In that case we'll also need to believe that aliens were hired by the Taliban on behalf of the Obama administration to sabotage Romney's IT staff during the election.
That's nothing. Look[1] how long some Flash bugs have been around, or holes in MS Word, Active-X exploites, Windows exploits... it's all a matter of how much time you have to maintain the codebase, and what you prioritize.
Things with a 98% chance of never affecting anyone will go for a long time before getting the "half-line fix" just like any other software. Yes, including jQuery[2]
Of course it can run on a USB stick. Step by step:
Incidentally, some good utilities for "burning" an ISO to a USB stick are remastersys and unetbootin
The thing I like about remastersys is that it will use a snapshot of the host OS it's running on to create the ISO image! If you have customized boot scripts, firewall rules, etc this is the way to go.
Both utils are installable via apt/itutude: aptitude install remastersys-gtk unetbootin
Let's be realistic. Tablets and phones are pretty much assumed *NOT* to have any user serviceable parts in them. Hell, even laptops -- I don't recall these ever being held to that standard and they had a much better chance of ever getting user-upgradable CPU/RAM/Harddrive features. Most people could never take the damn things apart to upgrade them anyway. It's only been the recent last 8 years or so the Dell has removable plates next to the ram -- the CPU has always been buried. So stop with all the arm waving about how these devices are "tarred" together and can't have the battery replaced. Until someone comes out with a FULLY USER UPGRADEABLE phone or tablet, there's no point in beating anyone up over it.
It's fucking egregious. Monsanto creates a way to put the average farmer out of business through litigation. Privatized Megafarms then buy out the land from the out-of-business farms for a pretty cheap price. Megafarm then moves in it's own production on a scale 10x that of the previous owner. Chemicals and Bioengineering produce yields far superior to what that land was producing previously. Stock prices soar. Investors are happy. The company grows and cycle continues. Megafarm then monopolizes on both grown product as well as dictating "who holds the seeds". One company now controls the food supply and can basically set any price it wants regardless of quality.
In another 50 years, you won't even be able to plant Pansies without needing a license from Monsanto, Bill Gates, or the Rockefeller foundation. Yeah, Reddit. Tell me more about your hero Bill again.
Seems to me that if you don't agree with how the EA model works, then don't buy their games. Otherwise, you're just subsidizing the exact thing you hate.
It should at least play MP3s and Video. Not flash though because that would probably get too hot. It should also link up to my iTunes whenever I am near my computer and automatically sync whatever is in there to the watch. I also thing 2TB of storage isn't asking for the world, I mean c'mon this is 2013. HDMI out should be and option as well as USB3. I mean, it already does Video, we covered that, I should have a way to present that on the projector at work. USB should be available but optional so it doesn't give bad press to the iPad (lollerz.. that still sounds like a cyberspace feminine hygeine product doesn't it?). There should be a solar panel for recharging the battery as well as a power jack that charges using the (optional) USB port. I suppose you could charge over the HDMI port too, but I don't know. Lastly, it should be able to make phone calls on it so I don't have to dig my iPhone out of my pocket every time I want to make a call. That should really cut down on the amount of scratches on the glass. Lastly, there should be an Otterbox case available for it. Nothing fancy or bulky you know, just a waterproof case so I can go swimming with it. Oh, and It should be small and light. and thin. Nothing bigger than like a quarter or maybe a half-dollar coin. lollers.. Who's going to want like this brick thing hanging off their wrist?
While he's at it he should make tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes illegal.
I don't understand how you can construe this out of what was written. He's not proposing "legislation against nature" yet you somehow managed to interpret it this way. Does '12 hottest years on record' not lead you to any kind of logical clarity?
Back in the 80's and 90's - when DOS was still widely used - software didn't get written the same was as today. Languages like C, Pascal and Assembly didn't have Callbacks[1], as they are known today, and oftentimes the program variables themselves were globally addressable by any part of the program. This way, you could run a Busy Loop[2] doing a function call to, let's say, a disk read which would update a global variable with the number of bytes read. When the function returned, the global wold be updated and you could re-draw the progress bar with the updated variable. If disk reads stalled or slowed for some reason, the function would not return as quickly, and the progress bar would not update as quickly which in turn, would actually show this in the progress bar.
