A friend of mine always had me bring a 12 pack of Coke down from Canada with me whenever I came to visit on account of apparently our coke having cane sugar and US coke using HFCS. That was a dozen years ago. I don't know if it's still true. I stopped drinking pop 15 years ago...
I need to look deeper but so far there's been 12 pages of "these buttons look different" and "the window titles are now vibrant!" but nothing about how applications actually work the way they should now... So far I still don't see any real advantage to moving up from 10.6.8...
Unless I missed them fixing some of my nits:
- When you move a mail message out of your inbox, one option needs to be "move this to the same folder you previously moved messages _from_this_sender_" - When I switch desktops, it should leave me in whatever app I'm currently in, not switch to Finder...
My son is classified as 'gifted', has a low 140's IQ; plenty of ambition, and an amazing inability to satiate his curiosity about pretty much everything. I love my son to bits, but there are more than just a few days where I would give anything for him to be a normal everyday shlub like the rest of the kids on the street... Having a high IQ child is not all upside.. There's a lot of downsides as well. At a young age you have someone who can read at an adult level, is bored by books for his age group, but is not emotionally mature enough to read books for his vocabulary and curiosity level. Sitting in a car with the kid is torture... He has an ability to generate interesting questions at a rate faster than he can verbalize them. After about 2 hours, you are mentally drained... On car trips, we limit his questions to one every 5 minutes and you can see him practically exploding, waiting for the clock to change... Even at 5 minute intervals, a 6 hour car trip is torture. In addition to his insatiable curiosity, and need to solve problems, he's also extremely sensitive, both physically and emotionally... A radio that I can hardly hear is too loud for him. He didn't like walking through tall grass due to the prickly feeling of it on his arms or legs... If he feels he has been dealt an injustice, he can jump right to violent anger instead of engaging in some self control.
It sounds like i'm describing someone on the Aspergers scale but he's been tested for that and on the first test, was marginally at the very bottom of the range, and the second test was just outside the range. He's in a school that is tailored towards gifted kids and he's thriving there, both academically and emotionally... He has a ton of friends and is slowly learning how to operate his brain...
Like I say, I love him to bits and so far the rewards probably outweigh the negatives, but if I knew then what I know now, I don't think I'd consciously elect to select for greater intelligence at the Zygot stage.
I watched a documentary in the 80's where they showed that by November 2015, GE would develop a small automotive Fusion reactor that would run on banana peels and beer. It was called "Mr. Fusion"... I've been putting off my vehicle purchases until then... Only a year to go now!
Typical of Air Canada, if you're not listening, they become surly... So they want you to listen. But you have to listen twice, both in english and in french... God help you if you should tune out while they're going through the whole spiel in a language you don't understand...
Westjet has a video for the french half and could seemingly care less if you're paying attention. The english half is occasionally made interesting with the injection of humor...
I've used various incarnations of these... First one was on my original IBM PC (not XT) with the annoying layout... I liked it best. My dad had a 5120 with a nice big built-in version... Then later I installed 3161's and PC-RT's in Dental offices... Then got my own RT...
After the original PC one, they seemed to get more plasticy... Especially in the PS/2 days... Could just be my imagination though.
Good times...
Now I just use whatever crap someone puts in front of me.
Quoting MPG is useless unless you clarify whether you're quoting US-MPG or IMPERIAL-MPG... 25 IMPERIAL-MPG is 20 US-MPG.. A somewhat less impressive number. This is slashdot; we don't have the benefit of location context.
We bought a Samsung Induction range which came with a blue LED clock. You can't read it from halfway across the room.. Something about the contrast or whatever but nobody's eyes can focus on it... It's completely useless.
This is a new car company engaged in a huge undertaking. If it were me, I'd want to know everything possible about every one of those vehicles on the road to help drive future so I bet there's a ton of useful telemetry that either gets sent in realtime or uploaded whenever the car checks in for a firmware update. As such, I bet a CPO Tesla would be a way better bet than a CPO Honda...
exactly this. I do a lot of highway driving by myself, generally on weekends. I listen to the radio just fine. But occasionally I've found myself texting periodically with someone about some problem. Quiet back country rural roads. I'm texting with the phone on the dash, so I'm not moving my head, just adjusting the my focusing distance typing about 1 cps... I find that when I'm finished that task, I don't remember any part of the intervening journey... My mind went on auto-pilot and exercised all the correct turns... I just don't remember it. So, for me, I consider that to be 'distracted driving' and it makes me uncomfortable. I know lots of people who claim they can drive and text at the same time without any negative effect. I don't believe them but good for them... I know I can't. So now I just pull over when I find myself needing to respond something more complicated than 'y' or 'n'.
