A friend of mine, runs his PC "commando": no virus software, no firewall, no patches, nothing. He's non-technical and assumes he is going to get a virus no matter what he does and it's just a waste of time pricking around with all that stuff, so he just reinstalls Windows about once every two months when it starts running slow from the viruses. Well, it's a daring tactic, but it seems to work for him.
Who gives a fuck about the book? Either it's a good film, or it's not. Most science fiction films are made for children, just a big pile of special effects with a moronic plot, and idiotic dialog. So, with that in mind, I robot was above average.
"Charlie Miller... who sold a bug he discovered in the Linux OS to a government contractor for $50,000 dollars, said that choosing whether to sell such an item or give it away for free to Microsoft is a hard decision to make"
Hmm, doesn't sound that hard to me.
Just wondering, what exactly did the government contractor do with the vunerability afterwards?
Sorry, but exception handling *is* for error handling, unless you think it's normal to have errors. You can live without exceptions, but you miss the point. You are forced to use leaves instead of exceptions, which use magic macros. And then there are discriptors and that's only touching the surface. Symbian is quite horrible to work with. Take it some one that's worked with it, all the critism in that artical is fairly accurate. Even trying to make excuses for it, by considering it's age I would say it's a poorly designed OS.
It's not only privacy an issue, your not ment to submit the general public to ionising radiation unnessarily. Doesn't matter if it's "only a little bit", there should be a good reason to force people to have an x-ray. The Christmas bomber if anything, proved that it's not possible to make a bomb out of liquids. This artical: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/ correctly predicted that the would be bomber is more likely to start a fire than an explosion.
Is it appropiate to put the video decode code in the browser in the first place? Media player's use the codecs that are installed on the OS. Presumably if they went this route they get the hardware acceleration that's built into the video card
DEP is not exclusive to IE8. You can enable it system wide if you want. However, DEP is only good for this particular exploit. It's possible to write a exploit that circumvents both DEP and sandboxing
"But Kurtz warned the vulnerability exists in all versions of IE except for IE 5.01, service pack 4, and that it would be possible for attackers to work around the protection."
"Considering that certain other browsers (Firefox and Safari) experience many more security bugs these days, combined with the fact that none of these offer sandboxing, the recommendation does seem a bit odd. " That's because if you actually look at the details you'll see most of those security bugs in Firefox are minor - i.e. don't allow execution of code on users machine.
The artical mentions that "Microsoft itself has been slow to adopt.NET". Why? Well, possibly because, like java it's quite slow. Microsoft did put some.NET bits in their products, for instance Visual studio. Visual Studio is primarily written c++. You can even uninstall the.NET runtime and it will still run. However both the project properies dialog and the macros are written in.NET. It's not any coincidence that both these features are by far the slowest parts of the IDE.
I remeber seeing a Top Gear episode where they tried to see if driving on the real track was as easy on the Playstation and the result was: no. Jeramy drove the same car on the same track and could not get a time that was even close to the Playstation time.
What exactly do they mean by "threw at it the next 10 virus/worm samples that came in the door"? How, exactly, did the viruses get on the machine? opening mail attachment? viewing website in ie? msn? wmp? running naked exe? or just connecting to internet?
Only big companies were allowed to make N-Gage games, and that shut out the indies. Also, they tried to implement a very complicated platform on very slow and buggy devices (like the N73). Even EA critisied the N-gage platform: http://www.t3.com/news/nokia-n-gage-summit-ea-point-out-the-problems?=37094
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I heard that there was almost no gun control in the country
A friend of mine, runs his PC "commando": no virus software, no firewall, no patches, nothing. He's non-technical and assumes he is going to get a virus no matter what he does and it's just a waste of time pricking around with all that stuff, so he just reinstalls Windows about once every two months when it starts running slow from the viruses. Well, it's a daring tactic, but it seems to work for him.
Why bother striking them out then if they're uninforcable? All you are doing is pissing off your potential employer.
I heard NASA are engaging in a new project far more ambicious than the colonisation of the moon:
http://punchbaby.com/2010/02/nasa-scientists-plan-to-approach-girl-by-2018/
A better question would be "who wants video calls?"
