"So, Mozilla notify Opera they've discovered a flaw in Mozilla, gives Opera two weeks to check they're not vunerable to the same thing. If any siginifcant browser is, maybe give another two weeks for a patch to be devloped. Then the information becomes public."
I would guess that Mozilla only became aware that the bug also applied to Opera in the later stages of testing - hence the late notice. It's not like Mozilla regularly checks non-mozilla browsers for exploits now, is it?
Why is Mozilla responsible for Opera's poor QA? It may be that one of the MozDev's, late in the game, was poking around and said, "Hey, guys. Did you notice this exploit works in Opera too? We should phone 'em up."
And I agree, totally. UAC is no substitute for kdesu.
The problem is that, if you're not an Admin in Windows, you might as well throw out your computer. It's just not designed for user-casting in the way of the sudoer.
Dude, the waft of bullshit coming off that quiz is unbearable. I couldn't get past the first part because I couldn't stop clicking the wrong thing.
Almost none of the statements on that quiz were 'fact' or 'fiction'; they were mostly opinions that differ based on your needs for a computer.
Security, for example: Sure, Vista has the 'protect the user from himself by continually asking if he really wants to X' features, but I'd be happier with licensing agreements for bundling in AVG and Spybot, both as low priority scheduled tasks (better integration, of course, but basically the same system I use to keep my friends and clients from calling me every twenty minutes saying they've contracted a virus).
Compatibility: sure, Vista supports '2.2 million products', but that's still less than what XP supports. Why don't they have a compatibility layer for legacy devices? Is it that damned hard?
I could go on.
The point is, if you value intellectual honesty, you can't even pass the first question.
Actually, the verb 'moot' means 'submit for discussion', and has nothing to do with the subject being doomed or fruitless.
Similarly, a 'moot point' is a point that has been raised for discussion, but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the previous discussion. Similar to a tangent, but tangent implies that there is *some* relation between the tangential point and the original one.
Thing is, I don't care. Until I see a schematic of how its hooked up, and am able to do it under controlled conditions, I don't care.
If this thing was so damned important, he'd have patented the design and put up the drawings for the world to see by now. Then the world could test it, approve it, and beat a path to his doorstep for licensing.
Not what I said; lying *is* good for the individual, in the short term. And it continues to be good in the long term as long as the liar isn't caught.
Meanwhile, the overall social value (sum of benefits to all individuals within a society) of lying is zero or below, overall, as the person lied to has lost at least as much as the liar has gained. That's the basic misalignment of individual and social good.
And, as I said, improving the quality of society has to do with aligning social and individual good. Lying is a conscious choice, and without motive to lie, lies don't occur. Determine the motives for deceit, and how you can eliminate that motive, and you've made the first step towards removing deception.
Of course, that's seriously idealist; in reality, motives for lying usually involve personal goals and an impediment. With education in critical thought and problem solving, more solutions than a simple mistruth are available to the potential liar, and lies become less common.
You realize that fear is a natural and proper response in fields of research where uncertainty and doubt are what you're actively researching to eliminate.
It's rational to expect that the first experiments with creating new DNA with base-6 encoding will be on virii; we don't know that the little critters will even be able to interact with base-4 DNA - or a single one could break our DNA with a simple attempted transcription.
When doing DNA research, it's stupid not to fear a containment breach. Without *that* fear, you don't have strict protocols that ensure they don't happen.
If a coolant leak triggered a switch to manual operations and kept the reactor from actually melting down - well, that speaks to good engineering and shoddy workmanship on the coolant system.
Well, I'm not an AT&T customer - I'm on Verizon - but I'll say this: if my pipes start getting filtered, I'm switching to Earthlink, post haste. It's a pain in the ass to switch DSL carriers, but there's no way in hell I'm letting some corporate monkey stick a valve on my pipes that I don't control.
I pay for 3 MBits. If I feel it's necessary, I will flood that line with as much data as I please. You want to throttle it? Fine, but I'll want a prorated refund for the average difference between allotted and used bandwidth in a given month.
Neither of us are going to get what we want, playing this game, so we wouldn't maintain a business relationship.
Lying, like most other 'sins', is an example of when individual good and social good don't align.
Religion attempted to force individual good and social good to align by creating a conceptual end punishment for acting in self-interest rather than communal interest. This has had limited success when the benefit difference of acting in public interests and self interests is great, with self interest on top.
