I particularly like the quote from your reference: "Nuclear fusion has all the problems of nuclear power, including producing nuclear waste" Oh no HELIUM!!!.
This problem was announced several days ago (21st) - though not mentioned on/. until the 22nd and only indirectly. It could have been that Opera (and other browser developers) were informed before Secunia released the warning, and they fixed it during the release of 8.01.
However, since the "fix" is only to indicate the name of the site launching the pop-up, this may have been a preventative measure included independently to prevent problems similar to the previous vulnerability.
It appears that before poor drug trial results were announced for Zocor, a higher percentage (24%) of people were negative about Zocor than after the trial results were released (13%). It doesn't matter that the amount of negative comments rose, just that the percentage dropped. (The related traffic quadrupled, so there were twice as many bad comments.)
I'm not convinced that the money is being well spent by these companies. They could give it to me (or grub).
Well, the examples used in TFA (Job Centre and Odeon) seem to work fine in Opera (once I figured out that they need the www in front).
I have in the past experienced problems with sites that didn't work properly (as recently as yesterday) in Opera, but worked fine in IE. The typical problem was poor web site design.
News note: Opera has recentlyannounced a security patch to bring Opera to 8.01. This was to fix three holes
(A,
B,
C)
announced at the time, as well as
one
announced later.
The Macintosh version 8.0 has also been recently released, so that they can enjoy modern Opera as well.
The fault lies at the feet (or fingers) of web designers who have coded as if there were one browser in existance (or possibly two) and whose websites would not render if anything else came by, even if the browser was more than fully capable. (This is a long standing complaint of mine, and is not strictly an Opera problem.)
Oh good, it's not just me then. I first thought "Oh, bittorrent is a UDP protocol?"
No, it appears that bittorrent is the (current) leader in TCP traffic. [fogey]Rather like when the binary groups were the largest traffic generator in USEnet.[/ fogey]
Interestingly Canada, with a large broadband base, is only ranked at number 11 *per capita*
As is Korea not even appearing on the top 20.
The big thing I read from this was
"attacks are now focusing [...] on weaknesses in the DDoS mitigation devices that have been deployed to stop DDoS attacks. Prolexic has seen a 100% failure rate of several DDoS mitigation devices."
Instead of protecting your services/networks, you now have to protect your protection devices.
It seems that planet's gravity is quite big for "earthlike" planet.
At twice the radius, this would give a surface gravity of about 1.5 earth normal. (The ~2.0g value posted elsewhere is for the "more probable" mass.)
Is life possible at all under such gravity?
Sure - there would be a bit more cardiac wear and tear having to pump heavier blood around, but it should be survivable.
Any examples?
Well, there's
Anne McCaffrey's "heavy-worlders".
Oh, you wanted "real life"... about the only thing would be the acceleration felt for short term things (rocket launches).
I'm not sure why people have been posting about external pressure. We'd have no good method of estimating the atmospheric conditions (other than as TFA points out, it would be rather warm for life as we know it).
Caveat: I have not installed Acrylic yet. I did successfully download it - in one attempt, maybe I should be proud enough of that.
However, I did take a look at the included release notes which plainly state:
Known Issues
Pixel painting has not yet been optimized and the performance is slow. Optimization work is currently in progress and drastically improved performance will be delivered in the final release.
Importing of.ai files can results in blank documents and under some circumstances application instability.
Exporting to non-.xpr vector formats does not persist pixel layer data.
The reviewer comments: "Another problem is that Acrylic is slow" in the pixel manipulation part.
The idea is to test stuff that isn't known to perform badly. To do so is hardly sporting...
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*THE* code of conduct? Not *A* code of conduct?
No, that was "Free Software [tm]" (TradeMarked property of the Free Software Foundation). You missed the Capital Letters.
Just as in "The GPL is the Constitution of the Free Software[TM] Movement"...
Note of bias - I have in the past refused to release software under the GPL as it was overly restrictive. (On the other hand, I have GPLed some. What can I say, I'm a hypocrit.)
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If it never ends, how do you get to the end?
Correct you are. Yoda, there only one of is. And here among you appeared he has. Strong am I with the Force.
(Better would it work, if more like Kermit the Frog sounded I.)
I for one welcome our new Titanic overlords and am more than willing to rat out those who mistake them for Jovians.
