The services, which include sites such RapidShare, FileFactory, and Easyshare, allow users to upload large files and make them available to anyone who knows the unique URI (or Uniform Resource Identifier) that's bound to each one. Users may post the link on websites or forums available to the public or share it in a single email to prevent all but the recipient from downloading it. RapidShare, for instance, says it can be used to “share your data with your friends, colleagues or family.”
But according to academics in Belgium and France, a “significant percentage” of the 100 FHSs (or file hosting services) they studied made it trivial for outsiders to access the files simply by guessing the URLs that are bound to each uploaded file. What's more, they presented evidence that such attacks, far from being theoretical, are already happening in the wild.
Stopped reading right there. It's not private just because the URL is some randomly generated string. These sites are not designed to securely transfer files to only the recipient so this is not in any way a "weakness".
Altavista, Ask and Bing have just been giving me more relevant search results lately.
Somewhat interestingly, and wildly offtopic, Altavista is powered by Yahoo, and Yahoo is powered by Bing, so you are really only using at most 2 search engines. (Ask also outsources to someone, but they don't say who, so it may very well be M!r0$0f+ as well).
And Microsoft copies Google's search results so in the end everyone is just using Google!
Why sad? THe ability to have portions of the page refresh without round-tripping to the server for a whole new page is only one of the highly useful functions provided by JS.
It's useful when used correctly. But when all of the links are JS and I can no longer middle click to open in new window I get annoyed.
Yes but ultimately they are still the same company and you have to worry about the company deciding that the VP who did such a great job at maximizing profits in division X should take a shot at division Y. It's not the guys implementing the features that make the decision to remove them.
That said this is a different situation, being a joint venture and all.
JavaScript tends to drive away everyone who is even remotely a good programmer, as such people can usually see just how flawed JavaScript is, and they want nothing to do with it. So what we have left over is a bunch of non-skilled "programmers" who think they know what they're talking about, but in reality have absolutely no clue. They continually produce some of the shittiest code that has ever been written.
Combine that with a healthy dosage of fanaticism and allow me to introduce you to the LabVIEW community... and I'm sure they can make you rethink that "shittiest code that has ever been written" part.
They did not store the passwords in cleartext, from the PSN Blog:
"One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link."
Hash - a special form of encryption often used for passwords, that uses a one-way algorithm that when provided with a variable length unique input (message) will always provide a unique fixed length unique output called hash, or message digest.
So they're saying the passwords weren't encrypted, they were stored as hashes. And to explain the difference they link a page that defines a hash as a form of encryption...
Ubuntu on my desktop, OpenSUSE on my laptop. The main thing I'm hoping for with all this Unity and Gnome 3 business is that a good debian-based distro starts to take KDE seriously. Last time I tried both Kubuntu and Fedora's KDE verison I had issues, including weird behavior with the update utility (marking bugfixes that need updated then not letting me update them or simply giving errors when trying to install updates).
There's also the chance that at some point in the future they might be able to sell it for something or claim it as an asset when they try to sell the company.
The ribbon is a marked improvement over the old style file menus.
Nope. The ribbon is just plain worse.
What you're describing at the end there is how Microsoft has always had poor menu organization in their applications. With the ribbon they tried to throw all of the features into just a few top level ribbons so they didn't have to worry about that as much anymore. They should have addressed the root problem and re-thought their menu organization.
The biggest problem with the ribbon is the options are different sizes and not laid out in a consistent flow. It's not like a menu where you have a list of text you can quickly scan through for the option you want. You have to look all over this thing at many different sizes of buttons to find the one option you're looking for, which takes significantly more effort. So even though everything is right in front of your face it is still harder to find. And as other people have mentioned it tries to be "smart" if it can't fit everything and is not consistent about what it makes disappear. Even if it takes me an extra button click I'll take a consistent and easy to read menu over this garbage. For tasks I use all the time I'll learn the keystrokes anyway.
They should rather concentrate on improving the core OS in my opinion. Why would I want to manipulate images or read PDFs with crap software from MS...
What you want doesn't matter. Microsoft makes deals with places like Best Buy to make sure Geek Squad sets up ignorant computer users with a Windows Live e-mail address, bing as the default search engine, etc.
