The difference is that one address or ten addresses receive some types of spam but probably not all types. So it is easier to block spam for a small number of addresses. If you're hosting 10 million mail accounts, you're going to see every sort of spam there is, which means you will see all the trickiest stuff to filter. Also you have to be much more careful about false positives because you're always messing with the mail of an enormous number of people, some of whom inevitably work for CNN and are just waiting for you to make a mistake.
also, one of the biggest failings of the gimp, ( from a usability point of view, especially for someone new to it,) would appear to be the neccessity of double clicking for every tool. since it acts like every window, (toolbox etc.) is a separate application, you need to click once, and then click again to select the tool. this may be an osX eccentricity, if so please correct me.
Either of these options should solve this problem for you. From the quartz-wm man page:
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true
Enables focus-follows-mouse mode. Windows belonging to the X server may then be focused by moving the pointer over them, as well as the default mode of clicking in them.
The only things you have to worry about these databases is that they don't get into the wrong hands.
You also have to worry about inaccurate information about you being stored in the database and your having no recourse. You may never know why you're being blackballed unless someone takes pity on you and tells you. Even if you know about the bad info, good luck getting something purged from FBI files.
The 10.3.4 update ran smoothly for me until the installer asked me to click the "Restart" butter to reboot the system. I clicked it, and clicked it again but the system stayed up. I ran "top" and saw that SecurityAgent was running, chewing up 50-60% of the CPU. I went off to dinner and returned a half-hour later and SecurityAgent was still running. The system would not be restarted with the GUI no-way no-how, so I used "sudo reboot". The system rebooted and apparently all is well.
There were two users logged in at the time (via Fast User Switching), myself and a non-admin user. Apple may not have tested the upgrade in that situation, so I'd advise running the upgrade with only a single user logged in.
No need for psychic communicators. They've had working time travel in the Trek universe for a long time. The first few words you say into a communicator (announcing source and destination) are sent a few seconds into the past where the computer there analyzes them and forwards them to the correct recipient in such a way that there is zero delay between when you speak them and the recipient receives them. After that the conversation can proceed normally. No doubt a clever use of the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline
You might remember that Amazon.com had a good reputation in the beginning too, promising to never release the customer information of those who requested it. Later, things changed and suddenly pretty much anything was for sale (if you read the privacy statement carefully) and the opt-out provision was removed. It doesn't matter what Google says now. What matters is what they will say after they have petabytes of mail stored and someone there has a new bright idea how to "monetize" it. This guy Silverstein sounds like a good guy, but don't mistake him for the company.
What I dislike about so many of these publications is the either-or aspect. EIther there is good writing and no math, or math galore and little to no explanation. Why can't we have a book with the simple explanations AND the math side by side so we can at least try to see the beauty in what theorists accomplish by moving symbols around. Hofstader showed it could be done, see Godel, Escher, Bach. It's not an easy book to get through but it rewards you if you stick with it.
Why are you proxying the https port? One of the points of SSL is the explicit verification that the remote end is who they say they are. If you're proxying the https port, you're essentially inserting a "man in the middle" of the connection, which I wouldn't expect to work. iTunes likely has the iTunes store's public key stored somewhere and there's no way your proxy is going to be able to insinuate itself into the connection without iTunes knowing about it. If the use of SSL is to mean anything iTunes has to reject the connection if the keys don't match.
But Apple doesn't want to win, at least not in the way you think. Apple wants to sell products to people who are willing to payh more for quality. There are enough of these people to make Apple a very profitable company. When they strayed from this and tried to compete with the likes of Dell they got crushed. If the DRM/media market starts looking like it will be controlled by "da cheapest iz de greatest" crowd, Apple should bow out and leave that wallow to the pigs know it best.
Everyone should keep in mind that what Apple says right now might not be what Apple says in the future. The rules may change and the changes can apply retroactively to music you've already purchased. If you're prudent, you will immediately burn any music you download from the iTunes music store to non-DRMed media and hang on to that copy.
A few cracks and pop might add charm, but that original recording sounded terrible. Besides you can always put a few crackles back in; hip-hop artists do it all the time.
I think it makes a great deal of difference whether Apple is selling or renting the music. IANAL, so maybe a lawyer would shed more light, but if Apple is renting the music, then they have a say on how it may get played, on what hardware, software and who they are renting to, and for how long. On the other hand, if they are selling, then they have less powers after the sale is complete. There's 2 issues that I see:
1. What rights can Apple take away from you as a condition of a sale (not lease/rent/licensing)? Can they take away your fair use rights? If so, then "fair use" is not a "right" after all. So, is Apple really renting the music?
