People just never seem to wrap your head around the fact that you never use raw user input for anything that a parser will look at, at any point in time!
In other words: estimates of temperature in medieval/Roman times based on tree ring data may well be too low.
Global Warming Alarmists will point to this and say we have reversed a cooling trend that has lasted at least 2000 years.
Global Warming Denialists will use this to show that it's been warming in the past and previous data that shows global warming is now suspect.
I think this new data shows that we don't have a clue what we are talking about when it comes to the climate. I believe the best we can do is take measurements and say what it's like RIGHT NOW. Judging the past is inaccurate. In the future, we'll look back on today and say, "those guys didn't know what they were talking about!" I agree with our future selves.
Have you a broken pinkie? 'ls' is really easy to enter so I'm not sure what you mean by 'annoying'.
I looked at the layout of the Dvorak keyboard, and yeah, I'd call it annoying. The pinkie finger is the weakest of the five and you have to use it to hit two keys. Sure, it's doable, but, the Qwerty layout of simply using the ring fingers of each hand is much simpler. Unfortunately, neither keyboard was designed for typing computer commands. They were both designed for typewriters, which were used exclusively for word processing tasks.
Last night you said CONGRESS sets these budgets and the President has nothing to do with it, so you just contradicted yourself talking about how Clinton and Bush do these things which, gasp, effect the economy.
Good catch! Yes, Congress does allocate funds to NASA, but as NASA falls under the executive branch, the President (or his office) requests the funding and sets the mission. I don't know of any cases where funding has been denied, but I'm sure there is some back door wrangling like, "throw in the rocket plant in my district and I'll make sure your pet project gets funding"
unfortunately, the gop rejects science pretty much as an axiom...
No, they don't. You'll see tons of evidence that they do, this article for example, but most of the time, they are flat out misquoted or quoted out of context, or even misunderstood. See, libertarians and conservatives tend to have a distrust of government and a stronger trust on self reliance. These are the people you see living in the country, growing their own food, or digging bunkers, filling them with canned goods and ammo and buying water filtration systems. So when government comes along and says, "We have to take your truck away because it's global warming and we know best", you can understand why they might be a bit skeptical. When they ask for evidence, the best they can get is a UN report. The only thing a libertarian and a conservative trust less than government is a WORLD government!
Now, when I was in school, I was told that scientists ALWAYS ask questions and scientist ALWAYS challenge assumptions. Never take anything for granted, my 9th grade science teacher told us. She even pounding in the point by giving us an experiment to do from the book that was actually flawed. We were told to boil water, time how long it took to boil, and then have our partner do the same with salt water to see which one boiled first. The result... depended on the burner we used. See, the book never told us to use the same burner for both batches of water. Some burners were simply hotter than others. The point of the experiment? Challenged everything, even what we THINK we know.
So, again, when anyone at all challenges what the THINK we know, global warming, for example, they are instantly discredited and never heard from again as a reputable source. After all, no credible scientists challenges global warming. Any scientist that questions it is obviously not credible! How many times have you heard people that question man made global warming compared to "Flat Earthers"? These are people with PHD's who have made careers in scientific fields. They are NOT flat eathers, but they will be called that. So, you have to excuse those that approach the whole idea with a bit of suspicion.
Another quick example of scientific spending would be, a quick glance of NASA's budget over the past two presidents shows that Bush spent roughly the same amount of money that Clinton did on NASA.
First, I don't get FoxNews. It's a premium channel on Dish Network and we have the basic package. But that is very typical of liberals to attempt to counter arguments they can't refute with "FauxNews" or "Racists!" I know it's a fallacy, but I can't quite tell you which one.
Next, I never said Bush has done no wrong. What I said was that CONGRESS, NOT THE PRESIDENT, CONTROLS THE ECONOMY. The President controls the military, foreign policy, DOJ, etc. The economy is all congress. CONGRESS writes the laws. CONGRESS writes the regulations. CONGRESS writes the tax code. CONGRESS spends the money. CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY.
OK, one more time, just to make sure you get the point. If nothing else, take this with you. Are you ready? Here it is: CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY!
