File extensions are primarily there for program associations. 99% of programs DO check that the file format is correct before processing, many programs, such as image viewers, media players and archivers can automatically use the correct decoding algorithm, even for files with incorrect extensions.
File associations benefit the user greatly, ie, the do not have to guess which program will open which file. We simply cannot abolish file extensions (or whatever metadata is used for association).
With 'unsafe' file types, warning the user in simple terms is usually the best thing to do. However, why do no web browsers (AFAIK) virus scan files immediately on download? Why don't warning messages stand out more? How about making them look like industrial warning messages? I.e big black letters on a yellow background.
Then the second competitor is either the person who set the record (could be yourself - meaning that there are two 'instances' of you in the race) or the clock itself if you are trying to meet an arbitary target time.
Because DRM can and will be used to "protect" any kind of data. There is something to be said for data that can ONLY be read by a particualar application on a particular machine. These are examples where a palladium-style DRM system may well be used to "protect" the data.
Potentially life/safety-critical things that some may want protected by DRM: * Patient records in hospitals, etc. * Police records/criminal records. * Building security information (door codes, etc).
Imagine what would happen if a glitch in a DRM system made those types of things inaccessable... * Patients could recieve incorrect/inadequate medical care and could die as a result. * 'Inapproprate' people could be given sensitive jobs (especailly if records are unavailable for a long period of time, organisations would probably resort to employing people pending the result of a background check.) * If a building needs to be evacuated (fire, earthquake, etc) and the DRM system decides that it won't give out door codes, people could die as a result.
But what about, say, a glitch in hardware-based DRM making patient records inaccessable in a hospital?
In fact, with all the special requirements for the storage of patient records these days, I wouldn't be surprised if using hardware DRM becomes a requirement for them in future.
BigChampagne: "We estimate 15-billion illegal copies of Britney Spears latest album have been downloaded." RIAA: "Our losses this year due to piracy amount to 1500-trillion dollars, we need stronger laws!" Congressman: "That'll be another 10 billion in campaign contributions, please."
Sorry, what exactly does your comment have to do with the parent?
The parent stated that it's possible, however unlikely, that there may be vulnerabilities in the linux kernel that don't require open ports.
You stated that the Windows NT kernel is quite secure and most vulnerabilities are in drivers and API layers and that Linux may have such (Driver and API) vulnerabilities.
I fail to see any connection here, although I agree that Linux certainly does have vulnerabilities in driver and API layers.
From the aritcle: Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which will photograph Mars in unprecedented detail once it reaches the planet next year, could confirm the tentative identification.
Actually, I believe this is/was an issue on some high-speed IDE and SATA discs designed to cheat the benchmarks by not claiming to have written data when they have really only just started to write. Even with the approriate settings off.
I read this in an article referring to someone's discovery that Windows sits idle for several seconds during shutdown, to make sure these drives have written their data before the power is lost.
Of course it's aquisitions were designed to harm it's rival(s). It's called competition, the whole point is to get customers that would otherwise go to your rival(s), thus harming them.
In Linux and other UNIX-like OS its trivial to set it up so a ignorant user never can download a random file from Internet or save an email attachment and then execute it so it infects the computer. Just give the user a home directory which may not contain executable files.
In Windows this nearly requires an masters in CS to be able to do.
My old school somehow did that on Windows. I wrote a macro in a PowerPoint presentation (they blocked Word macros) that could copy a.exe to c: and then execute it. I also used macros to change screen resolution (800x600 sucks) and a web-proxy on my personal server to access "banned" websites (like eBay). So even with specialist security software, they could not secure the system from those sorts of trivial "attacks".
If you want to go into the cold war, you really should know that it might never have happened if the USA had not REFUSED to negotiate with the USSR.
One of the main goals of Wiston Churchill's second tenure (1951-1955) was to bring about peacefull negotiations between the USA and USSR. He managed to get the USSR to agree to negotiations, but the USA (President Eisenhower) refused.
The source for this was a TV documentary on the BBC. The only reference brought up by Google is this:
After Stalin's death in March of that year, the new Soviet regime appeared to Churchill to be signaling, in various ways - for example, in the Austrian treaty negotiations - a new readiness to reduce tensions. He believed there was a least a glimmer of light, a possibility of progress. He told President Eisenhower in a letter: "A new hope has been created in the unhappy, bewildered world." And he suggested that the West make a new approach to Moscow. He wrote in a top secret message; "If we fail to . . . seize this moment's precious chances, the judgement of future ages would be harsh and just."
The moment, unfortunately, remained unseized. John Foster Dulles and some in his own Foreign Office accused Winston Churchill of starting down the road of appeasement. As the recently published diary of his private secretary, Sir John Colville, recounts, it was one of the bitter moments of Churchill's life when Eisenhower rejected the policy of negotiation.
The issue is not whether the policy surely would have worked; many of his friends conceded that at that time it might very well have failed. But Winston Churchill was steadfast in believing that it should be tried. As he said in 1955, in one of his last, great speeches to Parliament, "I have hoped for a long time for a top-level conference where these matters can be put plainly and bluntly" - and he was talking then specifically about the issue of nuclear weapons.
