I've not seen anyone actually state it here, but I can confirm that the most recent IE cumulative patch that came out this morning does indeed patch that rather nasty hole reported earlier this week. I now get a lovely "Permission Denied" Javascript error...
Now.. Seeing that Microsoft got off their butt and fixed the hole in just a few days, what does this have to say about releasing the exploit publicly?
Actually, nix that... the flame war was way too long last time..:)
Well, here goes 2 mod points I spent on this thread...
We've tested this on 4 boxes here. I actually took another variant of this script (the one that wrote a file to your C:\ folder and opened minesweeper) and modified it to run CHKDSK, and put it on my work webserver. The results:
My desktop XP w/ IE6: blammo. It's exactly as they say it is. Brown trousers time.
Co-workers Win2k w/ IE6: no effect. Much as you describe above
WinNT box with IE5.5: blammo. More brown trousers time.
Win98 box with IE5.5: no effect.
While it doesn't seem to work on 100% of machines (Win##'s are immune?) it does seem to work on others.
The script is just 30 lines long, and that's including spacing and comments. Even if MS came out with a quick patch, the amount of damage you could do to 50% of the PC/IE systems out there could be pretty staggering.
Let's hope nobody hacks CNN and replaces their frontpage tonight.
We already have this in Canada. Out on the west coast, 31 channels were introduced on digital cable (yes, more if you're on sattelite). You can get one channel a la carte for $2/mo, 5 for $6/mo, 10 for $10/mo, and all of them for $20/mo. No, I can't yet choose to keep the older (still analog) TLC and drop Home and Garden TV, but it's a start.
There's also a lot of selection in PPV. Movies for $5 (a bit pricey I think).
What I'd like to see next is the ability to order specific shows on stations you don't subscribe to, for, say, $0.25 a show. All the TV listings are already there in the Digital cable box. I'd be more interested paying for shows than for channels. Take that marketing data to see if a show should stay on the air or not.
And for the record, I've only ordered one channel from the 31.
Is it just me, or is the crackpot image of this group enhanced by the way they use alternatingly larger and smaller fonts throught the web page linked in the article?
The list of features here remind's me of Tom Waits' Step Right Up...
Anyone figure out how to get the full zoomed in version of a map? Zooming in on a screen size version is nice, but is there a way to get the whole image at full resolution?
So only 3 million suns, eh? Assuming most suns in the galaxy are at least 0.1 suns of mass, and there's about 100 million suns in the galaxy, this would at the very best case amount to 20-30% of the galaxy's mass. I'm going to guestimate that this number is a bit more like 3-5%. Can anyone give a more accurate figure as to the mass of the galaxy not measured in Solar Masses? (dark matter and all)
I had always thought that a super-massive black hole might explain that 90% missing mass/dark matter theory. Or does the rotation of the galaxy suggest the matter is evenly distributed instead of being all at the center? Or is it too soon to tell?
People are spending thousands for DENSE LUMPS OF CARBON!?!
I'm sorry, I honestly don't get it. And thank goodness, neither does my wife. We each have a lovely pair of white gold bands, that will easily last our lifetime.... and if they do wear out, we'll buy new ones.
If the what kind of ring you have is going to have any kind of impact on your relationship whatsoever, you're in serious trouble. If you're not sure what her reaction would be, maybe try spending a little more time with the person and get to know them better, cause maybe you're not ready to get engaged yet...:(
Nope, you have to commit to converting your pictures every 10 years or so, and reburning them perhaps every 5 years or so.
I wonder what all that JPG > PNG > JP2 > RSD > PP5 > O99 > QLQ conversion would do after 50 years of conversions... Better to go for lossless compression and not worry about it.
(and if file extensions are still 3 chars after 50 years, yes we can all collectively scream)
How well do facial pattern recognition software work on kids from a database of adult faces?
Usually figuring out if this adult is the same as that adult is no problem... It's finding a picture of a kid that you know he's one of several adults... usually a big problem.
