Website use follows a Zipfian distribution. Less popular sites may be more vulnerable to attack since they'd be written by script kiddies.
So instead of telling us how many URLs have been hijacked, how about telling us how many end users are likely to be affected by this? It makes a large difference if one of the URLs is a popular website or just something a 10 year old patched together using Frontpage.
You're asking an academic to write stuff in the same vein as John D Public.
Our Professors tell us to NEVER use wikipedia except as for a citation. Do you think they're going to then go do their edits? If wikipedia wants academics they'll need a nice clean slate for only academics to play in.
Not sure whether you're being sarcastic or not, assuming you're not...
Programming lets you put your mind in a certain 'mindset' which can help you analyse and solve problems, even if you don't actually get your hands dirty in the end.
I don't see why it should be removed, it should be 'complimented' instead with other programming methodologies in order to let users compare and contrast. But most CS in the end will end up being done with OOP so there's no reason not to start in the beginning - at least that's my personal experience.
In my first year we had a mixture of different programming types, including functional programming. I never really used any of those, I'm sure there are certain places where Prolog or Haskel is used, but its not as common as an OOP.
I'm pretty sure the 'someone wants to remove it from code' would be some cheap chinese company, and the people who would complain would be the consumers...
One one hand if you're selling it in your store, you're saying "We support this product/service and think people should have access to it"
on the other hand, the way apple's walled-garden approach works, is saying "We don't think ANYONE should be able to run this, even if they truly want it".
In the 'ideal world', you remove it from the store, so apple shows they're not anti-gay or whatever, but the company still makes it freely avaliable on their own websites, in case people actually want to use it. Its called freedom.
If I spot an accident or something, and I phone, and I'm surrounded by people who aren't very happy at having been very injured, I will probably speak very calmly so as not to panic everyone around me anymore than they already are.
Secondly, when talking about something important, I'd speak calm and clearly so they can understand the location and stuff, not get delayed because they misheardly.
Thirdly, first aid lessons taught me that if there are multiple people injured, often the ones who are hurt the worst will be quieter. If someone took a heavy blow to his head and is feeling sluggish, he'll sound dased, not panicked. Basically, if you have the energy and oxygen to sound panicked, you're probably less urgent than the person who's bleeding out.
"Apple" which is a fruit "Macintosh" which is a surname OS which is short for "Operating System" X which is means "10" or is a letter "Snow leopard" which is an animal.
If you wanted to. But then you can't sue the local greengrocer can you? Linux refers to 'windows' all the times. Its allowed as its clearly not talking about the OS.
If they really wanted a punishment, they should give IBM's board community service or something. That'd be an interesting way of doing things. Not denying the CEO's paperboy a large tip this week.
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(Title is a throwback to a very old game, anyone want to guess?)
Seriously, the first few were good, it was all quite funny.. this one is just... meh.
Can we be finished with this day already?
That's true.
However, there are certain new features that 3.0 brings, such as fragments, and action bars and stuff like that.
There's really no cause for alarm, if it works in pre-3.0 it'll work, it just won't be as polished as it should be.
Website use follows a Zipfian distribution. Less popular sites may be more vulnerable to attack since they'd be written by script kiddies.
So instead of telling us how many URLs have been hijacked, how about telling us how many end users are likely to be affected by this? It makes a large difference if one of the URLs is a popular website or just something a 10 year old patched together using Frontpage.
Former truck driver magically disappears from society after publishing 'how to make A-bomb"
Quick! Call the worldwide boycott off before the entire company loses its 13.5Billion revenue.
On a related note, could Samsung sue the journalists for libel?
Samsung:
Net income US$ 13.8 billion (2009)
Unless you know a few billion people, its not really going to work.
Not what I meant. You could look at the cited sources and hunt for information there.
You're asking an academic to write stuff in the same vein as John D Public.
Our Professors tell us to NEVER use wikipedia except as for a citation. Do you think they're going to then go do their edits? If wikipedia wants academics they'll need a nice clean slate for only academics to play in.
