I've done the test and it does not happen for me. Somehow I got modded troll just because everyone and their mom is blaming their issues on this bug without even reporting test results. They are just assuming that any perfromance issue they are having is related to this bug. I'm not claiming this bug doesn't exist but people are jumping to conclusions without even knowing the details of their issues.
Unless, of course he's planning to do something bad, in which case, he would also have to break into the logging system and remove his brute force attempts and fake his mac address among others (which I know is not hard to do). But after all, if something done is that bad, I'm guessing investigators can always check the neighbors in the event of an investigation.
The bruteforce is done offline. The only thing you need to bruteforce WPA is a handshake that you can obtain by sniffing passively. There is no connection being made to the router. Once you have a handshake, and have brute-forced the key, you just spoof the mac address of the computer that made the handshake and connect with the correct key. There is no trace of your activity.
Or then implement WPA2 enterprise that authenticates against your Active Directory or RADIUS domain with blacklisting against MAC addresses that aren't registered to that user.
Mac addresses are easily spoofed. RADIUS can also be brute forced. You also have to use IPSec to encypt the RADIUS message and use strong passwords.
I think way too many people are blaming their issues on this bug. Some of them may be valid but others probably have something misconfigured or maybe it only affects certain hardware. I don't expereience this bug. My interactivity does not suffer when I do anything I/O intensive.
It will work for the stereotypical Grandma who need to click on Firefox to get to the internet, Open Office Writer to write a letter. It will work fine for the high end "Power User" but there is gap in there for the average user, who wants to play games, mess with their photos, make presentations, listen to music, sync with there other devices, scan documents,
I don't think any of those things are difficult to do with the exception of syncing devices. This is changing though. As far as "messing" with photos, making presentations, listening to music, and scanning documents, this has not only been possible for quite some time now but it is pretty straightforward. Games are another issue. While most games sold in stores were not made to work with Linux most average users don't buy them. They tend to play flash games online. Only hard core gamers would have an issue with playing games and they are a much smaller niche than they think.
Yes, I do think that anyone who breathes vapors that burn their nose and throat in the course of their work thinks, "This is probably not good for me." I suspect that when the water is so polluted that it is black and smells and tastes foul, that people think, "I bet this has to do with the things I've been dumping in it." It's quite possible that when the miscarriage rate is high and that children are falling ill frequently that people are able to conclude that these illnesses probably have something to do with the unnatural tastes and odors that they are experiencing every day.
Some people just aren't that intelligent and/or informed. We dump shitloads of CO2 into the environment but a lot of people still don't make the connection with global warming. People that do recognize the effects of global warming still tend to drive cars, use electricity, and heat their homes despite the negative impact on the environment.
Nonetheless, these villagers decide that in the interest of work they will carry on in this way. I'm sure you've read stories of the factory workers that suffer long work days with few or no breaks. These workers are free to go at any time, but they choose not to in order to have work.
It's not really a choice then is it? It's a matter or survival.
There is a local company around me that offers e-cycling and they guarantee that it is not shipped overseas to be processed. They claim everything is reprocessed in the US and then sent overseas to be used in new electronic manufacturing. I guess I'll have to look into it more to see how truthful these claims are.
I'm sorry but honestly why do I care what happens to this village in China? They aren't innocent victums, they willingly bring the toxic crap in and have their citizens work on it. As soon as they want to they can stop taking shipments when they feel the health risks are too great... Until they do that, why should I feel bad for problems they have brought on themselves?
You can't be serious? Do you really think the people working with this toxic waste know the dangers? I'm sure their government does but China isn't exactly a free society.
You can say how there are all sorts of "atrocities by Christians", but what you really mean is "atrocities by people who call themselves Christian."
Does it really matter? Religion is used as the justification precisely because it doesn't have to be rational. That's dangerous.
That wasn't specifically due to their religion. It was specifically due to their own warping and perverting of what they liked to call their religion for their own ends.
You know what they say, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." The idea of a personal and all powerful god is a prime target for corruption.
the total world population in 1850 is estimated at 1,262,000
the spanish inquisition started in 1478 but ran until 1830 so lets use that 1.26 million people figure.
