It's probably taken from the OO examples where a car IS_A vehicle and HAS_A steering wheel, a set of tires and CAN ride from A to B.
It is also used as an analogy for building software. But that analogy is as badly flawed as a cow. As are most other analogies with cars or cows in them.
Well, maybe they don't know the reasons, maybe they do. But "Management" has chosen the right languages for most current systems that do not have too much legacy code or a too low level interface in my opinion. Managed code and an up to date syntax is definately a plus. And there are plenty of software libraries available for either. Python of course shares some of these features.
Weird. No-one with the simple answer. Go to your local kiosk. Buy the most interesting magazine with XP SP2 (hurry now, or they're gone). Install using CD provided.
I don't agree. I do like seperation of different programs, especially when both programs are named "the internet" for most users. A plugin that launches IE for the current page makes more sense. Just explain that if they do not want to be 0wned, use it sparingly.
Learn Java and C#? What the hell for? They are too much alike. Just use Java and J# (which is more or less Java 1.4 compatible) and.NET makes sure that you can switch at any time. To learn Java, try Eclipse - easy to install, easy to use IDE and free. Way better than the IDE of.NET (I tried both).
Now to get that Eric GUI installed (missing Qt, SIM - whatever that is - and PyQt, oh well). But I don't think it will go as far with supporting me as Eclipse does. The Python language seems to me too complex to parse the way Eclipse does while editing (try it before you knock it).
Copy: open-source+implementation of Ping ID Google paste: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=open-source+im plementation+of+Ping+ID&btnG=Google+zoeken&lr= First hit. No, wasn't wondering at all. But thanks for the link anyway.
Neh, the application should not even be aware of the different workspaces unless it has been specifically written for use of multiple workspaces. Otherwise every application should have specific code and (even worse) could do something different than any other application on the system. It's something for the window manager to handle.
Could it also be used for scanners? It would make it way more practical to see exactly where it is. This might even be used for a led handheld scanner. Especially if one would put 2 of these (laser powered) optical detectors on both sides.
Yes, and that kind of reasoning has never served anybody anything. Remarks like that just kill the debate. The only thing you can do is look at the facts. If Kerry won and nobody looked at the facts, so be it, but that does not change the situation as it is.
You should not believe any claims that have such high numbers of success. Currently no facial recognition program can offer that. It's even the question if fingerprint identification has such high success rates though they will be undoubtedly be higher.
The question is if this is enough not to deploy biometrics. First of all, do you use it for authentication (passport) or identification (crowd scanning, door opening). The latter is a lot more difficult. Then there is the question if you accept the odd failure, and plan for it. For instance if you fail to authenticate at airport, there could be a separate line manned by humans. Unfortunately, the 1% will not be spread equally, some people might be unlucky a high percentage of the time.
Another problem that I've not mentioned is that there is a balance between false positives and false negatives. That is the difference between other persons being identified as you, and you not being identified. Most of the time there is a (delicate) balance between the two.
That's the problem with biometrics. You cannot just say if a certain failure rate is acceptable - it all depends on the parameters of the system you are using it in.
We've done fine so far? Would you mind telling that to all people that have died from infectuous diseases? We - as a species - have survived, yes, and I am not a bit worried about the survival of home sapiens by this threat. But that's not the point, is it? It's about the people catching the disease. I haven't got any idea if this will cause additional diseases, but being a bit careful never hurts.
What if I'm running it _in_ NLD? 'Cause I'm there already.
This is a good thing. One of the reasons that Java never took off from the desktop was that it didn't integrate with the native GUI. Nice to see OpenOffice not making the same mistake.
Too many linux applications still have horrible, unusable file selectors. It will never take off as long as such monstrosities are present everywhere.
This is one of the reasons why Windows is used by so many people. They do provide a more or less monotone interface. Even if the interface is horrible (like personalized menu's) it's horrible all over the place.
Only idiots think in black and white. There are middle ways. Most of Europe is using it. You don't have to have a stalinist regime to have a social healthcare. It's even cheaper in the long run. Going broke for the rest of your life because you *think* you have an unknown infectual dissease would even scare me off.
In a world where 1% of the people provides food and another one prevents housing, why can't you get free healthcare in America. It would cost a few percent of the war in Iraq (which will flood the hospitals in the years to come, even if the fighting would stop now).
Anyway, the repuplican party is showing the whole world that a country led by companies and bureaucratics can be equally bad to those regimes you just mentioned. It just takes most of the public in the US some time to catch up with the rest of the world on this.
