GTA5 delayed until Sept 17... Rayman Legends delayed until Sept 17... Feb 20 Sony PS4 announcement, AMD chips, scaled up production (for Sept release?)
And to top off the wishlist category: Valve will release a console in 2013... PS4 will be a Steam "Premium" unit. ./end_wild_speculation
I'd hate to see his spam portfolio. Gmail has full permission to "read" my email if they are comparing it to millions of other emails that looks exactly the same sent to various people and they can properly place it in a folder that automatically gets deleted every 30 days.
The popup that comes up to ask you to switch to the mobile site seems to have a fixed position hit boundary. If you scroll the page a bit, the buttons no longer work for me on Android ICS.
I got a hold of one (ZModo) and after putting a known good hard drive in it it worked for a while and then suddenly the SATA controller must have fried. It will no longer recognize any hard disk. Since I didn't pay all that much for it, I pretty much consider it disposable. I'll probably end up using the cheap cameras I got on something a little less flaky.
I read that line and thought... great. Someone out there is going to think that their screen height is private and break every website that uses scroll effects. That's not a major loss, but what if they decided that the browser is private? People can't be allowed to determine everything that's private... can they?
I was pretty up on this new venture until all of these clearly misleading statements began to appear.
Some would say it's intentional and seems to be working. I personally uploaded some non-copyrighted material to test the waters and see how the system works and so far it's been slow and pretty crappy but I can't speak for the security of it (since I'm no expert.) There are some things that worry me (like requiring devs give them the source to any apps written around the page...) but those are other issues.
This master key is stored on MEGA's servers, encrypted with a hash derived from the user's login password.... In addition to the symmetric key, each user account has a 2048 bit RSA key pair to securely receive data. Its private component is stored encrypted with the user's symmetric master key.
According to that, the keys are stored on the server, but it's encrypted with a hash of your password... I understand that all they would have to do is store the generated key somewhere and have full access to all your files if they wanted. I'm not debating that.
The part I'm trying to figure out is:
The cryptographic integrity of MEGA's user data is important to us. We can therefore not allow you to distribute or make available your client application without going through us. We will perform a code audit of your product and promote/distribute it on our site.
So they want full access to the source of your client "to ensure the integrity of MEGA's user data" but for some reason I keep reading that as though they know the properly coded application could damage their site.
Scarlet Letters, Red Crosses, Peeing On a Tree... humans are no different from dogs when it comes to trying to take ownership of things that are not theirs. I'm sure there's a psychological reason for doing it (power? control?) but it's all the same. If they can publicly 'shame' you to drum up fear, they think others will fall in line.
I have no problem with a "gun culture". In fact, I wish that everyone at least be trained on the basics of gun safety (which will likely never see the light of day with today's "anti-gun" movement.)
so your saying that at Sandy Hook Elementary that more kids would be alive if he had 10 round magazines?
Just to be clear... I never said that. In fact, I disagree with the quote's premise and was merely putting it there to provide a "TL;DR" for the person that didn't read the article.
I always like hearing this argument (about Military might)... if anything were to happen on a big enough scale, some of those people will be ex-military and some of those military will question the shooting of "fellow Americans." Even though you are taught to believe that our troops are programmed robots who will shot whatever they are told, it's simply not true. Granted, it would be a matter of scale issue. They will not think twice about a small uprising in a compound in Texas, but if it happens on a greater scale the outcome will be civil war with hardware on both sides.
It's stated in the article. They assume that since some previous gun incidents have been stopped when the gunman had to reload that limiting the amount you can fire off will allow someone to be a hero and tackle the gunman.
Horwitz points out that Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was tackled while attempting to reload a new magazine into his Glock handgun. And police say that Newtown, Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza may have allowed some of his victims to escape while he reloaded his smaller clips.
This is my first thought. People are all up in arms about something that happened in another side of the country (and in some cases, the world) but had these events happened 15-20 years ago it would not have made the uproar that they do today. People assume they are commonplace events and some may even try to imitate those acts. It's a growing phase we, as human beings, are going through. Open communication brings good and bad things. We have to learn to self filter when geography no longer filters for us.
I'm typing this on a Nexus 10 tablet, which uses a gorilla glass capacitive screen.
These touch screens are nothing like the old pen or push driven touch screens that have a layer of visually intrusive technology to enable touch. In fact, this may be the best looking display in my house at this time. I can honestly say that for a touch added device, there's no visual impact at all.
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I'm just gonna put it on the table...
GTA5 delayed until Sept 17...
Rayman Legends delayed until Sept 17...
Feb 20 Sony PS4 announcement, AMD chips, scaled up production (for Sept release?)
And to top off the wishlist category: /end_wild_speculation
Valve will release a console in 2013... PS4 will be a Steam "Premium" unit.
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Secure your wifi...
..and turn off your broadcast SSID if you don't want someone logging it.
I'd hate to see his spam portfolio. Gmail has full permission to "read" my email if they are comparing it to millions of other emails that looks exactly the same sent to various people and they can properly place it in a folder that automatically gets deleted every 30 days.
The popup that comes up to ask you to switch to the mobile site seems to have a fixed position hit boundary. If you scroll the page a bit, the buttons no longer work for me on Android ICS.
