Message bodies aren't the only thing being retrieved; this exploit gets whatever data was hanging around at the time, including sets of usernames and passwords. Rather than seeing mail as you send it, an attacker could just log into your account.
One feature: Firefox tabs suck. Many sites use windows that are designed to be a differenet size than your mazimized browser, or sometimes you want to tile two or three pages to cross reference. Oh, and when popups get past firefox's blockers (Opera just has a 'no popups, period' setting) they don't just go to a tab, they start another instance of the application, cluttering the taskbar.
I'll think I'll take the google ads in the corner over having to deal with bad tabs and crappy gestures.
And look at the advances of the internet: ad-supported sites? Porn was there. Spam to get the name out there? Porn was there. Do you think that the demand for domestic broadband would be as great, were it not for our pioneering pornography industry?
Also note: Unlike the motion picture and recording industries, the porn industry has embraced the internet as a distribution medium. In fact, I have yet to see a twelve year old girl or an eighty year old woman sued for pirating porn off Kazaa.
Actually, we spend most of our money being Socialists. Only when you remove all of the social programs from the budget do the military line items come to the fore.
As far as I know, the two standards competing for the 802.11n title are hardware-incompatible, so you can't firmware from one to the other (like the US Robotics/Flex debacle with 56K modems). I'm thinking that the release of these pre-n products is a bid to get an installed base of one competing standard to aid in justifying the award of the 802.11n name.
All well and good, unless you enjoy owning anything. The thing that makes DRM so bad to people is this:
- When we dish out money, we want to keep what we get. After all, the media distributor gets to keep our money, right? - Once we have this content that we keep indefinately, we want the terms to not change. Ever. If we drop whatever service we bought it from, or that service vanishes, we still want to be able to view it, because we paid for it. We don't want the distributor to be able to impose terms after the sale. DRM allows all three of these scenarios:
- I decide I don't like Distributor X, so I sign up with Distributor Y. Oh look, everything I bought from Distributor X is broken now. - Distributor X folds and leaves no heirs. Oh look, my content can no longer ask the central servers to authenticate. Everything I bought is broken. - Distributor X moves to new technology Y, and decides that all its users should upgrade. The content purchased before this point is invalidated. Everything I bought is broken.
Basically, DRM is just an attempt to layer new artificial rules over reality. The nature of content is that it can be stored, copied, and played infinitely. People think that if they could change the nature of data they could make more money. Of course they can. If Ford decided that when the '05 cars come out, everyone has to upgrade, and thus uses their Vehicle Rights Management technology to disable all the '04s, people will be rightly pissed.
What I want to see is a 5-1/4 inch, full-height drive with modern areal density. Should hit the multi-terabyte range easy. Sure, you'd need the chain down the 15K rpm SCSI version, but I think its worth it.
You can change the intensity of light on a fiber much faster than you can change the charge of a wire. Propogation speeds are slightly faster with light, but the big key is being able to change high/low state very fast.
It's like somebody created an OS, but it's full of security holes, fear not, we can always create software like firewall and anti-virus to solve those problems.
I like to think of it as moving security code outside of the kernel;) Lots of little apps working together, and all that...
In fact, its creation consumes *exactly* as much as will be liberated by burning it. The reason that burning oil creates a greenhouse gas issue is that the CO2 that is released from the reaction was sealed away millions of years ago, so the net free gas goes up. With algae, you're releasing CO2 that was just removed from the atmosphere a few weeks/months earlier, so the net free CO2 stays level.
The problem comes when you can either have a lifesaving proceedure performed by a robot over a fallable link, or go without and die. People get enraged over the failed link, even if without it they had certainty of death instead of X chance of death.
You know, putting powerful painkillers in vending machines could mean the end of income taxes, if done properly. Not to mention taking out the bottom levels of society as well...
hate taking my mp3 player, cellphone, pda, and ocasionaly camera with me. The first 3 i cant leave the house with. I presume you meant 'without', given the rest of the post.
I can see needing a cellphone, if you have an always-on-call job or something, but seriously, are you incapable of leaving your music to pop down to the store? Do you really need a PDA everywhere you go? There's this wonderful invention, only been around for 2 or 3 millenia, called paper. You can jot a note, a list for the store, readable in direct sunlight, lasts on one charge for 50-100 years.
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If the mosquito were made out of copper, and there were a 37000mph speed differential, I would say that the 767's skin would take a nice dent.
Message bodies aren't the only thing being retrieved; this exploit gets whatever data was hanging around at the time, including sets of usernames and passwords. Rather than seeing mail as you send it, an attacker could just log into your account.
One feature: Firefox tabs suck. Many sites use windows that are designed to be a differenet size than your mazimized browser, or sometimes you want to tile two or three pages to cross reference. Oh, and when popups get past firefox's blockers (Opera just has a 'no popups, period' setting) they don't just go to a tab, they start another instance of the application, cluttering the taskbar.
I'll think I'll take the google ads in the corner over having to deal with bad tabs and crappy gestures.
