Not exactly. I use clipperz.com to store my passwords, and one of the features it provides is a direct login. The way this works is that it submits the password form directly, without you having to visit the website and copy paste the password from clipperz. It's impermeable to keyloggers and clipboard sniffers because you don't copy or type the password anywhere. Now, if your system is already hosed, your could theoretically be hacked. But, at that point you're SOL anyway.
Yeah, I know the drawbacks of using a password manager, and an online one at that. But it's the best tradeoff I've seen. I have to remember only one strong password, and I can just randomly type in unique passwords for the sites I visit. Plus, their architecture is solid.
And also, it's contradictory to what google did earlier this year. They released a zero day for windows and gave microsoft hardly a week to patch it. And as a bonus, they made the disclosure public on a Sunday.
I am all for more industry standard accountability, but this looks very one sided and google choosing to pick the instances where it gets a good publicity.
The college where I studied in India has a similar system. There is a college managed "Book Bank" which cost some two dollars per semester and allowed me to rent 5 books per semester. There was no guarantee of getting a recent edition of any book, but that was okay because the new content could be photocopied from someone in the hostel. The whole thing sort of worked, and of cousre the part I am forgetting to say is that it was funded by government aid.
I could have afforded text books since most major publishers have discounted prices, but this was easier and lesser hassle;)
You must be joking. There's lots of apps for Android. Probably fewer than for iPhone, but not dramatically so. I was able to find an app for any task I needed.
On all major mobile platforms I've used, I've been able to get apps for all the tasks I've needed. I don't have an iphone due to all the restrictions on the device, but whenever I see brilliantly made apps like this, I really want to go out and get one.
The success on the platform is due to the fact that there is a lot of choices in apps, and only very few of them suck. It's become the marketleader, and as much as I hate it, I have better success browsing the net using the Iphone user agent on my N810. The N810 has a good browser, that can render content better than the Iphone browser, but market share is why most sites choose to cater only to the iphone while making non-wap mobile sites.
Yes, I hate to say it as the next guy out here, but iphone is the unrivalled smartphone. Google and MS has to do a lot of catchup before they'll get to an iphone level of success.
KDE has already done it with KDE 2.0 (which IIRC was before GNOME 2.0) which was a complete overhaul from what KDE 1.x was. Doing this in the 20th century was easy, but with the current user base and dependencies, it takes a lot of guts to shelf away backwards compatibility. I was first frustrated with what they did, but the more I look at it, this seems the better choice for them in the long run.
One of the best sub-100$ headphones are the Grado SR80s and the SR125s. The 125s are slightly over your budget, but if you don't mind spending a little extra, they are well worth it. The SR80s might not cut it for you since they feature the 3.5mm jack.
BTW, if you are seriously looking for a good set of cans, browse headphone.org or head-fi.org rather than slashdot;)
Is the Motofone good enough? I have one, and it is a calculatorisque display. If you're a gadget freak stay away from it, but at 20 USD I can't complain much about it.
If people were intelligent enough, they would realize that the carriers make up for the subsidies in hidden fees over the years. Mobile phones in India come with financing options if people are broke, in the end the fees come out more or less the same (Pay a small amount upfront, and the rest over a year). The model works quite well, and except for the dirt cheap no name chinese phones, the wireless operators do not stock any phones with them. I think the concept that unlocked phones won't work in the US is wrong. Its just that people are used to one system, and it'll take a while ( if ever ) for an alternate method to catch on.
Isn't that a good thing? I don't know about you, but I have rarely seen the need to take the spur of the moment photo.
Plus, lighter the mobile stack is, the more reliable it gets. I can give examples of my current phone where turning on the camera almost always causes the phone to crash.
What makes him so sure that interoperability will be even on the provider's list? I don't see any easy way to use EC2 with some third party solution for storage. Plus, it would be lame if I had to go via internet for every request that should ideally be local.
The clarification is helpful. Still, it dodges the issue that started this discussion: should Microsoft pay taxes on the profits they make in selling their software? If so, where? If not, why the hell not? Don't be naive. Microsoft has development centres all around the world. Does Bangalore, Dublin or any other place ask for a cut on profit made on Microsoft's products? Their sales office is in Nevada, and what I see is a valid business practise. You can clamour for more taxes to be levied against Microsoft, but accept the fact that they are not breaking the law.
