+1 Adhering to the Slashdot groupthink regarding Flash
Like it or not, Flash is the established de-facto standard for internet video. Works well for me on Linux, by the way.
"HTML5 video element is probably our best hope."
So you are saying that something which doesn't even exist yet except as a pie-in-the-sky proposal is the "best hope?" That doesn't pass the snicker test. Sorry, this proposal fails because it requires everyone, everywhere, to change all at once.
I would suggest a slight variation on the theme. Fire up the application, start it on one of its typical tasks, and then interrupt it in the debugger to catch it. While the process is stopped mid-flight, take note of the call stack to see which classes and methods are being used. Maybe step through a few calls, then let the program run some more.
By doing this repeatedly, you will quickly get a sense for which parts of the code see the most action, and would provide the most obvious places to start studying the code base, and provide the best bang-for-buck return on your time.
His original script had a bug in it(not tested)... these are the same reasons that he probably lost his job to the better people on the team when the cuts came.
What is interesting, perhaps even mind boggling, is that it appears that he hadn't lost his job. When his birthday rolled around in 2004 and the logic bomb didn't fire due to the bug, he was able to apply a fix and reset it for his birthday in 2005! You'd think that he wouldn't want to be around when it went off.
Speeding is not dangerous. Driving too fast for your abilities / your car / the road is dangerous
Unfortunately, it has been my observation that those who drive too fast seem to have an inflated sense of their abilities. I have seen firsthand where particularly *poor* drivers who erroneously believe they are really great drivers put themselves, their passengers, and others on the road in needless danger. This is all while spouting off about they think they should be allowed to drive to the edge of their abilities, the irony being that they are clueless to not realize they are beyond their ability and just lucky.
The first step to being cured...
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The first step to being cured is being able to cut through the denial and admit that you have a problem. Hats off the the GIMP folks for taking this first, difficult step.
Jack Gold, founder of industry analysis firm J.Gold Associates, said "I don't know where it will fit in the market."
At $499 after a $100 rebate, the device is an expensive sidekick. For another $200, users can get themselves a laptop, says Gold.
"I am not sure why anyone would want to buy this device if they already have a laptop," he says. "I would not personally carry it because it does not provide me with enough benefit."
While switching to VoIP stops the infringement, hopefully, Vonage is still very much likely to be on the hook for past infringement. Standard disclaimers apply ("IANAL"), but this would seem to be the pattern based on other recent patent infringement disputes in this space.
I don't have mod points today, but you, sir, have hit the nail on the head.
All you hear about here is spurious arguments "fair use" and "it's not stealing, it's only copyright infringement," but at the end of the day it's really about explaining away illegal behavior.
In other words, big portions of the Mac OS are still developed as closed-source products, or by people who probably were trained in that mindset, where a bug really only matters once it's widely disclosed.
Oh, c'mon now. All non-trivial software contains bugs. And doing major releases or minor targeted hotfixes for a non-trivial system system incurs a lot of overhead as far as testing, releasing, and support. Doing a Chinese fire drill is not something that should necessarily be done for each and every vulnerability that comes along.
Given the overhead both for the software vendor as well as the disruption on customers, it makes sense to evaluate how serious a vulnerability is and what is the liklihood that it will affect customers and fashion a proportional response. For example, an exploit on an internet-facing application is a serious candidate for an immediate patch, while another application that typically runs behind the firewall may not.
This being Slashdot, we will of course hear how the open source community responds right away - heck, my Firefox updated itself this morning. This is good, and I think that this can happen since the open source community is not as focused as traditional vendors on supporting older releases (which is REALLY important to enterprise customers). Problem? It's fixed in the latest build. Can't upgrade your production environment to the latest? Sucks to be you.
While I believe in free speech, AutoAdmit is behaving irresponsibly.
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. If you truly support free speech, then you must defend it at the margins where the real battle is.
It's easy to wrap yourself in the flag and make high-minded declarations about how you support this wonderful principle. But to walk the talk, you have to be willing to say that even though you may disagree with the pornographer, or the foul-mouthed racist "comedian," or the skinhead, or the immature law students on some no-name chat forum, you will defend to your dying breath their right to say it.
