I can't imagine either. I just finished copy/paste-ing from a Windows VM in VMWare under Kubuntu to Kate, something I wasn't even sure was going to work. I copy/paste between any application I choose all the time, and the ONLY time I've had issues is when I'm running Windows as the native OS and try to paste into an app running across the network via cygwin.
I suppose that's why he's marked Troll so quickly.
Unfortunately, when you've got drooling hoards of zombies (or fans, same thing) willing to do anything you even hint at, your opinion DOES make a difference.
But in our capitalist society, it doesn't matter enough to change anything. If companies (the RIAA included, despite their inability to cope with technology) can make more money by destroying the net they'll do so in a heartbeat. The only thing that has stopped them is the uncertainty of whether they really WILL make more money or not. It's entirely possible that charging even more for net access will piss people off so badly that they invent another internet and drop this one. It might be satellite, or wifi-linkup, or something we've not dreamt of yet. But it would happen eventually.
Enforce? Who said anything about enforcing? If they can simply get the major ISPs (AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc) to agree to do this server-side, that'll leave only businesses and people smart enough to have their own domain that don't have this protection. It will remove the majority of the phishing.
This is not a customer-side solution, so they aren't trusting users with anything.
Do I think it's a good idea or even that it'll happen? Not really. But it's a nice gesture from a company who is usually just crap.
Ah, the flawed analogy. Such a fine artform these days.
There is no law involved here. They are -asking- ISPs to do this and help both PayPal and the ISP's customers. There is no law. There is no old woman nagging 'Now don't you do that!'
A better analogy: I'm sick of airports letting people carry knives onto airplanes. I want them to scan and prevent people from carrying them onboard.
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A good IDE is worth its weight in gold. It doesn't need helper libraries to make it great.
I think you are right about being trapped in it, though... The VCL, if nothing else, would trap you irrevocably. But then, they're treating it more like an IDE for different language, and being tied to a language is true for any language. Just like Ruby on Rails is treated differently than plain Ruby.
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It appears to be the regular PHP, but they've created a library for common controls. (Yes, they made a library for making textboxes and radio buttons. -yawn-) At first I thought it was a php plugin written in C or something, but no... It's just plain PHP. What was wrong with making the controls in HTML like always, I dunno.
I'll admit, I've written a function to take an array and make a dropdown box from it, but Delphi's VCL is going a bit far, I think.
Even 'evolutionary', you can't just do the same things and come out with something better. They -have- to try things. They have to experiment. I'm sure most of the talk is along the lines of 'well, it's usually done with X, but if we modify this part and make it out of Y instead, we save a bunch of cost and the computer calculations say it's still plenty strong enough.' etc. Real world material does not always behave like computer predictions. In fact, I doubt it ever does. A certain amount of failure is expected when making changes.
Wow... Just had a flash of a small, homebrew-ish game played from the point of view of a chair on the front porch... You get to throw porch-objects (shoes, newspapers, etc) at kids that are walking down the street having fun. The girlscout trying to sell cookies somehow made the vision almost real.
No, I have completely lost any faith I once had in their support staff. I just received a letter this morning that was sent to attempt to maintain their 24-hour maximum response time. It was a form letter, and it is weeks later. Yes, closer to 24 days than 24 hours.
Legal agreements. The code they produce has to have legally binding agreements with it, and minors cannot enter into contracts in many places.
The exact nature of the agreement varies from project to project, at the decision of the project. Common agreements assign ownership of the code to the project, or assign ownership to the student but guarantee a perpetual licensing agreement with the project.
Straight up 7.04. It's pretty doggone stable and upgrades always suck. The upgrade from Edgy to Feisty (6.10 to 7.04) is supposed to be a lot better than from Dapper to Edgy, but I wouldn't take the chance... Just get the newest.
Because it's not version 7. 7.04 refers the target release date, 2007-04. 7.10 will confuse the hell out of everyone you convince to call it version 7.
Time. They've used the time gained by partnering with Amazon to build their system the way they want it. They've also had the experience of knowing what customers dislike about the web-store of someone who has 'done it right' and how they can improve on it.
Personally, I'm glad. I never liked the fact that when I went to Borders.com to buy a book, I ended up on Amazon.com to do it. I'm guessing Borders also didn't like the fact that people then had a chance to buy it from someone else, possibly a lot cheaper because it was 'used'. This seems like a good business move for them.
Instruction is just chat, also. I fail to see how that's any different.
As for archiving, there are linux-based scripts to intercept the text chat and store it. So no issue there, either.
It's not THAT bad on the client side. If you don't get crazy and build a complete model of your real building in-game, you should be able to get quite a few people in the same area without issue.
Server uptime is questionable at best.
It IS distracting for sure.
