This error should have been reported to Google and the appropriate mailing lists, not posted on a blog. Fortunately, Google responded quickly to resolve the issue before it caused damage.
If this was a security expert or professional programmer or the like, I'd agree. But he's 14! Teenagers nowadays can barely open a door without first blogging about the experience. He saw something, he said he saw something. Now he gets a little recognition, Google fixes it and everyone goes home happy.
A two is the bottom of the category "Meriting Attention from Astronomers", above "Normal" but below "Threatening". From the site, about a two on the Torino scale:
A discovery, which may become routine with expanded searches, of an object making a somewhat close but not highly unusual pass near the Earth. While meriting attention by astronomers, there is no cause for public attention or public concern as an actual collision is very unlikely. New telescopic observations very likely will lead to re-assignment to Level 0.
If there's a clearer way to say "stop panicking everytime we see something", I'm not sure what it is.
Well, given all the hubbub about Vonage and 911, wait until someone tries to call for help but finds out that Comcast has throttled their connection... I'm thinking intentional throttling (if that is the case) of a person's phone line could make Comcast liable.
why does Nintendo not manage to actually provide a bit of color selection right up from the start?
There are two type of customers: those who want a DS and those who want a DS in a certain color. Those who want to buy the DS will get the standard white one and be happy. The Navy/Blue people will wait a few days and get theirs. In doing this, the people who just want the DS and don't care about color won't pick up random blue ones, increasing the availability of blue ones for those who want colored DS, making everyone happy.
The point of the grand-parent was that the primary use of the worms/Trojans/virus is for commercial purposes, not diabolical purposes (grand destruction of data accompanied by an evil laugh and stroking of the handle-bar mustache). For the infiltration to succeed, the malware needs to be slow and quiet in its attempt to proliferate. "Send to all" viruses are immediately identifiable by the amount of traffic they generate (e.g. Beagle and variants).
Therefore, the main resource that a zero-day exploit utilizes (stealth and time before patching) are mitigated by the fact that some of the e-mails are sent to dead ends. Processing power, bandwidth, etc. are all incidental as long as they're not limiting.
Considering that the main incentive for virus writers these days seems to be economic (profitable criminal activity such as spamming, phishing, DDOS blackmail, identity fraud), it seems unlikely to me that these criminals care if Apple succeeds.
All of those require infection of a system, which requires the virus/Trojan/worm to copy itself from one system to another. The increasing number of Macs creates more dead-ends for a proliferating virus.
Imagine two situations. In the first, everyone is using a Windows machine. In the second, half are using Macs and half are using Windows. Everyone has 5 random other machines in its address book (e-mail addresses of the primary user). In the case of a zero-day exploit for Windows, how quickly will the all-Windows cluster become infected?
In the case of the Mac/Windows hybrid cluster, though, the speed significantly decreases and it becomes possible that some machines will never be infected. Why? Each machine sends out 5 e-mails; those that go to Macs will not be exploited. That means, on average, each machine can only infect 2.5 others (rather than 5) and the path to any Windows machine must not intersect only Macs.
In a real world situation, the lack of intersection is the smaller problem (since most people have everyone's e-mail in their address book), but if you're wasting resources sending out suspicious e-mails to Macs, you're mitigating the advantage of the zero-day exploit.
Beyond the iTMS certificate, the iPods and iMac, the prize includes a 4 year scholarship created in the winner's name to a "world renowned institute of music" selected by Apple. So, while all the loot he gets is nice, he's not the only winner. Actually, given the price of tuition, he's not even the biggest winner.
What happened with Austin Powers(which didn't do so hot in the theatres either) could very well happen to Firefly.
As someone who enjoyed Firefly and Serenity I hate to say this, but the analogy doesn't really fit.
Austin Powers cost $16.5 million to make and grossed $53 million (box office) in North America. Serenity cost $39 million and grossed $38.8 million (box office) worldwide.
While Austin Powers wasn't anything spectacular, it was cheap and solid in the box office, creating a base that could be built up on. I think most people would admit that Serenity's base is solid, but limited. There's no real way to get people (as a group) who don't watch SciFi already to get them to watch Firefly unless you go person to person. It's just not in their nature, unfortunately.
We got the movie, we got an ending and a taste of success. Unfortunately, we also learned where the boundaries are, and they're closer than we thought.
I'm curious where you read that StarForce was on the Battle for Middle Earth 2 demo. Battle for Middle Earth 2 is EA, which doesn't use StarForce. Plus, based on the way the Wiki says Star Force works, it relies on physical media, which wouldn't be included with a downloaded demo in an active form (no key, no activation, nothing to protect).
It looks really fast, but I'm not sure if that's just an social trick or a real stat. There seems to be a half a beat pause after I first click a link (during the "contacting the website" phase), then the page almost instantly appears. In contrast, Safari begins rendering almost immediately, but takes half a beat to finish. I've seen this with both the BBC and CNN, with ESPN's dynamic content ADD-fest loading progressively but in the same basic manner (Safari starts first, both finish about the same).
