... websites that only work under one browser if people are mixing in different systems into other browsers. Or, website designers might *gasp* need to adopt standards. God, what a wicked crime, Mozilla can't push for Firefox only site features and *gasp* Microsoft might need to make their content run on Firefox/Chrome.
Agree'd. There's a big difference between finding an exploit in a secure system and finding an exploit in a JavaScript driven page that wasn't scrubbed. Back in the golden days, 1337 H4x used to post specially crafted HTML into a comment/post like this, because the website didn't scrub the posts. It's like SQL injection, only with HTML tags. And in this case, it's JavaScript instead of HTML.
I remember on gamefaqs.com, users used to post italic/bold tags without closures, which caused the entire remainder of the page to end up in italics/bold. Of course, these "exploits" ended up being deemed hacks, when in fact it's more or less a stupid webpage.
It's a well known fact that the first *popular* game to do something is the *first to have done it ever.* I can't count the number of popular games touted as the "first to have done something" when in fact it had been done ages prior.
As hard to swallow as this may seem to many tech geeks, Windows is *actually easy to use for normal users.* It might not be a party for tech savvy folk who like to write code for their own desktop, but as far as user interfaces and functionality goes, Microsoft knows what they are doing; Just look at Visual Studio. Now, they're pretty terrible when it comes to anything portable... in that regard, Apple seems to be current king.
And then be beaten with sledgehammers until they understand that the goal should not be 'unconfigurable' but 'no configuration needed 90% of the time, and configurable the remaining 10% of the time'.
Amen to that. I've ended up swapping my desktop environment to KDE4 for my personal computers. It actually *makes sense* out of the box. I was absolutely thrilled to see that installations and management was actually 'easier' than on Windows. Normally, when I start running a Linux distro, I end up on google, but not then. (For the record, I'm running on Kubuntu.)
If you hack the system, say by routing the unencrypted stream as it heads to your monitor, will be "raw pixel data that has no DRM." Once pixel data reaches your monitor, the deal is closed, and I don't see how any DRM could survive.
If there are pixels on screen, it was at some point routed through a video driver. Assuming they can't re-write monitor hardware, that presents a static, unchanging vulnerability. One node in a system that paid for HD, and it can foward the pixel data elsewhere.
It's possible to stay secure if the encryption keys are re-distributed regularly. While it would be possible to hack, it would require regular scanning to isolate updated keys; Then, of course, the encryption routines themselves can be regularly updated. Hacked or not, it would make it extremely difficult. Remember, there's no such thing as perfect security, only perfect deterrents.
Perhaps, it's just that the European Commission is just slightly less beholden to corporations than their counterparts in the US.
But they only act that way towards foreign countries. It sounds more like they're trying to screw around other competing companies that way they can increase their GDP. Same reason they love slapping foreign countries with huge anti-trust fines. Gotta promote good 'ol Euro Communism.
I'm guessing the amount of food/resources to support someone for the rest of their natural life would greatly exceed the fuel needed for a return trip. Colonists were heading to potentially fertile land, whereas these folk would be heading straight for a nickel rich dust bowel. Unless they plan terraforming, this is a "one way trip" in more ways than one.
Actually, I think after long sessions of TF2 I actually regress intellectually. Sure, you need to remember to use your class properly, but after a while your mind reverts into a lizard like state as you repetitively hammer your already 100% stations/guns.
I'm normally not a grammar nazi, but it looks like it's time to apply the grammarFunc.
grammarFunc("An real time strategy...")
-->
"A real time strategy..."
grammarFunc, for all your recursive grammar policing needs.
U.S. life expectancy went up, but it seems like apologists were quick to realize this could be used by anti-healthcare folks so they were fast to say "But it should have gone up faster!"
I'm all for universal hc, but spin is spin no matter where it comes from. Even if it IS true, the timing for this is still suspicious. Eh, I guess that's politics as usual though.
You're so convinced that you want to be right you're making up facts that don't even exist. Get over yourself. Do you know what happens to a store clerk that sells goods to a minor? Right, companies can't be jailed...
Yes, bad things happen under our system, but I have a feeling this report is just propaganda. The timing is a little *too* perfect to be a coincidence.
That's stupid. There's already a Ninja Bay. (And don't say you haven't ever heard of it, it's the NINJA bay, that's the point.) There server is at the center of the Earth.
