That's gotta be one of the most FUDaliscious articles I have ever wasted my time on. "Some random guy says grillions of computers are infected with an undetectable virus and is going to distribute kiddie porn!!"
Please.
P.S. I'm not saying it's not possible, but for fuck's sake, get a few details before bothering to blather on about it for pages at a time.
My handheld GPS commonly gets 14 foot accuracy. It's accurate enough that if I have it on and tracking when I drive to work and when I drive back I can see on the screen that I was in a differnt lane of the road on the way back.
That's just a handheld, inside my car. With an external antenna it could probably be even better.
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No, it doesn't. With Java reflection you can access the exact same methods that you can access via compiled code. It's just done at runtime. The article/book points out a flaw in.Net that allows code to access private methods that it would not normally be able to access through normal access control. This flaw does not exist in Java.
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This is not true in Java. No matter what the compiler spits out it is verified by the VM before it is executed and if the bytecode is trying to access something it is not allowed to the VM will cause that code to fail. This is part of the security that Sun touts about Java.
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I can't speak for anything but Java, but in Java reflection does not allow you to access private members. That's part of the security of Java.
Did you miss the entire article, or what? Every single issue you mentioned up there is addressed in 1.5 and regex was added for your text processing in 1.4.
I might have missed something in the article, but as far as I could tell nothing existing breaks. They even mentioned that they worked very hard to make sure that was the case.
What part of the new syntax would cause old code to break?
"Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
Most of the various online music sources (Amazon, BN.com, Borders.com and friends) all let you listen to 30 second clips of almost every track on a CD. You can also go to the band web site which will probally have at least one or two full length songs and more samples. Additionaly there are sites like Launch.com that have music videos and music. After all that if you aren't convinced then go the music store and listen to the CD. Most of the decent music stores allow listening before buying. If none of that is enough to help you make your decision I really have to wonder if by "sampling" you don't mean "stealing"
I use their software all/every day. I like Windows quite a bit. I think it's a great desktop. I think their server sucks, but on the other hand I think Linux's desktop is shit.
Microsoft is incredibly successful because their software, in general, is easy to use and accessible. Everyone can do it so damn near everyone does.
And does their track record of being hugely successful and selling the most popular software in the world mean anything? I think something is pretty clearly working.
Well, RSA, one of the algorithms presented in this book is now about 20 years old and is still as, if not more, important today than it was 20 years ago. It's no 50 years but I bet we'll still be using RSA in another 10.
If you want to send mail to AOL you just need to use something different than DSL. No big deal. May I suggest AOL/Time Warner Road Runner Cable Modem Service?
A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use.
This is exactly correct. It's a great testament. Unfortunatly it's not one in favor of Mozilla, but in favor of the "myth".
In other news Joe Smith was quite surprised to find that a food processor was far more effective at shredding food than a coffee maker was. He was quoted to say, "Even hooking three coffee makers together in a Beowulf cluster didn't make them shred food faster than the food processor. Weird. Maybe 10 coffee makers would do the trick".
Well, jwz is the guy that wrote Netscape for UNIX. You know, Netscape. Then he wrote the Netscape Mail and News clients. He also wrote a big pile of Mozilla and ran mozilla.org for a while. He's also popular for writing the first version of XEmacs. You also may have heard of xscreensaver, which he wrote.
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That's gotta be one of the most FUDaliscious articles I have ever wasted my time on.
"Some random guy says grillions of computers are infected with an undetectable virus and is going to distribute kiddie porn!!"
Please.
P.S. I'm not saying it's not possible, but for fuck's sake, get a few details before bothering to blather on about it for pages at a time.
My handheld GPS commonly gets 14 foot accuracy. It's accurate enough that if I have it on and tracking when I drive to work and when I drive back I can see on the screen that I was in a differnt lane of the road on the way back.
That's just a handheld, inside my car. With an external antenna it could probably be even better.
