I am surprised this has not surfaced before. Every piece of technology can be hacked if given enough time and access. The only way to remain secure is to stay ahead of the hackers. FTFA: The attack theory is significant because it has long been considered impossible to access PINs as they are traveling through the ATM network without the encryption key used by the card-issuing bank. I am really quite surprised that it was considered "impossible" to hack for so long.
The "dirty thirty" professors are all liberal. The man who started the website is conservative and said in a statemeent to the "Daily Bruin" (UCLA's daily newspaper) that he does not think that the conservative professors would do somethign like this. Read all about it on the
Daily Bruin Online. Many people have been making fun of the site. Although the letter is not online Friday's Daily Bruin included a letter to the editor from a professor asking to be added to the list.
Yes but when you go in to buy your one iPod and you don't have to wait in the huge holiday lines to get it, that is helpfull. When i was in last week they were letting you check out other items with the eastpay as well as iPods so the line was moving quite quickly. They don't let you pay with anything other than credit card though, no Apple gift cards etc.
Apple will also not let you have two extensions with out specifically allowing it each time. When you try to add a second extension it will ask "changing this extension will effect how this file is opened, do you want to use.123.456 or both.123.456?" In any file with two extensions the extensions are always shown. And you can see the meta data in file get info as well as each time you click on the file, but don't open it. In the next column of the finder screen it pops up name file size extension date created and date modified, and if it is a program version number. Add to this the fact that every time you open an application for the first time (even safari, iTunes, etc) it tells you that you are opening a new application and asks for you permission to continue. If all this doesn't keep the virus from you, you deserve it.
I think he is saying that they could restrict it more and it would be ok. I agree having to be accountable for your edits would go a long way towards legitimacy and acceptance. It is not like it is hard to create an account.
The second story is interesting too. On page two they talk about Adam Curry deleting references to other people's work on pod casting and bogging. He deleted Kevin Marks's accomplishments and largely credited himself more. A way to weed out conflict of interest is needed for wikipedia. Over all the author of the article makes wikipedia look bad and almost malicious. Why can't people accept this as an information source?
The flaw is in IE not google desktop. Google desktop was just the program he used to test his findings. From the origonal article (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1895579,00.a sp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614):
Gillon used the Google Desktop utility to prove his findings, but in theory, any domain or application that depends on the IE cross-domain security model is vulnerable.
"Thousands of Web sites can be exploited, and there isn't a simple solution against this attack at least until IE is fixed," Gillon said.
This whole article is a misunderstanding. The French's press release in English was just poorly worded. When the original text is looked at it is obvious that the French are only instituting a DMCA of their own (sucks!). They are also banning open source software that is used to pirate. This is what we should really be complaining about. See article on techdirt for details. http://techdirt.com/articles/20051202/1451240_F.sh tml
The newest powerbooks do have a brighter screen with higher resolution http://www.apple.com/powerbook/ the previous generation screen is also pretty bright. I have never had a problem with the screen and it automatically dims in darker light so you don't have to stare at a bright screen.
This post has a fundamental problem. A gas water heater is the kind that heats water up and holds it hot. The electric water heater is the one that heats water up as it is needed. The limitation of the electric heater is that it can't process large amounts of water at once leading to luke warm water. The limitation of the gas water heater is that it wastes energy keeping water hot all the time and that it can run out and takes a long time to refill. This is an improvement on the electric heater. It can heat larger amounts of water at a time meaning that the water will always be hot with out wasting energy when it is not needed.
There is no reason to get three tickets. BART Muni and the bus system all offer a join monthly pass. Get a montly pass for $35 http://198.94.156.9/Muni/fares.html this allows unlimited transportation on muni, busses and bart. It looks just like a bart ticket so you can insert it into the ticket machine but if you flash it to bus or muni drivers they let you on. It is a real deal and the only way to go if you commute in the city.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bay-area-rapid-transi t
In 2004 Bart was named the best transportation system in America. It is now printed on the side of every BART car. BART is pretty damn good, I moved to LA and miss it all the time, just you wait till you move away and have to deal with crappy public transportation systems. Bart goes to many places and covers a wide area, in SF it stops frequently and goes to many major destinations making it easy to use.
