Isn't this obvious? Linux is competing with Windows so it's no wonder MS doesn't like it. But not every Open Source app is competing with MS and why wouldn't they "love" those? After all Linux is not synonym to Open Source and vice versa.
To me Open Source is about the choice. The choice for the copyright owner to determine which licence to use while others have the choice to follow that licence or seek alternatives with other licences. Personally I use MIT a lot just for the reason that anyone, including Microsoft, is free to take my code and do what ever they like with it, just as long as my name is found somewhere in the code or in release.
Today Europeans in general and Germans particularly know what happens if you let governments screw around to much.
I take it you haven't been in Finland. We have some weird on-going process where our highest ranking police officer seems to be running some sort of political campaing to get every people under at least some kind of surveilance. Latest idea was to take finger prints of every citizen so that they could "solve serious crimes more easily". I really don't know how my finger prints are going to help solve serious crimes when I'm not the one making them.
Then there's our current government, which I thought was supposed to be liberal and all but ended up being as socialist as the former one, making all kinds of laws to protect the children (of course) and Nokia.
So if you have open positions for programmers in Germany I might be interested;)
In Finland one ISP markets their mobile internet to work "full speed all the time". Full speed is cleverly defined as "the maximum speed of the network at the time". So even if their service is transferring 1 byte per sec it's still "full speed" because it's "the current maximum speed of the network".
But I must say the same provider's ADSL works like a charm. 10 mbps as promised if only the other end can upload that fast.
Developers shouldn't necessarily participate in unit tests if you follow TDD and CI techniques. Automate your unit tests and the whole build environment and you get regression tests as a bonus.
I think that developer shouldn't test, at least, his own code. When ever I test my code it magically just works. When I pass it to someone else everything suddenly breaks. If you have to test your own code you need at least dedicated test environment.
In system tests developers are a big no-no. We are currently running system test for production control system in a real production environment, which is rather complex factory with robots and stuff. Developers tend to cut some corners by doing hot-fixes in the middle of the test and altering data directly into the database. They don't even tell us who did and what and most importantly why all the time! This makes it impossible to write decent bug reports for instance. The worst thing is that they are interfering with the tests when they should be fixing the reported bugs.
So there's couple of points why I think developer as a tester is (most likely) not a good thing. By hiring couple of tester, who knows their stuff, you really increase the quality of your product.
Russians tanks used halon system. Men was cheap, tanks weren't. Finland bought some tanks from them and the first thing they did was to get rid of the halon system.
As EmagGeek said, the dogs know it's you and you are no threat but its family member. That's why they don't seem to awake when you pass by. Our dogs are the same but if I go to the kitchen and take sausage from the fridge it's second or two and they are standing beside me asking if they can get a bite too:)
Now, here's a dog that seems to sleep all the time. It ususally goes somewhere in the middle of the apartment and lies down. In fact it positions itself to a place where it can monitor all of the activity and while it looks like just sleeping there it's ready for immediate action, and I can assure you, that action is propably lethal to anyone who gets in its way. It's originally bread to protect sheep flocks from wolves. I know couple of places where Caucasians are used just for that and they work as a charm.
I have huge respect for this breed but unfortunately I'm not experienced enough in dog training to own one. These aren't cute little poodles.
2. Get a motion sensor and a recording of a dog barking.
I went even further! I have two dogs, a German shepherd and a Leonberger. German shepher weights about 40 kilos and isn't afraid of anything or anyone. Leonberger weights some 60 kilos and can crack cow's femur in half with a single bite! They keep anyone out of the apartment when I'm not home. And when I'm home... Well, I have Baikal IJ-27 and a good aim;)
Just kidding. I have all of those but they aren't really for protection. But it would be really funny to see someone breaking in to the apartment:)
yes but it's not JS in the actual message that is causing problems, it's the HTML attachements (with JS). The message can look all find but when you open the HTML attachement all the nasty scripts are run.
Have you noticed that the distance from your house to the nearest drug store is constant but the distance back from the drug store changes vastly depending the prescription? Weird shit. Once it took me a week to even remember where I lived!
You're right. It would be horrible piece of script/code to write so that it a) removes all the Evil tags 100% and b) doesn't mess up any legit tag. I can think only one way to achieve this: the server itself would have to run the attachment(s) in a sandbox with multiple browsers and check if there's anything suspicious going on. I think it would kill the server.
Yes, I know that. I was talking from the point of Joe Average who doesn't know a s**t. And my point was, you can add extra layers, warning dialogs and yellow warning bars as many you like for these kinds of attacks but still you have to give user to option just to run those scripts. Someone eventually runs them and the attacker has won.
