This sounds like the NSA is trying to redirect some of the negative attention they have received from this elsewhere.
Although that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true.
3-D wireframe graphics (with animation - in fact a rotating cube if I recall) was an assignment in the Computer Graphics course I had to take in college. I'm not sure why this is being highlighted now.
You don't like having to wait a year before you can complete the game? HL2 took five years before it came out after the release of HL1. A year seems like a small wait in comparison and you get to play some of the game during that year instead of having to wait until the end for anything.
I haven't played it yet but I think that $20 is perhaps a bit much. Luckily for Valve, this isn't going to stop me from buying it as I really like the quality of story that they put into their games.
Although most (all?) new machines are going to meet these specs. There are a number of people out there (me for one) that will have to upgrade to meet the minimum specs. I have Duron 1.3 with 384MB RAM. Atleast I don't need to upgrade my video card - Radion 9600
I read both Sky & Telescope and Game Developer regularly cover-to-cover and occasionally 2600 (when I am somewheres that sells it). All three are informative and interesting. As for accurate, the first two seem to be pretty good - although I am reading them to learn the stuff so I wouldn't necessarily know if they were incorrect but I hope they aren't, and I haven't read a 2600 in a while so I can't remember.
That's not going to help too much. According to the article, 71% of the URLs appearing in spam messages point to websites hosted in China however 60% of spam messages are sent from the US. In fact, China (although second) is only the location of the mail servers sending about 6% of the spam messages that they analyzed. The post was not too clear on that but the source article is.
A firewall is all well and good until someone brings an unsecured laptop in and plugs it into the network. Are you tell me that no one in your organization has a laptop that they take home with them. What's the chance that they may plug it directly into a high-speed net connection at home without a firewall?
Richter claims that he is strictly sending emails only to people who have signed up for his services on his website.
Well I took a look around optinrealbig.com and I didn't see any sort of way to sign up for his mailing lists - not that I would want to. I guess clients can redirect users to a page on his site that isn't linked to from his site but this doesn't really fit with his claim from the article.
So I didn't catch the fact that it was said as a joke. That's the problem with communication by text, it's so hard to understand what the tone of what is being said is. For instance, when I first read your message I assumed that it was said in a "I'm so much smarter than you" tone however now that I look at it I guess you really could have been saying it in a joking tone (I will assume this is the case as other people seem to have taken it this way hence why it is modded funny).
I must be missing something, why do you need an educational discount? You can download it for free from the website and use it for personal or commercial...
Experts previously said such attacks could take between four years and 142 years to succeed because they require guessing a rotating number from roughly 4 billion possible combinations. Watson said he can guess the proper number with as few as four attempts, which can be accomplished within seconds.
The article doesn't say that Watson discovered the vulnerability but that he discovered a way that it could easily be taken advantage of. With 2^32 different sequence numbers it would take a while to try and find one within the window if the window is small enough however Watson has apparently found a way to guess a valid sequence number if as little as four tries. That's the issue here. Previously although it was technically possible, it wasn't a real concern because of the difficulty with guessing a valid sequence number.
I was just thinking "now didn't SCO bad-mouth IBM a little while ago for not indemnifying their users if they truly believed there was no credence to SCO's claim and now SCO is saying that HP's move to indemnify their users is because HP believes their claim - that's some whacked logic there".
The bot wasn't necessarily thinking that this was the old arcade style PacMan game.
There are newer PacMan games out there. I'm not sure how much space they take up but they come on CD so it isn't unreasonable to think that a 160 MB file could be a copy of the game.
Regardless of this though it is really quite stupid that the bot would return this as a match.
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This sounds like the NSA is trying to redirect some of the negative attention they have received from this elsewhere. Although that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true.
Except in this case the fish feed the WORMs
3-D wireframe graphics (with animation - in fact a rotating cube if I recall) was an assignment in the Computer Graphics course I had to take in college. I'm not sure why this is being highlighted now.
I hope no robot understands me like a chair - I don't want any robots sitting on me :-)
You don't like having to wait a year before you can complete the game? HL2 took five years before it came out after the release of HL1. A year seems like a small wait in comparison and you get to play some of the game during that year instead of having to wait until the end for anything.
