A more serious problem with forced automatic updates is that it causes everyone to update even if the newer version has a bug that causes Firefox to crash. Might not be as common now, but I still remember at least one instance from the Firefox 2.x era where it was better to simply hold onto the existing version rather than have the browser crash on all your favorite sites.
There's actually an icon at the top right corner...
Of course, I knew that Tab Groups existed for quite a long time, but didn't use them as the implementation is awful - on par with something that an average programmer could do themselves. The most obvious bit is that creating a second tab group instantly makes it harder to manage tabs outside the current tab group.
It's also pure overlap with an existing tag group system, known as a window.
Modern compilers won't notice the pointer changing between those two conditionals, with it being loaded into a register that won't be modified in another thread. Some compilers may realize that it's impossible to enter the third block, and simply purge the code. In either case, the third block is pure fluff that should be removed.
If you're in the rare situation where said pointer can change suddenly, then you should:
Declare the pointer as volatile.
Copy the pointer to a non-volatile variable
Use synchronization to ensure that you have exclusive access to the pointer
and/or, not play around with data types without knowing how they work.
Also, the person writing the code mentioned that the compiler had a bug - but if such a trivial bug did exist, it would either be fixed by now, or the company making the compiler would be laughed out of existence. besides, paranoid individuals can use a debugger to disassemble a compiled executable and verify that the write code is generated.
Paying $70K created such efficiency and opportunity that it doubled profits. So why not go above $70K and make even more money? Would $140K minimum quadruple profits? Probably not, there's a diminishing return here I suspect.
This theory works only for menial and robotic tasks, where a linear increase in wages can correlate with a linear increase in productivity.
If the task requires creativity or cognitive skill, rewards only work as long as you give enough money to make sure they aren't worried about money. If it's above a certain threshold, it attracts undesirable talent, and causes productivity to drop.
NPAPI is the legacy plugin system used by browsers that allows webpages to serve executable content without the user having to download a file.
This system is used by Flash, Unity, Java, and various unimportant plugins. Of these, Flash has an arrangement with Adobe, Unity has an exit strategy, and Java is completely neutered as it was for quite some time. The unimportant plugins are unimportant (and if they were, they'd have fixed it by now.)
and does this have anything to do with the add=ons and plug=ins specific to Firefox and Seamonkey SAome of which break every time they put out a new version of FF
Those are extensions, which is completely different.
Apparently, concatenation isn't as effective as it could be. It will be at least as strong as either MD5 or SHA1, and while it seems that you'd get a 288 bit hash, it's about as strong as if you had 174 bits.
It's probably easier to make a 288 bit hash from the start.
school officials said they knew he was carrying a device that looked like a bomb
If you have a bomb and want to detonate it, you make sure nobody else sees it. You don't show it to a science teacher, nor do you have an audible alarm. A kid who's capable of building bombs would already know this.
So, here's the revised headline: "Bomb detonated in school"
are using exploits in Flash to get their malware installed on victims PCs
I recall "Please update Flash/Java/etc." was using Javascript to redirect you to a random third party site, and immediately attempted a software download.
In any case, the article is referring to guidelines on the ads amazon should accept, which include fallbacks in case Javascript will not function for whatever reason. If there's flash content, it's likely that it may be pre-disabled and either results in a big "click-to-play" block (ugly web design), or will never get played should the ad developer create a fallback for that.
I recall seeing a Youtube video where someone did the exact same pixel-invasion scenario. It starts with someone dumping an old TV, which then releases it's angry pixel payload, followed by space invaders who hit various cars, pac man who eats the subway stations (converting the staircases into just a few pixels), tertis blocks that remove floors of buildings, arkanoid paddles that remove bricks from a bridge, and finally ends with a bomb that turns the planet into one black pixel.
I'm sure Columbia has their claim, but some indie beat them by five years As usual, it's a big publisher doing a keyword search without thinking about the consequences.
A new web-based exploit is known as "a Tuesday", in the same way that a boot sector virus is "a monday", and a.EXE virus is "a wednesday".
A common thread of malware is that it uses whatever means to automatically execute without user interaction. Simply prevent stuff from automatically executing (NoScript, Flash block, or click-to-play), and the infection rate will become negligible - and perhaps more traceable in real-time.
It's possible that the Google car is not giving out "body language" that telegraphs behavior before it happens.
Does body language include the red lights at the back of the car indicating a break light, along with that the cars on the left were rather slow (indicating at least some form of red light), and that the driver behind the Google car was closing distance with the car in front for a period of 2 seconds?
Seems funny when I think about games on DOS vs. NES. Most of the time, NES games seemed much better.
