The reason why he is correct is because code running under a Virtual Machine like the JVM or CLR does not need to be perfect because security is inherited from the VM. So yes, he is correct under certain configurations.
Regardless of whether or not you can bring yourself to believe it, Microsoft has an incredibly dense population of highly skilled developers. The problem with the company as I see it is that its primarilly driven by marketers, rather than "technology". Low and behold though, their money comes from market driven sales, not cool features and technology.
Microsoft is both a Mecca of marketing genius and development genius. To say otherwise would simply be foolish.
An example of how marketing genius drives the company, if you notice the ads for Live Meeting on TV, you'll hear a VoIP voice say "Go Live" in its typical encoded manor. What they do not tell you is that Live Meeting does not currently have VoIP support simply because its unreliable over open networks (think small companies with limited bandwidth) and often too difficult to understand because of packet loss. This is a perfect example of Microsoft's marketing drive.
If _ANYONE_ considered what the media had to say, then Arnold Shwartzeneggar would've lost by a landslide.
For the record, I voted for Gore. I'm glad Bush won. I'll vote for Bush again. Why? Because he had the gutts to obliterate enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq, but I cannot say I have the same faith in Gore if put in that situation.
Has anyone noticed that troops in Afghanistan haven't been killed lately? No. Why? Because the media only cares about making things into a train wreck.
I don't find this at all shocking. Nobody has ever argued that there is an infinite amount of naturally produced oil on the planet to consume. It is very obvious that we will eventually need to evolve our society to a completely nuclear electric dependant one, unless we have significant developments in the arena of cold fusion. Either way, Electricity and/or fuels based on electricity, such as electrolysis to produce hydrogen will more than likely be the resulting type of energy consumed *eventually*.
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.NET is shorthand for.NET Framework, which is essentially a Virtual Machine and standardized API like Java. MS tends to append ".NET" to anything thats deployed supporting any.NET Framework applications.
.NET Remoting is the MS equivalent for Java RMI, except that instead of making function calls only binary, they allow serialization to XML and greater control over instantiation of objects. The XMl serialization is important because it allows third party applications running on non-MS OSes to inter-operate with a.NET Remoting application.
In my opinnion, this.NET Remoting is very well thought out and takes RMI to a new level.
What a load of shit. I wrote a program in Pascal that did precisely this. It was a TSR that would catch the CTRL-ALT-DELETE events and do my dirty work for me.
I'd take it a step further and say that its the FBI's obligation to enforce the law using these provisions. It would be worse to have them lay around stale and accumulate into massive holes in the Constitution waiting for some wacko to exploit it against the American people when they least expect it. At least right now Congress can witness the fruits of its labors (whether good or bad) before they grant the Feds broader capabilities.
Explain to me how the Scientific Method shows us conclusively that the GHE is caused by fossil fuel usage caused by humans.
The GHE is merely the latest theory as to why the Earth is warming. The fact of the matter is that it could very well be due to Solar trends which have occurred in the past. While the facts fit the GHE, its incredibly misleading because the facts do not fit all that well.
If the Earth were in a cooling phase, just as many people would claim that it was humans that were causing it as do the GHE.
Even when the North East gets hit with a nasty snow storm, its the GHE that caused it!
We need to rely on science and statistics. GHE advocates rely on the statistics that the Earth is warming and conclude (through no scientific means!) that its due to green house gasses produced by Humans.
The answer to whether or not the GHE exists is not known. It is not proven. If it is not proven then its a Theory and therefore Not Scientifically Backed.
I don't know about everyone else, but I don't trust governments. This system would make it entirely TOO easy for a govt to toll roads that do not have any existing toll boothe structure.
Imagine how this system would be exploited in a budget crisis... "oh just add highway such-n-such to the tolling system". Next thing you know, EVERY road would be a toll road.
