I think a little reading comprehension would be in order.
Nah, parent just made the stupid mistake of assuming the submitter would actually RTFA before writing his summary, or the even stupider mistake of thinking the editor might actually check the facts before posting the story.
A browser that can be crashed is a very bad thing, but suggesting this is some sort of "Denial Of Service" attack, is just semantics. It doesn't crash the box, and it doesn't flood/break the network. Every other service on your machine runs as normal. That's not a Denial Of Service by the usual definition of the term.
Yes it is. If you did exactly the same thing to, say, apache or proftpd or mysql - don't crash the box, don't break the network, every other service runs normal - it would be a DoS. Calling this attack a DoS provides some very important information - it doesn't allow execution of arbitrary code, just locks up the browser. The only thing that's possibly unusual here is applying the term to a client rather than a server program, but a DoS is absolutely the correct term.
The difference is that infinity isn't just a big number. If the prisoners start with only a finite number of visits, they're never going to manage to visit the king an infinite number of times.
What do you mean by the "Start with only a finite number of visits"?
It has relevance to the problem because the OP has stated accurately a constraint upon the king.
Yes, but the constraint could be stated much more understandably and still be accurate.
Was anyone else surprised that the key reason for using KDE components was the small footprint of the rendering engine? I had not considered KDE terrible in this regard, but I am shocked that it is considered superior to the alternatives.
The kde javascript engine is incredibly slow (straight rendering is faster than anything OSS, but once you hit heavy javascript it slows to a crawl), so I'm glad there's something it's good at in compensation.
try using Kedit next time your X doesn't want to play...
It actually works fine with qt/embedded. If you've managed to screw both your X and your framebuffer then yes, you're in trouble, but if you screw up your terminal badly enough you can make vim unusable too.
1. Is this an appropriate GUI system to be using in such memory-deficient devices? I believe we we find out soon...
If you're talking about qt, it's where trolltech makes a lot of their money, so they must be doing something right. If you mean khtml, they say in TFA that the reason they chose it over (for example) gecko is its low memory requirements.
That sig is not supposed to make sense, it was made by following the instructions in someone else's sexually reproducing sig.
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And if it lacks a feature, just write a plugin for the same. If you ask me this is how softwares must be developed - in a fully modular manner.
No, no, no. If the program is missing a feature, you add the feature to the program. Plugins are nice but should never be an excuse to be missing features.
A possible explanation: Linux started out as a kernel for Linus' 386, and was only ported to other architectures later. If the Solaris people knew they were supporting two architectures from the get-go, maybe they made a proper, well designed/architectured abstraction layer, while Linux's is more ad-hoc "do what we have to to get it running".
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No no no. The features are being added in the 7.x branch, which you can get from CVS. 6.x is purely for maintenance (ie bugfixes). This is a mixed blessing... It means 6.x is extremely stable, but if you want new goodies like spellchecking and intelligent autocompletion, you have to switch to the CVS only branch.
For a piece of basic system software, it's more important that there's a stable branch that's actually stable. Now if only Linus would see things this way.
Actually, there is a switch strategy that does better than 50/50. Basically you pick a distribution, and if the average is better than what you've currently got, you switch.
I think he means every prisoner must be called in an infinite number of times (if the thing goes on forever), and was trying to appear clever by using fancy words.
Beyond that, what games push the card? WoW? Doom 3? Half-life 2? Add in Far Cry and UT, and that's pretty much it for 3D games. If you spend that same amount of money on any console, you can buy more than double those number of games.
Not with that much detail. The next generation might make it, but the current consoles aren't quite there. And I'm quite capable of spending all my free time playing UT. If you want to be good at a game it needs to be your primary game or at least your primary genre.
while (1) {alert("nope!");} Will DOS any browser in use today. You'll have to kill it via some OS level functionality,
Not links, any javascript dialog has an extra button "kill script". I wish the supposedly more featureful alternatives would adopt this simple improvement.
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No, anything that stops (or denies) the service (the user being able to see the webpage) is a DoS
An attractive interpretation but not correct - simplest counterexample is that it's called a local DoS if you can crash a box with a local account.
Combine the two. Get firefox to display goatse and then freeze like that. For some people the instinct is alt-leftarrow rather than alt-f4.
It doesn't lock up links (which has a lovely "kill script" button on any javascript dialog) and I'm told opera will let you simply close the tab.
Nah, parent just made the stupid mistake of assuming the submitter would actually RTFA before writing his summary, or the even stupider mistake of thinking the editor might actually check the facts before posting the story.
Yes it is. If you did exactly the same thing to, say, apache or proftpd or mysql - don't crash the box, don't break the network, every other service runs normal - it would be a DoS. Calling this attack a DoS provides some very important information - it doesn't allow execution of arbitrary code, just locks up the browser. The only thing that's possibly unusual here is applying the term to a client rather than a server program, but a DoS is absolutely the correct term.
What do you mean by the "Start with only a finite number of visits"?
It has relevance to the problem because the OP has stated accurately a constraint upon the king.
Yes, but the constraint could be stated much more understandably and still be accurate.
The kde javascript engine is incredibly slow (straight rendering is faster than anything OSS, but once you hit heavy javascript it slows to a crawl), so I'm glad there's something it's good at in compensation.
It actually works fine with qt/embedded. If you've managed to screw both your X and your framebuffer then yes, you're in trouble, but if you screw up your terminal badly enough you can make vim unusable too.
If you're talking about qt, it's where trolltech makes a lot of their money, so they must be doing something right. If you mean khtml, they say in TFA that the reason they chose it over (for example) gecko is its low memory requirements.
That sig is not supposed to make sense, it was made by following the instructions in someone else's sexually reproducing sig.
No, no, no. If the program is missing a feature, you add the feature to the program. Plugins are nice but should never be an excuse to be missing features.
A possible explanation: Linux started out as a kernel for Linus' 386, and was only ported to other architectures later. If the Solaris people knew they were supporting two architectures from the get-go, maybe they made a proper, well designed/architectured abstraction layer, while Linux's is more ad-hoc "do what we have to to get it running".
For a piece of basic system software, it's more important that there's a stable branch that's actually stable. Now if only Linus would see things this way.
My god man, learn to use an apostrophe properly. I can't stand to look at that post.
What's the difference in this case? Does it have any relevance to the problem?
The OP's description may be accurate but it adds nothing and simply confuses the nonmathematical reader.
It's so unfair!
Actually, there is a switch strategy that does better than 50/50. Basically you pick a distribution, and if the average is better than what you've currently got, you switch.
Why do people say 0^0=0? 0^1 and 0^2=0, yes, but 0^-1 and 0^-2 don't, wheras -1^0 and -2^0 still =1.
The king only gets k flips, so the chalice isn't randomized.
I think he means every prisoner must be called in an infinite number of times (if the thing goes on forever), and was trying to appear clever by using fancy words.
It's not a parodox, Epimenides is a liar because Bob the Cretan tells the truth.
Do you mean the quadratic formula?
Not with that much detail. The next generation might make it, but the current consoles aren't quite there. And I'm quite capable of spending all my free time playing UT. If you want to be good at a game it needs to be your primary game or at least your primary genre.
Not links, any javascript dialog has an extra button "kill script". I wish the supposedly more featureful alternatives would adopt this simple improvement.