Ok let's think. Recently on/. we've seen about 3D displays. I bet that in 2015 they'll become a reality. And the media/internet will adapt.
We'll be searching for webpages in 3D, having a graph of relevant websites, and by pointing at them with your magic-wand/3D-mouse/whatever, you'll see a miniature snapshot of the website/mediasite. Press click (or even use your brain-machine interface to *think* click) and the website will appear.
After you finish browsing, you simply turn off your flat-panel 3D projector, unplug your computer-cube (which will be using nanotube chips - nearly zero energy consumption) which measures the size of a hand, tell the lights-on-the-wall to turn themselves off, and go to sleep...OK OK maybe i'm too far fetched and thought 20 years ahead. But hey, I like imagining the future, too!:)
Dude, your question alone is MUCH MORE on-topic than the article itself! Furthermore, it SHOULD BE submitted ("ask slashdot". Between the readers here i'm sure we could gather 10 times more information than what the article did using 10 times more words than necessary.
I was reading til page 8 when i BEGAN to get to the interesting stuff. It just wasn't worth it.
Bittorrent is a 100% transparent protocol. The guys can indeed grab a sniffer, analyse the logs, and tell you which file you were downloading, from which tracker, and to which ip's.
If they can't prove using this evidence that you were downloading a copyrighted file, you can rightly accuse them of defamation. Sue THEM.
After all, you have nothing to hide, do you? Let this grab the public attention.
Think of the children, please. Maybe some of you guys don't have to worry because you spend 4 hours-a-day actually SEARCHING for porn on the web, but please, a 5 or 6 year old girl, or even a boy?
Maybe you're complaining about something being taken from you (porn, "freedom of speech", etc). But I value the children's innocence much more.
And please don't blame it on the "evil censorship monster", because a simple meta tag would have taken care of everything. If the porn market can't regulate itself, then it's about time the Internet providers do.
And please, don't go with all "But this is today, TOMORROW THEY WILL" crap. What do you think the "F" in FUD means?
You can't judge the security of a software for its POPULARITY.
Firefox is safer because its design is ROCK SOLID. While it may have one or two buffer overflow bugs lurking in the shadows (and when discovered these get fixed rather quickly), but that's very different from saying it has a structural flaw *cough* activex *cough*, which allows REMOTE CODE execution. To have remote code executing in a buffer overflow, you have to CAREFULLY CRAFT the overflow. It just doesn't happen like magic. Buffer overflows are the hardest kind of attack to do on a certain software.
However, when you run an activex control (i.e. media player), that's remote code being executed directly. No "careful craft" and guesswork is needed. You compile your code and let IE run it. That simple. Whether IE considers it safe or not, that's a very different matter.
Firefox, on the other hand, has only ONE way to install "remote code": Firefox extensions. And these don't get published on a website on a daily basis. Have you ever seen a website saying "This website requires Firefox extension XYZ to be seen?
No, this is a habit inherited from Internet Explorer's activeX. As for flash, etc. running in Firefox, that's "plugins", not "extensions", and they're all provided by THIRD PARTIES, not the website in question. How are they executed? By handling the MIME Type for a certain object. And these are managed by Firefox, not the website.
In summary, saying Firefox is as insecure as IE6 is like saying that the three little pigs made all their houses with straw.
I wonder if you still use IE because "Firefox is as insecure, so what's the difference if I switch?" Yeah, great wisdom, indeed.
I know that it's bad to lose work time into games, but... really, what's worse? A worker who clears up his mind by playing sol 5 minutes, or a bored and tired worker who PRETENDS to be working but his productivity is actually half what it should be?
Anyway, have you guys wondered what is Xenu? If you ever watched Travolta's worst. movie. ever., or if you read testimonies from former scientologists, you'd see that Xenu is the perpetual villain said to be the greatest conspirator that wants to destroy Scientology.
I wonder what would happen if we told a scientologist: "Did you know Hubbard worked for Xenu and founded Scientology to keep you isolated and 'under control'?"
I was just thinking. If fuel cells are viable, why not add a "noise maker" to the engine? Yes, it sounds crazy, but hey, you could tune it to sound like a Harley, or a Honda. Or one of those cool bikes we saw in the classic movie Akira.
with this american culture showing hour and half infomercials, telling you lots of lies and "DIAL NOW and GET SLIM, BE HAPPY FOREVER" pressure.
The american public has been educated by the media into BELIEVING scams, rather than distrusting them. No wonder it's the country with the greatest incidence of religious cults (as in "brainwashing" cults).
So is it a mystery that people fall for sharing their passwords?
Do you realize that was a parody of "The Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner?
Your joke would have been excellent, but see... Wagner and Tolkien's works are well... what can I say... similar. And I doubt an opera about LOTR couldn't possibly match Wagner's masterpiece of art.
He wasn't joking you see... I remember my times of playing D&D and we didn't use miniatures at all. Furthermore, ONE of us was making maps (the dedicated mapper) as the dungeon master described it to us. It was much more interesting that way because, if the map was lost, we would have to map again. Very interesting possibilities.