I haven't played it yet but I think that $20 is perhaps a bit much. Luckily for Valve, this isn't going to stop me from buying it as I really like the quality of story that they put into their games.
Fine, set an upper limit on the TTL but don't ignore the TTL if it is lower than your limit.
Although most (all?) new machines are going to meet these specs. There are a number of people out there (me for one) that will have to upgrade to meet the minimum specs. I have Duron 1.3 with 384MB RAM. Atleast I don't need to upgrade my video card - Radion 9600
Wrong on both counts, I live in Vancouver and I program in various languages for the job but right now Java using BEA WebLogic
Can I have your job? I made $36K Canadian last year programming.
Well I guess I should have included SkyNews too but I have only gotten one issue so far because I only joined RASC a few months ago.
I read both Sky & Telescope and Game Developer regularly cover-to-cover and occasionally 2600 (when I am somewheres that sells it). All three are informative and interesting. As for accurate, the first two seem to be pretty good - although I am reading them to learn the stuff so I wouldn't necessarily know if they were incorrect but I hope they aren't, and I haven't read a 2600 in a while so I can't remember.
That's not going to help too much. According to the article, 71% of the URLs appearing in spam messages point to websites hosted in China however 60% of spam messages are sent from the US. In fact, China (although second) is only the location of the mail servers sending about 6% of the spam messages that they analyzed. The post was not too clear on that but the source article is.
That's not true. I know of atleast one other person including myself that has seen it :-)
A firewall is all well and good until someone brings an unsecured laptop in and plugs it into the network. Are you tell me that no one in your organization has a laptop that they take home with them. What's the chance that they may plug it directly into a high-speed net connection at home without a firewall?
Richter claims that he is strictly sending emails only to people who have signed up for his services on his website. Well I took a look around optinrealbig.com and I didn't see any sort of way to sign up for his mailing lists - not that I would want to. I guess clients can redirect users to a page on his site that isn't linked to from his site but this doesn't really fit with his claim from the article.
So I didn't catch the fact that it was said as a joke. That's the problem with communication by text, it's so hard to understand what the tone of what is being said is. For instance, when I first read your message I assumed that it was said in a "I'm so much smarter than you" tone however now that I look at it I guess you really could have been saying it in a joking tone (I will assume this is the case as other people seem to have taken it this way hence why it is modded funny).
I must be missing something, why do you need an educational discount? You can download it for free from the website and use it for personal or commercial...
The article doesn't say that Watson discovered the vulnerability but that he discovered a way that it could easily be taken advantage of. With 2^32 different sequence numbers it would take a while to try and find one within the window if the window is small enough however Watson has apparently found a way to guess a valid sequence number if as little as four tries. That's the issue here. Previously although it was technically possible, it wasn't a real concern because of the difficulty with guessing a valid sequence number.
Actually I suspect they mean the "DivX video standard" rather than "DivX Video" included.
Well Netscape 6 was Netscape's build of Mozilla - I swear though that it was slower than any other builds of the straight Mozilla source that I tried.
It went from Netscape 4.x to Netscape 6 and that wasn't much of an upgrade since Netscape 6 was slower and more of a memory hog than Mozilla.
Are you sure you aren't comparing Netscape 4.x which is how old against newer versions of IE?
When Netscape 4.5 came out I remember comparing it to IE and found that Netscape worked better overall.
I agree that Netscape 4.x doesn't work nearly as well as say IE 5 but IE5 is a lot newer.
Just my two cents, I personally use Pheonix/Firebird and Opera.
I was just thinking "now didn't SCO bad-mouth IBM a little while ago for not indemnifying their users if they truly believed there was no credence to SCO's claim and now SCO is saying that HP's move to indemnify their users is because HP believes their claim - that's some whacked logic there".
The bot wasn't necessarily thinking that this was the old arcade style PacMan game. There are newer PacMan games out there. I'm not sure how much space they take up but they come on CD so it isn't unreasonable to think that a 160 MB file could be a copy of the game. Regardless of this though it is really quite stupid that the bot would return this as a match.