There was one, it was used to spread other malware about 6 months ago. However, it only affected the MS JVM (a bug in the exception handling of the system classloader), and MS had released a fix for it about 3 months before the virus appeared, so the people it affected probably wouldn't notice it under the swarm of other viruses an unpatched Windows machine is going to pick up.
Java has failed to achieve its goals on the client; you can browse perfectly fine with applets disabled and never even notice.
You can browse perfectly fine with images disabled too, and if that is what you are used to I'm sure you wouldn't notice that either. It is only the poorly designed aspects of HTML like javascript and DHTML that can completely ruin the browsing experience if you choose to turn it off.
What it shows is that competition rarely exists when it comes to broadband and when it does the price/speed ratio isn't even close to what we see in foreign countries.
Added to that, you get free local calls in the US, which makes it harder for broadband to compete with dialup on price. Here in the UK, I'd have to pay around £10 a month for "unlimited" dialup access (which is actually limited to evenings and weekends and I have to redial every 2 hours), while I can have broadband at 10x the speed for about £15 with a 2GB cap, or £20 unlimited.
It seems that the biggest problem people have is that they beleived it too readily in the first place, despite it being just some random person's personal webpage, so felt let down when they found out the story was "sexed up", as Alistair Campbell would say. But go back and look at it again. Elena has taken a bunch of otherwise fairly boring photos, and made them interesting by wrapping them in a made up story about riding her bike through the off-limits areas around Chernobyl. She doesn't seem to have invented the details that actually matter in a historical sense, only the overall story of why she was there is made up. That shows that she has creative talent, and I respect her for that.
I'm Canadian. We ratified Kyoto, we have a healthy economy.
You're also one of three Western countries that has increased its CO2 emissions since 1990 by even more than the US. With over 20% increase in emissions between 1990 and 2002, Canada is not a good example to follow.
Don't forget that Socialist paradise formerly known as the Soviet Block. You want to see some environmental carnage, go take a look at any industrial site in the old Soviet controled nations.
Which is why those countries have managed to reduce their CO2 emissions since 1990 by a staggering 40%, so the world as a whole is currently on target for the Kyoto reductions despite the US having increased output by 13%.
It looks even worse if you look at how emissions have changed since 1990. While Western and Eastern Europe and China have reduced their levels of emissions, the US and Japan increased theirs by 13% and 12% respectively between 1990 and 2002.
How come there isn't an open source solution already?
There is. It is perfectly possible to use an SSH or kerberos key with no password to go with it. Its not a good idea though, and having the key stored on a smartcard does not make it one.
The commonly cited statistic is suicide rate, which is "highest among advanced nations."
I can't find the statistic, but for young people, the suicide rate I believe is quite a bit higher
You have it backwards. Japan's overall suicide rate is near the top of Western countries, though not the highest. Probably around the same as US (I can't find the overall statistics right now). Their youth suicide rate is among the lowest (half the rate of the US for males, though higher for females). It is the middle-aged salarymen that have burnt themselves out working crazy hours for no compensation or recognition that push the suicide rate up in Japan.
I pay over 50K USD year in taxes and don't feel "rich"
This is the mentality that causes CEOs to keep giving themselves pay rises. You've got a six figure salary which puts you at least in the top 5% of earners. You are rich, whether you feel it or not. Obviously money is not what makes you feel "rich", so stop trying to get more of it and look at other aspects of your life.
That isn't to say that Europe can't be an effective military power, but for Europe to pull of an operation like Iraq, Afghanistan, or Serbia, it would be much bloodier and much longer.
You're as delusional as Bush, Rumsfield and co. Compare the areas of Iraq controlled by the British with the areas controlled by the US. The war is dragging out longer with far more killed on both sides in the US controlled areas, so much so that they're now pulling British troops in to clean up the mess.
Yes, but are any of these anomalies statistically significant? If not, it's just random noise regardless of the source.
I'm not American. If you guys want to elect a village idiot from Texas as your president, its no concern of mine. But it does bother me that most Americans are so quick to dismiss the problems with their electoral systems. Yes 10% of votes not counting is statistically significant. And how do you know isolated cases of voting machines giving incorrect counts are isolated if you just brush it off without auditing all the results from similar machines?
