It isn't irrelevant if you change your password during the attack to something the attacker has already tried. Lets say you change the password after the attacker has made it through half of the keyspace...there is a 50% chance that this new password will never be guessed (I dont know any brute force tools that recheck old passwords).
It is all pretty irrelevant though since I dont know many systems that let you keep making authentication attempts anywhere near 65 tries a minutes. I can maybe think of some internal things that allow a lot of attempts but they require you to be logged into the local machine first which throttles attempts and eventually locks up.
The middle click is a pain and I just rebind that key...Another interesting change is that the new style keyboards seem to have moved where the volume (or maybe brightness) keys are...now they interfere with expose's default bindings
what on earth is the point of moving the keys from where they are on every other mac?
I would guess that they already have a video editing setup.
If that is the case, their other systems should match. If they are doing FCP on a mac, it would be more convenient for everyone to use a mac just so everything can be identical.
Except for the fact that MS Word is more widely used than TeX...hell, most people who use TeX probably have word as well (Show me a university that doesn't provide a new copy to every single faculty)
3 years ago I know for sure that you could get a chevy aveo with roll down windows (probably still can) and I would guess that cars for less wealthy markets still have features like this.
Ultra paranoid people like them as well since you can open them under water...
If I create a free photoshop plugin that does OMG AWESOME PONIESzzz!!!!1 and most photoshop users do not have legit copies, can adobe send me a C&D letter since my free plugin encourages pircay?
It is relevent because it is doubtful that the parent pays it/would pay it if they lived in a state that required it. It is not particularly convoluted either...you state how much you purchased from out of state online sources and then you pay the tax on those items. Maybe the grandparent does in fact keep track of all of their online purchases and pay tax on them but the odds are that allowing the IRS to check his numbers might be a bad idea since he is as guilty of not paying everything he owes as the people he is crying about.
have you ever used a verizon razr and compared it to a at&t (then cingular) razr?
The verizon razr is a piece of crap. The phone is physically different (apparently it breaks more often and IMHO the slight keyboard layout change is awful). The motorola software is replaced with the shitty verizon interface that they put on all of their phones. The verizon camera is higher resolution (although it still sucks) but I wouldnt be surprised if bluetooth transfer was disabled so you had to pay to send yourself your pictures.
I dunno...apple MP3 players are the defacto standard because they are the best. With the removal of DRM from the itunes store, you are free to transcode and move shit elsewhere (and there was never any restriction on putting non-apple tracks on an ipod).
I also dislike itunes but there are a lot of suitable replacements. I have been syncing my ipod to winamp since I got my first one (4g color)...I don't even have itunes installed anymore. I've also used amarok on linux to interface with my ipod and it seemed to work fine.
I think the issue here is that there is no clear policy. I don't know what my school has for a policy but I bet it is written out somewhere that "The university will maintain access logs consisting of XX, YY, and ZZ persisting for ##days". I am sure my wireless company has the same thing. MIT is just doing what is reasonable but since they do not have a formal policy, people are worried that they might change their minds and take it further.
Yeah, I am not surprised. My school definitely keeps connection logs for more than 3 days (I know that they use them to confirm any DMCA accusations before asking the student nicely to stop..so its good that they don't trust the RIAA blindly). I don't think they keep anything more than connection data...no content (though I can't imagine trying to log all of the content that flows in and out of a major research university's lines).
Instead of the stupid car analogies, I would look at your wireless bill. I can get a detailed rundown on every number I called or that called me and a duration of the call. The phone company isn't tapping my phone and monitoring my calls, but they *are* keeping track of the connection data. This covers their ass as well as mine...just as it does for the university
Maybe this is a good reason that there shouldn't be such huge media conglomerates. It's hard to take the reporting of one entity seriously when it is so entangled with other arms of the company.
They have the right idea on it, they are firm promoters of nuclear power and are literally asking the government for a carbon tax on power generation. The clever little bit that they aren't saying out loud is that they are the largest nuclear generator (especially in IL) and have sold almost all of their coal-burning assets to third-party generating companies...they are sitting on a pile of clean power and begging for the dirty power to be taxed harder
I'm not sure I understand a full scale FBI raid for determining who actually leaked the copy...
this is a civil contract issue right? Guy working at effects shop or whatever has contractual obligation not to steal shit from work (and probably signed an NDA with the wolverine job). Guy then breaks contract by taking a copy of the movie and then either uploads it or is careless with it and it gets uploaded.