Go back and compare economies from 1970 'til today. You will find that when R's control Congress, the GDP tends to increase faster than when the D's control Congress. Reagan is the lone exception, but he had a knack for getting a D controlled Congress to do his bidding. After Reagan was Bush. He had a D Congress and things fell apart, leading to Clinton. Clinton't first two years were a disaster. This led to Republicans taking Congress with Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House. Within two years, there was a huge turnaround of the economy leading to Democrats getting Clinton re-elected with the slogan, "It's the Economy, Stupid!" because the economy was that good. R's still held Congress. This lasted through the rest of Clinton's term, even ending with a surplus. GHWB took over, and held a barely R Congress until Jan 2007... Well, read my first post to see what happened after that.
So, you can blame the President all you want, but all that shows is your overflowing ignorance of how the US political system works. I'm not cheer leading for Bush or bashing Obama. I'm saying that Congress Controls the Economy. Recent history proves that the economy rises and falls with Congress and the President has little to do with it.
What exactly in the 110th Congress [wikipedia.org] did Pelosi do that made it "her" economy. They did a small $160 billion stimulus but that was mostly tax cuts every Republican can love. They increased the minimum wage to $7.25/hr. Is that how she destroyed the global economy?
Well, figure out what turned a $400 billion deficit into a $1400 billion dollar deficit and that will be your answer.
The only time the president may be held responsible is when the president and Congress are in the same party. That's because Congress will pass the president's agenda as he/she becomes the defacto leader of the party.
Citing the unemployment rate a year in to Obama's term and somehow blaming it on him is one of the more spectacular ones. The economy had just entered free fall when Obama took office.
You obviously were not paying attention to my post. Obama's first year was the third year of a Democrat controlled Congress. Congress writes the laws. Congress spends the money.
Pelosi handed Obama a shitty economy. Not Bush.
I didn't read past that point because you missed the entire point by the second paragraph.
Granted, I can't blame it all on Obama. Things went downhill before he ever took office.
So, who's to blame? Well, things were going pretty well for last six years of Clinton and the first six of GWBush. In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was at 4.6%, the deficit averaged about $400 billion and gas was under $2.20/gallon. Then, in late Jan 2007, the Democrats took control of Congress. Again, this is after the last six years of Clinton and the first six years of Bush. This Republican controlled Congress led over two presidents of both parties, so you can't blame or credit either president. Just two years after the Democrats took control of Congress the deficit had gone up to over $1400 billion and the unemployment rate was about 7.6%. One year after Obama was elected, with both houses of Congress controlled by Obama's party, the unemployment rate was over 9.6% and the deficit was the second highest ever at $1200 billion, second only to Obama's first year in office.
So the credit/blame does not necessarily fall under Obama or Bush, but with Congress. Obama does deserve some credit, however, as he was able to get his agenda through the Democratic Congress, where Bush could not.
So your idea that Republicans are somehow to blame for this is not backed up by the FACTS. Sorry, bub! Numbers don't lie!
If you have a problem with any of the numbers I brought up, speak up. Calling names does not qualify as an argument.
I used a linux desktop for 7 years. I dutifully updated when any improvement was made.
Linux desktops were in my experience never competitive because they require too much technical knowledge. That is an obstacle easily overcome by technical types, but *not* the majority of the user population. It just isn't sustainable to say "Here, tinker, it's cool" to everybody - or more accurately ANYbody outside of technical folks who enjoy the work necessary to update one application or another. It's why many have grown tired of Windows. It's why OSX, with its draw backs, is becoming more popular - the user population at large want an experience that doesn't require at lot of work to keep working. imho.
My KDE desktop worked great "out of the box". No tinkering required. However, tinkering is an option if you want to take that road. Gnome2 was the same way.
I wont comment on Unity or Gnome3 because I think they suck and won't use them.
Within my lifetime, gas has gone from.23/gal to 4.00/gal. If we are going to repair roads, etc. I suspect that we will need to double taxes. That will mean that we will within a couple of years pay around 6/gal, and I would not be surprised to see us approaching Europe levels of oil prices.
First, the roads were built with the current gas taxes. Why would we need to double them to maintain the roads?
OK, let's assume gas is $6.00/gallon.
