Maybe Netflix should worry about offering content people actually want to watch instead of expanding in to new markets. I know Netflix Canada sucks... Dated movies, B-Grade movies and kids movies do not appeal to people who have video on demand subscriptions with their cable company. For $12 a month I get unlimited access to my cable companies video on demand library, which includes newly released videos.
Any big ticket electronics I buy from best buy gets unpacked, plugged in and inspected by the employee and myself as proof that the device works, that its not scratched, dented or damaged and we both sign off on it. The difference here is, they do it in front of you. They have asked me before if I want their shit installed on the laptop before I leave and I always decline. I've purchased 2 laptops for personal use and 5 for friends/family (not as gifts, just helpful shopping) and never ever had this happen
I use a sort of "incremental" password. My base password is 10+ characters containing letters/numbers/symbols where no character is used more than once. Using part of the website's URL, based on a pattern I've devised for myself, I take letters/symbols out of the URL and prepend it to my password.
So if my base password was E21jd78&@qPm and the site was slashdot.org, my password for slashdot dot might end up being SshoTE21jd78&@qPm. This way I only have to memorize the base password, and use the URL to prompt myself as to what the rest of it should be making every password for every website I use to be different. If the passwords are encrypted on each service no two hashes will ever be the same.
I think its time that Javascript and HTML get transmitted in a pre-compiled format, like Java.I'm sure the compiled file will be smaller than its mark-up counterpart, and would run faster in the browser since the browser won't have to analyze the mark-up before "compiling it" and rendering it. Plus, it might help people code their web-pages to standards if the compilers won't compile their half-assed HTML.
Microsoft is smart. This is the same way they won the OS wars in the 90's. Apple developed a proprietary system and forced people to do it there way or no way, while Microsoft said "here is an OS that can make any system you develop better" and let people do as they wished. While Apple does allow for home brew software, it still has the same restriction as every app on the app store, unless you jailbreak of course
The internet is not a right... a cellphone is not a right, a car is not a right, modern technology is not a right, it's a privilege. While it sucks that people in some parts of the world don't have access to our fancy dancy technology, they have more important things to worry about like clean water, healthy food, safety from oppressive governments and war. I doubt they care about free internet. The developed world already has free WIFI. I can connect to 3 or 4 "free" access points from my couch, or go to starbucks, mcdonalds, or just about any savvy business.
Microsoft has interesting priorities... "Lets release a plug-in for a third party browser to fix a perceived short coming..." as opposed to "Lets fix the problems and short comings in our products". Slow clap for Microsoft.
It is entirely possible to encrypt a hard drive that once powered down the data is "lost". It's called TrueCrypt System Disk Encryption. Where the decrypter is a boot loader and the decrypted key gets stores in ram. Power off, no more key. The key is needed again to unlock the drive after reboot. To take it to the next level one would put an encrypted file container inside the encrypted system that requires a USB key to unlock. It would take a very long time to decrypt both keys without some very very heavy computing power
Geez, what I would give for 50 sq ft of cubical space. My "cublicle" is 6 ft wide by just over 6.5 feet long. I have an L-shaped workspace that is 2 feet deep, by the entire length of 2 sides, which takes up about 22 sq ft of my 40ish sq ft of space. also notes, my cubical only has a full height dividing wall between me and the person next to me, in front of my and on the other side I have walls that come up to my waist when standing.
I thought the same thing... My first thought was, "Why is NASA allowing people to bring strong, small magnets in space. Surely this will mess up some electronics"
My BuckyBalls are safely attached to the side of my fridge where they cant do any harm
I'm pretty sure this is easily fixed... Any authentication system I write queries the database for both the username and password at the same time(all passwords stored as MD5 hashes) and only checks to see if a row was returned. If it is, the credentials are correct. If nothing is returned, the credentials are wrong. I never tell the user which was wrong, thats up to them to figure out.
$query = "SELECT uid from users where username='" . $_POST['username'] . "' AND password=MD5('" . $_POST['password'] . "') limit 0,1";
Of course if something is returned I write to another table a session ID and the user's unique ID (uid) which is simply an auto_incrementing # which is row in the DB the info is found.
He is correct. Motorola and similar DCT's do not pass the Closed Captioning signal to the TV and you do have to go in to the boot menu of the DCT to turn it on. Similarly, you go in to the same menu to set the aspect ratio of your tv and how the box should handle non-hd content.//Worked for a cable company that uses the boxes for the past 2 years
I wish Apple would build an update for profiles. I have a Jail broken phone and have a profiles add-on that allows me to set configurations for different things.
For example, When I am at work my ringer turns off, vibrate goes on, WIFI turns off, 3G turns off, and notifications turn on. When I get home, my WIFI turns back on, 3G turns back on, notifications turn off.
All that, and more happen based on time of day and GPS coordinates. It would also be great if they could make icons disappear based on profiles. When I let my girlfriends kid play with my iPhone I want her to be able to play games only, I'd love for apps to be hideable on-mass as part of a profile.
