![]() Kyjen Plush Puppies Dog Squeaker Mat Toy, Squirrel, Large Great for stong destructive dogs I have two pitbulls 70 and 50 lbs who rip through stuffed animals like there is no tommorow. Anything that is plush and squeaks usually lasts about 10 minutes in our house and their toy bin is basically full ...Read the full
![]() Kyjen Egg Babies Dog Toy, Original Series, Platypus Dog is Crazy about this onmouseover= ...Read the full
![]() Invincible Gecko 4 Squeak - Blue Lasted 30 Minutes It's a cute toy but my Boston terrier had ripped a hole in it after 30 minutes. Then my Puggle puppy tore out the squeakies turns out they don't squeak anymore if you chew the ends off.I gave it two stars because I still ...Read the full
Kyjen Dog Games Star Spinner Treat Toy Read more... Engaging All games include instructions and tips Dishwasher safe Fun & Entertaining way to feed my dog My dog loves his dog bowl puzzle. I was amazed at how quickly he figured it out. I have tightened it to make it more challenging but he gets right into it and seems to enjoy the challenge. Star Spinner Treat Game A Hit I have two dogs that received this gift from Santa and figured it out pretty quick since Santa prefilled it. They play with it until it is empty as most dogs would I suspect since they can smell the food inside. They seem to really enjoy it. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is that it needs really small bits of food/treats and is not so easy to fill. I end up with quite a bit of food on the floor while trying to fill it. I might try to find some really small cookies to put inside to cut down on the frustration of filling it. I thought it would work better I have a bichon and I thought this would entertain him for atleast 15 minutes but it didn't. Fun & easy My dogs very much enjoy getting treats or food out of this toy they enjoy getting treats out of anyting. I will say this is a fairly simple and easy toy to get treats out of. All the dog need do is move one star point and all the points underneath are exposed at once. Plastic is easy to clean if needed. Dog Puzzle Great for large and small breeds. Fairly simple puzzle but adds variety to other puzzles. You can increase resistance on the bottom to increase difficulty. Good puzzle no complaints. Love it! Fun way to give treats My dog enjoyed getting her treats from this toy. I had watched some videos of dogs playing with the star before I purchased it and those dogs were pushing the star around with their paw. Mine just nudged it with her nose and was able to get all of the treats. I think I can tighten the tension on it but I haven't tried that yet. Overall it was fun but not super challenging. Entertaining Toy Skyy likes this toy. It took her a while to figure out who to move the spinner toy but once she got it there was no stopping her. It's not as exciting for as her Smart Toys IQ Treat Ball but she still gets excited when she sees me filling it. She runs to the rug where I usually put it and she has fun pushing it to get her treasures out. Fun way to feed your dog My dog loves it. I feed her using the star and she loves trying to separate each level to get to the food. No good My dog figured this out in 20 secs and quickly lost interest right after. Just spinnning a little opens up ALL the food compartments. Also its hard to get at some of the food given how narrow the opening is. Would not recommend. Read more... Related Products![]() - Ourpets DT-10504 Smarter Toys IQ Treat Ball , 5 Inches , Colors may vary great
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![]() - Premier Busy Buddy Tug-A-Jug, Medium/Large Good alternative to a Buster Cube This toy takes more effort to get food out than the Buster Cube which I like because it occupies the dog longer. I find that the cube even on its hardest setting only takes a few minutes to get out most of the food and then the ...Read the full
![]() - Kyjen PP01056 Hide-A-Squirrel Pet Toy, Large NF Terrier playing with this toy
![]() - Kyjen Dog Games Paw Hide Treat Toy Affordable Dog Puzzle!!! I bought this puzzle to help entertain my smart and curious and food driven dogs. My boys love it! We play it every single day. Often to work on obedience sit get it down get it! and just for fun administration of treats and even dinner. My ...Read the full
![]() - Kyjen Dog Games Treat Wheel Entertaining but too easy My golden retriever was very excited to try out this new toy! The first time we gave it to him it took several minutes to get all the tops off and get the food however by the third time it was introduced to him he had mastered it in 12 ...Read the full
Blogger offered me a new feature to turn on, and it looked cool, so I turned it on. If you're accessing this on a mobile device, you should now see the blog in a much less cluttered format, better suited to the small screen. I haven't tried it from a mobile device yet myself, but the preview looked good. Hope you like it.
