HFS+ supports a separate resource fork; in fact, it supports up to 256 (I think) separate forks for a file. For a while now Apple has been recommending that developers not store anything critical in the resource fork, since it gets lost easily when transferring to another system (and isn't supported on UFS I believe). With the demise of the Classic emulation environment on Intel Macs, the major source of resource-using applications is gone.
It's very fascinating as an outside observer who knows what's happening. It's quite hard to objectively compare picture qualities unless you can quickly switch back and forth between them. If someone slightly fiddled with your TV controls overnight, you'd be hard pressed to tell exactly what was changed, and in what direction. So when someone switches a power cable and expects a difference where he wouldn't be able to detect it, he'll just pick up "noise" when comparing what he sees with what he remembers, since memory and perception vary somewhat based on several factors. It's a shame that limits like this aren't taught in schools, since they are a very basic part of a scientific approach to the world.
Good plan, citizen. Since we're using your taxes to fund this, we want to be sure to make the most use of it; why waste it on just checking front passengers? So, we'll see what other low-cost data analysis we can do with the images as well. Hard drive storage is so cheap these days, we might as well log all the data. Who knows what crimes this will help solve? Thank you for your feedback.
Yeah, you thought anti-net neutrality was bad, just wait until they charge you more when you listen to a song and enjoy it afterwards, or listen to music when it helps productivity on the job. This is of course after they start charging you every time you listen.
"Dear god, the mind damage from Fortran don't just effect your logic skills, they effect your language centers as well! You can't even remember the difference between "fond" and "hell on earth"."
The GUI has to detect that the user is intending to change the status of multiple boxes, rather than canceling the operation by dragging off before releasing the mouse. Perhaps this "mode selection event" refers to the logic employed to detect the user's intent? Or maybe it's the name for the software "event" generated in response to detection of the user's intent. Absurd either way.
The tail of a comet isn't connected to the comet anyway; it's material that's already fallen off the comet. A better headline would be "solar hurricane redirects comet's tail". But in this age of violent analogies, "rips off" gets preference.
"I mean - wtf - do iPhone users own the thing or not? Whose property is it anyway?" Yours. You modify your hardware, fine. You install Apple's update that's not made for your modifications, fine. But don't go expecting Apple to cover the problems you caused to your hardware. See how that works? If on the other hand you exercise some restraint in what you do to your iPhone, Apple will back you up if problems occur.
This is kind of like the way people say their hard drive crashed when they simply lose data, or a program crashed even though it simply exited abruptly (but made no illegal memory access or instruction execution). It's pretty fucking lame that Slashdot would stoop to calling this "bricking" even though the iPhone is apparently NOT rendered dead.
Sorry dude, bricked means it acts like a brick: doesn't power on, no way to revive it; good as a brick. It's what happens say when you corrupt the boot ROM when reflashing a router.
I'd add a third, the proprietary license. Those cover the "use copyright to keep code open" (GPL), "use copyright to keep code closed" (proprietary), and "put copyright mostly aside" (BSD-style) extremes. The rest are pretty much inbetween (and unnecessary).
Yes, it'd be nice to expose irresponsible behavior like this that puts others at risk. My point was simply that it's not a software issue and probably not solvable by software either.
I like the description of how it works neatly avoiding mention of radiation or fission:
"The ABWR [...] works by using the heat generated by the controlled splitting of uranium atoms in fuel rods to directly boil water into steam to drive turbines producing electricity."
Like someone else said, too bad they didn't go with a design that is inherently self-moderating.
They don't understand that it's not behavior that's suspicious, it's a particular person who is suspicious that another person's behavior is aimed at achieving some particular goal. For example, I may be suspicious that my dog is attempting to get to the fresh meat, or suspicious that the driver in front of me is going to change lanes without a turn signal.
On the other hand, looking at the definition of the word I guess it sums up nicely why such an automation is ill:
1. The act of suspecting something, especially something wrong, on little evidence or without proof.
"The default password is 'password'. This must be changed before this router/switch can be used. Click [here] to do so."
Stupid box! Just work. Fine, change password to "passw0rd" and stop bothering me..
So the software fix is? Reject easy-to-guess passwords? That gets really annoying. It's an arm's race fueled by lazyness on the user's part, and one the software can't win without causing problems for non-lazy users. So I say that it is a user problem, and not easily correctable in software (despite what Java's designers thought when removing features to turn bad programmers into good ones).
Agreed! The two times I've gotten the initial jury letter I hoped I'd be selected, but alas all I got was a measly check for $4 or so. My father seems to have luck in sitting on a jury.
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HFS+ supports a separate resource fork; in fact, it supports up to 256 (I think) separate forks for a file. For a while now Apple has been recommending that developers not store anything critical in the resource fork, since it gets lost easily when transferring to another system (and isn't supported on UFS I believe). With the demise of the Classic emulation environment on Intel Macs, the major source of resource-using applications is gone.
