I've never heard of any exploits targeting DirectX or someone breaking in via GPU. In a same way someone could exploit Windows sound driver via flash applet to break in. I dont think I've used any ActiveX objects for 10 years, and times have changed. Obviously security has also come up too.
I think this is more like running the apps on your desktop when you doubleclick the icon, like Flash players can do already. It doesn't mean all Silverlight apps on websites or even on your computer suddenly gets access to all your files and stuff.
So every time you want to visit a website you write them a letter first asking for permission to download their data? After all, you could be infringing on some copyrighted material, and you won't even know until it is in your possession.
Like said, if its open website and theres no restrictions or info about the copyrights, its pretty much assumed you can visit that site and let your browser download what it needs. However that still doesn't mean you can reuse their graphics or code or whatever copyrighted.
I dont think multiplatform (or the lack of it) actually does a lot in competition sense. There is a Mac version of Silverlight too, and linux is quite minority market. Main problem for Silverlight is how to get more sites use it instead of Flash, and this is where the advanced features and good developing tools come in and I think MS understands that seeing how they keep developing them all the time.
I am sure you are joking but just an fyi - if you happen to be coming from the US - going to another country with the intent of doing something that would be considered illegal in the US (e.g. sex w/13 y/o) you would be convicted of doing that crime upon your arrival (assuming they 1) knew of your intent and 2) prove that you did it).
So when I was 19 and I went to germany and bought some alcohol that was more than 21%, I committed a crime because its illegal to sell me more than 21% before I'm 20 in my country? Or my friends from other country where its just 3.5% with store bought alcohol before 20? (haha, poor suckers)
And for that matter, no USA citizens ever go to Amsterdam to eat the "cakes"?
Obviously its only illegal if you do not have the rights to do so. When you go to microsoft.com or any other website, its assumed you have the right to download them. This is totally different than when you're downloading material that's copyrighted and you haven't got the permission to do so, be it either that you haven't paid for it or you do not have the licenses or any other reason.
3D graphics support does sound interesting, specially when thinking how many flash games there are out but how they lack better graphics. Maybe we start to see DirectX like games directly in web browser too.
I actually found the technological way a lot better. It made it a little boring during early/mid -game, but I always had technological advantage to enemies because I pushed for it. Because of that the optimal winning tactic was launching the spacecraft to alpha centauri. Usually after it went there and I won, I would continue playing and totally crush the opponents who still were so much behind me in tech. I always found it hard to develop your army during game and still keep up with technology and city building.
In what way is this relevant to OpenDNS? They actually do the same dirty trick aswell. Just because they have "open" in their name doesn't mean they're great and everyone should use them. They run their DNS servers to make profit from non-existing domains and hell, they even redirect requests to google.com to their own servers.
Thankfully there are open dns servers that dont do such either, for example university in Gothenburg, Sweden: 129.16.1.53 and 129.16.2.53 and several others. Those that have the technical knowledge can also set up their own dns recursive dns servers on their linux box and use those directly (while it fetches the results from root servers)
Dudes, the game ends at 2020. There's around 10 years to go, and the trip to alpha centauri takes way more turns. All the modules should had been installed by now and the space vehicle should be on its way already! I mean, I did take my extra time to build the better modules and prioritized production in all cities to do it, but I would had never left it this late in game to actually launch it.
Aah, Civ2 times.. All the lost weekends, while still learning so much from it.
Another great press release about how it will be helpful and a "service" for users, while the main purpose is just to gather extra advertisement revenue (while breaking internet standards). I mean, this is what malware do. Oh well, atleast these non-us ISP's dont do such dirty acts to their customers here. Time to voice your opinion maybe?
This is actually what I've wished for long time that MMO's would have. For example in WoW, once you've seen one place it will always be like that.
It would be great to have kind of an ecosystem which would evolve on its own and when players help (or destroy) it. For example, there would be two or three independent towns controlled by NPC's living closely that you could build relationships with. Once one of the towns needs more resources, likes to expand or for whatever reason, it would go in war with another town. Player couldn't directly control it, but you could influence it indirectly. Taking it further, when you could really succesfully frame the other town for hostile act's, you could cause a war between them if they see so.
