Netscape 3 has the worst CSS support. People still use Netscape 3 believe it or not. Just think who you're catering to before you depend on CSS to layout your site.
No, I'm not saying ignore it. I'm seriously saying think who you want your site to cater to, what they'll most likely be using, etc. etc. I was shocked and appalled that my school was still using Netscape 3 three months ago, but there you have it. I still had to design for it.
The day when CSS, XML and the like can be used without even blinking is a long ways off, and that's just a damn shame.
... if you didn't take it seriously. Hell, I thought it was one of the funniest episodes I've seen. Was anyone else screaming out 'Thresh' the instant that asian dude walked in the door?
However, once you take it seriously all sorts of stuff goes wrong. I can forgive the mystical computer mumbo jumbo, this is hollywood, computers doing magical things is quickly becoming an easy explanation. However the uh.. attitudes.. that's where I had a problem.
How many of you, when you play an FPS, stand still? Just whip out a big gun, plant yourself down, and mow away? Do you get a rush from that? I can understand if it's team defense, but see, I think FPS's and games are popular cause they let you do the impossible... take a rocket to the feet and fly waaaay up for instance. Or teleport into someone (ala translocator). Not sit and shoot.
Female attitude.. HAH! Great one to cop out on, but I don't think it's honestly that bad. I'm a MALE though, I don't know any FEMALES who play this in Real Life, so I can't really say how to portray this well.
"The bloodlust is unsatiable." Oh god. I don't even wanna touch that.
Still, for all the bad points, if you just remember that it's TV, MAKE-BELIEVE, it wasn't bad. I kinda found it funny how matrix-ized mulder was;)
I'm pitiful but I don't deserve the pity. I'm starting to get really depressed about this whole thing. Yeah, I did my part for the UCITA, I called the senate, wrote the e-mails. Blah, I got nothing. I get the feeling that I can't make a difference. Yeah a lot of people can make a difference but I can't. This is the problem. I'm willing to bet there are a number of people like me who don't want to see this happen but once they've done their part and get no gratification, they realize it's a long arduous battle, they despair, they give up. That's the last thing you want your aid to do in a war like this... give up. But I mean christ, of all the issues I've been voicing my opinion on, I've made zilch difference. I have friend, peers and teachers who agree with me, but it doesn't change that fact that we are still getting rapidly losing our rights. Even worse is a large part of this country doesn't care, or is willing to give up the freedom. This, people, is scary.
I apologize for the braindump nature of this, it's built up for a while, and this combined with my reading the latest Adbusters brought it all tumbling down.
I hate to sound like the total ignorant fool that I am, but who is it I should be e-mailing? State senators? The guys who go to washington? I am totally clueless on government, my e-mailing probably wouldn't do much, but guys, this scares the fsck out of me, I gotta do whatever I can.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but isn't a DoS attack more against the pipe than the actual box? I mean, let's say I see a huge flood of packets coming from one IP. I tell my box to ignore them. All well and good, but aren't the incoming packets still clogging the pipes? Given enough brute force, you could clog anything up like that. Which, I'd have thought for companies as advanced as those hit (esp. Yahoo!) is what the problem was.
Look guys, let the flames descend, but the FBI isn't exactly stupid. "You fools, this is a global internet, the attackers could be anywhere." I find it hard to believe that out of all of the people employed by the FBI there are people who seriously believe otherwise.
I submit the following suggestion: mostly, this is for show. Yeah, most of the gumshoe work is going to be in analyzing server logs, and perhaps having a heart-to-heart with whatever equipment was compromised. But to most people, that's going to look like 'sitting around in washington.' So oooh, ahh, look at the FBI, they're moving around and doing stuff.
But here's the key folks: they are doing stuff. My guess is because of the angry advertisers losing "millions" of dollars, yeah, there's some pressure to get this done fast. I'd imagine they actually are checking every lead, you know? It's not like there aren't geeks that work for the FBI, you know?
So say whatever you want about the politics of all this (hey, that NSA theory is.. interesting after all), but give the FBI a liiiiiittle slack on this, they're not as dumb as is popular to say.
Great... another reason for profs to push college students even harder...
Okay, but seriously though..
"the temporal lobe, a brain region involved in language processing, was activated during verbal learning in rested subjects but not in sleep deprived subjects. Additionally, a region of the brain called the parietal lobes, not activated in rested subjects during the verbal exercise, was more active when the subjects were deprived of sleep"
We're less inclined to take stuff in but more inclined to work with it then? I know that's oversimplifying, but the point is Sleep Is Good
I don't know about you, but lack of sleep and no play makes Spiff go insane, or at least appear that way to others. I may be able to summon all my resources to focus on one task and burn myself out on it, but I'm about as meaningful as a babbling idjit to those around me.
If nothing else I'd love to see more in this area of research. 13 subjects? That's a pretty small sample guys.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the case. The magnitude of bandwidth available wouldn't be quite at the same level as processing power dedicated to RC5 and SETI@home, but it's up there. How many of you sysadmins 'hid' rc5 on your computers? It'd be almost as easy to do the same for a distributed DoS.
That being said, good admin (such as denying spoofed IP traffic to exit a network) really would stop this, or help prevent it anyway.
