True. Does that actually happen? It sounds like it'd be technically a lot harder to do than keylogging... and since few people use one-time passwords, there wouldn't be all that much point.
Of course. But the most damaging use of key loggers is collecting passwords. I don't particularly care if someone logs me hacking at some code, writing an email, or printing out work in one of my uni's computer labs. But if they get my password they can compromise my machine, and that I do care about.
"Seeing more of something come true" generally means that whatever it supposedly "predicts" is unspecific, and you're actively trying to match it to real-world events. Which makes it utterly meaningless. Same principle as horoscopes, fortune telling, seances, etc, etc.
I haven't used it much, but that isn't what matters... it's there when I need it for loading MS files. It's been a big help in making Linux usable for every-day use, particularly interaction with the real world.
It's definitely one of the big-hitters in the Linux world.
If there was indeed a way to install OS X on a PC, with a decent set of apps... no, I wouldn't switch. But I'd switch all my family's computers over in a heartbeat... I've had no luck persuading them of the virtues of linux, OS X might have a better chance.
(Why do I want my family to switch? Because I don't enjoy being the admin for a house full of Windows boxes!...)
Then I thought, why the hell am I trying to see meaning in statistics quoted on the Slashdot front page? It would be more meaningful to flip a coin to decide which is more secure.
You'd have to actually RTFA and think about it for a while before coming to any kind of sensible conclusion. That said, past experience has me biased in favour of mozilla...
The UK Data Protection Act is, IMHO, one of the biggest victories for the people in UK law. It's a shame that there's no way to hold non-UK companies you deal with over the internet to the same standards.
It's also costly and annoying for businesses... but reasonably so, I think.
Well, you'd get a big clue if you read my... er... very outdated user info. I'm in the UK, so the lottery is 'the' lottery, with odds a little better than 1:14 million.
...than winning the lottery: well, you're about 250 times more likely to be involved in a car accident than to win the lottery. And about 10 times more likely to be murdered.
(That's over a whole year, assuming you buy a ticket every week).
Virtually everything is more likely than winning the lottery. Their poll just shows that people don't really understand probability... (hmm. You're also more likely to be hit by lightning than to win the lottery.)
I wouldn't argue with that (apart from, as pointed out above, criminal vs civil charges).
But, I would argue with the scale of the fines imposed. Copyright infringement is simply not a very damaging thing to do. The amount the industry loses is guaranteed to be less than the cover price of the media, because a) it may not have been bought anyway, and b) they get free advertising.
Sadly the honest answer to your rhetorical questions is "no, we haven't". Think what happens when someone reports that there's a one in fifty thousand chance an asteroid might hit the earth, or a hypothetical link between a drug and some nasty symptom. People panick.
People are, generally speaking, unable to deal sensibly with facts they're not qualified to understand, which for most people means a lot of facts.
Not that I can come up with a better solution than telling everyone... having to take a test before they tell you the truth probably wouldn't be productive:-)
Have a look in the amd64 forum on forums.gentoo.org. There's a thread about 32-bit vs 64-bit performance, if you search for it. To cut a long story short.... yeah, it's faster. It also has various other 32-bit vs 64-bit comparisons.
I've also played both, and would tend to disagree.
IMHO, Far Cry wins on one thing and one thing only; the fact that you can choose several different approaches means I'll probably play it more times.
Doom 3 wins on plot... it was much more believable than Far Cry. Sure, it got samey after a while, but unless you completed it all in one sitting, that wasn't a problem... Far Cry also starts to feel a bit repetitive towards the end.
Incidentally, I think that if you cheated to save in Far Cry you missed out... the tension that came from not having saved recently was a big part of the playing experience for me. (It got frustrating once or twice, but was well worth it in the end).
Don't forget the William Gates Building at Cambridge University in the UK.
Fortunately the effect there doesn't seem to have been disasterous, either... the top floor of the Gates building holds a large number of dual boot Windows/RedHat computers.
