The FBI wouldn't be tracking him if he was actually "a 20 year old community college student who has never done anything [wrong]",
Exactly! Government agencies never do anything wrong and never target innocent citizens! All hail our three lettered overlords!
take into consideration that he is a Muslim. The Mozzies idea of "not doing anything wrong" includes vandalising war memorials, sending hate letters to soldiers and sometimes even planting bombs. Their idea of right and wrong is reversed by the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad (may piss be upon him)
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
probably inherited money. I have known a couple of idiots inherit money. One didn't keep it for long either - but at least he is happy that his "donations" to the televangelist brought him a place in heaven! The other idiot takes things the other way, won't spend any of it.
Major release numbers are the new minor release numbers. Its just fashion, and will probably go back the other way when we are on firefox 72 and chrome 84
Fifty thousand sounds like an outrageous figure. I can start (and have started) a company for MUCH MUCH less than that. "The Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability" *cough* BS *cough*. And their second choice is the UK? What the hell? Are these people naive or just lazy? For a borderless organization, it simply strains belief that they would choose a business-hostile jurisdiction to incorporate under. Hell, I could make some phone calls and have a Hong Kong company up and running by the end of next week. Even if they wanted to stay in Europe for some reason, aren't there friendly jurisdictions like Luxembourg or Andorra or something? The equivalent to Delaware? I smell a rat, someone (or someone's cousin, fraternity brother, etc.) is making some cash off this deal.
You could have RTFA and saved yourself a rant.
"After thorough investigation, the Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability, not only for our users, but also for adopters, developers and enterprises," Foundation founder Florian Effenberger claimed in a statement released today. "To achieve this stability, a capital stock of at least €50,000 is considered best practice in Germany."
In other words they could probably get a €100 company the same as you can in the UK but it is considered best practice to have capital funding (a nominal stock value)
All the other browsers are adopting a decent security model with process separation and enforced sand boxing of plugins and tabs. How about catching up with some decent engineering, instead of another GUI mock up?
They are doing as part of the electrolysyis project, though I can't see how this fits in with their release roadmap.
Good luck with that. I am sure you will be able to get all those Muslim countries to sign up to the ground rules for the Internet right after they sign up for gender equality, freedom of religion, freedoms of speech and the end of forced marriage, "honour" killings, and victimisation of minorities.
Shame about flash - whereas I don't like Apple's draconian banning of the whole technology it leads to a lot of real, heavyweight web pages, and really preentation should be dealt with via the browser and not a plugin (via HTML5)
Is anyone else angered at the prospect of using US taxpayer monies to build out a backbone to be given to, and then resold to us by the big carriers at rates that the rest of the world finds laughable?
I misread that first as "I have a $320 MSI netbook and a cheap date palm". Somehow sitting under a date palm and browsing the internet seems very appealing compared to winter in the UK.
Actually they will gradually shutdown Symbian. As for MeeGo, they will release a N900-esque one off device this year at MWC, but just like it's predecessor, expect it to starve off due to neglect.
Wonder what Nokia will do with Qt? It has no use in WP7, and the few measly MeeGo phones they provide will not support the continued expense of maintaining Trolltech.
Is it a loss to open source? I think that anyone can fork the GPL or LGPL versions. It would be more of a loss for commercial Qt users. Interestingly I think that you could develop commercial applications for the LGPL version, as long as you released the source to any changes to the Qt code.
There are many areas where the overheads of arbitrary-precision arithmetic are not acceptable. There are also areas where arbitrary-precision arithmetic is not good enough, and systems that formally deal with irrational numbers like or 3 or rationals like 1/3 with recurring binary and decimal representations. Mathematical formulas to ensure that roundoff errors are well conditioned and don't accumulate are well understood by people who have complex computational needs.
Your assertion that you can "just use big decimal" is like someone who put a shed together telling an architect that you can ensure that a structure is strong enough by bunging in a few extra nails.
No. Unconstrained user input will be. If you're not already checking the user input before passing it along, you're a fucking idiot and this bug is the LEAST of your worries.
There are a few niche cases, like calculators and spreadsheets, where the constrained input could validly include the input. The assertion in comments to the article that quality values in HTTP headers cause this problem do not come into this category, as the standard says that only three digits after the decimal should be sent.
The article makes it clear that the problem is in FloatingDecimal.java. It is converting decimal strings to floating point numbers - fp arithmetic is fine!
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The FBI wouldn't be tracking him if he was actually "a 20 year old community college student who has never done anything [wrong]",
Exactly! Government agencies never do anything wrong and never target innocent citizens! All hail our three lettered overlords!
take into consideration that he is a Muslim. The Mozzies idea of "not doing anything wrong" includes vandalising war memorials, sending hate letters to soldiers and sometimes even planting bombs. Their idea of right and wrong is reversed by the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad (may piss be upon him)
I'll be pleased to pay this tax. My bank charges me already a 15€ fee per transaction!
It is your bank, other banks , and brokerage houses who the tax is supposed to affect. They don't pay these fees!
Doing something remotely productive increases your self-esteem.