So I'm not sure if Camino is truly faster or simply looks faster because it's extending a time-point that we expect to have a pause in (waiting for data from the server) and shrinking a time-point that we attribute to the program itself.
I suspect these fellows have some interesting new postulate, and the Pitt News just got it wrong.
From the banner at the top of the site, the Pitt News is a student newspaper. Student newspapers quite often do little fluff pieces on professors in various departments.
They did simply lower it. They reset its page rank to zero, so it shows up at the bottom of any results, or amongst all the other zero page rank results.
Huh. That's funny. The last two weeks at the gym I've been watching highlight films on ESPN (no sound, though). Apparently, they weren't showing the Super Bowl because most of those were in, as you pointed out, warmer climates. I still think the games should be played outside in the elements. It adds unpredictability and challenge to the game. I guess coming from New England I'm slightly biased towards teams that play outdoors, especially in the cold. All the great games I remember watching have either taken place in the snow or in the Super Bowl. That's real football.
Hell, I bet 50% of Americans don't even know who is playing in the Super Bowl or when it is being played. I only found out it was this weekend because they were playing Super Bowl commercials on the news
The game is tomorrow night.
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Seattle Seahawks, but game is in Detroit. It rotates yearly from dome to dome for some strange reason. Not the rotating, the dome part. Every year the highlights of greatest Super Bowls shows three or four of the top games outside in snow and the cold, yet they feel compelled to play the game inside now.
Terrorists have their target audiences. [snip] It's not as if there was an attack in the World Cup, whose audience does reach in the billions mark.
You'd be absolutely right about the World Cup, if the terrorists really hated Kenya or Paraguay or the Ivory Coast. Maybe they do. I'm not sure. But I figure they'd really like to attack the biggest game in America.
Someone already commented how wrong your figure is.
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Now, if we could only get the skript kiddies to put their minds to something productive...
Since IRC is mostly a time-killer, wouldn't something that knocks people off of it be considered productive?
despite the difficulties of access
You don't necessarily need to be at the telescope to control the telescope.
This error should have been reported to Google and the appropriate mailing lists, not posted on a blog. Fortunately, Google responded quickly to resolve the issue before it caused damage.
If this was a security expert or professional programmer or the like, I'd agree. But he's 14! Teenagers nowadays can barely open a door without first blogging about the experience. He saw something, he said he saw something. Now he gets a little recognition, Google fixes it and everyone goes home happy.
Torino scale (maximum): 2
A two is the bottom of the category "Meriting Attention from Astronomers", above "Normal" but below "Threatening". From the site, about a two on the Torino scale:
A discovery, which may become routine with expanded searches, of an object making a somewhat close but not highly unusual pass near the Earth. While meriting attention by astronomers, there is no cause for public attention or public concern as an actual collision is very unlikely. New telescopic observations very likely will lead to re-assignment to Level 0.
If there's a clearer way to say "stop panicking everytime we see something", I'm not sure what it is.
It would be legal under the guise of their TOS.
Well, given all the hubbub about Vonage and 911, wait until someone tries to call for help but finds out that Comcast has throttled their connection... I'm thinking intentional throttling (if that is the case) of a person's phone line could make Comcast liable.
why does Nintendo not manage to actually provide a bit of color selection right up from the start?
There are two type of customers: those who want a DS and those who want a DS in a certain color. Those who want to buy the DS will get the standard white one and be happy. The Navy/Blue people will wait a few days and get theirs. In doing this, the people who just want the DS and don't care about color won't pick up random blue ones, increasing the availability of blue ones for those who want colored DS, making everyone happy.
I'll give your car some speed holes, if you'd like.
Free of charge. I'm good like that.
before it is found
The point of the grand-parent was that the primary use of the worms/Trojans/virus is for commercial purposes, not diabolical purposes (grand destruction of data accompanied by an evil laugh and stroking of the handle-bar mustache). For the infiltration to succeed, the malware needs to be slow and quiet in its attempt to proliferate. "Send to all" viruses are immediately identifiable by the amount of traffic they generate (e.g. Beagle and variants).
Therefore, the main resource that a zero-day exploit utilizes (stealth and time before patching) are mitigated by the fact that some of the e-mails are sent to dead ends. Processing power, bandwidth, etc. are all incidental as long as they're not limiting.
Considering that the main incentive for virus writers these days seems to be economic (profitable criminal activity such as spamming, phishing, DDOS blackmail, identity fraud), it seems unlikely to me that these criminals care if Apple succeeds.
All of those require infection of a system, which requires the virus/Trojan/worm to copy itself from one system to another. The increasing number of Macs creates more dead-ends for a proliferating virus.
Imagine two situations. In the first, everyone is using a Windows machine. In the second, half are using Macs and half are using Windows. Everyone has 5 random other machines in its address book (e-mail addresses of the primary user). In the case of a zero-day exploit for Windows, how quickly will the all-Windows cluster become infected?
In the case of the Mac/Windows hybrid cluster, though, the speed significantly decreases and it becomes possible that some machines will never be infected. Why? Each machine sends out 5 e-mails; those that go to Macs will not be exploited. That means, on average, each machine can only infect 2.5 others (rather than 5) and the path to any Windows machine must not intersect only Macs.
