Do you at least apply remote exploit patches yourself? I can understand Windows Update causing issues, but not patching at all is stupid. Besides... going from XP to any later service pack actually gives me a speed boost on most hardware.
I'm the customer of both the vendor AND the ISP. Who's at fault? I can't blame the vendor for wanting to use new technology to deliver a superior product. I most certainly will blame the ISP for downgrading my traffic that I'm paying just as much for as someone else.
I'd think it's a bit smaller than the original torrent, too... some torrents can get quite large. Can anyone check that?.torrent's are filtered where I'm at.
Renaming it does not make a torrent into a valid PNG file. Many/most image hosting sites will check for the file being a valid image file. Can you change a.jpg into a.bmp by just changing the extension? Same thing here.
When in the hell did Slashdot sink this low? I thought there were even moderately technically people that posted here, not people that understand computers less than my mom does.
I know what they were designed to do. And they do exactly what they were designed to do, it's just horribly insecure. Excel and Media player need to be sandboxed to safely run content directly from the Internet because of stupid design decisions in the software itself, where Excel and WMP will actually run code. ActiveX doesn't do any of that, it simply connects Excel to the Internet, which is where the security flaw is.
Eye charts are valid... you can memorize them, and repeat back what you memorized even if you can't see it. The DMV has those charts and they're roughly analogous to the street signs. If you can't read street signs, you're gonna be a dangerous driver. You have no business being on the road if you can't get communication coming to you about construction, accidents, or whatever.
The eye charts are NOT a means of determining what prescription glasses someone needs... they simply establish that a baseline performance can be met. A hurdle is not a good measure of how high a person can jump, mostly because that's not what it's designed to measure or do.
ActiveX is just a DLL, but the only reason it exists is TO CREATE CONTROLS IN REMOTE SCRIPTS. It just uses standard Windows widgets and such to do the actual work. You're the ignorant one... the GP was perfectly right. ActiveX is simply a security hole, period.
Why wouldn't you be able to? Unless you signed some agreement otherwise, or are trying for common carrier status, there's no reason you can't. There's no law against not allowing unwanted advertising to appear on your property. If a Christian site didn't want porn ads, they are not required to carry them because they carry other ads.
Industrial logging and agriculture is also replacing them at a rapid rate. The trees used for the wood in your home are typically fast-growing and planted deliberately in farms, and replanted after harvest. There's concern about losing unique habitat such as in many rainforests, but the raw number of trees is in no way threatened.
Depends on what you did with the money. People are willing to do so because the money comes directly out of their pocket, while the only thing that BOINC/Folding@Home/etc. get is data. People are more charitable when they know you aren't gonna waste their generosity on hookers and blow.
Why do you keep saying "waste"? It's not like they're just running Prime95 or SuperPi or whatever. They're calculating things for various scientific simulations and models and such. Are you saying that simulation has no value? That you'd rather, say, set off nuclear bombs to test them instead of modeling them in software?
If anything's a waste, it's the electrons you used in your post.
A company that won't spend money on worthwhile capital expenditures seems like the kind of place to get your resume ready at. Keeping old stuff around because it would cost money to upgrade is silly. Keeping old stuff around because it would cost more to upgrade than the increases in efficiency and security would enhance is reasonable. Not upgrading from IE6 is fucking retarded.
You're assuming the editors are able to realize that it's something blatantly wrong. See, it takes a certain level of skill in an area to recognize incompetence, and if you don't have that, you can't tell when something is wrong. Quite the opposite in fact... you think it's right when it really is wrong.
And yet, GPL'd software is more popular. Perhaps the GPL is more user-friendly and BSD is more developer friendly, and since there are more users than developers, the GPL is more popular.
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Do you at least apply remote exploit patches yourself? I can understand Windows Update causing issues, but not patching at all is stupid. Besides... going from XP to any later service pack actually gives me a speed boost on most hardware.
As long as you (the vendor) send me the checksum and file size, why do I care where I get it from? A file is the same, no matter the source.
"If you have to ask me about it, the answer is no". Simple, to the point, and I have yet to have it steer somebody wrong.