It's very fascinating as an outside observer who knows what's happening. It's quite hard to objectively compare picture qualities unless you can quickly switch back and forth between them. If someone slightly fiddled with your TV controls overnight, you'd be hard pressed to tell exactly what was changed, and in what direction. So when someone switches a power cable and expects a difference where he wouldn't be able to detect it, he'll just pick up "noise" when comparing what he sees with what he remembers, since memory and perception vary somewhat based on several factors. It's a shame that limits like this aren't taught in schools, since they are a very basic part of a scientific approach to the world.
And this is bad? Looks like it's encouraging the average driver to make use of that passenger seat.
Good plan, citizen. Since we're using your taxes to fund this, we want to be sure to make the most use of it; why waste it on just checking front passengers? So, we'll see what other low-cost data analysis we can do with the images as well. Hard drive storage is so cheap these days, we might as well log all the data. Who knows what crimes this will help solve? Thank you for your feedback.
Yeah, you thought anti-net neutrality was bad, just wait until they charge you more when you listen to a song and enjoy it afterwards, or listen to music when it helps productivity on the job. This is of course after they start charging you every time you listen.
It's great they're finally making claims that even a layperson can see are rediculous.
"Dear god, the mind damage from Fortran don't just effect your logic skills, they effect your language centers as well! You can't even remember the difference between "fond" and "hell on earth"."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
effect vs. affect
4. Said target just XORs some benign data with your random data and gives this to them as the key.
The GUI has to detect that the user is intending to change the status of multiple boxes, rather than canceling the operation by dragging off before releasing the mouse. Perhaps this "mode selection event" refers to the logic employed to detect the user's intent? Or maybe it's the name for the software "event" generated in response to detection of the user's intent. Absurd either way.
"Did anyone else notice the RJ45 jack on the back? What's that for? Built-in Tivo perhaps?"
Built-in rootkit, duh! How else is it going to infect your PC?
The tail of a comet isn't connected to the comet anyway; it's material that's already fallen off the comet. A better headline would be "solar hurricane redirects comet's tail". But in this age of violent analogies, "rips off" gets preference.
Yes but who's the mouse? I'd think it's Apple, since it's the cats (hackers) out to find the (mouse) hold that they can get into the "walls" through.
"I mean - wtf - do iPhone users own the thing or not? Whose property is it anyway?"
Yours. You modify your hardware, fine. You install Apple's update that's not made for your modifications, fine. But don't go expecting Apple to cover the problems you caused to your hardware. See how that works? If on the other hand you exercise some restraint in what you do to your iPhone, Apple will back you up if problems occur.
This is kind of like the way people say their hard drive crashed when they simply lose data, or a program crashed even though it simply exited abruptly (but made no illegal memory access or instruction execution). It's pretty fucking lame that Slashdot would stoop to calling this "bricking" even though the iPhone is apparently NOT rendered dead.
Sorry dude, bricked means it acts like a brick: doesn't power on, no way to revive it; good as a brick. It's what happens say when you corrupt the boot ROM when reflashing a router.
I'd add a third, the proprietary license. Those cover the "use copyright to keep code open" (GPL), "use copyright to keep code closed" (proprietary), and "put copyright mostly aside" (BSD-style) extremes. The rest are pretty much inbetween (and unnecessary).
If you squint your eyes just right, you can trick your brain into recovering more resolution from the image.
Yes, it'd be nice to expose irresponsible behavior like this that puts others at risk. My point was simply that it's not a software issue and probably not solvable by software either.
A much closer comparison for Vista is Apple's failed Copland operating system, though Apple fortunately failed before release.
I like the description of how it works neatly avoiding mention of radiation or fission:
"The ABWR [...] works by using the heat generated by the controlled splitting of uranium atoms in fuel rods to directly boil water into steam to drive turbines producing electricity."
Like someone else said, too bad they didn't go with a design that is inherently self-moderating.
They don't understand that it's not behavior that's suspicious, it's a particular person who is suspicious that another person's behavior is aimed at achieving some particular goal. For example, I may be suspicious that my dog is attempting to get to the fresh meat, or suspicious that the driver in front of me is going to change lanes without a turn signal.
On the other hand, looking at the definition of the word I guess it sums up nicely why such an automation is ill:
1. The act of suspecting something, especially something wrong, on little evidence or without proof.
What ever happened to the supercool hacking-thang called "not getting caught"?
That goes hand-in-hand with "not boasting about not getting caught".
"The default password is 'password'. This must be changed before this router/switch can be used. Click [here] to do so."
Stupid box! Just work. Fine, change password to "passw0rd" and stop bothering me..
So the software fix is? Reject easy-to-guess passwords? That gets really annoying. It's an arm's race fueled by lazyness on the user's part, and one the software can't win without causing problems for non-lazy users. So I say that it is a user problem, and not easily correctable in software (despite what Java's designers thought when removing features to turn bad programmers into good ones).
I think the abacus is hand-held. Maybe the word "electronic" was left out of the headline?
Agreed! The two times I've gotten the initial jury letter I hoped I'd be selected, but alas all I got was a measly check for $4 or so. My father seems to have luck in sitting on a jury.