Nothing wakes up the apathetic masses quite like this ruling. I wonder if we will ever live in a world where more than 5/10 people realize the importance of open standards. I can dream.
One feature which I think would help it greatly in the corporate world is 'automatic' redundancy. Where, if you have a database shared by multiple servers, pulling a server out doesn't mean that part of the database is lost.
I know Oracle can do this but I believe SQL server cannot.
The solution is to have a card which can 'contain' cash cards from different providers. Then you could have a single card which holds data for all of your cash cards, and you wouldn't be locked in to a single supplier like Visa/MC.
Governments really should get off their asses and implmement these, free of charge. How can they pretend that this type of money isn't a basic service that should be handled by them?
Unmanned gathering of moon rock was carried out back in 1972 by the Russians. It took 7 years after the analysis was published before anyone realized that there were organic patterns in the samples.
Real images of the fossils show bacteria-like shapes. There were claims that these fossils prove existance of life elsewhere in space but it seems more likely to me that they somehow came from Earth.
Solution? Block IMCP if you don't need it. Or ensure the firewall is using a non-vulnerable driver/device and have it "rewrite" all the packets (this may be imperative, but it could depend on implementation).
Rewriting the packet would have no effect because the problem is in the driver below and its bad use of its own static packet buffer.
In Windows it is not possible put a custom driver between a manufacturer's driver and their network adapter. It's only possible to put one between their driver and the system above (an NDIS Intermediate driver).
I think what he is saying is binding to the 'Q' key in Half-Life will bind to the top left physical key regardless of whether you are in Qwerty or Dvorak mode.
You are right. A service called 'Automatic Updates' has been installed on my machine and is being run at system startup.
The description of the service is 'Enables the download and installation of critical Windows updates. If the service is disabled, the operating system can be manually updated at the Windows Update Web site.'
Thanks for the tip. Perhaps it was the cause of occasional hammering of my 56k modem.
Pilgrim, who earns his living as a Web accessibility consultant, said in a phone call [...] "And 404's in the top 10? Hello? Pages that are completely blank -- how did those get in there?"
This seems to be the most evidence presented in the article. Looks like baseless whining to me.
One thing I don't understand about detecting interception is why can't the person in the middle have a device which accepts the photons then spits new, identical ones out the other side?
I don't know much about quantum physics and I get the feeling it's because of its most basic principles, but I'd love to have it spelled out to me.
If you can't observe a phenomenon, what can you say about it?
Although if it ever happened that we were able to build a big bang in a lab (unlikely but hard to prove it's impossible), it may show us what needs to be on the outside of it.
Or perhaps it could even be found through theory and conjecture alone.
I've done a couple of years of (home) experimentation also. I had a few different approaches, 3d objects with links between them, structured grids and other things.
It always came down to links between objects being too complicated to look at and comprehend.
I'm sure someone will make a good visual system one day though.
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Nothing wakes up the apathetic masses quite like this ruling. I wonder if we will ever live in a world where more than 5/10 people realize the importance of open standards. I can dream.
The entire article can be summarized as 'treat programmers well'.
But they will tempt you by giving you, say, 7:1 odds etc.
Bit like your average software developer in a way...
I like it how he doesn't go on to give any tecnical reasons why there won't be widespread exploit attempts.
I agree that most people who claim they are possibly going to buy an album and are just sampling it are full of shit.
But the difference between a library (large cost to copy phyiscal media) and electronic information (nearly free to copy) is pretty obvious to me.
One feature which I think would help it greatly in the corporate world is 'automatic' redundancy. Where, if you have a database shared by multiple servers, pulling a server out doesn't mean that part of the database is lost.
I know Oracle can do this but I believe SQL server cannot.
The solution is to have a card which can 'contain' cash cards from different providers. Then you could have a single card which holds data for all of your cash cards, and you wouldn't be locked in to a single supplier like Visa/MC.
Governments really should get off their asses and implmement these, free of charge. How can they pretend that this type of money isn't a basic service that should be handled by them?
Unmanned gathering of moon rock was carried out back in 1972 by the Russians. It took 7 years after the analysis was published before anyone realized that there were organic patterns in the samples.
Real images of the fossils show bacteria-like shapes. There were claims that these fossils prove existance of life elsewhere in space but it seems more likely to me that they somehow came from Earth.
If they are for "inventory control purposes" only, why are they not disabled as they leave the store? (cue tin foil hat jokes...)
The '@slashdot.org' e-mail address I'd say.
Sorry but P2P has inherit qualities that are just as important as copyright infringement: caching, load distribution etc.
Who cares about the API differences anyway? The fact that OpenGL is platform independant is magnitudes more important than little things like that.
Rewriting the packet would have no effect because the problem is in the driver below and its bad use of its own static packet buffer.
In Windows it is not possible put a custom driver between a manufacturer's driver and their network adapter. It's only possible to put one between their driver and the system above (an NDIS Intermediate driver).
I think what he is saying is binding to the 'Q' key in Half-Life will bind to the top left physical key regardless of whether you are in Qwerty or Dvorak mode.
You sick bastard.
You are right. A service called 'Automatic Updates' has been installed on my machine and is being run at system startup.
The description of the service is 'Enables the download and installation of critical Windows updates. If the service is disabled, the operating system can be manually updated at the Windows Update Web site.'
Thanks for the tip. Perhaps it was the cause of occasional hammering of my 56k modem.
Would you choose AMD or Intel?
Counter-strike & Quake3 for mine.
Slashdot is in 31st place for a google search of 'goatse.cx'.
Maybe this shows that google really doesn't give a link more weight if it is repeated often on a popular site.
This seems to be the most evidence presented in the article. Looks like baseless whining to me.
One thing I don't understand about detecting interception is why can't the person in the middle have a device which accepts the photons then spits new, identical ones out the other side?
I don't know much about quantum physics and I get the feeling it's because of its most basic principles, but I'd love to have it spelled out to me.
Although if it ever happened that we were able to build a big bang in a lab (unlikely but hard to prove it's impossible), it may show us what needs to be on the outside of it.
Or perhaps it could even be found through theory and conjecture alone.
I've done a couple of years of (home) experimentation also. I had a few different approaches, 3d objects with links between them, structured grids and other things.
It always came down to links between objects being too complicated to look at and comprehend.
I'm sure someone will make a good visual system one day though.