Seems to have been a loss in reading ability from the submitter. Quoting from the article properly
We are responsible for 38.4% of TV downloads in the EU and 18.5% worldwide
Not 38.4% in the world as the blurb mentioned. It doesn't mention much about what shows are being pirated. The only interesting bit being a show first shown in the US, so no wonder that US downloads were so much lower!
Didn't quite think that comment required asbestos clothing.. seriously though, if this is yet another single sign on feature I'd rather do without. They make it way too easy to steal a persons identity if it held access to all the passwords that a browser/OS keeps for you (a feature I see being a requirement in the near future).
Now if the card had a thumbprint reader built in so that could only be activated with a valid print.. that would be something.
Might be me but whenever I see Microsoft talking about new features adding "security and privacy" I keep thinking there is a word missing.. like exploit, or hole...
Assuming that somebody has taken the time to bother writing a working JVM for your platform. Last time I checked Athlon64 users were out-of-luck unless they're running in 32-bit land (as my example above is).
Hmm, Athlon 64 support is available from both Sun and Blackdown for linux. Sun has a 1.5 JDK, blackdown a 1.4.
I'm not certain I see any real benefits listed, for 2, 3 and 4 this currently exists without using XML. This is because of something very simple... languages have formally defined syntax. Thats so the compiler can do its job without becoming a mind reader to work out what the programmer really meant. I'm not even sure how its possible using XML as a storage mechanism (whilst still editing something that looks like normal source code) will force well defined variable names. That comes down to the discipline of the programmer in question, I could still use i, j, k and l if I wanted to.
If 4 was ever implemented, you would be welcoming in maybe the slowest programming language on the planet. Besides, drag and drop already exists (VB anyone?) not to mention most IDE's will have templates which provide what you want at a quicker rate and I wouldn't even want to think of how big the dnd pallete would need to be for all the possible language constructs out there.
If I were to pick one example of where this already exists I'd pick Eclipse, though Visual Studio has similar features. It creates in memory AST's of the source being edited so that most refactoring operations are a breeze (2). This also means it validates the code as its being typed (3). Templates allow dropping in most common language constructs and it can automagically fill in what it thinks are the most appropriate variables for method calls (4).
So far, besides the first point the rest already exists..
1. Discover IE6/SP2 exploit 2. Create genuine report 3. Create genuine example that loads backdoor app of choice 4. Post on slashdot with url of example 5.... 6. Profit!
I mean, how many people actually click on that with IE6 and go "ooooo it works"?
Perhaps it is attempting to work out what a given file does. For example, if its a windows executable it looks at the dll's required, maybe even the system calls and see if they are related to network operations. If they are then it checks an internal list of valid files before reporting it as spyware.
That would make some sense from the programs listed as spyware.
So are a lot of other things that are commonplace. I might not have this quite correct as I'm not from the USA. Murder is illegal yet it is acceptable if someone is breaking into your home/trespassing? To me a deathtrap is just a more efficient system to someone waiting in the shadows with a gun or bat.
hmm, cheaper and more fun to have a plain wooden door and a room full of deathtraps.:) Or set up would be thieves in the form of a tv show (also known as Swag).
Assuming its somewhere near the edge so that it doesn't get affected by the print would mean it can be cropped easily. Which sort of helps the counterfeiters unless some country started making full page sized bank notes?
Good. I'm sure the box states 'Internet connection required'. Would you buy a game that states minimum spec is 512mb of ram yet you only have 256 and still expect it to work? No. Valve is not at fault, you are.
Life is not fair, why should this be? Not everyone can afford to purchase the game. Nor can everyone afford the machine to play it on. So what makes this different? Its just one more requirement in the long list to play the game.
Is anyone else getting fed up with people knowing fine well that the game won't install before buying it yet complaining that it won't install? Or that sometime in the future the authentication servers will be turned off even though it will be years from now and there will likely be a patch available to circumvent that problem.
Get over it already and stop whining you bunch of big girls blouses!
Should give him some credit. He did the work, froze his butt off (probably in a car though) and it was baseball night! I think he was trying for more of a moon rising over the bridge artistic shot than showing off the eclipse properly but it turned out too dark which is probably due to inexperience.
I'd have tried that with a digital camera using interval shots and a graduated filter to allow better exposure of the ground and maybe keep some of the moons featues visible rather than making it look like a torch pen on the end of a fishing rod.
Having not read the article I feel I am qualified to comment. I doubt this would work on all TV's. My tv requires the power off signal to be sent several times (and no its not dead batteries:) to prevent accidentally turning it off. I'm sure there are other tv models out there that are the same.
You do not normally need to explicitly null anything in Java. The GC will work out what is and isn't referenced. At one point (Java 1.0/1.1?) it probably did help the GC but now its a myth. The only place where nulling would be required is with statics.
Not sure what you mean by crashing in a indeterministic manner. I'm fairly sure C++ allows for core files, at least on unix. In either case you still won't know where the memory is being lost since an out of memory exception in java is not normally thrown from where the problem is.
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Seems to have been a loss in reading ability from the submitter. Quoting from the article properly
We are responsible for 38.4% of TV downloads in the EU and 18.5% worldwide
Not 38.4% in the world as the blurb mentioned. It doesn't mention much about what shows are being pirated. The only interesting bit being a show first shown in the US, so no wonder that US downloads were so much lower!