Wait, it was forked, as in there was community interest, and the buggars just shut it down? Imagine what today's world would be like if Linus had gotten pissed when people started working with the Linux Kernel.
No no no, decompilation is taking binaries and turning them into a high level, human readable language. When we disassemble, we're turning it into assembly, when we decompile, we're turning it into a higher level language (e.g. see: Boomerang.) Usually, decompiling is nearly impossible and sometimes pointless (considering you lose comments, optimizations can cause fuggly code when reversed, etc.) Still, you can decompile something that wasn't even actually compiled.
(1) Only the government can "make criminal charges".
You can, however, push for criminal charges. We don't "make" criminal charges, we press them.
(2) The government, in this case, decided to let the tech off of criminal charges, as long as he doesn't do anything else wrong (this sounds, superficially, pretty stupid, but remember that law enforcement has a limited budget, criminal trials cost money, and then imprisoning someone if they are convicted costs money; LE has to prioritize.)
Then blame the justice system, Verizon should not be punished. Verizon does not have a reason at the moment that would hold up in court. If they fired this man, and he sued, then they'd be in the same boat. Again, like I said in my OP, the DA is what's to blame.
(3) Costing a company money when is the only way to get them to take steps to prevent recurrence. If it doesn't affect their cost of operation, they don't care that it happened.
Costing them money is a good way to get investors angry. Throwing them in jail is a good way to get a few officials on the damn ball. The rich fellows sitting at the top aren't even going to feel a bump with this suit, but if they were getting dragged into criminal court?
Verizon is being sued for not firing a man who was never convicted of a crime. Legally, this man has no proof he was assaulted. There was an accusation, and the DA decided there wasn't enough evidence to charge the man. Now, on top of having been accused (and let off the hook) he should get fired? Shouldn't this be taken up with the DA?
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... websites that only work under one browser if people are mixing in different systems into other browsers. Or, website designers might *gasp* need to adopt standards. God, what a wicked crime, Mozilla can't push for Firefox only site features and *gasp* Microsoft might need to make their content run on Firefox/Chrome.
Agree'd. There's a big difference between finding an exploit in a secure system and finding an exploit in a JavaScript driven page that wasn't scrubbed. Back in the golden days, 1337 H4x used to post specially crafted HTML into a comment/post like this, because the website didn't scrub the posts. It's like SQL injection, only with HTML tags. And in this case, it's JavaScript instead of HTML.
I remember on gamefaqs.com, users used to post italic/bold tags without closures, which caused the entire remainder of the page to end up in italics/bold. Of course, these "exploits" ended up being deemed hacks, when in fact it's more or less a stupid webpage.
It's a well known fact that the first *popular* game to do something is the *first to have done it ever.* I can't count the number of popular games touted as the "first to have done something" when in fact it had been done ages prior.
As hard to swallow as this may seem to many tech geeks, Windows is *actually easy to use for normal users.* It might not be a party for tech savvy folk who like to write code for their own desktop, but as far as user interfaces and functionality goes, Microsoft knows what they are doing; Just look at Visual Studio. Now, they're pretty terrible when it comes to anything portable... in that regard, Apple seems to be current king.
And then be beaten with sledgehammers until they understand that the goal should not be 'unconfigurable' but 'no configuration needed 90% of the time, and configurable the remaining 10% of the time'.
Amen to that. I've ended up swapping my desktop environment to KDE4 for my personal computers. It actually *makes sense* out of the box. I was absolutely thrilled to see that installations and management was actually 'easier' than on Windows. Normally, when I start running a Linux distro, I end up on google, but not then. (For the record, I'm running on Kubuntu.)
While that is funny, the article didn't say "Blizzard unveils little known secret: WoW does -not- run on a single MacBook."
If you hack the system, say by routing the unencrypted stream as it heads to your monitor, will be "raw pixel data that has no DRM." Once pixel data reaches your monitor, the deal is closed, and I don't see how any DRM could survive.
If you like them 'ol ducks type'n, you can...
import CanadianJudges
If you prefer static type'n...
#include CanadianOpinions
Not to mention:
If there are pixels on screen, it was at some point routed through a video driver. Assuming they can't re-write monitor hardware, that presents a static, unchanging vulnerability. One node in a system that paid for HD, and it can foward the pixel data elsewhere.
