How far can CSS be taken beyond the web page--that is, have generalized or non-web specific features for such things as page formating or type setting? Do you plan/wish/hope to take it farther than it currently is?
RealClimate.org does represent the position of the vast majority of scientists. The fact is that anthrogenic climate change is accepted; there is a no controversy. This "controversy" is the same type of "controversy" that Intelligent Design supporters claim should be taught in schools: a false appearance of a scientific dispute manufactured by people with little interest in promoting proper science and supported by few, if any, people actually doing proper science in the area concerned.
Likewise it is disengenous to claim that the fact that people talking about global warming focus on the last few thousand years is somehow a mark against it. This is obviously done because that is when people have affected global temperatures through large-scale carbon dioxide emissions. The issue is not what the hotest temperatures have been, but what the temperatures would have been had humans not emmitted lots of CO2 into the atmosphere recently, predictions that can be made based on long term climate models based on data such as ice cores (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1 110_041110_antarctic_ice.html).
...but this is just strikes me as trolling. It is false that most climate scientists dispute what he says about global warming. For instance, the scientists at RealClimate.org say that he gets most of it right (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/200 6/05/al-gores-movie/), even if some of what he says are exaggerations or leaps to conclusions.
I would like to manage the My Documents folder on my computer such that changes to my OpenOffice documents and other files (such new files being created) are automatically commited (I'm in Windows). I don't need to worry about branching at all, but I am still interested in these solutions for tracking versions and commiting changes automatically in the background. Do the Tortoise programs do this? Does anyone else have any experience with any other more consumer-level products? Most of the stuff mentioned here (while definitely is what the original poster is looking for, IMO), wouldn't be feasible for me. Thanks.
I know people that are using their US Vonage account outside of the US. What happens if they need to dial the emergency services (999 or 112 in most of Europe, I believe) when their address is outside of Vonage's service area (US, Canada, UK; assuming that they updated their address with Vonage in the first place)? I would imagine they it just wouldn't work or would get forwarded to the 911 center local to their US address. Not exactly what one would want, but I imagine there isn't any easy solutions to this. Presumably the dialers would be aware of this issue in the first place if they're using a Vonage account for a US number in a foreign country.
Why would companies abandon phone trees? They save the companies so much money by reducing the number of people they have to hire to answer phones (of course, this is also why rural or overseas call centers are popular). If customers get fed up and just go online (which is the first thing companies like SBC urge you to do when you connect) or give up seeking support altogether, they save even more money. It's only if significant numbers of people get fed up and stop buying their products that they would have to change. Now, government agencies (at least the ones that let us call them) never have enough money, so they'd probably always have phone trees.
Oh, and the US seems to be one of the few countries in the world where 24/7 phone lines (or 6am-10pm, or something similar) seem to be what customers expect (vs 9-5 Monday-Friday). I'm sure US companies would love to reduce the number of hours. If we consumers only expected service during those hours, then maybe they could use the savings to hire more employees to answer the phones. Or, they may give us just as bad service, less often.
Well, not the same exact thing, but Skype reps here in London were handing out little packages with a mini CD with Windows software (Mac, Linux, and Pocket PC users had to go to the website), the 30 minute card, and a little earbud with mic. Of course, I would recommend getting a real headset.
Oh, and those that say that Skype will never be big until it uses SIP: the fact of the matter is, it already is huge in Europe and some other parts of the world (3,402,086 users are currently online, according to my client). Also, Skype calls to other Skype users have excellent sound quality and are far better than SkypeOut calls (ie to a standard phone number). So, like any service that seeks to become the standard, they're giving you incentive to join their orbit (think Aol Instant Messenger not working with other IM clients). But yes, it doesn't use SIP. However, if someone made a Skype-enabled box (like the Linksys Vonage ones), I'm sure they're clean up.
A recent article in IEEE Spectrum (about a few weeks ago) had a good article outlining how a space elevator could be implemented, by one of its main supporters.
I just went to the main US site. From there the link takes you to the old Groups site. On that page there's a link to the Beta page. The new interface isn't forced on you and, as other people have mentioned, there still is a section of the new site devoted to Usenet. All in all, it doesn't look so bad. Of course, it sounds like this might have been changed just from when the original Slashdot post was made.
Sometimes I choose my password by making a shape on the keyboard. This works well with diagonal lines, since the keys on each row aren't lined up vertically with the keys below or above them. I tend to use this method most often for simple passwords, like pin codes. For example, let's say I decide on an "X" starting from the top left corner. That gives me 753951 using a keypad. Of course, I just remember the shape, not the numbers, which is handy for someone with a good visual memory, like me, since it's much harder to forget a simple shape, IMHO, than a string of numbers and/or letters.