KONG Air Dog Fetch Stick with Rope Dog Toy, Large, Yellow Read more... - Recommended for dogs 30-65 pounds; measures 11-inches long
- Non-abrasive, non-toxic tennis ball fabric will not wear down dog's teeth
- Throws are easy with the unique throw rope
- Perfect for retriever training
- Interactive throw and retrieve toy for you and your dog
Alex the Doberman gives it 5 paws up! He adores this toy. He holds it by the rope and shakes it and runs around. He literally sleeps with this toy he loves it so much. We love to play tugowar with him and he gets a great grip on the tennis ball like material. 2 year old boxer loves this toy!!!!! This toy was gifted to my dog who absolutely loves it!! She loves to chase fetch play tug swing it around by the rope She goes bonkers for it. Some days it is much better than food for training. I should say that she's not keen on chasing balls the rope seems to make a big difference. not a chew toy I have a Siberian Huskyshe chewed the rope off within five minutes. If you want a fetch toy this is okay if your dog would rather chew it's no good. Kong Air Dog Fetch Stick with Rope large yellow My Black labs LOVE these things! They will fetch all day long or unitl I get tired of throwing them. They are easy to throw provide a good and varied bounce and hold up pretty well. They are not a chew toy although one of my labs thinks it okay to bite off the rope bummer. When that happens they get a shorter throw but they don't care. After lots of fetching and abuse the cover begins to come off. After the cover is torn completely off and the tug of war between the two dogs it ends up in two pieces. Time for another. I buy these a dozen at a time! They last as well as anything else I have purchased. To purchase locally they cost $14.99. What a rip! Great company service and excellent delivery time. Most popular toy at my dog park My yellow lab cannot get enough of this toy and will chase and retrieve it relentlessly on land and in water until I drag him home. Ditto for most of the other labs at the dog park. It's not uncommon for 3 or more dogs to be competing with each other to bring this back to me for the next throw! Highly recommended for larger high energy dogs.Two caveats though..1 Although it's a sturdy toy a power chewer will reduce it to pieces in short order. It's a fetch toy NOT a chew toy so don't buy it for that purpose. Ditto for tug purposes I've gone through several of these because I don't heed my own advice 2The rope is made of nylon which can be pretty abrasive on your hands after repeated throws. Not a big deal but could be more comfortable. Favorite dog toy Our dog a border collie is a tennis ball fanatic and loves to play tug of war so this toy is perfect for him. We like the fact that we can hold on to the rope instead of the super slobbery part he's been tugging on. The odd shape makes it interesting enough that he will sometimes just play with it himself holding one end in his paws while trying to gnaw on the other. It seems to be pretty durable too. This is a replacement for one he finally finished chewing all the fuzz off of and it took him several months to finish the last one. Best toy ever for dogs that like the water I have a Chessie and he cannot get enough of this toy. Durable and can launch it really far. Completely recommended. Kong Air Dog with rope I love these kongs in the wintertime because its a lot easier to find them in the snow. They are also easier to see out in the water or along the shoreline all year long.My dog Suzie and I love to play with all the kongs on the rope because you can really fling them a far distance thereby giving the dog a really good run. But for the winter and the difficulty finding them in the snow. Not like other durable Kong products. I bought the large version of this toy for my lab/shepard mix who is 65 pounds. My dog can go through toys pretty quickly so I tend to stick with brands that create the most durable toys to make my money last a little longer. The rope on this toy is made of nylon not canvas like some of the other kong toys and because it is made of nylon my dog ripped through the toy in less than 5 minutes. I literally opened the toy and by the time I turned around it was in two pieces. I gave it two stars because I was still able to use the fetch part of the toy without the rope. junk came apart in no time. I supervise my dog with this tossing to her playing it came apart from the pressure of her teeth sinking into it. It simply split in half. Read more... Related Products![]() - KONG Aqua Dog Toy, Large, Orange No Match for Heavy Duty Jaws I have purchased two large orange Aqua Kong on a rope for use in the pool and as much as I wanted to love the toy it just did not stand up to my 95pound muscle not fat male German Shepherd. I raise and train German Shepherds in obedience ...Read the full
![]() - KONG Squeakair Tennis Ball with Rope Dog Toy, Medium, Yellow Too easy to destroy Our beagle really liked this toy. But within 20 minutes of her playing with it we could see that it wouldn't last long. The rope is made of some kind of nylon or plastic that was too easy to chew through. After a few more play sessions we had ...Read the full
![]() - KONG Air Dog Squeaker Donut Dog Toy, Large, Yellow Not Kong Tough Since this is a Kong I was hoping it would be a bit sturdier. My midsized mutt had this torn into pieces within just a few minutes of play. Cheap tennis balls last longer. Stick with the classic Kong toys if you have a ...Read the full
![]() - KONG Tugga Wubba Dog Toy, Large (Colors vary) 2 Newfie Paws Up! So far my 8 month old 105 pound Newfoundland puppy is a master destroyer of all things including all of the supposedly indestructable toys like the Kong Extreme BTW it is NOT indestructable. She's had this for 6 months and I ...Read the full
![]() - KONG Air Squeaker Spinner Dog Toy, Large, Yellow Long Lasting Fun & Material Well I found a toy that my 10 month olf Keeshond has not destroyed right away. He loves the material and the shape the way it spins and the squakers three. He usually destroys squeakers right away and he has now played a lot with this toy ...Read the full
