As far as I could tell the term 3D format isn't really well defined. I'm assuming a stereoscopic format of some kind, with something to deliver the correct stream to the correct eye? I guess this means we won't actually see it until 2027 when Disney finally figure out how to DRM something in 3D.
Since neither blacklists nor EV certs have any real effect on security, there doesn't seem to be any great reason for Safari to rush towards implementing them. Blacklists don't work because the phishers move far faster than any blacklist can track them, and EV certs don't work because they're just a reheat of standard certs, which don't work either (EV certs exist so CAs can charge more for "premium" services). Both are fashion statements, not security measures. Looks like Paypal has fallen for the fashion.
So Canon are publishing your biometric credentials with each photo you take. The same credentials that are supposed to be used for border controls, access control, drivers licenses,...
Sumatra is a nice, small, fast PDF viewer, but its downside is that it has a rather quirky interface that makes many users think it doesn't support the features they expect. Look at the Sumatra support forums for examples of people asking for support for a particular feature only to be told that it's already present, you just have to know that it's accessed via Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Esc-Z rather than a "Find" menu option or hitting Ctrl-F like any other app.
A law was passed in the United States which addressed online gambling operations ("Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act" - UIGEA). As a result, the public gaming industry ceased accepting online wagers.
What actually happened is that they had to change the way they accepted online wagers. There's some gambling site (and I'm willing to admit this is a citation needed too, since I've forgotten the URL) that posts graphs of gambling transactions going back for a few years, including the coming into effect of the USG online gambling ban. There's a slight drop and flattening out of what's previously a linearly increasing course, and then it's business as usual. In other words UIGEA had little actual effect.
Not being a lawyer I can't say exactly how UIGEA caused this death.
The casinos moved overseas, the players switched to using money laundering-style payment channels. All it did was move the problem somewhere else where it's now much harder to track. So UIGEA should really have been called the Money Laundering Enabling Act.
(I don't disagree with his economic argument, but UIGEA hasn't done what he thinks it has).
Speaking as a free software developer, if I was MS I would put people on mailing lists and message boards for free software projects and then have them bitch and moan about every conceivable potential violation.
If I was MS I would too, but as this whole thread shows, there's really no need to do it. The Linux fanboy community is so good at dividing and conquering itself that there's really no need for external action. All MS has to do is come along afterwards and pick up the pieces.
Why Linux on the desktop will never happen, reason #137: The instant some vendor ships a nice, cheap, Linux-based desktop PC, a zillion Linux fanboys will descend on them complaining that they've violated some usage condition so obscure that it takes a hundred-message thread just to explain it.
How complicated will it be to get a suitable crank? Shouldn't be hard at all, hang around an inner-city street corner on a Friday evening and you'll find plenty of cranks of all kinds.
Dissolves pretty readily in water. I wonder how this is stabilized. It's also polyvinyl acetate, not alcohol. I'd hate to think what sort of properties polyvinyl alcohol would have.
Anti-phishing tools shouldn't be used to determine which sites are good, they should be used to determine which sites are bad.
Maybe I'm misreading this, but it looks like you're advocating "Enumerating Badness", which is No.2 in the Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security (it's actually a special case of the No.1 dumbest idea, "Default Allow"). Or did you mean something different?
I've seen the same behaviour from IBM SCSI drives, exactly identical models of drive, one meant for RS6000 servers and the other for desktop PCs, exhibited very different behaviour, with the RS6000's massively outperforming the PC models. We used to rip the server drives out of (surplussed) servers, dd the PC drive's contents onto them, and use them to replace the PC drives, for a significant increase in performance.
(This was with older drives, obviously, since (a) IBM don't make drives any more and (b) we wouldn't have been allowed to rip drives out of new servers).
Just like King Canute once commanding the tide not to come in, so the IETF is now commanding IPv6 to become widely adopted. If they're going to apply measures like this I think they should go for something more useful, maybe commanding cancer or heart disease to go away, since that would help a lot more people.
In this instance New York is only doing something that's been common in Europe for some time: Anyone using a tripod is automatically a professional photographer, and can't take photos of anything like significant architectural monuments/buildings/churches without a permit, which always takes 6-8 weeks and writing in advance to obtain. The UK seems particularly bad in this regard, it's a rare exception to find a building that you can get interior photographs of with a tripod.
(As a decidedly non-professional photographer, I found this totally unfuriating when travelling in the UK. It makes it more or less impossible to get good shots of building interiors).
According to one of the researchers, 'the more often an article is cited by other publications, the higher quality it's believed to have. While citation is not a perfect indicator, U.S. publications are more highly cited than those from other countries.'"
This "quality" measure based on citation frequency of US vs. non-US publications is totally bogus. Most of the world's IT technical publications come from the US, so anything published outside is essentially invisible except to a local audience. For example I live a long way from the US, but almost all the journals with citeable papers come from the US. Virtually the only time you see any local work is when it's been published in a US journal.
>Yeah, I had one like that. It paid pretty well, but I also had to plot a >course from the landmarks to the nearest river without anything over 100 >feet tall in the way. Kind of odd, now that I think of it.
