Sigh. Looser is what grammar and spelling nazi's should be. Loser is what grammar and spelling nazi's are. What's so damn bad about someone making a mistake so minor that anybody with an IQ higher than a banana can still understand? ;-)
Well, theres not any actual physical experimental evidence given by string theory, but you may recall the part of the book where mathematicians and physicists both set upon calculating physical properties of a Calabi-Yau space. Using supersymetry, the physicists used a 'mirror' Calabi-Yau space for which the calculations were much simpler (IIRC anyway, it's been a while since I'v read it). By mirror, I refer to a Calabi-Yau space which is different from the original, but by using space tearing flop transitions (rip space apart, and fix it back together in a new location), can become the other, they sharing the exact same physcial properties (as in, the universe which appears out of those Calabi-Yau spaces) but are a different shape to one another. The physicists reached an answer far before the mathematicians, and later the mathematicians also reached an answer. They weren't the same. After a while the mathematicians realised a mistake in their calculcations and the answer matched the physicists exactly. The physicists came up with a whole new set of mathematics using string theory principles. Of course, that's just evidence, not actual proof. There are a few more thing's which make string theory look like it's correct, but it may be a long time before anything is actually proved.
String theory aside, I think this 8 year old probably understands more than us, good luck to him in creating us geeks our flying cars.
....And I wish bad luck unto the editor who rejected my submission of this story:(
Heh. I'm surprised to see it but glad there's some friendly joking going on from Yahoo towards Google.
Also from the website (about section): "We've been around forever and will never get out of business.", "We have all kinds of fish.", "Our fish NEVER die!" (Ballmer related?).
Not only that, but how are we meant to know which part of the book we want unless we buy it first? If we could read the excerpt to see which part we wanted, there would be no point buying it since we can clearly read it for free anyway...
DAMN YOU AMAZON!!1!!one! TRYING TO TRICK US INTO THINKING YOUR BEING REALLY NICE, MAKING THINGS EASIER AND CHEAPER FOR US.
Same chances of somebody going back to a computer game they have finished I'd guess. Or the same chances somebody will watch a movie again. Because they enjoy it, or because they missed something out, or because now they know the basics, it will make much more sense the second time round. If the book was good enough I see no reason why they wouldn't read it again. I'm currently reading HHGG again, and The Elegant Universe, it's pretty much like I'm reading them for the first time simply because theres so much to them you can't possibly remember it all after 1 reading.
Not that I'm sticking up for MS, especially on slashdot, but I don't think MS are claiming they've come up with something new. I haven't used many OSs thay have had symlinks but they do seem pretty useful. Isn't there some OSS symlink code MS can use? I know people will complain either way, but I think I'd prefer MS using code thats been through bugs and exploits and come out more secure, than MS writing their own, brand new, buggy version of a good feature. Imagine the new exploits that could be made against windows when people can open files or directories they don't shouldn't have access to, or new viruses that find files on the desktop, for example, delete or move the original file and replace it with a symlink with the same name and same icon, but linking it to a piece of spyware or a trojan. I guess the same thing can already be done with shortcut files really, but it might just ring some new bells in a virus writers head.
Hahahahahaha! I wish I had mod points. Dunno why but that really tickled me. A mate of mine likes to mark his territory in mens room in a similar fashion.
Haha. I wouldn't be surprised it someone actually cut their balls off, remembering a story from a while ago.
On the news here in the UK a while back, a guy told his mates that if Wales beat England in the a rugby match (for the first time in 12 years), he would cut off his own testicles..... And so he did. Pick your news source and read it yourself.
Hahaha. Your comment reminded me of someone in my high school who once told us that he'd downloaded the latest graphics card from the internet.
I can't remember whether he said he'd printed it out and used it (probably, knowing how much he liked to bullshit) or whether our bullshit detectors were too much for him to take on that occasion.
Ah come on. We all knew this would be the fr0st p1st and we all knew it would be modded up, we love our stereotypical, predictable and redundant jokes, it makes slashdot slashdot. If you can't beat them, join them and get some free 5, Funnys.
