Yea, I'm Irish but there's not much of that stuff over here as yet, by which I mean people ringing you from your bank about stuff (unless they want money, of course). As with most things, the best way to respond to your bank seems to be 'don't call us, we'll call you.
That's as succinct a way as I've seen anyone put advice on phishing, I'll file that one away for the next time I'm lecturing someone on spam, viruses and phishing:o]
Another way of explaining it person-to-person would be to ask them if they got a phonecall on their mobile phone by someone saying they were from their bank, would they actually give out their detiails? Sure as hell they wouldn't.
That said, I'm sure Nike (the sportswear makers) wouldn't mind having the planet named Nike. They can probably use it in an advertising campaign or something. Also, quasi-planet Nike would be around for much longer than sportswear-Nike. Nothing lasts forever.
Hehe, I was going to quote this, but you beat me to it- I thought the weapon involved was a shotgun. Anyway it's a nice analogy, but not for the ballerina.
To "Remove the barrier" is the perfect description for what apple have done; I was staring into a summer of buying yet more windows equipment so that I could set up for a new job- a DVD-ROM project that involves some HD video editing, 3d modelling with 3DS MAX, lots of work with Flash, Photoshop and a little Director to mount my Flash movie on.
I've invested an incredible amount of time in learning 3DS MAX, which isn't cross-platform so I had to go for a PC if I wanted a workstation to use it on. Now, I can do my HD Video editing (with final cut Pro!), Flash and Director authoring in OSX where it's nice and comfortable and stable, and reboot to 3ds MAX to do my 3D work.
Some people have a lot of time and training invested in Windows- only products (even an app as simple as Sage is, I think, windows only (I might be wrong), raising a barrier to using OSX. If you can run windows for your 20% time on a particular app, and enjoy the comfort of OSX when you're using common applications, then there are very few reasons not to make the switch.
As for me, I'm buying a MacBook Pro and maybe an iMac for personal use, and my new employer is going to buy an Intel workstation (when at last they come out) as my main workstation. That'll be 6000 worth of hardware that Apple couldn't have sold us 2 weeks ago.
Apples' hardware sales are going to jump massively.
I hope NASA didn't spend more than a few hundred bucks on this site, but as a designer I know what some people will charge for the shoddiest work, and it makes me want to hang my head in shame.
I wouldn't be surprised if this site was put together by a placement student (intern) from a multimedia design course, who didn't seem to have much to do at NASA and someone gave them this project to do. The site is full of so many basic HCI mistakes that it makes me wonder if it wasn't even an intern but a high school student who put this thing together. And the use of sound is SO fucking annoying.
It makes me mad to see Flash abused like this, when people see a shitty, annoying, pointless (and badly drawn) site like this it demeans their perception of Flash as a serious authoring environment.
Also what's with the shitty URL? Couldn't someone be arsed setting up nasa.gov/kids ? Probably someone realised their mistake and wanted to 86 the site as soon as possible. Well they're on slashdot now and deserve to be ripped a new one.
Heh, right, as if that shuttle PC is even nearly as small as a Mac Mini.
Have you even seen a mac mini and a shuttle next to each other? A shuttle is about 1/4 the size of a normal PC, but the mini is roughly 1/4 the size of a shuttle. And good luck cooling a shuttle, too.
Sorry, by 'you pass your request into your pre-written function which has any request-related security processes written into it' I did mean server-side because of course, yes, anything that comes out of your box can be monkeyed with and you can only really, really validate input security-wise on the server side. Heh, I shoulda been clearer:o)
I agree. I started out using Mac desktop computers when I was 11-13 years old, and eventually ended up going over to The Dark Side and using desktop PCs, mostly because they're what the school was using, and then for the easier gaming situation and general compatibility-with-other computer issues.
I just started considering getting my first laptop (at the age of 23 now:o) ) and was considering a windows laptop because I'm a multimedia designer and felt stuck with XP and those few things I felt I could only do on a PC like 3D with my chosen app, 3DS Max.
However the chance to have my XP discomfot zone there just in case I need it means I'm now in my mind 70% in favour of getting myself a gorgeous 17" MacBook Pro, and keeping XP there 'just in case'.
The bottom line is, this app will sell computers, introduce and reintroduce people to OSX and the world will be a nicer, fluffier place for it.
And Bill Gates, finally, can bite my shiny white ass. Heh.
It should also be possible to add a function that you run for each http request that filters the request for common attacks, and also handles the key the parent talks about.
So when you're writing a command to make a request, you pass your request into your pre-written function which has any request-related security processes written into it. This way things are reasonably seamless in that you don't have to worry about security every time. I think.
/relative JS noob who writes a lot of actionscript so therefore *thinks* he knows a language;o)
Mmmmmmmmm okay, prior art on those things has long since escaped, but if the first publisher to offer subscription methods had tried to patent such an obvious idea, and if the first muti-checkout supermarket chain had tried to patent their 'multi-tierd customer service prioritisation system' then they should never have been granted those patents.
