Most ISPs block outgoing port 25 because 99.99% of that traffic is viruses or otherwise malicious computers trying to send spam. Even more mail services block all dynamic pools used by major ISPs because of the same reason.
Just invest a few bucks a month into a cheap hosted VPS behind a static IP where you can run the server.
My provider blocks port 25. You can use port 2525 instead.
This can't be the first software of its kind... Five years ago, NASA was using much more subtle feature detection software in detecting interesting rocks and regions from satellite imagery of Mars. It seems like life jacket detection in oceans would be a much simpler reduction of that problem.
In WWII, they used pigeons to do this. Simply train them to pick a button when they see an orange spot somewhere. Then reward them with some food. I wonder how this compares to the software, in price and performance.
Another option is to split data over machines. Use a media server, and keep media there. Maybe pictures and personal video's can be on your normal laptop as well, but your MP3 collection, movies and tv-shows don't need to be on your laptop.
Then I use one old desktop with Ubuntu on it as backup-machine. I use Crashplan for this. It has a free option to backup to your own machine, or to backup to a friend's machine. I backup several machines (from my parents as well) to this one machine. Then this one machine can be backed up online for $5/month, no limit. (You have unlimited storage, only limited by the upload speed. But as we've seen with Mozy, that can change very quickly.)
If anything it may be the smartest thing they've done.
How often is partnering with Microsoft the smartest thing anyone's done?
How often it is done by anyone is not relevant. The only relevant question is if it's the smart thing to do now, for Nokia, with their bad track record in smartphones with touch interfaces. I think it is a risky move, but it certainly has a chance. MS seems to have a good design now, although it doesn't have the momentum. Nokia might be the partner to create that marketshare. We will see.
The "hacker" found a weakness in the websites security and exploited it. Then the website found a weakness in the hackers security and did the same in turn. You'd think the hacker in question would be a little more secure about their own personal information.
Disturbing! Finding his Facebook page is quite an impressive hack. Then emailing his mom - wow man - that will definitely scare him off. One hacker down!
Just this morning my wife said she had gone to the bank to open an account for our son and they told her this bank has accounts for five people with the same name. We thought his name was less common than that. I asked her why she thought that was a big deal and she said "you know, when you use your name as your password" and I said what?.
Well at least your wife is not known under five names.
If you have a vendor who actively solicits and rewards bug/vulnerability reports, puts a lot of time and money into fixing them, and keeps their source closed, you'll probably have about the best security possible. In the real world, it's not so black and white.
And that one vendor is..... Google! (Except of course that their source is open.)
TFA agrees with you, and points out that they're being a little unfair. But what they really wanted to do was bitch and moan about £650 for something specced the same as an Acer Aspire Revo; and worse, ripping you off on "optional upgrades" by charging "triple the price difference".
All of which, if true, is pretty shitty. They could probably have found better "worst products of 2010" if they'd wanted to, but their criticisms of the Mac Mini seem valid enough.
When I bought my macbook, the default harddisk was only 160GB. Upgrading to 250GB would cost €100, while a separate new 320GB disk was €105 back then (in a different shop of course). In effect they say: you buy a new harddisk, we keep the old one (oh no it's not "old", it's brand new!), and we charge you for replacing it. It's a complete rip off.
iOS is a decent enough option, but imo it isn't bringing anything to the table that Android doesn't.
Maybe from a developer point of view (or development platform/programming language pov) - however let me tell you that iOS brings one thing to the table a lot better than Android, and that is a proper user interface. Maybe this is just a question of rearranging buttons, actions, whatever, but for now Apple does the job a lot better than Google. I have an Android phone, and there are so many situations where I'm confused at what button to press. Especially the back-button is confusing. When the (touchscreen) keyboard appears, I see three buttons in the lower right corner which point all three to the left.
1) the backspace button 2) the enter/new line button 3) the (hardware) back-button
On my laptop I'm never confused about the enter- or the backspace-button, let alone the back-button. On my ipod touch I have never thought about this for a second.
