what if you "format shift" for someone who has the album as well, but doesn't have the means to change formats (but does have the means to play that changed format)?
meaning, if i own the album in CD form, and have a copy of it in mp3 format, can i give the mp3 version to people who also already own the album in CD form?
The three new Star Wars films are greatly irrelevant. Lucas had a chance, and failed to live up to standards he set 20+ years ago. Much like The Matrix, fans hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Something to cling to and say, "That was worth the wait." The only saving grace for The Matrix 2 and 3 were that they were released promptly after each other, lessening the sting of feeling "ripped off". Star Wars has no saving grace at this point. I'd rather watch my VHS copies of the original 3, which I taped off T.V. back in the 80's, than submit my time and money to the rubish that Lucas turned the franchise into.
If a person comes to your door wielding a knife and asks where one of your family members is, do you a) tell them the truth. b) tell them that you do know but aren't going to tell them. c) lie.
Bleh. Publishers have a moral responsibility to the public. If you don't think they do, then you've been suckered into exactly what they want to to think.
If a person is at my door weilding a knife, they've already thrown morals out the window and different rules come into play. Common sense should dictate this.
There is also a thing known as tact, where respect and diplomacy is more important than absolute truth.
forgive me if i am misquoting but, "oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we do decieve". True, tact is important on a person to person basis. If your lying to the general public in an attempt to coerce their views to something other than what they would be if you told the truth, then you've crossed the line.
The fact is, in journalism (your arguments left that scope i think, gossip columns are not even journalism, IMO), truth should be paramount to everything else.
I agree completely. Accountability is seriously lacking in todays life. For example, the "9/11 Investigations" are even being labeled as Kafkaesque in that people being questioned are denying obvious past realities. If your not telling the truth, there's no point in talking. What motivates her to be inaccurate? Site traffic? So she is blathering like an idiot to get attention. I knew kids like her when I was growing up, and I stopped hanging out with them.
She deserves a wicked slashdotting followed up by zero site traffic.
mapping the brain could be interesting. especially on boundary conditions like in programming. what happens when the brain dies, what are the last signals it sends out?
Leads to cleaner code, in my opinion. C++ doesn't require you to do it, but I still do.
declare all your functions before using them
What's the big deal about this? If your tired of typing, you either need to learn to copy/paste, use an IDE that will generate code for you, or find a new industry.
C takes much more time to compoile than Java/C# because all the stupid headers take forever to parse.
Ever hear of "Make" and "Makefiles"? You don't need to keep recompiling things than havn't changed.
Pointers are a problem because they allow unsafe code that forces the hardware to make up for lack of security in the software. Repeat after me, security is a software problem.
Pointers, in some capacity, are needed for low level programming. If you don't need access to hardware, then you might have a reason to consider something besides C.
kinda funny. i knew this drummer back in college (why are drummers always the weird ones in the band?) who he and his girlfriend loved m&m's but hated blue ones for some reason. maybe it was green. some color, anyway, not the red ones. So they would separate them out and send them BACK to the company. Weird guy.
weird, weird guy. This was only a few years ago, and definately not the red m&m's, so it wasn't the whole "cancerous red dye" scare that caused their actions.
What do you think Darl's been up to this whole time? He really just wants to champion the GPL on a large scale public stage! It's not about IP and exercising his stock options. To him, it's about Free Software!
But there are requirements put into place on a person who agrees to using the GPL. While it allows them to do things that many other licenses do not allow you to do, at the same time it also requires them to do those things. So in that sense it could be considered as binding, and this is a test of that binding.
The sound of the fans should be drowned out by booming speakers you should have to go with your gaming system. games and gamers aren't quite, who cares about fan noise when your kicking someones ass?
gotta love mederation of +4 informative on the parent. moderators don't read the stories, posters don't read the stories... what is this, Slashdot? oh.. um *@!&#(>NO CARRIER
The first one, the Mastercard threat, is from 2001. The second one, if i'm not mistaken, regards a threat from American Express that is dated from this month. I've close the browser window with it open, so i'm lacking details.
