Also, no one is really sure that there are not some gaping and fundamental flaws in the protocol that are just waiting to be found and exploited by some enterprising black hat. CIOs not wanting to have to deal with a serious network compromise because they were on the bleeding edge of adoption probably has a lot to do with things. It's been a long time since large organizations have had every device on their network on an Internet routable IP, and there's a nice sense of false security to be had in thinking NAT at gateway firewalls and routers provides you with some valuable additional protection.
Lucasart's "Grim Fandango" saved a transcript of your game in a marked up HTML format that was a script of your game back in 1998. It's only a tiny step from there to turn it into a comic (add screen captures from the game), screenplay (add stage directions) or an eBook (add narrative), so I'm not sure that Apple's application meets the sufficiently novel requirement of a patent. Oh, wait. It's the USPTO we're talking about, isn't it?
As an aside, given the brilliant humour in the game, its cult popularity and the movie making talents of LucasArts I was quite surprised, and more than a little disappointed that it didn't make it onto the big screen.
ZFS seemed pretty interesting. Btrfs might catch up eventually, but for now it's a loss.
Maybe, maybe not. Given their proprietary nature, that Oracle was not going to put a huge amount of resources behind OpenSolaris was pretty much a given as soon as they bought Sun, I think. What we'll probably see next is an exodus of some of the Solaris people from Oracle to other *NIX organisations and elsewhere, which could turn out to be a very good thing depending on who walks. Since "other *NIX shops" includes Linux and the *BSDs, we might see a lot more activity going into work on the ports of the cooler parts of Solaris into Linux and BSD distros.
I don't think the kind of people that buy an Audi R8 are going to be all that concerned about cellular costs, which in any event might be negligible depending on their country of residence. Everyone that I know who owns a car comparable to an A8 either has at least one other vehicle for more mundane use like shopping, taking the kids to school etc., or is quite well paid and single.
What's more impressive is our ability to design tools to attain a certain objective by using only our imagination (abstract thought) rather than the ability to pick up a rock from the vicinity to carve up a carcass. That's likely much more recent.
Actually, abstract thought might not be as recent or require as much evolutionary development as is often thought either. See the video embedded on this page where I'd say that a chimpanzee is clearly demonstrating abstract thought, not only working out what tool to use (water) but also how to transfer and apply it to solve a problem.
I'm not sure either, but probably not for the same reason. Mine is that it's a totally meaningless metric without some context, it's like a farmer saying "five of my livestock died yesterday", without knowing how many animals they have (tens, hundreds, thousands...) and how they died (age, disease, predation...). You need to know the "what" and the "out of how many" to understand the statement.
It's probably fairly safe to assume that each of those 16,000 bug fixes represents a code check-in that closed off an open issue on KDE's bug tracking system. However, having seen the kind of things users will log as a bug and how many times an issue will get logged as a new problem that figure of 16,000 might not bear any resemblance to the number of actual coding flaws that were squashed. So, probably far less than 16,000 actual bugs fixed, but in how many lines of code? If there are tens of millions of lines of code (quite likely), spread across hundreds of applications and libraries then that's not all that bad going really.
At least that would be my guess. This seems like it would be very similar in practice to the open source maxim that many eyes make all bugs shallow. It works very when someone has a problem and people who understand code then have an idea where to start, but comparatively few people are prepared (or able) to take source code and methodically check it line by line for flaws. That number is further reduced when you deduct those who would then use that knowledge to further their own ends without disclosing it. I doubt that there enough people who are both suitably skilled and prepared to spend their time trawling through a company's finances in the hope of finding evidence of fraud to make this idea work.
On the other hand, it is a dog eat dog world out there in the world of finance and investments; I can envisage some banks and trading companies might actually employ people to do this kind of thing full time. Why bother trying to out perform a competitor if you can find enough evidence of possible fraud (well founded or otherwise!) and subject them to a detailed investigation by the SEC or some other regulatory body? Come to think of it, it could be the next growth centre for those countries who specialize in staffing call centres and other such cheap labour body shops.
I'm not even convinced they originated the idea on Star Trek. I don't have a copy to hand to check, but I vaguely recall Arthur C. Clark writing something about Heywood Floyd reading a newspaper on an electronic tablet like device while en route to the moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey", which was published in 1968.
If someone is capable of writing a script that can do that, then they almost certainly have sufficient skills to get a job with a decent enough salary that the few dollars they might earn from Mechanical Turk would be pretty much immaterial. Even more so if you factor in the likelihood they would probably also have a fairly high spec computer which isn't exactly going to be the cheapest thing to leave running 24/7.