I just tested this. I send a message to my Hotmail box with HTML file as attachement. HTML file contains single script tag with document.location = 'http://google.com' inside. I opened the mail and opened the attachement. Internet Explorer asks if I want to save "test.html" or open it. This should ring bells big time but I understand that normal user doesn't get it and goes and opens the attachment. So I went and clicked Open and was redirected to google.com.
Now if I save the file and try to open it from the local folder I get nice yellow warning bar telling me that the file contains An Evil Script and if I really, really want to open it I must explicitly allow the script to run. If I go and allow the script then I'm at google.com again.
It seems that this is a simple, direct and rather effective attack against Joe Averages who just want to get rid of the stupid warning dialogs and open up everything that is sent to them. If Google can come up with a generic solution for this, other than try to rip off every HTML tag from the mails and their attachements, I really applaud them.
Maybe the browser shouldn't be allowed to be redirected outside the current domain by default? But then again, there would have to be warning dialog for that and Joe Average would still be out of luck.
It doesn't matter. If CO2 causes temperature to rise, which causes CO2 to rise, which causes temperature to rise, ad infinitum, it doesn't matter where the CO2 comes from (from volcanoes, humans, cows) or how quick the rise of the CO2 in the atmosphere is, still at some point temperature would've been so high that nothing would've survived; and it still should be because if you believe IPCC gang that there's no negative feedback to cool the earth (or at least I haven't heard then talking such thing). This whole thing sounds like a big false premise.
The really interesting thing is what have caused temperature and CO2 to drop in the past?
The whole reason why GW is perceived as so dangerous is that it is a positive feedback loop - warming up means more CO2 means more warming up
This can hold true. Earth has been warmer and there's been more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past. Still we aren't burnt to crisp. If positive feedback would work as advertised the temperature should have been rising ever since the pliocene epoch. Because this haven't happened there must be some negative feedback that cools the planet when it gets too hot.
And besides, if I'm correct TFA talks about the ice which is so high above the sea level that the temperature there is below freezing point the whole year, like Mt. Kilimanjaro. I'm not sure how global warming could cause ice to melt below freezing point.
Are we talking about the same Artic ice here. It's quite understandable that ice melts at summer. There's anything special about this year.
Meanwhile in Antarctic. At the end of June, Southern Hemisphere mid-winter, the sea ice surrounding Antarctica was more than two standard deviations greater than normal.
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I realized the exact thing the minute I clicked reply button. But to my defence I can say that English isn't my first language :)
I guess that FB, or its owners, is planning something which is called Teachbook behind the scenes? (rhetoric question)
If they aren't real and people get poisoned I'd say it's just natural selection.
Isn't this obvious? Linux is competing with Windows so it's no wonder MS doesn't like it. But not every Open Source app is competing with MS and why wouldn't they "love" those? After all Linux is not synonym to Open Source and vice versa.
To me Open Source is about the choice. The choice for the copyright owner to determine which licence to use while others have the choice to follow that licence or seek alternatives with other licences. Personally I use MIT a lot just for the reason that anyone, including Microsoft, is free to take my code and do what ever they like with it, just as long as my name is found somewhere in the code or in release.
I take it you haven't been in Finland. We have some weird on-going process where our highest ranking police officer seems to be running some sort of political campaing to get every people under at least some kind of surveilance. Latest idea was to take finger prints of every citizen so that they could "solve serious crimes more easily". I really don't know how my finger prints are going to help solve serious crimes when I'm not the one making them.
Then there's our current government, which I thought was supposed to be liberal and all but ended up being as socialist as the former one, making all kinds of laws to protect the children (of course) and Nokia.
So if you have open positions for programmers in Germany I might be interested ;)
In Finland one ISP markets their mobile internet to work "full speed all the time". Full speed is cleverly defined as "the maximum speed of the network at the time". So even if their service is transferring 1 byte per sec it's still "full speed" because it's "the current maximum speed of the network".
But I must say the same provider's ADSL works like a charm. 10 mbps as promised if only the other end can upload that fast.
Developers shouldn't necessarily participate in unit tests if you follow TDD and CI techniques. Automate your unit tests and the whole build environment and you get regression tests as a bonus.
I think that developer shouldn't test, at least, his own code. When ever I test my code it magically just works. When I pass it to someone else everything suddenly breaks. If you have to test your own code you need at least dedicated test environment.
In system tests developers are a big no-no. We are currently running system test for production control system in a real production environment, which is rather complex factory with robots and stuff. Developers tend to cut some corners by doing hot-fixes in the middle of the test and altering data directly into the database. They don't even tell us who did and what and most importantly why all the time! This makes it impossible to write decent bug reports for instance. The worst thing is that they are interfering with the tests when they should be fixing the reported bugs.
So there's couple of points why I think developer as a tester is (most likely) not a good thing. By hiring couple of tester, who knows their stuff, you really increase the quality of your product.
Russians tanks used halon system. Men was cheap, tanks weren't. Finland bought some tanks from them and the first thing they did was to get rid of the halon system.
