IANAA* but from a layman's perspective, I'd rather zoom in and see what we can of Pluto even if we're taking a chance on destruction, than increase the chance this is a half-and-half mission. (I don't want another major mission aimed at Pluto - there are other things to look at out there.)
I remember a time in college when I was working 64 hours a week and carrying a load of 12 hours, half of it comp sci. The trick there was to find at least one BS job in there (typically graveyard shift) where you could do your homework and, hopefully, another large company job that kicks educational benefits in for a least a class or two a semester.
Tough? Yes. Would I do it again? Speaking from a zero-debt, never unemployed (unless I wanted to be) point of view - it was the best thing I could have done in my early 20s.
This Christmas I was hoping to get a Nexus 7 for my son and the Surface for my wife. At around $200 each, they'd be pricey but possible gifts. Now, cross off the Surface - may check in with the Kindle Fire 2 instead.
I get about 2 or 3 of these in my inbox every day.
Location: United States Asking Price: Between $500 Thousand and $1 Million Summary: Simple is superior! Such is the case with this app. Featured in Forbes, having over 1 million PAID downloads, generating over $1,000,000 in sales and boasting a 5 star average rating with over 21,000...
I'll bet this works like this: 1) Company A writes an app 2) App goes out in store as freebie 3) App starts generating some money thanks to advertising via Company B 4) Company A goes up for sale, somebody writes big check to Company B for Company A 5) Company B rebrands a copy of Company A's app, spins up Company C and uses the same advertising campaign it used to prop up Company A's app to prop up Company C's app 6) Goto 2
Every non-metrosexual already knows this. Here's how we dress when we go to work:
1) First socks and underwear we see in the drawer 2) Top pair of pants on the pile (or on the rack, but I wear jeans these days) 3) Warm? First non-threadbare shirt on the rack. Otherwise, first shirt with non-ratty collar, followed by first sweater in the pile.
Takes about a minute. Heck, the time it took me to write this is probably the longest sustained period I've ever thought about what to wear in the morning.
>> the operating system lacks a wide range of robust applications
Kudos to Microsoft for not making this a false chicken-and-egg problem. The OS needs to get out there so developers will target it. In fact, any developer worth his paycheck has probably been playing with the OS and maybe even Visual Studio 2012 for months.
>> PC makers haven’t had enough time to work out kinks with so-called drivers, which connect software to such hardware as printers
On nos - HP isn't going to have enough time to gen up its usual 500MB driver install for Windows 8?
We've already flipped half our Windows desktops and laptops to Windows 8. Except for a utility to put the start menu button back, we're not looking back.
>> One drawback of CFL lamps is that they die more quickly in environments where they're frequently turned on and off . "You have to leave them on at least 15 minutes in order not to kill the light," Smallwood said.
I have a basement, attic and a garage, two of which are often below freezing for a good part of the year. When I'm in there, I'm usually in there for five minutes at a time; I love cheap incandescents for those areas. I also have a number of rooms with "historical" lighting. I'll be stocking up on bulbs for those lamps too. That said, cheaper LED bulbs (thinking of going totally solar/LED in garage/attic) and the newer halogen alternatives for historical fixtures have me intrigued. Just don't make me convert everything to CFL (they give my wife headaches) and we'll be OK.
>> when are we going to all start hashing and salting passwords?
Please RTFA. The exposure wasn't in password STORAGE, it was in password LOGGING. (The stored passwords may already have been hashed and salted for all we know, but the FTP server was writing them to log files out in clear text!)
In addition to setting correct permissions, there are several FTP servers that suppress passwords in their logs. (e.g., Serv-U: Server Limits | Password | Mask received passwords in logs)
Even on anonymous FTP servers, you should hide passwords in the logs; otherwise someone who gets the logs can mine email addresses. (Anonymous users frequently sign on as "anonymous" and are asked for their email address as a password.)
>> It seems like comments are on programmers' minds these days
Really? I'll bet the new round of browsers, iOS, Windows 8 (have you seen how many APIs and visual paradigms are broken?) and any number of other major platform changes are much, much more on the minds of programmers these days.
>> Winer also makes the case for providing links in his code to external 'worknotes.'
Slashdot Mirror
I'll buy one as soon as I can get a 7-8 inch tablet running Windows 8 for about $200-250.
FWIW, Gary Johnson = Libertarian candidate (the other parties are noted in the opening paragraph)
IANAA* but from a layman's perspective, I'd rather zoom in and see what we can of Pluto even if we're taking a chance on destruction, than increase the chance this is a half-and-half mission. (I don't want another major mission aimed at Pluto - there are other things to look at out there.)
* Astrophysicist
>> It's quite possible to put down $199 and just say something like "oh; I just wanted to see what it was like and just cost a hundred and a bit".
Mod parent up. I'm a developer. It does me no good to have 2 iPads. That would be like doing all my web app testing in IE 6.
>> (whatever) has been detected off the west coast of Canada that violates UN regulations
Is it Canada waters? Then WTF does anyone care what the UN papershufflers think?
>> The entrepreneur, Russ George, hopes to cash in on the carbon credits
Why not? Start treating silly little "carbon credits" like valuable pieces of paper, and they will become money.
