It always makes me wonder if I'm the only one that has zero problems with sound? Or pretty much anything? Am I just that lucky and skillful and freaking awesome in selecting hardware?
Well, last time I had to reinstall my work PC it took at least half a day, what with hunting down the driver CDs (without which even the ethernet port didn't work, so no downloading them), and figuring out which license keys to use, and where to download every individual software package.
Oh wait, got it a bit mixed up. Nops, Linux also works fine for me, last reinstall took at most half an hour to get the system running, which happily included office, and about another half hour to remember which other packages to apt-get.
For me Linux on the desktop happened several years ago, I'm not even bothering to install dual-boot anymore.
2) Create a new subscription account.
3) Realize that you are on the internet, where not everybody plays by your rules. Install spam and virus filters, and get on with your life. You've done all that you can to help the clueless operators. Its not worth any more of your time or anguish.
Possibly skip 2) though, as "clueless operators" might not be the best choice to obtain your "tools for the Systems Administration community" from?
Possibly their business plan is to have the MAFIAA bribe^Wlobby the US government into complying with the WTO ruling, then rebuild their gambling industry?
I switched from Ubuntu to Mint a while ago (before Unity), because it promised to be "Ubuntu, only easier", and stuck around because it was.
I'm not saying that I don't enjoy tinkering with stuff (messing around until it breaks is the usual the reason for me having to re-install), but it's nice to have everything working right away on a fresh install, instead of having to go through the motions of setting up restricted-extras yet again.
Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.
Uhm, where do you think you got those coordinates from in the first place?
TFA isn't talking about sending geoip data back to browsers to store it in a cookie, it's about getting GPS data from visitors, who will want to lie about it, e.g. to get free beers for logging in at a specific spot several days in a row.
Along the way, 345.18 billion ISK was paid out to investors as interest to make sure the scheme kept going. Another 452.72 billion was withdrawn by worried investors before the company shut down; that left 1,034 billion ISK in the hands of the company's owners.
I always wonder how many of these worried investors recognized the scheme for what it was right away, and decided to try and make some profit out of it themselves.
Because determining which part of the keyboard lights up is much easier than OCRing a much smaller character. A video could easily be low-res/blurry enough to make reading that character impossible, while the blue flashes would still be recognizable.
Why would people even think nuclear-powered gatling guns were the path to truth? At least those "Ultima Ratio Regnum." stamps were honestly admitting that it has always been about winning arguments, not about finding the truth.
Most people would just not buy from that person again. With the profit margins on drugs being as huge as they are, dealers make more money from only two sales than from ripping you off once.
Also, if your business model consists of consistently ripping off people willing to buy illegal drugs, my guess is it probably won't be too long before you piss off the kind of people that do believe in physical customer feedback. (Although obviously they won't be able to find you, as all the wire tapping is exclusively accessible to incorruptible people that only have your safety against terrorism, child porn, and crimethink on their mind.)
There's inSSIDer for Linux, although Kismet is nice, it doesn't output pretty pictures:p (Seriously though, the graphical overview of networks is a nice addition to just a textual list of networks and their strengths for each channel, especially for seeing the overlap if they're using something besides the three standard channels)
Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
There's a difference between perfecting a UI design and inflicting completely new, experimental ideas on unsuspecting users. Testing which particular gesture would be best for each interaction might take too much time, but completely omitting menus (leaving the only way to accomplish anything to be guessing the right gesture) is something that should've been thought over (especially if your target platform ships with a physical 'menu' button).
In any event, the only number that means anything in your relationship with your ISP is their number. You will not be able to convince them that your number is "right" or "more correct" than their number.
You might not be able to convince them, but you are able to switch ISP.
In special relativity lets say I'm sitting next to someone and then I go for a walk and come back. When we compare clocks they will be the same since otherwise there would be symmetry breaking and we could establish a preferred inertial frame.
You don't need to factor in acceleration to have the clocks get out of sync, just remember that changing directions means you won't be at rest the whole time in any reference frame:
Inertial frame of your friend: First you move away with say 1 m/s. Halfway through you move towards him at 1 m/s. You're moving, so your watch will be slow when you return.
Inertial frame of you walking away: First your friend moves away at 1 m/s. Halfway through you start moving in the same direction at 2m/s. You're moving faster, so your watch will be slow when you catch up with him.
Inertial frame of you walking back: First you move at 2m/s, while your friend falls behind at 1 m/s. Halfway through you stop moving, and wait for your friend to catch up. You've been moving faster, so your watch will be slow when he reaches you.
I agree it's stupid how browsers show self-signed certificates as more dangerous than plain HTTP.
The difference between paid-for certificates and self-signed certificates means more than just who promises authenticity though: The certificate's signature can be checked against the certificate shipped with the browser, thus preventing MITM attacks.
Basically:
HTTP: everybody on the network can read your stuff, including passwords etc. They don't even need to perform a MITM attack. With a simply MITM attack they can also alter content.
Self-signed HTTPS: your traffic isn't that easily sniffable anymore, but an attacker can perform a MITM attack to read/alter your data. He'd intercept all your browsers' requests, including the certificate, and replace them with his own.
CA-signed HTTPS: an attacker can't perform a MITM attack, because intercepting the certificate request means it's signature won't match with the CA-cert that your browser shipped with.
Thus paid-for certificates mean you won't get MITM'd, the part where the CA also verifies identities is just bonus.
"Always leave a multiple of four plus one" is hardly statistical math/deep AI.
It was only unbeatable because you always let it go first, but at least it seems to have accomplished its task of being fun to program.
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It always makes me wonder if I'm the only one that has zero problems with sound? Or pretty much anything? Am I just that lucky and skillful and freaking awesome in selecting hardware?
