Are you saying that knowledgable users necessarily get hit, even on IE? I develop on Windows (and on Linux too, though my architectural understanding of Win32 exceeds Linux (which is pretty much limited to POSIX)) and you know what? I've never had a problem with an IE exploit in my life. Like someone else said a few stories ago, a user who knows what he's doing can make even Win98 safe.
Yes, IE pre-XPSP2 UI+security model of Yes by default and ActiveX definitely required vigilance; but today it's a function of user skill on both Firefox and IE to *not* be infected.
Someone here mentioned their users don't have problems with Firefox. Well, disabling ActiveX certainly helps. But if Firefox users visit RandomScreenSaver.tld and download with abandon (as many IE users do), compromising Firefox will be a piece of cake. And there is the gaping hole in Firefox's armor -- even many of its biggest boosters think nothing of installing unsigned extensions.
Btw, I'm not sure anyone who developed on Apache through the late 90s would call it 'exploit free' in the sense (say) vsftpd is exploit free. Apache's strength is cross-platform ubiquity and a rich plugin environment, not perf or security. I doubt any Apache dev would claim Apache to be unexploitable even today.
> from the perspective of most web users, BLOGGERS ARE SPAMMERS
Rubbish. Blogs are often full of excellent content you won't find anyplace else. Daily Kos/Instapundit (take your poison). Tech blogs: Tim Bray, Sam Ruby as well as my current favorite: Derrick Coetzee. Journalists: go see Michael Yon does on his blog and wonder what a sad state journalism has come to today that none of the mainstream media can do what he does.
And oh, if by your so-very-high standards bloggers are/still/ spammers, then Slashdot should close down its comments, because what we seen here is unadulterated dreck compared to the content above. At least we'd get less incoherent idiots like you polluting the intarweb (Google indexes Slashdot comments too, after all).
MSN (after a round with the Preferences dialog) _remains_ quick and functional, and the latest version (7.5) has kickass PC-to-PC voice, so much so that Skype is actually catching up with it's 1.4 Beta. Now factor in PC-to-phone voice from MS' Teleo acquisition, and it's easy to figure out why Skype, after months of "we're in this for the long haul, not to sell out" is finally selling out -- to an _auctions_ company.
Good point about public transport, but there are two problems to that: a) they don't make much sense in places like Montana or Colorado and b) any modern urban planner has to acknowledge that public transport systems are huge security risks by being 'soft targets'.
Like it or not, the solution is neither ostrich-style head-in-the-sand oil over-dependence nor overregulation and an artificial energy market, we need a technological/engineering breakthrough like never before. And that is what we have got, amidst all the Slashdot bickering and sniping: if oil prices rise too much, shale will step in and be commercially viable (the US deposits are larger than Saudi Arabia's reserves!).
So in between all the peak-oil doom-and-gloom, economics looks to be winning yet again.
> When is the US going to wake up to just how much oil COSTS
Except that the US is not 'subsidising' oil, and oil does not 'cost' $6.96/gallon even in the UK. The British public pay that much because their government imposes a tax on them.
Ask someone from British rural areas what he thinks of the oil tax. One of the primary uses of the oil tax is to build public transport systems, but most rural taxpayers see very little of that benefit, making it more sensible to live closer to town. Unsurprisingly European city centres are more densely packed than similarly sized American cities.
Maybe if you said the US should tax oil to reduce demand (like the Economist said), that'd be fairer. However, the 'city spread' I mentioned above, coupled with the fact that there's more to this country that the urban centres (exurbs, thinly populated states in the Midwest) for whom an oil tax would be very bad news make an oil tax highly unlikely -- especially for an economy that wants to grow at about 4-5% a year *and* a respectably growing population (as against Europe, which grows at 1-2% (if at all) and has a slightly declining population).
I am not saying being fuel efficient is a bad thing, but I wonder how much of the 'cut oil consumption' brigade are aware of the second-order effects of their tax-driven (some may call it 'artificial') energy-prices regime.
"Usage Problem. Used to refer to a person whose gender is unspecified or unknown: He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence (William Blake)"
He is indeed generic, and protestations of politically correct retards won't change that.
