But that's nothing new. I'm not into web developing and I haven't read very much on the subject. Yet, I remember having often seen (gr?) warnings that one should always validate one's input.
From the article, it sounds like it is practically impossible to defend efficiently agains cross-site scripting. It can't be that hard, it just seems to me web developers just don't pay enough attention to the matter.
And I'm still wondering why the guy thinks Hotmail has better filters than other websites. Judging on the security flaws discovered, I would never consider Hotmail to be the most secure site known to mankind.
"I targeted Hotmail because Microsoft currently has the best filters, [...] If you find a hole in Hotmail, you've found one that will get through filters everywhere."
I don't understand exactly what this cross-site scripting is all about and how it can defeat firewalls etc, but does it really mean that all websites are even less secure than Hotmail??
Ahh but us programmers like our gui's to work they way we want them to. That means our gui's meet the needs of programmers.
Indeed. And we have to ask ourselves the question: do we really want a uniform desktop environment, useable by Joe Sixpack, his mother-in-law and his kids? Or do we want a desktop environment that fits *our* needs and *our* wishes?
Both, presumably (we want choice!), but that is in contradiction with the uniformity.
The biggest problem with that is that these people don't know what they want, they only know what their used too.
Good point. I don't think KDE or Gnome is that much less intuitive compared to Windows. It is different, and that makes them harder for people switching from Windows, but I think the learning curve for novice users is comparable with the one for Windows. For simply using the computer that is; when it comes to installing new software and other system administration tasks, Windows is still easier for Joe Sixpack.
CD's don't spin at constant speed. You can easily see this for yourself if you have a CD player where you can see the CD spinning. It spins much faster when playing tracks close to the center of the CD.
If you run DX 8.0 you won't be able to play older DX games. If you bought every version of TombRaider ( dear god, why? ), and installed DX 8.0 you would be able to play only the last version.
That's not my understanding of how DX works, and what you say is also not confirmed by my experience.
DirectX uses COM objects. As someone said before, correct use of COM objects guarantees backwards compatibility: if you make changes that would render the interface incompatible, you have to create a new interface, while the old one is still available.
One thing that confuses me is, wouldn't it need to be in a gaseous environment to be able to propel itself?
Either I misunderstood you (perfectly possible) or you are one of the many people who believe jet engines need something to push against. This is a false believe. Jet engines and rocket engines work because they burn fuel, the fuel expands, and produces force agains the walls of the combustion chamber. It does so more on the front than on the back, because there is a hole in the back against which it obviously doesn't exercise any pressure. Net result is a force in the forward direction.
In Flanders, Belgium, the (almost) only cable internet provider is Pandora, and they block ALL incoming ports under 1024. You're not allowed to run servers on their network anyway, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
They also block outgoing port 80, so you HAVE to use their proxy.
Thomas Greene from The Register is one of Gibson's loudest opponents on the matter. In this article in The Register you can find a recording of a radio show featuring Gibson and Greene debating on the matter.
If you're impatient, check this transcript of the debate. It's a bit of a parody, but it quite accuretaly reflects the debate.
Raw sockets exist in Windows 2000, and I assume that it has a bit to do with the FreeBSD code in the TCP/IP stack... This code has helped to make Win 2k far more stable on a network than its predicessor, IMO. If they are such of a problem, why not acuse Linux or FreeBSD of the same problem...
A valid question, and a possible answer could be that Linux and FreeBSD, and also W2K normally, are not run by the superuser all the time, which somewhat restricts the efficiency of worms and viruses.
It is simply sufficient to limit user privilages and require them to export the attatchments before they can be run.
No... By default, everyone and everything runs in the superuser account in Windows XP. Silly, insecure, but MS doesn't want to restrict its market share to people who have at least a bit of system administration knowledge. Not many Joe Sixpacks will understand messages like 'Sorry, you need Administrator privileges to install this program'...
