This is no different then what a lot of newspapers are doing. I'll read an article and want to make a comment so I'll attempt to login using an OpenID or other type of login using my Google ID but it'll say it's requesting access to my contact list so I reject it and cant comment. They want the contact list for a couple of things. Data mining being the first Spam being the second. People should just read what access the app is requesting and if they want access to something that you don't want them to have then reject them. Simple as that.
I don't believe there is all that much of a security burden that Oracle needs to bear. The problem is that Java is in essence executable code. It really is too powerful to be embedded into a web page and just trusted. Running Java in a web page is like running native executable and expecting the sandbox to work every time. If Java only ran when you wanted it to run then the exploiters wouldn't have such an easy attack vector. The user could still be hit but they'd have to do more then pull up a page.
I don't really see the need for applets any more as a load if present part of the page. The last one I ran was for Nvidia and all it did was detect which driver I needed. Chrome didn't have Java installed since it was a fresh install, but even after installing it chrome asked nicely if I wanted to run the plugin. Back in the day when people thought they could use applets the way they use flash auto loading was needed, but now that part failed why not just go to a load on request only. At least that way the applets aren't running unless I let them.
Idaho, but it requires that you're already a suspect in a crime, or that they have reasonable suspicion. If their was a reported robbery the Police do want to know that you are who you say you are. Stop and Identify laws are common but the supreme court has rulled on these kind of laws and their limits Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada
Did NASA ever have a rocket explode and kill 48 of the Engineers? Don't get me wrong Russia has a functional space program, and is going to make mistakes just as we have, but I think blowing up a Large Number of engineers would shape the opinion of people during the Cold War that their space program sucks. That one little Vostok-2M rocket probably set them back a decade in talent.
If a cop pulls over someone with no Drivers Licence and no Insurance they have proven that they shouldn't be driving. You need insurance because the risks while driving is high, and you need a licence so that you can actually prove you know how to drive. If you want to walk from LA to NY go ahead, but be sure not to go through Death Valley, I hear it's a pain this time of year. And AZ probably isn't a good pick if you're not white, but that's why their immigration laws were challenged, and challenged as being a little too much unamerican.
And if you want to go to North Korea so Badly by all means go, no one will miss you. I'm sure they will be fine if you just walk in without an ID or Papers without telling them that you're coming. You'll have a job already lined up and ready to go.
My wife and I have a friend who's into D&D and wants to play. She's interested because she's a geek, but has never played before. I've been pushing it off coming up with lame excuses mostly because I didn't want to hurt anyones feeling strait out. But a day or two ago I was forced to explain. First D&D requires dedicated planning with a regular group. Having someone who wants to be the DM who regularly cancels for what I'll call "medical" reasons isn't going to make for a good group member or even a DM. His last group fell apart because of that, and the "ultra" paladin personality that clashes with anyone who even likes to have a drink now and then. It's easy in HS and Early College to get groups together because you all pretty much share the same schedule. Late college and adult life usually makes it impossible to get a good consistent group together. One person will be interested with Tue and Fri free and the other will be a Wed and Sat. This is why I've basically given up on a consistent D&D group, and have switched to the D&D based board games. Quick and easy to setup and don't require a consistent group just to play.
Most of the people at the top are cheating in some way, and all the is left is to find out how they are cheating. It's the unfortunate nature of sports.
That's background frame delay and if done properly background frames don't have to be hard linked to drawn frames. Typically background frames can be a lot slower than foreground as long as you don't have any dropped frames you don't normally. And they also need to be a lot slower when running over a network so that they can remain synced.
Yea if I'm trying to render 120fps then yes it's a bottleneck. Chances are you only have a 60Hz monitor so VSync will lock you at 60fps. Most of the tests ran above 60fps with some exceptions on the older CPUs. So you can spend your money on an expensive Intel i7 to render frames you cannot see, or you can buy a cheaper processor and spend the money on a beefy GPU or fix the real bottle neck is the HDD and switching to a SSD is a better improvement.
Kinda, I'm more saying that the GroupThink on/. on this issue isn't nearly as clear cut as the different sides think it is. The GroupThink is there but it's just not a single/. group.
Say what you want, but I've been having a hard time gauging Slashdot GroupThink on the subject of Climate change. It's ether:
A) Climate Deniers are Stupid
B) Climate Deniers are Justified
or
C) You're just a shill
It really seems to come down to which group has the most Mod Points or which group has the most dedication to the thread. Each side just views the other as Trolls so it goes nowhere.
I can only imagine that it might help the image quality on say a football stadium sized screen. But then I wouldn't be able to see it all at once anyways so there really isn't a point in the tech.
If you're going to limit yourself to only what we know now then we'll probably never even leave our solar system. So why bother yourself with an opinion about making worlds?
