Furthermore, most mainstream articles about security problems which only affect Microsoft products never mention Microsoft or Windows. It's as if they've bought the lie you're referring to, or as if they're afraid, for some reason, to mention that only Microsoft users are at risk.
Why does it have to be random? If they're not taking into account market share or other factors, evenly dividing the possible permutations of browser order should be more "fair" than a "random" order. So you could cycle the permutations in order based on serial number. The only way this wouldn't work would be if you do multiple installs/selections per OS. In that case, make every install go to the next permutation in the list. You'd have to phone home to track this, but Windows phones home constantly anyway.
Of course, they'd screw up the implementation of this approach too.
--we should buy them a million Exchange licenses. Even at full retail cost it'd be a huge win for the US. OTOH, this might violate the Geneva Conventions. Better get Yoo to write another memo.
Pro tip: never trust your domain or your business to a company who got its name from a Thrill Kill Kult song and advertises its services with soft-core porn.
Great; fine. Nothing wrong with that. Just don't market it by stealing the name, and nothing else, from something that only matters to people who read. Because that's sort of-- no, that is absolutely-- lying.
And probably counterproductive! How many people who don't read SF (or anything, really) will say "Hmm, Ow My Balls, or... Asimov? I GOTTA SEE THAT!" And how many of the people who are familiar with SF will appreciate an obvious bastardization? Because bastardizers don't come more obvious than Roland Emmerich.
(Though prior to this, he has only dumbed down hoary SF cliches, not specific works).
Success or failure is irrelevant. It's a buddy network, and these guys have no interest whatsoever in the long-term well-being of their companies. They'll get top executive positions elsewhere if they want it. They'll make some big, short-term changes when they hop on-- layoffs are great for their bonuses, the bonuses are all about short term profits-- trash the company, and move on. It's a grifter aristocracy.
Look at execs from AOL, Yahoo, now Sun... hell, Carly Fiorina is running a campaign to do to California what she did to HP. Ask anybody who worked at HP while she was there, or any stockholder, how that works out. At least the citizens of California will have some say over whether she is taken on. Hard to believe such a tech-savvy state would fall for her, but...
And Sun execs. Oh ho, they're brilliant. "We hate Linux! We're doing Solaris x86! Linux rules! We're cancelling Solaris x86! Linux is GARBAGE! We're the biggest Linux providers in the world! No, wait: screw those customers. Oh hey, we have Solaris x86! I mean Linux! I mean OpenSolaris! Okay, now it's really open! It runs all that great OSS stuff without that horrible Linux!"
Yeah. They've done very well by themselves. And will continue to do so.
Given that flash uses 100% of a core of a high-end x64 processor, it'll be murderous on cell phone batteries. Still, Mozilla is the first mobile browser I'm aware of which may support something like Flashblock. And flashy pages are even uglier and more punishing on a mobile device.
Haven't tried this version yet, but recent builds have some nice traceroute functionality-- very fast, and more informative when hosts along the route don't answer ICMP:
Not just all the rights, but more rights. For example, they aren't subject to the campaign contribution spending limits we are. They have stronger privacy rights than we do (they can refuse to provide information to courts for competitive reasons). When a corporation buys another corporation, that should be considered either slavery or prostitution. Corporations should be subject to prison and the death penalty.
Actually, if corps were forbidden to buy other corps, it'd do wonders for employment and innovation. Never happen, though.
Rape as an instrument in torture: you mean like Abu Ghraib? According to those who saw them when they initially came out, there was rape and murder in the photos that Obama had promised to release, but suppressed once he saw them. The reason he gave? If we showed the world what we do, people would hate us even more. And none of the people who gave those orders will ever be prosecuted.
Obama's election was indeed a repudiation of Bush/Cheney and their policies, but in every significant respect he has doubled down on those policies. Torture, rendition, warrantless wiretaps, infinite detention without trial or charges, expanded surveillance, endless war (added Pakistan, itching to attack Iran, and it looks like Yemen and Somalia are up next).
In what area has Obama increased freedom in the USA? Put another way, in what ways has he done anything at all to reduce the power of the permanent government (the TLAs, Wall Street, big business).
