The uber-space-geek: hey! just received an alert from Nasa saying Sun has grown a new spot. Must be the cause - the damn thing must have shot out a lot of electro-magnetic waves toward us that shut down the thing as it usually happens.
The right answer: in Soviet Russia...
Ah well...Never mind.
As the author stated in his edited post, he doesn't know much about ActiveX.
Reading this:
ActiveX, for those that don't know, is a "technology" that allows you to download a piece of natively executable software from any arbitrary location (e.g. embedded in a Web page) and let it run.
is a bad start since he already missed the whole ActiveX point in the first place.
ActiveX are not meant to "download and run arbitrary code". This ability is just part of the ActiveX features. A bad feature maybe but it's not the core of ActiveX.
If this seems insanely unsafe, that's because it is.
If you leave it as it is, yes.
I can make an OCX that basically formats your hard drive, stick it on a Web page with a tag, and if your security settings are set low enough, you'll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page.
I see many other confusions :
Confusion with OCX (the auld name of what was not exactly ActiveX at this time). Confusion probably comes from that names still remains in MSDEV. Going further back, we can call those components COM/DCOM. Problem remains.
Confusion with what is being written/released/used: I too can write a nasty ActiveX. I can also write a nice Java Applet, or worse, a downloadable Java application using JNLP. Now who's going to want it? People who click on all popups in IE? Right...and what? People who trust me? The problem is the same with every other component or software you download. Run it or not. Trust it or not.
The "updater" example with the HTML code is ridiculous. Of course you can change PARAMETERS in any kind of applet/activex embedding. If you application is dumb enough to let anything go, bad goes to you. And anyway, the code is still the same ActiveX. There is no issue aside from what the developer wanted to introduce.
Aside from a good slashdotter bashing against M$ again, what exactly is the point of this whole article? It's misleading, misinformed and half wrong.
I've read the whole article.
My! You'd better be a geek to have to cope with all the little worries..
Getting cheap AND working hardware on E-Bay. My mom will not do it for the sake of her computer.
32GB limitation by jumpers. Not obvious for an end-user.
Booting up *nixes from various drives in order to access the limited drive, then fiddle with partitions. I still don't dare touching my configs for more than OS at a time. Let alone various OSes on various drives.
Compiling KDart?! Compiling what? What do I have to do? "Comp..??" You have to admit, it's not for the dummy kind.
Definitely not "Backup made easy" but "Made not so expensive" since the price tag still reaches 300$ (drive + box from e-bay + screws + shots of valium to calm you down when your machine refuses to boot after all the offence you just did to it).
I bought Linux Hacks. This, Webmin and a remote machine accessible using Samba or sftp does the daily backup just fine.
I think that is the depth of this problem:
Is the guy guilty of anything by collecting information given by others?
To me it's very different from obtaining the information yourself. THAT would be espionage.
But in this case, the guy just reports and the ones that should be sued are the contributors.
Otherwise, Apple could as well sue slashdot for publishing information on a site reporting that Apple is going to release something new.
And endlessly...sue the one that reported that Slashdot reported that...
Unless you americans really lost the right for free speech and publishing and it's really THAT obvious that USA is now governed by big companies, this sounds more like Apple trying to make noise.
They are targeting the wrong guy anyway.
Technology might be making it too easy for them, so they don't even learn.
Technology won't raise your kid. On the other hand, you as a parent might want to try learning them things rather than relying on the usual TV/Video-games/techno-toys parental dismissal combo.
Happens a bit too often however...
It is definitely a nice goal to strive having as less defects as possible in a software.
Now as for "explicit" defects, those can be fixed since you know what they are.
The theory is very different when you come to consider the instable nature of a computer (you CANNOT build a defect-free software because of this. It actually boils down to the state of your computer at a given moment in time, which will never be the same the next time, hence your software may not behave the same way the next time you run it.)
I reckon this is highly theoretical, but saying my piece of software is "completely defect free" is highly pedantinc!
Ok Mr Kenosis, you just lost my vote.
Considering that computer science theoricians (namely Goeddles) mathematically demonstrated the impossibility of a "zero-defect software", that makes the article quite impossible to trust or even consider.
I hate when people think they are infaillible.
I for once, do not welcome "Heroic" as an adjective for such a small feat as to recover a partition table from Knoppix.
Really, the "Heroic" adjective is a bit too much. How about the one who saved the Windows Server day by using a boot floppy then? Restoring a failing Windows install, THAT is heroism!
I went back to computer school after working for a few software companies, then moved to Canada.
Here's my findings:
-- Going back to computer school was easy and fun: I was in the position where I mostly helped my fellow students with the experience I gathered.
Convincing the school that you are the right candidate for them was easy: you provide experience to students who don't have it. It can only make them succeed, so you can only be a good addition.
