I'm just waiting for a security hole to pop up and leave even more reason to bash Windows security.
Integrating this system-wide search function with their wonderfully secure browser would open up a whole new set of possibilities for spyware. It could make it much easier for a simple web page script exploit to say, search and retrieve documents on your drive containing the phrase "credit card" or "bank account".
"In Soviet Russia, you don't search the web... the web searches you!"
Yeah, but it wasn't like she was launching an album or a movie, or a packaged player with all the work she's done throughout her career. With the budget Microsoft has, they could have gotten some real big shots in the entertainment industry. They could have coincided it with a current chart-topping musician's music video release and demonstrated the video on the device. Not to put Latifah's career down or anything, but they could have gotten someone like J-Lo or Beyoncé. They too are singers/actresses and are more popular at the moment (despite Gigli). Even then, they could have done something different, like get MTV rather than an individual. It seems like they just tried to copy Apple by getting a celebrity to help their promotion, and just didn't seem to get it right.
A U2 iPod containing all the music the band has ever produced is a great idea, because it's like releasing an album, but using a much more advanced media storage medium. But what's the point of having Queen Latifah at the Microsoft launch?
they can only detect a yellowish pattern of 5 circles
Apparently they're not just yellow, but can be any color. I was wondering if they had to be of a particular fixed size, but then I found this link through Google that says otherwise. I wonder if someone had a shirt made with a fabric with this pattern all over it, would people be able to publish digital photos of that person? Anti-paparazzi shirts!
making their computers work for someone else, not their owner
Nicely put. That's a really simple and concise way of stating the problems with all this "Trusted computing", DRM, and anti-counterfeiting ruckus. Now if someone could only explain this to the computer industry and lawmakers.
It is implemented very nicely in OS X. It's not just a Safari feature, but a system-wide one. It also shows up in Mail, TextEdit, Stickies, etc, as well as third-party applications that adhere to OS X programming standards. I believe the spell check dictionary is based on the International settings in System Preferences. I guess they make it easier to program into applications, and it would reduce the bloatware factor.
Here's a little side story that you might not have known about Audion: it was a huge success in Japan. Really! At one point in November, 1999, Audion sold more copies in Japan than any other software title -- Mac or PC! In fact, overall, Audion sold better in Japan than it did in the USA.
And we can set it so that spelling errors are automatically highlighted when typing in Slashdot comment submission text boxes in Safari:)
Just check the "Edit>Spelling>Check Spelling as You Type" menu option while the text cursor is in the comment text box. You can also access it by control-clicking or right-clicking (yes, we can use 2-button mice) on the text box. It gives the usual spelling suggestions option when you click that way on a highlighted word. Once set, it stays that way too, even if you quit the application.
I'm not aware if other browsers do this (IE on the Mac doesn't), but judging from the number of spelling errors that occur in Slashdot discussions, I'm assuming many can't access this feature, or don't know that they can.
I'm getting me one and modifying it so it shoots saw blades instead of foam disks. Ain't NOBODY getting near my stack of porn!
Be very careful if you're going to be setting up shooting blades around your stack of porn. If there's any chance you forget to deactivate it when you're "in the mood", with all the blood out of your brain, you may accidentally "disable" yourself from ever using your porn again.
Considering Slashdot can get up to half a million readers a day, and has a subculture of it's own, would you consider doing something like "Trekkies", but for this site... say "Slashdotters"? I wouldn't be surprised how many on this site could possibly be trekkies themselves. And, yes, I am guilty of collecting ST box sets.
Anyone who has read the Slashdot interview with Wil Wheaton may have noticed he has a sense of humour, and may in fact have a slashdot account. I think perhaps the grandparent post was jesting because it may actually have been Wil himself.
Is "stratjakt" Wil Wheatons' Slashdot handle? Speculation abounds...
So-called reality shows are a huge success for the television networks. The reason?
They cost jack shit to produce.
