Personally, I'm waiting for clang to reach feature / compatibility parity with gcc. It should be able to compile code faster than gcc and in many cases produce better optimised binaries. But there is still a lot of work to be done.
There's an option in gmail for domains you can change to use the latest version if you want the bleeding edge features. But this setting probably wouldn't help with the type of outage that happened this week.
But even if somebody is friends with the MAFIAA, that doesn't mean they can work out who you are. If the protocol is built correctly, (no I'm not going to read it) you would have to compromise every relationship between sender and receiver to work out who anybody else really is.
Nodes on this network know their immediate neighbors (friends), and pass messages around, but don't necessarily know anything about who the end points are.
That's a pretty good idea. Show a little red open / green closed padlock in the corner of every password field based on the protocol of the receiving page.
By their own admission, releasing all that "free" content has helped them to sell more copies of the game. Eventually the revenue from new sales will slow and we will see the release of new "official" content slow as well. Though I hope this is a long way off.
Science isn't a science at all. By that I mean the scientific method has not been derived through observation, experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
The 90's recession should have been much worse, enough to pull the debt to income ratio back into line. It would have sucked, it may have been nearly as bad as the Great Depression. Instead since then almost every western country has been running their economies on credit cards and home loans leading to stupefying ludicrous bat-shit insane levels of debt. And when they ran out of rational borrowers, they started lending out money to anyone with a pulse with no credit checks and invented all those stupid ways of hiding the risk that you mentioned.
So now that the whole mess has been exposed and house of cards is finally *starting* to fall, there is simply no way to stop it. It's going to hurt and it's going to effect absolutely everyone. No investment or currency will be safe.
Ah, it's nice to see an appropriate level of pessimism. Judging from the last few times something like this happened to the economy it could take up to 15 years before growth and employment returns to "normal". Though our level of debt is much worse than at any time in history, so even that estimate might be too optimistic.
I don't have a problem with this kind of FPU chip provided the *programmer* has full control over the minimum accuracy of the numbers being calculated. I could see this working for example if a new type of floating point was added to the programming language / compiler that specified a minimum level of accuracy so the assembler can choose which FPU should process the calculation.
And besides, we don't store the plain 0's and 1's from your binary file on the disk. There's an extra layer of encoding to make sure there are no long runs of 0's or 1's and to add some error correction coding.
Encoding a binary stream into these 4 states (clockwise, counter-clockwise, in, out) might have even more complex rules. Like maybe you can't record two of these "tornadoes" next to each other unless the directions are opposite. Who knows how many data bits you could actually store per magnetic bit.
Bah, I used Ajax style techniques with iframes or java applets years before I ever heard of XMLHttpRequest.
While microsoft engineers may have been in a better place to establish a standard way of doing it, Ajax is an obvious idea, and many people can claim to have implemented it.
If you just add randomness to every frame, it would look like a mess. The tricky part is to draw each frame with the same randomness so it doesn't jump around. Which of course means you aren't drawing it very randomly at all...
Explorer will often go off to the network for various reasons and lock up the task bar if the remote host doesn't exist or won't let you login.
I don't have an exhaustive list of things to look for, but you can start by checking for any shortcuts in your start menu / quick launch that have their icon on the network and clear out your nethood folder.
Australia is migrating to swipe and pin for credit cards right now. But then our merchant payment systems have allowed swipe and pin for paying with a savings account for a long time, so I don't think the limitations were for technical reasons.
Another point, how many of those wireless AP's are really being used as wireless AP's? If you knock around you may find someone using a direct cable connection who didn't even know the wireless was turned on....
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't do this to support older applications. If they have separate sand-boxed VM's for each legacy app they can break backwards compatibility to fix bugs or security problems.
Why? Do you route to slashdot via your companies VPN and web proxy? The first thing I do after connecting to the VPN is fix the routing table so all the office IP's are reachable via the VPN, but everything else goes straight out my ADSL modem.
I once received a screen shot in a word document of the client's email program. Inside the email being viewed was a screen shot of MS Paint. Inside MS Paint was a screen shot of our application with red circles drawn around certain fields to highlight them.
A couple of guys at work set up an XMPP client that can control some scrolling text on a monitor. Perhaps if you first concentrate on making it easy to display something, you will later think of interesting things to display.
To make it a perfect attack you need to either compromise DNS / BGP or sit in the middle of the data stream. I'm guessing the authors example does not do these things, so firefox and any other browser should complain. But if you were to setup a server with the fake mozilla.org cert and then redirect mozilla.org to this server via your hosts file, your browser would not complain at all.
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Personally, I'm waiting for clang to reach feature / compatibility parity with gcc. It should be able to compile code faster than gcc and in many cases produce better optimised binaries. But there is still a lot of work to be done.
