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In other, unrelated news, a certificate authority was compromised and it's taken months before customers were able to protect themselves. Meanwhile, the government who profited from the breach continues to smile, wave, while Microsoft complies with its request to not invalidate its unethically-obtained certificates for its own citizens.
What's not news and should be: Why the hell we're not moving to ipv6 and telling these corporations to eat a bag of dicks, and our privacy and security is not for sale anymor
I'm not sure the parent post should really be moderated up, as it is now, since it seems to be reasonably misinformed.
Firstly, Microsoft has invalidated the cert (at least to my knowledge).
Secondly, it is not at all clear how moving to ipv6 tells the corporations to eat a bag of dicks while informing them that our data is not for sale anymore. The concepts (ipv6, dicks, and our data) all seem mutually exclusive.
Firstly, Microsoft has invalidated the cert (at least to my knowledge).
Your knowledge is incorrect [google.nl]. At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft deliberately did NOT patch its systems from that country... until several weeks later when the government's request was made public and they retracted their request.
Secondly, it is not at all clear how moving to ipv6 tells the corporations to eat a bag of dicks
Perhaps not to you, but to the rest of us who have read the standard... end to end encryption means no man in the middle attacks, no certificate authorities, etc. Every organization has access to its own key in DNS, and if someone tries to replace it, anyone who has c
Firstly, Microsoft has invalidated the cert (at least to my knowledge).
Your knowledge is incorrect [google.nl]. At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft deliberately did NOT patch its systems from that country... until several weeks later when the government's request was made public and they retracted their request.
But Microsoft HAS pulled the cert, whereas your comment was written as if they have not yet done so. And my knowledge of this is not incorrect unless you are still implying that Microsoft has yet to invalidate those certs.
Secondly, it is not at all clear how moving to ipv6 tells the corporations to eat a bag of dicks
Perhaps not to you, but to the rest of us who have read the standard... end to end encryption means no man in the middle attacks, no certificate authorities, etc. Every organization has access to its own key in DNS, and if someone tries to replace it, anyone who has connected to it previously would know.
It does not mean no man in the middle attacks. Even with IPSec you still have to trust, whether you are trusting a CA or the DNS, you are still trusting. If your ISP is your DNS provider, and they are also the best positioned to implement MITM attacks, then unless you have a shared secr
IPv6 security options can give you end-to-end encryption similar to what IPSEC gives you, if you always turn it on.
End to end encryption means that nobody can eavesdrop on connections that you've set up to the party on the far end. If that party is actually the party you think they are, and they're somebody you should trust, that's a Good Thing - if they're a Man In The Middle, you lose (though it reduces the number of ankle-biters who might be trying to eavesdrop on you, and it's kind of comforting to know that your credit card is only being stolen by the Russian Mafia and not by the other people in the coffee shop with you.)
End to End Encryption doesn't give you a way to authenticate connections to people you don't already know. That's a job for certification authorities, or somebody doing a similar job. If you do already know the party at the other end, and have an authenticated connection of some kind (like a pre-shared key or a SecureID token or a courier with a briefcase handcuffed to his arm or a yellow sticky note or a PGP key on a business card that somebody who wasn't an impostor handed you ), end-to-end encryption systems can do things like Diffie-Hellman key exchange to bootstrap that into a full connection.
"Every organization has access to its own key in DNS" is an assertion about the DNS system, not the network or transport protocols. It sounds like you're thinking about DNSSEC, which _should_ have been deployed decades ago (but among other problems, they were blocked by the US ITAR anti-crypto mafiosi.) If DNSSEC had been deployed properly along with the DNS system, you could be sure that if you had the correct IP address for microsoft.com, you'd also have the correct public key for setting up connections to microsoft.com's web site, and if you have the correct IP address for m1cr0s0tf.com, you'd also have the correct public key for setting up connections to m1cr0s0tf.com, which might or might not be somebody you want to talk to.
Excellent spin. You should find an ambitious governor or lawyer to work for.
At the request of the Dutch government, Microsoft deliberately did NOT patch its systems from that country
Both Mozilla and Microsoft received a request from the Dutch government not to remove the Staat Der Nederlanden root, of which DigiNotar was a CSP. The rationale was based on two mitigating factors:
- there was no evidence of fraudulent certificates issued under this root
- the Dutch citizens were not under immediate threat
Both Mozilla and Microsoft complied initially. Mozilla fucked up their whitelisting (only kept SdN root, removed
So what would you replace it with?
There are lots of problems with that.
Let's see:
It depends on the availability of a third party. SSL works fine with just the server you connect to, but for this you need to talk to the same set of servers for any certificate check. That makes it easy to block. Somebody doing MITM will just block you off Convergence, then you won't know if the self-signed cert is any good.
It doesn't do many of the duties of a CA. It will happily mark as valid a certificate for gma1l.com, with the metadata copied from the gma
The main benefit from this system is "trust agility". If someone hacks and obtains a root cert from Verisign, what are you (or the browser vendor) going to do? Keep the cert on the browser and risk being MITMed, or removing it and break half of encrypted websites? Diginotar was just a small CA, but what if a big one is hacked?
Convergence/Perspectives lets you have more than one notary verifying each cert, which means you won't break anything if you need to remove trust on one of them. By itself this makes it much better than the CA system, in my opinion.
The main benefit from this system is "trust agility". If someone hacks and obtains a root cert from Verisign, what are you (or the browser vendor) going to do? Keep the cert on the browser and risk being MITMed, or removing it and break half of encrypted websites? Diginotar was just a small CA, but what if a big one is hacked?
I suggested an alternative in an earlier article: Change to a system of having multiple CA signatures on a cert, so that a CA can revoke without invalidating a certificate. Eg, min 3 s
Yes, but the notaries are much less safe. A CA at least verifies that you control the domain/email address the cert is for, notaries don't even do that, let alone checking that the metadata is correct.
Maybe the existing ones don't, but you could perfectly have ones that do, and you could trust just those. Or have them with different trust levels.
Also, being able to untrust a notary is nice, but how do you know when you need to? It's a run your own if you want deal. I can imagine what will happen: enthusiastic people will set up their notary, forget about it 3 months later, and soon enough there will be lots of unmaintained ones. Your list of notaries will eventually include those running on a forgotten 486 in a closet, insecure multiuser systems, unreliable connections, and so on. Some of that can be policed intentionally, but security can't.
Anyone can run a CA too, doesn't mean most people will trust their signature. Why would you (or your browser's vendor) add some random guy's notary to the trust list?
One thing I like about Convergence is that I can ask it to validate the cert with n+1 notaries which I hope would make it more likely that a "faked" cert and MITM would create an alert at my end. This way, as long as I am using notaries in different countries, I should be able to detect if my country has forced some CA to create wildcard cert for them to listen in to my SSL traffic.
I don't mind the idea of it in general, I think it can be an useful tool for somebody who knows what's going on, and what the results those systems produce mean.
But I don't think they Covergence or Perspectives should replace the CA system. They can augment it, but they lack too many of the functions of a CA to be a good replacement.
It depends on the availability of a third party. SSL works fine with just the server you connect to, but for this you need to talk to the same set of servers for any certificate check. That makes it easy to block. Somebody doing MITM will just block you off Convergence, then you won't know if the self-signed cert is any good.
CA SSL requires "third party" net access for certificate revocation checks (OCSP).
That's a lot harder to abuse, though. Revocations are rare. A site that keeps using a revoked cert for very long is even rarer.
That CA SSL cert revocation using third parties is (as it's handled in most situations) susceptible to replay attack.
But to exploit that, you need to find a site that has something valuable, that's still using a compromised cert, to have the private key to that cert, and to replay OCSP. That's pretty t
What exactly is the threat model you're positing?
Somebody doing MITM will just block you off Convergence, then you won't know if the self-signed cert is any good.
You're on such a compromised net and you visit an HTTPS site...
And, anyway, this scenario assumes you can block the notaries. Anyone can run a notary. Not everyone has to publicize their notary.
Imagine I travel to an untrustworthy country. Let's say I go to China, and try to check my mail from there. Now, the government wants to know for whatever reason what I'm up to.
With the CA system, if they block OCSP that's not very significant for reasons I outlined before. They can block gmail.com, but then I can't get to my mail and never even send the password, so they don't
The worst thing they can do is to use their CA to emit a valid cert for gmail.com and spy on me that way. That is a big problem, but I can remove the chinese CA from my system. Certainly this isn't perfect at all, but workable to some extent.
Remove the Chinese CA? That idea is "trust agility". You're suggesting you have some ability to change who you trust with modifying browser CA lists. It's quite minimal, really:
Did you remove the Diginotar cert? Or did you wait for your browser or OS to get an updat
Remove the Chinese CA? That idea is "trust agility". You're suggesting you have some ability to change who you trust with modifying browser CA lists. It's quite minimal, really:
I didn't say it was perfect, my point here is that in a worst case situation, a CA system still can work acceptably, even if not in an user friendly manner or using the default settings.