Now, if the Navy starts trying to use fine-grain control over EM fields to attempt to shield steel hulls from magnetic detection, I'm going to be in awe.
I know it's not fine-grained, but shielding steel hulls from magnetic detection is old news. The British used degaussing techniques to counter German magnetic mines in WW2.
Modern warships usually carry a complex arrangement of degaussing coils to reduce as much as possible their magnetic profile.
Are you trying to say they can't already hit the US? At the end of WW2 the Germans were developing missiles that could hit the US from GERMANY. China is much closer and rocket technology has greatly improved since.
Actually, there is only one known recorded case of real pirates making anyone walk the plank. The only reason it has become so associated with pirates is that it was in Peter Pan.
I always thought that a good word filering system would do the following: Example text: "A R S E! A.R.S.E ArSe parsec pARSEc" 1. Tokenise the text, using changes of case, spaces and punctuation to seperate tokens: "A" "R" "S" "E" "A" "R" "S" "E" "A" "r" "S" "e" "parsec" "p" "ARSE" "c" 2. See if any combinations of consecutive tokens make 'banned words': !ARSE! !ARSE! !ArSe! "parsec" "p" !ARSE! "c" 3. Filter those tokens in an appropriate way (block/censor). "x x x x! x.x.x.x xxxx parsec pxxxxc"
Obviously this wont work on email addresses or urls where everything is lowercase, but should work fairly well on blogs, IM, forums, etc.
Actually the OS/2 compatibility is still there. Unfortunately it can only run 16-bit console-mode OS/2 1.x applications, but still. I still have a the old OS/2 1.3 CMD.EXE around here somewhere...
And use is completely forbidden on "mobile devices, set top boxes (STB), handhelds, phones, web pads, tablets and Tablet PCs that are not running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, game consoles, TVs, DVD players, media centers".
Is that a quote from the EULA, meaning that the flash player installed on my Windows 98-based tablet PC is a violation?
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File extensions are primarily there for program associations. 99% of programs DO check that the file format is correct before processing, many programs, such as image viewers, media players and archivers can automatically use the correct decoding algorithm, even for files with incorrect extensions.
File associations benefit the user greatly, ie, the do not have to guess which program will open which file. We simply cannot abolish file extensions (or whatever metadata is used for association).
With 'unsafe' file types, warning the user in simple terms is usually the best thing to do. However, why do no web browsers (AFAIK) virus scan files immediately on download? Why don't warning messages stand out more? How about making them look like industrial warning messages? I.e big black letters on a yellow background.
I expect it won't be long until planes have internal wifi on a satellite link.
Then the second competitor is either the person who set the record (could be yourself - meaning that there are two 'instances' of you in the race) or the clock itself if you are trying to meet an arbitary target time.
The definition of 'Race' requires two or more competitors, so no, this would not be another space race.
Because DRM can and will be used to "protect" any kind of data.
There is something to be said for data that can ONLY be read by a particualar application on a particular machine.
These are examples where a palladium-style DRM system may well be used to "protect" the data.
Potentially life/safety-critical things that some may want protected by DRM:
* Patient records in hospitals, etc.
* Police records/criminal records.
* Building security information (door codes, etc).
Imagine what would happen if a glitch in a DRM system made those types of things inaccessable...
* Patients could recieve incorrect/inadequate medical care and could die as a result.
* 'Inapproprate' people could be given sensitive jobs (especailly if records are unavailable for a long period of time, organisations would probably resort to employing people pending the result of a background check.)
* If a building needs to be evacuated (fire, earthquake, etc) and the DRM system decides that it won't give out door codes, people could die as a result.
But what about, say, a glitch in hardware-based DRM making patient records inaccessable in a hospital?
In fact, with all the special requirements for the storage of patient records these days, I wouldn't be surprised if using hardware DRM becomes a requirement for them in future.
BigChampagne: "We estimate 15-billion illegal copies of Britney Spears latest album have been downloaded."
RIAA: "Our losses this year due to piracy amount to 1500-trillion dollars, we need stronger laws!"
Congressman: "That'll be another 10 billion in campaign contributions, please."
Sorry, what exactly does your comment have to do with the parent?
The parent stated that it's possible, however unlikely, that there may be vulnerabilities in the linux kernel that don't require open ports.
You stated that the Windows NT kernel is quite secure and most vulnerabilities are in drivers and API layers and that Linux may have such (Driver and API) vulnerabilities.
I fail to see any connection here, although I agree that Linux certainly does have vulnerabilities in driver and API layers.
From the aritcle:
Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which will photograph Mars in unprecedented detail once it reaches the planet next year, could confirm the tentative identification.
If it can spot Spirit and Opportunity, maybe it can find out what happned to Beagle 2?
Actually, I believe this is/was an issue on some high-speed IDE and SATA discs designed to cheat the benchmarks by not claiming to have written data when they have really only just started to write. Even with the approriate settings off.
