A single incorrect critical line of code has the potential to bring down a system just like a single loose coupling on a remote control aircraft will bring turn it into a pile of broken wood.
You're missing the point. As long as that wood doesn't burn during the crash, the carbon remains sequestered!
Dynamically typed, object-oriented, with features like lexical closures that are usually only found in advanced programming languages like Lisp, Javascript is really a great language that has gotten a bad rap.
I for one wish JS have the same broad success as Lisp!
Having worked for an ad-serving company, I'm pretty confident that the reason they don't care is that they're not measured on the speed at which they serve up ads.
If high-value websites started rejecting ad networks that served ads in less then x milliseconds after the rest of the page was downloaded, you'd see ad servers speed up, quick.
Don't know about you kid, but a doc sticking his hand into my insides is one of those situations where I'm willing to forego the 'benefit' of having my immune system stimulated by germs being introduced in the process and ask him to wash up.
And just pray that it's his hands that go under the plasma.
is a definitive software engineering treatise on the history of IE security exploits.
Yup. We definitely need a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" for what Microsoft has done to us. Whether or not to prosecute them later is a political decision.;)
"Ignorance of the law is no defense" made sense when the law closely resembled the common set of morals and ethics shared by 99% of society. Clearly that is no longer the case, and I wonder how long it will be before, at least in some cases, ignorance of a law that reasonably couldn't have been known or understood ahead of time does become a valid defense.
Agreed, but there are a few problems with what you're saying.
(1) The organized people with guns don't care whether or not you think ignorance a valid defense.
(2) The rest of us can't be bothered o fix (1). (And by "fix", I don't mean armed revolution. I mean vote into office legislators and executives who will insist on a civicly virtuous set of laws and lawmaking processes.)
Ignorance of law is not a defense in a court of law, yet people are subject to laws they cannot read in detail. Doesn't seem very nuanced. It seems a very straightforward violation of basic principles of civics.
Unfortunately, fundamental injustices in the legal system are not seen by courts as valid justification for avoiding punishment.
I think copyrighted laws are unjust, in similar measure, to:
Legal proceedings that are so expensive that merely defending oneself can cause bankruptcy, even when innocent.
Being bound by laws that even the lawmakers didn't read, or that were bought with bribes / campaign contributions.
'If the power grid was taken off line in the middle of winter and it caused people to suffer and die, that would galvanize the nation. I hope we don't get there.
If 9/11 was any indication, our national response would be characterized by...
NSA snooping into all of our computers, and "state secrets" claimed whenever we tried to invoke the 4th Amendment in court.
A few massive, no-bid contracts by the Federal Government which achieve almost nothing of value.
RIAA/MPAA sleezeballs capitalizing on it in ways I don't even want to contemplate.
Possibly an insane (think Sarbanes-Oxley) amount of red tape added to many computer installations in the country.
Republicans and Democrats somehow finding a way to blame each other for this, deadlocking the Legislature for a while, and then in some kind of last-minute spasm, pass an appaling bill to just have the appearance of doing something.
Only in my wildest fantasies would such an attack mobilize the country to have a rational, balanced cyber-security posture.
Does anyone know when AMD/ATI will be releasing notebook version of its 5000-line chips, and how they're expected to compare to chips currently on the market from them and from nVidia?
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You're missing the point. As long as that wood doesn't burn during the crash, the carbon remains sequestered!
Why - what are you talking about?
I can't really see how Microsoft can afford this...
It appears that New Zealand does extradite to the U.S.
I guess the question is whether or not the U.S. will request it.
I for one wish JS have the same broad success as Lisp!
Touche.
Actually, you need to email it to me and the next ten people in your email list. Break the chain and somewhere a puppy will die!
Anonymous!?!
Can you send that to me in a Flash file?
Having worked for an ad-serving company, I'm pretty confident that the reason they don't care is that they're not measured on the speed at which they serve up ads.
If high-value websites started rejecting ad networks that served ads in less then x milliseconds after the rest of the page was downloaded, you'd see ad servers speed up, quick.
I think you're totally off-base in your analysis. You forgot to take the square root of the hand-waving coefficient.
Shut up, Jennifer.
And just pray that it's his hands that go under the plasma.
Whereas an autoclave, which sterilizes using heat, only works on the proton, quark, and meringue pie levels?
This will give Ubuntu the mainstream credibility we've been seeking!
You haven't spent much time with Marketing people, have you?
He's strange like that.
Yup. We definitely need a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" for what Microsoft has done to us. Whether or not to prosecute them later is a political decision. ;)
I actually do pay use tax, and the fact that no one else does really makes me feel like a chump.
I'm not sure. Let me look it up in KBlasphemy.
I have friends working for the Navy who are taking > 6 months just to order a fscking desktop computer.
I doubt the DoD is capable of pulling this off.
And we're supposed to feel bad about nuking the Japanese to end the war?
Fuck them. If they didn't want to die, the didn't have to attack us.
"Ignorance of the law is no defense" made sense when the law closely resembled the common set of morals and ethics shared by 99% of society. Clearly that is no longer the case, and I wonder how long it will be before, at least in some cases, ignorance of a law that reasonably couldn't have been known or understood ahead of time does become a valid defense.
Agreed, but there are a few problems with what you're saying.
(1) The organized people with guns don't care whether or not you think ignorance a valid defense.
(2) The rest of us can't be bothered o fix (1). (And by "fix", I don't mean armed revolution. I mean vote into office legislators and executives who will insist on a civicly virtuous set of laws and lawmaking processes.)
Ignorance of law is not a defense in a court of law, yet people are subject to laws they cannot read in detail. Doesn't seem very nuanced. It seems a very straightforward violation of basic principles of civics.
Unfortunately, fundamental injustices in the legal system are not seen by courts as valid justification for avoiding punishment.
I think copyrighted laws are unjust, in similar measure, to:
If 9/11 was any indication, our national response would be characterized by...
Only in my wildest fantasies would such an attack mobilize the country to have a rational, balanced cyber-security posture.
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but...
Does anyone know when AMD/ATI will be releasing notebook version of its 5000-line chips, and how they're expected to compare to chips currently on the market from them and from nVidia?