I know it makes it easier to design and create content when everything is static, but in this case some of the content and the actual gameplay would be created by itself. It would also be *a lot* more interesting when you could directly or indirectly affect the world. Doing a run against some giant badass boss dragon and decided to quit it and run away? Now no, that badass boss dragon wouldn't just get back to its place once you've just a little bit out of its attack range. It would actually be *pissed* at your group and follow you, tearing apart the environment when you try to run away from it. This creates even more tension, as other players and NPC controlled towns would be pissed at you for causing that.
I've always also thought that why there's no king's or province leaders in WoW or other MMORPG's. Other players could elect you into it or you could steal it from existing king. Obviously the other faction would first need to break thru the provinces to capitol city like Stormwind, fight your way thru the guards and other players finally to the king's castle and then have a huge fight there. If you succeeded with that, you would still need to defence the place and continue gaining control over it. Or you could take the spy approach, gaining trust and getting in ranks to work with the king, finally to just to backstab him when its the perfect moment to do so.
There's so much you could do with dynamic content or world where player actions actually matter. Now everything is just pretty static, grinding to kill enemies that just pop up back 5 mins later or doing mindless quests. I would really welcome some MMO where it would be more like a sandbox for players and the world. EVE Online actually works a bit like this and that's why its always interest me, even tho I'm not really into space genre. Would be great to see such fantasy MMORPG, or even modern day MMORPG.
Now that they have payment model instructed too, why not expand it outside US aswell? Last.FM radio has something similar too, they had to start charging non-US/CA/UK users because there wasn't enough advertisers in other countries to make it profitable. That being said, we have that awesome Spotify here, but I'm sure there would be lots of old non-US Pandora users that would pay a little to listen to it again.
What always bugs me with these "cyberwar" news is that people try to put one country as responsible for them, and its always China or Russia or one of the other "bad guys". Like parent post said, their goverments have no reason to do something like DDOS attacks against US. Who's to say its not just some individual who either is pissed at US/South Korea or has such political views, or does so for whatever reason? Stop blaming countries as a whole if you dont know it.
This is true in corporate and business sense. But since it's open source, people can just come and go and the long-term teaching you went thru is useless.
I'm starting to get tired of working with examples that are not put into real use.
This implies that he has only worked on examples provided by programming books or such. You don't need a team to work on your own ideas or programs, nor you need to "join" a team to work on open source projects. But before you do actually join a team, you should be pretty used to even create and publish stuff on your own. Be it a commercial product, freeware or open source project.
The best practice is just doing it. That's how me and probably many others have learned about programming. In 90's I did have some programming and game developing books, but I pretty much read about those out of curiousity and because they were interesting. Actual programming knowledge comes from making something you like and learning from it. Every time you will learn more and more and it just goes along the way. In my teenage years coding games made the most fun out of it and I always learned more. This was even before Internet started to be so widespread, and only help I had was Delphi's (great!) manual.
Seems you only have experience in programming by examples. There's lots of times you need to be able to solve a specific problem, and programming by examples doesn't teach that really well. You will also be relying on someone's elses views and "best coding practices" thinking, instead of actually developing your own and seeing much further. You need to be comfortable programming and solving problems by yourself if you look to join a team.
I suggest you take some topic that's interesting to you and develop program around it. If you later get a better idea, don't be afraid to move into it. That's what happens to lots of programmers, but when learning it also improves creatly how you look at the problems and you see what you could have done better in your previous projects.
Did you actually even read the whole sentence or are you making a joke?:)
"Funnily, this issue is exactly the same in Linux and Mac OS too, which their users always seem to forget and go about how malware couldn't get the admin rights. They dont need it."
Also, SELinux is not something standard that comes along every kernel, and even if not via exploits, it would happen via user stupidity, which would be there when masses start using linux on desktop.
But don't get me started on virtualization. If we want all the flash and trash we ask for, then virtualization isn't going to deliver it yet... unless you're planning on including all the funny gadgets in a virtual OS. We don't do it already because the products (that I've evaluated) don't do this sort of thing well at all yet.
However, why is this such a problem? Its not so hard to create some level of virtualization for so specific target as a simple webbrowser, and when done good the extra CPU usage and such is just minor. Even when you run stuff like Flash and so on it. Instead of installed all over the OS, Flash and other plugins could be installed on that virtualized and separated space that would be cleaned and restored to original "last good known state" when browser quits. Then there would be another isolated space to save all the temp data, cookies and such which would be even more restricted and hence could be sustained thru different browser sessions too. The improvement here would be greatly better than the tradeoffs, and when you've developing programs for billions of users, you should have more time and technical knowledge to get to those results.