I had one a bit like that too, I had to plot routes for trucks into nuclear power plants with tree cover for the entire route. And I got paid by hawala. Kind of odd, now that I think of it.
Their SuperCCD sensors have two photodiodes, one with a high sensitivity but relatively low dynamic range for the chroma component and one with a high dynamic range for the luma component. Seems like Kodak have just introduced a small variation on an existing approach.
Actually both Asus and Gigabyte are shipping boards built using engineering samples (!!!). This is visible in the VR-Zone and OCWorkbench reviews, with the chips marked "Secret" "ES". This is a very dubious way to build a retail product.
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>Intel has a rich collection of silly code names.
Dunnyton must be getting near the top for silliness.
Since neither blacklists nor EV certs have any real effect on security, there doesn't seem to be any great reason for Safari to rush towards implementing them. Blacklists don't work because the phishers move far faster than any blacklist can track them, and EV certs don't work because they're just a reheat of standard certs, which don't work either (EV certs exist so CAs can charge more for "premium" services). Both are fashion statements, not security measures. Looks like Paypal has fallen for the fashion.
Dunnington? They're naming processors after dunnys? What's next, the Intel Thunderbox?
So Canon are publishing your biometric credentials with each photo you take. The same credentials that are supposed to be used for border controls, access control, drivers licenses, ...
Brilliant.
Sumatra is a nice, small, fast PDF viewer, but its downside is that it has a rather quirky interface that makes many users think it doesn't support the features they expect. Look at the Sumatra support forums for examples of people asking for support for a particular feature only to be told that it's already present, you just have to know that it's accessed via Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Esc-Z rather than a "Find" menu option or hitting Ctrl-F like any other app.
A vine called Tenax that kills rats? Heck, where I work we have a vine called Twinax that could choke a horse!
... it wants its viruses back!
If you read the OP this is pretty much what DOS viruses were doing 20 years ago. Wow.
What actually happened is that they had to change the way they accepted online wagers. There's some gambling site (and I'm willing to admit this is a citation needed too, since I've forgotten the URL) that posts graphs of gambling transactions going back for a few years, including the coming into effect of the USG online gambling ban. There's a slight drop and flattening out of what's previously a linearly increasing course, and then it's business as usual. In other words UIGEA had little actual effect.
The casinos moved overseas, the players switched to using money laundering-style payment channels. All it did was move the problem somewhere else where it's now much harder to track. So UIGEA should really have been called the Money Laundering Enabling Act.
(I don't disagree with his economic argument, but UIGEA hasn't done what he thinks it has).
Why Linux on the desktop will never happen, reason #137: The instant some vendor ships a nice, cheap, Linux-based desktop PC, a zillion Linux fanboys will descend on them complaining that they've violated some usage condition so obscure that it takes a hundred-message thread just to explain it.
I've seen the same behaviour from IBM SCSI drives, exactly identical models of drive, one meant for RS6000 servers and the other for desktop PCs, exhibited very different behaviour, with the RS6000's massively outperforming the PC models. We used to rip the server drives out of (surplussed) servers, dd the PC drive's contents onto them, and use them to replace the PC drives, for a significant increase in performance.
(This was with older drives, obviously, since (a) IBM don't make drives any more and (b) we wouldn't have been allowed to rip drives out of new servers).
Just like King Canute once commanding the tide not to come in, so the IETF is now commanding IPv6 to become widely adopted. If they're going to apply measures like this I think they should go for something more useful, maybe commanding cancer or heart disease to go away, since that would help a lot more people.
In this instance New York is only doing something that's been common in Europe for some time: Anyone using a tripod is automatically a professional photographer, and can't take photos of anything like significant architectural monuments/buildings/churches without a permit, which always takes 6-8 weeks and writing in advance to obtain. The UK seems particularly bad in this regard, it's a rare exception to find a building that you can get interior photographs of with a tripod.
(As a decidedly non-professional photographer, I found this totally unfuriating when travelling in the UK. It makes it more or less impossible to get good shots of building interiors).
Russ is a security guy. I'd be rather surprised if his top priority was something other than... security.
>Yeah, I had one like that. It paid pretty well, but I also had to plot a
>course from the landmarks to the nearest river without anything over 100
>feet tall in the way. Kind of odd, now that I think of it.
I had one a bit like that too, I had to plot routes for trucks into nuclear power plants with tree cover for the entire route. And I got paid by hawala. Kind of odd, now that I think of it.
Their SuperCCD sensors have two photodiodes, one with a high sensitivity but relatively low dynamic range for the chroma component and one with a high dynamic range for the luma component. Seems like Kodak have just introduced a small variation on an existing approach.
What a dilemna: In a fight between Sony and MS, which side do Slashdot users cheer for?
>Photoshop -> Gimp [gimp.org]
Even for free, Gimp is overpriced.
Actually both Asus and Gigabyte are shipping boards built using engineering samples (!!!). This is visible in the VR-Zone and OCWorkbench reviews, with the chips marked "Secret" "ES". This is a very dubious way to build a retail product.