Well, actually, thermal expansion and contraction WOULD cause it to change size, other then the fact that unless a lunar eclipse is underway, the moon always has the same amount of surface area reciving sunlight at any given time.
Yes, but a pattent for a printing press can't be used to charge royalties to a paper manufacturer. At least, unless they are making some special paper that only works with and is a key part of MyPress technology. Otherwise, if thier customers choose to use patented technology on thier product, good for them, its the customer's problem.
I never thought back then that memory leak could mean buffer overflow which could mean security vulnerability
In this case, its not a buffer overflow bug. In fact, its not even a bug, per say. Its a feature, or at least a really bad design flaw that no one has stumbled upon/abused up until now. See F-Secure's writeup.
To be fair, the GCN power brick should have been in that shot too. It probably adds another 25-35% to size of the system, and isn't that much smaller then that of the XBox 360's. Of course, the XBox is a larger system, so it less of an exuse for large external PSUs.
Back in November, the Inquirer et al. ran a story that hinted at an upcoming hardware revamp for the DS. I've been putting off getting the system since. (Osborn syndrome) Anyone heard anything since?
Without a two button setup, Apple will seriously cripple thier hardware's compatibility with other x86 operating systems (read: Windows), which is a big selling point with MacTel systems. On a desktop, you just get a third party mouse, but its sorta hard to replace a notebook's trackpad.
Sorta off topic, but, Information Week, did you really need spread this article over two pages when the sidebar with your ads is longer then the article itself? Go page hit count.
Sure, they have the money for it, and probably the inclination, too, problem is Universal Studios (who, I belive, is corperate cousin of the SciFi chanel) only has the movie rights to the franchise. Fox still has the TV rights. They'd need to get Fox to sell them.
Yes, but most consumer-grade connections are asymetric, so it takes longer then the download time to reseed. My share ratio for Bittorrent is usually arround.4 when a download completes. It was close to 0 when I got OpenOffice 2, but that was also an incredibly fast mesh, being release day and all.
The prefered way to keep private connected devices private is to use a firewall, not NAT. The fact that NAT provides some firewall-like features is a side effect, not it's intended use.
The problem is that your hypothetical online coffepot is probably going to need to accept incoming connections so you turn the thing on from the train on the way in to the office. NAT is causes an inordinate amount of pain when it comes to inbound connections. Things like UPnP help a little, but, unless you are the only one who wants to used the well known port for whichever service you are running, you need some way to inform your potential callers which port you are actually listening on. Works OK for Bittorent, when you can spread the word via the tracker, or something like XBox Live, where live can tell folks which port the server is listening on, but a pain if all you have to work with is a web browser.
It wouldn't really be routable. There would be no way figure out which way to send the packets for a given "address." For istance, under IP4, any router that sees a packet going to any machine with an address starting with 129.22 (one of the few blocks I know off the top of my head) knows that the packet should be pushed out a pipe that heads in the general direction of Cleveland. In fact, most routers probably work off even broder rules, with (just making this up, now), all address starting with 129.17-129.32 should be pushed out towards OAR net, then OARnet would do more focused routing in house.
With "people address", there are three problems. First, no way to generalize routing rules. Secondly, there is the fact that all your stuff might not be in the same place. Most of it is at your house, but some of it is at the vacation home. Finally, there is the problem that people, unlike IP4 address, tend to move arround alot, geographically speaking. Usually, if you move from New York to LA, you get a different IP, even if you use the same national ISP. Under your scheme, the whole internet would have to be told to redirect your trafic. Yick.
I think this may be from the 1.6 nightly builds, but I've noticed when the update dialog pops up on its own (as opposed to when you make it come up via Help-->Check For Updates), the OK has a ~3 second countdown before it becomes enabled, the same way unsigned extentions work. Should prevent acidental action in the future, though the anoyence factor is still there.
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Well, actually, thermal expansion and contraction WOULD cause it to change size, other then the fact that unless a lunar eclipse is underway, the moon always has the same amount of surface area reciving sunlight at any given time.
We need to be sure before we do anything rash. Anyone know the moon's weight relative to a duck?
Yes, but a pattent for a printing press can't be used to charge royalties to a paper manufacturer. At least, unless they are making some special paper that only works with and is a key part of MyPress technology. Otherwise, if thier customers choose to use patented technology on thier product, good for them, its the customer's problem.