Except, there are no reported infections on Unix or Linux and the infections itself seems tailored to attack MS-SQL (relying on it's specific system tables to identify tables to infect).
Also automated attacks like this usually rely on a specific injection vector (usually a common url on domains where the injection can be carried out). And although no one has explained exactly what software was exploited to do the injection, it might well be windows-only software, but that's just speculation on why it might not have hit any Unix servers.
It's also possible that some Unix servers have the vulnerability but because they don't have the MS-SQL system tables, the automated system was unable to actually infect them with anything. Isn't sybase vulnerable to this attack? They share the same code base afterall.
You can look at the myriad of html formats (3, 4, 4.1, DHTML...) around to understand why incrementally improved standards is a bad idea. Maybe, the number of versions of MS word formats, and the grand-daddy that is OOXML is a good standard? Oh wait, the best is korn-style shells where each standard has been very accommodative of the previous ones.
You mentioned a couple of standards that were openly developed, where the controlling parties did not have a nefarious interest in its development. Please see the current context, which is the background of my comment.
For once, someone at Microsoft gets the deal right. They should leave javascript as-is, and improvise XUL or whatever is the new buzzword. Tacking on updates to existing standards only creates ugly security loopholes, and all sort of weird hacks. Why, in the name of the lord, can't people learn from the mistakes that others have made?
Try the latest one. Its got a 2Ghz processor and IGb as standard for the $799 version. I am typing this post on a mac, and I haven't noticed that much of a speed hog. Its not your normal gaming machine, and the disk is slow, but I have external direct storage off a custom built NAS so I havent really had the need for faster internal drives.
And that's more to do with human nature. People will rather live with a familiar piece of crap, rather than switch to something totally new that may (not) be better. I don't see any sudden shifts in computing, windows is going to be at the helm for a long time, atleast a decade or two more. No, there will not be a year of the linux desktop, there may be a year of the mac desktop.
That said, awareness of apple as a good hardware vendor is increasing. In the end, a very less part of apple's bottom line will be affected by vista. Leopard's timing will not affect this much, in fact I think they made the wise move by releasing it near the holiday season.
It used to be 6%. Not that the increase isn't insignificant, but all those vista haters aren't moving there. I got a mac recently, but it was more to do with the fact that I've been trying to build something like the macmini for 2 years but haven't come close to getting a cabinet and motherboard of the form factor.
I am guessing that most of the switchers are from the ipod/iphone users, who are curious about apple. Its a shame that their advertisement campaigns do not target this audience - I thought that someone smart would be working in that department.
Example B: A company dumps $300 million into developing a new, unique molocule that cures a fatal disease for which there is currently no treatment. Once this is released, Chinese and Indian companies with no R&D budget flood the market with ultra cheap copies. All of humanity benefits forever more. The company that developed the drug goes belly up and the unique nexus of research talent is forever lost. Humanity suffers from the lack of future research since no company in their right minds will do R&D since there is no profit in it. End of cycle. You're wrong there. Let's assume that the next big AIDS hits in 2020, in a world without patents. Every manufacturer will see the advantage in getting a drug out that can cure it. If Pfizer or P&G cannot bring out a new drug, because of what each company stands to gain, a Ranbaxy or a Cipla will. That's market economics - pure demand vs. supply. Whichever company that gets the drug out first stands to profit - if they are the only people manufacturing it for the first two months, they will be able to make a handsome margin. It will be peanuts compared to what they will be able to earn if they had patents, but why should they be given an artificial monopoly? It flies in the face of the free market - it leads to market stagnation, artificial pricing, inefficient manufacturing (because companies couldn't care less about making their production lines more cost efficient) and all the bad things associated with capitalism.
And what is wrong with ultra cheap copies of medicines being manufactured? It increases the ease of access to medicines, it brings about a better challenge to make more cost effective manufacturing lines etc... Patent systems bring in greed, they bring in artificiality, they bring out everything that's fundamentally wrong with human nature. Heck, Einstein or Newton did not wave a copy of their patents saying that they had a "new mathematical model of representing the laws of nature". The greatest scientific progresses happen when information can be freely exchangable, and when its not controlled by a sword or gun. That's what 30+ centuries of history teaches us, and the lesson is more relevant in today's age than ever before.