Sure, there is some punishment in order but the guy who leaked a work print probably isnt responsible for the "billions of dollars" that the industry will say the leak cost them...he is at most responsible for one act of infringement when he uploaded it plus breaking a contractual obligation not to do so (and any punishment that shows up as too serious in a contract will just get invalidated).
I don't think transmission/conversion losses to the storage system are the problem here. Even if you store the power at sea, you will have to transmit it back when you need it. The turbines will be producing high voltage power and transmission losses at that point are pretty low (same with conversion losses).
The issue is more with the flywheels or other storage systems...they don't exist. The stuff made by Beacon Power is still pretty low energy density. Their main product seems to be a 25kWh flywheel which a 3MW turbine (like a Vestas V90) could fill to capacity in minutes. Take a look at their frequency regulation plant. It's a pretty cool concept but it requires a pretty big plot of land compared to the total power it stores up (also...people are scared of flysheels, something about 90MJ of power escaping and rolling around the countryside).
I'm optimistic about it, but the storage is not there yet (but the wind power is)
AT&T provides voice service over their GSM network, they do not provide VOIP over their 3g network. I am used to seeing half second pauses when loading pages (ok, I use verizon...*multi*second pauses) over 3G and at this point it doesn't bother me too much since I am still astounded that I am getting quick internet in my pocket (although when I was testing an AT&T blackberry, the network was much more responsive).
Being familiar with my web browsing speeds, I would probably recognize that my skype calls are going to break up and choose to use the real phone instead. AT&T has no obligation to treat bits differently (I would prefer they are all the same thank you very much)and I feel like with their current 3g performance, treating all bits the same is the best way to prevent people from using skype.
The tethering thing is still bull shit. I understand that they are trying to tier prices based on use since laptop users probably use more bandwidth than a guy with a number-key only phone but they are doing it wrong. A better option would be to allow anyone to tether...and charge them for it (though people here would probably get mad). Offer capped plans with tethering enabled and feel free to charge people for overuse...offer a truly unlimited plan priced above that (the people who just want to play around can use a capped acount and just not go over...the serious users should be able to pay for unlimited)
Also, even if there is enough wind out there to meet our energy needs in the most technical sense (something like the same kWhs in wind per year as the US uses in a year), it doesn't account for daytime peak and seasonal usage changes.
We need a mix of power plant types in order to function. Nuclear and coal take a long time to come online (if you try to cold start one to meet short term demand, that demand will be gone before the plant is at full power). Wind and hydro are not particularily controllable--hydro can be smoothed over time but ultimately you can't make more power than flows into the resovoir over a long period of time. Things like natural gas and pumped hydro give you the fast control you need to meet fluctuations and peak load...a gas turbine can go from cold to full power in seconds and pumped hydro can be stopped/started/modulted as fast as you can open a valve. They don't make sense for meeting stable base load though because natural gas is expensive and can be inefficient and pumped hydro requires input power to fill the resovoir (and there are very few "great" locations to install pumped hydro plants).
The only way wind could power everything is if we had enough energy storage capacity to provide for the country when the wind isn't blowing (many sites die down at night) and to suck up excess when the wind is blowing hard and nobody is using power.
It has always looked to me like hulu inserts one 30-second commercial in whenever there is a natural commercial break (where a network station would fit several commercials to make up the 8 minute total in every hour-long show).
The fact that there are more and more commercials near the end is something you notice because hulu tells you when the commercials are ahead of time. Networks always do this with shows since they want to hook you on the show before switching to a commercial which might send you to another network. By the end of the show, you are invested in that network's content and you won't jump ship despite the increased commercial frequency since you want to know what happens
It is actually kind of nice to have them there. When you torrent your TV, you get a lot of awkward transitions where there should have been a commercial. The most common one is a dramatic moment that is set up before commercial and resolved immediately afterwards from the same set of camera angles (often they even repeat the last line of dialog after the commercial). With hulu you don't have this since they insert a 30 second pause...
And to all of you commercial haters: I don't see you stepping up to the plate to provide other funding. Commercials pay for the show and *maybe* itunes-style purchases of episodes help. Don't tell me "I'll buy the season on DVD when its done"...that will not pay for shows to be made, only provide additional revenue and increase the chance that the show continues. No sane company is going to produce a whole season of a show with no revenue and then hope that people like it and they can sell DVDs--the advertisers are what keeps the whole thing afloat.
