Yeah, just like open source OSes are just begging for viruses:D.
In order to cheat, you just need to modify your own game's code and play. To spread a virus, you have to find a way to take advantage of or modify code that other people are already running. It's a different ballgame that may make things harder for open-source gaming, and I look forward to seeing how these challenges are addressed. I still appreciate the humor behind your post, though.
I'm not the poster you're replying to, but I did chuckle a bit when I saw his post, to be honest. I'll try to explain what I think he meant, but keep in mind I can't really defend my rules of grammar much beyond "it just sounds wrong". I grew up being a bookworm, but I'm not an English major.
you'll look like sloppy to the people who do.
Like is unnecessary in this case. It makes the sentence sound awkward, as if it's missing a word. Alternatives might be "you'll look sloppy", or perhaps "you'll look like you're sloppy"
Remember that you're penning/typing your message not for yourself but for others to read, you should at least be respectful of the people reading and proof your own work.
Here a semi-colon would be better, rather than a comma; it's great for connecting two independent clauses without connecting words, and this sentence is intended to be an example of this. That, or you could use a word such as "and" after the comma.
I might be off on how it's spread, but I know of many other virus' that spread because of the JPG exploit. If I was at home I would dig up the sample image I have that if opened in IE it opens up a message box saying "Your browser is insecure!".
That particular popup you reference is typically presented as an image file that is designed to mimic a Windows dialog. You click it and it takes you to a site selling some snake oil or trying to exploit vulnerabilities, as you said. All it needs to be is an image inside an HTML link tag... I certainly wouldn't refer to hyperlinking an image file as a "JPG exploit."
Using the simple JavaScript that it does to make that message you can use it to open up popups to malicious webpages, offensive material, etc.
That's not an exploit, that's just abusing popups. A JPG exploit would be something where executable code is hidden inside of the JPG file itself. Perhaps you were referring to something else?
Thanks for saving me the rant. I was about to chime in, but then I saw you had beat me to it. My Tokyo apartment is also ridiculously poorly insulated, and in fact open holes to the outside are left in our wall ON PURPOSE to allow for dissipation of gas fumes and, incidentally, any leftover comfort as well! I do pay much less here for energy than I did in America, though...and with a good cover I don't really need the heat...but it would be nice to not have to put on a coat to walk into my own kitchen.
Oh, and for what it's worth I remember hearing about the Japanese iPhone frenzy when it first came out. There were lines of people waiting to get in just like everywhere else. Like I said, people are all about the fashion, and there are definitely Apple otaku here, but as technology goes the iPhone isn't all that unique.
P.S. - My Japanese isn't that good so some of my observations above may be influenced by my lack of awareness. I experience cell phones mostly from the viewpoint of a foreign consumer, not as a technology insider. Feel free to correct me.
Agreed. I went to Japan expecting it to be time travel. They would be flying around in cars miles above the city, teleporting from place to place, and tentacles would be all over the place just like deer or squirrels in the US.
Yes, my Japanese friends laugh when I talk about the stereotype many of my American friends have about Japan being so advanced. However, it is true that phones tend to be very different here.
My first enduring image of this reality was getting on the trains and realizing that many people were watching live video broadcasts on their phones...for free. Anyone with a 1seg receiver can receive live broadcasts.
When friends want to share their contact info with me, they open up their phone and send it to me via infrared. Unlike bluetooth, infrared requires that the two phones point at each other over a small distance. The range is very limited and so it's only useful for transmitting from one phone to another. However, this also means you don't have to exchange Bluetooth security codes, have Bluetooth names for your phone, figure out which one belongs to the person you're actually trying to talk to, etc. Interestingly, Bluetooth is not very popular here. I don't see people using the headsets, and my impression is that many phones don't even support it.
As for messaging, most people use their cell phones as their primary e-mail providers. E-mails are near-free on many plans and messaging is therefore irrelevant. However, in my experience it's easier here to experience disconnections when receiving e-mails, and sometimes there are unexplained delays that I did not experience with SMS in America. But, it is free (for me anyway), I can send and receive messages to non-cellular e-mail addresses, and I also don't seem to get any spam at all.
It is common for phones to have other features such as English dictionaries, games, etc. Of course cameras and audio are universal. There are also various payment systems that now use the cell phone as a debit card, this is true...but I don't often see people use them. Perhaps this has yet to take hold as a part of mobile culture here.
And, of course it is true that 3G was first implemented here and is widespread to the point where phones don't need to be backwards compatible and can therefore be smaller and more efficient.
