Anyone who's done any serious research into long term archival media will tell you the same thing. If you want access to your records 100 years from now, put them down on acid-free paper, and store them in a controlled environment. CDs, hard drives, floppies -- all crap, in the long run.
However, paper currently serves many purposes other than archival. There's no need for the phone company to send me a bill every month, for example. I can take care of it over the phone and/or internet; and I do. And us young folks are looking to eliminate *that* paper.
For archives and books, paper's still the way to go.
"The novelty of this trojan lies in its capacity to generate a video clip that stores all the activity onscreen while the user is authenticating to access his electronic bank.
The video clip covers only a small portion of the screen, using as reference the cursor, but it is large enough so that the attacker can watch the legitimate user's movements and typing when using the virtual keyboard, so that he gets the username and password without going into further trouble."
Sure, last gen keyloggers wont capture passwords entered via this interface, but the current gen sure will.
Some MP3 players just use a retarded algorithm. I had an MP3 CD player in which I stuck a CD with two folders: one with hundreds of songs, and the other with a single song. It played the single song half the time.
That's when I realized that when in shuffle mode, the CD player first picked a random directory, and then picked a random song from in that directory -- which happens to really, really suck in the edge case I'd presented it with.
There's nothing wrong with the Joe Sixpack building his own website. The web wouldn't be what it is today, if it weren't for that. However, there is a problem with him developing software on systems open to the world.
Once you add executable code, and a database, it's not 'just a website' anymore. It's a program. And running amateurs' programs on the open internet is dangerous.
Two things to note here: (1) there's no HTML involved in the actual transaction at all (2) like another poster said: you can't trust the client to send valid data.
Stick to purposing solutions for things you know about.
VoIP works fine in a power outage, if you have a UPS. And just about everyone and their sister has a cellphone these days as backup for their home line anyway.
What's funny is that I've driven by Comcast facilities... They use multiple satellite dishes. Looks like they get their signals from Satellite and then send the signals over their own ground-based network...... In that context, they should be pretty careful about criticizing dish-based reception.....
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that a 12", $100 dish doesn't perform the same in the rain as the 100', multi-million dollar dishes Comcast uses.
(sarcasm) Yes, our only hope is that Debian developers can patch the hole in time! (end sarcasm)
Debian releases security patches at least as fast as any other major distro. They're slow with *feature* patches. e.g., they're still using mysql 4.1.11 on sarge, which is about 18 months old.
However, it's a special version that includes all the *security* patches from the last 18 months.
Debian would be absolutely worthless if it wasn't for their frequent and rapid patching system. As it is, they release several security updates for the stable distro *every day*. If and when this hole is patched, there'll be an update to the Sarge version of IceWeasel within 24 hours.
What, so hard drives are infalliable now? How many write cycles can your average drive handle? If you "dislike things that fail even when used according to manufacturer specifications", why are you so stuck on hard drives to begin with? They're the *most* failure prone component in PCs today.
Yes, flash does suck on the MTBF metric -- but so do hard drives! It doesn't matter wether flash can handle a billion write cycles or 17 quadrillion -- it only really matters if flash drives have a comperable or better MTBF than hard drives.
And what's DRAM got to do with it? I thought we were talking about hard drive replacements.
Because of course we all want to be using Outlook right??!!
I know you were being sarcastic, but quite frankly, the answer from millions of office workers would indeed be a resounding "Yes!"
I know this is slashdot. We're all more technical than that, and loathe outlook for a myriad of reasons. Yahoo! Mail isn't really targeted at us. We're a minority that can never really be pleased anyway.
The CEO, his executive assistant, HR, and the receptionist, on the other hand, like outlook, because it's what they know.
Highlights (edited): My nephew started preschool today:O
According to his teachers...
He knows less in general than all of the other students. He was the only student to scream and refuse to sleep during nap time. He chose to run around the room yelling and trying to stomp on all the other kids while they were laying down. (seems he thought his classmates were Goombas) He had all four of his misbehavior strikes used up before lunch time came around. He kept yelling that he was Mario and he was going to eat mushrooms (He's addicted to the DS Lite I sent to him). Upon returning home, he literally said "My teacher is a monster. Let's go kill her". After the first day, the teacher is scheduling a visit to his home to meet his family.
