If your Tivo has lifetime service then the best use of it is to sell it (working or not) on eBay and recoup your lifetime service cost. Otherwise, you're looking at a doorstop. The Tivo (series 1 and 2) are woefully underpowered by today's standards. You're better off buying any reasonably expandable PC made in the past 4 years, add on MythTV and some video capture cards with hardware acceleration.
Verizon walks you through the (fairly involved, for a newbie) process of manually changing your DNS settings. They maintain one set of DNS addresses that do hijacking, and one set (the xx.xx.xx.14 addresses) that do not.hijack. It's a one time thing, and it's under your control.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's? Igor: [pause, then] No. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in? Igor: Then you won't be angry? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry. Igor: Abby Someone. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who? Igor: Abby Normal. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal? Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? [grabs Igor and starts throttling him] Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?
Google is going to follow the model used by Mac OS X - ship your own next generation windowing system, then follow up with a rootless X window manager for compatibility with all the apps that are out there.
I am not a regular OS X user so I'd like to hear from those who use it daily; do you find yourselves running X apps frequently, or are you running Cocoa apps exclusively?
That kind of thinking is what propelled Nader's candidacy in 2000. And look what that got us. If the two candidates both suck on tech issues then you have to decide on some other basis. Me, I want my Bill of Rights back. I want Guantanamo shut down. I want a sane foreign policy. So I'm voting for Obama.
New York resident here. In the past 5 years or so New York has added a couple of lines to the state income tax form, they read something like:
How much did you spend on out of state purchases in the past year?
$1000 $1001- $10000 $10001 -...
and for each of those gradations there is an amount of money to send in.
If you misstate the amount spent you are committing tax fraud (although I'm not sure how they can verify). The amount is low enough that it's worthwhile to answer honestly and send in the use tax.
I think the machines are in the larger towns, not necessarily the more affluent towns. Example. Claremont, NH is one of the most economically depressed areas in the state. They're using Accuvote machines. I think the split is along small vs. large towns, rather than rich vs. poor.
1) There is a paper trail in NH, even for those who voted on Diebold machines. You want to count the paper ballots? Count them. 2) Vote discrepancies vs. pre-election polls are not prima facie evidence of election fraud. 3) Hillary Clinton was leading Obama in NH for the past year. Obama surged in the past week in NH, that's all. So her win didn't come out of nowhere. 4) Let's assume she DID rig the votes. From my point of view, it's good to have a Democratic candidate who can rig votes as well as the Republicans can, the better to win the election.:-)
I agree, the old Sesame Street episodes were great, and I like them a lot better than the new ones. But I am an adult. To a kid, things look different.
I have two kids, including a very curious and observant 4 year old. I watched the original Sesame Street episodes when they aired, and I loved them. But that was 1970, and this is 2007. Context is important. Back then, my father smoked cigars. Smoking was not at all unusual. Some kids who watched the show then might even have been familiar with "Masterpiece Theatre". (With only a handful of channels, what else was there to watch?) So the kids laughed, the parents laughed, and that was it. On to the next skit.
Ok, so fast forward to 2007. Do any kids know Masterpiece Theatre? More to the point, no one in my household smokes. None of the adults my kids associate with smoke. My daughter sees people smoking as she walks up the street to school each day, and she asks questions about it. "What are those people putting in their mouths?" "Why does it smell bad?" etc. I answer her questions as best I can. The main question I cannot answer to her satisfaction is why someone would smoke if (a) it tastes bad, and (b) it will kill you? Addiction is a tough concept to get across to a 4 year old. Anyway...
The Monsterpiece Theatre episodes are funny as hell, but they would raise a lot of questions in my child's mind, and probably other children as well would have the same concerns. "Is cookie monster going to die because he smoked a pipe?" Etc.
These questions are, at best, a distraction from the main point of Sesame Street. These questions were not anticipated by the original shows' creators. Like I said, context is important, and these shows are being viewed 37 years after their original airdate.
According to the latest polls, 72% of us are convinced. The remaining 28% probably live in Jesusland and I'm not going down there to try and change their minds...
I'm a touch typist. I do not look at the keyboard unless I'm trying to hit some strange combination like alr-ctl-F11. If a program is going to tell me something, it better output to the screen.
See first comment in the article by a Microsoftie:
NOTE that the released part is Sedna and NOT VFP nor VFP core elements!
Sedna is a project Microsoft has been working on for the past year or so. Sedna is built using the extensibility model of VFP9 and provides features like better connectivity to SQL Server, integration with parts of the.NET framework, wrappers for Vista APIs to make it easier to write applications that run on Vista machines, as well as better support for VFP data in Visual Studio.
The autoSpaceLikeWord95 flag is *not* for Word 95. It is for all subsequent versions of MS Office and it translates to a set of special case, undocumented format attributes.