Didn't reality TV shows become popular around the time the Writers Guild of America was threatening to strike around 2001? These shows don't need writers, so I kind of assumed it was a way of undermining the leverage of the Writers Guild's influence by propagating these kind of shows. Both Survivor and the US version of Big Brother started in 2000. The networks were probably aware a problem was brewing and planning ahead.
The company has demonstrated a feature called Sidebar
I wonder if Microsoft's Sidebar "tiles" will work more like the "pods" in Macromedia Central rather than applets in Konfabrulator or Dashboard. The pods are supposed to be part of running applications, so you can see information about them while working in another. Konfabrulator and Dashboard are more like independent small applications. I also wonder if Macromedia came up with the idea first and Microsoft copied it, or if Microsoft came up with the idea on their own.
The problem with Plexiglass is that it scratches very easily. Despite it's use in things like "shark tunnels" in large public aquariums because of its strength, it still requires very delicate care in cleaning. Plexiglass with this stuff as a surface coating would make an excellent combination because it would have the strength without the scratching. It could be used for things like storefront windows, eliminating the need for folding security gates during off-hours. Think of it as a real "transparent aluminum".
Using this for discs is great, but will it solve the problem of degrading recordable media? There is still the problem of dye degradation.
"author of this worm is a Russian programmer"
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This security flaw was discovered in three days, unlike the security hole found in Microsoft Passport last year. From the article...
It is such an obvious error that it must have been noticed months, if not years, ago by people who decided that this was such a good trick they would not bother telling Microsoft.
It is the sort of programming error that you would expect from a web developer fresh from college. And although it has now been fixed - so do not bother trying it at home - it has been there for a very long time indeed.
Extrortion using information gathered from hacking into corporate sites has been happening for years. I've seen reports that say it actually is rarely reported to the public, and that the situation is much worse than people know. The fact that a site that deals with open source has been targeted would be expected. And because the nature of open source deals with open collaboration means that it would have a disproportionate amount of publicly revealed reports of hacking, in comparison to proprietary sites that would keep things under wraps as much as possible.
20,00 to 25,000 genes? Wouldn't this mean that you could fit your entire DNA sequence in a single computer file? How big would it be? Does anybody know if there are entire human genomes available for download on the net?
I knew that if I respected the rules of the game, I would be safe, I would be treated correctly and nothing would happen to me.
That sounds interesting, having grown up myself under the cold war with the propaganda that people in communist countries were all miserable slaves to an evil regime. I recall growing up with the belief that it wasn't a matter of "if" the world was going to end in a nuclear war, but "when". Now that I'm older, and I understand that whatever system people were a part of, they were all human beings with the same hopes in life, just in technically different economic systems.
But I'm curious to know how a communist system handled corruption. Even in countries that claim to have democracies and voting, dictatorships can arise and rig the democratic system. I grew up in such a country, where it was flaunted to be a democracy when in reality, it was a dictatorship where elections were rigged and political opponents assasinated.
Countries that practice, or at least pretend to practice democracy are supposed to have accountability that keeps corruption somewhat in check, at least to keep up appearances. However, how was this handled in a communist country? Even in democratic countries, people believe that if they follow the rules they'll be safe, until something happens and they find that they are helpless to the whims of a corrupt system. And this sort of thing does happen.
But in these countries, there are avenues for exposing the corruption when it reaches a critical mass, through protests and media exposure. I'm curious to know what recourse you would have in a communist system, if you found that somewhere high in the governmental beaurocracy, somone was abusing the system. For example, if the relative of a government official committed a crime against you, and the government official covered it up, what could you do for justice?
iPod Killers for Christmas Part I includes what I think is the coolest new player, the Olympus MR 500i with touch-screen technology and and sharp black-on-white color scheme.
...And cute little white "please mug me" earphones just like the iPod.
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I'm just waiting for a security hole to pop up and leave even more reason to bash Windows security.
