From what I understand, the MITM could "swallow" the original HTTP request from the client, inject their own URL (with parameters in the query string) into the request all while continuing to forward the client authentication cookies. Imagine prefixing an HTTP GET request for a poorly written webapp: GET bad.webapp.com/payment/send.php?account=12345&amount=1000000000.00 HTTP/1.1
Depends on the appliance, I suppose. If the device runs purely 220v, there is no need for a neutral - just the safety ground. In the US I've used NEMA 6-15 for 220v just fine, which allows me to carry more power over the same 2 carrier, 12 ga wire normally used for 110v.
In the Australian design, a higher current plug can't plug into a lower-current socket, but a lower-current plug *can* plug into a higher current socket. Which only makes sense.
That doesn't sound safe to me. I think it's dangerous to take a 15A device and hook it up to a 30A socket. If the device shorts out in an overpowered circuit, the breaker will allow far more power to flow through the device (and perhaps yourself) than it (or you) were ever designed for.
220v takes the same three wires to run as 110v. Two carriers (hot and hot hot) and a ground. There's no neutral in 220v, so you can run either 110v or 220v from the same romex wire - just not at the same time.
I think you've got your X and Y axis flipped. To me (and many others) a steep learning curve implies that the more you want to accomplish (x), the more time (y) you have to put into learning.
Sony has disabled the "other os" in recent updates.
No they haven't. I installed OpenSUSE on fully updated firmware. "Other OS" is unavailable on the new slim models, supposedly because they are tired of porting drivers for every hardware revision. Not to mention the fact that even Linux enthusiasts aren't having much fun with the feature.. I prefer to use the PS3-native web browser and media playback functions over booting into Linux and waiting for the hard drive to swap memory for every web page I click with Firefox.
I recently bought a PS3 and despite what I've come to expect from Sony, it is probably more open than any other game console I've bought. Use any bluetooth headset for voice chat, use any USB hard drive for storage, replace the internal hard drive with any one that fits, I think that's pretty cool. I bought the older model and installed OpenSUSE 11.1 without much of a hitch, although 256MB of memory makes it pretty useless for most tasks. The PS3 was happy to backup the hard drive contents to my iPod before I repartitioned it for the "Other OS" and I restored the contents just as easily. You're right though, it's still nowhere near as open or as useful as a PC, but so many games come with system-bogging, glitch-prone DRM these days I tend to prefer the plug-n-play nature of a console.
If I pick or break a lock I should be responsible not only for replacing the lock but also for all of the research and development that goes into a newer, less breakable lock?
if I'm going to buy a new iPod, it'll be a newer, better Touch, not something "less."
As an iPod Classic owner with a 40GB music library, the 64GB iPod Touch *is* newer, better and for the first time in iPod Touch history: capable of holding all of my music. That's important to me because it's certainly not "less" - but I see your point on the Nano. My guess is that they want most iPod owners to have more than one.
The DualCore requirement from Microsoft online services is hilarious. Defeats many advantages of a thin client, that's for sure. We can pay to upgrade the servers and pay again to upgrade the client, hey that looks like a perfect plan in somebody's eyes.
Because ISPs in the United States with a wireless last mile (3G or satellite) still charge on the order of $60 per month for on the order of 5 GB per month.
What does the cost of bandwidth have to do with anything? It doesn't get any cheaper whether you run it with a $1500 PC or a $100 thin client, but they are working on that. Soon the thin client will be free with the cost of bandwidth, which creates even more incentive for most people to ditch the $1500 machine.
Have you looked at your video drivers? Many laptops (sorry, haven't looked up your model) have video acceleration built into the video card that isn't always utilized by open source drivers, usually due to poor hardware documentation.
FWIW, switching to Nvidia blobs increased the battery life of my laptop quite a bit, especially for DVD / movie playback.
How many of you have actually used Vista on decent hardware (post-2004) and had problems with it?
I have, but the problems were very mild and the computer really did feel faster than XP. Copying gigs of data through identical versions of iTunes was significantly faster. I also enjoy looking at Vista much more: no more 1-pixel-wide fonts when using 1920x1200 resolution. It still lags behind a modern Linux distro in the look and feel department, but it's clearly an improvement over "Windows 2000 with a blue Start Bar."
