This assumes that all people that find exploits are bad guys. I think it is very possible for a developer to find a major bug in a popular software product, then test to see if it is an exploit.
Then, by drawing attention to the problem, they can actually get the server operator to fix it. There is a huge difference between: "I think your server might have a security exploit. You can find the patch at http://whatever.net"
and
"Your server has a security exploit that allowed me to download somebodies personal information and password. I deleted this information as soon as I got it, and am just telling you to patch your server by download the latest version of from http://whatever.net"
If this type of reaction to a problem is used in the future, I think it will lead to more secure software.
Think about it. A good guy finds a bug in the software, but in order to test it he ended up breaking into something. For fear of prosecution, he says nothing. Then a bad guy does the same thing, and takes down the system after stealing all the data. If the first guy knew he could contact the administrator without fear of prosecution (if he could prove he has positive intents), then the problem could be patched before the bad guy gets there.
How many people before einstein do you think were forgotten? And how long do you think we will remember?
When the library of alexandria was burned down, who knows all the information that was lost?
What happens when the sun expands and earth can no longer hold life? Who is going to still be around remembering these things?
I would say: Einstein ideas lived much longer than he did (as is the case with many famous people of the past 5 millenia). I would not say they are immortal.
I dont find using my radio while driving to really be that difficult. I don't even have to look at it to change CD, tracks or alter the volume.
It seems to me that if the system was not perfect, IE it has common errors and played the wrong songs, that would make me more annoyed than the prospect of having to reach down to change something.
I guess you can call me crazy, but I still like adjusting dials and getting some feedback when I change the volume or change tracks, and i'm not sure I would like a voice activated system.
This clearly isn't true. Just look at the current situation. People who have saved up a huge amount for retirement have maybe a million dollars. In today's economy, that wouldn't even sustain you for 15 years, let alone hundreds of years.
Inflation will always be creeping up your back. Remember, our monetary system is just a way of rewarding people for work. If you are smart about it, you can "beat" the system and save and do a little bit less work to get more rewards, but on the average case, what you put into the system is what you are getting out of it. Therefore it isn't possible for everybody to work 100 years and sustain themselves for 800 years with the savings from that.
Investing in the stock market is also a zero-sum game. Sure, the market can go up, but that just means more people are invested in it. If people are trying to get their money out, there better be just as many people putting money in or the market is going to go down. Therefore, if everybody wants money to spend, the stock market isn't going to magically make lots of money.
The only response to this I have is: It just isn't the same. If I am playing an NFL game, I want the actual players are teams.
I understand it really seems stupid, but it makes the game more fun if you know the players and the teams, and who to give the ball to; to run the actual plays the team runs. It adds an extra level of excitement to playing the game.
I did like Sega branded ESPN Sports games, but I must admit, I doubt I am going to buy a football game that doesn't use the NFL player names and team names.
What worries me most is the fact that sans competition EA sports games aren't going to get any better, which sucks for the consumer.
One problem with computers has been they have the initial price and support, but they aren't getting that lucrative monthly subscription fee. I think this is a great business plan if they actually can get this to work.
Well, knowing a bit about the fourth amendment, I can sum it up for you pretty quickly.
The courts do not give a shit about your rights if you are in a car. The cops can pull you over, search it without a warrant, follow you, do whatever they want.
But when it comes to the home, the courts with bend over backwards to protect it. Infared scanning of your home? Not without a warrant. Searching a house? Not without a warrant. Cops even walking into your house? Not without your permission or a warrant.
The point is, since the 4th amendment was written long before cars existed, the courts have decided that it does not protect the rights of people driving cars on public roads, however, its protects of a private home will never go away.
I think the bigger problem is that so few people understand how a tsunami is created, so when one hits your island/nation, you aren't thinking that maybe another one went off in the other direction.
And, even if you do understand that the tsunami is going off in all directions, you dont know exactly which direction it came from, so you don't exactly know who to warn.
I think it would be much more effective to teach people what they look like when they are coming. For example, if the water near the beach is receding, get the hell out of there. If the islanders knew this, thousands of lives would have been saved.
