I don't think metric (base 10) is really the best number system. It's based on our finger count, but isn't nearly as robustly useful as base-2, especially in digital systems. Think about inches; we usually think of them in halves, quarters and eighths. The inch is sort of a like a byte, in this sense. Metric gives us ugly values like 0.125 to represent 1/8th. Easy for humans, hard for machines. This debate stems from this tension.
You're confusing cause and effect in the same way that those "rock & roll leads to fornication" studies did, back then. Rock music was a part of the sexual revolution, yeah, but birth control and suffrage were the catalysts.
It was the same with rock & roll in the 50s, and D&D in the 70s. Parents always worry about new forms of entertainment corrupting their children, and they are almost always unfounded.
You're probably right, I expect this is a resume thing and in a year i'll have to switch companies. I've sort of carved out a niche though for myself in writing a lot of that software the dept so desparately needs to function. Hoping to move into Architecture, and then project management, if i feel like chasing dollar signs by then.
I started on an Oil & Gas help desk 2 years ago, and since then have moved into an operations role. Some people ARE stuck on the desk forever, but they aren't the strong technical people. The desk does get a bad rap, so people assume you're stupid and you have to prove them wrong in order to move up, but the desk is also used internally as a source of pre-vetted labour so the oportunities are there.
Windows File Protection only protects a static list of files installed by Windows. To quote MS:
"All SYS, DLL, EXE, and OCX files that ship on the Windows CD are protected. True Type fonts--Micross.ttf, Tahoma.ttf, and Tahomabd.ttf--are also protected." http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/wfp.mspx#E3F
DLL hell still very much exists, as I fight with at work all the time doing application packaging. Typically things like incompatible crystal reports dlls are an issue. Typically and end-user will end up with dozens of different versions of the same DLL in different installation directories, often installing to both %system% and %programfiles%. The next program installed registers it's copy, breaking the old application. App isolation works sometimes, but sometimes it also unfortunately breaks the hell out of things. WFP couldn't even help if it DID apply to these files..NET thankfully fixed this with the global assembly cache, but that doesn't apply to the win32 world.
Back on topic, it sounds like they DID catch this during testing; which is why it's being delayed! Nice catch, MS. It isn't like we need SP3 direly, right now.
You might just be a troll, or an idiot, but please provide a proof for the logical fallacy I'm so obviously commiting, so that I can correct my primitive thinking.
Jesus christ... there is no limit to how far some people will take ethical relativism. I expect canibalism can be justified in certain extreme circumstances, but that hardly makes it virtuous.
Social darwinism IS an absolutely disgusting concept. Accepting it makes the logical leap that, because something exists in nature, it is morally justifiable. Canibalism exists in nature, as does rape, murder, starvation and genocide. Does anyone doubt this? And does anyone think these things are therefore justified?
I can't believe anyone would be so f*@king stupid as to believe natural selection makes greed justifiable. I'd also like to point out that social darwinism has also been used to justify that which conservative america holds so dear: capitalism.
The thing is, I don't feel bad about stealing their bandwidth any more than they probably care that I'm doing it. The parties being stolen from here are the ISPs. They're the ones in a panic.
Back around 2000, I worked at a high-speed company who was trying to crack down on connection sharing WITHIN the home. They wanted to charge for one modem per PC!
I know a lot of people think Atheism is unscientific and closed-minded, and I want to correct this notion. The religious are the ones making extraordinary statements, so it is their job to provide evidence for a god. As an atheist and a scientist, I am not responsible for finding evidence that god doesn't exist; it is religion's job to provide supporting evidence, and mine to refute it.
Agnosticism is unscientific, because it attempts to make no provisional assumptions (hypotheses) about how the world works, simply claiming that "we can't know anything for sure". I don't know for sure how gravity works, but I still have a provisional (scientifically sound) assumption about it. I'm not some member of a Newtonian "priesthood".
That's OpenSSH's issue, not yours (as the exploit discoverer). Anyhow, you have to agree that it's still way, way safer than publishing it for all to see.
I dunno, in the late 90s, while they were eliminating their competition (turtle beach etc.) then also lost huge market share to integrated, on-board sound. I was as annoyed as anyone with their shitty driver work, and on my most recent PC I finally said "enough, i'm trying the onboard". Know what? Works great.
I think today they have more competition (from commodity motherboards) than they ever did "in the day". Frankly their core business is elsewhere, now; in MP3 players and accessories.
I'm a pretty novice programmer... I've created one relatively small application over the past few years. Right now I'm working on a ground-up rewrite using threading principles. It IS more complex, but i'm handling it, and I'm still pretty new at this!
Right now you can get away without it, which means lots of developers will. When we have 80-core machines, it won't really be an option.
