please forgive my ignorance, if my prejudice is in any way misguided, but i am under the impression that the attack vector, in actual fact, is flash, as i cannot see how a simple image, or even a "normal" video, could possibly compromise a target machine, whereas i understand adobe is full of holes, deliberate or otherwise.
or, to put it another way, i've never seen a machine compromised, to date, after wiping adobe (hack, spit) from the system.
while i'm at it - am i correct to believe the company was actually responsible for jailing a man, a foreign national, without charges, for well over a year, in direct response to his having exposed the insecurity of an adobe "security" mechanism?
can anyone indicate that we're dealing with this shit, yet?
it's as important as the environment and climate, files under both, really...
aside from the obvious solution of turning them all into confetti deliberately, to make an umbrella, should we fail to fix the warming problem sensibly...
is there anything practical being done, to limit the amount of crap we send up?
this has been demonstrated (on bang goes the theory, for eg, i don't have the link) to work using scale models, where a strobed laser pulse is used to turn air to plasma inside a simple parabolic reflector, to direct the explosion downward.
perhaps a combination of the two, begining with laser/air, and phasing toward h2/uwave?
i have to admit i know nothing of the people behind./ and have really only been reading for the news and the chance to yell back at the boxen, occasionally.
this has drawn me in, i expect i will regret that it did.
hello sk, i think i'm sorry i yelled at you below, but i also expect you've been prepared to duck since you hit submit.
i learned today that firehose is where the news is, and am now in search of an rss for this, as opposed to the one that shows up bonostyle in my feed reader.
i think i learned also that (a) this is not too common an occurance around here and (b) there exist a way for people to complain about, when it happens.
i think that's ok so far.
all that remains is to see what slashdot have to say when they report on themselves, as they say they will.
in the meantime - thanks for all the fish and that?
when you finally wake up from your party, please also explain why you picked the submission that managed to down play the fact that your parent overlords are wrapping GIMP - our DEARLY BELOVED GIMP - in.. i can't find the words to describe the insult... deep breath..
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
The GIMP developers aren't happy at all about this. They say that Sourceforge impersonated the GIMP developers, and abused the trademarks owned by the GNOME foundation.
if you make the frame from wood, you lock up carbon. steel is a total waste of resources, also conducts lightning through the frame of the building.
plastic is the worst possible choice for the panels, almost anything else is better, as long as it is reasonably fireproof.
sometimes long life is a bad thing - plastic is damned hard to keep clean, and harbours disease - it would be far better if the panels were made of something local, cheap and recycleable, that needed to be replaced at least yearly.
with a little bit of careful thought, just about any country could produce it's own emergency shelter system out of local resources.
funny how the western world becomes less and less competent at anything, the fatter and more ikea it gets.
these people should give up saving the planet, and learn how to feed their own children properly, they are becoming as dumb as the cows that seem to be the only thing they eat.
the tests they show only serve to demonstrate how slow python string concatenation is. they then go on to say that disk writes are bufferered more sensibly, and this is why they are faster. the key thing to notice is that disk buffering happens in **memory**.
(or related agency) published a detailed study on this subject in the late 90s.
as far as i remember i found this report on The Well, but i have since lost track of the file, and if anyone knows about it, i would really appreciate a chace to study it again.
the report was notable, as i remember, because it actually went so far as to suggest that weed makes better drivers - basically because they are more relaxed and therefore more likely to make the correct decisions in an emergency.
Slashdot Mirror
please forgive my ignorance, if my prejudice is in any way misguided, but i am under the impression that the attack vector, in actual fact, is flash, as i cannot see how a simple image, or even a "normal" video, could possibly compromise a target machine, whereas i understand adobe is full of holes, deliberate or otherwise.
or, to put it another way, i've never seen a machine compromised, to date, after wiping adobe (hack, spit) from the system.
while i'm at it - am i correct to believe the company was actually responsible for jailing a man, a foreign national, without charges, for well over a year, in direct response to his having exposed the insecurity of an adobe "security" mechanism?
can anyone indicate that we're dealing with this shit, yet?
it's as important as the environment and climate, files under both, really...
aside from the obvious solution of turning them all into confetti deliberately, to make an umbrella, should we fail to fix the warming problem sensibly...
is there anything practical being done, to limit the amount of crap we send up?
