I am crypto-tech naive. What's the problem with using one-time pads and having every "relationship" share a pad? (ie: When I open an account with my bank they give me a key-fob with my one time pad on it. When I log into the bank website it uses the pad to authenticate me.) Of course, setting up a relationship will be a bit more expensive...
So how would that work? Why should I spend months or years researching and writing a book, if there's absolutely nothing to stop people from freely distributing it once its out there? Sure, some people are still going to writem but it'll be fewer, and I fail to see how our culture would benefit from that. (Of course, society would be better off without greedy corporations trying to destroy fair use rights and extending copyright ad infinitum, but completely taking away any creator's rights is not the answer, either. Absolutely agree. Content is king. Why should people spend their own time and money to create content and not be compensated adequately for it. If I know I'm not going to make more than a couple thousand dollars for that novel I've been working on for the last 5 years, I might as well let it just die and use my time more efficiently.
I clicked on it (I'm using firefox3 nightly on WinXP and was curious:-) ). It did start to do some crazy stuff on the system. I unplugged it. So far on reboot everything appears fine.
Unless you count being stupid as a fault, which picking that domain is a little unwise. Well, he could always give it up. I think it's a pretty cool domain name, but would not bother with it, given the amount of extraneous traffic associated with it.
I did here that there would be two versions of KDE shipping, but I don't see how they can charge for Kubuntu while keeping Ubuntu free, since they basically run the same software and can use the same repositories.
It you are planning on installing it on a work laptop, my only advise (I have not tried this at all) is to make sure there is a documented uninstall process.
What ever you do, don't use hot water. It may destroy the DNA evidence (unlikely), but it will set the stain, making it nearly impossible to get out before the police arrive.
Disabling a device during a patch is definitely uncool. As for installing part of an update, it doesn't sound like a particularly safe thing to do. Then again, for all I know SP1 could be a set of totally unrelated patches that can be installed or uninstalled peicemeal.
Actually, if you already plunked down $ for MSOffice and only use one OS, there is not much reason to get Openoffice.org. If you are thinking about buying a new Mac or try the plunge into Ubuntu or another Linux OS, openoffice.org is a pretty good option.
The reason is to keep your options open in the future. You are not limited to what features MSFT wants to put in the next version of office (for instance, less macro support in the next version of MSOffice for Mac OSX, if you want to get an Apple Mac in the future).
This is the same reason to use.doc instead of.docx when creating files in MSOffice now, by the way.
I'm not sure if it's changed recently (last time I was there was a month ago), but the website just points to bug reports when mentioning new features or fixes.
It would be nice to give a synopsis page of things that the end-user would notice. Or at least point to some good reviews written on other websites if they don't want to waste the time doing it themselves.
(I am not a kernel/gcc developed) This is what it mean in a practical sense:
All the userland applications that come precompiled on websites for various distributions (including (binary only).rpm,.deb, and.tar.gz files) will not work with the newer versions of the distributions (once they take up this gcc/kernel patch). This means a cleaning house of a lot of binaries created in the last couple years.
Speaking as a cardiologist, if I get a person with a defibrillator with multiple runs of shocks for ventricular tachycardia, I would sure like to make adjustments on the device to be more efficient.(for instance, more aggressive anti-tachycardia pacing or higher output first shock, etc.) While I could call up the company to get the password on a weekend or night, I'm not sure how they would authenticate my identity.
Pacemakers have a limited battery life. Changing the battery requires surgery. (They are working on recharging, but the technology isn't there yet.) Wireless communication requires orders of magnitude less energy for the device than wireless.
Recent models of pacemakers and defibrillators from the major companies (Guidant, Medtronic, etc.) allow remote telemetry from home: You have a device sitting on a table next to the patient's bed which will check the device every night (or one night a week, etc.) and report back to the physician any abnormalities. Some also allow wireless programability, but not from home: The nurse waves the wand over the device, then the patient goes in another room and gets seen by the physician while the settings on the device are changed. The range is less than 50 feet, based on personal experience. Now, this can theoretically be done from home (if someone has the right device), and you can make changes without any passwords.
Before you ask, you should *not* start passwords-protecting these devices, as you may have a patient traveling and rendered unconscious and need to make setting changes and not have time (or ability) to call the manufacturer.
What wikipedia should do is try to hit up the private sector for some rich sponsors looking to make donations to a tax-free charity.
Maybe a single link on the front page to link to the top 1000 donations of all time and top 1000 donations in the last 12 months will be a nice compromise.
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1. Neil Gaiman's Sandman (A somewhat difficult read, with stories intertwined and nested within each other. When you finish, you get a satisfied feeling. If you like it, you will love his books staring Death of the Endless.) 2. Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic (Think of it as a Harry Potter short story for adults, but it came out before Harry Potter) 3. Mike Carey's Lucifer (Slightly less intense than Sandman, and an easier read, but certainly literature.)
Agree. The worry is that someone rights something down and it therefore becomes a fact (even if there are no references). Should the article on HIV include, for instance, that my brother cured an individual with HIV with a healing touch and 6 hours of porn?
