Ctrl-Alt-Del generates a non maskable interrupt. Yes it was there before Windows, and even before DOS. If an OS wants to react to it other than instantly rebooting, said OS needs to install an interrupt handler for it. That interrupt handler is fired at a way lower level than ordinary keystrokes, malware, or friendly userspace applications.
Bullshit, to the hardware it's just another key combination. It's the BIOS that rebooted the computer when it's pressed. And if you don't use a US QWERTY keyboard, you have to replace the keyboard driver, and this driver will handle the reboot
Using Ctrl-Alt-Del to trigger login gives you two kinds of security:
1. Software cannot simulate a Ctrl-Alt-Del in order to play games with the login screen.
2. By first pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, the user logging on can be quite sure that they are giving their login credentials to a genuine Windows (or whatever OS) login screen, and not some malware that merely resembles the login screen.
And since they wrote the keyboard driver, they could have done that with any arbitrary combination...
I think he had a few 'trials', no?...or perhaps 'trial' isn't the legally correct word. Anyway, they were just concerning extradition, but anyway, it's as accurate as 'imprisoned', imo.
Trial isn't the correct word, however, "trial" is.
Since it's for their own good, time to shove fourteen languages down the their throats in forced mandatory education. Stop concentrating on math and science, start concentrating on languages. Veuillez considérer le bien-être des enfants.
Qu'est-ce qui te fait penser que l'algèbre n'est pas une langue?
(TR: What makes you think Algebra isn't a language?)
Guess what, there where elections in Spain on november the 20th. After that, there's a pair of weeks with a government in functions while the new president and his team takes control of the country.
The article makes it sound like a breakthrough by Apple but videocalling has been around for at least 3 years in Italy and has not taken on for a variety of reasons, the main one being that it does not solve a problem the user has.
Same here, I've had a videophone for four years. I'm pretty sure one day Apple will claim they invented smartphones...
ARM is the most successful and widely used architecture, not just in mobile devices but in all kinds of embedded systems, especially the ones geeks know and love, such as Arduino,
Are you telling me that if I had the best part of $60 million I couldn't design, build and fly my own rocket in to space? Even a brute force solution wouldn't be that expense, surely?
Hear that sound? that's every rocket scientist on Earth laughing at you.
The GPL has actually caused me to drop Linux. I want ZFS for my home server, zfs is not the answer (maxing out 2 cores to copy files?!). Because of the whole "GPL or the highway" approach, even though ZFS IS opensource, it's not 'compatible'.
Except ZFS being not compatible with the GPL is not an accident, it was done on purpose by Sun to avoid giving ZFS to Linux. If Linux had been under a BSD license and as successful as it is, you can bet Sun would have managed to make it incompatible with BSD...
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Ctrl-Alt-Del generates a non maskable interrupt. Yes it was there before Windows, and even before DOS. If an OS wants to react to it other than instantly rebooting, said OS needs to install an interrupt handler for it. That interrupt handler is fired at a way lower level than ordinary keystrokes, malware, or friendly userspace applications.
Bullshit, to the hardware it's just another key combination. It's the BIOS that rebooted the computer when it's pressed. And if you don't use a US QWERTY keyboard, you have to replace the keyboard driver, and this driver will handle the reboot
Using Ctrl-Alt-Del to trigger login gives you two kinds of security:
1. Software cannot simulate a Ctrl-Alt-Del in order to play games with the login screen.
2. By first pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, the user logging on can be quite sure that they are giving their login credentials to a genuine Windows (or whatever OS) login screen, and not some malware that merely resembles the login screen.
And since they wrote the keyboard driver, they could have done that with any arbitrary combination...
I think he had a few 'trials', no? ...or perhaps 'trial' isn't the legally correct word. Anyway, they were just concerning extradition, but anyway, it's as accurate as 'imprisoned', imo.
Trial isn't the correct word, however, "trial" is.
Since it's for their own good, time to shove fourteen languages down the their throats in forced mandatory education. Stop concentrating on math and science, start concentrating on languages. Veuillez considérer le bien-être des enfants.
Qu'est-ce qui te fait penser que l'algèbre n'est pas une langue?
(TR: What makes you think Algebra isn't a language?)
FTFY
Neptune didn't clear out its orbit either (Since Pluto is in it), and it has 5 (currently known) moons too.
Next to Neptune, Pluto is a speck of dust, so yes Neptune cleared its orbit. You can't say the same for Pluto.
Yes, seriously.
Guess what, there where elections in Spain on november the 20th. After that, there's a pair of weeks with a government in functions while the new president and his team takes control of the country.
You misspelled prime minister.
Seriously?
Furthermore ... how the fuck is a planet supposed to vanish?
You should ask this guy.
If you are unaware of the quote, Cardinal Richelieu states in the late 19th century:
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
uhh... what?
Um, no. Google's true CA is not DigiNotar, but Equifax,
Whoosh
And MS has embraced unlocking/jail-breaking as well, which will enable side-loading apps.
If they actually embraced it, it wouldn't be called jailbreaking, it would be called sudo.
If he really meant it he wouldn't have let cameras and smartphones into announcement.
If he really meant it he wouldn't have let journalists into announcement.
In fact, the entire future of humanity, including all technological advances, was already patented by scifi writers decades ago.
Well, as long as it's been patented at least two decades ago, we're safe...
Or in european units, that's about one Switzerland.
The article makes it sound like a breakthrough by Apple but videocalling has been around for at least 3 years in Italy and has not taken on for a variety of reasons, the main one being that it does not solve a problem the user has.
Same here, I've had a videophone for four years. I'm pretty sure one day Apple will claim they invented smartphones...
How do you measure faith?
With a faith-o-meter of course, what else?
The fact that most people don't understand statistics doesn't mean stats are bullshit. It just means people are dumb.
Assuming a constant speed of 17km/s, 30 years for Voyager is 30 years and 1.5s on Earth.
Is that legal?
Sony: "I will make it legal"
ARM is the most successful and widely used architecture, not just in mobile devices but in all kinds of embedded systems, especially the ones geeks know and love, such as Arduino,
Arduino uses ATmega CPUs.
Are you telling me that if I had the best part of $60 million I couldn't design, build and fly my own rocket in to space? Even a brute force solution wouldn't be that expense, surely?
Hear that sound? that's every rocket scientist on Earth laughing at you.
...really? Does a disaster have to be an accident to be classed as a disaster?
Do as the automotive industry does. Call it a Nuclear incident.
The difference between an accident and an incident is well defined. It's clearly an accident.
The law of correcting typos: attemping to correct a previous poster's typo creates a typo from the current poster.
You meant "attempting", apparently it's recursive...
It would have to be turned off by default (not everyone wants a $.10+ additional text message charged on their cell phone bill
Wait, you have to pay to receive an SMS?? Even when I'm abroad receiving an SMS is free...
Yes if the father teaches his kids to be thieving POS who have no morals or any since of loyalty.
Yes, because kids always listen to their parents...
The GPL has actually caused me to drop Linux. I want ZFS for my home server, zfs is not the answer (maxing out 2 cores to copy files?!). Because of the whole "GPL or the highway" approach, even though ZFS IS opensource, it's not 'compatible'.
Except ZFS being not compatible with the GPL is not an accident, it was done on purpose by Sun to avoid giving ZFS to Linux. If Linux had been under a BSD license and as successful as it is, you can bet Sun would have managed to make it incompatible with BSD...