Well, as the law enforcement system in the USA is falling apart (under the assumption that it existed in the first place), some folks start suffering from a cognitive dissonance syndrome, which they are trying to alleviate by pretending that the very same things are actually falling apart in other places in the world. Russia has always been a favorite target for average American in cases like that. Whenever some other issue in the American failed system pops up, someone immediately comes up with a symmetrical stab at Russia. Just think of this as an automatic brainwashing self-preservation system sledge-hammered into the head of every American at the age of 5. Remember, when the issue of USA being the world leader in the number of incarcerated people popped up? It was immedialtey followed by the major outflow of the standard American "but in Russia there's Gulag" mythology, just to keep the typical well-washed American brain from overheating failure. This particular one is obviously triggered by the fact that US law enforcement recently announced that in order to save money they will simply stop responding to what they call "lesser" and "insignificant" crimes. Needless to say, this caused some a major gears to start grinding in the brain-firmware of a typical American. What you see in the original post is the product of that malfunction.
... is that news like that clearly demonstrate that 49% of Slashdot poters are living in a cave and 49% other are living under a bridge. What other explanation could there be for all those inane comments?
Once again: The guy has been flying this thing for quite sime time now! It flies already! And it flies well! No, his feet are not in the path of jet exhaust! Yes, he will make it more than a few feet from the ground, because he's actually taking off _from_ _a_ _plane_! And no, he'll not crash on landing, because he actually uses _a_ _parachute_ to land!
It is important simply to emphasize the fact that it doesn't need to be followed by any meaningful discussion. Your reaction is nothing more than an automatic response of an electronic chip sledge-hammered into your head at childhood. You have no control over its functions. Moreover, people here are actually trying to be compassionate to you, considering the brain damage you suffered...
So what? Significant historical events and figures are never forgotten, regardless of how they are percieved later. In USA, for one example, Vietnam war Veterans drive around with licence plates indentifying them as such. Can you imagine SS Vetrans driving around with swastikas on their cars in Germany?
Well, you have to adjust for the fact that they are not Americans, so they don't have that American crap injected in their heads at the age of 5, as you do, and they are not required to watch the TV propaganda 12 hours every day, as you do. In other words, to put it in less words, they might have a different view of their history, don't they? After all it is _their_ history, isn't it?
Incorrect. Or, more precicely, irrelevant. Evidence becomes "evidence" only after the official request to retain it has been submitted throuth the court. Until them everybody can destroy everything. There's no felony in it. Every company in the US has the policy of continuously "destroying the evidence" (email, papers, etc.), which gest suspended only when the company is involved in litigation.
Apparently you didn't understand a thing in the article. The exploit described here does not allow anyone to hijack your GMail account or compromise your password. All they can do is essentially "peek over your shoulder" wile you are reading your email, as long as your session is active. Once you close the session, the intruder loses access together with you.
If your account really got hijacked, look for reasons elsewhere. This has nothing to do with it.
An XP machine behind a NAT (router) remains uninfected forever, without any additional protective means. Moreover, I don't know where they get their strange times. I had an XP machine connected directly for 7 months in a row without any infection.
Absolutely not. It was designed to drop bombs inside territory. It is completely useless agains any country with even a moderately developed air defence infrastructure. B-2 is a weapon of skewed oil wars, and this is what it was designed for.
Of course, the truth is that as a weapon of global war, strategic bomers went out of the picture well in the 50's, being replaced by intercontinental missiles. What it was really designed for is to pump money from taxpayers pockets into the pockets of neocon con artists. The "stealth" fad sold really well, you know...
This is a direct consequence of your misunderstanding of Moore's Law, journalism or not. Moore's Law does not insist on miniaturisation, but rather on the degree of integration (DoI). Until the relatively recent time, the minuaturisation was the main factor in increasing the DOI. It is no longer. And that is not a problem. The current trend is the increase of the DoI derived from the increase of the absolute size of the chip. This is a well-established trend already, just look at the multi-core CPUs. So, in fact, the current "thing" is indeed "big" in the literal sense of the word.
This is what will sustain the Moore's DoI trend as long as necessary, until we finally find your "next big thing" in therms of miniaturisation technology. If ever.
Exactly. And it is not only limited to the physical effects themselves, but also includes the limited capabilities of the modern design and verification software necessary to simulate these effects on any input of any pratical size in any practical time.
