Correct, The group that this would effect most directly is telecommuters. The ones that use authenticaion with their company's smtp server. Broadband is almost a requirement if you are telecommuting.
Why can't they use the secure smtp port then? Cox already blocks all outgoing 25 traffic, I can still send mail from home to my company's mail server.
I think there should be difficulty modes in Simcity, so beginners can start with "easy mode" with less stuff to care about.
Brilliant!
Level One: You control everything in your room.. can you make sure the clothes stay off the floor? Level Two: You control the house, keep the weeds under control, trim that fucking tree. Level Three: You are now the head on the neighborhood watch, make sure everyone has working lights, pass out flyers reminding people not to let people wearing prison stripes into their house. Level Four: You are now the head of the Homeowners Association, control your neighborhood with an iron fist. Send out hundreds of letters telling people to control their weeds and not to park in the street. Level Five: You are District 5 Zoning Commisioner, make sure that no one can put a gas station within 10 miles of your neighborhood. Level Six: You work for the DOT now, hold back funds for any street repairs, and be sure to kill that monorail plan dead. Don't forget to mention that more lanes means more traffic, and we could eliminate our traffic problems by reducing all roads down to one lane. Level Seven: You're now the mayor! Congratulations, your only responsiblilty is to show up on TV every once in a while to remind people that you're the mayor.
In order to sanitise his magazine to appease the moral masses (and sell more copy), his fake breasted women all have parts of their, well, lower body parts photoshopped out.
This in turn causes hundreds of normal girls who see these magazines going to doctors and asking for plastic surgery because they don't think they're "normal".
Yeah, same with TV. That's why I went to the plastic surgeon because my penis wasn't as pixelated as the ones on TV.
Don't imagine that because a character isn't listed on IMDb 4.5 months before release, the character isn't in the film. IMDb rarely has complete credits this far before release. I'm surprised the Slashdot editors let such a silly claim through.
. But lets be honest here, it is a SHORT story, and if I remember correctly it is a DAMN short story. So how is this being made into a full length movie we are talking about a maybe 10 page story?
A lot of Stephen King short stories are made into great movies. The Stand, Shawshank Redemption, Running Man, Secret Window. True, they're longer than 10 pages, but they made good movies even though they're not true to the book.
That's it. No web page can exploit this arbitrary protocol problem if you do step 1 above. Step 2 fixes the help: issue, and step 3 fixes all other known issues.
Why does this warrant 4 stories in 4 days?
It warranted 4 stories in 4 days because people like you misunderstand the problem.
Step 1 doesn't fix anything.. disk: ftp: afp: protocols still allow automounting of volumes from a webpage.
Step 2 fixes help and telnet, but those aren't the whole issue.
Step 3 is a step in the right direction, but you'll also need to disable ftp: and afp: since they both can be used in the same way.
Disabling ftp means you can't open any ftp volumes without jumping through hoops. I always thought it was stupid that safari didn't handle ftp directly though.
The solution isn't an easy one, and Apple is going to have to do something that MS and Linux have dealt with in the past... sacrifice ease-of-use for security.
For instance, you don't say: "We are going to reset/restart your unix server" you say: "We are going to bump your server"
Back when my company was an ISP our mac tech support would do that. "My mac is acting funny" "hmm.. give it two bongs... no, make it three.. three bongs"
Suprisingly, most mac users understood what it was to give your machine a bong. (NVRAM fun)
I'll withhold judgement on Nintendo's innovation until I see sales rise (remember the lesson from SEGA: different doesn't always mean $$$), but if nothing else, you've got to give them credit for at least doing something different than the other guys.
Well, Nintendo has learned that lesson several times.. but at least they keep trying. Some of their innovations were just too ahead of their time. The Power-Pad didn't do too well, but 10 years later, the Power-Pad has been re-invented for DDR. On the other hand, the Power Glove will probably always be a bad idea.
I mean look, their built their success on great game names like Mario and Zelda back in 1981, and since then, they've..... since brought you innovative games like Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, and Mario & Luigi Superstar Adventure.
If the 'big gaming company' took more risks (hell, they are big enough to take risks) on innovative games instead of working on sequels to games or the latest shooter, the gaming industry would be more exciting.
There are plenty of companies taking risks on innovative games.
Just look at what was shown at E3 this year:
Evil Genius - Game where you play a james bond villain and set up complicated booby traps in your lair to kill secret agents.