Don't you think you're possibly jumping to conclusions here? I am far from a supporter of electronic voting. I think its the worst concept since Divx (sans;). That being said, I highly doubt that that mans intent was to corrupt the voting system but rather to improve the ease of voting through electronic means.
On top of this, Neo Conservative is a somewhat biggoted term. It suggests not only that the Republican party truely is a sensational war machine but that those who join the party in time of war are themselves war mongers. This is incredibly insulting to me AND I didn't vote for Bush (I voted for Gore). It sickens me that you can blanket 45% of the country with such terms while at the same time despising the act of using racial slurs or merely referencing the concept of social inequalities.
The Feds only have some kid who was f'ing around with the source code for a variant of Blaster. In other words, they're going to pin all the damage on him, even though he may not have even wrote the original virus or infected machines!!!
The truth of the matter is that they don't know who wrote the virus and they don't even know where to begin to investigate. This sickens me because as of right now it looks like someone made a phonecall and the Feds are ready to blame that person for all the problems that were caused by the virus. Even if the kid had the original source code, thats not justification for prosecution. God knows how easy it is to obtain that stuff.
Lack of funding is the routine excuse politicians use when homeless numbers increase. The reality is that the homeless count fluxtuates with the economy which is virtually uncontrollable. Even in an excellent economy those who are homeless are hardly employable (now there are exceptions of course!), but thats not the point. The reality is that here in Boston (just as an example), funding for shelters has increased every single year for the past 4 years without capacity coming anywhere near to 100%. The problem is that these people are mentally ill and/or substance abusers who do not want to enter shelters. You cannot force these people to be institutionalized anymore. Unfortunately this is the crux of this problem. If you cannot force them into institutions, atleast track them for their own personal health!
The majority of Homeless people are not a problem. Its the minority of homeless whom you see pandhandling, urinating in the streets, boozing, doing drugs and grilling pigeons with a hibachi that are the chronic law breakers. The problem here in Boston is that homelessness seems to be a get out of jail free card. The police blatently fail to prosecute and the politicians routinely blame lack of funding as being a direct cause of homeless on the streets. Yet, for the past 4 consecutive years homeless shelter funding has increased. The kicker is that these shelters are nowhere near capacity and never have been. The underlying problem with the homeless is that those who do not want to go to shelters are those who are drunk, on drugs or severly mentally ill. Those individuals are also the ones who would benefit the most from being institutionalized, but their civil liberties are protected by the Consitution (as they should be). So to put it bluntly, those homeless on the streets are usually the individuals breaking the law on a routine basis; they will not seek shelter b/c they are drunk or on drugs or mentally ill. These are also the most dangerous individuals not only from an economic stand point (e.g. Times Square in the 80's) but also from a public safety stand point.
That being said, tracking homeless only at shelters will likely not put names on those who are dangerous. Tracking them as a public health service I believe is critical, not only for those individuals well being, but for those of the general public. It also would be a very convenient way of tracking the total number of homeless.
WindowsUpdate.com did not, I REPEAT: DID NOT EVER Run Linux. The scan from Netcraft only shows that during a particular scan the DNS resolved to Akamai's web caching servers. So Puh-LEASE don't try to start misinformed rumors.
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The question should be whether this is a relatively stable means of generating energy? What would be the resulting waste and can every house have its own power plant? That could be pivotal to the nations energy usage.
Does anyone know the answers to these questions? I know its difficult to manufacture now, so don't flame me on that. Anyone know anything about the containment of hafnium?
Now that I think about it, everyone who claims that the north pole melting will flood the planet doesn't know the geology of the North Pole (or the Physics of Ice, for that matter). Ice floating in water has MORE volume than if that ice were a liquid. This is because Ice expands when it is frozen (versus most other liquids which shrink when they freeze). So Sea level would potentially lower if the north pole were to melt. Combine this with all the continental ice of the south pole, and it just might not move at all.
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The reason why he is correct is because code running under a Virtual Machine like the JVM or CLR does not need to be perfect because security is inherited from the VM. So yes, he is correct under certain configurations.
