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On the topic of ethanol in fuel... some new studies have shown conclusively that it costs MORE in terms of energy to burn ethanol than regular gasoline.-Renegade (May 06, 2014, 04:21 PM)
So I'm really confused what they think the magic bullet tech concept in this is.-TaoPhoenix (May 06, 2014, 09:10 AM)
Then you return to Vurbal's aforementioned mountain of stupid. (But look, it's the *next mountain over* now! Cue "Climb every mountain!"-TaoPhoenix (May 05, 2014, 08:32 PM)
They look more like a Space Invaders player-ship to me.another vote for 'the Space Invaders player-ship keys'-Deozaan (May 05, 2014, 01:41 PM)
Random help file:To navigate within the file, use the the Space Invaders player-ship keys. [.....]-tomos (May 05, 2014, 03:13 PM)
Directional arrows: Up, down, right, left. "inverted T" seems an unusual way to put it. (To me, anyway!) Is that a common tech term?-J-Mac (May 04, 2014, 10:41 PM)
Sorry, Jim...that term really isn't popular these days. Didn't mean to confuse....-Innuendo (May 05, 2014, 07:16 AM)
Good thing you didn't say "reverse Tau" like I've heard some geeks and 1337-wannabes call it.-40hz (May 05, 2014, 08:20 AM)
About 300,000 of those are donationcoder forum alert emails -- i have written before about how i use emails as a low-tech backup system (in addition to the other redundant backup systems in place on DC) -- anytime a post is made, the post is emailed to me.-mouser (April 24, 2014, 07:53 PM)
Bloody bugger, Mouser!
Speaking as a 'systems' person, that's insane doing that!
-40hz (May 04, 2014, 12:53 PM)
@cyberdiva This may be of interest. http://krebsonsecuri...ash-player-zero-day/Windows users who browse the Web with anything other than Internet Explorer will need to apply this patch twice, once with IE and again using the alternative browser (Firefox, Opera, e.g.).
Being clueless (just kiddin 40) I don't know how trustworthy this is.-crabby3 (May 03, 2014, 10:20 AM)
If it makes it through the week without a showstopper it'll be my new default browser for Nix.-40hz (March 24, 2014, 11:43 AM)
She makes a scary point about how the act of just trying to avoid being tracked makes you appear immoral or criminal. And that right there is a problem.-Deozaan (May 02, 2014, 04:53 PM)
This reminds me of some research I was doing for school that showed that if a person does *not* have a social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) people view that person as suspicious and as someone who has something to hide. Furthermore, employers look upon that employee (or potential employee) as someone who hasn't kept up with the times and that person is less desirable as an employee.
It's a brave, new world, Mr. Huxley.-Innuendo (May 02, 2014, 09:54 PM)
At least two things about that Gyration keyboard would really bother me:
The Fn key is in the wrong place. Ctrl should always be on the outside.
No numpad.-Deozaan (May 03, 2014, 01:42 AM)
I don't understand why people keep calling this a Windows XP update. It's not. It uses the "Microsoft Update" automated update system to update a Microsoft product, namely IE. It's not an update to XP. It's an update to IE.-Deozaan (May 02, 2014, 01:49 PM)
Because that's not as funny? Nor as interesting. It would just be run of the mill logic...-wraith808 (May 02, 2014, 02:37 PM)
Wondering is there any way of easily checking what updates are installed? (in Win7, they show you a nice list after updating/rebooting, but I dont know how to access that)-tomos (May 02, 2014, 10:34 AM)
(Ah! The good Ol' days)When I was a mechanic I think the customer car I test drove I wanted to own the most was a '71 Camaro LT. That thing was nice. Really deep bucket seats. Sharp body styling. Big engine. And of course rack & pinion steering. I didn't get to drive it very far. But I could tell it handled flat as well as looked cool. Just taking it around the block was fun.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2014, 04:29 PM)
Where have we gone so wrong?
Oh and the E10 thing is a load of crap too. How exactly am I protecting the environment when I have to burn significantly more fuel to get from point A to point B when using E10 compared to straight gas.-SeraphimLabs (May 01, 2014, 12:56 PM)
btw I used to have a '68 charger. But it only had a 318 2 bbl. No sub 5 second 0-60s for me.-MilesAhead (May 01, 2014, 02:31 PM)
There's a big difference when you build something for a purpose vs. build for a buck.-Renegade (May 01, 2014, 09:11 AM)
WARNING: YOU MAY PEE YOUR PANTS...
http://www.techdirt....on-photocopier.shtml
-Renegade (May 01, 2014, 07:47 AM)
Update:
Below is what we thought as of 12:27pm UTC. To verify our belief we crowd sourced the investigation. It turns out we were wrong. While it takes effort, it is possible to extract private SSL keys. The challenge was solved by Software Engineer Fedor Indutny and Ilkka Mattila at NCSC-FI roughly 9 hours after the challenge was first published. Fedor sent 2.5 million requests over the course of the day and Ilkka sent around 100K requests. Our recommendation based on this finding is that everyone reissue and revoke their private keys. CloudFlare has accelerated this effort on behalf of the customers whose SSL keys we manage. You can read more here.-The Article
"We just issue the things, we don't track them."-TaoPhoenix (April 30, 2014, 01:28 AM)
^ That guy. I want to steal his stapler. (This is starting to remind me of that one fellow in "The Office".)-Renegade (May 01, 2014, 07:49 AM)
Because even grouchy network/IT types like Stoic and me can be dead wrong about the seriousness of things like this. And just because we aren't overly concerned about something doesn't mean it can't be a very serious threat. So please don't hesitate to share anything you think may be of interest here.-40hz (April 30, 2014, 11:06 AM)
Shades of the tablet mindset and overall hubris that drove Win8/Metro! (And mostly into the ground AFAIC.)
Did Mozilla hire Sinofsky or something?-40hz (April 30, 2014, 09:40 AM)
The Firefox button is gone. It has been replaced with what web designers call a Hamburger button-GHacks
Finger friendly... can't speak for everyone but I am pretty sure that most people aren't going to be touching their (desktop) screens or laptop screens, especially in enterprise/business environment (since Megabytes does cater to that market as well).-Cloq (April 29, 2014, 11:26 AM)
It appears XP users are basically screwed.-crabby3 (April 29, 2014, 09:31 AM)
Microsoft Races To Fix Massive Internet Explorer Hack: No Fix For Windows XP Leaves 1 In 4 PCs Exposed-Forbes
FireEye also revealed a sophisticated hacker group has already been exploiting the flaw in a campaign dubbed ‘Operation Clandestine Fox’, which targets US military and financial institutions.-Forbes
FireEye spokesman Vitor De Souza declined to name the hackers or potential victims as the investigation is ongoing, only telling Reuters: “It’s unclear what the motives of this attack group are at this point. It appears to be broad-spectrum intel gathering.”-Forbes
I'll just go with world domination by the NSA here ... It's what everybody with any sense is thinking already anyhow.For its part Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the flaw in an official post. It gave limited information on the bug, but admitted “an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.”-Forbes
A Temporary Fix
While Microsoft rushes to fix the bug, FireEye gave concerned users two workarounds .
1. Use another web browser other than Internet Explorer
2. Disable Adobe Flash. “The attack will not work without Adobe Flash,” it said. “Disabling the Flash plugin within IE will prevent the exploit from functioning.”-Forbes