More improbable times? Like when it's off?
yeah, put windows into hibernate and when it comes back it has crashed... I have a machine that happens on already
Didn't quite think that comment required asbestos clothing.. seriously though, if this is yet another single sign on feature I'd rather do without. They make it way too easy to steal a persons identity if it held access to all the passwords that a browser/OS keeps for you (a feature I see being a requirement in the near future).
Now if the card had a thumbprint reader built in so that could only be activated with a valid print.. that would be something.
Does that work on any sort of eyeball.. like one from another animal.. might be a market opening for the adventurous :D
Might be me but whenever I see Microsoft talking about new features adding "security and privacy" I keep thinking there is a word missing.. like exploit, or hole...
Serves em right if the form didn't have "Black ink, block capitals only".
Assuming that somebody has taken the time to bother writing a working JVM for your platform. Last time I checked Athlon64 users were out-of-luck unless they're running in 32-bit land (as my example above is).
Hmm, Athlon 64 support is available from both Sun and Blackdown for linux. Sun has a 1.5 JDK, blackdown a 1.4.
I'm not certain I see any real benefits listed, for 2, 3 and 4 this currently exists without using XML. This is because of something very simple... languages have formally defined syntax. Thats so the compiler can do its job without becoming a mind reader to work out what the programmer really meant. I'm not even sure how its possible using XML as a storage mechanism (whilst still editing something that looks like normal source code) will force well defined variable names. That comes down to the discipline of the programmer in question, I could still use i, j, k and l if I wanted to.
If 4 was ever implemented, you would be welcoming in maybe the slowest programming language on the planet. Besides, drag and drop already exists (VB anyone?) not to mention most IDE's will have templates which provide what you want at a quicker rate and I wouldn't even want to think of how big the dnd pallete would need to be for all the possible language constructs out there.
If I were to pick one example of where this already exists I'd pick Eclipse, though Visual Studio has similar features. It creates in memory AST's of the source being edited so that most refactoring operations are a breeze (2). This also means it validates the code as its being typed (3). Templates allow dropping in most common language constructs and it can automagically fill in what it thinks are the most appropriate variables for method calls (4).
So far, besides the first point the rest already exists..
The sound of the impact is the one I'd like to hear, be it squelch, splash or boom.
For the first time in history, Man has placed an object on the surface of a planet outside the Earth-Moon system.
I know some of the news on slashdot can be a little old due to its nature but this is a record.. decades old news reported!
Who knows, the previous years might be the good ones compared with whats to come?
Sounds like a good plan..
...
1. Discover IE6/SP2 exploit
2. Create genuine report
3. Create genuine example that loads backdoor app of choice
4. Post on slashdot with url of example
5.
6. Profit!
I mean, how many people actually click on that with IE6 and go "ooooo it works"?
Perhaps it is attempting to work out what a given file does. For example, if its a windows executable it looks at the dll's required, maybe even the system calls and see if they are related to network operations. If they are then it checks an internal list of valid files before reporting it as spyware.
That would make some sense from the programs listed as spyware.
.. and the Spam Prince sneaks in the middle of the night to take over punishing us poor folks.
So are a lot of other things that are commonplace. I might not have this quite correct as I'm not from the USA. Murder is illegal yet it is acceptable if someone is breaking into your home/trespassing? To me a deathtrap is just a more efficient system to someone waiting in the shadows with a gun or bat.
So long as they do not try to apply it at the traffic lights!
hmm, cheaper and more fun to have a plain wooden door and a room full of deathtraps. :) Or set up would be thieves in the form of a tv show (also known as Swag).
Assuming its somewhere near the edge so that it doesn't get affected by the print would mean it can be cropped easily. Which sort of helps the counterfeiters unless some country started making full page sized bank notes?
Good. I'm sure the box states 'Internet connection required'. Would you buy a game that states minimum spec is 512mb of ram yet you only have 256 and still expect it to work? No. Valve is not at fault, you are.
Life is not fair, why should this be? Not everyone can afford to purchase the game. Nor can everyone afford the machine to play it on. So what makes this different? Its just one more requirement in the long list to play the game.
Is anyone else getting fed up with people knowing fine well that the game won't install before buying it yet complaining that it won't install? Or that sometime in the future the authentication servers will be turned off even though it will be years from now and there will likely be a patch available to circumvent that problem.
Get over it already and stop whining you bunch of big girls blouses!
Should give him some credit. He did the work, froze his butt off (probably in a car though) and it was baseball night! I think he was trying for more of a moon rising over the bridge artistic shot than showing off the eclipse properly but it turned out too dark which is probably due to inexperience.
I'd have tried that with a digital camera using interval shots and a graduated filter to allow better exposure of the ground and maybe keep some of the moons featues visible rather than making it look like a torch pen on the end of a fishing rod.
Still, some credit is due for trying.
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Having not read the article I feel I am qualified to comment. I doubt this would work on all TV's. My tv requires the power off signal to be sent several times (and no its not dead batteries :) to prevent accidentally turning it off. I'm sure there are other tv models out there that are the same.
If I may ask, which applications?
You do not normally need to explicitly null anything in Java. The GC will work out what is and isn't referenced. At one point (Java 1.0/1.1?) it probably did help the GC but now its a myth. The only place where nulling would be required is with statics.
Not sure what you mean by crashing in a indeterministic manner. I'm fairly sure C++ allows for core files, at least on unix. In either case you still won't know where the memory is being lost since an out of memory exception in java is not normally thrown from where the problem is.
That would be like buying a Maserati and replacing its engine with that of a Ford Escort.
With a full accompliment of barely functional performance extras and a non-optional caravan of bloat to tow.