Well, last time I had to reinstall my work PC it took at least half a day, what with hunting down the driver CDs (without which even the ethernet port didn't work, so no downloading them), and figuring out which license keys to use, and where to download every individual software package.
Oh wait, got it a bit mixed up. Nops, Linux also works fine for me, last reinstall took at most half an hour to get the system running, which happily included office, and about another half hour to remember which other packages to apt-get.
For me Linux on the desktop happened several years ago, I'm not even bothering to install dual-boot anymore.
2) Create a new subscription account.
3) Realize that you are on the internet, where not everybody plays by your rules. Install spam and virus filters, and get on with your life. You've done all that you can to help the clueless operators. Its not worth any more of your time or anguish.
Possibly skip 2) though, as "clueless operators" might not be the best choice to obtain your "tools for the Systems Administration community" from?
Possibly their business plan is to have the MAFIAA bribe^Wlobby the US government into complying with the WTO ruling, then rebuild their gambling industry?
Maybe you live in a country where browing CNN won't land you in jail, but others aren't so lucky.
"Honestly, I wasn't browsing at all, just making random https connections to cnn.com"...
I switched from Ubuntu to Mint a while ago (before Unity), because it promised to be "Ubuntu, only easier", and stuck around because it was. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy tinkering with stuff (messing around until it breaks is the usual the reason for me having to re-install), but it's nice to have everything working right away on a fresh install, instead of having to go through the motions of setting up restricted-extras yet again.
Don't trust the client, store things like geolocation data and other such things server-side.
Uhm, where do you think you got those coordinates from in the first place?
TFA isn't talking about sending geoip data back to browsers to store it in a cookie, it's about getting GPS data from visitors, who will want to lie about it, e.g. to get free beers for logging in at a specific spot several days in a row.
But wouldn't people be unable to find the fake stealth shops?
Along the way, 345.18 billion ISK was paid out to investors as interest to make sure the scheme kept going. Another 452.72 billion was withdrawn by worried investors before the company shut down; that left 1,034 billion ISK in the hands of the company's owners.
I always wonder how many of these worried investors recognized the scheme for what it was right away, and decided to try and make some profit out of it themselves.
That's the day you guys defeated the aliens, right?
Because determining which part of the keyboard lights up is much easier than OCRing a much smaller character. A video could easily be low-res/blurry enough to make reading that character impossible, while the blue flashes would still be recognizable.
Why would people even think nuclear-powered gatling guns were the path to truth?
At least those "Ultima Ratio Regnum." stamps were honestly admitting that it has always been about winning arguments, not about finding the truth.
Most people would just not buy from that person again. With the profit margins on drugs being as huge as they are, dealers make more money from only two sales than from ripping you off once.
Also, if your business model consists of consistently ripping off people willing to buy illegal drugs, my guess is it probably won't be too long before you piss off the kind of people that do believe in physical customer feedback. (Although obviously they won't be able to find you, as all the wire tapping is exclusively accessible to incorruptible people that only have your safety against terrorism, child porn, and crimethink on their mind.)
There's inSSIDer for Linux, although Kismet is nice, it doesn't output pretty pictures :p (Seriously though, the graphical overview of networks is a nice addition to just a textual list of networks and their strengths for each channel, especially for seeing the overlap if they're using something besides the three standard channels)
Companies spending too much time perfecting their UI design will go out of business while their competitors are shipping flawed but ultimately usable products.
There's a difference between perfecting a UI design and inflicting completely new, experimental ideas on unsuspecting users. Testing which particular gesture would be best for each interaction might take too much time, but completely omitting menus (leaving the only way to accomplish anything to be guessing the right gesture) is something that should've been thought over (especially if your target platform ships with a physical 'menu' button).
In any event, the only number that means anything in your relationship with your ISP is their number. You will not be able to convince them that your number is "right" or "more correct" than their number.
You might not be able to convince them, but you are able to switch ISP.
You don't need to factor in acceleration to have the clocks get out of sync, just remember that changing directions means you won't be at rest the whole time in any reference frame:
Inertial frame of your friend: First you move away with say 1 m/s. Halfway through you move towards him at 1 m/s. You're moving, so your watch will be slow when you return.
Inertial frame of you walking away: First your friend moves away at 1 m/s. Halfway through you start moving in the same direction at 2m/s. You're moving faster, so your watch will be slow when you catch up with him.
Inertial frame of you walking back: First you move at 2m/s, while your friend falls behind at 1 m/s. Halfway through you stop moving, and wait for your friend to catch up. You've been moving faster, so your watch will be slow when he reaches you.
I agree it's stupid how browsers show self-signed certificates as more dangerous than plain HTTP.
The difference between paid-for certificates and self-signed certificates means more than just who promises authenticity though: The certificate's signature can be checked against the certificate shipped with the browser, thus preventing MITM attacks.
Basically:
Thus paid-for certificates mean you won't get MITM'd, the part where the CA also verifies identities is just bonus.
That was it. No statistical math. No deep AI.
"Always leave a multiple of four plus one" is hardly statistical math/deep AI.
It was only unbeatable because you always let it go first, but at least it seems to have accomplished its task of being fun to program.
It appears they 'forgot' the whole checks and balances thing when enacting a powerful censorship law.
FTFY
Also, the reflections are all wrong.
When I read the headline I was hoping someone finally made a Chess Boxing robot.
That said, while "a lot" of people would object to a desktop PC working this way, maybe some wouldn't.
Maybe they could run a "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" every month, and it would remove all software classified as malware by Microsoft?
Article with better picture (the second picture in there only looks like a still from a low rez video of a photograph)
Maybe they just took the next logical step after forbidding visitors to look at more than 1 page?
Only the switching is mechanical, there's still current running through the switches so you still get electromagnetic radiation.