Best way to solve it is to have pictures of two or more kids together. You can almost always figure out who's who by relative age.
Let me tell you.... If you do go the scanner/graphics software route, it's a lot of work.
My wife an I have a Family History Project online: The Arbutus Project (very slashdot susceptable! please go easy!). Try going here to get to the picture index. We've collected genealogical data, as well as choice scanned photos from our own photo albums and that of family members. Audio interviews are just starting, and video is a few years away (my computer's too wimpy)
On of the really cool things is if you do have an indexing system for your whole family (something that comes with a genealogy project, but is a lot of baggage with just a photo project) is that all your families photos become seamless. You can see a photo album for yourself, or for your wife, or for your kids, or for your grandfather, with just a few mouse clicks.
Today's pictures aren't much better than 300dpi, and I've got an old Microtek E6 scanner (bought new, just before the prices dropped). I scan at 300dpi for new, higher for old (when pictures were much better resolution, try looking at them with a magnifying glass.) Try not to cringe if you happen to get those awful square early colour photos with the bumps or hexagonal cells from the 70's. Save 'em all as PNGs, store those to CD for later, then batch them all to a good web size for online viewing.
It is a LOT of work, and I'd suggest that you focus on only the select shots from your albums, perhaps just the best 10%. Most photos are junk anyways. You don't really really need that pic of the cute neighbour kid your grandad grew up with.
Expect it to take several months of work just to get the photos scanned and organized in any fashion.
Costello: Are you the manager? Abbott: Yes. Costello: And you don't know the fellows' names. Abbott: Well I should. Costello: Well then who's on stage? Abbott: Yes. Costello: I mean the band's name. Abbott: The Who. Costello: The guys on stage. Abbott: The Who. Costello: The first act. Abbott: The Who. Costello: The guy playing... Abbott: Who is on stage! Costello: I'm asking you who's on Stage. Abbott: That's the band's name. Costello: The Who's name? Abbott: Yes. Costello: Well go ahead and tell me. Abbott: That's it. Costello: The Who? Abbott: Yes.
I was actually at the strippers up here in Canada about a month ago. The Strippers were taking $5 (blue) $10 (maroon) and $20 (green) Canadian dollar bills from the crowd. Canada has no paper denominations less than $5.
A couple of Americans, oblivious of the US/CA exchange rate (about 1.5 to 1), were there in the front row with American $1 bills on the stage. FOUR (4) sucsessive strippers totally ignored their money until the fifth one took pity on them after a half hour.
Just goes to show you don't get much bang for a buck.
You do have a point, but a valid counterpoint would be that the research required to attempt to terraform Mars may have a significant positive impact in our ability to modify our own atmosphere.
We've only been terraforming one planet (albeit for the worse) for a few hundred years. We need more data so we can understand exactly how we're damaging our own world. CO2, O3 are only two variables in a larger and likely mostly unknown equation...
Then we could terraform Mars and Earth at the same time.
I understand you're talking more generally, and this goes back to the "invest at home, not pie in the sky" debate. I'll leave that for another thread...
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It's very sobering to realize that many of us owe our very existance to Alan Turing.
In the Nova special "Breaking the Code", they speculated that Turing's work probably cut WW2 down by about 2 years. My father was born in 1945, and my Grandfather fought at the Battle of Casino in Italy in 1944.
Without Turing, my Dad might not have even been born (spare me quantum causality arguments about butterfly wings or Churchill sneezing.:)
Turing deserves praise for his work and recognition for how he was abandoned by the UK govt, even if it's posthomously and 50 years after his death.
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Reading other confused posters, I might suggest quoting and italicizing relevant comments in the post you're replying to, particularily if you're pretty sure they're gonna get modded down to -1...:)
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Oh geez, I thought you were replying directly to the parent node of the thread. Sorry about taking your message out of context, that's what I get for browsing at a threshold...