And as a last point, yes, I would go to my doctor, and if he can't fix it or points in the direction of a specialist, THEN I would go to that doctor. How the hell should I know what I've caught if I just feel sick. I would check the diagnoses of the doctor as well though.
So they now have maybe hundreds of IP addresses, just for the slight hope that they can match one up for hundreds of suspects? Of witch they _already_ know the IP numbers? And they what have they got?
I think it is infinitely more useful to do it the other way around. Asking for IP numbers of persons that download nmap, and then check if these people are doing naughty things. This might also explain the lack of correct requests.
Lots of mistakes are made in UI design on a conceptual level. The article touches that slightly by explaining the importance of only showing the information/controls important to the user. But it goes much further.
To show some examples from firefox: there are many settings to control privacy/security. Many users do like these settings, but not for each site. If they trust a site, they don't mind popups, images from other servers etc. But firefox does not place the site central, but the control. That's simply not how a user _thinks_.
I've got a lot of other grieves, but I'll let that pass for now. Normally I only comment on programs that I find of great use to me, also because I try not to use the others at all. The screen real estate that firefox leaves me is for instance fantastic, and it is very uncluttered.
Lets make a deal: it is a bug in the security implementation of Java by Sun. Sheesh. That's what I said, didn't I?
As for the ActiveX part: ActiveX does have a security implementation. You need to sign your ActiveX component to make it safe for scripting. There can be security leaks in that. For instance the ASN-1 decoder may have a buffer overrun exploit, to name a completely random example. Or you might release a few libraries with the same signing certificate, needing to update *all* the libraries instead of one (another completely random example).
Obviously, it does not have a sandbox implementation, so you're right with the "terminally bad" part:)
That goes for any plugin that you cross compile though. If you create a bug in the plugin you are in a mess on any platform (except if they are platform specific). Unfortunately, Java is a sort of META plugin, like flash etc. So there are many Java runtimes/plugins out there which all need to be patched. Also, with a platform dependent plugin you might need to do some cross compiling to the exploit as well. You will need to do something like that for the exploid anyway, deleting "boot.ini" on a linux system may not work.
There are differences. This is a bug in the security implementation of Sun. That's bad, since it goes for every platform. However, this is a single bug. With active X, you are in problems if there is a bug in *any* ActiveX component that is safe for scripting. So the target is way smaller with Java. Obviously that also makes it possible to vigourously (no spell check available - dang) test that part, so no excuse for Sun for not doing that.
Note that there are very few security notifications with Java. I can remember a few buffer exploits in the VM (not in the Java applications itself, that's impossible, unlike active X). Java makes it much easier to write secure code. So the chance on serious bugs occuring is smaller (bugs tend to be in the design, not so much in the implementation). But it is definately not a holy grail, mistakes can be made as you can see.
So is it a serious bug: answer YES. Does that make Java (/.NET managed code) a bad idea: NO. Do you need to upgrade: certainly. Is java as bad as ActiveX in the browser: definately not.
3)Not Needed This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
The problem is of course that we - the average slashdotter - curses them for not getting broadband. It's fine for email and web surfing, but not for updating software and virus definitions. And what happens when we visit mom & dad? Website doesn't work -> get new IE (or firefox etc), do I have a virus? -> update virusscanner.
Last time I wanted to play a game they had the old MS driver installed for their nVidia card. No D3D support. Download unified driver from nVidia. Wait 1.5 hours and no surfing in between if you want to keep your nails.
BTW, in the Netherlands we had 27% broadband market penetration in end 2003 (just behind Belgium, which leads in the european market, which averages about 20%, end 2003 that is). And still going strong.
Of course some might question whether a siamesed pair of processors actually constitutes a single IC.....
As long as the software developers do (with their crazy per-processor schemes it doesn't matter. Microsoft got that right in one go (I still don't like them, but they seem to do more right lately). Others will probably follow suite, at least for the PC/small server market.
And the rest is academic. Call it what you like, as long as it speeds up my PC and gives me better response time? Since the processors do share resources on the IC - and it's almost impossible to not share some resources - lets call it one IC (and anyway, IC means integrated circuit, does say nothing on what the circuit constitutes).
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It's probably taken from the OO examples where a car IS_A vehicle and HAS_A steering wheel, a set of tires and CAN ride from A to B.
It is also used as an analogy for building software. But that analogy is as badly flawed as a cow. As are most other analogies with cars or cows in them.
Well, maybe they don't know the reasons, maybe they do. But "Management" has chosen the right languages for most current systems that do not have too much legacy code or a too low level interface in my opinion. Managed code and an up to date syntax is definately a plus. And there are plenty of software libraries available for either. Python of course shares some of these features.
f. There's no SCO crap in there, right?