Funny how the joke of this post was lost on the mods. For those unaware, arabic numerals are the same decimal number system, that everyone around the world uses.
While you may be right in parts and places about why asian students flock to the american higher degrees, you are missing the vital point. There are 60K H1Bs available for the general quota, and around 20K for those who do their MS in america. The tech industry has very much warmed to the concept of foreign labour, and it is way easier for these people to break even on their investment in 3 - 4 years. Any extra amount of period they work is a bonus, and is especially so comparing the salaries in the US to what it is elsewhere.
Quality of education might be one of minor points they consider; give them a facility like those one-week MS crap retaining the same benefits (the ones that you get regularly as spam), and you'll see them frantically trying to grab one. I am not saying that the quality is irrelevant, but its all a matter of money. Most of them are betting on a significant investment of their lives; they hell as sure want to recover the money that they sink in for their degrees.
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Not exactly. I use clipperz.com to store my passwords, and one of the features it provides is a direct login. The way this works is that it submits the password form directly, without you having to visit the website and copy paste the password from clipperz. It's impermeable to keyloggers and clipboard sniffers because you don't copy or type the password anywhere. Now, if your system is already hosed, your could theoretically be hacked. But, at that point you're SOL anyway.
Yeah, I know the drawbacks of using a password manager, and an online one at that. But it's the best tradeoff I've seen. I have to remember only one strong password, and I can just randomly type in unique passwords for the sites I visit. Plus, their architecture is solid.
And also, it's contradictory to what google did earlier this year. They released a zero day for windows and gave microsoft hardly a week to patch it. And as a bonus, they made the disclosure public on a Sunday.
I am all for more industry standard accountability, but this looks very one sided and google choosing to pick the instances where it gets a good publicity.
The college where I studied in India has a similar system. There is a college managed "Book Bank" which cost some two dollars per semester and allowed me to rent 5 books per semester. There was no guarantee of getting a recent edition of any book, but that was okay because the new content could be photocopied from someone in the hostel. The whole thing sort of worked, and of cousre the part I am forgetting to say is that it was funded by government aid.
I could have afforded text books since most major publishers have discounted prices, but this was easier and lesser hassle ;)
You must be joking. There's lots of apps for Android. Probably fewer than for iPhone, but not dramatically so. I was able to find an app for any task I needed.
On all major mobile platforms I've used, I've been able to get apps for all the tasks I've needed. I don't have an iphone due to all the restrictions on the device, but whenever I see brilliantly made apps like this, I really want to go out and get one.
The success on the platform is due to the fact that there is a lot of choices in apps, and only very few of them suck. It's become the marketleader, and as much as I hate it, I have better success browsing the net using the Iphone user agent on my N810. The N810 has a good browser, that can render content better than the Iphone browser, but market share is why most sites choose to cater only to the iphone while making non-wap mobile sites.
Yes, I hate to say it as the next guy out here, but iphone is the unrivalled smartphone. Google and MS has to do a lot of catchup before they'll get to an iphone level of success.
I don't speak either of portugese or spanish, but are you looking for something like lower per capita income when compared to the US counterparts?
KDE has already done it with KDE 2.0 (which IIRC was before GNOME 2.0) which was a complete overhaul from what KDE 1.x was. Doing this in the 20th century was easy, but with the current user base and dependencies, it takes a lot of guts to shelf away backwards compatibility. I was first frustrated with what they did, but the more I look at it, this seems the better choice for them in the long run.
One of the best sub-100$ headphones are the Grado SR80s and the SR125s. The 125s are slightly over your budget, but if you don't mind spending a little extra, they are well worth it. The SR80s might not cut it for you since they feature the 3.5mm jack.
BTW, if you are seriously looking for a good set of cans, browse headphone.org or head-fi.org rather than slashdot ;)
Give me a phone with e-ink display first.
Is the Motofone good enough? I have one, and it is a calculatorisque display. If you're a gadget freak stay away from it, but at 20 USD I can't complain much about it.
Write me when you find a cool email client, k?
rickb928. Here you go.
If people were intelligent enough, they would realize that the carriers make up for the subsidies in hidden fees over the years. Mobile phones in India come with financing options if people are broke, in the end the fees come out more or less the same (Pay a small amount upfront, and the rest over a year). The model works quite well, and except for the dirt cheap no name chinese phones, the wireless operators do not stock any phones with them. I think the concept that unlocked phones won't work in the US is wrong. Its just that people are used to one system, and it'll take a while ( if ever ) for an alternate method to catch on.
