Actually, I just fixed a bug in the invoice printing routine.
I'm usually around the place for bigger events for general troubleshooting, which does include fixing bugs. In this particular case, I was subbing in for the real cash register personnel to give them a little break when I noticed a printing error on an invoice I just printed for a customer who wanted to pay his stuff.
I asked him whether he had 2 minutes? I'll fix that." He goes, he doesn't actually mind the error, but he'll wait two minutes.
So I dive into good old Turbo Pascal and fix the error, recompile, cancel the bad invoice and reprint: Voila, bug fixed.
For more relevance I do usually code at that place back to back with the cash register personnel, and they'll suggest improvements.
Are you trying to say that the major part of the art of film making that uses CG these days is positive, or not?
Anyway, I stand by my point. You should watch it before calling it names because you already know you're going to hate the CG in it.
I mean, I could also talk about the acting. If you'll go watch the movie before coming back to this thread, I won't be talking about Academy Awards until January 2014.
To be honest, they hardly needed the Hubble in that movie. They could just have done some standard satellite maintenance, like the Shuttle occasionally does, or did anyway. Not like it makes any sense that a real doctor was fixing sciency bits on the Hubble that furthered any medical purposes, either. "We can now spot AIDS with a telescope that's pointing away from Earth!"
I figure they just put the Hubble in for the audience. I guess real astronauts were only a small part of the target audience.
I always wondered why SSH made just a fuzz about storing a site's certificate and warn of changes, but didn't put such a great emphasis on verifying host names or certification chains, but almost every other channel will just happily and silently accept a modified certificate.
Replacing that "This certificate is self-signed!" pop-up with a "This certificate is new or changed, please verify this MD5 hash on a trusted website: XX-YY-ZZ!" would probably increase security by an order of magnitude.
Also do this for background operations, like operating system fixes, virus scanner updates and may even MD5 downloads.
I did actually install that Gibson thing to disable my UPnP in 2001 because I didn't see a use for accessing my Plug-and-Play hardware over the net - the very concept of plugging something into one machine and accessing it from another as if it had been plugged in there felt far too much like a security problem to me.
Seems these days this is just becoming a hot topic again because Media Servers seem to use UPnP for streaming music and movies to your TV, or speakers, or smartphone, or tablet - yes, right across the Internet.
And some WLAN routers now tout their built-in Media Server as a feature, and of course you want to allow access to them from the Internet because of smartphone tunes......and all apparently without proper security, or at least I was never prompted for login details.
Hehe, someone quoted the X-Wing calling a Red pilot and I'm going no wait, wasn't the X-Wing calling Gold Leader?
Then someone else said he'd started going west and I'd been exploring east, but was coming back through the tunnels and was wondering whether we'd meet, and we discovered we actually were just going through the same landcape.
Would be cool if you could see others exploring multi-player style, but too hard to code I suppose.
Thanks for linking this. In fact some of the comments in the original Heise articles call Heise hypocrites, since their new feature will gladly lock social sites out of the information loop without blocking their own Ad partners.
Ghostery will fix that. However, I noted that it doesn't seem to block social sites, so it's a great addition.
Now if Ghostery would block social sites, we wouldn't need web masters to help out with the blocking.
Considering Wikileaks rehosted to Amazon to escape their original sites getting DDOSed exactly BECAUSE Amazon is damn hard to DDOS, I wonder whether Payback can actually do that.
Maybe they just consider it a challenge they can't resist.
He's got 14 hashes and cracked 10 of them with passwords of length 1 through 6, some of which contain proper symbols like "P4s$" and "G0o|)".
Length 1 through 4 take less than a second. Length 5 takes 31 seconds. Length 6 takes 2950 seconds. I can see why he probably didn't want to cough up for Length 7 or above.
Amongst the passwords he didn't find was, according to Google Search: "password". Amusingly, I think one of the passwords he didn't manage to crack was the empty string.
I figure you'd have to polish that package a bit for a real attack, but undoubtedly people already have done that somewhere and hence it's a good idea to follow his advice anyway.
3D may need a new visual vocabulary. Fortunately, this vocabulary is currently being developed.
Coughing up the 3D ticket tax for Avatar means Cameron has made a step in the right direction, but he's just at the lead, not yet at the finish line.
There are already people who can do more with 3D than fancy show effects, but most of them are still doing CGI. For instance, did you see the feathers on the pigeons in "Bolt", or Soren's flight through the forest fire in "Ga'Hoole"?
I love watching this development. I also watched how the South African Soccer WM in 3D mostly failed, and how the "Fantastic Four" Live 3D concert transmission succeeded. I bet MTV has something to say about "Krieger".
I just wish there was more proper CONTENT right now that didn't make me want to pirate it because it's exclusive to some silly hardware.
Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.
I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.
You've got to love how the very first comment on that page helpfully suggests using an air can, and how the rest of the comments mostkeep going for helpful ideas...
Quoted from the "incredibly detailed account" linked in the OP:
Reactors always need inputs, right, guys? Right. Let's save cycles here and just not evaluate this reactor! I mean, it'll never get evaluated and thus never come online, right?... Right?
Oops.
So, presume you've run a few cycles of your POS. Your reactor is humming along nicely. It has produced stuff this cycle. It has produced stuff last cycle. The Control Tower is running all of your stuff in the right order. Everything is fine. Until something unexpected happens.
The user cuts off all the links to the reactor.
The Control Tower, crazed by its optimization logic, careens through the production code. Wide-eyed, it reaches your reactor first. In its addled eyes, it sees only that the poor reactor has no links.
The Control Tower speaks.
"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
Onward the Control Tower drives, speeding towards the silo at the far end of the reactor's link.
The reactor has not been evaluated. It does not know that another cycle has passed. It still remembers, fondly, grazing on inputs during its previous, un-bugged production cycle. Without this information, the silo goes ahead and adds another cycle's worth of goods to its stack.
How about: "Find a browser that's not ever going to be mainstream enough to be a viable target for trojan writers, but still allows doing home banking?"
I'm all for Opera never making it into the top three.
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Actually, I just fixed a bug in the invoice printing routine.
I'm usually around the place for bigger events for general troubleshooting, which does include fixing bugs. In this particular case, I was subbing in for the real cash register personnel to give them a little break when I noticed a printing error on an invoice I just printed for a customer who wanted to pay his stuff.
I asked him whether he had 2 minutes? I'll fix that." He goes, he doesn't actually mind the error, but he'll wait two minutes.
So I dive into good old Turbo Pascal and fix the error, recompile, cancel the bad invoice and reprint: Voila, bug fixed.
For more relevance I do usually code at that place back to back with the cash register personnel, and they'll suggest improvements.
Thank you.
Reading that, the more important news is probably that McAfee scored even worse.
L.O.L.
Are you trying to say that the major part of the art of film making that uses CG these days is positive, or not?
Anyway, I stand by my point. You should watch it before calling it names because you already know you're going to hate the CG in it.
I mean, I could also talk about the acting. If you'll go watch the movie before coming back to this thread, I won't be talking about Academy Awards until January 2014.
To be honest, they hardly needed the Hubble in that movie. They could just have done some standard satellite maintenance, like the Shuttle occasionally does, or did anyway. Not like it makes any sense that a real doctor was fixing sciency bits on the Hubble that furthered any medical purposes, either. "We can now spot AIDS with a telescope that's pointing away from Earth!"
I figure they just put the Hubble in for the audience. I guess real astronauts were only a small part of the target audience.
I kindly suggest you watch the movie before denouncing it like that.
There are MINUTE LONG takes going through space stations in zero gravity, have fun trying to cobble that together in a vomit comet.
I always wondered why SSH made just a fuzz about storing a site's certificate and warn of changes, but didn't put such a great emphasis on verifying host names or certification chains, but almost every other channel will just happily and silently accept a modified certificate.
Replacing that "This certificate is self-signed!" pop-up with a "This certificate is new or changed, please verify this MD5 hash on a trusted website: XX-YY-ZZ!" would probably increase security by an order of magnitude.
Also do this for background operations, like operating system fixes, virus scanner updates and may even MD5 downloads.
You know, I'm thinking, there's bad ways to end a movie, and good ones. And all movies have ends.
He found a rather good one. I envy this.
I did actually install that Gibson thing to disable my UPnP in 2001 because I didn't see a use for accessing my Plug-and-Play hardware over the net - the very concept of plugging something into one machine and accessing it from another as if it had been plugged in there felt far too much like a security problem to me.
Seems these days this is just becoming a hot topic again because Media Servers seem to use UPnP for streaming music and movies to your TV, or speakers, or smartphone, or tablet - yes, right across the Internet.
And some WLAN routers now tout their built-in Media Server as a feature, and of course you want to allow access to them from the Internet because of smartphone tunes... ...and all apparently without proper security, or at least I was never prompted for login details.
In no particular order I'm currently reading:
1) XKCD http://xkcd.org/ (and yes, 1110 was amazing art even though it's mostly about arcane, subtle or smart references)
2) Dilbert http://dilbert.com/fast (makes actual work seem a little less sad)
3) Lackadaisycats http://lackadaisycats.com/comic.php (guns, alcohol and cats)
4) Unsounded http://unsoundedcomic.com/ (thieves and their pesky offspring)
5) Gunnerkrigg Court http://gunnerkrigg.com/ (a school with mediums, shadows and robots)
I noticed the tag "Microsoft" on this article still uses the old logo with the italic font and the damaged "o".