Netflix should never have been granted patents on something so obvious- online DVD rental is such a simple business model, and the queueing system is such a logical system for getting your DVDs sent out to you in the order you want that no-one should be able to just own such a simple idea.
Imagine if wal-mart 'owned' queueing, or the NY Times owned the subscription idea. That's the same thing as netflix trying owning the online rental idea and is utterly rediculous.
Actually, that's a really good idea, and gets around part of the problem. Maybe they can then introduce a customer bonus system that means they get their late fees back if they rent more than 5 movies in a year, thereby making the whole thing null and void for all customers.
OK so what if I go out and patent queueing at a shop checkout to pay for goods, or paying for magazines to be delivered to your home on a monthly basis, or, or........
This shit has to stop, I mean netflix are just being totally petty about the whole damn thing. I mean, what *other* way is there to organise online DVD rental? Are they going to enforce patents on their *whole* business model.
Maybe someone can also patent a robot that finds the fabled free-as-in-beer type beer, thereby having the robot pay for itself with free tasty beverages.
Also, I think we can start saying 'convenient as in beer' as opposed to 'convenient as in you're lying'.
I assumed that the downloaded movie would be encoded in H.264 with all the languages and stuff you'd get from a DVD. A 4.7GB dvd is lower quality than a 4.7GB (which is what these movie downloads better be) H.264 movie. Try watching a DVD on a projector- artefacts EVERYWHERE. Balls.
OK we can't really rely on DVD-Jon (since he's gone over to The Dark Side) but hopefully there's a DRM-Kristian or DRM-Sven out there to crack the encryption.
Having said that, the encryption can probably be updated each time a movie is released (to play this movie, click [here] to install latest player update"), making things much harder to crack. That said, there is no such thing as an unbreakable DRM system and i'm sure someone'll do it.
There's no way of making an optical (and therefore relatively permanent copy of these movies, therefore anyone who buys one online but whose HD Crashes/Mobo fries/computer is destroyed will have lost all the movies they bought more surely than if they'd been burgled and their DVD collection stolen.
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Yea, I'm Irish but there's not much of that stuff over here as yet, by which I mean people ringing you from your bank about stuff (unless they want money, of course). As with most things, the best way to respond to your bank seems to be 'don't call us, we'll call you.
That's as succinct a way as I've seen anyone put advice on phishing, I'll file that one away for the next time I'm lecturing someone on spam, viruses and phishing :o]
Another way of explaining it person-to-person would be to ask them if they got a phonecall on their mobile phone by someone saying they were from their bank, would they actually give out their detiails? Sure as hell they wouldn't.
That said, I'm sure Nike (the sportswear makers) wouldn't mind having the planet named Nike. They can probably use it in an advertising campaign or something. Also, quasi-planet Nike would be around for much longer than sportswear-Nike. Nothing lasts forever.
Steve? Steve Balmer is that you?
Hehe, I was going to quote this, but you beat me to it- I thought the weapon involved was a shotgun. Anyway it's a nice analogy, but not for the ballerina.
To "Remove the barrier" is the perfect description for what apple have done; I was staring into a summer of buying yet more windows equipment so that I could set up for a new job- a DVD-ROM project that involves some HD video editing, 3d modelling with 3DS MAX, lots of work with Flash, Photoshop and a little Director to mount my Flash movie on.
I've invested an incredible amount of time in learning 3DS MAX, which isn't cross-platform so I had to go for a PC if I wanted a workstation to use it on. Now, I can do my HD Video editing (with final cut Pro!), Flash and Director authoring in OSX where it's nice and comfortable and stable, and reboot to 3ds MAX to do my 3D work.
Some people have a lot of time and training invested in Windows- only products (even an app as simple as Sage is, I think, windows only (I might be wrong), raising a barrier to using OSX. If you can run windows for your 20% time on a particular app, and enjoy the comfort of OSX when you're using common applications, then there are very few reasons not to make the switch.
As for me, I'm buying a MacBook Pro and maybe an iMac for personal use, and my new employer is going to buy an Intel workstation (when at last they come out) as my main workstation. That'll be 6000 worth of hardware that Apple couldn't have sold us 2 weeks ago.
Apples' hardware sales are going to jump massively.
I hope NASA didn't spend more than a few hundred bucks on this site, but as a designer I know what some people will charge for the shoddiest work, and it makes me want to hang my head in shame.
I wouldn't be surprised if this site was put together by a placement student (intern) from a multimedia design course, who didn't seem to have much to do at NASA and someone gave them this project to do. The site is full of so many basic HCI mistakes that it makes me wonder if it wasn't even an intern but a high school student who put this thing together. And the use of sound is SO fucking annoying.
It makes me mad to see Flash abused like this, when people see a shitty, annoying, pointless (and badly drawn) site like this it demeans their perception of Flash as a serious authoring environment.
Also what's with the shitty URL? Couldn't someone be arsed setting up nasa.gov/kids ? Probably someone realised their mistake and wanted to 86 the site as soon as possible. Well they're on slashdot now and deserve to be ripped a new one.