All my life I've taken road trips, partly by natural inclination, partly by necessity. It's a largely timeless experience. Sure, the roads have improved (see the Grapevine Grade section of this page for a good example), the speed limits are higher, cars are faster and safer and there's not a lot of "local flavor" in most stopping points unless you actively seek it out, but for the most part road trips have been road trips since well before Kerouac. One thing that has changed is the soundtrack, and not just because tastes in music have changed. When I was a kid, any audio not provided by the car and its occupants came from the radio, and if you were on a long haul, it was the AM radio. Keeping FM tuned in was and remains too much of a hassle. An AM station, especially one of the " clear channel" stations (not to be confused with the media conglomerate) licensed to broadcast at high power, could be good for hours -- enough for a whole sports fixture, several runs through the news or all the whacked-out talk radio conspiracy theories you could eat. The key feature here, particularly on a solo trip through, say, the desert southwest US, was the lack of choice. You'd be doing well to have your pick of baseball, UFO speculation and the company of your own thoughts, and a hundred miles or so out of Albuquerque on a dark night with the game a blowout the UFO speculation starts sounding interesting and plausible. By the time I was doing my own solo long hauls, cassette tape was an option, but a library of a few dozen albums can be limiting after a while -- and suppose you want to know what's going on in the world, or just let someone else handle the programming for a while? The in-dash CD (briefly supplemented by a multi-disc changer in the trunk) increased one's options, but the same basic constraints applied. Only with the advent of satellite radio was there little reason to tune in to local stations at all. And now there's the web. As long as you've got a smartphone, bars, a bit of cable and an aux input, you can listen to pretty much anything. Stream your favorite home station. Stream your favorite internet station. Play your podcasts. Dial up Pandora. AM won't be completely disappearing anytime soon -- technologies written off as obsolete seldom do -- but the proportion of people who know or care must be steadily dwindling. Likewise I'd rather not try to predict whether or when web audio will supplant satellite radio, but if I had to place long-term bets, I'd bet on the web. It's hard to argue that having a huge palette of choices isn't progress of some sort, but there's something to be said for being drawn out of one's comfort zone because there's only one game in town.
It took a couple of tries, because the template I use is a fairly old one, but I've made a couple of tweaks to the buttons at the bottom of posts - The old hand-crafted Digg widget is gone. So far as I'm aware, no one has ever Dugg this blog.
- The old email button is gone
- In its place is an all-singing all-dancing set of share buttons, comprising (as I write this)
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- +1 -- a quick way to say "I like this", should you ever be so inclined
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I've written before about the use of online outlets for quick publication of informal (that is, non-peer-reviewed) results, and arXiv in particular. In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton expresses concern about the state of academic publishing and the power that the major publishers hold over academic researchers and libraries and wonders what will come of it all. Now it seems things are heating up. There is a boycott in progress against Elsevier, the academic publishing juggernaut that owns such publications as Lancet. A number, and evidently a growing number, of academics are simply refusing to publish in or otherwise participate in Elsevier publications, on the grounds that Elsevier's high prices and profit margins and their overall practices are harmful to those who must publish in them, the institutions who must buy the publications, and to the free exchange of ideas itself. At this writing, 12,558 people have signed up, giving their full names and affiliations in a searchable list. These are not random people taking potshots from behind pseudonyms. These people are putting their reputations on the line publicly and, by walking away from one of the major sources of recognition and exposure, potentially hindering their academic careers. Their names may be found on thecostofknowledge.com. The basic issue here is that to have a career in academia, one must produce a steady stream of work. The universal standard for measuring that stream of work is the number and quality of papers one publishes. "Publish or perish." Since anyone at all can print up a paper on a topic of research (and many do), there has to be some mechanism to determine whether a result has any real merit. In the academic world, that mechanism is peer review. If you submit a paper to a refereed journal, the editors will select a set of reviewers in your field to go over it. The reviewers will either reject the article outright or accept it, likely with revisions. Different journals have different standards for inclusion. This allows readers to have some idea up front how worthwhile an article is, and provides some means of rating a researcher's output beyond the sheer number of articles published. In principle, and for the most part in practice, the peer review process ensures that articles in journals are accurate and relevant, at least as far as the reviewers can tell at the time. Essentially, journals provide brand names. Peer review is clearly a valuable service, beyond printing and distribution of paper volumes, which is, of course, on the wane. But there are problems. In the call to action which started the current boycott, Timothy Gowers puts forth several complaints: - Journals cost too much, particularly since the authors and reviewers are paid by their institutions, not the publisher, and it's largely the same institutions that pay for subscriptions to the journals they're paying to produce.
