Sandboxes are software and software has bugs in it, always.
So how does this bode for the cloud? OSs and hypervisors are conceptually similar at least to an OS and a sandboxed app. What prevents a hypervisor from being attacked in the same way that Java's sandbox was?
I would trust them about as much as anyone can trust any third party software. My point is that the software is written in java is as irrelevant as if it were written in C++.
Running programs from untrusted sources has always been unadvisable. I run java every day, and I'm not worried at all about getting compromised. Apps like ImageJ or UGENE, if they weren't written in Java would be written in a native language which would be just as dangerous to install. So don't be an idiot and run programs from random websites and you'll be fine.
The US Justice System is there to enforce the law.
No it's not. If it were, people like Lloyd Blankfein would get much more attention than Aaron Swartz. The US Justice System is there to keep the powerful powerful. Nothing else.
The overwhelming majority of Windows applications can be configured using a series of dialog boxes, typically either in the "tools->options" or "edit->preferences" menu. These applications may incidentally store the results of those dialog boxes in a registry hive (or in an ini file in the %appdata% folder or similar), but it's infrequently the only way to make such changes. With Apache, they don't give you a tabbed, categorized dialog box in which to manipulate the options
No, they give you a nice organized text file to edit, with descriptive comments. You can search it and you can back it up easily. That's even BETTER than a tree full of checkboxes.
Awesome window manager and pentadactyl addon for Firefox. Basic web browsing is quite straightforward to do without the mouse when you have good tools.
Indeed. Computer literacy should be taught along with english literacy and mathematical literacy. Not everyone is going to be an author or engineer or programmer, but we all benefit from having these basic skills.
This is why the whole "games as art" debate has always confused me. Pixel art is art. FM synthesized music is art. The two together form an aesthetic that never existed before the 80s, and didn't make it past the 2000s. Even what we're seeing today is a revival, none of the retro art I've seen could have existed in 1990. IMO, that makes these games not just art, but quite significant historically.
Because if it's a portable player. No one cares about audio quality when they're jogging or doing the laundry. If I want to listen to Bach's Mass in B Minor I will do it at home.
If the "whole point" of protests is to be disruptive, as you claim, then there is no reason for them to be legal at all. You have no right to be disruptive.
Spoken like a true authoritarian. The right to "say my message" is of no value at all when my message can be simply ignored by those in power with no consequences. If it weren't for disruptive protests, we wouldn't have half the civil rights we have today.
Being in a place of business for something other than what the business intends is not legal behavior, it is trespassing
No it's not. There is no law that prevents me from walking into a Chick-Fil-A, standing in line, and saying "I'd like, a number hmm.... um... hold on... oh yeah I'd like marriage equality for homosexuals". They are free to kick me out after I do that, but before I do that I look just like a customer, and they can't ban customers if they want to remain open. Get a few thousand of my friends to do the same thing and we have the equivalent of a meat space DDOS, and it's perfectly legal.
DDOSs are identical. Requesting a copy of index.html is entirely legal. Getting a bunch of your friends to do the same is just as legal.
You can protest a business with a sign and megaphone, but you are not allowed to stop people from patronising that business.
Sure you are. Act like a customer but don't buy anything. It's perfectly legal to window shop. Get a lot of people to window shop at once. If you get enough, you'll displace actual customers.
If you want to protest, there are non disruptive methods to use, DDoS shouldn't be one of them.
The whole point of protests is to be disruptive. If you can't be disruptive you have no leverage.
Strikes are the wrong analogy. The correct analogy are sit-ins. DDOS is legal behavior, requesting data from an HTTP server, done many times over. A sit-in is similar. It is legal behavior, visiting a place of business, done many times over.
I don't understand. Samba and Windows Server have practically identical features. You should be able to mount a Windows share the same way you mount a Samba share.
Sure it does. A demonstrably harmful past time is legal, while a much less harmful past time is illegal. Why? Arbitrary and capricious authority, that's all. Statism run amok.
While we're at it, can we ensure that GUI functions have an equivalent CLI function? In other words, if you're going to support mulitple GUI environments, include support for a null GUI as well.
Ear plugs are the greatest. I wear Ety plugs whenver I go to a concert. These have fairly flat frequency response, and are pretty comfortable too. I was third row center at Phish with these, and had no ringing, fuzziness or any other hearing problems immediately afterwards. I've seen other LOUD concerts in small venues, P-Funk, Buckethead, shitty local punk bands, etc. with similar results. Honestly, once the levels get high enough you get more distortion without earplugs than with them.
However, the program IS (well, would have been) voluntary and could potentially serve as a resource for parents of younger children who don't, for some reason or another, feel comfortable with their (non teenage) kids playing violent stuff.
Those people are bad parents. There is no "however" about it. Encouraging bad parents to engage in bad parenting is bad. Good parents teach about violence, and the difference between fantasy and reality.
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Sandboxes are software and software has bugs in it, always.
So how does this bode for the cloud? OSs and hypervisors are conceptually similar at least to an OS and a sandboxed app. What prevents a hypervisor from being attacked in the same way that Java's sandbox was?
The common claim that CNTs are "100 times the strength of steel" is basically baloney.
Just wait until they perfect copper nanotubes.
I would trust them about as much as anyone can trust any third party software. My point is that the software is written in java is as irrelevant as if it were written in C++.
