For a virus to be able to infect your system simply by sending a network packet to your machine, that requires that someone first finds a remote root vulnerability within the network stack of your operating system.
IIRC, This has happened, and may happen again, but it's REALLY REALLY UNTHINKABLY RARE. Most network stacks have been rock solid for 30 or 40 years.
So yes, it's a nice, scary theory. But I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon.
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Actually, the weather could well have been a factor.
While the METAR doesn't explicitly state that there was any icing conditions, that is certainly not a confirmation that there were none. Especially if the pilot was flying through some of the scattered clouds that were 4,000 feet above ground level. That's a very quick way to pick up a lot of ice.
And I doubt that Robinson 44 had anything more than meagre de-icing equipment at best.
I will concede that there was likely some mechanical failure contributing to, if not causing the accident, but it doesn't mean you can rule out the weather entirely.
It's (kindof) a part of Microsoft's DirectX, and is definitely the next generation of Video Codecs. Please, don't proliferate the horrible VFW API any further. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and move to DirectShow.
Microsoft's page is here, and you might also find some useful stuff at this website.
Moderators, please read the parent post and consider modding him up. It's the only response I can see that actually answers the guy's question. THIS is the number the guy in the article is looking for.
Downloading stuff from hundreds of hosts pretty much guarantees that it's not your link to any specific site. The aggregate download speeds should be enough to saturate the T1. The real key is doing it even at peak times. If it ever drops below 192k per second, then your ISP is overselling his upstream connection, which is something you shouldn't really tolerate when you're paying $3000/mo. (or however much T1s cost these days. It's still around there to the best of my knowledge, for full-rate non-bursted.)
It has a "Follow the White Rabbit" mode, where occasionally (and randomly, I might add, so you'll have to watch through it a number of times to actually see them all) a little icon pops up in the corner. If you hit the enter button on your DVD player, the scene will be followed with a little 'documentary/outtake' kind of sequence that is really neat.
It's not exactly what you're thinking of, but it's a step in the right direction
Bravo. That is the best flame I've seen on slashdot in a really long while. No, I'm actually not being sarcastic.;) That was extremely well done, and had me laughing pretty hard.
I agree with your arguments. It is a stunningly stupid idea, and I hate it, but since I do Windows development for a living, it's just one of those things I don't worry about. The common phrase around our work is "Listen, if they can afford a copy of our software, they can afford some better computers."
But yes, the MFC COleDateTime format used for OLE (and in any program where the author doesn't want to write their own date class) uses a double to store dates. The Microsoft way. Embrace and extend, and when that's not good enough, just make it totally incompatible!
First things first: Microwaves operate at 2.4GHz. Minus any slight harmonics at higher frequencies, I don't think many computers that would have any parts operating at frequencies higher than this and still less would putting out significant EM radiation in those higher bands.
The shielding on most microwaves is fine-grained enough to give reasonably good blocking of EM radiation up into the 240GHz range. They also have much thicker wires than a normal Faraday cage will need, because they are absorbing massive amplitudes of microwaves in comparison to the kind of amplitudes a computer will put out.
Secondly: For a faraday cage to be opaque, you'd be looking at holes somewhere around 40 nanometers across. (1/10th of blue light's wavelength of ~400nm). That's completely useless, unless computer is emitting too much radiation on even shorter wavelengths that you feel you need to block?
Well, if your computer is putting out UV and X-Ray radiation, perhaps you've overclocked a bit too much.
Actually, that's a known issue. It's because Junkbuster is getting old and not being very well maintained. It doesn't properly support HTTP/1.1, which Mozilla uses by default.
Please give Privoxy a try instead. It's based on the Junkbuster sources, but much enhanced, supports HTTP/1.1, and works beautifully with Mozilla (all versions). You can grab a fully-loaded blocklist from Stefan Waldherr as always.
because I really liked my Linux desktops. Yeah, I mean here I was with my 3 Linux desktops working perfectly, running Debian sid, with all the latest software and almost entirely Windows compatible.