This move is probably to prepare them to compete in the tablet market if it proves to be more than just a fad and to consolidate as much as possible between their different operating systems.
Does Time Warner currently have no cap? That is the only other option where I live and I am considering switching from U-Verse when I get this letter from AT&T.
Is there a site or something that gives the vote records for subcommittees? If these articles are saying it was along party lines someone must have a list. If we can put names to decisions that's a lot more useful than blaming the entire party.
For the lazy here is the table of members. Take note of whether your representative is on the naughty list.
Republicans
Greg Walden (OR) Chair
Lee Terry (NE) Vice Chair
Cliff Stearns (FL)
John Shimkus (IL)
Mary Bono Mack (CA)
Mike Rogers (MI)
Brian Bilbray (CA)
Charlie Bass (NH)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Phil Gingrey (GA)
Steve Scalise (LA)
Bob Latta (OH)
Brett Guthrie (KY)
Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Joe Barton (TX)
Fred Upton (MI)
Democrats
Anna G. Eshoo (CA)
Edward J. Markey (MA)
Michael F. Doyle (PA)
Doris O. Matsui (CA)
Jane Harman (CA)
John Barrow (GA)
Edolphus Towns (NY)
Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ)
Bobby L. Rush (IL)
Diana DeGette (CO)
John D. Dingell (MI)
Henry A. Waxman (CA)
We need a totally buff chick to throw a giant hammer into the video screen during Jobs's speech at an apple brainwash^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d... product announcement.
A couple nights ago Colbert had a rather amusing segment summarizing the chain of events. I believe a phrase similar to "Hey, look at that hornet's nest; I'm gonna stick my dick in it!" was used. Look it up, you'll laugh.:)
I decided to look this up because I missed that episode. It is pretty hilarious. Here is the link.
I dunno. I've heard some pretty terrible sound mixes at live venues. Nothing like using earplugs to bring horribly clipped audio down to a non-painful volume.
Seriously. I never understood why they feel a need to make it so ridiculously loud. I've been in some tiny venues where everyone is crammed right in front of the speakers and they still crank it up painfully loud. Unfortunately this is the norm for some reason.
I understand not giving details for things like "lack of usability" but "missing functionality" and "poor interoperability" would be easy to give examples for. To make a switch back like this they should at least give something less vague. The important bit is at the end where Tillmann says their reasons are "not satisfactory" and "We need the figures".
The article makes this switch sound more political:
The Foreign Office launched a modernisation process in 2010, one component of which was the pursuit of a new IT strategy moving away from open source software and towards "standardised proprietary client solutions" as used in other ministries.
I OWN my Apple products. I am free to do with them as I please. Prove otherwise.
The statements made around here regarding Apple and being "control freaks" are simply ridiculous.
I want to put rockbox on my 6th generation ipod but I can't because with the 6th generation Apple decided to hide the firmware so nobody can figure out where it's installed to replace it.
I have also not found any way to update the firmware from Linux, and even putting music on it in Linux had to be reverse engineered.
Money and in-kind contributions will flow both ways in the deal, Elop reiterated. Nokia will be contributing its Ovi mapping service and will be paying Microsoft royalties for the use of its software, as other manufacturers do. It will save money by not continuing development of its own software. The net benefit is still in the billions, he said.
So they're getting a payment from Microsoft up front but paying them royalties, giving them access to Nokia's mapping service, and killing off their own software department (or at least parts of it).
He said the decision to go with Windows Phone was unanimous in Nokia's senior management team. Nokia's board approved the deal Thursday night, a day ahead of the announcement in London.
So no hope of getting rid of this guy if all of the senior management was on board.
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The services, which include sites such RapidShare, FileFactory, and Easyshare, allow users to upload large files and make them available to anyone who knows the unique URI (or Uniform Resource Identifier) that's bound to each one. Users may post the link on websites or forums available to the public or share it in a single email to prevent all but the recipient from downloading it. RapidShare, for instance, says it can be used to “share your data with your friends, colleagues or family.”
But according to academics in Belgium and France, a “significant percentage” of the 100 FHSs (or file hosting services) they studied made it trivial for outsiders to access the files simply by guessing the URLs that are bound to each uploaded file. What's more, they presented evidence that such attacks, far from being theoretical, are already happening in the wild.