So is this GT the same glass we saw in the youtube video of the glass the guy bends almost 180 degrees without it breaking, and scribbles the sharp end of his knife all over and nothing bad happens to it?
Why are you telling us? I'm sure the nincompoops at CDC are standing around by the water cooler trying to figure out what to do and they're certainly not reading slashdot! Quick! Get on the phone and lend them your expertise in this area!
Agreed. Sometimes my CC doesn't show up. Caveat: I'm using my CC with Plex. So in addition to it not showing up, sometimes the video freezes and I need to reboot the CC....
But my biggest beef is that the CC is useless when my internet connection goes down. So is Plex though so I'm doubly hosed... But when my internet connection is down, I'm more likely to want to just switch on the TV...
I might have to go back to XBMC running on a PC and all of its annoyances..
Also... As an open source contributor and also long time software developer, there's no end of things to sink my spare time into, but my spare time is already alloted to other projects (some of them open source)... Sometimes I just want to flop on the couch and watch TV but {mythtv,xbmc,plex} is broken in a way that prevents me from doing it... So yes, I might be capable of fixing it myself, assuming I could find the bug in source I don't know, figure out the correct fix, that isn't going to break a dozen other things I don't understand, and test it, and then sign on to whatever website/forum/mailing-list/whatever in order to submit the patch, blah blah blah... SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO WATCH TV!
For dimming, you might look at the better LED lights as some of them are dimmable - in Europe they are quite common, and if dimmable, explicitly say so.
The Cree brand bulbs I've been buying are pretty terrific and they are nicely dimmable. But i've noticed a problem with the dimming. I presume they dim by doing some sort of PWM to change the duty cycle and thereby result in some dimming... With the Leviton slide dimmers I've been buying, and set to full brightness (slider all the way up) the Cree bulbs have a flicker with a period of about 6 seconds. As in, every 6 seconds, the light will turn off for approximately 50-70ms. I have one circuit that has a couple of sockets. I put a Cree bulb in one socket, and a Phillips bulb in the other socket. At full, the Cree still exhibits the problem while the Phillips does not. However, the Phillips doesn't dim correctly. Whereas the Cree will dim in a nice linear sort of fashion, the Phillips will dim about 20 percent for the first portion of the slider, and then will maintain that brightness until the slider gets sufficiently far down and then the Phillips just turns off...
I have a Sylvania that just doesn't dim at all.
I think that covers all three of the major manufacturers. So far the Cree is the best except for the iritating 'blink' at full brightness... All of my Crees exhibit the same symptom on different dimmer switches throughout the house. If I put two Cree's in two sockets on one dimmer, they both blink, but at slightly different periods.
I see two groups of people, one group exclaiming that this is a serious vulnerability, without being able to explain how it's a vulnerability, and the other (including myself) saying that it's not a vulnerability, because you need to already have a vulnerability to get to it.
I'm with you. I've been trying to figure out what the exact attack vectors are here. The only thing I'm realistically worried about is what pieces of shit PHP code are out there running galleries, forums, blogs, etc, that call out to shell... I'm thinking a creative USER_AGENT string may be a good way to get unfiltered user data into $SHELL... I think in the short term, I'm not worried about dhclient-script because I don't have a linux laptop but if I did, I don't find myself attaching to random wifi hotspots, and if I did, it'd be at a pub which is unlikely to, in the short term, find themselves compromised...
Does php even use a CGI connector these days?
I must not be a good sekurity eckspert because I'm not seeing the world-ending exploit here.
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A friend of mine always had me bring a 12 pack of Coke down from Canada with me whenever I came to visit on account of apparently our coke having cane sugar and US coke using HFCS. That was a dozen years ago. I don't know if it's still true. I stopped drinking pop 15 years ago...
I have a 45 year old Land Cruiser that fits your requirements.
It's fun to drive, once in a while.. But gets old real fast.
I need to look deeper but so far there's been 12 pages of "these buttons look different" and "the window titles are now vibrant!" but nothing about how applications actually work the way they should now ... So far I still don't see any real advantage to moving up from 10.6.8...
