that will block all of the older versions of Java that contain a critical vulnerability that's being actively exploited.
No software is perfect. No software will ever be perfect. Any non-trivial code will contain some bugs, but there's something seriously wrong here.
Software like Java, Flash and Acrobat Reader aren't weekend projects thrown together in a few hours by a highschool student. They have been around a long time and are produced by large companies with lots of resources. The fact that these programs still have to constantly be patched to fix gaping security holes, is beyond absurd.
Sure does seem like that, doesn't it. There was a reason I switched to Chrome as my surfing browser.
But that's the problem. I've used Chrome and it's just not as good as Firefox. As much as Firefox pisses me off with all the incredibly bad design decisions they've made, Chrome has too many things that don't work as well as Firefox, or don't exist at all.
IANA, the top level of organizations which handle the allocation of IP addresses, has run out of IPv4 addresses more than a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJpEJuZick
The regional registries still have addresses and are going through them at different rates, so they'll run out at different points in the future.
Just because we run out of IP addresses doesn't mean the Internet suddenly evaporates. The 4 Billion existing IPv4 addresses will still work just fine. If you show up too late . . . . . . . the Internet is full, go away.
How did they deduce it was an unknown programming language? By looking at the compiled machine code? How could they tell this wasn't just regular C?
I suppose that you could possibly tell what compiler was used by the arrangement of the machine code, but I still don't see what the point is. Who cares if it was written in assembly language, C or Atari Basic?
Larry Page needs to spend some time learning from Apple. I don't like Apple but I have to give them credit for one thing -- they haven't wasted billions of dollars on stupid pointless crap (driverless cars, etc) and buying a hundred companies a year that they shut down and abandon a year later.
I think that phrase "its a passing fad" should almost qualify as investment advice. take a hard look at the passing fads, and buy in early! or even better, short the company that claims their threat is a passing fad.
Unfortunately, it's not that simply. Hundreds of Billions of dollars have been lost and thousands of companies bankrupted because they pursued "the next big thing" which turned out to be not so big after all.
By SANS standards, only 18% of government apps passed, compared with 28% of finance industry apps and 34% of commercial software. Wysopal and others blame the difference on a lack of accountability of federal contract developers, who aren't held to security standards and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them."
OK. So government contractor produce the shittiest code, due to a lack of accountability. However, the 34% rating for commercial software is absolutely horrible and inexcusable. Commercial software is almost twice as good, but twice as good shit is still shit.
People like Asa Dotzler and the failure of the plugin-container to contain Flash from causing even kernel panics made the move to Google Chrome (or Chromium) a no brainer.
It is just a browser - not a believe system.
The problem is Asa Dotzler has said that Firefox is not a browser -- it's a "platform". In other words, they plan to shovel even more pointless bullshit into Firefox.
Firefox is a fucking browser. It was feature complete at version 2.0. Since then, the only thing they should have been concerned with is (a) fix bugs (b) fix security flaws (c) improve page rendering speed (javascript, etc) (d) add support for HTML 5.
3.6.x has been known for generally being more stable
Firefox 9 is perfectly fine. No problems.
and using less RAM
Who gives a shit if it uses a little bit more memory. I just bought 16GB of RAM for $75. It isn't 1991 anymore.
I don't like the bullshit upgrade schedule where they make a few minor improvements and call it a major new release. That's why I'll probably stay with 9 for a while. But there is no reason to stay with 3.6.
Ironically, the shutdown comes as gas prices are soaring, exactly the time when an electric car should be an easy sell.
Until a huge breakthrough is made in battery technology, electric cars are doomed to fail, no matter how high the price of gasoline.
Electric cars are too expensive -- it's cheaper to just pay the high gasoline prices. Electric cars have an extremely limited range and take too to charge -- people will pay for gasoline as a "convenience fee" to be able to go farther, faster.
And even if those two problems are somehow fixed, the elephant in the room, that everyone is desperately trying to ignore, is the enormous cost of replacing the batteries. A conventional gasoline engine, which proper maintenance can last a very long time. And if you do have problems, you can replace/rebuild/replace parts as needed. Worst case -- you can go to a local junk yard and buy a used engine for a few hundred dollars.
With batteries, there is no repair or rebuild or get a used one from a junk yard. Once the batteries reach the end of their life they have to be replaced at a very high cost. As a result, the re-sale value of an electric car is going to be pretty close to zero -- who would want to buy a used electric car knowing that they are guaranteed to get hit with a bill for several thousand dollars in the near future.
The crux seems to be that erotica buyers have a higher rate of 'chargebacks' — customers who buy stuff then demand their money back. Fair enough, but is a customer really more likely to return a book because it depicts one kind of fantasy between consenting adults vs. another?
People who buy porn have more chargebacks because the companies that sell porn tend to be bigger scumbags than other companies. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of porn related chargebacks are the result of either not getting an item you paid for or getting something that has been substantially misrepresented.
Oscars are voted for by an Elite cliquey non-elected panel of Hollywood insiders known as the Academy
They are not reflective of actual success, some of the most popular, and most successful movies did not win, some well know actors and directors have never won...
What does that mean? How do you "copyright" a single word? I could understand if he applied for a trademark on the word "EMAIL", but I don't understand the claim of "copyrighting" the word "EMAIL". Does that mean using the word "EMAIL" is copyright infringement?
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No software is perfect. No software will ever be perfect. Any non-trivial code will contain some bugs, but there's something seriously wrong here.
Software like Java, Flash and Acrobat Reader aren't weekend projects thrown together in a few hours by a highschool student. They have been around a long time and are produced by large companies with lots of resources. The fact that these programs still have to constantly be patched to fix gaping security holes, is beyond absurd.