Um "what makes you X so Y?" ... the phrasing is inflamitory.
Either that, or someone took exception to you proclaming yourself a geek and in the same post saying "I used to go out with a woman".
I particularly like the quote from your reference: "Nuclear fusion has all the problems of nuclear power, including producing nuclear waste" Oh no HELIUM!!!.
I'm guessing here, but I'm not sure they'd be able to separate that from their normal phone traffic.
Thanks. Site was /.'ed after your comment was posted.
What other browsers (non-IE) do / have done don't matter to the unwashed masses of internet abusers.
And yes, I am an Opera fan.
Not since I started with Proxomitron, but with Opera, you can turn off javascript by
F12 J
However, since the "fix" is only to indicate the name of the site launching the pop-up, this may have been a preventative measure included independently to prevent problems similar to the previous vulnerability.
Further readings seem to be here and here.
It appears that before poor drug trial results were announced for Zocor, a higher percentage (24%) of people were negative about Zocor than after the trial results were released (13%). It doesn't matter that the amount of negative comments rose, just that the percentage dropped. (The related traffic quadrupled, so there were twice as many bad comments.)
I'm not convinced that the money is being well spent by these companies. They could give it to me (or grub).
I have in the past experienced problems with sites that didn't work properly (as recently as yesterday) in Opera, but worked fine in IE. The typical problem was poor web site design.
Make the web a nicer place.
News note: Opera has recently announced a security patch to bring Opera to 8.01. This was to fix three holes (A, B, C) announced at the time, as well as one announced later.
The Macintosh version 8.0 has also been recently released, so that they can enjoy modern Opera as well.
The fault lies at the feet (or fingers) of web designers who have coded as if there were one browser in existance (or possibly two) and whose websites would not render if anything else came by, even if the browser was more than fully capable. (This is a long standing complaint of mine, and is not strictly an Opera problem.)
Lofting with balloons would be a better way to go.
Of course, the irony is that this factoid shows the whole thread to be incorrect in that Soviet Russia did give up.
Oh good, it's not just me then. I first thought "Oh, bittorrent is a UDP protocol?"
No, it appears that bittorrent is the (current) leader in TCP traffic. [fogey]Rather like when the binary groups were the largest traffic generator in USEnet.[/ fogey]
Oh right, asleep.
As is Korea not even appearing on the top 20.
The big thing I read from this was "attacks are now focusing [...] on weaknesses in the DDoS mitigation devices that have been deployed to stop DDoS attacks. Prolexic has seen a 100% failure rate of several DDoS mitigation devices."
Instead of protecting your services/networks, you now have to protect your protection devices.
I just think this is a nifty picture.
At twice the radius, this would give a surface gravity of about 1.5 earth normal. (The ~2.0g value posted elsewhere is for the "more probable" mass.)
Is life possible at all under such gravity?
Sure - there would be a bit more cardiac wear and tear having to pump heavier blood around, but it should be survivable.
Any examples?
Well, there's Anne McCaffrey's "heavy-worlders". Oh, you wanted "real life" ... about the only thing would be the acceleration felt for short term things (rocket launches).
I'm not sure why people have been posting about external pressure. We'd have no good method of estimating the atmospheric conditions (other than as TFA points out, it would be rather warm for life as we know it).
The planet I thought of first was Fenris.
So, for his PhD, he's working in Algol, APL and Fortran? (Given my .sig, I should include BCPL. I won't.)
However, I did take a look at the included release notes which plainly state:
Known Issues
- Pixel painting has not yet been optimized and the performance is slow. Optimization work is currently in progress and drastically improved performance will be delivered in the final release.
- Importing of
.ai files can results in blank documents and under some circumstances application instability.
- Exporting to non-.xpr vector formats does not persist pixel layer data.
The reviewer comments: "Another problem is that Acrylic is slow" in the pixel manipulation part.The idea is to test stuff that isn't known to perform badly. To do so is hardly sporting ...
No, that was "Free Software [tm]" (TradeMarked property of the Free Software Foundation). You missed the Capital Letters.
Just as in "The GPL is the Constitution of the Free Software [TM] Movement" ...
Note of bias - I have in the past refused to release software under the GPL as it was overly restrictive. (On the other hand, I have GPLed some. What can I say, I'm a hypocrit.)