There is a major flaw in your reasoning. You assume that the people living in 1850 are representative of the population over a 400 year period! You go on to list recent secular wars that obviously have high death tolls because of something called "the industrial revolution". You fail to mention any more modern religious wars though like the constant fighting between Israel and every surrouding Muslim country. You also fail to mention the war between Iraq and Iran. As for Christians, the most powerful country in the world for the past 50 years has been run by avowed Christians despite its secular standing, and it has had troops on the ground in some country every year for the past 50 years. Christianity has also been used in the United States to support lynching, enslavement, and bigotry.
when they fight in the name of political power they put no limits on themselves at all.
Do you really believe that? Christians and Muslims believe in martyrdom. Combine that with the fact that a personal God pretty much guarantees that personal bigotry and tribalism is justified religiously, and you have someone who will stop at nothing for completely irrational reasons. When a purely political leader gets crushed militarily popular support wanes. Getting slaughtered in the name of God is considered an honor. People are much more likely to behave irrationaly if they think God supports them.
Yet the vast majority of Western legal systems are based on Christian principles. Do you complain about the fact that you can't steal your neighbour's car when you need a ride somewhere? Do you complain that you can't kill them because you don't happen to agree with their lawn decorations?
Western government and law is based on the principals of the enlightenment. The enlightment was a backlash against religion. Only murder and theft are commandments and also laws. Half of the other commandments have to deal with believing in God and only the Judeo-Christian God. If the ten most important laws in the Judeo-Christain belief system are barely represented in any Western country's laws how do you presume that they are based on Judeo-Christian principles?
That 2000+ year old book that you so easily discount teaches a few basic things very strongly:
- Personal responsibility.
- Treating others with love and respect.
- Not being a greedy, selfish twit.
It also contains horrific things. A lot of children's books offer moral value but that doesn't make me believe in talking elephants just as I don't beleive in the resurrection or other fairy tales in the bible.
These three seem to be commonly espoused here on/., but suddenly when they come from a source with the word "religion" anywhere near it, they're a bad thing?
No one is disparaging those values, just religion. You don't have to disparge those values to disparage religion. There are so many other things that are ridiculous.
f it doesn't make sense to use this book as a moral guide, maybe we should all be telling the government to wiretap the whole country, bitching that they don't raise my kids for me, telling communication companies that they need to charge more for less, and drop all connections outside their network to 512 B/s, and get a job paying a billion a year as the CEO of a company that sells guns to 12 year olds so they can kill their parents when they get grounded.
This is exactly like your previous statement and I see similar statements like it a lot from religious people. Somehow you people think that throwing out religion means throwing out liberty, responsibility, and prosperity. You are the one who is being insulting. It's insulting to people like me and others who don't believe in fairy tales to be told that because we don't believe we're against everything you consider moral. I don't need God to tell me not to kill somone or steal from someone and quite frankly I think it's sad that you do.
The Centrino label does NOT ensure that you have intel wireless or any open source goodness.
I have a Centrino-labeled laptop with a Dell-branded wifi that includes infamous Broadcom chips.
Then it is misbranded. Centrino is intel cpu, intel wifi, and intel chipset.
I find it exctremely odd that if you steal a ten dollar DVD from Wal Mart you go to jail, but if you steal fifty billion dollars in a Pinzi scheme you get house arrest and wear an ankle bracelet in your luxurious mansion.
If you live in California it can be even worse. Do you remember the story about the guy who stole golf clubs from Kmart? Because it was his third strike he was sentenced to 25 years to life.
Epidermis combines wallpaper, GTK, metacity, icon, splash, usplash, cursor, grub and GDM themes in one GUI program for the GNOME desktop.
I don't find anything spectacular about that. wallpaper, GTK, metacity, icon, and cursor themes are already in the same place. You can save them together as a specific theme.
It's out there man all you have to do is read between the lines yet not alwasys assume a conspiracy and one more thing did you know that Wall St. dontates far more money to Democrats than Republicans
That's only recently because Democrats have been winning elections. Wall Street pays off whoever is in power. They're both corrupt.
The democrats have held more political power in the 20th century than the Republicans did by far ANYONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS WOULD TELL YOU THIS!!
This is disengenious. Republicans have held the presidency for 20 of the last 28 years all while the executive branch has consildated its power. Republican Presidents like Bush and Nixon have claimed to be above the law.