Heh. Ass translated to Finnish is perse. But what I didn't know was that asses has IDs :)
As EmagGeek said, the dogs know it's you and you are no threat but its family member. That's why they don't seem to awake when you pass by. Our dogs are the same but if I go to the kitchen and take sausage from the fridge it's second or two and they are standing beside me asking if they can get a bite too :)
Now, here's a dog that seems to sleep all the time. It ususally goes somewhere in the middle of the apartment and lies down. In fact it positions itself to a place where it can monitor all of the activity and while it looks like just sleeping there it's ready for immediate action, and I can assure you, that action is propably lethal to anyone who gets in its way. It's originally bread to protect sheep flocks from wolves. I know couple of places where Caucasians are used just for that and they work as a charm.
I have huge respect for this breed but unfortunately I'm not experienced enough in dog training to own one. These aren't cute little poodles.
I went even further! I have two dogs, a German shepherd and a Leonberger. German shepher weights about 40 kilos and isn't afraid of anything or anyone. Leonberger weights some 60 kilos and can crack cow's femur in half with a single bite! They keep anyone out of the apartment when I'm not home. And when I'm home... Well, I have Baikal IJ-27 and a good aim ;)
Just kidding. I have all of those but they aren't really for protection. But it would be really funny to see someone breaking in to the apartment :)
Poor small-brained me :(
yes but it's not JS in the actual message that is causing problems, it's the HTML attachements (with JS). The message can look all find but when you open the HTML attachement all the nasty scripts are run.
Have you noticed that the distance from your house to the nearest drug store is constant but the distance back from the drug store changes vastly depending the prescription? Weird shit. Once it took me a week to even remember where I lived!
You're right. It would be horrible piece of script/code to write so that it a) removes all the Evil tags 100% and b) doesn't mess up any legit tag. I can think only one way to achieve this: the server itself would have to run the attachment(s) in a sandbox with multiple browsers and check if there's anything suspicious going on. I think it would kill the server.
Yes, I know that. I was talking from the point of Joe Average who doesn't know a s**t. And my point was, you can add extra layers, warning dialogs and yellow warning bars as many you like for these kinds of attacks but still you have to give user to option just to run those scripts. Someone eventually runs them and the attacker has won.
I just tested this. I send a message to my Hotmail box with HTML file as attachement. HTML file contains single script tag with document.location = 'http://google.com' inside. I opened the mail and opened the attachement. Internet Explorer asks if I want to save "test.html" or open it. This should ring bells big time but I understand that normal user doesn't get it and goes and opens the attachment. So I went and clicked Open and was redirected to google.com.
Now if I save the file and try to open it from the local folder I get nice yellow warning bar telling me that the file contains An Evil Script and if I really, really want to open it I must explicitly allow the script to run. If I go and allow the script then I'm at google.com again.
It seems that this is a simple, direct and rather effective attack against Joe Averages who just want to get rid of the stupid warning dialogs and open up everything that is sent to them. If Google can come up with a generic solution for this, other than try to rip off every HTML tag from the mails and their attachements, I really applaud them.
Maybe the browser shouldn't be allowed to be redirected outside the current domain by default? But then again, there would have to be warning dialog for that and Joe Average would still be out of luck.
It doesn't matter. If CO2 causes temperature to rise, which causes CO2 to rise, which causes temperature to rise, ad infinitum, it doesn't matter where the CO2 comes from (from volcanoes, humans, cows) or how quick the rise of the CO2 in the atmosphere is, still at some point temperature would've been so high that nothing would've survived; and it still should be because if you believe IPCC gang that there's no negative feedback to cool the earth (or at least I haven't heard then talking such thing). This whole thing sounds like a big false premise.
The really interesting thing is what have caused temperature and CO2 to drop in the past?
Hmph. The first sentence should be: This can't hold true.
This can hold true. Earth has been warmer and there's been more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past. Still we aren't burnt to crisp. If positive feedback would work as advertised the temperature should have been rising ever since the pliocene epoch. Because this haven't happened there must be some negative feedback that cools the planet when it gets too hot.
And besides, if I'm correct TFA talks about the ice which is so high above the sea level that the temperature there is below freezing point the whole year, like Mt. Kilimanjaro. I'm not sure how global warming could cause ice to melt below freezing point.
Well, I'm not panicking even though polar bears are dying here in Finland ;)
Are we talking about the same Artic ice here. It's quite understandable that ice melts at summer. There's anything special about this year.
Meanwhile in Antarctic. At the end of June, Southern Hemisphere mid-winter, the sea ice surrounding Antarctica was more than two standard deviations greater than normal.
Touch screen with tongue support \o/
The video is really stupid but here you go Windows Touch
But it doesn't show line-endings! (allthought I expect they both use \n) :)