In fact, most educated Westerners had understood that the Earth was spherical at least since the time of Aristotle, who lived in the 4th century BC and whose works were widely studied and revered in Medieval Europe. The sphericity of the Earth is also accounted for in the work of Ptolemy, on which ancient astronomy was largely based. Christian writers whose works clearly reflect the conviction that the Earth is spherical include Saint Bede the Venerable in his Reckoning of Time, written around AD 723. In Columbus' time, the techniques of celestial navigation, which use the position of the Sun and the Stars in the sky, together with the understanding that the Earth is a sphere, were beginning to be widely used by mariners.
Where Columbus did differ from the view accepted by scholars in his day was in his estimate of the westward distance from Europe to Asia. Columbus' ideas in this regard were based on three factors: his low estimate of the size of the Earth, his high estimate of the size of the Eurasian landmass, and his belief that Japan and other inhabited islands lay far to the east of the coast of China. In all three of these issues Columbus was both wrong and at odds with the scholarly consensus of his day.
As far back as the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes had correctly computed the circumference of the Earth by using simple geometry and studying the shadows cast by objects at two different locations: Alexandria and Syene (modern-day Aswan).
[...]
Columbus estimated the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan to be about 3,000 Italian miles (3,700 km, or 2,300 statute miles), while the correct figure is 19,600 km (12,200 mi).
[...]
The king submitted Columbus' proposal to his experts, who rejected it. It was their considered opinion that Columbus' estimation of a travel distance of 2,400 miles (3,860 km) was, in fact, far too short.
[.....]
On 1 May 1486, permission having been granted, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella, who, in turn, referred it to a committee. After the passing of much time, the savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, reported back that Columbus had judged the distance to Asia much too short. They pronounced the idea impractical, and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture.
And, they were absolutely right. There would have been much further to get all the way to Asia, and if it wasn't for a lucky unknown continent, Columbus would have found that out the really hard way.
So Columbus got famous because he eluded a 3-ship sized Darwin Award by pure luck.
Actually, Samsung Galaxy S 2 does have a top-like task manager.
And a widget that shows how many running apps, and if any of them use battery (green for little, red for a lot). A click on the widget shows a list of all running apps, sorted by cpu use, and with a big "Exit" button next to it.
It works well, too. It have alerted me of two games not shutting down properly on exit, but it also shows if there's something I want to run in the background (file transfer, for example).
Killing everything that goes on in the background without prompting the user would also be wrong. Making a profile for every app in the market... Would need some massive work to be done, and still not be perfect.
Or you can do an iPhone and disable multitasking, but let apps hook up to some predefined generic system services for doing certain tasks.
Personally I don't like the iPhone solution, and prefer the Android way. Some people might think the other way, and they're of course free to choose an iPhone instead of an Android device.
But... Why stop with 64bit? Let's just force people to remember a 256bit key. Which they'll have to type in every time they use the phone. And the timeout should be 15 seconds, so an attacker can't use an idle session.
Now, you start selling that. Meanwhile, Apple is for some reason having huge success with it's 4 digit number. For some reason, most consumers don't want to memorize and type in huge keys to use the phone.
On the other hand, those that go into advanced mode on the phone and turns on a proper password lock can put in a larger and more complex password.
Designing something secure works well in theory, but in real life, one have to make some tradeoffs. What you do is complaining about Apple's tradeoff, without giving any reasonable alternatives, and apparently without seeing the issue at all. Which is why he started mocking you in the first place:)
Okay, lemme see.... I have a password "hunter2". I also have supersecret porn I'd like to encrypt with AES. I'd like to use my human-rememberable password for the encrypted AES data.
Now, I challenge you to make a 256bit key from "hunter2" without using an algorithm to generate it... And yes, I'd do like to be able to decrypt it with the same password. And no, "hunter3" should *not* unlock it.
If you can do that, then I will admit that you *DO* know something us normal hobbyists don't.
I wouldn't say believe. But, with science, there are experiments to verify those theories, and which have been tested and verified by seemingly independent sources. And anyone with the right resources can replicate the tests and verify the experiments.
Now, as I can not run all those experiments myself, and also can not know the full theory behind all new knowledge, I can now *know* it is so.
But.. The knowledge and theories behind those experiments are built upon what we already know to exist, and as time passes, the experiments become easier to replicate, and the experimental knowledge more solid.
In my mind, things can be made out of baryonic particles, there may exist one or more gods, this existence can all be a dream, we might be in a matrix-like state, or part of a full simulation of a four-dimensional universe, as an experiment from some existence we can not understand. Maybe ghosts exist. Maybe Odin and Loki really exist. Maybe aliens do visit Earth.
