As usual, poor article submission is confusing everyone!
There is a real IDE, with proper syntax highlighting, code completion, etc, that runs in any browser. It's called Visual Studio Monaco. It's only available for Azure users right now.
I don't think you know enough about Bitcoin, and I encourage you to read more about it. While it is hugely volatile, and even more hugely risky - not to say stupid - to "invest" in, I think many of your criticisms are invalid.
Bitcoin is absolutely traceable - it's far more traceable than cash. Read up about how the blockchain works (and see the Zerocoin proposal to see how it could be made untraceable, optionally, in the future). (The only non-traceable coins are those minted by miners with very paranoid security arrangements).
Cornering a "significant supply of coins" would take a significant investment of "real world" cash to actually corner these coins - not a trivial thing to get your hands on. So I don't think this is a large risk for the current Bitcoin ecosystem.
Also, you suggest that with regard to an entity trying to coopt or alter Bitcoin, "there's absolutely nothing you can do about that as a user of bitcoin". That's not true - simply running the reference software implementation makes you a node in the network, thus enforcing your (i.e. the default software's) set of rules on the transactions you do/do not relay. And additionally, the computing power deployed by today's miners would probably be impossible to exceed except by a very determined and well financed attacker. How much would a government spend to attack Bitcoin?
And if the "creators" (by which I suppose you mean the current set of core devs) try to create a new blockchain, good luck to them - the blockchain is far more resilient and the network runs as a democracy. It wouldn't work unless a vast amount of users also followed.
Your point about exchanges is key of course - they are extremely amateur operations right now. But that's easily changeable by hard work.
Digital cash ought to excite any geek - whether Bitcoin is "it", or simply an alpha version of something better yet to arrive, who knows.
Only if you keep your sessions in the same process as your application. ASP.NET supports keeping your session in another process (potentially on another machine) or in a database (slightly slower, but can survive server restarts etc). See http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20021016.asp for a quick summary.
You're correct about the application cache not surviving config changes, though typically this shouldn't be an issue as cache is only for convenience: users won't feel the difference if there's a cache miss, but they will feel the difference is the session is lost.
To be honest, the (not yet implemented) law is less extreme than you might think. This is the relevant part:
We have concluded that the offence should apply to images of acts that appear to be life threatening or are likely to result in serious, disabling injury. Again, it would be for the prosecution to show that the material fell into this category
It's not quite a "brand new direction" - Microsoft's Atlas product has been offering something along these lines for a while now (albeit still as a beta). You lay out controls visually in Visual Studio (or Express), and control them programmatically from.NET. It takes care of rendering them down to HTML + Javascript, and it's pretty much cross platform friendly.
It's not a very sales-friendly message, but: Mass manufactured desktop computers and software are pretty much a teenage technology, immature and truculent. They are not very robust internally and are full of bugs which will irritate you and potentially be unfixable because proprietary software can only be maintained by its creator. Computers and particularly software is designed by people who not only have little empathy with the average user, but have little inclination or time to fix any problems they may be aware of.
Computers are going to be difficult to start out with, and all users should expect this. The rewards, of course, are great: control and use of one of the most advanced technologies humankind has ever produced.
In XP SP2 (and presumably XPSP1/2k/2k3) you can disable and then stop the DHCP Client service before bringing up the interface. It will then never get an IP address until the service is started again. I imagine that some WSH scripting can be written to automate this.
Sure, 5 or 10 years ago unmetered calls were not possible. But now? What provider do you use? Get a better tariff.
BT Option 3 gives you unlimited local AND national calls for 25 quid/month, which is even cheaper than most plans in the USA (Verizon start around $50 or $60 / month depending on the state).
The reason your phonebill is so high is probably due to the cost of calling mobiles, which is still scandalously high.
For those of us with non-US IPs, and who still have some hankering to actually visit the site, then Proxify will let you view. Be warned though, it shows NSFW text ads as well.
Not sure how the charging structure works in the USA, but most GSM networks in the world charge a fixed termination fee for an SMS message entering their network (all UK networks have agreed on 3p, which is why you can't get a better rate (or if you can, it'll be a loss leader).
