For many things, space construction is a much more logical option. Things don't have to be built to withstand the strain of being sent up from the ground on a rocket... I would definitely say that space construction is the way to go...
"...European privacy laws would prevent the adoption of such policies."
Unfortunately, the way that things are proceeding, with sufficient time and money, big businesses are able to lobby governments to get what they want... So I don't see the current existence of such a law as a reason to dismiss any concern out of hand. All they'd need is an exception for this, not even a repeal of the whole law.
I would be interested to know if any of the inaccuracies in Encyclopedia Britannica are actually things where we have discovered some new fact or phenomenon since the latest revision was printed. Do they count those?
PHP appears to be designed for simplicity and ease of use above all else. One thing that gets me is that its types are completely fluid... And you can set a variable to whatever you want, as the user, even, by something like file.php?id=20. But PHP isn't meant to be secure. That's why PHP isn't a good choice for things where security matters.
I'm a believer in "the right tool for the right job", and PHP isn't the right tool for the security job. But if you're just developing something for your personal amusement, or maybe for your club website, then PHP's good. So I don't think of it as design flaws so much as conscious choices to make it easier rather than more secure.:-)
You can do what I do. Wait for a de facto standard or wait until somebody makes a player that can handle both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. It's what I did with the whole DVD+/- mess.
Now there's going to be all sorts of virus / worm stuff related to important dates, like July 4 or the founding of the USSR, or whatever. I thought the whole date-triggered thing went out of fashion with the Michelangelo virus.
My house is safe. We switched my teenaged sister to a Mac, and the number of viruses entering the house quickly dropped to zero. No matter how many times I said "Don't click on the link you get in IMs...". Problem solved!
I am no marketing guru (far from it: I'm an Engineering Student!), but I don't think that letting the product sell itself is necessarily the best idea. Especially for a product like Debian which isn't the latest flashy-eye-candy-fuzzy-character toy for the Christmas season...
An important question is whether this is a failure of marketing or a poor choice of target market. If the target market exists but is not using it, then you might be able to consider it a failure of marketing: There is demand and supply, but the demand is not aware of the supply. If the target market does not exist, then Sun has obviously chosen to go into an area which is not a worthwhile venture, at least at the present time.
Though, it's possible that the target market hasn't been formed yet and Sun is going for the "If you build it, they will come"; i.e. by creating the possibility they will generate demand for it in the future.
So theoretically, if a country switched to a few of these, they would be a few anti-aircraft missiles away from being without internet access? Seems that centralizing them in the air like that kind of makes them vulnerable to being quickly and easily destroyed...
The powerbook screen upgrade is a really nice thing. It was one thing that always made me not feel so good about the apple laptops. But now they've got great screens. If only they had a touchpad equivalent of the mighty mouse...
This troll has appeared in every story for quite some time now... It gets consistently modded down almost right away. I don't know who keeps doing that, but they show no signs of stopping. Maybe we should have -2 "Redundant Troll" since we've all seen it so many times.:P
Well, maybe they view it as a bit of an investment. Put some of their workers into teaching now, so that the upcoming generation(s) of people are well-educated in science, math, engineering, etc. by people with degrees and real-life experience. Then IBM has a better talent pool to pick from in the future, theoretically.
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For those interested in this sort of thing, http://www.distributed.net/ runs like SETI@Home - lots of small individual clients working together to brute force encryption keys.
This is partly due to the assinine update mechanism. They really need a better way to deliver patches.
If I recall correctly, they're working on a patch system that only alters the changed parts of the file (i.e. does not require full re-download and re-install). I think it's set for version 1.5 or similar.
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For many things, space construction is a much more logical option. Things don't have to be built to withstand the strain of being sent up from the ground on a rocket... I would definitely say that space construction is the way to go...
"...European privacy laws would prevent the adoption of such policies."
Unfortunately, the way that things are proceeding, with sufficient time and money, big businesses are able to lobby governments to get what they want... So I don't see the current existence of such a law as a reason to dismiss any concern out of hand. All they'd need is an exception for this, not even a repeal of the whole law.
I would be interested to know if any of the inaccuracies in Encyclopedia Britannica are actually things where we have discovered some new fact or phenomenon since the latest revision was printed. Do they count those?
