When you can choose between a region-encoded DVD player and one which isn't, you buy.....
I don't want to have to choose. I want one format, one standard, agreed upon by the majority. Rememebr VHS vs. Beta? Beta died and that probably wasn't a good thing, but the fact is that even after VHS ascended to the heights, we then had the European PAL format and all this other rubbish.
When you can choose between one display standard which has been hacked and one which hasn't....
That is of course the weakness - one standard means one line of attack for a hacker. But if everyone can begin from the same base, development of appropriate countermeasures can be developed as long as everyone pools their resources. It's in the best interests of companies to share data on things which affect everyone.
Competition is not just going to drive down prices, it is also going to lower the efforts done on DRM.
How? Two different standards means two (or more) ways to approach DRM. And the idea is not to allow DRM to propogate, but make it unnecessary.
Simple question: How would the FCC regulate the Internet? They certianly could control US vendors but they would have precious little jurisdiction over foreign vendors. It's safe to say that until a unified system for handling telecom is developed, there are going to be jurisdictional fights and grievances by the EU and others over the US's handling of it, similar to the whole ICANN flap.
From Channel Register:The UDI initiative is being led by Intel and its new best friend, Apple, along with Samsung, LG, Nat Semi and Silicon Image. The likes of Nvidia, Foxconn, JAE Electronics, THine Electronics and FCI are also contributing to the spec.
However, they've got competition. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has already begun work on DisplayPort, its answer to DVI's successor standard. DisplayPort is set to support both internal and external monitor connections, and can be used with multimedia kit.
So, once more we have two groups vying to make their technology a "standard", which then leads to a protracted battle over whose "standard" should be adopted. And in the midst, some technology will likely come along to make the new "standard(s)" obsolescent.
JavaScript is not the issue; the issue is sites/providers not treating data from the "real world" as suspect and doing a rigorous examination of it before allowing it in or executing anything based on it. When I'm writing Perl CGIs that are accessible from outside my system, I always have the taint mode (-T) switch enabled. You have to be suspicious of data coming in and treat it as radioactive until you can verify its integrity.
That's the beautiful thing about the universe - no matter what anyone "believes", it keeps right on going. If evolution is the way the universe chooses to create life (or for that matter, if that's what God intended), then my belief or disbelief doesn't matter. Simple, no?
You're referring to John Siegenthaler of course. I find it interesting that while it is not policy to edit one's bio and is considered a social "faux pas" if you do, when Mr. Siegenthaler complained about his bio, he was told he should have edited it himself. Doublethink lives!
while there is a certain amount of humour to this i find little in a journalistic website having such poor standards set for theirselves. surely they wish to be taken seriously?
I don't remember anyone claiming that Slashdot is supposed to be a school of journalism, a beacon of journalistic integrity, or an arbiter of what's newsworthy. People contribute story ideas; some get published, some don't. It's the Internet; the volume of information is staggering. To expect perfection is to have your sights set too high.
And not to put too fine a point on it, I take/. seriously; frankly I don't care much what anyone else thinks about it.
Besides, these people don't have much use in society or a future, especially in India's caste society. This is an excellent opportunity for them to contribute something to better mankind and benefit the rest of us. We should be applauding and congratulating them for their sacrifice. We shouldn't try to take this away from them.
Shhhhhhhh!!! Be vewwwwwwwwyyy quiet! You talk about the caste system in India and they get all upset! Because according to them, "...there are reservations and scholarships for backward classes in schools and also government jobs." It may be an excellent opportunity, but one which they might have to pay for with their lives.
It's geeks like that who ruin it for us girl geeks. Marrying non-techies, shame on you;)
What can I say? My first girlfriend was actually a Comp Sci major and she was a damned sight smarter than I was. I liked her but I lacked the emotional maturity to handle the relationship (ask my wife and she might tell you that emotional maturity still seems to be lacking;). I never found another woman like her and noted that very few women made their way into the tech pool. So, I branched out.
Like how many male computer geeks lack the social skills to interract with the opposite sex and mistake friendly interraction by female coworkers as "interest" in something more.
As far as I can recall, they never offered "Etiquette for Geeks" as a part of the Comp Sci curriculum when I went college, but then again that was back in the age of the dinosaurs (the DEC-10).
Social skills isn't that big a factor. I find very few of my programming peers who fit the "geek programmer" stereotype. Plenty of us are married, have houses and families. Mind you my wife is not a tech-head and we don't discuss my work in-depth, but she could probably understand it. Geeks aren't going to find women on the Comp Sci track anyway; they'll do a better job impressing the bubble-head peroxide blondes who talk into their mouses.
From the dupe: "The Microsoft Team RSS blog is reporting that IE7 is adopting the RSS icon used in Firefox.
