And just like with video games, you learn where the edges of the keys are.
I can distinguish separate buttons when playing video games because they're just that: separate buttons. If you gave me a game controller consisting of just a smooth surface with no tactile feedback to tell me where on region begins and and another ends, my performance would be horrible.
Actually, I did run into a situation like this not too long ago with the standard Dance Dance Revolution pads. Without the ridges present on the arcade pads, my feet kept slipping out of position. I'd imagine the same would happen to my thumbs if there wasn't physical separation between buttons on a game controller or keyboard.
Your analogy is more akin to touch-typing, where you don't need to look at the buttons to know which ones you're hitting, but you still need some kind of demarcation between buttons to help your fingers determine their location relative to the buttons.
No, because then at least you can feel the space between the buttons. On the iPhone/iPod touch interface, there is only a single surface, and you can't feel where one button ends and the next one begins.
The one big advantage with buttons is that they work the same for everyone. Touchscreens and touchpads on the other hand give different output depending on the physical characteristics (namely finger size) of the user.
I used to share Mr. Jobs' disdain for buttons. Then I went out and bought an iPod Nano. I found that the touch-wheel on the Nano was unbearably sensitive, given my somewhat larger than average thumbs. There's no real way to tune the sensitivity of the touch-wheel, either, like you can with laptop touchpads.
Insurgents have the element of surprise, but they generally have shitty transport capabilities and have to haul things up for an attack up very slowly.
Well, it depends on what the insurgents are hauling. Sure, for heavy weapons (like artillery and armor), insurgent transport capabilities are pretty crappy. But for small arms and explosives, insurgent transport networks, combined with good caching strategies (like the tunnel-depots in Vietnam) can provide a very robust and reliable supply chain.
Given that most US casualties these days come from IEDs and small arms (e.g. snipers), one has to wonder how useful this will be in an insurgency. Sure the insurgents do use mortars. However, insurgent mortars generally aren't very accurate and can only really target fixed positions (like US bases), which are hardened against such attack anyway. The real damage from mortar attacks comes from attacks against civilian targets, which fosters sectarian violence and worsens civil strife.
everyone is a freshman who hasn't learned how to do their job yet,
I would rather have a freshman Congresscritter who actually knows how the other half lives than an experienced one whose worldview has been irrevocably altered by the biased information he or she gets form lobbyists. And, who knows, once seats aren't locked up by incumbents, maybe we'll see people who actually have field expertise run.
On the plus side, they don't really do anything of consequence, even to screw things up majorly, which I suppose would be an improvement over our current Congress.
Yeah, and if you look at the numbers, Congress has over a 90% re-election rate most years. These people used to be just like us. Now they're completely different. They don't know it yet, but the fact that they're in Washington, with most of their information coming from lobbyists, means that they simply don't see the same things that rest of us do. Things that we consider insignificant get blown out of proportion, while things that we consider important don't even get 5 minutes because no one has the time or money to lobby for those issues.
Solution: term limits. Term limits we ensure that no one gets to be insulated in Washington for so long that their views diverge from the rest of the country.
People have been 'sploiting this kind of thing for years as far as I know.
Perhaps you're confusing dangling pointers with buffer overflows. Buffer overflows occur when you put too much data into a pre-allocated buffer, overwriting the return address of the current function with a return address pointing to your malicious code. Dangling pointers are simply pointers pointing to invalid types. Before, it was thought that dangling pointers were not exploitable, because you had to know the actual type of the destination object, which was thought to be difficult. However, this group has discovered a way to reliably discover the destination type, allowing them to overwrite it with malicious code.
Let's shed all our defenses and leave ourselves vulnerable to an attack by Canadia.
I'm so sick of hearing that argument. Disarmament of nuclear weapons != complete disarmament. Even if we get rid of all our ICBMs and chemical and biological weapons, we'll still have enough nukes to destroy any other country three times over, backed up by the finest conventional military in the world.
