If everybody uses the same browser, then everybody is vulnerable to the same exploit.
So how about not everybody using the same browser? How about having a very diverse browser population? Ignoring design flaws (such as the one in IDN earlier), if all browsers were used in relatively equal proportions, it would make it at least marginally less effective to attack any one single browser.
The highly ironic thing is in EA, the epitomy of everything that is wrong in gaming, owning Maxis, who are creating something that appears to be the epitomy of everything that is right in gaming (see the story and especially the video on Spore).
If so, did he say them of his own accord, or was he instructed to say certain things? And even if that is so, it is still refreshing to hear somebody besides a marketing or management bot speak to the press.
Works beautifully, but the driver is a little buggy.
Watch out if you enabled 4K stacks for the kernel, or SMP, or a few other mystery things. The current drivers are basically straight ports of the NDIS drivers with a few add-ons.
Overclocking also reduces the life of the components, noticeably when they are rendering at full capacity nearly 24/7 for most of the year.
Component life only seriously degrades when part voltage is raised more than a little, and even then, some parts are more forgiving than others.
If you're not doing any of that, it's free performance. If you are competent, why not, even if just a little (for a home user; obviously not on most enterprise equipment)?
That certainly surprised the hell out of me, but apparently their skill set wasn't up to par from what my boss tells me! (what are they teaching you GT guys over there anyway?!?!)
The co-ops seem to do fairly well, and believe me, the school loves tooting their horn about that.
And I might be taking CS, but I definitely want to end up with more than just a CS degree and a job in IT.
It's not the hardware that counts...
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it's how you hype it.;)
Seriously, it's only Monday, and all this Xbox talk, that will without a doubt continue all week, is going to make me vomit.
<flamebait> The Xbox is just a gaming PC for Posers, and Halo is a FPS for Posers! </flamebait>
Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.
On the contrary, there is a very large and very blurred line between news and advertising.
It is well-known what the readership of Slashdot is primarily. Since this event seems to be something that some readers may wish to attend, it is very much news, but it also happens to be advertising. Your mistake is in making the two mutually exclusive.
You might make the argument that this is unacceptably more ad than news, but this is a much more subjective and difficult thing to show.
If the courts declare that the provision of the law that exempts such actions and decisions of the SecDHS from judicial review, then all bets are off. However, if the courts allow that provision to stand, that is that. Of course, each outcome must stand up to appeals.
The only thing that logically would prevent judicial review at all would be a self-referential statement that all sections added or changed due to the amendment are exempt from judicial review. However, that is quite obvious, even with several levels of reference, and is probably just plain illegal to begin with.
If you can't teach someone to use a limited set of apps on a Linux setup, then what make you think you can teach them to use a limited set of apps on a Windows setup. I mean, we're not asking them to admin the damn box or anything.
Yes, Windows will likely remain the predominant platform. But don't try to act like Linux isn't a growing force on the desktop.
What happened to Wireless USB? Bluetooth was supposed to by dying because it was going to be accepted better by the market because of the USB association. What did I miss?
To put it another way: if a bill's description needs to end with "and for other purposes"---and having read bills on thomas.loc.gov, they all seem to include that phrase, even if it seems very unnecessary---should not be allowed to reach the floors of Congress.
Well, it's a fairly good example of how even if they can innovate, they can't make the innovations into products.
And I remember someone saying something in the "It Just Works" comments about how the Microsoft suits are too conservative to allow the innovation to actually be used in the products. In the absense of a long and detailed history of everything Microsoft Research has ever done, that sounds reasonable.
Since you seem to empathize with furries, tell me what would be the point of several dozen or hundred forum goons politely trying to talk you out of a lifestyle choice that you made? You'd say "umm no, I like doing this" and that would be that. Pretty boring. I'd imagine the forum posters would prefer to redistribute bizarre and embarassing pictures that people make public on the internet for some strange reason, and laugh amongst themselves.
OK, so you find entertainment at the expense of others. Not the most noble of behavior, though who am I to complain, being a Farker, who (sort of) does the same thing, only with those people from news stories IRL, and not directly found over the Internet?
I find that my gut feeling is making it increasingly difficult to argue logically, so I must wrap up for now. I will repeat the question: What have these groups (and leave the pedos out this time, OK?) done directly to you to deserve the retaliation that is often forthcoming from the SA community? Why are attacks made into others' communities? Why do Goons take it upon themselves to be the judge, jury, and executioner of what is acceptable in society and what is not? and how does this not make you as worse as religious zealots or parental zealots, who so often do the same thing?
In the middle of that paragraph, I'm not talking only about SA; I'm talking about society in general. Why shoot first, ask questions later?
With the kind of willpower SA has at its disposal, you could be encouraging them to quit their behavior that is destructive to others; to change... I might as well be talking to the wall, might I?
Do recognize that the discussion I began has bifurcated. The discussion of SA's reaction to pedophilia is very much separate from SA's reaction to furs (which I haven't even begun to describe in detail, but as you can probably tell, SA's image is not very good, at least with me, but I am interested in seeing if I can change this).
