This feat... is healing some of NASA's past black eyes. It is quite remarkable given original spec of 90 days for the mission.
Until some congressional asshat takes a look and argues "NASA builds things to last 25 times longer than specified. Ergo they are spending too much and their budget is 25 times higher than it should be."
They're using 5-6 big handfuls of hay to cleanup about 1/2 cup of motor oil (not crude).
There's 672 cups in a single barrel of oil (1 barrel = 42 gallons).
The lowest estimate is that there's around 5,000 barrels of oil being released EVERY DAY. The difference in scale is why this, and the hair idea, don't work. They may work for localized cleanup on a specific beach, but like people washing birds with detergent, this isn't a large-scale solution.
No kidding. When Apple launched the pivot-stand iMac, they snookered Time magazine into being the front-page headline article. Basically an 8-page ad masquerading as "exclusive content".
And people think they need to intentionally leak prototypes?
As the CTO of a company named 'WhiteHat Security' you are, and I'm being mild here, completely unqualified for your job if you're just now learning to make that assumption.
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Jeremiah Grossman, CTO of WhiteHat Security, said Thursday that many organizations, particularly in the financial services industry, have gotten to the point of assuming that their customers' desktops are compromised.
Grossman isn't saying that he personally, or even that his company, has come that assumption, he's saying that many other companies have come to that assumption. He's most likely speaking from experience in dealing with his clients, those other companies.
The hack is in using XML (which has a high-overhead due to it being a "human-readable" plain-text format) to transfer large amounts of data that have no need to be "human-readable" or interpreted by different parsers.
I used to use sIFR... but incompatibilities w/ IE and lots of edge-case use problems led me to switch. I was probably the most prominent bug-finder.
I switched to Facelift and even gave Cufon a whirl, but all of them had limitations that caused more trouble than they were worth when needing to build "pixel-perfect" site. Facelift adds too many HTTP requests (bad for HTTPS which can prevent caching). CuFon prevents text selection because it uses SVG, and can break complex link styling. All 3 are unsuitable for more than a line or two of text.
I've been switching over to @font-face for the last 4 months or so. It degrades nicely for older browsers, and if you set it up right it even works in old versions of IE. Try that with any other "cutting-edge" web technology. There are even services out there for creating all the necessary files.
Would you rather have a ~65Kb font file (That's the realistic size... I've been playing a lot with this) or 600-700K of text saved as images that isn't searchable and has no alt text.
In order to kill Flash, someone will need to come out with a vector-timeline-tweening GUI builder that doesn't require the developer to touch JavaScript.
Apple Motion Export as h264 and playback in an HTML5 container. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is already working on direct to HTML5 export for Motion.
While this might stop Comcast, regulation is -never- the answer when it comes to the economy. If you can mandate net neutrality over all the net* who is to say that the government can't force ISPs to block certain sites? Track 'piracy', etc.
That's flawed logic. If you can mandate that people do not kill each other, that does not mean you have the power to force people to kill each other.
For those Mac users connecting to another Mac there is always the "Screen Sharing" app located at/System/Library/CoreServices/. It's already there. It's free.
Not only that, but it's VNC based, so any VNC client can connect to a Mac that has screensharing enabled, and you can use it to connect to any VNC server.
Oh, and you don't have to dig into the library to find it either.... from the Finder, do connect to server, and give it a vnc url, vnc://machine.example.com
That's why I setup my mother with iChat. She can initialize a remote desktop sharing without needing to modify any settings or her or my router, and neither of us needs to worry about dynamic IP addresses.
If you're that big, and downtime costs that much, Norton offers the ability to run your own virus db server, just like MS lets you run your own Windows Update server.. I remember my university had this for managing the virus profiles that were distributed to faculty and students.
They had that in place 13 years ago when I started, and last I saw, the system was still in place.
The four major satellites that are providing key information on the European Space Agency today noted four major satellites that are monitoring the volcano that erupted this week under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier.
Huh... the four major satellites are noting four major satellites? That's a bit of tautological recursion.
The Supreme Court is now taking over again for the first time in 30 years, and all they have to do in order to abolish software patents is to clarify and repeat their previous rulings.
Unfortunately, the tendencies of the Supreme Court have changed dramatically over the last 30 years. There also is an easy legal argument: "30 years ago, no-one could envision what computers are doing today, and the founding fathers even less so"
2: images used for styling do not need to be included in tags, they can be loaded from the stylesheet.
Not necessarily. Often that can require additional markup to provide the necessary containers for CSS to do its work. Or, it can be that the images need to be insertable/configurable by non-coders with no CSS experience, which can require injecting the image into the markup. I've worked with several content management systems where I had no control over certain key page elements because their markup was locked down by the CMS output. In those situations, the only way to do certain styling can be by using the CMS to inject additional images that serve only as design enhancements and have no content-appropriate meaning.
The problem with XHTML (which overall I like much much more than HTML 4.01 because of its strictness) is that some very useful things for websites were intentionally excluded, with no reliable alternatives.
Two examples: 1) target attributes for anchors. In XHTML 1.1, there is no way to indicate whether a specific link should open in the same window vs. a new window as target is not permitted unless you are using framesets.
2) Required alt tags for images. Sometimes an image is used for purposes other than a photo. When including graphics for styling (complex borders, artwork, etc.), alt tags are unnecessary. But for some reason, including an empty value for an alt tag (so screen readers won't "speak" anything) is valid XHTML.
The true demise of twitter will be / is when the PR firms that try to take advantage of this flood it with spam, or worse yet, pay people to hype their junk.
When it happens??? It's been happening from day 1. They're just so good at it that you haven't noticed.
If Apple is scared of write once, run anywhere, then when they released the iPhone they would have done what every other smart phone had done up until that point. They would have included a crappy web browser that barely did more than handle WAP sites. Instead, they made Safari on the iPhone as full functional at rendering pages as Safari on the desktop.