With high traffic numbers, you can usually arrange a profit sharing deal with the provider of your services, so if Google's smart (and they are) they'll figure out a way to take a cut of the revenue. That's how the UK's "free" ISPs took off - Freeserve and the like simply said "we will generate X million minutes of phone calls a month, who'll give us a cut".
My apologies for the casual wording, and the ire it evidently raised in you. I meant, of course, to say that this particular exploit that I was detailing was only effective on MSJVMs, and that the Sun JVM was immune to that particular one.
Thanks for the info - I'm sure changing slashcode to emit anything else at all will be a big chunk of work, and that's fair enough! No gripes about that, but it'll be great when XHTML happens.
You really don't emit HTML 3.2 though - more like a a bastardized form of it. It fails horribly with the 3.2 validator here. And blocking the W3C Validator is a bit of a giveaway too, surely?
That comment just doesn't reflect reality, DogDude.
Firefox blocks popups out of the box, doesn't support ActiveX at all, doesn't let you run EXE files directly without saving them first, isn't tied with explorer.exe, etc. How many sites do you know that have spyware which affects Firefox?
I know of none. Can you point me to any please? The only site I've come across which could cause issues is http://www.xpehbam.biz/5 which loads a java class which exploits the Microsoft JVM (NB: not Firefox), and installs a dialer. If you're running the SUN JVM, you are of course safe.
Slashdot Mirror
As usual, poor article submission is confusing everyone!
There is a real IDE, with proper syntax highlighting, code completion, etc, that runs in any browser. It's called Visual Studio Monaco. It's only available for Azure users right now.
See here for a few videos of the thing in action.
I don't think you know enough about Bitcoin, and I encourage you to read more about it. While it is hugely volatile, and even more hugely risky - not to say stupid - to "invest" in, I think many of your criticisms are invalid.
Bitcoin is absolutely traceable - it's far more traceable than cash. Read up about how the blockchain works (and see the Zerocoin proposal to see how it could be made untraceable, optionally, in the future). (The only non-traceable coins are those minted by miners with very paranoid security arrangements).
Cornering a "significant supply of coins" would take a significant investment of "real world" cash to actually corner these coins - not a trivial thing to get your hands on. So I don't think this is a large risk for the current Bitcoin ecosystem.
Also, you suggest that with regard to an entity trying to coopt or alter Bitcoin, "there's absolutely nothing you can do about that as a user of bitcoin". That's not true - simply running the reference software implementation makes you a node in the network, thus enforcing your (i.e. the default software's) set of rules on the transactions you do/do not relay. And additionally, the computing power deployed by today's miners would probably be impossible to exceed except by a very determined and well financed attacker. How much would a government spend to attack Bitcoin?
And if the "creators" (by which I suppose you mean the current set of core devs) try to create a new blockchain, good luck to them - the blockchain is far more resilient and the network runs as a democracy. It wouldn't work unless a vast amount of users also followed.
Your point about exchanges is key of course - they are extremely amateur operations right now. But that's easily changeable by hard work.
Digital cash ought to excite any geek - whether Bitcoin is "it", or simply an alpha version of something better yet to arrive, who knows.
Only if you keep your sessions in the same process as your application. ASP.NET supports keeping your session in another process (potentially on another machine) or in a database (slightly slower, but can survive server restarts etc). See http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20021016.asp for a quick summary.
You're correct about the application cache not surviving config changes, though typically this shouldn't be an issue as cache is only for convenience: users won't feel the difference if there's a cache miss, but they will feel the difference is the session is lost.
To be honest, the (not yet implemented) law is less extreme than you might think. This is the relevant part:
We have concluded that the offence should apply to images of acts that appear to be life threatening or are likely to result in serious, disabling injury. Again, it would be for the prosecution to show that the material fell into this category
Source.
My apologies - I meant the output was cross platform (not just hacky and specific to IE), contrary to some of Microsoft's previous offerings.
For what it's worth, Mono are working on an Atlas imitator at the moment.