It's possible to stay secure if the encryption keys are re-distributed regularly. While it would be possible to hack, it would require regular scanning to isolate updated keys; Then, of course, the encryption routines themselves can be regularly updated. Hacked or not, it would make it extremely difficult. Remember, there's no such thing as perfect security, only perfect deterrents.
You forgot one:
Make clever comments on slashdot - have sex.
(Wait... damn...)
Perhaps, it's just that the European Commission is just slightly less beholden to corporations than their counterparts in the US.
But they only act that way towards foreign countries. It sounds more like they're trying to screw around other competing companies that way they can increase their GDP. Same reason they love slapping foreign countries with huge anti-trust fines. Gotta promote good 'ol Euro Communism.
I'm guessing the amount of food/resources to support someone for the rest of their natural life would greatly exceed the fuel needed for a return trip. Colonists were heading to potentially fertile land, whereas these folk would be heading straight for a nickel rich dust bowel. Unless they plan terraforming, this is a "one way trip" in more ways than one.
Actually, I think after long sessions of TF2 I actually regress intellectually. Sure, you need to remember to use your class properly, but after a while your mind reverts into a lizard like state as you repetitively hammer your already 100% stations/guns.
I'm normally not a grammar nazi, but it looks like it's time to apply the grammarFunc. grammarFunc("An real time strategy...") --> "A real time strategy..." grammarFunc, for all your recursive grammar policing needs.
U.S. life expectancy went up, but it seems like apologists were quick to realize this could be used by anti-healthcare folks so they were fast to say "But it should have gone up faster!"
I'm all for universal hc, but spin is spin no matter where it comes from. Even if it IS true, the timing for this is still suspicious. Eh, I guess that's politics as usual though.
You're so convinced that you want to be right you're making up facts that don't even exist. Get over yourself. Do you know what happens to a store clerk that sells goods to a minor? Right, companies can't be jailed...
Yes, bad things happen under our system, but I have a feeling this report is just propaganda. The timing is a little *too* perfect to be a coincidence.
That's stupid. There's already a Ninja Bay. (And don't say you haven't ever heard of it, it's the NINJA bay, that's the point.) There server is at the center of the Earth.
Wait, it was forked, as in there was community interest, and the buggars just shut it down? Imagine what today's world would be like if Linus had gotten pissed when people started working with the Linux Kernel.
No no no, decompilation is taking binaries and turning them into a high level, human readable language. When we disassemble, we're turning it into assembly, when we decompile, we're turning it into a higher level language (e.g. see: Boomerang.) Usually, decompiling is nearly impossible and sometimes pointless (considering you lose comments, optimizations can cause fuggly code when reversed, etc.) Still, you can decompile something that wasn't even actually compiled.
$29 for Snow Leopard!?
Congratulations Steve, I'm installing OSX in a VM soon.
(1) Only the government can "make criminal charges".
You can, however, push for criminal charges. We don't "make" criminal charges, we press them.
(2) The government, in this case, decided to let the tech off of criminal charges, as long as he doesn't do anything else wrong (this sounds, superficially, pretty stupid, but remember that law enforcement has a limited budget, criminal trials cost money, and then imprisoning someone if they are convicted costs money; LE has to prioritize.)
Then blame the justice system, Verizon should not be punished. Verizon does not have a reason at the moment that would hold up in court. If they fired this man, and he sued, then they'd be in the same boat. Again, like I said in my OP, the DA is what's to blame.
(3) Costing a company money when is the only way to get them to take steps to prevent recurrence. If it doesn't affect their cost of operation, they don't care that it happened.
Costing them money is a good way to get investors angry. Throwing them in jail is a good way to get a few officials on the damn ball. The rich fellows sitting at the top aren't even going to feel a bump with this suit, but if they were getting dragged into criminal court?
Verizon is being sued for not firing a man who was never convicted of a crime. Legally, this man has no proof he was assaulted. There was an accusation, and the DA decided there wasn't enough evidence to charge the man. Now, on top of having been accused (and let off the hook) he should get fired? Shouldn't this be taken up with the DA?
Oh lol yeah he just got the **** beat out of him and the case was dismissed lol.
Honestly, put your objective cap on for a moment and think about the situation.