In fact, for the first year of its existence, if you wanted to build an iPhone app, the recommendation from Apple was to build it as a webpage that was formatted to follow the iPhone UI guidelines. That's the opposite of locking down the ecosystem as you accuse them of.
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Until some congressional asshat takes a look and argues "NASA builds things to last 25 times longer than specified. Ergo they are spending too much and their budget is 25 times higher than it should be."
They're using 5-6 big handfuls of hay to cleanup about 1/2 cup of motor oil (not crude).
There's 672 cups in a single barrel of oil (1 barrel = 42 gallons).
The lowest estimate is that there's around 5,000 barrels of oil being released EVERY DAY. The difference in scale is why this, and the hair idea, don't work. They may work for localized cleanup on a specific beach, but like people washing birds with detergent, this isn't a large-scale solution.
No kidding. When Apple launched the pivot-stand iMac, they snookered Time magazine into being the front-page headline article. Basically an 8-page ad masquerading as "exclusive content".
And people think they need to intentionally leak prototypes?
He probably just has it set in "movie mode" which dims the screen for low-light conditions.
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Grossman isn't saying that he personally, or even that his company, has come that assumption, he's saying that many other companies have come to that assumption. He's most likely speaking from experience in dealing with his clients, those other companies.
The hack is in using XML (which has a high-overhead due to it being a "human-readable" plain-text format) to transfer large amounts of data that have no need to be "human-readable" or interpreted by different parsers.
I used to use sIFR... but incompatibilities w/ IE and lots of edge-case use problems led me to switch. I was probably the most prominent bug-finder.
I switched to Facelift and even gave Cufon a whirl, but all of them had limitations that caused more trouble than they were worth when needing to build "pixel-perfect" site. Facelift adds too many HTTP requests (bad for HTTPS which can prevent caching). CuFon prevents text selection because it uses SVG, and can break complex link styling. All 3 are unsuitable for more than a line or two of text.
I've been switching over to @font-face for the last 4 months or so. It degrades nicely for older browsers, and if you set it up right it even works in old versions of IE. Try that with any other "cutting-edge" web technology. There are even services out there for creating all the necessary files.
Would you rather have a ~65Kb font file (That's the realistic size... I've been playing a lot with this) or 600-700K of text saved as images that isn't searchable and has no alt text.
Yeah.... I thought so.
Wonderful.... burning is a great way to reduce trash, as long as you don't care about air pollution.
Apple Motion Export as h264 and playback in an HTML5 container. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is already working on direct to HTML5 export for Motion.
That's flawed logic. If you can mandate that people do not kill each other, that does not mean you have the power to force people to kill each other.
Not only that, but it's VNC based, so any VNC client can connect to a Mac that has screensharing enabled, and you can use it to connect to any VNC server.
Oh, and you don't have to dig into the library to find it either.... from the Finder, do connect to server, and give it a vnc url, vnc://machine.example.com
That's why I setup my mother with iChat. She can initialize a remote desktop sharing without needing to modify any settings or her or my router, and neither of us needs to worry about dynamic IP addresses.
If you're that big, and downtime costs that much, Norton offers the ability to run your own virus db server, just like MS lets you run your own Windows Update server.. I remember my university had this for managing the virus profiles that were distributed to faculty and students.
They had that in place 13 years ago when I started, and last I saw, the system was still in place.
Huh... the four major satellites are noting four major satellites? That's a bit of tautological recursion.
Unfortunately, the tendencies of the Supreme Court have changed dramatically over the last 30 years. There also is an easy legal argument: "30 years ago, no-one could envision what computers are doing today, and the founding fathers even less so"
Ghah, my mother just bought a new macbook pro on Saturday. And there's no 1-to-1 replacement since they've bumped the pricing on the new machines.
Not necessarily. Often that can require additional markup to provide the necessary containers for CSS to do its work. Or, it can be that the images need to be insertable/configurable by non-coders with no CSS experience, which can require injecting the image into the markup. I've worked with several content management systems where I had no control over certain key page elements because their markup was locked down by the CMS output. In those situations, the only way to do certain styling can be by using the CMS to inject additional images that serve only as design enhancements and have no content-appropriate meaning.
The problem with XHTML (which overall I like much much more than HTML 4.01 because of its strictness) is that some very useful things for websites were intentionally excluded, with no reliable alternatives.
Two examples:
1) target attributes for anchors. In XHTML 1.1, there is no way to indicate whether a specific link should open in the same window vs. a new window as target is not permitted unless you are using framesets.
2) Required alt tags for images. Sometimes an image is used for purposes other than a photo. When including graphics for styling (complex borders, artwork, etc.), alt tags are unnecessary. But for some reason, including an empty value for an alt tag (so screen readers won't "speak" anything) is valid XHTML.
Hey, at least it's not Internet Explorer where changing a plugin can result in restarting the OS!
***bad-dump-ting***
Thank you, and tip your waitress!
Explain that in your response to Groklaw and let them figure it out.
When it happens??? It's been happening from day 1. They're just so good at it that you haven't noticed.
If Apple is scared of write once, run anywhere, then when they released the iPhone they would have done what every other smart phone had done up until that point. They would have included a crappy web browser that barely did more than handle WAP sites. Instead, they made Safari on the iPhone as full functional at rendering pages as Safari on the desktop.
In fact, for the first year of its existence, if you wanted to build an iPhone app, the recommendation from Apple was to build it as a webpage that was formatted to follow the iPhone UI guidelines. That's the opposite of locking down the ecosystem as you accuse them of.
My guess is shortly after it shows up on House M.D.
Lunch privacy doubly so.... wait, that didn't work out how I thought it would.