- Online access is behind expensive paywalls.
- Publishers drive the overall cost up by bundling, that is, requiring institutions to buy large numbers of journals, many of which literally go unread, in order to subscribe to the ones they really care about. An institutional bundle from a given publisher can run into the millions of dollars per year.
- While many publishers produce expensive journals and require bundling, Gowers calls out Elsevier in particular for several reasons, including supporting legislation that restricts access to published results and playing hardball with institutions that try to resist bundling.
In short, publishers are in serious danger of losing their relevance, and in the view of those joining the boycott, Elsevier is one of the worst offenders.
It's all well and good to object to publishers' behavior and organize a boycott, but the academic world also seems actively engaged in building a more open, web-enabled alternative. This includes - Blogging as a means of informal sharing and discussion. Indeed, Gowers' call to action appeared on his blog (which, with a mathematician's precision, he calls "Gowers's Weblog")
- Sites, notably arXiv, for collecting unrefereed preprints.
- New online refereed journals aiming to take the place of old ones. Normally establishing a brand can be difficult, but if the editorial board of the new journal is made up of disaffected board members from old journals, their reputations come with them.
While writing this, I was wondering what would be a really webby way to do this. Here's a sketch: - Articles would be published in something more like a wiki form, with a full revision history and editors making changes directly.
- Since reputation is particularly important here, changes would ideally be digitally signed.
- Individuals could put their imprimatur on (a particular revision of) an article they thought worthy.
- The quality of papers could be judged by the reputation of those approving of them, which in turn would be judged by the quality of the papers they'd produced ...
And then it occurred to me that in practice there would probably come to be groups of people whose approval was particularly significant within particular fields. It would be good to be able to establish groups of, say experts in homology or complex analysis. It would also be good to have people who were good at steering new works to the appropriate groups of experts.
Hmm ... except for the revision history and digital signatures bit, this sounds an awful lot like a peer-reviewed online journal.
This is the least pleasant segment to write. Xanadu the architecture and business model are interesting to write about. They may not have panned out, but they deserve to be studied and kept in mind. It's never good to assume that the present way of doing things is the only or best way. Xanadu provides alternatives that, if not viable, are at least worth thinking through. However, there is a sadder side to the story: Xanadu the software project, which by any reasonable standard has been an unmitigated failure. In particular, it never shipped anything of consequence. Gary Wolf's piece, which again Nelson has strongly disputed, at least seems to square with the lack of notable Xanadu applications. Autodesk founder John Walker's assessment of the four years and millions of dollars spent when Xanadu was affiliated with his company and given ample resources -- much more, for example, than were used to found Autodesk itself -- corroborates this. Xanadu had literally become a footnote. Looking through the various Xanadu websites, I can't say I've turned over every stone, but I've only managed to find three tangible results: - A Windows demo dated 2007 that I haven't yet run because I don't have a suitable Windows box handy at the moment (and frankly, given everything else, I may never run)
- A Python script called the Transquoter
- A link to a site not directly affiliated with Xanadu but clearly influenced by it.
