We have seen this happen before: You find a way to block spam... Spammer finds a way to counter.
<Long informative post warning> Yes, my friends. Suppose that this article is true and that evolution, say 5 years from now (*shudders*) makes even the average non-computer oriented american look at email the way we see postal junk, removing all the novelty and making her decline offers to open email accounts.
Step 2: She has always heard of IM so she downloads AOL IM instead because everyone else has it. This ubiquity is similar to the one of Windows. Remember what happens when an operating system becomes common? It just becomes a new target. Viruses start getting developed for it. The same thing will happen to IM if we shift to it. You have to realize that though a bit more time-consuming, spammers will start making databases of IM usernames and begin sending spam from their accounts.
Two years ago when I still used ICQ, which is owned by the prone-to-spamming AOL system, I received spam from users who seemed to not exist! Though I had explicitly chosen to be invisible to everyone but my buddylist names, there was some obscure way of sending IM's with sex ads, and that the message came from forged addresses that you couldn't track and punish.
Bear with me, from here on this may seem unrelated but look at the big picture: Remember the days when there were no popup ads? Well, people would turn their images off to skip normal ads. Then popups came and some annoying javascript enabled them to pull you to their new browser window. Then, even cleverer, was the use of pop-unders, because everyone knows that you ignore popups because you want to see something else in the first place, However, pop unders show up when you are ending your browsing session and are in no rush to close extraneous windows: The famous X10 cameras from yahoo are known by all for a reason. Then nonspammers --but ad people indeed-- started placing ads in Flash formats, and my Opera browser began loading that too, even when my graphics were off, because pluggins load separately from images.
So, it will be only marginally harder to spam people if we do make a transition to IM whitelists, but all you need is a screenname generator, which you can develop from a password cracking algorithm, and an expendable IM name. It takes 5 minutes for a spammer or anyone to grab a new one after their first has been blacklisted by AOL. Spam by IM has already been done, and will just come back. I certainly know that no ISP will drop the free email address policy when you register, so, it may take those full 5 years before I can tell my family and friends to send me those greeting cards and announcements by IM. Worse yet, how the heck will mom learn IM if she can barely send emails? My parents hate IM because they cant type, and on top of that, they cant type fast;)
Wan't this a problem with that Pumpkin-puter that ran linux in halloween? I'm surprised that it's the second year I see this on/. without bug complaints. Other than OS bugs, that is;)
By the way, it looks like we'll have to replace that old kernel panic comment... "Penguin on the Bus?" to a more realistic "Pathway bug?";)
And then, it calls for Red Alert, ensign Harry Kim is told to "compensate," Tuvok tries to find the link that caused the spike and traces it to/. and after a bunch of technobabble, the Voyager crew unmelts the unlucky slashdotted server and it works like a new starship... er, new machine. Oh, wait...
Interesting. I like how this can make workspaces easier. I lost my original post to you, but I'll try to be more concise now. It is easier to misplace things when you put them in a "corner" in a 3D workspace, though you could then just press keys to let the system locate the possible filename matches (like current systems), or maybe highlight all the possible windows and rotate around the space so you can see close matches' locations.
I talked about multiple workspaces and my problems with them now (see my jornal). It seems that implementing true 3D workspaces, is the next step after we can show 3D more accurately, whatever the solution winds up to be. I will be happy when I see something like what they show in Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict" where you could wave your hands around and interact with controls that were in the air.
Even without the translucent projections, I can imagine us using some sort of virtual gloves to wave our arms in the space between us and our monitor, and having some magnetic sensors define an area of a cubic foot where we can use move both hands as we see the resulting movements on the screen in front of us.
HOPEFULL_TAG_BEGIN ( I know that this kind of interaction will probably be great coupled with future Speech Recognition integration ) HOPEFULL_TAG_END. No one but us coders really want to use keyboards, in the grand scheme of things of an ideal world. Besides, we knooow from StarTrek;) that the future has voice recognition for everything but the engineers/coders and people who push buttons that make the ship go woosh. Come on, it's Speech recognition, and not some crewman, that turns on the sirens and dims the lights when Janeway says "Red alert!"
