Nope! It's the number of days between the release date and today. So, the six-day exploit in TFA might have had a workaround or even (gasp!) a patch available already. That will not do! We need the zero-day warez, only that is the most eleet. You lamers can make do with the old outdated exploits - they usually stop working after a few days, anyway. A zero-day exploit (and every zero-day exploit that has ever existed in the history of mankind) lasts for 24 hours exactly. In this case, there's no instant patch cause it's MS - other vendors will sometimes rush out a patch to fix the vulnerability. Don't worry, all is not lost, sometimes the patch introduces a new exploitable vulnerability!
Now the real elite get unpublished exploits, although this typically requires you to know the right people or trade your own unpublished exploits. Well, that or be a female who's willing to put out. Yuk. But as soon as the unpublished exploit hits the net, it becomes a zero-day exploit and starts aging from there.
Yeah, I know I'm tilting at windmills and "zero-day" has just become yet another meaningless computer security buzzword, among all the other twisted meanings of the English language used by computer security "professionals". But still.
The zero-day vulnerability was first reported by Canadian researcher Laurent Gaffie last Wednesday
OK the exploit is almost a week old already. How is this "zero-day"? In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
You call them hate facts, the rest of the world calls them inconvenient truths.
It's irrelevant anyway, it's just used to illustrate that eugenics advocates aren't actually interested in reducing the surplus population, they're interested to reduce the population of people they don't like.
No education tax for those that have no children? People are in favor of that? Would you cheerfully pay a road tax if you didn't own a car? What about if you were a vociferous proponent of bikes? You don't have any kids, own a home, and pay a ton of school taxes - what about the jerk down the road who has 5 children and lives in an apartment? You may be totally unaware of this phenomenon, but be aware it does exist, especially among people who have no problem getting heard by millions. Just consider the term "childless" - you won't see this anywhere in the media today. It has been replaced (in the style guide, even!) by "childfree", as if children were some sort of nasty skin rash you get by sitting on the stools at a truck stop diner.
Mod parent up. THIS, exactly, is the biggest problem with eugenics (i.e. the "put a cork in that vagina") argument. It's vicious hatred against the "other" and the solution at hand is to stop "them" from having families. By any means necessary.
See, here's the problem with eugenics. Firstly, the developed world is no longer growing - places like Japan and Italy are actually dying. The rampant out-of-control population increases are all in "developing" countries full of brown people, a very inconvenient truth that you will never hear during the eugenics debate (i.e. "the government needs to put a cork in your vagina" argument so sadly common these days). Secondly, the moment that you say the government gets its hands on the uterus, it's a clusterfuck full of corruption and favoritism. It certainly happened that way in China - the only people who had to follow the one-child policy were the ordinary people. This resulted in infanticide against females, selective-sex abortion, gender imbalance, and a host of other unintended consequences. But certainly we'll get it right this time!
If teachers don't have enough money for school supplies, then we need higher taxes. Unfortunately, these days with people having children later as well as a significant minority of Americans who are very, VERY against the entire idea of humans having children (without a license from the government of course i.e. eugenics), it's really hard to push tax increases through.
Is it OK that, once, China could be called out on its horrible record without mentioning in the same breath that the United States is worse, much worse? Seriously, this phenomenon is like a disease.
Why? Because two different people could not possibly arrive at different conclusions? Because anyone who doesn't agree with me must be stupid? What is this, just before the French Revolution? This is an bigoted aristocratic attitude if I've ever seen one.
Is it me or does there seem to be a concerted attack on the very idea of democracy these days? As if there is some assumption that only bright educated people can govern? And that only the Council of Alphas is fit to rule? It's bright educated people who come up with things like National Socialism and Marxism that cause the deaths of millions. But hey, as long as it's the dumb uneducated people who are getting killed, who cares really?
You are aware that, under postmodernism, there is no such thing as a self-evident truth? The entire Declaration of Independence is irrelevant to modern life, and should no longer be taught in schools other than as a historical document irrelevant to our era.
Well! I certainly take back my assertion that Apple's app store is authoritarian. You have certainly bested me in argument, sir, and I bow my head in shame. My strategy of comparing different sorts of authoritarianism has come apart in the face of your assertion that I would enjoy the violent deaths of thousands of people. Moreover, your rhetorical strategy of making any references to communism off-limits for any sort of discussion can only make future debates more fruitful and productive by letting our society forget about 20th century history.