And regarding computers, that was my plan back in 1992, use a computer to assist the dungeon master. Unfortunately, bringing my computer along with me was out of the question (no cheap laptops by then, at least for me).
Perhaps the inventor of XML just knows that the web browser in use on more than 80 percent of Internet-connected desktop PCs can't read documents in the XML variation of XHTML.
And yet, the author of this web browser that CANNOT understand XHTML, is trying to patent XML for wordprocessing uses. Can somebody explain to me?
"We will store this XML file using a set of tags so intermingled and cryptic that ONLY our proprietary XSD will make you understand them (expect one same tag to mean many different things), this is why you need our secret code er... XSD.
And the process of using our XSD will be patented. No, don't ask us to use USABLE, UNDERSTANDABLE XML with an actual semantic meaning. This is why we're filling the patent in the first place".
Interpretation of the interpretation: "Bill, save us! Star Office is about to deliver actually usable XML documents! You gotta patent something to make it pay us royalties!"
Obviously that box compensates for the jitter. Now my question is why can't someone design some software which will emulate this little "black box", and correct the tremor with an algorithm?
I bet that getting the mean (over N milliseconds) for x and y will do.
Isn't there a firefox extension that doesn't let the user install anything from blacklisted sites (or even better, that ONLY lets user install anything from whitelisted sites)?
What we need is a SECURE, STABLE OS that protects users from malware (by DESIGN). No more activex crap, no more "browser included!" bloats. Stop adding new features and give us a "WinXP done right".
WinXP would work pretty well without all these spyware/malware/viruses stuff. Bill, go ask Linus, he knows the secret.
(And please, Bill, stop this "world domination" idea you got. It's not healthy)
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Ok let's think. Recently on /. we've seen about 3D displays. I bet that in 2015 they'll become a reality. And the media/internet will adapt.
..OK OK maybe i'm too far fetched and thought 20 years ahead. But hey, I like imagining the future, too! :)
We'll be searching for webpages in 3D, having a graph of relevant websites, and by pointing at them with your magic-wand/3D-mouse/whatever, you'll see a miniature snapshot of the website/mediasite. Press click (or even use your brain-machine interface to *think* click) and the website will appear.
After you finish browsing, you simply turn off your flat-panel 3D projector, unplug your computer-cube (which will be using nanotube chips - nearly zero energy consumption) which measures the size of a hand, tell the lights-on-the-wall to turn themselves off, and go to sleep.
Dude, your question alone is MUCH MORE on-topic than the article itself! Furthermore, it SHOULD BE submitted ("ask slashdot". Between the readers here i'm sure we could gather 10 times more information than what the article did using 10 times more words than necessary.
I was reading til page 8 when i BEGAN to get to the interesting stuff. It just wasn't worth it.
Bittorrent is a 100% transparent protocol. The guys can indeed grab a sniffer, analyse the logs, and tell you which file you were downloading, from which tracker, and to which ip's.
If they can't prove using this evidence that you were downloading a copyrighted file, you can rightly accuse them of defamation. Sue THEM.
After all, you have nothing to hide, do you? Let this grab the public attention.
Someday, Microsoft will own the IETF, Internet Society and W3C. We'll be screwed.
:D
If that happens, Internet Explorer will be 100% standards compliant!
Think of the children, please. Maybe some of you guys don't have to worry because you spend 4 hours-a-day actually SEARCHING for porn on the web, but please, a 5 or 6 year old girl, or even a boy?
Maybe you're complaining about something being taken from you (porn, "freedom of speech", etc). But I value the children's innocence much more.
And please don't blame it on the "evil censorship monster", because a simple meta tag would have taken care of everything. If the porn market can't regulate itself, then it's about time the Internet providers do.
And please, don't go with all "But this is today, TOMORROW THEY WILL" crap. What do you think the "F" in FUD means?
You can't judge the security of a software for its POPULARITY.
Firefox is safer because its design is ROCK SOLID. While it may have one or two buffer overflow bugs lurking in the shadows (and when discovered these get fixed rather quickly), but that's very different from saying it has a structural flaw *cough* activex *cough*, which allows REMOTE CODE execution. To have remote code executing in a buffer overflow, you have to CAREFULLY CRAFT the overflow. It just doesn't happen like magic. Buffer overflows are the hardest kind of attack to do on a certain software.
However, when you run an activex control (i.e. media player), that's remote code being executed directly. No "careful craft" and guesswork is needed. You compile your code and let IE run it. That simple. Whether IE considers it safe or not, that's a very different matter.
Firefox, on the other hand, has only ONE way to install "remote code": Firefox extensions. And these don't get published on a website on a daily basis. Have you ever seen a website saying "This website requires Firefox extension XYZ to be seen?
No, this is a habit inherited from Internet Explorer's activeX. As for flash, etc. running in Firefox, that's "plugins", not "extensions", and they're all provided by THIRD PARTIES, not the website in question. How are they executed? By handling the MIME Type for a certain object. And these are managed by Firefox, not the website.
In summary, saying Firefox is as insecure as IE6 is like saying that the three little pigs made all their houses with straw.
I wonder if you still use IE because "Firefox is as insecure, so what's the difference if I switch?" Yeah, great wisdom, indeed.