Once again the problem here is too tight integration with other part's of the OS. Yeah, IE is the most used browser and as such a major target for exploits, but some separation from other parts of OS wouldn't do any harm. Or atleast make it optional to use such; You won't be automatically affected by Flash or PDF exploits if you choosed not to install those. Just another reason to use alternate browsers like Opera or Firefox, seeing it only affects IE users.
That being said, you dont need admin priviledges for some malware to do its job, botnets and such easily run within user priviledges aswell. Funnily, this issue is exactly the same in Linux and Mac OS too, which their users always seem to forget and go about how malware couldn't get the admin rights. They dont need it.
The fun thing is, there always seem to come exploits for IE and Firefox. Very rarely for Opera. That makes me think they've made some good fundamental decisions on design and programming and know how to secure code from exploits, specially because they have major marketshare (better than IE actually) in CIS countries like Russia and Ukraine and you would be thinking the local hackers would be trying to break it apart and exploit every possible thing on it. Hats off to them, really.
With these ages, isolating browser from the OS and even virtualizing it in its own environment that's cleaned when browser is closed starts to be a must, and I dont really see why they aren't doing it already. It would save people from so many trouble, and wouldn't affect performance at all.
Sure, forcing people to smile may not help very much, but could be effective as a part of a more comprehensive plan to help combat depression and anxeity in the workplace.
It's good in that way and also a general business principle. When I go to store and the cashier girl smiles at me, I feel happy. I feel better about the store I visited in, and I just generally feel a lot better aswell. Little things like that can actually make huge difference.
This same can be applied aswell when the employees make jokes. Today I went to store on last minute when it was closing. I asked the guard if it's ok to go in quickly, that I'll be fast. He said sure if quickly, and I took my beers and baquette quickly. When I was going out, the guard joked about that now I have good lunch and drinks for the night. That store is kinda cheap store in here (lidl), but it made my image of them a lot better.
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I've never heard of any exploits targeting DirectX or someone breaking in via GPU. In a same way someone could exploit Windows sound driver via flash applet to break in. I dont think I've used any ActiveX objects for 10 years, and times have changed. Obviously security has also come up too.
... that will add nothing new, etc. ...
Did you actually even read the summary? It listed lots of new features that dont exist in Flash, so I dont think it "doesn't add anything new".
I think this is more like running the apps on your desktop when you doubleclick the icon, like Flash players can do already. It doesn't mean all Silverlight apps on websites or even on your computer suddenly gets access to all your files and stuff.
So every time you want to visit a website you write them a letter first asking for permission to download their data? After all, you could be infringing on some copyrighted material, and you won't even know until it is in your possession.
Like said, if its open website and theres no restrictions or info about the copyrights, its pretty much assumed you can visit that site and let your browser download what it needs. However that still doesn't mean you can reuse their graphics or code or whatever copyrighted.
I dont think multiplatform (or the lack of it) actually does a lot in competition sense. There is a Mac version of Silverlight too, and linux is quite minority market. Main problem for Silverlight is how to get more sites use it instead of Flash, and this is where the advanced features and good developing tools come in and I think MS understands that seeing how they keep developing them all the time.
I am sure you are joking but just an fyi - if you happen to be coming from the US - going to another country with the intent of doing something that would be considered illegal in the US (e.g. sex w/13 y/o) you would be convicted of doing that crime upon your arrival (assuming they 1) knew of your intent and 2) prove that you did it).
So when I was 19 and I went to germany and bought some alcohol that was more than 21%, I committed a crime because its illegal to sell me more than 21% before I'm 20 in my country? Or my friends from other country where its just 3.5% with store bought alcohol before 20? (haha, poor suckers)
And for that matter, no USA citizens ever go to Amsterdam to eat the "cakes"?
Obviously its only illegal if you do not have the rights to do so. When you go to microsoft.com or any other website, its assumed you have the right to download them. This is totally different than when you're downloading material that's copyrighted and you haven't got the permission to do so, be it either that you haven't paid for it or you do not have the licenses or any other reason.
3D graphics support does sound interesting, specially when thinking how many flash games there are out but how they lack better graphics. Maybe we start to see DirectX like games directly in web browser too.
And some more long-term loving aswell. That is, until she has spend all your money.