Some of those excludes others. All are a possibility until I can prove it for myself. However, some of those are more likely than others. In my scale of reality, some are closer to Absolute Truth than others. This is by my own judgement and understanding of the knowledge and logic involved, and to some degree, by my respect and trust in other people's judgement and expertise. This is built partially by my knowledge of the subject they speak of and what they have said earlier, and partially from which people also respect / trust their judgement - thus a sort of "web of trust" is built, which I can have a value on people's knowledge outside of my direct area of understanding. Of course, no web of trust can give absolute certainty, and so I can have no absolutes outside of what I can evaluate myself.
But, via this, the wall of my knowledge and world view is built on the fundaments of my logic and understanding. And if a part of that wall proves itself faulty, I will tear down that part and rebuild it.
And yet there are those who have seen proof of God.
Well, there are also those who have seen proof of Elvis being alive, aliens visiting earth, astrology, magic, ghosts, Loch Ness monster, New York sewer alligators, and bigfoot. Do I believe in those? Not really.
(Name-based SSL virtual hosting is incompatible with IE on Windows XP.)
Screw WinXP IE user with a heavy-duty chainsaw. If it is so big you need to cater to that kind of niche users, then it's beyond the "a fun, little project" level anyway and you might start thinking about monetizing it.
As for prices on hosting : http://www.ramhost.us/ is a decent one (I have a VPS there I'm pretty happy with), and I'm sure it's tons of comparatively priced hosting providers out there.
An RFC 4291 compliant subnet always uses IPv6 addresses with 64 bits for the host portion. It therefore has a/64 routing prefix (128â'64 = the 64 most-significant bits). Although it is technically possible to use smaller subnets, they are impractical for local area networks networks based on Ethernet technology, because 64 bits are required for stateless address auto configuration. The Internet Engineering Task Force recommends to use/64 subnets even for point-to-point links, which consists of only the two hosts.
You obviously missed the parts where he dressed up as Allah, and gave the little children toy bombs and toy suicide vests (both sprouting water, fun for the whole family).
Ah, I fondly remember that time he accidentally gave away a live grenade to our son Ahmed Hussein Hassan. Uncle Ahmed Hassan Hussein had a good laugh about it too, before he died from the blood loss.
But no, all you heathen westerners want to talk about is when they, for the greater good, had to remove some unbelievers.
It's totally unimaginable that he might react in self-defense to an unexpected violent break-in, right? No innocent people could ever be killed in a raid like this...
Now, listen here. If he resisted arrest in any way, he must be guilty, otherwise he wouldn't resist. And if he harmed or killed an officer, it just shows that not only was he guilty, he was armed and dangerous, and had to be taken down.
And thus it was not only right, but necessary to do such an assault. In fact, they just did the public a great service stopping him before he OD'ed on porn and shot up a shopping mall. And thus they need to do more assault raids, for the good of the country.
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It's some really scary circular logic there, and the result is that any problem during the raid will (in their mind) enforce the need for more raids of that type.
I'm not sure, but from what I've seen and heard, I think that's the logic behind it.
youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
Have been using it for months now (mostly because youtube insist on cutting the streaming speed to 20kbps now and then), and it have worked perfectly. Put the urls in a text file, point the script to the file, and off it goes.
Interesting ideas. I think you should do those tests, document it, and show the world how Google is bending the truth. Obviously you know much more about this than I do.
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Actually, it does.
Let's say you have a file with 5000 accounts, passwords hashed.
And, lets say both Harry and Sally have "wuffles" as password. Without any salt, you can just generate the hash once and compare with all entries.
With a good salt, you have to generate the hash for every single user and compare.
Butterflies? How quaint.
I just tweaked the universal constant at the start of creation so this comment would spontaneously appear by itself.
Wait, what? What the hell? That is just completely wrong. You're completely out of touch with the world. You're, in fact, crazy.
Everyone, EVERYONE! knows that hand crafted assembly is the only way to create a web page.
Contrary to popular belief, people DID know that the world was round at that time, and the argument against was about the travel distance.
From WP :
In fact, most educated Westerners had understood that the Earth was spherical at least since the time of Aristotle, who lived in the 4th century BC and whose works were widely studied and revered in Medieval Europe. The sphericity of the Earth is also accounted for in the work of Ptolemy, on which ancient astronomy was largely based. Christian writers whose works clearly reflect the conviction that the Earth is spherical include Saint Bede the Venerable in his Reckoning of Time, written around AD 723. In Columbus' time, the techniques of celestial navigation, which use the position of the Sun and the Stars in the sky, together with the understanding that the Earth is a sphere, were beginning to be widely used by mariners.