Maybe Vista and 7 support it, but 70% of all PCs are still using Windows XP.
Who gives a fuck about the book? Either it's a good film, or it's not. Most science fiction films are made for children, just a big pile of special effects with a moronic plot, and idiotic dialog. So, with that in mind, I robot was above average.
Pretty lame actually. This is actually much better: http://www.johnmortell.com/2009/09/04/hitler-responds-to-all-those-downfall-clips/
"Charlie Miller ... who sold a bug he discovered in the Linux OS to a government contractor for $50,000 dollars, said that choosing whether to sell such an item or give it away for free to Microsoft is a hard decision to make"
Hmm, doesn't sound that hard to me.
Just wondering, what exactly did the government contractor do with the vunerability afterwards?
Sorry, but exception handling *is* for error handling, unless you think it's normal to have errors. You can live without exceptions, but you miss the point. You are forced to use leaves instead of exceptions, which use magic macros. And then there are discriptors and that's only touching the surface. Symbian is quite horrible to work with. Take it some one that's worked with it, all the critism in that artical is fairly accurate.
Even trying to make excuses for it, by considering it's age I would say it's a poorly designed OS.
Symbian must be one of the worst designed OSs in existance
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/6856C375-FE4E-4BC8-B753-B48AF3BD8B30.html
I thought Windows media player has being doing that all along since Windows xp came out?
No, but the benchmarks are, in other words this new CPU will be ideal for running benchmarks ;-)
It's not only privacy an issue, your not ment to submit the general public to ionising radiation unnessarily. Doesn't matter if it's "only a little bit", there should be a good reason to force people to have an x-ray.
The Christmas bomber if anything, proved that it's not possible to make a bomb out of liquids. This artical: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/ correctly predicted that the would be bomber is more likely to start a fire than an explosion.
They've being trying to hack this thing for 3 years without any success and then this guy comes along and does it within 5 weeks.
Is it appropiate to put the video decode code in the browser in the first place? Media player's use the codecs that are installed on the OS. Presumably if they went this route they get the hardware acceleration that's built into the video card
DEP is not exclusive to IE8. You can enable it system wide if you want. However, DEP is only good for this particular exploit. It's possible to write a exploit that circumvents both DEP and sandboxing
Actually, IE5 is the only version not effected. You should be downgrading not upgrading.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/cyber_assault_followup/
"But Kurtz warned the vulnerability exists in all versions of IE except for IE 5.01, service pack 4, and that it would be possible for attackers to work around the protection."
"Considering that certain other browsers (Firefox and Safari) experience many more security bugs these days, combined with the fact that none of these offer sandboxing, the recommendation does seem a bit odd. "
That's because if you actually look at the details you'll see most of those security bugs in Firefox are minor - i.e. don't allow execution of code on users machine.
I prefer open standards, but unfortunately OpenGL is proof that design by committee doesn't work. There was a lot of negative discussion when infamous OpenGL 3.0 API was released: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=504547
Also this video is quite a laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sddv3d-w5p4
The artical mentions that "Microsoft itself has been slow to adopt .NET". Why? Well, possibly because, like java it's quite slow. Microsoft did put some .NET bits in their products, for instance Visual studio. Visual Studio is primarily written c++. You can even uninstall the .NET runtime and it will still run. However both the project properies dialog and the macros are written in .NET. It's not any coincidence that both these features are by far the slowest parts of the IDE.
I remeber seeing a Top Gear episode where they tried to see if driving on the real track was as easy on the Playstation and the result was: no. Jeramy drove the same car on the same track and could not get a time that was even close to the Playstation time.
> Also why Apple didn't go AMD
Yet Apple have dumped Nvidia and are now using AMD GPUs
What exactly do they mean by "threw at it the next 10 virus/worm samples that came in the door"?
How, exactly, did the viruses get on the machine?
opening mail attachment?
viewing website in ie?
msn?
wmp?
running naked exe?
or just connecting to internet?
Only big companies were allowed to make N-Gage games, and that shut out the indies. Also, they tried to implement a very complicated platform on very slow and buggy devices (like the N73).
Even EA critisied the N-gage platform: http://www.t3.com/news/nokia-n-gage-summit-ea-point-out-the-problems?=37094