That's because it's not a bug in any one browser, it's a bug in the way the Help application (which is invoked by the OS and any browser that uses the standard API to handle help: URLs) handles those URLs. This bug is the same concept as an SQL injection attack.
You have the right to speak. You do not have the right to choose the manner, place, method, or medium through which you speak.
Also, you can't simply "vote out" the President. Only the rest of the government can do that, through the impeachment process. The election will take place in November just like every other presidential election the US has ever had.
Multiplayer mode is not nearly as popular as multiplayer game players think it is. There are a vast number of Halo, Myth, and Marathon players who have never tried MP and may not be aware that it exists. Gamers who are active on the Internet remain an extremely vocal minority.
The rise of Xbox tunnelling programs like XBConnect. This made Halo's multiplayer accessible to a vastly greater number of people than it would be if it really was limited to LAN play only. These programs appeared well after Halo was released and it's easy to believe that they took the original developers by surprise.
I don' think it would be too hard to design a medium which could last essentially forever (MO disks?), but the catch is that you also have to have an operational media reader, which is a far more complex and delicate item. At the very least you could preserve the design and specification for the media reader on paper, but then reading the media becomes a very expensive operation if you have to rebuild the reader from scratch.
Hard disks don't fail because something happens to the magnetic disks, they fail from other points but often destroy the physical disks in the process (head crash).
I don't think this device will have the same problem, because it can't be used to voluntarily summon assistance. It sounds more like an aid for the search process that begins once the person is declared missing.
I believe it's just a question of efficiency. An encrypted song would take a great deal of CPU to simultaneously decrypt, decompress, and play back. A DRMed song is largely identical to a non-DRMed copy, except for a small amount of encrypted critical data that prevents the player from just ignoring the DRM test.
Any store that requires that limit would not be able to load its music onto portable players and would have no chance in the market Apple currently dominates, and not having to authenticate for each play (i.e. not subscription or rental model) was a major feature Apple used to push the store initially and I doubt it will change.
Correct, there are no restrictions on what email you can use and no limit on playing back songs without a.Mac or ITMS account. The only thing you'd need the store account for in the future is authorizing a new computer to play purchased songs.
Those issues are probably miniscule compared to the cost of running Ethernet to every seat in the airplane (this is being retrofitted into existing planes, not brand-new ones).
I really wish people would stop being amazed at that. What's obviously going on is that the site has been slashdotted by subscribers who see the article before us freeloaders, as the front page constantly reminds us.
If lasers have been a "finished" technology for a long time, why did it take until 2004 to develop this weapon? There's always room for an unexpected breakthrough.
Now that the knowledge is out there, someone will build it eventually. Hopefully it will be built by a country or organization not likely to use it for evil right off the bat.
Because becoming an expert in this field is a full-time job. That's why IT is a profession. You're not an expert electrician or carpenter or bricklayer or plumber (and even if you are one of those, I doubt you're 2 or 3 of them) and you still live in a modern house. Why do you call in contractors to modify that house when it's only a matter of buying some lumber and pounding nails into the right places?
All too often, searching for that save point results in blundering into what was supposed to be the challenge that that save point would let you repeatedly attempt. Also, the save points tended to be quite far back from said challenge (usually a boss), requiring you to repeatedly run the same jumping puzzle and defeat the same bunch of enemies to get back to the boss and try again.
Why not? Nvidia had a virtual monopoly between the time 3dfx folded and the time the Radeon came out; back when the TNT2 and Geforce 1 were the undisputed performance champions by a large margin. More recently, Nvidia pissed off a lot of people with the Geforce 4 MX and the underwhelming FX series. The X800 and the 6800 are virtually neck and neck as far as performance goes, but the X800 seems to have much better ancillary features (power and cooling reqs, image quality). That could easily give 20% of the market to ATI, which would put them over the top as predicted.
For those 2 weeks, Nvidia is established as "the fast card" among the early adopters and hardcore gamers who buy a new graphics card every 6 months. This is an important market segment as they buy far more graphics cards than everyone else. They'll also get people who haven't upgraded in a while and think their current card is too slow so they're already looking for a new card but didn't think the previous generation was worth buying. ATI doesn't have enough of a lead over Nvidia to convince people to wait for their releases.
Possibly because encouraging companies to uninstall each other's software is a dangerous precedent. Who's in charge of deciding what's spyware? And it would be easy to slippery-slope one's way into a situation where Windows or BIOSes would only run code signed by a central authority.
I suspect the primary computer was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We used to be the #3 target on the USSR's strike list due to NCSA headquarters and a large amount of hardware being kept there.
It's possible to do all that's reasonable and still have some people free for other tasks. Should we pull beat cops and traffic cops off the streets and send them after terrorists? Mugging, rape, burglary, GTA, DWI, gang activity, all those pale compared to terrorism, right? The country's law enforcement agencies are fighting a battle on a huge number of fronts and isn't devoting 100% of its resources to any single one of them.
Strongly seconded... It's not like laptops themselves can get much smaller and still have usable screens and keyboards, so they may as well fill the remaining space with battery. I'd be much happier with a laptop that ran an hour longer than one that was a half-pound lighter.
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That's because it's not a bug in any one browser, it's a bug in the way the Help application (which is invoked by the OS and any browser that uses the standard API to handle help: URLs) handles those URLs. This bug is the same concept as an SQL injection attack.