Regardless of whether or not you can bring yourself to believe it, Microsoft has an incredibly dense population of highly skilled developers. The problem with the company as I see it is that its primarilly driven by marketers, rather than "technology". Low and behold though, their money comes from market driven sales, not cool features and technology.
Microsoft is both a Mecca of marketing genius and development genius. To say otherwise would simply be foolish.
An example of how marketing genius drives the company, if you notice the ads for Live Meeting on TV, you'll hear a VoIP voice say "Go Live" in its typical encoded manor. What they do not tell you is that Live Meeting does not currently have VoIP support simply because its unreliable over open networks (think small companies with limited bandwidth) and often too difficult to understand because of packet loss. This is a perfect example of Microsoft's marketing drive.
Shut your hole, you fucking troll.
If _ANYONE_ considered what the media had to say, then Arnold Shwartzeneggar would've lost by a landslide.
For the record, I voted for Gore. I'm glad Bush won. I'll vote for Bush again. Why? Because he had the gutts to obliterate enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq, but I cannot say I have the same faith in Gore if put in that situation.
Has anyone noticed that troops in Afghanistan haven't been killed lately? No. Why? Because the media only cares about making things into a train wreck.
Go ahead, mod me down you shitheads.
I don't find this at all shocking. Nobody has ever argued that there is an infinite amount of naturally produced oil on the planet to consume. It is very obvious that we will eventually need to evolve our society to a completely nuclear electric dependant one, unless we have significant developments in the arena of cold fusion. Either way, Electricity and/or fuels based on electricity, such as electrolysis to produce hydrogen will more than likely be the resulting type of energy consumed *eventually*.
This is the equivalent to shining a flash light on some solar power cells and making an electric motor spin. whoopie.
What a load of shit. I wrote a program in Pascal that did precisely this. It was a TSR that would catch the CTRL-ALT-DELETE events and do my dirty work for me.
I'd take it a step further and say that its the FBI's obligation to enforce the law using these provisions. It would be worse to have them lay around stale and accumulate into massive holes in the Constitution waiting for some wacko to exploit it against the American people when they least expect it. At least right now Congress can witness the fruits of its labors (whether good or bad) before they grant the Feds broader capabilities.
Explain to me how the Scientific Method shows us conclusively that the GHE is caused by fossil fuel usage caused by humans.
The GHE is merely the latest theory as to why the Earth is warming. The fact of the matter is that it could very well be due to Solar trends which have occurred in the past. While the facts fit the GHE, its incredibly misleading because the facts do not fit all that well.
Bullshit.
If the Earth were in a cooling phase, just as many people would claim that it was humans that were causing it as do the GHE.
Even when the North East gets hit with a nasty snow storm, its the GHE that caused it!
We need to rely on science and statistics. GHE advocates rely on the statistics that the Earth is warming and conclude (through no scientific means!) that its due to green house gasses produced by Humans.
The answer to whether or not the GHE exists is not known. It is not proven. If it is not proven then its a Theory and therefore Not Scientifically Backed.
Not if port 22 is the only exposed port...
Does anyone know if this exploit effects Cygwin installations of SSHD? I _really_ need to know.
What in God's name would ever suggest to you that Slashdot is anything but 12 y/o's?
I don't know about everyone else, but I don't trust governments. This system would make it entirely TOO easy for a govt to toll roads that do not have any existing toll boothe structure.
Imagine how this system would be exploited in a budget crisis... "oh just add highway such-n-such to the tolling system". Next thing you know, EVERY road would be a toll road.
What a shitty concept.
Its not a matter of debt, but rather whether or not she broke the law. Nobody lent her anything, she took it.
Don't you think you're possibly jumping to conclusions here? I am far from a supporter of electronic voting. I think its the worst concept since Divx (sans ;). That being said, I highly doubt that that mans intent was to corrupt the voting system but rather to improve the ease of voting through electronic means.
