Did anyone notice how long it took from button-push to actually seeing something on the screen? Felt like an eternity! 10 seconds or something. Same for waking from sleep.
My 3 year old dell laptop wakes up in about the same time in Linux and less in Windows XP.
A logical improvement at this point would be to start specializing cores to specific types of jobs. As the processor assigns jobs to particular cores, it would preferentially assign tasks to the cores best suited for that type of processing. .. and call it the Amiga.
As many as would lie about it to a jury... Well the law is so designed everybody is vulnerable. It's just a matter of the right people wanting you to fall.
I bet the Whitehouse would LOVE this kind of technology [slashdot.org]... I wonder how many presidents would have been impeached if every one of them had a UV light shone on their trousers.
Not as in a crystal ball or anything, but I wonder if UV light will expose what was previously printed on these papers. You sound like my overly suspicious ex with her UV light and the bed-sheets.
Now... where *did* I put that document... Next invention.. Self-wiping-self-flushing-self hand-washing-self-putting-on-clothes children. I'd pay for that!
I find that hand-coding works for HTML/CSS, provided of course you include it in a scripting language like PHP.
It's less work than it sounds and the results DO look better - you get a more original look and things can be made to look exactly how you want, instead of being restrained by the wysiwyg software's design limitations.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I do wonder whether this is another "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactic.
It is. Microsoft is trying to create an abstraction layer to Linux. This means that, gradually (or in one foul swoop), Microsoft can replace all the abstracted functionality with its own code. That's if anyone bothers to use the product. Why anyone would want to introduce this kind of level of inefficiency is beyond me. Linux is perfectly able to be managed through its own interfaces - with free updates!
If you want to control Linux from a Microsoft system (or OS X), then there already are X clients around that work very well. I guess integration is where Microsoft is going to push its claim for usefulness.
I also wonder if this is leading down a path of stupidity. I doubt, in the long run, it's efficient to have too many diverse platforms running in a workplace. This introduces too many unknowns and makes it a nightmare to manage.
Let the passion of your life be your hobby, not your job. Do something else for a living, and you will find ways to bring your hobby into it.
For example, if computers are your passion in life, then do something else that you like for a living, eg: health sector, or arts or something. You'll find computing will get into your work anyway and you'll never tire of either, because they both become your hobby. And nobody then forces you to compute, compute, compute!
It's easy to have a small prison population if you just shoot your more serious criminals, rather than imprison them. Like every (other) first world country that has no capital punishment but life imprisonment for these crimes?
Your proposal would do nothing to fix the problem. You are still able to send a string which contain quotes (yes, quotes are characters and parts of a string!) so it's still possible to exploit. If you are sending your variable to a function then it's the function's responsibility to escape quotes and do all the garbage collection. That's the point. Bye bye SQL.
The legal system is broken because some of our peers do not properly perform their duties as jurors. I have to agree with you. The whole thing stinks of To Kill a Mockingbird or some other film about the farce of jury trials.
Sad thing is, he must have made so little money from his programming that he couldn't afford to have someone else do the stupid job for him. That is, if he DID do it.
The US has a quarter of the world's prisoners but has less than 5% of the world's population. That must mean that the US has caught all the criminals and the rest of us are just going around letting the guilty free, right? No chance there might be a few false positives in that one, right?
At least this one is more accurate in saying 500,000 web pages and not servers. Yeah, for a minute I thought this was a veiled attempt at promoting Microsoft IIS as a viable product, suggesting that a lot of people were using it! Ha Ha!
As others have posted, it's pretty easy to prevent multiple instruction SQL injection. That's a function of the database driver, which Microsoft controls.
Actually, if we could wipe SQL off the face of the earth then we wouldn't have SQL injection attacks. I mean, for a person to be able to escape the bounds of a variable by simple insertion of code into a text field is pretty outrageous, really.
Whoever is walking around saying that they have a good product which requires programmers to use or even have to create(!) special functions to filter every bit of input to prevent injection attacks, is lying out of their posterior. It's not a good product.
Prepared statements are a good thing. The real fix, though, is to prevent the usage of SQL for database modification, but force this activity to occur through the usual data handling methods for their programming language. Eg: if you are inserting a string into your database, then you should need to pass a string as a variable to a function, and not be allowed put it in raw into an SQL query.
I thought after so many compromises, so many reports and such an obviously open problem, there would no-longer be this issue. IMHO the fear of offending lazy or sloppy programmers is not an excuse to fix fundamental security problems in a language.
If you take into consideration that communication (as we are told) is 70% non-verbal, then any half decent lawyer will make sure he/she is able to see the client face to face. It is impossible to take a good history from a person if you can't see them, let alone hear their voice.
