Exactly. The amount of time taken to write a patch is almost entirely inconsequential here. It's the time taken to ensure that the patch doesn't accidentally open 1001 other holes that matters.
A security researcher has submitted to Oracle a patch he said took him 30 minutes to produce
And someone at Java may have written a patch for the exploit in 1 minute six weeks ago. In terms of actual useful information this headline probably boils down to
It's not compression. It's a fancy checksum which means less packets have to be discarded as lost, meaning less time wasted waiting for resent packets and less chance of network speed being negotiated down because of said lost packets.
If your new error correction technology eliminates lost packets, and you lose 5% normally, then using this you gain 5% back not 10x. What they actually invented is data compression, and it's been around for decades.
It's not that simple, and it's not data compression.
-1 Smug (actually -2 for using "o'erreach" previously)
Maybe I'm just so actualized that I don't need to bother with ill-defined psychobabble to enable my life script and keep myself from declining into a shame spiral.
Oh yes, hardy-har, I wondered how long that would take.
"Pol" is not in common usage, at least not down my way. And even when something is in common usage, any decent news source will still try to slip in some seemingly obvious context, such as "Tech giant Google," or "Cuba's revolutionary former leader Fidel Castro."
So it is bad form to assume your technical audience might be able to squeeze a braincell or two to Google said terms or look them up in wikipedia?
Well, yes, but it's also bad form to make assumptions about the knowledge your audience does have. I googled Pol and looked it up on Wikipedia, and I'm still not clear what meaning the headline is going for. And if it is meant to be "politicians," that might be passable on a politics forum, but this isn't one.
Also, your capitalisation of capitalisation and punctuation without a period at the end of the sentence would have been justified sarcasm; doing it with a period at the end implies an inventive emphasis also done in your parent, unless it's a mistake.
False. It raises the question. We've been over this.
This is probably a battle we'll end up losing. If things continue as they are, it will eventually mean "raise the question" - if it doesn't already - simply by dint of popular usage. I won't be using it, but to be honest I'm getting fed up of trying to explain the difference to people who could* care less.
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A security researcher has submitted to Oracle a patch he said took him 30 minutes to produce
And someone at Java may have written a patch for the exploit in 1 minute six weeks ago. In terms of actual useful information this headline probably boils down to
Researcher Develops Patch For Java Zero Day
which isn't quite as immediately sexy.
It's all done with computers now.
This is awesome. Accept it.
I agree, but... this is Slashdot.
It's not compression. It's a fancy checksum which means less packets have to be discarded as lost, meaning less time wasted waiting for resent packets and less chance of network speed being negotiated down because of said lost packets.
If your new error correction technology eliminates lost packets, and you lose 5% normally, then using this you gain 5% back not 10x. What they actually invented is data compression, and it's been around for decades.
It's not that simple, and it's not data compression.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3205219&cid=41744891
Interesting! How do they get a full 360 point cloud of a hand from below like that?
but when it gets its hands on something everybody wants and is willing to pay crazy prices for, it's gonna take you to the cleaners.
FTFY.
Aww. Which does raise the question of why we're only hearing about this now...
-1 Smug (actually -2 for using "o'erreach" previously)
Maybe I'm just so actualized that I don't need to bother with ill-defined psychobabble to enable my life script and keep myself from declining into a shame spiral.
Actualized people know that rules are for others.
Ah! Psychopaths.
Captive Beluga Was Able To Mimic Speech
That makes it sound like he's dead.
Fully actualized humans
Meaning what, exactly?
be cause "he could launch a nuclear bomb from a phone"
If that a quote from the powers-that-be, or from Mitnick?
It was a bowler.
Oh yes, hardy-har, I wondered how long that would take.
"Pol" is not in common usage, at least not down my way. And even when something is in common usage, any decent news source will still try to slip in some seemingly obvious context, such as "Tech giant Google," or "Cuba's revolutionary former leader Fidel Castro."
So it is bad form to assume your technical audience might be able to squeeze a braincell or two to Google said terms or look them up in wikipedia?
Well, yes, but it's also bad form to make assumptions about the knowledge your audience does have. I googled Pol and looked it up on Wikipedia, and I'm still not clear what meaning the headline is going for. And if it is meant to be "politicians," that might be passable on a politics forum, but this isn't one.
Also, your capitalisation of capitalisation and punctuation without a period at the end of the sentence would have been justified sarcasm; doing it with a period at the end implies an inventive emphasis also done in your parent, unless it's a mistake.
Deliberate irony, so I win.
If all hammers were the same price, I'd pick the sledge hammer.
Not a paleontologist, then.
People still use DivX?
Beware meaningless Capitalisation and lack of Punctuation.
Being kicked by three much smaller guys here.
And yet you can still find time to post to Slashdot.
being in such a situation isn't going to give you much opportunity to draw a weapon and fire it, let alone do much else.
Nice blanket assumption. Ever been in that exact situation?
Until then, you are just a frustrated nerd.
Hey, how do you...
Oh, right.
I want to build a time machine so I can go back in time and meet the Martians when their society was at its peak. Why aren't the LA Times calling me?
Who the hell thought blue links on a dark green background was a good idea?
False. It raises the question. We've been over this.
This is probably a battle we'll end up losing. If things continue as they are, it will eventually mean "raise the question" - if it doesn't already - simply by dint of popular usage. I won't be using it, but to be honest I'm getting fed up of trying to explain the difference to people who could* care less.
*joke