Obscure?

This bug was found by a google security team, and this was possible since they (and everyone else) has full access to the Linux source code.
Windows on the other hand is a closed source operating system. It might have (and has) tons of undiscovered bugs that would be easier to spot and remedy if people like google, IBM, you or me had the source code for it. Microsoft's stance is that their operating system is safer if no one has the source code for it. That is the very definition of security through obscurity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

You can argue all day which one is more secure, windows or Linux, but saying that Linux uses security though obscurity is simply uneducated.

The third password works just like the first one, with one small exception: it destroys all the files on the "specials" list, or manipulates them in such a way as to make them look innocuous.

This will never work. Any computer forensics expert worth her name would ever try and decrypt the files using your computer or binaries. She would:

1. Mirror your drive for a working copy
2. Mount the mirror read only
3. Run her own binaries which never destroy data
4. Decrypt the data to her own drive, not to yours

You can never, through cryptography, make other (competent) people's computers do tasks (such as deleting files) for you.

But what if you encrypt the USB stick! ...wait

I didn't RTFA but wouldn't everyone fall into one of the categories? I mean, it sounds like the system does just that: puts the player in one of the categories.

Sorry, wrong link.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7183/fontu.png

I did a little comparison between Mac OS X and Ubuntu.

Both machines have the default settings for fonts. I have just enabled subpixel smoothing in Ubuntu, no tweaking whatsoever.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7023/fontx.png

My thoughts about the results:

Spacing: The spacing on OS X is obviously tighter than on the Ubuntu machine. I think that the Ubuntu font is too wide, but I also think that the OS X font is too narrow.

Kerning: Both fonts seem evenly spaced and do a pretty good job in this area.

Subpixel smoothing: Here I think that the default ubuntu settings outperform the OS X settings. The OS X renders the font way to blurry for my taste. Ubuntu utilizes the subpixels heavily to create really crisp-looking text.

As a side note I must say that OS X has a lot more of the "durp, fuzz some gray in there!"-tendencies you mentioned in your previous post.

I can also mention that I think Ubuntu usually does a better job with serif fonts than sans serif. I haven't tried this on OS X.

All this is of course highly subjective.

Both KDE and Gnome use the FreeType library for font rendering (through other libs, eg. pango).

FreeType has full support for subpixel rendering and renders fonts beautifully on my LCD monitor.

Subpixel smoothing is in most distributions, just like on windows, turned off by default since the technique requires an LCD screen to function properly.

To turn on subpixel smoothing of fonts in Ubuntu (9.04)
Go to System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts
and select "Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)".

You can also tweak the subpixel hinting settings for your display and to your liking by clicking the "Details..." button.

I've put my windows computer to sleep too.

Seriously. Windows XP is not intuitive. You're confusing the fact that you know where stuff is because you've used Windows XP since 2001, with the OS being intuitive.

People always hate new windows versions, because stuff isn't "where it's supposed to be" (ie. where it always has been, even if it makes no sense).

What makes the switch from XP to Vista more painful than other version switches is because of the big release gap between XP and Vista (XP - 2001, Vista - 2007). People have simply gotten too used (more so than before) to the XP interface.

Bottom line: Windows Vista is not an exceptionally bad version of windows, and Windows 7/XP is not an exceptionally good version of windows. They're all pretty much a bit better than the previous version in most areas. It's all about marketing.

For the record, it works in Jaunty ;)

Worms has been "rebooted" and released for the Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network and iPhone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_(2007_video_game)

Wait, are you saying that when you turn your cable box off, and the TV shows a black picture (but still is very much on), your girlfriend considers it off? If so, your TV is on pretty much 24/7 (ie. when you're not reading a book). I hope it isn't so. That would be a terrible waste of energy.

Or do you mean that you turn it "hard" off, instead of just stand by on the remote? If your TV is making noises when it's in stand by you should probably throw it out. Sounds like something that could start a fire.

Bring on the genetically improved übermensch, the smarter-than-us AIs, the better-than-normal-limbs prosthetics, the longevity research, the clones. Everything.
I want a metallic right arm, a camera for an eye, a CPU in my head, augmented reality vision, live to see my 200:th birthday and go to freaking space!

What's wrong with having robots do boring tasks for us while we're doing something fun and/or useful? Hell, isn't that the whole point?

When I'm signing my next VISA receipt It'll look something like this:

1 Guinness .... $5

Total .............. $5

Tip:
$ 2^63

Sign here

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