The user tried running authentic Adobe Reader software in Wine. It didn't work. So the user paid Microsoft to fix the incompatibility with Adobe Reader.
The relicensing of the SWF spec to allow third-party implementations was part of what Adobe called "Open Screen Project", and sources claim that it happened in the second quarter of 2008.
It's hard to determine what a user can reasonably consider "trusted sites" anymore now that major web ad networks have become a common vector for infection.
and yes, all sorts of new computers are sold without Windows or a Windows license. [...] And some are actual linux desktop computers.
But are there enough desktop PCs sold with GNU/Linux or Remix OS in use in the United States to make it worth spending U.S. residents' tax money to support them?
I just picked up a $25 laptop at a flee market
Ideally, one would wipe Windows ME and install a suitably sized GNU/Linux OS. But I wonder for what kind of grant from "a U.S. federal funding agency" someone whose only PC is a $25 used PC would be applying. The featured article left out specifics of the grant. I believe the omission was intended to carry the implication that compatibility with free software is something that the government ought to be implementing across the board, as opposed to an exceptional fix just for one class of grants. I sort of agree with the philosophy behind demanding a government-wide fix, but this omission still makes it hard to build an airtight proposal for supporting the edge case of someone who owns zero PCs with a supported Windows OS.
That's not fixing it. That's paying Microsoft Corporation to fix it. And if this were required for a grant in any country but the United States, that would be paying a foreign company to fix it.
Acrobat reader is free, dumbass, and if you can afford a computer it will come with a Windows license.
There is no acroreader for Windows 98/me
Support for Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition ended in July 2006. If you are still using one of these two operating systems on a PC connected to the Internet, you are using software with exploitable security vulnerabilities that will not be fixed this century.
and yes, all sorts of new computers are sold without Windows or a Windows license.
I know. Many are servers, which are not intended to display GUI apps in the first place. Many are made by Apple Inc., and they come with an OS X license that can run Acrobat for OS X. Many are ARM-based devices, and you have a valid point that Adobe refuses to port the features at issue to Acrobat for mobile operating systems.
5Mbps for $20, that's for sure. That's more than enough for Netflix.
It depends on how many people in your household watch at once and how big the screens are (such as 480p on a Wii or phone vs. 1080p on a PC or eighth-generation console).
Streaming services are crap and they will always be. Give me a non-DRM video file to download or don't give me anything!
Traditionally, publishers are willing to offer rental cheaper than purchase, leaving purchase for things like Frozen and Shrek 2 that get watched repeatedly. Digital restrictions management on things like Netflix is used to enforce the rental terms. The only way non-DRM is likely to happen is as a purchase equivalent. Are you willing to pay $20 to watch a movie once?
I -think- you're saying that you think of laser fiber connections as working like FM radio, where the data signal modulates the carrier.
No, AM radio. The amplitude of the radio or light emission is varied over time.
So it's one single frequency, turned on and off.
That's amplitude-shift keying, the special case of AM where only on and off are valid. Like other forms of AM, ASK's bandwidth is theoretically nonzero. Zero bandwidth would be a laser that is never pulsed.
PEEK and POKE in BASIC are designed for use with MMIO, but in the form that I remember them, they're not designed for MMIO ports that need writes larger than a byte. INP and OUT are present on 8080-descended architectures (Z80, x86, x86-64), but other popular architectures tend to have only MMIO. And even on x86 and x86-64, the trend has been away from INP and OUT and toward MMIO.
Perhaps the problem is that cities failed to efficiently exploit these rights of way in advance the last time they did road construction. They could have buried conduits with the expectation of later selling or leasing them to utilities that blow their own fiber, copper, etc. through it.
Basic fiber optic connections use a single laser or led clocked at the data rate, so these fiber are baseband, not broadband.
I was under that the effective frequency spectrum of a visible light frequency transmission was the frequency of the laser (c divided by the wavelength) plus or minus the data rate.
Perhaps the FCC could greenwash it by mentioning the emissions-control and energy-security benefits of getting those 1 percent of the workforce off the roads and onto telecommuting.
You are correct that this particular device is out of warranty.
But I have another question: Why do warranties on cellular devices tend to expire before the device would be paid off under the most common financing arrangement? Smartphones are often sold on a 24-month contract, yet not all are warranted for 24 months.
Do you also have groceries delivered? If not, you can shop at brick-and-mortar stores when you make a grocery trip.
You said "diseased creatures". Does this mean you have a compromised immune system? If you do, and you receive disability allowance for it, then yes, Amazon may be a prudent choice.
This bullshit of having to provide payment information - even when you're no going to buy anything - is just stupid.
Apple's requirement to provide payment information in order to activate an iOS device is to make eventually buying something on iTunes Store or App Store more convenient.
Lastly, just delete you payment information and that'll make the account useless.