$30000/6=5000 gallons of gas.
At 20 miles per gallon, that's 100,000 miles, or the typical life of an American made car.
How many miles do these batteries last, anyway?
Doesn't matter, if you are buying one of these to save money, you are making a mistake. If you are buying on of these to save the environment, you'd be better off buying a Honda Civic and spending the $30,000 planting trees or something.
Wrong, it's a new zombie strain, carried by rodents and cats from Japan; I suspect it is entirely distinct from the zombie strain seen in Florida, originating in Cuba.
I very seriously doubt that I'm the only one who predicted this more than a decade ago, back in the PDA era.
Still, being Android, I don't expect this to take off. While I'm a huge RIM supporter, the only player I can really see winning in this market would be Microsoft. A shame, really.
I disagree. The only thing needed is a common interface to be shared among all Android devices. A dock is a good idea, but it's worthless if I have to buy one for each model of phone or each year a new model comes out. A desktop style dock would be even nicer, IMHO, but again, it must be an open standard.
Currently, I have two "real" monitors at my desk with a "real" keyboard and mouse. My notebook plugs into the docking station and powers the monitors, keyboard and mouse. When I need to take my stuff on the road, I can still use my notebook, either disconnected or connected to another network. When I get home, I can plug in my own keyboard, mouse and monitor and it's like I never left the office.
Now imagine an office full of cubes and offices with nothing but monitors, keyboards and mice where all the employees would need to do is walk in, plug in their phones, and be off and running. Buy a new phone? No big deal if the docks use an open standard. Need to show a coworker something or travel to a different office? Again, no big deal, just plug in and go. You could do the same thing at your house for your personal computing needs; bonus if you have networked storage at the house for your family pics, movies and other personal data. Also, when traveling between work and office, you will remain connected via your cell network. Everything will still be accessible, only without the convenience of your input and display devices.
And I don't see this limited to Android phones. There is no good reason that iOS or even Windows based phones couldn't use the same docks. Of course, this will require much of the work to be done via remote apps (cloud), but everything I do at my job already requires that. Everything I do uses Cytrix, RDP or other remote protocol to access apps running on a VM somewhere in a server room anywhere in the world. If it were not for Slashdot, my PC would need to do nothing more than act as a dumb terminal.
This is the type of thing that can finally bring about that "Year of Linux on the Desktop" everyone has been predicting for so many years.
When you try to apply that to everything else, you start having problems. One employee starts authoring all their documents in one format, and another uses a different one. So, you impose some standard. Now a bunch of employees can't comply with the standard readily, unless you buy a lot of software for them. Some employees have devices that don't work well with the corporate Exchange server or whatever.
I think this is where Google Docs... or drive... or whatever comes in handy. You'd be surprised at how many companies are switching from Office/Outlook to GoogleDrive/Gmail for this very reason.
Fact is, a phone is not going to be handle what a common desktop is capable of. However, for most employees that don't need to compile code or render a design in 3D, this solution works extraordinarily well.
You mean THIS one? It is The (sadly discontinued) 3840×2400, 22-inch IBM T221 -- 204 PPI!
I got the picture from TFA. The description above was the caption of the photo. Rather than looking up the monitor in Wikipedia, you could have just said, "TFA".
In concept it is cool in practice it is still under powered.
You are correct. Maybe I should have specified that the "dock" needs to be universal. It should also allow me to use my own keyboard, mouse and monitor. (I think the Atrix had a dock that allowed this) But the main thing is that it must be universal and based on an open standard. I shouldn't have to toss out everything every two years when I get a new phone. It would have to at LEAST work with all Android devices, bonus if Apple and MS could also support the interface. Of course, eventually, it will all be wireless, but I don't see a wireless device sending enough info to feed a display and handle network traffic all while accepting input from the mouse and keyboard.
Penicillin is a drug millions/billions of people need yearly. I am talking about cancer drugs that thousands of people need yearly. Some drugs exist for even rarer conditions than that.
Strange that billions of tax dollars go into various university grants that actually create drugs that don't have the same overhead inherited by the "big pharma" created drugs. Also strange that countries that don't charge the same inflated drug prices we pay here in the states don't seem to have the same issues creating life saving medications.