I remember a time in college when I was working 64 hours a week and carrying a load of 12 hours, half of it comp sci. The trick there was to find at least one BS job in there (typically graveyard shift) where you could do your homework and, hopefully, another large company job that kicks educational benefits in for a least a class or two a semester.
Tough? Yes. Would I do it again? Speaking from a zero-debt, never unemployed (unless I wanted to be) point of view - it was the best thing I could have done in my early 20s.
This Christmas I was hoping to get a Nexus 7 for my son and the Surface for my wife. At around $200 each, they'd be pricey but possible gifts. Now, cross off the Surface - may check in with the Kindle Fire 2 instead.
I get about 2 or 3 of these in my inbox every day.
Location: United States
Asking Price: Between $500 Thousand and $1 Million
Summary: Simple is superior! Such is the case with this app. Featured in Forbes, having over 1 million PAID downloads, generating over $1,000,000 in sales and boasting a 5 star average rating with over 21,000...
I'll bet this works like this:
1) Company A writes an app
2) App goes out in store as freebie
3) App starts generating some money thanks to advertising via Company B
4) Company A goes up for sale, somebody writes big check to Company B for Company A
5) Company B rebrands a copy of Company A's app, spins up Company C and uses the same advertising campaign it used to prop up Company A's app to prop up Company C's app
6) Goto 2
Greetings new SlashDot editors. Please understand that "the real life Q" = John de Lancie on this forum.
If you use the number of "likes" (or any other information from Facebook) to make decisions of any kind...you might be a moron.
>> Google Wades Further Into Hardware
This headline only makes sense if you're talking about a company that's not already neck-deep in cell phones.
We'll never delegate our private voice messages to the cloud. That's why we all still have an answering machine next to our landline in the kitchen.
>> Some new phone service called **Me
Anyone else read that as "F*** Me"? Better question - did anyone NOT see that?
3 Stories, 25 Comments Each. So at least we know what a slow news day looks like on SlashDot.
Where's the m*****f****** transcript at? (For the 99% of us who don't have time to watch a video.)
Unfortunately, random images from your cell phone are already OK as "proof of residency" in Wisconsin. (See public radio article:
http://news.wpr.org/post/cell-phones-can-prove-residency-polls )
Every non-metrosexual already knows this. Here's how we dress when we go to work:
1) First socks and underwear we see in the drawer
2) Top pair of pants on the pile (or on the rack, but I wear jeans these days)
3) Warm? First non-threadbare shirt on the rack. Otherwise, first shirt with non-ratty collar, followed by first sweater in the pile.
Takes about a minute. Heck, the time it took me to write this is probably the longest sustained period I've ever thought about what to wear in the morning.
Matched pair of shooting stars?
>> They're both still on the ground, dumbass.
Nevermind. Sell them to China or Russian and then use the money for general funding.
>> you cannot do any space exploration because the US is spending huge amounts of money on the military
Seen any news about Mars lately? Thought so. Then also check out:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html
>> the operating system lacks a wide range of robust applications
Kudos to Microsoft for not making this a false chicken-and-egg problem. The OS needs to get out there so developers will target it. In fact, any developer worth his paycheck has probably been playing with the OS and maybe even Visual Studio 2012 for months.
>> PC makers haven’t had enough time to work out kinks with so-called drivers, which connect software to such hardware as printers
On nos - HP isn't going to have enough time to gen up its usual 500MB driver install for Windows 8?
We've already flipped half our Windows desktops and laptops to Windows 8. Except for a utility to put the start menu button back, we're not looking back.
>> One drawback of CFL lamps is that they die more quickly in environments where they're frequently turned on and off . "You have to leave them on at least 15 minutes in order not to kill the light," Smallwood said.
I have a basement, attic and a garage, two of which are often below freezing for a good part of the year. When I'm in there, I'm usually in there for five minutes at a time; I love cheap incandescents for those areas. I also have a number of rooms with "historical" lighting. I'll be stocking up on bulbs for those lamps too. That said, cheaper LED bulbs (thinking of going totally solar/LED in garage/attic) and the newer halogen alternatives for historical fixtures have me intrigued. Just don't make me convert everything to CFL (they give my wife headaches) and we'll be OK.
>> when are we going to all start hashing and salting passwords?
Please RTFA. The exposure wasn't in password STORAGE, it was in password LOGGING. (The stored passwords may already have been hashed and salted for all we know, but the FTP server was writing them to log files out in clear text!)
In addition to setting correct permissions, there are several FTP servers that suppress passwords in their logs. (e.g., Serv-U: Server Limits | Password | Mask received passwords in logs)
Even on anonymous FTP servers, you should hide passwords in the logs; otherwise someone who gets the logs can mine email addresses. (Anonymous users frequently sign on as "anonymous" and are asked for their email address as a password.)
>> It seems like comments are on programmers' minds these days
Really? I'll bet the new round of browsers, iOS, Windows 8 (have you seen how many APIs and visual paradigms are broken?) and any number of other major platform changes are much, much more on the minds of programmers these days.
>> Winer also makes the case for providing links in his code to external 'worknotes.'
Oh God - one of those people.
>> Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
No. Let's play thermonuclear war.
>> Fine.