Bullshit. The most commonly used DRM format is Adobe Flash players proprietary RTMP streaming format. It has not been cracked, so streams served in that format are not copied. You can rebuild the stream by screendumping each frame but it is to much work so no one bothers. Adobe's other stream format is using FLV files. That format is easily copyable (just download the file!), which is why a popular FLV stream is almost instantly copied to hundreds of sites on the internet when it becomes available. Never wondered why no one pirates ps3 games? etc. As long as the DRM is not broken, it does stop piracy.
Frames are useful for at least two reasons. One is ajaxupload. They are used to implemented the cool feature in which a user uploads a file along with a progress bar without leaving the page. Number two is to ajax post data to an external domain. I believe facebooks like button is implemented using an iframe too. It is a really cool and versatile element, but yes plagued with security problems.
If they did, then they should have to put those reasons forward. Otherwise the "other reasons" may be a personal vendetta from her boss which is a fucking shitty reason. The burden of proof is on them to prove that she did a shitty job, not on her to prove that she is innocent.
My bet is that the MAFIAA has choosen Sweden as their battleground. There are likely more pirates per capita here than in any other place of the world. Plus the tech industry is strong and we rely on IP rights for lots of exports such as "Swedish design." If Hollywood can win here, they will win all over the world.
And while it may appear otherwise, Sweden actually has much stricer IP laws than for example the US. There is no DMCA Safe Harbour provision or concept of fair use.
I used to work with Novells ancient backported to death 2.6.8 kernels. Thousands of patches applied over a period of over five years. Supposedly, rock-solid, enterprise grade, robust, deployment-ready, yadda yadda, kernels. Except they weren't. They kernel oopsed much more frequently than the 2.6.20 kernels that were bleeding edge at the time. And good luck trying to debug the crashes. Because there were two totally different development lines, the Novell and the mainline one, it was impossible to know if the bug was fixed in a later version of the mainline kernel or even if it was any of Novell's patches that caused the problem in the first place.
Plus, when a regular linux kernel crashes, usually you can ask for help debugging the problem on a mailing list. Or open a ticket on a public bug tracker. But a problem in a insanely patched Novell kernel? No one except Novell themselves can fix it.
If you talk to anyone who is involved in running gambling sites, they will loudly protest against the current ban. Not because the ban is making them shitloads of money, but because legalized gambling would make them even more money. The US market is already huge and expected to explode when gambling becomes legal. And it will be, the companies have more than enough money to force lobby that decision through.
What this means is that the gambling ban *is effective*. Less Americans gamble than they would otherwise. Why else spend money lobbying to change legislation?
Wrong. The intensity of the radiation decreases with the square of the distance. OP is rationally more concerned about cell phones than cell phone towers.
Your memory must be very short. Wales usually gets involved in a small number of conflicts which become landmark cases that everyone has to adjust to. It was his votes that forced the removal of the autofellatio photos and decided that the vagina and clitoris photos were to sexual. Previously, he has even been involved in the Palestine conflict, pruning some articles he thought were "unbalanced." Plus, let's not forget the time he tried to purge the "co-founder of Wikipedia" status from Larry Sanger.
And some stress could certainly be caused by cellphone usage. Not that I'm disagreing with you. Creating fair studies that takes into effect all independent variables is hard.
Same here. Although Chrome has some horrible stability issues and other bugs. While the js engine is faster, gmail will only load once in about five tries for me. Same thing with google analytics and other javascript heavy pages; they run faster when they work but most of the time they plain don't work in Chrome. In FF, they load (slower) but without hickups. And then lots of sites crash the browser. Supposedly, Chrome's process separation should ensure that only one tab gets wrecked but that never ever works for me. Instead all chrome processes freezes and I have to kill them using a command line. Chrome will rock when it but for me it is still way unstable.
So what? Windows is the best selling operating system of this decade and it still sucks. You can't judge how good a product is by how many suckers get fooled by its marketing. Everyone I know who purchased a Wii have their consoles standing idly while those who bought xboxes or ps3s continue to enjoying games on their platforms.
So you are honestly accusing MS of releasing a concept video of how they are imagining their tablet pc to work as some kind of underhanded tactic to destroy ipad sales? Because consumers see how a really good tablet could work and so becomes less impressed by Apple marketing?
Good for you. It is still unethical for McDonald's and Burger King to take advantage of kids lack of self-control. The issues are separate. Likewise, it is unethical for gambling companies to use excessive amounts of blinkenlights which they know creates irresistable urges in gambling addicts which is how they make money. Or for tobacco companies to sell lethal poison. I can't see how laws against preying on children can be a bad thing.
