Which Bruce would that be? Off the top of my head, possible candidates would be Bruce Schneier and Bruce Perens, but, uhh, I believe they are both still alive?
I'm using FF 3.0.3 right now. On the view menu, there is a "Zoom" sub-menu. When I zoom in, the web page gets zoomed, but not the UI. The URL bar doesn't change size at all. If you want a literal "zoom text only" where graphics don't get zoomed with the text, that too is an option on the "Zoom" sub-menu.
I have to ask, have you even tried FF3 before concluding that there was no zoom feature?
". ..like a red colored filter blocks out wavelengths in that frequency range."
From what I remember from high school physics class, a red filter blocks out *everything except for* light in the red frequency ranges. That is, it allows red to pass, but blocks green, blue, yellow, etc.
From the article, I picked up the reason for this result (but not until after posting a similar question, I must confess). Most home computer users, regardless of their platform, tend to connect to the internet through some sort of router device. Most of these routers use IPv4 only, and use NAT to share the Internet connection.
Many Mac users, instead of using some 'generic' WiFi access point, instead use Apple's Airport Extreme router. Per the article, Airport Extreme's have support for IPv6 built right into the router, and the router will *automatically* route IPv6 traffic using the 6to4 standard (which basically tunnels the traffic over the IPv4 connection from the ISP).
I suspect that if you connected your Ubuntu computer (or Vista, or XP if you installed IPv6 manually) to the Internet using an Airport Extreme, then IPv6 would work fine under Ubuntu too. That is, I think the 'magic' here that makes IPv6 "just work" is in the router, not in the OS.
Guess I should have read the article first. Looks like this result is because Apple's Airport Extreme AP automatically sets up 6to4 (which is the 'anycast' based system I was referring to previously, but got the name backwards), and because the router itself supports 6to4, there's no problem giving the systems behind the router a public IPv6 address in the sub-net of the 6to4 address.
I didn't realize there were any IPv6-capable home routers on the market (other than routers that have been hacked to replace the OEM firmware with OpenWRT or DD-WRT). Kudos to Apple for showing some leadership here. Anyone know of any other makers with affordable home routers with IPv6?
I don't believe any US ISPs have begun providing IPv6 connections yet, have they? So, does this statistic reflect that not only are Macs IPv6 capabable, but all of them are automatically setting up an IPv6 tunnel over their IPv4 connections? If so, what tunnel broker are they using as an endpoint (is Apple itself providing a tunnel broker service for them)?
Or, instead of using a tunnel, are they using the technology (don't remember the name, maybe 4to6?) where an IPv6 address is automatically generated from the public IPv4 address, and then IPv6 packets are sent to an IPv4 anycast address which automatically routes them to the nearest 'public' 4ot6 gateway? Unfortunately, I don't believe the latter solution works well behind NATted connections, which I think would dramatically reduce these statistics, so the sheer size of the Mac IPv6 'population' suggests to me that tunnels are being used instead?
I've recently been playing with IPv6 via Hexago Freenet6, but truth be told, there's really not much use for IPv6 yet, since very few apps (like IM clients [skype: I'm looking at you], network games, etc) or websites actually support IPv6 on the other end yet. I've also noticed a problem with packet loss and high latency with Freenet6, so I'm thinking I'm going to try to find a different tunnel broker.
The problem with the Genesis device is that while, yes, it would wipe out any native life on the planet, it does actually leave the planet habitable aftewords. What kind of self-respecting Doomsday Device doesn't leave the planet uninhabitable for at least a few million years, maybe longer?
"This is rather suboptimal for chips like the Cortex-A8 which have many, many more instructions available. .."
Wait, I'm confused. I thought the *point* of RISC architectures was to have *fewer* instructions. That more advanced operations are implemented in software using combinations of simple instructions. Is ARM morphing from a RISC platform to CISC?
Read the article again. The article says she *sent* 400,000 to the scammers. It never says she borrowed 400,000. In fact, it never mentions how much she borrowed at all, only that she sent 400k, and that two of the sources of that money were borrowed. I imagine that of that 400k, the bulk of it actually came from the retirement account she threw away. Maybe she borrowed 20k, or 50k, and the remainder was from the savings.