Even so, when a company invests boat loads of cash into a finding a drug that cures X, they often find that it doesn't do jack to X but has "side effects" that are beneficial. Viagra is a fine example as it was being created to treat blood pressure. Turns out that it was a poor blood pressure medication that had the side effect of giving men erections. Guess what that little blue pill is sold to cure?
The point in my example is to show that most of those drugs that are sold to created the rare conditions you describe were intended to cure something else entirely. Rather than write off the research as a total loss, there is no doubt that these companies wouldn't sell that drug for rare condition X at a price that people could afford.
Well - to be fair, Gnome, KDE, and Ubuntu are all trying to be Metro-sexual on the desktop as well. Hopefully, it's just a fad that will fade in a year or two.
You are correct if you scratch KDE from the list. KDE is unique in that it does have an excellent mix of a tablet interface and the standard "Start Button" type of menu. Basically, you see the menus of the start menu as your desktop icons. You click "Graphics", and it opens the items you would see under the "Graphics" menu after clicking the K. It's works very well on my desktop and I see it working very well on tablets.
What makes KDE different is that I can go to another desktop where I have the standard K menu setup with task manager and a desktop full of the items found in my ~/Desktop folder. There are other activities as well, but these two seem to be best mix.
Of course, this is different from Gnome and Ubuntu in that I can choose if I want to use this interface. With Gnome and Unity, there is one interface to rule them all and it sux on all devices!
Finally, Gnome3 and Unity are nothing like Metro. Metro is nothing more than a bastardized mix of Android widgets and the IOS interface. They took the grid layout of IOS and replaced the icon with Android Widgets. What makes Android better is that you can choose to use icons or widgets. Metro is all widgets. IOS is all icons.
I've got the ARM version of the Transformer, and it's exactly that. A tablet, but you can plug it into a foldable keyboard dock that turns it into a netbook.
That looks nice and very close to what I see happening in the very near future. Rather than have a proprietary docking station that turns into a notebook with the "tablet" acting as the monitor, I want to plug my PHONE into a box that has outputs for USB (keyboard, mouse, external storage), network, and a real, honest to goodness monitor. You take your phone to work, plug it into this peripheral box that already has your monitor, keyboard, and mouse plugged into it, and your working. When you are on your way home, your phone acts as it does now... as a smart phone. When you get home, you plug your phone into your own box and it becomes your personal PC.
This has all the advantages of the Transformer, with the added advantage that it will fit in your pocket and replace the phone you are already carrying around.
"The rest of us" shouldn't have to pay for anybody's choices. How about everybody pays for their own healthcare expenses? Gosh, what a concept!
Tell me how well that works out for you when you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer treatment out of pocket.
We have insurance to spread the risk, not to encourage people to take stupid risks and make intentionally bad choices.
If everyone paid their own way, cancer treatments wouldn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The reason health care is so expensive is because the patient is not the one paying for it. This means that the health care providers may charge whatever they want. When insurance companies try to limit what they will pay for procedures, everyone that was charging less will now charge more. The end result is the maximum the insurance companies will pay becomes the minimum providers will charge.
Which are the same idiots that elect your Congressmen/women.
The only difference is that the local school board members might actually visit the local school on something other than a photo-op mission one day, and might actually talk to local parents and educators about local concerns.
And the parents are able to drive to where these school board people work and let them know how they feel. Good luck getting a hold of your congressperson.
He'll go into obscurity for a few years. Then, out of the blue, he'll show up to help the real-life Harold and Kumar and then become a womanizer in NY on a real-life "How I Met Your Mother".
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People just never seem to wrap your head around the fact that you never use raw user input for anything that a parser will look at, at any point in time!
Here's probably the funniest discussion thread on injection attacks, ever.
So, can I trust YOUR link?
In other words: estimates of temperature in medieval/Roman times based on tree ring data may well be too low.
Global Warming Alarmists will point to this and say we have reversed a cooling trend that has lasted at least 2000 years.
Global Warming Denialists will use this to show that it's been warming in the past and previous data that shows global warming is now suspect.
