Imagine You're further than you've ever been before in some game you've invested months in, you're 30 minutes past the last possible save point, and after weeks of endless retries you're finally got the seemingly invincible boss down to 10% health and you have 80% health left. It really looks like finally you're gonna make it past him.
Suddenly all the things you need to stay alive are taken away from you. The sound you so badly need to give you early warning of boss attacks is replaced by a horrible 80's modem screech, and a large non-interruptable scrolling message that totally obscures the screen says: "This is the monthly test of the national security alert system...". After 30 seconds it goes away just in time for you to see the boss pounding your character to death against a wall like a rag doll.
The acutal problem is that firefox blindly loads whatever is in that directory. Locking the directory is a hack of a solution that others, especially Microsoft will easily find a way around. The proper answer is that Firefox needs to compare components it finds by their signature (checksum and name combo or whatever) with a secure list of components it is authorised by the user to load, before it loads them. The other fix firefox needs is to deny installed extensions the ability to prevent the user from uninstalling them (like Microsoft's.NET framework firefox extension did).
>> some insist that money 'will have no meaning in a future dominated by advanced molecular manufacturing or other engines of mega-abundance
Are they also expecting the concept of profit-making businesses to go away then?
Back in the 50's they said by the 70's electricity would be free because of nuclear power. I'm still receiving (significant) electricity bills and its 2009.
The point is that we're not paying just to cover the cost of producing something, Comapnies will always charge about 5% more than whatever they can get away with.
I never did understand why many people cant grasp the concept that system font size is independent of screen resolution. You'd think they'd notice the stupidity of buying a 30" 2560x1600 monitor then running their whole desktop at 1366x768 but noooo....
Another point: why would you ever buy a 1680x1050 monitor? they cost practically the same as a 1920x1200 monitor but can't display HD at native resolution (1290x1080). Even if you currently don't think you'll ever need to watch HD, wouldn't it be sensible to cough up the extra 99 cents and buy a 1920x1200 just in case?
Interesting to see that the same thing also occurs in other disciplines. It adds credibility to this being a real phenomenon rather than just software engineering oneupmanship.
Yeah its funny but the more someone doesn't agree with my point usually the worse their own code is. I guess yours must be pretty bad, not that you would ever see it yourself.
You're making the same mistakes as many other software engineers by allowing yourself to be walked all over by sales. Did you ever stop to think that you're actually being less productive by working 80 hour weeks and throwing out low-quality stuff? All that rework... If its really you talking to the salesman and not your boss, then you've already sold your own ass down the river by continually giving the sales guys what they want all the time at the cost of your own life. You need to train the sales guys to not turn up at your desk and expect/demand the impossible, but to involve you early at the negotiation time with the customer so your input into realistic deadlines gets considered BEFORE they make commitments you cant keep to the customer.
From 30 years of developing software, I've found time and time again that it actually does seem that people who don't know or care about the difference between "their" and "they're" are also too sloppy, unintelligent or just not anal enough to write clean, supportable and robust code.
However I feel we do need to make more allowance than the article's author did for people who did not learn English as a first language.
Dude No. From the story it seems very clear that the piracy policy is actually coming from the top, and that everyone else in the company knows but has quietly accepted it. Rubbing the bosses nose in the fact that you know about his dirty laundry will likely just get you seen as a troublemaker and even maybe fired. I think an anonymous tipoff to the BSA is overdue here.
firstly, its not all cookies, just those that are not directly related to the operation of the site the user went to.
That means this regulation is mostly attacking tracking cookies.
When I went to my favorite site, I never gave anyone called "fastclick" (or whoever)permission to store their stuff on my PC. Nor would I ever give them or anyone else permission to track my surfing habits, yet they are doing it without ever having asked or even informed me. This is a privacy issue. I totally agree with the EU legislation.
It will be interesting to see how fast Murdoch will do a complete U-Turn when his sites become a forgotten backwater because Google isn't directing traffic there any more.
But therefore isnt it true that if you're in a tight group of cars, even if the officer is pointing his radar at you, the radar will just report the speed of the fastest car in the group, even if its not you? Leading the police officer to understandably believe its actually your speed as hes pointing the radar at you?
I think theres a massive cover-up about the accuracy of radar guns. I think the cops and courts all know it but its a massive income generator so they wont do anything about it.
I got stopped by a cop with radar claiming he detected me doing 85 in a 65mph limit. He even showed me 85 on the radar. It was rush hour and the freeway was bumper to bumper stop-go traffic and there was no way I ever got over about 45. I was also surrounded with other cars so I have no idea how he could single me out with a radar. My wife was in the car too and told him I couldn't have been speeding but he didnt believe her either. I went to court to fight it and they made a deal before my case got heard to reduce the speed down to 78 but I still had to pay a fine. It seems to me they wouldnt have done a deal if they thought the radar was truly accurate.
