"Properly configured" in the case of IE's sandbox means "I didn't turn off UAC". So, no, an attack that's stopped by IE sandboxing does not work on out-of-the-box Vista. It would only work on the sort of Neowin-reading "power users" who turn off security features to gain (perceived) speed and convenience.
Back in the Bad Old Days, they could. The president could nominate (and with consent of the congress appoint) someone to just about every job from secretary of state down to part time floor sweeper at the East Podunk post office. Every new president came to Washington owing hundreds of little favors, and used that power to get friends, supporters, and jobless nephews of friends and supporters all kinds of federal jobs as thank-you gifts. Every time they did that, the federal bureaucracy got a little more corrupt and a little less competent. (The system also got president McKinley shot by a former supporter who didn't get an appointment he thought he deserved.)
Now, most federal jobs are supposed to be civil service, staffed with professionals who will do the job instead of using government resources to keep their president in the white house (or line their pockets before his replacement can have them fired). This is news because it's illegal to use political tests hiring for civil service jobs. It erodes the division between political hacks who get paid to enforce the president's policy and professionals who get paid to make the government work.
And really, playing the "...but Clinton!" card? Lame.
...by being a dick to the guy at the counter. He has precisely zero influence on which codecs go on your iPod, or which artists get their music DRMed, or onerous NDAs, or iPhone code-signing requirements, or anything else Apple does to irritate the defectivebydesign crew.
I hope some downtrodden waiter that's heard one too many tirades about veal hocks a big nasty vorbis in the soup of whatever "genius" thought this campaign up.
v2.0 gives you a cup of plain coffee, a cup of whipped cream, a cup of caramel sauce, a chocolate flake in a wrapper and tells you to make the coffee how you want but for a much lower price than the Apple one.
Yeah, they had to do that. The caramel license isn't GPL-compatible so they can't dribble it on top of a drink made with GNU coffee. It also infringes some Apple patents on "a method and apparatus for whipping cream", so the whole thing is in -nonfree now.
You can (and it's safe to assume the No Such Agency has a couple of them tucked away in a basement somewhere), but a million Cell processors are expensive and getting volunteers to join a distributed computing project is cheap. IIRC there are published plans for a $100k desktop optical RSA cracking machine, too.
Yes, well, when you have two closely-aligned legal systems in coutries with a long-standing allience and a common language and a lot of shared history, once in a while it works out. That hardly helps when the scammer and/or the malware authors are in Nigeria or Paraguay or Ukraine, or somewhere else that won't extradite to the US or UK...
That failing only applies to modern methods of circuit building. Just like tubes had a limitation, but when it was hit, technology didn't stop....and this is where the blind faith aspect of all religions (including Singularity) appears. Sure, we have no idea *how* to circumvent those limitations, but we have the holy scripture of Moore's Law, and it prophesizes unbounded exponential growth!
In the dead of night he'd access each depositor's account And from each of them he'd siphon off the teeniest amount. And since no one ever noticed that there'd even been a crime He stole forty million dollars -- a penny at a time!
So you're saying he stole it once piece at a time and it didn't cost him a dime?
There's a Mr Cash on line one, something about being owed 20 years of back royalty payments on a country crime ballad.
Wind farms will replace the Coal fired plants first so it really is a win for the oil companies to expand their revenue base.
Unlikely. Wind will put pressure on gas first, because it's in the same economic niche. Coal plants take many hours to start up, and can't be effeiciently throttled down below a narrow range of output. Nuclear plants are even less responsive, they take days or weeks to start up and shut down. Both are usually used as "base load" generators that run all the time. Natural gas plants can start up and shut down more quickly, so they run during peak demand hours (daytime and evening) and shut down at night when demand is low. Wind farms can turn on and off in a few minutes, but don't have steady output that can be counted on (and sold) days in advance, so they mostly add peak capacity.
In an offtopic reply to your aside, middle-click the "Reply to This" button to open the old form in a new tab.
Also, the new look doesn't work any better in MSIE. Comment text flows over the top navigation bar when you scroll, the new reply form only opens about one try in five, and when there are a lot of comments all the AJAXy stuff bogs down IE to the point where I've had to ctrl+alt+del into the task manager and kill it several times. Lame. And somehow the IT staff here just don't take my "Please install firefox so I can read slashdot painlessly" helpdesk tickets seriously.
Read your license. Those MSDN versions are for testing and development, not for installing on the new receptionist's machine because she needs to use some ancient Access 95 VBA monstrosity to update the employee phone/email directory.
Talent flows the other way in Mac-land too. Sometimes a startup develops a neat product and gets bought (Coverflow) or has their best programmers hired away (Delicious Library) by Apple.