He just turned four.
Now that I think about it he does call his backpack his "turtle shell". That's Mario again.
However, the kid's 4, and he has some seriously fucked up parents -- he'd still have serious behavioral issues, Mario or no. A 14 year old has no such excuse.
Gotta love it when trolls like the parent get modded up. Had the article mentioned trillions of write cycles, he'd be asking for quadrillions.
According to wikipedia: "most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 1 million programming cycles" -- the days of 10,000 write-cycle devices are long over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
It's faster, quieter, hardier (you can drop it -- there are no moving parts), uses less power, and MTBF is comperable these days. Flash drives are viable alternatives to hard disks -- the main barrier at this point is price.
Are they going to be accepting the same 'couple cents per user' deal, or are they getting something special? Are they going to get some sort of "GameTap Premium" deal, where users actually have to shell out an extra couple bucks a month to play those specific games?
It seems there are only two ways releasing on gametap could be a good business decision: 1) You invest very little in the game, so that cents per user is actually a good deal 2) You get a better deal than say, Sonic the Hedgehog is getting, and actually get a couple bucks per user
I don't think anyone's been killed by a computer-ignorant octogenarian checking his email.
People have been killed by those not fit to drive. (And it's worth noting that the system hasn't proven too good at keeping those people off the road, by the way)
Ignorant computer users pose a minimal risk to life and property.
Theoretically, in the 'land of the free', we don't legislate activities that pose little risk to otherwise uninvolved parties. Of course, there are numerous examples of this not actually happening in reality, but that's beside the point.
Why invite the government where it's not absolutely needed?
As much as I'd love to agree with you, your average user doesn't *care* what the computer's doing, or what their options are. They just want their email. They don't *want* to know any more than they absolutely have to.
That, bundled with way too many dialogs asking them questions they don't know the answers to, has resulted in the "Just click yes" reflex.
By way of example -- the first time you submit a form in any browser, you get that "You're about to send unsecured information over the internet!" dialog. Do you know *anyone* who's ever pressed anything other than the "Never tell me this again" button?
Sure, it tells the user exactly what the computer's doing, but honestly, it's just not useful. Either you already understand what that means, and don't need the dialog at all, or you haven't a god damn clue -- in which case, a 12-word dialog isn't really going to educate you on HTTP, packet sniffing, SSL, and HTML forms.
My fiance just started as a teller at a Wells Fargo. She says that people come in with questions exactly like that every single day, along with "I need a cashiers check to send to this nice man in Nigeria", and
"I just got an email saying I won the Canadian Lottery, and I need a cashiers check for $4,000 to cover the taxes" "Did you ever _enter_ the Canadian lottery?" "No." "I hate to tell you this ma'am, but it's a scam."
Anyway, I actually play a little guitar, and I still loved guitar hero. If I wanted to play a real guitar, I would. You might as well ask why people play driving games when there's a real car in their garage.
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Why don't we place the same requirements on the appliance and automotive industries?
Oh, they probably have better lobyists, don't they?
Anyone who's done any serious research into long term archival media will tell you the same thing. If you want access to your records 100 years from now, put them down on acid-free paper, and store them in a controlled environment. CDs, hard drives, floppies -- all crap, in the long run.
However, paper currently serves many purposes other than archival. There's no need for the phone company to send me a bill every month, for example. I can take care of it over the phone and/or internet; and I do. And us young folks are looking to eliminate *that* paper.
For archives and books, paper's still the way to go.
go ahead and ask any PC gamer if to choose between 640x480 or 1600x1200.
Exactly. HDTV is just bringing console gamers up to the resolutions PC gamers have been playing at for years.
...by malware.
k site_ke.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/18/onscreen_ban
"The novelty of this trojan lies in its capacity to generate a video clip that stores all the activity onscreen while the user is authenticating to access his electronic bank.
The video clip covers only a small portion of the screen, using as reference the cursor, but it is large enough so that the attacker can watch the legitimate user's movements and typing when using the virtual keyboard, so that he gets the username and password without going into further trouble."