Unless someone tries to blackmail you with purchase history. I know someone who purchased adult toys on Amazon in the past but doesn't want that to leak to the public.
Online shopping has jumped the shark. The deals are gone - I frequently find better bargains at my local brick and mortar stores
Provided you can even find a particular product locally. More obscure products are easier to find on Amazon, eBay, or a niche site. I never managed to find a Nokia N900 phone, Archos 43 Internet Tablet, or Samsung Galaxy Player in a major electronics chain near me back when those products were in production. Even nowadays I can't find Archos or JXD gaming tablets in stores.
I agree with you that the number of printable ASCII strings of a given length that include at least one lowercase letter, at least one uppercase letter, and at least one digit or punctuation character is smaller than the total number of printable ASCII strings of the same length. But it's about increasing the average security of an account, especially if the distribution is currently skewed toward more easily guessed passwords. If you make the least complex password more complex, you increase the expected time to compromise an account. That said, sites I've developed encourage use of passphrases by giving the option to substitute length for complexity: you don't have to include a digit or punctuation if the password is at least 16 characters long (after stripping leading and trailing spaces), and you can turn off password masking if you know nobody else is viewing your screen.
The poster "weev" is a notorious internet troll that was imprisoned for hacking Apple a few years ago.
How ought someone to report an accidentally discovered serious security vulnerability in a responsible manner if the owner of the vulnerable system refuses to listen to him?
I can pull out my physical wallet and give somebody a twenty and there's no transaction fee.
Provided you're willing to pay a transaction fee to an airline to put yourself within arm's reach of the recipient.
There's no transaction fee when I write a check (I do pay a fixed fee monthly to ensure that).
Of course there is: the cost of printing the paper check, the cost of the envelope in which it is mailed, and the cost of the postage to deliver it to the recipient.
The Bitcoin blockchain grants transaction fees and minted coins to nodes that process and verify transactions. If a blockchain does not represent currency, what will be the reward for operating a node?
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when I need them to work here, they work here. I'm paying them
Are you willing to pay a premium for relocation so that they can work with your constraint?
The user tried running authentic Adobe Reader software in Wine. It didn't work. So the user paid Microsoft to fix the incompatibility with Adobe Reader.
The relicensing of the SWF spec to allow third-party implementations was part of what Adobe called "Open Screen Project", and sources claim that it happened in the second quarter of 2008.
as long as they only visit trusted sites
It's hard to determine what a user can reasonably consider "trusted sites" anymore now that major web ad networks have become a common vector for infection.
and yes, all sorts of new computers are sold without Windows or a Windows license. [...] And some are actual linux desktop computers.
But are there enough desktop PCs sold with GNU/Linux or Remix OS in use in the United States to make it worth spending U.S. residents' tax money to support them?
I just picked up a $25 laptop at a flee market
Ideally, one would wipe Windows ME and install a suitably sized GNU/Linux OS. But I wonder for what kind of grant from "a U.S. federal funding agency" someone whose only PC is a $25 used PC would be applying. The featured article left out specifics of the grant. I believe the omission was intended to carry the implication that compatibility with free software is something that the government ought to be implementing across the board, as opposed to an exceptional fix just for one class of grants. I sort of agree with the philosophy behind demanding a government-wide fix, but this omission still makes it hard to build an airtight proposal for supporting the edge case of someone who owns zero PCs with a supported Windows OS.
On Windows 7, it worked immediately.
Oh, you fixed it.
That's not fixing it. That's paying Microsoft Corporation to fix it. And if this were required for a grant in any country but the United States, that would be paying a foreign company to fix it.
Acrobat reader is free, dumbass, and if you can afford a computer it will come with a Windows license.
There is no acroreader for Windows 98/me
Support for Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition ended in July 2006. If you are still using one of these two operating systems on a PC connected to the Internet, you are using software with exploitable security vulnerabilities that will not be fixed this century.
and yes, all sorts of new computers are sold without Windows or a Windows license.
I know. Many are servers, which are not intended to display GUI apps in the first place. Many are made by Apple Inc., and they come with an OS X license that can run Acrobat for OS X. Many are ARM-based devices, and you have a valid point that Adobe refuses to port the features at issue to Acrobat for mobile operating systems.
Oh yes "just use flash" for embedding multimedia stuff. And, uhhh, where's the spec for that?
Google swf format spec produced a specification for SWF in PDF format as the first result, readable in the free PDF.js reader included in Firefox.
a lot of games these days target multiple platforms
Do Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, and iOS count as "multiple platforms"?
5Mbps for $20, that's for sure. That's more than enough for Netflix.
It depends on how many people in your household watch at once and how big the screens are (such as 480p on a Wii or phone vs. 1080p on a PC or eighth-generation console).
Streaming services are crap and they will always be. Give me a non-DRM video file to download or don't give me anything!