Did you remove the Diginotar cert?
Yes, all of them
And what if the CA is someone like Verisign? Do you remove Verisign? And make a quarter of HTTPS co
I didn't say it was perfect, my point here is that in a worst case situation, a CA system still can work acceptably, even if not in an user friendly manner or using the default settings.
If we're getting down to the level of manually removing CAs, there's a lot of security inconvenience that's "acceptable".
... I'm advocating for multiple signatures
That would certainly be an improvement.
And did you know that Diginotar's website had been hacked as far back as 2 years ago?
I see the same problem existing with no
The current system is that your browser ships with a bunch of CA's listed in it, many of which are currently in business, and some of which are trustable, and some of which are random corporate leftovers run by shadowy anonymous figures, and if you're like most people you haven't bothered listing them (or if you did, it was years ago.) So from a technical standpoint, perhaps you're in deep trouble, but it's your own fault because you didn't look. See figure 1.
From a business/financial standpoint, it's different. Many of those CAs are run by reputable firms, whose business models are that they'll give a certificate to anybody who pays them $100 (or whatever the going rate is this year), and they'll certify that the payer's credit card was good, and maybe, just maybe, they'll only deliver the SSL certificate to an email address or web site that matches the keys they just certified, or do some similarly minimal level of validation. Some of the CAs, of course, require more documentation, charge more money, and provide methods for a user to validate one of their certificates other than using it and seeing if their browser flagged it. But not everybody uses those CAs - Microsoft.com probably does, and Microsfot.cm probably doesn't. So from a business/financial standpoint, you're in sort of the same condition you were in in the previous paragraph, except that you can rely on the financial guarantees that the CA gave you, the user of a browser that trusted their certificate, unless you didn't pay them anything, in which case you should also see figure 1.
Back to technology, there's the problem of whether a certificate is still good. That's backed by three things, expiration dates on the certificates, ability to validate a certificate chain, and revocation lists that the CAs provide to deal with the problem of certificates that were compromised before they expired. Expiration dates on most certificates tend to either be the remaining fraction of one year (because the CA is charging for them on an annual bases) or "already expired". And that certificate chain's useful, if the CAs on it are still in business and their certificates haven't already expired, unless their certification system has been compromised without being detected, in which case see figure 1.
And then there's the user interface issue - if you're directly using a browser, and everything's good, it'll probably turn a little lock icon green, which you won't notice. Otherwise, it'll give you a dialog box, "Security problem - See figure 1 [Click OK]", and you'll click OK, and you'll either feel fine, or you'll have this little nagging feeling that something was wrong, but you're not sure what.
And then there's the financial layer again. If the certificate was protecting your credit card number, and you're in the US, you're liable for at most $50 if it got stolen, and otherwise it was probably just protecting your Facebook account, in which case the worst that'll happen is somebody posting rude notes to your friends, or overwatering the shrubbery in your farm. So fundamentally, you don't care that the CA system is broken.
One of the advantages of having been one of the early cypherpunks is that I got to watch a lot of this stuff develop, see many of the things that were done right or wrong, and know a lot of people who are either much smarter than I am (too many of them to list here) or who went out and Did The Right Thing at the Right Time (special shout-out to the Netscape folks, who went and shipped encryption for free even though the legality was dubious, which not only catalyzed the internet commerce business but broke the government's anti-crypto stronghold.) Lots of the solutions that shipped weren't perfect, and lots of the solutions that were Perfect never shipped, and lots of the solutions people spent time on didn't have problems associated with them, but it did still transform the world.
I good post, but I really thought in paragraph 3 you were going to mention how CRLs are fundamentally broken (essentially advisory in nature due to implementation) -- or do you disagree with that?
Yeah, I probably should have gone into more detail. They're ok when they work, except when they're broken, which they often are, but the better alternative is short-expiration-time certs, unless you're also trusting already-expired certificates, which most people do, in which case both common approaches are broken.
If we had shipped DNSSEC back before web commerce became widespread, we'd be in a lot better shape. You'd be able to know that the public key you had for microsoft.com was owned by the people who'd registered the name microsoft.com with the
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It's not like we have reason to think that other CAs have not had unreported blunders.
If they had, then someone should have copies of the fake certificates and could demonstrate that the CA was broken; any widespread use would have handed the cerfiticate to so many people that it should easily be provable.
Otherwise that's about as logical an argument as saying there's no reason to think that I have not slept with Natalie Portman.
problem is - for the people who break the CA's there is ALOT of money to be made. Very few people who that that chance would pass up the money to show the world that xCorp is corrupt.
problem is - for the people who break the CA's there is ALOT of money to be made. Very few people who that that chance would pass up the money to show the world that xCorp is corrupt.
They're not the ones who would be showing it. If you hack into xCorp and generate a fake certificate it's useless to you unless you then hand that certificate to your victims. Those victims can then show that certificate as proof that xCorp is handing out fake certificates.
Since no-one has shown such certificates for CAs who aren't yet known to be compromised, we can be fairly sure the others haven't been.
Of course that may be luck rather than good security practices.
if you have successfully created a fake cert from a CA - the only people who can verify that it is rouge are:
A) the CA via audit on what they have issued (which might not show it as fake as it might be in their logs)
B) the domain it says it's for, who ever owns it should be able to audit against their requested certs (for some places this might take awhile)
C) the person who faked it.
Notice NONE of the people are the end users, a actual faked cert from a CA is indistinguishable from an authentic cert from th
B) the domain it says it's for, who ever owns it should be able to audit against their requested certs (for some places this might take awhile)
Exactly. If I produce a certificate for www.google.com signed by BadCA, then you can easily verify that it's not the certificate that www.google.com is sending to you over SSL, and then Google can verify that it's a certificate they've never used. And if it's a CA that Google don't use then a simple 'there's something odd going on here' check is trivial ('why is www.google.com sending me a certificate from a CA in Nowhereistan?').
i'm sorry but do you not understand the basics of a Man In The Middle attack? and the value of a fake cert in that scenario?
in any decent MITM attack - if i'm trying to spoof google for you - then any request from you for google will go through me and i will respond with the right answer, currently under this scenario the 3rd party trusted CA on your local machine is the only way an end user has to verify that what i say is true or false.. compromising the CA in this case allows me to make a cert that you
Mandatory DNSSEC with public keys stored in the DNS record would achieve the exact same level of security without adding all sorts of unnecessary P2P traffic.
The only thing that the CAs ostensibly offered was some indication that the site was owned by an actual brick-and-mortar identity at some physical address, and when they switched to domain validation, even that advantage went away. Thus, they're basically vestigial. I similarly see no reason why a scheme like the one linked above would be any better
Doesn't DNSSEC still require a point of trust, the root dns providers in this case? How is that any better than we now have with SSL CA's?
it isn't - DNSSEC in it's current incarnation has the exact same single point of failure as the current CA system.
Also DNSSEC is useless to a local MITM as long as clients support normal DNS as you can arp poison clients to believe you are their DNS server and respond with no DNSSEC records for the host and use your faked CA cert.
the point of the p2p traffic is that for a MITM to work they would have to intercept all points of trust, which while not impossible is far more difficult than exploiting a single
it isn't - DNSSEC in it's current incarnation has the exact same single point of failure as the current CA system.
Care to enlighten us? I don't believe that is even remotely true.
Assuming that in the future, all browsers treat a DNSSEC-secured address result and key in the same way as it currently treats a CA cert (such that a URL specified as https requires DNSSEC to prevent stripping of the security during the lookup process), then the DNSSEC model can only be compromised by compromising the domain itsel
so your saying that just because you are reducing the number of CA's (global trusted CA's now to the domain registrars) that while it makes the # of targets less does not remove the single point of failure?
i'd like to point out to you your own "Microsoft" example.. VeriSign who is Both a CA and a registrar has already in the past, before we had nearly as many registrars and ca's, given a code signing cert to unknown people for "Microsoft Corporation".
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms [microsoft.com]
sorry you didn't point out "Microsoft" that was another poster above you sorry - but my point still stands.
so your saying that just because you are reducing the number of CA's (global trusted CA's now to the domain registrars) that while it makes the # of targets less does not remove the single point of failure?
I'm saying that it dramatically changes the equation. With DNSSEC, I (as the owner of a domain) only need to worry about whether my choice of registrar is secure. With the current CA scheme, I have to worry about whether every CA is secure.
More to the point, someone compromising a registrar can compromi
i will agree with you - but for now DNSSEC is only useful against MITM once users stop supporting traditional DNS.
Not really. The OS doesn't hide whether a response was encrypted or not from applications. The way Chrome supports DNSSEC is that a DNSSEC response is valid for https, but an unencrypted DNS response is invalid unless the site is signed by a CA cert. I'm assuming that all browsers supporting DNSSEC will do the same.