The author is claiming that security through obscurity is better than security through allowing problems in the system to be freely discussed and criticized. The author claimed that exploits are directly derived from patches and alerts, and that not publicising until the patches were installed would reduce the number of exploits.
patches and alerts have never been necesary in creating an exploit.
reading through iomega's site, it seems that the class action lawsuit about the Click of Death came to a conclusion. It covers items purchased between 1995 and 2001.
Do recent Zip drives still exhibit this behavior? I just bought the USB version last week, and havn't used it yet. Now i'm wondering if i should just return it immediately.
The article seems to be making yet another claim that security through obscurity is better. They say that the patch release contains enough information for an exploitation to be made immediately if there isn't one already:
The patch had the specific information embedded in it that the exploiters needed, and the exploiters already had the expertise and tools required to rapidly make use of the information.
Slowing it down won't do anything, and they jump to that conclusion at the last line. Slowing it down, will have the same effect of speeding it up. They used speeding it up as an example:
If the patch had been released a week earlier, the worm also would have come out a week earlier.
The same could be said if it were released a week later.
Slowing the quickness of release shouldn't be a factor, only implementation of distribution. If they can find and fix a problem *right now*, why wait 2 weeks to distribute it? I just don't get why they mention time as an issue, except as flamebait.
End users are in a dilemma, however, because the current method of deploying patches doesn't allow them enough time before an exploit based on reverse-engineering of the patch can be deployed.
The only dilema is that of the producers of software. How fast can we notify end users that a fix is available and if they don't install it, they will be vulnerable to some attack.
If someone understands why the article claims slowing down will benefit, please explain to me. This is pissing me off. It makes no sense. The only thing that makes sense is their statement about a "patch subscription system". But that is crying out "Pay for this service". So they want to make people pay to have quick security patches, the rest get slow patching? I don't get it. I give up trying.
It's like saying "hey, what i want to do makes no sense at all! therefore it HAS to be good, new, and innovative. So give us money!"
Baldurs Gate 1 was nice, but where the series really shined was in BG2 and Thone of Bhaal, in my opinion. BG2 especially. You could play the game numerous times through, trying various combinations of your character and party and see new things each time. Your choice did have consequences later on. While it's definately written to be a Good vs. Evil, there is plenty of room for it to be Evil vs. Evil. try BG2 if you havn't.
you say that in jest, but how many times i've logged on to the Windows 2k computers at work and first thing it does is crash takes more than 2 hands to count. these computers are up to date, patched, and cleansed of virus and spyware. still they crash.
crashing on strange boundary conditions is something a lot of programs will do. in the case i was talking about, i considered them quite normal, the original author apparently did not.
if you've ever had to listen to siblings cry over the phone because their word processing software crashed for no reason, then not crashing is a great step towards usability. why do you think all the WP software now has autosaves enabled? because they couldn't stop the bulky systems from crashing under all situations. instead of writting robust code, they hacked a safegaurd in so the user atleast doesn't lose their data.
robust code is a start, and should be the foundation that usable systems are built on. Doing otherwise is like building a two storey house with the first storey made of rotten wood.
>>To equate good usability with bad security is retarded and prejudicial.
Isn't that sort of like saying "I want to rid the world of rascists. And Asians."?
Assuming your critiqing the use of "retarded", not really. from http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?stag e=1&word=retard
The verb "retard" has 4 senses in WordNet.
1. check, retard, delay -- (slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development") 2. retard -- (cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate") 3. retard -- (be delayed) 4. decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard -- (lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated")
So the original statement could be read as "To equate good usability with bad security both slows the growth of security and is prejudicial to the field of security" or something along those lines.
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what if you "format shift" for someone who has the album as well, but doesn't have the means to change formats (but does have the means to play that changed format)?
meaning, if i own the album in CD form, and have a copy of it in mp3 format, can i give the mp3 version to people who also already own the album in CD form?
I don't see why not, but i'm sure the RIAA does.