For example:
[...] a problem that we have today, and that is the fact that every PC should have a decent graphics card. Why would a computer meant for browsing the Internet and reading email need a separate graphics card? Don't forget that the dedicated graphics card (or even high end graphics on the motherboard) will add more power consumption (heat) than most users will need 99% of the time.
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It's news because now a billion of your closest friends will be using it as well.
I am crypto-tech naive. What's the problem with using one-time pads and having every "relationship" share a pad? (ie: When I open an account with my bank they give me a key-fob with my one time pad on it. When I log into the bank website it uses the pad to authenticate me.) Of course, setting up a relationship will be a bit more expensive...
I would certainly hope that any Whitehouse hard drive that is decommissioned is utterly destroyed.
The real question is why secure backups of email aren't part of the IT infrastructure.
I clicked on it (I'm using firefox3 nightly on WinXP and was curious :-) ). It did start to do some crazy stuff on the system. I unplugged it. So far on reboot everything appears fine.
Any link for that?
I did here that there would be two versions of KDE shipping, but I don't see how they can charge for Kubuntu while keeping Ubuntu free, since they basically run the same software and can use the same repositories.
It you are planning on installing it on a work laptop, my only advise (I have not tried this at all) is to make sure there is a documented uninstall process.
What ever you do, don't use hot water. It may destroy the DNA evidence (unlikely), but it will set the stain, making it nearly impossible to get out before the police arrive.
Disabling a device during a patch is definitely uncool. As for installing part of an update, it doesn't sound like a particularly safe thing to do. Then again, for all I know SP1 could be a set of totally unrelated patches that can be installed or uninstalled peicemeal.
Actually, if you already plunked down $ for MSOffice and only use one OS, there is not much reason to get Openoffice.org. If you are thinking about buying a new Mac or try the plunge into Ubuntu or another Linux OS, openoffice.org is a pretty good option. The reason is to keep your options open in the future. You are not limited to what features MSFT wants to put in the next version of office (for instance, less macro support in the next version of MSOffice for Mac OSX, if you want to get an Apple Mac in the future). This is the same reason to use .doc instead of .docx when creating files in MSOffice now, by the way.
Yes. That's for a new user. What about someone who wants to find out what's new in the latest version (compared to 2.2.x or 2.3.0)?
ie: Someone who is thinking about upgrading but isn't sure if it's worth the effort.
I'm not sure if it's changed recently (last time I was there was a month ago), but the website just points to bug reports when mentioning new features or fixes. It would be nice to give a synopsis page of things that the end-user would notice. Or at least point to some good reviews written on other websites if they don't want to waste the time doing it themselves.
(I am not a kernel/gcc developed) This is what it mean in a practical sense: All the userland applications that come precompiled on websites for various distributions (including (binary only) .rpm, .deb, and .tar.gz files) will not work with the newer versions of the distributions (once they take up this gcc/kernel patch). This means a cleaning house of a lot of binaries created in the last couple years.
Isn't 5 percent of computers enough to be worth infecting? How about the fame of creating the first Mac OS X Leopard worm?
It's not as if getting a FISA-approved warrant is that difficult. They've turned down warrants only a handful of times since FISA was created.
Speaking as a cardiologist, if I get a person with a defibrillator with multiple runs of shocks for ventricular tachycardia, I would sure like to make adjustments on the device to be more efficient.(for instance, more aggressive anti-tachycardia pacing or higher output first shock, etc.) While I could call up the company to get the password on a weekend or night, I'm not sure how they would authenticate my identity.
Pacemakers have a limited battery life. Changing the battery requires surgery. (They are working on recharging, but the technology isn't there yet.) Wireless communication requires orders of magnitude less energy for the device than wireless.
Recent models of pacemakers and defibrillators from the major companies (Guidant, Medtronic, etc.) allow remote telemetry from home: You have a device sitting on a table next to the patient's bed which will check the device every night (or one night a week, etc.) and report back to the physician any abnormalities. Some also allow wireless programability, but not from home: The nurse waves the wand over the device, then the patient goes in another room and gets seen by the physician while the settings on the device are changed. The range is less than 50 feet, based on personal experience. Now, this can theoretically be done from home (if someone has the right device), and you can make changes without any passwords.
Before you ask, you should *not* start passwords-protecting these devices, as you may have a patient traveling and rendered unconscious and need to make setting changes and not have time (or ability) to call the manufacturer.
...works fine from here. They're apparently thanking IFPI for the free advertising. :-)
What wikipedia should do is try to hit up the private sector for some rich sponsors looking to make donations to a tax-free charity.
Maybe a single link on the front page to link to the top 1000 donations of all time and top 1000 donations in the last 12 months will be a nice compromise.
1. Neil Gaiman's Sandman (A somewhat difficult read, with stories intertwined and nested within each other. When you finish, you get a satisfied feeling. If you like it, you will love his books staring Death of the Endless.)
2. Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic (Think of it as a Harry Potter short story for adults, but it came out before Harry Potter)
3. Mike Carey's Lucifer (Slightly less intense than Sandman, and an easier read, but certainly literature.)
Agree. The worry is that someone rights something down and it therefore becomes a fact (even if there are no references). Should the article on HIV include, for instance, that my brother cured an individual with HIV with a healing touch and 6 hours of porn?