I have read that playing chess (or similar games) can also help against Alzheimer's. Supposedly, this is due to requiring the brain to work in a particular manner. I'd guess coffee does not help for the same reason .:)
How long until, say, China (or, for that matter, the US or Britain) says 'any sites not using Newspeak are banned'. And everyone says 'OK, pay us and we'll do it.'
Sure, Yahoo needs to make sound business decisions, but there is a word for people who are willing to compromise ethics for money.
"Scum."
Money should take a back seat to human rights and freedoms.
Steganography is nothing new, I believe a program called Stego has been available for Mac for several years. The article is also a bit confusing - first they say it encrypts files, then they 'can be protected with a password.' Steganography is great for hiding encrypted stuff, but it only offers 'security through obscurity' alone.
Also, if the encryption uses something like a fixed, unencrypted header or a magic number or PGP style header, it ought to be pretty easy to detect even if it cannot be decrypted. And that, of course defeats the whole purpose of stego.
Have you ever heard of a place called THREE MILE ISLAND? or perhaps CHERNOBYL? Sure, nuclear accidents don't happen that often, but when they do the cost can be incredible. There are huge amounts of land (hundreds of thousands of acres, I believe) in Ukraine and Belarus that were contaminated in 1986 when Chernobyl blew.
Nuclear plants might be safe, if we eliminated all possibility of human error. But that cannot be done.
As for your claim that they are clean, that is simply ludicrous. We have tons upon tons of nuclear waste that we cannot easily deal with and could cause cancer if placed near people.
Yes, we do need to be an informed public. That does not mean we need to blatantly disregard the very real dangers of nuclear energy.
Tar-Palantir
The subject of this article says: see-zits-on-gerbils-from-alpha-proxima I expect what you ment is Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth (other than the Sun, obviously). I believe it is also known as Alpha Centauri C, as it is a third star in the Alpha Centauri system.
In my experience, sites which cause problems in my 2 browsers, OmniWeb and Opera, are usually those which I discover I do not wish to visit - glitzy, low-content sites with lots of Flash and JavaScript. Sites which focus more on providing useful content generally, though not always, work perfectly. The big problem causes seem to be use of Flash, plugins, JavaScript, and occasionally Java.
Tar-Palantir
Internet Explorer has a track record of insecurity. I finally got fed up and deleted it. Now, I use OmniWeb almost exclusively, retaining only an old copy of Netscape to handle to non-standard pages that standards-compliant OmniWeb chokes on. It works quite well for me. By the way, I do not work for OmniGroup.
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I have read that playing chess (or similar games) can also help against Alzheimer's. Supposedly, this is due to requiring the brain to work in a particular manner. :)
I'd guess coffee does not help for the same reason .
How long until, say, China (or, for that matter, the US or Britain) says 'any sites not using Newspeak are banned'. And everyone says 'OK, pay us and we'll do it.'
Sure, Yahoo needs to make sound business decisions, but there is a word for people who are willing to compromise ethics for money.
"Scum."
Money should take a back seat to human rights and freedoms.
Steganography is nothing new, I believe a program called Stego has been available for Mac for several years.
The article is also a bit confusing - first they say it encrypts files, then they 'can be protected with a password.'
Steganography is great for hiding encrypted stuff, but it only offers 'security through obscurity' alone. Also, if the encryption uses something like a fixed, unencrypted header or a magic number or PGP style header, it ought to be pretty easy to detect even if it cannot be decrypted. And that, of course defeats the whole purpose of stego.
Have you ever heard of a place called THREE MILE ISLAND? or perhaps CHERNOBYL? Sure, nuclear accidents don't happen that often, but when they do the cost can be incredible. There are huge amounts of land (hundreds of thousands of acres, I believe) in Ukraine and Belarus that were contaminated in 1986 when Chernobyl blew.
Nuclear plants might be safe, if we eliminated all possibility of human error. But that cannot be done.
As for your claim that they are clean, that is simply ludicrous. We have tons upon tons of nuclear waste that we cannot easily deal with and could cause cancer if placed near people.
Yes, we do need to be an informed public. That does not mean we need to blatantly disregard the very real dangers of nuclear energy.
Tar-Palantir
The subject of this article says:
see-zits-on-gerbils-from-alpha-proxima
I expect what you ment is Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth (other than the Sun, obviously). I believe it is also known as Alpha Centauri C, as it is a third star in the Alpha Centauri system.
In my experience, sites which cause problems in my 2 browsers, OmniWeb and Opera, are usually those which I discover I do not wish to visit - glitzy, low-content sites with lots of Flash and JavaScript. Sites which focus more on providing useful content generally, though not always, work perfectly. The big problem causes seem to be use of Flash, plugins, JavaScript, and occasionally Java. Tar-Palantir
Internet Explorer has a track record of insecurity. I finally got fed up and deleted it.
Now, I use OmniWeb almost exclusively, retaining only an old copy of Netscape to handle to non-standard pages that standards-compliant OmniWeb chokes on. It works quite well for me.
By the way, I do not work for OmniGroup.
This is the twentieth century... build an army of Lego howitzers. Low cost artillery for the masses!
Ever seen Rocket Man? ... It wasn't me!
Everything is too friendly, and not friendly enough. It's friendly enough any moron thinks they can use it, but stupid enough they can't.