I actually found the technological way a lot better. It made it a little boring during early/mid -game, but I always had technological advantage to enemies because I pushed for it. Because of that the optimal winning tactic was launching the spacecraft to alpha centauri. Usually after it went there and I won, I would continue playing and totally crush the opponents who still were so much behind me in tech. I always found it hard to develop your army during game and still keep up with technology and city building.
However, the grand parent post was about avoiding it all together. How does it help moving from existing servers to new ones that do the same?
In what way is this relevant to OpenDNS? They actually do the same dirty trick aswell. Just because they have "open" in their name doesn't mean they're great and everyone should use them. They run their DNS servers to make profit from non-existing domains and hell, they even redirect requests to google.com to their own servers.
Thankfully there are open dns servers that dont do such either, for example university in Gothenburg, Sweden: 129.16.1.53 and 129.16.2.53 and several others. Those that have the technical knowledge can also set up their own dns recursive dns servers on their linux box and use those directly (while it fetches the results from root servers)
Dudes, the game ends at 2020. There's around 10 years to go, and the trip to alpha centauri takes way more turns. All the modules should had been installed by now and the space vehicle should be on its way already! I mean, I did take my extra time to build the better modules and prioritized production in all cities to do it, but I would had never left it this late in game to actually launch it.
Aah, Civ2 times.. All the lost weekends, while still learning so much from it.
OpenDNS does exactly the same. (unless you register account and change it, but thats the case with this comcast thingie aswell)
Another great press release about how it will be helpful and a "service" for users, while the main purpose is just to gather extra advertisement revenue (while breaking internet standards). I mean, this is what malware do. Oh well, atleast these non-us ISP's dont do such dirty acts to their customers here. Time to voice your opinion maybe?
This is actually what I've wished for long time that MMO's would have. For example in WoW, once you've seen one place it will always be like that.
It would be great to have kind of an ecosystem which would evolve on its own and when players help (or destroy) it. For example, there would be two or three independent towns controlled by NPC's living closely that you could build relationships with. Once one of the towns needs more resources, likes to expand or for whatever reason, it would go in war with another town. Player couldn't directly control it, but you could influence it indirectly. Taking it further, when you could really succesfully frame the other town for hostile act's, you could cause a war between them if they see so.
I know it makes it easier to design and create content when everything is static, but in this case some of the content and the actual gameplay would be created by itself. It would also be *a lot* more interesting when you could directly or indirectly affect the world. Doing a run against some giant badass boss dragon and decided to quit it and run away? Now no, that badass boss dragon wouldn't just get back to its place once you've just a little bit out of its attack range. It would actually be *pissed* at your group and follow you, tearing apart the environment when you try to run away from it. This creates even more tension, as other players and NPC controlled towns would be pissed at you for causing that.
I've always also thought that why there's no king's or province leaders in WoW or other MMORPG's. Other players could elect you into it or you could steal it from existing king. Obviously the other faction would first need to break thru the provinces to capitol city like Stormwind, fight your way thru the guards and other players finally to the king's castle and then have a huge fight there. If you succeeded with that, you would still need to defence the place and continue gaining control over it. Or you could take the spy approach, gaining trust and getting in ranks to work with the king, finally to just to backstab him when its the perfect moment to do so.
There's so much you could do with dynamic content or world where player actions actually matter. Now everything is just pretty static, grinding to kill enemies that just pop up back 5 mins later or doing mindless quests. I would really welcome some MMO where it would be more like a sandbox for players and the world. EVE Online actually works a bit like this and that's why its always interest me, even tho I'm not really into space genre. Would be great to see such fantasy MMORPG, or even modern day MMORPG.
Now that they have payment model instructed too, why not expand it outside US aswell? Last.FM radio has something similar too, they had to start charging non-US/CA/UK users because there wasn't enough advertisers in other countries to make it profitable. That being said, we have that awesome Spotify here, but I'm sure there would be lots of old non-US Pandora users that would pay a little to listen to it again.
What always bugs me with these "cyberwar" news is that people try to put one country as responsible for them, and its always China or Russia or one of the other "bad guys". Like parent post said, their goverments have no reason to do something like DDOS attacks against US. Who's to say its not just some individual who either is pissed at US/South Korea or has such political views, or does so for whatever reason? Stop blaming countries as a whole if you dont know it.
This is true in corporate and business sense. But since it's open source, people can just come and go and the long-term teaching you went thru is useless.
You either did not read my message really well.