Given this fact, it is not a surprise that lawyers want to meet their clients. Yes and there are limitations to PGP that won't ensure privacy especially when you are opening lines of communication in an already hostile environment. There are things you just can't know unless you are physically there.
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. That's what the record companies all say to the artist just before they sign their rights away.
I reckon mathematics was invented. Sure, there exists an order of things in nature, a symmetry, constant relationships and so on, but the discovery of that is physics and science. Pure abstract mathematics is philosophy. Counting systems are inventions - like language. They are tools for describing, communicating and imagining.
Early Man may have discovered his fingers but counting them was an invention.
What does "devoid of culture mean" in your original post?
"... culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs" - UNESCO
Devoid of distinctive, identifying features for that society/social group. They become americanized/westernized. You can tell when you visit the country repeatedly that it becomes less and less different from your own. I guess I meant that the culture is replaced, but when all you have is what some foreign nation gave you, then you are poor indeed.
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Did anyone notice how long it took from button-push to actually seeing something on the screen? Felt like an eternity! 10 seconds or something. Same for waking from sleep.
My 3 year old dell laptop wakes up in about the same time in Linux and less in Windows XP.
That explains why it takes so long for new stories to arrive. This one's been up for an hour already!
Thank you, Webster's Anonymous Coward's Dictionary.
I find that hand-coding works for HTML/CSS, provided of course you include it in a scripting language like PHP.
It's less work than it sounds and the results DO look better - you get a more original look and things can be made to look exactly how you want, instead of being restrained by the wysiwyg software's design limitations.
It is. Microsoft is trying to create an abstraction layer to Linux. This means that, gradually (or in one foul swoop), Microsoft can replace all the abstracted functionality with its own code. That's if anyone bothers to use the product. Why anyone would want to introduce this kind of level of inefficiency is beyond me. Linux is perfectly able to be managed through its own interfaces - with free updates!
If you want to control Linux from a Microsoft system (or OS X), then there already are X clients around that work very well. I guess integration is where Microsoft is going to push its claim for usefulness.
I also wonder if this is leading down a path of stupidity. I doubt, in the long run, it's efficient to have too many diverse platforms running in a workplace. This introduces too many unknowns and makes it a nightmare to manage.
Let the passion of your life be your hobby, not your job. Do something else for a living, and you will find ways to bring your hobby into it.
For example, if computers are your passion in life, then do something else that you like for a living, eg: health sector, or arts or something. You'll find computing will get into your work anyway and you'll never tire of either, because they both become your hobby. And nobody then forces you to compute, compute, compute!
What? You expect me to read the full article? This is Slashdot, remember!
Sad thing is, he must have made so little money from his programming that he couldn't afford to have someone else do the stupid job for him. That is, if he DID do it.
The US has a quarter of the world's prisoners but has less than 5% of the world's population. That must mean that the US has caught all the criminals and the rest of us are just going around letting the guilty free, right? No chance there might be a few false positives in that one, right?
Actually, if we could wipe SQL off the face of the earth then we wouldn't have SQL injection attacks. I mean, for a person to be able to escape the bounds of a variable by simple insertion of code into a text field is pretty outrageous, really.
Whoever is walking around saying that they have a good product which requires programmers to use or even have to create(!) special functions to filter every bit of input to prevent injection attacks, is lying out of their posterior. It's not a good product.
Prepared statements are a good thing. The real fix, though, is to prevent the usage of SQL for database modification, but force this activity to occur through the usual data handling methods for their programming language. Eg: if you are inserting a string into your database, then you should need to pass a string as a variable to a function, and not be allowed put it in raw into an SQL query.
I thought after so many compromises, so many reports and such an obviously open problem, there would no-longer be this issue. IMHO the fear of offending lazy or sloppy programmers is not an excuse to fix fundamental security problems in a language.
If you take into consideration that communication (as we are told) is 70% non-verbal, then any half decent lawyer will make sure he/she is able to see the client face to face. It is impossible to take a good history from a person if you can't see them, let alone hear their voice.
Given this fact, it is not a surprise that lawyers want to meet their clients. Yes and there are limitations to PGP that won't ensure privacy especially when you are opening lines of communication in an already hostile environment. There are things you just can't know unless you are physically there.
I reckon mathematics was invented. Sure, there exists an order of things in nature, a symmetry, constant relationships and so on, but the discovery of that is physics and science. Pure abstract mathematics is philosophy. Counting systems are inventions - like language. They are tools for describing, communicating and imagining.
Early Man may have discovered his fingers but counting them was an invention.
"... culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs" - UNESCO
Devoid of distinctive, identifying features for that society/social group. They become americanized/westernized. You can tell when you visit the country repeatedly that it becomes less and less different from your own. I guess I meant that the culture is replaced, but when all you have is what some foreign nation gave you, then you are poor indeed.