Unless they're using an overclocked Athlon to electrocute him, I don't see how this is a Slashdot topic. I've got half a dozen better-informed blogs for my politics and law, thanks.
Wow, that's awful.
When you burn something, no matter is converted to energy. The amount of energy released in a fire is nowhere near enough to actually cause nuclear reactions, which are needed for mass changes. When something is burned, what happens is that chemical bonds are released, giving up their energy. The weight of the burned object seems to decrease because the principal byproduct of fire are gases and ashes, both of which float away into the atmosphere.
You're exactly right, they shouldn't be allowed to look. And writers shouldn't be allowed to read Shakespeare, they might steal his plots. And artists can't look at the paintings of Picasso, they might imitate his style. And musicians certainly shouldn't ever listen to anything, they might steal a riff or two! It'd be a terrible world if people could learn from others and be inspired.
Oh, I'm caucasian too. My wife, however, is not. And we've definitely noticed that while I'm not the only white guy in the screening line, there aren't many of us.
Everytime I fly I am on the Screen list. It's annoying and intrusive and pisses me off, but I've never had a gate agent actually tell me about it, and it's never made me almost miss a flight.
With the screen list, they put several big S's on your boarding pass, and then you get shunted into the "extra-thorough" screening line going in. You'll recognize it next time you fly: it's extra long, extra slow, and it's where all the people with dark skin or funny clothes go.
What was described in the article is nothing like the screening I've seen. I've never had an airline worker tell me I can't fly, in fact they never mention it. I wouldn't have realized the significance of the S if it didn't happen every time I fly.
Er, say what? He'll download a patch? Or just modify the code himself, and then use it how? I'm assuming that any parent who is going to set this up isn't giving away the root password. It'd take a fairly serious compromise to be able to shut down the filter, even with local access. Now, using other proxies on other ports might well be a way around that, but that's what firewall logs are for.
In all of this it is clear that the Government can lose track of a lot of money easily and even large companies are not above a little fraud now and then.
Actually, no. It's clear that one of these is true. Either the government screwed up, or HP defrauded them. In this case, only one of those statements is true, sorry.
I don't understand why a company with $4.8 billion (or $5.1 billion pre-$300mill hit) would wait this long to pay off the $300 million owed.
When they say $4.8 billion in the bank, they don't mean $4.8 billion sitting there doing nothing. They mean $4.8 billion, part of which is earmarked for salaries in the next quarter, part of which is for office space, maintainance, etc, part of which is for production of new units, part of which is for research and development, and maybe a very tiny bit that's actually not earmarked for anything. And it's that tiny bit not earmarked for anything that they can use to pay off the debts. Remember: $4.8 billion is a lot of cash, but Apple is a huge company these days, and it takes a lot of cash to keep that going.
This can backfire seriously if the game ends up being released without proper testing.
Oh, I fully agree with you here. I'm not arguing in favor of releasing buggy crap. I'm arguing in favor of realistic schedules with time alloted for proper QA and bugfixing. But then, I'm a professional software developer, and I know how often that happens.:)
They should just skip using the calendar all together and set a release date of "when it is done". It would save so much pain and agony.
Never heard of a little thing called marketing, have we? It takes time to build an ad campaign. It takes time to get ads in magazines, on billboards, in front of people. It takes time to get distributors to carry the game. Companies can't afford to develop a game, finish it, and then spend a few months convincing people they want to buy it. They need to have fans hungering for it as soon as its released: that's how you get huge sales numbers.
Perhaps the people who depend on email most will learn to use bayesian filters as well as authentication and the others will be left to just whine.
You mean, the people who depend on email most and are most technologically clueful. There are plenty of people out there (from doctors and small-town policemen, etc) who need email, but can't figure heads from tails on any complex solution. These are the people who need easy spam filtering.
Jesus, it's only 50 cents. You can't even buy coffee with that.
Move to NYC, guy. Every morning, the streets are lined with guys in carts who would love to sell you a cup of coffee for $0.35 to $0.50, and the quality ain't bad, either.
Actually, that's been done. Do you thinks banks that set out ATMs aren't worried about a lot of the same issues? Those things all print paper receipts internally, and you can bet the bank won't let it lose those records for a little thing like ink. We need to get the same level of accountability for voting that we do for getting $20 to buy movie tickets.
Instead of making yourself look so great by "demolishing the security," why not offer the fixes?
If you read the article, his advice is almost every case is "Scrap this, go learn basic crypto, and try again." I don't know crypto at all, but I'm willing to bet that's good advice. And if so, why on earth should he take the job of re-writing CIPE? I think it's great that he's getting the word out that it's insecure. These are the things that should be public knowledge.
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Wow, you mean.... different people enjoy different styles of game? STOP THE PRESSES!
We have this thing called humor. This article may be a sub-par example of humor, but that would seem to be its point.
Sounds like she's learned the main lesson about banks, all right.
Unless they're using an overclocked Athlon to electrocute him, I don't see how this is a Slashdot topic. I've got half a dozen better-informed blogs for my politics and law, thanks.
Right, because all the guys at BestBuy or GameStop play Shrek as soon as it comes in the store.
Huh, the python and PHP versions don't use SQL? Then why does Java?
Wow, that's awful. When you burn something, no matter is converted to energy. The amount of energy released in a fire is nowhere near enough to actually cause nuclear reactions, which are needed for mass changes. When something is burned, what happens is that chemical bonds are released, giving up their energy. The weight of the burned object seems to decrease because the principal byproduct of fire are gases and ashes, both of which float away into the atmosphere.