So it's more correct to say that DNSSEC is only useful against MITM once browsers stop accepting certs from traditional CAs.
this is true.. really a faked cert from a CA.. isn't fake.. it's real. it's like getting your "fake" ID from the DMV..
But it is two (A LOT) and
I'm so glad that a single missing space is more important to you then the discussion of weather the CA's we use to trust transactions on the internet are, well trustworthy.
no but as has been proven, with your support and less than 15 cents a day.. it could be. that's not alot.
http://news.yahoo.com/merriam-webster-adds-tweet-other-words-095422189.html [yahoo.com]
I am soooo jealous.
I assume you are truthful in all your statements.
Unless nobody happens to have noticed because the the browser display for a fake (but "valid") cert and the genuine article are identical unless you right click-page info-security just to be sure, exactly like practically nobody ever does.
Hopefully this will get the others CAs worried and motivate them to get better security.
They had a good run with no security at all and could pocket lots of money because of that. Clearly the lesson here is to not do any security, fold up shop if you lose accreditation and start up another CA.
Your argument only works if several conditions are met:
A) They made more money than the fallout is going to cost them. It isn't cheap to close down a major business, there are lots of bills to be paid and lots of backseat accountants from both the creditors and the government making sure you don't fudge the math in your favor.
B) The people who profited DigiNotar have enough capital or credit left over to start another major corporation
C) Most doubtful of all, that they can convince people to trust them aga
A) the CxOs will get their golden parachutes first, and that will be legal since employees are paid before anyone else.
B) See A
C) They will then buy up a small CA to get its trusted status. For profit colleges do this all the time. They buy up small struggling universities/colleges just to get their accreditation.
In a free market, if you can sell certificates for $5 with lousy security and $10 with decent security, and you have a 10% risk of losing everything with lousy security and 0% with decent security, the companies with decent security go bankrupt rapidly. After all, why pay $10 when you get the same for $5? A breach of ANY registrar is as bad as a breach of YOUR registrar.
If you won't properly separate your security-critical systems from your Internet-facing systems, or cannot even keep them from being rooted multiple times, you have no business being a CA.
Honestly, it's understandable DigiNotar didn't want this information out: bankrupcy is inevitable now, and that's bad for shareholder value.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to avoid bankruptcy when your primary business has been shut down.
I wonder why they don't just wind down all activities and give up. That has to be the cheapest way to resolve this. I don't think even a name change will help them now.
The Dutch government took over operation of the company more than a week ago. It is basically already defunct.
http://www.govcert.nl/english/service-provision/knowledge-and-publications/factsheets/factsheet-fraudulently-issued-security-certificate-discovered.html [govcert.nl]
Well, in SCOs case it took some time....
Yeah, it's pretty hard to avoid bankruptcy when your primary business has been shut down.
By chance I walked by their HQ the other day (it's across the street from our obstetrician's office). Place looked like a ghost town. No activity or people visible inside (not that I went up and stuck my face to the glass), no comings or goings.
If I were a bankruptcy judge - I would NOT grant protection. Throw them to the wolves. The individuals should be held personally liable.
Or, to look at it from a business perspective, no meaningful liability until someone can press some kind of human-rights-related lawsuit. Whereas if money had been lost, LOOK OUT.
Sounds like Diginotar came out ahead in the client liability front.
This is a popular Dutch comic: http://foksuk.nl/nl?cm=79&ctime=1315260000 [foksuk.nl]
The guy on the left says something like "Don't panic, people. In about three months..." and the other guy continues: "...we'll have a different name and a different corporate identity!"
it's good to know that crows are equally black everywhere [yahoo.com]
Having your product proved defective spells the end for most companies, GM almost went under and they are 1000x the size. PR and image > everything.
Shame certs are set up in a manner where it is very difficult to fix... anything wrong with them. I believe in the whole handshake principle, but why are there root certs on my computer by default? I feel I should have to sign a EULA for those outside of the windows EULA.
Sure it's inconvenient, but I really really really don't need MS or DigiNotar
So if this happened to one CA who got compromised what makes you think others will now disclose they were hacked?
If it happens again to someone else they sure as hell wont announce it as any CEO will want to keep his job more than protect the web. If anything this could make the web less safe
This is just going through the motions. DigiNotar has been dead since August 30, when Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft all revoked trust in their certificates. Anyone with at least two brain cells (which seems to exclude a large number of managers, unfortunately) could see the writing on the wall. No one would ever buy a new DigiNotar certificate, since it would always pop up a scary warning to the user in a web browser. Why bother with buying a certificate from DigiNotar and dealing with the resulting end-user support issues, when you can buy from someone else and not have to deal with the problem?
More interesting to me is what will happen to DigiNotar's corporate parent, Vasco Data Security? The purchase of DigiNotar is relatively recent (January 10, 2011), so it's not clear how much influence Vasco's management had over DigiNotar's operations. At the very least, Vasco is going to need to pay for an audit of its own systems to reassure its direct customers.
On a related note, take a look at the certificate on www.ice.gov [ice.gov].
The certificate hierarchy is
Now that's interesting, and worrisome. Akamai possesses a wildcard subordinate CA cert that permits them to impersonate any site, even U.S. Government sites. Even the chief security officer of Akamai is worried about this. [csoandy.com]
The problem is that Akamai, which is not a CA, has a cert which gives it the powers of a CA.
Why can't we have quangos do the signing? Governments can sign for companies, performing EV using their large, centralised databases of companies (e.g. Companies House in the UK).
Individuals may be signed off by the domain registrar subject to receiving basic identity documentation as individuals don't really need full EV'ing for their personal sites.
Anonymous individuals can be signed by a 3rd party and warnings can be given in-browser as to how the identity has not been verified.
Problem solved.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Bulldogs' three-game post holiday road trip wraps up at Iowa State on New Year's Day. Tip off at Hilton Coliseum is slated for 1 p.m. EST.
Yale (409) stayed with defending West Coast Conference champion Saint Mary's for much of Sunday's game before falling 78-62. In the first two games of the trip, the Bulldogs have grabbed 41 offensive rebounds, including 22 against Saint Mary's. Yale, though, wasn't able to capitalize against the Gaels, as the work on the glass led to only 10 second -chance points.
The game with Iowa State is a homecoming for junior Jesse Pritchard, an Ames, Iowa, native whose home is a five-minute bike ride from Hilton Coliseum. Pritchard, though, suffered an injury prior to the Albertus Magnus game and is unlikely to play. Pritchard was a fan of Iowa State growing up and used to attend about five games a year. His family has plenty of ties to Iowa State. Both his mother and father are graduates of the school, and his father used to teach there. Pritchard earned all-conference recognition in each of his four year at Ames Senior High School. He helped lead Ames to the 2009 state championship and four conference titles. Pritchard appeared in the first 10 games this season for the Bulldogs and is averaging 2.5 points and 2.0 rebounds. Last year, he had career highs in games (28), starts (7), points (63), rebounds (56) and three-pointers (12) and was the recipient of the Josh Hill Award, presented for hard work and dedication to the Yale Basketball program.
• It's been a memorable trip so far for Austin Morgan. First he scored 20 points in his hometown of Reno., Nev., against the University of Nevada last Friday. Morgan had nearly 70 family and friends in attendance and received a very nice ovation from the crowd of more than 7,000 when he was introduced during the player introductions. Two days later, he became the 25th player in school history to score 1,000 career points. Perhaps fittingly, Morgan reached the milestone on a three-pointer in the second half. He now has 170 career treys, which is fourth all-time at Yale. Morgan (12.8 ppg.) leads the Bulldogs in scoring.
• Greg Kelley scored a career-high 14 points against Saint Mary's. He was 4-of-5 from three-point range in the game.
• Javier Duren also had a personal best against the Gaels, scoring 10 points. Duren flirted with a double-double in the win over Albertus Magnus on Dec. 18, scoring eight points and grabbing a career-high 10 rebounds.
• Yale was 11-of-24 from three-point range against Saint Mary's.
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The Cyclones (9-3) haven't played since a 76-61 victory over UMKC on Dec. 19. Iowa State has won three straight and five of its last six. The Cyclones' three losses have come to Cincinnati, UNLV and Iowa. Iowa State features a balanced attack. Seven players average at least 8.3 points. Will Clyburn (13.8 ppg.) leads the team in scoring. Iowa State is one of the nation's best scoring teams, ranking sixth nationally in points per game at 82.2. Iowa State is one of only two teams in the nation to score 70 points or more in every game this season (UNC-Greensboro). The Cyclones have won 14-straight games at home, tying for the 13th-best active home court winning streak in the nation.