In soviet russia, one for I, welcome our beowulf cluster of old korean hot grits in outer space:)
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It's not a timeline, it's the distance; like the scales they put on maps. A 'light day' is the distance a proton (travelling at light speed, obviously) travels in one day. Given that light travels at 670 million [670,616,629] miles per hour, that would be 16 billion [16,094,799,096] miles.
Well then, lets encourage these bulls to start the ball rolling in getting the cows programming in the COW programming language. I'm sure if we hooked up an infinite number of bovine beasts all programming in COW then we could get them to write the entire collection of William Shakesphere, or 99 bottles of beer. We can also power the computers using the cows. Once the cows have written a module to churn the milk into cheese, we dangle the cheese infront on them whilst they're on treadmills. Thus a perpetual system for efficiently producing the worlds electricity and dairy products, and creating the worlds software solutions is created. Us geeks can take a rest for a while, using the worlds protein surplus to gain hulk-like muscles and we can finally take over the world. This may lead to a Geek vs. Cow showdown for ultimate control of the planet, but once we lure all the pirates and ninjas in with our huge dairy stock, we'll win fo' shizzle.
If you ask me, this story isn't worthy of being called news (but hey, this is/.). I haven't read FTA and I don't intend to. So what if their networks are closed source? I can talk to all my friends on MSN using MSN, I up until recently also used AIM for friends who don't have MSN but use AOL. If I wanted to, I could install & use other IM clients using their own protocols. If I'm bothered about having a bunch of IM clients on my computer, for whatever reason, I can use something like Trillian to keep it simple. Recently was the story that MSN and Yahoo! are going into intertwine their networks together. MS is wanting a share of AOL, Possibly IM would come into it aswell as AOL's web portal. Google hired a GAIM developer developer to provide further compatability with Google Talk, which uses Jabber/XMPP (open source).
I really don't see why this is posted on the front page, especially after recent events concerning IM networks.
As time goes by, security will improve. But will it actually make a noticable difference?
How long before we have 5 things you know, 10 things you have and 6 things you are just so you can open your living room door? Will it really be any more secure? If someone wants your info bad enough, they'll get it one way or another. If they can't get it directly or indirectly from you, they'll simply find a backdoor, exploit, vunerability, something in the system that isn't as secure as the person. Social engineering is almost guaranteed to work at every time in the future, there's a plentiful supply of complete and utter idiots in this world (even smart people fall for it now and then), who will be all too willing to give up every detail for whatever reason. A bar of chocolate for a password. Some kind of survey which needs your phone number, full name, address, mothers maiden name, "so they know it's you" or "so they can contact you". No, of course they wouldn't make a new bank account with your info, sell it on to suspicious people for money, leave it in an unsecure place, bin it without shredding it. People can buy others' birth certificates, search on the internet for them, pick up info by befriending or simply paying attention to details, phone up whatever company and use crafty social engineering for more pieces of the puzzle. ID theft is relatively simple compared to what it should be, or the consequences and chances of being caught.
The future may be a far more secure place than today, but personally I can see almost no difference in the amount of people who have their data stolen for malicious purposes. The same kind of things have been happening for hundreds if not thousands of years already, yet people still get things stolen. It may be harder (for a while) but it's inevitably going to fail. Technology advances too fast for security to keep up, even if said technology is to secure us in the first place.
Same storyline, longer script, different actors, more expensive props.
Then again, I can only be happy that more stringent measures are being taken. Seems like somewhat of a stalemate, no?
No, you can't upload Javascript to MySpace. That's the whole point. From what I gather, you can upload CSS tags and other non-harmful tags. However, 'Samy' managed to find out that instead of writing valid CSS code inside the CSS tag, you can simply write a Script tag (so long as you split it over two lines) and upload it that way. This in itself shouldn't be a problem; since the code is inside a CSS tag it should be parsed as invalid CSS code, and so there's no reason for MySpace to have blocked it. This is where IE comes into it, if you are using IE, IE will parse it as a valid Javascript tag anyway, and execute the code.
This isn't really a bug in MySpace (well, technically it is now), it's more like a bug in IE which can be exploited on MySpace, or any other site which allows similar tags in which code can be 'hidden'.
