My solution: Run IE... but in a limited user session in a virtual machine that rolls back to a known good snapshot when closed. This works on Macs, and Windows boxes.
So, your suggestion is to use something you know will allow your system to be attacked but to create this elaborate environment to be able to restore your machine to some previous snapshot, losing anything that was done in the mean time, when you get hammered?
Any site which now-a-days doesn't work with Firefox is suspect to begin with. Though, I can't remember the last time I ran into a site which didn't work on FF, come to think of it.
More likely, Firefox and IE are both vulnerable to this attack
Ah, the ole, poor MS is targeted because they are so popular myth. Interesting that every software security organization has singled out IE. Sheesh, it's all a big conspiracy.
knowing that Firefox users instinctively open IE when Firefox fails to load a site properly.
If FF has a problem I instinctively know I'd better get off the Windows laptop and view it on my Linux box. Fortunately I do most of my stuff from the Linux box anyway.
Any other Linux distribution I can think of, including the one Ubuntu is based on, has always had MP3 support out of the box.
I can't speak for all distributions but the OpenSuSE and Fedora versions I've seen over the years didn't have easy support of MP3.
So, no, using an MP3 codec has never been generally difficult, unless you happened to be using Ubuntu and it is only legally questionable only for those living in patent-encumbered countries.
There are comparison videos available. You can see some slight differences, IMO, but you really have to run them side by side (or back to back) to notice.
On the one hand his model is used to predict the chances of finding intelligent life in the universe. Lacking finding intelligent life, he's looking for a terrestrial girlfriend, the complete opposite. Coincidence? I think not.
In Germany you are finding some small pure-diesel offerings which easily average 60 mpg (ca. 4 liters/100km). And and Audi A4 station wagon averages around around 40 mpg (6 liters/100KM). These are real-world figures. A friend of mine drives an Audi A4. We drove (4 of us, fully loaded) to Italy and averages 40 mpg and we were not driving timidly.
One smaller car I'm familiar with is called a Suzuki Splash in Germany with a small Diesel (not sure of the size) and it really does average 60 mpg.
I'm wondering if we, as a society, should be moving in that direction until battery or other technologies become competitive and feasible.
Blaming the previous guys is a time honored tradition around the world.
Reminds me of Bush's blaming the failure in the economy on Clinton. Clinton left him with a "bubble". Which, after invading two countries and giving huge tax breaks to his buddies and subsidies to oil companies, just popped.
I looked at the website and it doesn't appear that they are trying to create secret spies who report other co-workers to the FBI. It looks like they are trying to get real and practical information from the industry on how to protect the cyber structure. I didn't read anythink which indicates a secret nature to it.
Of course, any cooperation between a law enforcement operation and private citizens leaves open the possibility of an informant kind of role, but that's not new.
Here's the goal statement from the website:
The goal of InfraGard is to promote ongoing dialogue and timely communication between members and the FBI. InfraGard members gain access to information that enables them to protect their assets and in turn give information to government that facilitates its responsibilities to prevent and address terrorism and other crimes.
it's just the low-level mechanisms that are quite different.
That was my first thought, as well. I'm wondering what mechanism is used to transfer information to the next generation. Or even if information is transferred to the next generation at all? Perhaps the organisms simply adapt to their environment without needing a new generation to do it?
The MySQL site references that fact. They also mention that InnoDB has been very useful to/. but the don't actually claim to be using it for the high load stuff. (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/generate-article.php?type=ss&id=slashdot).
I'm guessing/. uses MyISAM tables and table level locking. Does anyone have more information on this?
I've found I've just lost interest. The entertainment industry with the constant barage of huge lawsuites, high prices and greed has finally gotten to me. I used to rent movies once a week or so but now it's just gotten a bad taste. I just don't really care what they do anymore. They can charge what they want, I'm on to new stuff: local theater, outdoor stuff, etc.
I stopped buying music several years ago. That had more to do with living in Germany where GEMA (the equivalent of the RIAA) gets money for every computer or blank CD I buy. I figure I'm already paying for the music, so why pay for it twice. I used to spend several hundred dollars a year on CD's. Now I spend $0. In fact, the same holds true for my girlfriend and most of my friends. I don't pirate music -- I won't give them that satisfaction -- I just listen to my old CD's or the radio or I let youtube videos run in the background.