See, its like how Mozilla keeps having to rename their standalone browser because some tiny project no one has heard of takes the name ...
*gasp* ... customer service. And I thought they took that $200 license fee and used it as toilet paper in the executive washroom ...
I think the complaint is more that the editor didn't edit out the redundancy ...
And look at the advances of the internet: ad-supported sites? Porn was there. Spam to get the name out there? Porn was there. Do you think that the demand for domestic broadband would be as great, were it not for our pioneering pornography industry?
Also note: Unlike the motion picture and recording industries, the porn industry has embraced the internet as a distribution medium. In fact, I have yet to see a twelve year old girl or an eighty year old woman sued for pirating porn off Kazaa.
Actually, we spend most of our money being Socialists. Only when you remove all of the social programs from the budget do the military line items come to the fore.
As far as I know, the two standards competing for the 802.11n title are hardware-incompatible, so you can't firmware from one to the other (like the US Robotics/Flex debacle with 56K modems). I'm thinking that the release of these pre-n products is a bid to get an installed base of one competing standard to aid in justifying the award of the 802.11n name.
Apparently lead-free solder, with its higher melting point and this wisker problem, also is not a suitable replacement.
All well and good, unless you enjoy owning anything. The thing that makes DRM so bad to people is this:
- When we dish out money, we want to keep what we get. After all, the media distributor gets to keep our money, right?
- Once we have this content that we keep indefinately, we want the terms to not change. Ever. If we drop whatever service we bought it from, or that service vanishes, we still want to be able to view it, because we paid for it. We don't want the distributor to be able to impose terms after the sale. DRM allows all three of these scenarios:
- I decide I don't like Distributor X, so I sign up with Distributor Y. Oh look, everything I bought from Distributor X is broken now.
- Distributor X folds and leaves no heirs. Oh look, my content can no longer ask the central servers to authenticate. Everything I bought is broken.
- Distributor X moves to new technology Y, and decides that all its users should upgrade. The content purchased before this point is invalidated. Everything I bought is broken.
Basically, DRM is just an attempt to layer new artificial rules over reality. The nature of content is that it can be stored, copied, and played infinitely. People think that if they could change the nature of data they could make more money. Of course they can. If Ford decided that when the '05 cars come out, everyone has to upgrade, and thus uses their Vehicle Rights Management technology to disable all the '04s, people will be rightly pissed.
What I want to see is a 5-1/4 inch, full-height drive with modern areal density. Should hit the multi-terabyte range easy. Sure, you'd need the chain down the 15K rpm SCSI version, but I think its worth it.
You can change the intensity of light on a fiber much faster than you can change the charge of a wire. Propogation speeds are slightly faster with light, but the big key is being able to change high/low state very fast.
It is the nature of language to evolve.
See, there's this association of amazing electronics coming from Japan. This goes to show that American stuff isn't dead. Yet.
Now, who's for embargos on goods produced by underpaid workers? Let's bring the minimum wage to the developing world!
I was really waiting for the super bowl to get nuked after the monica lewinsky thing ... Sum of All Fears looked to be mighty accurate.
Watch, now the aliens are going to come down and jail every astronomer who's ever pointed out their star just like this guy ...
Actually, the charge was Reckless Disregard for Human Life. Its just that Terrorism and Patriot Act make for wicked headlines.
Isn't the Association of Independant Artists kinda self-contradictory ... if the members were to act as a group, they would cease to qualify ...
Office of the Commisioner of Baseball (wtf?)
Seconded.
It's like somebody created an OS, but it's full of security holes, fear not, we can always create software like firewall and anti-virus to solve those problems.
;) Lots of little apps working together, and all that ...
I like to think of it as moving security code outside of the kernel
In fact, its creation consumes *exactly* as much as will be liberated by burning it. The reason that burning oil creates a greenhouse gas issue is that the CO2 that is released from the reaction was sealed away millions of years ago, so the net free gas goes up. With algae, you're releasing CO2 that was just removed from the atmosphere a few weeks/months earlier, so the net free CO2 stays level.
How hard is it, seriously, to not connect your internal network of life-critical computers to the internet?
The problem comes when you can either have a lifesaving proceedure performed by a robot over a fallable link, or go without and die. People get enraged over the failed link, even if without it they had certainty of death instead of X chance of death.
You know, putting powerful painkillers in vending machines could mean the end of income taxes, if done properly. Not to mention taking out the bottom levels of society as well ...
hate taking my mp3 player, cellphone, pda, and ocasionaly camera with me. The first 3 i cant leave the house with.
I presume you meant 'without', given the rest of the post.
I can see needing a cellphone, if you have an always-on-call job or something, but seriously, are you incapable of leaving your music to pop down to the store? Do you really need a PDA everywhere you go? There's this wonderful invention, only been around for 2 or 3 millenia, called paper. You can jot a note, a list for the store, readable in direct sunlight, lasts on one charge for 50-100 years.