No it is not new. But it is still cool and interesting and new javascript who wasn't around, when old-hands like you were implemeting ghetto-ajax, can learn some important web development history. So yes, you are a much smarter hacker than that guy will ever be, but please stop complaining lest we all be swamped with even more iphone and ipad spam-articles. k thx bye.:)
Your personal anecdotes are very impressing. Truly, why would anyone need studies or facts when we have stories like yours. Personally I haven't seen a mac break down but the two guys at work using them look gay.
I have posted about it previously, but there are very strong indications that googles account system suffers from one or more bugs. There have been dozens of reports of users who have accidentally been logged into other users accounts. It is definitely possible that crackers and spammers have figured out how to exploit the security holes by now.
For the record, people mod posts interesting because they find them "interesting" not because they are correct. And complaining about modding is childish.
This has been discussed many [slashdot.org] times [slashdot.org], and I regret to inform you that your argument does not hold water. While it's a nice story to imagine this 'geek hero' standing up against the system, it's an airbrushed, romanticized version of the truth. This dude was out of line, end of story. He decided to try to flex his muscles, and he got taught a very valuable lesson that many could learn from. It was not his place to determine who was "competent" enough for the information.
The important point is that he was asked to give up that information after he was fired. In a sane world, Childs would have been able to tell them to fuck off because he as no obligation what so ever to work for free for his former employer. Btw, this is one of the many reasons IT workers should be unionized. Unions could have layed down the ground rules to abusive workplaces like this and fined them for millions for their transgressions. Companies don't own you for life.
Well, for the record, Google's security system IS BUGGY. There has been scattered reports across the internet about how users accidentally have been able to login to other peoples accounts. The problem has been reported to google multiple times on their mailing lists, but google has never given a proper response to it. They are likely afraid of the public PR disaster that would occur if people found out how insecure their google accounts really are.
Is it only in software we care about backwards compatiblity? This new name change will break thousands of studies which now references a fly does not exist. Journalists with only a fleeting aquantaince to biology will be confused about Drosophila melanogaster and its new name which leads to worse science reporting. This seems like gratitious breakage, where if an analysis was made the costs would be found much higher than the benefits.
So is there any console or other electronic gadget you can buy nowadays which does not include forced locked own firmware updates that has the possibility of breaking it? Both Xbox360 and the Wii are just as locked down as the PS3.
Java programmers who are to stupid to experience more advanced technologies doesn't understand it either.
Hold on there for a sec. PHP is an advanced technology? Really??? Crap like this http://lwn.net/Articles/379909/ [lwn.net] is what 'advanced' technology is about?
PHP is basically JSP with plain Java SE on it, and a rather poor version of that approach that this. It's perfectly suited for Joe's Burgers 4 page website, but when something more 'advanced' is needed, PHP just doesn't cut it.
Right, the "Java is needed for advanced stuff" argument. Fact: If your web application is "too advanced for PHP" you are doing it wrong and should simplify your design.
For instance, the platform offers zero provisions for any form of concurrency. There is not even something like the basic threading support that Java has had since 1.0, let alone that there is any support for simple asynchronous execution (e.g. the @Asynchronous annotation) or highly efficient parallel computing paradigms like a fork/join framework. And what about an O/R mapper that comes with Java by default? How about dependency injection? What about declarative transactions? What about transactions that automatically span multiple method calls and multiple transactional resources?
Who the fuck gives a shit? Any web app will be IO bound anyway. Dependency injection is a kludge you only need because Java is static and not dynamic. Transactions should be handled by the framework. In those JEE apps I've worked on, the transaction decorators always been misused by overzealous developers creating huge transactions slowing the application down to a crawl.
And I can produce results a hundred times as fast by using Java EE/Java/JBoss AS than with Django/Python and surely PHP. I'm not sure what this proves though...
It proves that you are one of those Java only developers too stupid to learn new languages. Sorry but it is true. Do yourself a favor and take a week to learn a dynamic language. You will thank me for the advice. You will also realize all talk about Java being "enterprise grade," more robust, scalable, yadda yadda is just bullshit.
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That tool can not dump streams created for Adobe Flash 10 which is what 99% of all streams use.
Bullshit. The most commonly used DRM format is Adobe Flash players proprietary RTMP streaming format. It has not been cracked, so streams served in that format are not copied. You can rebuild the stream by screendumping each frame but it is to much work so no one bothers. Adobe's other stream format is using FLV files. That format is easily copyable (just download the file!), which is why a popular FLV stream is almost instantly copied to hundreds of sites on the internet when it becomes available. Never wondered why no one pirates ps3 games? etc. As long as the DRM is not broken, it does stop piracy.