Ultimately, I reverted to Windows XP because of sound latency issues with Vista. I'm only using Windows on that machine to run Traktor DJ software, and Vista with its new audio driver model introduced latent and choppy sound that I did not have with XP. Also, my cheap MIDI-to-USB converter had significant and sporadic delays in Vista - sometimes close to half a second - that are almost unnoticeable with XP. It's really fast hardware, but I think Vista's DRM-laden driver models are way too eager to delay that information long enough to make the OS useless for my purpose.
Speaking as a web developer, I think it sucks as a platform. HTML is not a very efficient way to generate output, supporting various DOM and Javascript implementations is a real pain and there are so many cases where a web application is not the best tool for the job.
That being said, I certainly do believe it's the best way to deliver information and applications to our customers, but most of our internal business processes and applications would be better to do without.
Apparently you don't know what "lossless" actually means.
Sure he does, lossless encoding takes out the "whooosh" sound.
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Say what you will about PHP, but it puts food on my table and a good roof over my head. I have been clamoring for the new features in PHP 5.3.0 (closures, namespaces, they finally killed register_globals) and can't wait for the improvements coming in 6.
I truly appreciate the hard work of the PHP development team and the free language they have given us, congratulations on the new release.
For connecting Iran to the rest of the world. Without your network equipment their communication with the outside world would be that much more limited. It's a shame that Iran chooses to abuse the monitoring and filtering solutions provided with your equipment, but I know that many Iranians are grateful for the fact it is available for them to use at all.
It would not be a pleasant job, even if you got the same wage you do now. [...] I'd rather do straight data entry typing than be a gold farmer...
Data entry isn't even an option for these people. They get to choose from farming (real) fields for pennies or playing video games for the same number of pennies. Most of them who play video games for pennies are at least guaranteed to have a roof over their head because computers are expensive to replace even when the people aren't.
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That was the first time I've been forced to watch through an ad on YouTube before seeing the content.
Screw YouTube!!!
From what I understand, the MITM could "swallow" the original HTTP request from the client, inject their own URL (with parameters in the query string) into the request all while continuing to forward the client authentication cookies. Imagine prefixing an HTTP GET request for a poorly written webapp: GET bad.webapp.com/payment/send.php?account=12345&amount=1000000000.00 HTTP/1.1
Depends on the appliance, I suppose. If the device runs purely 220v, there is no need for a neutral - just the safety ground. In the US I've used NEMA 6-15 for 220v just fine, which allows me to carry more power over the same 2 carrier, 12 ga wire normally used for 110v.
Ahh, interesting. I suppose you can plug those in normal, upside down, sideways or really an infinite number of positions and they still work.
In the Australian design, a higher current plug can't plug into a lower-current socket, but a lower-current plug *can* plug into a higher current socket. Which only makes sense.
That doesn't sound safe to me. I think it's dangerous to take a 15A device and hook it up to a 30A socket. If the device shorts out in an overpowered circuit, the breaker will allow far more power to flow through the device (and perhaps yourself) than it (or you) were ever designed for.
# Symmetrical. (i.e. you should be able to plug it in upside-down)
# The side that supplies the voltage should be the best shielded.
Many 110v appliances won't work with symmetrical-working plugs because they expect the voltage to always come in on one line and go out the other.
220v takes the same three wires to run as 110v. Two carriers (hot and hot hot) and a ground. There's no neutral in 220v, so you can run either 110v or 220v from the same romex wire - just not at the same time.
I think you've got your X and Y axis flipped. To me (and many others) a steep learning curve implies that the more you want to accomplish (x), the more time (y) you have to put into learning.
Sony has disabled the "other os" in recent updates.
No they haven't. I installed OpenSUSE on fully updated firmware. "Other OS" is unavailable on the new slim models, supposedly because they are tired of porting drivers for every hardware revision. Not to mention the fact that even Linux enthusiasts aren't having much fun with the feature.. I prefer to use the PS3-native web browser and media playback functions over booting into Linux and waiting for the hard drive to swap memory for every web page I click with Firefox.
I recently bought a PS3 and despite what I've come to expect from Sony, it is probably more open than any other game console I've bought. Use any bluetooth headset for voice chat, use any USB hard drive for storage, replace the internal hard drive with any one that fits, I think that's pretty cool. I bought the older model and installed OpenSUSE 11.1 without much of a hitch, although 256MB of memory makes it pretty useless for most tasks. The PS3 was happy to backup the hard drive contents to my iPod before I repartitioned it for the "Other OS" and I restored the contents just as easily. You're right though, it's still nowhere near as open or as useful as a PC, but so many games come with system-bogging, glitch-prone DRM these days I tend to prefer the plug-n-play nature of a console.