If you are worried then you should never vote for either of two parties and become a Liberatarian
I know I'll get shit on by slashdotters for saying this but most Libertarians are kooks who think its better to be controlled by corporations than government.
To show just how ignorant the voting public is go to HowObamaGotElected.com
Get over it already. Bush was elected and re-elected despite his complete ignorance. The media portrayed Bush as someone who would clean up Washington during his first campaign and they portrayed him in his seconds election as no different from Kerry in any meaningful way. These narratives have cropped up in the media during every election but they don't tend to favor one party in particular. They have been used to favor candidates from both parties. They're just talking points and the media pciks whatever story they find more compelling.
Barney Frank had a big part in the housing bubble yet we Re Elected him this is the problem we are allowing ourselves to be hoodwinked and only we have the power to stop it!!
Stop drinking the koolaid. Both parties had their role to play in this. The housing bubble started way before Democrats had control of Congress.
He campaigned on CHANGE Yet he picked a man who has been in the House since the early 70's to be his VP Then he goes on to make Cabinet appointments and they are almost ALL FORMER CLINTON PEOPLE!!! THE REST ARE FROM BUSH, AND IN CASE YOU HAVENT NOTICED WHEN IT COMES TO DEFENSE AND POLICY ABROAD OBAMA IS SHAPING UP TO BE BUSH PART 3
The man hasn't even taken office yet, give him a break. First you shout that he Obama has no experience and then you shout that he's surrounding himself with people with experience. You can't have it both ways. Ultimately the executive decisions are up to Obama. If he lets them influence him in a way that perpetuates the same old policies then we can shout at him. We'll have to wait and see what happens though.
In my books "support being close to done" just doesn't cut it. A plugin has to be stable and easily installable to really be concidered "available".
Considering there really aren't many silverlight applications that exist now other than demoes I don't think it's an issue for anyone. Just like shockwave really isn't an issue and even though java is available it really wouldn't be much of a problem if it wasn't. Almost the entire internet at this point is available with only support for HTML/CSS, Javascript, and Flash.
Laptops should be built out of metal, not plastic.
I disagree. Strictly metal cases transfer heat to your lap much more effectively than other materials. They are also prone to electrical problems like arcing. Newer thinkpads utilize carbon fiber and magnesium alloy.
Eh, not quite sure what you believe after reading this statement, but standing behind the wall of factual science has never helped your moral compass at all. Sometimes you need to believe in things that cannot be proven. People kneeling by the bedside of a dying loved one are not carrying around their Chemistry books.
If stoning people to death is considered "morality" then I'd be glad to call myself immoral. If you don't believe in stoning people to death then how do you choose what parts of the bible are moral and which parts are to be ignored? Who makes the distinction? You? If you you do then I guess religion has nothing to do with "morality". I've been at the deathbed of more than a couple family members and I wasn't carrying any books. I was there because they are family, I loved them and wanted to be with them to comfort them as the passed away. It has nothing to do with religion. It's called compassion and love and is not the sole domain of religion.
The world isn't as absolute as you paint it. Using science to prove the mass murder killed your neighbor due to a chemical imbalance in his brain isn't going to remove the pain and suffering of the victims families.
So you're saying that only religion can allevaiate suffering? That's the problem with you religious people. You think that the only reason people aren't self serving monsters is because of religion. Give yourself some credit. I really don't think you would be a depressed, murderous maniac without religion. You would probably just have a little more time on Sunday and wouldn't feel the need to convert everyone to your point of view. It's actually kind of nice to have a healthy debate without having to refer to one ancient and ridiculous text for all of your beliefs.
I wouldn't call Thinkpad design "butt ugly" but utilitarian. That's what I like about the design. I hate all the rounded corners and extra plastic that most laptops come with now. I couldn't care less about some stupid inlaid design on the lid with a glossy finish. Some HP's actually come with a shammy cloth so you can get rid of fingerprints. That's just stupid. The thing is meant to be handled. Who wants to spend time "waxing" their laptop.
Damn that sucks. I haven't built a desktop in a while so I haven't bought a PSU in a couple of years and didn't know that. I hope the quality doesn't suffer.
