While the technical angle is pretty cool -- a detailed map of an entire city! I don't quite understand why anyone would use it to exactly rebuild the city should it be destroyed. It would cost a lot more to try to rebuild everything exactly as it was than to just build a new city on the site. Not to mention the fact that urban planning as an art/science has come a long way since NYC became the large city it is today -- why remake all the same mistakes just for the sake of nostalgia?
If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the fact that Taco actually has a beefy Windows-dedicated gaming machine but he won't admit it (and even arguably lies about it) here on Slashdot to avoid the wrath of the Linux-or-nothing crowd.
I wonder if he was inspired by Snowcrash, and the long discussion of the issues related to toliet paper in the Fed Building in which yt's mom works? Sounds pretty similar, but less funny.
That's it! The 'Death to Jews' icons that show up in Wingdings are only interesting because "NYC" calls them up. The link between 'NYC' and 'death of Jews' didn't become meaningful until 9-11. Before 9-11, it took a lot of creativity to try to paint MS in a bad light with that 'message'.
Actually the NYC/Death to Jews speculation is MUCH MUCH older than Sept 11th. I remember this from years ago, maybe as many as 8 and it may have been old when I heard about it. The old reasoning was just that there were a lot of Jews in New York City, so that's where the meaning came from. But the point you make is a good one.
Hey Perens, how can you stand to work for a fascist company like HP when even MICROSOFT has taken a higher ground than them when it comes to information publication?
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Neither is used for serious computational work; having to live within the C aliasing rules doesn't permit the optimizations necessary for high performance computing problems.
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Most modern C/C++ compilers have ways of limiting aliasing issues either at the file or even sub-file (using #pragmas) level. Surely these Fortran->C convertors could be modified to use them?
Nobody has a problem with you editing the film for your own use, its when you edit and redistribute it that there's a problem (and IMO, rightfully so..Would you like me to edit your Slashdot posts, and redistribute them on another board? Especially when people know that you created the posts, but may or may not know which parts I edited for my own purposes?)
Yeah but in any case, software companies could work around this without breaking the Win32 API just by seperating out the parts of the code that need special privledges from the user interface code and use a secure message passing system (not based on standard windows message passing) between the two.
Of course, the fact that apps aren't doing this goes to show that at the very least Microsoft has some education to do when it comes to developing secure 3rd party apps, but its not nearly as earth-shatteringly broken with no hope of being fixed as the paper author lets on.
So, what's your title about then ('Bullshit')? What you described sounds pretty much exactly what they described in the article. Do you have reason to believe it wasn't a military craft, or?
Now I don't mean to imply that you deserve such measures, but to a certain extent, I think you (and other attendants of DefCon and similar events, like H2K2 and SIGGRAPH) bring it on yourselves.
SIGGRAPH has nothing to do with computer security. Are you a troll or just stupid?
This may be a practical tool in some respects, but I would not have so much respect for someone who depended on that to have any working code. As the old saying goes, "real programmers read core dumps."
Are you trolling? Or stupid? Or have you never used Purify? I've yet to meet a developer who used Purify (or in some cases BoundsChecker or similar tools, though IMO Purify is hands down the best if you can afford it) that decided it wasn't really helpful and then stopped using it.
These tools give you SO MUCH more than just simple stack tracing after a crash. Foolish is the developer who ignores their benefits.
Agreed. I use Purify constantly for my day job. I took a look at this hoping to find something nearly as good as Purify (since they advertise it as being BETTER!) and free, but there's a long long list of ways in which it is vastly inferior to Purify right now.
Beware of gratiutious hype.
And, btw, Purify (never used it under Linux so maybe it is different there) can also work on executables (and DLLs/SOs, etc) without a relinking. When's the last time the person who posted used Purify? 1996?
I'm not sure they should even call it piracy under the circumstances. In theory at least this could be considered fair use; at least one purpose of fair use is to promote knowledge and education. I know current US case law regarding fair use would hardly uphold such an interpretation, but it is not that far-fetched.
Agreed.
WWTJD? (What would Thomas Jefferson do). He'd support this as valid fair use for sure, though obviously current law has deviated from his original ideals.
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Great..That's just great.
Why don't you learn proper English grammer and spelling before posting, eh moron?
While the technical angle is pretty cool -- a detailed map of an entire city! I don't quite understand why anyone would use it to exactly rebuild the city should it be destroyed. It would cost a lot more to try to rebuild everything exactly as it was than to just build a new city on the site. Not to mention the fact that urban planning as an art/science has come a long way since NYC became the large city it is today -- why remake all the same mistakes just for the sake of nostalgia?
Fuck you, tubby bitch!
If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the fact that Taco actually has a beefy Windows-dedicated gaming machine but he won't admit it (and even arguably lies about it) here on Slashdot to avoid the wrath of the Linux-or-nothing crowd.
In any case you're blaming Microsoft for Sony's fuckup then. So fuck you, bitch!
Last time I checked, MS Word wasn't part of the base OS install for any version of Windows. Too bad, really, it would be quite a value-add to the OS.
I wonder if he was inspired by Snowcrash, and the long discussion of the issues related to toliet paper in the Fed Building in which yt's mom works? Sounds pretty similar, but less funny.
Actually the NYC/Death to Jews speculation is MUCH MUCH older than Sept 11th. I remember this from years ago, maybe as many as 8 and it may have been old when I heard about it. The old reasoning was just that there were a lot of Jews in New York City, so that's where the meaning came from. But the point you make is a good one.
Uh, since the Win32/DirectX version of MAME has already been ported to the XBOX this isn't a good reason.
Dummy!
Yeah that's what I thought tubby!
[quote] Neither is used for serious computational work; having to live within the C aliasing rules doesn't permit the optimizations necessary for high performance computing problems. [/quote] Most modern C/C++ compilers have ways of limiting aliasing issues either at the file or even sub-file (using #pragmas) level. Surely these Fortran->C convertors could be modified to use them?
Nobody has a problem with you editing the film for your own use, its when you edit and redistribute it that there's a problem (and IMO, rightfully so..Would you like me to edit your Slashdot posts, and redistribute them on another board? Especially when people know that you created the posts, but may or may not know which parts I edited for my own purposes?)
Of course, the fact that apps aren't doing this goes to show that at the very least Microsoft has some education to do when it comes to developing secure 3rd party apps, but its not nearly as earth-shatteringly broken with no hope of being fixed as the paper author lets on.
So, what's your title about then ('Bullshit')? What you described sounds pretty much exactly what they described in the article. Do you have reason to believe it wasn't a military craft, or?
Nope, but it is true that they had been promising for close to 5 years that a Linux version would ship in the box.
Freenet sucks, always has, always will! You suck too, pal!
SIGGRAPH has nothing to do with computer security. Are you a troll or just stupid?
Um P2P services?
Notorious U.N.I.X. Eastside for life, nigga.
So you *are* stupid after all!
Are you trolling? Or stupid? Or have you never used Purify? I've yet to meet a developer who used Purify (or in some cases BoundsChecker or similar tools, though IMO Purify is hands down the best if you can afford it) that decided it wasn't really helpful and then stopped using it.
These tools give you SO MUCH more than just simple stack tracing after a crash. Foolish is the developer who ignores their benefits.
Beware of gratiutious hype.
And, btw, Purify (never used it under Linux so maybe it is different there) can also work on executables (and DLLs/SOs, etc) without a relinking. When's the last time the person who posted used Purify? 1996?
Agreed.
WWTJD? (What would Thomas Jefferson do). He'd support this as valid fair use for sure, though obviously current law has deviated from his original ideals.