Downloading firefox 3.0 final won't clog teh interweb, but the delayed update of the anti-phishing database just might hose a few
connections - (urlclassifier3.sqlite is about 50MB and thrashes the disk badly especially on low end machines. Takes about 1 to 1-1/2 days to
stabilize).
So, please don't install 30-50 copies of FF 3 at the same time on your friend's internet cafe machines (if you want to keep your friend). If
you need to do that then turn off (for a while) the anti-phishing protection via the Tools->Options->Security tab
If they can't be nailed on ethical practice, just two words - "IRS Audit".
(if they are prepared to risk gaming the system, then there's (illegal) money involved).
Twenty years. The mind boggles at that one. I hope they manage to pin down the critical event around gen 20k (and it isn't some contamination event).
From some other reading recently, it seems that some widely used immortal cell lines HeLa derived from cancer cells have diverged so far from there origin that they may in fact now be a new "species".
Good papers are relevant to future researchers decades later. At least for the sciences, there
has always been the fast track option of "Science" or "Nature" rather than the specialist
journals.
Perhaps a sort of faster track version of that could work, (may even exist) but the catch is that there are limits on how fast work can be
peer reviewed. Peer review isn't perfect - you
can easily be screwed by that biatch who resents you getting naming precedence on some obscure ???, but for the most part it seems to work
... and of course anyone who's ever done any research will tell you that publication doesn't imply good quality. There are researchers out
there who produce mounds of steaming crap fit only for a nice rose garden.
If you work for a while in any field you get a feel for "who's who" - who produces good work, who produces papers (perhaps one a decade even)
that shake foundations, redefine how to look at a problem.
Superfast un peer reviewed "papers" simply add to the noise level. Academic Journals, and peer review act as a necessary filter.
Disclaimer: programmer these days, one year (pre university) at a research lab - (John Innes). Probably way out of date in my thinking.
(squints at the id) n.. e.. w here (oops). I don't think iPhone is going to fly in non US markets so even if it is capable of DS style
games - anyone really think that little Yannis Questidis is going to be given an iPhone for *gaming* Yiks!
At least here in (southern) Europe, Nokia and Symbian SIS games are the most common. Not bought though - probably leeched off e.g. gsmforum.
I started out my programming career porting the UCSD p-system. Bad enough being given a processor I'd never seen or programmed before , a box of bad photocopies and burning my way through 5 prototypes . Motorola 68K based with an
"advanced" I/O processor (6809) which had bugs in the firmwire handshake with the MC68K. No parity on memory. Double sided board big enough to play
golf. That was my first port. (It really helped that it used a blurry color Sinclair QL monitor
at 110 column resolution - aarrgghh my eyes).
Debuggers? Hah. When I first got to play with an Orion Instruments logic analyser a few years later it was paradise (at least until I figured out it was a productivity loss (grins)).
It's IronRuby in other words Ruby compiled to MSIL.
So in principle it should inherit all the (in)security of that environment (winks).
Really this isn't a suprise as SilverLight was supposed to be the first outing of the Dynamic CLR
(support for IronPython, IronRuby etc.). MS has been quite enthusiastic about dynamic languages ever since Jim Hugenin (former JPython author) started working for them.
I may get marked funny for this , but dangerous to McAfee users perhaps:-O
Given the ongoing 1+ month series of SQL injection attacks, I have to call BS on the statistics for TLD's.
It doesn't really matter if "myobscurewebsite.info" is "dangerous". It really does matter if the UN website or Dept. of
Homeland Security or NASA or some other "important" site is compromised - especially ecommerce sites which have high traffic.
is here. But for the extremely lazy, here's a quick summary:
- no DVD logo (may or may not play on real DVD players).
- disc contains a dye which reacts with oxygen to discolour it (either to red or black).
This is in the resin bonding layer between the two layers
of a DVD-9. For DVD-5 it's in the surface coating.
48 hours is the "alleged" time the disc will last before being unplayable. Since this is a chemical reaction expect that time to plummet dramatically
in hot environments. So, how are they going to deal with the howls of indignation from customers who open the thing, decide they don't have time
to play it today, and find they can't even play it once (assuming their DVD player doesn't bork on it)?
... and what about consumer protection laws e.g. "fitness for purpose" etc.
In a field of about 105 teslas atomic orbitals deform into cigar shapes. At 1010 teslas, a hydrogen atom becomes a spindle 200 times narrower than its normal diameter.
I think the most powerful field ever generated in a lab was less than 200 tesla.
Which sort of implies that some *really* weird chemistry might be possible. Chemistry that simply wouldn't happen under more normal conditions. Cue the Sci Fi stories...
is people. Either reusing an OTP or failing to RTFM for the QC equipment. It doesn't really matter that it would take e.g. the NSA longer than the time to the heat death of the universe to "crack" a cipher if $100k in a suitcase can "crack" Alice.
For a really really good look at security, try to track down the earliest black+white TV series of Mission Impossible - (almost no gadgets, lots of neat social engineering).