If you think this is outrageous, just wait till slashdot realizes that we have 4 borgs on the frontpage on the same day, ready to assimilate us any second now...;)
Well that is not a dead practice. A few years ago I discovered that my TI calculator disrupted my FM radio, specially when I was plotting graphs or time-consuming fractals. The ENTER key produced short interference sounds as well. All this is somewhere in the 90Mhz bands. Funny because the fastest a TI processor goes is like 10Mhz, yet some interference always manages to defy logic, to us non-engineer ppl.
CPUs used to have this same interference effect when the interference equivalent of "overtones" came out of my Pentium 1's and Pentium 2's to keep me from listening to decent homework-side music. Insightful
will the rotation of the earth slow, even a tiny amount, but enough that we have to adjust time in a few years?
I could certainly use sleeping in a 36 hour day... Too bad daylight will last longer too;) and latenite coding will be overwhelmingly long.
But by then, so many years will have passed that computers will be the ones coding and passing out to keep us alive, à la Matrix
Let's also hope there's something to muffle that 600 Hz whine (which is close to the peak of human hearing sensitivity).
I'm not sure which of the noises you are talking about but I agree with you!
It's kinda like a forced upgrade The new trains like those that operate on the 6 line actually drown out a lot of the track noise and have less jumpy/noisy ractions to track imperfections, right? However, whatever it is, their new turbine-like humming is very noisy, though it sounds more like something between 440+ and 512- Hz (near the key of B). The train ride is more comfortable, but I have found it hard to talk to girls because the noise drowns out their voices. The loud whine starts up as soon as the train accelerates and I have not heard it inside or outside the older trains (A, B and D, older 4 models, etc)
I hope someone notices the whine before the state spends millions replacing the trains that didn't have that 'feature.'
Yeah, the one right under our noses: you browsing at 4 or 5? Click on the Threshold pulldown menu. What's it say? 35 Comments at 4+, 30 Comments at 5. But it also says -1,0,1,2 and 3 -scored posts add up to 35 each.
So you can't guess how switching to a lower-scoring level will increase the html file coming down our modem pipes. Try it today;)
Take a look at raytracer graphic design to see how messy reality can be when you introduce more than a couple elements into a scene, much less of course a universe. If one is going for a true simulation of reality, at least force by force, particle by particle, I believe it's going to be more complex than this estimation
True
Slightly OT, but the other thread about us being able to simulate the universe in 600 yrs if Moore's law doesn't have some theoretical limit... so your post is a good starting point to oppose the theory just a bit... (don't take me too seriously)
Difficulties should appear if humans could ever create a computer with the purpose of simulating the whole universe: It's like making a P3 processor emulate a P4 and get away with the "speed gains:" How could a computer simulate the universe in real time, since it would strain the speed of the universe to "power" that computer anyway... However, if time itself slowed down in the simulation, our brains would never notice the difference because they're tied to time as well.
Every few weeks, I seemed to lose my browsing session by closing the wrong [ X ] when I just wanted to quit one of the windowPanes. By the way, there's one fix... check your History file in the menus: Window \ Special \ History
On the macOS there were never two visible close boxes where one could shut down your program, and besides, the close box was is on the left. You may try iCab in case Opera reminds you of windows too much: www.icab.de
One day you're commenting on what variables do, the next you try to explain functions, etc.
I just switched to Java from C++ and neatness is the most important thing I've acquired, not in code per se, but in variable naming. I've gotten used to doingThisWithVariableNames and DoingThisWithClassNames, while keeping THE_CONSTANTS capitalized. Ok, this isn't comments? But you'll be surprised at how much better it is to browse a new language like Java and see the norms of style in it, because old languages use too many confusing double_StandardslikeWritingThis_way.
Comments go at the top of a page, with the coder's name and date, as well as a small bug report and if you can, a brief function list for those without a visual IDE like JBuilder. You then put a like with PRE: and POST conditions in your code and try to keep one liner comments to a min.
I learned to comment the end of if structures and function blocks to make the code easier to follow... just add " }//end if" or something.
Comments should be a paragraph long so that they make some sense. And comments, since they look different from the code sections, should be embelished with ===============, stars, and some nice spacing and vertical bars.
