One issue that I have seen with firewalls - I call it an issue because it can be a problem - is that some firewalls today uses Universal Plug and Play that allows items behind the firewall to control the firewall - often without the owner knowing it.
And on some routers/firewalls this overrides the manual firewall configuration - without notifying the user. From my point of view this is a security issue.
As an example - a friend of mine did install a NAS and he is running a web site behind the firewall, but the NAS hijacked the web site and caused a lot of confusion. This means that the UPNP functionality also can offer attack vectors for malicious people.
This is just another example that shows us how bad Microsoft are at detecting and handling malicious content.
May current favorite is the junk email filter in Outlook that is just mysterious and changes behavior at every update causing new cases where legitimate mails gets into the junk pile for unknown reasons. And there is no way to control it either.
No wonder why I like Thunderbird a lot more. It's at least consistent - and you can teach it as you go what's junk or not. It even seems to be a good learner.
UFO in it's literal term is acceptable to have a course in. It may help people to understand cause and effect in a much larger scale.
Many UFO sightings are misinterpretations and/or reflections in windows. A few more are pranks and yet a few are model aircrafts.
Then there are a few left that can't be easily explained and among those most of them are the result of military or otherwise covert ops (cops, smugglers, test runs by your favorite agency) that you never can get an answer about.
But I'm not saying that there aren't outer space aliens that really are causing a fraction of the observations. If there are aliens out there I would say that they may want to keep an eye on us in case we are getting dangerous. The most dangerous enemy to human is another human.
But I can see that the obsession is a bit too heavy - there are a lot of other authors that they can take on too; Jack Vance, Keith Laumer, A.E. Van Vogt...
There is no need to play security issues nice anymore, just tell them in general terms that you have acquired knowledge of a bug, not that you found the bug yourself and then provide that info to a suitable magazine or publish it on Wikileaks.
I would say - ignore the iPhone and have Apple go figure out that their policy is crippling the user experience.
Apple shouldn't care if I choose to write the app in assembly or whatever language I choose - even Cobol for that matter as long as the application works.
One of the problems with the shuttle is that it is too big and expensive to launch - due to requirements from DoD.
What was under development during the 70's were a lot of smaller alternatives - small shuttles for personnel etc.
There are advantages with having a shuttle - it allows for a more controlled landing, which means that you can revise flight path and landing place to some extent. And with a new generation there is room for using better/lighter materials. In design of a new shuttle it may even be possible to design it so it can be able to use major commercial landing strips in case it's necessary.
A capsule also has some merits - it is a simple object that is reliable. Unfortunately the landing is less precise. You can land a capsule on ground, but landing on water is preferred. However that also means that you need an extensive operation for retrieving the capsule.
And I suspect that the astronauts involved would really like to be in control of the vehicle as much as possible.
All too true - screw up the Sarbanes-Oxley act and you will be thrown with some interesting instruments up your rear end.
And if you screw up some decree by DHS or any other department with three letter acronyms you will get roasted slowly over a pit and then thrown to the polar bears. If you have a congress man or senator handy you may be able to avoid the polar bears but you may also have company instead when you visit them.
And people wonders why so few startups are going on that may produce new jobs. It's that swamp of regulations that is equally wide and deep regardless of how large you are. But if you are big you can take it in two strides while if you are small it may take you two hundred strides.
And how many ways can you design a game controller?
It's somewhat like a hammer - there are just so many variations of a theme.
However if the visual design is too similar to the original you may get into trouble for design infringement instead. But maybe it's easier to make a case for the court with a patent since it's likely that the court then believes whatever evidence that is thrown at them.
1. The patents - are they valid only in the US? And if the controllers aren't sold in the US and the patents are valid only in the US then the infringement wasn't occurring in the area where the patents are valid. 2. Are the patents valid? Prior art, obviousness, overly broad?
But this seems to be proof that just about anything can get patented regardless of how obvious and stupid it is.
And that they were intentionally mailed to the family.
This means that they will be haunted by this for the rest of their lives - as if it wasn't bad enough already.
Journalists and police officers shall always take into consideration if their actions can be harmful on a level where it does more bad than good. If they aren't able to have that kind of empathy then they should change job to something else - like dead animal collection along the roads/railroads.
People in public service that lacks empathy are the most dangerous persons around since they can cause massive amounts of suffering.
For Date handling - regardless of platform you run into date handling issues. The way I work around it is to store the timestamp value instead (the milliseconds since 1970-01-01 for Java) and then I have one key value that I know is consistent and that I can do math with. When I come to presentation of the date I use the suitable date functionality that exists to handle it.
And if you run Eclipse just press SHIFT+CTRL+O to resolve any imports.
If there is more than one variation of the implementation you will have to select. Like for "java.util.Date" and "java.sql.Date". Just make sure you select the right one.
Whoever that did mod parent to -1 seems to have gone off on a wild hike. That's no Goatse.
Anyway - what Java does lack is primarily good tools for GUI design. People in general are put off by the use of Swing and Awt where the layout consists of object that do float around and have a general unexpected/unpredictable behavior when a window is resized.
