Most local school districts offer continuing adult education. Some of these programs are even accredited so that you can earn college credit for them.
I met my wife attending religious functions. A friend of mine met his at the supermarket. Hanging out in night clubs is actually one of the worst ways for a geek to try to meet someone; it's a high pressure environment with a lot of competition. It's a meat market. The girls know why you're there, and they have a lot of different guys to choose from.
In my experience, online dating results in meeting a lot of basket cases and losers. Of course, YMMV.
I'm sorry to say that if you needed this ad to figure that Julian Assange likes to be the middle of controvery, you haven't been very much paying attention.
For those of us that didn't read the article, wikileaks revealed that the SHA has terminal cancer and will die soon.
SHA-1 has had terminal cancer a very long time: it was cracked over 4 years ago. Anything Wikileaks may have revealed about SHA-1 is very old news indeed.
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Nowadays not only do you need a web browser and an account, but you can't get patches at all without an expensive support contract.
To be fair, that happened before Oracle acquired Sun.
This is true. Unless your company happened to employee an Oracle DBA who happened to be a former Oracle employee, that is. I learned a lot from that guy, though.
I'm guessing s/he's talking about Xen (Sun xVM), but then s/he uses the term "softwware suite," so I'm not sure. Maybe Solstice DiskSuite, but I thought that was already unbundled.
Well, Android devices are required to have an SDHC card slot: it's part of the spec. Most devices have a micro USB slot for charging, and it can be used to connect the device to a notebook or desktop PC as a USB storage device, a USB camera, and a USB wireless modem, depending on mode. In theory, you probably could use the Micro-B port, which is a standard Micro-B port, on Android devices to power USB peripherals, but Google doesn't ship any USB drivers. In theory, I'm guessing that you could compile a Linux kernel module and get it on a rooted device, but I am uncertain as to how that would work and I doubt you could access it using the Android API. The USB device would have to be self-powering as well, since the port doesn't supply power.
All Android devices I've seen also have built-in Bluetooth, so that shouldn't be a problem in the tablet. WIreless-N is the only thing I'm not sure about. I'm pretty sure my wife's EVO 4G only supports WIreless-G, but I could be wrong about that.
If you are a male, whatever you do, don't click on that link!11!!eleventy1! I promise you that extreme psychological trauma will result! You have been warned!
It really does have a button labelled First Blood (in the second video showing the UI, look at the big red button in the lower-left corner of the main graphics window.
Perhaps Sylvester Stallone was hired as a consultant?;)
Actually, assuming that Namco Bandai is claiming copyright on Pacman's visuals -- and yes, there is such a thing, and no, you aren't limited to trademark protection on visuals -- it very likely is. And no, just because he didn't use the original images, the screenshots are definitely close enough to the original to establish a visual similarity.
And just in case you think that image elements like the shape of Pacman and the ghosts and indeed the layout of playing board aren't copyrightable, try putting a Mickey Mouse -- whether you created such yourself or not -- on the sign for your place of business and watch how fast Disney's lawyers educate you as to the true legalities of visual copyright.
I actually agree with this. A few years ago, I was shocked to learn that new ATMs were being installed with Windows XP. The ATM at a local gas station I frequent -- I think it's some sort of Diebold model -- actually has a more-or-less stock Windows XP, complete with Solitaire and Minesweeper! I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to. WTF do you need Solitaire and Minesweeper on an ATM?
Seems to me they could save lots of money using one of those ARM SoCs and a stripped-down embedded Linux. It'd be tons more secure.
What's a botnet? What's a zombie? A botnet is, typically, a bunch of zombies. A zombie is simply a machine that can be remotely controlled using a some piece of software that's installed on it, which is typically injected by a Trojan horse, drive-by-download, e-mail virus, whatever.
Now if the government says "we'll take down 300,000 of our 1 million botnet nodes," how are you going to know they did it? How do you know they have a million botnet nodes? With nuclear missiles, it's pretty easy: spy satellites and reconnaissance aircraft can are used by world governments to detect nuclear weapons. But with botnets, it's not so easy. You basically have to take their word for it. The moment you have to the government's word for anything, you're hosed.
Peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers. Marketing and commercial pressures have led to the word peering routinely being used when there is some settlement involved, even though that is not the accurate technical use of the word. The phrase "settlement-free peering" is sometimes used to reflect this reality and unambiguously describe the pure cost-free peering situation.
Instead, Comcast would like get paid from their own customers and from Level 3/Level 3's customers.
Peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers. Marketing and commercial pressures have led to the word peering routinely being used when there is some settlement involved, even though that is not the accurate technical use of the word. The phrase "settlement-free peering" is sometimes used to reflect this reality and unambiguously describe the pure cost-free peering situation.
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That, my friend, is how the Internet works and that is how it worked from the beginning.
Netflix doesn't need to pay Comcast anything. Netflix is already paying Level3 to be their CDN. Level3 just now needs to pay for the bandwidth they're using.
Level 3 isn't using any of Comcast's bandwidth. Comcast's paying customers are requesting the videos from Netflix. Netflix pays for the bandwidth they are using from Level 3. Comcast's customers are paying for the bandwidth they are using from Comcast when the streaming video crosses their network.
What Comcast would like to do is get paid from their customers and from Level 3 for the same data. That, my friend, is called double dipping.
The bottom line is that if Comcast's customers found that Netflix was unacceptably slow, they would have to sign up with some other video-on-demand provider, and Comcast would like it to be them.
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Other than getting arrested and thrown in jail?
