Actually, this is a great test of TrueCrypt's ability to keep sensitive information sensitive. If the FBI finds a security hole in TrueCrypt, it will be fixed or compensated for, making it safer for everybody else who uses TrueCrypt. If the FBI can't decrypt this, then TrueCrypt has withstood the test of probably the most resourceful law enforcement agency there is.
When your vice-president is pro-copyright cartels, and your president leans that way, it might actually be the copyright cartels laughing all the way to the bank.
Even things that certainly constitute people's identities like sexual orientation, or even a person's sex, race, age, height, weight, and ability (or the lack thereof) are completely open to mockery. In particular, the more extreme a particular "identity" gets taken, the greater amount of mockery there is.
Religion, which isn't an identity, is certainly, if not more open to mockery for that very reason.
Most of the memory problems turned out to be power supply or otherwise some kind of power problem. Very rarely is it the memory itself. From my experience, a faulty power supply will first manifest as memory issues, and then gradually increase in severity to affect much more of the system. And from experience, bad power supplies are often a result of dirty (i.e. inconsistent, unstable) power going into the machine, irrespective of any "surge protectors" that may be between the wall and the machine.
Even a bad BIOS battery can throw off something like the system clock and cause issues further down the line.
A few times, I had capacitors on the actual mobo blow out on me (and it's possible some of the PS problems I had were due to faulty capacitors), but that's easily spotted.
Microsoft then went on to do what they do, and stagnated Windows Mobile until someone else came along and ate their lunch.
That seems to be the case with every non-core product. IE, Mobile, VDS. They fight and fight for the top spot, and once they get it, they just let it languish. And then they wonder why they get blindsided when somebody else comes in and offers something completely revolutionary.
It's a management culture problem (because I know the actual do-ers are very enthusiastic), and Ballmer isn't helping.
You forget the important thing: It moves with the person, and independently of the person.
Someone mentioned it's like a fingerprint. A clean fingerprint can place someone at a certain location with a high degree of accuracy.
DNA cannot do even that, except under very specific circumstances. Despite it being treated as direct evidence by law enforcement, it's circumstantial evidence at best.
I replied elsewhere about this stating that Time Warner just spun off their internet divisions (Time Warner Cable and AOL) and their cable divison (Time Warner Cable).
Afterwards, I did a quick lookup on Wikipedia, and based on what's there it seems controlling both content and distribution is a far more commonplace practice than most people realize. Sure, it's usually through subsidaries and no one company has a 100% controlling stake, but it seems that all of the content companies are or have been in bed with the distribution companies at some point in time. What's interesting is that nobody really cared (or knew) until now.
Time Warner already had such a vertical monopoly. Time Warner Cable (Road Runner), AOL, Warner Brothers (WB/CW), Turner (CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network), and HBO were at one time all divisions of Time Warner.
But interestingly enough, both Time Warner Cable and AOL got spun off in the past few years. Universal/NBC may yet be a disaster for both companies. It probably won't be the disaster that was AOL-Time Warner merger, but I'm not sure it's going to end well...
I'm not sure you get what GP means. A touch UI is optimized for fingers and the imprecise boundaries of the finger. A normal UI is optimized for precision that a mouse/stylus enables (there is, in fact, a difference between a mouse UI and a stylus UI, but the difference is not nearly as profound).
I.e. touch UI's can't have elements that are too small, because then they'd become too difficult to activate without unintentionally activating neighboring elements. Touch UI's rely more on gestures for navigation and input because the finger is not as steady as an arm, and hence motion is easier to pull off accurately than "clicking".
Windows 7 may be fine for touch computing, but it's far from optimal.
A touch screen keyboard is not better than a hardware keyboard for a "creation" device. No matter how used to the touch screen keyboard a generation of people might be.
Nothing's quite as good as the Model M for typing. But if you give a touch screen haptic feedback where the screen can produce artificial texture, then it's good enough for most people that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I'm not saying this Toshiba device has haptic feedback, but maybe it should.