And oh-- Dictionary.com is not the world's greatest dictionary-- using 'he' in the unspecified-gender pronoun sense has been done for at least 300 years (that I know of -- not sure how Middle and Old English dealt with it) and is perfectly acceptable in cases where the gender of the person being referred to is not clear. Although in this case, it would have been trivial to check the Judge's gender.
I agree about the RAM, but I've found Azureus' new CPU-friendly hashing mode quite useful (on my Pentium M). And even for RAM, a 30-40M process working set size is hardly a lot these days -- Outlook 2003 or Firefox with lots of tabs open use much more.
Why would Google want to get into the ISP biz, which is already crowded and a halo-killer to boot (practically no one loves their ISP...)
I think it's media distribution: given that Google has taken baby steps in online media distribution (Google Video), it isn't farfetched for them to be thinking about getting into the media distribution biz for real (as rumored here) and beat Apple to the punch by licensing it to all comers *and* making it usable by mobile users.
Ironically the modding on this story (upto 6.44 EDT) shows just how political 'environmental science' can be. Bush-bashing jokes and party-line posts will get modded up to +5, while entirely reasonableposts get marked down as 'Troll' or 'Redundant'.
I thought Slashdot's moderation had gotten better of late but clearly it still needs a lot of work. And the +1/-1 model works lousily for politically charged issues -- let's hope the Slashcode crew are able to work on a new modding system before long.
I don't call greens envirowackos. I call them deluded. They cling to a belief of an 'ideal' cozy green gaia where none really exists: life on earth exists on the whims of forces so powerful we glimpse them but rarely: the recent earthquake activity in the Indian ocean that caused the tsunami (which some nuts blamed on global warming), once-in-a-century micrometeor strikes, etc. They look for micro-effects caused by man and miss out totally on the macro effects of solar cycles and aperiodic weather patterns.
Worse, they bully governments and industry into stasis, as increasing amounts of money have to be spent to come up to the green earth ideal, even as entire national industries become noncompetitive, causing flight of capital to the third world.
Also, people who call greens 'envirowackos' are not above name-calling themselves: they like words like 'republinazi' and so forth. Well, this one likes clean surroundings as much as the next man, but also believes that you can take cleanliness and lack of toxins too far. I have travelled in India (I have family there) and you know what? lots of Indians in urban centres survive with water levels so contaminated that according to every FDA rule I know of they should all be dying off (I drank bottled water, would've fallen sick in an instant given my immune system). And oddly enough , India (esp Indian cities) have much greater population growth than the US/EU -- even taking rural migration into account. The population also seems remarkably free of the dust/pollen allergies we see so much here. Perhaps species' adaptive capabilities deserve more credit than you give?
The interesting thing is that Gates does represent the engineer/technical side of Microsoft: he's even given up his managerial role (barring Chairman of the board which is a nonexecutive role) and become Chief Software Architect. And oh yes, he's definitely in charge, though of late Microsoft has been trying to copy the IBM playbook and integrate marketing better into its engineering process and has brought in non-engineer types (outsiders, even) into leading roles to fix Microsoft's marketing and sales.
The bigger point here is that engineers grow into finance and management -- it's quite common in several industries. You might even have to do this yourself some day. If you do, you'll be surprised how quickly computing's holy wars cease to be of interest.
Although -- Microsoft was found guilty by one judge of abusing its monopoly. Even if it wasn't overthrown by a higher court (and later settled out of court), the term 'abusve monopolist' would surely be better?
> Monogomy in women has been a survival trait - raising the kids and all.
Actually 'raising the kids' is a factor that leads women to select monogamous men -- she doesn't have to be monogamous herself. And before paternity tests it was not easy to tell who a child's father was, it was quite riskfree for a woman, if she could "get away with it", esp since a wide pool of (fit) fathers would likely improve the odds that her genes would propagate (eggs in many baskets, so to speak).
Social scientists point to the fact that infidelity in women has traditionally been lower because of several more practical reasons: a) Poor social/economic status b) Poor mobility and often housebound c) The menopause and relative lack of appeal of older women to men d) 'Social programming' esp in conservative societies
These days with improving education, mobility and economic rights, botox/makeup and fertility drugs and a sexuality-flaunting culture, it's no surprise that infidelity among women is rising.
I used to think Intellisense was a crutch too. Of course, even if you don't have to deal with API explosion you might have to deal with legacy code (and some burn-your-eyes-out bad code at that) at some point and then it really pays off, along with its navigation to definition/reference feature.