The Transquoter seems indicative of the overall state of things. It essentially takes a list of links in a file and pastes their contents together. Each quotation gets its own highlight color when moused over, and each quotation is a link. The links in the file are of a special form, with query parameters indicating which version of the document in question to use and what range of characters to extract from it. These both assume the stable "write once, never edit" model of documents that Xanadu uses. The scheme would work for, say, Wikipedia articles, if you were careful to link to a particular version, but not for a lot of other things. Never mind, though. A sample is provided. The sample links exclusively to Nelson's sites. It's Nelson's content, Nelson's chosen servers and an officially blessed Python script. Nonetheless, the links don't work. The script generates plausible-looking links, with version and charrange parameters saying what to look for, but the servers just ignore them and serve the whole page. The whole point of this transclusion thing, I thought, was that when you navigate from one occurence of the content to another, you actually get to that content in its context, not to the document it came from with no indication of where that content might be. Seriously? OK then, suppose you have a server that actually understands the syntax of the links. Perhaps one that can take a link anywhere on the web, perhaps cache a copy of it to ensure stability, and serve that page up, showing the quoted text, suitably highlighted and in context. Not something I'm inclined to work on personally, but certainly feasible. How do you put together the document that references it? You put together a text file containing an "edit difference list". The only edit difference supported seems to be directly pulling in a quote by giving the position of the first character in the source document and a size in characters (working around HTML tags as needed). No tool is provided for, say, highlighting some text in your browser and dragging it into a document-in-progress. But hey, you can use any text editor you like to produce a list of specially-tweaked URLs to give to the script on the command line, to get an HTML file to upload to your site. Seriously? There's a principle in software engineering of "eating your own dogfood," that is, using your own tools wherever possible. For example, Linux became "self-hosting", meaning that further development of Linux was done using Linux systems, at an early age. Becoming self-hosting is a major rite of passage for many kinds of tool, particularly compilers. Among other things, it's a fairly convincing demonstration that the tool can be used for something real. Does Xanadu.net use the transquoter? Not as far as I can tell. If it did, there would probably be a real editor. OK, enough. At some point this is just piling on. The most plausible demonstration of how Xanadu might work comes not from within Xanadu, but from Jason Rohrer's token_word system which Nelson mentions. It attempts to show what a payment system based on Xanadu's pay-per-first-access model would look like. You can even put in real money via a PayPal account, though fortunately the first 50,000 "tokens" are free. There are documents on the site, though not very many, and you can construct new documents by writing text or by pulling quotations in from other documents in the system. The process is inconvenient but doable: To extract quotes you put <q> and </q> tags around the text you want to quote in an edit box and push a button. Then you put <q n=""> into your own text — use <q 0=""> for the first quote you extracted, <q 1=""> for the next ... Stone-age tools, but I can forgive that here because 1) the site looks to be fairly old and done as a spare-time project by one person, 2) other parts of the demo, particularly tracking how much text you've accessed, work and 3) the stone-age axe at least has a handle and a blade.Have a look around if you like. At least it's something. It's the kind of demo that, if there were more of them and they had together been developed into a prototype system, might have gotten people to take the project seriously. Personally, I believe I got enough of the flavor to see that I would prefer not to access documents in such a way, even with a slicker interface, but that's a good thing. Allowing people to make that kind of determination is exactly why we have demos, and it's what puts the site light-years ahead of the transquoter, which would probably leave most people scratching their heads.
Xanadu has been around as a concept since the 1960s. People have devoted years of their lives to working on it. Millions of dollars have been spent. In that time the entire computing industry has been turned upside down multiple times. [Did I really say that? Well, the technology, at least, has undergone major changes.] Thousands of new companies have emerged, some even surviving. Billions of lines of code have been written. Protocols have been defined. Apps have been written and shipped, fortunes made, lost, remade. Even taking into account the inherent architectural difficulties of the Grand Scheme, even if every word of Wolf's story is absolutely accurate, even taking into account code lost at various stages during the development of the project, it still boggles the mind how little there is to show for it.
It's well known that people like to choose bad passwords, and for years other people have suggested rules for making passwords more secure. I'm not really sure why it should be happening now in particular, but it seems that every site that has a password must now jump on the bandwagon and have a password policy enforcer. And of course, they're all a little different. Fortunately there are plenty of possibilities. Here's a do-it-yourself guide in case you think your site needs one. First, pick any two of - The password must contain at least one number
- The password must contain at least one lowercase letter
- The password must contain at least one uppercase letter
- The password must contain at least one special character
Next flip a coin to pick one of the remaining two to disallow.
