See, you're assuming some sort of Pagan monoculture that didn't exist. 99% of pagans throughout Europe had never heard of Yule. Sure, many non-christian cultures have celebrations around the end of December. It's near an astronomically significant event, and besides, there are only 365 days a year, it's inevitable that people casting around for holidays will fall near one that someone else somewhere has already decided to use as a holiday. But just because two events happen to fall near each other on the calendar doesn't mean that one was placed there to coincide with the other.
Your assertion about Yule being the source of Christmas doesn't even make sense on the surface... Yule was a tradition of mostly the pagans on the British isles, and a few of the Nordic lands (though with different practices and names). Christianity for it's first few hundred years was centered around Rome and Greece, whose non-christian religions didn't celebrate any holiday called Yule. It's pretty clear that Christmas was an established holiday within the church long before Norway and England ever rose to any sort of prominence within Christian culture. I've never met anyone Further, I've never actually met anyone who called late December "Yuletide" except for pagans, songwriters (who are constantly seeking synonyms to match rhyme and meter), and Halmark Card writers. Given that almost all of our "long standing Christmas traditions" aren't much more than 200 years old, it's hard to claim that the early church adapted them from the culture of a particular Germanic Pagan belief system that they encountered on the other side of the continent from where they were starting up. It's like saying that McDonalds stole the idea for making Big Macs from The Chinese when Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada... After All, what better way to defeat the Spanish Navy than to give them all coronaries with massively fatty foods?
I find it ironic that the first thing your search returns is a link discussing another instance of police finding spousal murder evidence in a search history 3 years ago:
All of this was predicated on "Single Sales" reported to Audit Bureau of Circulations... It seems like that might be an incomplete picture though. It doesn't seem to include sales through bodies like "Zinio" which offer electronic subscriptions, rather than through the iTunes market which appears to only offer issues on a one-for-one basis. Given that I can grab a 12 issue subscription to Popular Science from Zinio for $19.99 instead of paying $36 to buy all twelve of those issues from the iTunes Store, and I get the automatic convenience of delivery rather than having to remember each month to go find the new issue, I don't find it surprising that the sales numbers for individual issues is down. After the initial rush of "Ooh, shiny" people are inevitably going to look for lower cost options to the app store ripoffs.
Additionally, I haven't used the iPad specifically, but having tried to read pdf magazines on my 1024x768 monitor back in the day, I would imagine that it's also annoying to try to read the formatting in the magazines on a screen with such low resolution. It seems like the options would be to either show only part of a page at a time (making it annoyingly difficult to read columnar text) or to re-format the text to fit on the screen. If they're re-formatting the text to fit on the screen, then what makes a magazine better than reading the magazine's website? Ease of Archival?
See, if the FCC does something I don't like, I can lobby congress, the president and my elected officials to change the rules the FCC operates by. It's called a constitutional democracy (or republic, depending on who you're asking)
If AT&T does something I don't like, I can go pound sand. It's called a Corporate Oligarchy.
If his principles are based on false assumptions, and he gets new information that proves his old principles wrong, then yes... Despite the media's outrage at people "flip-flopping", when you find out you were wrong about something, it's not just acceptable, but actually a good idea to change your mind.
The vulnerability in any network is rarely the connections themselves, but rather the end points. We've long known how to run an encrypted "darknet" style tunnel. I2P and Freenet just work out the routing on darknets. There's a fundamental problem though with keeping information secure, while storing it on a network. It's the old "x people can keep a secret if x-1 of them is dead." conundrum.
Not quite true... Most cops in the U.S. are people who want to do the right thing, and want to do a good job keeping the people who pay their salaries safe. There are a few fucked up power trippers, but for the most part, they just want to finish their shift and go home like anyone else, preferably while leaving things work a little better than they were yesterday.
Most of the cases I've seen where police roughed someone up, it's because the person was yelling at them, or was doing something blatantly illegal and refused to stop. There are of course a few cases where officers have way over-reacted, but as long as you are polite but firm, know your rights and when and how to invoke them, 99% of police officers aren't going to randomly beat you up for refusing to let them search your car.
Interestingly, there were more than twice as many retail store supervisors killed on the job in violent assaults in the United States last year than police officers, so I'm not sure "Occupational Hazard" is quite the right word. However, you're generally right. Answer their questions politely, be aware of your rights, and know when to invoke them and how. It's just common courtesy to another human being.
It sounds to me like this result set is very WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic). Though of course, that bias is actually listed in the OP, as it refers to the question of whether the western desire to stamp out naturally occurring body odors could be a contributing cause to infertility and erectile dysfunction.