It has never been a problem for me on Bart before. The only problem is that we lose signal all the time now we won't have to keep calling back after drop outs.
They haven't won that contract yet and the Wi-Fi Google is planning on supplying will be slower than 56k dial up; practically useless. We need fast or at least not terribly slow Wi-Fi.
Not true, it is easy to fall asleep on BART. It is not any noisier than a subway. We have cell phone conversations when above ground all the time and are annoyed when the train goes under.
Also, will it just be the stations or the underground tubes (transbay, Caldecott, etc.) also?
This is a necessity. It is always a problem with BART. Now the best transportation system in America will also be wireless. All they need now is to add Wi-Fi, which is also sorely needed.
No, "Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple, slightly" explains leap years, daylight savings time,
Leap year exists because the earth takes 365.2422 days to orbit around the sun. This is number is ridiculously too complicated to use so a system was created in which a day is added every four years to make up for the lost.2422 days.
In the Gregorian calendar, which is the calendar used by most modern countries (the USA), the following rules decides which years are leap years:
1. Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year.
2. But every year divisible by 100 is NOT a leap year
3. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, then it is still a leap year.
These rules account for the calendar to never be to far out of whack. Interestingly the year 2000 (which was a leap year) is the first time the third rule has been used since the creation of this system.
Daylight saving time was thought up by Ben Franklin in 1784, to make the most of our daylight. This allows the time to fit the sun. The idea of time zones and day light savings time is to have the middle of the day occur at noon. Studies have show that daylight savings time saving electricity due to less lights in the evenings.
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.
Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable.
So, neither day light saving time nor leap years are explained by this time space distortion caused by earth's gravitational effect and explained by Einstein. Although Einstein supported day light saving time. They are policies thought up by humans to fix / modify a system thought up by humans and not based on any physical properties.
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I thought the OLPC project had definativly decided to be open source so that no company would have control.
Is there any word on when these might be avialable for general production?
I am surprised this has not surfaced before. Every piece of technology can be hacked if given enough time and access. The only way to remain secure is to stay ahead of the hackers. FTFA: The attack theory is significant because it has long been considered impossible to access PINs as they are traveling through the ATM network without the encryption key used by the card-issuing bank. I am really quite surprised that it was considered "impossible" to hack for so long.
You can't get away from e-mail. It is even killing of blue postal service mail boxes.
The "dirty thirty" professors are all liberal. The man who started the website is conservative and said in a statemeent to the "Daily Bruin" (UCLA's daily newspaper) that he does not think that the conservative professors would do somethign like this. Read all about it on the Daily Bruin Online. Many people have been making fun of the site. Although the letter is not online Friday's Daily Bruin included a letter to the editor from a professor asking to be added to the list.
Yes but when you go in to buy your one iPod and you don't have to wait in the huge holiday lines to get it, that is helpfull. When i was in last week they were letting you check out other items with the eastpay as well as iPods so the line was moving quite quickly. They don't let you pay with anything other than credit card though, no Apple gift cards etc.
It would detect duplicates easily. If the same liscence plate is in two places at once then one is a duplicate and the other is legit.
Apple will also not let you have two extensions with out specifically allowing it each time. When you try to add a second extension it will ask "changing this extension will effect how this file is opened, do you want to use .123 .456 or both .123.456?" In any file with two extensions the extensions are always shown. And you can see the meta data in file get info as well as each time you click on the file, but don't open it. In the next column of the finder screen it pops up name file size extension date created and date modified, and if it is a program version number. Add to this the fact that every time you open an application for the first time (even safari, iTunes, etc) it tells you that you are opening a new application and asks for you permission to continue. If all this doesn't keep the virus from you, you deserve it.
I think he is saying that they could restrict it more and it would be ok. I agree having to be accountable for your edits would go a long way towards legitimacy and acceptance. It is not like it is hard to create an account.
The second story is interesting too. On page two they talk about Adam Curry deleting references to other people's work on pod casting and bogging. He deleted Kevin Marks's accomplishments and largely credited himself more. A way to weed out conflict of interest is needed for wikipedia. Over all the author of the article makes wikipedia look bad and almost malicious. Why can't people accept this as an information source?