Good comments to me mean good-looking comments, even if they don't have that much substance. Just my 2 cents. They're better than no comments at all.
Amazing. I think this was for a finale 2 seasons ago, right? I remember an episode that may or may not have been the one you claim, and it was around the same time I stopped watching the xfiles consistently.
Didn't Mulder get some disease that made his mind hyperactive and he entered some kind of coma? Then we had to wait for the season of 2000-2001 for him to heal. It's so fuzzy this may all be random gibberish in the back of my mind, but not many episodes had to do with Africa and poisonous spiders and some kinda ship (or a piece of it) they found
Re:Speaking of Mystery Soap Opera type of shows...
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Interesting... I never thought I'd talk about it here. Well, I'm a scifi fan, and I started watching xfiles about 3 or 4 years ago, though not consistently. The outer limits, star trek voyager, and some of those shows were my favorites then.
Well, I just moderated in this story, so I hope the system won't kill me in some way by posting this. I don't really care, so here goes!
In the past year and a half, I learned a bit about buffy but school never let me get into it. I stayed away from angel because I didn't know Buffy enough and had this creepy feeling that the shows must be on parallel universes in order to be two different tv shows.
Now, to the shows I do watch: Charmed, for one, where there's magic all over the place. Enterprise, because of Scott Bakula and his role in Quantum Leap, which I watched for years in Spanish and then here in sci fi. Then, I started to watch Smallville (Superman's youth, for those who watch even less tv and do more computer stuff at home). I hadn't noticed till this year, but the shows have a soap opera feel to them... There's something about the POP music they play, and this feeling in the back of my head that they want to appeal a broader audience and mix reality a lot with their magic or whatever.
Startrek doesn't quite fit in but I like the opening theme, since it's the first one with a singer and a timeline plot, and/. had these stories about the attempt to get a new audience for the next 7 years of star trek.
PS: I do like shows that try to merge sci fi and adventure with pop culture and therefore try to not alienate their viewers. On one hand, I've always had a problem getting people to watch even a single episode of Star trek because they think the guys in prostetics and weird costumes are stupid. Same thing for x-files: they are talking aliens all the time, and my dad, for example, would never watch it with a serious interest.
Actually, Apple just announced its XServe rack systems. If the price of the cheapest model is $2,999, compared to the normal $2,000 tag customary of moderately loaded Macintoshes, I would say it sounds like a good price. Remember that it is the Mac OS is now an "industrial strength" Un*x system, and it's included in the bundle.
It is interesting to see that Linux and Unix will be joining forces. If you join that with the XServer license fees, quoted below for your convenience, it gets kinda scary for the expensive Microsoft server license deparment:
No per-user "taxes"
Xserve lets you eliminate the most galling expense in your department's budget: the usurious per-user "tax" you've been obliged to pay for using server software. Since Xserve comes with an unlimited-client license of the UNIX-based, industrial-strength Mac OS X Server, you can serve thousands of additional users -- without spending thousands of additional dollars in licensing fees.
The only reason many businesses still use the buggy single user Win98 is because NT has very pricey licensing fees and is not as easy to use. Windows 2000 is changing that, but it still needs a lot of horsepower that companies can't afford yet. Just my 2 cents.
Unless their API contains something like "let me do anything I want on the target machine", how does this cause a security breach?
I think it's something like this: You make a java class that contains private variables. Your initial task is to give other programmers getVar() methods and setVar() methods to change them. Then, after a few months, you start loathing the usage of the correct methods and just make your variables public so that calling, modifying and passing them is much easier to code.
But if all your code has public access to certain parts that should be secure and restricted, then you know what that means if you "mistakenly" misuse your hack.
This is how I code, and sometimes I don't know which way is better. It's not hard to think how this could apply to "secured" parts of software when certain principles of programming are ignored: I recommend Carrano and Pritchard's "Walls and Mirrors to see refresh the concept of (proper) information hiding. (Proper information hiding has little to do with Security through Obscurity, by the way, it just reinforces a systematic way of easing software maintenance cycles)
I have seen a bug in Netscape 4, making the posts extend beyond the window, if that's what you mean. I haven't seen it at home since I switched to Opera, but at school the posts fall a bit off the edges.
