When Windows is defeated by a new loophole that only occurs from connecting to the web, who's fault is it?
Microsoft's. Time for a recall.
From their XP Home Feature Page: (emphasis mine) The Windows XP Home Edition operating system offers a number of new features that help you work smarter and connect faster to the Internet and with others. And the rock-solid dependability of Windows XP lets you work and play with more confidence than ever.
It's been going *DOWN* concommitant with the increase of violent media. How is regulating that going to help without any concrete proof that it is one of the major causes?
Never mind the ones that are going to be affected are the ones whose parents will get it for them anyway, making this moot. If you want these to have an effect, don't fine the store, fine the parents.
Teen violence is the lowest it has been since the 60's, and has been steadily going down since oh, around the time Doom(*) was introduced. Why is it deplorable?
TV has a V-chip. X-Box has parental controls (not sure about the others). Computers have ACLs.
I don't have a problem with the government legislating tools for parents Say the games have to have a rating, fine by me (provided "unrated" is an acceptable rating). Trying to enforce the ratings themselves is not a good idea and gets into Constitutional issues.
Do you have a link to the law or a law number? Every other time that there have been attempts to legislate this, it gets shot down. My Google searches aren't turning anything up on it either.
There is no law preventing minors from going to see or buy R rated movies, and there's no rating on books either. That's part of the point of objecting to this law.
The "torture" part of the law as written would cover the E rated game that I'm playing right now that looks like a disney flick and has about as much violence as one.
Yes. I previously left them unblocked, since they were at least somewhat relevant, and unobtrusive, especially compared to others.
Then I started seeing "Free iPod", "Free XBox360" (Huh? It's not out), "Free PS3", "Download Episode III here" ads. If you can't be bothered to have a human at least run a quick check on whether or not it's a fraud, I can't be bothered to even consider your ads.
The form is mutable, but the postulates are not. IIRC, the time difference is not a postulate of relativity, only a side effect. It's been a while since I looked at relativity, but the only difference that I recall is that the speed of light is the same in all frames. Everything else falls from that. That is a simple restriction, with profund implications, but it is a simple addition to newtonian physics.
Look at the form of the equation of a circle around the origin in rectangular vs. polar coordinates. Which is more complex?
How long was the plain text password in Firebird before it was caught? A year and a half? And that's not even something subtle as some buffer overflows, or that double free in zlib.
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So you require everyone that uses the app to have write access to the app folder? Bad security there.
When Windows is defeated by a new loophole that only occurs from connecting to the web, who's fault is it?
Microsoft's. Time for a recall.
From their XP Home Feature Page: (emphasis mine)
The Windows XP Home Edition operating system offers a number of new features that help you work smarter and connect faster to the Internet and with others. And the rock-solid dependability of Windows XP lets you work and play with more confidence than ever.
It's been going *DOWN* concommitant with the increase of violent media. How is regulating that going to help without any concrete proof that it is one of the major causes?
Never mind the ones that are going to be affected are the ones whose parents will get it for them anyway, making this moot. If you want these to have an effect, don't fine the store, fine the parents.
Teen violence is the lowest it has been since the 60's, and has been steadily going down since oh, around the time Doom(*) was introduced. Why is it deplorable?
(*) no causation implied.
Lessee..
TV has a V-chip.
X-Box has parental controls (not sure about the others).
Computers have ACLs.
I don't have a problem with the government legislating tools for parents Say the games have to have a rating, fine by me (provided "unrated" is an acceptable rating). Trying to enforce the ratings themselves is not a good idea and gets into Constitutional issues.
Do you have a link to the law or a law number? Every other time that there have been attempts to legislate this, it gets shot down. My Google searches aren't turning anything up on it either.
The influence of violent media on children's behavior is pretty low on the list, somewhere around 11th IIRC.
Number one being parents. Doesn't it make more sense to legislate that parents actually parent?
I get ID'ed buying rated R movies in most stores (I'm 22). Isn't this the same thing?
No. The store chose to ID you, it isn't mandated.
There is no law preventing minors from going to see or buy R rated movies, and there's no rating on books either. That's part of the point of objecting to this law.
The "torture" part of the law as written would cover the E rated game that I'm playing right now that looks like a disney flick and has about as much violence as one.
I use Safari and I don't know of an equivalent to Firefox's ad-block extension
PithHelmet (it's not free in either sense of the word).
I simply use Firefox instead.
Yes. I previously left them unblocked, since they were at least somewhat relevant, and unobtrusive, especially compared to others.
Then I started seeing "Free iPod", "Free XBox360" (Huh? It's not out), "Free PS3", "Download Episode III here" ads. If you can't be bothered to have a human at least run a quick check on whether or not it's a fraud, I can't be bothered to even consider your ads.
The form is mutable, but the postulates are not. IIRC, the time difference is not a postulate of relativity, only a side effect. It's been a while since I looked at relativity, but the only difference that I recall is that the speed of light is the same in all frames. Everything else falls from that. That is a simple restriction, with profund implications, but it is a simple addition to newtonian physics.
Look at the form of the equation of a circle around the origin in rectangular vs. polar coordinates. Which is more complex?
Is it that much more complex though? The form is more complex, but is the theory much more complex?
That's pretending like slashdot.com is pretending to be slashdot.org.
Gee, I've been putting plain old MP3s on my iPod. Why does Sony need FairPlay to allow playing on an iPod?
And you are already providing the source code for your website - just use "View - Page Source" in Firefox to see it ;).
Hmmm. The URL in my address bar says "http://slashdot.org/comments.pl". This source certainly doesn't look like perl.
Because you can determine the mechanisms used.
Without RE'ing the windows system, you can't determine the mechanisms, you have to trust MS if they say they told you all available ways.
They're already leaving older computers in the cold by requiring TPM (assuming that doesn't change by release)
Potentially != Actually.
How long was the plain text password in Firebird before it was caught? A year and a half? And that's not even something subtle as some buffer overflows, or that double free in zlib.
That is a security flaw in Windows,Linux and BSD. Switch to Mac, it doesn't work there
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It is?
Why do some functions that return handles return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE on error and others return NULL?
Why are some file functions limited to MAX_PATH in the wide version and others not?
GPL is not a restriction. It expands rights that don't otherwise exist under copyright law.
There's no good reason to put up with those popups.
Oh no, I'm not saying it wasn't resolved, I got that from gee, the documentation from when I downloaded the patch myself.
OS X is far safer, but it's not immune.
And don't underestimate user stupidity. MyDoom was one of the fastest spreading ever, and it required user intervention to start.