The solution to increasing complexity is higher level languages. I'm writing my new app in C#, and so far I haven't even had to create a thread from scratch (lots of BackgroundWorkers, asynchronous streams, events and callbacks). I expect the next generation of languages will do away with primitive types, include threadsafe libraries by default, and include new high-level threading models like the ones i just mentioned.
At the same time, compilers are going to get better at automatic vectorization. I don't think this is going to be a big deal, it'll just be different.
But that's not true! I read your post. I'm just saying the vehemently anti-MS mods assume anyone who posts a good MS experience must be astroturfing, which just isn't true. Vista has lots of issues, but SP1 fixes (some of) them. I'm still not 100% sold on it as an upgrade... there are times I want to reinstall XP. I don't for the following reasons:
1) I run media center, AND use 4GB of RAM (it's also a dev box at home). There is no x64 media center edition of XP. 2) It's shinier.
XP is definitely faster, and frankly I do my casual home computing on a MacBook. I'm hardly a microsoft astroturfer, but yes; Vista SP1 did install for me flawlessly:)
I had the exact same experience. Posting under my own account, because frankly I don't give a flying fuck what the dogmatically Anti-MS moderators (priests) think.
Being a C# developer most of the time, I really wish I could pass the address of a public property to a method. That's about the only time I really wish I could use pointers. This can still be done through reflection of course, but it is hundreds of times slower.
C# does have a static class though (similar to a java class with a private uncallable constructor). Is that what you mean by a static object?
I'm an anthropologist too, by education, though I work in IT so i'm watching from the sidelines. Didn't realize they hadn't even aged the bones... sounds like they shouldn't have published yet. Checking for unerupted adult teeth in the skulls should be easy enough, though (TFA says they found skulls).
Although not mentioned in this article, children's bones are fairly easy to spot because the ends haven't fused yet (are partially cartilage which isn't preserved). Also, children have juvenile teeth. These are definitely adults.
Every time I see a story about my country I cringe, because the first 4 pages of comments are usually nothing but cliche donut and hockey jokes. I just read through this whole thing and didn't see one. I'm impressed!
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I don't think metric (base 10) is really the best number system. It's based on our finger count, but isn't nearly as robustly useful as base-2, especially in digital systems. Think about inches; we usually think of them in halves, quarters and eighths. The inch is sort of a like a byte, in this sense. Metric gives us ugly values like 0.125 to represent 1/8th. Easy for humans, hard for machines. This debate stems from this tension.
You're confusing cause and effect in the same way that those "rock & roll leads to fornication" studies did, back then. Rock music was a part of the sexual revolution, yeah, but birth control and suffrage were the catalysts.
It was the same with rock & roll in the 50s, and D&D in the 70s. Parents always worry about new forms of entertainment corrupting their children, and they are almost always unfounded.
You're probably right, I expect this is a resume thing and in a year i'll have to switch companies. I've sort of carved out a niche though for myself in writing a lot of that software the dept so desparately needs to function. Hoping to move into Architecture, and then project management, if i feel like chasing dollar signs by then.
I started on an Oil & Gas help desk 2 years ago, and since then have moved into an operations role. Some people ARE stuck on the desk forever, but they aren't the strong technical people. The desk does get a bad rap, so people assume you're stupid and you have to prove them wrong in order to move up, but the desk is also used internally as a source of pre-vetted labour so the oportunities are there.
oh gee, i dunno... how about... "captcha"??
Windows File Protection only protects a static list of files installed by Windows. To quote MS:
.NET thankfully fixed this with the global assembly cache, but that doesn't apply to the win32 world.
"All SYS, DLL, EXE, and OCX files that ship on the Windows CD are protected. True Type fonts--Micross.ttf, Tahoma.ttf, and Tahomabd.ttf--are also protected."
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/wfp.mspx#E3F
DLL hell still very much exists, as I fight with at work all the time doing application packaging. Typically things like incompatible crystal reports dlls are an issue. Typically and end-user will end up with dozens of different versions of the same DLL in different installation directories, often installing to both %system% and %programfiles%. The next program installed registers it's copy, breaking the old application. App isolation works sometimes, but sometimes it also unfortunately breaks the hell out of things. WFP couldn't even help if it DID apply to these files.
Back on topic, it sounds like they DID catch this during testing; which is why it's being delayed! Nice catch, MS. It isn't like we need SP3 direly, right now.
Anyhow,
You might just be a troll, or an idiot, but please provide a proof for the logical fallacy I'm so obviously commiting, so that I can correct my primitive thinking.
Jesus christ... there is no limit to how far some people will take ethical relativism. I expect canibalism can be justified in certain extreme circumstances, but that hardly makes it virtuous.
Social darwinism IS an absolutely disgusting concept. Accepting it makes the logical leap that, because something exists in nature, it is morally justifiable. Canibalism exists in nature, as does rape, murder, starvation and genocide. Does anyone doubt this? And does anyone think these things are therefore justified?
