"it never ceases to amaze me what the slashdot editors find newsworthy"
It's called paid advertising. Slashdot started carrying ads in the form of a front page story years ago. This product announcement is probably just one of those.
I have no definitive knowledge in the case of this particular one, just a guess of course...
Actually there is no direct, proper spelling in our character set as his name is spelled in the Russian cyrillic character set. So, there are several accepted translated spellings.
There used to be only 1 supermarket, the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, aka. "A&P". They eventually crumbled under their own mismanagement but it was horrid for suppliers and consumers while it lasted.
The same trend is occurring again with Super Walmart stores. They combine the predatory pricing of Walmart into the grocery world. You can go Google why Walmart is bad. I don't need to tell you.
Makes me wonder about casual aquaintences
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My AIM (err iChat) buddy list has a decent sized section of casual aquaintences. They're people who I game with, used to work with or met at conventions. If one of them does something nasty are the Feds going to come knocking on my door asking questions?
I know my chats are fully logged already and never discuss anything even semi-private over IM. But the concept of guilt by association on an electronic level is simply frightening.
Maybe I am in an odd place but all our screeners are Federal employees. They booted all the private firms out and replaced them with government employees.
People on the border of surviving versus not often die from dehydration or the damage done by high fevers from such illnesses. Simple analgesics and IV fluids would significantly help reduce the casualties.
And, despite the lack of better healthcare in less economically developed countries, there is still better education. A better udnerstanding of the transmission mechanism and precautions that can be taken to avoid infection will also help. During the SARS outbreak entire cities were quarantined in China. Similar actions, facilitated by modern communications, would be taken in the case of a deadly disease spreading.
Just because a flu may be more deadly does not necessarilly mean it is more contagious. I'm still holding the position that such high death rates on a global scale will not recur.
You fail to take into account the state of medical care advancements since 1918. The simple ability to better treat infected individuals and innoculate others would mitigate the spreading factors you cite.
I have the opposite experience with Blizzard games. Specifically Diablo II and WarcraftIII (and The Frozen Throne). The Mac patches come out at the exact same time as the Windows patches and everything communicates flawlessly. Nobody on battle.net knows I'm playing on a Mac unless I tell them.
I'd like to add that I read Slashdot from work sometimes. I have no choice at the office but to use IE on Windows. It's corporate IT's desktop choice and anything else is not an option.
Were I to read from home you'ld see Safari on MacOSX or Konqueror on various *nix platforms for my referential information.
As long as the framebuffer/console video support worked properly this wouldn't be a bad idea. I mean to the end user, why would they care if their Unix-alike handheld had a Linux kernel or a BSD kernel?
Functionality is the key, not the license the OS is distributed under.
That entirely depends on if the virus or worm is released into the wild or not. I know I have written some down right nasty malicious code in my time but none of it was ever released into the wild. Bad intent and bad actions definitely segregate the authors you group together.
Because the system can only support a fixed number of concurrent socket connections to any one specific port. Sockets are files and there is a max file descriptors value that the kernel can handle. If everything went to the same port you would hit such a limit fairly quickly.
This does not even take into account the ability to selectively disconect clients attached to a specific application (port) without detrimentally affecting all other open sockets.
Neat idea but not very practical on any type of a large scale.
That is what Virtual PC is for. You can boot an MS OS in a nice virtual machine under MacOSX. With the Sun you can use a nice SunPCI x86 card and run windows on its own CPU and RAM displayed in a window on your desktop. When confined to its own little space everything seems better...
One of the performance issues may be which C compiler the JRE was compiled with. I mean think about it, Java is only as good the the application that runs the compiled byte code you hand it.
So, if the JRE was compiled without optimization flags for your CPU type then all java byte code you execute with that JRE is going to perform poorly.
By the time the spammers realized the keyservers needed to be DDOS'ed enough people who would be using the key would have it sucked down and on their keyring.
Also, a lot more attention would be paid to efforts to stop a DDOS attack against a heavily used resource such as PGP/GPG keyservers. The attacks would be stopped much more quickly than those against a single point of failure hobbiest website.
Nope, this was a username @ mraz.org address with "username" specific to use only on Dell's small business store website. It was/is a quite unique address and would be very unlikely to be brute forced. Plus I have a funnel on my domain and would have seen other junk if the domain was being brute forced. Dell definitely sold or leased my email address out on some kind of list that got into the hands of spammers and is now poisoned.
I will NOT ever do business with Dell again due to thier behavior in this case.
Dell sells (leases?) their customer email addresses out. I have an address that has only been used for an account on the Dell store and it started receiving spam recently. No one is immune to corporate greed...
Welcome to the 21st century, where freedom of speech is supressed by freedom to sue.
You always have a choice to face the lawsuit, no freedom is being taken away.
Except that the cost of entry into the legal system is too high of a barrier for most people. The simple prospect of having to spend time and money to defend yourself, even when you're right, is too great of a burden to take on. People simply give in to those who can afford to follow up on their threats to sue. -Rusty
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"it never ceases to amaze me what the slashdot editors find newsworthy"
It's called paid advertising. Slashdot started carrying ads in the form of a front page story years ago. This product announcement is probably just one of those.
I have no definitive knowledge in the case of this particular one, just a guess of course...
-Rusty
Actually there is no direct, proper spelling in our character set as his name is spelled in the Russian cyrillic character set. So, there are several accepted translated spellings.
-Rusty
Oh, I can't help myself...
No, install FreeBSD
Ummm, the scam doesn't work from spoken to TTY. There is no reason for stopping the voice to TTY calls.