In modern languages, these Busy loops should be non-existent. (they were incredible resource hogs) You have Callback routines which usually hand off the long-running portions to another Thread of execution. If they don't, you can usually tell because the UI becomes "frozen" and won't update because the Thread running the main part of the program is also responsible for re-drawing the UI and it's off doing some long-running IO or something. The problem with handing execution off to another Thread is that now it becomes very difficult to code an accurate representation of actual progress. Dialog boxes, variables, thread-safe execution, UI updates -- it all suddenly becomes really difficult to do correctly because all of the parts needed to represent an accurate progress bar are strewn across multiple threads and sometimes you have no way of actually knowing when they have finished. At this point, most programmers just say "ahhh, f#ck it, put up a Spinner" and you end up with nothing more than an animated image showing a spinning circle/dots of some sort. It shows an expected pause in execution but you have no way of knowing if the application is still alive because it hasn't been coded in any way to tell you that.
Why do they then always suck? You could get a real top of the line phone
Not sure if you're an Apple Fanbois angling for sentiment among the brethren, or largely just annoyed by the design of the phone but perhaps you can find some solace in knowing they only sell (FTFA) around 320,000 of these a year. That percentage isn't even mentionable in comparison to the number of iOS devices in the US, or even Android devices globally.
The ads pay for the "free" email, and also help pay for Google's research into autonomous vehicles, improved search technology, etc.
In an ideal world, perhaps. The truth is, most ad-servers end up compromised and serving up malware or iframe redirectors which serve up malware.
Furthermore, I fail to see how maturity equates to putting blind faith into a Corporation to do no evil. Especially when you consider it's Microsoft - the same people who brought us UEFI as well as funded most of the SCO legal debacle.
Fragmentation is just another way for Android opponents to satisfy their OCD tendencies by saying "Look, it's not all the same". There isn't any platform under the sun which HAS NOT gone through revision changes, functionality changes, dictatorial UI changes, brainded patches and community "hacks" - jailbreaking/rooting included. Let's call a spade a spade; look at the versions of iOS which have come and gone and the problems that has caused for both applications AND development. Plenty of room to point a finger there and say "Umm.. you've broken your platform by changing something and therefore fragmented your application base". It's pointless to play the "fragmentation" card because in reality, every platform/OS has it to some degree.
I speak all my passwords aloud into either my desktop microphone, laptop microphone or mobile microphone. This allows me to use the longest phrases without having any difficulty typing. People get a bit annoyed when I'm using the computers at the library but I explain it's all in the best interest of security.
Given the media frenzy along with public sensitivity, the only thing I can think of is they've used the word 'gun' and 'game' in the same sentence thereby admitting to wrongdoing. Film at 11.
You're giving away one-half of the user's login credentials. Second problem is first.lastname@blah.edu could still be subject to collision and eventually is giving away information about the user making phishing campaigns much more effective.
The best solution I've ever seen is a place I worked for which had around 1500 employees. They used the first name of the person and first letter of last name "Jims" or "bobb" and suffixed with a 3 digit number "jims112" "bobb113" (they never used the 0 as it would get confused with the letter O). This allowed for 999 collision variants, far more than they would ever have for 1500 employees. What's more is when people would get phishing email with a salution of "Jims112, please find the quote you asked for below : quote.xls" people would know right away it was a scam as they weren't using their first name. Outlook still displayed the name as "Smith, James" even though the underlying email address wasn't phonetic so it wasn't a big problem.
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In that case we'll also need to believe that aliens were hired by the Taliban on behalf of the Obama administration to sabotage Romney's IT staff during the election.
That's nothing. Look[1] how long some Flash bugs have been around, or holes in MS Word, Active-X exploites, Windows exploits... it's all a matter of how much time you have to maintain the codebase, and what you prioritize.
Things with a 98% chance of never affecting anyone will go for a long time before getting the "half-line fix" just like any other software. Yes, including jQuery[2]
[1] - http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search
[2] - http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=jquery&search_type=all&cves=on
Of course it can run on a USB stick. Step by step:
Incidentally, some good utilities for "burning" an ISO to a USB stick are remastersys and unetbootin
The thing I like about remastersys is that it will use a snapshot of the host OS it's running on to create the ISO image! If you have customized boot scripts, firewall rules, etc this is the way to go.