The only thing I've found that I want to do in Linux that I can in Windows is Neverwinter Nights. Bioware will fix this eventually, or so they claim. (They'd better! *glowers*)
But apparently Linux has no place on my machine. Whoops. My bad. Those folks working on apps like gnumeric, OpenOffice? They should just give up. Linux has no place on the desktop, it'll never win. Might as well give up. Great attitude Renderman, really. Just because you haven't decided what to do with e17 for the past 3 years doesn't mean desktop Linux is dead. I'm happily using e16 with no gnome crap, as a matter of fact.
Let's face it folks, Renderman is wrong. Yes, he's a good developer. This doesn't make him always right, and in this case he's certainly not. In fact, I'd say the majority of the people who actually use Linux on the desktop on a regular basis can see that it's just started rolling. We've got a lot of 1.0-quality software now, and a lot of support coming in the future as even game developers start to realize that there is a market for their stuff in Linux, however small and insignificant that that can wait what will probably end up being 6 months after the Windows version (Hi Bioware!). And to say that Windows has won, especially with all the antitrust stuff against Microsoft and larger companies trying to move away from that proprietary software, I just don't understand where he's coming from.
You learn something new every day. Is there any website that publicizes ownership of major companies like that? There are so many massive, global corporations these days that you never really know who you're buying from.
Did you even play FF7 on the PC? I mean, apart from the slightly subpar "windows integration" (the FF7 window being captioned "DEFAULT" for example) it blew me away.
Sure, it's wasn't freaking Quake 3 graphics, but considering what they were given, it was pretty impressive and slick. The videos could've used a better compressor (True Motion 2.0 sucks and is heavily proprietary) and optimally they would've been higher-res, but that's really just nitpicking. I wouldn't even have noticed if I hadn't extracted the videos to MPEG4 for a certain project of mine.
The text was nicely antialiased, and the game retained *SO* much of it's original "feel". something that no other console->PC port that I know of has ever been able to touch.
There were nice videos in FF8/PC, which only existed because Squaresoft did the port themselves, and were presumably more accomodating to themselves rendering higher res videos than they were to Eidos. Other than that, FF7/PC was much nicer.:P
I'm surprised they're not trying to spin things like this the way most other software donations work. "We just donated one hundred billion dollars *coughOfSoftwarecough* to all the little kiddies."
Or maybe it's just because "We just donated infinity dollars..." would make it sound like the silliness it actually is.
Team Fortress Really Classic (for Quake 1) had a map called spazball. It was absolutely great. You've got one ball, 4 teams. Grab it, run down one of the opposing teams heavily defended corridors, shove it in their goal. They get a point. After a certain number of points, that team is eliminated, and locked in the spectator rooms. Last man standing wins.
Great fun, and I have no idea how they accomplished it purely in-map without modifying the team fortress codebase, but they did.
All numbers aside, If you actually believe that switching to Oracle would LOWER the number and/or cost of their DBAs, then you obviously have never had to deal with an Oracle database. The thing is a nightmare to design implement and maintain.
I also have a feeling their estimate was of 'database software', but what do I know.
The reason why not, is because unemployed guy in some_random_country becomes nothing more than a peasant, basically. He gets paid enough pennies to not-quite-starve, and will never be able to afford anything other than the bare necessities of staying alive at best. He will certainly never get an education, or contribute anything to humanity except a few thousand pairs of shoes and several equally poor, starving children to contribute to our overpopulation problem.
Just my thoughts.
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Disclaimer: I work in the oil/gas industry, and am biased to believe that my job is relatively secure.:) Also, my company does ~80% gas welltesting, so my ideas about oil may not be perfect.
First of all, you begin by saying that we've "used up" oil in all these different places. I'm sure that's not what you meant, but it's misleading to say that when the areas in question are covered with oil wells producing millions of barrels a day. These wells are still active, and will continue to produce for years (probably somewhere on the order of 10 to 20 years).
