Slashdot is a news site. We don't need to be notified every time something exists for 10 years. Unless this "encrypting traffic" thing is new in OpenSSH v5.3
Seems to me that you'd run into circulation problems. The pulse of overpressure helps push past tight spots and helps circulation. Also a continuous flow might disrupt parts of you used to alternately stretching and relaxing, like maybe glands or something that use blood pressure as a pumping mechanism?
Also it would be interesting to see any mental effects caused by the different rhythm of blood flow.
Linux has less low-hanging crapware for the plucking than Windows, but that's no reason to switch. If she switches for that reason then she still hasn't addressed the underlying problem of clicking YES YES YES YES to everything, and it's going to screw her over in Linux land eventually.
You're right though, it's easier than he makes it sound. Just go to the parent folder, hit Search, type *.xml, drag and drop. At least, that works in XP's lovely filename search. I don't trust the weird semantic desktop meta-search in Vista or Windows 7. XP's was snappy and clean:(
I found even better ones.. a staggering 26000x26000! I can't find an image viewer that displays them properly without crashing X.. even feh won't take it
I thought the same thing. This isn't a particularly impressive resolution for such a large subject. Check out the kind of detail we get of the earth: 21600 by 10800 pixels!
Yes, operating systems should periodically pop up cryptic dialogues asking you to solve an obscure computer science problem, and if you get it wrong then it changes your wallpaper and your file type associations.
There's no reason to make it harder than it has to be, which is what Apple's doing by presenting users with an option they didn't ask for and don't know how to answer.
This was a stupid move and Apple's not as innocent as you claim. Defaulting the box to checked is almost equivalent to installing it without consent and Apple knows it. In both cases you end up with users loaded down with crap they don't need and distrusting updates, which has real dollar costs. The only difference is that in the former case the tech crowd squeals a little less, so that's the route they choose.
Honestly, even if they were really stupid enough to not see any problem when they did it the first time, they have no excuse for doing it a second time. Why would they put it out and then withdraw it a few hours later? Did they forget the user backlash from the first time?
A shell is a very powerful tool (one that I can't live without) but a common view is that Windows is great because it provides a pretty, easy graphical frontend to everything and doesn't need a shell. Installing a Windows web server is as easy as checking a little box that says IIS and flipping through an intuitive configuration applet with checkboxes and helpful explanations. When I first discovered that I could install IIS as a Windows component I went through the configuration and was amazed at how easy it all was. God help you if you're a newbie trying to figure out Apache configuration.
Yes I know how much better Apache is for various reasons; I'm not trying to claim otherwise. But as a matter of philosophy, Microsoft boldly claims "You will never need a shell" and a lot of people rejoice.
47 pounds?! Hope you live next door to the factory because it'll cost more to ship than to build.
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I looked up what he's talking about if anyone's curious.
Apparently tempered safety glass is made to explode into tiny fragments when broken. A small shard of a very hard material will cut the glass and shatter the entire window. The classic thing to use is a piece of porcelain from the capacitor in a spark plug. There are youtube videos of people throwing that little hunk of ceramic at tempered glass and it shatters.
What if you use it on a bridge or a highway ramp or a road with no shoulder? Coming to a stop in the middle of traffic is certainly dangerous. Extremely dangerous if it's on a curve and drivers only have a few seconds to react (that they may be spending fumbling with the radio or their phone or their GPS). You just killed a man for tailgating.
Have you thought this through for half a second? If they're willing to do something illegal and dangerous (tailgating) to you to get you to go faster, what's to keep them from stalling YOUR engine so that you have to pull over and get out of their way?
There is some question as to whether this magnitude of response is legally justifiable self-defence against their threat, but it's certainly a plausible level.
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High speed trains don't burn gasoline
Well the $4.7 billion would come from the federal government.
No, it's more like these two Dresden Codak strips:
Dungeons and Discourse
Advanced Dungeons and Discourse
Slashdot is a news site. We don't need to be notified every time something exists for 10 years. Unless this "encrypting traffic" thing is new in OpenSSH v5.3
I thought that if you just send them a counter-notification then the burden of proof is on the party who wants it removed.
