That's not a problem though, as they will not be able to read it anyway. All they know is what server you connected to and the size, number and time of packets in each direction. [Also read comment below, your attacker may have access to a root CA. I'd mod that up if I had mod points.] One benefit of encrypting unimportant traffic, apart from the actual security benefits like when using open WLANs, is that it makes it much more difficult to block specific pages.
Since I'm on Linux I play Heroes of Newerth because it has a Linux version, instead of League of Legends or Dota 2. It's good fun and it works brilliantly with the open source ATI drivers. I would also play some Minecraft, but I can't really get into it...
They should have positioned themselves as an alternative to.xxx during the years (decade?) when people were fighting about that one. Only problem is for lesbian sites, but they could do things like we.need.no.co.cc.
Well sure, but now all Australian hardware has to be banned because this is clearly intentional government spying. Telstra was even part of the Australian government:O
The reason these car analogies fail is that Blizzard isn't selling a product, they're selling a lifetime membership to a service. It's like buying a lifetime bus pass. Then the bus company installs RFID readers on a few bus routes and you have to buy an RFID chip or use a phone with NFC to go on those buses.
You're on to something, but it's not the same as HW failure. It's a new model that has come about after the internet, where they sell a physical item + a service, where the servie is often free. It's similar to providing software updates, but it's different in that when the service ends, the product is useless.
The expectation should be somewhere between shutting it down right after the warranty ends, and keeping it running forever. Don't know what's fair.
I won't have to hunt down special repositories to get essential things installed any more, and I won't have to read lengthy HOWTOs to get some basic things working.
... because it's *just not possible* on the Mac. Well, either it's not possible or you have to go and buy iGizmo X, which probably takes longer time than reading the HOWTO anyway. I have 0 experience with Mac (downloading a VM image to play with), but I know what it's like on Windows, and it's probably the same.
For some people it's better to have something be impossible than to require hours of hacking, because they can't help themselves. I'm probably one of those, but I still prefer Linux.
Actually this is an improvement. Fallback mode was mostly a non-functional imitation of a Gnome 2 interface in the minimal default configuration that no one used.
Fallback mode was in some sense a logical successor to Gnome 2. I'm a happy user of Fallback mode at work, I was delighted that the GPU of the new computer wasn't compatible with Gnome Shell. So it's *not* an improvement to drop it. Aslo, many computers which don't have proper GPU drivers are going to be old ones or not well maintained. Thus Gnome Shell is going to work like crap [Gnome 3 uses a shitload of GPU resources; I had to run my Radeon 6660 in "performance" mode to prevent the sound from stuttering, while I always use "low" in KDE except when gaming]
The good thing. Fallback wasn't similar to Gnome Shell anyway, so it didn't make sense as a product. There are other DEs / WMs which are designed for low end HW, and others that imitate the Gnome 2 look. People using Fallback should really be switching to those.
[ My only problem with Fallback was that it's near impossible to see which window you're switching to when using Alt-Tab (which BTW works just as you'd expect). Good WMs highlight the window that's selected in the switcher, but Fallback only showed a nearly invisible border. I always wondered if this was a bug or a passive-aggressive move from the devs ]
- Nice that they explicitly say "wind" and "solar" and not some dubious "green". - Bad that they don't break out the major conventional energy sources. There's a big difference between gas, coal, nuclear and possibly other renewables like hydro
That certainly makes a lot of sense to me, but I wish you would back up the facts with sources. And if you're right, they're doing 1 good thing: seriously supporting renewable energy and 1 bad thing: replacing nuke with coal. It may be a net neutral for the environment because they help develop new renewable tech.
You can't just go ahead and discuss ownership without defining what you actually mean by that. Normally when talking about information it's a shorthand for owning the copyright, but there are also cases where you "own" a license to play an MP3 file, etc., but you do not own the copyright.
The discussion here seems to be about access:
Fairstar claimed that it automatically deleted the emails that it forwarded through its servers to Adkins' Cadenza account when he worked as chief executive.
But Justice Edwards-Stuart ruled that the company had no right over the ownership of the email content and therefore rejected Fairstar's request for an independent inspection of Adkins' emails to take place.
If they discuss copyright ownership , and the business owns the copyright for the emails, there's no law that says that someone has to give me back my copyrighted work if I lose it and someone else has a legal copy of it... Is this just a metaphor run amok or am I missing something?
