I certainly know that there are responsible individuals who profit from instant credit...however, the vast majority of americans have screwed the pooch raw...to the point that we have a *negative* savings rate
I am such a person. I would like to buy a house soon and not have unreasonable interest payments. Just because some other dipshit can't use credit resoponsibly doesn't mean I should be denied it.
I've worked hard to keep a good credit rating, and I would like to be rewarded as such.
Not everything has to be a F/OSS debate, does it? He never said it was FOSS, he said they were giving it away for free, which is different, and oddly enough a supported usage of the word.
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
OK. Go for it This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, however. Troll elsewhere.
Not that this should stop you. Those handy firmwares also let you bump down (or up!) your broadcast strength. I recomend bumping it down to as low as you can while still getting the distance you require. I run my WRT54g at a comfy 12.5% of the possible output.
Since his current output of 100% is insufficient, that won't work so hot. But that does bring up a good point - put the new firmware on his neighbors' unsecured routers and put them at 10%;)
There are other ways for a lender or landlord to learn whether a person is a risk. Most people have a reputation in their community that one need only ask to learn. Most credible people can provide credible references. The current addiction to putting everyone's number in a New Jersey database does more harm than good, especially when folks like Cummings come along.
Like hell. First, that would be as useful as the references on a job application - no one pays attention to those, because if you can't get 3 friends to lie for you, you must be a real psychopath, let alone a credit risk. Second, those recommendations are only any good when considering the character of the referrees, so this quickly becomes a boundless recursive problem.
Also, where are these little communities anymore where everyone knows each other? Do you live in Mayberry? I know like 5 people in my entire building.
Overall, this process of trying to holistically determine credit worthiness without a centralized system would be slow as hell and obscenely expensive, if for no other reason than it would be so ineffective that banks would have to charge higher rates to account for their inability to determine credit worthiness. I don't like credit fraud either, but let's not toss the baby with the bathwater here.
And if nothing else, what if you move? Do you just get charged the highest possible rate in your new town because the community doesn't know you?
I agree...would be GREAT if they'd port MythTV to the ppc....OSX or Linux...doesn't matter to me....
In this case, that alone won't solve the problem (I checked it out too) because there's no capture card in this little guy and nowhere to put one. At the point where you have to get an external box, you might as well get an integrated solution. Check out Eye TV, they make a series of boxes that are small and reasonably attractive, and come with software for scheduling the thing. Evidently they use the free TitanTV service to get programming, so there's no fees.
I also want a radio on my mp3 player, and I *did* specifically choose a different mp3 player because it had an FM Tuner.
Apple, I'm sure, is mourning the loss of you, your poor taste, and your $100.
Not everyone thinks radio sucks either, and I could really care less what you think of me for listening and *gasp* enjoying "mindless crap".
Similarly, not everyone is right-handed, yet you won't see left-handed tools. Sucks to be a consumer minority, eh? For what it's worth, it's not your taste, it's the format: radio has little choice or diversity, and is quickly becoming a dying entity.
I want a radio in my MP3 player because that is what I want. Why do you not want a radio in your MP3 player?
Because radio freaking sucks. AM is all talking morons, and FM is all mindless Clear Channel crap (and a few talking morons). And most people seem to agree, because no one's bought a portable radio *only* since, like, the 70's. Of all the features this didn't have, you're the only one to mention radio. Everyone else is either A) bitching about the thing not having a feature it actually does have, or B) bitching about it not having a screen. So no radio for you - the market has spoken.
I'm glad Apple didn't succumb to feature creep and include a feature that would have cost us all an extra, say, $10 and have pleased only you and like 3 other people.
C'mon, you didn't think Uncle Steve would take care of you? I might have to turn this into a friggin DVR - it's the perfect size, price, and the disc is front-loading so it'll go well in a component rack. This thing is the closest to the ideal home entertainment center I've seen yet.
This morning, I thought about driving on the wrong side of the road because it's faster - people get out of your way when they fear a head-on collision.
I was also very unamused to discover my Ford Contour somewhat underperforms relative to the Infernus.
What we've seen where I work, with our antivirus/antispyware product is that if we miss something that AdAware of Spybot finds, then poeple say we are ineffective, and if we find something that they miss, people say we are generating false positives in order to frighten people into buying. (And then, when the thing we found that Spybot or AdAware missed actually causes problems, they say we put it there and start saying we pushing spyware).
So I'm looking for a job, does Gator give you good benefits?;)
You missed his point. It's not important to guess the scheme -- a brute force cracking program will include all variations of "adjacent keys" schemes and dozens of other common schemes as well and still only need to try a tiny fraction of a percent of theoretical 2^56 search space before finding your password.
