You then give one part of the key to each of your trusted friends or family members. The best part is that this technique doesn't require all X parts to be recombined to get the key back; you can specify how many parts are needed. For example, I split my key into 11 parts, but only 8 are required to recover my master password.
Your friends don't have to do anything except keep their part of the key tucked away in their email archive.
It includes an HTML 5 video player, and will play most Youtube videos (say 95%+) without even loading Flash. It will just request the same H.264 video that gets served to iPads etc and uses the native hardware decoder.
Means you can watch Youtube with about 1% CPU usage instead of your fans spinning up because Flash is doing it in software.
Anytime you really do need to use Flash, just click the placeholder to load the plugin.
Bloglines is apologising for performance problems, and you're going to Slashdot them on top of that? Guess that shows what people think of bloggers around here:)
"Fibronectin, which acts like a glue to attract and trap the bone marrow cells to create a landing pad or nest for the cancer cells."
Maybe they can sythesize something which is able to bond to Fibronectin? If they flooded the bloodstream with it, it could use up all the landing pads and effectively block the cancer from attaching anywhere.
Kinda like a Denial of Service on a molecular level...?
I've always thought it's a very fitting name for the town since it's where most of Australia's missle and rocket launches are done from. Whether it is just co-incidence or not I don't know, but it's quite appropriate.
Hmm it got auto-linked anyway... you'll have to copy the URL to your address bar and remove the space to use it.
ps. New drag-able tabs rock! I sometimes find myself idly dragging tabs wishing they would re-order (didn't want an extension just for that) and now it works nicely.
The deals - reported to be $400 million for the N.F.L. for five years
and
Since 1989, Electronic Arts has sold 43 million copies of Madden
Let's be generous and assume they sell 10 million copies a year for the next 5 years, ie 50 million all up. Now in that same time they are paying $400m for an exclusive licence, isn't that $8 per copy of the game? I understand that games in the US are about $50, so that's a fairly large chunk of the retail price.
Maybe there are other titles in the NFL collection, I don't know (I'm not from the US). But still, that is an obscene amount of money just to stop Take 2 from producing their own NFL games.
As an aussie, I'd love to see this happen, but lets hope its serious and not another "pretend" move to Linux to negotiate better prices with their existing vendors.
Normally "existing vendors" is Microsoft, but from the article it seems they're currently using a good non-MS mix of Novell, Lotus, SAP and Oracle on Solaris.
Or even better, open Paint, which is available on every install of Windows. Change the image dimensions to the res of the screen if it isn't already, then hit Ctrl+F (View Bitmap). This gives you a completely white screen.
For black, simply use the Fill tool and then fullscreen it again.
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This is what I did as part of my will, so that my family can recover my online life after I die. It would work the same for memory loss, coma etc.
Firstly, keep all of your logins, passwords and private details in a password manager with a master password (I use 1Password).
Second, encrypt your master password using this technique, which splits your secret into X parts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
You then give one part of the key to each of your trusted friends or family members. The best part is that this technique doesn't require all X parts to be recombined to get the key back; you can specify how many parts are needed. For example, I split my key into 11 parts, but only 8 are required to recover my master password.
Your friends don't have to do anything except keep their part of the key tucked away in their email archive.
There are plenty of implementations of this algorithm, I used this one: http://www.christophedavid.org/w/c/w.php/Calculators/ShamirSecretSharing
Yes some videos won't play unless they can load the ads (ie Flash required). These ones won't play on the iPad/iPhone either.
Safari users on OS X should get the ClickToPlugin extension - http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
It includes an HTML 5 video player, and will play most Youtube videos (say 95%+) without even loading Flash. It will just request the same H.264 video that gets served to iPads etc and uses the native hardware decoder.
Means you can watch Youtube with about 1% CPU usage instead of your fans spinning up because Flash is doing it in software.
Anytime you really do need to use Flash, just click the placeholder to load the plugin.
It's hardly "terrifying" when I have no idea what either of those unlabelled axes are supposed to represent.