RTFA, numbnuts.
is this part of the incumbent's (party's) plan to win the next one?
why else wait until now to announce?
this has been demonstrated (on bang goes the theory, for eg, i don't have the link) to work using scale models, where a strobed laser pulse is used to turn air to plasma inside a simple parabolic reflector, to direct the explosion downward.
perhaps a combination of the two, begining with laser/air, and phasing toward h2/uwave?
i wish i still had mod points, i would vote this the most important news of the decade.
amongst other items, i do admit..
also desperately need the words to "eighty three blues", as written/performed by milo, as my cover arrangement is proving quite popular.
please be well, bb, sir, and thank you very much indeed for doing what you do so well.
this seems to the takeaway - NEWS is found in the firehose - slashdot per se is more the DICE magazine section.
i have to admit i know nothing of the people behind ./ and have really only been reading for the news and the chance to yell back at the boxen, occasionally.
this has drawn me in, i expect i will regret that it did.
hello sk, i think i'm sorry i yelled at you below, but i also expect you've been prepared to duck since you hit submit.
i learned today that firehose is where the news is, and am now in search of an rss for this, as opposed to the one that shows up bonostyle in my feed reader.
i think i learned also that (a) this is not too common an occurance around here and (b) there exist a way for people to complain about, when it happens.
i think that's ok so far.
all that remains is to see what slashdot have to say when they report on themselves, as they say they will.
in the meantime - thanks for all the fish and that?
or not - please feel free to correct me.
when you finally wake up from your party, please also explain why you picked the submission that managed to down play the fact that your parent overlords are wrapping GIMP - our DEARLY BELOVED GIMP - in.. i can't find the words to describe the insult... deep breath..
you FAIL.
none of us is convinced.
what soul?
** answer me, damn you **
i don't mind being wrong about this - correct me.
i also love slashdot.
i do NOT like this.
SourceFarce MUST allow reporting and discussion of it's actions here on SlashOwned, or we WILL know the reason why?
SourceForge, the code repository site owned by Slashdot Media, has apparently seized control of the account hosting GIMP for Windows on the service, according to e-mails and discussions amongst members of the GIMP community—locking out GIMP's lead Windows developer. And now anyone downloading the Windows version of the open source image editing tool from SourceForge gets the software wrapped in an installer replete with advertisements.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
The GIMP developers aren't happy at all about this. They say that Sourceforge impersonated the GIMP developers, and abused the trademarks owned by the GNOME foundation.
https://mail.gnome.org/archive...
perhaps because it's a floating point value?
how else would you compare it?
ie - what the bleep are you on about?
please make it so, the roots of this disease go deep, and the creeps responsible must be purged.
will be killed by the cars you idiots drive.
park it, learn to walk again, you thugs.
"A key challenge has been finding materials capable of producing sufficient voltage after repeated cycles of charging and discharging."
they seem to have accomplished this.
it is good news.
git is an essential - spent a lot of the later part of my working life trying to build something similar, but linus did it just right.
there is something about mr torvalds and the way he thinks that we cannot do without.
he finds methods that actually really work.
doing software without torvalds would be like riding fish without a bicycle.
if you make the frame from wood, you lock up carbon. steel is a total waste of resources, also conducts lightning through the frame of the building.
plastic is the worst possible choice for the panels, almost anything else is better, as long as it is reasonably fireproof.
sometimes long life is a bad thing - plastic is damned hard to keep clean, and harbours disease - it would be far better if the panels were made of something local, cheap and recycleable, that needed to be replaced at least yearly.
with a little bit of careful thought, just about any country could produce it's own emergency shelter system out of local resources.
funny how the western world becomes less and less competent at anything, the fatter and more ikea it gets.
these people should give up saving the planet, and learn how to feed their own children properly, they are becoming as dumb as the cows that seem to be the only thing they eat.
the tests they show only serve to demonstrate how slow python string concatenation is.
they then go on to say that disk writes are bufferered more sensibly, and this is why they are faster.
the key thing to notice is that disk buffering happens in **memory**.
memory is still, and will remain, much faster.
you just have to use it properly.
clarkson has made a career out of being a dinosaur, and i think he knows it.
you're welcome in the real world jeremy and i, for one, am interested to see what you will make of your new life.
webnames.ca have been excellent, been with them going on twenty years.
build a track suit, generate power from running, use this for cooling, stick a little hamster logo on it...
when i searched i kept getting links to some stupid escape media tv serial out of the blighted states.
says a lot, really, the things our resepective cultures prefer.
(or related agency) published a detailed study on this subject in the late 90s.
as far as i remember i found this report on The Well, but i have since lost track of the file, and if anyone knows about it, i would really appreciate a chace to study it again.
the report was notable, as i remember, because it actually went so far as to suggest that weed makes better drivers - basically because they are more relaxed and therefore more likely to make the correct decisions in an emergency.
4.20, of course.
ars technica makes the point that neither radio shack nor sprint are willing to comment on this story, let alone confirm it.
http://arstechnica.com/busines...