"Attack surface" is a security industry term which refers to the possible points an attacker could use to hack a system. It's a very vague term, but the general idea is that if you have a server with one listening port, and you add a second service on another port, you just doubled your attack surface.
In this case, however, unless both the google javascript engine and the IE javascript engine execute every piece of javascript, this software does not double the attack surface, it merely shifts it. But if the google plugins do not come with auto-updaters, Microsoft does have a point to make about their security.
People with a base and some equipment (microscopes, spectroscopes, chemistry gear) would be extremely useful. Building a base wouldn't even be that hard. Just lay the foundation, put an inflatable dome over it, and grow some plants to keep the O2->CO2 cycle going. It could be quite roomy, and solar power (to reclaim drinking water and run the gear) would be no problem with no atmosphere.
You sound like you may be suffering from Nationalism. Symptoms include: defending bad government, insulting critics of your government, and arguing by way of logical fallacy.
But now, there's a cure! Ask your doctor about Cynicism.
You can curse on American television. The what you are referring to is an entirely separate animal: daytime broadcast TV. Prohibiting certain things on daytime broadcast TV is very different from prohibiting them all the time, everywhere. It's even less of an issue consider the fact that most Americans get their TV from cable, satellite, or Internet.
A slave rebellion FPS? That's an awesome idea. I would totally buy that game.
In the US it would not and could not get censored. Our constitution protects those rights. It's quite possible that some stores would refuse to sell it, but I bet such a game would be a big hit, north and south.
It's been over 60 years, Germany. You don't have to worry about symbolism bringing back the Nazi party; most of them are dead. Your reasons for denying the existence of history are over now. It's time to give free speech a try.
You sound like a programmer who is completely ignorant of how legal systems work.
Laws aren't written like "if photo.is_manipulated() then display_disclaimer() end". They actually use words and sentences to express the intent of the law in a reasonable way. Cropping will not be considered manipulation; airbrushing will. Furthermore, even "gray area" can be part of law, thanks to an amazing technology called "courts."
The executives should go to jail, and the company should pay compensation (hurting shareholders out of necessity), but the shareholders themselves (retirement funds and the like) had nothing to do with the decision.
Java is actually damn fast if you keep the JVM running at all times. Even wimpy mobile devices like the Kindle can run Java fine. The Kindle is just Linux + JVM on a puny ARM processor.
Some protocols want high bandwidth, while others want low latency. I see no problem prioritizing like this. Anything beyond this is a slippery slope, though.
If your boss likes you, he will set easy goals. If he doesn't like you, he will set unrealistic goals. You can be the hardest worker in the place, but getting "results" is an arbitrary and meaningless phrase, entirely dictated by the whims of your manager.
In the US and the UK, the number is officially called "billion." In India, it's called "100 Crore." Australia officially has no idea how they do their numbers, and Canada doesn't even know what language it speaks. There are no other English-speaking countries of consequence.
Therefore, "billion" is the most acceptable term for international English-language writing.
Other stories have demonstrated that someone at Microsoft has finally recognized the threat of cloud computing. The apps which most people use today don't require Windows; they just require a browser. Since browsers are available on Linux and Apple systems, and these systems aren't plagued by the horrible malware situation of Windows, Microsoft has no choice but to attempt to clean up the malware situation. The alternative is a situation in which everyone who can get what they need from the cloud will have a strong incentive to move to MacOS or Linux.
Because the US has no constitutional fiscal mandate, its government will continue to spend as much as it can borrow until an eventual currency collapse. This is an inherent property of democracies: everybody wants something from their government, and they all want different things.
Since your hope that the public debt might revers is false, your conclusion is false. We will continue to deficit spend, so we might as well get a moon base as well as those multi-billion war machines.
Your NASA example demonstrates the opposite of what you think it does. NASA had only a single copy of some data. That's a risky proposition no matter what the technology. But other data NASA tried to recover--the moon landing footage--actually was recovered because there were multiple copies. This is the case with ebooks today.