"My answer was: The machines crash every day. Why should it matter if it happens on December 31st?"
It didn't occur to anyone in our much feared power plants that... if Y2K caused their computers to go crazy they could just set back their clocks.? We do it with shareware when it goes "bad," and it's not the end of the world:)
I never once heard this fix mentioned in the media when Y2K was coming, but I know that it would occur to engineers as soon as their computers went crazy...
Anyway, this is different from the issues with banking software and automatic mailers, but that's not life-threatening. Actually, nothing related to remotely hack-able computers can be fully life-threatening. You can always override the system or just unplug it from the network and have someone physically push the "FIRE" button the day we need to use the missiles.
But our wars will never be fought by robots or computers, only by humans who use them to be more efficient, and who should care a bit more about not letting their technology be captured by the enemy.
Where is microsoft's "Sonic the Hedgehog" or "Mario Bros."?
Good question. Even Crash Bandicoot made a real good spokescharacter of Sony's presence in the market a couple years ago. Remember all the funky ads with the guy in the Crash B. suit? Now, who else agrees that MS should just pick Tux the Penguin to bring up the sales and give x-box a "face"?;) I really think Abe from Oddworld isn't really a kid's character, which by the way makes me think twice about buying a faceless console for kids. No matter what they say, if there are few kid's games for it, why buy it for your kids? Look at PS1 and N64 though. They're everywhere, because they apparently have games all over the ESRB Rating spectrum. I know, I know, Xbox will have time to expand its database, but it seems like they're in no such hurry to appeal to the group that bothers me most about buying them games and giving away the Nintendo 1.0 - kids.
If we forwarded all our spam to them, wouldn't it mean that... oh, but the FTC qualifies it as SOLICITED mail. I see...
I only hope this starts to work, because after 2 months I still get the same amount of spam and it is easier to delete it off my server than waste bandwidth downloading and forwarding it to someone else. What to do, what to do...
Wait, don't blame it on slashdot yet. I heard this headline about the 'mutation' on television and I was scared to death because I didnt stay around for the details.
I believe the researchers must be the one hyping the findings with such term, and you know how the media reacts to them...
The term should be corrected, but I do remember how my thumbs used to shed skin in the form of circles when Street Fighter || came out (ew..) It was a pretty bad time back in 92, but nothing comes even close to being that dangerous to your digits nowadays. Except MORE Joypads and games.
I don't know if this (unsinged int's comment) is already @ 5 FUNNY, because my/. filter adds 3 or 4 to funny comments, but I had to sign on from my *cough* other *cough* browser to see the non-lite frontpage... with 2 borgs in a row!! AAArgh, I thought Janeway infected and killed the borg queen!:)
Slashdot Mirror
We have seen this happen before:
;)
You find a way to block spam...
Spammer finds a way to counter.
<Long informative post warning>
Yes, my friends. Suppose that this article is true and that evolution, say 5 years from now (*shudders*) makes even the average non-computer oriented american look at email the way we see postal junk, removing all the novelty and making her decline offers to open email accounts.
Step 2: She has always heard of IM so she downloads AOL IM instead because everyone else has it. This ubiquity is similar to the one of Windows. Remember what happens when an operating system becomes common? It just becomes a new target. Viruses start getting developed for it. The same thing will happen to IM if we shift to it. You have to realize that though a bit more time-consuming, spammers will start making databases of IM usernames and begin sending spam from their accounts.
Two years ago when I still used ICQ, which is owned by the prone-to-spamming AOL system, I received spam from users who seemed to not exist! Though I had explicitly chosen to be invisible to everyone but my buddylist names, there was some obscure way of sending IM's with sex ads, and that the message came from forged addresses that you couldn't track and punish.
Bear with me, from here on this may seem unrelated but look at the big picture:
Remember the days when there were no popup ads? Well, people would turn their images off to skip normal ads. Then popups came and some annoying javascript enabled them to pull you to their new browser window. Then, even cleverer, was the use of pop-unders, because everyone knows that you ignore popups because you want to see something else in the first place, However, pop unders show up when you are ending your browsing session and are in no rush to close extraneous windows: The famous X10 cameras from yahoo are known by all for a reason. Then nonspammers --but ad people indeed-- started placing ads in Flash formats, and my Opera browser began loading that too, even when my graphics were off, because pluggins load separately from images.