Around that time, the PC was rather simplistic and not designed for gaming. Graphics were usually EGA (or worse, CGA), and didn't have any sprite support that other systems in that area liked to use. Sound was a cheap internal speaker that was more annoying, especially with lack of volume control.
It took until the 386/486 era before PCs started becoming strong, but developers around that time still needed to think about less powerful systems as opposed to knowing that each system could at least handle a minimum quality of graphics.
Once PCs became modern - VESA, Soundcards, and breaking 1MB barrier, consoles were mostly in catchup. It took until 2000 before game consoles had an internal hard drive.
At the time, NES didn't seem very limited. IT had plenty of great games that played quite well.
Also around that time, programmers were much more skilled at optimization tricks - and didn't have to worry about the operating system.
But the assholes at the Mozilla Foundation won't implement it because they prefer shitty insecure APIs like NPAPI.
If you're worried about security, then it's a better idea to worry about automatically executing anything that comes down the pipe (for example, a rogue Javascript ad that redirects you to a "please update java" page) as opposed to the mechanism at which it automatically executes (as one sandbox break gives easy access to the whole system.)
That's a lesson learned from the pre-1995 virus era. If you don't automatically execute whatever is in your floppy drive (the default setting for BIOS), you don't get infected.
I'd like to store the documents in a standard open format that will allow easy search, compression, rendering, etc. Which open document format is the best?
Are you writing the search/compression/render capability from scratch, or are you using a library to handle that job for you?
If you're handling more than one document type, then go for a library. I don't have a recommendation myself, but I'm sure you can find them on a search.
Also, don't worry about compression, as modern.odf/.docx is already compressed with something compatible with PKZIP.
There are menial unskilled jobs they can do upon release.
Some prisoners get sex-offender treatment, and were subject to much more restrictions. They're not likely to even get unskilled jobs, because "children congregate bearby".
City ordinances sometimes are the cause of this, and they'are also known to create sex offender colonies.
For 99% of the applications out there, there's no reason not to do it in the browser if you're starting from scratch today.
One major reason - if the browser fails, it takes out everything running under it. Failure can be as simple as a crash, to a javascript exploit that interferes with the browser, or the browser needing a few minutes just to crunch memory bloat.
Although browsers have since gotten better, I still don't trust the browser to resume where I last left off - the best I can do is force firefox to crash, and when it resumes, it gives a list of windows that I could potentially restore.
Of course, part of the problem ifs that I'm using an "everything" computer. Then having to do some other task or wait on an existing one since it's nowhere near complete and has to be done later. Then these windows build up.
If they weren't group, I'd be hunting through 82 buttons, which has the same effect as having to click twice.
Ending compulsory schooling? Good luck with that! Surely nothing could go wrong with that!
Demands to end compulsory schooling is actually one of many random demands due to people not being sure how to fix the problem. If you feel the approach is incorrect, then you should suggest a better demand (such as exempting a small portion from compulsory education).
For the same reason we don't let children take any important decision for themselves before they're 18... They lack critical thinking skills, foresight and maturity to make them.
They are still more than capable of telling if something is completely dysfunctional. Yet, they're completely unable to fix it because "they lack critical thinking skills, foresight and maturity to make important decisions" and therefore shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Got a student taking basic math despite having already mastered it? Nope, got to finish basic math first.
do things to satisfy their immediate gratification, which would probably mean playing a glorious amount of video games.
Technically, those teenagers are better off. Immediate gratification is better than short-term pain that should have led to long-term fulfillment but actually didn't.
Charlotte Iserbyt is calling it a probable Soviet KGB conspiracy... which tends to damage her credibility. See http://www.newswithviews.com/i...
Despite this, she's still accurate when saying that the education system is in decay, as it shouldn't be that expensive to teach basic reading, writing and computation.
claims that the under 40s expect everything to 'just work' and have no idea what to do when things go wrong
I have a Samsung computer monitor that isn't properly detected if I use the DVI cable, although the VGA cable works fine. This prevents Mac OS from detecting the monitor, and confuses Windows. (The technical details: it's not transmitting EDID over the DVI connection.)
The quick fix for Windows worked for a while, but a driver update changed how things work and would be constantly confused by that monitor. The proper fix requires opening the monitor, using a multimeter to find what's wrong with the DVI connector, and fixing or replacing it. This is not something you can do on a weekend, as opposed to fixing a larger appliance.
The problem isn't around knowledge, but that it requires equipment not expected to be in a normal home. A house can have tools available to fix large mechanical objects, but not extremely delicate electronics that require an electron scanning microscope to properly fix. The repair costs for devices usually indicate that the whole device has gone bad as opposed to an easily swapped component, meaning the manufacturers also have trouble getting things to work as well.