The Bulldogs have finished fourth or better in the Ivy League in each of the last 12 years. That didn't earn Yale much respect in the preseason Ivy League media poll, which projected a sixth-place finish for the Bulldogs. Yale, though, has a history of proving the prognosticators wrong. In five of the last seven years, the Bulldogs have finished higher than projected. Princeton is the near unanimous favorite to win the league. The Tigers received 16 of the 17 first-place votes. . Defending champion Harvard was picked second followed by Columbia, Cornell and Penn. Brown and Dartmouth round out the poll.
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4. Cornell.................................................................. 80
5. Penn...................................................................... 74
6. Yale........................................................................ 55
7. Brown.................................................................... 50
8. Dartmouth............................................................ 20
Senior Austin Morgan has earned a couple of preseason honors. He was named first team All-League by the Blue Ribbon College Yearbook and received second team recognition from College Sports Madness and Lindy's. Morgan, a two-year starter, finished fifth in the nation and set a school record with a .900 free throw percentage. Junior Jeremiah Kreisberg was named to the preseason third team by College Sports Madness. Kreisberg has started 47 games in his first two seasons. Last year, he started all 29 games and finished third on the team in rebounding (5.1 rpg.) and fourth in scoring (7.7 ppg.).
The 2012-13 Yale roster features four freshmen. Khaliq Bedart-Ghani (Inglewood, CA), Jack Montague (Brentwood, TN), Justin Sears (Plainfield, NJ) and Nick Victor (Dallas, TX) all bring strong credentials. Bedart-Ghani led Loyola High School in California in rebounding and blocks as a senior last winter. Montague was the district, region and county most valuable player as a senior at Brentwood High School. He averaged 17.0 points and seven assists and scored more than 1,200 career points. Sears earned first team all-state, all-area and all-county honors as a senior at Plainfield High School in New Jersey. He scored 1,048 points and grabbed 1,063 rebounds in his career to become only the second player in school history to score over 1,000 points and grab more than 1,000 rebounds. He helped lead Plainfield to two New Jersey Tournament of Champion title games where it lost to national power St. Anthony's both times. Victor spent one year at the Winchendon School and earned NEPSAC honorable mention recognition. At Lovejoy High School in Dallas, Texas, he was the 2010 District most valuable player.
• The Bulldogs didn't play their first home game until Saturday, Nov. 24 against Army. That was the first of 12 games in the friendly confines of the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
• Yale played in the NABC Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. The first game was at Saint Joseph, the Atlantic 10 preseason favorite. The Bulldogs then headed to Evansville, Ind., for three games, against Evansville, Buffalo and Western Illinois.
• Yale faces a very challenging three-game road trip right after Christmas. The Bulldogs travel to Nevada, Saint Mary's and Iowa State. The trip to Nevada is a homecoming for Reno native Austin Morgan, Jeremiah Kreisberg hails from Berkeley, Calif., a short distance from the Saint. Mary's campus while the trip to Iowa State is a homecoming for Ames, Iowa, native Jesse Pritchard.
• The biggest test of the season, though, may come in Lee Amphitheater when preseason No. 10 Florida visits on Jan. 6. The Gators return three starters from a squad that went 26-11 and fell one game shy of the Final Four last year.
• The Florida game is one of two in the Amphitheater that will be nationally televised. The NBC Sports Network will be in town for the game with the Gators, while CBS Sports Television will show the home game with Harvard on Feb. 23.
• Yale kicks off Ivy League play on Jan. 19 at Brown. Five of the first six Ivy games will be on the road.
Reggie Willhite, the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year last year as a senior at Yale, was selected in the fifth round of the 2012 NBA Development League Draft on Nov. 2. Willhite was selected by the Reno Bighorns with the fifth pick in the fifth round. He was the 70th player chosen overall. Willhite becomes the third Yale player to be drafted by a D-League team. Alex Zampier '10 was chosen in the seventh round of the 2012 draft by the New Mexico Thunderbirds and Travis Pinick '09 was taken in the eighth round of the 2009 draft by the Los Angeles D-Fenders Willhite enjoyed an outstanding career for the Bulldogs. As a senior, he earned second team All-Ivy recognition, set a single-season school record with 65 steals and was 17th in the nation in steals (2.24 per game). Willhite joins a long list of players that have earned professional opportunities during James Jones' tenure as the head coach at Yale. Ted Smith (England), Matt Minoff (Israel), Paul Vitelli (Italy), Dominick Martin (Spain), Matt Kyle (Portugal), Caleb Holmes (Iceland), Ross Morin (Switzerland), Eric Flato (England), Greg Mangano (Turkey) and Edwin Draughan (France) have all played overseas. Zampier, Pinick and Neil Yanke (tryout with Los Angeles Lakers) both had opportunities in the United States.
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Martini bars might have a reputation as trendy and formal spots, but Chill Martini & Wine Bar -- which opened at 216 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Lake Villa last February -- shows you can enjoy great cocktails without feeling the need to dress up. The relaxed and friendly servers will help you melt away your worries.
Motif: Chill features an impressive display of beer both in coolers behind the bar and through a menu written on chalkboards. There are a few TVs tuned to sports and the walls are decorated with synonyms for "chill" like "mellow" and "unwind" along with martini-themed paintings. You can grab a seat at a high-top table or a couch near an electronic fireplace.
Chill Martini & Wine Bar216 N. Milwaukee Ave., Lake Villa, (224) 643-7659
Hours: 4 p.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday; 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday
The space was formerly a liquor store and the coolers were re-purposed as a private party room with one-way glass so partyers can watch the scene outside while maintaining privacy. An isolated back area offers video gambling, making Chill the only place you can play in Lake Villa.
Crowd: While Chill draws some 20-somethings, it primarily brings in an older crowd that picks up between 8:30 and 11 p.m.
Food: Chill's small kitchen limits the menu to a few simple dishes like spinach and artichoke dip and grilled cheese. Most customers eat before coming to the bar for drinks.
Liquid consumption: The Mango Tango and Lemon Chill are the top picks on the bar's drink list, but it's well worth your while to ask the bartenders what they're mixing at the moment since they're constantly coming up with new concoctions. Their holiday season pumpkin martini was excellent, a creamy blend of RumChata, pumpkin spice, vanilla vodka and Kahlua topped with a bit of whipped cream and cinnamon and served in a graham cracker-rimmed glass. The Chocolate Dipped Banana is another great choice for drinkers with a sweet tooth, tasting just like an alcoholic chocolate banana milk shake.
Beer fans also can find a lot to love, with 86 varieties available by the bottle or on tap. The bar regularly rotates its draft list as kegs empty, offering great craft brews like Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout, Revolution Anti-Hero and Bell's Winter White. One of the mainstays is an alcoholic root beer from Wauconda's Small Town Brewery. While it's 10 percent alcohol, it just tastes like a particularly delicious version of the soft drink, especially when served in float form. Bartenders pick out a $2.50 microbrew each day from Monday through Thursday. As an added service to drink lovers, Chill hosts monthly tastings from distributors of whiskey, tequila, wine, beer and more.
Service: It was quiet when we came in and the bartenders were happily chatting with customers at the bar, offering samples of beer and the cocktails they were making for other patrons.
Music: A mix of cover bands, acoustic acts and DJs provide tunes on Friday nights.
Parking: There are plenty of spots in the free lot.
Overall: Chill really lives up to its name.


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Sleep is like sex to me.I cant get enough of it i i sleep 8-10 hours a day.
Raining days are for relaxing if your listening some old tunes from dino
On school days, about 7-8 hours depending on when I go to bed...
In the holidays, I stay up really late then wake up really late XD but if I'm left to sleep, I sleep for at least 10 hours, usually 12...
I'd like to be able to sleep less, but if I'm woken up at any point when I'm asleep then I'm always grumpy :S I HATE being woken up!!
school's break 9-11+++++++++
during school 4-3
Around 3-4 hours a day. 10-14 hours a night friday /saturday. I usually fall asleep between 5-9 AM.
Not enough sadly and it's my fault. Like five hrs on average if I have to go to class but on weekends I get ALL my sleep in.
9 hr everyday
5 - 6 if I'm lucky.
Last night is a prime example of my life, can't get to sleep untill somtime after 3am and woken up for no aparent reason around 8:30am, and cannot get back to sleep.
I'm never actualy certain because I'm used to lying in bed wide awake at ungodly hours.
The above post may contain an opinion. Do not consume if alergic.
During the week, it's mostly 6-7... But it's not enough I'm a sleeping machine, I can sleep over 12 hours if I wish. I already slept from 4pm to 9am ...
DTR or Dotonbori Robo?
FA LA LA LA LA LA, LA LA *runs away*
Sleep is the most important thing there is to staying healthy, even more than good food. If you want good sleep you got to go with nature. The natural time that nature will want to put you to sleep is around 8:30 to 9:30. If you stay up past 10 you will get a second wind and be able to stay up well past 12.