Seems to me that you'd run into circulation problems. The pulse of overpressure helps push past tight spots and helps circulation. Also a continuous flow might disrupt parts of you used to alternately stretching and relaxing, like maybe glands or something that use blood pressure as a pumping mechanism?
Also it would be interesting to see any mental effects caused by the different rhythm of blood flow.
Linux has less low-hanging crapware for the plucking than Windows, but that's no reason to switch. If she switches for that reason then she still hasn't addressed the underlying problem of clicking YES YES YES YES to everything, and it's going to screw her over in Linux land eventually.
Great job, AC, summarizing that summary and all. I can see your MIT education really pays for itself.
Thanks a lot, it totally trashed my windows 95 installation :(
And what, use a fresh drive image every time you boot up the virtual machine?
It's still the same problem except it's possible to detect virtual rootkits from the host OS.
You're right though, it's easier than he makes it sound. Just go to the parent folder, hit Search, type *.xml, drag and drop. At least, that works in XP's lovely filename search. I don't trust the weird semantic desktop meta-search in Vista or Windows 7. XP's was snappy and clean :(
Each xml file is in its own folder.
I found even better ones.. a staggering 26000x26000! I can't find an image viewer that displays them properly without crashing X.. even feh won't take it
I thought the same thing. This isn't a particularly impressive resolution for such a large subject. Check out the kind of detail we get of the earth: 21600 by 10800 pixels!
Yes, operating systems should periodically pop up cryptic dialogues asking you to solve an obscure computer science problem, and if you get it wrong then it changes your wallpaper and your file type associations.
There's no reason to make it harder than it has to be, which is what Apple's doing by presenting users with an option they didn't ask for and don't know how to answer.
Defending Apple? In my slashdot?
This was a stupid move and Apple's not as innocent as you claim. Defaulting the box to checked is almost equivalent to installing it without consent and Apple knows it. In both cases you end up with users loaded down with crap they don't need and distrusting updates, which has real dollar costs. The only difference is that in the former case the tech crowd squeals a little less, so that's the route they choose.
Honestly, even if they were really stupid enough to not see any problem when they did it the first time, they have no excuse for doing it a second time. Why would they put it out and then withdraw it a few hours later? Did they forget the user backlash from the first time?
A shell is a very powerful tool (one that I can't live without) but a common view is that Windows is great because it provides a pretty, easy graphical frontend to everything and doesn't need a shell. Installing a Windows web server is as easy as checking a little box that says IIS and flipping through an intuitive configuration applet with checkboxes and helpful explanations. When I first discovered that I could install IIS as a Windows component I went through the configuration and was amazed at how easy it all was. God help you if you're a newbie trying to figure out Apache configuration.
Yes I know how much better Apache is for various reasons; I'm not trying to claim otherwise. But as a matter of philosophy, Microsoft boldly claims "You will never need a shell" and a lot of people rejoice.
Am I the only one who read all these parent posts in the voice of the middle woman in the video?
And is it just me or are they written conversation-style mimicking the pacing of the video?
47 pounds?! Hope you live next door to the factory because it'll cost more to ship than to build.
I looked up what he's talking about if anyone's curious.
Apparently tempered safety glass is made to explode into tiny fragments when broken. A small shard of a very hard material will cut the glass and shatter the entire window. The classic thing to use is a piece of porcelain from the capacitor in a spark plug. There are youtube videos of people throwing that little hunk of ceramic at tempered glass and it shatters.
There are much better autotune videos out there:
Auto-Tune the News #2
I Was Like Um
Corneas? Unlikely. Pacemakers? Likely.
If you think reckless drivers are dangerous, try dead drivers.
Oh please, people indicate that they're in a hurry by driving faster, not by blocking unsafe drivers behind them to make the roads safer.
What if you use it on a bridge or a highway ramp or a road with no shoulder? Coming to a stop in the middle of traffic is certainly dangerous. Extremely dangerous if it's on a curve and drivers only have a few seconds to react (that they may be spending fumbling with the radio or their phone or their GPS). You just killed a man for tailgating.
Have you thought this through for half a second? If they're willing to do something illegal and dangerous (tailgating) to you to get you to go faster, what's to keep them from stalling YOUR engine so that you have to pull over and get out of their way?
Preposterous
What could possibly go wrong?