That, sir, is one of the most pathetic attempts at an above-0-scoring first post I have ever seen. Did you get that out of a Learn First Posts in 21 Days textbook?
The article looks pretty good, I haven't read all of it, but it seems to point out some some good points about the product.
I am pleasantly surprised at the developments made in this area in the past few years, looks like before we know it we'll have flying cars, flying toasters and Duke Nukem Forever.
Looks like the server is getting sluggish already, why don't the editors just use coral links instead?
Oh come on, this is just getting stupid, how many more slashvertisements am I going to see today?
This story is a duplicate, it was posted around 2 months ago, does anybody have the link?
I'm sure you can think of many more.
In the next chapters we will cover the popular slashdot jokes guaranteed to get you those 5, Funny scores to impress your friends, and the best way to change your signatures to GNAA related text once your posts reach 5.
From TFA:
"The Google Legacy" (Infonortics, $180.00 per download) is available in online PDF version only.
$180 for a PDF file telling us Google might beat MS sometime in the next 15 years... Well fuck me sideways, I've just GOT to get myself a copy of that!!1!one!eleven
Troll comments aside, I hope Google will beat M$, but I don't know whether it'll be as good as we think. MS may be asshats, but people generally rely on them pretty heavily (as is obvious from the market share they have in a range of areas). Some good alternative products are gonna need to come out before M$ are going down the drain. And let's hope Google get the monopoly position right, keeping their "Let's give the people what they want, and free" attitude instead of the "Hey, we're the best, we can bully everyone now" attitude M$ seem to have adopted.
As for myself, I've pretty much only used Windows, I mean I've used OSX once or twice and Unbuntu a good few times but IMO, BeOS seems to work in such a more simple and elegant way. If it wasn't for the lack of decent\up-to-date\plentiful applications for it, I'd go out and buy it.
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Well.. I for one, welcome our new anti-gravity overlords.
Sigh.
Looser is what grammar and spelling nazi's should be. Loser is what grammar and spelling nazi's are.
What's so damn bad about someone making a mistake so minor that anybody with an IQ higher than a banana can still understand?
;-)
Reminds me of my favourite You Must Be New Here post... to a 3-digit UID.
Well, theres not any actual physical experimental evidence given by string theory, but you may recall the part of the book where mathematicians and physicists both set upon calculating physical properties of a Calabi-Yau space. Using supersymetry, the physicists used a 'mirror' Calabi-Yau space for which the calculations were much simpler (IIRC anyway, it's been a while since I'v read it). By mirror, I refer to a Calabi-Yau space which is different from the original, but by using space tearing flop transitions (rip space apart, and fix it back together in a new location), can become the other, they sharing the exact same physcial properties (as in, the universe which appears out of those Calabi-Yau spaces) but are a different shape to one another. The physicists reached an answer far before the mathematicians, and later the mathematicians also reached an answer. They weren't the same. After a while the mathematicians realised a mistake in their calculcations and the answer matched the physicists exactly. The physicists came up with a whole new set of mathematics using string theory principles. Of course, that's just evidence, not actual proof. There are a few more thing's which make string theory look like it's correct, but it may be a long time before anything is actually proved.
:(
String theory aside, I think this 8 year old probably understands more than us, good luck to him in creating us geeks our flying cars.
....And I wish bad luck unto the editor who rejected my submission of this story
Heh. I'm surprised to see it but glad there's some friendly joking going on from Yahoo towards Google.
Also from the website (about section): "We've been around forever and will never get out of business.", "We have all kinds of fish.", "Our fish NEVER die!" (Ballmer related?).
Not only that, but how are we meant to know which part of the book we want unless we buy it first? If we could read the excerpt to see which part we wanted, there would be no point buying it since we can clearly read it for free anyway...
DAMN YOU AMAZON!!1!!one! TRYING TO TRICK US INTO THINKING YOUR BEING REALLY NICE, MAKING THINGS EASIER AND CHEAPER FOR US.
Same chances of somebody going back to a computer game they have finished I'd guess. Or the same chances somebody will watch a movie again. Because they enjoy it, or because they missed something out, or because now they know the basics, it will make much more sense the second time round.
