I thought the definition of "zero-day" was an exploit issued on the same day as a patch or fix. eg. a new patch is sent out, but contains ANOTHER security hole. Someone issues a new exploit based on said hole on the same day is said to have issued a zero-day exploit.
This sounds like someone picking up on the word "zero-day" and making it sound more dramatic than it really is.
There is (was?) a chain of high-end VR and immersive games playground here in Canada (not sure if it is in the States as well) called Playdium. One of the coolest games I ever played was in the West Edmonton Mall called "Combatica". Essentially, you and your opponent played a DoA-style deathfest game BUT you actually did the moves while a camera/laser scanned your movements. Absolutely amazing and very, very tiring. My sister ended up literally tearing my head off in a best of three. So cool.
As long as the board agrees to the merger, the PP (well, actually, this is the CAP part of the PP agreement. The PP itself was a stock flood, as is per normal of poison pills) is null and void. The PP was designed to halt a *hostile* takeover attempt. This is no longer hostile. Also, Ellison has stated that they will continue to offer excellent (yeah, yeah, it's subjective) support to PSFT customers for the next 10 years or so.
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Has anyone tried to see if there is a hidden message in it via steganography? Unfortunately, I can't get access to www.sco.com because my stupid employer has blocked www.sco.com. Must be because it violates the "unethical for the workplace" policy of our network use.:-)
You should sign up for the direct-to-dvd poll they're running over there http://www.fireflymovie.com/directdvd.html. I would honestly pay $6-9 per episode (probably closer to $6), which is approx. half the price of a movie ticket (given a 60 minute ep).
Also, there is some interesting stuff on guerilla marketing. One of the best (and easiest) idea is to write "Firefly: Keep on Flying" on your dollar bills. People will inherently wonder what it's all about. Those saavy enough will plug it into Google and *bam*.
Whoever modded this offtopic obviously has no idea as to the reference...
It was from "Throw Momma From the Train" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/) and Danny Devito's character wrote a godawful short story that started this way.
I didn't read the FA, but I doubt it would answer this question. Perhaps someone in the know might be able to answer. Why is the data segment executable in the first place? Seems to me that this would help avoid most of the "buffer overrun allowing arbitrary code to execute" problems. Non executable data segment means that you can only read and write. If you try to break the boundary of the data segment in an attempt to cross into the code segment...well, you get a GPF.
So I wonder how long it will be before each story has a "other cool stories that got rejected" thread in it? It might be the story peer-moderation that Slashdot has been sorely lacking since the beginning. Moderators can use their mod points to inc/dec the score for interesting -- and certainly geek-newsworthy stories like this one.
The stock market is not gambling. This is a myth perpetuated by those who do not understand the stock market, capitalism, or gambling. The fundamental aspect of gambling is that it is a zero sum game. You win, someone else had to lose. You lose, someone else takes your money.
The stock market on the other hand, has two things going for it: products (or services) are generated as a direct result of investors buying stock, and more importantly, it is not a zero sum game. If you "win" (ie. make money), it does not necessarily mean that someone else "lost" (lost money). Case in point: person X sells 100 shares of a company at P for a profit. Person Y bought the shares from them (simplified) at P+e (e = commission and/or bid/ask spread, etc.). Down the road, person Y sells their shares for Q>(P+e) and in so doing ALSO makes a profit. No one was on the losing side of this situation.
Of course, there are situations in the market that can result in gambling: people who hold equal, but opposite positions on an instrument (short & long). If the stock goes up, the shorts lose money and the longs win money. If the stock goes down, the longs lose money and the shorts win money. This is one example; others abound, but the case above, still holds.
Repeat after me: the stock market is *not* gambling.
Your myth #3 is incorrect. If people STOP looking for jobs then the unemployment rate is going to be considered artificially low.
What Canadian business refers to as the "unemployed people" (U) are those people who are NOT working but are ACTIVELY looking for work. People who are "participating" (P) in the job market are actually either working or actively looking for work. Thus:
I swear to god. You can't make this stuff up. Our financial institution actually ran (past tense -- I'm converting it) a cluster of PCs all running Excel for pricing hugely complex financial products.
