it's really not. Your examples show how poorly some people can react to such accidents. They are condescending, and annoy you greatly. I sympathize with that. Blaming the victim in a rape is beyond condescending -- it's encouraging a group of potential rapists to go out and horribly violate innocent women. They are not anywhere near the same thing, and the comparison is not accurate.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make the case that rape is worse than what happened here. In this case the victim was killed.
That's horribly, horribly wrong. There's no way the driver of that vehicle should have gotten away with anything less than attempted murder.
Nonsense like this is just another reason not to trust The Cloud, aka, Some Other Guys Computer.
Data isn't really yours until you have it on hardware that YOU control. Until then you just have access to it at someone else's good grace.
Not everyone is going to respond to an engine being revved, while a horn is well established in every driving culture as a universal warning sound.
However I see you were riding a motorcycle so it is possible your horn is under-powered. That is a fault of the manufacturers of course, and regulators for allowing vehicles with such quiet kiddie whistles on the road in the first place.
You also have my sympathy - a lot of drivers simply aren't conditioned to look for anything smaller than a car when pulling out or changing lanes.
I'm sorry to hear that your horn does not work. It's good to know that you had for wits to do that trick with the engine though. How long did it take to rev? A second or two? You should really get that horn fixed though, so next time that happens the other driver will notice you STRAIGHT AWAY.
A very useful tool, and indispensable to users of Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux. Yum did for rpm what apt-get did for dpkg.
Thank you, Seth.
It never worked well. It's not as bad as the same function in Ubuntu, though - that one doesn't work at all, and never worked for me.
Yeah, granted. Though it's always worked better under XP, at least for very large multi-domain enterprises.
I know a person who had to dump a perfectly good color laser printer just because there are no Win7 drivers for it. Well built printers can last a decade.
That really annoys me - otherwise perfect hardware made useless by lack of software support.
What is this "support" thing that everyone talks about? I know nobody who would ever need support with XP - and especially support from MS. The OS is a commodity for many years now. Need an OS? Install from a CD, and it will work. Afraid of Internet hackers? Use a hardware firewall. There is not much else to do to be safe.
Security updates. Security updates for Windows XP end on 8 April 2014, meaning that companies with policies mandating up-to-date patched software will no longer be able to run Windows XP. This will of course not affect a lot of home or small business users who will use other methods to protect themselves (firewalls, etc) like you mentioned.
I think you are right, but it's important to distinguish between GNOME 3 the framework and GNOME Shell, the desktop environment.
GNOME Shell, so far as I can tell is a feature-lacking tech demo and should not be used by anyone outside the GNOME development community. I actually somewhat like the basic idea behind GNOME 3 - that you can make your own DE with a bit of Javascript and CSS.
One example would be Cinnamon, though perhaps not a particularly good one, since they started by forking GNOME Shell.
No, the UI of XP and of 7 is similar enough, and I never heard any complaints about that transition.
*ahem*
Not to dwell too much on the resource-hogging and ugly interface (much of which can be rectified with Classic Shell), the more important shortcomings have no solution at present:
Windows 7 removed the ability to select a logon domain via drop-down box, instead opting for the god-awful DOMAIN/USERNAME combination that currently needs to be TYPED into the username box. They also changed the login manager enough so as to make it very difficult for replacements such as pGina to put such functionality back (I understand they can do it now for non-AD domains, which is unfortunately of very little use).
How about the option to bring up a confirmation box on Logoff/Shutdown/Reboot? Sure us uber-geeks who never mis-click anywhere won't need it but the vast majority of users are, almost by definition, not uber-geeks.
The Network browser in Explorer is severely crippled for any network with more than a handful of hosts. While you can choose to Group by Workgroup to at least get some logical grouping back, most computers and domains don't show up straight away and can take several minutes before they appear if at all.
Hardware compatibility. Most older hardware (video cards, sound cards, printers) just doesn't work with Windows 7. At all. Even though it still works perfectly on XP and Linux builds (old and new). Granted, this is as much a fault of the OEMs as it is Microsoft, but it still remains as another reason not to move from XP (or Linux).
So far as I can tell the ONLY significant improvement of Windows 7 over XP is the 64-bit support which is, without a doubt, better than the backported Windows Server 2003 kludge we got with XP/64.
Of course there is the matter of Extended Support for XP ending on 8 April 2013, but that's another story...
Uh, by that logic most enterprise Windows users aren't really Windows users.
You know the type:
"What version of Windows are you running?"
"2010, I think. At least that's what Word tells me."
It's already ridiculously easy to use Android as a desktop - plug in a USB mouse/keyboard via an OTG cable and you automatically get a mouse pointer and no on-screen keyboard. Hook in an external monitor via HDMI and you have a full desktop.
Now that sub-$200 dual-core tablets are plenty fast enough (and sub-$100 tablets are still usable) there's little reason to stick with Windows.
I still find KDE 4.x, at least as packaged with Fedora, too unstable for everyday use. Simple operations like opening a file explorer can be enough to crash it. Every time it starts it re-detects my sound card and asks if I would like it to forget about my "old" one (the same card it's just detected).
No, he was not. The best choice is almost never among the top two.
You must vote third party. You are certain not to get the president you want this time, but it's the only way, short of a bloody revolution, to begin to change the obviously unworkable status quo.
Seriously, if your vote is for either of the top two, you really are voting in either Kodos or Kang.
Doesn't matter - they got The Bomb. Game over.