That's for the courts to decide. M$ and Sun have already paid, so you can leave them out of the equasion.
1 Install XP SP1
2 Search on google on enabling (shitty) firewall
3 D'oh!!!
If I help people they often have only one computer. So new installs should not be taken lightly. Normally I prepare beforehand.
Weird. No-one with the simple answer. Go to your local kiosk. Buy the most interesting magazine with XP SP2 (hurry now, or they're gone). Install using CD provided.
I don't agree. I do like seperation of different programs, especially when both programs are named "the internet" for most users. A plugin that launches IE for the current page makes more sense. Just explain that if they do not want to be 0wned, use it sparingly.
Learn Java and C#? What the hell for? They are too much alike. Just use Java and J# (which is more or less Java 1.4 compatible) and .NET makes sure that you can switch at any time. To learn Java, try Eclipse - easy to install, easy to use IDE and free. Way better than the IDE of .NET (I tried both).
Now to get that Eric GUI installed (missing Qt, SIM - whatever that is - and PyQt, oh well). But I don't think it will go as far with supporting me as Eclipse does. The Python language seems to me too complex to parse the way Eclipse does while editing (try it before you knock it).
I cannot even get one thing done, let alone a cool 100, some of which certainly won't get you to grow old. But I must have mistaken the title :)
Copy: open-source+implementation of Ping IDm plementation+of+Ping+ID&btnG=Google+zoeken&lr=
Google paste: http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=open-source+i
First hit. No, wasn't wondering at all. But thanks for the link anyway.
Neh, the application should not even be aware of the different workspaces unless it has been specifically written for use of multiple workspaces. Otherwise every application should have specific code and (even worse) could do something different than any other application on the system. It's something for the window manager to handle.
Could it also be used for scanners? It would make it way more practical to see exactly where it is. This might even be used for a led handheld scanner. Especially if one would put 2 of these (laser powered) optical detectors on both sides.
You read it here first (I hope).
Yes, and that kind of reasoning has never served anybody anything. Remarks like that just kill the debate. The only thing you can do is look at the facts. If Kerry won and nobody looked at the facts, so be it, but that does not change the situation as it is.
You should not believe any claims that have such high numbers of success. Currently no facial recognition program can offer that. It's even the question if fingerprint identification has such high success rates though they will be undoubtedly be higher.
The question is if this is enough not to deploy biometrics. First of all, do you use it for authentication (passport) or identification (crowd scanning, door opening). The latter is a lot more difficult. Then there is the question if you accept the odd failure, and plan for it. For instance if you fail to authenticate at airport, there could be a separate line manned by humans. Unfortunately, the 1% will not be spread equally, some people might be unlucky a high percentage of the time.
Another problem that I've not mentioned is that there is a balance between false positives and false negatives. That is the difference between other persons being identified as you, and you not being identified. Most of the time there is a (delicate) balance between the two.
That's the problem with biometrics. You cannot just say if a certain failure rate is acceptable - it all depends on the parameters of the system you are using it in.
Do you know that I was wondering how you boiled the rice without the stove? You are all spoiled!
We've done fine so far? Would you mind telling that to all people that have died from infectuous diseases? We - as a species - have survived, yes, and I am not a bit worried about the survival of home sapiens by this threat. But that's not the point, is it? It's about the people catching the disease. I haven't got any idea if this will cause additional diseases, but being a bit careful never hurts.
What if I'm running it _in_ NLD? 'Cause I'm there already.
This is a good thing. One of the reasons that Java never took off from the desktop was that it didn't integrate with the native GUI. Nice to see OpenOffice not making the same mistake.
Too many linux applications still have horrible, unusable file selectors. It will never take off as long as such monstrosities are present everywhere.
This is one of the reasons why Windows is used by so many people. They do provide a more or less monotone interface. Even if the interface is horrible (like personalized menu's) it's horrible all over the place.
Only idiots think in black and white. There are middle ways. Most of Europe is using it. You don't have to have a stalinist regime to have a social healthcare. It's even cheaper in the long run. Going broke for the rest of your life because you *think* you have an unknown infectual dissease would even scare me off.
In a world where 1% of the people provides food and another one prevents housing, why can't you get free healthcare in America. It would cost a few percent of the war in Iraq (which will flood the hospitals in the years to come, even if the fighting would stop now).
Anyway, the repuplican party is showing the whole world that a country led by companies and bureaucratics can be equally bad to those regimes you just mentioned. It just takes most of the public in the US some time to catch up with the rest of the world on this.