Integrating this system-wide search function with their wonderfully secure browser would open up a whole new set of possibilities for spyware. It could make it much easier for a simple web page script exploit to say, search and retrieve documents on your drive containing the phrase "credit card" or "bank account".
Yeah, but it wasn't like she was launching an album or a movie, or a packaged player with all the work she's done throughout her career. With the budget Microsoft has, they could have gotten some real big shots in the entertainment industry. They could have coincided it with a current chart-topping musician's music video release and demonstrated the video on the device. Not to put Latifah's career down or anything, but they could have gotten someone like J-Lo or Beyoncé. They too are singers/actresses and are more popular at the moment (despite Gigli). Even then, they could have done something different, like get MTV rather than an individual. It seems like they just tried to copy Apple by getting a celebrity to help their promotion, and just didn't seem to get it right.
A U2 iPod containing all the music the band has ever produced is a great idea, because it's like releasing an album, but using a much more advanced media storage medium. But what's the point of having Queen Latifah at the Microsoft launch?
Not to be confused with Woo Hah! - which generally comes from Busta Rhymes
Strange. I was thinking Al Pacino.
I just googled this up...
they can only detect a yellowish pattern of 5 circles
Apparently they're not just yellow, but can be any color. I was wondering if they had to be of a particular fixed size, but then I found this link through Google that says otherwise. I wonder if someone had a shirt made with a fabric with this pattern all over it, would people be able to publish digital photos of that person? Anti-paparazzi shirts!
making their computers work for someone else, not their owner
Nicely put. That's a really simple and concise way of stating the problems with all this "Trusted computing", DRM, and anti-counterfeiting ruckus. Now if someone could only explain this to the computer industry and lawmakers.
It is implemented very nicely in OS X. It's not just a Safari feature, but a system-wide one. It also shows up in Mail, TextEdit, Stickies, etc, as well as third-party applications that adhere to OS X programming standards. I believe the spell check dictionary is based on the International settings in System Preferences. I guess they make it easier to program into applications, and it would reduce the bloatware factor.
FTA...
Welcome to the Mac side of things.
And we can set it so that spelling errors are automatically highlighted when typing in Slashdot comment submission text boxes in Safari :)
Just check the "Edit>Spelling>Check Spelling as You Type" menu option while the text cursor is in the comment text box. You can also access it by control-clicking or right-clicking (yes, we can use 2-button mice) on the text box. It gives the usual spelling suggestions option when you click that way on a highlighted word. Once set, it stays that way too, even if you quit the application.
I'm not aware if other browsers do this (IE on the Mac doesn't), but judging from the number of spelling errors that occur in Slashdot discussions, I'm assuming many can't access this feature, or don't know that they can.
I'm getting me one and modifying it so it shoots saw blades instead of foam disks. Ain't NOBODY getting near my stack of porn!
Be very careful if you're going to be setting up shooting blades around your stack of porn. If there's any chance you forget to deactivate it when you're "in the mood", with all the blood out of your brain, you may accidentally "disable" yourself from ever using your porn again.
depending on his mood (i.e. "dry days" and "heavy days").
I believe they have products for those situations.
Considering Slashdot can get up to half a million readers a day, and has a subculture of it's own, would you consider doing something like "Trekkies", but for this site... say "Slashdotters"? I wouldn't be surprised how many on this site could possibly be trekkies themselves. And, yes, I am guilty of collecting ST box sets.
Anyone who has read the Slashdot interview with Wil Wheaton may have noticed he has a sense of humour, and may in fact have a slashdot account. I think perhaps the grandparent post was jesting because it may actually have been Wil himself.
Is "stratjakt" Wil Wheatons' Slashdot handle? Speculation abounds...
So-called reality shows are a huge success for the television networks. The reason?
They cost jack shit to produce.
