Fuck 'em all. I am not going to pay for half-assed solution to my needs. I'll just do without until someone that cares makes what I want.
I think the problem is that PC makers have tried to make things for you on several occasions and you've turned your nose up at them and bad mouthed them on the internets. That's probably why they've stopped trying.
Imagine what would happen if you went to Dolly Mae's diner and Dolly had deep fried a bunch of things (fruit, salads and so on) which you then refused to pay for. If you came in again she'd refuse to serve you.
Of course given enough time people will be able to find a set of cracks for any version of OS X to install on non Apple hardware, but Apple can make the process hard rather easily. They can send DMCA notices to websites or companies that explain or sell the cracks. They can keep adding checks into OS X to make it fail at various stages on non Apple hardware. The crackers need to find and remove them. If Apple can add them at a fast enough rate there will be long periods when the latest OS X is not cracked.
I read somewhere that back in the 80's McDonalds in the US inner cities had problems with crack addicts. They'd stay all day, maybe buy a coffee or fries occasionally. Hardcore crack addicts don't eat much but they need small amounts of water, salt, sugar, caffeine and fat which were supplied by the coffee and fries. They smelled bad and were abusive and scared away the regular customers who'd spend more and leave quicker. The revenue per table hour started to drop in the crack addict infested restaurants. McDonalds Corporate was made aware of the problem and asked for directions.
McDonalds is a bit like the bugs in Starship Troopers - lower level drones are able to implement policy and are interrogated about falling revenues but not trusted to make policy. That was done by MBAs - the McDonalds equivalent of Brain Bugs - in the headquarters. Now clearly forcefully evicting the crack addicts though possible would create a bad atmosphere. Studies were commissioned. It was found that crack addicts dislike bright lights but the good customers - people who wolf down this months's special premium burger supersize meal ("SwissMac Meal! With real Swiss Cheese!") and then got the hell out - weren't bothered by them. Or indeed anything else.
A decision was made to increase the ambient light levels. The crack addicts left and revenues increased. My guess is geeks leaching wifi will need to be repelled in the same way, and for much the same reasons.
You can never give bad crypto advice. If it's insecure you've put a vulnerability in the wild that people might pick up on and then you can sell it to the Ukrainian mafia. If it's secure you get a reputation for giving good advice which leads for more opportunities for slipping in the odd insecure advice. And then it's time to cash in with the Ukrainians.
The association email -> avatar is done through a MD5 hash function. If you register to a website with username@mailprovider.com, the website will compute the hash of your email address (in this case 476c8a979eed603fb855dca149c7af6b) and associate the avatar url http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/476c8a979eed603fb855dca149c7af6b?d=identicon to your profile. All other websites using gravatars will associate the same url to your profile, because the computation of md5sum ( username@mailprovider.com ) will always yield the same result.
Now if you only want to use it to stop people smurfing you could salt
md5 ( 'my site salt' + 'username@mailprovider.com' ) instead of just md5 ( 'my site salt' + 'username@mailprovider.com' )
You could give people an option to not salt too, if they want to be recognisable across sites.
Of course you'd have to verify the email address for this to work. Or you could md5 ( 'salt'+'password') (or even 'salt' + 'IP address' ) instead and not have accounts at all. Mind you then you'd just have a 4chan style tripcode. Still it does stop smurfing.
No idea honestly, but that Entebbe incident from the 70s (I think it was) comes to mind, and it originated in TLV (or SDV?). Possibly with a stop in ATH, but my memory's a bit cloudy.
Well it was an Air France flight, and the hijack happened in Athens. So it wasn't necessarily a case of Israeli security failing - it's more likely the guns were brought on board in Athens.
On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300, originating from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12, took off from Athens, heading for Paris. Soon after the 12:30 p.m. takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-EO) and two Germans from the German Revolutionary Cells—Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann. The hijack was led by Böse who diverted the flight to Benghazi, Libya
Incidentally the Germans - though claiming to be left wing ("radical left anti-imperialist liberation doctrine mixed with strong anti-Zionist, anti-patriarchal feminist, and anti-racist elements. ") - had a nasty antisemitic streak
During the operation, which was carried out in conjunction with the PFLP, the German hijackers separated Jews from non-Jews, detaining only the former. The hijacking, which most observers reported initially as another Palestinian operation against Israeli targets, thus became emblematic of the perceived ideological proximity – at its extremist fringes – of the radical left, particularly in Germany, and fascist doctrine.