"Your hypothesis fails to explain why oil companies have also obtained patents on high density batteries that could have made feasible electric cars a reality." [citation needed]
No they shouldnt be allowed to make those decisions.
They already are. If you actually read the terms of service most ISPs use, they reserve the right to shut you off at any time for things spambot-infested machines do, like "running a server" and the catchall "hacking or other malicious activity".
Those 5% who are the ones called on to give their opinions regarding which ISP to use? The 5% who will NEVER reccomend Comcast if there is any other alternative?
That's the brilliant part, there isn't an alternative. Cable service is a monopoly (excuse me, a franchise) granted by the municipality. If you live in Comcast territory, your options are Comcastic packet forging, DSL (not guaranteed to be available, even if you do live within the magic 10000ft radius, costs 3 times as much per megabit and goes down more often than an offensive simile), dialup (*shudder*), or move to another town!
What? You use phrases like "how will it render" without understanding its meaning. At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it. You use phrases like "At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it." without understanding it's meaning. I can't even decipher enough of your complaint to know what meaning you're missing.
How do you think the browser version of a word processor will "render" on a Mac with Safari vs. Vista with IE 7 vs. XP with IE 6 vs. Linux with Firefox 2 or Firefox 3?? Is that enough problems already? Yes. I didn't say it was ideal, just that it has potential.
You want it to "render" properly, you use a medium to do that. It is NOT some word processing document. Some example of things that *should* "render" properly would be PDF, or PostScript. I do. You do. The average word processor user, however, does not. They bring a.doc file out of whatever godawful ancient version of Word their company provides, and get bent out of shape when it doesn't look exactly linebreak-for-linebreak the same on my laptop.
What I don't get is why basic office application are not better off on your local machine, or even OO.org on a flashdisk along with your documents, than on google's or microsofts server being analysed every which way.
Because no matter how many people work on a "cloud" document, there's only one version of one app to worry about. When Google rolls out a new feature, you can actually use it right away instead of worrying about how it will render on your local copy of OO.o 2.1 versus my 3.0 beta versus Joe's copy of MS Office 07. Add to that the ability to trade docs by sending a url instead of an email attachment (which is almost certain to get trashed a spam filter or overzealous IT "NO ATTACHMENTS!" policy the first time you email a new contact) and it looks pretty compelling. I still wouldn't use it for anything confidential (same goes for gmail), but I can see the appeal for a lot of people.
Mostly because it's a distinction that's sure to be ignored by law-enforcement types too. Ever recieved a photo-radar, red light or toll-evasion ticket? It doesn't matter who was driving, if your car was at the scene of the crime you're responsible for the fine.
I'm sure you'd you'd like to frame the debate in such a way that your analogy (The network is my private property just like my house, trespasser!) is allowed, but mine (If you don't want me coming to your party, keep your party invitation beacon packets out of the common areas) is not, but that's just trollish intellectual dishonesty.
NO. WRONG. It is saying "I am in a state where connections are possible." Your attempt to once again pretend that is equivalent to "connecting to me is acceptable/encouraged" is transparent and still wrong.
If one were to litter their apartment building with notes reading "Party in #214" (beacon packets), leave the door to apartment 214 standing open (no encryption or authentication), and have party-goers and a cooler full of beer in plain view of the door, what do you think the police should do about it? Arrest the first guy who walks in for trespass? Or suggest that if the resident wants to hold a private party, he should stop leaving notes in the hall and/or shut the door? It's unintentional trespass at absolute worst, and the owners remedy should be limited to asking the trespasser to leave....and if my laptop isn't invited to your wireless party, I'd thank you to keep your 2.4GHz photons on your side of the wall.
I don't buy the explanation that he thought to destroy evidence that's difficult to remove from the car (the seat) but not the stuff you can just pick up (books, sleeping bag, etc). The car looks like a "rice rocket" CRX hatchback, removing seats to save weight is a pretty common practice among people who want to make tiny cars go fast. Does it have a back seat? Or a spare tire and toolkit? Had anyone seen it with all seats intact before the murder?
You must not have been here for the/. XP release party. It was thoroughly derided for being slower than Win2k, taking up more disk space, needing ten times the RAM, being full of security and stability compromising hacks to make old win3/9x code run, and having a garish Fisher-Price "My First Computer" icon theme.
The only difference is that this time the tech media is listening to the skeptics instead of MS's marketing department.
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"Properly configured" in the case of IE's sandbox means "I didn't turn off UAC". So, no, an attack that's stopped by IE sandboxing does not work on out-of-the-box Vista. It would only work on the sort of Neowin-reading "power users" who turn off security features to gain (perceived) speed and convenience.