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(don't mod down... take a calm, deep breath... then reply rationally...)
OK, explain to me why homosexuality intrinsicly has to do with "sex" more than hetrosexuality does? It's not like society tries to ban "Titanic" for being a hetrosexual love story, and I'm sure parents took their kids to that movie...
People committing suicide becuase they're ostracized becuase of their orientation is very MUCH something relevant to kids. Hell, gay teens need good role models in movies and on TV.
I don't think anyone's suggesting that we make "Turing Porn" here... it's very easy to portray a character as out without involving "sex".
If you raise kids in a bubble, without teaching them ABOUT sex, drugs, cars, wars, what are they going to do about it when they are confronted with it? They need to be given the time and knowledge to come to an understanding on their own.
Max Headroom was shown on Canada's Bravo network soon after it came out. Already have all the episodes recorded in LP for my time-shifting pleasure.
The best episode by far was #13: Lessons, about cracking down pirated video programming. Children were not allowed to learn because the educational television wasn't paid for, and schools were not free to the public.
SPOILERS AHOY....
The whole thing turns out to be a cover operation for an old fashioned printing press operation, to print real books for kids to read.
It's very 80's of Max to focus so much on how much television will change our society. Sign of the times.. The world could use a lot more freelance journalists like Edison Carter...
If the data were shared amongst a number of supernodes, supernodes were rated with a reliability, and the supernodes had no way of knowing which entries were in fact which user (request with username/password, response with validation and karma points) you MIGHT be able to get around this.
Actually acting as an authentication node was one of the services you could provide to the network
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I've not seen anyone actually state it here, but I can confirm that the most recent IE cumulative patch that came out this morning does indeed patch that rather nasty hole reported earlier this week. I now get a lovely "Permission Denied" Javascript error...
:)
Now.. Seeing that Microsoft got off their butt and fixed the hole in just a few days, what does this have to say about releasing the exploit publicly?
Actually, nix that... the flame war was way too long last time..
Wow... Before this I'd never even heard of fatwallet.com.
:)
Thanks Walmart!
Very very odd. I have the same setup. Fully patched from windowsupdate. But I get hit. We seem to be hitting about 50% here at work.
I wonder what the difference is? Maybe subtle differences in the Bugtraq code?
Well, here goes 2 mod points I spent on this thread...
We've tested this on 4 boxes here. I actually took another variant of this script (the one that wrote a file to your C:\ folder and opened minesweeper) and modified it to run CHKDSK, and put it on my work webserver. The results:
My desktop XP w/ IE6: blammo. It's exactly as they say it is. Brown trousers time.
Co-workers Win2k w/ IE6: no effect. Much as you describe above
WinNT box with IE5.5: blammo. More brown trousers time.
Win98 box with IE5.5: no effect.
While it doesn't seem to work on 100% of machines (Win##'s are immune?) it does seem to work on others.
The script is just 30 lines long, and that's including spacing and comments. Even if MS came out with a quick patch, the amount of damage you could do to 50% of the PC/IE systems out there could be pretty staggering.
Let's hope nobody hacks CNN and replaces their frontpage tonight.
Then screw global warming. I'm buying that SUV
Yea, it will be the only thing powerful enough to carry all the lead shielding...
We already have this in Canada. Out on the west coast, 31 channels were introduced on digital cable (yes, more if you're on sattelite). You can get one channel a la carte for $2/mo, 5 for $6/mo, 10 for $10/mo, and all of them for $20/mo. No, I can't yet choose to keep the older (still analog) TLC and drop Home and Garden TV, but it's a start.
There's also a lot of selection in PPV. Movies for $5 (a bit pricey I think).
What I'd like to see next is the ability to order specific shows on stations you don't subscribe to, for, say, $0.25 a show. All the TV listings are already there in the Digital cable box. I'd be more interested paying for shows than for channels. Take that marketing data to see if a show should stay on the air or not.
