Looks like the.wmf vulnerability was fixed in 2006. No widespread exploitation in the wild, either. And that's a bug, not a balance between convenience and security.
The DOS vulnerability seems odd...so if I opened a file in Word Perfect (for DOS) you're saying the kernel would try to execute it before passing the contents on to Word Perfect? Somehow that doesn't seem likely.
A quick Google makes it appear to be more of a bug (a properly malformed MIME header could result in code execution) than attempting to find the right balance between security and usability.
I remember when Microsoft automatically executing email attachments was intended to strike the right balance between security and usability. That was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
I'm no fan of Microsoft's security history, but when did they ever have attachments auto execute?
amusing to see how http://dyndns.org/ has changed over the years; in 1999 complaining on the front page about the programmer leaving and taking all his code with him to a completely anonymous, plasticky "professional" look in 2011 and all the slow changes in between,
Umm, how do you defect without leaving Soviet airspace? I somehow doubt he had permission to be in Japanese airspace.
The United States regularly broadcast specific instructions for defecting pilots to follow. Defecting pilots during the cold war (bringing their planes with them) absolutely had permission to enter Japanese airspace as long as they obeyed the flight plan directly to the airfield they were told to land at.
Nobody else has said that IBM or any customer using Watson is actually pursuing this use.
They're currently awaiting the final touches on Watson's t-800 style "meatspace interface/communication avatar" endoskeletons. Then the troll-pursuing begins.
Dude, you realize I was kidding about trends in overall CPU performance, right? Hence the "funny" moderation. I don't think anyone here seriously thinks we're approaching Bremermann's Limit and things just can't get faster.
Perhaps it "whooshed" you?
behind the curtain, they're secretly executing chains of RISC instructions with private, semi-asynchronous clocks as fast as they can & just presenting the public facade of a CISC architecture responding to a system-wide clock...
I like your description though...I always suspected there was something unwholesome and conspiratorial about CISC processing.
But there were far more megahertz than we'll get in gigahertz! You'll never get a 150GHz machine...
I'm with you totally...that's like well more than an order of magnitude faster than what we commonly have now, it would take huge advancements in technology to get there...heck, that would make the totally advanced and awesomely powerful computers we have these days feel like pocket calculators. Never'll happen;)
How do you confuse mob vengeance (Tarring and Feathering) with Terrorism? Go back and read the first paragraph of the first search result you linked to. A mob cannot by definition is not a group engage in organized pre-planned behavior. No more terrorism than a couple bullies impulsively beating up another kid at school for making them angry.
...Unless your definition of "Terrorism" is "anything that scares people", which would encompass all violence and all threats of violence between people. Although there are differences of opinion on the details, there is a consensus as defining Terrorism as a type of asymmetric warfare, itself a subset of warfare, which is then a subset of violence. Your posts seem to indicate you think "Terrorism" is any type of violence.
Non-combatants targeting non-combatants alone show your examples don't understand what "Terrorism" is.
Perhaps you were shocked by the environment you grew up in, but that neither indicates that most (or even many) of the Loyalists in the colonies left due to the Patriots using terrorism as a war tactic against the British or anyone else (because its abundantly obvious they didn't). If I were a Loyalist displaced by the Revolutionary war I'd be pretty pissed too...
I'm going to gently point out that your link for "terrorized" points to a page for North Carolina Hotels and Tourism, with all of a single entry ("The militia terrorized loyalist communities. The British got blamed for all the trouble of that day, whether they were guilty or not") relating to terrorism (and in the context doesn't indicate terrorism in the Asymmetric Warfare sense) and your link for "most of them fled to Canada" goes to a Wikipedia article which says that only 10 - 15% left.
I'm sure the colonies were an unpleasant place to be a Loyalist in the midst of a war for independence and I can understand why some would move to an area where Great Britain was still clearly in charge but nothing you've linked to actually seems to offer evidence indicating that terrorism was the strategy of the Patriots.
So by your definition 9/11 is guerrilla warfare because it was a blow at the economy of Al Qaeda's enemies.
Nope Mr. Anonymous, I don't think that the definition of Guerrilla Warfare vs. Terrorism revolves around the economy of the participants. What did I write that made you think that?
Wikipedia could be secretly infiltrated by Patriots, sneakily and subtly editing Wikipedia articles to paint all Loyalists in the worst light possible; beyond that possibility in both cases where John Malcolm was tarred and feathered it sounds like he had been found guilty by a mob of "acting like a complete and utter douche beyond acceptable societal norms". Incidentally, the second time he got tarred and feathered it was for knocking out the guy trying to stop him from beating up a kid. Swell guy there.
Mob Justice != Terrorism
The parties acting during the Revolutionary War were many things, despite the current "everything == terrorism" fad I don't think that term can accurately be retroactively applied to the revolutionaries on either side. It was a war, fought with conventional methods on one side and guerrilla tactics on the other. There was no strategy of attacks on non-combatants from either side as being the method to get the surrender of the other. The strategy of both sides was to reduce the effectiveness of the other military until one or the other gave up the will to fight.
blow up shipping docks to intimidate British merchants and military.