It may be entirely possible to pay off her debt in 3-4 years, because it's probably much less than 400k. It's also possible that she really is very much underestimating just how long it will take to pay off the debt. A few years ago I had some credit card debt I had to pay off. It took about a year and a half to pay off, and that was only a few thousand dollars.
If anyone in my family was going along with a scam like this, and I knew about it, and they wouldn't stop, I think I would go to a judge, explain the circumstances, ask for the judge to declare her mentally incompetent, and ask to be made her legal guardian, just to protect her from herself. Someone shouldn't be allowed to throw away the life savings of their spouse just because they are an imbecile.
Sounds like, while it was legally 'her' money by virtue of the marriage, she wasn't necessarily the one who worked her whole life to build up that nest egg.
Still, I do feel sorry for her, even if she was kind of dumb, and for her husband (if he's still alive; I can't imagine he's still alive and allowed her to just empty their accounts; maybe he was brain damaged in an accident or otherwise out of the picture).
I created a resume in OpenOffice, and saved it to a USB flash drive. I forgot to export the file to PDF or.doc after saving, and as I don't have a printer at home, I took my thumb drive into the library at my University to print the resume. Unfortunately, the Univ has MS Office on everything, without the necessary plugins to load.odt files, and I can't install anything on the Uni computers.
I then remembered that Google docs lets you upload and open ODF files, so that's what I did. I *was* able to open the resume and print it, but unfortunately Google messed up some of the spacing and margins, so that the resume didn't quite look right when opened in Google. A resume that doesn't look right isn't worth the paper it's printed on, because it will just make potential employers think you're incompetent or just don't care.
Luckily, this was just for a class, and was just the first draft, so it didn't hurt me this time. It'd be great if Google really could flawlessy open ODF docs. Until that time, you're idea of using Open office to create the docs, then store and use it with Google Apps/Google Docs, is a non-starter.
Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but it sounds like people are complaining that stretching before a work-out weakens you during the workout. Seems like stretching after the work-out would weaken you after the workout? Unless the 'workout' is a competition where it obviously matters, in other cases, does it matter in the end?
If the main concern is the final result of getting stronger and more fit over time, does it matter if you are weaker during the workout? I suppose it might, possibly, since maybe the stretching after a hard work out still leaves you stronger than stretching before and then doing a less-strenous workout?
That's not some new-fangled fad language. I believe the expression 'wont to do' and variations on it are quite old (I don't know how old - hundreds of years?). It's not common in American usage of English, but I think the Brits use it more commonly.
When the steam 'scanner' gathers data about your computer, where does it get the resolution from? Desktop resolution, or the resolution you play games at?
Just because your monitor has 2560x1600 pixels doesn't mean your computer can give you good framerates at those resolutions. I have a laptop with a 17" widescreen display. I play most games at 1400x900 (or is it 1440x900? I can't remember the exact numbers), simply because most games' framerates start to degrade noticeably at higher resolutions (again, granted, this is a laptop, so it's not exactly a screaming beast, but I suspect only maybe 10 or 20 percent of gamers *do* have the screaming beasts necessary to pump out the ridiculously high resolutions).
If it is grabbing the user's desktop resolution, I suspect a lot of users might not run their desktops at the maximum possible resolution, simply because it tends to make the text and GUI elements (buttons, drag-able panel dividers) in many traditional programs *tiny* even with a large monitor. I suspect that most people only use the very high resolutions on their monitors to watch HD videos (and even those only benefit from 1080 lines of vertical resolution, so any more than that is essentially wasted [maybe some up-converting software could scale the image from 1080 to 1600, but that would just be scaling]? Although, I suppose the counter argument to that is, if you are going to buy a monitor which supports 2560x1600, you'll probably buy the screaming beast necessary to drive it at decent framerates (can any computers really output frames at such resolution at a consistent 100+ fps?).
An interesting thing to note is that, while WEP has been cracked, and it looks like soon, WPA+TKIP, I've not really heard any talk of SSL/TLS having been cracked. Yes, there is still a possibility of a man-in-the-middle with SSL, but I haven't heard of the type of out-right cracks that WEP has suffered with SSL. So, if your bank website is using SSL to secure the connection, does it matter if WEP or WPA gets cracked?