However, the only thing I *really* learned was SQL...Which is to say, not a big thing..the rest was C++, algorithmics and computer theory I already knew and used.
-- Going back to school was the best thing I did:
This plus past experience showed people that I was already able AND willing. It also filled up my resume with a nice entry.
-- Canadians don't really care about your diploma if you have stack of experience already. They have never asked me to produce any document.
If you come for a foreign country, you can even be confusing enough with the equivalence between diplomas to get a good position that usually require diplomas you don't have (because even in 2005, HR people still thinks the more diploma you have, the better you will be at the job)
My advice:
If you feel you are ready for it, go for it!
Last time I heard about Kapersky labs, we were supposed to have an internet doom day.
I'm still waiting for it, yet Kapersky is still blowing whistles.
How can you trust such a non-trustable source anywany?
This technology is sooo new and at ahead of our future that my middle-age village (900 years old now) in south of France had some like this for as far as I remember driving around there (about 15 years). It was actually frustrating to see that those lights would not react to my moped (too tiny...), but the b...d around the corner with his big fat BMW would have the green light kick in ALL the time!.
I think this needs a slight correction: it is the *best first-person shooter ever*. OK for that (although I don't find it such a killer after all). But not the *best game ever*. As an example, you cannot compare World of Warcraft with HL2 in terms of gaming. It's just not the same kind at all. You can compare the technicality of it, graphics, softaware performance, etc. but that's only part of game softwares. It is difficult to measure the player's immersion in the game between those 2 for instance.
That would be like comparing M$ Word with Eclipse: "Best software to type text with".
I always get drunk before upgrading my Windows, so I know I can't think of all the bad consequences when I click "OK", and will not care when I get a BSOD.
I've *NEVER* had a single nontrivial web page load properly
Do you mean you never used your computer since Win95? That makes sense then
Because otherwise, considering that 90% of browsers are IE, this would mean 90% of the world CANNOT see most web pages. So 90% of internet users actuall *fake* viewing web pages, order stuff, play games, get worms, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Something happened to a satellite...
- The unwashed masses: oh! duh! can't watch telly! what the fuck!
- Slashdot: conspiration from the CIA! That is! As usual! Again! Are we going to do something about it?
- The knowledgeable: it must be Metallic Rays from outer space
- The uber-space-geek: hey! just received an alert from Nasa saying Sun has grown a new spot. Must be the cause - the damn thing must have shot out a lot of electro-magnetic waves toward us that shut down the thing as it usually happens.
The right answer: in Soviet Russia... Ah well...Never mind.Again a critical life-saving article from Slashdot which undoubtedly will provide yet again vital information to the unwashed masses.
Good job slashdot in publishing the most stupid, useless, ridiculous post of 2005. And it's just a beginning.
Seriously, is this really *needed*?. You do not like Bill or M$ - fine. Any news?
No, his point is that the whole article is misinformation from someone who knows nothing of the COM/DCOM technology and how to program with them.
As a matter of fact, I heartly agree with this. The guy knows absolutely nothing in this field and succeeded at ridiculing himself.
When such an article makes it on widely viewed sites like Slashdot, this is not semantics anymore.
ActiveX, for those that don't know, is a "technology" that allows you to download a piece of natively executable software from any arbitrary location (e.g. embedded in a Web page) and let it run.
is a bad start since he already missed the whole ActiveX point in the first place. ActiveX are not meant to "download and run arbitrary code". This ability is just part of the ActiveX features. A bad feature maybe but it's not the core of ActiveX.If this seems insanely unsafe, that's because it is.
If you leave it as it is, yes.I can make an OCX that basically formats your hard drive, stick it on a Web page with a tag, and if your security settings are set low enough, you'll start formatting your hard drive the minute you visit my Web page.
I see many other confusions :- Confusion with OCX (the auld name of what was not exactly ActiveX at this time). Confusion probably comes from that names still remains in MSDEV. Going further back, we can call those components COM/DCOM. Problem remains.
- Confusion with what is being written/released/used: I too can write a nasty ActiveX. I can also write a nice Java Applet, or worse, a downloadable Java application using JNLP. Now who's going to want it? People who click on all popups in IE? Right...and what? People who trust me? The problem is the same with every other component or software you download. Run it or not. Trust it or not.
- The "updater" example with the HTML code is ridiculous. Of course you can change PARAMETERS in any kind of applet/activex embedding. If you application is dumb enough to let anything go, bad goes to you. And anyway, the code is still the same ActiveX. There is no issue aside from what the developer wanted to introduce.
Aside from a good slashdotter bashing against M$ again, what exactly is the point of this whole article? It's misleading, misinformed and half wrong.That was just the carrier data...is why...
My point was that the Slashdot title make people think this solution is "easy", but obviously, it means "Linux Geek Easy".