In theory perhaps, but it could be a bitch in practice. Manufacturing costs are ultimately at the whim of commodity prices, which in case you haven't noticed, have in some instances been quite dynamic with the current financial turmoil. Should the combined price of raw materials go up to the extent that it is no longer possible to manufacture a product and still make a profit the obvious step for a manufacturer to take is to scale back production and concentrate on other, more profitable, product lines. Net result is that product availability goes down, retailers who are not going to be bound by the court imposed price ceilings,will almost certainly push the prices up to make a quick profit, and ultimately the customer will end up the loser.
Why wait a decade when you can just remove the seat belts and install a big spike in the centre of the steering wheel? I can't see very many people who are going to drive dangerously in *that* vehicle.
Sure they can. It's just a matter of cauterizing the right section of the cerebellum. Of course, since military types usually opt for a "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!" stratagy the process is more likely to be achieved through the application of a smart bomb or bullet from a large caliber rifle than a laser scalpel, but you can't have everything...
I don't think that's the way it is going to have been set up. Far more likely it's going to be an automatic disclosure of the decryption process from a source independent of Wikileaks should Julian Assange or any other key members fail to check in some how at regular intervals. That way if they should be detained or "meet with an unfortunate accident" the contents of the assurance file go public.
Quite frankly, I think the US military and government are pointing their fingers in the wrong direction here. The people that are really at fault here are those who have still not managed to put adequate controls on the access and export of sensitive data; one of the task given to the DHS, IIRC. Quite simply put, I doubt that there is any reason why a single person should have been able to access all those documents in the first place, let alone be in a position to take copies and pass them on too WikiLeaks and the media. It's not like Gary McKinnon hasn't given them enough egg on their faces about poor security procedures already, is it...?
I don't think it's quite that simple. There are a lot more punctuation marks that might precede a double space not only depending on the typist but also their knowledge and application of punctuation rules. Besides other sentence termination marks, such as "!" and "?", you might also find double spaces after quotes, colons, semi-colons, and brackets. That also opens up that other punctuation related debate amongst geeks about whether the full stop should logically go before or after brackets and quotation marks.
You would need quite a complex regular expression to handle all of the possible cases for you without doing anything stupid when multiple spaces have been used for indentation or some other page layout purpose. Of course, it's going to be a pretty horrific looking expression given how many of the characters that you are dealing with also have special meanings in regular expressions and will therefore need escaping.
Just about every Emirati out there has either an iPhone, a Blackberry or both. It's a land of new money run riot, both for the locals and the expats - flaunting what you have, no matter how vulgar the behaviour, is the order of the day and "understated" doesn't appear in the dictionary. RIM's best strategy on this would probably be to refuse to back down and wait for the inevitable shit storm from the Emirati's who are no longer able to send and receive email. Worst case scenario is that they lose a tiny, albeit affluent, market. Big deal.
Why would you need a dedicated device? You could quite easily do the same thing using a bootable, non-writable memory USB stick, and even combine the same device with a one time pin generator if you wanted to have a few extra security bells and whistles. I doubt we'd see such a device for any other platforms apart from those that are x86 compatible though, and even then it's not going to help against MitM attacks, DNS poisoning or any of the other attack vectors that don't target the end user's system, but at least it would be a start.
Yes, I know. As in they might be naturally found in lengths of 20-30 molecules of BMF and not 20-30 carbon atoms. Technically through, bucky tubes are not actually formed from a collection of bucky balls, but are actually molecules in their own right with a structure resembling a single bucky ball that has been split in half and had a cylinder of carbon atoms inserted at the split. In theory it should be possible to create bucky tubes of arbitrary length by repeating the structure of the cylindrical section, it's "just" a matter of working out how.
As I understand it, it generally works like this: You set a ridiculously short TTL on the server hosting the exploit. When a victim connects you grab their IP address, add it and any other likely target IPs to the list of A records for the server and reload the zone. Your attack code just needs to wait for the TTL to expire, DNS to refresh and then try and connect to the target, which now appears to come from an attack on a trusted network.
Going to be interesting to see what this talk is going to add to the mix though... Either way, now would be a really good time to change any easy to remember, alpha-numeric only device passwords, if you've got any.
Actually I'd say all the evidence points to him being a Capitalist first and a Conservative second; The Simpsons and related merchandising makes a LOT of money for Fox after all.
No wait, on second thoughts, make that "Old Fart out of touch with reality" first, then Capitalism and Conservatism...
