she'd repeatedly reply with "No Mac has ever been hacked or had a virus on it." Now, at the time, I was a young nooblet and probably should have let it slide but instead I snuck into her office and opened up her Macintosh's word editing software
However, Apple's installer package does not offer the option of a user-local installation. Which means that users have long been being trained to type their admin passwords when a little window pops up asking them to. This design will certainly come back to bite Apple in the ass. Worse, one of the common OS X security paradigms is to ask the user for an admin password twice in a row -- once to setuid a helper tool (performed once per installation), and once to authorise use of a setuid helper tool (performed every time the permission is required). If someone were to write a program which sits on the window server looking out for something which looks like an auth window, then pops up an identical one, they would be able to collect admin passwords (and therefore root access) without any trouble whatsoever.
You obviously have no idea whatsoever how long a period of 50ms lasts.
I'll give you a clue: there are 20 of them in every single second.
So you could decide whether you fancy five women and five meals, give five snap decisions of guilt, and still have time to purposefully surf through five channels in a single second?
Just like the article's author, you need to read up on persistence of vision sometime.
BTW, the average transaction cost (for the banks) on an ATM machine is 4 cents (total, for both banks). And here (in Philadelphia) you cannot really find ATM machines less then 1.25 - and the ones near me (center city) range from 1.75-2.75.
The same way they knew that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone's favourite oxymoron, "military intelligence".
Nothing to see here. They're just turning up the sensititivity on your yellow peril-sensitive field-glasses. Don't forget when we're at war with Eurasia, you heard it here first!
if this is a technical group discussing fairly technical issues with some accuracy, "Its" is possessive "It's," like "don't," is an abbreviation It can be an awkward subject one more simple rule than you can OR one simple rule better than you can Misusing "which" and "that," etc., follows. Like many here I write code every day
Hope this helps. Not sure it'll help the credibility of the "content of your expression";)
No. YOUR metaphor was not adequate for reasons too obvious for me to even point out here.
I know this is Slashdot, but do you really think you're fooling anyone here? Seriously, if anyone was previously in doubt that you had no argument, saying stuff like this leaves them with no doubt.
For those curious, there is a real theory behind warp drive... it doesn't work quite the same way as on star trek... but the basic idea is to compress space as you move through it, so that you never violate speed of light constraints, but can still move at apparent velocities several times the speed of light... this idea would, of course, require the ability to build quite sophisticated gravity fields. In fact, in the case of warp drive, far more sophisticated than those required to just hold feet to a floor...
And if anyone doubts we'll ever be able to build such gravity fields... remember that the only power source capable of generating one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning!
What you say is true; yet a spacerocket does also manipulate gravity, as it alters the amount of gravitional attraction exerted by the earth on the rocket and vice versa... requiring chemical energy to be converted into force to do so.
If you deliberately leave some ads unblocked because you don't want all ads to disappear, you can't really make the analogy to environment any more -- that would be like God making Mauritius inaccessible to humans because he didn't want dodos to become extinct, or like a zookeeper keeping lions out of the panda cage. But yes, shortly after I posted that comment I realised that your path 1 is indeed natural selection.
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she'd repeatedly reply with "No Mac has ever been hacked or had a virus on it." Now, at the time, I was a young nooblet and probably should have let it slide but instead I snuck into her office and opened up her Macintosh's word editing software
So, um, you "hacked" her office, but not her Mac.
To a certain extent.
However, Apple's installer package does not offer the option of a user-local installation. Which means that users have long been being trained to type their admin passwords when a little window pops up asking them to. This design will certainly come back to bite Apple in the ass. Worse, one of the common OS X security paradigms is to ask the user for an admin password twice in a row -- once to setuid a helper tool (performed once per installation), and once to authorise use of a setuid helper tool (performed every time the permission is required). If someone were to write a program which sits on the window server looking out for something which looks like an auth window, then pops up an identical one, they would be able to collect admin passwords (and therefore root access) without any trouble whatsoever.
I submit that your motivation is to engage people in pointless debate. This is widely known as "trolling".
You obviously have no idea whatsoever how long a period of 50ms lasts.
I'll give you a clue: there are 20 of them in every single second.
So you could decide whether you fancy five women and five meals, give five snap decisions of guilt, and still have time to purposefully surf through five channels in a single second?
Just like the article's author, you need to read up on persistence of vision sometime.
What, $2? $5? When did Apple become Dell / Wal-Mart?
If your line of sight is broken, so is your control. But I did just think of a good reason: battery life.
Can somebody please explain to me why the Apple Remote still uses IR and not Bluetooth?
I feel sure that there must be some reason, even if it isn't a very good one. But I can't think of a thing.
Okay buddy, we're right behind you!
Because I can't really see any other explanation for those profits than price-fixing.
Nothing to see here. They're just turning up the sensititivity on your yellow peril-sensitive field-glasses. Don't forget when we're at war with Eurasia, you heard it here first!
if this is a technical group
discussing fairly technical issues
with some accuracy,
"Its" is possessive
"It's," like "don't," is an abbreviation
It can be an awkward subject
one more simple rule than you can OR one simple rule better than you can
Misusing "which" and "that," etc., follows.
Like many here I write code every day
Hope this helps. Not sure it'll help the credibility of the "content of your expression"
Man, when I read attitudes like this, I just think that peak oil can't come quick enough. Message from the gene pool: nice knowin' ya!
I know this is Slashdot, but do you really think you're fooling anyone here? Seriously, if anyone was previously in doubt that you had no argument, saying stuff like this leaves them with no doubt.
Do you understand the difference between can/can't and will/won't?
Have you never ordered a gin and tonic from a giraffe (if you get my gist)?
Gigawatt / gigabyte / gigaflop comes from the same root as giant / gigantic. Do you say "guy-gantic"?
And if anyone doubts we'll ever be able to build such gravity fields... remember that the only power source capable of generating one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning!
What you say is true; yet a spacerocket does also manipulate gravity, as it alters the amount of gravitional attraction exerted by the earth on the rocket and vice versa... requiring chemical energy to be converted into force to do so.
A rocket engine is a gravity manipulation device.
And then... the final twist.
No work to do, yet no internet connection? I wouldn't call that "sweet"!
If you deliberately leave some ads unblocked because you don't want all ads to disappear, you can't really make the analogy to environment any more -- that would be like God making Mauritius inaccessible to humans because he didn't want dodos to become extinct, or like a zookeeper keeping lions out of the panda cage. But yes, shortly after I posted that comment I realised that your path 1 is indeed natural selection.
acknowledge exceptions at your leisure.
Your grasp of statistics is unfortunately lacking.