Sorry, but the above is a complete old wives tale.
The simple reason that you find it difficult to learn languages when your older is that you are not submersed in the language 24/7, 360 degrees.
As a baby/child, I heard English, I spoke English, my teachers tought me English, my friends spoke English and the TV was in English. The books were in English, the adverts were in English, radio was in English and the road signs were in English.
Learning Mandarin in London was hard, because I spoke Mandarin maybe 2 hours a day, whilst the TV was in English, my Job was in English, my girlfriend spoke English, the books I read were in English etc, etc. Get the point?
Living now in Geneva, I have learnt French to a basic fluent level in 6 months. I can communicate with anybody about anything I want. Want a test of language? Try importing a vehicle, or working in a hedge fund specialising in credit derivatives in a foreign language.
I work in international banks, with russians, chinese, eastern europeans, indians, americans, everyone. One thing we all agree on it the ONLY thing to make learning a language easy is to LIVE THERE. Only when you are submersed, can you actually pick up and use the language 24/7. Only then will you really become fluent in a reasonable amount of time. It's NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE.
As an English guy working on setting up a large offshore for a Bank in Chennai, I spoke English to them. However all the people working there had learnt languages in the following order:
English, Tamil, local dialect, French/German, Hindi.
I understand that Hindi is the official language of India, and EVERYONE will speak a bit, technically the best language to work in India is English.
Just be prepared for some weird pronunciations and it's culturally impossible to say no.
Sorry, quick update, most of Asia speaks Cantonese. It uses the same written language but completely different pronunciation. Mandarin speakers cannot understand Cantonese and visa versa.
If you want mainland china north of the centre (Shanghai/Beijing), lean mandarin. If you want rest of Asia, (Hong Kong, South China, Singapore, EVERYWHERE ELSE), learn Cantonese.
I can vouch that even in Shanghai, a major metropolitan city, English is not a widely known language and travelling around is difficult without some Mandarin. You can learn basic Mandarin in around a year. Look for 'Chopsticks' clubs (dinner at a restaurant with other like minded people for insider job links etc..) They will provide invaluable amount of contacts and help for you.
Isn't the idea of Location and Security independent from the certificates point of view?
What I mean is that even with a CA, the CA will simply issue a certificate to anyone who requests one and can prove they are from said location. A self-signed certificate OR a CA generated certificate need to be installed on the root of the server/web site so that any traffic coming to it will be encrypted using the keys held within. Whether it is self signed or CA generated, it won't affect the actual direction of the traffic or redirect traffic to a man-in-the-middle attack.
The problem appears to be that because there is a certificate on the web site, people will assume that it comes from a legitimate source (ie. Because https://scam.barclays-2339.ru/ has a https, it's gotta be Barclays Bank!)
If anything, it's just breaking the ability to hide links behind text, so this link here Barclays Bank must display the link (ie. for example here [SCAM.barclays-2339.ru].
Infact, I've just realised, it's like the way slashdot has formatted my links here!!
If you set up the Windows Task Manager properly, there are two columns, one labelled Mem Usage, and one labelled VM Size.
Mem Usage shows the actual memory requirements of the application domain, whereas VM shows the reserved RAM requirements to physical/paged memory. Whilst we can confirm that the app has a RAM footprint of X MB, we can not explicitly say where that footprint is located or how it is split over the physical/paged ram.
As long as the tests were run using either the correct column from the Task Manager, or even better, using PerfMon to track process id requirements, the statistics are valid. Cheating windows memory management is as valid as a programmer constantly using unallocated memory to save data, in other words bad; very BAD!
Without holding any conspiracy theories, I don't see any serious development team employing tactics such as that just to avoid the possibility of some geezer doing a random memory test some day...
Oh dear, looks like another one that can't read TFA..
The original poster is correct, as Zero day (as you explain) refers to the amount of time after a patch or update, that the vulnerability is exploited.
However multiple versions of adobe flash are affected by this meaning that it's at least a 162 day exploit...
(V9.0.115.0 release date is December 18, 2007)
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Sorry, but the above is a complete old wives tale.
