So I went to buy a laptop from bestbuy and this dude from the geeksquad told me they could make my cpu go 18% faster. I was baffled, I asked him, "so you're saying i'm buying a cpu that's 18% slower than what it says on the specs?". After giving him sarcastic replies for like 3mins, he finally told me they didn't have that system in stock, lol. The asshole probably wanted to sell that shit to some unsuspecting mom. Fuck the geeksquad.
"Normally Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) would help prevent successful exploitation. However, this product ships with a DLL (icucnv36.dll) that doesn’t have ASLR turned on."
So enable ASLR on the effing DLL and release a patch, problem solved? Nothing would make me work overtime and on the weekend than a highly visible level 1 bug. Adobe developers must have it good!
Is it just me or it's all hype and nothing to show for. Just because it has "google" and "apple" in it doesn't mean squat. They aren't relevant at all when it comes to TV.
It's a strange thing. It seems the only reason IE exists it to repeated punch microsofts reputation in the face. I'm surprised one executive hasn't gotten so fed up and fired the "IE team" or replaced them with monkeys. I watch Channel 9 and there are some seriously smart people working at this company and yet this one program has done more to harm the company's reputation like no other.
If the user's machine is compromised to the point where unauthorized dlls are replacing valid dlls that's not my problem as a software developer. The only validity to this bug is that windows allows dlls to be loaded from remote network locations (isn't this sort of stupid in the first place?).
I think the severity of this bug is blown out of proportion. The only idiots to blame is the idiot who did not secure his computer.
The only thing I remember about yahoo was back in 1995-96 when it was nothing but a single webpage with lots of links maintained by some chinese guy. Essentially that's what it remains..
I think the money is better spent on hiring/training more developers/testers than throwing it away on some wild west style campaign to weed bugs. Besides they would get swamped with thousands of duplicate or non existent bugs because SOMEONE WAS DOING IT WRONG, not to mention the "i found it first" and other related lawsuits. Waste of time and money for everyone and you and I the consumers won't benefit one bit. Finding a bug != fixing a bug.
Actually bugs can show up one in a million times. It happens quite often in the software universe, the main cause of this is external factors. I've heard crazy debugging stories about how bugs were detected only at certain times in the day due to heating issues. Finding software bugs in the field can be quite a challenge to nail down.
The amount of.net developer jobs out there is insane. Almost EVERYTHING is now.net, iphone development is kinda "hip" but it's not exactly a money maker at this point for anyone. I"m still stuck on old c/c++ development but that brings in the biggest and longest software contracts compared to the 3 week "do this iphone app for me" jobs.
There are very few games that are console only, I can only remember a handful games that are PS3 or xbox only, the rest you can buy for any platform you wish to play on. PC gaming is not dead, developers target it just as much as they do the consoles.
I took a week vacation in the states, and took my laptop with me. I had access to an IPAD, my laptop and blackberry. An IPAD is useless piece of junk, only good for websurfing, nobody really uses it for more than 10mins. Smartphones are great for checking facebook or looking up fifa scores and terrible at web browsing and the laptop is a lame version of my desktop.
In the end what I really needed was a portable computer as powerful as my desktop.
I don't remember exactly which site but while looking up some coding related issues for vs2010 port all of a sudden norton antivirus starts freaking out about malicious programs, then the UAC kicked in constantlhy asking to run cmd.exe prompting me to reboot. MSHTA.exe was hit with some trojan that tries to root the system. I got lucky with win7 64 and norton av, but yea it's weird a source code site would launch this nonsense.
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I would love to see his reaction to this
So I went to buy a laptop from bestbuy and this dude from the geeksquad told me they could make my cpu go 18% faster. I was baffled, I asked him, "so you're saying i'm buying a cpu that's 18% slower than what it says on the specs?". After giving him sarcastic replies for like 3mins, he finally told me they didn't have that system in stock, lol. The asshole probably wanted to sell that shit to some unsuspecting mom. Fuck the geeksquad.
According to the article..
"Normally Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) would help prevent successful exploitation. However, this product ships with a DLL (icucnv36.dll) that doesn’t have ASLR turned on."