Lady and gentlemen of Slashdot, do your worst.
It's up to the developers to decide to put a volume slider in. Flash has had that abilitiy since version 1.0.
Heh, right, as if that shuttle PC is even nearly as small as a Mac Mini.
Have you even seen a mac mini and a shuttle next to each other? A shuttle is about 1/4 the size of a normal PC, but the mini is roughly 1/4 the size of a shuttle. And good luck cooling a shuttle, too.
Absolutely, shopper. You may continue to enter personal information at will :o)
1. Look up in top left hand corner of browser.
/ms troll
2. If icon is a blue 'e' then you're vulnerable.
That is all.
Also, does he ever get viruses, the BSOD, spyware, spam, crashes, and driver conflits?
Or does he use a Mac?
Sorry, by 'you pass your request into your pre-written function which has any request-related security processes written into it' I did mean server-side because of course, yes, anything that comes out of your box can be monkeyed with and you can only really, really validate input security-wise on the server side. Heh, I shoulda been clearer :o)
I agree. I started out using Mac desktop computers when I was 11-13 years old, and eventually ended up going over to The Dark Side and using desktop PCs, mostly because they're what the school was using, and then for the easier gaming situation and general compatibility-with-other computer issues.
:o) ) and was considering a windows laptop because I'm a multimedia designer and felt stuck with XP and those few things I felt I could only do on a PC like 3D with my chosen app, 3DS Max.
I just started considering getting my first laptop (at the age of 23 now
However the chance to have my XP discomfot zone there just in case I need it means I'm now in my mind 70% in favour of getting myself a gorgeous 17" MacBook Pro, and keeping XP there 'just in case'.
The bottom line is, this app will sell computers, introduce and reintroduce people to OSX and the world will be a nicer, fluffier place for it.
And Bill Gates, finally, can bite my shiny white ass. Heh.
It should also be possible to add a function that you run for each http request that filters the request for common attacks, and also handles the key the parent talks about.
/relative JS noob who writes a lot of actionscript so therefore *thinks* he knows a language ;o)
So when you're writing a command to make a request, you pass your request into your pre-written function which has any request-related security processes written into it. This way things are reasonably seamless in that you don't have to worry about security every time. I think.
Yea like making their queue system drag and drop as opposed to click-to change position. Or slightly changing the way the queue is prioritised.
Mmmmmmmmm okay, prior art on those things has long since escaped, but if the first publisher to offer subscription methods had tried to patent such an obvious idea, and if the first muti-checkout supermarket chain had tried to patent their 'multi-tierd customer service prioritisation system' then they should never have been granted those patents.
Netflix should never have been granted patents on something so obvious- online DVD rental is such a simple business model, and the queueing system is such a logical system for getting your DVDs sent out to you in the order you want that no-one should be able to just own such a simple idea.
Imagine if wal-mart 'owned' queueing, or the NY Times owned the subscription idea. That's the same thing as netflix trying owning the online rental idea and is utterly rediculous.
Actually, that's a really good idea, and gets around part of the problem. Maybe they can then introduce a customer bonus system that means they get their late fees back if they rent more than 5 movies in a year, thereby making the whole thing null and void for all customers.
OK so what if I go out and patent queueing at a shop checkout to pay for goods, or paying for magazines to be delivered to your home on a monthly basis, or, or........
This shit has to stop, I mean netflix are just being totally petty about the whole damn thing. I mean, what *other* way is there to organise online DVD rental? Are they going to enforce patents on their *whole* business model.
This has to stop. Gah!
Maybe someone can also patent a robot that finds the fabled free-as-in-beer type beer, thereby having the robot pay for itself with free tasty beverages.
Also, I think we can start saying 'convenient as in beer' as opposed to 'convenient as in you're lying'.
Heh, but the stories on slashdot are typically a few days behind. There'll be a dupe along in 3.......2........1..
I assumed that the downloaded movie would be encoded in H.264 with all the languages and stuff you'd get from a DVD. A 4.7GB dvd is lower quality than a 4.7GB (which is what these movie downloads better be) H.264 movie. Try watching a DVD on a projector- artefacts EVERYWHERE. Balls.
OK we can't really rely on DVD-Jon (since he's gone over to The Dark Side) but hopefully there's a DRM-Kristian or DRM-Sven out there to crack the encryption.
Having said that, the encryption can probably be updated each time a movie is released (to play this movie, click [here] to install latest player update"), making things much harder to crack. That said, there is no such thing as an unbreakable DRM system and i'm sure someone'll do it.
There's no way of making an optical (and therefore relatively permanent copy of these movies, therefore anyone who buys one online but whose HD Crashes/Mobo fries/computer is destroyed will have lost all the movies they bought more surely than if they'd been burgled and their DVD collection stolen.
Hacker's delight? Hacker's last flight, more like.
Yea but this is /. so the stories are expected to be a day or two late. There'll be a dupe along in a minute.