Assuming that you're a fan of H2G2G and assuming that you couldn't fit in all the great jokes and stuff you wanted to. What joke/part was the hardest for you to leave out of the movie?
Or rephrased: What detail not in the film will you really miss?
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"Theft" isn't a synonym for "really bad copyright infringement".
And just because the "theft" doesn't remove the item in question from the rightful owner doesn't mean it's any less of a theft.
Should you still be clinging to your dictionary definition, then I'd like you to explain commonly used phrases such as:
identity theft
You don't lose your identity because someone knows your SS# and your credit card number and "claims" to be you. At least, if your entire identity is based on relatively few informations, then it's just plain sad.
stolen data
You don't actually lose the stolen data, but someone broke into your system and made copies of the data. (Just look at the whole ChoicePoint incident.)
When will people realize that dictionaries only gives clues about a word-meaning and usage --- they're not in any way the ultimate definition?
It's the language users that form the language, not the other way around! Otherwise you'd have to go back to saying "a napron" instead of "an apron" and "an eekename" instead of "a nickname".
First of all, it's been known for years that the grammar-checkers implemented in word processors aren't very good - this professor is probably one of the last persons in the world to notice! It doesn't take a whole lot more than just common sense to know, that it's some task to program a computer to completely understand just a single natural language. For instance with the sentence "Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft" - it's absolutely imperative to understand the context in which this is uttered in order to understand that we are talking about one person and not the plural form of gate. Remove "in Microsoft" from that sentence and even natural language users will have a hard time determining if it's from some abstract poetry or Business Weekly.
As a student of Linguistics, believe me when I say that it will be many a year before we get even remotely reliable grammar-checkers. I've seen lots of seemingly good proposals for better grammar-checkers and parsers of natural language and I've seen tons of reasons why these won't work.
When will they start posting stories about how speech-to-text software isn't a 100% accurate?
I'm sorry, but I can't really take critisism from an AC seriously... If you don't like it, don't use it... And it's too late not anyway... Go bother someone else.
Agreed!
But on a side note, I tried visiting lyricspy.com from Firefox on my Debian box (sorry about the crappy screenshot, but you know - bandwidth and stuff) and it actually only displayed 2 yellow warning signals... Furthermore it said Publisher authenticity verified by "Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.".
This is definitely - most of all - a "dumb users" issue. Seriously... Firefox shows the bar at the top of the webpage display saying: To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site (www.lyricspy.com) from installing software on your computer. If I haven't clicked on some "install" link/button, then I sure as hell won't let that site install anything - signed/verified or not.
I reckon Sun could implement some more sandboxing and dialogs, but the border between usability and security is once again challenged and we might have to face the fact that educating users is the only way out of the persistent malware problem.
Has anyone tried accessing the "attacking" site in IE? What's the point of targetting IE through an alternative browser - I mean, using an alternative browser pretty much indicates that you've more or less ditched IE...
What I'm getting at here is: Isn't it possible that this exploit was actually aimed at IE-users and then just happened to work in other browsers through the splendour of Java?
Apart from that (like a lot of others have already said), this sounds more like a Java exploit than an "alternative browser" exploit.
Well, it's called creativity... Look it up in a dictionary...
One of the privileges of being a natural language (l)user is that you have the right to be creative. If no one was so you'd have a pretty damn small and pretty useless language.
I bet that no one with just the slightest bit of competence in English was unable to derive the intended meaning of the word(s)/clause "on topicness".
You said it best yourself... "... using a very simple workaround..." and "... just need to put in the right attributes to tell IE how to handle your matted images."
Why does IE require special treatment? Why does MS think their implementation is better (which they must do if they, as you said earlier, actually care about this subject and are also able to implement it)? Everyone else seems to have found a common solution/behaviour (an aspiring standard?) and MS refuses to make IE behave in the same way. Please, give me one good reason for that.
When they don't propose any better alternatives and don't do the least bit to innovate and develop themselves in this field, then they'll have to be prepared to "do as the rest".
You wouldn't make a mail client that didn't conform to any standards and behaved in a non-standard way unless you had a really good reason for it, would you?
You avoided answering my questions before and decided to focus on the wrong subject, namely me telling you to get your head out of your ass. I'm sorry for saying that - it wasn't constructive and I apologize.