I read this in an article referring to someone's discovery that Windows sits idle for several seconds during shutdown, to make sure these drives have written their data before the power is lost.
Of course it's aquisitions were designed to harm it's rival(s). It's called competition, the whole point is to get customers that would otherwise go to your rival(s), thus harming them.
In Linux and other UNIX-like OS its trivial to set it up so a ignorant user never can download a random file from Internet or save an email attachment and then execute it so it infects the computer. Just give the user a home directory which may not contain executable files.
.exe to c: and then execute it. I also used macros to change screen resolution (800x600 sucks) and a web-proxy on my personal server to access "banned" websites (like eBay). So even with specialist security software, they could not secure the system from those sorts of trivial "attacks".
In Windows this nearly requires an masters in CS to be able to do.
My old school somehow did that on Windows. I wrote a macro in a PowerPoint presentation (they blocked Word macros) that could copy a
If you want to go into the cold war, you really should know that it might never have happened if the USA had not REFUSED to negotiate with the USSR.
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One of the main goals of Wiston Churchill's second tenure (1951-1955) was to bring about peacefull negotiations between the USA and USSR. He managed to get the USSR to agree to negotiations, but the USA (President Eisenhower) refused.
The source for this was a TV documentary on the BBC.
The only reference brought up by Google is this:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.c
After Stalin's death in March of that year, the new Soviet regime appeared to Churchill to be signaling, in various ways - for example, in the Austrian treaty negotiations - a new readiness to reduce tensions. He believed there was a least a glimmer of light, a possibility of progress. He told President Eisenhower in a letter: "A new hope has been created in the unhappy, bewildered world." And he suggested that the West make a new approach to Moscow. He wrote in a top secret message; "If we fail to . . . seize this moment's precious chances, the judgement of future ages would be harsh and just."
The moment, unfortunately, remained unseized. John Foster Dulles and some in his own Foreign Office accused Winston Churchill of starting down the road of appeasement. As the recently published diary of his private secretary, Sir John Colville, recounts, it was one of the bitter moments of Churchill's life when Eisenhower rejected the policy of negotiation.
The issue is not whether the policy surely would have worked; many of his friends conceded that at that time it might very well have failed. But Winston Churchill was steadfast in believing that it should be tried. As he said in 1955, in one of his last, great speeches to Parliament, "I have hoped for a long time for a top-level conference where these matters can be put plainly and bluntly" - and he was talking then specifically about the issue of nuclear weapons.
Now, if the Navy starts trying to use fine-grain control over EM fields to attempt to shield steel hulls from magnetic detection, I'm going to be in awe.
I know it's not fine-grained, but shielding steel hulls from magnetic detection is old news. The British used degaussing techniques to counter German magnetic mines in WW2.
Modern warships usually carry a complex arrangement of degaussing coils to reduce as much as possible their magnetic profile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degaussing
working on extending the range of their nukes
Are you trying to say they can't already hit the US?
At the end of WW2 the Germans were developing missiles that could hit the US from GERMANY. China is much closer and rocket technology has greatly improved since.
German A10 rocket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregate_series#A10
Oh! Oh! Star Wars quote time:
"The more you tighten your grip, Govenor Tarkin, the more systems will slip through your fingers."
(Not sure if it was "Govenor" or something else though, correct me if Im wrong.)
It's a SHIP, not a boat...
Funniest post I've seen today!
Of course, we all know that the ads have the longest run-time...
Actually, there is only one known recorded case of real pirates making anyone walk the plank. The only reason it has become so associated with pirates is that it was in Peter Pan.
I always thought that a good word filering system would do the following:
Example text: "A R S E! A.R.S.E ArSe parsec pARSEc"
1. Tokenise the text, using changes of case, spaces and punctuation to seperate tokens:
"A" "R" "S" "E" "A" "R" "S" "E" "A" "r" "S" "e" "parsec" "p" "ARSE" "c"
2. See if any combinations of consecutive tokens make 'banned words':
!ARSE! !ARSE! !ArSe! "parsec" "p" !ARSE! "c"
3. Filter those tokens in an appropriate way (block/censor).
"x x x x! x.x.x.x xxxx parsec pxxxxc"
Obviously this wont work on email addresses or urls where everything is lowercase, but should work fairly well on blogs, IM, forums, etc.
Any obvious flaws in this?
>>If you've got your dick in your hand while you look at it it's porn.
/. at work!
>Great. Well, as of last night, Better Homes and Gardens and the American Machinist's Handbook are both porn.
Better yet, Slashdot is now a porn site. So no
Actually the OS/2 compatibility is still there. Unfortunately it can only run 16-bit console-mode OS/2 1.x applications, but still.
I still have a the old OS/2 1.3 CMD.EXE around here somewhere...
And use is completely forbidden on "mobile devices, set top boxes (STB), handhelds, phones, web pads, tablets and Tablet PCs that are not running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, game consoles, TVs, DVD players, media centers".
Is that a quote from the EULA, meaning that the flash player installed on my Windows 98-based tablet PC is a violation?