After finally getting my hands on the underlying VBA code, I printed it out. It was 56 pages of data movement (copy this piece of data from here to there). The actual pricing code was built as an add-in module and used as a formula.
The only reason for this system's existance is that several years ago someone heard about clustering PCs. They decided that it would be cool to do it with MS Windows and Excel. Gah. It's been an expensive mistake.
We have a startup company in Canada called Dexit that does this -- though it's not technically anonymous, it won't stop Random Joe from stealing your Dexit card and using it. Of course, the business needs to have the Dexit reader.
Win98SE has been running for more than 2 consecutive months inside of a VMWare shell running under RH Linux. I have noticed that the stability of SE actually increases quite substantially under VMWare. And yes, I run stupid things like Photoshop, Premier, and all of the MS tools inside of it (at the same time -- we're not talking one at a time, here). No problem. The apps die sometimes (though rarely) but I probably have a world record for uptime with an MS desktop OS (pre-2000).:-)
Has anyone else noticed this? I wonder why. I wonder if VMWare protects itself better than the hardware?
The Halifax Explosion was and still remains the single largest non-nuclear explosion on record. Look it up. It's amazing. Having lived there for most of my life, I can tell you there are still signs of it. The history is amazing.
A friend of mine wrote an algorithm for a QA system called 'diet' for his Master's thesis. Several support tools having names like 'trim', 'lowfat', etc. were added to the set. This QA system placed in the top of the world in TREC 9 and 10...Of course, the name was changed for the paper to something a bit more academically professional...
He describes the title of the POET book as a "case history of design". However, after musing about the psychology and the clever acronym, he quickly follows up with some advice worthy of any user-interface designer: "Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated, beware -- it is probably self-indulgence."
In any case, the book is wonderful, insightful, and quite funny to read. I do some HCI work myself, but my gf read this book without any knowledge of UI and loved it on it's own.
You may also want to check out Interface Culture by Steven Johnson. This book not only discusses interfaces from an electronic viewpoint, but how it affects daily life. An interesting and insightful read, as well.
That shitbag happens to be me. I will return it in a few days disguised as a lesser known work as a "gift" to the institute. After a bizarre scheme, the original works will be restored -- I'm sure it will have something to do with water paints and the like. I haven't yet thought it through.
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I thought the definition of "zero-day" was an exploit issued on the same day as a patch or fix. eg. a new patch is sent out, but contains ANOTHER security hole. Someone issues a new exploit based on said hole on the same day is said to have issued a zero-day exploit. This sounds like someone picking up on the word "zero-day" and making it sound more dramatic than it really is.
There is (was?) a chain of high-end VR and immersive games playground here in Canada (not sure if it is in the States as well) called Playdium. One of the coolest games I ever played was in the West Edmonton Mall called "Combatica". Essentially, you and your opponent played a DoA-style deathfest game BUT you actually did the moves while a camera/laser scanned your movements. Absolutely amazing and very, very tiring. My sister ended up literally tearing my head off in a best of three. So cool.
As long as the board agrees to the merger, the PP (well, actually, this is the CAP part of the PP agreement. The PP itself was a stock flood, as is per normal of poison pills) is null and void. The PP was designed to halt a *hostile* takeover attempt. This is no longer hostile. Also, Ellison has stated that they will continue to offer excellent (yeah, yeah, it's subjective) support to PSFT customers for the next 10 years or so.
Has anyone tried to see if there is a hidden message in it via steganography? Unfortunately, I can't get access to www.sco.com because my stupid employer has blocked www.sco.com. Must be because it violates the "unethical for the workplace" policy of our network use. :-)
Also, there is some interesting stuff on guerilla marketing. One of the best (and easiest) idea is to write "Firefly: Keep on Flying" on your dollar bills. People will inherently wonder what it's all about. Those saavy enough will plug it into Google and *bam*.
It was from "Throw Momma From the Train" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/) and Danny Devito's character wrote a godawful short story that started this way.