How about telling us mortals how to do that?
I mean, few systems can avoid being compromised by a person with "experience of 1,000 hackers"
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/03/28/2159202/Lone-Iranian-Claims-Credit-For-Comodo-Hack
"essentially, get its *&@! together."
Yeah, get your special characters together!
Let me tell you my prediction. Let me just grab my 10-sided dice, roll the numbers a bit and get back to you.
I'm sure I'd get results which are just as precise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso&feature=player_detailpage#t=63s
While it sounds very stupid, its done everywhere else...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
"I think this is better because it costs more"
Not sure whether you're being sarcastic or not, assuming you're not...
Programming lets you put your mind in a certain 'mindset' which can help you analyse and solve problems, even if you don't actually get your hands dirty in the end.
I don't see why it should be removed, it should be 'complimented' instead with other programming methodologies in order to let users compare and contrast. But most CS in the end will end up being done with OOP so there's no reason not to start in the beginning - at least that's my personal experience.
In my first year we had a mixture of different programming types, including functional programming. I never really used any of those, I'm sure there are certain places where Prolog or Haskel is used, but its not as common as an OOP.
Now when I shout at someone for chatting to me using a ton of abbreviations ... they can point out that its in the dictionary now...
I'm pretty sure the 'someone wants to remove it from code' would be some cheap chinese company, and the people who would complain would be the consumers...
Its not much of a solution is it...
One one hand if you're selling it in your store, you're saying "We support this product/service and think people should have access to it"
on the other hand, the way apple's walled-garden approach works, is saying "We don't think ANYONE should be able to run this, even if they truly want it".
In the 'ideal world', you remove it from the store, so apple shows they're not anti-gay or whatever, but the company still makes it freely avaliable on their own websites, in case people actually want to use it. Its called freedom.
But Apple won't allow that.
If I spot an accident or something, and I phone, and I'm surrounded by people who aren't very happy at having been very injured, I will probably speak very calmly so as not to panic everyone around me anymore than they already are.
Secondly, when talking about something important, I'd speak calm and clearly so they can understand the location and stuff, not get delayed because they misheardly.
Thirdly, first aid lessons taught me that if there are multiple people injured, often the ones who are hurt the worst will be quieter. If someone took a heavy blow to his head and is feeling sluggish, he'll sound dased, not panicked. Basically, if you have the energy and oxygen to sound panicked, you're probably less urgent than the person who's bleeding out.
You can call your operating System
"Apple" which is a fruit
"Macintosh" which is a surname
OS which is short for "Operating System"
X which is means "10" or is a letter
"Snow leopard" which is an animal.
If you wanted to. But then you can't sue the local greengrocer can you? Linux refers to 'windows' all the times. Its allowed as its clearly not talking about the OS.
I dunno. But given how quickly technology progresses, even if the patent was a great idea in 1996, shouldn't it be irrelevant by now?
Technology progresses too quickly for patents like this to stay there.
There's a list of some of the patents in the article...
" Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;"
This is so vague even I can't understand what it is.
" Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;"
Woah. The insight of this is truly staggering.
" Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;"
No idea what this means either.
" Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and"
. . .
" Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document."
Could we take "Colour Markers", "Scribbling on a document" to be previous implmentations of this? Because then there's a lot of people you could sue.
i don't think any company on earth looks at a ten M I L L I O N dolar fine lightly, regardless if you make 14 bill a year thats still a big fine
Your rounding down had more effect on their net profits than what is essentially a rounding error.
I'm sure they made more than 10 mill from the deals anyway. They still came on top
Woah, a 10M dollar fine...
Lets see what Wikipedia says about IBM..
Net income US$14.833 billion (2010)
Yeah, that 10M fine will sure show them!
If they really wanted a punishment, they should give IBM's board community service or something. That'd be an interesting way of doing things. Not denying the CEO's paperboy a large tip this week.