IE6 is 10 years old, obsolete and MS have been pushing for people to upgrade for a long time now. Microsoft's support of legacy products a lot better than most companies (including OSS ones). How many flaws are there in Phoenix/firebird?
As of yet there is no exploit that will work with a default install of IE7+ and there probably never will be now as it would be a waste of time.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours? A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
No doubt there'll be more stories about this. Was the patch larger than it needed to be? Does the patch break applications (it already breaks ones that exploited! It must break more!). Is Microsoft's failure to patch speedily yet another indication that Obama's administration is failing to meet its promises?
Stay tuned as Slashdot milks this story for another week!
They do not know these people, they have not approached them for this service. This film is utterly irreplaceable, why should they risk it being damaged ?
You are confusing public domain with physical property.
There is no 'their end of the bargain'. The tapes themselves are theirs. End of story. Why should anyone other than them have any rights to something they own?
Should I be able to go into your 80+ year old house, spend a while taking measurements and use some equipment that I say is 'unlikely to cause permenent damage'? Should I be able to demand you send me the heirlooms your grandmother left you so I can catalogue them?
The age of consent is 16. The age at which someone is legal for porn is 18. It was an ammendment to the Protection of Children Act 1978 snuck in with the Sexual offences act 2003.
You get arrested then released without charge, the police take and store your DNA. The EU human rights court says this is illegal and wrong, Labour say they don't care.
You get accused of a sexual offence, it gets recorded. Even if the accusation is entirely baseless and the person who made it is jailed for making it, you'll still have it on your record. Good luck getting a job with children when that accusation is revealed to a potential employer. Even worse, the government can put a court order on these that make it illegal for an employer to reveal why you failed a background check. You're given no legal recourse to this, even if a mistake has been made and you're accidentally added to the register.
You can have (consensual) kinky sex, but if you video it, you're a sex offender. You can be 18 and have sex with a 17 year old legally but videotape it, you're a sex offender. Draw two stickpeople having sex, label one of them as being 17, you guessed it, you're a sex offender.
Organise a protest criticising against soldier in Afganistan and Iraq? That'll be declared illegal and you'll be arrested on public decency charges.
Being held 30 days without charge? Not enough! We must change the law to make it 90 days! After all, you wouldn't have been arrested it you weren't guilty!
It's rather depressing that Labour are supposedly the left leaning of the two main parties. I would hope that the Conservatives would cancel some of these laws when they're in power but I doubt it. Removing laws is pretty hard and the tabloids would crucify them.
Although making it primarily go to media companies is the wrong approach, taxing online ads to help fund cyber-enforcement isn't such a bad idea.
It'll make "you're funding a dodgy site!" lawsuits more difficult for one thing but the revenue could also be used to fund prosecutions against adverts that mislead consumers. Both (legal) advertisers and consumers would benefit.
Of course that isn't what the money would probably end up being spent on but meh...
Why would I want to run iphone apps on a tablet? I lose the portability and gain... blurry upscaled graphics? Apps designed for finger tips on a single hand become a nightmare to use too when the screen is 3-4 times as big.
Tablets have been tried over and over. If people want the portability, they'll get a netbook or a PDA/smartphone. Tablets are awkward to carry, painful to use for any real work and are mix of both sets of disadvantages from PDAs and Netbooks.
What can I use a tablet for where a e-book reader, PDA or netbook wouldn't be more appropriate?
As a side note, how much do you want to bet Apple somehow tries to tie their tablet to itunes?
You have no right to rip off other people's work without permission. What is an homage to one person is a horrible butchering of something they've spent years of their lives working to another.
CBS are liberal with permissions to use Star Trek stuff. Good for them. Other creators do not wish the same things of their properties. Do not confuse one group's good will with something that should be expected from everyone.
I gave to a charity the other day. You should give to them too. It's outrageous that you have yet to donate to them! If I can donate, I see no reason why you shouldn't too!
I know what you mean with the iplayer. You can only get iplayer on the iphone, HTC phones, the Wii, the PS3, the N series, Walkmans, Arcos 605, Virgin Media, Linux, PC, Mac, Home media hubs, Phillips gogears, Samsung Omnias...
Clearly the BBC doesn't care about giving people as much access to their content as they can and are under the control of Micro$oft!
There are other examples of specific reserved copyrights being granted through law. One big example is Peter Pan. This is specifically protected under UK law and will never expire (so long as the law lasts). All royalties from Peter Pan related items goes directly to Great Ormond Street children's Hospital.
Yeah, because nobody expects a file system to be part of an operating system!
Camera makers are free to use whatever file format they like. If it was one unsupported by Windows, simply include a file system driver to be installed alongside the drivers and utilities that come with most cameras.