The MBendi report is full of alarmist theories, inaccurate facts, and misconceptions. Discovery rate and production rate naturally rise and fall as time passes. The revenue earned from production goes into research. Research creates better traditional methods and innovative ways and places for finding and extracting oil. Discovery of marketable oil reserves (both in extracting more from old resevoirs and finding new ones) due to the new technology increases, and begins a new cycle of production.
Which brings me to my final point: The Canadian oilsands are absolutely booming right now. Your assertion that there is no efficient way to extract it is correct but misleading. There is no efficient way to extract oil out of a resevoir either, but it is still done, and in massive quantities. The amount of oilsands more than makes up for the amount lost to inefficiency. Try sucking all the water out of a sponge without squeezing it. That's about what it's like trying to get oil out of the ground. It's unfortunate that it's not very efficient, but I don't think inefficiency's ever stopped *anyone* from trying to make a buck.
Yes, I agree that our petroleum resources will eventually run out. Of course we are using them up. But there is no need to be alarmist about it. If someone doesn't invent fusion reactors tomorrow, we'll still be okay. (Though I hope someone does.:)
I would just like to thank you, slashdot, for reminding me to install Junkbuster.
No offense, but those giant monster ads are just too much for me. Banners I can deal with... I might buy a subscription at some point, after you have some of the issues like "What else can we give you for your subscription" worked out. I hope you'll use it as an opportunity to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. It worked extremely well on the SomethingAwful Forums.
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That they didn't really know what this drug was doing... mind you I guess that's what most drugs do.
It just kind of underlines how little we know about the human body and the chemicals that operate it.
For a virus to be able to infect your system simply by sending a network packet to your machine, that requires that someone first finds a remote root vulnerability within the network stack of your operating system.
IIRC, This has happened, and may happen again, but it's REALLY REALLY UNTHINKABLY RARE. Most network stacks have been rock solid for 30 or 40 years.
So yes, it's a nice, scary theory. But I wouldn't bet on it happening any time soon.
Actually, the weather could well have been a factor.
While the METAR doesn't explicitly state that there was any icing conditions, that is certainly not a confirmation that there were none. Especially if the pilot was flying through some of the scattered clouds that were 4,000 feet above ground level. That's a very quick way to pick up a lot of ice.
And I doubt that Robinson 44 had anything more than meagre de-icing equipment at best.
I will concede that there was likely some mechanical failure contributing to, if not causing the accident, but it doesn't mean you can rule out the weather entirely.
It's (kindof) a part of Microsoft's DirectX, and is definitely the next generation of Video Codecs. Please, don't proliferate the horrible VFW API any further. Do yourself and everyone else a favour and move to DirectShow.
Microsoft's page is here, and you might also find some useful stuff at this website.
Moderators, please read the parent post and consider modding him up. It's the only response I can see that actually answers the guy's question. THIS is the number the guy in the article is looking for.
Downloading stuff from hundreds of hosts pretty much guarantees that it's not your link to any specific site. The aggregate download speeds should be enough to saturate the T1. The real key is doing it even at peak times. If it ever drops below 192k per second, then your ISP is overselling his upstream connection, which is something you shouldn't really tolerate when you're paying $3000/mo. (or however much T1s cost these days. It's still around there to the best of my knowledge, for full-rate non-bursted.)
You should try watching the Matrix DVD.
It has a "Follow the White Rabbit" mode, where occasionally (and randomly, I might add, so you'll have to watch through it a number of times to actually see them all) a little icon pops up in the corner. If you hit the enter button on your DVD player, the scene will be followed with a little 'documentary/outtake' kind of sequence that is really neat.
It's not exactly what you're thinking of, but it's a step in the right direction
Bravo. That is the best flame I've seen on slashdot in a really long while. No, I'm actually not being sarcastic. ;) That was extremely well done, and had me laughing pretty hard.
I agree with your arguments. It is a stunningly stupid idea, and I hate it, but since I do Windows development for a living, it's just one of those things I don't worry about. The common phrase around our work is "Listen, if they can afford a copy of our software, they can afford some better computers."