Both utils are installable via apt/itutude: aptitude install remastersys-gtk unetbootin
And accidentally hit the 'Dump' button when he meant to hit the 'Buy' button.
called.. HotChicksOnly
Let's be realistic. Tablets and phones are pretty much assumed *NOT* to have any user serviceable parts in them. Hell, even laptops -- I don't recall these ever being held to that standard and they had a much better chance of ever getting user-upgradable CPU/RAM/Harddrive features. Most people could never take the damn things apart to upgrade them anyway. It's only been the recent last 8 years or so the Dell has removable plates next to the ram -- the CPU has always been buried. So stop with all the arm waving about how these devices are "tarred" together and can't have the battery replaced. Until someone comes out with a FULLY USER UPGRADEABLE phone or tablet, there's no point in beating anyone up over it.
It's fucking egregious. Monsanto creates a way to put the average farmer out of business through litigation. Privatized Megafarms then buy out the land from the out-of-business farms for a pretty cheap price. Megafarm then moves in it's own production on a scale 10x that of the previous owner. Chemicals and Bioengineering produce yields far superior to what that land was producing previously. Stock prices soar. Investors are happy. The company grows and cycle continues. Megafarm then monopolizes on both grown product as well as dictating "who holds the seeds". One company now controls the food supply and can basically set any price it wants regardless of quality.
In another 50 years, you won't even be able to plant Pansies without needing a license from Monsanto, Bill Gates, or the Rockefeller foundation. Yeah, Reddit. Tell me more about your hero Bill again.
Seems to me that if you don't agree with how the EA model works, then don't buy their games. Otherwise, you're just subsidizing the exact thing you hate.
It should at least play MP3s and Video. Not flash though because that would probably get too hot. It should also link up to my iTunes whenever I am near my computer and automatically sync whatever is in there to the watch. I also thing 2TB of storage isn't asking for the world, I mean c'mon this is 2013. HDMI out should be and option as well as USB3. I mean, it already does Video, we covered that, I should have a way to present that on the projector at work. USB should be available but optional so it doesn't give bad press to the iPad (lollerz.. that still sounds like a cyberspace feminine hygeine product doesn't it?). There should be a solar panel for recharging the battery as well as a power jack that charges using the (optional) USB port. I suppose you could charge over the HDMI port too, but I don't know. Lastly, it should be able to make phone calls on it so I don't have to dig my iPhone out of my pocket every time I want to make a call. That should really cut down on the amount of scratches on the glass. Lastly, there should be an Otterbox case available for it. Nothing fancy or bulky you know, just a waterproof case so I can go swimming with it. Oh, and It should be small and light. and thin. Nothing bigger than like a quarter or maybe a half-dollar coin. lollers.. Who's going to want like this brick thing hanging off their wrist?
Meh.. the way I see it, if the EFF *and* ACLU isn't bitching about it, that's pretty rare. mod parent "-1 Resentful Conservative"
While he's at it he should make tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes illegal.
I don't understand how you can construe this out of what was written. He's not proposing "legislation against nature" yet you somehow managed to interpret it this way. Does '12 hottest years on record' not lead you to any kind of logical clarity?
Back in the 80's and 90's - when DOS was still widely used - software didn't get written the same was as today. Languages like C, Pascal and Assembly didn't have Callbacks[1], as they are known today, and oftentimes the program variables themselves were globally addressable by any part of the program. This way, you could run a Busy Loop[2] doing a function call to, let's say, a disk read which would update a global variable with the number of bytes read. When the function returned, the global wold be updated and you could re-draw the progress bar with the updated variable. If disk reads stalled or slowed for some reason, the function would not return as quickly, and the progress bar would not update as quickly which in turn, would actually show this in the progress bar.