And for the record, I've only ordered one channel from the 31.
Is it just me, or is the crackpot image of this group enhanced by the way they use alternatingly larger and smaller fonts throught the web page linked in the article?
The list of features here remind's me of Tom Waits' Step Right Up...
Anyone figure out how to get the full zoomed in version of a map? Zooming in on a screen size version is nice, but is there a way to get the whole image at full resolution?
So only 3 million suns, eh? Assuming most suns in the galaxy are at least 0.1 suns of mass, and there's about 100 million suns in the galaxy, this would at the very best case amount to 20-30% of the galaxy's mass. I'm going to guestimate that this number is a bit more like 3-5%. Can anyone give a more accurate figure as to the mass of the galaxy not measured in Solar Masses? (dark matter and all)
I had always thought that a super-massive black hole might explain that 90% missing mass/dark matter theory. Or does the rotation of the galaxy suggest the matter is evenly distributed instead of being all at the center? Or is it too soon to tell?
A Space Shuttle would need 25 years to travel to Quaoar.
Is that how they're going to be decomissioned?
Was that what Buck Rogers' mission was supposed to be?
People are spending thousands for DENSE LUMPS OF CARBON!?!
:(
I'm sorry, I honestly don't get it. And thank goodness, neither does my wife. We each have a lovely pair of white gold bands, that will easily last our lifetime.... and if they do wear out, we'll buy new ones.
If the what kind of ring you have is going to have any kind of impact on your relationship whatsoever, you're in serious trouble. If you're not sure what her reaction would be, maybe try spending a little more time with the person and get to know them better, cause maybe you're not ready to get engaged yet...
Does it make those WNNNG! WNNNG! SKKKSH! noises lightsabers do?
;)
If so, soon we'll see the likes of Darth Hemos and
Padewan CowboyNeal
Nope, you have to commit to converting your pictures every 10 years or so, and reburning them perhaps every 5 years or so.
I wonder what all that JPG > PNG > JP2 > RSD > PP5 > O99 > QLQ conversion would do after 50 years of conversions... Better to go for lossless compression and not worry about it.
(and if file extensions are still 3 chars after 50 years, yes we can all collectively scream)
How well do facial pattern recognition software work on kids from a database of adult faces?
Usually figuring out if this adult is the same as that adult is no problem... It's finding a picture of a kid that you know he's one of several adults... usually a big problem.
Best way to solve it is to have pictures of two or more kids together. You can almost always figure out who's who by relative age.
Let me tell you.... If you do go the scanner/graphics software route, it's a lot of work.
My wife an I have a Family History Project online: The Arbutus Project (very slashdot susceptable! please go easy!). Try going here to get to the picture index. We've collected genealogical data, as well as choice scanned photos from our own photo albums and that of family members. Audio interviews are just starting, and video is a few years away (my computer's too wimpy)
On of the really cool things is if you do have an indexing system for your whole family (something that comes with a genealogy project, but is a lot of baggage with just a photo project) is that all your families photos become seamless. You can see a photo album for yourself, or for your wife, or for your kids, or for your grandfather, with just a few mouse clicks.
Today's pictures aren't much better than 300dpi, and I've got an old Microtek E6 scanner (bought new, just before the prices dropped). I scan at 300dpi for new, higher for old (when pictures were much better resolution, try looking at them with a magnifying glass.) Try not to cringe if you happen to get those awful square early colour photos with the bumps or hexagonal cells from the 70's. Save 'em all as PNGs, store those to CD for later, then batch them all to a good web size for online viewing.
It is a LOT of work, and I'd suggest that you focus on only the select shots from your albums, perhaps just the best 10%. Most photos are junk anyways. You don't really really need that pic of the cute neighbour kid your grandad grew up with.
Expect it to take several months of work just to get the photos scanned and organized in any fashion.
Costello: Are you the manager?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: And you don't know the fellows' names.
Abbott: Well I should.
