With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content.
That means they haven't sandboxed it yet. But it is good to know that they are taking steps to sandbox it in the future.
Currently I am using Konqueror's whitelist feature to only allow specific sites to use plug-ins. In addition to reducing the risk of Flash being exploited, it avoids a lot of annoying animated ads, without disabling ads altogether and denying sites their revenue stream.
Is that cheating or applying a house rule? When playing a game, you don't necessarily have to play by the book, as long as all players agree on the rules. In the case of Solitaire, "all players" is you.
the "nv" driver, which only does 2D and is open source; this is the one for which support is being discontinued
the "nvidia" driver, which does 3D and all other bells and whistles, but is not open source
the Nouveau driver, which does 2D and is starting to do 3D too; it is being written based on reverse engineered info without any help from nVidia
Since Nouveau is becoming mature enough to be the default nVidia driver in distros now (Fedora was the first, as far as I know), it is not really a loss to see support for the "nv" driver dropped.
The researchers do not claim they can detect pedophiles by the way they type. They claim they can get an accurate estimate of a person's age and several other characteristics. I have no idea whether they actually can, but for the sake of the argument let's assume their algorithm works at least somewhat reliably.
If the 40 year old man of the example creates an account on a site targeting children and discusses cartoons, there is no problem. If he indicates in his profile that he's a 12 year old girl instead of a 40 year old man, that is odd, but it does not have to be malicious. If he then, after lying about his identity, tries to arrange a real-life meeting with a child on the site, there is much cause for concern.
So if such a detection algorithm can tell site moderators which accounts to pay extra attention to, I don't see a problem with that. It should not be used as a trigger to have the police raid his home.
It's not hard to monitor typing into an edit box using JavaScript. The script could compute some kind of typing signature and then send that to the server. Copy-pasting all text is a very odd way of typing and could be flagged.
I doubt such a detection algorithm would be accurate for all people, so they should not start auto-suspending accounts based on this. But it would help if a human moderator gets some hints about which accounts to pay closer attention to, since manually monitoring everything is not feasible.
Well, instead of HD, the MPAA should push for a 1920000*1080000 standard so it will be so large that it's not feasible to download from the line. How they are going to distributed it on disc media is a homework left for the reader.
Unless you have a 2000 inch TV, ultra-high-def is not going to improve the picture quality, so higher res movies would just be scaled down before they are torrented. The upcoming 3D videos will be larger, but by at most a factor 2, so that will not buy them much time.
Accept the fact MPAA! Newspaper didn't die because of the Internet, they just adopt and changes and now I see some newspaper are making money by providing access to the archive, or other link and analysis functions which is not possible with the deadwood media.
I believe you can do something more creative than suing people.
I don't think newspapers are a good example of a successful embrace of the internet. Most of them are struggling to get enough revenue to survive.
However, the newspapers have to compete with legal cheaper-run sites, while at the moment the MPAA is competing with illegal copies of their own movies instead of cheaper independently produced movies. They could saturate the market for on-line movie distribution before they get serious legal competition, but it seems they are even more afraid of competing with their own DVD/Blu-ray sales than of illegal copies, judging by the way they cripple their on-line offers.
I agree that "MAFIAA" does not belong in the summary. The "Mesozoic Era" is a quote from the article though, so that's not something the editor is responsible for.
Unless an article is very short, quoting 80% of it is not fair use. So for now, I think they have every right to take steps against sites making money from their content without compensation.
Yes, I am cynical enough to expect the reasonable 80% limit to be lowered over time until it reaches unreasonable levels. But let's hold the flames until they have actually crossed that line.
If the infringing sites have a robots.txt that tells all crawlers to skip them, they will not show up in search engines. If they single out Attributor's crawler's user agent string, they would look very suspicious.
If you want to give them KDE, OpenSUSE is a good choice, since it has nice KDE integration of OpenOffice and Firefox. And OpenSUSE in general has good quality packaging and regular releases.
It would be used to upload the entire frame at once. And while the texture itself must have power-of-2 sizes, the updated rectangle is not restricted in that way. It is certainly possible that it won't get decent frame rates on the iPhone, but it works fine on desktops, even ones with a weak GPU.