That's not the point. The point is, Apple must control everything. Yes, they regard even a BASIC interpreter as a threat. And they are very correct to do so. You might laugh but Apple's principles are sound. I have just spent some time reviewing documents from just before the Wall fell and it was very clearly revealed that letting people have a little bit of freedom was ultimately disastrous.
Funny, my 4x4 keypad phone has 4 buttons labeled "Flash Override, Flash, Immediate, and Priority". I've never seen one with ABCD listed. You sure that isn't just some part for hobbyists?
Which would...not be balanced. Either it's balanced or it's not, and you can't say it's both not balanced and balanced at the same time. Although if that's what you *are* saying, then I am not rightly able to comprehend the confusion of ideas that would arrive at such a conclusion.
A media organization reporting on a conflict involving itself? The BBC has gone gonzo now?
I suppose it wouldn't be a good idea to point out the blatant contradiction between "good example of the BBC covering a BBC-related story in a balanced manner" (my italics) and "It contains more quotes from people opposed to the plans than in favour of it." Two legs good, four legs better!
Posted 12 minutes after the story hit the front page, presents a cogent view in favor of the big media/BBC, says we should shut our dirty whore mouths unless we have a solution that will pass every test he can throw at it, has a PDF citation ready to go from some official.gov.uk comment site nobody has ever heard of, and adds in an obvious spell flame/spelling error combo in his post to throw off follow-ups.
My hat's off to you sir, you are quite well-organized for a high 6-digit slashdot poster.
He's a Supreme Court justice. He doesn't talk about cars, and to make any pop culture reference at all is notable. What are you saying, because he doesn't watch TV that he's some kind of out-of-touch weirdo freak?
When talking of references, whenever anyone says "Professor Farnsworth" I think of the inventor of TV, not the funny cartoon character. But anyone who thinks different from you is weird and wrong, eh?
You actually liked Minsc and Boo, the miniature giant space hamster? I couldn't stand them and thought they were about as entertaining as Jar-Jar Binks.
Wrong! The feds won't get involved for anything less than $50,000. My company called them once and got turned down flat. They had to wildly exaggerate the amount of losses to get them to investigate.
Incompetence is more than an adequate explanation. I, for one, am no longer shocked when huge companies admit to shamefully incompetent wrongdoing. And Microsoft has a history of such blind stupidity, so no surprises there either.
Journalist's spellchecker at work. Obviously, nobody fact-checked the article or this obvious mistake would have been quickly found. Note the byline, maybe Julian Ryall will write something about healthcare next!
The only thing even cooler is getting a medal from a foreign government. Of course, getting the Iron Cross first class is a lot cooler than getting the totally anemic-sounding Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Perhaps you may not. But the education system and the media certainly do, and they're the ones teaching kids how to think.
Now the real elite get unpublished exploits, although this typically requires you to know the right people or trade your own unpublished exploits. Well, that or be a female who's willing to put out. Yuk. But as soon as the unpublished exploit hits the net, it becomes a zero-day exploit and starts aging from there.
Yeah, I know I'm tilting at windmills and "zero-day" has just become yet another meaningless computer security buzzword, among all the other twisted meanings of the English language used by computer security "professionals". But still.
OK the exploit is almost a week old already. How is this "zero-day"? In the immortal words of Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
It's irrelevant anyway, it's just used to illustrate that eugenics advocates aren't actually interested in reducing the surplus population, they're interested to reduce the population of people they don't like.
No education tax for those that have no children? People are in favor of that? Would you cheerfully pay a road tax if you didn't own a car? What about if you were a vociferous proponent of bikes? You don't have any kids, own a home, and pay a ton of school taxes - what about the jerk down the road who has 5 children and lives in an apartment? You may be totally unaware of this phenomenon, but be aware it does exist, especially among people who have no problem getting heard by millions. Just consider the term "childless" - you won't see this anywhere in the media today. It has been replaced (in the style guide, even!) by "childfree", as if children were some sort of nasty skin rash you get by sitting on the stools at a truck stop diner.
Mod parent up. THIS, exactly, is the biggest problem with eugenics (i.e. the "put a cork in that vagina") argument. It's vicious hatred against the "other" and the solution at hand is to stop "them" from having families. By any means necessary.
