Perhaps the system generates 'really random' keys based on random physical events, such as the precise timing of keyboard/mouse/disk/network interrupts.
In fact, it's definitely the case that it's something the router should be able to handle.
If a router receives a packet that causes it to crash, it's a flaw in the router's software, no matter whether the packet is malformed or not.
If antimatter falls up, would that mean it has negative mass? That would mean antimatter and matter repel each other, but antimatter attracts antimatter and matter attracts matter.
In this case, in the scenario you describe, the matter and antimatter would repel each other, momentum and energy would still be conserved, and there would be no obvious problems.
I don't know the details, but I heard that the reason force feedback isn't being done is because it got patented by some troll company which has no intention of implementing it.
I agree that this is a problem. I know someone who can't get a driver's license because of a disability, and he already has problems identifying himself to incredibly stupid organisations who seem to forget that not everyone in the country can drive.
Incidentally, a real national ID card would completely solve this problem.
Other than making for a good story, losing movies from Amazon Unbox is not really a problem. You can re-download videos you've purchased from Unbox as many times as you want, unlike with iTMS. If your key no longer works, download them again.
Just because you may have an awesome internet connection on which you can download however much crap you want whenever you want without caring whether you have it already or not, doesn't mean everyone else does too. I, for one, would not consider having to re-download a few GB of video that is already on my hard drive to be "not really a problem".
No, almost all the power you send into the fuel tank ends up as heat. Where else would a significant amount of the power go, apart from being turned into heat?
Why use adblock? Why not just turn off images? [/sarcasm]
Seriously, there are uses for Flash apart from ads. Many websites use it for embedded audio, video, instant messaging, simple image editing, games, and basically any interactive functionality which would be too slow and hackish to implement using AJAX.
Your comment would be funny and possibly even insightful if the submitter had used the acronym "AMF" without giving any background or explaining what it is. In this submission, the author describes what AMF is ("the format used by Flash Remoting -- the equivalent of AJAX for the Flash world.") and links to an article with more details about it, so I don't see the point of pretending to be confused about it.
You argue that Flash has nothing to do with the design of the HTTP protocol, and say that "they're as related as horses and trucks carrying horses" as if that makes them unrelated. Have you ever even seen a truck carrying a horse? All the trucks carrying horses that I've ever seen are specifically designed to carry horses.
I don't know what you're talking about when you say SVG "animations aren't yet supported." Javascript can be used to manipulate elements of an SVG image, creating animation and interactivity. I've played simple games (e.g Tetris) in Firefox which are implemented entirely with SVG and Javascript.
Halo 3 is even further crippled by Microsoft so it will ONLY work on their XBox360 console.
Describing Halo 3 as "crippled" because it only runs on Xbox360 seems a bit unfair to me. The reason it only runs on Xbox360 is because it was developed specifically for Xbox360. To me "Crippled" would be a more appropriate description for things like the sort of applications which can be made to run on other systems just by removing a version check in the installer. To make Halo 3 run on a system other than the Xbox360 would require substantial coding, not just removing a check for Xbox360.
I have also had problems with transferring data from XP to Ubuntu. I was transferring a single file by piping it through netcat, and the transfer was going at about 1/10 the speed it should have been. My solution was to reboot the XP machine with a Ubuntu live cd, and running Ubuntu on both machines the transfer went at the speed I expected it to go.
I haven't tried XP-to-XP transfers, so I don't know if XP's always crap or if the inefficiencies are just caused by some differences/incompatibilities between Linux's and XP's networking.
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Perhaps the system generates 'really random' keys based on random physical events, such as the precise timing of keyboard/mouse/disk/network interrupts.
In fact, it's definitely the case that it's something the router should be able to handle. If a router receives a packet that causes it to crash, it's a flaw in the router's software, no matter whether the packet is malformed or not.
echo -n "Or ";for i in `seq 19`; do echo -n "$i or "; done; echo "and 20 moves."
If antimatter falls up, would that mean it has negative mass? That would mean antimatter and matter repel each other, but antimatter attracts antimatter and matter attracts matter. In this case, in the scenario you describe, the matter and antimatter would repel each other, momentum and energy would still be conserved, and there would be no obvious problems.
I don't know the details, but I heard that the reason force feedback isn't being done is because it got patented by some troll company which has no intention of implementing it.
Read the post you're replying to.
Isn't encryption outside the case actually more secure?
Do you even know what "air traffic control" means?
Yeah, and since when is medicine a good idea either?
I can see the pixels.
Incidentally, a real national ID card would completely solve this problem.
The electrical characteristics of a CPU are somewhat more complicated than those of a resistor.
http://about.psyc.eu/Jabber
I'm still waiting for the year of Natalie Portman naked and petrified on my desktop.
No, almost all the power you send into the fuel tank ends up as heat. Where else would a significant amount of the power go, apart from being turned into heat?
Seriously, there are uses for Flash apart from ads. Many websites use it for embedded audio, video, instant messaging, simple image editing, games, and basically any interactive functionality which would be too slow and hackish to implement using AJAX.
Your comment would be funny and possibly even insightful if the submitter had used the acronym "AMF" without giving any background or explaining what it is. In this submission, the author describes what AMF is ("the format used by Flash Remoting -- the equivalent of AJAX for the Flash world.") and links to an article with more details about it, so I don't see the point of pretending to be confused about it.
You argue that Flash has nothing to do with the design of the HTTP protocol, and say that "they're as related as horses and trucks carrying horses" as if that makes them unrelated. Have you ever even seen a truck carrying a horse? All the trucks carrying horses that I've ever seen are specifically designed to carry horses.
I don't know what you're talking about when you say SVG "animations aren't yet supported." Javascript can be used to manipulate elements of an SVG image, creating animation and interactivity. I've played simple games (e.g Tetris) in Firefox which are implemented entirely with SVG and Javascript.
You say that Vista is good to non-Slashdotters. You are talking to a Slashdotter. Perhaps you need to rethink your argument.
I have also had problems with transferring data from XP to Ubuntu. I was transferring a single file by piping it through netcat, and the transfer was going at about 1/10 the speed it should have been. My solution was to reboot the XP machine with a Ubuntu live cd, and running Ubuntu on both machines the transfer went at the speed I expected it to go. I haven't tried XP-to-XP transfers, so I don't know if XP's always crap or if the inefficiencies are just caused by some differences/incompatibilities between Linux's and XP's networking.