Not to mention having your door knocked down at 3 AM and being raided like the Taliban because your IP was logged on a questionable location.
I got a hold of one (ZModo) and after putting a known good hard drive in it it worked for a while and then suddenly the SATA controller must have fried. It will no longer recognize any hard disk. Since I didn't pay all that much for it, I pretty much consider it disposable. I'll probably end up using the cheap cameras I got on something a little less flaky.
I read that line and thought... great. Someone out there is going to think that their screen height is private and break every website that uses scroll effects. That's not a major loss, but what if they decided that the browser is private? People can't be allowed to determine everything that's private... can they?
Duh... it's so they don't have to remember their passwords to get their configuration and RSA keys back!
I was pretty up on this new venture until all of these clearly misleading statements began to appear.
Some would say it's intentional and seems to be working. I personally uploaded some non-copyrighted material to test the waters and see how the system works and so far it's been slow and pretty crappy but I can't speak for the security of it (since I'm no expert.) There are some things that worry me (like requiring devs give them the source to any apps written around the page...) but those are other issues.
It says on their developer page:
This master key is stored on MEGA's servers, encrypted with a hash derived from the user's login password. ... In addition to the symmetric key, each user account has a 2048 bit RSA key pair to securely receive data. Its private component is stored encrypted with the user's symmetric master key.
According to that, the keys are stored on the server, but it's encrypted with a hash of your password... I understand that all they would have to do is store the generated key somewhere and have full access to all your files if they wanted. I'm not debating that.
The part I'm trying to figure out is:
The cryptographic integrity of MEGA's user data is important to us. We can therefore not allow you to distribute or make available your client application without going through us. We will perform a code audit of your product and promote/distribute it on our site.
So they want full access to the source of your client "to ensure the integrity of MEGA's user data" but for some reason I keep reading that as though they know the properly coded application could damage their site.
Scarlet Letters, Red Crosses, Peeing On a Tree... humans are no different from dogs when it comes to trying to take ownership of things that are not theirs. I'm sure there's a psychological reason for doing it (power? control?) but it's all the same. If they can publicly 'shame' you to drum up fear, they think others will fall in line.
I don't understand what pacifism has to do with guns...
I don't own a gun to shoot people. I own a gun to shoot paper. Is shooting paper somehow not pacifist?
So, does !growing == aging or does growing == !aging?
I have no problem with a "gun culture". In fact, I wish that everyone at least be trained on the basics of gun safety (which will likely never see the light of day with today's "anti-gun" movement.)
so your saying that at Sandy Hook Elementary that more kids would be alive if he had 10 round magazines?
Just to be clear... I never said that. In fact, I disagree with the quote's premise and was merely putting it there to provide a "TL;DR" for the person that didn't read the article.
Obviously, you'd also print it in Pink or Bright Orange so that it looked like a toy.
They haven't "forgotten" about it (well, most poeple have, but still...) They just didn't have the Internet to broadcast it to the world and cause a stir. This was discussed yesterday: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/01/14/1753253/how-the-internet-makes-the-improbable-into-the-new-normal
That's why concealed carry exists. The gunner wouldn't know who had a gun.
I always like hearing this argument (about Military might) ... if anything were to happen on a big enough scale, some of those people will be ex-military and some of those military will question the shooting of "fellow Americans." Even though you are taught to believe that our troops are programmed robots who will shot whatever they are told, it's simply not true. Granted, it would be a matter of scale issue. They will not think twice about a small uprising in a compound in Texas, but if it happens on a greater scale the outcome will be civil war with hardware on both sides.
Makes me wonder how it would impact these events if we just allowed assisted suicide.
But it is legal to make 30 round magazines at home... Hell, I can make a thousand round magazine if I really wanted to. I just can't sell it.
Clips refer to the bent metal piece used to hold several rounds together but are not fully enclosed. ( ex: http://www.zib-militaria.de/WebRoot/Store8/Shops/61431412/48C1/1864/62AB/9010/85F2/C0A8/28BD/B650/792.jpg ) These were commonly used in older rifles like the M1 Garand.
It's stated in the article. They assume that since some previous gun incidents have been stopped when the gunman had to reload that limiting the amount you can fire off will allow someone to be a hero and tackle the gunman.
Horwitz points out that Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was tackled while attempting to reload a new magazine into his Glock handgun. And police say that Newtown, Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza may have allowed some of his victims to escape while he reloaded his smaller clips.
This is my first thought. People are all up in arms about something that happened in another side of the country (and in some cases, the world) but had these events happened 15-20 years ago it would not have made the uproar that they do today. People assume they are commonplace events and some may even try to imitate those acts. It's a growing phase we, as human beings, are going through. Open communication brings good and bad things. We have to learn to self filter when geography no longer filters for us.
I'm typing this on a Nexus 10 tablet, which uses a gorilla glass capacitive screen.
These touch screens are nothing like the old pen or push driven touch screens that have a layer of visually intrusive technology to enable touch. In fact, this may be the best looking display in my house at this time. I can honestly say that for a touch added device, there's no visual impact at all.