See, here's the problem with eugenics. Firstly, the developed world is no longer growing - places like Japan and Italy are actually dying. The rampant out-of-control population increases are all in "developing" countries full of brown people, a very inconvenient truth that you will never hear during the eugenics debate (i.e. "the government needs to put a cork in your vagina" argument so sadly common these days). Secondly, the moment that you say the government gets its hands on the uterus, it's a clusterfuck full of corruption and favoritism. It certainly happened that way in China - the only people who had to follow the one-child policy were the ordinary people. This resulted in infanticide against females, selective-sex abortion, gender imbalance, and a host of other unintended consequences. But certainly we'll get it right this time!
If teachers don't have enough money for school supplies, then we need higher taxes. Unfortunately, these days with people having children later as well as a significant minority of Americans who are very, VERY against the entire idea of humans having children (without a license from the government of course i.e. eugenics), it's really hard to push tax increases through.
Is it OK that, once, China could be called out on its horrible record without mentioning in the same breath that the United States is worse, much worse? Seriously, this phenomenon is like a disease.
Why? Because two different people could not possibly arrive at different conclusions? Because anyone who doesn't agree with me must be stupid? What is this, just before the French Revolution? This is an bigoted aristocratic attitude if I've ever seen one.
Is it me or does there seem to be a concerted attack on the very idea of democracy these days? As if there is some assumption that only bright educated people can govern? And that only the Council of Alphas is fit to rule? It's bright educated people who come up with things like National Socialism and Marxism that cause the deaths of millions. But hey, as long as it's the dumb uneducated people who are getting killed, who cares really?
You are aware that, under postmodernism, there is no such thing as a self-evident truth? The entire Declaration of Independence is irrelevant to modern life, and should no longer be taught in schools other than as a historical document irrelevant to our era.
They get stuck too. Difference is, they've got a buddy with his own 4-wheeler and tow chains. Maybe they need to send these things in pairs...
Well! I certainly take back my assertion that Apple's app store is authoritarian. You have certainly bested me in argument, sir, and I bow my head in shame. My strategy of comparing different sorts of authoritarianism has come apart in the face of your assertion that I would enjoy the violent deaths of thousands of people. Moreover, your rhetorical strategy of making any references to communism off-limits for any sort of discussion can only make future debates more fruitful and productive by letting our society forget about 20th century history.
That's not the point. The point is, Apple must control everything. Yes, they regard even a BASIC interpreter as a threat. And they are very correct to do so. You might laugh but Apple's principles are sound. I have just spent some time reviewing documents from just before the Wall fell and it was very clearly revealed that letting people have a little bit of freedom was ultimately disastrous.
Funny, my 4x4 keypad phone has 4 buttons labeled "Flash Override, Flash, Immediate, and Priority". I've never seen one with ABCD listed. You sure that isn't just some part for hobbyists?
Which would...not be balanced. Either it's balanced or it's not, and you can't say it's both not balanced and balanced at the same time. Although if that's what you *are* saying, then I am not rightly able to comprehend the confusion of ideas that would arrive at such a conclusion.
I suppose it wouldn't be a good idea to point out the blatant contradiction between "good example of the BBC covering a BBC-related story in a balanced manner" (my italics) and "It contains more quotes from people opposed to the plans than in favour of it." Two legs good, four legs better!
My hat's off to you sir, you are quite well-organized for a high 6-digit slashdot poster.
When talking of references, whenever anyone says "Professor Farnsworth" I think of the inventor of TV, not the funny cartoon character. But anyone who thinks different from you is weird and wrong, eh?
You actually liked Minsc and Boo, the miniature giant space hamster? I couldn't stand them and thought they were about as entertaining as Jar-Jar Binks.
Wrong! The feds won't get involved for anything less than $50,000. My company called them once and got turned down flat. They had to wildly exaggerate the amount of losses to get them to investigate.
Incompetence is more than an adequate explanation. I, for one, am no longer shocked when huge companies admit to shamefully incompetent wrongdoing. And Microsoft has a history of such blind stupidity, so no surprises there either.
Journalist's spellchecker at work. Obviously, nobody fact-checked the article or this obvious mistake would have been quickly found. Note the byline, maybe Julian Ryall will write something about healthcare next!
The only thing even cooler is getting a medal from a foreign government. Of course, getting the Iron Cross first class is a lot cooler than getting the totally anemic-sounding Presidential Medal of Freedom.