Face it: with the fall of the Soviet Union, there is no reason for America to be spending so time and money maintaining weapons of mass destruction. We should decommission half of them and spend that money on parts of the military that actually need the attention - like the Marines and Army.
I've always had problems with Linux and power management on laptops. Without proper power management support, having a laptop is pointless - you're paying more for a smaller, less comfortable desktop.
Heck, even games that have such backing are delayed. Both Twilight Princess (originally slated to be a GC game) and Metroid Prime: Corruption (orginally slated to be out for this year) were delayed. Twilight Princess was pushed back and became a dual-release (Wii + GC) and Metroid was pushed back to next year.
I don't mean to pick on Nintendo, I'm just pointing out that even exclusive, blockbuster releases are often delayed.
Words are cheap. If you look at IE 7 you'll see that its not much more standards compliant than IE 6. In fact, it could be argued that its even less standards compliant, because it breaks with the de facto IE 6 standard.
I'm sure that you get your car back once you sober up, but you are in fact temporarily denied the use of your car.
That's the key word there: temporarily. After you sober up, you're still allowed to drive until the trial is over. In this case, the government seizes your property and hangs on to it. In fact, there's no provision for legal recourse in this Executive Order, so, if this stands in the courts, the government could create some trumped up charges and freeze your money permanently while leaving no way for you to argue your case.
The passage that follows clearly delineates who is affected by this order, and gives only the Secretary of the Treasury authority to act.
Not true. At the end of the Order, it states that the "Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government..." So, its true that the Secretary of the Treasury has the initial authority, but he may give that authority as he pleases to any agency that asks for such.
Certainly if any ol' traffic cop can impound your car because you are suspected of driving drunk, the Secretary of the Treasury can do the analogue?
SecTreas can do even worse. Read: "... to pose a significant risk of committing..." By the drunk driving analogy, this would be arrest on DWI by the officer observing you walking towards a parking lot.
If you find a guy cutting the electrical wires to people's houses, do you wait until after he is convicted to take away his cutters?
In order to take away his cutters you have to have Probable Cause that he was indeed the one doing the cutting. This executive order makes no such distinction.
If someone gets caught drunk driving, do you wait until he's convicted to stop them from driving?
Yes, you do. I don't know where you live, but here in Minnesota presumption of innocence still applies. As far as the traffic stop itself, the officer has to determine probable cause - e.g. field sobriety test, or smelling alcohol on your breath, or observing errant driving behavior.
As long as the person ultimately gets due process, there is nothing wrong with temporarily blocking access to the tools used to commit a crime.
Justice delayed is justice denied. That's why we have Habeas Corpus
If I were to march in a random anti-war protest, and the next day the gov't makes my bank account vapor-lock, then I could petition a judge and demand evidence and/or proof that I was somehow "posing a significant risk of committing" a violent act.
How're you going to petition a judge without a lawyer? How'll you get a lawyer without your bank account?
That's the real danger in this Executive Order. They've given themselves the right to deprive you of most of your liquid assets without placing you in jail (where you would have access to some legal defense through the the public defender service).
What can be done about fast flux? ISPs and users should probe suspicious nodes and use intrusion detection systems; block TCP port 80 and UDP port 53; block access to mother ship and other controller machines when detected; "blackhole" DNS and BGP route-injection; and monitor DNS, the report says.
The bit about blocking TCP port 80 is troubling. I run a small web-site for learning purposes and to share info with family and friends. I don't especially like the possibility of having to ask or pay extra to have port 80 opened on my end.
In my opinion, the manager is responsible for the conduct of the employees. Taking responsibility for those working under you is a fundamental part of good leadership. Its the manager's job to check the employee's work to make sure that it meets quality criteria. In this case the manager failed in his or her supervisory duties.
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And just like with video games, you learn where the edges of the keys are.
I can distinguish separate buttons when playing video games because they're just that: separate buttons. If you gave me a game controller consisting of just a smooth surface with no tactile feedback to tell me where on region begins and and another ends, my performance would be horrible.