Where Columbus did differ from the view accepted by scholars in his day was in his estimate of the westward distance from Europe to Asia. Columbus' ideas in this regard were based on three factors: his low estimate of the size of the Earth, his high estimate of the size of the Eurasian landmass, and his belief that Japan and other inhabited islands lay far to the east of the coast of China. In all three of these issues Columbus was both wrong and at odds with the scholarly consensus of his day.
As far back as the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes had correctly computed the circumference of the Earth by using simple geometry and studying the shadows cast by objects at two different locations: Alexandria and Syene (modern-day Aswan).
[...]
Columbus estimated the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan to be about 3,000 Italian miles (3,700 km, or 2,300 statute miles), while the correct figure is 19,600 km (12,200 mi).
[...]
The king submitted Columbus' proposal to his experts, who rejected it. It was their considered opinion that Columbus' estimation of a travel distance of 2,400 miles (3,860 km) was, in fact, far too short.
[.....]
On 1 May 1486, permission having been granted, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella, who, in turn, referred it to a committee. After the passing of much time, the savants of Spain, like their counterparts in Portugal, reported back that Columbus had judged the distance to Asia much too short. They pronounced the idea impractical, and advised their Royal Highnesses to pass on the proposed venture.
And, they were absolutely right. There would have been much further to get all the way to Asia, and if it wasn't for a lucky unknown continent, Columbus would have found that out the really hard way.
So Columbus got famous because he eluded a 3-ship sized Darwin Award by pure luck.
"Top" needs to be standard on smart phones
Actually, Samsung Galaxy S 2 does have a top-like task manager.
And a widget that shows how many running apps, and if any of them use battery (green for little, red for a lot). A click on the widget shows a list of all running apps, sorted by cpu use, and with a big "Exit" button next to it.
It works well, too. It have alerted me of two games not shutting down properly on exit, but it also shows if there's something I want to run in the background (file transfer, for example).
Killing everything that goes on in the background without prompting the user would also be wrong. Making a profile for every app in the market... Would need some massive work to be done, and still not be perfect.
Or you can do an iPhone and disable multitasking, but let apps hook up to some predefined generic system services for doing certain tasks.
Personally I don't like the iPhone solution, and prefer the Android way. Some people might think the other way, and they're of course free to choose an iPhone instead of an Android device.
Let me fix that for you:
You do realize that the iPhone is considered an INFERIOR product and even a DOWNGRADE from the original nature built rock.
HaHah! Take that you anglo-saxon kniggit! I fart in your general direction!
Why would Apple want to copy a crappy product?
Because, of course, logically, its because it is still better than what they're offering.
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
But... Why stop with 64bit? Let's just force people to remember a 256bit key. Which they'll have to type in every time they use the phone. And the timeout should be 15 seconds, so an attacker can't use an idle session.
Now, you start selling that. Meanwhile, Apple is for some reason having huge success with it's 4 digit number. For some reason, most consumers don't want to memorize and type in huge keys to use the phone.
On the other hand, those that go into advanced mode on the phone and turns on a proper password lock can put in a larger and more complex password.
Designing something secure works well in theory, but in real life, one have to make some tradeoffs. What you do is complaining about Apple's tradeoff, without giving any reasonable alternatives, and apparently without seeing the issue at all. Which is why he started mocking you in the first place :)
Okay, lemme see.... I have a password "hunter2". I also have supersecret porn I'd like to encrypt with AES. I'd like to use my human-rememberable password for the encrypted AES data.
Now, I challenge you to make a 256bit key from "hunter2" without using an algorithm to generate it... And yes, I'd do like to be able to decrypt it with the same password. And no, "hunter3" should *not* unlock it.
If you can do that, then I will admit that you *DO* know something us normal hobbyists don't.
I wouldn't say believe. But, with science, there are experiments to verify those theories, and which have been tested and verified by seemingly independent sources. And anyone with the right resources can replicate the tests and verify the experiments.
Now, as I can not run all those experiments myself, and also can not know the full theory behind all new knowledge, I can now *know* it is so.
But.. The knowledge and theories behind those experiments are built upon what we already know to exist, and as time passes, the experiments become easier to replicate, and the experimental knowledge more solid.
In my mind, things can be made out of baryonic particles, there may exist one or more gods, this existence can all be a dream, we might be in a matrix-like state, or part of a full simulation of a four-dimensional universe, as an experiment from some existence we can not understand. Maybe ghosts exist. Maybe Odin and Loki really exist. Maybe aliens do visit Earth.
Some of those excludes others. All are a possibility until I can prove it for myself. However, some of those are more likely than others. In my scale of reality, some are closer to Absolute Truth than others. This is by my own judgement and understanding of the knowledge and logic involved, and to some degree, by my respect and trust in other people's judgement and expertise. This is built partially by my knowledge of the subject they speak of and what they have said earlier, and partially from which people also respect / trust their judgement - thus a sort of "web of trust" is built, which I can have a value on people's knowledge outside of my direct area of understanding. Of course, no web of trust can give absolute certainty, and so I can have no absolutes outside of what I can evaluate myself.