There was a better distinction between OS and applications on Win 7 and before; you could download Skype and MSN messenger which had ads, but they didn't come with the OS. The only ad in Windows 7 was "Anytime Upgrade" and that was well hidden in the control panel, so I accepted that even with strong dislike of ads in important software.Thankfully I'm now on Fedora Linux (and considering BSD), and don't have to worry about this
If you can spend $700 on a tablet computer, you can spend $50 on a 64 GB thumb drive.
Not the same. You'll always have a dongle sticking out of the tablet, it may not fit in the case, it gets caught on things when you put it in a bag, etc. Now an SD card is not so bad. Still some inconvenience in that you can't import pictures off other SD cards, but it's *much* better than those tablets that don't even have an SD slot.
Better idea is just don't use the damned XBox for movies if it does this.
Thanks for that point, you solved the article IMO and I'll stop reading. In the same vein, if they manage to get exclusive videos for Xbox, then don't bother with those at all.
And more generically, you're wrong anyway. If someone rooted one of the seeds of your Linux ISO and stuck a bunch of child porn in it, you're guilty of both downloading and distributing child pornography at that point. It doesn't matter what you say you were doing,
I think I'll take my chances, but thanks for reminding me that we live in a dystopian future:(
Regarding the summary, how is it "naturally" that they're using a custom CPU? I haven't followed the supercomputing field that well, but I was under the impression that most of them used "standard" CPUs like x86 and IBM PowerPC. The Titan SC uses Opterons and NVidia "GPUs". Well I just RTFA and it has been reported before; "A clear example of this [investment in homegrown tech] was when last year China's Sunway Bluelight supercomputer grabbed headlines for using a domestically developed processor, the Shenwei 1600."
I actually set my thinkpad to start charging at 38 % and stop at 48 %. Then I charge it fully before flights and meetings where I don't have power. After 2.5 years, it claims to have 55.25 Wh max capacity left, while the design capacity is 56.16 Wh. I don't know if the reason it has held up so well is because I keep it half way charged or if it's just because I don't charge/discharge it that often.
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That's not a problem though, as they will not be able to read it anyway. All they know is what server you connected to and the size, number and time of packets in each direction. [Also read comment below, your attacker may have access to a root CA. I'd mod that up if I had mod points.] One benefit of encrypting unimportant traffic, apart from the actual security benefits like when using open WLANs, is that it makes it much more difficult to block specific pages.
Since I'm on Linux I play Heroes of Newerth because it has a Linux version, instead of League of Legends or Dota 2. It's good fun and it works brilliantly with the open source ATI drivers. I would also play some Minecraft, but I can't really get into it...
And post-production team to make it sound like your loudness button is stuck in the "on" position.
FTFY (only half serious though, you need some post production)
I had a Korean friend by that name
Can the PengPod play Pong?
They should have positioned themselves as an alternative to .xxx during the years (decade?) when people were fighting about that one. Only problem is for lesbian sites, but they could do things like we.need.no.co.cc.
Well sure, but now all Australian hardware has to be banned because this is clearly intentional government spying. Telstra was even part of the Australian government :O
Please ignore above. I didn't read the summary
2012 - 1989 = 21
Isn't it expired by now?
The reason these car analogies fail is that Blizzard isn't selling a product, they're selling a lifetime membership to a service. It's like buying a lifetime bus pass. Then the bus company installs RFID readers on a few bus routes and you have to buy an RFID chip or use a phone with NFC to go on those buses.
You're on to something, but it's not the same as HW failure. It's a new model that has come about after the internet, where they sell a physical item + a service, where the servie is often free. It's similar to providing software updates, but it's different in that when the service ends, the product is useless.
The expectation should be somewhere between shutting it down right after the warranty ends, and keeping it running forever. Don't know what's fair.
I won't have to hunt down special repositories to get essential things installed any more, and I won't have to read lengthy HOWTOs to get some basic things working.
... because it's *just not possible* on the Mac. Well, either it's not possible or you have to go and buy iGizmo X, which probably takes longer time than reading the HOWTO anyway. I have 0 experience with Mac (downloading a VM image to play with), but I know what it's like on Windows, and it's probably the same.
For some people it's better to have something be impossible than to require hours of hacking, because they can't help themselves. I'm probably one of those, but I still prefer Linux.
Actually this is an improvement. Fallback mode was mostly a non-functional imitation of a Gnome 2 interface in the minimal default configuration that no one used.