May get up to the speed of current computer chips in five years? Hmm... That puts it at palmtop etc. level in about 2-3, no? I figure that's where it will have the most use for the moment, take the power of our portable devices, and make it even smaller, yes, to the point of clothing integration.
Could this be the first step towards nanobots? Spoooky....
Now honestly, if that's the way it's going to be, yeah, SDMI is going to die. The question is whether or not it's going to take mp3 down with it (if the RIAA doesn't do it beforehand.. you know the napster and mp3.com cases are going to be precedent-setting)
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No, I'm not saying ignore it. I'm seriously saying think who you want your site to cater to, what they'll most likely be using, etc. etc. I was shocked and appalled that my school was still using Netscape 3 three months ago, but there you have it. I still had to design for it.
The day when CSS, XML and the like can be used without even blinking is a long ways off, and that's just a damn shame.
However, once you take it seriously all sorts of stuff goes wrong. I can forgive the mystical computer mumbo jumbo, this is hollywood, computers doing magical things is quickly becoming an easy explanation. However the uh.. attitudes.. that's where I had a problem.
How many of you, when you play an FPS, stand still? Just whip out a big gun, plant yourself down, and mow away? Do you get a rush from that? I can understand if it's team defense, but see, I think FPS's and games are popular cause they let you do the impossible... take a rocket to the feet and fly waaaay up for instance. Or teleport into someone (ala translocator). Not sit and shoot.
Female attitude.. HAH! Great one to cop out on, but I don't think it's honestly that bad. I'm a MALE though, I don't know any FEMALES who play this in Real Life, so I can't really say how to portray this well.
"The bloodlust is unsatiable." Oh god. I don't even wanna touch that.
Still, for all the bad points, if you just remember that it's TV, MAKE-BELIEVE, it wasn't bad. I kinda found it funny how matrix-ized mulder was ;)
I apologize for the braindump nature of this, it's built up for a while, and this combined with my reading the latest Adbusters brought it all tumbling down.
I hate to sound like the total ignorant fool that I am, but who is it I should be e-mailing? State senators? The guys who go to washington? I am totally clueless on government, my e-mailing probably wouldn't do much, but guys, this scares the fsck out of me, I gotta do whatever I can.
I'm in Virginia, btw...
Maybe I'm wrong here, but isn't a DoS attack more against the pipe than the actual box? I mean, let's say I see a huge flood of packets coming from one IP. I tell my box to ignore them. All well and good, but aren't the incoming packets still clogging the pipes? Given enough brute force, you could clog anything up like that. Which, I'd have thought for companies as advanced as those hit (esp. Yahoo!) is what the problem was.
Look guys, let the flames descend, but the FBI isn't exactly stupid. "You fools, this is a global internet, the attackers could be anywhere." I find it hard to believe that out of all of the people employed by the FBI there are people who seriously believe otherwise.
I submit the following suggestion: mostly, this is for show. Yeah, most of the gumshoe work is going to be in analyzing server logs, and perhaps having a heart-to-heart with whatever equipment was compromised. But to most people, that's going to look like 'sitting around in washington.' So oooh, ahh, look at the FBI, they're moving around and doing stuff.
But here's the key folks: they are doing stuff. My guess is because of the angry advertisers losing "millions" of dollars, yeah, there's some pressure to get this done fast. I'd imagine they actually are checking every lead, you know? It's not like there aren't geeks that work for the FBI, you know?
So say whatever you want about the politics of all this (hey, that NSA theory is.. interesting after all), but give the FBI a liiiiiittle slack on this, they're not as dumb as is popular to say.
Great... another reason for profs to push college students even harder...
Okay, but seriously though..
"the temporal lobe, a brain region involved in language processing, was activated during verbal learning in rested subjects but not in sleep deprived subjects. Additionally, a region of the brain called the parietal lobes, not activated in rested subjects during the verbal exercise, was more active when the subjects were deprived of sleep"
We're less inclined to take stuff in but more inclined to work with it then? I know that's oversimplifying, but the point is Sleep Is Good
I don't know about you, but lack of sleep and no play makes Spiff go insane, or at least appear that way to others. I may be able to summon all my resources to focus on one task and burn myself out on it, but I'm about as meaningful as a babbling idjit to those around me.
If nothing else I'd love to see more in this area of research. 13 subjects? That's a pretty small sample guys.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the case. The magnitude of bandwidth available wouldn't be quite at the same level as processing power dedicated to RC5 and SETI@home, but it's up there. How many of you sysadmins 'hid' rc5 on your computers? It'd be almost as easy to do the same for a distributed DoS.
That being said, good admin (such as denying spoofed IP traffic to exit a network) really would stop this, or help prevent it anyway.
May get up to the speed of current computer chips in five years? Hmm... That puts it at palmtop etc. level in about 2-3, no? I figure that's where it will have the most use for the moment, take the power of our portable devices, and make it even smaller, yes, to the point of clothing integration.
Could this be the first step towards nanobots? Spoooky....
"So I can't backup my songs?"
Nope
"And I can't move them to portable media?"
Nope
Now honestly, if that's the way it's going to be, yeah, SDMI is going to die. The question is whether or not it's going to take mp3 down with it (if the RIAA doesn't do it beforehand.. you know the napster and mp3.com cases are going to be precedent-setting)
...and here I always thought it was Goku and the latest villain of the month having at it... "Spirit Ball!!!!"