And they're currently working on exactly that. Do note that prior to Chrome, nobody had that particular idea so everyone else needs to catch up. You can argue that Mozilla is taking a long time to do so (and they certainly are) but you can't argue that their plugin architecture is unacceptably substandard when in fact the "standard" has changed too recently for everyone to be implementing it already.
It's true that my Fx has crashed seven times in the last three months. However, I can trace two of them to a faulty extension. The rest may very well come from the Flash plugin, which isn't entirely stable on Snow Leopard and hasn't been fixed in ages. Offhand I can't remember a single crash not directly related to Flash (excepting the extension, of course).
I'm willing to bet that a fair part of the stability issues people have actually comes from badly-written extensions and plugins. Remember that most other applications don't execute code written by Adobe (and yes, I see that as an argument as to why they're more stable).
In a TV report they said that there simply was no cypher. From what they said in the interview it sounds like a simple replay attack. The rest of the report made it look like a bog-standard RFID system that just checks the serial number of the tag - although that might of course be the reporters oversimplifying things.
One of the reasons why one of our police trade unions is asking for legislation that hands over airport security to the police. Their justification is that they'd do occasional checks to ensure that nothing was tampered with.
Except some airports decide it's too expensive to guard all entrances. This thing is all over the media at the moment and one airport (was it Hamburg?) told the media that they can't afford to guard all entrances or to outright replace the system. For safety reasons they didn't disclose their strategy but I assume they're going to gradually replace the system with a better one and guard the entrances not yet switched over.
Until the CCC reveal and the subsequent media coverage, the manufacturer sold the system as a high-security access control system for use in sensitive areas (now they'te replaced the word "high" with "basic"). Short of ordering an explame installation and reverse-engineering it, the person responsible for buying it had no way to tell it wasn't a high-security system.
The company even told reporters that the system was very secure because the transmissions were encrypted. Cut to the CCC hackers simply saying: "There is no encryption involved; he's lying there."
This breaks down in the face of notebooks often having more key mappings than keys (even more so than regular keyboards) and software actually needing combinations like Alt-F2. Granted, we could add a seventh row of keys but that would require all keys to be smaller. We could also leave things like screen and keyboard brightness and volume controls off the keyboard but since most people like being able to adjust those thing without having to navigate some control panel you're looking at a tough sale.
You could add those things as a separate set of very small buttons but since most decent notebooks already divde all available space between the keyboard, the trackpad and the hand rests it's unlikely that you can find a proper space without having to make other sacrifices.
What I'd like to see would be arbitrary Fn mapping support from OSes. Since most keys don't have an Fn binding you can map then to things useful to you. Fn-[number] could switch between network configurations or power saving modes; Fn-V could launch VMWare etc.
I am aware that you can do the same just fine with CTRL and ALT but their combinations have the disadvantage that they're often already used by the OS or programs for hotkeys.
I'd call the European sense of distance "appropriate". We're on a densely-populated continent that isn't very large. Of course we use a different definition of "far" than people on the (by comparison) wastefully unsettled North American continent. Likewise, tell someone in Japan that 86 miles is not "far" and they'll laugh you out of the country.
"Not a deranged bitch" and "not already taken" are sufficient to arrive at zero. Note that the latter does not imply the former, as has been empirically proven by at least half of the male population of the planet. Over and over.
OTOH, with time LPDs may just mean the return of the affordable TrueColor screen. With current non-CRT displays you need to shell out quite a bit of money if you want a monitor that actually supports 24 bpp.
I prefer the German model: You buy your phone in an electronics store and the contract or prepaid SIM is bought separately, not caring about your phone at all. You can also get a contract that includes you getting a new phone each N months (usually 12), if you want, and for very expensive smartphones we have the American-style telco-sells-you-the-phone bullshit (introduces with the iPhone). But in most cases nobody forces you to buy your phone from a telco.
Much better, especially when you only need your mobile for talking to people. A cheap Nokia costs twenty to thirty bucks and can stay with you for years. Add a cheap prepaid and you might spend less than Google's ETF between now and when they shut down the GSM network.
