...you realise that only a poorly-coded game can be used to cheat in multiplayer, right? Any sane coder will keep the game state entirely in the server, so it's impossible to cheat by "hacking" the source at the client's end.
...is that often people will give a piece of software a low rating as a sort of "cry for help" if they can't figure out how to get it to work. Like, "I would've given X a 10/10 rating but I couldn't work out how to make it do Y.".
The World Wide Web has made usability an even bigger and thornier issue; at least with normal applications you can design an interface however you like. When presenting text or a Web-based app, you're much more constrainted by browser bugs and the like.
"While the speculation that SHA-1 is about to fail seems to be overblown, updating the many legacy systems and protocols that rely on MD5 is going to be a massive undertaking."
Any time I've tried to point this out, I've been shouted down by hysterical people (such as relex) squawking that because it may be possible to generate two messages with the same MD5 hash, SHA-1 is automatically broken. Um, no. They're two totally different algorithms. Use some common sense, people. I'm as cautious as the next person but screaming about how "all hash algos are insecure" is hyperbole at its worst.
They have a right to do this. I like Google's services as much as the next person, but I think it's a bit silly to unanimously praise GMail. Google is a company like any other, and I hope this little incident reminds the Google fanboys of that. We need to be wary and responsible.
I'm aware that something that size would almost certainly be totally rocky with next to no atmosphere, but the article doesn't say whether these are gaseous or not. Surely we need to know their composition before sending a probe?
I'm seeing a lot of complaints alleging that Nielsen's site is difficult to use but I think this is just hyperbole that people are stating to try and seem "out of the mould". I think Nielsen hits the hammer on the head; I'll concede that his site isn't the most beautiful in the world but it is perfectly usable with its simple two column design. Nor does it try to be ultrastylish like every other Movable Type blog these days.
Maybe you could've put a bit of meat into the article to explain exactly what the hold up is? Surely Oracle aren't going to leave their customers hanging like this, losing money!
Wasn't there an Ask Slashdot story about someone who wanted to setup a regex search engine? I think he dumped the idea after someone did a regex which would've matched every email address in the engine database.
(I'd link to the story but I couldn't find it. Damn you, Slashdot search!)
...because we all know prison rape is fucking hilarious.
I hate spammers as much as the next person, but calling for the brutal anal rape of Ralsky is disgusting, uncivilized, pointless, and, frankly, disturbing.
If they get the algorithms patented and licence them out to everyone else, what will happen? Well, let's look at some past case studies - namely, the.gif fiasco. Unisys tried to ching-ching-cash in, and where are they now? Everyone will just swip to.tar.bz2.
So you say that every single possible instance of incompetent or just plain malicious system administration should be detected and halted by the operating system? How does an OS know what is best for it? It's like a child: it can't garner enough knowledge for itself to determine what the best course of action is.
90% of all OS problems are caused by the thing between the keyboard and the chair. Software cannot always compensate for human error, especially if said human error is, for example, slight and cumulative! It is folly to assume that software can always account for human error: just look at the Therac-25 accidents.
I can't stand to use some versions of Windows. But I can't understand how a 5% crash statistic with so few details provided regarding it has been twisted out of proportion by Linux zealots. I use Linux, but I am not pro-Microsoft, pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft; I'm a Pragmatic Programmer. I just use the tool that gets the job done most cheaply. So, I go for Linux. If you want to use Windows 2000, congratulations. If you want to use Mac OS X, go ahead. I don't care.
There's no way to be sure that it's necessarily Windows that causes the crash; it could be some badly installed rogue software, viruses, crappy system administration, or all of the above. Though no doubt the reflexive Microsoft bashers will blame Microsoft anyway.
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...you realise that only a poorly-coded game can be used to cheat in multiplayer, right? Any sane coder will keep the game state entirely in the server, so it's impossible to cheat by "hacking" the source at the client's end.
Zonk's link leads to an advertisement on your first clickthrough for some reason. How much is Thurrott paying you guys?