So, it will be only marginally harder to spam people if we do make a transition to IM whitelists, but all you need is a screenname generator, which you can develop from a password cracking algorithm, and an expendable IM name. It takes 5 minutes for a spammer or anyone to grab a new one after their first has been blacklisted by AOL. Spam by IM has already been done, and will just come back. I certainly know that no ISP will drop the free email address policy when you register, so, it may take those full 5 years before I can tell my family and friends to send me those greeting cards and announcements by IM. Worse yet, how the heck will mom learn IM if she can barely send emails? My parents hate IM because they cant type, and on top of that, they cant type fast
Wan't this a problem with that Pumpkin-puter that ran linux in halloween? I'm surprised that it's the second year I see this on /. without bug complaints. Other than OS bugs, that is ;)
;)
By the way, it looks like we'll have to replace that old kernel panic comment... "Penguin on the Bus?" to a more realistic "Pathway bug?"
And then, it calls for Red Alert, ensign Harry Kim is told to "compensate," Tuvok tries to find the link that caused the spike and traces it to /. and after a bunch of technobabble, the Voyager crew unmelts the unlucky slashdotted server and it works like a new starship... er, new machine. Oh, wait...
I talked about multiple workspaces and my problems with them now (see my jornal). It seems that implementing true 3D workspaces, is the next step after we can show 3D more accurately, whatever the solution winds up to be. I will be happy when I see something like what they show in Gene Roddenberry's "Earth: Final Conflict" where you could wave your hands around and interact with controls that were in the air.
Even without the translucent projections, I can imagine us using some sort of virtual gloves to wave our arms in the space between us and our monitor, and having some magnetic sensors define an area of a cubic foot where we can use move both hands as we see the resulting movements on the screen in front of us.
HOPEFULL_TAG_BEGIN ( I know that this kind of interaction will probably be great coupled with future Speech Recognition integration ) HOPEFULL_TAG_END. No one but us coders really want to use keyboards, in the grand scheme of things of an ideal world. Besides, we knooow from StarTrek ;) that the future has voice recognition for everything but the engineers/coders and people who push buttons that make the ship go woosh. Come on, it's Speech recognition, and not some crewman, that turns on the sirens and dims the lights when Janeway says "Red alert!"
If you think this is outrageous, just wait till slashdot realizes that we have 4 borgs on the frontpage on the same day, ready to assimilate us any second now... ;)
"How about 5 million hand-written apology letters?" ;)
Wouldn't this count as more Spam?
Hey Viadd, very interesting.
Well that is not a dead practice. A few years ago I discovered that my TI calculator disrupted my FM radio, specially when I was plotting graphs or time-consuming fractals. The ENTER key produced short interference sounds as well. All this is somewhere in the 90Mhz bands. Funny because the fastest a TI processor goes is like 10Mhz, yet some interference always manages to defy logic, to us non-engineer ppl.
CPUs used to have this same interference effect when the interference equivalent of "overtones" came out of my Pentium 1's and Pentium 2's to keep me from listening to decent homework-side music. Insightful
I could certainly use sleeping in a 36 hour day... Too bad daylight will last longer too ;) and latenite coding will be overwhelmingly long.
But by then, so many years will have passed that computers will be the ones coding and passing out to keep us alive, à la Matrix
I'm not sure which of the noises you are talking about but I agree with you!
It's kinda like a forced upgrade
The new trains like those that operate on the 6 line actually drown out a lot of the track noise and have less jumpy/noisy ractions to track imperfections, right? However, whatever it is, their new turbine-like humming is very noisy, though it sounds more like something between 440+ and 512- Hz (near the key of B). The train ride is more comfortable, but I have found it hard to talk to girls because the noise drowns out their voices. The loud whine starts up as soon as the train accelerates and I have not heard it inside or outside the older trains (A, B and D, older 4 models, etc)
I hope someone notices the whine before the state spends millions replacing the trains that didn't have that 'feature.'
Yeah, the one right under our noses: you browsing at 4 or 5? Click on the Threshold pulldown menu. What's it say? 35 Comments at 4+, 30 Comments at 5. But it also says -1,0,1,2 and 3 -scored posts add up to 35 each.