I've done this before and had it work...(although with legitimate problems since technically if the dots are in the print then the theater is doing its duty by showing you exactly what is on the print)
But then I tried it at the downtown chicago AMC after a movie that I thought had a few obnoxious issues. They flat out said that nobody else had complained so they were not going to do anything about it. I pressed them and got some free popcorn/drink coupons...I don't see why I should be punished for the fact that other people are either blind or complacent with an inferior product and unwilling to hold the theater accountable to some reasonable standards.
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It is all pretty irrelevant though since I dont know many systems that let you keep making authentication attempts anywhere near 65 tries a minutes. I can maybe think of some internal things that allow a lot of attempts but they require you to be logged into the local machine first which throttles attempts and eventually locks up.
what on earth is the point of moving the keys from where they are on every other mac?
If that is the case, their other systems should match. If they are doing FCP on a mac, it would be more convenient for everyone to use a mac just so everything can be identical.
Except for the fact that MS Word is more widely used than TeX...hell, most people who use TeX probably have word as well (Show me a university that doesn't provide a new copy to every single faculty)
Ultra paranoid people like them as well since you can open them under water...
If I create a free photoshop plugin that does OMG AWESOME PONIESzzz!!!!1 and most photoshop users do not have legit copies, can adobe send me a C&D letter since my free plugin encourages pircay?
Many states require it. Nobody pays it.
It is relevent because it is doubtful that the parent pays it/would pay it if they lived in a state that required it. It is not particularly convoluted either...you state how much you purchased from out of state online sources and then you pay the tax on those items. Maybe the grandparent does in fact keep track of all of their online purchases and pay tax on them but the odds are that allowing the IRS to check his numbers might be a bad idea since he is as guilty of not paying everything he owes as the people he is crying about.
you pay taxes an all of your online purchases (assuming your state asks for it)?
The verizon razr is a piece of crap. The phone is physically different (apparently it breaks more often and IMHO the slight keyboard layout change is awful). The motorola software is replaced with the shitty verizon interface that they put on all of their phones. The verizon camera is higher resolution (although it still sucks) but I wouldnt be surprised if bluetooth transfer was disabled so you had to pay to send yourself your pictures.
I also dislike itunes but there are a lot of suitable replacements. I have been syncing my ipod to winamp since I got my first one (4g color)...I don't even have itunes installed anymore. I've also used amarok on linux to interface with my ipod and it seemed to work fine.
I think the issue here is that there is no clear policy. I don't know what my school has for a policy but I bet it is written out somewhere that "The university will maintain access logs consisting of XX, YY, and ZZ persisting for ##days". I am sure my wireless company has the same thing. MIT is just doing what is reasonable but since they do not have a formal policy, people are worried that they might change their minds and take it further.
Instead of the stupid car analogies, I would look at your wireless bill. I can get a detailed rundown on every number I called or that called me and a duration of the call. The phone company isn't tapping my phone and monitoring my calls, but they *are* keeping track of the connection data. This covers their ass as well as mine...just as it does for the university
Considering the level of (private) security at nuclear power plants, I would say that any nuclear ship could fight off the somali pirates
I was at a nuclear facility a few weeks ago...they run a pretty tight ship
Maybe this is a good reason that there shouldn't be such huge media conglomerates. It's hard to take the reporting of one entity seriously when it is so entangled with other arms of the company.
They have the right idea on it, they are firm promoters of nuclear power and are literally asking the government for a carbon tax on power generation. The clever little bit that they aren't saying out loud is that they are the largest nuclear generator (especially in IL) and have sold almost all of their coal-burning assets to third-party generating companies...they are sitting on a pile of clean power and begging for the dirty power to be taxed harder
Of course if it was a guy taking it home to work on or show his family and it got leaked (or they don't have any evidence to the contrary)...
Either way, how many 3-year max sentence criminal offenses warrant full scale FBI raids that costs numerous other businesses REAL money.
this is a civil contract issue right? Guy working at effects shop or whatever has contractual obligation not to steal shit from work (and probably signed an NDA with the wolverine job). Guy then breaks contract by taking a copy of the movie and then either uploads it or is careless with it and it gets uploaded.
Sure, there is some punishment in order but the guy who leaked a work print probably isnt responsible for the "billions of dollars" that the industry will say the leak cost them...he is at most responsible for one act of infringement when he uploaded it plus breaking a contractual obligation not to do so (and any punishment that shows up as too serious in a contract will just get invalidated).
