Many years ago I was working as a motorbike messenger (Italy), and I discovered that you could enter almost every office or building if you had some envelope or parcel, and a likely-sounding name or department to deliver it to.
I regularly use Bacula to back up a network of about 20 workstations and a couple of servers, plus a remote one (connected through a VPN). It's fast and reliable, if I really have to nitpick there are some quirks, though they depend mostly on lack of disk space for the backups (this is a non-profit with a tight budget) and lack of time on my side for fine-tuning the configuration. I'm really satisfied, since 2008 Bacula has saved our ass a number of times with minimal effort and maintenance.
Yes, whitelisting will help, but only up to a point: unless you implement some signing mechanism or sanitize your input, there's no way you can be sure that the class com.mynamespace.whatever you're deserializing is actually not harmful, even if it apparently is in the right namespace, and has the correct method signatures.
This is just another example of a useful feature leading to a "broken by design" implementation due to an oversight in planning and coding.
They can't, they just block commercial VPN providers, or better said, their endpoints in UK. This stops 90% of unwanted access, the other 10% is company-provided VPNs and people who set up their own servers to tunnel traffic (this is what a lot of those cheap VPSs, with little CPU and disk space are used for).
It might be proprietary and Windows-only, but a single license costs US$ 99, I doubt that this money (or even the money for a dozen of licenses) would cover the costs associated with developing a custom in-house tool.
Actually it's worse than that: licenses are numbered (numbers are decided by the local administration) but you cannot actually get a "new" one since the number of licenses has not been increased in many years and licenses are never given back but just transferred to other would-be drivers: the only practical way to get a taxi license is to purchase one from another driver when he/she retires or simply decides to sell it. This money is paid mostly under the table, and the US$ 100K is a low-ball estimate: in bigger cities like Rome or Milan, a license can easily go for EUR 200K.
How should Apple be able to force you to use one or the other?
The same way they did when, under the old MacOS, they switched the preferred language from Pascal to C: all the documentation refers to the "new language" examples, all data structures are listed in the "new language" formats, some information needed for compatibility with the "old language" is omitted or brushed under the carpet, some data structures will favor the "new language" (e.g. C vs Pascal strings in system calls), etc.
Of course it will take time but they can do it, no doubt about that.
The Atari ST had two things over the Amiga: a built-in MIDI port and a high-res (for the time) B/W video mode. It found itself a couple of nice niches (digital music and DTP) for all those who couldn't afford a Macintosh. In every other respect, especially after the introduction of the 2000 model, which was fully expandable, the Amiga was far superior.
So - why should you get the BBC content for free when you've not contributed to the costs of producing it in the first place?
No problem, I have my credit card handy, just cut this crap and let me pay if I want to view some content on BBC but I don't live in UK. Simply put, I can't, due to idiotic geographical restrictions (and no, the international version of iPlayer simply isn't worth what it costs).
For the sake of fairness, this also applies to any other country and their broadcasters.
In 2006 I got an Inspiron 6400, and almost seven years later I think the only way to stop the damn thing is to throw it into a garbage compactor: In all this time I had to change the display bezel (20 US$) , and the original battery is down to one hour of capacity, but the machine is absolutely rock-solid, to the point that my other (brand-new) notebook is used a lot less than I expected.
Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.
Actually, as a native English speaker living in Germany, I find Germans make these kinds of errors significantly less than native English speakers.
This can be easily explained: English as a foreign language is usually taught in primary schools and (also) in written form. Native speakers learn the basics of the language when they're little kids from their parents before they are able to write. Even when you start going to school, verbal communication is still used more (think of how many words you say during your day, even for insignificants tasks, and how many you write). If this kind of spelling mistakes are not corrected by teachers or parents, they can be easily carried on to adult age, especially for people whose daily occupation doesn't involve a lot of writing.
The problem here is that, according to TFA, the developer pocketed about 1 million dollars in sales. If he even gets to keep 30% of that, after paying fees and commissions to Microsoft and taxes, it's about 300,000 US$. I understand that paying (again) a hefty certification fee sucks, but certainly we're not talking about a teenager working out of his basement.
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Yes, great, but it's 2015, where's my flying car? Oh, wait...
Many years ago I was working as a motorbike messenger (Italy), and I discovered that you could enter almost every office or building if you had some envelope or parcel, and a likely-sounding name or department to deliver it to.
Or the Eagle Transporter from Space:1999
Is that you, Mr. Cosby?
