Not only that, Apple has to find something new about the iPod to patent before Creative catches up. Some next-gen technology? How about sharing mp3s between your family members, like shared minutes in cellphones. You pay Apple & XM n dollars each month and you hook up to their server so you and your family can listen to whatever mp3 you want! I bet they are working on something similar right now....and preparing lawyers for future lawsuits against the RIAA!
Java doesn't spread like a virus. I think Flash is a virus because it uses the computer user as a host for the get-flash-now-meme and makes him download it.
Stating the obvious, sometimes you get a feeling of security by keeping a low profile. If something is popular it naturally attracts saboteurs, and therefore has a better chance of being exploited, thereby ruining its reputation. Some might brand less popular OSes as insecure as Windows -- we just don't hear of as many incidents related to breaches.
I agree, infact Lazy people, being lazy try to find ways to cut corners, and find smarter ways to get things done so they don't have to work as hard as others.
From the article: In phone interviews, DIEB-THROAT confirmed that the matters were well known within the company, but that a "culture of fear" had been developed to assure that employees, including technicians, vendors and programmers kept those issues to themselves.
Has anything changed since 2000? I don't think so! Who thinks USA has anything to do with democracy?
The MC50 already does quite a bit of that. It has a camera and a barcode scanner which can easily do all that. Putting the same functionality into a cellphone is not that difficult. I wonder whats up with all the not-so-new-news lately on slashdot.
I think there is some mistake in the posted reply. Microsoft is rumoured to have used BSD's stack when they were developing MS-DOS. There used to be an application called net.exe that is supposed to have used BSD code, but M$ discontinued its use after they developed their own Winsock library.
I don't see what is so new about this "news". Console games are designed with the idea in mind that the hardware does not have a full featured OS. We have to do almost everything, from memory management to thread syncronication, and guess what are the "processes" we are working on....? Is this a news story because noone has actually put this concept into words?
Because the details of the vulnerabilities have not been made public, users are not at risk of an exploit being developed to take advantage of the flaw.
This is mostly true. Usually people who exploit such security flaws find about about them by reverse engineering security updates. Windows is such a large system (Tanenbaum says millions of lines of source code went into Win 2k itself), that it will be very difficult for many not-so-bright-hackers to look for exploits without, ironically, some help or hint in the form of patches from M$.
From the top of the article: In any network setting, laptop and notebook PCs can pose special security risks, particularly those running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition...
Like I mentioned once before, the default setting for users on windows always administrator which automatically lowers your armour. After that, using internet explorer, you visit a greek jokes website that installs an ActiveX control on your system. The activex then downloads its friendly spyware and adware, and they in turn continue feeding on your bandwidth and cpu power by repeating the process. While they are doing this, these programs discover they are able to modify the registry and are also able to change settings so they run as soon as windows boots up!! How exciting. You are fucked, my friend!
From usenet: The primary shortcoming in Linux is that it retains the concept of a "superuser". If someone can manage to get themselves logged on as "root", then they have the keys to the kingdom. Now imagine what a malicious demon will feel when it finds itself running under Administrator inside a Windows machine!!!
This black hole will bite the hand that feeds it.You are 0wn3d say big black letters for infinite amount of time. Can you imagine what will happen if such a rogue elephant comes wandering in our backyard? We will have much bigger problems to worry about.
There's those that don't like change, they're usually screwed. Then there's not liking the direction of the change. In the past five years, many of the larger tech companies have turned into real shits to work for.
I feel necessary to cite from "The IBM Way", (words are slightly off), 'at IBM we believe that we must control change, otherwise change will control us'. No wonder IBM has survived for ages due to the same philosophy. They even sold vaccum cleaners at one point. I think M$ has an idea of how they'd like to "control change" like IBM, as they are constantly breaking the mould by working on different things, but they need better management and better PR!
Don't you think the very reason Lego is popular is because it allows people DYI in many ways? You can make robots, cranes, smart buildings and other things out of Lego and thats the reason the company is alive. Why would they want to force their customers into doing otherwise?
You know, I am slightly suspicious about the remake too. Better technology doesn't mean they are going to make the entire game better than before. FF7 was such a great game that I doubt Square Enix can do it again, leave alone better. One of the best things about FF7 was that it was like reading a comic book. You gave the voices to the characters and had your own interpretation of the story. Look at FF-X...I mean, its like a freaking soap opera. They destroyed most of what FF stood for using Tidus and the idiots in X.