I can think of one very big reason to upgrade to IE7 (unless Opera/Firefox is an option) and that's better web standards support. Hate to break it to you, but with 90% or more of the market, whatever IE does is the standard. I'm not saying that's good, but it is what it is. The only web developers who are going to drop support for IE6 are those who don't have paying customers.
They'll just put in more noise, make the image wavy, etc
They are doing that already, at least in the samples that have made their way into my inbox.
It appears that they are using an animated.gif file, or something which gets drawn in layers, and the background has random pixels flipped, and/or random-looking line segments drawn. In others I have noticed a seemingly-decorative horizontal line, a graphical equivalent of the <hr> HTML tag, that is of different lengths and widths. In other words, it is now not possible just to take a checksum of an picture attachment, as they have pretty much guaranteed that checksums will not be constant.
A good fix would be to have your email client fetch all external files via a caching proxy server.
I don't think so. Please explain how your proposal would prevent the sender from detecting the user reading the mail in the following image tag, where the final part of the URL path is a uniquifier:
$5500 a month? For software to manage the garage? That's roberry, plain and simple.... That works out to $66,000 a year."
That does not sound unreasonable. Thought it would depend on how big the garage is, how many cars per day, and the daily parking rate, $5500/month actually sounds rather inexpensive to me. To your other point, you would be hard pressed to find a full-time developer for $66K (fully burdened- including salary, health plan, sick days, 401k, etc.).
It's more than just development cost - think of the testing required. Because this is dealing with automobiles, which are most folks' second most valuable asset, the system has to be extremely reliable. That reliablity doesn't just happen. It requires planning, coding, testing to a much higher degree than the latest open source mp3 ripper. It doesn't necessarily come cheap. A vendor must be able to recoup its costs and make a profit, or else you won't get innovative solutions like this anymore.
Invest in some decent public transport, think long term.
Sounds great in theory, but in practice it has not been demonstrated to work except in cities with high population density.
Public transit cannot pay for itself - every rider's fare requires subsidy to pay for actual cost
Many commutes are suburb-to-suburb, whereas public transit is designed for hauling in and out of city. In the Seattle area the daily exodus to suburban employment now exceeds the suburban influx.
Many places where people want to live do not have adequate population density to make mass transit a viable alternative
People like the comfort, security of their own car, and are willing to sit around in traffic rather than give it up.
My own observation: most people who propose grand plans on reducing traffic are really just interested in getting other people out of their way
In other news, school boards across Kansas reiterated their demands that all science textbooks contain a sticker that says, "Evolution is just a theory."
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+1 Adhering to the Slashdot groupthink regarding Flash
Like it or not, Flash is the established de-facto standard for internet video. Works well for me on Linux, by the way.
"HTML5 video element is probably our best hope."
So you are saying that something which doesn't even exist yet except as a pie-in-the-sky proposal is the "best hope?" That doesn't pass the snicker test. Sorry, this proposal fails because it requires everyone, everywhere, to change all at once.
Sorry, I don't have mod points today to do it myself. Recommend +1 Interesting or +1 Insightful.
I would suggest a slight variation on the theme. Fire up the application, start it on one of its typical tasks, and then interrupt it in the debugger to catch it. While the process is stopped mid-flight, take note of the call stack to see which classes and methods are being used. Maybe step through a few calls, then let the program run some more.
By doing this repeatedly, you will quickly get a sense for which parts of the code see the most action, and would provide the most obvious places to start studying the code base, and provide the best bang-for-buck return on your time.
What is interesting, perhaps even mind boggling, is that it appears that he hadn't lost his job. When his birthday rolled around in 2004 and the logic bomb didn't fire due to the bug, he was able to apply a fix and reset it for his birthday in 2005! You'd think that he wouldn't want to be around when it went off.
In other news, today scientists proved that Hurricane Katrina was caused by that butterfly in China flapping its wing a little too hard.
Unfortunately, it has been my observation that those who drive too fast seem to have an inflated sense of their abilities. I have seen firsthand where particularly *poor* drivers who erroneously believe they are really great drivers put themselves, their passengers, and others on the road in needless danger. This is all while spouting off about they think they should be allowed to drive to the edge of their abilities, the irony being that they are clueless to not realize they are beyond their ability and just lucky.