Adopting it? Has the icon become a foundling? Bill Gates opens up his office door and finds a basket with an orange icon it and a note pinned to it saying "Please adopy my icon and give it a good home, we are no longer able to care for it."?
Who says this is suddenly an industry standard? Firefox and IE will use it ad they have a corner on the market, but has any standards organization said "this shall be the RSS icon?" It's a pretty big leap from Microsoft adopting something to it becoming a standard, despite their dominance of the browser market. And in case anyone has forgotten, MS tends to make hash out of standards it does adopt.
Step 2: Launch a harmless virus, fix it, and then show your superiors what could have happened if you didn't catch it in time.
This will ensure the need for your services.
In the words of Darth Vader, "it is unwise to lower your defenses." Drop the firewall; stop updating the anti-virus. Spend more time on/. until the network begins grinding to a halt. Shuffle from machine to machine, fixing each one slowly and deliberately. Don't answer the phone, pages, or emails. And get your résumé in shape, but forget about expecting a good reference.
You can't make them understand if they don't already. An IT infrastructure doesn't just spring up full-blown overnight and this cobbled together system you're trying to run is inherently unstable. Without any controls and with no support staff, you can't hope to cope.
So the analog-to-digital channel is denied -- big deal! How many times have I passed vendors in the NYC subway hawking copies of movies that have just been released in theatres in cheesy cases with obviously color-copied covers? As long as you can afford a digitial video camcorder, DVDs, and a burner, you can copy movies or TV or whatever. Who needs analog?
Which just goes to show...
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...some people have a little too much technical know-how combined with too much time on their hands. And where's the penile mod? What good is a druken Santa that isn't a child-lusting perv?
Frankly the whole discussion is pointless, because I don't think Wikipedia knows what it is, and until it has some firm direction and some logical guidance all it is, is a mob scene. A great deal of the data there is valid (I reference it a lot, after carefully reading the articles), but a system that allows anyone to edit it makes it ripe for abuse. Imagine if the Founding Fathers of the USA made the Constitution re-writable on-the-fly like Wikipedia: chaos! But they knew that the Constitution could not remain static if it was to keep up with change, so they wrote in a mechanism to allow for changes, but measured changes. This same sort of system needs to be applied to Wikipedia, a kind of group peer-review, to lower the GIGO factor.
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Of course it's more secure; no one writes worms and viruses for Macs since there are so few of them.
A country where I will be free to share my William Shatner and David Hasselhoff MP3s with others!
Don't click on links in strange IMs!!!
Does anyone listen? No. You know who gets these things? Sad and lonely people, and at this time of year, they are especially vulnerable.
I don't want to have to choose. I want one format, one standard, agreed upon by the majority. Rememebr VHS vs. Beta? Beta died and that probably wasn't a good thing, but the fact is that even after VHS ascended to the heights, we then had the European PAL format and all this other rubbish.
When you can choose between one display standard which has been hacked and one which hasn't....That is of course the weakness - one standard means one line of attack for a hacker. But if everyone can begin from the same base, development of appropriate countermeasures can be developed as long as everyone pools their resources. It's in the best interests of companies to share data on things which affect everyone.
Competition is not just going to drive down prices, it is also going to lower the efforts done on DRM.How? Two different standards means two (or more) ways to approach DRM. And the idea is not to allow DRM to propogate, but make it unnecessary.
Simple question: How would the FCC regulate the Internet? They certianly could control US vendors but they would have precious little jurisdiction over foreign vendors. It's safe to say that until a unified system for handling telecom is developed, there are going to be jurisdictional fights and grievances by the EU and others over the US's handling of it, similar to the whole ICANN flap.
From Channel Register:The UDI initiative is being led by Intel and its new best friend, Apple, along with Samsung, LG, Nat Semi and Silicon Image. The likes of Nvidia, Foxconn, JAE Electronics, THine Electronics and FCI are also contributing to the spec.
However, they've got competition. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has already begun work on DisplayPort, its answer to DVI's successor standard. DisplayPort is set to support both internal and external monitor connections, and can be used with multimedia kit.
So, once more we have two groups vying to make their technology a "standard", which then leads to a protracted battle over whose "standard" should be adopted. And in the midst, some technology will likely come along to make the new "standard(s)" obsolescent.
And then what happens to AJAX?
JavaScript is not the issue; the issue is sites/providers not treating data from the "real world" as suspect and doing a rigorous examination of it before allowing it in or executing anything based on it. When I'm writing Perl CGIs that are accessible from outside my system, I always have the taint mode (-T) switch enabled. You have to be suspicious of data coming in and treat it as radioactive until you can verify its integrity.
No Pacman or Space Invaders?
That's the beautiful thing about the universe - no matter what anyone "believes", it keeps right on going. If evolution is the way the universe chooses to create life (or for that matter, if that's what God intended), then my belief or disbelief doesn't matter. Simple, no?