Password protected apps would be nice too (Also a feature in the JB world). If I am at a party I have no problems with people using my phone for music, videos, games, but my work e-mail, text messages and phone feature are passworded for obvious reasons.
I've had both the 3G and 3GS and have never had an issue with "forced" upgrades... iTunes doesn't even force upgrades on me it asks me if I want to upgrade, I say no. problem solved.
You sure your phone just wasn't buggy?
I'm not sure how true this is, but if I'm on 3G my battery life drains at an alarming rate during high data transfer, audio streaming etc... When Im on WIFI my battery lasts substantially longer.
Buying the iPad rendered it useless:-) The solar storm will just put it in to an grave... Plus, your iPad won't last that long anyway... My bets are on it falling in 8-12 months and smashing the fragile glass screen..
IMHO I do not think Google did anything "wrong". People, specifically home internet users are stupid and willingly provide open networks to anyone who drives by and connects, a lot of them have file sharing turned on to share stuff between computers which makes the problem worse for the end user because anyone can get their crap...(Little bit off topic)
But this is hardly Google's fault. Instead, lets blame Linksys, D-link and any other router manufacturer who's WIFI default is no encryption instead of making it a mandatory setting.
So if anything, Google should take this opportunity to educate the public on WIFI security, create their own super awesome secure router that "anonymously" reports your activities to Google by using Google DNS and provide it for free.
Agreed. You can either change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor and/or deny anyone who is not an admin access to the following files in the NTFS %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.pnf and %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.inf and they wont be able to mount a US drive... Password protect the bios and disable the USB storage there too.
Of course this only works for Windows, linux users and Mac users can simply be denied access to the device chain in/dev/
If there is no flash, there is no point. A good chunk of websites (est 30-40% Cite) use flash which Apple blatently alienates. I'll stick to my laptop and my tethered iPhone and get better results.
I blame American and Chile ISP's. Why on earth would you query the root server on the other side of the world, especially in an ass backwards country like China when there are plenty of good servers here? Shouldn't you query the closest available server, not the furthest?
This will put a hick up in collection company's practices since they do it all the time. I wonder how it will affect call centers since call centers normally spoof the caller ID to match the company they are calling on behalf of.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe Netflix should worry about offering content people actually want to watch instead of expanding in to new markets. I know Netflix Canada sucks... Dated movies, B-Grade movies and kids movies do not appeal to people who have video on demand subscriptions with their cable company. For $12 a month I get unlimited access to my cable companies video on demand library, which includes newly released videos.
Any big ticket electronics I buy from best buy gets unpacked, plugged in and inspected by the employee and myself as proof that the device works, that its not scratched, dented or damaged and we both sign off on it. The difference here is, they do it in front of you. They have asked me before if I want their shit installed on the laptop before I leave and I always decline. I've purchased 2 laptops for personal use and 5 for friends/family (not as gifts, just helpful shopping) and never ever had this happen
I use a sort of "incremental" password. My base password is 10+ characters containing letters/numbers/symbols where no character is used more than once. Using part of the website's URL, based on a pattern I've devised for myself, I take letters/symbols out of the URL and prepend it to my password. So if my base password was E21jd78&@qPm and the site was slashdot.org, my password for slashdot dot might end up being SshoTE21jd78&@qPm. This way I only have to memorize the base password, and use the URL to prompt myself as to what the rest of it should be making every password for every website I use to be different. If the passwords are encrypted on each service no two hashes will ever be the same.
I think its time that Javascript and HTML get transmitted in a pre-compiled format, like Java.I'm sure the compiled file will be smaller than its mark-up counterpart, and would run faster in the browser since the browser won't have to analyze the mark-up before "compiling it" and rendering it. Plus, it might help people code their web-pages to standards if the compilers won't compile their half-assed HTML.
Microsoft is smart. This is the same way they won the OS wars in the 90's. Apple developed a proprietary system and forced people to do it there way or no way, while Microsoft said "here is an OS that can make any system you develop better" and let people do as they wished. While Apple does allow for home brew software, it still has the same restriction as every app on the app store, unless you jailbreak of course
The internet is not a right... a cellphone is not a right, a car is not a right, modern technology is not a right, it's a privilege. While it sucks that people in some parts of the world don't have access to our fancy dancy technology, they have more important things to worry about like clean water, healthy food, safety from oppressive governments and war. I doubt they care about free internet. The developed world already has free WIFI. I can connect to 3 or 4 "free" access points from my couch, or go to starbucks, mcdonalds, or just about any savvy business.
Microsoft has interesting priorities... "Lets release a plug-in for a third party browser to fix a perceived short coming..." as opposed to "Lets fix the problems and short comings in our products". Slow clap for Microsoft.