It's not quite a "brand new direction" - Microsoft's Atlas product has been offering something along these lines for a while now (albeit still as a beta). You lay out controls visually in Visual Studio (or Express), and control them programmatically from .NET. It takes care of rendering them down to HTML + Javascript, and it's pretty much cross platform friendly.
It's not a very sales-friendly message, but: Mass manufactured desktop computers and software are pretty much a teenage technology, immature and truculent. They are not very robust internally and are full of bugs which will irritate you and potentially be unfixable because proprietary software can only be maintained by its creator. Computers and particularly software is designed by people who not only have little empathy with the average user, but have little inclination or time to fix any problems they may be aware of.
Computers are going to be difficult to start out with, and all users should expect this. The rewards, of course, are great: control and use of one of the most advanced technologies humankind has ever produced.
Click here for a clue :-)
Certainly:
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled
Enjoy.
This form of memory isn't much different from this 40+ year old tech, is it?
The LoC is normally quoted at 10tb.
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/lina re/
You can get a non-contract mobile for 19.99 (that's 35$ approx)
0 8/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002K78
Why would you wish to do this? Intriguing.
In XP SP2 (and presumably XPSP1/2k/2k3) you can disable and then stop the DHCP Client service before bringing up the interface. It will then never get an IP address until the service is started again. I imagine that some WSH scripting can be written to automate this.
A bit kludgey, but it does what you want.
Sure, 5 or 10 years ago unmetered calls were not possible. But now? What provider do you use? Get a better tariff.
BT Option 3 gives you unlimited local AND national calls for 25 quid/month, which is even cheaper than most plans in the USA (Verizon start around $50 or $60 / month depending on the state).
The reason your phonebill is so high is probably due to the cost of calling mobiles, which is still scandalously high.
The "McGuire" quoted here is the Attorney General, not the spammer. He's the one who states that he thinks people are idiots, not the spammer.
:-)
Mind you, the spammer will know that people are idiots
Proxify has just switched into "high traffic" mode, and isn't allowing free access - they don't normally charge!
(Replying to self - what a faux pas)
For those of us with non-US IPs, and who still have some hankering to actually visit the site, then Proxify will let you view. Be warned though, it shows NSFW text ads as well.
Not sure how the charging structure works in the USA, but most GSM networks in the world charge a fixed termination fee for an SMS message entering their network (all UK networks have agreed on 3p, which is why you can't get a better rate (or if you can, it'll be a loss leader).
With high traffic numbers, you can usually arrange a profit sharing deal with the provider of your services, so if Google's smart (and they are) they'll figure out a way to take a cut of the revenue. That's how the UK's "free" ISPs took off - Freeserve and the like simply said "we will generate X million minutes of phone calls a month, who'll give us a cut".
My apologies for the casual wording, and the ire it evidently raised in you. I meant, of course, to say that this particular exploit that I was detailing was only effective on MSJVMs, and that the Sun JVM was immune to that particular one.
Now as long as that's clear...
Thanks for the info - I'm sure changing slashcode to emit anything else at all will be a big chunk of work, and that's fair enough! No gripes about that, but it'll be great when XHTML happens.
You really don't emit HTML 3.2 though - more like a a bastardized form of it. It fails horribly with the 3.2 validator here. And blocking the W3C Validator is a bit of a giveaway too, surely?
That comment just doesn't reflect reality, DogDude.
Firefox blocks popups out of the box, doesn't support ActiveX at all, doesn't let you run EXE files directly without saving them first, isn't tied with explorer.exe, etc. How many sites do you know that have spyware which affects Firefox?
I know of none. Can you point me to any please? The only site I've come across which could cause issues is http://www.xpehbam.biz/5 which loads a java class which exploits the Microsoft JVM (NB: not Firefox), and installs a dialer. If you're running the SUN JVM, you are of course safe.
what exactly are they loading up from the network
All the textures, graphics, etc. That's what takes up most of the space, and most of them will have been finalized by now.
The game engine can come along at the last minute, when they do go gold - it's probably only a few hundred megs at most.
Invited...
Invited.