But, via this, the wall of my knowledge and world view is built on the fundaments of my logic and understanding. And if a part of that wall proves itself faulty, I will tear down that part and rebuild it.
Does that answer your question?
And yet there are those who have seen proof of God.
Well, there are also those who have seen proof of Elvis being alive, aliens visiting earth, astrology, magic, ghosts, Loch Ness monster, New York sewer alligators, and bigfoot. Do I believe in those? Not really.
I think I just found his theme song :)
(Info: Romeo Knight's remix of Bionic Commando stage 1 music)
sshfs + editing locally? All the comfort of your own system, with the data from a remote point.
Like this?
Epic cheesing in that video :)
Not to mention TotalBiscuit's channel - while not as technical as others, he more than makes up for it in entertainment value :)
(Name-based SSL virtual hosting is incompatible with IE on Windows XP.)
Screw WinXP IE user with a heavy-duty chainsaw. If it is so big you need to cater to that kind of niche users, then it's beyond the "a fun, little project" level anyway and you might start thinking about monetizing it.
As for prices on hosting : http://www.ramhost.us/ is a decent one (I have a VPS there I'm pretty happy with), and I'm sure it's tons of comparatively priced hosting providers out there.
Domain : Free subdomain or 5-10 dollar a year.
Hosting : 5-10 dollar a year. Your own VPS can be as little as 3 usd per month.
SSL Cert : Free
Eclipse : Free
Android SDK : Free
Making an Android install file for people to download : Free
Getting an Android Market account : $25
I really don't see the problem here.
Something like Ubuntu backports?
Actually, the recommended minimum subnet to allocate for ipv6 is /64 ..
And yes, that does mean you can host the whole internet on your next LAN. Several times.
To be exact, you'd have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 adresses. (ref http://www.bind.com/?path=netmasks6 )
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork#IPv6_subnetting
An RFC 4291 compliant subnet always uses IPv6 addresses with 64 bits for the host portion. It therefore has a /64 routing prefix (128â'64 = the 64 most-significant bits). Although it is technically possible to use smaller subnets, they are impractical for local area networks networks based on Ethernet technology, because 64 bits are required for stateless address auto configuration. The Internet Engineering Task Force recommends to use /64 subnets even for point-to-point links, which consists of only the two hosts.
You obviously missed the parts where he dressed up as Allah, and gave the little children toy bombs and toy suicide vests (both sprouting water, fun for the whole family).
Ah, I fondly remember that time he accidentally gave away a live grenade to our son Ahmed Hussein Hassan. Uncle Ahmed Hassan Hussein had a good laugh about it too, before he died from the blood loss.
But no, all you heathen westerners want to talk about is when they, for the greater good, had to remove some unbelievers.
when did thoughtcrime become worthy of capital punishment?
when we found out the terrorists hated us for our freedom.
you cannot fight real bullets with lawyers not matter how many lawyers you have.
"Throw enough lawyers at any violent problem and it should go away. At the very least, there'll be fewer lawyers."
It's totally unimaginable that he might react in self-defense to an unexpected violent break-in, right? No innocent people could ever be killed in a raid like this...
Now, listen here. If he resisted arrest in any way, he must be guilty, otherwise he wouldn't resist. And if he harmed or killed an officer, it just shows that not only was he guilty, he was armed and dangerous, and had to be taken down.
And thus it was not only right, but necessary to do such an assault. In fact, they just did the public a great service stopping him before he OD'ed on porn and shot up a shopping mall. And thus they need to do more assault raids, for the good of the country.
---
It's some really scary circular logic there, and the result is that any problem during the raid will (in their mind) enforce the need for more raids of that type.
I'm not sure, but from what I've seen and heard, I think that's the logic behind it.
I prefer http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ personally :)
youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.x (x being at least 5), and it is not platform specific. It should work in your Unix box, in Windows or in Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
Have been using it for months now (mostly because youtube insist on cutting the streaming speed to 20kbps now and then), and it have worked perfectly. Put the urls in a text file, point the script to the file, and off it goes.
A few examples:
http://notalwaysright.com/has-faith-but-lost-all-pope/10629
http://notalwaysright.com/because-aramaic-is-sooo-last-millenium/2005
http://notalwaysright.com/heal-the-blind-raise-the-dead-now-a-book-deal/1763
Small warning: If you have never worked as customer service person, then reading that site might shatter your faith in humanity.
Interesting ideas. I think you should do those tests, document it, and show the world how Google is bending the truth. Obviously you know much more about this than I do.