XSS affects 50% of the websites geared for IE. Not 50% of all websites. Significant difference there.
I agree with the rest though, IE6 is bad and IE7 is worse, so hopefully IE8 won't be too broken. From everything I have seen so far unfortunately, it will be. I seem to recall some controversy with IE8 a few months back too, something about putting it on an XP service pack or something.
95% of the reasons company fail nowadays is because they look short-term and not long term.
Everyone who wants to make a quick buck knows that.
However, I have no sympathy for knowing that there was an error, fighting like hell to have to admit it, and then putting the blame on the consumer to a degree. Pretty lame.
Most people can get their intranet apps working on firefox. Plenty of places are just afraid to do it as it represents a releasing of control in the corporate workplace.
wait until (if it's successful) they make plants in the US, built exclusively in the US under a US subsidiary, but people complain that we're fueling china.
And that's what darwin is here for, to remind you that being unprepared for something that can be not only life-threatening, but actually fatal tends to kill people. That preparation extends to mental capacity and being conscious of the situation.
I mean sure, sucks for the family who loses a family member, but I wouldn't say the individual who elected to do said journey was innocent or without fault or deserving of sympathy.
As this is a constant issue that is very pressing in our current society, I am reminded of another question.
Would you be willing to be part of ongoing interviews of similar topics to this for slashdot (assuming slashdot is as well)? Say every couple months or so?
an open forum for discussion is important. An active open forum discussion is even more so.
Actually, this is an interesting question. I'd actually like to see this answered as well. Although a spin on what the OP said, this is a question that I'd like to see covered and not trivialized.
Why must civil liberties be given up under any circumstance under the guise of "cybersecurity"? Why is there no open public review for people to proclaim that under no circumstance do they plan to give up civil liberties for sake of a bad us government cybersecurity plan? I for one do not plan to give up any form of "rights" just because the government has an inability to secure their own systems. I'm sure we all know the Thomas Jefferson quote for this.
Basically, my question is: why are we focused on balancing rights for security when we could spend more effort securing the existing government computer systems that we use, and it would be more effective? This is like pointing a finger at the washington monument and blaming it for the market collapse, and does not directly address the issue I just mentioned.
Well thanks for copying off wikipedia for your wording.
Clearly, trying to bring the wife in the situation is just making you look obtuse. What are you, 12 (emotionally)?
Or perhaps we should mention that just about every demoscene artist would beg to differ. Also, I call complete bullshit on your BFA/MFA graphics design speech. My friend finished school going exactly for that and she specifically does computer animation with stuff such as maya.
The thing is though, if nobody speaks up, no voice is heard. And people do hate truth and logic, but you have to just be willing to take the hits as you walk forward, so to speak. It does indeed suck at times, too though. People are impressively malicious overall.
Ah, it is a bit flamey but the intended statement remains, that Mac is not superior for design. People just like to use it. That's fine and all, but it doesn't mean it's the best or worst solution or something. Just a competitor just like every other brand.
Lots of people are hanging on the 10 years prior mentality of "mac is superior for design".
Umm, Linux does quite a bit better for graphic design. Especially bigtime movie producers (pixar, etc) don't run Mac. They run linux.
Jeez, when will people accept that the only thing the mac is good for is paying for things that other people get free? It used to be premiere for DTP and graphics design. No longer.
underpowered: CPU and battery. the OP was right. late-featured: Where's the wheel to go with the touchscreen UI focused: useless point.
Note, on the above, the G1 happens to fit the whole power and feature aspects for now. Guess that tells you something: apple is the same as its always been: crap that people lovingly shove down their throats.
Only until someone finds a way to make cracking the captcha more efficient and suddenly it is back to the original cost to crack the same captcha again. This is what that machine learning is all about.
Meanwhile, the problem is that this back and forth with captchas is essentially causing programmers who wish to break it, to come up with very complex AI.
At some point, if the AI is smarter than the person, as mentioned above people won't be able to crack the captcha.
On this very article the only reason this "captcha has yet to be cracked" is because they just brought it out. Once it gets attention, it'll be cracked like all the rest.
There are plenty of products better than an ipod or a zune. In fact, almost any other player doesn't really rely on DRM for their store. Example: creative players, sandisk, archos, and just about anyone else other than the "most popular" 2 as of late.
Only reason to get an ipod was that the wheel is a much better way of scrolling to a huge degree.
Well what if you reduce that back to 2 9's of uptime, which was like....8 hours a year I believe. I think you know how big of a deal that even 1/10th of a percent can make, in that regards.
Now lets take this to an ineffective bloated government mandated filter, and you think it's going to work? Yeah, right. "we're only blocking 1% of the internet, and it happens to be every torrent sites (including linux ISOs) , and 0 child porn websites. I'm proud that the other 80% of the sites we filter are very effective".
Watch an almost identical quote to that come out of government mouthes if this is implemented.
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XSS affects 50% of the websites geared for IE. Not 50% of all websites. Significant difference there.
I agree with the rest though, IE6 is bad and IE7 is worse, so hopefully IE8 won't be too broken. From everything I have seen so far unfortunately, it will be. I seem to recall some controversy with IE8 a few months back too, something about putting it on an XP service pack or something.
Whoever labeled lloyd troll obviously is a Microsoftie.
I'd be surprised if Microsoft ever decided to release a well tested and thoroughly prepared release. It seems to not be a priority to them at all.
How about "If OS's were religions"?