I like the tech demo, but I still prefer the good old cloud looking like a mean wannabe AVALANCHE than the sissy guy they put in the PS3 demo. But if they release FF7, I swear I have to play it, just so I can yell and scream about how good the old one was!!!
The article somehow pushes FFVII into its so called Chief Offenders: lists for: #3 Enough with the Epics and #5 Cinema is Sinful
I am surprised Sidney Shuman goes so far as to criticize an epic for being an epic! Its like saying, "Enough with the 3D games, chief offenders: Quake 2, Doom 3". I am amazed! If you are interested in blaming a game (specially a Final Fantasy) for being epic to the point of boring, please vent your ignorant, tasteless, obvious criticism towards FF-X which was nothing but an epic movie that you play linearly as your jaws drop watching Rikku in shorts and the amazing animation that went into the summonings. You have obviously missed out the fun in Final Fantasy 7, Sidney, which is why you spend your not-so-productive-time writing articles like "Ten Ambiguously Gay Game Characters on Games.net". How come articles written by trolls find place on slashdot as news?
No no, I was using NVIDIA 5700 LE, which is well supported. I was able to run games and 3D programs. Poser has its own set of "drivers" which were not written back then for Win64 or Wine.
Another thing: DAZ and Poser work pretty close from the releases in the past that I've seen. I have had problems running both under windows 64 bit, and it was one of the reasons (besides Win 64 driver problems) that I had to switch back to Win XP 32 bit. I'd like to hear from people who can install both these packages under Wine/WineX under Linux 64 or on Win64.
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I want to propose that language is an advanced form of cursing.
Not only that, Apple has to find something new about the iPod to patent before Creative catches up. Some next-gen technology? How about sharing mp3s between your family members, like shared minutes in cellphones. You pay Apple & XM n dollars each month and you hook up to their server so you and your family can listen to whatever mp3 you want! I bet they are working on something similar right now....and preparing lawyers for future lawsuits against the RIAA!
yea thanks! long day....
Oops!!!:
void infect(this-host) {
infect(n-hosts near this-host);
for(int i=0;i < n; i++)
infect(n);
}
Not really...viruses replicate by using the host to replicate, sort of recursive replication like this:
void infect(this-host,) {
infect(n-hosts near this-host);
for(int i=0;i < n; i++)
infectHost(n);
}
Java doesn't spread like a virus. I think Flash is a virus because it uses the computer user as a host for the get-flash-now-meme and makes him download it.
Stating the obvious, sometimes you get a feeling of security by keeping a low profile. If something is popular it naturally attracts saboteurs, and therefore has a better chance of being exploited, thereby ruining its reputation. Some might brand less popular OSes as insecure as Windows -- we just don't hear of as many incidents related to breaches.
I agree, infact Lazy people, being lazy try to find ways to cut corners, and find smarter ways to get things done so they don't have to work as hard as others.
From the article: In phone interviews, DIEB-THROAT confirmed that the matters were well known within the company, but that a "culture of fear" had been developed to assure that employees, including technicians, vendors and programmers kept those issues to themselves.
Has anything changed since 2000? I don't think so! Who thinks USA has anything to do with democracy?
The MC50 already does quite a bit of that. It has a camera and a barcode scanner which can easily do all that. Putting the same functionality into a cellphone is not that difficult. I wonder whats up with all the not-so-new-news lately on slashdot.
Is there a hidden message in this post that I cannot see?
I think there is some mistake in the posted reply. Microsoft is rumoured to have used BSD's stack when they were developing MS-DOS. There used to be an application called net.exe that is supposed to have used BSD code, but M$ discontinued its use after they developed their own Winsock library.
I don't see what is so new about this "news". Console games are designed with the idea in mind that the hardware does not have a full featured OS. We have to do almost everything, from memory management to thread syncronication, and guess what are the "processes" we are working on....? Is this a news story because noone has actually put this concept into words?
Because the details of the vulnerabilities have not been made public, users are not at risk of an exploit being developed to take advantage of the flaw.