Technology changes, but there are intermediate steps and branches that may not catch on. Especially when things are limited by an artificial barrier (DRM and price fixing in the case of SACD's and DVD-Audio), people would rather stay with the old tech than go to something new. And they won't change until something actually better comes along.
For example, Windows 7 is bloatware. Even TFA hints at this when the author claims it runs slowly on the Toshiba machine. People aren't going to Windows 7 because they know it's bloatware. It sets (seemingly) artificial limits on what users want to do. They're going to stick with XP, which probably is decently fast on a machine like this, and hence is not limited. In fact, if Microsoft isn't careful, they're going to lose portable device marketshare to Linux, most likely in the form of Android.
You can't do everything perfectly the first time around.
No, you practice until you get it right. And when it actually counts, you get it right.
Don't forget that in eastern culture and philosophy, the role of age is reversed. Western philosophy (or attitudes) is that the younger is newer is hipper is better. In Eastern philosophy, the young are stupid (which they are), and should listen to what their elders say, because their elders have passed their young and stupid phase and are presumably not stupid anymore.
The presumption may or may not hold. But all is righted in the end, because when an elder who's not supposed to be stupid makes a mistake, that person takes responsibility and retires in favor of someone slightly younger and hopefully more capable.
In this system, financial and social gratification happens only after many years of hard work and experience. As opposed to the desire for instant gratification of western society.
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Actually, this is a great test of TrueCrypt's ability to keep sensitive information sensitive. If the FBI finds a security hole in TrueCrypt, it will be fixed or compensated for, making it safer for everybody else who uses TrueCrypt. If the FBI can't decrypt this, then TrueCrypt has withstood the test of probably the most resourceful law enforcement agency there is.
When your vice-president is pro-copyright cartels, and your president leans that way, it might actually be the copyright cartels laughing all the way to the bank.
Shit, where are the laws that say you can shoot people for trespassing when you need 'em?
Even things that certainly constitute people's identities like sexual orientation, or even a person's sex, race, age, height, weight, and ability (or the lack thereof) are completely open to mockery. In particular, the more extreme a particular "identity" gets taken, the greater amount of mockery there is.
Religion, which isn't an identity, is certainly, if not more open to mockery for that very reason.
Or deep down somewhere, you'll find a masochist in all of us.
It'd be much easier too. It's only one IP block.
As opposed to the other way around, when you have to block every individual site and distributed caches like akami.
Most of the memory problems turned out to be power supply or otherwise some kind of power problem. Very rarely is it the memory itself. From my experience, a faulty power supply will first manifest as memory issues, and then gradually increase in severity to affect much more of the system. And from experience, bad power supplies are often a result of dirty (i.e. inconsistent, unstable) power going into the machine, irrespective of any "surge protectors" that may be between the wall and the machine.
Even a bad BIOS battery can throw off something like the system clock and cause issues further down the line.
A few times, I had capacitors on the actual mobo blow out on me (and it's possible some of the PS problems I had were due to faulty capacitors), but that's easily spotted.
But, it's kind of like trying to get the bull to chase you -- you might not like it when he does.
On the bright side, you get to cut the bull's balls off and eat it if you win.
Some time prior to patents. Or courts. Whichever one came first.
Easy. Just put it into a flash applet and you're guaranteed cross-browser compatibility.
And people wonder why Flash is so popular on the web.
Either that or he continues chasing you all the while wondering why no one blew a whistle yet...
I'd wager those 600 lbs football players can easily outpace and outlast a geek from some basement.
Microsoft then went on to do what they do, and stagnated Windows Mobile until someone else came along and ate their lunch.
That seems to be the case with every non-core product. IE, Mobile, VDS. They fight and fight for the top spot, and once they get it, they just let it languish. And then they wonder why they get blindsided when somebody else comes in and offers something completely revolutionary.
It's a management culture problem (because I know the actual do-ers are very enthusiastic), and Ballmer isn't helping.
They do pay dividends, and quarterly at that. But don't expect them to pay out their entire cash reserve.
You forget the important thing: It moves with the person, and independently of the person.
Someone mentioned it's like a fingerprint. A clean fingerprint can place someone at a certain location with a high degree of accuracy.
