> It says on the Noscript website it is software under the GPL, that means the source code is available, yes?
He says that, but I just looked on the website and couldn't find any links to a source package. If I can find the source, I'll hack together a version that doesn't have this feature.
I don't see how you're giving up security at all, really. The time between when you realize your phone is missing and when you revoke the public key is the only 'insecure' time, and for a guy running ssh on his phone, this is probably pretty small.
Also, this streamlines multitasking, since you could automatically initiate connections. It's not the best solution, but hey, I didn't buy an iPhone either.
Why don't homeowners associations for neighborhoods provide internet, like they do for other utilities? You pay a flat fee "last mile" when you build your house just like you do with water/septic/electric.
The homeowner's association runs the utilities. Just like with everything else, they contract for a say 100mbit guaranteed line, and then the 20 or whatever homes connect to that. The homeowners association polices problems/abuse, much like it does with everything else. It works because: you don't want to piss off your neighbors.
More generally, why can't I buy into a "1 gigabit pool" with a cable company? Make it blatantly obvious that they're overselling, and let the user decide. Company A says "we've got a gigabit of bandwith with 100 users", Company B says "we've got a gigabit of bandwith with 150 users", and I decide.
The problem with this approach is that the students are then spoon-fed their sources. Giving them an assignment with a pre-approved list of sites takes away the part where they have to actually dig for information.
I don't think this is really a problem. For example, when I was in grade/middle school the internet didn't exist as it does today. We were supposed to do research papers on various topics (specifically, I wanted to be a vet at the time, so I was doing one on the health of cats).
I had access to the complete resources of our school library. This was a pre-approved list, and I (still) had to dig for information. When you're 12, you really don't have the critical thinking faculties to determine what is a good and bad resource. Librarians have had lots of training, supposedly they're good at it.
In my mind, having a whitelist is the best possible solution for institutions like grade/middle schools. It's exactly like the librarian model, and would prevent most abuses.
No, this is not what SSL is for at all. SSL you have a party you wish to communicate with, but an insecure channel.
Here, you don't want to communicate anything useful to anyone. This is more a privacy preserving data mining problem. It goes something like this:
I have a long list of secret numbers 1...n. I do something to these numbers, so that Google doesn't know what they are, and then I send them to Google. Next, I want to know how many numbers are larger than, say k. So, I ask Google, but in a clever way, so that Google doesn't know what I'm asking.
Google then tells me how many of my original numbers were larger than k. However, Google doesn't know my original numbers, and they don't know what question I asked. There needs to be some theoretical mapping that preserves this privacy, but still allows the data mining to occur.
I'm not an obesity apologist (or at least, I don't think I am), but I think it's important to recognize that not everyone who is obese just eats cheeseburgers all day. In fact, my diet is pretty piss poor, but I'm thin. Similarly, I know obese vegetarians.
Who cares how much of earth is covered with water? I didn't know how much (other than that it was >60% or so), and I'm going to graduate with an engineering degree in May. I know about science, but I don't know random facts about Earth. Does that make me illiterate?
No, I'm more concerned with concepts. For example, I recently shared with my girlfriend why metal is so much 'colder' than plastic (i.e. they're both the same temperature, but metal conducts the heat away from your hand much faster). She doesn't need to know ANY of the thermal conduction constants for metals or plastics to know the concepts. Giving people the idea that earth is 'mostly covered' with water is more important than giving them the exact number.
Check to see if the URL to the site begins with http:/// [http] before you login. If it does, and it's displaying a padlock icon (suggesting that it is 'secure'), then you're being attacked. Really, you should already be wary when a site asks you for login information over HTTP rather than HTTPS.
Even this doesn't work. Legitimate banks do this (http://www.usbank.com is one, who I've banked with in some fashion since I had a net worth of over $50). Note that after you type your username in, you're taken to a secure page.
I have been employed by the REU program doing research since August 2007, and I've had a blast. I've learned a lot about how to do research, written a paper, and had a lot to talk about on my graduate school applications.
I highly recommend the program to anyone interested. If you can find a professor who is willing to take you on and really teach you, it can be a life changing experience. It was for me.
Amarok 2 does not have support for an equalizer, because Phonon (KDE4's media backend) does not have equalizer support. I have seen no timeline which indicates that there are even plans to add equalizer support to Phonon (although, presumably I'm not the only one missing this feature).
A google search of "phonon equalizer" yields nothing of any value.
Does anyone know if there will be an equalizer for phonon?
I was thinking about this the other day, but, does the 32MB on disk cache really matter?
Think of it this way: the Linux kernel does disk caching with my free RAM (which I generally have more than 32MB of) according to some reasonable locality scheme (LRU or something).
If the HDD does the same caching according to nearly the same principles, won't the data on the disk cache nearly always be a subset of the disk cached in RAM? Meaning: doesn't the disk cache have no effect whatsoever?