With thousands of copies of ebooks living of flash chips, RAIDs, optical disks, and magnetic disks throughout the Earth and the nearby celestial bodies, it won't be hard to recover old data; it will be hard to destroy old data. Think of Linus's quote about how he does backups, if you aren't following me;-)
As for formats of data: most data will be copied from old tech to new as new tech becomes available. I don't need a floppy disk reader to read the documents I wrote ten years ago. I moved them along with all my other data to my NAS. But even supposing the unlikely scenario in which only copy of some data is on a flash chip with an outdated interface, you must admit that would be easier to access in the future than using electron microscopes and other fancy imaging techniques archaeologists are already using on scrolls.
You just said that books don't require shipping, and that all of them somehow use zero net carbon in manufacturing. You are undeniably factually incorrect.
Your concerns are with backlit screens. eBook readers use an entirely different technology: eink. They effectively print pages on demand, erasing the print-out each time you turn the page.
I'm going to respect the slashdot tradition of bad car analogies, here...
I'm one of those people that greatly savors a paper book.
And many people greatly savor riding horses. That didn't stop the automobile.
if a major catastrophic event breaks down modern civilization
Yes, with the breakdown of civilization, the horse riders will be in better shape, too. Do you ride a horse to prepare for this potential catastrophe?
At any rate, flash drives containing thousands of books each spread accross the entire earth are actually better for archival purposes than paper. We can never have another burning of the library at Alexandria; there are too many copies. And the costs of perfectly preserving old data are effectively zero, as storage costs continue to plummet. We don't need monks dutifully making copies of scrolls as the scrolls age. We just copy our book collections instantly and flawlessly to the new storage tech as it becomes available.
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"Attack surface" is a security industry term which refers to the possible points an attacker could use to hack a system. It's a very vague term, but the general idea is that if you have a server with one listening port, and you add a second service on another port, you just doubled your attack surface.
In this case, however, unless both the google javascript engine and the IE javascript engine execute every piece of javascript, this software does not double the attack surface, it merely shifts it. But if the google plugins do not come with auto-updaters, Microsoft does have a point to make about their security.
People with a base and some equipment (microscopes, spectroscopes, chemistry gear) would be extremely useful. Building a base wouldn't even be that hard. Just lay the foundation, put an inflatable dome over it, and grow some plants to keep the O2->CO2 cycle going. It could be quite roomy, and solar power (to reclaim drinking water and run the gear) would be no problem with no atmosphere.
You sound like you may be suffering from Nationalism. Symptoms include: defending bad government, insulting critics of your government, and arguing by way of logical fallacy.
But now, there's a cure! Ask your doctor about Cynicism.
You can curse on American television. The what you are referring to is an entirely separate animal: daytime broadcast TV. Prohibiting certain things on daytime broadcast TV is very different from prohibiting them all the time, everywhere. It's even less of an issue consider the fact that most Americans get their TV from cable, satellite, or Internet.
A slave rebellion FPS? That's an awesome idea. I would totally buy that game.
In the US it would not and could not get censored. Our constitution protects those rights. It's quite possible that some stores would refuse to sell it, but I bet such a game would be a big hit, north and south.
It's been over 60 years, Germany. You don't have to worry about symbolism bringing back the Nazi party; most of them are dead. Your reasons for denying the existence of history are over now. It's time to give free speech a try.
So long as IE holds back web applications, people will still need Windows. IE sucks with web standards because Microsoft wants it to do so.
Once everything can be done via the web, Windows is inconsequential.
You sound like a programmer who is completely ignorant of how legal systems work.
Laws aren't written like "if photo.is_manipulated() then display_disclaimer() end". They actually use words and sentences to express the intent of the law in a reasonable way. Cropping will not be considered manipulation; airbrushing will. Furthermore, even "gray area" can be part of law, thanks to an amazing technology called "courts."
Basically, your objections are complete nonsense.
The executives should go to jail, and the company should pay compensation (hurting shareholders out of necessity), but the shareholders themselves (retirement funds and the like) had nothing to do with the decision.
Java is actually damn fast if you keep the JVM running at all times. Even wimpy mobile devices like the Kindle can run Java fine. The Kindle is just Linux + JVM on a puny ARM processor.