And as a last point, yes, I would go to my doctor, and if he can't fix it or points in the direction of a specialist, THEN I would go to that doctor. How the hell should I know what I've caught if I just feel sick. I would check the diagnoses of the doctor as well though.
So they now have maybe hundreds of IP addresses, just for the slight hope that they can match one up for hundreds of suspects? Of witch they _already_ know the IP numbers? And they what have they got?
I think it is infinitely more useful to do it the other way around. Asking for IP numbers of persons that download nmap, and then check if these people are doing naughty things. This might also explain the lack of correct requests.
Lots of mistakes are made in UI design on a conceptual level. The article touches that slightly by explaining the importance of only showing the information/controls important to the user. But it goes much further.
To show some examples from firefox: there are many settings to control privacy/security. Many users do like these settings, but not for each site. If they trust a site, they don't mind popups, images from other servers etc. But firefox does not place the site central, but the control. That's simply not how a user _thinks_.
I've got a lot of other grieves, but I'll let that pass for now. Normally I only comment on programs that I find of great use to me, also because I try not to use the others at all. The screen real estate that firefox leaves me is for instance fantastic, and it is very uncluttered.
Lets make a deal: it is a bug in the security implementation of Java by Sun. Sheesh. That's what I said, didn't I?
:)
As for the ActiveX part: ActiveX does have a security implementation. You need to sign your ActiveX component to make it safe for scripting. There can be security leaks in that. For instance the ASN-1 decoder may have a buffer overrun exploit, to name a completely random example. Or you might release a few libraries with the same signing certificate, needing to update *all* the libraries instead of one (another completely random example).
Obviously, it does not have a sandbox implementation, so you're right with the "terminally bad" part
That goes for any plugin that you cross compile though. If you create a bug in the plugin you are in a mess on any platform (except if they are platform specific). Unfortunately, Java is a sort of META plugin, like flash etc. So there are many Java runtimes/plugins out there which all need to be patched. Also, with a platform dependent plugin you might need to do some cross compiling to the exploit as well. You will need to do something like that for the exploid anyway, deleting "boot.ini" on a linux system may not work.
There are differences. This is a bug in the security implementation of Sun. That's bad, since it goes for every platform. However, this is a single bug. With active X, you are in problems if there is a bug in *any* ActiveX component that is safe for scripting. So the target is way smaller with Java. Obviously that also makes it possible to vigourously (no spell check available - dang) test that part, so no excuse for Sun for not doing that.
Note that there are very few security notifications with Java. I can remember a few buffer exploits in the VM (not in the Java applications itself, that's impossible, unlike active X). Java makes it much easier to write secure code. So the chance on serious bugs occuring is smaller (bugs tend to be in the design, not so much in the implementation). But it is definately not a holy grail, mistakes can be made as you can see.
So is it a serious bug: answer YES. Does that make Java (/.NET managed code) a bad idea: NO. Do you need to upgrade: certainly. Is java as bad as ActiveX in the browser: definately not.
3)Not Needed
This is the most overlooked. Who needs broadband when all they do is ocationaly send and recieve email and do light web surfing for at most an hour a day? I'll agree that this isn't most slashdoters, but most of our parents are probably like this and probably our grandparents as well. Assuming that they even have internet much less a computer.
The problem is of course that we - the average slashdotter - curses them for not getting broadband. It's fine for email and web surfing, but not for updating software and virus definitions. And what happens when we visit mom & dad? Website doesn't work -> get new IE (or firefox etc), do I have a virus? -> update virusscanner.
Last time I wanted to play a game they had the old MS driver installed for their nVidia card. No D3D support. Download unified driver from nVidia. Wait 1.5 hours and no surfing in between if you want to keep your nails.
BTW, in the Netherlands we had 27% broadband market penetration in end 2003 (just behind Belgium, which leads in the european market, which averages about 20%, end 2003 that is). And still going strong.
Of course some might question whether a siamesed pair of processors actually constitutes a single IC.....
As long as the software developers do (with their crazy per-processor schemes it doesn't matter. Microsoft got that right in one go (I still don't like them, but they seem to do more right lately). Others will probably follow suite, at least for the PC/small server market.
And the rest is academic. Call it what you like, as long as it speeds up my PC and gives me better response time? Since the processors do share resources on the IC - and it's almost impossible to not share some resources - lets call it one IC (and anyway, IC means integrated circuit, does say nothing on what the circuit constitutes).
802 / 25 (say 12,5 pages per fold) ~ 32 folds, if you were wondering. Reading the book will be more work though.