Day: September 29, 2011

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Is This Proof?

Or is this just one more data point in support of The Relativity Weight Control Plan?

Oh, wait, you want to know what he Relativity Weight Control Plan is, eh? That’s simple. General relativity holds, among other things, that the faster a particle travels the greater its mass, as observed by an unaccelerated frame of reference until its quasi-local apparent mass is infinite.

Reason would suggest, then, that the slower an object, the less its apparent mass. So…

The fact that, when I took a two-hour nap I lost three pounds would tend to offer evidence of The Relativity Weight Control Plan’s efficacy, eh? Continue reading “Is This Proof?”

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As If I Needed Yet Another Reason to Use the Opera Browser

The short story for anyone browsing the web is summed up in this M$ warning about issues with the TLS 1.0 security protocols used in “secure” connections by most browsers. By default, Internet Exploder, in Windows 7, uses TLS 1.0 which is vulnerable to a “man in the middle” attack that could compromise a user’s personal information. In XP, this “default” is also the only level of TLS that is available, but by jumping through a few hoops, one can enable TLS 1.1 in IE in a Win7 environment.

Chrome and Firefox are still awaiting patches that would enable them to use TLS 1.1.

Meanwhile, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 have been available to Opera users since 2009.

Click-Click-Click-Click-Click-Done. All without having to mess with some external download from a M$ “Knowledge base” article or mess around with “Internet Options” (that only affect IE and then only allow adding implementation of the older TLS 1.1).

Built into the thing from long since before the problem was identified by other browser developers. Nice.

Enjoy your online banking with IE, Chrome or Firefox!