I don't know how Facebook does it specifically, but many sites will give the user a session cookie after entering his/her username and password. All further requests use that session cookie to identify the user. It sounds like a proxy at AT&T served a cached response belonging to someone else and that included a session cookie that was still valid (not logged out or expired).
It may be a bug in the proxy or a bug in the HTTP headers set by Facebook that instruct how a response should be cached. It does show that it is a good idea to use HTTPS when accessing private data, not just for banking. If the site does not offer HTTPS, it is good practice to log out when you're done, so that the server will invalidate the session cookie.
I don't think it still counts as a 0-day at this moment, since the vendor has been informed. I do agree that Firefox would benefit from sandboxing and other extra security measures, but those are no substitution for quick patching.
In my opinion discrete math is useful for almost any kind of programming. Being able to do proofs helps you ensure your programs are correct. Sets and graphs are useful data structures for many different application domains. I work as a software engineer and I don't think I could do my job well without discrete math.
Math analysis is useful when dealing with physics or signal processing (lossy audio/video compression, for example). Vectors are useful for computer graphics and coding theory (crypto and error detection/correction). But it is domain knowledge, in my opinion, not a generic programming background. In other words, when programming in some fields you can't do without it, but in other fields you will never use it.
In practice, the math analysis you need is often already solved for you. For example, for audio/video compression you'll most likely work with existing codecs (from a library or implemented in hardware) instead of writing your own. And it is not recommended to do your own crypto implementation unless you are an expert in the field. Of course someone will have to design the codec and write the crypto library, but unless you actually enjoy analysis enough to study it thoroughly for several years, that person won't be you.
Note that any educational institution you may want to study at in the future might have a different opinion on this, or just require the "hardest" type to get only the bright and/or hard working students, so look into that before you choose.
I did both, by the way, and in my experience discrete math relies more on insight and analysis relies more on practice. I got good grades, but only by doing a lot of exercises: I think my analysis homework took me almost half of my total homework effort.
They promised to never do it again, except in
certain situations. This includes "judicial orders", so this means that if a government outlaws a book, they can not only prohibit future sales, but also make existing copies disappear. It also means that a copyright conflict could still cause a book to be removed, but only after a judge orders it.
Are there companies running betas where the players pay them? When access to the beta is free, players demanding a refund will not be a risk for the company running the beta.
There are some important differences though. Oil is used as an energy source, while lithium is used to store energy. When a battery reaches its end of life, the lithium can be extracted and used to make a new battery.
Also, a rising price of lithium means more lithium ore will become economical to mine. Because extracting oil takes energy, there is a point at which it is not worthwhile to extract the oil since you would have to burn more oil than you extract.
Besides, the price of lithium is currently a very small portion of the price of a battery. The price of lithium could rise to 10 times its current level and batteries would still be affordable. If the price of oil would rise to 10 times its current level, the impact would be huge.
The article seems to assume Android and Chrome OS will converge into a single product. That is one possible way for converging. But another possibility is that they would be built from the same code base, but still have a different UI for different size devices.
Since 2006, more than 11,200 defects in open source programs have been eliminated as a result of using the Coverity Scan service.
While this is good for open source and demonstrates the value of static analysis, it is not surprising that if you fix the issues found, the number of issues remaining will go down.
We naively believed that if we, backed by a big publisher, created a game that was fun, it would be successful. What we failed to recognize was that you have to make games that are easily marketable.
They are saying Frequency and Amplitude were not the commercial successes they had hoped for. I can understand that: the two games have a rather abstract look and the music selection will not suit everyone's taste. However, I love the games because of the look and music selection. And because the different instruments are on separate tracks, which makes for more interesting game play than for example DDR.
The speed of light is 300,000 km/s. If 50 ms is an acceptable latency, 15,000 km can be traveled by the signal. Input events have to travel to the server and the video has to travel back, so the server should be within 7,500 km of the player. This means the server has to be on the same continent, but not necessarily in the same city.
Of course network switches, the game itself and video encoding and decoding add latency, but those are all things that get faster as technology advances.
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From TFA:
With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content.