And yeah, the alternative would probably have been even worse, because Crash was vocally in favor of all the things Obama promised to reverse.
By floating this, he's ensured that participants in these groups, who by definition are more suspicious than most, will now be paranoid that their peers are government infiltrators. They'll be less open with each other, and may quit altogether. And the Man doesn't even have to follow through to have this effect-- it's totally free! Well played, fascist.
Of course, social interaction may be the last thing holding some of the target audience from going lone gunman, but you can't make an omelette without killing a few people. At least, I can't. And the more incidents we have, the more funding the security apparatus gets. There is no downside!
Wait... should I post this?...ah, I trust you guys.
Not bad. I wonder what the rates for bandwidth will be, though. If we're talking about file sharing, that would probably be the greatest cost. But if anybody's getting a good deal on bandwidth, it's Google.
Ringworld would be quite filmable. Great pace, visuals, some sex, ideas that should translate well enough to screen. And the science isn't *completely* hand-waving, unlike Trek. But could we really stand to listen to all the bitching about it being a Halo ripoff?
And much of the stimulus money designed to spur green energy projects is going, by default, to European and Chinese companies, because the US refused to invest in the tech during the last decade-- when it was obvious, the whole time, that we should. So now we don't have American companies supplying the wind turbines the stimulus package is building. We'll get a few local jobs out of it, and I think it's still one of the best areas to invest in, but we're many years behind our competitors.
...with even a half-decent controller for action games? Something that lets you aim and fire quickly? It's not a major priority for me, but it seems like it's a shame to have these phones that can run, say, the UT3 engine, but are inferior to a gameboy in actual play. Android in particular seems like a natural fit (it's well established that apple people can't handle more than one physical button, tee hee).
The bathroom stuff isn't what annoys me personally, though I don't look forward to being near somebody who does have a problem with it. If I can't read or work for the last hour of the flight, that time is wasted. That's how the security stuff adds to it. And eventually somebody is going to point out to the TSA that a bomb could be set off earlier than the last hour...
I've missed a flight at LAX (had to wait 6 hours for the next open seat) because I was only in line four hours in advance. The line was two turns deep *outside* and the airline had about three of the eight positions staffed-- but I guess Thanksgiving came as a surprise that year. I've spent three hours in line LAX on a non-holiday as well.
At DIA one time the security line wrapped entirely around the airport, twice at first, then three times. Not in a spiral, though... eventually the TSA pigs laughed and said "Hurrr hurr... the lines are circles again. We keep doing that."
I've spent 2-3 hours in security lines several times. So when they say they're going to make you go through security twice, which several stories yesterday did, I don't believe this will take zero minutes.
So no, I don't have that much invested in that particular vacation. I hate crowds, loud people, rude people, and stupidity; so even under the best circumstances I'm not going to enjoy flying. This simply pushes it over the edge. I can take the time off another time; I can drive somewhere and have at least as much fun. I can stay home and be happier. I don't expect I'm the only one who will cross a similar decision-making threshold as a result of these new-- and completely useless-- security restrictions.
Tell me, why is it that a book or an iPod is harmless, until it touches a lap, at which point it is a bomb?
I've canceled my vacation. Not because I'm afraid of terrorists-- I'm not, at all. We're talking at about 1 death per 4 million passengers.
No, it's that in response to this sliver of a threat, you're guaranteeing that I'll spend twice the time in line, and the flight will be as miserable as you can make it. This will cost literally billions of dollars (at 300 million hours, about 450 lifetimes) of productive passenger time per year. And all because some twat might set his crotch on fire-- good thing you don't allow us to have water anymore.
Alright. Fine. Let the airlines go out of business; this nation of cowards deserves it. I suppose we'll need another bailout, to pay the airlines to leave their aircraft on the tarmac.
Those who would sacrifice essential liberty for imaginary security are assholes.
Agreed; yet in the last couple of months I've seen many articles saying android is far too successful for its own good, because it supports multiple CPU and screen types. There's not a single precedent for software which supports various resolutions and CPUs! And then they lavish yet more praise on the greatest genius in history, Steve Jobs, because he will clearly never allow better screens on the iPhone.