Unless I missed them fixing some of my nits:
- When you move a mail message out of your inbox, one option needs to be "move this to the same folder you previously moved messages _from_this_sender_"
- When I switch desktops, it should leave me in whatever app I'm currently in, not switch to Finder...
My son is classified as 'gifted', has a low 140's IQ; plenty of ambition, and an amazing inability to satiate his curiosity about pretty much everything. I love my son to bits, but there are more than just a few days where I would give anything for him to be a normal everyday shlub like the rest of the kids on the street... Having a high IQ child is not all upside.. There's a lot of downsides as well. At a young age you have someone who can read at an adult level, is bored by books for his age group, but is not emotionally mature enough to read books for his vocabulary and curiosity level. Sitting in a car with the kid is torture... He has an ability to generate interesting questions at a rate faster than he can verbalize them. After about 2 hours, you are mentally drained... On car trips, we limit his questions to one every 5 minutes and you can see him practically exploding, waiting for the clock to change... Even at 5 minute intervals, a 6 hour car trip is torture. In addition to his insatiable curiosity, and need to solve problems, he's also extremely sensitive, both physically and emotionally... A radio that I can hardly hear is too loud for him. He didn't like walking through tall grass due to the prickly feeling of it on his arms or legs... If he feels he has been dealt an injustice, he can jump right to violent anger instead of engaging in some self control.
It sounds like i'm describing someone on the Aspergers scale but he's been tested for that and on the first test, was marginally at the very bottom of the range, and the second test was just outside the range. He's in a school that is tailored towards gifted kids and he's thriving there, both academically and emotionally... He has a ton of friends and is slowly learning how to operate his brain...
Like I say, I love him to bits and so far the rewards probably outweigh the negatives, but if I knew then what I know now, I don't think I'd consciously elect to select for greater intelligence at the Zygot stage.
I thought Phondle-slab was better.
I know many people who have caught the flu. In fact, all of my co-workers. I don't know anyone who has died of the flu.
I don't know anyone who has died of Ebola. But I also don't know anyone who has caught it.
I'd rather not catch either but if I had to catch one of them, guess which one I'd rather have?
I watched a documentary in the 80's where they showed that by November 2015, GE would develop a small automotive Fusion reactor that would run on banana peels and beer. It was called "Mr. Fusion"... I've been putting off my vehicle purchases until then... Only a year to go now!
Typical of Air Canada, if you're not listening, they become surly... So they want you to listen. But you have to listen twice, both in english and in french... God help you if you should tune out while they're going through the whole spiel in a language you don't understand...
Westjet has a video for the french half and could seemingly care less if you're paying attention. The english half is occasionally made interesting with the injection of humor...
They're unreliable. They only work half the time.
I've used various incarnations of these... First one was on my original IBM PC (not XT) with the annoying layout... I liked it best. My dad had a 5120 with a nice big built-in version... Then later I installed 3161's and PC-RT's in Dental offices... Then got my own RT...
After the original PC one, they seemed to get more plasticy... Especially in the PS/2 days... Could just be my imagination though.
Good times ...
Now I just use whatever crap someone puts in front of me.
Quoting MPG is useless unless you clarify whether you're quoting US-MPG or IMPERIAL-MPG... 25 IMPERIAL-MPG is 20 US-MPG.. A somewhat less impressive number. This is slashdot; we don't have the benefit of location context.
We bought a Samsung Induction range which came with a blue LED clock. You can't read it from halfway across the room.. Something about the contrast or whatever but nobody's eyes can focus on it... It's completely useless.
This is a new car company engaged in a huge undertaking. If it were me, I'd want to know everything possible about every one of those vehicles on the road to help drive future so I bet there's a ton of useful telemetry that either gets sent in realtime or uploaded whenever the car checks in for a firmware update. As such, I bet a CPO Tesla would be a way better bet than a CPO Honda...
exactly this. I do a lot of highway driving by myself, generally on weekends. I listen to the radio just fine. But occasionally I've found myself texting periodically with someone about some problem. Quiet back country rural roads. I'm texting with the phone on the dash, so I'm not moving my head, just adjusting the my focusing distance typing about 1 cps... I find that when I'm finished that task, I don't remember any part of the intervening journey... My mind went on auto-pilot and exercised all the correct turns... I just don't remember it. So, for me, I consider that to be 'distracted driving' and it makes me uncomfortable. I know lots of people who claim they can drive and text at the same time without any negative effect. I don't believe them but good for them... I know I can't. So now I just pull over when I find myself needing to respond something more complicated than 'y' or 'n'.