I can't believe anyone would be so f*@king stupid as to believe natural selection makes greed justifiable. I'd also like to point out that social darwinism has also been used to justify that which conservative america holds so dear: capitalism.
The thing is, I don't feel bad about stealing their bandwidth any more than they probably care that I'm doing it. The parties being stolen from here are the ISPs. They're the ones in a panic.
Back around 2000, I worked at a high-speed company who was trying to crack down on connection sharing WITHIN the home. They wanted to charge for one modem per PC!
I know a lot of people think Atheism is unscientific and closed-minded, and I want to correct this notion. The religious are the ones making extraordinary statements, so it is their job to provide evidence for a god. As an atheist and a scientist, I am not responsible for finding evidence that god doesn't exist; it is religion's job to provide supporting evidence, and mine to refute it.
Agnosticism is unscientific, because it attempts to make no provisional assumptions (hypotheses) about how the world works, simply claiming that "we can't know anything for sure". I don't know for sure how gravity works, but I still have a provisional (scientifically sound) assumption about it. I'm not some member of a Newtonian "priesthood".
That's OpenSSH's issue, not yours (as the exploit discoverer). Anyhow, you have to agree that it's still way, way safer than publishing it for all to see.
This quote, at the end caught my attention:
Q: "Are you going to be blogging for BuzzCorps?"
A: "The new gig is not about me blogging, it's about helping bloggers do what they do best - shape opinion through the sharing of information"
So he's moved on to a far more luctrative career in training astroturfers. Great.
Uhm, so they can fix the problem before it becomes known to the cracking community?
I dunno, in the late 90s, while they were eliminating their competition (turtle beach etc.) then also lost huge market share to integrated, on-board sound. I was as annoyed as anyone with their shitty driver work, and on my most recent PC I finally said "enough, i'm trying the onboard". Know what? Works great.
I think today they have more competition (from commodity motherboards) than they ever did "in the day". Frankly their core business is elsewhere, now; in MP3 players and accessories.
I'm a pretty novice programmer... I've created one relatively small application over the past few years. Right now I'm working on a ground-up rewrite using threading principles. It IS more complex, but i'm handling it, and I'm still pretty new at this!
Right now you can get away without it, which means lots of developers will. When we have 80-core machines, it won't really be an option.
The solution to increasing complexity is higher level languages. I'm writing my new app in C#, and so far I haven't even had to create a thread from scratch (lots of BackgroundWorkers, asynchronous streams, events and callbacks). I expect the next generation of languages will do away with primitive types, include threadsafe libraries by default, and include new high-level threading models like the ones i just mentioned.
At the same time, compilers are going to get better at automatic vectorization. I don't think this is going to be a big deal, it'll just be different.
But that's not true! I read your post. I'm just saying the vehemently anti-MS mods assume anyone who posts a good MS experience must be astroturfing, which just isn't true. Vista has lots of issues, but SP1 fixes (some of) them. I'm still not 100% sold on it as an upgrade... there are times I want to reinstall XP. I don't for the following reasons:
:)
1) I run media center, AND use 4GB of RAM (it's also a dev box at home). There is no x64 media center edition of XP.
2) It's shinier.
XP is definitely faster, and frankly I do my casual home computing on a MacBook. I'm hardly a microsoft astroturfer, but yes; Vista SP1 did install for me flawlessly
I had the exact same experience. Posting under my own account, because frankly I don't give a flying fuck what the dogmatically Anti-MS moderators (priests) think.
Being a C# developer most of the time, I really wish I could pass the address of a public property to a method. That's about the only time I really wish I could use pointers. This can still be done through reflection of course, but it is hundreds of times slower.
C# does have a static class though (similar to a java class with a private uncallable constructor). Is that what you mean by a static object?
I'm an anthropologist too, by education, though I work in IT so i'm watching from the sidelines. Didn't realize they hadn't even aged the bones... sounds like they shouldn't have published yet. Checking for unerupted adult teeth in the skulls should be easy enough, though (TFA says they found skulls).
Although not mentioned in this article, children's bones are fairly easy to spot because the ends haven't fused yet (are partially cartilage which isn't preserved). Also, children have juvenile teeth. These are definitely adults.
Indeed. I'm far more interested in where the POLICE are at any given moment!
Well, it's a change at least. There are still too many wannabe comedians on here, IMO.
Interesting. Hadn't even heard of it. Those crazy asians! I just checked, and the first Nomad Jukebox came out in 2000 with a 6GB hard drive.
Thanks Slashdotters!
Every time I see a story about my country I cringe, because the first 4 pages of comments are usually nothing but cliche donut and hockey jokes. I just read through this whole thing and didn't see one. I'm impressed!