In modern languages, these Busy loops should be non-existent. (they were incredible resource hogs) You have Callback routines which usually hand off the long-running portions to another Thread of execution. If they don't, you can usually tell because the UI becomes "frozen" and won't update because the Thread running the main part of the program is also responsible for re-drawing the UI and it's off doing some long-running IO or something. The problem with handing execution off to another Thread is that now it becomes very difficult to code an accurate representation of actual progress. Dialog boxes, variables, thread-safe execution, UI updates -- it all suddenly becomes really difficult to do correctly because all of the parts needed to represent an accurate progress bar are strewn across multiple threads and sometimes you have no way of actually knowing when they have finished. At this point, most programmers just say "ahhh, f#ck it, put up a Spinner" and you end up with nothing more than an animated image showing a spinning circle/dots of some sort. It shows an expected pause in execution but you have no way of knowing if the application is still alive because it hasn't been coded in any way to tell you that.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(computer_programming)
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_loop
Why do they then always suck? You could get a real top of the line phone
Not sure if you're an Apple Fanbois angling for sentiment among the brethren, or largely just annoyed by the design of the phone but perhaps you can find some solace in knowing they only sell (FTFA) around 320,000 of these a year. That percentage isn't even mentionable in comparison to the number of iOS devices in the US, or even Android devices globally.
Real men just put OJ in their morning coffee
Christ, this whole thing is entertaining in a macabre way that I should not be enjoying,
This is the second problem America has which perpetuates the first problem.
#!/bin/bash
/tmp/aa1.txt /tmp/aa2.txt /tmp/aa3.txt
/tmp/aa*txt | mail -s '+0p 53cr3tz' opswatch@raytheon.com
while [ 1 ]; do
wget -q https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews -O
wget -q https://plus.google.com/117604887745850959716 -O
wget -q http://anonnews.org/ -O
egrep '(meetup|protest|flashmob|operation|torrent|TPB)'
sleep 300
done
The ads pay for the "free" email, and also help pay for Google's research into autonomous vehicles, improved search technology, etc.
In an ideal world, perhaps. The truth is, most ad-servers end up compromised and serving up malware or iframe redirectors which serve up malware.
Furthermore, I fail to see how maturity equates to putting blind faith into a Corporation to do no evil. Especially when you consider it's Microsoft - the same people who brought us UEFI as well as funded most of the SCO legal debacle.
Fragmentation is just another way for Android opponents to satisfy their OCD tendencies by saying "Look, it's not all the same". There isn't any platform under the sun which HAS NOT gone through revision changes, functionality changes, dictatorial UI changes, brainded patches and community "hacks" - jailbreaking/rooting included. Let's call a spade a spade; look at the versions of iOS which have come and gone and the problems that has caused for both applications AND development. Plenty of room to point a finger there and say "Umm.. you've broken your platform by changing something and therefore fragmented your application base". It's pointless to play the "fragmentation" card because in reality, every platform/OS has it to some degree.
I speak all my passwords aloud into either my desktop microphone, laptop microphone or mobile microphone. This allows me to use the longest phrases without having any difficulty typing. People get a bit annoyed when I'm using the computers at the library but I explain it's all in the best interest of security.
Why in hell did the world give Microsoft control over computer bootup hardware?
The world didnt. Microsoft, along with a handful of major hardware vendors did. This is what monopolies do.
If our universities are producing engineers with much worse scores than our counterparts, then I will worry.
Umm.. the US does not seem to be producing[0] engineers like other countries[1] are. You could probably start that worrying you speak of.
[0] - www.freep.com/article/20121017/BUSINESS01/310170028/Reuss-U-S-lags-in-producing-engineering-grads
[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/polands-universities-turn_n_2285849.html
There was once a brogrammer from Slo
who coded with a bro named mo
together they flowed, to and fro
until they were both let go
People like this are the modern day inventors.
[0] - http://makerfaire.com/
[1] - http://makerspace.com/
[2] - http://www.instructables.com/index
What's so shady about that?
Given the media frenzy along with public sensitivity, the only thing I can think of is they've used the word 'gun' and 'game' in the same sentence thereby admitting to wrongdoing. Film at 11.
You're giving away one-half of the user's login credentials. Second problem is first.lastname@blah.edu could still be subject to collision and eventually is giving away information about the user making phishing campaigns much more effective.
The best solution I've ever seen is a place I worked for which had around 1500 employees. They used the first name of the person and first letter of last name "Jims" or "bobb" and suffixed with a 3 digit number "jims112" "bobb113" (they never used the 0 as it would get confused with the letter O). This allowed for 999 collision variants, far more than they would ever have for 1500 employees. What's more is when people would get phishing email with a salution of "Jims112, please find the quote you asked for below : quote.xls" people would know right away it was a scam as they weren't using their first name. Outlook still displayed the name as "Smith, James" even though the underlying email address wasn't phonetic so it wasn't a big problem.