Stopped reading right there. It's not private just because the URL is some randomly generated string. These sites are not designed to securely transfer files to only the recipient so this is not in any way a "weakness".
Altavista, Ask and Bing have just been giving me more relevant search results lately.
Somewhat interestingly, and wildly offtopic, Altavista is powered by Yahoo, and Yahoo is powered by Bing, so you are really only using at most 2 search engines. (Ask also outsources to someone, but they don't say who, so it may very well be M!r0$0f+ as well).
And Microsoft copies Google's search results so in the end everyone is just using Google!
Why sad? THe ability to have portions of the page refresh without round-tripping to the server for a whole new page is only one of the highly useful functions provided by JS.
It's useful when used correctly. But when all of the links are JS and I can no longer middle click to open in new window I get annoyed.
Yes but ultimately they are still the same company and you have to worry about the company deciding that the VP who did such a great job at maximizing profits in division X should take a shot at division Y. It's not the guys implementing the features that make the decision to remove them.
That said this is a different situation, being a joint venture and all.
JavaScript tends to drive away everyone who is even remotely a good programmer, as such people can usually see just how flawed JavaScript is, and they want nothing to do with it. So what we have left over is a bunch of non-skilled "programmers" who think they know what they're talking about, but in reality have absolutely no clue. They continually produce some of the shittiest code that has ever been written.
Combine that with a healthy dosage of fanaticism and allow me to introduce you to the LabVIEW community... and I'm sure they can make you rethink that "shittiest code that has ever been written" part.
They did not store the passwords in cleartext, from the PSN Blog:
"One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link."
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/02/playstation-network-security-update/
From the link in the blog you linked:
Hash - a special form of encryption often used for passwords, that uses a one-way algorithm that when provided with a variable length unique input (message) will always provide a unique fixed length unique output called hash, or message digest.
So they're saying the passwords weren't encrypted, they were stored as hashes. And to explain the difference they link a page that defines a hash as a form of encryption...
Ubuntu on my desktop, OpenSUSE on my laptop. The main thing I'm hoping for with all this Unity and Gnome 3 business is that a good debian-based distro starts to take KDE seriously. Last time I tried both Kubuntu and Fedora's KDE verison I had issues, including weird behavior with the update utility (marking bugfixes that need updated then not letting me update them or simply giving errors when trying to install updates).
Except Intel is one company that still builds a lot of their stuff in the U.S., unlike AMD.
There's also the chance that at some point in the future they might be able to sell it for something or claim it as an asset when they try to sell the company.
"We are sorry that our president is an idiot, we did not voted for him" (on an american clothing label, in french)
This is not from a clothing label unless you consider bags clothing. It's from Tom Bihn. I have a laptop bag with this label on it.
The ribbon is a marked improvement over the old style file menus.
Nope. The ribbon is just plain worse.
What you're describing at the end there is how Microsoft has always had poor menu organization in their applications. With the ribbon they tried to throw all of the features into just a few top level ribbons so they didn't have to worry about that as much anymore. They should have addressed the root problem and re-thought their menu organization.
The biggest problem with the ribbon is the options are different sizes and not laid out in a consistent flow. It's not like a menu where you have a list of text you can quickly scan through for the option you want. You have to look all over this thing at many different sizes of buttons to find the one option you're looking for, which takes significantly more effort. So even though everything is right in front of your face it is still harder to find. And as other people have mentioned it tries to be "smart" if it can't fit everything and is not consistent about what it makes disappear. Even if it takes me an extra button click I'll take a consistent and easy to read menu over this garbage. For tasks I use all the time I'll learn the keystrokes anyway.
They should rather concentrate on improving the core OS in my opinion. Why would I want to manipulate images or read PDFs with crap software from MS...
What you want doesn't matter. Microsoft makes deals with places like Best Buy to make sure Geek Squad sets up ignorant computer users with a Windows Live e-mail address, bing as the default search engine, etc.
This move is probably to prepare them to compete in the tablet market if it proves to be more than just a fad and to consolidate as much as possible between their different operating systems.
Well I've seen it used for flash games whose websites are normally blocked...
