Simple: malware writer downloads the patch for $SOFTWARE, reverse-engineers it, understands the bug and creates the malware. If he is fast, there is still a large number of vulnerable machines around that it is worth it, and is a much cheaper than finding the bug, which generally involves having an illegal peek at the code or very good intuition.
And BTW your repeated references to the movie are not making you look a geek, more like a wannabe that does not know the first thing.
Nope! It's the number of days between the release date and today.
I find little use in a definition that depends on today's date. Especially because I can read articles from saturday and they will call it 3-day, which gives me no information.
A zero-day exploit is one that is created before a fix is available. It is more severe than others because no version of the target software is safe, even if it is constantly updated. Any security expert knows the implications of this, and how to take it into account when assessing the risks.
I fail to see any usefulness in this definition, since it depends on when the article is posted. So to know how severe was the risk I have to look at the date of the news and subtract the quantity mentioned.
Also, it is still not true that all exploits are 0-day. Sometimes the vulnerability is announced in the changelog of a software, yet an exploit is produced that targets unpatched machines. Actually it happens quite often.
There is still the question of when to start the counting, but having a definition that depend on the current time seems unreasonable, if anything because of timezones...
I'm sick and tired of coders who pretend they are cognitive psychologists or ergonomics experts.
And I'm sick and tired of idiots that tell coders to do something so-and-so because they know oh-so-much-better.
I'm not even a GNOME user, but even KDE got this crap, with morons telling how stupid and idiotic every developer is. Guess what: there are real usability experts in both projects. Not many however, so if you want they will be happy to get some help in testing. Use their bugzilla or mailing list, get in touch with them and do something.
You will also have to explain what is a standard GUI with normal conventions, since everyone bitches about different things and no one agrees on what they do like.
It's not like Microsoft never screwed an announced timeline either... Maybe it's just me but delays seem to have little correlation with the final quality.
That's a bolder claim than even Roosevelt's propagandists were willing to make.
No, the recession by all definitions thereof ended in 1933, meaning for example that the demand of goods began to increase during that year.
The fact that the economy was back in shape at the end of the war
That is not a fact. Ask any of your older relatives who lived through that period when rationing ended.
I cannot, I am not a US citizen nor have relatives there so just tell me yourself.
BTW you said before that US got out of the depression in 1946. I thought you were referring to the fact that unemployment, GDP and industrial production rates were back to normal around that year. For me, that means that the policy enacted before then was beneficial.
We didn't get out of the first great depression until 1946, when a million men were released from military service, the federal budget was cut by 2/3, and most of Hoover and Roosevelt's insane economic policies were lifted.
Redefining history much? For everyone else the recession ended in 1933. It does not matter when the wealth levels came back to normal, it matters when they started to increase. The fact that the economy was back in shape at the end of the war means that it cannot be an effect of the end of the war.
They blocked hardware - in this case, the Atom processor. That's not the same as "stop the support" of the hardware. They went out of their way to make sure it didn't work. That's different from dropping drivers or support.
4) when requested clarification, support states explicitly "it will be open sourced in the nearest future" in plain english (as all the rest of the conversation was, only the blog is bilingual)
FTFY (F as in "filled")
No. KDE 4 has a nice daemon that handles new devices, disconnections and whatnot, without adding another layer in the stack (it interfaces directly with ALSA, even if it is named "Phonon":-).
So what you do *not* need, is to have a userspace daemon that all the sound passes through.
Phonon is a library, it does mostly nothing but offer a sane, thin interface to programs that need none of the complexities of other systems. Which is 95% of all programs, probably.
I am incredibly annoyed at people that RTFA and then post entire paragraphs in hope they get modded "Informative".
IT IS AN ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
for many reasons:
1. not RTFAing is not lazyness, it's a principle. The parent did put a disclaimer,but so many trick us into readng taboo content that it get very very disciminatory against thos of us with moral values.
2. it may spawn an utterly informed thread, a situation to be avoided at all costs.
3. in the same way it may bring to an end a highly speculative thread - that is the very essence of slashdot - just because it does not agree with the so-called "facts".
4. the points 2 and 3 may affect other threads due to people inadvertently read the quote and reproducing it in other posts.
On the other hand we appreciate and encourage your karma-whoring attempt, you will receive your mod points soon:)
The question that should be asked is: What is the technical reason for the drivers singling out only a handful of games and one benchmark utility instead of performing these optimizations on all 3D scenes that the chipset renders?
Offloading to the CPU has the disadvantage of using the CPU. If you are using one program only (usually the case with fullscreen games) and it is not clogging the CPU by itself (happens for specific games) you can offload without degrading experience, otherwise you better not.
Then it is understandable why they want their best numbers to go on the benchmarks. We will see if it is considered reasonable or cheating.