Just showing something getting bigger over time is not really useful information.
Because people still using IE6 are really worried about their browser security...
I remember the story, I think it was just called "Bounce"? I don't know who wrote it but will look it up when I get home.
It wasn't perpetual motion, the substance this guy invented pulled heat from the surrounding air to convert to kinetic energy. Pretty funny story.
Bloglines is apologising for performance problems, and you're going to Slashdot them on top of that? Guess that shows what people think of bloggers around here :)
"Fibronectin, which acts like a glue to attract and trap the bone marrow cells to create a landing pad or nest for the cancer cells."
Maybe they can sythesize something which is able to bond to Fibronectin? If they flooded the bloodstream with it, it could use up all the landing pads and effectively block the cancer from attaching anywhere.
Kinda like a Denial of Service on a molecular level...?
That Woomera was named after an Aboriginal device to assist spear-throwing?
Wikipedia link
I've always thought it's a very fitting name for the town since it's where most of Australia's missle and rocket launches are done from. Whether it is just co-incidence or not I don't know, but it's quite appropriate.
Jeez if you're going to make it for the lazy at least have the courtesy to link it :)
are we more stupider than we used to was?
Hmm it got auto-linked anyway... you'll have to copy the URL to your address bar and remove the space to use it.
ps. New drag-able tabs rock! I sometimes find myself idly dragging tabs wishing they would re-order (didn't want an extension just for that) and now it works nicely.
I'd love to see the memory usage fixed too, but it looks like the fix in this beta for the XMLHttpRequest leak didn't actually work:
7 4
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2950
(not linked because Bugzilla blocks slashdot)
The final comment on that bug added today is "reopening. this isn't fixed."
Oops!
Still, the new beta looks slick, especially the error pages. Haven't decided if I like the look of the new Options dialog though...
From the NYT article:
The deals - reported to be $400 million for the N.F.L. for five years
and
Since 1989, Electronic Arts has sold 43 million copies of Madden
Let's be generous and assume they sell 10 million copies a year for the next 5 years, ie 50 million all up. Now in that same time they are paying $400m for an exclusive licence, isn't that $8 per copy of the game? I understand that games in the US are about $50, so that's a fairly large chunk of the retail price.
Maybe there are other titles in the NFL collection, I don't know (I'm not from the US). But still, that is an obscene amount of money just to stop Take 2 from producing their own NFL games.
Hehe no kidding, this article has an exact picture of that:
Sydney unveils terror attack plan
I think it's pretty sad really that the politicians believe that we're even on the bad guy's hit-list.
Pfft that's easy:
HLOCAL CWnd::GetHandle() const;
(sorry)
Heh, I highlighted "Smartsearch" in your comment and used the right click "search for this" to find the extension... how self-referential.
Anyway it came up with a bunch of unrelated results, the page you want is this: SmartSearch.
The latest version of DictionarySearch lets you define your own search engines too.
Btw the grandparent post was very handy, I've always mucked around with the bookmarked url etc for keyword searches, right clicking is so much easier!
Wikipedia article up already, good work Wiki editors
...the fedora is red
Actually, tinfoil is made of Aluminium these days :)
As an aussie, I'd love to see this happen, but lets hope its serious and not another "pretend" move to Linux to negotiate better prices with their existing vendors.
Normally "existing vendors" is Microsoft, but from the article it seems they're currently using a good non-MS mix of Novell, Lotus, SAP and Oracle on Solaris.
I'm interested... what did you pay for it?
A popular opinion when they threatened to release this was "they're just blackmailing Microsoft, but they've got nothing".
Looks like a different situation now that they've laid their cards on the table.
Good work guys.
Or even better, open Paint, which is available on every install of Windows. Change the image dimensions to the res of the screen if it isn't already, then hit Ctrl+F (View Bitmap). This gives you a completely white screen.
For black, simply use the Fill tool and then fullscreen it again.
cheers,
nick
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