-RUsty
There used to be only 1 supermarket, the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, aka. "A&P". They eventually crumbled under their own mismanagement but it was horrid for suppliers and consumers while it lasted.
The same trend is occurring again with Super Walmart stores. They combine the predatory pricing of Walmart into the grocery world. You can go Google why Walmart is bad. I don't need to tell you.
-Rusty
Would "the Bobs" have to fire themselves?
-Rusty
My AIM (err iChat) buddy list has a decent sized section of casual aquaintences. They're people who I game with, used to work with or met at conventions. If one of them does something nasty are the Feds going to come knocking on my door asking questions?
I know my chats are fully logged already and never discuss anything even semi-private over IM. But the concept of guilt by association on an electronic level is simply frightening.
-Rusty the paranoid
Maybe I am in an odd place but all our screeners are Federal employees. They booted all the private firms out and replaced them with government employees.
-Rusty
C?
char *stringVar[1024];
Or perhaps Java?
String stringVar = new String();
Maybe you prefer PERL?
my $stringVar = '';
That's how I describe some of my strings...
-Rusty
People on the border of surviving versus not often die from dehydration or the damage done by high fevers from such illnesses. Simple analgesics and IV fluids would significantly help reduce the casualties.
And, despite the lack of better healthcare in less economically developed countries, there is still better education. A better udnerstanding of the transmission mechanism and precautions that can be taken to avoid infection will also help. During the SARS outbreak entire cities were quarantined in China. Similar actions, facilitated by modern communications, would be taken in the case of a deadly disease spreading.
Just because a flu may be more deadly does not necessarilly mean it is more contagious. I'm still holding the position that such high death rates on a global scale will not recur.
-Rusty
You fail to take into account the state of medical care advancements since 1918. The simple ability to better treat infected individuals and innoculate others would mitigate the spreading factors you cite.
-Rusty
I have the opposite experience with Blizzard games. Specifically Diablo II and WarcraftIII (and The Frozen Throne). The Mac patches come out at the exact same time as the Windows patches and everything communicates flawlessly. Nobody on battle.net knows I'm playing on a Mac unless I tell them.
-Rusty
I'd like to add that I read Slashdot from work sometimes. I have no choice at the office but to use IE on Windows. It's corporate IT's desktop choice and anything else is not an option.
Were I to read from home you'ld see Safari on MacOSX or Konqueror on various *nix platforms for my referential information.
Sometimes the choice is not ours to make.
-Rusty
(yeah, not FBSD, it's a PC thing. It's NBSD that's multi-platform!)
*COUGH*Darwin*COUGH* Yeah, it's a PC thing for sure...
-Rusty
As long as the framebuffer/console video support worked properly this wouldn't be a bad idea. I mean to the end user, why would they care if their Unix-alike handheld had a Linux kernel or a BSD kernel?
Functionality is the key, not the license the OS is distributed under.
-Rusty
That entirely depends on if the virus or worm is released into the wild or not. I know I have written some down right nasty malicious code in my time but none of it was ever released into the wild. Bad intent and bad actions definitely segregate the authors you group together.
-Rusty
Because the system can only support a fixed number of concurrent socket connections to any one specific port. Sockets are files and there is a max file descriptors value that the kernel can handle. If everything went to the same port you would hit such a limit fairly quickly.
This does not even take into account the ability to selectively disconect clients attached to a specific application (port) without detrimentally affecting all other open sockets.
Neat idea but not very practical on any type of a large scale.
-Rusty
That is what Virtual PC is for. You can boot an MS OS in a nice virtual machine under MacOSX. With the Sun you can use a nice SunPCI x86 card and run windows on its own CPU and RAM displayed in a window on your desktop. When confined to its own little space everything seems better...
-Rusty
One of the performance issues may be which C compiler the JRE was compiled with. I mean think about it, Java is only as good the the application that runs the compiled byte code you hand it.
So, if the JRE was compiled without optimization flags for your CPU type then all java byte code you execute with that JRE is going to perform poorly.
-Rusty
By the time the spammers realized the keyservers needed to be DDOS'ed enough people who would be using the key would have it sucked down and on their keyring.
Also, a lot more attention would be paid to efforts to stop a DDOS attack against a heavily used resource such as PGP/GPG keyservers. The attacks would be stopped much more quickly than those against a single point of failure hobbiest website.
-Rusty
You use a PGP/GPG key to sign the file. The signature can be easily checked and the Web of Trust is your legitimacy agent.
-Rusty
Nope, this was a username @ mraz.org address with "username" specific to use only on Dell's small business store website. It was/is a quite unique address and would be very unlikely to be brute forced. Plus I have a funnel on my domain and would have seen other junk if the domain was being brute forced. Dell definitely sold or leased my email address out on some kind of list that got into the hands of spammers and is now poisoned.
I will NOT ever do business with Dell again due to thier behavior in this case.
-Rusty
Dell sells (leases?) their customer email addresses out. I have an address that has only been used for an account on the Dell store and it started receiving spam recently. No one is immune to corporate greed...
-Rusty
Welcome to the 21st century, where freedom of speech is supressed by freedom to sue.
You always have a choice to face the lawsuit, no freedom is being taken away.
Except that the cost of entry into the legal system is too high of a barrier for most people. The simple prospect of having to spend time and money to defend yourself, even when you're right, is too great of a burden to take on. People simply give in to those who can afford to follow up on their threats to sue.
-Rusty
The line is:
"Ah, I see your swartz is as big as mine!"
I just watched the DVD on the plane a few days ago...
-Rusty