...is that often people will give a piece of software a low rating as a sort of "cry for help" if they can't figure out how to get it to work. Like, "I would've given X a 10/10 rating but I couldn't work out how to make it do Y.".
The World Wide Web has made usability an even bigger and thornier issue; at least with normal applications you can design an interface however you like. When presenting text or a Web-based app, you're much more constrainted by browser bugs and the like.
"While the speculation that SHA-1 is about to fail seems to be overblown, updating the many legacy systems and protocols that rely on MD5 is going to be a massive undertaking."
Any time I've tried to point this out, I've been shouted down by hysterical people (such as relex) squawking that because it may be possible to generate two messages with the same MD5 hash, SHA-1 is automatically broken. Um, no. They're two totally different algorithms. Use some common sense, people. I'm as cautious as the next person but screaming about how "all hash algos are insecure" is hyperbole at its worst.
Full game walkthrough here.
They have a right to do this. I like Google's services as much as the next person, but I think it's a bit silly to unanimously praise GMail. Google is a company like any other, and I hope this little incident reminds the Google fanboys of that. We need to be wary and responsible.
Still, the amount of pain associated with getting broken bones means that I doubt there'll be anyone willing to abuse this system!
I'm aware that something that size would almost certainly be totally rocky with next to no atmosphere, but the article doesn't say whether these are gaseous or not. Surely we need to know their composition before sending a probe?
I'm seeing a lot of complaints alleging that Nielsen's site is difficult to use but I think this is just hyperbole that people are stating to try and seem "out of the mould". I think Nielsen hits the hammer on the head; I'll concede that his site isn't the most beautiful in the world but it is perfectly usable with its simple two column design. Nor does it try to be ultrastylish like every other Movable Type blog these days.
Maybe you could've put a bit of meat into the article to explain exactly what the hold up is? Surely Oracle aren't going to leave their customers hanging like this, losing money!
Wasn't there an Ask Slashdot story about someone who wanted to setup a regex search engine? I think he dumped the idea after someone did a regex which would've matched every email address in the engine database.
(I'd link to the story but I couldn't find it. Damn you, Slashdot search!)
...because we all know prison rape is fucking hilarious. I hate spammers as much as the next person, but calling for the brutal anal rape of Ralsky is disgusting, uncivilized, pointless, and, frankly, disturbing.
...did you know that a British inventor invented a dog doorbell, but couldn't get a patent because a dog used a doorbell in a Beano comic?
...we have client-side spam filtering.
If they get the algorithms patented and licence them out to everyone else, what will happen? Well, let's look at some past case studies - namely, the .gif fiasco. Unisys tried to ching-ching-cash in, and where are they now? Everyone will just swip to .tar.bz2.
So you say that every single possible instance of incompetent or just plain malicious system administration should be detected and halted by the operating system? How does an OS know what is best for it? It's like a child: it can't garner enough knowledge for itself to determine what the best course of action is.
90% of all OS problems are caused by the thing between the keyboard and the chair. Software cannot always compensate for human error, especially if said human error is, for example, slight and cumulative! It is folly to assume that software can always account for human error: just look at the Therac-25 accidents.
I can't stand to use some versions of Windows. But I can't understand how a 5% crash statistic with so few details provided regarding it has been twisted out of proportion by Linux zealots. I use Linux, but I am not pro-Microsoft, pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft; I'm a Pragmatic Programmer. I just use the tool that gets the job done most cheaply. So, I go for Linux. If you want to use Windows 2000, congratulations. If you want to use Mac OS X, go ahead. I don't care.
The problem is that the problem isn't just poorly written programs.
The operating system can't protect against all possible software vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
There's no way to be sure that it's necessarily Windows that causes the crash; it could be some badly installed rogue software, viruses, crappy system administration, or all of the above. Though no doubt the reflexive Microsoft bashers will blame Microsoft anyway.
I haven't been myself recently. Please ignore these last few posts.
I would, but I'm just having too much damn fun.
This is the fuckhead who broke into my account. Get The Fuck Off My Internet YOU HARRY POTTER SLASHFIC READING HIJACKER!!!!