Sure, last gen keyloggers wont capture passwords entered via this interface, but the current gen sure will.
Some MP3 players just use a retarded algorithm. I had an MP3 CD player in which I stuck a CD with two folders: one with hundreds of songs, and the other with a single song. It played the single song half the time.
That's when I realized that when in shuffle mode, the CD player first picked a random directory, and then picked a random song from in that directory -- which happens to really, really suck in the edge case I'd presented it with.
Funny that trying to keep the government out of your business is now a 'leftist' concern.
Once upon a time, trying to keep the government from expanding, and maintaining privacy were right-wing issues.
Zonk apparently read the article, so why the incorrect headline?
Is that some kind of sick joke?
How'd that yahoo-facebook deal go? Not a single verification of the story in 2 weeks?
Whaddya know. Not all rumors are true. Last time, it was 'industry executives', this time it's 'a person familiar with the matter'.
There's nothing wrong with the Joe Sixpack building his own website. The web wouldn't be what it is today, if it weren't for that. However, there is a problem with him developing software on systems open to the world.
Once you add executable code, and a database, it's not 'just a website' anymore. It's a program. And running amateurs' programs on the open internet is dangerous.
All the HTML standards in the world won't stop an attacker with a copy of telnet.
/vulnerable_app.php?id=%2310 HTTP/1.1
bash$ telnet example.com 80
GET
Two things to note here: (1) there's no HTML involved in the actual transaction at all (2) like another poster said: you can't trust the client to send valid data.
Stick to purposing solutions for things you know about.
I can't imagine running a gpu at 100% and cpu at 100% for hours on end.
Clearly, you're not one of the millions with an active WoW subscription.
Usually, if your GPU runs to hot, your machine will just bluescreen, or reboot, or something along those lines.
In my last 3 years as a comcast customer, I can count the number of outages on one hand.
However, with every telecommunications service, it seems service varies greatly with location.
VoIP works fine in a power outage, if you have a UPS.
And just about everyone and their sister has a cellphone these days as backup for their home line anyway.
What's funny is that I've driven by Comcast facilities... They use multiple satellite dishes. Looks like they get their signals from Satellite and then send the signals over their own ground-based network...... In that context, they should be pretty careful about criticizing dish-based reception.....
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that a 12", $100 dish doesn't perform the same in the rain as the 100', multi-million dollar dishes Comcast uses.
(sarcasm) Yes, our only hope is that Debian developers can patch the hole in time! (end sarcasm)
Debian releases security patches at least as fast as any other major distro. They're slow with *feature* patches. e.g., they're still using mysql 4.1.11 on sarge, which is about 18 months old.
However, it's a special version that includes all the *security* patches from the last 18 months.
Debian would be absolutely worthless if it wasn't for their frequent and rapid patching system. As it is, they release several security updates for the stable distro *every day*. If and when this hole is patched, there'll be an update to the Sarge version of IceWeasel within 24 hours.
What, so hard drives are infalliable now? How many write cycles can your average drive handle? If you "dislike things that fail even when used according to manufacturer specifications", why are you so stuck on hard drives to begin with? They're the *most* failure prone component in PCs today.
Yes, flash does suck on the MTBF metric -- but so do hard drives! It doesn't matter wether flash can handle a billion write cycles or 17 quadrillion -- it only really matters if flash drives have a comperable or better MTBF than hard drives.
And what's DRAM got to do with it? I thought we were talking about hard drive replacements.
Because of course we all want to be using Outlook right??!!
I know you were being sarcastic, but quite frankly, the answer from millions of office workers would indeed be a resounding "Yes!"
I know this is slashdot. We're all more technical than that, and loathe outlook for a myriad of reasons. Yahoo! Mail isn't really targeted at us. We're a minority that can never really be pleased anyway.
The CEO, his executive assistant, HR, and the receptionist, on the other hand, like outlook, because it's what they know.
A guy on one of my favorite forums actually claims that his nephew *is* having issues like this:7 1&brd=5156&start=98934605
:O
http://vnboards.ign.com/Message.aspx?topic=989344
Highlights (edited):
My nephew started preschool today
According to his teachers...