I also thought that, actually. But since my idea for a Deep Crow-enabled Spider-Man movie would essentially be "all Deep Crow, all the time" I think it'd have a hard time getting past the weird execs who think that a Spider-Man reboot should contain Spider-Man.
Ergh. "But Spidey avoids doing that as every time he does, his soul dies eternally." And I'm aware that "second" is written with one 'o'...
Although we could use the "Socond Coming" by saying that Jesus was reborn as a USSOCOM operative. Who was then killed by Spider-Man because he was forced to because we're all grim and edgy. And then Spidey ground him up and implanted him in his arm because hey, being morally stunted like that is the sign of an anti-hero and kids still love those, right? Plus, Spidey can get all angsty and mopey about it!
We should take that concept and let Jerry Holkins write the movie. We'd end up with something like "L. H. Franzibald's Spider-Man and the Hungry Horrors of the Grimdark". And it'd be awesomely bad (as opposed to just bad, which is what we're going to get instead).
I mean, we could make this all controversial like saying that each web-shooter is actually constructed from the ground-up remains of Jesus Christ. The Socond Coming already happened, which is why Spidey has two web-shooters. Which can also shoot burning frozen lava at a temperature of under -17.000 degrees Kelvin. But Spidey avoids dopng that every time he does, his soul dies eternally (it's okay, he's got plenty of them).
Neither do I; you seem to be confusing me with someone else you're currently arguing with. All I'm pointing out is that your statement that drugs can't possibly be a source of inspiration is not supportable. Also, you argued that someone who takes drugs cannot possibly produce anything of value, ever. I doubt that's the point you wanted to make but you made it.
I'm not arguing that consumption of drugs is conductive to some or all artistic work or that attempting to do something meaningful while high yields good results. I don't have much experience in that regard but am inclined to agree with you there. The entire scope of my argument is that you can derive inspiration from the sensations and other experiences you have while under the influence of drugs.
I'll add to that that not all drug use is equal -in fact I'd wager that you'll find few artists who have never consumed intoxicants of any kind. Whether drug use impacts one's ability to produce works of art is mostly a function of how heavily it impacts one's life and physical shape overall. Someone who carefully experiments with LSD once and then never does it again should produce considerably better art than someone who spent the last three years habitually huffing paint (assuming both had the same artistic skill before starting drugs).
In short, sweeping statements have a bad habit of being wrong by virtue of asserting an oversimplified statement to be true of everyone (just like this sentence). If one removed the absolutes from your argumentation and added "in most cases" in a few places it would become much more reasonable.
Drug use is an experience. All experiences can be inspirations. For instance, you could work your experience into a story you write or a movie you direct. Maybe a character gets hit with an exotic poison or you figure that making hyperspace a psychedelic experience enriches your sci-fi setting (actually, the latter is fairly common).
You can't flat-out say that you can't possibly find inspiration while on drugs. Absolutely everything you experience can be an inspiration. If you want a drug to be incapable of inspiring someone you need it to be fast-acting and either lethal or a strong narcotic.
Somehow, this reminds me of the liqueurelle, a kind of painting introduced by German musician Udo Lindenberg. It's like a watercolor painting except that you use liquors of various colors. The rationale is that if you ever really need a drink and don't have anything around you can eat the painting.
I don't think this actually works but I like the idea.
A big issue people have with Microsoft DRM vs. Apple DRM is that Microsoft screwed up with DRM big time. Some people are still bitter about PlaysForSure.
Yeah, sure. Going to an interview in Victorian-era clothing works really well. Let me tell you: One look at the bustle and you're straight out. And even if they let you in, most employers simply don't understand the importance of a properly corsetted waist.
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And they're currently working on exactly that. Do note that prior to Chrome, nobody had that particular idea so everyone else needs to catch up. You can argue that Mozilla is taking a long time to do so (and they certainly are) but you can't argue that their plugin architecture is unacceptably substandard when in fact the "standard" has changed too recently for everyone to be implementing it already.