Now pick a minimum length. Back in the day, when computers were much slower than they are now and it wasn't fairly easy to get a gazillion computers to cooperate (with or without the owners' consent), the recommended minimum length was eight characters. Today it should probably be more like 12 or 14. So make sure the minimum length is at least six.
Now set a maximum length of 8. Why a maximum, given that all other things equal, longer passwords are stronger, and the whole point of the exercise is to encourage strong passwords? Don't know. Probably whoever put the database together remembered the old eight-character rule and decided that should be the maximum. But 8 is a magic number for passwords and everyone else does it.
Finally, add an arbitrary hidden restriction. For example, if the password has to have a number, make sure it can't be the first character (yes, I ran into that one). If it has to be a special character, quietly disallow '$' and '!'. Something like that, just to reduce the strength and make people work a little harder.
Voila. You now have a password policy. If I did that math right, there are three dozen basic policies, times however many arbitrary rules there are, so there are easily hundreds of possibilities. Chances are fair that your poor user will never have encountered your exact policy before and never will again.
Chances are also fair that once they jump through all your hoops (bonus points if this is all happening on a smartphone or tablet), your poor user will have never come up with that particular password on the spot before. That's good, since sharing passwords can be dangerous. The only drawback is that poor user is liable to forget this ad-hoc password within five minutes of logging in.
So urge them to write it down "some place safe."
Then have them pick three or four secret questions and answers for when they have to reset the password next time they log on. But that's a different rant. If you feel you need further security advice, you can always consult a real expert.
A while ago I turned on "Word Verification", which makes people leaving comments read a hard-to-read word in order to prove they're not a bot. This seems to have done more harm than good. I still get the occasional spam comment, and it's a pain for people to leave real comments. To see what to do about it, I Googled blogger captcha, and up popped this post urging bloggers to "kick Captcha to the curb". The gist is, no, that extra inconvenience to real readers isn't really worth it. Spam filters catch spam even if word verification is turned off. And, of course, "It flags your blog as less professional". If there's anything this blog stands for, in tone, subject matter and publication schedule, it's iron-clad professionalism. So I'm turning word verification off. If it turns out to be a horrible mistake, I can always turn it back on. Otherwise, no news is good news.
Passwords are easy to get wrong. Trying to make people come up with "stronger" passwords just makes it worse. Security questions just provide another avenue of attack, probably an easier one. So, ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you: The security word. "What is it?", you may later regret asking. You give the site a "security word". Later, they will ask you not for the word, but a few randomly selected letters, for example the second, fifth and eighth, and next time it might be the first, fifth and sixth (note to self -- lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon may not be the best choice for this exercise). If you picked, say, security, and the system asks for the second fifth and eighth letters, you would give 'e', 'r' and 'y'. If someone's looking over your shoulder, how much information do they have? Let's fire up the old UNIX shell $ grep '^.e..r..y.*' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
84
What this means is that there are 84 words in the dictionary on my system that have 'e', 'r' and 'y' in those positions, or about six bits of entropy. Most of them are words like ventrohysteropexy and dextrogyratory that people are unlikely to pick. The person who helped me set up the account in question recommended something "easy to remember". Odds are it's "security". If not, all an attacker has to do is guess the letters that the site asks for next time. There's a good chance that at least one will be one the attacker has already seen. There won't be a lot of choices for the unknown letters. Without looking at the list, I'd bet that 'q' isn't on it and 'e', 't' and a few others cover most of the possibilities. Even without having looked over your shoulder, an attacker would know just from the security word being English that certain letters are better to try in certain positions. So basically you have another hoop to jump through that adds minimal actual security, but tries to create the illusion of strong security, while really just making the system harder to use. Huzzah.