It is entirely possible to encrypt a hard drive that once powered down the data is "lost". It's called TrueCrypt System Disk Encryption. Where the decrypter is a boot loader and the decrypted key gets stores in ram. Power off, no more key. The key is needed again to unlock the drive after reboot. To take it to the next level one would put an encrypted file container inside the encrypted system that requires a USB key to unlock. It would take a very long time to decrypt both keys without some very very heavy computing power
Geez, what I would give for 50 sq ft of cubical space. My "cublicle" is 6 ft wide by just over 6.5 feet long. I have an L-shaped workspace that is 2 feet deep, by the entire length of 2 sides, which takes up about 22 sq ft of my 40ish sq ft of space. also notes, my cubical only has a full height dividing wall between me and the person next to me, in front of my and on the other side I have walls that come up to my waist when standing.
I thought the same thing... My first thought was, "Why is NASA allowing people to bring strong, small magnets in space. Surely this will mess up some electronics" My BuckyBalls are safely attached to the side of my fridge where they cant do any harm
I'm pretty sure this is easily fixed... Any authentication system I write queries the database for both the username and password at the same time(all passwords stored as MD5 hashes) and only checks to see if a row was returned. If it is, the credentials are correct. If nothing is returned, the credentials are wrong. I never tell the user which was wrong, thats up to them to figure out.
$query = "SELECT uid from users where username='" . $_POST['username'] . "' AND password=MD5('" . $_POST['password'] . "') limit 0,1";
Of course if something is returned I write to another table a session ID and the user's unique ID (uid) which is simply an auto_incrementing # which is row in the DB the info is found.
A Buddy of mine did this using HTML 4 and Javascript. In fact, he rewrote Mario Bro's, Monopoly and a few others are proof of concepts.
http://www.googin.getproxied.com/games/
This guy's scrolling shooter is of course better, but the tech has been around for a while.
He is correct. Motorola and similar DCT's do not pass the Closed Captioning signal to the TV and you do have to go in to the boot menu of the DCT to turn it on. Similarly, you go in to the same menu to set the aspect ratio of your tv and how the box should handle non-hd content. //Worked for a cable company that uses the boxes for the past 2 years
I wish Apple would build an update for profiles. I have a Jail broken phone and have a profiles add-on that allows me to set configurations for different things.
For example,
When I am at work my ringer turns off, vibrate goes on, WIFI turns off, 3G turns off, and notifications turn on.
When I get home, my WIFI turns back on, 3G turns back on, notifications turn off.
All that, and more happen based on time of day and GPS coordinates. It would also be great if they could make icons disappear based on profiles. When I let my girlfriends kid play with my iPhone I want her to be able to play games only, I'd love for apps to be hideable on-mass as part of a profile.
Password protected apps would be nice too (Also a feature in the JB world). If I am at a party I have no problems with people using my phone for music, videos, games, but my work e-mail, text messages and phone feature are passworded for obvious reasons.
I've had both the 3G and 3GS and have never had an issue with "forced" upgrades... iTunes doesn't even force upgrades on me it asks me if I want to upgrade, I say no. problem solved. You sure your phone just wasn't buggy?
I'm not sure how true this is, but if I'm on 3G my battery life drains at an alarming rate during high data transfer, audio streaming etc... When Im on WIFI my battery lasts substantially longer.
Anyone else notice this too?
Buying the iPad rendered it useless :-) The solar storm will just put it in to an grave...
Plus, your iPad won't last that long anyway... My bets are on it falling in 8-12 months and smashing the fragile glass screen..
IMHO I do not think Google did anything "wrong". People, specifically home internet users are stupid and willingly provide open networks to anyone who drives by and connects, a lot of them have file sharing turned on to share stuff between computers which makes the problem worse for the end user because anyone can get their crap...(Little bit off topic)
But this is hardly Google's fault. Instead, lets blame Linksys, D-link and any other router manufacturer who's WIFI default is no encryption instead of making it a mandatory setting.
So if anything, Google should take this opportunity to educate the public on WIFI security, create their own super awesome secure router that "anonymously" reports your activities to Google by using Google DNS and provide it for free.
Why drag us lovely CDN's in to this.
Agreed. You can either change the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor and/or deny anyone who is not an admin access to the following files in the NTFS %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.pnf and %SystemRoot%\Inf\Usbstor.inf and they wont be able to mount a US drive... Password protect the bios and disable the USB storage there too.
Of course this only works for Windows, linux users and Mac users can simply be denied access to the device chain in /dev/
Flash Magazine got their stats from Opera.
If there is no flash, there is no point. A good chunk of websites (est 30-40% Cite) use flash which Apple blatently alienates. I'll stick to my laptop and my tethered iPhone and get better results.
I blame American and Chile ISP's.
Why on earth would you query the root server on the other side of the world, especially in an ass backwards country like China when there are plenty of good servers here?
Shouldn't you query the closest available server, not the furthest?
Looks like a pool table, without the pockets... Something makes me think that this is a pool table, without the pockets.
For $8000 I'll buy a pool table, with pockets and get a lot more functionality out of it
This will put a hick up in collection company's practices since they do it all the time. I wonder how it will affect call centers since call centers normally spoof the caller ID to match the company they are calling on behalf of.