> mplayer can put it back much better. I'm a big fan of mplayer, but there are many formats it wouldn't play if it weren't for the proprietary codecs. I wouldn't mind seeing open source alternatives for those codecs - If there's a buffer overflow in any of the binary.dll codecs, chances are your linux system can be exploited by a carefully crafted media stream.
There are banks offering special 'web credit card' services. They issue credit card numbers that are valid only for a single transaction. After the transaction has taken place, the number expires. Even if a site would have serious security issues, allowing someone to see all the credit card numbers they ever received from people, these single-transaction numbers would be worthless to anyone finding them.
Of course ultimately a website shouldn't ever receive credit card numbers, but instead relay credit card payment to a bank and then communicate with that bank to see if all went well, but that is another issue.
What country would that be, 'currently championing democracy'? Certainly you're not from the US of A where the law is bought. Many a European country is much more democratic than the USA is ever going to be. It is easy to call your country 'the country that champions democracy' without looking at the rest of the world.
Well yes, real life behaviour extends to the internet. There are some differences in impact though:
- no physical violence - logfiles; the victim has more power to prove, especially in an early stage, that (s)he's being harassed - more freedom/power to avoid the bullying, 'switching off the internet' is a bit easier than 'switching off real life'.
Like many people I run not only SSH but also a web server with VirtualHosts. I've been thinking of simply shutting down SSH by default- if no service is running on port 22, it can't be hacked.
If I'd want SSH access, I could connect to a certain virtual host on the server, via an SSL link, with the correct username and password.
After all ssh sessions have terminated, sshd could then be shut down again. Without doubt this should be possible, but I don't feel like re-inventing the wheel. Perhaps someone has already done something like this?
Well yes. This allows Word to restore the document in all its glory. I guess the programmer that wrote the doc -> HTML converter had never heard about "defaults" yet. On importing, If Word would assume the default tab interval if none is specified, it wouldn't need to add all that crap to the HTML file.
All this trouble they went through and they didn't even bother rendering accented characters to their codepage-free HTML equivalents such as "é", "ç" and such.
> Java was designed to be easily learned, and to especially be used in web-based apps.
Exactly, and the web was designed specifically for graceful degradation. Most of the time, it isn't trivial to gracefully degrade a java applet. In many cases, Java is overkill.
Many business applications rely on form entry and report generation, which can perfectly (if not better) be done by server-generated HTML. As a bonus, the apps will also work using lynx in an SSH terminal. For a long time I have avoided writing Java apps for two reasons: First of all, I didn't need it because http+php+JavaScript already do all I want, and secondly, (perhaps nowadays misplaced feeling that) it is slow.
However, I recently started using Java in an area where I feel it does have its uses though: Desktop database applications. It gives users the feeling that they are working with a program instead of browsing the web, and the back button of the browser no longer gets in the way. I too, used to have the impression that Java was slow; however I also heard that nowadays its performance compares with C++, for which I found it hard to develop truely cross platform. In any case, in database/business applications, the bottleneck is hardly ever the user interface, but rather the database. I enjoy working with NetBeans, it's a very mature IDE. I haven't (yet) gotten to the point where Java breaks its write-once-run-anywhere promise, I guess it also depends on how you write your code. If you insist on calling the Windows API, your code won't run on a Mac or in Linux, but it's not fair to blame the language. Of course, my Java desktop database apps are still not going to present users with a windowed user interface on text terminals, unlike lynx.
Marionets are different from puppets. Marionets have wires, puppets are directly hand-controlled.
Hybrids of those are possible of course, and they exist too -- Muppets. They got both someone pulling their strings AND someone's hand up their ehrm... back. What a way to make a living.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the latency between Earth and Mars rover could be eliminated? No more troublesome autonomous machines needed, just use remote control. Unless of course a fiber optic cable is a requirement - I don't see any fiber optic cables of that length being produced anytime soon.
Good point, I don't think that should've been modded down. Those glasses transfer the image to the artificial retina via wireless. Of course the signal need not be very strong, but could possibly be picked up by others.
Sunbird is a brand of popcorn (yummie!) Google also reveals it being the name of a travel agency and a car rental service.
Of course, Sunfox is also already in use, now what?
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> mplayer can put it back much better. .dll codecs, chances are your linux system can be exploited by a carefully crafted media stream.
I'm a big fan of mplayer, but there are many formats it wouldn't play if it weren't for the proprietary codecs. I wouldn't mind seeing open source alternatives for those codecs - If there's a buffer overflow in any of the binary
And more importantly... do you even know what "redundant" means?
Please point me to one that has a picture of canadian 100 dollar bills. Then I'll print.
It depends. On small sets of data, bubble sort is quicker than quicksort.