PetQwerks Talking Babble Ball Toy for Dogs and Cats, Small Read more... - Pet Item
- Replaceable batteries
- Talking
My Basenji loves it! My Basenji loves this toy. She will take it out of her toybox and begin playing with it on her own.I must admit the voices are a little creepy in how they sound but they are apparently very appealing to animals.It can be slightly annoying since every time it moves it says a different message so if the dog is constantly playing with it the creepy voice will be continously play. One of puggle's favorite toys It took my puggle a bit to get used to this toy. She's skiddish around noise but once she warmed up to it it's become one of her favorites.PROSIt kept her interest. Although I find the babbling repetitive and annoying my puggle seems happy with it.Indestructible it's one of the few toys that has stood up to my puggle's teeth. It's been dropped it's been chewed on it's been thrown yet it's still working.Replaceable batteries I haven't had to replace them yet it's been seven months but they are supposed to be replaceable.CONSIt's hard plastic so if you have wood or tile it's going to be noisy.It's small and will roll under couches and tables depending on your furniture. Sooooo much fun for my dog! I have an American Bulldog that absolutely goes crazy over this toy! I laugh so hard watching him shake it toss it and carry it everywhere with him. The voice on this toy is very funny also! I have wrapped it up in a pair of old socks he likes to drop it on the tile floor to keep it from breaking. My border collie is obsessed I received the ball yesterday. At first my dog just looked at it. But then he got the idea and played with it non stop all day and into the night. I had to put it away so he would eat. It gives him lots of exercise. I ordered 3 more today. my dog loved it but it broke after 2 days I have a 30 lb Aussie who is playful but gentle with her toys. I've never seen her so joyful as when she interacted with this toy I think she regarded it as the best playmate she'd ever had. LOL. Sadly the babble component of this ball quit working after just a few days. I tried replacing the batteries hoping that was the problem battery replacement is easy to do but expensive btw. No luck. I can hear something broken/ rattling inside the ball. Normally I would not replace a product that breaks so quickly. However my little dog has been laying around depressed since the babbling stopped so I'm going to order another and hope the new one lasts. Love the Babble Ball! Found a smaller version of this at some pet store years ago and our doberman went CRAZY over it. She rolled & chased & chewed on it for years until it just uttered a few disjointed words. Looked everywhere for a replacement and finally found it on Amazon so I ordered 2 large sized balls. This keeps Cooper busy all day long she chases it she runs with it in her mouth she brings it to us to throw. BEST DOG TOY IN THE UNIVERSE! We have an english bulldog and a year ago had to rush him to the ER for EMERGENCY SURGERY to have a TUFF KONG cut out of his stomachthe indestructible LIE OF A TOY they advertise that is super tough black rubber.a joke! What wasn't funny was the $2100 bill we paid and even less funnier him almost dying.I have not found a toy that I trusted till now. I bought the blue babble ball for my bullie and it is literally HOUR of fun. He chases it plays with it runs with it and absolute LOVES IT. It keeps him entertained for hours! I want to get a bigger one not sure how much bigger the yellow one is but I'm willing to try it. The only down side to it the mechanism inside has stopped talking.but the bulldog is tough on his toys so I blame him. Anyways it's a nice change and I don't have to hear the toy teasing him constantly so I'll take it.I love this toy so much but more than me loving it my bulldog loves it. I have told so many people to buy it and give it a try. Too hard too loud and not for small dogs even smallest version We have a 1 year old Chihuahua that loves new toys and will play with just about anything. But like *most* dogs they want to try and kill a toy. This thing is made of hard plastic so it's impossible for the dog to even slightly get it's teeth into it. One option might be to put another hard rubber layer around the ball.Our chihuahua played with it for a while but then just decided to ignore it. +/ after 3 min.I also tried the smallest version of the talking ball toy but it's still too big for our dog to put in it's mouth which I obviously prefer. I still feel that they should put another layer of hard non toxic rubber around it.It might be useful if you have another bigger toy then just shove this ball into it.Having said all of that I would give it 3 stars for quality seems pretty well made but I have to drop another star just because of the sounds which seem pretty pathetic but mostly because there is no way to reduce the volume the sound is just too hard to our liking. Puppy Loves It!!!! I have never seen my 50 lb lab mix Mischka act so silly with something!!! It's wonderful! This toy was worth it's money in the first 5 minutes we had it out of the package. She pounced on it. She barked and growled at it. Then she proceeded to roll it all over the place. It kind of looked like she was kicking it around like a soccer ball!I would recommend this toy for any puppy parent who is looking for something durable and different from the same old boring squeaky toys we all have piling up in the toy box. What can you do about this??? My dogs played with this for a few hours on the first day and loved it. After that it stopped making noise. This is very disappointing. Is there anything that can be done about this? Is it exchangeable? Please respond. Read more... Related Products![]() - Pet Qwerks Inc ABB2 Animal Sounds Babble Ball - Medium Funniest Toy Ever
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Nylabone Dura Chew Bone, Chicken Flavor, Souper Read more... - Souper
- Irresistible chicken flavor!
- This long lasting chew is made from durable nylon, and is especially designed for strong chewers.
