By design, they have to directly expose the original file, and it's trivial to download it (just like an embedded jpeg.) There exist mechanisms for doing the same thing with flv, but it's intentionally obfuscated.
Yes. It's twice as bad on Linux, on the same hardware, but Windows XP still isn't really that usable. I still get at least two annoying jolts every half hour.
Problem is it's pretty much useless unless support is universal. No one wants to hold multiple formats for the same video, much less on-the-fly transcoding by sniffing browser agent strings or whatever.
What the fuck kind of Flash are you using? I'll grant that it might be a little less flaky than integrated video plugins, but it's still a total crapfest next to a local copy.
The difference is that you can't download an flv when it starts skipping or outright freezing (Which happens every day.)
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Javascript isn't there to make your life easier. It's there to provide a mechanism for you to do something while minimizing the attack surface of the browser.
They could have included a full scripting language with the browser, but they chose not to for security and efficiency reasons. Javascript vulnerabilities don't show up half as much as Flash vulnerabilities, and it's because the language is intentionally simplistic.
It's remains somewhat worrying the impression that someone would get of me looking at my search history confined to when I'm logged in. It paints an... incomplete picture at best.
Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Maemo are three ready examples of mainstream products that run Linux on ARM. More are on the way. ARM is a big deal for Linux.
Actually, at the rate I eat bananas I would probably fill my nose in a month tops. (Sticker is at least.1 cm cubed, my nose can contain about 3-4 cm cubed, ergo, a banana a day becomes 3 cm cubed in a month without difficulty.)
But it's really not so much a waste issue as a nuisance. It's annoying that there's a 3-step process: Peel sticker, throw sticker in trash, throw peel in compost. With this etching it would be one step. Significant? No, but like everyone else on Slashdot, I'm lazy (though industrious enough to compost.)
I don't think you have a proper understanding of what a bureaucrat is. A congressman is not a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat is a member of the treasury department (and the treasury wisely included no such provision as this in their bill.)
A bureaucrat is also a member of ICANN or the FCC, the former of which has regulated the Internet so well that most people aren't even aware of its regulatory authority. The latter has demonstrated such a thoughtful and intelligent understanding of the issues at play that the ISPs have tried to smash the FCC down before it manages to rein in the ISPs' flagrant abuses of power.
Bureaucrats who have no idea what they're talking about are terrible things. However, if you look around you'll find most bureaucrats know exactly what they're talking about. It's the politicians you need to watch out for.
TFA has an addendum that basically says the congressman that introduced the provision didn't understand the implications of what he wrote, and is planning on revising it based on input from the industry.
By the industry, I'm fairly sure he means us, not the RIAA.
That does not look like a kernel problem to me at all. He's running a setuid program that allows the user to specify its own modules. And then you people are surprised he gets local root?
Am I missing something? Torvald's reply actually sounds pretty reasonable to me here. It might be nice if this exploit could be patched, but it seems a little preposterous to me that you could make that work in a way that doesn't leave an exploit. I'd say you need to be locking down your suid binaries more, not blaming kernel management.
Both look pretty good, but really the dealbreaker is the keyboard. Really my ideal device looks more like the eee keyboard - though the screen is smaller than I'd like and I'm sure the battery life will be the usual 8-10 hour crap the best of the netbooks have been shoveling, if even that.
For the past couple years, I have put the same restrictions on my TV.
The thing is, I don't want a PC. I want something with long battery life that can run console Emacs, so I can take it out to a cabin with no electricity and write for weeks at a time. (Text not code.) There's no reason this device shouldn't satisfy that, the hardware has all the capabilities.
It does however make sense that it's something I would have to roll myself. I need that freedom if I'm putting money into this sort of thing.
The article doesn't really talk about the evolution of the network over the life of the station. I'd suspect they have all those laptops for the hard disks, since I imagine they're doing a variety of possibly data-intensive experiments up there that can't deal with the latency getting to a hard drive on the ground and back.
Obviously, they could use external hard drives, but probably couldn't justify a standalone disk without a fully functional PC.
We already have this. And they function on more or less the same swarm functions. They scale really easily, since they simply communicate with each other to navigate. If one blows up, no loss, and you've found a bomb.
It's not quite as elegant as a magic bomb detector, but it's just as effective. I saw them demoed at a CS conference a few years back, and the designer said that they sent them off to Iraq and got back the empty husks (they're basically rolling cylinders with a single 'payload' unit that is just enough for a camera.
I think you're making some false assertions. Did you see that program that was generating symphonies in the style of the greats? I'd say we already have programs that can churn out interesting works of art.
But you'll say, of course "But that's just a well-posed problem, and it's brute forcing it anyway." Sure, but how can you describe what we do as anything but brute forcing? Musicians spend hours upon hours every week honing and refining their work. It's a brute force search if you ask me, with some optimization (which we can put into the program.)
So we already have devices that can do creative work, they're Turing machines (though they do work in parallel, so I suppose you have that going for you.)
And yes, the computers can't do it without training. But how many people do you know that do music without years of study and learning from others?
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By design, they have to directly expose the original file, and it's trivial to download it (just like an embedded jpeg.) There exist mechanisms for doing the same thing with flv, but it's intentionally obfuscated.
Yes. It's twice as bad on Linux, on the same hardware, but Windows XP still isn't really that usable. I still get at least two annoying jolts every half hour.