I never thought back then that memory leak could mean buffer overflow which could mean security vulnerability
In this case, its not a buffer overflow bug. In fact, its not even a bug, per say. Its a feature, or at least a really bad design flaw that no one has stumbled upon/abused up until now. See F-Secure's writeup.
To be fair, the GCN power brick should have been in that shot too. It probably adds another 25-35% to size of the system, and isn't that much smaller then that of the XBox 360's. Of course, the XBox is a larger system, so it less of an exuse for large external PSUs.
Back in November, the Inquirer et al. ran a story that hinted at an upcoming hardware revamp for the DS. I've been putting off getting the system since. (Osborn syndrome) Anyone heard anything since?
Without a two button setup, Apple will seriously cripple thier hardware's compatibility with other x86 operating systems (read: Windows), which is a big selling point with MacTel systems. On a desktop, you just get a third party mouse, but its sorta hard to replace a notebook's trackpad.
It can be said about a woman looking for a date at an engineering school or next Apple keynote: "The odds are good but the goods are odd."
But now everyone knows. Or, at least, everyone who reads slashdot. Those who don't probably don't matter anyway.
I thought USB didn't charge an iPod, only Firewire did.
Unless you are running Virtual PC or WINE.
Sorta off topic, but, Information Week, did you really need spread this article over two pages when the sidebar with your ads is longer then the article itself? Go page hit count.
And here I thought you were just happy to see me.
So, the Apple eMate lives again?
Could have at least thrown us a bone :)
Well, we could start talking about the fate of Hitler's remains.
Sure, they have the money for it, and probably the inclination, too, problem is Universal Studios (who, I belive, is corperate cousin of the SciFi chanel) only has the movie rights to the franchise. Fox still has the TV rights. They'd need to get Fox to sell them.
Whats it do, convert the input into CamelCase?
Yes, but most consumer-grade connections are asymetric, so it takes longer then the download time to reseed. My share ratio for Bittorrent is usually arround .4 when a download completes. It was close to 0 when I got OpenOffice 2, but that was also an incredibly fast mesh, being release day and all.
The prefered way to keep private connected devices private is to use a firewall, not NAT. The fact that NAT provides some firewall-like features is a side effect, not it's intended use.
The problem is that your hypothetical online coffepot is probably going to need to accept incoming connections so you turn the thing on from the train on the way in to the office. NAT is causes an inordinate amount of pain when it comes to inbound connections. Things like UPnP help a little, but, unless you are the only one who wants to used the well known port for whichever service you are running, you need some way to inform your potential callers which port you are actually listening on. Works OK for Bittorent, when you can spread the word via the tracker, or something like XBox Live, where live can tell folks which port the server is listening on, but a pain if all you have to work with is a web browser.
It wouldn't really be routable. There would be no way figure out which way to send the packets for a given "address." For istance, under IP4, any router that sees a packet going to any machine with an address starting with 129.22 (one of the few blocks I know off the top of my head) knows that the packet should be pushed out a pipe that heads in the general direction of Cleveland. In fact, most routers probably work off even broder rules, with (just making this up, now), all address starting with 129.17-129.32 should be pushed out towards OAR net, then OARnet would do more focused routing in house.
With "people address", there are three problems. First, no way to generalize routing rules. Secondly, there is the fact that all your stuff might not be in the same place. Most of it is at your house, but some of it is at the vacation home. Finally, there is the problem that people, unlike IP4 address, tend to move arround alot, geographically speaking. Usually, if you move from New York to LA, you get a different IP, even if you use the same national ISP. Under your scheme, the whole internet would have to be told to redirect your trafic. Yick.
I think this may be from the 1.6 nightly builds, but I've noticed when the update dialog pops up on its own (as opposed to when you make it come up via Help-->Check For Updates), the OK has a ~3 second countdown before it becomes enabled, the same way unsigned extentions work. Should prevent acidental action in the future, though the anoyence factor is still there.
Time to dust off the old Benjamin Franklin quote:
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
One of the many varients attributed to him at wikiquote. Another gem, from near the bottom:
A Democracy will vote away its rights.
Dell sells MP3 players, too, as well as PDAs and, of all things, televisions.
Kahhhhhhhn!