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Also, no one is really sure that there are not some gaping and fundamental flaws in the protocol that are just waiting to be found and exploited by some enterprising black hat. CIOs not wanting to have to deal with a serious network compromise because they were on the bleeding edge of adoption probably has a lot to do with things. It's been a long time since large organizations have had every device on their network on an Internet routable IP, and there's a nice sense of false security to be had in thinking NAT at gateway firewalls and routers provides you with some valuable additional protection.
How could you overlook what are perhaps the two most important development in web browser technology of the last fifteen years?
I speak, of course, of the "blink" and "marquee" tags being forever consigned to the bin of appallingly bad taste.
Lucasart's "Grim Fandango" saved a transcript of your game in a marked up HTML format that was a script of your game back in 1998. It's only a tiny step from there to turn it into a comic (add screen captures from the game), screenplay (add stage directions) or an eBook (add narrative), so I'm not sure that Apple's application meets the sufficiently novel requirement of a patent. Oh, wait. It's the USPTO we're talking about, isn't it?
As an aside, given the brilliant humour in the game, its cult popularity and the movie making talents of LucasArts I was quite surprised, and more than a little disappointed that it didn't make it onto the big screen.
Maybe, maybe not. Given their proprietary nature, that Oracle was not going to put a huge amount of resources behind OpenSolaris was pretty much a given as soon as they bought Sun, I think. What we'll probably see next is an exodus of some of the Solaris people from Oracle to other *NIX organisations and elsewhere, which could turn out to be a very good thing depending on who walks. Since "other *NIX shops" includes Linux and the *BSDs, we might see a lot more activity going into work on the ports of the cooler parts of Solaris into Linux and BSD distros.
I don't think the kind of people that buy an Audi R8 are going to be all that concerned about cellular costs, which in any event might be negligible depending on their country of residence. Everyone that I know who owns a car comparable to an A8 either has at least one other vehicle for more mundane use like shopping, taking the kids to school etc., or is quite well paid and single.
Actually, abstract thought might not be as recent or require as much evolutionary development as is often thought either. See the video embedded on this page where I'd say that a chimpanzee is clearly demonstrating abstract thought, not only working out what tool to use (water) but also how to transfer and apply it to solve a problem.
I'm not sure either, but probably not for the same reason. Mine is that it's a totally meaningless metric without some context, it's like a farmer saying "five of my livestock died yesterday", without knowing how many animals they have (tens, hundreds, thousands...) and how they died (age, disease, predation...). You need to know the "what" and the "out of how many" to understand the statement.
It's probably fairly safe to assume that each of those 16,000 bug fixes represents a code check-in that closed off an open issue on KDE's bug tracking system. However, having seen the kind of things users will log as a bug and how many times an issue will get logged as a new problem that figure of 16,000 might not bear any resemblance to the number of actual coding flaws that were squashed. So, probably far less than 16,000 actual bugs fixed, but in how many lines of code? If there are tens of millions of lines of code (quite likely), spread across hundreds of applications and libraries then that's not all that bad going really.
At least that would be my guess. This seems like it would be very similar in practice to the open source maxim that many eyes make all bugs shallow. It works very when someone has a problem and people who understand code then have an idea where to start, but comparatively few people are prepared (or able) to take source code and methodically check it line by line for flaws. That number is further reduced when you deduct those who would then use that knowledge to further their own ends without disclosing it. I doubt that there enough people who are both suitably skilled and prepared to spend their time trawling through a company's finances in the hope of finding evidence of fraud to make this idea work.
On the other hand, it is a dog eat dog world out there in the world of finance and investments; I can envisage some banks and trading companies might actually employ people to do this kind of thing full time. Why bother trying to out perform a competitor if you can find enough evidence of possible fraud (well founded or otherwise!) and subject them to a detailed investigation by the SEC or some other regulatory body? Come to think of it, it could be the next growth centre for those countries who specialize in staffing call centres and other such cheap labour body shops.
I'm not even convinced they originated the idea on Star Trek. I don't have a copy to hand to check, but I vaguely recall Arthur C. Clark writing something about Heywood Floyd reading a newspaper on an electronic tablet like device while en route to the moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey", which was published in 1968.
If someone is capable of writing a script that can do that, then they almost certainly have sufficient skills to get a job with a decent enough salary that the few dollars they might earn from Mechanical Turk would be pretty much immaterial. Even more so if you factor in the likelihood they would probably also have a fairly high spec computer which isn't exactly going to be the cheapest thing to leave running 24/7.
In theory perhaps, but it could be a bitch in practice. Manufacturing costs are ultimately at the whim of commodity prices, which in case you haven't noticed, have in some instances been quite dynamic with the current financial turmoil. Should the combined price of raw materials go up to the extent that it is no longer possible to manufacture a product and still make a profit the obvious step for a manufacturer to take is to scale back production and concentrate on other, more profitable, product lines. Net result is that product availability goes down, retailers who are not going to be bound by the court imposed price ceilings,will almost certainly push the prices up to make a quick profit, and ultimately the customer will end up the loser.