Fact is, the reason that Something Awful is so great is because it keeps out the moron who's only there to start trouble. It's a great system that rewards those who contribute positively to the society, and scolds those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare.
My question to you is this: What has been done to you such that you must "[scold] those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare."?
How have these people intentionally done you physical, mental, or emotional harm? Surely if there is some mutual modification of activities and attitudes in which each side will have their discomfort allayed, this will be achieved through communication, suggestion, and understanding, rather than malice.
Furthermore, as a community, having private sentiments go unchallenged is not unreasonable; but these sentiments are displayed even in the forums visible to the public; and because you are offering your opinion publicly, as a community, you open it up for criticism; and although it is a privately-run forum which is subject to the rules of its owner, to charge to post but not to read is rather inconsistant with the principles of free speech. I therefore have less respect for Something Awful on those grounds as well; for an opinion is presented, but many barriers to rebuttal are set.
I for one think it's wonderful that you think it's wonderful that you have a forum devoid of the "retarded" and the "bizarre." Just keep it private, unless you also grant the capacity to challenge what is said. Such as we are now doing.
And besides, hatred is not a productive way to solve a problem with others: it destroys communication and only begets more hatred.
In the case of pedophiles (and I would not call this defending them, per se, but rather explaining how I view them), villifying them makes it impossible for them to stop, because stopping requires outside intervention; and if they have incentive to hide their feelings, how can you expect them to be comfortable letting someone get close enough to them to explain why what they do is wrong? There is still a person in there, along with what you deem a monster; and only once you conquer your own discomfort with the subject can you then begin to offer alternative behaviors to the person.
Anyway, thank you for pointing that out about the SA forums.
Greenlit stories are available for everyone to read and for all members read/write. All other stories are only viewable to TotalFark members.
This does not create the awkward situation of SA, where everyone may view, but only paying members may post, thus leaving the status of the forum in a grey area between public and private. Thus, it becomes very difficult to, for instance, confront the entirety of SA on certain matters that are clearly visible to the public, such as their administratively-condoned hate and bigotry towards certain groups.
As for TotalFark membership: I might pay for it, but I'm not ready for a close-knit society.
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If everybody uses the same browser, then everybody is vulnerable to the same exploit.
So how about not everybody using the same browser? How about having a very diverse browser population? Ignoring design flaws (such as the one in IDN earlier), if all browsers were used in relatively equal proportions, it would make it at least marginally less effective to attack any one single browser.
The highly ironic thing is in EA, the epitomy of everything that is wrong in gaming, owning Maxis, who are creating something that appears to be the epitomy of everything that is right in gaming (see the story and especially the video on Spore).
Was it really an engineer who said these things?
If so, did he say them of his own accord, or was he instructed to say certain things? And even if that is so, it is still refreshing to hear somebody besides a marketing or management bot speak to the press.
I saw some code flying around on a mailing list somewhere. This looks good enough:
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http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/May/2
I was going to write a quick summary of the video. Fuck that. Watch the video. It's worth it.
Works beautifully, but the driver is a little buggy.
Watch out if you enabled 4K stacks for the kernel, or SMP, or a few other mystery things. The current drivers are basically straight ports of the NDIS drivers with a few add-ons.
Overclocking also reduces the life of the components, noticeably when they are rendering at full capacity nearly 24/7 for most of the year.
Component life only seriously degrades when part voltage is raised more than a little, and even then, some parts are more forgiving than others.
If you're not doing any of that, it's free performance. If you are competent, why not, even if just a little (for a home user; obviously not on most enterprise equipment)?
That certainly surprised the hell out of me, but apparently their skill set wasn't up to par from what my boss tells me! (what are they teaching you GT guys over there anyway?!?!)
The co-ops seem to do fairly well, and believe me, the school loves tooting their horn about that.
And I might be taking CS, but I definitely want to end up with more than just a CS degree and a job in IT.
it's how you hype it. ;)
Seriously, it's only Monday, and all this Xbox talk, that will without a doubt continue all week, is going to make me vomit.
<flamebait>
The Xbox is just a gaming PC for Posers, and Halo is a FPS for Posers!
</flamebait>
Its just there's a fine line between news and well targetted advertising.
On the contrary, there is a very large and very blurred line between news and advertising.
It is well-known what the readership of Slashdot is primarily. Since this event seems to be something that some readers may wish to attend, it is very much news, but it also happens to be advertising. Your mistake is in making the two mutually exclusive.
You might make the argument that this is unacceptably more ad than news, but this is a much more subjective and difficult thing to show.
I'm merely saying that the thinking is fallacious without more explanation.
They will try. Hell, the US has 20,000 gun laws and the areas that have the most gun laws have the highests amount of gun/violent crime.
Try again. Just because more gun laws and more gun crime are correlated does not mean that one must cause the other.
Then what are those bus mastering ports for on graphics and audio cards?
Creative made sure it wasn't a general hardware API.
Uh... you're going to have to explain this one.
If the courts declare that the provision of the law that exempts such actions and decisions of the SecDHS from judicial review, then all bets are off. However, if the courts allow that provision to stand, that is that. Of course, each outcome must stand up to appeals.