If the book was good enough I see no reason why they wouldn't read it again. I'm currently reading HHGG again, and The Elegant Universe, it's pretty much like I'm reading them for the first time simply because theres so much to them you can't possibly remember it all after 1 reading.
Not that I'm sticking up for MS, especially on slashdot, but I don't think MS are claiming they've come up with something new. I haven't used many OSs thay have had symlinks but they do seem pretty useful. Isn't there some OSS symlink code MS can use? I know people will complain either way, but I think I'd prefer MS using code thats been through bugs and exploits and come out more secure, than MS writing their own, brand new, buggy version of a good feature. Imagine the new exploits that could be made against windows when people can open files or directories they don't shouldn't have access to, or new viruses that find files on the desktop, for example, delete or move the original file and replace it with a symlink with the same name and same icon, but linking it to a piece of spyware or a trojan. I guess the same thing can already be done with shortcut files really, but it might just ring some new bells in a virus writers head.
Hahahahahaha! I wish I had mod points. Dunno why but that really tickled me. A mate of mine likes to mark his territory in mens room in a similar fashion.
Haha. I wouldn't be surprised it someone actually cut their balls off, remembering a story from a while ago.
On the news here in the UK a while back, a guy told his mates that if Wales beat England in the a rugby match (for the first time in 12 years), he would cut off his own testicles..... And so he did. Pick your news source and read it yourself.
Hahaha. Your comment reminded me of someone in my high school who once told us that he'd downloaded the latest graphics card from the internet.
I can't remember whether he said he'd printed it out and used it (probably, knowing how much he liked to bullshit) or whether our bullshit detectors were too much for him to take on that occasion.
Yeah... but can it run Vista?
Ah come on. We all knew this would be the fr0st p1st and we all knew it would be modded up, we love our stereotypical, predictable and redundant jokes, it makes slashdot slashdot.
:)
If you can't beat them, join them and get some free 5, Funnys.
In soviet russia, one for I, welcome our beowulf cluster of old korean hot grits in outer space
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Ah, my bad.
It's not a timeline, it's the distance; like the scales they put on maps.
A 'light day' is the distance a proton (travelling at light speed, obviously) travels in one day. Given that light travels at 670 million [670,616,629] miles per hour, that would be 16 billion [16,094,799,096] miles.
Well then, lets encourage these bulls to start the ball rolling in getting the cows programming in the COW programming language. I'm sure if we hooked up an infinite number of bovine beasts all programming in COW then we could get them to write the entire collection of William Shakesphere, or 99 bottles of beer.
We can also power the computers using the cows. Once the cows have written a module to churn the milk into cheese, we dangle the cheese infront on them whilst they're on treadmills. Thus a perpetual system for efficiently producing the worlds electricity and dairy products, and creating the worlds software solutions is created. Us geeks can take a rest for a while, using the worlds protein surplus to gain hulk-like muscles and we can finally take over the world. This may lead to a Geek vs. Cow showdown for ultimate control of the planet, but once we lure all the pirates and ninjas in with our huge dairy stock, we'll win fo' shizzle.
If you ask me, this story isn't worthy of being called news (but hey, this is /.). I haven't read FTA and I don't intend to. So what if their networks are closed source? I can talk to all my friends on MSN using MSN, I up until recently also used AIM for friends who don't have MSN but use AOL. If I wanted to, I could install & use other IM clients using their own protocols. If I'm bothered about having a bunch of IM clients on my computer, for whatever reason, I can use something like Trillian to keep it simple.
Recently was the story that MSN and Yahoo! are going into intertwine their networks together. MS is wanting a share of AOL, Possibly IM would come into it aswell as AOL's web portal. Google hired a GAIM developer developer to provide further compatability with Google Talk, which uses Jabber/XMPP (open source).
I really don't see why this is posted on the front page, especially after recent events concerning IM networks.
But you're "NanoGater", therefore you must also be on the nano scale, if not smaller. :)
As time goes by, security will improve. But will it actually make a noticable difference?