The AVM Spec is publically available on Adobe's website... If you want to implement an open source alternate to Flash, you're more than welcome to. Heck, large swaths of the Flash codebase itself are actually open source, kinda like the OpenJDK stuff.
Flash ActionScript isn't native code... It's VM'ed. If it was native code, it would at least run faster. Now, that doesn't stop someone from putting native code into a string, and pushing that string past an array boundary (which sounds like what this exploit is), but the AVM Bytecode itself isn't native code. The same sort of exploit was happening in Java just a few weeks ago, see CVE-2010-3552.
Actually, it's almost the reverse problem... New devices (mostly) universally support IPv6, which has plenty of unallocated IP Space (we can allocate 200 quadrillion IPv6 addresses per square inch of land on the planet) popular and actively maintained services either have already, or will soon move over to providing services on an IPv6 address. ICANN has already switched over their root DNS Servers to resolve IPv6, and most larger ISPs are following suit. So, if you've got a new device on an ISP who has updated their DNS servers to work with IPv6, and you're accessing a popular website that has been updated to IPv6, you might already be using IPv6 and never notice the difference.
There's a lot of ifs in that statement though. Plus there's a pile of legacy OSes and TCP/IP stacks that won't work with IPv6, so while you might be able to access Amazon, Google, and Facebook, it may be that your corporate payroll system is run off an old Windows NT4 system, which isn't IPv6 capable, so your whole corporate network is held up on the IPv6 migration because that NT4 system isn't IPv6 capable, and the payroll system isn't compatible with Windows Server 2008.
Plus, even some modern equipment/software from low-price vendors is lacking IPv6 support, because it hasn't been cost-effective to add it. Current versions of Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and iOS all support IPv6, but the custom software stack in the Avaya IP-based phone on my desk probably doesn't. Nor does the $20 ZyXEL WiFi gateway that I picked up 2 years ago off the cheap shelf at Frys
You do realize that would ban the existence of LLCs and any corporation, effectively disbanding every single business in the United States?
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but wow, talk about killing small business.
Only people with MBAs should make more than $100k? You're joking right? Why is a Masters degree in Business Administration more valuable than a PHd in Computational Linguistics just to grab an example out of midair?
I consistently have h264 html5 video hard crash my system (BSOD) while Flash videos have yet to do so. Just another reference point.
By the by, I tried to link to this drawing I made in a HTML5 app, to explain my point, but I guess that HTML5 was designed before people thought up "Linking" on the internet, so it's not possible. Sorry. You'll have to draw one yourself. http://bomomo.com/
I would have used one of Apple's HTML5 demos, but Unfortunately I'm using a Webkit based browser that wasn't made by them, so the cross-platform HTML5 doesn't work.
HTML5 and Flash address different problems. There's some crossover (un-DRMed video, Vector 2d Graphics), but overall, they're generally very different.
That's fine if only advertisers use the Canvas tag, but what happens once everyone else starts using Canvas tags too.
Of course, the same holds true with FlashBlock and things like the Google Finance, but at least the Flash elements are all SWF files coming from domains that can be easily blocked.
So when Advertisers finally switch over to HTML5, and Flash is dead, are you going to Disable HTML5 in all your browsers and uninstall HTML5 from your important systems?
Yeah, Django and Rails will go away approximately 30 years after Cobol finally dies.
Wait, what's that? Cobol 2002 is close to approving OO extensions? Ah crap... We're going to be stuck with Rails forever!
Seriously, when was the last time you ran a Flash app that required more than 4GB of RAM? Anything that big shouldn't be in Flash... Sure someday it might be necessary, but nobody today is writing apps that require a 64bit version of Flash. When you start writing a database server in AS3, then maybe it'll be worthwhile to have a 64bit flash VM, but for your average browser, it works the same in 32 bit mode as it does in 64.
Not quite... Really only A, and E are relevant, since B and D are implied by E, and C doesn't make any difference at all.
If my property in California is going to be underwater in 10 years, I don't care if it's a natural cycle, I just want to know if I should sell now, or expect to spend a few thousand a year between now and then to prevent having to sell it and move inland.
No, it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Very different.
Apple does have a problem with Flash Content, because it threatens their API Lockin. All of the fluff about user experience and running slowly is just a smokescreen for the lockin problem. If it was a performance problem, due to bad software development, then they would catch it in their App Review process before putting it on the store.
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See, you're assuming some sort of Pagan monoculture that didn't exist. 99% of pagans throughout Europe had never heard of Yule. Sure, many non-christian cultures have celebrations around the end of December. It's near an astronomically significant event, and besides, there are only 365 days a year, it's inevitable that people casting around for holidays will fall near one that someone else somewhere has already decided to use as a holiday. But just because two events happen to fall near each other on the calendar doesn't mean that one was placed there to coincide with the other.
