Diffs are fine until you lose the root file upon which they are based. Then you lose everything you've never changed. You need to do periodic full backups.
I can't wait until the Dilbert strip hits where the PHB does this across all their backups and deduplicates them all away, thinking he's just saved a ton of money on backup media.
I'm sure Pedobear at Comiccon had no intention of molesting children
Not according to the captioner of the last photo on the first fine article: "[Picture of dangerous child sex predator in a Pedobear costume at Comic Con by Orazyio]" Just because he's in costume and not otherwise identifiable in the photo (accompanying article calls him "young man"), does that mean they can get away with such libel? They didn't even use the word "alleged"!
Who is responsible for that caption: Orazyio? Gawker? Vallywag? the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department?
Firewire shuts down when copyprotected content is being shown. Already tried that a few years ago. The stream will start, you'll get a few seconds, then it'll shut down.
It could just be failing the HDCP handshake on the Firewire connection. This may enable the ability to make that handshake and get it to provide the stream using keys you generate, which means you can then decrypt the stream.
I'm hoping someone with the skills gets multi-platform drivers written to do this quickly before they send the update to the cable boxes to disable those Firewire ports.
I dislike unnecessarily shortened URLs. It's like people who will abbreviate every word they can in a text message when they're not sending anything near the limit. (Or worse, in contexts where there are no such limits.) Now there are programs for tweeters that will automatically shorten every embedded URL this way. I'd much rather they only shorten them when needed.
Meanwhile news sites should be paying attention to which stories get more traffic and proactively provide their own short paths to the story for purposes of tweeting.
And if Twitter wanted control over shortening services, they should just adopt their own syntax for it. "^code" could be remapped in their own database to hyperlink on display, mouse-over could still expand before following, and would take far less space than "http://T.co/code". And they still could do it through a redirection URL so they can track click-through like FARK.com does, using scripting to rewrite the status bar to hide the full redirection URL.
Unless they really want to track the sharing of the links off-site, just to have the most information possible. (And the Referer [sic] header handles differentiation there.) Then they could combine it all: ^code in sight maps to http://t.co/code cite which redirects to site, with mouse-over showing full site's URL cite to user's sight, but copying the link and pasting gets the tico code cite.
You don't get it. They've tried to take the stick to me twice. Why should I consider accepting any carrots from them later? They should be thankful they're only losing a customer (even if just to repurchase a damaged disk) and not gaining a pirate. I'm not even a drain on their bandwidth anymore.
Or am I obligated to be an eternal revenue stream to them? Are they going to have federal agents kick in my door because my PS3 hasn't connected to their service for a year?
These events are not all, even just sticking to Sony's gaming division. Did you forget the rumble debacle? Did you repurchase new controllers for a feature they assured was incompatible, a cheap gimmick, and would never be coming? And the war against the used game market? If they keep pushing with single-use activation codes to make disks as non-transferable as downloads, I'd need that jailbreak just to use what I'd pay for at retail without using their on-line service, let alone used games. Then again, buying used games makes me a pirate to them anyway.
Of course I'd be less concerned if I had a slim unit. If I never had Other OS capability, I wouldn't care as much about letting them close this exploit now. But they'd have to have something really amazing to compel me to buy new PS3 hardware. (And I still wouldn't let my fat unit upgrade. Though, bright side: if they hadn't tried to take away the feature, the resale value wouldn't have increased!)
The first? The one that removed the Other OS option that triggered this. I still have that option on mine. I haven't exercised it yet, but I want to preserve it, if only for preserving the resale value.
And still I'm considering the jailbreak. Why not achieve even more utility out of my device now that I've been committed to not using the associated service?
I only have two PS3 games. Not much to back up. But it might be fun to tweak them into doing other things, maybe altering them to be more conducive to machinima.
There is: for blocking other vendors from implementing the same feature without paying Apple royalties. Why else would you patent anything?
To avoid paying royalties to somebody else.
Having prior art should be sufficient to prevent that, patenting an extension to a patent by someone else doesn't get out of your obligation to the other person, and receiving a patent is (not yet) a declaration that no prior art exists.