This is still costing Autozone money, almost five years later. It doesn't matter the merit of the case, you can punish an adversary just the same.
You're right you better watch out. Microsoft is going to track you down and sue you. You could just follow Chryslers lead and ignore them, it doesn't cost a dime and when they actually went to court the judge dismissed the charges. You can't prevent being sued in any case even for ludicrous charges. Have you ever seen People's Court? When the law is on your side though you shouldn't be so paranoid.
Why this is hard to do is something I don't understand. Because it's apparently hard one would have to assume some intrinsic linkage. It would be nice if someone explored this and published the results; it's too high a hurdle for me to do to just use a music player.
You know what they say about assumption...nevermind. The fact that you think you have to clear this hurdle just to use a music player is delusional. I'm not sure where your irrational fears about being sued by Microsoft are coming from but you should probably get your head checked out.
No, it doesn't work like that. If you're on the hook for patent infringement you don't just get to go 'oh, my bad, we'll fix that'. You have to 'fix that' (or pay ongoing license fees) but you also have to pay damages. Yes, the mono project would survive such an assault, I think that's their point. But the assault will have inflicted other casualties. If you're a small enough company you don't pay damages, you declare bankruptcy and dissolve the corporation.
This is where the paranoia creeps in again. Microsoft isn't going to sue individual users or businesses that use Mono applications. They could do it just like I could sue you for defamation of character if I wanted to but that's not going to get very far in court. The point I was trying to make is that Banshee and other applications built using Mono aren't just going to go away because of Microsoft..NET compatiblity isn't needed for them to operate so even if it became an issue users wouldn't be affected. If you're a developer just stay away from Microsoft's libraries. The only company that needs to fear being sued is the company that created Mono and that company is Novell so I doubt that is going to happen considering the deal they struck. They are the only ones legally liable for patent violations. If I buy a car from Ford and they are sued by GM because of a patent violation, GM can't then demand that I pay them for the patent violation.
The review isn't even worth reading because they don't compare a PC Power and Cooling PSU. I don't trust anything else because even the other big name brands use a bunch of gimmicky crap in their PSUs.
I agree, and it reminds me of something that happened a year or so ago. I run Gentoo Linux on my laptop and I'm the only person in my office not running XP (and now a few are running Vista). I like XP ok, but my co-workers find it strange that I stick with Linux. One day I was showing someone a video on my system when the ALSA sound drives hosed. Happed every once in a while in KDE, so I said "Let me fix this first" and I restarted alsasound.
Agreed. In fact I had a serious issue on Windows with a Sigmatel driver on a Gateway desktop a couple of years ago that could only be resolved by rebooting the computer and even then that wasn't 100%. I tried everything to get it to work reliably. I even contacted Gateway who said they knew it was a problem but had no idea how to fix it. The issue was never resolved and we ended up just buying a new soundcard. That's one of the main reasons I use Linux. It may not be perfect but neither is Windows but when I do have a problem with Linux it is generally much easier to work around or fix than it is in Windows.
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I've done the test and it does not happen for me. Somehow I got modded troll just because everyone and their mom is blaming their issues on this bug without even reporting test results. They are just assuming that any perfromance issue they are having is related to this bug. I'm not claiming this bug doesn't exist but people are jumping to conclusions without even knowing the details of their issues.
The bruteforce is done offline. The only thing you need to bruteforce WPA is a handshake that you can obtain by sniffing passively. There is no connection being made to the router. Once you have a handshake, and have brute-forced the key, you just spoof the mac address of the computer that made the handshake and connect with the correct key. There is no trace of your activity.
Mac addresses are easily spoofed. RADIUS can also be brute forced. You also have to use IPSec to encypt the RADIUS message and use strong passwords.
Grub to GDM for me is about 15 seconds. My desktop is pretty heavy to it takes another 15 seconds to completely load after I login.
I think way too many people are blaming their issues on this bug. Some of them may be valid but others probably have something misconfigured or maybe it only affects certain hardware. I don't expereience this bug. My interactivity does not suffer when I do anything I/O intensive.
I don't think any of those things are difficult to do with the exception of syncing devices. This is changing though. As far as "messing" with photos, making presentations, listening to music, and scanning documents, this has not only been possible for quite some time now but it is pretty straightforward. Games are another issue. While most games sold in stores were not made to work with Linux most average users don't buy them. They tend to play flash games online. Only hard core gamers would have an issue with playing games and they are a much smaller niche than they think.