I'm the customer of both the vendor AND the ISP. Who's at fault? I can't blame the vendor for wanting to use new technology to deliver a superior product. I most certainly will blame the ISP for downgrading my traffic that I'm paying just as much for as someone else.
I'd think it's a bit smaller than the original torrent, too... some torrents can get quite large. Can anyone check that? .torrent's are filtered where I'm at.
Renaming it does not make a torrent into a valid PNG file. Many/most image hosting sites will check for the file being a valid image file. Can you change a .jpg into a .bmp by just changing the extension? Same thing here.
When in the hell did Slashdot sink this low? I thought there were even moderately technically people that posted here, not people that understand computers less than my mom does.
Seems like there may have been some skulduggery going on in the deal, and it's not a foregone conclusion.
I know what they were designed to do. And they do exactly what they were designed to do, it's just horribly insecure. Excel and Media player need to be sandboxed to safely run content directly from the Internet because of stupid design decisions in the software itself, where Excel and WMP will actually run code. ActiveX doesn't do any of that, it simply connects Excel to the Internet, which is where the security flaw is.
Vendors are starting to use P2P instead of direct downloads so they don't have to support as much infrastructure. What then?
Too bad it hasn't been updated since last year sometime, to the best of my estimation
So is the Rorschach test useless for colorblind people, then?
Eye charts are valid... you can memorize them, and repeat back what you memorized even if you can't see it. The DMV has those charts and they're roughly analogous to the street signs. If you can't read street signs, you're gonna be a dangerous driver. You have no business being on the road if you can't get communication coming to you about construction, accidents, or whatever.
The eye charts are NOT a means of determining what prescription glasses someone needs... they simply establish that a baseline performance can be met. A hurdle is not a good measure of how high a person can jump, mostly because that's not what it's designed to measure or do.
ActiveX is just a DLL, but the only reason it exists is TO CREATE CONTROLS IN REMOTE SCRIPTS. It just uses standard Windows widgets and such to do the actual work. You're the ignorant one... the GP was perfectly right. ActiveX is simply a security hole, period.
You type really well for throwing chairs at the keyboard, Steve
Why wouldn't you be able to? Unless you signed some agreement otherwise, or are trying for common carrier status, there's no reason you can't. There's no law against not allowing unwanted advertising to appear on your property. If a Christian site didn't want porn ads, they are not required to carry them because they carry other ads.
Industrial logging and agriculture is also replacing them at a rapid rate. The trees used for the wood in your home are typically fast-growing and planted deliberately in farms, and replanted after harvest. There's concern about losing unique habitat such as in many rainforests, but the raw number of trees is in no way threatened.
If they're that advanced, why would they care? Do you go sneaking around ant hills to make sure they don't catch wind of you?
Depends on what you did with the money. People are willing to do so because the money comes directly out of their pocket, while the only thing that BOINC/Folding@Home/etc. get is data. People are more charitable when they know you aren't gonna waste their generosity on hookers and blow.
I don't know, but it'll get about 40 rods to the hogshead while doing so
Why do you keep saying "waste"? It's not like they're just running Prime95 or SuperPi or whatever. They're calculating things for various scientific simulations and models and such. Are you saying that simulation has no value? That you'd rather, say, set off nuclear bombs to test them instead of modeling them in software?
If anything's a waste, it's the electrons you used in your post.
Can't argue with the facts...
A company that won't spend money on worthwhile capital expenditures seems like the kind of place to get your resume ready at. Keeping old stuff around because it would cost money to upgrade is silly. Keeping old stuff around because it would cost more to upgrade than the increases in efficiency and security would enhance is reasonable. Not upgrading from IE6 is fucking retarded.
You're assuming the editors are able to realize that it's something blatantly wrong. See, it takes a certain level of skill in an area to recognize incompetence, and if you don't have that, you can't tell when something is wrong. Quite the opposite in fact... you think it's right when it really is wrong.
And yet, GPL'd software is more popular. Perhaps the GPL is more user-friendly and BSD is more developer friendly, and since there are more users than developers, the GPL is more popular.
It's not FUD if it's true.
It was most definitely intended