So does posting on slashdot.
never heard of him
If earthquakes and environmental damage are a small price, then what would be a big price?
supporting the mozzies
How do people this stupid have $200,000 to begin with?
I've worked hard for many years, and while my lifestyle isn't excessive, I still don't have anywhere near that kind of money to throw around even if I was getting laid by a real girlfriend.
This guy gave "her" $200k and never even got a blow?
Wow, where do I find suckers like this? I need the cash.
probably inherited money. I have known a couple of idiots inherit money. One didn't keep it for long either - but at least he is happy that his "donations" to the televangelist brought him a place in heaven! The other idiot takes things the other way, won't spend any of it.
Major release numbers are the new minor release numbers. Its just fashion, and will probably go back the other way when we are on firefox 72 and chrome 84
Why does a non-profit need stock?
I would want a good answer to that before I donated any money to them
Fifty thousand sounds like an outrageous figure. I can start (and have started) a company for MUCH MUCH less than that. "The Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability" *cough* BS *cough*. And their second choice is the UK? What the hell? Are these people naive or just lazy? For a borderless organization, it simply strains belief that they would choose a business-hostile jurisdiction to incorporate under. Hell, I could make some phone calls and have a Hong Kong company up and running by the end of next week. Even if they wanted to stay in Europe for some reason, aren't there friendly jurisdictions like Luxembourg or Andorra or something? The equivalent to Delaware? I smell a rat, someone (or someone's cousin, fraternity brother, etc.) is making some cash off this deal.
You could have RTFA and saved yourself a rant.
"After thorough investigation, the Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability, not only for our users, but also for adopters, developers and enterprises," Foundation founder Florian Effenberger claimed in a statement released today. "To achieve this stability, a capital stock of at least €50,000 is considered best practice in Germany."
In other words they could probably get a €100 company the same as you can in the UK but it is considered best practice to have capital funding (a nominal stock value)
.. a perfect storm of SQL injection, weak passwords, weak encryption, password re-use, unpatched servers, and social engineering.
Not the people I would go to for security advice
An appropriate name, Manu the progenitor of mankind donates his genetic legacy to mankind.
All the other browsers are adopting a decent security model with process separation and enforced sand boxing of plugins and tabs. How about catching up with some decent engineering, instead of another GUI mock up?
They are doing as part of the electrolysyis project, though I can't see how this fits in with their release roadmap.
Good luck with that. I am sure you will be able to get all those Muslim countries to sign up to the ground rules for the Internet right after they sign up for gender equality, freedom of religion, freedoms of speech and the end of forced marriage, "honour" killings, and victimisation of minorities.
Shame about flash - whereas I don't like Apple's draconian banning of the whole technology it leads to a lot of real, heavyweight web pages, and really preentation should be dealt with via the browser and not a plugin (via HTML5)
Or "don't show your facebook"
They should start their own. They could call it Muzzibook
Is anyone else angered at the prospect of using US taxpayer monies to build out a backbone to be given to, and then resold to us by the big carriers at rates that the rest of the world finds laughable?
No. But then I'm not American.
I have a $320 MSI netbook and a cheap data plan
I misread that first as "I have a $320 MSI netbook and a cheap date palm". Somehow sitting under a date palm and browsing the internet seems very appealing compared to winter in the UK.
Sure seemed like the poster was talking about the Republicans as Cancer....
More like the monarchy is cancer and republicans the cure
Actually they will gradually shutdown Symbian. As for MeeGo, they will release a N900-esque one off device this year at MWC, but just like it's predecessor, expect it to starve off due to neglect.
Wonder what Nokia will do with Qt? It has no use in WP7, and the few measly MeeGo phones they provide will not support the continued expense of maintaining Trolltech.
To me, it's a massive loss for Open source.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/rip-symbian/
Is it a loss to open source? I think that anyone can fork the GPL or LGPL versions. It would be more of a loss for commercial Qt users. Interestingly I think that you could develop commercial applications for the LGPL version, as long as you released the source to any changes to the Qt code.
Last time I checked your mother was all woman.
His mother had a sex change op since then.
What about Morse code? You can use a single frequency, and convey information by simply switching it on and off.
Which will create a sideband. Very small and narrow for the normal rate of Morse code, but present none the less.
There are many areas where the overheads of arbitrary-precision arithmetic are not acceptable. There are also areas where arbitrary-precision arithmetic is not good enough, and systems that formally deal with irrational numbers like or 3 or rationals like 1/3 with recurring binary and decimal representations. Mathematical formulas to ensure that roundoff errors are well conditioned and don't accumulate are well understood by people who have complex computational needs.
Your assertion that you can "just use big decimal" is like someone who put a shed together telling an architect that you can ensure that a structure is strong enough by bunging in a few extra nails.
No. Unconstrained user input will be. If you're not already checking the user input before passing it along, you're a fucking idiot and this bug is the LEAST of your worries.
There are a few niche cases, like calculators and spreadsheets, where the constrained input could validly include the input. The assertion in comments to the article that quality values in HTTP headers cause this problem do not come into this category, as the standard says that only three digits after the decimal should be sent.
The article makes it clear that the problem is in FloatingDecimal.java. It is converting decimal strings to floating point numbers - fp arithmetic is fine!