Your petty attempts at laying this at the door of MS is an example of this. If - in your mind - the problem is simply MS, then you are overlooking the real problems.
You will see above that I mentioned Java. You even referred to it yourself. How can you with a straight face scold me about "petty attempts at laying this at the door of MS"? I suggest less cheerleading and more learning from past mistakes.
I don't believe MS has made any image format with intentional capability to execute arbitrary code. If you have information to the contrary, then please cite source.
MS should be praised for getting rid of it. I was using it as an example of the worst stupidity at the peak of the "just left everything run" mindset that we are thankfully getting away from.
It was seen as a "feature" and designed in. There were even articles about it here so I'm somewhat astonished that so many are deciding that I must be wrong and making up their own ideas of what they think I mean.
I believe you may be confusing something here. When there is a vulnerability where a jpeg can
No it was deliberate, incredibly stupid and has gone now. Some idiot decided it would be nice for future proofing or something to allow scripting to be embedded in images and put a library on the MS system to hand over control to such scripts. It was removed a few years ago as a security risk that should never have been there and is possibly one of the most stupid things in a piece of software ever shipped from Redmond. It was not a "vunerability", it was a deliberate feature, an open door for future malware writers to drive a truck through without stopping. As for "treading carefully", why should I? If someone else does something just as stupid by design they also deserve contempt.
I don't even get the concept of college and school police officers - such a thing should be a State level thing IMHO so there's enough people in the process to get some sort of professionalism. Even having at the city level is insane and resulted in things like the Terry Childs debacle due to the city being able to instruct a cop to arrest someone over an employment dispute and then sort out a reason for the arrest later. It's like medieval fucking city states instead of a modern society that's supposed to pay some attention to the rule of law.
Somehow everyone coped in the 1950s without that when a large chunk of the population was ex-military with extensive combat experience and souvenir weapons. Too many idiots watching fucking Rambo movies and thinking it's real.
Especially after Rumsfeld tried to dumb down the military to turn them into "warriors" instead of professional soldiers. He didn't quite succeed but he did shut down a lot of the sort of training previously considered essential for occupying forces, things like being able to communicate with people instead of just shooting everything that moves. They apparently had to learn that "on the job" from older soldiers that got their training before it was cut. Military police used to get well rounded training and fit in well with civilian police, but with other branches and post-Rumsfeld with minimal police training later I've been told it's a bit of a worry.
It's sort of a new one just like the last Iraq thing was a new one despite a lot of military action related to the no-fly zones in the time span between Bush one and Bush two. The mission was accomplished in time for the 2003 election after all, so this must be a "new" war.
I saw similar posts before the web existed, let alone Slashdot. A policy of "allow all" was seen to be easiest so the malware problem persists despite all the lessons of the past and good advice like the above. Java was supposed to be sandboxed entirely with zero chance of malware getting to anything other than it's own litter tray. Look how that turned out when it was seen as all too hard and compromises were made. Then there's the opposite that was born stupid, things like Active-X from MS that were such a stupid idea that a librarian (not a programmer) was telling me how stupid it was before launch. Then things like allowing execution of arbitrary code in images, another case of MS fucking up in a truly astonishing way - how the hell do things like that end up as anything other than SF novel plot points in a large corporation that is supposed to be competantly managed? The answer as always is to learn from the lessons of the past instead of throwing together a pile of bits that look software shaped and rushing it out the door.
Cool - capitals turn a very strange and outright deranged opinion into a FACT - I'll have to remember that one:) I'm sure there's plenty of footage on the net of building fires if you want to apply some reality instead of making shit up. When things fall they don't go down like feathers.
The only reason I can see for building them is to make more fissile materials for nuclear warheads
The world has moved on - now, in the US at least, it's about truly epic levels of pork and comfortable sinecures. If they were serious there would be more commerical R&D instead of Westinghouse basing their AP-1000 design on work paid for by the Japanese taxpayer.
There's some AP-1000s about to go online any day now in China. I know I've been writing that for about 3 years but the expected commissioning date in the press has always been vague.
It was politics to force nuclear as pork projects so other politics responded. An interesting thing to ponder is the lobbying from nuclear industry groups against thorium research - it had the potential to threaten their installed base and allow new players into the game. Also ponder lobbying against taking naval designs onto the civilian nuclear scene. The US nuclear industry ate it's own children. It's a slow slide down with dead cat bounces like the AP-1000 from when Westinghouse brought in some 1970s Japanese technology, and it's not going anywhere but down. Even South Africa put more effort into civilian nuclear than the US has for decades. If you want anything other than green paint on TMI you are going to have to wait and get something from China or India.
It always amazes me to hear about cost overruns and delays with new nuclear plants considering that in essence they're little more complex than coal plants
It astonishes me outright that you've come to that conclusion. I suggest starting with wikipedia since your education let you down so badly.
So, is it just the red tape causing delays, or is it something else which make a nuclear plants so much more complex than a coal or gas plant?
There are some specialised reactor parts that take a long time to fabricate and there is a waiting list for the few places that can do it. However they also like to be paid up front and that's most likely the longest delay. Banks don't like investments that take a long time to build.
