I think that's a slight exaggeration - if Stan Lee hadn't caught the public imagination, someone else would have. There's an enormous wealth of undiscovered talent in every creative field.
That library is in your imagination. Modern libraries not only are computerized to an astonishing amount, they do train the next generation of librarians on stuff like Java, SQL and Internet topics.
I think a more accurate description would be that they have used motion-capture to preserve the dance movements, and used a robot to demonstrate that the data can be translated back into real-world movements. I'd me interested to know at what stage the inverse kinematics are calculated - at mo-cap stage, or at performance? I'd imagine it would have to be the latter, since different robots with different characteristics would have to behave differently to perform the same movements.
...rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable
So there's a chance that we won't be able to cram every last corner of this planet with more and more people? Tell me why that, specifically, is a bad thing.
That's irrelevant. They aren't trying to stop p2p, they're trying to milk it for some cash. P2P being "here to stay" is nothing but good news for this company, since if they win, they profit from P2P.
Performance is very important in systems like this, especially massively parallel services like gmail. Even a 2% performance degradation would be very expensive for them. Re-initialising every memory buffer that confidential information might be written to would probably incur something like 10% (OTTOMH).
Others have answered your main point, but as a side note, Microsoft's latest C & C++ compiler protects against stack-based buffer overrun attacks (the writing-to-the-stack kind, not the reading kind like this bug).
What do you mean, "I'm not even sure how this bug could exist in any normal computing system"? Buffer overruns are everywhere. Although the classic buffer overrun involves getting the app to write beyond the buffer's bounds and into the stack, this one is getting it to read beyond the point that it should. Unless the system has memory protection built in (and that is only possible on very recent processors) then this is entirely unsurprising. "Some kind of hybrid"? You're not making sense.
If you wrote me a letter, and I died, that letter would become the property of my estate, and my parents would get it. What makes you think that email should be treated differently?
Do dead people have a right to privacy? What happens to medical records and lawyer confidentiality after death? I'd imagine that the sanctity of the confessional would still be honoured, but that's a different basket of fish.
Herb Sutter, the author of the article, is a voice worth respecting. He's chair of the C++ standards committee, and although he now works for Microsoft, he isn't actually evil. He's Canadian, for a start. He is also actively steering the Microsoft C++ compiler towards standards compliance, and he even managed to get a room full of C & C++ programmers to give a spontaneous round of applause to the guy that implemented partial specialisation in MSVC++. That was at the ACCU conference in 2003.
Simple. Don't break the law, and you won't become a "juicy legal target". There's nothing illegal about BitTorrent, but it is illegal to violate copyright with it, so don't do that.
You shouldn't have bought a Sony if you want to do anything other than play pre-recorded discs from the machine's primary region. Sony are not a technology company any more, they're a content company.
Outlook 2003 does this as well - I hate every other new feature, but that one is good. If you forward the message, though, it downloads the images anyway. D'oh!
My breakfast cerial came with a pop-up blocker. There was one taped to the front of my newspaper. The nice girl at the Macdonalds counter always asks me "Do you want a pop-up blocker with that?"
They should have cancelled it because it sucked. That would have been a much better reason. And the script for the movie sucks too, at least it did back in June.
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I think that's a slight exaggeration - if Stan Lee hadn't caught the public imagination, someone else would have. There's an enormous wealth of undiscovered talent in every creative field.
Ah, thought so.
You've never been to Ludlow.
I think a more accurate description would be that they have used motion-capture to preserve the dance movements, and used a robot to demonstrate that the data can be translated back into real-world movements. I'd me interested to know at what stage the inverse kinematics are calculated - at mo-cap stage, or at performance? I'd imagine it would have to be the latter, since different robots with different characteristics would have to behave differently to perform the same movements.
That's irrelevant. They aren't trying to stop p2p, they're trying to milk it for some cash. P2P being "here to stay" is nothing but good news for this company, since if they win, they profit from P2P.
I can't think of any privacy lawsuit over a software bug.
In a beta product.
Performance is very important in systems like this, especially massively parallel services like gmail. Even a 2% performance degradation would be very expensive for them. Re-initialising every memory buffer that confidential information might be written to would probably incur something like 10% (OTTOMH).
Others have answered your main point, but as a side note, Microsoft's latest C & C++ compiler protects against stack-based buffer overrun attacks (the writing-to-the-stack kind, not the reading kind like this bug).
What do you mean, "I'm not even sure how this bug could exist in any normal computing system"? Buffer overruns are everywhere. Although the classic buffer overrun involves getting the app to write beyond the buffer's bounds and into the stack, this one is getting it to read beyond the point that it should. Unless the system has memory protection built in (and that is only possible on very recent processors) then this is entirely unsurprising. "Some kind of hybrid"? You're not making sense.
If you wrote me a letter, and I died, that letter would become the property of my estate, and my parents would get it. What makes you think that email should be treated differently?
Do dead people have a right to privacy? What happens to medical records and lawyer confidentiality after death? I'd imagine that the sanctity of the confessional would still be honoured, but that's a different basket of fish.
Herb Sutter, the author of the article, is a voice worth respecting. He's chair of the C++ standards committee, and although he now works for Microsoft, he isn't actually evil. He's Canadian, for a start. He is also actively steering the Microsoft C++ compiler towards standards compliance, and he even managed to get a room full of C & C++ programmers to give a spontaneous round of applause to the guy that implemented partial specialisation in MSVC++. That was at the ACCU conference in 2003.
The sites that are sharing "pirated" material are breaking the law whether they take payment or not. JDDI.
Simple. Don't break the law, and you won't become a "juicy legal target". There's nothing illegal about BitTorrent, but it is illegal to violate copyright with it, so don't do that.
You shouldn't have bought a Sony if you want to do anything other than play pre-recorded discs from the machine's primary region. Sony are not a technology company any more, they're a content company.
Seems I'm wrong - I just duplicated the .pl association as .foo and it still doesn't search it.
Windows XP search appears to search .pl files, but only if it has an association registered. Renaming a .pl to .foo stops it from being searched.
Outlook 2003 does this as well - I hate every other new feature, but that one is good. If you forward the message, though, it downloads the images anyway. D'oh!
My breakfast cerial came with a pop-up blocker. There was one taped to the front of my newspaper. The nice girl at the Macdonalds counter always asks me "Do you want a pop-up blocker with that?"
"Much" of the research is publicly funded, but co-ordinating peer review for serious journals isn't.
They should have cancelled it because it sucked. That would have been a much better reason. And the script for the movie sucks too, at least it did back in June.
I tested it with Firefox 1.0, and nothing happened. Oh, hang on, lets just turn off Proxomitron... Nope, still not vulnerable.
They're in the wrong order, as has already been noted. Just look at the way the clouds move.
You beat me to it - I noticed because of the changing shape of the clouds, though. Clouds don't move downwards and shrink.