compatibility is important regardless, especially for "offline" sites which cannot be fixed easily or cheaply (CD help files, embedded web servers, etc)
You can use both a META tag as well as a HTTP header to tell IE8 to use either the new rendering engine (default) or to fall back to the IE7 standards.
So requiring offline and non-updateable pages to tell IE8 to fall back to IE7 rendering helps backward compatibility how? They are already written, already offline, and presumably already don't have the metatag that they will need to be (im)properly rendered.
The article wasn't clear to me. How was this code getting executed? It looked like it was being put into the original document (like edit the source and reload from cache, in which case the result seems like normal behavior to me).
Did anyone get the details of how the demo attack was being carried out?
Yes, but the solution for the content providers is not to shut out the new market, but to adapt to it and put upward pressure on the advertizing costs. In otherwords they should stop marketing the Hulu ads as strictly internet ads and use the existance of things like boxee to charge at a rate bettween true TV ads and online ads. By shutting out boxee they are closing themselves off from a new revenue stream: settop streaming ads.
Guess they can't use the ground wiring for some reason?
I'm not an EE but I don't think a grounded medium will transfer electromagnetic waves. Even a "grounded antenna" isn't directly grounded, but has a ground wire running near it, but with an insulator separating them.
When people didn't have TV's the movie industry could market its products cheap and rely on sheer numbers of people showing up to bring their revenue up. Now they have to market themselves a luxury service. It seems to me that most people who go to the cinema are doing it because it feels like a little splurge, it is doing something different and a bit expensive. People don't go because it is a better cinematic experience, they go because it is a cheep date or night out.
Did you know that Linux has limited NTFS support? I usually have to create a FAT32 partition to copy files between Windows XP and Linux. NTFS is usually read only or not available.
The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 file systems.
Actually thinking on it, I do think anonymous authors ought to have a guarantee of privacy. Sometimes important ideas will only get out if they can be disseminated without fear of retribution. For an excellent example, consider the The Federalist Papers which were published under the name "Publius". The tradeoff, as I mentioned, it that in the impunity gained by being guaranteed anonymity, one also is not taken as a serious source of fact, only your arguments matter. Consider the way a rational person will read an AC. If he makes a good point, you will take it seriously, because the argument stands on its own feet. If he just makes unsubstantiated claims of fact, you will ignore him.
I didn't say that. I said I didn't particularly like it, by which I mean I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with it. Just because, in cases of libel or slander, my kneejerk reaction is that a reasonable person will know not to accept an anonymous poster's word as being any sort of reliable statement of fact. When you write anonymously you sacrifice credibility for safety from repercussions. The point of the post, however, was that the suit is much more reasonable than the parent made it out to be, that is that "actionable" does have a meaning in this case.
Digital Research threatened legal action, claiming PC/MS-DOS to be too similar to CP/M. IBM settled by agreeing to sell their x86 version of CP/M, CP/M-86, alongside PC-DOS.
I think out of the whole video I saw about 10 sec of what might have been one of these things. I mean, It was some nifty graphics and all. But where was the demonstration? Maybe the idea was to see how much cleaner and less crowded the city will be with these?
Make SURE that none of them are in a format or contain data that you don't expect
Step one: Make sure you know exactly what data/format you DO expect. The tighter you specify the accepted format and data structure, the easier it will be to test the data. (E.g., if the client is designed to submit a phone number as an integer with 10 to 15 places, and you get a 40 character string with alphabetic characters, spaces, and punctuation you know something is up). Obviously don't rely on client scripts to validate the data before submission.
I got the distinct feeling he was kinda fed up with the interviewer.
I liked the "I just answered that." It takes real skill to get someone to answer like that in a short non-controversial interview.
I've heard that full fs encryption on higher end computers has a negligible performance impact (cpu can generally keep up with the hdd) but on lower end machines esp. netbooks, the performance impact can be appreciable.
Here is an article with benchmarks
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after all we have apple computer, and apples are pretty common
yes but Apple isn't a fruit vendor.
compatibility is important regardless, especially for "offline" sites which cannot be fixed easily or cheaply (CD help files, embedded web servers, etc)
You can use both a META tag as well as a HTTP header to tell IE8 to use either the new rendering engine (default) or to fall back to the IE7 standards.
So requiring offline and non-updateable pages to tell IE8 to fall back to IE7 rendering helps backward compatibility how? They are already written, already offline, and presumably already don't have the metatag that they will need to be (im)properly rendered.