Tightly focussed? What the hell would a loosely focussed space probe look like or do?
probe cartman? Explore the solar system (kindof) looking for alien beings
Cheap? On who's terms? Define cheap.
With GTA 4 rumoured to have cost a mere $100 million , $4-5 billion per long duration mission seems like nothing. How many minutes in Iraq is that anyway?
Worse still, smaller faster cheaper oops it broke won't cut it for the outer solar system. I'd hate to be the researcher who spends 10+ years working on a probe only to find that a 10c capacitor popped - wait a minute...
Given the US's costs in Iraq a hundred 5 billion dollar missions would still give good value in terms of science results.
Priorities, put them in order...There's more here at stake than counting beans.
of assuming that this judge is anti **AA. He's just doing his job. Since there's about a 99.99% probability he was doing this dance as a lawyer
when he was younger he knows all the tricks (and probably a few they don't). Still, something inside this IANAL says he's pi55ed with the **AA
lawyers. If you push the rules too far (like SCO) then expect misery...
Judge = adjudicator. Judge != correct.
"There exists in a field in some US state at least one sheep which is black on the top" c.f. Heinlein's fair witness (somewhat
borrowed from this guy).
If we were talking about cars or any other consumer thing then nobody would accept the sort of nonsense we've (not me or the average/.er)
been conditioned into accepting.
Even here in Greece I see typical DSL performance which is to say the least crapulent. Being charitable I'll
pretend OTEnet (the former state monopoly) isn't
traffic shaping (heh - that's why my torrent of ubuntu dropped dead to 10Kb/s)...
Funny that it does that after about an hour regardless of time
of day...(well not always but too often to be attributable to teh interweb being busy from Greece).
A car which may or may not be able to hit 100kph with the wind behind it being sold as a Ferrari
wouldn't be acceptable (unless you're a retro
Citroen freak).
A Ferrari with three wheels one of which refuses to be circular on wednesdays if we're driving to visit a mistress (hey i'm in southern europe not
the puritanical domain of the U.S) wouldn't be acceptable.
Some traffic shaping is inevitable. But it's a stopgap measure not an acceptable solution. If
90% of new traffic is e.g. bittorrent then the
answer is either to make this premium usage (and
spell it out in the contract) OR STFU and put more capacity.
Should be really simple - either *BE* a provider with acceptable use spelled out transparently or *DIE* in the marketplace.
BTW I think the "exception" is to soften the blow for ISPS so they don't end up sued to death. YMMV.
Remember - legislators are mostly (ex optional) sharks^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers so there will always be exceptions.
Good luck Canada. Now if we can only persuade the UK to tighten the screws and torch the bloody Phorm thing - which ought to worry everyone much much more than traffic shaping...
Which leads me to a truly dumb idea. Allocation of the RF spectrum is controlled internationally via the ITU (A UN organization). Given the nature of the Internet shouldn't it be regulated the *same* way? (Running for bomb shelter and donning asbestos undergarments right now...).
First they came for the indirect links and I did nothing. Then they came for the doubly indirect links and...
Think about it. If a site links to a site which
links to illegal content?
This nonsense needs to be stopped real soon now.
(OR inject "offending" links into **AA company
members websites and let them sue each other to
death).
... and here is a little thought experiment for
all my fellow programmers etc. out there -
consider a "torrent" which is supposedly a movie.
If you only seed blank frames (but claim you have
the whole movie), then you aren't violating
anyone's copyright (since every movie has blank
frames). So, no one can say it's their movie
(you're lying about the actual content but since
no money is involved I guess not fraudulent in a
legal sense (IANAL).).
Same principle should work for most programs if
done carefully. (consider the code from the C
etc. run time library).
On a large enough scale the resultant false accusations and legal actions from the **AA could get them into serious trouble.
All MS will do is implement full ODF 1.1 plus microsoft "extensions" (sic) a la the farce with Java. Since many users will bite the baited hook the result will be endless cycles where OpenOffice etc. have to play catchup to hack in the same extensions.
(or of course like Orcs in Warcraft III we really really have misunderstood them...).
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So, please don't install 30-50 copies of FF 3 at the same time on your friend's internet cafe machines (if you want to keep your friend). If you need to do that then turn off (for a while) the anti-phishing protection via the Tools->Options->Security tab
Andy
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From some other reading recently, it seems that some widely used immortal cell lines HeLa derived from cancer cells have diverged so far from there origin that they may in fact now be a new "species".
You can't out-weird the universe...
Andy
If you work for a while in any field you get a feel for "who's who" - who produces good work, who produces papers (perhaps one a decade even) that shake foundations, redefine how to look at a problem.
Superfast un peer reviewed "papers" simply add to the noise level. Academic Journals, and peer review act as a necessary filter. Disclaimer: programmer these days, one year (pre university) at a research lab - (John Innes). Probably way out of date in my thinking.
Andy
At least here in (southern) Europe, Nokia and Symbian SIS games are the most common. Not bought though - probably leeched off e.g. gsmforum.
Andy
Debuggers? Hah. When I first got to play with an Orion Instruments logic analyser a few years later it was paradise (at least until I figured out it was a productivity loss (grins)).