Designing these chips will be expensive. And that's exactly what Moore's Law is about. Not some stupid miniaturisation of the devices.
How do you know that it indeed works in a full-fledged UDMA mode and not in some half-assed workaround mode, used specifically because of the problems in question existing in the cards' controllers. Did you reverse engineer the camera's firmware?
No, most of the time it indicates that it is the reviewer that either a) doesn't know his stuff or b) thinks that everything that doesn't comply with his favorite one and only true coding standard is flawed.
Needless to say, judging by the tone of that poster he's not the type that would even consider reading a further response from the code author explaining why there's really no buffer overflow in line 42.
The IE6 was used as a "punching bag" only because during its time it was the only browser that could hold a punch. Everything else would fall apart and drop into crapper at the mere sound of the word "punch". Now, when the other browsers are finally starting to show promice of becoming usable in the foreseeable future, they still can't even remotely compete with IE7 on the security front. The original poster, of course, conveniently failed to mention IE7 in his post.
Every keyboard on this planet dreams of becoming Das Keyboard Ultimate one day. That's why letters are disappearing. Strange you haven't gotten it yet...
Apparently someone wahts to hear a S.W.A.T. team knocking on their door... (witha a door-buster ram). Do I have to remind anyone that this is America? Publically mentioning sunken American nuclear submarines is strictly verboten. Repeat after me 400 times: only Russian nuclear submarines can sink, American nuclear submarines don't sink.
Absolutely not. There's a line, albeit fuzzy, between the formerly incorrect but now accepted uses of words, and the uses that are incorrect and unacceptable. This "begs the question" nonsense belongs to the second category. One day it will move to the first, no doubt about it, since after all, that's what American English is: an exercise in well-established illiteracy. But it is not there yet.
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You mean in Hollywood movies, right? Otherwise, no, it doesn't have such "estabished reputation".
Well, as the law enforcement system in the USA is falling apart (under the assumption that it existed in the first place), some folks start suffering from a cognitive dissonance syndrome, which they are trying to alleviate by pretending that the very same things are actually falling apart in other places in the world. Russia has always been a favorite target for average American in cases like that. Whenever some other issue in the American failed system pops up, someone immediately comes up with a symmetrical stab at Russia. Just think of this as an automatic brainwashing self-preservation system sledge-hammered into the head of every American at the age of 5. Remember, when the issue of USA being the world leader in the number of incarcerated people popped up? It was immedialtey followed by the major outflow of the standard American "but in Russia there's Gulag" mythology, just to keep the typical well-washed American brain from overheating failure. This particular one is obviously triggered by the fact that US law enforcement recently announced that in order to save money they will simply stop responding to what they call "lesser" and "insignificant" crimes. Needless to say, this caused some a major gears to start grinding in the brain-firmware of a typical American. What you see in the original post is the product of that malfunction.
... is that news like that clearly demonstrate that 49% of Slashdot poters are living in a cave and 49% other are living under a bridge. What other explanation could there be for all those inane comments?
Once again: The guy has been flying this thing for quite sime time now! It flies already! And it flies well! No, his feet are not in the path of jet exhaust! Yes, he will make it more than a few feet from the ground, because he's actually taking off _from_ _a_ _plane_! And no, he'll not crash on landing, because he actually uses _a_ _parachute_ to land!
You probably missed the fact that this is in Russia. If anything, it's the Union Jack that was designed after the park, not the other way around
It is important simply to emphasize the fact that it doesn't need to be followed by any meaningful discussion. Your reaction is nothing more than an automatic response of an electronic chip sledge-hammered into your head at childhood. You have no control over its functions. Moreover, people here are actually trying to be compassionate to you, considering the brain damage you suffered...
Right... And 2+2 equals 4 *rolls eyes*
So what? Significant historical events and figures are never forgotten, regardless of how they are percieved later. In USA, for one example, Vietnam war Veterans drive around with licence plates indentifying them as such. Can you imagine SS Vetrans driving around with swastikas on their cars in Germany?
Well, you have to adjust for the fact that they are not Americans, so they don't have that American crap injected in their heads at the age of 5, as you do, and they are not required to watch the TV propaganda 12 hours every day, as you do. In other words, to put it in less words, they might have a different view of their history, don't they? After all it is _their_ history, isn't it?