Looking at the iTunes Music Store Terms of Service it looks more like Apple is renting music than selling it. The duration of the rental is unspecified. Note these two paragraphs (emphasis is mine):
c. You agree that your purchase of Products constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to use such Products solely in accordance with the Usage Rules, and that any other use of the Products may constitute a copyright infringement. The security technology is an inseparable part of the Products. The Usage Rules shall govern your rights with respect to the Products, in addition to any other terms or rules that may have been established between you and another party.
Apple reserves the right to modify the Usage Rules at any time.
d. You acknowledge that some aspects of the Service, Products, and administering of the Usage Rules entails the ongoing involvement of Apple. Accordingly, in the event that Apple changes any part of the Service or discontinues the Service, which Apple may do at its election, you acknowledge that you may no longer be able to use Products to the same extent as prior to such change or discontinuation, and that Apple shall have no liability to you in such case.
Basically this says Apple retains control over the songs even though you've paid for them and Apple can decide that you can't play them anymore and you aren't allowed to do anything about it. All sales are final, so no refunds either. Your music is only your music so long as Apple says it is.
This is pretty darned draconian, even if only in theory. I can understand why some consumers might say "Look Apple, I paid for this music. Rip. Mix. Burn. See
Figure 1."
The topic is music and how the order in which songs are played affects the phsyche and the soul, and you guys have likely turned it into a 50-100 post discussion/argument/rant on the proper statistics to apply in various and sundry situations.
Hence displaying a short attention span.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Now, if the 250 gig hdd could pop out a new disc whenever you wanted, then it would be something a little more special, in my opinion.
No need to pop out a disk. USB and firewire drives can be connected and disconnected on the fly. I currently use a large drive like this for offsite backups. Plug it in, back up the data, unplug it and carry it offsite.
And 400 bucks for the primary unit, that realistically isn't that bad, especially if you have a monster of a computer system that has over 120 gigs of hdd space that needs backed up.
Yes, it is pretty bad. You can buy an external 250 GiB drive for $70 less than that with similar data transfer rates.
After all, how long will it be until we see a worm that uses distributed power to begin generating all possible MD5 hashes? A daunting task to be sure, but certainly not beyond the current state of computing power.
The MD5 hash space is 2^128. To store the texts that generate all possible hashes you would need 2^128 multipled by the space required for each corresponding text. That is well beyond the storage capacity of all the disks spinning on the planet today. 2^128 is a really big number. If the whole surface of the Earth were covered with 250 GB disks (including the oceans) you'd still be short of necessary storage space by a factor of at least 10^20.
For the average person that needs to be able to plug in their digital camera without going into the terminal window, we think that the user's experience with any brand of Linux will be sub-par.
Why, oh why must it be so?
It need not be so. Look at Apple. They sell user-friendly Unix systems. The iMac isn't even upgradable beyond adding a wireless card or more memory. You don't have to have an OS that works with every random piece of hardware. You just need a hardware/software bundle that people will pay for.
I don't understand how a computer that can compute millions of moves a sec. and probably 20-50 or more moves deep in a fairly short amount of time could possibly not win? Even a home computer I would think could compute thousands of moves a sec. How could any person possibly out think that???
Computers can look at many more positions per second than a human but that is not as helpful as you would think because most of the positions examined are bad ones. While humans compare poorly in linear computational speed to machines, we are much better at pattern matching. A grandmaster has studied so much chess that he or she can effortlessly recognize whether a position is a poor one. A GM probably does not even consider moves that would lead that those poor positions any more than you'd consider racing a dune buggy across a mind field.
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If you can't spin a disk any faster then you do the other thing, add more heads, i.e. a second or third laser writing the disk at the same time.
The difference is that one address or ten addresses receive some types of spam but probably not all types. So it is easier to block spam for a small number of addresses. If you're hosting 10 million mail accounts, you're going to see every sort of spam there is, which means you will see all the trickiest stuff to filter. Also you have to be much more careful about false positives because you're always messing with the mail of an enormous number of people, some of whom inevitably work for CNN and are just waiting for you to make a mistake.
Either of these options should solve this problem for you. From the quartz-wm man page:
Since the 10.3.4 upgrade my mouse and keyboard have stopped hanging after my Mac wakes up, so that's one thing Apple seems to have fixed.
You also have to worry about inaccurate information about you being stored in the database and your having no recourse. You may never know why you're being blackballed unless someone takes pity on you and tells you. Even if you know about the bad info, good luck getting something purged from FBI files.
There were two users logged in at the time (via Fast User Switching), myself and a non-admin user. Apple may not have tested the upgrade in that situation, so I'd advise running the upgrade with only a single user logged in.