If you don't have any luck getting a single video playing on a multi-screen Xinerama display, you could use mplayer's crop function to play the relevant parts of the same video on each display, using separate instances of mplayer.
'man mplayer' has plenty of details, just search for 'crop'. The tricky part will be making all of them start at exactly the same time:-)
I'll certainly be downloading the native Doom 3... it should be a fair bit faster.
Similarly I'd buy any native Linux versions of games where available, for the performance boost and to get rid of the slight 'ugh' factor whenever Windows is mentioned...
When it comes down to it, I can't see giving money to Transgaming damaging the cause; if anything it helps dispel the myth that Linux users expect everything to be free...
Have to say I was impressed... I can now play Counterstrike without rebooting, which is very nice. Doom 3 works too. It's cheap, it works, haven't seen any reason to complain.
It actually makes me think of Linux as a viable platform for games... not a viable platform in five years' time, but a viable platform now.
Actually it was a pre-emptive strike against people who test a music site by typing in 'Britney Spears'. A narrow-minded approach to music ("I haven't heard of any of it, so it can't be good -- where is Band X?") annoys me.
It's not for everyone, but personally I've found a lot of music there that I like. It's a shame about the limit, but 20c/track is pretty good. I'll probably cancel my subscription in a few months, when it becomes too much effort to find something good... but they're adding new things all the time, so I imagine I'll be back after a while.
I don't think I'm cool because I listen to music nobody's heard of... but I do think I have lots of good music:-)
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True. Does that actually happen? It sounds like it'd be technically a lot harder to do than keylogging... and since few people use one-time passwords, there wouldn't be all that much point.
Of course. But the most damaging use of key loggers is collecting passwords. I don't particularly care if someone logs me hacking at some code, writing an email, or printing out work in one of my uni's computer labs. But if they get my password they can compromise my machine, and that I do care about.
How to avoid keyloggers
"Seeing more of something come true" generally means that whatever it supposedly "predicts" is unspecific, and you're actively trying to match it to real-world events. Which makes it utterly meaningless. Same principle as horoscopes, fortune telling, seances, etc, etc.
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I haven't used it much, but that isn't what matters... it's there when I need it for loading MS files. It's been a big help in making Linux usable for every-day use, particularly interaction with the real world.
It's definitely one of the big-hitters in the Linux world.
It's just an opinion until it tallies with observed results.
Well, strictly speaking it's a hypothesis, but the two aren't all that different in how seriously you should take them.
Hmm. But humour generally has to be at least plausible... there's some suspension of disbelief allowed, but not to that extent :-P
Seriously, though, I never pass up the opportunity for an early (or maybe first) post complaining about the article... who could?
Maths doesn't work like that. Writing something down as a formula doesn't automatically tell you something new or prove something.
It sounds like they're trying to describe how things can go wrong with a formula. That's nice, but it's just their opinion.
If there was indeed a way to install OS X on a PC, with a decent set of apps... no, I wouldn't switch. But I'd switch all my family's computers over in a heartbeat... I've had no luck persuading them of the virtues of linux, OS X might have a better chance.
(Why do I want my family to switch? Because I don't enjoy being the admin for a house full of Windows boxes!...)
That was my initial thought, too.
Then I thought, why the hell am I trying to see meaning in statistics quoted on the Slashdot front page? It would be more meaningful to flip a coin to decide which is more secure.
You'd have to actually RTFA and think about it for a while before coming to any kind of sensible conclusion. That said, past experience has me biased in favour of mozilla...
The UK Data Protection Act is, IMHO, one of the biggest victories for the people in UK law. It's a shame that there's no way to hold non-UK companies you deal with over the internet to the same standards.
It's also costly and annoying for businesses... but reasonably so, I think.
True. But generally 'won the lottery' refers to the big prize... you'd say 'won some money on the lottery' if you only won a small prize.
Well, you'd get a big clue if you read my... er... very outdated user info. I'm in the UK, so the lottery is 'the' lottery, with odds a little better than 1:14 million.