If BioWare sells a linux live cd with Neverwinter included you do not have the right to redistribute a mod for free, even if it includes free software. I think it is called "mere aggregation" and it is well understood to be specifically exempted from the viral effects of the various licenses.
So Android is free but the Google Apps that usually come "for free" with Android are not.
I begin to wonder if we've had it backwards... rather than regulations being made in response to corruption, perhaps the existence of regulations to a large degree *drives* corruption.
Like saying: "the first time I cut my finger with a knife it hurt, next time I'll cut my arm with a chainsaw and it will hurt less".
I mean, the most reasonable explanation for the crazy behaviour is that there was no regulation. Try more regulation: if it fails too, you are free to find more exotic explanations.
I'm saying that telling real experts from crackpots with political agenda is hard, Pretending we can fully understand what is outside our expertise is dumb and makes everything worse for everyone. Because, you know, you will support a random opinion which you have little understanding of, but you will pose as an expert to everyone else.
But sure, go ahead and base your informed decisions on http://simple.wikipedia.org/...
Locking up knowledge so that only specialists get access is a stupid, destructive, elitist practice that is self defeating (who do you think funds most work???) and detracts from the life we're all capable of leading. Those who Suggest that popular accounts can't be good are just making a poor excuse for their own inability to communicate. Over-simplification isn't the whole problem. Poor communication is.
Since the summary clearly states that culture should not be locked up, you completely missed the point. Which is: can an expert (in any field, not just philosofy) divulge and disseminate his/her knowledge without the general public assume they are omniscient experts too?
Note however that the question arises also in scientific/technological matters. For example most Slashdotters assume to be authorities on any of those. Look at all the bad programming/computer administration advice you can get from the comments. (Sending my karma to hell for implying that slashdotters are less than omniscient on computer subjects)
In the end, the article is right and probably more general than that. We non-experts know nothing about climate change and we cannot understand the merit of the debate. A seemingly winning argument for us could be a huge logical fallacy if we knew a little more than that. The only remedy is to put trust in those we call experts, which is difficult because everybody pretends to be one. Bonus points for a working solution.
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Simple: malware writer downloads the patch for $SOFTWARE, reverse-engineers it, understands the bug and creates the malware. If he is fast, there is still a large number of vulnerable machines around that it is worth it, and is a much cheaper than finding the bug, which generally involves having an illegal peek at the code or very good intuition.
And BTW your repeated references to the movie are not making you look a geek, more like a wannabe that does not know the first thing.
Nope! It's the number of days between the release date and today.
I find little use in a definition that depends on today's date. Especially because I can read articles from saturday and they will call it 3-day, which gives me no information.
A zero-day exploit is one that is created before a fix is available. It is more severe than others because no version of the target software is safe, even if it is constantly updated. Any security expert knows the implications of this, and how to take it into account when assessing the risks.
I fail to see any usefulness in this definition, since it depends on when the article is posted. So to know how severe was the risk I have to look at the date of the news and subtract the quantity mentioned.
Also, it is still not true that all exploits are 0-day. Sometimes the vulnerability is announced in the changelog of a software, yet an exploit is produced that targets unpatched machines. Actually it happens quite often.
There is still the question of when to start the counting, but having a definition that depend on the current time seems unreasonable, if anything because of timezones...
I'm sick and tired of coders who pretend they are cognitive psychologists or ergonomics experts.
And I'm sick and tired of idiots that tell coders to do something so-and-so because they know oh-so-much-better.
I'm not even a GNOME user, but even KDE got this crap, with morons telling how stupid and idiotic every developer is. Guess what: there are real usability experts in both projects. Not many however, so if you want they will be happy to get some help in testing. Use their bugzilla or mailing list, get in touch with them and do something.
You will also have to explain what is a standard GUI with normal conventions, since everyone bitches about different things and no one agrees on what they do like.
It's not like Microsoft never screwed an announced timeline either... Maybe it's just me but delays seem to have little correlation with the final quality.
If I promise to license all my future code GPLv3 will you remove this image from my head, please?
the recession ended in 1933
That's a bolder claim than even Roosevelt's propagandists were willing to make.
No, the recession by all definitions thereof ended in 1933, meaning for example that the demand of goods began to increase during that year.
The fact that the economy was back in shape at the end of the war
That is not a fact. Ask any of your older relatives who lived through that period when rationing ended.
I cannot, I am not a US citizen nor have relatives there so just tell me yourself.
BTW you said before that US got out of the depression in 1946. I thought you were referring to the fact that unemployment, GDP and industrial production rates were back to normal around that year. For me, that means that the policy enacted before then was beneficial.
We didn't get out of the first great depression until 1946, when a million men were released from military service, the federal budget was cut by 2/3, and most of Hoover and Roosevelt's insane economic policies were lifted.
Redefining history much? For everyone else the recession ended in 1933. It does not matter when the wealth levels came back to normal, it matters when they started to increase. The fact that the economy was back in shape at the end of the war means that it cannot be an effect of the end of the war.