This is mostly true. Usually people who exploit such security flaws find about about them by reverse engineering security updates. Windows is such a large system (Tanenbaum says millions of lines of source code went into Win 2k itself), that it will be very difficult for many not-so-bright-hackers to look for exploits without, ironically, some help or hint in the form of patches from M$.
From the top of the article: In any network setting, laptop and notebook PCs can pose special security risks, particularly those running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition...
Like I mentioned once before, the default setting for users on windows always administrator which automatically lowers your armour. After that, using internet explorer, you visit a greek jokes website that installs an ActiveX control on your system. The activex then downloads its friendly spyware and adware, and they in turn continue feeding on your bandwidth and cpu power by repeating the process. While they are doing this, these programs discover they are able to modify the registry and are also able to change settings so they run as soon as windows boots up!! How exciting. You are fucked, my friend!
From usenet: The primary shortcoming in Linux is that it retains the concept of a "superuser". If someone can manage to get themselves logged on as "root", then they have the keys to the kingdom. Now imagine what a malicious demon will feel when it finds itself running under Administrator inside a Windows machine!!!
This black hole will bite the hand that feeds it.You are 0wn3d say big black letters for infinite amount of time. Can you imagine what will happen if such a rogue elephant comes wandering in our backyard? We will have much bigger problems to worry about.
There's those that don't like change, they're usually screwed. Then there's not liking the direction of the change. In the past five years, many of the larger tech companies have turned into real shits to work for.
I feel necessary to cite from "The IBM Way", (words are slightly off), 'at IBM we believe that we must control change, otherwise change will control us'. No wonder IBM has survived for ages due to the same philosophy. They even sold vaccum cleaners at one point. I think M$ has an idea of how they'd like to "control change" like IBM, as they are constantly breaking the mould by working on different things, but they need better management and better PR!
Don't you think the very reason Lego is popular is because it allows people DYI in many ways?
Oops....DIY not DYI !!!
Don't you think the very reason Lego is popular is because it allows people DYI in many ways? You can make robots, cranes, smart buildings and other things out of Lego and thats the reason the company is alive. Why would they want to force their customers into doing otherwise?
You know, I am slightly suspicious about the remake too. Better technology doesn't mean they are going to make the entire game better than before. FF7 was such a great game that I doubt Square Enix can do it again, leave alone better. One of the best things about FF7 was that it was like reading a comic book. You gave the voices to the characters and had your own interpretation of the story. Look at FF-X...I mean, its like a freaking soap opera. They destroyed most of what FF stood for using Tidus and the idiots in X.
I like the tech demo, but I still prefer the good old cloud looking like a mean wannabe AVALANCHE than the sissy guy they put in the PS3 demo. But if they release FF7, I swear I have to play it, just so I can yell and scream about how good the old one was!!!
Caltech will probably release a map next week that highlights eavesdropping grad students at MIT campus.
The article somehow pushes FFVII into its so called Chief Offenders: lists for:
#3 Enough with the Epics
and
#5 Cinema is Sinful
I am surprised Sidney Shuman goes so far as to criticize an epic for being an epic! Its like saying, "Enough with the 3D games, chief offenders: Quake 2, Doom 3". I am amazed! If you are interested in blaming a game (specially a Final Fantasy) for being epic to the point of boring, please vent your ignorant, tasteless, obvious criticism towards FF-X which was nothing but an epic movie that you play linearly as your jaws drop watching Rikku in shorts and the amazing animation that went into the summonings. You have obviously missed out the fun in Final Fantasy 7, Sidney, which is why you spend your not-so-productive-time writing articles like "Ten Ambiguously Gay Game Characters on Games.net" . How come articles written by trolls find place on slashdot as news?
Simply aping the rest of the industry has always worked for them before. Why change now?
Not really. They also rely on innovation. They bought hotmail and excel. Thats innovative, don't you think?
No no, I was using NVIDIA 5700 LE, which is well supported. I was able to run games and 3D programs. Poser has its own set of "drivers" which were not written back then for Win64 or Wine.
I think this might help
Another thing: DAZ and Poser work pretty close from the releases in the past that I've seen. I have had problems running both under windows 64 bit, and it was one of the reasons (besides Win 64 driver problems) that I had to switch back to Win XP 32 bit. I'd like to hear from people who can install both these packages under Wine/WineX under Linux 64 or on Win64.