Well buddy you must have a little gourd, or you keep playing with it so it's not very solid.
I've installed EVERY critical update - and never had a problem. Note what I said. CRITICAL update. Those are the ones that fix security holes. I don't care too much about.NET patches, IE6, etc. But CRITICAL updates have NEVER let me down.
No, more like he broke into every car in the parking lot, put a sticker on their stereo that said, "I could have stole your radio because your lock sucks. Here's how!"
RTFA. They are talking about monthly warnings, not short term notices. Here's a quote...
With some practice, says Raymond, scientists eventually should be able to use the InSAR data to infer when stresses in the Earth's crust have reached a dangerous level, issuing a monthly "hazard assessment" for a given fault. Forecasters might report that the likelihood of having a major quake on, say, the San Andreas fault during the coming month is 2%, or 10%, or 50%.
...read the article. You'll see they are talking about releasing monthly hazard assessments, NOT "earthquake in 1 hour/1 day" warnings.
Here's a quote from the article...
With some practice, says Raymond, scientists eventually should be able to use the InSAR data to infer when stresses in the Earth's crust have reached a dangerous level, issuing a monthly "hazard assessment" for a given fault. Forecasters might report that the likelihood of having a major quake on, say, the San Andreas fault during the coming month is 2%, or 10%, or 50%.
I'm 100% with you. I bet you there are just as many unpatched Linux boxes out there as Windows boxes. At least with Windows you can flip a switch and it will just keep itself up to date if you'd like it to. It downloads the patch automatically as soon as it's available, then asks you if you'd like to install it. No pain, no "go to this webpage to download", no problems with "and now what do I do with this file?"
Psh - the tragedy isn't that Microsoft posted the patch almost a month ago. The tradegy is that people don't patch their systems and keep them up to date.
To turn a phrase, "Operating systems don't make people not patch, people make people not patch"
If someone handed me $60k for being the best I'd really not care if they called me "Clueles Game Geek" or anything else. As long as the headline read "...wins $60k playing a game", it could be what ever the press or anyone else wanted.
That or everyone will figure out really fast it's a crappy little camera and hacks will be only for the novelty of it. And they will throw away their camera (or three) and get a good one.
This is Valve's technology to perform this kind of function. Not only can it perform a licensing function beyond being a point of purchase, it has the advantages of being an automatic updating/patching system. Because it manages licensing it could be used for "trial" play of a game. Pay $1 to play for a week. Decide if you like it. Pay the difference to buy it forever else your license expires. A risky proposition - but only for those that make crappy games.
I wish to warn you about a new crime ring that is targeting business travelers. This ring is well organized, well funded, has very skilled personnel, and is currently in most major cities and recently very active in New Orleans. The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bath tub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing them not to move and to call 911. A phone is on a small table next to the bathtub for them to call. The business traveler calls 911 who have become quite familiar with this crime. The business traveler is instructed by the 911 operator to very slowly and carefully reach behind them and feel if there is a tube protruding from their lower back. The business traveler finds the tube and answers, "Yes." The 911 operator tells them to remain still, having already sent paramedics to help. The operator knows that both of the business traveler's kidneys have been harvested. This is not a scam or out of a science fiction novel, it is real. It is documented and confirmable. If you travel or someone close to you travels, please be careful.
If the network hardware would say to you, "Hey I had a flaw, but already downloaded the patch for it. Want me to install it?" like Windows does, this wouldn't be so bad.
Seriously - Microsoft's auto-update system for Windows is fantastic. I get the patch for a bug before I see it on/., and before my sys admin people even have sent out the mass mail to everyone notifying us there's a new patch. It's fantastic, painless, and it works - well.
How touching. Someone is concerned about Kaza-lite "put[ting] the user in violation of the policy at their ISP" and "[...]in violation of federal, state, and local laws." I'm so glad someone's concerned about trying to obey the laws and legally binding contracts!
I'm sure you're just using it to put up scans of your art work you've put in the public domain, get the latest linux, and share open source PHP scripts.
Right?
You're not trading music, warez, and other stuff you don't have legal rights to.
We had to pay $60,000 for a rack mount GPS unit for the research ship I was on. We only got 2 or 3 satellite fixes and even then that was for only a handful of hours a day because the constellation wasn't complete. But by cracky we loved it! It was good enough then and by god... by god... what we wouldn't have done for one of those modern sub $200 contraptions. Oh yea and a full constellation of satellites.
Navigation for scientific research (gravity & magnetic surveys) was interesting. We'd post process and combine a few hours of GPS a day, Transit Sat Nav (crude sat fixes + dead reconing), plus ARGO ranging navigation. The cool thing about ARGO was that it required shore stations where someone had to be by the transmitter for several weeks. And since the cruises were in the Carribean and off Brasil, sitting around a shore station (aka "the beach") for several weeks was pretttty fine.
I remember reading about this technology in Popular Science oh - back in the late 60's or 70's? It was clearly pitched as Ionic at the time - and the problem at the time seemed to have been how to carry the power supply around.
And you can bet that within a few days you'll see a new automatic update that will fix it.
Linux has NO known security holes, right?
Linux has a WONDERFUL system that automatically notifies you when there's an update, downloads it FIRST, before telling you (so you don't have to wait), right?
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Thanks for your opinion. Legal expert? I didn't think so.
Well buddy you must have a little gourd, or you keep playing with it so it's not very solid.