Quantum Leap should be an easy dataset to compile: the dates are part of the episode titles, all available on IMDb, with the episodes involving multiple leaps being very few: Genesis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Trilogy come to mind. Unless you also want to include how many days he spent in each leap.
Is there a significance to which side of the timeline an arc is drawn? Is it forward vs. backward travel, or is that determined by which end of the arc gets an endpoint?
Product placement already exists in books. At least, in novelizations of movies that also contained product placement.
The novelization of the movie WarGames includes a bit where David Lightman relaxes by reading a shoplifted book-by-same-author
The novelization of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial has product placement for M&Ms (which was intended to be the product placement in the movie, but was turned down, replaced with Reese's Pieces -- the book even makes note of E.T. recognizing the "m" on the candy and pushing the same letter on the Speak 'n' Spell)
IIRC even the novelization of Jurassic Park had product placement for Jolt Cola and Barbasol
Surprisingly, that shoplifting passage of WarGames remains even in the Science Fiction Book Club edition of the book which scrubs all the drug references and improves the main characters' school attendance and grades (apart from the key scene about fixing their Fs in Biology and getting a D in Home Ec.).
Manufacturers worry about being sued as an accessory for enabling a feature that directly assists in commission of a crime. If it is technically feasible that they could take measures to prevent its misuse, that becomes mandatory, else they're being reckless and contributory. Putting it in the EULA as a prohibited use might not protect them at all and serve only to prove they knew it could be used illegally.
It isn't feasible for a hammer to detect skin (let alone stop your arm in mid-swing), a car to read posted speed limits, or a gun to detect a uniform, so there's no manufacturer liability for those actions unless they marketed them for specific illegal uses.
It is however apparently feasible for a photocopier or scanner to recognize paper currency and refuse to operate. I wonder if printed-media publishers are looking into ways to make photocopiers and scanners think their pages are made of money to gain the same automated policing against casual infringement.
Actually, one could argue "website.com/passwords" isn't security through obscurity either... Just a poorly chosen password. Imagine it was at "website.com/tron4735439sfdd" instead (without links or a directory listing of course). That's not really any different than logging into an account via a password, which is basically just fetching "user=tron&pass=4735439sfdd".
There's a reason why the standard syntax "http[s]://username:password@example.com/" is not used. Any system that obscures a password by not displaying it in plain text on the screen is better than one that doesn't (and persistently at that). Even better if it does not send it over an insecure link in plain text where any packet sniffer could read it.
I'm carrying a device that makes phone calls, plays music, has digital memory, and sometimes includes the ability to take voice memos, but it does not include built-in a feature for recording incoming and outgoing phone calls to that memory, all because of differing jurisdictions over whether or not you can record calls to which you're a party.
These things have GPS built-in! Can't you just code the feature so that it complies with your location's laws?! Disable for certain corrupt-government regions, enable for others but regularly beeps, starts with an automated announcement, or runs in stealth mode according to your jurisdiction? Come on!
As a bonus, include the ability to disable cell phones entirely based on GPS location so you no longer have to confiscate them when people enter your military base.
And hey, can we get an exclusion to the wiretapping law for parents and legal guardians of minors so that they can monitor little Jimmy's drug trafficking deals and Jenny's prostitution hook-ups?
"The question they asked was not whether men would rather date bosses or secretaries," she [Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Deborah Blum] told me. "It was whether they'd be more attracted to a women who could tell you if you could go to the bathroom or not, or a women who brought you coffee."
I should derive a bullshit statistic on how many Pulitzer prize winners don't know the difference between the plural "women" and the singular "woman", though I'm pretty sure it is Christie Keith's own error in failing to accurately quote her. Either that, or her editor is an idiot or a dyslexic that hasn't learned to overcome his/her disability.
"And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft palates, speaking lines by dyslexic writers, filmed by blind cameramen, instead of merely seeming like that, it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile." -- Douglas Adams, radio play 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (Fit the Eleventh)
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Diffs are fine until you lose the root file upon which they are based. Then you lose everything you've never changed. You need to do periodic full backups.
I can't wait until the Dilbert strip hits where the PHB does this across all their backups and deduplicates them all away, thinking he's just saved a ton of money on backup media.