There's two times of fire in the day. One is around noon to help you digest the main meal of the day, and the other starts at 10pm to help your body repair and recuperate from the days activity. However, if your not asleep by then you don't get the healing and you end up feeling like you would if it was noon, you get hungry and a bunch of energy that will make it really hard to sleep. Best thing to do is to stay away from any light by 8:30pm so that your body can start to adjust towards the night, and then get in bed from 9 to 9:30. As long as your laying there you'll get the rest you need, even if you don't fall asleep right away.
You can't try to fall asleep. You can just relax and wait for it. Put your attention on your breath, not your thoughts, and that should help also.
If your on a bad sleep routine, everything is going to be out of wack. Best to stay in tune with nature if you want to live a fulfilling life. If you get really really in tune with nature, you can become more badass than a jedi.
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2-12 hours I'm unpredictable
For me it depends on how late I stay up, if I get up at 8am, and go to bed at 11pm, then I'll wake up between 6-7am ... so about 7-8 hours ... however if I wake up at 8am and don't go to bed until 9am the next day, I'll sleep for like 12-14 hours, lol.
i try to get around 7 or more a day
4-6.... But from saturday-sunday like 12 hours !!!


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Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
DeKalb city
Christine J. Boston, 34, of the 2500 block of East Alpha Court, DeKalb, was charged Tuesday, Aug. 27, with criminal damage to property.
Omar M. Bouso, 23, of the 100 block of Gregory Street, Aurora, was charged, Wednesday, Aug. 28, with possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia.
William D. Dalton, 24, of the 600 block of South Sadia Street, Maple Park, was charged, Tuesday, Aug. 27, with driving under the influence.
Mason J. Lovell, 19, of the 27000 block of Schafer Road, Clare, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 28, with battery and violation of an order of protection.
Vicki J. Rogers, 23, of the 300 block of Dodge Avenue, DeKalb, was charged Monday, Aug. 26, with driving under the influence.
Kawaune Williams, 18, of the 1400 block of Leamington, Chicago, was charged Monday, Aug. 26., with driving with a suspended license.
DeKalb County
Andrea J. Beeh, 33, of the 300 block of South California Street, Sycamore, was arrested Thursday, Aug. 29, on a warrant for contempt of court.
Yakisha N. Merritt, 38, of the 1100 block of East Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Aug. 29, with driving with a suspended license.


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I'll return the favor, and dump you now, Adobe.
...but not on Slashdot, which just rolled out a Flash-based feature.
About half of youtube works without Flash installed. Other video sites, not so much... blip.tv (which is the other one I use fairly regularly) has actually discontinued their html5 support in favour of going 100% flash.
Ultimately, my choice was between installing Flash and using the browser of my choice, or installing Chrome for Linux. I went with flash, but I am not happy with the decision. It's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Vimeo works 100% without Flash, unlike YouTube.
YouTube works without flash. That's one of the nice things about it. Forward compatibility.
About half of youtube works without Flash installed
I've been using ClickToPlugin, which fetches the HTML5 version of YouTube videos for a while and I've not seen the Flash player for a good six months.
Adobe and the rest of the world, yes, that's what we want.
Less terrible technology? Abomination?
Really now. I can respect an anti-Flash opinion based on a desire for open standards (even though the SWF format is open), but saying Flash is terrible tech is just me-too ignorance. What other web framework can you composite 2d animation, advanced typography, h264 movies, native sound processing, and a 60fps native 3D rendering engine at your leisure? Try making audiotool [audiotool.com] in HTML5. There's nothing better for creating multimedia content. There are simply no IDEs anywhere near as mature for HTML5. Actionscript 3.0 is a pretty great language, a bit like Java, that encourages good coding style, but without weighing down development speed with too much cruft. It's what Javascript could have been if Microsoft hadn't sabotaged the ECMAScript 4 deliberations.
And what other web framework has let developers deliver quality games? Unity, sure, but most people don't have the plug-in. Go ahead, what do you recommend that people should have used the last 10 years for web-based gaming? Yeah...I thought so.
Do I need to remind you that Epic recently ported the latest version of Unreal Engine to Flash [unrealengine.com]? WebGL can't touch what is being done in Flash.
Even though Adobe is run by fucking morons, Flash is still a great platform, and they are not giving up on Flash completely. I imagine the future of Flash is more of a Unity-style thing where you develop in Flash and then export to various platforms. Epic wouldn't have spent the time and money porting Unreal Engine unless they had confidence in Adobe's roadmap.
As I said, if someone has philosophical differences with Flash as a platform, I can respect that. But all you people mouthing off about Flash without even understanding the issues only do more harm than good.
Find something new and quick. I suggest HTML5, and finding other tools to develop it in.
Adobe never wanted the death of Flash. They have gone through the 5 stages of grief already. Microsoft, in a little yellow school bus moment, ignored all the signs with their creation of Silverlight and went straight to "Fuck it. We were just kidding anyways".
There were a lot of factors that came together here and Flash simply cannot compete going forward with HTML5. Nobody really wanted a proprietary platform like Flash anyways, it was just all that was available at the time. You could stuff with Java, but that always seemed more geared towards business to me.
Adobe is moving on. While I don't like Dreamweaver (at all), and many developer friends state that the code it produces is lacking, Adobe can create some pretty nice development tools. Look forward to a pretty comprehensive HTML5 development products that you can make your games in.
P.S - It did not help that Steve Jobs refused to put them on Apple products towards the end of his life. Especially with games and content consumption. That was a bad hand dealt to Adobe that just quickened the death of Flash.
A bit of history from this NeXT/Apple alumnus. In 1997 Carbon was brought to the WWDC in San Jose as a one year transitional API for the big boys to port their application base over to and then a rapidly phased move to Cocoa. Adobe, Macromedia and others dictated and delayed a lot of OS X maturity by threats to pulling their products from the platform. Microsoft was settling the legal dispute and contractually bound themselves to OS X but refused to go Cocoa.
Apple had no real leverage until iTunes and the iPod.
Instead of being ready when OS X was released for Cocoa apps these companies kicked and screamed all the way.
They whined even more after Carbon 64 bit didn't materialize. By then Apple had all the leverage they needed and when iOS materialized Adobe was the last and most arrogant one to believe Steve had any love loss left for them and their long-time collaboration from Apple->NeXT->Apple. When he publicly denounced Flash Adobe should have already had their app base moved to Cocoa. The days of complaining how difficult it is to maintain Windows and OS X finally fell on completely deaf ears. Adobe will never recover as a major player and will find itself relegated to a second tier if it doesn't make a bold push on OS X and iOS with actual native Apps from top to bottom that leverage pure Cocoa/GCD/OpenCL/OpenGL/CoreFoundation via C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++ in the truest sense of the world. Releasing PDF as an ISO standard was wise, but one done out of threats from competitors. Adobe still has bloated tools whose pricing is going to kill them faster than their competitors, but then again Adobe really seems to love bundles.
I suggest HTML5
In HTML5, how do I target Internet Explorer for Windows XP, which still has two years of extended support left? It may surprise geeks, but I'm under the impression that some administrators are still a lot more willing to authorize the installation of Adobe Flash Player than of Google Chrome Frame.
In existing HTML5 implementations, how do I make a barcode scanner application or a voice-controlled application? There's still no way to (ask the user's permission to) read the camera and microphone connected t
You'll be fine. Adobe is phasing out Flash -- but in favor of Adobe Air -- on desktops and mobile.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I expect Flash to be phased out in favor of non-proprietary alternatives in the near future(3-4 Years).
The HEVC/H.265 video codec is pretty far along now.
It will have the backing of the major hardware manufactuers and distributors like Netflix.
There is really no way of stopping new prorietary technologies from gaining traction on the web or keep them from being ported to the web as they gain momentum elsewhere,
It's very hard to have any technology (proprietary or not) gain traction on the web when it needs to replace an existing solution in order to do so. It must not just be better - it must be significantly better, especially when the existing one is "good enough". It's precisely why HTML5 is struggling hard against Flash in video, and why it took ages for PNG to become a real standard on the web. But it also means that, once H.264 is set - and, largely thanks to Apple, it is a de facto standard for the Web alr
I'll never forget...
...where I was when I heard the news. So long...
and thanks for all the 100%-CPU-use times?
Honestly, it hasn't been that big a deal for a little while now. Like it or not, HTML5 is supplanting Flash in a lot of places.
Personally, I see this as less of a ding against Linux than an admission that Flash just isn't that important anymore.
Sorry, Apple (crosses himself to ward of the evil one) has shown that Flash is overrated. Adobe itself already acknowledged defeat on that front and stopped development for mobile devices. Those lucky Android devices that got flash support have it crash or slow the device to a crawl. The mobile device on which regular web pages make sense, tablets, seem to give Android no advantage at all in sales.