I think this new data shows that we don't have a clue what we are talking about when it comes to the climate. I believe the best we can do is take measurements and say what it's like RIGHT NOW. Judging the past is inaccurate. In the future, we'll look back on today and say, "those guys didn't know what they were talking about!" I agree with our future selves.
Have you a broken pinkie? 'ls' is really easy to enter so I'm not sure what you mean by 'annoying'.
I looked at the layout of the Dvorak keyboard, and yeah, I'd call it annoying. The pinkie finger is the weakest of the five and you have to use it to hit two keys. Sure, it's doable, but, the Qwerty layout of simply using the ring fingers of each hand is much simpler. Unfortunately, neither keyboard was designed for typing computer commands. They were both designed for typewriters, which were used exclusively for word processing tasks.
Yeah, but the FPS for that platform all really suck.
And getting it to respawn is a real bitch!
Force feedback is very realistic, however.
Last night you said CONGRESS sets these budgets and the President has nothing to do with it, so you just contradicted yourself talking about how Clinton and Bush do these things which, gasp, effect the economy.
Good catch! Yes, Congress does allocate funds to NASA, but as NASA falls under the executive branch, the President (or his office) requests the funding and sets the mission. I don't know of any cases where funding has been denied, but I'm sure there is some back door wrangling like, "throw in the rocket plant in my district and I'll make sure your pet project gets funding"
unfortunately, the gop rejects science pretty much as an axiom...
No, they don't. You'll see tons of evidence that they do, this article for example, but most of the time, they are flat out misquoted or quoted out of context, or even misunderstood. See, libertarians and conservatives tend to have a distrust of government and a stronger trust on self reliance. These are the people you see living in the country, growing their own food, or digging bunkers, filling them with canned goods and ammo and buying water filtration systems. So when government comes along and says, "We have to take your truck away because it's global warming and we know best", you can understand why they might be a bit skeptical. When they ask for evidence, the best they can get is a UN report. The only thing a libertarian and a conservative trust less than government is a WORLD government!
Now, when I was in school, I was told that scientists ALWAYS ask questions and scientist ALWAYS challenge assumptions. Never take anything for granted, my 9th grade science teacher told us. She even pounding in the point by giving us an experiment to do from the book that was actually flawed. We were told to boil water, time how long it took to boil, and then have our partner do the same with salt water to see which one boiled first. The result... depended on the burner we used. See, the book never told us to use the same burner for both batches of water. Some burners were simply hotter than others. The point of the experiment? Challenged everything, even what we THINK we know.
So, again, when anyone at all challenges what the THINK we know, global warming, for example, they are instantly discredited and never heard from again as a reputable source. After all, no credible scientists challenges global warming. Any scientist that questions it is obviously not credible! How many times have you heard people that question man made global warming compared to "Flat Earthers"? These are people with PHD's who have made careers in scientific fields. They are NOT flat eathers, but they will be called that. So, you have to excuse those that approach the whole idea with a bit of suspicion.
Another quick example of scientific spending would be, a quick glance of NASA's budget over the past two presidents shows that Bush spent roughly the same amount of money that Clinton did on NASA.
First, I don't get FoxNews. It's a premium channel on Dish Network and we have the basic package. But that is very typical of liberals to attempt to counter arguments they can't refute with "FauxNews" or "Racists!" I know it's a fallacy, but I can't quite tell you which one.
Next, I never said Bush has done no wrong. What I said was that CONGRESS, NOT THE PRESIDENT, CONTROLS THE ECONOMY. The President controls the military, foreign policy, DOJ, etc. The economy is all congress. CONGRESS writes the laws. CONGRESS writes the regulations. CONGRESS writes the tax code. CONGRESS spends the money. CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY.
OK, one more time, just to make sure you get the point. If nothing else, take this with you. Are you ready? Here it is:
CONGRESS CONTROLS THE ECONOMY!