Actually, I got a popup that said your Adobe Flash is outdated, please update Adobe Flash, and here's an alert() box that prevents you from closing the page.
Omega was actually up to 0.90, but that version was rare as the official distribution channel wasn't trying to give it out.
It wasn't a popular roguelike as it was a little buggy... first version I encountered was for the Amiga, which caused the town guards to attack you if you joined the paladin's guild.
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A more serious problem with forced automatic updates is that it causes everyone to update even if the newer version has a bug that causes Firefox to crash. Might not be as common now, but I still remember at least one instance from the Firefox 2.x era where it was better to simply hold onto the existing version rather than have the browser crash on all your favorite sites.
There's actually an icon at the top right corner...
Of course, I knew that Tab Groups existed for quite a long time, but didn't use them as the implementation is awful - on par with something that an average programmer could do themselves. The most obvious bit is that creating a second tab group instantly makes it harder to manage tabs outside the current tab group.
It's also pure overlap with an existing tag group system, known as a window.
Modern compilers won't notice the pointer changing between those two conditionals, with it being loaded into a register that won't be modified in another thread. Some compilers may realize that it's impossible to enter the third block, and simply purge the code. In either case, the third block is pure fluff that should be removed.
If you're in the rare situation where said pointer can change suddenly, then you should:
Also, the person writing the code mentioned that the compiler had a bug - but if such a trivial bug did exist, it would either be fixed by now, or the company making the compiler would be laughed out of existence. besides, paranoid individuals can use a debugger to disassemble a compiled executable and verify that the write code is generated.
This theory works only for menial and robotic tasks, where a linear increase in wages can correlate with a linear increase in productivity.
If the task requires creativity or cognitive skill, rewards only work as long as you give enough money to make sure they aren't worried about money. If it's above a certain threshold, it attracts undesirable talent, and causes productivity to drop.
NPAPI is the legacy plugin system used by browsers that allows webpages to serve executable content without the user having to download a file.
This system is used by Flash, Unity, Java, and various unimportant plugins. Of these, Flash has an arrangement with Adobe, Unity has an exit strategy, and Java is completely neutered as it was for quite some time. The unimportant plugins are unimportant (and if they were, they'd have fixed it by now.)
Those are extensions, which is completely different.
Apparently, concatenation isn't as effective as it could be. It will be at least as strong as either MD5 or SHA1, and while it seems that you'd get a 288 bit hash, it's about as strong as if you had 174 bits.
It's probably easier to make a 288 bit hash from the start.
Discussion page: http://crypto.stackexchange.co...
Your headline has a few flaws.
If you have a bomb and want to detonate it, you make sure nobody else sees it. You don't show it to a science teacher, nor do you have an audible alarm. A kid who's capable of building bombs would already know this.
So, here's the revised headline: "Bomb detonated in school"
I recall "Please update Flash/Java/etc." was using Javascript to redirect you to a random third party site, and immediately attempted a software download.
In any case, the article is referring to guidelines on the ads amazon should accept, which include fallbacks in case Javascript will not function for whatever reason. If there's flash content, it's likely that it may be pre-disabled and either results in a big "click-to-play" block (ugly web design), or will never get played should the ad developer create a fallback for that.
I recall seeing a Youtube video where someone did the exact same pixel-invasion scenario. It starts with someone dumping an old TV, which then releases it's angry pixel payload, followed by space invaders who hit various cars, pac man who eats the subway stations (converting the staircases into just a few pixels), tertis blocks that remove floors of buildings, arkanoid paddles that remove bricks from a bridge, and finally ends with a bomb that turns the planet into one black pixel.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm sure Columbia has their claim, but some indie beat them by five years As usual, it's a big publisher doing a keyword search without thinking about the consequences.
A new web-based exploit is known as "a Tuesday", in the same way that a boot sector virus is "a monday", and a .EXE virus is "a wednesday".
A common thread of malware is that it uses whatever means to automatically execute without user interaction. Simply prevent stuff from automatically executing (NoScript, Flash block, or click-to-play), and the infection rate will become negligible - and perhaps more traceable in real-time.
The successor for TrueCrypt is VeraCrypt, as it is a direct fork.
Also, a "linux geek" would have already have taken dm-crypt as an alternative, or performed the instructions in some Full Disk Encryption Howto.
Does body language include the red lights at the back of the car indicating a break light, along with that the cars on the left were rather slow (indicating at least some form of red light), and that the driver behind the Google car was closing distance with the car in front for a period of 2 seconds?
Linked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm certain the driver would likewise hit a parked car, which has zero body language.
If the break lights at the back of the car don't work, then the car is not fit for road travel.