On top of this, Neo Conservative is a somewhat biggoted term. It suggests not only that the Republican party truely is a sensational war machine but that those who join the party in time of war are themselves war mongers. This is incredibly insulting to me AND I didn't vote for Bush (I voted for Gore). It sickens me that you can blanket 45% of the country with such terms while at the same time despising the act of using racial slurs or merely referencing the concept of social inequalities.
I prefer "The Lubricated Guide to Uranus" myself...
The Feds only have some kid who was f'ing around with the source code for a variant of Blaster. In other words, they're going to pin all the damage on him, even though he may not have even wrote the original virus or infected machines!!!
The truth of the matter is that they don't know who wrote the virus and they don't even know where to begin to investigate. This sickens me because as of right now it looks like someone made a phonecall and the Feds are ready to blame that person for all the problems that were caused by the virus. Even if the kid had the original source code, thats not justification for prosecution. God knows how easy it is to obtain that stuff.
Lack of funding is the routine excuse politicians use when homeless numbers increase. The reality is that the homeless count fluxtuates with the economy which is virtually uncontrollable. Even in an excellent economy those who are homeless are hardly employable (now there are exceptions of course!), but thats not the point. The reality is that here in Boston (just as an example), funding for shelters has increased every single year for the past 4 years without capacity coming anywhere near to 100%. The problem is that these people are mentally ill and/or substance abusers who do not want to enter shelters. You cannot force these people to be institutionalized anymore. Unfortunately this is the crux of this problem. If you cannot force them into institutions, atleast track them for their own personal health!
The majority of Homeless people are not a problem. Its the minority of homeless whom you see pandhandling, urinating in the streets, boozing, doing drugs and grilling pigeons with a hibachi that are the chronic law breakers. The problem here in Boston is that homelessness seems to be a get out of jail free card. The police blatently fail to prosecute and the politicians routinely blame lack of funding as being a direct cause of homeless on the streets. Yet, for the past 4 consecutive years homeless shelter funding has increased. The kicker is that these shelters are nowhere near capacity and never have been. The underlying problem with the homeless is that those who do not want to go to shelters are those who are drunk, on drugs or severly mentally ill. Those individuals are also the ones who would benefit the most from being institutionalized, but their civil liberties are protected by the Consitution (as they should be). So to put it bluntly, those homeless on the streets are usually the individuals breaking the law on a routine basis; they will not seek shelter b/c they are drunk or on drugs or mentally ill. These are also the most dangerous individuals not only from an economic stand point (e.g. Times Square in the 80's) but also from a public safety stand point.
That being said, tracking homeless only at shelters will likely not put names on those who are dangerous. Tracking them as a public health service I believe is critical, not only for those individuals well being, but for those of the general public. It also would be a very convenient way of tracking the total number of homeless.
Now go ahead, flame away...
I'm not naming names, but you heard the concept HERE First.
WindowsUpdate.com did not, I REPEAT: DID NOT EVER Run Linux. The scan from Netcraft only shows that during a particular scan the DNS resolved to Akamai's web caching servers. So Puh-LEASE don't try to start misinformed rumors.
Linux AkamaiGHost 15-Aug-2003 213.161.82.37 Akamai
The question should be whether this is a relatively stable means of generating energy? What would be the resulting waste and can every house have its own power plant? That could be pivotal to the nations energy usage.
Does anyone know the answers to these questions? I know its difficult to manufacture now, so don't flame me on that. Anyone know anything about the containment of hafnium?
Now that I think about it, everyone who claims that the north pole melting will flood the planet doesn't know the geology of the North Pole (or the Physics of Ice, for that matter). Ice floating in water has MORE volume than if that ice were a liquid. This is because Ice expands when it is frozen (versus most other liquids which shrink when they freeze). So Sea level would potentially lower if the north pole were to melt. Combine this with all the continental ice of the south pole, and it just might not move at all.
I've never, to this date, had an issue with Hello World.