DNA cannot do even that, except under very specific circumstances. Despite it being treated as direct evidence by law enforcement, it's circumstantial evidence at best.
What, no tarot cards and divination? Ridiculous! What are they teaching in schools these days? No wonder everybody says public education is crap.
Well, I can't say for when the ass is squared, but if the asshole is squared, the only think you can imply is that a round peg won't go in it.
Funny enough, GP should've been modded informative. I wonder how many people missed that joke?
Actually, as they're completely extinct, if you do manage to catch and eat one, you'd suddenly be knee-deep in 4 billion of them.
That's about enough for a birthday and a Christmas gift for a year for every little girl in the world.
I replied elsewhere about this stating that Time Warner just spun off their internet divisions (Time Warner Cable and AOL) and their cable divison (Time Warner Cable).
Afterwards, I did a quick lookup on Wikipedia, and based on what's there it seems controlling both content and distribution is a far more commonplace practice than most people realize. Sure, it's usually through subsidaries and no one company has a 100% controlling stake, but it seems that all of the content companies are or have been in bed with the distribution companies at some point in time. What's interesting is that nobody really cared (or knew) until now.
Time Warner already had such a vertical monopoly. Time Warner Cable (Road Runner), AOL, Warner Brothers (WB/CW), Turner (CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network), and HBO were at one time all divisions of Time Warner.
But interestingly enough, both Time Warner Cable and AOL got spun off in the past few years. Universal/NBC may yet be a disaster for both companies. It probably won't be the disaster that was AOL-Time Warner merger, but I'm not sure it's going to end well...
I'm not sure you get what GP means. A touch UI is optimized for fingers and the imprecise boundaries of the finger. A normal UI is optimized for precision that a mouse/stylus enables (there is, in fact, a difference between a mouse UI and a stylus UI, but the difference is not nearly as profound).
I.e. touch UI's can't have elements that are too small, because then they'd become too difficult to activate without unintentionally activating neighboring elements. Touch UI's rely more on gestures for navigation and input because the finger is not as steady as an arm, and hence motion is easier to pull off accurately than "clicking".
Windows 7 may be fine for touch computing, but it's far from optimal.
A little NSFW tag would've helped. There's no nudity, but there is racist content in there that might not sit well with passersby.
A touch screen keyboard is not better than a hardware keyboard for a "creation" device. No matter how used to the touch screen keyboard a generation of people might be.
Nothing's quite as good as the Model M for typing. But if you give a touch screen haptic feedback where the screen can produce artificial texture, then it's good enough for most people that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I'm not saying this Toshiba device has haptic feedback, but maybe it should.
Technology changes, but there are intermediate steps and branches that may not catch on. Especially when things are limited by an artificial barrier (DRM and price fixing in the case of SACD's and DVD-Audio), people would rather stay with the old tech than go to something new. And they won't change until something actually better comes along.
For example, Windows 7 is bloatware. Even TFA hints at this when the author claims it runs slowly on the Toshiba machine. People aren't going to Windows 7 because they know it's bloatware. It sets (seemingly) artificial limits on what users want to do. They're going to stick with XP, which probably is decently fast on a machine like this, and hence is not limited. In fact, if Microsoft isn't careful, they're going to lose portable device marketshare to Linux, most likely in the form of Android.
You can't do everything perfectly the first time around.
No, you practice until you get it right. And when it actually counts, you get it right.
Don't forget that in eastern culture and philosophy, the role of age is reversed. Western philosophy (or attitudes) is that the younger is newer is hipper is better. In Eastern philosophy, the young are stupid (which they are), and should listen to what their elders say, because their elders have passed their young and stupid phase and are presumably not stupid anymore.
The presumption may or may not hold. But all is righted in the end, because when an elder who's not supposed to be stupid makes a mistake, that person takes responsibility and retires in favor of someone slightly younger and hopefully more capable.
In this system, financial and social gratification happens only after many years of hard work and experience. As opposed to the desire for instant gratification of western society.
At least he's a socially inept moron with a stupid-sounding voice, so the cosmic joke is on him.
'cause posting on /. is so much cooler.