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."
Less a 15% restocking fee, of course.
So is this GT the same glass we saw in the youtube video of the glass the guy bends almost 180 degrees without it breaking, and scribbles the sharp end of his knife all over and nothing bad happens to it?
Why are you telling us? I'm sure the nincompoops at CDC are standing around by the water cooler trying to figure out what to do and they're certainly not reading slashdot! Quick! Get on the phone and lend them your expertise in this area!
Agreed. Sometimes my CC doesn't show up. Caveat: I'm using my CC with Plex. So in addition to it not showing up, sometimes the video freezes and I need to reboot the CC....
But my biggest beef is that the CC is useless when my internet connection goes down. So is Plex though so I'm doubly hosed... But when my internet connection is down, I'm more likely to want to just switch on the TV...
I might have to go back to XBMC running on a PC and all of its annoyances..
Also... As an open source contributor and also long time software developer, there's no end of things to sink my spare time into, but my spare time is already alloted to other projects (some of them open source)... Sometimes I just want to flop on the couch and watch TV but {mythtv,xbmc,plex} is broken in a way that prevents me from doing it... So yes, I might be capable of fixing it myself, assuming I could find the bug in source I don't know, figure out the correct fix, that isn't going to break a dozen other things I don't understand, and test it, and then sign on to whatever website/forum/mailing-list/whatever in order to submit the patch, blah blah blah... SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO WATCH TV!
Interesting. The ones I bought were Leviton, labelled for CFL/LED but also labelled "Universal" so I guess that sucks...
Those are the ones I have and haven't seen any failures, just the inability to work correctly on a dimmer.
For dimming, you might look at the better LED lights as some of them are dimmable - in Europe they are quite common, and if dimmable, explicitly say so.
The Cree brand bulbs I've been buying are pretty terrific and they are nicely dimmable. But i've noticed a problem with the dimming. I presume they dim by doing some sort of PWM to change the duty cycle and thereby result in some dimming... With the Leviton slide dimmers I've been buying, and set to full brightness (slider all the way up) the Cree bulbs have a flicker with a period of about 6 seconds. As in, every 6 seconds, the light will turn off for approximately 50-70ms. I have one circuit that has a couple of sockets. I put a Cree bulb in one socket, and a Phillips bulb in the other socket. At full, the Cree still exhibits the problem while the Phillips does not. However, the Phillips doesn't dim correctly. Whereas the Cree will dim in a nice linear sort of fashion, the Phillips will dim about 20 percent for the first portion of the slider, and then will maintain that brightness until the slider gets sufficiently far down and then the Phillips just turns off...
I have a Sylvania that just doesn't dim at all.
I think that covers all three of the major manufacturers. So far the Cree is the best except for the iritating 'blink' at full brightness... All of my Crees exhibit the same symptom on different dimmer switches throughout the house. If I put two Cree's in two sockets on one dimmer, they both blink, but at slightly different periods.
"We're not there yet".
Case in point, perhaps...
Mediawiki has:
$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";
Maybe nobody uses Mediawiki anymore...
Or you could assume you are vulnerable and patch bash, or remove it.
Patch bash with what, exactly? Patch #25 didn't fix the problem completely and there's nothing newer than Patch #25 at gnu.org:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bas...
I see two groups of people, one group exclaiming that this is a serious vulnerability, without being able to explain how it's a vulnerability, and the other (including myself) saying that it's not a vulnerability, because you need to already have a vulnerability to get to it.
I'm with you. I've been trying to figure out what the exact attack vectors are here. The only thing I'm realistically worried about is what pieces of shit PHP code are out there running galleries, forums, blogs, etc, that call out to shell... I'm thinking a creative USER_AGENT string may be a good way to get unfiltered user data into $SHELL... I think in the short term, I'm not worried about dhclient-script because I don't have a linux laptop but if I did, I don't find myself attaching to random wifi hotspots, and if I did, it'd be at a pub which is unlikely to, in the short term, find themselves compromised...
Does php even use a CGI connector these days?
I must not be a good sekurity eckspert because I'm not seeing the world-ending exploit here.