Getting your slideshow to work can be an exercise in profanity.
And people can just wander through uninvited, unless you make everyone part owners and use special scripts to keep others out, etc... A real pain.
How do I know this? I used to go to the RoSL (Rubyists of Second Life) weekly meetings to listen to them talk about the cool Ruby stuff they were working on. Why don't I go now?
Because the idiots that staff Second Life can't fix my account and don't want to even talk to me about it. They had numerous security breaches, and on the first one, made everyone reset their password. Mine won't, it just gives an error and tells me to contact support. Email support claims they can't help other than to send the same broken url that's on the website. The phone support always does one of the following: disconnects immediately, puts me on hold forever and disconnects at the recording, puts me on hold forever and PROMISES they'll contact me and let's me record a message and then doesn't contact me, or goes into an infinite loop and won't let you do anything. I don't think there even ARE live people on that thing. I've certainly never talked to one in 6 MONTHS OF TRYING.
Seriously. If you have ANY issues whatsoever, you can kiss your precious class goodbye.
That's the real reason to stay far, far away from Second Life for anything non-trivial.
I'm far from expert in security, but a (k|x)ubuntu boot CD would be a good option indeed. I'm not sure that you even need to take it that far, though. You could simply use VMWare to boot the CD image while you are still in Windows and do it that way.
Still, paranoid may be the right word. Viruses this powerful and effective don't often manage to stay undetected for this long. The exploits used for it will be cleaned up, the virus databases updated, and it'll be harder for them to create another to do the same thing.
'Snatch 2' will supposedly work on Firefox, but they haven't managed so far. There's only a few options for why:
He's not smart enough (not likely, as Snatch is pretty clever) He's waiting for the right exploit to show in Firefox (if he isn't the one to find it, it'll be fixed in short order) It's not possible. (And there's nothing to worry about.)
I've (hopefully) implemented the rules in the article at the bottom that supposedly detect Snatch activity on your network, and I've alerted my Windows-using friends. I'll be checking a few of their computers myself soon to be sure, but I'm not too worried as I've already convinced most of them to use Firefox whenever possible, and they aren't the type to surf randomly on the web. (Well, my Dad is, but not on purpose... And he doesn't have a net connection right now.)
"Will Nikoli be the source of the next big puzzle fad after Sudoku?"
I dunno, be he found the right place to Slashvertise, if he has it ready. (According to him, he has hundreds ready. I kind of hope he manages to get other logic puzzles popular as well.)
People felt forced to upgrade to the DS Lite? Bullshit. People CHOSE to upgrade. It's a better, smaller system. It's more comfortable to hold, the screen is a lot bright and more colorful, and it's just over-all a better system. I upgrade only because I wanted to, not because there was some social pressure or something. There was certainly no pressure from Nintendo.
Yeah, it does matter. His quitting was a smart choice, showing he's sorry for pain he caused the company he worked for.
His being fired shows a hard choice made by his employer, possibly unethical. (Off-the-clock, not associated with the company, etc, etc.)
Unless you meant 'does it matter' in the 'long run', and then nothing we do matters. We'll all be dead and gone in less than 100 years, and after a few millennia, the human race may not even exist any more. (Cute, Firefox thinks I spelled 'millennia' wrong.)
If everyone challenged EVERYTHING the judges said, as you are suggesting, the judges' rulings would have absolutely no meaning. So when a judge rules someone in contempt of court, they could just say 'I challenge that' and when that judge, or another, says 'denied', they just say 'I challenge that' forever.
No, our system has plenty of checks and balances in place already. You always have the option of challenging a judge's ruling, of course, assuming that the judge in question is not a Supreme Court judge. Having the option does not mean you should use it.
You stopped reading too early. Later in TFA, it shows a screencap of the website that has badly translated text that basically says 'Snatch 2 - will work on firefox'. In other works, you're not affected... yet.
"For his demo he created a program on the PlayStation 3 representing thousands of chickens, each independently tracked by a single processing core. "
Wait wait wait... How many cores does a PS3 have? Thousands? I suspect someone has their facts sadly mistaken. I think they meant 'each with its own thread and using multiple cores to processing the threads,' but that isn't nearly as impressive sounding.
We are still, to this day, building better light bulbs. How many do you think they destroyed before they managed to make the compact fluorescent work?
When you are exploring new ways to do things, you can't stick to the old ways! You have to try things, and trying new things almost always means failures and setbacks. They aren't blowing up 50 year old rockets. They are blowing up new rockets that are purposefully designed differently.
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I can't imagine either. I just finished copy/paste-ing from a Windows VM in VMWare under Kubuntu to Kate, something I wasn't even sure was going to work. I copy/paste between any application I choose all the time, and the ONLY time I've had issues is when I'm running Windows as the native OS and try to paste into an app running across the network via cygwin.