You dont seriously believe we spent billions invading Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East?
Especially since the other countries who are our "friends" in the region aren't exactly democracies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, etc). Of course, when they are our friends, we call them Monarchies and when they are our enemies we call them dictatorships.
Only in the mind of a blithering moron would it make more sense to spend trillions invading a foreign nation instead of investing a few billion in the development of domestic oil-sand and oil-shale extraction techniques.
Exactly. You do remember who was president at the time, right?
Although, I would suggest that better alternatives than oil-sand and oil shale exist. It takes ~3/4 of the energy produced to extract oil out of sand and shale. The US has tremendous solar potential in the Southwest. Of course, Solar can't be the only source for obvious reasons, but it can contribute alot to the electric grid.
And, I read recently that gas supplies have become very reliable in the US and would suffice for another 100 or so years at current growth with the advantage that it burns cleaner than oil and much cleaner than coal.
Of course, the biggest reserves are in coal. Who knows... maybe we'll find a way to generate clean(er) energy from it.
Well, everyone's welcome to their opinion, but it's pretty well proven after decades of software engineering that code should be commented. The price of maintaining comment-free code is well known.
The issue is not whether you should comment your code or not, it's what you should comment. It's finding the right balance which makes your code maintainable. I've seen code with very little comments which was very understandable and code with alot of comments which was virtually impossible to follow.
I knew one programmer who commented every line, no matter how obvious. But his code was still not maintainable. For example:
Slashdot Mirror
I just tested my results (speedtest.net)
Download: 32MB
Upload: 1.8MB
Ping: 13ms
Your mileage may vary.
Here's the link: http://www.speedtest.net/result/685154620.png
That's no trouble. If they're that dumb, then I don't need their content.
My thoughts exactly.
My solution: Run IE... but in a limited user session in a virtual machine that rolls back to a known good snapshot when closed. This works on Macs, and Windows boxes.
So, your suggestion is to use something you know will allow your system to be attacked but to create this elaborate environment to be able to restore your machine to some previous snapshot, losing anything that was done in the mean time, when you get hammered?
Any site which now-a-days doesn't work with Firefox is suspect to begin with. Though, I can't remember the last time I ran into a site which didn't work on FF, come to think of it.
More likely, Firefox and IE are both vulnerable to this attack
Ah, the ole, poor MS is targeted because they are so popular myth. Interesting that every software security organization has singled out IE. Sheesh, it's all a big conspiracy.
knowing that Firefox users instinctively open IE when Firefox fails to load a site properly.
If FF has a problem I instinctively know I'd better get off the Windows laptop and view it on my Linux box. Fortunately I do most of my stuff from the Linux box anyway.
And because Firefox crashed too, it was definitely getting past what it should had been.
But Firefox didn't allow the plugin to take control of his machine.
What *is* newsworthy however, is why exactly Google of all people are still using it ?
To test that their sites work with all browsers, perhaps?
Any other Linux distribution I can think of, including the one Ubuntu is based on, has always had MP3 support out of the box.
I can't speak for all distributions but the OpenSuSE and Fedora versions I've seen over the years didn't have easy support of MP3.
So, no, using an MP3 codec has never been generally difficult, unless you happened to be using Ubuntu and it is only legally questionable only for those living in patent-encumbered countries.
Which countries are NOT patent-encumbered?
Youtube carries some weight. Perhaps by endorsing Theora more devices will be sold which produce it at least for youtube mode.
There are comparison videos available. You can see some slight differences, IMO, but you really have to run them side by side (or back to back) to notice.
On the one hand his model is used to predict the chances of finding intelligent life in the universe. Lacking finding intelligent life, he's looking for a terrestrial girlfriend, the complete opposite. Coincidence? I think not.
In Germany you are finding some small pure-diesel offerings which easily average 60 mpg (ca. 4 liters/100km). And and Audi A4 station wagon averages around around 40 mpg (6 liters/100KM). These are real-world figures. A friend of mine drives an Audi A4. We drove (4 of us, fully loaded) to Italy and averages 40 mpg and we were not driving timidly.
One smaller car I'm familiar with is called a Suzuki Splash in Germany with a small Diesel (not sure of the size) and it really does average 60 mpg.
