Unless the USB stick exploits bugs in the USB drivers (which are hugely complex and run at the kernel level) in which case you're hosed the instant you plug it in, autorun or not.
Yes, it's an excellent product for the kid with the $275 allowance.
Ok, that's a little unfair. They do have a $99 package now, but that's still well above what most parents are willing to spend on something their kid may or may not have any interest in. The great thing about Hypercard is that the full development environment came with every Mac sold, so all of those kids just stumbled across it and discovered a love of making computers do what they want.
Back in the day I learned a lot from programming Hypertalk (Hypercard) on my parent's Mac LC. Despite the somewhat heavy syntax sugar, it really let you do a lot with very little, and all of that sugar meant that you could figure out what is going on by simply looking at the code. I'm still annoyed at Apple when they started shipping the player instead of the full development environment, and when they eventually dropped it entirely. The code is still around, but it's wildly overpriced for kids and example code is much harder to find.
Still, the ability to put a button on the screen, and then pull up the code in the button to find:
on mouseUp
ask "Please enter a number"
put it into theNumber
answer "You entered " theNumber
end mouseUp
That's the sort of thing you can build off of very easily.
Some of the worst offenders of this are outfits like the RIAA and MPAA that grossly overstate the impact of piracy in order to legitimize themselves. When a single kid with Limewire deserves a fine larger than the GDP of the entire world for a decade, you know the metrics have lost all basis in reality.
I think the point is that politics often forces people to act against their self interest on the diplomatic stage, just because doing the right thing would get them kicked out of office (and the right thing overturned). This is the case with a lot of middle eastern regimes that secretly want to help the US kick the insurgents out of their country, but can't because the insurgents are way more politically popular than the US.
Also, like it or not, a lot of diplomacy is playing the game. The other guy lies to you, you know it but you pretend to go along because it serves some interest of yours. Then these leaks come out and he really can't pretend that he's fooling you anymore. Most of these situations will work themselves out over time though.
I think the fact that their business model is failing has more to do with their extremely aggressive push to offer the lowest possible prices than anything else. Basically, they undercut themselves in an effort to get all of those big contracts we hear so much about. In other words, their problems stem more from their management practices than from socioeconomic factors.
I'm guessing the holdup is that there still has to be people involved in the production at some step and he was hoping to do it all with robots. Simply treating actors like robots didn't work out in the prequels.
Superman has Super-Ventriloquism, among thousands of other retarded powers that writers have dreamed up over the years. That's the kind of cruft I'm referring to.
I guess they can buy themselves some time by just retelling all of the origin stories again just in case readers missed them the first (or second, or third) time around and missed the movie and were under a rock for their entire life. Certainly much easier than simply retiring the characters and thinking up entirely new stories to tell with new characters that aren't weighed down by decades of cruft.
I wonder if 4 years ago Cicso was saying that streaming video was going to account for the majority of internet traffic in 2011? Trying to extrapolate future data use based on current trends is a risky business, and historically people have gotten it wrong a lot. 4 years is a very long time in internet time, who knows what new technology will come along in the meantime and soak up all of the bandwidth?
You will probably have a long wait given that even Wings of Liberty isn't available on Steam. Between Activision and Blizzard, someone over there doesn't like Steam apparently.
I'd like to think that the connection between the ATM and whatever it talks to is encrypted with something straightforward and effective like an SSL connection with preshared keys to prevent a trivial attack like you describe above, but I've been shocked and dismayed at security in the financial world too many times to be completely surprised if this is not the case. This is the industry that thinks the signature on the back of a credit card is some sort of security measure.
Probably better than walking into a museum and finding an empty spot where the Ford Model T would be if there were any left in the world. (it's a car analogy)
When you seek out bad reviews, don't you tend to find a whole lot of ones where someone is stuck reviewing a genre they don't like or have some weird complaint that doesn't affect the game properly? I tend to see that a lot on places like Metacritic. If you look up StarCraft II and the review complains about how annoying it is that you're controlling little people instead of getting down in the action and shooting stuff personally, and how using the keyboard and mouse are too complicated, well, I think it was just the wrong reviewer for the job.
That's my thought too. Why would they need such a document unless their service is crap? If someone is maliciously writing bad reviews, chances are they don't even go to that doctor or dentist in the first place.
It seems to me that they've optimized their algorithm for recreating cartoony line-art style graphics. This works great if it was the initial intent (ala the Super Mario World graphics they used in most of their examples), but it falls down on many other art styles. Something like an old Sierra game (mid-series Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc...) are likely to be a hot mess. I bet most of Doom is a disaster too. So it's a cool tool, but the applications are limited by the original art design.
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So the last groundbreaking invention in the computer world happened in the 1950s? Seems you have set a pretty high bar there.
Unless the USB stick exploits bugs in the USB drivers (which are hugely complex and run at the kernel level) in which case you're hosed the instant you plug it in, autorun or not.
Yes, it's an excellent product for the kid with the $275 allowance.
