Most of the article focuses on 1 billion vs 3-legged dogs. Only the last paragraph mentions that a total of 16000 researchers will be funded. I'm quite sure some of the remaining 15995 are doing something useful or interesting too, but somehow they neglect to mention this.
A typical example of modern media hyping things up, a submitter that makes it even worse, and a Slashdot editor who thinks what the heck it's summer lets put it on the front page.
> ChromeOS is a good, fairly simple example of how to do away with malware (ONCE AND FOR ALL
Hmmm. The Chrome browser already had it's share of vulnerabilities. It sounds like you are claiming that by wrapping it in a new OS this suddenly no longer can or will happen.
On top of that, no matter how good the OS might be that they started with, they are turning it upside down and inside out which I think will not improve initial quality or security either.
And think of this: If there ever will be a keylogger for ChromeOS it will be as profitable as with any other OS. Or even more profitable, because every action logged is web-related and therefore possibly exploitable, whereas on a regular OS my days worth of local Photoshop work and editing my thesis are useless crap for a logger to ignore while looking for the good stuff.
I will certainly give ChromeOS a try, but it will not be for the reasons that you mention.
For those who haven't seen it yet, here is a movie about how the LHC works; from single Hydrogen atoms to extremely powerful particle proton beams: http://www.snotr.com/video/3393 (Flash movie alert)
Most if not all versions of IE (6+, and probably older ones too) have a feature called search from address bar. With this setting enabled, anything typed in the address bar which does not resolve to a website, is passed on to the default search engine, whichever that may be.
Perhaps a recent update turned this feature ON for people who had it turned OFF? But the feature itself is most definitely not new or news.
> Does anyone... care to shed some light on the matter
I'm doing that right now. Hope my batteries will keep up. Hard to keep it pointed in the right direction too. And since M51 is 31 million light-years distant, I am not sure we will be here to see the reflection when it hits us in 62 million years.
Enhance your experience on Microsoft.com with Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight delivers a new generation of high-quality audio and video, engaging media experiences, and interactive applications for the Web. Approximately a 1MB download and a 20-second install. [Click to install] By clicking "Click to install" you accept the Silverlight License Agreement.
And there is even a tiny [No Thanks] button. Of course that was what I picked:-)
Some time ago I tried LimeWire - and gave up on it soon, because at least half of all search results were viruses disguised using the keywords that I was looking for. Even searching for nonsense such as saffsdfsdsfdafdsa produced long lists of so-called hits.
So I'd say there is a trojan, virus, botnet or whatever out there that can speak the LimeWire/GnuTella protocol and will try to infect you. I'm guessing that this study did not look at the actual files that were offered. And what they "measured" was probably a botnet, instead of a supposedly popular tool.
I'll have you know FAT32 partititions are limited to 4 GB
No, FAT32 files are limited to 4 GB.
FAT32 partitions are limited to 2 TB, at least in theory.
In practice you won't see many beyond 124 GB, to prevent MS Scandisk from failing.
Source: Wikipedia Fat32
But it's easier to pull things out of your ass or mention hear-say facts
As you have just proven to us...
* except maybe a few other game addicts (many of which you probably have never met IRL)
Although in such a case, reasons and consequences usually are hard to distinguish. So mod me Flamebait... That does not keep you from knowing it is all too often true!
Just about every device needs power in the 5 to 20 volt DC range to operate. No matter if it is 25 days old, or 25 years old. In the old days there was a transformer and an AC/DC rig to achieve this. And a big fat Power switch, to connect the transformer to the high voltage AC supply. This used to be all built into the device - think: big old fat radio, stereo, or TV. Because it was easy and convenient, because it was a big fat apparatus anyway.
And ON really meant ON, and OFF meant OFF.
Then came Stand-by mode. OFF suddenly meant: a little bit ON. Goodbye to the big fat Power switch. Enter the apparatus that consumes power all day long.
Then, everything started shrinking, to become portable, "personal", etc. So now we have the i-Pod, mobile phone, MP3 player, laptop computer, Discman, PDA, GPS. "We" want to take them wherever we go, so they have to be light, Battery powered, nobody wants a big heavy transformer inside of course. Enter thousands of battery chargers. And because we are lazy, we keep the chargers plugged in, all year long.