Mozilla is slow but they're not idiots.
How does "having the code doesn't help you" follow from "China had the code" and "China successfully attacked Google"?
It's true that my Fx has crashed seven times in the last three months. However, I can trace two of them to a faulty extension. The rest may very well come from the Flash plugin, which isn't entirely stable on Snow Leopard and hasn't been fixed in ages. Offhand I can't remember a single crash not directly related to Flash (excepting the extension, of course).
I'm willing to bet that a fair part of the stability issues people have actually comes from badly-written extensions and plugins. Remember that most other applications don't execute code written by Adobe (and yes, I see that as an argument as to why they're more stable).
In a TV report they said that there simply was no cypher. From what they said in the interview it sounds like a simple replay attack. The rest of the report made it look like a bog-standard RFID system that just checks the serial number of the tag - although that might of course be the reporters oversimplifying things.
One of the reasons why one of our police trade unions is asking for legislation that hands over airport security to the police. Their justification is that they'd do occasional checks to ensure that nothing was tampered with.
Except some airports decide it's too expensive to guard all entrances. This thing is all over the media at the moment and one airport (was it Hamburg?) told the media that they can't afford to guard all entrances or to outright replace the system. For safety reasons they didn't disclose their strategy but I assume they're going to gradually replace the system with a better one and guard the entrances not yet switched over.
Until the CCC reveal and the subsequent media coverage, the manufacturer sold the system as a high-security access control system for use in sensitive areas (now they'te replaced the word "high" with "basic"). Short of ordering an explame installation and reverse-engineering it, the person responsible for buying it had no way to tell it wasn't a high-security system.
The company even told reporters that the system was very secure because the transmissions were encrypted. Cut to the CCC hackers simply saying: "There is no encryption involved; he's lying there."
And then they seize the laptop so they can bruteforce the password and you never see it back.
Here's a better idea: Leave your laptop at home. That way they can't seize it.
This breaks down in the face of notebooks often having more key mappings than keys (even more so than regular keyboards) and software actually needing combinations like Alt-F2. Granted, we could add a seventh row of keys but that would require all keys to be smaller. We could also leave things like screen and keyboard brightness and volume controls off the keyboard but since most people like being able to adjust those thing without having to navigate some control panel you're looking at a tough sale.
You could add those things as a separate set of very small buttons but since most decent notebooks already divde all available space between the keyboard, the trackpad and the hand rests it's unlikely that you can find a proper space without having to make other sacrifices.
What I'd like to see would be arbitrary Fn mapping support from OSes. Since most keys don't have an Fn binding you can map then to things useful to you. Fn-[number] could switch between network configurations or power saving modes; Fn-V could launch VMWare etc.
I am aware that you can do the same just fine with CTRL and ALT but their combinations have the disadvantage that they're often already used by the OS or programs for hotkeys.
I'd assert that any video with a nonzero view count is not junk. It's fulfilling its purpose of having someone look at the ad.
I'd call the European sense of distance "appropriate". We're on a densely-populated continent that isn't very large. Of course we use a different definition of "far" than people on the (by comparison) wastefully unsettled North American continent. Likewise, tell someone in Japan that 86 miles is not "far" and they'll laugh you out of the country.
"Not a deranged bitch" and "not already taken" are sufficient to arrive at zero. Note that the latter does not imply the former, as has been empirically proven by at least half of the male population of the planet. Over and over.
OTOH, with time LPDs may just mean the return of the affordable TrueColor screen. With current non-CRT displays you need to shell out quite a bit of money if you want a monitor that actually supports 24 bpp.
I prefer the German model: You buy your phone in an electronics store and the contract or prepaid SIM is bought separately, not caring about your phone at all. You can also get a contract that includes you getting a new phone each N months (usually 12), if you want, and for very expensive smartphones we have the American-style telco-sells-you-the-phone bullshit (introduces with the iPhone). But in most cases nobody forces you to buy your phone from a telco.