...humans may not even reach (emotional) adulthood until well into their 30s...
;-)
My experience thus far has been that some people *never* reach emotional maturity.
PHP appears to be designed for simplicity and ease of use above all else. One thing that gets me is that its types are completely fluid... And you can set a variable to whatever you want, as the user, even, by something like file.php?id=20. But PHP isn't meant to be secure. That's why PHP isn't a good choice for things where security matters.
:-)
I'm a believer in "the right tool for the right job", and PHP isn't the right tool for the security job. But if you're just developing something for your personal amusement, or maybe for your club website, then PHP's good. So I don't think of it as design flaws so much as conscious choices to make it easier rather than more secure.
Somebody has to say it, otherwise this wouldn't be a Slashdot article:
The Space Shuttle is so buggy you'd think it was designed by Microsoft.
Okay, back to working on my Windows Server 2003 Box now. Patch Tuesday today, you know.
You can do what I do. Wait for a de facto standard or wait until somebody makes a player that can handle both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. It's what I did with the whole DVD+/- mess.
Clearly, he doesn't get any software from any of the other companies named. :P
Now there's going to be all sorts of virus / worm stuff related to important dates, like July 4 or the founding of the USSR, or whatever. I thought the whole date-triggered thing went out of fashion with the Michelangelo virus.
My house is safe. We switched my teenaged sister to a Mac, and the number of viruses entering the house quickly dropped to zero. No matter how many times I said "Don't click on the link you get in IMs...". Problem solved!
I am no marketing guru (far from it: I'm an Engineering Student!), but I don't think that letting the product sell itself is necessarily the best idea. Especially for a product like Debian which isn't the latest flashy-eye-candy-fuzzy-character toy for the Christmas season...
Well, yes, normally, but this is the "Mighty Remote", which can function as one or multi... :P
I think my family would be upset if I gave them makefiles for their gifts instead of the gifts themselves... :P
This seems to work on a similar premise to how phone "phreaking" worked. (Of course, you can read about Phreaking here.
I'm surprised they didn't test Xandros - I interviewed with them a couple of months ago, and they specialize in business-oriented Linux...
An important question is whether this is a failure of marketing or a poor choice of target market. If the target market exists but is not using it, then you might be able to consider it a failure of marketing: There is demand and supply, but the demand is not aware of the supply. If the target market does not exist, then Sun has obviously chosen to go into an area which is not a worthwhile venture, at least at the present time.
Though, it's possible that the target market hasn't been formed yet and Sun is going for the "If you build it, they will come"; i.e. by creating the possibility they will generate demand for it in the future.
So theoretically, if a country switched to a few of these, they would be a few anti-aircraft missiles away from being without internet access? Seems that centralizing them in the air like that kind of makes them vulnerable to being quickly and easily destroyed...
The powerbook screen upgrade is a really nice thing. It was one thing that always made me not feel so good about the apple laptops. But now they've got great screens. If only they had a touchpad equivalent of the mighty mouse...
This troll has appeared in every story for quite some time now... It gets consistently modded down almost right away. I don't know who keeps doing that, but they show no signs of stopping. Maybe we should have -2 "Redundant Troll" since we've all seen it so many times. :P
Well, maybe they view it as a bit of an investment. Put some of their workers into teaching now, so that the upcoming generation(s) of people are well-educated in science, math, engineering, etc. by people with degrees and real-life experience. Then IBM has a better talent pool to pick from in the future, theoretically.
For those interested in this sort of thing, http://www.distributed.net/ runs like SETI@Home - lots of small individual clients working together to brute force encryption keys.
This is partly due to the assinine update mechanism. They really need a better way to deliver patches.
If I recall correctly, they're working on a patch system that only alters the changed parts of the file (i.e. does not require full re-download and re-install). I think it's set for version 1.5 or similar.
Even though it's linked to in the article, the bit by F-Secure is a bit better written (and more informative):
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
From TFA:
:)
"Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 can not be exploited by this worm, as the worm does not use a valid logon."
I think a lot of people were relieved to read this.
I bet some geek figures out a certain pattern in which you can play that causes a buffer overflow (or something) thus resulting in the payout. :P