No, I got it - part of the cracking is that youd have to know, somehow, that it is an adjacent key scheme. It wouldn't be obvious that it is. Also, it wouldn't be hard to modify so it's not an adjacent key method.
It's equivalent using a 10-digit combination lock but then choosing combinations that only ever differ in the initial digit.
To an extent, yes - but again, how would a cracker know?
Those authors who want to go along with the concept of open access will be able to provide full text access to their writings.
Not if it's been previously published and they handed over the copyright, which is the case with academic journals, ACS specifically. You do NOT have the right of reproduction, even as an author.
Maybe you can help them move from a subscription to an open model, or some hybrid of the two, that would help them to feel that a lawsuit is not in their best interests. Just a thought.
Yeah, I don't see those issues being related. Not my cause.
1. The ACS is going to lose big time in terms of paid subscriptions
No way. I'm a chemist, a member of ACS, I've used scifinder scholar, and I've used google scholar. They're not the same thing, they shouldn't be confused, and furthermore google scholar doesn't provide fulltext access to ACS journals. So there is no effect upon subscriptions. Nor is there any real competition - the products don't even really serve the same purpose. If anyone should be scared of google scholar, it's ISI, makers of Web of Science/Knowldedge, the worst search of all time.
The ACS is just being childish, and as a member, I'm embarassed.
I'm still not being clear I guess. I'm not talking about it using my personal history, or you seeing my personal history. But if it suggests queries based on others' queries, then I am learning about what others are asking... and they are learning about what I ask. That seems to be a privacy issue, to me.
1. It's non-identifiable No one can find out what you searched for, so privacy is irrelevant. 2. Google never guaranteed ultrasecrecy in its terms of service. 3. If it's still throwing off your tinfoil hat, don't use google, but I wound't use any search engine, as they all make use of past searches to make later ones better.
I'll probably never use it, but I respect the HURD crew for continuing to stay committed to their project, despite HURD being so far behind other kernels.
Kind of like reinventing the wheel, only you just finally made one of stone while everyone else is driving cars. And people are offering you free cars. Don't know what the point is, other than their ideology. But then, for GNU, ideology is the end and the means.
...you'd have to crack the scheme. Harder. A wavy line isn't an obvious thing, especially if you dress it up as, say, art from your kid tacked up in your cube. Draw an appropriate wavy line, then let your kid go nuts with the crayons and such.
I don't see how you're supposed to navigate through 1 GB of music/etc. with no screen.
If the interface was fantastic (but this is Apple), then audio feedback could work, especially in conjunction with a small "eraser" pointer on the device and spatial menus. Simple menus (four choices) could be accessed directly by pressing the pointer in a direction, hearing feedback of the choice you picked, and pressing the pointer to confirm. In a longer list (like your album database) the pointer would act like a scroll, with how hard you push it scrolling faster or slower. Good "clicky" audio feedback on the scroll would give you an idea where you are in your database, and when you slow down enough, it would tell you what album you're on (voice synth from ID3 tags).
It wouldn't be as good as a screen, but it could work.
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I am such a person. I would like to buy a house soon and not have unreasonable interest payments. Just because some other dipshit can't use credit resoponsibly doesn't mean I should be denied it.
I've worked hard to keep a good credit rating, and I would like to be rewarded as such.
It's not the number of bugs, it's the fact that a buffer overflow in IE gives a root exploit. Yay!
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
OK. Go for it This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, however. Troll elsewhere.
Since his current output of 100% is insufficient, that won't work so hot. But that does bring up a good point - put the new firmware on his neighbors' unsecured routers and put them at 10% ;)
Like hell. First, that would be as useful as the references on a job application - no one pays attention to those, because if you can't get 3 friends to lie for you, you must be a real psychopath, let alone a credit risk. Second, those recommendations are only any good when considering the character of the referrees, so this quickly becomes a boundless recursive problem.
Also, where are these little communities anymore where everyone knows each other? Do you live in Mayberry? I know like 5 people in my entire building.
Overall, this process of trying to holistically determine credit worthiness without a centralized system would be slow as hell and obscenely expensive, if for no other reason than it would be so ineffective that banks would have to charge higher rates to account for their inability to determine credit worthiness. I don't like credit fraud either, but let's not toss the baby with the bathwater here.
And if nothing else, what if you move? Do you just get charged the highest possible rate in your new town because the community doesn't know you?
In this case, that alone won't solve the problem (I checked it out too) because there's no capture card in this little guy and nowhere to put one. At the point where you have to get an external box, you might as well get an integrated solution. Check out Eye TV, they make a series of boxes that are small and reasonably attractive, and come with software for scheduling the thing. Evidently they use the free TitanTV service to get programming, so there's no fees.