There's also a crazy variance in terms of cost. I remember doing a poll of students to find out how much they pay for their phones...I heard anywhere from 2000 yen a month to 15000 yen a month (yes, that $150 US dollars.) Ironically, the feature set wasn't that different. People are willing to pay more for a phone that is more fashionable...even if the tech is more or less the same. In my case, my company has provided me with a cell phone and a contract. Mine is 3000 yen a month, and while it is not a smart phone (no GPS, no video) it does everything else listed here.
The downside of all this is that the mobile market here has effectively created its own little ecosystem, outside of which Japanese phones cannot survive due to different standards or different customer priorities. What good is 1seg outside of Japan? Why would you want a 3G-only phone in a country where you can only get 3G in the cities? Similarly it would be hard for an overseas maker to break into the Japanese market without investing in a ton of infrastructure that wouldn't be useful elsewhere. It seems that unlocked phones are very hard to find here, and since contracts are usually required foreigners are sometimes locked out. Some laws were passed to restrict the prepaid phone market because they were afraid of 'criminal activity'. Oh well.
So no, I wouldn't say that the tech is necessarily more advanced or that they are inately 'better' somehow...but in many cases it does tend to be more usefully implemented, with more availability. And it can lead to unexpected results or clashes with one's expectations. For example, unlike my cheap American phon
I don't entirely disagree with you, but it does require that the two situations are recognized as parallels to each other. I don't really think these are natural parallels, and I'll further illustrate my point by a touch of editing and fabrication:
Holmes, writing for a unanimous majority, ruled that it was illegal to pick your nose during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a "clear and present danger" to the government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
It would depend on whether one believes that picking one's nose is going to incite panic:)
I agree with you, personally I don't think there is a parallel at all. What's scary is that apparently the Supreme Court did.
Yes there is. Liable, yelling fire in a theater, etc..
Those aren't even censorship.
You're not being forbidden from saying anything, you're simply being held responsible for your actions.
I was going to write an entirely different post, but when I went to look up the example of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, look what I found on Wikipedia:
Holmes, writing for a unanimous majority, ruled that it was illegal to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a "clear and present danger" to the government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
Ironically, the example of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater was created to justify censorship of flyers opposing the military draft. The common thread seems to be that panic-inciting speech should not be allowed. Whether you consider this WWI example to be justified or not, preventing distribution of flyersis censorship. No doubt many censors, actual or would-be, believe in their own cause. They would naturally consider themselves to only be "holding others responsible for their actions." That's what scares me.
For what it's worth, I do not believe someone should be allowed to knowingly falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Technically, it isn't even censorship since no "media" is being used that can be edited or controlled in this scenario. I just think it's important to know that this oft-used example can be used to justify actual censorship.
Welcome to the exciting world of time zones, many people still think it's saturday, these are of course american idiots who wouldn't know what a GMT was if you told them and can't read a 24 hour clock to save their lives. It's not their fault that the US doesn't uses a single international standard, their country is screwed up.
I'm not aware of any country that requires its citizens to refer to Greenwich when stating what day it is, regardless of their own time zone. I kind of thought not having to do that was one of the good points of time zones, e.g. so that people in Japan wouldn't have to change their dates at 9 AM every morning. What time zone are you? Do you always check GMT before posting on Internet forums?
I definitely misread the headline as "IE8 Beta 2 Better Than Firefox and XP." For a second I'd thought the reduced sunspot activity had caused hell to freeze over, but...good to know all is still right with the world.
Second, it's patently untrue that Sinaiticus "makes no mention of the resurrection". The version of the gospel of Mark in it omits the last passage where Jesus appears to his disciples, but other post-resurrection appearances occur in the other gospels -- and even the Sinaiticus Mark version ends with an angel's pronouncement that he has risen. You can read an English translation for yourself here.
Third, the discovery of this text is old news. It is already frequently cited and used in Bible translations, often in the form of "consensus" Greek texts that have been compiled from many sources including the Sinaiticus for better accuracy.
The only thing new here is that it is digitized and put online. I'm sure this will be an awesome resource for original-language students...
The Catholic Church will probably not allow its followers to read it.
there were never any books I wasn't allowed to read while going to a Catholic school. The earth wasn't flat, gays weren't out to get me...
Can anyone spot the logical flaw in your argument that "I didn't know about any banned books therefore there were no banned books"?
Yes, there would be a logical flaw, if he were making that argument. Rather than saying there were never any banned books, he was responding to the original post, which says "The Catholic Church will probably not allow its followers to read it." A pretty nebulous assertion without reference, countered by a completely understandable rant about how many prejudices there are about present-day Catholics. IANAC, however, so I'd be speaking from ignorance as well.