Oh, and if android hadn't sold as well, these same people would be mocking it as a dismal failure.
It's almost enough to make one doubt their objectivity.
Last year Citi sent me a new card, because they said they'd lost three million credit card numbers to thieves. Well, they claimed it was a merchant, but since they wouldn't reveal who it was so that I could cease doing business with them, clearly Citibank is assuming full responsibility.
Linux Flash 10.1 doesn't do hardware decoding, because Adobe is in their five-year LA LA LA LA stage when told that a commonly-used technology (64 bit, VDPAU) should be supported.
That said, I got a Revo 3610 (Atom 330, tiny, ION chipset, wireless N, gige) and so far I'm quite happy with it. It's very quiet-- quieter than anything else in my house, anyway... And hardware support is good under Linux. Video playback with VLC/mplayer is fine. Youtube fullscreen is choppy: again, fuadobe. Come on, HTML5!
I had problems finding it in the US, though. Every vendor was out, and the comments from those who did find one indicated that the VESA mounting bracket for the rear of a monitor was not included; instead Americans get shafted with a pair tiny, horrible speakers.
If anybody's looking, I was able to find a vendor in Canada that did have it in stock, and at least mine came with the mounting bracket (which is kind of a PITA to use, but does work). NCIXUS... no financial relation, just a geek who got his new toy in time for the holidays...
So in conclusion: yeah, Flash sucks, but Flash will always suck, especially on Linux. The Atom 330 with ION makes a pretty good media/web terminal, and eats about 19W in use. Now I can move its noisy, huge predecessor into the closet as a MythTV/fileserver/etc/etc box.
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Furthermore, most mainstream articles about security problems which only affect Microsoft products never mention Microsoft or Windows. It's as if they've bought the lie you're referring to, or as if they're afraid, for some reason, to mention that only Microsoft users are at risk.
Why does it have to be random? If they're not taking into account market share or other factors, evenly dividing the possible permutations of browser order should be more "fair" than a "random" order. So you could cycle the permutations in order based on serial number. The only way this wouldn't work would be if you do multiple installs/selections per OS. In that case, make every install go to the next permutation in the list. You'd have to phone home to track this, but Windows phones home constantly anyway.
Of course, they'd screw up the implementation of this approach too.
--we should buy them a million Exchange licenses. Even at full retail cost it'd be a huge win for the US. OTOH, this might violate the Geneva Conventions. Better get Yoo to write another memo.
Pro tip: never trust your domain or your business to a company who got its name from a Thrill Kill Kult song and advertises its services with soft-core porn.
Now they'll have robots put the cubes in order for shipping. That's a lot of jobs...
Wait, so Xe is Blackwater-- the raping, massacring, fraudulent, Christian-crusader, genocidal war profiteers?
Great; fine. Nothing wrong with that. Just don't market it by stealing the name, and nothing else, from something that only matters to people who read. Because that's sort of-- no, that is absolutely-- lying.
And probably counterproductive! How many people who don't read SF (or anything, really) will say "Hmm, Ow My Balls, or... Asimov? I GOTTA SEE THAT!" And how many of the people who are familiar with SF will appreciate an obvious bastardization? Because bastardizers don't come more obvious than Roland Emmerich.
(Though prior to this, he has only dumbed down hoary SF cliches, not specific works).
Success or failure is irrelevant. It's a buddy network, and these guys have no interest whatsoever in the long-term well-being of their companies. They'll get top executive positions elsewhere if they want it. They'll make some big, short-term changes when they hop on-- layoffs are great for their bonuses, the bonuses are all about short term profits-- trash the company, and move on. It's a grifter aristocracy.
Look at execs from AOL, Yahoo, now Sun... hell, Carly Fiorina is running a campaign to do to California what she did to HP. Ask anybody who worked at HP while she was there, or any stockholder, how that works out. At least the citizens of California will have some say over whether she is taken on. Hard to believe such a tech-savvy state would fall for her, but...