Go back and compare economies from 1970 'til today. You will find that when R's control Congress, the GDP tends to increase faster than when the D's control Congress. Reagan is the lone exception, but he had a knack for getting a D controlled Congress to do his bidding. After Reagan was Bush. He had a D Congress and things fell apart, leading to Clinton. Clinton't first two years were a disaster. This led to Republicans taking Congress with Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House. Within two years, there was a huge turnaround of the economy leading to Democrats getting Clinton re-elected with the slogan, "It's the Economy, Stupid!" because the economy was that good. R's still held Congress. This lasted through the rest of Clinton's term, even ending with a surplus. GHWB took over, and held a barely R Congress until Jan 2007... Well, read my first post to see what happened after that.
So, you can blame the President all you want, but all that shows is your overflowing ignorance of how the US political system works. I'm not cheer leading for Bush or bashing Obama. I'm saying that Congress Controls the Economy. Recent history proves that the economy rises and falls with Congress and the President has little to do with it.
What exactly in the 110th Congress [wikipedia.org] did Pelosi do that made it "her" economy. They did a small $160 billion stimulus but that was mostly tax cuts every Republican can love. They increased the minimum wage to $7.25/hr. Is that how she destroyed the global economy?
Well, figure out what turned a $400 billion deficit into a $1400 billion dollar deficit and that will be your answer.
The only time the president may be held responsible is when the president and Congress are in the same party. That's because Congress will pass the president's agenda as he/she becomes the defacto leader of the party.
Citing the unemployment rate a year in to Obama's term and somehow blaming it on him is one of the more spectacular ones. The economy had just entered free fall when Obama took office.
You obviously were not paying attention to my post. Obama's first year was the third year of a Democrat controlled Congress. Congress writes the laws. Congress spends the money.
Pelosi handed Obama a shitty economy. Not Bush.
I didn't read past that point because you missed the entire point by the second paragraph.
OK, here we go again...
Granted, I can't blame it all on Obama. Things went downhill before he ever took office.
So, who's to blame? Well, things were going pretty well for last six years of Clinton and the first six of GWBush. In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was at 4.6%, the deficit averaged about $400 billion and gas was under $2.20/gallon.
Then, in late Jan 2007, the Democrats took control of Congress. Again, this is after the last six years of Clinton and the first six years of Bush. This Republican controlled Congress led over two presidents of both parties, so you can't blame or credit either president. Just two years after the Democrats took control of Congress the deficit had gone up to over $1400 billion and the unemployment rate was about 7.6%. One year after Obama was elected, with both houses of Congress controlled by Obama's party, the unemployment rate was over 9.6% and the deficit was the second highest ever at $1200 billion, second only to Obama's first year in office.
So the credit/blame does not necessarily fall under Obama or Bush, but with Congress. Obama does deserve some credit, however, as he was able to get his agenda through the Democratic Congress, where Bush could not.
So your idea that Republicans are somehow to blame for this is not backed up by the FACTS. Sorry, bub! Numbers don't lie!
If you have a problem with any of the numbers I brought up, speak up. Calling names does not qualify as an argument.
I used a linux desktop for 7 years. I dutifully updated when any improvement was made.
Linux desktops were in my experience never competitive because they require too much technical knowledge. That is an obstacle easily overcome by technical types, but *not* the majority of the user population. It just isn't sustainable to say "Here, tinker, it's cool" to everybody - or more accurately ANYbody outside of technical folks who enjoy the work necessary to update one application or another. It's why many have grown tired of Windows. It's why OSX, with its draw backs, is becoming more popular - the user population at large want an experience that doesn't require at lot of work to keep working. imho.
My KDE desktop worked great "out of the box". No tinkering required. However, tinkering is an option if you want to take that road. Gnome2 was the same way.
I wont comment on Unity or Gnome3 because I think they suck and won't use them.
It's everything. An impressive feet given the selection of hardware available.
Must be a Gnome user...
Within my lifetime, gas has gone from .23/gal to 4.00/gal. If we are going to repair roads, etc. I suspect that we will need to double taxes. That will mean that we will within a couple of years pay around 6/gal, and I would not be surprised to see us approaching Europe levels of oil prices.
First, the roads were built with the current gas taxes. Why would we need to double them to maintain the roads?
OK, let's assume gas is $6.00/gallon.
$30000/6=5000 gallons of gas.
At 20 miles per gallon, that's 100,000 miles, or the typical life of an American made car.
How many miles do these batteries last, anyway?