No, it doesn't. With Java reflection you can access the exact same methods that you can access via compiled code. It's just done at runtime. The article/book points out a flaw in .Net that allows code to access private methods that it would not normally be able to access through normal access control. This flaw does not exist in Java.
This is not true in Java. No matter what the compiler spits out it is verified by the VM before it is executed and if the bytecode is trying to access something it is not allowed to the VM will cause that code to fail. This is part of the security that Sun touts about Java.
I can't speak for anything but Java, but in Java reflection does not allow you to access private members. That's part of the security of Java.
I assumed that the implied default would be the case, but I can understand that the article could be interpreted otherwise. I sure hope not.
Did you miss the entire article, or what? Every single issue you mentioned up there is addressed in 1.5 and regex was added for your text processing in 1.4.
How has Java become weakly typed? Many of the features that are being added are specifically to enforce typing.
I might have missed something in the article, but as far as I could tell nothing existing breaks. They even mentioned that they worked very hard to make sure that was the case.
What part of the new syntax would cause old code to break?
"Don't know where this is going, but I'm afraid it might get significantly harder for humble college students such as myself to sample an artist's music before going out and buying a disc... my speed across the network is ridiculously faster than when I try to access outside sources."
Most of the various online music sources (Amazon, BN.com, Borders.com and friends) all let you listen to 30 second clips of almost every track on a CD. You can also go to the band web site which will probally have at least one or two full length songs and more samples. Additionaly there are sites like Launch.com that have music videos and music. After all that if you aren't convinced then go the music store and listen to the CD. Most of the decent music stores allow listening before buying. If none of that is enough to help you make your decision I really have to wonder if by "sampling" you don't mean "stealing"
I use their software all/every day. I like Windows quite a bit. I think it's a great desktop. I think their server sucks, but on the other hand I think Linux's desktop is shit.
Microsoft is incredibly successful because their software, in general, is easy to use and accessible. Everyone can do it so damn near everyone does.
And does their track record of being hugely successful and selling the most popular software in the world mean anything? I think something is pretty clearly working.
Not to add to the flames too much, but the first time I purchased something from Think Geek was about 4 years ago and they were using SSL then too.
Well, RSA, one of the algorithms presented in this book is now about 20 years old and is still as, if not more, important today than it was 20 years ago. It's no 50 years but I bet we'll still be using RSA in another 10.
If you want to send mail to AOL you just need to use something different than DSL. No big deal. May I suggest AOL/Time Warner Road Runner Cable Modem Service?
Hermm....
I believe that the main difference is that all the dupes are by the same guy. You said:
The key is to deceive, in a comical way.
And I think he did. I chuckle each time I see another dupe and all the resulting outraged posts. Taco is having one over on us.
Incontheevable!
Do you seriously think he's not noticing this as he does it? It's a giant mistake? You are aware of the date and it's significance right?
Yes, the $5 you spent is right down the tube because of some single day foolishness. I suggest you sue.
A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use.
This is exactly correct. It's a great testament. Unfortunatly it's not one in favor of Mozilla, but in favor of the "myth".
Was the fact that this program never produces profit a mistake, or very clever? :)
The difference is in the way the languages are actually used. C is almost always compiled. Perl and PHP are almost always interpreted.
Also, assembly and machine language (code) are not the same. Assembly still needs to be compiled (assembled) to become machine code.
In other news Joe Smith was quite surprised to find that a food processor was far more effective at shredding food than a coffee maker was. He was quoted to say, "Even hooking three coffee makers together in a Beowulf cluster didn't make them shred food faster than the food processor. Weird. Maybe 10 coffee makers would do the trick".
That would have been pretty funny if it was... funny.
Or clever.
Or really anything but stupid.
Well, jwz is the guy that wrote Netscape for UNIX. You know, Netscape.
Then he wrote the Netscape Mail and News clients.
He also wrote a big pile of Mozilla and ran mozilla.org for a while.
He's also popular for writing the first version of XEmacs.
You also may have heard of xscreensaver, which he wrote.