Another confusing thing is the back-button, once again. When I get an sms, and I see the alert in the top notification bar, I pull that down and open the message. Then I press the back button to go where? It can be either:
a) the previous screen b) the index of the sms list
Okay, for a good 70% I can predict which it is, but many times it doesn't do what I expect.It should be so that you allways know intuitively what button to press, and what will happen if you do so. Google does great things, but the Android user interface is not one of them.
When was it demonstrated that North Korea actually had nukes? I only remember a failed test and a lot of posturing. Googling turns up nothing, although I may not be looking correctly. What am I missing?
In 2006 they announced a test, and there was considerable proof that it was a real nuclear bomb. See wikipedia or google for it.
Hmmmm.... Having said that, i think everyone i know who has Apple computers are women (almost entirely notebooks). But i do know one man who owns an iPhone.
There is a reason the rich are rich. They are smarter then the poor people.
I wasn't aware that being born to rich parents means you are intelligent. There can only be so many opportunities to exploit during one's lifetime.
Rich kids are (on average) probably more intelligent than poor kids because of their environment. Rich usually means better food and health care, better education, parents that stimulate their children more, parents that have a better network that can help their carreers, and less stress factors as crime in the neighbourhood or in the family etc.
The UK Ministry of Defence has urged newspaper editors to "bear in mind" the national security implications of publishing the information.
You can make a plausible case that the leaks will put lives at risk. But warning the media about publishing excerpts after the stuff is already made public? That's got fuck all to do with national security, that's politicians worrying about *personal* relations.
The leaks are not the problem. The root of the problem is the hypocritical policies and unsavory conduct that the leaks are exposing. The best way to keep your dirty laundry from being aired is to not engage in dirty conduct in the first place.
The only question is who's conduct is unsavory? That of the US diplomats/spies and their interpretation of what they found out, or that of those spied on?
I'm not a US citizen, and I believe for a long time that the US spies on us and tries to manipulate us (befriended countries in the EU) as much and probably more than on their enemies. Probably only because it's a lot more simple to do so, because of opennes and easy access, but still...
English is my second language and while I do a lot of errors, they're different than the ones that natives do. My errors tend to be odd sentences (the structures used in English are very different than those used in my first language), odd expressions (Do I complete a quest or do I make a quest? Do I do an error or do I make an error? Or do I, perhaps, err? In my first language there isn't any difference so it's easy to make[?] those errors in English) and the like. However, I don't do errors such as break/brake, their/there, your/you're, it's/its (I do have some difficulties in remembering wierd/weird, though)... I think that there is a simple reason for this: I've had to study this stuff. I've had to study that You are can be shortened to You're and I am can be shortened to I'm. It would never cross my mind to mix You're and Your any more than I would mix I'm with in. I just don't see why I would ever do that.
I would. I see these errors in my first language (Dutch - e.g. "eens" or "'ns" becomes "is" what you see mostly by younger people), so this could be a universal type of language error. "You're" and "your" are pronounced the same, and many people mess this up. The last ten years I've become more and more aware of this, as I've joined many online forums, where many people don't have the grammar and spelling level that I was used to (from news papers, magazines, books etc). At first I found it very annoying, and then I got Mono/Pfeiffer, and suddenly began to make those errors myself. And it never stopped. So it could happen to you as well, because of some illness that burns you out, or just because you get older and are not that fit anymore. So it's not a matter of choice, it can just happen. (And this text is probably spelled correctly, because I'm very keen on it, but it could have several errors in it that I will only see if I read it later today!)
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..they might indicate that your tuna is rancid...
My god, man, where are you getting your tuna from?
Don't mind him. He forgot to take his pills!
First its qt, then its SCSI! :)
SCSI has tits too?
Most ISPs block outgoing port 25 because 99.99% of that traffic is viruses or otherwise malicious computers trying to send spam. Even more mail services block all dynamic pools used by major ISPs because of the same reason.
Just invest a few bucks a month into a cheap hosted VPS behind a static IP where you can run the server.
My provider blocks port 25. You can use port 2525 instead.
This can't be the first software of its kind... Five years ago, NASA was using much more subtle feature detection software in detecting interesting rocks and regions from satellite imagery of Mars. It seems like life jacket detection in oceans would be a much simpler reduction of that problem.