Sounds more like good guerrilla warfare than terrorism to me. If the supply lines of your much larger enemy have a chokepoint (as it was during the Revolutionary War; the enemy depended on naval transport for everything) that's exactly what you want to target, mainly for the material and personnel effect (the latter assuming most of the people working in the shipyard accepting British transport were on the side of the enemy). Psychological effects at most are a tertiary bonus, if you were lucky...blowing up a dock in the Revolutionary War would be a really inefficient way to instill enough fear in the public of Great Britain to change public support of a war.
Modern examples of the difference: Terrorism: Flying jetliners into buildings in a way sure to get good media coverage and keeping the threat of the possibility of it happening again ambiguous. Guerrilla tactics: Attacking supply lines of your enemy in Afghanistan, rather then wasting your personnel in a head-on attacks against a much stronger enemy.
Anyone who isn't an idiot knows that the earth's climate is ALWAYS changing (and always has been).
Also, earthquakes & tornadoes are totally not humanity's fault, so we shouldn't plan around them either.
90% of the response for handling global warming will look different depending on if the climate change we're observing turns out to be artificial or natural. I think the OP wasn't saying that we shouldn't plan, rather than we should confirm the cause before rushing into (possibly useless or worse) action.
Is it really less efficient? As I understood it, the rotary engine gives an equivalent HP compared to a piston engine at a fraction of the displacement.
while burning much more fuel. Higher peak power per liter of displacement isn't the same as efficiency. A jet turbine gives far more HP compared to a rotary at a fraction of the displacement as well, doesn't make it necessarily more efficient.
If you want maximum efficiency in converting chemical energy into kinetic energy, Sterling engines are the top of the heap (with terrible power:mass or power:volume ratios). If you want maximum power to weight you want a rocket engine.
Rotary (and piston) engines are buried somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.
Slashdot Mirror
Well sure, latency is a bitch but imagine the throughput once it got moving!
Genetically engineer atmospheric terrestrial microbes
Just curious, what would the flagella producing engineered terrestrial microbes do for water once they were in the Venusian atmosphere?
Looks like the .wmf vulnerability was fixed in 2006. No widespread exploitation in the wild, either. And that's a bug, not a balance between convenience and security.
The DOS vulnerability seems odd...so if I opened a file in Word Perfect (for DOS) you're saying the kernel would try to execute it before passing the contents on to Word Perfect? Somehow that doesn't seem likely.
Ok, as you say, its a bug. Not the same thing as balancing security vs. convenience.
A quick Google makes it appear to be more of a bug (a properly malformed MIME header could result in code execution) than attempting to find the right balance between security and usability.
I remember when Microsoft automatically executing email attachments was intended to strike the right balance between security and usability. That was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
I'm no fan of Microsoft's security history, but when did they ever have attachments auto execute?
The only reason Oracle has this flaw is because Microsoft's DB lineup hardly forces them to compete from a security perspective.
Well since you said "please"...
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://dyndns.org
Unfortunately since you had to ask someone for the URL with an extremely simple syntax I think you'll be required to hand in your geek card now.
amusing to see how http://dyndns.org/ has changed over the years; in 1999 complaining on the front page about the programmer leaving and taking all his code with him to a completely anonymous, plasticky "professional" look in 2011 and all the slow changes in between,
Umm, how do you defect without leaving Soviet airspace? I somehow doubt he had permission to be in Japanese airspace.
The United States regularly broadcast specific instructions for defecting pilots to follow. Defecting pilots during the cold war (bringing their planes with them) absolutely had permission to enter Japanese airspace as long as they obeyed the flight plan directly to the airfield they were told to land at.
You tell him! ;)
Nobody else has said that IBM or any customer using Watson is actually pursuing this use.
They're currently awaiting the final touches on Watson's t-800 style "meatspace interface/communication avatar" endoskeletons. Then the troll-pursuing begins.
Dude, you realize I was kidding about trends in overall CPU performance, right? Hence the "funny" moderation. I don't think anyone here seriously thinks we're approaching Bremermann's Limit and things just can't get faster.
Perhaps it "whooshed" you?
behind the curtain, they're secretly executing chains of RISC instructions with private, semi-asynchronous clocks as fast as they can & just presenting the public facade of a CISC architecture responding to a system-wide clock...
I like your description though...I always suspected there was something unwholesome and conspiratorial about CISC processing.
But there were far more megahertz than we'll get in gigahertz! You'll never get a 150GHz machine...
I'm with you totally...that's like well more than an order of magnitude faster than what we commonly have now, it would take huge advancements in technology to get there...heck, that would make the totally advanced and awesomely powerful computers we have these days feel like pocket calculators. Never'll happen ;)
How do you confuse mob vengeance (Tarring and Feathering) with Terrorism? Go back and read the first paragraph of the first search result you linked to. A mob cannot by definition is not a group engage in organized pre-planned behavior. No more terrorism than a couple bullies impulsively beating up another kid at school for making them angry.