Christianity = Windows
Judaism = OSX
Atheism/Agnosticism = Linux
95% of the reasons company fail nowadays is because they look short-term and not long term.
Everyone who wants to make a quick buck knows that.
However, I have no sympathy for knowing that there was an error, fighting like hell to have to admit it, and then putting the blame on the consumer to a degree. Pretty lame.
Most people can get their intranet apps working on firefox. Plenty of places are just afraid to do it as it represents a releasing of control in the corporate workplace.
Better yet,
wait until (if it's successful) they make plants in the US, built exclusively in the US under a US subsidiary, but people complain that we're fueling china.
And that's what darwin is here for, to remind you that being unprepared for something that can be not only life-threatening, but actually fatal tends to kill people. That preparation extends to mental capacity and being conscious of the situation.
I mean sure, sucks for the family who loses a family member, but I wouldn't say the individual who elected to do said journey was innocent or without fault or deserving of sympathy.
Usually people spends months to years preparing and training for these excursions for exactly this reason.
Suddenly I wonder how many times he has anonymous racist conversations with himself, such all the anon's that reply to this.
No, getting vista was and believing it was better than absolutely any other OS including XP, was suicide.
As this is a constant issue that is very pressing in our current society, I am reminded of another question.
Would you be willing to be part of ongoing interviews of similar topics to this for slashdot (assuming slashdot is as well)? Say every couple months or so?
an open forum for discussion is important. An active open forum discussion is even more so.
Actually, this is an interesting question. I'd actually like to see this answered as well. Although a spin on what the OP said, this is a question that I'd like to see covered and not trivialized.
Mod this up.
Why must civil liberties be given up under any circumstance under the guise of "cybersecurity"? Why is there no open public review for people to proclaim that under no circumstance do they plan to give up civil liberties for sake of a bad us government cybersecurity plan? I for one do not plan to give up any form of "rights" just because the government has an inability to secure their own systems. I'm sure we all know the Thomas Jefferson quote for this.
Basically, my question is: why are we focused on balancing rights for security when we could spend more effort securing the existing government computer systems that we use, and it would be more effective? This is like pointing a finger at the washington monument and blaming it for the market collapse, and does not directly address the issue I just mentioned.
Well thanks for copying off wikipedia for your wording.
Clearly, trying to bring the wife in the situation is just making you look obtuse. What are you, 12 (emotionally)?
Or perhaps we should mention that just about every demoscene artist would beg to differ. Also, I call complete bullshit on your BFA/MFA graphics design speech. My friend finished school going exactly for that and she specifically does computer animation with stuff such as maya.
I hear you :)
The thing is though, if nobody speaks up, no voice is heard. And people do hate truth and logic, but you have to just be willing to take the hits as you walk forward, so to speak. It does indeed suck at times, too though. People are impressively malicious overall.
If you think all pixar does is animation, and that animation is not a category of graphic design, then maybe you need to break out a dictionary.
Ah, it is a bit flamey but the intended statement remains, that Mac is not superior for design. People just like to use it. That's fine and all, but it doesn't mean it's the best or worst solution or something. Just a competitor just like every other brand.
Lots of people are hanging on the 10 years prior mentality of "mac is superior for design".
all OS's tend to "just work". Linux not excluded, windows not excluded.
Umm, Linux does quite a bit better for graphic design. Especially bigtime movie producers (pixar, etc) don't run Mac. They run linux.
Jeez, when will people accept that the only thing the mac is good for is paying for things that other people get free? It used to be premiere for DTP and graphics design. No longer.
underpowered: CPU and battery. the OP was right.
late-featured: Where's the wheel to go with the touchscreen
UI focused: useless point.
Note, on the above, the G1 happens to fit the whole power and feature aspects for now. Guess that tells you something: apple is the same as its always been: crap that people lovingly shove down their throats.
Only until someone finds a way to make cracking the captcha more efficient and suddenly it is back to the original cost to crack the same captcha again. This is what that machine learning is all about.
Meanwhile, the problem is that this back and forth with captchas is essentially causing programmers who wish to break it, to come up with very complex AI.
At some point, if the AI is smarter than the person, as mentioned above people won't be able to crack the captcha.
On this very article the only reason this "captcha has yet to be cracked" is because they just brought it out. Once it gets attention, it'll be cracked like all the rest.
There are plenty of products better than an ipod or a zune. In fact, almost any other player doesn't really rely on DRM for their store. Example: creative players, sandisk, archos, and just about anyone else other than the "most popular" 2 as of late.
Only reason to get an ipod was that the wheel is a much better way of scrolling to a huge degree.
I bet when we reach 42Mb/s it will still be capped at 10gigs for about 2 years worth of consumer outcry, too.
What you doubt, is not reality.
Remember the whole "5 9's" philosophy of uptime?
Well what if you reduce that back to 2 9's of uptime, which was like ....8 hours a year I believe. I think you know how big of a deal that even 1/10th of a percent can make, in that regards.
Now lets take this to an ineffective bloated government mandated filter, and you think it's going to work? Yeah, right. "we're only blocking 1% of the internet, and it happens to be every torrent sites (including linux ISOs) , and 0 child porn websites. I'm proud that the other 80% of the sites we filter are very effective".
Watch an almost identical quote to that come out of government mouthes if this is implemented.
Ha. I think I get what you're saying.
So how is saying that we get a random answer from something we don't know in a given equation, a breakthrough?
Given that the "thing" to measure can be "anything"?