Interstellar travel will probably give us that Near God-Like technological power that you seem to think will be missing. Getting there will be much harder then moving a few rocks around. Though doing it in our own solar system might be considered dangrous. Changing the existing set of gravity wells could cause any number of problems, but who cares if it's an uninhabitable solar system.
Yea, Volumes. If you watched it unfold it went from just saying he's wrong to trying to kick him out to save the party.
You're too young to realize this yet but both parties will protect a party member when it's to keep them in power, but both sides are guilty of it. If kicking out the member will cost them a critical seat or prevent them from being able to do something like a filibusterer then they will fight to keep the member. However, if it is something that will cost them the general election then they will do everything they can to get them out. You're too quick too look and make a single judgement on a single issue. Anthony Weiner(D) was forced out by democrats, but someone like Larry Craig(R) had enough power and influence to allow him to continue and run out his term. If he thought he could get reelected he would have ran again. It's not about their views or positions. Most politicians are making Machiavellian calculations on doing whatever they have to do to stay in power. Some might believe that they aren't, and a few might be genuine. But both parties are equally guilty of this.
if the app is turning your phone, or whatever, into a medical device. A random heart rate monitor app is fine unregulated, but if it's being used to monitor a patents heart rate for medical purposes then yes it must be regulated. In this case regulation is intended to give you devices that meet minimum guidelines. If it's important that a doctor know your heart rate within 20bpm but the app has a 100bpm margin of error then it's worthless as a medical device, and the regulation is to enforce the guidelines. Otherwise the doctor might think your heart is going too fast when the problem is the "app" is completely unreliable. Regulation is also for insurance purposes. Sometimes a medical device might fail, and if it results in someones death then insurance is more likely to cover it when the device that failed actually meet regulatory guidelines. Also apps that are used on an iPad by Doctors to enter medical information need to be regulated to ensure patient privacy. Everyone will be very angry if they find out that all their medical records have gone off into a private Google database to improve medical advertisements.
I'd rather be reminded of SCO and what they've done every now and then. If not then we might slip up and another SCO will come and we'll have to repeat this all over again, or worse someone like SCO might win because we're off guard.
Fukushima plants were exposed to far worse conditions than the Chernobyl plant
You consider doing something deliberately stupid and clearly dangerous less dangerous than Earth Quake and Tsunami that hit Fukushima? The Japanese did not DELIBERATELY disable the reactors safety devices like the crazy Russians did at Chernobyl. They also didn't proceed with a WORST CASE test with safety equipment turned off and physically removed from the reactor. Chernobyl is like Driving a Formula 1 race car driven at a Wall at full speed with all breaking devices removed to see if the driver can find a way to survive if he waits till he's 5 ft from hitting the wall before he even considers turning.
The Console gaming industry is a bit different. You get a set spec where you know what the hardware will be. And up until the advent of HDD being included "Patching" wasn't an option. QA is much better when the industry doesn't rely on patching and DLC to correct their games.
Let evolution handle the details like weeding out bad genes. With the exception of weeding out genes that make someone unable to survive to adulthood. When we start taking a proactive roll in minor stuff like personality then we start down a road to eliminate genetic diversity not based on one actually being better or not but being based on our perception. Evolution might be slower but it's less likely to give advantages based on Fair Skin, Blond Hair and Blue Eyes, and if it did it doesn't do it so it so quickly that if that "advantage" goes away it's not stuck at some dead end after only 1 generation.
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Oh, and here I thought it was going bankrupt so that they can use their Cloud Gaming patents to become another SCO
No, Coke makes lots of money off of other things, and always had the chance to go back if it failed.
No, do they even have a lot of money tied up in Gnome 3?
No more or less than any other random show. Also pretty cheep to pull off.
Yes, and the 3rd movie didn't make its money back with the domestic box office thankfully killed the franchise and sparing us a 4th and 5th, or do you think they would have stopped at 3 no matter what?
Is Windows 8 risky? Yes, because if it fails it could stop the Office Upgrade Cycle that fuels all of the other losses that they incur. Without Office and Windows revenue they couldn't afford the 360 or the other random acquisitions that killed their profits over the last year. A few years of deep red could kill confidence in the Almighty MS and that would be the worst thing that could happen to them.
I'm not sure what is more sad. That some people might believe that or that some people who think they are smart believe that those people believe that. When someone posts that to #ImAFuckingDumbass or with a retarded cookie monster profile it's clearly a form of sarcasm, but since that doesn't communicate well some other dumb asses think they are being serious.
A judge isn't supposed to be hassling and berating the lawyers on both sides like this.
Interesting choice of words. So you'd be ok with it if it was just one sided berating? Judges have done far worse to lawyers when they start resorting to court room theatrics like Apple and Samsung. Berating both sides just shows fairness, and that both sides are being asses.