;)
So you can't guess how switching to a lower-scoring level will increase the html file coming down our modem pipes. Try it today
Slightly OT, but the other thread about us being able to simulate the universe in 600 yrs if Moore's law doesn't have some theoretical limit... so your post is a good starting point to oppose the theory just a bit... (don't take me too seriously)
Difficulties should appear if humans could ever create a computer with the purpose of simulating the whole universe: It's like making a P3 processor emulate a P4 and get away with the "speed gains:" How could a computer simulate the universe in real time, since it would strain the speed of the universe to "power" that computer anyway... However, if time itself slowed down in the simulation, our brains would never notice the difference because they're tied to time as well.
My only complaint about Opera's MDI is this:
Every few weeks, I seemed to lose my browsing session by closing the wrong [ X ] when I just wanted to quit one of the windowPanes. By the way, there's one fix... check your History file in the menus: Window \ Special \ History
On the macOS there were never two visible close boxes where one could shut down your program, and besides, the close box was is on the left.
You may try iCab in case Opera reminds you of windows too much: www.icab.de
are the best way to comment it all.
//end if" or something.
One day you're commenting on what variables do, the next you try to explain functions, etc.
I just switched to Java from C++ and neatness is the most important thing I've acquired, not in code per se, but in variable naming. I've gotten used to doingThisWithVariableNames and DoingThisWithClassNames, while keeping THE_CONSTANTS capitalized. Ok, this isn't comments? But you'll be surprised at how much better it is to browse a new language like Java and see the norms of style in it, because old languages use too many confusing double_StandardslikeWritingThis_way.
Comments go at the top of a page, with the coder's name and date, as well as a small bug report and if you can, a brief function list for those without a visual IDE like JBuilder. You then put a like with PRE: and POST conditions in your code and try to keep one liner comments to a min.
I learned to comment the end of if structures and function blocks to make the code easier to follow... just add " }
Comments should be a paragraph long so that they make some sense. And comments, since they look different from the code sections, should be embelished with ===============, stars, and some
nice spacing and vertical bars.
Good comments to me mean good-looking comments, even if they don't have that much substance. Just my 2 cents. They're better than no comments at all.
Amazing. I think this was for a finale 2 seasons ago, right? I remember an episode that may or may not have been the one you claim, and it was around the same time I stopped watching the xfiles consistently.
Didn't Mulder get some disease that made his mind hyperactive and he entered some kind of coma? Then we had to wait for the season of 2000-2001 for him to heal. It's so fuzzy this may all be random gibberish in the back of my mind, but not many episodes had to do with Africa and poisonous spiders and some kinda ship (or a piece of it) they found
Interesting... I never thought I'd talk about it here. Well, I'm a scifi fan, and I started watching xfiles about 3 or 4 years ago, though not consistently. The outer limits, star trek voyager, and some of those shows were my favorites then.
/. had these stories about the attempt to get a new audience for the next 7 years of star trek.
Well, I just moderated in this story, so I hope the system won't kill me in some way by posting this. I don't really care, so here goes!
In the past year and a half, I learned a bit about buffy but school never let me get into it. I stayed away from angel because I didn't know Buffy enough and had this creepy feeling that the shows must be on parallel universes in order to be two different tv shows.
Now, to the shows I do watch: Charmed, for one, where there's magic all over the place. Enterprise, because of Scott Bakula and his role in Quantum Leap, which I watched for years in Spanish and then here in sci fi. Then, I started to watch Smallville (Superman's youth, for those who watch even less tv and do more computer stuff at home). I hadn't noticed till this year, but the shows have a soap opera feel to them... There's something about the POP music they play, and this feeling in the back of my head that they want to appeal a broader audience and mix reality a lot with their magic or whatever.
Startrek doesn't quite fit in but I like the opening theme, since it's the first one with a singer and a timeline plot, and
PS: I do like shows that try to merge sci fi and adventure with pop culture and therefore try to not alienate their viewers. On one hand, I've always had a problem getting people to watch even a single episode of Star trek because they think the guys in prostetics and weird costumes are stupid. Same thing for x-files: they are talking aliens all the time, and my dad, for example, would never watch it with a serious interest.