So enable ASLR on the effing DLL and release a patch, problem solved? Nothing would make me work overtime and on the weekend than a highly visible level 1 bug. Adobe developers must have it good!
It makes us lazy, not stupid. It's not possible to lose intelligence already gained.
I thought it was Android month. Could be "people who like to give fish weed" month for all cared
Is it just me or it's all hype and nothing to show for. Just because it has "google" and "apple" in it doesn't mean squat. They aren't relevant at all when it comes to TV.
It's a strange thing. It seems the only reason IE exists it to repeated punch microsofts reputation in the face. I'm surprised one executive hasn't gotten so fed up and fired the "IE team" or replaced them with monkeys. I watch Channel 9 and there are some seriously smart people working at this company and yet this one program has done more to harm the company's reputation like no other.
There are lots of ridicilous patents. What are you so mad about?
If the user's machine is compromised to the point where unauthorized dlls are replacing valid dlls that's not my problem as a software developer. The only validity to this bug is that windows allows dlls to be loaded from remote network locations (isn't this sort of stupid in the first place?).
I think the severity of this bug is blown out of proportion. The only idiots to blame is the idiot who did not secure his computer.
you must construct additional pylons!
The only thing I remember about yahoo was back in 1995-96 when it was nothing but a single webpage with lots of links maintained by some chinese guy. Essentially that's what it remains..
I don't think Linux will die without Linus, but as long as he's there, he'll be the cock-block until he gets run over by a bus
I think the money is better spent on hiring/training more developers/testers than throwing it away on some wild west style campaign to weed bugs. Besides they would get swamped with thousands of duplicate or non existent bugs because SOMEONE WAS DOING IT WRONG, not to mention the "i found it first" and other related lawsuits. Waste of time and money for everyone and you and I the consumers won't benefit one bit. Finding a bug != fixing a bug.
Save your breath. If apple asked them for everything including their penis size, the applefanatics would glady give that info. Leave them be man.
Actually bugs can show up one in a million times. It happens quite often in the software universe, the main cause of this is external factors. I've heard crazy debugging stories about how bugs were detected only at certain times in the day due to heating issues. Finding software bugs in the field can be quite a challenge to nail down.
The problem, as stated many many times, the brakes don't work.
If it was purely driver error it would show up on quite a variety of cars, not just specific Toyota models.
The amount of .net developer jobs out there is insane. Almost EVERYTHING is now .net, iphone development is kinda "hip" but it's not exactly a money maker at this point for anyone. I"m still stuck on old c/c++ development but that brings in the biggest and longest software contracts compared to the 3 week "do this iphone app for me" jobs.
There are very few games that are console only, I can only remember a handful games that are PS3 or xbox only, the rest you can buy for any platform you wish to play on. PC gaming is not dead, developers target it just as much as they do the consoles.
where were you 5 years ago?
I took a week vacation in the states, and took my laptop with me. I had access to an IPAD, my laptop and blackberry. An IPAD is useless piece of junk, only good for websurfing, nobody really uses it for more than 10mins. Smartphones are great for checking facebook or looking up fifa scores and terrible at web browsing and the laptop is a lame version of my desktop.
In the end what I really needed was a portable computer as powerful as my desktop.
Hang on a second here. Did you just point out that MSN works kind of like Facebook, and then insinuate that this means the privacy is fine?
Of course not. I'm saying OMG MSN HAS A HUGE PRIVACY ISSUE when the biggest social website out there had this 2 years ago is a bit disingenuous
If your girlfriend tags you in a facebook picture everyone including your wife will see it too. What's the big deal?How is this a huge privacy hole?
I don't remember exactly which site but while looking up some coding related issues for vs2010 port all of a sudden norton antivirus starts freaking out about malicious programs, then the UAC kicked in constantlhy asking to run cmd.exe prompting me to reboot. MSHTA.exe was hit with some trojan that tries to root the system. I got lucky with win7 64 and norton av, but yea it's weird a source code site would launch this nonsense.
Why am I getting a DEP when trying to open that PDF link?