But yes, the MFC COleDateTime format used for OLE (and in any program where the author doesn't want to write their own date class) uses a double to store dates. The Microsoft way. Embrace and extend, and when that's not good enough, just make it totally incompatible!
First things first: Microwaves operate at 2.4GHz. Minus any slight harmonics at higher frequencies, I don't think many computers that would have any parts operating at frequencies higher than this and still less would putting out significant EM radiation in those higher bands.
The shielding on most microwaves is fine-grained enough to give reasonably good blocking of EM radiation up into the 240GHz range. They also have much thicker wires than a normal Faraday cage will need, because they are absorbing massive amplitudes of microwaves in comparison to the kind of amplitudes a computer will put out.
Secondly: For a faraday cage to be opaque, you'd be looking at holes somewhere around 40 nanometers across. (1/10th of blue light's wavelength of ~400nm). That's completely useless, unless computer is emitting too much radiation on even shorter wavelengths that you feel you need to block?
Well, if your computer is putting out UV and X-Ray radiation, perhaps you've overclocked a bit too much.
Actually, that's a known issue. It's because Junkbuster is getting old and not being very well maintained. It doesn't properly support HTTP/1.1, which Mozilla uses by default.
Please give Privoxy a try instead. It's based on the Junkbuster sources, but much enhanced, supports HTTP/1.1, and works beautifully with Mozilla (all versions). You can grab a fully-loaded blocklist from Stefan Waldherr as always.
because I really liked my Linux desktops. Yeah, I mean here I was with my 3 Linux desktops working perfectly, running Debian sid, with all the latest software and almost entirely Windows compatible.
The only thing I've found that I want to do in Linux that I can in Windows is Neverwinter Nights. Bioware will fix this eventually, or so they claim. (They'd better! *glowers*)
But apparently Linux has no place on my machine. Whoops. My bad. Those folks working on apps like gnumeric, OpenOffice? They should just give up. Linux has no place on the desktop, it'll never win. Might as well give up. Great attitude Renderman, really. Just because you haven't decided what to do with e17 for the past 3 years doesn't mean desktop Linux is dead. I'm happily using e16 with no gnome crap, as a matter of fact.
Let's face it folks, Renderman is wrong. Yes, he's a good developer. This doesn't make him always right, and in this case he's certainly not. In fact, I'd say the majority of the people who actually use Linux on the desktop on a regular basis can see that it's just started rolling. We've got a lot of 1.0-quality software now, and a lot of support coming in the future as even game developers start to realize that there is a market for their stuff in Linux, however small and insignificant that that can wait what will probably end up being 6 months after the Windows version (Hi Bioware!). And to say that Windows has won, especially with all the antitrust stuff against Microsoft and larger companies trying to move away from that proprietary software, I just don't understand where he's coming from.
Agreed. Some of us actually liked 3dfx's brute force ("more power!" *tim allen grunts*) approach to 3d.
;)
A video card with it's own power connection? Sweet. Finesse is for weenies.
You learn something new every day. Is there any website that publicizes ownership of major companies like that? There are so many massive, global corporations these days that you never really know who you're buying from.
Did you even play FF7 on the PC? I mean, apart from the slightly subpar "windows integration" (the FF7 window being captioned "DEFAULT" for example) it blew me away.
:P
Sure, it's wasn't freaking Quake 3 graphics, but considering what they were given, it was pretty impressive and slick. The videos could've used a better compressor (True Motion 2.0 sucks and is heavily proprietary) and optimally they would've been higher-res, but that's really just nitpicking. I wouldn't even have noticed if I hadn't extracted the videos to MPEG4 for a certain project of mine.
The text was nicely antialiased, and the game retained *SO* much of it's original "feel". something that no other console->PC port that I know of has ever been able to touch.
There were nice videos in FF8/PC, which only existed because Squaresoft did the port themselves, and were presumably more accomodating to themselves rendering higher res videos than they were to Eidos. Other than that, FF7/PC was much nicer.
... My not-so-humble opinion.