Back in the Bad Old Days, they could. The president could nominate (and with consent of the congress appoint) someone to just about every job from secretary of state down to part time floor sweeper at the East Podunk post office. Every new president came to Washington owing hundreds of little favors, and used that power to get friends, supporters, and jobless nephews of friends and supporters all kinds of federal jobs as thank-you gifts. Every time they did that, the federal bureaucracy got a little more corrupt and a little less competent. (The system also got president McKinley shot by a former supporter who didn't get an appointment he thought he deserved.)
Now, most federal jobs are supposed to be civil service, staffed with professionals who will do the job instead of using government resources to keep their president in the white house (or line their pockets before his replacement can have them fired). This is news because it's illegal to use political tests hiring for civil service jobs. It erodes the division between political hacks who get paid to enforce the president's policy and professionals who get paid to make the government work.
And really, playing the "...but Clinton!" card? Lame.
...by being a dick to the guy at the counter. He has precisely zero influence on which codecs go on your iPod, or which artists get their music DRMed, or onerous NDAs, or iPhone code-signing requirements, or anything else Apple does to irritate the defectivebydesign crew.
I hope some downtrodden waiter that's heard one too many tirades about veal hocks a big nasty vorbis in the soup of whatever "genius" thought this campaign up.
v2.0 gives you a cup of plain coffee, a cup of whipped cream, a cup of caramel sauce, a chocolate flake in a wrapper and tells you to make the coffee how you want but for a much lower price than the Apple one.
Yeah, they had to do that. The caramel license isn't GPL-compatible so they can't dribble it on top of a drink made with GNU coffee. It also infringes some Apple patents on "a method and apparatus for whipping cream", so the whole thing is in -nonfree now.
...believes the laws of thermodynamics now? What is the internet coming to?
You can (and it's safe to assume the No Such Agency has a couple of them tucked away in a basement somewhere), but a million Cell processors are expensive and getting volunteers to join a distributed computing project is cheap. IIRC there are published plans for a $100k desktop optical RSA cracking machine, too.
Yes, well, when you have two closely-aligned legal systems in coutries with a long-standing allience and a common language and a lot of shared history, once in a while it works out. That hardly helps when the scammer and/or the malware authors are in Nigeria or Paraguay or Ukraine, or somewhere else that won't extradite to the US or UK...
That failing only applies to modern methods of circuit building. Just like tubes had a limitation, but when it was hit, technology didn't stop. ...and this is where the blind faith aspect of all religions (including Singularity) appears. Sure, we have no idea *how* to circumvent those limitations, but we have the holy scripture of Moore's Law, and it prophesizes unbounded exponential growth!
In the dead of night he'd access each depositor's account
And from each of them he'd siphon off the teeniest amount.
And since no one ever noticed that there'd even been a crime
He stole forty million dollars -- a penny at a time!
So you're saying he stole it once piece at a time and it didn't cost him a dime?
There's a Mr Cash on line one, something about being owed 20 years of back royalty payments on a country crime ballad.
Wind farms will replace the Coal fired plants first so it really is a win for the oil companies to expand their revenue base.
Unlikely. Wind will put pressure on gas first, because it's in the same economic niche. Coal plants take many hours to start up, and can't be effeiciently throttled down below a narrow range of output. Nuclear plants are even less responsive, they take days or weeks to start up and shut down. Both are usually used as "base load" generators that run all the time. Natural gas plants can start up and shut down more quickly, so they run during peak demand hours (daytime and evening) and shut down at night when demand is low. Wind farms can turn on and off in a few minutes, but don't have steady output that can be counted on (and sold) days in advance, so they mostly add peak capacity.
In an offtopic reply to your aside, middle-click the "Reply to This" button to open the old form in a new tab.
Also, the new look doesn't work any better in MSIE. Comment text flows over the top navigation bar when you scroll, the new reply form only opens about one try in five, and when there are a lot of comments all the AJAXy stuff bogs down IE to the point where I've had to ctrl+alt+del into the task manager and kill it several times. Lame. And somehow the IT staff here just don't take my "Please install firefox so I can read slashdot painlessly" helpdesk tickets seriously.
Read your license. Those MSDN versions are for testing and development, not for installing on the new receptionist's machine because she needs to use some ancient Access 95 VBA monstrosity to update the employee phone/email directory.
++ That show should be mandatory viewing for anyone who thinks "CSI" shows how a real homicide investigation works.
Talent flows the other way in Mac-land too. Sometimes a startup develops a neat product and gets bought (Coverflow) or has their best programmers hired away (Delicious Library) by Apple.