A fixed/locked GUI design is a lot easier for many to understand when things stay where you placed them. I can understand the Java design too, but it requires too much time from the programmer to cause comfort and speed.
However - for a lot of things Java is really good. It has a good support for interaction and communication with other systems in a humongous amount of protocols. It does miss some things that C# has, but on the other hand some of the things that C# has are kludges and brain farts to say the least - like the built in Select-statements in C# that aren't compatible with SQL, but their own syntax/language that just causes headache.
You may find Java as a Cobol of today, maybe so, but is it from a good or bad perspective? C# is just similar enough to Java to fall into that same category.
It's likely that he did exist, but it's not certain that he did do or say everything that's stuck to him.
However he may have done and said things that hasn't made it into the bible too.
Since we only have the bible and for variations of the life of Jesus as evidence we can at least say that since there are four variations of a story it's likely that he did exist, and some parts are common for all, but then each variation incorporates things that are missing in the others. Some of them may stick to truth while others can be fabricated.
Also keep in mind that the history was written down a few decades after his death. (At least there is no evidence for any written texts before something around year 70)
As for the statement - look at: http://bible.cc/john/8-7.htm - but it's of course possible that it is a statement stuck to him later. Even the bible can have undergone revisions through history. And at a time when things were copied by hand the copier may intentionally or unintentionally have left things out, maybe because he (as far as we know it was only men doing this at the time) thought it was unimportant or opposed his view of the world or just a mistake. Another copier may of course have incorporated a small segment like this for one reason or another. It may be that this episode did in fact occur, but that the oral path was different and therefore was passed in later and just had to go somewhere. It can of course also have been a much later addition to create a statement in difference from the general culture that bred Islam. Or even added after the time when Islam started to be a power to count on.
He may come out less credible out of this - but so does Microsoft.
And this just confirms what we have known a long time - Microsoft don't give a crap about any opinion or being popular. They are big enough to just roll over everyone. Not very different from dictators around the world.
Use tools like FindBugs to root out as much as you can.
Then you have at least shoveled away the bulk of stupid bugs that causes resource leaks and other things that makes a system go obnoxious after a while.
Design bugs are a different kind of animal and those are harder to figure out since they aren't detected by the normal tools.
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One issue that I have seen with firewalls - I call it an issue because it can be a problem - is that some firewalls today uses Universal Plug and Play that allows items behind the firewall to control the firewall - often without the owner knowing it.
And on some routers/firewalls this overrides the manual firewall configuration - without notifying the user. From my point of view this is a security issue.
As an example - a friend of mine did install a NAS and he is running a web site behind the firewall, but the NAS hijacked the web site and caused a lot of confusion. This means that the UPNP functionality also can offer attack vectors for malicious people.
As usually they have a disclaimer too:
*This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights*
This is just another example that shows us how bad Microsoft are at detecting and handling malicious content.
May current favorite is the junk email filter in Outlook that is just mysterious and changes behavior at every update causing new cases where legitimate mails gets into the junk pile for unknown reasons. And there is no way to control it either.
No wonder why I like Thunderbird a lot more. It's at least consistent - and you can teach it as you go what's junk or not. It even seems to be a good learner.
The importance of a meeting has an inverse relation to the number of participants.
A meeting of two is important, three is also important but when you have 15 or more people in a meeting it usually ends up in a yawn.
UFO in it's literal term is acceptable to have a course in. It may help people to understand cause and effect in a much larger scale.
Many UFO sightings are misinterpretations and/or reflections in windows. A few more are pranks and yet a few are model aircrafts.
Then there are a few left that can't be easily explained and among those most of them are the result of military or otherwise covert ops (cops, smugglers, test runs by your favorite agency) that you never can get an answer about.
But I'm not saying that there aren't outer space aliens that really are causing a fraction of the observations. If there are aliens out there I would say that they may want to keep an eye on us in case we are getting dangerous. The most dangerous enemy to human is another human.
About as NSFW as it has always been.
But I can see that the obsession is a bit too heavy - there are a lot of other authors that they can take on too; Jack Vance, Keith Laumer, A.E. Van Vogt...
There is no need to play security issues nice anymore, just tell them in general terms that you have acquired knowledge of a bug, not that you found the bug yourself and then provide that info to a suitable magazine or publish it on Wikileaks.
I would say - ignore the iPhone and have Apple go figure out that their policy is crippling the user experience.
Apple shouldn't care if I choose to write the app in assembly or whatever language I choose - even Cobol for that matter as long as the application works.
Some legislators parents should have used condoms.
One of the problems with the shuttle is that it is too big and expensive to launch - due to requirements from DoD.
What was under development during the 70's were a lot of smaller alternatives - small shuttles for personnel etc.
There are advantages with having a shuttle - it allows for a more controlled landing, which means that you can revise flight path and landing place to some extent. And with a new generation there is room for using better/lighter materials. In design of a new shuttle it may even be possible to design it so it can be able to use major commercial landing strips in case it's necessary.
A capsule also has some merits - it is a simple object that is reliable. Unfortunately the landing is less precise. You can land a capsule on ground, but landing on water is preferred. However that also means that you need an extensive operation for retrieving the capsule.