It seems everyone fights based on the accuracy of the radar, but I haven't ever herad of anyone the lack of evidence that the cop was actually pointing the radar at your car and not someone elses?
All Euro countries run voltages around 230v, + or - about 10v, which is a small enough differnece that us Europeans can all plug our stuff in, in any Euro country just with an adapter and it works OK.
We actually like the fact that many yanks come over for a visit and blow all their equipment up. Its a little bit of payback for all the times that we have to deal with Americans so ignorant that they really believe the USA is better at everything, invented everything, won every war single-handed, and is also the centre of the whole universe.
Its scary that we have a system that requires the most technically uniformed self-serving toadies to make key decisions about the whole future of technology.
Yet another bad ruling that demonstrates that an average judge doesn't have enough technical knowledge to make a good ruling. They all make the same mistake: because they don't understand the tech, they try to force physical-world paradigms already familiar to them onto the digital world, regardless of the fact that its a terrible fit and causes massively incorrect conclusions to be made.
We can't continue to leave these vitally important infrastructure decisions to have-a-go judges. The damage already caused is massive. There needs to be a special court set up to hear technical cases, where the issue gets decided by technical experts, not some old duffer who is probably scared of computers and has secretaries for that sort of thing.
Why bother copying Skype's protocol? Just do your own and make it opensource. And of you run your own free server (just make money from advertising or something, not charge for the service itself) you'll take customers away from Skype immediately.
Jeez a 486, why bother? I'm sure you could find a much higher spec laptop on ebay for next to nothing. I mean realistically even if you got your 486 running, it would be dog slow.
The Judgement makes no logical sense. When I send a regular letter by regular mail it is sent out into the world too, and stored in someone elses building/bag/van too.
In my opinion, much worse than phone users are women that apply makeup while driving, especially when they move the rearview mirror to use it to look at themselves, meaning they now have no situational awareness. I've even seen women use an eyelash brush as they are driving. One pothole could easily put the brush in her eye, and you can bet she won't stay in her lane if that happens.
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Imagine You're further than you've ever been before in some game you've invested months in, you're 30 minutes past the last possible save point, and after weeks of endless retries you're finally got the seemingly invincible boss down to 10% health and you have 80% health left. It really looks like finally you're gonna make it past him.
Suddenly all the things you need to stay alive are taken away from you. The sound you so badly need to give you early warning of boss attacks is replaced by a horrible 80's modem screech, and a large non-interruptable scrolling message that totally obscures the screen says: "This is the monthly test of the national security alert system...". After 30 seconds it goes away just in time for you to see the boss pounding your character to death against a wall like a rag doll.
Now you have to start all over again.
I would be pissed.
Simple. Change permissions so only the admin can modify the list of allowed plugins.
>> You have a very limited view of the computing world.
Yeah probably. but at least I'm not rude and insulting.
The acutal problem is that firefox blindly loads whatever is in that directory. .NET framework firefox extension did).
Locking the directory is a hack of a solution that others, especially Microsoft will easily find a way around. The proper answer is that Firefox needs to compare components it finds by their signature (checksum and name combo or whatever) with a secure list of components it is authorised by the user to load, before it loads them.
The other fix firefox needs is to deny installed extensions the ability to prevent the user from uninstalling them (like Microsoft's
>> some insist that money 'will have no meaning in a future dominated by advanced molecular manufacturing or other engines of mega-abundance
Are they also expecting the concept of profit-making businesses to go away then?
Back in the 50's they said by the 70's electricity would be free because of nuclear power.
I'm still receiving (significant) electricity bills and its 2009.
The point is that we're not paying just to cover the cost of producing something, Comapnies will always charge about 5% more than whatever they can get away with.
I never did understand why many people cant grasp the concept that system font size is independent of screen resolution. You'd think they'd notice the stupidity of buying a 30" 2560x1600 monitor then running their whole desktop at 1366x768 but noooo....
Another point: why would you ever buy a 1680x1050 monitor? they cost practically the same as a 1920x1200 monitor but can't display HD at native resolution (1290x1080). Even if you currently don't think you'll ever need to watch HD, wouldn't it be sensible to cough up the extra 99 cents and buy a 1920x1200 just in case?
Interesting to see that the same thing also occurs in other disciplines. It adds credibility to this being a real phenomenon rather than just software engineering oneupmanship.
Yeah its funny but the more someone doesn't agree with my point usually the worse their own code is. I guess yours must be pretty bad, not that you would ever see it yourself.
You're making the same mistakes as many other software engineers by allowing yourself to be walked all over by sales.
Did you ever stop to think that you're actually being less productive by working 80 hour weeks and throwing out low-quality stuff?