The first step to being cured is being able to cut through the denial and admit that you have a problem. Hats off the the GIMP folks for taking this first, difficult step.
F11 in Firefox goes to full screen mode. Lots less to mess up.
Didn't have mod points to mod you up, so I'll just sign off with my longtime sig...
I can't stand the term technorati, which is always seems to be used to refer to smug, self-satisfied, techier-than-thou individuals.
Jack Gold, founder of industry analysis firm J.Gold Associates, said "I don't know where it will fit in the market."
At $499 after a $100 rebate, the device is an expensive sidekick. For another $200, users can get themselves a laptop, says Gold.
"I am not sure why anyone would want to buy this device if they already have a laptop," he says. "I would not personally carry it because it does not provide me with enough benefit."
While switching to VoIP stops the infringement, hopefully, Vonage is still very much likely to be on the hook for past infringement. Standard disclaimers apply ("IANAL"), but this would seem to be the pattern based on other recent patent infringement disputes in this space.
All you hear about here is spurious arguments "fair use" and "it's not stealing, it's only copyright infringement," but at the end of the day it's really about explaining away illegal behavior.
Oh, c'mon now. All non-trivial software contains bugs. And doing major releases or minor targeted hotfixes for a non-trivial system system incurs a lot of overhead as far as testing, releasing, and support. Doing a Chinese fire drill is not something that should necessarily be done for each and every vulnerability that comes along.
Given the overhead both for the software vendor as well as the disruption on customers, it makes sense to evaluate how serious a vulnerability is and what is the liklihood that it will affect customers and fashion a proportional response. For example, an exploit on an internet-facing application is a serious candidate for an immediate patch, while another application that typically runs behind the firewall may not.
This being Slashdot, we will of course hear how the open source community responds right away - heck, my Firefox updated itself this morning. This is good, and I think that this can happen since the open source community is not as focused as traditional vendors on supporting older releases (which is REALLY important to enterprise customers). Problem? It's fixed in the latest build. Can't upgrade your production environment to the latest? Sucks to be you.
It's easy to wrap yourself in the flag and make high-minded declarations about how you support this wonderful principle. But to walk the talk, you have to be willing to say that even though you may disagree with the pornographer, or the foul-mouthed racist "comedian," or the skinhead, or the immature law students on some no-name chat forum, you will defend to your dying breath their right to say it.
Autoboxing, a bad idea - automated!
They are doing that already, at least in the samples that have made their way into my inbox.
It appears that they are using an animated .gif file, or something which gets drawn in layers, and the background has random pixels flipped, and/or random-looking line segments drawn. In others I have noticed a seemingly-decorative horizontal line, a graphical equivalent of the <hr> HTML tag, that is of different lengths and widths. In other words, it is now not possible just to take a checksum of an picture attachment, as they have pretty much guaranteed that checksums will not be constant.
I don't think so. Please explain how your proposal would prevent the sender from detecting the user reading the mail in the following image tag, where the final part of the URL path is a uniquifier:
Kernel Panic's superior officer is General Protection Fault.
That does not sound unreasonable. Thought it would depend on how big the garage is, how many cars per day, and the daily parking rate, $5500/month actually sounds rather inexpensive to me. To your other point, you would be hard pressed to find a full-time developer for $66K (fully burdened- including salary, health plan, sick days, 401k, etc.).
It's more than just development cost - think of the testing required. Because this is dealing with automobiles, which are most folks' second most valuable asset, the system has to be extremely reliable. That reliablity doesn't just happen. It requires planning, coding, testing to a much higher degree than the latest open source mp3 ripper. It doesn't necessarily come cheap. A vendor must be able to recoup its costs and make a profit, or else you won't get innovative solutions like this anymore.
So, which part of Massachusetts are you from :-]
Sounds great in theory, but in practice it has not been demonstrated to work except in cities with high population density.
In other news, school boards across Kansas reiterated their demands that all science textbooks contain a sticker that says, "Evolution is just a theory."