"Your hypothesis fails to explain why oil companies have also obtained patents on high density batteries that could have made feasible electric cars a reality." [citation needed]
No they shouldnt be allowed to make those decisions.
They already are. If you actually read the terms of service most ISPs use, they reserve the right to shut you off at any time for things spambot-infested machines do, like "running a server" and the catchall "hacking or other malicious activity".
Those 5% who are the ones called on to give their opinions regarding which ISP to use? The 5% who will NEVER reccomend Comcast if there is any other alternative?
That's the brilliant part, there isn't an alternative. Cable service is a monopoly (excuse me, a franchise) granted by the municipality. If you live in Comcast territory, your options are Comcastic packet forging, DSL (not guaranteed to be available, even if you do live within the magic 10000ft radius, costs 3 times as much per megabit and goes down more often than an offensive simile), dialup (*shudder*), or move to another town!
What? You use phrases like "how will it render" without understanding its meaning. At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it.
.doc file out of whatever godawful ancient version of Word their company provides, and get bent out of shape when it doesn't look exactly linebreak-for-linebreak the same on my laptop.
You use phrases like "At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it." without understanding it's meaning. I can't even decipher enough of your complaint to know what meaning you're missing.
How do you think the browser version of a word processor will "render" on a Mac with Safari vs. Vista with IE 7 vs. XP with IE 6 vs. Linux with Firefox 2 or Firefox 3?? Is that enough problems already?
Yes. I didn't say it was ideal, just that it has potential.
You want it to "render" properly, you use a medium to do that. It is NOT some word processing document. Some example of things that *should* "render" properly would be PDF, or PostScript.
I do. You do. The average word processor user, however, does not. They bring a
What I don't get is why basic office application are not better off on your local machine, or even OO.org on a flashdisk along with your documents, than on google's or microsofts server being analysed every which way.
Because no matter how many people work on a "cloud" document, there's only one version of one app to worry about. When Google rolls out a new feature, you can actually use it right away instead of worrying about how it will render on your local copy of OO.o 2.1 versus my 3.0 beta versus Joe's copy of MS Office 07. Add to that the ability to trade docs by sending a url instead of an email attachment (which is almost certain to get trashed a spam filter or overzealous IT "NO ATTACHMENTS!" policy the first time you email a new contact) and it looks pretty compelling. I still wouldn't use it for anything confidential (same goes for gmail), but I can see the appeal for a lot of people.
Mostly because it's a distinction that's sure to be ignored by law-enforcement types too. Ever recieved a photo-radar, red light or toll-evasion ticket? It doesn't matter who was driving, if your car was at the scene of the crime you're responsible for the fine.
The people who think she is hot are probably also the ones who think Ann Coulter is hot.
Well, he wouldn't be bad-looking if he would just quit wearing all that makeup and get a haircut...
Humans learn by analogy.
I'm sure you'd you'd like to frame the debate in such a way that your analogy (The network is my private property just like my house, trespasser!) is allowed, but mine (If you don't want me coming to your party, keep your party invitation beacon packets out of the common areas) is not, but that's just trollish intellectual dishonesty.
""Hello, come connect to me!""
...and if my laptop isn't invited to your wireless party, I'd thank you to keep your 2.4GHz photons on your side of the wall.
NO. WRONG. It is saying "I am in a state where connections are possible." Your attempt to once again pretend that is equivalent to "connecting to me is acceptable/encouraged" is transparent and still wrong.
If one were to litter their apartment building with notes reading "Party in #214" (beacon packets), leave the door to apartment 214 standing open (no encryption or authentication), and have party-goers and a cooler full of beer in plain view of the door, what do you think the police should do about it? Arrest the first guy who walks in for trespass? Or suggest that if the resident wants to hold a private party, he should stop leaving notes in the hall and/or shut the door? It's unintentional trespass at absolute worst, and the owners remedy should be limited to asking the trespasser to leave.
I don't buy the explanation that he thought to destroy evidence that's difficult to remove from the car (the seat) but not the stuff you can just pick up (books, sleeping bag, etc). The car looks like a "rice rocket" CRX hatchback, removing seats to save weight is a pretty common practice among people who want to make tiny cars go fast. Does it have a back seat? Or a spare tire and toolkit? Had anyone seen it with all seats intact before the murder?
You must not have been here for the /. XP release party. It was thoroughly derided for being slower than Win2k, taking up more disk space, needing ten times the RAM, being full of security and stability compromising hacks to make old win3/9x code run, and having a garish Fisher-Price "My First Computer" icon theme.
The only difference is that this time the tech media is listening to the skeptics instead of MS's marketing department.