And Sun execs. Oh ho, they're brilliant. "We hate Linux! We're doing Solaris x86! Linux rules! We're cancelling Solaris x86! Linux is GARBAGE! We're the biggest Linux providers in the world! No, wait: screw those customers. Oh hey, we have Solaris x86! I mean Linux! I mean OpenSolaris! Okay, now it's really open! It runs all that great OSS stuff without that horrible Linux!"
Yeah. They've done very well by themselves. And will continue to do so.
So what he's saying is: "Pretty much everybody who buys windows is a moron."
Come on, the guy has a legitimate point.
Given that flash uses 100% of a core of a high-end x64 processor, it'll be murderous on cell phone batteries. Still, Mozilla is the first mobile browser I'm aware of which may support something like Flashblock. And flashy pages are even uglier and more punishing on a mobile device.
Haven't tried this version yet, but recent builds have some nice traceroute functionality-- very fast, and more informative when hosts along the route don't answer ICMP:
nmap -T4 -p80 -PN --traceroute $DEST_HOST
(This needs to be run with root privileges).
Nmap rules.
Not just all the rights, but more rights. For example, they aren't subject to the campaign contribution spending limits we are. They have stronger privacy rights than we do (they can refuse to provide information to courts for competitive reasons). When a corporation buys another corporation, that should be considered either slavery or prostitution. Corporations should be subject to prison and the death penalty.
Actually, if corps were forbidden to buy other corps, it'd do wonders for employment and innovation. Never happen, though.
Rape as an instrument in torture: you mean like Abu Ghraib? According to those who saw them when they initially came out, there was rape and murder in the photos that Obama had promised to release, but suppressed once he saw them. The reason he gave? If we showed the world what we do, people would hate us even more. And none of the people who gave those orders will ever be prosecuted.
Obama's election was indeed a repudiation of Bush/Cheney and their policies, but in every significant respect he has doubled down on those policies. Torture, rendition, warrantless wiretaps, infinite detention without trial or charges, expanded surveillance, endless war (added Pakistan, itching to attack Iran, and it looks like Yemen and Somalia are up next).
In what area has Obama increased freedom in the USA? Put another way, in what ways has he done anything at all to reduce the power of the permanent government (the TLAs, Wall Street, big business).
And yeah, the alternative would probably have been even worse, because Crash was vocally in favor of all the things Obama promised to reverse.
By floating this, he's ensured that participants in these groups, who by definition are more suspicious than most, will now be paranoid that their peers are government infiltrators. They'll be less open with each other, and may quit altogether. And the Man doesn't even have to follow through to have this effect-- it's totally free! Well played, fascist.
...ah, I trust you guys.
Of course, social interaction may be the last thing holding some of the target audience from going lone gunman, but you can't make an omelette without killing a few people. At least, I can't. And the more incidents we have, the more funding the security apparatus gets. There is no downside!
Wait... should I post this?
Not bad. I wonder what the rates for bandwidth will be, though. If we're talking about file sharing, that would probably be the greatest cost. But if anybody's getting a good deal on bandwidth, it's Google.
Ringworld would be quite filmable. Great pace, visuals, some sex, ideas that should translate well enough to screen. And the science isn't *completely* hand-waving, unlike Trek. But could we really stand to listen to all the bitching about it being a Halo ripoff?
And much of the stimulus money designed to spur green energy projects is going, by default, to European and Chinese companies, because the US refused to invest in the tech during the last decade-- when it was obvious, the whole time, that we should. So now we don't have American companies supplying the wind turbines the stimulus package is building. We'll get a few local jobs out of it, and I think it's still one of the best areas to invest in, but we're many years behind our competitors.
...with even a half-decent controller for action games? Something that lets you aim and fire quickly? It's not a major priority for me, but it seems like it's a shame to have these phones that can run, say, the UT3 engine, but are inferior to a gameboy in actual play. Android in particular seems like a natural fit (it's well established that apple people can't handle more than one physical button, tee hee).
Windows.