I suppose that's why he's marked Troll so quickly.
Unfortunately, when you've got drooling hoards of zombies (or fans, same thing) willing to do anything you even hint at, your opinion DOES make a difference.
But in our capitalist society, it doesn't matter enough to change anything. If companies (the RIAA included, despite their inability to cope with technology) can make more money by destroying the net they'll do so in a heartbeat. The only thing that has stopped them is the uncertainty of whether they really WILL make more money or not. It's entirely possible that charging even more for net access will piss people off so badly that they invent another internet and drop this one. It might be satellite, or wifi-linkup, or something we've not dreamt of yet. But it would happen eventually.
Shhhhhh... It sounds better if they don't think about that ;)
Enforce? Who said anything about enforcing? If they can simply get the major ISPs (AOL, Earthlink, MSN, etc) to agree to do this server-side, that'll leave only businesses and people smart enough to have their own domain that don't have this protection. It will remove the majority of the phishing.
This is not a customer-side solution, so they aren't trusting users with anything.
Do I think it's a good idea or even that it'll happen? Not really. But it's a nice gesture from a company who is usually just crap.
Ah, the flawed analogy. Such a fine artform these days.
There is no law involved here. They are -asking- ISPs to do this and help both PayPal and the ISP's customers. There is no law. There is no old woman nagging 'Now don't you do that!'
A better analogy: I'm sick of airports letting people carry knives onto airplanes. I want them to scan and prevent people from carrying them onboard.
A good IDE is worth its weight in gold. It doesn't need helper libraries to make it great.
I think you are right about being trapped in it, though... The VCL, if nothing else, would trap you irrevocably. But then, they're treating it more like an IDE for different language, and being tied to a language is true for any language. Just like Ruby on Rails is treated differently than plain Ruby.
It appears to be the regular PHP, but they've created a library for common controls. (Yes, they made a library for making textboxes and radio buttons. -yawn-) At first I thought it was a php plugin written in C or something, but no... It's just plain PHP. What was wrong with making the controls in HTML like always, I dunno.
I'll admit, I've written a function to take an array and make a dropdown box from it, but Delphi's VCL is going a bit far, I think.
Even 'evolutionary', you can't just do the same things and come out with something better. They -have- to try things. They have to experiment. I'm sure most of the talk is along the lines of 'well, it's usually done with X, but if we modify this part and make it out of Y instead, we save a bunch of cost and the computer calculations say it's still plenty strong enough.' etc. Real world material does not always behave like computer predictions. In fact, I doubt it ever does. A certain amount of failure is expected when making changes.
Wow... Just had a flash of a small, homebrew-ish game played from the point of view of a chair on the front porch... You get to throw porch-objects (shoes, newspapers, etc) at kids that are walking down the street having fun. The girlscout trying to sell cookies somehow made the vision almost real.
I have -got- to seriously think about this one.
No, I have completely lost any faith I once had in their support staff. I just received a letter this morning that was sent to attempt to maintain their 24-hour maximum response time. It was a form letter, and it is weeks later. Yes, closer to 24 days than 24 hours.
Legal agreements. The code they produce has to have legally binding agreements with it, and minors cannot enter into contracts in many places.
The exact nature of the agreement varies from project to project, at the decision of the project. Common agreements assign ownership of the code to the project, or assign ownership to the student but guarantee a perpetual licensing agreement with the project.
Straight up 7.04. It's pretty doggone stable and upgrades always suck. The upgrade from Edgy to Feisty (6.10 to 7.04) is supposed to be a lot better than from Dapper to Edgy, but I wouldn't take the chance... Just get the newest.
Because it's not version 7. 7.04 refers the target release date, 2007-04. 7.10 will confuse the hell out of everyone you convince to call it version 7.
Time. They've used the time gained by partnering with Amazon to build their system the way they want it. They've also had the experience of knowing what customers dislike about the web-store of someone who has 'done it right' and how they can improve on it.
Personally, I'm glad. I never liked the fact that when I went to Borders.com to buy a book, I ended up on Amazon.com to do it. I'm guessing Borders also didn't like the fact that people then had a chance to buy it from someone else, possibly a lot cheaper because it was 'used'. This seems like a good business move for them.
Instruction is just chat, also. I fail to see how that's any different.
As for archiving, there are linux-based scripts to intercept the text chat and store it. So no issue there, either.
It's not THAT bad on the client side. If you don't get crazy and build a complete model of your real building in-game, you should be able to get quite a few people in the same area without issue.
Server uptime is questionable at best.
It IS distracting for sure.
Getting your slideshow to work can be an exercise in profanity.
And people can just wander through uninvited, unless you make everyone part owners and use special scripts to keep others out, etc... A real pain.
