/If it isn't clear, I'm also not a fan of browser based webapps.
Then you're not going to like future browsers:-)
Future browsers and standards are pretty much all about making web-apps easier; with Canvas and SVG with JavaScript, it's all going in the direction of web-apps.
It'll be interesting to see how MS responds, since web-apps are definitely not in their best interest. Firefox is a bigger threat to MS than Google (who would have thought Netscape would get the last laugh)
Because the ARDAgent vulnerability is really easy to patch... you can easily do it yourself and I'm sure Apple will have a patch any day. Gee, that's reassuring..
Yes, Arty McStrawman does believe that his Mac is invincible. Not many beside him do, though. This doesn't really work when I was responding directly to "Arty McStrawman"..
Also, if you already know what will people respond to you, why do you ask your, fairly inflammatory, I might add, question, even if you intended it to be a rhetorical one? Because it is a real vulnerability, despite being local. I've been told by "Arty McStrawman" that local vulnerabilities don't count many times on/. before, and didn't want to have to respond to it yet again.
Self-signed certificates are pointless, because you are confident than no one is listening but you have no idea who are you talking to Once you accept a certificate you can be sure that, from that moment on, you are talking to the same person you were talking to when you first accepted the certificate.
So you can take special measures to ensure that the self-signed certificate is valid, that VeriSign might take themselves with a CA-signed certificate, and from then on you can be sure that you're safe.
So it can be less convenient, but if people know what they're doing (not always the case) it can be just as secure as a CA-signed cert, and it is always more secure than no cert at all. (Which is the most important point, I think)
He still deserves to be punished for it, and he will be. He won't receive 38 years though, I could tell you that much without reading more than the headline.
He'll probably receive a few years and get out after a couple of years on good behavior, and know not to put the kids who earned their marks at an unfair disadvantage in the future.
Let's not make this kid into another Lamo; he doesn't deserve it.
Generally knighthoods and other honours are given out based on recommendations by ministers of the current government, the queen actually has very little say in the matter - she controls the Order of the Garter completely however. Are you saying the Queen isn't personally appreciative of Hawking's work on the mathematics behind black holes? Are you saying she doesn't read Nature and publish papers on quantum loop gravity and super-symmetry all day?! Then what the hell does she do with all her time and wealth?!
The first thing you notice when you launch Opera 9.5 is that it occupies less desktop real estate than Firefox 3, with less toolbar space and smaller borders, giving you more room to view pages. The thing I like about Firefox is how changeable it is:
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I've been organizing the bars like that since I started using FF, and I find it makes for much better use of that space than just a gray, blank area.
There's also dillo, for use on underpowered old machines which can barely run X. Kinda carved itself a rapidly dying niche though, but as a completely separate rendering engine it's worth a mention at least.
I dunno, I think this is the old problem of mistaking incompetence for evil.
Here in Australia our labor government (and before that, to a lesser extend, the liberal government) can sure be incompetent, but as much as I dislike Rudd he's probably not evil.
He supported the Iraq war in 2003 and now blames Howard for it of course, but he (just like the majority of people) thought it was necessary at the time.
No point mistaking bad intelligence and unquestioning politicians for malice.
I find it highly unlikely that someone who can make the page in question would not be smart enough to also understand what it is that google/trend is really doing, and as such, I choose to believe instead that the author is being intentionally deceptive. It's a trap!
One of my colleagues makes hihg-energy photon (basically Gamma ray) detectors. He uses high-purity silicon wafers for the fabrication of the devices. These wafers are very effing expensive, as he needs a large bandgap. Still, 300GeV? I don't think his devices are capable of detecting such photons. I think his max is around 10GeV. Probably with high-purity GaAs it would be possible, I guess. For rays with less than 100 keV (X-rays, really) the ray is absorbed and dislodges an electron (photo-absorption). For rays with 100-1000keV the ray will be scattered at a lower energy and dislodge an electron as well (Compton scattering). From 1MeV to ~8MeV pair production occurs, where an electron and positron are created.
After ~8MeV photo-disintegration starts to occur, where the gamma ray produces particles like neutrons or tears the atom it hits apart. At this point no band gap is going to be large enough to capture the stuff that is created/dislodged, because electrons aren't what's being created/dislodged.
We didn't cover higher energy detectors this semester, but from what I gathered about semiconductor detectors I don't see how one could be used to detect rays much beyond a few MeVs.
Perhaps his limit is actually around 10MeV, which would make a lot more sense to me. If GaA really can go that high I'd be interested to read about what physical processes it uses to detect photons that energetic.
Semi-conductor detectors work, as far as I could gather, like solar panels (which they basically are): Photon comes in, electrons get dislodged, electron energy/number is displayed. But how would that work when most of the energy doesn't go into dislodging electrons, but destroying atoms and creating particles?
Well, yeah.. If Apple sold Leopard at a discount because of its instability, insecurity and inefficiency then they could charge for upgrades to those aspects. But I don't remember hearing about anything like that from Apple, and now they want to charge for something we expected to be in there anyway?
This is why no-one expects to pay for service packs. Can you imagine the uproar if MS charged for XP SP1/2/3?
The fun part is the counter-argument has always been "This OSX point upgrade has over 200 breathtaking new features!", but here even that doesn't apply; it really is going to be a stability upgrade like a service pack.
No-one but Apple would escape criticism for selling stability, security and performance updates...
This is because old crypto is often a lot more secure than people would have you think. Many attacks even against very old algorithms remain impractical against a securely implemented scheme.
Even RC4 and DES can be secure when used correctly in situations where there isn't time to brute-force anything, and at least the insecurities and algorithms themselves are well understood, which isn't necessarily true for more modern algorithms. (I think this article is a good example of the latest buzz in crypto still being given a healthy poking and prodding prior to production use.)