The three new Star Wars films are greatly irrelevant. Lucas had a chance, and failed to live up to standards he set 20+ years ago. Much like The Matrix, fans hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Something to cling to and say, "That was worth the wait." The only saving grace for The Matrix 2 and 3 were that they were released promptly after each other, lessening the sting of feeling "ripped off". Star Wars has no saving grace at this point. I'd rather watch my VHS copies of the original 3, which I taped off T.V. back in the 80's, than submit my time and money to the rubish that Lucas turned the franchise into.
It would be nice to have Fox News moderated to -2 Troll, so people don't see Fox News filth anymore.
If a person comes to your door wielding a knife and asks where one of your family members is, do you a) tell them the truth. b) tell them that you do know but aren't going to tell them. c) lie.
Bleh. Publishers have a moral responsibility to the public. If you don't think they do, then you've been suckered into exactly what they want to to think.
If a person is at my door weilding a knife, they've already thrown morals out the window and different rules come into play. Common sense should dictate this.
There is also a thing known as tact, where respect and diplomacy is more important than absolute truth.
forgive me if i am misquoting but, "oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we do decieve". True, tact is important on a person to person basis. If your lying to the general public in an attempt to coerce their views to something other than what they would be if you told the truth, then you've crossed the line.
The fact is, in journalism (your arguments left that scope i think, gossip columns are not even journalism, IMO), truth should be paramount to everything else.
I agree completely. Accountability is seriously lacking in todays life. For example, the "9/11 Investigations" are even being labeled as Kafkaesque in that people being questioned are denying obvious past realities. If your not telling the truth, there's no point in talking. What motivates her to be inaccurate? Site traffic? So she is blathering like an idiot to get attention. I knew kids like her when I was growing up, and I stopped hanging out with them.
She deserves a wicked slashdotting followed up by zero site traffic.
too bad you can't moderate a moderation as +1 Funny. I see humor in the off-topic moderation here :)
-1, Insightfull to anyone who mentions metamoderation to me as a followup, because that's not what i'm talking about.
I hope this makes no sense.
mapping the brain could be interesting. especially on boundary conditions like in programming. what happens when the brain dies, what are the last signals it sends out?
Declare all your variables before executing code
Leads to cleaner code, in my opinion. C++ doesn't require you to do it, but I still do.
declare all your functions before using them
What's the big deal about this? If your tired of typing, you either need to learn to copy/paste, use an IDE that will generate code for you, or find a new industry.
C takes much more time to compoile than Java/C# because all the stupid headers take forever to parse.
Ever hear of "Make" and "Makefiles"? You don't need to keep recompiling things than havn't changed.
Pointers are a problem because they allow unsafe code that forces the hardware to make up for lack of security in the software. Repeat after me, security is a software problem.
Pointers, in some capacity, are needed for low level programming. If you don't need access to hardware, then you might have a reason to consider something besides C.
kinda funny. i knew this drummer back in college (why are drummers always the weird ones in the band?) who he and his girlfriend loved m&m's but hated blue ones for some reason. maybe it was green. some color, anyway, not the red ones. So they would separate them out and send them BACK to the company. Weird guy.
weird, weird guy. This was only a few years ago, and definately not the red m&m's, so it wasn't the whole "cancerous red dye" scare that caused their actions.
What do you think Darl's been up to this whole time? He really just wants to champion the GPL on a large scale public stage! It's not about IP and exercising his stock options. To him, it's about Free Software!
if you can't tell, i'm kidding.
But there are requirements put into place on a person who agrees to using the GPL. While it allows them to do things that many other licenses do not allow you to do, at the same time it also requires them to do those things. So in that sense it could be considered as binding, and this is a test of that binding.
MS will just claim the EU to be viral.
Go back under your bridge. >that's 'quiet' not 'quite' >pehraps you're spleeling has room four >improovement?
What is this, your first day on the Internet? Havn't you got past typos and spelling errors? troll elsewhere, thanks.
The sound of the fans should be drowned out by booming speakers you should have to go with your gaming system. games and gamers aren't quite, who cares about fan noise when your kicking someones ass?