How do I know this? I used to go to the RoSL (Rubyists of Second Life) weekly meetings to listen to them talk about the cool Ruby stuff they were working on. Why don't I go now?
Because the idiots that staff Second Life can't fix my account and don't want to even talk to me about it. They had numerous security breaches, and on the first one, made everyone reset their password. Mine won't, it just gives an error and tells me to contact support. Email support claims they can't help other than to send the same broken url that's on the website. The phone support always does one of the following: disconnects immediately, puts me on hold forever and disconnects at the recording, puts me on hold forever and PROMISES they'll contact me and let's me record a message and then doesn't contact me, or goes into an infinite loop and won't let you do anything. I don't think there even ARE live people on that thing. I've certainly never talked to one in 6 MONTHS OF TRYING.
Seriously. If you have ANY issues whatsoever, you can kiss your precious class goodbye.
That's the real reason to stay far, far away from Second Life for anything non-trivial.
It's okay, there's another yet:
I (re)learned quite a bit doing that, and had quite a bit of fun, too. Code Caves FTW!
I'm far from expert in security, but a (k|x)ubuntu boot CD would be a good option indeed. I'm not sure that you even need to take it that far, though. You could simply use VMWare to boot the CD image while you are still in Windows and do it that way.
Still, paranoid may be the right word. Viruses this powerful and effective don't often manage to stay undetected for this long. The exploits used for it will be cleaned up, the virus databases updated, and it'll be harder for them to create another to do the same thing.
'Snatch 2' will supposedly work on Firefox, but they haven't managed so far. There's only a few options for why:
He's not smart enough (not likely, as Snatch is pretty clever)
He's waiting for the right exploit to show in Firefox (if he isn't the one to find it, it'll be fixed in short order)
It's not possible. (And there's nothing to worry about.)
I've (hopefully) implemented the rules in the article at the bottom that supposedly detect Snatch activity on your network, and I've alerted my Windows-using friends. I'll be checking a few of their computers myself soon to be sure, but I'm not too worried as I've already convinced most of them to use Firefox whenever possible, and they aren't the type to surf randomly on the web. (Well, my Dad is, but not on purpose... And he doesn't have a net connection right now.)
"Will Nikoli be the source of the next big puzzle fad after Sudoku?"
I dunno, be he found the right place to Slashvertise, if he has it ready. (According to him, he has hundreds ready. I kind of hope he manages to get other logic puzzles popular as well.)
People felt forced to upgrade to the DS Lite? Bullshit. People CHOSE to upgrade. It's a better, smaller system. It's more comfortable to hold, the screen is a lot bright and more colorful, and it's just over-all a better system. I upgrade only because I wanted to, not because there was some social pressure or something. There was certainly no pressure from Nintendo.
Yeah, it does matter. His quitting was a smart choice, showing he's sorry for pain he caused the company he worked for.
His being fired shows a hard choice made by his employer, possibly unethical. (Off-the-clock, not associated with the company, etc, etc.)
Unless you meant 'does it matter' in the 'long run', and then nothing we do matters. We'll all be dead and gone in less than 100 years, and after a few millennia, the human race may not even exist any more. (Cute, Firefox thinks I spelled 'millennia' wrong.)
I see nothing in that article that says he was fired. I see user comments to that effect, but those aren't cited, either.
I heard on the radio this morning that he quit when he realized he was going to be unmasked. That's quite a bit different than being fired.
I sense someone with an axe to grind.
If everyone challenged EVERYTHING the judges said, as you are suggesting, the judges' rulings would have absolutely no meaning. So when a judge rules someone in contempt of court, they could just say 'I challenge that' and when that judge, or another, says 'denied', they just say 'I challenge that' forever.
No, our system has plenty of checks and balances in place already. You always have the option of challenging a judge's ruling, of course, assuming that the judge in question is not a Supreme Court judge. Having the option does not mean you should use it.
You stopped reading too early. Later in TFA, it shows a screencap of the website that has badly translated text that basically says 'Snatch 2 - will work on firefox'. In other works, you're not affected... yet.
"For his demo he created a program on the PlayStation 3 representing thousands of chickens, each independently tracked by a single processing core. "
Wait wait wait... How many cores does a PS3 have? Thousands? I suspect someone has their facts sadly mistaken. I think they meant 'each with its own thread and using multiple cores to processing the threads,' but that isn't nearly as impressive sounding.
We are still, to this day, building better light bulbs. How many do you think they destroyed before they managed to make the compact fluorescent work?
When you are exploring new ways to do things, you can't stick to the old ways! You have to try things, and trying new things almost always means failures and setbacks. They aren't blowing up 50 year old rockets. They are blowing up new rockets that are purposefully designed differently.