You're exactly right, they shouldn't be allowed to look. And writers shouldn't be allowed to read Shakespeare, they might steal his plots. And artists can't look at the paintings of Picasso, they might imitate his style. And musicians certainly shouldn't ever listen to anything, they might steal a riff or two! It'd be a terrible world if people could learn from others and be inspired.
s/England/New York City/
That's right, one of the biggest cities in the world, and Verizon charges us all for local phone access. Wish I was raking in those fees...
Sadly, that's exactly it, I did join up with a terrorist organization.
You see, I'm muslim. And we must all be bad, right?
Oh, I'm caucasian too. My wife, however, is not. And we've definitely noticed that while I'm not the only white guy in the screening line, there aren't many of us.
Everytime I fly I am on the Screen list. It's annoying and intrusive and pisses me off, but I've never had a gate agent actually tell me about it, and it's never made me almost miss a flight.
With the screen list, they put several big S's on your boarding pass, and then you get shunted into the "extra-thorough" screening line going in. You'll recognize it next time you fly: it's extra long, extra slow, and it's where all the people with dark skin or funny clothes go.
What was described in the article is nothing like the screening I've seen. I've never had an airline worker tell me I can't fly, in fact they never mention it. I wouldn't have realized the significance of the S if it didn't happen every time I fly.
Er, say what? He'll download a patch? Or just modify the code himself, and then use it how? I'm assuming that any parent who is going to set this up isn't giving away the root password. It'd take a fairly serious compromise to be able to shut down the filter, even with local access. Now, using other proxies on other ports might well be a way around that, but that's what firewall logs are for.
In all of this it is clear that the Government can lose track of a lot of money easily and even large companies are not above a little fraud now and then.
Actually, no. It's clear that one of these is true. Either the government screwed up, or HP defrauded them. In this case, only one of those statements is true, sorry.
I guess that could work. I mean, if you control the floors and electrical outlets, you pretty much control everything.
My cat has two rules:
- Anything on the floor is his.
- Anything on anything that is his, is his.
Since rule 2 is applied recursively, he can easily rule the entire apartment, despite being less than 14 inches tall!.I don't understand why a company with $4.8 billion (or $5.1 billion pre-$300mill hit) would wait this long to pay off the $300 million owed.
When they say $4.8 billion in the bank, they don't mean $4.8 billion sitting there doing nothing. They mean $4.8 billion, part of which is earmarked for salaries in the next quarter, part of which is for office space, maintainance, etc, part of which is for production of new units, part of which is for research and development, and maybe a very tiny bit that's actually not earmarked for anything. And it's that tiny bit not earmarked for anything that they can use to pay off the debts. Remember: $4.8 billion is a lot of cash, but Apple is a huge company these days, and it takes a lot of cash to keep that going.
This can backfire seriously if the game ends up being released without proper testing.
Oh, I fully agree with you here. I'm not arguing in favor of releasing buggy crap. I'm arguing in favor of realistic schedules with time alloted for proper QA and bugfixing. But then, I'm a professional software developer, and I know how often that happens. :)
They should just skip using the calendar all together and set a release date of "when it is done". It would save so much pain and agony.
Never heard of a little thing called marketing, have we? It takes time to build an ad campaign. It takes time to get ads in magazines, on billboards, in front of people. It takes time to get distributors to carry the game. Companies can't afford to develop a game, finish it, and then spend a few months convincing people they want to buy it. They need to have fans hungering for it as soon as its released: that's how you get huge sales numbers.
my ip at home ends in .1 and to make it even more unusual it also has a 0 in there (as in XXX.0.XXX.1)
Yeah, but 127.0.0.1 doesn't count!
Damn dude, what can I say.
If I was you, I'd say, "Slashdot, pay my bandwidth bills."
supposely this battery lasts for 7-8 hrs. You can fly almost anywhere (and in most cases, back) in 8 hrs.
Never been to Tokyo from New York, have you? Why not try Australia? The San Francisco-Melbourne flight is about 14 hours nonstop, as I recall.
Perhaps the people who depend on email most will learn to use bayesian filters as well as authentication and the others will be left to just whine.
You mean, the people who depend on email most and are most technologically clueful. There are plenty of people out there (from doctors and small-town policemen, etc) who need email, but can't figure heads from tails on any complex solution. These are the people who need easy spam filtering.
Jesus, it's only 50 cents. You can't even buy coffee with that.
Move to NYC, guy. Every morning, the streets are lined with guys in carts who would love to sell you a cup of coffee for $0.35 to $0.50, and the quality ain't bad, either.
we have to think this through all the way.
Actually, that's been done. Do you thinks banks that set out ATMs aren't worried about a lot of the same issues? Those things all print paper receipts internally, and you can bet the bank won't let it lose those records for a little thing like ink. We need to get the same level of accountability for voting that we do for getting $20 to buy movie tickets.
Instead of making yourself look so great by "demolishing the security," why not offer the fixes?
If you read the article, his advice is almost every case is "Scrap this, go learn basic crypto, and try again." I don't know crypto at all, but I'm willing to bet that's good advice. And if so, why on earth should he take the job of re-writing CIPE? I think it's great that he's getting the word out that it's insecure. These are the things that should be public knowledge.