The issue is more with the flywheels or other storage systems...they don't exist. The stuff made by Beacon Power is still pretty low energy density. Their main product seems to be a 25kWh flywheel which a 3MW turbine (like a Vestas V90) could fill to capacity in minutes. Take a look at their frequency regulation plant. It's a pretty cool concept but it requires a pretty big plot of land compared to the total power it stores up (also...people are scared of flysheels, something about 90MJ of power escaping and rolling around the countryside).
I'm optimistic about it, but the storage is not there yet (but the wind power is)
AT&T provides voice service over their GSM network, they do not provide VOIP over their 3g network. I am used to seeing half second pauses when loading pages (ok, I use verizon...*multi*second pauses) over 3G and at this point it doesn't bother me too much since I am still astounded that I am getting quick internet in my pocket (although when I was testing an AT&T blackberry, the network was much more responsive).
Being familiar with my web browsing speeds, I would probably recognize that my skype calls are going to break up and choose to use the real phone instead. AT&T has no obligation to treat bits differently (I would prefer they are all the same thank you very much)and I feel like with their current 3g performance, treating all bits the same is the best way to prevent people from using skype.
The tethering thing is still bull shit. I understand that they are trying to tier prices based on use since laptop users probably use more bandwidth than a guy with a number-key only phone but they are doing it wrong. A better option would be to allow anyone to tether...and charge them for it (though people here would probably get mad). Offer capped plans with tethering enabled and feel free to charge people for overuse...offer a truly unlimited plan priced above that (the people who just want to play around can use a capped acount and just not go over...the serious users should be able to pay for unlimited)
Also, even if there is enough wind out there to meet our energy needs in the most technical sense (something like the same kWhs in wind per year as the US uses in a year), it doesn't account for daytime peak and seasonal usage changes.
We need a mix of power plant types in order to function. Nuclear and coal take a long time to come online (if you try to cold start one to meet short term demand, that demand will be gone before the plant is at full power). Wind and hydro are not particularily controllable--hydro can be smoothed over time but ultimately you can't make more power than flows into the resovoir over a long period of time. Things like natural gas and pumped hydro give you the fast control you need to meet fluctuations and peak load...a gas turbine can go from cold to full power in seconds and pumped hydro can be stopped/started/modulted as fast as you can open a valve. They don't make sense for meeting stable base load though because natural gas is expensive and can be inefficient and pumped hydro requires input power to fill the resovoir (and there are very few "great" locations to install pumped hydro plants).
The only way wind could power everything is if we had enough energy storage capacity to provide for the country when the wind isn't blowing (many sites die down at night) and to suck up excess when the wind is blowing hard and nobody is using power.
Yes, but if everyone switches away from TV, advertisers will recognize this and start competing for the Hulu ad space...thus driving the price up
anyone else read "Change4Life" and immediately want to play Left4Dead?
It has always looked to me like hulu inserts one 30-second commercial in whenever there is a natural commercial break (where a network station would fit several commercials to make up the 8 minute total in every hour-long show).
The fact that there are more and more commercials near the end is something you notice because hulu tells you when the commercials are ahead of time. Networks always do this with shows since they want to hook you on the show before switching to a commercial which might send you to another network. By the end of the show, you are invested in that network's content and you won't jump ship despite the increased commercial frequency since you want to know what happens
It is actually kind of nice to have them there. When you torrent your TV, you get a lot of awkward transitions where there should have been a commercial. The most common one is a dramatic moment that is set up before commercial and resolved immediately afterwards from the same set of camera angles (often they even repeat the last line of dialog after the commercial). With hulu you don't have this since they insert a 30 second pause...
And to all of you commercial haters: I don't see you stepping up to the plate to provide other funding. Commercials pay for the show and *maybe* itunes-style purchases of episodes help. Don't tell me "I'll buy the season on DVD when its done"...that will not pay for shows to be made, only provide additional revenue and increase the chance that the show continues. No sane company is going to produce a whole season of a show with no revenue and then hope that people like it and they can sell DVDs--the advertisers are what keeps the whole thing afloat.
But then I tried it at the downtown chicago AMC after a movie that I thought had a few obnoxious issues. They flat out said that nobody else had complained so they were not going to do anything about it. I pressed them and got some free popcorn/drink coupons...I don't see why I should be punished for the fact that other people are either blind or complacent with an inferior product and unwilling to hold the theater accountable to some reasonable standards.