Hey, um...did you read GP all the way? He's saying wait until day 4. Go back and read about one sentence before the part you quoted; it says you have to return the equipment only if you want to exercise an option to refund your activation fee and cancel within three days. We're not using this option - we're cancelling the normal way, by waiting until day four and paying the activation fee and early termination fee, so this doesn't apply to us. Even with all those fees added up, it's still cheaper.
The "Control" meme is from Get Smart, which came out a week or two ago. So yes, it is pretty recent...unless you happen to have watched the series from the 60s.
Wow. Your comment about "Of Pandas and People" seemed ridiculous enough to be just a rumor, but I went and looked it up and lo and behold, the Wikipedia story is even more ridiculous (and entertaining). Yes, they literally replaced "creationist" with "intelligent design" but didn't do it very carefully...what a mess!
You do realize, by the way, that GP included several examples of falsifiable events that Creationism would seek to test, thus meeting one of the oft-cited criteria for something meriting the label of science. If you want to attack GP though, go for the three-part dichotomy (trichotomy?) made from the start about the Bible being the source of the hypotheses and what to do if the evidence contradicts these hypotheses. It's a rubric I could conceivably consider as a Christian, but if one has not made that leap to believing the Bible is true, why in the world would that be taught in a public school of all places, where that assumption clearly is neither proven nor accepted?
They have China, which causes similar controversies to what the Mexican immigrant issue carries in the U.S.. However, there are a lot more barriers to the Chinese entering Japan as workers (such as there being no common land border). Their community in Japan is much smaller proportionally than the community of Mexicans in America. Wikipedia knows more: Chinese People in Japan
-- Joren
Sarcasm aside what has happened is actually all very standard practices...
Perhaps you missed this dirty trick? "Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML?" Eh, well, I guess that probably is "standard" practice by now for a company of their size. Doesn't make it right...
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Frog. Kettle of water. Slowly apply heat.
That doesn't actually work.
...uh, I hear.
Snopes agrees. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
Yeah, just like open source OSes are just begging for viruses :D.
In order to cheat, you just need to modify your own game's code and play. To spread a virus, you have to find a way to take advantage of or modify code that other people are already running. It's a different ballgame that may make things harder for open-source gaming, and I look forward to seeing how these challenges are addressed. I still appreciate the humor behind your post, though.
you'll look like sloppy to the people who do.
Like is unnecessary in this case. It makes the sentence sound awkward, as if it's missing a word. Alternatives might be "you'll look sloppy", or perhaps "you'll look like you're sloppy"
Remember that you're penning/typing your message not for yourself but for others to read, you should at least be respectful of the people reading and proof your own work.
Here a semi-colon would be better, rather than a comma; it's great for connecting two independent clauses without connecting words, and this sentence is intended to be an example of this. That, or you could use a word such as "and" after the comma.
I might be off on how it's spread, but I know of many other virus' that spread because of the JPG exploit. If I was at home I would dig up the sample image I have that if opened in IE it opens up a message box saying "Your browser is insecure!".
That particular popup you reference is typically presented as an image file that is designed to mimic a Windows dialog. You click it and it takes you to a site selling some snake oil or trying to exploit vulnerabilities, as you said. All it needs to be is an image inside an HTML link tag... I certainly wouldn't refer to hyperlinking an image file as a "JPG exploit."
Using the simple JavaScript that it does to make that message you can use it to open up popups to malicious webpages, offensive material, etc.
That's not an exploit, that's just abusing popups. A JPG exploit would be something where executable code is hidden inside of the JPG file itself. Perhaps you were referring to something else?
It's the eternal beta of the spotless cloud!
Thanks for saving me the rant. I was about to chime in, but then I saw you had beat me to it. My Tokyo apartment is also ridiculously poorly insulated, and in fact open holes to the outside are left in our wall ON PURPOSE to allow for dissipation of gas fumes and, incidentally, any leftover comfort as well! I do pay much less here for energy than I did in America, though...and with a good cover I don't really need the heat...but it would be nice to not have to put on a coat to walk into my own kitchen.
Oh, and for what it's worth I remember hearing about the Japanese iPhone frenzy when it first came out. There were lines of people waiting to get in just like everywhere else. Like I said, people are all about the fashion, and there are definitely Apple otaku here, but as technology goes the iPhone isn't all that unique.
P.S. - My Japanese isn't that good so some of my observations above may be influenced by my lack of awareness. I experience cell phones mostly from the viewpoint of a foreign consumer, not as a technology insider. Feel free to correct me.