Some people just aren't that intelligent and/or informed. We dump shitloads of CO2 into the environment but a lot of people still don't make the connection with global warming. People that do recognize the effects of global warming still tend to drive cars, use electricity, and heat their homes despite the negative impact on the environment.
It's not really a choice then is it? It's a matter or survival.
There is a local company around me that offers e-cycling and they guarantee that it is not shipped overseas to be processed. They claim everything is reprocessed in the US and then sent overseas to be used in new electronic manufacturing. I guess I'll have to look into it more to see how truthful these claims are.
You can't be serious? Do you really think the people working with this toxic waste know the dangers? I'm sure their government does but China isn't exactly a free society.
Does it really matter? Religion is used as the justification precisely because it doesn't have to be rational. That's dangerous.
You know what they say, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." The idea of a personal and all powerful god is a prime target for corruption.
There is a major flaw in your reasoning. You assume that the people living in 1850 are representative of the population over a 400 year period! You go on to list recent secular wars that obviously have high death tolls because of something called "the industrial revolution". You fail to mention any more modern religious wars though like the constant fighting between Israel and every surrouding Muslim country. You also fail to mention the war between Iraq and Iran. As for Christians, the most powerful country in the world for the past 50 years has been run by avowed Christians despite its secular standing, and it has had troops on the ground in some country every year for the past 50 years. Christianity has also been used in the United States to support lynching, enslavement, and bigotry.
Do you really believe that? Christians and Muslims believe in martyrdom. Combine that with the fact that a personal God pretty much guarantees that personal bigotry and tribalism is justified religiously, and you have someone who will stop at nothing for completely irrational reasons. When a purely political leader gets crushed militarily popular support wanes. Getting slaughtered in the name of God is considered an honor. People are much more likely to behave irrationaly if they think God supports them.
Western government and law is based on the principals of the enlightenment. The enlightment was a backlash against religion. Only murder and theft are commandments and also laws. Half of the other commandments have to deal with believing in God and only the Judeo-Christian God. If the ten most important laws in the Judeo-Christain belief system are barely represented in any Western country's laws how do you presume that they are based on Judeo-Christian principles?
It also contains horrific things. A lot of children's books offer moral value but that doesn't make me believe in talking elephants just as I don't beleive in the resurrection or other fairy tales in the bible.
No one is disparaging those values, just religion. You don't have to disparge those values to disparage religion. There are so many other things that are ridiculous.
This is exactly like your previous statement and I see similar statements like it a lot from religious people. Somehow you people think that throwing out religion means throwing out liberty, responsibility, and prosperity. You are the one who is being insulting. It's insulting to people like me and others who don't believe in fairy tales to be told that because we don't believe we're against everything you consider moral. I don't need God to tell me not to kill somone or steal from someone and quite frankly I think it's sad that you do.
Oh the irony!
Then it is misbranded. Centrino is intel cpu, intel wifi, and intel chipset.
If you live in California it can be even worse. Do you remember the story about the guy who stole golf clubs from Kmart? Because it was his third strike he was sentenced to 25 years to life.
I don't find anything spectacular about that. wallpaper, GTK, metacity, icon, and cursor themes are already in the same place. You can save them together as a specific theme.
That's only recently because Democrats have been winning elections. Wall Street pays off whoever is in power. They're both corrupt.
This is disengenious. Republicans have held the presidency for 20 of the last 28 years all while the executive branch has consildated its power. Republican Presidents like Bush and Nixon have claimed to be above the law.
I know I'll get shit on by slashdotters for saying this but most Libertarians are kooks who think its better to be controlled by corporations than government.
Get over it already. Bush was elected and re-elected despite his complete ignorance. The media portrayed Bush as someone who would clean up Washington during his first campaign and they portrayed him in his seconds election as no different from Kerry in any meaningful way. These narratives have cropped up in the media during every election but they don't tend to favor one party in particular. They have been used to favor candidates from both parties. They're just talking points and the media pciks whatever story they find more compelling.