This isn't an issue of "industry standards." It's an issue of adding additional support for a seldom-used file format. The support is already there, you just want them to add more support.
'scuse me? A "seldom-used file format"? PNG? Have you been on the web lately? I take it that you've never designed a semi-advanced web-layout before. Seriously, don't you think that alpha-blended PNGs would be used a lot more if MS would make IE support them? It'd make life as a webdesigner so much easier. I've begun designing my personal sites with semi-transparent PNGs and it simplifies the process of designing a site a great deal. IE can't show it... Tough luck, then IE-users will have to go somewhere else...
It's about time you got your head out of your ass and started using it for something more constructive than trolling.
And what support is "already there"? Alpha-blended PNGs?
We are talking industry standards here and you are obvliously to ignorant to get it. It's absolutely imperative that corporations such as MS support stuff like alpha-blended PNGs and CSS or come up with (better) alternatives to those. MS has done neither and their users will have to get used to being last in the line. I reckon it'll only cost MS in the end and I don't feel the slightest bit bad for them. If they don't "feel like implementing the standards", then they'll eventually be left out in the cold by their users. Not today, not tomorrow, but eventually...
I don't know how you define "pro audio apps", but Ardour is pretty "pro" IMO - and ecasound is as well (but not as user-friendly). And personally I record/make a lot of music on my Debian box with Jack, Jack-Rack, Ardour, Ecasound, Hydrogen and other stuff.
E.g. with Jack I can route the output from Hydrogen into a Jack-Rack and apply effects (in real time) and then output it to another Jack-Rack that just serves as a limiter and apply common effects to all output and outputs to Alsa. At the same time I can have a mic connected to a third Jack-Rack, apply effects, route the audio into the common Jack-Rack and output. And then I can some sort of synth (e.g. spiralsynthmodular) and route the sound through a fourth Jack-Rack, then through the common Jack-Rack and out. And I could go on like this forever...
And then finally, I could record it all (real time) with ecasound.
I can even interconnect the various Jack-aware apps (and ANY app is potentially Jack-aware) and do other crazy stuff...
Show me that flexibility and those possibilities on any other platform...
And with Planet CCRMA Linux is a pro audio studio. Heck, we even have a VST "clone" in LADSPA...
Denmark and possibly Sweden and Finland as well, though I'm not sure about the last two.
Actually, here in Denmark, it's illegal to talk on a phone (without a hands-free set) while riding bicycles, cars, horses and - I think - even roller-skates and the like.
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But seriously, people should really learn to look at freshmeat, sourceforge and other sites before going to freaking download.com and the likes. They may find some OSS there, but most likely they'll just - as somebody else said - take the first thing on the list.
Personally I try to kindly advise the people around me (a.k.a. friends) to use Open Source Software, that way they'll stay clear of a lot of malware - if I can even get them to run *nix or OS X, then I'd be happy to spent a couple of weeks on the phone supporting them.
If there's one thing I'm tired of, then it's cleaning my sisters computer for malware only to have her call me up a week later telling me it's screwed up again. I've not told her to use Firefox, Thunderbird and Gtk-Gnutella along with ClamAv for Win32 - if she doesn't, I'll simply stop helping her out. (Seriously, people who doesn't know the first thing about computers should really open their eyes and ears occasionally and listen to those of us who do!)
How is Firefox ever expected to catch up with all the security issues in IE?
I mean, they're way ahead of us. We better start implementing some security flaws right away. Otherwise we might not be able to get all the really stuborn, old-skool, virus-loving IE users to switch.
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Assuming that you're a fan of H2G2G and assuming that you couldn't fit in all the great jokes and stuff you wanted to. What joke/part was the hardest for you to leave out of the movie?
Or rephrased: What detail not in the film will you really miss?
I'll just reply with a link to a post I did earlier on in this thread...
<note>This is completely OT, so feel free to mod me as such!</note>
And just because the "theft" doesn't remove the item in question from the rightful owner doesn't mean it's any less of a theft.
Should you still be clinging to your dictionary definition, then I'd like you to explain commonly used phrases such as:
You don't lose your identity because someone knows your SS# and your credit card number and "claims" to be you. At least, if your entire identity is based on relatively few informations, then it's just plain sad.