One of the EU observers commented that 6 hour queues to place a vote in any European country would result in protests in the streets the next day. But Americans treat it as business as usual.
Really cool, I remember using Shodouka - a proxy server that used the same technique to read Japanese webpages back in 1995 (long before browsers supported foreign languages). It was certainly a huge innovation back then, though with processor power as it is today, generating images on the fly like that might seem more trivial.
I'm always a little uneasy about software that is in the pre-1.0 state.
If it makes you feel better, it is released under the Mozilla Public License, which is up to 1.1 already. 1.1 + 0.9 = 2.0, so I think it averages out.
The inspiration for this feature came from Usenet legend Kibo, who in the early 90's was grepping the Usenet spool so he could find and reply to every post that ever mentioned his name. Gnus (the Emacs newsreader) got this feature in 1995 under the name "nnkiboze" (other backends being nntp, nnmail, nnrss, nnslashdot etc).
i would assume that the business analysts that concluded that going with microsoft with a nine year deal found that doing so was the best business decision in the long run. as much as i enjoy linux on my desk top, i would never trust any open source applications for my business.
And most important for the business analysts, you cannot trust open source applications to regularly take you to exclusive West End clubs to get you drunk and laid. Don't think we don't know how government procurement works.
Actually, the reason you can't generally use an ATM or Debit card (without having it cobranded by a credit card issuer) is that the regulations say the customer's pin MUST be encrypted on the client machine; the one that does the swipe.
In the case of Point Of Sale devices, where the pinpad is often a handheld unit on a telephone cable, the encryption is done in the actual pinpad (its not allowed to go on the wire in the clear), and I think smart cards do it on the actual card itself, so there is no way for the retailer to sniff it as it goes by (assuming the pinpad is sealed and not visible). But that is just the PIN, everything else is done by the backoffice machine.
By definition, a transaction is reversed unless it completes to the end, thus erring on the side of the cardholder.
Somehow, I doubt a bank is going to risk giving you money then rolling back the transaction. My guess is that if communication is lost in between the transaction being authorized and confirmation that the money was dispensed, then your account will be debited and the transaction flagged as uncertain. The flag will tell bank staff to issue an immediate refund if you query it.
Maybe things are different where you are, but around here, the banks don't err on anyone's side but the banks. Take a look at the fortune 500 sometime and see how many banks are up there. They don't get there by giving away money.
Interestingly enough, they show a trend for solidarity in these matters, when one of set is down, they're all down... Presumably the weakness is in the network layer, or some component that is attached to it.
Or presumably they all get rebooted around the same time every 49 - 50 days when the technician makes his regular call. (Google for 49 days Windows, you'll see what I mean, or for a more challenging task calculate how long it takes for a 32 bit millisecond timer to wrap).
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There was one, it was used to spread other malware about 6 months ago. However, it only affected the MS JVM (a bug in the exception handling of the system classloader), and MS had released a fix for it about 3 months before the virus appeared, so the people it affected probably wouldn't notice it under the swarm of other viruses an unpatched Windows machine is going to pick up.
You can browse perfectly fine with images disabled too, and if that is what you are used to I'm sure you wouldn't notice that either. It is only the poorly designed aspects of HTML like javascript and DHTML that can completely ruin the browsing experience if you choose to turn it off.
Well exactly, nothing is ever really free, unmetered and prepaid whether you use it or not is probably a better way of putting it.
Added to that, you get free local calls in the US, which makes it harder for broadband to compete with dialup on price. Here in the UK, I'd have to pay around £10 a month for "unlimited" dialup access (which is actually limited to evenings and weekends and I have to redial every 2 hours), while I can have broadband at 10x the speed for about £15 with a 2GB cap, or £20 unlimited.
It seems that the biggest problem people have is that they beleived it too readily in the first place, despite it being just some random person's personal webpage, so felt let down when they found out the story was "sexed up", as Alistair Campbell would say. But go back and look at it again. Elena has taken a bunch of otherwise fairly boring photos, and made them interesting by wrapping them in a made up story about riding her bike through the off-limits areas around Chernobyl. She doesn't seem to have invented the details that actually matter in a historical sense, only the overall story of why she was there is made up. That shows that she has creative talent, and I respect her for that.
You're also one of three Western countries that has increased its CO2 emissions since 1990 by even more than the US. With over 20% increase in emissions between 1990 and 2002, Canada is not a good example to follow.