Redundancy can be a very good thing!
I'm sure Pedobear at Comiccon had no intention of molesting children
Not according to the captioner of the last photo on the first fine article: "[Picture of dangerous child sex predator in a Pedobear costume at Comic Con by Orazyio]" Just because he's in costume and not otherwise identifiable in the photo (accompanying article calls him "young man"), does that mean they can get away with such libel? They didn't even use the word "alleged"!
Who is responsible for that caption: Orazyio? Gawker? Vallywag? the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department?
You mean like, "Not that there isn't everything wrong about that"?
Next question: "Would you support a law that prohibits minors from purchasing A Clockwork Orange on DVD, Blu-ray, or its soundtrack on CD?"
(Analog media like VHS would be OK since the violent and sexual imagery would be sufficiently degraded.)
Especially if they think you can start World War III by whistling into a telephone.
Firewire shuts down when copyprotected content is being shown. Already tried that a few years ago. The stream will start, you'll get a few seconds, then it'll shut down.
It could just be failing the HDCP handshake on the Firewire connection. This may enable the ability to make that handshake and get it to provide the stream using keys you generate, which means you can then decrypt the stream.
I'm hoping someone with the skills gets multi-platform drivers written to do this quickly before they send the update to the cable boxes to disable those Firewire ports.
I dislike unnecessarily shortened URLs. It's like people who will abbreviate every word they can in a text message when they're not sending anything near the limit. (Or worse, in contexts where there are no such limits.) Now there are programs for tweeters that will automatically shorten every embedded URL this way. I'd much rather they only shorten them when needed.
Meanwhile news sites should be paying attention to which stories get more traffic and proactively provide their own short paths to the story for purposes of tweeting.
And if Twitter wanted control over shortening services, they should just adopt their own syntax for it. "^code" could be remapped in their own database to hyperlink on display, mouse-over could still expand before following, and would take far less space than "http://T.co/code". And they still could do it through a redirection URL so they can track click-through like FARK.com does, using scripting to rewrite the status bar to hide the full redirection URL.
Unless they really want to track the sharing of the links off-site, just to have the most information possible. (And the Referer [sic] header handles differentiation there.) Then they could combine it all: ^code in sight maps to http://t.co/code cite which redirects to site, with mouse-over showing full site's URL cite to user's sight, but copying the link and pasting gets the tico code cite.
This would kill the used game market... in the 9th district.
You don't get it. They've tried to take the stick to me twice. Why should I consider accepting any carrots from them later? They should be thankful they're only losing a customer (even if just to repurchase a damaged disk) and not gaining a pirate. I'm not even a drain on their bandwidth anymore.
Or am I obligated to be an eternal revenue stream to them? Are they going to have federal agents kick in my door because my PS3 hasn't connected to their service for a year?
These events are not all, even just sticking to Sony's gaming division. Did you forget the rumble debacle? Did you repurchase new controllers for a feature they assured was incompatible, a cheap gimmick, and would never be coming? And the war against the used game market? If they keep pushing with single-use activation codes to make disks as non-transferable as downloads, I'd need that jailbreak just to use what I'd pay for at retail without using their on-line service, let alone used games. Then again, buying used games makes me a pirate to them anyway.
Of course I'd be less concerned if I had a slim unit. If I never had Other OS capability, I wouldn't care as much about letting them close this exploit now. But they'd have to have something really amazing to compel me to buy new PS3 hardware. (And I still wouldn't let my fat unit upgrade. Though, bright side: if they hadn't tried to take away the feature, the resale value wouldn't have increased!)
Great. Another update I won't be installing.
The first? The one that removed the Other OS option that triggered this. I still have that option on mine. I haven't exercised it yet, but I want to preserve it, if only for preserving the resale value.
And still I'm considering the jailbreak. Why not achieve even more utility out of my device now that I've been committed to not using the associated service?
I only have two PS3 games. Not much to back up. But it might be fun to tweak them into doing other things, maybe altering them to be more conducive to machinima.
It's pretty obvious that:
There is: for blocking other vendors from implementing the same feature without paying Apple royalties. Why else would you patent anything?