There's an option in gmail for domains you can change to use the latest version if you want the bleeding edge features. But this setting probably wouldn't help with the type of outage that happened this week.
But even if somebody is friends with the MAFIAA, that doesn't mean they can work out who you are. If the protocol is built correctly, (no I'm not going to read it) you would have to compromise every relationship between sender and receiver to work out who anybody else really is.
Nodes on this network know their immediate neighbors (friends), and pass messages around, but don't necessarily know anything about who the end points are.
That's a pretty good idea. Show a little red open / green closed padlock in the corner of every password field based on the protocol of the receiving page.
By their own admission, releasing all that "free" content has helped them to sell more copies of the game. Eventually the revenue from new sales will slow and we will see the release of new "official" content slow as well. Though I hope this is a long way off.
Science isn't an exact science
Science isn't a science at all. By that I mean the scientific method has not been derived through observation, experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
Though valve posting that update news is *why* this short film has gotten so much attention.
Just in case you haven't seen this yet; Job Losses In Recent Recessions
The 90's recession should have been much worse, enough to pull the debt to income ratio back into line. It would have sucked, it may have been nearly as bad as the Great Depression. Instead since then almost every western country has been running their economies on credit cards and home loans leading to stupefying ludicrous bat-shit insane levels of debt. And when they ran out of rational borrowers, they started lending out money to anyone with a pulse with no credit checks and invented all those stupid ways of hiding the risk that you mentioned.
So now that the whole mess has been exposed and house of cards is finally *starting* to fall, there is simply no way to stop it. It's going to hurt and it's going to effect absolutely everyone. No investment or currency will be safe.
Ah, it's nice to see an appropriate level of pessimism. Judging from the last few times something like this happened to the economy it could take up to 15 years before growth and employment returns to "normal". Though our level of debt is much worse than at any time in history, so even that estimate might be too optimistic.
I don't have a problem with this kind of FPU chip provided the *programmer* has full control over the minimum accuracy of the numbers being calculated. I could see this working for example if a new type of floating point was added to the programming language / compiler that specified a minimum level of accuracy so the assembler can choose which FPU should process the calculation.
And besides, we don't store the plain 0's and 1's from your binary file on the disk. There's an extra layer of encoding to make sure there are no long runs of 0's or 1's and to add some error correction coding.
Encoding a binary stream into these 4 states (clockwise, counter-clockwise, in, out) might have even more complex rules. Like maybe you can't record two of these "tornadoes" next to each other unless the directions are opposite. Who knows how many data bits you could actually store per magnetic bit.
Bah, I used Ajax style techniques with iframes or java applets years before I ever heard of XMLHttpRequest.
While microsoft engineers may have been in a better place to establish a standard way of doing it, Ajax is an obvious idea, and many people can claim to have implemented it.
If you just add randomness to every frame, it would look like a mess. The tricky part is to draw each frame with the same randomness so it doesn't jump around. Which of course means you aren't drawing it very randomly at all...
Explorer will often go off to the network for various reasons and lock up the task bar if the remote host doesn't exist or won't let you login.
I don't have an exhaustive list of things to look for, but you can start by checking for any shortcuts in your start menu / quick launch that have their icon on the network and clear out your nethood folder.
Australia is migrating to swipe and pin for credit cards right now. But then our merchant payment systems have allowed swipe and pin for paying with a savings account for a long time, so I don't think the limitations were for technical reasons.
Another point, how many of those wireless AP's are really being used as wireless AP's? If you knock around you may find someone using a direct cable connection who didn't even know the wireless was turned on....
I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't do this to support older applications. If they have separate sand-boxed VM's for each legacy app they can break backwards compatibility to fix bugs or security problems.
Why? Do you route to slashdot via your companies VPN and web proxy? The first thing I do after connecting to the VPN is fix the routing table so all the office IP's are reachable via the VPN, but everything else goes straight out my ADSL modem.
I once received a screen shot in a word document of the client's email program. Inside the email being viewed was a screen shot of MS Paint. Inside MS Paint was a screen shot of our application with red circles drawn around certain fields to highlight them.
Yep, and the BMP files will be about 3MB each.
AFAIK new Wii's ship with a different chipset (or missing chip?) that makes DVDX impossible, or at least a lot harder.
A couple of guys at work set up an XMPP client that can control some scrolling text on a monitor. Perhaps if you first concentrate on making it easy to display something, you will later think of interesting things to display.
To make it a perfect attack you need to either compromise DNS / BGP or sit in the middle of the data stream. I'm guessing the authors example does not do these things, so firefox and any other browser should complain. But if you were to setup a server with the fake mozilla.org cert and then redirect mozilla.org to this server via your hosts file, your browser would not complain at all.
No I think he was right. Because after listening to your rant I certainly do care less.