Also, isn't there a version of WPA which does *not* use TKIP? Wouldn't that still be secure?
Who says you must use trees? The article summary mentions sawgrass as one possibility. Other possibilities include a variety of woody, fast growing plants (like, say, industrial hemp plants; or possibly bamboo; maybe there could finally be some good use for all the kudzu weed that grows all over the place in the south-eastern USA, with this fungus).
To say that trees are the only source of cellulose is certainly not correct; I don't think it's even correct to say it's the 'best' source.
I think you can get significantly more celluse per-acre (at least with certain plants) than you can Sunflower oil. I also believe that Sunflowers might require more in the way of fertilizers and such (though I'm not so sure about that). Also, I believe extracting the oil from the sunflower seeds might be a somewhat 'expensive' process?
I believe the hope with something like this fungus is to find an extremely cheap way to generate large quantities of fuel using cheap, high-yield plants.
I dunno, but in my experience, I've never met a girl named Jeff, Thomas, or Richard. Still, some parents go out of their way to ruin their children's lives with bad names. On the same vein, I've never met a man named Betty, Julia, or Karen. You might be able to stretch the point by going cross-cultural. Their very well might be names from other parts of the world which sound similar to common North American/European names, but which are gender neutral or gender-reversed from their American/European counterparts.
One fun observation about names and gender. In the USA, Ashley is almost always a female name, it seems like, but in England (and maybe France?) Ashley is usually a male name. I wonder what the origin of that difference is?
I think all of this is a prelude to the ISP's trying to squeeze extra revenue from content providers, by setting up 'partnership' deals where the bandwidth cap doesn't apply to the partnered content providers.
E.g. Amazon pays the ISP some amount of money per month for the privilege of getting truly unlimited bandwidth to the customers.
If the content providers are smart, they will all band together to 'educate' consumers about this, and setup a website with information about competing ISPs which are available with truly unlimited bandwidth. Maybe if they are *really* smart, they'll all cooperate with Google to build out a competing network to cut out the ISP's in the middle who are trying to put the thumbscrews on them.
First, yes, this is stupid, but I think I understand what the reasoning might be.
You wonder why they would take Gygax's money, but not the money from the convention? Money from one individual donor is easily 'lost' in the noise, so they probably never knew about the connection. But, I suspect that CCF is worried that if they were publicly associated with taking a moderately large donation from a D&D convention, it would hurt their other donation streams from the conservative Christians.
Unfortunately, people running charities have to deal with all the baggage associated with their donors. They want to help children. You ask why they don't take the 17k and help the children? Because, honestly, taking the 17k now might mean losing 100's of thousands over the next year or two, if there were a backlash amongst evangelicals, so they have to weigh what helps the children the most over the long term.
I mean, Montana has an AFB in it, along with 6 Air Force bases in nearby states. There is no place anywhere in Montana that isn't relatively close to an Air Force Base. That's a great plan for getting to a place where "The Man" can't hit you. *grin*
"After all, the electoral college is unique to the US, yet other democracies manage elections just fine (actually better than the US, if I dare say so). This tells me that the problem isn't the system, but something specific to the US."
I'm trying to think if there are any other democratic countries in the world with a population as large or larger than the US? The only ones that come to mind would be India, and maybe Indonesia and/or Pakistan. . . maybe Russia (although, I think, calling Russia a democracy might possibly be pretty generous)? Now let me ask, do any of them have a national popular vote? I'm not exactly sure how those countries select their President or Prime Minister, but in many cases, the Prime Ministers of many democratic countries are not chosen directly by the people, but instead by the Parliament. The MPs are chosen on a district-by-district basis. Does any large population ( > 200 million citizens) democracy have any nationwide, popular-vote elections?
Well, PGP might have a solution, or, I have been using TrueCrypt for a while and have been pleased with it. TrueCrypt is licensed with an Open Source license (it's not GPL, but is open source), and is also free-as-in-beer.
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"The ghost of Bruce would also like to say. . ."
