Everybody that uses social networks have connections to somebody that gone broke, or made bad comments on the past. That fictional bank wouldn't be able to lend money. Thus wouldn't generate any revenue.
More likely, it will slightly lower your credit rating and you would have to pay a higher interest rate for loans (home/car). Thus, the banks would generate more revenue.
And Steve Wozniak attacked the American education system, saying students should be graded on a single, long-term project rather than a short learning/testing cycle.
Those of us who want to become scientists or mathematicians (like myself) do get "graded" on a single, long-term project (I have 200+ pages of evidence of that at home). The only problem with a single project for the WHOLE grade is that if by chance something goes wrong (bad reagent or protocol) or it didn't work like you expected (*sarcasm* because nothing ever goes wrong in science *sarcasm*) you would have to spend more time (months+++ ?) or the project might fail. If your a grad. student you make due and move on but, I think that would completely demotivate most high school students. Besides K-12 is the time/place to learn the basics, like the multiplication tables, the periodic table, language, writing, etc., with some small projects to augment book knowledge. I can guarantee that I would not have been successful in my graduate career if I didn't have the 16+ years of structured education and short testing cycles that Woz has an issue with. And if I was only graded on a single project as a young student I might have failed early on and did something else than science.
Imagine your left handed and use the mouse with your dominant hand, i.e. left hand. Now, what is more obscure? And yes I've heard the arguments about you can just change the settings but, wouldn't it just be easier if you didn't have to reconfigure the computer because the person using it has a different dominant hand than the previous user. Besides, control-click is the same right handed and left handed but, "right click" changes if you reconfigure the mouse to be left handed.
Bill Gates is not a columnist for ZDNet - he's a large shareholder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation. Of course he's going to push, and probably believe, the Microsoft vision of things. This surprizes you?
That's right. He doesn't just drink the coporate kool-aid, he makes it.
Don't forget that the option key can also allow one to easily type non-English characters. Like.
opt-a = å opt-e (accent) a = á opt-n (tilde) a = ã opt-' = æ opt-u (umlat) a = ä opt-c = ç opt-o = ø opt-s = ß opt-/ = ÷
And the list goes on and on...
And just as a note, before someone states how stupid a Mac is that we have to use opt-e/opt-n for accent/tilde rather than the single-quote/tilde ('/~) key. We do have those keys on a Mac and they are fully functional, but the opt variants are modifier keys. This means it will "modify" the next letter, e.g. "opt-n" will set the tilde modifier then pressing n again will give the ñ character (n with a tilde). Of course this only works if such a character exists since it's only a mapping to a character code, e.g. opt-n o works (õ), but opt-n g doesn't (g).
Yes, but right-click takes on a whole different meaning if you are left handed. I come from a multidexterous family and trust me one button mice make the world that much easier. You don't have to specially configure the computer out of the box and more importantly, you don't have to reconfigure the computer everytime a person with a different handedness uses it. You can use the mouse with either hand and you get the same experience.
You can boot from most any external drive with a "blessed" system folder. In addition, my personal favorite is target disk mode. This is where you can turn a Powerbook/iBook into a firewire drive. So if you had some sort of problem where you couldn't boot the OS, you can plug the *book into another computer with a firewire port and mount the hardrive of the *book. The real nifty thing is that it's all implemented in firmware. The older Powerbooks, e.g. PB165, could do something similar with SCSI, but it required a special boot disk.
Didn't you get the customer service brainwashing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H education. You never say 'hole' or 'bug' to a customer. I remember one time I was in a meeting about an application and how it would relate to the firewall that I was administering. I mentioned that some pinholes would be need to be opened for the specific ports. After that meeting my project manager lectured me that "Don't ever say pinhole to the customer, it's an access point." I mentioned that it was one of the terms we used to describe opening very fine access in a firewall. He replied that I should never say 'hole' to the customer when refering to security. So we would just say 'rule' in the meeting and use the word 'hole' for other descriptors.
What's really "funny" about this whole issue is that the voting machines are not the problem, it's the process.
The electoral collage needs to be abolished . At one time it may have made sense, but in today's world it's just another problem in the system. Now, some analysts have stated that the electoral college system is good because it encourages the canidates to visit less populous states. The reason, which is a bit convoluted, is that the vote of a person in those states basically counts more than a vote of a person of a "larger" state. Well that's just bull**it. Everyone's vote should count the same. I don't care if you live in a luxury apartment on fifth ave in New York or in a tent on a mountian near Missoula, MT. What happened to the "truths that we hold self-evident" like the fact that "all are created equal".