Costello: Well then who's on stage?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the band's name.
Abbott: The Who.
Costello: The guys on stage.
Abbott: The Who.
Costello: The first act.
Abbott: The Who.
Costello: The guy playing...
Abbott: Who is on stage!
Costello: I'm asking you who's on Stage.
Abbott: That's the band's name.
Costello: The Who's name?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me.
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: The Who?
Abbott: Yes.
I was actually at the strippers up here in Canada about a month ago. The Strippers were taking $5 (blue) $10 (maroon) and $20 (green) Canadian dollar bills from the crowd. Canada has no paper denominations less than $5.
A couple of Americans, oblivious of the US/CA exchange rate (about 1.5 to 1), were there in the front row with American $1 bills on the stage. FOUR (4) sucsessive strippers totally ignored their money until the fifth one took pity on them after a half hour.
Just goes to show you don't get much bang for a buck.
You do have a point, but a valid counterpoint would be that the research required to attempt to terraform Mars may have a significant positive impact in our ability to modify our own atmosphere.
We've only been terraforming one planet (albeit for the worse) for a few hundred years. We need more data so we can understand exactly how we're damaging our own world. CO2, O3 are only two variables in a larger and likely mostly unknown equation...
Then we could terraform Mars and Earth at the same time.
I understand you're talking more generally, and this goes back to the "invest at home, not pie in the sky" debate. I'll leave that for another thread...
It's very sobering to realize that many of us owe our very existance to Alan Turing.
:)
In the Nova special "Breaking the Code", they speculated that Turing's work probably cut WW2 down by about 2 years. My father was born in 1945, and my Grandfather fought at the Battle of Casino in Italy in 1944.
Without Turing, my Dad might not have even been born (spare me quantum causality arguments about butterfly wings or Churchill sneezing.
Turing deserves praise for his work and recognition for how he was abandoned by the UK govt, even if it's posthomously and 50 years after his death.
Reading other confused posters, I might suggest quoting and italicizing relevant comments in the post you're replying to, particularily if you're pretty sure they're gonna get modded down to -1... :)
Oh geez, I thought you were replying directly to the parent node of the thread. Sorry about taking your message out of context, that's what I get for browsing at a threshold...
(don't mod down... take a calm, deep breath... then reply rationally...)
OK, explain to me why homosexuality intrinsicly has to do with "sex" more than hetrosexuality does? It's not like society tries to ban "Titanic" for being a hetrosexual love story, and I'm sure parents took their kids to that movie...
People committing suicide becuase they're ostracized becuase of their orientation is very MUCH something relevant to kids. Hell, gay teens need good role models in movies and on TV.
I don't think anyone's suggesting that we make "Turing Porn" here... it's very easy to portray a character as out without involving "sex".
If you raise kids in a bubble, without teaching them ABOUT sex, drugs, cars, wars, what are they going to do about it when they are confronted with it? They need to be given the time and knowledge to come to an understanding on their own.
I wonder what I would do with $40 billion?
Make 2000 trips into space on a Soyuz rocket?
That could get a good chunk of the Redmond campus off the planet...
Max Headroom was shown on Canada's Bravo network soon after it came out. Already have all the episodes recorded in LP for my time-shifting pleasure.
The best episode by far was #13: Lessons, about cracking down pirated video programming. Children were not allowed to learn because the educational television wasn't paid for, and schools were not free to the public.
SPOILERS AHOY....
The whole thing turns out to be a cover operation for an old fashioned printing press operation, to print real books for kids to read.
It's very 80's of Max to focus so much on how much television will change our society. Sign of the times.. The world could use a lot more freelance journalists like Edison Carter...
If the data were shared amongst a number of supernodes, supernodes were rated with a reliability, and the supernodes had no way of knowing which entries were in fact which user (request with username/password, response with validation and karma points) you MIGHT be able to get around this.
Actually acting as an authentication node was one of the services you could provide to the network