Actually, I did run into a situation like this not too long ago with the standard Dance Dance Revolution pads. Without the ridges present on the arcade pads, my feet kept slipping out of position. I'd imagine the same would happen to my thumbs if there wasn't physical separation between buttons on a game controller or keyboard.
Your analogy is more akin to touch-typing, where you don't need to look at the buttons to know which ones you're hitting, but you still need some kind of demarcation between buttons to help your fingers determine their location relative to the buttons.
No, because then at least you can feel the space between the buttons. On the iPhone/iPod touch interface, there is only a single surface, and you can't feel where one button ends and the next one begins.
The one big advantage with buttons is that they work the same for everyone. Touchscreens and touchpads on the other hand give different output depending on the physical characteristics (namely finger size) of the user.
I used to share Mr. Jobs' disdain for buttons. Then I went out and bought an iPod Nano. I found that the touch-wheel on the Nano was unbearably sensitive, given my somewhat larger than average thumbs. There's no real way to tune the sensitivity of the touch-wheel, either, like you can with laptop touchpads.
Insurgents have the element of surprise, but they generally have shitty transport capabilities and have to haul things up for an attack up very slowly.
Well, it depends on what the insurgents are hauling. Sure, for heavy weapons (like artillery and armor), insurgent transport capabilities are pretty crappy. But for small arms and explosives, insurgent transport networks, combined with good caching strategies (like the tunnel-depots in Vietnam) can provide a very robust and reliable supply chain.
Given that most US casualties these days come from IEDs and small arms (e.g. snipers), one has to wonder how useful this will be in an insurgency. Sure the insurgents do use mortars. However, insurgent mortars generally aren't very accurate and can only really target fixed positions (like US bases), which are hardened against such attack anyway. The real damage from mortar attacks comes from attacks against civilian targets, which fosters sectarian violence and worsens civil strife.
Losing a day's business might not affect a big corp
Eh? How do you figure that? Generally, the larger the corporation, the more each hour of IT downtime costs.
everyone is a freshman who hasn't learned how to do their job yet,
I would rather have a freshman Congresscritter who actually knows how the other half lives than an experienced one whose worldview has been irrevocably altered by the biased information he or she gets form lobbyists. And, who knows, once seats aren't locked up by incumbents, maybe we'll see people who actually have field expertise run.
On the plus side, they don't really do anything of consequence, even to screw things up majorly, which I suppose would be an improvement over our current Congress.
There's that, too.
No limit on the number of terms you can serve, but no incumbent can run for office.
Isn't that a limit of 1 term?
require that no seat can be held by the same party twice in a row and see what happens.
Then what do I do when I want to reward my party for *gasp* actually doing a decent job?
Yeah, and if you look at the numbers, Congress has over a 90% re-election rate most years. These people used to be just like us. Now they're completely different. They don't know it yet, but the fact that they're in Washington, with most of their information coming from lobbyists, means that they simply don't see the same things that rest of us do. Things that we consider insignificant get blown out of proportion, while things that we consider important don't even get 5 minutes because no one has the time or money to lobby for those issues.
Solution: term limits. Term limits we ensure that no one gets to be insulated in Washington for so long that their views diverge from the rest of the country.
And again, that's a code quality issue, much like validating input was for buffer overflows.
People have been 'sploiting this kind of thing for years as far as I know.
Perhaps you're confusing dangling pointers with buffer overflows. Buffer overflows occur when you put too much data into a pre-allocated buffer, overwriting the return address of the current function with a return address pointing to your malicious code. Dangling pointers are simply pointers pointing to invalid types. Before, it was thought that dangling pointers were not exploitable, because you had to know the actual type of the destination object, which was thought to be difficult. However, this group has discovered a way to reliably discover the destination type, allowing them to overwrite it with malicious code.
Let's shed all our defenses and leave ourselves vulnerable to an attack by Canadia.
