The unofficial patch works on all versions of Windows presently supported by Microsoft, and it has an uninstaller. It's incredibly inobtrusive.
General usability testing.
It's a piece of binary code that inserts a handler before a certain function call, and rejects the misdesigned arguments. "Usability" is not an issue, since it's invisible to the user.
Over all platforms which support IE.
IE is not the problem. It's not an IE bug, its a Windows kernel bug.
Given the BBC has a definite worldwide presence, would it not make sense for them to open it up to other countries as well? It's a bizarre choice
I imagine that, at least partially, it's a rights issue. For example, the BBC have the rights to the 1966 World Cup for broadcast within the UK, but not worldwide.
That means that anything that legitmately uses that call won't work, and the underlying problem is still there.
Microsoft need to bite the damn bullet. The "feature" (or, rather, misfeature) is so insanely obscure that it's going to effect nearly no-one to disable it completely. Compared to the havoc another day of delays is going to cause, they need to choose the lesser of two evils, patch now, and fuck backwards compatibility.
This is a very small code snippet that prevents the Escape() call with a certain argument. If you allow that, your system is vulnerable; if you don't, it isn't.
There's no way you can preserve the operation of legacy code without preserving the vulnerability, so if your legacy code relies on that behaviour (which is *extremely* unreliable), you're fucked, and there's nothing Microsoft can do to get around it. They're just reticent to bite the bullet.
The efficiency of the basic language features... make the use of libraries attractive in an incredibly broad set of application areas and reduce the need for new language features.
Translation : C++ will continue to be a highly useful language, as long as some other sucker does all the hard work. Thanks Bjarne, your dedication to keeping core C++ about as functional as assembly language (without the speed) is highly admirable.
It even trumps controlled studies showing that rubbing toothpaste on the toes caues headaches in randomly selected subjects.... I'm me, and my treatment goal is to improve my own subjective experience of health.
Very true. And there's a word for something that can improve a subjective experience of health in subjects without any causal relationship.
It's "Placebo".
The placebo effect is brilliant.
Homeopathists think they're being devalued when their remedies are described as "basically [lacebo", and are wont to say "It's not placebo, it actually works!"
What they don't understand is that Placebos actually work too, and in many cases they work really well, as does prayer and even sheer bloody mindedness, both of which are cheaper than homeopathic remedies. All science can say is "The power of the mind is a wonderful thing". But that's why the baseline for real medicines is "better than placebo", which is a lot higher a baseline than "better than nothing".
What is it about that aspect of the treatment that researchers and reporters of research can't hear, read or understand?
The fact that that sentence makes no sense? A cure that can't be shown to work better than placebo is the same as a cure that doesn't work better than placebo.
Your justifaction is the suggestion that anecdotal evidence is better than systematic evidence, which is what quacks have always said when the systematic evidence reveals them to be quacks.
Only $160,000 was available at the start of the quarter, creating a budget shortfall of $161,200. A fund drive starting on 1 December was scheduled at the meeting as well. --Daniel Mayer 18:18, 1 October 2005
Since that fund raising drive is now $50k above the budget shortfall, it's not a shortfall anymore. The present $200k raised in the fund drive is about twice what was raised by the same drive in February last year...
Now, it's possible that there is now a massive shortfall for 2006/Q1, but if the submitter knows something about that, perhaps he feels like sharing it, rather than just mindlessly speculating.
No, no, no. The Genesis Probe was a device inserted up Phil Collins' arsehole in an attempt to determine why they bothered to continue to make records after Peter Gabriel left.
On my Fedora box it's under "Sound & Video", which makes sense to me, as CDs are audio media, first and foremost. Then, if I mouse-over K3B, it says "CD writing program."
acroread.exe and winword.exe are meaningless names, too; and yet thats what the Windows executable are called. The name of the file is an irrelevance. If the GIMP appears as 'gimp' instead of 'Image Editor' in the Desktop menus and icons, that's really is stupid, but it's fine to call the executable that.
up2date is a silly name, but as long as it appears in the menu as 'Add/Remove Programs', that's hardly relevant, is it?
The thing is, a lot of games are simply not designed to appeal to the majority of women, having testosterone-fueled themes like tons of violence and not a lot of social contact.
Oh, I totally agree. The inability of computer games to attract is very much the fault of the games. Too many of them are marketed at adolescent boys, and the crossover between things that appeal to large numbers of adolescent boys and things that appeal to large numbers of adult women is very very small indeed.
Let me finish that sentence fragment: I do not believe that unconstrained market forces and laissez-faire capitalism will benefit anyone besides the already-rich, and they don't need any more help.
I can't really disagree with any of that. In fact, the only thing I ever disagreed with was your characterisation of Rupert Murdoch as a leftist. (Though I'd imagine he'd disagree with you even more fervently). He's one of the interfering bastards of the right, not one of the interfering bastards of the left.