Great For Aggressive Chewers Our dog is an aggressive chewer and loves this Chicken flavor Nylabone. It cleans his teeth and he never seems to have any bad breath. I do have to pick up the pieces that he's chewed off but it satisfies his chewing urges. Since the price was reasonable and shipping was free I bought 4 of the to keep on hand. Doesn't just take a lickin' it holds up to the heaviest chewer Our two dogs are heavy chewers and these bones just last and last. They chew them down to a little nub of nothing but it takes many months. Chew This One of our Danes has eaten the couch and various other items. This is a very good chew toy and he chews it when he feels like it. Our little 14 pound mix likes to carry it around and chew on it. Dog loved it didn't last too long We got this for our black lab puppy. She is an aggressive chewer. She loved this bone so much so that she destroyed it. I don't recall exactly how long it lasted but only a couple months. We upgraded her to the Durable Nylabones are Less Durable Lately. These durable Nylabones seem to be somewhat less durable in the past couple years. I have an older Nylabone in the same flavor & size that my dog is still working at and it's still in good shape. But I've purchased two more in the past year in this and another flavor and each time the pieces of plastic come away too easily & quickly. By 20 minutes into chewing there are too many large pieces coming off and I have to take it away. Swallowing this stuff is not good. I think Nylabone might be intentionally making these LESS durable so that we'll have to buy them more often since the old ones lasted a lifetime.Also note that this item is indeed the newer textured version of the toy. I was hoping it wouldn't be but I couldn't find it in this flavor and size in the untextured and the description didn't mention it either way. My dog didn't seem to care either.As for all the Souper sized Nylabones I wish they'd make the same thing just a bit longer in length. My dog is very tall but with a long narrow snout. He doesn't like anything that's too big to easily get in his mouth like the big dog Nylabone toys. This toy is almost long enough for him to hold it well with his paws while chewing but not quite. The only thing that stands up to powerful chewers. These are the only bones that my Mastiff and beagle can keep around for their chewing needs. Most bones end up in rubber shreds on my carpet within ten minutes. These last a long time and the dogs simply LOVE them. Big dog chew Nylabone is still the best option if you want a great dog chew toy without the splinter dangers of real bones or a mess on your furniture and floors. Dog loves it This Nylabone is pretty much indestructible. My German Shepherd has been chewing on it for almost 9 months and it's still holding up. She loves chewing on it. Love it Our three Dobermans and Bulldog love this. However it is not the same on in the pic. The one I received had raised bumps and grooves which I think they enjoyed on their gums/mouth even better. I highly recommend this product. The only chew bone durable enough for a sled dog. I have an old Alaskan husky and he eats even the large Zoe and Greenie chews within a couple of minutes. This is the first commercial chew bone that he actually chews on as opposed to tearing it apart and swallowing. It's not terrifically attractive in fact he ignored it completely for a couple of days but now he chews on it regularly and it's definitely reducing tartar. Read more... Related Products
The sea has been rising and will pretty clearly continue to rise. This is not cause for immediate concern to citizens of Utah or Nepal, but it's of great concern to citizens of countries such as Maldives (highest elevation 2.3 meters) or Kiribati (a few meters). Or Tuvalu (4.5 meters). Bear in mind that an island nation does not have to be completely inundated to become uninhabitable. As the sea rises, the water inland becomes brackish and plants stop growing. Storms become more destructive. Even normal tides can become problematic and, leaving that aside, the amount of land, say, two meters above the sea will typically be dramatically less than the amount one meter above the sea. It's a serious concern. The Economist considers the worst case of an island nation becoming completely uninhabitable. International law is unclear on this, there not being a lot of precedent, but the article speculates that, while the residents of the nation may be displaced and the nation itself no longer meet the criteria of having a clear territory or a permanent population, yet a nation might still remain a legal entity. This matters because under this scenario the nation would still retain assets. The most obvious asset is the territorial claim under the law of the sea (mainly territorial waters of 12 nautical miles and an economic zone of 200 nautical miles), but in the case of Tuvalu there is also the .tv domain (Maldives and Kiribati have their own domains of course, but haven't been able to exploit them economically the way Tuvalu has). I've written before about how this didn't pan out to be quite the bonanza it was originally hoped to be, but according to Wikipedia it does bring in $4 million a year, or about $400 per year per capita under a contract expiring around 2012. It's not clear what price the domain might fetch in the next round of negotiations, and in any case it would be small compensation for losing one's homeland, but amid all the sadness it's remarkable that perhaps some day the proceeds from a piece of virtual real estate will help sustain a virtual nation.
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