To avoid paying royalties to somebody else.
Having prior art should be sufficient to prevent that, patenting an extension to a patent by someone else doesn't get out of your obligation to the other person, and receiving a patent is (not yet) a declaration that no prior art exists.
Quantum Leap should be an easy dataset to compile: the dates are part of the episode titles, all available on IMDb, with the episodes involving multiple leaps being very few: Genesis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Trilogy come to mind. Unless you also want to include how many days he spent in each leap.
Is there a significance to which side of the timeline an arc is drawn? Is it forward vs. backward travel, or is that determined by which end of the arc gets an endpoint?
Maybe there is a legitimate use for this patent
There is: for blocking other vendors from implementing the same feature without paying Apple royalties. Why else would you patent anything?
That's why you don't see people other than the inventor commercially exploiting swinging sideways on a swingset.
So is "Bob's your uncle" an accurate idiomatic translation.
Product placement already exists in books. At least, in novelizations of movies that also contained product placement.
Surprisingly, that shoplifting passage of WarGames remains even in the Science Fiction Book Club edition of the book which scrubs all the drug references and improves the main characters' school attendance and grades (apart from the key scene about fixing their Fs in Biology and getting a D in Home Ec.).
Not just Spanish, but also not "what" in Spanish.
Would that explain my not seeing the accent in "qué"? Because "que" doesn't mean that; it means "that".
Manufacturers worry about being sued as an accessory for enabling a feature that directly assists in commission of a crime. If it is technically feasible that they could take measures to prevent its misuse, that becomes mandatory, else they're being reckless and contributory. Putting it in the EULA as a prohibited use might not protect them at all and serve only to prove they knew it could be used illegally.
It isn't feasible for a hammer to detect skin (let alone stop your arm in mid-swing), a car to read posted speed limits, or a gun to detect a uniform, so there's no manufacturer liability for those actions unless they marketed them for specific illegal uses.
It is however apparently feasible for a photocopier or scanner to recognize paper currency and refuse to operate. I wonder if printed-media publishers are looking into ways to make photocopiers and scanners think their pages are made of money to gain the same automated policing against casual infringement.
There's a reason why the standard syntax "http[s]://username:password@example.com/" is not used. Any system that obscures a password by not displaying it in plain text on the screen is better than one that doesn't (and persistently at that). Even better if it does not send it over an insecure link in plain text where any packet sniffer could read it.
This has annoyed me for awhile now.
I'm carrying a device that makes phone calls, plays music, has digital memory, and sometimes includes the ability to take voice memos, but it does not include built-in a feature for recording incoming and outgoing phone calls to that memory, all because of differing jurisdictions over whether or not you can record calls to which you're a party.
These things have GPS built-in! Can't you just code the feature so that it complies with your location's laws?! Disable for certain corrupt-government regions, enable for others but regularly beeps, starts with an automated announcement, or runs in stealth mode according to your jurisdiction? Come on!
As a bonus, include the ability to disable cell phones entirely based on GPS location so you no longer have to confiscate them when people enter your military base.
And hey, can we get an exclusion to the wiretapping law for parents and legal guardians of minors so that they can monitor little Jimmy's drug trafficking deals and Jenny's prostitution hook-ups?
I should derive a bullshit statistic on how many Pulitzer prize winners don't know the difference between the plural "women" and the singular "woman", though I'm pretty sure it is Christie Keith's own error in failing to accurately quote her. Either that, or her editor is an idiot or a dyslexic that hasn't learned to overcome his/her disability.
"And when all the programs on all the channels actually were made by actors with cleft palates, speaking lines by dyslexic writers, filmed by blind cameramen, instead of merely seeming like that, it somehow made the whole thing more worthwhile." -- Douglas Adams, radio play 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (Fit the Eleventh)
This Building Is Equipped With
WiFi Wireless Internet
Do not attempt to connect using
Ethernet cable. Simply install WiFi
access card into laptop computer.
---==o--O->--()--<-O--o==---
The use of WiFi for communications is in no way harmful
to health, nor does it affect the soundness of sleep.
So if I trademark the human head, I could file a lawsuit against people displaying their heads in public and have their heads confiscated?