Voice over IP functionality, advertising, offensive materials, collection of customer information without express customer knowledge and consent, or usage of the Amazon or Kindle brand in any way are not allowed. In addition, active content must meet all Amazon technical requirements, not be a generic reader, and not contain malicious code.
So if you want to add support for a file format the Kindle doesn't currently support you're out of luck?
glibc is a much more complex libc than the one FreeBSD uses. FreeBSD doesn't use libc as the "glue layer" nearly as much as Linux, so the extra overhead of glibc is wasted.
There's a reason you don't normally see icy bodies in circular orbits in the asteroid belt: they'd be blown clean of the ice within a fairly short period of time, astronomically speaking. that's what the tail consists of, dust embedded in the ice being released as the ice sublimes. Which means that the ice here has to have been exposed fairly recently.
As for Cutler... Windows NT has many fathers, and UNIX (via Microsoft Xenix and MS-DOS 2.1) is definitely one of them.
I've used both previous operating systems Cutler had a hand in (RSX and VMS), an while I can see a fair amount of similarities, there's an awful lot of features of VMS that I dearly wish he'd actually copied, and while there's an awful lot of features that Windows picked up from UNIX, there's a lot more it unfortunately left behind.
That aside, compiling a UNIX application on Windows, even WITHOUT something like Interix or the crippled POSIX subsystem, is a hell of a lot easier than porting a VMS application using SYS$QIO and RMS calls. Or, for that matter, porting a UNIX application to the VAX C compiler.
If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do that on Windows (Interix, Cygwin, etc), OS X, Linux, HP/UX, VMS, AIX, FreeBSD, BeOS, or Xenix.
That's because it's an API that was guided, among other things, by portability. The first cross-platform UNIX emulation was the Software Tools Virtual OS, and that came out of Bell Labs. The only modern OS that hasn't been based one way or another on the UNIX API is VMS. Windows NOT excluded.
I think the biggest advance would be to eliminate the prosthetic forehead that has been the distinguishing mark of TV aliens since the original Star Trek.
Odd. My impression after reading his book was that Stroustrup deeply misunderstood the importance of coding style. And not merely because "C++" and "style" should only be combined for humorous effect: the way "&" behaves in declarations is bizarre, and his explanation read like a rationalization for a bad decision.
Funny, I have trouble with numbers getting mixed up too, so I always read numbers OR names back to make sure I got them right. And my name is a Word of Power against computers because (a) it's got a space in it, and (b) it starts with "da" and everyone expects it to be "de".
So whether I'm saying "dog able... space... yes, space... sierra..." or "four three five... can you read that back... no, that's four three five, not five three" I'd much rather be saying "peter at...".
Do you even know anyone who rips or trades cracked software?
A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%.
My experience with people who do this is that your estimate is at least a factor of 100 higher than reality. I mean, these guys have everything from ten buck games up to Maya, Photoshop CXSDwhatever, Windows Server Ultimate with Oracle Everything. And they don't buy *any* software. Their whole thing is getting the goods.
This is making many of the mistakes X.400 did, albeit on a smaller scale.
People want tokens that are easy to remember. Email addresses like "myname@example.com" are much more memorable than "C=US/OU=Example/FN=My/LN=Name" or "+1 234 456 6789". If someone's using this service, they're using an internet-capable device, so they can enter an alphanumeric address and don't need to remain compatible with Strowger's switch.
They don't need humanoid robots to make fully autonomous killing machines. They already have RPVs with weapons mounted (eg, Predator), and they have autonomous weapons systems (eg, mines).
Mitigating Factors:
Protected Mode in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista and later Windows operating systems limits the impact of the vulnerability.
In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. In addition, compromised Web sites and Web sites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements could contain specially crafted content that could exploit this vulnerability. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force users to visit these Web sites. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's Web site.
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights.
By default, Internet Explorer on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 runs in a restricted mode that is known as Enhanced Security Configuration. This mode sets the security level for the Internet zone to High. This is a mitigating factor for Web sites that you have not added to the Internet Explorer Trusted sites zone.
By default, all supported versions of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Windows Mail open HTML e-mail messages in the Restricted sites zone. The Restricted sites zone helps mitigate attacks that could try to exploit this vulnerability by preventing Active Scripting and ActiveX controls from being used when reading HTML e-mail messages. However, if a user clicks a link in an e-mail message, the user could still be vulnerable to exploitation of this vulnerability through the Web-based attack scenario.
Internal sandboxes don't protect you from having the compromised instance of IE being used to log passwords and steal other local information, nor does it prevent the compromised instance of IE from being a botnet node during the current session. Also, since IE still has to save files, load and execute programs, and so on, the strongest sandbox they can create is a leaky condom.
And security is like sex, once you're penetrated you're f***ed.
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Berkeley DB has zero overlapping market with Oracle DB.
Would a Z-code interpreter count as a "generic reader" do you suppose?
Voice over IP functionality, advertising, offensive materials, collection of customer information without express customer knowledge and consent, or usage of the Amazon or Kindle brand in any way are not allowed. In addition, active content must meet all Amazon technical requirements, not be a generic reader, and not contain malicious code.
So if you want to add support for a file format the Kindle doesn't currently support you're out of luck?