Running programs from untrusted sources has always been unadvisable. I run java every day, and I'm not worried at all about getting compromised. Apps like ImageJ or UGENE, if they weren't written in Java would be written in a native language which would be just as dangerous to install. So don't be an idiot and run programs from random websites and you'll be fine.
The US Justice System is there to enforce the law.
No it's not. If it were, people like Lloyd Blankfein would get much more attention than Aaron Swartz. The US Justice System is there to keep the powerful powerful. Nothing else.
The overwhelming majority of Windows applications can be configured using a series of dialog boxes, typically either in the "tools->options" or "edit->preferences" menu. These applications may incidentally store the results of those dialog boxes in a registry hive (or in an ini file in the %appdata% folder or similar), but it's infrequently the only way to make such changes. With Apache, they don't give you a tabbed, categorized dialog box in which to manipulate the options
No, they give you a nice organized text file to edit, with descriptive comments. You can search it and you can back it up easily. That's even BETTER than a tree full of checkboxes.
Awesome window manager and pentadactyl addon for Firefox. Basic web browsing is quite straightforward to do without the mouse when you have good tools.
Indeed. Computer literacy should be taught along with english literacy and mathematical literacy. Not everyone is going to be an author or engineer or programmer, but we all benefit from having these basic skills.
The anti-touch commenters here echo the comments of anti-mousers decades ago -- "Not for me." We know how that worked out.
CLI is still superior to the GUI from where I sit. How exactly did you think it worked out?
What shoes were they wearing? No-air Jordans?
This is why the whole "games as art" debate has always confused me. Pixel art is art. FM synthesized music is art. The two together form an aesthetic that never existed before the 80s, and didn't make it past the 2000s. Even what we're seeing today is a revival, none of the retro art I've seen could have existed in 1990. IMO, that makes these games not just art, but quite significant historically.
Water? I suspect the Russians are only interested because it's actually a lake of pure vodka.
Because if it's a portable player. No one cares about audio quality when they're jogging or doing the laundry. If I want to listen to Bach's Mass in B Minor I will do it at home.
Also, $300? Try $50, unless you're stupid enough to buy Apple.
If the "whole point" of protests is to be disruptive, as you claim, then there is no reason for them to be legal at all. You have no right to be disruptive.
Spoken like a true authoritarian. The right to "say my message" is of no value at all when my message can be simply ignored by those in power with no consequences. If it weren't for disruptive protests, we wouldn't have half the civil rights we have today.
Being in a place of business for something other than what the business intends is not legal behavior, it is trespassing
No it's not. There is no law that prevents me from walking into a Chick-Fil-A, standing in line, and saying "I'd like, a number hmm.... um... hold on... oh yeah I'd like marriage equality for homosexuals". They are free to kick me out after I do that, but before I do that I look just like a customer, and they can't ban customers if they want to remain open. Get a few thousand of my friends to do the same thing and we have the equivalent of a meat space DDOS, and it's perfectly legal.
DDOSs are identical. Requesting a copy of index.html is entirely legal. Getting a bunch of your friends to do the same is just as legal.
You can protest a business with a sign and megaphone, but you are not allowed to stop people from patronising that business.
Sure you are. Act like a customer but don't buy anything. It's perfectly legal to window shop. Get a lot of people to window shop at once. If you get enough, you'll displace actual customers.
If you want to protest, there are non disruptive methods to use, DDoS shouldn't be one of them.
The whole point of protests is to be disruptive. If you can't be disruptive you have no leverage.
Strikes are the wrong analogy. The correct analogy are sit-ins. DDOS is legal behavior, requesting data from an HTTP server, done many times over. A sit-in is similar. It is legal behavior, visiting a place of business, done many times over.
I work for a small hosting/cloud provider, and from experience, I can say that this is a form of attack.
Yes, and I bet the owner of a Woolworths in South Carolina would have said that sit-ins during the Civil Rights Era was a form of attack as well.
The dollar has value because it can pay a dollars worth of taxes.
If that were the case, wouldn't the tax rate affect the value of the dollar? Does the tax rate affect the value of the dollar?
I don't understand. Samba and Windows Server have practically identical features. You should be able to mount a Windows share the same way you mount a Samba share.
This has nothing to do with statism.
Sure it does. A demonstrably harmful past time is legal, while a much less harmful past time is illegal. Why? Arbitrary and capricious authority, that's all. Statism run amok.
We can only hope. Football is now scientifically proven to be more dangerous than marijuana. It's time to start sending football players to jail.
While we're at it, can we ensure that GUI functions have an equivalent CLI function? In other words, if you're going to support mulitple GUI environments, include support for a null GUI as well.
Ear plugs are the greatest. I wear Ety plugs whenver I go to a concert. These have fairly flat frequency response, and are pretty comfortable too. I was third row center at Phish with these, and had no ringing, fuzziness or any other hearing problems immediately afterwards. I've seen other LOUD concerts in small venues, P-Funk, Buckethead, shitty local punk bands, etc. with similar results. Honestly, once the levels get high enough you get more distortion without earplugs than with them.
However, the program IS (well, would have been) voluntary and could potentially serve as a resource for parents of younger children who don't, for some reason or another, feel comfortable with their (non teenage) kids playing violent stuff.
Those people are bad parents. There is no "however" about it. Encouraging bad parents to engage in bad parenting is bad. Good parents teach about violence, and the difference between fantasy and reality.