I'm wondering if we, as a society, should be moving in that direction until battery or other technologies become competitive and feasible.
Blaming the previous guys is a time honored tradition around the world.
Reminds me of Bush's blaming the failure in the economy on Clinton. Clinton left him with a "bubble". Which, after invading two countries and giving huge tax breaks to his buddies and subsidies to oil companies, just popped.
I looked at the website and it doesn't appear that they are trying to create secret spies who report other co-workers to the FBI. It looks like they are trying to get real and practical information from the industry on how to protect the cyber structure. I didn't read anythink which indicates a secret nature to it.
Of course, any cooperation between a law enforcement operation and private citizens leaves open the possibility of an informant kind of role, but that's not new.
Here's the goal statement from the website:
The goal of InfraGard is to promote ongoing dialogue and timely communication between members and the FBI. InfraGard members gain access to information that enables them to protect their assets and in turn give information to government that facilitates its responsibilities to prevent and address terrorism and other crimes.
it's just the low-level mechanisms that are quite different.
That was my first thought, as well. I'm wondering what mechanism is used to transfer information to the next generation. Or even if information is transferred to the next generation at all? Perhaps the organisms simply adapt to their environment without needing a new generation to do it?
The MySQL site references that fact. They also mention that InnoDB has been very useful to /. but the don't actually claim to be using it for the high load stuff. (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/generate-article.php?type=ss&id=slashdot).
I'm guessing /. uses MyISAM tables and table level locking. Does anyone have more information on this?
What about JavaDB (Derby)? It is supposed to have good performance. I understand most, but not all, standard features are implemented.
Mexico didn't even exist at the time. How can they claim copyright?
That just shows that I can't remember the Alamo.
R*P*DSH*R*
pirate the movie instead
I've found I've just lost interest. The entertainment industry with the constant barage of huge lawsuites, high prices and greed has finally gotten to me. I used to rent movies once a week or so but now it's just gotten a bad taste. I just don't really care what they do anymore. They can charge what they want, I'm on to new stuff: local theater, outdoor stuff, etc.
I stopped buying music several years ago. That had more to do with living in Germany where GEMA (the equivalent of the RIAA) gets money for every computer or blank CD I buy. I figure I'm already paying for the music, so why pay for it twice. I used to spend several hundred dollars a year on CD's. Now I spend $0. In fact, the same holds true for my girlfriend and most of my friends. I don't pirate music -- I won't give them that satisfaction -- I just listen to my old CD's or the radio or I let youtube videos run in the background.
Any conversation which starts of by denigrating his intellect is not a conversation worth having.
You mean like your statement "You'd have to be an idiot in order to believe that Bush is an idiot."
You dont seriously believe we spent billions invading Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East?
Especially since the other countries who are our "friends" in the region aren't exactly democracies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, etc). Of course, when they are our friends, we call them Monarchies and when they are our enemies we call them dictatorships.
Only in the mind of a blithering moron would it make more sense to spend trillions invading a foreign nation instead of investing a few billion in the development of domestic oil-sand and oil-shale extraction techniques.
Exactly. You do remember who was president at the time, right?
Although, I would suggest that better alternatives than oil-sand and oil shale exist. It takes ~3/4 of the energy produced to extract oil out of sand and shale. The US has tremendous solar potential in the Southwest. Of course, Solar can't be the only source for obvious reasons, but it can contribute alot to the electric grid.
And, I read recently that gas supplies have become very reliable in the US and would suffice for another 100 or so years at current growth with the advantage that it burns cleaner than oil and much cleaner than coal.
Of course, the biggest reserves are in coal. Who knows ... maybe we'll find a way to generate clean(er) energy from it.
Well, everyone's welcome to their opinion, but it's pretty well proven after decades of software engineering that code should be commented. The price of maintaining comment-free code is well known.
The issue is not whether you should comment your code or not, it's what you should comment. It's finding the right balance which makes your code maintainable. I've seen code with very little comments which was very understandable and code with alot of comments which was virtually impossible to follow.
I knew one programmer who commented every line, no matter how obvious. But his code was still not maintainable. For example:
No comment, but readable: "balance += deposit; "
versus
Comment but useless: b += d; // add d to b