Now power consumption... that can be an issue.
gotta love mederation of +4 informative on the parent. moderators don't read the stories, posters don't read the stories... what is this, Slashdot? oh.. um *@!&#(>NO CARRIER
The first one, the Mastercard threat, is from 2001. The second one, if i'm not mistaken, regards a threat from American Express that is dated from this month. I've close the browser window with it open, so i'm lacking details.
Fine, for your obtuse brain:
The author is claiming that security through obscurity is better than security through allowing problems in the system to be freely discussed and criticized. The author claimed that exploits are directly derived from patches and alerts, and that not publicising until the patches were installed would reduce the number of exploits.
patches and alerts have never been necesary in creating an exploit.
reading through iomega's site, it seems that the class action lawsuit about the Click of Death came to a conclusion. It covers items purchased between 1995 and 2001.
Do recent Zip drives still exhibit this behavior? I just bought the USB version last week, and havn't used it yet. Now i'm wondering if i should just return it immediately.
Does anyone have any recent information?
The article seems to be making yet another claim that security through obscurity is better. They say that the patch release contains enough information for an exploitation to be made immediately if there isn't one already:
The patch had the specific information embedded in it that the exploiters needed, and the exploiters already had the expertise and tools required to rapidly make use of the information.
Slowing it down won't do anything, and they jump to that conclusion at the last line. Slowing it down, will have the same effect of speeding it up. They used speeding it up as an example:
If the patch had been released a week earlier, the worm also would have come out a week earlier.
The same could be said if it were released a week later.
Slowing the quickness of release shouldn't be a factor, only implementation of distribution. If they can find and fix a problem *right now*, why wait 2 weeks to distribute it? I just don't get why they mention time as an issue, except as flamebait.
End users are in a dilemma, however, because the current method of deploying patches doesn't allow them enough time before an exploit based on reverse-engineering of the patch can be deployed.
The only dilema is that of the producers of software. How fast can we notify end users that a fix is available and if they don't install it, they will be vulnerable to some attack.
If someone understands why the article claims slowing down will benefit, please explain to me. This is pissing me off. It makes no sense. The only thing that makes sense is their statement about a "patch subscription system". But that is crying out "Pay for this service". So they want to make people pay to have quick security patches, the rest get slow patching? I don't get it. I give up trying.
It's like saying "hey, what i want to do makes no sense at all! therefore it HAS to be good, new, and innovative. So give us money!"
Baldurs Gate 1 was nice, but where the series really shined was in BG2 and Thone of Bhaal, in my opinion. BG2 especially. You could play the game numerous times through, trying various combinations of your character and party and see new things each time. Your choice did have consequences later on. While it's definately written to be a Good vs. Evil, there is plenty of room for it to be Evil vs. Evil. try BG2 if you havn't.
-1, Use of the word "boxen"
How does this apply to someone using a printer instead of a monitor, such that the printer prints out every line of the conversatino as it happens?
you say that in jest, but how many times i've logged on to the Windows 2k computers at work and first thing it does is crash takes more than 2 hands to count. these computers are up to date, patched, and cleansed of virus and spyware. still they crash.
crashing on strange boundary conditions is something a lot of programs will do. in the case i was talking about, i considered them quite normal, the original author apparently did not.
if you've ever had to listen to siblings cry over the phone because their word processing software crashed for no reason, then not crashing is a great step towards usability. why do you think all the WP software now has autosaves enabled? because they couldn't stop the bulky systems from crashing under all situations. instead of writting robust code, they hacked a safegaurd in so the user atleast doesn't lose their data.
robust code is a start, and should be the foundation that usable systems are built on. Doing otherwise is like building a two storey house with the first storey made of rotten wood.
Isn't that sort of like saying "I want to rid the world of rascists. And Asians."?
Assuming your critiqing the use of "retarded", not really. from http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn?sta
So the original statement could be read as "To equate good usability with bad security both slows the growth of security and is prejudicial to the field of security" or something along those lines.
and so they think anything that's user friendly must be vulnerable. A classic logic error, whose name I forget right now.
I'm pretty sure that's called the "Chattering Marmot Dilema" I swear! look it up!