I'm genuinely interested in an answer to this question, even if it is a little OT. Please burn a little karma for me:)
No. Suppose I vote against someone, but they still get elected. Have I voted them in? No. If I don't vote (because there's nobody I like), then you people say it's my fault because I didn't vote. Basically, voting is tyranny of the majority. I suppose, though, that when you're in the majority it makes sense and is a great thing;-).
I'm not for or against piracy, but this is a common misconception that I feel compelled to dispel.
If by "fair trial" you meant "certian parts of procedural due process", then yes, you're correct. However, the seventh amendment states:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Paraphrased: "in most civil cases of value >=$20, you get a jury trial." The SCOTUS hasn't consistently applied the 7th amendment to the states, but the suit would probably be filed in federal court anyways.
In Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, the SCOTUS upheld the 7th amendment right to a jury trial on statutory damages.
Although these two cases would have fact patterns which are wholly unrelated, statutory damages would probably be used in the case we're talking about. Statutory damages are usually used in copyright cases since it's difficult to tell exactly how much infringement occurred, and what the cost of that was. Since statutory damages would be used the previous ruling would be controlling, and both parties would have the right to a jury trial if they wanted one.
Again, IANAL, so feel free to correct me if I screwed up in my analysis;-)
Libertarianism != getting screwed by your employer. I'd never work for anyone who pulled the kind of shit that the parent's employer pulled, and I'm a libertarian.
"At will" employment doesn't exist just so your employer can screw you, but so you can protect yourself from getting screwed by your employer.
I'm curious, has anyone ever been nailed for this? I've been running an SSH/SFTP server on my machine for as long as I've had the account (three years), and my cable company has never said anything to me.
Of course, I also have incredibly high volumes of traffic each month too, and they don't complain about that. The cable service is expensive even for residential customers like me, but you get what you pay for in my case.
Unlikely, but the probability is not zero. The differential cost is very small, and the potential gain (not having to migrate everyone to IPv8 when we run out of address space again) is huge.
It's exactly like a 128 bit filesystem. We will never be able to use 2^128 locations on a FS, because there's not even that many atoms in the known universe. But, you'll never have to upgrade again.
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> It says on the Noscript website it is software under the GPL, that means the source code is available, yes?
He says that, but I just looked on the website and couldn't find any links to a source package. If I can find the source, I'll hack together a version that doesn't have this feature.
I don't see how you're giving up security at all, really. The time between when you realize your phone is missing and when you revoke the public key is the only 'insecure' time, and for a guy running ssh on his phone, this is probably pretty small.
Also, this streamlines multitasking, since you could automatically initiate connections. It's not the best solution, but hey, I didn't buy an iPhone either.
Why don't homeowners associations for neighborhoods provide internet, like they do for other utilities? You pay a flat fee "last mile" when you build your house just like you do with water/septic/electric.
The homeowner's association runs the utilities. Just like with everything else, they contract for a say 100mbit guaranteed line, and then the 20 or whatever homes connect to that. The homeowners association polices problems/abuse, much like it does with everything else. It works because: you don't want to piss off your neighbors.
More generally, why can't I buy into a "1 gigabit pool" with a cable company? Make it blatantly obvious that they're overselling, and let the user decide. Company A says "we've got a gigabit of bandwith with 100 users", Company B says "we've got a gigabit of bandwith with 150 users", and I decide.
Can't you do something like public key logins? If your phone gets stolen, just revoke the public key from whatever servers it's on.
Not that I agree with the idea that it's a mental illness, but gender dysphoria is an illness according to the DSM-IV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder#Diagnostic_Criteria
So, in the US, you're 'ill' too. In fact, it was only recently that the people who do the DSM realized that homosexuality was not an illness.
I don't think this is really a problem. For example, when I was in grade/middle school the internet didn't exist as it does today. We were supposed to do research papers on various topics (specifically, I wanted to be a vet at the time, so I was doing one on the health of cats).
I had access to the complete resources of our school library. This was a pre-approved list, and I (still) had to dig for information. When you're 12, you really don't have the critical thinking faculties to determine what is a good and bad resource. Librarians have had lots of training, supposedly they're good at it.
In my mind, having a whitelist is the best possible solution for institutions like grade/middle schools. It's exactly like the librarian model, and would prevent most abuses.
No, this is not what SSL is for at all. SSL you have a party you wish to communicate with, but an insecure channel.
Here, you don't want to communicate anything useful to anyone. This is more a privacy preserving data mining problem. It goes something like this:
I have a long list of secret numbers 1...n. I do something to these numbers, so that Google doesn't know what they are, and then I send them to Google. Next, I want to know how many numbers are larger than, say k. So, I ask Google, but in a clever way, so that Google doesn't know what I'm asking.
Google then tells me how many of my original numbers were larger than k. However, Google doesn't know my original numbers, and they don't know what question I asked. There needs to be some theoretical mapping that preserves this privacy, but still allows the data mining to occur.