That means they haven't sandboxed it yet. But it is good to know that they are taking steps to sandbox it in the future.
Currently I am using Konqueror's whitelist feature to only allow specific sites to use plug-ins. In addition to reducing the risk of Flash being exploited, it avoids a lot of annoying animated ads, without disabling ads altogether and denying sites their revenue stream.
Is that cheating or applying a house rule? When playing a game, you don't necessarily have to play by the book, as long as all players agree on the rules. In the case of Solitaire, "all players" is you.
There are 3 drivers for nVidia cards:
Since Nouveau is becoming mature enough to be the default nVidia driver in distros now (Fedora was the first, as far as I know), it is not really a loss to see support for the "nv" driver dropped.
The researchers do not claim they can detect pedophiles by the way they type. They claim they can get an accurate estimate of a person's age and several other characteristics. I have no idea whether they actually can, but for the sake of the argument let's assume their algorithm works at least somewhat reliably.
If the 40 year old man of the example creates an account on a site targeting children and discusses cartoons, there is no problem. If he indicates in his profile that he's a 12 year old girl instead of a 40 year old man, that is odd, but it does not have to be malicious. If he then, after lying about his identity, tries to arrange a real-life meeting with a child on the site, there is much cause for concern.
So if such a detection algorithm can tell site moderators which accounts to pay extra attention to, I don't see a problem with that. It should not be used as a trigger to have the police raid his home.
It's not hard to monitor typing into an edit box using JavaScript. The script could compute some kind of typing signature and then send that to the server. Copy-pasting all text is a very odd way of typing and could be flagged.
I doubt such a detection algorithm would be accurate for all people, so they should not start auto-suspending accounts based on this. But it would help if a human moderator gets some hints about which accounts to pay closer attention to, since manually monitoring everything is not feasible.
Well, instead of HD, the MPAA should push for a 1920000*1080000 standard so it will be so large that it's not feasible to download from the line. How they are going to distributed it on disc media is a homework left for the reader.
Unless you have a 2000 inch TV, ultra-high-def is not going to improve the picture quality, so higher res movies would just be scaled down before they are torrented. The upcoming 3D videos will be larger, but by at most a factor 2, so that will not buy them much time.
Accept the fact MPAA! Newspaper didn't die because of the Internet, they just adopt and changes and now I see some newspaper are making money by providing access to the archive, or other link and analysis functions which is not possible with the deadwood media. I believe you can do something more creative than suing people.
I don't think newspapers are a good example of a successful embrace of the internet. Most of them are struggling to get enough revenue to survive.
However, the newspapers have to compete with legal cheaper-run sites, while at the moment the MPAA is competing with illegal copies of their own movies instead of cheaper independently produced movies. They could saturate the market for on-line movie distribution before they get serious legal competition, but it seems they are even more afraid of competing with their own DVD/Blu-ray sales than of illegal copies, judging by the way they cripple their on-line offers.
I agree that "MAFIAA" does not belong in the summary. The "Mesozoic Era" is a quote from the article though, so that's not something the editor is responsible for.
In my opinion preemptive protests against valid copyright enforcement only weaken the argument against copyright abuse.
Unless an article is very short, quoting 80% of it is not fair use. So for now, I think they have every right to take steps against sites making money from their content without compensation.
Yes, I am cynical enough to expect the reasonable 80% limit to be lowered over time until it reaches unreasonable levels. But let's hold the flames until they have actually crossed that line.
If the infringing sites have a robots.txt that tells all crawlers to skip them, they will not show up in search engines. If they single out Attributor's crawler's user agent string, they would look very suspicious.
If you want to give them KDE, OpenSUSE is a good choice, since it has nice KDE integration of OpenOffice and Firefox. And OpenSUSE in general has good quality packaging and regular releases.
It would be used to upload the entire frame at once. And while the texture itself must have power-of-2 sizes, the updated rectangle is not restricted in that way. It is certainly possible that it won't get decent frame rates on the iPhone, but it works fine on desktops, even ones with a weak GPU.
Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't you have the original software renderer write to an in-memory buffer and then upload that using glTexSubImage2D()?