Destroy All Humans - You play an alien intent on destroying the world with the power of your mind.
Geist - A ghost who can possess people and objects to solve puzzles. (Possess a fire extinguisher to distract a guard, then possess him and give conflicting orders to his subordinates)
Odama - A crazy RTS Pinball game
And that's just off the top of my head. There are plenty of innovative titles out there, you're just not looking.
I think they are. A 10% hit in performance is going to get eaten up as hardware gets better and faster. But that 50% increase in manageability and flexibility is going to pay dividends well into the future.
Who's saying anything about a 10% hit in performance?
Here are some benchmarks between Panther and Yellow Dog Linux on a Dual 1.25 ghz G4.
Unix Bench Scores (bigger is better) for Linux: 316.4 for Panther: 131.0
lmBench Fork in microseconds, smaller is better) for Linux: 352 for Panther: 1402
lmBench TCP Latency (in microseconds, smaller is better) for Linux: 46.3 for Panther: 76.8
lmBench Pipe performance (in MB/s, bigger is better) for Linux: 419.0 for Panther: 216.0
We're talking about huge performance issues across the board. Everything from process construction and destruction to context switching to communication latencies. OSX is much much slower. I attribute this entirely to the Mach Microkernel.
In fact, many OSX programs expose functionality like this via AppleScript -- a practice I wish were more widespread on other systems.
Other systems usually go with an object broker, which is much more powerful than (although not as easy as) providing applescript hooks.
On Windows you've got COM, on KDE you've got DCOP, on Gnome you've got CORBA.
DCOP is probably the easiest, most flexable, and most widely implemented (Practically every KDE app has DCOP support.. while under Gnome, very few use Corba, probably due to the real/percieved slowness of it)
ok, maybe this vector approach is something entirely new and leaves existing methods in the dust. But this article seems to be doing a relatively poor job at explaining why.
It does a poor job of explaining exactly what is going on. I've read it, and I'm still convinced that they basically just implemented a neural net. The exact same stuff is used in OCR.
It also stroke me a different time when I was swimmning at the pool and looked down, I saw the floor was a bit cracked and bumpy and thought: "nice bump mapping! but it looks a bit flat"
There's a series of jokes from the demo scene, one of those "you know you're a graphics coder when" things..
one of them was you know you're a graphics coder when you're driving in a car, look out the side window, and are impressed by the parallax scrolling.
, I'll explain: when you find an exploit, you should notify the people who can fix it (i.e., Apple). Apple should get back to you, and keep you apprised of the situation, and if Apple follows through with all this, you should NOT release the information to the public until it has been fixed.
To a point. If the odds are good that someone else already knows about this exploit, and the people who can fix it (i.e. Apple) haven't done anything about it even though they knew about it in February, you should release info. Especially since there are several ways of protecting yourself without waiting around for a patch.
Then again, I'm an Open Source advocate, and every OS vuln solved through full disclosure.
As pointed out in another post, however, Firefox asks what to do with the.dmg file (open or save) before downloading it.
That's what safari should do. Safari's default (download, mount, open), is horrible. First, because if you already have the download manager open, it will *NOT* pop to the front when you download a file. Second, the finder will *NOT* update the desktop until you click on it.
Therefore, you have no way of knowing that the page you're visiting just downloaded and mounted something on your system.
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"Hey...if that had been real, I wouldn't have been able to respawn those 20 times I died"
If you had actually played AAO you would've known that there is no respawn.
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Correct, The group that this would effect most directly is telecommuters. The ones that use authenticaion with their company's smtp server. Broadband is almost a requirement if you are telecommuting.
Why can't they use the secure smtp port then? Cox already blocks all outgoing 25 traffic, I can still send mail from home to my company's mail server.
I think there should be difficulty modes in Simcity, so beginners can start with "easy mode" with less stuff to care about.
Brilliant!
Level One: You control everything in your room.. can you make sure the clothes stay off the floor?
Level Two: You control the house, keep the weeds under control, trim that fucking tree.
Level Three: You are now the head on the neighborhood watch, make sure everyone has working lights, pass out flyers reminding people not to let people wearing prison stripes into their house.
Level Four: You are now the head of the Homeowners Association, control your neighborhood with an iron fist. Send out hundreds of letters telling people to control their weeds and not to park in the street.