The article wasn't clear to me. How was this code getting executed? It looked like it was being put into the original document (like edit the source and reload from cache, in which case the result seems like normal behavior to me).
Did anyone get the details of how the demo attack was being carried out?
Yes, but the solution for the content providers is not to shut out the new market, but to adapt to it and put upward pressure on the advertizing costs. In otherwords they should stop marketing the Hulu ads as strictly internet ads and use the existance of things like boxee to charge at a rate bettween true TV ads and online ads. By shutting out boxee they are closing themselves off from a new revenue stream: settop streaming ads.
Guess they can't use the ground wiring for some reason?
I'm not an EE but I don't think a grounded medium will transfer electromagnetic waves. Even a "grounded antenna" isn't directly grounded, but has a ground wire running near it, but with an insulator separating them.
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
Did anyone else think this meant they were installing security cameras running BSD?
shit, here's the link: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#sql
HTML 5 has a specification for allowing a site to use a local sql database. I believe safari now supports it (the user configures how big each site's db can grow), but I haven't used anything that uses it (or tried to write to it myself).
When people didn't have TV's the movie industry could market its products cheap and rely on sheer numbers of people showing up to bring their revenue up.
Now they have to market themselves a luxury service. It seems to me that most people who go to the cinema are doing it because it feels like a little splurge, it is doing something different and a bit expensive.
People don't go because it is a better cinematic experience, they go because it is a cheep date or night out.
yeah and who the hell wants to be given a copy of IE8 as first prize?
Did you know that Linux has limited NTFS support? I usually have to create a FAT32 partition to copy files between Windows XP and Linux. NTFS is usually read only or not available.
Have you heard of NTFS-3G?
The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 file systems.
Actually thinking on it, I do think anonymous authors ought to have a guarantee of privacy. Sometimes important ideas will only get out if they can be disseminated without fear of retribution. For an excellent example, consider the The Federalist Papers which were published under the name "Publius".
The tradeoff, as I mentioned, it that in the impunity gained by being guaranteed anonymity, one also is not taken as a serious source of fact, only your arguments matter. Consider the way a rational person will read an AC. If he makes a good point, you will take it seriously, because the argument stands on its own feet. If he just makes unsubstantiated claims of fact, you will ignore him.
I didn't say that. I said I didn't particularly like it, by which I mean I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with it. Just because, in cases of libel or slander, my kneejerk reaction is that a reasonable person will know not to accept an anonymous poster's word as being any sort of reliable statement of fact. When you write anonymously you sacrifice credibility for safety from repercussions.
The point of the post, however, was that the suit is much more reasonable than the parent made it out to be, that is that "actionable" does have a meaning in this case.
Libel is fairly well deliniated.
I don't particularly like the idea of pursuing anonymous posts as libelous, but your post is just ignorant.
Digital Research threatened legal action, claiming PC/MS-DOS to be too similar to CP/M. IBM settled by agreeing to sell their x86 version of CP/M, CP/M-86, alongside PC-DOS.
So Digital did threaten, but there was a settlement. DR-DOS on Wikipeida
I read the article a while ago, but I think it had to do with previewing or viewing the message. Not just delivering it.
How would downloading the linux version help a windows user?
I think out of the whole video I saw about 10 sec of what might have been one of these things. I mean, It was some nifty graphics and all. But where was the demonstration? Maybe the idea was to see how much cleaner and less crowded the city will be with these?
Make SURE that none of them are in a format or contain data that you don't expect
Step one: Make sure you know exactly what data/format you DO expect. The tighter you specify the accepted format and data structure, the easier it will be to test the data. (E.g., if the client is designed to submit a phone number as an integer with 10 to 15 places, and you get a 40 character string with alphabetic characters, spaces, and punctuation you know something is up). Obviously don't rely on client scripts to validate the data before submission.
they were pidgins you insensitive clod!
did it have a link to an mp3 of dubious legality?
We do have it very good. But the issue is whether it is still going to be good in 25 years. Or 100.
Not to be alarmist or anything. Just asking.
I got the distinct feeling he was kinda fed up with the interviewer.
I liked the "I just answered that." It takes real skill to get someone to answer like that in a short non-controversial interview.
I've heard that full fs encryption on higher end computers has a negligible performance impact (cpu can generally keep up with the hdd) but on lower end machines esp. netbooks, the performance impact can be appreciable. Here is an article with benchmarks
you can see screenshots here