How long before we have 5 things you know, 10 things you have and 6 things you are just so you can open your living room door? Will it really be any more secure? If someone wants your info bad enough, they'll get it one way or another. If they can't get it directly or indirectly from you, they'll simply find a backdoor, exploit, vunerability, something in the system that isn't as secure as the person. Social engineering is almost guaranteed to work at every time in the future, there's a plentiful supply of complete and utter idiots in this world (even smart people fall for it now and then), who will be all too willing to give up every detail for whatever reason. A bar of chocolate for a password. Some kind of survey which needs your phone number, full name, address, mothers maiden name, "so they know it's you" or "so they can contact you". No, of course they wouldn't make a new bank account with your info, sell it on to suspicious people for money, leave it in an unsecure place, bin it without shredding it. People can buy others' birth certificates, search on the internet for them, pick up info by befriending or simply paying attention to details, phone up whatever company and use crafty social engineering for more pieces of the puzzle. ID theft is relatively simple compared to what it should be, or the consequences and chances of being caught.
The future may be a far more secure place than today, but personally I can see almost no difference in the amount of people who have their data stolen for malicious purposes. The same kind of things have been happening for hundreds if not thousands of years already, yet people still get things stolen. It may be harder (for a while) but it's inevitably going to fail. Technology advances too fast for security to keep up, even if said technology is to secure us in the first place.
Same storyline, longer script, different actors, more expensive props.
Then again, I can only be happy that more stringent measures are being taken. Seems like somewhat of a stalemate, no?
No, you can't upload Javascript to MySpace. That's the whole point.
From what I gather, you can upload CSS tags and other non-harmful tags. However, 'Samy' managed to find out that instead of writing valid CSS code inside the CSS tag, you can simply write a Script tag (so long as you split it over two lines) and upload it that way.
This in itself shouldn't be a problem; since the code is inside a CSS tag it should be parsed as invalid CSS code, and so there's no reason for MySpace to have blocked it.
This is where IE comes into it, if you are using IE, IE will parse it as a valid Javascript tag anyway, and execute the code.
This isn't really a bug in MySpace (well, technically it is now), it's more like a bug in IE which can be exploited on MySpace, or any other site which allows similar tags in which code can be 'hidden'.
Chapter 3. Ambiguous Comments
As discussed in the previous chapters, gaining a first post can be a difficult task in itself, let alone scoring something above -1, Offtopic. For this reason, it is often advisable to post something relevant to make sure your first post is visible to all who read the comments. This can lead to several problems, namely having to actually read the arti... er.. I mean, having to type a relevant comment quickly enough to beat another first-poster. For this very reason, we have provided a list of easy to use copy and paste ambiguous comments that will slide past your average moderator. Below is a short list of comments, guaranteed to keep your FP above 0. Write them down, learn them off by heart, and most importantly, keep them in your clipboard or in a notepad window so you're ready to paste and post as soon as your NST (New Story Checker© - Provided on CD) alerts you to a new post.
I'm sure you can think of many more.
In the next chapters we will cover the popular slashdot jokes guaranteed to get you those 5, Funny scores to impress your friends, and the best way to change your signatures to GNAA related text once your posts reach 5.
From TFA:
"The Google Legacy" (Infonortics, $180.00 per download) is available in online PDF version only.
$180 for a PDF file telling us Google might beat MS sometime in the next 15 years... Well fuck me sideways, I've just GOT to get myself a copy of that!!1!one!eleven
Troll comments aside, I hope Google will beat M$, but I don't know whether it'll be as good as we think. MS may be asshats, but people generally rely on them pretty heavily (as is obvious from the market share they have in a range of areas). Some good alternative products are gonna need to come out before M$ are going down the drain.
And let's hope Google get the monopoly position right, keeping their "Let's give the people what they want, and free" attitude instead of the "Hey, we're the best, we can bully everyone now" attitude M$ seem to have adopted.
"Earth"s real name is Terra - the personified Roman goddess of the earth. She is also a fertility goddess, known as Bona Dea.
RTFA, dumbass.
As for myself, I've pretty much only used Windows, I mean I've used OSX once or twice and Unbuntu a good few times but IMO, BeOS seems to work in such a more simple and elegant way. If it wasn't for the lack of decent\up-to-date\plentiful applications for it, I'd go out and buy it.