.NET patches, IE6, etc. But CRITICAL updates have NEVER let me down.
I've installed EVERY critical update - and never had a problem. Note what I said. CRITICAL update. Those are the ones that fix security holes. I don't care too much about
No, more like he broke into every car in the parking lot, put a sticker on their stereo that said, "I could have stole your radio because your lock sucks. Here's how!"
Parent post is troll/flame/overrated?
As I understand it, they just shifted the load over to Akamai. That's not obscuring it or smoke and mirrors. Just shifting to a new host.
Correct?
Someone will post, "Use linux!" and then someone will point out Microsoft "flaws" and soon we'll be totally off topic :^)
Here's a quote from the article...
I'm 100% with you. I bet you there are just as many unpatched Linux boxes out there as Windows boxes. At least with Windows you can flip a switch and it will just keep itself up to date if you'd like it to. It downloads the patch automatically as soon as it's available, then asks you if you'd like to install it. No pain, no "go to this webpage to download", no problems with "and now what do I do with this file?"
Psh - the tragedy isn't that Microsoft posted the patch almost a month ago. The tradegy is that people don't patch their systems and keep them up to date.
To turn a phrase, "Operating systems don't make people not patch, people make people not patch"
If someone handed me $60k for being the best I'd really not care if they called me "Clueles Game Geek" or anything else. As long as the headline read "...wins $60k playing a game", it could be what ever the press or anyone else wanted.
That or everyone will figure out really fast it's a crappy little camera and hacks will be only for the novelty of it. And they will throw away their camera (or three) and get a good one.
It's about secure systems. Open source does not guaruntee security. Neither does closed. Good design, testing, and implementation does.
So - look at ICQ. Look at how HUGELY popular it is. No publisher. Can't buy it in stores. Just some silly program you can DL for free.
http://www.steampowered.com
This is Valve's technology to perform this kind of function. Not only can it perform a licensing function beyond being a point of purchase, it has the advantages of being an automatic updating/patching system. Because it manages licensing it could be used for "trial" play of a game. Pay $1 to play for a week. Decide if you like it. Pay the difference to buy it forever else your license expires. A risky proposition - but only for those that make crappy games.
OK all you people who wouldn't get excited if they found a signal, raise your hand... Thank you sir. Sir. You may sit down now sir.
OK now all you other people...
I wish to warn you about a new crime ring that is targeting business travelers. This ring is well organized, well funded, has very skilled personnel, and is currently in most major cities and recently very active in New Orleans. The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bath tub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall instructing them not to move and to call 911. A phone is on a small table next to the bathtub for them to call. The business traveler calls 911 who have become quite familiar with this crime. The business traveler is instructed by the 911 operator to very slowly and carefully reach behind them and feel if there is a tube protruding from their lower back. The business traveler finds the tube and answers, "Yes." The 911 operator tells them to remain still, having already sent paramedics to help. The operator knows that both of the business traveler's kidneys have been harvested. This is not a scam or out of a science fiction novel, it is real. It is documented and confirmable. If you travel or someone close to you travels, please be careful.
Yea yea I know where it came from.
Mod up parent above! Totally agree!
If they could get Chatzilla and Mail in the main tabbed interface it would roxorz IMO.
Hear hear.
/., and before my sys admin people even have sent out the mass mail to everyone notifying us there's a new patch. It's fantastic, painless, and it works - well.
If the network hardware would say to you, "Hey I had a flaw, but already downloaded the patch for it. Want me to install it?" like Windows does, this wouldn't be so bad.
Seriously - Microsoft's auto-update system for Windows is fantastic. I get the patch for a bug before I see it on
How touching. Someone is concerned about Kaza-lite "put[ting] the user in violation of the policy at their ISP" and "[...]in violation of federal, state, and local laws." I'm so glad someone's concerned about trying to obey the laws and legally binding contracts!
I'm sure you're just using it to put up scans of your art work you've put in the public domain, get the latest linux, and share open source PHP scripts.
Right?
You're not trading music, warez, and other stuff you don't have legal rights to.
Right?
We had to pay $60,000 for a rack mount GPS unit for the research ship I was on. We only got 2 or 3 satellite fixes and even then that was for only a handful of hours a day because the constellation wasn't complete. But by cracky we loved it! It was good enough then and by god ... by god... what we wouldn't have done for one of those modern sub $200 contraptions. Oh yea and a full constellation of satellites.
Navigation for scientific research (gravity & magnetic surveys) was interesting. We'd post process and combine a few hours of GPS a day, Transit Sat Nav (crude sat fixes + dead reconing), plus ARGO ranging navigation. The cool thing about ARGO was that it required shore stations where someone had to be by the transmitter for several weeks. And since the cruises were in the Carribean and off Brasil, sitting around a shore station (aka "the beach") for several weeks was pretttty fine.
I remember reading about this technology in Popular Science oh - back in the late 60's or 70's? It was clearly pitched as Ionic at the time - and the problem at the time seemed to have been how to carry the power supply around.
And you can bet that within a few days you'll see a new automatic update that will fix it.
Linux has NO known security holes, right?
Linux has a WONDERFUL system that automatically notifies you when there's an update, downloads it FIRST, before telling you (so you don't have to wait), right?
Sheesh.
The level of bigotry is sickening.
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Just sign me,
Linux AND Windows user