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This is no different then what a lot of newspapers are doing. I'll read an article and want to make a comment so I'll attempt to login using an OpenID or other type of login using my Google ID but it'll say it's requesting access to my contact list so I reject it and cant comment. They want the contact list for a couple of things. Data mining being the first Spam being the second. People should just read what access the app is requesting and if they want access to something that you don't want them to have then reject them. Simple as that.
I don't believe there is all that much of a security burden that Oracle needs to bear. The problem is that Java is in essence executable code. It really is too powerful to be embedded into a web page and just trusted. Running Java in a web page is like running native executable and expecting the sandbox to work every time. If Java only ran when you wanted it to run then the exploiters wouldn't have such an easy attack vector. The user could still be hit but they'd have to do more then pull up a page.
I don't really see the need for applets any more as a load if present part of the page. The last one I ran was for Nvidia and all it did was detect which driver I needed. Chrome didn't have Java installed since it was a fresh install, but even after installing it chrome asked nicely if I wanted to run the plugin. Back in the day when people thought they could use applets the way they use flash auto loading was needed, but now that part failed why not just go to a load on request only. At least that way the applets aren't running unless I let them.
Idaho, but it requires that you're already a suspect in a crime, or that they have reasonable suspicion. If their was a reported robbery the Police do want to know that you are who you say you are. Stop and Identify laws are common but the supreme court has rulled on these kind of laws and their limits Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada
Did NASA ever have a rocket explode and kill 48 of the Engineers? Don't get me wrong Russia has a functional space program, and is going to make mistakes just as we have, but I think blowing up a Large Number of engineers would shape the opinion of people during the Cold War that their space program sucks. That one little Vostok-2M rocket probably set them back a decade in talent.
If a cop pulls over someone with no Drivers Licence and no Insurance they have proven that they shouldn't be driving. You need insurance because the risks while driving is high, and you need a licence so that you can actually prove you know how to drive. If you want to walk from LA to NY go ahead, but be sure not to go through Death Valley, I hear it's a pain this time of year. And AZ probably isn't a good pick if you're not white, but that's why their immigration laws were challenged, and challenged as being a little too much unamerican.
And if you want to go to North Korea so Badly by all means go, no one will miss you. I'm sure they will be fine if you just walk in without an ID or Papers without telling them that you're coming. You'll have a job already lined up and ready to go.
Not to snuff out your hopes, but I don't think angles use air plains.
My wife and I have a friend who's into D&D and wants to play. She's interested because she's a geek, but has never played before. I've been pushing it off coming up with lame excuses mostly because I didn't want to hurt anyones feeling strait out. But a day or two ago I was forced to explain. First D&D requires dedicated planning with a regular group. Having someone who wants to be the DM who regularly cancels for what I'll call "medical" reasons isn't going to make for a good group member or even a DM. His last group fell apart because of that, and the "ultra" paladin personality that clashes with anyone who even likes to have a drink now and then. It's easy in HS and Early College to get groups together because you all pretty much share the same schedule. Late college and adult life usually makes it impossible to get a good consistent group together. One person will be interested with Tue and Fri free and the other will be a Wed and Sat. This is why I've basically given up on a consistent D&D group, and have switched to the D&D based board games. Quick and easy to setup and don't require a consistent group just to play.
Most of the people at the top are cheating in some way, and all the is left is to find out how they are cheating. It's the unfortunate nature of sports.
That's background frame delay and if done properly background frames don't have to be hard linked to drawn frames. Typically background frames can be a lot slower than foreground as long as you don't have any dropped frames you don't normally. And they also need to be a lot slower when running over a network so that they can remain synced.
Yea if I'm trying to render 120fps then yes it's a bottleneck. Chances are you only have a 60Hz monitor so VSync will lock you at 60fps. Most of the tests ran above 60fps with some exceptions on the older CPUs. So you can spend your money on an expensive Intel i7 to render frames you cannot see, or you can buy a cheaper processor and spend the money on a beefy GPU or fix the real bottle neck is the HDD and switching to a SSD is a better improvement.
Kinda, I'm more saying that the GroupThink on /. on this issue isn't nearly as clear cut as the different sides think it is. The GroupThink is there but it's just not a single /. group.
Say what you want, but I've been having a hard time gauging Slashdot GroupThink on the subject of Climate change. It's ether:
A) Climate Deniers are Stupid
B) Climate Deniers are Justified
or
C) You're just a shill
It really seems to come down to which group has the most Mod Points or which group has the most dedication to the thread. Each side just views the other as Trolls so it goes nowhere.
I can only imagine that it might help the image quality on say a football stadium sized screen. But then I wouldn't be able to see it all at once anyways so there really isn't a point in the tech.