The Roku unit has no hard drive, so it can't use the fsck excuse for long boot times.
No need for psychic communicators. They've had working time travel in the Trek universe for a long time. The first few words you say into a communicator (announcing source and destination) are sent a few seconds into the past where the computer there analyzes them and forwards them to the correct recipient in such a way that there is zero delay between when you speak them and the recipient receives them. After that the conversation can proceed normally. No doubt a clever use of the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline
So if they snagged 800MB of code it's hard to believe that they didn't get everything including years of revisions.
Mars is the candy company, maker of Snickers bars, M&M's and other treats.
You might remember that Amazon.com had a good reputation in the beginning too, promising to never release the customer information of those who requested it. Later, things changed and suddenly pretty much anything was for sale (if you read the privacy statement carefully) and the opt-out provision was removed. It doesn't matter what Google says now. What matters is what they will say after they have petabytes of mail stored and someone there has a new bright idea how to "monetize" it. This guy Silverstein sounds like a good guy, but don't mistake him for the company.
What I dislike about so many of these publications is the either-or aspect. EIther there is good writing and no math, or math galore and little to no explanation. Why can't we have a book with the simple explanations AND the math side by side so we can at least try to see the beauty in what theorists accomplish by moving symbols around. Hofstader showed it could be done, see Godel, Escher, Bach. It's not an easy book to get through but it rewards you if you stick with it.
The case was Sega vs. Accolade, by the way.
Why are you proxying the https port? One of the points of SSL is the explicit verification that the remote end is who they say they are. If you're proxying the https port, you're essentially inserting a "man in the middle" of the connection, which I wouldn't expect to work. iTunes likely has the iTunes store's public key stored somewhere and there's no way your proxy is going to be able to insinuate itself into the connection without iTunes knowing about it. If the use of SSL is to mean anything iTunes has to reject the connection if the keys don't match.
But Apple doesn't want to win, at least not in the way you think. Apple wants to sell products to people who are willing to payh more for quality. There are enough of these people to make Apple a very profitable company. When they strayed from this and tried to compete with the likes of Dell they got crushed. If the DRM/media market starts looking like it will be controlled by "da cheapest iz de greatest" crowd, Apple should bow out and leave that wallow to the pigs know it best.
Everyone should keep in mind that what Apple says right now might not be what Apple says in the future. The rules may change and the changes can apply retroactively to music you've already purchased. If you're prudent, you will immediately burn any music you download from the iTunes music store to non-DRMed media and hang on to that copy.
A few cracks and pop might add charm, but that original recording sounded terrible. Besides you can always put a few crackles back in; hip-hop artists do it all the time.
Looking at the iTunes Music Store Terms of Service it looks more like Apple is renting music than selling it. The duration of the rental is unspecified. Note these two paragraphs (emphasis is mine):
Basically this says Apple retains control over the songs even though you've paid for them and Apple can decide that you can't play them anymore and you aren't allowed to do anything about it. All sales are final, so no refunds either. Your music is only your music so long as Apple says it is.This is pretty darned draconian, even if only in theory. I can understand why some consumers might say "Look Apple, I paid for this music. Rip. Mix. Burn. See Figure 1."
Hence displaying a short attention span.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
No need to pop out a disk. USB and firewire drives can be connected and disconnected on the fly. I currently use a large drive like this for offsite backups. Plug it in, back up the data, unplug it and carry it offsite.
Yes, it is pretty bad. You can buy an external 250 GiB drive for $70 less than that with similar data transfer rates.
True enough, but the largest retailer in the world says you don't have to.
The MD5 hash space is 2^128. To store the texts that generate all possible hashes you would need 2^128 multipled by the space required for each corresponding text. That is well beyond the storage capacity of all the disks spinning on the planet today. 2^128 is a really big number. If the whole surface of the Earth were covered with 250 GB disks (including the oceans) you'd still be short of necessary storage space by a factor of at least 10^20.
Forget about brute-forcing MD5.
It need not be so. Look at Apple. They sell user-friendly Unix systems. The iMac isn't even upgradable beyond adding a wireless card or more memory. You don't have to have an OS that works with every random piece of hardware. You just need a hardware/software bundle that people will pay for.
Computers can look at many more positions per second than a human but that is not as helpful as you would think because most of the positions examined are bad ones. While humans compare poorly in linear computational speed to machines, we are much better at pattern matching. A grandmaster has studied so much chess that he or she can effortlessly recognize whether a position is a poor one. A GM probably does not even consider moves that would lead that those poor positions any more than you'd consider racing a dune buggy across a mind field.