Some protocols want high bandwidth, while others want low latency. I see no problem prioritizing like this. Anything beyond this is a slippery slope, though.
I've seen job ads for Pertot Systems. Their positions are pathetic. They are all for limited time periods only--no full-time positions are offered.
Who would take a job when you know you'll get the axe in six months?
If something is encrypted twice with two different keys, what you actually have is a new crypto algorithm with a longer key. See:
cryptoA(keyA, plaintext) = ciphertext
cryptoB(keyB, plaintext) = ciphertext
So you propose doing
cryptoA(keyA, cryptoB(keyB, plaintext)) = ciphertext
This could be rewritten as cryptoC(keyA+keyB, plaintext) = ciphertext
For those who aren't cryptographers: that message decrypts as "First Post!"
If your boss likes you, he will set easy goals. If he doesn't like you, he will set unrealistic goals. You can be the hardest worker in the place, but getting "results" is an arbitrary and meaningless phrase, entirely dictated by the whims of your manager.
Here's the way it works:
In the US and the UK, the number is officially called "billion." In India, it's called "100 Crore." Australia officially has no idea how they do their numbers, and Canada doesn't even know what language it speaks. There are no other English-speaking countries of consequence.
Therefore, "billion" is the most acceptable term for international English-language writing.
Could we get that in LoC's? Also, could we stick to the standard "one million thousands" unit, please?
Other stories have demonstrated that someone at Microsoft has finally recognized the threat of cloud computing. The apps which most people use today don't require Windows; they just require a browser. Since browsers are available on Linux and Apple systems, and these systems aren't plagued by the horrible malware situation of Windows, Microsoft has no choice but to attempt to clean up the malware situation. The alternative is a situation in which everyone who can get what they need from the cloud will have a strong incentive to move to MacOS or Linux.
Because the US has no constitutional fiscal mandate, its government will continue to spend as much as it can borrow until an eventual currency collapse. This is an inherent property of democracies: everybody wants something from their government, and they all want different things.
Since your hope that the public debt might revers is false, your conclusion is false. We will continue to deficit spend, so we might as well get a moon base as well as those multi-billion war machines.
Your NASA example demonstrates the opposite of what you think it does. NASA had only a single copy of some data. That's a risky proposition no matter what the technology. But other data NASA tried to recover--the moon landing footage--actually was recovered because there were multiple copies. This is the case with ebooks today.
With thousands of copies of ebooks living of flash chips, RAIDs, optical disks, and magnetic disks throughout the Earth and the nearby celestial bodies, it won't be hard to recover old data; it will be hard to destroy old data. Think of Linus's quote about how he does backups, if you aren't following me ;-)
As for formats of data: most data will be copied from old tech to new as new tech becomes available. I don't need a floppy disk reader to read the documents I wrote ten years ago. I moved them along with all my other data to my NAS. But even supposing the unlikely scenario in which only copy of some data is on a flash chip with an outdated interface, you must admit that would be easier to access in the future than using electron microscopes and other fancy imaging techniques archaeologists are already using on scrolls.
You just said that books don't require shipping, and that all of them somehow use zero net carbon in manufacturing. You are undeniably factually incorrect.
Your concerns are with backlit screens. eBook readers use an entirely different technology: eink. They effectively print pages on demand, erasing the print-out each time you turn the page.
I'm going to respect the slashdot tradition of bad car analogies, here...
And many people greatly savor riding horses. That didn't stop the automobile.
Yes, with the breakdown of civilization, the horse riders will be in better shape, too. Do you ride a horse to prepare for this potential catastrophe?
At any rate, flash drives containing thousands of books each spread accross the entire earth are actually better for archival purposes than paper. We can never have another burning of the library at Alexandria; there are too many copies. And the costs of perfectly preserving old data are effectively zero, as storage costs continue to plummet. We don't need monks dutifully making copies of scrolls as the scrolls age. We just copy our book collections instantly and flawlessly to the new storage tech as it becomes available.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1372965&cid=29458445
According to actual research, you're wrong. eBook readers reduce net CO2 emissions.
http://earth2tech.com/2009/08/19/why-the-kindle-is-good-for-the-planet/