On linux I would at least make sure that/tmp and swap are zeroed on shutdown/reboot.
Ubuntu, at least, encrypts the swap partition with a random key (possibly only if you have home directory encryption enabled?). And, unless you're low on RAM,/tmp should probably be a RAM disk.
As mentioned above, the new crappy 'Outlook' site that replaced hotmail appears to force SSL. Looks like Yahoo Mail has a 'force SSL' option, but you have to explicitly turn it on. No idea why it's not on by default.
Brazil, where a car made here is sold for R$ 56.210, and the same car, but with more optionals, is exported to Mexico (over 7000 Km away) and is sold there for R$ 25.800. Take that Australia!
It's not just Brazil. Cars made in Canada are shipped to America and sold for less than you'd pay in Canada at a dealership just down the road from the factory they were made in (and that's before you add taxes on top).
Most of the interesting stuff I read on the Internet these days is on email lists, which are relatively hard to find and hence have a high signal to noise ratio from people who went out of their way to find them, while the web has mostly become a means of tracking people and pushing ads on them.
That suggests either a LOT of the IPV4 space is blocking pings, or that a lot of it is poorly allocated (I bet it's a little of the former and a lot of the latter).
I believe you'll find that Windows 7 defaults to blocking pings now. None of our Windows 7 machines respond to them.
EVs are great except for one big problem - the batteries. They're too expensive for not enough capacity. That's improving, but it's going to be a while.
You could have said pretty much the same about electric cars a century ago, so it could be a long 'while'.
I see absolutely no reason why a customer should be allowed to unlock a phone during the time when, for all intents and purposes, the carrier still owns a portion.
Absolutely right.
Just like you shouldn't be allowed to open the hood of a car you're leasing, because it still really belongs to the manufacturer.
There's a well known sixty-year temperature cycle, and we're into the cold half right now. So the odds are pretty good that 2020 will be significantly colder than today.
Look, I know most of the folks frequenting/. are ardently anti-MS
Strange.
That might have been true in the past, but as of about eighteen months ago, Slashdot appears to have become the last, best hope for Microsoft fanboys. Pretty much any story about Microsoft products will be full of posts calling them the best thing ever.
While I generally agree that SR3 felt more limited than SR2, the problem with SR2 is that the PC port is buggy as hell and a huge performance hog, which crashes regularly on many machines. It doesn't even run properly if your CPU's clock speed isn't the same as the console it was developed for.
One thing you're missing is: how many of these consoles are they actually going to sell? Casual gamers have a lot more options with tablets and smartphones than they did when the last generation of consoles came out with really only PCs and older consoles to compete against.
AMD has another advantage in this sort of business. Since they no longer own their own fabrication plants, they can simply contract this out to another fabrication plant if it becomes a constraint on their first choice fabrication vendor.
Uh, they could always have done that. No-one forced them to use thei rown fabs for all their chips.
While flexibility is an advantage, being totally reliant on third-party suppliers is not.
Yet the web survived for years when hardly anyone was making money from it. And finding useful information was much easier than it is today, where there are a hundred ad-funded web scraping sites set up soley to make money for every actual, informative web site.
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On linux I would at least make sure that /tmp and swap are zeroed on shutdown/reboot.
Ubuntu, at least, encrypts the swap partition with a random key (possibly only if you have home directory encryption enabled?). And, unless you're low on RAM, /tmp should probably be a RAM disk.
As mentioned above, the new crappy 'Outlook' site that replaced hotmail appears to force SSL. Looks like Yahoo Mail has a 'force SSL' option, but you have to explicitly turn it on. No idea why it's not on by default.
No, they switched everyone to the crappy Metroised 'Outlook' now.
It also appears to use SSL by default now, so cookie stealing will be tough.
Brazil, where a car made here is sold for R$ 56.210, and the same car, but with more optionals, is exported to Mexico (over 7000 Km away) and is sold there for R$ 25.800. Take that Australia!
It's not just Brazil. Cars made in Canada are shipped to America and sold for less than you'd pay in Canada at a dealership just down the road from the factory they were made in (and that's before you add taxes on top).
Most of the interesting stuff I read on the Internet these days is on email lists, which are relatively hard to find and hence have a high signal to noise ratio from people who went out of their way to find them, while the web has mostly become a means of tracking people and pushing ads on them.