For YouTube embedded players, clicking on the video will open the YouTube page in a new window/tab.
Funny, that starts it playing for me.
Oh, I see, if you click the video *again* it'll do it.
*sigh*
Which, incidentally, I find annoying, as I expect it to pause, as it would on YouTube.
Yeh, that.
glibc is a much more complex libc than the one FreeBSD uses. FreeBSD doesn't use libc as the "glue layer" nearly as much as Linux, so the extra overhead of glibc is wasted.
Someone has already provided a snippet of code for that... it turns out the preview image Youtube uses has a predictable URL.
<title>Analyst: AT&amp;T needs to spend US$5B to catch up | ITworld</title>
That title is so &ed it goes to 11.
In fact if I see an embedded video, I will frequently go through the gyrations to extract the link and watch it in a separate window in YouTube.
Why?
1. I get to see comments and related videos directly.
2. If I want to share the video, I have to extract the link anyway.
Don't do <embed>, do <a target=_blank ...>.
Cool, I've been a fan of LHPO for years. I used to crew for hot-air balloons so just the thought of MIDI-controlled propane torches is awesome.
You need to do a gig at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Seriously.
Did you actually read the article? It was the six months producing the album that the track behind the video was taken from that cost all the money.
Imagine if I did pay my income tax with Linden Dollars... Do I only get virtual health care? (I'm a Brit... I realise in the US this isn't funny).
In the US you get virtual health care for your taxes, and STILL have to pay for real health care.
There's a reason you don't normally see icy bodies in circular orbits in the asteroid belt: they'd be blown clean of the ice within a fairly short period of time, astronomically speaking. that's what the tail consists of, dust embedded in the ice being released as the ice sublimes. Which means that the ice here has to have been exposed fairly recently.
If you want to run Windows drivers, run Windows.
As for Cutler... Windows NT has many fathers, and UNIX (via Microsoft Xenix and MS-DOS 2.1) is definitely one of them.
I've used both previous operating systems Cutler had a hand in (RSX and VMS), an while I can see a fair amount of similarities, there's an awful lot of features of VMS that I dearly wish he'd actually copied, and while there's an awful lot of features that Windows picked up from UNIX, there's a lot more it unfortunately left behind.
That aside, compiling a UNIX application on Windows, even WITHOUT something like Interix or the crippled POSIX subsystem, is a hell of a lot easier than porting a VMS application using SYS$QIO and RMS calls. Or, for that matter, porting a UNIX application to the VAX C compiler.
If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do that on Windows (Interix, Cygwin, etc), OS X, Linux, HP/UX, VMS, AIX, FreeBSD, BeOS, or Xenix.
That's because it's an API that was guided, among other things, by portability. The first cross-platform UNIX emulation was the Software Tools Virtual OS, and that came out of Bell Labs. The only modern OS that hasn't been based one way or another on the UNIX API is VMS. Windows NOT excluded.
Hell, when I'm thinking about a programming problem I've been known to miss things stranger than that. No cellphone required.
I don't drive without music playing, because the music provides enough stimulation that it keeps me from drifting off into hyperfocus.
I think the biggest advance would be to eliminate the prosthetic forehead that has been the distinguishing mark of TV aliens since the original Star Trek.
Odd. My impression after reading his book was that Stroustrup deeply misunderstood the importance of coding style. And not merely because "C++" and "style" should only be combined for humorous effect: the way "&" behaves in declarations is bizarre, and his explanation read like a rationalization for a bad decision.
Oh, that would be a big 1-800-FUCKYOU.
It would explain why they want to drive people to using phone numbers instead of the identifiers they already have.
Funny, I have trouble with numbers getting mixed up too, so I always read numbers OR names back to make sure I got them right. And my name is a Word of Power against computers because (a) it's got a space in it, and (b) it starts with "da" and everyone expects it to be "de".
So whether I'm saying "dog able... space... yes, space... sierra..." or "four three five ... can you read that back... no, that's four three five, not five three" I'd much rather be saying "peter at ...".
Are you
you sure about
about that?
Do you even know anyone who rips or trades cracked software?
A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%.
My experience with people who do this is that your estimate is at least a factor of 100 higher than reality. I mean, these guys have everything from ten buck games up to Maya, Photoshop CXSDwhatever, Windows Server Ultimate with Oracle Everything. And they don't buy *any* software. Their whole thing is getting the goods.
This is making many of the mistakes X.400 did, albeit on a smaller scale.
People want tokens that are easy to remember. Email addresses like "myname@example.com" are much more memorable than "C=US/OU=Example/FN=My/LN=Name" or "+1 234 456 6789". If someone's using this service, they're using an internet-capable device, so they can enter an alphanumeric address and don't need to remain compatible with Strowger's switch.
They don't need humanoid robots to make fully autonomous killing machines. They already have RPVs with weapons mounted (eg, Predator), and they have autonomous weapons systems (eg, mines).
Internal sandboxes don't protect you from having the compromised instance of IE being used to log passwords and steal other local information, nor does it prevent the compromised instance of IE from being a botnet node during the current session. Also, since IE still has to save files, load and execute programs, and so on, the strongest sandbox they can create is a leaky condom.
And security is like sex, once you're penetrated you're f***ed.
Oh god yes, and it shouldn't be possible for javascript to intercept things like right click at all.