The Pixel Shader technology will be backwards compatable as far as the DirectX 8.0 API is concerned.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that it will run at maximum performance in all conditions. Perhaps it is something like this:
if the game uses PixelShader 1.3, the nVidia runs at its maximum speed since it natively supports it. The ATI performs suboptimally.
if the game uses PixelShader 1.4, ATI performs optimally. But now the game uses features that the nVidia doesn't support, so DirectX uses software emulation for those features... bye bye high performance.
I don't know why, but starting KDE apps on my system takes way too much time. Konqueror takes forever, even the media player takes seconds and seconds. Not only the first time, but subsequent closing and reopening is also very slow, while I would suspect it would be much faster because everything is in the cache. I have an Athlon T-bird 700 and 384MB of RAM, so that shouldn't be a problem. WinME (yikes) and W2K both run much much smoother than KDE. Non-KDE apps start faster too, even when run in KDE.
Also, but I suspect it is more an X-problem than a KDE-problem, my mouse moves very coarse. Absolutely not smooth, while it is perfect in Windows.
I do like Linux, even a lot, but I hate it when it makes my machine look like it's 10 years old.
When I first heard about this project, I thought they used the kite to get the top of the obelisk up, but apparently they only use it for traction. Nothing that could not be done by x slaves and/or y horses at the time.
I think the bigger problem would be to raise the supporting construction, make it strong enough (I suppose they would have made it in wood, not steel). And, indeed, the strong rope and efficient pulleys.
Yeah... WinME had that too, they said. Indeed, my fresh install of WinME booted quite fast. But after a few installations of software packages, video drivers and so on, it boots as slowly as Windows 98.
Now the only thing left to do is tell the aliens to stop sending radio waves and start pointing their powerful lasers at Earth.
Shouldn't we better start to emit that kind of laser beams ourselves? In case another civilization has a similar kind of SETI project running?
I mean, what are the chances of aliens sending exactly the kind of radiation we are detecting? How can we be sure they are sending any radiation at all?
Someone always has to be first. If the first 42 don't post and/or get killed, you are the first and you will get killed. Sorry, it was nice to know you.
With all due respect, I think you are misunderstanding the comparison. Fuel cells are not an alternative for oil, or any other fuel. They USE fuel (hydrogen), and convert the chemical energy in it to electrical energy.
As a matter of fact, that hydrogen has to come from somewhere. We don't find it in nature, so we have to produce it. By using other sources of energy, such as fossil fuels, solar energy or whatever.
It's like all those people thinking that it would be a great idea to put wind turbines on the car. The faster you drive, they think, the more wind you produce, the faster the turbines turn, and the faster you can drive.
It's a very doubtful approach, if you ask me. As I understand, there has not been much research to the effects of this on the ocean's ecosystem; but I think it could have heavy influence.
More phytoplankton means more absorbance of sunlight, means the ocean's layer where photosyntheses is possible (forgot the name of it, my Marine Ecology classes are too long ago) gets much thinner.
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Not harder than in the US.
You know, having been tested is not enough. What you need is something that has been tested with positive results.
But that's nothing new. I'm not into web developing and I haven't read very much on the subject. Yet, I remember having often seen (gr?) warnings that one should always validate one's input.
From the article, it sounds like it is practically impossible to defend efficiently agains cross-site scripting. It can't be that hard, it just seems to me web developers just don't pay enough attention to the matter.
And I'm still wondering why the guy thinks Hotmail has better filters than other websites. Judging on the security flaws discovered, I would never consider Hotmail to be the most secure site known to mankind.
I don't understand exactly what this cross-site scripting is all about and how it can defeat firewalls etc, but does it really mean that all websites are even less secure than Hotmail??
Indeed. And we have to ask ourselves the question: do we really want a uniform desktop environment, useable by Joe Sixpack, his mother-in-law and his kids? Or do we want a desktop environment that fits *our* needs and *our* wishes?
Both, presumably (we want choice!), but that is in contradiction with the uniformity.
The biggest problem with that is that these people don't know what they want, they only know what their used too.