That suggests either a LOT of the IPV4 space is blocking pings, or that a lot of it is poorly allocated (I bet it's a little of the former and a lot of the latter).
I believe you'll find that Windows 7 defaults to blocking pings now. None of our Windows 7 machines respond to them.
EVs are great except for one big problem - the batteries. They're too expensive for not enough capacity. That's improving, but it's going to be a while.
You could have said pretty much the same about electric cars a century ago, so it could be a long 'while'.
Except if you read the legislation it will take a 2/3 majority in both houses of parliament to change the law.
Yeah, that'll work.
If the government could restrict future changes to laws, it would add 'this law can never be changed' to the end of every law it passed.
And you believe them?
Besides, once this law is entrenched, removing any such limitations will be trivial.
Oh dear, I made a 'slippery slope' argument and that's apparently a logical fallacy so it could never, ever happen. How silly I am.
The people wanted this. They voted in a Government that did an independent enquiry and then actioned those recommendations.
Uh, what?
"The people" voted 'none of the above' in the last British election, but they got a government anyway.
(Not unless your definition of a 'game' is just walking around looking at the detail in the graphics.)
Yeah, Doom 3 has an extremely detailed black screen. I'd take $25 to not own it.
What *is* ridiculous is that you elect people to make extremely important decisions when they don't have any clue about the subject matter.
If the US government actually followed the Constitution, it wouldn't matter, because there would be very little they could do to screw things up.
It's only because of two hundred years of bending the meaning 'for a good cause' that they've reached the point where they can do so.
I see absolutely no reason why a customer should be allowed to unlock a phone during the time when, for all intents and purposes, the carrier still owns a portion.
Absolutely right.
Just like you shouldn't be allowed to open the hood of a car you're leasing, because it still really belongs to the manufacturer.
There's a well known sixty-year temperature cycle, and we're into the cold half right now. So the odds are pretty good that 2020 will be significantly colder than today.
Look, I know most of the folks frequenting /. are ardently anti-MS
Strange.
That might have been true in the past, but as of about eighteen months ago, Slashdot appears to have become the last, best hope for Microsoft fanboys. Pretty much any story about Microsoft products will be full of posts calling them the best thing ever.
There are two kinds of Androids. Nexus, and non-Nexus. Which ones get updates again?
Asus Transformers?
Mostly seems to be the cheap, crap phones and tablets that don't get upgrades.
While I generally agree that SR3 felt more limited than SR2, the problem with SR2 is that the PC port is buggy as hell and a huge performance hog, which crashes regularly on many machines. It doesn't even run properly if your CPU's clock speed isn't the same as the console it was developed for.
GTA4 is basically SR3 with all the fun removed.
One thing you're missing is: how many of these consoles are they actually going to sell? Casual gamers have a lot more options with tablets and smartphones than they did when the last generation of consoles came out with really only PCs and older consoles to compete against.
AMD has another advantage in this sort of business. Since they no longer own their own fabrication plants, they can simply contract this out to another fabrication plant if it becomes a constraint on their first choice fabrication vendor.
Uh, they could always have done that. No-one forced them to use thei rown fabs for all their chips.
While flexibility is an advantage, being totally reliant on third-party suppliers is not.
so just be thankful that the market is what it is, if intel had a monopoly you would be paying alot more for a shittier cpu.
But Intel CPUs are cheaper today than they were when AMDs were objectively better in the Pentium-4 space heater era.
AMD isn't their major competitor, ARM is.
In the end, web-sites need to make money
Yet the web survived for years when hardly anyone was making money from it. And finding useful information was much easier than it is today, where there are a hundred ad-funded web scraping sites set up soley to make money for every actual, informative web site.
More like someone just realised that America is about 3,000,000% more vulnerable to such attacks than Iran or North Korea.
Have you ever tried to actually USE remote X? It's just beyond horrible.
I use it all the time to forward applications from one machine to another over my LAN. It works fine.
Yeah, it's sucky over a WAN, but VNC is sucky everywhere.
do you actually use X windows at all?
I've rarely used anything else on a computer for the past six years.
It's buggy as heck and its performance is miserable.
No, it's not.