Doesn't matter, if you are buying one of these to save money, you are making a mistake. If you are buying on of these to save the environment, you'd be better off buying a Honda Civic and spending the $30,000 planting trees or something.
Wrong, it's a new zombie strain, carried by rodents and cats from Japan; I suspect it is entirely distinct from the zombie strain seen in Florida, originating in Cuba.
You may be on to something:
Portland police shorten hours at Laurelhurst Park after reports of group of teen boys attacking others
And that is why we use fail2ban.
well, you'd still only need ~300 ip's to launch the attack from.
with those odds, I'm thinking that many people who have bruteforced have thought themselfs as extremely lucky when they werent..
That's ~300 IP's per fraction of a second.
Good luck with that.
I very seriously doubt that I'm the only one who predicted this more than a decade ago, back in the PDA era.
Still, being Android, I don't expect this to take off. While I'm a huge RIM supporter, the only player I can really see winning in this market would be Microsoft. A shame, really.
I disagree. The only thing needed is a common interface to be shared among all Android devices. A dock is a good idea, but it's worthless if I have to buy one for each model of phone or each year a new model comes out. A desktop style dock would be even nicer, IMHO, but again, it must be an open standard.
Currently, I have two "real" monitors at my desk with a "real" keyboard and mouse. My notebook plugs into the docking station and powers the monitors, keyboard and mouse. When I need to take my stuff on the road, I can still use my notebook, either disconnected or connected to another network. When I get home, I can plug in my own keyboard, mouse and monitor and it's like I never left the office.
Now imagine an office full of cubes and offices with nothing but monitors, keyboards and mice where all the employees would need to do is walk in, plug in their phones, and be off and running. Buy a new phone? No big deal if the docks use an open standard. Need to show a coworker something or travel to a different office? Again, no big deal, just plug in and go. You could do the same thing at your house for your personal computing needs; bonus if you have networked storage at the house for your family pics, movies and other personal data. Also, when traveling between work and office, you will remain connected via your cell network. Everything will still be accessible, only without the convenience of your input and display devices.
And I don't see this limited to Android phones. There is no good reason that iOS or even Windows based phones couldn't use the same docks. Of course, this will require much of the work to be done via remote apps (cloud), but everything I do at my job already requires that. Everything I do uses Cytrix, RDP or other remote protocol to access apps running on a VM somewhere in a server room anywhere in the world. If it were not for Slashdot, my PC would need to do nothing more than act as a dumb terminal.
This is the type of thing that can finally bring about that "Year of Linux on the Desktop" everyone has been predicting for so many years.
When you try to apply that to everything else, you start having problems. One employee starts authoring all their documents in one format, and another uses a different one. So, you impose some standard. Now a bunch of employees can't comply with the standard readily, unless you buy a lot of software for them. Some employees have devices that don't work well with the corporate Exchange server or whatever.
I think this is where Google Docs... or drive... or whatever comes in handy. You'd be surprised at how many companies are switching from Office/Outlook to GoogleDrive/Gmail for this very reason.
Fact is, a phone is not going to be handle what a common desktop is capable of. However, for most employees that don't need to compile code or render a design in 3D, this solution works extraordinarily well.
What are you talking about? I have been using a 2560x1600 30" for years. It runs 1080p in a little window.
IBM had a super hi-res (3kx2k?) a decade ago, but they pulled it. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
You mean THIS one? It is The (sadly discontinued) 3840×2400, 22-inch IBM T221 -- 204 PPI!
I got the picture from TFA. The description above was the caption of the photo. Rather than looking up the monitor in Wikipedia, you could have just said, "TFA".
Motorola atrix.
In concept it is cool in practice it is still under powered.
You are correct. Maybe I should have specified that the "dock" needs to be universal. It should also allow me to use my own keyboard, mouse and monitor. (I think the Atrix had a dock that allowed this) But the main thing is that it must be universal and based on an open standard. I shouldn't have to toss out everything every two years when I get a new phone. It would have to at LEAST work with all Android devices, bonus if Apple and MS could also support the interface. Of course, eventually, it will all be wireless, but I don't see a wireless device sending enough info to feed a display and handle network traffic all while accepting input from the mouse and keyboard.