He knows less in general than all of the other students.
He was the only student to scream and refuse to sleep during nap time. He chose to run around the room yelling and trying to stomp on all the other kids while they were laying down. (seems he thought his classmates were Goombas)
He had all four of his misbehavior strikes used up before lunch time came around.
He kept yelling that he was Mario and he was going to eat mushrooms (He's addicted to the DS Lite I sent to him).
Upon returning home, he literally said "My teacher is a monster. Let's go kill her".
After the first day, the teacher is scheduling a visit to his home to meet his family.
He just turned four.
Now that I think about it he does call his backpack his "turtle shell". That's Mario again.
However, the kid's 4, and he has some seriously fucked up parents -- he'd still have serious behavioral issues, Mario or no. A 14 year old has no such excuse.
Gotta love it when trolls like the parent get modded up. Had the article mentioned trillions of write cycles, he'd be asking for quadrillions.
n ow-with-32gb-of-solid-state-disk/
According to wikipedia:
"most commercially available flash products are guaranteed to withstand 1 million programming cycles" -- the days of 10,000 write-cycle devices are long over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
Additionally, "Wear Leveling" spreads writes out over the whole of the device, greatly increasing MTBF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling
If the state of flash was really so dismal, sony wouldn't be releasing a system with a solid state drive:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/26/sonys-vaio-ux-
Nor would these guys have any products at all:
http://www.solidaccess.com/
It's faster, quieter, hardier (you can drop it -- there are no moving parts), uses less power, and MTBF is comperable these days. Flash drives are viable alternatives to hard disks -- the main barrier at this point is price.
Are they going to be accepting the same 'couple cents per user' deal, or are they getting something special? Are they going to get some sort of "GameTap Premium" deal, where users actually have to shell out an extra couple bucks a month to play those specific games?
It seems there are only two ways releasing on gametap could be a good business decision:
1) You invest very little in the game, so that cents per user is actually a good deal
2) You get a better deal than say, Sonic the Hedgehog is getting, and actually get a couple bucks per user
I don't think anyone's been killed by a computer-ignorant octogenarian checking his email.
People have been killed by those not fit to drive. (And it's worth noting that the system hasn't proven too good at keeping those people off the road, by the way)
Ignorant computer users pose a minimal risk to life and property.
Theoretically, in the 'land of the free', we don't legislate activities that pose little risk to otherwise uninvolved parties. Of course, there are numerous examples of this not actually happening in reality, but that's beside the point.
Why invite the government where it's not absolutely needed?
As much as I'd love to agree with you, your average user doesn't *care* what the computer's doing, or what their options are. They just want their email. They don't *want* to know any more than they absolutely have to.
That, bundled with way too many dialogs asking them questions they don't know the answers to, has resulted in the "Just click yes" reflex.
By way of example -- the first time you submit a form in any browser, you get that "You're about to send unsecured information over the internet!" dialog. Do you know *anyone* who's ever pressed anything other than the "Never tell me this again" button?
Sure, it tells the user exactly what the computer's doing, but honestly, it's just not useful. Either you already understand what that means, and don't need the dialog at all, or you haven't a god damn clue -- in which case, a 12-word dialog isn't really going to educate you on HTTP, packet sniffing, SSL, and HTML forms.
My fiance just started as a teller at a Wells Fargo. She says that people come in with questions exactly like that every single day, along with "I need a cashiers check to send to this nice man in Nigeria", and
"I just got an email saying I won the Canadian Lottery, and I need a cashiers check for $4,000 to cover the taxes"
"Did you ever _enter_ the Canadian lottery?"
"No."
"I hate to tell you this ma'am, but it's a scam."
Every god damn day.
Have you ever seen what those tuners do when you hit more than one string at a time?
There are midi guitars/pickups out there, but they're pretty rare.
http://home.epix.net/~joelc/midi_git.html
Anyway, I actually play a little guitar, and I still loved guitar hero. If I wanted to play a real guitar, I would. You might as well ask why people play driving games when there's a real car in their garage.