Andy
about when to really go for a scoop of soil.
2. Only 3 months before it will get too cold and the lander will (probably) die.
3. Martian day, (roughly 24hrs 40mins).
The NASA programmers have been my heroes ever since the hacks they did to Voyager.
I guess after they've finished the programmers will take up something more relaxing (like working for EA).
Andy
Really this isn't a suprise as SilverLight was supposed to be the first outing of the Dynamic CLR (support for IronPython, IronRuby etc.). MS has been quite enthusiastic about dynamic languages ever since Jim Hugenin (former JPython author) started working for them.
Andy
Given the ongoing 1+ month series of SQL injection attacks, I have to call BS on the statistics for TLD's.
It doesn't really matter if "myobscurewebsite.info" is "dangerous". It really does matter if the UN website or Dept. of Homeland Security or NASA or some other "important" site is compromised - especially ecommerce sites which have high traffic.
Andy
- no DVD logo (may or may not play on real DVD players).
- disc contains a dye which reacts with oxygen to discolour it (either to red or black).
This is in the resin bonding layer between the two layers of a DVD-9. For DVD-5 it's in the surface coating.
48 hours is the "alleged" time the disc will last before being unplayable. Since this is a chemical reaction expect that time to plummet dramatically in hot environments. So, how are they going to deal with the howls of indignation from customers who open the thing, decide they don't have time to play it today, and find they can't even play it once (assuming their DVD player doesn't bork on it)?
Staples will back out of this one real fast...
Andy
I think the most powerful field ever generated in a lab was less than 200 tesla.
Which sort of implies that some *really* weird chemistry might be possible. Chemistry that simply wouldn't happen under more normal conditions. Cue the Sci Fi stories...Andy
For a really really good look at security, try to track down the earliest black+white TV series of Mission Impossible - (almost no gadgets, lots of neat social engineering).
Andy
Andy
Andy
Andy
Andy
probe cartman? Explore the solar system (kindof) looking for alien beings Cheap? On who's terms? Define cheap.
With GTA 4 rumoured to have cost a mere $100 million , $4-5 billion per long duration mission seems like nothing. How many minutes in Iraq is that anyway? Worse still, smaller faster cheaper oops it broke won't cut it for the outer solar system. I'd hate to be the researcher who spends 10+ years working on a probe only to find that a 10c capacitor popped - wait a minute...
Given the US's costs in Iraq a hundred 5 billion dollar missions would still give good value in terms of science results.
Priorities, put them in order...There's more here at stake than counting beans.
Sometimes I think the U.S is on the road to this
Andy.
Notebook keyboard. You owe me o^X^"&^%K)
Judge = adjudicator. Judge != correct.
"There exists in a field in some US state at least one sheep which is black on the top" c.f. Heinlein's fair witness (somewhat borrowed from this guy).
Andy
Even here in Greece I see typical DSL performance which is to say the least crapulent. Being charitable I'll pretend OTEnet (the former state monopoly) isn't traffic shaping (heh - that's why my torrent of ubuntu dropped dead to 10Kb/s)...
Funny that it does that after about an hour regardless of time of day...(well not always but too often to be attributable to teh interweb being busy from Greece).
A car which may or may not be able to hit 100kph with the wind behind it being sold as a Ferrari wouldn't be acceptable (unless you're a retro Citroen freak).
A Ferrari with three wheels one of which refuses to be circular on wednesdays if we're driving to visit a mistress (hey i'm in southern europe not the puritanical domain of the U.S) wouldn't be acceptable.
Some traffic shaping is inevitable. But it's a stopgap measure not an acceptable solution. If 90% of new traffic is e.g. bittorrent then the answer is either to make this premium usage (and spell it out in the contract) OR STFU and put more capacity.
Should be really simple - either *BE* a provider with acceptable use spelled out transparently or *DIE* in the marketplace.
BTW I think the "exception" is to soften the blow for ISPS so they don't end up sued to death. YMMV. Remember - legislators are mostly (ex optional) sharks^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers so there will always be exceptions. Good luck Canada. Now if we can only persuade the UK to tighten the screws and torch the bloody Phorm thing - which ought to worry everyone much much more than traffic shaping...
Which leads me to a truly dumb idea. Allocation of the RF spectrum is controlled internationally via the ITU (A UN organization). Given the nature of the Internet shouldn't it be regulated the *same* way? (Running for bomb shelter and donning asbestos undergarments right now...).
Andy.
Good use of crap, roses. Bad use of crap - Vista.
See also Symantec Threatcon here
So it looks as if you have the latest flash plugin (9.0.124) you may be ok.
Andy
(not in US)
Andy
Think about it. If a site links to a site which links to illegal content?
This nonsense needs to be stopped real soon now. (OR inject "offending" links into **AA company members websites and let them sue each other to death).
Same principle should work for most programs if done carefully. (consider the code from the C etc. run time library).
On a large enough scale the resultant false accusations and legal actions from the **AA could get them into serious trouble.
Andy
Andy
(or of course like Orcs in Warcraft III we really really have misunderstood them ...).
Andy