Isn't that a good thing? I don't know about you, but I have rarely seen the need to take the spur of the moment photo.
Plus, lighter the mobile stack is, the more reliable it gets. I can give examples of my current phone where turning on the camera almost always causes the phone to crash.
What makes him so sure that interoperability will be even on the provider's list? I don't see any easy way to use EC2 with some third party solution for storage. Plus, it would be lame if I had to go via internet for every request that should ideally be local.
Also automated attacks like this usually rely on a specific injection vector (usually a common url on domains where the injection can be carried out). And although no one has explained exactly what software was exploited to do the injection, it might well be windows-only software, but that's just speculation on why it might not have hit any Unix servers.
It's also possible that some Unix servers have the vulnerability but because they don't have the MS-SQL system tables, the automated system was unable to actually infect them with anything. Isn't sybase vulnerable to this attack? They share the same code base afterall.
Throw the blackjack out, for pete's sakes!
You can look at the myriad of html formats (3, 4, 4.1, DHTML ...) around to understand why incrementally improved standards is a bad idea. Maybe, the number of versions of MS word formats, and the grand-daddy that is OOXML is a good standard? Oh wait, the best is korn-style shells where each standard has been very accommodative of the previous ones.
You mentioned a couple of standards that were openly developed, where the controlling parties did not have a nefarious interest in its development. Please see the current context, which is the background of my comment.
For once, someone at Microsoft gets the deal right. They should leave javascript as-is, and improvise XUL or whatever is the new buzzword. Tacking on updates to existing standards only creates ugly security loopholes, and all sort of weird hacks. Why, in the name of the lord, can't people learn from the mistakes that others have made?
Try the latest one. Its got a 2Ghz processor and IGb as standard for the $799 version. I am typing this post on a mac, and I haven't noticed that much of a speed hog. Its not your normal gaming machine, and the disk is slow, but I have external direct storage off a custom built NAS so I havent really had the need for faster internal drives.
Also fink. Its got apt-get and dpkg as its standard binary format, so its time the GP switched to a mac :)
And that's more to do with human nature. People will rather live with a familiar piece of crap, rather than switch to something totally new that may (not) be better. I don't see any sudden shifts in computing, windows is going to be at the helm for a long time, atleast a decade or two more. No, there will not be a year of the linux desktop, there may be a year of the mac desktop.
That said, awareness of apple as a good hardware vendor is increasing. In the end, a very less part of apple's bottom line will be affected by vista. Leopard's timing will not affect this much, in fact I think they made the wise move by releasing it near the holiday season.
It used to be 6%. Not that the increase isn't insignificant, but all those vista haters aren't moving there. I got a mac recently, but it was more to do with the fact that I've been trying to build something like the macmini for 2 years but haven't come close to getting a cabinet and motherboard of the form factor.
I am guessing that most of the switchers are from the ipod/iphone users, who are curious about apple. Its a shame that their advertisement campaigns do not target this audience - I thought that someone smart would be working in that department.
And what is wrong with ultra cheap copies of medicines being manufactured? It increases the ease of access to medicines, it brings about a better challenge to make more cost effective manufacturing lines etc
Funny how the joke of this post was lost on the mods. For those unaware, arabic numerals are the same decimal number system, that everyone around the world uses.
but what's the deal with a broken link back to slashdot? For once in a long time, I wanted to read the actual article, and this is what i get :(
While you may be right in parts and places about why asian students flock to the american higher degrees, you are missing the vital point. There are 60K H1Bs available for the general quota, and around 20K for those who do their MS in america. The tech industry has very much warmed to the concept of foreign labour, and it is way easier for these people to break even on their investment in 3 - 4 years. Any extra amount of period they work is a bonus, and is especially so comparing the salaries in the US to what it is elsewhere.
Quality of education might be one of minor points they consider; give them a facility like those one-week MS crap retaining the same benefits (the ones that you get regularly as spam), and you'll see them frantically trying to grab one. I am not saying that the quality is irrelevant, but its all a matter of money. Most of them are betting on a significant investment of their lives; they hell as sure want to recover the money that they sink in for their degrees.