Here is how the flag is used today:
1) Open Word95 document containing full-width East Asian characters in Word 2007+ 2) On open (import) Word 2007+ sets the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" document property in the new document 3) On display, Word 2007+ displays the document using the special case formatting rules. 4) On Save as OOXML, the document gets saved with the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" flag set
So the problem for non-MS OOXML implementers is: WTF does "autoSpaceLikeWord95" mean? The only way to determine this is to reverse engineer the behavior by studying Microsoft Word 95 in detail. That is completely inappropriate for an open standard.
If MS was sufficiently motivated to produce a true "open" standard they should have translated the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" into a set of document presentation attributes whose meaning does not reference the behavior of any particular implementation. (Something like: autoSpaceLikeWord95 in a Word document translates to "allow 2px of space on either side of the character, except in years evenly divisible by 3, in which case allow 3px.)
I read TFA including that section. Unfortunately without benefit of your [emphasis], I ended up thinking "there must be more to it than that." Thanks for the response. Perhaps next time you can try a constructive reply without the sarcasm.
The whole thing boils down to:
1) Clueless user connects to "Free Wifi" and has filesharing enabled with guest write access 2) Attacker uses file sharing to put malware on PC 3) Clueless user proceeds to run the malware and gets zombified.
All in all a time consuming, inefficient way to amass a zombie network. If you're just looking to phish a (presumably well heeled) businessperson, then maybe it's worthwhile.
Connecting to the "Free Wi-Fi" and having your passwords and data sniffed is one thing, but how easy is it for the attacker to turn a Windows XP system into a zombie, merely by connecting to an attacker's wireless network?
Assumption #1. You run Windows XP, SP2, up to date with security patches Assumption #2. You have Windows Firewall installed and configured for maximum security Assumption #3. You are not sharing your folders on the network, or if you are, you're not allowing guest write access
(Now, I know how many Windows users do not follow #1,#2,#3 above..) but assuming they do, is a zero-day exploit required in order to zombify their PC?
I worked with Ray, Len and Tim at Iris. Ray may have led the parade but in my experience he always acknowledged the contributions of the other founders (and other Iris employees.)
Ray is a mensch and I'm glad to see that he will be taking over Chief Architect position.
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If your Tivo has lifetime service then the best use of it is to sell it (working or not) on eBay and recoup your lifetime service cost.
Otherwise, you're looking at a doorstop. The Tivo (series 1 and 2) are woefully underpowered by today's standards. You're better off buying any reasonably expandable PC made in the past 4 years, add on MythTV and some video capture cards with hardware acceleration.
Bzzzt. There is no medical evidence of colloidal silver's safety or effectiveness. OTOH it may very well turn you blue. I wouldn't try it.
Verizon walks you through the (fairly involved, for a newbie) process of manually changing your DNS settings. They maintain one set of DNS addresses that do hijacking, and one set (the xx.xx.xx.14 addresses) that do not.hijack. It's a one time thing, and it's under your control.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby Someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?
Google is going to follow the model used by Mac OS X - ship your own next generation windowing system, then follow up with a rootless X window manager for compatibility with all the apps that are out there.
I am not a regular OS X user so I'd like to hear from those who use it daily; do you find yourselves running X apps frequently, or are you running Cocoa apps exclusively?
Why are they pissing off a significant percentage of my target audience?
That kind of thinking is what propelled Nader's candidacy in 2000. And look what that got us. If the two candidates both suck on tech issues then you have to decide on some other basis. Me, I want my Bill of Rights back. I want Guantanamo shut down. I want a sane foreign policy. So I'm voting for Obama.
New York resident here. In the past 5 years or so New York has added a couple of lines to the state income tax form, they read something like:
How much did you spend on out of state purchases in the past year?
$1000 ...
$1001- $10000
$10001 -
and for each of those gradations there is an amount of money to send in.
If you misstate the amount spent you are committing tax fraud (although I'm not sure how they can verify). The amount is low enough that it's worthwhile to answer honestly and send in the use tax.
Quality beats schedule? Only to a point. Real artists ship.
Ironically, Apple's refusal to license FairPlay DRM to its competitors has done more to kill the viability of DRM than any campaign by the FSF.
To recap:
RIAA to Apple: "You must use DRM on the iPod!" ... time passes... Apple utterly dominates the sale of music online...
Apple: "Okay"
RIAA to Apple: "Uh, how about letting your competitors use your DRM solution? We want to weaken your market power so we can gain the upper hand".
Apple: "Sorry, no."
And thus the music industry was forced to move to unprotected music formats.
Lynx.
I think the machines are in the larger towns, not necessarily the more affluent towns. Example. Claremont, NH is one of the most economically depressed areas in the state. They're using Accuvote machines. I think the split is along small vs. large towns, rather than rich vs. poor.
1) There is a paper trail in NH, even for those who voted on Diebold machines. You want to count the paper ballots? Count them. :-)
2) Vote discrepancies vs. pre-election polls are not prima facie evidence of election fraud.
3) Hillary Clinton was leading Obama in NH for the past year. Obama surged in the past week in NH, that's all. So her win didn't come out of nowhere.
4) Let's assume she DID rig the votes. From my point of view, it's good to have a Democratic candidate who can rig votes as well as the Republicans can, the better to win the election.