It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
-Java held out the promise of developing programs not beholden to M$
So now you can make programs that are beholden to Oracle, who are just as bad, or worse.
Sure does seem like that, doesn't it. There was a reason I switched to Chrome as my surfing browser.
But that's the problem. I've used Chrome and it's just not as good as Firefox. As much as Firefox pisses me off with all the incredibly bad design decisions they've made, Chrome has too many things that don't work as well as Firefox, or don't exist at all.
Right, because normal programs won't run on Windows 8.
What a bunch of morons. Every decision now seems to be driven by a philosophy of "Let's make Firefox worse!!"
IANA, the top level of organizations which handle the allocation of IP addresses, has run out of IPv4 addresses more than a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJpEJuZick
The regional registries still have addresses and are going through them at different rates, so they'll run out at different points in the future.
Just because we run out of IP addresses doesn't mean the Internet suddenly evaporates. The 4 Billion existing IPv4 addresses will still work just fine. If you show up too late . . . . . . . the Internet is full, go away.
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Mod up +10 insightful.
Best post ever.
"feature parody"?
Yes.
That would be "parity"
Not if you mean "parody".
"feature parody"?
Yes.
Exactly.
These researchers need to watch that movie before they go messing around with this stuff.
How did they deduce it was an unknown programming language? By looking at the compiled machine code? How could they tell this wasn't just regular C?
I suppose that you could possibly tell what compiler was used by the arrangement of the machine code, but I still don't see what the point is. Who cares if it was written in assembly language, C or Atari Basic?
Larry Page needs to spend some time learning from Apple. I don't like Apple but I have to give them credit for one thing -- they haven't wasted billions of dollars on stupid pointless crap (driverless cars, etc) and buying a hundred companies a year that they shut down and abandon a year later.
I think that phrase "its a passing fad" should almost qualify as investment advice. take a hard look at the passing fads, and buy in early! or even better, short the company that claims their threat is a passing fad.
Unfortunately, it's not that simply. Hundreds of Billions of dollars have been lost and thousands of companies bankrupted because they pursued "the next big thing" which turned out to be not so big after all.
Who would have remembered Bill Gate's 640K quote if he turned out to be right?
Except that he never actually said that. Once again people are "remembering" something that never actually happened.
OK. So government contractor produce the shittiest code, due to a lack of accountability. However, the 34% rating for commercial software is absolutely horrible and inexcusable. Commercial software is almost twice as good, but twice as good shit is still shit.
The editing done by Topher Grace is typically referred to as "Polishing A Turd".
Thanks for linking to a complete useless, pointless and content-free Twitter post.
People like Asa Dotzler and the failure of the plugin-container to contain Flash from causing even kernel panics made the move to Google Chrome (or Chromium) a no brainer.
It is just a browser - not a believe system.
The problem is Asa Dotzler has said that Firefox is not a browser -- it's a "platform". In other words, they plan to shovel even more pointless bullshit into Firefox.
Firefox is a fucking browser. It was feature complete at version 2.0. Since then, the only thing they should have been concerned with is (a) fix bugs (b) fix security flaws (c) improve page rendering speed (javascript, etc) (d) add support for HTML 5.
Firefox 9 is perfectly fine. No problems.
Who gives a shit if it uses a little bit more memory. I just bought 16GB of RAM for $75. It isn't 1991 anymore.
I don't like the bullshit upgrade schedule where they make a few minor improvements and call it a major new release. That's why I'll probably stay with 9 for a while. But there is no reason to stay with 3.6.
Until a huge breakthrough is made in battery technology, electric cars are doomed to fail, no matter how high the price of gasoline.
Electric cars are too expensive -- it's cheaper to just pay the high gasoline prices.
Electric cars have an extremely limited range and take too to charge -- people will pay for gasoline as a "convenience fee" to be able to go farther, faster.
And even if those two problems are somehow fixed, the elephant in the room, that everyone is desperately trying to ignore, is the enormous cost of replacing the batteries. A conventional gasoline engine, which proper maintenance can last a very long time. And if you do have problems, you can replace/rebuild/replace parts as needed. Worst case -- you can go to a local junk yard and buy a used engine for a few hundred dollars.
With batteries, there is no repair or rebuild or get a used one from a junk yard. Once the batteries reach the end of their life they have to be replaced at a very high cost. As a result, the re-sale value of an electric car is going to be pretty close to zero -- who would want to buy a used electric car knowing that they are guaranteed to get hit with a bill for several thousand dollars in the near future.
ST:NG -- Best story lines of all the Start Trek series -- shittiest acting ever.
Will this new blueray feature better acting? Let me know when that happens.
People who buy porn have more chargebacks because the companies that sell porn tend to be bigger scumbags than other companies. I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of porn related chargebacks are the result of either not getting an item you paid for or getting something that has been substantially misrepresented.
So why post an article that contains no meaningful information?
Oh wait . . . never mind. I forgot where I was.
Oscars are voted for by an Elite cliquey non-elected panel of Hollywood insiders known as the Academy
They are not reflective of actual success, some of the most popular, and most successful movies did not win, some well know actors and directors have never won ...
Yes, this is true. So what?
Get over it already.
'ghetto-ise' the genre?
Are you referring to Gay Niggers From Outer Space?
2) He did copyright the term "EMAIL" in 1982. .
What does that mean? How do you "copyright" a single word? I could understand if he applied for a trademark on the word "EMAIL", but I don't understand the claim of "copyrighting" the word "EMAIL". Does that mean using the word "EMAIL" is copyright infringement?