I should remind readers that this point that "rampant" in this case is less than 20% of the daytime minimum power consumption in Hawaii. The above poster has a political barrow to push and this usage of "rampant" illustrates that reality is an unwanted impediment to be ignored if it dares to get in the way of that barrow.
It was good enough for grandpa but that was before those same wires that have been there too fucking long corroded. Nearly every time it rains I lose voice and dial tone and have a lot of ADSL dropouts.
Ah - Hawaii solar boy! Didn't I debunk your silly example about how the horrible electricity consumers in Hawaii were cheating the electricity company out of their hard earned money by going solar? Oh woe - a former monopoly getting exposed to the cold winds of capitalism and losing money - how terrible. Now you've got another bunch of numbers pulled from somewhere. Are you going to pull out another graph from before 1920 just like the last time and pretend your made up number is related to it or is does it actually have a relationship to reality this time? Either way, 100% electric is a pointless strawman that is never going to happen just like 100% solar.
Actually zero emissions makes sense for many vehicles in Los Angeles, Santiago and other places where the air can be trapped for weeks filling the place up with smog. If you can get the pollution shifted to the top of a smokestack on the other side of a mountain range you win. Of course the sensible thing would be a lot of trains, trams or some other way to move a lot of people about instead of getting the consumers to put up a big capital cost for personal electric vehicles, but that would cut into the cocaine budget or whatever it is that they have Californian legislators on.
It existed but was killed off by politics to keep oil donors happy. Now it's a bit late to compete with an industry in China that had all of it's technology handed to it on a plate and it's competition removed.
Electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers and even bag filters have gone into those things which is why the USA was able to point the finger at the air quality in Beijing without the finger getting pointed back. They don't do anything at all to carbon dioxide though.
Wow. The farce is strong in this one. The thing about really hot steel is it gets soft enough to bend into horseshoes - if you are too young to have seen it for real maybe you've seen it on TV. Pull something out from the bottom and you get things falling at freefall speed. Why would it fall slowly anyway? That makes zero sense. It's not a tree.
Very rare compared to how it used to be (situation normal on XP early on) maybe but not imaginary. I've had a couple of users with blue screens in the past few months, and there's only about a dozen MS workstations in the place. The problems went away after fully applying updates but they were real. Maybe it's the culture of people not rebooting their machines for months due to it being a *nix shop that resulted in the people on MS not shutting their machines down for updates every week.
Rootkits from large corporations such as Sony - ignore. A mentally ill Brit stumbles across some web pages that are publicly available by accident - extradite and jail the bastard!
Because I got hundreds of Win 7 systems in the field and haven't heard a peep from a single customer about BSODs
Sadly people take it as part of using computers and are just happy it doesn't do it anywhere near as often as XP used to so they don't bother to complain.
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You will see above that I mentioned Java. You even referred to it yourself. How can you with a straight face scold me about "petty attempts at laying this at the door of MS"? I suggest less cheerleading and more learning from past mistakes.
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MS should be praised for getting rid of it.
I was using it as an example of the worst stupidity at the peak of the "just left everything run" mindset that we are thankfully getting away from.
It was seen as a "feature" and designed in.
There were even articles about it here so I'm somewhat astonished that so many are deciding that I must be wrong and making up their own ideas of what they think I mean.
No it was deliberate, incredibly stupid and has gone now. Some idiot decided it would be nice for future proofing or something to allow scripting to be embedded in images and put a library on the MS system to hand over control to such scripts. It was removed a few years ago as a security risk that should never have been there and is possibly one of the most stupid things in a piece of software ever shipped from Redmond. It was not a "vunerability", it was a deliberate feature, an open door for future malware writers to drive a truck through without stopping.
As for "treading carefully", why should I? If someone else does something just as stupid by design they also deserve contempt.
I don't even get the concept of college and school police officers - such a thing should be a State level thing IMHO so there's enough people in the process to get some sort of professionalism. Even having at the city level is insane and resulted in things like the Terry Childs debacle due to the city being able to instruct a cop to arrest someone over an employment dispute and then sort out a reason for the arrest later. It's like medieval fucking city states instead of a modern society that's supposed to pay some attention to the rule of law.
Somehow everyone coped in the 1950s without that when a large chunk of the population was ex-military with extensive combat experience and souvenir weapons.
Too many idiots watching fucking Rambo movies and thinking it's real.
Especially after Rumsfeld tried to dumb down the military to turn them into "warriors" instead of professional soldiers. He didn't quite succeed but he did shut down a lot of the sort of training previously considered essential for occupying forces, things like being able to communicate with people instead of just shooting everything that moves. They apparently had to learn that "on the job" from older soldiers that got their training before it was cut.
Military police used to get well rounded training and fit in well with civilian police, but with other branches and post-Rumsfeld with minimal police training later I've been told it's a bit of a worry.
It's sort of a new one just like the last Iraq thing was a new one despite a lot of military action related to the no-fly zones in the time span between Bush one and Bush two. The mission was accomplished in time for the 2003 election after all, so this must be a "new" war.