I'm surprised they're not trying to spin things like this the way most other software donations work. "We just donated one hundred billion dollars *coughOfSoftwarecough* to all the little kiddies."
Or maybe it's just because "We just donated infinity dollars..." would make it sound like the silliness it actually is.
Have none of you heard of gnucleus? gnutella, free, spyware-free, open source?
Uh, unless you like spyware while you're installing encryption software. riiight.
The seams would irritate me.
Team Fortress Really Classic (for Quake 1) had a map called spazball. It was absolutely great. You've got one ball, 4 teams. Grab it, run down one of the opposing teams heavily defended corridors, shove it in their goal. They get a point. After a certain number of points, that team is eliminated, and locked in the spectator rooms. Last man standing wins.
Great fun, and I have no idea how they accomplished it purely in-map without modifying the team fortress codebase, but they did.
All numbers aside, If you actually believe that switching to Oracle would LOWER the number and/or cost of their DBAs, then you obviously have never had to deal with an Oracle database. The thing is a nightmare to design implement and maintain.
I also have a feeling their estimate was of 'database software', but what do I know.
Don't worry, you're better off not seeing it. It really, really, really is not a movie worth getting upset about.
I just deleted my Linux partition amd reinstalled it under VPC/2, and now I never have to reboot again!
:)
Are you sure you didn't get Linux confused with Windows there?
The reason why not, is because unemployed guy in some_random_country becomes nothing more than a peasant, basically. He gets paid enough pennies to not-quite-starve, and will never be able to afford anything other than the bare necessities of staying alive at best. He will certainly never get an education, or contribute anything to humanity except a few thousand pairs of shoes and several equally poor, starving children to contribute to our overpopulation problem.
Just my thoughts.
Disclaimer: I work in the oil/gas industry, and am biased to believe that my job is relatively secure. :) Also, my company does ~80% gas welltesting, so my ideas about oil may not be perfect.
:)
First of all, you begin by saying that we've "used up" oil in all these different places. I'm sure that's not what you meant, but it's misleading to say that when the areas in question are covered with oil wells producing millions of barrels a day. These wells are still active, and will continue to produce for years (probably somewhere on the order of 10 to 20 years).
The MBendi report is full of alarmist theories, inaccurate facts, and misconceptions. Discovery rate and production rate naturally rise and fall as time passes. The revenue earned from production goes into research. Research creates better traditional methods and innovative ways and places for finding and extracting oil. Discovery of marketable oil reserves (both in extracting more from old resevoirs and finding new ones) due to the new technology increases, and begins a new cycle of production.
Which brings me to my final point: The Canadian oilsands are absolutely booming right now. Your assertion that there is no efficient way to extract it is correct but misleading. There is no efficient way to extract oil out of a resevoir either, but it is still done, and in massive quantities. The amount of oilsands more than makes up for the amount lost to inefficiency. Try sucking all the water out of a sponge without squeezing it. That's about what it's like trying to get oil out of the ground. It's unfortunate that it's not very efficient, but I don't think inefficiency's ever stopped *anyone* from trying to make a buck.
Yes, I agree that our petroleum resources will eventually run out. Of course we are using them up. But there is no need to be alarmist about it. If someone doesn't invent fusion reactors tomorrow, we'll still be okay. (Though I hope someone does.
I would just like to thank you, slashdot, for reminding me to install Junkbuster.
No offense, but those giant monster ads are just too much for me. Banners I can deal with... I might buy a subscription at some point, after you have some of the issues like "What else can we give you for your subscription" worked out. I hope you'll use it as an opportunity to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. It worked extremely well on the SomethingAwful Forums.
Two points.. first of all, I think you mean "X-COM: Terror from the Deep" since "Knee deep in the dead" was episode 1 for Doom.
And they used VGA graphics, actually. EGA would imply 16 colors. I'm pretty sure EGA didn't have a 256-color mode, although I could be wrong.
And Orgeon Trail was fun. I do indeed remember playing it on my Commodore 64, so I think you're right, there.