Also, the grandparent post shouldn't be labelled "offtopic" but informative, too. We see in the article submission: From the your-demo-won't-crash dept.
It's obviously a reference to the Bill Gates incident at the CES 2005. (If only they had posted it on yesterday's article...)
Not as critical as they appear in the submission
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Security Issues in Mozilla
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· Score: 3, Informative
Issue 2: Fixed (Affected Versions: Mozilla Browser This bug is fixed in Mozilla 1.7.5. (Bug 264388) Mozilla developer Dan Veditz claims that it cannot be exploitable: "A '\' on the end will certainly trash memory, but at that point you're no longer reading attacker-supplied data;". So, at most it would be a DOS attack, not a true "hack into your computer". And from the Security focus link:
Now some non-zero percentage of people who justify copyright infringement by saying "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" are not being honest. There are actual earnings being deprived in that case.
Yeah, earnings obtained with overhyped reviews and public misinformation.
"WTF? Is this it? No way, I'm asking for a refund!" "Sorry, you opened the package. No refunds."
In Mexico City I *JUST* saw a subway ad inviting people to join the Preventive Police. It read: "Live up to your expectations by joining the Preventive Police". Of course that shouldn't amaze me since Mexico City is the 4th least-productive major city in the WORLD.
It's amazing how a society can have such stark contrasts.
Yeah, like movie companies making billions in Hollywood,California, while immigrant workers in the same state are getting exhausted 16 hours a-day under the sun, being exposed to illegal pesticides and are constantly threatened with migration.
The place where people open up holes in buildings because they "felt like it", others worship cows while millions are starving, and classify people in chastes, treating the lowest rank as worse than animals.
So is it a mystery that cops aren't educated in I.T., when snake enchanters rely on "magical stones" to prevent poison, and the majority of the population purify themselves in a river infestated by half-burned corpses?
And don't tell me "it's not their fault" that they don't have the slightest idea of I.T. Well you're right. It isn't THEIR fault. It's the GOVERNMENT's fault. They should have education programs for the law-enforcement workers.
Indian programmers are the exception here, not the rule. "But there are millions of them!" Yeah, a few millions in a 944.5M population (by 1996). So that'd be less than 1%, don't you think? MUCH less than 1% if you ask me.
And of course I haven't seen anyone really give proof that single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) used in these FEDs can be produced cost-effectively.
I guess you should search it by yourself (I found it on the First link). The article title reads: "For cheap nanotubes, just add water". Oh, the Irony;-)
How many times have we read about a new display technology that's going to be better/faster/higher quality/cheaper/stronger/smarter/prettier/jumps higher/etc than LCDs and Plasma.
Yeah, but Plasma,LCD and OLED's were revolutionary in the way they produce the light in the displays. FED's only use the existing phosphore pixels technology that we have been using in our CRT's for decades.
The revolutionary (and therefore expensive) part of Field Emission Displays are the nanotube arrays replacing the bulky vacuum tubes. About freakin' time I'd say. I always had the idea that smaller vacuum tubes could be arranged in arrays to flatten the displays - i was stunned to find out that nanotech would do the trick. So actually, nanotube-based FED's are not a true revolution, but rather an evolution of the existing CRT model. They use revolutionary technology, but that's a minor detail.
A couple of months ago I found out in nanoapex that a new method of nanotubes mass-production was discovered. I don't doubt that other methods are discovered within the next 2 years, dropping production costs.
However, nanotubes have similar properties to graphene (single sheets of graphite), and maybe using simple graphite instead of nanotubes could do the trick (nobody has tried, tho, and I don't have gazillion dollars to do the research myself:P ).
Whatever the delay is, I expect nanotube FED's to replace all CRT's afterwards.
Although it is still too early to tell what consumer reaction will be, customers have generally rejected schemes like Divx, the Digital Video Express initiative backed by retailer Circuit City. DivX allowed users to watch the disc for 48 hours before it was rendered unusable. The Divx program was killed off in 1999.
uh...aren't we confusing acronyms in here? Please don't confuse the users even more.
OK before anything, i agree 100% with you. I'm just adding to the example.