A good article to read: http://dhinmi.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/10/02623/2264/85/434176
I agree, the old Sesame Street episodes were great, and I like them a lot better than the new ones. But I am an adult. To a kid, things look different.
I have two kids, including a very curious and observant 4 year old. I watched the original Sesame Street episodes when they aired, and I loved them. But that was 1970, and this is 2007. Context is important. Back then, my father smoked cigars. Smoking was not at all unusual. Some kids who watched the show then might even have been familiar with "Masterpiece Theatre". (With only a handful of channels, what else was there to watch?) So the kids laughed, the parents laughed, and that was it. On to the next skit.
Ok, so fast forward to 2007. Do any kids know Masterpiece Theatre? More to the point, no one in my household smokes. None of the adults my kids associate with smoke. My daughter sees people smoking as she walks up the street to school each day, and she asks questions about it. "What are those people putting in their mouths?" "Why does it smell bad?" etc. I answer her questions as best I can. The main question I cannot answer to her satisfaction is why someone would smoke if (a) it tastes bad, and (b) it will kill you? Addiction is a tough concept to get across to a 4 year old. Anyway...
The Monsterpiece Theatre episodes are funny as hell, but they would raise a lot of questions in my child's mind, and probably other children as well would have the same concerns. "Is cookie monster going to die because he smoked a pipe?" Etc.
These questions are, at best, a distraction from the main point of Sesame Street. These questions were not anticipated by the original shows' creators. Like I said, context is important, and these shows are being viewed 37 years after their original airdate.
Submit it. Read the feedback you get (if you get any). Write some more code. Repeat. That is all.
According to the latest polls, 72% of us are convinced. The remaining 28% probably live in Jesusland and I'm not going down there to try and change their minds...
I'm a touch typist. I do not look at the keyboard unless I'm trying to hit some strange combination like alr-ctl-F11. If a program is going to tell me something, it better output to the screen.
Once life imprisonment for piracy is passed, the only safe software to use will be Free/Open Source.
See first comment in the article by a Microsoftie:
.NET framework, wrappers for Vista APIs to make it easier to write applications that run on Vista machines, as well as better support for VFP data in Visual Studio.
NOTE that the released part is Sedna and NOT VFP nor VFP core elements!
Sedna is a project Microsoft has been working on for the past year or so. Sedna is built using the extensibility model of VFP9 and provides features like better connectivity to SQL Server, integration with parts of the
The autoSpaceLikeWord95 flag is *not* for Word 95. It is for all subsequent versions of MS Office and it translates to a set of special case, undocumented format attributes.
Here is how the flag is used today:
1) Open Word95 document containing full-width East Asian characters in Word 2007+
2) On open (import) Word 2007+ sets the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" document property in the new document
3) On display, Word 2007+ displays the document using the special case formatting rules.
4) On Save as OOXML, the document gets saved with the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" flag set
So the problem for non-MS OOXML implementers is: WTF does "autoSpaceLikeWord95" mean? The only way to determine this is to reverse engineer the behavior by studying Microsoft Word 95 in detail. That is completely inappropriate for an open standard.
If MS was sufficiently motivated to produce a true "open" standard they should have translated the "autoSpaceLikeWord95" into a set of document presentation attributes whose meaning does not reference the behavior of any particular implementation. (Something like: autoSpaceLikeWord95 in a Word document translates to "allow 2px of space on either side of the character, except in years evenly divisible by 3, in which case allow 3px.)
I read TFA including that section. Unfortunately without benefit of your [emphasis], I ended up thinking "there must be more to it than that." Thanks for the response. Perhaps next time you can try a constructive reply without the sarcasm.
The whole thing boils down to:
1) Clueless user connects to "Free Wifi" and has filesharing enabled with guest write access
2) Attacker uses file sharing to put malware on PC
3) Clueless user proceeds to run the malware and gets zombified.
All in all a time consuming, inefficient way to amass a zombie network. If you're just looking to phish a (presumably well heeled) businessperson, then maybe it's worthwhile.
Connecting to the "Free Wi-Fi" and having your passwords and data sniffed is one thing, but how easy is it for the attacker to turn a Windows XP system into a zombie, merely by connecting to an attacker's wireless network?
Assumption #1. You run Windows XP, SP2, up to date with security patches
Assumption #2. You have Windows Firewall installed and configured for maximum security
Assumption #3. You are not sharing your folders on the network, or if you are, you're not allowing guest write access
(Now, I know how many Windows users do not follow #1,#2,#3 above..) but assuming they do, is a zero-day exploit required in order to zombify their PC?
Does the above estimate of energy savings take into consideration the energy and raw materials required to produce 110 million CFL bulbs?
"It's easy to wreck a nice beach"
I worked with Ray, Len and Tim at Iris. Ray may have led the parade but in my experience he always acknowledged the contributions of the other founders (and other Iris employees.)
Ray is a mensch and I'm glad to see that he will be taking over Chief Architect position.