The only thing that logically would prevent judicial review at all would be a self-referential statement that all sections added or changed due to the amendment are exempt from judicial review. However, that is quite obvious, even with several levels of reference, and is probably just plain illegal to begin with.
Oh, wow, and you don't sound fatalist at all...
If you can't teach someone to use a limited set of apps on a Linux setup, then what make you think you can teach them to use a limited set of apps on a Windows setup. I mean, we're not asking them to admin the damn box or anything.
Yes, Windows will likely remain the predominant platform. But don't try to act like Linux isn't a growing force on the desktop.
What happened to Wireless USB? Bluetooth was supposed to by dying because it was going to be accepted better by the market because of the USB association. What did I miss?
To put it another way: if a bill's description needs to end with "and for other purposes"---and having read bills on thomas.loc.gov, they all seem to include that phrase, even if it seems very unnecessary---should not be allowed to reach the floors of Congress.
Hey, the war is never over, but winning feels good every once in a while :)
Though, knowing our luck, it's probably just a really late April Fool's prank.
Well, it's a fairly good example of how even if they can innovate, they can't make the innovations into products.
And I remember someone saying something in the "It Just Works" comments about how the Microsoft suits are too conservative to allow the innovation to actually be used in the products. In the absense of a long and detailed history of everything Microsoft Research has ever done, that sounds reasonable.
Since you seem to empathize with furries, tell me what would be the point of several dozen or hundred forum goons politely trying to talk you out of a lifestyle choice that you made? You'd say "umm no, I like doing this" and that would be that. Pretty boring. I'd imagine the forum posters would prefer to redistribute bizarre and embarassing pictures that people make public on the internet for some strange reason, and laugh amongst themselves.
OK, so you find entertainment at the expense of others. Not the most noble of behavior, though who am I to complain, being a Farker, who (sort of) does the same thing, only with those people from news stories IRL, and not directly found over the Internet?
I find that my gut feeling is making it increasingly difficult to argue logically, so I must wrap up for now. I will repeat the question: What have these groups (and leave the pedos out this time, OK?) done directly to you to deserve the retaliation that is often forthcoming from the SA community? Why are attacks made into others' communities? Why do Goons take it upon themselves to be the judge, jury, and executioner of what is acceptable in society and what is not? and how does this not make you as worse as religious zealots or parental zealots, who so often do the same thing?
In the middle of that paragraph, I'm not talking only about SA; I'm talking about society in general. Why shoot first, ask questions later?
With the kind of willpower SA has at its disposal, you could be encouraging them to quit their behavior that is destructive to others; to change... I might as well be talking to the wall, might I?
Do recognize that the discussion I began has bifurcated. The discussion of SA's reaction to pedophilia is very much separate from SA's reaction to furs (which I haven't even begun to describe in detail, but as you can probably tell, SA's image is not very good, at least with me, but I am interested in seeing if I can change this).
Fact is, the reason that Something Awful is so great is because it keeps out the moron who's only there to start trouble. It's a great system that rewards those who contribute positively to the society, and scolds those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare.
My question to you is this: What has been done to you such that you must "[scold] those who are hellbent on being retarded or outwardly bizzare."?
How have these people intentionally done you physical, mental, or emotional harm? Surely if there is some mutual modification of activities and attitudes in which each side will have their discomfort allayed, this will be achieved through communication, suggestion, and understanding, rather than malice.
Furthermore, as a community, having private sentiments go unchallenged is not unreasonable; but these sentiments are displayed even in the forums visible to the public; and because you are offering your opinion publicly, as a community, you open it up for criticism; and although it is a privately-run forum which is subject to the rules of its owner, to charge to post but not to read is rather inconsistant with the principles of free speech. I therefore have less respect for Something Awful on those grounds as well; for an opinion is presented, but many barriers to rebuttal are set.
I for one think it's wonderful that you think it's wonderful that you have a forum devoid of the "retarded" and the "bizarre." Just keep it private, unless you also grant the capacity to challenge what is said. Such as we are now doing.
No, the other certain group.
And besides, hatred is not a productive way to solve a problem with others: it destroys communication and only begets more hatred.
In the case of pedophiles (and I would not call this defending them, per se, but rather explaining how I view them), villifying them makes it impossible for them to stop, because stopping requires outside intervention; and if they have incentive to hide their feelings, how can you expect them to be comfortable letting someone get close enough to them to explain why what they do is wrong? There is still a person in there, along with what you deem a monster; and only once you conquer your own discomfort with the subject can you then begin to offer alternative behaviors to the person.
Anyway, thank you for pointing that out about the SA forums.
Fark's way of doing things is much better.
Greenlit stories are available for everyone to read and for all members read/write. All other stories are only viewable to TotalFark members.
This does not create the awkward situation of SA, where everyone may view, but only paying members may post, thus leaving the status of the forum in a grey area between public and private. Thus, it becomes very difficult to, for instance, confront the entirety of SA on certain matters that are clearly visible to the public, such as their administratively-condoned hate and bigotry towards certain groups.
As for TotalFark membership: I might pay for it, but I'm not ready for a close-knit society.