Good point. I don't think KDE or Gnome is that much less intuitive compared to Windows. It is different, and that makes them harder for people switching from Windows, but I think the learning curve for novice users is comparable with the one for Windows. For simply using the computer that is; when it comes to installing new software and other system administration tasks, Windows is still easier for Joe Sixpack.CD's don't spin at constant speed. You can easily see this for yourself if you have a CD player where you can see the CD spinning. It spins much faster when playing tracks close to the center of the CD.
That's not my understanding of how DX works, and what you say is also not confirmed by my experience.
DirectX uses COM objects. As someone said before, correct use of COM objects guarantees backwards compatibility: if you make changes that would render the interface incompatible, you have to create a new interface, while the old one is still available.
Either I misunderstood you (perfectly possible) or you are one of the many people who believe jet engines need something to push against. This is a false believe. Jet engines and rocket engines work because they burn fuel, the fuel expands, and produces force agains the walls of the combustion chamber. It does so more on the front than on the back, because there is a hole in the back against which it obviously doesn't exercise any pressure. Net result is a force in the forward direction.
They also block outgoing port 80, so you HAVE to use their proxy.
Don't know about OEM installs, I always install my OS'ses myself, and I never enable automatic logins if I get the choice.
If you're impatient, check this transcript of the debate. It's a bit of a parody, but it quite accuretaly reflects the debate.
A valid question, and a possible answer could be that Linux and FreeBSD, and also W2K normally, are not run by the superuser all the time, which somewhat restricts the efficiency of worms and viruses.
It is simply sufficient to limit user privilages and require them to export the attatchments before they can be run.
No... By default, everyone and everything runs in the superuser account in Windows XP. Silly, insecure, but MS doesn't want to restrict its market share to people who have at least a bit of system administration knowledge. Not many Joe Sixpacks will understand messages like 'Sorry, you need Administrator privileges to install this program'...
But that doesn't necessarily mean that it will run at maximum performance in all conditions. Perhaps it is something like this:
Also, but I suspect it is more an X-problem than a KDE-problem, my mouse moves very coarse. Absolutely not smooth, while it is perfect in Windows.
I do like Linux, even a lot, but I hate it when it makes my machine look like it's 10 years old.
When I first heard about this project, I thought they used the kite to get the top of the obelisk up, but apparently they only use it for traction. Nothing that could not be done by x slaves and/or y horses at the time.
I think the bigger problem would be to raise the supporting construction, make it strong enough (I suppose they would have made it in wood, not steel). And, indeed, the strong rope and efficient pulleys.
Yeah... WinME had that too, they said. Indeed, my fresh install of WinME booted quite fast. But after a few installations of software packages, video drivers and so on, it boots as slowly as Windows 98.
Very true, but there was a cartridge available with 'Extended BASIC', which was a big improvement.
I don't remember very well, but I thought you could use only 8 sprites simultaneously. Am I wrong, or was it maybe a software limit?
Shouldn't we better start to emit that kind of laser beams ourselves? In case another civilization has a similar kind of SETI project running?
I mean, what are the chances of aliens sending exactly the kind of radiation we are detecting? How can we be sure they are sending any radiation at all?
Someone always has to be first. If the first 42 don't post and/or get killed, you are the first and you will get killed. Sorry, it was nice to know you.
There are more of these than you seem to think, especially in the marine terminology. Unfortunately, I can't think of any right now.
An example in an unrelated area is "mannequin", which is derived from old Dutch "mannekijn" ("manneke", "mannetje", little man).
I'm sure there are others, I just can't think of them now.
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without any redirection whatsoever.
There are lots of different strains of Escherichia Coli, some good, some bad. This micro-organism is very well known since it is easy to research.
As a matter of fact, that hydrogen has to come from somewhere. We don't find it in nature, so we have to produce it. By using other sources of energy, such as fossil fuels, solar energy or whatever.
Go figure.
More phytoplankton means more absorbance of sunlight, means the ocean's layer where photosyntheses is possible (forgot the name of it, my Marine Ecology classes are too long ago) gets much thinner.