Around that time, the PC was rather simplistic and not designed for gaming. Graphics were usually EGA (or worse, CGA), and didn't have any sprite support that other systems in that area liked to use. Sound was a cheap internal speaker that was more annoying, especially with lack of volume control.
It took until the 386/486 era before PCs started becoming strong, but developers around that time still needed to think about less powerful systems as opposed to knowing that each system could at least handle a minimum quality of graphics.
Once PCs became modern - VESA, Soundcards, and breaking 1MB barrier, consoles were mostly in catchup. It took until 2000 before game consoles had an internal hard drive.
Also around that time, programmers were much more skilled at optimization tricks - and didn't have to worry about the operating system.
If you're worried about security, then it's a better idea to worry about automatically executing anything that comes down the pipe (for example, a rogue Javascript ad that redirects you to a "please update java" page) as opposed to the mechanism at which it automatically executes (as one sandbox break gives easy access to the whole system.)
That's a lesson learned from the pre-1995 virus era. If you don't automatically execute whatever is in your floppy drive (the default setting for BIOS), you don't get infected.
Are you writing the search/compression/render capability from scratch, or are you using a library to handle that job for you?
If you're handling more than one document type, then go for a library. I don't have a recommendation myself, but I'm sure you can find them on a search.
Also, don't worry about compression, as modern .odf/.docx is already compressed with something compatible with PKZIP.
Some prisoners get sex-offender treatment, and were subject to much more restrictions. They're not likely to even get unskilled jobs, because "children congregate bearby".
City ordinances sometimes are the cause of this, and they'are also known to create sex offender colonies.
One major reason - if the browser fails, it takes out everything running under it. Failure can be as simple as a crash, to a javascript exploit that interferes with the browser, or the browser needing a few minutes just to crunch memory bloat.
Although browsers have since gotten better, I still don't trust the browser to resume where I last left off - the best I can do is force firefox to crash, and when it resumes, it gives a list of windows that I could potentially restore.
No can do. It's a yearly tradition that Slashdot's April 1st postings are randomly generated by throwing darts at a board.
As opposed to carefully crafted or well-written pranks, such as a DVD titled "The March is Over" not working right due to some protection system.
This is why.
Of course, part of the problem ifs that I'm using an "everything" computer. Then having to do some other task or wait on an existing one since it's nowhere near complete and has to be done later. Then these windows build up.
If they weren't group, I'd be hunting through 82 buttons, which has the same effect as having to click twice.
Demands to end compulsory schooling is actually one of many random demands due to people not being sure how to fix the problem. If you feel the approach is incorrect, then you should suggest a better demand (such as exempting a small portion from compulsory education).
They are still more than capable of telling if something is completely dysfunctional. Yet, they're completely unable to fix it because "they lack critical thinking skills, foresight and maturity to make important decisions" and therefore shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Got a student taking basic math despite having already mastered it? Nope, got to finish basic math first.
Technically, those teenagers are better off. Immediate gratification is better than short-term pain that should have led to long-term fulfillment but actually didn't.
From the readme:
Underpromotion may be understandable, maybe en-passant since it doesn't come up that oftean, but castling makes a ton of games unplayable.
Also, purists consider anything that implements these three rules to be a better record than something that omits three rules.
Charlotte Iserbyt is calling it a probable Soviet KGB conspiracy... which tends to damage her credibility. See http://www.newswithviews.com/i...
Despite this, she's still accurate when saying that the education system is in decay, as it shouldn't be that expensive to teach basic reading, writing and computation.
I have a Samsung computer monitor that isn't properly detected if I use the DVI cable, although the VGA cable works fine. This prevents Mac OS from detecting the monitor, and confuses Windows. (The technical details: it's not transmitting EDID over the DVI connection.)
The quick fix for Windows worked for a while, but a driver update changed how things work and would be constantly confused by that monitor. The proper fix requires opening the monitor, using a multimeter to find what's wrong with the DVI connector, and fixing or replacing it. This is not something you can do on a weekend, as opposed to fixing a larger appliance.
The problem isn't around knowledge, but that it requires equipment not expected to be in a normal home. A house can have tools available to fix large mechanical objects, but not extremely delicate electronics that require an electron scanning microscope to properly fix. The repair costs for devices usually indicate that the whole device has gone bad as opposed to an easily swapped component, meaning the manufacturers also have trouble getting things to work as well.
Actually, I got a popup that said your Adobe Flash is outdated, please update Adobe Flash, and here's an alert() box that prevents you from closing the page.
Omega was actually up to 0.90, but that version was rare as the official distribution channel wasn't trying to give it out.
It wasn't a popular roguelike as it was a little buggy... first version I encountered was for the Amiga, which caused the town guards to attack you if you joined the paladin's guild.