The problem with these kind' a "hacks" is that they're "hacks".
It's an inelegant solution. The script introduces too many dependencies (shell version, paths, etc...) and the whole idea of a gui front end to scripts, is bad design, in my opinion.
An elegant design would be to have X or something, expose an API for video hardware configuration, that way the gui calls the api programmatically, and everything's much more robust.
Linux is too disorganized and has too many developers with different opinions that it's VERY hard to implement standards for anything.
Your arguments are indeed true, so you would probably agree to that getting "better" engineers into NASA, as the grand-parent propsed, won't solve the problem.
Assigning these engineers to managerial positions might, though.
As a non-english speaker, I can tell you that it's "hard" to see that although "lose" is spelled with just one 'o' it's pronounced as "looz" and not "loz".
I assure you, politicians don't build probes nor space shuttles.
Real engineers worked on these amazing technological feats, and... accidents happen. People make mistakes. it's all part of being human.
ranting about it, or making ridiculous claims like, no real engineers working for nasa, just discredits any of your other, possibly correct, claims.
Perhaps, one day after Drive-By Downloads are stopped,
a new era could emerge... A time in which east-side nerds could live side by side with west-side nerds.
It was the first polymorphic virus. And it was undetectable with traditional means (didn't alter the exes' CRC)
A polymorphic virus just changes itself a little bit with each infection. obviously, it does alter the executable's "CRC". (I'm double quoting the word CRC since you've failed to mention the hashing algorithm used to generate this number. Currently, changing a file's contents without changing it's md5sum or a sha1sum, for instance is highly unprobable. that is, assuming that sha1 or md5 is used... you get the point)
For those of you wondering, here's a short explanation from www.xaml.net:
Transaction Authority Markup Language (XAML) is a vendor-neutral standard that enables the coordination and processing of online transactions in the rapidly emerging world of XML web services - the revolutionary new model of Internet-based computing that is now being adopted by all major systems and software vendors. XAML is intended to be a completely open standard for web-based business transactions.
The standard defines a set of XML message formats and interaction models that web services can use in order to provide business-level transactions that span multiple parties across the Internet.
Exactly, I completely agree with you on this one. It's one thing to create an exploit i.e. to research a given application, Look for bugs, and exploit them on your own.
But it's a completely different thing, to use an exploit for an already documented vulnerability.
I doubt his "skills" are any better than an average programmer. Furthermore, he has proved that he used his average skills for "evil".
What good is there to be said about this kind' a guy?
People seem to think that everything that google ever does is a god-sent gift!
I think it's about time (Especially after the IPO), that people would realize that google, is first and foremost a company that's "in-it" for the money. with the word, money, being a key-word, especially when it comes to its shareholders.
Soon enough, pressure from that direction would reach into company policy, and google would cease "doing no evil"...
I suggest, that we should all objectively judge each and every new product or service that google offers.
Personally, I think a whole lot of very talented people are working together on the mozilla project, and they've been doing so for years. Why would anyone with a right-mind think that google could do any better in the short term?
If anything, A usable product is YEARS from being ready, and by that time, who knows how powerful and advanced firefox or some other "now-working" browser would become?
For windows there's Miranda.
It supports all major protocols, including Jabber, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! and others.
Miranda is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation.
It loads up in just a few seconds on my pc.
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The problem with these kind' a "hacks" is that they're "hacks".
It's an inelegant solution. The script introduces too many dependencies (shell version, paths, etc...) and the whole idea of a gui front end to scripts, is bad design, in my opinion.
An elegant design would be to have X or something, expose an API for video hardware configuration, that way the gui calls the api programmatically, and everything's much more robust.
Linux is too disorganized and has too many developers with different opinions that it's VERY hard to implement standards for anything.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/bdfc0ad7cef604a1a f6b98722b0f530f/index.html
Your arguments are indeed true, so you would probably agree to that getting "better" engineers into NASA, as the grand-parent propsed, won't solve the problem.
Assigning these engineers to managerial positions might, though.
As a non-english speaker, I can tell you that it's "hard" to see that although "lose" is spelled with just one 'o' it's pronounced as "looz" and not "loz".
I assure you, politicians don't build probes nor space shuttles.
... accidents happen. People make mistakes. it's all part of being human.
Real engineers worked on these amazing technological feats, and
ranting about it, or making ridiculous claims like, no real engineers working for nasa, just discredits any of your other, possibly correct, claims.
Perhaps, one day after Drive-By Downloads are stopped, a new era could emerge...
A time in which east-side nerds could live side by side with west-side nerds.
I have a dream...
A polymorphic virus just changes itself a little bit with each infection.
obviously, it does alter the executable's "CRC".
(I'm double quoting the word CRC since you've failed to mention the hashing algorithm used to generate this number. Currently, changing a file's contents without changing it's md5sum or a sha1sum, for instance is highly unprobable. that is, assuming that sha1 or md5 is used... you get the point)
A battery Sticker? You need to wait 5 to 10 charge cycles to notice anything? somehow this sounds like snake oil to me...
For those of you wondering, here's a short explanation from www.xaml.net:
Transaction Authority Markup Language (XAML) is a vendor-neutral standard that enables the coordination and processing of online transactions in the rapidly emerging world of XML web services - the revolutionary new model of Internet-based computing that is now being adopted by all major systems and software vendors. XAML is intended to be a completely open standard for web-based business transactions.
The standard defines a set of XML message formats and interaction models that web services can use in order to provide business-level transactions that span multiple parties across the Internet.
will Syllable be the one to do to Windows what Firefox has done to IE?
:P
I sure hope not!
Would be a shame to have all the countless hours spent installing my Gentoo, go to waste...
A million monkeys can write Shakespeare, but it only takes one to mess up an election.
I'm a proud Bush voter, You insensitive clod!
Exactly, I completely agree with you on this one.
It's one thing to create an exploit i.e. to research a given application, Look for bugs, and exploit them on your own.
But it's a completely different thing, to use an exploit for an already documented vulnerability.
I doubt his "skills" are any better than an average programmer.
Furthermore, he has proved that he used his average skills for "evil".
What good is there to be said about this kind' a guy?
People seem to think that everything that google ever does is a god-sent gift!
...
I think it's about time (Especially after the IPO), that people would realize that google, is first and foremost a company that's "in-it" for the money.
with the word, money, being a key-word,
especially when it comes to its shareholders.
Soon enough, pressure from that direction would reach into company policy, and google would cease "doing no evil"
I suggest, that we should all objectively judge each and every new product or service that google offers.
Personally, I think a whole lot of very talented people are working together on the mozilla project, and they've been doing so for years.
Why would anyone with a right-mind think
that google could do any better in the short term?
If anything, A usable product is YEARS from being ready, and by that time, who knows how powerful and advanced firefox or some other "now-working" browser would become?
For windows there's Miranda. It supports all major protocols, including Jabber, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! and others. Miranda is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. It loads up in just a few seconds on my pc.
... Microsoft's conscious would never allow that!