Didn't reality TV shows become popular around the time the Writers Guild of America was threatening to strike around 2001? These shows don't need writers, so I kind of assumed it was a way of undermining the leverage of the Writers Guild's influence by propagating these kind of shows. Both Survivor and the US version of Big Brother started in 2000. The networks were probably aware a problem was brewing and planning ahead.
"unfortunately we live in reality" Oh, god... how true that statement is.
This is Slashdot. It has nothing to do with reality. :P
- Equates "MP3 Player" with "iPod"
Even articles that appear on this site sometimes refer to the iPod rather than using the generic term "MP3 player".The company has demonstrated a feature called Sidebar
I wonder if Microsoft's Sidebar "tiles" will work more like the "pods" in Macromedia Central rather than applets in Konfabrulator or Dashboard. The pods are supposed to be part of running applications, so you can see information about them while working in another. Konfabrulator and Dashboard are more like independent small applications. I also wonder if Macromedia came up with the idea first and Microsoft copied it, or if Microsoft came up with the idea on their own.
Most sharks don't carry blowtorches
What about friggin laser beams attached to their heads?
The problem with Plexiglass is that it scratches very easily. Despite it's use in things like "shark tunnels" in large public aquariums because of its strength, it still requires very delicate care in cleaning. Plexiglass with this stuff as a surface coating would make an excellent combination because it would have the strength without the scratching. It could be used for things like storefront windows, eliminating the need for folding security gates during off-hours. Think of it as a real "transparent aluminum".
Using this for discs is great, but will it solve the problem of degrading recordable media? There is still the problem of dye degradation.
In Soviet Russia... oh, nevermind.
Alot more if you'd stop posting on slashdot and go to those bookstores ;-)
Ofcourse, you're assuming they actually go to bookstores and don't just order online.
This security flaw was discovered in three days, unlike the security hole found in Microsoft Passport last year. From the article...
Extrortion using information gathered from hacking into corporate sites has been happening for years. I've seen reports that say it actually is rarely reported to the public, and that the situation is much worse than people know. The fact that a site that deals with open source has been targeted would be expected. And because the nature of open source deals with open collaboration means that it would have a disproportionate amount of publicly revealed reports of hacking, in comparison to proprietary sites that would keep things under wraps as much as possible.
20,00 to 25,000 genes? Wouldn't this mean that you could fit your entire DNA sequence in a single computer file? How big would it be? Does anybody know if there are entire human genomes available for download on the net?
I knew that if I respected the rules of the game, I would be safe, I would be treated correctly and nothing would happen to me.
That sounds interesting, having grown up myself under the cold war with the propaganda that people in communist countries were all miserable slaves to an evil regime. I recall growing up with the belief that it wasn't a matter of "if" the world was going to end in a nuclear war, but "when". Now that I'm older, and I understand that whatever system people were a part of, they were all human beings with the same hopes in life, just in technically different economic systems.
But I'm curious to know how a communist system handled corruption. Even in countries that claim to have democracies and voting, dictatorships can arise and rig the democratic system. I grew up in such a country, where it was flaunted to be a democracy when in reality, it was a dictatorship where elections were rigged and political opponents assasinated.
Countries that practice, or at least pretend to practice democracy are supposed to have accountability that keeps corruption somewhat in check, at least to keep up appearances. However, how was this handled in a communist country? Even in democratic countries, people believe that if they follow the rules they'll be safe, until something happens and they find that they are helpless to the whims of a corrupt system. And this sort of thing does happen.
But in these countries, there are avenues for exposing the corruption when it reaches a critical mass, through protests and media exposure. I'm curious to know what recourse you would have in a communist system, if you found that somewhere high in the governmental beaurocracy, somone was abusing the system. For example, if the relative of a government official committed a crime against you, and the government official covered it up, what could you do for justice?
iPod Killers for Christmas Part I includes what I think is the coolest new player, the Olympus MR 500i with touch-screen technology and and sharp black-on-white color scheme.
...And cute little white "please mug me" earphones just like the iPod.