Why wait a decade when you can just remove the seat belts and install a big spike in the centre of the steering wheel? I can't see very many people who are going to drive dangerously in *that* vehicle.
Well, not more than once...
Sure they can. It's just a matter of cauterizing the right section of the cerebellum. Of course, since military types usually opt for a "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!" stratagy the process is more likely to be achieved through the application of a smart bomb or bullet from a large caliber rifle than a laser scalpel, but you can't have everything...
I don't think that's the way it is going to have been set up. Far more likely it's going to be an automatic disclosure of the decryption process from a source independent of Wikileaks should Julian Assange or any other key members fail to check in some how at regular intervals. That way if they should be detained or "meet with an unfortunate accident" the contents of the assurance file go public.
Quite frankly, I think the US military and government are pointing their fingers in the wrong direction here. The people that are really at fault here are those who have still not managed to put adequate controls on the access and export of sensitive data; one of the task given to the DHS, IIRC. Quite simply put, I doubt that there is any reason why a single person should have been able to access all those documents in the first place, let alone be in a position to take copies and pass them on too WikiLeaks and the media. It's not like Gary McKinnon hasn't given them enough egg on their faces about poor security procedures already, is it...?
I don't think it's quite that simple. There are a lot more punctuation marks that might precede a double space not only depending on the typist but also their knowledge and application of punctuation rules. Besides other sentence termination marks, such as "!" and "?", you might also find double spaces after quotes, colons, semi-colons, and brackets. That also opens up that other punctuation related debate amongst geeks about whether the full stop should logically go before or after brackets and quotation marks.
You would need quite a complex regular expression to handle all of the possible cases for you without doing anything stupid when multiple spaces have been used for indentation or some other page layout purpose. Of course, it's going to be a pretty horrific looking expression given how many of the characters that you are dealing with also have special meanings in regular expressions and will therefore need escaping.
You forgot about the special case where you should use variable amounts of spaces, at random, to add to the horror that is is Comic Sans.
"Self service" obviously doesn't count. If it did then dogs, and not man, would be running the world...
Just about every Emirati out there has either an iPhone, a Blackberry or both. It's a land of new money run riot, both for the locals and the expats - flaunting what you have, no matter how vulgar the behaviour, is the order of the day and "understated" doesn't appear in the dictionary. RIM's best strategy on this would probably be to refuse to back down and wait for the inevitable shit storm from the Emirati's who are no longer able to send and receive email. Worst case scenario is that they lose a tiny, albeit affluent, market. Big deal.
Why would you need a dedicated device? You could quite easily do the same thing using a bootable, non-writable memory USB stick, and even combine the same device with a one time pin generator if you wanted to have a few extra security bells and whistles. I doubt we'd see such a device for any other platforms apart from those that are x86 compatible though, and even then it's not going to help against MitM attacks, DNS poisoning or any of the other attack vectors that don't target the end user's system, but at least it would be a start.
Yes, I know. As in they might be naturally found in lengths of 20-30 molecules of BMF and not 20-30 carbon atoms. Technically through, bucky tubes are not actually formed from a collection of bucky balls, but are actually molecules in their own right with a structure resembling a single bucky ball that has been split in half and had a cylinder of carbon atoms inserted at the split. In theory it should be possible to create bucky tubes of arbitrary length by repeating the structure of the cylindrical section, it's "just" a matter of working out how.
Given that a single molecule of C-60 contains 60 carbon atoms, you probably meant to put "molecules" there.
Maybe not, but Yu is probably going to lose at least 10 years.
And many uniformed Americans have been stuck between Iraq and a hard place ever since.
As I understand it, it generally works like this: You set a ridiculously short TTL on the server hosting the exploit. When a victim connects you grab their IP address, add it and any other likely target IPs to the list of A records for the server and reload the zone. Your attack code just needs to wait for the TTL to expire, DNS to refresh and then try and connect to the target, which now appears to come from an attack on a trusted network.
Going to be interesting to see what this talk is going to add to the mix though... Either way, now would be a really good time to change any easy to remember, alpha-numeric only device passwords, if you've got any.
Actually I'd say all the evidence points to him being a Capitalist first and a Conservative second; The Simpsons and related merchandising makes a LOT of money for Fox after all.
No wait, on second thoughts, make that "Old Fart out of touch with reality" first, then Capitalism and Conservatism...