In WWII, they used pigeons to do this. Simply train them to pick a button when they see an orange spot somewhere. Then reward them with some food. I wonder how this compares to the software, in price and performance.
we place ourselves on the side of openness
Horsepuckey. They're just jealous that the same shutdown ability doesn't exist here in the Untied States.
The Untied States? That is quite a interesting spelling in this context.
Another option is to split data over machines. Use a media server, and keep media there. Maybe pictures and personal video's can be on your normal laptop as well, but your MP3 collection, movies and tv-shows don't need to be on your laptop.
Then I use one old desktop with Ubuntu on it as backup-machine. I use Crashplan for this. It has a free option to backup to your own machine, or to backup to a friend's machine. I backup several machines (from my parents as well) to this one machine. Then this one machine can be backed up online for $5/month, no limit. (You have unlimited storage, only limited by the upload speed. But as we've seen with Mozy, that can change very quickly.)
If anything it may be the smartest thing they've done.
How often is partnering with Microsoft the smartest thing anyone's done?
How often it is done by anyone is not relevant. The only relevant question is if it's the smart thing to do now, for Nokia, with their bad track record in smartphones with touch interfaces. I think it is a risky move, but it certainly has a chance. MS seems to have a good design now, although it doesn't have the momentum. Nokia might be the partner to create that marketshare. We will see.
Because I'm fairly sure Sony is going to get Mr Hotz 10yr old laptop with a fresh install of Debian on it.
I would opt for Windows XP with a Sony rootkit - much more fun!
...and this new version of Slashdot looks horrible in all of them, and doesn't work as well as the previous version in any of them.
So Slashdot has actually done a good job at getting the visitor experience similar in all browsers. That's quite a compliment!
The "hacker" found a weakness in the websites security and exploited it. Then the website found a weakness in the hackers security and did the same in turn. You'd think the hacker in question would be a little more secure about their own personal information.
Disturbing! Finding his Facebook page is quite an impressive hack. Then emailing his mom - wow man - that will definitely scare him off. One hacker down!
Just this morning my wife said she had gone to the bank to open an account for our son and they told her this bank has accounts for five people with the same name. We thought his name was less common than that. I asked her why she thought that was a big deal and she said "you know, when you use your name as your password" and I said what?.
Well at least your wife is not known under five names.
I know a galaxy when I see one.
And it probably is a Ford!
Yea, we lock you up with Bubba here, and he'll be having sex with you until you're ready to reveal all the information.
It's the American way!
I thought that was the Greek way!
I guess I'm not gonna be renewing my network's TrendMicro licenses when they expire next month...
Really? Or in a month, you forgot about this, or suddenly realize that it's too much trouble to replace them with.... ehm... Norton? McAfee?
If you have a vendor who actively solicits and rewards bug/vulnerability reports, puts a lot of time and money into fixing them, and keeps their source closed, you'll probably have about the best security possible. In the real world, it's not so black and white.
And that one vendor is..... Google! (Except of course that their source is open.)
TFA agrees with you, and points out that they're being a little unfair. But what they really wanted to do was bitch and moan about £650 for something specced the same as an Acer Aspire Revo; and worse, ripping you off on "optional upgrades" by charging "triple the price difference".
All of which, if true, is pretty shitty. They could probably have found better "worst products of 2010" if they'd wanted to, but their criticisms of the Mac Mini seem valid enough.
When I bought my macbook, the default harddisk was only 160GB. Upgrading to 250GB would cost €100, while a separate new 320GB disk was €105 back then (in a different shop of course). In effect they say: you buy a new harddisk, we keep the old one (oh no it's not "old", it's brand new!), and we charge you for replacing it. It's a complete rip off.
iOS is a decent enough option, but imo it isn't bringing anything to the table that Android doesn't.
Maybe from a developer point of view (or development platform/programming language pov) - however let me tell you that iOS brings one thing to the table a lot better than Android, and that is a proper user interface. Maybe this is just a question of rearranging buttons, actions, whatever, but for now Apple does the job a lot better than Google. I have an Android phone, and there are so many situations where I'm confused at what button to press. Especially the back-button is confusing. When the (touchscreen) keyboard appears, I see three buttons in the lower right corner which point all three to the left.