30 years ago they said in 30 years we would all be driving flying cars and would have the moon colonized, so I'm not sure how much I can trust predictions like these.
Although it is easy to say with the speed technology is moving things like this will be invented, I am sure there are some giant problems that will need to be solved first, and unless we get lucky I dont think these new technologies will be available in my lifetime.
I still dont think any companies are going to be giving up the.com website. It just has so much marketing built into it.
I still lose credability for a site if it is.biz or some other imitiation. I am aware that this is just a subjective opinion, but I doubt I am the only one who feels this way, and I still think.com will never be touched as far as the most popular suffix.
I took up poker a couple years ago before it became popular online, and now I play from time to time online, and I would consider myself a winning player.
The thing with poker is the game isn't all too complicated if we are talking about online play, where sound betting strategy will win you money. Give a logical thinking person a simple poker strategy to play, they will do fine and definetly win some money online.
Online poker is all about logic and patience, and at least the former is found in most computer people, which is why I am guessing they will do much better at the strategic part, which will more or less translate into playing winning poker.
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When somebody uploads illegal content?
This assumes that all people that find exploits are bad guys. I think it is very possible for a developer to find a major bug in a popular software product, then test to see if it is an exploit.
Then, by drawing attention to the problem, they can actually get the server operator to fix it. There is a huge difference between:
"I think your server might have a security exploit. You can find the patch at http://whatever.net"
and
"Your server has a security exploit that allowed me to download somebodies personal information and password. I deleted this information as soon as I got it, and am just telling you to patch your server by download the latest version of from http://whatever.net"
If this type of reaction to a problem is used in the future, I think it will lead to more secure software.
Think about it. A good guy finds a bug in the software, but in order to test it he ended up breaking into something. For fear of prosecution, he says nothing. Then a bad guy does the same thing, and takes down the system after stealing all the data. If the first guy knew he could contact the administrator without fear of prosecution (if he could prove he has positive intents), then the problem could be patched before the bad guy gets there.
I doubt we are going to have to worry about this catching on because it defeats the entire purpose of having a cell phone.
It is a really cool creation though. The plans look so simple I only wish I had a rotary phone available to mess around with.
How many people before einstein do you think were forgotten? And how long do you think we will remember?
When the library of alexandria was burned down, who knows all the information that was lost?
What happens when the sun expands and earth can no longer hold life? Who is going to still be around remembering these things?
I would say: Einstein ideas lived much longer than he did (as is the case with many famous people of the past 5 millenia). I would not say they are immortal.
I dont find using my radio while driving to really be that difficult. I don't even have to look at it to change CD, tracks or alter the volume.
It seems to me that if the system was not perfect, IE it has common errors and played the wrong songs, that would make me more annoyed than the prospect of having to reach down to change something.
I guess you can call me crazy, but I still like adjusting dials and getting some feedback when I change the volume or change tracks, and i'm not sure I would like a voice activated system.
This clearly isn't true. Just look at the current situation. People who have saved up a huge amount for retirement have maybe a million dollars. In today's economy, that wouldn't even sustain you for 15 years, let alone hundreds of years.
Inflation will always be creeping up your back. Remember, our monetary system is just a way of rewarding people for work. If you are smart about it, you can "beat" the system and save and do a little bit less work to get more rewards, but on the average case, what you put into the system is what you are getting out of it. Therefore it isn't possible for everybody to work 100 years and sustain themselves for 800 years with the savings from that.
Investing in the stock market is also a zero-sum game. Sure, the market can go up, but that just means more people are invested in it. If people are trying to get their money out, there better be just as many people putting money in or the market is going to go down. Therefore, if everybody wants money to spend, the stock market isn't going to magically make lots of money.
The link to the picture in the article was sans leaf.
Well lets perform a little deduction here.
Chances are high that any PC game that is sold is bought by at least a few people.
Chances are high that if a group of people buy a game, at least one person will run it on a regular basis.
Most people only care about the games they personally run.