You're referring to John Siegenthaler of course. I find it interesting that while it is not policy to edit one's bio and is considered a social "faux pas" if you do, when Mr. Siegenthaler complained about his bio, he was told he should have edited it himself. Doublethink lives!
Of course, this is old news.
...a monkey's uncle!
I don't remember anyone claiming that Slashdot is supposed to be a school of journalism, a beacon of journalistic integrity, or an arbiter of what's newsworthy. People contribute story ideas; some get published, some don't. It's the Internet; the volume of information is staggering. To expect perfection is to have your sights set too high.
And not to put too fine a point on it, I take /. seriously; frankly I don't care much what anyone else thinks about it.
Microsoft no longer to support IE for Apple
In a related story, Apple IE users will no longer be supported.
And in business news, Microsoft announced it will discontinue support for IE on the Apple platform.
Thank you and good night.
Larry Wall has announced plans to hardwire Perl 6 into his brain to make it easier for him to do updates in the shower.
Anyone know how it was to go about this? I assume that it may analyse soil samples, but what else from there?
Drop business cards as it went: "If you are a living Martian, or you know where evidence of past Martians may be found, please call 1-800-BEAGLE2."
Shhhhhhhh!!! Be vewwwwwwwwyyy quiet! You talk about the caste system in India and they get all upset! Because according to them, "...there are reservations and scholarships for backward classes in schools and also government jobs." It may be an excellent opportunity, but one which they might have to pay for with their lives.
What can I say? My first girlfriend was actually a Comp Sci major and she was a damned sight smarter than I was. I liked her but I lacked the emotional maturity to handle the relationship (ask my wife and she might tell you that emotional maturity still seems to be lacking ;). I never found another woman like her and noted that very few women made their way into the tech pool. So, I branched out.
As far as I can recall, they never offered "Etiquette for Geeks" as a part of the Comp Sci curriculum when I went college, but then again that was back in the age of the dinosaurs (the DEC-10).
Social skills isn't that big a factor. I find very few of my programming peers who fit the "geek programmer" stereotype. Plenty of us are married, have houses and families. Mind you my wife is not a tech-head and we don't discuss my work in-depth, but she could probably understand it. Geeks aren't going to find women on the Comp Sci track anyway; they'll do a better job impressing the bubble-head peroxide blondes who talk into their mouses.
From the dupe: "The Microsoft Team RSS blog is reporting that IE7 is adopting the RSS icon used in Firefox.
Adopting it? Has the icon become a foundling? Bill Gates opens up his office door and finds a basket with an orange icon it and a note pinned to it saying "Please adopy my icon and give it a good home, we are no longer able to care for it."?
Who says this is suddenly an industry standard? Firefox and IE will use it ad they have a corner on the market, but has any standards organization said "this shall be the RSS icon?" It's a pretty big leap from Microsoft adopting something to it becoming a standard, despite their dominance of the browser market. And in case anyone has forgotten, MS tends to make hash out of standards it does adopt.
In the words of Darth Vader, "it is unwise to lower your defenses." Drop the firewall; stop updating the anti-virus. Spend more time on /. until the network begins grinding to a halt. Shuffle from machine to machine, fixing each one slowly and deliberately. Don't answer the phone, pages, or emails. And get your résumé in shape, but forget about expecting a good reference.
You can't make them understand if they don't already. An IT infrastructure doesn't just spring up full-blown overnight and this cobbled together system you're trying to run is inherently unstable. Without any controls and with no support staff, you can't hope to cope.
From Google:
Read: makes email even more illegible and hard-to-read than before, since the screen on your phone is too fracking small!
Read: Including handy viruses and works to wreak havoc on your phone and spam your friends with text messages for pr0n and male enhancement!
Read: Who will stop returning your phone calls (see above).
So the analog-to-digital channel is denied -- big deal! How many times have I passed vendors in the NYC subway hawking copies of movies that have just been released in theatres in cheesy cases with obviously color-copied covers? As long as you can afford a digitial video camcorder, DVDs, and a burner, you can copy movies or TV or whatever. Who needs analog?
...some people have a little too much technical know-how combined with too much time on their hands. And where's the penile mod? What good is a druken Santa that isn't a child-lusting perv?
Frankly the whole discussion is pointless, because I don't think Wikipedia knows what it is, and until it has some firm direction and some logical guidance all it is, is a mob scene. A great deal of the data there is valid (I reference it a lot, after carefully reading the articles), but a system that allows anyone to edit it makes it ripe for abuse. Imagine if the Founding Fathers of the USA made the Constitution re-writable on-the-fly like Wikipedia: chaos! But they knew that the Constitution could not remain static if it was to keep up with change, so they wrote in a mechanism to allow for changes, but measured changes. This same sort of system needs to be applied to Wikipedia, a kind of group peer-review, to lower the GIGO factor.