Of course, there are drawbacks to this method. The first one is mentioned above. Another is you eventually learn the password by entering it a lot, unless you're conscientious at not looking at the keyboard. Of course, if you need to know the password, it's easy to retrieve it. Also, I doubt very complex shapes could consistently be entered reliably. For example, let's say I make a spiral starting at 5 (not on the keypad but on the key above r and t). This gives me 5rdcvgtf. But what if I forget that it curved left, not right, from r. Then I'd get 5rfvbhtg. Still a spiral and still starts from 5. Of course, I imagine it's also rather vulnerable to attack. If someone is watching you in the distance (or not so distance;-) then can just reproduce your pattern and have your password. Of course, that's essentially a problem with any password that's based on characters. Another vulnerability, I would think, is that the characters are right next to each other. While not alphabetically close, these characters are close together, so a bruteforce attacker could easily narrow his search area by just knowing one of the keys. Using the spiral example, there are only four characters which could follow the leading 5: 4, r, t, 6.
Anyway, I find it's a good system for me.
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I can't comment about the general gist of the article, but the sentiment below is not surprising when you consider that the Washington Post is owned by the Moonies and is considered by many to be on the lunatic right-wing fringe. Of course, this article is originally from UPI, but still, you might want to take it with a grain of salt.
Indeed, there's something uniquely unpleasant in the hippie rhetoric with which Google surrounds its activities. "We aspire to make Google an institution that makes the world a better place" we are told in the early part of the S-1 statement (the only part that many journalists appear to have read!) "Google is not a conventional company"... and, in an inspired moment of Bill-and-Ted-speak "Don't be evil.."
Of course this doesn't apply to most people, but if you're affiliated with a university or other level of school (including K-12) you might be able to get a discount. Go to the Apple web store and click on Education, then select your institution. I got $30 off my iPod, though the deals are better for bigger ticket items ($300 off Powerbooks, etc).
In response to your question of when we're going to see (much) more hacking of engine control computers, my guess is that it won't happen soon, if at all. I think most people (including very knowledgable computer people), lacking a strong mechanical knowledge of cars, don't have the time or inclination to learn all the ins and outs of car computer systems.
That being said, I agree with you and think it would be great if more interesting hacks come out.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the client and server to talk to each other? I'm using JakusMinimus' code and am able to run the server, but I've been unable to get it to communicate with clients.
I've made a short write-up of my situation here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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How far can CSS be taken beyond the web page--that is, have generalized or non-web specific features for such things as page formating or type setting? Do you plan/wish/hope to take it farther than it currently is?
RealClimate.org does represent the position of the vast majority of scientists. The fact is that anthrogenic climate change is accepted; there is a no controversy. This "controversy" is the same type of "controversy" that Intelligent Design supporters claim should be taught in schools: a false appearance of a scientific dispute manufactured by people with little interest in promoting proper science and supported by few, if any, people actually doing proper science in the area concerned.
Likewise it is disengenous to claim that the fact that people talking about global warming focus on the last few thousand years is somehow a mark against it. This is obviously done because that is when people have affected global temperatures through large-scale carbon dioxide emissions. The issue is not what the hotest temperatures have been, but what the temperatures would have been had humans not emmitted lots of CO2 into the atmosphere recently, predictions that can be made based on long term climate models based on data such as ice cores (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1 110_041110_antarctic_ice.html).
...but this is just strikes me as trolling. It is false that most climate scientists dispute what he says about global warming. For instance, the scientists at RealClimate.org say that he gets most of it right (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/200 6/05/al-gores-movie/), even if some of what he says are exaggerations or leaps to conclusions.
I would like to manage the My Documents folder on my computer such that changes to my OpenOffice documents and other files (such new files being created) are automatically commited (I'm in Windows). I don't need to worry about branching at all, but I am still interested in these solutions for tracking versions and commiting changes automatically in the background. Do the Tortoise programs do this? Does anyone else have any experience with any other more consumer-level products? Most of the stuff mentioned here (while definitely is what the original poster is looking for, IMO), wouldn't be feasible for me. Thanks.
I know people that are using their US Vonage account outside of the US. What happens if they need to dial the emergency services (999 or 112 in most of Europe, I believe) when their address is outside of Vonage's service area (US, Canada, UK; assuming that they updated their address with Vonage in the first place)? I would imagine they it just wouldn't work or would get forwarded to the 911 center local to their US address. Not exactly what one would want, but I imagine there isn't any easy solutions to this. Presumably the dialers would be aware of this issue in the first place if they're using a Vonage account for a US number in a foreign country.