Ok, that's a little unfair. They do have a $99 package now, but that's still well above what most parents are willing to spend on something their kid may or may not have any interest in. The great thing about Hypercard is that the full development environment came with every Mac sold, so all of those kids just stumbled across it and discovered a love of making computers do what they want.
Back in the day I learned a lot from programming Hypertalk (Hypercard) on my parent's Mac LC. Despite the somewhat heavy syntax sugar, it really let you do a lot with very little, and all of that sugar meant that you could figure out what is going on by simply looking at the code. I'm still annoyed at Apple when they started shipping the player instead of the full development environment, and when they eventually dropped it entirely. The code is still around, but it's wildly overpriced for kids and example code is much harder to find.
Still, the ability to put a button on the screen, and then pull up the code in the button to find:
on mouseUp
ask "Please enter a number"
put it into theNumber
answer "You entered " theNumber
end mouseUp
That's the sort of thing you can build off of very easily.
The only way to tell would be if someone tossed a watermark on the file, which is unlikely.
For me, the fact that Bin Laden hasn't released any new videos or other media since the raid is proof enough that he's dead for me.
There is no facepalm big enough to express my feeling at that hack. I'm sure they paid good money to "security professionals" to set that up too.
Some of the worst offenders of this are outfits like the RIAA and MPAA that grossly overstate the impact of piracy in order to legitimize themselves. When a single kid with Limewire deserves a fine larger than the GDP of the entire world for a decade, you know the metrics have lost all basis in reality.
I think the point is that politics often forces people to act against their self interest on the diplomatic stage, just because doing the right thing would get them kicked out of office (and the right thing overturned). This is the case with a lot of middle eastern regimes that secretly want to help the US kick the insurgents out of their country, but can't because the insurgents are way more politically popular than the US.
Also, like it or not, a lot of diplomacy is playing the game. The other guy lies to you, you know it but you pretend to go along because it serves some interest of yours. Then these leaks come out and he really can't pretend that he's fooling you anymore. Most of these situations will work themselves out over time though.
I think the fact that their business model is failing has more to do with their extremely aggressive push to offer the lowest possible prices than anything else. Basically, they undercut themselves in an effort to get all of those big contracts we hear so much about. In other words, their problems stem more from their management practices than from socioeconomic factors.
This is a troll article and it has attracted a huge number of trolls to the comment section.
I'm guessing the holdup is that there still has to be people involved in the production at some step and he was hoping to do it all with robots. Simply treating actors like robots didn't work out in the prequels.
Superman has Super-Ventriloquism, among thousands of other retarded powers that writers have dreamed up over the years. That's the kind of cruft I'm referring to.
I guess they can buy themselves some time by just retelling all of the origin stories again just in case readers missed them the first (or second, or third) time around and missed the movie and were under a rock for their entire life. Certainly much easier than simply retiring the characters and thinking up entirely new stories to tell with new characters that aren't weighed down by decades of cruft.
I wonder if 4 years ago Cicso was saying that streaming video was going to account for the majority of internet traffic in 2011? Trying to extrapolate future data use based on current trends is a risky business, and historically people have gotten it wrong a lot. 4 years is a very long time in internet time, who knows what new technology will come along in the meantime and soak up all of the bandwidth?
You had a moral objection to studying?
I thought those were joke posts.
You will probably have a long wait given that even Wings of Liberty isn't available on Steam. Between Activision and Blizzard, someone over there doesn't like Steam apparently.
I'd like to think that the connection between the ATM and whatever it talks to is encrypted with something straightforward and effective like an SSL connection with preshared keys to prevent a trivial attack like you describe above, but I've been shocked and dismayed at security in the financial world too many times to be completely surprised if this is not the case. This is the industry that thinks the signature on the back of a credit card is some sort of security measure.
I'm no fan of backscatter X-Ray machines, but "rape-scans"? Come on.
Probably better than walking into a museum and finding an empty spot where the Ford Model T would be if there were any left in the world. (it's a car analogy)
How many of those will care about the date though? My microwave doesn't give a crap what year it is.
When you seek out bad reviews, don't you tend to find a whole lot of ones where someone is stuck reviewing a genre they don't like or have some weird complaint that doesn't affect the game properly? I tend to see that a lot on places like Metacritic. If you look up StarCraft II and the review complains about how annoying it is that you're controlling little people instead of getting down in the action and shooting stuff personally, and how using the keyboard and mouse are too complicated, well, I think it was just the wrong reviewer for the job.
That's my thought too. Why would they need such a document unless their service is crap? If someone is maliciously writing bad reviews, chances are they don't even go to that doctor or dentist in the first place.
It seems to me that they've optimized their algorithm for recreating cartoony line-art style graphics. This works great if it was the initial intent (ala the Super Mario World graphics they used in most of their examples), but it falls down on many other art styles. Something like an old Sierra game (mid-series Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc...) are likely to be a hot mess. I bet most of Doom is a disaster too. So it's a cool tool, but the applications are limited by the original art design.