There's too much water in beer to give up on that precious material...
I've read the whole article. My! You'd better be a geek to have to cope with all the little worries..
Getting cheap AND working hardware on E-Bay. My mom will not do it for the sake of her computer.
32GB limitation by jumpers. Not obvious for an end-user.
Booting up *nixes from various drives in order to access the limited drive, then fiddle with partitions. I still don't dare touching my configs for more than OS at a time. Let alone various OSes on various drives.
Compiling KDart?! Compiling what? What do I have to do? "Comp..??" You have to admit, it's not for the dummy kind.
Definitely not "Backup made easy" but "Made not so expensive" since the price tag still reaches 300$ (drive + box from e-bay + screws + shots of valium to calm you down when your machine refuses to boot after all the offence you just did to it).
I bought Linux Hacks. This, Webmin and a remote machine accessible using Samba or sftp does the daily backup just fine.
I think that is the depth of this problem: Is the guy guilty of anything by collecting information given by others? To me it's very different from obtaining the information yourself. THAT would be espionage. But in this case, the guy just reports and the ones that should be sued are the contributors. Otherwise, Apple could as well sue slashdot for publishing information on a site reporting that Apple is going to release something new. And endlessly...sue the one that reported that Slashdot reported that... Unless you americans really lost the right for free speech and publishing and it's really THAT obvious that USA is now governed by big companies, this sounds more like Apple trying to make noise. They are targeting the wrong guy anyway.
Technology might be making it too easy for them, so they don't even learn. Technology won't raise your kid. On the other hand, you as a parent might want to try learning them things rather than relying on the usual TV/Video-games/techno-toys parental dismissal combo. Happens a bit too often however...
It is definitely a nice goal to strive having as less defects as possible in a software. Now as for "explicit" defects, those can be fixed since you know what they are. The theory is very different when you come to consider the instable nature of a computer (you CANNOT build a defect-free software because of this. It actually boils down to the state of your computer at a given moment in time, which will never be the same the next time, hence your software may not behave the same way the next time you run it.) I reckon this is highly theoretical, but saying my piece of software is "completely defect free" is highly pedantinc!
Oh Woot! That is funny! Fortunately enough, my 6 years old cannot reach my WoW boxed set.
I for once, do not welcome "Heroic" as an adjective for such a small feat as to recover a partition table from Knoppix. Really, the "Heroic" adjective is a bit too much. How about the one who saved the Windows Server day by using a boot floppy then? Restoring a failing Windows install, THAT is heroism!
I went back to computer school after working for a few software companies, then moved to Canada. Here's my findings: -- Going back to computer school was easy and fun: I was in the position where I mostly helped my fellow students with the experience I gathered. Convincing the school that you are the right candidate for them was easy: you provide experience to students who don't have it. It can only make them succeed, so you can only be a good addition. However, the only thing I *really* learned was SQL...Which is to say, not a big thing..the rest was C++, algorithmics and computer theory I already knew and used. -- Going back to school was the best thing I did: This plus past experience showed people that I was already able AND willing. It also filled up my resume with a nice entry. -- Canadians don't really care about your diploma if you have stack of experience already. They have never asked me to produce any document. If you come for a foreign country, you can even be confusing enough with the equivalence between diplomas to get a good position that usually require diplomas you don't have (because even in 2005, HR people still thinks the more diploma you have, the better you will be at the job) My advice: If you feel you are ready for it, go for it!
SCADA alone sounds scary!
How can you trust such a non-trustable source anywany?
News for Nerds, stuff that ages for the others
Ah..hum..well..Never mind..
This guy is just an insensitive clod who lost his job. I don't care.
You are probably right. I chose a medium-populated RPG server and NEVER had to queue (actually..I dont even know what you guys mean by "put in queue".
I think this needs a slight correction: it is the *best first-person shooter ever*. OK for that (although I don't find it such a killer after all). But not the *best game ever*. As an example, you cannot compare World of Warcraft with HL2 in terms of gaming. It's just not the same kind at all. You can compare the technicality of it, graphics, softaware performance, etc. but that's only part of game softwares. It is difficult to measure the player's immersion in the game between those 2 for instance.
That would be like comparing M$ Word with Eclipse: "Best software to type text with".
I always get drunk before upgrading my Windows, so I know I can't think of all the bad consequences when I click "OK", and will not care when I get a BSOD.
Do you mean you never used your computer since Win95? That makes sense then
Because otherwise, considering that 90% of browsers are IE, this would mean 90% of the world CANNOT see most web pages. So 90% of internet users actuall *fake* viewing web pages, order stuff, play games, get worms, etc.
Sounds weird doesn't it?
I wonder what is the ratio of whiners like you is in those 200K people who bought the game
WOW ! you started a whole thread of off-topic speculating zealots talking about drugs !