I don't know how Facebook does it specifically, but many sites will give the user a session cookie after entering his/her username and password. All further requests use that session cookie to identify the user. It sounds like a proxy at AT&T served a cached response belonging to someone else and that included a session cookie that was still valid (not logged out or expired).
It may be a bug in the proxy or a bug in the HTTP headers set by Facebook that instruct how a response should be cached. It does show that it is a good idea to use HTTPS when accessing private data, not just for banking. If the site does not offer HTTPS, it is good practice to log out when you're done, so that the server will invalidate the session cookie.
I don't think it still counts as a 0-day at this moment, since the vendor has been informed. I do agree that Firefox would benefit from sandboxing and other extra security measures, but those are no substitution for quick patching.
In my opinion discrete math is useful for almost any kind of programming. Being able to do proofs helps you ensure your programs are correct. Sets and graphs are useful data structures for many different application domains. I work as a software engineer and I don't think I could do my job well without discrete math.
Math analysis is useful when dealing with physics or signal processing (lossy audio/video compression, for example). Vectors are useful for computer graphics and coding theory (crypto and error detection/correction). But it is domain knowledge, in my opinion, not a generic programming background. In other words, when programming in some fields you can't do without it, but in other fields you will never use it.
In practice, the math analysis you need is often already solved for you. For example, for audio/video compression you'll most likely work with existing codecs (from a library or implemented in hardware) instead of writing your own. And it is not recommended to do your own crypto implementation unless you are an expert in the field. Of course someone will have to design the codec and write the crypto library, but unless you actually enjoy analysis enough to study it thoroughly for several years, that person won't be you.
Note that any educational institution you may want to study at in the future might have a different opinion on this, or just require the "hardest" type to get only the bright and/or hard working students, so look into that before you choose.
I did both, by the way, and in my experience discrete math relies more on insight and analysis relies more on practice. I got good grades, but only by doing a lot of exercises: I think my analysis homework took me almost half of my total homework effort.
They promised to never do it again, except in certain situations. This includes "judicial orders", so this means that if a government outlaws a book, they can not only prohibit future sales, but also make existing copies disappear. It also means that a copyright conflict could still cause a book to be removed, but only after a judge orders it.
Are there companies running betas where the players pay them? When access to the beta is free, players demanding a refund will not be a risk for the company running the beta.
There are some important differences though. Oil is used as an energy source, while lithium is used to store energy. When a battery reaches its end of life, the lithium can be extracted and used to make a new battery.
Also, a rising price of lithium means more lithium ore will become economical to mine. Because extracting oil takes energy, there is a point at which it is not worthwhile to extract the oil since you would have to burn more oil than you extract.
Besides, the price of lithium is currently a very small portion of the price of a battery. The price of lithium could rise to 10 times its current level and batteries would still be affordable. If the price of oil would rise to 10 times its current level, the impact would be huge.
The article seems to assume Android and Chrome OS will converge into a single product. That is one possible way for converging. But another possibility is that they would be built from the same code base, but still have a different UI for different size devices.
You can run a virtual Mac in qemu using the "-M mac" option.
From the press release:
While this is good for open source and demonstrates the value of static analysis, it is not surprising that if you fix the issues found, the number of issues remaining will go down.
From the article:
We naively believed that if we, backed by a big publisher, created a game that was fun, it would be successful. What we failed to recognize was that you have to make games that are easily marketable.
They are saying Frequency and Amplitude were not the commercial successes they had hoped for. I can understand that: the two games have a rather abstract look and the music selection will not suit everyone's taste. However, I love the games because of the look and music selection. And because the different instruments are on separate tracks, which makes for more interesting game play than for example DDR.
The speed of light is 300,000 km/s. If 50 ms is an acceptable latency, 15,000 km can be traveled by the signal. Input events have to travel to the server and the video has to travel back, so the server should be within 7,500 km of the player. This means the server has to be on the same continent, but not necessarily in the same city.
Of course network switches, the game itself and video encoding and decoding add latency, but those are all things that get faster as technology advances.
Do people actually take Top Gear as consumer advice? I watch it for entertainment; I don't even have a car.