I'm so sick of hearing that argument. Disarmament of nuclear weapons != complete disarmament. Even if we get rid of all our ICBMs and chemical and biological weapons, we'll still have enough nukes to destroy any other country three times over, backed up by the finest conventional military in the world.
Face it: with the fall of the Soviet Union, there is no reason for America to be spending so time and money maintaining weapons of mass destruction. We should decommission half of them and spend that money on parts of the military that actually need the attention - like the Marines and Army.
I've always had problems with Linux and power management on laptops. Without proper power management support, having a laptop is pointless - you're paying more for a smaller, less comfortable desktop.
Broadband should only be defined by the provider of the service, and the user of the service. The definition of broadband differs to different people.
That's like saying that serving contaminated food is okay because the definition of food differs between people.
That's true, but my point still stands: namely, having a big brand and full support is still no guarantee of on-time delivery.
Yeah. Thanks for the correction :-)
Heck, even games that have such backing are delayed. Both Twilight Princess (originally slated to be a GC game) and Metroid Prime: Corruption (orginally slated to be out for this year) were delayed. Twilight Princess was pushed back and became a dual-release (Wii + GC) and Metroid was pushed back to next year.
I don't mean to pick on Nintendo, I'm just pointing out that even exclusive, blockbuster releases are often delayed.
Words are cheap. If you look at IE 7 you'll see that its not much more standards compliant than IE 6. In fact, it could be argued that its even less standards compliant, because it breaks with the de facto IE 6 standard.
I'm sure that you get your car back once you sober up, but you are in fact temporarily denied the use of your car.
That's the key word there: temporarily. After you sober up, you're still allowed to drive until the trial is over. In this case, the government seizes your property and hangs on to it. In fact, there's no provision for legal recourse in this Executive Order, so, if this stands in the courts, the government could create some trumped up charges and freeze your money permanently while leaving no way for you to argue your case.
Again, the officer has to determine probable cause. This executive order sets the bar much lower than that.
The passage that follows clearly delineates who is affected by this order, and gives only the Secretary of the Treasury authority to act.
Not true. At the end of the Order, it states that the "Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government..." So, its true that the Secretary of the Treasury has the initial authority, but he may give that authority as he pleases to any agency that asks for such.
Certainly if any ol' traffic cop can impound your car because you are suspected of driving drunk, the Secretary of the Treasury can do the analogue?
SecTreas can do even worse. Read: "... to pose a significant risk of committing..." By the drunk driving analogy, this would be arrest on DWI by the officer observing you walking towards a parking lot.
If you find a guy cutting the electrical wires to people's houses, do you wait until after he is convicted to take away his cutters?
In order to take away his cutters you have to have Probable Cause that he was indeed the one doing the cutting. This executive order makes no such distinction.
If someone gets caught drunk driving, do you wait until he's convicted to stop them from driving?
Yes, you do. I don't know where you live, but here in Minnesota presumption of innocence still applies. As far as the traffic stop itself, the officer has to determine probable cause - e.g. field sobriety test, or smelling alcohol on your breath, or observing errant driving behavior.
As long as the person ultimately gets due process, there is nothing wrong with temporarily blocking access to the tools used to commit a crime.
Justice delayed is justice denied. That's why we have Habeas Corpus
How're you going to petition a judge without a lawyer? How'll you get a lawyer without your bank account?
That's the real danger in this Executive Order. They've given themselves the right to deprive you of most of your liquid assets without placing you in jail (where you would have access to some legal defense through the the public defender service).
A lot of good that'll do if the ACLU's assets are frozen under this order.
The bit about blocking TCP port 80 is troubling. I run a small web-site for learning purposes and to share info with family and friends. I don't especially like the possibility of having to ask or pay extra to have port 80 opened on my end.
In my opinion, the manager is responsible for the conduct of the employees. Taking responsibility for those working under you is a fundamental part of good leadership. Its the manager's job to check the employee's work to make sure that it meets quality criteria. In this case the manager failed in his or her supervisory duties.