You have the right to speak. You do not have the right to choose the manner, place, method, or medium through which you speak.
Also, you can't simply "vote out" the President. Only the rest of the government can do that, through the impeachment process. The election will take place in November just like every other presidential election the US has ever had.
America's Army was developed by, and is owned by, the US army itself. There was no third party involved here, the stunt was run directly by the Army.
I don' think it would be too hard to design a medium which could last essentially forever (MO disks?), but the catch is that you also have to have an operational media reader, which is a far more complex and delicate item. At the very least you could preserve the design and specification for the media reader on paper, but then reading the media becomes a very expensive operation if you have to rebuild the reader from scratch.
Hard disks don't fail because something happens to the magnetic disks, they fail from other points but often destroy the physical disks in the process (head crash).
I don't think this device will have the same problem, because it can't be used to voluntarily summon assistance. It sounds more like an aid for the search process that begins once the person is declared missing.
That argument may apply to Mickey Mouse, but not to a song made in the past, say, 5 years. There, the "incentive to create" argument still holds.
I believe it's just a question of efficiency. An encrypted song would take a great deal of CPU to simultaneously decrypt, decompress, and play back. A DRMed song is largely identical to a non-DRMed copy, except for a small amount of encrypted critical data that prevents the player from just ignoring the DRM test.
Any store that requires that limit would not be able to load its music onto portable players and would have no chance in the market Apple currently dominates, and not having to authenticate for each play (i.e. not subscription or rental model) was a major feature Apple used to push the store initially and I doubt it will change.
Correct, there are no restrictions on what email you can use and no limit on playing back songs without a .Mac or ITMS account. The only thing you'd need the store account for in the future is authorizing a new computer to play purchased songs.
It won't work at all because it will be for x86.
As far as I know, doom 3 will be a simultaneous release for all 3 platforms and the submitter didn't bother to mention the Mac.
Those issues are probably miniscule compared to the cost of running Ethernet to every seat in the airplane (this is being retrofitted into existing planes, not brand-new ones).
You forgot to mention the third category: People who will never, ever be ripped off on eBay because they don't use it.
Gmail doesn't work on Windows 3.1 either, I bet. Sorry, but OS 9 really is obsolete and unsupported even by its parent company.
The site is already Slashdotted (with 1 comment!)
I really wish people would stop being amazed at that. What's obviously going on is that the site has been slashdotted by subscribers who see the article before us freeloaders, as the front page constantly reminds us.
If lasers have been a "finished" technology for a long time, why did it take until 2004 to develop this weapon? There's always room for an unexpected breakthrough.
If a terrorist sprays you with anthrax and you infect a bunch of other people while running around in panic, are you a terrorist too?
Now that the knowledge is out there, someone will build it eventually. Hopefully it will be built by a country or organization not likely to use it for evil right off the bat.
Because becoming an expert in this field is a full-time job. That's why IT is a profession. You're not an expert electrician or carpenter or bricklayer or plumber (and even if you are one of those, I doubt you're 2 or 3 of them) and you still live in a modern house. Why do you call in contractors to modify that house when it's only a matter of buying some lumber and pounding nails into the right places?
All too often, searching for that save point results in blundering into what was supposed to be the challenge that that save point would let you repeatedly attempt. Also, the save points tended to be quite far back from said challenge (usually a boss), requiring you to repeatedly run the same jumping puzzle and defeat the same bunch of enemies to get back to the boss and try again.
Why not? Nvidia had a virtual monopoly between the time 3dfx folded and the time the Radeon came out; back when the TNT2 and Geforce 1 were the undisputed performance champions by a large margin. More recently, Nvidia pissed off a lot of people with the Geforce 4 MX and the underwhelming FX series. The X800 and the 6800 are virtually neck and neck as far as performance goes, but the X800 seems to have much better ancillary features (power and cooling reqs, image quality). That could easily give 20% of the market to ATI, which would put them over the top as predicted.
For those 2 weeks, Nvidia is established as "the fast card" among the early adopters and hardcore gamers who buy a new graphics card every 6 months. This is an important market segment as they buy far more graphics cards than everyone else. They'll also get people who haven't upgraded in a while and think their current card is too slow so they're already looking for a new card but didn't think the previous generation was worth buying. ATI doesn't have enough of a lead over Nvidia to convince people to wait for their releases.
Possibly because encouraging companies to uninstall each other's software is a dangerous precedent. Who's in charge of deciding what's spyware? And it would be easy to slippery-slope one's way into a situation where Windows or BIOSes would only run code signed by a central authority.
I suspect the primary computer was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We used to be the #3 target on the USSR's strike list due to NCSA headquarters and a large amount of hardware being kept there.
It's possible to do all that's reasonable and still have some people free for other tasks. Should we pull beat cops and traffic cops off the streets and send them after terrorists? Mugging, rape, burglary, GTA, DWI, gang activity, all those pale compared to terrorism, right? The country's law enforcement agencies are fighting a battle on a huge number of fronts and isn't devoting 100% of its resources to any single one of them.
Strongly seconded... It's not like laptops themselves can get much smaller and still have usable screens and keyboards, so they may as well fill the remaining space with battery. I'd be much happier with a laptop that ran an hour longer than one that was a half-pound lighter.