Considering that quite a few robberies include bastards invading a house when the occupants are in, yes, guns do have an important household use. And an even more important dark alley use.
It's really bad we have only two and a half CPU architectures in any wide use: armel and i386/amd64 -- and even worse, all smartphones use the former and big machines the latter. Using a different arch gives you extra security (by greatly reducing the amount of existing shellcode) while adding basically no issues whatsoever -- any reasonable server OS is fully portable, and having no Adobe Flash is a blessing not a curse.
Too bad, you can forget about performance-to-price, and availability is worse than abysmal.
Yeah. By the way, it's incredible how much you can speed the average page by adblocking facebook.com and fbcdn.net -- at least on a decent browser (Firefox, sadly not Chrome (yet?)). It's scary how big a percentage of pages bear Facebook and Twatter widgets. Heck, even Slashdot has several icons next to every single damn comment -- everyone I know, even including people who use Facebook, adblock these too which shows how annoying they are.
With self-signed certs, you are vulnerable just once. With VeriSign's protection racket, you are vulnerable every single time.
Especially if your first connection is from home rather than some suspicious cafe, an active hijack would require subverting one of routers on the way or your/your ISP's DNS server. There's typically only around ten or so routers on the way, so the attacker would need to either break into one of those few boxes or bribe an ISP employee (small crooks -- an admin, gov crooks -- the CEO). Typically, a home router is easily hackable, routers on the way not so. Of course, a cafe is fair game.
With CA-based SSL, the attacker instead of ten weak points has several hundreds. It's a matter of sending a fax with a nice looking letterhead to any CA trusted by your browser -- and there's so many of them. It's enough for just one to be fooled, and they often take the money and do no checks whatosever.
And then, there are such trustworthy ones like CNNIC and Etisalat, both trusted by the default settings of all popular browsers.
Not all people are terrorists, but all terrorists are people.
Just wait for robots with strong AI, or some mad geneticist to uplift animals.
But then, cats prove that you don't need sentience for terrorism. A naughty dog gets its bed peed upon -- this does require abstract thinking, and, while far lesser in scale than WTC, follows the same logic.
The 1st Amendment matters only for the government's actions against you, not a private company's. The issue here is purely about copyright and trademarks, and the law that allows parody is Fair Use, not the 1st Amendment.
lamebook is generating income (ad revenue) based on facebook's trademark
Which is not forbidden. Fair Use rights are not restricted to non-commercial uses. Just look at parodies like Space Balls, a major movie that grossed $34M.
Hell, that all-caps VASTLY of yours is an understatement.
Fennec 3 takes ~minute to fully start on my n900. First it takes a long time to appear, and then there's an even longer wait for it to become responsive. I used it only because the alternatives (Nokia's MicroB, Opera Mobile) are a bad joke for basic functionality.
Fennec 4b1 -- well, it's beyond words.
Fennec 4b2 -- 12 seconds to start, fully responsive the moment the UI appears. It's also insanely faster -- Fennec 3 takes a couple of seconds to refresh after a scroll, Fennec 4b2 doesn't let me notice the redraw.
What I miss is double click on a div zooming it to the screen width -- most web pages have margins that waste the precious display area, and multi-column layouts make absolutely no sense on a 4 inch screen. I guess it's either moved to some other command or perhaps a configurable option; lemme continue the search for it.
malware has evolved from being CPU/disk/memory hogs to some of the leanest and most well coded executables
Except for a time in early 2000s when there was a slew of trojans written in Visual Basic and such, malware used to be lean. Don't you remember those 200 byte long viruses from 1980s?
Well for administering a router then a netbook beats both the N900 and the iPad.
Of course -- if you do lug one. A pocket size device has the advantage of always being with you -- to use a netbook/laptop you'd have to keep it in your car. I do 99.9% of work comfortably sshed in from a stationary computer, which in turns beats netbooks.
Wow the Nokia fanboys are the most rabid on the planet.
I admit that Nokia's software is abysmal. They went a long way to show how NOT to make a mobile Linux distribution, and how to make user interface crappy. The reason I use a n900 is that I can modify it -- Motorola's comparable hardware is as good or better but is locked down. And iJunk not only lacks a keyboard but is also so locked down it's useless as anything but a toy. Thus, I'm not a fanboy of Nokia but a hater of closed stuff.
For surfing the web and reading email you get the bigger screen.
Except we are talking solely about administrating routers and similar boxes here. Ie, work rather than play.
Plus does the N900 have AngryBirds?
Uhm, it does. Plus, as games are concerned, you jest trying to claim iP{hone,ad} has more. There's just a few GOOD native titles, but try using emulators. I for one spend way too much time playing through DosBox recently -- does your iPad have DOS, NES, SNES, ~10 other consoles, Java, Flash,...? There's so many orders of magnitudes more games available for those platforms that your claim makes me astounded.