Any elected official should be elected by a majority, not a simple plurality. In the past three presidential elections no canidate has taken more than 50% of the popular vote. So, for the past 12 years, we have had a president in which most people did NOT vote for. Am I the only that has a problem with that? I think it's time for instant runoff voting. Now, initially I was apprehensive about IRV, not knowing the mechanics, but after I read more about IRV this is the way to go. It fixes the "problem" of spoiler candidates, like the Gore vs. Nader in 2000. It's actually quite simple, and if you look at the process, it is still possible to vote the "traditional" way. Thus, persons who don't fully utilize IRV while voting would not be at any less of a disadvantage than if they voted in a simple plurality. On top of that we are guarenteed that our officials must capture a majority of the electorate, while we only have to visit the polls once.
Well it's not just the noise. The mechanical keyswitches, like the ones in the IBM Model M, are better for your fingers. I remember reading a report, I wish I could find a link for it, but anyways it was found that the "Quiet-touch" keyboards are bad for your hands. The main reason is lack of mechanical parts to increase the resistance of the keyswitch as it's being depressed. The older, mechanical keyswitches will slow your finger before it stops, while the newer switches will just stop. Almost like the difference of stopping your car by using the brake vs. putting it in neutral and steering for a nearby brick wall.
Why have it collect dust when I can be useful again? I had a dead Mac Plus that I transformed into a home for a pair of cory cats. And I'm not the only one that has done this particular case mod
(AP) Fierce nationalists across the USA today have petitioned Apple to rename the iPod to the independencePod. One supporter of this measure stated that, "just like sauerkraut was renamed to liberty cabbage during WWII and french fries to freedom fries during the liberation of Iraq, we hope this will inspire Americans to feel free to use their MP3 player will out the fear of foriegn oppression." "God bless the USA!", he added while firing an assault rifle into the air.
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The mail server knows the answer in advance, and if the client provides the correct answer, the message is relayed
So, riddle me this, is this really that much different from RFC 2554 - SMTP Service Extension for Authentication. Perhaps it would just be a differnt authentication mechanism (STAMP-M$). One would have to assume, give the relay nature of SMTP, that the stamping operation would be between the 'local' SMTP server and one's mail client. Of course, one would need a compatiable client.
On top of that, would not the SMTP server need to do the same calculation (server overload!) to compare the answers or will it have some sort of shortcut or dictionary? If the server will have a shortcut all a spammer would need to do is get a hold of the dictionary/shortcut and we are back to square one.
Also, even if you could 'secure' the 'stamps' does that really fix the problem of other relays that are open? In order for the 'stamping' to work ALL SMTP servers would have to participate, because all it would take one hole and spam would continue to flood in.
Why don't we start with basic authenticated SMTP. It's been a standard since 1999. Then pressure your local ISP to harden their relays. That way spoofing email will be tougher, then spammers could be flushed out instead of being able to hide in the shadows. And since bandwidth is not free I'm sure ISPs would not have a problem denying spammers when they find them.
Truthfully it's only analog to your local central office or nearby crossbox.
Now here's a disaster story....
Back in 1990 an F5 tornado hit a town southwest of Chicago and the "big" problem with the phones was that relatives and friends overloaded the system calling to see "are you ok?".
Better yet, a few days later an employee of the phone company was driving through the devistated town and saw a house with the front completely ripped of, like a doll house. Furniture and various personal items were all over the front yard. In the middle of the yard was a man, talking on the phone.
I don't know which Linksys product you are using, but I'm using a WRT54G. When I first bought the router it only supported WEP, but then a firmware upgrade came one day that had WPA support. Check Linksys support site.
My iBook G4 running Panther connects to my router just fine using WPA Personal (Pre-shared key in Linksys). Although I've been thinking of playing around with WPA Enterprise (RADIUS), but that takes time:)
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Everybody that uses social networks have connections to somebody that gone broke, or made bad comments on the past. That fictional bank wouldn't be able to lend money. Thus wouldn't generate any revenue.
More likely, it will slightly lower your credit rating and you would have to pay a higher interest rate for loans (home/car). Thus, the banks would generate more revenue.