Adobe is really shooting itself in the foot here again. Web development is my trade and I have noticed a very high adaptation of Linux in this industry. Not just the obvious servers but desktops as well. A few years ago, if you wanted one, it was a negotiation. Now, I have even seen it as a requirement. Flash is universally despised in the LAMP development area which also seems (but I admit to being prejudiced) to be the place where new things are attempted rather then the 1 millionth intra-net site.
Will this make a huge difference? Not at first but unless a customer absolutely demands flash, I code a requirement in HTML5 and show something that is smoother and better supported and Hey, works on the iPad. So much easier for the initial demo to just hand a tablet to show how nice the site works... especially if you noticed the customer has an iPhone or iPad themselves. And a lot do. I am not convinced the world is moving to the tablet for browsing but the customer does so demoing the product on the product of the future just seems smart to me.
When the iPad (or was it the iPhone itself) launched, a lot of people like the parent claimed that the lack of flash would kill it... I would like a product that gets killed like that. I would dry my tears with million dollar bills.
Adobe got lazy with flash, it is slow, buggy, a resource hog and crashes every two seconds all so that webpages can't be indexed and look like the creation of a 12 year old Japanese girl. It lost support of the people who are capable enough of working around it and now, thank to the evil one, customers are demanding that their site works without it to.
HTML5 is the new thing and with mobile devices becoming bigger and bigger (who would you rather please with your website, an iPad user or a user running IE6, I think I know the bigger sucker... eh, the customer with more disposable income) the finicky, slow websites must go. Have you tried YOUR websites menu with a touchscreen yet?
Well, for VIDEOs you don't need flash. Never did. Of course SOME websites intentionally obfuscated the videos to force you to decode them in flash, but that's not REAL VIDEO. REAL VIDEO has worked for ages without any need for flash. Flash was made to overcome failures of Microsoft IE to deal with video.
Sorry, but Real Video never worked.
Desktop Linux is not a large enough market to have any significant bearing on the importance of Flash.
According to statcounter:
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If iOS gets to have an effect, I don't see why desktop linux can't. In this case however, it seems like it would mostly hurt Firefox on Linux. But then again this is in 5 years. 5 years ago, there were a lot more sites with Quicktime, Realplayer, and Windows Media streaming. I barely see them at all today.
If that's true, then why did Adobe create Flash for Linux in the first place?
If that's true, then why did Adobe create Flash for Linux in the first place?
Sometimes people make thing for Linux without need for large profit. It's good PR and helps the community; However, for most people, when you do something for free and find the recipients to be largely rude and ungrateful, you stop doing it.
They didn't. MACROMEDIA did. And then Adobe swallowed Macromedia and turned flash into bloatware.
Adobe kills Flash for Linux. - "This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who."
The day it reads "Adobe kills Flash" I'll pop the champagne, "for Linux" just means support is going backwards for Linux. No matter how much you hate Flash the effect will be "That doesn't work on Linux/Firefox, use Windows/Chrome." because despite it being supported I bet once Flash 12 comes out most sites will reply "your version of flash is not supported, please upgrade" anyway. Anyone know if this support will be in Chromium too or if it's another Chrome-only feature like H.264?
it's not going to be in chromium. chromium is chrome without those google specific features.
The day it reads "Adobe kills Flash" I'll pop the champagne, "for Linux" just means support is going backwards for Linux. No matter how much you hate Flash the effect will be "That doesn't work on Linux/Firefox, use Windows/Chrome." because despite it being supported I bet once Flash 12 comes out most sites will reply "your version of flash is not supported, please upgrade" anyway. Anyone know if this support will be in Chromium too or if it's another Chrome-only feature like H.264?
Actually, the communication should go in the other direction and say "Use Web Standards!". Then their videos will work on all modern browsers.
"We don't need no steenkin Flash!"
This post makes me want to
I'm not sure this is actually a loss. I think it's probably a bonus that they'll only be doing fixes and not adding more features. The new features are not likely to be used and generally only end up adding more potential exploits.
I don't think Adobe is expecting Flash to last that long. They're already releasing HTML5 authoring tools to prepare ground.
Now for them to stop releasing it on windows and everything else!
So flash can GO AWAY. Bloated ass useless ad serving slow pos infecting the web and our hardware!
I used to think of Flash as a CPU hog, but it pales in comparison to Javascript/HTML5. Even simple 2D games in Javascript will run at about 3 frames per second despite constantly using 100% CPU, and they often hog memory too (which Flash has never been all that bad about in my experience, unless you leave a dozen YouTube tabs open or something).
Annoying ads won't go away just because Flash does; they'll move to HTML5 and will be just as annoying, more resource hungry, and harder to block (disabling Javascript everywhere makes the Web unusable; a whitelist system like NoScript is going to be a necessity).
Some of those games are not using a newer API like requestAnimationFrame [mozilla.org]. After it is more widespread, currently Firefox and Chrome, I expect some limitations will be added to setTimeout
I used to think of Flash as a CPU hog, but it pales in comparison to Javascript/HTML5
You're comparing apples and oranges there. You are not comparing Adobe Flash to JavaScript + HTML5, you are comparing Adobe Flash to an (unspecified) implementation of JavaScript + HTML5. This may seem like nitpicking, but it's very important. For example, on OS X Safari is a lot faster than FireFox for anything involving lots of compositing, but on Windows the converse is true.
Can't other browsers just adopt the Pepper API?
Ok, to partly answer my own question, it seems Mozilla is not interested in adopting it [mozilla.org].
I think Mozillas stance on this Pepper/NaCL thing is quite bad founded. What Google have done is essentially to technicaly sandbox plugins (giving them about the same security as Javascript) and with that made a new and improved plugin API. This is not a bad thing. It of course might keep developers from HTML/JS and instead use C/C++/Any language you can think of. I really don't see how this is a bad thing either. It's pretty much proven by now that HTML/JS will never get native speeds, Chrome already have it. Compare Airmech on chrome with that mozilla MMORPG released this week and you will see for yourself. Airmech looks modern, the Mozzila game is a litte better than NES quality.
The problem with pepper is that it is a code dump, now moved to the chromium repository, it isn't an spec, behaviour changes every time Google updates it. If Mozilla were to waste waste resources to allow more closed plugins infect the web at least gives them a spec, if every browser embed the same code, then why have different browsers?
This is the same reason why WebQL died as an standard, the spec said: must follow Sqlite version x.y as the SQL dialect., or something like that. Mozilla and Microsoft rejected that because it force an implementation
Yes, they can. And believe it or not, Mozilla was at the table creating the standard that became Pepper API. They just didn't want to implement it...
One of the top causes for my netbook's fan to become noisy.
And nothing of value was lost.
Is there any reason the Gnash team cant step up and improve Gnash and make it as good as Flash? Or at least good enough that it can be a drop-in replacement for Flash?
Does Gnash support RTMPE streams? Maybe what is needed is a fork of Gnash (or a bolt-on for Gnash) hosted in a country without anti-circumvention laws that supports RTMPE and other flash DRM. (similar to how many projects have had and continue to have sites outside the US for the development and distribution of encryption software to avoid str
Adobe will continue to make new versions of the Flash Player that use the new PEPPAPI (Pepper API). They will no longer make any new versions of the plugin that support the older NSAPI model. PEPPAPI was created by Mozilla and Google, but since PEPPAPI was introduced, Mozilla decided to not support it ("it is too hard").
I was about to say to stop the bad summaries, but this is
Adobe, your web programs (Flash and PDF Reader) have been a pox on computer users everywhere even if they are not aware of the risks. I hope you will entirely give up on the Internet and concentrate on software where they will do no harm. Better yet, just leave the business entirely.
This move was not unexpected. We've been hearing things to this extent for a bit now.
This leaves a few questions. First of which is:
Are the open source alternatives ready for prime time? Correct me if I'm wrong but here is the list of the major alternatives:
I've included Swfdec, but as I understand it, this is for flash apps that you have created and know work with swfdec. It is not for random content from unknown sources. A use case for this is a kiosk where you control the content and the display.
Now, are the other two, Gnash and Lightspark, ready for primetime, i.e. can they replace Flash Player any time soon?
Personally, the last time I used either one was a few months ago when I toyed with the idea of trying to make my workstation fully open source. I found that many youtube videos made the plugin crash for both Gnash and Lightspark.
Since there is content right now that is made for Adobe's Flash Player, I feel that the way forward should be to stop creating new content for Flash. Let it die, and only create new content in HTML5. As for the existing content, the alternatives like the ones listed above need to be able to play need to be able to play it with no problems. I would even have no problem if there was new content developed with the alternative in mind rather than close source Flash Player.
And as a parting shot at Linux users, Adobe introduces a major regression [launchpad.net] (hardware accelerated video tints everything blue [archlinux.org], e.g. YouTube), claims it can't be reproduced, and closes all bug reports [archlinux.org] about [adobe.com] it, leaving users to implement a nasty hack [nvnews.net] individually.