Therefore: Chances are high that *all* games need to be ported to Linux to make most people happy.
So I am going to revise your statement from:
obviously we don't need every single PeeCee game to work on Linux for a successful gaming platform
to
the most important thing to make linux a successful gaming platform is to make sure the most popular PC games work to cover the most users
The only response to this I have is: It just isn't the same. If I am playing an NFL game, I want the actual players are teams.
I understand it really seems stupid, but it makes the game more fun if you know the players and the teams, and who to give the ball to; to run the actual plays the team runs. It adds an extra level of excitement to playing the game.
I did like Sega branded ESPN Sports games, but I must admit, I doubt I am going to buy a football game that doesn't use the NFL player names and team names.
What worries me most is the fact that sans competition EA sports games aren't going to get any better, which sucks for the consumer.
You should try putting a new processer in there. I put a Althon64 in my ti-89 and now its graphing ability goes at least 10 times faster than before.
The only problem is the heatsink and fan weighs about 5x as much as the calculator itself, and it is too loud to use in class.
But its really fast!!!
One problem with computers has been they have the initial price and support, but they aren't getting that lucrative monthly subscription fee. I think this is a great business plan if they actually can get this to work.
Well, knowing a bit about the fourth amendment, I can sum it up for you pretty quickly.
The courts do not give a shit about your rights if you are in a car. The cops can pull you over, search it without a warrant, follow you, do whatever they want.
But when it comes to the home, the courts with bend over backwards to protect it. Infared scanning of your home? Not without a warrant. Searching a house? Not without a warrant. Cops even walking into your house? Not without your permission or a warrant.
The point is, since the 4th amendment was written long before cars existed, the courts have decided that it does not protect the rights of people driving cars on public roads, however, its protects of a private home will never go away.
I think the bigger problem is that so few people understand how a tsunami is created, so when one hits your island/nation, you aren't thinking that maybe another one went off in the other direction.
And, even if you do understand that the tsunami is going off in all directions, you dont know exactly which direction it came from, so you don't exactly know who to warn.
I think it would be much more effective to teach people what they look like when they are coming. For example, if the water near the beach is receding, get the hell out of there. If the islanders knew this, thousands of lives would have been saved.
30 years ago they said in 30 years we would all be driving flying cars and would have the moon colonized, so I'm not sure how much I can trust predictions like these.
Although it is easy to say with the speed technology is moving things like this will be invented, I am sure there are some giant problems that will need to be solved first, and unless we get lucky I dont think these new technologies will be available in my lifetime.
You can have free software that isn't open source, and open source software that isn't free. There is a reason the two tersm exist.
Who cares how much weight a rocket can lift into space? If it isn't sexy, it ain't getting my business.
I'll just take my satellites to russia.
That was quick. Slashdot posting the story and the decision within a day.
Could this be the start of a trend in which news moves at the pace of slashdot?
I still dont think any companies are going to be giving up the .com website. It just has so much marketing built into it.
.biz or some other imitiation. I am aware that this is just a subjective opinion, but I doubt I am the only one who feels this way, and I still think .com will never be touched as far as the most popular suffix.
I still lose credability for a site if it is
Well when you say it like that, I think this purchase is starting to make sense...
Wait a second...
Nope, still makes no sense.
I think the shrinking of the 40hb hard drive from .8cm to .5cm is much more important than the creation of the 80gb model.
I think I would rather have a really thing 40gb model than a slightly larger 80gb model that probably will cost a lot more.
Free downloadable plain-text dictionaries
I for one welcome our new iPod killing overlords.
Now only 3 days to compile it all!
I took up poker a couple years ago before it became popular online, and now I play from time to time online, and I would consider myself a winning player.
The thing with poker is the game isn't all too complicated if we are talking about online play, where sound betting strategy will win you money. Give a logical thinking person a simple poker strategy to play, they will do fine and definetly win some money online.
Online poker is all about logic and patience, and at least the former is found in most computer people, which is why I am guessing they will do much better at the strategic part, which will more or less translate into playing winning poker.