The OS X kernel is a massive amount of C and embedded C++ code.
Except the kernel isn't the problem. I haven't heard a single word about this recent malware crap that indicates it exploits the kernel or somehow achieves supervisor mode. Nor have I heard a single word about user-less exploits, as opposed to how you could simply install Windows, connect to the network, and have it owned within an hour, if not minutes.
All this has been user land exploits, which require a user to do something. Some of them haven't even required the user to do something stupid, other than to go to "bad" web sites. But stop babbling about the kernel when it's not involved.
Coming soon in Hammer 15! A three-headed hammer! One head for hammering nails into wood, the second head for hammering pins into pincushions, and a third head parallel to the handle for those times when you need to do that! The claw has been removed because HamZilla has determined that nail removal is an uncommon operation and should become a plug-in. Fourth and Fifth heads are in the roadmap for Hammer 16. Replacing the handle with a sixth head is being pondered for Hammer 17.
The only thing I don't like about Seamonkey is the inclusion of a web page editor in it. I wouldn't mind if it was an installer option, but I have never needed to use it, and I certainly can't imagine anyone needing to use it often enough to justify it being bound to Command-E. (And FWIW, I actually use the IRC client in it once every few months. It's a mediocre IRC client, but it's there.)
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Next thing you know/. will have columnists.
Does this mean they're going to bring back Jon Katz?
I, for one, do not welcome our new Bi-Slashual overlords.
The thing is, he didn't download anything! He actually bought street bootlegs (of cams and leaks) and copied those. While I am not happy about money being given to the bootleg scum, I think it's funny that CSS was completely useless here.
Torquemada - How we doin', any converts today?
Guards- Not a one, nay nay nay.
Torquemada - We've flattened their fingers, we've branded their buns, nothing is working...send in the nuns!
Would they really be able to convince Amazon or Apple or Sony to sell the books DRM free from their marketplaces?
What makes you think Apple wants the DRM? The music from iTunes Store only had DRM because the music labels required it in the contract. When iTMS became successful and the contract was up for re-negotiation, Apple forced them to go DRM-free.
GPU cracking doesn't mean shit if you don't have an actual password hash to crack. This would only apply if someone broke into Hotmail's servers and got hashed passwords.
The only material that could possibly be profitable to bring back to Earth would be He3 from the Moon for use in fusion power.
Sure, once we actually develop fusion that can fuse He3. Which won't happen until some time after we get fusion power working at all. Just minor points, of course.
It seems to work well enough for DeBeers. And these guys wouldn't even have to be a cartel, at least until someone else brought up their own mining stuff.
They could make really cool pointy sharp things out of meteoric iron! Technically it wouldn't be "meteoric" because it didn't re-enter the atmosphere, but unless the heat of re-entry somehow affects the iron in an important way, it would be essentially the same stuff.
Gold's forte isn't conductivity (as has been pointed out, copper is much better), but it's ductility and resistance to oxidation. Fortunately you normally only need a very thin layer of it.
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The OS X kernel is a massive amount of C and embedded C++ code.
Except the kernel isn't the problem. I haven't heard a single word about this recent malware crap that indicates it exploits the kernel or somehow achieves supervisor mode. Nor have I heard a single word about user-less exploits, as opposed to how you could simply install Windows, connect to the network, and have it owned within an hour, if not minutes.
All this has been user land exploits, which require a user to do something. Some of them haven't even required the user to do something stupid, other than to go to "bad" web sites. But stop babbling about the kernel when it's not involved.
Coming soon in Hammer 15! A three-headed hammer! One head for hammering nails into wood, the second head for hammering pins into pincushions, and a third head parallel to the handle for those times when you need to do that! The claw has been removed because HamZilla has determined that nail removal is an uncommon operation and should become a plug-in. Fourth and Fifth heads are in the roadmap for Hammer 16. Replacing the handle with a sixth head is being pondered for Hammer 17.
Seamonkey! It's like what FF used to be before the "we know what you want better than you do" attitude.
The only thing I don't like about Seamonkey is the inclusion of a web page editor in it. I wouldn't mind if it was an installer option, but I have never needed to use it, and I certainly can't imagine anyone needing to use it often enough to justify it being bound to Command-E. (And FWIW, I actually use the IRC client in it once every few months. It's a mediocre IRC client, but it's there.)
Next thing you know /. will have columnists.
Does this mean they're going to bring back Jon Katz?
I, for one, do not welcome our new Bi-Slashual overlords.
Don't you mean "SlashBye!"?
And SlashBBQ, to help you decide where to eat lunch.
You missed one:
5) Mammals take over while the dinosaurs fight it out
The thing is, he didn't download anything! He actually bought street bootlegs (of cams and leaks) and copied those. While I am not happy about money being given to the bootleg scum, I think it's funny that CSS was completely useless here.
It caused the first European launch of Ariane 5 to fail. I guess that could be considered a success from an American point of view.
I hear they're hiring Notch to develop the new CPU architecture.
And if it didn't sell in 30 days, they could get a free re-listing!
Or if you wait until 2023 or so, all the patents involved will have expired. (I don't know the exact dates; wiki just says it was finalized in 2003.)
See it right here!
Torquemada - How we doin', any converts today?
Guards- Not a one, nay nay nay.
Torquemada - We've flattened their fingers, we've branded their buns, nothing is working...send in the nuns!
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Inquisition!
What's the point of using DRM if you're just going to do a SOS (Scan-OCR-Shit^Hp) job? The "pirates" would be better off starting with their own scan.
Would they really be able to convince Amazon or Apple or Sony to sell the books DRM free from their marketplaces?
What makes you think Apple wants the DRM? The music from iTunes Store only had DRM because the music labels required it in the contract. When iTMS became successful and the contract was up for re-negotiation, Apple forced them to go DRM-free.
GPU cracking doesn't mean shit if you don't have an actual password hash to crack. This would only apply if someone broke into Hotmail's servers and got hashed passwords.
In one way it is just like Minecraft: it will make your fans run like crazy.
Except that unlike said gold bar, the bits have no industrial uses, nor do they look attractive when worn on the body.
The only material that could possibly be profitable to bring back to Earth would be He3 from the Moon for use in fusion power.
Sure, once we actually develop fusion that can fuse He3. Which won't happen until some time after we get fusion power working at all. Just minor points, of course.
It seems to work well enough for DeBeers. And these guys wouldn't even have to be a cartel, at least until someone else brought up their own mining stuff.
There is no market for asteroid materials.
They could make really cool pointy sharp things out of meteoric iron! Technically it wouldn't be "meteoric" because it didn't re-enter the atmosphere, but unless the heat of re-entry somehow affects the iron in an important way, it would be essentially the same stuff.
Gold's forte isn't conductivity (as has been pointed out, copper is much better), but it's ductility and resistance to oxidation. Fortunately you normally only need a very thin layer of it.
They could call the asteroids "dots", and the re-entry flames "slashes".