I'm not an obesity apologist (or at least, I don't think I am), but I think it's important to recognize that not everyone who is obese just eats cheeseburgers all day. In fact, my diet is pretty piss poor, but I'm thin. Similarly, I know obese vegetarians.
Who cares how much of earth is covered with water? I didn't know how much (other than that it was >60% or so), and I'm going to graduate with an engineering degree in May. I know about science, but I don't know random facts about Earth. Does that make me illiterate?
No, I'm more concerned with concepts. For example, I recently shared with my girlfriend why metal is so much 'colder' than plastic (i.e. they're both the same temperature, but metal conducts the heat away from your hand much faster). She doesn't need to know ANY of the thermal conduction constants for metals or plastics to know the concepts. Giving people the idea that earth is 'mostly covered' with water is more important than giving them the exact number.
Even this doesn't work. Legitimate banks do this (http://www.usbank.com is one, who I've banked with in some fashion since I had a net worth of over $50). Note that after you type your username in, you're taken to a secure page.
I have been employed by the REU program doing research since August 2007, and I've had a blast. I've learned a lot about how to do research, written a paper, and had a lot to talk about on my graduate school applications.
I highly recommend the program to anyone interested. If you can find a professor who is willing to take you on and really teach you, it can be a life changing experience. It was for me.
Amarok 2 does not have support for an equalizer, because Phonon (KDE4's media backend) does not have equalizer support. I have seen no timeline which indicates that there are even plans to add equalizer support to Phonon (although, presumably I'm not the only one missing this feature).
A google search of "phonon equalizer" yields nothing of any value.
Does anyone know if there will be an equalizer for phonon?
I was thinking about this the other day, but, does the 32MB on disk cache really matter?
Think of it this way: the Linux kernel does disk caching with my free RAM (which I generally have more than 32MB of) according to some reasonable locality scheme (LRU or something).
If the HDD does the same caching according to nearly the same principles, won't the data on the disk cache nearly always be a subset of the disk cached in RAM? Meaning: doesn't the disk cache have no effect whatsoever?
I'm genuinely interested in an answer to this question, even if it is a little OT. Please burn a little karma for me :)
Replying to undo moderation. Damn auto submit.
Uh, Wine went 1.0? How is this not on the list, but Google Chrome is? Chrome isn't even open source, Chromium is.
HTTP != port 80
Hence the `#'.
> You voted them in. Stupid fuck.
No. Suppose I vote against someone, but they still get elected. Have I voted them in? No. If I don't vote (because there's nobody I like), then you people say it's my fault because I didn't vote. Basically, voting is tyranny of the majority. I suppose, though, that when you're in the majority it makes sense and is a great thing ;-).
I'm not for or against piracy, but this is a common misconception that I feel compelled to dispel.
If by "fair trial" you meant "certian parts of procedural due process", then yes, you're correct. However, the seventh amendment states:
Paraphrased: "in most civil cases of value >=$20, you get a jury trial." The SCOTUS hasn't consistently applied the 7th amendment to the states, but the suit would probably be filed in federal court anyways.
In Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, the SCOTUS upheld the 7th amendment right to a jury trial on statutory damages.
Although these two cases would have fact patterns which are wholly unrelated, statutory damages would probably be used in the case we're talking about. Statutory damages are usually used in copyright cases since it's difficult to tell exactly how much infringement occurred, and what the cost of that was. Since statutory damages would be used the previous ruling would be controlling, and both parties would have the right to a jury trial if they wanted one.
Again, IANAL, so feel free to correct me if I screwed up in my analysis ;-)
Because they'll probably be sued in the US federal court system for an amount over $20. Read the 7th amendment. IANAL, etc.
Libertarianism != getting screwed by your employer. I'd never work for anyone who pulled the kind of shit that the parent's employer pulled, and I'm a libertarian.
"At will" employment doesn't exist just so your employer can screw you, but so you can protect yourself from getting screwed by your employer.
> if it were illegal, why would it be illegal? Have I deprived anyone of life, liberty, or property? I have not.
While I agree with you, I think it's important to note that this isn't really the criteria used for creating laws in the US (although, I wish it was).
I'm curious, has anyone ever been nailed for this? I've been running an SSH/SFTP server on my machine for as long as I've had the account (three years), and my cable company has never said anything to me.
Of course, I also have incredibly high volumes of traffic each month too, and they don't complain about that. The cable service is expensive even for residential customers like me, but you get what you pay for in my case.
Unlikely, but the probability is not zero. The differential cost is very small, and the potential gain (not having to migrate everyone to IPv8 when we run out of address space again) is huge.
It's exactly like a 128 bit filesystem. We will never be able to use 2^128 locations on a FS, because there's not even that many atoms in the known universe. But, you'll never have to upgrade again.
Basically, IPv6 needs to be future proof.
Yeah, but who can honestly say they haven't read Cat's Cradle? I think that's an automatic revocation of geekness.