It's great to see Microsoft treating a threat of this severity appropriately. When I booted up my machine this morning (long before this Slashdot article was posted) I was greeted with a Windows Update message offering me a patch to this vulnerability. I didn't even know it existed! I was able to patch first, and ask questions later.
My only complaint is that MS seems less concerned with many less severe vulnerabilities. You'd think a corporation of their size would have a whole department devoted solely to fixing all security (and other) flaws.
Remember that MP3 and AAC are different compression schemes, so you'll get much worse quality than if you did a burn-rip from MP3 to MP3.
And the logic in this statement is where? If anything, the quality would be better when re-encoding to a different compression scheme. (using the same one would cause existing artifacts to be emphasised to the point of irritation, whereas using a different one would permit more artifacts, but be overall less noticeable.) Besides, what's to stop you from ripping to a high bitrate OGG, for example, which would leave the track at about the same quality as it was when you downloaded it.
The guy who says "I'm so and so and I build robots for a living," looks like the biggest dickhead ever. He makes me want to never, ever watch Farscape - ever. He makes me associate Farscape with idiocy and social ineptitude.
"I think they tend to see their culture as far more cosmopolitan than in the 19th century,"
That might be because that was over 100 years ago.
"Among other things, more and more Germans are immigrants,"
Immigrants represent a tiny, tiny portion of the German population. Have you ever been to Germany? You'll find that if you actually talk to Germans that live in Germany about their culture, that they feel very strongly about it. They have a strong sense of racial identity. The fact that they welcome immigrants has no impact on this whatsoever.
"Try searching google for "German race." Aside from car races, almost all references will be to the eugenics and slaughter of the 30's and 40's, and to Hitler or war criminals."
Probably because it's probably the single most significant event of the last century. Of course there are thousands upon thousands of documents that refer to it. In a list of documents, any other references to the "German race" are insignificant beside those referring to WW2. This is because back then the idea of a German race was to do with the unification of Germans living everywhere. This is not the case now, in today's world.
"Speaking of words, there's no "deservant." Study up. Advice from an educated liberal."
Eat a dick, you pompous pedant. What is it exactly that I'm supposed to study? Who cares if you're a liberal? If anything, that fact only serves to make you look like more of a fool.
The word is 'nerd', not 'geek'. 'Geek' is far too soft a word to describe your condition. You are some kind of supernerd, made up from parts of lesser nerds.
And by the way, it's "piece de resistance". Use some common sense. (pizza? what the hell were you thinking?)
Are you an idiot? Western Europe isn't some seething mass of amalgamated culture - the cultures of each country (and the people that perpetuate them) are all very, very different. At the very least they're deservant of being classified by race.
And if the phrase "German race" makes you think of Nazis, or the Holocaust, then you are a racist. Do you have any idea how offended the average modern German would be if you told them that the collective name of their race reminds you of such things?
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Haha, I love the way I'm modded as a Troll because I correct a mistake.
Err, speaking from an outsider's perspective, Americans and Canadians look almost exactly the same.
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You're an idiot. The cropping he was referring to in his article is entirely different to the type of cropping suggested by a multitude of posters in this thread.
The article describes cropping as cutting monitor-sized squares out of a video stream, splitting it into an array of several streams.
The posters in this thread are talking about additional cropping to reduce the warping caused by the spacing between the monitors.
For those that don't have a Postscript viewer and run Windows, check out RoPS - small, fast and effective.
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Some advertisment - the video quality was absolutely apalling. Slight movement of the camera causes really ugly scanline artifacts. (the image looks 'sliced' in half, as the top half refreshes before the bottom)
If anything, these videos have convinced me not to buy an X10 cam.
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It's great to see Microsoft treating a threat of this severity appropriately. When I booted up my machine this morning (long before this Slashdot article was posted) I was greeted with a Windows Update message offering me a patch to this vulnerability. I didn't even know it existed! I was able to patch first, and ask questions later.
My only complaint is that MS seems less concerned with many less severe vulnerabilities. You'd think a corporation of their size would have a whole department devoted solely to fixing all security (and other) flaws.
Maybe. It's hard to tell.
This is just a bloated version of this post.
"whizzier than Id"
I really, really hope that was an unintentional pun.
A sword swallower choking on a toothpick is irony.
No. Irony is incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.
I thought satire was supposed to be funny.
He's not hijacking anything - he's connecting to his own servers offshore to send the spam.
The guy who says "I'm so and so and I build robots for a living," looks like the biggest dickhead ever. He makes me want to never, ever watch Farscape - ever. He makes me associate Farscape with idiocy and social ineptitude.
Haha. Nice rebuttal, idiot.
Haha, yes. Triumph was very funny. I was wondering if anyone would pick that up. ;)
"I think they tend to see their culture as far more cosmopolitan than in the 19th century,"
That might be because that was over 100 years ago.
"Among other things, more and more Germans are immigrants,"
Immigrants represent a tiny, tiny portion of the German population. Have you ever been to Germany? You'll find that if you actually talk to Germans that live in Germany about their culture, that they feel very strongly about it. They have a strong sense of racial identity. The fact that they welcome immigrants has no impact on this whatsoever.
"Try searching google for "German race." Aside from car races, almost all references will be to the eugenics and slaughter of the 30's and 40's, and to Hitler or war criminals."
Probably because it's probably the single most significant event of the last century. Of course there are thousands upon thousands of documents that refer to it. In a list of documents, any other references to the "German race" are insignificant beside those referring to WW2. This is because back then the idea of a German race was to do with the unification of Germans living everywhere. This is not the case now, in today's world.
"Speaking of words, there's no "deservant." Study up. Advice from an educated liberal."
Eat a dick, you pompous pedant. What is it exactly that I'm supposed to study? Who cares if you're a liberal? If anything, that fact only serves to make you look like more of a fool.
Forget first-person shooters. The first games to truly pioneer this infinite-inventory idea were the first text-based adventure games.
The word is 'nerd', not 'geek'. 'Geek' is far too soft a word to describe your condition. You are some kind of supernerd, made up from parts of lesser nerds.
And by the way, it's "piece de resistance". Use some common sense. (pizza? what the hell were you thinking?)
Are you an idiot? Western Europe isn't some seething mass of amalgamated culture - the cultures of each country (and the people that perpetuate them) are all very, very different. At the very least they're deservant of being classified by race.
And if the phrase "German race" makes you think of Nazis, or the Holocaust, then you are a racist. Do you have any idea how offended the average modern German would be if you told them that the collective name of their race reminds you of such things?
Haha, I love the way I'm modded as a Troll because I correct a mistake.
Err, speaking from an outsider's perspective, Americans and Canadians look almost exactly the same.
You're an idiot. The cropping he was referring to in his article is entirely different to the type of cropping suggested by a multitude of posters in this thread.
The article describes cropping as cutting monitor-sized squares out of a video stream, splitting it into an array of several streams.
The posters in this thread are talking about additional cropping to reduce the warping caused by the spacing between the monitors.
Good point.
Exactly where does he say he's not taking care of her security?
He just said he doesn't like anyone (including his wife) messing around with his computer.
Sounds like your boss is even more clueless than you.
Learn to read:
"Note that the Grants Paid information is in terms of thousands of dollars."
For those that don't have a Postscript viewer and run Windows, check out RoPS - small, fast and effective.
Some advertisment - the video quality was absolutely apalling. Slight movement of the camera causes really ugly scanline artifacts. (the image looks 'sliced' in half, as the top half refreshes before the bottom)
If anything, these videos have convinced me not to buy an X10 cam.
Err, hardware costs about the same in Australia as it does in the USA. An Xbox is in no way a "cheap linux box".