The bathroom stuff isn't what annoys me personally, though I don't look forward to being near somebody who does have a problem with it. If I can't read or work for the last hour of the flight, that time is wasted. That's how the security stuff adds to it. And eventually somebody is going to point out to the TSA that a bomb could be set off earlier than the last hour...
I've missed a flight at LAX (had to wait 6 hours for the next open seat) because I was only in line four hours in advance. The line was two turns deep *outside* and the airline had about three of the eight positions staffed-- but I guess Thanksgiving came as a surprise that year. I've spent three hours in line LAX on a non-holiday as well.
At DIA one time the security line wrapped entirely around the airport, twice at first, then three times. Not in a spiral, though... eventually the TSA pigs laughed and said "Hurrr hurr... the lines are circles again. We keep doing that."
I've spent 2-3 hours in security lines several times. So when they say they're going to make you go through security twice, which several stories yesterday did, I don't believe this will take zero minutes.
So no, I don't have that much invested in that particular vacation. I hate crowds, loud people, rude people, and stupidity; so even under the best circumstances I'm not going to enjoy flying. This simply pushes it over the edge. I can take the time off another time; I can drive somewhere and have at least as much fun. I can stay home and be happier. I don't expect I'm the only one who will cross a similar decision-making threshold as a result of these new-- and completely useless-- security restrictions.
Tell me, why is it that a book or an iPod is harmless, until it touches a lap, at which point it is a bomb?
I've canceled my vacation. Not because I'm afraid of terrorists-- I'm not, at all. We're talking at about 1 death per 4 million passengers.
No, it's that in response to this sliver of a threat, you're guaranteeing that I'll spend twice the time in line, and the flight will be as miserable as you can make it. This will cost literally billions of dollars (at 300 million hours, about 450 lifetimes) of productive passenger time per year. And all because some twat might set his crotch on fire-- good thing you don't allow us to have water anymore.
Alright. Fine. Let the airlines go out of business; this nation of cowards deserves it. I suppose we'll need another bailout, to pay the airlines to leave their aircraft on the tarmac.
Those who would sacrifice essential liberty for imaginary security are assholes.
Agreed; yet in the last couple of months I've seen many articles saying android is far too successful for its own good, because it supports multiple CPU and screen types. There's not a single precedent for software which supports various resolutions and CPUs! And then they lavish yet more praise on the greatest genius in history, Steve Jobs, because he will clearly never allow better screens on the iPhone.
Oh, and if android hadn't sold as well, these same people would be mocking it as a dismal failure.
It's almost enough to make one doubt their objectivity.
Last year Citi sent me a new card, because they said they'd lost three million credit card numbers to thieves. Well, they claimed it was a merchant, but since they wouldn't reveal who it was so that I could cease doing business with them, clearly Citibank is assuming full responsibility.
Linux Flash 10.1 doesn't do hardware decoding, because Adobe is in their five-year LA LA LA LA stage when told that a commonly-used technology (64 bit, VDPAU) should be supported.
That said, I got a Revo 3610 (Atom 330, tiny, ION chipset, wireless N, gige) and so far I'm quite happy with it. It's very quiet-- quieter than anything else in my house, anyway... And hardware support is good under Linux. Video playback with VLC/mplayer is fine. Youtube fullscreen is choppy: again, fuadobe. Come on, HTML5!
I had problems finding it in the US, though. Every vendor was out, and the comments from those who did find one indicated that the VESA mounting bracket for the rear of a monitor was not included; instead Americans get shafted with a pair tiny, horrible speakers.
If anybody's looking, I was able to find a vendor in Canada that did have it in stock, and at least mine came with the mounting bracket (which is kind of a PITA to use, but does work). NCIXUS... no financial relation, just a geek who got his new toy in time for the holidays...
So in conclusion: yeah, Flash sucks, but Flash will always suck, especially on Linux. The Atom 330 with ION makes a pretty good media/web terminal, and eats about 19W in use. Now I can move its noisy, huge predecessor into the closet as a MythTV/fileserver/etc/etc box.
Health records? Man, MS employee fatatars (or avatards, whatever these lovely things will be called), will have a lot of stabholes...