Which Bruce would that be? Off the top of my head, possible candidates would be Bruce Schneier and Bruce Perens, but, uhh, I believe they are both still alive?
I'm using FF 3.0.3 right now. On the view menu, there is a "Zoom" sub-menu. When I zoom in, the web page gets zoomed, but not the UI. The URL bar doesn't change size at all. If you want a literal "zoom text only" where graphics don't get zoomed with the text, that too is an option on the "Zoom" sub-menu.
I have to ask, have you even tried FF3 before concluding that there was no zoom feature?
". . .like a red colored filter blocks out wavelengths in that frequency range."
From what I remember from high school physics class, a red filter blocks out *everything except for* light in the red frequency ranges. That is, it allows red to pass, but blocks green, blue, yellow, etc.
From the article, I picked up the reason for this result (but not until after posting a similar question, I must confess). Most home computer users, regardless of their platform, tend to connect to the internet through some sort of router device. Most of these routers use IPv4 only, and use NAT to share the Internet connection.
Many Mac users, instead of using some 'generic' WiFi access point, instead use Apple's Airport Extreme router. Per the article, Airport Extreme's have support for IPv6 built right into the router, and the router will *automatically* route IPv6 traffic using the 6to4 standard (which basically tunnels the traffic over the IPv4 connection from the ISP).
I suspect that if you connected your Ubuntu computer (or Vista, or XP if you installed IPv6 manually) to the Internet using an Airport Extreme, then IPv6 would work fine under Ubuntu too. That is, I think the 'magic' here that makes IPv6 "just work" is in the router, not in the OS.
Guess I should have read the article first. Looks like this result is because Apple's Airport Extreme AP automatically sets up 6to4 (which is the 'anycast' based system I was referring to previously, but got the name backwards), and because the router itself supports 6to4, there's no problem giving the systems behind the router a public IPv6 address in the sub-net of the 6to4 address.
I didn't realize there were any IPv6-capable home routers on the market (other than routers that have been hacked to replace the OEM firmware with OpenWRT or DD-WRT). Kudos to Apple for showing some leadership here. Anyone know of any other makers with affordable home routers with IPv6?
I don't believe any US ISPs have begun providing IPv6 connections yet, have they? So, does this statistic reflect that not only are Macs IPv6 capabable, but all of them are automatically setting up an IPv6 tunnel over their IPv4 connections? If so, what tunnel broker are they using as an endpoint (is Apple itself providing a tunnel broker service for them)?
Or, instead of using a tunnel, are they using the technology (don't remember the name, maybe 4to6?) where an IPv6 address is automatically generated from the public IPv4 address, and then IPv6 packets are sent to an IPv4 anycast address which automatically routes them to the nearest 'public' 4ot6 gateway? Unfortunately, I don't believe the latter solution works well behind NATted connections, which I think would dramatically reduce these statistics, so the sheer size of the Mac IPv6 'population' suggests to me that tunnels are being used instead?
I've recently been playing with IPv6 via Hexago Freenet6, but truth be told, there's really not much use for IPv6 yet, since very few apps (like IM clients [skype: I'm looking at you], network games, etc) or websites actually support IPv6 on the other end yet. I've also noticed a problem with packet loss and high latency with Freenet6, so I'm thinking I'm going to try to find a different tunnel broker.
The problem with the Genesis device is that while, yes, it would wipe out any native life on the planet, it does actually leave the planet habitable aftewords. What kind of self-respecting Doomsday Device doesn't leave the planet uninhabitable for at least a few million years, maybe longer?
"This is rather suboptimal for chips like the Cortex-A8 which have many, many more instructions available. . ."
Wait, I'm confused. I thought the *point* of RISC architectures was to have *fewer* instructions. That more advanced operations are implemented in software using combinations of simple instructions. Is ARM morphing from a RISC platform to CISC?
Read the article again. The article says she *sent* 400,000 to the scammers. It never says she borrowed 400,000. In fact, it never mentions how much she borrowed at all, only that she sent 400k, and that two of the sources of that money were borrowed. I imagine that of that 400k, the bulk of it actually came from the retirement account she threw away. Maybe she borrowed 20k, or 50k, and the remainder was from the savings.
