i'm sorry? how is the fact that users would rather changeover to Mozilla than upgrade IE not something for MS to worry about? Shows that people changing see more to benefit going to Mozilla than going to the next version of IE... what happens when everyone gets told to upgrade to IE7?
funny... i always thought explorer.exe used those API's as well;)
also, windows update needs IE.
98SE is insecure by default, just ask any script kiddie who knows how to use netbios.
serious...? i find hdd's don't die very often at all for me... and i can't say i've ever had a cpu fan die before the cpu was that old the computer was no longer in use.
gfx card fans however... >:|
odd, considering one of THE most common things in a computer to stop working is the PSU fan, and they all require you to open them up and sometimes solder in a new one.
When was the last time you saw someone firmware upgrade a building? This analogy is hardly acurate. Software is correctable. I would hardly consider something like this "Dangerous" as the previous poster put it.
poor point, it is exactly this kind of mentality that needs to be fixed.
I'm sure a pharmaceuticals company that accidentally slipped cyanide into their drugs could recall their products and fix it later after they find out, but they're still responsible for the damage done.
You don't consider having someone host a high traffic kiddie porn server over YOUR internet connection dangerous? Such a thing could happen when vulnerabilities like this are just accepted.
Having your firewall vulnerable on the Internet is hardly a serious issue.
I challenge that, what about small businesses that use devices such as this for their internet connection? As well as just being a nuisance that a hacker could shut down their internet connection, the firewall could also be used as a stepping stone into the network, or hiijacked to become a mass spam server, or used as a relay for someone doing something nasty to a government webserver.
Maybe far fetched situations... but situations that could occur nonetheless, and i'm sure something that you yourself would want to make the party responsible pay for.
this always interests me how people from other countries talk of how WEP is never turned on.
I'm from Australia and every ADSL wireless router or whatever that i have seen has WEP on by default and it comes with its own setup stuff on the cd that configures WEP without joe user even realising it.
so what is the case with routers where you come from? do they just come with installation software that sets everything up automagically but for some insane reason doesn't configure WEP? or is joe user actually expected to set it all up himself and that's why WEP never gets done?
honestly these sort of completely blatant and downright dangerous security holes in software i think should pave the way for making developers culpable for damages incurred by defects in their software.
I mean honestly, if a Surgeon said that they sewed up a hole in your stomach but really didn't they would be considered criminally negligent wouldn't they? How is a company allowed to release something as obviously dangerous as this to the public without having some sort of liability?
... if the camera is 500MP then yes the digital zoom would in fact be useful, being that the resolution is so massive you can keep zooming in and zooming in for a very long time before there's any noticable degradation in image quality (assuming a perfect lense etc here which is not possible).
what i'm pretty sure he meant was, say take a photo from 200m above a busy city st, and u could sit there for hours and hours just zooming in on that photo looking at cracks in the sidewalk or the hairs on peoples heads.
*sigh* sometimes i wonder where the unbelievers still come from.
I suggest a test, we get two computers, same hardware exactly, get a windows professional to setup win2k3 with latest version of IIS as best he can on one computer, and do the same with a linux professional and debian/gentoo/SuSe and apache on another.
now, put each computer on it's own connection, exactly the same, and setup a page with a heap of images or something, same on each.
then post a link to each machine on the main page of slashdot and see who screams first >=)
there are reasons why a huge percentage of the people who have an actual decent interest in computers espouse the benefits of linux and piss on windows all the time; it's not ALL just silly bigotry and bias;)
I thought that capacitors were measured in farads, ie. time it takes to lose the charge afterwards, so really any capacitor can be charged to a huge voltage it's just some will zap for longer.
that's my understanding of them anyway, so in fact there's no such thing as a "high voltage" capacitor
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i'm sorry? how is the fact that users would rather changeover to Mozilla than upgrade IE not something for MS to worry about? Shows that people changing see more to benefit going to Mozilla than going to the next version of IE... what happens when everyone gets told to upgrade to IE7?
you could always just work a little harder and make it work in both ;)
at work quite often people pay for whole new computers and laptops with cash.. can't see why but there you go.
funny... i always thought explorer.exe used those API's as well ;)
also, windows update needs IE.
98SE is insecure by default, just ask any script kiddie who knows how to use netbios.
the fact that they say the magnets will be able to much more easily be made to a certain strength and shape etc. may mean that aint such a bad thought
serious...? i find hdd's don't die very often at all for me... and i can't say i've ever had a cpu fan die before the cpu was that old the computer was no longer in use. gfx card fans however... >:|
odd, considering one of THE most common things in a computer to stop working is the PSU fan, and they all require you to open them up and sometimes solder in a new one.
awesome, now we get the beauty of tabs with the fun of IE sploits ;)
Is this really all that incredibly different from ACTUALLY spraying say salt water hooked up to a charge?
poor point, it is exactly this kind of mentality that needs to be fixed.
I'm sure a pharmaceuticals company that accidentally slipped cyanide into their drugs could recall their products and fix it later after they find out, but they're still responsible for the damage done.
You don't consider having someone host a high traffic kiddie porn server over YOUR internet connection dangerous? Such a thing could happen when vulnerabilities like this are just accepted.
I challenge that, what about small businesses that use devices such as this for their internet connection? As well as just being a nuisance that a hacker could shut down their internet connection, the firewall could also be used as a stepping stone into the network, or hiijacked to become a mass spam server, or used as a relay for someone doing something nasty to a government webserver.
Maybe far fetched situations... but situations that could occur nonetheless, and i'm sure something that you yourself would want to make the party responsible pay for.
this always interests me how people from other countries talk of how WEP is never turned on. I'm from Australia and every ADSL wireless router or whatever that i have seen has WEP on by default and it comes with its own setup stuff on the cd that configures WEP without joe user even realising it. so what is the case with routers where you come from? do they just come with installation software that sets everything up automagically but for some insane reason doesn't configure WEP? or is joe user actually expected to set it all up himself and that's why WEP never gets done?
I mean honestly, if a Surgeon said that they sewed up a hole in your stomach but really didn't they would be considered criminally negligent wouldn't they? How is a company allowed to release something as obviously dangerous as this to the public without having some sort of liability?
... if the camera is 500MP then yes the digital zoom would in fact be useful, being that the resolution is so massive you can keep zooming in and zooming in for a very long time before there's any noticable degradation in image quality (assuming a perfect lense etc here which is not possible). what i'm pretty sure he meant was, say take a photo from 200m above a busy city st, and u could sit there for hours and hours just zooming in on that photo looking at cracks in the sidewalk or the hairs on peoples heads.
*sigh* sometimes i wonder where the unbelievers still come from. I suggest a test, we get two computers, same hardware exactly, get a windows professional to setup win2k3 with latest version of IIS as best he can on one computer, and do the same with a linux professional and debian/gentoo/SuSe and apache on another. now, put each computer on it's own connection, exactly the same, and setup a page with a heap of images or something, same on each. then post a link to each machine on the main page of slashdot and see who screams first >=) there are reasons why a huge percentage of the people who have an actual decent interest in computers espouse the benefits of linux and piss on windows all the time; it's not ALL just silly bigotry and bias ;)
I thought that capacitors were measured in farads, ie. time it takes to lose the charge afterwards, so really any capacitor can be charged to a huge voltage it's just some will zap for longer. that's my understanding of them anyway, so in fact there's no such thing as a "high voltage" capacitor
haven't missed any stereotypes there have you? no, no i think you got most of them.
the original post said an output of 100W of heat; one would assume all the heat stays as heat.
Watts is a measure of energy, heat is energy.