In many ways I've always suspected that the ideological spectrum is actually a circle - the far left and far right are actually much more similar to each other than they are to democratic parties. Of course both the far left and far right need to deny this as vociferously as possible because the existence of the far right justifies the far left and vice versa. The textbook example is Germany in the 30's where people scared of the Communists saw the Nazis as the only way to stop them. Similarly people scared of Fascism saw the Communists as the only viable resistance. Of course both the Communists and the Nazis planned to sweep away liberal democracy and replace it with something much nastier.
Maybe they sent someone like her through to pick an argument with the security people and someone else who looked harmless (and unbeknownst to her) with what they wanted to get through.
Do you know what the symbol for "Arm" is on the firing control mechanism for an M1 Abrahms main gun?
Wait... you mean the design of the main US battletank supposes that the operators can't read english? Or is this from some israeli knockoff of the Abrams?
I think she trolled them and they used their enormous discretionary powers to teach her a lesson.
A more sinister view of it is that someone sent her through with (from her blog)
Security had never asked for my password. Was it my peeling Arabic stickers on the keyboard? Or something else during the questioning which set them off?
Toward the beginning of the search an officer began clicking through the photos on my camera. She froze on a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David. “Why do you have this picture?” She asked me rather aggressively. “Because I was disturbed by it too,” I answered. She didn’t press the subject but continued clickingpresumably looking at pictures from a photo exhibit about Israel’s January attack of Gaza.
The security guards then asserted their AUTHORITAH by shooting the laptop. Now their will be an outcry. The terrorists can now send someone who looks and acts like her with a bomb on the offchance that the outcry will cause the government to damp down the security response. Fat chance of that working though.
I've got an Asus G1S. Originally it had an Nvidia 8600M graphics chip which failed. First time it happened they swapped the motherboard for another one with an 8600M. Next time they swapped it for a motherboard with a 9500M GT. Both swaps were free, even though the replacement motherboards are probably pretty expensive. At that point I was quite close to the end of the two year warranty so I asked if they'd sell me an extended warranty. Needless to say they declined. Mind you the 9500M GT is supposed not to have the defect the 8600M had.
Still there are cases where an extended warranty makes sense. Still efficient companies don't sell products where it does.
1. Passive... this is what MOST people do when they listen to music as they do things. 2. Active... this is where you pay active attention to the music.
3. Passive Aggressive. This is listening to Lynch The Man by Rage Against The Machine while writing accounts tracking software unenthusiastically.
That's not so bad - you could probably put the crew into suspended animation. Or you could build an ecosphere on board that was self sustaining. Neither of these things are technically feasible right now of course, but neither of them seem to contradict any known physical principles.
I.e. a quantum propeller - a devices that generates thrust without expelling mass - provided it could give 1g acceleration which admittedly is rather a lot - could give you V style spacecraft.
Of course, there's still an issue of energy to power it. Presumably you need to carry something to generate that, unless you could mine it out of the vacuum or something similarly elegant. This last possibility is more speculative obviously.
Well you're not going to get to a decent fraction of light speed if you need to squirt stuff out of the back of a rocket. A propulsion system that doesn't depend on squirting stuff out of the back of the ship opens up all sorts of possibilities.
E.g. a spaceship that could accelerate at 1g would have all sorts of useful properties. Firstly 1g feels like gravity. Secondly you could zip around the solar system pretty quickly. Last but not least, due to time dilation you could circumnavigate the known universe in 50 to 100 years ship time. Of course back on Earth millions of years would pass so the trip would be one way. Still you could imagine making decades long (I guess, I'm too lazy to do the math) trips to a star like Sirius.
Actually I like the idea of sending out a plague of self replicating machines in devices like these, to bring the Word Of Dawkins to the stars and troll the inhabitants of other star systems.
Not at all. Microsoft care for you all and want you to have interesting source code to read over Christmas when you go back to visit your family. Nothing in this act of sheer altruism should be taken as a statement of the strength of the GPL.
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Fuck 'em all. I am not going to pay for half-assed solution to my needs. I'll just do without until someone that cares makes what I want.
I think the problem is that PC makers have tried to make things for you on several occasions and you've turned your nose up at them and bad mouthed them on the internets. That's probably why they've stopped trying.
Imagine what would happen if you went to Dolly Mae's diner and Dolly had deep fried a bunch of things (fruit, salads and so on) which you then refused to pay for. If you came in again she'd refuse to serve you.
But this one goes to 12.