It may be entirely possible to pay off her debt in 3-4 years, because it's probably much less than 400k. It's also possible that she really is very much underestimating just how long it will take to pay off the debt. A few years ago I had some credit card debt I had to pay off. It took about a year and a half to pay off, and that was only a few thousand dollars.
If anyone in my family was going along with a scam like this, and I knew about it, and they wouldn't stop, I think I would go to a judge, explain the circumstances, ask for the judge to declare her mentally incompetent, and ask to be made her legal guardian, just to protect her from herself. Someone shouldn't be allowed to throw away the life savings of their spouse just because they are an imbecile.
". . . her husband's retirement account. . ."
Sounds like, while it was legally 'her' money by virtue of the marriage, she wasn't necessarily the one who worked her whole life to build up that nest egg.
Still, I do feel sorry for her, even if she was kind of dumb, and for her husband (if he's still alive; I can't imagine he's still alive and allowed her to just empty their accounts; maybe he was brain damaged in an accident or otherwise out of the picture).
I created a resume in OpenOffice, and saved it to a USB flash drive. I forgot to export the file to PDF or .doc after saving, and as I don't have a printer at home, I took my thumb drive into the library at my University to print the resume. Unfortunately, the Univ has MS Office on everything, without the necessary plugins to load .odt files, and I can't install anything on the Uni computers.
I then remembered that Google docs lets you upload and open ODF files, so that's what I did. I *was* able to open the resume and print it, but unfortunately Google messed up some of the spacing and margins, so that the resume didn't quite look right when opened in Google. A resume that doesn't look right isn't worth the paper it's printed on, because it will just make potential employers think you're incompetent or just don't care.
Luckily, this was just for a class, and was just the first draft, so it didn't hurt me this time. It'd be great if Google really could flawlessy open ODF docs. Until that time, you're idea of using Open office to create the docs, then store and use it with Google Apps/Google Docs, is a non-starter.
When I told the guy he should let me in "because I'm better than you. . .".
Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but it sounds like people are complaining that stretching before a work-out weakens you during the workout. Seems like stretching after the work-out would weaken you after the workout? Unless the 'workout' is a competition where it obviously matters, in other cases, does it matter in the end?
If the main concern is the final result of getting stronger and more fit over time, does it matter if you are weaker during the workout? I suppose it might, possibly, since maybe the stretching after a hard work out still leaves you stronger than stretching before and then doing a less-strenous workout?
First off, it's "are wont to", NOT "are wont do".
That's not some new-fangled fad language. I believe the expression 'wont to do' and variations on it are quite old (I don't know how old - hundreds of years?). It's not common in American usage of English, but I think the Brits use it more commonly.
When the steam 'scanner' gathers data about your computer, where does it get the resolution from? Desktop resolution, or the resolution you play games at?
Just because your monitor has 2560x1600 pixels doesn't mean your computer can give you good framerates at those resolutions. I have a laptop with a 17" widescreen display. I play most games at 1400x900 (or is it 1440x900? I can't remember the exact numbers), simply because most games' framerates start to degrade noticeably at higher resolutions (again, granted, this is a laptop, so it's not exactly a screaming beast, but I suspect only maybe 10 or 20 percent of gamers *do* have the screaming beasts necessary to pump out the ridiculously high resolutions).
If it is grabbing the user's desktop resolution, I suspect a lot of users might not run their desktops at the maximum possible resolution, simply because it tends to make the text and GUI elements (buttons, drag-able panel dividers) in many traditional programs *tiny* even with a large monitor. I suspect that most people only use the very high resolutions on their monitors to watch HD videos (and even those only benefit from 1080 lines of vertical resolution, so any more than that is essentially wasted [maybe some up-converting software could scale the image from 1080 to 1600, but that would just be scaling]? Although, I suppose the counter argument to that is, if you are going to buy a monitor which supports 2560x1600, you'll probably buy the screaming beast necessary to drive it at decent framerates (can any computers really output frames at such resolution at a consistent 100+ fps?).