Agreed. I went to Japan expecting it to be time travel. They would be flying around in cars miles above the city, teleporting from place to place, and tentacles would be all over the place just like deer or squirrels in the US.
Yes, my Japanese friends laugh when I talk about the stereotype many of my American friends have about Japan being so advanced. However, it is true that phones tend to be very different here.
My first enduring image of this reality was getting on the trains and realizing that many people were watching live video broadcasts on their phones...for free. Anyone with a 1seg receiver can receive live broadcasts.
When friends want to share their contact info with me, they open up their phone and send it to me via infrared. Unlike bluetooth, infrared requires that the two phones point at each other over a small distance. The range is very limited and so it's only useful for transmitting from one phone to another. However, this also means you don't have to exchange Bluetooth security codes, have Bluetooth names for your phone, figure out which one belongs to the person you're actually trying to talk to, etc. Interestingly, Bluetooth is not very popular here. I don't see people using the headsets, and my impression is that many phones don't even support it.
As for messaging, most people use their cell phones as their primary e-mail providers. E-mails are near-free on many plans and messaging is therefore irrelevant. However, in my experience it's easier here to experience disconnections when receiving e-mails, and sometimes there are unexplained delays that I did not experience with SMS in America. But, it is free (for me anyway), I can send and receive messages to non-cellular e-mail addresses, and I also don't seem to get any spam at all.
It is common for phones to have other features such as English dictionaries, games, etc. Of course cameras and audio are universal. There are also various payment systems that now use the cell phone as a debit card, this is true...but I don't often see people use them. Perhaps this has yet to take hold as a part of mobile culture here.
And, of course it is true that 3G was first implemented here and is widespread to the point where phones don't need to be backwards compatible and can therefore be smaller and more efficient.
There's also a crazy variance in terms of cost. I remember doing a poll of students to find out how much they pay for their phones...I heard anywhere from 2000 yen a month to 15000 yen a month (yes, that $150 US dollars.) Ironically, the feature set wasn't that different. People are willing to pay more for a phone that is more fashionable...even if the tech is more or less the same. In my case, my company has provided me with a cell phone and a contract. Mine is 3000 yen a month, and while it is not a smart phone (no GPS, no video) it does everything else listed here.
The downside of all this is that the mobile market here has effectively created its own little ecosystem, outside of which Japanese phones cannot survive due to different standards or different customer priorities. What good is 1seg outside of Japan? Why would you want a 3G-only phone in a country where you can only get 3G in the cities? Similarly it would be hard for an overseas maker to break into the Japanese market without investing in a ton of infrastructure that wouldn't be useful elsewhere. It seems that unlocked phones are very hard to find here, and since contracts are usually required foreigners are sometimes locked out. Some laws were passed to restrict the prepaid phone market because they were afraid of 'criminal activity'. Oh well.
So no, I wouldn't say that the tech is necessarily more advanced or that they are inately 'better' somehow...but in many cases it does tend to be more usefully implemented, with more availability. And it can lead to unexpected results or clashes with one's expectations. For example, unlike my cheap American phon
[...] who cares if the Japanese do or don't like the iPhone?
Apparently Slashdot editors cared, because they posted two stories about it. Is that the same as the general public caring?
I don't entirely disagree with you, but it does require that the two situations are recognized as parallels to each other. I don't really think these are natural parallels, and I'll further illustrate my point by a touch of editing and fabrication:
Holmes, writing for a unanimous majority, ruled that it was illegal to pick your nose during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a "clear and present danger" to the government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
It would depend on whether one believes that picking one's nose is going to incite panic :)
I agree with you, personally I don't think there is a parallel at all. What's scary is that apparently the Supreme Court did.
Yes there is. Liable, yelling fire in a theater, etc..
Those aren't even censorship.
You're not being forbidden from saying anything, you're simply being held responsible for your actions.
I was going to write an entirely different post, but when I went to look up the example of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, look what I found on Wikipedia:
Holmes, writing for a unanimous majority, ruled that it was illegal to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a "clear and present danger" to the government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
Ironically, the example of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater was created to justify censorship of flyers opposing the military draft. The common thread seems to be that panic-inciting speech should not be allowed. Whether you consider this WWI example to be justified or not, preventing distribution of flyersis censorship. No doubt many censors, actual or would-be, believe in their own cause. They would naturally consider themselves to only be "holding others responsible for their actions." That's what scares me.
For what it's worth, I do not believe someone should be allowed to knowingly falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Technically, it isn't even censorship since no "media" is being used that can be edited or controlled in this scenario. I just think it's important to know that this oft-used example can be used to justify actual censorship.