4", but since the iPad wastes half of its screen for the touch keyboard, it's not that worse off. And if you want a larger screen, an actual laptop will be so much cheaper and so much more powerful.
I wonder why do people bother converting a tightly locked down crippled device with no keyboard when they can have a n900 of similar size, fully open OS and a physical keyboard. If you want a screwdriver, trying to sharpen a hammer is a strange route.
Or rather, certain interpretations of GPLv2 say that it allows these restrictions. The wording is unclear and may be understood either way, and "spirit of the license" has no legal weight. GPLv3 merely fixes this ambiguity.
I'd say there should be a law that in all advertising they need to include the long-term connection rate as well. Toss in the up rate if it's different (and with those lying shits, it always is).
That 14mbps connection would have to be labelled: 14/0.5mbps, 22kbps sustained -- since 60GB monthly is just that.
How exactly VPN can help there? You're still passing unencrypted data to Facebook. All the gain is that it's less likely than someone listens to the traffic between the VPN provider and Facebook compared to the unpalatable liquid venue you're in.
Uhm, how come? Browsing through my book shelves, I can't think of ANY book with advertising other than excerpts/cover photos of other books at the end. Neither for books from the 19th century which I have just a couple, not those from 21th. Cigarette inserts? Where? Is the situation on the left side of the pond that much worse than here?
GPL2 is not really compatible with the App Store as well, albeit that may be a bit unclear. Unlike Tivo which tried to use GPLed code while running around the GPL, Apple is outright hostile to it.
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Considering that quite a few robberies include bastards invading a house when the occupants are in, yes, guns do have an important household use.
And an even more important dark alley use.
ARM is out there in embedded devices.
Which I specifically named as one of the two-and-a-half architectures flourishing.
PowerPC is still popular in servers
I looked around, and there's not a single semi-mainstream vendor which sells those -- and I'm not going to order stuff from overseas.
Plenty of things out there using MIPS including the Playstation Portable
I haven't seen a single one of these, but it's a thing from 2004 that has a tiny fraction of what any low-end smartphone can do
and all kinds of home routers
These used to be MIPS-based in 1990s and early 2000s, yeah. Since then, all new ones seem to be migrating to ARM.
Of course, blocking all those trackers, beacons, 1x1 gifs and all that junk goes without saying. Google-analytics or urchin are just as bad.
It's really bad we have only two and a half CPU architectures in any wide use: armel and i386/amd64 -- and even worse, all smartphones use the former and big machines the latter. Using a different arch gives you extra security (by greatly reducing the amount of existing shellcode) while adding basically no issues whatsoever -- any reasonable server OS is fully portable, and having no Adobe Flash is a blessing not a curse.
Too bad, you can forget about performance-to-price, and availability is worse than abysmal.
Yeah. By the way, it's incredible how much you can speed the average page by adblocking facebook.com and fbcdn.net -- at least on a decent browser (Firefox, sadly not Chrome (yet?)). It's scary how big a percentage of pages bear Facebook and Twatter widgets. Heck, even Slashdot has several icons next to every single damn comment -- everyone I know, even including people who use Facebook, adblock these too which shows how annoying they are.
With self-signed certs, you are vulnerable just once. With VeriSign's protection racket, you are vulnerable every single time.
Especially if your first connection is from home rather than some suspicious cafe, an active hijack would require subverting one of routers on the way or your/your ISP's DNS server. There's typically only around ten or so routers on the way, so the attacker would need to either break into one of those few boxes or bribe an ISP employee (small crooks -- an admin, gov crooks -- the CEO). Typically, a home router is easily hackable, routers on the way not so. Of course, a cafe is fair game.
With CA-based SSL, the attacker instead of ten weak points has several hundreds. It's a matter of sending a fax with a nice looking letterhead to any CA trusted by your browser -- and there's so many of them. It's enough for just one to be fooled, and they often take the money and do no checks whatosever.
And then, there are such trustworthy ones like CNNIC and Etisalat, both trusted by the default settings of all popular browsers.
Hey, but the thing that makes Windows Windows was already there, even if it looked less organized than in later version.
Not all people are terrorists, but all terrorists are people.
Just wait for robots with strong AI, or some mad geneticist to uplift animals.