They blocked hardware - in this case, the Atom processor. That's not the same as "stop the support" of the hardware. They went out of their way to make sure it didn't work. That's different from dropping drivers or support.
Mods: this was +5 insightful, I expect no less.
4) when requested clarification, support states explicitly "it will be open sourced in the nearest future" in plain english (as all the rest of the conversation was, only the blog is bilingual)
FTFY (F as in "filled")
fast forwarding will require rebuffering? neat...
No. KDE 4 has a nice daemon that handles new devices, disconnections and whatnot, without adding another layer in the stack (it interfaces directly with ALSA, even if it is named "Phonon" :-).
So what you do *not* need, is to have a userspace daemon that all the sound passes through.
Phonon is a library, it does mostly nothing but offer a sane, thin interface to programs that need none of the complexities of other systems. Which is 95% of all programs, probably.
I am incredibly annoyed at people that RTFA and then post entire paragraphs in hope they get modded "Informative".
IT IS AN ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
for many reasons: ,but so many trick us into readng taboo content that it get very very disciminatory against thos of us with moral values.
1. not RTFAing is not lazyness, it's a principle. The parent did put a disclaimer
2. it may spawn an utterly informed thread, a situation to be avoided at all costs.
3. in the same way it may bring to an end a highly speculative thread - that is the very essence of slashdot - just because it does not agree with the so-called "facts".
4. the points 2 and 3 may affect other threads due to people inadvertently read the quote and reproducing it in other posts.
On the other hand we appreciate and encourage your karma-whoring attempt, you will receive your mod points soon :)
The question that should be asked is: What is the technical reason for the drivers singling out only a handful of games and one benchmark utility instead of performing these optimizations on all 3D scenes that the chipset renders?
Offloading to the CPU has the disadvantage of using the CPU. If you are using one program only (usually the case with fullscreen games) and it is not clogging the CPU by itself (happens for specific games) you can offload without degrading experience, otherwise you better not.
Then it is understandable why they want their best numbers to go on the benchmarks. We will see if it is considered reasonable or cheating.
KE = 1/2m*v^2
Funny how you say that when the summary contains the word "relativistic". Oh, did I say funny? I meant idiotic.
No, the act of causing some effect is not at all related to the act of becoming a small town in minnesota.
Moreover, I do not see the option for an ubuntu notebook on Dell's italian site.
You mean, since they announced it in a letter to the FCC they may be trying to influence the FCC?
Yes, those stupid, categorizing mindless zombies...
1. e4 f5 2. Nc3 g5 3. Qh5++ shit!
1. f4 e6 2. g4 Qh4++ shit!
If BioWare sells a linux live cd with Neverwinter included you do not have the right to redistribute a mod for free, even if it includes free software. I think it is called "mere aggregation" and it is well understood to be specifically exempted from the viral effects of the various licenses.
So Android is free but the Google Apps that usually come "for free" with Android are not.
how do you suggest they put the code on those servers without breaking the law?
I begin to wonder if we've had it backwards... rather than regulations being made in response to corruption, perhaps the existence of regulations to a large degree *drives* corruption.
Like saying: "the first time I cut my finger with a knife it hurt, next time I'll cut my arm with a chainsaw and it will hurt less".
I mean, the most reasonable explanation for the crazy behaviour is that there was no regulation. Try more regulation: if it fails too, you are free to find more exotic explanations.
I'm saying that telling real experts from crackpots with political agenda is hard, Pretending we can fully understand what is outside our expertise is dumb and makes everything worse for everyone. Because, you know, you will support a random opinion which you have little understanding of, but you will pose as an expert to everyone else. ...
But sure, go ahead and base your informed decisions on http://simple.wikipedia.org/
Locking up knowledge so that only specialists get access is a stupid, destructive, elitist practice that is self defeating (who do you think funds most work???) and detracts from the life we're all capable of leading. Those who Suggest that popular accounts can't be good are just making a poor excuse for their own inability to communicate. Over-simplification isn't the whole problem. Poor communication is.
Since the summary clearly states that culture should not be locked up, you completely missed the point. Which is: can an expert (in any field, not just philosofy) divulge and disseminate his/her knowledge without the general public assume they are omniscient experts too?
Note however that the question arises also in scientific/technological matters. For example most Slashdotters assume to be authorities on any of those. Look at all the bad programming/computer administration advice you can get from the comments. (Sending my karma to hell for implying that slashdotters are less than omniscient on computer subjects)
In the end, the article is right and probably more general than that. We non-experts know nothing about climate change and we cannot understand the merit of the debate. A seemingly winning argument for us could be a huge logical fallacy if we knew a little more than that. The only remedy is to put trust in those we call experts, which is difficult because everybody pretends to be one. Bonus points for a working solution.