And Steve Wozniak attacked the American education system, saying students should be graded on a single, long-term project rather than a short learning/testing cycle.
Those of us who want to become scientists or mathematicians (like myself) do get "graded" on a single, long-term project (I have 200+ pages of evidence of that at home). The only problem with a single project for the WHOLE grade is that if by chance something goes wrong (bad reagent or protocol) or it didn't work like you expected (*sarcasm* because nothing ever goes wrong in science *sarcasm*) you would have to spend more time (months+++ ?) or the project might fail. If your a grad. student you make due and move on but, I think that would completely demotivate most high school students. Besides K-12 is the time/place to learn the basics, like the multiplication tables, the periodic table, language, writing, etc., with some small projects to augment book knowledge. I can guarantee that I would not have been successful in my graduate career if I didn't have the 16+ years of structured education and short testing cycles that Woz has an issue with. And if I was only graded on a single project as a young student I might have failed early on and did something else than science.
Imagine your left handed and use the mouse with your dominant hand, i.e. left hand. Now, what is more obscure? And yes I've heard the arguments about you can just change the settings but, wouldn't it just be easier if you didn't have to reconfigure the computer because the person using it has a different dominant hand than the previous user. Besides, control-click is the same right handed and left handed but, "right click" changes if you reconfigure the mouse to be left handed.
"Extended desktop and video mirroring"
I'll leave you with one thought. Finns are socialists. Linus Torvalds is Finnish. Linus Torvalds got here on an airplane. ®
Although I wonder if Otto Z. Stern is related to T. Herman Zweibel
That's for sure, he is definetly dot com, but he did make his own list.
That's right. He doesn't just drink the coporate kool-aid, he makes it.
Don't forget that the option key can also allow one to easily type non-English characters. Like.
opt-a = å
opt-e (accent) a = á
opt-n (tilde) a = ã
opt-' = æ
opt-u (umlat) a = ä
opt-c = ç
opt-o = ø
opt-s = ß
opt-/ = ÷
And the list goes on and on...
And just as a note, before someone states how stupid a Mac is that we have to use opt-e/opt-n for accent/tilde rather than the single-quote/tilde ('/~) key. We do have those keys on a Mac and they are fully functional, but the opt variants are modifier keys. This means it will "modify" the next letter, e.g. "opt-n" will set the tilde modifier then pressing n again will give the ñ character (n with a tilde). Of course this only works if such a character exists since it's only a mapping to a character code, e.g. opt-n o works (õ), but opt-n g doesn't (g).
That would be similar to the original definition of the gram, which is the weight of 1 milliliter (1 cubic centimeter) of water at 4'C.
Yes, but right-click takes on a whole different meaning if you are left handed. I come from a multidexterous family and trust me one button mice make the world that much easier. You don't have to specially configure the computer out of the box and more importantly, you don't have to reconfigure the computer everytime a person with a different handedness uses it. You can use the mouse with either hand and you get the same experience.
You can boot from most any external drive with a "blessed" system folder. In addition, my personal favorite is target disk mode. This is where you can turn a Powerbook/iBook into a firewire drive. So if you had some sort of problem where you couldn't boot the OS, you can plug the *book into another computer with a firewire port and mount the hardrive of the *book. The real nifty thing is that it's all implemented in firmware. The older Powerbooks, e.g. PB165, could do something similar with SCSI, but it required a special boot disk.
Wireless printing over USB requires Mac OS X v10.2.7 or later or Windows XP or Windows 2000 and a compatible printer
And if you can figure out how to get Linux to use it, you could always share the printer from a Mac or Windows machine.
Didn't you get the customer service brainwashing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H education. You never say 'hole' or 'bug' to a customer. I remember one time I was in a meeting about an application and how it would relate to the firewall that I was administering. I mentioned that some pinholes would be need to be opened for the specific ports. After that meeting my project manager lectured me that "Don't ever say pinhole to the customer, it's an access point." I mentioned that it was one of the terms we used to describe opening very fine access in a firewall. He replied that I should never say 'hole' to the customer when refering to security. So we would just say 'rule' in the meeting and use the word 'hole' for other descriptors.
Why not the epoch?
The release date would then be: 1102226400
And here is a 800 MHz G4 iBook running Mac OS X 10.3.3
$ openssl speed rsa dsa md5
To get the most accurate results, try to run this
program when this computer is idle
...