All that rework...
If its really you talking to the salesman and not your boss, then you've already sold your own ass down the river by continually giving the sales guys what they want all the time at the cost of your own life. You need to train the sales guys to not turn up at your desk and expect/demand the impossible, but to involve you early at the negotiation time with the customer so your input into realistic deadlines gets considered BEFORE they make commitments you cant keep to the customer.
From 30 years of developing software, I've found time and time again that it actually does seem that people who don't know or care about the difference between "their" and "they're" are also too sloppy, unintelligent or just not anal enough to write clean, supportable and robust code.
However I feel we do need to make more allowance than the article's author did for people who did not learn English as a first language.
Dude No.
From the story it seems very clear that the piracy policy is actually coming from the top, and that everyone else in the company knows but has quietly accepted it.
Rubbing the bosses nose in the fact that you know about his dirty laundry will likely just get you seen as a troublemaker and even maybe fired.
I think an anonymous tipoff to the BSA is overdue here.
firstly, its not all cookies, just those that are not directly related to the operation of the site the user went to.
That means this regulation is mostly attacking tracking cookies.
When I went to my favorite site, I never gave anyone called "fastclick" (or whoever)permission to store their stuff on my PC. Nor would I ever give them or anyone else permission to track my surfing habits, yet they are doing it without ever having asked or even informed me. This is a privacy issue.
I totally agree with the EU legislation.
It will be interesting to see how fast Murdoch will do a complete U-Turn when his sites become a forgotten backwater because Google isn't directing traffic there any more.
But therefore isnt it true that if you're in a tight group of cars, even if the officer is pointing his radar at you, the radar will just report the speed of the fastest car in the group, even if its not you?
Leading the police officer to understandably believe its actually your speed as hes pointing the radar at you?
I think theres a massive cover-up about the accuracy of radar guns. I think the cops and courts all know it but its a massive income generator so they wont do anything about it.
I got stopped by a cop with radar claiming he detected me doing 85 in a 65mph limit. He even showed me 85 on the radar. It was rush hour and the freeway was bumper to bumper stop-go traffic and there was no way I ever got over about 45. I was also surrounded with other cars so I have no idea how he could single me out with a radar. My wife was in the car too and told him I couldn't have been speeding but he didnt believe her either. I went to court to fight it and they made a deal before my case got heard to reduce the speed down to 78 but I still had to pay a fine. It seems to me they wouldnt have done a deal if they thought the radar was truly accurate.
It seems everyone fights based on the accuracy of the radar, but I haven't ever herad of anyone the lack of evidence that the cop was actually pointing the radar at your car and not someone elses?
so where are the pretty graphics? Say a map of the US with color codng for hotspots?
All Euro countries run voltages around 230v, + or - about 10v, which is a small enough differnece that us Europeans can all plug our stuff in, in any Euro country just with an adapter and it works OK.
We actually like the fact that many yanks come over for a visit and blow all their equipment up. Its a little bit of payback for all the times that we have to deal with Americans so ignorant that they really believe the USA is better at everything, invented everything, won every war single-handed, and is also the centre of the whole universe.
It sounds like you have REALLY old or obscure hardware.
Its scary that we have a system that requires the most technically uniformed self-serving toadies to make key decisions about the whole future of technology.
Yet another bad ruling that demonstrates that an average judge doesn't have enough technical knowledge to make a good ruling. They all make the same mistake: because they don't understand the tech, they try to force physical-world paradigms already familiar to them onto the digital world, regardless of the fact that its a terrible fit and causes massively incorrect conclusions to be made.
We can't continue to leave these vitally important infrastructure decisions to have-a-go judges. The damage already caused is massive. There needs to be a special court set up to hear technical cases, where the issue gets decided by technical experts, not some old duffer who is probably scared of computers and has secretaries for that sort of thing.
Why bother copying Skype's protocol? Just do your own and make it opensource. And of you run your own free server (just make money from advertising or something, not charge for the service itself) you'll take customers away from Skype immediately.
Jeez a 486, why bother? I'm sure you could find a much higher spec laptop on ebay for next to nothing.
I mean realistically even if you got your 486 running, it would be dog slow.
The Judgement makes no logical sense. When I send a regular letter by regular mail it is sent out into the world too, and stored in someone elses building/bag/van too.
He gave her a house and money. wow what a bastard he was. NOT.
In my opinion, much worse than phone users are women that apply makeup while driving, especially when they move the rearview mirror to use it to look at themselves, meaning they now have no situational awareness.
I've even seen women use an eyelash brush as they are driving. One pothole could easily put the brush in her eye, and you can bet she won't stay in her lane if that happens.
ooh shock someone kills the wrong thing in a video game.
quick call the president.