Fallback mode was in some sense a logical successor to Gnome 2. I'm a happy user of Fallback mode at work, I was delighted that the GPU of the new computer wasn't compatible with Gnome Shell. So it's *not* an improvement to drop it. Aslo, many computers which don't have proper GPU drivers are going to be old ones or not well maintained. Thus Gnome Shell is going to work like crap [Gnome 3 uses a shitload of GPU resources; I had to run my Radeon 6660 in "performance" mode to prevent the sound from stuttering, while I always use "low" in KDE except when gaming]
The good thing. Fallback wasn't similar to Gnome Shell anyway, so it didn't make sense as a product. There are other DEs / WMs which are designed for low end HW, and others that imitate the Gnome 2 look. People using Fallback should really be switching to those.
[ My only problem with Fallback was that it's near impossible to see which window you're switching to when using Alt-Tab (which BTW works just as you'd expect). Good WMs highlight the window that's selected in the switcher, but Fallback only showed a nearly invisible border. I always wondered if this was a bug or a passive-aggressive move from the devs ]
Red one. Thanks to AC for link , very interesting.
- Nice that they explicitly say "wind" and "solar" and not some dubious "green". - Bad that they don't break out the major conventional energy sources. There's a big difference between gas, coal, nuclear and possibly other renewables like hydro
That certainly makes a lot of sense to me, but I wish you would back up the facts with sources. And if you're right, they're doing 1 good thing: seriously supporting renewable energy and 1 bad thing: replacing nuke with coal. It may be a net neutral for the environment because they help develop new renewable tech.
You can't just go ahead and discuss ownership without defining what you actually mean by that. Normally when talking about information it's a shorthand for owning the copyright, but there are also cases where you "own" a license to play an MP3 file, etc., but you do not own the copyright.
The discussion here seems to be about access:
Fairstar claimed that it automatically deleted the emails that it forwarded through its servers to Adkins' Cadenza account when he worked as chief executive.
But Justice Edwards-Stuart ruled that the company had no right over the ownership of the email content and therefore rejected Fairstar's request for an independent inspection of Adkins' emails to take place.
If they discuss copyright ownership , and the business owns the copyright for the emails, there's no law that says that someone has to give me back my copyrighted work if I lose it and someone else has a legal copy of it... Is this just a metaphor run amok or am I missing something?
There was a better distinction between OS and applications on Win 7 and before; you could download Skype and MSN messenger which had ads, but they didn't come with the OS. The only ad in Windows 7 was "Anytime Upgrade" and that was well hidden in the control panel, so I accepted that even with strong dislike of ads in important software.Thankfully I'm now on Fedora Linux (and considering BSD), and don't have to worry about this
There's still hec.to de.ca de.ci mil.li mic.ro na.no pi.co fem.to etc but none bigger than me.ga
If you can spend $700 on a tablet computer, you can spend $50 on a 64 GB thumb drive.
Not the same. You'll always have a dongle sticking out of the tablet, it may not fit in the case, it gets caught on things when you put it in a bag, etc. Now an SD card is not so bad. Still some inconvenience in that you can't import pictures off other SD cards, but it's *much* better than those tablets that don't even have an SD slot.
Better idea is just don't use the damned XBox for movies if it does this.
Thanks for that point, you solved the article IMO and I'll stop reading. In the same vein, if they manage to get exclusive videos for Xbox, then don't bother with those at all.
You typically have O(ms) seek latency for hard drives, does this mean that Facebook had all data in RAM before they made Prism?
And more generically, you're wrong anyway. If someone rooted one of the seeds of your Linux ISO and stuck a bunch of child porn in it, you're guilty of both downloading and distributing child pornography at that point. It doesn't matter what you say you were doing,
I think I'll take my chances, but thanks for reminding me that we live in a dystopian future :(
Regarding the summary, how is it "naturally" that they're using a custom CPU? I haven't followed the supercomputing field that well, but I was under the impression that most of them used "standard" CPUs like x86 and IBM PowerPC. The Titan SC uses Opterons and NVidia "GPUs". Well I just RTFA and it has been reported before; "A clear example of this [investment in homegrown tech] was when last year China's Sunway Bluelight supercomputer grabbed headlines for using a domestically developed processor, the Shenwei 1600."
I actually set my thinkpad to start charging at 38 % and stop at 48 %. Then I charge it fully before flights and meetings where I don't have power. After 2.5 years, it claims to have 55.25 Wh max capacity left, while the design capacity is 56.16 Wh. I don't know if the reason it has held up so well is because I keep it half way charged or if it's just because I don't charge/discharge it that often.