I saw similar posts before the web existed, let alone Slashdot. A policy of "allow all" was seen to be easiest so the malware problem persists despite all the lessons of the past and good advice like the above.
Java was supposed to be sandboxed entirely with zero chance of malware getting to anything other than it's own litter tray. Look how that turned out when it was seen as all too hard and compromises were made. Then there's the opposite that was born stupid, things like Active-X from MS that were such a stupid idea that a librarian (not a programmer) was telling me how stupid it was before launch. Then things like allowing execution of arbitrary code in images, another case of MS fucking up in a truly astonishing way - how the hell do things like that end up as anything other than SF novel plot points in a large corporation that is supposed to be competantly managed?
The answer as always is to learn from the lessons of the past instead of throwing together a pile of bits that look software shaped and rushing it out the door.
Cool - capitals turn a very strange and outright deranged opinion into a FACT - I'll have to remember that one :)
I'm sure there's plenty of footage on the net of building fires if you want to apply some reality instead of making shit up. When things fall they don't go down like feathers.
The world has moved on - now, in the US at least, it's about truly epic levels of pork and comfortable sinecures. If they were serious there would be more commerical R&D instead of Westinghouse basing their AP-1000 design on work paid for by the Japanese taxpayer.
There's some AP-1000s about to go online any day now in China. I know I've been writing that for about 3 years but the expected commissioning date in the press has always been vague.
It was politics to force nuclear as pork projects so other politics responded. An interesting thing to ponder is the lobbying from nuclear industry groups against thorium research - it had the potential to threaten their installed base and allow new players into the game. Also ponder lobbying against taking naval designs onto the civilian nuclear scene. The US nuclear industry ate it's own children. It's a slow slide down with dead cat bounces like the AP-1000 from when Westinghouse brought in some 1970s Japanese technology, and it's not going anywhere but down. Even South Africa put more effort into civilian nuclear than the US has for decades. If you want anything other than green paint on TMI you are going to have to wait and get something from China or India.
That "standardized" AP-1000 design is not actually running anywhere yet (must be any day soon though).
It astonishes me outright that you've come to that conclusion. I suggest starting with wikipedia since your education let you down so badly.
There are some specialised reactor parts that take a long time to fabricate and there is a waiting list for the few places that can do it. However they also like to be paid up front and that's most likely the longest delay. Banks don't like investments that take a long time to build.
I should remind readers that this point that "rampant" in this case is less than 20% of the daytime minimum power consumption in Hawaii. The above poster has a political barrow to push and this usage of "rampant" illustrates that reality is an unwanted impediment to be ignored if it dares to get in the way of that barrow.
It was good enough for grandpa but that was before those same wires that have been there too fucking long corroded. Nearly every time it rains I lose voice and dial tone and have a lot of ADSL dropouts.
Ah - Hawaii solar boy! Didn't I debunk your silly example about how the horrible electricity consumers in Hawaii were cheating the electricity company out of their hard earned money by going solar? Oh woe - a former monopoly getting exposed to the cold winds of capitalism and losing money - how terrible.
Now you've got another bunch of numbers pulled from somewhere. Are you going to pull out another graph from before 1920 just like the last time and pretend your made up number is related to it or is does it actually have a relationship to reality this time? Either way, 100% electric is a pointless strawman that is never going to happen just like 100% solar.
Actually zero emissions makes sense for many vehicles in Los Angeles, Santiago and other places where the air can be trapped for weeks filling the place up with smog. If you can get the pollution shifted to the top of a smokestack on the other side of a mountain range you win. Of course the sensible thing would be a lot of trains, trams or some other way to move a lot of people about instead of getting the consumers to put up a big capital cost for personal electric vehicles, but that would cut into the cocaine budget or whatever it is that they have Californian legislators on.
It existed but was killed off by politics to keep oil donors happy. Now it's a bit late to compete with an industry in China that had all of it's technology handed to it on a plate and it's competition removed.
Electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers and even bag filters have gone into those things which is why the USA was able to point the finger at the air quality in Beijing without the finger getting pointed back.
They don't do anything at all to carbon dioxide though.
Wow. The farce is strong in this one.
The thing about really hot steel is it gets soft enough to bend into horseshoes - if you are too young to have seen it for real maybe you've seen it on TV. Pull something out from the bottom and you get things falling at freefall speed. Why would it fall slowly anyway? That makes zero sense. It's not a tree.
Very rare compared to how it used to be (situation normal on XP early on) maybe but not imaginary. I've had a couple of users with blue screens in the past few months, and there's only about a dozen MS workstations in the place. The problems went away after fully applying updates but they were real. Maybe it's the culture of people not rebooting their machines for months due to it being a *nix shop that resulted in the people on MS not shutting their machines down for updates every week.
Rootkits from large corporations such as Sony - ignore.
A mentally ill Brit stumbles across some web pages that are publicly available by accident - extradite and jail the bastard!
That seems to be that practice up to this point.
Sadly people take it as part of using computers and are just happy it doesn't do it anywhere near as often as XP used to so they don't bother to complain.