But then, cats prove that you don't need sentience for terrorism. A naughty dog gets its bed peed upon -- this does require abstract thinking, and, while far lesser in scale than WTC, follows the same logic.
parody is covered by the first amendment
The 1st Amendment matters only for the government's actions against you, not a private company's. The issue here is purely about copyright and trademarks, and the law that allows parody is Fair Use, not the 1st Amendment.
lamebook is generating income (ad revenue) based on facebook's trademark
Which is not forbidden. Fair Use rights are not restricted to non-commercial uses. Just look at parodies like Space Balls, a major movie that grossed $34M.
Hell, that all-caps VASTLY of yours is an understatement.
Fennec 3 takes ~minute to fully start on my n900. First it takes a long time to appear, and then there's an even longer wait for it to become responsive. I used it only because the alternatives (Nokia's MicroB, Opera Mobile) are a bad joke for basic functionality.
Fennec 4b1 -- well, it's beyond words.
Fennec 4b2 -- 12 seconds to start, fully responsive the moment the UI appears. It's also insanely faster -- Fennec 3 takes a couple of seconds to refresh after a scroll, Fennec 4b2 doesn't let me notice the redraw.
What I miss is double click on a div zooming it to the screen width -- most web pages have margins that waste the precious display area, and multi-column layouts make absolutely no sense on a 4 inch screen. I guess it's either moved to some other command or perhaps a configurable option; lemme continue the search for it.
Also, most HTML these days is generated rather than static, even if just to have common parts as includes rather than multiple copies.
malware has evolved from being CPU/disk/memory hogs to some of the leanest and most well coded executables
Except for a time in early 2000s when there was a slew of trojans written in Visual Basic and such, malware used to be lean. Don't you remember those 200 byte long viruses from 1980s?
Considering what young females of our species tell their moms, virgin birth in humans is not a rare thing either.
Well for administering a router then a netbook beats both the N900 and the iPad.
Of course -- if you do lug one. A pocket size device has the advantage of always being with you -- to use a netbook/laptop you'd have to keep it in your car. I do 99.9% of work comfortably sshed in from a stationary computer, which in turns beats netbooks.
Wow the Nokia fanboys are the most rabid on the planet.
I admit that Nokia's software is abysmal. They went a long way to show how NOT to make a mobile Linux distribution, and how to make user interface crappy. The reason I use a n900 is that I can modify it -- Motorola's comparable hardware is as good or better but is locked down. And iJunk not only lacks a keyboard but is also so locked down it's useless as anything but a toy. Thus, I'm not a fanboy of Nokia but a hater of closed stuff.
Take a deep breath.
Ok, I'll try :p
For surfing the web and reading email you get the bigger screen.
Except we are talking solely about administrating routers and similar boxes here. Ie, work rather than play.
Plus does the N900 have AngryBirds?
Uhm, it does. ...? There's so many orders of magnitudes more games available for those platforms that your claim makes me astounded.
Plus, as games are concerned, you jest trying to claim iP{hone,ad} has more. There's just a few GOOD native titles, but try using emulators. I for one spend way too much time playing through DosBox recently -- does your iPad have DOS, NES, SNES, ~10 other consoles, Java, Flash,
4", but since the iPad wastes half of its screen for the touch keyboard, it's not that worse off. And if you want a larger screen, an actual laptop will be so much cheaper and so much more powerful.
I wonder why do people bother converting a tightly locked down crippled device with no keyboard when they can have a n900 of similar size, fully open OS and a physical keyboard. If you want a screwdriver, trying to sharpen a hammer is a strange route.
Considering how big a regression Vista and 7 are, it's a rational decision to use XP if you still need Windows.
Or rather, certain interpretations of GPLv2 say that it allows these restrictions. The wording is unclear and may be understood either way, and "spirit of the license" has no legal weight. GPLv3 merely fixes this ambiguity.
I'd say there should be a law that in all advertising they need to include the long-term connection rate as well. Toss in the up rate if it's different (and with those lying shits, it always is).
That 14mbps connection would have to be labelled: 14/0.5mbps, 22kbps sustained -- since 60GB monthly is just that.
How exactly VPN can help there? You're still passing unencrypted data to Facebook. All the gain is that it's less likely than someone listens to the traffic between the VPN provider and Facebook compared to the unpalatable liquid venue you're in.
But then, a marketing department of a $commodity producer will come and try to redefine that. And we'll end up with monstrosities like kibigrams.
There's very little liberalism in the US. The popular use of that word there is a misnomer.
Uhm, how come? Browsing through my book shelves, I can't think of ANY book with advertising other than excerpts/cover photos of other books at the end. Neither for books from the 19th century which I have just a couple, not those from 21th. Cigarette inserts? Where? Is the situation on the left side of the pond that much worse than here?
GPL2 is not really compatible with the App Store as well, albeit that may be a bit unclear. Unlike Tivo which tried to use GPLed code while running around the GPL, Apple is outright hostile to it.