Your assertion about Yule being the source of Christmas doesn't even make sense on the surface... Yule was a tradition of mostly the pagans on the British isles, and a few of the Nordic lands (though with different practices and names). Christianity for it's first few hundred years was centered around Rome and Greece, whose non-christian religions didn't celebrate any holiday called Yule. It's pretty clear that Christmas was an established holiday within the church long before Norway and England ever rose to any sort of prominence within Christian culture. I've never met anyone Further, I've never actually met anyone who called late December "Yuletide" except for pagans, songwriters (who are constantly seeking synonyms to match rhyme and meter), and Halmark Card writers. Given that almost all of our "long standing Christmas traditions" aren't much more than 200 years old, it's hard to claim that the early church adapted them from the culture of a particular Germanic Pagan belief system that they encountered on the other side of the continent from where they were starting up. It's like saying that McDonalds stole the idea for making Big Macs from The Chinese when Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada... After All, what better way to defeat the Spanish Navy than to give them all coronaries with massively fatty foods?
I find it ironic that the first thing your search returns is a link discussing another instance of police finding spousal murder evidence in a search history 3 years ago:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070313/214910.shtml
Of course, that was a woman killing her husband, so we definitely need to rehash it on Slashdot now that the genders are reversed.
All of this was predicated on "Single Sales" reported to Audit Bureau of Circulations... It seems like that might be an incomplete picture though. It doesn't seem to include sales through bodies like "Zinio" which offer electronic subscriptions, rather than through the iTunes market which appears to only offer issues on a one-for-one basis. Given that I can grab a 12 issue subscription to Popular Science from Zinio for $19.99 instead of paying $36 to buy all twelve of those issues from the iTunes Store, and I get the automatic convenience of delivery rather than having to remember each month to go find the new issue, I don't find it surprising that the sales numbers for individual issues is down. After the initial rush of "Ooh, shiny" people are inevitably going to look for lower cost options to the app store ripoffs.
Additionally, I haven't used the iPad specifically, but having tried to read pdf magazines on my 1024x768 monitor back in the day, I would imagine that it's also annoying to try to read the formatting in the magazines on a screen with such low resolution. It seems like the options would be to either show only part of a page at a time (making it annoyingly difficult to read columnar text) or to re-format the text to fit on the screen. If they're re-formatting the text to fit on the screen, then what makes a magazine better than reading the magazine's website? Ease of Archival?
See, if the FCC does something I don't like, I can lobby congress, the president and my elected officials to change the rules the FCC operates by. It's called a constitutional democracy (or republic, depending on who you're asking)
If AT&T does something I don't like, I can go pound sand. It's called a Corporate Oligarchy.
If his principles are based on false assumptions, and he gets new information that proves his old principles wrong, then yes... Despite the media's outrage at people "flip-flopping", when you find out you were wrong about something, it's not just acceptable, but actually a good idea to change your mind.
The vulnerability in any network is rarely the connections themselves, but rather the end points. We've long known how to run an encrypted "darknet" style tunnel. I2P and Freenet just work out the routing on darknets. There's a fundamental problem though with keeping information secure, while storing it on a network. It's the old "x people can keep a secret if x-1 of them is dead." conundrum.
Not quite true... Most cops in the U.S. are people who want to do the right thing, and want to do a good job keeping the people who pay their salaries safe. There are a few fucked up power trippers, but for the most part, they just want to finish their shift and go home like anyone else, preferably while leaving things work a little better than they were yesterday.
Most of the cases I've seen where police roughed someone up, it's because the person was yelling at them, or was doing something blatantly illegal and refused to stop. There are of course a few cases where officers have way over-reacted, but as long as you are polite but firm, know your rights and when and how to invoke them, 99% of police officers aren't going to randomly beat you up for refusing to let them search your car.
Interestingly, there were more than twice as many retail store supervisors killed on the job in violent assaults in the United States last year than police officers, so I'm not sure "Occupational Hazard" is quite the right word. However, you're generally right. Answer their questions politely, be aware of your rights, and know when to invoke them and how. It's just common courtesy to another human being.
It sounds to me like this result set is very WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic). Though of course, that bias is actually listed in the OP, as it refers to the question of whether the western desire to stamp out naturally occurring body odors could be a contributing cause to infertility and erectile dysfunction.
Would that be a BHILF?
How do I do that on my Android phone?
The AVM Spec is publically available on Adobe's website... If you want to implement an open source alternate to Flash, you're more than welcome to. Heck, large swaths of the Flash codebase itself are actually open source, kinda like the OpenJDK stuff.