And I suspect that the astronauts involved would really like to be in control of the vehicle as much as possible.
All too true - screw up the Sarbanes-Oxley act and you will be thrown with some interesting instruments up your rear end.
And if you screw up some decree by DHS or any other department with three letter acronyms you will get roasted slowly over a pit and then thrown to the polar bears. If you have a congress man or senator handy you may be able to avoid the polar bears but you may also have company instead when you visit them.
And people wonders why so few startups are going on that may produce new jobs. It's that swamp of regulations that is equally wide and deep regardless of how large you are. But if you are big you can take it in two strides while if you are small it may take you two hundred strides.
And how many ways can you design a game controller?
It's somewhat like a hammer - there are just so many variations of a theme.
However if the visual design is too similar to the original you may get into trouble for design infringement instead. But maybe it's easier to make a case for the court with a patent since it's likely that the court then believes whatever evidence that is thrown at them.
Then there are still some factors to consider:
1. The patents - are they valid only in the US? And if the controllers aren't sold in the US and the patents are valid only in the US then the infringement wasn't occurring in the area where the patents are valid.
2. Are the patents valid? Prior art, obviousness, overly broad?
But this seems to be proof that just about anything can get patented regardless of how obvious and stupid it is.
Is doesn't matter Linq still looks and handles like shit when you are used to SQL.
And that they were intentionally mailed to the family.
This means that they will be haunted by this for the rest of their lives - as if it wasn't bad enough already.
Journalists and police officers shall always take into consideration if their actions can be harmful on a level where it does more bad than good. If they aren't able to have that kind of empathy then they should change job to something else - like dead animal collection along the roads/railroads.
People in public service that lacks empathy are the most dangerous persons around since they can cause massive amounts of suffering.
Yes you are - it just proves that you are extremely immature and hasn't considered your own mortality yet.
Considering your spelling skills it's also evidence of immaturity.
That's not the point I was trying to make - the point is that there is yet another syntax that has to be coped with for programmers.
For Date handling - regardless of platform you run into date handling issues. The way I work around it is to store the timestamp value instead (the milliseconds since 1970-01-01 for Java) and then I have one key value that I know is consistent and that I can do math with. When I come to presentation of the date I use the suitable date functionality that exists to handle it.
As for language opinions: Look here.
And if you run Eclipse just press SHIFT+CTRL+O to resolve any imports.
If there is more than one variation of the implementation you will have to select. Like for "java.util.Date" and "java.sql.Date". Just make sure you select the right one.
And if you use 24 hour format you can throw away all that AM/PM stuff right away.
Whoever that did mod parent to -1 seems to have gone off on a wild hike. That's no Goatse.
Anyway - what Java does lack is primarily good tools for GUI design. People in general are put off by the use of Swing and Awt where the layout consists of object that do float around and have a general unexpected/unpredictable behavior when a window is resized.
A fixed/locked GUI design is a lot easier for many to understand when things stay where you placed them. I can understand the Java design too, but it requires too much time from the programmer to cause comfort and speed.
However - for a lot of things Java is really good. It has a good support for interaction and communication with other systems in a humongous amount of protocols. It does miss some things that C# has, but on the other hand some of the things that C# has are kludges and brain farts to say the least - like the built in Select-statements in C# that aren't compatible with SQL, but their own syntax/language that just causes headache.
You may find Java as a Cobol of today, maybe so, but is it from a good or bad perspective? C# is just similar enough to Java to fall into that same category.
It's likely that he did exist, but it's not certain that he did do or say everything that's stuck to him.
However he may have done and said things that hasn't made it into the bible too.
Since we only have the bible and for variations of the life of Jesus as evidence we can at least say that since there are four variations of a story it's likely that he did exist, and some parts are common for all, but then each variation incorporates things that are missing in the others. Some of them may stick to truth while others can be fabricated.
Also keep in mind that the history was written down a few decades after his death. (At least there is no evidence for any written texts before something around year 70)
As for the statement - look at: http://bible.cc/john/8-7.htm - but it's of course possible that it is a statement stuck to him later. Even the bible can have undergone revisions through history. And at a time when things were copied by hand the copier may intentionally or unintentionally have left things out, maybe because he (as far as we know it was only men doing this at the time) thought it was unimportant or opposed his view of the world or just a mistake. Another copier may of course have incorporated a small segment like this for one reason or another. It may be that this episode did in fact occur, but that the oral path was different and therefore was passed in later and just had to go somewhere. It can of course also have been a much later addition to create a statement in difference from the general culture that bred Islam. Or even added after the time when Islam started to be a power to count on.
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He may come out less credible out of this - but so does Microsoft.
And this just confirms what we have known a long time - Microsoft don't give a crap about any opinion or being popular. They are big enough to just roll over everyone. Not very different from dictators around the world.
Use tools like FindBugs to root out as much as you can.
Then you have at least shoveled away the bulk of stupid bugs that causes resource leaks and other things that makes a system go obnoxious after a while.
Design bugs are a different kind of animal and those are harder to figure out since they aren't detected by the normal tools.