Traditionally, publishers are willing to offer rental cheaper than purchase, leaving purchase for things like Frozen and Shrek 2 that get watched repeatedly. Digital restrictions management on things like Netflix is used to enforce the rental terms. The only way non-DRM is likely to happen is as a purchase equivalent. Are you willing to pay $20 to watch a movie once?
What the Vice, Master Race, American Excess credit cards allowed past generations to enjoy
So are you saying cash is for console peasants and MasterCard is for the PC Master Race?
Your sentence is missing a word or two
True: s/under/under the impression/
I -think- you're saying that you think of laser fiber connections as working like FM radio, where the data signal modulates the carrier.
No, AM radio. The amplitude of the radio or light emission is varied over time.
So it's one single frequency, turned on and off.
That's amplitude-shift keying, the special case of AM where only on and off are valid. Like other forms of AM, ASK's bandwidth is theoretically nonzero. Zero bandwidth would be a laser that is never pulsed.
PEEK and POKE in BASIC are designed for use with MMIO, but in the form that I remember them, they're not designed for MMIO ports that need writes larger than a byte. INP and OUT are present on 8080-descended architectures (Z80, x86, x86-64), but other popular architectures tend to have only MMIO. And even on x86 and x86-64, the trend has been away from INP and OUT and toward MMIO.
Perhaps the problem is that cities failed to efficiently exploit these rights of way in advance the last time they did road construction. They could have buried conduits with the expectation of later selling or leasing them to utilities that blow their own fiber, copper, etc. through it.
Basic fiber optic connections use a single laser or led clocked at the data rate, so these fiber are baseband, not broadband.
I was under that the effective frequency spectrum of a visible light frequency transmission was the frequency of the laser (c divided by the wavelength) plus or minus the data rate.
Perhaps the FCC could greenwash it by mentioning the emissions-control and energy-security benefits of getting those 1 percent of the workforce off the roads and onto telecommuting.
You are correct that this particular device is out of warranty.
But I have another question: Why do warranties on cellular devices tend to expire before the device would be paid off under the most common financing arrangement? Smartphones are often sold on a 24-month contract, yet not all are warranted for 24 months.
And lastly, the fact that C has one of the smallest run-time requirements of any language.
Forth diehards will claim that Forth's runtime is even smaller.
I'm guessing because none of the banks with a branch in town are among the banks that offer a virtual credit card.
Do you also have groceries delivered? If not, you can shop at brick-and-mortar stores when you make a grocery trip.
You said "diseased creatures". Does this mean you have a compromised immune system? If you do, and you receive disability allowance for it, then yes, Amazon may be a prudent choice.
This bullshit of having to provide payment information - even when you're no going to buy anything - is just stupid.
Apple's requirement to provide payment information in order to activate an iOS device is to make eventually buying something on iTunes Store or App Store more convenient.
Lastly, just delete you payment information and that'll make the account useless.
Unless someone tries to blackmail you with purchase history. I know someone who purchased adult toys on Amazon in the past but doesn't want that to leak to the public.
Online shopping has jumped the shark. The deals are gone - I frequently find better bargains at my local brick and mortar stores
Provided you can even find a particular product locally. More obscure products are easier to find on Amazon, eBay, or a niche site. I never managed to find a Nokia N900 phone, Archos 43 Internet Tablet, or Samsung Galaxy Player in a major electronics chain near me back when those products were in production. Even nowadays I can't find Archos or JXD gaming tablets in stores.
I agree with you that the number of printable ASCII strings of a given length that include at least one lowercase letter, at least one uppercase letter, and at least one digit or punctuation character is smaller than the total number of printable ASCII strings of the same length. But it's about increasing the average security of an account, especially if the distribution is currently skewed toward more easily guessed passwords. If you make the least complex password more complex, you increase the expected time to compromise an account. That said, sites I've developed encourage use of passphrases by giving the option to substitute length for complexity: you don't have to include a digit or punctuation if the password is at least 16 characters long (after stripping leading and trailing spaces), and you can turn off password masking if you know nobody else is viewing your screen.
The poster "weev" is a notorious internet troll that was imprisoned for hacking Apple a few years ago.
How ought someone to report an accidentally discovered serious security vulnerability in a responsible manner if the owner of the vulnerable system refuses to listen to him?
I can pull out my physical wallet and give somebody a twenty and there's no transaction fee.
Provided you're willing to pay a transaction fee to an airline to put yourself within arm's reach of the recipient.
There's no transaction fee when I write a check (I do pay a fixed fee monthly to ensure that).
Of course there is: the cost of printing the paper check, the cost of the envelope in which it is mailed, and the cost of the postage to deliver it to the recipient.
The Bitcoin blockchain grants transaction fees and minted coins to nodes that process and verify transactions. If a blockchain does not represent currency, what will be the reward for operating a node?