Penicillin is a drug millions/billions of people need yearly. I am talking about cancer drugs that thousands of people need yearly. Some drugs exist for even rarer conditions than that.
Strange that billions of tax dollars go into various university grants that actually create drugs that don't have the same overhead inherited by the "big pharma" created drugs. Also strange that countries that don't charge the same inflated drug prices we pay here in the states don't seem to have the same issues creating life saving medications.
Even so, when a company invests boat loads of cash into a finding a drug that cures X, they often find that it doesn't do jack to X but has "side effects" that are beneficial. Viagra is a fine example as it was being created to treat blood pressure. Turns out that it was a poor blood pressure medication that had the side effect of giving men erections. Guess what that little blue pill is sold to cure?
The point in my example is to show that most of those drugs that are sold to created the rare conditions you describe were intended to cure something else entirely. Rather than write off the research as a total loss, there is no doubt that these companies wouldn't sell that drug for rare condition X at a price that people could afford.
Well - to be fair, Gnome, KDE, and Ubuntu are all trying to be Metro-sexual on the desktop as well. Hopefully, it's just a fad that will fade in a year or two.
You are correct if you scratch KDE from the list. KDE is unique in that it does have an excellent mix of a tablet interface and the standard "Start Button" type of menu. Basically, you see the menus of the start menu as your desktop icons. You click "Graphics", and it opens the items you would see under the "Graphics" menu after clicking the K. It's works very well on my desktop and I see it working very well on tablets.
What makes KDE different is that I can go to another desktop where I have the standard K menu setup with task manager and a desktop full of the items found in my ~/Desktop folder. There are other activities as well, but these two seem to be best mix.
Of course, this is different from Gnome and Ubuntu in that I can choose if I want to use this interface. With Gnome and Unity, there is one interface to rule them all and it sux on all devices!
Finally, Gnome3 and Unity are nothing like Metro. Metro is nothing more than a bastardized mix of Android widgets and the IOS interface. They took the grid layout of IOS and replaced the icon with Android Widgets. What makes Android better is that you can choose to use icons or widgets. Metro is all widgets. IOS is all icons.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/023231/asus-announces-x86-transformer
I've got the ARM version of the Transformer, and it's exactly that. A tablet, but you can plug it into a foldable keyboard dock that turns it into a netbook.
That looks nice and very close to what I see happening in the very near future. Rather than have a proprietary docking station that turns into a notebook with the "tablet" acting as the monitor, I want to plug my PHONE into a box that has outputs for USB (keyboard, mouse, external storage), network, and a real, honest to goodness monitor. You take your phone to work, plug it into this peripheral box that already has your monitor, keyboard, and mouse plugged into it, and your working. When you are on your way home, your phone acts as it does now... as a smart phone. When you get home, you plug your phone into your own box and it becomes your personal PC.
This has all the advantages of the Transformer, with the added advantage that it will fit in your pocket and replace the phone you are already carrying around.
"The rest of us" shouldn't have to pay for anybody's choices. How about everybody pays for their own healthcare expenses? Gosh, what a concept!
Tell me how well that works out for you when you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer treatment out of pocket.
We have insurance to spread the risk, not to encourage people to take stupid risks and make intentionally bad choices.
If everyone paid their own way, cancer treatments wouldn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The reason health care is so expensive is because the patient is not the one paying for it. This means that the health care providers may charge whatever they want. When insurance companies try to limit what they will pay for procedures, everyone that was charging less will now charge more. The end result is the maximum the insurance companies will pay becomes the minimum providers will charge.
Eh - borked the link. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/
Maybe you should petition your local school board to NOT buy textbooks from Texas.
Which are the same idiots that elect your Congressmen/women.
The only difference is that the local school board members might actually visit the local school on something other than a photo-op mission one day, and might actually talk to local parents and educators about local concerns.
And the parents are able to drive to where these school board people work and let them know how they feel. Good luck getting a hold of your congressperson.
He'll go into obscurity for a few years. Then, out of the blue, he'll show up to help the real-life Harold and Kumar and then become a womanizer in NY on a real-life "How I Met Your Mother".