Give me the Hasbro website having online scrabble, and I'll believe you.
The guy is clearly an inventor. He got a good idea and made it better. After all, the "e-" in "e-Scrabble" ain't for nothing!
Hasbro may have invented Scrabble. But Scrabble ONLINE...? I don't think so.
that has happened to at least two actual slashdot-based sites.
:P )
Like that "slashpost" site hosted on geocities. It was funny.
Greatest quote: "I started this site because I got tired of my stories getting rejected on slashdot".
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More hours =? more productivity?
I know that it's bad to lose work time into games, but... really, what's worse? A worker who clears up his mind by playing sol 5 minutes, or a bored and tired worker who PRETENDS to be working but his productivity is actually half what it should be?
Bureaucracy...
Anyway, have you guys wondered what is Xenu? If you ever watched Travolta's worst. movie. ever., or if you read testimonies from former scientologists, you'd see that Xenu is the perpetual villain said to be the greatest conspirator that wants to destroy Scientology.
I wonder what would happen if we told a scientologist: "Did you know Hubbard worked for Xenu and founded Scientology to keep you isolated and 'under control'?"
Hmmm I wonder what they'd say.
I was just thinking. If fuel cells are viable, why not add a "noise maker" to the engine? Yes, it sounds crazy, but hey, you could tune it to sound like a Harley, or a Honda. Or one of those cool bikes we saw in the classic movie Akira.
with this american culture showing hour and half infomercials, telling you lots of lies and "DIAL NOW and GET SLIM, BE HAPPY FOREVER" pressure.
The american public has been educated by the media into BELIEVING scams, rather than distrusting them. No wonder it's the country with the greatest incidence of religious cults (as in "brainwashing" cults).
So is it a mystery that people fall for sharing their passwords?
Because you can then let people try before they buy without even needing to reboot.
Or testing a cross-platform software you're developing... of course, considering an emergency situation where you can't install Linux of course.
Do you realize that was a parody of "The Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner?
Your joke would have been excellent, but see... Wagner and Tolkien's works are well... what can I say... similar. And I doubt an opera about LOTR couldn't possibly match Wagner's masterpiece of art.
Here's hoping they cut Tom Bombadil out of this one, too...
Yeah, but unfortunately they don't want ENTIRELY to cut him out.
"Oooh jar jar found a ring!!!"
dry-erase markers? $4.95
laptop? $1999.95
software? $29.95
1600 lumen DLP projector? $2499.95
Realizing that you just spent $4500 in the most nerdish game ever? Priceless.
There are things that cannot be bought. For everything else, there's the Dungeon Mastercard.
He wasn't joking you see... I remember my times of playing D&D and we didn't use miniatures at all. Furthermore, ONE of us was making maps (the dedicated mapper) as the dungeon master described it to us. It was much more interesting that way because, if the map was lost, we would have to map again. Very interesting possibilities.
And regarding computers, that was my plan back in 1992, use a computer to assist the dungeon master. Unfortunately, bringing my computer along with me was out of the question (no cheap laptops by then, at least for me).
Dungeons-in-a-bag!
Perhaps the inventor of XML just knows that the web browser in use on more than 80 percent of Internet-connected desktop PCs can't read documents in the XML variation of XHTML.
And yet, the author of this web browser that CANNOT understand XHTML, is trying to patent XML for wordprocessing uses. Can somebody explain to me?
"We will store this XML file using a set of tags so intermingled and cryptic that ONLY our proprietary XSD will make you understand them (expect one same tag to mean many different things), this is why you need our secret code er... XSD.
And the process of using our XSD will be patented. No, don't ask us to use USABLE, UNDERSTANDABLE XML with an actual semantic meaning. This is why we're filling the patent in the first place".
Interpretation of the interpretation: "Bill, save us! Star Office is about to deliver actually usable XML documents! You gotta patent something to make it pay us royalties!"
Obviously that box compensates for the jitter. Now my question is why can't someone design some software which will emulate this little "black box", and correct the tremor with an algorithm?
I bet that getting the mean (over N milliseconds) for x and y will do.
Isn't there a firefox extension that doesn't let the user install anything from blacklisted sites (or even better, that ONLY lets user install anything from whitelisted sites)?
We declare our taxes via internet.
n _f iscal/declaracion_anual_2004/117_5315.html
http://www.sat.gob.mx/sitio_internet/informacio
And the software is developed by the Tax office. No excuses.
Dear Bill:
What we need is a SECURE, STABLE OS that protects users from malware (by DESIGN). No more activex crap, no more "browser included!" bloats. Stop adding new features and give us a "WinXP done right".
WinXP would work pretty well without all these spyware/malware/viruses stuff. Bill, go ask Linus, he knows the secret.
(And please, Bill, stop this "world domination" idea you got. It's not healthy)
A vulnerability has been found in France's new legislation regarding publication of exploits.
The legislation has a loophole that allows people to give such info to 3rd parties outside France so they can publish such exploit.
The government's illegality detection can be easily bypassed with an SSL connection, provided one does not disclose his identity.
Proof of concept