1) the backspace button
2) the enter/new line button
3) the (hardware) back-button
On my laptop I'm never confused about the enter- or the backspace-button, let alone the back-button. On my ipod touch I have never thought about this for a second.
Another confusing thing is the back-button, once again. When I get an sms, and I see the alert in the top notification bar, I pull that down and open the message. Then I press the back button to go where? It can be either:
a) the previous screen
b) the index of the sms list
Okay, for a good 70% I can predict which it is, but many times it doesn't do what I expect.It should be so that you allways know intuitively what button to press, and what will happen if you do so. Google does great things, but the Android user interface is not one of them.
I'm sorry about the other deformities, but a tentacle in the stomach area sounds kind of cool, how did you get that?
He didn't get the tentacle, just the hole in the sweater.
When was it demonstrated that North Korea actually had nukes? I only remember a failed test and a lot of posturing. Googling turns up nothing, although I may not be looking correctly. What am I missing?
In 2006 they announced a test, and there was considerable proof that it was a real nuclear bomb. See wikipedia or google for it.
It isn't totally your fault. It is also the fault of the Slashdot editor who didn't bother to read the article.
The editor didn't RTFA? Only on Slashdot! :-P
Hmmmm.... Having said that, i think everyone i know who has Apple computers are women (almost entirely notebooks). But i do know one man who owns an iPhone.
I think he's a Lady!
There is a reason the rich are rich. They are smarter then the poor people.
I wasn't aware that being born to rich parents means you are intelligent. There can only be so many opportunities to exploit during one's lifetime.
Rich kids are (on average) probably more intelligent than poor kids because of their environment. Rich usually means better food and health care, better education, parents that stimulate their children more, parents that have a better network that can help their carreers, and less stress factors as crime in the neighbourhood or in the family etc.
Quoth the BBC:
The UK Ministry of Defence has urged newspaper editors to "bear in mind" the national security implications of publishing the information.
You can make a plausible case that the leaks will put lives at risk. But warning the media about publishing excerpts after the stuff is already made public? That's got fuck all to do with national security, that's politicians worrying about *personal* relations.
There, corrected that for you!
The leaks are not the problem. The root of the problem is the hypocritical policies and unsavory conduct that the leaks are exposing. The best way to keep your dirty laundry from being aired is to not engage in dirty conduct in the first place.
The only question is who's conduct is unsavory? That of the US diplomats/spies and their interpretation of what they found out, or that of those spied on?
I'm not a US citizen, and I believe for a long time that the US spies on us and tries to manipulate us (befriended countries in the EU) as much and probably more than on their enemies. Probably only because it's a lot more simple to do so, because of opennes and easy access, but still...
English is my second language and while I do a lot of errors, they're different than the ones that natives do. My errors tend to be odd sentences (the structures used in English are very different than those used in my first language), odd expressions (Do I complete a quest or do I make a quest? Do I do an error or do I make an error? Or do I, perhaps, err? In my first language there isn't any difference so it's easy to make[?] those errors in English) and the like. However, I don't do errors such as break/brake, their/there, your/you're, it's/its (I do have some difficulties in remembering wierd/weird, though)... I think that there is a simple reason for this: I've had to study this stuff. I've had to study that You are can be shortened to You're and I am can be shortened to I'm. It would never cross my mind to mix You're and Your any more than I would mix I'm with in. I just don't see why I would ever do that.
I would. I see these errors in my first language (Dutch - e.g. "eens" or "'ns" becomes "is" what you see mostly by younger people), so this could be a universal type of language error. "You're" and "your" are pronounced the same, and many people mess this up. The last ten years I've become more and more aware of this, as I've joined many online forums, where many people don't have the grammar and spelling level that I was used to (from news papers, magazines, books etc). At first I found it very annoying, and then I got Mono/Pfeiffer, and suddenly began to make those errors myself. And it never stopped. So it could happen to you as well, because of some illness that burns you out, or just because you get older and are not that fit anymore. So it's not a matter of choice, it can just happen. (And this text is probably spelled correctly, because I'm very keen on it, but it could have several errors in it that I will only see if I read it later today!)