You don't actually lose the stolen data, but someone broke into your system and made copies of the data. (Just look at the whole ChoicePoint incident.)
When will people realize that dictionaries only gives clues about a word-meaning and usage --- they're not in any way the ultimate definition?
It's the language users that form the language, not the other way around! Otherwise you'd have to go back to saying "a napron" instead of "an apron" and "an eekename" instead of "a nickname".
Any good cracking program will substitute $ for S, 4 for A, 3 for E, 7 for L, so on and so on.
Hah, I don't care, 'cause I'm so LEEL? ;-p
First of all, it's been known for years that the grammar-checkers implemented in word processors aren't very good - this professor is probably one of the last persons in the world to notice! It doesn't take a whole lot more than just common sense to know, that it's some task to program a computer to completely understand just a single natural language. For instance with the sentence "Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft" - it's absolutely imperative to understand the context in which this is uttered in order to understand that we are talking about one person and not the plural form of gate. Remove "in Microsoft" from that sentence and even natural language users will have a hard time determining if it's from some abstract poetry or Business Weekly.
As a student of Linguistics, believe me when I say that it will be many a year before we get even remotely reliable grammar-checkers. I've seen lots of seemingly good proposals for better grammar-checkers and parsers of natural language and I've seen tons of reasons why these won't work.
When will they start posting stories about how speech-to-text software isn't a 100% accurate?
I'm sorry, but I can't really take critisism from an AC seriously... If you don't like it, don't use it... And it's too late not anyway... Go bother someone else.
Uhm...
1111111111 is a decimal number... Unix Timestamp, you know... The number of seconds passed since Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.
In case you still can't do the math, that would make 1111111111 seconds == 35 years, 140 days, 1 hour, 58 minutes and 31 seconds (approx.)
Not quite as impressive, but slightly less dumb.
And a little Bash script also.
It'll display a countdown at the top of the terminal and wish you a happy 1111111111.Enjoy!
Oh yeah, CmdrTaco, please make <ECODE> respect indentation... *sigh*.
Parent is just a rip-off of a famous Bash-quote.
Sue him!
Perhaps: debigulized
Agreed!
But on a side note, I tried visiting lyricspy.com from Firefox on my Debian box (sorry about the crappy screenshot, but you know - bandwidth and stuff) and it actually only displayed 2 yellow warning signals... Furthermore it said Publisher authenticity verified by "Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.".
This is definitely - most of all - a "dumb users" issue. Seriously... Firefox shows the bar at the top of the webpage display saying: To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site (www.lyricspy.com) from installing software on your computer. If I haven't clicked on some "install" link/button, then I sure as hell won't let that site install anything - signed/verified or not.
I reckon Sun could implement some more sandboxing and dialogs, but the border between usability and security is once again challenged and we might have to face the fact that educating users is the only way out of the persistent malware problem.
Has anyone tried accessing the "attacking" site in IE?
What's the point of targetting IE through an alternative browser - I mean, using an alternative browser pretty much indicates that you've more or less ditched IE...
What I'm getting at here is: Isn't it possible that this exploit was actually aimed at IE-users and then just happened to work in other browsers through the splendour of Java?
Apart from that (like a lot of others have already said), this sounds more like a Java exploit than an "alternative browser" exploit.
Well, it's called creativity... Look it up in a dictionary...
One of the privileges of being a natural language (l)user is that you have the right to be creative. If no one was so you'd have a pretty damn small and pretty useless language.
I bet that no one with just the slightest bit of competence in English was unable to derive the intended meaning of the word(s)/clause "on topicness".
Uhm, just FYI. That's not the same technology as TFA talks about.
I don't get any popups on the site the parent mentioned...
Firefox 1.0/Debian
You said it best yourself... "... using a very simple workaround ..." and "... just need to put in the right attributes to tell IE how to handle your matted images."
Why does IE require special treatment? Why does MS think their implementation is better (which they must do if they, as you said earlier, actually care about this subject and are also able to implement it)? Everyone else seems to have found a common solution/behaviour (an aspiring standard?) and MS refuses to make IE behave in the same way. Please, give me one good reason for that.
When they don't propose any better alternatives and don't do the least bit to innovate and develop themselves in this field, then they'll have to be prepared to "do as the rest".