I submit that a well-organized society attempts to eliminate these conflicts, ie: attempts to align self and social interests so that they are not at odds with one another.
A trans flash card doesn't require much jiggery or pokery - just a USB stick.
I have no friend of similar geek caliber to myself, but when any of them want something that does require jiggery and/or pokery, they come to me. These days, I run under the assumption that the proliferation of geekiness has reached a concentration at which most people have a geek friend capable of a little Audacity/USB card wrangling, especially among the lipstick-jailbait sort.
I would not suggest building your own TiVo; licensing issues aside, that particular task requires a dose of jiggery most geeks can't produce, and I don't even want to think about the pokery.
The middle aged, in my experience, fall into three distinct and relatively equal populations of geek level: The inept, probably couldn't figure out how to do anything more than dial a cellphone, let alone buy a ringtone for it; The expert, for whom a custom ringtone is just a free-time project; the dilitante: who buy ringtones.
Still, I remain in awe of the awesomeness with which you hilariously tore me a new one.
I never understood why you would *buy* a friggin ringtone. Most phones these days have usb plugs built in, or an transflash slot. A little sound editing and some technical jiggery-pokery later, and you have WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT as a ringtone.
Mine is currently a quote from a Don Hertzfeldt cartoon. Best thing in the world to get a phone call in a public area to have your phone shout, "My anus is bleeding..."
Just so you know, you're not allowed to draw anymore until you develop your style into something less crude than a high-schooler's angsty flash doodles.
The main cost in full-electric is the 6-year battery replacement mint you'll have to drop on 'em. I don't look forward to that, and hope for stable ultracapacitors to get the kinks worked out by the time I have to buy one.
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"So, Mozilla notify Opera they've discovered a flaw in Mozilla, gives Opera two weeks to check they're not vunerable to the same thing. If any siginifcant browser is, maybe give another two weeks for a patch to be devloped. Then the information becomes public."
You know, Mozilla's bug tracker is public, right?
I would guess that Mozilla only became aware that the bug also applied to Opera in the later stages of testing - hence the late notice. It's not like Mozilla regularly checks non-mozilla browsers for exploits now, is it?
Why is Mozilla responsible for Opera's poor QA? It may be that one of the MozDev's, late in the game, was poking around and said, "Hey, guys. Did you notice this exploit works in Opera too? We should phone 'em up."
Which begs the question: are there ways of enabling the extra cores in such devices?
And I agree, totally. UAC is no substitute for kdesu.
The problem is that, if you're not an Admin in Windows, you might as well throw out your computer. It's just not designed for user-casting in the way of the sudoer.
Dude, the waft of bullshit coming off that quiz is unbearable. I couldn't get past the first part because I couldn't stop clicking the wrong thing.
Almost none of the statements on that quiz were 'fact' or 'fiction'; they were mostly opinions that differ based on your needs for a computer.
Security, for example: Sure, Vista has the 'protect the user from himself by continually asking if he really wants to X' features, but I'd be happier with licensing agreements for bundling in AVG and Spybot, both as low priority scheduled tasks (better integration, of course, but basically the same system I use to keep my friends and clients from calling me every twenty minutes saying they've contracted a virus).
Compatibility: sure, Vista supports '2.2 million products', but that's still less than what XP supports. Why don't they have a compatibility layer for legacy devices? Is it that damned hard?
I could go on.
The point is, if you value intellectual honesty, you can't even pass the first question.
It does help that Trend Micro does make rather garbage products, methinks.
Actually, the verb 'moot' means 'submit for discussion', and has nothing to do with the subject being doomed or fruitless.
Similarly, a 'moot point' is a point that has been raised for discussion, but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the previous discussion. Similar to a tangent, but tangent implies that there is *some* relation between the tangential point and the original one.
Thing is, I don't care. Until I see a schematic of how its hooked up, and am able to do it under controlled conditions, I don't care.
If this thing was so damned important, he'd have patented the design and put up the drawings for the world to see by now. Then the world could test it, approve it, and beat a path to his doorstep for licensing.
Not what I said; lying *is* good for the individual, in the short term. And it continues to be good in the long term as long as the liar isn't caught.
Meanwhile, the overall social value (sum of benefits to all individuals within a society) of lying is zero or below, overall, as the person lied to has lost at least as much as the liar has gained. That's the basic misalignment of individual and social good.