My only gripe about VS was refactoring (or tha lack of it), but VS 2005 does a good job there.
If I were a DA, I'd ask for logs of visitors to the webmail server. From the ISP running the webmail server and their upstream providers. (IIRC there was a raid on Democracy Underground recently, coordinated across Europe, so it's not like it couldn't happen.)
If you really wanted to do this, the best places would be some East European countries which don't have treaties with the US/EU and are just free enough to not mind your internet shenanigans _and_ relatively technologically underpowered in the law-enforcement department.
You can actually turn this off (remember to also turn off NetBIOS in TCP/IP properties > Advanced TCP/IP Settings, WINS tab.
There's no downside if you're on a domain that uses DNS. If you're on a workgroup or home network you can enter hostnames into your HOSTS file for TCP/IP, and use IP addresses for SMB.
As I said, grain of salt. The point was to compare the robot-loving image of the Japanese with the Spacers (and that's not a put-down in my book), not drill into Japanese immigration policy.
That said, my understanding of Japan's immigration policy is: guest workers (if they're skilled) are welcome, unskilled immigration is currently not. I have heard that citizenship checks are quite a bit more onerous than Europe/US though not (given Japanese culture) onerously so.
The US and Britain have decided that immigration is a better way to solve their labor/population problems since culturally they have a history of dealing with other cultures.
It's no surprise that the ethnically much more isolationist Japanese wouldn't like unskilled immigration all that much, even though they suffer from a much worse population problem. Hence, robots...
(take this sweeping generalization with a grain of salt, just pointing out that you don't need a galaxy to play out some SF themes, Earth is room enough.)
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Are you saying that knowledgable users necessarily get hit, even on IE? I develop on Windows (and on Linux too, though my architectural understanding of Win32 exceeds Linux (which is pretty much limited to POSIX)) and you know what? I've never had a problem with an IE exploit in my life. Like someone else said a few stories ago, a user who knows what he's doing can make even Win98 safe.
Yes, IE pre-XPSP2 UI+security model of Yes by default and ActiveX definitely required vigilance; but today it's a function of user skill on both Firefox and IE to *not* be infected.
Someone here mentioned their users don't have problems with Firefox. Well, disabling ActiveX certainly helps. But if Firefox users visit RandomScreenSaver.tld and download with abandon (as many IE users do), compromising Firefox will be a piece of cake. And there is the gaping hole in Firefox's armor -- even many of its biggest boosters think nothing of installing unsigned extensions.
Btw, I'm not sure anyone who developed on Apache through the late 90s would call it 'exploit free' in the sense (say) vsftpd is exploit free. Apache's strength is cross-platform ubiquity and a rich plugin environment, not perf or security. I doubt any Apache dev would claim Apache to be unexploitable even today.
Unlikely. Microsoft's been doing this for quite some time.
> from the perspective of most web users, BLOGGERS ARE SPAMMERS
/still/ spammers, then Slashdot should close down its comments, because what we seen here is unadulterated dreck compared to the content above. At least we'd get less incoherent idiots like you polluting the intarweb (Google indexes Slashdot comments too, after all).
Rubbish. Blogs are often full of excellent content you won't find anyplace else. Daily Kos/Instapundit (take your poison). Tech blogs: Tim Bray, Sam Ruby as well as my current favorite: Derrick Coetzee. Journalists: go see Michael Yon does on his blog and wonder what a sad state journalism has come to today that none of the mainstream media can do what he does.
And oh, if by your so-very-high standards bloggers are
MSN (after a round with the Preferences dialog) _remains_ quick and functional, and the latest version (7.5) has kickass PC-to-PC voice, so much so that Skype is actually catching up with it's 1.4 Beta. Now factor in PC-to-phone voice from MS' Teleo acquisition, and it's easy to figure out why Skype, after months of "we're in this for the long haul, not to sell out" is finally selling out -- to an _auctions_ company.
Skype is toast. You heard it here first.
Most companies take a rather dim view of their employees publicly behaving like truculent children. ...unless they're the CEO.
Good point about public transport, but there are two problems to that: a) they don't make much sense in places like Montana or Colorado and b) any modern urban planner has to acknowledge that public transport systems are huge security risks by being 'soft targets'.