Non-combatants targeting non-combatants alone show your examples don't understand what "Terrorism" is.
Perhaps you were shocked by the environment you grew up in, but that neither indicates that most (or even many) of the Loyalists in the colonies left due to the Patriots using terrorism as a war tactic against the British or anyone else (because its abundantly obvious they didn't). If I were a Loyalist displaced by the Revolutionary war I'd be pretty pissed too...
Anger != Evidence of Terrorism
here you go:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2544578&cid=38172728
They also terrorized Loyalists, which is why most of them fled to Canada.
I'm going to gently point out that your link for "terrorized" points to a page for North Carolina Hotels and Tourism, with all of a single entry ("The militia terrorized loyalist communities. The British got blamed for all the trouble of that day, whether they were guilty or not") relating to terrorism (and in the context doesn't indicate terrorism in the Asymmetric Warfare sense) and your link for "most of them fled to Canada" goes to a Wikipedia article which says that only 10 - 15% left.
I'm sure the colonies were an unpleasant place to be a Loyalist in the midst of a war for independence and I can understand why some would move to an area where Great Britain was still clearly in charge but nothing you've linked to actually seems to offer evidence indicating that terrorism was the strategy of the Patriots.
So by your definition 9/11 is guerrilla warfare because it was a blow at the economy of Al Qaeda's enemies.
Nope Mr. Anonymous, I don't think that the definition of Guerrilla Warfare vs. Terrorism revolves around the economy of the participants. What did I write that made you think that?
I would consider what happened to John Malcolm (twice) to cross the line into a blatant act of terrorism to intimidate him other Loyalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Malcolm_(Loyalist)
Wikipedia could be secretly infiltrated by Patriots, sneakily and subtly editing Wikipedia articles to paint all Loyalists in the worst light possible; beyond that possibility in both cases where John Malcolm was tarred and feathered it sounds like he had been found guilty by a mob of "acting like a complete and utter douche beyond acceptable societal norms". Incidentally, the second time he got tarred and feathered it was for knocking out the guy trying to stop him from beating up a kid. Swell guy there.
Mob Justice != Terrorism
The parties acting during the Revolutionary War were many things, despite the current "everything == terrorism" fad I don't think that term can accurately be retroactively applied to the revolutionaries on either side. It was a war, fought with conventional methods on one side and guerrilla tactics on the other. There was no strategy of attacks on non-combatants from either side as being the method to get the surrender of the other. The strategy of both sides was to reduce the effectiveness of the other military until one or the other gave up the will to fight.
blow up shipping docks to intimidate British merchants and military.
Sounds more like good guerrilla warfare than terrorism to me. If the supply lines of your much larger enemy have a chokepoint (as it was during the Revolutionary War; the enemy depended on naval transport for everything) that's exactly what you want to target, mainly for the material and personnel effect (the latter assuming most of the people working in the shipyard accepting British transport were on the side of the enemy). Psychological effects at most are a tertiary bonus, if you were lucky...blowing up a dock in the Revolutionary War would be a really inefficient way to instill enough fear in the public of Great Britain to change public support of a war.
Modern examples of the difference:
Terrorism: Flying jetliners into buildings in a way sure to get good media coverage and keeping the threat of the possibility of it happening again ambiguous.
Guerrilla tactics: Attacking supply lines of your enemy in Afghanistan, rather then wasting your personnel in a head-on attacks against a much stronger enemy.
Guerrilla warfare != Terrorism
All other analogies are fabrications by you to imply a nanny state and that you don't like nanny states.
Huh? No mention of nanny state from me, maybe you got me confused with the many other replies to your comment.
One way power relationship != Nanny State
It doesn't sound like he was 'asked', since when he refused, they forbade him the chemical. Asking implies that you have the choice to say yes OR no.
I ask my 4 year old if he'd like to go to bed, and he doesn't have a choice. That in no way diminishes the polite manner in which I ask.
I hope you don't consider the relationship of a 4 year old to a parent a good metaphor for your relationship with your government.
Unless you're in North Korea, then of course that makes sense.
Anyone who isn't an idiot knows that the earth's climate is ALWAYS changing (and always has been).
Also, earthquakes & tornadoes are totally not humanity's fault, so we shouldn't plan around them either.
90% of the response for handling global warming will look different depending on if the climate change we're observing turns out to be artificial or natural. I think the OP wasn't saying that we shouldn't plan, rather than we should confirm the cause before rushing into (possibly useless or worse) action.
Is it really less efficient? As I understood it, the rotary engine gives an equivalent HP compared to a piston engine at a fraction of the displacement.
while burning much more fuel. Higher peak power per liter of displacement isn't the same as efficiency. A jet turbine gives far more HP compared to a rotary at a fraction of the displacement as well, doesn't make it necessarily more efficient.
If you want maximum efficiency in converting chemical energy into kinetic energy, Sterling engines are the top of the heap (with terrible power:mass or power:volume ratios). If you want maximum power to weight you want a rocket engine.
Rotary (and piston) engines are buried somewhere in the middle of the spectrum.