And, as I said, improving the quality of society has to do with aligning social and individual good. Lying is a conscious choice, and without motive to lie, lies don't occur. Determine the motives for deceit, and how you can eliminate that motive, and you've made the first step towards removing deception.
Of course, that's seriously idealist; in reality, motives for lying usually involve personal goals and an impediment. With education in critical thought and problem solving, more solutions than a simple mistruth are available to the potential liar, and lies become less common.
You realize that fear is a natural and proper response in fields of research where uncertainty and doubt are what you're actively researching to eliminate.
It's rational to expect that the first experiments with creating new DNA with base-6 encoding will be on virii; we don't know that the little critters will even be able to interact with base-4 DNA - or a single one could break our DNA with a simple attempted transcription.
When doing DNA research, it's stupid not to fear a containment breach. Without *that* fear, you don't have strict protocols that ensure they don't happen.
If a coolant leak triggered a switch to manual operations and kept the reactor from actually melting down - well, that speaks to good engineering and shoddy workmanship on the coolant system.
I really hope this doesn't inspire some federal policy maker to require some sort of licensing to write code.
I don't even have a bachelor's degree - but I'm the best programmer in an office full of CS graduates, by their own admission.
Well, I'm not an AT&T customer - I'm on Verizon - but I'll say this: if my pipes start getting filtered, I'm switching to Earthlink, post haste. It's a pain in the ass to switch DSL carriers, but there's no way in hell I'm letting some corporate monkey stick a valve on my pipes that I don't control.
I pay for 3 MBits. If I feel it's necessary, I will flood that line with as much data as I please. You want to throttle it? Fine, but I'll want a prorated refund for the average difference between allotted and used bandwidth in a given month.
Neither of us are going to get what we want, playing this game, so we wouldn't maintain a business relationship.
Lying, like most other 'sins', is an example of when individual good and social good don't align.
Religion attempted to force individual good and social good to align by creating a conceptual end punishment for acting in self-interest rather than communal interest. This has had limited success when the benefit difference of acting in public interests and self interests is great, with self interest on top.
I submit that a well-organized society attempts to eliminate these conflicts, ie: attempts to align self and social interests so that they are not at odds with one another.
Fleming and Bell were born in Scotland. Bell only traveled to Canada when he was 23, and Fleming when he was 17.
Of course, if you weren't so bent on taking a dick seriously, you wouldn't try to claim that which isn't yours.
Hm.
Powerful PDA + Speech Recognition + Worldlingo + Artficial Speech == Hilarity!
Mmmmmm... My mass, past lightspeed.
Heh. I'd just use a glass-capsuled cesium suppository. No bathroom break needed; just sit down hard enough, and blam, half the plane is gone.
Hell, if I could just take a pill/spray and be wide awake in the morning (after saying up 'till three to finish a project), I'd be happy.
>_>
Ownage aside...
A trans flash card doesn't require much jiggery or pokery - just a USB stick.
I have no friend of similar geek caliber to myself, but when any of them want something that does require jiggery and/or pokery, they come to me. These days, I run under the assumption that the proliferation of geekiness has reached a concentration at which most people have a geek friend capable of a little Audacity/USB card wrangling, especially among the lipstick-jailbait sort.
I would not suggest building your own TiVo; licensing issues aside, that particular task requires a dose of jiggery most geeks can't produce, and I don't even want to think about the pokery.
The middle aged, in my experience, fall into three distinct and relatively equal populations of geek level: The inept, probably couldn't figure out how to do anything more than dial a cellphone, let alone buy a ringtone for it; The expert, for whom a custom ringtone is just a free-time project; the dilitante: who buy ringtones.
Still, I remain in awe of the awesomeness with which you hilariously tore me a new one.
Dude. Fucking bra-vo. No sarcasm, I am officially pwned.
I never understood why you would *buy* a friggin ringtone. Most phones these days have usb plugs built in, or an transflash slot. A little sound editing and some technical jiggery-pokery later, and you have WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT as a ringtone.
Mine is currently a quote from a Don Hertzfeldt cartoon. Best thing in the world to get a phone call in a public area to have your phone shout, "My anus is bleeding..."
Just so you know, you're not allowed to draw anymore until you develop your style into something less crude than a high-schooler's angsty flash doodles.
The main cost in full-electric is the 6-year battery replacement mint you'll have to drop on 'em. I don't look forward to that, and hope for stable ultracapacitors to get the kinks worked out by the time I have to buy one.