Cybercafes used to serve COFFEE for you. (now it's just the cyber, the coffee thing didn't work pretty well). If standard cafes are missing the fact that you're using a LAPTOP, they're missing potential clients by denying you access to their power outlets.
Really - what's so hard of asking for 50 cents for electricity use?
And regarding airports... well, you're probably going on a BUSINESS TRIP, aren't you? You wouldn't like to be on the plane without being able to use your laptop because you ran out of power.
These times productivity is the big word. If you're not productive (even on your plane), then the airlines aren't helping.
With the pointer you just follow the beam upwards. A green lasers beam is quite visible.
Yeah until you hit a military spy satellite by accident. Heh I can imagine.
"Sir... we're pinpointing the location to Bin Laden". "Excellent. Show me the screen. ACK!!! WHAT'S THAT GREEN LIGHT!" "Bzzzt." "Hey... where's the image? Colonel, what's going on?" "This MUST have been a terrorist attack!"
Lesson: DON'T point laser beams at the sky, kids. You can get a criminal record, and that could be hazardous to your health!
Teaching Creationism in a public school science class is clearly pushing a specific religious view, which isn't even shared by many religious people. The issue of students being allowed to pray is not the same as the issue of students being taught a religious belief (even if carefully cloaked in seemingly neutral language) by an employee of the state (namely, a public school teacher).
Okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I'm not american. In mexico we have religious schools. I remember that we had a religion class (catholic - needless to say that all kids were catholic in this school). Anyway I agree with you. This evolution/creation thing is just crazy. Let teachers teach evolution. It's science... religion is out of the scope when teaching science stuff.
I believe in alien spaceships crashing in roswell, Area 51 containing alien bodies, the CIA persecuting those who fight for freedom regarding aliens, the earth being flat and the satellite images being actually a conspiracy, the Illuminati, and George Bush _IS_ an envoy from God.
I also believe that those who deny this (SPECIALLY those who make jokes about tinfoil hats) will NOT be taken in the Mothership when the apocalypse arrives! Just for the record: I believe that I'm NOT writing this, i'm just channeling an extraterrestrial intelligence [/SARCASM]
Intelligent Design is merely Creationism dressed up in new clothes in an attempt to subvert US Constitutional prohibitions against teachign religion in public schools.
Sounds a lot like DeCSS regarding the DMCA.
As much as I dislike religious creationism, the religion ban on schools is anticonstitutional (1st ammendment anyone?) and unfair. Let people pray in schools, those who feel offended can leave the classroom with no penalties.
You bet! Someday people will realize that the Bible is a book of THEOLOGY and not a book of SCIENCE.
How funny. The Pope just stated that a few years ago. And in the catechism we learn that the Bible should not be interpreted literally (as do *cough* Jehovah's Witnesses *cough* 144,000 * cough cough* and others)
In 1992, 359 years after the Galileo trial, Pope John Paul II issued an apology, lifting the edict of Inquisition against Galileo: "Galileo sensed in his scientific research the presence of the Creator who, stirring in the depths of his spirit, stimulated him, anticipating and assisting his intuitions." After the release of this report, the Pope said further that "... Galileo, a sincere believer, showed himself to be more perceptive in this regard the relation of scientific and Biblical truths than the theologians who opposed him."
It's ironic... how protestants, who accused the Catholic Church of promoting ignorance, ended up being more ignorant and intolerant themselves.
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http://venus.walagata.com/w/jeremetheus/turnip.jpg
There ya go. Fastest vegetable on earth.
As "Informative".
Also, the grandparent post shouldn't be labelled "offtopic" but informative, too. We see in the article submission: From the your-demo-won't-crash dept.
It's obviously a reference to the Bill Gates incident at the CES 2005. (If only they had posted it on yesterday's article...)
Issue 2: Fixed (Affected Versions: Mozilla Browser
This bug is fixed in Mozilla 1.7.5. (Bug 264388)
Mozilla developer Dan Veditz claims that it cannot be exploitable:
"A '\' on the end will certainly trash memory, but at that point you're no
longer reading attacker-supplied data;".