Which is why those countries have managed to reduce their CO2 emissions since 1990 by a staggering 40%, so the world as a whole is currently on target for the Kyoto reductions despite the US having increased output by 13%.
It looks even worse if you look at how emissions have changed since 1990. While Western and Eastern Europe and China have reduced their levels of emissions, the US and Japan increased theirs by 13% and 12% respectively between 1990 and 2002.
...and Poland, don't forget Poland!
There is. It is perfectly possible to use an SSH or kerberos key with no password to go with it. Its not a good idea though, and having the key stored on a smartcard does not make it one.
I can't find the statistic, but for young people, the suicide rate I believe is quite a bit higher
You have it backwards. Japan's overall suicide rate is near the top of Western countries, though not the highest. Probably around the same as US (I can't find the overall statistics right now). Their youth suicide rate is among the lowest (half the rate of the US for males, though higher for females). It is the middle-aged salarymen that have burnt themselves out working crazy hours for no compensation or recognition that push the suicide rate up in Japan.
If such a place exists, I want to move there now!
This is the mentality that causes CEOs to keep giving themselves pay rises. You've got a six figure salary which puts you at least in the top 5% of earners. You are rich, whether you feel it or not. Obviously money is not what makes you feel "rich", so stop trying to get more of it and look at other aspects of your life.
You're as delusional as Bush, Rumsfield and co. Compare the areas of Iraq controlled by the British with the areas controlled by the US. The war is dragging out longer with far more killed on both sides in the US controlled areas, so much so that they're now pulling British troops in to clean up the mess.
Now there's a good idea. The security council would be so much more effective without the US veto holding it back all the time.
I'm not American. If you guys want to elect a village idiot from Texas as your president, its no concern of mine. But it does bother me that most Americans are so quick to dismiss the problems with their electoral systems. Yes 10% of votes not counting is statistically significant. And how do you know isolated cases of voting machines giving incorrect counts are isolated if you just brush it off without auditing all the results from similar machines?
One of the EU observers commented that 6 hour queues to place a vote in any European country would result in protests in the streets the next day. But Americans treat it as business as usual.
Really cool, I remember using Shodouka - a proxy server that used the same technique to read Japanese webpages back in 1995 (long before browsers supported foreign languages). It was certainly a huge innovation back then, though with processor power as it is today, generating images on the fly like that might seem more trivial.
I'm always a little uneasy about software that is in the pre-1.0 state. If it makes you feel better, it is released under the Mozilla Public License, which is up to 1.1 already. 1.1 + 0.9 = 2.0, so I think it averages out.
The inspiration for this feature came from Usenet legend Kibo, who in the early 90's was grepping the Usenet spool so he could find and reply to every post that ever mentioned his name. Gnus (the Emacs newsreader) got this feature in 1995 under the name "nnkiboze" (other backends being nntp, nnmail, nnrss, nnslashdot etc).
Somehow I don't think that was what the IRA had in mind when they fought for a united Ireland.
And most important for the business analysts, you cannot trust open source applications to regularly take you to exclusive West End clubs to get you drunk and laid. Don't think we don't know how government procurement works.
"Scandanavian doing a bad Bush impression"speak, you mean?
In the case of Point Of Sale devices, where the pinpad is often a handheld unit on a telephone cable, the encryption is done in the actual pinpad (its not allowed to go on the wire in the clear), and I think smart cards do it on the actual card itself, so there is no way for the retailer to sniff it as it goes by (assuming the pinpad is sealed and not visible). But that is just the PIN, everything else is done by the backoffice machine.
Somehow, I doubt a bank is going to risk giving you money then rolling back the transaction. My guess is that if communication is lost in between the transaction being authorized and confirmation that the money was dispensed, then your account will be debited and the transaction flagged as uncertain. The flag will tell bank staff to issue an immediate refund if you query it.
Maybe things are different where you are, but around here, the banks don't err on anyone's side but the banks. Take a look at the fortune 500 sometime and see how many banks are up there. They don't get there by giving away money.
Or presumably they all get rebooted around the same time every 49 - 50 days when the technician makes his regular call. (Google for 49 days Windows, you'll see what I mean, or for a more challenging task calculate how long it takes for a 32 bit millisecond timer to wrap).