Hilarious movie. :-)
I didn't read the FA, but I doubt it would answer this question. Perhaps someone in the know might be able to answer. Why is the data segment executable in the first place? Seems to me that this would help avoid most of the "buffer overrun allowing arbitrary code to execute" problems. Non executable data segment means that you can only read and write. If you try to break the boundary of the data segment in an attempt to cross into the code segment...well, you get a GPF.
So I wonder how long it will be before each story has a "other cool stories that got rejected" thread in it? It might be the story peer-moderation that Slashdot has been sorely lacking since the beginning. Moderators can use their mod points to inc/dec the score for interesting -- and certainly geek-newsworthy stories like this one.
There's a response attached to the parent that describes a situation I forgot to include: dividends pay out regardless of whether you sell.
The stock market on the other hand, has two things going for it: products (or services) are generated as a direct result of investors buying stock, and more importantly, it is not a zero sum game. If you "win" (ie. make money), it does not necessarily mean that someone else "lost" (lost money). Case in point: person X sells 100 shares of a company at P for a profit. Person Y bought the shares from them (simplified) at P+e (e = commission and/or bid/ask spread, etc.). Down the road, person Y sells their shares for Q>(P+e) and in so doing ALSO makes a profit. No one was on the losing side of this situation.
Of course, there are situations in the market that can result in gambling: people who hold equal, but opposite positions on an instrument (short & long). If the stock goes up, the shorts lose money and the longs win money. If the stock goes down, the longs lose money and the shorts win money. This is one example; others abound, but the case above, still holds.
Repeat after me: the stock market is *not* gambling.
EasyDNS also supports SPF.
"In Canada, this is considered lingerie."
What Canadian business refers to as the "unemployed people" (U) are those people who are NOT working but are ACTIVELY looking for work. People who are "participating" (P) in the job market are actually either working or actively looking for work. Thus:
P >= Actual unemployment figures >= U
I swear to god. You can't make this stuff up. Our financial institution actually ran (past tense -- I'm converting it) a cluster of PCs all running Excel for pricing hugely complex financial products.
After finally getting my hands on the underlying VBA code, I printed it out. It was 56 pages of data movement (copy this piece of data from here to there). The actual pricing code was built as an add-in module and used as a formula.
The only reason for this system's existance is that several years ago someone heard about clustering PCs. They decided that it would be cool to do it with MS Windows and Excel. Gah. It's been an expensive mistake.
We have a startup company in Canada called Dexit that does this -- though it's not technically anonymous, it won't stop Random Joe from stealing your Dexit card and using it. Of course, the business needs to have the Dexit reader.
Has anyone else noticed this? I wonder why. I wonder if VMWare protects itself better than the hardware?
The Halifax Explosion was and still remains the single largest non-nuclear explosion on record. Look it up. It's amazing. Having lived there for most of my life, I can tell you there are still signs of it. The history is amazing.
To quote Arnold: "Get your butt to Mars!" Only on the TBS Superstation version...
A friend of mine wrote an algorithm for a QA system called 'diet' for his Master's thesis. Several support tools having names like 'trim', 'lowfat', etc. were added to the set. This QA system placed in the top of the world in TREC 9 and 10...Of course, the name was changed for the paper to something a bit more academically professional...
He describes the title of the POET book as a "case history of design". However, after musing about the psychology and the clever acronym, he quickly follows up with some advice worthy of any user-interface designer: "Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated, beware -- it is probably self-indulgence."
In any case, the book is wonderful, insightful, and quite funny to read. I do some HCI work myself, but my gf read this book without any knowledge of UI and loved it on it's own.
You may also want to check out Interface Culture by Steven Johnson. This book not only discusses interfaces from an electronic viewpoint, but how it affects daily life. An interesting and insightful read, as well.
No. Real gaming machines affect the thermostat.
By several degrees.
That shitbag happens to be me. I will return it in a few days disguised as a lesser known work as a "gift" to the institute. After a bizarre scheme, the original works will be restored -- I'm sure it will have something to do with water paints and the like. I haven't yet thought it through.
The article states that the device uses the body's natural conductivity. Hence, there should be no issues regarding those with pace-makers.
My sword of water beats your armour of electricity.
Linux host + VMWare + Win98SE guest = crashproof Win98SE.