The problems with RC4 and DES occur when someone who doesn't know anything about them decides to use RC4 with a password as the initializer to encrypt a document for long-term storage for their proprietary data format.
Amateur use of old crypto is worse than old crypto itself; lots of stuff encrypted using WW2 ciphers is still unrecoverable.
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/If it isn't clear, I'm also not a fan of browser based webapps.
Then you're not going to like future browsers :-)
Future browsers and standards are pretty much all about making web-apps easier; with Canvas and SVG with JavaScript, it's all going in the direction of web-apps.
It'll be interesting to see how MS responds, since web-apps are definitely not in their best interest. Firefox is a bigger threat to MS than Google (who would have thought Netscape would get the last laugh)
With more capability in Canvas Flash won't be needed, so there'll be less bloat (and less need for binary blobs).
How about just not selling cigarettes from vending machines? We don't sell alcohol, guns, or porno from vending machines, so why cigarettes?
I'll answer my own question; so kids can get them. Which makes me wonder whether this flaw was an accident..
Well blaming Doe Run and Dow Chemical is almost* as irrational. You have no reason to suspect it wasn't natural.
* Okay the GP is in a whole other league of irrationality, but you're being somewhat irrational at least.
But may I say wow, that is a very impressive web-app. It really does feel like an office application and not a web-app.
NAT is good enough for the unwashed masses.
I am currently in Uzbekistan.
Right..?
Terrorists beware! We can now go six times the speed of sound!
Lets see you take that bomb into the market square now!
So you can take special measures to ensure that the self-signed certificate is valid, that VeriSign might take themselves with a CA-signed certificate, and from then on you can be sure that you're safe.
So it can be less convenient, but if people know what they're doing (not always the case) it can be just as secure as a CA-signed cert, and it is always more secure than no cert at all. (Which is the most important point, I think)
And where's the comment playing down the seriousness of the first proof-of-concept? The one that uses an unpatched ARDAgent vulnerability?
Some Mac users just can't face that they're not as invincible as Apple marketing wants them to think, and reject any evidence to the contrary.
(I'm about to be told how this local root vulnerability isn't a real vulnerability, because it's local.)
I also thank them, but my cynical side can't help but wonder how much further OSS and Java would be if it had been open sourced a few years ago.
What's Coldfusion?
1. Transistors get far smaller
2. ???
3. We are slaves to robotic overlords
Maybe if you use Will Smith's humor, or a recursive time-travel paradox, to distract us from the "???" it could work as a plot.
He still deserves to be punished for it, and he will be. He won't receive 38 years though, I could tell you that much without reading more than the headline.
He'll probably receive a few years and get out after a couple of years on good behavior, and know not to put the kids who earned their marks at an unfair disadvantage in the future.
Let's not make this kid into another Lamo; he doesn't deserve it.
At lot of people think I said "Firefox can do this, Opera can't", but I didn't. (I think 8/10 of the replies remind me Opera can do this too)
I've been organizing the bars like that since I started using FF, and I find it makes for much better use of that space than just a gray, blank area.
There's also dillo, for use on underpowered old machines which can barely run X. Kinda carved itself a rapidly dying niche though, but as a completely separate rendering engine it's worth a mention at least.
I dunno, I think this is the old problem of mistaking incompetence for evil.
Here in Australia our labor government (and before that, to a lesser extend, the liberal government) can sure be incompetent, but as much as I dislike Rudd he's probably not evil.
He supported the Iraq war in 2003 and now blames Howard for it of course, but he (just like the majority of people) thought it was necessary at the time.
No point mistaking bad intelligence and unquestioning politicians for malice.
(This is assuming Babbage didn't write any code for his own computer)
After ~8MeV photo-disintegration starts to occur, where the gamma ray produces particles like neutrons or tears the atom it hits apart. At this point no band gap is going to be large enough to capture the stuff that is created/dislodged, because electrons aren't what's being created/dislodged.
We didn't cover higher energy detectors this semester, but from what I gathered about semiconductor detectors I don't see how one could be used to detect rays much beyond a few MeVs.
Perhaps his limit is actually around 10MeV, which would make a lot more sense to me. If GaA really can go that high I'd be interested to read about what physical processes it uses to detect photons that energetic.
Semi-conductor detectors work, as far as I could gather, like solar panels (which they basically are): Photon comes in, electrons get dislodged, electron energy/number is displayed. But how would that work when most of the energy doesn't go into dislodging electrons, but destroying atoms and creating particles?
Well, yeah.. If Apple sold Leopard at a discount because of its instability, insecurity and inefficiency then they could charge for upgrades to those aspects. But I don't remember hearing about anything like that from Apple, and now they want to charge for something we expected to be in there anyway?
This is why no-one expects to pay for service packs. Can you imagine the uproar if MS charged for XP SP1/2/3?
The fun part is the counter-argument has always been "This OSX point upgrade has over 200 breathtaking new features!", but here even that doesn't apply; it really is going to be a stability upgrade like a service pack.
No-one but Apple would escape criticism for selling stability, security and performance updates...
This is because old crypto is often a lot more secure than people would have you think. Many attacks even against very old algorithms remain impractical against a securely implemented scheme.
Even RC4 and DES can be secure when used correctly in situations where there isn't time to brute-force anything, and at least the insecurities and algorithms themselves are well understood, which isn't necessarily true for more modern algorithms. (I think this article is a good example of the latest buzz in crypto still being given a healthy poking and prodding prior to production use.)
The problems with RC4 and DES occur when someone who doesn't know anything about them decides to use RC4 with a password as the initializer to encrypt a document for long-term storage for their proprietary data format.
Amateur use of old crypto is worse than old crypto itself; lots of stuff encrypted using WW2 ciphers is still unrecoverable.