It's a trend. Not one that I necessarily like.
Why are there no chargers that we can keep plugged in, with true mechanical ON/OFF switches?
Although the Netcraft toolbar does the job, it slowed my browsing experience so much as to be unusable. Sometimes it made me wait for a minute before giving the green (or red) signal. Or sometimes there simply was no reply at all from their servers. I found that I'm smart enough to decide on my own if a Phishing attempt is being made, so far with a 100% score. And my brain works a whole lot faster than the Netcraft servers.
And I did RTFA (several of them). Yes, you can oust me later:-)
It is non-profit because what they want to do will cost a lot, and there is no mining going to be done. The idea that the B612 Foundation would want to 'capture' or even 'slice up' an asteroid exists only in the rampant imagination of the submitter. It is not to be found in, or derived from any of the linked articles.
All the Foundation wants to do is (1) land on an asteroid and (2) deflect it slightly, as a proof of concept.
Besides, the asteroid mentioned in the Yahoo article is about 40 times smaller than the one the Foundation hopes to deflect, because such a puny asteroid is not worth deflecting, as it would burn up on entry anyway.
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Most of the article focuses on 1 billion vs 3-legged dogs. Only the last paragraph mentions that a total of 16000 researchers will be funded. I'm quite sure some of the remaining 15995 are doing something useful or interesting too, but somehow they neglect to mention this.
A typical example of modern media hyping things up, a submitter that makes it even worse, and a Slashdot editor who thinks what the heck it's summer lets put it on the front page.
> ChromeOS is a good, fairly simple example of how to do away with malware (ONCE AND FOR ALL
Hmmm. The Chrome browser already had it's share of vulnerabilities. It sounds like you are claiming that by wrapping it in a new OS this suddenly no longer can or will happen.
On top of that, no matter how good the OS might be that they started with, they are turning it upside down and inside out which I think will not improve initial quality or security either.
And think of this: If there ever will be a keylogger for ChromeOS it will be as profitable as with any other OS. Or even more profitable, because every action logged is web-related and therefore possibly exploitable, whereas on a regular OS my days worth of local Photoshop work and editing my thesis are useless crap for a logger to ignore while looking for the good stuff.
I will certainly give ChromeOS a try, but it will not be for the reasons that you mention.
This may be of help:
http://www.snotr.com/video/3393
For those who haven't seen it yet, here is a movie about how the LHC works; from single Hydrogen atoms to extremely powerful particle proton beams:
http://www.snotr.com/video/3393 (Flash movie alert)
Most if not all versions of IE (6+, and probably older ones too) have a feature called search from address bar. With this setting enabled, anything typed in the address bar which does not resolve to a website, is passed on to the default search engine, whichever that may be.
Perhaps a recent update turned this feature ON for people who had it turned OFF? But the feature itself is most definitely not new or news.
> Does anyone ... care to shed some light on the matter
I'm doing that right now. Hope my batteries will keep up. Hard to keep it pointed in the right direction too. And since M51 is 31 million light-years distant, I am not sure we will be here to see the reflection when it hits us in 62 million years.
The perfect phone call would tell me my salary has been doubled, or my work hours have been cut in half. Or both
Using FF3 with Stylish, and the style below, I get beautiful 700-pixel wide Subject and Comment fields:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("slashdot.org") {
textarea { width: 700px !important }
input[name="postersubj"] { width: 700px !important }
}
Enjoy ;-)
> odd that did not really start some sort of significant promotion for their technology (unless I missed it)
:-)
They certainly are promoting it. Even using Firefox 2.0 (on Win XP), http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx opens with a box "layered" on top of the main page:
Enhance your experience on Microsoft.com with Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight delivers a new generation of high-quality audio and video, engaging media experiences, and interactive applications for the Web.
Approximately a 1MB download and a 20-second install.
[Click to install]
By clicking "Click to install" you accept the Silverlight License Agreement.
And there is even a tiny [No Thanks] button.
Of course that was what I picked
Some time ago I tried LimeWire - and gave up on it soon, because at least half of all search results were viruses disguised using the keywords that I was looking for. Even searching for nonsense such as saffsdfsdsfdafdsa produced long lists of so-called hits.