An interesting thing to note is that, while WEP has been cracked, and it looks like soon, WPA+TKIP, I've not really heard any talk of SSL/TLS having been cracked. Yes, there is still a possibility of a man-in-the-middle with SSL, but I haven't heard of the type of out-right cracks that WEP has suffered with SSL. So, if your bank website is using SSL to secure the connection, does it matter if WEP or WPA gets cracked?
Also, isn't there a version of WPA which does *not* use TKIP? Wouldn't that still be secure?
Who says you must use trees? The article summary mentions sawgrass as one possibility. Other possibilities include a variety of woody, fast growing plants (like, say, industrial hemp plants; or possibly bamboo; maybe there could finally be some good use for all the kudzu weed that grows all over the place in the south-eastern USA, with this fungus).
To say that trees are the only source of cellulose is certainly not correct; I don't think it's even correct to say it's the 'best' source.
I think you can get significantly more celluse per-acre (at least with certain plants) than you can Sunflower oil. I also believe that Sunflowers might require more in the way of fertilizers and such (though I'm not so sure about that). Also, I believe extracting the oil from the sunflower seeds might be a somewhat 'expensive' process?
I believe the hope with something like this fungus is to find an extremely cheap way to generate large quantities of fuel using cheap, high-yield plants.
I dunno, but in my experience, I've never met a girl named Jeff, Thomas, or Richard. Still, some parents go out of their way to ruin their children's lives with bad names. On the same vein, I've never met a man named Betty, Julia, or Karen. You might be able to stretch the point by going cross-cultural. Their very well might be names from other parts of the world which sound similar to common North American/European names, but which are gender neutral or gender-reversed from their American/European counterparts.
One fun observation about names and gender. In the USA, Ashley is almost always a female name, it seems like, but in England (and maybe France?) Ashley is usually a male name. I wonder what the origin of that difference is?
I think all of this is a prelude to the ISP's trying to squeeze extra revenue from content providers, by setting up 'partnership' deals where the bandwidth cap doesn't apply to the partnered content providers.
E.g. Amazon pays the ISP some amount of money per month for the privilege of getting truly unlimited bandwidth to the customers.
If the content providers are smart, they will all band together to 'educate' consumers about this, and setup a website with information about competing ISPs which are available with truly unlimited bandwidth. Maybe if they are *really* smart, they'll all cooperate with Google to build out a competing network to cut out the ISP's in the middle who are trying to put the thumbscrews on them.
First, yes, this is stupid, but I think I understand what the reasoning might be.
You wonder why they would take Gygax's money, but not the money from the convention? Money from one individual donor is easily 'lost' in the noise, so they probably never knew about the connection. But, I suspect that CCF is worried that if they were publicly associated with taking a moderately large donation from a D&D convention, it would hurt their other donation streams from the conservative Christians.
Unfortunately, people running charities have to deal with all the baggage associated with their donors. They want to help children. You ask why they don't take the 17k and help the children? Because, honestly, taking the 17k now might mean losing 100's of thousands over the next year or two, if there were a backlash amongst evangelicals, so they have to weigh what helps the children the most over the long term.
I mean, Montana has an AFB in it, along with 6 Air Force bases in nearby states. There is no place anywhere in Montana that isn't relatively close to an Air Force Base. That's a great plan for getting to a place where "The Man" can't hit you. *grin*
"After all, the electoral college is unique to the US, yet other democracies manage elections just fine (actually better than the US, if I dare say so). This tells me that the problem isn't the system, but something specific to the US."
I'm trying to think if there are any other democratic countries in the world with a population as large or larger than the US? The only ones that come to mind would be India, and maybe Indonesia and/or Pakistan. . . maybe Russia (although, I think, calling Russia a democracy might possibly be pretty generous)? Now let me ask, do any of them have a national popular vote? I'm not exactly sure how those countries select their President or Prime Minister, but in many cases, the Prime Ministers of many democratic countries are not chosen directly by the people, but instead by the Parliament. The MPs are chosen on a district-by-district basis. Does any large population ( > 200 million citizens) democracy have any nationwide, popular-vote elections?
Well, PGP might have a solution, or, I have been using TrueCrypt for a while and have been pleased with it. TrueCrypt is licensed with an Open Source license (it's not GPL, but is open source), and is also free-as-in-beer.