So, at most it would be a DOS attack, not a true "hack into your computer". And from the Security focus link:
So Firefox 1.0 is indeed safe.
Issue #3:From the link:
In other words, 1 outdated, another unconfirmed, and the first one real, but it's moderately critical.
So the Mozilla guys have only to fix ONE bug, and CONFIRM another. Issue #2 is fixed already.
Now some non-zero percentage of people who justify copyright infringement by saying "I wouldn't have bought it anyway" are not being honest. There are actual earnings being deprived in that case.
Yeah, earnings obtained with overhyped reviews and public misinformation.
"WTF? Is this it? No way, I'm asking for a refund!"
"Sorry, you opened the package. No refunds."
THAT kind of earnings.
It does. Unfortunately when i plugged in my box, the Tux on my wallpaper looked scorched for some reason. I still can't understand why... :-?
Can't find a job, become a cop.
:'(
In Mexico City I *JUST* saw a subway ad inviting people to join the Preventive Police. It read: "Live up to your expectations by joining the Preventive Police". Of course that shouldn't amaze me since Mexico City is the 4th least-productive major city in the WORLD.
And I live in it!
It's amazing how a society can have such stark contrasts.
Yeah, like movie companies making billions in Hollywood,California, while immigrant workers in the same state are getting exhausted 16 hours a-day under the sun, being exposed to illegal pesticides and are constantly threatened with migration.
Yeah, stark contrasts, indeed.
The place where people open up holes in buildings because they "felt like it", others worship cows while millions are starving, and classify people in chastes, treating the lowest rank as worse than animals.
So is it a mystery that cops aren't educated in I.T., when snake enchanters rely on "magical stones" to prevent poison, and the majority of the population purify themselves in a river infestated by half-burned corpses?
And don't tell me "it's not their fault" that they don't have the slightest idea of I.T. Well you're right. It isn't THEIR fault. It's the GOVERNMENT's fault. They should have education programs for the law-enforcement workers.
Indian programmers are the exception here, not the rule. "But there are millions of them!" Yeah, a few millions in a 944.5M population (by 1996). So that'd be less than 1%, don't you think? MUCH less than 1% if you ask me.
And of course I haven't seen anyone really give proof that single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) used in these FEDs can be produced cost-effectively.
;-)
I guess you should search it by yourself (I found it on the First link). The article title reads: "For cheap nanotubes, just add water". Oh, the Irony
How many times have we read about a new display technology that's going to be better/faster/higher quality/cheaper/stronger/smarter/prettier/jumps higher/etc than LCDs and Plasma.
:P ).
Yeah, but Plasma,LCD and OLED's were revolutionary in the way they produce the light in the displays. FED's only use the existing phosphore pixels technology that we have been using in our CRT's for decades.
The revolutionary (and therefore expensive) part of Field Emission Displays are the nanotube arrays replacing the bulky vacuum tubes. About freakin' time I'd say. I always had the idea that smaller vacuum tubes could be arranged in arrays to flatten the displays - i was stunned to find out that nanotech would do the trick. So actually, nanotube-based FED's are not a true revolution, but rather an evolution of the existing CRT model. They use revolutionary technology, but that's a minor detail.
A couple of months ago I found out in nanoapex that a new method of nanotubes mass-production was discovered. I don't doubt that other methods are discovered within the next 2 years, dropping production costs.
However, nanotubes have similar properties to graphene (single sheets of graphite), and maybe using simple graphite instead of nanotubes could do the trick (nobody has tried, tho, and I don't have gazillion dollars to do the research myself
Whatever the delay is, I expect nanotube FED's to replace all CRT's afterwards.
Although it is still too early to tell what consumer reaction will be, customers have generally rejected schemes like Divx, the Digital Video Express initiative backed by retailer Circuit City. DivX allowed users to watch the disc for 48 hours before it was rendered unusable. The Divx program was killed off in 1999.
uh...aren't we confusing acronyms in here? Please don't confuse the users even more.
OK before anything, i agree 100% with you. I'm just adding to the example.
Cybercafes used to serve COFFEE for you. (now it's just the cyber, the coffee thing didn't work pretty well). If standard cafes are missing the fact that you're using a LAPTOP, they're missing potential clients by denying you access to their power outlets.