So I'd say there is a trojan, virus, botnet or whatever out there that can speak the LimeWire/GnuTella protocol and will try to infect you.
I'm guessing that this study did not look at the actual files that were offered. And what they "measured" was probably a botnet, instead of a supposedly popular tool.
Even though I think the submitter is totally whining for nothing, the Google cache claim by grandparent is accurate.
;-)
Google query: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.amazon.com+inurl%3AB00005RSB2+Jazz+import+box
Locate the URL that is in the summary and then click "Cached" right below it.
Please check your facts before posting.
And here's hoping that the Google cache doesn't update too soon or I'll get flamed
No, he was reading Slashdot all day
... the Dutch will find it.
Here's how
Disable Caps Lock in Windows, or remap it to act like Shift or Ctrl:
the site, the mirror.
They did NOT typo-squat "all of .com". .cm".
They typo-squatted "all of
Quite a difference, if you ask me.
Unless you are a sensationalist, of course.
Oh pflease...
I'll have you know FAT32 partititions are limited to 4 GB
No, FAT32 files are limited to 4 GB.
FAT32 partitions are limited to 2 TB, at least in theory.
In practice you won't see many beyond 124 GB, to prevent MS Scandisk from failing.
Source: Wikipedia Fat32
But it's easier to pull things out of your ass or mention hear-say facts
As you have just proven to us...
> Reasons to turn on your 360?
I always thought the reasons were...
No girl
No friends*
No life
* except maybe a few other game addicts (many of which you probably have never met IRL)
Although in such a case, reasons and consequences usually are hard to distinguish.
So mod me Flamebait... That does not keep you from knowing it is all too often true!
My thoughts exactly!
On top of that, I also like the subtle shading of the green & gray title areas. To me, the winner is a lot better than the pale and bland runner up.
Still, why not add a Style choice to the preferences?
On Topic:
Just about every device needs power in the 5 to 20 volt DC range to operate. No matter if it is 25 days old, or 25 years old.
In the old days there was a transformer and an AC/DC rig to achieve this. And a big fat Power switch, to connect the transformer to the high voltage AC supply.
This used to be all built into the device - think: big old fat radio, stereo, or TV. Because it was easy and convenient, because it was a big fat apparatus anyway.
And ON really meant ON, and OFF meant OFF.
Then came Stand-by mode. OFF suddenly meant: a little bit ON.
Goodbye to the big fat Power switch. Enter the apparatus that consumes power all day long.
Then, everything started shrinking, to become portable, "personal", etc.
So now we have the i-Pod, mobile phone, MP3 player, laptop computer, Discman, PDA, GPS. "We" want to take them wherever we go, so they have to be light, Battery powered, nobody wants a big heavy transformer inside of course. Enter thousands of battery chargers. And because we are lazy, we keep the chargers plugged in, all year long.
It's a trend. Not one that I necessarily like.
Why are there no chargers that we can keep plugged in, with true mechanical ON/OFF switches?
ScuttleMonkey and Beatles-Beatles are friends
Worse yet: I believe they are the same person.
I think he simply accepts his own submissions.
He's trying to lay low/cut back, but can't resist.
Although the Netcraft toolbar does the job, it slowed my browsing experience so much as to be unusable. Sometimes it made me wait for a minute before giving the green (or red) signal. Or sometimes there simply was no reply at all from their servers. I found that I'm smart enough to decide on my own if a Phishing attempt is being made, so far with a 100% score. And my brain works a whole lot faster than the Netcraft servers.
Don't know about others.
The best part is: we can now sue Google as well.
Why? Because this google cache page shows the same "ALERT" without performing a system scan!
And I did RTFA (several of them). Yes, you can oust me later :-)
It is non-profit because what they want to do will cost a lot, and there is no mining going to be done. The idea that the B612 Foundation would want to 'capture' or even 'slice up' an asteroid exists only in the rampant imagination of the submitter. It is not to be found in, or derived from any of the linked articles.
All the Foundation wants to do is (1) land on an asteroid and (2) deflect it slightly, as a proof of concept.
Besides, the asteroid mentioned in the Yahoo article is about 40 times smaller than the one the Foundation hopes to deflect, because such a puny asteroid is not worth deflecting, as it would burn up on entry anyway.