OpenSSL 0.9.7b 10 Apr 2003
built on: Fri Mar 26 15:00:34 PST 2004
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(ptr,char) des(idx,cisc,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: cc -arch i386 -arch ppc -g -Os -pipe -Wno-precomp -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DFAR=
available timing options: TIMEB USE_TOD HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: getrusage
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
md5 3478.44k 12794.60k 36222.84k 65559.22k 86052.35k
sign verify sign/s verify/s
rsa 512 bits 0.0023s 0.0002s 442.9 4445.0
rsa 1024 bits 0.0118s 0.0007s 84.6 1537.7
rsa 2048 bits 0.0733s 0.0021s 13.6 465.9
rsa 4096 bits 0.4935s 0.0075s 2.0 133.6
sign verify sign/s verify/s
dsa 512 bits 0.0020s 0.0023s 508.5 427.0
dsa 1024 bits 0.0060s 0.0071s 166.0 140.2
More than 100x faster in most cases (143x for 2048 bit RSA). And I'm sure that we are all really suprised with that (that is sarcasm of course).
Bing, bing, bing! Give the man a cigar.
Chemical formula CF3CF2C(O)CF(CF3)2. Better known as Dodecafluoro-2-methylpentan-3-one
Well it's not just the noise. The mechanical keyswitches, like the ones in the IBM Model M, are better for your fingers. I remember reading a report, I wish I could find a link for it, but anyways it was found that the "Quiet-touch" keyboards are bad for your hands. The main reason is lack of mechanical parts to increase the resistance of the keyswitch as it's being depressed. The older, mechanical keyswitches will slow your finger before it stops, while the newer switches will just stop. Almost like the difference of stopping your car by using the brake vs. putting it in neutral and steering for a nearby brick wall.
Why have it collect dust when I can be useful again? I had a dead Mac Plus that I transformed into a home for a pair of cory cats. And I'm not the only one that has done this particular case mod
(AP) Fierce nationalists across the USA today have petitioned Apple to rename the iPod to the independencePod. One supporter of this measure stated that, "just like sauerkraut was renamed to liberty cabbage during WWII and french fries to freedom fries during the liberation of Iraq, we hope this will inspire Americans to feel free to use their MP3 player will out the fear of foriegn oppression." "God bless the USA!", he added while firing an assault rifle into the air.
So, riddle me this, is this really that much different from RFC 2554 - SMTP Service Extension for Authentication. Perhaps it would just be a differnt authentication mechanism (STAMP-M$). One would have to assume, give the relay nature of SMTP, that the stamping operation would be between the 'local' SMTP server and one's mail client. Of course, one would need a compatiable client. On top of that, would not the SMTP server need to do the same calculation (server overload!) to compare the answers or will it have some sort of shortcut or dictionary? If the server will have a shortcut all a spammer would need to do is get a hold of the dictionary/shortcut and we are back to square one.
Also, even if you could 'secure' the 'stamps' does that really fix the problem of other relays that are open? In order for the 'stamping' to work ALL SMTP servers would have to participate, because all it would take one hole and spam would continue to flood in.
Why don't we start with basic authenticated SMTP. It's been a standard since 1999. Then pressure your local ISP to harden their relays. That way spoofing email will be tougher, then spammers could be flushed out instead of being able to hide in the shadows. And since bandwidth is not free I'm sure ISPs would not have a problem denying spammers when they find them.
Truthfully it's only analog to your local central office or nearby crossbox.
Now here's a disaster story....
Back in 1990 an F5 tornado hit a town southwest of Chicago and the "big" problem with the phones was that relatives and friends overloaded the system calling to see "are you ok?".
Better yet, a few days later an employee of the phone company was driving through the devistated town and saw a house with the front completely ripped of, like a doll house. Furniture and various personal items were all over the front yard. In the middle of the yard was a man, talking on the phone.
I don't know which Linksys product you are using, but I'm using a WRT54G. When I first bought the router it only supported WEP, but then a firmware upgrade came one day that had WPA support. Check Linksys support site.
:)
My iBook G4 running Panther connects to my router just fine using WPA Personal (Pre-shared key in Linksys). Although I've been thinking of playing around with WPA Enterprise (RADIUS), but that takes time
*Burning DVDs requires an Apple SuperDrive.
Do you know something we don't?