Really - what's so hard of asking for 50 cents for electricity use?
And regarding airports... well, you're probably going on a BUSINESS TRIP, aren't you? You wouldn't like to be on the plane without being able to use your laptop because you ran out of power.
These times productivity is the big word. If you're not productive (even on your plane), then the airlines aren't helping.
After all... THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
I could take a snapshot from the video of Gates amazed at the technical difficulties. Couldn't fix the colors, sorry if it looks a bit yellow.
9 letters.
C-Y-B-E-R-C-A-F-E.
Question. Is there a way of "building your own ipod" mp3 player? has anyone done this? I've seen "build your own tiVo", but... mp3 :-?
Cross-platform (non-RAD... yet) C++ IDE "codeblocks" (developed by a former Dev-C++ developer) version 1.0b4 was released yesterday.
You're using a java-compiled tool to make php scripts more powerful?
OK, i've heard of PHP extensions.
"PHP + compiled Extension"
But now, you want us to do
"PHP + Extension + JVM" ???
I don't want to troll, but... doesn't that make PHP run slower? Of course, if anyone can correct me, please tell me where i'm wrong.
"Like I could really kill 100 people in a mall with only a 2-1/2 inch blade and a pair of pliers."
A bizarro McGuyver could.
Yeah. He'd use the blade and pliers to make a GREEN LASER!
With the pointer you just follow the beam upwards. A green lasers beam is quite visible.
Yeah until you hit a military spy satellite by accident. Heh I can imagine.
"Sir... we're pinpointing the location to Bin Laden".
"Excellent. Show me the screen. ACK!!! WHAT'S THAT GREEN LIGHT!"
"Bzzzt."
"Hey... where's the image? Colonel, what's going on?"
"This MUST have been a terrorist attack!"
Lesson: DON'T point laser beams at the sky, kids. You can get a criminal record, and that could be hazardous to your health!
What the heck was this guy doing pointing a laser at an airplane? Doesn't he know these things are DANGEROUS?
Teaching Creationism in a public school science class is clearly pushing a specific religious view, which isn't even shared by many religious people. The issue of students being allowed to pray is not the same as the issue of students being taught a religious belief (even if carefully cloaked in seemingly neutral language) by an employee of the state (namely, a public school teacher).
Okay. Sorry for the misunderstanding, I'm not american. In mexico we have religious schools. I remember that we had a religion class (catholic - needless to say that all kids were catholic in this school). Anyway I agree with you. This evolution/creation thing is just crazy. Let teachers teach evolution. It's science... religion is out of the scope when teaching science stuff.
I believe in alien spaceships crashing in roswell, Area 51 containing alien bodies, the CIA persecuting those who fight for freedom regarding aliens, the earth being flat and the satellite images being actually a conspiracy, the Illuminati, and George Bush _IS_ an envoy from God.
I also believe that those who deny this (SPECIALLY those who make jokes about tinfoil hats) will NOT be taken in the Mothership when the apocalypse arrives!
Just for the record: I believe that I'm NOT writing this, i'm just channeling an extraterrestrial intelligence [/SARCASM]
Intelligent Design is merely Creationism dressed up in new clothes in an attempt to subvert US Constitutional prohibitions against teachign religion in public schools.
Sounds a lot like DeCSS regarding the DMCA.
As much as I dislike religious creationism, the religion ban on schools is anticonstitutional (1st ammendment anyone?) and unfair. Let people pray in schools, those who feel offended can leave the classroom with no penalties.
How funny. The Pope just stated that a few years ago. And in the catechism we learn that the Bible should not be interpreted literally (as do *cough* Jehovah's Witnesses *cough* 144,000 * cough cough* and others)
As a side note, Galileo wasn't banned for his astronomy findings, but because of misinterpretations by particular memebers of the clergy.
From the wikipedia:
It's ironic... how protestants, who accused the Catholic Church of promoting ignorance, ended up being more ignorant and intolerant themselves.
Now burn the hydrogen (= react it with the oxygen). What do you get? Water.
AND heat. (DOH!)