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|2004-07-07, 15:08
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GTO 20 will be coming out in the states in late august-early september!
|2004-10-10, 05:11
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cool thanx alot guys.
2 prequels? you sure about this? prequels of GTO?
also, do you guys know a site that has information on manga (like how many volumes there are of the manga etc) i already know dailymanga.net and mangajouhou but they arent really good for info like that.
|2004-10-10, 05:35
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I don' know much about bad compagny but I can confirm that Shonan Junai Gumi is indeed a prequel to GTO (it was written before it too). The graphic style (at least in the early volumes) is much cruder than in GTO and the humour is much more girl/fight oriented.
I have no idea as to the exact number of volumes in it but at least 20 or so (the current japanese edition is a readition where each volume contains the amount of pages from 2 regular volumes and I remember seeing at least 10 of these in a shop)...
|2004-10-10, 08:53
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and heres the proof for bad company
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|2004-10-10, 14:01
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|2004-10-12, 04:34
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yes you got it right but i am not sure if it's licensed or not
|2004-11-17, 10:36
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re:GTO manga ending
so... snoopy or anyone else who's read til the end of the manga - do Fuyutski (however u spell it) and Onizuka finally confess their feelings for each other, or is it more like the "life goes on" ending... i spose the whole point of the story was that Onizuka was a great teacher, and the anime really did that fantastically, i was really satisfied with the anime ending.
still... do they make it as a couple by the end of the manga? (i'm not talking about Onizuka losing his virginity or whatever, just if they get together:P) can someone maybe tell me what happens to the rest of the characters - dang they're all so good so please please reply even tho this is like 4 months after the last person lol...
|2004-11-18, 00:51
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With regard to the ending of the manga--I think it's just as well that it remains open-ended. I figured that the author wants to keep it open just in case if he wants to use the character again for another story.
And indeed, that much was implied in the anime version. In one interview for instance, he wondered what it would be like for Onizuka to teach in a high school in the US. I think Tohru Fujisawa was just joking around when he said that, but it also seemed that he wants to keep Onizuka free for other ideas.
|2004-11-18, 23:23
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What I really don't like about GTO was how it's sometimes trying to be what it's not.
I mean the way the author kept arranging Onizuka to be the dispenser of wisdom at the end of each bratty kid event, and how the manga referred more than once to the shortcomings of the Japanese educational system; they gave me the impression that the author was seriously trying to construct a social commentary - and that a street-wise, ex-delinquent teacher is his answer to those shortcomings.
It's like everytime a series of Onizuka's misbehaviours was followed by at least 4-5 pages of supposedly serious stuff, and that really doesn't work, because I don't know whether to continue reading in a critical or tongue-in-cheek attitude.
That said, GTO was an absolutely hilarious manga, and it used many techniques which are quite innovative and fun to watch (the first-person perspectives that's used everytime Onizuka met his cop friend was a perfect match for the comic undertone).
|2004-11-29, 21:18
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What happens after GTO Anime int he manga? *spoils of cours*
I finished GTO a long long time ago... then downloaded Live Action and the drama twist of GTO was also very very good. However... I wasnt very satified with the anime simply because the anime was short ended as in it ended early in the manga. With a differen ttype of ending (him going to USA). However I was wondering what happened in the real manga. Is there any links out there?
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Lets go Natinoal League .. sure its a glorified exhibition, but I'm tired of our league getting embarrased! Lets kick those DH lovers butts!
Bay getting a standing ovation in the home crowd BTW. NL 4-0 in Pittsburgh games too BTW.
Lets go Natinoal League .. sure its a glorified exhibition, but I'm tired of our league getting embarrased! Lets kick those DH lovers butts!
Bay getting a standing ovation in the home crowd BTW. NL 4-0 in Pittsburgh games too BTW.
QUESTION A few S.p. pitcher's pulled out right because they pitched sunday correct? Now my question is this didnt bronson also pitch sunday against the braves?
Yeah he did, and said he hopes he doesn't have to pitch tonight because he was out too late at a bar last night (seriously).Originally Posted by cinredsfan2000
PLEEEASE put in Redmen from KC .. he has liek a 5 ERA. LMAO. Sad thing is listening to Gardner's pregame comments, he doesn't give a crap and Guillen is playing the game like his life depends on it.
Things start out good for NL .. Ichiro K's
Wow .. damn remember the old LaRue for Penny rumors at the start of hte year? Wow that woulda been a great move.
LMAO! Penny is embarrasing these guys.
Wow, how ticked would the Dodgers be if Penny threw his arm out right now. He is just letting it fly.
AWESOME stuff. Tell me this game don't matter by the way Penny just pitched. That was a display, he just embarrased 3 of the best hitters in the game.
Is that Brad Penny or Eric Gagne in the Dodgers uniform??
There we go Beltran!
Penny put on a masterpiece in the first, but I have to admit if I was a Dodger fan I wouldn't like it. It sure was fun watching it as a baseball fan though.
I have a real problem with Garner basically not even managing the game, with the exception of player substitutions. On the other side, you have Guillen managing it like you should......especially with home field advantage for the WS on the line.
Look at their positions ... Houston is fighting for 2nd to 4th in the NL Central while the White Sox are a favorite to win the WS again this year. Maybe they should give the manager to which team is leading at the break, or close to it.
Guerrero goes deep .. well make it 9 in row looks like.
What the hell was that little montage? 7 more years of FOX.
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LA MIRADA — Edy Ruvalcaba, a 16-year-old junior at La Mirada High School, says he was verbally harassed and called "faggot" by some of his physical education classmates after he told them he is gay.
Ruvalcaba also says he was physically abused after his announcement in February. At least one student in the class shoved Ruvalcaba against a gym-room locker.
The bullying, ridicule and torment continued for a week, until Ruvalcaba asked his counselor to take him out of the class and re-assign him as a teacher's assistant, he said.
"I didn't feel safe," Ruvalcaba said.
Ruvalcaba's harassment isn't an isolated incident, say other local gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students.
On April 8, these students, their straight allies and some teachers at several area high schools drew attention to the harassment, abuse and bullying of lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) youth by participating in the 13th annual National Day of Silence.
The event officially is this Friday, but most area school districts held it early because they are on spring break this week.
Nationwide, students have registered more than 8,000 schools to participate, said Daryl Presgraves, spokesman with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which sponsors the National Day of Silence.
Students collaborated in the event in a variety of ways, such as wearing "Day of Silence" T-shirts and not speaking for the entire day, symbolic of the silence that gay students suffer when they are harassed and bullied. When someone asks why they are not talking, the person receives a note card explaining the student's solidarity with gay classmates.
Some students are holding events in memory of Carl Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old from Springfield, Mass., who hanged himself April 6 after enduring constant bullying at school. Walker-Hoover, who did not identify himself as gay, is an example of students who are bullied because they are perceived to be gay.
He would have turned 12 Friday.
Carl's death was the fourth suicide of a middle-school child linked to anti-gay bullying this year, Presgraves said.
"Day of Silence is not about changing beliefs or values, but changing the behavior that causes bullying and causes students to feel alienated and that schools don't care about them. This is a preventable problem," Presgraves said.
Gay, lesbian and bisexual students from several area high schools, including Cabrillo and Wilson in Long Beach, Dominguez in Compton, and Lakewood, Paramount, and Norwalk, say they are targeted for harassment and abuse because of their sexual orientation. The students also feel that some teachers and school administrators minimize or ignore the problem.
Some teachers agree with that assessment.
"The homophobia is boiling under the surface, but the school administration avoids talking about it," said Andrea Hoover, an English teacher at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School.
Administrators at area school districts, however, say they are unaware a problem exists, but if one does, it would be prohibited by each district's anti-sexual harassment or anti-bullying policies.
"That harassment and bullying should not be happening," said Ginger Shattuck, superintendent of Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District. "It's annoying that no one has come forward to report this. Students are supposed to report harassment and bullying to teachers. If an adult has not listened to them, the students need to go to administrators."
Adds Christopher Steinhauser, superintendent at Long Beach Unified School District: "If it was epidemic, we would know about it. You are always going to have individual cases of things that have happened."
A recent California Healthy Kids Survey by the California Department of Education found that more than 245,000 students statewide are harassed because they are gay or lesbian or perceived to be.
GLSEN's 2007 National School Climate survey of LGBT students found that more than 86 percent of them heard "faggot" or "dyke" or the slang phrase, "that's so gay" — meaning stupid or worthless - at school and more than one-third reported being physically harassed or assaulted.
That negative behavior also contributes to serious academic and health risks. Other studies have reported that 28 percent of LGBT youth drop out of high school and one-third attempt suicide.
Much of this harassment, however, goes unreported, especially from students who are not open about their sexual orientation or those, such as La Mirada's Ruvalcaba, who are afraid of retaliation, experts say.
Students at several local high schools have confronted the anti-gay climate by forming gay-straight alliances, which are chartered student clubs, with a faculty adviser, whose members devise ways of addressing harassment and homophobia.