I regularly use Bacula to back up a network of about 20 workstations and a couple of servers, plus a remote one (connected through a VPN). It's fast and reliable, if I really have to nitpick there are some quirks, though they depend mostly on lack of disk space for the backups (this is a non-profit with a tight budget) and lack of time on my side for fine-tuning the configuration. I'm really satisfied, since 2008 Bacula has saved our ass a number of times with minimal effort and maintenance.
Yes, whitelisting will help, but only up to a point: unless you implement some signing mechanism or sanitize your input, there's no way you can be sure that the class com.mynamespace.whatever you're deserializing is actually not harmful, even if it apparently is in the right namespace, and has the correct method signatures.
This is just another example of a useful feature leading to a "broken by design" implementation due to an oversight in planning and coding.
Intel owning McAfee made as much sense as a firearms company buying a blood substitute firm.
Well, actually it did make sense: installing a McAfee product instantaneously doubled your CPU requirements.
They can't, they just block commercial VPN providers, or better said, their endpoints in UK. This stops 90% of unwanted access, the other 10% is company-provided VPNs and people who set up their own servers to tunnel traffic (this is what a lot of those cheap VPSs, with little CPU and disk space are used for).
The rover [,,,] was recently tested on a simulated lunar surface
I see what you did there...
It might be proprietary and Windows-only, but a single license costs US$ 99, I doubt that this money (or even the money for a dozen of licenses) would cover the costs associated with developing a custom in-house tool.
Actually it's worse than that: licenses are numbered (numbers are decided by the local administration) but you cannot actually get a "new" one since the number of licenses has not been increased in many years and licenses are never given back but just transferred to other would-be drivers: the only practical way to get a taxi license is to purchase one from another driver when he/she retires or simply decides to sell it. This money is paid mostly under the table, and the US$ 100K is a low-ball estimate: in bigger cities like Rome or Milan, a license can easily go for EUR 200K.
How should Apple be able to force you to use one or the other?
The same way they did when, under the old MacOS, they switched the preferred language from Pascal to C: all the documentation refers to the "new language" examples, all data structures are listed in the "new language" formats, some information needed for compatibility with the "old language" is omitted or brushed under the carpet, some data structures will favor the "new language" (e.g. C vs Pascal strings in system calls), etc.
Of course it will take time but they can do it, no doubt about that.
I agree, your country should be left to real (i.e. Native) Americans
A couple of extra Xs would also be good
You're right, but this says a lot more about Hurd than about Slashdot
Of course the spectators are only watching for the thinking.
Just like everybody reads Playboy for the articles.
Not only two of the characters are fictional, one of them is also dead...
Little over the top??
Almost there, you just forgot it needs to be webscale.
The Atari ST had two things over the Amiga: a built-in MIDI port and a high-res (for the time) B/W video mode. It found itself a couple of nice niches (digital music and DTP) for all those who couldn't afford a Macintosh. In every other respect, especially after the introduction of the 2000 model, which was fully expandable, the Amiga was far superior.
So all those alerts warning you about broadcasting your IP were right all along!
So - why should you get the BBC content for free when you've not contributed to the costs of producing it in the first place?
No problem, I have my credit card handy, just cut this crap and let me pay if I want to view some content on BBC but I don't live in UK. Simply put, I can't, due to idiotic geographical restrictions (and no, the international version of iPlayer simply isn't worth what it costs).
For the sake of fairness, this also applies to any other country and their broadcasters.
In 2006 I got an Inspiron 6400, and almost seven years later I think the only way to stop the damn thing is to throw it into a garbage compactor: In all this time I had to change the display bezel (20 US$) , and the original battery is down to one hour of capacity, but the machine is absolutely rock-solid, to the point that my other (brand-new) notebook is used a lot less than I expected.
Why do have so many people problems accepting there are non-native English speakers? It's not difficult.
Actually, as a native English speaker living in Germany, I find Germans make these kinds of errors significantly less than native English speakers.
This can be easily explained: English as a foreign language is usually taught in primary schools and (also) in written form. Native speakers learn the basics of the language when they're little kids from their parents before they are able to write. Even when you start going to school, verbal communication is still used more (think of how many words you say during your day, even for insignificants tasks, and how many you write). If this kind of spelling mistakes are not corrected by teachers or parents, they can be easily carried on to adult age, especially for people whose daily occupation doesn't involve a lot of writing.
I just ordered (seriously) a vacuum cleaner. Please stay tuned for the test of the thermonuclear device I'm going to get.
The problem here is that, according to TFA, the developer pocketed about 1 million dollars in sales. If he even gets to keep 30% of that, after paying fees and commissions to Microsoft and taxes, it's about 300,000 US$. I understand that paying (again) a hefty certification fee sucks, but certainly we're not talking about a teenager working out of his basement.