You're right. Use of simplistic labels is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and the FIRST refuge of a typical brain dead American citizen.
Irony noted in bold for your reading pleasure
just because you heard it on fox news doesn't mean it's incorrect.
I just want to say again, Yes it does!
So when Fox News reports that Obama won the election, does that mean that in reality McCain won?
Welcome to the exciting world of time zones, many people still think it's saturday, these are of course american idiots who wouldn't know what a GMT was if you told them and can't read a 24 hour clock to save their lives. It's not their fault that the US doesn't uses a single international standard, their country is screwed up.
I'm not aware of any country that requires its citizens to refer to Greenwich when stating what day it is, regardless of their own time zone. I kind of thought not having to do that was one of the good points of time zones, e.g. so that people in Japan wouldn't have to change their dates at 9 AM every morning. What time zone are you? Do you always check GMT before posting on Internet forums?
I definitely misread the headline as "IE8 Beta 2 Better Than Firefox and XP." For a second I'd thought the reduced sunspot activity had caused hell to freeze over, but...good to know all is still right with the world.
Would you like to join forces? I just happen to be the greatest criminal mind of our time.
Where to start, where to start...
First of all, there's some dispute as to whether Sinaiticus is indeed the oldest -- a cursory Google will show that Codex Vaticanus is believed by some to be older.
Second, it's patently untrue that Sinaiticus "makes no mention of the resurrection". The version of the gospel of Mark in it omits the last passage where Jesus appears to his disciples, but other post-resurrection appearances occur in the other gospels -- and even the Sinaiticus Mark version ends with an angel's pronouncement that he has risen. You can read an English translation for yourself here.
Third, the discovery of this text is old news. It is already frequently cited and used in Bible translations, often in the form of "consensus" Greek texts that have been compiled from many sources including the Sinaiticus for better accuracy. The only thing new here is that it is digitized and put online. I'm sure this will be an awesome resource for original-language students...
The Catholic Church will probably not allow its followers to read it.
there were never any books I wasn't allowed to read while going to a Catholic school. The earth wasn't flat, gays weren't out to get me...
Can anyone spot the logical flaw in your argument that "I didn't know about any banned books therefore there were no banned books"?
Yes, there would be a logical flaw, if he were making that argument. Rather than saying there were never any banned books, he was responding to the original post, which says "The Catholic Church will probably not allow its followers to read it." A pretty nebulous assertion without reference, countered by a completely understandable rant about how many prejudices there are about present-day Catholics. IANAC, however, so I'd be speaking from ignorance as well.
Hey, um...did you read GP all the way? He's saying wait until day 4. Go back and read about one sentence before the part you quoted; it says you have to return the equipment only if you want to exercise an option to refund your activation fee and cancel within three days. We're not using this option - we're cancelling the normal way, by waiting until day four and paying the activation fee and early termination fee, so this doesn't apply to us. Even with all those fees added up, it's still cheaper.
I personally wouldn't buy the thing either way...
The "Control" meme is from Get Smart, which came out a week or two ago. So yes, it is pretty recent...unless you happen to have watched the series from the 60s.
Wow. Your comment about "Of Pandas and People" seemed ridiculous enough to be just a rumor, but I went and looked it up and lo and behold, the Wikipedia story is even more ridiculous (and entertaining). Yes, they literally replaced "creationist" with "intelligent design" but didn't do it very carefully...what a mess!
For those interested, Pandas and "cdesign proponentsists"
You do realize, by the way, that GP included several examples of falsifiable events that Creationism would seek to test, thus meeting one of the oft-cited criteria for something meriting the label of science. If you want to attack GP though, go for the three-part dichotomy (trichotomy?) made from the start about the Bible being the source of the hypotheses and what to do if the evidence contradicts these hypotheses. It's a rubric I could conceivably consider as a Christian, but if one has not made that leap to believing the Bible is true, why in the world would that be taught in a public school of all places, where that assumption clearly is neither proven nor accepted?
They have China, which causes similar controversies to what the Mexican immigrant issue carries in the U.S.. However, there are a lot more barriers to the Chinese entering Japan as workers (such as there being no common land border). Their community in Japan is much smaller proportionally than the community of Mexicans in America. Wikipedia knows more: Chinese People in Japan -- Joren
Modu's website - Featuring a 'stay tuned' footer and a promo video montage of disorienting close-ups! (click the "Modu It" button)
The article that I got the link from also has a picture of their CEO showing off the base unit: Modu to launch tiny phone 'module'
We so need a 'WTF' mod...