UAC is the correct direction for securing Windows as OS.
No, no it's not at all. Running your Windows account as an unprivileged user is the correct direction for securing any OS.
Well in *my* OS, the volume goes all the way to 11!
If I pick or break a lock I should be responsible not only for replacing the lock but also for all of the research and development that goes into a newer, less breakable lock?
if I'm going to buy a new iPod, it'll be a newer, better Touch, not something "less."
As an iPod Classic owner with a 40GB music library, the 64GB iPod Touch *is* newer, better and for the first time in iPod Touch history: capable of holding all of my music. That's important to me because it's certainly not "less" - but I see your point on the Nano. My guess is that they want most iPod owners to have more than one.
I believe at least one of the problems is that with access to the basic interpreter could be used to start something that Apple hasn't controlled.
There, fixed that for you.
The DualCore requirement from Microsoft online services is hilarious. Defeats many advantages of a thin client, that's for sure. We can pay to upgrade the servers and pay again to upgrade the client, hey that looks like a perfect plan in somebody's eyes.
Because ISPs in the United States with a wireless last mile (3G or satellite) still charge on the order of $60 per month for on the order of 5 GB per month.
What does the cost of bandwidth have to do with anything? It doesn't get any cheaper whether you run it with a $1500 PC or a $100 thin client, but they are working on that. Soon the thin client will be free with the cost of bandwidth, which creates even more incentive for most people to ditch the $1500 machine.
Have you looked at your video drivers? Many laptops (sorry, haven't looked up your model) have video acceleration built into the video card that isn't always utilized by open source drivers, usually due to poor hardware documentation.
FWIW, switching to Nvidia blobs increased the battery life of my laptop quite a bit, especially for DVD / movie playback.
Can someone help debug my php? 20 $i = 1; 30 while ($i != 10) { 40 $i++; 50 }
I found the problem, you don't have any GOTO in your BASIC, err, PHP code!
How many of you have actually used Vista on decent hardware (post-2004) and had problems with it?
I have, but the problems were very mild and the computer really did feel faster than XP. Copying gigs of data through identical versions of iTunes was significantly faster. I also enjoy looking at Vista much more: no more 1-pixel-wide fonts when using 1920x1200 resolution. It still lags behind a modern Linux distro in the look and feel department, but it's clearly an improvement over "Windows 2000 with a blue Start Bar."
Ultimately, I reverted to Windows XP because of sound latency issues with Vista. I'm only using Windows on that machine to run Traktor DJ software, and Vista with its new audio driver model introduced latent and choppy sound that I did not have with XP. Also, my cheap MIDI-to-USB converter had significant and sporadic delays in Vista - sometimes close to half a second - that are almost unnoticeable with XP. It's really fast hardware, but I think Vista's DRM-laden driver models are way too eager to delay that information long enough to make the OS useless for my purpose.
Speaking as a web developer, I think it sucks as a platform. HTML is not a very efficient way to generate output, supporting various DOM and Javascript implementations is a real pain and there are so many cases where a web application is not the best tool for the job.
That being said, I certainly do believe it's the best way to deliver information and applications to our customers, but most of our internal business processes and applications would be better to do without.
Apparently you don't know what "lossless" actually means.
Sure he does, lossless encoding takes out the "whooosh" sound.
Say what you will about PHP, but it puts food on my table and a good roof over my head. I have been clamoring for the new features in PHP 5.3.0 (closures, namespaces, they finally killed register_globals) and can't wait for the improvements coming in 6.
I truly appreciate the hard work of the PHP development team and the free language they have given us, congratulations on the new release.
For connecting Iran to the rest of the world. Without your network equipment their communication with the outside world would be that much more limited. It's a shame that Iran chooses to abuse the monitoring and filtering solutions provided with your equipment, but I know that many Iranians are grateful for the fact it is available for them to use at all.
It would not be a pleasant job, even if you got the same wage you do now. [...] I'd rather do straight data entry typing than be a gold farmer...
Data entry isn't even an option for these people. They get to choose from farming (real) fields for pennies or playing video games for the same number of pennies. Most of them who play video games for pennies are at least guaranteed to have a roof over their head because computers are expensive to replace even when the people aren't.