Problem is it's pretty much useless unless support is universal. No one wants to hold multiple formats for the same video, much less on-the-fly transcoding by sniffing browser agent strings or whatever.
What the fuck kind of Flash are you using? I'll grant that it might be a little less flaky than integrated video plugins, but it's still a total crapfest next to a local copy.
The difference is that you can't download an flv when it starts skipping or outright freezing (Which happens every day.)
Twitter? That sounds like 4Chan to me.
You don't need to eat animals. And it's very easy to select plants for flavor on a farm (we've had millennia of selective breeding to get it right.)
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Javascript isn't there to make your life easier. It's there to provide a mechanism for you to do something while minimizing the attack surface of the browser.
They could have included a full scripting language with the browser, but they chose not to for security and efficiency reasons. Javascript vulnerabilities don't show up half as much as Flash vulnerabilities, and it's because the language is intentionally simplistic.
It's remains somewhat worrying the impression that someone would get of me looking at my search history confined to when I'm logged in. It paints an... incomplete picture at best.
But if the economy gets worse while unemployment sinks, that's communism and clearly worse for everyone.
Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Maemo are three ready examples of mainstream products that run Linux on ARM. More are on the way. ARM is a big deal for Linux.
Meh. Laser propulsion likely has other uses if we develop it to the point where it's useful for space elevators.
You're quite right. They're still annoying.
Actually, at the rate I eat bananas I would probably fill my nose in a month tops. (Sticker is at least .1 cm cubed, my nose can contain about 3-4 cm cubed, ergo, a banana a day becomes 3 cm cubed in a month without difficulty.)
But it's really not so much a waste issue as a nuisance. It's annoying that there's a 3-step process: Peel sticker, throw sticker in trash, throw peel in compost. With this etching it would be one step. Significant? No, but like everyone else on Slashdot, I'm lazy (though industrious enough to compost.)
I don't think you have a proper understanding of what a bureaucrat is. A congressman is not a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat is a member of the treasury department (and the treasury wisely included no such provision as this in their bill.)
A bureaucrat is also a member of ICANN or the FCC, the former of which has regulated the Internet so well that most people aren't even aware of its regulatory authority. The latter has demonstrated such a thoughtful and intelligent understanding of the issues at play that the ISPs have tried to smash the FCC down before it manages to rein in the ISPs' flagrant abuses of power.
Bureaucrats who have no idea what they're talking about are terrible things. However, if you look around you'll find most bureaucrats know exactly what they're talking about. It's the politicians you need to watch out for.
TFA has an addendum that basically says the congressman that introduced the provision didn't understand the implications of what he wrote, and is planning on revising it based on input from the industry.
By the industry, I'm fairly sure he means us, not the RIAA.
I compost all of my fruit, and this will be great, as fruit like bananas and oranges will no longer generate any waste I can't compost.
Then how is it that Americans created Mac OS X while a Finn created Linux?
Torvalds:
Am I missing something? Torvald's reply actually sounds pretty reasonable to me here. It might be nice if this exploit could be patched, but it seems a little preposterous to me that you could make that work in a way that doesn't leave an exploit. I'd say you need to be locking down your suid binaries more, not blaming kernel management.
Both look pretty good, but really the dealbreaker is the keyboard. Really my ideal device looks more like the eee keyboard - though the screen is smaller than I'd like and I'm sure the battery life will be the usual 8-10 hour crap the best of the netbooks have been shoveling, if even that.
Only if it contains the words "Windows", "Linux" and "Mac."
For the past couple years, I have put the same restrictions on my TV.
The thing is, I don't want a PC. I want something with long battery life that can run console Emacs, so I can take it out to a cabin with no electricity and write for weeks at a time. (Text not code.) There's no reason this device shouldn't satisfy that, the hardware has all the capabilities.
It does however make sense that it's something I would have to roll myself. I need that freedom if I'm putting money into this sort of thing.
So is there a network of geosynchronous satellites that provides its 10 mbps link to the ground?
The article doesn't really talk about the evolution of the network over the life of the station. I'd suspect they have all those laptops for the hard disks, since I imagine they're doing a variety of possibly data-intensive experiments up there that can't deal with the latency getting to a hard drive on the ground and back.
Obviously, they could use external hard drives, but probably couldn't justify a standalone disk without a fully functional PC.
We already have this. And they function on more or less the same swarm functions. They scale really easily, since they simply communicate with each other to navigate. If one blows up, no loss, and you've found a bomb.
It's not quite as elegant as a magic bomb detector, but it's just as effective. I saw them demoed at a CS conference a few years back, and the designer said that they sent them off to Iraq and got back the empty husks (they're basically rolling cylinders with a single 'payload' unit that is just enough for a camera.
I think you're making some false assertions. Did you see that program that was generating symphonies in the style of the greats? I'd say we already have programs that can churn out interesting works of art.
But you'll say, of course "But that's just a well-posed problem, and it's brute forcing it anyway." Sure, but how can you describe what we do as anything but brute forcing? Musicians spend hours upon hours every week honing and refining their work. It's a brute force search if you ask me, with some optimization (which we can put into the program.)
So we already have devices that can do creative work, they're Turing machines (though they do work in parallel, so I suppose you have that going for you.)
And yes, the computers can't do it without training. But how many people do you know that do music without years of study and learning from others?