The simple reason that you find it difficult to learn languages when your older is that you are not submersed in the language 24/7, 360 degrees.
As a baby/child, I heard English, I spoke English, my teachers tought me English, my friends spoke English and the TV was in English. The books were in English, the adverts were in English, radio was in English and the road signs were in English.
Learning Mandarin in London was hard, because I spoke Mandarin maybe 2 hours a day, whilst the TV was in English, my Job was in English, my girlfriend spoke English, the books I read were in English etc, etc. Get the point?
Living now in Geneva, I have learnt French to a basic fluent level in 6 months. I can communicate with anybody about anything I want. Want a test of language? Try importing a vehicle, or working in a hedge fund specialising in credit derivatives in a foreign language.
I work in international banks, with russians, chinese, eastern europeans, indians, americans, everyone. One thing we all agree on it the ONLY thing to make learning a language easy is to LIVE THERE. Only when you are submersed, can you actually pick up and use the language 24/7. Only then will you really become fluent in a reasonable amount of time. It's NOTHING TO DO WITH AGE.
As an English guy working on setting up a large offshore for a Bank in Chennai, I spoke English to them. However all the people working there had learnt languages in the following order:
English, Tamil, local dialect, French/German, Hindi.
I understand that Hindi is the official language of India, and EVERYONE will speak a bit, technically the best language to work in India is English.
Just be prepared for some weird pronunciations and it's culturally impossible to say no.
Sorry, quick update, most of Asia speaks Cantonese. It uses the same written language but completely different pronunciation. Mandarin speakers cannot understand Cantonese and visa versa.
If you want mainland china north of the centre (Shanghai/Beijing), lean mandarin. If you want rest of Asia, (Hong Kong, South China, Singapore, EVERYWHERE ELSE), learn Cantonese. I can vouch that even in Shanghai, a major metropolitan city, English is not a widely known language and travelling around is difficult without some Mandarin. You can learn basic Mandarin in around a year. Look for 'Chopsticks' clubs (dinner at a restaurant with other like minded people for insider job links etc..) They will provide invaluable amount of contacts and help for you.
Really?? Guess you have a local education then...
Isn't the idea of Location and Security independent from the certificates point of view?
What I mean is that even with a CA, the CA will simply issue a certificate to anyone who requests one and can prove they are from said location. A self-signed certificate OR a CA generated certificate need to be installed on the root of the server/web site so that any traffic coming to it will be encrypted using the keys held within. Whether it is self signed or CA generated, it won't affect the actual direction of the traffic or redirect traffic to a man-in-the-middle attack.
The problem appears to be that because there is a certificate on the web site, people will assume that it comes from a legitimate source (ie. Because https://scam.barclays-2339.ru/ has a https, it's gotta be Barclays Bank!) If anything, it's just breaking the ability to hide links behind text, so this link here Barclays Bank must display the link (ie. for example here [SCAM.barclays-2339.ru].
Infact, I've just realised, it's like the way slashdot has formatted my links here!!
If you set up the Windows Task Manager properly, there are two columns, one labelled Mem Usage, and one labelled VM Size.
Mem Usage shows the actual memory requirements of the application domain, whereas VM shows the reserved RAM requirements to physical/paged memory. Whilst we can confirm that the app has a RAM footprint of X MB, we can not explicitly say where that footprint is located or how it is split over the physical/paged ram.
As long as the tests were run using either the correct column from the Task Manager, or even better, using PerfMon to track process id requirements, the statistics are valid. Cheating windows memory management is as valid as a programmer constantly using unallocated memory to save data, in other words bad; very BAD!
Without holding any conspiracy theories, I don't see any serious development team employing tactics such as that just to avoid the possibility of some geezer doing a random memory test some day...
Oh dear, looks like another one that can't read TFA..
The original poster is correct, as Zero day (as you explain) refers to the amount of time after a patch or update, that the vulnerability is exploited.
However multiple versions of adobe flash are affected by this meaning that it's at least a 162 day exploit...
(V9.0.115.0 release date is December 18, 2007)