Of course given enough time people will be able to find a set of cracks for any version of OS X to install on non Apple hardware, but Apple can make the process hard rather easily. They can send DMCA notices to websites or companies that explain or sell the cracks. They can keep adding checks into OS X to make it fail at various stages on non Apple hardware. The crackers need to find and remove them. If Apple can add them at a fast enough rate there will be long periods when the latest OS X is not cracked.
I think they are more like the electronic equivalent of effeminate eunuchs.
I read somewhere that back in the 80's McDonalds in the US inner cities had problems with crack addicts. They'd stay all day, maybe buy a coffee or fries occasionally. Hardcore crack addicts don't eat much but they need small amounts of water, salt, sugar, caffeine and fat which were supplied by the coffee and fries. They smelled bad and were abusive and scared away the regular customers who'd spend more and leave quicker. The revenue per table hour started to drop in the crack addict infested restaurants. McDonalds Corporate was made aware of the problem and asked for directions.
McDonalds is a bit like the bugs in Starship Troopers - lower level drones are able to implement policy and are interrogated about falling revenues but not trusted to make policy. That was done by MBAs - the McDonalds equivalent of Brain Bugs - in the headquarters. Now clearly forcefully evicting the crack addicts though possible would create a bad atmosphere. Studies were commissioned. It was found that crack addicts dislike bright lights but the good customers - people who wolf down this months's special premium burger supersize meal ("SwissMac Meal! With real Swiss Cheese!") and then got the hell out - weren't bothered by them. Or indeed anything else.
A decision was made to increase the ambient light levels. The crack addicts left and revenues increased. My guess is geeks leaching wifi will need to be repelled in the same way, and for much the same reasons.
You can never give bad crypto advice. If it's insecure you've put a vulnerability in the wild that people might pick up on and then you can sell it to the Ukrainian mafia. If it's secure you get a reputation for giving good advice which leads for more opportunities for slipping in the odd insecure advice. And then it's time to cash in with the Ukrainians.
The salt doesn't have to be known. Gratar URLs work like this
http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url
The association email -> avatar is done through a MD5 hash function. If you register to a website with username@mailprovider.com, the website will compute the hash of your email address (in this case 476c8a979eed603fb855dca149c7af6b) and associate the avatar url
http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/476c8a979eed603fb855dca149c7af6b?d=identicon
to your profile. All other websites using gravatars will associate the same url to your profile, because the computation of
md5sum ( username@mailprovider.com )
will always yield the same result.
Now if you only want to use it to stop people smurfing you could salt
md5 ( 'my site salt' + 'username@mailprovider.com' ) instead of just md5 ( 'my site salt' + 'username@mailprovider.com' )
You could give people an option to not salt too, if they want to be recognisable across sites.
Of course you'd have to verify the email address for this to work. Or you could md5 ( 'salt'+'password') (or even 'salt' + 'IP address' ) instead and not have accounts at all. Mind you then you'd just have a 4chan style tripcode. Still it does stop smurfing.
Well they wouldn't necessarily tell her the whole plan. In fact it would be stupid to do so.
No idea honestly, but that Entebbe incident from the 70s (I think it was) comes to mind, and it originated in TLV (or SDV?). Possibly with a stop in ATH, but my memory's a bit cloudy.
Well it was an Air France flight, and the hijack happened in Athens. So it wasn't necessarily a case of Israeli security failing - it's more likely the guns were brought on board in Athens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe#Hijack
On 27 June 1976, Air France Flight 139, an Airbus A300, originating from Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12, took off from Athens, heading for Paris. Soon after the 12:30 p.m. takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP-EO) and two Germans from the German Revolutionary Cells—Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann. The hijack was led by Böse who diverted the flight to Benghazi, Libya
Incidentally the Germans - though claiming to be left wing ("radical left anti-imperialist liberation doctrine mixed with strong anti-Zionist, anti-patriarchal feminist, and anti-racist elements. ") - had a nasty antisemitic streak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Cells_(RZ)#History
During the operation, which was carried out in conjunction with the PFLP, the German hijackers separated Jews from non-Jews, detaining only the former. The hijacking, which most observers reported initially as another Palestinian operation against Israeli targets, thus became emblematic of the perceived ideological proximity – at its extremist fringes – of the radical left, particularly in Germany, and fascist doctrine.
In many ways I've always suspected that the ideological spectrum is actually a circle - the far left and far right are actually much more similar to each other than they are to democratic parties. Of course both the far left and far right need to deny this as vociferously as possible because the existence of the far right justifies the far left and vice versa. The textbook example is Germany in the 30's where people scared of the Communists saw the Nazis as the only way to stop them. Similarly people scared of Fascism saw the Communists as the only viable resistance. Of course both the Communists and the Nazis planned to sweep away liberal democracy and replace it with something much nastier.