They can choose to buy a camera which doesn't use SD cards. There are plenty of competing formats around. Sony would be more than happy for you to buy a Memory Stick using camera.
Someone held a gun to your head and said 'you must buy a camera which only supports SD cards'? Don't blame Microsoft for something that is both your and the manufacturers choice. As I said, you're free to pick a camera that supports something other than SD, the camera manufacturers are free to make cameras that support other formats.
Why is it anti-trust? SD cards, although popular do not represent a monopoly of the flash media market. History has shown that multiple file structures on portable media doesn't work as HW makers don't want to spend time and money including a dozen or so extra drivers on their devices.
Don't want to create a piece of hardware with support for exFAT? Use another memory format. No one is forcing you to use it.
If a model is correct, you should be able to verify it in double blind style tests. To keep manipulating and/or rejecting data until it meets your expections is very quesitonable practice.
Sales can't drop below zero, at some point sales bottom out and then increase slightly (which may represent a massive % increase even though sales are still modest).
If you get 1000 requests a month from various law enforcement agencies across the country, that's an awful lot of man hours to dedicate to these requests. If you have a fee in place to cover costs in the first place, it ensures that a surge in requests doesn't drain the budget of the department in charge of sorting them out.
There hasn't been a universal standard for it. nVidia and ATI both required different implementations and they didn't really push support for it. As very few companies want to program multiple renderers for different cards, everyone used bezier patches instead (which have a bigger performance hit and aren't capable of the complexity tessellation allows).
Tesselation allows for a massive increase in visual quality, if hardware tesselation could've been implemented easily in engines before DX11, you'd see it all over the place rather than a just professional modelling tools.
Go watch the Heaven tech demo/benchmark which makes heavy use of hardware tesselation and say that Microsoft wasted their time. Hardware tesselation is going to be the next big thing (it's been around for a while but this is the first time there's really been a universal standard for it).
A massive increase in the number of polygons you can use in models for minimal cost (or even a performance bonus) is a "horrifying waste of resources"?
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Sky's encyrption is pretty rock solid. It occasionallly get broken but they simply issue a new key.
All the BBC would need to do is revoke compromised keys (and issue new keys to affected devices via over the air firmware upgrades).
IE6 is 10 years old, obsolete and MS have been pushing for people to upgrade for a long time now. Microsoft's support of legacy products a lot better than most companies (including OSS ones). How many flaws are there in Phoenix/firebird?
As of yet there is no exploit that will work with a default install of IE7+ and there probably never will be now as it would be a waste of time.
Yeah, an exploit for firefox couldn't possibly be made public before a bug is patched patched. Adding to that, if a bug is exploited in Firefox it is far easier for it to do more damage than in IE8 due to lack of sandboxing and protected memory.
This current exploit doesn't even work if people had IE8 with default settings.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours? A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
No doubt there'll be more stories about this. Was the patch larger than it needed to be? Does the patch break applications (it already breaks ones that exploited! It must break more!). Is Microsoft's failure to patch speedily yet another indication that Obama's administration is failing to meet its promises?
Stay tuned as Slashdot milks this story for another week!
They do not know these people, they have not approached them for this service. This film is utterly irreplaceable, why should they risk it being damaged ?
You are confusing public domain with physical property.
There is no 'their end of the bargain'. The tapes themselves are theirs. End of story. Why should anyone other than them have any rights to something they own?
Should I be able to go into your 80+ year old house, spend a while taking measurements and use some equipment that I say is 'unlikely to cause permenent damage'? Should I be able to demand you send me the heirlooms your grandmother left you so I can catalogue them?
The age of consent is 16. The age at which someone is legal for porn is 18. It was an ammendment to the Protection of Children Act 1978 snuck in with the Sexual offences act 2003.
It is depressing as hell to be a British citizen.
You get arrested then released without charge, the police take and store your DNA. The EU human rights court says this is illegal and wrong, Labour say they don't care.
You get accused of a sexual offence, it gets recorded. Even if the accusation is entirely baseless and the person who made it is jailed for making it, you'll still have it on your record. Good luck getting a job with children when that accusation is revealed to a potential employer. Even worse, the government can put a court order on these that make it illegal for an employer to reveal why you failed a background check. You're given no legal recourse to this, even if a mistake has been made and you're accidentally added to the register.
You can have (consensual) kinky sex, but if you video it, you're a sex offender. You can be 18 and have sex with a 17 year old legally but videotape it, you're a sex offender. Draw two stickpeople having sex, label one of them as being 17, you guessed it, you're a sex offender.
Organise a protest criticising against soldier in Afganistan and Iraq? That'll be declared illegal and you'll be arrested on public decency charges.
Being held 30 days without charge? Not enough! We must change the law to make it 90 days! After all, you wouldn't have been arrested it you weren't guilty!