...than winning the lottery: well, you're about 250 times more likely to be involved in a car accident than to win the lottery. And about 10 times more likely to be murdered.
(That's over a whole year, assuming you buy a ticket every week).
Virtually everything is more likely than winning the lottery. Their poll just shows that people don't really understand probability... (hmm. You're also more likely to be hit by lightning than to win the lottery.)
I wouldn't argue with that (apart from, as pointed out above, criminal vs civil charges).
But, I would argue with the scale of the fines imposed. Copyright infringement is simply not a very damaging thing to do. The amount the industry loses is guaranteed to be less than the cover price of the media, because a) it may not have been bought anyway, and b) they get free advertising.
Sadly the honest answer to your rhetorical questions is "no, we haven't". Think what happens when someone reports that there's a one in fifty thousand chance an asteroid might hit the earth, or a hypothetical link between a drug and some nasty symptom. People panick.
People are, generally speaking, unable to deal sensibly with facts they're not qualified to understand, which for most people means a lot of facts.
Not that I can come up with a better solution than telling everyone... having to take a test before they tell you the truth probably wouldn't be productive :-)
Have a look in the amd64 forum on forums.gentoo.org. There's a thread about 32-bit vs 64-bit performance, if you search for it. To cut a long story short.... yeah, it's faster. It also has various other 32-bit vs 64-bit comparisons.
Same here. Gentoo, amd64... although I didn't bother to compile it, I just paid £15 and downloaded Cedega.
I've also played both, and would tend to disagree.
IMHO, Far Cry wins on one thing and one thing only; the fact that you can choose several different approaches means I'll probably play it more times.
Doom 3 wins on plot... it was much more believable than Far Cry. Sure, it got samey after a while, but unless you completed it all in one sitting, that wasn't a problem... Far Cry also starts to feel a bit repetitive towards the end.
Incidentally, I think that if you cheated to save in Far Cry you missed out... the tension that came from not having saved recently was a big part of the playing experience for me. (It got frustrating once or twice, but was well worth it in the end).
Basically, I think both are awesome :-)
Don't forget the William Gates Building at Cambridge University in the UK.
Fortunately the effect there doesn't seem to have been disasterous, either... the top floor of the Gates building holds a large number of dual boot Windows/RedHat computers.
If you don't have any luck getting a single video playing on a multi-screen Xinerama display, you could use mplayer's crop function to play the relevant parts of the same video on each display, using separate instances of mplayer.
'man mplayer' has plenty of details, just search for 'crop'. The tricky part will be making all of them start at exactly the same time :-)
I'll certainly be downloading the native Doom 3... it should be a fair bit faster.
Similarly I'd buy any native Linux versions of games where available, for the performance boost and to get rid of the slight 'ugh' factor whenever Windows is mentioned...
When it comes down to it, I can't see giving money to Transgaming damaging the cause; if anything it helps dispel the myth that Linux users expect everything to be free...
Hmm, I run it via Steam... doesn't that mean I auto-update whenever I play? Still works.
Actually, that may not be true -- I actually run Condition Zero, not normal CS.
Have to say I was impressed... I can now play Counterstrike without rebooting, which is very nice. Doom 3 works too. It's cheap, it works, haven't seen any reason to complain.
It actually makes me think of Linux as a viable platform for games... not a viable platform in five years' time, but a viable platform now.
Actually it was a pre-emptive strike against people who test a music site by typing in 'Britney Spears'. A narrow-minded approach to music ("I haven't heard of any of it, so it can't be good -- where is Band X?") annoys me.
It's not for everyone, but personally I've found a lot of music there that I like. It's a shame about the limit, but 20c/track is pretty good. I'll probably cancel my subscription in a few months, when it becomes too much effort to find something good... but they're adding new things all the time, so I imagine I'll be back after a while.
I don't think I'm cool because I listen to music nobody's heard of... but I do think I have lots of good music :-)