I have always wondered how you can know if a certain rock is from outer space? I mean how can you be certain that this specific rock was a meteorite. I understand that meteorites are composed of different material from the rocks in the area, but how do you know it is from outer space and not from a volcano on earth for example?
Since the Justice Department was investigating Wikileaks for gettings their hands on classified government documents, should they then not investigate Stratfor also? And shouldn't they also order Twitter to release all data for all Stratfor employees?
Microsoft Points is just like any other currency. Microsoft can create money from nothing by just "printing" points. There is an exchange rate for the points to other currencies. I really don't see the difference.
Why would that have legal issues? Doesn't Microsoft have it's own currency called "Microsoft Points"? There doesn't seem to be any problems using that currency?
"So X is going to keep my infrastructure up for me because I sepnd $20 on a cert?"
Yes, they should, because the are selling a service. If they can't keep their infrastructure up then people should not buy certs from them.
"Since the obvious case is I'm trying to access my own web server from inside my own network, but it's using https and our external connection is down for some reason. Heck, maybe the cert is on the firewall whose management interface I'm trying to get to over https so I can fix the cause of the external access problem."
You should of course always be able to go into settings and unselect this behavior, but the default option out of the box should always be to fail when certs can't be accessed.
No it fails because the server administrators for the CRL are incompetent morons. A CRL server is a mission critical server that should stay up 24-7.
If Chrome and other browsers would simply display an error page with text explaining the problem and point to the offending server, I am sure the problems would be fixed very quick.
Yes I would say so, innerHTML is used very much on many websites, it is especially bad when you have a site with dynamic content being refresh on an interval. But that is besides the point, all memory leaks are bad, when you have your browser running constantly for many months, any memory leaks wreak havoc. In this day and age having memory leaks in your application are a sign of bad developing practices and not enough testing for releases. The Mozilla team has a habit of focusing on useless stuff like tab groups, eye candy and rabid releases. Instead of focusing on creating solid, lean and fast browser that is massively tested.
It seems to me Firefox has turned itself into Netscape yet again
Here is one of the relevant parts from the Firefox developer:
"Finally, Firefox 4 had a new HTML5 parser. It had a bug which meant that every time you set an innerHTML property on an element, some memory would leak. And that’s a pretty common operation on many websites. "
"We would like to assure the public that these experiments have been conducted with appropriate regulatory oversight in secure containment facilities by highly trained and responsible personnel to minimize any risk of accidental release."
I beg to differ, every malloc should have a corresponding free, so if you find what malloc and what data structure you didn't free, then it should be obvious there is a bug in the code where you are freeing that structure.
I have never understood why memory leaks are so problematic to find. When I was programming in C long ago and had memory leaks, I simply created my own wrappers for malloc and free that stored where in the source code it was being called from, then at the end of the program I could simply check this list and it would display all the memory that had not been released and the corresponding line in the source where malloc was called.
This was as expected, since it was obvious from the start that the intention was never to pass the bill in it's current form. The motive was to get the big Internet companies to donate (bribe) more to the politicians.
The problem with movies today is that they use too much CGI and the problem is that current CGI just sucks for realism. Movement for most CGI characters is just bad, it was much better in the old days when you actually got a guy in a costume or a puppet to play some monster, because then you get realistic movements and light/shadows.
A great example are the CGI badger and monkeys in Indiana Jones 4. They are so badly done that they it is ridiculous, imagine if they where done with a real animal or a puppet it would look totally much better. (Of course these scenes should not be in the script in the first place, but that is another story).
And most music today also sucks, for a similar reason, they use dynamic range compression on almost every new CD today, this totally destroys the music experience, in the old days music was not compressed and had more feeling.
Yes It is amazing most people have not actually realized what this is for. It is specially designed for military actions against Wikileaks and other such companies. It should now be possible to send a drone and assassinate people like Julian Assange wherever he is.
Really is it that much different? Don't we still kill, steal and rape people to this day? Don't we have wars? We have dictators and human rights violations still in this day and age. It seems to me, mankind is still as violent as it were 2000 years ago.
No Stephen King's experiment was flawed because you don't set any percentage of paying vs non paying readers, since you can't know the exact percentage from the downloads. You only set a minimum limit of the payment in dollars you want from the book. Secondly he changed the rules in mid experiment.
1) And the problem is? The phones where faulty, and should be replaced at no cost.
2) Yes you should have the right, but you don't have the right to clone somebody else IMEI number. You can of course buy a another phone and clone that one. Let me put this in an analogy. You have the right to modify your car to some extent, but you don't have the right to clone somebody else license plate on your own car.
3) Thats a problem for the phone companies to solve. Somehow billing companies can use all the credit card companies blacklists without major inconveniencing their customers. "Legal proceedings are costly", so what, thats the cost of doing business. You are talking about this like it's a hard problem to solve, it is not.
1) Well the phone with an IMEI which connected at a later date is the cloned one, or just have some human operator check to see which is which. Hint: The one with the prepaid SIM card, no the one with an actual account.
2) You should never have to clone you own phone.
3) Somehow my phone company can bill me wherever I use my phone in any network, so it can't be to hard to also use each others IMEI blacklists.
Slashdot Mirror
I have always wondered how you can know if a certain rock is from outer space? I mean how can you be certain that this specific rock was a meteorite. I understand that meteorites are composed of different material from the rocks in the area, but how do you know it is from outer space and not from a volcano on earth for example?
Yes private police companies that only have one primary motive to make money for their shareholders, what could possibly go wrong with that?