Frames are useful for at least two reasons. One is ajaxupload. They are used to implemented the cool feature in which a user uploads a file along with a progress bar without leaving the page. Number two is to ajax post data to an external domain. I believe facebooks like button is implemented using an iframe too. It is a really cool and versatile element, but yes plagued with security problems.
If they did, then they should have to put those reasons forward. Otherwise the "other reasons" may be a personal vendetta from her boss which is a fucking shitty reason. The burden of proof is on them to prove that she did a shitty job, not on her to prove that she is innocent.
My bet is that the MAFIAA has choosen Sweden as their battleground. There are likely more pirates per capita here than in any other place of the world. Plus the tech industry is strong and we rely on IP rights for lots of exports such as "Swedish design." If Hollywood can win here, they will win all over the world.
And while it may appear otherwise, Sweden actually has much stricer IP laws than for example the US. There is no DMCA Safe Harbour provision or concept of fair use.
I used to work with Novells ancient backported to death 2.6.8 kernels. Thousands of patches applied over a period of over five years. Supposedly, rock-solid, enterprise grade, robust, deployment-ready, yadda yadda, kernels. Except they weren't. They kernel oopsed much more frequently than the 2.6.20 kernels that were bleeding edge at the time. And good luck trying to debug the crashes. Because there were two totally different development lines, the Novell and the mainline one, it was impossible to know if the bug was fixed in a later version of the mainline kernel or even if it was any of Novell's patches that caused the problem in the first place.
Plus, when a regular linux kernel crashes, usually you can ask for help debugging the problem on a mailing list. Or open a ticket on a public bug tracker. But a problem in a insanely patched Novell kernel? No one except Novell themselves can fix it.
If you talk to anyone who is involved in running gambling sites, they will loudly protest against the current ban. Not because the ban is making them shitloads of money, but because legalized gambling would make them even more money. The US market is already huge and expected to explode when gambling becomes legal. And it will be, the companies have more than enough money to force lobby that decision through.
What this means is that the gambling ban *is effective*. Less Americans gamble than they would otherwise. Why else spend money lobbying to change legislation?
Wrong. The intensity of the radiation decreases with the square of the distance. OP is rationally more concerned about cell phones than cell phone towers.
Your memory must be very short. Wales usually gets involved in a small number of conflicts which become landmark cases that everyone has to adjust to. It was his votes that forced the removal of the autofellatio photos and decided that the vagina and clitoris photos were to sexual. Previously, he has even been involved in the Palestine conflict, pruning some articles he thought were "unbalanced." Plus, let's not forget the time he tried to purge the "co-founder of Wikipedia" status from Larry Sanger.
Cause people who use handsfree looks like tools and annoy bystanders who think they are psycotic maniacs talking to themselves.
And some stress could certainly be caused by cellphone usage. Not that I'm disagreing with you. Creating fair studies that takes into effect all independent variables is hard.
Diaspora Star, is that like Facebook for Jews? Weird name, but kind of fitting considering the authors family names.
Same here. Although Chrome has some horrible stability issues and other bugs. While the js engine is faster, gmail will only load once in about five tries for me. Same thing with google analytics and other javascript heavy pages; they run faster when they work but most of the time they plain don't work in Chrome. In FF, they load (slower) but without hickups. And then lots of sites crash the browser. Supposedly, Chrome's process separation should ensure that only one tab gets wrecked but that never ever works for me. Instead all chrome processes freezes and I have to kill them using a command line. Chrome will rock when it but for me it is still way unstable.
I had no idea you can filter out iphone spam. Thanks alot.
So what? Windows is the best selling operating system of this decade and it still sucks. You can't judge how good a product is by how many suckers get fooled by its marketing. Everyone I know who purchased a Wii have their consoles standing idly while those who bought xboxes or ps3s continue to enjoying games on their platforms.
So you are honestly accusing MS of releasing a concept video of how they are imagining their tablet pc to work as some kind of underhanded tactic to destroy ipad sales? Because consumers see how a really good tablet could work and so becomes less impressed by Apple marketing?
Good for you. It is still unethical for McDonald's and Burger King to take advantage of kids lack of self-control. The issues are separate. Likewise, it is unethical for gambling companies to use excessive amounts of blinkenlights which they know creates irresistable urges in gambling addicts which is how they make money. Or for tobacco companies to sell lethal poison. I can't see how laws against preying on children can be a bad thing.