In a real world situation, the lack of intersection is the smaller problem (since most people have everyone's e-mail in their address book), but if you're wasting resources sending out suspicious e-mails to Macs, you're mitigating the advantage of the zero-day exploit.
With the iTunes Music Store:
you can burn all your itunes tracks to AIFF or MP3
Compare that to the article's author:
I rip it straight from CDs to crystal clear high bit rate DRM free mp3s
This is fair use in iTunes, but may not be with store-bought CDs.
My Rave MP has up and down arrows instead of a virtual scroll wheel. The latter may be somewhat cooler, but it's not any more efficient.
When you want to scroll down faster to get to the bottom of your list, how do you do that? Can you hold the button down harder?
The beauty of the scroll wheel is I can go faster or slower or many subtle degrees in between depending on how fast I move my thumb around.
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OMG, you're from the future?
And we use base-32 numbers in the future?
Man, that is such an appropriate interesting mod.
Beyond the iTMS certificate, the iPods and iMac, the prize includes a 4 year scholarship created in the winner's name to a "world renowned institute of music" selected by Apple. So, while all the loot he gets is nice, he's not the only winner. Actually, given the price of tuition, he's not even the biggest winner.
They win out over child molesters, animal torturers, and Jim Jones?
Well, you see, all those people are bad, but the bad things they do are to other people. Advertisers bother me.
OK, OK, we can compromise. They're all scum.
What happened with Austin Powers(which didn't do so hot in the theatres either) could very well happen to Firefly.
As someone who enjoyed Firefly and Serenity I hate to say this, but the analogy doesn't really fit.
Austin Powers cost $16.5 million to make and grossed $53 million (box office) in North America. Serenity cost $39 million and grossed $38.8 million (box office) worldwide.
While Austin Powers wasn't anything spectacular, it was cheap and solid in the box office, creating a base that could be built up on. I think most people would admit that Serenity's base is solid, but limited. There's no real way to get people (as a group) who don't watch SciFi already to get them to watch Firefly unless you go person to person. It's just not in their nature, unfortunately.
We got the movie, we got an ending and a taste of success. Unfortunately, we also learned where the boundaries are, and they're closer than we thought.
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You misspelled "before".
Google has censored videos from Iraq before.
Not a dupe. Not a completely original story, maybe more of a slashback, but still, not a dupe.
I'm curious where you read that StarForce was on the Battle for Middle Earth 2 demo. Battle for Middle Earth 2 is EA, which doesn't use StarForce. Plus, based on the way the Wiki says Star Force works, it relies on physical media, which wouldn't be included with a downloaded demo in an active form (no key, no activation, nothing to protect).
It looks really fast, but I'm not sure if that's just an social trick or a real stat. There seems to be a half a beat pause after I first click a link (during the "contacting the website" phase), then the page almost instantly appears. In contrast, Safari begins rendering almost immediately, but takes half a beat to finish. I've seen this with both the BBC and CNN, with ESPN's dynamic content ADD-fest loading progressively but in the same basic manner (Safari starts first, both finish about the same).
So I'm not sure if Camino is truly faster or simply looks faster because it's extending a time-point that we expect to have a pause in (waiting for data from the server) and shrinking a time-point that we attribute to the program itself.
I suspect these fellows have some interesting new postulate, and the Pitt News just got it wrong.
From the banner at the top of the site, the Pitt News is a student newspaper. Student newspapers quite often do little fluff pieces on professors in various departments.
They did simply lower it. They reset its page rank to zero, so it shows up at the bottom of any results, or amongst all the other zero page rank results.
.com site.
Nope, it's really, really gone. Instead of seeing the global site, you can only see the
Huh. That's funny. The last two weeks at the gym I've been watching highlight films on ESPN (no sound, though). Apparently, they weren't showing the Super Bowl because most of those were in, as you pointed out, warmer climates. I still think the games should be played outside in the elements. It adds unpredictability and challenge to the game. I guess coming from New England I'm slightly biased towards teams that play outdoors, especially in the cold. All the great games I remember watching have either taken place in the snow or in the Super Bowl. That's real football.
Hell, I bet 50% of Americans don't even know who is playing in the Super Bowl or when it is being played. I only found out it was this weekend because they were playing Super Bowl commercials on the news
The game is tomorrow night.
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Seattle Seahawks, but game is in Detroit. It rotates yearly from dome to dome for some strange reason. Not the rotating, the dome part. Every year the highlights of greatest Super Bowls shows three or four of the top games outside in snow and the cold, yet they feel compelled to play the game inside now.
Welcome to the other half!
Terrorists have their target audiences. [snip] It's not as if there was an attack in the World Cup, whose audience does reach in the billions mark.
You'd be absolutely right about the World Cup, if the terrorists really hated Kenya or Paraguay or the Ivory Coast. Maybe they do. I'm not sure. But I figure they'd really like to attack the biggest game in America.
Someone already commented how wrong your figure is.
Hyperbole. Just sayin'.