You wouldn't make a mail client that didn't conform to any standards and behaved in a non-standard way unless you had a really good reason for it, would you?
You avoided answering my questions before and decided to focus on the wrong subject, namely me telling you to get your head out of your ass. I'm sorry for saying that - it wasn't constructive and I apologize.
'scuse me? A "seldom-used file format"? PNG? Have you been on the web lately? I take it that you've never designed a semi-advanced web-layout before. Seriously, don't you think that alpha-blended PNGs would be used a lot more if MS would make IE support them? It'd make life as a webdesigner so much easier. I've begun designing my personal sites with semi-transparent PNGs and it simplifies the process of designing a site a great deal. IE can't show it... Tough luck, then IE-users will have to go somewhere else...
It's about time you got your head out of your ass and started using it for something more constructive than trolling.
And what support is "already there"? Alpha-blended PNGs?
We are talking industry standards here and you are obvliously to ignorant to get it. It's absolutely imperative that corporations such as MS support stuff like alpha-blended PNGs and CSS or come up with (better) alternatives to those. MS has done neither and their users will have to get used to being last in the line. I reckon it'll only cost MS in the end and I don't feel the slightest bit bad for them. If they don't "feel like implementing the standards", then they'll eventually be left out in the cold by their users. Not today, not tomorrow, but eventually...
I don't know how you define "pro audio apps", but Ardour is pretty "pro" IMO - and ecasound is as well (but not as user-friendly). And personally I record/make a lot of music on my Debian box with Jack, Jack-Rack, Ardour, Ecasound, Hydrogen and other stuff.
E.g. with Jack I can route the output from Hydrogen into a Jack-Rack and apply effects (in real time) and then output it to another Jack-Rack that just serves as a limiter and apply common effects to all output and outputs to Alsa. At the same time I can have a mic connected to a third Jack-Rack, apply effects, route the audio into the common Jack-Rack and output. And then I can some sort of synth (e.g. spiralsynthmodular) and route the sound through a fourth Jack-Rack, then through the common Jack-Rack and out. And I could go on like this forever...
And then finally, I could record it all (real time) with ecasound.
I can even interconnect the various Jack-aware apps (and ANY app is potentially Jack-aware) and do other crazy stuff...
Show me that flexibility and those possibilities on any other platform...
And with Planet CCRMA Linux is a pro audio studio. Heck, we even have a VST "clone" in LADSPA...
I saw this board game at my local bookshop here in Aarhus, Denmark in December.
Uhm, Ubuntu doesn't necesarilly install over the entire harddrive.
I installed it alongside my Debian on my laptop with no problems. It's just that the default option is to install over the entire drive.
Denmark and possibly Sweden and Finland as well, though I'm not sure about the last two.
Actually, here in Denmark, it's illegal to talk on a phone (without a hands-free set) while riding bicycles, cars, horses and - I think - even roller-skates and the like.
Yeah, I have a fairly high speed connection too and the bug still appears.
However, I've experienced same type of bug sometimes on e.g. Little Gamers, so it's not /. specific, it's most likely just "bad HTML" specific.
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Offtopic? No-no-no-no-noo! It's dead on! ;-p
But seriously, people should really learn to look at freshmeat, sourceforge and other sites before going to freaking download.com and the likes. They may find some OSS there, but most likely they'll just - as somebody else said - take the first thing on the list.
Personally I try to kindly advise the people around me (a.k.a. friends) to use Open Source Software, that way they'll stay clear of a lot of malware - if I can even get them to run *nix or OS X, then I'd be happy to spent a couple of weeks on the phone supporting them.
If there's one thing I'm tired of, then it's cleaning my sisters computer for malware only to have her call me up a week later telling me it's screwed up again. I've not told her to use Firefox, Thunderbird and Gtk-Gnutella along with ClamAv for Win32 - if she doesn't, I'll simply stop helping her out. (Seriously, people who doesn't know the first thing about computers should really open their eyes and ears occasionally and listen to those of us who do!)
How is Firefox ever expected to catch up with all the security issues in IE?
I mean, they're way ahead of us. We better start implementing some security flaws right away. Otherwise we might not be able to get all the really stuborn, old-skool, virus-loving IE users to switch.