I would expect a question and answer system.
Are you a:
Tonight do you plan to:
If 1 & 1 or 2 & 2:
You do realize that if you do that you are going to hell, right?
If 1 & 2 or 2 & 1:
You make baby Jesus cry.
If 1 & 3 or 2 & 3:
Be sure to buy our merchandise!
Does Time Warner currently have no cap? That is the only other option where I live and I am considering switching from U-Verse when I get this letter from AT&T.
Calculus was where I was introduced to the concept of limits, which is the core of Big O notation.
I really wish some of the people writing the code I now have to maintain understood Big O notation...
Ah, so whoever wins the war wins the internet.
Is there a site or something that gives the vote records for subcommittees? If these articles are saying it was along party lines someone must have a list. If we can put names to decisions that's a lot more useful than blaming the entire party.
Assuming this was strictly on party lines here is the site of subcommittees, but some apparently didn't vote.
For the lazy here is the table of members. Take note of whether your representative is on the naughty list.
Republicans
Greg Walden (OR) Chair
Lee Terry (NE) Vice Chair
Cliff Stearns (FL)
John Shimkus (IL)
Mary Bono Mack (CA)
Mike Rogers (MI)
Brian Bilbray (CA)
Charlie Bass (NH)
Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Phil Gingrey (GA)
Steve Scalise (LA)
Bob Latta (OH)
Brett Guthrie (KY)
Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Joe Barton (TX)
Fred Upton (MI)
Democrats
Anna G. Eshoo (CA)
Edward J. Markey (MA)
Michael F. Doyle (PA)
Doris O. Matsui (CA)
Jane Harman (CA)
John Barrow (GA)
Edolphus Towns (NY)
Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ)
Bobby L. Rush (IL)
Diana DeGette (CO)
John D. Dingell (MI)
Henry A. Waxman (CA)
We need a totally buff chick to throw a giant hammer into the video screen during Jobs's speech at an apple brainwash^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d ... product announcement.
They're saving that ad for the Xoom 3D.
A couple nights ago Colbert had a rather amusing segment summarizing the chain of events. I believe a phrase similar to "Hey, look at that hornet's nest; I'm gonna stick my dick in it!" was used. Look it up, you'll laugh. :)
I decided to look this up because I missed that episode. It is pretty hilarious. Here is the link.
I dunno. I've heard some pretty terrible sound mixes at live venues. Nothing like using earplugs to bring horribly clipped audio down to a non-painful volume.
Seriously. I never understood why they feel a need to make it so ridiculously loud. I've been in some tiny venues where everyone is crammed right in front of the speakers and they still crank it up painfully loud. Unfortunately this is the norm for some reason.
I understand not giving details for things like "lack of usability" but "missing functionality" and "poor interoperability" would be easy to give examples for. To make a switch back like this they should at least give something less vague. The important bit is at the end where Tillmann says their reasons are "not satisfactory" and "We need the figures".
The article makes this switch sound more political:
The Foreign Office launched a modernisation process in 2010, one component of which was the pursuit of a new IT strategy moving away from open source software and towards "standardised proprietary client solutions" as used in other ministries.
I OWN my Apple products. I am free to do with them as I please. Prove otherwise. The statements made around here regarding Apple and being "control freaks" are simply ridiculous.
I want to put rockbox on my 6th generation ipod but I can't because with the 6th generation Apple decided to hide the firmware so nobody can figure out where it's installed to replace it.
I have also not found any way to update the firmware from Linux, and even putting music on it in Linux had to be reverse engineered.
Money and in-kind contributions will flow both ways in the deal, Elop reiterated. Nokia will be contributing its Ovi mapping service and will be paying Microsoft royalties for the use of its software, as other manufacturers do. It will save money by not continuing development of its own software. The net benefit is still in the billions, he said.
So they're getting a payment from Microsoft up front but paying them royalties, giving them access to Nokia's mapping service, and killing off their own software department (or at least parts of it).
He said the decision to go with Windows Phone was unanimous in Nokia's senior management team. Nokia's board approved the deal Thursday night, a day ahead of the announcement in London.
So no hope of getting rid of this guy if all of the senior management was on board.
Being a Comcast user is always a good reason to be worried, so yes.