If it could work with DirecTV, I'd get one.
Apple, I'm sure, is mourning the loss of you, your poor taste, and your $100.
Not everyone thinks radio sucks either, and I could really care less what you think of me for listening and *gasp* enjoying "mindless crap".
Similarly, not everyone is right-handed, yet you won't see left-handed tools. Sucks to be a consumer minority, eh? For what it's worth, it's not your taste, it's the format: radio has little choice or diversity, and is quickly becoming a dying entity.
He lives in an apartment, RTFQ.
It still runs a shitty OS.
Because radio freaking sucks. AM is all talking morons, and FM is all mindless Clear Channel crap (and a few talking morons). And most people seem to agree, because no one's bought a portable radio *only* since, like, the 70's. Of all the features this didn't have, you're the only one to mention radio. Everyone else is either A) bitching about the thing not having a feature it actually does have, or B) bitching about it not having a screen. So no radio for you - the market has spoken.
I'm glad Apple didn't succumb to feature creep and include a feature that would have cost us all an extra, say, $10 and have pleased only you and like 3 other people.
Done on both counts.
C'mon, you didn't think Uncle Steve would take care of you? I might have to turn this into a friggin DVR - it's the perfect size, price, and the disc is front-loading so it'll go well in a component rack. This thing is the closest to the ideal home entertainment center I've seen yet.
I was also very unamused to discover my Ford Contour somewhat underperforms relative to the Infernus.
So I'm looking for a job, does Gator give you good benefits? ;)
That's like asking him to stop breathing.
So, what, he shouldn't have mentioned it unless he can solve the problem for the entire freaking world?
nor is it actually P2P
Actually, it is the most P2P method of sharing imaginable. It's Person 2 Person without the computers in the way.
No, I got it - part of the cracking is that youd have to know, somehow, that it is an adjacent key scheme. It wouldn't be obvious that it is. Also, it wouldn't be hard to modify so it's not an adjacent key method.
It's equivalent using a 10-digit combination lock but then choosing combinations that only ever differ in the initial digit.
To an extent, yes - but again, how would a cracker know?
Not if it's been previously published and they handed over the copyright, which is the case with academic journals, ACS specifically. You do NOT have the right of reproduction, even as an author.
Maybe you can help them move from a subscription to an open model, or some hybrid of the two, that would help them to feel that a lawsuit is not in their best interests. Just a thought.
Yeah, I don't see those issues being related. Not my cause.
No way. I'm a chemist, a member of ACS, I've used scifinder scholar, and I've used google scholar. They're not the same thing, they shouldn't be confused, and furthermore google scholar doesn't provide fulltext access to ACS journals. So there is no effect upon subscriptions. Nor is there any real competition - the products don't even really serve the same purpose. If anyone should be scared of google scholar, it's ISI, makers of Web of Science/Knowldedge, the worst search of all time.
The ACS is just being childish, and as a member, I'm embarassed.
1. It's non-identifiable No one can find out what you searched for, so privacy is irrelevant. 2. Google never guaranteed ultrasecrecy in its terms of service. 3. If it's still throwing off your tinfoil hat, don't use google, but I wound't use any search engine, as they all make use of past searches to make later ones better.
Kind of like reinventing the wheel, only you just finally made one of stone while everyone else is driving cars. And people are offering you free cars. Don't know what the point is, other than their ideology. But then, for GNU, ideology is the end and the means.
...you'd have to crack the scheme. Harder. A wavy line isn't an obvious thing, especially if you dress it up as, say, art from your kid tacked up in your cube. Draw an appropriate wavy line, then let your kid go nuts with the crayons and such.
Typing gobbledygook to beat the filter isn't hard. It does suggest that the filter is pointless, but I can't see caring that much. Have a beer.
Just as soon as there's some other site half as useful as this one, I'm switching :P
0/2=0. That ties slashdot with a 404 error.
If the interface was fantastic (but this is Apple), then audio feedback could work, especially in conjunction with a small "eraser" pointer on the device and spatial menus. Simple menus (four choices) could be accessed directly by pressing the pointer in a direction, hearing feedback of the choice you picked, and pressing the pointer to confirm. In a longer list (like your album database) the pointer would act like a scroll, with how hard you push it scrolling faster or slower. Good "clicky" audio feedback on the scroll would give you an idea where you are in your database, and when you slow down enough, it would tell you what album you're on (voice synth from ID3 tags).
It wouldn't be as good as a screen, but it could work.
...did you see Elvis?
That's so you CAN'T FUCKING SCREAM!!!!!!