Since the Justice Department was investigating Wikileaks for gettings their hands on classified government documents, should they then not investigate Stratfor also? And shouldn't they also order Twitter to release all data for all Stratfor employees?
You can not convert MS points back into cash.
I beg to differ
Microsoft Points is just like any other currency. Microsoft can create money from nothing by just "printing" points. There is an exchange rate for the points to other currencies. I really don't see the difference.
Also most airline companies have their own currencies also, they are called "Frequent flyer points".
Why would that have legal issues? Doesn't Microsoft have it's own currency called "Microsoft Points"? There doesn't seem to be any problems using that currency?
"So X is going to keep my infrastructure up for me because I sepnd $20 on a cert?"
Yes, they should, because the are selling a service. If they can't keep their infrastructure up then people should not buy certs from them.
"Since the obvious case is I'm trying to access my own web server from inside my own network, but it's using https and our external connection is down for some reason. Heck, maybe the cert is on the firewall whose management interface I'm trying to get to over https so I can fix the cause of the external access problem."
You should of course always be able to go into settings and unselect this behavior, but the default option out of the box should always be to fail when certs can't be accessed.
Yes it should. CRL server for X is mission critical and should always work. There is no excuse for it not working.
"CRL/OCSP server fails for whatever reason".
No it fails because the server administrators for the CRL are incompetent morons. A CRL server is a mission critical server that should stay up 24-7.
If Chrome and other browsers would simply display an error page with text explaining the problem and point to the offending server, I am sure the problems would be fixed very quick.
Yes
Yes I would say so, innerHTML is used very much on many websites, it is especially bad when you have a site with dynamic content being refresh on an interval. But that is besides the point, all memory leaks are bad, when you have your browser running constantly for many months, any memory leaks wreak havoc. In this day and age having memory leaks in your application are a sign of bad developing practices and not enough testing for releases. The Mozilla team has a habit of focusing on useless stuff like tab groups, eye candy and rabid releases. Instead of focusing on creating solid, lean and fast browser that is massively tested.
It seems to me Firefox has turned itself into Netscape yet again
What, the hell are you talking about?
Didn't you read this slashdot article: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1338225/notes-on-reducing-firefoxs-memory-consumption
Here is one of the relevant parts from the Firefox developer:
"Finally, Firefox 4 had a new HTML5 parser. It had a bug which meant that every time you set an innerHTML property on an element, some memory would leak. And that’s a pretty common operation on many websites. "
Please think before you post again.
"We would like to assure the public that these experiments have been conducted with appropriate regulatory oversight in secure containment facilities by highly trained and responsible personnel to minimize any risk of accidental release."
I beg to differ, every malloc should have a corresponding free, so if you find what malloc and what data structure you didn't free, then it should be obvious there is a bug in the code where you are freeing that structure.
I have never understood why memory leaks are so problematic to find. When I was programming in C long ago and had memory leaks, I simply created my own wrappers for malloc and free that stored where in the source code it was being called from, then at the end of the program I could simply check this list and it would display all the memory that had not been released and the corresponding line in the source where malloc was called.
This was as expected, since it was obvious from the start that the intention was never to pass the bill in it's current form. The motive was to get the big Internet companies to donate (bribe) more to the politicians.
How hard can it be to launch the build? Isn't it just:
cd project
build
And I usually have automatic nightly builds. Then you just check your email in the morning for the results.
The problem with movies today is that they use too much CGI and the problem is that current CGI just sucks for realism. Movement for most CGI characters is just bad, it was much better in the old days when you actually got a guy in a costume or a puppet to play some monster, because then you get realistic movements and light/shadows.
A great example are the CGI badger and monkeys in Indiana Jones 4. They are so badly done that they it is ridiculous, imagine if they where done with a real animal or a puppet it would look totally much better. (Of course these scenes should not be in the script in the first place, but that is another story).
And most music today also sucks, for a similar reason, they use dynamic range compression on almost every new CD today, this totally destroys the music experience, in the old days music was not compressed and had more feeling.
Now get off my lawn.
Yes It is amazing most people have not actually realized what this is for. It is specially designed for military actions against Wikileaks and other such companies. It should now be possible to send a drone and assassinate people like Julian Assange wherever he is.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage
Really is it that much different? Don't we still kill, steal and rape people to this day? Don't we have wars? We have dictators and human rights violations still in this day and age. It seems to me, mankind is still as violent as it were 2000 years ago.
No Stephen King's experiment was flawed because you don't set any percentage of paying vs non paying readers, since you can't know the exact percentage from the downloads. You only set a minimum limit of the payment in dollars you want from the book. Secondly he changed the rules in mid experiment.
Enoy Sea Kittens
1) And the problem is? The phones where faulty, and should be replaced at no cost. 2) Yes you should have the right, but you don't have the right to clone somebody else IMEI number. You can of course buy a another phone and clone that one. Let me put this in an analogy. You have the right to modify your car to some extent, but you don't have the right to clone somebody else license plate on your own car. 3) Thats a problem for the phone companies to solve. Somehow billing companies can use all the credit card companies blacklists without major inconveniencing their customers. "Legal proceedings are costly", so what, thats the cost of doing business. You are talking about this like it's a hard problem to solve, it is not.
1) Well the phone with an IMEI which connected at a later date is the cloned one, or just have some human operator check to see which is which. Hint: The one with the prepaid SIM card, no the one with an actual account.
2) You should never have to clone you own phone.
3) Somehow my phone company can bill me wherever I use my phone in any network, so it can't be to hard to also use each others IMEI blacklists.