Much better, especially when you only need your mobile for talking to people. A cheap Nokia costs twenty to thirty bucks and can stay with you for years. Add a cheap prepaid and you might spend less than Google's ETF between now and when they shut down the GSM network.
I also thought that, actually. But since my idea for a Deep Crow-enabled Spider-Man movie would essentially be "all Deep Crow, all the time" I think it'd have a hard time getting past the weird execs who think that a Spider-Man reboot should contain Spider-Man.
Ergh. "But Spidey avoids doing that as every time he does, his soul dies eternally." And I'm aware that "second" is written with one 'o'...
Although we could use the "Socond Coming" by saying that Jesus was reborn as a USSOCOM operative. Who was then killed by Spider-Man because he was forced to because we're all grim and edgy. And then Spidey ground him up and implanted him in his arm because hey, being morally stunted like that is the sign of an anti-hero and kids still love those, right? Plus, Spidey can get all angsty and mopey about it!
We should take that concept and let Jerry Holkins write the movie. We'd end up with something like "L. H. Franzibald's Spider-Man and the Hungry Horrors of the Grimdark". And it'd be awesomely bad (as opposed to just bad, which is what we're going to get instead).
I mean, we could make this all controversial like saying that each web-shooter is actually constructed from the ground-up remains of Jesus Christ. The Socond Coming already happened, which is why Spidey has two web-shooters. Which can also shoot burning frozen lava at a temperature of under -17.000 degrees Kelvin. But Spidey avoids dopng that every time he does, his soul dies eternally (it's okay, he's got plenty of them).
Neither do I; you seem to be confusing me with someone else you're currently arguing with. All I'm pointing out is that your statement that drugs can't possibly be a source of inspiration is not supportable. Also, you argued that someone who takes drugs cannot possibly produce anything of value, ever. I doubt that's the point you wanted to make but you made it.
I'm not arguing that consumption of drugs is conductive to some or all artistic work or that attempting to do something meaningful while high yields good results. I don't have much experience in that regard but am inclined to agree with you there. The entire scope of my argument is that you can derive inspiration from the sensations and other experiences you have while under the influence of drugs.
I'll add to that that not all drug use is equal -in fact I'd wager that you'll find few artists who have never consumed intoxicants of any kind. Whether drug use impacts one's ability to produce works of art is mostly a function of how heavily it impacts one's life and physical shape overall. Someone who carefully experiments with LSD once and then never does it again should produce considerably better art than someone who spent the last three years habitually huffing paint (assuming both had the same artistic skill before starting drugs).
In short, sweeping statements have a bad habit of being wrong by virtue of asserting an oversimplified statement to be true of everyone (just like this sentence). If one removed the absolutes from your argumentation and added "in most cases" in a few places it would become much more reasonable.
Drug use is an experience. All experiences can be inspirations. For instance, you could work your experience into a story you write or a movie you direct. Maybe a character gets hit with an exotic poison or you figure that making hyperspace a psychedelic experience enriches your sci-fi setting (actually, the latter is fairly common).
You can't flat-out say that you can't possibly find inspiration while on drugs. Absolutely everything you experience can be an inspiration. If you want a drug to be incapable of inspiring someone you need it to be fast-acting and either lethal or a strong narcotic.
Somehow, this reminds me of the liqueurelle, a kind of painting introduced by German musician Udo Lindenberg. It's like a watercolor painting except that you use liquors of various colors. The rationale is that if you ever really need a drink and don't have anything around you can eat the painting.
I don't think this actually works but I like the idea.
A big issue people have with Microsoft DRM vs. Apple DRM is that Microsoft screwed up with DRM big time. Some people are still bitter about PlaysForSure.
Was it a killer b?
Hmm. I still get the feeling that nothing's wrong with your business model.
Yeah, sure. Going to an interview in Victorian-era clothing works really well. Let me tell you: One look at the bustle and you're straight out. And even if they let you in, most employers simply don't understand the importance of a properly corsetted waist.