Flash ActionScript isn't native code... It's VM'ed. If it was native code, it would at least run faster. Now, that doesn't stop someone from putting native code into a string, and pushing that string past an array boundary (which sounds like what this exploit is), but the AVM Bytecode itself isn't native code. The same sort of exploit was happening in Java just a few weeks ago, see CVE-2010-3552.
Actually, it's almost the reverse problem... New devices (mostly) universally support IPv6, which has plenty of unallocated IP Space (we can allocate 200 quadrillion IPv6 addresses per square inch of land on the planet) popular and actively maintained services either have already, or will soon move over to providing services on an IPv6 address. ICANN has already switched over their root DNS Servers to resolve IPv6, and most larger ISPs are following suit. So, if you've got a new device on an ISP who has updated their DNS servers to work with IPv6, and you're accessing a popular website that has been updated to IPv6, you might already be using IPv6 and never notice the difference.
There's a lot of ifs in that statement though. Plus there's a pile of legacy OSes and TCP/IP stacks that won't work with IPv6, so while you might be able to access Amazon, Google, and Facebook, it may be that your corporate payroll system is run off an old Windows NT4 system, which isn't IPv6 capable, so your whole corporate network is held up on the IPv6 migration because that NT4 system isn't IPv6 capable, and the payroll system isn't compatible with Windows Server 2008.
Plus, even some modern equipment/software from low-price vendors is lacking IPv6 support, because it hasn't been cost-effective to add it. Current versions of Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and iOS all support IPv6, but the custom software stack in the Avaya IP-based phone on my desk probably doesn't. Nor does the $20 ZyXEL WiFi gateway that I picked up 2 years ago off the cheap shelf at Frys
I prefer not to have application software cluttering up my home directory.
You do realize that would ban the existence of LLCs and any corporation, effectively disbanding every single business in the United States? I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but wow, talk about killing small business.
Only people with MBAs should make more than $100k? You're joking right? Why is a Masters degree in Business Administration more valuable than a PHd in Computational Linguistics just to grab an example out of midair?
HFCS is not just Frutose, it merely contains more Fructose than Glucose.
Honey (except for a few impurities for added flavor) is nearly chemically identical to HFCS (equivalent proportions of Fructose and Glucose)
Cane sugar is Sucrose, which is broken down by our digestive system into Fructose and Glucose before being fed into the bloodstream.
The ratio of Fructose to Glucose generated by our digestive system while digesting Sucrose is almost identical to the contents of HFCS.
Sugar is bad for you. Doesn't matter whether it's HFCS, Honey, or Cane Sugar.
I consistently have h264 html5 video hard crash my system (BSOD) while Flash videos have yet to do so. Just another reference point.
By the by, I tried to link to this drawing I made in a HTML5 app, to explain my point, but I guess that HTML5 was designed before people thought up "Linking" on the internet, so it's not possible. Sorry. You'll have to draw one yourself. http://bomomo.com/
I would have used one of Apple's HTML5 demos, but Unfortunately I'm using a Webkit based browser that wasn't made by them, so the cross-platform HTML5 doesn't work.
HTML5 and Flash address different problems. There's some crossover (un-DRMed video, Vector 2d Graphics), but overall, they're generally very different.
That's fine if only advertisers use the Canvas tag, but what happens once everyone else starts using Canvas tags too. Of course, the same holds true with FlashBlock and things like the Google Finance, but at least the Flash elements are all SWF files coming from domains that can be easily blocked.
So when Advertisers finally switch over to HTML5, and Flash is dead, are you going to Disable HTML5 in all your browsers and uninstall HTML5 from your important systems?
Yeah, Django and Rails will go away approximately 30 years after Cobol finally dies. Wait, what's that? Cobol 2002 is close to approving OO extensions? Ah crap... We're going to be stuck with Rails forever!
Seriously, when was the last time you ran a Flash app that required more than 4GB of RAM? Anything that big shouldn't be in Flash... Sure someday it might be necessary, but nobody today is writing apps that require a 64bit version of Flash. When you start writing a database server in AS3, then maybe it'll be worthwhile to have a 64bit flash VM, but for your average browser, it works the same in 32 bit mode as it does in 64.
Not quite... Really only A, and E are relevant, since B and D are implied by E, and C doesn't make any difference at all. If my property in California is going to be underwater in 10 years, I don't care if it's a natural cycle, I just want to know if I should sell now, or expect to spend a few thousand a year between now and then to prevent having to sell it and move inland.
No, it was compiling to native ARM bytecode from AVM3 bytecode. Very different. Apple does have a problem with Flash Content, because it threatens their API Lockin. All of the fluff about user experience and running slowly is just a smokescreen for the lockin problem. If it was a performance problem, due to bad software development, then they would catch it in their App Review process before putting it on the store.