If you're going to limit yourself to only what we know now then we'll probably never even leave our solar system. So why bother yourself with an opinion about making worlds?
Interstellar travel will probably give us that Near God-Like technological power that you seem to think will be missing. Getting there will be much harder then moving a few rocks around. Though doing it in our own solar system might be considered dangrous. Changing the existing set of gravity wells could cause any number of problems, but who cares if it's an uninhabitable solar system.
You're too young to realize this yet but both parties will protect a party member when it's to keep them in power, but both sides are guilty of it. If kicking out the member will cost them a critical seat or prevent them from being able to do something like a filibusterer then they will fight to keep the member. However, if it is something that will cost them the general election then they will do everything they can to get them out. You're too quick too look and make a single judgement on a single issue. Anthony Weiner(D) was forced out by democrats, but someone like Larry Craig(R) had enough power and influence to allow him to continue and run out his term. If he thought he could get reelected he would have ran again. It's not about their views or positions. Most politicians are making Machiavellian calculations on doing whatever they have to do to stay in power. Some might believe that they aren't, and a few might be genuine. But both parties are equally guilty of this.
if the app is turning your phone, or whatever, into a medical device. A random heart rate monitor app is fine unregulated, but if it's being used to monitor a patents heart rate for medical purposes then yes it must be regulated. In this case regulation is intended to give you devices that meet minimum guidelines. If it's important that a doctor know your heart rate within 20bpm but the app has a 100bpm margin of error then it's worthless as a medical device, and the regulation is to enforce the guidelines. Otherwise the doctor might think your heart is going too fast when the problem is the "app" is completely unreliable. Regulation is also for insurance purposes. Sometimes a medical device might fail, and if it results in someones death then insurance is more likely to cover it when the device that failed actually meet regulatory guidelines. Also apps that are used on an iPad by Doctors to enter medical information need to be regulated to ensure patient privacy. Everyone will be very angry if they find out that all their medical records have gone off into a private Google database to improve medical advertisements.
I'd rather be reminded of SCO and what they've done every now and then. If not then we might slip up and another SCO will come and we'll have to repeat this all over again, or worse someone like SCO might win because we're off guard.
Fukushima plants were exposed to far worse conditions than the Chernobyl plant
You consider doing something deliberately stupid and clearly dangerous less dangerous than Earth Quake and Tsunami that hit Fukushima? The Japanese did not DELIBERATELY disable the reactors safety devices like the crazy Russians did at Chernobyl. They also didn't proceed with a WORST CASE test with safety equipment turned off and physically removed from the reactor. Chernobyl is like Driving a Formula 1 race car driven at a Wall at full speed with all breaking devices removed to see if the driver can find a way to survive if he waits till he's 5 ft from hitting the wall before he even considers turning.
The Console gaming industry is a bit different. You get a set spec where you know what the hardware will be. And up until the advent of HDD being included "Patching" wasn't an option. QA is much better when the industry doesn't rely on patching and DLC to correct their games.
Let evolution handle the details like weeding out bad genes. With the exception of weeding out genes that make someone unable to survive to adulthood. When we start taking a proactive roll in minor stuff like personality then we start down a road to eliminate genetic diversity not based on one actually being better or not but being based on our perception. Evolution might be slower but it's less likely to give advantages based on Fair Skin, Blond Hair and Blue Eyes, and if it did it doesn't do it so it so quickly that if that "advantage" goes away it's not stuck at some dead end after only 1 generation.
Oh, and here I thought it was going bankrupt so that they can use their Cloud Gaming patents to become another SCO
No, do they even have a lot of money tied up in Gnome 3?
No more or less than any other random show. Also pretty cheep to pull off.
Yes, and the 3rd movie didn't make its money back with the domestic box office thankfully killed the franchise and sparing us a 4th and 5th, or do you think they would have stopped at 3 no matter what?
Is Windows 8 risky? Yes, because if it fails it could stop the Office Upgrade Cycle that fuels all of the other losses that they incur. Without Office and Windows revenue they couldn't afford the 360 or the other random acquisitions that killed their profits over the last year. A few years of deep red could kill confidence in the Almighty MS and that would be the worst thing that could happen to them.
I'm not sure what is more sad. That some people might believe that or that some people who think they are smart believe that those people believe that. When someone posts that to #ImAFuckingDumbass or with a retarded cookie monster profile it's clearly a form of sarcasm, but since that doesn't communicate well some other dumb asses think they are being serious.
A judge isn't supposed to be hassling and berating the lawyers on both sides like this.
Interesting choice of words. So you'd be ok with it if it was just one sided berating? Judges have done far worse to lawyers when they start resorting to court room theatrics like Apple and Samsung. Berating both sides just shows fairness, and that both sides are being asses.