Why would companies abandon phone trees? They save the companies so much money by reducing the number of people they have to hire to answer phones (of course, this is also why rural or overseas call centers are popular). If customers get fed up and just go online (which is the first thing companies like SBC urge you to do when you connect) or give up seeking support altogether, they save even more money. It's only if significant numbers of people get fed up and stop buying their products that they would have to change. Now, government agencies (at least the ones that let us call them) never have enough money, so they'd probably always have phone trees.
Oh, and the US seems to be one of the few countries in the world where 24/7 phone lines (or 6am-10pm, or something similar) seem to be what customers expect (vs 9-5 Monday-Friday). I'm sure US companies would love to reduce the number of hours. If we consumers only expected service during those hours, then maybe they could use the savings to hire more employees to answer the phones. Or, they may give us just as bad service, less often.
Well, not the same exact thing, but Skype reps here in London were handing out little packages with a mini CD with Windows software (Mac, Linux, and Pocket PC users had to go to the website), the 30 minute card, and a little earbud with mic. Of course, I would recommend getting a real headset.
Oh, and those that say that Skype will never be big until it uses SIP: the fact of the matter is, it already is huge in Europe and some other parts of the world (3,402,086 users are currently online, according to my client). Also, Skype calls to other Skype users have excellent sound quality and are far better than SkypeOut calls (ie to a standard phone number). So, like any service that seeks to become the standard, they're giving you incentive to join their orbit (think Aol Instant Messenger not working with other IM clients). But yes, it doesn't use SIP. However, if someone made a Skype-enabled box (like the Linksys Vonage ones), I'm sure they're clean up.
A recent article in IEEE Spectrum (about a few weeks ago) had a good article outlining how a space elevator could be implemented, by one of its main supporters.
I just went to the main US site. From there the link takes you to the old Groups site. On that page there's a link to the Beta page. The new interface isn't forced on you and, as other people have mentioned, there still is a section of the new site devoted to Usenet. All in all, it doesn't look so bad. Of course, it sounds like this might have been changed just from when the original Slashdot post was made.
Sometimes I choose my password by making a shape on the keyboard. This works well with diagonal lines, since the keys on each row aren't lined up vertically with the keys below or above them. I tend to use this method most often for simple passwords, like pin codes. For example, let's say I decide on an "X" starting from the top left corner. That gives me 753951 using a keypad. Of course, I just remember the shape, not the numbers, which is handy for someone with a good visual memory, like me, since it's much harder to forget a simple shape, IMHO, than a string of numbers and/or letters.
;-) then can just reproduce your pattern and have your password. Of course, that's essentially a problem with any password that's based on characters. Another vulnerability, I would think, is that the characters are right next to each other. While not alphabetically close, these characters are close together, so a bruteforce attacker could easily narrow his search area by just knowing one of the keys. Using the spiral example, there are only four characters which could follow the leading 5: 4, r, t, 6.
Of course, there are drawbacks to this method. The first one is mentioned above. Another is you eventually learn the password by entering it a lot, unless you're conscientious at not looking at the keyboard. Of course, if you need to know the password, it's easy to retrieve it. Also, I doubt very complex shapes could consistently be entered reliably. For example, let's say I make a spiral starting at 5 (not on the keypad but on the key above r and t). This gives me 5rdcvgtf. But what if I forget that it curved left, not right, from r. Then I'd get 5rfvbhtg. Still a spiral and still starts from 5. Of course, I imagine it's also rather vulnerable to attack. If someone is watching you in the distance (or not so distance
Anyway, I find it's a good system for me.
Of course this doesn't apply to most people, but if you're affiliated with a university or other level of school (including K-12) you might be able to get a discount. Go to the Apple web store and click on Education, then select your institution. I got $30 off my iPod, though the deals are better for bigger ticket items ($300 off Powerbooks, etc).
Cool. I guess it's just not well known to some people (such as myself).
In response to your question of when we're going to see (much) more hacking of engine control computers, my guess is that it won't happen soon, if at all. I think most people (including very knowledgable computer people), lacking a strong mechanical knowledge of cars, don't have the time or inclination to learn all the ins and outs of car computer systems.
That being said, I agree with you and think it would be great if more interesting hacks come out.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the client and server to talk to each other? I'm using JakusMinimus' code and am able to run the server, but I've been unable to get it to communicate with clients.
I've made a short write-up of my situation here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Do you see uses for the BitTorrent code and architecture other than file downloads?
Echostar was trying to buy (or merge... whatever) DirecTV, no vice versa.
According to the BBC most people are against such an ID card and plans for one will most likely be abandoned.
Here are some links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2688697.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2657143.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2583651.stm