More than 50 percent of California public high schools have such clubs, said Carolyn Laub, executive director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a youth leadership group that helps students organize the alliances.
Students who have been harassed, bullied or abused can learn how to file a complaint from their gay-straight alliance faculty adviser, a support school-staff member or at www.gsanetwork.org/resources/ ab537.html.
"It's not fair to be discriminated against," said Kamie Valenzuela, 16, a junior and straight ally at La Mirada High School. "If I can do something to stop my friends from facing discrimination, why shouldn't I?"
One school district has been proactive in combating anti-gay behavior.
The Los Angeles Unified School District's Project 10 is a districtwide program that, among other things, has provided sensitivity training on sexual-orientation issues and how to recognize and prevent discrimination, bullying and harassment of students to more than 35,000 teachers and administrators.
The program was launched in 1984 at Fairfax High School by Virginia Uribe, a lesbian teacher, after a gay male student, who had been verbally abused and assaulted, was transferred to another high school, Uribe said.
Three years later, the program was expanded to the entire district.
Long Beach, ABC, Paramount, Downey, Cerritos and Norwalk-La Mirada school districts do not have programs like Project 10. Some administrators, such as La Mirada's Assistant Principal Ron Carroll, don't think "indoctrinating" teachers and staff with similar programs is necessary.
"First and foremost, my job is to educate these students. Anything else is secondary. You can take that however you like," Carroll said.
In 1988, LAUSD was one of the first school districts in the state to pass a student and staff nondiscrimination policy that included sexual orientation. Since then, California has passed two student-protection laws, making California one of 10 states that protect students from bullying based on sexual orientation and one of five to protect students based on gender expression and identity.
Enforcement of these laws, however, has been challenging, experts say.
"There's this idea that you don't have to deal with LGBT issues unless a student is out of the closet or he or she comes to the administration with a problem," said Daniel Solis Martinez, Southern California program coordinator with the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.
Stephen Jimenez, LAUSD's Project 10 specialist, says, "Principals are supposed to outreach to gay youth. They have to say the words `gay and lesbian and outreach' to the students, telling them it is OK to come to (them) and report these problems.
"But it makes school districts uncomfortable to talk about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues," Jimenez said. "They think talking about LGBT issues means you are going to be talking about sexual behavior, which is not the case. You're talking about a student's civil right to attend school in a safe environment."
In 2003, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Flores vs. Morgan Hill Unified School District that harassment based on a student's sexual orientation violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
"Some faculty want to sweep these issues under the carpet and not even acknowledge they have gay or lesbian students in their class," said Stuart Biegel, professor of law and education at UCLA. "But there's no question that students have the law on their side. We are talking about the U.S. Constitution."


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The newly-renovated fourth floor will house two separate inpatient adult treatment units – a general unit with 12 beds and an intensive care unit with six beds. A 16-bed child/adolescent inpatient unit will be located on the newly-renovated fifth floor. All of the patient rooms are private and equipped with state-of-the-art technological features including door sensors, alarms and cameras. The new units also both have open dining areas, exercise rooms and large group meeting areas.
In addition to the behavioral health units, the Mercy Help Center is also relocating to Mercy's central campus. The Help Center will be located just inside the West Entrance in the former Mercy Mammography location and will provide access to treatment 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"The need to provide acute, crisis stabilization for individuals struggling with mental illness is ongoing," said Dr. James Dennert, medical director for the adult inpatient behavioral health unit. "Relocating these services to Mercy's main campus allows us to provide a broader range of psychiatric and medical care for our patients to make sure they get the help they need, when they need it most."
During the last year, Mercy Behavioral Health provided inpatient treatment to 1,125 individuals. On average, most patients stay in the inpatient unit for three days, before being referred to outpatient treatment, which may include the Partial Hospitalization Program or ongoing psychiatric and/or counseling services.
"The services we provide to children and adolescents who experience behavioral problems are crucial to helping families in our community," said Dr. Sasha Khosravi, medical director for the child/adolescent inpatient behavioral health unit. "In the last year, we treated more than 600 children and adolescents at the Mercy Franklin Center. The move to Mercy's central campus will increase the number of rooms we have available for child/adolescent patients, allowing us to help more children and their families."
Mercy Behavioral Health employs approximately 90 individuals – including psychiatrists, certified psychiatric nurses, licensed mental health counselors and licensed social workers.
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North Carolina State head coach Elliott Avent was noticeably frustrated over the phone after the NCAA announced this year's college baseball postseason field of 64, including those always-important eight national seeds.
As the NCAA Selection Committee met throughout the weekend, the Wolfpack seemed to be in fantastic shape to earn one of those eight national seeds. Florida State stumbled in the ACC tournament, the Wolfpack went 2-1, their lone loss coming in an 18-inning affair against North Carolina, and Oregon failed to do a clean sweep of Utah to end Pac-12 regular-season play.
Everything seemed to be in line for the Wolfpack to get a national seed, but it didn't happen, as the NCAA announced Florida State and Oregon as the final two national seeds, snubbing the Wolfpack and denying the Atlantic Coast Conference of four national seeds.
"It's really unbelievable," Avent said. "I'm just really disappointed right now. It's not what I want to focus on, though, because when you look at what our guys have done this entire season, they've never gotten too far ahead of themselves. In the end, we hope it doesn't matter, but we're disappointed because we thought we deserved to get a national seed."
N.C. State certainly had an overwhelming case to be a national seed, but was met with some stiff competition. NCAA Selection Committee chairman Dennis Farrell said four teams -- Florida State, N.C. State, Oregon and Indiana -- were in the mix for two of the eight national seeds.
"We spent a considerable amount of time on those last two national seeds. We had a top six identified rather quickly and very early in the process, but not those other four teams," Farrell said. "The committee thoroughly dissected all of those teams, and in some cases, it was like splitting hairs."
First things first, let's take an inside look at the teams that beat out the Wolfpack for the final two national seeds. Florida State's inclusion as one of the top eight national seeds wasn't too much of a surprise. We had the Seminoles as a national seed in our final projections for a reason. Despite going 0-4 last week, FSU put together a solid overall resume that included 14 wins vs. RPI Top 50 and an RPI of 8 to go with a 20-11 ACC record and road series win over the Wolfpack.
Though Farrell included Indiana as one of the teams considered for a national seed, the Hoosiers certainly didn't have a national seed worthy resume. IU finished the regular season and conference tournament action with a solid RPI of 12, along with a 10-9 mark vs. RPI Top 50. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers had significantly higher of a strength of schedule -- 71 -- compared to other teams competing for national seeds. Color me a huge fan of the Hoosiers as a team with an electric offense and pitching staff, but this wasn't a national seed team this season.
Oregon was the rather interesting inclusion, though. Though we had the Ducks listed as a national seed in some projections early last week, the Ducks' resume just doesn't compare to North Carolina State. The Ducks do have a very solid RPI of 9, but were just 6-10 vs. RPI Top 50 teams. Two things helped the Ducks, though: they played non-conference series against Cal State Fullerton and Vanderbilt, and went 23-7 on the road, including a late-season road series sweep over Ohio State. What wasn't discussed in the teleconference by Farrell is the fact the Ducks lost all of their marquee series against teams such as Fullerton, Vanderbilt, UCLA and Arizona State.
"We were impressed with Oregon's non-conference schedule, and it went on the road late in the season at Ohio State," Farrell said. "I think as a whole, the committee was impressed with Oregon's effort to schedule some tough out of conference games."
As for N.C. State, the Wolfpack put together quite an impressive resume during the regular season. They finished the regular season and conference tournament action with an RPI of 7, a 44-14 overall record, and most impressive, the Wolfpack had an 11-9 record vs. RPI Top 25, 18-10 mark vs. RPI Top 50 and 26-13 vs. RPI Top 100. Additionally, the Wolfpack played the No. 9 SOS as compared to No. 25 for Oregon and No. 71 for Indiana.
Going deeper into the resumes, N.C. State's marquee series wins came against Virginia Tech (11) and Georgia Tech (21), while Oregon's marquee series wins were against Arizona (58), Stanford (65) and Ohio State (63).
Breakdown all of those resumes and come up with your own conclusions. But as it stands, we're fine with Florida State having a national seed, but remain concerned Oregon got the last national seed over the Wolfpack. The NCAA Selection Committee consistently explains that national seeds are handed out on the basis of individual merit, not necessarily limiting national seeds by conference. However, it seems in this case the committee didn't want to the ACC having four national seeds.
With all that said, coach Avent and the Wolfpack could have the final laugh in this ordeal. Though they didn't earn a national seed, the Wolfpack would hit the road to Eugene, Ore., to face the Ducks should both teams win their respective regionals.
N.C. State already has one of the nation's elite teams. Now there's extra motivation involved.


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