This technology is kinda like most of the magic tricks that I try to ignore in ST: Voyager: Long range scans. :)
It seems so far from being taken seriously, though.
It is interesting to see that Linux and Unix will be joining forces. If you join that with the XServer license fees, quoted below for your convenience, it gets kinda scary for the expensive Microsoft server license deparment:
No per-user "taxes"
The only reason many businesses still use the buggy single user Win98 is because NT has very pricey licensing fees and is not as easy to use. Windows 2000 is changing that, but it still needs a lot of horsepower that companies can't afford yet. Just my 2 cents.
I think it's something like this: You make a java class that contains private variables. Your initial task is to give other programmers getVar() methods and setVar() methods to change them. Then, after a few months, you start loathing the usage of the correct methods and just make your variables public so that calling, modifying and passing them is much easier to code.
But if all your code has public access to certain parts that should be secure and restricted, then you know what that means if you "mistakenly" misuse your hack.
This is how I code, and sometimes I don't know which way is better. It's not hard to think how this could apply to "secured" parts of software when certain principles of programming are ignored: I recommend Carrano and Pritchard's "Walls and Mirrors to see refresh the concept of (proper) information hiding. (Proper information hiding has little to do with Security through Obscurity, by the way, it just reinforces a systematic way of easing software maintenance cycles)
I have seen a bug in Netscape 4, making the posts extend beyond the window, if that's what you mean. I haven't seen it at home since I switched to Opera, but at school the posts fall a bit off the edges.
It didn't occur to anyone in our much feared power plants that
I never once heard this fix mentioned in the media when Y2K was coming, but I know that it would occur to engineers as soon as their computers went crazy...
Anyway, this is different from the issues with banking software and automatic mailers, but that's not life-threatening. Actually, nothing related to remotely hack-able computers can be fully life-threatening. You can always override the system or just unplug it from the network and have someone physically push the "FIRE" button the day we need to use the missiles.
But our wars will never be fought by robots or computers, only by humans who use them to be more efficient, and who should care a bit more about not letting their technology be captured by the enemy.
Where is microsoft's "Sonic the Hedgehog" or "Mario Bros."?
;) I really think Abe from Oddworld isn't really a kid's character, which by the way makes me think twice about buying a faceless console for kids. No matter what they say, if there are few kid's games for it, why buy it for your kids? Look at PS1 and N64 though. They're everywhere, because they apparently have games all over the ESRB Rating spectrum. I know, I know, Xbox will have time to expand its database, but it seems like they're in no such hurry to appeal to the group that bothers me most about buying them games and giving away the Nintendo 1.0 - kids.
Good question. Even Crash Bandicoot made a real good spokescharacter of Sony's presence in the market a couple years ago. Remember all the funky ads with the guy in the Crash B. suit? Now, who else agrees that MS should just pick Tux the Penguin to bring up the sales and give x-box a "face"?
If we forwarded all our spam to them, wouldn't it mean that ... oh, but the FTC qualifies it as SOLICITED mail. I see...
I only hope this starts to work, because after 2 months I still get the same amount of spam and it is easier to delete it off my server than waste bandwidth downloading and forwarding it to someone else. What to do, what to do...
Wait, don't blame it on slashdot yet. I heard this headline about the 'mutation' on television and I was scared to death because I didnt stay around for the details.
I believe the researchers must be the one hyping the findings with such term, and you know how the media reacts to them...
The term should be corrected, but I do remember how my thumbs used to shed skin in the form of circles when Street Fighter || came out (ew..) It was a pretty bad time back in 92, but nothing comes even close to being that dangerous to your digits nowadays. Except MORE Joypads and games.
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const float G = 6.68 * 10^-11 Nm^2 / (kilogram)^2
float g = 9.81 m / s^2
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Hillarious!
/. filter adds 3 or 4 to funny comments, but I had to sign on from my *cough* other *cough* browser to see the non-lite frontpage... with 2 borgs in a row!! AAArgh, I thought Janeway infected and killed the borg queen! :)
I don't know if this (unsinged int's comment) is already @ 5 FUNNY, because my