No it is not new. But it is still cool and interesting and new javascript who wasn't around, when old-hands like you were implemeting ghetto-ajax, can learn some important web development history. So yes, you are a much smarter hacker than that guy will ever be, but please stop complaining lest we all be swamped with even more iphone and ipad spam-articles. k thx bye. :)
Your personal anecdotes are very impressing. Truly, why would anyone need studies or facts when we have stories like yours. Personally I haven't seen a mac break down but the two guys at work using them look gay.
I have posted about it previously, but there are very strong indications that googles account system suffers from one or more bugs. There have been dozens of reports of users who have accidentally been logged into other users accounts. It is definitely possible that crackers and spammers have figured out how to exploit the security holes by now.
See http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321162016AAZnwCC, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48382, http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=13d02f7a7404e5f6&hl=en, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en, http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/my-google-account-is-showing-someone-elses-adsense-account.html, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=65ca8c56386ded1e&hl=en and much more...
Who on earth modded this interesting??
For the record, people mod posts interesting because they find them "interesting" not because they are correct. And complaining about modding is childish.
This has been discussed many [slashdot.org] times [slashdot.org], and I regret to inform you that your argument does not hold water. While it's a nice story to imagine this 'geek hero' standing up against the system, it's an airbrushed, romanticized version of the truth. This dude was out of line, end of story. He decided to try to flex his muscles, and he got taught a very valuable lesson that many could learn from. It was not his place to determine who was "competent" enough for the information.
The important point is that he was asked to give up that information after he was fired. In a sane world, Childs would have been able to tell them to fuck off because he as no obligation what so ever to work for free for his former employer. Btw, this is one of the many reasons IT workers should be unionized. Unions could have layed down the ground rules to abusive workplaces like this and fined them for millions for their transgressions. Companies don't own you for life.
Well, for the record, Google's security system IS BUGGY. There has been scattered reports across the internet about how users accidentally have been able to login to other peoples accounts. The problem has been reported to google multiple times on their mailing lists, but google has never given a proper response to it. They are likely afraid of the public PR disaster that would occur if people found out how insecure their google accounts really are.
References: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100321162016AAZnwCC, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48382, http://www.google.pl/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=13d02f7a7404e5f6&hl=en, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=4426cc7a854b727d&hl=en, http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/my-google-account-is-showing-someone-elses-adsense-account.html, http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=65ca8c56386ded1e&hl=en
Is it only in software we care about backwards compatiblity? This new name change will break thousands of studies which now references a fly does not exist. Journalists with only a fleeting aquantaince to biology will be confused about Drosophila melanogaster and its new name which leads to worse science reporting. This seems like gratitious breakage, where if an analysis was made the costs would be found much higher than the benefits.
So is there any console or other electronic gadget you can buy nowadays which does not include forced locked own firmware updates that has the possibility of breaking it? Both Xbox360 and the Wii are just as locked down as the PS3.
Java programmers who are to stupid to experience more advanced technologies doesn't understand it either. Hold on there for a sec. PHP is an advanced technology? Really??? Crap like this http://lwn.net/Articles/379909/ [lwn.net] is what 'advanced' technology is about? PHP is basically JSP with plain Java SE on it, and a rather poor version of that approach that this. It's perfectly suited for Joe's Burgers 4 page website, but when something more 'advanced' is needed, PHP just doesn't cut it.
Right, the "Java is needed for advanced stuff" argument. Fact: If your web application is "too advanced for PHP" you are doing it wrong and should simplify your design.
For instance, the platform offers zero provisions for any form of concurrency. There is not even something like the basic threading support that Java has had since 1.0, let alone that there is any support for simple asynchronous execution (e.g. the @Asynchronous annotation) or highly efficient parallel computing paradigms like a fork/join framework. And what about an O/R mapper that comes with Java by default? How about dependency injection? What about declarative transactions? What about transactions that automatically span multiple method calls and multiple transactional resources?
Who the fuck gives a shit? Any web app will be IO bound anyway. Dependency injection is a kludge you only need because Java is static and not dynamic. Transactions should be handled by the framework. In those JEE apps I've worked on, the transaction decorators always been misused by overzealous developers creating huge transactions slowing the application down to a crawl.
And I can produce results a hundred times as fast by using Java EE/Java/JBoss AS than with Django/Python and surely PHP. I'm not sure what this proves though...
It proves that you are one of those Java only developers too stupid to learn new languages. Sorry but it is true. Do yourself a favor and take a week to learn a dynamic language. You will thank me for the advice. You will also realize all talk about Java being "enterprise grade," more robust, scalable, yadda yadda is just bullshit.