H1B workers in IT don't work for minimum wage. There's no wage different between H1B, GC and citizen workes in Silicon Valley. Enough said.
Incorrect. Or, more precicely, irrelevant. Evidence becomes "evidence" only after the official request to retain it has been submitted throuth the court. Until them everybody can destroy everything. There's no felony in it. Every company in the US has the policy of continuously "destroying the evidence" (email, papers, etc.), which gest suspended only when the company is involved in litigation.
Apparently you didn't understand a thing in the article. The exploit described here does not allow anyone to hijack your GMail account or compromise your password. All they can do is essentially "peek over your shoulder" wile you are reading your email, as long as your session is active. Once you close the session, the intruder loses access together with you.
If your account really got hijacked, look for reasons elsewhere. This has nothing to do with it.
"Single light wavelength"? You mean it was a monochrome light, pure spectral color? That would be an experience... Which color was it?
An XP machine behind a NAT (router) remains uninfected forever, without any additional protective means. Moreover, I don't know where they get their strange times. I had an XP machine connected directly for 7 months in a row without any infection.
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It was designed to drop bombs inside [insert your favorite banana republic's name here] territory.
Absolutely not. It was designed to drop bombs inside territory. It is completely useless agains any country with even a moderately developed air defence infrastructure. B-2 is a weapon of skewed oil wars, and this is what it was designed for.
Of course, the truth is that as a weapon of global war, strategic bomers went out of the picture well in the 50's, being replaced by intercontinental missiles. What it was really designed for is to pump money from taxpayers pockets into the pockets of neocon con artists. The "stealth" fad sold really well, you know...
This is a direct consequence of your misunderstanding of Moore's Law, journalism or not. Moore's Law does not insist on miniaturisation, but rather on the degree of integration (DoI). Until the relatively recent time, the minuaturisation was the main factor in increasing the DOI. It is no longer. And that is not a problem. The current trend is the increase of the DoI derived from the increase of the absolute size of the chip. This is a well-established trend already, just look at the multi-core CPUs. So, in fact, the current "thing" is indeed "big" in the literal sense of the word.
This is what will sustain the Moore's DoI trend as long as necessary, until we finally find your "next big thing" in therms of miniaturisation technology. If ever.
Exactly. And it is not only limited to the physical effects themselves, but also includes the limited capabilities of the modern design and verification software necessary to simulate these effects on any input of any pratical size in any practical time.
Designing these chips will be expensive. And that's exactly what Moore's Law is about. Not some stupid miniaturisation of the devices.
Moore's Law is not in any way tied to miniaturisation of chip features, as the clueless ones seem to believe.
How do you know that it indeed works in a full-fledged UDMA mode and not in some half-assed workaround mode, used specifically because of the problems in question existing in the cards' controllers. Did you reverse engineer the camera's firmware?
I hope you do understand that what you are talking about has no relation to the problem described in the original article whatsoever...
No, most of the time it indicates that it is the reviewer that either a) doesn't know his stuff or b) thinks that everything that doesn't comply with his favorite one and only true coding standard is flawed.
Needless to say, judging by the tone of that poster he's not the type that would even consider reading a further response from the code author explaining why there's really no buffer overflow in line 42.
The IE6 was used as a "punching bag" only because during its time it was the only browser that could hold a punch. Everything else would fall apart and drop into crapper at the mere sound of the word "punch". Now, when the other browsers are finally starting to show promice of becoming usable in the foreseeable future, they still can't even remotely compete with IE7 on the security front. The original poster, of course, conveniently failed to mention IE7 in his post.
Every keyboard on this planet dreams of becoming Das Keyboard Ultimate one day. That's why letters are disappearing. Strange you haven't gotten it yet...
Apparently someone wahts to hear a S.W.A.T. team knocking on their door... (witha a door-buster ram). Do I have to remind anyone that this is America? Publically mentioning sunken American nuclear submarines is strictly verboten. Repeat after me 400 times: only Russian nuclear submarines can sink, American nuclear submarines don't sink.
Absolutely not. There's a line, albeit fuzzy, between the formerly incorrect but now accepted uses of words, and the uses that are incorrect and unacceptable. This "begs the question" nonsense belongs to the second category. One day it will move to the first, no doubt about it, since after all, that's what American English is: an exercise in well-established illiteracy. But it is not there yet.