Level Five: You are District 5 Zoning Commisioner, make sure that no one can put a gas station within 10 miles of your neighborhood.
Level Six: You work for the DOT now, hold back funds for any street repairs, and be sure to kill that monorail plan dead. Don't forget to mention that more lanes means more traffic, and we could eliminate our traffic problems by reducing all roads down to one lane.
Level Seven: You're now the mayor! Congratulations, your only responsiblilty is to show up on TV every once in a while to remind people that you're the mayor.
and so on! I will make millions!
In order to sanitise his magazine to appease the moral masses (and sell more copy), his fake breasted women all have parts of their, well, lower body parts photoshopped out.
This in turn causes hundreds of normal girls who see these magazines going to doctors and asking for plastic surgery because they don't think they're "normal".
Yeah, same with TV. That's why I went to the plastic surgeon because my penis wasn't as pixelated as the ones on TV.
I know that if I ever get similar problems I'll be back again, but touchwood that has never happened.
I think we all know what the real cause of your muscle pain is.
I don't think The Stand will ever be considered a short story...
You're right, I mixed the titles of the story (The Body) with the movie (Stand By Me)
I meant Stand By Me.
Don't imagine that because a character isn't listed on IMDb 4.5 months before release, the character isn't in the film. IMDb rarely has complete credits this far before release. I'm surprised the Slashdot editors let such a silly claim through.
It doesn't? Damn, and here I had my hopes up for a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with only Charlie and Willy Wonka.
. But lets be honest here, it is a SHORT story, and if I remember correctly it is a DAMN short story. So how is this being made into a full length movie we are talking about a maybe 10 page story?
A lot of Stephen King short stories are made into great movies. The Stand, Shawshank Redemption, Running Man, Secret Window. True, they're longer than 10 pages, but they made good movies even though they're not true to the book.
That's it. No web page can exploit this arbitrary protocol problem if you do step 1 above. Step 2 fixes the help: issue, and step 3 fixes all other known issues.
Why does this warrant 4 stories in 4 days?
It warranted 4 stories in 4 days because people like you misunderstand the problem.
Step 1 doesn't fix anything.. disk: ftp: afp: protocols still allow automounting of volumes from a webpage.
Step 2 fixes help and telnet, but those aren't the whole issue.
Step 3 is a step in the right direction, but you'll also need to disable ftp: and afp: since they both can be used in the same way.
Disabling ftp means you can't open any ftp volumes without jumping through hoops. I always thought it was stupid that safari didn't handle ftp directly though.
The solution isn't an easy one, and Apple is going to have to do something that MS and Linux have dealt with in the past... sacrifice ease-of-use for security.
Many HU's have a jack in the back which you can buy an adapter for that can connect to an ipod.
Wow.. so many people use iPods due to design alone.. so it's suprising that so many of them would recommend such an ugly ugly solution.
A car stereo with a flip-down face and a slot for the ipod is a much better solution.
For instance, you don't say: "We are going to reset/restart your unix server" you say: "We are going to bump your server"
Back when my company was an ISP our mac tech support would do that. "My mac is acting funny" "hmm.. give it two bongs... no, make it three.. three bongs"
Suprisingly, most mac users understood what it was to give your machine a bong. (NVRAM fun)
I'll withhold judgement on Nintendo's innovation until I see sales rise (remember the lesson from SEGA: different doesn't always mean $$$), but if nothing else, you've got to give them credit for at least doing something different than the other guys.
Well, Nintendo has learned that lesson several times.. but at least they keep trying. Some of their innovations were just too ahead of their time. The Power-Pad didn't do too well, but 10 years later, the Power-Pad has been re-invented for DDR. On the other hand, the Power Glove will probably always be a bad idea.
I mean look, their built their success on great game names like Mario and Zelda back in 1981, and since then, they've... .. since brought you innovative games like Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, and Mario & Luigi Superstar Adventure.
Plus, you've never seen anything like Odama.
If the 'big gaming company' took more risks (hell, they are big enough to take risks) on innovative games instead of working on sequels to games or the latest shooter, the gaming industry would be more exciting.
There are plenty of companies taking risks on innovative games.
Just look at what was shown at E3 this year:
Evil Genius - Game where you play a james bond villain and set up complicated booby traps in your lair to kill secret agents.