Like it or not, the solution is neither ostrich-style head-in-the-sand oil over-dependence nor overregulation and an artificial energy market, we need a technological/engineering breakthrough like never before. And that is what we have got, amidst all the Slashdot bickering and sniping: if oil prices rise too much, shale will step in and be commercially viable (the US deposits are larger than Saudi Arabia's reserves!).
So in between all the peak-oil doom-and-gloom, economics looks to be winning yet again.
> When is the US going to wake up to just how much oil COSTS
Except that the US is not 'subsidising' oil, and oil does not 'cost' $6.96/gallon even in the UK. The British public pay that much because their government imposes a tax on them.
Ask someone from British rural areas what he thinks of the oil tax. One of the primary uses of the oil tax is to build public transport systems, but most rural taxpayers see very little of that benefit, making it more sensible to live closer to town. Unsurprisingly European city centres are more densely packed than similarly sized American cities.
Maybe if you said the US should tax oil to reduce demand (like the Economist said), that'd be fairer. However, the 'city spread' I mentioned above, coupled with the fact that there's more to this country that the urban centres (exurbs, thinly populated states in the Midwest) for whom an oil tax would be very bad news make an oil tax highly unlikely -- especially for an economy that wants to grow at about 4-5% a year *and* a respectably growing population (as against Europe, which grows at 1-2% (if at all) and has a slightly declining population).
I am not saying being fuel efficient is a bad thing, but I wonder how much of the 'cut oil consumption' brigade are aware of the second-order effects of their tax-driven (some may call it 'artificial') energy-prices regime.
He was cremated, you insensitive clod!
Did you even read what you linked to?
"Usage Problem. Used to refer to a person whose gender is unspecified or unknown: He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence (William Blake)"
He is indeed generic, and protestations of politically correct retards won't change that.
And oh-- Dictionary.com is not the world's greatest dictionary-- using 'he' in the unspecified-gender pronoun sense has been done for at least 300 years (that I know of -- not sure how Middle and Old English dealt with it) and is perfectly acceptable in cases where the gender of the person being referred to is not clear. Although in this case, it would have been trivial to check the Judge's gender.
Interesting... this never happened even on my PIII/733MHz with 384MB RAM (Windows 2000/Ubuntu). Try Files > Performance Options under Tools|Options?
I agree about the RAM, but I've found Azureus' new CPU-friendly hashing mode quite useful (on my Pentium M). And even for RAM, a 30-40M process working set size is hardly a lot these days -- Outlook 2003 or Firefox with lots of tabs open use much more.
Why would Google want to get into the ISP biz, which is already crowded and a halo-killer to boot (practically no one loves their ISP...)
I think it's media distribution: given that Google has taken baby steps in online media distribution (Google Video), it isn't farfetched for them to be thinking about getting into the media distribution biz for real (as rumored here) and beat Apple to the punch by licensing it to all comers *and* making it usable by mobile users.
Ironically the modding on this story (upto 6.44 EDT) shows just how political 'environmental science' can be. Bush-bashing jokes and party-line posts will get modded up to +5, while entirely reasonable posts get marked down as 'Troll' or 'Redundant'.
I thought Slashdot's moderation had gotten better of late but clearly it still needs a lot of work. And the +1/-1 model works lousily for politically charged issues -- let's hope the Slashcode crew are able to work on a new modding system before long.
I don't call greens envirowackos. I call them deluded. They cling to a belief of an 'ideal' cozy green gaia where none really exists: life on earth exists on the whims of forces so powerful we glimpse them but rarely: the recent earthquake activity in the Indian ocean that caused the tsunami (which some nuts blamed on global warming), once-in-a-century micrometeor strikes, etc. They look for micro-effects caused by man and miss out totally on the macro effects of solar cycles and aperiodic weather patterns.
Worse, they bully governments and industry into stasis, as increasing amounts of money have to be spent to come up to the green earth ideal, even as entire national industries become noncompetitive, causing flight of capital to the third world.