I imagine I would disagree with you on a great many other things, since you're clearly a anarchocapitalist/libertarian, and I'm clearly not:)
I believe government has a role to play. I believe businesses should be regulated e.g. in the way they treat their workers (the alternative is feudalism) and the amount of pollution they produce. I do not believe that unconstrained market forces and laissez-faire capitalism will benefit . The history of the US between 1900 and 1929 bears me out on this. The Great Depression was not the result of governmental socialism.
FWIW, I also believe that taxation should be used to provide a minimum level of health care for everyone in society, because it is the civilised thing to do. I do, however, believe that I should be free to spend the remainder of my money on anything I like that does not harm anyone else, and marry whomever I like and associate with whomever I like.
I'm sure there's a label for me somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
The left side mandates who I marry -- they're just as guilty as the right in saying I can only marry one person
I'm not saying that their aren't pro-authoritarian leftists. Such a suggestion would be utterly absurd.
My point was that you said that leftist and pro-authoritarian were synonymous, while the right-wing's policies on marijuana prohibition and gay marriage show this to be equally absurd.
It's perfectly legal to play poker in the US, even for money. The only time you may run afoul of the law is if the house collects money from the players or rakes the pot.
Broadly, and Federally, that's true. Specifics do vary from state to state. Some states outlaw social gambling (mainly the in the South and Midwest: AL, GA, OK, SD, TN, UT, WI, IL notably. Florida, Iowa and North Dakota have pot limits) but the laws are sporadically enforced. Further facts from here/a.
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There's nothing to test.
This is a very small code snippet that prevents the Escape() call with a certain argument. If you allow that, your system is vulnerable; if you don't, it isn't.
There's no way you can preserve the operation of legacy code without preserving the vulnerability, so if your legacy code relies on that behaviour (which is *extremely* unreliable), you're fucked, and there's nothing Microsoft can do to get around it. They're just reticent to bite the bullet.
It's "Placebo".
The placebo effect is brilliant.
Homeopathists think they're being devalued when their remedies are described as "basically [lacebo", and are wont to say "It's not placebo, it actually works!"
What they don't understand is that Placebos actually work too, and in many cases they work really well, as does prayer and even sheer bloody mindedness, both of which are cheaper than homeopathic remedies. All science can say is "The power of the mind is a wonderful thing". But that's why the baseline for real medicines is "better than placebo", which is a lot higher a baseline than "better than nothing".
Your justifaction is the suggestion that anecdotal evidence is better than systematic evidence, which is what quacks have always said when the systematic evidence reveals them to be quacks.
The 2005 Wikimedia Budget says Since that fund raising drive is now $50k above the budget shortfall, it's not a shortfall anymore. The present $200k raised in the fund drive is about twice what was raised by the same drive in February last year...
Now, it's possible that there is now a massive shortfall for 2006/Q1, but if the submitter knows something about that, perhaps he feels like sharing it, rather than just mindlessly speculating.
No, no, no. The Genesis Probe was a device inserted up Phil Collins' arsehole in an attempt to determine why they bothered to continue to make records after Peter Gabriel left.
On my Fedora box it's under "Sound & Video", which makes sense to me, as CDs are audio media, first and foremost. Then, if I mouse-over K3B, it says "CD writing program."
acroread.exe and winword.exe are meaningless names, too; and yet thats what the Windows executable are called. The name of the file is an irrelevance. If the GIMP appears as 'gimp' instead of 'Image Editor' in the Desktop menus and icons, that's really is stupid, but it's fine to call the executable that.
up2date is a silly name, but as long as it appears in the menu as 'Add/Remove Programs', that's hardly relevant, is it?
What, you mean concrete evidence of an Intelligent Designer?
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Let me finish that sentence fragment: I do not believe that unconstrained market forces and laissez-faire capitalism will benefit anyone besides the already-rich, and they don't need any more help.
I can't really disagree with any of that. In fact, the only thing I ever disagreed with was your characterisation of Rupert Murdoch as a leftist. (Though I'd imagine he'd disagree with you even more fervently). He's one of the interfering bastards of the right, not one of the interfering bastards of the left.
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I imagine I would disagree with you on a great many other things, since you're clearly a anarchocapitalist/libertarian, and I'm clearly not
I believe government has a role to play. I believe businesses should be regulated e.g. in the way they treat their workers (the alternative is feudalism) and the amount of pollution they produce. I do not believe that unconstrained market forces and laissez-faire capitalism will benefit . The history of the US between 1900 and 1929 bears me out on this. The Great Depression was not the result of governmental socialism.
FWIW, I also believe that taxation should be used to provide a minimum level of health care for everyone in society, because it is the civilised thing to do. I do, however, believe that I should be free to spend the remainder of my money on anything I like that does not harm anyone else, and marry whomever I like and associate with whomever I like.
I'm sure there's a label for me somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
My point was that you said that leftist and pro-authoritarian were synonymous, while the right-wing's policies on marijuana prohibition and gay marriage show this to be equally absurd.
Which part of the political spectrum is trying to tell me what I can smoke, or who I can marry?