Anyone got an idea how to update that to something like this:
http://i.s-microsoft.com/global/ImageStore/PublishingImages/logos/hp/logo-lg-1x.png
Hehe, someone quoted the X-Wing calling a Red pilot and I'm going no wait, wasn't the X-Wing calling Gold Leader?
Then someone else said he'd started going west and I'd been exploring east, but was coming back through the tunnels and was wondering whether we'd meet, and we discovered we actually were just going through the same landcape.
Would be cool if you could see others exploring multi-player style, but too hard to code I suppose.
Thanks for linking this. In fact some of the comments in the original Heise articles call Heise hypocrites, since their new feature will gladly lock social sites out of the information loop without blocking their own Ad partners.
Ghostery will fix that. However, I noted that it doesn't seem to block social sites, so it's a great addition.
Now if Ghostery would block social sites, we wouldn't need web masters to help out with the blocking.
Considering Wikileaks rehosted to Amazon to escape their original sites getting DDOSed exactly BECAUSE Amazon is damn hard to DDOS, I wonder whether Payback can actually do that.
Maybe they just consider it a challenge they can't resist.
He's got 14 hashes and cracked 10 of them with passwords of length 1 through 6, some of which contain proper symbols like "P4s$" and "G0o|)".
Length 1 through 4 take less than a second.
Length 5 takes 31 seconds.
Length 6 takes 2950 seconds.
I can see why he probably didn't want to cough up for Length 7 or above.
Amongst the passwords he didn't find was, according to Google Search: "password". Amusingly, I think one of the passwords he didn't manage to crack was the empty string.
I figure you'd have to polish that package a bit for a real attack, but undoubtedly people already have done that somewhere and hence it's a good idea to follow his advice anyway.
3D may need a new visual vocabulary. Fortunately, this vocabulary is currently being developed.
Coughing up the 3D ticket tax for Avatar means Cameron has made a step in the right direction, but he's just at the lead, not yet at the finish line.
There are already people who can do more with 3D than fancy show effects, but most of them are still doing CGI. For instance, did you see the feathers on the pigeons in "Bolt", or Soren's flight through the forest fire in "Ga'Hoole"?
I love watching this development. I also watched how the South African Soccer WM in 3D mostly failed, and how the "Fantastic Four" Live 3D concert transmission succeeded. I bet MTV has something to say about "Krieger".
I just wish there was more proper CONTENT right now that didn't make me want to pirate it because it's exclusive to some silly hardware.
Well he can't argue he didn't get a lot of publicity for his money, but I've got a feeling like he's not gonna be a happy customer just anyway.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Southeast_Taiwan_earthquake:
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on April 26, 2010 in the sea Southeast of Taiwan.
Like the same two bladers getting pictured 5 times:
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3808/stopmotion.png
And then there's hackers like this one:
http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html
Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.
I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.
Nice effort, honest.
Still, that hurt a bit :)
Here's one that was awesome instead of painful: Mistabishi: Printer Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ
You've got to love how the very first comment on that page helpfully suggests using an air can, and how the rest of the comments mostkeep going for helpful ideas...
"Why couldn't you... ?"
With the answer right in the article above.
Quoted from the "incredibly detailed account" linked in the OP:
Reactors always need inputs, right, guys? Right. Let's save cycles here and just not evaluate this reactor! I mean, it'll never get evaluated and thus never come online, right? ... Right?
Oops.
So, presume you've run a few cycles of your POS. Your reactor is humming along nicely. It has produced stuff this cycle. It has produced stuff last cycle. The Control Tower is running all of your stuff in the right order. Everything is fine. Until something unexpected happens.
The user cuts off all the links to the reactor.
The Control Tower, crazed by its optimization logic, careens through the production code. Wide-eyed, it reaches your reactor first. In its addled eyes, it sees only that the poor reactor has no links.
The Control Tower speaks.
"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
Onward the Control Tower drives, speeding towards the silo at the far end of the reactor's link.
The reactor has not been evaluated. It does not know that another cycle has passed. It still remembers, fondly, grazing on inputs during its previous, un-bugged production cycle. Without this information, the silo goes ahead and adds another cycle's worth of goods to its stack.
Free stuff has entered the system.
... only space bound, or at least so Ridley Scott himself suggests in the DVD commentary.
Too bad Hollywood so loves respinning the old yarn instead of doing another bold movie altogether.
I read that and it's rubbish. Wouldn't touch it again. You'll beg for it to end.
How about: "Find a browser that's not ever going to be mainstream enough to be a viable target for trojan writers, but still allows doing home banking?"
I'm all for Opera never making it into the top three.