I'm starting to get tired of working with examples that are not put into real use.
This implies that he has only worked on examples provided by programming books or such. You don't need a team to work on your own ideas or programs, nor you need to "join" a team to work on open source projects. But before you do actually join a team, you should be pretty used to even create and publish stuff on your own. Be it a commercial product, freeware or open source project.
The best practice is just doing it. That's how me and probably many others have learned about programming. In 90's I did have some programming and game developing books, but I pretty much read about those out of curiousity and because they were interesting. Actual programming knowledge comes from making something you like and learning from it. Every time you will learn more and more and it just goes along the way. In my teenage years coding games made the most fun out of it and I always learned more. This was even before Internet started to be so widespread, and only help I had was Delphi's (great!) manual.
Seems you only have experience in programming by examples. There's lots of times you need to be able to solve a specific problem, and programming by examples doesn't teach that really well. You will also be relying on someone's elses views and "best coding practices" thinking, instead of actually developing your own and seeing much further. You need to be comfortable programming and solving problems by yourself if you look to join a team.
I suggest you take some topic that's interesting to you and develop program around it. If you later get a better idea, don't be afraid to move into it. That's what happens to lots of programmers, but when learning it also improves creatly how you look at the problems and you see what you could have done better in your previous projects.
Did you actually even read the whole sentence or are you making a joke? :)
"Funnily, this issue is exactly the same in Linux and Mac OS too, which their users always seem to forget and go about how malware couldn't get the admin rights. They dont need it."
Also, SELinux is not something standard that comes along every kernel, and even if not via exploits, it would happen via user stupidity, which would be there when masses start using linux on desktop.
But don't get me started on virtualization. If we want all the flash and trash we ask for, then virtualization isn't going to deliver it yet... unless you're planning on including all the funny gadgets in a virtual OS. We don't do it already because the products (that I've evaluated) don't do this sort of thing well at all yet.
However, why is this such a problem? Its not so hard to create some level of virtualization for so specific target as a simple webbrowser, and when done good the extra CPU usage and such is just minor. Even when you run stuff like Flash and so on it. Instead of installed all over the OS, Flash and other plugins could be installed on that virtualized and separated space that would be cleaned and restored to original "last good known state" when browser quits. Then there would be another isolated space to save all the temp data, cookies and such which would be even more restricted and hence could be sustained thru different browser sessions too. The improvement here would be greatly better than the tradeoffs, and when you've developing programs for billions of users, you should have more time and technical knowledge to get to those results.
Once again the problem here is too tight integration with other part's of the OS. Yeah, IE is the most used browser and as such a major target for exploits, but some separation from other parts of OS wouldn't do any harm. Or atleast make it optional to use such; You won't be automatically affected by Flash or PDF exploits if you choosed not to install those. Just another reason to use alternate browsers like Opera or Firefox, seeing it only affects IE users.
That being said, you dont need admin priviledges for some malware to do its job, botnets and such easily run within user priviledges aswell. Funnily, this issue is exactly the same in Linux and Mac OS too, which their users always seem to forget and go about how malware couldn't get the admin rights. They dont need it.
The fun thing is, there always seem to come exploits for IE and Firefox. Very rarely for Opera. That makes me think they've made some good fundamental decisions on design and programming and know how to secure code from exploits, specially because they have major marketshare (better than IE actually) in CIS countries like Russia and Ukraine and you would be thinking the local hackers would be trying to break it apart and exploit every possible thing on it. Hats off to them, really.
With these ages, isolating browser from the OS and even virtualizing it in its own environment that's cleaned when browser is closed starts to be a must, and I dont really see why they aren't doing it already. It would save people from so many trouble, and wouldn't affect performance at all.
Sure, forcing people to smile may not help very much, but could be effective as a part of a more comprehensive plan to help combat depression and anxeity in the workplace.
It's good in that way and also a general business principle. When I go to store and the cashier girl smiles at me, I feel happy. I feel better about the store I visited in, and I just generally feel a lot better aswell. Little things like that can actually make huge difference.
This same can be applied aswell when the employees make jokes. Today I went to store on last minute when it was closing. I asked the guard if it's ok to go in quickly, that I'll be fast. He said sure if quickly, and I took my beers and baquette quickly. When I was going out, the guard joked about that now I have good lunch and drinks for the night. That store is kinda cheap store in here (lidl), but it made my image of them a lot better.