Plus, those crack whores are certainly the most desirable women you'll ever meet, right? /sarcasm
Most local school districts offer continuing adult education. Some of these programs are even accredited so that you can earn college credit for them.
I met my wife attending religious functions. A friend of mine met his at the supermarket. Hanging out in night clubs is actually one of the worst ways for a geek to try to meet someone; it's a high pressure environment with a lot of competition. It's a meat market. The girls know why you're there, and they have a lot of different guys to choose from.
In my experience, online dating results in meeting a lot of basket cases and losers. Of course, YMMV.
Because Microsoft Office Park runs great on low-power hardware, right?
Why do you suppose Microsoft is pushing their Office Live Web-based office suite?
I'm sorry to say that if you needed this ad to figure that Julian Assange likes to be the middle of controvery, you haven't been very much paying attention.
The ones you pay for also like leper colonies, only the lepers have a bit more money to spend.
If you're looking for someone to date, try having some interests other than computers and hanging out with people who share those interests.
I say "other than computers" because dating geek chicks is like dating geek guys, only they're chicks.
Just sayin'...
Just in time for Saturnalia! The Titan-sized moon didn't fall into Saturn's atmosphere - it was swallowed.
Swallowed? Saturnalia?
I'm not touching this one.
SHA-1 has had terminal cancer a very long time: it was cracked over 4 years ago. Anything Wikileaks may have revealed about SHA-1 is very old news indeed.
To be fair, that happened before Oracle acquired Sun.
grrr..."to employ"
This is true. Unless your company happened to employee an Oracle DBA who happened to be a former Oracle employee, that is. I learned a lot from that guy, though.
I'm guessing s/he's talking about Xen (Sun xVM), but then s/he uses the term "softwware suite," so I'm not sure. Maybe Solstice DiskSuite, but I thought that was already unbundled.
Because we wanted a job.
When employers stopped paying their employees for lunch.
The EVO 4G does have an HDMI port, so that wouldn't be without precedent.
Well, Android devices are required to have an SDHC card slot: it's part of the spec. Most devices have a micro USB slot for charging, and it can be used to connect the device to a notebook or desktop PC as a USB storage device, a USB camera, and a USB wireless modem, depending on mode. In theory, you probably could use the Micro-B port, which is a standard Micro-B port, on Android devices to power USB peripherals, but Google doesn't ship any USB drivers. In theory, I'm guessing that you could compile a Linux kernel module and get it on a rooted device, but I am uncertain as to how that would work and I doubt you could access it using the Android API. The USB device would have to be self-powering as well, since the port doesn't supply power.
All Android devices I've seen also have built-in Bluetooth, so that shouldn't be a problem in the tablet. WIreless-N is the only thing I'm not sure about. I'm pretty sure my wife's EVO 4G only supports WIreless-G, but I could be wrong about that.
If you are a male, whatever you do, don't click on that link!11!!eleventy1! I promise you that extreme psychological trauma will result! You have been warned!
It really does have a button labelled First Blood (in the second video showing the UI, look at the big red button in the lower-left corner of the main graphics window.
Perhaps Sylvester Stallone was hired as a consultant? ;)
Tom Selleck? Gene Simmons? Really?
Actually, assuming that Namco Bandai is claiming copyright on Pacman's visuals -- and yes, there is such a thing, and no, you aren't limited to trademark protection on visuals -- it very likely is. And no, just because he didn't use the original images, the screenshots are definitely close enough to the original to establish a visual similarity.
And just in case you think that image elements like the shape of Pacman and the ghosts and indeed the layout of playing board aren't copyrightable, try putting a Mickey Mouse -- whether you created such yourself or not -- on the sign for your place of business and watch how fast Disney's lawyers educate you as to the true legalities of visual copyright.
Ahem. That sure is a nice firewall/cable router you've got there...
I actually agree with this. A few years ago, I was shocked to learn that new ATMs were being installed with Windows XP. The ATM at a local gas station I frequent -- I think it's some sort of Diebold model -- actually has a more-or-less stock Windows XP, complete with Solitaire and Minesweeper! I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to. WTF do you need Solitaire and Minesweeper on an ATM?
Seems to me they could save lots of money using one of those ARM SoCs and a stripped-down embedded Linux. It'd be tons more secure.
Right, but that's still silly.
What's a botnet? What's a zombie? A botnet is, typically, a bunch of zombies. A zombie is simply a machine that can be remotely controlled using a some piece of software that's installed on it, which is typically injected by a Trojan horse, drive-by-download, e-mail virus, whatever.
Now if the government says "we'll take down 300,000 of our 1 million botnet nodes," how are you going to know they did it? How do you know they have a million botnet nodes? With nuclear missiles, it's pretty easy: spy satellites and reconnaissance aircraft can are used by world governments to detect nuclear weapons. But with botnets, it's not so easy. You basically have to take their word for it. The moment you have to the government's word for anything, you're hosed.
Read the first paragraph on the same page:
Instead, Comcast would like get paid from their own customers and from Level 3/Level 3's customers.
Peering:
(emphasis mine)
That, my friend, is how the Internet works and that is how it worked from the beginning.
Level 3 isn't using any of Comcast's bandwidth. Comcast's paying customers are requesting the videos from Netflix. Netflix pays for the bandwidth they are using from Level 3. Comcast's customers are paying for the bandwidth they are using from Comcast when the streaming video crosses their network.
What Comcast would like to do is get paid from their customers and from Level 3 for the same data. That, my friend, is called double dipping.
The bottom line is that if Comcast's customers found that Netflix was unacceptably slow, they would have to sign up with some other video-on-demand provider, and Comcast would like it to be them.