It's rather depressing that Labour are supposedly the left leaning of the two main parties. I would hope that the Conservatives would cancel some of these laws when they're in power but I doubt it. Removing laws is pretty hard and the tabloids would crucify them.
Although making it primarily go to media companies is the wrong approach, taxing online ads to help fund cyber-enforcement isn't such a bad idea.
It'll make "you're funding a dodgy site!" lawsuits more difficult for one thing but the revenue could also be used to fund prosecutions against adverts that mislead consumers. Both (legal) advertisers and consumers would benefit.
Of course that isn't what the money would probably end up being spent on but meh...
Why would I want to run iphone apps on a tablet? I lose the portability and gain... blurry upscaled graphics? Apps designed for finger tips on a single hand become a nightmare to use too when the screen is 3-4 times as big.
Tablets have been tried over and over. If people want the portability, they'll get a netbook or a PDA/smartphone. Tablets are awkward to carry, painful to use for any real work and are mix of both sets of disadvantages from PDAs and Netbooks.
What can I use a tablet for where a e-book reader, PDA or netbook wouldn't be more appropriate?
As a side note, how much do you want to bet Apple somehow tries to tie their tablet to itunes?
Without these pricks, the fans would have no Zelda.
You have no right to rip off other people's work without permission. What is an homage to one person is a horrible butchering of something they've spent years of their lives working to another.
CBS are liberal with permissions to use Star Trek stuff. Good for them. Other creators do not wish the same things of their properties. Do not confuse one group's good will with something that should be expected from everyone.
I gave to a charity the other day. You should give to them too. It's outrageous that you have yet to donate to them! If I can donate, I see no reason why you shouldn't too!
I know what you mean with the iplayer. You can only get iplayer on the iphone, HTC phones, the Wii, the PS3, the N series, Walkmans, Arcos 605, Virgin Media, Linux, PC, Mac, Home media hubs, Phillips gogears, Samsung Omnias...
Clearly the BBC doesn't care about giving people as much access to their content as they can and are under the control of Micro$oft!
There are other examples of specific reserved copyrights being granted through law. One big example is Peter Pan. This is specifically protected under UK law and will never expire (so long as the law lasts). All royalties from Peter Pan related items goes directly to Great Ormond Street children's Hospital.
Yeah, because nobody expects a file system to be part of an operating system!
Camera makers are free to use whatever file format they like. If it was one unsupported by Windows, simply include a file system driver to be installed alongside the drivers and utilities that come with most cameras.
They can remove the wikileaks domains and compel ISPs to filter all traffic to and from any IP addresses that resolve to the wikileak servers.
You can't remove it from the web completely but you can make it incredibly hard for anyone in the US to access.
They can choose to buy a camera which doesn't use SD cards. There are plenty of competing formats around. Sony would be more than happy for you to buy a Memory Stick using camera.
Someone held a gun to your head and said 'you must buy a camera which only supports SD cards'? Don't blame Microsoft for something that is both your and the manufacturers choice. As I said, you're free to pick a camera that supports something other than SD, the camera manufacturers are free to make cameras that support other formats.
Why is it anti-trust? SD cards, although popular do not represent a monopoly of the flash media market. History has shown that multiple file structures on portable media doesn't work as HW makers don't want to spend time and money including a dozen or so extra drivers on their devices.
Don't want to create a piece of hardware with support for exFAT? Use another memory format. No one is forcing you to use it.
If a model is correct, you should be able to verify it in double blind style tests. To keep manipulating and/or rejecting data until it meets your expections is very quesitonable practice.
Sales can't drop below zero, at some point sales bottom out and then increase slightly (which may represent a massive % increase even though sales are still modest).
If you get 1000 requests a month from various law enforcement agencies across the country, that's an awful lot of man hours to dedicate to these requests. If you have a fee in place to cover costs in the first place, it ensures that a surge in requests doesn't drain the budget of the department in charge of sorting them out.
"we have dectected you have a modded consoles, if you do not travel back in time to prevent yourself from modding your console, you will be banned."
There hasn't been a universal standard for it. nVidia and ATI both required different implementations and they didn't really push support for it. As very few companies want to program multiple renderers for different cards, everyone used bezier patches instead (which have a bigger performance hit and aren't capable of the complexity tessellation allows).
Tesselation allows for a massive increase in visual quality, if hardware tesselation could've been implemented easily in engines before DX11, you'd see it all over the place rather than a just professional modelling tools.
Go watch the Heaven tech demo/benchmark which makes heavy use of hardware tesselation and say that Microsoft wasted their time. Hardware tesselation is going to be the next big thing (it's been around for a while but this is the first time there's really been a universal standard for it).
A massive increase in the number of polygons you can use in models for minimal cost (or even a performance bonus) is a "horrifying waste of resources"?