Also, people who call greens 'envirowackos' are not above name-calling themselves: they like words like 'republinazi' and so forth. Well, this one likes clean surroundings as much as the next man, but also believes that you can take cleanliness and lack of toxins too far. I have travelled in India (I have family there) and you know what? lots of Indians in urban centres survive with water levels so contaminated that according to every FDA rule I know of they should all be dying off (I drank bottled water, would've fallen sick in an instant given my immune system). And oddly enough , India (esp Indian cities) have much greater population growth than the US/EU -- even taking rural migration into account. The population also seems remarkably free of the dust/pollen allergies we see so much here. Perhaps species' adaptive capabilities deserve more credit than you give?
Don't get me wrong, clean air and water is important, but choking industry for a treaty based on starry eyed green politics and bad economics is not the way to do it.
The interesting thing is that Gates does represent the engineer/technical side of Microsoft: he's even given up his managerial role (barring Chairman of the board which is a nonexecutive role) and become Chief Software Architect. And oh yes, he's definitely in charge, though of late Microsoft has been trying to copy the IBM playbook and integrate marketing better into its engineering process and has brought in non-engineer types (outsiders, even) into leading roles to fix Microsoft's marketing and sales.
The bigger point here is that engineers grow into finance and management -- it's quite common in several industries. You might even have to do this yourself some day. If you do, you'll be surprised how quickly computing's holy wars cease to be of interest.
Except that they were never convicted. The case was settled out of court.
Facts, schmacts, as long as it sounds good.
Although -- Microsoft was found guilty by one judge of abusing its monopoly. Even if it wasn't overthrown by a higher court (and later settled out of court), the term 'abusve monopolist' would surely be better?
> Monogomy in women has been a survival trait - raising the kids and all.
Actually 'raising the kids' is a factor that leads women to select monogamous men -- she doesn't have to be monogamous herself. And before paternity tests it was not easy to tell who a child's father was, it was quite riskfree for a woman, if she could "get away with it", esp since a wide pool of (fit) fathers would likely improve the odds that her genes would propagate (eggs in many baskets, so to speak).
Social scientists point to the fact that infidelity in women has traditionally been lower because of several more practical reasons:
a) Poor social/economic status
b) Poor mobility and often housebound
c) The menopause and relative lack of appeal of older women to men
d) 'Social programming' esp in conservative societies
These days with improving education, mobility and economic rights, botox/makeup and fertility drugs and a sexuality-flaunting culture, it's no surprise that infidelity among women is rising.
I used to think Intellisense was a crutch too. Of course, even if you don't have to deal with API explosion you might have to deal with legacy code (and some burn-your-eyes-out bad code at that) at some point and then it really pays off, along with its navigation to definition/reference feature.
My only gripe about VS was refactoring (or tha lack of it), but VS 2005 does a good job there.
If I were a DA, I'd ask for logs of visitors to the webmail server. From the ISP running the webmail server and their upstream providers. (IIRC there was a raid on Democracy Underground recently, coordinated across Europe, so it's not like it couldn't happen.)
If you really wanted to do this, the best places would be some East European countries which don't have treaties with the US/EU and are just free enough to not mind your internet shenanigans _and_ relatively technologically underpowered in the law-enforcement department.
> Use a CODENAME
The problem with that: subpeonas. And Contempt-of-Court/Obstruction of Justice sentences.
> TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
You can actually turn this off (remember to also turn off NetBIOS in TCP/IP properties > Advanced TCP/IP Settings, WINS tab.
There's no downside if you're on a domain that uses DNS. If you're on a workgroup or home network you can enter hostnames into your HOSTS file for TCP/IP, and use IP addresses for SMB.
As I said, grain of salt. The point was to compare the robot-loving image of the Japanese with the Spacers (and that's not a put-down in my book), not drill into Japanese immigration policy.
That said, my understanding of Japan's immigration policy is: guest workers (if they're skilled) are welcome, unskilled immigration is currently not. I have heard that citizenship checks are quite a bit more onerous than Europe/US though not (given Japanese culture) onerously so.
Geez, not one but two good on-topic Asimov/Robot references and get an offtopic mod. Mods on /. these days...
The US and Britain have decided that immigration is a better way to solve their labor/population problems since culturally they have a history of dealing with other cultures.
It's no surprise that the ethnically much more isolationist Japanese wouldn't like unskilled immigration all that much, even though they suffer from a much worse population problem. Hence, robots...
(take this sweeping generalization with a grain of salt, just pointing out that you don't need a galaxy to play out some SF themes, Earth is room enough.)