Stop drinking the koolaid. Both parties had their role to play in this. The housing bubble started way before Democrats had control of Congress.
The man hasn't even taken office yet, give him a break. First you shout that he Obama has no experience and then you shout that he's surrounding himself with people with experience. You can't have it both ways. Ultimately the executive decisions are up to Obama. If he lets them influence him in a way that perpetuates the same old policies then we can shout at him. We'll have to wait and see what happens though.
That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Considering there really aren't many silverlight applications that exist now other than demoes I don't think it's an issue for anyone. Just like shockwave really isn't an issue and even though java is available it really wouldn't be much of a problem if it wasn't. Almost the entire internet at this point is available with only support for HTML/CSS, Javascript, and Flash.
I disagree. Strictly metal cases transfer heat to your lap much more effectively than other materials. They are also prone to electrical problems like arcing. Newer thinkpads utilize carbon fiber and magnesium alloy.
If stoning people to death is considered "morality" then I'd be glad to call myself immoral. If you don't believe in stoning people to death then how do you choose what parts of the bible are moral and which parts are to be ignored? Who makes the distinction? You? If you you do then I guess religion has nothing to do with "morality". I've been at the deathbed of more than a couple family members and I wasn't carrying any books. I was there because they are family, I loved them and wanted to be with them to comfort them as the passed away. It has nothing to do with religion. It's called compassion and love and is not the sole domain of religion.
So you're saying that only religion can allevaiate suffering? That's the problem with you religious people. You think that the only reason people aren't self serving monsters is because of religion. Give yourself some credit. I really don't think you would be a depressed, murderous maniac without religion. You would probably just have a little more time on Sunday and wouldn't feel the need to convert everyone to your point of view. It's actually kind of nice to have a healthy debate without having to refer to one ancient and ridiculous text for all of your beliefs.
I wouldn't call Thinkpad design "butt ugly" but utilitarian. That's what I like about the design. I hate all the rounded corners and extra plastic that most laptops come with now. I couldn't care less about some stupid inlaid design on the lid with a glossy finish. Some HP's actually come with a shammy cloth so you can get rid of fingerprints. That's just stupid. The thing is meant to be handled. Who wants to spend time "waxing" their laptop.
Damn that sucks. I haven't built a desktop in a while so I haven't bought a PSU in a couple of years and didn't know that. I hope the quality doesn't suffer.
You're right you better watch out. Microsoft is going to track you down and sue you. You could just follow Chryslers lead and ignore them, it doesn't cost a dime and when they actually went to court the judge dismissed the charges. You can't prevent being sued in any case even for ludicrous charges. Have you ever seen People's Court? When the law is on your side though you shouldn't be so paranoid.
You know what they say about assumption...nevermind. The fact that you think you have to clear this hurdle just to use a music player is delusional. I'm not sure where your irrational fears about being sued by Microsoft are coming from but you should probably get your head checked out.
This is where the paranoia creeps in again. Microsoft isn't going to sue individual users or businesses that use Mono applications. They could do it just like I could sue you for defamation of character if I wanted to but that's not going to get very far in court. The point I was trying to make is that Banshee and other applications built using Mono aren't just going to go away because of Microsoft. .NET compatiblity isn't needed for them to operate so even if it became an issue users wouldn't be affected. If you're a developer just stay away from Microsoft's libraries. The only company that needs to fear being sued is the company that created Mono and that company is Novell so I doubt that is going to happen considering the deal they struck. They are the only ones legally liable for patent violations. If I buy a car from Ford and they are sued by GM because of a patent violation, GM can't then demand that I pay them for the patent violation.
The review isn't even worth reading because they don't compare a PC Power and Cooling PSU. I don't trust anything else because even the other big name brands use a bunch of gimmicky crap in their PSUs.
Agreed. In fact I had a serious issue on Windows with a Sigmatel driver on a Gateway desktop a couple of years ago that could only be resolved by rebooting the computer and even then that wasn't 100%. I tried everything to get it to work reliably. I even contacted Gateway who said they knew it was a problem but had no idea how to fix it. The issue was never resolved and we ended up just buying a new soundcard. That's one of the main reasons I use Linux. It may not be perfect but neither is Windows but when I do have a problem with Linux it is generally much easier to work around or fix than it is in Windows.