The flaw is in IE not google desktop. Google desktop was just the program he used to test his findings. From the origonal article (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1895579,00.a sp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614):
Gillon used the Google Desktop utility to prove his findings, but in theory, any domain or application that depends on the IE cross-domain security model is vulnerable.
"Thousands of Web sites can be exploited, and there isn't a simple solution against this attack at least until IE is fixed," Gillon said.
This whole article is a misunderstanding. The French's press release in English was just poorly worded. When the original text is looked at it is obvious that the French are only instituting a DMCA of their own (sucks!). They are also banning open source software that is used to pirate. This is what we should really be complaining about. See article on techdirt for details. http://techdirt.com/articles/20051202/1451240_F.sh tml
The newest powerbooks do have a brighter screen with higher resolution http://www.apple.com/powerbook/ the previous generation screen is also pretty bright. I have never had a problem with the screen and it automatically dims in darker light so you don't have to stare at a bright screen.
This post has a fundamental problem. A gas water heater is the kind that heats water up and holds it hot. The electric water heater is the one that heats water up as it is needed. The limitation of the electric heater is that it can't process large amounts of water at once leading to luke warm water. The limitation of the gas water heater is that it wastes energy keeping water hot all the time and that it can run out and takes a long time to refill. This is an improvement on the electric heater. It can heat larger amounts of water at a time meaning that the water will always be hot with out wasting energy when it is not needed.
There is no reason to get three tickets. BART Muni and the bus system all offer a join monthly pass. Get a montly pass for $35 http://198.94.156.9/Muni/fares.html this allows unlimited transportation on muni, busses and bart. It looks just like a bart ticket so you can insert it into the ticket machine but if you flash it to bus or muni drivers they let you on. It is a real deal and the only way to go if you commute in the city.
http://www.answers.com/topic/bay-area-rapid-transi t
In 2004 Bart was named the best transportation system in America. It is now printed on the side of every BART car. BART is pretty damn good, I moved to LA and miss it all the time, just you wait till you move away and have to deal with crappy public transportation systems. Bart goes to many places and covers a wide area, in SF it stops frequently and goes to many major destinations making it easy to use.
It has never been a problem for me on Bart before. The only problem is that we lose signal all the time now we won't have to keep calling back after drop outs.
They haven't won that contract yet and the Wi-Fi Google is planning on supplying will be slower than 56k dial up; practically useless. We need fast or at least not terribly slow Wi-Fi.
Not true, it is easy to fall asleep on BART. It is not any noisier than a subway. We have cell phone conversations when above ground all the time and are annoyed when the train goes under. Also, will it just be the stations or the underground tubes (transbay, Caldecott, etc.) also?
This is a necessity. It is always a problem with BART. Now the best transportation system in America will also be wireless. All they need now is to add Wi-Fi, which is also sorely needed.
No, "Our planet spins, and the spin should twist the dimple, slightly" explains leap years, daylight savings time, Leap year exists because the earth takes 365.2422 days to orbit around the sun. This is number is ridiculously too complicated to use so a system was created in which a day is added every four years to make up for the lost .2422 days.
In the Gregorian calendar, which is the calendar used by most modern countries (the USA), the following rules decides which years are leap years:
1. Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year.
2. But every year divisible by 100 is NOT a leap year
3. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, then it is still a leap year.
These rules account for the calendar to never be to far out of whack. Interestingly the year 2000 (which was a leap year) is the first time the third rule has been used since the creation of this system.
Daylight saving time was thought up by Ben Franklin in 1784, to make the most of our daylight. This allows the time to fit the sun. The idea of time zones and day light savings time is to have the middle of the day occur at noon. Studies have show that daylight savings time saving electricity due to less lights in the evenings.
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.
Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable.
So, neither day light saving time nor leap years are explained by this time space distortion caused by earth's gravitational effect and explained by Einstein. Although Einstein supported day light saving time. They are policies thought up by humans to fix / modify a system thought up by humans and not based on any physical properties.
FYI Amazon's A9 uses Google to get search results, it just uses a different interface and provides features like online bookmarks and search history.