There are banks offering special 'web credit card' services. They issue credit card numbers that are valid only for a single transaction. After the transaction has taken place, the number expires. Even if a site would have serious security issues, allowing someone to see all the credit card numbers they ever received from people, these single-transaction numbers would be worthless to anyone finding them. Of course ultimately a website shouldn't ever receive credit card numbers, but instead relay credit card payment to a bank and then communicate with that bank to see if all went well, but that is another issue.
...never mind, it prolly does. I'll have my medicine now. Thank you.
What country would that be, 'currently championing democracy'? Certainly you're not from the US of A where the law is bought. Many a European country is much more democratic than the USA is ever going to be. It is easy to call your country 'the country that champions democracy' without looking at the rest of the world.
Forget the voting machines. Any known vulnerabilities in their ATM machines?
"Rapid Development" by Microsoft Press. There's this chapter on Classic Mistakes. To mention a few:
- unrealistic expectations
- wishful thinking
- placing politics over substance
- overly optimistic schedules
- inadequate design
- feature creep
Maybe this company should take some time to read their own publications.
... but in the process the LASER MOUSE will burn your desk to ashes. Use it on a mirror folks, that'll keep the little bastard in check!
You mean The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?
...playing The Incredible Machine :P
Well yes, real life behaviour extends to the internet. There are some differences in impact though:
- no physical violence
- logfiles; the victim has more power to prove, especially in an early stage, that (s)he's being harassed
- more freedom/power to avoid the bullying, 'switching off the internet' is a bit easier than 'switching off real life'.
Like many people I run not only SSH but also a web server with VirtualHosts. I've been thinking of simply shutting down SSH by default- if no service is running on port 22, it can't be hacked.
If I'd want SSH access, I could connect to a certain virtual host on the server, via an SSL link, with the correct username and password.
After all ssh sessions have terminated, sshd could then be shut down again. Without doubt this should be possible, but I don't feel like re-inventing the wheel. Perhaps someone has already done something like this?
Well yes. This allows Word to restore the
document in all its glory. I guess the programmer
that wrote the doc -> HTML converter
had never heard about "defaults" yet. On importing,
If Word would assume the default tab interval if
none is specified, it wouldn't need to add all that
crap to the HTML file.
All this trouble they went
through and they didn't even bother rendering
accented characters to their codepage-free
HTML equivalents such as "é", "ç" and such.
> Java was designed to be easily learned, and to especially be used in web-based apps.
Exactly, and the web was designed specifically for graceful degradation. Most of the time, it isn't trivial to gracefully degrade a java applet. In many cases, Java is overkill.
Many business applications rely on form entry and report generation, which can perfectly (if not better) be done by server-generated HTML. As a bonus, the apps will also work using lynx in an SSH terminal. For a long time I have avoided writing Java apps for two reasons: First of all, I didn't need it because http+php+JavaScript already do all I want, and secondly, (perhaps nowadays misplaced feeling that) it is slow.
However, I recently started using Java in an area where I feel it does have its uses though: Desktop database applications. It gives users the feeling that they are working with a program instead of browsing the web, and the back button of the browser no longer gets in the way. I too, used to have the impression that Java was slow; however I also heard that nowadays its performance compares with C++, for which I found it hard to develop truely cross platform. In any case, in database/business applications, the bottleneck is hardly ever the user interface, but rather the database. I enjoy working with NetBeans, it's a very mature IDE. I haven't (yet) gotten to the point where Java breaks its write-once-run-anywhere promise, I guess it also depends on how you write your code. If you insist on calling the Windows API, your code won't run on a Mac or in Linux, but it's not fair to blame the language. Of course, my Java desktop database apps are still not going to present users with a windowed user interface on text terminals, unlike lynx.
Read this article, "The magic cauldron" for an excellent explanation why.
No, no, the bomb needing worrying about most is this one.
Marionets are different from puppets. Marionets have wires, puppets are directly hand-controlled.
Hybrids of those are possible of course, and they exist too -- Muppets. They got both someone pulling their strings AND someone's hand up their ehrm... back. What a way to make a living.
MS says their operating system is great. McDonald's says their food is great *and* cheap.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the latency between Earth and Mars rover could be eliminated? No more troublesome autonomous machines needed, just use remote control. Unless of course a fiber optic cable is a requirement - I don't see any fiber optic cables of that length being produced anytime soon.
Good point, I don't think that should've been modded down. Those glasses transfer the image to the artificial retina via wireless. Of course the signal need not be very strong, but could possibly be picked up by others.
"I can't see a thing without my glasses!"
Sunbird is a brand of popcorn (yummie!) Google also reveals it being the name of a travel agency and a car rental service. Of course, Sunfox is also already in use, now what?
Just hope that they won't transfer money like in the movies - One dollar at a time :)