It always makes sense to shoot a MacBook.
Maybe they sent someone like her through to pick an argument with the security people and someone else who looked harmless (and unbeknownst to her) with what they wanted to get through.
Do you know what the symbol for "Arm" is on the firing control mechanism for an M1 Abrahms main gun?
Wait... you mean the design of the main US battletank supposes that the operators can't read english? Or is this from some israeli knockoff of the Abrams?
Yeah, the Israel version is called the Abrahams.
I think she trolled them and they used their enormous discretionary powers to teach her a lesson.
A more sinister view of it is that someone sent her through with (from her blog)
Security had never asked for my password. Was it my peeling Arabic stickers on the keyboard? Or something else during the questioning which set them off?
Toward the beginning of the search an officer began clicking through the photos on my camera. She froze on a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David. “Why do you have this picture?” She asked me rather aggressively. “Because I was disturbed by it too,” I answered. She didn’t press the subject but continued clickingpresumably looking at pictures from a photo exhibit about Israel’s January attack of Gaza.
The security guards then asserted their AUTHORITAH by shooting the laptop. Now their will be an outcry. The terrorists can now send someone who looks and acts like her with a bomb on the offchance that the outcry will cause the government to damp down the security response. Fat chance of that working though.
I've got an Asus G1S. Originally it had an Nvidia 8600M graphics chip which failed. First time it happened they swapped the motherboard for another one with an 8600M. Next time they swapped it for a motherboard with a 9500M GT. Both swaps were free, even though the replacement motherboards are probably pretty expensive. At that point I was quite close to the end of the two year warranty so I asked if they'd sell me an extended warranty. Needless to say they declined. Mind you the 9500M GT is supposed not to have the defect the 8600M had.
Still there are cases where an extended warranty makes sense. Still efficient companies don't sell products where it does.
This being MySQL he can probably figure out a way to both cash the cheque and return it due to dodgy transaction somewhere.
I believe it is a reference to the infamous deleted scene from Episode 1 of Anakin doing The Safety Dance before he turned to the Dark Side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg
There are two ways to listen to music.
1. Passive ... this is what MOST people do when they listen to music as they do things. ... this is where you pay active attention to the music.
2. Active
3. Passive Aggressive. This is listening to Lynch The Man by Rage Against The Machine while writing accounts tracking software unenthusiastically.
Actually that's a good point. If you want to colonise the galaxy with machines you don't need to hurry.
However I looked up the figures for a 1g spacecraft and you could make a 10 year ship time (24 years time on Earth) round trip to Sirius.
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/one-g_spacecraft.html
That's not so bad - you could probably put the crew into suspended animation. Or you could build an ecosphere on board that was self sustaining. Neither of these things are technically feasible right now of course, but neither of them seem to contradict any known physical principles.
I.e. a quantum propeller - a devices that generates thrust without expelling mass - provided it could give 1g acceleration which admittedly is rather a lot - could give you V style spacecraft.
Of course, there's still an issue of energy to power it. Presumably you need to carry something to generate that, unless you could mine it out of the vacuum or something similarly elegant. This last possibility is more speculative obviously.
Well you're not going to get to a decent fraction of light speed if you need to squirt stuff out of the back of a rocket. A propulsion system that doesn't depend on squirting stuff out of the back of the ship opens up all sorts of possibilities.
E.g. a spaceship that could accelerate at 1g would have all sorts of useful properties. Firstly 1g feels like gravity. Secondly you could zip around the solar system pretty quickly. Last but not least, due to time dilation you could circumnavigate the known universe in 50 to 100 years ship time. Of course back on Earth millions of years would pass so the trip would be one way. Still you could imagine making decades long (I guess, I'm too lazy to do the math) trips to a star like Sirius.
Actually I like the idea of sending out a plague of self replicating machines in devices like these, to bring the Word Of Dawkins to the stars and troll the inhabitants of other star systems.
Will this gizmo work? A reactionless drive almost sounds too good to be true.
As a Microsoft shill I have a new found respect the maturity shown by the Mozilla foundation and in particular Mr Dotzler.
Not at all. Microsoft care for you all and want you to have interesting source code to read over Christmas when you go back to visit your family. Nothing in this act of sheer altruism should be taken as a statement of the strength of the GPL.
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