Destroy All Humans - You play an alien intent on destroying the world with the power of your mind.
Geist - A ghost who can possess people and objects to solve puzzles. (Possess a fire extinguisher to distract a guard, then possess him and give conflicting orders to his subordinates)
Odama - A crazy RTS Pinball game
And that's just off the top of my head. There are plenty of innovative titles out there, you're just not looking.
I think they are. A 10% hit in performance is going to get eaten up as hardware gets better and faster. But that 50% increase in manageability and flexibility is going to pay dividends well into the future.
Who's saying anything about a 10% hit in performance?
Here are some benchmarks between Panther and Yellow Dog Linux on a Dual 1.25 ghz G4.
Unix Bench Scores (bigger is better)
for Linux: 316.4
for Panther: 131.0
lmBench Fork in microseconds, smaller is better)
for Linux: 352
for Panther: 1402
lmBench TCP Latency (in microseconds, smaller is better)
for Linux: 46.3
for Panther: 76.8
lmBench Pipe performance (in MB/s, bigger is better)
for Linux: 419.0
for Panther: 216.0
We're talking about huge performance issues across the board. Everything from process construction and destruction to context switching to communication latencies. OSX is much much slower. I attribute this entirely to the Mach Microkernel.
I believe a colleague has had some success installing core 2 on a Sony Vaio laptop - this is about the hightest recommendation for *any* distro
I've had success upgrading YDL to Fedora Core 2 on my Pismo Powerbook.
Its about time a movie involved lava surfing.
I propose we call it "The Endless Summer 3: In SPACE!"
In fact, many OSX programs expose functionality like this via AppleScript -- a practice I wish were more widespread on other systems.
Other systems usually go with an object broker, which is much more powerful than (although not as easy as) providing applescript hooks.
On Windows you've got COM, on KDE you've got DCOP, on Gnome you've got CORBA.
DCOP is probably the easiest, most flexable, and most widely implemented (Practically every KDE app has DCOP support.. while under Gnome, very few use Corba, probably due to the real/percieved slowness of it)
ok, maybe this vector approach is something entirely new and leaves existing methods in the dust. But this article seems to be doing a relatively poor job at explaining why.
It does a poor job of explaining exactly what is going on. I've read it, and I'm still convinced that they basically just implemented a neural net. The exact same stuff is used in OCR.
It's because the games are always so slow. What do you guys do in all that time it takes you to creep frome one shadow to another?
Not all of us have severe ADHD.
It also stroke me a different time when I was swimmning at the pool and looked down, I saw the floor was a bit cracked and bumpy and thought: "nice bump mapping! but it looks a bit flat"
There's a series of jokes from the demo scene, one of those "you know you're a graphics coder when" things..
one of them was you know you're a graphics coder when you're driving in a car, look out the side window, and are impressed by the parallax scrolling.
(Woah, showing my age.. parallax scrolling...)
, I'll explain: when you find an exploit, you should notify the people who can fix it (i.e., Apple). Apple should get back to you, and keep you apprised of the situation, and if Apple follows through with all this, you should NOT release the information to the public until it has been fixed.
To a point. If the odds are good that someone else already knows about this exploit, and the people who can fix it (i.e. Apple) haven't done anything about it even though they knew about it in February, you should release info. Especially since there are several ways of protecting yourself without waiting around for a patch.
Then again, I'm an Open Source advocate, and every OS vuln solved through full disclosure.
As pointed out in another post, however, Firefox asks what to do with the .dmg file (open or save) before downloading it.
That's what safari should do. Safari's default (download, mount, open), is horrible. First, because if you already have the download manager open, it will *NOT* pop to the front when you download a file. Second, the finder will *NOT* update the desktop until you click on it.
Therefore, you have no way of knowing that the page you're visiting just downloaded and mounted something on your system.
"Hey...if that had been real, I wouldn't have been able to respawn those 20 times I died"
If you had actually played AAO you would've known that there is no respawn.
Couldn't agree more that if this leads to fewer blogs, it's a Good Thing. They should raise the price even more.
You know that Slashdot is a blog, right?
Those aren't the same shape.
17 / 11 = 1.55
11 / 8.5 = 1.29
There are two primary shapes that repeat.
11/8.5 = 1.29
17/11 = 1.55
22/17 = 1.29
34/22 = 1.55
and so on.. A-F sizes.